RIVENHALL, a parish in the hundred of WITHAM,
county of ESSEX, 2, miles (N. by E.) from Witham,
containing 591 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London,
rated in the king's books at £21. 5. 5. C. W. Western,
Esq. was patron in 1824. The church is dedicated
to St. Mary and All Saints. Thomas Tusser,
author of a popular work, entitled " Five Hundred
Points of good Husbandry," was born here about the
beginning of the sixteenth century.