72 GREAT CANFIELD. ESSEX. [KELLY's a small spire and containing 3 bel:s : the church had Maryon-Wilson M. A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, formerly a lofty spire, but this was removed previous to J.P. The interest. of £so, bequeathed by the Rev. 1703: there are two memorial windows, one to the Frederick Vane M . .A.. is distributed annually to the poor. Wilson family and one to Rev. John Phillips Gurney, Here are the remains of a castle supposed to have vicar 1822-62; there are also brasses to John Wise- former~y belonged to the De Veres, Earls of Oxford. man, ob. I5I8, and his family; to Thomas Fytche esq. Sir Spencer l\Iaryon Maryon-Wilson hart. who is lord ob. I588, and memorials to Sir William Wiseman, hart. of the manor, Philip Church esq. and Mr. Daniel .A.lger of Canfield, ob. 1684, and others of that family: in the are the principal landowners. The soil is chiefly clay; chancel is a slab to the Rev. Frederick Vane M.A. subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley rector of Bletchingdon, Oxon, 1837, a benefactor to the and mangold wurzel. The area is 2,484 acres; rate­ poor of the parish: the church was restored in I876, able value. £2,030; the population in I891 was 313. when many detaLs of Norman work were rendered Parish Clerk, Frederick Bacon, jun. visible: the interior has been reseated with open benches of oak: over the communion table within a niche is a Post Office.-William Clark, sub-postmaster. Letters very interesting fresco of the Virgin and Child. The from Dunmow received at 7.40 a.m.; dispatched at register dates from the year IS38. The living is a 4.40 p.m. No sunday post. The nearest money order discharged vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £ 100, & telegraph office is at Takeley. Postal orders are gross yearly value £1o8, with about I acre of glebe issued here, but not paid and residence, in the gift of Sir Spencer Maryon Maryon- Parochial School (mixed), erected in I852 for 45 chi:d­ Wilson hart. and held since 1872 by the Rev. George ren; average attendance, 35 ; Mrs. Martha Hill, mist PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bailey Rachel (Mrs.), frmr. Bullocks Mason Jane (Mrs.), farmer, Sawkins .A.lger Daniel Beddall Rutland. farm bailiff to Philip farm Wils.on Rev. George Maryon M.A., Church esq. Bury & Reed's farm Mason Thomas, shoe ma. Church end J.P. Vicarage Bennett Joseph, farmer & landowner, Potter George, farmer, Park farm COMMEROIAL Baco'n's farm Rolph Alfred. blacbmith .A.lger Stephen William, farmer, Black- Clark William, tailor, Post office Scott Waiter, farmer, Dt'al Tree frm hall & Evans' farm Cox vYilliam Henry, farmer & machine Smith Isaac, farmer, .A.shfields Bacon Frederick, Griffin inn, brick. proprietor, Elms Stock John, shopkeeper tile & pipe manufacturer & farm Easter Alfred, Poplar farm Wall Charles, farmer & landowner, bailiff to Sir Spencer Maryon Mary- Gowlett Henry, farmer, Canfield hall Darley dale on-Wilson hart & Marsh farm LITTLE CANFIELD is a parish on the Roman Hall, and of some members of the Fytche and Wiseman and modern road from Colchester (Camalodunum) to families ; and there are brasses, with some effigies, St. .A.lbans (Verulamium), 2 miles west from Dunmow to William Fytche esq. ob. 1578, and his wiv.es Elizabeth station, in the Western division of the county, Dunmow and Ann, with nine children, and to Ann (Wiseman), hundred, petty sessional division, union and county first wife of lYilliam Fyttche esq. and secondly of Raphe court district, rural deanery of Dunmow, archdeaconry Pudsey esq. of Gray's Inn, ob. I593. with one son: the of Essex and diocese of St. .A.lbans. The church (dedi­ church was partly rebuilt, including the tower, in cation unknown) is an e(!_ifice of stone, consisting of r856. The register dates from the year r56o. The chancel, nave, south porch and a tower on the north living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £327, net side, with a spire of fine old Caen stone, and containing 2 yearly value £289, with 72 acres of glebe and residence, be:Is : of the old portions there now only remain, besides in the gift of Christ's College, Cambridge, and held the walls, two remarkably elegant double-light windows since I878 by the Rev. John Dowell Ridout M.A. of the Decorated style in the nave, the exterior of the formerly fellow of that college. The manorial rights old Norman door and the Decorated screen of carved are held by the Countess of Warwick, who is also the oak separating the chancel from the nave ; the other principal landowner. The soil is mostly heavy; sub­ windows are all in the Decorated sty;e, those in the soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans and barley. chancel being stained : the inside of the priest's door­ The area is I,488 acres; rateable value, £1,383; the way, which has a smaa porch, displays a crocketed population in 1891 was 286. canopy, with shafts of Italian marble and exquisitely­ Parish C1erk, James Halls. carved angels at the corbels : in the chancel is a fine monument, erected to the mother of the Rev. Charles Post Office. George Raven, sub-postmaster. Letters Le singham Smith M. A. rector from I8 39 ; the large from Dunmow, received at 6.30 a.m. ; dispatched at porch, now the only portion of the structure in the 6.5 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office Perpendicular style, has some fine panelling in front is at Takeley and a sundial, under which is the inscription, " ·what National School (mixed), built in 1842, for 50 child­ I say unto you I say to all, watch:" this was the burial ren; average attendance, 46; Miss R. E. Chandler, place from 1664 to I757 of the Wyatts, of Little Canfield mistress Morphy Lionel, Greencrofts Frankham John, farmer, The Hall Raven George, blacksmith Ridout Rev. John Dowell M . .A.. Rectry Franklin Henry Sewell, farmer, Lang- Smith George, farmer, Newlands COMMEROIA.L. thorns & Glebe farm Suckling James & Edmund, farmers, Bowtell Waiter, painter, Lit. Hoddons l\Iarsh Robert, seed mearchant, farmer Great Hoddons Cheshire Esau, beer retailer & landowner, Hales & Blatches frm Tebbitt Edwin Jas. farmer, Copthall CANNING TOWN, a populous suburb of London and therefore not now included in the County Direc­ attd a ward within the county borough of West Ham, tory, but will be found in Kelly's London Suburban which is also a metropolitan parliamentary borough, Directory. CANVEY ISLAND, which is united to South containing I bell. The register dates from the year Benfleet at low water by a causeway across Hadley r8rg, previous to which date the entries were made Ray, and originally part of the parishes of Bowers in the South Benfl.eet register. The living is a vicarage, Gifford, Hadleigh, North Benfleet, Laindon, Pitsea, average tithe rent-charge £38, net yearly value £zzo, Prittlewell, South Benfleet, Southchurch and Vange, with glebe (£w) and residence, in the gift of the Bishop was formed into a civil and ecclesiastical parish 4 of St. .A.lbans, and held since I872 by the Rev. Henry March r88r: it is supposed by some to be the "Counos," Hayes T . .A..K.C.L. Here is a coastguard station, with or " Convennos :Insula" of the ancient geographer a chief officer and eight men. The principal landowners Ptolemy, a name assigned by others to the Isle of are the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the trustees of Sheppy, and is a marshy island of the Thames, defended the late Sir Arundel Neave bart. and F. Montgomerie by high banks all round, erected in 1623; it is in the esq. The island is 6 miles long by 3 broad, and con­ South Eastern division of the county, Rochford petty tains 4,327 acres of land and 4,923 of water; rateable sessional division and union, Southend county court value, £3,75.8; the population in I89r was 342. district, rural deanery of Rochford, archdeaconry of Parish Clerk, Joseph H~s. Essex and diocese of St. .A.lbans : it forms very rich Post Office.--John Scott, sub-postmaster. Letters re­ grazing ground and includes a large quantity of arable ceived from South Benfl.eet S.O. at 9 a.m.; dispatched land. The nearest station is South Benfl.eet, two miles I. 15 p.m. South Benfleet is ti1e nearest money order north, on the London, Tilbury and Southend railway. & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here, The church of St. Katharine, erected in I875 in" the but not paid p!ace of an earlier building dating from I7I2, the only portions of which now remaining are some windows and Coast Guard Station, Joseph Dollimore R.N. cliief officer the porch, is a structure of wood, consisting of chancel, National School (mixed), built in 1874, for 75 child­ nave, transepts and a small central belfry, with spire, ren; average attendance, 65; Wm. John Sully, master .