Willoughby of Parham, son of William lord Willoughby, by Anne, daughter of Sir Philip Cary) provided that she should within three years after his deccase marry lord Guildford, with remainder to her issue male by him; in failure of which condition, to the Falkland family. That lady, however, married the honourable Mr. James Bertie; but a decree of the House of Lords, in 1697, determined in favour of her life interest in this manor, adjudging the reversion to Lucius Henry lord Falkland. Mrs. Bertie having deceased in 1715, the estate came to his lordship, which he sold to John earl of Dunmore; of whose trustees it was purchased by John Gibbons, Esq. (afterwards Sir John Gibbons, bart. and K. B. (whose son, Sir William Gibbons, bart. is the present possessor; Sir Williau is also lord of the manors of West Bedfont, and Shipcotts.

The parish Church, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is a Gothic structure of flint and stone.

At the west end is a square tower, chequered of flint and stone, and surmounted by a lofty spire, partly covered with shingles, and partly of lead.

Within are the tombs of Thomas Windsor, Esq. father of Andrews lord Windsor, who died 1486; and Thomas lord Knyvet, and his lady, who both died in 1622. In the churchyard, among others, are the tombs of Richard Blunt, Esq. alderman and sheriff of London, 1763; and Sir James Hodges, knt. town clerk of the city of London, 1774.

Stanwell gave birth to the late Sir George Nares, one of the justices of the court of Common Pleas, who died July 20, 1786.

STAINES,

is a market town sixteen miles from London, and is sup posed to have derived its name from the boundary stone in the river Thames, marking the jurisdiction of the city of London. The town is governed by two constables, and four headboroughs, and has a market on Friday, and a fair on the morrow of Ascension Day, and three following

days,

days, obtained by the abbot and convent of Westminster, in the vear 1228.

Dr. Stukeley imagines that a Roman road, which he denominated VIA TRIONOBANTICA, passed through Staines.

Staines Forest extended from this place to Hounslow; but was disforested and diswarrened by charter in 1227. The manor was one of those given by Edward the Confessor to the church of Westminster. After the Dissolution Staines became vested in the crown, and was given by James I. to lord Knyvet, from whose family it passed to Sir William Drake, of whom it was purchased in 1678 by Richard Tayler, Esq. in whose family it still continues.

The manor of GROVE BARNES was the estate of lord Zouch, in 1469. It belongs at present to Thomas Burnet, Esq. whose father purchased it. YEVENEY belonged to Sir Nicholas Brembre, alderman of London, who was attainted and executed during the turbulent times of Richard II. It afterwards came to the family of Dolben, as lessees, under the dean and chapter of Westminster. The lease was purchased of Sir William Dolben, bart. in 1776, by-William Gill, Esq. lord mayor of London in 1789, and is now possessed by his widow.

The Church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and stands

about a quarter of a mile distant from the town. The Pales structure is Gothic, and consists of a chancel, nave, and P//i4 north aisle, separated by circular columns and pointed arches. The door of the chancel is Saxon, and one of the windows is of the lancet kind; the nave has been rebuilt of brick. The square embattled tower at the west end was built in 1631, by Inigo Jones, as appears by the inscription on the south side. There is a handsome monument to the memory of Henry Bacham, Esq. who died in 1746, and his widow.

The Quakers, Anabaptists, and Methodists, have each places of worship in this town.

It appears that there has been a bridge at Staines from very remote date; and we find that as early as 1262, three eaks out of Windsor Forest were granted by the crown for

its

its repair. There are also various records in the Tower, from the reigns of Henry III. to Henry VI. specifying grants of pontage and tole to defray the expence of its repairs. An act of parliament passed in 1509, authorizing the lord chancellor, or lord keeper, to depute some of the inhabitants of Staines to receive tolls for the necessary repairs of the bridge. In 1597 another act passed, appointing two persons from Staines, and two from Egham, for the above purpose, and to gather tolls for Egham causeway. An act passed in 1791, by which it was enacted, that commissioners should be appointed to erect a new bridge, and an elegant stone bridge was built from a design by the late Thomas Sandby, Esq. R. A. It consisted of three elliptic arches; that in the centre sixty feet wide; the others fifty-two feet each. One or two of the piers having sunk, the opening of this bridge was retarded for some time; and afterwards an iron bridge was constructed, which also, for want of proper support, gave way. An alteration has since taken place; so that the conveyance for carriages, &c. is rendered safe.

At some distance, above this bridge, at Coln Ditch, stands London Mark Stone, the antient boundary to the jurisdiction of the city of London on the Thames. On a moulding round the upper part, is inscribed "God preserve the city of London. A. D. 1280!"

LALEHAM, is a village between Shepperton and Staines, famed for the entertainment it affords to the lovers of angling. The Thames narrows considerably here; and, about the shallows or gulls, the water is beautifully transparent. The tranquillity of the scenery, the various objects gliding on the stream, and groups of cattle in the adjacent meadows, present a pleasing subject to the contemplative mind.

On Greenfield Common, in this parish, are considerable traces of a Roman camp; supposed, by Dr. Stukeley, to be the place where Casar received an embassy from the Trinobantes; the whole however must rest on conjecture.

The

The manor, at the publication of Domesday Book, be longed to the abbot and convent of Westminster, as part of their manor of Staines, and continued so till the dissolution of that monastery, it having been held under them by lease. The lease was demised in 1585 to John Kaye, for fifty-four years, as part of the honour of Hampton Court; it was again granted in 1622 to Sir Thomas Middleton, &c. in trust for Sir Henry Spiller, whose daughter Catharine brought this manor in marriage to Sir Thomas Reynolds, of whose descendant it was purchased in 1746 by Sir James Lowther, bart. whence it descended to the present possessor, the earl of Lonsdale, who has a very handsome seat here.

Within the parish Church, which is very old, the pillars being ornamented with Saxon capitals, is the monument of the late baron Perrott, with the following inscription:

"Sacred to the memory of GEORGE PERROTT, Esq. late one of the Honourable Barons of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, who departed this life on the 28th day of January, 1780, in the seventieth year of his age; by whose death the revenue lost a most able assertor of its legal rights, the subject a firm protector against oppression, the public an able and upright minister of justice, and the industrious and infirm poor a steady and comfort. able support. To perpetuate her esteem for such amiable qua lities, his truly afflicted widow, Mary Perrott, by her last will caused this monument to be erected." Baron Perrot's widow died in 1784.

SHEPERTON, is nineteen miles from London, and connected with the county of Surrey by Walton bridge.

This manor also belonged to the abbot and convent of Westminster, till abbot Gervase de Blois alienated this, with other manors belonging to that church, to Sir Robert Cranker. It afterwards came to the lords Beauchamp, of Hacche; in 1430, it belonged to John lord Tiptoft; and after various descents it devolved to Mrs. Dugdale, wife of Richard Dugdale, Esq. of Blyth Hall, Warwickshire, who is in her right, lord of the manor, Mr. Dugdale is ma

ternally

ternally descended from Sir William Dugdale, whose name, by virtue of the king's sign manual, he has assumed; his father's surname was Geast.

In the churchyard are two long Latin inscriptions for two negro servants belonging to Sir Patrick Blake, bart.

Among the rectors were WILLIAM GROCYN, the eminent friend and correspondent of Erasmus; LEWIS ATTERBURY, brother to bishop Atterbury.

SUNBURY, is situated on the Thames, sixteen miles three quarters from London, contains the fine seat of the late earl of Pomfret, now of William Thomas St. Quintin, Esq. This seems to be an epitome of part of the facade to Hampton Court, and has often borne the appellation of that palace in miniature! Here also are the villas of Mr. Parker, and Mr. Crosier.

Edward the Confessor, confirmed this manor to the abbot and convent of Westminster, in 1066. It was ceded to the bishops of London, for ever, in consequence of an agreement between the bishop and abbot, in 1222; and, in 1554, bishop Bonner demised it to John Dagon and John Walkeleyn, for forty-one years. By some means or other the manor became vested in the crown, and, in 1590, it was demised by queen Elizabeth for twenty-one years, to Charles Yetswert, secretary for the French tongue. In 1718, it was sold to Roger Hudson, Esq. afterwards Sir Roger Hudson, knt. who built the spacious mansion house. The manor was inherited by Edmund Boehm, Esq. who married Martha, daughter and co-heir of Sir Roger Hudson; and it is now the property of their son, Roger Boehm, Esq. who resides in Sunbury House, of which there is a view in Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. II. p. 46.

The manor of Col Kennington, Cold Kennington, or Kempton, was called in Domesday CHENETON, and was then the property of Robert, earl of Mortaigne and Cornwall, whose son William being in rebellion against Henry I. and having quitted the kingdom, Henry seized upon all his estates in England in 1104. Kennington then

became