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" Many stories of miracles connected with St. Edmund's body are to be 

 read in the chronicles and numerous were the people who flocked to and 

 enriched the shrine and monastery, but in A.D. loio the hordes of Turchil 

 the Dane landed near Ipswich to pillage the fair Saxon country-side, and then 

 dreading lest the priceless relics should fall a prey to the invaders, a monk 

 conveyed them to London (sundry miracles helping him on the way). 



" Peace came to England, and in 1013 the third translation took place, 

 though Alphum, Bishop of London, hotly fought to retain the holy bones in 

 the city. The body of the king was conveyed in solemn procession to Bury St. 

 Edmund's and here our local interest begins, for the monks travelled by an 

 ancient way (now mostly dwindled into bridle- roads and footpaths) which led 

 from the Roding valley here, and hence to Clare and Bury. Here, where St. 

 Edmund's remains rested for some days, pious hands are said to have erected 

 this rude wooden Church ; but personally I think it probable the building was 

 here already, for Greensted was an old-time village on the king's highway 

 when the road through Ongar did not exist and Ongar was but a little 

 settlement on a cross road. As such it remained till Eustace of Boulogne 

 held it under the Conqueror, and Richard de Luci made it his home in the 

 days of Henry IL 



" That however, is another story. Our interest is in the timber nave of 

 this little church, associated as it is with the romantic journey of the remains, 

 of Edmund ; and long may its timber walls stand a lasting memorial of East 

 Anglia's king, martyr and saint." 



The evening was still stormy as the party traversed more pretty meadow- 

 paths to the little station at Blake Hall. 



VISIT TO WALTON -ON -NAZE AND 



F KIN TON, ESSEX. 



Satdrdav, June 7TH, 1902. 



The stormy and unsettled state of the weather during the previous few 

 weeks had rendered it undesirable to hold any meetings, especially on the 

 coast. But on this day a visit was made to the picturesquely situated 

 towns of Walton and Frinton in order to view the fast diminishing exposures 

 of the celebrated Red Crag formation, and to study the rapid denuding action 

 of the weather and sea on the soft clifts of this part of the coast. As the 

 programme said " it would be a startling object-lesson in geology." 



The Club has visited Walton on two previous occasions ; first on 

 September 14th, 1889 (Essex Nat. iii., 230-32) when the late Dr. Taylor was 

 the demonstrator, and again on June 7th, i8go (E. N. iv., 129-32) under the 

 guidance of Mr. Whitaker and Mr. Holmes. In the reports of these meetings 

 much information on the topography and geology will be found. The 

 literature on the geology of the neighbourhood up to the end of 1888 is 

 catalogued in the " List of Works on the Geology of Essex," pp. 61-86 of vol. 

 iii. of the Essex Naturalist. The maps are Geol. Sur. Map 48 S.E. with 

 adjoining part of 48 N.E. and 48 S.E. with accompanying memoirs to these 



