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Wix, or Weeks (St. Mary)

WIX, or Weeks (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Tendring, N. division of Essex, 4 miles (E. S. E.) from Manningtree; containing 808 inhabitants. It comprises 3090 acres, which, with the exception of about 20 acres of pasture, and the same quantity of wood, are all arable land in good cultivation. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £120; patron, the Rev. Geo. Wilkins. The tithes have been commuted for £682. The church is a small edifice, built with the ruins of a structure which had gone to decay. A Benedictine nunnery in honour of the Virgin Mary, was founded here in the time of Henry I., by Walter Mascherell and others; at its suppression, it was valued at £92. 12. 3., and granted to Cardinal Wolsey, towards erecting and endowing his intended colleges.

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

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