Bygone Essex:
Its History, Folk-Lore, and Memorable Men and
Women.
Edited by WILLIAM ANDREWS, F.R.H.S.,
Author of “Bygone England,” “Old-Time Punishments,” “Curiosities of
the Church,” “Old Church Lore.”
CONTENTS.
Historic Essex, by Thomas Frost—Epping Forest: Its History, Customs, and Laws, by Jesse Quail—Greenstead Church, by Edward Lamplough—The Burial of Harold at Waltham, by William Winters, F.R.H.S.—St. Osyth’s Priory, by John T. Page—Colchester in Olden Times, by Joseph W. Spurgeon—The Siege of Colchester, by Joseph W. Spurgeon—Colchester: Its Historic Buildings and Famous Men, by Joseph W. Spurgeon—Essex Tokens, by Thomas Forster—Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury: A Glance at Armada Days, by Edward Lamplough—The Lawless Court, by the Rev. Geo. S. Tyack, B.A.—The Dunmow Flitch—A Deserted Primitive Village, by G. Fredk. Beaumont—William Hunter: The Young Martyr of Brentwood, by John W. Odling—Fairlop Fair, by John W. Odling—Thomas Tusser, and his “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,” by W. H. Thompson—John Ray, Naturalist, by W. H. Thompson—Wanstead House, by John T. Page—Hopkins, the Witchfinder, by Frederick Ross, F.R.H.S.—An Essex Poet, by the Rev. Geo. S. Tyack, B.A.—Historic Harwich—Old Bow Bridge, by John T. Page—Index.
PRESS OPINIONS.
“Readable as well as instructive, and it has an interest for many more than Essex people.”—The Globe.