CREETING (ST-MARY), a parish in the hundred
of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 1 mile
(N.N. E.) from Needham-Market, containing 167 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated
with the rectories of Greeting All Saints and Greeting
St. Olave, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £7. 14. 2., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty. Here was formerly a cell to the abbey of Bernay,
in Normandy, the revenue of which, at the suppression
of Alien establishments, was applied towards the endowment
of Eton College.