RAINTON (West), in Houghton-le-Spring parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile from the above. RAVENSWORTH, in Chester-le-Street parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles from Gateshead. REDWORTH, in Heighington parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles N.N.W. from Darlington. tained sixty-five Lepers, a Master, and some Priests. Granted, in the reign of Hen. VIII., to the Bishop of Durham. SHIELDS (South), in Jarrow parish, and popula. included therein. Situate on the S. bank of the Tyne, opposite to North. Shields. Fairs, last Wed. in April, first Wed. in May, last Wed. in Oct., first Wed. in Nov. RED-MARSHALL, 1 mile N.W. from SHILDON, in St.-Andrews-Auckland pa Stockton. Popula. 264. ROSS, in Belford parish, Northumberland, and popula. returned therein. RYHOPE, in Bishopwearmouth parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles S. from Sunderland. RYTON, 5 miles N.W. from Gateshead. Popula. 5,763. rish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles S.E. from Bishop-Auckland. SHINCLIFF, in St. Oswald parish, Durham, and popula. included therein. 2 miles S.E. from Durham. SHORESWOOD, in Norham parish, and popula. included therein. În Norhamshire district, Durham, 4 miles from Coldstream. RYTON-WOODSIDE, in Ryton parish, SHOTTON, in Easington parish, and poand popula. included therein. SADBURGE, in Houghton-le-Skerne parish, and popula. included therein. 34 miles E. from Darlington. SATLEY, in Lanchester parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles from Walsingham. SCHOOL-AYCLIFFE, in Heighington parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Darlington. pula. included therein. 6 miles E. by S. from Durham. SHOTTON, in Sedgefield parish, and popula. included therein. SILKSWORTH, in Bishopwearmouth parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles S.W. from Sunderland. SLECKBURN (East and West), in Bedlington parish, and popula. included therein. SEAHAM, 4 miles S. from Sunderland. SLINGLEY, in Seaham parish, and popula Popula. 198. SEATON, in Seaham parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles S. W. from Sunderland. SEATON-CAREW, in Stranton parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles S. from Hartlepool. SEDGEFIELD, 256 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 1,955. Fair, May 12. SHADFORTH, in Pittington parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles E.S.E. from Durham. SHERATON, in Monk-Heselton parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles from Durham. SHERBURN, in Pittington parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles E. by S. from Durham. SHERBURN-HOUSE (Extra Par.) Popula. 67. Here there was an Hospital, founded by the above-mentioned Hugh Pusar, Bishop of Durham, in the reign of Hen. II.; yearly revenue 135l. 7s., now worth 2,7071. Here were main included therein. SOUTHWICK, in Monkwearmouth parish, and popula. included therein. 15 mile N.W. from Sunderland. STANHOPE, 6 miles N.W. from Wal singham. Popula. 7,541. STAINDROP, 4 miles E. from BarnardCastle. Popula. 2,047. Here was a College, founded in the reign of Hen. IV., by Ralph Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland, for six decayed gentlemen, six poor officers, and other poor men; yearly revenue 126l. 5s. 10d., now worth 2,525l. 8s. 4d. STAINTON, 4 miles S.W. from Sedgefield. Popula. 154. STAINTON (Little), in Bishopton parish, and popula. included therein. 8 miles W. by N. of Stockton. STAUNTON, in Gainsford parish, and TUNSTALL, in Bishopwearmouth parish, popula. included therein. STELLA, in Ryton parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles W. by N. from Gateshead. STILLINGTON, in Red-Marshall parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles from Darlington. STOCKTON-UPON-TEES, 248 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 5,184. Market, Wed. and Sat.; fairs, Jan. 27, July 13, and Mon. after Oct. 13, cattle, sheep, toys, and plenty of fish. STOCKLEY, in Brancepeth parish, and popula, included therein. 5 miles from Bishop-Auckland. STRANTON, 1 mile S.W. from Hartlepool. Popula. 704. STREATLAM, in Gainsford parish, and popula. included therein. SUMMERHOUSE, in Gainsford parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles N.W. by W. of Darlington. SUNDERLAND, 276 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 14,725.` SUNDERLAND-BRIDGE, in Auckland parish, and popula. included therein. 33 miles from Durham. SWALWELL, in Whickham parish, and popula. included therein. THICKLEY (East), in St.-AndrewsAuckland parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles S.E. from BishopAuckland. THORNLEY, in Kelloe parish, and popula, included therein. 5 miles S.E. by E. of Durham. THORNTON, in Norham parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles from Tweedmouth. THORPE-BULMER, in Monk-Heselton parish, and popula. included therein. 11 miles N. by E. from Stockton. THRISLINGTON, in Bishops-Middleham parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles N.W. from Sedgefield. THROSTON, in Hart parish, and popula.. included therein. 10 miles N.N.E. from Stockton. and popula. included therein. 2 miles S.W. by S. of Sunderland. TWEEDMOUTH, 1 mile S. from Berwick. Popula. 4,673. TWIZEL, in Norham parish, and popula. included therein. Lying in that detached part of Durham called Norhamshire, 34 miles N.E. by N. of Coldstream. URPETH, in Chester-le-Street parish, and popula. included therein. 7 miles N. by W. of Durham. USWORTH (Great and Little), in Washington parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles S.S.E. from Gateshead. WACKERFIELD, in Staindrop parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles from Barnard-Castle. WALDRIDGE, in Chester-le-Street parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles N. from Durham. WALSINGHAM, 261 miles N.W. from London. Popula. 2,197. Fairs, May 18, Sept. 21, for linen cloth. WALWORTH, in Heighington parish, and popula. included therein. 4 miles N.W. from Darlington. WARDEN-LAW, in Houghton-le-Spring parish, and popula. included therein. WASHINGTON, 5 miles W. from Sunderland. Popula. 2,687. WESTOE, in Jarrow parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile S. from South-Shields. WESTERTON, in St.-Andrews-Auckland parish, and popula. included therein.. 3 miles E. by N. from Bishop-Auckland., WESTWICK, in Gainsford parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles S.E. of Barnard-Castle. WHESSOE, in Houghton-le-Skerne parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles N. by W. from Darlington. WHICKHAM, 2 miles S.W. from Gateshead. Popula. 3,713. WHITBURN, 2 miles N. from Sunderland. Popula. 856. TRIMDON, 4 miles N. from Sedgefield. WHITTON, in Grindon parish, and popula. Popula. 302. TUDHOE, in Whitworth parish, and po pula. included therein. 4 miles S.S.W. from Durham. included therein. 6 miles N.W. from Stockton. WHITWELL-HOUSE (Extra Par.), 2 miles from Durham. Popula. 38. WHITWORTH, 4 miles S.W. from Dur- WINSTON, 64 miles E.S.E. from Barnard. ham. Popula. 409. Castle. Popula. 287. WITTON-GILBERT, 2 miles N. from Durham. Popula, 364. WITTON-LE-WEAR, 4 miles S.E. from Walsingham. Popula. 531. WOLVISTON, in Billingham parish, and popula. included therein. WOODHAM, in Great-Aycliff parish, and popula. included therein. 8 miles from Darlington. WOODLAND, in Staindrop parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Bishop-Auckland. ESSEX. ESSEX is bounded on the North by Suffolk and part of Cambridgeshire, on the East by the German Ocean, on the South by Kent, on the West by Hertford and Middlesex. It is 46 miles long and 40 broad. It is divided into 19 hundreds; namely, Barnstaple, Becontree, Chafford, Chelmsford, Clavering, Dangie, Dunmow, Freshwell, Harlow, Hinckford, Lexden, Ongar, Rochford, Tendring, Thurstable, Uttlesford, Waltham, Winstree, and Witham, and the liberty of Havering. Its principal RIVERS are the Thames, the Stour, the Coln, the Blackwater, and the Chelmer. There are 19 market-towns; Barking, Billericay, Braintree, Chipping-Ongar, Colchester, Chelmsford, Coggeshall, Dunmow, Epping, Grays, Halsted, Harwich, Maldon, Manningtree, Rochford, Rumford, Walden, Waltham, and Witham. The county sends two members to parliament; and the boroughs of Colchester, Harwich, and Maldon, send two each. In this county are 1532 square miles, or 980,480 acres, and 406 parishes. It had 41 monastic establishments, and 55 public charities; it has 5 parishes with no church, 20 parishes containing less than 100 people, 53 parishes with no parsonage-house, 74 parishes in which the parsonage-house is unfit to live in. The POOR-RATES of the county are 371,1991. Os. 74d., the number of PAUPERS is 34,425; the rental is 1,556,8361. 28. 5d.; the POPU LATION, in 1821, was 289,425; the number of houses is 49,978; the rates, compared with the rental, one-fourth; the paupers, compared with the number of houses, is 1 to every 2 houses; the poor-rates, in 1776, were 72,5681; the number of persons to a mile in this county is 188; the number of acres to a person, 3; the number of acres to a house, 19; the male population, 144,909; the number of families employed in agriculture, 33,206; the number of families employed in handicraft, 17,160; the number of other families, 9,263; the number of the agricultural male population, 85,442; the number of able labourers, 47,221, and the number of acres of land to each able labourer is 35. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTER BURY, chiefly in the DIOCESE OF LONDON, but partly in that of CANTERBURY; and it is included in the HOME CIRCUIT. ESSEX is proverbially unhealthy, but it is only that part which borders on the Thames or lies along the Southern coast which is so in reality. There the salt marshes are considerable, and intermitting fevers are sometimes very destructive. The characteristic of the county is flatness, and a want of woods. bury. Popula. 662. The soil is for the greater part a good | BALLINGDON, mile W. from Sudstrong black mould; there is some bog land, and, to the North West, some chalk. The produce of the county is chiefly, the three prevailing corn crops, wheat, barley, and oats; but near to London, a great quantity of vegetables for the supply of Covent-Garden market is grown. In pasturage, Essex is very famous, net used so much for the fatting of sheep or oxen as of calves, of which it is said to send more to the London markets than any other county. The dairies are not numerous except about Epping, where there are some that have obtained celebrity for their butter. There is little or no manufacturing carried on in this county, if we except a little making of baize carried on at Colchester; but its ports are numerous, though small, and they, together with its vicinity to London and its good and completely level roads, give it an advantage in the conveyance of its produce possessed by no other county. ABBERTON, 3 miles S. from Colchester. Popula. 203. BARDFIELD (Great), 5 miles N.E. from BARDFIELD (Little), 6 miles N.E. from ALDHAM, 2 miles N.E. from Coggeshall. ALFORD (Little), 1 mile N.W. from ALTHORNE, 5 miles S.E. from Maldon. ARKESDEN, 3 miles S.W. from Saffron Walden. Popula. 415. ASHDON, 3 miles N.E. from Saffron- ASHEN, 8 miles N.W. from Halstead. ASHINGDON, 1 mile N: from Rochford. AUDLEY-END, in Saffron-Walden parish, AVELEY, 3 miles N.W. from Grays- Chelmsford. May 14. BARNSTON, 1 mile S.E. from Dunmow. BARWICK, in Abbotts-Roothing parish, BEAUMONT with MOZE, 10 miles S.E. miles W. from Rochford. Popula. 303. BILLERICAY, in Great-Bursted parish, BENTFIELD, in Stanstead-Mountfitchet parish, and popula. included therein. BENTLEY (Great), 6 miles S.E. from Colchester. Popula. 794. Fairs, Mon. after St. Swithin, July 15, for toys. BADDOW (Little), 3 miles S.E. from BENTLEY (Little), 6 miles E. from ColChelmsford. Popula. 583. chester. Popula. 402. . BERDON, 7 miles S. W. from Saffron-Walden. Popula. 338. Here was an Augustine Friary, founded in the reign of Hen. III.; yearly income 31l. 5s. 14d.; now worth 6251. 2s. 6d. ; granted, 30 Henry VIII., to Henry Parker. BERGHOLT (West), 2 miles N.W. from Colchester. Popula. 694. Fairs, June 22, cattle and toys. BIRCH (Great and Little), 3 miles S.W. from Colchester. Popula. 662. BIRCHANGER, 5 miles N.W. from Dunmow. Popula. 336. Here was an Hospital, founded in the reign of King John, by Richard Serlo; valuation 23l. 10s. 8d., now worth 470l. 13s. 4d.; granted, by Hen. VIII., to Sir Martin Bowes. BIRDBROOK, 3 miles S.W. from Haverhill. Popula. 460. and popula. included therein. Fairs, July 11, Oct. 15 and 16, for horses and horned cattle. BRIGHTLINGSEA, 7 miles S.E. from Colchester. Popula. 1,528. Fairs, first Thurs. in June, Oct. 15, for horses. BROOK-STREET, in South-Weald parish, and popula. included therein. At this place there was a Free Chapel, founded in the reign of Edw. I.; granted, 7 Edw. VI., to Sir Anthony Brown and Richard Weston. BROOMFIELD, 3 miles N. from Chelmsford. Popula. 624. BROMLEY (Great), 4 miles E. from Col- BROMLEY (Little), 44 miles N.E. from BROXTED, 3 miles N.W. from Dunmow. BULMER, 1 mile W. from Sudbury. BISHOP-STORTFORD.-See Herts. BLACKMORE, 5 miles S. W. from ChelmsFair, Aug. 21, ford. Popula. 657. for cattle in general. Here was an Augustine Monastery, founded, in the reign of King John, by Adam and Jordan de Samford; income 85l. 98. 7d. | BUMPSTEAD-HELION, 14 mile S.W. yearly, now worth 1,7091. 11s. 8d.; from Haverhill. Popula. 773. granted, 32 Hen. VIII., to John Smith. BOBBINGWORTH, 24 miles N.W. from Chipping-Ongar. Popula. 277. BOCKING, 2 miles N. from Braintree. Popula. 2,786. BOREHAM, 34 miles N.E. from Chelms ford. Popula. 918. BORLEY, 24 miles N.W. from Sudbury. BOXTED, 1 mile S.E. from Neyland. 317. Popula. 2,983. Market, Wed.; fairs, BRENTWOOD, in South-Weald parish, BUMPSTEAD-STEEPLE, 2 miles S. from Haverhill. Popula. 961. BURES, 3 miles S.E. from Sudbury. Po- BURES (St. Mary).-See Suffolk. Popula. 1,371. Fairs, April 25, Sept. BURSTEAD (Great), 1 mile S. from BURSTEAD (Little), 14 mile S. from BUTTSBURY, 5 miles S. from Chelms- CANFIELD (Great), 24 miles S.W. from CANEW DON, 2 miles N.E. from Rochford. Popula. 732. Fair, June 24, for toys. CANVEY, in Canvey-Island, in Laindon parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles S.W. from Rochford. Fair, June 25, for toys. CHADWELL, in the parish of Barking, |