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Ashbourne.
[1772, p. 416.]
The above inscription [illustration omitted] I have exactly
copied from a plate of brass, of the same size, found some
years since in repairing the church of Ashhourne, in the county
of Derby, but now affixed to a table of black marble against
one of the pillars of the church. As no one of your antiquarian
correspondents, that I know of, has thought proper to convey
it to your useful repository, I beg leave to present it to
the public through your means.
Yours, etc., RD. GREENE
VOL. XIV. 2
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[1822, Part II.,
pp. 578, 579.]
During a tour which I have been making in this neighbourhood,
so fertile in natural beauties, in crossing the country from
Ashbourne to Derby, tempted by the fertility of the adjoining
villages, I digressed considerably from the direct road to the
left, absorbed in pleasing reveries, to which the fineness of
the weather and the season of the year so naturally gave rise,
when my attention was arrested by the egress of a number of
well-dressed people, chiefly of the higher order of peasantry,
from a small building, which, from its appearance, might have
been taken for a stable, and its being attached to a farmhouse
gave colour to the supposition. Imagining it was a Methodist
meeting, it being Sunday, I was proceeding slowly on my way,
when I was overtaken by an intelligent farmer, with whom I have
some acquaintance, and who, to my great astonishment, gave me
to understand that the obscure building which I had just passed
was a Chapel of the Established Church, and that the cause of
its erection was not less singular than the situation and style
of architecture seemed to indicate. The popular, and indeed
the only account he had ever heard assigned was "that one
Brown, a man, as it should seem, of bad character, having occasion
to go a journey very early, went to catch his horse, when he
by some means caught the devil who broke loose, and vanished
in a flash of fire." This is stated to have been the cause
why the said Brown erected the chapel upon the place where the
transfiguration took place, and endowed it with twelve pounds
for ever, secured upon the field and the one adjoining, to be
given to the resident clergyman of Mugginton, the adjoining
parish, for preaching a sermon on the last Sunday in every month
throughout the year.
This account, strange as it appears, is the only one I could
procure, and it seems certain that this chapel owes its existence
to some mental delusion of the nature above detailed ; for within
a few years the following lines were plainly visible :
"John Brown being
full of years, and full of evil,
Instead of haltering his horse, he halter'd the Devil."
From whence it is always called Halter Devil Chapel.
Yours, etc., WM. JAMES.
Ashover.
[1791, Part II., p. 790.]
I send you a copy of the monumental inscription in Ashover
Church on the widow of Immanuel Bourne, rector and patron
of that place. Her husband was buried at Aileston, in Leicestershire,
as mentioned in Mr. Nichols's "Collections" for
that county, p. 543, and therefore has no monument in Ashover
Church. Several of his descendants are buried at Ashover,
and the Rev. Lawrence Bourne,
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this county, the great-grandson of Immanuel, is the present
patron and rector of Ashover. The inscription is in the chancel,
on a large slab of freestone, part within and part without the
rails of the altar.
"Here lieth the body of JEMIMAH
BOURNE, the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Beckingham, of Tolson
Beckingham, in the county of Essex, and Dame Elizabeth his
wife, and the relict of Immanuel Bourne, late rector and patron
of this church who died June the 19th, 1679, aged 79."
Yours, etc., A. W.
I see an inquiry in your last magazine (p. 504) for the epitaph
of Immanuel Bourne, at Ashover, in the county of Derby. I
was there a year or two since, but find no such person mentioned
in my notes. It appears from a mural tablet in the chancel
that Obadiah Bourne, died April 8th, 1710, æt. 64, and
his widow, January 19th, 1711. I transcribed the following,
which is at the service of your correspondent :
"Near this place lies interred REBECCA,
wife of OBADIAH BOURNE, A.M., Rector of this parish, and daughter
of John Lynch, esq.,* of Grove, in Kent, who departed this
life Aug. 31, 1754, æt. 62."
There is a grandson of this match now living in orders, on
whom the late Dr. Robert Lynch, M.D., of Canterbury, entailed
a part of his estate. ...
Yours, etc., N. S.
[1791, Part II., p. 998]
I send you copies of the other monumental inscriptions in
Ashover church relating to the family of the Bournes, formerly
resident in that parish. The church at Ashover is a large,
handsome structure, and, much the credit of the present very
respectable curate, the Rev. James Mills, and the inhabitants
of the parish, it is kept in a superior degree of neatness
to most village churches in the kingdom. It contains two other
curious monuments, the one for Thomas Babington, Esq., of
Dethick, the great-great-grandfather of Anthony Babington,
Esq., who was attainted of treason, and executed in 1586,
for the share he took in Ballard's conspiracy against Queen
Elizabeth, and the other for James Rolleston, Esq., of the
Lea (both in this parish), which monuments, together with
the church, are well deserving of a minute description; but
as a gentleman eminently qualified for the design has undertaken
shortly to give the public a full and particular account of
the history and antiquities of the county at large, 1 think
it unnecessary at least, if not improper, now to attempt such
a description.
*Father of John Lynch, D.D., Dean of
Canterbury, who was father of Sir William Lynch, K.B., who
died 1785, and of John Lynch, D.D., now Archdeacon of Canterbury.
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volume of "Collections relating to the History of Derbyshire,"
made by Thomas Brailsford, gent., of Seynor, in this county,
about the beginning of the present century, frequent references
are made to the " Chartulary " of William Briewer,
the great favourite of King John, or of his son, William Briewer,
jun. Permit me to inquire of your numerous antiquarian and topographical
readers whether this " Chartulary " is known to be
at present in existence, and, if so, where it may be resorted
to. Permit me also to inquire where the manuscript collections
of the late Dr. Vernon, rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury,
are now deposited; likewise whose property the collections of
St. Lo Kniveton,* which lately formed a part of the Yelverton
MSS., are now become.
D.O.
On a very heavy and ill-executed mural monument on the north
side of the altar in the chancel of Ashover :
"M.S. Hic jacente propinquo OBADIAH
BOURNE, A.M, Patronus et Rector fidelis. Et Elizabetha conjux
illi non immerito charissima Piam animam efflavit hæc
Aprilsi II°. Anno Salutis humanæ 1710°. Ætatis
sure 64°. Ille ipsam sub-secutus est Januarii 19°,
Anno proxime sequenti, Ætatis sure 81°. Monumentum
hoc justæ gratitudinis ergo posuerunt filii."
On a marble slab within the rails of the altar :
"LAURENTIUS BOURNE, de Marsh Green
Chirurgus haud frustra inter primos habitus, Ob. 19° Decembris
A.D. 1749, æt. 73. Martha conjux pia ob. 12° Februarii
A.D. 175J, æt. 65. Maria filia ob. 10° Martii A.D.
1743, æt. 24."
On a freestone slab on the north side of the altar, the letters
run with lead :
"Here lyeth the body of ANNE WIGLYE,
wife of Joshua Wiglye, Gentm. Grandchild to Immanuel Bourne,
late Rector of this Church, who departed this life May the
19°. 1674."
On a marble slab near the middle of the chancel :
"GEORGIUS, filius Obadiæ et
Rebeccæ Bourne, obiit Julii primo, 1748, ætatis
vicesimo primo Magnæ spei juvenis."
On three different slabs of marble near the middle of the
chancel :
I. "REBECCA BOURNE, died August
the 31, 1764, aged 33 years."
2. "REBECCA BOURNE, August 31, 1754."
3. "OBADIAH BOURNE, died October the 6th, 1763, aged
80 years."
* These form a part of the magnificent collection of the Marquis
of Lansdowne. - EDIT.
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