HOXNE, a parish in the hundred of HOXNE, county
of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (N. E.) from Eye, containing
1066 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, annexed to
that of Denham, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and
diocese of. Norwich, rated in the king's books at
£ 12. 3. 6. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and
St. Paul. A free school was founded and endowed by
Lord Maynard, in 176!; the premises consist of schoolrooms
and residences for the master and the mistress;
about forty boys and twenty girls are instructed, and
some of the children are occasionally apprenticed:
the master's salary is £42 per annum, and that of
the mistress £12. Here was a priory of Benedictine
monks, subordinate to that at Norwich, the revenue of
which, at the dissolution, was valued at £18.10. per
annum.