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at Shelton in his eighty-first year and was buried in the church¬ 
yard there. It is gratifying to know that his last years were 
not passed in such miserable circumstances as I had supposed. 
His wife died two years after him. 
NOTICES OF TWO NEW ESSEX BOOKS. 
Ye Olde Village of Hornchurch, being an illustrated Historical 
Handbook of the Village and Parish, by Charles Thomas 
Perfect. Colchester : Benham and Co., Ltd., 1917 ; vi. 
+ 154 pp., crown 8vo. 
Mr. Charles T. Perfect, of Weylands, Hornchurch, has 
spent some years in collecting material for a History of the 
parish ; but, the production of such a work being impossible 
in present conditions, he has wisely decided to bring out this 
smaller work. The use of the old-fashioned “ Ye ” in the title 
is a pointless affectation which the reader might well have been 
spared; but the book as a whole deserves all praise. 
The most notable feature of the book is, perhaps, its illustra¬ 
tions, which are numerous and excellent, representing practi¬ 
cally all the ancient houses and other features of interest in 
the village. The letterpress is, moreover, quite adequate for 
its purpose, describing the ancient manors and their owners, 
the church, the larger residences, the old cottages, the chief 
industries, the local institutions, and so forth, together with 
the history of all of these. The most interesting of the old 
industries are the pottery, which seems to have been carried 
on for a couple of centuries at least, though now extinct, and 
the iron-founding business, carried on by the Messrs. \Yedlake 
from the year 1784 to the present day. 
The interest of the book is, however, mainly, archaeological, 
and this fact precludes extensive notice in a journal devoted to 
Natural Science. 
Birds of Epping Forest. — The London Natural History 
Society has reprinted from its Transactions for 1916 (pp. 90- 
-97), the Annual Report of its Ornithological Committee on 
the Birds observed in Epping Forest during the year. The 
Report records no great rarities, but it consists of a careful 
and very detailed list of observations, arranged in diary form. 
