LAYER-de-la-HAY, a parish in the hundred of
WINSTREE, county of ESSEX, 4 miles (S.W. by S.) from
Colchester, containing 603 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Colchester,
and diocese of London, endowed with £600 private
benefaction, and £600 royal bounty. John Bawtree,
Esq. was patron in 1826.