[1793, Part II., p. 977.]
A few particulars collected by me, relating to the fine old church of All Saints, at Chesterfield, may possibly prove acceptable to such of your readers as have not seen it. It is very large, and, greatly to the credit of the inhabitants, very clean. The shape, that of the cross. From the middle, a massy tower rises, adorned with pinnacles and double windows ; the spire is of timber, and, from a strange fancy of the architect, crooked ; the angular flutings, if I may be allowed the term, wind spirally from the base to the top, and are covered with lead. The height from the ground to the vane, I was told, is 230 feet. A gentleman of Chesterfield, who has made many notes relating to the antiquities of the town, informs me that "the church at Chesterfield was given by Rufus to the cathedral at Lincoln," the dean of which is now patron. Another of this gentleman's notes says, the present building was dedicated 1232. The choir is handsomely pewed, and there are two large galleries, and an excellent organ. In the south aisle there is an arch containing a female figure, with angels supporting the head ; the hands and other parts of it are defaced. I was not successful in my inquiry who it was that is interred there. A slab in the body of the church has a cross with a hammer and pincers engraved on it. Near some large tombs to the Foljambes, etc., stands a pedestal without an inscription, on which lies a cushion richly embroidered ; a figure in complete armour kneels on it in the attitude of prayer ;j his hands are broken off; but it is plain they have been joined ;j but what renders it worthy of remark is that the person's head appears to have been shot off entirely from the mouth upwards, and the helmet replaced lightly on the remaining part. Indeed it has so odd an appearance, that I made a drawing of it, without consulting which the description appears lame. It does not seem to belong to any other monument near, and I could not arrive at any certainty for whom it was intended as a memorial.
There are many other things worthy of notice in this majestic fabric, which I shall leave till I have an opportunity of viewing them again; and in the meantime send you three old epitaphs.

1. “CUTHBERT HUTCHINSON, vicar. sepult. quinto die Februarii, 1608."
2. “Hic jacet D’n us Iohes Pypys, Capellanus gilde Sansi Crucis, qui obiit vit° die mcncis Julii, an’o D'ni mill°. ... Cujus anime Omnipotens d. propiciet' Amen,"

On a brass plate in the south wall :
3. "Hic subtus tumulantux ossa d’ni Joh’is Verdun quondam Rectoris de lyndeby in comitatu Nottinghamie Ebor dioc’ Et Capellani cantarie s’c’I Michaelis Archangeli in eccl’ia paroch’ om’ s’cor’ de Chesterfield q’obiit s’c’do die me’s’ maii A d’ni M° d°xiiii° pro cui’ a’I’a sic quess orate p’ut’ p’v’ris a’I abs orari voleur.”

Yours, etc., J. P. MALCOLM.

[1794, Part I., pp. 15-17.]
I send you my notes taken at Chesterfield, co. Derby, in the summer of 1789, if you deem them worthy of insertion in your useful miscellany.

Yours, etc., R. G.

The nave rests on six pointed arches on clustered columns. centre arches on four clustered columns.
In the north transept is a freestone altar-tomb for-

-Burgensis de Chesterfield, 1599.

His figure, and that of his wife, entire.
In the chancel, a priest cut in white stone, holding chalice.

Hic jacet dominus johespypys capellanus Gilde sce crucis qui obiit viii. die mensis julii a° mill° xi xx [transcriber's note xi above xx] Cujus aie de’ ...

Within the rails is a brass figure of a knight in armour and mail, cropped hair, head in a helmet without crest, collar, sword, and dagger on his gonfannons a bend between six escallops. Quarterly, I, 2 on a bend five crosses patonce ; 3, a chevron between three escallops. On his surcoat the same; the upper quarters hid. He stands on a stag bearded and paned. His lady is in profile, in the veil and low pointed head-dress of the fifteenth or sixteenth century, having a chain and cross and cordon, a belt with three roses on her surcoat faced with broad ermine. On her mantle, a saltire with five amulets which shield, the only remaining one of four on the slab, is impaled by his quartered coat. Under them are seven sons and seven daughters.
In a south chapel is an altar-tomb of the Foljambes. A knight and lady, brassless, on a blue slab without a ledge. On an alabaster tomb with six pairs of knights under double canopies, viz., a lady and two knights, knight and lady, knight and lady, knight and lady, knight and lady. The knights have straight hair, helmet between their feet, oblong shield notched. At feet, on a pedestal, a knight and lady between two angels with shields. The north side hid by wainscot.
At the foot of this, on a pedestal, a figure of a man in plated armour, kneeling on a flowered cushion, the hands broken. On his shoulders fixed a vizored head not belonging to it (see the Plate).
Against the east wall, a mural monument for Sir James Foljambe, Knight of the Garter, eldest son of Sir Godfrey F., 1558, erected by his nepos Godfrey. The inscription, in Latin, sets forth that he married Alice, neptis and co-heir of William Fitzwilliams, Earl of Southampton, and daughter of Thomas Fitzwilliams, of ... edwarre; and Alice, daughter of Edward Litleton, of Staffordshire, by whom he had a numerous issue.

FUGIT VEI.VT UMBRA.
VIGILATE ORATE NESCITIS QUANDO VENIT HORA-twice.

Foljambe, with quarterings. Against the east wall, a winding-sheet on a bier, bones, spades, etc. ; and, above, Death between Age and Youth.
In a cenotaph, a man in armour and his hair lying on a mat, a lion at his feet. A lady in a ruff, stiff toupee, on a mat and cushion, a skull at her feet. Above, a table uninscribed between a female with a bird on her right hand, and another holding fruit and flowers. Foljambe with quarterings and crest, and single. A bend with a cross. A chevron between escallops.-Lozengé.
An armed figure, with a sword, helmet, and gauntlets, cut in the stone, and this epitaph :

GEORGIUS FOLJAMBE NOMEN. .. OCCUBUIT PLACIDE, etc.

In the window, a mitred fox in a pulpit preaching to geese and a cock. Pegasus retiring behind :

Pes be here In.

A bear collared quartering three pheons. Arms of the first vicar of Chesterfield.

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Hic subt' humant' offa dni Johis Verdon quo’dam rectoris de lyndeby in comiatu Notyngamie ebor’ doic’ Et Capellani cantarie sc’I michaelis archangeli in ecclesia p’och o’m s’cor de chesterfield qi obiit s’c’do die me’s’ maii A° d’ni m° vc p’cui’ a’I’a sic queso orate p’ut p’v’ris a’I’ab’s orari voleur.’

In the east window, 0. a cross potent, az. G. three lions passant gardant 0. Barry 0. and G., In chief three torteauxes ; G. a cross moline A.

In the south aisle of the nave, between the first and second window from the east and opposite Foljambe's seat, with arms and crest in the south wall, is a stone figure of a priest, and this inscription, as far as could be read* :

No bollbrdys [or bowbrdys] Godfray ffols B.

In the south aisle, a slab with a triple cross on steps between a hammer and pincers.
* * * In the outer wall, next the road of a chapel, just out of Hounslow, on the north, is inserted in a quatrefoil a shield with the following coats quartered: I. a saltire between twelve cross crosslets ; 2. a bend cottised charged with mullets between. ..; 3. a cross moline; 4, 5, 6. effaced. Round the shield an imperfect inscription, in which may just be distinguished :

Moun ... Windsor.

In addition to what has been said of the church at Chesterfield, and of the monuments in it, I present you. a representation of the figure whose head is so unaccountably mutilated. Surely no artist could have erred so egregiously as to have replaced a broken head in a manner so totally out of nature. As some chiselling was necessary to fit on the new one, what could have been his motive for leaving the old chin ? Possibly some modern restorer, imitating his predecessor, may furnish him with a pair of old feet in place of his absent hands. However, I do not mean to treat the subject lightly. What has been said occurred on meeting an observation that it was a mutilated statue, mended in the manner it now stands. If this be

* It has since been inclosed by pews, and mutilated. See the next letter, -- EDIT

Yours, etc., J. P. MALCOLM.

[1819, Part 11., pp. 497, 498.]
The town of Chesterfield, county Derby, is supposed by Dr. Pegge to have originated in a Roman station on the road from Derby to York. It is noticed in Domesday Book as a bailiwick only, belonging to Newbold, now a small hamlet at a short distance from it on the north. After this period it rapidly increased. A church, erected here towards the conclusion of the eleventh century, was given by William Rufus to the Cathedral of Lincoln. In the reign of John the manor was granted to William De Briwere (or Bruere), his particular favourite, through whose influence with the monarch the town was incorporated, and an annual fair, of eight days' continuance, and two weekly markets obtained. From the De Brueres it passed in marriage to the family of Wake, and afterwards to Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Kent (who married a female of that name), whose descendants continued possessors for several generations. In the 26th Edward III. it was held by John, second son of Edmund of Woodstock, and in 1386 by Sir Thomas Holland, from whom it passed to the Nevilles. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth it

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Yours, etc., N. R. S.

* The above particulars are chiefly abridged from vol. iii. of the “Beauties of England and Wales."