a very large village of Essex in England, adjoining to Braintree, from which it is separated only by a small stream. Its church is a deanery, and very large; and there are here two or three meeting-houses; but the market is kept at Braintree. It contained 2544 inhabitants in 1811. There is a large manufactory of baize, chiefly for exportation, which gives employment to a great number of men, women, and children. It is 42 miles north-east of London.