The annexed lists of passengers to New England show the names of several of the Nazing Pilgrims.

OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.

A booke of Entrie for passengers by the Comission, and Souldiers according to the Statute, passing beyond the seas, begun at Christmas 1631, and ending at Christmas 1632.

eodem vii°. Marcii 1631.

The names of such men as are to be transported to New England to be resident there uppon a Plantacon have tendred and taken the oath of allegeance according to the Statute, viz. :

The names of such men women and children which are to passe to New England to be resident there uppon a Plantacon have tendred and taken the oath of allegeance according to ye Statute.

The names of such men transported to New England to the Plantacon there per Cert. from Capten Mason have tendred and taken the oath of allegeance

according to the Statute.

William Wadsworth
John Tallcott

Joseph Roberts

John Coxsall

John Watson

Robert Shelley

Willm Heath

Nic' Clark

Richard Allis

Daniell Bremer or Brewer Edward Erllmer

Husbandman dwelge in Auckstrey in (Edmond Weaver 28 yers & his wife

Margarett, aged 30 yers.

herefordsher Theis vnder written names are to be transported to New-England imbarqued in y Hopewell M Wm. Bundick. the Pties have brought Certificate from the Minister & Justice of Peace, that they are no Subsedy Men. they have taken the oath of alleg : & Supremacie.

* Supposed to be the Rev. Thomas James, of Charlestown.

†This should be Edward Winslow, afterwards Governor of Plymouth.

I Mr. Savage believes the above came in the ship Lion.

Theis vnder-written names are to be transported to New England imbarqued in the Hopewell Tho: Babb, M'P Cert from the Ministers & Justices of their conformitie in Religion to of Church of England: & y' they are no Subsedy Men. they havetaken y oaths of Alleg : & Suprem.

* The Morrises were early residents of Waltham Abbey and Nazing.

↑ Stansted Abbots, near the old Rye House, Hoddesdon, Co. Herts, and Roydon, Co. Essex. Sir Nicholas Raynton resided at his country seat, Forty Hall [Forty Hill], Enfield, which is described (1656) as the "mansion house of Enfield."

NOTES ON THE NONCONFORMISTS OF NAZING.

The spirit of Evangelical Nonconformity began to show itself very early in Nazing, and especially so in the days of Joseph Browne, the once worthy vicar of Nazing. Whether Joseph Browne was one of the principal promoters of Nonconformity in Nazing, after his ejection in 1662, is not easy to determine. His name, however, together with that of his wife, occurs on the list of dissenting Christians who were excommunicated in February, 1663-4, at the archdeacon's visitation, for not coming to the parish church to worship. The following list of Nazing Nonconformists suffered with Mr. J. Browne and his wife, viz. :-Ingold (his Christian name is not given; it was no doubt John, who appears on the list of tenants in 1637-8) John Shelley, Thomas Shelley, and his sons, William North, and Dorothy, his wife. The two latter were married at Waltham Abbey in December, 1654, with special licence, by the Justice of the Peace, Henry Wollaston, as many others were from 1653 to 1657. Ambrose and Johanna Chandler. The name of Chandler occurs several times in the Nazing Parish Registers. The earliest appears to be Mary Chandler, baptized April 28, 1596, and John, baptized January 1, 1597-8. The children of Ambrose and Joan were Ambrose (born December 7, 1658); John (born December 7). Martha, Ambrose, and John, were baptized January 12, 1660. William, sone of Ambrose Chandler and Joan, his wife, was baptized July 16, 1663. There was an Ambrose Chandler born about 1673, who married Alice and died in 1757, and his wife died the following year, aged 70. They were both buried on the south side of Nazing churchyard. A moss-grown slab of stone marks the spot. Above the annexed inscription is represented death's head, cross-bones, shovel, pickaxe, scythe, and hour-glass :— Lyeth ye body of Ambrose Chandler, who deceased yo 13 day of July, in ye 84th year of his age, 1757.

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Joan Chandler, wife of the first Ambrose, was buried December 13, 1687.

John Pegrum.-This name occurs very early in the Parish Registers of Nazing, and a great many of his descendants are still living in the same old village. John Ruggles, his wife and son, most probably relatives of those that went to New England. Samuel and Mary Adams, Thomas Payston, Sarah Thresher, Jo. Foster, Nicholas and Mary Goodgrave, Samuel Peacocke, Robert Hockley. This last-named person married Susan Grosby, October 25, 1660, and had issue Mary, baptized November 10, 1661; Anne, September 17, 1670; James, July 27, 1684. There was a William Hockley, brother to Robert, who had a daughter Sarah, baptized February 20, 1668. Edward Daniel, John Read, John Augar, Thomas Bezill, William Hubbins, Robert Hawdon, probably brother of George Hawdon, who was inducted to the vicarage of Nazing, November 8, 1662, on the ejectment of Joseph Browne, and died September 24, 1682. The above list of persons, being cut off from the unity of the Church, were considered by the "multitude of the faithful" as heathens and publicans; and the churchwardens or questmen for the time being were empowered to keep all persons so excommunicated out of the church. Notwithstanding the strict measures of the archdeacons and churchwardens, nonconformity had taken deep hold in Nazing by this time, and was not to be easily crushed. Later on, in the 17th century, the Baptists put in an appearance, but they did not make a stand for any very great length of time. 30, 1697, the house of Robert Pirley, at registered in the Bishops Court, by Joseph Landy, as a Baptist place of worship, and on February 15, 1701-2, the house of James Person at Nazing, was registered in the same manner by Christopher Carlisle, as a Presbyterian meeting house. And still later, on July 7, 1797, the house of James Ford, at Nazing, was registered by Isaac Nicholson, late president of Cheshunt College, and was probably supplied on Lord's-day by students of this college. In 1816 a small chapel was erected in Middle Street, Nazing, by voluntary contributions, and vested in the trustees of Lady

On October Nazing, was

Huntingdon's College, Cheshunt. The annual report of the college for the year 1819 specifies that, "in the year 1816 a chapel was erected at Nazing, which continues to be supplied by the students of the said college." The report also adds that "during the twenty-seven years (prior to the building of the chapel) this institution has been at Cheshunt, many, very many, precious immortal souls have had cause to bless the Lord for its establishment." This building stood from the year 1816 to 1876, when it was pulled down, and a more substantial edifice erected on the same site; the memorial stone was laid by the Rev. H. R. Reynolds, D.D., president of Cheshunt College, June 30, 1876. It is not certain whether Joseph Browne espoused the Baptist cause after his ejecttion from the Established Church. While, however, he was preaching at Nazing, Mr. Woodward, another ejected minister founded a Baptist cause at Harlow, and built a chapel at Parndon, near Nazing, where he officiated in 1688. The pulpit at Harlow, after the death of Woodward, was occupied by Thomas Chalkley, probably related to the Waltham Abbey family. Edward Chalkley, of Nazing, and Elizabeth Kemp, of Roydon, were married at Waltham by Justice Wollaston, May 16, 1657. Thomas Chalkley, it appears, lived at Nazing, and was a man of considerable estate. He married the daughter of Thomas Hawkes, a lineal descendant of Thomas Hawkes, the martyr of Coggeshall. Chalkley opened a room at Nazing for the worship of God, which may have been the room registered by Joseph Landy. He was minister of the chapel at Harlow for forty years, and died and was buried there in 1750. Thomas Horsnell, who had assisted Chalkley, supplied the Nazing pulpit for a short time, after which the church broke up.

The Anti-Royalists of Nazing were probably very strong, as the annexed note will serve to prove. When Charles I. was urging the forced loan in 1627, the following were returned as defaulters from Nazing:-William Scott, gentleman, Thomas Santrye, gentleman, William Shelley, Edward Adams, and William Brazier. During the Commonwealth,