is used by the inhabitants of Chilworth, as a parish church. It has been engraved by Mr. Grose, who says, "that the manor and patronage of the chapel belonged to the priory of Newark; it was given by queen Elizabeth to the family of Morgan. Sir John Morgan, who was knighted at Cadiz in 1596, has a handsome monument here.

The view from this hill is very fine. It exhibits an extensive prospect over the weald of Surrey and Sussex, to the hills of Hampshire, in the south; and northernly extends to a thin blue landscape of Oxfordshire.

GUILDFORD

is delightfully situated in a most healthful air, on the side Ex of a hill of chalk, close by the river Wey, and was an-lates tiently a royal Saxon town. King Alfred devised it to his @80 nephew Ethelwald; and several succeeding monarchs, to the reign of queen Elizabeth, sometimes resided here.

In 1036, prince Alfred, son of king Etheldred, coming out of Normandy, with six hundred attendants, to claim the crown of England, is said to have been seized, and murdered, by the treachery of Godwin, earl of KentAfter the Conquest, it continued a considerable place; and here king John kept his birth-day. When the castle was built is unknown. History shews that it was taken by the Dauphin of France in 1216, and that in 1267, the custody of it was committed to William Aquillon, sheriff of Surrey and Sussex. King James in 1611 granted it in fee to Francis Carter. Since that time it has been neglected, and gradually sunk into ruin.

Here are some remains of a palace of great extent, which, as appears by the best authorities, was the residence of Ethelwald, the above Saxon king, about eight hundred years ago.

The town is a corporation by prescription, has an elegant town hall and council chamber, and its privileges have been enlarged by several charters. It consists of a high steward, mayor, recorder, seven magistrates, and about twenty bailiffs, by the stile of "Mayor and the approved X x 2

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Men of Guildford," who assemble and hold a court in their guildhall every three weeks, and are vested with power at their general sessions of judging criminals to transportation. By a grant in 1256, the county court and assizes for Surrey are to be held here at all times for ever. The assizes are now only here alternately with Kingston and Croydon. By another grant of James, the mayor and recorder and two of the approved men are annually justices of the peace in and for the said corporation and liberties of Stoke above Bar, and the mayor continues in his commission the year after his mayoralty expires.

The right of election in this borough is of a very peculiar kind, and differs from all others in the kingdom, being in the freemen and freeholders paying scot and lot, and resident in the town. The town of Guildford, like Ciren cester, Shrewsbury, Lewes, &c. &c. &c. is not more than half of it within the limits of the borough. This town, which was incorporated by king Henry I. gives the title of earl to the noble family of North. It sent members to parliament anno 23 Edward I. The mayor is the returning officer,

The three parish churches here are; TRINITY, ST. MARY'S, and ST. NICHOLAS; the last in the patronage of the dean of Sarum, the two first have long been vested in the crown, and were consolidated and augmented in 1688 by the legislature and generous benefactions. Trinity church fell down in May 1740. There was preaching in it the preceding Sunday, and workmen were employed in taking down the bells and steeple: they had quitted the spot about a quarter of an hour before the accident happened, so that not one person received any hurt, though great numbers were spectators, it being the fair day. Three bells had been taken down, and the other three fell with the steeple, which broke the body of the church to pieces; and the glass, by the compression of air, was forced out, as though by gunpowder. It has been since rebuilt with brick.

The interior of this structure is very neat, and contains the monuments of archbishop ABBOT, with a Latin in

scription, mentioning his being a native of the town, his preferments, and benefactions. The right honourable ARTHUR ONSLOW, speaker of the House of Coinmons during the whole reign of George II.; he is represented in the character of a Roman senator, leaning upon the votes of the House of Commons, whence proceed two labels, in, scribed with their thanks for his unwearied attendance, unshaken integrity, and steady impartiality; and indefatigable pains during thirty-three years On this spot, in

the old church, stood the monument of Sir ROBERT PARKHURST, lord mayor of London in 1634. The brasses, &c. of this monument, with many others, are piled up under the gallery stairs, and the room under the tower. This tower contains eight good bells.

At the upper end of the High Street, are the remains of an antient structure, commonly called "The Spytle, or Hospital of St. John." It is supposed to have been the residence of the chantry priests of Our Lady's chapel, at present remaining; and is the manor house belonging to the manor of Poyle. The premises are let on lease for a nursery.

ST. MARY'S CHURCH is situated near the lower end of the town, and is an antient building, with a back chancel of a circular form. Dr. Stukeley, in his Itinerarium Curioram, mentions this church in the following manner; "One of the old churches in Northampton, St. Sepulchre's, seems to have belonged to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, of a circular form: there has been another tack'd to it of later date with a quire and steeple, as to that at Cambridge of the same name and figure. Another such I am told is at Guildford: [2u. Whether Old Trinity church had not a round chancel?] which are all of the sort I know of in England; and probably built in the later times of the Romans for Christian service, at least in the carly Saxon reigns."*

* Later discoveries have proved that there are other churches built in this form, besides the Temple church in London, which the doctor has not noticed; particularly Darent church, in Kent; Bengeo church, in Hertfordshire; Hascomb, in Surrey, &c.

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