6 APRIL 1929, Page 18

ESSEX AND EAST ANGLIA

I am pleased to see your appreciation of E. Vaughan's Essex Village, but must once more enter my protest against calling us part of East Anglia. It is a great historical inaccuracy. The Kingdom of East Anglia comprised Norfolk and Suffolk, with small other portions on the West. Essex under the Saxon heptarchy was quite distinct—a Kingdom of its own. This error should not be perpetuated in a paper