TOTTERIDGE, (Hertfordshire) near Barnet and Whetston, has been adorned with fine seats also of the citizens of London so
long ago as the R. of James I. The Saxons gave it the name from its situation on the ridge of a hill. It anciently bel. to
the See of Ely, till its Bp. passed it away, with the manor of Hatfield, to Q. Eliz. in consideration of 1500 l. a year,
payable out of the exchequer, to the Bps. of that See. The Queen granted it to John Cage, as parcel of the possessions of
the Bpk. of Ely, from whence it came to Peacock, one of whose descendants sold it to Sir Paul Whichcote, who conveyed it
to the late D. of Chandos. Robert Taylor, a baron of the exchequer, erected a fine house here, which being extended for a
debt to the crown, Q. Eliz. sold it to Hugh Stow, one of the prothonotaries of the court of wards, from whom it descended
to the Lds. Colraine. Here was anciently a mon. Its Ch. is served by a curat, put in by the rector of Hatfield, to whom
the tithes are paid; but Totteridge in all other rates is distinct from Hatfield, and pays only to its own Ch. and poor.