Essex. Lawford

l>IREC fOR Y. J ESSEX. LAWFORD. 365 The register of baptisms dates from I553; burials, I,984 acres; rateable value, £2,303; the population in 1614; marriages, 1616; and is curious as containing I9II was 387. a most complete record of briefs for collections in Sexton, Arthur Clark. this church for nearly IOO years. The living is a Wall Letter Box cleared at 8 a.m. & 4·5 p.m. & 81 rectory, net yearly value b275• with 58 acres of glebe a.m. on snndays. Letters are delivered through the- and residence, in the gift of Mrs. Heales, and held since Ongar office at 8 a.m. &; 12.30 p.m.. The nearest 1909 by the Rev. Evan Henry Thomas M.A. of Jesus money order office is at Fyfield, r mile distant & College, Oxford. The chapel of ease at Matching Green telegraph office at Matching Green, 2 miles distant in this parish, erected at the cost of the late Rev. Francis Richard Miller M.A. vicar of Kineton, Warwick- Wall Letter Box, Threshers Bush, cleared at 7.15 a.m. & shire (1834-89), consists only of chancel and nave and 7· 10 p.m.; no collection on sunday has So sittings. The manor of High Laver is held by Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1866, for 130 Mrs. Wright and others. Capt. Robert Wicksted children; averafle attendance, 86; William Henry Ethelston, of Bolling, Malpas, Cheshire, is lord of the Bentley, master; Mrs. Bentley, mistress manor of High Laver Hall and principal landowner. This school is ·under the control of the Essex ;Education The soil is various; subsoil, clay and gravel. The (Ongar District) Sub-Committee, Arnold Richardson,. chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The area is Ongar, clerk Names marked thus * should be Buswell Hy.Arth. steam plough ownr *Harrowell Wilfrid, Chequers P .H~ addressed Harlow. *Byford Susan {Miss), shopkeeper, Matching Green *Mewbnrn Chilton, Matching Green Matching Green Hazelwood Chas. (exors. of), farmers Thomas Rev. Evan Henry M.A. *Cramphorn Henry, John Barleycorn *Pryor Thos. farmer, Threshers Bush (rector), Rectory P.H. Threshers Bush &obinson Sarah (Mrs.), blacksmith Tinney John, High Laver grange Ellis George, builder Seymour Bran, fanner COXMEBCIAL. Gilman Wm. H. farmer, Gt. Wilmors *Staines Thos. Stock, frmr. Elms frm Arnold Will Stock, farmer, Tilegate Gingell Jas. farmer, High Laver hall Tinney John, frmr.High Laver grange •Bines Maurice, farm bailiff to H. H. Godfrey Charles, wheelwright *Wederell Arthur Hughes, farmer,. Kemsley esq. Malting farm Threshers Bush LITTLE LAVER is a parish, I mile to the east of register of baptisms and burials dates from 1538 ;. High Laver and 5 miles north from Ongar, in the marriages, I$41. The living is a rectory, net yearly Western division of the county, Ongar hundred, union value £I6o, with go acres of glebe and residence, in the and petty sessional division, Dunmow county court dis gift of the Bishop of Chelmsford, and held since 1878 by trict, rural deanery of Ongar, archdeaconry of Essex the Rev. Sydney Charles Beauchamp M.A. of Queen's and Chelmsford diocese. The church of St. Mary the College, Oxford. James Herman Meyer esq. J.P. who is Virgin is a small building of rubble, in mixed styles, lord of the manor of Little Laver Hall, is the prindpal consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, vestry, organ cham landowner. The soil is V'arious; lftlbsoil, clay. The ber. south porch and a belfry containing one bell: the chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The parish church was restored and enlarged in 1872 by the late contains 965 acres; rateable value, £920; the popula~ • • Rev. Richard Palmer, rector of Purley, Berks, t:lien t10n m 1911 was 108. patron, in memory of his brother, the Rev. Henry Letters are delivered through Ongar at 8.30 a.m. & Palmer: the font was restored from the remains of a 12.45 p.m. The nearest Post, M. 0. & T. office is a~ former one: all the seats are of massive oak, hand Matching Green, Ii miles distant somely carved: some of the communion plate is of the period of Edward VI.: in 1884 the floor of the church Pillar Letter Box, cleared at 12-55 & 4·45 p.m. ; sun- was raised and relaid; a reredos of Bath stone and days, 10.35 a. m alabaster was erected by the present rector, in memory The children of this village attend the school at High of Miss S. Carolina Palmer: there are 120 sittings. The Laver Marked thus * letters should be ,.Meyer James Herman J.P. Little Lucking Harry, farmer addressed Harlow. Laver grange Roast Stephen, miller (wind) PBIVATB RESIDENTS. *Rolleston Mrs. Little Laver hall *Whitnall Marian (Mrs.), farmer Beanchamp Rev. Sydney Charles M.A. COMMRRCIAL. Rectory Furze William T. farmer, Hull green MAGDALEN LAVER will be found under the letter M. LA. WFORD (or Lalford) is a parish and an ancient sum of £700 was spent in repairing the outer walls, and place, formerly belonging to King Harold II.; it is on the erection of a new oak roof: in 1889 the floor wa& the road from Colchester to Harwich, 1! miles west relaid: there are 290 sittings: outside the chancel door from Manningtree and 7 north-east from Colchester, in are the graves of the Rev. John Edes, rector here for the North Eastern division of the county, Tendring 43 years (16I5 to 1658) and of the Rev. William Brett hundred, pEtty sessional division and union, county court Whitfeld, rector for 25 years and a benefactor to the district of Colchester, and in the rural deanery of Harwich, parish, d. 1'l47; at the western entrance to the church~ archdeaconry of Colchester and Chelmsford diocese. yard is a house built by Mr. Pecksale and left by him The Great Eastern railway passes through, and Man with an acre of land to the sexton for the time being, llingtree station and a part of the town of Manningtree provided he keeps it in repair and pays eightpence are 1n this parish. The ancient church of St. Mary is yearly to Lawford Hall. The register dates from the an edifice of stone in the Early English and Decorated year 1558. The living is a rectory, net yearly value styles, consisting of chancel, nave of three bays, north about £460, with residence and 42 acres of glebe, in aisle, south porch and a western tower of brick and the gift of St. John's College, Cambridge, and held\ Rtone, rebuilt in the 17th century and containing 3 since 1906 by the Rev. Robert Yates Whytehead M.A. bells, one dated 1667 and the other two 1714: the of that college. The Village Club, erected in Igog,. chancel retains a piscina and sedilia and has some re was the gift of C. P. Ogilvie esq. of Lawford mains of old stained glass : on the north side of the Place. Charities: The Rev. W. B. Whitfeld, rector, chancel are monuments to Edward Waldegrave esq. previously mentioned, gave before his death a sum o1 and Jnan his wife, with two kneeling figures carved in £400 to be invested in Consols, the dividends to bE> stone, r584: beneath the chancel floor iR the family distributed by the rector for the time being amongst vault of the Waldegraves. of whom Edward Waldegrave the sick and aged poor of the parish; he also invested died in 1621, and his widow, Lady Sarah Bingham, in a further sum of £300, the interest to be devoted to 1634: here also lies bnried the Rev. Thomas Harris, the perpetual maintenance of a Sunday school under formerly rector of Lawford, ob. 28 March, 1699 : the the control of the rector or curate for the time being. stained east window was the ~ft of the late Thomas Nunn as well as for the payment of a master or mistress and esq. of Lawford House: a stained west window was placed for other necessary expenses, and these sums are now in the tower in 1864; and in April, 1884, a memorial invested in the 2i per Cent. Consols. The poor have reredos of encaustic tiles and alaba!'ter, dPsigned by Mr. the proceeds of a farm, left in 1723 by John Leach, of' C. Forster Hayward F.S.A. architect. of London, and East Bergholt, Suffolk, for clothing and education. carved by Mr. Earp, of Lambeth. was erected to the Hon. There are almsh{)uses built from money left in the· John Robertson, late of Lawford Place: the church plate year I 867 by Mrs. Cox, of Lawford Place. for the use includes a paten, dated "EaRter Day, r6g6," and was of >Six poor persons. Lawford Hall is the residence of Jtiven by the Lady Whaley, wife of Mr. Harris, rector of Francis Morgan Nichob esq. M.A., F.S.A. Law Lawford: in xgo6 a new organ was provided at a cost ford has two principal manors : Lawford Hall, belong of £soo. defrayed by Mrs. Ogilvie, of Lawford Place : ing to F. M. Nichols esq. and Dale Hall, to Charles the church was enlarged in 1826, and the interior Mead e!'q. of Manningtree. A small manor, called' restored and refitted in 1853 : from 1884 to 1887 a Faites and Waides, extends into the parishes of Dedham· .

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