Friday, 6 September 2013

Ingatestone and The Great Essex Road (1): Contents and Illustrations listing

‘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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