SHORTGRAVE, (Essex) 2 m. from Saffron-Walden, bel. formerly to St. Barthelomew's-Priory, London, and to the p. of Newport.
The hall was built, in 1684, on an eminence going from Newport to Cambridge, by Giles Dent, who died in 1711. It was
afterwards sold to the E. of Thomond (the same that married a daughter of the old D. of Somerset) who has augmented and
improved the seat very much.