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| | Felsted - White's Directory 1848 |
 | | FELSTED, or Felstead, is a large village, with many good houses, on the north-eastern acclivity of tbe vale of the Chelmer, and near a tributary stream of that river, 4½ miles East by South of Dunmow, 6½ miles West South West of Braintreee, and 10 miles North by West of Chelmsford. |
 | | In the Confessor's reign, Algar, Earl at Mercia, held the lordship of Felsted, but at the Conquest, it was given to Caen Abbey, in Normandy. |
 | | Application is now (1848) making to Parliament for an act to alter, vary, and extend the trusts and administration, and to enlarge the charitable uses, extend the objects, and regulate the application of this much abused charity, according to the provisions of a new scheme, sanctioned by the Court of Chancery. |
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