Warboys 

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Historical notes about the Parish of Warboys

Warboys has a delightful 17^th century manor house with a most unusual east front, an inn in the High Street from the same century, and a church which was here centuries before either. We found two lions here, one at the church door and one hiding behind the organ. The lion at the door is the finest little thing that Warboys has; it reminds us of the famous knocker at Durham Cathedral. It is one of the best pieces of metal work in the country, showing the lion’s head biting a ring like two fighting dragons, and it was made by a man who must have found himself working with Norman masons. The other lion is carved on a stone bracket and is 15^th century. Another notable carving is in the hood over the rectory door; it is 18^th century. Very impressive are the handsome arcades of this clerestoried church, its tower and spire of great beauty. The spire springs from the edge of a low corbel table above eight belfry windows, and three rows of dormer windows rise high above anything else in Warboys. Men who remembered the signing of Magna Carta would look up at this spire with its little windows, so old is beauty here.

The pride of Warboys for over 700 years, the church has a lovely Norman chancel arch with three shafts at either side and much fine ornament. The font is 700 years old, with flowers and leaves on its bowl, looking a little worse for its long years of service. There is a stone coffin carved with rosettes in the 14^th century.

The Witches of Warboys

Warboys remembers a sad story of the days of witchcraft. Here at the end of the 16^th century a whole family was put to death: Mother Samuel over 80, her husband, and their only child. They were convicted on the evidence of the five daughters of their next door neighbour, one of whom developed fits and imagined Mother Samuel to be responsible. Poor Mother Samuel was persecuted for two years, and in the end her family paid the bitter price of superstition.

It transpired at the trial that Alice Samuel, visiting the sick child, sat down in the chimney corner with a black cap on her head, and the child, pointing to her cried, “Grandmother, look where the old witch sitteth.” The child’s sisters were afterwards seized, and all complained of “Mother Samuel.” Her repute as a witch grew. One of the children growing worse, the father entreated Mother Samuel to charge the spirit to leave her, and after much protestation she said, “I charge thee, spirit, in the name of God, that Mistress Jane never have this fit.”

The charge was repeated for all the rest, and the story at the trial was that immediately the children, who had been in the fits for three weeks, “wiped their eyes and stood up.” The poor woman, startled out of her wits, and imagining herself responsible, begged forgiveness. She was thrown into gaol, and in the course of time was interviewed by Lady Cromwell (wife of the Golden Knight of Hinchingbrooke) who now also became ill and died. In the end the three Samuels (father, mother, and daughter) were found guilty and executed. If windows can see and walls can hear this church at Warboys has seen and known it all.

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Historic images from around the Parish of Warboys

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Norman Door Furniture

13th Century Font

Warboys Parish Church

Prehistoric Boat

Potato Lifting using the New Method

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