Scope and Content:
Records of J.B.Bennett
Box 1: Books: Histories of Essex by Tindall 1732, Salmon 1740, Morant 1768 (now stored in two parts Box 1 and Box 117)
Box 2: Books: Environs of London Vol.4: Herts, Essex and Kent by Daniel Lysons, 1796; History of Essex by Elizabeth Ogborne, 1814; History of Essex by Thomas Wright, 1835
Box 3: Books: Speculi Britanniae Pars: Essex by John Norden, 1594 - ed. by Henry Ellis, 1840; Suckling papers...county of Essex, 1844; People's history of Essex by D W Coller, 1861; Bygone Essex by W Andrews, 1894; Essex past and present by G Bosworth, 1898; Essex in days of old ed. J Page, 1898; School history of Essex by W H Weston, 1909; Essex by P H Reaney, 1928; History of Essex by A C Edwards, 1958; VCH for Leyton and Walthamstow
Box 4: Books and pamphlets: Feet of fines for Essex, vols.1-4; Notes and queries: Essex matter in Cole's manuscripts (loose sheets); Note on the county records at Chelmsford by E P Dickin; Topographical quarterly, Autumn 1937; Stray notes on Essex fines by W C Waller; Some early Essex grants and charters transcribed by J E Oxley; Essex dozen: 12 point progress from London to the coast by John O'Connor, 1953; South East Essex in the Saxon period by L Helliwell, 1971; On deneholes by Miller Christy, 1895; Archaeology in Essex to AD 1500 ed. D G Buckley, 1980; Tudor Essex exhibition, Valence House, 1955; Stuart Essex exhibition, Valence House, 1956; Ship-money in Essex 1634-1640 by W C Waller, 1900; Pre-history in Essex as recorded in the Journal of the Essex Field Club by S H Warren, 1918; SE Essex in the Pre-historic period by D G Macleod, 1971; On two large groups of marsh-mounds on the Essex coast by Christy & Dalton, 1925; The loom in Britain during the Bronze age by Henry Laver; Late Palaeolithic settlement in the Colne Valley, Essex by N F Layard, 1927; Roman clasp knives by H Laver; On Roman roads in Essex by Miller Christy; SE Essex in the Roman period by W Rodwell, 1971; Reports of the Red Hills Exploration Committee, 1906-1907, 1907-1908; Extract from The Antiquary July 1911: Essex red hills; Red Hills or Salting Mounds of Essex by F Reader, 1911; Briquetage de la Seille by J Beaupre, Nancy, 1902 (in French); The salting mounds of Essex by H Stopes, 1887; Exploration of some 'red-hills' in Essex with remarks upon objects found by W Cole, 1906; Red-Hills exploration committee by H Wilmer 1906, and two reports, 1906 and 1906-7; Agreeable historian or complete English traveller: Essex by S Simpson, 1746; Magna Britannia: Essex by T Cox, 1700
Box 5: Books: ERO publications on Essex history
Box 6: Books: General view of the agriculture of the county of Essex by Arthur Young, 1807; Anthology of Essex collected by Lucy and Gould, 1911; Essex survivals with special attention to Essex smugglers by F Roe, 1929; Farm and cottage inventories of mid-Essex 1633-1749 ed. F W Steer, 1950; bibliographies about Essex history and some publications written by Emmison
Box 7: Books and pamphlets: English windmills vol.2: Essex by D Smith, 1932; Pargetting by H Laver; On some early domestic decorative wall-paintings recently found in Essex by Christy & Maynard, 1911; Some domestic wall-paintings in Essex: parts 1 & 2 by G M Benton; Use of the stencil in mural decoration by F W Reader, 1939; Seats in Essex by J A Rush, 1897; Pevsner Essex, 1954; Antiquities of Essex: five talks on glasswork, brickwork, Norman work, fonts, some Essex antiquities by A Laurie, 1946; Homestead moats of Essex by I Chalkley Gould, 1905; Medieval architecture in Essex by E Godman, 1905; Norman architecture in Essex by E Godman, 1905
Box 8: Books and pamphlets: Ecclesiastical architecture of the county of Essex by J Hadfield; Historic churches: a wasting asset W and K Rodwell; Twenty-two of the churches of Essex by George Buckler, 1856; Essex chapels by R C Fowler; Wall paintings in Essex churches IX by Rouse & Benton, 1955; Guide to Essex churches by C Starr ed., 1980; Church plate of the county of Essex by W J Pressey, 1926; Communion plate in the parish churches of the county of Essex: part 1 by E Freshfield, 1899; Some notes on Elizabethan communion cups of Essex by W J Pressey, 1921; Church plate of the Newport and Stansted deanery by Benton & Geare, 1915; Visitations held in the archdeaconry of Essex in 1684, 1685, 1686 (three pamphlets) by W J Pressey; The Harlow deanery by j L Fisher, 1922; Essex clergy in 1661 by Smith & Hope; Essex: a dictionary of the county mainly ecclesiological in two parts by G Worley, 1915; The Reformation in Essex to the death of Mary by J E Oxley, 1965; How Christianity came to Essex by D Pierce, 1917; Precedents and proceedings by H Smith
Box 9: Books and pamphlets: Some interesting Essex brasses, Christy, Porteous and E Bertram Smith, 3 parts, 1903, 1907, c 1910; Some interesting Essex brasses, Christy and Porteous, 1900 and c 1901;Three military coffin-slabs in Essex by A Hills, 1940; Diocese of Chelmsford and its first bishop by R Scott, 1914; 50 years of challenge: published to commemorate 50 years of achievement in the Chelmsford Diocese, 1964; Manuscripts from Essex monastic libraries by M R James, c 1930; Wall paintings in Essex churches VIII by G Montague Benton, 1940; Inventories of church goods 6, Edward VI by W C Waller, 1911; Some additions to Newcourt's Repertorium vol.II by J C Challenor Smith, 1898-1899; Newcourt's Repertorium vol.II, 1710
Box 10: Books and pamphlets: Rambles in Essex, LNER, c 1930;Rambles in Essex, British Rail, 1950; New holidays in Essex by P Lindley, c 1910; Essex roads and lanes; being a useful guide for pedestrians and cyclists, 1908; Journeying into Essex by W R Finch, 1948; Murray's handbook: eastern counties, 1870;Tourist's guide to Essex by E Walford, 1882; Essex (King's England), 1942; Essex (Little guide), 1919; Annual Reports, Community Council of Essex and Associated Organisations, 1965-74; Some Essex doctors by S J Barns, 1933; Guide to Essex services 1949; Rustic walking routes in the London vicinity: second series, north-to-east district by W R Evans, 1887; Forest Way, Essex CC, c 1970; Lea and Roding valleys: a study in geographical development by A R Hatley, 1923; Further notes on some sections of the new railway from Romford to Upminster… by T V Holmes, 1894; Report on the East Anglian earthquake of April 22nd 1884 by R Meldola and W White, 1885; On some geological aspects of the East Anglian earthquake of April 22nd 1884 by Raphael Meldola; Full account of the calamitous earthquake in East Essex, Essex Telegraph, 1884; Report on secondary and higher education in Essex by M E Sadler, 1906; Essex dialect dictionary by E Gepp, 2nd ed., 1923; Essex: its forest, folk and folklore by C C Mason, 1928
Box 11: Books and pamphlets about Epping Forest.
Box 12: Books and pamphlets about Epping Forest, with Hainault Forest and NT guide to Hatfield Forest, incl. the creation of Epping Forest in 1878.
Box 13: Books and pamphlets: Flora of Essex by G S Gibson, 1862; Flora of Essex by S T Jermyn, 1974; Flora of North-East Essex by J T Clark, 1965; Birds of Essex by Miller Christy, 1890; History of the birds of Essex by W E Glegg, 1929; Broad features of the ornithology of Essex by W Glegg, 1940; Mammals, reptiles and fishes of Essex by H Laver, 1898; Mycetozoa by Gulielma Lister, 1918; Deer in Essex, Essex Naturalist n.1, 1977; Smaller moths of Essex by A M Emmet, Essex naturalist n.6, 1981; Lieutenants and keepers of the rolls in the county of Essex by R B Colvin, 1934; Essex Regiment Gazette, vol.V n.35, June 1935; Essex county handbook, c 1952; Council chamber of the Essex County Council: an account of the decorations, 1938; Short history of shire houses of Essex, 1937;Essex hundred-moots: an attempt to identify their meeting places by Miller Christy, 1928; Essex sessions of the peace 1351, 1377-1379 by E C Furber, 1953; Parish-cage and whipping post by H Laver, 1898; Potash-making in Essex: a lost rural industry by H Laver, 1896; History of salt-making in Essex by Miller Christy, 1907;Trade signs of Essex by Miller Christy, 1887; Romance of Essex inns / Glyn Morgan, 1963
Box 14: Books, pamphlets and some archives: Census of Essex 1891, Miller Christy, Essex Review; Census of England & Wales 1921: County of Essex, 1923; South Essex regional planning report 1931; West Essex: a survey with some proposals for its regional development, 1933; Essex landscape no.1: historic features, Essex CC, 1974; Register of the electors for Essex, southern division, 1832; Essex election August 1830; Letter from Montague Burgoyne Esq of Mark Hall on the present state of public affairs and the representation of the county of Essex, 1808; Annals of evangelical nonconformity in the county of Essex by T W Davids, 1863; Bibles in barrels: a history of Essex Baptists by D Witard, 1962; Antient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of England province of Essex: the order of proceedings upon the occasion of the installation of Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Lockwood as Grand Master of Essex, 29 July 1902; Royalty in Essex, Essex CC, 1953; First Essex school of Women's institutes, County Federation of Essex Women's Institutes, 1919 - with enclosures, How institutes began and A Women's Institute, what it is and what it is not; Council for the Preservation of Rural England - Essex Branch: report 1938-1939; Short history of the Essex Field Club 1880-1930 / P Thompson, c 1930;The Essex Field Club: the first hundred years by L S Harley, Essex Naturalist n.5, 1980; Our diamond jubilee [Essex Arch. Soc.] / W C Waller, 1915; Essex county cricket by C Bray, 1950; By forest and countryside: charming residential districts on the Great Eastern Railway ed. P Row, 1915; London, Tilbury and Southend Railway by H D Welch, 1951; Eastern Union railway 1846-1862 by H F Hilton, 1946; On the antiquity of some footpaths by H Laver, c 1900; Extracts from the Epping and Ongar Highway Trust 1769-1870 by B Winstone, 1891;River Lee: a paper read at Parke's Museum May 19th 1887 by Major L Flower,1893; Essex Colne by J V C Clarke, 1976; Yachtsman's pilot vol.1: rivers and creeks of the Thames Estuary by Lieut-Commander J Irving, 1933
Box 15: Books and pamphlets: Epping Hunt by T Hood, illus. Cruikshank, 1889; Historical notes of the last century with the Essex Hounds and other memories by A W Ruggles-Brise, 1934; Leaves from a hunting diary in Essex by H B Yerburgh, 1900; Two recent whirlwinds in Essex by Miller Christie, 1919; Essex witches by Glyn Morgan, 1973;The posts of Essex by L J Johnson, 1969; Detective in Essex: landscape clues to chapters in our island history by Donald Maxwell, 1933; Essex in Drayton's poly-olbion by I C Gould, 1894;Topographical and statistical description of the county of Essex by G A Cooke, c 1830; Historical Essex, Essex CC, 1951; Romantic Essex by R Beckett, 2nd ed., 1907; Picturesque Essex by Moul and Hill, 1905; Essex (Vision of England) by P F Gaye, 1949; Forgotten Thameside by Glyn H Morgan, 1951; Essex by A R Hope Moncrieff, illus. L Burleigh Bruhl, 1909
Box 16: Bound volumes of Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society - nos. IV, X-XXIII (NB very heavy box)
Box 17: Unbound vols. Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Vols. III parts 1-4 & IV parts 1-4, 1863-1864, New series: Vols. III pt.4, IV pt.2, V pt.4, VI pts. 2 & 3, XI pt.2, New series: Vols. XXIV complete, XXV pts. 1-3,Third Series: vol.1 pts 1-4, Indexes: vols. I-V, and New series: vols. I-X and XIV-XXV
Box 18: Unbound vols. Essex Archaeology and History (Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. Third series) vols.4-13; Catalogue books etc. Essex Arch. Soc, 1895; Library catalogue Essex Arch. Soc, 1923; Essex Archaeological News summer 1980
Boxes 19-26: removed Feb 2008
Box 27: Essex Field Club trans., 1880-1886; Essex Naturalist, 1887-1910
Box 28: Essex Naturalist, 1909-1937; Index to vols. I - XXII
Box 29: Copies of Essex Field club trans.; Essex naturalist 1937-1976; Essex Churchman 1952-1964
Box 30: Essex Naturalists' Trust bulletin, 1967-1972, 1974-1976; Nature in North East Essex, 1966-1968; annual reports Colchester and District Natural History and Field Club
Box 31: Essex Review - miscellaneous loose numbers including vol.1 nos.1, 3 & 4 (1892) up to no.257 (Jan 1956); Essex Review, 1899; Essex Journal, 1966-1969; Essex Journal incorporating Essex Review, 1970-1983
Box 32: Essex Recusant, 1959-1982
Box 33: Essex Referee - 1947-1960 (incomplete), and 1961;Official handbooks:
Essex County Football Association, 1931-32, 1953-54, 1955-56, 1961-62; Chelmsford & Mid-Essex Football Combination, 1960-61, …League, 1961-62; Essex Soc. Association Football Referees, 1930-35, 1939-40, 1946-47; Leytonstone & District Football League, 1938-39; London Football Association, 1947-48; Southern Olympian Football League, 1954-55; Southern Amateur Football League, 1955-56; Nemean Amateur Football League, 1954-55; Amateur Football Alliance Annuals, 1950-51 and 1955-56;Highams Park Football Club fixtures, 1922-23 and 1923-24; J B Bennett's ECFA Referee certificate, 1931-32;
Bundle miscellaneous papers relating to J B Bennett's term as a referee
Box 34: Miscellaneous books, articles, publications about Essex: Reform Bill 1832: Report on proposed divisions County of Essex; Essex Extracts from Camden's Britannia; Accurate list of the fairs in the county of Essex, 1785; Essex list of landowners 1871; Essex worthies from Fuller's Worthies; Essex extract from Modern universal British traveller, 1779; Eastern counties pictorial guide, Great Eastern Railway, c 1900; Chartism in East Anglia, Workers Educational Association, 1951; Upper Norwood Athenaeum record of archaeological rambles 1950-51; Essex extract from London City Suburbs by F Fitzgerald, 1893; English castles by J H Round, Quarterly Review Jul 1894; Essex extract from Beauties of England, c 1805; Essex extract from Botanist's Guide through England and Wales vol.1 by D Turner, 1805; Ford Family vol.1 no.3 Aug-Sep 1952 - includes article Old Essex churches by J G O'Leary; Old and new London by Thornbury and Walford, c 1897 - parts 41 & 42 dealing with Essex; Views of Southend and Clacton, Callcut & Beavis, c 1890; Aisleless apsidal churches of Great Britain by F H Fairweather, 1933; English fortresses and castles of the tenth and eleventh centuries by W H St J Hope, Archaeol. Journal, 1903; Early Norman castles of England, parts 1 and 2 by E S Armitage, English Historical Review, 1904; Alleged Norman origin of 'castles' in England by T D Pryce with a reply by E Armitage, English Historical Review, 1905; 3 issues of Journal of the Antiquarian Association, nos. 2 and 3, 1930, and Vol.2 no.2, 1931; Church of England and Her Sacred Majesty by N Powell, St John's Buckhurst Hill, 1896; Early defensive earthworks by I Chalkley Gould, 1901; Report of the Committee on Ancient Earthworks and Fortified Enclosures, July 1908; Library of books and prints dating from the17th century collected by S Holford, 1905-1945 [catalogue]; OS map of Roman Britain, 1928; OS map of Britain in the Dark Ages, 1939; Trans of the Monumental Brass Soc, vol. VIII part 1, Dec 1943, and part 2, Dec 1944; St Christopher in English medieval art and life by J Salmon, reprinted from Jnl. of British Arch. Assoc., January 1936; Lights of Essex, Essex County War Welfare Committee, 1942; Country walks: first series by C White, London Transport, 1936; History of Essex by S Tymms, 1832; The Motor profile road book of England, c 1920; The star rambles around London, c 1910; Paterson's Roads, 1799; Picture of England vol.1 by W Green, 1804; Hutchinson's pocket guide: Norfolk and Suffolk, Cambridge and Essex, 1939; Half-holidays with the camera by B Alfieri, 1893; Where to live round London - northern side (Homeland reference books no.2) by O A Shrubsole, 1910-11; Summer holidays by Percy Lindley, 1905; East Anglia (About Britain no.4) by R H Mottram, 1951; History of the Church in England by T Staveley, 1712; Old church lore by W Andrews, 1891; Eastern England from the Thames to the Humber vol.1 by W White, 1865; Tours in East Anglia by C R B Barrett, 1896; Commons, forest and footpaths by Lord Eversley, 1910; Town and Country Magazine vol.1, 1837
Box 35: Books and publications: Visitations of Essex by W C Metcalfe, 1878;
Bequests relating to Essex by A B Bamford, Trans. Essex Arch. Soc. Vol. XIII pt.4, 1915; On some badges and devices of John de Vere by H L Elliot, 1919;
Essex worthies by W Addison, 1973; Who's who in Essex, Ebenezer Baylis & Son, 1935; Essex leaders: social and political by Gaskill and Press, c 1910
Box 36: Essex biography and family history, A-M: Alliston of Elliston, Ambrose G Barker of Leyton, Stephen John Barns of Walthamstow, Edward Beaucock of Bradwell, the Boothbys of Friday Hill, Chigford, William Boyer printer, John Browne of Finchingfield, Charles Roden Buxton of Warlies, Canning family, John Carter, Bishop Cedd, Sir John Cheke, Essex sportsman, 1939, Cookes of Gidea Hall, Stephen Crisp, Samuel Dale of Braintree, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, Henry Doubleday of Epping, Richard de Drax, John Eliot and his friends of Nazeing and Waltham Abbey, Worthy Dr Fuller, autobiography of John Gerard, John Gibbs: an Essex botanist, Mrs Gibson, 1885 [daughter of Mr Cogan of Higham Hill nr Walthamstow], Josiah Gilbert of Ongar; Dr Samuel Glasse, rector of Wanstead, George Glover, "forger" [of West Ham], James Green of Leytonstone, John Griffith, 1779, Vita Haroldi: the romance of the life of Harold king of England / Latin text and English trans. by Walter de Gray Birch, 1885; the Harsnett family, Upstream: a family scrapbook / Elizabeth Howard, 1944, William Hunter of Brentwood 1555, John Swan and Elizabeth Jefferys for the murder of Joseph Jefferys, 1752; Trial of Christopher Layer Esq. at the King's Bench for High Treason, 1722; Fitz Lewes of West Horndon and the brasses at Ingrave; Joseph Lister born in West Ham; De Luci the Loyal [of Ongar Castle], Lionel Lukin of Dunmow: the inventor of the lifeboat - together with a reprint of Lukin's pamphlet on unimmergible boats / Frederick Rebus, 1925, Aeneas MacIntyre: a forgotten Essex botanist, Third Earl of March and Ulster / Alfred Hills, Essex Review, 1941, Stephen Marshall: a forgotten Essex puritan, The life story of an Essex lad written by himself by Isaac Mead, 1923, Revd. Philip Morant, Answers for Catharine Mason and Thomas Onslow Smith, heirs of the deceased Thomas Thorpe of Low Layton to the petition of John Scarr…, 1793, An Essex brass [William Maudaunt, Hempstead], William Morris.
Box 37: Essex biography and family history, P-W: incl. Oxley Parker papers, Sir William Petre, John Ray, Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick 1625-1678, Extract form Pierce Egan's Book of Sports - The evergreen sportsman of Woodford Wells (Tom Rounding), Gilbert Slater of Leyton, botanist, John Orrin Smith [of Colchester], engraver, Sir Thomas Smith of Hill Hall, Pedigree of Smith of Hill Hall, column from Essex Standard 12 Aug 1886 about The commonplace book of Richard Symonds of Black Notley, Samuel Tufnell of Langleys 1682-1758, Dick Turpin and the Gregory Gang, Last will and testament of Thomas Tussler, Some account of the family of De Vere, the Earls of Oxford, A teaching priest: a brief memoir of the Rev. Frederick William Vernham, Letters of Dorothy Wadham 1609-1618 [daughter of W Petre of Writtle], Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Gloucester, who lived at Pleshy, Wroth of Loughton Hall
Box 38: Essex literature and poetry: incl. Physico-theology by W Derham, 1754;
Astro-theology by W Derham, 1767; Pilgrim's Progress by J Bunyon, 1805; Essex Literary Journal - nos. 1-12, June 1838-May 1839 - bound in one vol.; Ruins and old trees associated with remarkable events in history by M Roberts, c 1845 [Dunmow and Hatfield]; A maid in armour: tales of olde Ilford by Walter Alexander Locks, 1906; The missionary souvenir by Rev. Thomas Aveling, 1850 [Walthamstow Mission School]; The hole in the wall: a merrie metrical and monastical romaunce by E H Palmer, 1860 ["Abbey of Walthamstow"]; The end of the pilgrimage and other poems by Elizabeth Mary Parsons [of Foulness], 1859; The questing soul of man: nine episodes from the history of Beeleigh Abbey by Nicholson and Thomson, 1930; Gracys walk: a tale by Jess Berridge, 1929 [Little Baddow]; Essex ballads and other poems by C E Benham, 1935 [in Essex dialect]; The wooing of Osyth by Kate Thompson Sizer, c 1912; Essex Plays: Vol.1: The Diddicoy by Hugh Cranmer-Byng and The Furriner by S L Bensusan, Vol.2: Old Cottage Tales by Hugh Cranmer-Byng and The Wise Woman by S L Bensusan, Vol.3: The Queen's Ring and Annie the Come b'Chance by Hugh Cranmer-Byng, andThe magic mawkin and other Essex tales by H Cranmer-Byng; Essex lore by Martyn Hampshire, 1947; Joan: a fourteenth century love story of Chigwell, Essex by Frederick J Brand, 1923; A Barking rose by Frederick J Brand, 1923; The moo's of an Essex calf.
Box 39: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Ardleigh, Arlesford, Asheldham, Ashingdon, Lt Baddow, Gt Bardfield, Barking, Barnston, Bartlow, Beacontree, Belchamp, Benfleet, Gt Bentley, West Bergholt, Billericay, Blackmore, Bocking, Boreham, Borley, Bobbingworth, Bradfield, Bradwell, Braintree, Braxted, Brentwood, Brighlingsea, Burnham, Buttsbury.
Box 40: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Gt Canfield, Canvey Island, Chadwell St Mary, Chelmsford, Gt Chesterfield, Chigwell, Chingford, Clacton, Clavering, Coggeshall.
Boxes 41-43: Books and pamphlets, Colchester.
Box 44: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Earls Colne, Colne Engaine, Copford, Cressing, Dagenham, Danbury, Dedham, Dengie, Dovercourt, Dunmow, Good Easter, High Easter, Easthorpe, Gt Easton, Lt Easton, Elmstead, Epping.
Box 45: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Fairstead, Farnham, Faulkbourne, Felsted, Finchingfield, Fingringhoe, Fobbing, Foulness, Fryerning, Gestingthorpe, Greenstead, Greensted, Hadleigh, Hallingbury, Halstead, East Ham, West Ham, Harlow.
Box 46: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Harwich, Hatfield Broad Oak, Hatfield Peverel, Havering-atte-Bower, Hazeleigh, Hedingham, Heybridge, Hockley, Horndon, Thorndon Hall, Hornchurch, Ingatestone, Ilford, Inworth.
Box 47: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Kelvedon, Lambourne, Langdon, Langford, Lawford, Layer-de-le-Haye, Layer Marney, Leigh-on-Sea, Lt Leighs, Lexden, Lindsell, Loughton, Maldon, Maplestead, Mersea Island, Manningtree, Mistley, Mucking.
Box 48: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Leyton and Leytonstone, Rochford Hundred
Box 49: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Navestock, Nazeing, Nevendon, Newport, Ongar, Paglesham, Parndon, Pebmarsh, Pleshey, Prittlewell, Radwinter, Rainham, Ramsden, Rayleigh, Rayne, Rettendon, Romford, Roydon, Runwell, St Lawrence, Shalford.
Box 50: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Shoebury and Shoeburyness, Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, Springfield, Stambourne, Stanford-le-Hope, Stansted, Stebbing, Stifford.
Box 51: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Stock, Stondon Massey, Tendring, Thaxted, Theydon, Thurrock, Tilty, Tiptree, Tolleshunt, Toppesfield, Upminster.
Box 52: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Saffron Walden, Gt and Lt Waltham, Waltham Forest.
Box 53: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Waltham Abbey, Waltham Holy Cross, Wanstead, Gt and Lt Warley, South Weald, Wethersfield, Wickford, Wickham Bishops, Wigborough, Wimbish, Witham, Wivenhoe.
Boxes 54-57: Books and pamphlets, Walthamstow.
Box 58: Books and pamphlets, Essex parishes: Woodford, Wormingford, Writtle.
Boxes 59-60: Books and pamphlets, miscellaneous, with only a slender relevance to Essex - marked for 'retention or disposal'
Box 61: Books and pamphlets, London.
Box 62: Books, RCHM London, vols. 1-5
Boxes 63-65: Books and pamphlets, counties other than Essex.
Box 66: Series - Old-Lore Miscellany of Orkney & Shetland etc., Viking Club, 1906-1915, some years more complete than others.
Box 67: Card index in drawer to J B Bennett's Library.
Box 68: Loose alphabetical card index to collection, alphabetical written indexes; loose postcards Essex churches, misc. cards of Colchester; old bookplates mostly related to Essex people.
Box 69: Miscellaneous collection of maps of Essex;
Collection of Sermons preached by: Owen Stockton, Colchester, 1681; W Derham, 1767; Rev. Henry Hunter, 1787; E Radcliff; Rev. John Wight Wickes, 1798; Thomas Ken, 1682; Jeremiah Dyke, 1898
Copies of Acts of Parliament: George III for rebuilding common gaol Chelmsford, 1770; George III Acts, navigation around Chelmsford; Acts, repairing highways Harlow Bush to Woodford, 1723 and 1769; Sales particulars: Danbury palace, 8 Nov 1892; Belhus, Aveley, Catalogue sale of contents, May 1923; Beech Hill Park, auction 18 June 1930; Agr. properties Birch estate and Langenhoe estate, 3 Nov 1917, with plans of farms.
Box 70: Miscellaneous mint prints, postcards, photographs, watercolours, of Essex - particularly Castle Hedingham, Walthamstow, Chingford, Epping Forest, Layer Marney, Beeleigh Abbey.
Collection of Spy prints from Vanity Fair 1870-1895, of statesmen, 'men of the day', relating to Essex
Miscellaneous early maps of Essex
Box 71: not extant.
Box 72: Copies of Frederick Chancellor: 'Ancient Sepulchural Monuments of Essex'; Ellen Wilmott: Warley Garden in Spring and Summer'; framed county maps: photograph, print and watercolour
Box 73: not extant.
Box 74: Miscellaneous loose holiday postcards, out-of-county, England, Scotland, and foreign parts e.g. Egypt & Palestine 1914-18, Switzerland.
Misc. early 20th century OS maps, England;19th century OS map north Wales
Box 75: "Essex Archive": Essex miscellanea, mostly news clippings, arranged by subject.
Box 76: "Essex Archive", Essex parishes: news clippings, illustrations, etc., mounted on paper in clip-files: 'A' (Abberton - Aveley), 'B1' (Baddow - Berechurch), 'B2' (Berden - Bradwell), 'B3' (Braintree - Buttsbury)
Box 77: "Essex Archive", Essex parishes: 'C1' (Canfield - Coggeshall), 'C2' (Creeksea - Corringham), 'D' (Danbury - Dunton), 'E' (Earls Colne - Epping), 'F' (Fairlop - Fryerning)
Box 78: "Essex Archive", Essex parishes: 'G' (Galleywood - Greensted), 'H1' (Hadleigh - Hazeleigh), 'H2' (Hedingham - Horndon), 'I J K' (Ilford - Kirby-le-Soken), 'L' (Laindon - Luxborough Hall)
Box 79: "Essex Archive", Essex parishes: 'M' (Maldon - Mucking), 'N O P Q' (Navestock - Quendon), 'P' ('Pebmarsh - Quendon), 'R St & S' (Radwinter - Sandon)
Box 80: "Essex Archive", Essex parishes: 'S' (Sewardstone - Stratford), 'T1' (Takeley - Tiptree), 'T2' (Tollesbury - Totham), 'U V W1' (Ugley - Wenden)
Box 81: "Essex Archive", Essex parishes: 'W2' (Westcliff-on-Sea - Yeldham), 'Fingringhoe', 'Peldon'.
Box 82: "Colchester Archive": 4 clip files containing news-clippings, postcards, mint prints, and occasionally small pamphlets: 'Buildings'; 'Library, Museum, Local Gov., Marine, Archaeology, Roman'; 'History, Personalities'; 'Hospitals, Highways, Industrial, Inns, Hotels'.
Box 83: "Colchester Archive": 2 clip folders: 'Castle and Churches' [including priory and abbey]; 'Misc, Societies, Countryside and Sport'
3 file for East Mersea, with MS notes on history made by J B Bennett: 1: pre-history, archaeology, place names, list of wills, ERO session records, E Mersea Fort c 1648; 2 & 3: East Mersea church.
Box 84: "East Mersea Archive": 4: church; 5: MS transcripts of registers 1810-1960; 6: incumbents and curates; 7; Buildings (East Hall, North Farm, Rewsalls, Village Hall, Dog & Pheasant, Old Rectory)
Box 85: "East Mersea Archive": 8: Buildings and sales, farms, caravans, youth camp, golf course; 9: Reeves Hall 1 - manorial; 10: Reeves Hall 2; 11: pedigrees, personalities, S Baring Gould; 12: misc.;13: witchcraft, 'memory lane'
Box 86: "East Mersea Archive": 14: news-cuttings re village; 3 files MS transcripts court rolls ERO 1-24; 4th file of transcripts re manor; notes on East Mersea field names; ERO indexes E & W Mersea
Box 87: "West Mersea Archive", files 1-4: 1: bibliog., place names, poll names and censuses, aerial views, post cards; 2: Guides of W Mersea incl. Lexdon and Wins tree hundred; 3 & 4: church
Box 88: "West Mersea Archive", files 5-9: 5: incumbents, priory; 6: MS transcripts church registers, 1631-1734; 7: transcripts manorial incl. courts; 8: buildings - farms; 9: list of historic buildings, sales, planning development, photos
Box 89: "West Mersea Archive", files 10-14: 10: the Strood; 11: Ray Island; 12: marine and fishery; 13: pedigrees, personal names, people; 14: history in general (archeo., Roman, Saxon etc)
Box 90: "West Mersea Archive", files 15-19: 15: geography, sessions; 16: misc. including Maplin Airport; 17: industry, education, sanitation; 18: Local Gov., news reports; 19: parochial news-cuttings, 'Cuttle News' cuttings
Box 91: "West Mersea Archive", files 21-25, NB file 20 was not deposited: 21: news-cuttings, May 1953 - Oct 1969; 22: news-cuttings, Oct 1969 - Dec 1972; 23: news-cuttings, Jan 1973 - Dec 1974; 24: news-cuttings, Dec 1974 - Sep 1976; news-cuttings, Oct 1976 - Dec 1977
Box 92: "West Mersea Archive", files 26-29, and indexes to E & W Mersea: 26: news-cuttings, Jan 1978-Jun 1979; 27: news-cuttings, Jul 1979 - Dec 1980; 28: cuttings 1981 -Jan 1983; 29: Deramy's Stone and Edward the Confessor.
Box 93: "West Mersea Archive", 2 files of clippings.
J B Bennett personal archive, part: Bennett genealogy - clip file and some loose papers; 'Bennett activities' - clip file and personal papers - c 1920-1970; Personal papers - Army and British Red Cross, 1914-18; some loose photos, exercise book and loose nature drawings done by Bennett as a boy, c 1903-1906
Some family correspondence.
Box 94: Mersea Island Parish News, 1968-1984 (incomplete), includes Methodist Church, 1968-1975
Box 95: Short history of the parish churches of East Mersea and West Mersea Essex by J B Bennett; various copies through 10 impressions of publication (22), 1961-1977; MS drafts 1 & 2; correspondence
Box 96: "West Mersea Archive": historical notes, transcripts, copies of documents.
Box 97: 'Essex transcripts' - MS transcripts / notes from docs. Essex history
Box 98: Typescript histories of Chingford and Epping Forest
Box 99: MS historical notes, original documents etc., mostly about Essex and Mersea in particular
Box 100: Press cuttings, old photographs, etc., various places and subjects concerning Essex
Box 101: Copies of Walthamstow Antiquarian Society official publications, annotated by J B Bennett; Misc. Walthamstow plans; Typescript of Rectory Manor and church Walthamstow, 'C H Reaney's MS for VCH' [pub. 1973]
Box 102-110: J B Bennett's personal papers, photographs, some personal belongs such as two cameras, correspondence, mostly relating to membership of various clubs and societies.
Box 111: Maps: Chapman and Andre's map of Essex, 1777 - large scale bound atlas in colour, with pasted at front: map of Essex by Robert Morden,1695; map of Colchester c 1800; map of Moorfields -River Lee canal, c 1780; Bowle's map of Essex, 1785; ERO pub. Ogilby & Morgan's map of Essex, 1678; at back, C Smith's map of Essex (in colour), 1804
Box 112: Maps and plans: OS (New series) maps Mersea Island, 1938; Plans, OS map, etc ancient site excavation, 1963; Annotated OS map Little Wigborough, location of red hills; Architectural plans - alteration to E Mersea village hall; Measured ground plan of Fairways by JBB, c 1960? Coloured photograph of E Mersea map c 1650 with 1921 OS map for comparison. Also: Sales particulars of land in E and W Mersea, 1887; Copies of manorial records, estate maps, etc - Mersea Island; Brass rubbing from E Mersea church.
Box 113: Maps and prints: Misc. sheets OS (New series) maps Essex; Map of Essex by J Cary, 1805; Prints of castles and gates to St Osyth and St John's Abbey, 18th century; prints of brasses and church monuments Essex, Sparrow's map of Colchester, 1767; ERO copy John Oliver's map Essex, 1696; OS 25 inch maps W and E Ham ; Photographs of estate maps, e.g. Jeffersons Chingford.
Box 114-116: Rolled maps, Maldon and West Mersea.
Catalogue Reference:
D/Y 32
Dates of Description:
1681-1983

Accession Boxes for A12773

A12773 Box 1Books on Essex history Order 
A12773 Box 2Books on Essex history Order 
A12773 Box 3Books on Essex history Order 
A12773 Box 4Books and pamphlets on Essex history Order 
A12773 Box 5ERO publications Order 
A12773 Box 6Books on Essex history Order 
A12773 Box 7Books and pamphlets on Essex history Order 
A12773 Box 8Books and pamphlets on Essex history Order 
A12773 Box 9Books and pamphlets on Essex history Order 
A12773 Box 10Books and pamphlets Essex topography Order 
A12773 Box 11Books and pamphlets on Epping Forest Order 
A12773 Box 12Books and pamphlets about Epping Forest and other Essex forests Order 
A12773 Box 13Books and pamphlets on Essex natural history and local history Order 
A12773 Box 14Books and pamphlets on Essex history and topography Order 
A12773 Box 15Books and pamphlets on Essex history and topography Order 
A12773 Box 16Essex Journals Order 
A12773 Box 17Essex Journals Order 
A12773 Box 18Essex Journals Order 
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A12773 Box 27Essex Journals Order 
A12773 Box 28Essex Journals Order 
A12773 Box 29Essex Journals Order 
A12773 Box 30Essex Journals Order 
A12773 Box 31Essex Journals Order 
A12773 Box 32Essex Journals Order 
A12773 Box 33Football handbooks and papers relating to J B Bennet's term as a referee Order 
A12773 Box 34Books and articles on Essex Order 
A12773 Box 35Publications on Essex Order 
A12773 Box 36Essex biography and family history Order 
A12773 Box 37Essex biography and family history Order 
A12773 Box 38Essex literature and poetry Order 
A12773 Box 39Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Ardleigh-Buttsbury) Order 
A12773 Box 40Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Canfield- Coggeshall) Order 
A12773 Box 41Books and pamphlets: Colchester Order 
A12773 Box 42Books and pamphlets: Colchester Order 
A12773 Box 43Books and pamphlets: Colchester Order 
A12773 Box 44Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Earls Colne-Epping) Order 
A12773 Box 45Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Fairstead-Harlow) Order 
A12773 Box 46Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Harwich-Inworth) Order 
A12773 Box 47Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Kelvedon-Mucking) Order 
A12773 Box 48Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Leyton and Rochford Hundred) Order 
A12773 Box 49Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Navestock-Shalford) Order 
A12773 Box 50Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (South Shoebury-Stisted) Order 
A12773 Box 51Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Stock-Upminster) Order 
A12773 Box 52Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Saffron Walden-Waltham Forest) Order 
A12773 Box 53Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Waltham Holy Cross-Wivenhoe) Order 
A12773 Box 54Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Walthamstow) Order 
A12773 Box 55Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Walthamstow) Order 
A12773 Box 56Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Walthamstow) Order 
A12773 Box 57Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Walthamstow) Order 
A12773 Box 58Books and pamphlets: Essex parishes (Woodford-Writtle) Order 
A12773 Box 59Books and Pamphlets, Misc. Order 
A12773 Box 60Books and Pamphlets, Misc. Order 
A12773 Box 61Books and pamphlets: London Order 
A12773 Box 62RCHM volumes for London Order 
A12773 Box 63Books and pamphlets: places outside Essex Order 
A12773 Box 64Books and pamphlets: places outside Essex Order 
A12773 Box 65Books and pamphlets: places outside Essex Order 
A12773 Box 66Old lore: Orkney and Shetland Order 
A12773 Box 67Card index to J B Bennett's library Order 
A12773 Box 68Indexes and postcards Order 
A12773 Box 69Essex maps, sermons and Acts of Parliament Order 
A12773 Box 70Illustrations, Essex Order 
A12773 Box 71Not extant Order 
A12773 Box 72Frederick Chancellor: 'Ancient Sepulchral Monuments of Essex'; Ellen Wilmott: Warley Garden in Spring and Summer'; framed county maps Order 
A12773 Box 73Not extant Order 
A12773 Box 74Postcards and maps, places outside Essex Order 
A12773 Box 75Essex archive: miscellanea Order 
A12773 Box 76Essex archive: Abberton-Buttsbury Order 
A12773 Box 77Essex archive: Canfield-Fryerning Order 
A12773 Box 78Essex archive: Galleywood-Luxborough Hall Order 
A12773 Box 79Essex archive: Maldon-Sandon Order 
A12773 Box 80Essex archive: Sewardstone-Wenden Order 
A12773 Box 81Essex archive: Westcliff-on-Sea - Yeldham, and Fingringhoe and Peldon Order 
A12773 Box 82Colchester archive Order 
A12773 Box 83Colchester archive Order 
A12773 Box 84East Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 85East Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 86East Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 87West Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 88West Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 89West Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 90West Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 91West Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 92West Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 93West Mersea archive and J B Bennett family history and other personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 94Mersea Island parish news Order 
A12773 Box 95History of Parish churches of E and W Mersea Order 
A12773 Box 96West Mersea archive Order 
A12773 Box 97Essex transcripts Order 
A12773 Box 98Typescript histories Chingford and Epping Forest Order 
A12773 Box 99Historical notes on Essex Order 
A12773 Box 100Historical notes on Essex Order 
A12773 Box 101Walthamstow Antiquarian Soc., and MS for VCH Walthamstow Order 
A12773 Box 102J B Bennett personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 103J B Bennett personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 104J B Bennett personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 105J B Bennett personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 106J B Bennett personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 107J B Bennett personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 108J B Bennett personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 109J B Bennett personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 110J B Bennett personal papers Order 
A12773 Box 111Maps of Essex, incl. Chapman & Andre atlas Order 
A12773 Box 112Essex maps, plans, and copies of estate and manorial records Mersea Island Order 
A12773 Box 113Maps and prints Essex Order 
A12773 Box 114Roll 3 of 8: Rolled OS 1st ed. 25" map Maldon Order 
A12773 Box 115Roll 6 of 8: Rolled copy tithe map W Mersea Order 
A12773 Box 116Roll 4 of 8: Rolled OS 1st ed. 6" map W Mersea Order 
A12773 Box 117Books on Essex history - part 2 of original Box 1 Order 
A12773 Box 118Rolls 1, 5, 7 of 8: photocopies of map of Chingford, 1782; East and West Mersea: O.S. sheets and photocopies of documents; photographs of East and West Mersea tithe maps Order 
A12773 Box 119Rolls 2 and 8 of 8: annotated photocopy of Chingford tithe map, 1838; annotated O.S. maps of Mersea Island with footpaths, buildings and sites, 1958 Order