Ash-Bocking (All Saints)
ASH-BOCKING (All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Bosmere and Claydon, E. division of Suffolk, 6 miles (E. by S.) from Needham-Market; comprising by measurement 1398 acres, and containing 321 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, endowed with the rectorial tithes, and valued in the king's books at £9. 18. 6½.; it is in the patronage of the Crown. The incumbent's tithes have been commuted for £375, and £3 per annum are paid to the rector of Hemingstone; the glebe consists of about 11 acres.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.