Journal No. 52 (June 2014)

Members of the High Country History Group received their copies of the latest Journal at the meeting last week.  Items in this edition include:

- Anniversaries

- Unhealthy Occupation: The Derby Mercury commenting in 1749 on the high number of clergy who had died in the Ongar district

- Centenary of Chelmsford Diocese (1914 - 2014)

- Dedication of Church at Theydon Mount, taken from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society 'New Series' Volume 12 Part 3 (1911)

- William Sworder of Stapleford Tawney

- Christmas Eve: taken from Leaves of a Hunting Diary

- Inquest of the body of William Reed, 1788

- Hue and Cry: Stanford Rivers Imprisonment for Fowl Stealing, 1897

- The Queen's Jubilee and the Woes of Stanford Rivers

- Opening of a Jubilee Fountain at Stanford Rivers, 1898

- The Pilgrims Way: a reference to St Edmund

- Place Names Quiz (answers)

- St Michael's Church Theydon Mount 400th Anniversary Weekend, advertisement

- Parliamentary and Parochial Electors for Stapleford Tawney, 1914

- Dr. Livingstone I Presume!

- That's My Seat. Anne Archer of Theydon Garnon

Journal No 51 (March 2014)

The 40 page quarterly magazine is now available to members of the High Country History Group. Two new series commence in our second 50 of Journals: palaeography, and extracts from the Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society (now Essex Society for Archaeology and History  Items include

- Coopersale House, Theydon Garnon - an enigma

- Transportation reprived (of Samuel James of Theydon Garnon, 1797)

- Boxing Match at Ongar

- Greensted Church and James Barlow, an historical record of his life

- Mad Dog

- Palaeography

-- (i) Introduction

-- (ii) Vagrants' Certificate from Stanford Rivers, 1598

-- Place Names Quiz

- Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society

-- Greenstead Church, by Henry Laver F.S.A.

- A View of Stanford Rivers 1866. A visit to Issac Taylor

- Obituary. Sir Richard Smijth, Rector of Stapleford Tawney with Theydon Mount, 1837

- Farming in Stapleford Tawney 1902