PITSEY, (Essex) is on the E. side of Vange-Hall, near North-Benfleet, and gives name to a creek of the Thames. Henry VIII.
granted it to Thomas Ld. Cromwell; on whose attainder it falling again to the crown, Q. Eliz. granted it to Thomas D. of
Norfolk; by whose attainder also it fell to Philip E. of Arundel, his eldest son by a former wife, who conveyed it to
Roger Townshend and Edw. Cook, Esqs; Sir Edw. Cook held it in the R. of Ja. I. and it was afterwards Sir Sam. Moyer's,
whose pious lady, the sister of Sir Will. Jolliff, founded the lecture which has made her name famous; and the present
possessor is Benj. Moyer.