of K. Charles II, who gave a thousand ton of timber towards the rebuilding of this church, and to this town seven years chimney money collected in it. John Augutter Mayor. 1712.

This church is built upon the site of the chancel of the old church, ten feet being taken, out of the church yard at the east end to add to the present chancel. The old church extended as far as the west wall of the church-yard, which stands upon the foundation of it. It consisted of a body and two aisles, the body being very lofty; the chancel was large with stalls and desks on each side; the windows of both the church and chancel were richly ornamented with coats of arms. On the south side of the church was a large porch, with a room over it, in which was held the spiritual court; and where the chancel now stands there was formerly a library. After the dissolution of the monastries at Northampton, the right of presentation was for some time in the hands of the crown; but it now belongs to those members of the corporation who are inhabitants of the parish.

There are in the church several very neat monuments;-in the north aisle is one on plain white marble, with the following inscription :-*

* See Hervey's Meditations.

"Be ye not slothful, but followers of Them, who through Faith

and Patience inherit the Promises." Heb. vi. 12.

In Memory of ANN STONHOUSE,

A sincere CHRISTIAN.

How lov'd, how valu'd once, avails Thee not

To whom related, or by whom begot;

A heap of Dust alone remains of Thee :

"Tis all Thou art!---and all the Proud shall be!

She died a few Days after the Birth of her 4th Child,
Dec. 1st, 1747, in the 25th Year of her Age.

Life how short!

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Sacred

to the Memory

of her affectionate Husband

Eternity how long?

Sir JAMES STONHOUSE, Bart.
Doctor of Phisic;

The projector, friend, and physician
of the connty Infirmary,

established in the year 1743:

where the lame walk, and the sick are healed.
Afterwards

He was for many years

rector of Great and Little Cheverel, WILTSHIRE,
and exemplary as a Minister.

But in that immortal state

on which he is now entered, how dim is human excellence. READER,

It is his superior honour at this period

that he was partaker with HER

in the CHRISTIAN character,
with whom he was united

in the CONJUGAL relation.
He died on the 8th day of December,

1795,

in the 50th year of his age.

Under the portico, near the south door, is a plain tablet of white marble, recording a most dreadful calamity occasioned by a fire, which broke out at a public house on the Market-hill (now known by the sign of the Phoenix); and although that was the only house destroyed, not less than eight lives were lost, the landlord being the only person in the house that escaped the flames :

This Marble was

erected to perpetuate the

Memory of the following awful
Dispensation of Providence ;

At one o'clock in the Morning of the 17th February, 1792, the lower part of the House of H. MARRIOT,

on the Market-Hill, was discovered to be on Fire,
and the flames ascending with dreadful rapidity,

he was obliged to leave his affrighted little ones, hovering
round their distracted Mother, and by an extraordinary
effort gained the roof of an adjoining house, calling aloud
for that help, which alas! could not be procured, for in a few
moments his whole family, consisting of a beloved Wife,
5 Children, and 2 Lodgers, perished in the flames!

READER,

If the Almighty has hitherto preserved thee from such scenes
of deep distress, let thy Heart glow with Gratitude, and
at the same time let thy Bosom expand with
Benevolence towards thy suffering
Fellow Creatures.

The sad Remains of this unfortunate Family
were carefully collected, and

decently interred in this

Church-Yard.

Upon a small stone near the north door is recorded a most wonderful instance of longevity, and strength of mind and body, viz.

Here under lieth

JOHN BAILES, born in this
Town, he was above 126

years old, and had his hearing,
sight, and memory to the last.
He lived in three Centurys,
and was buried the 14th of April,

1706.

A subscription was a short time since entered into for the erection of a monument to the memory of the late Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, member for the town, when upwards of two thousand pounds were subscribed. It is now in a state of forwardness at one of the first houses in London, and will, when finished be erected in the chancel of All Saints church.

At the east end of the town is the parish church of St. Giles.-This is a very handsome modern building, consisting of a body, north and south aisle, and chancel, with a cross aisle from north to south, all leaded. In the middle between the church and chancel, is a neat square embattled tower, in which are eight bells, supposed to be equal, if not superior, in harmony, to any in this part of the kingdom. The length of the church and chancel is one hundred

and sixteen feet; the breadth of the body and aisles about fifty seven feet, and the length of the cross aisle about sixty-four feet. The chancel was neatly wainscoted a few years ago, at the expense of Dr. Grey, a physician, and contains, at the present time, a number of very neat handsome monuments. Against the east wall of the south cross aisle is an altar monument, covered with marble, with four angels holding each a shield at the feet and north side, and between each angel a woman sitting on a tomb. Round the verge was an inscription in brass, now torn off. This monument is supposed to have been erected for one of the Gobion family. The register of this church began in 1585; and was given to the priory of St. Andrew, in Northampton, by Simon de St. Liz, the founder. Within this church was a chapel dedicated to St. Peter, and a fraternity in honour of St. Clement.-By a deed, dated the 20th March, 1619, William Andrew, of Denton, alias Dodington-Parva, Gent. granted an annuity of £3 per annum, for ever, out of a meadow called the Patches, in the parish of Weston-Underwood, in Buckinghamshire, for the more decent burial of poor executed prisoners, in the church-yard of this parish.

At the western extremity of the town, near the outer fortifications of the castle, stands the church