WENNINGTON, (Essex) joins to Rainham, and is opposite to Erith on the Kentish shore. It bel. before the Conquest to
Westminster-Abbey. The Earl of Oxford held it in the R. of Q. Eliz. whose successor, Edward de Vere, called Spendthrift,
sold it to Sir Will. Ayloff, Bt. whose son, Sir Benjamin, also sold it; and it is now, or was very lately, the reverend
Mr. Allen's.