The old Pilgrim way to Bury St Edmunds used for fully five hundred years by pilgrims to the shrine of the Martyr- Knight – Beodericsworth of old - the Bury St Edmunds of our time - passed within a short two miles of Theydon Mount.
The way taken by the monk Ailwin, when he tranlated the body of St Edmund form London back to Bury in AD 1013, passed through Stapleford Abbotts, Greensted, Chipping Ongar, Chelmsford and Braintree on to Clare in Suffolk and hence to the great Abbey where was the Saint's shrine.
Pilgrims would be drawn to visit Theydon Mount to benefit by the Indulgence given by Pope Boniface IX, who in the year AD 1400 granted Relaxation of Penance for three years and 120 days to those who visited Theydon Mount on the several days specified in the grant (Papal Letters vol v. p277).
[Taken from a handwritten note by Sir Robert Hudson]
ERO - D/P 142/28/5