DIRECTORY.] ESSEX.. KEWPORT. 305· McGowan Rev. 1VilEe M A. Rectory IJawkes William, plumber. Pigott William. farmer, N evendon co~nnmCIAL. Lloyd Edwin Shakespeare, grocer, Hall, Frampton &; Fore Riders frm!! Hart William, farm bailIlI to 1'. W Post office Raven George, beer retailer Offin esq Mumford Henry. Jolly Cricketers P.H NEWPORT.-This an·.:ient village, formerly a market which is distributed annually on Hock Monday (the town, stands on the river Granta or Cam and the Roman second Monday aJter Easter), amongst needy people of .and modern road to Cambridgeshire and was originally this parish. There was formerly a hospital for lepers .called" Newport Pond," from a large pool at the south here, founded, in the reign of King John, by Richard de .end of the street: it has a station on the main line of Newport and dedicated to SS. Mary and Leonard; part .the Great Eastern railway to Cambridge, and is 3 miles· of -the building, still standing, is now a farmhollse: the south from Saffron Walden, 9 north from Bishops stone columns of t,he original chapel have been built into :Stortford, 7 north-west from Thaxted and 40 from triver Cam flows; the estate emhl'nees, persons lost their lives; another was placed by ~Ir. togethe,r with outlying land,;; in the parishe.s of Widding­ "l'homas Shirley in remembrance of his golden wedding ton, Debden, Saffron 1Valden and Wendon, an nl'ea of ~December 1889): he died in 1891, and a memorial win- 1,000 acres, including the manor of Shol'tgrove Hall. dow has rsince been erected to him: there is also Olle in J oseph Charle.s Thomas Smith esq. M.A. of Bideford, memory of Rev. John Ohapman, vicar 185°-75, aUlI one Devon, who is lord of the manor, James Bailey esq. and placed to commemorate the Jubilee in 1,889 of Hel' late Lieut.-Col. Alfred Molyneux Cranmer-Byng, of Quendon Maje,sty Queen Victoria. The interesting remains of 14th Hall, are the chief landowners. The soil is mixed chalk century glass were collected about 1894 and re-arranged and gravel; subsoil, clay, gravel, 'brick earth and chalk. in two lancet windows of the north aisle. The pulpit The crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and roots. The i:s of Caen stone, carved with subjects from the Old urea is 1,7<20 acres of land and 10 of water; rateable and New Testaments; there are Early Decorated value, £8.::\85; the population in Ig01 was 913. piscinre in the north transept and chancel, and a piscina Parish Clerk and Sexton, J esse Searle. in the south transept: the font is Early English, w~th Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. B., T. M. O. Express Delivery. a fine .carved .oak lectern of the l~th century. supportmg Parcel Post'& Insurance & Annuity Office (Snu-Omce a chamed BIble: the chancel IS separated .from the Letters should have S.O. Essex added).-Miss Snsall n~ve by a.fine 15th century oak screen: there IS a brass :\1illard, sub-postmistress. Lebter·s arrive from Bishops ":Ith .effigI~s to Tho~as Br~nd, ?b.. 1515, and Margery Stortford at 7 &; 9.30 a.m. & 5 p.m. & dispatched 9.25 :lus WIfe, WIth f~ur chIldren, .mscrIptlOn, and t.he emblems a.m. 2.10,6.50 & 8.55 p.m.; dispatched sunday 06.50 p.lI1 of the EvangelIsts: there IS also a brass m the floor Wall Letter Box, corner of Station road, cleared at 9 a.m. under.the ~owe~ to Geoffre! Nightingal~ esq. and &; 1.45,6.30 & 8.45 p.m Kath.erme hIS WIfe, 16?8,. WltJ; ~even ch~ldren: the County Police Station James Field police constable. mumment chest has pamtmgs mSIde the hd of "The " Crucifixion," "The B. V. Mary," " St. John," "St. Schools: - . Peter," and" St. Paul:" the five locks are curious, and Grammar, founded m 1588 by Mrs. Joyce Frankland, of the exterior of the chest is richly ornamented with Londo~, with an endowment of £550 yearly, arising perforated gilt lead, exquisitely worked: in the parvise, a from mv~stment~ &; landed. property; the fur.rd~ of room over the porch, is preserved one of the four (DI'ay) the charIty ~aVIng lately mcreased, new buildings hbrarie.s in Essex for the use of the neiO'hbourinf' cleJ'O'\I : were erected m 1878 for a master &; 25 boarders, &; , ,.,,., eo • &; , h b the church will seat 500 persons. The register dates a gymnaslUm carp.en~ers sops have . een c(:m- 'from the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, net yearly structed out of the .bmldmgs of the ~ld Pohce StatIOn value £280, including 24 acres of glebe and residence. in &; House of CorrectlOn. Th~ school IS managed by. 8 the. gift of the Bishop of St. Albans, and' held since 1876 body of. II Gov~rnors, of. whic~ the Rev. G. F. Tamplm 'by the Rev. George Frederick Tamplin M.A. of SI. John's M.A. VIcar.of Newport, IS chaIrman; the clerk to the College, Oxford. Lieut.-Col. A. M. Cranmer-Dyng, of governors IS C. S. D: Wade esq. Saffron Walden & Quendon Hall, is impropriator of the great tithes. The Abra~ Barnard e,sq. IS·. t:easurer: there are