BURES (ST-MARY), a parish partly in the hundred
of HINCKFORD, county of ESSEX, but chiefly in
the hundred of BABERGH, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles
(S. E. by S.) from Sudbury, containing 1292 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury,
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at
£12. 16. Of., and in the patronage of 0- Hanbury, TSstj.
The church stands in the county of Suffolk. Edmund,
King of the East Angles, is stated 'to have been crowned
here. The navigable river Stour flows on the -western
and southern sides of the parish, and is crossed by a
bridge at the village.