HAWSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of THINGOE,
county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (S.) from Bury-St. Ed-,
mund's, containing, with the extra-parochial liberty of
Hardwick, 404 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich,
rated in the king's books at £11. 16. 10., and m
the patronage of Mrs. Gosling. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. At Hawstead Place, now a farm-house,
Queen Elizabeth was entertained in one of her progresses.