DODNASH, a hamlet, in the parish of BENTLEY, hundred
of SAMFORD, county of SUFFOLK, 7 miles (S.W.) from
Ipswich. A priory of Black canons, dedicated to St.
Mary, was founded here, as it is said, by an ancestor
of the Howard family, to which the patronage belonged
from the time of Edward I. till the dissolution, when
it contained a prior and three religious, whose revenue
was valued at £42. 18. 8. per annum.