High Country History Group: Journal No 50 (December 2013)

Celebrating with a silver balloon with '50' on its front cover, the High Country History Group has reached a significant landmark in the production of the quarterly Journal for members.  As usual it contains a wide range of items relating to the local history of Greensted, Stanford Rivers, Stapleford Tawney, Theydon Mount and beyond.  Contents this time include:

- An Appeal for Information: about a Mr Mugleston who took the tenancy of Littlebury Farm in Stanford Rivers in the 1870s

- Attack on a Constable

- 101 Uses of a Church Porch: Stanford Rivers South Porch use for "habitacion" in 1600

- Ongar Through The Centuries. 40 Little Known Facts: a booklet just published by the Ongar Millennium History Society

- Greensted and the Course of St Edmund's Translation: taken from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society (New Series, Volume 10, 1907)

- The Diary of Anna Reeve of Stondon Massey, 1888

- Hill Hall and Copt Hall: taken from Memorials of Old Essex (published 1908)

- In Memoriam. Lewis Newcomen Prance: taken from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society ('New Series', Volume 13, 1913)

- Harriet Archer-Houblon: born 1812, Coopersale House, Theydon Garnon

- Coopersale: taken from Kelly's Directory 1933

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Lewis Newcomen Prance, M.A., F.S.A.: Rector of Stapleford Tawney & Theydon Mount

Extracts from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society (now the Essex Society for Archaeology and History).

From ‘Transactions New Series, Volume 13 Part 2’ (1913)

IN MEMORIAM.

LEWIS NEWCOMEN PRANCE, M.A., F.S.A.

The death of the Rev. Lewis Newcomen Prance, which occurred in the middle of April [1913], has deprived our Society of an old and valued member, a constant attendant at its Council Meetings, and one who, until quite lately, but rarely missed an archaeological excursion. He was a man of great physical activity, and bicycled long distances swiftly and without apparent fatigue.

Mr. Prance graduated from Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1863 and was ordained deacon in the following year. During those two years he held an assistant mastership of Haileybury college. From 1869 to 1872 he was rector of Ayott St. Peter, Herts., and in the latter year went to Stapleford Tawney, which rectory he held, together with that of Theydon Mount, until his death. Mr. Prance, in conjunction with a friend, transcribed and edited the registers of the parish of Stapleford Tawney, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1892,

W[illiam] C[hapman] W[aller]