is worth nothing, beyond reprises; also, there is there one dove-house in ruins, which is worth nothing beyond reprises, because . They likewise say, that there are there 140 acres of arable land, and they are worth by the year by a reasonable extent, forty-six shillings and eightpence, that is to say, fourpence the acre, whereof are sown with corn, thirty acres . . the vestura sixty-two shillings, that is to say, two shillings per acre, and not more; because many acres thereof are overflown, and are sown with wheat and rye The crop thereof, forty-three shillings and sixpence, that is to say, eighteen-pence per acre, and not more, because they had been sown in rainy weather. They also say, that there are there four score acres of pasture, and they are worth thirteen shillings and fourpence, that is to say twopence per acre. Also four acres of meadow, and they are worth yearly six shillings, that is eighteen-pence the acre. Also four acres of wood, and they are worth nothing, because they were cut during the last year with cattle. They also say, that there are at Braynford one messuage, and two acres of land and they are worth yearly by reasonable extent beyond reprises, three shillings and fourpence. Also at the aforesaid manor of Gonyldesberg, seven shillings of rents of assizes from divers tenants at the four terms of the year."

Alice Perrers was afterwards married to Sir William Windsore, to whom this manor was granted, with other property which she had enjoyed before her attainder. In the fifteenth century it belonged to Sir Thomas Frowyck,'

1 Stowe gives the following account :-"The same time a Parliament was assembled at London, which continued from Michaelmas till St. Andrew's-tide, in the which Parliament were almost all those knights, with the said Peter de la More, which so nobly had stood forth in the Parliament, which rightly was called the Good Parliament, for the increase of theire country and profite of theire kingdome They earnestly stood in the matter to have Alice Perrers banished. By the diligence and wisdome of the said knights, she being convicted by her owne mouth was banished and her movable goods confiscate to the King's use, but in the year next following, to wit, the second yere of King Richard, the sayde Alice Perrers, then wife to William Windsore, knight, was pardoned, and in the seventh yeere of the same King her goods being confiscate by parliament, were again restored and recompensed."-Stowe's Annals, p. 429.

2 It is probable that the Henry Frowyk mentioned in the following abstract from the Close Rolls, 13 Henry VI, m. 14, was the immediate predecessor of Sir Thomas at Gunnersbury:-"Dec. 4. Thomas Hale, of Yillynge, Middlesex, husbandman, conveys to William Eastfield, Henry Frowyk (citizens and aldermen of London), John Carpenter, Robert Burton, Alexander Aune, John Wylton, Thomas Dale (clerk), John Leget (clerk), Roger Byrkes, property in Greenford and Yillynge,

alderman of London, who died in 1485, and was buried at Ealing a fact recorded by old Norden, who says:"Elinge, called Great Elinge, in the Church whereof lyeth buried Thomas Frowyk, sometime owner of Gunnersbury, or Gunyldsbury, an ancient seat within the same parish."

This same Thomas Frowyck was the donor of the old Church House, about which more will be said later. His second son, also named Thomas,' was born at Ealing. He became a very eminent lawyer, and served as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, living at Finchley. The elder brother, Sir Henry, inherited the Manor of Gunnersbury, and from him it descended to his daughter Elizabeth, who married Sir John Spelman, one of the judges of the King's Bench, grandfather of the celebrated antiquary, Sir Henry, and ancestor of Sir Clement Spelman, who died seized of the manor in 1607. During this time it was principally occupied by tenants. Dame Margaret, sister of William, Earl of Derby, and wife of Robert Ratcliffe,

which were of Thomas Charlton (knight), Henry Frowyk, William Brag, Thomas Warner, and others." This Sir Thomas Charlton held the manor and advowson of the neighbouring parish of Greenford in 1435. From him the property passed into the hands of Thomas Hall, who conveyed them as above. See Chronicles of Greenford Parva, by Mr. Allen Brown, p. 37.

1 Sir Thomas Frowyck, Knight, was born at Ealing, son of Thomas Frowyck, Esq., by his wife, who was daughter and heir to Sir J. Sturgeon, Knight, giving his arms-Az, three sturgeons, or, under a fret gules. Bred in the study of our municipal law, wherein he attained such eminency, that he was made Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the 18th Henry VII. Four years he set in this place, accounted the oracle of the law in his age, though one of the youngest men that ever enjoyed that office.-Fuller's Worthies of Middlesex, p. 184.

2 The London and Middlesex Notebook, for July 1892, has an interesting collection of Inquisitions Post Mortem relating to the Frowyk family. Of Sir Thomas Frowyk we are told that "he died 7 October last past; Frideswide Frowyk is his daughter and next heir; she was nine years old on the Day of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary last past." -Inq. p. m., 22 Henry VII, No. 55.

Earl of Sussex, died at Gunnersbury in 1537, and was buried in the old parish church at Ealing,' a mile from the manor. In John Norden's time, " 'Gunnersbury, well scytuate for wood, ayre and water," as he describes it, was inhabited by the Corbets, to whom he seems to have supposed it belonged.

Its occupation in the latter half of the seventeenth century is a matter of historic interest, for it became the property by purchase of the celebrated Serjeant Maynard, whose eventful career has no parallel perhaps in the rich field of biography. Maynard conducted the evidence against Strafford and Laud, sat as a lay member in the Assembly of Divines, was made Serjeant under Cromwell, and was Protector's Serjeant to him and to his son. After the Restoration he was knighted, and made King's Serjeant, which office he held also under James II, and at the Revolution he was preferred by King William, who, not long before the old man's death, appointed him one of the Commissioners of the Great Seal. Maynard practised at the bar for upwards of sixty years, content seemingly to serve whichever party was willing to employ him, but acknowledged by all to be "the ablest advocate and soundest lawyer of his time." During part of the Commonwealth Sir John lived at Gunnersbury, and he died there at the great age of ninety in 1690, "reminding us," as Lord Campbell once said, "of the patriarchal race, who could plant an acorn and recline under the spreading boughs of the unwedgeable and gnarled oak that sprang from it." In the old parish burial register is the simple entry of his burial, "The Lord Manard was Bury'd the 25 Day of October, 1690." All trace, however, of his last restingplace was apparently destroyed when the ancient church fell down in 1729, as Cole, who visited St. Mary's

1 Funeral certificate, Heralds' College.

Church in 1773, after the re-building, notes that there was then no memorial of the great lawyer in existence, though he mentions the stone bearing the name of Elizabeth, Maynard's first wife, who was buried in the parish church in 1654.' Maynard was thrice married. Jane, his second wife, was also buried here in 1668, and his last wife survived him many years; she died in 1721. A portrait of the famous Republican Serjeant appears in Lysons' Illustrated Environs, probably a copy of the fulllength original that Cole mentions as having seen, and remembers as "that tallest, lankiest and tristest figure." Very witty and clever at repartee was the old book lawyer and very good is the anecdote related by cheery Bishop Burnet of his bon-mot, in reply to an observation made to him by William of Orange. When Maynard waited upon the Prince with congratulations on his arrival William noticed his great age, and remarked that he had probably outlived all the men of law with whom he had commenced his professional career. "If your Highness had not come over I should even have outlived the law itself," was the quiet answer. On one occasion Judge Jeffreys taunted him with being so old that he had forgotten all his law. 'True, Sir George," replied the old man, "I have forgotten more law than you ever learned.”

1 Ante, p. 68.

2 Burnets Own Times, vol. i, p. 803.

3 The following is a full list of the Parliamentary returns of this ultimately octogenarian member:-Elected by both Totnes and Newport to the Short and Long Parliaments of 1640, upon each occasion he preferred Totnes, until secluded in 1648. Plymouth 1656 to 1658. Elected by three constituencies in 1659, viz., Beeralston, Camelford, and Newtown (I. of W.), he sat for Newtown. Returned by Exeter and Plymouth in 1660, he chose Exeter. Beeralston 1661-1678. Elected to Beeralston and Plymouth, he preferred Plymouth, 1678-9, and sat for Plymouth in 1679 and 1680. Beeralston 1685-1687. Elected by Plymouth and Beeralston he sat for Plymouth 1689-90. Plymouth 1690, till his death in October of that year. Previously he had been M.P. for Chippenham 1624-5.-Notes and Queries.

Possessed of more than ordinary astuteness and personality must Maynard have been to have retained office during the changeful periods of the Commonwealth, the Restoration, and the Revolution of 1688, and a glance at his name in the old burial register stirs up some oldworld memories of sufficient historic importance to link Ealing with great national crises. The widow of Sir John Maynard remained at Ealing, and after a time married the Earl of Sussex, who also died at Gunnersbury, and was succeeded in 1709 by his eldest son, whose death took place in 1718, the Dowager Countess dying, as we have said, in 1721. The property then came to Sir John Hobart, who married Elizabeth, a niece of Serjeant Maynard, and was sold by him, about the year 1740, to Henry Furness, Esq., who died in 1756. In 1761, his representatives disposed of the estate to the Princess Amelia, daughter of George II, and aunt of George III.' The Princess made it her summer residence for many years, and while her nephew, the young king, resided at Kew Palace, she kept up a most brilliant court at Gunnersbury, gathering round her the fashionable world. The proximity to the Court at Kew, and the scarcely less splendid establishment of the Princess at Gunnersbury, helps no doubt to account for the comparatively large number of substantial houses in the parish. Bubb Doddington has frequent mention of Gunnersbury in his Diary, 1749-50. It appears to have been a sort of rival to the classic Strawberry Hill, if one may judge from the following lines, which are attributed to William Pulteney :

"Some cry up Gunnersbury.

For Syon some declare,

Lysons' Environs, vol. ii, p. 226.

2 Lady Harriot Vernon, sister of the Earl of Strafford, was Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess at Gunnersbury. Mrs. Delaney mentions her as being in waiting at Gunnersbury.-Mrs. Delaney's Correspondence, p. 312.