THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
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Priory, with manor and its appurtenances, to Henry Polsted and Alice his wife.
On 20 Sept., 1548, Polsted sold it to Sir Walter Mildmay. His grandson sold it
to Gobert Barrington. Slowly but too surely the various buildings have dis-
appeared, and the land has been ploughed up so as to destroy nearly all traces of
the once powerful settlement. For a sketch of this interesting ruin in 1819, vide
"Excursions in Essex," vol. i, p. 39, plate and p. 136.
Plan of Danbury Camp.
From a survey by Mr. F. C.J. Spurrell (from The Essex Naturalist, vol. iv.).
After a short stay at the remains of the Priory, the members were led up to the
extensive furze-covered common to Danbury. The temperature was too high
to admit of much collecting in this interesting locality, and the natural history