SNAPE, a parish in the hundred of PLOMESGATE,
county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles (S. by E,) from Sax-
mundham, containing 518 inhabitants. The living is
a discharged vicarage, consolidated with that of Friston,
in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich,
rated in the king's books at £5..5.7., endowed with
£400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of R. W. H.
H. Vyse, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John the
Baptist; the front is hexagonal and much enriched in
the later English style. The parish is bounded on the
south by the river Aide, or Orr, which is crossed by a
bridge, where there is a quay for shipping corn, &c. A
society of Benedictine monks from the abbey of St. John
at Colchester settled here in 1155, and in 1400 was
exempted from all subjection to that house, and raised
into a distinct priory; it was dedicated to the Blessed
Virgin Mary, and at its suppression, in 1524, was
granted to Wolsey towards the endowment of his
intended colleges, when its revenue was valued at
£99. 1. 11.