BROXTED, a parish in the hundred of DUNMOW
county of ESSEX, 3 miles (S. W.) from Thaxted,. containing
597 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in -the archdeaconry of Middlesex, and diocese
of London, rated in the Icing's books at AT, and
in the patronage of R. De Beauvoir, Esq. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary.