14 Council Reports Also visible on the pillar is an old oven door, possible a bread oven, rescued from the site. More than that however, Tubswick itself could be commemorated in equal measure. Tubswick is mentioned as a farm as far back as 1296, taking its name from Richard Tubbe, Bailiff of Colchester 1296-7, who had crops and stock worth £6, 16s.8d. In 1348 a Joseph Elianmore bestowed a messuage, (a dwelling house with outbuildings and land assigned to its use), in Mile End called Tubbeswick, along with 18 acres of arable land and two of woodland, on the Church of St Mary-at-the Walls. This was to provide a chantry, (an endowment for the chanting of masses for the soul of the founder of a chapel, an alter or other part of a church), in the Chapel of St Thomas the Martyr. This was part of a large endowment to support two chaplains to pray daily for his good estate whilst he was alive, and for his soul after decease. On the Chantry’s dissolution in 1548, Tubswick was passed to the corporation of Colchester. Cllr Pete Hewitt [This article is based on Daniel Defoe: the Colchester Connection by Philip Crummy from the Colchester Archaeological Trust with his kind permission.] Entrance to Tubswick Mews
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