MOUNTNESSING, a parish in the hundred of
CHELMSFORD, county of ESSEX, 2 miles (S. W.) from
Ingatestone, containing 728 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Essex,
and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at
£ LI, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and£400
royal bounty. F. B. Bramston, Esq. was patron in
1802. The church is dedicated to St. Giles. Richard
Beyley, in 1743, bequeathed a house and land in support
of a school for teaching poor children. A priory
of Augustine canons was founded, in the reign of
Stephen, at Thoby in this parish, by Michael Capra,
Roise his wife, and William their son: it was dedicated
to St. Mary and St. Leonard, and, at the dissolution,
had a revenue of £75. 6. 10.