TWO FOREST LODGES. 85
With regard to these two lodges, I incline to think that the one
called The Great Standing may be identified with what we now
know as Queen Elizabeth's Lodge. For it does not appear that
any other considerable lodge ever stood on high ground between the
Roding and the Lea ; and the ancient description tallies sufficiently
well with the structure as we know it. Moreover, supposing that
the very thorough repairs indicated were carried out during the
Queen's reign, that circumstance, even apart from her actual pre-
sence, might conceivably lead to the association of her name with
the building. But, according to Mr. Fisher,2 the Queen, when
hunting in the Forest, did resort thither. Elsewhere3 he notes
that the roof of the lodge appears to be of earlier date than
the reign of Elizabeth—a point in my favour, since the lodge
mentioned in the Commission would seem, from its then condition,
to have been in existence considerably more than thirty years.
Again in the Forest Rolls of Henry Seventh's time,4 in which lists of
the woodwards (some thirty in number) are given, we find one of
these officers in charge of Danherst or Danhurst, and his name is
usually, if not always, found next to that of the woodward of Ching-
ford Hawe, or Halke. And, just about a century later on (1590)
an Attachment Roll3 furnishes a like list. In this, under the
heading "Chincford Walke," we find set down "William Wagner,
2 The Forest of Essex : p. 197. 4 D. of Lanc., Class xxv. F. 17. k.
3 Ibid, p. 94 (Note). 5 B. M. Rot. Harl. CC. 13 (32 Eliz.).