SALING (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
HINCKFORD, county of ESSEX, 5 miles (N. W. by W.)
from Braintree, containing 326 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, 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 £7, endowed with £200 royal
bounty. B. Goodrich, Esq. was patron in 1816. The
church is dedicated to St. James.