SPECULI BRITANNIA PARS: 
 
 AN 
 
 HISTORICAL AND CHOROGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF 
 
 THE COUNTY OF 
 
 ESSEX, 
 
 BY JOHN NORDEN, 
 
 1594 . 
 
 EDITED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT IN THE MARQUESS OF 
 SALISBURY’S LIBRARY AT HATFIELD, 
 
 By SIR HENRY ELLIS. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 
 
 MY JOHN BOWYER NICHOLS AND SON, PARLIAMENT STREET. 
 
 M.DCCC.XL. 
 
COUNCIL 
 
 OF 
 
 THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 
 
 ELECTED MAY 2 , 1840 . 
 
 President , 
 
 THE RIGHT HON. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P. 
 
 THOMAS AMYOT, ESQ. F.R.S. Treas. S.A. Director. 
 CHARLES FRED. BARNWELL, ESQ. M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 THE RT. HON. RICHARD LORD BRAYBROOKE, F.S.A. 
 JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. F.S.A. Treasurer. 
 
 JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, ESQ. F.S.A. 
 
 C. PURTON COOPER, ESQ. Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 RT. HON. THOMAS PEREGRINE COURTENAY. 
 
 T. CROFTON CROKER, ESQ. F.S.A., M.R.I.A. 
 
 THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE. 
 
 SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S., Sec. S.A. 
 
 THE REV. JOSEPH HUNTER, F.S.A. 
 
 SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 THOMAS STAPLETON, ESQ. F.S.A. 
 
 WILLIAM J. THOMS, ESQ. F.S.A. Secretary. 
 
 THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ. M.A., F.S.A. 
 
At a Meeting of the Council of the Camden Society, held at 
 No. 25, Parliament Street, Westminster, on Thursday the 
 9th April, 1840, 
 
 THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. Director, in the Chair, 
 
 It was Resolved, 
 
 That the thanks of the Council be given to the Most Noble 
 the Marquess of Salisbury for the courtesy and kindness with 
 which his Lordship acceded to the request of the Council, to be 
 permitted to use the MS. Volume, which contains the original of 
 Norden’s Description of Essex. 
 
 By order of the Council, 
 
 William J. Thoms, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The particulars of the life of John Norden, as far as we are 
 acquainted with them, are few, and even those, as stated by his 
 biographers, not all certain. Anthony a Wood assures us he was 
 educated at Oxford, and takes him for the same person who was 
 author of no fewer than fifteen devotional pieces, some of which 
 went through many, and one, “The Pensive Man’s Practice,” 12°, 
 1591, through forty editions. Granger thought these books in 
 divinity belonged to another person, possibly his father. The 
 dates, however, as* enumerated by Wood, exactly correspond with 
 the period over which the topographical productions extend; and 
 we have no actual knowledge of any other writer of both his 
 names. 
 
 Wood describes Norden as born of a genteel family, but in what 
 county, unless in Wilts, he could not tell: a Gough says about 
 1548. b He was admitted a commoner of Hart Hall, Oxford, in 
 a Athenae Oxon. Bliss’s edit. vol. ii. col. 279. b Brit. Topogr. vol. i. p. 266. 
 
 b 
 
 CAMD. SOC. 9. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 1564 :c became B. A. Feb. 11, 1568 : d and M. A. Feb. 26, 
 1572-3. 
 
 We shall first enumerate from Wood, in a concise form, the 
 titles of the devotional works ascribed to Norden. They are, 
 
 t 
 
 Sinful Man’s Solace, &c. 8vo. Lond. 1585. 
 
 Mirror for the Multitude. 8vo. Lond. 1586. 
 
 Antithesis, or Contrariety between the Wicked and Godly, 
 set forth in form of a pair of Gloves fit for every man to 
 wear. Lond. 1587- 
 
 Pensive Man’s Practice. 12° Lond. 1591. Fortieth impres¬ 
 sion, 12° Lond. 1629. 
 
 Poor Man’s Rest. Eighth edit. 12° Lond. 1620. 
 
 Progress of Piety. 12° Lond. 
 
 Christian Comfort and Encouragement unto all English 
 subjects not to dismay at the Spanish Threats. 8vo. Lond. 
 1596. 
 
 Mirror of Honour. 4° Lond. 1597- 
 
 Interchangeable Variety of Things. 4° Lond. 1600. 
 
 The Labyrinth of Man’s Life, or Virtue’s Delight. 4° Lond. 
 1614. A poem dedicated to Robert Carr, Earl of 
 Somerset. 
 
 Loadstone of a Spiritual Life. 16° Lond. 1614. 
 
 Pensive Soul’s Delight. 12° Lond. 1615. 
 
 An Eye to Heaven in Earth. 12° Lond. 1619. 
 
 c Ath. Oxon. ut supr. Fasti, col. 181. d Ibid. col. 189. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XI 
 
 Help to true Blessedness. 12°. 
 
 Pathway to Patience in all manner of Afflictions. 8° Lond. 
 
 1626. 
 
 As a topographer, we are more certain of NordeiPs productions. 
 Those published are, 
 
 1. Speculum Britannia, the First Parte. An historicall and 
 chorographicall description of Middlesex. 4 to Lond. 1593. The 
 dedication to Queen Elizabeth, followed by an Address to Lord 
 Burghley. 
 
 The Harleian volume 570 contains a manuscript account of Middlesex 
 in Norden’s handwriting, which, from the erasures and alterations, seems to 
 have been his first draft, to which a Description of Surrey, as the title in¬ 
 forms us, was to have been added. The Preface is dated November, then 
 altered to December, and then to January 1592. It differs from the pub¬ 
 lished copy in arrangement, is more dilated in the prefatory matter, and has 
 places and passages which seem to have been struck out. In two or three 
 instances it has trifling corrections in the handwriting of Lord Burghley. 
 
 Norden mentions good store of swans upon the river Lea in this manu¬ 
 script ; and enlarges more than in the printed work upon the preference at 
 that time given to wheat grown about Heston ; the several prebends of St. 
 Paul’s in Middlesex, are also enumerated. Then follows a section, omitted 
 in the print, on 
 
 “ The meanes most usuall how the people of Myddlesex doe live. 
 
 “ Not medlinge with the higher sorte, I observe this in the meaner, and 
 firste of suche as enhabyte nere the Thamise, they live eyther by the bardge, 
 by the wherrye, or ferrye, by the sculler or by fishinge, all which live well 
 and plentifullye, and in decent and honest sort releve their famelyes. 
 
 “ Such as live in the inn countrye, as in the body or hart of the Shire, as 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 also in the borders of the same, for the most part are men of husbandrye, 
 and they wholy dedicate themselves to the manuringe of their lande. And 
 theis comonlye are so furnished with kyne that the wife or twice or thrice 
 a weeke conveyeth to London mylke, butter, cheese, apples, peares, frumen- 
 tye, hens, chyckens, egges, baken, and a thousand other country drugges, 
 which good huswifes can frame and find to gett a pennye. And this yeldeth 
 them a lardge comfort and releefe. Besyds the husbande castinge the 
 quantetie of his corne, and proporcioning the same with the expense of his 
 howse, of the overplus he maketh monie to mayntayn his family and to paye 
 his rent. 
 
 “ Another sort of husbandmen or yomen rather ther are, and that not a few 
 in this Shire, who wade in the weedes of gentlemen ; theis only oversee their 
 husbandrye, and give direction unto their servauntes, seldome, or not at all 
 settinge their hand unto the plowgh, who havinge great feedinges for cattle, 
 and good breede for younge, often use Smythfelde and other lyke places with 
 fatt cattle, wher also they store themselves with leane. And thus they 
 often exchaunge, not without great gayne, wherby and by their daylye 
 increase at home they comonly be come very riche. 
 
 “ Ther are also that live by carriage for other men, and to that ende they 
 keepe cartes and carriages, carry meale, malte, and manie other thinges to 
 London, and so furnish themselves in their returne with sundry mens 
 carriages of the countrye, wherby they live verye gaynfully. 
 
 “ Ther be also, and that especially about Enfeylde, that have the names 
 of Meale men and Malte men; the meale men for the moste parte buying 
 their wheate at the best hande, and so convert it into meale, and carrye it 
 to the market, and bringe it home in monie. Theis men for the moste are 
 wealthye by their traveyle. The Malt men for the most parte carrye for 
 other men by the quarter, and yet proffitt greatly, but especiallye before 
 the barges dyd passe the river Lea.” 
 
 Among passages not found in the work as published may be noted— 
 
 Hendon. “ It was som time a mannor of Kinge E. VI. by whome it 
 was bestowed upon Sir Edwarde Herbert, knight, as a favour at the time 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
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 of his baptisme, whereof Kinge Edwarde was a witnes. And so it remayn- 
 eth the inheritance of S r Edwarde Herbert.” 
 
 London is omitted in the manuscript. “ Wherof I omitt to speake,” Norden 
 says, “ in this place, for that I purpose to make a perticuler breife declaracon 
 therof, together with the mapp of the Cytie, might it please God to be 
 pacient with the seyd Cytie, and to put awaye his anger, that the sicknes 
 may cease.” 
 
 Neesdon. “ Neesdon or Neusdon, e. 14, a howse somtime the Elringtons 
 in the parish of Wilsdon, wher now dwellyth one Barnes esquire. The 
 howse is a proper howse buylt by the Elringtons, moated about, standinge 
 somthinge lowe. I take it it hath the title of Neusdune of the plentie of 
 wood which sometime grew about the same.” 
 
 Of Osterley , he says, “ The place wher the howse standeth was a ferme 
 howse purchazed by the seyd Sir Thomas Gresham, graced now with a 
 howse beseming a prince.” 
 
 Under Pancras, “ And although this place be as it were forsaken of all, 
 and true men seldome frequent the same but upon devyne occasions, yet is 
 it visyted and usually haunted of roages, vagabondes, harlettes, and theeves, 
 who assemble not ther to pray, but to wayte for praye, and manie fall into 
 their handes clothed, that are glad when they are escaped naked. Walke 
 not ther too late.” 
 
 “ Thistleworth or Istleworth, h. 12, a place scituate upon the Thamise. 
 Not farr from whence betwene it and Worton is a copper and brasse myll, 
 wher it is wrowght out of the oar, melted, and forged. The oar, or earth 
 wherof it is contryved, is browght out of Somersetshire from Mendipp, the 
 most from a place called Worley Hill. The carriage is by wayne, which 
 can not but be very chardgeahle. The workemen make plates both of cop¬ 
 per and brasse of all scyces little and great, thick and thyn, for all purposes. 
 They make also kyttles. Their furnace and forge are blown with great 
 bellowes, raysed with the force of the water and suppressed agayne with a 
 great poyes and weyght. And the hammers wherwith they worke their 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 plates are very great and weightie, some of them of wrowght and beaten 
 iron, some of cast iron, of 200, 300, some 400 weight, which hammers so 
 massye are lifted up by an artificiall engine, by the force of the water, in 
 that altogeather semblable to the Iron myll hammers. They have snippers 
 wherwith they snyppe and pare their plates, which snippers being also of a 
 huge greatnes, farr beyond the powr of man to use, are so artificially 
 placed, and such ingenious devises therunto added, that by the mocon of 
 the water also the snippers open and shut and performe that with great 
 facilitye, which ells were very harde to be done.” 
 
 “ JBrydges of most use in Myddlesex. 
 
 “ First over Thamis 
 
 London bridge. 
 
 Chersey bridge. 
 
 Stanes bridge. 
 
 Kingston bridge. 
 
 “ Over the Lea ryver 
 
 Waltham bridge. 
 
 Enfeylde bridge. 
 
 Fligham hill bridge. 
 
 Myll bridge. 
 
 Lock bridge. 
 
 Bow bridge. 
 
 “ Ther are also 
 
 Baber bridge. 
 
 Craneforde bridge. 
 
 Madd bridge. 
 
 Drayton bridge. 
 
 New bridge. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XV 
 
 , Uxbridge. 
 
 Colnebrooke bridge. 
 
 Braynforde bridge. 
 
 Kingesbridge, comonly called Stone bridge 
 nere Hyde parke corner, wber I wish noe true man to walke too late with¬ 
 out good garde, unles he can make his partie good, as dyd S r H. Knyvet, 
 knight, who valiantlye defended himselfe, ther being assalted, and slwe the 
 master theefe with his own handes.” 
 
 “ Horse ferryes and Passages over the Thamise. 
 
 At Lambeth, at Greenwich, at Battersey or Chelsey, 
 
 At Fulham, at Kew, at Istleworth, at Richmond, 
 
 At Hampton Court, at Hampton.” 
 
 Under Westminster the manuscript says of St. James’s Palace, “ It 
 standeth from other buildinges about two furlonge, saving a ferme house 
 opposite agaynst the north gate. But the scytuacon is pleasant, indued with 
 a good ayre and pleasant prospects. On the East, London offereth it self in 
 vew ; in the sowth the stately buyldinges of Westminster, with the pleasant 
 parke, and the delightes therof; on the North the grene feeldes. It was 
 buylded by Kinge Hen. the 8.” 
 
 “ Somerset Howse. 
 
 “ Somerset howse, scytuate in the Strond, nere the Thamise, buylded by 
 the late Duke of Somerset, not fully finished, yet a most stately howse, and 
 of greate receyte ; havinge chief prospecte towardes the sowth, and the 
 sweete river of the Thamise offereth manie pleasinge delightes. The feyldes 
 also and the ayre sweete and pleasaunt. This howse Her Ma tie hath dis¬ 
 posed unto the right honorable lorde Hunsedon, Lorde Chamberlayne to 
 her Ma tie , hath under her Ma tie the use thereof. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 “ Durham, or Dunelme howse. 
 
 “ This howse called Durham or Dunelme howse, is so called for that it 
 somtime apperteyned unto the Bishopes of that sea. It was buylded in the 
 time of H. 3, by one Antonye Becke, B. of Durham. It is a howse of 300 
 years antiquitie, the hall wherof is stately and high, supported with loftie 
 marble pillers. It standeth upon the Thamise verye pleasantly. Her 
 Ma tie hath comitted the use therof to S r Walter Rawleigh.” 
 
 “ Yorke Howse. 
 
 “ Yorke howse, Her Ma t i e ’s> rekeyninge still the auncient title had of the 
 persons possessinge it, namelye the BB. of Yorke. Her Highnes hath now 
 committed the same unto the right honorable Earle of Essex.” 
 
 “ The Howses of noble men betwene Charinge Crosse and Temple barr 
 breifely recompted. 
 
 “ Leicester howse : so called of the late Earle of Leicester, who in his 
 life time enjoyde the same. It sometime apperteyninge to the BB. of 
 Exeter. 
 
 Ther was a chappell, wher now the porter’s lodge is at the utter gate, 
 apperteyninge to St. Clement Danes. 
 
 “ Arondell howse, so called of the Earles of Arondell, somtyme belong¬ 
 ing to the B. of Bathes. 
 
 “ Burleigh howse, the howse of the ryght honorable Lord Burleigh, Lord 
 high Treasorer of England, and by him erected. Standinge on the north 
 side of the Stronde, a verie fayre howse raysed with brickes, proportionablie 
 adorned with four turrets, placed at the four quarters of the howse ; within 
 it is curiouslye bewtified with rare devises, and especially the Oratory, 
 placed in an angle of the great chamber. 
 
 “ Unto this is annexed on the east a proper howse of the honorable Sir 
 Robert Cecill, knight, and of Her Mats m0 st honorable Prevye Coun- 
 sayle. 
 
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 XVII 
 
 “ Russell howse, near Ivye bridge, scytuate upon the Thamise, now in 
 the use of the right honorable S 1 ' John Puckering, knight, Lord Keper of 
 the Prevye Seale. 
 
 “ The howse of the Lo. W® Haward, nere Ivy bridge. 
 
 “ Rutland howse nere Ivye bridge.” 
 
 “ The Howses of Noble Men in Westm r . 
 
 “ Hertforde howse in Channon row. 
 
 Lincolne howse in Chan. row. 
 
 Darbye howse in Chan. row. 
 
 The Lo. Dacres in Chan. row. 
 
 Sussex howse in the Abbey Yarde. 
 
 The Lo. Staffordes within the new Pallace. 
 
 The Lorde Grayes howse in Tootehill streete. 
 
 The Lorde Cha. Hawarde, Lo. Admirall, Kinge streete.” 
 
 “ Of the 1313. of Canterburie's residence in Westminster. 
 
 “ It is affirmed of some that the bushopes of Caunterburie, before the 
 time of Richard the I., dyd make their contynuall residence at Westminster, 
 as they doe now at Lambyth, and had there a moste statelye howse over 
 agaynst the schole that now is. Contrarye to that which Leyland affirmeth, 
 that the bb. of Caunterburye have contynued at Lambeth since the time of 
 the Normans cominge into this land.” 
 
 “ The Woulstaple. 
 
 “ Ther are within this cytie the longe Woulstaple and the rounde, both 
 which take name of the Staple that ther was kepte for woules ; and the 
 place wher it was kept yett appeareth, an olde and lardge howse above the 
 stayres in the sowth-west angle of the round woulstaple. Ther were sun- 
 drye staples in England, established in the time of Edw. III. as this of 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Westminster, Chichester, Lincoln, Bristow, Hull, Canterbury^, and others, 
 about a 0 . 1354,” 
 
 “ The Mewes, now comonly called the Queenes Stables. 
 
 “ This place, althowgh now bearinge the name of the Stable, tooke name 
 first of another use wherunto it was disposed. K. H. 8 caused it most 
 especially to he erected for a place wherin to preserve his haukes, and 
 therin to mew them; and placed in the middle of the courte or yarde a 
 dovehouse for feedinge them, which is now decayde. It serveth now for a 
 most stately stable for Her Ma ts horses and palphrayes.” 
 
 2 . Speculi Britannia Pars. The Description of Hartfordshire. 
 1598, 4to. 
 
 The date of 1598 placed, not at the end, but at the beginning in 
 the upper part of the title. a Herbert, in his edition of Ames, vol. iii. 
 p. 1723, guesses at 1596 as the probable date of this work. Many 
 copies of the Middlesex and Hertfordshire were bound together 
 at an early period; both were reprinted in 4to. in 1637 ; and 
 again in 1723, with the addition of “ A Preparative to this Work, 
 intended a Reconciliation of sundrie Propositions by divers Per¬ 
 sons tendred, concerning the same by the said author.” 
 
 3. The Surveyors Dialogue, divided into five bookes. 4°. 1607. The 
 
 a The original MS. of Norden’s Hertfordshire, in his own handwriting, is preserved 
 in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth (Cat. of MSS. No. 521.) It differs in nothing 
 from the printed copy, except in a dedication, not in Latin to Lord Seymour, but in 
 English to Lord Burghley, whose arms ornament a beautifully drawn map of the county, 
 on vellum, in the body of the work. Both MS. and map are dated in 1597. Lord 
 Burghley died in 1598, before the publication of the volume. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XIX 
 
 Dedication “ to Robert Lord Cecily Baron of Esingdon, Vicecount 
 Crambourne, Earl of Sarum.” It was reprinted, “ and a sixt 
 booke newly added,” 4° Lond. 1610 ; and again, in 1618 , with a 
 dedication to Sir Richard Smith, Surveyor-general of the lands of 
 Prince Charles. 
 
 4. England. An Intended Guyde for English Travaillers, shewing 
 in generall how far one Citie, and many Shir e-Townes in England, 
 are distant from other. Together with the Shires in perticular; and 
 the Cheife Townes in euery of them. With a generall table of the 
 most of the principall Townes in Wales.” 4to. Lond. 1625. 
 
 The title is followed by a prefatory Address “ to all kinde gen¬ 
 tlemen and others, who have occasion to make use of these Tables 
 or any of them.” 
 
 “ I have endevoured, though with some tedious consultation 
 with mine owne weake apprehension, to conceive some rule of 
 ease (being my selfe a travailer) to finde, as neere as possible I 
 could, the certaine distances of townes ; which, if they could be 
 certainly collected, without dimensuration (a worke through the 
 kingdome more then tedious) they might by this rule be reduced to 
 certainty without error. But for want of perticall demensuration, 
 I have beene enforced to borrow the helpe as well of mine owne 
 maps which I have made by travaile of divers Shires, now totally 
 finished by the laborious travailes of Mr. Speede, whose Maps, 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 together with Mr. Saxton^s and mine owne, have beene the prin- 
 cipall direction in this tedious worke. 
 
 “ Your well wishing friend, 
 
 (C JOHN NORDEN.” 
 
 The Tables are the triangular ones which continued to be used 
 as late as the publication of “ Magna Britannia.” They are in 
 counties; and, at the bottom of each, a tablet explanatory of the 
 method of referring to them, ending with “ Beare with defectes, 
 the use is necessarie. Invented by John Norden.” 
 
 Gough (Brit. Top. i. p. 100) says, “ Another edition of this 
 work, without date, was sold by Norden 5 s publisher, John Garrett, 
 at the south entrance of the Royal Exchange.” 
 
 5. Speculi Britannia Pars altera: or a Delineation of North¬ 
 amptonshire ; being a brief historicall and chorographicall Discre¬ 
 tion of that county. Wherein are also alphabetically set down the 
 names of Cyties, Townes, Parishes, Hamlets, Howses of note, and 
 other remarkables, by the travayle of John Norden, in the year 
 MDCX. 8vo. London, 1 7 20 . a 
 
 a A folio fragment of a History of Northamptonshire in the Library of the British 
 Museum, entered in the Catalogue as Norden’s, has a manuscript title-page in the 
 same words as this edition of 1720, with the addition of “ since improved by John 
 Bridges, Esq. of Barton, near Kettering, in this county.” The leaves begin p. 
 27 —160, in the same type as the two volumes of Bridges’s Northamptonshire, fol. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXI 
 
 This volume is without any map. In the Dedication to the 
 right worshipful Sir William Hatton, knight, Norden says he 
 had purposed to present this his little travaile of Northampton¬ 
 shire to the late Lord Chancellor of England, adding, “ I tooke 
 occasion in my travayle in those parts to performe it after this 
 poore sorte, beinge otherwise imployed in surveyes theare.” 
 
 6 . Speculi Britannia Pars. A Topographicall and Historical 
 Description of Cornwall. 4to. Lond. 1728. Dedicated by Norden 
 to King James I., though, prefixed to it, is a later Dedication to 
 Edward Earl of Oxford, signed Chr. Bateman. It is accompanied 
 by maps of the Hundreds, and several small Views. Four copies 
 of this work were printed upon vellum. One, which was the Earl 
 of Oxford’s copy, is now in the British Museum, in the royal 
 Library; a second, which was Dr. Rawlinson’s, is preserved in 
 the Bodleian. The other two, at the time of publication, were in 
 the possession of Mr. Richardson, an apothecary in Aldersgate 
 street, and of the Rev. John Blackbourne. 
 
 Norden’s Manuscript, the presentation copy to King James, is 
 still preserved in the Harleian Collection, No. 6252, accompanied 
 
 Oxf. 1791. They are probably the cancelled sheets which had been committed to 
 press by the Rev. Peter Whalley, who left the work for others to publish. They are 
 not Norden’s. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 by his original drawings, but not with his maps: the engraved 
 maps of the printed copy being inserted instead. a 
 
 The Letter “ towching your Mat s Mineralls in Cornwall/’ which 
 fronts the title page of the MS. is printed by Bateman at the con¬ 
 clusion. 
 
 Gough says, that Norden wrote an Account of the Estates of the 
 Duchy of Cornwall, the right by which the Duke holds his 
 estates, and many of the customs of the manors, which was once 
 reposited in the Duchy Office. 
 
 Other Surveys of English Counties prepared by Norden, but 
 never published, were those of Essex (which forms the subject of 
 the present volume) ; Kent, which Gough (Brit. Top. i. 441 ) 
 assures us still exists in manuscript; and Surrey. te A Survey 
 of this County/’ says Rawlinson (Engl. Topogr. p. 228 ) “ was 
 drawn up by John Norden, which fell into the hands of a curious 
 Hollander, who gave generously for it, soon after the Restoration, 
 when it w^as offered to sale, as the notes of an eminent antiquary 
 tell me. The map for this work was drawn by Mr. Norden, 
 engraved by Charles Whitwell, at the expense of Mr. Robert 
 Nicolson, Gent, and is much larger, more exact, and curious than 
 any of his former maps. In it are the arms of Sir William Waade, 
 
 a Richard Carew of Antony, writing to Camden, expresses his wish to add Norden’s 
 Map of Cornwall, then recently made, to his Survey. Camd. Epist. p. 72 . 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XX1U 
 
 Kt., Mr. Nicolson, and those of Isabella, Countess Dowager of 
 Rutland, who died in 1605/’ Dr. Rawlinson showed this map to 
 the Society of Antiquaries, as appears by their Minutes, in 1746. 
 
 The maps designed by Norden, of Hampshire, Hertfordshire, 
 Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex, appeared upon an enlarged 
 scale, with his name, in the 6th edition of Camden’s Britannia, 
 fol. Lond. 1607; the first edition of the Britannia which had 
 maps. The same counties, with the exception of Kent, but with 
 Cornwall added, appeared upon a still larger scale, augmented by 
 Speed, in his “ Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine,” fol. 
 Lond. 1611. 
 
 In a Portfolio of Topography in the British Museum is a Map 
 of “ Hampshire,” in folio, of a smaller size than either of those in 
 Camden or Speed, at the bottom of which are the words “ Joftes 
 Norden descripsit,” published by Overton ; Peter Stent’s name, as 
 the previous publisher, having been erased. Hearne, in a Letter, 
 dated Sept. 26, 1727, states that in his time this map was rarely 
 to be seen.a 
 
 Beside a map of the county, Norden’s Middlesex contains 
 separate plans of London and Westminster. 
 
 That of London has the arms of the twelve Companies at the 
 sides. Gough (Brit. Top. i. 747?) says, “ It reaches from St. 
 
 11 See Brydges’s Restituta, vol. i. p. 550. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Catherine’s E. to Leicester House W. which was without Tem¬ 
 ple-bar, with a description of all the outlets or ways into the 
 fields; and at that time, Shrewsbury House, next on this side to 
 the Old Swan, was in being. This was first engraved 1593, but 
 has since fallen into the hands of Peter Stent, a who added the 
 names of churches, streets, lanes, Sec. with letters and figures of 
 reference, which are inserted in the last edition of the book, 1723, 
 and were copied into the map of Middlesex, 1611, by Speed.” 
 
 Gough adds, “There is another copy of Norden^s map of Lon¬ 
 don by Pieter Vanden Keere, engraver, 1623, wherein Norden’s 
 name is retained, and the title is e A Guide for Countrymen 
 in the famous cittey of London, by the helpe of which plot they 
 shall be able to know how farr it is to any street, as allso to go 
 unto the same without forder trouble. A. 1613.’ b 
 
 “Norden published also a view of London in eight sheets, 
 having at bottom a representation of the Lord Mayor’s Show, all 
 on horseback, and the aldermen in round caps. Bagford says 
 this view is singular, and was taken from the pitch of the hill 
 towards Dulwich College, going to Camberwell from London, 
 about 1604 or 1606, and that he had not met with any other 
 
 a “ Later printers added the E. and W. views pasted at the sides, and called it The 
 Countrymen’s Travelling Guide through the City of London; with figures engraved, 
 1. 2. A. B. but seldom affixed dates. Bagford, p. lxxxii.” 
 b “Bagford, p. lxxxii.” 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXV 
 
 of the kind : he adds, that he saw it on the staircase at Dulwich Col¬ 
 lege, and that Secretary Pepys went afterwards to see it, and would 
 have purchased it: but that since it is quite decayed and destroyed 
 by the damp of the wall. It was given to the College with the 
 Library by William Cartwright, an eminent comedian and book¬ 
 seller, a friend of the founder's.”* 1 
 
 Norden’s Maps of his own publication are the first in which the 
 roads were inserted. In his Middlesex he marks eleven different 
 roads from London. His maps, as published by Camden and 
 Speed, have no roads. 
 
 Among the Surveys made by Norden, not so much of a topo¬ 
 graphical as a professional kind, which remain in manuscript, 
 one of the most splendid is the Harleian volume 3749, on vellum, 
 in large folio. 
 
 “ A Description of the Honor of Windesor, namelie of the Cas¬ 
 tle, Foreste, Walkes, Parkes, Rayles, Lodges, Townes, Parishes, 
 Hamletts, Howses of note, Woodes, Riuers, Rills, Brookes, 
 Bridges, Hills, Highwaies, and all other thinges memorable, within 
 or belonging unto the saide Honor and the Liberties of the same, 
 liynge within and extending into the Counties of Barkf, Surrey, 
 and Buckingham, taken and performed by the perambulation, 
 view, and delineation of John Norden. In Anno 1607.” 
 
 cc Suauis post laborem finis.” 
 
 a Biogr. Brit. Alleyn [G.] 
 
 CAMD. SOC. 9. d 
 
XXVI 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The Tables or Mappes are 
 
 "“The Castle, table 1. 
 
 The Foreste, with the seueral walkes, tab. 2. 
 
 Little Parke, table 3. a 
 Greate Parke, table 4. 
 
 Moate Parke, table 5. 
 
 InBarksh. < 
 
 Sunning hill Parke, table 6. 
 
 Follie John Parke, table 7« 
 
 Easthamsted Parke, table 8. 
 
 Swinley Rayles, table 9. 
 
 -Bigshott and Crambourne Rayles, table 10.’ 5 
 
 "Guldeforde Parke, table ll. b 
 Henlie Parke, table 12. 
 
 In Surrey. Woking Parke, table 13. c 
 
 | Byflete Parke, table 14. 
 
 (_Bagshott Parke, table 15. d 
 
 In Buck f Langley Parke, table 16. 
 
 iDitton Parke, table l7-” e 
 
 Among what are called the Additional Manuscripts in the 
 
 » In this a bird’s-eye view of the town of Windsor is comprised. 
 b This table includes a minute view of the greater part of the town of Guildford. 
 c It has so a miniature view of Woking House. 
 d With a view of Bagshot House. c With Ditton House. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXV11 
 
 British Museum, No. 6027, is a folio volume on paper, neatly 
 written, entitled, “ An Abstract of diuers Manors, Landes, and 
 Tenements latelie graunted unto Prince Charles, by our Sove- 
 raigne Lord James his most louing father. Surueyde by uertue 
 of a deputation of ye honorable S r James Fullerton, knighte, Sur- 
 ueyor generall of the landes and land reuenews of the sayd moste 
 worthy Prince Charles, made and performed by John Norden the 
 elder and John Norden the younger, as deputies to the sayd Sir 
 James, in the moneths of Jun: July, August, and parte of Septem¬ 
 ber, 1617 .” 
 
 The dedication is “to Sir Henrie Hubberde, Lord Chief Justice 
 of the Coma.on Pleas, chancellor to 1 rince Charles,” and “ to the 
 reste of the Prince’s Honorable Commissioners.” 
 
 The landes surveyed are 
 
 f Binfeild. 
 
 Bark. 1 
 
 lBlewberies. a 
 
 { Whitchwood. 
 
 Watlington. 
 
 a Gough, Brit.Topogr. i. 175, says, “ AmougBishop More’s MSS. (Cat. MSS. Angliae, 
 tom. ii. 365.) is a survey of the manor of Blewberrie, being parcel of the Prince of 
 Wales’s estate, taken July 1617, by John Norden, sen. and jun. deputed by Sir James 
 Fullerton, surveyor-general of the said estate.” In a subsequent page (Brit. Top. ii. 
 183) he adds, “ Norden’s Survey of the manors of Blewberry and Shipton, which 
 Bishop Nicolson calls A Collection for the History of Berks, is remarkably fair, and 
 particular in describing the several parcels of lands lying in each manor, and their 
 value. (Mr. Spicer’s Letters to Mr. Mores.)” 
 
xxvin 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Glou. 
 
 Wiltes. 
 
 Somerset. 
 
 Devon. 
 
 Dorset. 
 
 { Cheltenham. 
 Haseldon Graunge. 
 
 ( Auldburne. 
 LKingswood. 
 
 ( Norton. 
 
 * Henton. 
 
 { 
 
 Castle of Exon. 
 Burrow of Bradneys. 
 Otterie S l Marie. 
 
 Cerne. 
 
 Charminster. 
 
 Beere Regis. 
 
 Sowthb 
 
 Sussex. 
 
 Christchurch. 
 
 < Somerford. 
 
 ^ Frodington. 
 
 f North Bersted et Auldwick. 
 J Preston. 
 
 Falmer. 
 
 _Chesworth. 
 
 At fol. 81 . is a bird’s-eye view of the Castle and part of the 
 City of Exeter. This is the most important of the Tables or 
 Plates which adorn the manuscript. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXIX 
 
 Another volume in the Museum, in large folio, Harl. MS. 3696, 
 contains 
 
 Perambulatio et Superuisus terrarum et tenementorumDominij 
 de Bromfeylde et Yale in Comitatu Denbigh, parcellse possessionum 
 excellentissimi Charoli Principis Wallise, Ducis Cornubiaj et 
 Eborum, et Comitis Cestrise, quondam in possessione Willi Stan¬ 
 ley militis, alta proditione attincti, capta et facta mensibus Aprilis, 
 Maij, et Junij, anno dni 1620, per Johem Norden, virtute Comis- 
 sionis ejusdem Principis, sub propria manu et sigillo suo priuato, 
 eidem Johi et Johi suo filio directee.” 
 
 r it is ornamented with a drawn view and plan of Holt Castle. 
 This manuscript came into Lord Oxford’s possession by present 
 from a Mr. Bower in Feb. l73-§-. 
 
 The Sloane MS. also, No. 3241, contains 
 
 « The Presentment and Yerdicte of the Jurie for the manor of 
 Yale and Raglar, beinge pcell of the Lo r PP es of Bromfielde and Yale, 
 made before John Norden the elder esquire, and John Norden 
 the younger, gent, by vertue of a Commission of Survey to them 
 directed, from the Prince his Highnes, under his privie seale, the 
 daie of June, Aho R. R. Jacobi nunc Anglise, Ffranc, et Hi- 
 bernise decimo octavo, ac Scotise liij, 1620.’ 
 
 The Harleian Manuscript 6288 preserves 
 
 ee The Suruey of the Manor of Sherife Hutton and the members 
 therof in the county of York, parcell of the possessions of Charles 
 
XXX 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewall and of York, and Earle of 
 Chester, taken in Julie, August, &c. by John Norden the elder, 
 and John Norden the younger, by vertue of his Ma ts Comission 
 out of the Eschequer, dated the 16 day of June in the two and 
 twentith yeare of King James of England, France, and Ireland, 
 and of Scotlande the lvij, as well by the perambulation and view of 
 the land and euidences of the tenantes, as by the oathes of those 
 as towelling Sherifebutton manor itselfe that are hereafter 
 named.” 
 
 The editor of this volume is indebted to T. R. Fearnside, esq. 
 for the following; 
 
 o 
 
 Memorandum, extracted from the books in the Office of Land 
 Revenue Records and Inrolments, relating to Norden. 
 
 “In Index to Cornwall. 
 
 “ Nordeffis C John Norden, Land Surveyor to Prince Charles, 
 Surveys. ( and by whom all the Duchy Manors were ac¬ 
 curately surveyed, as well as other Manors and 
 Estates of the Prince not Duchy, obtained several 
 grants from the Prince, in reward for his services, 
 as appears from the Books and Records in the 
 Office of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the following 
 particulars relative to Mr. Norden’s Grants appear 
 in this Book, Lib. 8. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXXI 
 
 “20 th Ocf. r 
 1618. \ 
 
 A Warrant under the hand and seal of- 
 said John Norden, authorising and di- 
 recting the Steward of the Manor of Kinges- 
 wood, Wilts, to grant by Copy of Court 
 Roll to John Crewe of Hathrop, in the 
 county of Gloucester, certain lands for 
 3 lives, for which he Norden had pre¬ 
 viously obtained a warrant from the Prince’s 
 Council, but acknowledges to have sold his 
 right and interest therein to Mr. Crewe for 
 a competent sum of money, &c. The Copy 
 of Court Roll to Crewe bearing date 3rd 
 November following is inrolled with the 
 Auditor. 
 
 > 
 
 Fot. 
 
 178 
 
 179 
 
 “20 July 2° C The said John Norden (with others) dis- 
 Car. 1.1626. (. charged by His Majesty’s Letters of Privy 
 Seal from the payment of arrears of rents due 
 for certain Lands which had been granted 
 them, but from which they have not been 
 able to derive the intended benefit. Mr. 
 Norden’s part of the Arrears discharged 
 amounts to £93. 65. 8 d. for 14 years’ Rent 
 of Lands in the New Forest called Boggy 
 Lands, at £6. 13s. 4 d. per anS. 
 
XXX11 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ee In Book of Ancient Surveys. Liber 13. 
 
 Copices in New Foreste 
 Cor3 Southt) 
 
 Norden. 
 
 With a Sale of Woods in the inside on Parchmt. made by J. 
 Norden, the 43 Ja3 l mi . 
 
 This also includes Aliceholt and Buckholt. There are very 
 beautiful plans of the several Coppices in the respective Forests. 
 
 Cor3 Soutfi—Maner! de East Worldham et West Worldham, 9 
 Octob. p Alex! Mayne arl et Johem Norden. 
 
 Fordington 
 Christchurch 
 Wellington— 
 
 j>—Southton. 
 Sornsit\ 
 
 Ffrodington 
 
 Maner 9 
 
 r Com Southton!—Composicones facte cu tenentibj 
 i ihm p feodo ffirm sepal tenentiu 
 
 p Johem Boden ar! Johem Ffoyle 
 et Johem Norden ar! virtute Co- 
 ihissionis D’ni Regis Jacobi gereS 
 dat duodecimo Ffebruarij, Anno 
 Regni dci Dni Regis Angi xj°, 
 et Scocie xlvij 0 , 1613, in forma 
 sequel. Viz*. 
 
 4° Marcij, 1613, &c. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXX111 
 
 Somerford 1 0 
 
 l Com Southtom 
 Manerium J 
 
 9° Marcij, 1613, &c. 
 
 Manerium 
 de << 
 
 i 
 
 Christchurch 
 
 - 
 
 Com Southtonl 
 
 "Compdsicoes fac? ihm cu Te- 
 nentihj xij° die Marcij, Anno 
 < regni Jacobi nuc Regis Angl 
 undecimo, et Scocie quadragesi- 
 _mo septimo, 1613. 
 
 Maneriumde'j _ o ^ _ 
 
 h Com Somerset-23 Marcij, 1613. 
 
 Wellington J 
 
 Curia supvisus cum perambulatione Manerij et Honoris de 
 Eye in CorS Suff. p Johem Norden seniorem et Johem Norden 
 juniorem deputatos Rici Smyth militis generalis Supvisoris 
 Charoli Dhi principis A 0 1621. 
 
 This survey includes all the Towns and Bailiwicks 
 within the Honor. 
 
 Sup vis 9 Manerl de Stradbrooke. 
 
 Coni Suff-Horham, nole Horeham Comitis. 
 
 Supvis 9 Manerij de Clansford p Johem Norden sen! et Johem 
 camd. soc. 9. e 
 
XXXIV 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Norden jun’ deputat’ Rici Smyth miiitis Supvis general 
 Charot Dm Principis 1621. 
 
 Coni Essex. Maner) de Stapleford Abbas/’ 
 
 The Honor of Eye, and the other Surveys following, appear 
 to be in the hand-writing of Mr. Norden. 
 
 The late Richard Heber, esq. possessed the presentation copy 
 of Norden’s Hertfordshire to Queen Elizabeth (See the Catalogue 
 of his Library, Part viii. No. 1086). The title page and maps 
 were coloured and the arms blazoned. It was prefaced, on a blank 
 leaf, by a neatly written address to the Queen, in which Norden 
 stated that he had spent above one thousand marks and five years’ 
 time upon the work, “by which being daungerouslie indepted, 
 much greeved, and my familie distressed, I have no other refuge 
 but to flie unto your Maiestie’s never fayling bountie for relief.” a 
 Whether any thing in the shape of bounty was bestowed we 
 have no means of knowing, but Norden still continued in 
 straitened circumstances. As soon as King James came to the 
 throne, however, Norden hastened to make him a complimentary 
 address upon his Majesty’s accession, in which, in the first part. 
 
 * F° r these particulars the editor is indebted to J. W. Burgon, esq. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXXV 
 
 he harangued against the Papists, adding a few sentences upon 
 the subject of his surveys of the several Counties. The original is 
 preserved among the old royal manuscripts in the British Museum, 
 (18 A. xxiii.) and what relates to his Surveys is here transcribed. 
 
 “ I have presumed (yet in dutie), right gracious sovereign, to 
 adventure this my simple intimation, which may it please your 
 Majesty to pardon, I shall think me happie. I have not been so 
 conversant in divine letters as might sufficiently answer the per¬ 
 fection required in a matter of such moment. But have been 
 employed by authority in the re-description of the shires of Eng¬ 
 land, wherein to my great impoverishment I have travelled in 
 hope of my promised allowance towards my charge and travail 
 from her late Majestie, which her Highness was very inclinable to 
 have performed, and referred the consideration thereof to such as 
 (I having no means to make my friends) have been slack in effect¬ 
 ing anything for my relief. 
 
 « And now (my gracious liege Lord) I humbly tender my poor 
 service therein unto your Majestie’s gracious consideration, willing 
 to go forward in the work begun, might I be in some measure 
 inabled. Wherein I nothing doubt, but to do your Highness 
 acceptable service, not only in describing the countries topogra¬ 
 phically, with the delineation of all the cities and principal townes, 
 your Majestie’s houses, castles and forts, but any other matter 
 
XXXVI 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 according to your Majestie’s further instructions touching the 
 state of the Countries. 
 
 “This imployment hath caused me to discontinue all other 
 means of my relief, being formerly employed in survey of some 
 of her late Majestie’s lands, belonging to the Dukedome of 
 Lancaster, and of other landes. And if it stand not with your 
 gracious pleasure to employ my poor service in the former De¬ 
 scriptions, that your Highness would be pleased to employ the 
 same in the survey of some of your Majestie’s land, the service 
 whereof in former times hath been committed (in favour not by 
 desert) unto such (for the most part) as were very unfit to execute 
 the same, to the great prejudice of her late Majesties revenues. 
 But in all humility laying my whole endeavors before your gra¬ 
 cious consideration, I reste most happy in your Majestie’s most 
 favourable disposition. 
 
 Et pauperi spes est. 
 
 Your Ma ts poore dutiful 
 subject, 
 
 Jo. Norden.” 
 
 Soon after this Norden was probably made surveyor of the 
 King’s lands; he appears from the following instrument relating 
 to the repairs of Hurst Castle, at least to have held the office of 
 “ Surveyor of his Majesty’s Woods ** in 1609. The original is 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXXV11 
 
 preserved among Sir William Musgrave’s Collections, MS. Addit. 
 Brit. Mus. 5752, fol. 312. Granger, in his Biographical History 
 of England, says he received a stipend of fifty pounds a year for 
 this office. 
 
 « After or hartie comendacons : whereas upon a comission dy- 
 rected out of the Court of Exchequer, to certayne comissioners to 
 enquire of the decaies of Hurst Castle, and to certifie what would 
 be no more than necessary for the repacons thereof, wee have 
 received a certificate accordingly, w th an estimate of ye charges, 
 whereof having advisedly considered, althoughe wee doe beleeve 
 that the decaies menconed in the said certificat have neede to be 
 repared, consideringe by forbearance too longe they may growe 
 somewhat more chargeable; yet consideringe that they be not all 
 of like consequence, and that tymber sufficient cannot be pro- 
 vyded at this tyme in any convenient place thereabouts to per- 
 forme the whole, as the case now stands, wee have rather chosen 
 for the present to employe some woorkmen about the repacons of 
 that part w ch wee understand is most needfull to be repayred; and 
 that is the beach or pointe leadinge to the Castle, w ch as it seemes 
 by the certificat of two of the Commissioners will require some 
 three hundred tonnes of tymber, besides the charges in money for 
 all manner of carriage by land or water, w 1 ’ 1 drivinge and settinge 
 the piles, and the rest of the workmanshipp, amounting in the 
 
XXXV111 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 whole to the some of a hundred fower score and five pounds 
 as it is certefied, wee have therefore thought good to require 
 y° w j Mr. Norden, the particular surveyo 1 " of his Ma‘e woods, 
 together w^ 1 the woodward of the County, and the surveyor 
 of his Ma te workf at Portsmouth, respectively each of yo w , 
 according to his particular office and charge, to have a due 
 care of the performance of this worke, and that yow doe 
 presently sett the same in hand, w 111 as much ease of his Ma ts 
 charge every way, as reasonably yo w may, soe as the worke be 
 sufficiently and substantially done ; and for as much as in respect 
 of his Mate comynge to the New Forrest this next soEer, there can 
 be noe order given for fallinge of any wood in that place, but that 
 it must be provyded in some other part more remote, wee would 
 have yo w firste consider whether this proportion, or so much lesse 
 as yow shall find to be requisite, may not be had upon some of 
 his Matf manno rs or lands in that county, where the Commis¬ 
 sioners for sale are nowe dyrected to cutt; and be transported 
 thether w l h a reasonable charge; w ch if in yo r judgmtf it may, wee 
 would have yo w then soe to proceede; but yf yo w finde that the 
 charges of carriage, in respect of the distance, will be so greate, 
 as it is not fitt to hold that course, wee doe then advise, that yo w 
 enquire where soe much tymber may be had at reasonable prices 
 nere thereabout^ of such psons as will sell, and that yow buy 
 it to his Matf best advantage; for w ch , as for all other charges 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXXIX 
 
 requisite concerninge the execution of this service, soe it exceede 
 not the some of a hundred foure score and five poundf, wee doe 
 require yo w his Matf Receavor of the countie to deliver such 
 moneyes as the said Commissioners above named, or any two of 
 them shall demaund at yo r hands for the use aforesaid; for w cl1 
 yow, the said Commissioners, are to be accomptable, as the man¬ 
 ner is in the like cases. Moreover, for the better pformance of 
 this service, because we are assured that S r Thomas Gorges, who 
 hath the comand of that place, will not be unwillinge to be pre¬ 
 sent there sometymes, to veiwe and give dyrections to the worke- 
 men that it may be done effectually and w t}l expedicon, wee doe 
 require yo w to give him notice hereof, and to take him to yo w as 
 an assistant, and wt h all, when the worke is fynished, bringe from 
 him a certificat thereof, under his hand, for o r better satisfac’on, 
 w ch beinge all wee thincke necessarie to write unto yo w concern¬ 
 inge this particuler, we comitt yo w to God. From the Court at 
 Whitehall this viij th of Aprill 1609. 
 
 Yo r very lovinge freinds, 
 
 R. Salisbury. 
 
 Jul. Gesar. 5 ’ 
 
 In an Exchequer Account of extraordinary issues, A.D. 1610 
 and 1611, being one of the papers lately mutilated, occur the 
 following items, 
 
xl 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 “ 7 weeke [of the year 1611.] 
 
 Mr. Treswell andv 
 Norden for sur- )*40£. 
 vey of lands J 
 
 19 weeke [of the year 1611.] 
 
 Mr. Norden in pt of'j 
 his yearely allowance f 13£. 
 for riding charges 
 
 20 weeke [of same] 
 
 Mr. Norden for 
 riding charges 
 
 In the Lansdowne Manuscript 165, fol. 233, we have the fol¬ 
 lowing Observations which Norden presented to Lord Salisbury 
 in 1613, upon the abuses practised by the tenants of the King’s 
 manors. They are indorsed, “ John Norden, one of the generall 
 Surveyors of the King’s Landes and Woods.” 
 
 “ Observations fitt for honorable consideration : 
 
 First, by the grauntinge of leases of manors, upon the relation 
 of such as hope a gratuitie of the patentees, without due and true 
 information of the state, condition, value, and other needfull cir- 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 xli 
 
 cumstances, honorable officers have bene abused, and her late 
 Maty 655 and the Kinges revenewes muche diminished. If reasons 
 be demaunded, 
 
 First, it is manifeste that Patentees have made 20 times 
 their fines instantlie upon their grauntes, which myghte 
 have bene aswell raysed to the use of ther Matf. 
 
 Secondlie, fermers of manors have litle care to preserve 
 his Matf Royaltie, rentes, services, tenures, woodes, 
 howses, custums, and other accidentall profites, which 
 in manie places have bene, and daylie are, discontynued, 
 altred, and forgotten. 
 
 In manie of his Matf manors, freeholders, their rentes, services, 
 tenures, and landes, not onlie for want of exacte surveyes, due 
 view, and true recordinge of their deedes, become straunge and 
 unknown, other men are intitled to his Matf tenntes, their landes, 
 services, and tenures, rentes detayned, reliefes loste, and when ex- 
 cheates happen, the lande that shoulde redounde to his MaW, can 
 not be founde; for manie tenntes paye rentes for lande, but, for 
 want of due surveyes, the landes are conceyled, and neyther can 
 the jurie, nether will the tenntes discover wher the land lyeth, 
 greatly to his Matf prejudice. 
 
 For reformation wherof, everye freeholder is to be exact¬ 
 ed, not onlie to shewe his deedes, set downe his rent, 
 acknowledge his tenure and service, but also to sett out 
 his lande ; theis thinges are now in manie psons, places, 
 
 / 
 
 CAMD. SOC. 9. 
 
xlii 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 and thinges, drowned in darke discontynuance, which 
 mighte be revived, recovered, and founde to his Matfgreate 
 advantage; for manie pretendinge to be freeholders, wonlde 
 appeare usurpers, intruders, or tehnts att will. 
 
 Some have bene questioned upon theis poyntes, in his 
 Matf behaulfe; but the prosecution is so chargeable, the 
 successe for some respectes so doubtfull, and adversaries 
 so burdensome, that for want of due tryall, men, especiallie 
 the mightie, seeme to wronge the Kinge in this kinde the 
 more boldelie, to the greate extenuation of his Matf reve- 
 newes. 
 
 The demisinge of the lopps and tops of trees in forestes, chases, 
 and other mayne woodes in manors, hath bene the confusion of 
 his Matf moste beautifull woodes in the Kingdom ; and it were 
 verie expedient never to graunt the like, but to resume them that 
 are ; for such hath bene the abuse of suche grauntes, that ther is 
 not lefte in anie woodes thus graunted, a braunch of a tree bigger 
 than a walking staffe. 
 
 Manie ferme howses of manors become so ruined, as if they 
 be not more stricktlie observed and punished, they will manie of 
 them fall to the ground, and yet doe the patentees and their 
 fermors havock his Matf timber and wood. 
 
 Thinges graunted by custodie, woodes, howses, or lande, are 
 verie ill used, by reason of the uncertayne determination of such 
 estates; and manie such grauntes are now helde as freeholde. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 xliii 
 
 which were they dulie seene, observed, and found out, they woulde 
 yelde his Ma 1 ^ a great revenew. 
 
 Manie dottarde and decayde trees are wthin divers mannors 
 surveyde, which are contynuallie wrongfullie taken by the tenntes, 
 which woulde be soulde to his Mate use. 
 
 25 Octob. 1613.” 
 
 The Address “ to all courteous Gentlemen,” prefixed to the 
 reprint of the Middlesex and Hertfordshire, of 1723, is dated at 
 Norden’s poore house, neere Fulham, 4 November, 1596.” 
 
 Anthony a Wood says he lived, during the greater part of King 
 James’s reign, at Hendon, near Acton, in Middlesex. 
 
 From statements by himself, there can be no doubt that Nor- 
 den lived in narrow circumstances. His industry was evidently 
 great: but payment at that time, especially under the government, 
 was slow and uncertain: * and his published works seem not to 
 have been productive of profit. He died in or about 1626. 
 
 * An illustration of this may be quoted in a short note from the Earl of Lenox to 
 Sir Julius Caesar, then Chancellor of the Exchequer ; the original is preserved among 
 the Lansdowne MSS. 
 
 “Mr. Chancellor, 
 
 “ This bearer, Humfrey Lloid, hath bin so longe without his money, for the clocke 
 he solde the Kinge, that I do very earnestly praie you (now that the privie seale is 
 graunted for his satisfaction) to give order that he may receave his money. And so 
 commending me unto you, I rest 
 
 “ This 18 of July, 1607. 
 
 Y r most assured freende, 
 Lenox.” 
 
Xliv INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Norden, in his Address to King Janies on his accession, mentions 
 his having been engaged, in Queen Elizabeth’s time, in survey¬ 
 ing some of the lands of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Hol¬ 
 land, the present Chancellor, kindly gave the Editor permission 
 to search the Archives of the Duchy, but, upon the most 
 accurate inquiry by Mr. Danvers, no remains of Norden’s labours 
 could be found. 
 
 H. E. 
 
To the Righte 
 Honorable my singuler 
 good Lorde sir William Cecill 
 knight, Baron of Burghleigh Lorde high 
 Treasoror of Englande. One of her Ma ties moste 
 honorable preuie Counsell. And of the 
 moste noble order of the garter 
 knight, Iohn Norden 
 presenteth the 
 firste view of this simple 
 discription of 
 ESSEX. 
 
ADVERTISEMENTES 
 
 TOWCHINGE 
 
 THE USE OF THE ALPHABETICALL TABLES. 
 
 There are in the liste of the mappe certayne diuisioons, differ¬ 
 enced, whyte and blacke, eyther of whiche diuision is the scale of 
 one myle, so that rounde about the mappe is a generall scale of 
 the myles. 
 
 There are also in the same border or liste of y e mappe letters 
 and figures, w ch serue to this use, viz. When yow desire to finde 
 anie place conteyned in the mappe, referr yow to the alphabeticall 
 table therof, eyther the table of parishes, or howses. And after 
 the place desired ye shall find imediatlye followinge a letter and 
 some number wherunto if yow referr yow in the same liste or 
 border, ye shall draw yowr eye to the square wher the Ire and 
 number do meete. And in that square ye shall presentlye finde 
 the place desired. As by this exemple. I woulde finde Chel- 
 mersforde, w ch I finde in the table of townes vnder K. 18, and 
 they meete in a iuste square wher Chelmersforde standeth. And 
 so of anie other moste easie. 
 
 The crossing lines are 2. myles in sunder, by which, as by a 
 vniuersall scale throwghe the whole bodye of y e mappe, may be 
 founde the distances of anie place whatsoeuer, w th owt compasses, 
 hauing a redye eye. 
 
 The scale. 
 
 To find anie 
 place de¬ 
 sired. 
 
 The lynes 
 y l passe 
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 Essex, or Estsex, of the Saxons Gapj-eax, i s parcell of that 
 parte of Brittayne wher Ptolomey placed the Trinoantes or Trino- 
 bantes : whoe enhabited also Midlesex and Hertfordshire. This 
 shire lyeth east of all the Trinobantes, and vpon that coaste 
 encountreth the mayne Ocean, an infallable bounde on the east. 
 It hath on the south the famous Thams, as a notorious deuision 
 betwene it and Kent. The Lea, Ly$a or Lvgean, falleth betwene it 
 and Midlesex. The Storte deuideth it and Hertfordshire, passing 
 by Stortford, wherof it taketh name. On the north it hath the 
 Stowre, which as a tether boundeth it in, from Suffolke. So 
 that by theis nuers it becometh peninsula; only the north-weste 
 parte hath no riuer to deuyde it and Cambridgshire. 
 
 This shire is moste fatt, frutefull, and full of profitable tliinges, 
 exceding (as farr as I can finde) anie other shire, for the generall 
 comodeties, and the plentie. Thowgh Suffolke be more highlie 
 comended of some wherwith I am not yet acquaynted : But this 
 shire seemeth to me to deserue the title of the englishe Goshen, 
 the fattest of the Lande: comparable to Palestina, that flowed 
 with milke and hunnye. But I can not comende the healthfulnes 
 of it: And especiallie nere the sea coastes, Rochford, Denge, 
 Tendering hundredes and other lowe places about the creekes, 
 which gaue me a moste cruell quarterne feuer. But the manie 
 and^ sweete comodeties counteruayle the daunger. 
 
 It is to be noted how the perticuler comodeties are, as it were, 
 quartered out, and possess seuerall places w^'in the Shire. 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 The hundreds of Rocheforde, Denge, Dansye, or Dansing, 
 which lye on the sowth-easte parte of the shire, yelde milke, 
 butter, and cheese in admirable aboundance: and in those partes 
 are the great and huge cheeses made, wondred at for their mas- 
 siuenes and thicknes. They are made also in Tendring hundred, 
 wher are manie wickes or dayries. But in that hundred are also 
 manie barren groundes. 
 
 Ther are in this shire some especiall groundes noted generallie, 
 in regarde of their fertilletie, by this comon Rime or Prouerbe. 
 
 Lorde Morleyes r Baron parke is frutefull and fatt; 
 
 In Layr Marney pk I How feild is better then that; 
 
 In Wigboro j Copte hall is beste of them all ; 
 
 Parcell of Peldo hall k Yet Hubble down : may wayr the crowne. 
 
 The second quarter of the shire may be saide to contayne the 
 hundreds of Lexden, Hinckforde, Dunmow, and Froswell, which 
 lye in the northe parte of the Shire. And theis abounde greatelie 
 with hopps, a comoditie of greate and continuall use, but draweth 
 with it an inconuenience: the distraction of younge springes. In 
 theis hundreds also are manie good feedinges, and corne in rea¬ 
 sonable measure. 
 
 Therdlie, the hundreds of Vttlesforde, Chelmerforde, Claue- 
 ringe, and those partes are reasonable apt for corne, and espe¬ 
 cially Vttlesforde hundred; the reste are here and there mnch 
 enterlaced with woodes and rugged groundes. About the town 
 of Walden groweth great store of saffron, whose nature, in yelding 
 her fruite, is uerie straunge, and bindeth the laborer to gpeate 
 trauaile and dilligence: and yet at length yealdeth no small ad- 
 uantage to recomforte him agayne. 
 
NOR DEN S DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 9 
 
 Fowrthlie, aboute the hundredes of Waltham, Onger, Becontre, 
 and muche of the libertie of Hauering, are for the moste parte 
 woodes and wooddie groundes, and foreste, as the most parte of 
 Essex in time paste hath bene. This forest is well replenished 
 with deere red and fallow, whoe seeme noe good neighbors to the 
 foreste inhabitantes : but the kindnes which they receyue of the 
 forest, may worke their patience towardes the game. Ther is also 
 nere Hatfeylde broadokes a chace called Hatfeyld chace, agrounde 
 well replenished with fallow deare. This shire seemeth not anie 
 wher altogether destitute of wood, thowgh no wher well stored. 
 
 It is full of parkes. 
 
 Barstable hundred yeldeth greate store of ottes, so doth Roche- 
 forde and Denge, whence her Ma tie hath greate store of prouision 
 of auenage. 
 
 Ther are noe great flockes of sheepe in this shire. Yet are ther 
 sundrie places, that yealde verie line woull; but not in the depe 
 countries: the moste barren and heathye groundes yelde beste 
 woull, and especiallie 
 
 Thurrington, 
 
 Empsted, 
 
 Kingeswood heath 
 
 Lexden heath, 
 Misley heath, 
 about Ardeley, 
 
 and 
 
 Typtree heath. 
 
 Alresforde, 
 
 Ther are within this shire theis especiall clothing townes : 
 
 Colchester, 
 
 Brayntree, 
 
 Cogshull, wher are made 
 
 the best whites in Eng- 
 lande. 
 
 Booking, 
 
 Hawsted, 
 
 and 
 
 Dedham. 
 
 CAMD. SOC. 9. 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Ther are in and about this shire sundry ilandes. Mersey 
 standing as it were in the sea. Within Blackewater creeke ar 
 Northey and Orsey Ilandes, of noe greate accompte. In Crouche 
 creek, or Cricksye creek, is Wallet, or rather and more trulie 
 Walfleet Ilande, and diuers other small ilandes of no name. Ther 
 is whn the Nase nere Waltham a proper ilande, Horsey Ilande, 
 verie good for feede. It is inuironed with creekes, which leade 
 to certayne ladinges, as to Landymer lading and other suche 
 places, wher they take in wood, w ch carrie it to London, or els 
 where, w cl * places are called vpon the Thames, westward, haws or 
 woodwharfes. 
 
 Nere the Thames mowth, below Beamflete, are certaine ilandes, 
 called Canuey Ilandes, low merishe grounds; and for that the pas¬ 
 sage ouer the creeks is vnfitt for cattle, it is onlie conuerted to the 
 feeding of ews, which men milke, and therof make cheese (suche 
 as it is), and of the curdes of the whey they make butter once in 
 the yeare, w ch serueth the clothier. 
 
 As towching the comodeties of the sea, they are manie; among 
 the reste it yeldeth store of excellent good fishe, and giueth pas- 
 . sage for all kind of trafique, to the greate benifite of the country. 
 
 The seacoaste is here and ther furnished with harbours for 
 shipping, wherof the principall is Harwiche, which is a towne 
 fitlie scytuate for seafaring men. Small boates come up as farr as 
 Colchester, and up to Maldon. 
 
 Some part of the sea shore of Essex yealdeth the beste oysters 
 in England, which are called Walflete oysters : so called of a place 
 in the sea; but in what place of the sea it is, hath ben some dis¬ 
 putation. And by the circomstances that I haue observed 
 therof in my trauaile, I take it to be the shore which lieth be- 
 twene St. Peter’s chappell and Crowche creeke : the bredthe onlie 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. I * 
 
 of Denge hundred, throwgh whiche, vpon the verie shore, was 
 erected a wall for the preseruation of the lande. And therof St. 
 Peter’s on the wall. And all the sea shore which beateth on that 
 wall is called the Walfleet. And vpon that shore onlie, and not 
 els wher, but up in Crouche creeke, at the ende of the wall, wlier 
 also is an ilande called commonlie and corruptlie Wallet (but I 
 take it more trulie Walflete) Ilande, wher and about which ilande 
 thys kinde of oyster aboundeth. Ther is greate difference be- 
 twene theis oysters and others which lie vpon other shores, for 
 this oyster, that in London and ells wher carieth the name of 
 Walflete, is a little full oyster with a verie greene fynn. And like 
 vnto theis in quantetie and qualitie are none in this lande thowgli 
 farr bigger, and for some mens diettes better. 
 
 In this shire are no store of hills, so to be termed in regard of 
 altitude, onlie Layndon hills may haue the name of hills : yet not 
 verie high. Sundrie valleis ther are, w ch of necessitie require hills, 
 but they are but small knottes, as it were, makinge a difference 
 betwene the valley and the higher grounde. The countrie to the 
 eye appeareth verie playne. 
 
 Ther are within this shire manie riuers of name, amonge which 
 theis are principall, as Colne that watereth all the Colnes, and so 
 passing to Colnechester, it thence hastetli to the ocean. The 
 Blackwater, rising nere Wimbishe, taking a longe circular course 
 passeth throwgh Cogshull groundes, and falleth into Chelmer at 
 Maldon. The Chelmer riseth not farr from Tylty, from whence, 
 passing by manie places, it saluteth her famous dawghter Chel- 
 merforde, whence she hasteth to Maldo, thence to associate 
 the Blackwater into the sea. The Roding firste appeareth nere 
 Takeley, whence, as she passeth, shee greeteth her nine daughters, 
 all the Rodinges, from whence, after manifolde curuings, it maketh 
 way vnder Wodforde bridge, .so to Barking where it enlargeth the 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Thames. 1 he Lea, Storte, and Stowre are boundes of the shire. 
 Other small riuers ther are, as the Pante and other streames of no 
 greate recconing. Notwithstanding all which riuers and brookes, 
 manie places in Essex are verie ill watred, and haue few or no 
 springes, especiallie in Denge and Rochforde hundreds, and in 
 diuers other places, which haue onlie standing waters for their vse, 
 which are bad in winter, and in sumer worse. 
 
 This shire is well planted with noblem. and gent, as also not a 
 few sufficient and able yeomen. 
 
 Hertfordshire, in the time of Edw. III. was annexed vnto this 
 shire, as towching vicountile Jurisdiction, and one sherife executed 
 the same as in the 8 yeare of y e raigne of Edw. III. John de Cog- 
 shull was shirife of both counties; but that vnion hath bene long 
 discontinued. The place wher the assices and generall sessiones 
 are comonlie helde is Chelmerforde. The comon gayle is Colches¬ 
 ter Castle. 
 
 The hundreds, and how they are limited to repaire, for the more 
 ease of the countrie, to certayne places, for the more spedie dis- 
 patche of ordinarie causes. 
 
 1. Beaucountry, 
 
 2. Chalforde, 
 
 3. Barstable, 
 
 4. Onger, 
 
 5. Harlowe, 
 
 6. Waltham, 
 
 7. Dunmow, 
 
 8. Vttlesford, 
 
 9. Fresh well, 
 
 10. Clauering, 
 
 at Dunmow, Walden, and somtime 
 at Thaxsted. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 13 
 
 11. Hinckeforde, at Brayntre, or Castle Henningham. 
 
 12. Tendringe, 
 
 13. Lexden, / 
 
 14. Winstre, 
 
 15. Thurstable. 
 
 16. Witham, 
 
 at Colnechester, somtime at Maldon. 
 
 17. Chelmersford, 
 IS. Rocheforde, 
 
 and 
 
 19. Denge, 
 
 Liberties. 
 
 Hauering at Romford e, Notandum, that the numbers and figurs 
 
 Colnechester in se. 
 
 placed before the hundreds are like- 
 
 Maldon in se. deter- > wise set downe in the mapp to de- 
 
 myne their priuate \ monstrate euery hundred vnder his 
 
 proper title. 
 
 causes. 
 
 Market townes w th in this shire. 
 
 Barking, held on the Saterday. 
 
 Aneley, on the 
 
 Rumford, on the Wednesday. 
 
 Burntwood, Thursday. 
 
 Billerecay, Tewesday. 
 
 Rayley, Saterday. 
 
 Maldon, Saterday. 
 
 Manningtre, a little fisher towne, and hath a small market. 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Harwiche. 
 
 Colnechester, Wednesday, Friday, and Saterday. 
 Hawsted, Friday. 
 
 Brayntre, Wednesday. 
 
 Thaxsted, Friday. 
 
 Waldon, Saterday. 
 
 Dunmow. 
 
 Chelmersford, Fryday. 
 
 Hatfeld, Saterday. 
 
 Epping, Fryday. 
 
 Waltham. 
 
 Cogshull, Saterday. 
 
 Number 19. 
 
 Ther are in Essex theis Baronies. 
 
 Claueringe. ^ t Rochforde, and 
 
 Chiche. 5 ^ Walden. 
 
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 AN ALPHABETICALL TABLE 
 
 of the townes, parishes, and hamletes conteyned in the 
 Mapp, the Pres and figures in the margente 
 directing to y e places for easie 
 finding. 
 
 A. 
 
 Aberton , f. 32. 
 
 Abridge, or High Bridge, n. 8. 
 
 Alderne , or Aldthome , 1. 30. 
 
 Alresforde, e. 36. 
 
 Aldeham, d. 28. 
 
 Alphamston , c. 24. 
 
 Arfcesden, d. 6. 
 
 Ardeley, d. 34. 
 
 Ashdon, b. 10, or Ashdown. About 
 this place Edm. Ironside had 
 bickerings w fc the Danes. 
 
 Ashden, or Ashdown, a. 18. 
 
 Ashildon, or Ashelham , k. 32. Som- 
 time the lande of John d'e 
 Roos. 
 
 Ashing don, m. 28.' 
 
 Aueley , r. 14. 
 
 Awdley end, c. 18. Ther was a 
 monasterie founded by the 
 Maunduiles, and wher many 
 of them lye interred. Now 
 Lo. Awdleys of Walden. 
 
 St. Ayleth, c. 10. 
 
 B. 
 
 Badow Mag.\. 20. somtime Hum- 
 fry Bohumes E. of Heref. 
 
 Badow Parua, k. 22. somtyme y e 
 lande of Jo. Bohume of Myd- 
 hurste. 
 
 i Barling, m. 32. 
 
 Basseldon, n. 22. 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Barmeston, or Barncston, g. 16. 
 Barkinge, q. 8, after Bede Berecins- 
 Ther was a great monasterye 
 founded by Erkenwalde, B. of 
 London. 
 
 Ballington, or Ballydon, a hamlet, 
 
 a. 24. 
 
 Berdon, e. 6. 
 
 Berchanger, or Belche Anger, g. 8. 
 Belchamp St. Paule, b. 20. after 
 the Frenche, a fayre feylde. 
 Belchamp, called Often Belchamp, 
 
 b. 20. 
 
 Belchampe, called Water Belchamp, 
 a. 22. 
 
 Bergholt, d. 30. signifieth Sax. a 
 wood on a hill. 
 
 Bentley Mag. c. 36. 
 
 Bentley Parua, d. 38. 
 
 Berechurche, or West Donilande, 
 e. 32. 
 
 Beaumont, e. 4. 
 
 Berche Mag. f. 30. 
 
 Berch P'ua, f. 30. 
 
 Bersted Mag. n. 20, or Burghsied. 
 Bersted Parua, o. 20. 
 
 Beamjlete, North, n. 20. 
 
 Beamjlete, South, o. 24. Ner this 
 place the Danes intrenched. 
 Benfeld, f. 8. 
 
 Billerecay, n. 20. 
 
 Blackmore, m. 24. 
 
 Boreley, or Burghleigh, a. 22. 
 Booking, e. 20. 
 
 Bowes, n. 14. 
 
 Boreham, or Borgh’m, f. 18. 
 Bobinghurste, k. 10. 
 
 Bramdon, or Brandon, a. 22. 
 Broxsted, c. 32. 
 
 Brodfeylde, c. 4. 
 
 Brumley Mag. d. 34. 
 
 Brumley Parua, d. 36. 
 
 Broxsted, e. 12. 
 
 Bradfeild Mag. e. 14. 
 
 Bradfeyld P’ua, e. 14. 
 
 Bradfelde Sating, e. 16. 
 
 Brodwell, e. 24. 
 
 Brayntre, f. 20. 
 
 Bricklesey, or Briglit.lingsey, f. 34. a 
 memb of Sandwich. 
 
 Braxsted Mag. g. 26. 
 
 Braxsted Parua, g. 26. 
 
 Bromefeyld, f. 18. 
 
 Brodwell, j. 32. 
 
 Bumsted helion, or Bonested, b. 14 . 
 Bumsted, call. Steple Bumsted, or 
 Bumsted at towre, b. 16. 
 Burbrooke, or Bridbroke, a. 18. 
 Bulmere, a. 22. 
 
 Buers ad montem, c. 26. of some 
 
NORDEN^S DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 17 
 
 Buris ad mont.; it was som- 
 time the Gylfordes, called Gyl- 
 forde de Buris. 
 
 Bures, hamlet, b. 22. 
 
 Burneham, 1. 32. 
 
 Burnham, strete, 1. 32. 
 
 Buttesbury , m. 18. 
 
 Burntwood, e. 14. 
 
 Buluan, p. 18. 
 
 C. 
 
 Cannowden, or Cannewden, m. 30. 
 
 Canfeyld Mag. h. 12. 
 
 Canfeyld P’ua, g. 12. 
 
 Chesterforde Mag. b. 8 ; somtyme 
 y e Seagraves. 
 
 Chest erf or d P’ua, b. 8. 
 
 Chessell Mag. or Chishall, d. 4. 
 
 Chessell Par. d. 14. Humfry Bo- 
 hume E. of Heref. and Essex, 
 had the franck plee of theis 
 Chessells in E. 3 time. 
 
 Chappell, a. 26. 
 
 Chickney, e. 12. 
 
 Chelmersforde, k. 18. 
 
 Childerditch, o. 16. 
 
 Chaw dwell, q. 18. 
 
 Chicknell St. Jeames, k. 16. 
 
 Chawdwell , haml. p. 10. 
 camd. soc. 9. 
 
 Chingford, n. 4. 
 
 Chigwell, o. 6. 
 
 C/auering, e. 6. 
 
 Clackton Mag. corruptlie Clasfon, 
 f. 38. 
 
 Clackton P’ua, g. 38. 
 
 Colne, call. Whyte Colne, c. 26. 
 
 Colne, call. Earls Colne, d. 24. 
 
 Colne Wake, or Colne Quinti, d. 26. 
 Colne Engaynes, d. 24. so called 
 of the Engaynes who possest 
 it in E. 3. time; and long since : 
 it is called also Little Colne. 
 Colnchester, comonly Colchester, d. 
 32. Of the Saxons it was 
 called Coleceaj'tep; the Walshe 
 call it Caer Colyne. It is a 
 proper towne, walled, and is 
 thowght to haue florished in 
 the time of the Romans. It 
 hath churches within the walls, 
 8, viz. 
 
 St. Maries in headgate streete. 
 St. Peters in the market place. 
 Rumbaldes in y e market place. 
 St. Nicholas in highstreete. 
 Alhallowes in highstreete. 
 
 St. Jeames at Eastgate. 
 
 St. Martyn in Martynstreete. 
 Trynitie in Trinitie streete. 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 W th out the walls : 
 
 St. Buttolfes in Buttolfe streete. 
 Mary Mag. in Mag. Greene. 
 St. Gyles in St. Jones Greene. 
 St. Leonerdes. 
 
 Grinsted. 
 
 Berechurch, or W. Donyland. 
 Lexden 
 and 
 
 Myle ende. 
 
 Number whn the lib’tie 16. 
 
 It is gouerned by 2 baylifes year¬ 
 ly chosen of 10 Aldermen. 
 
 Ther be 4 principall gates, viz. 
 Heade gate. 
 
 Easte gate. 
 
 North gate, 
 and 
 
 Sowth gate. 
 
 Ande of lesse accompte, 
 
 Rye gate, 
 and 
 
 Sheere gate. 
 
 It is to be noted that the lib’tie 
 extendeth vpon the riuer, and 7 
 foote on the bancke, as farr as 
 Mersye Ilande, and so into the sea 
 at known markes. 
 
 Shippes of small burden come to 
 
 Sb Leonerdes, whn £ myle of the 
 towne, and that is called the hithe 
 or hauen. 
 
 The towne standeth on the topp 
 of a hill; at the fall whereof, on the 
 north syde of the towne, standeth 
 a castle, some tyme stronge and 
 statelye, as the ruynes doe shewe, 
 erected, as some saye, by Edwarde 
 the sonne of Alfred, in w ch is the 
 gayle. 
 
 The towne standeth vpon moste 
 sweete springes, trickelinge from 
 the town on all sydes. 
 
 Codham, c. 18. 
 
 Cogshull, or Cogshale, e. 26. Ther 
 are to be seene 2 teeth of a 
 monstrous man or gyant of so 
 great magnitude and weight as 
 100 of anie men's teeth in this 
 age can not counteruayle one 
 of them. 
 
 Copforde , f. 28. 
 
 Coringham, p. 22. 
 
 Cressell, or Cress all, c. 4. 
 
 Cressinge, f. 22. 
 
 Cricksey , or Crickeseley, 1. 30. 
 Craneham, p. 14, 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 19 
 
 D. 
 
 Danburye , k. 22. 
 
 Dagnh’ms , g. 10. 
 
 Dedham, c. 34. 
 
 Depden, or Dependen, d. 10. it was 
 the lande of Humfry Bohume 
 in E. 3. time. 
 
 Denge, or Dansye, y e place wherof 
 Denge hundr. taketh name, 
 k. 34. 
 
 Downham, m. 22. 
 
 Downton, o. 22. 
 
 Dodinghurste, m. 14. 
 
 Douer Courte, d. 42. somtyme John 
 de Seagraues. 
 
 Dully land, e. 32. 
 
 Dunmow church, g. 14. 
 
 Dunmow towne, g. 14. 
 
 Dunmow P’ua, g. 14. 
 
 Ef 
 
 Easton Mag . f. 14. 
 
 Easton Par. f. 12. 
 
 Easterforde, g. 26. See Keldon. 
 
 Eastwood, n. 28. 
 
 Easter, called High Easter, h. 14. 
 it was an honour in the time 
 of E. 3. 
 
 Easter, called Good Easter, j. 14. 
 
 sometime Humfry Bohumes, 
 
 E. of Heref. and Essex. 
 
 Elmedon, or Helmedon, c. 6. 
 
 Ehnested, d. 34. 
 
 Elsnh’m, f. 10. 
 
 Epping churche, 1. 6. 
 
 Eppinge streete, or Market Epping, 
 
 1 . 6 . 
 
 F. 
 
 Faivlkbourn, g. 22. 
 
 N. Fambridge, 1. 28. 
 
 S. Fambridge, m. 28. 
 
 Fangye, o. 22. 
 
 Fame ham, f. 6. 
 
 Feringe, f. 26. 
 
 Feisted, g. 16. 
 
 Finchingfeylde, d. 16. Jo. Campes 
 helde it of E. 3. in cheife by y e 
 seruice of turninge the spitt at 
 the coronacon. 
 
 Fingringhoo, e. 32. 
 
 Firsted, or Fayrested, g. 22. Some- 
 tyme Tho. de Ferariis. 
 
 Fyfeld, k. 12. 
 
 Foxearth, a. 20. 
 
 Fordeham, d. 28. 
 
 Fowlnes, m. 34. 
 
 Fobbinge, p. 22. It was Humfry 
 Bohumes, E. of Her: and Es¬ 
 
 sex. 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Fratinge, e. 36*. 
 
 Frinton, g. 42. 
 
 Fryern Inge, m. 16. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gestlingthorpe, or Gestningthorpe, 
 b. 20. 
 
 Gosfeylde, e. 20. 
 
 Goldehanger, h. 30. annexed to 
 Totlim pva. 
 
 Grins ted, d. 32. 
 
 Grinsted, 1. 16. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hay don, c. 4. 
 
 Hastingburye Mag. h. 8. 
 Hastingburye Par. h. 8. 
 
 Hadstock, b. 10. 
 
 Hauer ell, hamlet, a. 16. 
 
 Harwiche, Saxone liapepic, c. 44. 
 Hawsted, d. 22. 
 
 Hatfeylde, called Hatf. Peuerell, 
 
 h. 22. 
 
 TV. Hanningfeylde, 1. 22. 
 
 E. Haningfeylde, 1. 22. 
 
 S. Haningfeylde, 1. 22. 
 
 Hackwell or Hakewell Fambridge, 
 m. 28. 
 
 Ilackley, m. 22. 
 
 Hadley, n. 22. ther was somtyme 
 a castle of Tho. of Woodstocke. 
 
 Haueringe on the bowre, o. 10. 
 Hatfeylde, called Hatfeyld broadok, 
 
 p. 12. 
 
 Harloiv churche, j. 6. 
 
 Harlow churche, k. 6. 
 
 W. Ham, q. 6. 
 
 E. Ham, q. 8. 
 
 Hems ted, b. 14. 
 
 Ilennye, or Honnye, b. 24. 
 Henningh’m, called Cast. Heningh. 
 In some recordes Hingh’m, or 
 Hedingh’m, or Heueningh’m, c. 
 20. The auncient seat of the 
 Earles of Oxforde. 
 
 Steple Heningh’m, or Heningh’m 
 Sybile, d. 20. 
 
 Henh'm, e. 10. 
 
 Highbridge, h. 26. 
 
 Horsley, or Horkesley Mag. c. 30. 
 Horsley P’ua, c. 28. ther are uerye 
 auncient monumentes in wood 
 crosse legged. 
 
 Holland Magn. g. 40. 
 
 Holland P’ua, g. 40. 
 
 Hornecliurche, p. 12. the misterye 
 I knowenot; but at the east 
 front of y e churche are fixed 
 duo cornua magna et horenda. 
 Horndon on the hill, p. 20. 
 
 Hutton, or Hooton, n. 18. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 21 
 
 I. 
 
 Inwortli, or Inforde, g. 26. 
 Ingerstone, or Gyngiaber laundry, 
 m. 18. 
 
 Jengraue, o. 16. 
 
 Iforde Mag. q. 8. 
 
 Ilforde P’ua, q. 8. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kirkebye, f. 42. It is parcell of an 
 ancient libertie, called the Soke, 
 wherin are sundry liberties. 
 Keluedon, m. 12. Sometyme the 
 lande of Jo. Bohume de Myd- 
 hurste. 
 
 Keluedon, vide East erfoi'de. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lamer she, b. 26. 
 
 Langham, c. 32. 
 
 Lawforde, c. 36. 
 
 Layre de la haye, f. 30. 
 
 Layre Marney, g. 30. 
 
 Layre Bretton, g. 30. 
 
 Langnhoo, f. 32. 
 
 Langforde, h. 26. 
 
 Lawlinge, k. 30. 
 
 St. Lawrence, k. 32. 
 
 Lashingdon, or Lachendon, 1. 26. 
 Layndon, or Langden, o. 22. 
 Layndon hill, o. 20. 
 
 Langley, d. 6. 
 
 Laten, or Leyton, f. 6. 
 
 Lauer, call. High Lauer, k. 10. 
 Lauer, call. Magdal. Lauer, k. 8. 
 Lauer P’ua, k. 10. 
 
 Lamborne, n. 8. 
 
 Layton, or Leyton, called Loiv Ley- 
 ton, p. 4; a town vpon Ley. 
 Layton stone, p. 6. 
 
 Lexden, d. 30. It is wfin the liber- 
 4ie of Colnechester, yet doth it 
 giue name to Lexden hund. • 
 Leighes, or Lees Magna, h. 20. 
 Leighes P’ua, h. 18. 
 
 Leigh, o. 28. it is well furnished 
 w t seafaringe men and fishers. 
 Littleburye, c. 8. 
 
 Liston, a. 22. Somtimes y e Listons. 
 Lowghton, n. 6. 
 
 Lindsell, e. 14. 
 
 M. 
 
 Maningden, or Manewden, f. 6. 
 Maplested Mag. c. 22. 
 
22 
 
 N0RDEN 8 DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Maplested P’ua, c. 22. 
 
 Mannytre, c. 36. the churche is 
 decayde, and the people go to 
 Misley. 
 
 Maldon, Saxonice, COalebune and 
 GCealbune, f. 26. Mr. Camden 
 hath written much vpon this 
 towne. A market there is on 
 the Saterday, and is a lib’tie of 
 itselfe w 4 in the hundred of 
 Deng. It hath in it 3 pishe 
 churches, Sb Maries, Sb Peter’s 
 and all Sayntes ; but the 2 lat¬ 
 ter are vnited, and become one 
 cure. The towne did belonge 
 to the Darcyes, who in the 
 middle of the towne had a 
 fayre howse, wherof ther re- 
 mayneth at this daye a towre 
 of brick, called Darcyes towre, 
 now the comon prison of the 
 town. Ther are yet monu- 
 mentes of the Darcyes in the 
 churche. 
 
 Mayland, k. 30. 
 
 Machinge, j- 10. 
 
 Mashburye, k. 16. 
 
 Markeshale , e. 26. 
 
 Messing, g. 28. 
 
 E. Mersey, g. 34. 
 
 W. Mersey , g. 34. 
 
 Middleton, a. 24. 
 
 Misley, c. 38. 
 
 Mileende, d. 30. 
 
 Middlemeade, hamlet, j. 24. 
 
 Morehale, e. 26. 
 
 Mose, e. 42. 
 
 Mountnes Jng. or Gyngmountney, 
 
 n. 16. 
 
 Moreton, k. 10. It was somtyme 
 Jo. de, Segraues de Folkestons, 
 after Jo. Le Spencers. It was 
 holden of the K., by the seruice 
 inueniendi vnu equu prec. x s . 
 et vnu saccum de coreo, cu 
 chenile de ferro, ad attach’ d'c’m 
 saccu in exercitu d'ni Regis in 
 Wall’. 
 
 Mundon, j. 28. 
 
 Mucking, q. 20. 
 
 N. 
 
 Nasinge, 1. 4. 
 
 Nauestoke, m. 10. 
 
 Newporte, called Newporte Ponde, 
 of a ponde at ye ende of y e 
 towne, now firme ground, d. 8. 
 
 Neuenden, or Neueden, n. 22. 
 
 Nettesivell, k. 6. 
 
NORDEN^S DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 23 
 
 Norton, k. 28. 
 
 Notley, call. Black Notley, f. 20. 
 
 Noteley, called Whyte Not. f. 22. 
 
 Norton, 1. 14. 
 
 O. 
 
 Okeley Magna, e. 42. 
 
 Okeley P’ua, d. 42. 
 
 Onger, called Chipping Onger, 1. 16. 
 Jeames Morrys, Esq. hath ther 
 erected a uery proper howse of 
 pleasure vpon the topp of a 
 mounts wher was somtyme a 
 castle : it is seene farr of, and 
 hath most large and pleasant 
 perspecte. 
 
 Onger, call. High Onger, 1. 18. 
 
 Or set, q. 18. 
 
 St. Oseth, f. 36, called somtyme 
 Chic, or Chich, wher is now the 
 cheife seate of Lo. Darcye, of 
 Chiche. 
 
 Ouington, b. 18. 
 
 Owltinge, h. 24. 
 
 P. 
 
 Pateswike, e. 24. 
 
 Pantlow, a. 20. 
 
 Pantfeylde, or Pandefeylde, f. 18. 
 
 Packlesham, m. 32. 
 
 Pedmersh, or Pebemershe, c. 24. 
 
 Peldon, f. 32. 
 
 Peters on the wall, h. 34, wher some 
 suppose Ithancester to haue 
 stoode. It appeareth to haue 
 bene a town now greatly de- 
 uowred w th the sea; and buyld- 
 ings yet appeare in the sea. 
 It is called St. Peter’s on the 
 wall, for that it standeth on 
 the wall w ch was made to de- 
 fende the land from the sea. 
 
 Perndon Mag. k. 4. 
 
 Perndon Par. k. 4. 
 
 Pirgo, o. 10. 
 
 Pitsey, o. 22. 
 
 Pleshey, h. 16. Of some, Pleshets 
 was the seate of Humfry Bo- 
 hume, E. of Essex, wher he 
 had a stately castle, some of 
 the ruynes wherof yet appeare. 
 
 Prittlewell, or Pritewell, n. 28. It 
 was somtyme a market towne. 
 
 Potter row, a hamlet, g. 28. 
 
 Potters streete, a hamlet, k. 4. 
 
 Puttolls, a hamlet, o. 10. 
 
 Parley, or Purlieu, k. 26. 
 
24 
 
 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quendon, e. 8. It was H. Bo- 
 humes, E. of Essex. 
 
 R. 
 
 Radwinter, called also Roose Man- 
 nor, c. 12. and Jo. de Roose 
 was owner of it in the time of 
 E. 2. 
 
 Ramsey, d. 42. W th in this were 
 dyuers halls, as Hoobridge hall, 
 somtyme S r Philip Boothes, 
 now Burghlacies, 
 
 by manage of a dawghter 
 and heir. Ther is also Fowton 
 hall, somtyme the Mortymers, 
 then the Guldfords, now de- 
 cayde. Ther is also Roydon 
 hall, sometime the Roydons, 
 now Jo. Lucas, g. who maried 
 the dowghter and heire of Roy¬ 
 don. 
 
 Rayne Mag. f. 18. 
 
 Rayne P’ua, f. 20. 
 
 Ramsey, priory, j. 30. 
 
 Rawreth , m. 26. 
 
 Rayleigh, m. 26. An honour of 
 great preuiledge, and hath 
 
 courtes of straunge preroga- 
 tiues. 
 
 Ramsden bellowes, n. 22. 
 
 Ramsden Cray, or Ram. Gray , n. 22. 
 
 Raynh’m, q. 12. 
 
 Reuenall, or Reuenhale, g. 24. Of 
 some Ruynghale. 
 
 Retingden, or Reytington, 1. 24. 
 
 Rye hill, hamlet, k. 6. 
 
 Rickling, d. S. 
 
 Ridgewell, c. 18. 
 
 Rowghedge, hamlet, e. 32. 
 
 Rocheforde, n. 28. Of some Reech- 
 ford, or Richeforde. 
 
 Ethrop Roding, h. 12. quondam 
 Tho. de Westons. 
 
 High Rodinge, h. 12. 
 
 Leadon Rodinge, j. 12. 
 
 Roding ah. j. 12. 
 
 Whyte Rodinge, j. 10. 
 
 Morrell Rodinge, j. 10. 
 
 Beauchampe Boding, k. 12. 
 
 Margaret Roding, j. 12. 
 
 Barnes Rodinge, or Roding Burneys. 
 
 Roydon , k. 4. 
 
 Roxewell, 1. 16. 
 
 Runwell, m. 24. 
 
 Rumforde, p. 10. a pretie market 
 on the Wednesdaye, yeldinge 
 store of corne and swyne. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 25 
 
 s. 
 
 Salinge, f. 16. 
 
 Salcott, g. 32. 
 
 Sandon, k. 22. 
 
 Shawforde, Shaldeforde, or Shallow- 
 ford, e. 18. 
 
 Shinfeylde, n. 16. 
 
 Shoplande, n. 30. 
 
 N. Shoberye, o. 32. 
 
 S. Shobery, o. 32. 
 
 Sheringe, j. 8. 
 
 Shellow, k. 14. 
 
 Shelley, 1. 12. 
 
 Southmmster, 1. 32. 
 
 Southchurche. 
 
 Strethall, c. 6. 
 
 Stansted Mountfichet, f. 8. In the 
 churche is an auncient monu¬ 
 ment of Roger of Lancaster, 
 whoe maried Phillip, dowghter 
 and heire of Hugh de Bulbeck 
 the 2. (This Roger lieth crosse 
 legged; the monument seemeth 
 to be verie ancient.) He was 
 in her right Lo. of Stansted, 
 and manie other things. This 
 mannor came afterwarde, by 
 the youngest dowghter of Ri- 
 charde Mountfichet, to Hugh 
 CAMD. SOC. 9. 
 
 de Plaiz, by manage of whome 
 came Elizabeth Countess of 
 Oxon, who was dowghter to 
 S r . Jo. Haward, Knighte, by 
 whom the lande cam to therles 
 of Oxforde. 
 
 Ther are nere Stansted streete 
 the ruynes of an ancient castle vpon 
 the topp of a mounte, w ch is not vn- 
 lyke to be the seat of the Mount- 
 fichets, and the place it selfe, called 
 Mons fixus, whence the tooke their 
 name. 
 
 Stowremere, a. 16. 
 
 Stamforde Mag. of some Samforde, 
 c. 14. 
 
 Stamforde P’ua, d. 14. 
 
 Stanbourne, c. 18. 
 
 Stisted, e. 22. 
 
 Stanwaye, e. 28. 
 
 Stibbing, f. 14. 
 
 Stansgate monastery, j. 30. 
 
 Steple, j. 30. 
 
 Stow, 1. 26. 
 
 Stoke, m. 20. 
 
 Stanbridge Mag. m. 30. 
 
 Stanbridge P’ua, m. 30. 
 
 Stifforde, q. 16. 
 
 Stamforde hope, p. 20. 
 
 Standon, 1. 12. 
 
26 
 
 norden’s DESCRIPTION OP ESSEX. 
 
 Stapleforde ab. n. 8. 
 
 Stapleforde Taivney, m. 9. 
 Stapleforde Riuers, m. 10. 
 
 Stratforde Langton, ham. q. 4. 
 Springfeylde, k. 20. 
 
 Surfleet, haml. g. 36. 
 
 Sutton, n. 30. 
 
 T. 
 
 Taye Mag. e. 28. 
 
 Taye P’ua, e. 28. 
 
 Taye, call. Marks Taye, e. 28. 
 Takeley, g. 10. 
 
 Tenderinge, e. 38. ( The hundred 
 
 taketh name therof). 
 
 Terling, h. 22. 
 
 Thacksted, e. 12. 
 
 Thurrington, e. 36. 
 
 Thorpe, called East Thorpe, f. g. 28. 
 Thorpe, or Thorpe Briche, f. 40. 
 Thundersley, n. 24. 
 
 E. Thorndon, o. 18. 
 
 W. Thorne don, o. 18. 
 
 W. Thurrocke, r. 16. 
 
 Thurrock graye, r. 16. 
 
 Thurrock P'ua, r. 18. 
 
 Thaydon Garnons, m. 6. 
 
 Thaydon boyes, n. 6; or Thayd. in 
 y e wood. 
 
 Thaydon ad montem, m. 8. 
 
 Tilberye, b. 20. 
 fV. Tilbery, q. 20. 
 
 E. Tilbe7'y, q. 20. 
 
 Tiltie, e. 12. 
 
 Tiptree Monastery, conuerted to a 
 proper howse, g. 28. 
 
 Tillingham, j. 34. 
 
 Topfeylde, c. 18. 
 
 Towlshunt Knightes, g. 30. 
 
 Towlshunt Mag. g. 30. 
 
 Towlshunt Ear eye, g. 30. Nere w cl * 
 is a fayre heronrye. 
 
 Totliam Mag. or Thotham, h. 26. 
 Totham P'ua, h. 28. 
 
 Towlseburye, h. 32. 
 
 Tooby Monasterye, m. 16. 
 
 Turnpenye, hamlet, f. 34. 
 
 Twisted, or Twensted, 2 seates or 
 mansions, b. 24. 
 
 V. 
 
 N. Veking don, or Peking don septe 
 fontiu, p. 16, 
 
 S. Vckingdon, p, 16. 
 
 Verelye, g. 32. 
 
 Vpminster, p. 14. 
 
 Vgley, e. 8. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 27 
 
 w. 
 
 Walden, called Safron Waldon, c. 8. 
 
 It is so called of the aboundance 
 of safron ther growing. It is a uery 
 good market on the Saterday. It 
 is gouerned by 24 Aldermen, of 
 whom is chosen yearly a Treasoror, 
 who is head officer for that yeare ; 
 and 2 Chamberlaynes, who are his 
 assistantes. The towne standeth 
 muche vpon Safron, wherof muche 
 might be spoken concerninge the 
 secretes of the nature therof. 
 
 There are the ruynes of an ancient 
 and stately castle, wherin are yet to 
 be seene sundrye deepe and horrible 
 dungions or prisons. 
 
 In the churche lyeth in a toombe 
 of marble Tho. Lo. Awdley, of the 
 garter, Knight. He was also Lo. 
 Chauncelor of England. Obijt vlt. 
 die Aprilis, a°. dni 1544, regni Reg. 
 H. 8. 36. Cancellariatus sui 13, 
 etatis 56. 
 
 Walton, f. 44. 
 
 Waltham Mag. j. 16. 
 
 Walth’m P’ua, j. 18. 
 
 Wakering Mag. n. 32. 
 
 Wakering P’ua, n. 32. 
 
 Wareley Wallet , a ham. o. 14. 
 
 Wareley Mag. p. 14. 
 
 Wareley P'ua, p. 16. 
 
 Walth’m St. Crosse , m. 4. This 
 towne standeth in a frutefull 
 soyle for meadow, wood and 
 water. Ther are 3 branches of 
 the riuer Lee w ch passe thorrow 
 the towne. 
 
 It was called of the Saxons pealb- 
 ham, a towne in the woode: 
 muche herof in Mr. Camden. 
 
 Walthamstowe, p. 4. 
 
 Wansted, p. 6. 
 
 Wendon Loftes, c. 6. 
 
 Wendon Mag. c. 8. 
 
 Wendon P’ua, d. 8. 
 
 Wethersfeylde, d. 16. 
 
 S. Welde, m. 14. In the churche 
 therof lyeth S r Antonye Browne, 
 somtime cheefe justice of the 
 comen plees, who dyed 10 Maij 
 1567, etatis 57. 
 
 N. Welde, 1. 8. 
 
 Wenington, q. 14. 
 
 Wickham, d. 8. 
 
 Wickham St. Paule, c. 22. 
 
 Wickes, d. 40. somtyme W m . Bo- 
 hume, E. of North 4 . 
 
28 
 
 NORDEN*S DESCRIPTION of ESSEX. 
 
 Wickham, h. 26. 
 
 Wyuenhoo, e. 32. somtyme a stately 
 seate of the E. of Oxforde. 
 
 Widdington , or Widditon, d. 8. 
 
 Wylye, e. 38. 
 
 Wigboro Mag. f. 32. 
 
 Wigboro P’ua, g. 32. 
 
 Witham, g. 24. Of some written 
 Hwitham, buylt by E. 1. a°. 
 914. It was somtyme the 
 honour of Eustachius, E. of 
 Bullogne. 
 
 /Vidforde , 1 . 18. 
 
 Wickforde, n. 24. 
 
 Willing ales, k. 12. 2 churches of 
 
 that name of seuerall cures in 
 on yarde. 
 
 Wimbishe , c. 10. 
 
 Wormingforde, or Whitmanforde, or 
 Withermonforde, b. 28. 
 Woodham Water, j. 24. 
 
 Woodham Mortimer, J. 24. 
 Woodham Ferrers, 1. 24. 
 
 Woodforde, o. 6. 
 
 Wrabnes, c. 40. 
 
 Wrettle, or Wrekell, k. 18. 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yaldeham Mag. c. 8. 
 Yaldham Par c. 20. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 29 
 
 AN ALPHABETICALL TABLE 
 
 Of the Howses hailing speciall names. 
 
 And the present occupiers of them. 
 
 A. 
 
 Aldersbrooke, q. 6. Henr. Bellin- 
 geame. 
 
 Ammodon hall , or Amber don hall, 
 d. 10. Edm. Weste, Esq. 
 
 Arnewayes, q. 
 
 Ashfeylde hall, e. 16. 
 
 Arnoldes, n. 8. Tauerner. 
 
 St. Ayletes, e. 10. 
 
 B. 
 
 Barne hall, nere Salcott. L. Mor- 
 leyes. 
 
 Barnes. Tho. Mildemay, Esq. 
 k. 20. 
 
 Bassettes, j. 24. Blague. 
 
 Barrington hall, h. 10. Fr. Bar¬ 
 rington, Esq. 
 
 Bayton ende, e. S. 
 
 Batllehall, f. 6. 
 
 Battle hall, n. 8. 
 
 Barrowe hall , n. 32. 
 
 Barwyke par he, q. 12. 
 
 Beaches, nere Rawreth, m. 26. Tho. 
 Tirrells. 
 
 Beaches, n. 22. 
 
 Berwyke hall, c. 26. Somtyme E. 
 of Oxfordes, now Jerome Wes¬ 
 ton’s, Esq. 
 
 Bassingbourne, W m . Towse, a coun¬ 
 sellor, buylt it a proper howse. 
 
 Bellowes, li. 14. Ric. Eliots. 
 
 ; Bellowes. 
 
 Bell-howse, d. 20. 
 
 Berche hall, n. 6. Theyreof 
 
 Elderton, H. 8, used it as a 
 howse of recreacon when he 
 came into the forest to hunt. 
 
 Bigoodes. Joyner, g. 
 
30 
 
 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Bilsdon, 1. 10. 
 
 Biam hall, c. 22. 
 
 Bowser's hall, d. 28. somtyme E. 
 of Essex. 
 
 Bouyll's hall, f. 38. 
 
 Bowsers, or Bowrchers, g. 32. Geo. 
 Sawiers. 
 
 Boyes hall, d. 22. Arthure Breames. 
 
 Bowre hall, b. 26. Tho. Bendishe, 
 a prop howse. 
 
 Boydon hall, Sr Jo. Peters, an anc. 
 howse. 
 
 Bowre hall, f. 34. 
 
 Brettens, q. 12. W m . Aylofe, Esq. 
 
 Brettes hall, e. 38. some [time] the 
 Aloblasters,now Drwries, sonne 
 and heir to D. Drewrye. 
 
 Brookes hall, a. 22. 
 
 Broadokes, d. 6. Wiltm Wiseman 
 recus. 
 
 Brendishe, 1. 10. An aunc. howse 
 sometyme Lo. Riches. 
 
 Brentshohery, h. 12. Ric. Josse- 
 lyne. 
 
 Burche or Berche hall. Arthure 
 Goldinges, n. fosters. 
 
 Burnt hall, d. 16. somtyme S r jeant 
 Bendlows, now Wm. Bendl: 
 his sonne. 
 
 Butlers, j. 18. Prow. 
 
 Butlers, k. 18. 
 
 Boxsted hall, late Shelleys prodicone 
 attinct’ and conuict. 
 
 C. 
 
 Cann hall. Sturleyes. 
 
 Casers, f. 34. somtyme the Clares. 
 
 Campions in Woodh’m feris, 1. 24. 
 
 Ferris g. 
 
 Campions, j. 8. 
 
 Chesterforde park, a. 8. Lo. Th. 
 Hawarde. 
 
 Cheuers. Wm. Bingh a m, 1. 12. 
 
 Chamberlaynes, m. 28. 
 
 Clayburie, p. 8. Ric. Warren. 
 
 Clay hall, p. 8. The land is 
 
 Coltes, of SufFolke ; the howse 
 a proper howse, buylte by 
 Powle, one of the 6 clerks 
 now Hare, of the Courte 
 
 of Wardes, hath the lease. 
 
 Claret hall, a. 18, her Ma ts . 
 
 Clerambury, 1. 4. Belonging to 
 Waltham abbey. 
 
 Cockermouth, Wm. Megges. 
 
 Cockerells. Tho. Leagates, o. 12. 
 
 Cockes, f. 38. Jo. Stubbes. 
 
 Cookes hall, d. 30. Waldgraue 
 Abells. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OP ESSEX. 
 
 31 
 
 Colde hall, 1. 18. Tanfeylde. 
 
 Cofceshall, f. 38. 
 
 Couerdes, J. 10. 
 
 Copte hall, m. 4. S r Tho. Henne- 
 ages, a statelye howse. 
 
 Cranebi'oke, p. 8. S r Horace Pallau- 
 syne. 
 
 Cressing temple, f. 22. Smythes- 
 lande. Haruey Lea. 
 
 Crippinge hall, d. 26. somtyme E. 
 of Oxfordes, now the heyre of 
 Christian Turnor. 
 
 Cressall graunge, c. 4. 
 
 Custridge hall, e. 38. Cooks the 
 Q. atturn. 
 
 Cusse hall, c. 18. 
 
 D. 
 
 Dagnhams, n. 12. Tho. Leagate. 
 
 Dewes hall, n. 8. Palmer. 
 
 Dyues hall. 
 
 Dynes hall, d. 22. Tyndalls iure 
 vxhs. 
 
 Dunton Waylet , o. 29. Drywood. 
 
 Dukes, g. 30. Cammockes. 
 
 Dickley hall, a verie anc’ howse 
 nere decayde. 
 
 Durwardes, a proper howse, f. 20. 
 Edw. Thursbye. 
 
 Downe hall, j. 10. Ric. Glascocke. 
 
 E. 
 
 Eastburye ,q. 8. Augustine Stewarde 
 Emsted hall. 
 
 Engaynes, f. 38. 
 
 Edwardes hall, 1 . 24. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fremnoll, m. 22. Tirrells. 
 
 Flamberbes, k. 26. Henr. Myld- 
 may, Esq. 
 
 Fellowes hall, f. 26. S r W m . Rus¬ 
 sell, iure vx’is. 
 
 Fidlers, an anc. howse, g. 1.16. Jo. 
 Browne. 
 
 Fleminges, m. 22. An anc. howse. 
 Silliarde, Esq. 
 
 G. 
 
 Gaynes, p. 14. Latham. 
 
 Garnon, b. 28. Jo. Wentworth. 
 Garnettes, h. 14. Fiche. 
 
 Gaynes parke hall, m. 8. S r W m . 
 Fitzw’ms. 
 
 Giddye hull, a proper howse, p. 10. 
 
 Antho. Cooke, Esq. 
 
 Gills, 1. 6. Raynsforde, Esq. 
 
 Gooses, o. 12. An anc. howse. 
 
32 
 
 nordbn’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Goldingtim hall, a. 22. Golding- 
 h’ms. 
 
 Gosfeylde hall, buy It by Sr Jo. 
 Wentworth, 
 
 Graunge, theires of Browne. 
 
 Y e Graunge, c. 12. 
 
 H. 
 
 Hacton, p. 12. Jo. Jackmans. 
 
 Haseley hall, k. 26. Allen. 
 
 Ilamons, an anc. howse, almost de- 
 cayd, somtyme the Hamons. 
 
 Hassobwye, f. 6. 
 
 Herne, o. 18. Tirrells, a fayre 
 howse. 
 
 Herons, J. 14. 
 
 Hell hall, m. 8. A fayre howse, 
 buy It by Sr Tho. Smyth, now 
 Wm. Smith, Esq. 
 
 Herlowburye, an anc. fayre howse. 
 
 Herr oldes parke, k. 4. 
 
 The hooe, d. 22. 
 
 Howsham hall, j. 8. 
 
 Horsingbrooke, p. 20. Ric. Cham- 
 pion. 
 
 J. 
 
 Jenkynes, q. 10. Tho. Fanshawe of 
 thexch. 
 
 Jenkynes, p. 20. Gills, som¬ 
 
 tyme y e Gattons. 
 
 Juye Wall, p. 22. Edw. Ryche. 
 
 Jei'uys hill, n. 24. Hen. Appleton, 
 Esq. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kantys, p. 20. Rich. 
 
 Kentes, o. 32. Henr. Baker. 
 
 Kewton hall, k. 20. Andr. Pascall, 
 Esq. 
 
 Knowles hill. Franc. Stonerde. 
 
 Knowle hall, n. 10. 
 
 Kinges place, o. 6. 
 
 L. 
 
 Landemere hall, somtyme y e Morty- 
 mers, now Abells. 
 
 Langley, h. 16. Ric. Furrarde. 
 
 Lee gardens, p. 12. Jo. Legates ; a 
 prop howse. 
 
 Little hall. Boochers; somtyme 
 the Cocks. 
 
 Liston hall in Gosf eylde, d. 20. 
 
 Lighes Priory. Lo. Riche, a fayre 
 howse and statelye. 
 
 Lyon hall. 
 
 the Lea, h. 8. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 33 
 
 Littlebury , m. 10. Woods. 
 
 Loftesin Wendon. Tho. Meade, Esq. 
 
 Loxforde, q. 8. 
 
 Luxboro, o. 6. A fayre howse, 
 buy It by Jo. Stonerde, Esq. 
 
 M. 
 
 Markes, p. 10. George Haruey, Esq. 
 
 Maylors, p. 12. Wm. Pennett. 
 
 Martyns hall in Ardeley , somtyme 
 the Mortymers, after ye Gulde- 
 fordes, and now Monnockes, 
 Esq. d. 34. 
 
 Markes in Dunmow. Jo. Myl- 
 bourn, g. 
 
 Marlce hall. A fayre howse. Je¬ 
 rome Weston. 
 
 Maynardes, f. 12. Mr. May- 
 nardes, and by him buylt. A 
 most delicate howse, not great, 
 but stately erected. 
 
 Merediche, q. 12. Sebastian Har¬ 
 uey. 
 
 Mynsnies. Phillipp Glascock. 
 
 Mowlsham hall; a proper hoivse. 
 S r Tho. Myldemay: it is nere 
 Chelmersforde. 
 
 Myles, m. 12. Anthony Later, 
 Counselour at Lawe. 
 
 CAMD. SOC. 9. 
 
 More hall, j. 8. 
 
 Mosehall in Ardeley, d. 34. som¬ 
 tyme the Tayes, now Pen- 
 nettes. 
 
 Moynes ; a howse stately, begun by 
 Baro Gent, deceased, not finish¬ 
 ed. now Hen. Gent, his sonne, 
 b. 16*. 
 
 More hall in Bardefeylde, e. 14. 
 
 Chissell, Esq. 
 
 Mole hall, d. 10. 
 
 More hall, j. 8. 
 
 N. 
 
 Newbery, p. 8. Joseph Haynes. 
 Nelmes. Jo. Roche, p. 12. 
 
 Neivnam hall, buylt by Newnam, 
 now his heires, a dowghter. 
 Newhall Josselyne. Josselyne, 
 
 h. 12. 
 
 Newarke, j. 14. Baron Clerke. 
 Newlande hall, k. 16. Edw. Eliott. 
 Newlodge in Wrettle. Peter Pin- 
 chio. 
 
 New hall, a stately howse, j. 20. 
 The E. of Sussex. 
 
 Newhall in Marlow. Edw. Bugges. 
 Netherhall by Nasinge, k. 4. 
 Netherhall by Gestlingthorpe, b. 20. 
 
 F 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 o. 
 
 Olde holte, f. 28. somtyme S r Tho. 
 
 Tayes, now Jo. Haynes. 
 
 Olifes. Genunges. 
 
 Ottes, k. 8. Jo. Collynes. 
 
 Oldehall, b. 16*. 
 
 P. 
 
 Parke hall. Sheltons. 
 
 Petches, d. 16. Jo. Barnishe. 
 
 Pet swell. 12. 
 
 Porters, q. 10. 
 
 Porters, e. 14. Brownes. 
 
 Porters, o. 30. 
 
 Porters hall. Arthure Capell, Esq. 
 Poores hall, g. 22. 
 
 Pounce hall, c. 10. 
 
 Pirgo. S r Henr. Graye, a fayre 
 house, o. 10. 
 
 Pinchepoole, f. 6. 
 
 Picker ells, k. 12. 
 
 Prestons, m. 22. Jo. Pascall. 
 Paswell hall. Lo. Riche. 
 
 Q. 
 
 R. 
 
 Radley hall, h. 20. somtyme y e 
 Brownes. 
 
 Rayne hall. Arthure Capell, Esq. 
 Riuers hall, c. 32. Jo. Jur, Esq. 
 Rickling hall, e. 8. Cuttes. 
 
 Rize, h. 8. Ric. Francke. 
 
 Roy don hall, d. 16. D. and C. of 
 Paules. 
 
 Rockells, d. 6. 
 
 Roy don hall, k. 16. 
 
 Ruckwood, j. 12. somtyme the 
 Brownes, now Gamaliell Ca- 
 pells. 
 
 Ruckholte, q. 4. 
 
 S. 
 
 Safron Garden, p. 18. Riche. 
 
 Samons, p. 20. eiusdem. 
 
 Sabrettes, 1. 20. Beniamyne Guns- 
 tons. 
 
 Sawells. Colte, Esq. 
 
 Shaxstones, k. 18. Ashley, Esq. 
 Shenfeylde, by Marg. Inge, 1. 18. 
 Harrys. 
 
 SK Cleres, f. 36. Jo. Darcye. 
 Smythes hall in Blackmore, m. 14. 
 Smytes. 
 
 Quickburye, j. 8. Tho. Husse. 
 
NORDEN^S DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 35 
 
 Skreenes, 1. 14. Jerome Weston, 
 Esq. 
 
 Stansted hall, nere Haws ted. A very 
 fayre howse, sometime the 
 Bowrches, now Frenche. 
 
 Spaynes hall, d. 16. Wm. Kempe, 
 Esq. 
 
 T. 
 
 Terrells hall, k. 14. 
 
 Terling. 
 
 Thunderley, c. 10. Mordant, 
 
 a Counsellor at y e comon law. 
 
 Tliurstone, d. 18. 
 
 Tye hall, 1. 14. Tho. Waters; a 
 fayre howse. 
 
 Tylde hall, 1. 28. 
 
 Torrells hall. Tho. Josselyne. 
 
 Tuftes, j. 24. S r Jo. Smyth; a 
 fayre howse. 
 
 Troyes, h. 22. Rochesters. 
 
 y. 
 
 Valence, p. 10. Timothy Lucye. 
 W. 
 
 Water hales, somtyme y e Lentolls. 
 
 Walburye, h. 8. 
 
 Westhouse, n. 20. Farr. 
 
 Whelers, nere Prating, e. 36. Buylt 
 by Knightlye, now 
 
 Withypole. 
 
 Whyte hall, o. 18. But a meane 
 ferm howse. 
 
 Winslow hall in Hemsted. Jeames 
 Mordant, Esq. Lunaticus. 
 
 Wickinge hall. Wm. Brodberve. 
 
 Woodgraunge, q. 6. 
 
 Woodhall, d. 16. 
 
 Woodridding, n. 4. A ferme in the 
 foreste. 
 
 Wulson hall. Scott, g. 
 
 Wyntrye parke, 1. 6. 
 
 Wrettle parke, 1 . 16. 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 A TABLE of the Halls in Essex, 
 for the moste parte, which beare the names 
 of the parishes wherin they are, w th 
 most of the possessors of them. 
 
 Bowres hall. Baker. 
 
 Bar ling e hall. Deane and Chap, of 
 Paules. 
 
 Braxsted hall , now Braxsted lodg. 
 Wm. Ayloff. 
 
 Bradwell hall, sometyme y c Mox- 
 yes. 
 
 Beaumonde hall. sometyme y e 
 Bardolpes, Vicount Beaumonde, 
 now Lord Darcies. 
 
 Brdfield hall, sometyme S r John 
 Raynsfordes ; before him S r 
 Jo. Brockesbournes, now Edw. 
 Grimston, Esq. 
 
 Bromley hall. Wm. Cardinally Esq. 
 somtime the Mortymers, who 
 lye in Bromely churche in¬ 
 terred. 
 
 Booking hall. Jo. Wentworth, Esq. 
 Lit’ Bardefeylde hall. Walleys. 
 gr. Bardefeylde hall. Bendlows. 
 Berchanger, or Belchanger hall. 
 Baddow hall. Jo. Pascall. 
 
 Childerditche hall. Lo. Riche. 
 Corringldm hall. Bawde. 
 
 Crichsey hall and parke. Arthure 
 Harrys, Esq. 
 
 Cressing temple. Smytlies- 
 
 land. Franc. Haruey Lea. 
 Copforde hall. The Queues. 
 Codham hall. Jo. Wentworth, Es. 
 Chissell hall. Wilhn Aylofe. 
 gre. Chessell hall. 
 
 lit. Chesterforde hall. Jo. Carye, 
 Esq. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Chickwell hall, somtyme 
 
 Barkers, now Sr Jo. Peters. 
 
 Debden hall. Lo. Tho. Howarde. 
 Cuttes Leas : 
 
 Banbury Lodge. Humfry Myld- 
 may. 
 
 Emsted hall. Purtons. 
 
 Elsnam hall. Tho. Barley. 
 
 Fordeham hall. S r Tho. Lucas. 
 
 Gosfeylde hall. A proper howse, 
 buylte by S r Jo. Wentworth, 
 sonne to S r Rog. Wentworth. 
 
 Garnishe hall; a proper howse, 
 Dun, D. legis ciuilis. 
 
 Grinsted hall. Wm. Browne. 
 
 Horndon place, theires of Pooley. 
 
 Lit. Horstley hall. Jo. Wentworthe, 
 Es. 
 
 Henningh’m Castle. A uerye stately 
 howse, mounted on a hill, ha- 
 vinge 3 parkes. sometyme E. 
 of Oxf. now Lo. Burghleys, 
 Lo. high Treasoror of England. 
 
 Henh’m Lodge. E. of Sussex. 
 
 Hastingbury Motley hall. Lo. 
 Morleys. 
 
 37 
 
 Hastingbury p’ke hall. Sutton, 
 ten. 
 
 Harlow burye. 
 
 Ingerstone hall. S r Jo. Peters. 
 
 Kelclon hall. Jo. Wrighte. 
 
 Leigh hall. Lo. Riche. 
 
 Layre Marney hall, somtyme Lo. 
 Marneys. 
 
 Marneys, an aunc. howse, now Peter 
 Tewke, Esq. 
 
 Layre de la haye hall, somtyme 
 the Tayes. 
 
 Lawforde hall. Edw. Walgraue, E. 
 
 Liston hall. Wm. Clapton, E. 
 
 Leighes priory. Lo. Riche. 
 
 Lowghton hall. The Quens. 
 Wrothe, Esq. ten. 
 
 Lamborne hall, their of Bar- 
 
 fote. 
 
 Lofte hall. 
 
 Mayland hall. Wm. Wiseman, E. 
 
 Mundon hall. Tho. Harrys. 
 
 Messinge half. Christopher Chib- 
 borne. 
 
 Mar Ices Taye hall, somtyme the 
 Tayes. 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 Maplested hall. Jo. Wiseman, E. 
 
 Manington hall. Crowley. 
 
 Machinge hall. Cuttes, E. 
 
 Patteswike hall. S r Edm. Huddle- 
 stones. 
 
 Penllow hall. Geo. Kempes, E. 
 
 Panfeylde hall. Cotten. 
 
 gre.Parndon hall. Nathaniell Stracy. 
 
 Rocheforde. Lo. Riche. 
 
 Raylye parke howse. Bradford Ber¬ 
 rys and Edm. Berries. 
 
 Rawreth hall. Whyte, and y e 
 
 Colledge of St. Jo. in Camb. 
 
 Rettenden hall. Lo. Aburgauennyes. 
 
 Runwell hall. Dauyd Samsons. 
 
 Stiff or de hall. Latham. 
 
 Southchurch hall. Lo. Riche. 
 
 Stanwaye hall, somtyme the Bon- 
 hms, after Hilliardes, now Wm. 
 Nutbrowns. 
 
 Stisted hall. Wiseman. 
 
 Shalforde hall. Tomsomes. 
 
 Lit. Samforde hall. Brooke Green, E. 
 
 Stansted Mountfichet hall. Some- 
 tyme E. of Oxfo: now Edw. 
 Hubberds. 
 
 Stapleforde Tawney hall, the 2 
 
 dowghters and heires of 
 Scott. 
 
 Stondon place , quondm Shel¬ 
 
 leys. proditione attincf. 
 
 W. Thornedon. S r Jo. Peter, Knight, 
 a stately howse now by him in 
 buyldinge. 
 
 Terlinge hall. A stately howse, S r 
 Tho. Myldemayes. 
 
 Towlson Darcy e hall. H ar uey, 
 
 iure ux’is. 
 
 Tilbery hall. Israeli Amyas. 
 
 Thaydon Boyes. Elringtons. 
 
 Wansted. E. of Essex; a statelye 
 howse. 
 
 S. Weld hall. Browne, E. 
 
 Wakeringe hall. E, of Essex. 
 
 Woodham Water parke. E. of 
 Sussex. 
 
 Walton hall, a howse of noe ac- 
 compt, a ferme; but to be 
 remembred, in regarde of a 
 stronge towre of bricke for 
 defence agaynst sea robbers. 
 
 Wakes hall. Wm. Tyffyn, appren¬ 
 tice at the coihon law; some- 
 tyme E. of Oxf. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 39 
 
 Worningforde Lodge. S r Wm. 
 
 Waldgue. 
 
 Wyuenhoo hall, decayde. A stately 
 howse ; sometyme E. of Oxf. 
 
 Wethersfeylde hall. An anc’ de¬ 
 cayde howse. Jo. Wentworth, 
 
 Es. 
 
 Notand. That ther are sundry other halls; and 
 most parishes haue one such capital mesuage; 
 but they are eyther merely decayed, or become 
 of sclender accompt. Yet I perchaunce haue 
 omitted some as worthy to be noted as some of 
 them I haue observed; but not my fault. 
 
 m berrye. An anc* howse. Lo. 
 Riches. 
 
 Lit. Walth'm hall. Edw. Myld- 
 mayes. 
 
 North Weld hall. Lo. Riche. 
 Woodforde hall. Whetstons, E. 
 
40 
 
 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 CERTAINE HOWSES 
 
 Of gent, and men of accompt in Essex, 
 w c howses haue no knowne name 
 y 1 2 3 4 5 6 I coulde learne; and therfore 
 haue I distinguished them by 
 figures, wherby they 
 may be knowne whose they are. 
 
 1. Nere Barking. Wm. Nutbrowne. 
 
 A fayre bowse, buylte of bricke, 
 by one Nutbrowne, arti- 
 
 ficem. 
 
 2. At Chipping Onger. Jeames 
 
 Morris, apprentice at the Co¬ 
 in on Lawe. 
 
 3. Nere Dodinghurste. sometime 
 
 therle of Oxf. now Stone- 
 ley. 
 
 4. Nere Hadley. Strangman, 
 
 infans. 
 
 5. Nere Orset. Holstocke. 
 
 6. Nere Mucking. Rolfe. 
 
 7. Nere Reuenhale. Raulfe Wise¬ 
 man. 
 
 8. Nere Witham. Jo. Sowthcote. 
 
 9. In gr. Towlsehunt. Beck- 
 
 inghm. 
 
 10. In Bush: Wickham. y e B. of 
 London. 
 
 11. In St. Osithes. Lo. Darcies. 
 
 12. In Lit. Bromeley. sometime 
 the Cockinges, now Alderman 
 Baynhams, or Baynninge. 
 
 13. Nere gr. Bentley. Afayrehowse. 
 Somtyme the St. Cleres, now 
 Edm. Clares. 
 
norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX. 
 
 41 
 
 14. Nere Markeshale. Edw. Der- 
 hawgh, Esq. 
 
 15. Nere Belcham St. Paule. The 
 Deane Chap, of Paules. 
 
 16. Nere gr. Canfeylde. Jo. Wise¬ 
 man. 
 
 17- Nere high Rodinge. Jo. Josse- 
 lyne. 
 
 18 . Nere Sandon. Jo. Latham. 
 
 19. Nere Claueringe. Wilbores. 
 
 20. Cricfcsey Parke , ner Cricksey. 
 Arthure Harris. 
 
 MEN OF ACCOUMPTE, 
 
 whos howses are in townes or 
 villages, or so scituate as 
 
 they can not 
 in the 
 
 At Woodham Ferrers. Sandes. 
 
 buylte by his father, B. San¬ 
 des. 
 
 At Garlestreete. Ric. Blackwell. 
 
 At Rumforde. Quarles, clerke 
 
 of her Ma ts kitchyne. 
 
 At Hornechurche. Raine. 
 
 At Wareley Wallet. Blythe. 
 
 Duncombe ten. 
 
 At N. Vckingdon. Gabrieli Poynes. 
 camd. soc. 9. 
 
 be described 
 Mappe. 
 
 At S. Beamefleete. The Deane and 
 chapt’ of Westm. Henr. 
 Appleto t. 
 
 At lit. Wareley. their of 
 
 Tirrell. Sometime S r Jo. Tir- 
 rells. 
 
 At Thurrocks Graye. Kigh- 
 
 ley. 
 
 At Maldon. Tho. Harris. 
 
 At Bentley. Pirton, Esq. 
 
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 norden’s DESCRIPTION OF ESSEX 
 
 At S* Jo. Abbey, ner Colnechester. 
 S r Tho. Lucas. 
 
 At Bures hamlet. Tho. Walgraue. 
 At Ashdon. Terrell. 
 
 At Safron Walden. George 
 Nichols. 
 
 At Newporte. Jefrey Nightingale. 
 
 Counsellour at Comon Law. 
 
 At Awdley end. Lo. Tho. Howarde. 
 At Littlebury. H. Brodbury. 
 
 At Hay don. Gyll; a proper ho. 
 
 At Claueringe. The Lady Ramsey. 
 
 Tho. Whitegifte heire. 
 
 At Ferneham. Hen. Jerninghm. 
 
 At Dunmow. Kennelmer. 
 
 At Roxwell. Glascocke. 
 
 At Boreh’m. Gardener, Lond* 
 
 At Chigwell. Colsewell. 
 
 At Thaydon Mount. Carelton. 
 
 At Boy don. Swifte. 
 
 At Walth’m. S r Edw. Dennye. 
 
 Number of pishes and chappels 
 that haue cure 
 
 i 
 
 413 
 
 Howses of speciall name, 
 
 Halls named after the parishes 
 
 Howses whose names are not 
 known unto me 
 Howses in townes 
 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 So that the whole number of' 
 howses of nob. men, gent, and 
 men of accompte obserued in^ 
 the mappe of this Shire is 
 
 354 
 
 I take not theis numbers so certeyne as that ther shoulde not be more 
 or lesse; but I haue sett it downe by informacon, w ch is not alwayes cer¬ 
 teyne, crauing pardon for the defectes, being a straunger, and of so smaJ. 
 trauayle in the countrye. 
 
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CAMDEN 
 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 FOR THE PUBLICATION OF 
 
 EARLY HISTORICAL AND LITERARY REMAINS. 
 
 At a General Meeting of the Camden Society held at the Freemason s’ 
 Tavern, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, on Saturday the 
 2nd May, 1840, 
 
 THOMAS AMYOT, Esq. F.R.S., Treas. S.A., Director, 
 
 IN THE CHAIR. 
 
 The Director having opened the business of the Meeting by expressing 
 his regret at the absence of the President, at present in Syria, 
 
 The Secretary read the Report of the Council agreed upon at their 
 meeting of the 2nd April last, whereupon it was 
 
 Resolved, That the said Report be received and printed for the use of 
 the Members, and that the Thanks of the Society be given to the Council 
 for their services. 
 
 Thanks were also voted to the Editors of the Society’s publications. 
 The Secretary then read the Report of the Auditors, agreed upon at 
 their meeting of the 29th of April last, whereupon it was 
 
 Resolved, That the said Report be received and printed for the use of 
 the Members, and that the Thanks of the Society be given to the Auditors 
 for their services. 
 
 Thanks having been voted to the Treasurer, the Meeting proceeded to 
 
 a 
 
2 
 
 ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF 1840 . 
 
 the election of a President and Council for the year next ensuing; when 
 The Right Hon. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P. 
 was elected President, and 
 
 Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S. Treas. S.A. 
 
 Charles Frederick Barnwell, Esq. M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 The Right Hon. Richard Lord Braybrooke, F.S.A. 
 
 John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 John Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Charles Purton Cooper, Esq. Q.C. D.C.L. F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 The Right Hon. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay. 
 
 T. Crofton Croker, Esq. F.S.A. M.R.I.A. 
 
 The Rev. Alexander Dyce. 
 
 Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. F.R.S. Sec. S.A. 
 
 The Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. 
 
 Sir Frederick Madden, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 Thomas Stapleton, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 William John Thoms, Esq. F.S.A. and 
 Thomas Wright, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. 
 
 were elected as the Council, and 
 
 James Orchard Halliwell, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 John M. Kemble, Esq. M.A. and 
 William Tooke, Esq. F.R.S. 
 
 were elected Auditors of the Society for the ensuing year. 
 
 Thanks were then voted to the Secretary, and to the Director, for his 
 able conduct in the Chair. 
 
 ELECTION OF OFFICERS, 1840. 
 
 At a Meeting of the Council of the Camden Society held at No. 25, 
 Parliament Street, Westminster, on Thursday the 7th May, 1840, 
 
 Thomas Amyot, Esq. in the Chair. 
 
 The Council having proceeded to the Election of Officers,— 
 
 Thomas Amyot, Esq. was elected Director; John Bruce, Esq. 
 Treasurer; and William J. Thoms, Esq. Secretary, for the Year next 
 
 ensuing. 
 
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 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
 
 DATED 1st MAY, 1840. 
 
 The Council, elected on the 2nd of May, 1839, have great pleasure 
 in reporting to the Society that the number of 1200 Members, to which 
 the Society is limited, was attained on the 6th of February last. There 
 are now sixty-six Candidates for Admission upon vacancies, and the 
 Council see no reason to doubt that the full number of 1200 Members 
 will be maintained. 
 
 The Council have secured, during the last year, the services of the 
 following gentlemen as Local Secretaries for the places to which their 
 names are attached:— 
 
 Bath. Rev. William L. Nichols, M.A. 
 
 Cork. Rev. J. A. Bolster, M.A., M.R.I.A. 
 Derby. The Rev. William Fletcher, M.A. 
 Dudley. Thomas W. Fletcher, Esq. F.R.S.F.S.A. 
 Halifax. Edward Nelson Alexander, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Holbeach. Rev. James Morton, B.D. 
 Manchester. James Crossley, Esq. 
 
 Rochester. Charles Spence, Esq. 
 
 Sleaford. Rev. A. H. Whitmore, Leasingham. 
 Stamford. William Hopkinson, Esq. 
 
 Truro. Henry Sewell Stokes, Esq. 
 
 York. Rev. Charles Wellbeloved. 
 
 Hesse Darmstadt. Dr. Kuenzel. 
 
 They have also appointed Dr. Witt Local Secretary for Bedford in 
 the room of W. H. Smyth, Esq. Capt. R.N., removed to Cardiff, where he 
 has warmly exerted himself on behalf of the Society. Monsieur Teulet 
 has also been appointed Local Secretary for Paris in the place of Monsieur 
 Michel, who has retired. 
 
 Shortly after their entry upon Office the Council, in accordance w r ith 
 the recommendation of the last Council, submitted to the General Meeting 
 of the 2nd May, 1839, invested the sum of £200, being the amount then 
 in hand for Compositions, in the purchase of £214. 9s. 6d. Three per Cent. 
 Consols, in the names of the Right Hon. Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, 
 Sir Henry Ellis, and John Bruce, Esq., who accepted the Office of Trustees 
 for the Society, and executed a proper Declaration of the Trusts of the 
 Investment. It will be perceived by the Report of the Auditors, that the 
 Dividends upon that Investment have been brought into the general 
 
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 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1840 . 
 
 account of the income of the Society, as well as a further sum of interest 
 received upon an Investment of part of the floating balance of the Society’s 
 income, in a Deposit Account with the Metropolitan Bank. 
 
 The Council recommend, that the sum received for Compositions, 
 since the above mentioned Stock was purchased, should be added to the 
 Society’s Investment, as soon after the General Meeting as may be con¬ 
 venient. 
 
 The Publications of the Society during the past year have been— 
 
 The Political Songs of England, from the Reign of John to that of Edward 
 II. Edited by Thomas Whigiit, Esq. M.A. F.S.A. 
 
 Annals of the First Four Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, by Sir John 
 Hayward, Knt. D.C.L. Edited by John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Documents : viz. I. A brief History of the Bishoprick of Somer¬ 
 set, from its Foundation to the year 1174. II. Charters from the Library of Dr. 
 Cox Macro. Now first published by the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. 
 
 Warkworth’s Chronicle; being a contemporary Narrative of Events from 
 A.D. 1461 to A.D. 1474. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, Esq. 
 F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 A reprint of “ Kemp’s Nine Daies Wonder; performed in a Daunce from 
 London to Norwich : London, 4to. 1600.” Edited by the Rev. Alexander Dyce. 
 
 and there is now passing through the press,— 
 
 Norden’s Description of Essex, with an accurate Map carefully drawn by 
 Norden himself; from the original MS. in the Library of the Marquess of Salisbury. 
 Edited by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Sec. S.A. 
 
 The last-mentioned work will be considered a publication of the second 
 year, and the Council have directed that there shall be appended to it a 
 complete List of the Members of the Society, together with the Report of 
 the Auditors. It will also afford an opportunity for circulating this Re¬ 
 port amongst the Members. 
 
 The Council have ordered the following works to be put to press, and 
 the first and second of them will shortly be ready for publication. 
 
 I he Egerton Papers ; consisting of Public and Private Documents formerly 
 belonging to Sir Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere, and Viscount Brackley; and 
 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1840. 
 
 5 
 
 now preserved among the MSS. the property of Lord Francis Egerton, President of 
 the Camden Society. Edited by John Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 The Chronicle of Josceline de Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury, from 
 A.D. 1157 to 1211. Edited by John Gage Rokewode, Esq. F.R.S., Director 
 S.A. 
 
 The Doctrines of the Lollards: a MS. attributed to Wickliffe. Edited by the 
 Rev. James Henthorn Todd, B.D., M.R.I.A., F.T.C.D. 
 
 The Council have also added the following works to the list of sug¬ 
 gested publications— 
 
 The Rutland Papers: Documents relating to the Coronation of Henry VIII., 
 the regulation of his Household, the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and his interviews 
 with the Emperor, selected from the MS. collections of His Grace the Duke of Rut¬ 
 land. To be edited by William Jerdan, Esq. F.S.A., M.R.S.L. 
 
 The Chronicle of Bartholomew de Cotton, a Monk of Norwich, from the earliest 
 period to the year of our Lord 1298. To be edited by John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Latin Romance Narratives and Legends of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and 
 fifteenth centuries, relating to King Arthur and other Heroes of the Welsh and Breton 
 cycle of Fiction. To be edited by Sir Frederick Madden, K.H., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 Letters and State Papers relating to the Proceedings of the Earl of Leicester in 
 the Low Countries, in the years 1585 and 1586, derived from a MS. placed at the 
 disposal of the Society by Frederick Ouvry, Esq. and other sources. To be edited 
 by John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 The Flistory of the Barons’ Wars in the Reign of Henry III. by William de 
 Rishanger. To be edited by J. O. Halliwell, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 A Collection of Short Moral Stories in Latin, selected from MSS. of the thir¬ 
 teenth and fourteenth centuries, and accompanied by Translations. To be edited by 
 Thomas Wright, Esq. M.A., F.S.A. 
 
 A Collection of Mix*acle Plays, from the date of the earliest existing specimen to 
 the period when they were superseded by Moral Plays; including the unique Miracle 
 Play of Sir Jonathas the Jew. To be preceded by a Dissertation shewing the manner 
 in which the change from Miracle Play to Moral Play was gradually effected; by 
 John Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 A Narrative of the Commotion in the County of Clare, and particularly of the 
 Siege of Ballyaly Castle, in 1641-2, by Maurice Cuffe, Esq. the defender of the 
 castle. And 
 
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 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1840. 
 
 “ Macariae Excidium, or the Destruction of Cyprusa narrative, written in 
 1692, of the straggle between James II. and William III. in Ireland, by Colonel 
 Charles O’Kelly. 
 
 To be edited by T. Crofton Croker, Esq. F.S.A., M.R.I.A. 
 
 Household and Personal Accounts of Sir William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burgh- 
 ley, from a MS. in his own handwriting. To be edited by William J. Thoms, 
 Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 A Collection of Anglo-Saxon and Old English Monuments, principally intended 
 to illustrate the dialects of the languages. By John M. Kemble, Esq. 
 
 Promptorium : An English and Latin Dictionary of Words in use during the 
 15th Century, compiled chiefly from the Promptorium Parvulorum, with illustrations 
 from other contemporary authorities. By Albert Way, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 A Narrative of the Expedition of Henry V. into France, A. D. 1415, with an 
 account of the Battle of Agincourt. Written by a Priest in attendance upon the 
 English Army. To be edited by William J. Thoms, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 The Journal of Sir Richard Torkington’s Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, in the 
 year 1517. 
 
 The Pilgrimages of William Wey, Canon of Eton, to Jerusalem and to Com- 
 postella, in the years 1458 and 1472. 
 
 The whole list is not only an exemplification of the class of publica¬ 
 tions contemplated by the Society, but affords also a proof of the growing 
 interest taken in its proceedings by persons of high rank and eminence, 
 both in the world of Letters and in Society. The example of its Presi¬ 
 dent has been followed by His Grace the Duke of Rutland, who has 
 placed various valuable papers at the service of the Society; and by the 
 Most Noble the Marquess of Salisbury, who has permitted the Council to 
 use the MS. of Norden’s Description of Essex ; and a friendly feeling 
 towards the Society has been evinced by other distinguished persons who 
 possess MS. Collections. 
 
 The Council have also to direct the attention of the Members to the 
 assistance towards promoting the objects of the Society, which has been 
 derived from David Laing, Esq., who furnished a transcript of a valuable 
 poem from the Auchinlech Manuscript, inserted in the Collection of Poli¬ 
 tical Songs ; from Frederick Ouvry, Esq., who has given the Society the 
 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1840 . 
 
 7 
 
 use of a valuable Collection of Despatches of the Earl of Leicester; from 
 the Rev. J. H. Todd, who has very kindly offered his transcript of the 
 singular Miracle Play of Sir Jonathas, mentioned in the Report of the 
 last Council, as a contribution to the Collection about to be edited by 
 J. P. Collier, Esq.; from the Editors of the Society’s works; from the 
 Local Secretaries; and from Messrs. Nichols and Son. The last-named 
 Gentlemen have very kindly continued to the Council the use of their 
 house as a place of meeting and an office for the transaction of the busi¬ 
 ness of the Society; and also their assistance in the Collection of the 
 Subscriptions, in the keeping of the Accounts, and in correspondence, 
 advantages which the Society cannot fail to appreciate. 
 
 The Collection of Subscriptions has been rendered less difficult by 
 the adoption by many Members of a Form of Cheque* upon their Bankers, 
 provided by the Treasurer. The Council recommend the subject to the 
 attention of the Members generally; much trouble is saved; and the 
 Society is greatly benefited by an early payment of the Subscriptions. 
 
 The Council have to regret, that the Society has lost the following 
 Members by death: 
 
 William George Adam, Esq. Accountant-general in Chancery. 
 
 His Grace the Duke of Bedford, K.G. F.S.A. 
 
 Grosvenor Charles Bedford, Esq. 
 
 Rt. Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D. Lord Bishop of Lichfield, F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Carter, B.D. 
 
 Rev. Martin Davy, D.D. Master of Caius College, Cambridge. 
 
 Rev. Charles Fisher, Rector of Ovington-with-Tilbury, Essex. 
 
 Davies Gilbert, Esq. D.C.L. Y.P.R.S. F.S.A. &c. 
 
 The Rev. Jarvis Kenrick. 
 
 * FORM OF THE CHEQUE REFERRED TO. 
 
 London, 184 
 
 Messrs. 
 
 Please to pay to the Treasurer of The Camden Society, or to the Bearer of his receipt, 
 the sum of One Pound, being my Subscription to the said Society, due on the 1st day of May 
 and continue to pay the same Subscription annually, in like manner, 
 
 until this order is revoked. 
 
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 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1840 . 
 
 Mr. Henry Lammin. 
 
 Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart. 
 
 Edgar Taylor, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Benjamin Coffin Thomas, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. George Turner, B.A. 
 
 A. Channing White, Esq. 
 
 Rev. John Wordsworth, M.A. 
 
 In resigning their offices into the hands of the Members, the Council 
 feel the greatest satisfaction in being able to leave the affairs of the Society- 
 in a condition of increased, and as they hope of still increasing prosperity. 
 With considerable resources, and supported by the zeal, energy, and discri¬ 
 mination of its friends and editors, a course of great usefulness is open to 
 the Society, and the Council confidently hope that the power which the 
 Society possesses may be made available to the production of works of 
 a sound historical character, works useful to all classes of inquirers, and 
 alike honorable to the Society and the Country. 
 
 Thomas Amyot, Director. 
 
 William J. Thoms, Secretary. 
 
 REPORT OF THE AUDITORS, 
 
 Dated 29th April, 1840. 
 
 We, the Auditors appointed to audit the Accounts of the Camden 
 Society, report to the Society, that the Treasurer has exhibited to us his 
 accounts, from the 25th day of April, 1839, to the 27th day of April, 1840, 
 and that we have examined the said accounts, together with the vouchers 
 relating thereto, and find the same to be correct and satisfactory. 
 
 And we further report that the following is an accurate Abstract of the 
 Receipts and Expenditure of the Society during the period to which we 
 have referred. 
 
REPORT OF THE AUDITORS. 
 
 9 
 
 An ABSTRACT of the RECEIPTS and EXPENDITURE of THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 
 from the 25th April, 1839, to the 27th April, 1840. 
 
 1839, 
 April 25th, 
 to 1840, 
 April 27th. 
 
 £. s. d. 
 
 Balance of last year’s 
 account. 307 5 4 
 
 } Received, on account of 
 subscriptions of mem - 
 bers, due 1st May, 
 
 1838 . 119 0 0 
 
 The like on account of 
 subscriptions due 1st 
 
 May, 1839.1007 5 2 
 
 Two half-year’s divi¬ 
 dends on ,£214. 9s. 
 
 6d. 3 per cent, con¬ 
 sols. 6 8 8 
 
 Interest received upon a 
 deposit investment of 
 part of the Society’s 
 balance with the Me¬ 
 tropolitan Bank.... 884 
 
 Compositions received 
 from twenty - five 
 members. 250 0 0 
 
 £. s d. 
 
 Paid for the purchase of £214.9s. 6d. 
 
 3 per cent, consols, invested for 
 
 the benefit of the Society . 200 0 0 
 
 Paid for printing and paper of 1,000 
 copies of “ Anecdotes and Tradi¬ 
 tions ” ••. 95 16 6 
 
 The like of 1,250 copies of “ Whrk- 
 
 worth’s Chronicle ”. 71 7 0 
 
 The like of 1,250 copies of “ Political 
 Songs,” four sheets being reset for 
 
 the last 250 copies . 265 3 0 
 
 The like of 1,250 copies of “ Hay¬ 
 ward’s Annals ” . 106 10 0 
 
 The like of 1,250 copies of “ Ecclesi¬ 
 astical Documents ” . 65 0 0 
 
 The like of 1,250 copies of “ Kemp’s 
 
 Morrice”. 42 5 0 
 
 Paid for binding copies of the first 
 
 year’s books over and above 950 9 16 3 
 
 The like for binding 1,000 copies of 
 
 Anecdotes and Traditions . 40 4 6 
 
 The like for binding 1,250 copies of 
 each of the Society’s five works for 
 the present year ... 250 0 0 
 
 Paid for the delivery and transmis¬ 
 sion of 50 copies of each of the 
 first four books, of 1,000 copies of 
 Anecdotes and Traditions, and of 
 1,200 copies of each of the five 
 works for the present year—at 2d. 
 
 per book, with paper for wrappers, 
 
 booking, &c. 66 8 0 
 
 Paid for transcripts of works pub¬ 
 lished or in progress . 33 2 8 
 
 Paid for engraving a Map for a forth¬ 
 coming publication. 10 0 0 
 
 Paid for printing Letters, Reports, 
 
 Laws, Lists of Members, Prospec¬ 
 tuses, and various miscellaneous 
 
 printing. 50 16 6 
 
 Paid for stamp for Deed of Trust 
 
 and engrossing. 2 2 0 
 
 Paid expenses of the last general 
 meeting and various petty cash 
 expenses and stationery. 9 12 11 
 
 Cash balance, viz. Sums 
 remaining in hand for 
 
 compositions .£160 0 0 
 
 Balance of subscriptions 
 and other receipts to 
 be handed over to the 
 Council to be elected 
 
 2d May, 1840 . 220 3 2 
 
 - 380 3 2 
 
 £1,698 7 6 
 
 Total receipts for the year £1,698 7 6 
 
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 REPORT OP THE AUDITORS. 
 
 And we further state that the Treasurer has reported to us that, over 
 and above the present balance of £380. 3s. 2d. there are outstanding vari¬ 
 ous Subscriptions of Foreign Members, of Members resident in places 
 distant from London, and of Members who have been recently elected, 
 which, on the 27th day of April, 1840, amounted to the sum of £180. 
 14s. 10c?.; which sum the Treasurer sees no reason to doubt will be shortly 
 received. 
 
 Witness our hands this 2.9th day of April, 1840. 
 
 Chas. Fred. Barnwell. 
 
 William Ciiatterton. 
 
 Hastings Elwin. 
 
 LAWS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 
 
 ADOPTED AT THE GENERAL MEETING, MAY 2, 1839. 
 
 I. That the Society shall be entitled “ The Camden Society, for the 
 Publication of Early Historical and Literary Remains/’ 
 
 II. That the objects of the Society shall be, First, the publication of 
 inedited Manuscripts; Second, the reprinting of Works of sufficient rarity 
 and importance to make Reprints desirable; and Third, the publication of 
 Translations of Historical Works not previously rendered into English. 
 
 III. That the Society shall consist of One Thousand Two Hundred 
 Members, being Subscribers of One Pound annually; such Subscription to 
 be paid in advance, on or before the first day of May in every year. 
 
 IV. That the management of the affairs of the Society shall be vested in 
 a President and a Council consisting of fifteen Members, which President 
 and Council shall be elected annually by the Society at large, at a General 
 Meeting to be held on the 2nd day of May, being the Anniversary of Cam¬ 
 den* s birth; or on the Monday following, when the 2nd of May shall 
 happen to fall upon a Sunday. 
 
LAWS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 
 
 11 
 
 V. That the President and Council shall, from amongst their own body, 
 elect a Director, who shall act as Chairman of the Council, in the absence 
 of the President, and also a Treasurer, and a Secretary. 
 
 VI. That the Accompts of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Society 
 shall be audited annually by three Auditors, to be elected at the General 
 Meetings, and that the Report of the Auditors, with an Abstract of the 
 Accompts, shall be published. 
 
 VII. That the names of Members proposed to be elected as President, 
 Council, and Auditors, shall be transmitted by the proposers to the Secre¬ 
 tary, one fortnight before the General Meeting, and that notice of the 
 persons so proposed shall be forwarded by the Secretary one week before 
 the General Meeting, to all the Members residing within the limits of the 
 Twopenny Post, and to all other Members who shall, in writing, request 
 to receive the same. 
 
 VIII. That no Member shall be entitled to vote at any General 
 Meeting whose Subscription is in arrear. 
 
 IX. That in every year one-fifth in number of the Council of the year 
 preceding shall be ineligible for re-election ; and that in case any Member 
 of the Council shall not attend more than one-third of the number of 
 Meetings of the Council, such Member shall be considered to be one of 
 the retiring Members. 
 
 X. That in the absence of the President and Director, the Council at 
 their Meetings shall elect a Chairman, who shall have a casting vote in 
 case of equality of numbers, and shall also retain his right to vote upon 
 all questions submitted to the Council. 
 
 XI. That the Funds of the Society shall be disbursed in payment of 
 necessary expenses incident to the production of the Works of the Society, 
 and that all other expenses shall be avoided as much as possible. 
 
 XII. That, after the Members of the Society shall have reached One 
 Thousand Two Hundred, vacancies in that number shall be filled up by the 
 Council, from time to time as they occur. 
 
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 LAWS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY. 
 
 XIII. That every Member not in arrear of his Annual Subscription, 
 shall be entitled to One Copy of every Work published by the Society 
 during that year. 
 
 XIV. That the Members shall be invited to contribute or recommend 
 Works for publication. 
 
 XV. That Editors of Works printed by the Society shall be entitled to 
 Twenty Copies of the Works they edit. 
 
 XVI. That the Council shall determine what number of copies of each 
 Work shall be printed, and that the copies over and above those required 
 by the Members shall be sold in such manner, and at such prices, as shall 
 be fixed by the Council, the proceeds being carried to the account of the 
 Society. 
 
 XVII. That the Publications of the Society shall all form separate and 
 distinct Works, without any other connexion than that which must neces¬ 
 sarily exist between the volumes of such Works as consist of several 
 Volumes. 
 
 XVIII. That any Member of the Society may at any time compound 
 for his future Annual Subscriptions, by payment of .£10 over and above 
 his Subscription for the current year. 
 
 XIX. That every Member of the Society who shall intimate to the 
 Council his desire to withdraw from the same, or who shall not pay his 
 Subscription for the current year within three Months after his Election, 
 or after such Subscription shall have become due, shall thereupon cease to 
 be a Member of the Society. 
 
 XX. That the Council may appoint Local Secretaries in such places, 
 and with such authorities as to them shall seem expedient; every Local 
 Secretary being a Member of the Society. 
 
 XXI. That no alteration shall be made in these Laws, except at a 
 General Meeting, nor then, unless One Month’s notice of any alteration 
 intended to be proposed at such Meeting shall have been given in writing 
 to the Secretary. 
 
MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 
 
 FOR THE YEAR, ENDING 2ND MAY, 1840. 
 
 Ihose Members to whose names (c.) is prefixed have compounded for their Annual Subscriptions. 
 The Members whose names are printed in Capitals were on the Council of the year. 
 
 THE RIGHT HON. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON, M.P. President. 
 
 H. R. H. THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, K.G., F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 THE MOST REV. AND RIGHT HON. THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY 
 THE RIGHT HON. LORD COTTENHAM, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR. 
 
 THE MOST HON. THE MARQUESS OF NORTHAMPTON, D.C.L., PRES.R.S., F.S.A. 
 THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN, PRES.S.A.. F.R.S 
 
 Abraham Abell, Esq. Cork. 
 
 W. J. A. Abington, Esq. M.A.F.S.A, 
 Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 Joseph Ablett, Esq. Llanbedr Hall. 
 Ruthen. 
 
 Right lion. Lord Viscount Acheson. 
 M.P. 
 
 Edward Acton, Esq. Grundisburgh, 
 Suffolk. 
 
 (c.) Sir Robert Shafto Adair. 
 William George Adam, Esq. Ac¬ 
 countant - general in Chancery. 
 [Died May 16, 1839.] 
 
 John Adams, jun. Esq. M. A. 
 
 Christ Church, Oxford. 
 
 John Adamson, Esq. Secretary of 
 the Society of Antiquaries of New¬ 
 castle. Local Secretary at New¬ 
 castle. 
 
 Rev. James Adcock, M.A. Lincoln. 
 William Fountaine Addison, Esq. 
 
 Wadham College, Oxford. 
 
 John Adolphus, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Professor Dr. Adrian, Librarian of 
 the University of Giessen (Hesse 
 Darmstadt). 
 
 John Yonge Akerman, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Sec. Num. Soc. 
 
 (c.) Edward Nelson Alexander, Esq. 
 F.S.A. Local Secretary at Hali¬ 
 fax. 
 
 Robert Alexander, Esq. Q.C., F.R.S. 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Robert Henry Allan, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Treasurer of the Surtees Society. 
 Local Secretary at Durham. 
 George Edward Allen, Esq. Bath. 
 Rev. Isaac Nicholson Allen, M.A. 
 
 Bromley by Bow, Middlesex. 
 John Allen, Esq. 
 
 Richard Almack, Esq. F.S.A. Long 
 Melford, Suffolk. 
 
 The Vicomte Louis d’Armaille, Paiis. 
 Thomas Frederick Hill Alms, Esq. 
 George Henry Ames, Esq. Cote 
 House, near Bristol. 
 
 Samuel Amory, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S. 
 
 Treas. S.A. Director. 
 
 A. P. Anderson, Esq. M.D. 
 
 Rev. T. G. Torry Anderson, Edin¬ 
 burgh. 
 
 c 
 
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 MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 Alexander Annand, Esq. F.S.A. Sut¬ 
 ton, Surrey. 
 
 Thomas Chisholme Anstey, Esq. 
 
 Samuel Appleby, Esq. Gray’s Inn. 
 
 George Appleyard, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Arnold, D.D. Head 
 Master of Rugby School. 
 
 Joseph Arnould,Esq.Fellowof Wad- 
 ham College, Oxford. 
 
 M. le Chevalier Artaud, Membre de 
 l’Institut de France. 
 
 Robert John Ashton, Esq. F.L.S. 
 
 Rev. John Harvey Ashworth, M.A. 
 
 The Athenaeum Club. 
 
 George James Aungier, Esq. 
 
 Benjamin Austen, Esq. 
 
 William Ayrton, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 W. Scrope Ayrton, Esq. Barrister-at- 
 Law. 
 
 ; 
 
 James Bacon, Esq. Barrister-at- 
 Law. 
 
 Thomas Bacon, Esq. Leamington. 
 
 Edward Badeley, Esq. F.S.A. Temple. 
 
 R. B. Bailey, Esq. 
 
 Thomas John Bailey, Esq. Egham 
 House, Surrey. 
 
 James Evan Baillie, Esq. 
 
 George Baker, Esq. Local Secretary 
 at Northampton. 
 
 Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel, D.D. Bod¬ 
 leian Librarian, Oxford. 
 
 George Banks, Esq. St. Catharine’s, 
 near Doncaster. 
 
 Benjamin Barnard, Esq. 
 
 John Barnard, Esq. 
 
 Alfred Brooke Barnes, Esq. 
 
 Keith Barnes, Esq. 
 
 Ralph Barnes, Esq. Exeter. 
 
 Thomas Barnes, Esq. 
 
 Charles Frederick Barnwell, Esq. 
 M.A. F.R.S., F.S.A. Auditor. 
 
 Rev. John Bartholomew, Merchant. 
 
 John Baron, Esq. M.D. F.R.S. 
 
 Mr. J. Bartlett, Blandford. 
 
 Samuel Joseph Bayfield, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath 
 and Wells, F.R.S. and F.S.A. 
 
 Thomas Baylis, Esq, F.S.A. Prior’s 
 Bank, Fulham. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Yere Bayne, B.C.L. 
 Warrington. 
 
 Edward Blake Beal, Esq. 
 
 Mr. Henry Mitchison Bealby. 
 
 John Beardmore, Esq. 
 
 His Grace the Duke of Bedford, 
 K.G., F.S.A. [Died Oct. 20, 1839.] 
 
 Henry Bedford, Esq. St. Peter’s 
 Coll. Camb. 
 
 James Bell, Esq. 
 
 Robert Bell, Esq. Advocate, Procu¬ 
 rator for the Church of Scotland. 
 
 Thomas Bell, Esq. F.R.S. Professor 
 of Zoology, King’s College, Loncl. 
 
 Charles Bellamy, Esq. D.C.L. Fel¬ 
 low of St. John’s College, Oxford. 
 
 George Frederick Beltz, Esq. K.H. 
 F.S.A. Lancaster Herald. 
 
 Mr. James Bennett, Tewkesbury. 
 
 Henry Bentley, Esq. 
 
 John Bentley, Esq. Birch House, 
 near Bolton, Lancashire. 
 
 Michael Bentley, Esq. 
 
 Richard Bentley, Esq. 
 
 P. S. Benwell, Esq. Henley. 
 
 J. B. Bergne, Esq. 
 
 Samuel Berridge, Esq. Leicester. 
 
 (c.) The Rev. John Besly, D.C.L. 
 Vicar of Ben ton,Northumberland. 
 
 J. Richard Best, Esq. Botley Grange, 
 Southampton. 
 
 Sir William Betham, Ulster King at 
 Arms, For. Sec. R. I. A., F.S.A. 
 Local Secretary at Dublin. 
 
 Richard Bethell, Esq. M.P. Rise, 
 near Beverley. 
 
MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839-40. 
 
 15 
 
 M. le Comte Arthur Beugnot, Mem- 
 bre de l’Institut de France. 
 
 John Bevan, Esq. Cowbridge. 
 
 La Bibliotheque du Roi, Paris. 
 Robert Bickersteth, Esq. Liverpool. 
 John Bidwell, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Leonard Shelford Bidwell, Esq. 
 F.S.A. Thetford. 
 
 Rev. George Augustus Biedermann, 
 Rector of Dauntsey, Wilts. 
 
 Rev. Edward T. Bigge, M.A. Fellow 
 of Merton Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Arthur Biggs, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 Rev. Charles Birch, M.A. 
 
 Edw. Charles Bird, Esq. Southwold. 
 Thomas Birkbeck, Esq. 
 
 The Birmingham Public Library. 
 John Black, Esq. 
 
 William Black, Esq. Guilford-street. 
 Alexander Blair, Esq. LL.D. Bristol. 
 Rev. W. Blakesley, M.A. Trin. Coll. 
 Camb. 
 
 Michael Bland, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 Rev. George Bland, M.A. 
 
 Francis Lawrence Bland, Esq. 
 Charles Blandy, Esq. Reading. 
 
 (c.) John Jackson Blandy, Esq. 
 Reading. 
 
 William Blandy, Esq. Reading. 
 Octavian Blewitt, Esq. Secretary 
 to the Literary Fund Society. 
 
 (c.) Rev. Philip Bliss, D.C.L., 
 F.S.A. Registrar of the Univ. 
 of Oxford. Local Secretary at 
 Oxford. 
 
 BindonBlood, Esq. F.R.S.E., F.S.A. 
 
 Scot., M.R.I.A. Edinburgh. 
 Edward Blore, Esq. D.C.L., F.S.A. 
 B. Blundell, Esq. Temple. 
 
 Rev. Wm. Blunt, B.A. Under Master 
 of Merchant-Taylors’ School. 
 Rev. Alfred Turner Blythe, Bristol. 
 
 Miss Bockett, Southcote Lodge, 
 Berks. 
 
 The Hon. Sir William Bolland, late 
 one of the Barons of the Exchequer, 
 M.A. [Died May 14, 1840.] 
 
 Rev. J. A. Bolster, M.A., M.R.I.A. 
 Local Secretary at Cork. 
 
 Harry Bolton, Esq. Colne. 
 
 Edward A. Bond, Esq. British Mus. 
 
 Mr. William Boone, New Bond-st. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Sir John Bernard Bosan- 
 quet, one of the Judges of the 
 Common Pleas, M.A. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Bosworth, LL.D., 
 F.R.S., F.S.A. Rotterdam. 
 
 William Fuller Boteler, Esq. M.A., 
 Q.C. 
 
 Beriah Botfield, Esq. M.A., F.R.S., 
 F.S.A. Norton Hall, Northampt. 
 
 Alfred Francis Boucher, Esq. St. 
 Peter’s College, Cambridge. 
 
 Henry Bower, Esq. F.S.A. Local 
 Secretary at Doncaster. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Frere Bowerbank, 
 M.A. Vicar of Chiswick. 
 
 Rev. William Lisle Bowles, M.A., 
 M.R.S.L. Canon of Salisbury. 
 
 Mark Boyd, Esq. 
 
 David Bradberry, Esq. 
 
 Robert Greene Bradley, Esq. Ben¬ 
 cher of Gray’s Inn. 
 
 Joseph Hoare Bradshaw, Esq. 
 
 George Weare Braikenridge, Esq. 
 F.S.A. Brislington House, Som. 
 
 Edw. Henry Bramah, Esq. Reading. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Brancker, M.A. Fel¬ 
 low of Wadham Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Henry Brandreth, jun. Esq. M.A., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Right Hon.Lord Braybrooke, F.S.A. 
 
 Edward Wedlake Brayley, Esq. 
 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Henry Brice, Esq. Bristol. 
 
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 MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 Rev. Thomas Edward Bridges, D.D. I 
 President of Corpus Christi Coll. 
 Oxford. 
 
 Benjamin Heywood Bright, Esq. 
 
 Ham Green, near Bristol. 
 
 John Bright, Esq. M.D. 
 
 John Ruggles Brise, Esq. Spains- 
 hall, Finchingfield, Essex. 
 
 John Britton, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 James Broadwood, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Broadwood, Esq. 
 
 William Brockedon, Esq. F.R.S. 
 John Trotter Brockett, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Newcastle. 
 
 William Bromet, M.D., F.S.A. Sur¬ 
 geon 1st Life Guards. 
 
 (c.) Right Hon. Lord Brooke, St. 
 
 John’s College, Oxford. 
 
 Francis Capper Brooke, Esq. UfFord 
 Place, Suffolk. 
 
 Charles Bros, Esq. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lord Brougham 
 and Vaux, F.R.S. President of 
 University College, London, and 
 Member of the National Institute 
 of France. 
 
 Rev. John Brown, M.A. Vice-Mas¬ 
 ter of Trinity College, Camb. 
 Samuel Cowper Brown, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Shillingford Cross, Devon. 
 
 W. H. Brown, Esq. 
 
 Rev. G. A. Browne, M.A. Fellow of 
 Trin. Coll. Camb. 
 
 James Lewis Knight Bruce, Esq. 
 
 a.C., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 John Bruce, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Thomas Bruce, Esq. Parham. 
 
 Mr. Leonard Bruton, Bristol. 
 
 Rev. Guy Bryan, M.A., F.S.A. Rec¬ 
 tor of Woodham Walter, Essex. 
 George Bryant, Esq. Emanuel Col¬ 
 lege, Cambridge. 
 
 Mr. John Bryant. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Sir Harford Jones Brydges, 
 Bart. 
 
 Rev. George Buckeridge, M.A. Fel¬ 
 low of Worcester Coll. Oxford. 
 
 George Buckton, Esq. Oakfield. 
 
 Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Bunbury, 
 K.C.B., F.S.A. 
 
 John Burder, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 William Burge, Esq. Q.C. M.A., 
 D.C.L. 
 
 John William Burgon, Esq. 
 
 James Burn, Esq. W.S. Edinburgh. 
 
 Rev. Charles Parr Burney, D.D., 
 F.R.S., F.S.A. Sible Hedingliam, 
 Essex. 
 
 Edmund Burrow, Esq. 
 
 Decimus Burton, Esq. F.R.S., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 John Hill Burton, Esq. Advocate, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Septimus Burton, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Byrth, M.A., F.S.A., 
 Rector of Wallasey, Cheshire. 
 
 Benjamin BondCabbell,Esq. F.R.S., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Frederick Caldwell, Esq. 
 
 Rev. H. Calthrop, B.D. Fellow of 
 Corpus Christi Coll. Camb. 
 
 Sir John Campbell, M.P. Her Ma¬ 
 jesty’s Attorney-General. 
 
 John Campbell, Esq. Bedford-place. 
 
 Rt. Hon. the Earl of Camperdown. 
 
 Edward Capps, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Henry Card, D.D. F.S.A. 
 Great Malvern. 
 
 J. S. Cardale, Esq. Leicester. 
 
 (c.) The Rev. EdwardCardwell, D.D. 
 Camden’s Professor of Ancient 
 History, Oxford. 
 
 Peter Stafford Carey, Esq. 
 
 Rt. Hon. the Earl of Carlisle, F.R.S. 
 
 Edward John Carlos, Esq. 
 
MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 17 
 
 A. N. Carmichael, Esq. Principal 
 Classical Master at the Edinburgh 
 Academy. 
 
 Rev. John Carr, M.A. Fellow of 
 Balliol Coll. Oxford. 
 
 William Thomas Carr, Esq. 
 
 John Carter, Esq. Coventry. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Carter, B.D. late Fel¬ 
 low of St.John’s College, Oxford. 
 [Died Jan. 11, 1840.] 
 
 George Alfred Carthew, Esq. East 
 Dereham, Norfolk. 
 
 Rev. W. Cams, M.A. Fellow of 
 Trin. Coll. Camb. 
 
 The Rt. Hon. Earl Cawdor, F.R.S. 
 
 Mr. James Chaffin, Islington. 
 
 Thomas Chapman, Esq. 
 
 William Chapman, Esq. Richmond, 
 Surrey. 
 
 William Chappell, Esq. 
 
 Mr. Emerson Charnley, Newcastle. 
 
 Sir William Chatterton, Bart. Au¬ 
 ditor. 
 
 (c.) John Walbanke Childers, Esq. 
 M.P. 
 
 Francis Cholmeley, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Henry Christmas, M.A. F.S.A. 
 
 Henry Christy, Esq. 
 
 William Church, Esq. Streatley, 
 Reading. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Townson Churton, 
 M.A. Brazenose College, Oxford. 
 
 Rev. Francis Foreman Clark, B.A. 
 Town field House, near Newcastle, 
 Staffordshire. 
 
 George Thomas Clark, Esq. 
 
 Thomas E. Clark, Esq. 
 
 William Clark, M.D. Professor of 
 Anatomy, Cambridge. 
 
 John Clarke, Esq. Southwark. 
 
 John Clarke, jun. Esq. Peatling Hall, 
 Leicestershire. 
 
 Thomas Clarke, Esq. Knedlington, 
 Yorkshire. 
 
 Rev. Piers C. Claughton, M.A. Fel¬ 
 low of Univ. Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Rev. Benjamin Saunders Claxson, 
 D.D. Gloucester. 
 
 Rev. Patrick Clason, D.D. Edinb. 
 (c.) Rev. A. B. Clough, B.D., F.S.A. 
 
 Jesus Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Charles Thornton Coathupe, Esq. 
 
 Wraxhall, near Bristol. 
 
 James Cobb, Esq. Yarmouth. 
 
 J. Ingram Cobbin, Esq. 
 
 Sir William S. R. Cockburn, Bart. 
 M.A. Bath. 
 
 William Colbourne, Esq. Chippen¬ 
 ham. 
 
 Robert Cole, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Edward Coleridge, M.A. 
 Francis George Coleridge, Esq. 
 
 Ottery St. Mary, Devon. 
 
 Henry Nelson Coleridge, Esq. M.A. 
 The Hon. Sir John Taylor Coleridge, 
 one of the Judges of the Queen’s 
 Bench, M.A. 
 
 John Payne Collier, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Mr. Edwin Collings, Bath. 
 
 Thomas Combe, Esq. Oxford. 
 
 Rev. C. Comberbach, Stonor. 
 
 (c.) Rev. John Connop, M.A. Brad- 
 field Hall, Berkshire. 
 
 Edward Conroy, Esq. M.A., 
 M.R.I.A. 
 
 Philip Davies Cooke, Esq. Owston, 
 Yorkshire. 
 
 Charles Henry Cooper, Esq. Coroner 
 for Cambridge. 
 
 Charles Purton Cooper, Esq. 
 
 Q.C., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. James Cooper, M.A. St. Paul’s 
 School. 
 
 Thomas Henry Cooper, Esq. 
 
18 
 
 MEMBERS OF TIIE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 William Durrant Cooper, Esq. 
 
 Rev. William John Copeland, M.A. 
 Fellow of Trinity College, Ox¬ 
 ford. 
 
 James Copland, M.D., F.R.S. 
 
 The Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, 
 and Ross. 
 
 George Richard Corner, Esq. F.S.A. 
 (c.) Bolton Corney,Esq. Greenwich. 
 Frederick Corrance, Esq. Loudham 
 Hall, Suffolk. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Corser, Stand, Man¬ 
 chester. 
 
 Dudley Costello, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. G. E. Corrie, B.D. Fellow of 
 Cath. Hall, and Norrisian Prof, 
 of Divinity in the University of 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Rev. William Charles Cotton, B.A. 
 
 Student of Christ Ch. Oxford. 
 The Right Hon. Lord Courtenay. 
 The Right Hon. Thomas P. 
 Courtenay. 
 
 Andrew Coventry, Esq. Advocate, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Richard Waite Cox, Esq. M.R.A.S. 
 George L. Craik, Esq. 
 
 Rev. John Antony Cramer, D.D. 
 
 Public Orator, Oxford. 
 
 Rev. Richard Crawley, M.A. Steeple 
 Ashton, Wiltshire. 
 
 Anthony Crofton, Esq. Barrister. 
 The Rt. Hon. John Wilson Croker, 
 LL.D., F.R.S. 
 
 Thomas Crofton Croker, Esq. 
 F.S.A., M.R.I.A. 
 
 James Crossley, Esq. Local Secre¬ 
 tary at Manchester. 
 
 Thomas Macauley Cruttwell, Esq. 
 Bath. 
 
 George Godfrey Cunningham, Esq. 
 Glasgow. 
 
 Peter Cunningham, Esq. 
 
 Rev. William Cureton, M.A.,F.R.S., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Miss Richardson Currer, Eshton 
 Hall, Yorkshire. 
 
 Edward Dalton, Esq. LL.D., F.S.A. 
 Dunkirk House, near Minchin- 
 hampton, Gloucestershire. 
 
 George Daniel, Esq. 
 
 Rev. John Wareyn Darby, Fram- 
 lingham. 
 
 George Webbe Dasent, Esq. 
 
 William Dauney, Esq. Advocate, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Davies, Norwood. 
 
 Robert Davies, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Stephens Davies, Esq. F.R.S. 
 L. and Ed. F.S.A. Prof, of Mathe¬ 
 matics in Royal Military Acad. 
 Woolwich. 
 
 James Edward Davis, Esq. 
 
 David Elisha Davy, Esq. Ufford, 
 Suffolk. Local Secretary. 
 
 Rev. Martin Davy, D.D. Master of 
 Caius College, Cambridge. [Died 
 May 18, 1839.] 
 
 Matthew Dawes, Esq. F.G.S. Bol- 
 ton-le-Moors. 
 
 Very Rev. II. R. Dawson, D.D. 
 Dean of St. Patrick’s. 
 
 Yesey Thomas Dawson, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Arthur Dayman, M.A. Fellow 
 of Exeter College, Oxford. 
 
 Head Deakin, Esq. Long Cross, 
 near Cardiff. 
 
 Charles Deane, Esq. 
 
 Rev. J. Bathurst Deane, M. A., F.S.A. 
 
 James Dearden, Esq. Rochdale. 
 
 Right Hon. Earl De Grey, Pres, of 
 R. Inst. Br. Architects, F.S.A. 
 
 Joseph Delafield, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. D. C. Delafosse, M.A. Vicar of 
 Wandsworth. 
 
 Philip Chilwell De la Garde, Esq. 
 Exeter. 
 
MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 19 
 
 George Dempster, Esq. of Skibo, I 
 Advocate. 
 
 Mons. Jules Desnoyers, Sec. de la 
 Soc. de THistoire de France. 
 
 His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, 
 K.G., D.C.L. 
 
 Hugh Welch Diamond, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Count Maurice Dietrich stein. Pre¬ 
 fect of the Imp. Library at Vienna, 
 Associate of the Numismatic Soc. 
 of London, &c. 
 
 Charles Wentworth Dilke, Esq. 
 LL.B. 
 
 Joseph C. Dimsdale, Esq. 
 
 I. D’Israeli, Esq. D.C.L., F.S.A. 
 
 (c.) George Dodd, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Charles Cooper Doggett, Esq. 
 
 William Fishburn Donkin, Esq.B.A. 
 Fellow of Univ. Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Edward Douglas, Esq.Christ Ch.Oxf. 
 
 Charles Downes, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Doyley, Esq. D.C.L. Ser- 
 jeant-at-Law. 
 
 William Richard Drake, Esq. Read¬ 
 ing. 
 
 Rev. Pearce William Drew, Youghal. 
 
 Rev. Henry Drury, M.A., F.R.S., 
 F.S.A., Harrow. 
 
 Charles Seymour Dubourg, Esq. 
 
 Samuel Duckworth, Esq. M.A. Mas¬ 
 ter in Chancery. 
 
 Adam Duff, Esq. Woodcott House, 
 Oxfordshire. 
 
 George Duke, Esq. St. Leonard’s, 
 Sussex. 
 
 Thomas Farmer Dukes, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Shrewsbury. 
 
 Andrew Dun, Esq. W.S., M.A., 
 F.A.S. Scot. Edinburgh. 
 
 Philip Bury Duncan, Esq. M.A. 
 Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, 
 Oxford. 
 
 David Dundas, Esq. M.A. Temple. 
 
 William Pitt Dundas, Esq. Advocate, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 James Dunlop, Esq. W. S. Edin¬ 
 burgh. 
 
 John Dunn, Esq. Paisley. 
 
 Enoch Durant, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of 
 Durham, F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 Mons. Dusommerard, Hotel de 
 Cluny, Paris. 
 
 Rev. Alexander Dyce, B.A. 
 
 WilliamDyce, Esq. School of Design, 
 Somerset-house. 
 
 Rev. John Bradley Dyne, M.A. Fel¬ 
 low of Wadham College, Oxford. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Eaton, Worcester. 
 
 Thomas Edgworth, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Andrew Edwards, B.D., Fel¬ 
 low of Magdalen Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Edward Edwards, Esq. 
 
 Edward Hugh Edwards, Esq. 
 
 Joseph Berry Edwards, Esq. South- 
 wold. 
 
 Benjamin Elam, Esq. 
 
 Rev. H. T. Ellacombe, M.A., F.S.A. 
 Bitton near Bristol. 
 
 Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., LL.B. 
 F.R.S., Sec. S.A., Principal Li¬ 
 brarian of the British Museum. 
 
 Rev. John Joseph Ellis,M.A., F.S.A. 
 
 Joseph Ellis, jun. Esq. Richmond. 
 
 J. Fuller Elphinstone, Esq. 
 
 Hastings Elwin, Esq. Auditor. 
 
 William Empson, Esq. M.A. 
 
 Dr. Endlicher, Vienna. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Thomas Erskine, Chief 
 Judge of the Bankruptcy Court. 
 
 Thomas Grimston BucknallEstcourt, 
 Esq. M. P. for the University of 
 Oxford. Estcourt, Gloucestershire. 
 
20 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 Rev. Henry H. Evans. 
 
 Herbert Norman Evans, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Evans, Esq. Cardiff. 
 
 John Leman Ewen, Esq. South- 
 wold. 
 
 Henry Eyton, Esq. Edgebaston. 
 
 James Falconar, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 James William Farrer, Esq. Master 
 in Chancery. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Faulkner, Chelsea. 
 
 Rev. Godfrey Faussett, D.D. Mar¬ 
 garet Professor of Divinity, Ox¬ 
 ford. 
 
 Joseph Fearn, Esq. 
 
 Dr. Feder, Privy Councillor, and 
 Head Librarian to the Court of 
 Hesse Darmstadt. 
 
 H. Fenwick, Esq. St. John’s Coll. 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Rev. George O. Fenwicke, F.S.A. 
 Aston near Birmingham. Local 
 Secretary at Birmingham. 
 
 Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, of 
 Hailes and Kilkerran, Bart. 
 
 Copley Fielding, Esq. Brighton. 
 
 William Figg, Esq. Lewes. 
 
 Charles Filica, Esq. 
 
 John Joseph Ashby Fillinham, Esq. 
 
 Charles John Fisher, Esq. Jesus 
 College, Cambridge. 
 
 John Goate Fisher, Esq. Yarmouth. 
 
 Wm. Stevenson Fitch, Esq. Local 
 Secretary at Ipswich. 
 
 Robert Fitch, Esq. Norwich. 
 
 Edward Herbert Fitzherbert, Esq. 
 M.A., Barrister at Law. 
 
 Richard Wilson FitzPatrick, Esq. 
 South Luffenham, Rutland. 
 
 The Right Hon. Earl FitzWilliam. 
 
 Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Bart. Rossall 
 Hall, Lancashire. 
 
 (c.) Thomas W. Fletcher, Esq. F. R.S., 
 F.S.A. Local Secretary at Dudley. 
 
 Rev. William Fletcher, M.A. Local 
 Secretary at Derby. 
 
 John Harris Flooks, Esq. Wilton. 
 
 Sir William J. H. Browne Folkes, 
 Bart. F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 G. Folliott, Esq. Vicar’s Cross, 
 Chester. 
 
 Thomas G. Fonnereau, Esq. 
 F.S.A. 
 
 M. de la Fontenelle de Vaudore, 
 Conseiller a la Cour Royale de 
 Poitiers, For. Memb. S.A. 
 
 Charles Ford, Esq. 
 
 G. J. Ford, Esq. Exeter Coll. Oxf. 
 
 Rev. Josiah Forshall, M.A., F.R.S., 
 F.S.A. Secretary to the British 
 Museum. 
 
 Matthew Forster, Esq. Belsize, 
 Hampstead. 
 
 Hon. George M. Fortescue. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, 
 F.S.A. Vicar of Walford, Here¬ 
 fordshire. 
 
 Edward Foss, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. W. W. Fowler, Darley, near 
 Derby. 
 
 Lieut.-Colonel Charles Richard Fox. 
 
 Henry Ralph Francis, Esq. M.A. 
 late Fellow of St. John’s College, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Richard Frankum, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Frankum, Esq. Abingdon. 
 
 Thomas Fraser, Esq. Advocate, Inner 
 Temple. 
 
 Mons. Frere, Rouen. 
 
 Thomas Frewen, Esq. Cold Over- 
 ton, Leicestershire. 
 
 Charles Frost, Esq. F.S.A. Pres, of 
 the Lit. and Philos. Soc. of Hull. 
 Local Secretary at Hull. 
 
MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 21 
 
 Baldwin Fulford, Esq. Great Ful- 
 ford, Devon. 
 
 John Lewis Fytche, Esq. Lincoln 
 College, Oxford. 
 
 Charles Gambier,Esq.Harley-street. 
 Rev. Richard Garnett, F.S.A. Bri¬ 
 tish Museum. 
 
 Thomas Garrard,Esq. F.S.A. Bristol. 
 Thomas Gaspey, Esq. 
 
 Mr. Geeves, Regent-street. 
 
 Herr von Gevay, Vienna. 
 
 Professor Aug. Fred. Gfroerer, Di¬ 
 rector of the Royal Library, Stutt- 
 gardt. 
 
 Humphry Gibbs, Esq. 
 
 Joseph Gibbs, Esq. M.I.C.E. 
 
 John Gidley, Esq. Exeter. 
 
 Edward Gilford, Esq. Admiralty. 
 Davies Gilbert, Esq. D.C.L., 
 V.P.R.S., F.S.A. &c. &c. [Died 
 Dec. 24, 1839.] 
 
 Rev. Ashurst Turner Gilbert, D.D. 
 Principal of Brasenose Coll, and 
 Vice-Chancellor of the University 
 of Oxford. 
 
 W. A. Gilman, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Ward Gleadow, Esq. Hull. 
 Rev. George Robert Gleig, M.A. 
 Chelsea Hospital. 
 
 The Literary and Scientific Asso¬ 
 ciation of Gloucester. 
 
 Ambrose Glover, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 John Hulbert Glover, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Librarian to Her Majesty. 
 
 Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, Bart. 
 F.S.A. 
 
 George Godwin, jun. Esq. F.R.S. 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Gabriel Goldney, Esq. 
 
 Aaron Asher Goldsmid, Esq. 
 
 Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Esq. F.R.S V 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Charles Portales Golightly, 
 M.A. Oriel College, Oxford. 
 
 James Gooden, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Jonathan Gooding, Esq. Local 
 Secretary at Southwold. 
 
 Alexander Gordon, jun. Esq. 
 
 Richard Gosling, Esq. 
 
 Major Gould. 
 
 James Robert Gowen, Esq. F.G.S. 
 
 John Black Grade, Esq. F.S.A. Sc. 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Charles Graham, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 The Library of the Hon. Society of 
 Gray’s Inn. 
 
 Henry Green, Esq. 
 
 John Greenall, Esq. Warrington. 
 
 John Swarbreck Gregory, Esq. 
 
 Hon. and Rev. George Neville 
 Grenville, M.A. Master of Mag¬ 
 dalene Coll. Camb. 
 
 RightHon. Thomas Grenville, F.S. A. 
 
 John Morewood Gresley, Esq.Exeter 
 College, Oxford. 
 
 Charles Cavendish Greville, Esq. 
 
 Philip Griffith, Esq. Chiswick. 
 
 Rev. John Griffiths, M.A. Fellow 
 of Wadham Coll. Oxford, 
 
 Rev. Robert H. Groome, M.A. 
 Caius Coll. Camb. 
 
 (c.) The Right Hon. Earl Grosvenor. 
 
 John Grundy, Esq. Hampton Court 
 Palace. 
 
 Edwin Guest, Esq. M.A. Fellow ^of 
 Caius Coll. Camb. 
 
 Sir John Guise, Bart. Rendcomb, 
 Gloucestershire. 
 
 JohnLewis Guillemard,M.A. F.R.S. 
 
 Daniel Gurney, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Hudson Gurney, Esq. V.P.S.A., 
 F.R.S. 
 
 The Hon. Sir John Gurney, one of 
 the Barons of the Exchequer, 
 d 
 
22 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 Rev. John Hampden Gurney, of 
 Lutterworth. 
 
 John Matthew Gutch, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Local Secretary at Worcester. 
 
 Mr. Henry Gwyn. 
 
 Miss Hackett, Crosby Square. 
 Professor F. H. v. der Hagen, Berlin. 
 William D. Haggard, Esq. F.S.A., 
 F.R.A.S., M.N.S. 
 
 Mr. David Haig, Advocates* Libra¬ 
 ry, Edinburgh. 
 
 Alexander Haldane, Esq. Barrister. 
 Sir Henry Halford, Bart. G.C.H. 
 M.D. F.R.S. Pres, of the College 
 of Physicians, and Physician to 
 the Queen. 
 
 Mr. Charles Hall, Blandford. 
 
 Rev. George W. Hall, D.D. Master 
 of Pembroke College, Oxford. 
 Giles Hall, Esq. Gloucester. 
 
 John Hall, Esq. South Audley-street. 
 John Charles Hall, Esq. 
 
 (c.) Thomas Henry Hall, F.R.S. 
 Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 Henry Hallam, Esq. M.A., F.R.'S. 
 Y.P.S.A. 
 
 Charles William Hallett, Esq. 
 
 James Orchard Halliwell, Esq. 
 F.R.S. English Correspondent of 
 the French Historical Committee 
 of Sciences. 
 
 William Richard Hamilton, Esq. 
 F.R.S., Y.P.S.A. 
 
 Robert Handyside, Esq. Advocate, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Philip Augustus Hanrott, Esq. F.S.A. 
 J. A. Hardcastle, Esq. 
 
 George Perfect Harding, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Joseph Harding, Esq. Finchley. 
 
 E. T. Harding, Esq. Librarian to 
 the King of Hanover. 
 
 John Stockdale Hardy, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Leicester. 
 
 Rev. Julius Charles Hare, M.A. 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 James Harfield, Esq. 
 
 Edward Harman, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. William Harness, M.A. 
 
 Robert Harris, Esq. Reading. 
 William Henry Harrison, Esq. 
 Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby, 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Marmaduke Hart Hart, Esq. 
 Solomon Asher Hart, Esq. R.A. 
 Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne, 
 M.A., F.S.A. 
 
 Lieut.-Col. Harvey, Thorpe Lodge, 
 Norfolk. 
 
 James Hastie, Esq. 
 
 Henry Hatcher, Esq. Local Secre¬ 
 tary at Salisbury. 
 
 Charles Havell, Esq. Reading. 
 
 Rev. Edward Hawkins, D.D. Pro¬ 
 vost of Oriel College, Oxford. 
 Edward Hawkins, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 Rev. EdwardCraven Hawtrey,D.D., 
 F.S.A., Head Master of Eton. 
 
 E. W. Drummond Hay, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Lond. and Sc. 
 
 William Goodenough Hayter, Esq. 
 
 M.P. Barrister-at-law. 
 
 Richard Heald, Esq. M.D. Spalding. 
 Rev. J. M. Heath, M.A. Fellow of 
 Trinity Coll. Camb. 
 
 John Benjamin Heath, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Sir William Heathcote,Bart. D.C.L. 
 M.P. 
 
 Henry Heintz, Esq. 
 
 Bathurst Hemans, Esq. Barrister- 
 at-Law. 
 
 Alexander Henderson, M.D., F.S.A. 
 James Henwood, Esq. Hull. 
 
 Hon. Algernon Herbert, M.A. 
 Thomas Hewitt, Esq. M.A. Cork. 
 Henry William Hewlett, Esq. 
 
MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 23 
 
 James Heywood, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 Thomas Heywood, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Ledbury. 
 
 George Hibbert, Esq. 
 
 Nathaniel Hibbert, Esq. Bushey. 
 
 George Hickman, Esq. Marlow. 
 
 Charles Longuet Higgins, Esq. 
 F.S.A. Turvey Abbey, Beds. 
 
 Rev. James Hildyard, M.A., Fellow 
 of Christ’s Coll. Cambridge. 
 
 Henry Hill, Esq. Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 (c.) Rev. Herbert Hill, Fellow of New 
 College, Oxford. 
 
 Jere Hill, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 Matthew D. Hill, Esq. Q.C. 
 
 Mr. Nathaniel Hill, Clerk to the 
 Royal Society of Literature. 
 
 Thomas Hill, Esq. 
 
 John Hills, Esq. M.A. 
 
 John Hodgson Hinde, Esq. M.P. 
 
 J. H. Hippisley, Esq. 
 
 Comite Historique de l’Admin. de 
 FInterieur de France. 
 
 Francis Hobler, jun. Esq. Sec.N.S. 
 
 Langford Lovel Hodge, Esq. 
 
 Sampson Hodgkinson, Esq. 
 
 Rev. John Hodgson,M.R.S.L. Vice- 
 Pres. Soc. Ant. Newc. 
 
 W. B. Hodgson, Esq. Liverpool. 
 
 James Maitland Hog, Esq. of New- 
 liston. 
 
 James Holding, Esq. Basingstoke. 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Holland, F.R.S., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 (c.) Robert Hollond, Esq. M.P., 
 M.A. Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 Richard Hollier, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Mr. M. M. Holloway. 
 
 Bryan Holme, Esq. New Inn. 
 
 Edward Holme, M.D. Manchester. 
 
 John Holmes, Esq. F.S.A. East 
 Retford. 
 
 John Holmes, Esq. F.S.A. British 
 Museum. * 
 
 Mr. W. Hood. 
 
 Frederick B. Hooper, Esq. Reading. 
 John Hooper, Esq. Reading. 
 Alexander Beresford Hope, Esq. 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 James Robert Hope, Esq. B.C.L. 
 
 Fellow of Merton Coll. Oxford. 
 John Hope, Esq. Dean of the Fa¬ 
 culty of Advocates, Edinburgh. 
 Charles Hopkinson, Esq. 
 
 William Hopkinson, Esq. Local 
 Secretary at Stamford. 
 
 Alfred T. Horwood, Esq. 
 
 William Hosking, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Abraham Howard, Esq. 
 
 Edward Howes, Esq. M.A. 
 
 Rev. F. Howes, M.A. Norwich. 
 John Hubback, Esq. Barrister-at- 
 Law. 
 
 Rev. John William Hughes, M.A. 
 
 Trin. Coll. Oxford. 
 
 William Hughes Hughes, Esq. M.P. 
 
 Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 The Hull Subscription Library. 
 William Powell Hunt, Esq. Ipswich. 
 Evan Haynes Hunter, Esq. B.A. 
 John Hunter, Esq. jun. W.S. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. 
 
 Mr. William Hurley. 
 
 Isaac Hurst, Esq. Bedford. 
 
 (c.) Rev. Robert Hussey, B.D. Stu¬ 
 dent of Christ Church, Oxford. 
 John Ibbotson, Esq. 
 
 Sir Robert Harry Inglis,Bart. LL.D. 
 F.R.S., F.S.A., M.P. for the Uni¬ 
 versity of Oxford. 
 
 (c.)Rev. James Ingram,D.D., F.S.A. 
 
 Presidentof Trin. Coll. Oxford. 
 David Irving,Esq. LL.D. Edinburgh. 
 John William Irving, Esq. Bristol. 
 
24 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 James Ivory, Esq. Solicitor-General 
 for Scotland. 
 
 The Islington Literary and Scientific 
 Society. 
 
 Henry Jackson, Esq. Sheffield. 
 
 Stephen Jackson, Esq.M.A. Ipswich. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Jackson, M.A. Incum¬ 
 bent of St. Peter’s, Mile End. 
 
 Rev. William Jacobson, M.A. Vice- 
 Principal of Magdalen Hall, Ox¬ 
 ford. 
 
 John Richmond JafFray, Esq. 
 
 David Jardine, Esq. Barrister-at-law. 
 
 Rev. Richard Jenkyns, D.D. Master 
 of Balliol Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Right Hon. Sir Herbert Jenner, 
 LL.D., Dean of the Arches. 
 
 Mr. Robert Jennings, Cheapside. 
 William Jerdan, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 J ames Jermyn, Esq. Reydon, Suffolk. 
 Edward Jesse, Esq. Hampton-court. 
 Mr. George J ames J ohnson, Reading. 
 Maurice Johnson, Esq. Spalding. 
 Charles Jones, Esq. 
 
 George Jones, Esq. R.A. 
 
 Michael Jones, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Pitman Jones, Esq. Local Secretary 
 at Exeter. 
 
 Richard Jones, Esq. 
 
 William Bruce Jones, Esq. M.A. 
 
 Oxford, Barrister-at-Law. 
 William Samuel Jones, Esq. 
 
 Henry Holmes Joy, Esq. Dublin. 
 Herr Theodor von Karajan, Hof- 
 kammer-Archives Beamte, Vienna, 
 Edwin Keats, Esq. 
 
 Fitzroy Kelly, Esq. M.P., G.C. 
 
 John M. Kemble, Esq. M.A. 
 
 Robert Palmer Kemp, Esq. Yar¬ 
 mouth. 
 
 Russell Kendallj Esq. Gifford’s Hall, 
 Stoke by Nay land, Suffolk. 
 
 Rev. George Kennard. 
 
 John Kenyon, Esq. 
 
 Philip Kernan, Esq. 
 
 James Kerr, Esq. Coventry. 
 
 Edward Key, Esq. Holbeach. 
 
 Richard T. Kindersley, Esq. Q.C. 
 
 Frederick King, Esq. Fulham. 
 
 Mr. John Venables King. 
 
 Richard John King, Esq. Exeter 
 College, Oxford. 
 
 T. King, Esq. St. John’s Wood. 
 
 Thomas W. King, Esq.F.S.A.Rouge 
 Dragon Pursuivant of Arms. 
 
 John Barnett Kington, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 George Ritchie Kinloch, Esq. Edinb. 
 
 Rev. W. M. Kinsey, B.D. Fellow of 
 Trinity College, Oxford. 
 
 Charles Knight, Esq. 
 
 Henry Gaily Knight, Esq. M.P., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 William Knight, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. Erskine Knollys, M.A. Merton 
 Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Charles Konig, Esq. K.H., F.R.S. 
 
 Dr. Kuenzel. Local Secretary at 
 Hesse Darmstadt. 
 
 Herr Matth. Kupitsch, Antiquarian 
 bookseller at Vienna. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Henry Labouchere, M.P. 
 
 Mons. P. Lacroix (Bibliophile Ja¬ 
 cob), Paris. 
 
 David Laing, Esq. F.S.A. L. & Sc. 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Rev. F. Laing, M.A. Tewkesbury. 
 
 Rev. John Lamb, D.D. Master of 
 Corpus Cliristi Coll. Camb. 
 
 Charles Landseer, Esq. A.R.A. 
 
 Charles Lane, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 John Newton Lane, Esq. King’s 
 Bromley Manor, Lichfield. 
 
 Robert Lang, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 William Lang, Esq. 
 
MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 25 
 
 Right Hon. Lord Langdale, Master 
 of the Rolls. 
 
 Arthur S. Larken, Esq. St. Alban’s 
 Hall, Oxford. 
 
 Rev. Lambert B. Larking, M.A. 
 Vicar of Ryarsh, Kent. 
 
 (c.) Dr. J. M. Lappenberg. Local 
 Secretary at Hamburgh. 
 
 Mons. de Larenaudiere, V.P. de la 
 Soc. de Geographic de Paris, Chev. 
 de la Legion d’Honneur, &c. 
 
 Andrew Lawson, Esq. Borough- 
 bridge. 
 
 William Lawson, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Robert Leadbitter, Esq. Newcastle. 
 
 Lt.-Col. Wm. Martin Leake, F.R.S. 
 
 John Lee, Esq. LL.D., Pr.Num. S., 
 Tr. Astr. Soc., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. J. E. Leefe. 
 
 P. Bainbridge Le Hunt, Esq. Ash¬ 
 bourne. 
 
 Robert Lemon, Esq. F.S.A. State 
 Paper Office. 
 
 Charles Lever, Esq. 
 
 Peter Levesque, Esq. 
 
 Rev. T. T. Lewis, M.A. Aymestry, 
 near Leominster. Local Secre¬ 
 tary. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Lewis, Fellow of Jesus 
 College, Oxford, Roehampton. 
 
 Mr. Lewis A. Lewis. 
 
 William Leycester, Esq. Cork. 
 
 The Rt. Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D. 
 Lord Bishop of Lichfield, F.S.A. 
 [Died Dec. 4, 1839.] 
 
 William Liddiard, Esq. 
 
 Alfred Lillingston, Esq. Southwold. 
 
 Mr. Limbird, Strand. 
 
 The Lincoln Permanent Library. 
 
 Mons. Le Roux de Lincy, Paris. 
 
 John Lindsay, Esq. Barrister-at- 
 Law, Maryville, Cork. 
 
 Rev. John Lingard, D.D. Hornby, 
 Lancashire. 
 
 Thomas Henry Lister, Esq. 
 
 The Hon. Sir Joseph Littledale, one 
 of the Judges of the Queen’s 
 Bench, M.A. 
 
 Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Llan- 
 dafF, Dean of St. Paul’s, F.S.A. 
 
 Edward John Lloyd, Esq. M.A. 
 Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 George Lloyd, Esq. 
 
 George Lloyd, Esq. Brynestyn, near 
 Wrexham. 
 
 William Horton Lloyd, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Mr. Richard Lloyd, Holloway. 
 
 R. W. Loadman, Esq. Chiswick. 
 
 Sir Joseph Lock, Oxford. 
 HenryF.Lockwood,Esq.F.S.A.Hull. 
 
 Rev. E. I. Lockwood, M.A. St. 
 Mary’s, Bedford. 
 
 Rev. John Lodge, M.A. Librarian of 
 the University of Cambridge. Lo¬ 
 cal Secretary at Cambridge. 
 
 The London Institution. 
 
 The City of London Literary and 
 Scientific Institution. 
 
 Charles Edward Long, Esq. 
 
 Rev. H. Longueville-Jones, M.A. 
 Paris. 
 
 Gwalter B. Lonsdale, Esq. 
 
 Rev. John Lonsdale, M.A. Preacher 
 of Lincoln’s Inn. 
 
 C. W. Loscombe, Esq. Clifton. 
 
 Henry Albert Loscombe, Esq. An¬ 
 dover. 
 
 Very Rev. Thomas Hill Lowe, M.A. 
 Dean of Exeter. 
 
 (c.) James Lucas,Esq. W.S. Stirling. 
 
 Samuel Lucas, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 Ebenezer Ludlow, Esq. M.A. Ser- 
 jeant-at-Law. 
 
 Edmund Ormond Lyne, Esq. 
 
26 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 Colin Campbell Macaulay, Esq. Lei¬ 
 cester. 
 
 John David Macbride, Esq. D.C.L. 
 
 Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxf. 
 Charles Mackay, Esq. 
 
 Andrew D. M’Kellar, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Charles Mackenzie, St.Olave’s, 
 Southwark. 
 
 J. Whitefoord Mackenzie, Esq. W.S. 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 James Macknight, Esq. W.S., Edin¬ 
 burgh. 
 
 Miss Macleod, Foley-place. 
 
 William McMahon, Esq. 
 
 The Hon. Alexander Maconochie, 
 Lord Meadowbank. 
 
 Allan A. Maconochie,Esq. Advocate. 
 
 James A. Maconochie, Esq. Advo¬ 
 cate, Sheriff of Orkney. 
 
 Robert Maconochie, Esq. Devon- 
 shire-place, London. 
 
 (c.) Sir Frederick Madden, K.H., 
 F.R.S. F.S.A. Keeper of the 
 MSS. in the British Museum. 
 James Maidment, Esq. F.S.A. Scot. 
 Rev. S. R. Maitland, Librarian to 
 the Archbishop of Canterbury. 
 
 Rev. Benjamin Heath Malkin,LL.D. 
 
 Edward Heath Mammett, Esq. 
 F.G.S. Ashby de la Zouche. 
 
 Thomas John Manchee, Esq. Bris¬ 
 tol. 
 
 Lord John Manners, Trinity Coll. 
 Camb. 
 
 Lord George John Manners, Trin. 
 Coll. Camb. 
 
 W. S. Mare, Esq. Magdalen College, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 James Heywood Markland, Esq. 
 F.R.S., F.S.A. Treasurer of the 
 Roxburgh e Club. 
 
 Rev. Herbert C. Marsh, M.A. Pre¬ 
 bendary of Peterborough. 
 
 Robert Marsham, Esq.D.C.L., War¬ 
 den of Merton College, Oxford. 
 
 George Martin, Esq. M.A. Cork. 
 
 James Martin, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 John Martin, Esq. F.L.S. Woburn. 
 
 Studley Martin, Esq. Liverpool. 
 
 Theodore Martin, Esq. Edinburgh. 
 
 P. Martineau, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Mason, Esq. Copt Hewick, 
 near Ripon. 
 
 Thomas Bardwell Mason, Esq. 
 
 William Matchett, Esq. Bracondale, 
 Norwich. 
 
 John Mee Mathew, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 William Constable Maxwell, Esq. 
 Everingham Park, Yorkshire. 
 
 Daniel Charles Meadows, Esq. Great 
 Bealing, Suffolk. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Medland, B.D., Fellow 
 of Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford. 
 
 (c.) David Melville, Esq.B.A. Brase- 
 nose Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Henry Alworth Merewether, Esq. 
 M.A., Serjeant-at-Law. 
 
 John Herman Merivale, Esq. 
 F.S.A. Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 Samuel Merriman, M.D. 
 
 A. G. F. Meyer, Counsellor of Jus¬ 
 tice, Hanover. 
 
 George Meynell, Esq. York. 
 
 Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, K.H., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Mons. Michelet, Memb. de Plnsti- 
 tut, Professeur d’Histoire au Col¬ 
 lege Royal de France. 
 
 John Miland, Esq. 
 
 Andrew Miller, Esq. Cardiff. 
 
 John Miller, Esq. M.D. Edinburgh. 
 
 William Henry Miller, Esq. M.P., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Samuel Mills, jun. Esq. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Mills, Rector of Stut- 
 ton, Suffolk. 
 
MEMBERS OF TIIE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839-40. 
 
 27 
 
 Rev. William Mills, D.D. Exeter. 
 
 Rev. Henry Hart Milman, M.A. 
 Prebendary of Westminster. 
 
 Le Ministre de ^Instruction Pub- 
 lique de France. 
 
 Thomas Mist, Esq. Fulham. 
 
 Richard Mitchell, Esq. Enderby 
 Hall, Leicestershire. 
 
 Henry Mitchison, Esq. V.P. of Is¬ 
 lington Lit. and Scient. Society. 
 
 Rev. John Mitford, M.A., Rector 
 of Benhall, Suffolk. 
 
 Nathaniel Cranch Moginie, Esq. 
 
 Mons. Monmerque, Membre de l’ln- 
 stitut de France. 
 
 John Moore, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Mr. John Moore, Tewkesbury. 
 
 Maurice Peter Moore, Esq. Sleaford. 
 
 Thomas Moore, Esq. Sloperton Cot¬ 
 tage, Devizes. 
 
 Thomas Moore, Esq. F.S.A. Stour 
 Lodge, Manningtree. 
 
 John Shank More, Esq. Advocate, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Edward Raleigh Moran, Esq. 
 
 Louis Selliers Chevalier de Moran- 
 ville. Amanuensis Imp. Library, 
 Vienna. 
 
 William Bowyer Morgan, Esq. 
 
 John Morice, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 W. C. Morland, Esq. 
 
 Mr. John Morris, Bath. 
 
 Rev. James Morton, B.D. Preben¬ 
 dary of Lincoln. Local Secretary 
 at Holbeach. 
 
 Mr. William Richard Morton. 
 
 Joseph Moule, Esq. Resident of the 
 General Post Office, Edinburgh. 
 
 Thomas Moule, Esq. 
 
 J. D. Moxon, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 James Patrick Muirhead, Esq. M.A. 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Baron Eligius von Munch-Belling- 
 hausen, Kh. Hof-Secretar, Vienna. 
 The Right Hon. the Earl of Munster, 
 F.R.S., V.P.A.S., M.R.S.L. 
 
 Rev. Jerom Murch, Bath. 
 
 Charles Robert Scott Murray, Esq. 
 
 Christ Church, Oxford. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Sir John Archibald Mur¬ 
 ray, one of the Lords of Session 
 in Scotland. 
 
 J ohn Murray, Esq. Albemarle-s treet. 
 Thomas Murray, Esq. LL.D. Edin¬ 
 burgh. 
 
 Sir Francis W. Myers, K.C.S. Pent- 
 low Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. 
 Peter Rickards Mynors, Esq. 
 Samuel Naylor, Esq. 
 
 (c.) T. C. Neale, Esq. Chelmsford. 
 Richard Neave, jun. Esq. 
 
 John Nedham, Esq. Leicester. 
 Joseph Neeld, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 John Newman, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Charles Thomas Newton, Esq. B.A. 
 
 Student of Christ Church, Oxf. 
 Iltyd Nicholl, Esq. Usk, near Mon¬ 
 mouth. 
 
 Mrs. S. Nichols, Highbury Place. 
 
 J. Bowyer Nichols, Esq. F.S.A. 
 John Gough Nichols, Esq. F.S.A., 
 Treasurer of the Surtees Society. 
 Rev. William L. Nichols, M.A. 
 
 Local Secretary at Bath. 
 Alexander Nicholson, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Lond. and Scotl., Ufford, Suffolk. 
 George Stewart Nicholson, Esq. 
 George Barons Northcote, Esq. Exe¬ 
 ter College, Oxford. 
 
 The Rev. George Fred. Nott, D.D. 
 
 F.S.A. Winchester. 
 
 Nicholas Nugent, Esq. M.D. 
 
28 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 Rev. George Oliver, Exeter. 
 
 George Ormerod, Esq. D.C.L. 
 F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 Thomas Osier, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 Frederick Ottley, Esq. Barrister-at- 
 Law. 
 
 Henry Ottley, Esq. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, G.C.H. 
 F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 Frederick Ouvry, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Peter Ouvry, M.A. 
 
 The Oxford and Cambridge Club. 
 
 Cornelius Paine, jun. Esq. 
 
 William Dunkley Paine, Esq. 
 
 Samuel Alexander Pagan, Esq. 
 
 Peter Page, Esq, East Sheen. 
 
 Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H. F.R.S., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Alfred Zouch Palmer, Esq. Sonning, 
 Berks. 
 
 Arthur Palmer, Esq. Barrister-at- 
 Law, Bristol. 
 
 Arthur Hare Palmer, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 Charles Johq Palmer, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Local Secretary at Yarmouth . 
 
 Henry Andrewes Palmer, Esq. Bris¬ 
 tol. 
 
 John Palmer, Esq. Dorney Court, 
 Windsor. 
 
 Rev. William Palmer, M.A., Wor¬ 
 cester College, Oxford. 
 
 The Hon. Sir James Parke, Knt. 
 one of the Barons of the Ex¬ 
 chequer. 
 
 Charles Parker, Esq. 
 
 John Henry Parker, Esq. Oxford. 
 
 John W. Parker, Esq. West Strand. 
 
 Kenyon S. Parker, Esq. 
 
 Joseph Parkes, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Richard Parkinson, Fellow of 
 Christ Church, Manchester. 
 
 Thomas Parry, Esq. 
 
 John Parsons, Esq. Oxford. 
 
 The Hon. Sir John Patteson, one 
 of the Judges of the Court of 
 Queen’s Bench, M.A. 
 
 J acob H o well Pattison, Esq. Witham, 
 Essex. 
 
 Rev. Frederick Pawsey, B.A. Vicar 
 of Wilhelmsted, Beds. 
 
 Mr. J. G. Payne, Wallingford. 
 
 John Thos. Payne, Esq. Pall Mall. 
 
 Anthony Peacock, Esq. 
 
 Rev. J. R. Pears, Bath. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Peel, M.P., 
 F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 Henry Penn, Esq. Great Ealing. 
 
 Thomas Pemberton, Esq. Q.C. 
 M.P. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Penrose, D.C.L. Shaw 
 Place, Berks. 
 
 Rev. Charles Peny, M.A. Fellow 
 and Tutor of Trinity Coll. Camb. 
 
 Alexander Peterkin, Esq.Edinburgh. 
 
 Mr. J. Petheram. 
 
 LouisHayes Petit, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, Esq. 
 F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 W. V. Pettigrew, Esq. M.D. 
 
 Joseph Philips, Esq. Leicester. 
 
 Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart. F.R.S., 
 F.S.A. 
 
 Johnson Phillott, Esq. Bath. 
 
 Mr. Wm. Pickering, Chancery Lane. 
 
 Rev. John Piccope, Manchester. 
 
 Henry Clark Pidgeon, Esq. 
 
 Simon Fraser Piggott, Esq. Barris- 
 ter-at-Law. 
 
 John Pitcairn, Esq. 
 
 (c.) Robert Pitcairn, Esq. F.S.A. Scot. 
 
 Jas. Robinson Planche, Esq. F.S.A, 
 
MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 40 . 
 
 29 
 
 Thomas Joshua Platt, Esq. Q.C. 
 
 Charles limes Pocock, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 Lewis Pocock, Esq. 
 
 George Pococke, Esq. 
 
 Edward Polhill, Esq. F.S.A. Brigh¬ 
 ton. 
 
 James Prince Pollard, Esq. 
 
 William G. Ponsonby, Esq. M.A. 
 Gray’s Inn. 
 
 Thomas Ponton, Esq. M.A. F.S.A. 
 
 Rev.Edw. A. Powell, M.A. Ampthill. 
 
 John Powell Powell, Esq. Quex 
 Park, Thanet. 
 
 Right Hon. the Earl of Powis, Pre¬ 
 sident of the Roxburghe Club. 
 
 CharlesPoynder,Esq. Henley-upon- 
 Tliames. 
 
 Samuel P. Pratt, Esq. Bath. 
 
 Rev. Jermyn Pratt, Rector of Camp- 
 sey Ash, Suffolk. 
 
 (c.) Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx, 
 Esq. Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Price, D.D. Hackney. 
 
 Richard Price, Esq. M.P. 
 
 S. Price, Esq. Bristol. 
 
 Rev. George Proctor, D.D. 
 
 G. H. Proctor, Esq. Balliol College, 
 Oxford. 
 
 Robert Proctor, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Prothero, Esq. 
 
 EdwardProtheroe, Esq. M.P. F.S.A. 
 
 Marlborough Pryer, Esq. Hamp¬ 
 stead. 
 
 James Brook Pulham, Esq. 
 
 Hamilton Pyper, Esq. Advocate, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Rackett, F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 
 Madame la Marechale Duchesse de 
 Raguse. 
 
 Henry Raikes, Esq. Chester. 
 
 J. M. Rainbow, Esq. 
 
 Rev. James Raine, M.A. F.S.A. 
 Newc. Secretary of the Surtees 
 Society. 
 
 Charles Ranken, Esq. Gray’s Inn. 
 Francis Harrison Rankin, Esq. 
 F.R.G.S. Local Secretary at Li¬ 
 verpool. 
 
 Christopher Rawson, Esq. F.G.S. 
 President of the Halifax Literary 
 and Philosophical Society. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Bancroft Reade, M.A. 
 F.R.S. Peckham. 
 
 Richard Reece, Esq. F.S.A. Cardiff. 
 Rev. Thomas Rees, LL.D., F.S.A. 
 Henry Reeve, Esq. Office of Her 
 Majesty’s Privy Council. 
 
 The Baron de Reiffenberg, F.M.S.A. 
 Thomas Charles Renshaw, Esq. 
 B arrister-at- Law. 
 
 John Adey Repton, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Springfield, Chelmsford. 
 
 Francis Riddell Reynolds, Esq. Yar¬ 
 mouth. 
 
 George Ambrose Rhodes, Esq. Bell- 
 air, Devon. 
 
 (c.) Edward Priest Richards, Esq. 
 Cardiff. 
 
 John Richards, Esq. Reading. 
 
 John Richards, jun. Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Local Secretary at Reading. 
 Charles James Richardson, Esq. 
 George Gibson Richardson, Esq. 
 Lawford Richardson, Esq. Black- 
 heath. 
 
 Charles Rickards, Esq. 
 
 Samuel Rickards, Esq. 
 
 Edward Widdrington Riddell, Esq. 
 James Ritchie, Esq. Wrentham, 
 Suffolk. 
 
 Charles Julius Roberts, Esq. M.D. 
 Richard Robert Roberts, Esq. 
 Archibald Robertson, Esq. Surgeon 
 R.N. Chatham. 
 
 e 
 
30 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1830 - 40 . 
 
 John Robertson, Esq. W.S. Edin¬ 
 burgh. 
 
 Mr. Edward Robinson, Grundis- 
 burgh, Suffolk. 
 
 Charles Shackelford Robinson, Esq. 
 Reading. 
 
 Rev. C. W. Robinson, Prestwold, 
 Leicestershire. 
 
 Henry Crabb Robinson, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 William Robinson, Esq. LL.D. 
 
 F.S.A. Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 William Robinson, Esq. Dudley. 
 John Roby, Esq. M.R.S.L. 
 
 Rev. Daniel Rock, D.D. 
 
 Mr. Rodwell, New Bond street. 
 Henry Rogers, Esq. Birmingham. 
 Rev. John Rogers, M.A. Canon of 
 Exeter. 
 
 Samuel Rogers, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 John Gage Rokewode, Esq. 
 
 F.R.S. Director S.A. 
 
 Sir Robert Monsey Rolfe, M.P. So¬ 
 licitor-General. 
 
 Wm. Henry Rolfe, Esq. Sandwich. 
 John Romilly, Esq. M.A. Barrister- 
 at-Law. 
 
 Rev. A. U. H. Rose, M.A. St. John’s 
 Coll. Camb. . 
 
 Sir George Rose, F.R.S. 
 
 Rev. Henry John Rose, B.D. Rector 
 of Houghton Conquest, Beds. 
 William Henry Rosser, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Mayer Anselm de Rothschild, Esq. 
 Trin. Coll. Camb. 
 
 Rev. Martin Joseph Routh, D.D. 
 
 President of Magdalen Coll. Oxf. 
 James Yeales Row, Esq. 
 
 Edward Rudge, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. 
 John Ruskin, Esq. Christ Ch. Oxf. 
 The Russell Institution. 
 
 James Russell, Esq. Barrister at Law. 
 
 Rev. John Fuller Russell, B.C.L. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Russell, Walworth. 
 
 William Russell, Esq. Accountant 
 General in Chancery. 
 
 The Right Hon. Andrew Ruther- 
 furd, Lord Advocate for Scotland. 
 
 His Grace the Duke of Rutland, K.G. 
 D.C.L., Y.P.R.S.L. 
 
 Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart. [Died 
 Aug. 10, 1839.] 
 
 Rev. Richard J. St. Aubyn, B.A. 
 Trin. Coll. Camb. 
 
 Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salis¬ 
 bury. 
 
 William Salt, Esq. 
 
 Anthony Salvin, Esq. 
 
 Wenman Langham Watson Sam- 
 well, Esq. Upton Hall, North¬ 
 amptonshire. 
 
 William Sandys, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Wm. Devonshire Saull, Esq. F.G.S. 
 
 Mrs. Daniel E. Saunders, Gloucester. 
 
 John Saunders, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Saunders, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Thomas Field Savory, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Charles Stoddart Say, Esq. 
 
 Edward Scholfield, M.D. Doncaster. 
 
 Yen. Archdeacon Scott, Whitfield, 
 N ortliumberland. 
 
 D. G. Scott, Esq. Ipswich. 
 
 James John Scott, Esq. 
 
 (c.) Rev. Robert Scott, M.A. Fellow 
 of Balliol Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Edward Cator Seaton, M.D. Roches¬ 
 ter. 
 
 William Selwyn, Esq. Q..C. 
 
 Mr. Setchell. 
 
 Rev. William Sewell, M.A. Fellow 
 of Exeter College, and Professor 
 of Moral Philosophy, Oxford. 
 
MEMBERS OF TIIE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839-40. 
 
 31 
 
 William Shacltell, Esq. M.R.S.L. 
 Hammersmith. 
 
 Right Hon. Sir Lancelot Shadwell, 
 Vice-Chancellor of England, M.A. 
 
 Sir Cuthbert Sharp, Knt. 
 
 Rev. Lancelot Sharpe, M.A. Camb. 
 F.S.A. Head Master of St. Sa¬ 
 viour’s School, Southwark. 
 
 Sutton Sharpe, Esq. F.S.A. Barris- 
 ter-at- Law. 
 
 George Shaw, Esq. M.D. Leicester. 
 
 Henry Shaw, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 William Shaw, Esq. 
 
 Daniel Shears, Esq. jun. 
 
 Robert Shelley, Esq. 
 
 Samuel Shepherd, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 W. H. Sheppard, Esq. Keyford 
 House, Frome. 
 
 Mr. William Shipp, Blandford. 
 
 Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq. M.A. 
 Eatington Park, Warwickshire. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Short, B.D. Fellow of 
 Trinity Coll. Oxford. 
 
 Right Hon. the Earl of Shrews¬ 
 bury, F.S.A. 
 
 — Siemsen, Secretary of the Royal 
 Library, Hanover. 
 
 John Augustus Francis Simpkinson, 
 Esq. M.A., G.C., F.S.A. 
 
 Jeremiah Simpson, Esq. Temple. 
 
 John Simpson, LL.D. Worcester. 
 
 Samuel Weller Singer, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Edward Skegg, Esq. F.R.G.S. 
 
 Edward Skegg, Esq. jun. 
 
 Mr. George Smeeton. 
 
 Alex. A. Smets, Esq. Savanna, 
 Georgia. 
 
 Edward Smirke, Esq. M.A. 
 
 Sir Robert Smirke, R.A., F.S.A. 
 
 Sydney Smirke, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Alexander Smith, Esq. Edinburgh. 
 
 Benwell Smith, Esq. 
 
 Charles Roach Smith, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Mr. George Smith. 
 
 George Frederick Smith, Esq. 
 
 John Abel Smith, Esq. M.P. 
 
 Rev. J. J. Smith, M.A. Fellow of 
 Caius Coll. Camb. 
 
 Mr. John Russell Smith. 
 
 Newman Smith, Esq. 
 
 Richard John Smith, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Smith, Esq. F.S.A. Local 
 Secretary at Leicester. 
 
 William Smyth, Esq. M.A. Prof, of 
 Modern History, Cambridge. 
 William Henry Smyth, Esq. Capt. 
 R. N. K.S.F., F. R. S., M.R.I.A. 
 F.S.A., &c. Local Secretary at 
 Cardiff. 
 
 William Smythe, Esq. Advocate, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Dr. F. Snaith, Holbeach. 
 
 Mr. John Snare, Reading. 
 
 Rev. Walter Sneyd, M.A. Christ 
 Church, Oxford. 
 
 S. Leigh Sotheby, Esq. 
 
 Robert Southey, Esq. LL.D. Poet 
 Laureate. 
 
 J. W. Southgate, Esq. Camberwell. 
 Rev. George Southwell, B.A. Bristol. 
 William Spalding, Esq. Advocate, 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Charles Spence, Esq. Local Secre¬ 
 tary at Rochester. 
 
 Andrew Spottiswoode, Esq. 
 
 George James Squibb, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Stacey, M.A. Cardiff. 
 Colonel Stanhope. 
 
 Thomas Stapleton, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart. 
 
 D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 Rev. William Staunton, Longbridge 
 House, near Warwick. 
 
 G. Steinman Steinman, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
32 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 Archibald John Stephens, Esq. 
 
 M.A., F.R.S. Barrister-at-Law. 
 Seth William Stevenson, Esq. Local 
 Secretary at Norwich. 
 
 Mr. C. J. Stewart. 
 
 John Stirling, Esq. Edinburgh. 
 
 (c.) Rev. Charles William Stocker, 
 D.D. St. John’s Coll. Oxford. 
 George Stokes, Esq. Colchester. 
 Henry Sewell Stokes, Esq. Local 
 Secretary at Truro. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Streatfeild, F.S.A. 
 
 Chart’s Edge, Westerham. 
 
 Rev. H. Street, Clifton. 
 
 Miss Agnes Strickland, Reydon Hall, 
 Suffolk. 
 
 Eustacius Strickland, Esq. Barrister- 
 at-Law. [Died May 4, 1840.] 
 
 (c.) Rev. Joseph Stroud, M.A. Wad- 
 ham College, Oxford. 
 
 John Stuart, Esq. Q.C. 
 
 John J. J. Sudlow, V. P. of the 
 Islington Lit. and Scient. Society. 
 Mr. R. Sunter, York. 
 
 Rev. Charles Sutton, D.D. Norwich. 
 Edward Swaine, Esq. F.S.S. 
 Clement Tudway Swanston, Esq. 
 Q.C., F.S.A. 
 
 (c.) Sir John Edw. Swinburne, Bart. 
 
 F.R.S., F.S.A., Pr.S.Ant.Newc. 
 Mr. John Sydenham, Fordington, 
 Dorchester. 
 
 Rev. Edward Tagart, F.S.A. 
 Thomas Noon Talfourd, Esq. M.P. 
 
 Serjeant-at-Law. 
 
 Michael Anne Tasburgh, Esq. 
 Arthur Taylor, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Edward Taylor, Esq. 
 
 John Sydney Taylor, Esq. Barrister- 
 at-Law. 
 
 Richard Taylor, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Mr. John Taylor, Gower-street. 
 
 W. B. Sarsfield Taylor, Esq. 
 
 Mons. Techener, Paris. 
 
 John Godfrey Teed, Esq. Bencher 
 of Gray’s Inn. 
 
 Joseph Francis Tempest, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Christopher Temple, Esq. Q.C. 
 
 James Emerson Tennent, Esq. M.P. 
 Barrister-at-Law. 
 
 Mons. H. Ternaux-Compans, Paris. 
 
 Mons. Alexandre Teulet, Employe 
 aux Archives. Local Secretary 
 at Paris. 
 
 Robert Thackthwaite, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Thane, Esq. 
 
 Frederick Thesiger, Esq. M.P. Q.C. 
 
 Benj amin Coffin Thomas, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Malmesbury. [Died Jan. 28,1840.] 
 
 Mr. B. Thomas, Cheltenham. 
 
 William J. Thoms, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Secretary. 
 
 Jonathan Thompson, Esq. Temple 
 Grove, East Sheen. 
 
 Rev. W.H. Thompson, M.A. Fellow 
 of Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 
 Thomas Thomson, Esq. Advocate, 
 Pres, of the Bannatyne Club. 
 
 Lieut.-Gen. William Thornton. 
 
 Yen. Thomas Thorp, D.D. Arch¬ 
 deacon of Bristol. 
 
 Benjamin Thorpe, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Joseph Win Thrupp, Esq. 
 
 Sir Matthew Tierney, Bart. M.D. 
 
 Right Hon. Sir Nicholas Conyng- 
 ham Tindal, Chief Justice of the 
 Common Pleas, M.A. 
 
 Rev. William Walter Tireman, M.A. 
 Fellow of Magdalen Coll. Oxford. 
 
 (c.) William Tite, Esq. F.R.S., 
 F.S.A., Pres. Architectural So¬ 
 ciety, Hon. Sec. of the London 
 Institution. 
 
MEMBERS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839 - 40 . 
 
 33 
 
 The Ven. Henry John Todd, M.A. 
 
 Archdeacon of Cleveland, F.S.A. 
 Rev. James H.Todd, B.D.,M.R.I.A. 
 
 Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 Mr. F. G. Tomlins. 
 
 William Tooke, Esq. F. R. S., 
 M.R S.L., Vice-Pres. of the Soc. 
 of Arts,Treas. of Univ.Coll.Lond., 
 and of the Lit. Fund Society. 
 Charles Towneley, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 John Towneley, Esq. 
 
 R. E. A. Townsend, Esq. Doctors’ 
 Commons. 
 
 (c.) Rev. J. Montgomery Traherne, 
 M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 
 Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Esq. 
 F.S.A. Newc. Wallington, Nor¬ 
 thumberland. 
 
 William Edward Trotter, Esq. 
 
 W. J. A. Tucker, Esq. 
 
 Charles A. Tulk, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Turnbull, Esq. 
 
 William B. D. D. Turnbull, Esq. 
 F.S.A. Sc. Local Secretary at 
 Edinburgh. 
 
 Alfred Turner, Esq. 
 
 Dawson Turner, Esq. F.R.S., F.S.A. 
 Great Yarmouth. 
 
 Francis Turner, Esq. Barrister-at- 
 Law. 
 
 Rev. George T. Turner. 
 
 Robert S. Turner, Esq. 
 
 Gen.Sir T.HilgroveTurner, G.C.H., 
 K.S.A., K.C., F.S.A. 
 
 T. Hudson Turner, Esq. Chelsea. 
 Rev. Charles Turnor, B.A., F.S.A., 
 F.R.A.S. 
 
 Travers Twiss, Esq. B.C.L., F.R.S., 
 Fellow of University College, Oxf. 
 William Twopeny, Esq. Barrister- 
 at-Law, Temple. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Tylecote, B.D. Rector 
 of Marston, Beds. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Tymms, Hertford. 
 
 (c.) Edward Tyrrell, Esq. City Re¬ 
 membrancer, Guildhall. 
 
 William Tyson, Esq. F.S.A. Bristol. 
 
 (c.) J. R. D. Tyssen, Esq. F.S.A. 
 Hackney. 
 
 Adam Urquhart, Esq. Advocate. 
 
 Edw. Vernon Utterson, Esq. 
 
 F.S.A. 
 
 M. A art Veder, Rotterdam. 
 
 The Right Hon. Lord Vernon. 
 
 William Vines, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Gabriel Vrignon, Esq. 
 
 Rev. Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth, 
 Peldon rectory, Colchester. 
 
 Mr. Charles Waine, Blandford. 
 
 Reader Wainewright, Esq. Barrister- 
 at-Law, F.S.A. 
 
 Robert W ake, Esq. South wold. 
 
 Daniel Wakefield, Esq. Gt.C. 
 
 Francis Pearson Walesby, Esq. 
 B.C.L. Barrister-at-Law, and late 
 Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the 
 Univ. of Oxford. 
 
 D. M. Walker, Esq. Gloucester. 
 
 John Walker, Esq. Cornhill, Nor¬ 
 thumberland. 
 
 Rev. Robert Walker, M.A. Wadham 
 College, Oxford. 
 
 Rev. Henry Wall, M.A., Vice-Prin¬ 
 cipal of St. Alban Hall, Oxford. 
 
 Lionel A. B. Waller, Esq. 
 
 T. G, Waller, Esq. Barrister-at- 
 Law. 
 
 William Elvard Walmisley, Esq. 
 
 James Walsh, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
 Edward Walsh, Esq. 
 
 Henry Walter, Esq. The Willows, 
 Windsor. 
 
 Rev. Jonathan Walton, D.D. Rector 
 of Birdbrook, Essex. 
 
 William Wansey, Esq. F.S.A. 
 
34 
 
 MEMBERS OF TI1E CAMDEN SOCIETY, 1839-40. 
 
 Rev. Charles Ward, M.A. Rector of 
 Maulden, Beds. 
 
 Henry Ward, Esq. Hayes, Kent. 
 
 John Ward, Esq. Durham. 
 
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