HENDON, (Middlesex) on the N. side of Hampsted, was a manor purchased by Dunstan Abp. of Canterbury, and given to the men. of St, Peter's at Westminster; but at the Diss. K. Hen. VIII. gave it, with the vicarage and rectory, to Sir Tho. Herbert, from whom it descended to his posterity the Earls of Powis. Here is a ch. sc. The boors of this place used to be reckoned the greatest clowns in the Co. It was the seat of Sir Will. Rawlinson-Earl, Ld.-mayor of London, as it is now of Will. Rawlinson-Earl, Esq;.