CAVENDISH, a parish in the hundred of BABERGH, county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (E.N.E.) from Clare, con' taining 1215 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £26, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Jesus' College, Cambridge, The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The village is situated upon the river Stour: it was the birthplace of John Cavendish, Esq., who, being in attendance upon Richard II., assisted Walworth, Lord Mayor of London, in slaying the rebel Wat Tyler, which the populace at this place having heard, they, under John Raw, a priest, and Robert Westbroom, seized his uncle, Sir John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of the court of King's Bench, and beheaded him at the market-cross in Bury, with the prior of Bury; but Dr. Spencer, the warlike bishop of Norwich, raised forces and slew many of them immediately after. By deed in 1696, Thomas Grey gave land for teaching fifteen poor boys, apprenticing two, and sending one or two to college. The noble family of Cavendish, of which the Duke of Devonshire is the representative, derives name from this place, which at an early period was in their possession.