the two bells hanging in a small turret at the W. end of nave.  Here, as at Norton, there are several memorials to the Pym family; and a few others worth noting:  (1) brass, with effigies, to John Bell, Gent. (d. 1516), and his two wives; this was discovered during restoration, about twenty-five years ago, but the inscription was copied by Chauncy, so it must have been hidden by some alterations effected after, say, 1690; (2) marble monument to John Parker, Kt. (d. 1595), and Mary, his wife (d. 1574); the latter was buried at Baldock.  There is also a small brass to Elizabeth (Gage or Cage), wife of John Parker (d. 1602).  The font is fourteenth century.  Radwell, formerly Reedwell, is said to owe its name to the many reeds that grew by the river-side.  There are plenty of moor hens, coots and dab-chicks on the lake-like expansion of the Ivel near the mill.

[Footnote 5:  The story of the “Maid of the Mill” is, I understand, told in an early number of Temple Bar.]

Red Heath is in the parish of Croxley Green, 2 miles N.N.E. from Rickmansworth.

Red Hill, 4 miles E. from Baldock, is a small hamlet in a very quiet neighbourhood.  The nearest church is at Wallington, 3/4 mile N.W. Julians, a substantial house in the park, 1/2 mile S., was built early in the seventeenth century.

REDBOURN (i.e., the road by the burn) lies on the old Watling Street, 4 miles N.W. from St. Albans.  The river Ver, here a small stream, skirts the E. side of the village.  The old manor, like that of Abbots Langley, was given to the Abbey of St. Albans by Egelwine the Black and Wincelfled, his wife, in the days of Edward the Confessor.  St. Amphibalus was probably buried here after his martyrdom; his barrow was on the Common, and the story of the removal of his bones to St. Albans is narrated in Matthew Paris, and is referred to in the Introduction (Section IX.).  The church of St. Mary, at Church End, 3/4 mile W. from the station (M.R.), dates from Norman times; the only existing portions of the ancient structure are the three columns of the N. aisle arcade, but much thirteenth and fourteenth centuries work still stands.  It was largely rebuilt by Abbot John Wheathampsted (temp. Henry VI.).  Note (1) almost unique carved oak rood screen, double canopied; (2) pointed arches of S. side of nave, replacing those defaced during the Commonwealth; (3) Eastern sepulchre and sedilia in chancel; (4) piscinae in N. aisle and lady-chapel; (5) brass in chancel, with eight kneeling effigies, without date; (6) brass in chancel to Richard Pecock, or Pekok (d. 1512).  There are silk and corn mills on the Ver, close by.

REED lies on the chalk range, midway between Buntingford and Royston, about 31/2 miles S. from Royston Station, G.N.R.  The village lies right from the Old North Road.  One of the best Norman doorways in the county is on the N. of the little church, which also contains good Dec. portions.  The tower alone was untouched during the restoration of sixty years ago.  Some remains of two moats are a little E. from the village; Reed End, Reed Green and Reed Wood, are in the vicinity.  The neighbourhood is less wooded and picturesque than most of the county.