ALDEBY, a parish in the hundred of CLAVERING,
county of NORFOLK, 2 miles (N. E.) from Beccles, containing
475 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of
Norwich, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. Here was a small
priory, a cell to the Benedictine abbey of Norwich,
which, at the dissolution, was given by Henry VIII. as
part of the endowment of the dean and prebendaries of
that cathedral.