the said Pew so Leased to him, during all the said Term of Ninety Nine
Years, Provided always that if the said Yearly Rent hereby reserved,
or any part thereof shall be behind and unpaid by the space of Three
Calendar Months next over or after the said Feast day of payment,
whereon the same ought to be paid as aforesaid (being Lawfully
demanded) then and in such case the Demise or Lease hereby made shall
cease, determine, and be utterly void to all intents and purposes
whatsoever. In witness whereof the said parties to these presents have
hereunder interchangeably set their hands and seals, the day and Year
first above Written.
_Sealed and Delivered without stamps, according to the Act of
Parliament above in the presence of:_
Wm. HOLT,
ROBT. CORAM.
J. GARDNOR,
ALLYN SIMMONS SMITH,
JOHN CAMDEN
JOHN T. RHODES,
JOHN LUMISDEN.
The window over the Communion table at the east end of the church
is decorated with portraits of Henry 7th, his grandmother Margaret
Beauchamp and Queen Elizabeth in stained glass which was carefully
preserved from the former church, and executed at the expense of the
St. Johns.[1] The following will explain why the three portraits
were placed at the end of the Church. "The first, that of Margaret
Beauchamp, ancestor (by her first husband, Sir Oliver St. John) of
the St. Johns, and (by her second husband, John Beaufort, Duke of
Somerset) grandmother to Henry VII.; the second, the portrait of that
Monarch; and the third, that of Queen Elizabeth, which is placed here
because her grandfather, Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, (father of
Queen Ann Boleyn), was great-grandfather of Anne, the daughter of Sir
Thomas Leighton, and wife of Sir John St. John, the first baronet of
the family."--_Oulton._
[Footnote 1: Here also in two circular windows pierced for additional
light are figures of the Holy Lamb and Dove of Modern Execution.
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