WITNESHAM, a parish in the hundred of CARLFORD,
county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (N. by B.) from
Ipswich, containing 515 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suifolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £18. 13. 4.,
and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of St.
Peter's College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary. A singular discovery took place some time
since in this parish; on removing some earth, the skeleton
of a man in armour, seated on horseback, supposed
to have been buried during some of the civil
wars, was exposed to the view.