The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

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The English Ancestry of
this estate had been somewhat increased. It " had all tythes
except corn, hay and wood." The parsonage with its thir-
teen acres of glebe is near the Church. The Parish is now
in the Diocese of St. Alban's (Province of Canterbury), the
Archdeaconry of Colchester, and the Deanery of Ardleigh
and Harwich, and the Vicar in 1895 was the Rev. Wm.
Hugh Wood, M. A.
St. Osyth (or 'T Oosey as the people called her) to whom
the Abbey was dedicated, was the daughter of a Mercian
Prince, and martyred by the Danes ; her story is given in an
old tract, " Purgatory proved by Miracles." * Local tradition
preserves the tale that once a year she revisits the spring
in "Nun's Wood," which bursts forth out of the earth on
the spot where her head fell to the ground when she was
martyred, and on the anniversary of that event, as we are
told, she appears there, holding her head in her hands !
Newcourt gives the names of the Vicars of the Parish
Church, which in his time was in the Archdeaconry of Col-
chester and the Deanery of Tendring Hundred, then, in
the Diocese of London. In the days of Kemp, Archbishop
of Canterbury, a little before the time of the earliest of our
name known to have lived at Ramsey, Hugh Bennett was in
charge, having taken it 10 October, 1458 ; the succession of
Clergy from that time is as follows: — Will. Hervy, from 25
October, 1459; Richard Smyth, 12 September, 1460; John
Horton, 24 June, 146 1 ; William Northale, 2 April, 1488.
Bishop Hill appointed Ralph Bride, 30 September, 1499
* Printed in Wright's " History of Essex," II : p. 773.
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