BURNT-ELY, (Suffolk) bet. Sudbury and Bilston, bel. to the ancestors of Sir Henry Shelton, who procured a Mt. for it of
Hen. III. long since discontinued. His posterity flourished here a long while; but here were some lands bel. to the abbey
of St. Osyth. The Ld. Cornwallis had a seat here, which is now the E. of Dysert's. 'Tis, for brevity, call'd Brently, and
is the same with Brent-Ely, already mentioned.