DONYLAND (EAST), a parish in the Colchester
division of the hundred of LEXDEN, county of ESSEX,
8 miles (S.B. by S.) from Colchester, containing 562 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Colchester, and diocese of London, rated in the king's
books at £10. The Rev. Charles Hewitt was patron in
1801. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence. The
navigable river Colne forms the eastern boundary of the
parish, and there receives the river Roman.