Movember: Miscellaneous moustaches

We hope that you have had a happy Movember, and that you are now in a position to be able to consider how to style your carefully cultivated moustache.

Here is the final instalment of moustache inspiration from the archives, including everything that didn’t fit elsewhere. Remember you can also view inspiration from Essex’s historic sportsmen, firemen the military, and even the Victorian County Council.

Remember, our own ERO chaps are taking part in Movember themselves to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK, and you can find their Just Giving page here.

Movember: Military moustaches

We are taking part in this year’s Movember campaign, which raises money for and awareness of men’s health issues.

Throughout November, we are providing you with daily moustache inspiration from the archives on our Twitter account, with weekly round-ups here on the blog, showing you the photographs which the individual moustaches posted on Twitter were taken from, plus a few extras.

Having looked previously at sportsmen and firemen, this week we turned to the military for your dose of archival moustache inspiration.

Remember, our own ERO chaps are taking part in Movember themselves to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK, and you can find their Just Giving page here.

 

Christmas concert at Ingatestone Hall

 Since 1953, the Essex Record Office has been kindly supported by the Friends of Historic Essex. The Friends are hosting their Christmas concert at Ingatestone Hall at 7pm on Saturday 1st December…

Before the frantic run up to Christmas, spend a relaxing musical evening with the acclaimed male voice quartet SongCycle in the wonderful surroundings of  Ingatestone Hall. There will be a mixture of music ranging from Bach to the Beatles, and Christmas music of all kinds in the second half. 

Festive refreshments will be served in the interval.

Tickets cost £10 each. To book tickets please contact Maureen Scollan on 01376 517863 or mjscollan[at]macace.net.

Alternatively, send a Stamped Addressed Envelope to Maureen Scollan at 22 Abercorn Way, Witham, Cm8 2UF enclosing a cheque for £10 per person may payable to The Friends of Historic Essex.

Please note that parking directly outside Ingatestone Hall is restricted, although Lord Petre will allow cars to drop people with mobility difficulties outside the house, before parking in the car park at the end of the drive. 

Ingatestone Hall, John S Turner

Ingatestone Hall, John S. Turner

 

Names not to call the bailiff

One of our searchers, Tom Johnson, recently spotted this passage in the court book for Maldon from 1457-1543 (D/B 3/1/2) and kindly forwarded us a transcription and a translation.

The passage lists a series of insults not allowed to be used against any of the Borough’s officials – the bailiff, his friends, the wardens, ‘or any other man inside the walls’. Anyone caught using any of these insults was liable to a fine of 6 shillings and 8 pence (this does of course leave open the question of any insults not included on the list).

Maldon court book extract (D/B 3/1/2)

Maldon court book extract (D/B 3/1/2)

[margin: knave] Et compotus est in prima curia ann’ ultima revolut’ quod ex antiqua consuetudinem non licet alicui’ infra Burgum predictum comoranti vocare in violencia aliquem ballivem nec ballivi socij neque aliquem alium hominem infra murum wardemannorum existentem per aliquod tle? agnomen agnominorum vel terminorum sequ’ videlicet Thyff . nec. horesson . ffals. nec foresworn . cokewold . nec knave Bakbyter nec Baude. Ad eius pub[li]cani rep[ro]bacionem nisi in fore iudic’ iucdicialit’ act’ casu’ cogente neque p[ro]ditorem nisi ad opus domini regis hos iudilate p[ro]bauit’ sub pena forum ad opus burgi predicti tenens quotiens contigat vjs viij d quod p[re]ceptum est de incepis firmit’ custodir’ 

And it is computed in the first court of the year last past that from ancient custom it is not allowed to anyone coming within the borough aforesaid to say violently to any bailiff, or bailiff’s friends, or any other man inside the walls, or of the wardmen there living by any means[?], the names or [lit.] endings following, that is to say, thief, nor whoreson, false, nor forsworn, cuckold, nor knave, backbiter, nor bawd [pimp], to their public reprobation neither in judicial fora, acts, cases (nor [even] traitors, unless to the use of the lord king, these [words] judicially licensed) under the pain of the court, to the use of the borough aforesaid, as often as it [the court] is held, being 6 shillings 8 pence [half a mark]. This is made at the beginning [of the court], firmly guarded.

Movember: Firemen’s moustaches

We are taking part in this year’s Movember campaign, which raises money for and awareness of men’s health issues.

Throughout November, we are providing you with daily moustache inspiration from the archives on our Twitter account, with weekly round-ups here on the blog, showing you the photographs which the individual moustaches posted on Twitter were taken from, plus a few extras.

This week’s theme was firemen’s moustaches, and Essex’s historic firemen sport some fine examples.

Remember, our own ERO chaps are taking part in Movember themselves to raise money for Prostate CancerUK, and you can find their Just Giving page here. They’re all doing really well (although the blonde ones have been bemoaning their disadvantage).

Next week, we are taking our inspiration from the military photographs in our collections.

 

Mary Rooke of Langham Hall

We thought we’d take a little break from historic moustaches today to have a look at some more historic recipes.

Our next recipe book from the archives belonged to Mary Rooke, nee Marriott (D/DU 818/1). Mary was the daughter of Joshua Marriott and his wife Mary Edge. Joshua was a Manchester entrepreneur involved in the cloth industry, and Mary married in Manchester in 1774 to Captain George Rooke.

She began keeping her recipe book in 1770 before her marriage, when she was living in Ardwick House in Lancashire. At some point before 1777, Mary and George took up residency at Langham Hall in north east Essex.

As with the other recipe books we have looked at so far, this one contains a mixture of culinary and medicinal recipes, carefully entered and indexed. The book is mostly in Mary’s hand, although the indexes were largely entered by a second hand. The second hand must have belonged to an assistant of some kind, as Mary has gone back and corrected some of its work; she has commented on the second hand’s instructions for ‘Marseilles vinegar against the plague’ that they were a ‘disgrace to the person who began & left the receipt in such an unfinished state’.

You can view images of the whole of Mary’s book on Seax here, but we have picked out a few of our favourites to share with you, including Langham Biscuits, named after her home.

Lemon Cake (image 10)

Take fiveteen eggs leave out half the whites ten ounces of sugar beat and sifted whisk the eggs sugar and the rinds of two lemons grated half a pound of rice flour for half an hour butter your mug that it is bak’d in put it into a quick oven half an hour will bake it dozen bitter almonds will add to the cake.

 

Waffles (image 10)

D/DU 818/1 image 10 waffles

 

 

 

 

 

A pint of new milk half a pound of fresh butter four eggs a little mace or nutmeg a spoonful of brandy & as much flour as will make it as thick as a pancake make your tongs  hot fill them & turn them quick make your sauce of melted butter wine & sugar 

 

A Rice Pudding (image 13)

D/DU 818/1 image 13 rice pudding

Two ounces of ground rice a pint of cream set ‘em over the fire when it’s thick add half a pound of butter five eggs a quarter of a pint of sack sugar to your taste then put it on a dish with a pastry round it & bake it add to it a quarter of a pound of blanch’d almonds

 

Langham Biscuits (image 16)

D/DU 818/1 image 16 Langham biscuits

 

 

 

 

A pound of flour two ounces of butter a few carraway seeds knead it with warm milk roll it into thin cakes bake them two ounces of sugar

Movember: Sporting moustaches

As we explained last week, we are taking part in this year’s Movember campaign, which raises money for and awareness of men’s health issues.

Throughout November, we are providing you with daily moustache inspiration from the archives on our Twitter account, with weekly round-ups here on the blog, showing you the photographs which the individual moustaches posted on Twitter were taken from, plus a few extras.

Our theme for this first week was sporting moustaches, with some fine contributions from cricketers, footballers, cyclists and swimmers of Essex past. Here is a round up of all of the images we posted on Twitter this week, along with a few extra bonuses.

Remember, our own ERO chaps are taking part in Movember themselves to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK, and you can find their Just Giving page here.

This week’s tweets will be fine examples of moustaches from Essex’s early twentieth century firemen.

 

 

Movember inspiration from the ERO

Are you taking part in this year’s Movember campaign? 

The campaign takes place each November, with men across the county and around the world beginning the month clean-shaven, and growing moustaches over the course of the month to spark conversation about and raise awareness of men’s health issues.

If you are taking part, or know someone who is, then we are here to provide inspiration from the archives. We have been working hard to dig out the very best of our images of men with moustaches, and will be posting them daily on our Twitter profile (@essexarchive), with weekly round-ups here on the blog.

Here are just a few of our favourites to set the scene, from a photograph taken of Essex County Council in 1892, which displays a dazzling array of moustache options.

All extracts are taken from I/Sp 15/343B, from the Fred Spalding Collection. We are breaking the rules here a little by including a few beards as well as moustaches, but they are just too spectacular not to include.

Follow us on Twitter (@essexarchive) and look out for blog posts every Friday for more inspiration from the archives. Our very own chaps at the ERO are going to be taking part themselves to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK, and we will be tracking their progress over the course of the month, as they nobly look like idiots for a good cause. Some of them have not been seen without beards for many years, so shaving them off in the first place is going to be a sacrifice in itself! You can find their Just Giving page here.