WEALD-NORTH, (Essex) near Epping, is contiguous to Bovinger, and extends to the extremity of the H. of Ongar. 'Tis
sometimes called Basset-Weald, from the Bassets, who were once its Lds. Henry VIII. granted this manor and its park to
Rich. Heigham, who conveyed it to Sir Richard Rich, in whose family it continued, till of late it came to Edw. Cheeke's
widow, from whom it passed to Sir Tho. Tipping's family, whose daughter carried it in marriage to Thomas, now Ld. Archer,
Baron of Omberslade. On Ash-W. thirty-six bushels of grain, or an equivalent in money, is given to the poor of this place,
from the rectory.