ROOTBING (AYTHORPE), a parish in the hundred
of DUNMOW, county of ESSEX, 5 miles (S. W. by
S.) from Great Dunmow, containing 234 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the jurisdiction of the
Commissary of Essex and Herts, concurrently with
the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of London, rated
in the king's books at £12, and in the patronage of
the Rev. J. Oldham. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary.