The probable origin is Elizabeth M Leach Rixford, Three hundred colonial ancestors (1934) p. 182:
The Manor of Debden Hall in the Town of Debden hath an elegant and commodious Mansion. The Manor was siezed by King Henry II in 1155 and was granted to his son, King John who granted it to Lord Cromwall [sic], Earl of Essex. It came back to the Crown as part of the dowry of Mary, Bohan [sic], wife of Henry IV and remained through the reignes [sic] of Henry V, Henry VI, Edward IV and Henry VIII, who granted it to Lord Audley, Nichols [sic] Kellogg, senior, born Debon, [sic] 18 Oct. 1558.
As Richard Smith remarked in SGM discussion in 2016:
It doesn't take much wit to see this is nonsense from beginning to end. The only Cromwell to have been Earl of Essex was Thomas Cromwell, centuries after King John's reign, and we can be pretty sure Henry VIII (who died in 1547) didn't grant anything to a man born in 1558. In any case, as you say, the Barony of Audley was in the Tuchet family. https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/u7H7Mq9ourw
The alleged son of this Nicholas (Kellogg-11) was a real person. This Nicholas, not so much. So put on your thinking caps, WikiTree people: was Nicholas Kellogg, born 1458, Lord Audley, a real flesh-and-blood human being? Or is he a hallucination, a figment of our collective imagination?
