GLEMSFORD, a parish in the hundred of BABERGH,
county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from Clare, containing
1275 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich,
rated in the king's books at £30, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Ely. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary. In the time of Edward the Confessor a collegiate
society of priests, under the government of a dean, was
established here, and invested with several privileges,
which were confirmed to them by Henry III.