STURMER, a parish in the hundred of HINCKFORD,
county of ESSEX, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Clare, containing
311 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, 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 £8. 10., and
in the patronage of the Duke of Rutland. Sturmer,
though now an obscure place, was formerly of considerable
importance: it extended into the counties of
Suffolk and Cambridge, and also included Haverhill
and Kedington, then hamlets, but now distinct parishes,
each exceeding it both in extent and population.