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portraits copied from those in E. P. Strutt's Note Book at the Museum. The sporting
gentlemirs. Frye." Capt. Crane in the foreground is the next figure talking to Lieut. Andrews.
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The following pages do not profess to contain by any
means a complete list of the distinguished names
connected with the town of Colchester. No one,
however, having as far as I know endeavoured to
compile any sort of Index of Colchester Worthies, I
have felt justified in gathering together, as well as I
could, some particulars of a few more or less noted
Colchester characters, and shall be grateful for any
suggestions, corrections or additions from my readers,
in view of a possible further edition at some future
time.

C.E.B.
45, Wellesley Road,
Colchester.

COLCHESTER WORTHIES.

AIRY, SIR GEORGE BIDDELL. Born at
Alnwick, July 27, 1801. His younger days were spent
at Colchester, where be was educated at the Royal
Grammar School and also at a school in Sir Isaac's
Walk. He lived in George Street, in a house
now divided into two, Nos. 10 and 11, and on one
of the upstair windows of the front of the bouse his
autograph was until recent ysars visible, he having
scratched it on the glass with a diamond. He went to
Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his M.A. degree
in 1826. He.developed special taste for Astronomy and
prosecuted that study with much vigour and success,
being appointed Astronomer Royal in 1835, a post
which he resigned in 1881, receiving a pension of
£1,100 a year. He was knighted in 1872. Died
Jan. 2, 1892.

ALFORD, EDWARD. Member for Colchester in
T627. He took part in the debate on the " Petition of
Rights" — boldly exclaiming — " Let us give that to the
King which the law gives him, and no more."

A.LLEN, ROSE, Martyr, burned at Colchester on
the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1557.

APLETON, SIR HENRY. A royalist officer in
the siege, taken prisoner by Fairfax.

ARRAGON, CATHERINE OF. This queen
visited Colchester in 15 16, on her way to Walsingham,
where she was going on a pilgrimage to the famous
image of the Virgin there. She was conducted by the
bailiffs, aldermen, and a number of burgesses, from
Lexden to the town. She stayed the night at
St. John's Abbey. The townspeople made her a
voluntary present of ^40, and on her departure the
bailiffs, aldermen, and others again attended her as far
as Milend.

AUDELEY, SIR HENRY. Lord of the Manor
of Berechurch. His estates were sequestrated by
by Parliament.

AUDELEY, HENRY. Inherited the family
estates, but his life was a melancholy one, his vices
proving his ruin, for he died a prisoner in the Fleet in
1 714, having long been parted from his wife, a daughter
of Viscount Strangford. A friend going to see him
found that he was dead and about to receive a
prisoner's burial. Pie stopped the funeral and commu-
nicated with the widow, who allowed £So for a funeral
and the body was buried at Berechurch.

AUDELEY, SIR THOMAS, Lord Chancellor of
England. The Monks of St. John's Abbey, in hopes
of appeasing his rapacity, alienated to him part of the
domains of the Abbey, viz. : — Berechurch Hall and
the Manor of Gosbecks, in Stanway. He was born of
obscure parents at Earls Colne in 1488, was brought
up to the law and made Town Clerk of Colchester
in 1516, and a Free Burgess in 1526. He was Autumn
Reader of the Inner Temple and became Speaker of

the House of Commons in the Parliament that began
Nov. 3, 1529. He made himself a great favorite of
Henry VIII, and in 1530 was constituted King's
Attorney for the Duchy of Lancaster. He advanced
to higher and higher dignities and succeeded
Sir Thomas More as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal.
In 1532 he was knighted and the next year made
Lord Chancellor. He was very zealous in the
dissolution of the Monasteries and obtained from the
King the sites of St. Botolph's Priory, Crouched Friers
and other valuable possessions in Colchester. In 1538
he was made Baron Audeley and installed Knight of
the Garter. He died in 1544, aged 56, and was buried,
at Walden.

BALL, J. A priest, who was one of the rebels in
Wat Tyler's insurrection and became one of the chief
incendiaries. He made Colchester a place of refuge
because he had followers in that town. It is said that
the charge brought against him, though nominally for
high treason was really for heresy, and that he was
the first known Wycliffist martyr. Executed at
St. Alban's, July 15, 1381. To encourage the rebels
Ball used the lines :

"When Adam dolve and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?"

BARKSTEAD, COL. A Parliamentarian officer
who fought bravely at the siege m 1648. One of the
Forts was called " Barkstead's Fort," on the Maldon
Road. He was M.P. for Colchester in the reign of
Charles I.

BARNARDISTON, ARTHUR. Recorder of
Colchester in the time of Oliver Cromwell. He
died in 1655.

BARNARDISTON, J. A royalist officer in the
siege. He tried to make terms with Fairfax, but it
was then too late, and the Parliamentarians would
not entertain his conditions. It is curious that the
Barnardiston family (who have been seated in Suffolk
from the time of the conquest) are traditionally
connected with the origin of the appellation
Roundhead, which it is said was, from the beauty of
his person, first bestowed on Samuel Barnardiston, a
distinguished partizan of the parliament in the reign of
Charles II.

BARNES, JOHN STUCK. For many years Clerk
of the Peace for the Borough. Born in St. Leonard's
Parish, 1S06. Though a zealous nonconformist, he
placed a stained glass window in St. Leonard's Church,
to the memory of his father. He died Feb., 1887.

BARRINGTON, SIR THOMAS. M.P. for
Colchester in the reign of Charles I.

BASTWICK, DR. JOHN. He lived in Red
House, Eld Lane, near the Baptist Meeting House.
He wrote some books against Popery, which proved
disagreeable to the Court and brought him into
considerable trouble. He was fined ^"iooo and costs.
His book was burned and he was excommunicated
and imprisoned for 2 years. Born at Writtle, near
Chelmsford, 1593.

BATCHELOR, HENRY. Yeoman, of Colchester.
He bequeathed £bo a year to three preachers in
Colchester. The will bears date 1646-7.

BECHE, JOHN. The last Abbot of St. John's.
He would not subscribe to the King's supremacy
and was hanged for high treason at Colchester,

Dec. i, 1539. He was invited by the bailiffs of
the town to a feast, and in the midst of the proceedings
his death warrant was disclosed to him.

BENNOLD, THOMAS. A tallow chandler,
burned on the morning of Aug. 2, 1557, outside
the Town Walls.

BERNARD, WALTER. A tenant of the
Severalls, and Alderman and Sheriff of London.

BESTNEY, BARKER. Lived at Monkwick.
His estates were sequestrated by Parliament.

BIGOD, ROGER. Earl of Norfolk. Earl Marshal
of England. Constable of the Castle, 1258.

BONGEOR, WILLIAM. A glazier, of St.
Nicholas Parish, burned, outside the Town Walls, on
the morning of Aug. 2, 1557.

BUCKLER, GEORGE. An architect, who took
great interest in the archaeology of Essex. The ablest
exponent of the theory of the Roman origin of the
Castle. Wrote " Colchester Castle a Roman Building,"
" Twenty-Two Churches of Essex," &c. Died in
London, Sept. 2, 1886, aged 74. Interred in Nunhead
Cemetery. His father was a clever topographical
artist.

BULL, JOHN and RICHARD FARNHAM.
Two Colchester Weavers, who about 1640 declared
themselves to be the two great prophets mentioned by
the prophet Zachariah, and the Two Witnesses spoken
of in Rev. xi. 3. They claimed that they had power
to shut up heaven so that it should not rain, and to
smite the earth with plagues, and said that they should
not die out of Jerusalem and that after three days and

a half their dead bodies would rise, and Richard
Farnham would be King on David's throne and
John Bull priest in Aaron's seat, and that they would
reign for ever. They both died in the plague, and the
few converts whom they had made declared that the
two prophets had gone in vessels of bulrushes to
convert the ten tribes, and would return and rule
England with a rod of iron.

BRADENHAM, LIONEL DE. Endeavoured to
enclose and appropriate the Colne Fishery in the reign
of Richard I. His attempt was resisted by Robert de
Herle, Lord Admiral, in revenge for which he attempted
to reduce the town to ashes. These exploits, however,
soon brought about his ruin, and he was compelled to
screen his forfeited life under a pardon.

BREE, CHARLES ROBERT (M.D., Edin.)
For 22 years Physician to the Essex and Colchester
Hospital. Resided at Colchester during that time,
1859-81, after which he left the town for Long Melford,
where he died, Oct. 17, 1886, aged 75. He was the
son of Mr. John Bree, of Keswick, and he married the
daughter of Sir Augustus Henniker, Bart. He was
the author of several valuable works on Natural
History, and published treatises against the Darwinian
Theory, to which he was strongly opposed. He was
part editor of the Naturalist, and for many years a
Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological Societies. He
was J. P. for Essex and Suffolk.

BROWN, JOHN. A Colchester stone mason,
who carried on business for about 25 years on East
Hill. He was born at Braintree in 1780. From
boyhood he evinced great interest in geology and when

he had saved enough money he purchased a house and
farm at Stanway, where for the remainder of his life
he devoted himself to his favorite subject. When over
70 years of age he tried to learn French. He was a
frequent contributor to scientific journals. He
discovered some huge fossil bones at Lexden, which he
presented to the British Museum. At his death he
left ^300 to the Geological Society of London, £100 to
the Geologists' Association, and all his books,
collections and cabinets, together with £50, to Professor
(now Sir Richard) Owen (one of his executors) on the
understanding that the specimens were to be deposited
in museums, at the discretion of the Professor. Died
Nov. 28, 1859. Buried in Stanway Churchyard.

BROWN, ROBERT. Member of Parliament for
Colchester in the reign of Queen Mary, who with 36
other members voluntarily left the house on the passing
of an act repealing acts against the supremacy of
Rome.

BUXTON, ROBERT. An apothecary, who
founded the trade of candied eryngo roots, a kind of
sweetmeat of a medicinal character prepared from the
root of the sea holly (Eryngium maritinum.) It was
considered a stimulant and restorative, and was for
some time a renowned Colchester product. He died
1655 and was buried in St. Nicholas Church.

CAMPES, ABBOT ADAM DE. Lived in the
reign of Edward I. He cunningly asked to see the
Charter of the Lepers Hospital at Colchester and then
flung it in the fire, taking away the common seal of the
Hospital and enforcing an oath of obedience to him.
Redress was however subsequently obtained from
Parliament.

CAMPION, COL. SIR WILLIAM. A royalist
officer, killed in the siege 1648. A rumour of his death
reaching his wife, she bravely approached the camp of
Fairfax in person and obtained leave to send a letter
into the town to ascertain the truth. There is a
monument to him in St. Peter's Church.

CAPEL, LORD ARTHUR. A nobleman, son of
Sir Henry Capel, Knight. He represented the county
of Hertford in the Parliament of 1640. In the civil
war he became such a zealous royalist that the House
of Commons confiscated his estates. He was one of
the noblest of the defenders in the siege of 1648, and
on the surrender of the Town he was imprisoned in the
Tower, from whence he escaped, but was re-captured
and beheaded March 9, 1649. His literary remains
were published in 1654, with the title of " Daily
Observations or Meditations." They are full of
deep pious fervour, and he was also the author of
some beautiful verses published in Lloyd's Memoirs
of Remarkable Sufferers.

CARR, SAMUEL. A grocer, born in Boxford, 1732,
settled in Colchester, where he died in 1809. He was
the first to introduce Sunday Schools and to encourage
the culture of potatoes in this part of the county. A
portrait of his wife, by Gainsborough, was, a few years
ago, I believe, exhibited in the Gainsborough
Exhibition in London.

CARR, SAMUEL PUPPLETT. Son of Samuel
Carr, born 1750, died 1823. He was one of the first
to introduce the manufacture of gas into Colchester.
He erected gas works in the rear of his premises,
No. 11, High Street, Colchester, to supply his own

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premises. He also laid down the first tramway for
trucks in the town. He owned all the wharfage from
the Hythe Bridge to the Bonding Warehouse on the
south side of the river.

CATCHPOOL, RICHARD D. A native of
Colchester, though the greater part of his life was
spent at Reading. He always took a lively interest
in his native town, in which he was a property owner,
and offered ^1,000 towards a New Town Hall, in
Jubilee year, 1887, but the inhabitants rejected the
scheme. He left generous bequests to Colchester,
conditionally on the money being devoted to a Public
Library and Recreation Ground. Died Nov. 7, 1890,
aged 68.

CHAMBERLAYNE, NICHOLAS. A Martyr,
burned at Colchester, June 1557.

CHIVELYNG, WILLIAM. A tailor, burned in
Colchester for heresy, by order of King Henry VI.

CHURCHE, ROGER. A prior of the convent of
Crouched Friers.

CLAUDIUS. The Roman Emperor. Founded
Colchester (Camulodunum) about 50 A.D. to serve
as a monument of the victory there, which had made
him master of the southern part of the island.

COCKE, WILLIAM, was threatened with sus-
pension for not yielding to wear the surplice at his
church of St. Giles. Buried in St. Giles's Church,
1619.

COEL, KING. The mythical "Old King Cole,"
traditionally associated with Colchester, from a fancied
derivation of the word — Coel's castra, or camp.

COLCHESTER, ELIAS FITZ JOHN DE. First
M.P. for Colchester in the reigns of Edward I and II.

COLCHESTER, HUBERT DE. M.P. for
Colchester in the reign of Edward I.

COLCHESTER, JOHN OF. Rector of Tendring
and Prior of the Convent of Crouched Friers. He
founded a chantry in St. Helen's Chapel in 1321, and
one in St. Mary's Church, the funds of which were
afterwards devoted to the founding of a Free School.

COLCHESTER, LORD (Charles Abbot). Born,
1757. Son of Rev. John Abbot, D.D., Rector of
All Saints, Colchester. His mother (nee Sarah Farr,)
was married secondly to Jeremy Bentham. Charles
Abbot was, in 1801, appointed Chief Secretary to the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and keeper of the Privy
Seal in Ireland. In 1882 he became Speaker of the
House of Commons, and filled the Chair till 181 7, when
he was elevated to the peerage, with the title, Baron
Colchester. Died May 7, 1829.

COOK, COL. A Volunteer in the Royalist Forces
at the siege in 1648.

COOK, REV. MOSES, of Sible Hedingham. He
left ^"8oo for the augmentation of the living of St. James.

COMPTON, HENRY, Bishop of London. Young-
est son of the Earl of Northampton. Born 1632. He
was very zealous against popsry. He performed
the ceremony of crowning William and Mary in
Westminster Abbey. It was a saying of his that " the
Church is for the living, the Churchyard for the dead,"
the meaning of which is more obvious in his own

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funeral, which, by his own wish, was humbly carried
out in Fulham Churchyard, 171 3. He was the author
of several learned theological works, and made a
generous bequest of valuable books to the Colchester
Corporation, but with intolerable meanness they would
not be at the expense of the carriage, and his heir was
consequently obliged to sell them, and they were thus
lost to the town.

COMPTON, SIR WILLIAM. A Royalist officer
in the siege of 1648.

COWPER, EARL WILLIAM. Lord Chancellor
of England, born in Hertfordshire. He rose rapidly at
the bar, and was made Recorder of Colchester. In
1705 he was made Keeper of the Great Seal. He was
made a peer in 1706, an earl in 171 8, and died Oct. 10,
1723. Buried at Hertingfordbury.

COX, CAPT. An old, experienced cavalry officer
on the Parliamentarian side, killed at the siege on the
13th of June, 1648.

COX, JOSEPH. Died 24 June, 1689, leaving £5
per annum to the poor of St. Mary's, to be distributed
every Christmas day.

CREFFEILD, LADY. Wife of Sir Ralph
CrefFeild. She made a bequest to the poor of
Trinity Parish.

CREFFEILD, SIR RALPH. Alderman and
three times Mayor of Colchester. He was knighted by
Queen Anne on presenting her with an address of
thanks from the Corporation on the conclusion of the
peace of Utrecht. He married Rachel, daughter of

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George Tayspill. Died June 22, 1732, aged 79.
Buried in St. Nicholas Church.

CREFFEILD, RALPH, Jun., J. P., died 1723.
aged 36. Second son of Sir Ralph Creffeild. His
daughter Hannah married G. Wegg. (q.v.) Buried in
St. James's Church.

CROMWELL, THOMAS, Earl of Essex, son of a
blacksmith, born at Putney, 1490. He entered into the
service of Cardinal Wolsey, who obtained him a seat
in the House of Commons. When the Cardinal fell
he became a servant of the King, who conferred upon
him knighthood and other honours. In 1536 he
received the title of Lord Cromwell. On the dissolution
of the monasteries he received the grant of many
manors, and among them those of Milend and
Greenstead. In 1539 he was created Earl of Essex,
soon after which his fortune rapidly declined. His
ruin was hastened by the marriage which he projected
between Henry and Anne of Cleves, and he was sent
to the Tower and finally beheaded, July 28, 1540.

CUNOBELIN. The Cymbeline of Shakespeare,
whose Royal town was Colchester, previous to the
appearance of Claudius.

DAMARIN, WILLIAM. Principal coachman to
the Emperor of Russia for upwards of 5 years and for
many years coachman of the Royal Mail from London
to Colchester. Died 1844. Buried in St. Mary's
Churchyard.

DANIELL, JEREMIAH. A resident in the
Town, who died 1696, aged 61, and bequeathed an
annual gift of coals to the poor of several parishes.
Buried in St. Peter's Church.

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DARCY, MARY, LADY. Lived in Trinity parish
opposite the West end of the Church. She died in
1644, and bequeathed to the town some Almshouses in
Eld Lane. She was daughter of Sir Thos. Kitson, of
Hengrave, and wife of Viscount Colchester, Earl Rivers.

DARCY, SIR THOMAS, Kt. Was granted a 21
years' lease of the site of St. John's Abbey, Aug. 29,
1544, on the dissolution of the monasteries.

DARCY, THOMAS, BARON. Created Viscount
Colchester, July 5, 1621, with a grant of £8 out of the
fee farm of the town. He was advanced to the title of
Earl Rivers, Nov., 1626. Died, Feb. 21, 1639.

DAVIDS, REV. THOMAS WILLIAM. Congre-
gational Minister at Lion Walk Chapel for 34 years.
Born at Swansea, Sept. 11, 1816. He was an
eminent historian of Essex Nonconformity, and his
works evince considerable research and careful study.
Died in London, April 11, 1884. Buried in Colchester
Cemetery.

DE CLERK, W. Returned to Parliament as
Burgess, 34 Edw. I. and 4 Edw. II.

DE FOE, DANIEL. The celebrated author of
Robinson Crusoe and the " Shortest Way with
Dissenters." Born, 1663, in Cripplegate. He held the
Severall's or King's Wood Heath on a 99 years' lease",
from August, 1722. His tenancy also included
Brinckley Farm and Tubbeswick, the rent being ^120
and a fine of £"500. Among his other works, which
were of a very varied character, he wrote an interesting
account of a tour through the Eastern Counties, which
contains a full account of the Siege of Colchester and

many other particulars about the town, evincing the
observant faculties which characterised the man.

DICKMAN, ROBERT. A Vicar of St. Peter's,
who records in the parish register an extraordinary
earthquake on the 8th of September, 1692.

DISTER, AGNES, made a bequest to the poor of
the parish of St. Peter, in which church she was buried,
^ 1553-

DUGARD, WILLIAM, of Sidney College,
Cambridge. A most industrious and successful Master
of the Grammar School, an appointment which he
received in 1637. He did much for the good of the
school, but received such abuse and ill usage in return,
that he had to resign in 1642-3.

DYER, SIR LODOWICK. A royalist officer,
taken prisoner in ths Siege, 1648.

EDWARDS, JOHN. A Colchester clergyman,
chosen Lecturer to the Corporation in 1700, at a salary
of ^"50 per annum.

ELIAN OR (or Alianor), JOHN. M.P. for
Colchester in the reign of Edward III.

ELIANORE, JOSEPH. M.P. for Colchester.
Founded a chantry in St. Mary's Church, in Feb.,
1348. He was several times bailiff of the town. At
the reformation the advowson was utilised for founding
a Free School.

ELIZABETH, QUEEN, visited Colchester, Sept.
1 and 2, 1579.

ERNULPH) A Monk, founder of St. Botolph's
EYNULPHi Priory, and its first Prior. He

introduced into England the Order of Regular Canons

of St. Augustine.

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EUDO, DAPIFER (Steward Eudo). Son of
Hubert de Rie, who was a servant and favorite of
William the Conqueror, to whom he was of great
service in assuming the English throne. The reward
of his services came to his son Eudo, who, besides
receiving large possessions was made Steward of the
Household. Inheriting in full measure the tact and
skill of his father he succeeded in securing the throne
to William II. The Town of Colchester, realising
that he would therefore be a favoured subject of
that monarch, petitioned for him as their Governor,
so that they might be under his protection and free
from the hardships which they had had to endure in
the past. This was granted the Town, and he resided
there in High Street. Opposite his residence he built
the Moot Hall, pulled down in 1843. He was Lord
of the Manors of Greenstead and Berechurch. The
great work of his life was the founding of the
monastery of St. John's Abbey. He chose the site
of this building in a remarkable manner. A little
wooden church stood there, at which strange miracles
were said to be performed. There, too, on dark
nights, heavenly lights were often seen and voices
when no-one was within, and on one occasion, on
the feast of St. John, a man, who was kept there
in fetters, by command of the king, was miraculously
freed from his chains, which flew off of their own
accord. Pondering over his project, therefore, he
determined that this must be the site of the Abbey
and St. John its patron saint, and the work of
building was accordingly begun in 1096, and the
next year, after Easter, Eudo himself reverently
laid the first stone. Amongst other manors in his

possession he devoted the revenues of Berechurch
to the Abbey. With the first Monks there he had
considerable trouble, on account of their discontent
and ill behaviour, and finally he committed the whole
monastery into the hands of Stephen, Abbot of York.
With the King's consent, and in his presence, he
bequeathed to the monastery the Manor of Bright-
lingsea, ^ioo in money, his gold ring with a topaz,
a cup, with cover adorned with plates of gold,
together with his horse and mule. He also founded
the Leper's Hospital, in the Parish of St. Mary
Magdalen. He died at the Castle of Preaux, in
Normandy, and at his own desire was buried in his
beloved monastery, at Colchester, Feb. 28, 11 20. His
wife was Rohaise, daughter of Richard, son of Gilbert,
Earl of Eu. They had one daughter, Margaret, who
married William de Mandeville.

EVELYN, JOHN, the well known writer, visited
Colchester in 1656, and described the town as
" wretchedly demolished by the late siege, especially
the suburbs, which were all burnt, but were then
repairing." He testifies to the spot alleged then to
be the death place of Lucas and Lisle, which he says
was "bare of green for a large space, all the rest of
it abounding with herbage." Of the baize and says
trade he says, Colchester "is the only place in England
where these stuffs are made unsophisticated." (That
is, genuine).

EWER, COLONEL. An officer under Fairfax
in the siege, 1648. He was sent at the conclusion of
the siege to the King's Head Inn, to fetch Lucas, Lisle,
and Gascoigne, and to prepare them for their fate. He

told Sir Charles Lucas, with a slighting gesture, that
the General desired to speak with him at the Council
of War, and also with Sir George Lisle, Sir Bernard
Gascoigne, and Col. Farre. The latter, however, had
made his escape. The others went with him and were
told that they were condemned to be shot to death.

EWRING, HELEN. A martyr, burned outside
the town Walls, on the morning of Aug. 2, 1557.

FACILIS, MARCUS FAVONIUS. A Roman
centurion, whose finely sculptured effigy and monu-
mental inscription, found at Colchester, is by far the
most valuable of all the Roman cemetery memorials
found in the neighbourhood. The relic is in the
possession of Mr. George Joslin of Colchester.

FAIRFAX, THOMAS, LORD. General of the
Parliamentarian forces at the siege in 164 8. He was
the eldest son of Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax, and was
born at Denton, Yorks., 161 1. He married the
daughter of Lord Vere. He was a literary man, and
fond of antiquarian researches, which latter predilection,
no doubt contributed to his evident desire at the siege
to avoid unnecessary destructive combat, for he made
many offers for peace, on conditions, which, considering
the strength of his position, were by no means
ungenerous. His terms were not, however, accepted,
and at last, when the town was forced to a surrender,
and was evidently completely in his power, he, in turn,
declined the proffered terms of the besieged. He
succeeded to the family estate and honours a year
previous to the siege. In the Civil War generally he
played an important part, and contributed to the
victory of Naseby, after which he subdued the whole

of the West of England. He died at his seat in 1671.
He was the author of several poems, and a volume of
memoirs published in 1699.

FARNHAM, RICHARD. (See John Bull.)

FARR, COLONEL. A royalist officer in the siege
1648. He escaped from the Town just previous to its
surrender.

FISON, JAMES. A musician and composer, who
died at East Bay, about 1849, in the 99th year of his
age. He received a pension for his musical acquire-
ments and services.

FITZWALTER, ROBERT, BARON. Lord of
the manor of Lexden. He founded the monastery of
Grey Friars, and in 1325 entered there as a religious
votary. He died there the following year.

FOLKS, ELIZABETH. A martyr burned outside
the Town Walls on the morning of Aug. 2, 1557.

FRANCKHAM, ROBERT. Bequeathed a gift to
the poor of the parish of St. Nicholas.

FRAUNCEY, THOMAS. Founded a chantry in
St. Nicholas Church, by will dated 1416. Among the
stipulations was one that a lamp was to be kept
continually burning in the Church by day and night
before the cross, and a wax light before the image of
St. Nicholas at mass time.

FYNCHE, JOHN. M.P. for Colchester in the
reign of Edward III.

FYNCHE, RALPH. A brewer, who lived at the
bottom of Balkerne Hill. He endowed four almshouses
in St. Nicholas parish.

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GASCOIGNE (or Guasconi) SIR BERNARD.

A native of Florence. A royalist officer in the siege.
He tried to make a sally from the Town with Lucas
and Lisle, and all the volunteers and horse of the
garrison, on July 15, 1648. They crossed the river at
Middle Mill and tried to get to Nayland, but their
guides misled them, and roused the enemy. The
guides and the pioneers then fled, and they were all
obliged to retreat. Sir Bernard was condemned to
death with Lucas and Lisle, but at the last was
reprieved as not being an Englishman.

GEORGE, CHRISTIANA. The last martyr
burned at Colchester, May 26, 1558.

GILBERD, J HIEROME (or Jerome.) Father

GYLBERD,L of the celebrated Dr. Gilberd (see

GILBERT,) below.) He lived at Clare, in Suffolk.

Was Recorder of Colchester, of which town he was

made a free burgess in 1553. Died May 23, 1583.

GILBERD, THOMAS. Grandfather of Dr.
Gilberd, born at Hintlesham, and made a free burgess
of Colchester in 1428.

GILBERD, DR. WILLIAM. Son of Hierome
Gilberd. He was born in 1540, and studied at Oxford
and Cambridge. He afterwards travelled into foreign
countries, where he took his degree, and returned
famous for his learning. He was made an M.R.C.P,,
London, and Chief Physician to Queen Elizabeth, who
valued him very highly, and allowed him an annual
sum to encourage him in his studies. He was also
Chief Physician to James I. In 1600 he published
his famous book, " De Magnete," the first work ever
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and genius, and in it the word "electric" was first
given to the world. In this work, too, appears the
important discovery of the variation of the magnet-
He also wrote a book, " De Mundo nostro sublunari
Philosophia nova," which was published at Amsterdam
after his death. He invented two -instruments for
finding the altitude without the help of sun, moon, or
stars. He died Nov. 30, 1603, and was buried in the
chancel of Trinity Church, where there is a monument
to his memory. He had four brothers— Ambrose,
William, a Proctor in Arches ; Hierome, and George.

GILBERT, GEORGE. Made a bequest to the
poor of All Saints parish.

GILBERT, MRS. (nee Ann Taylor). Daughter of
Rev. Isaac Taylor (q.v.) Lived in Stockwell Street
1796-1811. Married Rev. J. Gilbert, 1814. Her first
literary venture was before her marriage, when, in
conjunction with her sister Jane, she wrote the well-
known " Hymns for Infant Minds," full of a terse
simplicity which soon rendered them successful.
Encouraged by this success, she followed it up with
many more poems, some of which (such as " My
Mother" and "Twinkle, twinkle little Star,") have
become " familiar in our minds as household words."
Her "Rhymes for the Nursery" were spoken of in
high terms by Sir Walter Scott. She was also the
author of prose writings less well known. Died at
Nottingham, 1866.

GILSON, DANIEL. First Minister at the
Presbyterian Chapel, St. Helen's Lane. Died 172 J.

GLISSON, DR. FRANCIS. A learned physician,
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St. Mary's Parish. He removed to London, and died
there, 1677. He wrote five medical treatises, and was
President of the College of Physicians. He was the
discoverer of Glisson's capsule, a membrane investing
the portal vein, hepatic artery, and hepatic duct.
During the siege Dr. Glisson was sent by the council
of war at the siege to propose arbitration to Fairfax,
but the appeal was trade too late.

GORING, LORD, Earl of Norwich. A prominent
royalist in the siege. On June 4, 1648, news came into
the Town, that he, with Lord Capel and 2000 of the
loyal party, who had been in arms in Kent, were
coming by Greenwich and Stratford to Colchester.
Sir Charles Lucas, Sir George Lisle, Col. Cook, and
others at once resolved to join them as a band of
volunteers to fight for the King. He reached
Colchester on the 10th of June. The people there
sympathised chiefly with the Parliamentarians, and
were with difficulty prevailed upon to admit the
royalists, but at last, on certain conditions they
submitted, and the troops entered and made the place
their headquarters, causing drums to beat for
volunteers. Lord Goring encamped at first in the
suburbs, and on the 12th he came into the town and
brought in Sir William Masham and other prisoners.
He acted with intrepidity and with some lack of
prudence, refusing the offer of the engineers to entrench
his camp, though afterwards, when a battle was at
hand and there was no time to do it, he would probably
have been glad of the protection. His sanguine
boldness was further evinced in his refusal tc exchange
prisoners with the enemy on account of his expectation
that re-inforcements would come to his aid. On the 20th

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June, Fairfax again offered terms, which Lord Goring
contemptuously and laughingly declined. More than
once Fairfax sent a protest that poisoned bullets had
been used by Lord Goring's direction, an accusation
which Lord Goring indignantly repudiated. Further
offers of treaty from Fairfax he also declined, and on
the 1 2th of Aug. the people crowded round his quarters,
clamouring for surrender, and they repeated their
demonstrations of dissatisfaction every evening. At
last surrender became inevitable, and Goring was
among the prisoners of the enemy.

GRAY, CHARLES. M.P. for Colchester in five
parliaments, in the reigns of George II. and III. He
purchased the Castle of Isaac Leming Rebow, and was
diligent in preserving this valued antiquarian relic.
Died, Dec. 12, 1782, aged 86. Buried at All Saints.
He constructed the domed tower and the Library at
the Castle, and founded in the latter, in 1750, the
Castle Society Book Club ; among whose members was
Morant. He also purchased a great part of the Castle
Lands.

GRAY, MYLES. A Colchester bell founder of the
17th Century.

GREAT, SAMUEL. An apprentice to Robert
Buxton (q.v.,) after whose death he carried on the
eryngo root trade. He died in 1706, aged 80, and was
buried in St. Nicholas' Church.

GRIFFIN, REV. LEWIS, M.A. A Colchester
divine and Master of the Grammar School. He
occupied a benefice (Greenstead) during the plague.
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Doctrine of an Ass," containing the following
couplet : —

" Devils' pretences always was divine,
A Knave may have an Angel — for a sign."

Died at Colchester about 1670.

GRIMSTON, SIR HARBOTTLE. Born at
Bradfield, 1594. He bought the site of Crouched
Friars in 1637, and made it his place of residence.
The house was battered down and burned in the siege
in 1648. His father (Harbottle Grimston) was made
Baron in 1612, and free burgess of Colchester in 1625.
The son was brought up to the law and made M.P.,
1639, when he spoke vehemently against the grievances
of the town. After his house had been destroyed in the
siege he travelled abroad. He was afterwards made
Speaker in the " Healing Parliament," April 15,
1660, and continued to represent Colchester till his
death in 1683. In Nov., 1660, he was made Master of
the Rolls. He published the Reports of Sir George
Croke, whose daughter he married. He gave £10 for
the relief of the poor in the plague in 1655-6. He was
elected M.P. for the County as well as the Borough,
and for part of his parliamentary career he chose to
stand for the County, Sir Robt. Quarles taking his
place as Member for the Borough.

GULL, SIR WILLIAM WITHEY. This
eminent physician was born at Colchester and baptised
at St. Leonard's. He was the son of a mariner, and
soon after his birth his parents removed to Thorpe-le-
Soken, where he was brought up at the village school.
He chose a schoolmaster's career, and assisted for a
time in teaching at a Mr. Seaman's school in
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Lewes, and rapidly developed great scientific tastes,
which gained him a post at Guy's Hospital, in connexion
with cataloguing the museum. This led him to devote
his attention to medicine, and having taken his degree,
he soon rose to distinction. He attended the Prince of
Wales, with Sir William Jenner, throughout a
dangerous attack of typhoid fever, and his successful
services were rewarded with a baronetcy. He
married in 1848 the daughter of Col. J. Dacre Lacy.
Died Jan. 29, 1890.

HALE, — . A descendant oi Sir Matthew Hale,
and an inhabitant of Colchester, who in 1832,
constructed a steamboat which was exhibited in
September of that year on Virginia Water, before the
King and Queen and various members of the Royal
Family, who took great interest in the invention.

HAMO, DAPIFER. One of the earliest property
owners in Colchester.

HAMMOND, COL. EDWARD. A royalist
officer made prisoner in the siege in 1648.

HAMMOND, J. A tanner, burnt at Colchester,
April 28, 1556.

HARRIS, W. A martyr, burned at Colchester,

May 26, 1558.

HARRISON, RALPH. Alderman of Colchester
at the time of the siege in 1648. Buried in St.
Botolph's.

HARSNET, DR. SAMUEL. Archbishop of York.
Born in 1561, in St. Botolph Street. He was son of
William Harsnet, a baker, and was probably educated
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Cambridge. Thence he went to Pembroke Hall, of
which he was elected a Fellow in 1583, and the next
year he took the degree of M.A. In 1586 he was
chosen Master of the Free School at Colchester, a post
he held little more than a year and a half. He became
Vicar of Chigwell, which he resigned in 1605. In 1598
he was made a Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and
in 1602 Archdeacon of Essex. In 1604 he became
Rector of Shenfield and subsequently Rector of
St. Margarets, New Fish Street, London. In 1605
he succeeded Bishop Andrews as Master of Pembroke
Hall and in the same year, and in 1614, he served the
office of vice-chancellor. In 1606 he became Vicar of
Hutton and afterwards he was Rector of Stisted. In
1609 he became Bishop of Chichester and in 1619 was
translated to Norwich. He was accused by the
Puritans of Arminianism, and in 1624 the Commons
found fault with him for several misdemeanours. In
1628 he became Archbishop of York, and died at
Morton-on-the-Marsh, May, 163 1. He was buried at
Chigwell, where he had founded a Free School, and
amongst other bequests he left £10 to the poor of St.
Botolph, and all his library to the town for the use of
the Clergy. His own writings include a Sermon
condemning Absolute Predestination, and an attack on
the " fraudulent practices " of certain individuals
whom he accused of the " deceitful trade " of " casting
out devils." Morant describes his works as being
written with great strength of reason and elegantly
" considering the times " (which, by the way, were
" the spacious days of Queen Elizabeth.") The
condition on which he bequeathed his Library to the
Town, was that a decent place should be provided for

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it. It was placed in the Dutch Say Hall over the Red
Row. This was in 1631. In 1654-5 all the books
were mortgaged to the Chamberlain for ^"50. In 1664
it was resolved that the Grammar School Master
should have charge of the books and be responsible for
them. They were afterwards removed to the Castle,
where they have been ever since, and have recently
been repaired and catalogued at great expense.
Unfortunately some are lost. They include a fine
Antwerp Bible, and Hesychius with Isaac Casaubon's
M.S. notes, and many other valuable works.

HARVEY, DANIEL WHITTLE. Member of
Parliament for Colchester, returned in 18 18, 1820,
1830, 1831, and 1832. He was born at Kelvedon,
and commenced his career at Colchester as an articled
clerk to Mr. Peter Daniell, solicitor, at Head Gate.
He early developed considerable talent for public
speaking. He became a somewhat ardent radical,
and was so zealous at public meetings in furtherance
of radical opinions, that he was induced to contest the
Borough in 181 2, but was defeated by the Conservative
candidates. His determination and perseverance,
however, urged him not to abandon his attempts,
which were afterwards more successful, and he was
several times returned at the head of the poll. He was
subsequently appointed by the Corporation of London,
Chief Commissioner of the City Police. He held this
office simultaneously with his seat in Parliament, until
the passing of the New Police Act, when he was no
longer eligible for the House of Commons, and
consequently in 1834, he retired from the representation
of Colchester, and retained his official appointment till
his death, which was in about 1864.

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HARVEY, JOHN BAWTREE. Three times
Mayor of Colchester. He was born at Ipswich, 1809,
and there commenced his career. Came to Colchester
in 1837, and was for some years engaged in Liberal
journalism in the town. He took a special interest in
gas lighting, and was Chairman of the Colchester Gas
Co. Died at Colchester, Aug. 10, 1890.

HASTINGS, HENRY, Lord Loughborough. A
royalist officer made prisoner in the siege, 1648.

HAWES, REV. THOMAS. Rector of St.
Leonard's ; gave some books to the Town in 1635.

HAY, JAMES, Earl of Carlisle. Was given the
reversion of the Castle by Charles I., Aug. 5, 1629.

HENEAGE, SIR THOMAS, Kt. Held King's
Wood Heath, or the Severalls, Milend, under lease in
accordance with the express desire of Queen Elizabeth.

HELENA, EMPRESS. The Mother of Constan-
tine the Great. Mythically associated with the History
of Colchester, probably because of her supposed
relationship to the legendary King Coel (q.v.)

HERRICK, JOSEPH. Pastor of the Presby-
terian Chapel in St. Helen's Lane, 1812-4. In 1814,
Mr. Herrick and the congregation removed to the
present Stock well Chapel, while seceders from the old
methodist body took the old meeting house and
elected a minister.

HEWITT, REV. CHARLES. A Greenstcad
clergyman of whom E. P. Strutt in his " Colchester
Celebrities of the Olden Times " tells a story, that on
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the congregation had all gone out, the clerk said,
" They are all out, sir." " Oh, are they ? " said the
parson, half awaking, " fill them up again, my brave
boys ! "

HICKERINGILL, REV. EDMUND. For 46
years Rector of All Saints. Died in 1708, and was
buried in all Saints Church. A long complimentary
epitaph in Latin was inscribed on his tomb, a portion
of which, was, it is said, afterwards effaced by order of
Bishop Crompton. He was a staunch opponent of the
Civilians. He was cited before Sir Robert Wiseman
to answer certain irregularities in the performance of
his clerical duties. He entered Westminster Hall,
June 8, 1681, to answer this charge, with his hat on,
and Avas commanded by Sir Robert Wiseman to be
uncovered. Mr. Hickeringill replied in Greek to this
and all Sir Robert's remarks. He afterwards repeated
in English all he had said in Greek. He was again
commanded by Sir Robert to be uncovered, and as
he refused, an old fellow, a kind of sumner, was
ordered to snatch it from his head ; but Mr. Hickeringill
snatched it back and clapped it on his head again, and
held it there all the time he was in court, throwing
down a protest against the proceedings, which was read
out.

HOLBEYE, MARGARET. In the reign of Queen
Elizabeth she was indicted for exercising " the art of
fascination as well of men as of animals, and for
having caused Elizabeth Pickas, by her diabolical
practices, to waste away." She was imprisoned for a
year, and put in the pillory once a quarter, on market
days.

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HONEYFOLD, DR. GABRIEL. A Master of
the Lepers' Hospital and Vicar of Ardleigh. At the
beginning of the Civil Wars, his house was rifled by
the mob, and every atom of his belongings taken from
him ; the register being also destroyed.

HONYWOOD, SIR THOMAS. An officer under
Fairfax in the siege in 1648.

HUMPHREY, PRINCE. Duke of Gloucester and
Protector of England. Constable of Colchester
Castle, 1404. He is supposed to have been murdered
in 1447.

HUN WICK, JOHN. An alderman of Colchester,
who left, in 1593, ^300 for the poor, lame, and
impotent, in Colchester.

HURNARD, JAMES. A well-known member of
the Society of Friends, who resided at Hill House,
Lexden, and was before that a brewer on East Hill.
He was an ardent Liberal, and was rewarded for his
zeal in that cause by being made an Alderman in the
Town Council. He was a man of literary tastes, and
from time to time indulged in poetical efforts. His
principal venture in this way was a volume in verse,
entitled — " The Setting Sun," dealing somewhat
incisively with local affairs. Died, Feb. 26, 1881,
aged 73. He married, somewhat late in life, and left
one son.

HURST, EDMUND. A resident in St. James's
parish; burned at Stratford, June, 1556.

INGRAM, THOMAS. Made a bequest to the poor
of St. Peter's parish.

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IRETON, COLONEL HENRY, son of German
Ireton. He was born at Attenton, Notts., 1610. He
married a daughter of Oliver Cromwell. He fought
under Fairfax at the siege in 1648, and was at the
Council of War at which Lucas and Lisle were
condemned to die. He died in Ireland of a fever,
exclaiming in his last momsnts, " Blood, blood ! " He
died Nov. 26, 165 1. His body was brought to
England, and buried in Westminster Abbey; but at
the Restoration it was taken up, suspended on a
gallows, and then thrown into a pit with those of
Cromwell and Bradshaw. He is described as a dark,
treacherous, and hypocritical character.

JARVIS, DR. JOHN. Rector of Grecnstead in
1644. Depositions were taken against him, when it
was affirmed on oath, amongst other graver charges,
" that he had often said this Parliament are a company
of factious fellows, who aim at nothing but their own
ends, and that he was not able to deliver anything in
his sermons, more than what he read out of his book,
pointing with his fingers for the most part to every
line." The living was sequestrated, August, 1645.

JENKINS. REV. HENRY, of Stanway. A
zealous exponent of the theory of the Roman origin of
the Castle. He held that it was the actual Temple of
Claudius. Died, 1874. ^s arguments were inconclu-
sive, wild and inaccurate, and found few adherents (see
Buckler.)

JENNENS, JOHN. A claimant of the enormous
estates of William Jennens, of Acton Place. The
important chancery suit, in connection with these
estates, formed the original of " Jarndyce v. Jarndyce"

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in Dickens's Bleak House. John Jennens died at
Colchester, 1769, and was buried in St. Peter's
Churchyard. The tombstone bears the text, Jer. ix,
6, " Through deceit they refuse to know me."

JOBSON, SIR FRANCIS. A resident at
Monkwick, from whom John Lucas bought the site of
St. John's Abbey. He bought the monastery of the
Grey Friars after the dissolution of the monasteries.
Died at Monkwick, 1573, and was buried in St. Giles's
Church.

JOHNSON, ABRAHAM. M.P. for Colchester in
the first Parliament of Richard Cromwell, 1659.

JOYNE, SIMON. A sawyer, burned at Colchester,
April 28, 1556.

JOHNSON, JOHN. A martyr, burned at
Colchester on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 1557.

JUDDE, LADY MARY, of Latton. A native of
Colchester, who left ^"100 for the benefit of the poor of
the town.

KENDALL, JOHN. A wealthy member of the
Society of Friends, who was largely instrumental in
founding, in 1791, Almshouses for the widows whose
husbands had died in Winsley's Almshouses.

KNEVETT, THOMAS. Suspended for preaching
at Milend without a license, having been admitted to
the rectory on the presentation of Sir Thomas Lucas
in 1584.

LADELL, EDWARD. A famous Colchester
Artist, son of a coachbuilder on East Hill. His Still
Life has a world wide reputation, and in his lifetime
his studio was always represented at the Royal
Academy. Died Nov. 9, 1886, aged 65.

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LANVALLEI, WILLIAM DE. Lord of the
Manor of Stanway, and founder of the Convent of
Crouched Friars about 1244. He was also constable
of Colchester Castle.

LAWRENCE, JOHN. A martyr, burned at
Colchester, March, 29, 1555.

LAWRENCE, NATHANIEL, Jun. Son of
Nathaniel Lawrence, who was several times Mayor.
He was lame for seven years, and suddenly recovered
the use of his legs. Died 1 750-1, aged 90.

LAYTON, SIR WILLIAM. A royalist officer
taken prisoner in the siege in 1648.

LEOFLEDA. A wealthy lady whose name appears
in the Domesday Survey, as the richest of the 276
King's burgesses. She owned three houses, 25 acres,
and a mill, probably on the site of the present East
Mills.

LEWIS, Son of Philip II. of France, made
himself for a shoit time master of the Castle and
Town, and all the Eastern parts of England, 12 18.

LISLE, COLONEL SIR GEORGE. One of the
chief defenders in the siege in 1648. He was
condemned to death by the Parliamentarian Council of
War, and was shot outside the Castle immediately
after the execution of Sir Charles Lucas. He knelt by
the body of his gallant comrade in arms and kissed
him, then rising, uttered his well known protest —
"Oh, how many of your lives who are now present
here, have I saved in hot blood, and must now myself
be most barbarously murdered in cold ! " Bestowing
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nearer, so that they might do their work more
completely. " I'll warrant ye, sir, we'll hit you,"
exclaimed one of them. " Friend," said Sir George,
calmly, " I have been nearer when you have missed
me." Buried with Sir C. Lucas in St. Giles's Church.

LOVELESSE, FRANCIS. Master of the
Ordnance in the siege in 1648. He was made
prisoner by Fairfax.

LUCAS, CHARLES, BARON. Son and heir of
Sir Thomas Lucas, of Lexden, Knight. He was Lord
of the Manor of Lexden, and lived there at the
Tenterhouse. He married a daughter of the Earl of
Scarsdale.

LUCAS, SIR CHARLES. Younger brother of
Sir John Lucas. He was brought up for a military
career, in the Low Countries, under the Prince of
Orange, and became one of the best commanders of
Horse that King Charles I. had. He fought for that
monarch in several places, and notably in the Siege of
Colchester, at the end of which he was shot by
command of Fairfax, outside the Castle, Aug. 28, 1648
(vide Sir G. Lisle.) He was a stern and staunch man
throughout his life, and his last words were — " See, I
am ready for you. Now, rebels, shoot ! " Pierced by
four bullets, he fell dead. He died childless.

LUCAS, SIR JOHN. An officer of King Charles ;
eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Lucas, jun. He
lived at St. John's. On Aug. 22, 1642, as he was
preparing to go with a detachment of cavalry to the
King in the North, he was barbarously used by some
of the inhabitants, who plundered his house, desecrated
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took him prisoner to London. Being released, he
fought for Charles I. at Lestwithiel and Newbury, and
in other battles, in consideration of which he was made
a Baron in. 1644-5, with the title of Lord Lucas of
Shenfield. Died, 1671, and was buried in St. Giles's
Church.

LUCAS, JOHN. Third son of Sir Thomas Lucas;
was Town Clerk of Colchester, and Master of the
requests to Edward VI. He bought the site of St.
John's Abbey of Sir Francis Jobson. He was also
Lord of the Manor of Milend, and died, 1556.

LUCAS, LADY ANNE. Wife of Lord John
Lucas, Baron of Shenfield. Buried in St. Giles's
Church. Died, Aug. 22, 1660.

LUCAS, SIR THOMAS. Sheriff of Essex in
1568, and Recorder of Colchester in 1575. He
generously entertained the Earl of Leicester on his
visit to the town, Dec. 6, 1585. His estates at Lexden
were sequestrated by the House of Commons, because
he would not accede to certain Parliamentary measures.

LUCAS, SIR THOMAS, Jun. Son of the above.
Sheriff of Essex in 1617. He purchased for his son,
Thomas, the manorial estates at Lexden and placed
him there.

MACE, JOHN. An apothecary, burned at
Colchester, April 28, 1556.

MARGARET, QUEEN, of Anjou, was granted
Colchester Castle by Henry VI., in 1447.

MARSDEN, CANON JOHN HOWARD. Resided
many years at Grey Friars, East Hill. Born, 1803.
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honours at Cambridge, where he won the First Bell's
Scholarship in 1823, and the Seatonian prize for
English verse. He held the appointments of Select
Preacher to the University of Cambridge in 1834, x^37f
and 1847, was Hulsean Lecturer in 1843 and 1844, and
Disney Professor of Archaeology, 1851 to 1865. In
1840 he was presented to the Rectory of Great Oakley.
He was the author of several works, including his two
volumes of Hulsean Lectures, the Life of Sir Simon
D'Ewes, archaeological lectures, and a collection of
poems, entitled Fasciculus. He was a celebrated
authority on archaeological and numismatic subjects.
Died, Jan. 24, 1891, aged 88.

MARSH, REV. WILLIAM, D.D. For 15 years
Vicar of St. Peter's. He was born, July 1775, being
the third son of Col. Sir Charles Marsh, K.C.B. His
mother, " Dame Catherine Marsh," who died at
Colchester in 1824, married at the early age of 16.
She was the daughter of Mrs. Case, a friend of the
poet Pope, and a lady of cultured intellect. Dr.
Marsh came to Colchester from Brighton in 1816.
He married Maria Tilson in 1806. He took a deep
interest in Missionary work to the Jews. He was a
powerful speaker and a most popular man in the town.
When he left Colchester in 1829, a noble presentation
of plate and the sum of ^1000 was presented to him
by the inhabitants of Colchester. Died August, 1864,
having passed 64 years in the ministry. He was
buried at Beddi'ngton. His life and letters were
published in 1867 by his daughter, who was also the
author of the " Memorials of Capt. Hedley Vicars."

MASHAM, SIR WILLIAM. An officer under
Fairfax, taken prisoner by the Royalists at the

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commencement of the siege. He sent a message to
Fairfax, entreating him to treat for peace. The
Parliamentarians offered a prisoner named Ashburnham
in exchange, but the proposal was rejected. Sir Wm.
Masham was M.P. for the town in the reign of
Charles I.

MAULYVER, SIR RICHARD. A royalist officer
in the siege of 1648. He was taken prisoner by the
Parliamentarians, escaped, and was re-captured.

MORA.NT, REV. PHILIP. The celebrated
historian of Colchester. Born in Jersey in 1700, and
educated at Abingdon School, whence he removed to
Pembroke College, Oxford, where he took the degree
of M.A. in 1724. He held several livings in Essex,
the principal one of which was that of St. Mary's,
Colchester. He was an indefatigable antiquarian, and
his famous compilation — The History of Essex,
including The History of Colchester, also published in
a separate volume, has preserved an immense wealth
of local history. He was also one of the compilers of
the Biographica Britannica, and was appointed by the
House of Lords to publish a copy of the Rolls of
Parliament, which work, at his death, devolved upon
his son-in-law, Mr. Astle. He died in London, in 1770.

MOTT, ALDERMAN. A burgess who was
disenfranchised for disdemeanours in 1694. One of
these misdemeanours consisted in his having made a
person a free burgess without consent of the Common
Council.

MOUNT, J ALICE & WILLIAM. Two martyrs
MUNT, J burned at Colchester on the afternoon

of Aug. 2, 1557, after being imprisoned awhile in the

Castle.

MUSCHAMP, MAJOR. A royalist, killed in the
siege, 19th June, 1648.

NAGGS, WILLIAM. Made a bequest to the
Charity Schools at Colchester. Died July 30, 1758,
aged 80. Buried in St. Peter's Churchyard (south
side).

NEEDHAM, COL. A Parliamentarian officer who
commanded the Tower Guards in the siege, and was
killed in the action of June 13, 1648.

NETTLES, STEPHEN. A Rector of Lexden in
the 17th century, whose property was sequestrated by
Parliament.

NEWCASTLE, MARGARET Duchess of (nee
Margaret Lucas). Daughter of Sir Charles Lucas.
She was born at St. John's, Colchester. She was
afforded a complete education, and early in life
exhibited taste for literature. She was the second wife
of William Cavendish, Earl, Marquis, and Duke of
Newcastle, to whom she was married in 1645. Two
years before this she visited the Court of Charles I.,
then at Oxford, was appointed one of the maids of
honour to the queen and accompanied her majesty to
France. She published ten folio volumes ot letters,
plays, poems, philosophical discourses, orations, and
the life of her husband the duke. Her life was
distinguished by pious and charitable works. Died in
London, 1673, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

NELSON, LUKE. An eccentric cobbler and
antiquarian who lived in St. Mary's parish. His
portrait appears in Strutt's Celebrities, at the Colchester
Museum. Died Feb. 22, 1805, aged 69. Buried
in St. Mary's Churchyard.

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NEWCOMEN, THOMAS. Rector of Holy
Trinity in the middle of the 17th Century, and
Chaplain to Sir John Lucas. He was sequestrated for
his loyalty to the King in 1642, but obtained redress on
the restoration.

NICHOLS, R. A weaver, burned at Colchester,
April 28, 1556.

NORTHYE, GEORGE, of Clare Hall. Chaplain
to the Colchester Corporation, 1580. He was
suspended for a year by the Bishop of London.
Died, 1593. Buried at St. James's.

ORILEY, SIR HUGH. A royalist officer in the
siege of 1648, taken prisoner by the Parliamentarians.

PARNEL, JAMES. A quaker, who came to
Colchester when 18 }rears old, in 1655, and preached
with great zeal and success. His tenets drew upon
him the charge of heresy, and he was imprisoned in
the Castle, and suffered great hardships and indignities,
being confined in a chamber in the wall some 12 feet
from the ground, with a ladder 6 feet long as his only
means of descent for food. In attempting to get out
from this miserable cell, he fell and was nearly killed.
He suffered continued and increasing hardships,
till at last death ended his sufferings.

PARR, DR. SAMUEL. A master of the
Colchester Grammar School, 1776-8, during part of
which time he held the cures of the parishes of
Holy Trinity and St. Leonard's (the Hythe). He was
a man of unrivalled classical erudition, and a very
voluminous writer. He was the author of the epitaph
to Dr. Johnson in St. Paul's Cathedral. His wife used
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bred a tyrant." The ardour of his temper, with his
fulness of knowledge, made him a fluent speaker, and
he often preached extempore at Colchester, his custom
being to avoid any preparation of his subject, which he
selected from any passage that struck him in the
lessons, epistle, gospel, or psalms of the day. Born at
Harrow, Jan. 15, 1746-7. Died at Hatton, March 6,
1825.

PEPPER, ELIZABETH, of St. James's
Colchester. A martyr, burned at Stratford, June,
1556.

PIGG, OLIVER. Vicar of St. Peter's and Rector
of All Saints, from 1569 to 1570, in which year he
removed to Abberton. He was committed on the
charge of putting the question in the Baptismal
Service, " Dost thou believe ? " not to the child, but to
the parents. He finally conformed to the law and was
discharged.

PRICE, SERJEANT, L.L.D. Recorder of
Colchester in 1722, or rather Deputy of Earl Cowper,
who was Lord High Chancellor, and who did not
reside in the Borough. Dr. Price lived at Tymperleys,
in Trinity Street, the former residence of Dr. Gilberd
(q.v.)

PURCAS, WILLIAM, of Bocking. A martyr,
burned at Colchester, outside the Town Walls, on the
morning of Aug. 2, 1557.

QUARLES, STR ROBT., Kt. M.P. for Colchester
in the reign of Charles I. Grandfather of the poet,
Francis Quarles.

QUINCEY, SAHER DE, Earl of Winchester.
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and besieged Colchester Castle in 12 15, but hearing
that the Barons at London were hastening to its relief,
he withdrew to Bury St. Edmunds. However, he or
another party soon afterwards made themselves
masters of Colchester, and plundered it, as they had
done Ipswich and other places. But after a few days'
siege, the King (John) re-took it, coming in person to
Colchester with what forces he could muster.

RATCLIFF, JOHN. Lord of the Manor of
Lexden, 1440- 1494. In 1485 he received the title of
Lord Fitzwalter, and unhappily engaged in a conspiracy
to set Perkin Warbeck on the throne. He was
convicted of high treason, and obliged to forfeit all his
estates, though they were afterwards restored to his
son, the Earl of Sussex. He was beheaded at Calais.

RAWLINS, LIEUT.-COL. GEORGE. A

royalist officer taken prisoner in the siege in 1648.

RAWSTORN, SAMUEL. Lived at Lexden, and
died, 1719-20. He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas
Papillon, of Acris, in Kent.

RAYNHAM, JOHN. Mayor of Colchester in 1705.
He admitted 96 foreigners to the freedom of the
Borough on his own authority, and swore them in
privately without the Town Clerk, for which reason
they lost their freedom.

REBOW, SIR ISAAC. Son of John Rebow.
M.P. for Colchester in the reigns of William and
Mary, Anne, and George I. He lived at Head Gate.
He was made High Steward and Recorder in 1693,
and also served as Mayor. Died, 1726. He purchased
Colchester Castle of John Wheely, 1704.

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REBOW, ISAAC LEMING. M.P. for Colchester
in the reigns of George II. and III. Son of
Sir Isaac Rebow. Died, 1735.

REBOW, ISAAC MARTIN. Son of Isaac
Leming Rebow. Recorder and M.P. for Colchester.
Died, 1 781. Buried in St. Mary's Church.

REBOW, JOHN. A Colchester merchant.
Married Sarah, daughter of Francis Tayspill. Died,
1699, aged 71, and was buried in St. Mary's Church,
where there is a monument to his memory, erected by
Sir Isaac Rebow.

REYNOLDS, SAMUEL. M.P. for Colchester in
the reign of Charles II. He lived in St. James's
parish. Died, 1694.

RUSH, SAMUEL, of London, a vinegar merchant,
gave, in 1711, ^"ioo for purchasing a building for the
Charity Schools of Colchester, and, in 1741, his widow
bequeathed £50 to the Schools.

ROUND, CHARLES GRAY. M.P. for North
Essex. Inherited the Castle, 1834, and presented the
" Chapel" to the Town for a Museum and one of the
mural chambers for a Record Room. Died, 1867.

ROUND, REV. JAMES THOMAS, B.D. Born
in St. James's parish, July 14, 1798. Second son of
Mr. Charles Round. He became classical tutor at
Balliol College, Oxford, and subsequently rector of
St. Nicholas and St. Runwald. He was appointed
Rural Dean in 1840, and an Hon. Prebendary of St.
Paul's in 1843. He resigned the living of St. Nicholas
in 1846, and, in 1851, his college presented him to the
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re-built the Rectory house of that .parish. The
Chancel and part of the nave of St. John's Church was
built by a fund raised to his memory after his death,
which occurred Aug. 27, i860. He edited a collection
oi the prose works of Bishop Ken, and was the author
of a commentary on the four Evangelists.

ROUND, JOHN. Recorder of Colchester. Third
son of William Round, J. P., of Birch Hall. Born,
June 20, 1736. Died, Nov. 9, 1813. Buried at St.
Martin's.

ROUND, GEORGE. Son of George Round, J. P.,
of Lexden House. Born, 22nd March, 1803. Died,
1857. He was appointed High Sheriff of Essex in
1845. Married Margaret, daughter of Major-Gen.
W. Borthwick, R.A., of Dedham.

ROUND, CHARLES, J. P., of Birch Hall,
Colchester Castle, the Holly Trees, &c. Born, July
31, 1770. Died, April 18, 1834. Son of James Round,
of Birch Hall.

ROUND, CHARLES GRAY, J.P. and D.L.,
Essex. Son of Charles Round (q.v.) Born, Jan. 28,
1797. He was Recorder of Colchester, owner of
Colchester Castle, and Lord of the Manors of Great
and Little Birch, and Chairman of the Essex Quarter
Sessions for 27 years. Contested Oxford University
against Mr. Gladstone in 1847. Died, Dec, 1867.
Married Jemima Sarah, daughter of Major G. Brock,
of Colchester.

SAMBROOK, LT.-COL. A royalist officer killed
in the siege, July 5, 1648.

SAVAGE, JOHN, Viscount Colchester. Grandson
of the Earl of Rivers (see Darcy,) and succeeded to his
title, Feb., 1639.

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SAVAGE,. RICHARD. The last Viscount
Colchester. Died, Aug. 18, 1712.

SAVAGE, THOMAS. Son of John Savage.
Succeeded to the title. Died, Sept., 1694.

SAYER, GEORGE. An alderman, and one of the
bailiffs of the town. He was possessed of several
estates in the country. He gave 4 almshouses to the
town (in Balkerne Lane) in 1570. They had no
endowment, and have long been taken down. He was
Grandson of John Sayer (q.v.) who, though a younger
son, obtained possession of his father's estate in
consequence of the flight of his elder brother to
Holland, owing to religious persecution in the reign
of Henry VIII. George Sayer died in 1577, and was
buried with his ancestors in St. Peter's Church, where
a remarkable monument to his memory may be seen.
The family of Sayer or Sears is found located in the
vicinity of Colchester in the early part of the 13th
Century, and possessed then of considerable estates.
Other members of the family were Sir George Sayers,
died 1650, and Richard Sayer, buried in St. Peter's,
1610.

SAYER, JOHN. A Colchester Alderman, died 1509.
Buried in St. Peter's Church.

SHAWE, SIR JOHN. A prominent royalist during
Cromwell's Government. Lived in the parish of
All Saints. He was brought up to the law, and at the
Restoration was made Recorder of Colchester, a post
which he resigned Nov. 12, 1677. He was three times
M.P. for the town, and died 1690, aged 73. Buried in
Trinity Church.

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SHIPMAN, SIR ABRAHAM. A royalist officer,
made prisoner in the siege, 1648.

SILVERSIDE, AGNES. A martyr, burned at
Colchester, outside the Town Walls, on the morning
of Aug. 2, 1557.

SIRIC } A Priest whose wooden church was
SIGERIC J on the site on which Eudo afterwards
founded St. John's Abbey.

SKINNER, DR. THOMAS. Physician to General
Monk. Lived in All Saints parish. He was the
author of " Motus Compositi," " Life of General
Monk," and other works. Buried in St. Mary's
Church, Aug, 8, 1679.

SMITH, SAMUEL. A Colchester tailor, who was
so frightened by a practical joke in the shape of a
person in a white sheet, that his mental faculties were
deranged, and he became a well-known local eccentric,
who went about the streets making speeches. On one
occasion, for inciting riot at Dedham, he was
condemned to the stocks, and pretending more
madness than he was really victim to, he got the
constable to show him how to put his feet in the
stocks, and then promptly locked the unhappy officer
in and escaped to Colchester. Finally, a delusion that
he had committed a robbery, led him to commit suicide
by hanging. The date of his birth and death is not
known, but he was a contemporary of E. P.- Strutt,
who gives a short account of him in his note book of
Colchester Celebrities.

SPURGEON, REV. CHARLES HADDON.
The famous Baptist Pastor of the Metropolitan
Tabernacle. He was born at Kelvedon, June 19, 1834,

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his parents being strict Congregationalists. His
father, John Spurgeon, was in business, and settled in
Colchester about 1840. His mother was a Colchester
woman (youngest sister of Mr. C. P. Jervis, of
Colchester.) The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, who early
left the sect to which his parents belonged, and joined
the Baptists, became a preacher whose name is of world
wide reputation. He frequently visited his native
County and Colchester. After a lingering illness, he
died at Mentone, Jan. 31, 1892.

SPENCE, JOHN. A weaver, burned at Colchester,
April 28, 1556.

STANHOPE, SIR JOHN. Treasurer of the
Chamber to Queen Elizabeth, who granted him
Colchester Castle.

ST. CLARE, HUBERT DE. One of the earliest
Constables of Colchester Castle. He fought for King
Henry II. at the Siege of Bridgenorth, and thrust
himself between the King and one of the enemy, so
that he saved the King and received his own death
wound. The King gave Hubert's daughter in marriage
to William de Lanvallei, with her father's inheritance.

STEPHENS, JOHN. Counsellor at Law, J.P.,
and of the Quorum. Lived at Crouched Friars.
Died, 1620.

STEPHENS, JOHN, Jun. Counsellor at Law.
Lived at Crouched Friars, and died 1626.

STOCKTON, OWEN. Born at Chichester, May,
1630. At the age of 16, he went to Christ's College,
Cambridge, and was a pupil of the celebrated Henry
More. He was introduced to Charles I., who said,

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" Here is a little scholar indeed, God bless him ! "
He chose to become an itinerant preacher, and rose to
such fame, that the Mayor of Colchester, Thomas
Laurence, and the Corporation, invited him to be
their Chaplain, a post which he accepted ; and
preached also on Sunday mornings at St. James's,
without fee. He removed from Colchester after this,
but returned and took out a license in 1672, to be a
Presbyterian and Independent Teacher in St. Martin's
Lane, Colchester. He was the author of many
M.SS. and publications. Died, Sept. 10, 1680.

STORY, GEOFFREY. A bold and turbulent
Abbot of St. John's, imprisoned for high treason in
the 6th year of Henry IV. 's reign. He was carried
from his chamber to the Moot Hall in a chair, being
ill at the time, and there imprisoned for five weeks,
and was afterwards taken to Nottingham Castle.

STOW, HENRY, of Lexden. Famous for his
auriculas, said to have been the finest in the Kingdom,
if not in all Europe. Some of them had 133 blossoms
on a single stem. He also grew magnificent tulips.

STRUTT, SIR DENNARD. A royalist officer
taken prisoner in the siege of 1648.

STRUTT, BENJAMIN. Chamberlain of Colchester
in the early part of the 18th Century. He was
familiarly known as " Ben Strutt," and like his son,
E. P. Strutt (q.v.,) was fond of composing verses and
making caricature sketches of local celebrities.

STRUTT, E. P. Son of Benjamin Strutt (q.v.)
A Colchester worthy who had the gift of making
clever caricatures of his local contemporaries in the
1 8th Century. A small note book containing these

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was given by Strutt to the late Mr. J. E. Tabor, and is
now in the Colchester Museum. It contains portraits
(among many others) of Capt. Crane (who fought at
Bunker's Hill), Petticoat John (bell toller at St.
Giles's), Luke Nelson (q.v.,) Doctor Mann, John
Dunthorne (a local artist and a friend of Constable),
Samuel Smith (q.v.,) John Hall (an old soldier), and
Lieut. John Andrews (who was interviewed at Lexden
Heath by the Duke of York on the occasion of an
inspection of troops. " How old are you, Andrews ?
said the Duke, " Ninety years," said Andrews, " and
have been in the service 70 years. His Royal Highness
asked how long he had worn his suit of Regimentals.
" About 40 years," replied Andrews. The Duke felt
the cloth, and remarked that such was not made now-
a-days. " No, nor such men neither," said the
veteran.") E. P. Strutt died in Winsley's almshouses.

SUMMERSUM, THOMAS WILSHIRE. A

centenarian, born at the Hythe, Nov. 19, 1791 ; died
at Brightlingsea, Feb. 13, 1892. His grandfather,
Thomas Wilshire, was Mayor of Colchester in 1765,
and was the first to wear the Mayor's Chain of Office
(presented by Mr. Leonard Ellington, an eminent bay
factor of London, and a member of the Society of
Friends). As a boy, Summersum journeyed on a barge
to London from the Hythe, and while on the Thames,
witnessed the arrival of the remains of Nelson, brought
to London for interment in St. Paul's Cathedral. He
left Colchester at the age of 24, and passed the
remainder of his life at Brightlingsea, where, in
November, 1891, there was an enthusiastic demonstra-
tion and banquet in honour of the completion of his
hundredth year, when the old man delivered a stirring
speech and sang the National Anthem.

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SYMSON, REV. BARNABAS, M.A. Rector of
St. James's for 25 years. Died, 1741-2.

TABOR, JAMES ASH WELL, J. P. A member
of an old Colchester family. Born Dec. 2, 1789. He
took great interest in local philanthropic work, and
was one of the originatcrs of the museum. It must
also be mentioned, though the fact perhaps hardly
redounds to his credit, that he was instrumental in
effecting the removal of the Moot Hall and Middle
Row. He established the Colchester Ragged Schools.
Wrote " Memoir of Charles Burgess Harwood,"
" Lecture on Rivers," " Improvement of the Colne
Navigation," "History of Lion Walk Independent
Church," "Nonconformist Protest," and "What is
Truth." Died at his residence in Crouch Street,
Nov. 1, 1881.

TAYLOR, ANN (see Mrs. Gilbert).

TAYLOR, REV. ISAAC. An independent
minister who came to Colchester in 1795. He was the
author of poems and prose works, the best known of
the latter being on " Self-Cultivation." He was father
of the well known Jane and Ann Taylor, the latter of
whom became Mrs. Gilbert (q.v.) He lived in a house
now divided into two, just below St. Martin's Church,
in West Stockwell Street. Died Dec. 12, 1829.

TAYLOR, ISAAC. Son of Rev. Isaac Taylor.
Wrote " Natural History of Enthusiasm," and other
minor works. He lived in Stockwell Street, Colchester,
1796 to 1810. Died June, 28, 1865.

TAYLOR, JANE. Sister of Ann Taylor (Mrs.
Gilbert), and daughter of Rev. Isaac Taylor. Lived
in Stockwell Street, Colchester, 1 796-1 811. Wrote

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"Essays in Rhyme," and other volumes of poems.
Died 1824.

THURSTON, JOHN. Died a prisoner for religion
in the Castle, in 1557.

TUKE, COL. SAMUEL. "A man of honour and
integrity." Towards the close of the siege, in 1648, he
was sent out, with J. Barnardiston, to Fairfax, to ask
him to agree to the terms he had previously offered,
but it was too late. Fairfax, feeling that he then had
the power in his own hands, declined all terms.

TWINING, REV. THOMAS. A Rector of
St. Mary-at-the-Walls in the 18th Century. He
published in 1789 a translation of Aristotle's Poetics,
and in 1790 a History of the Pharisees. A record of
his career will be found in a work published by
Mr. John Murray, under the title ot " A Country
Clergyman of the 18th Century." Born Jan., 1734.
Died, August, 1804.

ULWINE. A. Colcestrian, and the only bearer of
the venerable title of monitor, or crier, recorded in
Domesday.

VERE, JOHN DE. Earl of Oxford and Constable
of the Tower of London. The Fishery at Colchester
was bestowed upon him by Henry VI. He was made
Constable of the Castle, 1496.

VILLIERS, GEORGE, Duke of Buckingham.
He married Fairfax's only daughter. There is a
tradition that he applied to Charles II. to have the
tablet erased, which is in St. Giles's Church, to the
memory of Lucas and Lisle. The matter was referred
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they would put in its place that Lucas and Lisle were
barbarously murdered for their loyalty to Charles I.,
and that his son Charles II. ordered the monument to
be erased, whereupon the King ordered, that instead of
being erased, the memorial should be cut even deeper
than before, which was done, and accounts for the
present depth of the lettering.

VITELS, CHRISTOPHER. A disciple of Henry
Nicholas, of Delft, founder of a strange sect called
" the family of love." Vitels established a branch of
the ssct in Colchester, in the reign of Queen Mary.

WALSINGHAM, SIR FRANCIS. This famous
statesman, born in 1536, at Chislehurst, was Recorder
of Colchester during the greater part of Elizabeth's
reign. With all the services he rendered, and the
distinctions he achieved, he died poor, April 6, 1590.
He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.

WARREN, EDWARD. Ejected from the vicarage
of St. Peter's about 1670, and practised physic in the
town. Afterwards took out a license to be a
Presbyterian teacher " at his own house, or John
Rayner's, in Colchester." Author of several publica-
tions. Died, 1690.

WATERHOUSE, THOMAS. Ejected from the
living of Ash, in Suffolk. He became Master of
Colchester Grammar School (1643 to 1647) in
succession to William Dugard.

WATSON, EDWARD. The first Master of the
Grammar School. Appointed by the Corporation,
1585.

WATSON, J. YELLOLY, of Thorpe-le-Soken.
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Museum, and wrote Sketches of Ancient Colchester
and other valuable contributions to Local Archaeology.
Died, May 18, 1888, aged 70.

WATTS, SIR JOHN. A royalist officer made
prisoner in the siege of 1648.

WEGG, GEORGE. A Colchester merchant
tailor and Town Councillor. Lived in St. James's
parish, in a house called Berryfield. He made a
bequest to the poor of St. Nicholas parish, and was
buried in that Churchyard, 1747, aged 82.

WENOCK, \ JOHN. A bay-maker. Endowed

WINNOCK, j 6 almshouses in the parish of St.
Giles's.

WHALLEY, COL. An officer under Fairfax in
the siege in 1648.

WHEELER, JAMES. A churchwarden of St.
Botolph's, who was twice excommunicated for
refusing to rail in the communion table in 1635. He
was imprisoned for three years, and his house broken
up. Escaping from prison, the Mayor, Robert Buxton,
had his family kept in custody, and his house ransacked
in search of him. He died abroad, leaving his wife
and children ruined.

WHEELY, JOHN, Jun. Purchased the Castle,
May 9, 1683, for the purpose of destroying it, but
finding the project too costly, abandoned it, and in
1704 sold the Castle to Sir Isaac Rebow.

WHITE, SIR THOS., Kt. Lord Mayor of
London in 1553. Received the honour of Knighthood
for preserving the peace of the city in Wyatt's rebellion.
He made numerous liberal benefactions to various
towns, including Colchester, in 1566.

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WICKS, CAPT. A royalist officer taken prisoner
in the siege, in 1648.

WINSLEY, ARTHUR, J.P. A Colchester
Alderman, who founded and endowed 12 almshouses in
St. Botolph's parish. He left ^250 for a monument to
be erected to him in St. James's Church, with his
statue in marble, holding a book, on which are
inscribed the words — " Go, and do thou likewise."
Whether or not this injunction has been taken into
consideration, the bequest has grown so that the
number of houses is now increased to 18. Died,
Jan. 30, 1726-7.

WIRE, WILLIAM. Son of John Wire, who
died in Winsley's Almshouses, April, 1856. He was
born, June 29, 1804. Died, April 1, 1857. He was a
watchmaker in Colchester, and at the same time he
dealt in all sorts of curiosities, being himself a
zealous antiquarian. For 25 years there passed
through his hands, the chief bulk of the coins, urns,
and Roman remains found in the town, and as there
was no local museum, these passed away to London,
Oxford, and Cambridge, or to private collectors.
William Wire kept a detailed account of all these
relics, with drawings, in a valuable journal, which
is now in the Colchester Museum. Mr. Wire
was a good Anglo-saxon scholar, and a first-class
numismatist. He corresponded with all antiquaries of
note, and Mr. C. Roach Smith paid a graceful tribute
to his memory in his " Retrospections," vol. II.
Mr. Wire reprinted " Colchester's Teares," a rare
tract written at the time of the siege, 1648. His shop
was a place of resort for many leading men of science
and archaeology.

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WIRE, DAVID. A native of Colchester, who
became Lord Mayor of London, 1858-9. He
commenced his career in London as an office boy with
Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey (q.v.), who seems to have
skilfully gauged the lad's capacities, and induced him
to leave Colchester. Died at Lewisham, i860.

WOLTON, HENRY. A Colchester merchant,
who held the office of Alderman, and was six times
Mayor of the town. Died 1874, aged 71.

YETSWEIRT, NICASIUS. Secretary for the
French tongue to Queen Elizabeth, who granted him
the revenues belonging to the Lepers' Hospital,
Colchester.

ERRATUM.

Page 41. The account of the Duchess of Newcastle
is from the Biographia Britannica, though evidently
"daughter" of Sir Charles Lucas is a misprint for sister.
She was daughter of Sir Thomas Lucas.

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POST SCRIPT.

Several additions have come to hand too late for insertion in their
proper place in the foregoing pages, and I have to thank Mr. Wilson
Marriage (Mayor of Colchester), Mr. Henry Laver, F.S.A.,
Mr. James Round, M.P., and others for the following addenda:—

CHURCHILL, J. M. A Doctor resident in Colchester some 30
years ago, who was joint author of Stephenson 6° Churchill's Medical
Botany — a standard work of reference.

CRISP, STEPHEN. Born at Colchester, 1628. He was
converted to Quakerism by the preaching of James Pamell, the Quaker
Martyr, in 1655, and was, for promulgating these opinions, imprisoned
in the Moot Hall for a year. He travelled largely on the Continent,
introducing his views in Holland and Germany. Married a German
lady connected with the Princess Elizabeth of the Rhine. On the
accession of Charles II., he was offered the post of Magistrate in
Colchester. He died 1692, when on a visit to London, and was buried
at Bunhill Fields. His collection of writings and a history of his life
were published in 1694, by T. Sovvle, at the Crooked Billet, in
Holywell Lane, Shoreditch.

DUNTHORNE, J. " The Colchester Hogarth," as he was called.
I am not able to give any detailed account of this worthy, but must
refer my readers to Leslie's Life of Constable, in which I believe some
interesting particulars about Dunthorne will be found. He lived in
Colchester, at the end of the last century. Many of his water
colour drawings still exist in Colchester. (His portrait is in the
frontispiece) .

GRAUNT, EDWARD, of Colchester. When attending a Meeting
ot the Society of Friends in Colchester, he was grievously injured by
the Troopers sent to break up the Meeting, and died about a month
afterwards, aged 70 years.

GRIFFITHS, DR. MOSES. Practised as a physician in
Colchester, and published a Practical Treatise an Hectic Fevers and
Pulmonary Consumption, written in Colchester in 1776 (newer edition,
London. 1795). In this work is the original prescription for
"Grimths's Mixture," a -well known and useful recipe in the
treatment of cases of debility. This formula has been adopted in the
English, American, and Continental Pharmacopoeias, under the name

59

of Mistura ferri composita. It is still frequently prescribed. A
likeness of him, by Dunthorne, is in Mr. F. Reeling's possession.

LAY, BENJAMIN. Born at Colchester, 1677. A Quaker, who
travelled in many parts of the world, and obtained a private audience
with King George II., in order to present to him an Essay on Milton.
He was a man of peculiar physique, being but 4ft. 7m. in height, his
head large in proportion to his body, hunch-backed, with a projecting
chest, and very slender legs. His face was remarkable. He had a
very active mind, and left England for Barbadoes, but was greatly
shocked there at the horrors of the slave trade, and moved away to
America after 13 years' residence, during which he never ceased to
denounce slavery. He was intimately acquainted with Benjamin
Franklin and other distinguished men. He wrote largely on Slavery,
and may be said to be the first Anti- Slavery Advocate in America.
He died at Abringdon, Pennsylvania, in 1759, aged 82 years, leaving a
legacy to the Colchester Society of Friends, for enabling poor Quakers
to emigrate to America, and to relieve distress in Colchester. He give
directions for his body to be cremated, but his friends refused to carry
this into effect. For a full account of this remarkable and eccentric
man, see " Life of Benjamin Lay, by Robert Vaux," and other writers.

MACLEAN, ALLAN, M.D. Physician, Naturalist, and Horti-
culturist. Born at Sudbury, 1796. Died at Colchester, 1869. His
knowledge of Natural History was very extensive, and he made important
experiments in the propagation of fruit and vegetables. He raised the
first white pelargonium, and his experiments with marrow fat peas
enabled us to have that delicacy a month soonei than was before
possible. His Early Red variety of rhubarb is also unsurpassed for its
early fitness for table, as well as for its flavour. For many years he
held the appointment of Physician to the' Essex and Colchester
Hospital.

NETTLES, STEPHEN (page 41). The "Essex Archaeological
Transactions " issued in March, 1892, state that this worthy was the
author of a learned reply to the Jewish part of Selden's History of
Tithes. He is mentioned in Walker's "Sufferings of the Clergy," as
"a very smart and learned person." He was born 1584. Died 1654.

WEGG, G. To the account already given of this worthy on page
56, I should add that " Berryfields " is the present East Hill House,
where there are portraits of George Wegg, his wife and niece, said to
have been painted by Hudson, Sir Joshua Reynolds's master.

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Monument to Dr. Gilberd at Trinity Church,
Colchester.

PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATIVES OF
COLCHESTER FROM THE RESTORATION.

1660 Sir Harbottle Grimston.

John Shaw.
1701 Sir Isaac Rebow.

Sir Thomas Cook.
1741 Charles Gray.

S. Savill.
1784 Sir E. Affleck, Bart.

Christopher Potter.
1750 Robert Thornton (W.)

Lord Muncaster (C.)
1806 Robert Thornton.

Wm, Tuffnell.
807 R. H. Davis (C.)

Robert Thornton (C.)
1812 H. Davis.

Robert Thornton.
181 8 James B. Wildman (C.)

Daniel Whittle Harvey (R.)
1820 D. W. Harvey.

J. B. Wildman.

1830 D. W. Harvey.

A. Spottiswood (C.)

1831 W. Mayhew (W.) vice Spottiswood unseated.
1 83 1 D. W. Harvey.

W. Mayhew.

62

1832 Richard Sanderson (C.)
D. W. Harvey.

35 R. Sanderson.

J841J Sir G- H- Smyth (c-)

1847 Sir G. H. Smyth (Protectionist.)

Joseph A. Hardcastle (L.)
1850 Lord J. R. Manners (Protectionist.)

(on retirement of Sir G. H. Smyth.)
1852 W. W. Hawkins (Protectionist.)

Lord John Manners.
I^57\ Jonn Gurdon Rebow (L.)
Feb.) Taverner J. Miller (C.)
1857) Taverner J. Miller.
Apr.) John Gurdon Rebow.
1859 Taverner J. Miller.

Philip O. Papillon (C.)
1865 John Gurdon Rebow.

Taverner J. Miller.

1867 E. K. Karslake, Q.C. (C.)

(on resignation of T. J. Miller.)

1868 J. Gurdon Rebow.
W. Brewer, M.D. (L.)

1870 Col. A. Learmonth (C.)

(on death of Mr. Rebow.)
1874 Col. A. Learmonth.

Herbert B. Praed (C.)
1880 R. K. Causton (L.)

W. Willis (L.)
1885 After Redistribution of Seats.

H. J. Trotter (C.)
1888 Lord Brooke (C.)

COMPLETE LIST OF COLCHESTER
MAYORS.

In the following list the eight Mayors marked with
an asterisk* are the Mayors who died during their
office. Those marked t were for some cause removed
before their term of office had expired. G. Wegg,
jun. (1740), marked J, was elected, but not sworn. A
mandamus was sent, and on March gth, 1740, Jeremiah
Daniell, senior, was elected, but he died in Feb., 1741.

^35

Daniel Cole.

1636

Robert Buxton.

1637

Henry Barrington.

1638

John Firlie (or Furley.)

1639

John Langley.

1640

Robert Talcott.*

1641

Henry Barrington.

1641

Thos. Wade.

1642

Ralph Harrison.

1643

Thomas Lawrence.

1644

John Cox.

l645

Robert Buxton.

1646

John Langley.

1647

William Cooke.

1648

Henry Barrington.

1649

Thomas Wade.

1650

John Furlie.

165 1

Richard Greene.

64

1652 John Radhams.

1653 Thos. Peeke.

1654 Thos. Reynolds.

1655 Thos. Lawrence.

1656 John Vickers.

1657 Nicholas Beason.

1658 Henry Barrington.t

1659 Jonn Radhams.

1659 Thos. Peeke.

1660 John Gale.

1661 John Milbank.f

1662 Henry Lambe.

1662 Thos. Rennolds.

1663 William Moor.

1664 Thos. Wade.

1665 Thos. Talbot.

1666 Wm. Flannar.

1667 Andrew Fromanteele.

1668 Ralph Creffield.

1669 Henry Lambe.

1670 William Moor.

1 671 John Rayner.

1672 Nathaniel Lawrence.

1673 Ralph Creffield.

1674 Henry Lambe.

1675 Alexander Hinmers.

1676 Thos. Greene.

1677 Ralph Creffield.

1678 John Rayner.

1679 Nathaniel Lawrence.

1680 Ralph Creffield.

1681 Wm. Moor.

1682 Thos. Greene.

1683 Nathaniel Lawrence.

65

1684 John Stilleman.

1685 Wm. Flannar.

1686 Samuel Mott.

1687 Alexander Hindmers.f

1687 John Milbank.

1688 John Milbank.

1689 John Potter.

1690 Benjamin Cock.

1 69 1 John Seabrook.

1692 John Stileman.

1693 Samuel Mott.

1694 Wm. Moore.

1695 John Beason.*

1696 John Seabrook.

1696 Nath. Lawrence, jun.

1697 Ralph Creffield, jun.

1698 Wm. Boys.

1699 Wm. Francis.

1700 John Potter.

1 70 1 Samuel Fetherstone.

1702 Ralph Creffield, jun.

1703 Samuel Angier.

1704 Nath. Lawrence, jun.

1705 John Rainham.

1706 James Lawrence.

1707 George Clark.

1708 John Pepper.*

1709 Nath. Lawrence, sen.

1709 Samuel Angier.

1710 Nath. Lawrence, jun.

171 1 James Lawrence.

1712 Peter Johnson.

1 71 3 James Lawrence.

1714 George Clark.

66

W5

Peter Johnson.

1716

Sir Isaac Rebow, Kt.

1717

Thos. Grigson.

1718

Robt. Clark.

1719

Thos. Grigson.*

1719

Nathaniel Lawrence.

1720

Jeremiah Daniell.

1721

Arthur Winsley.

1722

Edmund Raynham.

1723

Samuel Jarrold.

1724

Peter Johnson.

1725

Jeremiah Daniell.

1726

Matthew Martin.

1727

Sir Ralph Creffield, Kt.

1728

John Blatch.

1729

Jas. Boys (or Boyce).

1730

Joseph Duffield.

i73i

John Blatch.

1732

Thos. Carew.

1733

James Boys.

1734

Joseph Duffield.

1735

John Blatch.

i736

Thos. Carew.

!737

James Boys.

1738

Joseph Duffield.

J739

John Blatch.

1740

G. Wegg, jun.J

1740

Jeremiah Daniell.*

[From the year 1740 to 1763, there being no Charter in

existence, no Mayor could be appointed.]

1763

Thos. Clamtree.

1764

Henry Lodge.

1765

Thos. Wilshire.

1766

Thos. Bayles.

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1767

Samuel Ennew.

1768

James Robjent.

1769

Jordan Harris Lisle.

1770

John King.

J77i

Solomon Smith.*

1772

Thos. Clamtree.

1772

Thos. Bayles.

J773

Thos. Clamtree.

1774

John Bakers-

!775

John King.

*775

Thos. Clamtree.

1776

Thos. Boggis.

1777

Thos. Clamtree.

1778

John King.

1779

Thos. Clamtree.

1780

Thos. Boggis.

1781

John King.

1782

Stephen Betts.

1783

Wm. Seabor.

1784

Samuel Ennew.

1785

Edmund Lilley.

1786

Wm. Argent.

1787

Edward Capstack.

1788

Bezaliel Angier.

1789

Edmund Lilley.

1790

Wm. Swinborne.

1791

John Gibson.

1792

Nathaniel Barlow.

1793

Newton Tills.

J794

Wm. Phillips.

*795

Wm. Bunnell.

1796

Wm. Mason.

1797

Thos. Hedge.

1798

Wm. Phillips,

68

1799

Robert Hewes.

i8oo

Wm. Smith.

1801

Thos. Hedge.

1802

Wm. Phillips.

1803

Wm. Bunnell.

1804

Thos. Hedge.

1805

Wm. Sparling.

1806

Wm. Smith.

1807

Thos. Hedge, jun.

1808

Thos. Hedge.

1809

Wm. Smith.

1810

Francis Tillett Abell.

1811

Francis Smythies.

1812

John Bridget

1813

Wm. Smith.

1813

Wm. Sparling.

1814

John King.

1815

Edward Clay.

1S16

Wm. Argent.

1817

Edward Clay.

1818

Wm. Argent.

1819

Frincis Tillett Abell.

1820

John Clay.

1821

Jas. Boggis.

1822

Wm. Smith.

1823

John Clay.

1824

Samuel Clay.

1825

John Clay.

1826

Edward Clay (St. Leonard's)

1827

John Clay.

1828

Wm. Sparling.

1829

Edward Clay (Greenstead).

1830

Wm. Smith.

1831

Wm. Sparling.

69

1832 Edward Clay (Greenstead).

1833 Win. Smith.

1834 Roger Nunn.

[Dr. Nunn held office till 31st Dec., 1835, when the
Municipal Reform Act came into operation.]

Mayors subsequent to the passing of the Act for the Regulation
of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales ($lh
and 6th IVM. IV., cap. 76). Taken from the Minute
Books of the Council : —

1836 Geo. Savill (Jan. 1.)

1836 John Chaplin (Nov. 9.)

1837 Saml. Green Cooke.

1838 Geo. Bawtree.

1839 Saml. Green Cooke.

1840 Thos. J. Turner.

1 84 1 Henry Vint.

1842 Roger Nunn.

1843 Henry Vint.

1844 Henry Wolton.

1845 Henry Wolton.

1846 Wm. Bolton Smith.

1847 Henry Wolton.

1848 Chas. Henry Hawkins.

1849 Edward Williams.

1850 Joseph Cooke.

1851 Arthur Louis Laing.

1852 Francis Smythies.

1853 Henry Wolton.

1854 Edward Williams.

1855 Joseph Cooke.

1856 Henry Wolton.

1857 Peter Martin Duncan.

1858 Arthur Louis Laing.

7°

i§59

Edward Williams.

i860

Francis Smythies.

1861

Henry Wolton.

1862

Edward Williams.

1863

John F. Bishop.

1864

John F. Bishop.

1865

Chas. Hy. Hawkins.

1866

P. O. Papillon.

1867

J. F. Bishop.

1868

Francis Smythies.

1869

J. F. Bishop.

1S70

C. H. Hawkins.

1871

C. H. Hawkins.

1872

J. F. Bishop.

1873

Edwd. A. Round.

1874

J. F. Bishop.

1875

P. 0. Papillon.

1876

J. F. Bishop.

1877

Thomas Moy.

1878

Thomas Moy.

1879

John Kent.

1880

S. Chaplin.

1881

J. B. Harvey.

1882

J. B. Harvey.

1883

Alfred Francis. *

1884

J. B. Harvey.

1884

H. J. Gurdon-Rebow.

1885

Henry Laver.

1886

H. G. Egerton Green.

1887

J. N. Paxman.

1888

E. J. Sanders.

1889

Asher Prior.

1890

L. J. Watts.

1891

Wilson Marriage.

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Town of) from the earliest period to the present time, by
R. Swinborne, sm. 8vo, with seven engravings. n.d.

COLCHESTER. (Sketches of Ancient), by J. Y. Watson,
8vo. 1879.

COLCHESTER. (Guide to) and its environs, with notes
on the Flora and Entomology of the District, 1/-.

COLCHESTER, its History and Antiquities. Selected
from the most approved Authors, by M. Carter.

Of this ivork there are several editions, the first being scarce,
the others fairly common.

COLCHESTER. (History and description of the
Ancient Town and Borough of,) by Thomas Cromwell, 8vo,
illustrated. Of this work there are several editions.

COLCHESTER. (Siege of,) or an event of the Civil
War, A.D., 1648, by G. F. Townsend, 8vo, illustrated. n.d.

COLCHESTER. Historical Sketch of the Parish of St.
Martin. 6d. 1891.

COLCHESTER. (The History and description of,) the
Camulodunum of the Britons, and the first Roman Colony of
Britain, with an account of the Antiquities of that most
ancient Borough (by Strutt,) 8vo, usually in two volumes. 1803.

COLCHESTER. Short History of the Town, by Dr.
H. Laver, illustrated, 3d., post free

COLCHESTER, (Morant's History, see Essex.)

COLCHESTER. (Charities of,) Report of Official
Enquiry held in Colchester, in 1886, before W. Good, 1/-.

Colchester, 1886.

COLCHESTER. (History of,) by E. L. Cutts, contains
a Chapter on the Jewish Quarter of the Town, 3/6. 1888.

COLCHESTER. Story of the Siege, by A. Penn, sewed,
6d. Colchester, 1888.

COLCHESTER. (Report of St. Alban's Diocesan
Conference at,) in 1889, 6d. Colchester, 1889.

COLCHESTER MUSEUM. Catalogue of the Antiqui-
ties therein, illustrated, 8vo.

COLCHESTER'S TEARES, affecting and afflicting
City and Country, by several persons of quality, 1648, and
several later reprints, 8vo and 4to.

COLCHESTER OYSTER FEAST. A Souvenir of the
one given on October 22, 1891, by L. J. Watts, Mayor, 8vo,
illustrated, 1/-. 1891.

CHARTER (The New,) granted to the Mayor and
Commonalty of Colchester in 1763, with recitals of the Old
Charters confirmed by the present, 8vo. 1764.

CHARTERS granted to the Borough of Harwich by
James I. and Charles II., translated from the original Latin by
order of the Corporation, 4to. 1798.

CHELMSFORD. (Narrative of the late deplorable fire

at), on March 19, 1808, with ground plan of the part of the

Town destroyed, by Et Kelham, a witness of the Fire, 8vo. 1808.

A general and circumstantial account of the above fire, by

W. W. Wall, a spectator, 8vo. 1804.

COPENHAGEN, its Siege and Capture by the British in

1807, with frontispiece, 42 pp. Colchester, n.d.

CHRISTIAN RELIGION'S Appeal from the groundless
prejudices of the Sceptic to the Bar of Common Eeason, by
J. Smith, Eector of St. Mary's, Colchester, small folio. 1675.

COGGE SHALL. Its History, with an Account of the
Church, Abbey, Manors, &c. by G. F. Beaumont, illustrated,
8vo, cloth, 7/6. Coggeshall, 1890.

COGGESHALL. Eadulpbi Abbatis Coggeshal, opera qase
supersunt eurante Alf. John Donkin, nunc Primum edita, 8vo,
boards, uncut, only 25 copies printed, scarce, with portrait of
Dunkin. Noviomago, 1856

COGGESHALL (History of,) witb an account of its
Church, Abbey, Manors" &c, by G. F. Beaumont. 8vo.,
illustrated. Coggeshall, 1890.

COGGESHALL (The Annals of,) by Bryan Dale,

sm. 8vo., illustrated. Coggeshall, 1863.

COPFORD, ESSEX, A Short Account of the Church,
Mural Paintings, etc., by B. Ruck-Keene, with View of Church,
1/- Coggeshall, 1890.

DOMESDAY BOOK, relating to Essex, translated by
T. C. Chisenhale Marsh, 4to.

DORLING'S GUIDE to Walton, Clacton and the
neighbouring Towns, to which is added a guide from Walton to
London by Steam Boat, cloth, illustrated.

DAGENHAM BEACH, by Perry, 8vo. 1721.

Ditto, by Boswell, 12mo. 1717.

EAST ANGLIAN EARTHQUAKE, on April 22, 1884.
Full Report on it, by Raphael Meldola & W. White, 8vo, with
maps and illustrations.
Vol. 1 of the Essex Field Club, Special Memoirs. 1885.

EARTHQUAKE IN EAST-ESSEX, on April 22, 1884.

Reprinted from the Essex Telegraph, 1/-

ESSEX FIELD CLUB. The organ of this Club,
" The Essex Naturalist," is issued monthly, price to Members,
4/6, to Non-Members, 9/- per annum. Previous^ to its
commencement, they issued Transactions and Proceedings, the
early volumes being very scarce.

THE REPRINTED PAPERS INCLUDE—
Elephant Hunting in Essex, by Walker.
Report on Explorations at Arnbresbury Banks
Report on Explorations at Loughton Camp.
Report on the Exploration of the Essex Deneholes.
Lichen Flora of Epping Forest, by Crombie.
Memoir of the late G. S. Gibson.

Papers on the protection of Wild Animals and Plants, and on the
condition of Epping Forest, &c.

For special Memoirs, see-
East Anglian Earthquake.
Birds of Essex.

ESSEX. (Tbe Ancient Sepulchral Monuments of,) by
G. F. Chancellor, 4to, illustrated, £4 4s. nett.

ESSEX. (The people's History of,) from the earliest
ages to the present time, with account of the Hundreds and
Boroughs, and descriptive sketches of their antiquities and
ruins, &c, by D. W. Coller, 8vo, Chelmsford. 1861.

ESSEX REVIEW. A quarterly Journal devoted to
the study of the antiquities, &c. of the County, 5/- per annum
if paid in advance, 1/6 per part. 1892.

ESSEX. An Historical and Chorographical description
of the county, by John Norden, 1594, reprinted by the Camden
Society. 1840.

ESSEX. (Durrant's handbook for,) or guide to the
principal objects of interest in each Parish, with an introduction
treating of the History, Geology, Antiquities, &c. of the
County, by Miller Christy, 8vo, 237 pp. , 2/6. 1887.

EASTERN ENGLAND. (Royal Illustrated History of,)
Civil, Military, Political, and Ecclesiastical, from the earliest
period to the present time, by A. D. Bayne, 2 vols, thick 8vo,
Great Yarmouth, n.d.

ESSEX. The History and Antiquities of the County,
by P. Morant, Rector of St. Mary-at-the-Walls, Colchester
2 vols, folio. 1768'

This work was reprinted (in numbers) in 1817, at Chelmsford,
but without plates or date.

Morant also issued the History of Colchester separately.
There are two editions.

ESSEX DIALECT. (A glossary of the,) by Charnock,
8vo. 1880.

ESSEX. The History and Topography of the County,
by Thomas Wright, illustrated by a series of views taken on
the spot, by Arnold, Bartlett and others, 4t:>, mostly in two
volumes. ' 1836.

ESSEX. (The Farming of), a report, by R. Baker of

Writtle, 6d. 1844.

EASTERN ENGLAND, from the Thames to the
Humber, by W. White, with map, 2 vols. 1865.

ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE of the County,

from the Norman Era to the sixteenth Century, by Hadfield,
77 full-page plates, folio, London, n.d.

ESSEX COUNTY ELECTION. Speeches delivered

at the Hustings, and the Proceedings during Fifteen Days'
Contest between Western, Tyrell, and Wellesley, in 1830, with
an impartial Selection of the Squibs and Handbills.

Chelmsford, 1830.

ESSEX HARMONY, being a choice collection of
Songs, Catches, Canons, Epigrams, &c, for two to nine voices
from the works of the most Eminent Masters. n.d.

ESSEX NOTE BOOK and Suffolk Gleaner, " A
snapper up of unconsidered Trifles," containing upwards of
400 Notes of Local Interest on Matters relating to County,
illustrated, sm. 4to, cloth, very scarce, 15/-. 1884-5.

ESSEX (Excursions in the County of). Historical and
Topographical Delineations of every Town and Village, with
Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry,
100 engravings. 1818.

ESSEX (History of) from Cox's Britannue, with map of
Couiity, 103 pp.

ESSEX LITERARY JOURNAL, or Monthly Repository

of Literature, and the Arts and Sciences connected with the
County, issued in 12 parts, 4to. .Chelmsford, 1839.

ESSEX. A new and complete History of Essex, from a
late survey, by a gentleman, published under the patronage and
direction of Peter Muilman, 6 vols., illustrated,

Chelmsford, 1769-72.

The fifteen following items are reprints by Charles Clarke, of
Totham ; some of them passed through several editions, mostly
from his Private Press.

A DOCTOR'S "DO"-INGS; or the entrapped Heiress
of Witham. A satirical poem, by Charles Clarke.

ENGLISH COOKERY, Five Hundred Years ago,
exhibited in sixty " Nyms," or Eeceipts, from a manuscript
compiled about 1390, by the Master Cooks of Richard II.
Black Letter, with a running glossary and notes. 1849.

FALSE PROPHETS DISCOVERED, being a true story
of the lives and deaths of two Weavers, of Colchester ; they
affirmed that they were the Prophets mentioned in Revelation
XL, Reprinted from the edition of 1642, with an Appendix,
containing an account of the Inworth Prophetess of 1797. 1844.

FAIRLOP AND ITS FOUNDER; or Facts and Fun for
the Forest Frolickers, by a Famed First Friday Fairgoer, with
the curious Will of Mr. Day, of Wapping, and five Poems on
Fairlop. 1847.

HUMAN FA.TE : a Poem, by Sir Egerton Brydges.
Reprint by C. Clarke.

JOHN NOAKES AND MARY STYLES; or "an Essex
Calf's " visit to Tiptree Races ; a Poem, exhibiting some of the
most striking lingual localisms peculiar to Essex, with a
Glossary. 1839.

METRICAL MIRTH about Marriageable Misses ; or the
Modern Mode in Matters Matrimonial, by a Lover of Honest
Mothers and Gentle Daughters. 1848.

MIRTH AND METRE ; or Rhymes, " Raps," and
Rhapsodies, by C. C.

NARRATIVE OF THE MIRACULOUS CURE OF
ANNE MUNNINGS, of Colchester, by Faith, Prayer, and
Anointing with Oil, in 1705.

PLEASANT QUIPPES FOR UPSTART NEWFAN-
GLED GENTLEWOMEN, by Stephen Gosson. Reprint by C. C.

POOR ROBIN'S TRUE CHARACTER OF A SCOLD ;

or, the Shrew's Looking-glass, dedicated to all Domineering
Dames, Wives Rampant, Cuckolds Couchant, and Hen-peckt
Sneaks, in City or Country (reprinted from the Edition of 1678),
Black Letter. 1848.

PULPIT ORATORY, four Centuries ago. Two sermons
preached in 1432.

SCARCITY AND EXCELLENCY OF VIRTUOUS
WOMEN, by J. Colby, of Maldon. Reprint by C. C.

TIPTREE FAIR IN 1844. A curious specimen of the

" Unlettered Muse," with notes. 1848.

TIPTREE RACES; a Poem (with notes), to which is
added an Historical Account of Tiptree Heath, Priory, and Fair;
also a Poem inscribed to Thomas Hood, Esq., of Lake House,
Wemstead, each line ends with 4 rhymes.

FOOTSTEPS OF St. PAUL IN ROME, by S. Russell
Forbes, a native of Colchester. It gives a Genealogical table
tracing the descent of Helena and Constantine, from the British
King Caractacus, 8vo, illustrated. 2/-

FELSTEAD CHARITIES. Scheme for the management
and administration of the Estates and Revenues, approved of by
the Court of Chancery in 1851, 8vo. 1852.

FELSTEAD SCHOOL (A History of), with some
account of the Founder and his Descendants, by John Sargeaunt,
8vo, illustrated, 4/- nett. Chelmsford, 1889.

FELIX HALL (Descriptive Sketch of the collection of
works of Ancient Greek and Koman Art at) ; a paper read at
the Meeting of the Essex Archaeological Society in 1863, by the
Eev. J. H. Marsden, 4to, illustrated, scarce.

GIBSON'S FLORA OF ESSEX, or a list of the
Flowering Plants and Ferns found in the County, 8vo. 1862.

GUIDES. These are too numerous to mention ; they
are issued for almost every place in the County, and in many
cases there are several editions.

GIBBS, JOHN, formerly Curator of Chelmsford

First Catechism of Botany, 1/-.
Symmetry of Flowers, 6d.

HALSTEAD, Old and New, by W. J. Evans, 8vo,

illustrated. 1886.

HARWICH. An Historical and Archaeological Sketch of
the Town, by E. Cutler. Harwich, n.d.

HARWICH (a Season at), with Excursions by Land and
Water, to which is added Eesearches, Historical, Natural and
Miscellaneous, by Lindsey, 8vo., illustrated. Harwich, 1851.

HISTORY OF ESSEX from the earliest period to the
present time, with biographical notices of the most distinguished
natives, by Ogborne, illustrated, 4to. 1814.

HISTORICAL RECORD of the Forty-fourth, or the

East-Essex Eegiment, by Carter, illustrated. Chatham, 1887.

HARWICH AND DOVERCOURT (History of), by
Dale, 4to. 1732.

HEDINGHAM CASTLE, its History; by Majendie,
folio, illustrated. 1796.

HICKERINGILL (Rev. E.), Rector of All Saints Church,
Colchester.

A voluminous writsr, mostly in connection with legal cases
in which he was connected. He also wrote a history of Jamaica.

INOCULATION (Sermon in defence of), preached at
Ingatestone, in 1766, by E. Houlton, 76 pp., scarce.

Chelmsford, n.d.

JESUS CHRIST (Life of), the Holy Apostles.Evangelists,
St. John Baptist, the Blessed Virgin and others, during the first
three Centuries, by P. Wright, Vicar of Oakley, illustrated,
folio. N.D.

LAW FORD HALL (The Hall of). Records of an

Essex House, and of its proprietors from the Saxon Times to
the Eeign of Henry VIII, Illustrated, by F. M. Nichols, 42/- nett.

1891.
Of this work only 128 copies were printed mostly for
presentation.

MAPLE STEAD. History and Antiquities of the Round
Church, with an Historical sketch of the Crusades, by Wallen,
illustrated, 8vo. 1836.

MEMORIALS OF THE ANTIQUITIES AND

ARCHITECTURE, Family History and Heraldry of the County,
by Suckling, 34 full page plates, folio. 1845.

MEMOIR OF CARTER, the Lip Artist of Coggeshall,
by Dampier, illustrated. 1850.

MARSH, (Dr. W.,) sometime Rector of St. Peter's,
Colchester, his Life by his daughter, with portrait, 8vo. 1867.

NEWCOURT'S REPERTORIUM. An Ecclesiastical
Parochial History of the Diocese of London, (this Diocese
then included Middlesex and Essex, with parts of Herts and
Bucks), with portrait, 2 vols., small folio. 1708.

NUMISMATOLOGY. A monthly magazine, devoted to
the study of Coins, edited by T. Forster, Colchester. 1892.

PAPERS in relation to the Aucient Topography of the
Eastern Counties of Great Britain, and on the right means of
Interpreting the Roman Itinerary, by Taylor, 4to. 1892.

PAGLESHAM OYSTER. Music, Charades, Riddles, &c,
by Harris, Hatch and Wiseman, 4to. Eochford, 1870.

PLAIN THOUGHTS on Prophecy, by W. Marsh, Vicar
of St. Peter's, Colchester, 8vo. Colchester, n.d.

PARAPHRASE ON THE LORD'S PRAYER,

Miscellaneous Poems and Fables in Verse, by Mrs. Winter, of
Manningtree, 8vo. 1852.

POLL BOOKS, for the different divisions of the County,
f©r Colchester, Chelmsford, Maldon, &c.

PLESHEY. Some account of its Lords and its
Antiquities. 1885:

PLESHEY. Its History and Antiquities, by Gough, 4to.

1803.

PROTOPLAST. A series of papers on the beginnings or
First mention of things, the subjects treated of being Matter,
Day, Law, Sleep, Sin, Death, Baptism, Promise, &c, by
Mrs. Baillie, of Wivenhoe. There are several editions.

R0CHFORD HUNDRED (The History of,) by Philip
Benton ; has been coming out in parts for some years.

ROYAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF
GEE AT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Full Report of the
proceedings at the Colchester Meeting, in August, 1876.

ROMFORD (Memoirs of Old) and other places within
the Royal Liberty of Havering-Atte-Bower, by George Terry.

Romford, 1880.

STIFFORD, and more about Stafford, by Palin. 1871-2.

SILKWORM (The Japanese,) Bombyx Yama-mai.
Report on its culture in England in 1867-8, by A. Wallace, M.D.,
of Colchester, 8vo, 1/-. Colchester, 1869.

SPORTSMAN'S DIRECTORY; or, Park and Game-
keeper's Companion, with a description of all kinds of
Poaching, &c, by John Mayer, Gamekeeper, 12mo.

Colchester, 1815.

STOCK-HARVARD," its Registers, by Gibson. 1881.

TRUE RELATION of that Honourable, though
unfortunate Expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester, in
1648, by M. Carter, Quarter-Master General in the King's
Forces, and one of the Prisoners who surrendered. There are
several editions.

TENDRING HUNDRED IN THE OLDEN TIME.

A series of Sketches by J. Yelloly Watson, of Thorpe-le-Soken.

N.D.

TRADE SIGNS OF ESSEX. A popular account of
the origin and meanings of the Public House and other signs,
now or formerly found in the County, by Miller Christy, 8vo,
illustrated. 1887.

TOPOGRAPHICAL and Statistical Descriptions of every
County in England and Scotland, with separate map of each
county, also description of each County in Wales, with 2 maps,
one of the northern and the otber the southern counties, by
G. A. Cooke, 19 vols. v.y.

TWENTY-TWO OF THE CHURCHES OF ESSEX,
Architecturally described and illustrated, by Buckler, 8vo. 1856.

UPMINSTEK (SketcheH of), by Wilson, sm. 4to. 1856.

WALTHAMSTOW. Its Past, Present, and Future
History, with Notes on the Objects of Interest in the surrounding
Neighbourhood, 8vo. Tweedie, Walthamstow, 1891.

WALTHAM ABBEY. History of the Town and Abbey
from the Foundation to the present time by J. Farmer, to
which is added the History of Abbeys from 977 to the Keign of
Queen Elizabeth. 1735.

WALTHAM HOLY CROSS ABBEY, by Buckler, 4to,

illustrated.

WALTHAM ABBEY (History of,) by Fuller. 1840.