Halstead 1863 Whites directory
HALSTEAD is a neat but irregularly built market town, pleasantly situated on both sides of the valley of the small river Colne, and on the high roads from London to Bury St. Edmund’s, and from Colchester to Cambridge ; 61 miles N.E. by N. of Braintree, 8 miles S.W. by S. of Sudbury, 14 miles W.N.W. of Colchester, and 46 miles N.E. of London. Colne Valley and Halstead Railway was opened to Halstead in 1860, and extended to Castle Hedingham in 1861, and to Yeldham in 1862. A new Station was erected here in 1862, and the line is to be extended to Haverhill and Cambridge. The town rises picturesquely on the opposite acclivities of the valley, and has three large silk and crape factories, belonging to S. Courtauld and Co., who employ here about a thousand hands. Many of the women and children of the town and neighbourhood are employed in making straw plat ; and at Greenstead Green is a paper mill. Halstead is in Braintree Polling District, but is the head of a County Court District, and a large Union. Its PARISH extends over 5425 acres of land, including the hamlet of GREENSTEAD GREEN, 2 miles S. by E. of the town; many scattered farm-houses, and some neat mansions bearing different names. It increased its population from 3380 in 1801 to 5710 in 1841, and to 6917 souls in 1861, when there were 3368 in Halstead St. Andrew’s District ; 2890 in Holy Trinity Dirtrict ; 485 in St. James’s District ; and 176 in the Workhouse.
The market is held on Tuesdays, when some business is done in corn by farmers and dealers at the inns ; and here are two fairs for cattle, &c., on May 6th and October 29th. Petty Sessions are held every alternate Tuesday at the Police Station, which was built here in 1850 for the South Division of Hinckford Hundred. Mr. G. W. Harris is clerk to the magistrates, and also registrar of HALSTEAD COUNTY COURT, held monthly for a district comprising all the parishes in Halstead Union, except Ridgwell and Stambourn. Wm. Gurdon, Esq., is the judge, and Mr. G. P. Arden, high bailiff. The Town HALL, On Market hill, was built in 1850, at the cost of about £1800, by a company of shareholders.
The County Court is held in it, and it is used for public meetings, concerts, &c. The town has been much improved during the last 20 years , and now contains many good houses, inns and taverns, and well stocked shops.
The GAS WORKS belong to Rt. E. Greenwood, Esq. , and were commenced in 1835. HALSTEAD LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH was established in 1852, and levies rates for cleansing, paving, draining and lighting the streets; and in 1862 borrowed money for the general sewerage of the town, and for the construction of Water Works. HALSTEAD BURIAL BOARD was instituted in 1855, and has expended about £2750 in providing a CEMETERY for the parish, on the south-east side of the town. This Cemetery comprises about five acres of land, part of which was consecrated in 1856. Mr. G.P. Arden is clerk to both Boards.
A market appears to have been established here in the time of the Saxons, as indicated by the name of Chepping Hill, being anciently given to the original market place. The proprietorship of this market was retained by the Crown till 1215, when it was granted to Abel de St. Martin, who held two knights’ fees in Halstead and Belcamp, under Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. He was indicted by Hugh de Vere for setting up a market at Halstead to the injury of that at Castle Hedingham; but on producing the royal grant, and proving the town’s prescripive rights, the difference was adjusted, Abel a greeing to pay the earl half a mark yearly, and to remove the market from the high road to its ancient station on Chepping-hill, where it remained till the reign of Elizabeth, when it was again fixed in its present situation, near the centre of the town. At Domesday Survey, the parish was held by the Earl of Clare, the Earl of Warren, and Robert Malet, lord of the baronyny ofEye L; and it afterwards passed to the De Hausted, St. Martin, Bourchier, Maldon, Tryon, Blamster, Baddlesmere, Simnell, Gernon, Hipworth, Munchency, and other ancient families, some of whose names are still attached to old houses in the parish. The Earl of Mornington is now lord of the principal manor, called Bois Hall, or Abels ; but a great part of the parish belongs to Mrs. Honywood, B. Harvey, E. Hornor, C. and J. N. and Jas. Brewster, O. S. Onley, and G. D. H. Vaizey, Esqrs.; and a few smaller owners, mostly copyholders, subject to arbitary fines. The principal mansions in the parish are The Howe, Blue Bridge House, Star Stile, and Greenstead Hall, as named with their occupants and owners, in the subjoined Directory. They have tasteful pleasure grounds, and Greenstead Hall is a new mansion, in the old English style.
HALSTEAD PARISH CHURCH (St. Andrew) is a large building of great antiquity, but has undergone many alterations. After being many years in a dilapidated condition, it was restored, in 1851-2, at the cost of about £5000. It has a nave, side aisles, and chancel, with a tower, containing six bells. In the chancel and its aisles, are several handsome mural monuments, and two ancient tombs, each bearing the recumbent effigy of aKnight Templar and Lady,
supposed to have belonged to the Bourchier family of Stansted Hall, one of whom founded a chantry here in 1340, for a master and five priests, pursuant to the will of his grandfather, Robert, Earl of Essex and Lord Chancellor of England. An excellent organ, built by Brindley, of Sheffield, was erected in the church in 1862, at the cost of about £500. A stained glass window in the chancel was inserted by Cardinal Brewster, Esq, in memory of the late Lieut. -Col. Brewster, who commanded the 4th Regiment of the Essex Militia. The college, or chantry house, stood in the centre of the town, and its yearly revenues were valued at £34. 4s. 3d. at the dissolution. The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £17, and in 1831, at £392, is in the patronage of the Bishop of Rochester, and incumbency of the Rev. Chas. Burney, M.A., who has a good residence and about 3A. of glebe. The tithes were commuted in 1838, the vicarial for £470, and the rectorial for £1350 per annum. The latter belong to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s, but are leased to the Sparrow family, of Gosfield. The parish has two new churches, to which ecclesiastical districts were allotted in 1844-5.
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH was erected in 1843-‘4, for the accommodation of the southern part of the town, at a cost of about £5000 ; of which £3000 was given by Mrs. Gee, of Earl’s Colne, and the rest by many smaller contributors. It is an elegant flint and stone structure of early English architecture, and has a spire, which rises to the height of 174 feet. The spire, when nearly completed, in 1844, fell down, and was rebuilt in a more substantial manner.
The benefice is a perpetual curacy, which has been endowed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners with £150 per annum, and is in the patronage of the Bishop of Rochester, and incumbency of the Rev. D. Fraser, M.A., who has a good residence, built in 1855. On Chapel hill, now a populous part of the town, there was an ancient chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, but all traces of it disappeared many years ago.
ST. JAMES’ CHURCH, at Greenstead Green, two miles S. of the town, was built in 1844- 5, for the accommodation of the inhabitants of the southern parts of this extensive parish, at the expense of Mrs. Gee, the pious and benevolent lady who contributed so largely towards the erection of the above-named church. It is a handsome structure, chiefly of flint, and has a tower containing six bells, and crowned by a spire. The interior is fitted upwith open seats, and the windows are enriched with stained glass. The pulpit is of stone, and on its sides are small figures of Christ and the four Evangelists, in niches. The liberal foundress has erected near the church a school, and a neat house for the minister. The benefice is a perpetual curacy, endowed by the foundress with £200 per annum, besides £100 a year for week day services. It is in the patronage of the Bishop of Rochester, and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. T. N. Billopp
CHAPELS.- There are six places of worship in the parish belonging to dissenters, one of which is a new Friends’ Meeting House, in Colchester road. There are two INDEPENDENT CHAPELS in the town-one in Parsonage street, built in 1711, and afterwards enlarged ; and the other in High street, erected in 1833, at the cost of about £2500, and now under the ministry of the Rev. Benj. Johnson. The latter is a neat Gothic fabric, with ahouse for the minister. There is a BAPTIST CHAPEL, in North street, under the ministry of the Rev. Wm. Clements, and a Particular Baptist Chapel in High street, of which the Rev. Samuel Kevan is pastor. An old Friends’ Meeting House, in Factory lane, is now occupied as a ” Free Christian Church,” by a congregation lately formed under the ministry of the Rev. John Robertson.
Halstead Literary and Mechanics’ Institution occupies part of the Town Hall, and has a good reading room and a library of about 1300 volumes. Saml. Courtauld and Co., who employ here in their silk factory about a thousand hands, liberally support Evening Schools, and a Literary Institute and Reading Room, for the instruction and recreation of their workpeople and their children. At Greenstead Green is a commodious Lecture Room, built in 1858, by Mr. Edw. S. Bigg, who has vested it in trust to be used as a school, lecture, and preaching room. A building for the same uses has lately been erected by Edw. Hornor, Esq. , for the use of that part of the parish near his seat, called the Howe.
At Greenstead Green, Mrs. Gee supports a school for training 12 girls as domestic servants. Essex Agricultural Society has a local committee here, and Mr. Robert Hemson is the secretary. Halstead has a Labourers’ Friend andAgricultural Society, a Floral and Horticultural Society ; two penny weekly newspapers, and a Young Men’s Christian Association. Edward Hornor, Esq. , is president of the latter, and also the chief supporter of the ” Town Mission;” and president of Halstead Temperance Society, which has about 200 members.
The Church Lands, &c., comprise 15A, let for £22 ; Bellrope Meadow (3A.); a stable; and a yearly rent of 5s. , in consideration of a few rods of land intermixed with an estate belonging to Mr. Taylor. It is not known how the churchwardens acquired this property. The annual sum of 8s. 7d. , derived from a small sum of 3 per cent. Stock, is applied in repairing the tombs of Messrs. Gurney and Moss. The surplus, if any, to be given to the poor.
In 1573, William Martin left for the foundation of a free school, and the relief of the poor, all his lands and tenements here, called Cooe’s and Shellard’s, now comprising 27A. and 12 cottages. This charity is now managed by the school trustees, together with the following small charities,
viz.:-£50, left by one Weaver ; a yearly rent of 13s. 4d. , left by an unknown donor, out of a field near Crowbridge ; £55. 11s. 6d. derived from the sale of the materials of the Market Cross, in 1816; £100 left by Edmund King, in 1624; £200 given by Mr. Hastler, in 1833 ; and the Polling Wood, which contains 184.3R. 23p. of land, which was cleared in 1811, when a clear profit of about £700 was derived from the sale of timber. The feofees have £1000 three-and-a-halfpercent. Stock, purchased with the savings of income and the above-named legacies.
HALSTEAD FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL was built by Lady Mary Ramsey, who, in 1594, gave the manor of Colne Engaine to the Governors of Christ’s Hospital, in London, on condition that they should visit and repair the said school, and allow £20 per annum to the schoolmaster for the education of 40 free scholars of this parish, or if Halstead could not furnish the number of ” sons of the poorest sort of people,” the foundress directed that the remainder might be selected from any of the parishes within the distance of eight miles. The school house was repaired in 1835-6, at the cost of about £1000. The school room will accomodate 100 boys, and there is a house for the master, with room for a considerable number of boarders. The endowment of the schoolhas been considerably increased since 1595, and a few years ago the Court of Chancery instituted anew scheme for its future management under thirteen trustees. The foundation boys are taught Latin, French, mathematics, and all the usual branches of a thorough English education, and they pay capitation fees of £2 and £3 each per annum, according to age. There are now about 40 scholars, of whom 28 are onthe foundation. The Rev. Robert Geo. Watson, M.A., is the head master. There are NATIONAL SCHOOLS attached to the three churches, and also a BRITISH SCHOOL supported by dissenters.
Other CHARITIES belonging to Halstead are as follow:- The Rev. John Manistre, who died in 1827, directed his executors to purchase as much stock as would realise £80 ayear, and invest the sum with the minister,
churchwardens, and overseers of Halstead, in trust, that the yearly dividends might be applied in weekly distributions of bread to 21 poor parishioners attending church. The stock purchased consists of £2666. 13s. 4d. three per cent. Consols. In 1734, William Poole left two yearly rent charges, viz. , £2 out of the Queen’s Head, and £3 out of Clapfield House, in trust, to be divided yearly among his poor relations, or, in default thereof, among the poor residing near the said houses.
John Tweed, at an unknown date, left a yearly rent-charge of £5. 4s. out of Ridgwell Farm, for a distribution of 4s. worth of bread every other Sunday, among sixteen aged poor parishioners. In 1772, Sarah Tweed gave a yearly rent-charge of 40s. out of a house here, for distribution in bread at Christmas. In 1783, ELIZABETH HOLMES bequeathed to the vicar of Halstead and six other trustees £4000 threepercent. Consolidated Bank Annuities, in trust to apply the dividends yearly as follows, viz.:- £8 for repairing three monuments in the churchyard ; £94 in gifts of £2 each to industrious poor parishioners ; 52s. for a weekly distribution of four three-penny loaves ; 20s. a piece to the trustees for their trouble ; £8 for the expenses of the trustees who go to London to receive the dividends ; and 8s. to the person who distributes the weekly bread. By an order of the Court of Chancery, the yearly income of these charities is apportioned among the three church districts of the parish.
Halstead Savings’ Bank, in November, 1861, had deposits amounting to £23,376. Mr. James Flavell is the actuary. Here are many members of the Essex Provident Society, to which Mr. R. C. Hughes is the local collector, &c. Here are also several Building and Investment Societies, aWorking Men’s Mutual Loan Society, and other provident institutions .
Mr. S. J. Surridge is manager of the Halstead and Essex Permanent Benefit Building Society.
HALSTEAD DIRECTORY.
Those marked 1, are in Box Mill lane ; 2, Chapel hill ; 3, Chapel street; 4, Colchester road; 5, GREENSTEAD GREEN ; 6, High street ; 7, Head street ; 8, Market hill; 9, Mount pleasant, or Mount hill ; 10, Par- sonage street ; 12, Trinity square ; 13, Causeway ; 14, in Bridge street ; 15, in Trinity road ; 16, Sudbury road ; 17, in St. Andrew’s street ; 18, in New street ; 19 , Trinity street ; and 20, in North street.
The POST OFFICE is at Mr. Henry Edward Pashley’s, High street.
Letters received and despatched morning and evening. Money Orders granted and paid. There is a sub-post office at Greenstead Green.
Adams John Thomas, gent.
10 Barnard John, cattle, &c. dealer
Barnard Henry, dyer, Head street
Bell Mrs Ann, High street
Bentley George, surgeon, Head st
5 Billopp Rev. William T. N. incumbent of St. James’
Blenkinsop Rev. William Thomas, Hepworth Hall
6 Brazier John, wire worker
Brewster James, Esq. Ashford Lodge
Brewster Joseph Nunn & Cardinal, Esqrs. Greenstead Hall
7 Bullock William, rope &twine maker
Bunn John, relieving officer and registrar, New street
Burney Rev. Charles, M.A. vicar of Halstead, surrogate, &c. Vicarage
6 Canning Allen Taylor, wine and spirit merchant
20 Cardinall Thomas, currier, &c.
20 Chapman John, town missionary
6 Choat Mrs
7 Fitch Mrs F. C.
Clayton Rev. Lewis, curate (Trinity)
20 Clements Rev. Wm. (Baptist)
7 Collis Benj. & 7 Alcock Wm.shopmen
7 Cook Miss S.
10 Cook Mr Wm.
Courtauld Saml. & Co. silk & crape manufacturers. Halstead Mills,& Braintree,&c.
6 Davey Miss
Dresser John, excise
6 Davison William, mill manager
17 Edwards Richard Sherwood, Esq.
Embley Edw. dealer, High street
6 Filer Walter, furniture broker
Flavell James, secretary to Savings’ Bank, &c.
Fraser Rev. Duncan, M.A. incumbent of Trinity Church
Gee Joseph B. schoolmaster and organist, Trinity School
Gray Chas. Stanton & Son, brewers, maltsters & corn merchants. Trinity st
Greenwood Robert Ellington, bank manager, Sloe House
Haiden Edward, gent. High street
7 Harrington William, currier, &c.
4 Harrington John, sexton
Harvey Bridges, Esq. Blue Bridge House
Harvey Rev. Cs. Musgrave, B.A. curate
Harvey Edm. sec. to Railway Co.
17 Hawke Thomas Banes, farrier, &c.
19 Hitchcock Geo. Rt. stationmaster
Hoddy Benj. sec. to Lit. Institution
Hornor Edward, Esq. The Howe
19 Houghton Rev. Robert Walpole,|
B.A. chaplain to Halstead Union
6 Hughes Rt. C. & Son, booksellers, printers, Berlin wool dealers, &c. Times Office
6 Hughes Robert Columbus, acct.&c.
Hustler William Octavius, union clerk & supt. registrar &c.; h Little Yeldham
Hurry & Potter, paper makers, Greenstead Green
Hurry William ; h Trinity road
7 Jarman Miss
6 King Mrs
6 Johnson Rev. Benjamin (Independent)
6 Johnson James, leather agent
7 Kevan Rev. Samuel (Baptist)
6 Knight William, watchmaker, &c.
6 Knipp William, glove & breeches maker.
Lateward Rev. C. curate
Lee James Hall, clerk, Sudbury rd
Lindsell Alfred William, straw plat dlr.
10 Manning William, rate collector, and surveyor to Board of Health
Mixer Joseph, ironfounder, &c.
6 Morris John, bank manager
Nunn Robert, clerk, Mount pleasant
Pashley Hy. Edw. postmaster, High st
Potter William, paper maker (Hurry & P.) ; h Trinity road
17 Rayner Abm. builder (R. & R.)
15 Robertson Rev.J. (Free Chtn. Church)
Rodick & Bentley, surgeons, High st
Rodick Septimus, surg.; h Trinity rd
7 Runnacles Harcourt, builder
19 Sewell Mrs
6 Sutton Mrs
6 Simmons George, tanner, &c.
Sinclair Duncan, surgeon, High st
8 Smith William, police inspector
6 Spurgeon Robert, leather seller
Sudbury Mr John, Bois Hall
Twose Thomas & Mrs, master and matron, Union Workhouse
6 Tyler Sl. house agent & frame maker
Vaizey Geo. De Horne,Esq.Star Stile
6 Wallis William Sheppard, veterinary surgeon and wool merchant
Warner Mr W. W. Factory lane
6 Watson Rev. Rd. Geo. M.A. head master of Grammar School
Watt R. J. railway manager
6 Wicker Mrs Maria, fishmonger
Woolmer Mrs, Trinity terrace
Yolland Rev. Bartholomew Stephen, curate of Earl’s Colne
ACADEMIES & SCHOOLS.
14 Chaplin Ellen
Kevan Mr
Nott Miss Sus. St. Andrew’s street
British School, George Mathews & Miss Green, Factory lane
Free Grammar School, Rev. Richard George Watson, M.A. High st
Higham Miss
Taylor Misses
National Schools , William John Maytum & Miss Cox, Head street ; and J. B. Gee, Trinity
Union Workhouse, Mr Mackenzie & Sophia Woolnough
ATTORNEYS.
6 Arden George Pinckard (clerk to Board of Health &Burial Board, and high-bailiff of Co. Court )
Cardinall James, High street
Harris George William (registrar of County Court, clerk to Magistrates, &c.) Trinity st
6 Hustler Charles Devereux, High st and Castle Hedingham
Sewell Decimus, St. Andrew’s st
AUCTIONEERS AND ESTATE AGENTS.
Fitch Frederick Chas. Baythorne Grove
Mayhew Joseph, Trinity street
Surridge Samuel Jay, Head street
BANKS.
London & County Joint Stock Bank, Market hill (draw on head office, London) ; Robert E. Greenwood,
Esq. , manager Sparrow, Tufnell, Round & Co. High street (on Barclay and Co.) ; John Morris, manager Savings’ Bank, High street, James Flavell, actuary (open Monday, 12 to 1)
FARMERS.
Arnold George, Burton Crofts
Baldwin Edmund, Froyze Hall
Barnard Joseph, Magpie Hall
Beckwith Edward, Moons Farm
Bentall Thomas, Ward’s Farm, &c
Blomfield Charles, and brick maker, Brick Kiln
Blomfield John & Joseph, Blamsters
Bridge Stephen Ardley, Stansted Hall
Clark Matthew, Burton’s
Clift Joseph, Upper Beatley
Cook William, Lower Beatley
Enson Robert (secretary to Essex Agricultural Soc., Slough House
Evans Jacob, North street
Fairbank Alfred, Letches Green
Gabriel Dakin, Stones Farm
Haiden Edward, jun. Brook street
Houghton James, Dungeons
King Mrs Eliz. M. Trinity street
Knight Samuel, Fitz John’s
Murrells Henry, Burnt House
Nunn Francis, Claverings
Nunn Joseph Fras. Parley Beans
5 Rodick Henry
Skingley Smoothy Charlotte, Bois Hall
Staines Henry, Coneys
Sudbury John, Sudbury road
Vaizey Robert John, White House
Whybrew Samuel, Symnels
Wiffen John, Pitt’s Green
Woolmer John, Gladfen Hall
FIRE AND LIFE OFFICES AND AGENTS.
Agricultural, &c. J. Mayhew
Atlas Fire, Robert Clark
Clerical, Medical, &c. G. P. Arden
East of England, H. Runnacles
Essex & Suffolk, J. & R. Doubleday
Manchester, H. Runnacles
Mercantile, R. E. Greenwood
Phoenix, &c. Paul and Hoddy
Provident and County, J. Mayhew
Reliance, &c. James Cardinall
Royal Exchange, E. H. Bentall
Royal Farmers, Wm. Moye
Royal Fire, &c. Hughes and Son
St. George, Charles D. Hustler
Suffolk, &c. R. E. Greenwood
Sun, S. J. Surridge
INNS AND TAVERNS.
2 Bird-in-Hand, Hannah Fisher
14 Bull, Henry Cressall, carrier
Dog, Joseph Gallifant, North st
19 Essex Arms, Abm. Godward
6 George Hotel, William Moye
10 Griffin, Thomas King (& maltster)
5 Hare & Hounds, Thomas Firmin
20 King’s Arms, Samuel Springett
4 King’s Head, Thomas Patten (& dealer)
Lamb, Robert Curtis, Head street
5 Plough, William Tuck
14 Railway Hotel, James Milnes
7 Rose and Crown, James Crabb
6 Royal Oak, John James Clark
4 Ship, John Sach, High street
6 Three Crowns, William James
9 Three Pigeons, Thomas Coe
18 Victoria Inn, John Cook
6 White Hart Inn, William Moye (and ale, porter, &c. merchant)
10 White Horse, James Prior
BAKERS, &c.
10 Bowyer Laban Charles
7 Candler Henry
6 Clark Rt. confr.
20 Cook Benj.
14 Draper William
12 Evans Joseph
6 Everitt J. C.
10 Goodey Robert
20 Layzell John
6 Lee William
12 Ling Abraham
18 Monk William
20 Musgrove William
10 Newton William
20 Rivers John
20 Sargent Robtert
10 Strutt William
11 Sudbury Rt.
Watkinson William
2 Wicker William
7 Willings F. H.
7 Woolard John
BASKET MAKERS.
17 Archer Eliz.
6 Cooper William
17 Cornell Joseph
20 Cudmore Thomas
BEERHOUSES.
Argent Jas. Tythinghill
7 Breyd John
20 Cook William
9 Evans Joseph
17 Goodey Samuel
2Heavingham Rd
20 King Thomas
9 Moat Joseph
10 Rayner William
14 Sudbury Rt.
5 Taylor Sarah
19 Young Chas.
BLACKSMITHS.
6 Allerton John
14 Bowyer Samuel
5 Firmin Thos.
17 Goodey Samuel
20 Rayner William
Reeve Alfred
5 Tuck William
BOOKSELLERS,
Printers, &c.
6 Carter Alfred, Gazette Office
3 Hughes Rt.C. & Son, Times Office
20 Riddle Robert
7 York Chas. (& binder)
BOOT & SHOEMAKERS.
19 Adkins Ashley
14 Alston Geo.
5 Andrews Edw.
20 Barker Samuel
6 Bentall E. H.
7 Birkin Sus.
20 Davey Alfred
18 Everett Samuel
20 Fenton Jas.
5 Fenton William
6 Firmin George
6 Franklin Abm.
6 Isbern James
6 Gibbons Josiah
20 Nash James
17 Prior William
6 Rayner Samuel
6 Sewell Charles
6 Thompson Rt.
6 ThorogoodJno.
7 Tiffen Joseph W.
19 Wiseman Wtr.
BRICKLAYERS.
2 Bowles Richard.
10 Perry John
4 Rayner & Runnacles
14 Sudbury Robert & Son
14 Sudbury William & George
BUTCHERS. (* PorkButcher.)
6 Allen Thomas
20 Chaplin B. G.
20Evans Jacob 10Evans William
19 Fitch Allen
6 Green Gabriel D.
7 Smith Josiah
CABINET MAKERS.
6 Cooper John 6 Cooper Thos.
6 Oakley William
6Oakley William
6 Spurgeon Jas. Noakes
CARPENTERS and builder.
14 Dunt William
18 Gozzard Jno.
7 King John
10 Perry John & parish clerk
4 Rayner and Runnacles
4 Rayner William
14 Sudbury Robert and Son
CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS .
6 BrownA. Jas.
6 Marlar John, dentist
6 Paul & Hoddy
CHINA, &C. DEALERS.
6 Knight William
17 Wood My. A.
COAL DEALERS. (* at Station.)
*Allen Robert A.
6 Clements E.M.
18 Everitt William
*Moye Thomas
7 Moore Hy. Jno.
*Nice William, agent
Sandford Richard
COOPERS.
20 Dawson Chas.
14 Hawkes Peter
7 Purkiss Isaac
CORN MERCHANTS.
6 Clements E.M.
6 Lee William
7 Moore Hy. Jno.
Sandford Richard
CORN MILLERS.
5 Bigg Edward Sheppard
20 Frost Thomas
Little William
Ray Thos. Langley Mill
14 Ruffle George
GARDENERS, &c.
19 Cook George
6 CookHenry
14 Cook Thomas
10 King Thomas
2 Drury Emma
Fairbank James
16 Sewell Benj.
19 Godward Am.
Whybrew Samuel
20 Last George
7 Root George
Smee Simon
20 Smith Peter
GROCERS, &c.
17 Abbott Joseph Cooper
18 Bell Thomas
6 Blandford Frederick
19 Bridge John
17 Candler Hy.
17 Crisp Charles 6 Doubleday Joseph and Robert
20 Dunt William P.
6 Hall Henry and Butcher Alfred
20 Layzell John
6 Lee William
12 Ling Abm.
20 Musgrove W.
20 Scott James
19 Scott John, & pawnbroker
7 Simmons Jabez
7 Stopes Aylmer
HAIRDRESSERS.
6 Ready Thomas
20 Rowland Ejh.
6 Suttle Josiah
IRONMONGERS .
6 Cornell Frederick
6 Portway Chas.
LINEN DRAPERS.
6 Bentall Ezekiel Henry
19 Bridge John
17 Crisp Charles
6 Doubleday Joseph and Robert
6 Hall & Butcher
MALTSTERS.
Coe Thomas
19 Gray and Son
MARINE STORE DEALERS
20 Riddle Robert
7 Risby John
6 Taylor George
MILLINERS
6 Ebley Sophia
17 Firmin Mrs
6 Garrad Mary
7 Goodey Sarah
6 Hedingham E.
7 Johnson Mrs
7 King Mrs
7 Moss Mrs
6 Oakley Ann
PLUMBERS, GLAZIERS AND PAINTERS.
12 Coates Samuel
7 Goodram Thomas
18 Gaymer William
6 Stollery David
6 Wilder Thomas
SADDLERS, &c.
6 Maskell Abm.
6 Smith William
SHOPKEEPERS.
15 Amey George
Amey William, Tything hill
5 Arnold Sarah
10 Cable Henry
2 Cook Samuel
9 Co-operative Store; W. Scott
10 Davey John
Drury Emma
10 Dunt Hannah
5 Francis Eliz.
6 Gibbons Josh.
20 Maidwell Ts.
15 Newton Abm.
6 Payne Robert
10 Porter James
20 Pudney Sarah
6 Rapley Ellen
7 Snell Maria
6 Spriggs John
STRAW HAT MAKERS
20 Fitch E.
17 Turner Sarah.
TAILORS. (Drapers also.) 6 Argent Edw.
Argent James
6* Hart Josiah
6* Higham Hen. and Son
20 Knight W. & Co
10 Pickett John
6 Ready Thomas and Son
10 Sargent William
6* Tyler Charles
7 Willings John
WHEELWRIGHTS.
17 Goodey Samuel
14 Griggs William & coach builder
10 Rayner William
5 Smith James
WHITESMITHS.
7 Johnson John
20 Rayner William
RAILWAY
Trains several times a day to Colchester, London, Hedingham, &c.; G. R. Hitchcock, station master
CARRIERS to surrounding villages, &c. pass weekly.
Henry Cressall from the Bull Inn to London, Braintree, &c. on Monday