In [109] the church there lie two Knights
of that name, and one of their ladies by her husbands side,
having their pictures embossed on their tombes in the side walles,
and their Armes once painted round about; but now by the malice,
not of men, but of time, defaced. They are held to be father and
sonne, and that the sonne slayne in our warres with Fraunce,
was from thence brought home to be here interred. There runneth also
a tale amongst the parishioners, how one of these Dannyes ancestours
vndertook to build the Church, and his wife the barne adioyning,
and that, casting vp their accounts, vpon finishing of their workes,
the barne was found to cost three halfepence more then the Church:
and so it might well fall out: for it is a great barne, and a
little Church.
In this parish standeth Crasthole, which by the high site, might more
fitly be termed Open hill, a poore village but a much frequented
thorow-fare, somewhat infamous, not vpon any present desert,
but through an inueterate byword, viz.
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