DIRECTORY.] . EPPING. 121 for 80 children, with an average attendance of about 50; Railway Statim" John Sherrard Fitzjohn, stationmaster the school is on the property of A. G. Rush esq. lord of the manor & is supported by voluutary contributions CARRIER-Rice from passes through -to Bishop's & a government grant; John Bourne, master: Mrs. Stortford on mondays, thnrsda)'s & saturda:rs Mary Ann Bourne, mistress Gilbey WaIter, hall Mumford Daniel, farmer, Elsenham pI Simons Nathaniel, farmer, Tye green Whately Rev. John B.A. Vicarage Nash William, shopkeeper, Tye green Tofts Charles, farmer &landowner, New COMMERCIAL. Orger Robert, farmer, Tye green House farm Eurls Martin, farmer, Gaunts end Robinson Daniel, carpenter Tofts Robert, farmer, Tye green Mascall Thomas Chas. CrOlcn, & coal dlr Robinson John, pig jobber,& Robin Hood E.PPING, & RYEHILL. EpPING STREET is a , union town and station on the Epping has a weekly market on Fridays and three yearly (Ongar line), 16£ miles from White­ fairs, on Whit-Tuesday, the nth October (statute) and 13th chapel, 15 from Shoreditch , 18 west from Chelms­ and 14th Noyember. There is a savings bank. ford, by and 7 east from Waltham Messrs. Cottis ha"'e an iron foundry, which gives employ­ and is a polling place for the Western division of the county, ment to a considerable number of hands. inthe half hundred of Waltham, county court district of , rural deanery, Essex arch­ There are almshouses endowed with £34 yearly and deaconry and St. Albans diocese. The town, which is lighted various sums are distributed to the poor. with gas, consists of one long and wide street, seated on a , an extensive tract of good woodland, ridge of hills; it declined considerably after the introduction formerly called Waltham Forest and, at a remote period, of railways; but the line between and Chipping the forest of Essex, formerly covered wholly or in part 21 Ongar having now a station here, a great number of persons ; in 1793 only 12,000 acres remained unenclosed visit the town during thesummer season. A Town Hall was and in 1873 there were onty 3,000; in 1870the Corporation built in 1865, at a cost of about £2,000 and is used for con­ of instituted a suit by which 1,500 acres illegally en­ certs and other entertainments. There is a literary society, closed have been restored and the forest is now under the which is well supported. A choral society gives concerts at control of the Corporation for the benefit of the public; there intervals during the winter season and attracts consider­ are now remaining about 5,000 acres, some portion of which able audiences. is exceedingly beautiful and thickly wooded; in the forest, EpPING UPLAND and RYEHILL are on the north part of about a mile and a halffrom the town, is Ambreys,orAmbers­ the parish. bury, an ancient camp, near which, according to Morant The parish church of all Saints, situated ali Epping Upland, and others, was fought the famous battle between Boadicea is an ancient structure, consisting of chancel and nave and and Suetonius the last expiring effort of the ancient a square brick tower containing 5 bells; it presents several Eritons against their Roman conquerors. features of great interest to archreologists, including 3 aum­ bries and an ancient credence table, discovered during The Epping Hunt seems to have been a remnant of recent alterations: the stained tower window is a memorial the time when the citizens had their common huntsman, and to Dr. Forbes Winslow, who is buried in the churchyard: a claimed the privilege granted by Edward IV. of hunting in dwarf stone screen from which the pulpit is corbelled out Waltham forest, Henry Ill. having previously confirmed to separates the nave from the chancel: the seats are all free the citizens of London, in 1226, free warren, or liberty to and unappropriated: the church was some time since com­ hunt, within a circuit, in the forests of Stannay or (Staines) pletely restored at a cost of £3,000. The register dates from and Hainault; this hunt was always held on Easter Monday, the year 1539. The living is a vicarage, nett yearly value when the Lord Mayor and aldermen attended and is £700, with residence, in the gift of George Wythes esq. frequently noticed by poets as far back as the middle of the and held by the Rev. Edward Buckmaster M.A. of Trinity 17th century; in 1853, the forest about , College, . St. John's church is a brick edifice, where the meet took place, having been enclosed, the hunt with a pinnacled belfry. The register dates from the year was brought to an end, although an assembly of holiday 1839. The living is a perpetual curacy, yearly 'value £120, folk is still sometimes collected, and a tame deer tortured in the gift of trustees and held by the Rev. Thomas Ridout for their amusement. Tuck M.B. of Caius College, Cambridge. The Congregational Copt Hall is a splendid mansion near the site of a ohurch here is one of the oldest in the country _and is residence formerly used by the monks of Waltham as a supposed to have originated between the years 1628 and retreat, standing on an eminenc'C 2 miles south-west, in 1653: the present structure having been erected on the site a district surrounded with fine woods and is the seat of of the original building in 1774: the interior has been William Henry Burns esq.; George Wythes esq. is lord of modernised, enlarged and a school built, at a total expense the manor and principal landowner. The soil is various; of £1,200, raised by the congregation. There is also a Wes­ subsoil, clay and sand. The area of the entire parish is leyan chapel, opened in 1878 and a meeting-house for the 5,281 acres; ratetable value, £13,776; and the population Society of Friends. ill 1881 was 2.343. Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c. POST & MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Savings Loftus W. Arkwriqht esq. Little Parndon hall Bank, Government Annuity & Insurance Office.-Cedric R. :B. Colvin esq. Monkhouse hall, Waltham Abbey Wright, postmaster, Delivery commences at 7 a.m. 9.40 J. Archer Houblon esq. Hallingbury, Bishop's Stortford a.m. & 6 p.m. Eox: for London closes at 9.30 a.m. 2.45 A. V. Palmer esq. p.m. & 8 p.m. On snnday box closes at 7.30 p.m G. Palmer, jnn. esq. Nazeing C. J. Phelips esq. Briggins park, Ware CoUNTY MA.GISTRATES EpPING PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. Lt.-Col. R. W. Hamilton, Holyfield hall, Waltham Abbey SirThomas Fowell Euxtonbart. Warlies park, Waltham Holy Lt.-Col. A. L. Mark Lockwood, Bromleys, Cross (chairman) . Major J. C. Tait, Charles Jas. Buryesq. St. Leonards, Nazeing (dep. chairman) J. Todhunter esq. C. Chandler Egerton esq. Kendallodge, Epping The above justices are also the commissioners for taxes. Earl of Roden, Hyde hall,Sawbridgeworth Clerk to the Magistrates, F. Gough: assistant clerk, George John Parnell esq. Waltham Abbey Creed A. J. Edwards esq. Beach Hill park, Loughton Petty Sessions are held at Epping police station every Henry Atherton Adams esq. Wynters, Harlow friday at 12 noon. The places in the division are Ching­ Clayton W. F. Glyn esq. Durringt.()n house, ford, Chigwell, Epping, Loughton, Nazeing, North Weald Lt.-Gen. Samuel L. Howard, Goldings, Loughton Bassett, Theydon Hois, Theydon Garnon, , Sir. H. J. Selwin·lbbetson bart. M.P. Down hall, Harlow Waltham Holy Cross Thomas Charles Earing esq. M.P. Samuel Bawtree esq. North Weald, Epping EpPING FOREST. Sir G. Palmer,Nazeing Cllief Ranger, H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught Robert Edwards esq. Beach Hill park, Loughton Arbztmtor, the arbitrator to decide on land in dispute, Sir John Williams esq. Debden hall, Loughton Arthur Hobhouse Q.C Major Suart, Chigwell Verderers, Sir T. Fowell Euxton bart. Warlies, Waltham Nathaniel Powell esq. Chigwel1 Holy Cross; Andrew Johnston esq. The Firs, Woodford; Major C. N. Hamilton Sotheby, Manor house, High beech Edward North Buxton esq. Knighton, Euckhurst hill