MATCHING, a parish in the hundred of HARLOW,,
county of ESSEX, 3 miles (E. by N.) from Harlo\y
containing 599 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of Essex and
Herts, concurrently with the Consistorial Court of the
Bishop of London, rated in the king's books at-
£12. 10. 5., and in the patronage of the Trustees of
Felstead school, on the nomination of the Bishop of,
London. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.