. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. are not the only tombs of interest enclosed by these venerable walls. In theChancel lie the remains of the learned Henry Dodwell, sometime Camden Professor ofHistory at Oxford, an able chronologer and historian. His house stood at the north ofthe Church, and there was written his celebrated work, De Cyclis Veterum. In theChurchyard is buried Francis Cherry, the patron of Hearne the antiquary,—the epitaph— Hie jacet peccatorum maximus, 1713, marking his grave. The father of Hearne wasthe parish clerk of Shottesbrooke;

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. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. are not the only tombs of interest enclosed by these venerable walls. In theChancel lie the remains of the learned Henry Dodwell, sometime Camden Professor ofHistory at Oxford, an able chronologer and historian. His house stood at the north ofthe Church, and there was written his celebrated work, De Cyclis Veterum. In theChurchyard is buried Francis Cherry, the patron of Hearne the antiquary,—the epitaph— Hie jacet peccatorum maximus, 1713, marking his grave. The father of Hearne wasthe parish clerk of Shottesbrooke; and this is the birth-place of the good old antiquarysmind ; here he loved to ramble and meditate upon ancient times and ancient things;and his honoured name is indissolubly linked with the venerable structure and theneighbourhood, although the brave old orchard, with its trees in forms of crosses whichin part existed when he lived, has disappeared; and all the relics he loved havevanished, leaving the Church the sole remain of the foundation of Sir William 4

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