MIMMS (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of DACORUM,
though locally in that of Cashio, or liberty
of St-Alban's, county of HERTFORD, 4 miles (S. S.W.)
from Bishop's Hatfield, containing 1007 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in .the archdeaconry
of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the
king's books at £10, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of
Mrs. Gaussen. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is
built of flints, with a square tower embattled, and surmounted
by a lofty spire; it contains many effigies, and
brasses with inscriptions in black letter, and other ancient
memorials of the dead. On the north Side of the
chancel is the chantry chapel of St. Catherine, founded
in 1328, by Simon de Swonlond, the windows of which
exhibit, in stained glass, various shields and coats of
arms, principally of the Coningsby family.