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and Northampton; he was here basely arrested, hurried are the principal landowners, The soil is chalky cla~. to the Thames, put on shipboard and ~onveyed to with tlints ~nd chalk fossils; subsoil, loam. The cbi8f Calais, where, after a short imprisonment, he was crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area ia 1'iz murdered, through the treachery of his nephew, acres; rateable value, £1,047; the population in 19U Richard II. Here also, in 1400, John Holland, Duke was 262. of Exeter, was beheadt>d by the populace, in revenge PLESHEY BURY lies to the west; ROPHEY G-REEN for his share in Prince Thomas's murder. The materials is half a mile north-east; RINGTAIL GREEN, 1 milll of the castle, which after his death fell to decay, north-east; HARVEYS, 1 mile north-west. were used about 16oo to build the lodge, but this in Sexton, George Bohannan, jun. its turn was taken down in 1767 : the vast earthworks, the mount, with its singular bridge and the two moats, Post & T. Office. Fred Ford Fountain, sub-postmaster. still attest the ancient grandeur and strength of the Letters through , arrive at 6-4.0 a.m. I; C!>stle: in 19oa excavations were undertaken, which 1.45 p.m. ; dispatched at 2-35 & 6.5 p.m. week days laid bare portions of the foundations of the castle. only. The nearest money order office is Great The manor became part of the Duchy of Lancaster in W altham, 3 miles distant 1521: ·three farms, constituting two-thirds of the parish, Public Elementary School (mixed), built with mistre~s'.s belon~ to Col. William Nevill Tufnell, of Langleys, house, in 1872, for 76 children; average attendanc.J, Great Waltham, and Joseph Hugh Matthews esq. who so; Miss Alice Curphey, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bohannan Frank,carpenter & assistant Barman Brothers, grocers Howis Rev. Charles Wm. Vicarage ove-rseer Hasler Robert, blacksmith Matthews J. Hugh, Pleshey Grange Bohannan George, beer retailer Knight Henry George, farmer, Folly Matthews Mrs. J. R. The Mount Clemoes John G. farmer,Plesheyburj Metson Cyril Doug-las,frmr.Lodge frm Quilter William Day John, farm bailiff to J. H. Owers Nathaniel, boot & ~;hoe maker Matthews esq. Woods farm Sisters of the Servants of Cbrisl COMMERCIAL. Deal Charles, White Horse P.H (Rev. Mother Elizabeth, superi()r) Bentall Samuel, farmer, Blake's farm Fountain Fred Ford,grocr.&post office Towns Geo . .Arthur, farmer,Linsteads PRITTLEWELL, see Southend. PURFLEET, see West Thurrock. is 11.. villag-e and parish, upon an emi­ about .£4 yearly, which is distributed to the poor in nence; the scer;.ery around it is bold and romantic, the bread, and the yearly rent of three acres of land is land undulating and from every point there are exten­ paid to the churchwardens for ecclesiastical -purposes. -sive views; it is 2 miles north-west from Mrs. Irvine, who is lady of the manor, Lord Rayleigll station on the and Southend branch of the P.C., O.M., P.R.S. the trustees of the late Mr. Henry -Great Eastern railway, 4 miles south from Maldon, 10 Stevens, and Mr. W. G. Raven are the principal land, south-east from Chelmsford and 44 from London, in owners. The soil is a heavy loam ; subsoil, heavy the South Eastern division of the county, hun­ loam. The chief crops are wheat, barley and {)ats., dred and petty sessional division, Maldon union and with some pasture land. The area is 5,792 acres of county court district, and in the rural deanery of land, 4 of inland and 36 of tidal water and 29 of fore~ Maldon. archdeaconry of Essex and Chelmsford dio­ shore; rateable value, £5,322; the population in I9IJ cese. The church of All Saints, standing on a hill, was 821 in the civil and 810 in the ecclesiastical parish. is an edifice of stone in the Decorated style, consisting By Local Government Board Order 22,354, March 24' of chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and rBBg, a detached part of , including Hungry an ancient embattled western tower of flint and stonn Down, was added to Purleigh, and the same date Great <:ontaining a clock and 5 bells: the pulpit and reredos and Little Gibcracks were transferred from Purleigb to 'tlre elaborately designed and there is one stained window Danburv. :at the west end of the south aisle, but the church has • no striking features, nor are there any monuments of HOWE (or Hoe) GREEN, in this parish, half a mile importance. The church was thoroughly restored in south, was a peculiar of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1892 at a cost of .£1,46o, and affords sittings for about under the jurisdiction of the Dean of Hocking. Here ia 350 persons. The register of marriages dates from a Congregational chapel. 1592, baptisms and burials from x662; these records are in good condition. The living is a rectory, net COCKL.ARKS is a hamlet 2 miles west. yearly ntlue £432, with 70 acres of glebe and resi­ Sexton, Waiter Howard. dence, in the gift of Oriel College, Oxford, and held Post, M. 0. & T. Office. Mrs. Sarah Ann Olney, sul:: -since x8go by the Rev. Reginald Tavener Love M.A. of postmistress. London & other letters through that college. The rectory, formerly annexed to the Mal· don, arrive at 7-30 a..m. & 1.10 p.m.; dispatched at Provostship of Oriel College by a private Act of Par­ ro. 15 a. m. & 5 p.m. ; sundays, dispatched at 9·45 a. m liament (7 Geo. Ill. c. 27), was dissociated therefrom Wall Letter Box, Cocklarks, cleared at 4·35 p.m.; sun• .on the death of Provost Hawkins in 1882, under the days, 8 a.m provisions of the Universities and Colleges Estates Pillar Letter Box, New hall, cleared at 10.20 a.m. & Amendment Act of 188o, and is now in no way connected 5·5 with it. About half the tithes of the parish have been p.m. ; sundays, g.so a.m assigned to the Provost under this Act, bnt these are Public Elementary Schools. quite distinct from the tithes paid to the rector, and the rectory is at present simply in the position of an These schools are controlled by the Maldon Education ordinary college living. The earliest mention of Purleigh Sub-Committee. -()Ccurs at the beginning of the reign of Henry II. when Parochial, contiguous to the church, with master'4 -the church and its appurtenances were assigned to the residence attached: it is a building in the Tudor -priory of Horton in Kent ; and at the time of the Befor· style & has an oodowment of £3o a year; erected in m.ation it still belonged to that religious house. After 1807 & enlarged ·in 1:872, for 124 children (mixed); the Restoration it is found in the possession of the Hors­ average attendance, 71; William J. Hathaway, master; m.onden family, from whom it was purchased by Oriel Miss F. B. Allen, mistress; Miss F, E. Smith, in+ College. Lawrence Washington M.A. recijpr of Purleigh fants' mistress • 1633-43, was the great-great-grandfathlr oi General Cock~arks (Dr. Ha.wkins) (mixed), built in. 1840, for .39 GPorge Washington, and father of the first Washingtons chtldren; average attendance, 37 ; M1ss Christme who emigrated to America. The benefactions amou.1t to Evans. mistress PRIVATE :RESIDENTS. Billin~ham John, market gardener,! Davis James, boot maker Brown Charles, Wymark's house Cocklarks Dobson Jas. (Mrs.), frmr.Gt.Witmans Euren Frank F .. Ivy house Birkby Charles Edward, horse Fallmer Ernest Newstead, farmer, Gates Mrs. Croft . slaughterer (postal address, Latch- Purleigh Barns farm Hall Francis Andrew, Rose lawn ingdon, Maldon) Farrow William, beer retailer i Love Rev. Reginald Tavener M.A. Boreham John F. shopkpr. Cocklarks 1 builder, Round Bush (rector), Rectory Borrett Alice Melvinus (Mrs.), beer F1ench Harny Daniel, Fox &: Hound~ Lupton Ernest, Elmfield retailer P.H. Cocklarks Palmer Mrs. The Cottage Brown David Thos. baker & shopkpr Gatward Charles & Sidney, farmerS, Soar Arthur Burgess, The Limes Clarke George, coal dealer. Cocklarksl Lodge farm Colyer John Arth. dairy, Oakleigh ]o Haydock John, farmer, Round Bush COHMEBCU.L. Cott.ee Mark, assistant overseer & Jones Richard, farmer, Old Witmans A~hcroft Alfred, farmer, Stud farm water rate collector for Purleigh, I Keeling Charles A.braham & Son, Bale W illiam Simon, shopkeeper, , :, blacksmiths Howe Hreen & Woodham ~lortimer & Keys Mark,pianoforte tuner,Valleyho Barber A. &; Son, horse slanghterer11 clerk to the Parish Councils of Mead Chas. farmr.SparrowWick farru & farmers, Corporation farm Latchingd'On & Purleigh 'Motiell Henry, dairyman, l'ippen..Jw,