PRITTLEWELL, (Essex) on the S. side of Rochford, is a p. contiguous to Leigh, and extends to the Thames; so called from
its spring, the best in Rochford H. which formerly served its priory (a cell to the abbey of Lewes) as it still does
several fish-ponds. The site of its priory, together with the manor, was granted at the Diss. to Sir Tho. Audley, who
conveyed it to Robert Ld. Chancellor Rich; in whose posterity it continued, till it was purchased by Mr. Scrafton of
Billericay, who left it to his nephew of Bromfield, the present possessor. In a mill here Sir John Holland, D. of Exeter,
was taken in the R. of Hen. IV. and beheaded at Pleshy. It has Fairs April 24 and June 24.