Bishop's-HATFIELD, a town of Hartfordshire in the great coach-road to the north, 19 miles from London. It was called Bishops-Hatfield, because it did belong to the Bishops of Ely. Theodore archbishop of Canterbury held a synod here, anno 681, against the Eutychean heresy. Here was once a royal palace, from whence both Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth were conducted to the throne. King James I. exchanged the manor with Sir Robert Cecil, afterwards earl of Salisbury, for Theobald's, in the parish of Chestnut in this county; and the lordship still remains in that noble family, who have a very fine seat here. The rectory, which is in that earl's gift, is reckoned worth 800 pounds a-year. Here are two charity schools; and there is a market on Thursdays, with two fairs in April and October.