WALTHAM-MAGNA, (Essex) a large p. 4 m. N. W. of Chelmsford, was anciently a hamlet to Pleshy. Certain lands here bel. to the priory of Hurley in Berks, and others to the abbey of Walden and St. John's in Colchester. By a gift of Richard Ld. Rich. in the R. of Hen. VIII. the poor here, who received no other collection, were to have every Lent 3 barrels of white and some red herrings. The Everards had their seat in this p. for a long while, as had also a branch of the Wiseman's family in the hamlet, called North-End; of which, Mrs. Wiseman, settled a revenue of near 20 l. a year, for maintaining a preacher once every Sunday in the chapel of ease. Here was the seat of the late Sam. Tuffnel.