PANFIELD, (Essex) near Bocking and Braintree, had a priory, which was a cell to the abbey of Caen in Normandy. K. Edw.
III. seized this, among other alien priories; but it was afterwards granted by the crown to the mon. of Christchurch in
Canterbury; which held it, till its suppression by Hen. VIII. who granted the lands to Giles Capel; from whom they passed
through divers hands to Mr. Wright, the late owner.