SOUTH-CHURCH, (Essex) next to Prittlewell, is so called to distinguish it from some older Ch. in the N. and being on the
shore, is therefore sometimes called Sea-Church. It was given as early as 824 to the mon. of Christ-Church, Canterbury, of
whose prior it was held in fee-farm, by the family of Southchurch, in the R. of Henry III. At the Diss. Henry VIII.
granted it to the D. and C. of Canterbury, then gave them something else in exchange for it, and granted it to Sir Richard
Rich. It came at last to Daniel Earl of Nottingham, who sold it to George Asser, Esq;.