BERDON, a parish in the hundred of CLAVERING,
county of ESSEX, 5 miles (N.W.) from Stansted-
Mountfitchet, containing 338 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Colchester,
and diocese of London, and in the patronage of the
Governors of Christ's Hospital. The church is dedicated
to St. Nicholas. The river Stort runs through
the parish. A priory of Augustine canons was founded
here in the reign of Henry III., the revenue of which,
at the dissolution, was £35. 5. ij. The Rev. Joseph
Mede, a learned commentator on the Book of Revelations,
was born here, in 1586.