WIX, or WEEKS, a parish in the hundred of
TENDRING, county of ESSEX, 4 miles (B. S. E.) from
Manningtree, containing 818 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Colchester,
and diocese of London, endowed with £ 600 private
benefaction, and £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Miss Hickeringhill. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary. Five pounds a year, bequeathed by a Mr.
Clarke, is applied in support of a small school. A Benedictine
nunnery, in honour of the Virgin Mary was
founded here in the time of Henry I., by Walter, Mascherell
and others, which, at its suppression, was valued
at £92. 12. 3., and was granted to Cardinal Wolsey
towards erecting and endowing his intended colleges.