ELMSWELL, a parish in the hundred of BLACKBOURN,
county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (N.W.) from Stow-
Market, containing 628 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £11. 7. 11., and
in the patronage of Sir Robert Gardiner. The church is
dedicated to St. John the Evangelist. There is a place
of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. An almshouge was
founded and endowed with lands by Sir Robert Gardiner,
in the 12th of James I., for six poor widows.