On one of the pillars of the north aisle are the two first, the third is on the north side near the door of the Chapel : SACRED To the Memory of THOS. WATKINS, Gent. of Hillingdon in this county, He was always chearful and always kind ready to embrace & oblige all mankind. Also Mrs. GERRARD WATKINS, Wife of the above Mr. THOMAS WATKINS, the 16th of March, 1783, Under the Front of this Pew Lieth the Body of Mrs GERRARD, late Wife of Mr. GAM1. COWDERY, Clerk of this Church, & Schoolmaster, who Died Decem" 12th 1754, Also the Body of the said GAM1 COWDERY, 1763. Also JAMES COWDERY, Died May 22d 1782, Aged 63 Years. Near this Place Lyeth the Body of Mrs. ELIZ. GREENHOW, who departed Mrs. MARY GREENHOW, who departed : Mr. WILL: GREENHOW their In the north-west corner is the following: Under the Pew lieth the Body of Also the Body of Mr. WILLIAM JONES, his Brother, There are also tombs and monumental inscriptions in different parts of the chapel, to the following persons: Sarah, infant daur of William and Mary Webb, 1680 Svsana the wife of James Hassell of Stieple Claydon in Henry South 1706 Mr. John Stonard 1709 Robert Redman 1716 Elizabeth wife of William Golder Gent. 1716 Samuel Higley 1723 Daniel Stonard 1724 Mary wife of James Hampton Gent. 1732 Elizabeth wife of William Mellish Surgeon 1732 Jacob Johnson 1734 John Harding 1743 Edward Child, 1678. John Lock, 1727. Henry Powell, aged 73, 1777. John Medlam, 1785. William Cole. Nicholas Higley 1754. Lydia wife of Dennington Bradley of Wokingham William Mellish 1763. Phebe wife of Samuel Stonard Tallow Chandler 1771. Thomas Crouch 1781. Richard Ellis Haberdasher of Vere Street London 1785. Catherine Howard, aged 79, 1789. Williain Mellish 1793. Elizabeth Reed 1796. George Footman of West Smithfield London 1808. John Varty brewer of Davis Street London 1812. Ann Crouch widow, aged 76, 1813. Sarah Footman widow 1814. George Footman 1815. There are also many inscriptions in different parts, which are so defaced as to be utterly illegible. SECTION 3. BURIAL GROUND,-INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMB-STONES,AND HILLINGDON CHURCH-YARD-WALL. Burial Ground. THIS town, though so ancient and populous, does not appear to have had any Cemetery belonging to its Chapel, till near the end of the sixteenth century. Considerable inconvenience must, therefore, have been experienced, in having, at all times, to convey the dead to the mother-church at Hillingdon; a distance of a mile and a quarter. In the year 1576, Henry earl of Derby, lord of the manor of Colham, gave a piece of land adjoining the Lynch Green, or as it is now called Windsor-Street Green, for a Burial Ground. This was inclosed by a wall at the expense of Mrs. Margery Legie, widow, and a license obtained for it in the same year. The following inscriptions are placed over the gate at the entrance. Henry Earl of Darby Knight of the most noble Gave the Ground here inclosed Margery Legie (Widow) Daughter of Thomas Saunders late of this Town Gent: at her own Cost and Charge inclosed this Ground in September 1576. This Entrance was repaired in the year 1777. William Honour Chapel Dr. Edwyn Sands then bishop of London, and patron of the Vicarage of Hillingdon, upon an agreement between the vicar, James Hawkinson, the parish and township, granted his license, dated the 19th. of May, 1576, to the inhabitants of the town, to bury their dead in the Chapel, and in the new Church-yard, which they intended to make, saving all duties due thereby unto Hillingdon their motherchurch, &c. viz:-to pay to the repairs of Hillingdon church, and to repair so much of that Church-yard as they did heretofore; and to pay six shillings and eight pence to Hillingdon church, for every one they bury in their Chapel, and for every one they bury in their Churchyard, two pence to the Clerk of Hillingdon, and he to be discharged from making the grave*. *See Grindal 82; quoted by Newcourt, |