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Mimms, North (St. Mary)

MIMMS, NORTH (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Hatfield, hundred of Dacorum, though locally in the hundred of Cashio, or liberty of St. Alban's, county of Hertford, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from Hatfield; containing 1118 inhabitants. The parish comprises by computation 4000 acres; the soil is rather light. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £10; patrons and impropriators, the family of Gaussen: the great tithes have been commuted for £284, and the small for £220. The church is built of flints, with a square embattled tower surmounted by a lofty spire, and contains many effigies, brasses with inscriptions in black letter, and other ancient memorials; on the north side of the chancel is the chantry chapel of St. Catherine, founded in 1323 by Simon de Swonlond, and the windows of which exhibit in stained glass various coats of arms, principally of the Coningsby family. An annual sum of £73. 16. 6., arising from property purchased with bequests by Sir Thomas Hide and others, is distributed among the poor.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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