xxx Journal of Proceedings.
A halt was made here for an inspection of the quaint old church,
dedicated to St, Mary and All Saints, the north doorway of which has a
fine Norman arch, with billet mouldings, and also traces of what was
once a south porch. The interior is certainly very curious, and the
church contains a considerable number of monuments, some of more
than usual interest, and in the examination of which our party spent
some time. On the floor is a slab with the inscription "Of your charyte
pray for the soules of Robert Barefoot, cytezyn and Mercer of London,
and Katheryne hys wyff : whyche Robert decessy'd the xxii day of June,
1546, on whose soules ye Lord Jhu have mercy," and the register dates
from 1582. On the north wall of the chancel is a Latin tablet to the
memory of the celebrated Dr. Thomas Wynnyffe, some time Bishop of
Lincoln, who fell upon evil times in his old age, and died rector here in
1654. The writer of the mural inscription grievously laments that
"such a man should be reduced by this supremely evil age to penury
and poverty. . . . Sherbourne in the county of Dorchester claims his
birth; Exeter College, in the University of Oxford, his education; the
chariot of riper years brought him to the rectory of this church, and
that of Willingale Doe ; next to the deanery of Gloucester, and after-
wards that of St. Paul's, at London. The great uproar of those times
found him, on the verge of his old age, Bishop of Lincoln. His tomb is
here at Lambourne, where, gathered to his fathers, he sleeps in peace,
waiting for the most blessed of resurrections." Buried in the same
vault "lyeth the bodie of John Wynniffe, of Sherborne, in the Countie of
Dorsett, gent, father to Thomas Wynniffe," the unforlunate bishop, who
"dyed on the 27th of September, a.d. 1630, of his age, ninety-two." At
the foot of this tablet is a memorial to the Rev. Michael Tyson, F.R.S.,
a well-known antiquary, and rector of Lambourne, concerning whom
Gough, in his edition of Camden's ' Britannia,' observes "At the foot
of the Bishop's tomb was laid, May 6th, 1780, a friend to whose pencil
and tastes these sheets would have been much indebted, had he not been
cut off in the early enjoyment of all his wishes." Many monuments
also exist to the memory of members of the Lockwood family, notably
one by Wilton, sculptor to George III. The above-mentioned Dr. Tyson
wrote (vide Nichol's 'Literary Anecdotes,' viii, 637) "one of the most
elegant modern monuments I ever saw, was last week [his letter was
dated November 18th, 1778] put up in my church for a Lockwood—a
figure of Hope leaning on an antique urn, in alto relievo by Wilton."
The honest rector adds "Mark, I had ten guineas for allowing it a
place!" Among numerous other tablets is a beautiful one of white
marble, erected in memory of Captain George Lockwood, of the 8th
Hussars, who fell in the memorable charge of Balaklava, October 25th,
1854, while acting as A.D.C. to Major-General the Earl of Cardigan.
The east window is blocked up by a large memorial tablet, and the
pulpit—an unmitigated "three-decker,"—also attracted considerable
attention from the fact of its position near the western door. There is a