or BETTISDALE, a town of Suffolk in England, seated in a dale or valley, and its street takes in a good part of Ricking, all which together make up the town; for of itself it is but a hamlet, having a small chapel, and an endowed grammar-school, to which belong certain scholarships, assigned to Bennet or Corpus Christi college in Cambridge, being the gift of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper of the great seal. E. Long, i. 8. N. Lat. 52. 25.