WALTHAMSTOW, (Essex) on the Lea r. contiguous to Layton. Here are 3 manors, viz. 1. Walthamstow-Tony, or High-Hall, of
which Sir Will. Maynard is the Ld. and has a fine seat here. 2. Walthamstow-Frances, or Low-Hall, which was the manor of
the late J. Conyers, and 3. the manor of the rectory, which bel. once to Trinity-Abbey, London; but was sold at the Diss.
and came at length to Rich. Cooper, who gave it to his sister, who left it by will, in 1708, to -Fanshaw of Comb in
Somerset. Sir Geo. Monox, Ld.-mayor of London, not only repaired the Ch. 1 Hen. VIII. but built an asle in it, still
called by his name, founded a fr. sc. and almsh. here for 8 men and 5 women, and made a timber-causey over the marshes to
Lockbridge, in the way to London. But the greatest benefactor of all to this p. was Mr. Hen. Maynard, a merchant of
London, ancestor to Sir William abovementioned, who by will left 1100 l. for a purchace of land, to be settled on the
minister, the school-master, for repairs of the Ch. and sc. on the poor, and for pensions to the Ch.-wardens, &c.