WORMLEY, (Hertfordshire) contiguous to Cheshunt, and 1 m. S. from Broxburn, on the W. side of the road, was given by K. Edward the Conf. to the canons of Waltham -Holy-cross, but at the Diss. Henry VIII. granted it Edw. North, who sold it to Eliz. Woodcliffe, who held it of K. Edward VI. at 1 l. 13 s. yearly rent. It afterwards went by marriage of an heiress to Walter Tooke, one of whose sons sold a moiety of it to Rich. Woollaston, (gun-founder to Oliver Cromwell) whose grandson conveyed it to Will. Fellows, father of Coulston Fellows, the present possessor; and the other moiety was sold to Tho. Winford, prothonotary, who conveyed it to, or exchanged it with Mr. Woollaston, who thereby became entire Ld. of the manor. And in 1696, this Tho. Winford sold his moiety of the demesnes of this manor, called Wormley-Bury, to Will. Wallis; but Mr. Fellows is now Ld. of the entire manor, this part of it having been purchased without the lands. In this p. is a small seat, formerly erected by Mr. Tooke, called Farnebeds, which was afterwards sold to Sir Ben. Maddox, Bt, who was born in Red-cross-Street without Cripplegate, London, and by his will in 1714, gave his said mansion-house, with 16 acres of land, for the use of 2 of the most necessitous poor men and 2 women of Fore-Street and Red-cross-Street, the rent to be distributed amongst them bet. Nov. 1. and Christmas.