DIRECTORY.] . EASTHORPE .. 209 Narchant William A.rthnr, agent to Porter Edmnnd T. Bird-in-Hand P.H Snell & Son, plumbers Barclay AI; Company Limited, Rawlinson Mary (Miss), dress maker Social Club (Alfred .Arnold, hon. sec) bankers, & insurance agent Reeve Waiter, Lion hotel Spafford Alexander, chemist Matthews John Wm. farmer,.Ashwells Rogers Zachariah, builder Stedman Robert Lay, assistant over- .Mayes George k Sons, watch makers Runnacles Charles, architect seer & clerk to Council Metson Frederick, farmer Sadd Jane Sybella (Mrs.), beer retlr St-onehouse William, carrier Moy Thomas Limited,coal merchants, Scillitoe George Edward, insurance Stuttm.; Sarah (Mrs.), apartments Railway station agent, Queen's road Tongue George,huntsman to the East Murrells F.redk. butcher, Bridge st Scillitoe Jeremiah, farmer, America fm Essex Fox Hounds Nichols Alfred, boot maker Scillitoe Nathan,seed grwr.White gate Tye Allan, beer retailer Pallett ThQlllas Edward M.D.Brux., Slaughter William, hardware dealer Village Hall (Fredk.Cooper, hall kpr) L.S.A. surgeon, medical officer & Smith E. & B. saddlers Walford .Archibald Thomas, cycle agt public vaccinator, 3rd dist. Smith F. Luckin Ltd. grocers & W aHord Mary (Mrs.), fishmonger union & 1oth dist. Lexden & Wins- news agents ; & at Wash Charles, builder tree union & certifying factory sur- Smith Osgood, miller (water & steam), Wenden Georg-e Olley, butcher geon Chalkney mill · WiffenShadrach,aparts.PrioryFarm ho "Parker John Edward, farmer Smith Samuel, clothier Willsmore William J . .A. beer retailer Pendle Edith (Miss), fancy goods dlr

GOOD EASTER will be found under the letter G.

HIGH EASTER is a parish and village 5 miles William ~evill Tufnell esq. of , Capt. south from Dunmow station on the Bishops Stortford, Sir Arthur John Henniker-Hughan bart. R.N. Frederick Dnnmow and Braintree line of the Great Eastern rail· John Matthews esq. and Joseph Hugh Matthews esq. way and 9 north-west from Chelmsford, in the Western and Loft us J. W. .Ark wright esq. of Little Parndon. division of the county, Dunmow hundred, petty ses­ The soil is clay ; subsoil, clayey loam. The chief crops sional division, union and county court district, rural are wheat, beans and barley. The area is 4•799 acres deanery of Roding, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of land and 3 of water; nteable value, £4,050; the

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Damant William David John, Cock & .\1etson Charles Hy. baker, Post office Gepp Rev. Edward M.A. (vicar), Bell P.H Milbank George, farmer, Crippens Vicarage Day Caroline (Mrs.), shopl;:eeper Nunn James, farm bailiff to J. H. Hobson Rev. Geo. (Congregational) IFranklin .Alfd. Hy. whlwrght.&carrier Matthews esq. Green's farm Matthews Fredk. John, Stagden Cross! Franklin Hubert, insurance agent Oliver Henry, farmer & landowner, Rogers Mrs. Rose villa i Goody .Alfred, saddler & harness ma Lower House farm COMMERCBL. Gowlett Shadrach, farmer, Bury farm Porter Edward, shoe maker Archer Henry Hurley, tailor & draper Jackaman Robert .Allan, grocer Root George, farmer.Games & Manns . &; assistant overseer Joyce James (Mrs.),farmer,Lofty Gm Spearman Henry William, carrier Bailey Edward, coach builder Knight George Simon, farmer, Par- Staines Walt.frmr.House Grounds fm 1Jentall Samuel, farmer, Ralphs sonage, Haydens & Buttles farms Stock Ernest Edwd.frmr.Short's&Hill Bonltwood Waiter, beer retailer Lodge David, carter Towns George .Arthur, farmer, Ray- Bunn Herbert Geo. Punch Bowl P .H Lodge William, farmer, Sworders lands farm • Caton Henry, farmer, Yew Tree farm Matthams Charles, farm bailiff for Towns William, farmer, Badley Clayden Thomas, grocer Guy's Hospital, Lawn Hall farm Turner A. & H. farmers, Cramps Coe Christopher, blacksmith Matthews Geoffry, farmer, King- Warder .Alfred, farmer, Poplar Crow Frederick J. farmer, Maidens & stons fnrm Warder Henry J. (exors. of), farmers, Peakins farms Mead Joseph, carrier Pentlow End E.A.STHOBIPE (or East Thorpe) is a parish close during the progress of the work five of the original. to the ancient Roman and modern highway from Norman windows were discovered, three of these were London to , 2! miles south from Marks intact and probably date back to the 12th century: Tey Junction station of the Great Eastern railway, 45 the remains of mural decorations have also been from London, 7 south-west from Colchester, and 4 east disclosed: there are 40 <>itting-s. The register of from , in the Eastern division of the county, baptisms and burials dates from 1572; marriages, 1756. Lexden hundred. Lexden and Winstree petty sessional The living is a ;:ectory, net yearly value [.92, with 24 division and union, Colchester county court district, and acres of glebe, in the gift of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the rural deanery of Coggeshall and Tey, arch- and held since 1894 by the Rev. Mowbray Pinckney deaconry of Colchester and Chelmsford diooest>. The Mason M . .A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. church of St. Mary is a very small edifice of stone in The principal landowners are Nathaniel N. Sherwood ~he Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, 1 esq. of Prested Hall, feering-, who is lord of the manor, south porch and a belfry with spire at the west end: and Mrs. J_ Smith. The soil is light; subsoil, clay. in the south wall is a recessed arch, perhaps the burial The chief crops are wheat and barley. Th~ area is 991 place of the founder: some of the Kingsmills. who I acres; rateable value, £ 1,0(}6; the population in 19II held this estate from the time of Sir George Kingsmill 1 was ro8 in the civil and 93 in the ecclesiastical parish. kt. justice of the Common Pleas, ob. 20 March, 16os-6, are buried here, including .Anne, dan.ghter of Thomas By Local Government Board Order 22,363, March 24• Blagrave. of Oxford, gent. and wife of George Kingsmill, r88Q, Canfields Farms were transferred from Easthorpe ob. IS Sept. 167-, and their daughter Ma:rgaret, ob. 2_:; J to Birch, and The Bell Inn &c. from the latter to the June, 1652 : the church was restored in 1910. and former parish E~·sEX 14