PARNDON-GREAT, (Essex) bet. Nettleswell and Roydon, had these manors, viz. 1. St, Catherines,which did bel. to Waltham-
Abbey; but was granted by Hen. VIII. to Rich. Heigham, who sold it to And. Finch; from whom it came to John Finch, who
sold it to Tho. Shipton. 2. Jerounds did bel. in the R. of Hen. VIII. to John Hales, a baron of the exchequer; but was
granted by Edw. VI. to the governors of St. Thomas's-Hos. 3. Canons; which manor did bel. to the abbey of Bilegh; but K.
Hen. VIII. granted it to Sir Tho. Darcy, who sold it to John Hanchet; from whom it went by marriage to Edw. Turner, who
sold it to the Farmer's family; but in the last century it was purchased by Sir Josiah Child, Bt. and descended to the E.
of Tilney.