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parish church of Chingford did not stand on their manor, but on the lordship or manor of Chingelford, which was in the beginning of the reign of Henry III. part of the possessions of Richard de Chilham, alias Dovor, by the mar riage of Rose, the daughter and heir of Robert de Dovor.

This manor descended by marriage to John earl of Athol, in Scotland, whose wife was Isabel, sister and heir of Richard de Chilhain; but he forfeiting it by treason 34 Edward III. that king gave it to Ralph de Monthermer, earl of Gloucester, who resigned it afterwards to David, the son of earl John, upon such a composition, that the king confirmed it to him and his heirs; then it came to Giles lord Badlesmere, and from him by a daughter to William lord Roos, of Hamelake, whose family enjoyed it for some descents, till Eleanor, the daughter of Edmund, the last lord Roos, passed it by marriage to Robert de Manners, the ancestors of the duke of Rutland. From him it is probable this manor was called Earls Chingford; as the other, for distinction, bears the name of Chingford St. Paul,

Dr. James Marsh, of Merton College, in, Oxford, was rector of this parish anno 1630. He was afterwards archdeacon of Chichester, and dying in 1643, his archdeaconry was given to the excellent and learned man Dr. Henry Hammond...

In this parish is an old mansion, called FRIDAY HILL,* which for a long period was the residence of the family of Boothby.

The parish Church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is a small structure of flint and stone; and, being covered with ivy on the south and east sides, forms a very picturesque object. There are no monuments of particular

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- BRINDWOODS, an estate held under the rectory, had the following singular tenure: "Upon every alienation, the owner of the estate, with his wife, man servant and maid servant, each single on a horse, come to the parsonage, where the owner does his homage and pays his relief, in the

* Probably so called on account of being in the Saxon times dedicated to Friga, one of the deities worshipped by that people.

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