RUMBURGH, a parish in the hundred of BIRTHING,
county of SUFFOLK, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from
Halesworth, containing 445 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, with the rectory of South Elmham
St. Michael, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese
of Norwich, endowed with £10 per annum and £400
private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1200
parliamentary grant. The church is dedicated to St.
Michael. Here was a cell to the abbey of St. Ben'et
at Holme; it was dedicated to St. Michael, and was
one of those suppressed in 1528, and granted to
Wolsey, towards the endowment of his college at
Ipswich.