Of the effects of the Peasant Rising and the Lollard movement during the latter half of the 14th century we have no evidence in our own parish, but the beginning of the 15th was turbulent, and our predecessors caught the infection. Some of them took to cutting down the trees and underwood of the Abbot, and then conspired to kill the Abbot and his servants. On the Sunday about St. Bartholomew’s Day, 1410, they broke into the Abbey, insulted the Abbot and Sheriff, and struck the latter. Moreover, they broke down the bridges used by the whole country-side. As is so often and so vexatiously the case, the story can only be imperfectly pieced together from scanty materials, and in this case a quaint Norman-French petition for mercy, with a schedule attached, is our principal authority. It is pleasant to know that the pardon sought was granted. From the number of the rioters and the names of those given, it looks as though the Abbey tenants were dissatisfied with some action on the part of the Abbot, and took, as was not by any means unusual in those days, violent means to express their views and get redress for their grievances. ALIEN IMMIGRATION IN THE 15TH CENTURY. The tax-rolls which helped us in the 14th are defective in the 15th century, and the only detail of interest, such as it is, that one could glean from them was that, in 1442, one Peter, a Frenchman, kept an inn in our village, and, being a foreigner and an innkeeper, had to pay a poll-tax of 8d. every half-year. The trade seems to have been largely in foreign hands, for other foreigners are reported at Theydon, Stapleford, Lambourne, and Fyfield. Foreign servants there were, too, here and at Chigwell, Navestock, and Epping. THE REFORMATION. We now enter on the period of upheaval which marked the 16th century. From the Conquest down to the reign of the eighth Henry the Abbots of Waltham had held quiet possession of Loughton. Twice a year, perhaps oftener, during something like five hundred years, a cavalcade, in the coarse of its progress from manor to manor, had come to Loughton Hall, tenanted by the ‘farmer,’ as he was called—lessee, as we should style him. There the Cellarer, Steward, and Receivers of the Monastery, with their servants and horses, were entertained for two days, while they held the Court of the Manor. At this Court transfers of the copyhold estates were effected; offenders were fined, whether for offences against the manor or the customs of the Forest; small criminal matters and civil disputes were settled: and nuisances were ordered to be abated. It is probable that such a Court held in April, 1539, was the last the Abbots ever held, and, at it, we learn, the question of a pillory and cucking-stool was raised. The latter was a low car on two wheels, for ducking a culprit in pond or river. The instruments were again lacking in 1582.