HORNCHURCH, (Essex) near Rumford, is a very large p. in Havering liberty, containing 7 wards. It was formerly called Horn-
Monastery, because a huge pair of leaden horns are fastened to the E. end of it, which, according to tradition, were
placed there by a certain K. who disliking its former name, Hore-Church, so called because it was built by a whore, to
attone for her ains, made this light exchange, and set up the horns. Horn-Church-Hall, a considerable manor in this T.
bel. to Trinity-Abbey at Caen in Normandy, but was afterwards settled by William of Wickham Bp of Winchester on New Coll.
Oxford.