The Gentleman's Magazine for December last, containing a very affecting Memoir of H. P. Lewis, fell into my hands on Saturday; and on Sunday, immediately after Divine Service, I read it to my family and pupils. The writer will be pleased to accept my sincerest thanks for the consideration which influenced him to draw uf,, in so impressive a manner, a Narrative, the incidents of which are so peculiarly well calculated to convey an useful lesson to the minds of young people. The sum of £5. has been cheerfully contributed by us, for the use of the poor sufferer.

I am, Sir, with much respect,
Your very obedient humble servant,
W. CARMALT.

Manchester, Jan. 6. To the Rev. Dr. Booker, Vicar of Dudley.

REV. SIR,

In reply to the interesting and melancholy account in the Gentleman's Magazine of H. P. Lewis, I herewith inclose you £5.-appropriate it in any way you shall deem the best. Should you collect any sum of consequence, might not an annuity be the best way, and might not the parish where he was born take upon them either to grant such annuity, or to add to it what might, as far as a few comforts can go, alleviate so dreadful a calamity? In alluding to the person who so wantonly caused it, as you appear to have some clue to him, I hope you will address the Case to him personally. If he is rich, how can he dare to refuse an act-not of generosity-but of absolute duty and obligation? Family claims cannot interfere; for this was a claim formed prior to any such; but I should hope that the narrative, forced again upon his attention, would be sufficient to induce him to do all the little reparation left in bis power. If otherwise, if, contrary to every moral obligation, to' every manly and generous feeling, he should refuse; if, not only regardless of his duty to his neighbour, he should sordidly determine that, where the law of man is without power, he will be deaf to all remonstrance; remind him of that day, when he shall be called to answer for the use he may have made of the "Mammon of Unrighteousness"-and when, no doubt, if he do not repent, substantially repent, he will perhaps wish that his had been poor Lewis's lot in this life. I fear, from the tenour of your letter, the man who has been guilty of this

Topographical Notices of PAMPIS
FORD, in CAMBRIDGESHIRE; taken
in January 1815.
AMPISFORD,

PAN

in Domesday Pampesworde, now commonly called Pansay, is a small village in the hundred of Chilford, and deanery of Camps, and lies about eight miles nearly South of Cambridge, and nine North-east of Royston. "When the Survey of Domesday was taken, there were two manors in Pampsworth, one of which belonged to the abbot and convent of Ely, having been given to that monastery by Duke Brithnoth, in the year 991; the other was held by two knights, whose names are not mentioned, under Alan, Earl of Britanny and Richmond: the former manor was alienated from the church of Ely, by Hervey, the first Bishop, and given to his nephew William de Laventon, chaplain to King Henry I., to be held by him under the abbey by knight's service: in the reign of Edward I. it was in the family of Fitz-ancher, or Fitz-anger, afterwards (temp. Ed. III.) in the Shardelowes. manor being held of the honour of Richmond was possessed by Sir Henry Brock, temp. Edward I.; Sir John de Creek, temp. Edward II.; Henry Colville, temp. Henry VII.; Thomas Marsh, 15 James I. It is probable that the two manors had been united previous to the time of James I., as no Jater mention is found of more than one, which was afterwards in the family of the Parkers, who became possessed of it about the year 1706, and is now, by inheritance, the pro-: perty of William Parker Hammond, esq.

The other

The Church of Pampisford†, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, con

*Lysons's Cambridgeshire, p. 245. + Pamsford V. alias Pansworth, St. John Baptist. Pri. Blackborough in

Norf.

sists of a nave, North aile, chancel, and South porch. The nave, chancel, and porch, are tiled; the aile is leaded. At the West end of the nave is a square embattled tower (crowned with a small leaden spire and weathercock) in which are a clock and four bells thus inscribed:

1. John Draper made me, 1617.
2. S. Heleda.

3. John Draper made me, 1615. 4. Ihs Nazarenvs Rex Jvdeorvm Fili Dei, Miserere mei. Richard Robinson Chvrchwarden, 1743.

The entrance to the Church,

through the porch, is by a Saxon doorway, within the arch of which is a row of small rudely-executed figures in bas relief. The nave is separated from the steeple by a Pointed arch, from the aile by four low pointed arches upon three pillars, two of which are octangular, and the remaining one is round. At the West end is a gallery for singers. This part of the Church is lighted on the South by four windows. The first window is divided into two lights by a mullion, part of which is broken off. The lower part of the next window is divided by two mullions, which branch off at the top into six divisions; in this window are some small remains of painted glass. The third window consists of two lights at the bottom and four at the top. The fourth window, which is above the one last mentioned, is of later date. In the middle of the nave lies a large

blue slab reaved of its brass. The

pulpit and reading-desk are fixed in the North-east corner of the nave, the former is octangular and carved. At the South-east corner is an old pew, carved. The nave is separated from the chancel by a pointed arch, at the top of which is a carved head; under the span of the arch, which is closed up, are fixed the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, and the Belief; and under these is a neat wooden screen. You enter the chancel by two folding-doors, painted in imitation of mahogany.

The CHANCEL is lighted on the South by two windows, each one di

Norf. Propr. Mrs. Tyrrell. Clear yearly value 197. 4s. King's books 81. yearly Tenths 16s, among "Livings discharged."-Ecton's Thesaurus, and Bacon's Liber Regis,

vided into two lights by one mullion, which branches off at the top into ramifications. The East window is Pointed, and consists of three lower and six upper lights.

Near the entrance from the nave is a blue slab robbed of its brasses.

Against the North wall is an altar tomb, once ornamented with brass round the edge; on the South side of the tomb are three shields, but so completely bedaubed with that enemy of antiquaries-whitewash, as to be quite unintelligible. On this tomb stands a chest in which the

Registers have been kept. The asthe rails are thus inscribed : cent to the altar is by three steps;

"Robt. Ballard, Chvrchwarden, 1686." The table is plain oak, near it a blue slab,

"In memory of Ann Serocold, late of Littlebury, in the county of Essex, widow, who died January the 9th, Anno Domini 1766, ætat. 78."

In the North wall of the chancel South wall a trefoil-headed piscina. is a round-headed recess, and in the A pedestal in the East wall for an image. The chancel is open to the roof, which is at present in a state of melancholy neglect. The sparhave uninterrupted ingress and egress rows from an adjoining farm-yard through the broken tiles. In the the chancel is kept in the neatest neighbouring, and in most churches, order, but here I'll say no more. Against the South wall and above the these arms: Ar. 3 cinquefoils, 2 & 1, piscina is a marble monument, with pierced Sa. Killingworth; quartering,

Ar. a chev. Sa. betw. 3 trefoils of the

last; and the following inscription in capital letters, once gilt:

"Here lyeth the bodye of John Killingworth, esqvier, whoe was twise married: his former wife was Beatrix davghter of Robert Allington of Horseheath, by whome he had twoe sonnes and fower davghters; the latter was Elizabeth the davghter of William Cheyney esqvire, by whome he had thre sonnes and fower davghters. He died the 23 of Maye anno 1617, ætatis suæ 70.

"A hvsband, father, friend he was,

Under a chest (in which the parish papers are kept) within the communion rails, is a blue slab reaved of the brass.

The AILE is lighted by one window, to the West, divided by two mullions, which branch off at the top into various ramifications; to the North by two windows consisting of three lights at the bottom, and many compartments at the top formed by the ornamental part of the stone division. In both these windows are remnants of painted glass. In the second window is a figure having a golden crown on his head, a crosier or pastoral staff in his left hand; in his right a book, and a scroll before bim with this inscription:

"Etheldreda."

And in another part of the same window, the figure of a lady with flowing hair and a mantle over her shoulders; her right hand is uplifted, her left is laid on her breast; at her feet a scroll bears this inscription:

"Agatha."

Against the West pillar is placed the font; the upper part is octangular, and lined with lead, the lower part is square; there is an antique cover on the top are two figures, intended, I think, for John baptizing Jesus; both figures are decapitated, the handywork, perhaps, of the Cambridgeshire Reformer, William Dowsing. In the middle of the aile there is a slab inscribed, "W. P. Hammond."-Against the wall are four hatchments:

1. Per pale, Gu. & Az. 3 demy lions passant gardant Or, Hammond: on a coat of pretence, Az. a buck trippant Or, on a canton Az. a ship Or. qu? Parker. Crest, a wolf's head erased, quarterly Or & Az. Hammond.

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2. & 3. The same arms as those in the coat of pretence.

4. The same, impaling the same. There is a vault under the aile belonging to the Hammond family. The aile seems to have extended farther by an arch at the East end, which is now blocked up.

The impropriate rectory and advowson of the vicarage, which belonged formerly to the nuns of Blackeburgh, to whom it was appropriated in the year 1377, were, after the Reformation, successively in the families of Wood and Tyrrell, and are

now the property of John Mortlock, esq. of Cambridge: the parish has been inclosed pursuant to an act of parliament, passed in 1799, by which allotments of land were given in lieu of tithes.

... Willys occurs vicar in 1715. Edm. Mapletoft was vicar in July 1730; how long before I cannot exactly say. Another Edm. Mapletoft was presented in Jan. 1744-5; but resigned the same month. I cannot give the names of the vicars previous or subsequent to those just mentioned, as I have not had an opportunity of examining the Registers. The present Vicar is the Rev. D. Mulis.

The Rev. F. Henson, M. A. and Fellow of Sidney College, is Curate. John Purchas is parish clerk.

By the Returns made under the Act of Parliament for ascertaining the population of this kingdom in 1801, it appears that there were in Pampisford 35 inhabited houses, 46 families, 202 persons: in 1811, 49 inhabited houses, 49 families, 237 persons. CHURCHYARD.

South side, on an altar-tomb.

Mrs. Frances Apthorp, junior, departed this life October the 26th 1738, aged 29 years.-Mrs. Frances Apthorp, senior, October 9th, 1758. 73.