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for members and friends at the ordinary meetings of the Club, from
£7 to £10 would be required per annum. This could not be charged
to the working expenses of the Club, and the object of the fund was to
provide money for what was deemed a very useful and sociable purpose,
by means of voluntary contributions of members and friends.
At the Conversazione, Mr. P. F. Copland exhibited a specimen of the
Green Woodpecker (Picus viridis) from Theydon Mount; Mr. English
a specimen of Conglomerate found in the woods at Goynes Park, Theydon
Garnon; and Mr. Cole a slide showing a portion of the Trachea of a
larva of Tipula oleracea, with a parasitic larva attached thereto ; Mr. Cole
also exhibited his collection of European butterflies.
Monday, March 29TH, 1880.—Field Meeting.*
The first Field Meeting of the Club took place on this day. The
main body of the members and friends assembled at the Loughton Sta-
tion in time for the 11 o'clock train from that place to Ongar, and were
received by the Secretary. On arrival at Ongar the party at once pro-
ceeded to the "King's Head," where luncheon awaited them. Fifty-
three members and friends sat down, the chair being occupied by Mr.
Meldola. A pleasant walk across the fields then soon brought the party
to Greensted, where it was met by Capt. Budworth, of Greensted Hall,
and the Rev. R. M. Rodwell. The curious old church of St. Andrew's
was inspected, and Capt. Budworth gave a highly interesting
address on its history and construction. The body or nave of the
church was entirely built of the trunks of trees (probably
oaks), split or sawn asunder. The church has undergone a good
deal of restoration, and on two separate occasions, the ends
of the trunks of the trees composing its fabric becoming decayed,
have been sawn off and underpinned with oak. This rude and
unpolished building is supposed to have been first erected as a sort of
shrine for the reception of the corpse of Edmund, King of the East
Angles, on its return to Bury (in Suffolk) from London, whither it had
been conveyed to avoid the sacrilege of the Danes, a.d. 1010. A passage
in a Latin MS., cited in the Monasticon, runs thus: "This body was
likewise entertained at Augre, where a wooden chapel erected to his
memory remains to this day." The ancient road from London to Bury
lay through Oldford, Abridge, Stapleford, Greensted, Dunmow, and
Clare. There can be little doubt that the ancient part of Greensted
Church was first a temporary shrine or resting place of St. Edmund,
* In these reports of our field meetings the Editor has endeavoured to present chatty
and gossiping summaries of the proceedings and adventures at these pleasant
reunions, but it must be remembered that the accounts are for friendly and kindly
perusal by the members, and are not intended to be rigorously criticised.