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visitors were received by Alderman Wilson Marriage, who described the 
interesting features and contents of this Tudor building. 
In thanking Alderman Marriage, Mr. Gurney Benham remarked on 
the indebtedness of Colchester to Mr. Marriage for his public spirit in having 
restored and preserved, so carefully and effectively, the Siege House 
premises. Mr. Benham also remarked on the interest of the East Mills, 
observing that the business of which Mr. Marriage was head was almost 
unique in point of antiquity. Some London businesses boasted of being 
established over fifty or a hundred years. The East Mills at Colchester 
had been established over a thousand years and had carried on business 
continuously since Saxon times and possibly even from earlier days. 
Mr. Jarmin also remarked on the historic interest of the mills, which, 
as he observed, had not been overlooked in the Colchester Pageant of 
1909. 
The President thanked Alderman Marriage for his kind reception of 
the party. 
Some considerable interest was manifested by members of the party 
in a small pencil sketch by Constable, of the East Bridge, Colchester, in 
Alderman Marriage's possession. Above the sketch is faintly written in 
pencil: “ East Bridge Colchester July 27 J.C.,” and the back bears an 
endorsement by the present owner, stating that the sketch was originally 
in Miss Isabel Constable's collection and afterwards in that of his brother, 
Edward Burgess Marriage, who sent it to Alderman Marriage in 1912. 
On Monday morning a brief visit was paid to St. Martin’s church, Col¬ 
chester, where Mr. George Rickword, F.R.Hist.S., gave a careful and 
interesting account of the ancient structure. 
At 10 a.m. the party proceeded by char-a-banc to Dedham, where 
they were met by Canon Rendall, Litt.D., of Dedham House. 
The Dedham visit commenced with a description by Canon Rendall 
of the “ Square,” the old market-place at Dedham, its present houses and 
its previous configuration. 
The interesting and ancient bay and say trade weaving factory—- 
now a group of cottages—was next visited and the original design and 
uses of this typical specimen of an early “ factory " were described and 
illustrated by Dr. Rendall in a lucid and interesting manner. 
The party spent a long while examining, under Canon Rendall’s 
guidance, the handsome and in many ways remarkable parish church of 
Dedham. The details of the late Perpendicular architecture of the church 
were described, and the “ Easter Sepulchre ” tomb, often inappropriately 
called “ the founder’s tomb,” was also examined and elucidated. The 
notable sculptured portrait monument of the famous 17th century preacher, 
John Rogers, in the chancel is one of the most interesting objects in Dedham 
Church : 
Here John Rogers waits expecting, 
That which he preached, the Resurrecting. 
Of him Dr. Rendall gave a picturesque account, mentioning how his 
early morning discourses or “ lectures ” in Dedham church from 8 to 9 
a.m. on Tuesdays (the market day), attracted crowded congregations, 
numbering at least 1,200, men arriving there on horseback from Ipswich 
and other towns in the neighbourhood, and even from Cambridge. 
