And of Thomas Beaver, late of Binfield, Esquire, and of Rachel his wife, daughter of Richard Deane of this Town, Gent: and of their second son Thomas, aged 34: and of Mary his wife, sister of Staverton, of this Parish, Esq., aged 39: and of their first son Richard, who married Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Harrison of Whistley and Hinton in the Parish of Hurst, and sister of the then Sir Richard Harrison, of Hurst. She died æt. 77. The said Richard, her husband, died aged 79, and was here buried in peace, after having jointly with their brother, raised three Troops of Horse for King Charles the First, and maintained them years at their own expense: viz. two Troops at the expense of Sir Richard, and one at that of the said Richard Beaver. They served with Algernon Simes (who was slain at the first battle of Newbury, 20 Sep. 1643, as were Lord Spencer, and Sir Robert Dormer, Bart.) of the Little Park, Windsor, Esq. and with Alexander Taughton, of the Great Park, Windsor, (under the Earl of Crawford, till he was taken prisoner, and sent to the Tower, where he remained nine years.) And afterwards they served under their brother Lord Thomas Howard, Earl of Berkshire, son of the Duke of Norfolk, by His Majesty's appointment. The said Earl, as well as the said Richard Beaver, married a sister of the said Sir Richard Harrison, by whom he left two daughters: the eldest married Sir Henry Winchcombe of Bucklebury, in this County, Bart. The other daughter married a son of Sir Thomas Parker. Sir Richard Harrison married the daughter and heiress of William Deane of Nethercot, in Oxfordshire, Esquire, niece to Sir James Deane of Basingstoke, and to Richard Deane of this Town, Gent. (The two middle fingers of her left hand grew together.) They served together in the Civil Wars, suffered the persecution, sequestration, composition, &c. And of Richard Beaver, son of the aforesaid Richard and Mary Beaver, aged 49. And of Mary his wife, aged 80, who before her marriage was Mary Taylor, late of Binfield, but then of this Town. And of William their son aged 81. And of Mary his wife aged 46. She was daughter and heir to the said Alexander Taughton, Esq., by Mary his wife, who was sole daughter and heir of the said Algernon Simes, by Louisa his wife, daughter of Sir William Kippax, of Bewcot, Berks, Bart. And of William son of the said William and Mary, aged 66. He was heir to the said Alexander's widow, and to the widow Bowlen, the other daughter to the said Alexander. Her husband Thomas Bowlen was a coal merchant, and greatly reduced by serving the Court, for he lost his debt of thousands by the unfortunate King being destroyed. The estates of the said Algernon, Alexander and Richard, were spent and seized and so lost. [Part now is a part of the Great Park, Stone's Farm, and Warren, and Hill near Virginia Water.] Of the son of the last named William Beaver and Elizabeth his wife, aged 69. She was the eldest daughter of Henry Deane (who was son of the aforesaid Richard Deane of this ⚫ There seem to be no dates of years: but the epitaph was probably written about 1740. Gennaway of St. Dunstan's, Henry, and three daughters. Town) by his wife Margaret, who was sister to London, silk mercer. And of John, William, and And of the aforesaid Margaret Deane aged 36. And of the aforesaid Henry Deane. In the 85th year of his age he changed this life for a better. He was greatly reduced by lending his substance to John Hawes of this parish, Brewer, which he lost, so that he kept a Public House for his living, four or five years. And afterwards by King James's Civil Wars more reduced, having nothing whatever left but a tenement of £3 per annum. He was obliged to earn his living from the age of Fifty years, (not being used to work), for above 30 years more till near his end by Gardening. He was patient, healthy, of a chearful and honest heart. And of Ann his second wife. She was sister to the William Beaver that married Mary Taughton. And of Thomas their brother, aged 87. And of Rachel his wife aged 85. And of Mary their daughter aged 87. And also of Mr. Simon Beaver aged 76. He was nephew of the first mentioned Thomas and Rachel Beaver. Let this deter others, lest they ruin themselves and their families, as Algernon, Alexander, and the said Richard did theirs. Here you see a pattern worthy of imitation." (In the Churchyard.) "Gulielmus Segory of Christchurch, Oxon, skilled in the Latin, Greek and Hebrew Tongues, and who kept a private school in this Town, Mrs. Sarah Hawes, wife of Mr. Richard Hawes, of Richmond, Surrey, Died Dec. 12th, 1697. No age. Died Jan. 1st, 1718. 50th year Henry Mountague, Gent. and Mary his wife, she died He died Also one daughter, four grandchildren." Despoiled Slab. In the churchyard to the north west of the west door, is a despoiled slab which has contained the brasses of a civilian and lady, eighteen inches high. There has been a foot legend, which as well as the figures of four sons below the civilian, and two daughters below the lady, are all gone. There is cut on the stone which is of a gray marble, the date 1525 near the bottom, and at the top is the following inscription: "HERE LYETH THE BODY OF THOS. GOODWIN, WHO DIED JANYE. YE 8TH 1748." Sun Dial. On an octangular sun-dial, fixed to a post on the south side of the churchyard, in capitals, is this inscription :— "John Martine, GROCER of LONDON, gave this Dial in Anno 1582. Christo, Pickard, 1618." Rectory of Wokingham. In 1534 it was worth £26 13s. 4d., and Edward Lose was lessee. [Valor Eccles.] The following document is from the Parliamentary Survey, 1650, 7th May. Wokingham, Redd. 26. 13. 04 In toto 26. 13. 04 "A SURVEY OF THE RECTORIE AND PARSONAGE OF WOKINGHAM with the Rights, Members, and appurtenances thereof scituate, lyeing and being in com. Berks, late parcel of the Possessions or late belonging to the late Deane of the Cathedrall Church of the Virgin Mary of Sarum in com. Wilts, made and Taken by us whose names are hereunto subscribed in the Month of April, 1650, by virtue of a Comission to us grainted, grounded upon an Act of the Comons of England, assembled in Parliament, &c. All which Premisses amoungst other things, that is to say, all that the Rectory or Parsonage of Woakingham with all Houses, Barnes, Edifices and Buildings, and all demeasne Lands, Tenements, Rents, Closes and Gleabe Lands, togeather with all manner of Tythes, Oblacons, Obvencons, Fruits, Commodityes, Emoluements, advantages and profitts to the sayde parsonage or to the sayde Deane and his successors by reason of the sayde parsonage in anyuise appertayneing or belonging, were per Indenture dated the seaventeenth of December 5o Caroli demised by John Bowle Deane of the Cathedrall Church of the Virgin Mary of Sarum unto Thomas Barker of Chiswicke in the County of Middx, Esq., Habend the Premisses to the sayde Thomas Barker his heires and assignes for and during the naturall lives of William Barker, Thomas Barker and Henry Barker, Sonnos of the said Thomas Barker, and the life of every of them longest iveing under the yearely Rent of Twenty-six pounds, Thirtene shillings and foure pence at the Feasts of the Annunciacon of the Virgin Mary and St. Michael the Archangell by even porcons But ar worth upon improvement over and above the sayde Rent per Ann........173., 06., 08. If the sayde Rent be unpayde by the space of two months being lawfully required then a Re-entry and the grant to be voyde. The Lessee doth Covenant at his proper Costs and Charges to finde and ordeyne one able priest to serve in the sayde Parish and to repaire the chauncell of the sayde Church and all other the premisses, etc. The Lessor doth covenant that for the repaireing of the sayde Chauncell and premisses it shall and may be lawful for the Lessee from tyme to tyme to cutt and take sufficient Tymber and stuffe in and upon the premisses. And that the sayde Lessor shall beare and pay all desmes, subsidies, and other charges as Exr. P. Will well ordinary as extraordinary whatsoever, due or to be due out of or for the Premisses. Henry Barker, aged two and twenty only liveing. Lucas's Hospital, [from Ashmole's Berks, i.,p. 44.] "In this Parish is Luckley Green, wherein is a fair Hospital, being a front and two sides, founded by Henry Lucas, Esq., Secretary to the Earl of Holland, Lord Chief Justice in Eyre, during some part of the reign of King Charles I. of blessed memory, the endowment is for 16 Pensioners, who have each Ten Pounds per annum, and for Divine Offices a Chaplain, (not subject to the Bishop's Visitation) who preaches once on every Sunday, and reads the morning and evening prayers of the church of England daily for which he is allowed Fifty pounds per annum and is termed Master. The estate with which this Hospital is endowed, lyes at Harlington and thereabouts, near Ampthill in Bedfordshire. The Trustees of this Charity are the Company of Drapers in London, who elect and confirm the Chaplain or Master and Pensioners, the last of which are presented to them by the following parishes of Berks and Surrey alternately as they became vacant. BERKSHIRE, Ockingham Parish, Ockingham Town, Arborfield, Finchamstead, New Windsor, East Hamstead, Cluer, Old Windsor, Barkham, Binfield, Hurst, Ruscomb, Bray, Sandhurst, Wingfield, Swallowfield, Sunning Hill. SURREY, Cobham, Chertsey, Bisley, Purford, Waineburough, Egham, Newdigate, Frimley, Bageshot, Windlesham, Stoke, Thorp, Purbright, Worplestone, Byflet, Woking, Horshill. Over the inward door, in gold capitals, on a black marble stone, is this inscription: "Henry Lucas, Esq.; among other Monuments of Piety and Charity, did devote this Hospitall to the Glory of God, and Comfort of the Poore, for the Benefitt and Example of Posterity. 1663. Has Edes Structor divino vovit honori : In the west window of the Hall is this inscription : "Henry Lucas, Esq; Founder of this THOMAS BUCKS, Esqs; An account of the other charities in the parish, is given in Ashmole's Antiq. of Berks: and more fully with chronological arrangement in a separate publication, printed at Wokingham, 1845. Barony of Wokingham. Prince George of Denmark. It appears from the Patent Rolls (1 Will. & M. part ii., No. 15), that the King and Queen, on his marriage with the Princess Anne (afterwards Queen Anne), granted on the 6th day of April, 1689, to Prince George of Denmark and Norway, the Barony of Ockingham, in the county of Berks, Earldom of Kendal, in the county of Westmoreland, and the Dukedom of Cumberland. Prince George died 1708, when all these titles became extinct. Wokingham Token. In the reign of King Charles the Second, the principal tradesmen of a great number of towns issued tokens. There was one issued by Mr. William Anderson, of Wokingham; one of these was given to me by Mr. G. T. Prince of Reading. The device on one side is the inscription "WILL. ANDARSON," surrounding the Grocer's arms; and on the other IN. OCKINGHAM, surrounding the initials W. A. within a circle. This token was not known in Wokingham till I brought it there, and is supposed to be unique. 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