STANSTED-ABBOTS, (Hertfordshire) had the name, when part of it bel. to Waltham-Abbey, the other moiety being sold to Hen. II. The Ch. is 2 m. S. of Eastwic, upon the same road; but the T. which heretofore was a trading Bor. stands in the vale upon the r. Lea, and was governed by a bailiff and 7 burgesses, who paid a rent to the Ld. of the Bor. for the liberty and security of their trade. At the Diss. the manor was conveyed by Hen. VIII. to Phil. Paris. It came afterwards to the family of Baesh, of whom, Sir Edward, sold it in 1676 to Edm. Field of Marden; from whom it is since come to his great grandson of the same name. Sir Edw. Baesh, just mentioned, built and endowed an almsh. here, in the R. of Cha. I. for poor widows, and gave 20 l. a year for the master of a free grammar-sc. here, of which he made the Lds. of the manor perpetual patrons.