HALSTED, (Essex) 39 cm. 45 mm. from London, was anciently a manor of the Bourchiers; of whom Robert, who was chancellor of
England in the R. of Edw. III. obtained his charter for a court-leet here, a Mt. on Tu. (since altered to F. and noted for
corn) and a Fair on the eve and day of St. Luke, He also founded a collegiate Ch. here for 8 priests, and lies interred,
with several of his posterity, in a chapel on the S. side of the p. Ch. The T. stands on a hill, with a pleasant r. at the
foot of it.