SIBTON, a parish in the hundred of BLYTHING,
county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (N.W. by W.) from Ypxford,
containing 569 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Peasenhall
annexed, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £8. 8. 4.,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty. M. B. Kingsbury, Esq. and others were patrons
in 1821. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. John
and Dorothy Scrivener, in 1719, gave a rent-charge of
£12.15. 6. for teaching ten or twelve children. Here
are extensive remains of a Cistercian abbey, founded, in
1149, by William de Cayneto; it was dedicated to the
Blessed Virgin Mary, and at the dissolution possessed a
revenue of £250. 15. 7- There was an hospital at the
gate of the abbey.