WANSTED, (Essex) joins to Woodford,and is separated from Barking p. by the r. Roding. It bel. formerly to Westminster-
Abby; after which it was held of the Bp. of London, and then of the crown. Edw. VI. granted it to Richard Ld. Riche; whose
descendant conveyed it to Rob. Dudley, the great E. of Leicester, who lived here, and built much upon it. It was
afterwards conveyed to Cha. Blount Ld. Montjoy, ami being again in the crown, was granted by Ja. I. to Sir Hen. Mildmay,
master of the jewels to that K. and to Charles I. but being afterwards attainted for being one of K. Charles's judges, the
manor, then valued at 1000 l. a year, was confiscated. In 1678, it was purchased by Sir Josiah Child, the grandfather of
Mrs. Howland, the first Dss. of Bedford, and ancestor to Earl Tilney, the present Ld. of the manor, whose seat here, which
is about half a m. from the village, may, for situation, building, waters, gardens, and the hereditary command of Epping-
Forest, on the W. side of which it stands, be said to equal any in England.