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

Reinold and Matthew Marvin 27
Also I wyll y l Alson my wyfe be chose executryx Thomas Mervyn
my sone And John Heynys.
Proved at Ipswich 30 March 1491.
St. Peter's is another of the old Parish Churches of Ips-
wich, and an inventory of its property is given in " Domes-
day." It stands on the corner of St. Peter's and College
Streets ; its most remarkable feature is its fine square and
battlemented tower, built of flint-stone, which in 1553 con-
tained a chime of four bells, in more recent times increased
to six. In this tower there was, in .the time of Robert Mar-
vin,* an "image of our Lady," for "painting and leading"
which, a legacy of 33^. 4^. was bequeathed in 1506, and a
number of other legacies of ancient date are chronicled by
Wodderspoon.f
The building, "fine but sombre looking," was repaired
with good judgment about 1830. Notwithstanding its age,
it contains few monuments of any note ; previous to the
Reformation there was an emblem of the Trinity carved in
stone over the porch, with symbols of the Passion — the
crown of thorns and the sponge, "all of which, with the
altar rails," says William Dowsing in 1643, " I ordered to
break in pieces." A very ancient stone font, of curious con-
struction, escaped the hand of the destroyer, and is still
* It is proper to say here that in view of the variations in spelling the name we fol-
low the modern usage of the family ; er was and is pronounced ar in England, and the
name of the emigrant Matthew is spelled Marvyn and Marvinn, etc., on the Custom
House Books of 1635.
f See " Memorials of the Ancient Town of Ipswich," as cited.