WIGBOROUGH-GREAT, (Essex) on the N.W. side of Mersey-Island, bel. before the Conquest to Barking-Abbey; and the manor
house, which is near the channel that runs up to Salcot, is still called Abbess-Hall. At the Diss. Henry VIII. gave it to
Cromwell, and reverting to the crown by his attainder, it was appropriated towards the maintenance of the Princess,
afterwards Q. Mary. It was last inherited by the daughter of John Bullock, of Dives-Hall in Maplested, who had it by
marriage with the daughter of Mr. Gugan, whose father, Sir Mark Gugan, purchased it of John Aylet of Fering, about 1680.
The Ch. stands on a hill, and is seen a good way both by land and sea.