WYMONDLEY (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred of BROADWATER, county of HERTFORD, 2 miles (S. B. by B.) from Hitchin, containing 227 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon, and diocese of Lincoln, and in the patronage of S. H. U. Heathcote, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is covered with lead, and contains, among other sepulchral memorials, some very ancient gravestones. A priory of Black canons, in honour of St. Lawrence, was founded here, in the time of Henry IIL, by Richard Argentein, which at the dissolution had a revenue of £37. 10. 6. There are no remains of the building; its site is marked by some avenues of stately box trees, and there is an ancient well, to the water of which tradition ascribes considerable efficacy. In the village is a college for educating Protestant dissenting ministers, founded in 1729, by W. Coward, Esq., with a chapel attached. This establishment originated at Northampton, and the celebrated Dr. Doddridge was its first theological professor. It possesses a valuable library of nearly ten thousand volumes, and an extensive and complete philosophical apparatus. There are two professorships, one including the theological, philosophical, and mathematical departments; the other every branch of classical literature.