The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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with ivy. The Chancel was rebuilt in 1597 by Golding-
ham and William , but their full names, once recorded
in their epitaphs on a tablet, cannot now be deciphered. In
the Church are several memorial tablets and monuments—
one of Sir Thomas Davall, who represented Harwich in Par-
liament and died in 1712 ; the others are later.
Of the old Communion silver there remains a chalice of
Elizabethan design, which dates from about 1570, and its
cover may be older ; this is probably the only portion of the
ancient service left, but there are two pewter plates, inscribed
" Ramsey Parish," which with the chalice, are mentioned in
the old Registers. Unfortunately the Parish Records pre-
vious to 1645 are l° st > thev are supposed to have been
destroyed during the Civil War at the close of the reign of
Charles I.*
The Church was early given to the Abbey of St. Osyth,
and "the great tithes being appropriated to it, a vicarage
was ordained, which continued in the Abbey's gift until the
Suppression : then it came to the Crown, and hath remained
in it ever since." The living, valued at ^200 in 1895, is
now in the gift of the Lord Chancellor.
In 1610, says Newcourt, it had a Vicarage house and
barn, and about nine acres and two roods of glebe. In 1637
* This account of this Church as it was in 1893, is taken from the Rev. J. Harvey
Bloom's " Heraldry and Monumental Inscriptions, etc.," (Hemsworth, England,) pp.
112-113, of which only twenty-five copies were printed. This work gives a great num-
ber of the inscriptions on the gravestones and monuments in the Ramsey Churchyards,
but none so ancient as the time when our ancestors were living near it ; we
know certainly that some of them are sleeping there, but the names upon the oldest
stones are illegible.