BARKER OF GREAT HORWOOD, BUCKS, AND OF
NEWBURY, BERKS.*

Monumental Inscriptions.

NEW COLLEGE CHAPEL, OXFORD.

[A "handsome monument," being a bust of the deceased, "represented in his Doctorial robes, under an arch, in marble. It was the work of Nicholas Stone, a celebrated statuary, who had £50 for executing it." (Croke's "Croke Family" (1823), vol. i., p. 683.) It appears from Gutch's " Antiquities of Oxford" (1786), that it stood in the inner chapel in the time of Anthony à Wood, but had since been removed to the west wall of the outer chapel on the south side of the west door. ARMS: Argent, three bears' heads erased, gules, muzzled, or, in chief as many torteaux (BARKER); impaling (-) on a fess (-) a lion passant (-), in chief three roundles (PYOTT). CREST: A bear's head, as in the arms.]

H.S.E. HUGO BARKER, Legum Romanorum | studio, scientiâ, professione, doctoratu insignis. | Qui | multos annos juri cognoscendo, interpretando, dicundo impendit, eo successu ut ejus neque | consultores prudentiam, neque clientes fidem, neque integritatem adversarii desiderarent. | In quo | præsiduum sibi positum sensit Ecclesia, quo res suas, ritusque tueretur; Clerus, quo dignitatem | assereret suam; Populus, quod insimularet non invenit | Quem hisee virtutibus gestus dioeces. Oxon Cancellariatus reverend. apud London Curiæ | de Arcubus Decanum fecit et celeberrimi ibidem Juris consultorum collegii Præsidem. | Cui | hoc quod vides, Lector, monumenti heic inter sacra familiaria condito, sicut ipse præce- | perat, Wickami olim e Societate et Sanguine, dolentibus bonis omnibus | MARIA conjux piissima morens posuit | anno domini MDCXXXII.2

[On the pavement of the Chancel.]

H.S.E.

HUGO BARKER, LL.D.

ob. An. Dom.

1632.

GREAT HORWOOD, BUCKS.3

[In chancel. ARMS: Three bears' heads erased, muzzled, in chief as many roundles (BARKER); impaling, On a chevron, between six crosses pattée fitchée, three fleurs-de-lis (SMITH).]

Here lieth the body of | ROBERT BARKER, Gent. | borne at Culworth in Northamptonshire | and of MARIE, daughter to WILLIAM SMITH, Doctor of Laws | his beloved wife. | They lived happily together, and had several | children to whom they gave liberal education | and portions. They were alsoe well matched in disposition. Both | pious, provident and industrious; | in religion orthodox and without faction; | in charitie sincere and without ostentation; | hospitable and kind to friends neighbours and strangers; | in their life generally respected and beloved; att their death lamented. | ROBERT died July the 6, ao 1636, aged 70. | MARIE died Novem. ye 26, ao 1653, aged 75. | Their eldest son WILLIAM BARKER, Dr of Divinitie bequeathed ys monument.

* Communicated by G. E. COKAYNE, Esq., F.S.A., Clarenceux.

† Notes on p. 202.

SALISBURY CATHEDRAL.1

[In the eastern aisle of the great westernmost transept on the south side, under a large slab of Purbeck marble. ARMS: An estoile (HEARST); impaling three bears' heads erased, in chief three roundles (BARKER).]

Here lieth the bodie of MARY, the wife of | WILLIAM HEARST, of the Close of New Sarum. | Doctor of Physicke, and daughter of ROBERT | BARKER, Esq., of Great Horwood in the | Countie of Bucks, who died the 27 | day of September 1665. [On a similar stone.]

GULIELMUS HEARST, Medicinæ Professor, qui in terris peregrinatus est per annos 57, sub hoc marmore, Christi adventum expectans, obdormit; obiit Octob. 6, 1668. Multa in paucis resurgam.

HARDWICK, BUCKS.

["On a tablet of black marble with an arabesque frame of white, on the north side of the chancel." (Lipscomb's "Bucks," vol. iii., p. 368.)]

H.S.E. Depositum GULIELMI BARKER, Rectoris de Hardwyke, Canonici Cantuariensis dignissimi, quondam Novi Coll. in Oxon. socii, et Doctoris in altiori Theologiæ sphæra merito collocati, quam frequentibus orthodoxis Concionibus, Salibus innocuis, Morumque candore ornavit. Imitentur Posteri. Natus anno dom. MDCIIII.; Denatus Mar. xxvi., MDCLXIX.

GREAT HORWOOD, BUCKS.3

[In chancel, under a COAT OF ARMS of six quarters, three and three, viz. : 1, Argent, three bears' heads erased, gules, in chief three roundles (BARKER); 2, Gules, a chevron, vaire, between three crescents, argent (GODDARD); 3, (? Gules) a lion rampant within a bordure indented, or (JONES); 4, Azure, a fess between three fleursde-lis, or (WHITEHEAD); 5, (—) three roundles in chief (BARKER); 6, (This space left blank, presumably for HEYSHAM5).]

[At south end of west cloister, on a white marble slab affixed to the wall. ARMS: Argent, three bears' heads erased, gules, muzzled, or, in chief as many torteaux.]

H.S.E. | HUGO BARKER, filius natu | maximus HUGONIS BARKER | de Horwood magna, in com. | Bucks, Armiger. | natus 7° die Jan. 1684 | obiit 22o die Dec. 1690. RICHARDUS BARKER, Ārmig. | et nuper hujus Coll. superioris | ordinis commensalis in Fratris sui | memoriam P.

MARSH GIBBON, BUCKS.

["A neat monument. . . . a COAT OF ARMS, BARKER impaled with BUSBY (Or, three arrows, sable, on a chief, of the second, as many mullets of the field). (Croke's "Croke Family," vol. i., p. 688.) The inscription given in Lipscomb's "Bucks" is imperfect.]

M.S. ABIG. BARKER, RICH. BARKER, de Horwood Magna in com. Bucks, Armig. conjugis dilectissimæ, necnon GUL. BUSBY,8 in eodem com. Armig. et ELIZABETHÆ Uxoris, filiæ unicæ charissimæ ; Quæ puerperio (abortu scilicet et variolis simul infirmata) vita spoliata est Aug. 18, Anno Domini 1712, ætatis suæ 29. H.C.M. posuit.

HARDWICK, BUCKS.

["On another mural monument near the north door of the chancel, surmounted with an urn. ARMS: Dexter, Party per fess (—) and azure, a chief escalloped, or; impaling, (-) three wolves' heads coopee. CREST: A wolf's head issuant out of a ducal coronet." (Lipscomb's "Bucks," vol. iii., p. 368.)]

In memory of THOMAS WOOD, LL.D., Rector of Hardwick, Commissary and Official of this Archdeaconry: formerly Barrister of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, London, who died July 12th, 1722, aged 61; also of JOAN, his wife, eldest daughter of HUGH BARKER, Esq., of Great Horwood, who died March 30th, 1733, aged 53. Near this place lyeth THOMAS WOOD, a son who died an infant.

AYLESBURY, BUCKS.

["In the churchyard, near the end of the chancel, on a white marble tablet affixed to an altar-tomb, enclosed with iron palisadoes. ARMS: A chevron, ermine, between three bells (BELL); impaling, three demi-bears erased; in chief three ogresses (BARKER)." (Lipscomb's "Bucks," vol. ii., p. 56.)]

H.S.E. omne quod mortale erat JOSEPHI BELL, de Aylesbury, com. Buck., Generosi, Archinatus de Bucks, plus quam triginta annos, Registrarius; necnon uxoris ejus, CELIE BELL, HUGONIS BARKER, de Horwood Mag. com. Bucks, Armigeri, filiæ, Collegiorum Wiccamicorum Fundatoris consanguineæ. Quomodo vitæ omni manere functi sunt, Quibus noti erant, testentur omnes; Ignorantibus Dies ille supremus indicabit. Obiit illa anno æt. 51, Sal. 1738: obiit ille anno æt. 60, Sal. 1739. Hoc quale est pietatis suæ monumentum optimis parentibus liberi mærentes p.

SPEEN, CO. BERKS.

[On mural tablets in church.]

To the memory of | THOMAS WYLD, Esq., of this place | who died the 26th of May 1789; and of THOMAS WYLD, Esq., | his eldest son | who died the 15th of September 1789 This monument is erected by the surviving family.

In memory of DIANA WYLD | who died 24 of March 1803 | widow of HUGH BARKER, Esq | and | relict of THOMAS WYLD, Esq. | of this place | Exemplary in her conduct as a daughter,10 a wife, and a mother this tablet is erected by her grateful and affectionate children.

[On the urn at the top of the above tablet is engraved "D. W., aged 77."]

Sacred to the memory of | DIANA MARY BARKER, | of this place, only child aud heiress of HUGH BARKER, Esq', and DIANA his wife | She died at Blundsdon St Andrew in the county of Wilts on the 8th of December 1838 in the 90th year of her age | Her remains are interred in a vault in this churchyard | with those of

her constant friend and companion, ELIZABETH MILWARD, who died at Richmond, Surrey, September 14th, 1815 | aged 69 years | This tablet is erected to their memory by the children of the REV. GEORGE and JAMES WYLD.

No family has probably been more favoured as "Founder's Kin" than that of Barker, ever since, by the marriage, about 1562, of Robert Barker with Mary Danvers, they acquired that position. Besides the eleven persons of that surname (four named Hugh, three named Robert, and one either Anthony, Richard, Thomas, or William) so admitted to Winchester College in right of that descent between 1576 and 1708, various members of families of Gardner, Seddon, Hearst, Holloway or Halloway, Castillion, Cracroft, Curle, Wood, Bell, and Croke have been so admitted, all in right of a marriage of a direct male ancestor with a member of the Barker family, besides many others who were descended from these families in the female line, as, e.g., were five of the descendants of John Gerrard and Martha Cracroft (whose marriage, in 1701, is given in the subjoined pedigree), viz., James Adams, 1775; Charles Adams, 1778; Edward Payne, 1822; Richard Payne, 1825; and (another) Edward Payne, 1857. That pedigree illustrates the mode in which the pedigrees are kept of the Founder's Kin (such being marked therein as " F. N. C."), and was copied, 22 Nov. 1861, from a most valuable book (of which it forms page 33) in possession of the Warden of Winchester College. It is to be remarked that none of the descendants of Henry Meggs by Elizabeth Barker (married 1674) were so admitted, though the name of Meggs appears among the scholars of Winchester College (not, however, Founder's Kin) from 1628 to 1669, one of whom (" Henry Meggs, Ringwood, aged 11" at his admission in 1654) was probably the abovenamed Henry. Martin Curle (who concludes the pedigree) was born at Saham Tony, Wilts, 1729; admitted 1742 as Founder's Kin to Winchester College, where he died 1744.

Jones. Hugh Barker. Jane Goddard of East Woodbury,
[1st wife.]
Hants. [2nd wife.]

Castillion of Benham Margaret Charles Cracroft of Louth, co. Lincoln, Valence. [1st husband.] Esq. [2nd husband.]

NOTES TO BARKER OF GREAT HORWOOD AND NEWBURY.

The arms of Barker occur again at the lower end of the hall at New College, quartered (2 and 3) with those of Sandys (viz., Or, a fess dancettée between three cross-crosslets fitchée, gules), being those of "Edwin Sandys, Esq., B.C.L., Fellow," the same quarterly coat again occurring on the south side of the hall. (Er inform. Col. J. L. Chester.)

2 This has been rendered into English-no very easy matter-by an able scholar (G. W. Watson) as under: "Here is interred HUGH BARKER, renowned for his study, knowledge, profession, and title of Doctor of Roman Law: who applied many years to the investigation, interpretation, and enunciation of the law, with such success that his fellow consultants ever found in him foresight, his clients honour, and his opponents fairness: in whom the Church felt it had a champion to defend its property and rites; the clergy one to assert their dignity; and the people one who knew not false witness: whom the Chancellorship of the diocese of Oxford, wielded with such noble qualities, caused to be appointed Dean of the Venerable Court of Arches, London, and President of the very famous College of Advocates of the same city. To whom, buried, according to his wish, among these sacred relics (with which he was connected, being formerly on the foundation of Wykeham and Founder's Kin), amid the tears of all good men, his very affectionate wife, MARY, erected, A.D. 1632, this monument, which thou, oh reader, dost behold." The translator remarks of the words "quod insimularet non invenit," that they are 66 rather vague."

3 The inscriptions at Great Horwood were copied and the arms thereon described by Col. J. L. Chester about 1870.

The inscriptions at Salisbury were copied in 1898 by Clifford Wyndham Holgate, Secretary to the Bishop of Salisbury, who adds that "the stone over William Hearst has scaled much, and several words are entirely gone, but from an early copy of the inscription I supply them."

5 It is evident that the arms here (incorrectly) marshalled are those of the two Hugh Barkers and their (four) wives. The first Hugh married firstly Mary Jones, and secondly Joanna Goddard. The second Hugh married firstly Elizabeth Whitehead, and secondly Esther Heysham, for whose arms there is a space left blank.

6 Her burial as "Mary Baker" took place 3 Jan. 1642-3 at Newbury.

7 Sic, but in register 1686.

There is a good pedigree of Busby of Addington and Marsh Gibbon, Bucks, in Croke's "Croke Family," vol. i., p. 688.

9 She was in reality the widow of Thomas Wyld, who was her second husband, and the relict of Hugh Barker, her first one.

10 The names, however, of the parents, to whom her conduct was thus "exemplary," have not been ascertained.

11 The Rev. George Wyld, 48 years Rector of Chieveley (died 1 Jan. 1837, aged 74), was brother of the half blood, ex parte maternâ, of the deceased, being second son of Thomas Wyld (died 26 May 1789) by Diana (formerly wife of Hugh Barker), and next brother and heir to Thomas Wyld, who died 15 Sep. 1789, both above-mentioned.

MILEHAM OF BURLINGHAM, NORFOLK.*

ARMS: Sable, a fess between three griffins' heads erased or.
CREST: A griffin's head erased or.

"Fr. Henricus Mileham, buried in the Black Friars', Norwich (? circa 1386)." -Weever, p. 533.

I. ROBERT MILEHAM of Burlingham died 9 February 1559; brass in Burlingham St. Peter's; married Ellen, daughter of . . . .; she buried 11 September 1597 at Toft Monks; brass in Burlingham (see 'East Anglian,' N. S., vol. iii., p. 9). They had issue :—

1. John, baptized and died 29 January 1540. M.I. Burlingham. 2. Gregory, baptized 26 May 1544; buried 25 September 1550. M.I. Burlingham.

3. GREGORY, see next page.

1. Alice, baptized 10 March 1538; buried 18 December 1607. M.I. Burlingham.

* Communicated by C. M. TENISON, Esq., M.R.I.A., Hobart, Tasmania.