Dolly MacKinnon - Earls Colnes Early Modern Landscapes

DOLLY MACKINNON
University of Queensland, Australia

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
MacKinnon, Dolly.

Earls Colnes early modern landscapes / by Dolly MacKinnon.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7546-3964-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-3155-7836-1 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-3171-4724-4 (epub)

1. Earls Colne (England) History. 2. Earls Colne (England) Historical geography.

3. Material culture England Earls Colne History. 4. Earls Colne (England) Archival resources. I. Title.

DA690.E1187M33 2014

942.6715dc23

2013042218

ISBN 9780754639640 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315578361 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN 9781317147244 (ebk-ePUB)

(Plates between pages 158 and 159)

1 Arms, in stained glass, in the Chamber over Hall, Colne Priory, by D.K., 1653. Source: Reproduction of Add. 27348 fol. 32 by permission of The British Library Board.

2 Glass Windows in the Hall, Earls Colne Priory, by D.K., 1653. Source: Reproduction of Add. 27348 fol. 33 by permission of The British Library Board.

3 Overview of the Amyce map, 1598.

4 Detail of Colne Priory Manor House partially enclosed by brick walls, and part of Holt Street and the River Colne, from Amyce map, 1598.

5 Detail of Lodge Farm, which is a moated site from the Amyce map, 1598.

6 Detail of Prucknutts Farm and Mitchells Copyhold on Cross Gate Road (by the seventeenth century known as Coggeshall Road) from the Amyce map, 1598.

7 Missal, leaf and sheet with music. Source: Reproduction of D/Dpr553 by courtesy of the Essex Record Office.

8 Richard Harlakendens initials. Authors photo.

All land measurements are listed in acres (a), roods or rod (r) and perches (p).

40 perches = 1 rood (or rod)

40 roods = 1 acre

1 acre = 160 perches

The following symbols are used in this book: feet (), and inches ().

12 inches = 1 foot

3 feet = 1 yard

All monetary amounts are listed in pounds (), shillings (s) and pence (d).

12 pennies = 1 shilling

20 shillings = 1

1 guinea = Usually 21 shillings but also can be 20s. After 1717, fixed at 1 1s.

Dates used throughout this book adhere to the Julian calendar, with each year beginning on 25 March.

Both the printed and electronic versions of this archive are used throughout this book: A. Macfarlane (ed.), Records of an English Village, Earls Colne 14001750 [Microfiche] (Cambridge, 1980) and Earls Colne, Essex: Records of an English Village, 13751854, http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk/earlscolne/. When quoting from either source I have given the details of the holding archive, the individual document number for each item in square brackets, followed by the record series name, and the date. My citations distinguish between the microfiche and website documents: microfiche numbers use a decimal point system, whereas the website documents do not.

Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; acted his peoples parts as he ate; mouthed them as he walked; now cried; now laughed; vacillated between this style and that; now preferred the heroic and pompous; next the plain and simple; now the vales of Tempe; then the fields of Kent or Cornwall; and could not decide whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

I would like to offer my thanks to the following people: Professor Alan Macfarlane and Sarah Harrison for permission to quote from Earls Colne Essex Records of an English Village 13751854 , and to reproduce their photograph of the Quaker Meeting House; Professor Keith Wrightson, for critical advice, insights, direction and ongoing inspiration; Dr Henry French and Professor Richard Hoyle for access to their Earls Colne database; The University of Melbourne, Medieval Latin Reading group (Dr Ann Sadedin, Dr Chris Watson, Dr Roger Scott and Dr Kathleen Hay) for the translations of the medieval Latin inscriptions; Julianna Grigg for creating electronic plans from originals by Ray Osborne; Mr Josef Keith, Friends Meeting House Library, London; Melanie Barber, former Deputy Librarian and Archivist, Lambeth Palace Library; Guildhall Library, City of London Corporation Archives, Dr Williams Library, National Monuments Record Centre housing the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England Library; Essex Record Office staff, especially Janet Smith, former Deputy County Archivist, June Beardsley (now Graham); the Long Melford Historical and Archaeological Society, especially the late Mr Arthur Teece; Brenda and Elphin Watkin; residents of, and families connected with Earls Colne: the Parish families, Pat Thredgill, David Brown, the Reverend Canon A.S.J. Holden, Bunny Slack, Yvonne and Ted Sewell, their son Professor Graham Sewell, and Simon Wood of Bakers of Danbury; the late Frank Strahan, University Archivist, The University of Melbourne Archives; my fellow postgraduates, Patrick Newton, Helen Penrose, Catherine Waterhouse, Craig DAlton, Deb Hull, Peter Sherlock, and to my colleagues, and students (past and present) at The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Melbourne. To Associate Professor Richard Pennell, and the late Associate Professor David Philips and late Professor Trish Crawford, my thanks at a crucial stage in the commissioning process. My great thanks to Kelli Green, Liz Ely, Pam Sharpe, Sarah Ferber, Alex Walsham, Sharyn Pearce, Barbara Pertzel, Di Hall, Amanda Whiting, Jenny Kloester and Jenny Spinks who know the arduous and yet rewarding journeys travelled in the name of research.