TILTEY, (Essex) on the Chelmer, N. W. of Dunmow, and S. of Thaxted, joins to Broxted. It had an abbey, the site of which,
with the Ch. chapel, and manor, Henry VIII. granted to the Ld. Audley of Walden, chancellor of England. It afterwards went
to the Howards; by whom it was sold to Henry Maynard; from whom it descended to the present Ld. Maynard.