ONGAR HUNDRED 



paid by the owner of Marks Hall to the Rector of Stondon, and until early in 

 the 19th century the parishioners of Stondon included Marks Hall in their 

 annual beating of the parish bounds. Loughton, which in 1086 was partly in 

 Becontree hundred, was from the 14th century or earlier wholly in that of 



* Marks Hall in Margaret Roding has always paid tithe to Stondorj Massey 



Ongar. North Weald Bassett seems to have been partly in Harlow half-hundred 

 in 1086 and continued to be thus divided between Harlow and Ongar.s One 

 very small place, Plumtuna, has not been certainly identified.^ 



The 13th-century eyre rolls give little additional information about the com- 

 position of Ongar hundred. Stondon Massey is mentioned in the roll for 1 226- 

 7.7 In the same year a tithing of Epping was listed under Ongar hundred ;8 



5 Ibid, i, 397, ii, 350. 

 ' J.I. 1/229. 



Ibid, i, 529. 

 Ibid. 



But see P.N. Essex (E.P.N.S.), 153. 



