FRESSINGFIELD, a parish in the hundred of
HOXNE, county of SUFFOLK, 7 miles (E. N. E.) from
Eye, containing 1231 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage with the rectory of Withersdale, in the archdeaconry
of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in
the king's books at £ 17. 17. 1., and in the patronage of
the Master and Fellows of Emanuel College, Cambridge.
The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul.
Archbishop Sancroft was born in this parish, in which
he founded and endowed a school.