RODING-HIGH, (Essex) is the chief and the highest up the r. of all the Rodings, and the nearest to Dunmow. The E. of
Warren held this manor, in the R. of K. John, with a park; but in the R. of Edw. III. it went by marriage to the E. of
Arundel. It bel. once to the mon. of Lewes in Sussex, but at the Diss. was given to one Stafford. In the R. of Q. Mary it
was in Sir Will. Stafford; who sold it to Sir Tho. Jocelyn, who held in of the Q. as of her manor of Mandevil, parcel of
the Duchy of Lancaster; and in that family it continued to the present Sir John, whose father, Sir Strange Jocelyn, and
his uncle, Edward the rector, here endowed a sc.-house in High-Roding-Street for poor children.