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 The county of Essex is now divided into twenty parts : fourteen of which are called hundreds; five, half hundreds; and a royal liberty.

Barnstable, containing 32 parishes. Ongar, containing 26 parishes. Chafford 14 Rochford 24 Chelmsford 30 Tendring • 31 Dengy 23 Thurstable 10 Dunmow 26 Uttlesford 26 Hinckford 47 Winstree 12 Lexden 30 Witham 14

The five half-hundreds are,

Becontree,containing- • 9 parishes. Harlow, containing 11 parishes. Clavering • • • • 5 Waltham 4 Fresh well 9

And the royal liberty of Havering.

These comprise twenty-five towns, namely: — Barking, Billericay, Brain tree, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Chipping Ongar, Coggeshall, Colchester, Dunmow, Epping, Gray's Thurrock, Halsted, Harlow, Harwich, Hatfield Broad-oak, Ih- gatstone, Maiden, Manningtree, Raleigh, Rodhford, Rumford, Thaxted, Wal- l deti, Waltham-abbey, and Witham. Several 6f these, denominated market towns, have ceased to be so. The county contains 400 parishes, including the 16 in Colchester.

Ecclesiastical Division of Essex.

This cotndty is in the Diocese of London, in which there are three archdeacon- ries, Essex, Colchester, ancl Middlesex, which has a part in this county ; and fifteein deaneries, Bursted, Barking, Chafford, Chelmsford, Colchester, Dengy, Dunmow, Harlow, Hedingham, Lexden, Newport, Ongar, Rochford, Sand ford, and Tendring. The parishes of Bocking, Stysted, and Lachindon-with-Lawling, are peculiars belonging to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Monasteries, Colleges, and Hospitals.

There were two mitred abbeys in this county ; Waltham Holy-cross, belonging to the Augustines ; and St. John's, Colchester, to the Benedictines. Six abbeys; Uiiejr, Coggeshall, St. Osith, Stratford Langthorne, Tiltey, ?md Walden. Twen- ty-two priories ; Burden, Blackmore, St. Botolph's, (Colchester,) Carmelites, (at Maiden,) Chelmsford, Little Dunmow, Grey-friars, (Colchester,) Earls-colne, Hat- field Broad-oak, Hatfield Peverell, Little Horkesley, Latton, Little Lees, West Digitized by Goog