WEATHERSFIELD, a parish in the hundred of
HINCKFORD, county of ESSEX, 6 miles (N.N.W.) from
Braintree, containing 1558 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese
of London, rated in the king's books at £12, and in
the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity
< Hall, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary
Magdalene. There is a place of worship for Independents.
Thomas Fitch, in 1702, bequeathed land producing
£30 per annum, for teaching and partly clothing
twenty boys: and Dorothy Motte gave land, producing
about £20 a year, for teaching, partly clothing, and
finding books, for twenty girls.