BRICETT (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles
(E. N. E.) from Bildeston, containing 290 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, and in the patronage of
the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge,
The church is dedicated to St. Mary.and St. Lawrence.
A priory for Augustine canons was founded, about
1110, by Ralph Fitz-Brien, in honour, of St. Leonard;
the possessions of which,-on the'suppression of Alien
priories, were" given by Henry VI. to the Provost and
Fellows.