HATFIELD-BROADOAK, (Essex) or KING'S-HATFIELD, a large p. 25 cm. 28 mm. from London, is so called from the nature of the
soil, Pat, in the Saxon language signifying hot and sandy, from its tenure by the K. Will. the Conq. and his successors,
and from a broad oak growing in the T. Philip and Mary granted this manor, which had so long been in the crown, to Tho.
Noke, whose heirs held them by Kt. service, till the 7th of Q. Eliz. who granted him a licence to alienate the same to
Thomas Barrington, ancestor of the late Sir Charles and Sir John Barrington, in whose family it still is, viz. in the
present Ld. Visc. Barrington, whose seat here is called Barrington-Hall, which was formerly a priory, and is now inclosed
in a park. The Mt. is on S. the Fair July 25. The first Earl of Oxford lies in its Ch.