RAMSDON-CRAYS, a parish in the hundred of
BARSTABLE, county of ESSEX, 3 miles (E.S.E.) from
Billericay, containing 276 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of
London, rated in the king's books at £20, and in the
patronage of Vicesimus Knox, Esq. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary. The navigable river Crouch runs
through the parish.