EPPING, (Essex) 15 cm. 17 mm. from London, formerly bel. to Waltham-Abbey; but, after the Diss. Q. Eliz. gave it to Sir Thomas Heneage, from whom it descended to Sir Moyle Finch, and from him it descended to the Earl of Winchelsea; who, in the R. of Cha. I. sold the manor for 21,000 l. to William Ld. Gray of Wark, afterwards Earl of Tankerville, who left it to his cousin, Will. Ld. North and Gray, whose widow and the Ld. Guilford sold it to Edw. Conyers, Esq;. The house here is called Rolleston. The Mts. which are on Th. for cattle, and F. for provisions, are kept in Epping-Street, a hamlet about 1 m. and half from the Ch, The Fairs are on April 2, Whitsun-Tu. Sept. 2, and Nov. 2. There are other fine seats on the Forest, besides that most noble one at Wansted, bel. to the Ld. Castlemain, of which in its place. The forest, which is a royal chace, and reaches from the T. almost to London, was anciently called the Forest of Essex, and then of Waltham, and was granted by Edward the Confessor, to his favourite, Randolph Pepperking, after called Peverell who having a beautiful lady to his wife, William the Conqueror fell in love with her, and had a son by her, called William Peverell.