HENINGHAM-SIBLE, (Essex) a little to the S. W. of the former, on the other side of the Coln, was the birth-place of Sir John Hawkwood, who, though the son of a tanner here, and apprenticed to a taylor in London, being pressed into the service of K. Edw. III. signalized himself so well in that K's. war with France, that he made him a captain, and knighted him; and offering his service afterwards to the States of Florence, he therein acquitted himself so bravely, that Galeazo D. of Milan gave him his daughter in marriage, and he was afterwards buried in the cathedral of Florence, where his memory was honoured by that republic with his statue on horse-back, and a stately tomb. The people of Heningham also erected a cenotaph for him in this Ch. which is arched over, and has hawks carved upon it as if they were flying in a wood, alluding thereby to his name; and the manor he had in this p. is still called Hawkwood's, though it was not very long since that of Hen. Somers, Esq; of Braintree.