The following are notes of the inscriptions and monuments he does not allude to for the reason stated:

Wadham Knatchbull, 3 years Preacher of Highgate Chapel; died 6th January,

1773.

On a pillar with a globe on it :-Robert Springnell; died 25th July, 1624.

On a triangular pillar :-Mr. Peter Pretty; died 30th Dec., 1678.

John Schoppins; died 22nd June, 1720. Mary his wife; died 28th Dec., 1718. On this tombstone was inscribed by their son :

"In life they were lovely,

In death they were not divided.
May their ashes rest in peace."

Strange to say, this was the only vault disturbed in the erection of the Crawley Chapel, one of the foundation piers actually dividing the vault, and causing the removal of the coffins.

Mr. John Bailey; died 29th Dec., 1712

"Now farewell Africa, farewell,

Full thirty years our conversation tell;
Unfaithful thou hast been to me,

The faithfullest of husbands unto thee."

Hart. Bailey, M.D.; died 21st Aug., 1740.

Monument:-Samuel Foster, Esq.; died 25th April, 1752. Mary his wife; died 14th June, 1744. Mr. Foster,

"One of the worthy Governors of the Free Grammar School of this town, bequeathed to them by his last will £300, to be laid out at their discretion for the increase of the pension of the poor widows in the almshouses here."

Tablet:-Mr. Jonathan Lowe; died 15th April, 1795. Formerly of the Gate House. A monument with arms :--Sir Edward Gould, Knt., one of the Governors of this Chapel; died 26th Sept., 1728. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Gower of Highgate.

Flat Stones:

Mrs. Elizabeth Atkinson; died 19th Jan., 1772. Wife of Jonathan Atkinson, of Finchley, who died Jan. 10th, 1773.

Margaret Makepeace; died 29th Sept., 1790.

Christopher Watkinson; died 12th Aug., 1676. Merchant adventurer, who was born at Leeds in Yorkshire, of which Corporation he was constituted an Alderman by Royal Charter. He was

Mrs. Frances Hewit; died 21st May, 1632. Daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, Knt. and Baronet, late Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

"Frances the Faire, the Wise, the Good.
Judge Hobart's daughter mixed her Blood
And changed her name for Hewit's love,
When he did such a husband prove
As when he dies she'd the desire,

And so doth he, to rest here by her."

Mrs. Elizabeth Lisle; died 15th March, 1633. Wife to John Lisle, Esq., and daughter of Sir Henry Hobart, Knt. and Baronet, etc.

John Schoppins (the younger); died 1st July, 1728.

"Reader, pass on, walk freely o'er my bones,

I lately trod such monumental stones;

A few days hence shall others tread on thine,

So small the difference 'twixt thy fate and mine."

Before the Communion Table:

Mrs. Rebekah Pauncfort; died 2nd Nov., 1719. Wife of Edward Pauncfort of Highgate, Esq., and daughter of Sir Samuel Moyer, Bart.

John Smith, of Highgate, Esq.; died 3rd March, 1655. One of the Governors of this Chapel. Defaced.

"John Smith, son of John Smith, Esq., late of this parish, by Anne his wife, being the only child which the said John Smith left at the time of his decease. He came into the world as a blessing obtained from Heaven by the devout prayers of his most religious mother, which she daily offered up at the Throne of Grace for the space of thirty years together, during which time she had been childless, and then God answered her petition and gave her this son."

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Basil Nicolls; died 14th Oct., 1648. One of the Governors of this Chapel and Free School.

Elizabeth Jacques; died June 18th, 1624. Wife of John Jacques-whose sorrowful widdowe she was 19 years."

"Noe epitaph need make this just one famed,

The Good are pray'sd when Tha're only named."

Mrs. Elizabeth York; died 23rd Dec., 1724.

Nicholas Burwell, of Gray's Inn, Esq.; died 2nd Sept., 1670.

William Ord, Esq.; died 20th March, 171, in the 7th year of his age.

Mr. W. Carpenter; died 18th Feb., 1781.

Mr. Joshua Wilkinson; died 23rd Dec., 1790, late of this town. Also Mrs. Sarah Wilkinson, died 24th June, 1793, wife of the above.

1 See Highgate Charities.

In Chapel Yard:

James Meredeth Clerk; died 2nd May, 1777.

Rev. Edward Yardley; died 26th Dec., 1769.

"He was chosen preacher of this Chapel Nov. 5th, 1731, and continued to discharge his duty in that office to God and man with unremitted diligence as a Faithful Pastor to the Day of his Death."

Mrs. Ann Yardley; died 15th May, 1773.

In the Churchyard:

"Here lyeth the body of Mary, wife of Robert Harrisson, who departed this life the 28th Feb., 1727, in the 60th year of her

age.

"The Grave is but a Fining Pot

Unto believing eyes,

For here the Flesh must lose its dross

And like the sun arise.

"Since none can see God's face and live,
For me to Dy is best;

Through Jordan's streams who would not dive

To land at Canaan's rest?

"Lord, let me praise Thee whilst I live,

And praise Thee when I die,

And praise Thee when I rise again
To all eternity." 1

Many of the old "Ledger stones," some of black marble from the aisles of the old church, are carefully preserved in the vaults.

Since so little remains as a memorial of this ancient place of worship, comparatively unimportant incidents are worth recording, and the following entries from the church records may be of interest :

"Edward Pauncefort, Esq., in 1705, ordered the plate to be double gilt at his own charge."

"William Bridges, Esq., in 1706, gave a new clock and surplice, and a common prayer book, to the chapel."

"Sir Edward Gould, in June, 1712, gave a velvet pulpit cloth and cushion with a gold fringe."

"Mr. William Thatcher, Senior, in 1713, gave a silver plate to collect the sacramental money in, and surplice."

"Sir William Ashurst, in 1717, bought the organ, three branches, and two dozen sconces for the pews."

"Lady Pritchard gave by will 50s. yearly for ever, to be distributed by the minister of the chapel, to ten poor old maids of the hamlet of Highgate; or widows, when no old maids can be found."

"The Lady Moyer, in 1720, gave the velvet cloth to the communion table."

1 "Church Notes," by John Simco, MSS., British Museum.

"The Lady Child gave two common prayer books, bound in velvet, for the altar."

cost."

"Mr. John Scoppin gave a suite of fine damask linen for the altar."

"Mr. Edward Stanton paved the altar with black and white marble, at his own

"The communion plate, were two silver flaggons, given by Mrs. Jane Savage, widow, one silver chalice and cover, and one silver plate for the bread."

"The clock, upon the chapel being pulled down, was removed to the residence of Joseph Claypon, Esq., on Hampstead Heath."

The black and white paving mentioned above was laid down in the hall of the house, now the residence of Mr. W. P. Bodkin, J. P., West Hill Place.

The organ was sold and removed to a chapel in the country.

The following charities, which are given in the Report of the Charity Commissioners, published in the year 1828, belong exclusively to the hamlet of Highgate :

1 There is a rough sketch of Highgate Chapel in the scrap book of Samuel Pepys, Magdalen College, Cambridge.

These charities are nearly all under the management of the Governors of the Grammar School, and are principally for the benefit of the residents in the almshouses and the school for girls.

The particulars as set forth in the Commissioners' Report are as follows. The income, being principally derived from funded property, is practically the same at the present date.

Leaving Sir R. Cholmeley's gift for separate and more detailed treatment, we will commence with

Sir John Wollaston s Foundation.

Sir John Wollaston, Knight, by will, dated the 15th April, 1658, reciting that he had built six almshouses at Highgate, devised the said six almhouses and their appurtenances to the Governors of the Free School at Highgate and their successors for ever, on trust and confidence, for the use of six poor almspeople, men and women, of honest life and conversation, inhabitants of Hornsey and Highgate in the said parish of Hornsey, or one of them; whom the said Governors, and their successors, shall from time to time, for ever, in their discretion appoint to dwell in and inhabit the same. And he further devised to the said Governors and their successors for ever an annuity or yearly rent charge of £16, to be issuing out of his messuage or tenement in Highgate next adjoining to his capital messuage where he dwelt, and his two closes of meadow or pasture called High Readings, containing by estimation eleven acres or thereabouts, situate in the parish of Hornsey, payable quarterly at the four usual feast days, upon trust, that the said Governors should from time to time pay and dispose of the said annuity as follows, viz., to each of the said poor almspeople who should inhabit in the said almshouses, by the appointment of the said Governors and their successors, the yearly sum of 50s., to be paid to them on the feast days aforesaid by equal portions. And that the residue of the said annuity should be from time to time disposed of by the said