entire. There is no inscription on the tomb, nor was any thing found in the grave by which we can conjecture who was its inhabitant.

A few years since this fabric underwent a complete repair. The stone work in the munions, &c. of the clearstory were renewed, the north aisle was rebuilt, and also the Chapel on the north side of the Chancel. Considerable repairs were effected in the north transept, and in the south aisle; the expence of which was about £3000, to defray which money was borrowed on security of the Church rates. The east end of the Chancel, and the Chapel adjoining, had, at some former period been rebuilt of brick, and the windows constructed with plain circular heads in a modern form. Now that the Chapel has been rebuilt in the best style of pointed Gothic architecture, the other part has a very ugly and mean appearance*.

There was formerly in this Church "a chest bound with iron, of which some of the chiefest freeholders did keep the keyt." In this chest was deposited Mowbray's deed. It stood "under a window, wherein was the portraiture of Mowbray, set in antient stained glass, holding in his hand a writing, which was commonly reported to be an emblem of the deed." This window "was broken down," as we learn from the same authority, "during the rebellious times;" when no doubt also many other beautiful windows were destroyed, which added to the splendour, and displayed the munificence of the founder of this noble edifice.

There is in the tower of this Church a most harmonious ring of bells, which, for their depth and richness of tone are hardly to be surpassed. The old bells, five in number, are of great age, and a most excellent composition of metal. The small bell, which completes the peal of six, was added only

a few

* The great tithes are liable to the repair of this part of the Church; but the Lessee of the Archbishop of York being a bankrupt, his assignees doubted whether they had the power to do any thing in the shape of improvement. His Grace offered to assist them with the donation of a hundred pounds.

+ From the original petition of the Commons against the Participants, in the possession of R. P. Johnson, Esq.

a few years since. The practice of ringing a curfew is still continued, from the first Sunday after the tenth of October, until the Sunday prior to Shrove Tuesday; and every three hours the works of the clock play chimes on these beautiful bells.

The silver plate for the use of the altar is such as is not often met with in a country Church. It consists of two large silver salvers, inscribed Haxey Church; a large silver flagon, having this inscription, 1699, Jane Farmery, widow and relict of Robert Farmery, late of Upper Burnham, in the parish of Haxey, in the Isle of Axholme, in the County of Lincoln, Gentleman, deceased, dedicates this plate to the said Parish Church of Haxey, for the perpetual use of the communicants there, in memory of her deceased husband. There is also another large silver flagon, given by the Rev. Richard Herring, in 1711, having an inscription as follows: "Deo et Ecclesiæ de Haxey, D. D. D. Richardus Herring, Vicarius ibidem."

In the vestry of this Church are some remains of an old library. The only one worth noticing, is a fine black letter copy of Fox's Book of Martyrs, with the original wood cuts. It appears by a minute taken of the Church goods, by William Dalby, Vicar, in the year 1607, that this library then consisted of the following works: Ballinger's Desires, Drye's Surgerye, Turner's Herball, Calvin's Institutes in English, Lacquett's Homilies, the Book of the Voyages, given by Vincent Tankersley; The Last Part of the New Edition of the Voyage, given by Robert Kemp, of Nether Burnham; the First Part of Hollingshead's Chronicles, the Second Part of the same, Jewel's Apology for the Church of England, Jewel's Reply to Hardynge Bishop of Estures, Peter Martyr's Common Places, Selden's Commentaries, Statutes of James the First, the Rhemish Testament, Abridgement of Statutes, Tyndall's Works, Erasmus his Paraphrases, an Eventual Hystorye: these two last are stated to have been very old books. It is also mentioned in this inventory that there were at that time, still remaining in the Church, two sheaves of arrows, of which, before the use of fire arms became general, every parish was obliged to furnish a certain quantity.

The Churchyard is surrounded on the south-west and north sides by stately

elms

elms and sycamores, which, as it appears from a memorandum in the parish books, were planted in the year 1740; but after the late repairs these trees were barbarously mutilated by lopping off their principal branches, under the idea that they were injurious to the fabric.

This Church contains but few sepulchral memorials, and none of much antiquity. It has a considerable estate and a good fabric fund, which being at the disposal of country churchwardens, is a very fatal engine for the destruction of the monuments of antiquity.

On the floor of the Chancel.

JULIANA, DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH HOOLE,
WAS HERE INTERRED, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1715.

RICHARD MAW, APRIL 8, 1780, AGED 22 YEARS.

ELIZABETH, THE WIFE OF MR. RICHARD MAW, WHO DIED DEC. 20, 1745, AGED 22 YEARS.

RICHARD MAW, APRIL 11, 1808, AGED 62.

MARY, HIS WIFE, DIED MAY 11, 1804, AGED 51.

ROBERT BROWN OF EAST LOUND, GENT. DIED JULY 3, 1715,

On two brass plates, at the west end of the nave, are the following inscriptions:

THE REV. MR. RICH. HERRING, WHO WAS VICAR OF THIS
PARISH NEAR 40 YEARS, WAS INTERRED MARCH 30, 1712.

BRIDGET, THE WIFE OF THE SAID MR. HERRING, WAS HERE INTERRED,
NOV. 29, 1711.

Also in the same place

RICHARD ANDERSON WRIGHT, WHO DIED MARCH 10, 1818.
MRS. MARY JONES, WHO DIED FEBRUARY 9,

1829, AGED 82.

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