HODDESDON, (Hertfordshire) on the r. Lea, is a great thoroughfare in the N. road, 18 cm. 19 mm. from London, and a hamlet
in the ps. of Amwell and Brocksbourn. It was in the R. of Edward I. the manor of Stephen de Basingburn; and that of Ld.
Parr, afterwards Marquis of Northampton, in the R. of Hen. VIII. who granted it a Mt. on Th. and a Fair on St. Peter s,
for three days. Q. Eliz. granted a grammar-school to be kept here, and incorporated it with privileges. The manor came at
length to Robert Earl of Salisbury, the present Earl's ancestor. Here is a clock-house, the remains of an ancient chapel.
An almsh. was founded here in the R. of Hen. VI. by Rich. Rich, sheriff of London, the ancestor of the Earl of Warwick.