HESSETT, a parish in the hundred of THEDWESTRY,
county of SUFFOLK, 6 miles (E.S.E.) from Bury-St. Edmund's,
containing 393 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £12.17.11. The
King, for that turn, presented in 1813. The church is
dedicated to St. Ethelbert.