TOTTENHAM, (Middlesex) 5 m. N. E. of London, on the W. side of the Lea. r. in the road to Ware. In the R. of Henry VIII.
Geo. Heningham, Esq; one of his particular favourites, founded an almsh. here for 3 poor widows. In the R. of James I. Ld.
Compton had a seat here; as have since the Ld. Colerain, and Sir Hugh Smithson, the present Earl of Northumberland, among
a great number of pretty houses of the citizens and merchants of London, on both sides of the road, almost all the way
thither from Enfield. David K. of Scotland being possessed of this manor, after it had bel. to the Earls of Northumberland
and Chester, gave it to the men. of Trinity in London; but Hen. VIII. granted it to William Ld. Howard of Effingham, who
being afterwards attainted, it reverted to that K. who then granted it to the D. and C. of St. Paul's London, to whom it
still belongs. The Ch. stands on a hill, with a little r. called Mosol at the bottom, to the W. N. and E. The p. is
divided into four wards, viz. 1. Nether-Ward, where stands the parsonage and vicarage. 2. Middle-Ward, comprehending
Marsh-Street and Ch.-End. 3. High-Cross-Ward, containing the hall, the mill, Page-Green, and the High-Cross. 4. Wood-
Green-Ward, comprehending all the rest of the p. and bigger than all the three other wards. At the cross, which was once
much higher, and gave name to the place, Q. Eleanor's corpse was rested, when it was brought from Lincolnshire, where she
died, to London. St. Loy's well in this p. is said to be always brimful, but never runs over; and of Bishop's-well the
people report many strange cures. In the middle of a circular tuft of elms at the end of Page-Green, which are called the
Seven Sisters there stood many years a walnut-tree always flourishing, yet never grew bigger nor taller. There was a very
great wood formerly, of 400 acres, on and about the hill, on the W. side of the p. which is now almost destroyed. Sir
Julius Caesar, descended from the Dalmaris in Italy, whose father was physician to Q. Elizabeth, was born near this
village. Mr. Bedwell, whom K. James I. employed in a new translation of the Bible, was vicar of this p. and has wrote a
large account of it. In 1596, an almsh. for 8 single persons, either men or women, was founded here by one Zancher, a
Spaniard, the first confectioner ever known in this Km. Mr. Phesant, father to the Lady Slany of London, founded another,
for 3 poor people, on the Ch. land, but it was not endowed. Here is a fr. sc. and also a ch. sc. for 22 girls, all
cloathed and taught.