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Transactions
transcriptions – Part 1
To increase our
online presence, one of the goals of the Essex Society for Archaeology and
History is to provide more information on the many thousands of pages of
articles which have been produced over its 160 year history.
Looking elsewhere on
the internet, Google has downloaded facsimile copies of the original, first,
series of Transactions, which are extremely rare to find in hard copy
form. This is because, as Michael Leach
records in the Newsletter (Summer 2012), there was a “disastrous fire in the
early hours of 10 December 1873 which destroyed the Society’s entire stock at
the High Street printing works of Benham & Harrison. One letter noted ‘but
for the military, and the wind being in the right quarter, the whole High
Street [Colchester] would have been consumed’.
All the woodcut blocks, plates and ‘the Society’s MSS’ were destroyed,
together with all remaining copies of Wright’s History of Essex. J H Marsden’s
account of the collection of Greek and Roman sculpture at Felix Hall, published
by the Society in 1863, was also consumed. The fire put an end to the Society’s
plan to reprint volume I, part i [of the ‘New Series’], presumably because the
lost blocks and plates would have been prohibitively expensive to replace.”
Major Libraries hold
copies of the ‘Old Series’ of Transactions, including our own Society Library
at the Albert Sloman Library of the University of Essex and the Essex Record
Office. Colchester Public Library used to
have a complete run on view.
It is therefore
gratifying to see these old volumes available digitally. There were five
volumes in the ‘Old Series’. Google books has facsimile copies of the first
three volumes which can be downloaded free of charge.
Transactions. Old
Series. Volumes 1 & 2
These date from the
beginning of the Essex Archaeological Society
Volume I
Contents
I.
General
Report of the Proceedings of the Inaugural Meeting, Dec 14 1852 … 1
II.
Inaugural
Lecture on Archaeology, by Professor [John Howard] Marden, B.D.[Disney
Professor of Archaeology, and late Fellow of St John’s College, in the
University of Cambridge; and Rector of Great Oakley, Essex] … 6
III.
The History and
Description of the Walls of Colchester, by Dr P M Duncan … 26
IV.
On Roman Remains
lately Discovered at Chelmsford, by Mr Frederick Chancellor … 59
V.
Sketch of a
Paper on a Colchester Sphynx [Sphinx], compared with two others found in
Hungary, by Dr William Bell … 64
VI.
Frescoes Discovered
in East Ham Church, by Mr George Buckler … 72
VII.
Notes on
Hedingham Castle, and the Family of De Vere, Earls of Oxford, by Mr Ashhurst
Majendie, F.R.S. … 75
VIII. Some Notes on the Family of De Vere, by
Mr Richard Almack, F.S.A. … 83
IX.
Remarks on
the Roman Sepulture of Infants, by the Hon R C Neville, F.S.A. … 89
X.
On a
Recently Discovered Monumental Brass, belonging to Bowers Gifford Church, by Mr
H W King …. 93
XI.
Roman Remains
at Coggeshall, by the Rev Edward L Cutts, B.A. … 99
XII.
Remarks
about Round Churches of England, with especial reference to the Church at
Little Maplestead, Essex, by Mr George Buckler … 110
XIII. Curious Extracts from a MS Diary of the
time of James II, and William and Mary, by the Rev Edward L Cutts, B.A. … 117
XIV. Remarks upon a Roman Urn found near the
Lexden Road, Colchester, by the Rev Barton Lodge M.A. … 128
XV.
St Nicholas
Church, Castle Hedingham, by the Rev Edward L Cutts, B.A. … 133
XVI. Report of Second General Meeting at
Chelmsford, April 19, 1853 … 137
XVII. Report of Third General Meeting at
Castle Hedingham, July 20, 1853 … 139
XVIII. List of Roman Potters’ Names upon
Samian Ware, now in the Collection of the Hon R C Neville, F.S.A., at Audley
End … 141
XIX. Notice of some Ancient Wills of
Inhabitants of the County of Essex [Thomas Marler, Kelvedon, proved 1474; John
Creke, Hockley, 1547; Robert Camock, Layer Marney, proved 1585; John Smith,
Bradwell, 1558; Middle John Whitelocke, Little Totham, 1500], by Mr H W King ….
149
XX.
A Description
of some Mural Paintings discovered in Hadleigh Church, by the Rev W E Heygate,
M.A. … 161
XXI. Architectural Account of the Remains of
Coggeshall Abbey, by the Rev Edward L Cutts, B.A. … 166
XXII. On a Semicircular Archway, of the
Decorated Period, at St Osyth, by Mr Charles F Hayward … 186
XXIII. Notes on Roman Essex, by the Hon R C
Neville, F.S.A., President … 191
XXIV. Remarks on Ancient Seals found at
Rivenhall, Ashingdon, Stebbing, Coggeshall, and Colchester: with Notices of
some others pertaining to the County of Essex, by Mr H W King ... 201
XXV. The Roman Cloaca at Colchester: its
Discovery and Description, by Dr P M Duncan … 210
Objects of the Society … i
Rules … ii
List of Council … iii
List of Members … iv
Queries and Directions … vii
Volume 2
Out of Stock
Contents
I.
The
architecture and early church at Waltham Abbey Church, by Edward A. Freeman … 1
II.
Notes
upon some Plans and Drawings Illustrative of the Antiquities of the Abbey and
Town of Waltham Abbey, by Edmund Littler … 41
III.
Roman
Antiquities, in Bronze and Silver, found at Colchester and Marks Tey, now
preserved in the Collection of Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A., &c. &c. at
Liverpool, by H W King … 56
IV.
Note on
the Date of Dedication of Waltham Abbey Church, by W Stubbs, M.A. … 59
V.
Ancient
and Medieval Finger Rings discovered in the County of Essex, by Lord
Braybrooke, P.E.A.S., F.S.A. … 61
VI.
Notes
on the Roman Remains found at Billericay, and of a Stone Coffin (supposed to be
Roman) found at Rettenden [Rettendon], by Edmund Roberts … 69
VII.
The
Danish Camps at Bemfleet [Benfleet] and Shoebury, and the Battle of Ashingdon,
by the Rev. W E Heygate, M.A. … 75
VIII.
Hadleigh
Castle, by H W King … 82
IX.
The
Early History of Stratford and the Surrounding Villages, by a Member of the
Society … 93
X.
East
Ham Church: an Architectural Description; with Notices of the Principal
Sepulchral Monuments, by H W King … 102
XI.
Some
Account of the Abbey of West Ham, otherwise Stratford Langthorne, by R Hawley
Clutterbuck … 112
XII.
Notes
on the Registers of the Parish of Barking, by H W King … 122
XIII.
Eastbury
Hall, by Edward L Cutts, B.A. … 134
XIV.
James
Strangman, Esq., of Hadleigh, an eminent Essex Antiquary of the time of Queen
Elizabeth and James I, by H W King … 139
XV.
The
Morant and Astle MSS, and other Historical and Topographical Collections
relating to Essex, by H W King … 147
XVI.
Additional
Note on the Mural Paintings discovered at Hadleigh Church, by H W King … 155
XVII.
On the
Churches of North West Essex, by the Rev. J H Sperling … 157
XVIII.
Note on
the Name of the Town of Saffron Walden, by Joseph Clarke … 164
XIX.
Notice
of a Wooden Effigy of a Priest in the Church at Little Leighs, by the Rev. F
Spurrell … 167
XX.
The
East Saxon Dialect, by the Rev. John Mountney Jephson … 173
XXI.
Original
Documents … 189
XXII.
Architecture
of Chelmsford Church, by F Chancellor … 195
XXIII.
Extracts
from an Old Chelmsford Parish Account Book, extending from 1557, the last year
of Queen Mary, down to 1668, by Archdeacon Mildmay … 211
XXIV.
The
Dunmow Parish Accounts [from the year 1526], by Lewis A Majendie … 229
Transactions Old Series. Volume 3
Contents
I.
Pedigrees
of Marney … 1
II.
Architectural
Notes on Layer Marney Hall, Essex; and the Parish Church Adjoining, by Charles
Forster Hayward … 16
III.
A
Letter, containing Further Particulars in further illustration of the Early
History of Waltham Abbey, by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. … 33
IV.
The
Influence of the County of Essex on the Settlement and Family History of New
England, by Colonel Joseph Lemuel Chester … 37
V.
The
Church of St Nicholas, Little Coggeshall, by the Rev. W J Dampier … 48
VI.
Ancients
Wills (No. 2) [John Smith, Blackmore, 1543], by H W King … 53
VII.
The
Shaksperes [Shakespeares] of Essex, by Augustus Charles Veley … 64
Pedigree of Shaksperes of Stratford on Avon
Pedigree of Shaksperes of Essex
VIII.
Ancient
Wills (No. 3) [Sir ThomasTyrell, Herongate, 1476], by H W King … 75
IX.
The
Strongman Pedigree, by H W King … 95
X.
Roman
Sepruchral Remains at East Ham, read at the Meeting at Leytonstone, held February
16th 1864, by the Rev. E F Boyle … 104
XI.
Comparative
Notes on the Roman Sacrophragus and Leaden Coffins discovered at East Ham, by H
W King … 110
The Strangman Pedigree – Addendum … 116
XII.
A
Translation of the First Book of Palladius on Husbondrie [Husbandry], Edited
from a M.S. of the 15th Century, by Barton Lodge, A.M. … 117
Corrigenda to ditto … 162
Glossary to ditto … 163
XIII.
Ancient
Wills (No. 4) [Sir Thomas Montgomery, Faulkbourne, 1494], by H W King … 167
XIV.
The
Tyrell Badge, by H W King … 198
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