HOLTON (ST-MARY), a parish in the hundred of
SAMFORD, county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (S. S. E.) from
Hadleigh, containing 213 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and
diocese of Norwich, rated in the Icing's books at
£7. 14. 7., and in the patronage of Sir Wm. Rowley,
Bart. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The Rev.
Stephen White, in 1756, founded and endowed a school
for the instruction of twenty-five children; the annual
income is about £35, of which the master receives
£ 12. 12., and the residue is expended in books, &c.,
and in furnishing each boy with a suit of clothes on his
leaving school.