'I. Gules, on a saltier arg., a rose of the field-Nevill.

2. Fretty or, and gules on a canton erm., a ship sable-ancient coat of Nevill.

'3. Gules, a fesse between 6 cross crosslets or-Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick.

'4. Checky or and azure-Beaumont, a chevro

'5. Gules, a chevron between 10 crosses patée, six in chief and 4 in base-Berkley.

'6. Gules, a lion passant crowned or, Waryn-Fitz-Gerard.

'7. Or, a fesse between 2 chevrons, sab.-Lisle.

'8. Argent, a chevron gules-Tyes.

'9. Quarterly, gules and or, in 1st quarter a mullet arg.-Vere.

'10. Vert., a lion rampant arg., vulned on the shoulder, properBulbeck.

'II. Barry, wavy of six, arg. and az.-Samford.

'12. Arg., a fesse double cottised gules-Baddlesmere.

'13. Arg., a saltier between 12 cherries slipped proper—Serjeaux.

14. Sab., a bend arg. (charged with an ermine spot), between 6 cross crosslets fitchée arg.-Furneaux.

'15. Gules, 6 escallop-shells, three, two, and one, arg.—Scales. 16. Per pale or and gules, a lion passant, arg.-Place.

'17. Or, a chevron within a border, engrailed gules-Stafford.

'18. Per chevron, sub. and arg., in chief 3 leopards' faces, or-Litchfield.'

Lady Latimer's husband was son of John, third Lord Latimer, and of his wife, Dorothy de Vere, sister and co-heir of the fourteenth Earl of Oxford.

To return to the shield: we have given a representation of it from a drawing made by a person who possesses no knowledge of heraldry. As Lysons takes no notice of it as a whole, his description evidently refers to a shield with Lord Latimer's arms only.*

There is a puzzle for genealogists in the pedigree of the Duke of Leeds. In the epitaph it says: 'Sir John Danvers plucked the youngest

* Which may have been the shield fixed at the end of the north aisle.

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rose.' But in Thoresby's 'Ducatus Leodiensis' (the second vol. of Whitaker's, Leeds) it is expressly stated that Danvers married the eldest. The pedigree states:

John, Lord Latimer, ob. 1577. Lucy, d. of Henry, Earl of Worcester.

Duke of Leeds, Marquis Carmarthen, Earl of Danby, and Viscount Latimer.

From his assuming the title of Latimer it might be supposed his ancestor had really married the eldest daughter, but surely Sir William Cornwallis knew best. In these old pedigrees the children's names appear in circles round those of their parents, sometimes without any indication which is the eldest or which the youngest. The compiler of the pedigree of the Duke of Leeds appears to have decided on assigning him the eldest daughter:

'Sir Allen (or Alan) Percye, Knt., was buried here 12 Novembre, 1611: he was 6th son of Henry, 8th earl of Northumberland, by Catherine, eldest daughter and coheir of John, Lord Latimer.'

Sir Alan was buried in Lady Latimer's vault.

The following old inscription was also erected beneath the helmet and shield (as we have already noted):

We have no authority for referring the helmet to the Percy family. It is a handsome and nearly perfect helmet, with no arms, but the spike may have supported the Percy lion. It has been in Hackney Church for many years. The inscription at foot of the new erection of course

refers to the 6th earl, and has nothing to do with the Latimer monument. The following anecdote refers to some members of the Nevill family.

THE NEVILLES VISIT A WIZARD.

The wizard next pretended that he had seen a vision of a certain room in a tower, in which a spirit had appeared, with a coat of arms in his hand, and had delivered the same to Sir William Neville. The arms being described as those of the Warwick family. Sir William Neville, his brother, and Jones (the wizard) rode down from Oxford to Warwick, where they went over the castle.

The wizard professed to recognize a turret chamber as the room in which he had seen the spirit, and he prophecied that Sir William should recover the earldom, the long-coveted prize of all the Neville family.

Sir Edward Neville, afterwards executed; Lord Latimer, Sir George and Sir William Neville were all of them near connections of the Countess of Salisbury, daughter of the Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV. Her mother was a Neville, a child of Richard, the king-maker, the famous Earl of Warwick. They were thus all collateral heirs of Warwick, inheriting the pride of their birth and resentfully conscious. of their fallen fortunes.

Margaret Plantagenet was made Countess of Salisbury in her own right, and was beheaded about 1539, on a new rising in the north.

Whether the schoolmaster's pew was that occupied by the parish school or by Newcome's scholars, we know not. In 1613, three years before the date of Margaret Audley's will (who founded the free school), a schoolmaster was appointed by the vestry, who was to take no more than fourpence a week from the children of parishioners, for teaching them grammar, writing, and accounts, and twopence for teaching them English grammar only.

To resume our walk round the old church. Against the east wall, on the upper end of the north aisle, we come to a monument to Richard Hallily, died 1605. On the right of it is Heron's tomb, with no inscription (sometimes supposed to be Elrington's, and that the birds on it were storks and not herons.) On the left of Hallily is Lady Latimer's large monument, placed east and west, with statues of her four daughters, two on each side. [The tablet recording her death was at one end, and her lord's tablet at the other. It was a noble monument. Lady Burdett Coutts, who we believe claims descent from Lady Latimer, had at one

time some idea of restoring it, but so much is destroyed that it would practically have been erecting a new monument, and besides, there was no proper place to erect it in.]

Against the north wall is a tomb to one of the Vyner family, we are not aware which of them. Next is a tablet in memory of James Cæsar Paget, of London, merchant, died 1714. (This is now in the north vestibule of St. John, but not erected.)

The handsome monument to Sir Richard de Beauvoir has been reerected in one of the vestibules of St. John. At the lower end of the north aisle, joining to the wall, we find another table monument of black polished marble for John Dod, died 1681, citizen and mercer of London. Against this wall, at the west end of the church, a handsome monument of white marble to Benj. Dod, another citizen of London, killed by a fall from his horse, 1706.

Near this is the font.

If we now turn into the middle aisle we see under the organ gallery a brass representing a knight in armour and his wife, the arms and inscription gone. Advancing up the middle aisle, we may moralise over the burial place of Susannah Perwick, whose mother, it is said, kept school at the Black and White house, sometimes called Bohemia Palace, during the Protectorate. This young lady excelled as a performer on many different instruments, composed music herself, and was a very fine singer. About four years previous to her death she met with a great disappointment in the death of her lover. She died at the age of twenty-five in 1661. By her desire Dr. Spurstowe preached at her interment, in the middle alley of Hackney Church. The whole of the school were present. She was buried under the same stone where Mrs. Anne Carew, who was considered one of the greatest beauties in England in her time, and formerly a gentlewoman of the school, and intimately acquainted with her, was buried; being the second of five gentlewomen only which have died out of her father's house, among those eight hundred that have been educated there within the compass of seventeen years. For further particulars as to this celebrated paragon of beauty and virtue, as well as of accomplishments, we must refer the reader to Dr. Robinson's' History of Hackney.'

To conclude this walk in the old church: the view up to the east window must have been good, as the side galleries did not reach to the pillars, twelve in number. These pillars were remarkably strong and well-proportioned, and we have elsewhere expressed the opinion that they had belonged to an older church in the decorated style.

There were many brasses on the floor, or slabs from which the brasses had been stripped. The font was modern. There was a massive oak communion table. As to glass, in the windows we have, as far as we can investigate, not a single trace. But in a church where there were so many monuments there surely must have been a tolerable quantity of coloured glass. We have represented the chancel as divided into two by steps. We have no authority for this excepting that Mr. Tyssen was buried in the high chancel. From the natural rise in the ground it is very likely that there were some steps, which would add greatly to the beauty of the church.

It seems a pity that the new church of St. John was not built in a style that would have admitted of the old monuments being placed in the interior, as it would have been pleasanter to look on the gallant gentlemen and their ladies than on the funereal trophies in the modern chancel, and the female eye and mind might have been profitably employed on an Elizabethan ruff during a dull sermon. It would, we are assured, have only cost £100 to remove them all. The chancel of the new church was to contain the same number of square feet and the same number of pews as the chancel of the old church, and to remain the sole property of the rector and his successors for ever. We have, therefore, in the plan placed eight pews in the chancel, and as far as we can judge from the very different shape of the chancels in the two buildings, we think they probably contain nearly the same number of square feet, although that in the new church is so shallow when compared with the size of the building.

The old chancel was well lighted by at least one clerestory window high up on each side, as well as by a large east window. These were large, handsome windows; indeed, we think all the clerestory was large and handsome as to its windows. These windows appear from the slight remains of tracery visible in the drawings to have been of the