‘Ingatestone and The Great
Essex Road’ by E E Wilde (with four chapters on the early history by Mrs
Archibald Christy) was published in 1913.
Even though it is now a hundred years old, the book contains a wide
range of items of historical interest, as a copy of the Contents and
Illustrations pages show.
CONTENTS
PART I
A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY
HISTORY OF INGATESTONE AND FRYERNING
BY MRS. ARCHIBALD CHRISTY
CHAPTER I. BEFORE THE SAXONS …
3
II. THE MONTFICHETS … 10
III. THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS AND OTHERS … 20
IV. GINGATTESTONE MONASTERY … 30
PART II. THE PARISHES
BY E. E. WILDE
CHAPTER I. THE CHURCHES AND
WORSHIP • 49
II. FRYERNING CHURCH . • 61
III. INGATESTONE CHURCH • 71
IV. THE FONTS . . • 84
V. BELLS AND BELL-FOUNDING • 98
VI. BRASSES AT FRYERNING . 107
VII. FRYERNING RECTORS, 1195-1687 110
VIII. RECTOR D'OYLEY AND HIS PARISHIONERS •
136
IX. FRYERNING RECTORS, 1733-1913 . • 146
X. INGATESTONE RECTORS, 1370-1913 . • 164
XI. THE REGISTERS . . . • 193
XII. INSCRIPTIONS ON MONUMENTS AND TOMBSTONES
• 205
XIII. OTHER CHURCHES . 221
XIV. CHARITIES . 225
XV. SIR WILLIAM PETRE 229
XVI. THE PETRE FAMILY 237
XVII. PETRE MONUMENTS 251
XVIII. DANIEL SUTTON AND INOCULATION 260
XIX. SUTTON, HIS HOUSES AND HIS FAMILY 271
XX. HOUSES . . . 278
XXI. INNS AND TRADE TOKENS 320
XXII. NATURE . 335
XXIII. DIALECT WORDS 345
xii CONTENTS
PART III. THE GREAT EAST ROAD
CHAPTER I. EARLY DAYS . . 349
II. TUDOR AND STUART DAYS 360
III. As
OTHERS SEE US . 368
IV. TWO QUEENS AND A PRIZE FIGHT 376
V. PASSERS BY . 389
PART IV. PAST ANDI FUTURE
CHAPTER I. YESTERDAY . • 399
II. TO-MORROW . 406
APPENDIX
A. EXTRACTS FROM CHARTERS AND
OTHER DOCUMENTS • 409
B. FRYERNING CHURCH
RESTORATION ACCOUNTS • 412
C. LISTS OF RECTORS, PRIESTS,
AND MINISTERS . • 413
D. EXTRACTS FROM RECTOR
HAWDEN'S WILL. RECTOR RALPH'S BOOKS .. • 416
E. NOTES ON REGISTERS, BY THE
REV. O. W. TANCOCK, AND EXTRACTS FROM INGATESTONE REGISTERS • 418
F. CHARITIES . 454
G. FRYERNING FIELD-NAMES • 463
H. FRYERNING VESTRY ACCOUNTS *
. .468
I. EXTRACTS FROM FRYERNING
MANOR COURT ROLLS * AND ARCHDEACON'S BOOKS 471
K. A. E. I. O. U. . 475
L. NAMES OF PARISHES AND
HOUSES FOUND IN OLD MAPS, DEEDS, AND BOOKS 475
M. NOTES ON INGATESTONE CHURCH
PLATE, BY THE REV. W. J. PRESSEY • 477
INDEX OF NAMES • 478
SUBJECT INDEX . • 487
* We only had access to these
after the book was in the hands of the Printer. See Preface.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
I am indebted to several
friends for many of the pictures, and to them I tender my sincere thanks.
1. Sir William Petre, from
Holbein's painting at Thorndon Hall. Donald Macbeth. Frontistiece
2. Seal of Barking Abbey 11
3. Ingatestone Church, showing
entrance to Rood-loft E. E. W. 53
4. Fryerning Church . , Mr. E.
H. N. Wilde. 61
5. Fryerning Church. Interior “
65
6. Fryerning Church
Plate" 70
7. Ingatestone Church . . E.
E.W. 71
8. Ingatestone Church. Nave
with hour-glass 74
9. Fryerning Font. Sun, Moon,
and Stars . 84
10. “ Tree of Jesse .. 84
11. “ Vine . . 91
12. “ Cross and Crown . 91
13. Abbess Roding Font. The
Eight Stars . 93
14. “ The Four Planets in
Earth's shadow 93
15. “ Vine 93
16. Little Laver Font. The
Seven Planets and Lilies 94
17. “ Vine and Rose and Hortus
Inclusus 94
18.. Blackmore Church . . . .
. . 103
19. Blackmore. Tomb of Thomas
and Margaret Smyth (d. 1594) Miss G. A.Jones 103
20. Fryerning Church. Berners
Brass . . Mr. Miller Christy 107
21. “,(Fragments) 107
22. Fryerning Register.
Rector's and Churchwardens' signatures Mr. E.H.N. Wilde 193
23. lngatestone Register . . .
. E. E. W. 203
24. Fryerning Churchyard, with
Disney Tomb 205
25. lngatestone Church. Petre
Monument . 205
26. Ginge Petre Hospital . .
Mr. E. H. N. Wilde 225
27. Sir William Petre's Tomb
in Ingatestone Church 229
28. lngatestone Hall . E. E.
W. 236
29. Sir William Petre 251
30. Dame Anne Petre Mr. E. H.
N. Wilde 252
31. Lord Petre's Monument in
Ingatestone Church Vestry E. E. W . 253
32. Daniel Sutton (from a Pastel
Drawing) Arthur V Elsden 271
33. Fryerning Hall. Oak Room .
E.E.W.
279
34. “ Oak Bedroom . . “ 280
35. “ Linen-fold Panelling Miss N M Wood
281
36. “ Oak Moulding and Panelling “ 281
37. Fryerning-Hall. From
garden . Mrs Rankin 282
38. Burrins Pond, Furze Hall .
.E.E.W. 282
39. Furze Halll . . . Mr E. H.
N. Wilde 287
40. Dutch Fire-back.
Ingatestone Grange Mr J P T
Foster 289
41. Huskards . . Mrs
Rankin 290
42. Fryerning Parish Room . . “
290
43. Thomas Hollis (from a
painting made in by Rome by R. Wilson) . .E.E.W.
293
44. Thomas Brand Hollis (from a drawing by Pozzi) Donald
Macbeth 294
45. Ingatestone Hall E.E.W.
299
46. “ Facing the Lime-Walk “ 303
47. “ Entrance Gate . “ 304
48. “ Old Barn “ 305
49. Old Mill Green House (from
an old sand picture in the possession of Mr. Clift) E.E.W.
308
50. St. Leonards . Mr R Miller
313
51. Potter's Row Farm, Mill
Green . E.E.W. 317
52. Seventeenth-century
Mantelpiece, with Eighteenth-century Hot-Air Stove, Eagle Inn . “ 327
53. Eighteenth-century Stove, “ 327
54. “ 327
55. Ingatestone High Street
(from an old print) Mr. E. H. N. Wilde 329
56. Ingatestone Tradesmen's
Tokens (seventeenth century) Donald Macbeth
333
57. Hall Mark on Fryerning
Paten Mr. E. H. N. Wilde 333
58. Great Oak and Fryeming
Hall E. E. W. 336
59. Old Cottages, Beggar
Hill “
349
60. Fryerning Fair . . . Mrs.
Rankin 362
61. Will Kempec and Tom Slye .
Miss N. M. Wood 362
62. Ingatestone, from Churchyard
E. E. W. 370
63. Ingatestone Street, with
Bell Inn . . “ 370
64. Old Cottages in
Ingatestone Street, formerly Poor House Miss D. Rock 399
65. Joseph Poole, clerk, and
William Asher, sexton, Ingatestone (from old photograph) Fred Spalding & Sons,
Chelmsford 400
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS XV
MAPS AND PLANS
I. Map of Ingatestone and
Fryerning
2. Plan of Hide Hall in 1731
(from an old plan in the possession of Mr Norton Disney) Mr. Donald Salter 299
3. Map of Eastern Counties
River Basins (by kind permission of Dr. H R Mill and the British Rainfall
Organization) . 339
4. Map of Afternoon Storms of
June 24, 1897 Mr. Donald Salter 344
5. Ogilvy’s Road Map, c. 1722
. . . . E. E. W. 368
6. Map of Essex, by Thomas Kitchen
(from England illustrated, 1764) at end.
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