[148] In Bag Enderby church there is a mural monument to Andrew and Dorothy Gedney, and their two sons and two daughters kneeling by prayer desks.
[156a] Ralph Lord Treasurer Cromwell had also property in this parish at a later period.
[156b] A former church was built by the Lord Treasurer, who died in 1455; in the nave of which was the inscription, “Orate pro anima Radulph Crumwell qui incepit hoc opus, Anno Domini 1450.” (Harl. MSS. No. 6829, p. 174).
[157a] In the “Gentleman’s Magazine” for 1789, p. 636, is an account of a beacon hill in this parish.
[157b] The objection to this is that “reeve” is a Saxon word, and the termination “by” is Danish. The word appears in our modern “sheriff,” or shire-reeve, “port-reeve,” &c.
[158a] Jusseraud’s “Life of the 14th Century,” p. 38.
[158b] Harleyan MSS. 4127.
[158c] Ibid, add. MSS., 6118, 330b.
[158d] The original charter of the foundation is lost, but a copy is given in Dugdale’s “Monasticon,” vol. v. p. 454. The wife of this William de Romara was Hawise, daughter of Richard de Redvers, Lord of Tiverton, Co. Devon, and of Christchurch, Hants., and sister to Baldwin, 1st Earl of Devon. By the title of Comitissa Hawysia de Romara, she gave the church of Feltham, in Middlesex, to the hospital of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, near London. She joined in the foundation of Revesby Abbey. (“Topogr. and Genealogist,” vol. i., p. 24).
[158e] Dugdale’s “Baronage,” vol. i. p. 6.