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.