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

68 The English Ancestry of
Rector in 1897.
Here before the Reformation, were "seven
superstitious pictures, the Apostles and two others," says
Dowsing, " which we brake down, and took up four inscrip-
tions in brass, ' Ora pro nobis,' etc."*
Chattisham is another small Parish, now having about 200
people, with a living of ;£i20 and a parsonage. Its Church,
which is dedicated to All Saints and St. Margaret, is very
old ; it is a plain building with a square tower, in which three
bells were hanging in 1553
1824 ;
; this was the number as late as
there is now but one,f which has the inscription,
onixes GFjpye fflpDe me 1621
Here Dowsing found nothing to do (the patron having re-
moved the threatened decorations, and hid them safely before
his arrival), though at Washbrook he "broke down twenty-
six superstitious pictures, and gave order to take down a
stoneing cross, and the chancel to be levelled." His notes
give us a glimpse of the interiors of these old Churches in
the earlier days when our forefathers knew them. Chattis-
ham is in the Diocese of Norwich, Deanery of Samford, and
the Rev. Henry A. Walker, M. A., was the Vicar in 1897.
* " Journal of William Dowsing, edited by the Rev. C. H. Evelyn White, Ipswich,
1885," pp. 18, 42. These pictures, says Mr. White, in his notes, " were probably in
glass ; some small portions still remain, including the head, apparently of an Apostle,
which is almost entire. His ' etc' may include damage to the rood-screen, the portion
now remaining having the faces and figures mutilated."
The note on the repairs of St. Mary's (p. 32), applies to this Church and not that
in Great Belstead ; the assignment given is an error, discovered since that was printed
and due to the similarity of names. Little Belstead is now usually called Belstead.
f Raven, p. 175, as cited. This same declaration with different dates appears on
hree of the Copdock bells.