ASSINGTON, a parish in the hundred of BABERGH,
county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (S. W. by W.)
from Boxford, containing 533 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury,
and diocese, of Norwich, rated in the king's books
at £10, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Rev. John Hallward. The church is dedicated to St.
Edmund. In 1777, John Gurdon bequeathed £100
for the instruction of poor children.