STRATFORD (ST-MARY), a parish in the hundred of SAMFORD, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (W. N. W.) from Manningtree, containing 614 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £13, and in the patronage of the King, as Duke of Lancaster. The river Stour is navigable on the west of this parish, also on the south, where it is crossed by a bridge. Lettice Dikes, in 1589, gave ,a rent-charge of £1, and Robert Clarke, in 1731, another of £5, for teaching poor children. This parisji is. entitled also to the benefit of Littlebury's school, founded at Dedham, in 1575.