AUTHORITIES.
The following works have been consulted:—
The Victoria County History (Essex); Benton's
Rochford Hundred ; J. W. Burrows' Southend-
on-Sea and District; the County Histories of
Morant, Wright and Salmon ; King's Ecclesiae
Essexiensis ; Newcourt's Repertorium ; Trans-
actions of the Essex Archaeological Society,
Vol. VIII, Part II (N.S.), etc., etc. The account
of the Battle of Benfleet is based on a paper
read before the Southend. Archeological and
Antiquarian Society, October 22nd, 1921.
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