DENGY, (Essex) bet. St. Osith Island and the sea, is the chief T. of the hundred of its own name, one of the 3 hundreds which include the marshy part of the Co. It bel. at the Conquest to St. Walrick's Abbey in Picardy; in the R. of Edw. I. to Henry Grammanel; in that of Edw. III. to one Franceis; and in that of Richard II. to one Roos. K. Hen. VII. endowed his hos. in the Savoy with it; but after the Diss. Q. Eliz. gave both the manor and the advowson of the Ch. to the Fanshaws. The grass of this hundred, which lies between Crouch and Blackwater Bays, is excellent for the cattle, with which 'tis well stocked, but the air not the healthiest. The only trade here almost is in cheese; and the ewes are milked by men, as they are elsewhere by women. Here are made those great cheeses of a coarse quality, which are bought up for husbandmen and labourers, both here and in foreign parts.