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Rivenhall (St. Mary and All Saints)

RIVENHALL (St. Mary and All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Witham, N. division of Essex, 2¾ miles (N. by E.) from Witham; containing 722 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £21. 5. 5., and in the gift of the family of Western: the tithes have been commuted for £950, and the glebe comprises 136 acres. The church, an ancient edifice, with an embattled tower surmounted by a shingled spire, was re-roofed and beautified by the late Lord Western. Thomas Tusser, author of the popular work Five Hundred Points of good Husbandry, was born here about the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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