DRINKSTONE, a parish in the hundred of THEDWESTRY,
county of SUFFOLK, 6 miles (W. N.W.) from
Stow-Market, containing 456 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £16. 17. 1.
J. Edgar Rust, Esq. was patron in 1824. The church
is dedicated to All Saints. John Moseley, Esq., in 1804,
bequeathed £700, which was vested in the funds, for
the support of a day and Sunday school, the proceeds of
which, in 1828, amounted to £114. 4. 7. There is also
a bequest by Thomas Cranborhe, in 1692, for supplying
the poor with work, consisting of land producing £46 a
year, which is now applied to apprenticing poor children.