THURSTON, a parish in the hundred of THEDWESTRY,
county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (E. by N.) from
Bury St. Edmund's, containing 377 inhabitants. The
living, is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's
books at £ 6. 13. 4., and in the patronage of Charles
Tyrrell, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a '
remarkably fine structure, and the" pillars of the nave
are peculiarly light and airy. Thomas de Multon,1 of
Egremont, in the 18th of Edward I., obtained the grant
of a market on Tuesday, and a fair on the eve, day,
and morrow of St. Mary Magdalene, at his manor of
Thurstanston, in the county of Suffolk, which is supposed
to be the same with Thurston.