PAGLESHAM, (Essex) on the E. side of the Stambridge, is separated by a creek from Wallesea, or Walfleet-Island, part of
which is in its p. One part of this p. bel. anciently to the mon. of Prittlewell. Another part was held, in the R. of Hen.
VI. of James E. of Wiltshire, by a family of its own name; from whence it went to those of Ormond, Bullen, Gary and
Stafford, and then to Rich; in whose family it continued, till the co-heiresses sold it to Sir Francis St. John.