Title:
'Topographical Collections for the County of Essex', part 1 ('preliminary or general portion')
Level: Category
Miscellaneous
Level: Fonds
RECORDS COLLECTED BY FREDERICK J. BRAND
Scope and Content:
List of contents, referring to original page numbers as below, some pages being blank

p.1 Printed strip map of 'The Road from London to Harwich Actually Surveyed'

pp. 2-18 Portions of printed works relating to Essex

pp. 19-96 Extracts from manuscripts in the British Museum [later the British Library]:

pp. 21-24 Essex JPs, Bailiffs of hundreds, 1633 (British Library Harleian MS.2240), with note of composition for small tithes of Shopland, 1786 (p. 23)

pp. 27 Receipts from Essex estates of St Bartholomew's hospital, 1581-1582 [?Harleian] MS.2177

pp. 29-32 Index of references in Harleian MS.4136 to Kelvedon, Southminster, West Mersea, Salcot Virley [i.e. Virley], Salcot Wigborough [Salcott], 'Wickham', Chelmsford, Rivenhall, Coggeshall, Langenhoe, Great Braxted, 'Bradwell', Little Braxted, Tillingham, Stisted, Great Totham, Little Totham, Goldhanger, Feering, Black Notley and White Notley, Braintree, Hazeleigh, Tolleshunt Knights, Tolleshunt Major, Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Messing, Purleigh, Langford, Layer Marney, Layer Breton, Earls Colne, Chickney, St Osyth, Great Birch, Boreham, Aldham, Danbury, Little Baddow, Ulting, Hatfield Peverel, Woodham Mortimer, Woodham Walter, Copford, Burnham, Basildon, Ramsden Crays, Nevendon, Inworth, Barking, [Great] Ilford and Woodford

p. 35. Claim of John de Rochford to wreck in Foulness marshes, 1284-1285 (Harleian MS.5195)

p. 37-40 Index of references in Harleian MS.5195 to Ashingdon, Rochford, Barling, Canewdon, Eastwood, South Fambridge, Foulness, Hadleigh, Hockley, Hawkwell, Leigh, Shopland, Rawreth, North Shoebury, South Shoebury, Southchurch, Great Stambridge, Little Stambridge, Sutton, Great Wakering, Little Wakering, Paglesham, Prittlewell and Rayleigh

p. 45 Index of references in Harleian MS.5195 to epitaphs in churches at Rayleigh, Prittlewell, Canewdon, Rochford, Shopland, Southchurch, Great Stambridge, Little Stambridge, Stansted Mountfichet, East Horndon and Great Dunmow, with other rough notes

pp. 47-75, 90-96 Index of references in, and notes from, D'Ewes collection of Essex escheats (Harleian MS.640), including references to Ashingdon, Barling, Creeksea, Canewdon, Eastwood, Foulness, Hadleigh, Halstead, Heybridge, Hockley, Leigh, Paglesham, Prittlewell, Rawreth, Rayleigh and Honor of Rayleigh, Rochford, North Shoebury and South Shoebury, Shopland, Southchurch, Great Stambridge and Little Stambridge, Sutton, Great Wakering, Little Wakering, Havering-atte-Bower, Ongar Hundred, St Bartholomew's Hospital, Mundon, Tillingham, Ulting and Nazeing

pp. 81-89 Notes from Cole's collection of Essex escheats (Harleian MSS.756-760, 410-411)

p. 97 Notes of lands bequeathed by Richard, Lord Rich, 1568, Sir John Bernard, 1766, Robert, Lord Rich, 1581, and Robert Rich, Earl of Warwick, 1658

p. 98 Copy of answers by Revd William Owen, vicar of Shopland [instituted 1761], to queries of Bishop of London [1788], including reference to Methodists [see also D/DU 23/139/1/4]
Dates of Creation:
1783-1797
Extent:
1 binder
Creator Name:
Revd John Pridden
Admin History:
The Revd John Pridden, M.A., F.S.A. (1758-1825), was vicar of Heybridge, 1783-1797, and of Little Wakering, 1788-1797. For further details see Dictionary of National Biography. The two notebooks originally catalogued as D/DU 23/139/1, 2 were compiled during 1783-1797, although there are some later additions.
Custodial History:
For a reference to the then recent sale of the Pridden Topographical Collection at Sotheby's see Frederick J. Brand, Items of Essex Interest, no. 2 (privately printed, December 1929).
Rules or Conventions:
In this catalogue, minor notes have been ignored.
Physical Characteristics:
The original notebook was taken apart at an unknown date (probably soon after its deposit in 1960) and the contents guarded and filed in four binders, this being the first. The original cover does not survive. The larger sheets have been folded to fit the binding and are now (2008) cracking along the folds.
Existence of Copies:
For a microfilm copy, see Ph 4/155 (at the Essex Record Office) or TS 83/1 (at the Southend Archive Access Point).