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Mountnessing: V2 Rocket

Received via Blogger enquiry: 10 October 2013

I lived in Mountnessing from 1939 until I married in 1962. I was sitting cleaning the mud off my shoes very close to where the V2 rocket came down, as were several children.  It was nice to read your account which brought back many memories.Brenda

Regards,

Littlejohns. nee Dawson

Replied: 11 October 2013

Thank you for your e mail.  As a child in the 1970s I remember going to Lodge Wood and being shown a crater caused by one of those unmanned weapons of war.

Regards

Andrew

Inscription on Chelmsford Cathedral

Received: 13 October 2013

Hello Andrew.  I am trying to get the correct wording for an inscription found on the exterior of the Nave of St. Mary the Virgin’s cathedral in Chelmsford.  Can you help?  Thank you.

Al DeFilippo

Replied: 13 October 2013

Hello Al

When you mean the exterior of the nave (which is the main body inside in the church flanked by aisles) are you referring to the outside of the C15 building?  Also, what do you think the wording might be?

I have a very old book on St Mary’s Church Chelmsford as it was before 1914 so might, at a long shot, be able to help.

But I need a bit more to go on please.

Regards

Andrew

Received: 13 October 2013

Thank you Andrew.  At British History Online they list it partially as the following: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=122620

Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Virgin (Plate p. 42) stands in the town. The walls are of flint-rubble intermixed with some blocks of freestone; the dressings are partly of limestone and partly of Reigate stone; the roofs are leaded. The old details are all of the 15th or early 16th century. The S. and W. arches of the North Chapel and the W. arch of the S. chapel are of c. 1400–1410, indicating that at that period the plan included at least a Chancel, North Chapel, North Aisle, and South Aisle. Probably c. 1430 the South Chapel was added or re-built. The South Porch was added in the second half of the century, and c. 1489 the N. and S. arcades were re-built and a clearstorey added to the nave. The exterior of the nave is said to have borne the following inscription: "Pray for the good estate of all the townsheps of Chelmysford that hath . . . good willers and procorers of helpers to this werke and . . . them that first began and longest shall continowe . . . in the yere of our Lorde I thousand IIII hundreth [LXXXV]IIII." 

Al DeFilippo

Replied: 20 October 2013

Dear Al

Thinking about your query a little more I remembered that the Nave collapsed in 1800 and was rebuilt.  So the inscription would no longer exist.  I happened to be at Chelmsford Cathedral last evening (at a concert of The Sixteen directed by Harry Christophers) and looked up as I queued before the doors opened.  No inscription now exists it seems.  The Historic Monuments List – which you refer to – mentions the nave collapse later in the paragraph.

I attach an engraving of the damage caused at the time.

Regards

Andrew

Ingatestone: Foreman Family

Received: 27 August 2013

Just spent a lovely half hour reading about Ingatestone and Shenfield on your website.

Stephen Foreman who was baptised at Shenfield and lived at Wood Barns, Ingatestone for many years, and died there in 1887 was the brother of my 3* great grandmother (who lived in Great Baddow). Stephen and his wife Eliza (Windley) were witnesses at my 3* great grandparents’ wedding. Great to put more than just the facts to the story. There appear to be many Foremans in the Essex and Suffolk area over the years, so plenty more searching to keep me busy.

Deirdre (Cardiff)

Replied: 27 August 2013

Thank you. I’ll add your comment to the blog.

Regards

Andrew

Blackmore: The Bull Planning Applications - Results

Campaigners against the alteration of The Bull Public House in Church Street, Blackmore have lost their plea to Brentwood Borough Council.  The Planning Authority has permitted the demolition of various "out-buildings" including the cellar, rendering the Listed Building inoperable as a Public House in the future many claim.  It remains to be seen whether the pub will reopen after a closure since 2010.  Other establishments are available is the clear message. The Bull had been an inn for over 400 years.

However, the crazy plan to erect two dwellings and a car barn facing The Green, using a large proportion of the (beer) garden has been given the thumbs down.  The application has been refused and is a victory to protect the heritage of the village conservation area.  Blackmore residents will remain vigilant against further applications. 

Book Review: Byrd, by Kerry McCarthy

Book Review: Byrd, by Kerry McCarthy (Oxford University Press, 2013)

An eagerly anticipated biography of Essex composer William Byrd (c.1540-1623) has just been published by Oxford University Press in their ‘The Master Musicians’ series – Byrd, by American musicologist Kerry McCarthy.   Naturally it brings together all the latest thinking on the composer’s enigmatic life as a Catholic living in Elizabethan England at a time of persecution. Recent discoveries of the composer include the books he owned – some being tirades against Papists – and his age: he was 58 or thereabouts in 1598, so did not die at the age of eighty as previously (i.e. before the 1990s) thought.

The book presents, for me, a fresh emphasis on Byrd’s religious beliefs suggesting a gradual sympathy and conversion to Catholicism.  He married a Catholic, and as an artist was appalled by the treatment of Jesuits such as Robert Campion so as to be moved to write a lament.  We read again of the protection he received from Queen Elizabeth I through her personal intervention into a case brought before Byrd of non-attendance at his parish church before his move to Stondon Massey, perhaps in January 1595.  But it was the Stondon Massey years, in semi-retirement from the Chapel Royal, where he advanced further his Catholic beliefs through the writing of Latin set text for the clandestine Catholic worship of his friends, for example the powerful Petre family of Ingatestone Hall.

Andrew Smith

Billericay: Aftermath of the Zeppelin

Photograph not published before.
After the Zeppelin: Snails Hall Farm, Billericay

On 24 September 1916 a German Zeppelin brought down in flames landed in a field of Snails Hall Farm, South Green, Billericay.  John Maryon told how thousands visited the site (see elsewhere on this blog).  This photograph has recently come to light and was kindly shown to me by a family member and scanned for publication.   It shows where the Zeppelin landed, the charred field boundary and the barn, in the background, where the German crew - all dead - were placed.  John Maryon, tenant farmer, is photographed with his wife.  

Ingatestone and The Great Essex Road (2): Fryerning Church Plate

Munt in Essex?

Received: 8 June 2013

Andrew

Hi

I have been researching an ancestor John Archer showing on 1851 and 1881 census as being born abt 1814 in Stanford Rivers and 1861 and 1871 census as being born in Munt Essex.   I have been unable to find a village called Munt are you able to tell me if it is known by any other name.  On the Family Search site i did find a John Archer born in 1814 in Theydon Mount and was wondering if this is the same village.   If you know anything of a village called Munt I would appreciate your help.

Thanks Deanna Clay

  

Replied:  8 June 2013

Dear Deanna

There isn't a village called Munt in Essex.  Stanford Rivers and Theydon Mount are neighbouring parishes.  Mountnessing is a few miles away.

You might wish to investigate further clues by looking at the Essex Place Names Project which can be accessed via  www.esah160.blogspot.co.uk

Regards

Received:  9 June 2013

Andrew

Thank you for your reply to my enquiry and the link you sent. I was > able to find Munt mentioned on there as a parish.  Munt appears to have been the original parish with these place names Munt (parish); Theyden Lessington; Theidon Parva. This obviously later became Theydon Mount. Thanks again for your help Deanna

Replied: 11 June 2013

Deanna

Many thanks for this.  I am a member of a History Group covering this village so this will be of interest to members.

Andrew

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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