BENHALL, a parish in the hundred of PLOMESGATE,
county of SUFFOLK, 2 miles^ (W, by S.) from Saxmundham,
containing 710 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk,
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at
£7. 1. 3., and in the patronage of Edward Hollond,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Sir Edward
Duke, in 1731, bequeathed property producing
about £25 per annum, for the endowment of a free
school,
BENHAM, a tything in that part of the parish of
SPEEN which is in the hundred of KINTBURY-EAGLE,
county of BERKS, 3 miles (W.) from Speenhamland,
containing 380 inhabitants.