MILTON, alias MIDDLETON-HALL, (Essex) near Prittlewell, is a manor that bel. anciently to the Ch. of Canterbury, and had
the remains of a chapel, visible at low-water, within the memory of man. The situation of this place is bet. Canvey-Isle
and Southchurch. It is an excellent nursery for oysters, which are brought hither small, and spread about with a shovel,
till they come to a proper growth. This manor did lately, if it does not still, bel. to Mr. Scrafton of Bromfield.