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the 4th, 1555, for his attachment to the Reformed Eeligion. At the stake 

 pardon was offered him if he would recant ; but he heroically refused, and 

 history told them, " The lire was put under him, and when it had taken 

 hold of both his legs and shoulders, he as feeling no smart washt his 

 hands in the flame, as tho' it had been in cold water, and after hfting up 

 his hands to Heaven, not removing the same until such time as the 

 devouring fire had consumed them, most mildly this happy martyr 

 yielded up his spmt into the hands of his heavenly Father." As another 

 illustration of church history in Chigwell, they might remember Dr. 

 Emmanuel Utie as Rector. The living was sequestered by order of 

 Parliament, on the 12th of July, 16-i3, the charge against him being for 

 that he hath affirmed "that there hath beene no true religion in England 

 these forty years, and that he loved the Pope with all his heart," and 

 "that if the devil himself would have holy orders put upon him, he 

 would be inspired of the Holy Ghost, &c." ]Mr. Unwin regretted that he 

 could find but little record of the ladies in Chigwell ; one, however, he 

 could not forget, viz., Mrs. Joan Simpson (a lady who took in washing, 

 he was told) ; in 1357 she left funds in Chigwell, the proceeds of which 

 were to be apphed to keeping up the footpath from Abridge to Winn 

 Bridge, Snakes Lane ; to this lady, those who have to tramp that road 

 must be ever grateful. 



]Mi\ Unwin said he had told the story of Chigwell, as far as he had 

 time to make research and jot down what he could learn. He thought 

 that for a rural \illage it might stand by any other in the county, at least 

 for interesting associations. In a few sentences at the close of his paper Mr. 

 Unwin referred to some resemblances betAveen the names of the characters 

 in ' Barnaby Eudge ' and existing names in Chigwell ; and pointed out 

 that the King's Head at Chigwell was really Dickens's "Maypole," the 

 name being transferred by him from the Inn at Chigwell Row. Opposite 

 the latter Inn there used to stand a post, as to the nature of wliich Mr. 

 Unwin stated that he had once made inquuy of a labourer, who at once 

 asserted it to be a maypole. " I did not deny it," said Mr. Unwin, "but I 

 doubted it " : and he proceeded to say that it was certainly not a maypole, 

 but a whipping-post, or part of a pillory. It had since been moved, but 

 he did not loiow by whom. The assertion that Queen Elizabeth slept at 

 the " King's Head " — in the oak-panelled room, the " Chester room " — Mr. 

 Unwin deemed at least probable. The house was built in the time of 

 Henry the Eighth, and as they knew that Queen Elizabeth had hunting- 

 lodges in the neighbourhood he considered it very likely that, if she had 

 not slept she had at any rate paused there to taste the ale or the sack. 

 It was also added that the earhest date in the existing register of the 

 church is 1555. 



Mr. A. Lister, F.L.S., and the President having thanked the author for 

 his interesting paper, a short walk across the fields (still somewhat damp 

 from the recent rains) led the members of the party to Oakhurst, where 

 they were warmly welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. A large collection 



