STONHAM (EARL), a parish in the hundred of BOSMERE-and-CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 3 miles (N. N. E.) from Needham-Market, containing 677 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 17. 2. 6., and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge. The churchis dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship for Baptists. John Punchard, about 1475, gave a house for the use of a school, which George Reeve, in 1599, endowed with land, now producing more than £20 a year, for the education of poor children.