LETHERINGHAM, a parish in the hundred of
LOES, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (N. W.) from Wickham-
Market, containing 175 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and
diocese of Norwich, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £ 1200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Mrs. Sarah Reynolds. The church is dedicated to
St. Mary. The river Deben runs through the parish.
Here was a small priory of Black canons, a cell to the
monastery of St. Peter in Ipswich -. it was dedicated to
the Blessed Virgin, and at the dissolution had a revenue
of £26. 18. 5. The remains have been converted into a
farm-house.