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nument having been broken in pieces by the fall of the old church, the fragments are now deposited under the gallery staircase of the present edifice. ́

On an altar-tomb of freestone, at the east end of the north aisle, is a cenotaph erected to the memory of Speaker Onslow, who died in 1768. He is represented in a recumbent posture, and Roman habit; his left arın reclining on several volumes of votes and journals of the house of commons, to which append two scrolls, with inscriptions recording the "Thanks of the house, for his constant and unwearied attendance in the chair, during the course of above thirty-three years, in five successive parliaments," &c. and the proceedings relative to the pension they conferred on him. There is besides a long inscription, commemorating his family alliances, honours, and character.

The rector of this parish, to which, in 1699, was annexed the adjoining living of St. Mary's, is one of the five persons appointed by the will of Archbishop Abbot, to elect a master of his hospital; and, if unmarried, he may make the mastership his own option, on a vacancy, without the form of an election.

St. Mary's church, situated on the declivity of a hill, a little southward of the High-street, is also supposed to have been erected by one of the Testard family, being a very ancient building, composed of chalk, intermixed with flints, pebbles, &c., the whole very rudely put together. It consists of a nave with two aisles, and a chancel, with a chapel on each side of it, formerly communicating with the chancel by arches which are now stopped up. A small embattled tower, containing six bells, constructed of the same materials with the church, stands

a little to the eastward of the centre. The ascent from the nave into the chancel is considerable, owing to the acclivity of the ground on which the latter stands.

St. Nicholas's church, as ancient, and composed of much the same materials, as the former, stands on the west bank of the river, and consists of a nave and two aisles, under three different roofs covered with tiles. A low stone tower, raised on round arches, appears at the west end; and, adjoining the church to the south, divided off by an open wooden screen, is a chapel attached to the manor of Loseley. The situation of this church is so low, that its floor used frequently to be flooded by the waters of the Wey; in consequence of which a raised floor of boards now surmounts the original stone one.

In the north aisle of this church is a monument bearing the effigy of a priest habited in scarlet, with a dog at his feet, and an inscription, whose date is in the fourteenth century. It is as follows:

"Hic jacet Arnaldus Brocas, Baculari...... ut'usq; Juris, Canonic' Lincoln' & Wellens', & qu'dam Rector isti' loci, qui obiit in Vig'l'a Assu'to's be'...... Marie, Anno Domini, Millesimo CCC nonagesimo quinto."

Various monuments for the equestrian families of Moore and Molyneux are extant in Loseley chapel.

In Trinity parish is the Free Grammar School, the first foundations of which were laid by Robert Beckingham, citizen of London, and grocer, partly in his lifetime, and partly by his will, dated Nov. 3, 1509, by which he bequeathed all his lands and tenements in Bromley, Kent, and in Newington, Surrey, for this purpose. Subsequent endowments have brought this

institution to its present state. In front of the building are the royal arms, and underneath, in capitals of gold,

Schola Regia Grammaticalis Edvardi Sexti, 1550.

The school, 65 feet in length, and 22 in breadth, was begun in 1557; the masters' apartments and the library are additions to the original design. Among the eminent personages who have received the rudiments of their education here, have been enumerated :-John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich; William Cotton, Bishop of Exeter; Henry Cotton, and Robert Abbot, Bishops of Salisbury; George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury; Sir Robert Parkhurst, who died lord mayor of London, in 1635; and Sir Maurice Abbot, brother of the two prelates, and lord mayor of the same city, in 1639.

Nearly opposite to Trinity church, on the north side of the High-street, is Abbot's Hospital, founded by the eminent prelate, some particulars of whose life have been recorded, for the maintenance of a master, twelve brethren, and eight sisters. The first stone having been laid by Sir Nicholas Kemp (who gave 1007. towards carrying on the work, and 5007. more at his decease), the archbishop, who was present at the ceremony, endowed it with a revenue of 2001. a year, issuing out of various farms in Surrey and Sussex, for the immediate support of its members, and 1007. a year out of two farms in Burston, and Charlwood, for setting other poor to work within the hospital.

On the completion of the building, James I., in 1622, incorporated the members by the style and title of the master and brethren of the hospital of the Holy Trinity,

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in Guildford, with the full powers, privileges, and immunities of a body corporate, impowering the founder and his successors in the see of Canterbury to make statutes from time to time for its good government. The Archbishop of Canterbury, for the time being, is appointed visitor of the hospital. By an order of the court of Chancery, in 1785, four more poor women were added to those on the old foundation; so that the number is now twelve brethren, and twelve sisters, exclusive of the master: but the rents appropriated by the founder to the intended employment of young persons in some manufacture within the town of Guildford are applied to the general purposes of the establishment. The gift of 6001. from Thomas Jackman, Gent., one of the magistrates of the corporation, in 1785, and a bequest of 20007. consolidated 3 per cent. bank annuities, from Mrs. Jane More Molyneux, are recent additions to the funds of the institution.

The building is a quadrangle, 66 feet in breadth, and 63 in depth, and has a handsome tower-gate, with four turrets at its entrance. The sisters reside in the east side of the quadrangle, the brethren in the west: behind is a neat and well planted walled garden. A small chapel stands on the north side of the edifice, decorated with painted windows, whose compartments represent scenes from the history of the patriarch Jacob, with four Latin verses under each: the royal arms, those of the founder, and other distinguished persons, are also among their embellishments. The chapel also contains portraits of the Archbishop, Alderman Jackman, and Sir Nicholas Kempe; and the inscription, Clamamus Abba, Pater, having a quaint reference to the name of the founder, appears on scrolls in several windows of the

house. The handsome apartments of the master are in the south-east part of the quadrangle: many of them are wainscoted with carved oak, and in one of them is preserved the old arm-chair used by the founder. The dining-room has another portrait of the Archbishop, together with those of the reformers, Wycliffe, Fox, and others. In the record room at the top of the spiral staircase, which occupies one of the turrets, the Duke of Monmouth was confined in 1685, on his way from the west of England to London. The late master of the institution was Mr. Russell, bookseller, of this town, to whom the public are indebted for its history in an octavo volume (published in 1801), and who served the office of mayor several times, and died father of the corporation at the advanced age of ninety-five. With an attention to the interests of the hospital highly praise-worthy, he not only added considerably to the comforts and allowances of the inmates, but laid out a large sum in repairs and improvements. His eldest son, John Russell, R. A., previously mentioned, was eminent as a crayon painter, and particularly excelled in the delineation of female beauty. He was crayon painter to the King, Prince of Wales, and Duke of York; and, notwithstanding his increasing professional employment, was enabled to com. plete his Selenographia, or model of the moon, a work of the highest importance to astronomy, just before his death, which took place at Hull, in 1806, in his 61st year.

Among other eminent persons born in Guildford, and whom this may be our most favourable opportunity to mention, were Robert Abbot, elder brother of Archbishop Abbot, who was educated with him at Baliol

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