BUTLEY, a parish in'the hundred of Loss, county
of SUFFOLK, 7 miles (E.' by N.)' from Woodbridge,
containing 321 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese' of
Norwich, endowed with £15 per annum private benefaction,
and £600 royal bounty, and in' the patronage
of C. Thelluson, Esq. The church is dedicated to St.
John the Baptist. This parish is bounded on the east
by the river Butley, over which there are two ferries
to Orford. A priory of Black canons, dedicated to
the Blessed Virgin, Was founded in 1171, by Ranulph
de Glanvil, a celebrated lawyer, and afterwards Justiciary
of England! the revenue, at the dissolution,
Was £318. 17. 2.: there are sonic trifling remains of
the. buildings.