Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-313) and index.
Prologue: a well-trodden field -- Ways of seeing and remembering God's landscape -- In the footsteps of antiquarians: Earls Colne -- Amyce's plot in 1598 -- God's landscape: St. Andrew's Church and beyond -- Death's posthumous hand -- Inhabiting the lord's landscape -- Pews: "may sit to pray" -- The "concession to erect seats" -- Populating the pews: ship money -- Voices from the pews: petitions -- "My body to the earth": burial nominations -- What the dead have to say for themselves -- Perpetual memorials -- What the burial registers have to say about the dead -- Inclusions and exclusions -- Scratched into history -- Remembering, forgetting and claiming the landscape -- Re-membering the priory -- The diabolical in Earls Colne -- From Cross Gate Road to Coggeshall Road -- Quaker's landscape -- Epilogue: signatures in the landscape