STIFFORD, a parish in the hundred of CHAFFORD,
county of ESSEX, 1 mile (N. by W.) from Gray's
Thurrock, containing 206 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of
London, rated in the king's books at £15, and in the
patronage of the Master and Fellows of Pembroke
College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.