Title:
ARCHDEACONRY OF ESSEX
Level: Category
Archdeaconry records
Level: Fonds
ARCHDEACONRY OF ESSEX
Scope and Content:
See also:
R.H. Browne, 'Essex Churches, 1540-1618', Essex Review 15, pp. 40-49;
H.W. Lewer, 'The King's Book of Sports, 1573-1638', Essex Review 22, pp. 173-188;
W.J. Pressey, 'Some notes on the Elizabethan Communion Cups of Essex', Essex Review 30, pp. 95-105;
W.J. Pressey, 'Visitation of the Archdeaconry of Colchester, 1588', Essex Review 32, pp. 132-137;
W.J. Pressey, 'Echoes of the Spanish Armada', Essex Review 35, pp.121-126;
W.J. Pressey, 'The Surplice in Essex', Essex Review 45, pp. 36-45;
W.J. Pressey, 'Essex dialect entries in Archdeaconry Records', Essex Review 45, pp. 132-140;
W.J. Pressey, 'The Apparitor in Essex', Essex Review 46, pp. 20-28;
W.J. Pressey, 'Essex Churchyards', Essex Review 48, pp. 186-194;
W.J. Pressey 'Penance in Essex', Essex Review 50, pp. 210-218;
W.J. Pressey, 'Records of Archdeaconries of Essex and Colchester', Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society 19, p.1;
W.J. Pressey, 'Visitations held in Archdeaconry of Colchester, 1683', Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society 23, p.145.

For clarification of certain terms used in ecclesiastical court records see catalogue of records of Court of Arches deposited at the Bodleian Library (T/A 128), which has useful notes on court procedure and formulae. For extracts from Archdeacon Hale, Precedents in causes of office against churchwardens and others, see T/P 83/4, pp. 36-40. J.R. Tanner, Tudor Constitutional Documents, pp. 362-367, reprints interesting cases from act books, 1542-1586, from Archdeacon W.H. Hale, Criminal Precedents, 1847.

Admin History:
The Archdeacon of Essex held jurisdiction over all parishes in the deaneries of Barking, Ongar, Chafford, Barstable, Rochford, Dengie and Chelmsford (south-west, south and south-east Essex), except peculiars and those subject to bishop's commissary. From 1914, the archdeaconries of Essex and Colchester together formed the new Diocese of Chelmsford. An Order-in-Council of 15 March 1922, gazetted 17 March (D/CPc 173), divided the archdeaconry of Essex into the archdeaconries of West Ham (D/AH) and Southend (D/AS).