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THE 
 
 Suffolk Traveller, 
 
 Firft Publifhed 
 
 By Mr. JOHN KIRBY, 
 
 Of Wickham-Market, 
 
 Who took an a&ual Survey of the whole County* 
 In the Years 1732, 1733, and 1734. 
 
 The SECOND EDITION, 
 With many Alterations and large Additions, 
 JBy Several Hands. 
 
 L O N D 0 Ni 
 
 Printed for J. Shav e, at the Stationer's Arms in the 
 Butter-Market, Ipfaick; and fold by T. Longman,, 
 in Pater-nojler Row, London. 
 
 M,DCC,LXIV. 
 
A LIST of Subscribers. 
 
 SI R Jofeph Ayloffe, Baronet, 
 Sir Thomas Allen, Baronet. 
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 The Rev. Mr. Lancafter Adkin. 
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 Sir John Barker of Sproughton, Bart. 
 Sir John Blois, Bart. High Sheriff of this County. 
 Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, Bart, of Barton, one of 
 
 the Knights of this Shire, two. Copies. 
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 Mr. Samuel Bacon^ of Ipfwich. 
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 Mr. Andrew Baldry, of Ipfwich, Painter. 
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 Trie &ev». Mr. Bening. 
 William Berners, of Woolverftone, Efq; 
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 Wr. William Black, of Felixftow. 
 Patrick Blake, of f/mgham, Efq; 
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 Mr. James Boatwright, of Wrentham,, 
 Mr- Boby, jun. of Stow-upland. 
 Edward Bodham, Gent. 
 Mr. Bohun, of-Beccles. 
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 Mr. John Borrett, of Benacre* 
 The Rev. Mr. Bofworth. 
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 William Beal Brand, of Belftead, Efq; 
 Mr. James Brewer, of Saxmundham. 
 Philip Brewfter, of Wrentham,' Efq; 
 Mr. Ifaac Brereton, of Benacre. , 
 
 Mr. William Brinck, of Kenfington-GorCa , 
 William Brocket, Efq; 
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 r rancis Brook of UfFord, Efq; 
 (George Brooke, of rlalftead,. Efqj 
 Mr. William Brook, of Gapel. 
 Mr. John Brook, of Ipfwjch. 
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 John Brown, of Peckbam, Efq; 
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 Mr. John Brown, of Hinderclay. 
 
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 Mr. John Burkitt, jun. of Sudbury. 
 
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 Jonathan Burward, of Woodbrjdge, Efq; 
 
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 Sir John Hind Cotton, Bart. 
 
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 ' Campbell, Fellow-Commoner, Efq; of Pem- 
 
 broke College, 
 
 John Canham, Efq; 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Canning. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Richard Canning, jun, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Card, of Stradbrook. 
 
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 The Rev. Samuel Carter, Re&or, of Fersfleld, A. M, 
 
 Meffrs. Carter and Mendham, Attornies, of Ballingdbn, 
 
 Mrs. Catherine Catqhpool, of Ipfwich, Mjllener. 
 
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 Mr. 'John Chinery, Of Chilton-Hall, near Sudbury. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Church, of Boxford. 
 
 Mr. Peter Clarke, of Ipfwich, Attorney at Law. 
 
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 Mr. William Clarke, of Ipfwich. ' 
 
 Mr. Rix Clarke, of Ipfwich, Hofier. 
 
 Mr. John Clarke, of Bungay. 
 
 Mr. Ofmund Clarke, of Strufton. 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Clarke, of Ipfwich, Merchant. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Clements, ' of Norwich. 
 
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 The Rev. Mr. Clubbe, of Whatfield. 
 
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 Mr. William Colchefter, of Dedham. 
 
 The Rev. Mr ; William Cole, late of King's College^ 
 - Cambridge, 2 Copies. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Cole, of Charsfield. 
 
 Richard Colville, of Hemingftone.,, Efq; 
 
 Anthony Collett, of Eyke, Efq; 
 
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 The Rev. Mr. Thomas Cooke, of Seymer. 
 
 John Cooper, of Burgh-Caftle, Efqj 
 
 Mr. John Cooper, of Sternficld. 
 
 The Rev, Mr. Comwallis, of Ipfwich. 
 
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 Jofeph Cradock, Fellow Commoner, Efq; of Emanuel 
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 Ifham Dal ton, of Bury, Gent. 
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 Henry t)a-fhwood, Efq; 
 
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 Mi. Dent, of Ipfwich. 
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 SuflTex College, and Vice-Chancellor of the 
 
 Univerfity of Cambridge, 
 Mr. Robert Elli'fton, fen, of Monks-Illeiah. 
 Mr. Robert Elliftbn, jun. of Monks-Illeiah. 
 Mr. John Elfdeh, of Ipfwich. ° 
 Mr. Thomas Emmerfon, of Coddenham, 
 The Rev. Mr. Evans, Wortham. 
 
 Capt. Fauquier. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Feltwell, ofTheffordo 
 
 Thomas Fenn, of Sudbury, Efq; 
 
 John Fifhe, of Great Bromlev, Encx, Gent, 
 
 Mr. John Field, of Kettleburgh. 
 
 Capt. William Fieldino-, 
 
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 Tfibmas Fonnereau, of Ipfwich, Efq; Member of Par- 
 
 ment for Sudbury, 
 Zach. Phil. Fonnereau, Efq; Member of Parliament 
 
 for Aldeburgh, Philip 
 
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 Philip Fohnereau, Efq; Member of Parliament for Am 
 deburgh. 
 
 Martin Fonnereau, of London, Efq; 
 
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 Mr. Henry Freeman, of Rickinghall Superior. 
 
 The Rev, Mr. French, of Bury. 
 
 Mr. Robert French, of Little Wenham* 
 
 Shepard Frere, of Ba&on, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Thomas Fulcher, of Shottifham, Norf* Surgeari, 
 
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 Mr. Henry Gallant* of Ipfwich. 
 
 The Rev. John Cole Gallaway, Matter of the Free 
 
 School at Botefdale. 
 Mr. Charles Garneys, of Kenton. 
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 Mr. John Garnham, of ditto. 
 Mr. Thomas Garrard, of Ipfwich* 
 The Rev. Mr. Garrod, jun. 
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 Mr. Thomas Gill, of Durham. 
 Mr. Simon Girling, of Stradbrook* 
 Mr. John Girling, of ditto. 
 Mr. John Girling, of Bramford. 
 R. G. Glahville, of Elmfe't,' Efq; 
 Edward Goat, of Brent-Uleigh, Efq; 
 The Rev. Mr. Godfrey, of Brinkley, Cambridgefhirei 
 Mr. Robert Goldfbury, of Ipfwich. 
 Mr. Bez. Goochj of Homersfield. 
 Mr. Thomas Goodwyn, of Earl Soham, 
 Mr. John Goodwyn, of Dennin^ton. 
 The Rev. Mr. Gordon, of Ipfwich. 
 The Rev. Mr. Grant* of Foxearth, 
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 Mr. William Green, of Combs. 
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 Mr. William Green, of Bury, Bookfeller, 6 Copies* 
 
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 Mr. Walter Gullifer, of Witham, Attorney at Law. 
 
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 The Right Hon. Lord Spencer Hamilton. 
 
 The Hon. Nicholas Herbert, of Great Glemharn. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Haddick, of Brandon. 
 
 Mr. John Flail, of. Hadleigh, Attorney at Law* 
 
 Mr. Thomas Halftead, of Harwich. 
 
 Walden Hanmer, of Waldingfield, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Hannah, of Norwich. 
 
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 Mr. Roger Hafted, of Bury. 
 
 Thomas Havers, Efq; 
 
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 The Rev. Mr. Haynes, of Ipfwich. 
 John Hayward, of Mettingham-Caftle, Gent, 
 The Rev. Mr. Heigham, of Walfham. 
 Arthur Heigham, of Hunfton, Efqj * 
 Pell Heigham, of Bury, Efq; 
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 Mr. Edward Highmore, of Ufford, Attorney at Law. 
 The Rev. Dr. Hill, of Buxhall. 
 Mr. William Hines, of Beccles. 
 The Rev. Mr. Charles Hingefton. 
 Mr. John Hingefton. 
 Mr. Ezekiel Hitchcock, of. Lavenham; 
 Thomas Hodges, of Ipfwich', Efq; 
 Captain Holingfworth. 
 Mr. Thomas Holman, juh. of Rickinghall. 
 The Rev. Mr. Holmes, of. Emanuel Coll. Cambridge, 
 Mr. Holmes, of Stratford. « " 
 
 John Holmes of Bungay, Gent. 
 Rowland Holt, Efq; one of the Knights of this Shire, 
 Thomas Holt, Efq; 
 Mr. Edmund Horrox, of London. 
 Mr. Tho. Hovell, of Mendlefham, Attorney at Law. 
 Mr. William Hovell, jun. of BadweH-Afli. 
 Mr. John Howell, of Walfham-le-Willows. , 
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 The Rev. Mr. Hubbard, of Emanuel College, Cam- 
 bridge 
 
 The Rev. Mr.Hudfon, of Ipfwich. 
 Mr. Benjamin Huffman, of Halefworth, 
 
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 The Re.v. Mr. William Johnlon y of Stradbrook. 
 The Rev. Mr. Tho. Johnfon, of Wick-ham-market.- 
 Mr. Cha. Johnfon, of Saxrnundham , Attorney at Law. 
 Mr. Johnfon, of Ellingham, Norfolk* 
 
 Mr. Ralph Keable, of Beccles, 
 
 William* Keddington, Efq-.. 
 
 Mr. William Keeble. 
 
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 Mr. Benjamin Keningale, of Chelfwortfa 
 
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 The Rev; Mr. Lawrence, of Akenham. 
 
 John Lawton, Efq; 
 
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 Matthew Lee/ Efq; 
 
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 Mr. Robert Le Grice, of Beccles. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Robert Leman, ofEllotigh. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Robert Leman-, of Debenharn, 
 
 Mr. John Lemon, of Norwich. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Lewin, of Debenharn. 
 
 Mr. Richard Lifton, of Boxford. 
 
 Mr. Richard Lifton, jun. of Groton. 
 
 Mr. John Linftead, of Woodbridge,' 
 
 Richard 
 
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 Kick Savage Lloyd, Efq; Member for Totnefs, £)eyo£i" 
 Mrs. Sarah Lond, of Denfton-Hall, Norfolk. 
 Charles Long, Efq; of SaxmUndhanu 
 Mrs. Long. . 
 Beefton Long, Efq; 
 Samuel Long, Efq; 
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 ' Mr. Dudley Long, of ditto. 
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 The Rey,; Mr. Lord, ofWelnetham. 
 Mr. Thomas Lorkin, of Aldham. 
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 Wiliiam Lynch, of fpfwich, Efq; 
 Mr. Jaraes Lyrin, cf Woodbridge* Surgeon, 2 Copies, 
 
 Mr. Peter Maber, of Kefgrave. 
 
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 The Rev. -Mr. Charles Mandevile, of Harwiefc-houfe. 
 
 Mr, Thomas Mann, of Ixworth, Surgeoa. 
 
 Thomas Manning of Bungay, Efq; 
 
 Mfc Richard Manchant," of Bildeftdne. 
 
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 Richard Moore, of Long Melford, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Edward Moore,, of lpfwkbv 
 
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 Mr. Wm. Mufgrave, of Cambridge, Woollen-Draper 
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 Henry Negus, of Bungay, Gent. 
 
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 T H E 
 
t > j 
 
 THE 
 
 Suffolk Traveller^ &c* 
 
 f* m " ^ HE County of S uffolk, or the Southern-' 
 Folk, is To called with refpect to Norfolk, 
 or the Northern- Folk. It is a Maritime 
 _Jl_ County ; bounded on the Eaft, by the 
 Ocean ; on the Weft by Cambridgejhire j on the North, 
 by the Rivers Wavency and Little Oufe, which part it 
 from Norfolk ; and on the South by the Siour, which 
 parteth it from the County of EJfex. The Length of it 
 from Eaft to Weft, is about 52 Miles ; and its Breadth 
 from North to South, about 28 Miles ; making the 
 Circumference 196 Miles: So that it contains near 
 1169 fquare Miles, or about 748,160 Acres. It is fub- 
 divided into Twenty-two Hundreds, in which are 
 Twenty-eight Market- Towns : The whole Number of 
 Parifhes is 523, befides Hamlets. 
 
 This County may be confidered, as naturally con- 
 fiding of three different Sorts of Land, viz. the Sand- 
 land, the Wood-land, and the Fielding. The Sand-land 
 Part, is that Trail of Land which reaches from the 
 River Orwell, by the Sea-Coaft to Yarmouth, and 13 
 pretty nearly feparated from the Wood-lands, by the 
 gjeat Road leading from Ipfwkh, thro' Saxmundham and 
 B BeccleS} 
 
2 County of Suffolk* 
 
 Beccles, to Yarmouth \ fo that it contains the Hundred of 
 Colneis, and Part of the Hundreds of Carlford, Loes i 
 Willfard, Plomefgate, Blything y Mutford, and Lothing- 
 t'and. This Part may alfo be fubdivided into the Marjb^ 
 Arable^ and Heath-lands. The Marjh-land is naturally 
 fruitful, feeding great Numbers of Sheep and Oxen ; 
 and fometimes, when ploughed, affords greater Crops of 
 Corn than any other Land in this County. That Part 
 which is Arable^ is in many Places naturally good for 
 Tillage, and produces abundant Crops of all Sorts of 
 Corn and Grain ; and where it feems in a manner bar- 
 fen, it is fit for Improvement by Chalk, Clay, and Crag ; 
 which laft is found by Experience to be preferable to the 
 other two, and may be had cheaper (a). The Heathy 
 Part, commonly uied for Sheep-walks, might contain 
 about one third of the Sand-lands, before the Difcovery 
 of Crag ; but many hundred Acres of them are now con- 
 verted into good Arable Land, by that excellent Ma- 
 nure. 
 
 ' The Wood-land Part extends from the North-eaft 
 Corner cf the Hundred of Blything, to the South- weft 
 Corner of the County at Naverhilh, and includes Part 
 of the Hundreds of Carlford^ Wtllford, Loes, Plomefgate^ 
 Blything, Blackbourh^ Thedwajlre, and Thingoe ; and all 
 the Hundreds of Ri/bridge^ Baberg t Cosford> Sa?nfora\ 
 StoiV) Bofmere, Clay don ^ Hartef?nere y Hoxne y Thredling, 
 and Wangford. This Part is generally dirty, but very 
 rich and fruitful. Here the Suffolk Butter is made, 
 ]uftly efteemed the pleafanteft and beft in England j but 
 they who make good Butter, muft, of courfe, make bad 
 Cheefe ; and therefore the Generality of Suffolk- Che eft 
 is well known to be as remarkably bad, as the Butter is 
 good : But thofe few in thefe Parts who make little or 
 no Butter, make as good Cheefe, as any in Warwick- 
 fhire, Gloucejlerjhire, or any other Parts of the Kingdom ; 
 
 infomuchj, 
 
 See Levhgton, in Colneis Hundred. 
 
County »/ Suffolk. 3 
 
 Infomuch, that it fells for Ten-pence and Twelve-pence 
 a Pound, or more i being little, if at all, inferior to that 
 of Stilton. 
 
 The Fielding-Part contains all the Hundred of Lack- 
 fdrd, and the remaining Parts of the Hundreds of Black- 
 bourn, I'hedwajlre, and Thingoe ; and is, moft of it, in 
 Sheep-walks ; yet affords good Corn in many Places. 
 
 The Ecclefiaftical Government of this County is in 
 the Bifhop of Norwich, affifted by the Archdeacons of 
 Sudbury and Suffolk. But here we muft except the fol- 
 lowing Parifhes, they being not fubjeft to the Juris- 
 diction of the Bifhop of Norwich, viz. Hadleigh, Monks- 
 Weigh, and Moulton± which are Peculiars to the Arch- 
 bifliop of Canterbury ; and Frekenham^ which (with IJlc- 
 ham in Cambridgejhire) is a Peculiar to the Bifhop of 
 Rochejler. The Diocefan had but one Archdeacon, till 
 about A. D. 1 126, when Richard Archdeacon of the 
 whole County of Suffolk, being made a Bifhop in France, 
 Eborard or Eroerard then Bifhop of Norwich, divided the 
 County into the Archdeaconries of Sudbury and Suffolk ± 
 and made the Weftern Part of it (together with fuch 
 Parifhes in Cambridge/hire as belong to the Diocefe of 
 Norwich^ on account of their having been anciently 
 Part of the Kingdom of the Eajl- Angles) fubjecT: to the 
 Archdeacon of Sudbury ; and the Eaftern Part of it, fub- 
 je£t. to the Archdeacon of Suffolk. The Archdeaconry 
 of Sudbury is fubdivided into *ight Deanries, viz, thofe 
 of Sudbury, Staiv, Thingoe, Clare, Fordham in Cambridge^ 
 Jhire, Hartefmere, Blackbourn, and Thechvajlrc ; and 
 the Archdeaconry of Suffolk into fourteen, viz. the 
 Deanries of Ipfwich, Bo/mere., Claydon, Hcxne, Southclm- 
 ham, Wangford, Lothingland, Dumvich, Orford, Loes, 
 Willford, Carlford, Colneis, and Samford. 
 
 The Civil Government is in the High Sheriff for the 
 Time being; and in this refped the County is di- 
 
 B 2 vided 
 
4 County e/ Suffoek. 
 
 vided into the Gelclabk and the Franchifes. In the Geld^ ' 
 able Part of it, the Ifiues and Forfeitures are paid to the 
 King ; in the Franchifes, to the Lords of the Liberties. 
 The Geldable Hundreds are Samford., Bofmere and Clay- 
 don, Stow, Hartefmere, Hoxne, Blything, Wangford, and 
 the two Half-Hundreds of Mutford, and Lothingland j 
 for thefe the Seflions are holden at Beccks, and Ipfwich ; 
 viz. at Beccles, for Wangford, Blything, Mutford, and 
 Lothinghn&\ and at Ipfwich, for the Hundreds of Har- 
 tefmere, Iloxne, Stow, Bofmcre, Claychn, and Samford. 
 
 The Franchifes are, Firfl, The Franchife or Liberty 
 of St. Etbelred, belonging anciently to the Prior and 
 Convent, and now to the Dean and Chapter of Ely ; it 
 contains the Hundreds of Car/ford, Colneis, Willford? 
 Plomcfgate, Lots, and Thredling ; for which the Seflions 
 are holden at Woodhridge. The Prior and Convent had? 
 this Liberty in King Edward- the Confeflbr's Time, and 
 when the Prior and Convent were changed into a Dean 
 and Chapter, A. D. 1541. it was faid to be of the 
 Yearly Value of 20 /. Secondly, The Franchife or Li- 
 berty of St. Edmund, which was giveri to- the Abbey of 
 Bury by King Edward the Confeflbr ; it contains the 
 Hundreds of Cosford, Babtrgb, Rifbridge, Lackford, Black- 
 bourn, Thedwejire, and Thingoe, and the Half-Hundred- 
 of Ixning ; for which the Seflions are holden at Bury.- 
 Thirdly, The Duke of Norfolk hath alfo a Liberty (by . 
 Letters Patent of King Edward the Fourth, dated 7th" 
 December, 1468,) of returning Writs, and having » 
 Coroner; and all Fines and Amercements, oV. within 
 his Manors of Bungay, Kalfa/e, Carlton y Peafenhall, the 
 three Stonhams, Dmnington, Brundifh, the four llketfah T 
 and Cratfield, in Suffolk. 
 
 There is but one Aflize for the whole County ; but, 
 at every Aflize, there afe two Grand Juries ; one fop 
 the Geldable, and the other fo£ the Franchife of St. Ed» 
 ' 2 mondfbury. 
 
County cf Suffolk. 5 
 
 mondfbury. Suffolk and Norfolk were formerly tinder the 
 Government of one High-Sheriff, till the 17th Year of 
 ,Queen Elizabeth ; when Robert AJhfield, of Netherhall in. 
 Pakenham, Efq; was made the firft. High-Sheriff of this 
 County, diftincl: from the County of Norfolk. 
 
 The ancient Kingdom of the Eajl- Angles contained 
 little more than the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and 
 from hence arofe that clofe Connexion which fo iono- 
 
 is 
 
 fubfifted between them. William the Conqueror granted 
 the Earldom of Norfolk and Suffolk, to his Coufin Roger 
 Bigod : It continued in that Family to the Thirty- 
 fifth Year of King Edward I. when Roger Bigod, Earl 
 Marfhal, died without Ilfue ; having firft furrendered all 
 his Honours,, Manors, &c. to the King; from whom 
 he received them again by a Re-grant, with a Limitation 
 to himfelf and Alice his Wjfe, and the Iflue of their two 
 Bodies ; and, for want of fuch Iffue with Remainder 
 to the King and his Heirs. But this County did never 
 give a feparate Title, till the eleventh Year of King 
 Edward the Third ; when that King created Robert de 
 Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. He was fucceeded by his So# 
 William, who died without Iffue Male, and the Title 
 became extincl:. 
 
 King Richard II. in the ninth Year of his Reign 
 created Michael de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk : He was fuc- 
 ceeded by Michael his Son, who was flain in the Battle 
 of Agincourt. William de la Pole, Son of the laft Michael, 
 was created by King Edward VI. Marquis, and after- 
 wards Duke of Suffolk ; but was unlawfully beheaded 
 on the Gunwale of the Boat that was carrying him to 
 France. John the Son of William fucceeded to his Fa- 
 ther's Honours ; having married Elizabeth, Sifter of King 
 EdwardlV. He left many Children, and was fucceeded 
 in his Honours and Eftate firft by John his Son, who was 
 killed in the Battle of Stofo-upon-Trcnt, 1111487; and 
 then, by JLdmond his fecond Son, who being too nearly 
 B 3 related 
 
C Gqunty c/ Suffolk. 
 
 ^elated to the Crown, was in 5 King Henry yill. be* 
 headed in the Tower, and the Title became extinct. 
 
 King Henry VIII. then created Charles Brandon, Duke 
 of Suffolk : He left two Sons, and both died without 
 Iflue, under Age. But Henry Gray Marquis of Dorfet, 
 who married the Lady Frances, eldeft Daughter of 
 Charles Brandon by Mary the French Queen, was created 
 Duke of Suffolk nth Oflober, 5 Edward VI. The 
 Lady 'Jane his Daughter, was on the Demife of King* 
 Edward, proclaimed Queen ; who fuffered for the Rafh- 
 nefs of her Friends ; and her Father was himfelf be- 
 headed 23d February, 2 Queen Mary I. and the Title 
 was once more extinct. It continued fo tjll 1 James I. 
 when Thomas Howard, a younger Son of Thomas the fe- 
 cond Duke of Norfolk, was made Earl of Suffolk ; and 
 in this Family the Earldom hath continued ever fmce. 
 
 In this Edition we have taken the Liberty of altering 
 th' Method that was obferved in the other. Ipfwich 
 being the County-Town, we fhall nrft give as good an 
 Account as could be procured of that. We fhall then 
 conduit the Traveller through every Hundred in the 
 Geldablc Part of the County, without diftinguifhing the 
 Liberty of St. Etheldred, which is included in this. After 
 that, we fliall attend him through all the feveral Hun- 
 dreds in the Franchife of St. Edmond. 
 
 A Stranger coming from London to vifit the E aft em, 
 or Gcldable Part of Suffolk, would probably enter the 
 County at Stratford or Cattiwade Bridges, in the Hundred 
 of Samford. We therefore mall begin with that Hun- 
 dred, and then take the feveral Hundreds that lie in or 
 near the Road leading from Ipfwich to Yarmouth, viz. CarU 
 ford and Colne'is, Loes, Willford, Plomefgate, Blything, 
 Mutford, and Lothingland. Then returning to Becclcs, 
 we&all take the remaining Gddable Hundreds, viz. 
 
 3 Wangford^ 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 7 
 
 fVangford, Hoxne, Thredling, Hartefmere, Stow, Bo/mere^ 
 and Cloydou. The fjundreds in the Liberty of St. Ed- 
 jnondjbury will be taken in this Order, Ihingoe, Thcd*- 
 wafire, Blackbourn, Lackford^ Ri/bridge^ Baberg, and Cof- 
 ford. But, that any Place may be more eafily found, 
 the Tow'ns and Villages in each Hundred will be placed 
 alphabetically. 
 
 i/z Account <j/~ I P S WI C H, with its 
 Suburbs, Precinc7s } and Liberties. 
 
 THE Spot on which Ipfwich ftands is fo happily 
 fituated, that it could not fail of inviting Inhabi- 
 tants to fettle here, foon after this Corner of the Ifland 
 was peopled. To Strangers, who enter the Town, 
 either by what is now the London Road, or by the Yar- 
 mouth Road, it feems to fland low : But when a Tra- 
 veller approaches the Town by the ancient London Road-, 
 which was over Cattiwade and Bourn Bridges, upon 
 JVl)erJlead-Hill, he views jt to more Advantage ; fziuated, 
 as in fact it is, on the Side of a Hill, with a South Afpecl, 
 declining by a gradual and eafy Defcent to the Key, 
 where the Foot of it is warned by the Orwell. The Soil 
 is mod healthy ; it is Sand, Crag, or Gravel. The Hills 
 which rife above it to the North and Eaft, contribute 
 greatly to the Convenience of it ; not only as they fhelter 
 the Town from thofe bleak and inclement Winds, but 
 as they are well ftored with Springs of mod excellent 
 Water. The Springs from Caldwell- Hills flow in fuch 
 Abundance, that tho' the greater Part of the Town is 
 fupplied from them, they conftantly run wafte in what 
 P 4. is 
 
8 Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 is called St. Hcllen\ and St. Margaret's Wafli ; and thofc 
 that rife in or near Cbriji- Church ¥ 'ark, tho' they like wife 
 jfupply many Houfes with Water, do as conftantly run, 
 wafte, down Brook-Jlreet. Thefe laft are of ftill far 
 greater Ufe ; for the large Ponds at Cbrjji-Church, con- 
 tinually replenifhed by them, thro' the Benevolence and 
 Humanity of the Owner, are always let out on any E- 
 mergency ; and therefore, may be confidered, as perpe- 
 tual Refervoirs, depofited there by Providence, to fecure 
 and protecl the Town from the dreadful Ravages of Fire. 
 To this happy Circumflance, (fuch as few Places can 
 boaft) we may in a great meafure impute it, that tho' 
 many Fires have happened here within the Memory 
 of Perfons now living, not one of them hath raged to 
 any violent Degree. 
 
 As feveral other Towns upon the neighbouring Coaft, 
 viz. Tar-mouth, Aid-borough, and Or- ford, take their Names 
 from their Situation near the Mouths of their refpe&ive 
 Rivers j fo the Town of Ipfwich hath its Name from 
 its being feated where the frefh River Gippen or Gipping 
 empties itfelf into the Orwell. It is fpek in Domefday, 
 Gyppefwid, Gyppefwiz, Gyppewycus, Gyppewic ; after- 
 wards, by dropping the Guttural, it was written Tppyf- 
 wyche; and then, as our Spelling improved, by leaving 
 out the fuperfluous Letters, Ipfwich [a). 
 
 The Names of the Frefh and Salt River have lately 
 been confounded, infomuch that Mr. Kirby was unwa- 
 rily led to call the Frefh River the Orwell; but their 
 Names are plainly diftincl:. The Salt River, or to fpeak 
 more properly, that Branch or Arm of the Sea which 
 flows up to Ipfkvicb, is called the Orwell, probably from 
 its fpacious and commodious Haven or Harbour. Some 
 
 think 
 
 [a] As to the idle Story of a Pagan King Ippus, who built, 
 the Town, and called it by his own Name; fince no Hillory 
 mentions any fuch Perfon, and Domefday-Book calls itother- 
 wife, that mull be confidered, as merely fabulous. 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 9 
 
 think this was the Place that the Danes failed up A. ZX 
 1 ci 6, when they had a Defign upon the Kingdom of 
 Mercia. "The Saxon Annals call kArwan; and as 
 f { it may not be unreafonable to fuppofe the true Name 
 ** of this Harbour may be Arwell ; fo do we find on one 
 " Side of it Harwich, and on the other Arwerton 
 
 It is certain, Henry the Son of King Henry II. who 
 was crowned in his Father's Life-time, when he con- 
 fpired againft his Father, landed here with Soldiers 
 from Flanders ; and, taking Hugh Bigod with him, 
 marched from hence to Norwich. Here Ifabel, Wife of 
 King Edward II. landed from France, when fhe drove 
 her Hufband into Wales (c). And in 20 Edward 11. Sir 
 John Hovjard had a Commiffion to raife Five Hundred 
 Men in Norfolk and Suffolk, and conduct them to the 
 Port of Orwell, from thence to go to Sea againft the 
 French (d). 
 
 And the Earl of Lancajler, in 14 Edward III. had an 
 Affignment of ten Ships to tranfport his Horfe from this 
 Port of Orwell to Flanders ; fo that we need not multi- 
 ply Proofs to mew that this Haven and Branch of the 
 Sea is called the Orwell. As to the Frefti River Gipping^ 
 it has three Fountain-Heads ; one rifes at or near the 
 little Village of Gipping by Mendlejham, to which it gives 
 Name (<?). Another Head rifes near Wetherdcn; and 
 the third near Raitlefden. Thefe two laft Rivulets unite 
 with the other at Stow.- market ; and there the Gipping % 
 thus fupplied, becomes more refpectable. It is true, the 
 
 Orwcli 
 
 \b) Addit. to Cambden. 
 
 (c) Lambard'i, Di£t. 
 
 (d) Dugd. Bar. II. 260. 
 
 (e) For here you have a River, with a Village at one Head, 
 and a large T'own at the Mouth of it, and the fame Names 
 common to all three, for Gippefaic is Gippes-Town ; and as 
 Rivers flowed before Towns or Houfes were built, it is, in 
 the Nature of the Thing, more reafonable to fuppofe, that 
 the River gave Name to the Town and the Village, than thai 
 either of them gave Name to the River. 
 
io Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 Orwell is fometimes called the Orwell or Gipping, becaufc 
 the Gipping difcharges itfelf into it at Ipfwicb ; but the 
 frefli River Gipping, cannot with any Propriety be called 
 the Orwell, becaufe it is no Part of the Haven (f) : 
 The Thames may as well be called the Swin. 
 
 Jpfwich ftric-tly fpeaking, that is, within the Gates, 
 was not of very large Extent. It was inclofed with a 
 Rampart and Ditch, which was broken down by the 
 Danes, when they pillaged the Town twice within the 
 Space of ten Years, about the Years of our Lord 991, 
 and iooc. But this Fortification was repaired and re^. 
 newed in the fifth Year of King John (g). 
 
 There 
 
 (f) One of our Correfpondents, to whom we are much 
 obliged, hath urged a Conjecture, that anciently there was 
 at the Mouth of this Haven, (which he fuppofes to have been 
 much farther out towards the bea) a large Town called Ot- 
 well, which he thinks was long fince dcmoliftied by iheDanes, 
 and then fwallowed up by the Sea. But if there had been 
 any fuch r Pown, the Danes could only burn and deflroy the 
 Buildings ; the Land and Sojl would remain, notwithstand- 
 ing all that they could do. And tho' it is certain the Sea 
 hath made vaft Encroachments upon this Goaft, thofe En- 
 croachments have been made gradually and flowly ; and 
 therefore, as Dome/day Book makes no mention of any fuch 
 Town, we may be lure there was none when that was made ; 
 and if it had been deflroyed fo lately as the Conjecture fup- 
 pofes, fome Notice would have been taken of the Place 
 where it flood. And tho' the Word Orwell is fometimes 
 ufed in fuch a manner, as may feem rather to denote a Town 
 than a River, it appears by the Corporation Books, that by 
 the Port of Orwell was meant the Town of Ipfwich, in the 
 Time of King Edward the Third. And therefore Geoffrey 
 Chaucer, in the Prologue to his Merchant's Tale, intended 
 Jpfwich by that Word ; who faith, 
 
 *« He would the Sea were kept for any Thing 
 *' Betwixt Middlehorough * and Orwell, 
 " Well could he in Exchange Sheldes fell." 
 For thefe Reafons wc cannot lay much Strefs on this Con-? 
 tefture. 
 
 (i) fyP 1 "'^ Domefday. 
 
 * Middlelurgb had attfcatTirne a Staple for Wool, 
 
Ifswich with Us Suburbs. 
 
 J? 
 
 There are not the leaft Remains of more than three 
 of the Gates now {landing ; but, it is certain, there were 
 more. For, in the ancient Partition of the Town into 
 four Letes or Wards, as two of thefe were called ]\'orth r 
 gate-Lete and WeJl-gate-Letc, fo the two others werp 
 called Eajl-gate-^ete and South-gate- Lete (b). 
 ■ We read ljkewife of Lofe-gate, which flood at thp 
 Ford thro' the Salt River, by what is now the Houfe of 
 JVlr. Trotman. Tho' the Rampart hath in many Places 
 been broken through, and in fome entirely levelled, there 
 are ftill confiderable Remains of it ; and it is eauly traced 
 from the Bowling-green Garden (or Grey-Fryers \Va\k) 
 with a Road on each Side of it, to the Well, or St. Mat- 
 thew's Gate (i). 
 
 From 
 
 (h) Eajl gate-Lete reached from. North-gate to the Stone- 
 Crofs in Brook-Jlreet, called St. Lewis Crofs ; fo down Tank- 
 prd-Jlreet, till you come to the common Ditch next the Friers- 
 Preachers Wall, with Carr ftreet [Crofs -Keys] Thing fled [or 
 St. Margarets, Green, and the Lane leading to Little Bolton^ 
 and Caldwell [or St. He/tens'} Street. Wefi-gate-Lete front 
 North-gate by the Archdeacon's Houfe, till you come to the 
 Corner of the Street leading from Brook-ftrcet to the FiJB- 
 Market, and Jo by the fame Market [which was at the Eajl 
 End of St. Lawrence Church-Yard, i.e. in White-Hart 
 Lane] on the Right-hand to the farther Corner of Walter 
 CobFs [St. Lawrence Conduit -Houfe] and fo to the Cornhill % 
 on the Ncrtb Side of the Street, till you come at the Weft- 
 gate, with the Suburbs that be without the Gate. South-gate 
 'Lete, from Weft-gate on one Side of the High-itreet till you 
 come at St. Mildred's Church [the Town-Hall] and fo upon 
 the Right-hand on one Part of the Street till you come to 
 Woulforms-lane, in' the Parifli of St. P»ter, almoft againft the 
 Weft End of the faid Church-yard. North- gate- Lete [con- 
 tains] all the reft of the Town, with the Suburbs/ beyond 
 Stoke Bridge, and befide the Key with St. Clement's Street. — > 
 Ipfiv. Domefday. 
 
 (i) This Gate was rebuilt and made a Goal in the Time 
 of King Henry VI. at the voluntary Expence of John it Cdtd- 
 rrvrll, Bailif and Portman. In the Will of Walter Vtkvet, 
 46fcd it Jan. 1458.J is this Bequeft, Item lego ad fabrication 
 
 van 
 
12 
 
 Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 From hence to Bull-gate facing Wejlgate-Jlreet, it is 
 levelled, a,nd the Ground built upon. But from this to 
 North- gate, and fo to the End of Crofs- key s-Jlreet, it is 
 almoft entire. It is alfo vifible at the Back of the Houfes 
 on the Weft-fide of St. Margaret's Wafh ; and again, 
 in the Yard of ChriJVs Hofpital ; fo that all the Parifhes 
 of St. Aitftin, St. Clement, and St. Hellen, and great Part 
 of the Pariflies of St. Margaret and St. Matthew, were 
 not included within the Gates ; andthefe are accordingly 
 called in old Writings, the Suburbs of Ipfwich. 
 
 But if we confider the Borough in a larger Senfe, as 
 including not only the Town with its Suburbs, but the 
 four Hamlets of Stoke-Hall, Brooks-Hall, Wikcs-Uffbrd, 
 and Wihes-BiJl)op, which comprehends the whole Pre- 
 cincts and Liberties of the Borough, the Extent of it is 
 very confiderable. For it reaches from Eaft to Weft, 
 that is, from the Place on Rujhmere Common, where 
 the Bounds of the Liberties running paft Ru/hmere- 
 Hall-Gate, and along the other Lane crofs the Wood- 
 bridge Road oppofite to the Gallows ; to that Place in 
 JVhitton-Jireet, where the Bounds come out of the Lane 
 leading from Bramford, crofs the Norvjich and Bury 
 Road, and then go into the Lane leading to Whitton 
 Church, the Diftance is better than four Miles. In like 
 manner, from North to South, or near it; that is, from 
 that Place beyond Wejlerfield Green, where the Bounds 
 enter the Road leading from JVitnefiam to Ipfwich, and 
 fo to Bourn Bridge ; it is about the fame Diftance : But 
 if, inftead of going on the Weft of the Orwell, you go 
 from the aforefaid Place thro' St= Clement's Street on the 
 
 Eaft- 
 
 vem tinius Pontis inter Capdlam Beat* Maria et * Domini 
 Regis cum ali^uis alius fabricari <velit, aut fabricari faciat 
 
 * The Word here, omitted was obfeure, but thought to be Pfi/onam^ 
 See the Account 0/ St. Marjs Cha;el afterwards. 
 
IpsWiCfr with its Suburbs. 13 
 
 Eaft-fide of it to Donham Bridge by John > sNds(k) i the 
 Diftance is greater* 
 
 Thefe Bounds of the Liberties of the Borough have 
 been often afcertained ; but the laft Determination con- 
 cerning them was in 13 King Henry VIII. when a 
 Felon Fugitive left Goods behind him at his Houfe in 
 Whitton-Jlreet) which the Bailives feized in Right of the 
 Borough : But the Efcheator for the Crown in the 
 County of Suffolk hearing of it, he rook away the 
 Goods by Force, pretending they were not within the 
 Liberties of Ipfwich. The Bailives complained of this 
 Violence, whereupon a Commiffion was directed to the 
 Abbot of St. Edmundfiury , Robert Curzon y Knt. Lord 
 Curzon, Sir Robert Drury, Sir Richard Wentworth, Sir 
 Philip Tilney, Lionel Talmage, Efq; and John Sulyard, 
 Efq; to enquire how far the Bounds of the Liberties of 
 Ipfwich extend. So a Jury was empannelled, and their. 
 Return filed in Chancery ; who, upon their Oaths faid, 
 That the faid Liberties did extend according to the 
 Bounds in the faid Return above-mentioned ; and the* 
 faid B. B. and C. of Ipfwich have ufed to enjoy the faid 
 Liberties and Fraunchefes without Mynde of Man. 
 
 Befides the Precincts on Land before - mentioned, 
 the Borough of Ipfwich did always claim, as appen- 
 dant to the Borough and Parcel thereof, a PrecincTh 
 and Jurifdiclion by Water on the Orwell \ the Extent of 
 which hath likewife, more than once, been afcertained : 
 Particularly in 2 Richard II. when a Commiffion was 
 ifTued for. that Purpofe, to John de Sutton, Knt. and 
 Richard Walgrave, Knt. accordingly a Jury was fum- 
 moned at Shotley, who faid upon their Oaths, That the 
 
 Port. 
 
 (k) This is the Place where His Majefty's Ship the Uatnp- 
 foire was built, not long fince : It is now called commonly 
 Johns Nefs, but in the old Perambulation-Journals Kings 
 Nefs ; which two Names put together males it King Johns, 
 Nefs. 
 
14 Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 Port of the Town of Ipfivich doth extend itfelf from the? 
 faid Town to the Pollejhead (I), and had belonged Time 
 o^it of Mind, and doth now belong, and is Parcel of the 
 faid Town, and of the Farm which they hold of our 
 Lord the King, & c. 
 
 The Streets of Ipfivich, like thofe of fnoft other an- 
 cient Towns, which have not been deftroyed by Fire and 
 rebuilt, do not run in Right- lines ; and therefore do not 
 ftrike a Stranger's Eye, as they would if they were more 
 regular ; but they contain many good Houfes, which ge- 
 nerally are better within, than their outward Appearance 
 gives Reafon to expect. One favourable Circumftance 
 is almoft peculiar to this Place, which is, that molt of 
 the better Houfes, even in the Heart of the Town,- have 
 convenient Gardens adjoining to them, which make 
 them more airy and healthy^ as well as more pleafant 
 i?nd delightful. 
 
 The many Walks and Rides which abound with a 
 Variety of pleafmg Views, together with the Goodnefe 
 of the Roads in the Environs of Ipfivich, do alio con- 
 tribute greatly towards making the Place agreeable. 
 But however entertaining thefe Profpe&s on the Land 
 jn'ay be, they are far exceeded by thofe that the Orwell 
 affords ; which, to fpeak cautioufly, at leaft for the Ex- 
 tent of it, is one of the me/l beautiful Salt Rivers in the 
 World. The Beauty of it arifes chiefly from its being 
 bounded with High- land on both Sides, almoft the. 
 whole Way. Thefe Hills on each Side are enriched 
 and adorned with almoft every Objecl: that can make a 
 Landfcape agreeable ; fuch as Churches, Mills, Gentle- 
 men's Seats, Villages and other Buildings, Woods, noble 
 Avenues, Parks whofe Pales reach down to the Water's 
 
 Edge, 
 
 (I) A Place well known to Mariners, upon the Sand called 
 Htm Andrew in the High Sea beyond H'alton and Felixfow 
 CltfFs. Folrjl.ead Common is mentioned with Langar-CommcnJ 
 in the Court-Rolls of Qkjebn Barkers Manor. 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs/ 15 
 
 Edge, well ftored with Deer and other Cattle, feeding 
 in fine Lawns, £sV. &c. all thefe and more are fo hap- 
 pily difpofed and diverfified, as if Nature and Art had 
 jointly contrived how they might moft agreeably enter- 
 tain and delight the Eye. Such are the Side- Views. 
 As a Paffenger fails from Ipfwkh y when he enters what 
 is properly called Orwell Haven, the Scene terminates 
 on the Right, with a View of Harwich and the high 
 Coaft of Ej/ex ; on the Left with Landguard-Forty and 
 the high Land of Walton and Felix/low Cliffs behind it; 
 and with a Profpecl of the main Ocean before him. As 
 he returns to Ipfwich, the Scene clofes with a diuinct 
 View of that fair Town, difplaying itfelf to fome Ad- 
 vantage, and forming a Sort of Half-moon as the River 
 winds. 
 
 Before the Conqueft (m) t and for many Years after it, 
 Ipfwicb was in the fame Condition as all other Boroughs 
 
 that 
 
 ( m) As no Ufe is here made of Mr. Bacons Manufcript, 
 concerning the ancient Condition of this Town and its In- 
 habitants ; it may be expetfed that fome Reafon mould be 
 given far it. For Mr. Bacon was a Man of Learning, and 
 good Abilities ; he had alfo great Opportunities of informing 
 himfelf : He was elected Recorder, in 1643 ; he afterwards 
 accepted the Place of Town Clerk ; in 1654, he reprefented 
 the Borough at Oliver Cromive/ts Parliament, and continued 
 his Service in thefe three Capacities to the Day of his Death, 
 in 1659. It is likewife certain, that he did not grudge his 
 Trouble; for, on the Sight of this Book, confiding of°more 
 than Eight hundred Polio Pages, written with his own Hand, 
 one cannot but admire his Indulliy. Mr. Bacon begins his 
 Annals of Ippiu'nh from the Saxon Times, and brings them 
 down to the Death of K'mgCharles I. Here he feems to drop 
 a Tear, and fays, «« The lajl Day of January [1648] puts a 
 " Period to my Pen but his other Writings which were 
 the Work of Years, publilhed in 1649, meiv now deeply he 
 had interelted himfelf in the Confufion of thofe Times, and 
 he was accordingly made Matter of Requefts to Oliver Crom- 
 well. And notwithstanding the Learning and Abilities of 
 this Gentleman, it appears plainly from "thofe Writings, as 
 well as from his Annals of Ipfwich, that he was a Perfon of 
 ftrong Prejudices, and that his Partiality in favour of parti- 
 cular 
 
i £ Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 that were in the ancient Demefne of the Crown, iti 
 Dominio Regis. The King fometimes held thefe Bo- 
 roughs himlelfj and appointed one or more Officers whd 
 were called Prapo/iti, or Provojls ; whofe Bufinels it 
 was to govern the Borough, to fuperintend the Manage- 
 ment 
 
 cular Notions adopted by him, led him into many Miftakes ; 
 fome of which are fo grofs, that they arc not eafily to be ac- 
 counted for. He had juftly conceived high Notions of the 
 great Antiquity of the Borough, and from thence he unwarily 
 inferred the Antiquity of the Corporation, which are two very 
 different Things Ipfwich was perhaps one of the moji ancient 
 Boroughs in the Kingdom, but it was a Royal Borough in 
 ancient Detnrfne ; fo that the BurgefTcs were in general VafTals 
 of the Crown. If it be not one of the moji ancient Corpora- 
 tions, it is certainly one of the 'very ancient Corporations, for 
 not many can claim before it ; yet it was not a free incor- 
 porated Society till King John enfranchifed and made it fo. 
 But Mr. Bacon fuppofes the Corporation to be prior to the Con- 
 quer!. Nay, he carries the Antiquity of the Town fo ridi- 
 culoufly far, that he fuppofes thefe prefent Churches to be 
 the very identical Buildings that exifted in the Saxon Times. 
 For, fpeaking of thofe mentioned ill Dome/day by Name, he 
 adds, *« And, doubtlefs, there were more ; for divers more 
 there are that feem not inferior in Antiquity to anv of the 
 " former." Whereas we know fome of thefe, which feerrt 
 as ancient as the reft, were built long fince the Conqueror's 
 Time. But were it not fo, the Authority of Dome/day Book 
 is fo great, that it is allowed in all Courts to be decifive in 
 all Points determinable by that ; and as no more than nine 
 Churches are therein mentioned, we may be very certain there 
 were no more then .{lauding. Upon relating the idle Story of 
 King Tppus, before-mentioned, Mr. Bacon does not cenfure 
 it, he contents himfelf with a Quere in the Margin, " If not 
 * Wippo, a Saxon of Note for making Laws \ * and refers his 
 Reader to Lindcnbrogius. But the moft glaring Thing of all 
 is, his putting off the Charter of the 40 King Henry III. for 
 a Charter of King Henry II. whereas Mr. Bacon malt know 
 Henry \\. did not re'ign Thirty five Years. And King 
 ivard I. reciting this in his Charter, calls it expfefsly his Fa- 
 ther 's Charter. In other Men, this might be confidered as ani 
 Overfight ; but in a Perfon of Mr. Bacon' 's Difcernment, we 
 know not what to call it. Mr. Bacon is Hill more cbnfufed 
 in his Account of Richard the Fiift's Time. So that we think 
 we have good Reafon not to regard his Account of the Town 
 during this njtry earh Period, but to rely upon ether Authori- 
 tiesj which may, with more Satisfaction, be depended oh. 
 
Ipswich with //j Suburbs. if 
 
 ment of the Demefne Lands, to receive the Geld, Hanfe, 
 and all other Duties and Imports (many of which there 
 were) under the Norman Kings •> thefe Officers were? 
 called Ballivi, or Bailives. 
 
 But the mod ufual Way was, for the King to grant 
 thefe Boroughs to fome Earl, at that Time the higheft 
 Order of Englijh Nobility (n) 9 and a Title of Office, as 
 well as Honour ; and in this Cafe, the Earl appointed the 
 Officers before- mention'dj and the Ufage was, for the 
 King to have two Thirds of the Revenues of the Borough 
 to his own Ufe, or the Ufe of fuch Perfon as he thought 
 fit to grant them to; and the Earl had the other third 
 Part (o), together with the third Penny of all Fines, 
 Forfeitures, Amercements, Be. Sometimes the Earl 
 lett the Revenues of the Borough to fome other Per- 
 fons, for a certain annual Rent, but ftill he had his 
 Third. 
 
 As to the State of the BurgeJJes, at the Time we are 
 fpeaking of ; there might be fome Inhabitants who had 
 Poffeffions without the Borough, held by Military Ser- 
 vice, which was the only free Tenure. Thefe were law- 
 ful Men of the Realm, fui juris, and Free-men, pro- 
 perly fo called. There were others, who, by particular 
 Favour and Grant from the Crown, had changed their 
 Tenures for an annual Payment, which was called a 
 Free-Rent ; as it freed them from the perfonal, and more 
 fervile Service, to which they were before obliged. 
 The reft held by Soccage-Tenure, or fomething equivalent 
 
 to 
 
 ( n) The firft Englijh Duie, in the prefent Senfe of the 
 Word, was Edward the Black Prince, Son of HiugEdwardlll. 
 created by Him Duke of Corneal. 
 
 ( o) Thus Norwich paid 20 /. to the King, and 10 /. to the 
 Earl. In Lewes, two Parts were the King's, and the third 
 was the Earl's. Oxford paid yearly to the King 20 /. and 
 fix Gallons of Honey ; to Earl Alger 10/. and he had a Mill 
 adjoining. Stafford paid 9 /. two Parts of which were the 
 King's, the other was the Earl's. Stlden and Brady, 
 
 c 
 
$£ Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 to it, and were in a State of Vaflalage and Servility (pj, 
 They had, ftri£tly fpeaking, no Property of their own ; 
 fhey held what they had at the Will of the Lord ; could 
 not aliene, nor- could their Children inherit without his 
 Permiflion. Nay, the Lord, under whofe Dominion 
 fhey were, v/as conlldered as having a Sort of Property 
 m their very Perfons, and accordingly they were called 
 hi » Villains, and his Men. Even the Citizens of 
 London thought it a great Point gained, when they ob- 
 tained from the Conqueror what is called his Charter tcv 
 them ; tho' it confifts only of four or five Lines, and 
 contains only thefe two Privileges, viz. That the Bur- 
 geffes mould be Law-worthy (q) ; and that their Chil- 
 dren fhould be their Heirs. Such was the general Con- 
 dition of Boroughs and Surgeries in ancient Demefne ; 
 Whether this were the Condition of Ipfwich in particular^ 
 the Reader may judge by the following Extracts from 
 
 Domefday 
 
 (p } Selden foys, " againfl Miles and Tenant hy Kn'ghis- 
 " oer-v/ce, were oppofed, LiberSoke?nannus, Burgenfis, Viilanus > 
 " tenant in ancient Demefne, and Scruiens. Sokemans were but 
 " Tenants in Soccage, who held by Service of the Plough, and 
 44 fuch like. Burgeifes were Men of Towns, of Per/anal, not 
 " Feudal Worth. Villain, near the like, altho' applied af- 
 « tcrwards to Bond-flaves. Tenants in Demefne, altho' they 
 •* had targe Liberties of Dkcharge and Quiet, as now, yet* 
 ** were reckoned ib far from the Worth of old Tenants by 
 « Knights-Ser<vice, that they bad Wt Rank as Liberi Homines, 
 ** or Free-Men." But, after the Enfranchifement, the Bur- 
 geffes would not admit a Villain to be fiee of Ipfwich ; and 
 %y an Order of Court 23 Henry VII. each one, before Ad- 
 srufiion was to fwear he was a Free Man of England. 
 
 (q) Dr. Brady remarking upon this fays, there were two 
 Ways of being Laiv-ivortby, or having the Benefit of the 
 Law. By the State and Condition of Men's Perfons, fo al- 
 raoft all Free-mcn had the free Benefit of the Law ; bat Men 
 of fervile Condition had not, cfpecially fuch as were in Do- 
 minio, in Demefne for they received jnftice from their L&rds, 
 were fudged by them in moil Cafes, and had not the true 
 Benefit of the Law. So neither could their Children be their 
 fte&»; for they held their Lands and Goods at the Will of 
 *he Lord,*and were not fure to enjoy them longer than shey 
 pica led Him. % 
 
Ipswich with its S u b xj k B 19 
 
 Dome/day Book in the Exchequer, the Authority of which 
 is allowed to be decifive and indifputable. It was finifti- 
 ed in 20 William the Conqueror, or A. D. 1086. 
 
 «* Half Hundred of Gippefwid. This Roger Bigot 
 te keepeth in the King's Hand. And in the Time of 
 «' King Edward [the Confeilbr] Queen Edith ( r) had 
 « e two Parts of the Borough, and Earl Guert (s) had 
 64 the third Part. And the Queen had a Grange (t) 
 *< in Demefn, \_fuo Dominio] to which belonged in the 
 * c Time of King Edward four Carucates of Land [or 
 <c Plough-Lands], and now in like manner twelve 
 " Free-men, who dwell upon other Land of their own 
 * { Property, always occupy fourfcore Acres of this Land* 
 " for the Service and Cuftom of the King. And there 
 «< are ten other Men, Bordarii, who have no Land of 
 ** their own Property, but dwell upon fourfcore and fix 
 " Acres of the Land aforefaid." 
 
 " The Villains always have fix Acres, and this Land 
 « c pays nothing to the King's Geld." 
 
 " Earl Guert, in the Time of King Edward, had one 
 *« Grange, &c. then valued at a Hundred Shillings, with 
 " the Third Penny of the Borough, and 20 1, was paid 
 « for it. But now, with the Third Penny of the Bo- 
 <s rough and with the Third Penny of two Hundreds 3 
 " it pays only 15 /." 
 
 C 2 <£ In 
 
 (r) Queen Edith, Wife of King Edward the Confeflbr, 
 was the Daughter of Earl Goodwin. 
 
 (s J Earl Guert was the fixth Son of Earl Goodwin, there- 
 fore Brother of Queen Edith, and alfo of Hdreld, who dif- 
 puted the Crown with William the Conqueror ; thefe two 
 Brothers were both flain at the decifive Battle of Hapings. 
 
 ft) We fuppofe this to be at prefent the Property of Sir 
 Thomas Tbcroivgood ; it is now no more than a Farm-houfe, 
 but it hath been larger ; and having been formerly a Royal 
 Grange, upon the re-building it, we think it might have the 
 Name of New Palace, or Neva Place, which it retains to this 
 Day. And why might not Hand ford Hall be the ancient 
 Grange of Earl Guert t afterwards mentioned ? But we ac- 
 knowledge then; to be no more than Conjectures, 
 
20 
 
 Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 " Iri the Time of King Edzvard, there were 538 
 <{ BurgefTes, who paid Cuftom to the King, and they 
 " had forty Acres of Land. But now there are no 
 " Burgefies who pay Cuftom, and ( u) ico poor Bur- 
 " gefTes, who can pay no more than One Penny a Head- 
 *' to the King's Geld. So upon the whole, they have 
 " Forty Acres of Land, and Three Hundred and 
 <{ Twenty eight Houfes now empty, and which in the 
 " Time of King Edward, fcotted to the King's Geld. 
 tc Roger the Vice-Earl, lett the whole for 40 /. to be 
 (i paid at the Feaft of St. Michael ; afterwards he could 
 4 ' not have that Rent, and he abated Sixty Shillings of 
 " it, now it pays 37/. And the Earl always hath the 
 « Third ?zxt(x):' 
 
 It is not here faid whether the Revenues of the Bo- 
 rough were lett to one or more Perfons ; but probably 
 they were lett to fome of the principal BurgefTes. And 
 they continued at the fame Rent or near it, for above an 
 hundred Years, as will appear prefently. 
 
 The Policy of the Norman Princes led them to raifa 
 the Condition of the lower People, that by their Means 
 they might the better be enabled to check the Power of 
 the Barons. This was done gradually : Firft, by al- 
 tering the Tenures of private Perfons in the manner be- 
 fore-mentioned ; and then by enfranchifing whole Com- 
 munities, efpecially the Boroughs in Royal De?nefne i as 
 being more immediately dependant upon the Crown. 
 Jpfwich did not enjoy this Benefit before the Reign of 
 King John j yet fome Steps were taken towards it, in 
 the Reign of his Brother King Richard I. viz. 
 
 « The 
 
 ( h) It is not eafy to account for fo great an Alteration in 
 the Borough, within, the Space of Twenty Years or there- 
 about j but, in thofe Times of Confufion, rhere are other In- 
 stances of the like Kind. 
 
 (x) tppwicb Domefday, from that in the Exchequer. 
 
Ipswich with //j Suburbs. 21 
 
 " The Men of Ipfwich owe Forty Marcs, for having 
 «' their Liberties. The Men of Ipfwich have accounted 
 " f° r Sixty Marcs for having their Town in their own 
 " Hands, by increafing the Farm One Hundred Shil- 
 *< lings per Annum, for the Confirmation of our Lord the 
 " King, concerning their Liberties ; they have paid it 
 " into the Treafury, and are acquitted (y) :" /. e. as wc 
 linderftand it, They were to pay in the whole One Hun- 
 dred Marcs, of which they had actually paid Sixty, and 
 flood indebted for the other Forty Marcs. We imadne 
 they found it difficult to raife fo large a Sum, and their 
 not being able to pay the whole, together with the an- 
 nual Rent which kept running on at the Rate of 35 /. 
 per Ann. was what prevented this Agreement with the 
 Crown from taking Effect. That the Farmers were in 
 Arrear, appears from the Entry of the next Year, 7th 
 Richard J. which fays, " The Men of Ipfwich owe 17/. 
 " ioj. for the Rent of Ipfwich for laft Year [i. e. Half 
 a Year's Rent,] « and 35 /. for the Rent of this Year." 
 
 And on the Back of the Great Roll of 10 Richard I. 
 it is faid, to this Effea : The Men of Ipfwich are 
 accountable, 
 
 For fevcral former ? 
 irs . J 
 
 /. s. d. 
 
 Years . ^2 12 1 
 
 Arrears of gRic. I. 10 10 6 
 For the Farm of ) 
 
 this Year— f 35 °o 
 
 /. s, d. 
 
 They have paid — 21 13 5 
 By W rits to the- 
 Bifhop of Nor- 
 wich for 4Years . 
 and half due to? 4 * 
 the Hamlets of 
 Wykes 
 
 What has been now faid, and thefe previous Steps 
 towards obtaining the Enfranchifement of the Borough, 
 will account for the early Date of King John's Charter; 
 for King John came to the Crown on the 8th April 11 99, 
 and his Charter to Ipfwich bears Teji on the 25th of the 
 very next Month. 
 
 C 3 By 
 
 (yj tyf™i<b Domefday. 
 
2,2 Ipswich wflb its Subures. 
 
 J3y this King John granted to the Burgefies, i. The 
 Borough of Ipfivich with all its Appurtenances, Liber-, 
 ties, &c. to be holden of him and his Heirs, to them 
 and their Heirs hereditarily, by the Payment of the right 
 and ufual annual Farm, and One Hundred Shillings more 
 at the Exchequer, by the Hands of the Provo/i of Ipf- 
 ivich (%) &c. 2. He exempted them from the Payment 
 of all Taxes under the feveral Names of 7 />?//, Lejlage, 
 Stallage, Paffage, Pontage, and all other Cuftoms through- 
 out his Land and Sea-ports (a). 3. That they ftiould 
 have a Merchant's Gild and Hanfe of their own. 4, 
 That no Perfon fhould be quartered upon them without 
 their Confent, or take any thing from them by Force (b), 
 5. That they might hold their Lands, and recover their 
 juft Dues from whomfoever they he owing (c). 6. That 
 they fhould hold their Lands and Tenures within the 
 Borough, according to the Cuftom of the Borough of 
 Jpfwich. 7. That none of them fhall be fined or amer- 
 ced, but according to the Laws of the Free-Boroughs. 
 8. And, that they might choofe two Bailives and four 
 Coroners out of the more lawful (d) Men of the faid 
 Town (e). 
 
 Tho s 
 
 (z) Tt is riot here faid what this right and ufual Paytnent 
 was, but we have feen that it was 35 /. per Ann. to which if 
 we add 100 Shillings or 5/. it will make the annual Pay, 
 ment in King Johns Time Sixty Marcs, or 40/. 
 
 (a) This Privilege is now enjoyed to the great Benefit of 
 fach Matters of Ships as are free of the Borough, in ail the 
 Ports of this Kingdom, not excepting the City of London. 
 
 (6 J A plain Proof that they were liable to thefe Oppref- 
 fjons before. 
 
 (c) This was making them lawful Men, which before 
 they were not. 
 
 fdj That is, as we fnppofe, the principal Men of the Town, 
 and fuch as were before the Enfranchifement by the Charter, 
 in a Condition nearejl to that of a free andlanvful Man, properly 
 (q called. In Confirmation of what has been before advanced), 
 it is to be obferved, that almoft Two Hundred Years after 
 the Date of King John's Charter, the whole Number of law- 
 ful Men in this good Town, was no more than 1085 ; yi». 
 
Ipswich with its Susurbs. 25 
 
 Tho' the Burgeffes had a due Senfe of the Privileges 
 conferred upon thern by this Charter, they did not acl 
 in conference of it, until the Thurjday next after 'June 
 24, in the fecond Year of King Johns Reign, which 
 was thirteen Months after the Date of the Charter. 
 This Delay can only be imputed to the Difficulty they 
 found in raifing the Money for it. It being an ufuai 
 "thing not to deliver thefe Grants and Charters before all 
 Fines, Fees, &c. are difcharged and paid. 
 
 But on the Day now mentioned, being a Body newly 
 created, and having no H-oufe or Place to meet in, they 
 aflembled in the Church-Yard of St. Mary at Toiver, ani 
 held their firjl Great Court, which was continued for 
 three Sefiions by Adjournment. At this Court the Bur- 
 geiTes elected the firjl Bailives. And they refolved that 
 .there fhould he in this Borough Twelve Capital Portmen, 
 as there were in the other Free Boroughs of England 
 At the fecond Seflicn, they elected four Men out of 
 each Parifh, to acl: as a Committee for the whole Town- 
 fhip ; which Committee chofe the Firjl Twelve Portmen* 
 At the third Seflion, they ordered a Common- Seal to be 
 made ; and chofe an Alderman of the Merchants Gild 9 
 with four Afibciates to affift him. 
 
 The fecond Great Court was held on the Sunday next 
 after September 8, in the fame Year, and in the fame 
 C 4 -Church- 
 In the Parifh of 
 
 St. Margaret 214 St. George • 26* 
 
 St. El/en's 29 St. Juflin with Stoke — 26 
 
 St. Clement 137 St. Nicholas . 136 
 
 St. Mary at Key • - 45 St. Mary at Elms 56 
 
 Brook's Hamlet 7 St. Mary at To-zver 147 
 
 Wyke's Hamlet ■ 15 St. Laurens 127 
 
 St. Matthew 89 St. Stephen 3* 
 
 10S5. 
 
 This was In 4 King Richard M. or 1381. Bacon's M.S. 
 Fol. 94. 
 
 (e) See what is faid of Norwich, under the Article of Btc« 
 (ks, in Wangjord Hundred. 
 
24 Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 Church-yard ; when they re- elected the fame two Per- 
 fons to be Bailives for the fucceeding Year. The fecond 
 Seffion of this Court was held by Adjournment in the 
 Cbunh of St. Mary Tower ; when the Common Seal 
 was produced, and three Perfons were appointed to keep 
 that and the Charter, who were the Firfl Clavigers. 
 Soon after, in this Year, the Priors of Trinity and St. 
 Peters Priories were admitted Free BurgefTes, paying 
 Fines, viz. the Prior of Trinity Twenty Shillings, and the 
 Prior of St. Peters One Marc, in Aid of the Expence in 
 obtaining the Charter. Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, 
 was likewife admitted a Free Burgefs ; and it is men- 
 tioned as a Reafon, becaufe the faid Earl aflifted in 
 procuring the King's Charter, to be delivered to the 
 Town. 
 
 But, even after the Enfranchifement took place, the 
 Boroughs in Demefne found this farther Inconvenience, 
 that they were obliged in all Aids made to the King in 
 Parliament, to pay a greater Proportion than the other 
 free Subjects did. Thus, in 22 King Edward I. when 
 the Subjects in general were afleflcd one Tenth of their 
 perfonal Effects, the City of London and the other Cities 
 and Boroughs in Demefne, paid one Jixth Part of their 
 Perfonaky ; and, in the next Year, when the Kingdom 
 in general was affeffed for one eleventh Part, the 
 Cities and Boroughs in Demefne paid one feventh. And 
 after the Citizens and BurgefTes were regularly fummoned 
 to Parliament, as well as the Earls, Barons, and Knights 
 of the Shires, it became a fettled'Rule, that the Cities 
 and Boroughs in Demefne, fhould give about one Third 
 more, than the Earls, Barons and Knights did grant. 
 Thus in 34 Edward I. when the People in general paid 
 a Thirtieth Part, the Citizens and BurgefTes in Demefne 
 paid a Twentieth ; i Edward II. when the People in ge- 
 neral paid one Twentieth Part, the Bur gejfes ' in Demefne 
 paid one Fifteenth \ and in 1 2 Edivard II. when the reft 
 
 werq 
 
I IP s w i c h with its Suburbs. 25 
 
 were taxed an Eighteenth, the Burgeffes in Demefne were 
 taxed one Twelfth Part. It doth farther appear from a 
 Writ in 43 Edward III. that Ipfwich was the only Bo- 
 rough in this County, that was in the ancient Demefne of 
 the Crown, (f). 
 
 King Edward I. in the Thirteenth Year of his Reign, 
 for certain ExcefTes and Offences by the Burgeffes of 
 Ipfwich committed (but what thefe were is not men- 
 tioned) feized the Borough into his own Hands, and 
 kept it till his 19th Year ; when being pleafed, (as it is 
 faid,) with the Service performed by fome Ships from 
 Ipfwich, in his Expedition againft Scotland; he re-granted 
 the Borough with its Liberties, &c. to the Burgeffes, and 
 confirmed the Charters of King John and Henry III. by 
 his Charter, dated at Berwick 23 June 19 Edward III. or 
 A. D. 1291. But he punifiied the Town fufficiently, 
 by railing the Annual Rent full 50 per Cent, for inftead 
 of Sixty Marcs, he made it Sixty Pounds; and thus it hath 
 continued ever hnce(g). And perhaps a better Reafon 
 may be alligned for his reftoring the Charters, than that 
 before-mentioned ; fince it appears from that Part of the 
 Sheriff of Norfolk's Account which we have feen, that 
 the King did not receive fo much from the Borough 
 during the Seizure, as the Annual Fee farm thus raifed 
 amounted to. But Bacon's MS. fays, Philip Harneis, 
 John Clement, Vivian Sihefler, and John Brifet did in 
 18 Edward I. account for 60 /. Farm, during the King's 
 Pleafure ; and that this appeareth from Rot. Mag. Norf, 
 in the Exchequer ; fo this Agreement might fix the An- 
 nual Rent at 60 /. 
 
 Ai 
 
 (f) BraJy, p. 41. 
 
 (g) Out of the Fee-farm due annually from this Borough, 
 the Corporation, by Queen E.'zzabet/Ss School Charter, is 
 authorized to detain 24/. 6s. 8d. for the Mailer's Salary; 
 and 14/. 6s. 8d. for the U flier's Salary; the remaining 
 Sum of 21/. 6s. 8 d. was fold in the Reign of K. Charles II, 
 $uid is now the Property of Robert Edgar, Efcj; 
 
zS Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 As foon as their Charters were reftored, the Burgefles 
 ele&ed Twenty-Four Men to a& as a Committee,' 
 and to collecT: the ancient Ufages and Cuftoms of the 
 Borough, and to enroll them, that they might be better 
 known and afcertained than they had been fince the E- 
 lopement of one John Blake, who was the Town-Clerk ; 
 and in the laft Year of King Henry III. he fled from the 
 Town, and carried away fome of their Records. When 
 the Body of Twenty-four Men was firft inftituted, doth 
 not appear ; but we think it not improbable, that it 
 might have its Rife from this Committee ; yet we do 
 not find them mentioned as a Body, before the Time of 
 Edward IV. but then they are mentioned as having been 
 long in Ufe. 
 
 There are fevcral ancient Ufages and Cuftoms, fomc 
 of which continue to this Day. Particularly, 
 
 1. Upon an Alienation after Seifm of Tenements in 
 the faid Town delivered to a Purchafer, the Wife of the 
 Vender may come into Court, and being folely examined, 
 may acknowledge that Alienation to be done with her 
 Confent; and that Recognizance being enrolled, is 
 final. 
 
 2. Tenements in Fee may be devifed by Will, and 
 by Cuftom of the Town, fuch Wills may be proved (h) 
 and enrolled, and Seiftn mail be delivered to him to 
 whom they are bequeathed. 
 
 3. Every Heir Male or Female is of full Age at the 
 Age of Fourteen Years i and then the Friends who have 
 received the .Rents during the Minority, fliall account. 
 
 4. All 
 
 (h) The Ufage was to prove fuch Wills as devifed Lands 
 or Houfes before the Bailives, when the Town-Clerk endorfed 
 upon them a Memorandum of fuch Probat, and then fuch 
 Wills were proved and lodged in the Spiritual Courts, for the 
 Perfonalty. Many Wills are in the Archdeacon's Office with 
 fuch Endowments ; fome as late as the Time of King 
 Henry VIII. 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 27 
 
 4. All Tenements m this Town are partable, as well 
 between Heirs Male as Heirs Female (i), if they be not 
 foreclofed by Gift or Bequeft of their Aneeftor. 
 
 5. If a Burgefs take a Wife, whether Damfel or 
 Widow, fo that he wedded no other Wife afore, and the 
 Wife out-live her Hufband ; the Wife fhall have all the, 
 chief Place of her Hufband whereof he died feifed in 
 the faid Town in his Domain, as of Fee, to hold in Name 
 of Free-bank^ while (he keeps her Widowhood, without 
 making Wafte or Alienation in Dijberifon of the Heir. 
 
 6. All thofe that have Lands and Tenements in the 
 Town, whether Male or Female, and can reckon and 
 count; and have accompiifhed the Age of Fourteen 
 Years, may give his Land or Freehold, or fell it, or lett 
 it, and of his Right quit Claim for evermore, as if he 
 had accompiifhed the Age of Twenty-one Years. 
 
 7. A Woman Covert may be compelled to anfwer in 
 a Plea of Trefpafs, on Pain of Imprifonment, in like 
 manner as fhe would were fhe file ; fo that the Trefpafs 
 be perfonal, and touch not Freehold, 
 
 The Body of Portmen were not originally created by 
 Charter, but appointed by the BurgelTes, as we faid be- 
 fore. How long they continued, doth not certainly ap- 
 pear ; but that they were not kept up in the Beginning 
 of King Edward the Second's Reign, is clear : For about 
 the 3d Edward II. or A. D. 1310, the BurgelTes refolved 
 to revive that Order, and elected Twenty-feven Men out; 
 of the feveral Parifhes, viz. St. Margaret's, 4 ; St. Mary 
 T iwcr, 4 ; St. Matthew and St. George, 3 ; St. Laurence 
 and St. Stephen, 4 ; St. Mary Ehns and St. Nicholas, 4 j 
 
 St, 
 
 (i) This is called Gavelkind, and furnithes another Proof 
 of the fervile State of the ancient Burgefles : For wherever 
 this Cuftom obtained, it was originally introduced by the Po- 
 licy of the Chief Lord, in order to keep all their Vaflals as 
 near as might be upon an Equality with each other ; that fo, 
 their own Superiority over them all, might appear the more 
 confiderable and confpicuous, 
 
2$ Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 St. Peter and St. Auflin, 4 j St. Mary Key and St. Cle- 
 ment ^ 4. Thefe made a Committee, who were to cboofe 
 Twelve Portmen to preferve the Laws, Cuftoms, &c. and 
 to do all other Things as the other Twelve Men ufed to 
 do ; and, upon a Death it was agreed, the Eleven fliould 
 choofe another in his Stead (k). 
 
 \ About 18 King Edward III. William Sh'arford fat as 
 Judge of Affize here ; and, being a morofe Man, he 
 tvas fo offended with the Magiftrates for not apprehend- 
 ing fome Sailors who had behaved, as he thought, rudely 
 towards him (I J, that he caufed the King to feize the 
 Liberties : So the Government of the Town was com- 
 mitted to the Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk j and Ed- 
 ward Noon was deputed by him as Keeper of the Town. 
 But this did not laft above a Year ; for tho' upon the 
 Monday after St. Matthew (Sept. 21.) a Court was held 
 before Edward Noon, Deputy-Keeper, yet on the Lord's 
 t>ay after the AlTumption of the Virgin Mary (Aug. 15.) 
 following, a Court was holden before John de Prcjloun 
 and William Ringold Bailiffs, as ufual (mj. 
 
 Next to the Charter of King John that of 24 King 
 Henry VI. was mod beneficial ; by this he incorporated 
 the Town by the Name of " The Burgeffes of Jpfwich." 
 He authorifed them in every Year to elect two Burgeffes 
 to be Bailives at the accujlomed Time and Place, to exer- 
 cife that Office for one whole Tear. He granted to the 
 Bailives, and Four fuch other Burgeffes as the faid Bai- 
 lives fliall be pleafed to take to them out of the Twelve 
 
 Portmen^ 
 
 (k) Bacon's MS. Fol. 49. 
 
 (I) It is faid the Cafe was this : The Sailors thought the 
 Judge ftayed too long at Dinner; fo at laft one of them fat 
 upon the Bench, and caufed another to make Proclamation, 
 requiring William Sbarford to come into Court, and fave his 
 Fine i who not appearing, the Sailor-Judge fined him. This 
 Was the Offence. 
 
 H Bacon's MS. Fol. 76. 
 
 I 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 29 
 
 Portmen{n), the Office of Juftice of the Peace, &c. 
 within the faid Town ; granted all Fines, Forfeitures, 
 and Amercements arifing from the Office of Juftice o£ 
 the Peace, &c. and the Affize of Bread, Wine, and Ale ; 
 appointed fuch one of the Bailives, as at the time of 
 their Election the Burgenes mail choofe, to be Efcheator% 
 and exprefsly granted the Admiralty, and Clerkfhip of 
 the Market. 
 
 King Henry VI. being of the Houfe of Lantajier, his 
 Succeflbr EdwardlV . recites in his Charter all the Char- 
 ters of the former Kings, but takes no notice of this., 
 From hence it has happened that the Charter of King 
 Henry VI. is never mentioned. But it is certain the 
 Burgefies accepted it, and acted under it; for in 26 
 Henry VI. it was ordered that all the Profits of the 
 Offices of Efcheator and Juftice of the Peace ihould be 
 applied towards the Expence of the Building at the End 
 of the Hall of Pleas. Robert Wode was the firft Efchea- 
 tor, elected in Form 24 Henry VI. It is to be obferved, 
 that tho' the Affize of Bread, &c. and the Offices of 
 Ad?niral and Clerk of the Market were firft exprefsly 
 granted in this Charter of Henry VI. the Bailives did 
 always exercife thofe Offices by the Cufloin of the Town,, 
 Thus particularly, on a Quo Warranto for removing the 
 Fifh-Maiket in the Time of Henry III. they juftified 
 themfelves . by the Cujlom, and that Plea was admitted. 
 Bacon's MS . 
 
 Tho' Edward IV. would take no notice of the pre- 
 ceding Charter, he himfelf granted all the Privileges 
 mentioned in that, with the following Alterations and 
 Additions, viz. 
 
 He incorporated the Town by the Name of the Bailiffs, 
 Burgejfes, and Commonalty of the Town of Ipfivich. He 
 confined the Election of Bailives exprefsly to 8 September, 
 
 and 
 
 («) This is the firft mention that is made of the Port men-' 
 in any Charter. 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 and in the Guild-Hall, and they were to ferve for ond 
 Year from thence next following (o)> And he exprefsly 
 exempted the Burgeffes from Service on Juries. 
 
 The fucceeding Kings confirmed the Charters of their 
 Predeceflbrs ; but the moft interefting Charter fince thofe 
 of Henry VI. and Edward IV. was that of King 
 Charlesll. who in his feventeenth Year (to rectify fome 
 Irregularities, and fettle fome Difputes which had arifen 
 in the preceding Times of Confufion, particularly with 
 regard to the Election of Portmen, and the Twenty-four 1 
 chief Conftables) granted his Charter, in which he con- 
 firmed the High Steward, the Twelve Portmen, the 
 Twenty-four chief Conftables, the Recorder and Town- 
 Clerk for that Time being, by their Names ; and directed 
 that upon the Death or Removal of one or more of the 
 Portmen or Chief Conftables, all Elections of Portmert 
 fliould be made by the Reft or Refidue of the Portmen, 
 and all Elections of the Twenty-four mould be made by 
 the Reft or Refidue of them, 
 
 After the Example of moft other Boroughs, towards 
 the latter End of the Reign of King Charles II. the Bur- 
 geffes of Ipfwich furrendered their Charter ; and, inftead 
 of it, in 36 Charlesll. he gave them another, which re- 
 duced the Number of Chief Conftables to Eighteen ; and 
 in this a Power was referved, that the Crown might by 
 an Order of Council, turn out any of the Portmen and 
 
 Eighteen 
 
 (0) From this Expreffion fome have objefled to the Pra&ice 
 of fwearina the new Bailives on Michaelmas-Day ; and the 
 Contenders'™ different Sides have at different Times availed 
 themfelves of the Objection. But conftant Ufage hath more 
 Weight than the Words of a Charter : And it is certain, the 
 Cuftom hath always been to fwear the Bailives on the 29th 
 September, and they have conitantly ferved their Office until 
 the Michaelmas-Day following. May, it doth frill appear upon 
 Record, that this was the Ufage wkhin nine Years after the 
 Grant of Edward the Fourth's Charter ; for in the Month of 
 May I" Edward IV. William Style was elected Bailiff in the 
 room of John Creyk deceafed, to execute the Office with 
 John Wal'tworth, the other Bailiff, until thefeaft of St. Michael 
 next following. Gr. Court Book. 
 
Ipswich with its S u b u r b s. 3 1 
 
 Eighteen Chief-Conftables, when and as often as his 
 Majefty, or his Succeffors, fhould be pleafed fo to do.-— 
 In confequence of this referved Power King James II. 
 by two Orders of Council dated the 27 April and 25 
 May, A.D. 1688, out of the Thirty Portmen and Chief 
 Conftables, actually removed Twenty-three. But tho* 
 the Burgeffes received this Charter, and aded under it, 
 yet the Surrender of the Town made to K. Charles II, 
 was not enrolled; nor was any Judgment entered upon 
 Record, upon the Quo Warranto brought againft the 
 Corporation in the Reign of King Charles II. And 
 therefore upon the Publication of King James's Procla- 
 mation of 1 7 October, 1688, the Bailives, Portmen, and 
 Twenty-four Men, who had acted under the firft Charter 
 of 1 7 Charles II. refumed their Functions j they affem- 
 bled and filled up their Bodies refpe&ively, and from 
 thefe Portmen and thefe Twenty-four Men are the prefent 
 Portmen and Twenty-four Men, in Succeffion derived. 
 
 The remaining Portmen in 1688, were, John Burroughs 
 ^Charles Wright, ^Lawrence Stifled, Richard Philips, 
 Richard Sparrow, ^William Neave, William Browne, 
 
 * Edward Reynolds, and *John Blomfield. The remaining 
 Twenty-four Men, were, * Robert Ridnal, *Jobn Sawyer, 
 J. Firman, *J. Camplin, *Tho. Blight, *J. Gibbon, *Rob, 
 Cockeril, *Rob. Smith, *Rob. Manning, Truth Norris, 
 
 * James Page, *Nat. Bateman, *Hen. Spar owe, *Hen, 
 Capon, *Tho. Riches, *Wm. Tye, *Nic. Philips, and J, 
 Reeve (p). 
 
 The Borough fends two Members to Parliament, who 
 are elected by the Burgeffes at large, in Number be- 
 tween 600 and 700. 
 
 The 
 
 (p) Thofe who bave this Mark [*] were either left out 
 of the Eighteen-Charter, or were removed by K. James \\. 
 This King did alfo grant the Town a Charter, in the laft 
 Year of his Reign ; by which he increafed the Number of 
 Chief Conftables to the ancient Number of Twenty-four ; 
 but it doth not appear to us, that this Charter was accepted, 
 or that the Corporation afted under it, and therefore we take 
 no farther Notice of it. 
 
32 Ipswich 'with its Suburbs. 
 
 The principal Officers in the Corporation at prefent 
 are, two Bailives, a High-Steward, a Recorder, Twelve 
 Portmen, of whom four are Juftices of the Peace ; a 
 Town-Clerk ; Twenty-four Chief Conftables, of whom 
 two are Coroners ; and the Twelve Seniors are Head- 
 boroughs ; a Treafurer, and two Chamberlains, to col- 
 led!: the Revenues of the Town. The Corporation have 
 alfo fifteen Livery -Servants, viz. five Mulicians, four 
 Serjeants at Mace, two Beadles, a Common- Cryer, a 
 Water-Bail iff, a Goaler, and a Bridewell-Keeper. 
 
 An Acc o u n t of the Churches i Religious 
 Houfes, and other Buildings, &c. &c. in 
 I P b W I C H, its Suburbs, and Precincts, 
 
 TH E following Churches are mentioned in Domes- 
 day-Book, as ftanding in the Conqueror's Time, 
 viz. The Holy Trinity, St. Aujlin, St. Michael, St. Mary, 
 Sf. Botolph [i. e. Whitton Church], St. Laurence, St. Peters, 
 St. Stephen, and Thurlwejlon. Of thefe, the three for- 
 mer are down and not rebuilt. i$Edw. I. or A. D. 
 
 1287. f« On New year's Day at Night, as well through 
 «' Vehemency of the Wind as Violence of the Sea, many 
 Churches were overthrown and deftroyed, not only at 
 " Yarmouth, Dunwich, and Ipfwich, but alfo in divers 
 M other Places in England." Stowe's Annals. 
 
 There are at prefent, 1. St. Clement : This Church 
 was early and wholly impropriated to the Priory of St. 
 Peter, without any Vicarage created ; and its being thus 
 impropriated, when the laft Valuation was made, occa- 
 fioned its not being valued in the King's Books (q). 
 
 The 
 
 (q) But it pays a Fee-farm Rent of 40/. 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 33 
 
 The Impropriation was granted, 7 Edw. VI. to William 
 Webb and William Breton j but afterwards it came into 
 the Hands of Robert Broke and William Blo'fie, who pre- 
 fented a CJerk to the Rectory in A. D. 1606, and there- 
 by reftored the Re&or to all the Rights and Dues which 
 he was entitled to before the Impropriation was made. 
 This Church is now ^confolidated with St. Hellen's. 
 " K. Richard gave Wykes a Member of Ipfwich [and in 
 cc this Parifh] to John Oxenford Bifhop of Norwich^ 
 " which (hall anfwer to Ipfwich for 10/. (r) ; and the 
 <c Bifhop of Norwich holdeth it, but it is not known by 
 " what Service." The Hamlet and Manor of Wykes- 
 Bijhop was afterwards confirmed to John le Gray, Bifhop 
 of Norwich, by K. John j and it belonged to the Bifhops 
 of Norwich till it was given to K. Henry VIII. by A&of 
 Parliament in 1535; who granted it A. D. 1545, to 
 Sir Johnjermie, Knt. While the Biftiops of Norwich 
 had it, they ufed frequently to refide at their Houfe fi- 
 tuated near the South-fide of the Road, leading towards 
 Naclon from Bijhops-Hill ; where there is how a fquare 
 Field, which feems as if formerly it had been moated 
 round. Many Inftitutions, &c. are faid in the Books at 
 Norwich, to have been granted at this Place. The Ma- 
 nor of Wykes-Bijhop is now vefted in the Heirs of Sir 
 Samuel Barnardijlon, of Brightwell. The Church of 
 Wykes is fometimes mentioned in old Writings ; but it 
 is not known where it flood ; and poffibly it might be no 
 more than a Chapel, for the Ufe of the Bifhop and his 
 Family. 
 
 Within this Parifh of St. Clement lieth alfo Part of the 
 Hamlet of Wykes Vfford, tho' the greater Part of it is in 
 the Parifhes of Rujhinere and Wejler field \ it was fo called 
 
 D from 
 
 ( r) Ipfwich Domefday. It appears by an Account copied 
 into this Book, that in the Time of Richard I. the Town 
 ufed to pay 10/. per Ann. to the Bifhop of Norwich, which 
 was allowed to them and dedu&ed out or the Fee-Farm 
 Rent. 
 
34 Ipswich with its Suburbs-.' 
 
 from the Family of De Uffords, who were Earls of Suf- 
 folk, to whom it was formerly granted. William de Uf- 
 ford y Earl of Suffolk, died feifed of it 5 Richard II. Af- 
 terwards the Willoughbys had it by Defcent from Charles 
 Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. In Q;, Elizabeth's Time Sir 
 'John Brewes, then Sir Edmund IVythipol, and it hath gone 
 with Chrijl-Church Eftate ever fince, being now veiled in 
 Thomas Fonnereau, Efq; 
 
 Beyond St. Clement's Street, and between the two- 
 Hamlets flood St. James's Chapel (s), now wholly down : 
 This did, probably, belong to St. James's Hofpital. And 
 the Field near which it flood, is Glebe belonging to the 
 Rectory of St. Hellen. From hence, and from the Grant 
 of St. James's Fair, it may be conjectured that there was 
 fome Connexion between St. James's Hofpital and the 
 Leprous-Houfe of St. Mary Magdalene, which is faid to 
 have flood fome where oppofite to St. Hellen s Church* 
 Certain it is, King John, within three Weeks after he 
 fucceeded to the Crown, granted a Fair to the Lepers of 
 St. Mary Magdalene in Ipfwich, to be held on the Day 
 and Morrow of St. James the Apoflle ; fome fmall Re- 
 mains of which Fair flLll continue. When the Leprous- 
 Houfe of St. Mary Magdalene was diflblved, the Reve- 
 nues 
 
 (s) St. James's Chapel Itood adjoining to the South-weft 
 Corner of that Piece of Ground after-mentioned, which is 
 Glebe belonging to the Refitory of St. Hellen, and from the 
 Life to which it was for many Years applied,, called the Rope- 
 Ground. For afier the Site of it was built upon, it was fold 
 by Thomas EJJington, Lord of Bright-well, and of the Manor 
 of Wykes-Bijbop in A.D. 1655. And in the Conveyance to 
 one Nqyfe, " he fells the MeiTuage called or known by the 
 
 «' Name of the Chapel , and the Yard called the Cha- 
 
 " pel-yard, containing half an Acre more or lefs, now io- 
 " clofed within a Pale, as the fame are fituated in the Ham- 
 " let of Wykes-Bijhopy between the common Way leading 
 " from St Clemenf &-i\rtet to Bixley on the North, and the 
 t( common Way leading from Ipfaich to Colneis on the South, 
 " and abut upon the Rope yard towards the Ealf, and upon 
 " a fmall Alley leading from the faid common Way. &c. to 
 *' to the common Way, &c. aforefaid, towards the Welt.'" 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 35 
 
 nues of it were annexed to the Re&ory of St. Helkn of 
 Caldwell^ 9 Henry VTll (t). and with them probably the 
 Revenues of St. James's Hofpital ; for, befide the Piece 
 of Glebe before-mentioned, the Reclor of St. Hellen was 
 entitled to fome Portion of the Tythes ariling annually 
 from the Lands in the Hamlet of Wykes-Bifbop j and for 
 this Portion, a Compofition was conftantly paid by the 
 Re£tor of St. Clement, before the Confolidation of the 
 two Churches, when they were in different Hands. 
 
 2. St. Hellen. Altho' this Church was formerly impro- 
 priated to the Hofpital of St. James, or St. Mary Magda- 
 lene^ it hath been inftituted into a Re£tory, above two 
 hundred Years. The Bilhop of Norwich had the Ad- 
 vowfon till he parted with the Manor of Wykes. 
 
 In a Field almoft oppofite to Caldwell- Hall, now called 
 Cold-Hall, on the South of the Road leading to Kefgrave, 
 flood the Church of St. John Baptijl, in Caldwell; of 
 which there are no Remains. It was impropriated to 
 "trinity Priory, and granted with that to Sir Thomas Pope. 
 The Church of St. Hellen enjoyeth at this Day a Piece 
 of Land within the Chauntry- Lands in Sproughton and 
 Stoke ; two Pieces of which Chauntry-Lands, are thus 
 defcribed : W The South Head whereof abutteth upon the 
 " Meadow pertaining to the Church of Caldwell in part, 
 c< &c." And then follow, '* Two Meadows lying to-- 
 '* gether in Sproughton and Stoke, abutting upon the A4ea- 
 " dow pertaining to the Church of St. Hellen s in Calds 
 ** well, towards the Weft." 
 
 St. Edmund a Pountney, corruptly fo called for Pon- 
 tiniac in France, where he was buried, had a Chapel 
 which ftood towards the South- weft Corner of Rofcmary- 
 lane, Brook-Jheet ; and which was impropriated to St. 
 
 D 2 Peter s 
 
 (t ) A Piece of Ground Eaft of tbe upper Rope walk in. 
 St. Clement's Pariih ; and behind, that is, South of the Houfes 
 oppofite to the Church of St. Hellen, is Glebe belonging to the 
 iaid Churcji ; and probably, here this Leprous Houle might 
 Itand. 
 
1 p s \v i c h" with its Suburbs; 
 
 Peter's Priory ; but being in the Gift of the Bifhop tif 
 Norwich, as St. Hellens was, they were given to the 
 fame Incumbent till they were united. John le Bergham 
 is mentioned 26 Edward I. as Parfon of St. Edmund's* 
 Chapel, in Ipfw'ich. This St. Edmund was Archbifhop 
 of Canterbury, and being weary of the Pope's Exactions 
 in England, became a voluntary Exile at Pontiniac in 
 France, where he died, A. D. 1240 (u) j wi:h the Ho- 
 nour and Reputation of a Saint. The Redor of St. 
 Hellen enjoys a Portion of Corn -Tithes from certain 
 Lands in Hoxne, one Fieldof which is called Pour.tney Clofe 3- 
 and thefe Tithes did, probably, belong to this Chapel. 
 
 3. St. Laurence is faid, in Domefday , to have had twelve 
 Acres of Land. Norman, the Son of Eadnoth, gave this 
 Church to Trinity Priory, who got it impropriated to 
 them. But there having been no Praedial Tithes belongs 
 ing to it for many Years, there was no Grant of the Im- 
 propriation at the Diflblution. The prefer.t Building 
 was begun by John Bottold, who died A. D. 1431 (x). 
 The Chancel was built by John Baldwyn, Diaper, who- 
 dkdA.D. 1449.; and his Name is in the Stone- work 
 under the Eaft Window, now plaftered over. Several 
 Legacies were about that time given towards building 
 the Steeple. 
 
 A. D. 15 14. Edmund Daundy, Portman of Ipfwich,- 
 founded a Chauntry in this Church for a Secular Prieft to 
 offer at the Altar of St. Thomas, in Behalf of himfelf 
 and his Relations, among whom he reckoned Thomas 
 M oljey, then Dean of Lincoln ; and his Parents Robert- 
 
 and 
 
 (uj Vid. Mat. Pans. 
 
 fx J Upon removing a Pew in this Church (Weaver faith, 
 p. 750,) an ancient Monument came to Light ; which is as* 
 follows : 
 
 Subjacet hoc lapide John Eottold, vlr probiis :pfe 
 Ijlius eccleJifS primus- inceptor fuit ijle, . 
 Gujus ani?n<e, D amine, nriferere tu bone Cbrijie. 
 
 Obis/ MCCCCXXXI. Litera Dominialis. G. 
 
LpswiCh with , its Suburbs. 37 
 
 ,and yane Wolfey, then deceafed : And gave this Prieft and 
 his Succefibrs, his Houfe in St. Lawrence Parifti, for a 
 Manfion : And his Lands in Sproughton y Stoke, and Al- 
 mefborne, for a Maintenance. Mr. Daundy firft built the 
 Market-Crofs, and was one of the moft refpedtable Men 
 of the Town, in his Time. All his Daughters married 
 Gentlemen of good Fortune ; and the Iflue of one of 
 them, was the Wife of Lord-Keeper Bacon. It appears 
 then, that Cardinal Wolfey was well allied \ and as we 
 meet with nothing that gives the leajl Countenance to the 
 common Notion of his being the Son of a Butcher (y), 
 it is very probable that his Parents were not in fuch mean 
 Circumftances, as the Cardinal s Enemies have taught 
 the World to believe. See St. Nicholas. 
 
 In the Church-Cheft of this Parifh, fliufjled in among 
 « other Deeds, a Receipt was lately found, given by Ed- 
 .Ward Grymejlon to Lionel Talmage and William Fo/ler, 
 Efquires, 'John Holland and Matthew Goodyng, Bailiffs 
 of Ipjwich, (Commiflioners for the Sale of Church Goods 
 within the faid Town,) acknowledging the following 
 Particulars, viz. Thirty-eight Pounds Seven Shillings and 
 .Four-pence in ready Money, arifing from Goods already 
 fold by them ; Four Hundred Three/core and Seventeen 
 Ounces and a half of Plate; Eight Copes of Cloth of 
 Gold and TifTue ; Two Veftments of Cloth of Gold and 
 TifTue ; and Two Tunicles of Cloth of Gold and TifTue, 
 to be delivered over to the Ufe of the King's Majefty by 
 the faid Edward Grymejlon 3 dated 28 May, 7 Edw. VI. 
 or A.D. 1553. 
 
 D3 St. 
 
 (y) The vulgar Notion is, that the Cardinal built the 
 Shambles, in the Market-fquare ; but this cannot be true : 
 For it is certain they were re-built, or at leaft very thoroughly 
 repaired in 40 of Elizabeth; when a great Quantity of Tim- 
 ber was taken down for this Purpofe, upon the Manors of 
 Uherjlone Hall and Sackvyles, in Debenbam. Had they been 
 built by Wolfey, they could not in fo fhort a Time have wanted 
 fuch Repair. For we think, nothing confiderable hath been 
 done to them from that Time to this. 
 
g8 Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 4. St. Margaret. This Church was impropriated to the 
 Priory of the Holy Trinity. — Trinity Church, from which 
 prohably the Priory had its Name, flood near St. Mar- 
 garet's Church-yard ; and is mentioned in Domefday, as 
 being endowed in the Conqueror's Time with Twenty- 
 fix Acres of Land. The flrong Foundation of this Steeple 
 was, within thefe few Years, undermined and blown up 
 with Gunpowder. The Priory was founded and chiefly 
 endowed before A. D. 1 1 77, by Norman Gaflrode, for 
 Black Canons of the Order of St, Aujiin ; the Founder 
 became one of the firfl Canons. King Henry II. granted 
 the Prior and Convent a Fair on Holy- Rood Day, Sept. 14. 
 to continue for three Days. Not long after the Founding 
 of this Monaflery, the Church and the Offices were burnt 
 down ; but they were rebuilt by John of Oxford, Bifhop 
 of Norwich ; whereupon King Richard I. gave the Pa- 
 tronage of the Priory to him and his Succeflbrs. The 
 Grant of the Fair was afterwards confirmed by K. John, 
 who, moreover, gave to the Priory all the Lands and 
 Rents formerly belonging to the Churches of St. Muhael y 
 and St. Saviour's, in Ipfwich. From this Expreffion, it 
 feems as if both thefe Churches were even then dilapir 
 dated, No Man knows at this Day where they flood j 
 but there is a fort of uncertain Tradition, which fays, 
 the Church of St. Saviour flood behind St. Mary Elms, 
 fomewhere in the Garden belonging to the Houfe of 
 Robert Milner, Efq; in Wejlgate-Jlreet. And that the 
 Church of St. Michael, which is laid in Domefday to have 
 had eight Acres of Land, flood fomewhere near to the 
 Church of St. Nicholas ( z). The Revenues of this Priory 
 in 26 Henry V 111. were valued at 88/. 6 s. qd. per Ann. 
 and were granted 36 Henry VIII. to Sir Thomas Pope, 
 There is now a good Seat called Chrift -Church, built by 
 Sir Edmund Whitapole, and inclofed within a Pale. Sir 
 Edmund's only Child was married to Leicejler Lord Vif- 
 
 count 
 
 - fzj See St. Nicfoki afterwards, and St Mary Elms. 
 
Ipswich with its Sub ur b s. 39 
 
 ■count Hereford^ whofe Heirefs married Pryce late Lord 
 Vifcount Hereford, and this Eftate was fold by Him to 
 Claude Fonnereau, Efq; whofe eldeft Son and Heir Tbo?nas 
 Fonnereau, Efq; Member of Parliament for the Borough 
 of Sudbury.^ in this County, doth now enjoy it. 
 • The Church of St. Margaret is not mentioned iri 
 Domefday, fb that it was not then in being ; but the 
 Church of the Holy Trinity being wholly appropriated to 
 the Ufe of the Prior and Convent, we think this Church 
 might be built for the Ufe of the Paiifhioners. 
 
 The Parliamentary Vifitors who acted in Suffolk, by 
 virtue of a Warrant from the Earl of Manchefter in the 
 Year 1648, and who from their Hatred of painted 
 Glafs, may be called, The Window -breaking Vifitors, took 
 down from this Church the twelve Apoftles in Stone, 
 and ordered between twenty and thirty Pictures to be 
 taken down. This appears from the Journal of William 
 Dowfing, of Stratford, who was principally concerned 
 and had a power of appointing Deputies to vifit and de- 
 face Churches in Suffolk ; a Part of which Journal ac- 
 cidentally came into our Hands. 
 
 5. St. Mary at Elms. This Church was given to Trinity 
 Priory by Alan the Son of Edgar Aleto, and Richard the 
 Son of Alan. But there feems to have been no Grant 
 made of the Impropriation, fince the Diffolution of that 
 Monaftery. In Domefday Book only one Church is 
 mentioned, as dedicated to St. Mary ; which is fuppofed 
 to be St. Mary at Tower. From hence we may conclude, 
 that this Church was not then built j but that it fuc.- 
 ceeded the dilapidated Church of St. Saviour, as St. 
 Hellen's did that of St. John in Caldwell, and as St. JV7- 
 cholas was built inftead of St. Michael's Church. And if 
 this be admitted, we will add one further Conje&ure, 
 that it might probably be built upon the very Spot where 
 St. Saviour's Church flood. See the Account of Trinity 
 Pfiory, in the Parifli of St. Margaret above. 
 
 D 4 OppoGtc 
 
40 Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 Oppofite to this Church, an Alms-houfe has lately been 
 creeled, in purfuance of the Will of Mrs. Ann Smyth of 
 London, Widow, who left 5000/. for it j but there be- 
 ing a Deficiency of Aflets, after adjufting all Claims, 
 the Court of Chancery appointed 4432/. 5*. id. for 
 this Purpofe, which was laid out in South-Sea Annui- 
 ties ; and the Minifters of St. Peter and St. Mary at Elms^ 
 in Ipfwich, for the Time being, were appointed Truftees 
 for it. The Reverend Mr. Cornwallis and Mr. BiJhop t 
 the prefent Minifters of thefe two Pariflies, generoufly 
 accepted the Truft, without having the leaft Confidera- 
 tion for their Trouble ; and this Building hath been con-* 
 dueled by them : But, as they built with the Intereft 
 only, without breaking in upon the principal Sum, it is 
 not yet compleated : When it is, twelve poor Women 
 are to be maintained in it. 
 
 6. St. Mary at Kay. This Church was impropriated to 
 the Priory of St. Peter, and all the Tithes belonging to 
 it were granted 7 Edward VI. to Webb and Breton. The. 
 Church was new-built fince the Year 1448, when 
 Richard Goivty was a considerable Benefactor to it ; for 
 by his Will in that Year made, he ordered his Body to 
 be buried in the Church-yard of St. Mary at the Kay, in 
 tyfwich, and gave Calyon-Jlone for the whole new Church, 
 which was to be built in the faid Church-yard. 
 
 North of this Church but within this Parifh, was a 
 Houfe of Black Friers Dominicans r called the Friers 
 Preachers, who fettled here in the latter End of the Reign 
 of King Henry III. It was founded by Henry Man/by, 
 Henry Redred, and Henry Loudham, granted ^Hen. VIII. 
 to William Sabyn, but bought by the Corporation of Mr. 
 Southwell. It was of large Extent, for it reached from 
 Star-lane to Dirty-lane, in St. Margareis Parifh. It is 
 applied to feveral ufeful Purpofes. Here is an Hofpital 
 for poor Boys ; a Grammar-School Room j a Publick 
 Library j a Bridewell ; and a great Part of it makes. 
 
 Habitations 
 
Ipswich with its Suburb s. m 
 
 Habitations for the Poor of Mr. Tooley's Foundation. In 
 the Yard belonging to it ftands the Shire-Houfe. It is 
 perhaps as entire, as any fuch Houfe of equal Antiquity, 
 and is well defcribed in the Print that is publiftied 
 pf it. 
 
 7. St. Mary at Stoke. " King Eadgar gave Stoke, a Mem-. 
 " ber of Ipfwicb, to St. Etheldred [Domefday] ;" i. e. to 
 ' the Prior and Convent of Ely. This Gift includes the 
 Hamlet, (which takes in Part of the Parifh of Sproughton) 
 together with the Advowfon of the Re&ory, and the 
 Manor of Stoke-Hall ; by which Word we do not mean 
 the modern Houfe by the Church, but what is now called 
 Stoke-Park. It is faid in Domefday, to be of the yearly 
 Value of Ten Pounds ; and had in the Confeflbr's Time 
 five Carucates of Land, and nine Villains for the Manor ; 
 then fifteen Bordarsy one Church of forty Acres of free 
 Land j one Mill; twenty Acres of Meadow; and a 
 Mediety of a Loche beyond the Bridge, then of the Va- 
 lue of One Hundred Shillings. King Eadgar s Grant was 
 executed with great Solemnity, as appears from the Deed 
 
 itfelf, Ego Eadgarus, &c. Bafileus non clam in angulo, 
 
 fedpalam, fub Dio, fubfcripfi; and it was attefted by his 
 Queen, St, Dunjlan Archbifhop, and many of the firft 
 Officers and Nobility of that Time. This was given 
 about A. D, 970. and is now in the Dean and Chapter 
 of Ely, and holden of them by Natbanael Aclon, Efq. 
 There was a Suit between the Prior and Convent, and 
 Roger de Munchenfis, about this Manor, in 14 Henry II. 
 which was decided in favour of th* Monks. 
 
 In this Parifh is the Manor of Godlesford, now called 
 Gusford-HdW ; which Manor with its Appurtenances in 
 Godlesford, Bel/led parva, and Wherejlead, in Suffolk^ were 
 granted as Parcel of the PofTeffion of the Priory of Canons- 
 Leigh in Devon/hire, to Sir John Rainefworth, Knt. 32 
 Henry VIII. This Houfe is defcribed in the Perambu- 
 lation of the 26 Edward III. by the Name of Robert 
 
 Andrews-, 
 
45 Ipswich with its Suburb si 
 
 Andrews', it feems that Family inhabited there many 
 Years ; for in 13 Henry VIII. it is called the Gate fome- 
 time of old Robert Andrews, now of Sir Andrews Wind- 
 sor; which Sir Andrews Wind/or was a confiderable Man, 
 and took his Chriftian Name from the laft -mentioned 
 Family of Andrews : He was afterwards Lord Windsor. 
 
 8. St. Mary at Toiver, was given by Norman the Son of 
 E-adnoth, to Trinity Priory. There was formerly a hand- 
 fome Spire upon the Tower of this Church ; and Mr. 
 William Edgar, of Ipfwich, by Will left Two Hundred 
 Pounds towards erecting another. But, by fome Mifun- 
 derflanding amongft thofe entrufted with this Bene- 
 faction, and different Opinions concerning the Strength 
 of the prefent Tower, nothing is yet done in it. Nay, 
 it is doubtful, whether ever there will ; for the Money is 
 paid into Chancery, and in attempting to get it from 
 thence, it hath already coil the Parifhioners more Money 
 than the original Legacy amounted to, and ail without 
 Fffett. 
 
 About A. D. 1325, the Confraternity of Corpus-Chrijli 
 Gild was inftituted. This Brotherhood agreed to go in 
 Proceilion every Year on the Feaft of the Holy Saa-a- 
 ment(a). Their Tabernacle in which the Hoft was 
 carried, their Money, &c. &c. ufed to be kept in the 
 Church of St. Mary at Tower i and probably that hollow 
 Place in the North Wall of the Veftry, guarded by an 
 exceeding ftrong Door, very lately taken away, might 
 be made for this Purpofe. Among the Rules of this. 
 Society, one was, t"h»t all the Parifi Priefts of Ipfwich, 
 when certified of the Death of any of the Fraternity, by 
 the Beadle thereof, or otherwife, were to fay Mafs for his 
 
 Soul, 
 
 fa) They made their Proceflion in the following Order : 
 I. White Friers, Carmelites. 2. Grey Friers, Minors. 3. Black 
 Friers, Preachers. 4. Clerks, in Surplices. 5. The Taber- 
 nacle, containing the Hoft. 6. Secular Priefts. 7. Canons 
 of the Holy Trinity. 8. Canons of St. Peter. 9. Bailives of 
 Jffwiw. .10. Portmen. 11 . Aldermen of the Gild, &c, crY„ 
 
Ipswich wilh its Suburbs. 43 
 
 Soul, &c. From hence, as we think, the prefent Cuf- 
 tom of ringing a Bell at every Church in the Town, on 
 the Death of every Portman, might have its Rife. In 
 upper Brook-Jlreet,vj\t\\\n thisParifti, and near the North- 
 gate, is the Houfe of the Archdeacon of Suffolk, fometimes 
 called the Archdeacon's Place or Palace. It was built, or at 
 leaft the outwardWall and Gates were, by WilliamPyken- 
 kamyLlj.D. who was Archdeacon of Suffolk, and principal 
 Official or Chancellor of Norwich, A. D. 147 1. The 
 initial Letters of his Name are ftill upon the Gate-way. 
 This Houfe is now held on a ]Leafe for Lives by Thomas 
 Staunton, Efq; one of the Reprefentatives in Parliament 
 for this Borough. 
 
 9. St. Matthew. This Parifti formerly included four other 
 Churches or Chapels, long fince down or difufed, viz. 
 All-Saints, St. George, St. Mildred, and St. Mary. It 
 hath always been called a Reflory, and the Incumbent 
 is inftituted into it as fuch ; but the great Tithes were 
 impropriated to St. Peters Priory, were granted to Webb 
 and Breton, 7 Edward VI. and belong now to Thomas 
 Fonnereau, Efq. The Crown did not get the Advowfon 
 by the Diflblution of the Priory, but always prefented 
 while the Priory was Handing. 
 
 All-Saints Chapel was annexed to St. Matthew, before 
 the Year 1383, when Thomas Moonie was inftituted into 
 the Church of St. Matthew, with the Chapel of All- Saints 
 annexed. But where the Chapel flood we know not 
 with any Certainty ; yet we are inclined to think it moft 
 probable, that it flood in the triangular Field at the 
 Corner near Handford-Bndge, where the Road from 
 Handford Mill, meets the other Road from St. Matthew's 
 Street, towards the Bridge : This is now Part of the 
 Glebe belonging to the Rectory ; and we think the other 
 Pieces of Glebe are too near the other Chapels or 
 Churches, unlefs you would fuppofe St. George's Chapel 
 to haye. been built inftead of this, and then, All-Saints 
 3 Chapel 
 
44 Ipswi'CH with its Suburb-s.' 
 
 Chapel might have flood on that Spot, which is now-iii 
 the Occupation of Mr. King. See St.Nich. p. 46. 
 
 St. George's Chapel is yet almoft entire in George-lane 
 -without the Weft-gate, but it is now ufed as a Barn. 
 It was ufed as a Chapel fo late as the Time of King 
 Henry VIIL when Mr. Bilney who fuffered Martyrdom, 
 was apprehended there, as he was preaching in favour of 
 the Reformation. 
 
 North of St. George's Chapel, viz. on the Hills which 
 lie near the North-weft Corner of the open Field called 
 Great Bolton, flood Jpfwich Caftle. Thefe are ftill called 
 Caflle-Hills, tho' the Caftle was demolifhed er.tirely by 
 King Henry II. See Walton, in Colneis. 
 
 St. Mildred's Church is now a Part of the Town-Hall. 
 It was parochial, and impropriated to St. Peters Priory. 
 The Prior and Convent of the Holy Trinity, A. D. 1393, 
 granted a Piece of Ground to the Bailives, Coroners, 
 Chamberlains, and Burgejfes of Ipfwich, &c. in the Parifh 
 of St. Mildred the Virgin, 24 Foot long and 18 Foot 
 wide, between the Toll-Houfe on the Weft, and a Shop 
 late of Thomas Ryfmg on the Eaft ; one Head abuts upon 
 ♦the Houfe of the faid Ryfmg towards the South, and the 
 other on the Corn-hill on the North. 4 
 
 St. Mary's Chapel, commonly called the Chapel of 
 our Lady of Grace, is faid to have flood at the North- 
 weft Corner of the Lane without Wefl-gate, fron thence 
 called to this Day Lady-lane, and is oppofite to St. George's 
 Lane. Mr. Daundy who built the Alms-houfes in Lady- 
 Jane, by his Will in A. D. 15 15, gave Wood to every 
 of his Alms-houfes, beftde our Lady of Grace. This Cha- 
 pel became very famous for an Image of the Virgin, which 
 was much reforted to in the fuperftitious Times ; and, in 
 old Wills, many Pilgrimages were ordered to be made 
 to it. It is mentioned in the third Part of the Homily 
 .againft Peril of Idolatry, together with our Lady of Wal- 
 fmghctm and our Lady oiWilfdon, by the Stile of our 
 
 Lady 
 
I f> s w i c h wit ft it-s Sub tr r b % 45 
 
 £ady of Ipfwich. It was to this Chapel that Cardinal- 
 Wolfey ordered an annual Procefiion to be made by the 
 Dean of his College, on September 8, being the Popiftt 
 Feaft of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, the tutelar 
 Saint of Ipfwich. There is an Account of one of them 
 in Dean Capon's Letter, publifhed by Dr. Fiddes and Mr. 
 Grove. But this admired Image had the fame Fate with., 
 other Puppets of the like Kind, for it was carried to Lon- 
 don, and there publickly burnt. The Place where the 
 Chapel flood is now built upon. 
 
 Brokes-hall is within this Parifh, and the Hamlet fo 
 called takes in part of this, and part of the Parifb.es of 
 Bramford, Whit ton, Thurlejlon, and Wejler field. Ipfwich- 
 Domefday faith, " King Edward gave Brokes a Member 
 * c of Ipfwich to Alric of Clare, then of the yearly Value of 
 " Ten Pounds ; and R. Bedile holdeth it of the Countefe 
 <( of Clare, by the Service of one Knight's Fee." The 
 fmall Manor of Brokes-hall is now veiled in Mr. Alpesy 
 but the Manor of Lufftofts within this DiftricT: is much, 
 more confiderable, and that is verted in George Thomas r . 
 of Kefgrave, Kfq. Bofs-hall is not fo called from a Fa- 
 mily which once lived there named Bull, as the Frain- 
 lingham MS. fuppofes ; but it is a Contraction of Bord- 
 Jhaw-hall ; fo that Houfe is called in the old Perambula- 
 tions of Ipfwich Bounds : And in pronouncing this haftily, 
 from BordJhaw-hdM to ,BosJhaw-ha\\, and Bofs-ha\], the 
 Tranfition is eafy. 
 
 10. St. Nicholas (b) was impropriated to St. Peter's Prio- 
 ry, and the Impropriation was granted to Webb and Breton. 
 No fuch Church is mentioned in Domefday ; and probably 
 it, might be built to fupply the Lofs of the dilapidated 
 Church of St. Michael before-mentioned ; which is faid 
 ki Domefday to have had eight Acres of Land, and is fup- 
 
 pofed 
 
 ■(b) The Vifitors in 1648, broke down fix Pi&ures, and 
 took up three Brafs Infcriptions here. We wiftt they had not, 
 for thefe Brafen Infcriptions might have given fome Account 
 ®f C Wolfeys Relation*, 3 
 
46 Ipswich with its Suburbs.' 
 
 pofed to have flood not far from it. It might poflibly be 
 built upon the fame Place, and with fome Materials from 
 that; and to this Conjecture, a Stone at the Weft-End of 
 the South Ifle, which rudely reprefents St. Michael fight- 
 ing with the Dragon^ may give fome Colour of Probability. 
 We cannot give any Account of the neighbouring Stone, 
 or how it came there ; but the Letters over the Briftles 
 of the Boar feem to be, or rather to have been, IN DE- 
 D1CATIONE ECCLESIE OMNIUM SANCTO- 
 RUM. See St. Matthew, p. 43. 
 
 On the South-fide of the PalTage leading from St. 
 Nicholas-Jlreet to this Church-yard, flood the Houfe, 
 where Tradition fays, Cardinal IVolfey was born : It has 
 been rebuilt fince that, and is now occupied by Mrs. 
 Edwards. The Cardinal's Father bequeathed in his 
 Will 6*. Sd. to the High Altar of St. Nicholas in Ipf- 
 wich, and Forty Shillings to the Painting of the Archangel 
 there. See p. 37. 
 
 Weft of St. Nicholas Church, and on the Bank of the 
 Gippen, flood a Convent of Francifcan Grey Friers Minors, 
 founded by Lord Tibtoth of Nettle/lead, in the Reign of 
 King Edward I. who, with many of his Family, were 
 buried in the Church belonging to this Houfe, 
 
 Another Convent of White Friers Carmelites, flood 
 partly in this Parifh and partly in that of St. Laurence, 
 founded by Sir Thomas Loudham and others, about A. D. 
 1279. Upon the DuToIution it was granted to John 
 Eger. It was of large Extent ; for it reached from St. 
 Nicholas-facet to St. Stephens-lane. Part of it was 
 ftanding within 50 Years, and was ufed for a County- 
 Gaol, before the County agreed with the Corporation 
 for the common Ufe of their Gaol by the Weft Gate. 
 Mr. Clarke's Houfe ftands upon, or near the Spot where 
 that Gaol flood : And from hence the PaiTage leading 
 from the Butter-Market paft Mr. Claries Houfe is called 
 the Gaol-lane. This Houfe was famous for many learned 
 
 Men, 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs 4.7 
 
 Men, who had their Education here : There are no Re- 
 mains of it now, except a Piece of a Door-way. 
 
 1 1 . St. Peter's Church had in the Confeflbr's Time large 
 PofTeflions. " It had fixCarucates of Land, eight Vil- 
 »< lains, twenty Bordarii, and two Mills; of thefe Earl 
 " Roger claimed One hundred Acres, five Villains, and 
 " one Mill, in right of the King's Manor of Brmnford, 
 " Five Villains of the faid Manor witnefled for him ; 
 M but the half Hundred of Ipfwich witnefTed that thefe 
 <{ belonged to the Church in the Time of the Confeflbr, 
 *' then valued at One Hundred Shillings, now at 
 " 15/. (c)" It faith farther, «« That to this Church 
 4t belonged five Burgeffes, and twenty Acres of Land 
 ** within the Borough." But afterwards the Church 
 was impropriated to the Priory of St. Peter and St. Paul, 
 which was contiguous to the Church-yard, and founded 
 by the Anceftors of Thomas Lacy and Mice his Wife, for 
 Black Canons of the Order of St. Augujlim, in the Reign 
 of King Henry 11. It was fuppreffed 6 March, 1527, by 
 Car. Wolfey, who having obtained Bulls from the Pope, 
 and Letters-Patent from the King for that Purpofe, founded 
 inftead of it,, a College ; for a Dean, 12 Secular Canons, 
 8 Clerks, and 8 Chorijlers, to the Honour of the Virgin 
 Mary; together with a Grammar-School, which he in- 
 tended as a Nurfery for his great College in Oxfordx 
 But this noble Foundation was fcarce compleated, before 
 the Difgrace of that Prelate 5 and the Site of the Col- 
 lege containing by Eftimation fix Acres, was granted 23 
 Henry VIII. to Tbo. Alverde ; and in 9 Jac. I. to Richard 
 Percival, and Edmund Duffield. The College was foon 
 tlemolifhed, no Part of it was left flanding except one 
 Gate whicb yet remains. They dug up the very Foun- 
 dation, infomuch that the firft Stone was not long fince 
 founfl in two Pieces, worked into a common Wall in 
 Woidforms Lane, with a Latin Infcription to this Effect : 
 
 7/3 
 
 (c) lpfahh Domefday, 
 
Ipswich with its Suburb s. 
 
 In the Tear of Chrijl 1528, and the Twentieth of the Reign 
 cf Henry Vllf. King ^England, on the fifteenth of June, 
 laid by John, Bijhop of Lincoln. This was John Long- 
 land, who was alfo employed by the Cardinal to lay the 
 firft Stone of his College, in Oxford (d). But tho' this 
 Attempt did not fucceed, the Cardinal occafioned fome 
 Good by it ; for we may reafonably fuppofe that this 
 put King Henry VIII. upon founding the Grammar- 
 School, and endowing it with what was, at that time, a 
 very handfome Allowance for a Matter and Ufher. 
 
 The Water from Stoke Hills was brought hither for 
 the Ufe of the Convent, before the Year 1491. 
 
 There was a good Manor belonging to the Priory, 
 which fince the DhTolution feems to have been fplit into 
 three Manors. For the Manor of St. Peter in Ipfwich, 
 is now vetted in Dr. Coyte ; the Manor of St. Peter in 
 Nation, Bucklefham, and Kcmbroke, is in Philip Broke, of 
 Nation, Efq; and there is yet another Manor of St. 
 Peter, in Cretingham, 
 
 The 
 
 (d) John Longland, Bifhop of Lincoln, did certainly lay the 
 Poundation- Stone of the College at Oxford ; and he preached 
 a Sermon on that Occafion, from Prim. ix. I. Wifdom hath 
 luilded her Houfe : That Stone was laid 20 March 1525. As 
 our Stone was laid little more than three Years after that, it 
 feems not improbable, that the fame Perfon might be em- 
 ployed on a like Occafion at Ipfwich. For this Reafon (and 
 becaufe the Word could not mean any other Engli/h Bifhop 
 in that Year) we fuppofe the laft Word in the Infcription to 
 Hand for Lincoln. But as the Stone would not admit of more 
 Letters, that Word confifts of five only, and is plainly abbre- 
 viated in two Places ; which Abbreviations have rendered the 
 Meaning of it fome what doubtful. 
 
 The Foundation-Stone of the College in Oxford, contained 
 a pompous Enumeration of all Cardinal Wolffs Titles and 
 Offices ; but here is not the lead Mention of him upon this. 
 Now, the Writer of his fecret Hiitory, fpeaking of thefe Col- 
 leges, fays, " They were both mofl fumptvous Buildings :" And 
 confidering the general Character of Wolfey, that this was the 
 Place of his Nativity ; and that he was now in the Zenith of 
 his Power ; we are inclined to fufped, that here was alfo fame 
 other Stone, containing an Account of the Founder; which, 
 in future Times, may poffibly be brought to Light. • • 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 4.9 
 
 The Journal of the Vi liters before-mentioned, faith, 
 <c At Peter's, was on the Porch the Crown of Thorns, 
 *< the Sponge and Nails, and the Trinity in Stone, and; 
 14 the Rails were there, alLwhich I ordered to break in 
 ** pieces." 
 
 In this Parifh is the Houfe of the Lord Bifliop of 
 Norwich, which was granted to the Bifliop in 4 King 
 Edward VI. by the Name of the MeiTuage called the 
 Lord Cur/on s Houfe ; whofe Name is ftill to be fecn in 
 a Rebus on the old wooden Back -gate in Silent-Jheet. 
 There was a ftrong and ftately Brick Porch to it, lately 
 taken down ; but the Houfe itfelf is in a moft ruinous 
 Condition. By the Statute of 26 Henry VIII. Chap. 14.' 
 this Town was appointed for the Seat of a Suffragan 
 Bifliop, and the common Notion is, that this Houfe was 
 intended for his Refidence ; but Thomas Manning, Prior 
 of Butley, was the firflr, and the laft Suffragan Bifliop of 
 Ipfwich ; and this Houfe was not granted to the Bifliop 
 of Norwich till after his Deceafe, as we think. He was 
 confecrated by Archbifhop Cranmer, 19 March, 1525. 
 
 In the Suburbs beyond the River flood the Church of 
 St. Aujlin, near St. Auflin's Green. It is often called a 
 Chapel ; but it had in the Conqueror's Time eleven Acres 
 of Land, and Procurations were paid for it . by the Prior 
 of St. Peter's; lb that it was parochial, and as wefuppofe, 
 impropriated to that Priory. It was in ufe A.D. 1482 } 
 but has been long fmce dilapidated. We fuppofe all the 
 Houfes and Land on the South-fide of the Orwell, to 
 have been St. Avjiin's Parifli 3 which are now become 
 Part of St. Peter 's. 
 
 Not far from this Church, and perhaps almoft oppofite 
 to it, flood St. Leonard's Hofpital : It is now become a 
 Farm-houfe, belonging to Chrijl- Hofpital, Ipfwich. ■ 
 
 11. St. Stephen's is a Reclory, and tho' the Revenues are 
 now fo fmall that it is generally held by Sequeflration, it 
 was conftantly iuftituted into formerly \ upon thePrefenta- 
 
 E tion 
 
£0 I P ; S WI CH With itV S U B U R B S»; 
 
 fiort of Sir Andrew de Bures, in 1340 ; of the Cavendijh's f ~ 
 m 1400, &c. Sir Gilbert Dcbenham prefented in 1487, > 
 then the Family of Brewes, till it came to Sir Edmund; 
 Whytapole, and went as well as St. Peter s, with the 
 Ghriji-Chitrch Eftate. 
 
 In this little Parifh Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, 
 had a Manfion, where the Coach-houfes now are. And 
 Sir Anthony Wingfield, Knight of the Garter, who was 
 Vice-Chamberlain, Privy- Councellor, and one of' the 
 Executors of King Henry VIII. had another. This is 
 now become the Tankard Ale-houfe, and a Play-houfe 
 oppofite to which Sir Anthony, had a Chapel for the Ule 
 of his Family, where Dr. Gwyns Houfe is built. 
 
 Here was aMb in Ipfwich a Church of St. Gregory, 
 which was impropriated to Woodbridge Priory ; but this 
 k all we know of it. And in the Abuttals of a Mefluage, 
 the antiquated Church - of Ojlerbolt is mentioned in 21 
 King Ediuardlll. By which it feems to have flood 
 fomewhere not far from St. Clement's Stepples ; and, as 
 the Eaft-gate formerly flood there, it might poflibly have- 
 the Name of Ofterbolt from that Circumftance : And this 
 being allowed, as the Church of St. Clement is not men- 
 tioned in Dome/day, it is not improbable this might be- 
 built, inftead of that dilapidated Church. 
 
 In the Precincts are the Churches of ThurleJ!on> JVhit- 
 ton, and IVeJlerfield. 
 
 13, Ihurlejlon, the Manor of Barnes here, with the Im- ' 
 propriation and Advowfon of the Vicarage, belonged to St. 
 Peter's Priory. The Manor and Impropriation were 
 granted to Cardinal Wolfey, 19 Henry VIII. and in 19. 
 Queen Elizabeth to 7%omas Seckford, Efq; they now be- 
 long to the Heirs of Edmund Hammond, Efq. The 
 Church was in ufe fince the Year 1 500 ; but the Vi^ 
 carage being united to the R.eclory of Whitton, the Church 
 was neglected after that Time, and is now ufed as a 
 Barn. 
 
 14* Whit t on < 
 
I p s w i c h with //j Suburbs. 51 
 
 14. Whkton Church is fometimes called Whittgn Chapel, 
 but improperly : For it hath been inftituted into as a Pa- 
 rochial Church, upon the Prefentation of the Bifhop of 
 Ely, ever fince the Year 1299; and probably long be- 
 fore. It is dedicated to St. Botolph. If any of the Churches 
 now in being, were built in the Conqueror's Time (which 
 may well be queftioned) we think this bids as fair to be 
 one of them as any j and the neighbouring Church of 
 Thurlejion feems to be of the like Kind. 
 
 15. Wefterfield Church is in the Hamlet of Wykes-Ufford. 
 The Pat ronage of this Church and ll/hitton are faid in 
 old Writings to belong to the Bifhop of Ely, in right of 
 a Manor he then had in Bramford. The Manor of 
 W ejlerfield, A. D. 1596. belonged to John Dameron, who 
 gave it by Will to his Grandfon Anthony Collet. 
 
 An Account of the TRADE, &c. 
 
 THE Trade of the Town did formerly confifl 
 chiefly in the Manufacture of Broad Cloth, and 
 other Woollen Cloth, which was carried on fo largely 
 that all the Towns and Villages for many Miles round 
 were employed in it ; and many of the beft Eftates of 
 this County were raifed from it. But about the Middle 
 of the laft Century the Manufactory began to decline ; 
 and then dwindled by Degrees, till at laft it totally ceafed. 
 The Lofs of the Manufactory was attended with bad 
 Effects. We muft fuppofe the principal Artificers would 
 follow the Trade into the North and Weft Part of the 
 Kingdom, where it has fettled ever fince. But vaft Num- 
 bers of the poorer Sort employed in it, were left behind ; 
 and thefe, when their Employment ceafed, became a Bur- 
 den and Incumberance to the Town and Neighbourhood. 
 This might very probably be one Reafon which pre- 
 *• 2 vented 
 
^2 I p s-\v i c h with its Suburbs. 
 
 vented other Perfons from fettling here, in the room of 
 thofe who followed the Manufactory. From hence it 
 happened, that very many of the better Sort of Houfes 
 were for a long while empty; and Ipfwich incurred the 
 Ccnfure of being a Town without People. But now, the 
 Cafe is othervvife. The Inconvenience before-mentioned 
 abated, and wore out in time. The Agreeablenefs of 
 the Town invited New-comers to fettle here; and the 
 Number of Inhabitants is fo much increafed, that within 
 fifty Years the Rents are advanced more than Fifty per 
 Cent, almoft every Houfe is full, and more Houfes are 
 daily wanted. Infomuch that it is difficult to procure one 
 that will accommodate a middling Family ; all fuch. be- 
 ing in a manner ferambled for. 
 
 The late Accounts all tell us of the Decreafe of the 
 Shipping in this Port ; and with regard to thofe huge 
 Colliers called Ipfwich-Cats, this may be true. But 
 there are now three Yards constantly employed in Ship- 
 building ; and if we reckon that at the Place called Nova 
 Scotia, where the Speaker Baji-Indiaman is now building, 
 there are four. And, we are credibly informed, there 
 are more than One Hunched drJ Fifty Sail belonging to 
 this Port ; and, as fome think, fmall and great, many 
 more. 
 
 The chief Trade at prefent is in Com : The Bufinefs 
 cf Malt-making, in particular, is carried on to a great 
 degree. And indeed, if we may judge from the Increafe 
 of Malting Offices for feveral Years paft, that Bufinefs 
 muft be overdoing, if it be not already overdone. It is 
 fo great, that the Ipfwich Maltflers manifeflly ufe more 
 Corn than- the neighbouring Country, improved as it is, 
 will fupply. For, of late Years, they have often been 
 obliged to import Barky from the Coaft of Norfolk. 
 
 Here are five Market-Days, Tuefclays and Thurfdays for 
 Butchers Meat, IVednefdays and Fridays for Fifh; and 
 Saturday is a general Market-Day for all Sorts, of Prov-i- 
 
 fionSj:. 
 
I:p s w i c.-h with 'its S u.b.u.r B:s. 53 
 
 fians, Cattle, &c. The Town is well fupplied with all 
 Kinds of very good.Provifions j .unlefs, perhaps, we fhould 
 except Fiji). As to this Article the Town might be fup- 
 plied with more Variety , and in greater Plenty, than it is. 
 We:have good reafon to think, that the Grivcll ajnd .the 
 neighbouring Seas are in the proper Seafons well ftored 
 with feveral Sorts of Fifh, which thro' the Ignorance, the 
 Lazinefs, or the Folly of our Fifhermen, are fcarce ever, 
 unlefs by great Accident caught here ; particularly Mul- 
 lets, Turbots, Smelts, and fometimes Salmon. And then 
 tke Practice of .Forejlallwg is carried to fuch a Height, as 
 would perfuade.us no Laws .had ever been made againit 
 it. It is no unufual Thing for Peddars to attend the 1 ides 
 regularly, receive and pack up the Fifh at Noon-day, and 
 on the common Key, to fupply the Inland Towns, re- 
 fufmg to fell it to the Inhabitants of Jp/uuicb at anyPrice. 
 
 Here are five Fairs j one on Holy- Rood- Day, Q. S. 
 where much Bufinefs is done, in the two Articles of But- 
 ter and Cheefe. One on St. George's Day, O. S. for 
 Toys and lean Cattle, chiefly Home-bred. St. James's, 
 July 25, now not worth mentioning : And two Fairs for 
 Cattle, on May 18 and 19, and Auguft 22 and 23 ; at the 
 laft of which vaft Numbers of Lambs are constantly fold, 
 to the Amount of Eighty, Ninety, or fometimes One 
 Hundred Thoufand. 
 
 In this Town are five Charity Schools for poor 
 Children. 
 
 One in ChriJV s-Hofpital for Twenty Blue-coat Boys, 
 who are found with every Thing, Clothes, Meat, Drink, 
 Wafhing and Lodging, are taught to read, .and made to 
 work, and then bound out, chiefly to Sea, 
 
 Another for Sixteen Red jJeeve Bo) s, who are clothed, 
 taught, and bound out. 
 
 Another for Sixty Grey-coat Boys, who are clothed, 
 iaught, and bound out to Sea, or low Trades. 
 
 E 3 Another 
 
54 Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 Another for Twenty-four Blue-coat Girls, who are 
 clothed, taught to read, to knit, to few, and are fitted 
 out for Services. And, 
 
 One other fmall School for Sixteen Green-fleeve Boys, 
 who are clothed, taught, and bound out : This laft School 
 is fupported by the Diflenters. 
 
 A Tranjlation of the Charter of King 
 Henry VI. to the Burgejjes of Ipfwich. 
 
 TlENRY, D. G. King of England and France, and 
 -** Lord of Ireland,' kc. &c. Know ye, that whereas 
 our beloved Burgefles of our Town of Gippewich, are very 
 much burthened with the Payment of the Annual Farm 
 which they and their Succeflbrs 2re obliged to pay to Us, 
 and our Heirs, for the faid Town, and hereby are grie- 
 voufly impoverimed, as we have heard : Of our efpeciai 
 Favour, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, and for 
 the efpeciai Relief of the faid Town, and in Support of 
 the Payment of the Farm aforefaid, We have granted to 
 the faid Burgefles, and their Succeflbrs, the Liberties, 
 Franchifes, Acquittances, and Immunities under written, 
 •w'z.That theTown aforefaid be, for ever, a Free Borough 
 Corporate, in Deed, and in Name of Ube Burgejfis of the 
 faid Town ; and that the Burgefles of the faid Town for 
 the Time being be, for ever, a perpetual Community Cor- 
 porate, in Deed and in Name, and may have perpetual 
 Succeffion, and a Common Seal to difpatch the Bufincls 
 of theTown aforefaid) and that, in every Year, at the 
 accuflomed Time and Place, they mav choofe out of them- 
 felves two Burgefles- of the Town aforefaid to be Baillvet 
 thereof, who ihall excrcife that Office for one entire Tear, 
 
 [una 
 
If sw iCH with its S uj b u r b s. 
 
 I uno integro Anno] for the fafe and wholefome Govern- 
 ment of the fame Town. 
 
 We have alfo granted to the faid Burgeffes and their 
 Succeflbrs, that the faid Bailives and their Succeflbrs, and 
 four fuch other. Burgefles of the fame Town, as the faid 
 .Bailives fliall be pleafed .ta.take to them, out of t)\t, Twelve 
 Portmen of that Town and their Succeflbrs; and to elect 
 and nominate for that purpofe, Five, Four, Three or Two 
 , of them, may be from henceforth for ever, Keepers of our 
 Peace, and Juftices of us and our Heirs, to keep the PeaGe 
 within the faid Town and the Liberty, Suburbs and Pre- 
 cinct thereof j and alfo to hear and determine all Felonies, 
 TrefpafTes and Offences within the Town aforefaid, and 
 the Liberty, Suburbs, and Precinct of the fame ; and all 
 other Matters and Things, as weli.concerning all manner 
 of Felonies, Trefpafles,.Mifprifions, and Extortions, as 
 concerning all manner of other Caufes, Complaints, and 
 Offences whatfoever, within, the faid Town and the Li- 
 berty, Suburbs and Precinct of the fame, in any manner 
 happening and arifing, as fully and wholly, as the Keepers 
 of the Peace, and Juftices afligned or to be afligned to 
 hear and determine, Felonies, TrefpafTes, and other Of- 
 fences, and the Juftices of Labourers, Artificers, and Ser- 
 vants in the County of Suffolk, have, or fhall have, for 
 the future without the Town and Liberty aforefaid, in 
 any manner whatfoever. And the Keepers of the Peace, 
 and Juftices afligned to hear and determine Felonies, 
 TrefpafTes, and other Offences, and alfo the Juftices of 
 Servants, Labourers, and Artificers within the County 
 of Suffolk, fliall by no means introduce themfelves, nor 
 ihall any one of them, introduce himfclf, within the Town 
 , aforefaid, the Liberty, Suburbs, andPrecinct thereof, or 
 without it, concerning fuch Felonies, TrqfpafTes, or other 
 t Offences whatfoever, in any manner committed, or arifing 
 within the Town aforefaid, or the Liberty, Suburbs, and 
 ■-Precinct thereof, in what manner foever committed or 
 
5& Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 perpetrated ; nor fliall he, or they, in any manner en- 
 quire concerning them, within the laid Town, or the Li- 
 berty, Suburbs and Precinct of the fame. And if any 
 Jufticesaffigncd to keep the Peace, other than the Juftices- 
 of the Peace appointed or to be appointed by virtue of 
 this our prefent Grant, within the faid Town, the Liberty, 
 &c. thereof, fliall make any Jnquifition concerning any 
 fuch Felonies, TrefpaOes, and other Offences, or other 
 Things whatfoever in the faid Town, the Liberty, Suburbs 
 and Precinct of the fame, for the future, in any manner 
 whatfoever, fuch Jnquifition (hall be deemed null and void. 
 
 Moreover, We have granted for Us, and our Heirs, 
 unto the aforefaid BurgeiTes, their Heirs and Succeffors, 
 Burgeffes of the faid Town, that they for ever may have 
 all manner of Fines, Tfilies, Forfeitures and Amercements, 
 belonging to the judiciary [Ju/iiaariam') of the Peace, 
 within the faid Town, and the Liberty, Suburbs and Pre- 
 cincT: thereof ; and from the faid Jufticiary [Jt/Jtiaaria] 
 forthcoming in any manner, to be recovered and levied 
 by their own proper Officers, as fully and wholly, as We 
 and our Progenitors, in any manner have had, and re* 
 ceived fuch Fines, IlTue?, Forfeitures, and Amercements, 
 before our Juftices of the Peace in the faid County of 
 Suffolk, within the faid Town, and the Liberty, Suburbs 
 and Precincl of the fame heretofore happening, and a- 
 rifing, in Aid of the Payment of the aforefaid Farm, and 
 in fupport of the great Burdens daily incumbring on the 
 faid Town, or happening and arifmg therein: Arid that 
 the faid Bailives and Burgeffes of the faid Town of Gip- 
 pewkb, and their Heirs and SuccefTors aforefaid, for ever 
 may have the Forfeiture of Visuals, by the Law of Eng. 
 land, in any manner to be forfeited, viz.. the Aflize and 
 Correaion of Eread, Wine, and Ale, and other Things 
 which do not belong to Merchandife. 
 
 Moreover, of our more abundant Favour, We have 
 granted to the faid 3urg*fib and their SuccelTors, that 
 
 either. 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 57 
 
 cither of thofe two Burgefles who (hall be chofen Bailives 
 of the faid Town in Form aforefaid, and mall be one of 
 the faid two Bailives, and fuch one of the faid two 
 Bailives as the Burgefles of the Town aforefaid, for the 
 Time being, at the Time of the Election of the faid 
 Bailives (hall be plea fed to elect to the Office underwrit- 
 ten, immediately, and as foon as he mall be elected and 
 appointed to the Bailtvewick of the faid Town, fhall be 
 from that Time [ex tunc] our Efchaetor, and the Efchaetor 
 of our Heirs and SuccefTbrs in the Town aforefaid, and 
 the Liberty, Suburbs and Precinct: of the faid Town, 
 during the Time in which he fhall continue Bailiff of the 
 Town aforefaid. And that the faid Efchaetor and his 
 Succeffors fhall have the fame Power, Jurifdiction, Au- 
 thority and Liberty, and whatever elfe belongeth to the 
 Office of Efchaetor in the faid Town, Liberty, Suburbs 
 and Precinct, that our other Efchaetors, and the Efchaetors 
 of our Heirs have or mail have elfewhere, within out 
 Kingdom of England. And that in no Time hereafter 
 any other Efchaetor fhall introduce himfelf into the faid 
 Town, Liberty, &c. to execute any thing relating to the 
 Office of Efchaetor, within the faid Town &c. excepting 
 only the faid Efchaetor of the Town aforefaid for the Time 
 being. And that every fuch Burgefs hereafter to be e- 
 lected Bailiff of the Town aforefaid, after fuch Election 
 of him made to the Office of Efchaetor fhall take his 
 Oath, well and faithfully to execute the Office of Ef- 
 chaetor within the Town aforefaid, before the Burgefles 
 of the aforefaid Town ; fo that fuch Efchaetor fhall by no 
 means be obliged, or compelled, to take his Oath elfe- 
 where within our Kingdom of England, or before any 
 other than the Burgefles of the faid Town, and that 
 within the faid Town only. 
 
 And further, for us and our Heirs we have granted 
 to the laid Burgeffes an-d their Succeffors, that they may 
 be Perfons able and capable in Law, to purchafe Lands, 
 
 Tenements, 
 
 3 
 
5 8 Ipswich with its Subu r bs . 
 
 Tenements, Rents, Services, and Poffeffions within the 
 Town, Liberty, Suburbs, and Precinct aforefaid and elfe- 
 where, to have and ,to hold the fame, to them and their 
 Succeflbrs, the Statute of not putting Lands and Tene- 
 ments in Mortmain notwithstanding. 
 
 Moreover, We have granted to the aforefaid Burgefles, 
 .and their Heirs and Succeflbrs for ever, that the Jdtniral 
 of England, or his Lieutenant, or Deputy, or the Steward, 
 -Marefchall or Clerk of the Market of our Houfhold, or 
 of our Heirs, or any one of them, or the. Deputy of any 
 one or more of them, fhall not enter or fit within the 
 Town aforefaid, nor the Liberty, Suburbs, or Precinct 
 thereof to enquire concerning any Matters or Things 
 relating to their aforefaid Offices, nor concerning any 
 Things done, or hereafter to be done, or happening, and 
 arifing within the Town, or the Liberty, &c. aforefaid; 
 nor fhall he or they caufe any Enquiry to be made con- 
 cerning them ; nor fhall any one or more of them intrude 
 him, or themfelves, nor profecute any Burgefles of our 
 Town aforefaid, nor any Perfons refiding within the laid 
 Town, Liberty, Suburbs, or Precinct, on any Pretence, 
 without the faid Town, for any Things, happening or 
 arifing within the laid Town, Liberty, &Sx. for the fu- 
 ture ia any manner. 
 
 Moreover, We have granted, and by this our Charter 
 do confirm to the faid Burgelies, and their Heirs and Suc- 
 ceflbrs, that they the faid Burgefles their Heirs and Suc- 
 ceflbrs for ever, may have all Iflues, Forfeitures, Lines; 
 .and Amercements whatfoever, before our faid Efchaetor, 
 fo to be chofen as aforefaid, coming, happening, or ari- 
 fino; : And alfo, all Goods and Chattels of Perfons out- 
 Jawed, within fhe Town and the Liberty, Suburbs and 
 PrecincT: thereof, now refident and commorant, or here- 
 after to be refident and commorant within the faid Town, 
 liberty, found ; to be received and levied by their 
 .cwn proper Officers, in Aid of the Payment of the Farm 
 
 ..aforefaid, 
 
Ipswich with its Suburbs. 59 
 
 aforefaid, and in Support of the great Burdens, daily falling 
 on the {aid Town, or in the fame happening, or arifing, 
 as fully and wholly, as we and our Progenitors have re- 
 ceived and had, any fuch Iflues, Forfeitures, Fines, and 
 Amercements, before our Efchaetor in our faid County, 
 happening, or arifing within the faid Town, Liberty, 
 and the Goods and Chattels of any Perfons outlawed, and 
 heretofore refident or commorant within the faid Town, 
 Liberty, Suburbs or Precinct in any manner. Witnefs 
 the Venerable Fathers y. Archbifhop of Canterbury Pri- 
 mate of all England, our Chancellor, A. Cicejlr Keeper 
 of our Privy Seal, IV. Bifhop of Norwich, our deareft 
 Uncle Humphry of Gloucejier, and our deareft Coufins 
 yohn of Exeter, and Humphry of Bucks, Dukes 3 Edmund 
 of Dorfet, and William of Suffolk, Marquifies ; William 
 of Arundel, and yohn of Salop, Earls ; our beloved and 
 faithful Ralph Cromwell and Ralph Boteler, our Treafurer 
 of England, Knights, and others. Given under our 
 Hand at Wejlmhifter 28 March, in the Twenty- fourth 
 Year of our Reign. 
 
 Kirkeby, 
 
 By Writ of Privy Seal, and of the aforefaid Date by 
 Authority of Parliament. 
 
 This Charter is added at Length, becaufe it is not in 
 the Manufcript of the Ipfwich Charters which is handed 
 about, and therefore was not printed with the reft. In- 
 deed, very few knew any thing of it till it was found, 
 thrown into a Hole in the Treafury, within thefe laffc 
 feven Years. We will only add an Obfarvation or two 
 upon the Stile of this Corporation. In ancient Times 
 the Gentlemen of the Law were not fo curious in this 
 Matter, as they have been of later Years. It appears 
 from Mr. Bacon's MS. that in the Reign of K. Ric. II. 
 prA.D, 1393' on an Exchange of a Piece of Ground 
 
 with 
 
 3 
 
€b Ipswich with its Suburbs. 
 
 with the Prior and Convent of the Holy Trinity, (as was 
 mentioned before) the Bailives, Coroners, -Chamberlains, 
 and Burgejfes, were the contracting Parties on the Behalf 
 ©f the Corporation. This Charter, now recited in A.D, 
 1446, incorporates the Town by the Stile of " The 
 " BURGESSES of IPSWICH and<tedares them to 
 be a perpetual Community Corporate, by that Name. The 
 Charter of King Edward IV. in A. D. 1464, altered the 
 Stile and made it, " The Bailives, Burgefles, and Com- 
 « c jnunity of the Town of Ipfwicb." Or, as it is now 
 commonly called in Englijh, The Bailives, Burgefles, 
 and Commonalty of the Town of Ipfwicb. The Charter 
 of 17 Kmg Charles II. A.D. 1665, made no Alteration 
 in the Stile j but that of 36 Charles II. A.D. in 1685, 
 made an Addition to it, and called them, " The Bailives, 
 « £ Burgefles, and Community [or Commonalty] of the 
 « c Town or Borough of IPSWICH in the County of Suf- 
 " folk" However, as the Corporation hath not acled 
 under this laft Charter fmce the Revolution in 1688, the 
 proper Stile of the Corporation now is, « The Bailives, 
 " Burgefles, and Commonalty of the Town of IPS- 
 «« WICH," without any further Addition. 
 
 SAM- 
 
Tlate l. 
 
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 S A M F 0 R D. 
 
 TH E Hundred of Samford is bounded by the Stour 
 on the South, on the Weft by the Hundreds 
 of Babergh and Cosford, on the Eaft by the 
 Orivelly and on the North by the Liberties of Ipfwicb. 
 
 Arwerton. The Lordlhip of this Place belonged 
 anciently to the Family of Davellers. Sir Robert Bacon 
 married Ifabel, Daughter of Bartholomew Danviliers, who 
 left no Male Iffue, and thereby obtained the Manor 
 about the Year 1330. And in 20 Edward III. or 
 1345, he had the Grant of a Market and Fair here. 
 It came afterwards to the Calthorpes, and was purchased 
 by Sir Philip Parker, Knt. of Sir Drue Drury, about the 
 Year 1577. Philip Parker , of Arwerton, was created a 
 Baronet 16 July, 1661. This Manor and Eftate is now 
 vefted in the Dowager Lady of the Right Hon. the Lord 
 Chedworth, who was one of the Daughters of the late Sir 
 Philip Parker Long, Bart. 
 
 Belste ad, or Little Beljlead. In King John's Time, 
 or that of King Henry III. at the lateft, William de Gol- 
 div.gham paid Fines to Ipfwich, for Freedom from Toll for 
 himfelf and his Villains, in Bel/lead. This fame Family 
 continued to prefent to the Church till after the Year 
 1560 ; when the Manor was purchafed by Mr. Blofs> a 
 wealthy Clothier of Ipfwich ; and by the Heh cfs of that 
 Family, it was, not long fince, fold to Robert Harland* 
 of Sproughton, Elq; 
 
 Bently. Hugh Tallemache paid a Fine to Ipfwich, 
 for Freedom from Toll for himfelf and his Villains in 
 Bently > in the Reign of King Henry III. 
 
 This 
 
62 
 
 Hundred u/Samford. 
 
 This Church was given to the Priory of the Holy 
 Trinity in Ipfwich, by Henry of Dodneis. And the 
 Manor of Bently, the Re&ory and Advowfon of the 
 Vicarage, with two Woods, Portland Grove and New 
 Grove, were granted as Part of the Poffeflion of that 
 Priory to Lionel Tahnage, 36 Henry VIII. This Family 
 removed from hence to Helmingham, in Claydon Hundred. 
 See there. 
 
 At a Place called Dodneis in this Parifli, there was a 
 frfiall Priory of Black Canons, which had Revenues valued 
 at 42/. 18 s. Qd. It was fupprefled by the fixft Bull of 
 Clement VII. and granted to Cardinal JVolfey. 
 
 Brantham. King TVilliam Rufns gave the Church 
 of Brantham, with the Berewics of Bercold, Scotlege, Meel- 
 fiege, and Benetlege, to the Abbey of Battle in Suffix 5 
 and the Advowfon of this Rectory, as late belonging to 
 that Abbey, was granted- to John Earl of Oxford, 36 
 Henry VIII. The Church is now united with Eajl- 
 Bergbolt. 
 
 Within this Parifli is a Hamlet called Cattlwade, where 
 was formerly a Chapel near the Bridge, which goeth over 
 the River Stour into Ejfex. About the Year 1460, Sir 
 John Braham, of Braham-HzW in Catthvade, is mentioned. 
 And afterwards William Lancajler, Efq; of Catiiwade, who 
 married a Daughter of Brahams. 
 
 Burst all, is called a Berewic or Hamlet of Bram- 
 ford. The Manor of Horrolds in BurJlall was granted 
 to Cardinal Wolfey, as Parcel of the PofTeflion of St. Peter's 
 Priory in Ipfwich. 
 
 Capel. Here are three Manors ; Chircbford-Hall, 
 formerly Robert Jppleton's, now Mr. Fielding's , Boitwell- 
 Hall, belonging to Queen's College, Cambridge ; and an- 
 other fmall Manor, formerly Mr, Br euies's of Little IVert- 
 
 ham. 
 
Hundred o/Sampord. % 
 
 ham. The Advowfon of the Rectory, together with 
 that of Little Wenhanty is in the Rev. Peter Hinge/Ion, the 
 prefent Incumbent. 
 
 Chattisham. The Manor/ Impropriation, and Ad- 
 vowfon of the Vicarage, belonged formerly to the Priory 
 eiWykes, in Effex ; and were granted firft to Cardinal 
 Wolfey, and then to the Provoft and Fellows of Eton, who 
 now enjoy them. 
 
 Chelmondiston, commonly called Chemton. The 
 Manor here is veiled in the Heirs of Mr. Lucas, the Ad - 
 vowfon is in the Crown. 
 
 Copdock. The Hall-Houfe is the Property of Thomas 
 de Gray, Efq; who is alfo Patron of the Church, and 
 Lord of the Manor. This Church has been lately united 
 with Wajhbrook. 
 
 East-Bergholt. K.Henry II. gave the Templars 
 all his Lands in Bergholt, and a Manor here was granted.; 
 to John Earl of Oxford, 36 Henry VIII. as lately belong- 
 ing to the Pneceptory at Battisford. Here is alfo another 
 Manor, for the Relict of John Vere twelfth Earl of Ox- 
 ford, held the Manors of Gheljworth, Eajl-Bergholt, and^ 
 Brook-Hall, in Suffolk, as her own Inheritance, A. D. 
 1472. This laft Manor is now in Nathaniel A3 on, Efq; 
 
 This is a large Village confolidated to Brantham. The 
 Cloth Manufacture formerly flourifhed here. It is fup-< 
 pofed to have been a Market-Town ; but the Market is 
 difufed, and the Town is greatly reduced, many Houfes 
 having lately been pulled down. About the Year 1522, 
 many Legacies were given towards building the Church ; 
 and in 1526 and 1527, other Legacies towards building 
 the Steeple ; but it feerfis as if thefe were not fufficient 
 for the Purpofe, for it is not built yet. The Church is 
 •a good Structure. South from the Church is a neat 
 Manfion, built by Thomas Chaplin, Efq; which by Mar- 
 riage 
 
I 
 
 64. Hundred ^/ Samford. 
 
 rjage came to Sir Henry Hankey, Knt. and the Manof 
 firft above-mentioned, and Advowfon with it ; where his 
 Son Sir Jofepb Hankey, Knt. and Alderman of London, 
 now refides. 
 
 Freston. The Hall, Manor and Advowfon of this 
 Church, were anciently veiled in a Family who took 
 their Name from the Place. Philip de Freflon was ad- 
 mitted a Free-Burgefs of Ipfwich as early as 18 Henry III. 
 And the Eftate continued in them for many Years till 
 about the Time of Henry VIII. when it came to the La-r 
 tymers. They continued here till about 1590, when the 
 Goodings of Ipfwich had this Eftate; from whom it came 
 to the Family of Wright. The laft of that Family who 
 had it, fevered the Manor and Advowfon of the Rectory, 
 by felling them to Thomas Thurjion, of Holbrooke, Efq; 
 in whofe Heirs they are now verted. (See Holbrooke.) 
 The Hail-Farm, but much reduced from what it for- 
 merly had been, was fold to Mr. Lark Tarver, of Ipfwich. 
 The Hall-Houfe is pleafantly fituated on the Bank of the 
 Orwell ; but the chief Thing worth Notice here, is the 
 Tower j which is a fquare ftrong Brick-Building, fix Sto- 
 ries high, containing as many Rooms one above another, 
 thefe communicate with each other by a winding Steeple 
 Stair cafe, which, for the greater Strength of the Building, 
 is on the Eaft-fide of it next the River. It is not eafy 
 to fay for what Purpofe, nor is it certainly known, at 
 what Time this Tower was built. But as there is among 
 the Records of the Manor, a very exact: and particular 
 Account of the Manor-Houfe, and all the Out-Buildings 
 and Offices belonging to it in Henry Vllth's Time, and 
 no mention is there made of the Tower, it is pretty cer- 
 tain it was not then built. So that it is reafonable to 
 luppofe it to have been the Work of one of the Latymers. 
 From the Smallnefs of the Windows in all the other 
 Rooms, it looks as if they were built chiefly for the Sup- 
 port of the uppermoft Room, which, having large Win- 
 dows 
 
Hundred of Sam ford. 65 
 
 dows on three Sides of it, feems to have been contrived 
 by fome whimfical Man, for taking rather a better View 
 of the River Orwell, than can be had on the neighbour- 
 ing Hill. 
 
 Within the Manor of Freflon-HaU, another fmall Ma- 
 nor called Bonds is included ; this is vefted v in Mrs. Beau- 
 mont, Relict of the late Rev. Charles Beaumont. But the 
 Manor of Fre/lon-Ha\l has a Paramountfhip over it. 
 
 Harkstead. Odo de Campania (a), was Lord here 
 at the taking of Domefday Survey. King Edward III. 
 in his Charter to the Nunnery of Dartford in Kent, gives 
 or confirms to it the Manor of Brandijlon, in Herkejlede 
 in Suffolk. And the Manor of Brandejlon, late belong- 
 ing to that Nunnery, was granted 31 Henry VIII. to Sir 
 Percival Hart, Knt. It came afterwards with the Ad- 
 vowfon of the Rectory to a Family of Cocks, in Wor~ 
 ajlerjhire; who had it fome time, and then fold the Ma- 
 nor, Hall, Houfe, &c. to Knox Ward, Efq; Clarencieux 
 King at Arms ; whofe Heir lately fold them to Thomas 
 Staunton, of Holbrook, Efq. The Advowfon was fold to 
 the Rev. Richard Canning, the pre fen t Incumbent. Be- 
 iides the Parifti Church, here was formerly a Chapel de- 
 dicated to St. Clement. It is now wholly down ; but the 
 Spot where it ftood is flill to be feen at the South-Ean: 
 Corner of a Field, from thence called Chapel-Down, be- 
 longing to a Farm late of John Phillipfon, Efq. A Le- 
 gacy was given to this Chapel of St. Clement, in the Year 
 1528. And a Houfe was bequeathed in 1685, with the 
 Garden and one Pightle abutting South upon St. Clement's. 
 Church-yard, and upon the Mill-way towards the North. 
 The Site of the Chapel is now ploughed up. 
 
 High am. 
 
 (a) This Norman Baron was nearly related to K. William 
 She Conqueror, and was made by him Earl of Albemarle and 
 Etldernefs ; he partook largely of his Relation's Bounty, and 
 is faid to have had fourteen Manors granted to him in this 
 
 County. 
 
 F 
 
66 
 
 Hundred of Samford'. 
 
 Hicham. This was given to Trinity Priory in Ipf- 
 wich, by Maud de Munchenfi, and was impropriated there- 
 to. But the Impropriation was purchafed by Mr. Gibbs 9 
 er Mr. Smith, and given to the Minifter. 
 
 Hintlesham, was anciently the Lordfliip of the 
 
 Talbots; and for very many Years of the Thapcrbjs. The 
 Hall, &c. was bought of them by Richard Pozvis, Efqj 
 fbmetime Member for Orford. From him it was pur- 
 chafed by Sir Richard Lloyd, Knt. one of the Barons of 
 his Majefty's Court of Exchequer. The Church was 
 impropriated to Kings-Hall (now Part of 7W«:7/College) 
 \\\ Cambridge, about A. D. 1349, but before the Year 
 1400, the Impropriation was given up, and the Mi- 
 nifter 'prefentcd and inftituted into the Rectory as for- 
 merly. Here was formerly a Chapel in this Parifh, and 
 there is yet a Place called Chapel Field, within the Farm 
 lately in the Occupation of Mr. Beaumont, of Aldham. 
 
 Here was another Manor which belonged formerly to 
 "Bury Abby, and was granted to Robert Dotvns, by King 
 Henry VIM. this came afterwards to the Vefeys. Here 
 Was alfo another Manor or Eftate, which belonged to St. 
 Peter's Priory in Ipfwich, and was granted with that to 
 Cardinal V/olfey, 19 Henry V ill. 
 
 Holbrook. This in the Time of King Henry III, 
 was the Lordfhip of Richard de Holbrook, who paid Fines 
 to Ipfwich for himfelf and Villains in Holbrook and Tat- 
 tingjion ; afterwards it was Mr. Daundys, then it was 
 the Clenches ; Judge Clench, who died in 1 607, lies bu- 
 ried in the Church. It was lately in Thomas Thurflon, of 
 Ipfwich, Efq; and is now veiled in Thomas Staunton, Efq;- 
 ©ne of the Reprefentatives of the Borough of Ipfwich, in 
 Right of his Lady, who was the only furviving Sifter and 
 Mursis of the late Mr. Thurflon. 
 
 BoLTOfr.- 
 
Hundred of Sam ford. 
 
 6 7 
 
 Holton. The Lordfhip here belonged formerly to a 
 Family of Faflolf, afterwards to the Mannocks, then to 
 Sir John Williams, and .now to Sir William Rowley, Knt, 
 of the Bath. 
 
 Raydgn. Robert de Roydon had a Grant of a Market 
 and Fair here, 4 Edward 11. or A. D. 1310. John Ha- 
 Jling Earl of Pembroke, died feifed of the Manors of Ott- 
 ley, Raydon, &c. 43 Edivard III. afterwards the Manor 
 and chief Eftate here came into the Hands of the fame 
 Owner, who had that of the next Parifh. [See Shelly.'] 
 
 Shelley. Robert de Tatterfiall died feifed of Sheik, 
 in Suffolk, 1 Edivard I. The Church was impropriated 
 to the Priory of Battle ; and the Impropriation and two 
 Clofes called Kernelfcroft and Wytherfeys alias Genvayes^ 
 were granted as late belonging to that Priory to Laurence 
 Bajkervile and William Blake. The Hall in 9 Edward II. 
 was the Seat of John de Appleby, afterwards of the 77/- 
 neys ; it lately belonged to Thomas Kerridge, Efq; and was 
 purchafed of his Heirs by Samuel Rujl), Efq; together 
 with the contiguous Manor and Eftate at Raydon. 
 
 Shotley. Here was anciently a Hamlet, called 
 Kirketon : A Market and a Fair were granted at this 
 Place to William Vijdclieu, who was Lord here 31 Edw. I. 
 Sir Thomas Mofel was Lord here afterwards : The Feltons 
 had the Lord/hip for fome Ages, and at laft it came with 
 the other Eftate of that Family to the Right Hon. the 
 Earl of Brijlol [See Playford ] 
 
 Sproughton. A . good Part of this Parifh is within 
 the Liberties of the Borough of ipfzvich : But the Manor, 
 Hall-Houfe, and AdvOwfon of the Re&ory, &f>. was Part 
 of the Feltons Eftate, and came with that of Shotley laft 
 mentioned to the Earl of Brijlol, in whom it is now' 
 vcfted. .Within this Parifh two good Seats have been 
 Auilt ; one- called the Ghauntry, from its being built or* 
 F 7, Lands 
 
68 
 
 Hundred of Samford. 
 
 Lands given by Edmund Daundy, for endowing a Chan- 
 try in the Church of St Laurence, Ipfwich. The prefenfe 
 Houfe was built by the late Edward Ventrifs, Efq; Mafler 
 of his Majefty's Court of King's Bench ; of whofe Heirs, 
 it was purchafed by the late Sir John Barker, Bart, and 
 is now veftcd in his Son Sir John Fytch Barker, Bart, who 
 refides here. Near to this is the Seat of Robert Harland, 
 Efq; Captain in the Royal Navy j by whom it has been 
 partly rebuilt, and greatly improved. 
 
 Stratford. William de Munchenfi died poflefied of 
 an Eftate here, 14 Edward I. Michael de la Pole pro- 
 cured a fpecial Charter to hold aCourt-Leet in hisLord- 
 jfhips of Stratford and Hcigham, in Com. Suff. 7 Ric. II. 
 likewife for a Market here on the Thurfday in every 
 W eek ; and a Fair on the Eve, Day and Morrow of the 
 Tranflation of St. Thomas the Martyr, 3 Henry V. He 
 died feifed of the Manor of Vefeys, in Stratford, Michael 
 his Son died feifed of the fame, fhortly after ; and Wil- 
 liam de la Pole died feifed of it, 1% Henry V\. Thomas 
 Lord Cromvjcll had a Grant from the King 31 Hen, VIII. 
 of the Manors of Dedham and Langham, in Effex, with 
 the Manor of Stratford juxta Higham in Com. Suff. 
 which three Manors the King had by the Grant of Charles 
 Duke of Suffolk. The Advowfon belonged formerly to 
 the Dukes of Suffolk ; but ever fince the Time of 
 Henry VIII. it hath been in the Crown. 
 
 The North Ifle of this Church was built about A. D. 
 1500. Edward Mors and Alice his Wife, and Thomas 
 Mors and Margaret his Wife, were fo great Benefactors 
 towards it, that their Names were exprefled in the Stone- 
 Work. In 1524, and 1526, two Legacies were given 
 towards building the Porch. 
 
 Stutton. The Manor of Stutton-HaW did belong to 
 Mr. Thomas May; but it was purchafed by, and is 
 now the Eftate of the Earl of Dyfert. Another Hall In 
 this Parilh, called Cmw-HaBj is veiled in the Family of 
 
 Bowes, 
 
Hundred Samford. 69 
 
 Bowes. The Manor of Greping-HaW in Stutton, was 
 granted to Humfry Wingfield, 29 Henry VIII. and -in 
 4 £7/z. to Thomas Seckford, as Parcel of the PofTeffions 
 of the Priory of Coin, in Effex. A Family of the Jermys 
 formerly lived here, as appears by the Monuments in the 
 Church. The Advowfon is vefted in the Rev. Tobias 
 Rujlat, the prefent Incumbent. 
 
 Tattingston. Here was a good old Seat called the 
 Place (or Palace), which did belong to the Beamnonts ; 
 "but it was lately purchafed and rebuilt by Thomas White, 
 "Efq; and is now enjoyed by his Son, who refides there, 
 and in whom the Manor is now vefted. Here was for- 
 merly a free Chapel in this Patifh, belonging 10 Ed. IV. 
 to the Earl of Oxford; and the Earl of Oxford prefented 
 to the Rectory in the Time of Henry VIII. In the Years 
 1458 and 1459, two Legacies were given towards build- 
 ing the Chancel. 
 
 Washbrook, or Great Belfiead. The Manor of 
 JHamer-Ha\\ here, belonged formerly to the Abbey of 
 Aumerle, or .Albemarle, in Normandy; and afterwards to 
 the Nunnery of Dartford, in Kent. At the Diffblution 
 ,it was granted to Sir Perehal Hart, Knt. and now be- 
 longs to Thomas de Grey, Efq. 
 
 Within the Bounds of this Parifli there was formerly 
 another Church, and perhaps a Hamlet called Felchurch, 
 or Velechurch, which was impropriated to the Abbey of 
 Albemarle; and, upon the Diflblution of the alien Prio- 
 ries, given to the Nunnery of Dartford ; and 31 Hen.VHL 
 granted to Sir Percival Hart, with the Rectory and Ad- 
 vowfon of the Vicarage of Wajhbrook. The Vicarage of 
 Felchurch was inftituted into A. D. 1301, 1314, and 
 1338. We have lately been informed that in a Field 
 bordering on the Road leading from Sproughton to Cop- 
 dock Water, about forty Rod on this Side the Water next 
 Sproughtony the Ruins of the Church, if they are not now» 
 F 3 were 
 
70 Hundred of SamforD. 
 
 were not long fince vifible. This Church has been lately 
 
 confolidated to Cop dock. 
 
 Wen ham Magna, or Burnt Wenham. Robert de Faux, 
 who was one of the Knights of Roger Bigod, Earl of 
 'Norfolk, was admitted a Freeman of Ipfwich in the Reign 
 of King John, and paid Fines for Freedom from Toll, 
 &c. for himfelf and Villains in Wenham. The Manor 
 and Advowfon of the Re&ory belong to the Heirs of Sir 
 'Philip Parker Long, Bart, but it did belong formerly to 
 the Priory of Leighs, in EJfex, and was granted 28 Hen. 
 VIII. to R. Cavendifi. 
 
 Wenham Parva. Little Wenham-Ha)\ appears to 
 \se a fine old Building ; it was formerly the Seat of the 
 
 Brews' now of Thomas Thurflon, Efq; 
 
 Wherstead. Gilbert de Reymes had this Lord/hip in 
 King John's Time j for he was himfelf admitted a free 
 Eurgefs of Ipfwich, and compounded for an Exemption 
 from Toll, Cuftom, &c. for his Villains in Wherjiead; 
 and Hugh de Reymes did the fame, 5 Ed. I. In 1 Ed. J V. 
 Sir John Howard '.had a Grant of the Manors of Leyham 
 and Wherjleacl, in Sz//ftfZ£ ; which were in the Crown by 
 the Attainder of. J^* Earl of Wiltjhire. It afterwards 
 came to the famous Lord Chief Juftice Coke, in whofe 
 Heirs it is now vefted. 
 
 The Church was early impropriated to the Prior and 
 .Convent of Ely; and at this Day Nathaniel Atton, Efqj 
 holds the Reclory by Leafe from the Dean and Chapter 
 of Ely ; but the Advowfon of the Vicarage is in the 
 Crown. 
 
 Woqlverston. The Hall or Manor-Houfe in this 
 Parifh ftands in a mod delightful Situation on the Wejleni 
 ■3ank of the Orwell, with a fine View from the Park -of 
 
 the 
 
Hundred c/S.amford. 71 
 
 the oppofite Shore of Nation. This Lordfhip, Eftate, 
 
 and the Advowfon of the Redtory did belong to 
 
 Tyfon^ Efq; but it is not eafy to fay whofe it is now ; 
 for Mr. Tyfon becoming a Bankrupt in the Year 1720, 
 John TVard) of Hackney^ Efq; claimed this in Right of 
 a Mortgage that he had upon it, and the Affair hath 
 been in Chancery ever fmce. It has this furprifing Qr- 
 cumftan.ee attending it, that the Caufe doth not appear 
 to be nearer a Conclufion now, than it was at firft ; for 
 fome will frill find their Account in preventing the De- 
 termination of it. 
 
 Hundreds 
 
[ 7* ] 
 
 Hundreds of Car If or d and Colneis. 
 
 THE Hundreds of CarlfordzwA Colneis are bounded 
 on the South by the Ocean, towards the Eaft by 
 the Hundreds of Loes and Willford, and towards 
 the Weft by the Hundreds of Bofmere and Claydon, the 
 Franchife of Ipfwich, and the River Orwell. With re- 
 gard to the Maintenance and Government of the Poor, 
 they have lately been incorporated, viz. in 29 George II. 
 pr 1755* Since which Time the Guardians of the Poor 
 have built a large Haufe on the Side of Nafion Common, 
 wherein all the Poor are maintained, that require paro- 
 chial Relief. For this Reafon we have blended thefe 
 two Hundreds together. They contain the following 
 Villages, and Places extra- parochial. 
 
 Bealings, was anciently the Lordfhip of Hugh 
 Fetches, who fined to Ipfwich for himfelf and his Villains 
 in Bealings ; then Robert de Tuddenham had it ; afterwards 
 it came into the Family of Ctyuh ; from them to the 
 Jfcbbs ; and from them it came by Purchafe to John Pitt, 
 Efq; who removed from Crows-Hall in Debenharn, and 
 made Bealings-HzW his Seat. It was bought of Mr. 
 Pilts's Heirs by George Bridges, Efq; who now refides 
 here. 
 
 Seckford-Hall in this Parifh, has been remarkable for 
 a Family of that Name, who lived there about three 
 hundred Years, viz. from the Time of Edwardl. to that 
 of King Charles L The Iaft: Seckford married a Daughter 
 of Sir Henry North, and gave the Eftate to her about the 
 Year 1650. It now belongs to Mr. Atkinfon. 
 
 There 
 
Hundreds 0/Carlford and Colxeis. 73 
 
 There are feveral Legacies in old Wills given towards 
 building the Steeple here, about the Year 145O. And 
 there is an Infcription of two Lines upon the Porch., 
 fhewing when and by whom that was built. 
 
 Bealingb Parva. The Advowfon of this Church 
 belonged to the Monks at Thetford ; and was granted the 
 32 Henry VIII. to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who foon 
 fold it to the Seckfords - f and it came with Seckford-Hzll 
 to Mr. Atkinfon, 
 
 Brightwell, was anciently the Lordfnip of John 
 de Lamput. In the Time of Queen Elizabeth it was Sir 
 Francis Jermfs ; then the Hewetts, who fold it to Sir 
 Anthony IVingficld ; from which Family it paffed to Thomas 
 EJfington, a Merchant ; who repaired the Church which 
 was much decayed, and built a comely Steeple to it. 
 About the Middle of the laft Century it pafled from the 
 EJJingtons to the Family of Barnardi/lon. Sir Samuel 
 Barnardijion of this Place was created a Baronet 11 May * 
 1663. He rebuilt the Hall at a great Expence, and in- 
 tailed his Eftate upon his Heirs Male ; but thefe failing, 
 it is now in Sir John Shaw, of Eltham, in Right of his 
 Mother ; and in John Williams, Efq; and another Gentle- 
 man, in Right of their Ladies, who were Coheireffes of 
 that Family. The Hall has been lately taken down. 
 
 BucKLESHAM in Colneis. The Lordlhip of this Pariflj 
 is in Richard Norton, Efq; but the Hamlet of Kembroke, 
 which lies in the Road from Kirkton to Newboum, is the 
 Lordfhip of Philip Broke, Efq; who alfo hath the Advow- 
 fon of the Rectory. See Nation. 
 
 Burgh. Odo de Campania, was Lord here, when 
 Domefday-Book was made. The Lordlhip feems to have 
 belonged afterwards to the Uffbrds : Maud de Lancajler, 
 
 Relict 
 
 I 
 
74 Hundreds of Carlford ^iCoLNEjs. 
 
 Relief of William de Burgh, gave it to the Chantry erect- 
 ed at Campeffe, and removed to Brufyard, and it was for 
 fome time impropriated thereto, and to the Nuns of St. 
 Clare, who were placed at Brufyard, inftead of the Chan- 
 try. But the Impropriation was afterwards given up, and 
 the Church made prefentative again. The Advowfon 
 was granted 30 Henry VIII. to Nicholas Hare. It is now 
 in Mr. Barnes. Befides the Parifh Church, there was a 
 Chapel here dedicated to St. Botolph. 
 
 Clopton, was likewife the Lordfhip of Odo de Cam- 
 pania. Sir Robert de Sackvill had it in the Reign of King 
 Henry J. it came afterwards to the Weylands ; for John de 
 Weyland had a Grant for a Market and Fair here, 31 
 Edward I. Bartholomew Burgherjh died feifed of this 
 Manor, \iEds,vard III. and his Son-in-Law Edward le 
 Difpcncer died feifed of it 49 Edward III. But perhaps 
 here may be two Manors ; for Hugh Lord Bardolf is faid 
 to die feifed of the Manor of Clopton'm Suffolk, 45 Edw. III. 
 How he obtained this Manor, fee Dugd. Bar. II. 100, 10 1. 
 
 Culpho. William de Valoines gave this Church to the 
 Abbey of Lei/Ion; and William Ferdunx, who married 
 his Daughter, confirmed it. The Impropriation was 
 granted 19 Elizabeth to Edward Grimfon, and with the 
 Manor it belongs now to Sir John Blois, Bart. 
 
 Falkf.nham, in Colneis, is a Vicarage endowed with 
 'all the Tithes, except thofe of Barley s which were ap- 
 propriated to the Priory of Dodnajh in Bently, in Samford 
 Hundred, Some Lands in this Parifh hold of Mr. Bur- 
 wood's Manor of Falkenham-DodnaJ}) ; and others hold of 
 Sir John Fytch Barker s Manors of Walton, and RuJJ'els \r\ 
 Falkenham. About the Year 1 533, two Legacies were 
 given towards making a new Ifle to this Church. The 
 -Crown prefents to the Vicarage. The Reftory was one 
 of thofe granted to Cardinal Wclfey. 
 
Hundreds of Carlford Colneis. 75 
 
 Felixstow, in Colneis, is thought to take its Name 
 from Felix the Burgundian, who was the firft Bifliop of 
 Dunwich, and is fuppofed to have landed here at his firft 
 Arrival ; Orwell being even at that time a noted Harbour, 
 and much frequented. It is conje&ured that he ftaid 
 here fome Time, before he removed to Dunwich ; for 
 many little mitred Images of Brafs have been found here, 
 which are thought to have been made in Honour of him. 
 See Walton. 
 
 Foxhal. Hugo de Damford gave this to the Prior and 
 Convent of the Holy Trinity, in Ipfwich ; and the Impro- 
 priation was granted 36 Henry Vlil. to Sir Thomas Pope, 
 Knt. The Grange and Eftate called Dernfords, in Fox- 
 hall, Na£ton, Hallowtree, and Ingulvefton or ifilton, be- 
 longed to the Abbot and Convent of Sifco?t, and was by 
 them granted to Thomas Duke of Norfolk ; and after- 
 wards by King EdiuardVl. to Thomas Heneage, and Lord 
 Willoughby, A. D. 1547. The Church here was pro- 
 bably ufed in 1530, when John Punting gave four 
 Marcs, towards making a new Roof for it. Perhaps it 
 Was then decayed, and for want of other Benefa&ions 
 to repair it, might foon after become unfit for Divine 
 Service. Part of it is now ftanding on the North-fide 
 of Foxhal-HzW, next the Heath ; but it is ufed only as a 
 Barn, or an Out-houfe for Cattle. Ipfwich Trinity- 
 Priory feems alfo to have had a Manor here, which was 
 granted with the Impropriation to Sir Thomas Pope.. All 
 js now in the Heirs of the Bamardifion Family. 
 
 GrundisBURGH. Hugh Peche claimed a Market here 
 every Tuefday, and a Fair during the whole Whitfun^ 
 Week, A. D. 1285. Sir Robert deTudenham was Pa- 
 tron, and probably Lord in the Time of King Edward II. 
 And one of his Defendants gave the Advowfon about 
 the Year 1 350, to the Matter and Fellows of Michael- 
 
 Houfe, 
 
?fj Hundreds *?/CaRlfokd ^ Colneis. 
 
 Hcufe, fince made Part of Trinity College, in Cambridge. 
 The Steeple of this Church falling down about the Time 
 of the Reftoration, a very handfome new one was built 
 about thirty Years fince by the Executors of Mr. Robert 
 Thing, who left an Eftate to be fold for that Purpofe. 
 The Hall and chief Eftate have been for many Years in 
 the Family of Blois, who ufed to refide here. Charles 
 Blois, of this Place, Efqj was created a Baromt, 15 April, 
 1668, who removed from hence to Co ckf eld-Hall, in 
 Yd k ford j and dying there in 1738, was fucceeded in Ho- 
 fiour and Eftate by his Grandfon Sir Charles Blois, Bart, 
 but he dying without Ifllie, the Honour went to his 
 Uncle Sir Thomas ; but the Chief of the Eftate, by the 
 Appointment of Sir Charles the firft Baronet, came to his 
 youngeft Son lately, by the Death of his Brother, the 
 Rev, Sir Ralph Blois, of CockJjeld-Ha.ll; who is fucceeded 
 by his Son Sir John Blois, Bart. 
 
 HAsicETON. There is a fmall Manor belonging to 
 the Rectory of this Parifti. Another called the Manor 
 of HaJketon-Ha.ll ; and another called the Manor of 
 Thorp* j the Tithes of which belonged formerly to the 
 Priory of Letheringham, and were granted by K. James I. 
 to Anthony Gooch and Thomas Parker, and belong now to 
 W1 " |T ■ 1 " - r — , and not the Re&or. 
 
 HelmLy, in Colneis. Odo de Campania had the Lord- 
 ship of Hcmcle, in Suffolk, when Domefday-Book was 
 made. The Dukes of Norfolk were Patrons of the Rec- 
 tory from the Year 1300 to 1540, or thereabout j but 
 the Crov/n hath prefented ever fince. In the Time of 
 King Henry VI. this Parifh was fpelt Olmejlee. 
 
 Kes-grave. This Church was impropriated to the 
 Priory of Butly, and the Impropriation is now vefted i$ 
 the Heirs of Sir Samuel Bamardijlon, See Brightwell. 
 
 Kirkton, 
 
Hundreds of Carlford and Colneis. 77 
 
 KiRKTON, in Colneis. About the year 1520, there were 
 feveral Legacies towards building the Steeple of this 
 Church. The Dukes of Norfolk had the Patronage of 
 it formerly ; but the Crown hath prefented to it, fince 
 the Time of Henry VIII. 
 
 Levington, in Colruis. Here is an Alms-houfe for 
 fix poor Perfons of this Parifti and Nation, built and en* 
 dowed by Sir Robert Hitcham, who was a Native of this 
 Place. Here is a fmall Manor, which is in the Family of 
 Goodrich, with the Manor-Houfe. The Church is now 
 confolidated to Nation, and the Patronage of it is in the 
 Right Hon. Lord Orwell. The Steeple was built by Sir 
 Robert Hitcham, as appears by his Arms, and the Date 
 upon it. 
 
 Adjoining to this Parifh towards Trimly, the Ruins of 
 Stratton Church or Chapel, now overgrown with Trees 
 and Bufhes, are ftill to be feen ; in the Middle of the fir$ 
 Field going from Levington to Trimly, called Chapel-fidd, 
 Here was formerly a Lazar-houfe, endowed with a Moiety 
 of the Tithes of Stratton. It is now extraoarochial ; 
 there is no Houfe {landing but the Hall, which, with the 
 Lordlhip, is now vefted in Sir John Fyuh Barker, Bart* 
 
 In a Farmer's Yard in Levington, clofe on. the Left as 
 you enter from Levington into the fa id Chapel-Field of 
 Stratton-HzU, was dug the firft Crag or Shell, that has 
 been found fo ufeful for improving of Land in this and 
 ©ther Hundreds in the Neighbourhood. For though it 
 appears from Books of Agricultute, that the like Manure 
 has been long finee ufed in the Wefl of England, it was 
 not ufed here till this Difcovery was cafually made by on<? 
 Edmund Edwards, about the Year 1718. This Man be» 
 ing covering a Field with Muck out of his Yard, an4 
 .wanting a Load or two to finifh it, carried lbme of the. 
 Soil that laid near his Muck, tho' it look'd to him to be no 
 better than Sand' } but obferv jng the Crop to be beft whers 
 
yS Hundreds 0/Ca-rlford and ColneiS, 
 
 he laid that, he was from thence encouraged to carry 
 more of it the next Year ; and the Succefs he had, en- 
 couraged others to do the like. 
 
 This ufeful Soil has been found in great Plenty upon 
 the Sides of fuch Vales as may reafonably be fuppofed to 
 have been waflied by the Sea ; towards which fuch light 
 Shells might be naturally carried, either at Noah's Flood, 
 or by the Force of the Tides to fonie Places fince forfaken 
 by the Sea. Whoever looks into any of thefe Crqgg- Pitts 
 cannot but obferve how they lie Layer upon Layer in a 
 greater or lefs Angle, according to the Variation of the 
 Tides. But when one confiders that the W ells in Trimly- 
 jlreet, about a Quarter of a Mile diflant from the Mill, are 
 about 25 Feet deep, and that the Springs all rife in 
 Cragg; we can no way account for this Cragg fo many 
 Feet under Ground, but from the univerfal Deluge. 
 
 Martlesham. Sir John Verdun was Patron , and re- 
 fided here J.D. 1328. But before the Year 1400 it 
 came to the Noons, one of whom was a Juftice of the 
 Peace, and fevere to the Proteftants in Queen Mary's 
 Reign. It continued in that Family above 200 Years ; 
 and then it came to the Goodiuins ; who removed, as we 
 think, from Ipfivich thither ; and they have now their 
 Seat at the Hail. 
 
 Nacton, in Colneis. The Family of Fajiolf were Pa- 
 trons, and probably Lords, from the Year 1380, till the 
 Manor and Eilate came to the Brokes, by a Marriage 
 iwhh the Fa/iolfs. This Family is descended from Sir 
 .Richard Broke, Lord Chief Baron in the Reign of 
 Henry VIIL and not from Sir Robert Brooke, Lord Chief 
 Juftice of the Common-Picas in Queen J^rj'sReigi^whofe 
 Family was fettled at Toxford, in Blithing. Sir Richard was 
 pofiefled of rflncjborn Dairy, or the Donham- Bridge Farm ? 
 •in the 13 King Henry VUi. as appears by the Return of an 
 Ipquifition. taken at that Time ; aud it is moft probable, 
 2 that 
 
Hundreds a/Carlford and Colkeis. 79 
 
 that he built Coiv-Hall about theYear 1526. Robert Brokc 9 
 of Naflon, was created a Baronet in 1661 ; but the Patent 
 was made in the ufual Way, fo that he dying without 
 Iffue.Male, his Brother's Son could not fucceed to the 
 Title ; but he marrying Sir Robert's Daughter and Heirefs, 
 enjoyed the Eftate ; and had by his fecond Lady, a 
 Daughter of Sir John Hewet, Bart. Philip Broke, Efq; 
 the prefent Poileflbr, and formerly one of the Reprefen- 
 tatives for the Borough of Ipfwich. Here are two Ma- 
 nors, one called Cow-Hall, and the Stile of the other is 
 the Manor of St. Peter in Nation and Kcmbroke. [See 
 Bucklejham.] The Tenement Hamons in Nation, was 
 granted as Part of the Poffeffions of St. Peter s Priory in 
 Ipfwich, to Thomas Alverde, 26 Henry VIII. 
 
 The late Admiral Vernon made this Parifh the Seat 
 of his Refidence. His Nephew, to whom he left the 
 Bulk, of his Fortune, hath, fince his Death, rebuilt the 
 Houfe, and inclofed it within a Pale ; which Inclofure 
 he hath called from the beautiful River on which itftands, 
 Orwell Park. Tnis Gentleman hath done ftill further 
 Honour to the River ; for being lately created a Peer of 
 Ireland, he hath taken his Title from it, and is now the 
 Right Hon. Lord Orwell. 
 
 Where the Road from this Parifh to Bucklejham croffes 
 that other leading from Ipfwich to Trimly, is a Place 
 called the Seven Hills (tho' there are more) which feera 
 to have been Barrows ; and therefore, perhaps it may be 
 more probable, that near this Place it was that Earl Ulf- 
 ketel might have fought the Danes, and not at Rufhmen. 
 Unlefs we fuppofe that Rufmnere did formerly extend fo 
 far as almoft to reach the Neighbourhood of this Place. 
 Concerning which fomething might be faid, but too mi- 
 nute to be inferted here. 
 
 North of the Bounds of Nation, between them and 
 thofe of Ipfwich Liberties, is a Trail of Land now be- 
 come extra-parochial* Partof this abutting on the Or- 
 
 well) 
 
8o Hundreds of Cariford and Com us. 
 
 ■well, belonged to a little Priory of Auguftin Monks called 
 Mnefbourn Priory. The Site of the Priory is now a 
 Farm-Houfe belonging to Philip Broke, Efq; and that of 
 the Church or Chapel to it, hath a Barn built upon it. 
 In the Year 1452, at the Requeft of William Tumour 
 then Prior, it was united to Woodbridge Priory. In a 
 Deed among the Writings of Woodbridge Priory, it is 
 called a Manor ; and in 22 Henry VIII. it was lett by 
 Thomas Cooke, Prior of Woodbridge, to Thomas Alvarde of 
 Jpfwich, by the Stile of Manerium de Alvefborne et Ponds ; 
 and among the Defcription of fome few Fields holden of 
 this Manor, fome called Ryfing's Paftures, lately belong- 
 ing to Edward Grimjlone, Efq; formerly to the Chauntry 
 of St. Laurence, Jpfwich, are faid to lie in the Hamlet of 
 Jhuefborne in the Parifh of Hallowtree. Within this Dis- 
 trict there is fome Account of three Churches, befides the 
 Chapel of AlnefbournYnoxy. Hallowtree, or as it was 
 fometimes fpelt Halgehetre now mentioned, St. Petronille 
 and Bixley. The Church of St. Petronille is mentioned 
 in lpjwich Domefday, where the Heath formerly belong- 
 ing to the EurgelTes is defcribed as lying between the 
 Heath of John Reus on the North, and the Road leading 
 from Ipfwich to the Church of St. Petronille on the South : 
 The other Piece is defcribed as lying between the faid 
 Road on the North, and the Road leading from Nation 
 to lpjwich on the South, the Eaft Head abutting on the 
 Heath of Thomas Fajlolf, Efq; and the Weft Head on 
 Chejloyneis Clofe. The Bounds of Rujhmere include the 
 whole of Bixly-Farm, and run clofe by the Side of Bixly- 
 Decoy ; and fo along that Valley till they meet the Bounds 
 of IpfvAch Liberties, (which in the Ipfwich Perambula- 
 tion are faid to go) at the End of Bixly-Marfh. From 
 hence it feems probable that Bixly may have been united 
 to Ruflmurc ; but it doth net appear plainly where any 
 Of thefe Churches ftood, but probably one of them Hear 
 what is called Purdis-Farnu The moft we can collect 
 
Hundreds Carl ford WCoLneis. St 
 
 is, that this extra-parochial Land was much fuller of In- 
 habitants formerly, than it is at prefent ; for now there 
 are not more Houfes upon it, than formerly there were 
 Churches. 
 
 Newbourn. The Manor of Hafpely in Newbottrri 
 belonged formerly to the Priory of Woodbridge, and was 
 -granted Zl Henr y VI11 - to John Wingfield znd Dorothy his 
 Wife ; it is now with the Advowfon of the Rectory veil- 
 ed in - ■ - Wejlern, Efqj 
 
 Ottley. John Hajiings Lord Bergavenny, and Earl 
 of Pembroke, had the Manor . here 28 and 49 Edward ill, 
 Edward Nevi I Lord Bergavenny died feifed of it 16 Ed- 
 ward IV. and George Nevi! Lord Abergavenny, is now 
 feifed of it at this Day. Here is a good old Houfe^ for- 
 merly the Seat of the Gofnolds ; and in the Church is a 
 Monument for John Gofmld, who died in 1628; which 
 lets forth that he was defcended from the right ancient 
 and worthy Families of Naunton and Whig field, of Le~ 
 tberingham ; that he was Gentleman-Ufher to Queen Eli- 
 zabeth, and K\t\g James ; and afterwards Gentleman of 
 the Privy Chamber to King Charles I. and that Winifred 
 his Wife was a Grand- daughter of Sir. Richard Poole and 
 the Lady Margaret Countefs of Salijbury, who was the 
 Daughter of George Duke of Clarence, Brother of King 
 Edivard IV. This Family fuffered much in the Time of 
 the great Rebellion, infomuch that the Reverend Lionel 
 Gofnold, the laft of the Family, and Re£tor of that Parifli, 
 was obliged to fell the Eftate. 
 
 Playford, is mod remarkable for being the Seat of 
 the ancient Family of Felton, which is faid to take its 
 Name from the Lordmip of Felton, in Northumberland *, 
 and to be a younger Branch of the Bertrams, Barons of 
 M'dford, and Lords of that Manor. Edmund Felton, of 
 this Family, married a Daughter of Robert Garrard, of 
 
 G Gadden* 
 
82 Hundreds of CarlEord and Colnei#. 
 
 Coddenham, in this County ; whofe eldeft Son Sir Thome* 
 Felton was Chief Juftice of Chejier in the Reign of Ed- 
 ward III. and of Richard 11. Richard, the fecond Son, 
 took Prieft's Orders; but John, the youngeft, turned 
 Merchant ; and with fo good Succefs, that he was called 
 By way of Eminence the Chapman. John, the Grandfon 
 of the Chapman, acquired the Lordfhip and' Eftate of 
 S'hotly, by marrying Joan Daughter and Heirefs of Sir 
 Thomas Mofel, of that Place, Knt. He was fucceeded in 
 that and his other Eftates by his Grandfon Robert Fel- 
 ton, who marrying Margaret the Heirefs of Sir Thomas 
 Sampfon, of Playford, Knt. acquired this Lordfhip, with 
 other Manors and Eftates in the Neighbourhood. An- 
 thony, Great Gr-andfon of the faid Robert Felton, was 
 made Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of. King 
 James !•• in the Year 1603 ; and his Son Henry was crea- 
 ted a Baronet 20 July, 1 62 1. Sir Thomas Felton, Grand- 
 fon of the firft Baronet, was Comptroller of the Houfhold 
 and Privy Councellor to Queen Anne; but dying without 
 Ifllie Male, the Honour and Eftate came to his Brother 
 Sir Compton ; and he likcwife dying without Iflue Male* 
 the Honour became extinft, and the Eftate reverted. to 
 the Right Hon* John Hervey, the firft Earl of Brijlol 
 of this Family, in Right of his Countefs Elizabeth, the 
 Daughter and Heirefs of the aforefaid Sir Thomas- Felton, 
 who was Sir Compton's elder Brother. 
 
 \ Playford Church is faid to have been- built by — 
 
 Felbrigg, who is therein buried. The Revenues of it 
 were given by Robert Mallet to his Priory at Eye, and- 
 granted 28 Henry VIII. to Edmund Bedingfeld ; but they 
 belong now to Richard Norton, Efq; whofe Mother was 
 Daughter of Sir Compton Felton. 
 
 Rushmere, was the Lordfhip of William de Freney 
 in the Time of King John, for he. paid Fines to Ipfyuich 
 for himfelf and his Villains in Rujbmere and Brifete. At 
 
 this 
 
Hundreds ^/CaRLford^Colneis, 83 
 
 this Place XJlfketel is faid to have withftood the Danes, 
 (but fee Nation) A.D. 1010. The Lordfhip of this 
 Parifh hath for many Years been in the Feltons, of Play- 
 ford ( fee there) ; and is now vefted in the Earl of Brijlol, 
 together with a great Part of the Parifh. The Church 
 was impropriated to the Prior and Con-vent of Chrijl* 
 Church, Ipfivich j and the Impropriation and Advowfon 
 of the Vicarage were granted 37 Henry VIII. to Aujiin 
 Au/lins, M. D. and they were fold again by Dr. Aujlins 
 to Sir John Jenr/y, Knt. and Humphry Warren, Gent* 
 In this Deed are fpecified the following Particulars, viz. 
 The Parfonage Barn, and the Barn-yard, the little Piece 
 oppofite to it, containing about three Roods ; alfo two 
 Pightles, containing by Eftimation nine Acres, lying in 
 the Parifh of St. John Baptijl, in Caldwell ; and all other 
 Houfes, £sV. late in the Occupation of Thomas Lord 
 Wentworth, and Parcel of the PofTeffions of the faid late 
 Priory; but the Right of Patronage of the Vicarage is 
 not fpecified as fold with the Re&ory. The Redory 
 came thro' the Feltons, and is now vefted in the Earl of 
 Brijlol ; and the Advowfon of the Vicarage is in the 
 Heirs of Sir Samuel Barnardijlon, Bart. 
 
 Catharine Cadye, Widow, A.D. 1521, left a large 
 Legacy towards building a new Steeple of like Fafhion, 
 Bignefs and Workmanfhip, with that at Tuddenham : The 
 two Steeples do only differ in the Form of the Battlements. 
 
 Trimly St. Martin, in Colneis. Grim/lon-Hall in 
 this Parifh, the Manor of Gr'unjlon with Morjlon, and a 
 good Eftate befides, was purchafed by John Barker, Efq; 
 who was created a Baronet 17 March, 1621. This 
 Honour and Eftate is now in Sir John Fytch Barker, Bart. 
 Grimjhn-Hall was formerly the Seat of Thomas Candijh, 
 Efq; the fecond Englijhman that failed round the World, 
 who was born here. There are two Ilexes flill (landing 
 at Grim/lon-Hall, which are faid to have been planted 
 G 2 bv 
 
&4 Hundreds ef Carl^ord and ColneiS. 
 
 by him. This gallant Officer, fitted out three Ships, at 
 his own Expence, againfl: the Spaniards, viz. the Deftre f 
 Burden 120 Tons j the Content , of 60 Tons j and the 
 Hugh Gallant, a Bark, of 40 Tons. On board thefe 
 Ships he had no more than One Hundred and Twenty- 
 three Hands, Men and- Boys. With this finall and in- 
 confiderable Force, he failed from Plymouth, 21 July, 
 1586. In the February following he palled through the 
 Straits of Magellan, and entered the South-Seas, where he 
 plundered and burnt the Towns of Paha, Puna, Aqua- 
 pulco, Natividad, Acailar, and feveral others on the Coafts 
 of Chili and Peru, with great Succefs. After which he 
 attacked the St. Anna, a large AquapuLo Ship of 700 Tons. 
 Before this, he had funk the Bark at the Iftand of Puna, 
 for want of Hands to man her j and it does not appear 
 that the Content Game up, fo as to have any Share in the 
 Engagement : In his own Ship, the Defire, he had not, 
 at the raoft, above Sixty M tn ; yet, with thefe he at- 
 tempted to board the St. Anna ; and tho' he was twice 
 repulfed, at the third Attack he took her* with- the Lofs 
 of only two Men killed, and five wounded. What Lofs- 
 the Enemy fuftained, is not faid j but Capt. Candijb fet 
 One Hundred and Ninety- one Prifoners on Shore at Puerto 
 Seguro, and brought off Seven with him, to ferve as Pilots, 
 Linguifts, tsf'fi. He took in this Prize One Hundred and 
 Twenty-two Thoufand Pezos of Gold, each Pezo being 
 of the Value of Eight Shillings ; beftdes a great Quantity 
 of other rich Merchandize. After this he touched at the 
 Philippine Iflahds, and returned Home by the Cape of 
 Good Hop?, and St. Helena. If this Expedition be duly 
 confidered f wrth all its Circumftances, it will be found to be 
 by far more remarkable, than what has happened in thofe 
 Seas, within our Memories. But the Suffolk Commo- 
 dore had no Hiftorian to celebrate his Praifes ; and he 
 contented himfelf with fending the following fhort Ac- 
 count of his glorious Succefsj in a Letter to Lord Hunfdon y 
 
 at 
 
Hundreds vf Carlford and Cqlneis. 85 
 at that Time Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth ,; 
 which he dated from Plymouth, where he arrived fafely 
 9 September, 1588. The Letter runs thus ; 
 
 44 Right "Honourable i 
 
 44 As your Favour heretofore hath bene mofte greatly 
 44 extended towards me, fo I humbly defire a Continuance 
 44 thereof j and though there be no Meanes in me to 
 44 deferve the feme, yet the uttermoft of my Services fhaU 
 '* not be wanting, whenfoever it (hall pleafe your Honour 
 
 to difpofe thereof. I am humbly to defire your Honour 
 44 to make knowen unto her Majefty the Defire I have 
 44 had to doe her Majefty Service, in the Performance of 
 44 this Voyage* And as it hath pleafed God to give her 
 44 the Victory over Part of her Enemies, fo I truft, yer 
 ** long to fee her overthrow them all. For the Places of 
 44 their Wealth, whereby they have maintained and made 
 44 their Warres, are now perfectly difcovered j and if it 
 44 pleafe her Majefty, with a very fmall Power, (he may 
 44 take the Spoile of them all. It hath pleafed the Al- 
 44 mighty to fuffer mee to circompafle the whole Globe 
 44 of the World, entering in at the Streight of Magellan, 
 44 and returning by the Cape de Buena Efperanza. In 
 ** which Voyage I have either difcovered, or brought 
 44 certeine Intelligence of all the rich Places of the World 
 44 that ever were knowen or difcovered by any Chriftian. 
 44 I navigated alongft the Coaft of Chili, Peru, and Nutva 
 44 Ejpanna, where I made great Spoiles : I burnt and 
 44 funke nineteen Sailes of Ships fmall and great. All 
 44 the Villages and Townes that ever I landed at, I burnt 
 44 and fpoiled ; and had I not bene difcovered upon the 
 14 Coaft, I had taken great Quantirje of Treafure. The 
 44 Matter of moft Profit unto me, was a great Ship of the 
 44 King's, which I tooke at California ; which Ship came 
 44 from the Philippines, being one of the richeft of Mcr- 
 44 chandife that ever pafled thofe Seas, as the King's Re- 
 s' 4 gifter and Merchants Accounts did fhew.-< — Which 
 G 3 44 Goods 
 
86 Hundreds <?/Carlford and Colneis. 
 
 " Goods (for that my Ships were not able to contein the 
 " leaft Part of them) I was inforced to fet on Fire, From 
 «' the Cape of California, being the uttermoft Part of all 
 «« Nueva Efpanna, I navigated to the Iflands of the Phi- 
 *« lippines, hard upon the Coaft of China ; of which 
 " Countrey I have brought fuch Intelligence as hath 
 " not bene heard of in thefe Parts. The Statelinefle and 
 «* Riches of which Countrey I feare to make Report of, 
 " leaft I fhould not be credited : For if I had not knowen 
 *< fufficiently the incomparable Wealth of that Countrey, 
 <{ I fhould have bene as incredulous thereof, as others 
 " will be that have not had the like Experience. I failed 
 " along the Iflands of the Malum, where among fome of 
 «* the Heathen People I was well intreated, where our 
 " Countreymen may have Trade as freely as the Portu- 
 ** gals, if they will themfelves. From thence I palled by 
 " the Cape of Buena Efperanza, and found out by the 
 <« Way homeward the Ifland of St. Helena, where the 
 *' Portugal* ufed to relieve themfelves ; and from that 
 " Ifland God hath fuffercd me to returne into England. 
 <c All which Services with myfelf, I humbly proftrate at 
 " her Majefty's Feet ; deliring the Almighty long to con- 
 " tinue her Reigne among us : For at this Day fhe is the 
 *' mod famous and victorious Prince that liveth in the 
 *< World. 
 
 " Thus humbly defiling Pardon of your Honour for 
 »* my Tedioufneffe, I leave your Lordfliip to. the Tuition 
 •* of the Almighty. Plimmouth, this ninth of September 
 M 1588. 
 
 " Your Honour's moft humble to command, 
 
 « THOMAS CANDISH*" 
 
 The 
 
 * We have taken this Account from Hackluyt's Collection 
 of Voyages, where it is called, " The admirable and 
 4 f prosperous Voyage of the worfhipful Matter 'Thomas Can- 
 
 " dijh y of Trimley, in the County of Stff'olke, Efquire 
 
 «* Written by Mafter pratuis Pr'etty, lately of Ey in Suffolk, 
 
I 
 
 Hundreds of Carlford and Colneis. 87 
 
 The Succefs of this Voyage encouraged our Trimley 
 •Hero to make a fecond Attempt with a larger Force. Ac- 
 cordingly he departed from Plymouth, with five Ships, 
 26 Augujl 1591, on a like Expedition. But in this he 
 failed ; for we are forry to add, that after paffing the 
 Straits of Magellan a fecond Time, on 20 May 1592, he 
 was parted from his Fleet in the Night, and was never 
 heard of fince. 
 
 Mr. Lombard, arguing in Favour of the Opinion that 
 formerly there were Men of moft extraordinary Stature, 
 faith, " Since the Beginning of the Reign of Queen 
 •« Elizabeth, there were found in Suffolk, over-againft 
 66 Harwich in EJfex, by a Gentleman called Cavendijh, 
 " the Bones of a Man whereof the Skull was able to 
 " contain five Pecks, and one of the Teeth remaining 
 •« yet with Mr. Secretarie, is as big as a Man's Fift, and 
 " weigheth ten Ounces. Thefe Bones had fometimes 
 ■" .Bodies, not of Beafts., but of Men ; for the Difference 
 " is manifeft."— Lombard's Did*, p. 124. But the Num- 
 bers are in Figures, and thefe might be miftaken by the 
 Printer, as the Book was publifhed from the Author's 
 own Manufcript. 
 
 Altejlon Rectory was confolidated to Trimly #. Martin, 
 qjuly, 1362: No Remains .of this Church are any 
 where to be found ; but from a -great Number of hu- 
 man Bones and Skulls that were dug up at putting down 
 the Pofts of a Cartlodge, at the Weft- end of Altejlon, 
 ftreet, about the Year 1720, it is probable it might ftand 
 there over-againft the Park of Grimjlon-Hall. 
 
 The Hamlet of Thorp confifted of many Houfes, (of 
 which now are no Remains but the Memory of them, in 
 G 4 < . the 
 
 4*. a Gentleman employed in the fame A&ion." To which 
 is there added, certain rare and fpecial Notes relating to this 
 Voyage, written by Mafter Thomas Fuller of Ip/ivicb, who 
 was Mafter .of the Defire. This Book was printed A. D. 
 1600; it is now become very fcarce, and bears a high Price, 
 for which Reafon we the rather chofe toextraft this Account 
 *irom it". 
 
88 Hun pr eds a/Carlford and Colmeis. 
 
 the CourtrRolls only) fituated in feveral Pightles rouncj 
 fhe common Field, frill known by the Name of Thorp Fields 
 jn the South- weft Part of this Parifti towards the River. 
 
 Trimly St. Mary, in Cohuis. This Church was 
 probably built by Thomas of Brother ton, Son of Edward J. 
 for his Arms are ftill tp be feen over the Door of tfje 
 Steeple. The Earls and Dukes of Norfolk were former- 
 ly Patrons of it. The Crown began to prefent to it only 
 jn A.D. 1545. 
 
 Tuddenham. This Church was given to Trinity 
 Priory in Jpfwich, by Anketill de Mefang, and others ; the 
 Re&ory and Advowfon of the Vicarage is in Thomas Fon-, 
 mreau, Efq; the Owner of Chrijl-Church. The laft 
 Vicar was inftituted to it j but it is now held by Seque- 
 stration. The Manor here belongs to Mr. William Mir r 
 fer, in whpfe Eamily it hath been for many Years. 
 
 WALDRifJGFiELD. All we have learnt of this little 
 Parifh is, that Sir Robert Hilton, Knt. was Patron in 
 1305 } but the Manor and Advowfon now are jn the 
 Jieirs of Sir Samuel Barnardijlon^ of Brightwell, Bart. 
 
 Walton and Felijjstow, in Co(neis. Altho' thefe 
 are now djftinc~t Parifhes, yet Felix/low till of late Days, 
 was always reckoned as a part of, and to be in Walton, 
 Jor the Lands in Felix/low were all anciently, and ftill 
 are, except a very fmall Parcel which hold of Felix/low 
 Priory, within the Manor of Walton. The conftant Stile 
 pf the Court from Richard II. to Henry V 11. is, the Ma- 
 nor of Walton. Then the Stile was changed to the Mar 
 nor of Walton with Trimly, as it continues tp this Day ; 
 but it is never called the Manor of Walton vn'th Felix/low. 
 And fo late as Hairy Vill. when an ■ Inquifition was 
 faken of the Pofiefiions of Cardinal Woljey, in Suffolk j 
 Jie is there faid to have had an annual Penfjon from the 
 £hurch of St. Felix in Walton, 
 
 Z Walton^ 
 
/ 
 
 Hundreds a/Carlford and Colneis. 89 
 
 Walton, thus largely taken, was a Place of great Note, 
 jas well before, as for fome Ages after the Conqueft. As 
 Orwell Harbour is fometimes now called Harwich Har- 
 bour, from Harwich, a Hamlet of Dover-court, fituated 
 on the South- fide of it ; fo, in old Court-Rolls, it is fre- 
 quently called Wadgate -haven, from the Hamlet of Wad- 
 gate in Walton, where now there are but three Houfes re- 
 maining. Here, as Hollingjhead informs us, the Earl of 
 .Leicejler landed with his Flemings in 1 1 73, and was re- 
 ceived by Hugh Bigod Earl of Norfolk, then Lord of the 
 Manor and Caftle of Walton; and in 1176 (fays the 
 fame Author) Henry \\, caufed all fuch Caftles as had 
 been kept againft him during the Time of that Rebel- 
 lion [Walton named among the reft) to be overthrown, 
 and made plain with the Ground. And this was then 
 fo effectually done, that, to prevent its ever rifing again, 
 the Stones of it were carried into all Parts of Felixjlotv^ 
 Walton, and Trimly ; and Foot-paths were paved with 
 them, on both Sides of the Roads. In many Places they 
 ftill remain entire, and fome Fragments of them are to 
 be met with in all. At the fame time the Caftle of 
 Jpfwich was demolifhed. 
 
 He that fhall look for the Site of this Cajlle within 
 the Bounds of Walton ftriclly taken, will never find it ; 
 but upon a high Cliff in Felixjlozv, at the Diftance of a- 
 bout one Mile from the Mouth of JVoodbridge River, and 
 two Miles from Orwell-Haven, Part of the Foundation 
 pf the Weft-fide of it, is ftill to be feen ; being now One 
 Hundred and Eighty-feven Yards in Length, and nine 
 feet thick ; it is called by the Country-People, Stone- 
 Works. How much longer it was we cannot judge, 
 fart of the South-end being wafhed away ; and the Sea, 
 which is daily gaining upon this Coaft, haying fwallowed 
 up the Ruins. 
 
 Such was the Condition of it, about the Year 1740 ; 
 but, fince then ? the Sea hath wafhed away the Remainder 
 
 9f 
 
90 Hundreds a/Carlford and Colnek. 
 
 ■of the Foundation. There can be no doubt but Walton 
 Cattle was a Roman Fortification, as appears from the 
 great Variety of Roman Urns, Rings, Coins, &c. that 
 >have been found there. It is thought to have been built 
 by Conjiantine the Great, when he withdrew his Legions 
 from the Frontier Towns in the Eaft of Britain, and 
 built Forts or Caftles to fupply the Want of them. The 
 Coins that have been lately taken up here, are of the 
 V '.fpaftan and Antonine Families ; of Severus, and his Suc- 
 ceflbrs to Gordian the Third ; and from Gallienus, down 
 'to Arc'adius and Honorius. It is certain, the Caftle had 
 •the Privilege of coining Money j for feveral Dies have 
 •been found for that Purpofe. 
 
 Roger Bigot had a Grant of a Market at Walton, 17 
 Edward I. or A. D. 1288. The Market-Crofs is ftiH 
 Handing, tho' the Market has been long difufed. 
 
 In the Parifh of Felix/low, about a Quarter of a Mile 
 North of Felix/low High-ftreet, and at the fame Diftance 
 Eaft from Walton Bounds, are very confiderable Ruins 
 of an ancient and magnificent Building, which goes by 
 the Name of Old-Httll. This probably was ere&ed for 
 the Manor-Houfe foon after the Cajlle was demoiifhedj 
 and was the Place where 4Cing Edward III. 'laid fome 
 time at his Manor of Walton before his Enterprife into 
 France ; wherein he gained that Victory over the French 
 fKing near CreJJey, A. D. 1 338 ; and difpatched many 
 confiderable Things there, as appears from Rymer's Foe- 
 Aera, Vol. V. and here he confirmed the Charters granted 
 to the Corporation ot-Ipfwich, by an Infpeximus, dated at 
 Walton in his twelfth Year, or 1339. 
 
 In a Survey of the Manor of Felix/low Priory, made 
 in 161 3, we find a Clofe of Arable Land called Great 
 Long-dole, in which Clofe are the Ruins of Walton Caftle, 
 and the Clofe is defcribed as lying between the Old Abbey 
 and the Cliff Eaft. The Clofe next mentioned is called 
 <he. Old Abbey, lying between the Cliff, Eaft and South,; 
 
 and 
 
Hundreds a/Carlford and Colneis. 91 
 
 and Great Long-dole, Weft, containing fix Acres. Alfo 
 a Clofe of Fenn Ground, called Old Abby-Pond, lying 
 open to the old Abbey, South. From thefe Defcriptions 
 it is plain, that the Priory dedicated to St. Felix, the firft 
 Bifhop of the Eajl Angles, was founded, and probably- 
 very early, in this Place ; tho' now no Remains are to 
 be feen, fave only the Site of the Ponds. The Bigots, . 
 Earls of Norfolk, were great Benefactors to this Houfe ; 
 and it is very likely, that foon after the Caftle was de- 
 molilhed, it was by them removed into a Field abutting 
 on Walton Church, North ; from whence you have a de- 
 lightful Sea Profpecl, and may fee Orford Church and 
 Caftle. The Monks were called Monks of Rochejler, 
 becaufe Roger Bigod gave it as a Cell to the Monks of 
 Rochejler. He endowed it with the fmall Manor of Fe- 
 lix/low Priory, taken out of his Manor of Walton, and 
 with the Churches of Walton and Felix/low. Some Ruins 
 of this Priory are ftill to be feen. The Site of it, with 
 the great Tithes of Walton -and Felixjlow, and the Ad- 
 vowfon of the Vicarages, were given at the Diffolution to 
 Cardinal Wolfey, 26 Henry VIII. But long after his Fall, 
 in 1 9 Queen Elizabeth they were granted to Thomas Seck- 
 ford; and are now, with the other Eftates of that Family 
 veiled in Mr. Atkinfon (fee Bealings) ; but the fmall Ma- 
 nor of Felix/iozv Priory, as alfo the large Manor of Wal- 
 ton with Trimley, and RuJJels in Falkenham, are in Sir 
 John Fytcb Barker, Bart. 
 
 Langer-Fort, and not Land-guard Fort, as it is corrupt- 
 ly and vulgarly called, takes its Name from Langer-Com- 
 tnon in Felixjlow upon which it ftands, on the South-eaft 
 Corner of it, two Miles from the Cliff. It is not cer-* 
 tainly known when the firft Fort was built. Ca/nbdcn 
 takes notice of Langer-Jlone as a Place where Fifhermen 
 dried their Nets, but makes no mention of any Fort. 
 The old Fort had four Baftions (wirh fifteen very large 
 Guns upon each), which were called the King's, the 
 3 . £>ueensy 
 
92 Hundreds of Carlford and Colulis. 
 
 Queen's, Warwick's^ and Holland's. Thefe Names mew 
 that it v.'as creeled after Queen Elizabeth's Time ; and 
 probably it was in the Beginning of Charles I. who in the 
 Grant of his Manor of V/alton with Trimly^ calls it a 
 Fort newly built, viz. except o tote illo folo & fundo juxta 
 Mare prope prediclum mancrium de Walton cum Trimly, 
 Juper quod Fortilagium pro defenfione patr'ne ibidem nuper 
 adificatum exijlit. The old one was demolished by A& 
 of Parliament, and this prefent Fort built in the room of 
 it, in 1718. 
 
 The Fort being built for the Security of 0rw*//-Haven 
 by Harwich in Ejfex, People at a Diftance have imagined 
 the Fort as well as Harwich to be in Ejfex ( a) ; and as 
 all Letters from the Board of Ordnance, &c. to the Gar- 
 rifon are ufually fent by the Harwich Bag ; and directed 
 
 fometimes, To at Longer- Fort, near Harwich in 
 
 Ejfex ; and fometimes for Shortnefs, To , at 
 
 Langer-Fort, in Ejfex : From hence many People in the 
 Neighbourhood have been led into the fame Miftake. 
 This Miftake hath fo generally prevailed, that tho' the 
 Arm of the Sea between the Fort and Harwich is two 
 Miles over, the common People in Harwich will tell you 
 they have feen fome old Perfons that remembred the 
 Time, when with a Board laid upon two Horfes Heads 
 they could walk over from Harwich to the Fort ; and 
 that the Sea which now runs up to Ipfwich on the South- 
 fide of the Fort 1 did run formerly on the North of it, 
 where now is Longer -Common. Whoever obferves the 
 Soil and Situation of Longer -Common and Longer Marfties, 
 will make no difficulty in acknowledging that they have 
 been formerly covered by the Sea ; and the Sea muft 
 then have extended from the Suffolk Cliff to the Ejfex 
 ClifF. How long this Common and Level of Marfhes 
 have been gained from the Sea, we cannot precifely de- 
 termine. 
 
 . (a) We fhould not take fo much Notice of this vulgar 
 Error, were it not gravely rpentioned, by the Right Reverend 
 £ditor of Cambdep. 
 
Hundreds cf Carlford and Colneis. 93 
 
 termine. But that the Sea had not its Chanel on the 
 North-fide of the Fort, is demonftrable from the Court- 
 Rolls of the Manor of IValton, which make frequent 
 mention of Longer -Common in Felix/low for upwards of 
 Two Hundred Years before any Fort was built there ; 
 yet fo ftrongly are People poflelfed in Favour of the Mar- 
 vellous, that ftill the Fort mull be in EJjex, becaufe it is 
 ivithin the Jurifdiciicn of the Bijhop of London. But 
 what Jurifdiclion hath the Bifhop of London ever exer- 
 cifed there, except the appointing of a Chaplain ? and 
 this he may have done at Plymouth y or Berivick-u^on- 
 Tweed ; which fu rely are not in Effex. But to put this 
 Matter paft all Difpute, it appears by the Reg i fief of the 
 Bifhop of Noriuich, that the Chapel of the Old Fort was 
 confecrated 7 September 1628, by the Bifhop of Norwich, 
 as lying within his Jurifdiclion. By the way, this is the 
 beft Evidence we have of the Time when Longer- Fort 
 was firft built. The very learned Editor of Cambden, 
 from the Similarity of the Words, was led to think that 
 Langer-Fort was a Contraction of Land- guard- Fcrt ; 
 but it appears from what has been faid concerning the 
 Antiquity of Longer-Common , that the Truth is theRe- 
 verfe of this j for Land-guard- Fort is a Corruption of 
 Langer-Fort. It is true, every Fort muft be fuppofed to 
 guard the neighbouring Country j but the Fort we are 
 fpeaking of, could never without an Irony be called 
 Land- guard- Fort j for upon Sight of it every Man of 
 common Senfe muft fee, it could never be intended to 
 guard the Land ; the Ufe of it muft be to guard the 
 Haven. Even the old Fort, which was far more com- 
 modious and ufeful than this, could never be fuppofed to 
 guard the Land ; fince any Number of Forces may evi- 
 dently land at Felix/low Ferry, without the Knowledge, 
 or with it, in fpite of Longer -Garrifon, 
 
 Witnesham. Sir Edmund Bacon had this Lordfhip 
 about the Year 1291 3 Sir JVarine Latymer, A.D. 1341 ; 
 
 Sir 
 
94 Hundreds of Carlford'^/^ CcplntlIi. 
 
 Sir John Brewfe y A. D. 1361 ; whofe Defendants had 
 theAdvowfon till the Reign of Henry VIII. when the 
 Dudleys had it. Sir Richard de Weyland had a Manor 
 here ; Bartholomew Burgherjb, who married C«//rV his 
 Daughter, had a Charter for a free Warren in his Do- 
 main Lands in IVitneJham, &c. and died 43 
 
 Edward 111. feifed of it. And Edward le Di [pence-, who 
 married Burgherjb's Daughter, died feifed of it 4.9 Ed- 
 ward III. Bartholomew Burgherjh had a good eld Seat 
 here, the Site of which may frill be feen in Mrs. Child's 
 Farm, where it had a Moat round it; and that dirt/ Road 
 now corruptly called Burrage-lane, had its Narm from 
 him. He was one of the firft Knights of the Gaiter, or 
 as they are called, one of the Founders of that Order. 
 The Family of Meadows hath had a Seat here from the 
 Time of King Richard III. The Advowfon of the 
 Rectory was bought of fome of them by the late Mr. 
 Beaumont, and fold by his Son to St. Peter's College in 
 Cambridge. Here was formerly a free Chapel dedicated 
 to St. Uhomas, and mentioned in Bifhop Tanners Not. 
 Men. the Ruins of which appeared not long fmce in a 
 Meadow called Burgherfi. The Rivulet Fyn, which 
 empties itfelf at Martlcjha?n, rifes in this Parifh, not far 
 from the Church. From hence the Street near the Bridge 
 is called in Domefday Fynford ; and, in old Wils, the 
 Bridge is called Fynford- Bridge. 
 
 10ES 
 
[ 95 I 
 
 L O E S. 
 
 TH E Hundred of Loes lieth to the Eaftward of 
 Carlford, and North of the Hundred of Will- 
 ford ; and contains the following Nineteen 
 rarifhes, viz. 
 
 BrandEston, in the Conqueror's Time was the 
 Lordftiip of Odo de Campania ; his Succeilors granted' it 
 to the Burwells j and from them it came through the 
 Weylands, and Tuddenhams, to the Bedingftelds. Andrew 
 Revet, Elq; purchafed this Manor of them, and made the 
 Hall his Seat, whofe Defcendants ftill continue there. 
 
 The Advowfon of the Vicarage and the great Tithes, 
 Were appropriated to Woodbridge Priory by Sir Thomas 
 Weyland, about A. D. 1 290. After the Diflblution they 
 came into the Hands of the Seckford Family •> but are 
 now vefted in Feoffees, in Truft, to fupport fome DiC- 
 fenting Meeting- Ho ufes in London. 
 
 Butley. This Church is in Loes Hundred 5 but tha 
 Abbey in Bhmefgate. (See that. J 
 
 Camfsey -AJb> or AJh by Campfey, was remarkable for 
 a Nunnery of the Order of St. Aiijlin, founded by Joan 
 and Agnes de Valoines, two Sifters, who dedicated it to the 
 Honour of God and the Virgin Mary. This Nunnery 
 was feated in a fruitful and pleafant Valley on the Eaft- 
 fide of the River Debm, and on the North it had a large 
 Lake of Water ; fo that the Water fupplied them with 
 Fifti and Wild-fowl, and the Land with the other Ne- 
 ecflaries of Life, Maud de Lancq/lcr Countefs of Ul/ler, 
 
 who 
 
$6 Hundred of Loes. 
 
 who afterwards married Ralph de Ufford, Chief Juftice of 
 Ireland, obtained a Licence from King Edward III. to 
 found a Chauntry of five Chaplains, fecular Priefts, to 
 pray and fing Mafs in the Church of this Nunnery, for 
 the Souls of William de Burgh and Ralph de Ufford, and 
 their Wives, viz. Elizabeth de Burgh and Maud de Ufford, 
 her Daughters, &c. which Chauntry remained there fome 
 Years ; and then was removed by the faid Lady to Rcke- 
 hall, in Bruifyard. Several curious Deeds relating to-this 
 Nunnery, are faid by the Authors of Mag. Brit, nova £f? 
 antiqua, to be in the Hands of Francis Canning, Efq; of 
 Foxcoat, in Warwick/hire. In the Window of the Par- 
 lour in the Abbey-houfe, is now a Piece of Glafs ftained 
 with the Arms of the Uffords. And in the Window of 
 the Chamber over it, is the Figure of a Lady ftained in 
 Glafs, with thefe Words Governess Grace. The 
 Nunnery was valued at the Diflblution, 35 Hen. VIII. 
 at 182/. qs. $d. per Annwn, and granted to Sir William 
 Willoughby, who fold it to John Lane, Gent. It was 
 purchafed of the Lanes by Frederick Scot, who fold it to 
 Sir Henry Wood, of Loudham-, and it came with the reft 
 of his Eftate to William Chapman^ now of Loudhain* 
 Efq; 
 
 In this Parifli is an old Seat, formerly the Eftate of 
 Ihcophilus Howard^ Earl of Suffolk. This was purchafed 
 by John Braham or Brame, Grandfon of Sir John Bra- 
 ham of Braham-HaN, who fettled here ; but that Family 
 failing of Iflue Male, it is now vefted in two Maiden 
 Ladies of that Name. 
 
 The High Houfe in Campfey is a good Seat, and was 
 built by John G lover , Efq; fometime Servant to Thomas 
 Howard, Earl of Norfolk ; whofe Succeflbr removing to 
 Frojienden in this County, fold it to the Shepards, one of 
 which Family now poflefies it. 
 
 Cmaks- 
 
Hundred cf L o i s. 
 
 Charsfield, was formerly the Lordfliip of William 
 de Weylond in King John's Time, who fined for his Vil- 
 lains in Charsfield and Wejlerfield ; afterwards of the Be- 
 dingfields, and fold by them to Sir John Leman, Knt. 
 Lord-Mayor of London ; to him fucceeded William Leman, 
 Grandfon of William Leman, of Beccles, Efq; who was 
 the elder Brother of Sir John Leman ; in whofe Heirs it 
 continued till it was lately fold to William Jennens, Efq; 
 of dfl oh- Place. - 
 
 The Church was impropriated to Letheringham Priory, 
 and is now a Donative properly fo called ; that is, filled 
 by the Patron, without Prefentation or Nomination to, or 
 Licence from, the Bifhop. 
 
 Cretingham. This Church was impropriated to St. 
 Peter's Priory in Ipfwich. The Manor of St. Peter in 
 Cretingham, did belong to the faid Priory. The Manor 
 of Kettlebars belonged to a Family who took their Name 
 from it ; from them it palled to the Family of Mulfo, and 
 from them to the Family of Cormvallis. The Manor of 
 Tyes in Cretingham belongeth. to Mr. Revet of Brandejion, 
 and hath been the Eftate of his Anceftors about Two 
 Hundred Years, The Parifli was anciently divided into 
 two Villages, one called Great Cretingham, the other Little 
 Cretingha?}!) near Ottly, which had a Chapel belonging to 
 it ; but they both now make one Parifli. 
 
 Dallinghoo, is Part of it in this Hundred, and the 
 other Part in Willford. Here was a handfome Seat built 
 by William Churchill, who fometime refided here. His 
 Son-in-Law Francis Negus, Efqj who was formerly one 
 of the Reprefentatives of the Borough of Ipfivich to whom 
 he gave it, rebuilt it j but it was unfortunately confumed 
 by Fire, A.D. 1729; the Eftate is now in William 
 Negus, Efq; his Son. 
 
 H 
 
 One 
 
98 Hundred «/ Loes. 
 
 One Manor in this Parifli and Hundred of Loes be- 
 longs to the Honor of Eye. 
 
 The other in the Hundred of Willford, called for DI/- 
 ftinction-fake, Earl-Dattinghoo as having been in the 
 Hands of feveral of the Earls of Norfolk and Suffolk, to- 
 gether with the Advowfon, is vefted in the Earl of Koch- 
 ford. Before he had' them' they belonged to the Wing- 
 fields, and anciently to the Boviles of Letheringham. 
 
 Earl-Soham, is fo called, becaufe it belonged to the 
 Earls of Norfolk. Roger Bigod had a Grant of a Market 
 as well as a Fair here, 20 Edward 1. and Thomas de Br 0- 
 thertonJZarl of Norfolk had it confirmed to him, 7 Edw. II. 
 The Market hath been long difufed, but there is now a 
 Fair yearly on July 12. 
 
 iSV;w7?2-Lodge, is an old irregular Houfe, encompafied 
 with a Brick Wall and a large Moat, {landing within the 
 Park, to which the Manor of this Town belongs. It was 
 anciently the Seat of the Family of Cornvjallis j from one 
 of them it was given by Will to the Corderoys, who fold 
 the Manor, Advowfon, Lodge and Park to John Cotton, 
 fecond Son of Sir Allen Cotton, Lord-Mayor of London 
 in 1626. He dwelt here, and was Sheriff of Suffolk in 
 1 644. His Son fold this Eftate to Lcicejler Devereux 
 Lord Vifcount Hereford, and the Executors of his Son 
 Price Devereux Lord Vifcount Hereford, fold it to John 
 Boy fie hi, Efq; 
 
 Easton, was formerly the Lordfhip of an ancient 
 Family in Kettleburgh, furnamed Charles. Afterwards the 
 TVingfields of Lcthcringhain, were Proprietors of both. 
 Anthony Wingfield removed from Letheringham, to God- 
 ivyns in Hoo \ and was created a Baronet 17 May, 1627. 
 He built the White Houfe at Eaflon, and removing from 
 Hoo made it his Seat. To him fucceeded Sir Richard, 
 Sir Robert, and Sir Henry JVingficld, Barts. whofe Son Sir 
 
 Henry 
 
HtlNDkED of LOes. 
 
 Henry fold this Seat and the Remainder of the WingfieWs 
 Eftate in the Neighbourhood, to the Right Hon. William 
 Zuilejlein, Lord of Zuilejlein in the Province of Utrecht, 
 Matter of the Robes to King William III. and created 
 Baron of Enfield, Vifcount Tunbridge, and Earl of Roch- 
 ford, 10 May, 7 William III. He was fucceeded by his 
 Son William Henry Earl of Rochford, who commanded 
 the Left Wing of the Englijh Army under General Start- 
 hope, at Lcrida in Spain, where he was (lain 1 4 July, 1 7 1 0. 
 Frederick, his Brother, fucceeded him; and he dying in 
 1738, was fucceeded by William Henry the prefent Earl 
 of Rochford, who fold this Eftate to the Hon. Mr. Naffaa 
 his younger Brother, married to her Grace the Dutchefs 
 Dowager of Hamilton and Brandon, who have for feveral 
 Years made this their Refidcnce. 
 
 Eyke. Roger Bigod endowed Alice his fecond Wife 
 (inter alia) with the Manor of Staverton in this Parifb, 
 18 Edivard I. fo called, from a Family of the Name of 
 Staverton, who had it before. Thomas Moivbray, fir ft 
 Duke of Norfolk, died feifed of the Manor of Staverton, 
 1 Henry IV. and it was affigned to his Relicl as Part of 
 her Dowry, 3 Henry IV. The Pafture called Staverton- 
 Park, was granted as Parcel of the PoffeHions of Bulky 
 Priory to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, 32 Henry VIII. But 
 it now belongs to William Chapman, Efq; as Part of the 
 late Mr. Wood's Eftate. 
 
 At Eyke was a Chantry, called Sennet's Chantry, of the 
 yearly Value of 8/. The Lands belonging to it lying in 
 Eyke and Rendlejham were granted 3 Edward VI. to Sir 
 Michael Stanhope and John Delle. 
 
 Framlingham, is a Parifh of large Extent, in the 
 midft of which ftandeth the Church and Market. The 
 Town is pleafantly feated, and pretty well built, upon a 
 Clay Hill near the Head of the River Ore; which rifing 
 in the Hills on the North pafTeth through the Town, arid 
 H 2 falleth 
 
ioo Hundred o/Loes. 
 
 falleth into the Sea beyond Oreford. The Market 
 Weekly, on Saturday ; and there is a Fair on Monday and 
 Tucfday in fVbitfon-Week, procured by Tho?nas of Bro- 
 ther tor^ Earl of Norfolk ; and another Fair on Miuadmas- 
 Day. The Market-place is triangular, and almoft equi- 
 lateral. The Church and Caftle are great Onaments 
 to the Town. The Church is indeed a '{lately Edifice, 
 built (as is fuppofed) by the Mowbray s Earls of Norfolk, 
 at lead: great Part of the Steeple feems to have been fo, 
 as appears from their Arms at the Bottom, and on the 
 Middle of it ; but it was ndt completed till the latter 
 End of Henry the Eighth's Reign ; for there are many 
 Wills in the Archdeacon's Office, in which Legicies are 
 given towards building the Steeple at Framlinghcm; and 
 in 1520 Legacies begin to be given towards the Battle- 
 ments of the Steeple ; and fuch Legacies occur fo late as 
 the Year 1534. In the Ifles lie buried feveral of the 
 Earls and Dukes of Norfolk. There is a Curious Monu- 
 ment for Thomas Howard, the third Duke of Norfolk, 
 who died in 1554 ; in whofe Collar of SS, is thislnfcrip- 
 tion, Gratia Dei fum quod fwn. Another Monument for 
 Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerfet, natural 
 Son of Henry VIII. who married Lady Mary Daighter of 
 Thomas He-tear d Duke of Norfolk, and died ia 1536. 
 And another Monument to Henry Howard Earl of Surry, 
 and Frances his Wife (a Daughter of "John de Fire, Earl 
 cf Oxford), who was beheaded 19 Jan. 1546. 
 
 There are two Alms-houfes in $his Town ; one founded 
 in purfuance of the Will of Sir Robert Hitcham, fcr twelve 
 of the pooreft Perfons in Framlingham, each of vhom is 
 allowed Two Shillings every Week, and Forty Shillings 
 every Year for a Gown and Firing. Thefe are to attend 
 Prayers Morning and Evening at Church ; and Sir Ro- 
 bert left moreover, 20/. by the Year to a Clergyman to 
 read Prayers, and 5 /. by the Year for the Cbrk and 
 , Sexton. 
 
 v ...... ..i 
 
 The 
 
Hundred 0/ Loes. 
 
 ioi 
 
 The other Alms-houfe was founded by one Thomas 
 Mills. This Man was a Wheel-wright by Trade j but 
 being a gifted- Brother in the Times of Difcrder within 
 the laft Century, he turned Preacher among the Anabap- 
 tijls, at Sax/lead, near this Town; and throve fo well 
 in this Bufinefs as to be enabled, about the Year 1703, 
 (until which Time he lived,) to found this Houfe, Ac- 
 cordingly, foon after that, his Truftees built this Alms- 
 houfe for Eight poor Perfons, who are allowed Half a 
 Crown a Week, and yearly an outward Garment, and 
 Thirty Shillings each for Firing. But one William May- 
 hew, a Servant of this Man's, built two of the Apart- 
 ments at his own Expence. Thefe eight Perfons enjoy 
 the Benefaction for Life j unlefs, for any Mifdemeanor, 
 they are turned out by the Truftees. 
 
 Sir Robert Hitcham founded alfo a Free-School, with 
 Salary of 40 /. a Year to the Mafter, to teach Forty of 
 the pooreft Children of this Town, to read, write, and 
 caft Accounts ; and when they are perfect in them, he 
 gave each 10/. to bind them Apprentice. It is faid, and 
 with fome Probability, that this was a Town of the Bri- 
 tons ; and they fay, conquered by the Romans, when they 
 defeated Boadicea. The Caftle, which is the moft remark- 
 able Piece of Antiquity, is fuppofed to have been built by 
 fome of the Kings of the Eajl- Angles, but which of them 
 our Hiftories do not mention ; yet it may, not impro- 
 bably, be fuppofed to have been built by Redwald, the 
 greateft of them, who kept his Court at Rcndlefiam in 
 this Hundred. But this is mere Conjecture. The Caftle 
 is a large ftrong Building, containing in Land within the 
 W alls, one Acre, one Rood, and eleven Perches. The 
 Walls are 44 Feet high, and 8 Feet thick, which are 
 now (landing pretty entire : There are thirteen Towers, 
 14 Feet higher than the Walls ; two of which are Watch- 
 To wers. It was inacceffible on the Weft * fide, becaufe 
 pf the adjoining Mere ; and on the other Side it was for- 
 
 H 3 tified 
 
102 Hundred c/Loes. 
 
 tified with a double Ditch, &(, fo that it may reafonably 
 be fuppofed to have been, in thofe Times, a very ftrong 
 Fortrefs. Yet it is faid, that the Danes beat St. Edmund 
 the King out of it, and kept it in their Hands for fifty 
 Years, till they were brought under the Obedience of 
 the Saxons. William the Conqueror gave it to Roger 
 Bigod, Earl of Norfolk ; but the Bigods dying without 
 Iffue, it reverted to the Crown 25 Edward I. And fo it 
 remained till Edward II. in his fixth Year gave it to his 
 Brother Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk. He left 
 it to his two Daughters Margaret and Alice, which Alice 
 marrying Edward de Montacute ; upon the Divifion of the 
 Eftate, he obtained in his Part this Caftle and Demefne. 
 He left it to his Daughter Joan, who marrying William 
 de Ufford Earl of Suffolk, carried it into that Family. 
 From him it came to the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk, 
 who fometimes refided here. From the Moivbrays it 
 defcended to the Hoivards, Earls and afterwards Dukes of 
 Norfolk ; after them it was granted to the De Veres, Earls 
 of Oxford ; then it returned to the Howards again, who 
 fold this Caftle, Manor and Demefne to Sir Robert Hitcham, 
 Attorney-General in the Reign of Charles I. and he gave 
 it to Pembroke Hall in Cambridge, 
 
 Hacheston. There is a confiderable Fair held here 
 yearly on the fecond and third of November, granted 
 2 Henry III. to the Prior and Convent of Hickling in Nor- 
 folk, who had this Church given them by Theobald de Va- 
 lines before the Year 1203, and got it impropriated to 
 them. 
 
 The Manor of Hachefton did formerly belong to Fram- 
 lingham Caftle, until Tbccphilus Howard Earl of Suffolk 
 fold it to John Brame, of 4fo by Campfey ; whofe Heirs 
 do now enjoy it. 
 
 Glevering-Hall Manor, in this Parifh, did anciently 
 belong to the Prior and Convent of Leijion ; and was 
 
 granted 
 
Hundred <?/ Loes. 103 
 
 granted 28 Henry VIII. to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suf < 
 folk. Afterwards it was the Inheritance and Seat of John 
 Bully Efq; fince of the Family of Radcliff, and now of 
 Mr. Thomas Whimper. 
 
 Hoo. Hoo-Hall did anciently belong to Thomas of 
 Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk : Afterwards it came to the 
 Earls of Suffolk, and was fold by one of them to Sir Ro- 
 bert Naunton. 
 
 Another confiderable Eftate here belonged to a Family 
 who took their Name from this Town, by whom it was 
 fold to one Godin, a Merchant of London ; from him it 
 came to the Family of Wingfield, and by them it was fuld 
 to the Earl of Rochford. There was formerly in this 
 Village the Gilds of the Holy Trinity, St. Mary, St. Peter, 
 Si. Andrew, and St. John. The Church was prefentative, 
 till after the Year 1470 ; when the Advowfon of it being 
 given by John Duke of Norfolk and Catherine his Wife, 
 to the Prior and Convent of Letheringham, they got it 
 impropriated to them. The Impropriation was granted 
 7 .Edward VI. to Elizabeth Naunton. 
 
 Kettleborough, was the Lordfhip of the Wil- 
 loughbys, Lords of Ere/by, in the Reign of Edivard IV. 
 Afterwards of the Adowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk ; and went 
 with the Manor of Framlingham, till it was fold by Thomas 
 or Theophilus Earl of Suffolk, to Sir Robert Naunton ; in- 
 whofe Family it frill continues, being now the Property 
 of William Lemon, Efq; the Heir of that Family. 
 
 King Henry III. A.D. 1265, granted a Market and 
 Fair here; but they are both difufed. In this Par ifh is 
 the Seat of Robert Sparrow, Efq; 
 
 Kenton, belonged to the Family of that Name, who 
 dwelt in Kenton-Hall; and who, befides the Manor, pof- 
 felTed the greatefl Part of the Parifh : By the Marriage 
 of an Heir-general, this Eftate defcended to the Family 
 H 4 of 
 
io4 Hundred of Loes. 
 
 of Willifoam ; from them thro' the Ramfeys and Garneya, 
 to the Family of Stane. It- is now vefted in William Stan*, 
 Efq; who is Lord of the Manor called, by the Name of 
 Kenton with SudclonbalL 
 
 The Family of Warreyn has a Seat in this Parifh, now 
 veiled in 'John Warreyn, Efq; whofe Anceftor Robert 
 Warreyn, D. D. Re£tor of Long-Mclford, was eje&ed 
 in 1641, and treated in a very ignominious Manner. 
 The Church was impropriated to Butley Abbey, ami 
 granted to Francis Framlingham, 34 Henry VIII. The 
 Patronage of the Vicarage is now in George Bridges, Efq. 
 
 Letheringham, is remarkable for a little Priory of 
 black Canons, founded by Sir John Boynel, or Bovile ; it 
 was a Cell to St. Peters in Ipfwich, valued at the Diilb- 
 lution at 26/. 1 8 s. $d* and granted in 7 Edward VI. to 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Naunton ; in which Family it hath ever 
 fmce continued. 
 
 The Priory was converted into a good Manfion, by 
 Sir Robert Naunton ; fince whofe Time it hath been the 
 Seat of this very ancient Family. Sir Robert removed 
 hither from Alderton jn JVillford Hundred, and was in the 
 Reign of King James I. Secretary of State, Privy Coun- 
 sellor, and Mafter of the Wards and Liveries. He died, 
 Ax D. 1630, without Male IiTue, and was fucceeded at 
 Letheringham by his Brother William, whofe Son Robert; 
 fufFered much in the great Rebellion for his Loyalty tq 
 King Charles I. William Naunton, the laft Poffeflbr, died 
 r.pt long fince, without Iflue ; and left the Eftate, after 
 the Death of his Lady, to his next fleir. There is a 
 noble Gallery in this Houfe, adorned with fevcral valu- 
 able Pi&ures. In the Chancel of Letheringham Church, 
 are fome elegant and magnificent Monuments for the 
 JVingfields and Naunions, which have been ill kept for 
 forpe Time. 
 
 Marlsforpi. 
 
Hundred 0/ L q e s. 
 
 Marlsford. This Manor did anciently belong to 
 the Sackvills, then to the Rokes, afterwards to- the Drurys, 
 lately to the Devereux's, and now to Fynes Dove, 
 Clerk. 
 
 Monoden, or Monewden. Odo de Campania had 
 Mungaden, which is faid to have been the old Name of 
 this Parifli when Domefday Book was taken. It was afr 
 terwards in the Family of Hajling, and now belongs to 
 • Curry, Efq; 
 
 Rendlesham, or Rendilisham, i. c. as Bcde in- 
 terprets it, the Houfe of Rendilus. Hugh Fitz-Otbo pro- 
 cured from Edward I. a Market and Fair at Rendlefiam. 
 Cambden tells us, « Redwald King of the Eajl- Angles, 
 f* commonly kept his Court here ; he was the flrft of all 
 *« that People who was baptized, and received Chriftia- 
 f* nity : But afterwards, being feduced by his Wife, he 
 " had (as Bede expreffes it) in the felf-fame Church, one 
 * c Altar for the Religion of Chrift, and another little 
 <c Altar for the Sacrifices of Devils. Siudbelmus alfo, 
 M King of the Eaji- Angles, was afterwards baptized in. 
 *« this Place, by Cedda the Biftiop." 
 
 The Editor of Camden adds, "It is faid, that in dig- 
 * c ging here about thirty Years fince, there was found an 
 f c ancient Crown weighing about fixty Ounces, which 
 " was thought to have belonged to Redwald, or fome 
 U other King of the Eajl- Angles. But it was fold, and 
 rnelted down." See Bifhop Gibfons Edition of Carnbden, 
 pag. 445> 44 6 - 
 
 The Palace where Rendulus kept his Court, is thought 
 to have flood in the fame Place where Rendlcjhatn Houfe 
 now ftands, which was lately the Seat of the Spencers, and 
 js now vefted in her Grace the Duchefs of Hamilton and 
 Brandon, fince married to the Hon. Mr. NaJJau, 
 
 2 Here 
 
i-o6 Hundred c/ Loes. 
 
 Here were four fmall Manors in this Parifh, viz. Col- 
 vyles, to which the Advowfon was formerly appendant. 
 This belonged about the Year 1300 to a Family of 
 Holbrooky afterwards to a Family of Fajlolf, and came 
 to the Duke of Norfolk about the Reformation. By This 
 Attainder the Advowfon came to the Crown ; but the 
 Manor, with that of Barents, came to the Corances, and 
 is now the Eftate of . 
 
 The other two Manors are thofe of Naunton- Hall and 
 Cakctons, which in the Time of King Henry VIII. belong- 
 ed to Mr. Chrijlopher Harmon ; but in the latter Part of 
 King Edward Vlth's Reign were fold to James Spencer , 
 and are now in theDuchefs of Hamilton. 
 
 Woodbridge took its Name from a Wooden Bridge 
 built over a hollow Way, to make a Communication 
 between two Parks feparated by the Road which leads' 
 from Woodbridge Market-place towards Jpfwich. At the 
 Foot of the Hill from this hollow Way, about a Stone's- 
 throw from where the Bridge might fhnd, is a Houfe, 
 which at this Day retains the Name of the Dry-Bridge. 
 T he River Deben, on which this Town is fituated, dif- 
 charges itfelf into the Sea about ten Miles below it, and 
 is navigable up to the Town. Here are two Quays, the 
 common Quay where the chief Imports and Exports are, 
 2nd where the fine Woodbridge Salt is made ; and above' 
 this is the Lime-kiln Quay, where formerly the Ludlow 
 Man of War was built. Some Years fince there was an- 
 other Dock below the common Quay, where the Kings-' 
 fijher Man of War was built ; but this is now {hut from 
 the River by a mud Wall, and almoft filled up. 
 
 The Church and Steepie are beautiful Buildings, the 
 former is faid to be founded by John Lord Segrave. On 
 the South-fide of the Church flood a Priory of black Ca- 
 nons, founded by Sir Hugh Reus, or Rufus, as Weaver 
 calls him, to which one Hanfard was a confidcrable Be- 
 nefactor. 
 
Hundred of Loe s. 107 
 nea&or. It was valued at 50/. 3*. 5^ d. per Annum* 
 anl granted in 33 Henry VIII. to Sir John TVingfield and 
 Dirothy his Wife. It is a good old Seat, now the Eftate 
 of the Rev. Thomas Carthew. The Town traded much 
 in Sack-cloth ; the chief Manufacture now is Salt. It 
 has a pretty good Market on Wednesdays. This was 
 grinted in the Reign of King Henry III. There are two 
 Fairs yearly, on March 25, and Sept. 21. In the midft 
 ofthe Market-place is the Shire-Hall, where the Quarter- 
 Seffions for the Liberty of St. Etheldred are holden j un- 
 der which is the Corn-crofs. The Market-place is clean 
 ard well-built, and fo is the Stone-faeet, fo called becaufe 
 it was the only Part of the Town which was paved. 
 Bjt the Street called the Thorough-fare* as being fituated 
 in the Road from Ipfwich to Yarmouth, is now likewife 
 well paved, and kept fo clean that it will tempt the fub- 
 fhntial Inhabitants to build and dwell there. 
 
 Here is a free Grammar-School for Ten Boys. The 
 Mafter is ele&ed by the chief Inhabitants of the Parifh; 
 and hath a good Houfe, in which is a large Room for a 
 School, and Conveniencies for Boarders : He is alfo en- 
 titled to the following yearly Payments, 10/. out of an 
 Eftate belonging to the Parifti ; 5/. from the Maryottss 
 Eftate, now Mr. Negus's ; 5 /. from the Bur-well's Eftate ; 
 5 /. from the Seckford's Eftate, now Mr. Atkinfons ; and 
 to Lands given by one Willard, of the yearly Value of 
 about 5 /. 
 
 Here is alfo an Alms-houfe for thirteen poor Men,' 
 and three Women, called Seckford's ; becaufe founded 
 A. D. 1587, by Thomas Seckford, Efq; one of the Matters 
 of Requefts to Queen Elizabeth. It is endowed with an 
 Eftate lying in Clerkenwell, London. One of the poor 
 Men is called Governor ; but the Governors of the Alms- 
 hotfe are, the Mafter of the Rolls, and the Chief Jujlice 
 of the Court of Common-Picas for the Time being. The 
 three Women were appointed as Nurfes, to be placed in 
 
 a 
 
io8 Hundred ^/ Loes. 
 
 a Houfe called Copt- Hall, (now down) near the Alms- 
 Houfe, to attend the poor Men. The late Sir Jofeph 
 yekyle and Sir Peter (afterwards Lord) King, A.D. 17 18, 
 iettled the Penfions to be allowed, viz. to the Governor 
 13/. 13 j. \d. and to each of the twelve others 9/. 
 155. per Annum, to be paid by four Quarterly, but un- 
 equal Payments. The Men are alfo allowed an outward 
 Garment yearly, on which they wear a Silver Badge with 
 the Seckford Arms. The three Nurfes live in a Houfe 
 built clofe to the Alms-Houfe, A.D. 1748, are allowed 
 5 /. 6 s. 8 d. per Annum each, paid by equal Quarterly 
 Payments. The poor Men are to attend Divine Service 
 at the Parifti Church on Sundays, Holidays, Wednefdays 
 and Fridays. 
 
 The Manor of Woodbridge which belonged formerly to 
 the Priory, was granted with that to John Wingfield and 
 Dorothy his Wife ; it was foon after Seckford's, fmce the 
 Norths had it, it is now the Eftate of the Rev. Thomas 
 Carthew. 
 
 Here is alfo another, which belonged to the Uffbrds. 
 For, 4 Henry V* upon the Death of Ifabel, the Re!i£t of 
 William de Ufford, Robert Lord Willoughby as Heir to the 
 faid William, had Livery and Seifin of the Quay and Pool 
 of Woodbridge. Sir Robert Willoughby, Knt. was feifed 
 the 5th EdzuardlV. of the Manor of Woodbridge; and 
 in 1 8 Henry VIII. Sir William Willoughby afligned the 
 Manor of 'Woodbridge [inter alia') for his Wife's Dower. 
 
 Adjoining to Woodbridge is a Manor and Hamlet, called 
 Kingjlon, which belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Ely, 
 but is leafed by them to William Negus, Efq. The Prior 
 and Convent of Ely are faid to have PolTeffions in Odde- 
 bruge, in Edward the ConfelTor's Time ; which we fup- 
 pofe to have been the fame with Woodbridge ; for in Do?nef- 
 day, this Town is written, Udebryge. 
 
 Hundred 
 
[ i°9 3 
 
 Hundred of Will-ford. 
 
 % / JTlLL FORD Hundred contains eighteen Pariflies, 
 TW and is bounded by the Ocean on the South, by 
 the Hundreds of Loes and 'Plomefgate on the 
 North and Eajl, and by the Deben on the JVcJi. 
 
 Al&erton, confifts of four Manors; each of 
 which hath a Right to prefent to the Redlory in its Turn, 
 viz. The Manor of Naunton-Hall or Aldertsn Hall, the 
 firft Turn ; the Manor of Bowie's, the fecond ; the 
 Manor of Pechys, the third ; ( thefe three are vefted in the 
 Heirs of Thomas Bacon, Efq;) and the Manor of Alderion 
 Comitis or Earls Alderton, hath the fourth Turn ; which 
 Manor belongs to the Bifhop of Norwich, and it is his 
 Right to prefent the next Turn. This Manor is held by 
 Leafe from the BiPnop of Norwich, by Sir Robert Clarke. 
 The ancient Family of Naimton, who were formerly 
 Lords of the firft three Manors, refided here for a long; 
 time, before Robert N aunt on removed to Lcthcringham. 
 (See Dalinghoo, in this Hundred.) 
 
 Baudsey. This Lordfhip belonged in the Time of 
 Henry II. to Ranulf de Glanvile, who gave one half of it 
 to his Daughter Amabil, married to Ralph de Ardertu, 
 whole Grandfon Ralph gave this Moiety to the Prior and 
 Convent of But ley ; the other Moiety he gave to his 
 Daughter Helewife, who married Robert Fitz Ralph Lord 
 of Middleham, in Torkftnre : This Moiety came after- 
 wards to Robert de Ufford, who was twice Chief Juftice 
 of ' Ireland, and obtained from King Edward I. in the 
 
 ultventh 
 
J io Hundred of Will ford. 
 
 eleventh Year of his Reign, a Licence for a Weekly 
 Market, on Fridays ; and a Fair on the Eve, Day, and 
 Morrow of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, September 8, 
 at his Manor of Bawdrefey, William Lord Willoughby 
 died fei fed of this Manor 11 Henry IV. Robert his Son 
 had Livery 4 Henry V. and Sir 'Robert Willoughby was 
 feifed of it 5 Edward IV. It is now vefted in the Earl 
 of Dyj'ert. 
 
 The Church of Bawdfey was given by Ranulph Glan- 
 vile himfelf to his Priory and Convent of Butley, who got 
 it impropriated to them. The Impropriation was granted 
 away after the Diflblution ; but the Advowfon of the 
 Vicarage remains yet in the Crown. The Steeples both 
 of Alderton and Bawdfey arc very ufeful Sea-marks; but 
 both are in a ruinous Condition. 
 
 Bing, is only a fmall Hamlet of Pettifree, but per- 
 haps larger formerly ; for there was a Claim made 14 
 Edward I. of a Right to hold a Market here every 
 Thurfday, -Jean of Huntingfield had then the Manor ; 
 but it was afterwards given to Campfcy Priory, and granted 
 as Parcel of the Polieffions of that Priory, to Anthony 
 Wingfield, 30 Henry VIII. 
 
 Boulge. Odo de Campania had Bulges and Depebeck 
 (probably Boulge and Debach) when Domefday-Book was 
 made. Sir Thomas Hanmsr was lately Lord of this Ma- 
 nor and of Debach, and Patron of both the Churches, 
 as his Nephew, the Rev. Sir William Bm/bury, Bart, 
 is now. As thefe Benefices are fmall, and the Churches 
 very near each other, Sir William hath lately procured the 
 Confolidation of them. 
 
 Boyton. The Manor and Advowfon here were 
 granted as Parcel of the PonefTions of Butlcy Priory to 
 William Four the and Richard Moryfon, 37 Henry V 111. 
 
 3 They 
 
Hundred of Wi l l fo r d. rri 
 
 They afterwards came into the Family of Warner, and 
 are now veiled in the Truftees of Mrs. Mary Warner^ 
 who devifed them together with an Eftate of about 400/. 
 per Annum to charitable Ufes, viz. fome fmall Part of it 
 is appropriated to the Poor of Parham ; another Part of it 
 to the Endowment of a School at Stradbrook ; the chief 
 Part to the Endowment of an Alms-houfe here; and the 
 Overplus is for the Relief of Infolvent Debtors in Suf- 
 folk. The firft Truftees of this Charity were the late 
 Right Hon Pryce Lord Vifcount Hereford, the late Sir 
 John Barker^ Bart. Dudley North, Efq; the late Edmund 
 Tyrrell, Efq; the late Rev. Thomas Bence, and the Rev. 
 Mr. Welton. Thefe Gentlemen, A. D. 1743, built the 
 Alms-houfe, called from the Foundrefs Warner's Alms- 
 houfe. It contains fix poor Men, and fix poor Women, 
 each of whom receives Four Shillings every Monday Morn- 
 ing. The Men have alfo every Year new Coats, Waift- 
 coats, and Breeches ; and the Women every Year, new 
 Gowns and Petticoats : They are all to attend Divine 
 Service every Day at Church, which is very near the 
 Houfe ; where the Reader is allowed Forty Pounds per 
 Annum. The prefent Truftees are, Dudley North, Efq; 
 the Rev. Mr. Welton of Norwich, Sir John Rous, Bart. 
 John RuJI), Efq; John Scrivener, Efq; the Rev.- Mr. 
 North of Sternfield, and the Rev. Mr. John Leman,. of 
 Wenhajlon. 
 
 Bredfield. William Lord Willoughhy, Robert his 
 Son, and Sir Robert JVilloughby, had this Manor as well 
 as Bawdfey. It is now in the Family of Jenney, who 
 have a pleafant Seat here. The Church of Bredfield 
 was given to the Priory of Butlcy and Catnpefs, who pre- 
 fented alternately to the Vicarage, and divided the Im- 
 propriation. Ever fince the Diilblution the Crown hath 
 kept the Advowfon of the Vicarage. 
 
 Bromes- 
 
122 H U ND R.ED of WliLFORI?. 
 
 Bromeswell. This Lordfliip belongs to William 
 Chapman, Efq; as Part of the Eftate of the late Char let 
 Wood) Efq; 
 
 Cap-el St. Andrew, was a diftindt Parifli while 
 the Church was ftanding, as it was J.D. 1529; but is 
 now accounted as a Hamlet of Butly. The Church was 
 given to ButlyVnoxy by Ranulph tie Glanvile, and after- 
 wards impropriated thereto. 
 
 Dalinghoo. Part of this Parifli is in the Hundred .of 
 ■Loes. (See the Account there given.) 
 
 The W idow of Edward Earl of Cornwal had the Ham- 
 lets of Dalinghoo, Alderton, and Thorndcn in Suffolk, al- 
 igned for her Dower. John de Eltham Earl of Cornwal, 
 had a Grant of thefe three Hamlets 4 Edward ' III. And 
 we take that Part of the Parifli which is in this Hundred 
 to be the Hamlet here mentioned. 
 
 Debach. SeeBouiGE. 
 
 Hollesly. This Manor and Advowfon belonged to 
 the Earis and Dukes of 'Norfolk, till Queen Elizabeth's 
 Time. Roger Bigod died ponefTed 25 Edward I. Thomas 
 Mowbray died feifed 1 Henry IV. and Elizabeth his Wife 
 had it for her Dower. In A. D. 1452, feveral Legacies 
 were given towards building the Steeple, and buying 
 Bells ; and about 151 1 two Legacies were given towards 
 Leading the Church. The Manor and Advowfon did 
 lately belong to Charles Wood, now to William Chapman, 
 Efquire. 
 
 Loudham, or-LuDH am, is a Hamlet of Petti/lree, and 
 was anciently the Scat of a Family who took their Name 
 from it. From the Lmlhams it defcended to the Blenher- 
 hayfetts> who had their Seat here 3 and from them it came 
 
 to 
 
Hundred e/ Willford. 113 
 
 to Sir Henry Wood, Knt. Charles Wood, Eiq; rebuilt 
 the Hall in a beautiful Manner ; from him it came with 
 the reft of the Wood's Eftate to Robert Oneby, Eiq; and 
 from him to William Chapman, Efq; 
 
 Melton. The Manor and Advowfon belongs to the 
 Dean and Chapter of Ely. The Quarter- Seffions for the 
 Liberty of St. Etheldred, were formerly kept in this Parifh; 
 but were removed to Woodbridge, in the Beginning of 
 Queen Elizabeth's Reign. In the Will of Richard Cook, 
 of Melton, dated the 12 July 1539, is a Legacy of 20/. 
 towards repairing of. Willford- Bridge, to be paid by his 
 Executors when the County would go about it ; and there 
 were about the fame time, two other Legacies towards it. 
 So that perhaps the prefent Bridge might be built fooa, 
 after. That Richard Cook alfo gave his Tenement and 
 Lands in Melton and Bredfield, called Edgores, to the Ufe 
 of the Parilhioners. 
 
 Pettistree. This Church was impropriated to the 
 Nuns of Campefs, A.D. 141 3. The Family of Wyard 
 long refided here, but is now extin£t. 
 
 Ramsholt. The Ruins of a large old Building, 
 called Peyton-Hall, ftill remain here, fuppofed to have 
 been the Seat of the Uffords, Earls of Suffolk, which now 
 belongs to Lord St. John. Reginald de Peytona, (Sewer 
 to Hugh Rigod, Earl of Norfolk,) was Lord of Peyton- 
 Hall Manors in B oxford and Ramjholt, in Suffolk, A.D. 
 1 1 35 ; i. e. in the Time of King Stephen, or Henry J. 
 In 53 Henry III. Robert de Ufford (a younger Son of John, 
 de Peyton, of Peyton-Hall in Suffolk,) alTuming his Name 
 from the Lordfhip of Ufford where he had then his Refi- 
 dence, was made Juftice of Ireland. This was the firft 
 of that Family. 
 
 1 
 
 Shot- 
 
514 Hundred 6f WrLi.ro rd". 
 
 Shottisham. The Glanvilcs formerly were Patrons- 
 of this Church ; and the Wingjields were fo for a hundred- 
 Years from A. D. 1480. 
 
 Sutton. The Lords of the Manor of this Parifh are,- 
 Nicholas Bacm* Efq; and William Chapman* Efq. The 
 Manor of Feiihal in Sutton* was lately Mr. BurzvelPs, and- 
 had been his Anceftor's from the Time of Queen Eliza- 
 beth. The Church was given by Roger Wolferjlon and 
 John Stanton to the Nuns of Brufyard* who got it im- 
 propriated to them about the Year 1390. The Impro- 
 priation and Advowfon of the Vicarage were granted 
 30 Henry VIII. to Nicholas Hare. 
 
 Ufford, is no way remarkable at prefent, but was- 
 formerly, for giving Name to the noble and wealthy Fa- 
 mily of the Uffords* originally defcended from the Peytons 
 of Peyton-Hall* in Boxford. [See alfo Ram]holt.~\ They 
 were a Family of vaft PoflefEons, and were at one time 
 Proprietors of the Caftles of Orford* Eye* Framlingham* 
 Bungay* Metiingkmn* and Hanghly. Their Seat in this 
 Parifh flood about two Furlongs North of the Church, 
 where a Farm-Houfe now ftands, appropriated to cha- 
 ritable Ufes in Framlhtghcm. 
 
 There is in this Parifh- the Ruins of a Chapel called 
 Svgenhoe Chapel, and the Rector of Ufford pays Twenty 
 Shillings yearly to the Crown, for the Ground on which 
 it flood. This Chapel was inftkuted into from 1310 to 
 1.527, upon the Prefentation of the Uffords and Willough- 
 bys ; and there is a Manor of Sogenhoe always mentioned 
 with the Manors of Bawdfey* Bredjield* &c. among the 
 Pofleilions of the Uffords and Willoughbys. The Manor of 
 JVindervil is likewife frequently mentioned among the Pof- 
 ieflions of this Family, immediately after Sogenhoe ; but 
 we know not where it lieth. On the Weft of the Site 
 <l£ Sogenhoe Chapel is a Piece of Land in the Form of a 
 
 re&anguta" 
 
Hundred <?/Willford. i i £ 
 
 rectangular Parallelogram, containing about one Acre and 
 half : There ftill appears a Ditch or Moat furrounding 
 it ; on which Piece of Land, it is faid, there flood a 
 Caftle ; but we do not hear of any Ruins being dug up 
 there ; fo this may be only Conjecture. 
 
 In this Church are good Monuments for fome of the 
 W r Qoch of Loudham, JVtaver faith, the Church is a very 
 beautiful little Church. The Top of the Font has been 
 very beautiful, as well as the Church ; but they were 
 both much defaced in the grand Rebellion. In the Jour- 
 nal of the Parochial Vifitors, [mentioned p. 39.] they 
 fay in 27 'Jan-. 1648, " We broke thirty Pictures, and 
 *' gave Directions to take down thirty-fevenmore and forty 
 s< Cherubims to be taken down of Wood, and the Chancel 
 * c to be levelled ; and we took up lix Infcriptions in 
 " Brafs." It appears, that in May following they fent a 
 Perfon to fee, whether what they had ordered were exe- 
 cuted, but the Churchwardens Would not let him in. So, in 
 the Month of Augufl after that, they returned themfelves, 
 when they compleated what had been begun in the pre- 
 ceding "January. The Journal faith, <4 We broke twelve 
 *' Cherubims on the Roof of the Chancel, and nigh an 
 *' hundred Jefus's and Maria's in Capital Letters, and 
 *' the Steps we levelled. And we broke down the Or- 
 " gan-cafes, and gave them to the Poor. In the Church 
 " there was on the Roof above an hundred Jefus's and 
 *' Maria's in great Capital Letters, and a Crofier-Staff 
 64 to break down in Glafs; and above twenty Stars on 
 4t the Roof. There is a glorious Cover over the Pont, 
 " like a Pope's triple Crown, with a Pelican on the Top 
 " picking its Breaft, all gilt over with Gold." Then 
 they complain of Broivn and Small, the old Church* 
 wardens, for not obeying their Orders; and of Sunnard 
 and Strowd) the new Churchwardens, for making them 
 wait two Hours before they would let them have the 
 Key of the Church ; and then for abufmg them, and 
 charging them with rifling and pulling down the Church. 
 
 I 2 - This 
 
si 6 Hundred Willforb. 
 
 This Cover to the Font is ftill in being, tho' much 
 impaired by Length of Time. Had the Pelican on the 
 Top been a Dove, doubtlefs it would have fhared a 
 harder Fate : But as thofe Men, when armed with the 
 Power of that Enthu-fiafm which raged in 1648, tho' they 
 ■were provoked and put out of Temper by the Church- 
 wardens, could not perfuade themfelves to deftroy fo 
 pretty a Thing, even notwithftanding its Refemblance of 
 the Pope's Crown ; it is pity the Parifhioners do not think 
 it worth while to repair it ; for tho' it be but a Toy in 
 kfelf, it is now become venerable by its Antiquity ; and 
 is, perhaps, the only Thing left that gives any Notion of 
 the UfforcTs Magnificence. 
 
 Old Wills mention a Chauntry in the Manor of Ott- 
 kys, in this Parifh. 
 
 The Reverend Richard Lovekin was Reclor of this 
 Parifh Fifty-feven Years ; for the Mandate of his Induc- 
 tion bears Date 2 June, 1621 ; and he was buried 23 Sept. 
 1678, in the One Hundred and Eleventh Year of his Age. 
 It is faid he performed all the Offices of his Function to 
 the laft, and preached the Sunday before his Death. This 
 Gentleman was plundered in the grand Rebellion, and 
 loft all his Goods except one Silver Spoon, which he hid 
 in his Sleeve. 
 
 This Parifh furniflied London with a Lord-Mayor as 
 early as the Year 1434, who was William Ottley,. Son of 
 Roger Ottley ; from whom, we fuppofe the Manor above- 
 mentioned might take its Name. 
 
 The Family of Hammond had their Seat here, which is 
 now vefted in Francis Brook, Efq; 
 
 WiCKHAM-.M?r>kr, feerns now to be only called fo 
 todiftinguifh it from Wickham- Brook and Wickham-Skeith ; 
 but it had a Market formerly, tho' it has been long dif- 
 tifed. The Quarter-Seflions were formerly held here y 
 where there was a Shke-Hall for that Purpofe ; but it 
 
 was. 
 
Hundred i?/ Willford, 117 
 
 was removed by Order of the Lord of the Manor, and a 
 Farm-houfe therewith built at Letheringham^ called the 
 Old Hall. The Church and Spire- fteeple are fituated 
 upon a Hill ; and tho' the Steeple be not above Twenty- 
 three Yards high : It affords the belt Profpeft of any in 
 the County ; and in a clear Day you may eafily view from 
 thence very near, if not altogether, Fifty Churches. » 
 
 The Family of Ufford had this Manor till it was given 
 with the Church to the Nuns at Campefs. The Manors 
 of JVickham, Gelham, Harpole^ and Bing, late belonging 
 to the Nunnery of Campefs, were granted 30 Henry VIII. 
 to Anthony TVingfeld:, they belong now to the Earl of 
 Rochford ; but the Advowfon of the Vicarage is ftill in 
 the Crown. As to the Rectories of fVickham, Pettijiree 9 
 and Bing, they are veiled in the Truftees of Mr. "John 
 Pemberton, formerly of Ipfwicb, who bequeathed them to 
 charitable Ufes in the Year 1718, viz. He direded that 
 out of the Profits 25 /. per Ann. fhould be given to poor 
 Widows and Orphans of deceafed Clergymen, within 
 fifteen Miles of Jpfwich ; and the Refidue thereof, after 
 Taxes, Repairs, and all other Out-goings are difcharged* 
 he gave to the Charity-Schools of Grey -Coat Boys and 
 Blue-Coat Girls in Ipfwich. 
 
 The Ifle or Chapel on the South-fide of the Church 
 was built by Walter Fulburn, of IFickbam, who was there- 
 in buried A. D. 1489. 
 
 PLOMES- 
 
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 PLOMESGATE, 
 
 rT^HE Hundred of Plomefgate contains Twenty-? 
 ■ four Parifhes and Hamlets , is bounded on trip 
 Eajl, by the Ocean ; on the Wejl, by the Hun- 
 dred of Loes ; on the North, by the Hundred of Blytbing 
 ;and Hoxne ; and on the South, by TVillford. 
 
 Aldborough, has its Name from the River Aid, 
 which runs near the South End of it, affording a good 
 Quay at Slaughden ; the Sea waflies the Eaft-fide of it, 
 and hath in this Age fwallowed up one whole Street. 
 The prefent Town confifts of two Streets only, which 
 are near a Mile in Length ; it ftands pleafantly, and is 
 well fituated for Strength, having fever al Pieces of Can- 
 non for its Defence. The Church ftands on a Hill to 
 the Weft of the Town, and is a good Structure. 
 
 William Martel gave the Manor of Aldebure to the Ab- 
 bot and Convent of St. Johns in Colchejler, A.D. 1 155. 
 The Manor of Aldeburgh, with the Manors of Scoto and 
 To/lards in this Neighbourhood, were granted to Cardinal 
 Wolfey, as Parcel of the Pofleflions of the Priory of Snape, 
 which was a Cell to the Abbey of Colchejler, and they 
 were granted to Thomas Duke of Norfolk 24 Henry VIII. 
 The Rectory and Advowfon of the Vicarage, which be- 
 longed to the faid Abbey, were granted to Edward Down- 
 ing and Peter AJhton in Exchange, in 23 Elizabeth. They 
 are now vefted in the Right Hon. the Earl of Strafford. 
 
 Aldborough is a Town Corporate, governed by two 
 Bailiffs, twelve capital Burgeffes, and twenty-four infe- 
 rior Officers ; but it did not fend Members to Parliament 
 before 13 Elizabeth. Mr. (a) Willis fuppofes it was made 
 
 a 
 
 (a) See Willis^ Not. Pari. 
 
Hundred of Plomesgate. 119 
 
 * Borough in 10 Elizabeth ; when fhe granted the Duke 
 of Norfolk a Saturday Market at this his Manor. 
 
 Benhall. King Henry II. gave the Manor to Ranulf 
 Glanvile, who gave it to his Daughter Maud; and her 
 Grandfon fold it to Guido Kerr, who obtained in 20 Ed. I, 
 a Grant of a Fair at Benhall, and a Market and Fair at 
 Keltofi, within his faid Manor. Guido dying without 
 Heirs, it efcheated ; and Robert de Ufford had a Grant of 
 this Manor 2 Edward III. In 1 3 Richard II. John de 
 Holand Earl of Huntingdon, is faid to have obtained a 
 Grant of the Man ors of Benhall and Stratford, which 
 came to the Crown by the Attainder of Michael de la 
 Pole. But Michael de la Pole, his Son, died feifed of both 
 thefe Manors 3 Henry V. and William de la Pole died 
 feifed of them 28 Henry VL The Reclory and Advow- 
 fon of the Vicarage belonged to the Priory of But ley, and 
 were granted 37 Henry VIII. to Thomas Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 The Hall and chief Eftate here is faid to have belong- 
 ed to the Glemhaim, in Queen Elizabeth's Time, who fold 
 it to the Dukes. Sir Edward Duke built Betihall Lodge, 
 in 1638; in 166 1 Sir Edward was created a Baronet, 
 and his Grandfon dying without Iflue, the Eftate went to 
 his Sifter's Son Edmund Tyrrel, Efq; of Gipping, who fold 
 it to John Rujh, Efq; who now enjoys it. 
 
 Blaxhall. Bartholomew Burgherjh died feifed of this 
 Manor, in Right of his Wife, 43 Edward III. Edward 
 le Dejpenfer died feifed 49 Edward III. In thefe latter 
 
 Times it belonged to — Warryn> Efq; who fold it 
 
 to Mr. John Bence ; and he again to Dudley North, of 
 Glemham, Efq; in whofe Son it is now vefted. The Ad- 
 vowfon of the Rectory is in the Heirs of the Reverend 
 Mr. Jackfon, the late Incumbent. 
 
 Bruis- 
 
120 Hundred of Plomesgate. 
 
 Bruisyard, is chiefly memorable for the Collegiate 
 Chantry of a Warden and four Secular Priefts, tranflated 
 hither from Campfey-AJh, A.D. 1354. About eleven 
 Years after that, it was changed into a Nunnery, of the 
 Order of St. Clare \ and was of the yearly Value of 
 56 /. 1 s. id. It was granted to Nicholas Hare, 30 
 Henry VIII. and hath been for fome Time in Sir John 
 Rous's Family, who now pofleflcs it. 
 
 Butley, was noted for a Priory of Black Canons of 
 St. Auflin, founded by the famous Ranulf Glanvilc, Chief 
 Juflice of England about the Year 1 1 7 1 . The Revenues 
 of this Priory became very large, for they were at the 
 Diflblution found to be of the yearly Value of 318/. 
 1 7 j. id. The Priory was granted to William Forthe, 
 in whofe Family it long continued : It was Mr. Clyat's 
 afterwards j and is now the Eftate of Mrs. Wright. In 
 the Church of this Priory Michael de la Pole, the third 
 Lord Wingfield and Earl of Suffolk, was interred ; he was 
 llain at the Battle of Agincourt, with Edward Plantagenet 
 Duke of York, The Ruins of the Priory, which are ftill 
 to be feen, Ihew it to have been very large; and the 
 Gate-houfe, which is ftill entire and embellimed in the 
 Front with many Coats of Arms finely cut in Stone, 
 fhews it to have been a very magnificent Building. This 
 was repaired and beautified in an elegant manner by the 
 late George Wright, Efq; and is now become a very hand- 
 some Seat. But the Advowfon of the Church is in the 
 Rev. Eden Howard, the prefent Incumbent. 
 
 Chillesford. Robert de Uffbrd died feifed of this 
 Manor 5 Richard II. but, before the Diflblution of Reli- 
 gious Houfes, it belonged to the Priory and Convent of 
 Butley, given by "John Staverton ; and was granted as Par- 
 cel of their Poheffions to John Earl of Warwick^ j Ed- 
 ward VI. Tt ic nr^y ypftpr} j n ... 
 
 The 
 
Hundred c/Plomesgate. 121 
 
 The Advowfon of the Church belonged to the Wey~ 
 lands, about the Year 1 3CO ; and afterwards to the Beau- 
 champs Earls of Warwick, and theNevils Lords Bergavennys. 
 
 Cransford. This Church was appropriated to Sib- 
 ton Abbey, and the Impropriation and Advowfon of the 
 Vicarage granted to the Duke of Norfolk. The Manor 
 now belongs to Mr. Moore. 
 
 Dunning worth. The Manor and Advowfon of 
 the Reitory belonged to the Earls and Dukes of Norfolk 
 from A. D. 1300, to the Reign of Henry VIII. or after. 
 The Church was {landing and in Ufe in the Year 1561 ; 
 but feems to have fallen into Decay foon after ; and hath 
 been fo long down, that there are fcarce any Ruins of it 
 left ; fo that this Place is now confidered as a Hamlet 
 of Tunjlall. The Manor belonged to Charles Wood, Efq; 
 it is now veiled in William Chapman, Efq. Here is a 
 confiderable Fair for Horfes, which begins annually on 
 Jug. 1 1 . and holds two Days. 
 
 Farnham. Ramdf Glanvile gave this Church to his 
 Priory of Butley, the Impropriation was granted igEliz. 
 to Edward Grimflon. Robert de Sackville is faid to have 
 had this Manor in the Time of Henry I. It now belongs 
 to Dudley North, Efq; whofe Father bought it as Part of 
 the Glemhams Eflate. 
 
 F r 1 s t o n, belonged to Snape Priory. Sir Henry 
 Johnfon having purchafed the faid Priory and its Appen- 
 dances, built Frijion Hall, and made it his Seat. His 
 Daughter and Heirefs marrying the Right Hon. Thomas 
 the late Earl of Strafford, carried this delightful Seat and 
 a plentiful Eflate into that noble Family. It is now 
 vefted in the Earl of Strafford. 
 
 Gedgrave, 
 
122 Hundred u/ Plomesgate. 
 
 G ed grave, was lately the Lordfhip of George Wright + 
 Efq; in Right of his Wife, who was only Daughter and 
 Heirefs of Mr. Clyatt, at Butley ; then of the Lord Vif- 
 count Hereford ; and now, by Purehafe, belongs to the 
 Earl of Hertford. 
 
 Glemham Magna, or North Glemham, is of Note 
 for the Family of Edgar ; who, for many Generations, 
 have had their Seat here. The Manor and great Tythes 
 did belong to Butley Priory, but were granted to William 
 Edgar 37 Henry VIII or A. D. 1545. This Family was 
 extended into three Branches : 1. This at Glemham, of 
 which is William Edgar, now living at Sutton. 2. That 
 at Ipfivieb, of which are Robert Edgar, Efq; and Millefon 
 Edgar, Efq. And, 3. Another at Cranby Hall, in Eye. 
 The Heirefs of which laft Family married Arthur Jcnney, 
 of Bredfield, Efq. The Eftates lately belonging to Mr. 
 Edgar in this Parifh, are now vefted in the Hon. Mr. 
 Nicholas Herbert, Uncle to the prefent Earl of Pembroke. 
 But the great Tithes were fold to Mr. Manning, of 
 feafenhall. 
 
 Gl emhamParva, was famous for a Family who 
 took their Names from the Town, and continued here 
 till the Middle of the laft Century. This Family ended 
 with two Perfons of great Eminence in their feveral Pro- 
 fefEons j they both were great Sufferers in thofe unhappy 
 Times of Diforder, and both were buried in the Family 
 Vault in this Church, Sir Thomas Glemham, with his 
 two gallant Countrymen Colonel Gofnold of Ottley, and 
 Major Naunton of Letheringham, defended Carlijle for the 
 King, with remarkable Circumftances of Refolution and 
 Patience. He died in Holland in the Year 1649, and his 
 Body was brought over hither. His Brother Henry Glem- 
 ham, D. D. furvived the Restoration, and by K. Char. II. 
 w^s promoted to the Bifhoprick of St. Jfapb, A.D. 1667, 
 
 but 
 
Hundred Plomesgate, 123 
 
 but he died two Years afterwards, and was buried here in 
 2669. Sir Thomas Glernham, Knt. left a Son, who died 
 feifed of this Eftate, who likewife left it to his Son ; which 
 laft Perfon was an Officer in Queen Anne's War, and 
 died of a Calenture, in Spain. In him the Family failed 
 of Male Illue, and the Eftate was purchafed by Dudley 
 North, Efq; who added greatly to the Beauty of the Hall, 
 where his Son doth now reftde. 
 
 Haslewood, is aHamletof Aldborough ; the Church 
 is in Ruins ; how long it has been 10, we know not; 
 but within forty Years they buried their Dead there. 
 
 Iken, formerly the Lordfhip and Demefne of the 
 Wingjields. It is now veiled in the Earl of Hertford. 
 
 Orford, is fituated on the North-weft Side of the 
 River Ore, and probably took its Name from it. Ac- 
 cording to Leland's Rule, it fhould be no ancient Town ; 
 becaufe it is properly a Hamlet only, and a Chapel of 
 JEafe to Sudborn, as Harwich is a Hamlet to Dovercourt ; 
 yet it had a Market in King Stephen's Reign, when the 
 Toll of it was given to the Priory of Eye. 
 
 The Caftle muft have been as old as King Henry I. 
 if the Fifhermen caught the wild Man in their Nets in 
 that King's Reign, as Cambden relates from Ralph Coggef- 
 hall ; but other Writers place that Story alrnoft a hun- 
 dred Years later, viz. in the fixth Year of King John, or 
 A.D. 1204. Hugh Bigod and John Fitz- Robert were 
 made Governors of Norwich and Orford Caftles, A. D, 
 1215; and upon their Removal Hubert de Burgh was 
 made Governor of both thofe Caftles, that fame Year. 
 Philip Marmion was made Governor of this Caflle 45 
 Henry III. And three Years afterwards when the 
 Barons took the King Prifoner at the Battle of Lewes, 
 they made Hugh le Defpenfcr Governqr of it. Sir William 
 
 Dugdale 
 
124 Hundred of Plomesgate. 
 
 Dugdale faith, that the Defcendants of Peter de la Valoines y 
 who came in with the Conqueror, made the Caftle of 
 Orford the capital Seat of their Barony ; which probably 
 muft have been in the Time of Edward f. or Edward 11. 
 For in 4 Edivard III. Robert de Ufford> who married Ce- 
 cilia Daughter and Coheir of Robert de Faloines, had a 
 Grant for Life of this Town and Caftle. William de 
 Ufford died feifed of it 5 Richard II. and Ifabel his Wife 
 had it affigned, among other Things, for her Dowry. 
 Upon her Death Robert Lord Willougby of Ere/by, whofe 
 Anceftor married Cecilia Daughter of Robert de Ufford 
 before-mentioned, had Livery of this Town and Caftle 
 4 Henry >V. William Lord Willoughby died feifed of the 
 Lord/hip of Orford, 18 Henry VIII. and affigned it to his 
 Wife for Life. It probably came afterwards with the 
 Eftate at Sudborn to Sir Michael Stanhope, and deicended 
 as that did to the Right Hon. Pryce Devereux Lord Vif- 
 count Hereford; and was lately fold by his Executors to 
 the Right Hon. the Earl of Hertford, who now poflefies 
 it. 
 
 This Place is a Town Corporate, governed by a Mayor, 
 eight Portmen, and twelve chief Burgelles; and fends 
 two Members to Parliament. Monday is the Marlcet- 
 Day ; and there are two yearly Fairs, one on Midfummer- 
 J)ay, and the other on Shrove- Monday. 
 
 Orford fent Members to Parliament in Edivard the 
 Firft's Time. But we have no Account of any others 
 fent from hence till 3 Henry VI. After this Difufe, the 
 Privilege was probably reftored (as Mr. Willis thinks) by 
 King PJchard III. who in his firft Year granted a Char- 
 ter here, with great Privileges. 
 
 It was certainly a much larger Place formerly, than it 
 is at prefent; for, befides the Church, or rather the Pa- 
 rochial Chapel, here was one Chapel dedicated to St. 
 fohn Bapti/l, and another to St. Leonard ; thefe were 
 itanding fmce the Year 1500 ; and there is a Piece of 
 
 Laud 
 
Hundred Plomesgate. 125 
 
 Land on the North-fide of the Town, now called St. 
 John's Chapel Field. A. D. 1 359, Orford fent three Ships 
 and Sixty-two Men to the Siege of Calais. There are 
 feveral Lanes which retain the Names of Bridge-Jlreet* 
 Church -Jlreet, Broad-Jlreet, and the like, tho' there arc 
 now fcarce any Houfes in them. Here was a Houfe of 
 Auftin Friers, an Hofpital of St. Leonard, and a Chauntry 
 of the yearly Value of 61. 131. ill d. 
 
 Parham, was the Lordfhip of Robert de Vjford Earl 
 of Suffolk, 9 Edward II. He died ieifed of it \-$Edw. III. 
 and left it to his Son William, who built the Church ; 
 but, dying fuddenly in the Parliament -Houfe, it went to 
 his Sifter Cicely, who married Sir Robert Willoughby, and 
 carried it into that Family. Their Defcendants became 
 afterwards Lord Willoughby s of Ere/by, and for fome Time 
 were in Poffeflion of this Manor ; till Chrijlopher Lord 
 Willoughby of Ere/by, gave it to his youngeft Son Chrijlo- 
 pher, who took up his Refidence here. This Chrijlopher, 
 in his laft Will dated 8 May, 18 Henry V 111. gave Four 
 Pounds per Annum to the Church of Parham, in fatisfac- 
 tion of all Tithes and Offerings by him negligently for- 
 gotten. Sir William Willoughby his Son, was 20 Feb. in 
 1 Edward VI. created Lord Willoughby of Parham; whofe 
 Succefibrs now enjoy that Honour. The Hall and Ma- 
 nor of Parham have been in feveral Families fince the 
 Willoughbys ; the Eftate is now in Mrs. Long, the only 
 furviving Daughter of Corance, Efq; 
 
 In 1734, the Bones of a Man, an Urn, and the Head 
 of a Spear, were taken out of a Gravel-pit in a Field 
 called Fryers Clofe, in this Parifii ; which were fuppofed 
 to have belonged to fome DaniJJ) Commander. 
 
 Rendu am. The Manor of Barnies in this PariCh, 
 belonged formerly to Sibton Abbey, and was granted 
 i EdivardVL to Anthony Dcnney. It is now Mr. Powel's. 
 
 Sax- 
 
 4 
 
n6 Hundred Plomesgat^ 
 
 Saxmundham. Here is a fmall Market on Thurfday^ 
 and a Fair on Ajcenfton-Dzy, granted 4 Edward II. or 
 A. D. 1 310, at the Requeft of Thomas de Verley. The 
 Manor of Hurts, to which the Advowfon is appendant, 
 was formerly the Earl of Suffolk's j then Sir Nicholas 
 Hares ; then Mr. Cutlers, of the Chantry by Jpfwich-, 
 then Mr. BaJJes, who built the Seat about the Year 
 1650, which is now vefted in Charles Long, Efq; 
 
 A Chantry was founded here by Robert Swan,, Lord of 
 a Manor in this Town about the Year 1308. The Ma- 
 nor of Swans, in Saxmundham, belongs to Dudley North, 
 Efq. 
 
 Snape, was formerly noted for a Monaftery of Black 
 Monks, founded A. D/1155, b y William Martel and 
 Alfred his Wife, and Jeffery Martel their Son. It was at 
 firft made a Cell to the Abbey of St. John, in Colchejler ; 
 but afterwards became almoft independent of it ; being, 
 as it is .faid, in no more Subjection than that of paying 
 half a Marc as an Acknowledgment, and that the Ab- 
 bot of Colchejler might vifit them twice a Year, and abide 
 there four Days with twelve Horfes. King Henry V1L 
 gave the Priory of Snape to the Canons of Butley 5 but it 
 was diflblved in 1534, by the Bull of Pope Clement VII, 
 and given by King Henry VIII. to Cardinal Wolfey : 
 After the Cardinal's Fall it was granted to Thomas Duke 
 of Norfolk : At the Diflblution it was of the yearly Value 
 of 99 /. is. 1 1 1- d. It was lately the Eftate of Sir Henry 
 Johnfon, and came with the reft of that to the Earl of 
 Strafford. See Friflon. 
 
 The Manor of Snape belonged to the Priory, was 
 granted with that to the Duke of Norfolk, and came with 
 the reft to Lord Strafford. 
 
 Stern field. The Manor of MaundeVilles in this 
 Parilh, with the Advowfon of the Rectory, belong to 
 
 Dudley 
 
HfNDRED S>f PlOMESGATE. llj 
 
 Dudley North, Efq. They were formerly the Eftate of 
 Verlies, who probably built the Church ; from them the 
 Eftate came to the Framlinghams ; and, by Marriage, fron* 
 them to the Gaudy 's, of whom Mr. North purchafed it. 
 
 Stratford- St. Andrew. The Manors of Grijlon 
 and Stratford in this Parifti, are veiled alfo in Dudley 
 North, Efq;. 
 
 Sudborn. The Manor and Advowfon belonged for- 
 merly to the Prior and Convent of Ely. The Advowfon 
 is now in the Crown. The Manor was granted to the 
 Bifhop of Norwich 4 Edward VI. but refumed and pro- 
 bably granted to Sir Michael Stanhope, who built the Hall. 
 Sir Edmund Wiihipole married Sir Michael Stanhope's 
 Daughter, who had Iflue only one Daughter, married to 
 Lcicejler Devereux Lord Vifcount Hereford', from whom 
 it came to Pryce Devereux Lord Vifcount Hereford his 
 Son ; and his Executors fold it to the Right Hon. the 
 Earl of Hertford. 
 
 SwEFFtiNG. The Manor of Dernford, alias Derneford 
 Hall, in Stveffiing, belonged to the Priory of Leighs in' 
 EJfex; and was granted to R. Cavendijh, Efq; 28/&/7.VIII. 
 It is now in William Plumer, Efq. 
 
 Tltnstall. The Manor of Banyard in this Parifh is 
 now vefted in Dudley North, Efq. 
 
 Wantisben, The Manor and Re£lory belonged to- 
 Butley Abbey, and were granted to Lionel Talmach 36 
 Henry VIII. They are now vefted in William Chapman y 
 E%S as Part of Mr. Wood's Eftate. 
 
 BL ITHING, 
 
 4r 
 
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 BLITHING. 
 
 THE Hundred of Blithing is bounded on the Eaft 
 by the Ocean, on the Weft and South by the 
 Hundreds of Hoxne and Plomefgate i and on the 
 North by Wangford and Mutford. In this are contained 
 forty-eight Parifhes, and fix Hamlets, viz. 
 
 Aldringham, at prefent a mean Village, of which 
 Hamo de Mafey feems to have been Lord in the Reign of 
 King Edward II. for in the twelfth Year of that King 
 he obtained a Grant for a Market and Fair to be held 
 here ; and there is ftiil a little Fair on a Green within 
 this Parifh on St. Andrew's Day. The Church was given 
 to the Abbey of Leijion by Ranulf Glanvile, the Founder ; 
 and the Impropriation, which was granted 28 Hen. VIII. 
 to Charles Duke of Suffolk , belongs now to the Heirs of 
 the late Daniel Hervey y Efq; 
 
 Benacre, anciently the Lordfhip and Demefne of 
 Simon de Pierpoint. About the Year 1400 it came to Sir 
 William Bowet, and foon after to Fines Lord Dacres, in 
 which Family it continued till about the Middle of Queen 
 Elizabeth's Reign, when William Playters and Henry Tar- 
 mouth had it. Henry North of Laxfield, purchafed it in 
 King Charles the Firft's Time ; and it now belongs to 
 
 Sir Thomas Gooch y Bart, who purchafed it of Car- 
 
 thew, Efq. 
 
 Bliburgh, tho' now a mean Village, feems to have 
 been of great Antiquity and Note j for fcveral Roman 
 
 Urns 
 
Hundred of Bli thing, 129 
 
 Urns were here dug up about the Year 1678. Anna 
 King of the Eajl- Angles and Firminus his Son, who were 
 flain in fighting againft Penda King of the Mercians, 
 A. D. 654, or 655, were here buried : So faith Cambden, 
 and almoft all our Hiflorians; but it may be doubted, 
 whether the Tomb now Ihewn at Blithburgh for King 
 4nna\ be really his j for the prefent Church is certainly 
 a modern Building. There are feveral Legacies in Wills 
 between the Years 1450 and 1480, towards building the 
 Chancel at Blithburgh ; and yet it feems to be exactly the 
 fame kind of Building with the Church, fo that probably 
 it is little more than Three Hundred Years old. The 
 Body of Firminus was afterwards tranflated to Bury. 
 The Seffions for the Divifion of Beetles, were certainly 
 held here formerly ; and John de Clavering (fo called 
 from his Manor in EJJex of that Name,) who was Lord of 
 this Manor 17 Edward II. obtained a Grant for a Week- 
 ly Market on Mondays, and two Yearly Fairs j one, on 
 the Eve and Feaft-day of the Annunciation, Feb. 2. the other 
 on the Eve and Day of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, 
 Sept. 8. The Name of the Town by its Termination 
 Burgh, which fignifies a Town or Caftle, and the Stateli- 
 nefs of its Church, argue its former Greatnefs ; and as 
 late as the Year 1677, there was a Colledion made for 
 a Lofs by Fire, to the Amount of 1803/. Here was a 
 Priory of Black Canons, a Cell to the Abbey of St. Oftth 
 in Ejj'ex, founded in the Time of King Henry 1. and va- 
 lued at the Diflblution at 48/. 8*. 10 d. per Annum. 
 This was granted 30 Henry VIII. to Sir Arthur Hopton, 
 Km. then Lord of the Manor ; confiderable Remains 
 of which are landing near the Church. Sir John Blois, 
 Bart, is the prefent Lord. In Stow's Annals is an Ac- 
 count of a terrible Thunder-Storm, which happened here 
 on Sunday 4 Auguji 1577, in the Time of Divine Service, 
 when the Lightning damaged the Church, flruck down 
 and fcorched feveral Perfons,and killed one Man and a Boy. 
 
 K. Brampton. 
 
i^o Hundred of Blithing^ 
 
 Brampton. The chief Manor and Advowfon of the 
 Church have belonged to the Family of Leman, ever fince 
 the Year 1600. Robert Leman, Efq; is the prefent Lord 
 and Patron, who having his Hall or Manor-houfe here 
 burnt down in 1733, refides now at Wickham- Market y 
 in Suffolk. The Manor of Halts Hall in this Parifh, 
 was lately veiled in Sir Edward Duke, Bart, and now be- 
 longs to William Chapman, Efq; of Loudham. 
 
 Blythford. Ralph de Criketot gave this Church to 
 Blithburgh Priory before the Year 1200, and the Impro- 
 priation was granted 30 Henry VIII. to Sir Arthur Hop- 
 ton', and belongeth now, as the Manor alfo doth, to 
 
 William Chapman, Efq. 
 
 Bramfield, was the Manor of Nicholas de Seagrave, 
 9 Edward II. but foon after of Walter de Norivich. He 
 dying 2 Edward III. left it to Sir "John ds Norwich, whofe 
 Executors made it Part of the Endowment of the Col- 
 lege of Mettingham, built by h,is Order. At the Diflblu- 
 $ion of that College this Manor was granted to Thomas 
 Denney ; but came fhortly after to the Rous's, of Hen- 
 bam ; and is now vefted in Sir 'John Rous, Bart. Brook- 
 hall belonged alfo to Mettingham College ; and, in a Re- 
 gifter belonging to the late Peter le Neve, Efq; there was 
 an Extent of the Manors of Bromfield and Brook-hall, 
 made 18 Edward IV. The Stile of the Manor now is 
 Bramfield cum Brook-hall. 
 
 This Church was impropriated to Blithburgh. In the 
 Chancel of it there is a noble Monument erected to the 
 Memory of Arthur Coke, third Son of Sir Edward Coke 
 
 and his Wife, not unworthy even of Wejlminjler- 
 
 Abbey ; and on the Pavement there are. feveral black 
 Marble Stones, for the two ancient Families of this Pa- 
 rifh, Rabbet and Nelfon. The Rabbet's Eftate is now 
 vefted in Reginald Rabbety Efq; not long fince High- 
 
 Sheriff 
 
Hundred ^/Blithing, 131 
 
 Sheriff of this County, and hath a good old Seat near the 
 Church. There was alfo another good old Seat in this 
 Parifh, about a Mile from the Church, which formerly 
 belonged to Thomas Neale, Efq; and now to Mr. Neale 
 Ward) Attorney at Law in Bury ; but that hath lately 
 been reduced to a Farm-houfe. The faid Thomas Neale 
 ]eft Orders at his Deceafe for erecting and endowing an 
 Alms-houfe here, for four fingle Perfons, who have each 
 of them a Room and about a Rood of Land, and one 
 of them hath a Rent-charge of Three Pounds per Ann. 
 more, for teaching fix poor Children to read the Bible. 
 Mary, the Relief of the faid Thomas Neale t and afterwards 
 Wife of John Fowle, Efq; left an Eftate at Metfield, of 
 about 10/. per Ann. to keep the faid Alms-houfes in Re- 
 pair ; and to teach fix other poor Children to read, ac- 
 cording to the Will of Mrs. Elizabeth Archer, Spinfler. 
 The Impropriation was granted 30 Henry VIII. to Sir Ar- 
 thur Hopton-, and belongs now to William Plumer, Efq. 
 
 Bulchamp, is a Hamlet of Blithburgh, and a Lord- 
 (hip, which had for many Years the fame Lords with 
 Henham. 
 
 Buxlow, was a Parifh by itfelf, when the Church 
 was {landing ; but, fince the Decay of that, it has been 
 confolidated with Knoddifljall, viz. by Bifljop Green, 22 
 Feb. 1 721. The Family of Jenney have been Patrons 
 of the Church ; and therefore, probably, Lords here, ever 
 fince the Year 1435. 
 
 Cheddiston. Robert Vaux or de Vallibus, who came 
 over with the Conqueror, and founded a Religious Houfe 
 at Pentery in Norfolk, was probably Lord here, by his 
 giving the Church to that Priory. At the Diffolution, 
 the Re&ory and Advowfon of the Vicarage were granted 
 to Thomas Sidney and Nicholas Halefwelle. The Pettms 
 K 2 were 
 
132 Hundred of Blithing. 
 
 were formerly Lords here ; afterwards the Flcetiuoods ; 
 then Walter P turner, Efqj who beautifully rebuilt the 
 Plall ; at his Death he gave it to his Brother William. 
 
 Cookley. The fame Patrons prefented to this Church 
 who prefented to Huntingfield. There are two Manors 
 here : That of Cookley belongeth to Sir Jo/bua Vanneck, 
 Bart, and that of Cookley-Grange, belonging to William 
 P turner, Efq; which laft formerly belonged to Sibton Ab- 
 bey, and was granted to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, 28 
 Henry VIII. 
 
 Coveh 1 THE. See Northales. 
 
 Cratfield. Ralph Barnard held Cratfeld when 
 Domefday-Book was made. It was afterwards feparated 
 into three Parts. For A.D. 1140, Maud de St. Liz, 
 Daughter of William St. Liz Earl of Northampton, and 
 Wife of William Abcnni, gave one third Part of her 
 Manor of Cratisfeld in Suffolk to the Priory of St. Neots 
 in Huntingdon/hire ; and William Abenni her Son, gave the 
 Church of Cratfeld to the Monks of St. Neots, who had 
 the Profits of the Rectory, and were Patrons of the Vi- 
 carage till the Dilfolution ; when the Rectory and Ad- 
 vowfon of the Vicarage were granted by K. Edward VI. 
 to Thomas Sidney and Nicholas Halefwelle, who fhortly after 
 fold them to Mr. John Lany ; and being in the Hands of 
 John Lany, Efq; of Ipfwich, in 1635 ; he pioully and ge- 
 neroufly conveyed the Rectory-Houfe, with two Acres 
 of Glebe and all the Tythes, except the Tithes of Corn, 
 and twenty Marks per Ann. out of the Rectory, to the 
 Vicar for the Time being for ever. 
 
 2. Robert de Tatejhall departing this Life 28 Edward l. s 
 his Relict Eve was endowed, amongft other Things, with 
 the Manor of Craiefield, in Suffolk ; and this we fuppofe 
 to have been the fecond Part of the Manor. Henry Piercy 
 Earl of Northumberland, died fcifed of a Manor in Crat- 
 
 field. 
 
Hundred ff Blithing. 133 
 
 field, 43 Edward III. and out of this the Priory of Buc- 
 kenham in Norfolk had a yearly Rent of 3/. 1 s. *}\d. which 
 Rent of 3/. is. y±.d. ifluing out of a Manor in Crat- 
 fleld, was granted in 8 fames I. to fohn Eldred, Efq; and 
 Verdon, Gent, as Part of the Revenues of the Priory 
 of Buckenham. 
 
 3. A third Part of this Manor feems to have been in 
 Thomas de Brothcrton Earl of Norfolk, who died 1 2 Ed. III. 
 and after his Wife's Deceafe 36 Ed. III. to have defcended 
 to his Grand-daughter foan, married to William de Ufford. 
 The Earl of Lelcefier lately fold all thefe Manors to Sir 
 fojhua Vanneck. 
 
 Darsham. William the Son of Roger By got, Founder 
 of the Priory of Cluniac Monks at Thetford, gave thofe 
 Monks about the Year mo, all the Land of Afceline de 
 Dcrjham, with its Appurtenances, and the Church of the 
 fame Village. And, upon the DhTolution of that Houfe, 
 the Manor, Rectory and Advowfon of the Vicarage, were 
 granted 32 Henry VIII. to Thomas Duke of Norfolk. An- 
 other Manor here was granted 28 Henry VIII. to Charles 
 Duke of Suffolk ; and 36 Henry VIIJ. to Thomas Denton 
 and Richard Nottingham, as Parcel of the Poffeffions of 
 the Abbey of Leijlon. There are now four Manors here : 
 Darfuam cum Toxford, which is the firfr. before-mentioned. 
 2. Abbots, which might probably be the fecond. 3. Jufiins. 
 And, 4. Gerrards. All which were lately the Eftate of 
 the Beddingfclds, and now of Sir fohn Rous, Bart. 
 
 There feem formerly to have been feveral Elamlets in 
 this Parifh ; for we have met with Cheymys, in Dar/ham ; 
 Buckles, in Darfoam \ and Barf ill, in Darfiam. There 
 were alfo feveral Legacies given in Wills, between the 
 Year 1460 and 1505, towards building the Steeple. 
 
 Dunwich. Tho' the traditionary Accounts of this 
 Place are probably fabulous, it hath certainly been very 
 
 ancient 
 
134 Hundred c/ Blithing; 
 
 ancient and ccnfiderable ; from the finding Roman Coins 
 here, it may reafonably be thought to have been a Roman 
 Station. Felix the Burgundian Bifhop, whom Sigebert 
 King of the Eaji- Angles brought hither to reduce his Sub- 
 jects to Chriftianity, which they had almoft forfaken, 
 fixed his Epifcopal See here, J. D. 636. After him fate 
 three Bifhops here, who had Jurifdiclion over the whole 
 Kingdom of the Eajl- Angles ; but in the latter Part of 
 his third Succeflbr's Time, and perhaps about fifty Years 
 from the Erection of the See, it was divided ; and a Bi- 
 fhop for the Norfolk Part of the Kingdom being placed 
 at Elmham, the Bifhop of Dunwich, or (as it was then 
 called) Domoc, and Donmuc, had the Suffolk Part only. 
 After this Divifion of the See, there fate, as 'tis faid, 
 eleven Bifhops at Dunwich, 'till about the Year 820, or 
 Ihortly after, when the troublefome Times put an end to 
 this Bifhopric, before it had flood 200 Years. When 
 Dornefday Book was made, this Place was valued as 
 yielding 50 /. per Year to the King, and 60,000 Her- 
 rings. In King Stephens Time they feem to have had 
 ibme Toll paid them by Ships at Oreford, which is men- 
 tioned in his Grant to the Monks of Eye, as valued at 
 30 j. per Annum. In King Henry the Second's Time it 
 was a famous City, well ftored with Riches of all Sorts. 
 In the firfl Year of King John, it had a Charter of Liber- 
 ties, and a Grant of Wreck of the Sea. It is faid, that 
 there was fometime a Mint here ; but I meet with no 
 Money coined here, either in Thorejby, Nicholfon, or the 
 Nummi Britan-Hijloria. It fendeth two Members to 
 Parliament, and is governed by two Bailiffs, &c. King 
 John, among other Things mentioned in his Charter, 
 granted to the Burgejfes the Liberty of marrying their 
 Sons and Daughters as they would ; and alfo the Liberty 
 of giving, felling, or otherwife difpofing of their Lands 
 and Houfes within their Town, at Pleafure. This Char- 
 ter is dated at Gold Cliff, 29 June, 1 Johan. and it coft 
 
 thera 
 
Hundred of Blithing. 135 
 
 them 300 Marks, befides ten Falcons and five Gir- 
 Falcons. 
 
 Here were certainly fix, if not eight Parifh Churches, 
 viz. 1. St. Johns, which was a Rectory, and feems to 
 have been fwallowed up by the Sea, about A. D. 1540. 
 In a Will dated 1499, and proved 1501, there is a Le- 
 gacy of ten Marks for forne Ornaments in this Church, 
 with this Claufe, " If it fortune the Church to decay by 
 *' Adventure of the Sea, the ten Marks to be difpofed of 
 " by my Attornies ( i. e. Executors) where they think 
 " beft." About 15 10 two Legacies are given towards 
 building a Pier againft St. John's Church : The laft In- 
 ftitution to it was in 1537, and the laft Time it is men- 
 tioned is in 1538, when Margaret Haliday ordered her 
 Body to be buried in the South Ifle of it. 
 
 2. St. Martins, which was likewife a Rectory j but the 
 laft Inftitution we can find to it was in A. D. 1335. 
 
 3. St. Nicholas, a Rectory alfo 5 but no Inftitution to it 
 occurs fince A. D. 1352. 
 
 4. St. Leonards, impropriated, and probably early loft ; 
 for in a Will dated A. D. 1450, the Teftator devifeth 
 his Houfe in the Parifh anciently called St. Leonard's. 
 
 5. St. Peter's, a Rectory, laft inftituted into, in A. D. 
 1609 ; but ftanding fince the Reftoration. 
 
 6. All Saints, impropriated ; the only Church now 
 ftanding, and that in a mean Condition. 
 
 Thefe and all other Churches here were given by Robert 
 Mallet to his Priory at Eye, in his Foundation or Endow- 
 ment Charter. (Temp. Will. Conq.) And the faid Prior 
 and Convent prefented to all the inftituted Churches, and 
 had Portions of Tithes out of moft of them ; and all the 
 Revenues of the impropriated ones, finding a fecular Prieft 
 to ferve the Cures. 
 
 The Regifter of Eye mentions alfo the Churches of 
 St. Michael and St. Bartholomew in Dunwich, which were 
 fwallowed up by the Sea before A. D. 1331 ; when the 
 K 4 Prior 
 
/ 
 
 136 Hundred c/Blithing. 
 
 Prior and Convent of Eye petitioned the Bifhop of Nor- 
 wich to impropriate the Church of Laxfield to them ; and, 
 amongft other Reafons for it, alledged that they had loft 
 a confiderable Part of their Revenues at Dunwich by the 
 breaking in of the Sea. However, mA.D. 1359, Dun- 
 •wich fent to the Siege of Calais fix Ships and 102 Ma- 
 riners ; when Jpfwich fent twelve Ships, and 239 Men ; 
 and Orford, three Ships and 62 Men. . 
 
 Befides thefe Churches, Weaver mentions three Cha- 
 pels here dedicated to St. Anthony, St. Francis, and St. 
 Catharine. The laft is often mentioned in old Wills : It 
 was in St. John's Parifh, and had a Guild of St. Catha- 
 rine's belonging to it j and was Handing and in ufe in 
 King Henry Vlllth's Reign. But the other two we have 
 yet met with nothing of. 
 
 Here was alfo, 1 ft, The Temple Church, dedicated to 
 St. Mary and St. John Baptijl, which probably belonged 
 firft to the Templars, and afterwards to the Hojpitalers, 
 who had a good Eftate hereabouts ; and might, as other 
 Lords often did, build a Church for the Ufe of their own 
 Tenants : For we don't find that they had ever any Pre- 
 ceptory, or Commandery here. The Temple Manor of 
 Lands hereabouts being granted as Parcel of the Poffef- 
 fions of the Preceptory at Batisford, to Thomas Andrews* 
 4th Elizabeth. 
 
 2d!y. A noble ancient Church belonging to St. James's 
 Hofpital j the Ruins of which yet remain. 
 
 3%« Another Church dedicated to the Holy Trinity, 
 for the Ufe of another Hofpital, called Maifon Dicu, or 
 God's Houfe. Some Part of the Revenues of thefe ancient 
 Hofpitals, (which we can fay nothing of, but that the 
 former feems to have been chiefly for Men, and the latter 
 wholly for Women, J are yet remaining. 
 
 Here were alfo two Houfes of Friers 5 one of Francifcun 
 or Grey Friers, founded by Henry Fitz-John and Alice his 
 Wife, and enlarged by King Henry III. and the other of 
 
 Dominicans! 
 
Hundred of Bli thing. 137 
 
 Dominicans or Preaching Friers, founded by Sir Roger 
 Holi/he, Knt. Both thefe Houfes had fair Churches be- 
 longing to them. 
 
 But whatever the ancient State of this Place was, it 
 is at prefent but a fmall Village, confifting of a few mean 
 Houfes : It hath a mean Market on Mondays, and a Fair 
 (which was probably granted to the Hofpital) on St. 
 James's Day, July 25 th. 
 
 It feems to have been at its Height in King Henry the 
 Third's Time, when it paid One Hundred Marks to the 
 King's Tax ; and to have declined alio in that Reign, 
 when the Sea made fo great a Breach here that the King 
 wrote to the Barons of Suffolk, to affift the Inhabitants in 
 flopping it. And Stow mentions an high Wind and 
 great Tide on New-year's Day, 15 Edward I. or A.D. 
 1287 j which did great Damage to the Churches here. 
 
 Easton Bavent. The Lordfhip of Thomas de Ba- 
 vent, 9 Edward I. one of whofe Defcendants had a Grant 
 4 Edward III. for a Weekly Market here on Wednefdays y 
 and a Yearly Fair on the Eve, Day, and Morrow of the 
 Feaft of St. Nicholas. It came afterwards to the Argen- 
 tines, Schardelowes, Hoptons, Robards's, and Howlands. 
 What remains of it is now veiled in Sir Thomas Gooch, 
 Bart, for the Sea hath warned away almofl: all the Parifh, 
 leaving only two Houfes and fome Land. The Church 
 was Handing in 1638; and, befides the Parifli Church, 
 there was formerly a Chapel of St. Margaret's. 
 
 Fordley. In the Time of King Edward II. this was 
 the Lordfhip of Sir John de Weyland, Knt. it afterwards 
 came to Elizabeth Lady Defpenfer. In Queen Elizabeth's 
 Time it belonged to Mr. Edward Hunnings ; and now 
 to Mrs. Freake. The Church hath long been in Ruins ; 
 it flood in the fame Yard with Middlcton Church, and 
 io near it, that Complaint was made to the Bifhop of 
 
 Norwich 
 
138 Hundred Blithing. 
 
 Norwich in Feb. 1620, that when Service did not begin 
 and end at both Churches exactly at the fame Time, the 
 Bells and People of the one Church difturbed thofe of 
 the other ; and an Order was made thereupon, that the 
 fame Minifter ihould ferve them both, and officiate in 
 Fordley Church one Week, and in Middleton the other ; 
 and this, perhaps, might occafion the letting down of 
 Fordley Church, which was but fmall. 
 
 Frostenden, formerly the Lord/hip of Robert de 
 Bijkele j William de la Pole died feifed of it 28 Hen. VI. 
 and Edmund de la Pole being attainted of high Treafon, 
 A. D. 15 10, the Crown feifed it; and the next Year 
 granted it to Thomas Lord Howard and Ann his Wife, 
 and the Heirs of their.Bodies ; but they dying without 
 Iflue, it came again to the Crown, and was granted to- 
 wards the latter End of Queen Elizabeth's Reign to 
 
 Morfe, who fold it to "John Glover ; Efq; and in this Fa- 
 mily it ftill continues. 
 
 Halesworth, is a well built Town, fituated on 
 the Borders of the River Blythe, which hath lately been 
 made navigable up to this Town. It has a confi- 
 derable Weekly Market on Thurfdays, and a good Fair 
 yearly for lean Cattle on the Feaft-Day of St. Luke, Off. 
 18, obtained from Henry III. by Richard de Argentin, 
 then Lord of the Manor. From the Argentins it defcended 
 to the AUingtons, who fold it. Afterwards the Family of 
 Betts had it. Walter Plumer, Efq; bought it of Thomas 
 Beits ; and his Brother William is now Lord of this Ma- 
 nor, together with the Manor of Dame Margery, in this 
 Town. There is alfo a Manor belonging to the Rectory 
 of this Parifh. Sir Robert Bedingfield, who was Lord- 
 Mayor of London, A. D. 1707, was fifth Son of John 
 Bedingfield, of this Paxifli. 
 
 ' Henham, 
 
Hundred of Blithing. 139 
 
 HenhaMj is a Hamlet of Wangford. Ralph Baynard 
 had the Lordfhips of Henham and Wangford, when Domef- 
 day-Book was made. In the Time of King Edward 1. 
 it belonged to Robert Lord Kerdejlon, and continued fome 
 time in his Family. About the Year 1440, it came to 
 the De la Poles j and in the Time of King Henry VIII. 
 to the ancient Family of Rous, who had long before con- 
 fiderable PolTeflions at Dennington in this County. In the 
 Archdeacon's Office, A. D. 1550, is the Will of William 
 Bennet, Servant of Thomas Rous, Efq; of Henha?n. We 
 meet with Edmund Rous, Knt. in 1 588 ; and Sir John 
 Rous, Knt. in 1623 ; but the Title of Baronet was not 
 granted to this Family before 17 Aug. 1660. 
 
 Henstead. The Manor of Robert de Pierpoint, in the 
 Time of William the Conqueror. It continued in that 
 Family till about the Year 1340. It came to the Clop" 
 tons of Long Melford, about the Year 1500. The Sydnors 
 of Blundejlon, had it in Queen Elizabeth's Time. About 
 the Restoration it was in Sir Robert Brook, of Toxfordi 
 fince in Mildmay ; and now it is in Mrs. Haloday. 
 
 Heveningham. Walter Fitz- Robert, who gave the 
 Advowfon of this Church to the Priory of St. Neots, and 
 died A. D. 1 198, was probably then Lord. It was af- 
 terwards for many Years in a Family, who took their 
 Name from the Place; and when that failed, about the 
 Year 1700, it became the Eftate of John Bence, Efqj and 
 belongs now to Sir Jojhua Fanned, who hath a handfome 
 Seat here. 
 
 Hint on, is a Hamlet of Blithburgh. 
 
 Holton. Alan Earl of Richmond, was probably Lord 
 here in the Time of William Rufus j for he then gave this 
 Church to St. Mary's, in York, 
 
 HUNTING- 
 
14-0 Hundred <?/ Blithinc. 
 
 Huntingfied. William de Huntingfield (Founder of 
 Metidham Priory in King Stephen's Time) and his Heirs 
 had the Manor and Advowfon here till about 50 Edw. III. 
 when William de Huntingfield dying without IlFue, left 
 Alice the Widow of Sir John Norwich his next Heir. 
 William de la Pole married Catherine, Daughter of Sir 
 John Norwich^ by the faid Alice ; and after Catherines 
 Deceafe, 5 Richard 11. Michael de la Pole her Son entered 
 •upon her Lands, and had Licence to make Caftles of his 
 Manor-Houfes of Wingfield, Sternfield, and Huniingfield, 
 in Suffolk, 8 Richard II. Michael de la Pole died feifed of 
 this Manor 28 Henry VI. or 1449 ; and it continued in 
 the Dukes of Suffolk till Queen Elizabeth's Time, when 
 Henry Lord Hun/don had it; and foon after it became the 
 Eftate of that great Oracle of the Law Sir Edward Coke, 
 whofe Defendant the Earl of Leicejler lately fold it to 
 Sir Jojhua Vanneck, Bart. 
 
 Before the Reformation there was a Chauntry here, of 
 the yearly Value of 4/. 17 s. 6d. the Lands belonging 
 to it were granted by King James I. to Sir Edward Coke, 
 A. D. 1604. 
 
 - Knottishall. The Family of Jenney were Lords 
 here before the Year 1480. Mr. Blomjield mentions one 
 Sir Thomas Jenney, of Suffolk, Knt. A. D. 140 1 ; and 
 there was a Sir Chrijlopher Jenney, Baron of the Exche- 
 quer, in the Reign of Henry V III. Arthur Jenney, of 
 Knottejhall, was knighted 26 March, 1639. The Eftate 
 is now in Edmund Jenney, of Bredfield, Efq. 
 
 Leiston. Here was formerly an Abbey of Pramon- 
 jlratenfian Canons, founded by Ranulph Glanvile, about 
 the Year 1 1 83. The Abbot obtained a Charter for a 
 Market and Fair here 6 Edxvard II. or A. D. 1312 } 
 but both have been long difufed. This Abbey being pro- 
 bably decayed and feated In an inconvenient Place, ano- 
 
 thgf 
 
Hundred Blithimg. 141 
 
 ther was erected at fome Diftance from the former by 
 Robert deVfford Earl of Suffolk, about theYear 1 363 ; and 
 the Canons removed into it. The new, as well as the 
 old Houfe, was dedicated to the Bleffed Virgin, and en- 
 dowed at the Diffolution with the yearly Revenue of 181 /. 
 17 j. i\d. It was granted 28 Henry VIII. to Charles 
 Brandon Duke, of Suffolk ; and was lately the Eftate of 
 Daniel Harvey, Efq; in Right of his Wife ; and is now, 
 with the Manor of Lei/Ion, vefted in the Hon. Elizabeth 
 Relict of Kellond Court eney, Efq; who was Daughter of 
 the Vifcountefs Hinchinbrooke, and Grand-daughter of the 
 Right Hon. Lady Ann Harvey. 
 
 Linstead Great, and Linstead Little. The Church 
 of St. Margaret of Linjlead, and half the Church of St. 
 Peter, were given to the Priory of Mendham by Roger de 
 Huntingfield. Both of them came in time to be wholly 
 impropriated to that Priory. The Manor of Little Lin- 
 jlead belonged to Sibton Abbey, and was granted to Thomas 
 Duke of Norfolk 28 Henry VIII. 
 
 Mells, a Hamlet of Wenhajlon 3 the Manor belong- 
 ed formerly to Mettingham College, and at the Diffolution 
 was granted to Thomas Denney. 
 
 Middleton. This Church was given by Roger de 
 Glanvile and Robert Crec, to the Abbot and Convent of 
 Leijlon, who got it impropriated to them ; the Impropria- 
 tion was granted 28 Henry VIII. to Charles Duke of Suf- 
 folk ; and, with the Manor, belongs now to Mr. Freake. 
 
 North ales, commonly called Cove-Hithe, probably 
 from John and Walter Cove, who were Lords here in the 
 Time of King Edward!, and had a Hithe or Quay for 
 loading and unloading fmall Veflels ; for here the River 
 formerly emptied itfelf into the Sea, John de Cove and 
 
 Eve 
 
142 Hundred ^/ Blithing. 
 
 Eve his Wife had free Warren in their Lands at Cove 
 and Nortbales in Suffolk, in A.D. 1308 ; and the Grant 
 of a Fair here, A.D. 1328, which is ftill kept upon St. 
 Jndreivs Day. The Church was impropriated to the 
 Cluniac Cell of Wangford, and granted therewith to the 
 Duke of Norfolk, in whofe Family it ftill continues. 
 This was a confiderable Fiftiing-Town formerly, and 
 had a noble Church belonging to it ; but by the Decay 
 of that Bufinefs, it is reduced to a very mean Village. 
 The Ruins of the Church are extremely fine, and well 
 worth the Obfervation of the curious. The South-Ifle 
 is preferved, and inclofed into a neat little Church. John 
 Bale, whofe Book De Scriptoribus Britannicis was printed 
 at Ipfwicb by John Overton, A.D. 1548, was Redor of 
 this Church, if not a Native of the Town. 
 
 Peasenhall. This Lordmip belonged to Roger By- 
 god, 18 Edward I. Nicholas de Segrave died feifed of 
 it 15 Edward II. leaving Maud his Daughter and Heir, 
 then married to Edmund de Bohun. It now belongeth to 
 Mile/on Edgar, Efq. 
 
 Raydon, is the Mother-Church to Southwold; the 
 Manor belongs to Sir John Rous. 
 
 Rumburgh. Here was zBenediftine Monafterv found- 
 ed about the Time of the Conqueft, and dedicated to St. 
 Michael ; but by Stephen Earl of Brittany, given as a Cell 
 to the Abbey of St. Mary's in York. It was granted be- 
 fore the general Supprefiion of thefe Houfes to Cardinal 
 IVolfey. It was afterwards the Eftate of the Earls of Ox- 
 ford, and lately purchafed by Mr. Cobhold, a wealthy 
 Quaker ; and now belongs to Mr. Jejfup, a Quaker, at 
 Lei/Ion Abbey. 
 
 Sibton. William de Cafmeto or Cheny, founded a Ci- 
 Jlertian Abbey here, about the Year 1150, and dedicated 
 
 it 
 
Hundred c/Blithing. 143 
 
 It to the Bleffed Virgin. The Revenues of it were va- 
 lued at 250/. 15*. fed. per Ann. and granted away by 
 the Abbot and Convent themfelves to Thomas Duke of 
 Norfolk, Anthony Roufe, Efq; and Nicholas Hare, Gent. 
 31 July, 1536. It is at prefent a good old Houfe; and, 
 with the Manor, belongs to Charles Scrivener, Efq. The 
 Church was built by Robert the Son of Walter de Cadom, 
 in the Reign of William Rufus ; but the North Ifle was 
 built by the Executors of Robert Ducket, whofe Will is 
 dated 24 Jan. 1533. The Barkers of this Parifh are 
 mentioned in old Wills, as Perfons of good Subftance, 
 ever fmce the Year 1500. Their Eftate is now veiled 
 in Milefon Edgar, Efq. 
 
 Sizewell, is a Hamlet of LeiJ!on, where there was 
 a Chapel for Divine Service as late as Queen Elizabeth's 
 Time, and in the preceding Times probably, a connder- 
 able Number of Houfes; but at prefent one Farm-houfe 
 only. 
 
 Sotherton. Here were two Manors: One of which 
 had the Patronage of the Church, and belonged formerly 
 to Walter de Bernha?n. John Br'ightyere (or Britife) of 
 Bernham-Broom, in Norfolk, had it in the Time of Ed- 
 ward IV. and dying in 1497, left it to Agnes his Daugh- 
 ter ; and foon after it came to the Rous' s. The other 
 Manor belonged to the Prior and Convent of Ely, and 
 was granted 37 Henry VIII. to Anthony Roufe. They arc 
 now both in Sir John Rous. 
 
 Southwould, is pleafantiy fituated upon a Hill, be- 
 ing almoft furrounded with the Sea, and the River Blytbe* 
 over which it hath a Bridge for Entrance into the Town. 
 
 The Bay, corruptly called Sowl Bay, is a commo- 
 dious Place for Anchorage, and was made memorable by 
 a (harp Engagement between the Englijh and Dutch 
 Fleets on 28 May, 1672 ; in which the Earl of Sand- 
 wich loft his Life, 
 
144 Hundred of Blithing. 
 
 It is a Town Corporate, being made fo by A& of 
 Parliament in 1489; and is governed by two Bailiffs, 
 and other Sub-officers j but fends no Members to Par- 
 liament. It has a tolerable Market Weekly on Thurf- 
 days, indifferently ferved with Provifions ; and two Fairs 
 Yearly, one on the Monday after Trinity-Sunday, and the 
 other 24 Auguji being St. Bartholomew's Day. It drives 
 a confiderable Trade in Salt, and old Beer j having excel- 
 lent Springs of good Water, which may be one Reafon 
 why their Beer is fo much efteemed. 
 
 South-Cove. Here are two Manors : South-Cove with 
 Northale, which was probably the Manor of John de Cove 
 and Eve his Wife ; and Polfrey, or Bluefory-Cove, both 
 belonging to Mr. Cowling. 
 
 Speckshall. The Earl of Richmond was probably 
 Lord here, by his giving the Advowfon of this Church 
 to the Priory of St. Marys, at York. 
 
 Stoven. This Church was impropriated to Wang- 
 ford Cell or Priory, and the Impropriation was granted 
 with that Cell to the Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 Theberton, feems anciently to have been Part of 
 the Bygods and Segraves Eftate ; for they prefented to the 
 Church till after the Year 1350 : But foon after the Ab- 
 bot and Convent of Lc'ifton became Patrons. 
 
 Thorington, was formerly the Lordfhip and De- 
 mefne of Walter de Norwich ; afterwards of the Ufords ; 
 then of the Cokes ; but for forne Time hath been in the 
 Family of Bence, and was lately verted in Alexander Bcnce, 
 Efq; who made the Hall his Seat. His only Daughter 
 is now Lady of this Manor, called by the Name of Tho- 
 rington f dimples. The Advowfon of the Church was" 
 given to the Priory of Blythburgh> by William the Son 
 
 of 
 
Hundred <?/ Blithino. 145 
 
 of Walter de Sadenefield, before the Year 12 00 ; for this 
 Gift was confirmed by Richard I. who died in 1 199. At 
 the Diflblution it was granted to Sir Arthur Hopton, Knt. 
 but is now in Mrs. Bence. 
 
 Thorp, is a Hamlet of Aldringham, which had a Cha- 
 pel belonging to it (landing fince the Reftoration j but it 
 is now in Ruins. 
 
 Ubbeston. This Church and Manor were given with 
 Henningham, to the Priory of St. Neots ; the Manor, Rec- 
 tory, and Advowfon of the Vicarage were granted aa 
 Parcel of the PolTeflions of that Friory 36 Henry VIII, to 
 John Pope, Efq. It hath for fome time been the Seat of 
 the Family of Kemp ; which ancient Family is defcended 
 from Normannus de Kempe, whofe great Grandfon was 
 Allen Kempe, of Wejlon in this County, Efq; from whom 
 defcended Sir Robert Kemp, of Gijftng in Norfolk, Knt. 
 one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to King Charles 
 the Firft ; who, for his eminent Loyalty to the faid King, 
 was, by him created a Baronet \± March, 1641. He 
 died 20 Augujl, 1647 ; having fuffered very much both in 
 his real and perfonal Eftate, from the Sequeftrations of 
 thofc unhappy Times. To him fucceeded his Son Sir 
 Robert Kemp, who marrying Mary the only Daughter and 
 Heirefs of John Sone, of Ubbejlon, Efq; removed from 
 GiJJtng hither, and made Ubbejlon Hall his Seat. He was 
 fucceeded by his Son Sir Robert Kemp, who, on the Death 
 of Sir William Barker, was eledted Reprefentative of this 
 County, and left a numerous Iflue. The prefentHeir of 
 this Family is the Rev. Sir Thomas Kemp, Bart. 
 
 The Redtory was pioufly and generoufly given to the 
 Vicar by the laft Will and Teftament of Mrs. Mary Sone, 
 Widow, proved in the Archdeacon's Office A.D. 1685. 
 
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146 Hundred' of B-l it h i n g. ; 
 
 Uggeshall. The Manor of Ugghall in this Pariflv. 
 was formerly the Lordfhip of Catharine Fitz-OJlorn, of 
 S'omerly ; afterwards in the Playters ; and at prefent is 
 vefted in Sir John Rous ; as is aifo the Manor of Ugghall 
 ex parte Northalys in this Parifh. 
 
 - Walderswicx., formerly a large Place which traded 
 confiderably to Sea, but now is very mean ; and only a 
 Chapel and Hamlet to Blithburgh. 
 
 •Walpoole. Sir • Jojhua Vanneck, Bart, is now Lord" 
 ©f the Manor of Walpoole with Chickering. This Church 
 was impropriated to the Nunnery of Redlingfield, and 
 granted in 37 Henry VIII. to Robert and' Richard 
 Taverner. 
 
 Wangford. Here was formerly a Priory or Cell of 
 Cluniac Monks, fubordinate to Thetford, dedicated to the 
 Virgin Mary. It was valued at 30/. 9*. $d. per Ann. 
 and fupprefled 16 Feb. 32 Henry VIII. and granted foon 
 after with the Monaftery of Thetford to Thomas Duke of 
 Norfolk, whofe Son fold it to Sir John Rous, Knt. A. D. 
 3612. It is now vefted in Sir John Rous , who is alfo 
 Lord of the Manor of Wangford. 
 
 Wenhaston, the Lordfhip of William Strode, Efq; 
 befides the Chapel of Mells in this Parifh, which was 
 dedicated to St. Margaret, there was a Chapel of St. 
 Bartholomew near the old Site of Wenhajlon Hall. The 
 North Ifle of this Church feems to have been built about' 
 the Year 1530. For Robert Pepyn, Rector of Knoddifoall,- 
 in his Will dated 19 Jan. 1535, orders his Body to be 
 buried in the new Ifle at Wenhajlon, at the Feet of the 
 Vicar of that Parifh lately deceafed; And in the Year 
 following a Legacy was given towards paving the new 
 Me at Wenhajlon, Several of the ancient Family of Le- 
 
 man. 
 
Hundred c/ Blithixg. 14.7 
 
 totan, who have a Seat in this Parim, are buried at the 
 Eaft-end of this Ifle. The Manor of Wenhajlon belonged 
 to the Abbot and Convent of Sibton, who fold it to Thomas 
 Duke of Norfolk. It is now veiled in Robert Sparrow, 
 Efq ; of IVorlingham. The Hall belongs to the Rev. John 
 Leman, who refides there. 
 
 Westhall. Hubert de Burgh Earl of Kent, had a 
 Grant of the Manor of Weflhall, in Suffolk, made to him 
 13 Henry III. but ever fince the 25 Henry V III. it hath 
 belonged to the Family of Bohun, (of whom Edmund 
 Bohun was a noted Writer) and is now vefted in William 
 Bohun, of Beccles. The Prior and Convent of Hulverjlain 
 Sn LincolnJInre, were formerly Patrons of this Church ; 
 and the Prior and Convent of Norwich bought the Ad- 
 vowfon of them. John Salmon, Bifhop of Norwich, im- 
 propriated it to the Ufe of theChauntry of Four Chaplains, 
 at the Weft- end of the Cathedral Church' at Norwich. 
 
 , Westleton. In this Parim there was formerly a 
 Hamlet, which had a Chapel belonging to it, named 
 Dingbe. Two Manors are mentioned here ; Wejlleton- 
 Grange, which anciently belonged to the Abbey of Sib* 
 ton, and was granted to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, 28 
 Henry VIII. and the Manor of IVeJlleton-Clevcs. 
 
 Wes twood- Lodge. A Tingle Houfe near Blithburgh. 
 Michael de la Pole died feifed of the Manors of Wejlwood 
 and Blyburgh 3 Henry V. or 14 14. It now belongs to 
 Sir John Blois, Bart. The Family of Brookes, who had 
 it before the Blous, ufed to refide here. 
 
 Wisset. This was the Lordihip of the Earls of Bri- 
 tany and Richmond till 25 Henry III. when it was granted 
 to Peter Earl of Savoy. John de Vallibus or de Faux died 
 feifed of it i6 Edward I. or 1287, leaving JfTue two 
 L 2 Daughters, 
 
148 Hundred c/ BlithinC. 
 
 Daughters, viz. Petronil married to William de Nerforc$ % 
 and Maud married to Thomas Lord Rofs. Upon Partition 
 William and Petronil had this Manor ; but Thomas Lord 
 Rofs is faid to have died feifed of it 8 Rkhardll. or 1384. 
 It now belongs to the Heirs of Smith Heelwood, Efq. 
 
 Wrentham. Robert de Pierpoini who came in with 
 the Conqueror, held, the Manors of Wrentham and Hen- 
 jted, of the famous William Earl Warren, at the making 
 of Domefday-book. Michael de. Poinings died feifed of it 
 43 Edward III. or 1368. Richard de Poinings, by his 
 Will dated 10 'June 1387, gave his Manor at Wrentham, 
 called North-hall, to the Lady Ifabel his Wife, for her Life, 
 Robert de Poinings, who was flain at the Siege of Orleans, 
 died feifed of it lOtt. 1446. In the Time of King 
 Edward VI. it was purchafed by the Family of Brewjler, 
 who built the Hall, and have refided here ever fince. 
 Philip Brewjler, Efq; is the prefent Lord. 
 
 YoxfoRD. On the North-fide of this Village is Cock- 
 field- Hall, which was formerly the Seat of the Family of 
 Brook ; and paiTed from them to the Blois's. Sir John 
 Blois, Bart, hath his Refidcnce here. Befides the Manor 
 of Darpam with Toxford, which belonged to the Monks 
 at Thetford, here was alfo a Manor that belonged to the 
 Abbot and Convent of Sibton ; and was by them granted 
 28 Henry VIII. to Thomas Duke of Norfolk. Here are 
 two other good Houfes, one belonging to — Clutter- 
 buck, Efq; the other to Mr. Ingham. 
 
 MUTFORD, 
 
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 M U T F O R D, 
 
 %/fVTFORD Hundred is bounded by the Sea on 
 J VA the Eaji ; on the Weji by the Waveney ; on the 
 North by the Lake Luthing ; and on the South 
 by Blithing Hundred. 
 
 This Hundred being Part of the Demefne of the 
 Crown, it appears by Rot. Clauf. 14 Henry VI. that the 
 Inhabitants are to be free from Toll, and from the Ex- 
 pences of the Knights of the Shire. There is no Market- 
 Town in it. The Villages are, 
 
 Barnby, confolidated to Mutford. 
 
 Carlton-Colvile, fo called from the Family of 
 Colviles, who were anciently Lords of one Part of it. The 
 Prior of Bromholm was Lord of the other Part. Both 
 Parts now belong to Sir Thomas Allen. 
 
 Gissleham. The prefent Lord of this Manor is 
 Richmond Garneys, Efq. 
 
 Kess ingland. Here was formerly a Market on 
 Tuefdays, and a Fair on Nov. 20 ; the Church beino- de- 
 
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 dicated to St. Edmund. There are four Manors in this 
 Parifh, which have belonged to the Family of Pro£ior 
 above One Hundred Years. Daniel Profior, Efq; of 
 No? folk, is now Lord of them. 
 
 Kirkley. Richmond Garneys, Efq; is Lord of this 
 Manor. The Church was for many Years dilapidated ; 
 but, as it flood in the fame Church-yard with that of 
 Pahfeld, the Lofs of it was eafily fupplied by the Minifier 
 of Kirkley\ being permitted to ufe the Church of Pakefield 
 
 L 3 on 
 
1 50 Hundred M:y tfoed. 
 
 on one Part of each Sunday, and the Minifter of Pakefeld 
 ujGng it on the other. It happened afterwards that botb, 
 thefe Parifhes went together for many Years, and had 
 the fame Incumbent ; but at length they were parted 
 again. And then^ the Incumbent of Kirkley refufed to 
 make ufe of Pakeficld Church, neither would he allow 
 any thing to the Incumbent of that Parifh, for officiating 
 On both Parts of each Lord's-day ; alledging, that he 
 could not legally be compelled to it. The Rev. Jolvz 
 Tanner, Vicar of LoxveJIoft, was at that time Commidary 
 and Official in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk ; and he failed 
 not to ufe all the mild and perfuafive Arguments he could 
 think of to the Incumbent of Kirkley, but to no Purpofe ; 
 fo at laft finding him continue obftinate, he left him with 
 this Threat, " Sir, if you will not officiate in Pakejield 
 ts Church, I will build you a Church at Kirkley, and in 
 ** that you (hall officiate." Mr. Tanner was as good as 
 his Word ; for chiefly at his own Expence, but with 
 feme little Affiftance from his Friends and Acquaintance, 
 he did build the prefent Church at Kirkley, and. Divine 
 Service is performed in it accordingly. 
 
 Mutford, which gives Name to the Hundred. 
 
 Pakefield, a pretty large Fifhing-Town. See 
 
 Kirkley. 
 
 RUSKMERE. 
 
 L O T H I N G. 
 
 THE Hundred of Lotting, or Luthing-land, probably 
 took its Name from that fpacious Lake called by 
 (^ambden, the Lake Lutbing. It is bounded on the Eajl 
 
 by 
 
Hundred of Lotting." 151 
 
 by the Ocean ; on the Wejl, by the Waveney ^ on the 
 North, by Breydon-Water ; and, on the South, by thd- 
 Lake Luthing. It contains the following Parifhes. 
 
 Ashby, or Hafkely. The Eftate here belonged formerly 
 to the ancient Family of IngeloJJe ; but about the Year 
 1520 it came to the Jernegans, and hath ever fince had 
 the fame Owners with SomerUton?-HalL 
 
 Belton. TheManor of Gapton in this and the neigh<-_ 
 bouring Parimes belongs to Sir Thomas Allen. . 
 
 Blundeston. A Family which took their Name 
 from this Place, were formerly Lords and Patrons here. 
 After them a Family of the Name of Yarmouth ; then 
 the Sydnors, fince Aliens. The Manor now belongs to 
 Sir Thomas Allen ; but the Hall and chief Eftate to Mr, 
 Robert Lufon, of Yarmouth, who generally refides there 
 every Summer. ' Befides the Manor of Blundcjlon, here 
 was alfo formerly another Manor called Gunviles, belongs 
 ing probably to the Gonviles, of Rufiworth ; one of whorrt 
 married a Daughter of Sir John Jernegan, of Somcrlcy, 
 A. D. 1402. 
 
 Bradwell. Caxton Hall here belonged to the Piioi 
 of St. John's, ofjerufalem ; and Gapton Hall to the Priory 
 of Leigh, in EJJsx j and. were both granted by King 
 Henry VIII. to Cavcndijh, Efq; . 
 
 BxjRGH-Cajlle, or Gnoberjburge, was a Place of colifi- 
 derable Account in the Time of the Romans, as may be 
 conjectured from the Roman Coins often found within the 
 Walls of the Caftle. This Caftle is in the Form of a 
 Parallelogram ; the Length of the W all on the Eaft-fide 
 is 220 Paces, the Breadth of it 120 ; the Entrance was 
 on the Eaft-fide. The Walls are fiiil Handing on thfe 
 £aft, North, and South y and it is probable it was never 
 h 4 walled 
 
152 Hundred »f Lotming. 
 
 walled on the Weft, the River being a fufficient Defence. 
 Robert de Burgh had anciently the Manor and Caftle 
 here ; then Gilbert de Wefeham ; but King Henry 111. 
 gave it to the Priory of Bromholme, which enjoyed it to 
 the Diflblution ; when Queen Elizabeth granted it to 
 William Roberts. It now belongs to Jo/hua Smith, Efq. 
 A little North of the Caftle appear the Ruins of a Mo- 
 naftery, built by Furfeus, a Scotchman, in the Time of 
 King Sigebert, about the Year 636, as is mentioned by 
 Speed ' s which probably dwindled away in a few Years, 
 as we meet with little or nothing of it afterwards. 
 
 The Advowfon of the Church was given to the Prior 
 and Canons of St. Olaves, who got it impropriated to 
 them about the Year 1400 ; but gave up the Impropria- 
 tion again in a fhort time, for a yearly Penfion. The 
 Advowfon was not granted away at the Diflblution, but 
 is ftill in the Crown. 
 
 CorToN. This Church is in Ruins; but the Chancel 
 is kept up. Sir Thomas Allen, Bart, is Lord of the Manor. 
 
 Flixton. This Church is alfo m Ruins. The Roof 
 of it was blown oft' in the great Storm 27 Nov. 1703. 
 It is confolidated with Blundejlon. The Manor belonged 
 formerly to Robert Mighells, of Chelmondijlon ; who fold it 
 to John Waniworth, Efq; of Somerlyton. It is now in 
 Sir Thomas Men, 
 
 FriTton. The Manor of Fritton was formerly Syd- 
 tior's, then Men's, and now Richard Fidlers, Efq; but 1 
 the Manor of Caldecot Hall belongs to Magdalen College, 
 in Oxford. 
 
 Gorleston. Nothing is remarkable here but the 
 Ruins of an old Building, fuppofed by Mr. Cambden to 
 have been fome religious Houfe. In fact, they are the 
 
 Ruins 
 
Hundred of Lothin g. 153 
 
 Ruins of the Church of St. Nicholas of South-Town, art 
 adjoining Hamlet. Next to Yannouth Bridge is another 
 Hamlet called Wejl-Town. Thefe two Hamlets are called 
 in old Writings, Little Yarmouth. Great Yarmouth, on the 
 other Side of the River, being often called in fuch Writ- 
 ings, the Eaji-Town of Yarmouth. 
 
 Gukton. The Eftate here belonged formerly to the 
 Lowdhams, then to the Ingelofes, Blomviles, If roths, Holies^ 
 in this Order ; and it doth now belong to Vice-Admiral 
 Sir Charles Saunders, Knight of the Bath. 
 
 Hopton. The Manor and Impropriation belonged 
 anciently to the Prior and Convent, and now to the Dean 
 and Chapter of Norwich. 
 
 Heringfleet. Here was a religious Houfe of Ca- 
 nons Regulars of St. Auftins, dedicated to the Honor of 
 St. Olavc, and founded by Robert FitZ-Ojbcrt, of the 
 yearly Value of 49/. 1 1 s. 7 d. It was granted to Henry 
 Jerningham, 28 Henry VIII. It was lately the Eftate of 
 Mr. T werner, fince of Sir Edmund Bacon, of Gillingham, 
 Bart, and now of Henry Hills Mujfenden, Efq; 
 
 Lound. Sir Thomas Alien, Bart, is Lord of this Manor. 
 
 Lowestoft, is a confiderable large Town, {landing 
 near the Sea : It is pretty well built, and the chief Street 
 is paved throughout. The Church, which is fituated near 
 a Mile from the Town, is a good Building ; but for the 
 Eafe of the Inhabitants there is a Chapel in the Town, 
 wherein Divine Service is often celebrated. The Nefs 
 below the North End of the Town, is, fince the warning 
 away of Eajlon Nefs, the moft Eaftern Point of Land in 
 Great- Britain. The chief Employment here is Fifhing. 
 The Market-day is Wednesday ; and here are two annual 
 jFairs, viz. oA-My-day, and Micbaelmas~day. Befides 
 * the 
 
J54 Hundred of Lothin g. 
 
 the prefent Chapel, here was formerly at the South-end 
 of the Town another, called Good-Crofs Chapel, which 
 hath long been deftroyed by the Sea. 
 
 This Town, having been Part of the ancient Demefnes 
 of the Crown, hath a Charter and a Town Seal ; but the 
 greateft Privilege they now enjoy from their Charter, is 
 that of not ferving upon Juries, either at the Ailizes or 
 Seffions. Sir Thomas Alien, Rear-Admiral Utler, Sir 
 J dm AJhley, Vice-Admiral Mighells, and other noted Men 
 in the Sea-fervice, were either Natives or Inhabitants of 
 this Town. 
 
 Oulton. The Manor and Eftate here formerly be- 
 longed to the Bacons, then to the Fajlolfs, then the Ho- 
 barts, fince to the Reeves, and now belong to Gerard Van 
 Hcythuyfen, Efq; but he is only the mean Lord, Sir 
 Ihcmas Allen hath a Paramountfliip over him. 
 
 Somerliton, now for Shortnefs called Scmcrly, is 
 moft remarkable for a beautiful old Seat called the Hall,. 
 which was anciently the Seat of the Fitz-OJberts, or Fitz- 
 Ofbourns, then the Jernegans, Wentworths, and Garneys j 
 of whom it was purchafed by Sir Thomas Allen, who was 
 created a Baronet 7 Feb. 1672; which Sir Thomas, or 
 his Succefibr, for want of Iftue gave his Seat to his 
 Nephew Richard Angnijh, Efq; who was created a Ba- 
 ronet i$ Dec. 1699, b y the Name of Richard Anguijh, 
 alias Allen. This noble Seat is now vefted in his Son Sir 
 Thomas Allen, Bart. See Horhatn, in Home Hundred. 
 
 Befides the fixteen Pariflies, and the Hamlets before- 
 mentioned, there are feveral other Hamlets in this Hun- 
 dred j fuch as Brotherton, a Hamlet of Hopton ; Browjlon, 
 a Hamlet of Belton. Browjlon- Hall is the Seat of Na- 
 thaniel Symonds, Efq; and Normanflon, corruptly called 
 Nomanjlown, which lieth between Mutford- Bridge and the 
 Town of Lowe/loft. It is the Eftate of Richard Jen- 
 kinfon, Gentleman. ' « 
 
 \Va n g ? 
 
f *55 1 
 
 Wan gford. 
 
 pprANG FO RD Hundred is bounded on the Eajl 
 by Mutford and Blything Hundreds ; on the Weji 
 by Hoxne Hundred ; on the North by the Waveney ; and 
 on the South by the faid Hundred of Blything. This 
 Hundred confifts of three Partitions; the ?.wParifhes or 
 South -Elmhams, the /even Parifties or Ilketfals, and the 
 reft of the Hundred about Beccles. 
 
 The nine Parifb.es are as followeth : 
 
 All-Saints, South -Elmham. 
 
 Flixton, of all the nine Pariflies hath been of mofl: 
 Note for a Nunnery there, founded by Margery theWidow 
 of Bartholomew de Creke, and Daughter of Jeffery Haut- 
 i)ile, about the Time of King Henry III. It was of the 
 Order of St. Aujlin, and of the yearly Value of 23/. 4^. 
 i\d. The Foundrefs gave the Manor of Flixton to this 
 Houfe, which was diflolved by the fecond Bull of Pope 
 Clement VII. in 1528, and intended for Cardinal I¥olfey> 
 But he declining in the King's Favour, it was granted 
 to John Tajburgh, whofe Defcendants long had their Seat 
 at Flixton Hall. That Family being extinct, it defcended 
 to the Family of Wyburn ; but hath fince been purchafed 
 by William Adair, Efq. The Manor of the oineParifhes 
 belonged to the Bifhop of Norwich, with the Advowforr 
 of all the Churches, except Flixton, (which he had 
 granted to the Nuns, in Exchange for hlolmingham- 
 Sancroft, which belonged to the Batemans,) and St. Mi- 
 chael, which was impropriated to the Priory of Rumburgh, 
 till A. D. 1335 ; when it was granted by Act of Parlia- 
 ment to King Henry VIII. who granted the Manor with 
 the Advbwfons of St. J-ames, St. Peters, St. Margaret's, 
 St. Nicholas, All Saints, and Homer sfield; to Sir Edward 
 Northe, &nt. in Exchange. The whole is now vetted in 
 Mr. Adair. San- 
 
156 Hundred of Wangford. 
 
 Sancroft, or St. George Southelmham. 
 
 Homersfield, or St. Mary Southelmham. A Market 
 and a Fair here were granted to the Bifhop of Norwich 
 2 Henry III. The Manor of Limborne in Homersfield 'be- 
 longed formerly to the Nuns of Bungay, and was granted 
 29 Henry VIII. to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, and 7 Ed VI. 
 to 7<?£« and yA*»ftK Wright. Sir Bafingburn Gaudy died 
 
 feifed of it y/. Z). 1 569. It belongs now to 
 
 j but there are few or no Tenants to it, and it 
 
 would fcarce be known, if it were not for the Water- 
 Mill, which ftill retains the Name of Lymborn Mill. 
 
 St. James, Southelmham. 
 
 St. Margaret, Southelmham. 
 
 St. Michael, Southelmham. The Earl of Brittany 
 and Richmond had Lands here when Domefday-Book 
 was made, and by his means probably this Church be- 
 came early impropriated to Rumburgh Priory. 
 
 St. Nicholas, Southelmham, whofe Church is fo en- 
 tirely demoliflied that hardly any Rubbifti of it remains. 
 
 St. Peter, Southelmham. 
 
 Thefe nine Parities which are called the Deanery of 
 Southelmham, are reprefented in old Wills as one Town- 
 Jhip ; and as fuch they have an Eftate in Aldborough and 
 Ifortwell in Norfolk, common to them all. For we fre- 
 quently meet with Homersfield, in the Town of Southelm- 
 ham ; and St. James, in the Townftiip of Southelmham j 
 and the like. 
 
 The feven Parishes are thefe : 
 
 St. Andrew Ilketsal, is one of the Duke of 
 Norfolk's Towns. 
 
 Bungay 
 
Hundred of Wang ford. 157 
 
 Bungay St. Mary, and Bungay Trinity. Bungay is 
 a pleafant Town, fituated on the River Waveney, which 
 is navigable for Barges from Yarmouth hither. A great 
 Fire broke out on 1 March 1688, in a fmall un-inhabited 
 Houfe, which raged fo furioufly, that in four Hours Time 
 it confumed the whole Town, except one fmall Street : 
 The whole Lofs was computed at 29,896/. and upwards. 
 By this terrible Accident, it has happened that the Town 
 is well built. St. Marys Church is a fumptuous Struc- 
 ture, and, with its beautiful Steeple, is a great Ornament 
 to the Town. Between the two Churches the Ruins 
 of a Beneditline Nunnery appear ; it was founded by 
 Roger de Glanvile and the Countefs Gundreda his Wife, 
 to the Honour of the Bleffed Virgin Mary, and the Holy 
 Crofs. It was endowed by a great Number of Benefactors, 
 all whofe Gifts were confirmed by 19 King Henry II. 
 At the Suppreffion it was of the yearly Value of 62 /. 
 and was granted to Thomas Duke of Norfolk ; in which 
 Family, with a Manor in this Town, it now remains. 
 
 The Church of the Holy T nnity in Bungay was impro- 
 priated to the Priory of Bar lynch, in Somerfetjhire. The 
 Impropriation now belongeth to the Bifhop of Ely, who 
 leafeth it to the Vicar. Befides thefe two Churches, there 
 was alfo a Church of St. Thomas, which was impropriated 
 to the Nunnery : It was (landing and in ufe fince the 
 Year 1500 ; but hath been fo long down, that no Man 
 now knows where it flood. 
 
 Here are alfo the Ruins of a very ftrong Caftle, fup- 
 pofed to have been built by the Bygods, Earls of Norfolk. 
 In the Barons Wars it was fortified, and made fo ftrong 
 by Hugh Bygod, that be was wont to boaft of it as im- 
 pregnable j faying, in the Wars of King Stephen, as is 
 reported, 
 
 Were I in my Caftle of Bungay, 
 
 Upon the River Waveney, 
 
 I would ne care for the King of Cockney % 
 
 But 
 
M£8 Hundred Wangfor-d. 
 
 , But notwithflanding his great Confidence in this Cattle, 
 he was forced to compound with King Henry II. for a 
 great Sum of Money, with fufficient Hoftages, to fave it 
 from being demoliflied. But afterwards the faid Earl 
 Tiding with Richard Son of Henry II. againft his Father, 
 King Henry . took from him his Catties of Framlingham 
 and Bungay. In the Reign of King Henry III. this Cattle 
 was demolifhed, and Roger Bygod Earl of Norfolk obtained 
 a Licence 10 Edward I. to embattle his Houfe in the 
 Place wbere this Cattle flood ; afterwards it reverted to 
 the Crown. In the 4 th Richard II. William de Utf "or d 
 Earl of Suffolk, died poitelTed' of the Cattle, Borough, and 
 Manor of Bungay : He married Joan Daughter of Efc 
 ward Montacute, by Alice his Wife Daughter and Co- 
 heirefs of Thomas Brotherton, fifth Son of King Edward I 
 on whom it is probable that King* fettled them. 
 
 Here is a good Market on Thurfdays, well ferved with' 
 all manner of Provifions : There are alfo two yearly Fairs 
 on 3d May and Sept. 14 ; both Feftivals of the Holy Crofif 
 to which the Nunnery was dedicated. The Inhabitants 
 of Bungay have the Privilege of a large Common belong- 
 ing to this Town, and almoft encompafled with the 
 River Waveney, which is of great advantage to them. 
 
 St. John Ilketsal, St. Laurence Jlketsal, 
 St. Margaret Ilketsal, Mettingham. The 
 Churches of Mettingham, Ilketfal St. Andrew's, St. Mar- 
 garet, and St. Laurence, were given by Roger de Glanvile 
 ■dn&Gundreda his Countefs to the Nuns of Bungay, who 
 got them impropriated to them. And the Impropriations 
 and Advowfon of the Vicarages were granted to Thomas 
 Duke of Norfolk 29 Henry Will. 
 
 The Manor of Bardolf in Ilketfal St. Laurence and' 
 Bungay Trinity, was obtained 2 Edward III. with the 
 Manor of Clopton, by Elizabeth de Burgh the Relid of 
 Roger de Amorie, for herfelf for Life s and the Remainder 
 
 to 
 
H UflDRED df Wa* NGFORD. I tjcj 
 
 to John Lord Bardolf and Elizabeth his Wife, (who was 
 her Daughter) and the Ifllie by the faid Roger ; in Ex- 
 change for the Manors of Kennington and Fankjhall t in 
 Surry. 
 
 The remaining Parifhes in that Hundred about Beccles, 
 are, 
 
 Barsham, anciently the Lordfhip and Seat of the' 
 itchinghams ; John Blennerhajfet, Efq; about the Time of 
 Edward ML acquired it by marrying one of the Co- 
 heirefles of Sir Edward Itching-barn, and made it the Seat 
 ©f his Family. It now belongs to the Sucklings. 
 
 Beccles, is a large well-built Town, fituated on the 
 Eajl and South Sides of the River Waveney, which is na- 
 vigable beyond the Town : The chief Streets are well 
 paved : The Church and the Steeple, which laft ftands 
 at fome Diftance from the South- Eajl Corner of the Chan- 
 cel, are noble Structures, and great Ornaments to the" 
 Town. On the South Part of the Town are the Ruins 
 of another Parifh Church, called Endgate, which was 
 taken down by Order of Queen Elizabeth : « For that 
 «« the Parifhes of Beccles and Endgate had been for many 
 " Years fo blended together, that the Bounds and Limits 
 «' of them could not be known in A. D. 1419 ; when ar 
 " legal Agreement was made by the Bifhop, Patron, and 
 ct Rectors of both Parifhes, That the Rector of Beccles 
 " fhould take the • whole Tithes of both Parifhes, and 
 «« pay the Rector of Endgate 61. 13 J. \d, yearly, in the 
 * Parifh Church of Endgate. So that the Inhabitants of 
 " Endgate have Time out of Mind been efteemed Pa- 
 " rifhioners of Beccles." 
 
 It feems probable from what is faid in Mon. Angl. 
 Vol. I. p. 408, that Beccles was very early a Place of fome 
 Note; for, fpeaking of the Citizens of Norwich, it is- 
 faid, " Nunquam ante Conqueftum 3 nee poft per cen- 
 4. - " turn 
 
160 Hundred of Wang ford. 
 « c turn & plures annos, habuerunt Coronatores, nec Bal- 
 " livos de feipfis, fed folummodo unum Ballivum, qui 
 " nomine Regis curias tenebat et amerciamenta collige- 
 " bat, ftcut fuit in Beccles feu in Bungay, five in aliis 
 *' vittis ubi merchandifia venduntur" They had not be- 
 fore the Conqueft, nor for a hundred Years or more after 
 it, any Coroners or Bailives from among themfelves ; but 
 they had one Bailiff only, who in the Kings Name held 
 Courts, and collected Amercements, as it was in Beccles 
 or Bungay, or other Towns where Merchandize is fold. 
 
 The Manor of Beccles was given to the Abbey of Bury 
 by King Edwin Brother of King Edgar, who enjoyed it 
 till the DifTolution ; when it was given by K. Hen. VIII. 
 to William Rede, Gent, from whom it came to the Yal- 
 lops ; and from them to Mr. Bence, of Henjiead. 
 
 The Manor of Roos or Rofs in Beccles, was formerly 
 the Eftate ot Peter Garneys, Efq; then of the Tolbys ; after 
 that of the Sucklings ; and is now the Seat of Sir Robert 
 Rich, Bart. 
 
 The Common belonging to this Tpwn contains about 
 1400 Acres, and was likewife Part of the Poffeffions of 
 Bury Abbey, and granted to the aforefaid William Rede, 
 for the Ufe of the Inhabitants. For the better Preferva-t 
 tion and Improvement of this Common Queen Elizabeth 
 A. D. 1583, incorporated a Body Politick, by the Name 
 of, The Corporation of Beccles Fenn ; confifting of a Port- 
 reve, a Steward, twelve capital and twenty-four inferior 
 Common-Councilmen, to overlook and regulate all Mat- 
 ters relating to it. 
 
 Here is a plentiful Market every Saturday, and three 
 yearly Fairs ; the firft on Afcenf on-day ; the fecond on 
 June 29, granted by King John to be held eight Days \ 
 and the third on September 11. 
 
 Befides the Parifh Church, here was formerly a Chapel 
 of St. Peter, near the Old Market ; a Chapel of St. Mary 
 Magdalene, belonging to a fmall Hofpital on the Hill near 
 2 the 
 
Hundred of Wangford. i6r 
 
 the Free-School ; and a Chapel or Hermitage near the* 
 Bridge over the Waveney, as there was alfo formerly at 
 Bungay, and upon almoff. all great Bridges in England. 
 
 Sir JohnLeman, Knt. Aldeiman of London, in the Reign 
 of King James 1. built a Free School and endowed it with 
 an hundred Acres of Land, for the Maintenance of a 
 Mailer and Uiher* to teach forty-eight Boys Writing and 
 Arithmetick. And Henry Falconberge, L.L.D. Chancellor 
 of the Diocefe of St. David's, Regiftrary of the Faculty- 
 Office, and Commiffary and Official of the Archdeaconry 
 of Suffolk, who lived feveral Years, and died in this Parifti 
 A . D. 1 7 1 3. bequeathed an Eftate at Carton in this County 
 of the yearly Rent of 40/. for the Endowment. of a Gram- 
 mar-School here : The Mafter whereof is to be elected 
 by the Biftiop of Norwich, the Archdeacon of Suffolk^ 
 and the Rector of Beccles for the Time being. 
 
 Ellough, or Will ingham All-Saints. The Lord- 
 fhip of this Place, and the Advowfon of the Church, 
 hath been in the Family of Playters above two hundred 
 Years. Sir John Playters, of Satterly, is now Lord and 
 Patron. 
 
 Endcate. See Beccles. 
 
 -HulverstreeT j is a Hamlet of Henjlead* 
 
 NortK-Cove. The Manor of Wade-Hall in North- 
 Cove^ belonged anciently to Robert Wajhby, of Cumber- 
 land. Hubert Jernegan obtained it about the Year 1 200, 
 by marrying Wajhbfs Daughter. Sir John Jernegan, upon 
 the Marriage of his Sons, A.D. 1456, fettled at Cove by 
 Beccles, and gave the Manor of Wajhe or Wade-Hall to 
 his Son OJbert. Sir Edward Jernegan died feifed 1515; 
 It lately belonged to the Tallops ; and is now in the Heirs 
 ©f Mr. Robert Bence, late of Hen/lead. 
 
 JVI Redisham 
 
1 62 Hundred of Wa n g f o r d. 
 
 Redisham Magna. This Church was impropriated 
 to the Priory of Butley., and the Impropriation was granted. 
 20 Elizabeth to fohn Mercy and fohn Hayward. The 
 Church of Little Redijham hath been many Years down. 
 The Redlory hath been consolidated to Ringsfield. The 
 Lordfliip is in Edmund Tyrrel, Efq; of Gipping. 
 
 Ringsfield. The Prior and Convent of Butley were 
 Patrons both of Little Redijham and Ringsfield before trie 
 Reformation. 
 
 Satterly,. is chiefly remarkable for the Family of 
 Playtersi which is very ancient, having had their- Seat at 
 Satterly ever fince the Reign of King Edward II. This 
 Family were early in the Lift of Baronets ; for Sir Thomas, 
 Playters^ot Satterly was created a Baronet 13 Aug. 1623 ; 
 which Honour is now vefted in Sir fohn Playters ; but the 
 Manor in Miles Barnes, Efq; 
 
 SkaddiNgf'ield. The Family of Cuddon had for 
 many Years their Seat at this Hall ; which, with their 
 Eftate in this Parifh, was lately fold by Eleazor Cuddon 
 to 
 
 Shipmeadow. 
 
 Weston. Here is a Seat which for fome time has 
 been in the Family of Leman, and is now vefted in William 
 Leman, Efq. There is alfo another Seat which belongs 
 to . 
 
 WlL lingham St. Mary. This Ch u rcfo was ftand ing 
 A.D. 1529 ; but is now in Ruins. The Lordfhip was 
 
 lately in Sir Thomas Robinfon ; now in Robert Sparrow 9 
 
 Efq, ' 
 
 Wo r l 1 ng HAM) was formerly two Pariflies, St. Mary 
 and St. Peter. The Church of Worlingham St. Peter hath 
 
 been 
 
Hundred of Wang ford. 163 
 
 been many Years down, and it is now accounted but one 
 Parifli. The Advowfon was formerly in the Prior and 
 Convent of Butley, but was not granted away at the Dif- 
 folution of that j fo it remains ftill in the Crown. 
 
 The Hall is a neat Manfion, and was for fome time 
 the Seat of John Felton, Efq; whofe only Daughter mar- 
 ried to Sir John PlayUrs ; and he fold this and fome other 
 Eftates to Sir Thomas Robinfon, Bart, who made it his 
 Seat. It is now by Purchafe the Seat of Robert Spar* 
 row, Efq. 
 
 M 2 
 
 HOXNB 
 
[ 1 64 I 
 
 H O X N E. 
 
 THE Hundred of Hoxne is bounded by the Hun- 
 dreds of Loes and Plomcfgaie, on the South ; on* 
 the Weft, by Loes and Hartifmere; on the North y 
 by the River Wuveney, which parts it from Norfolk ; and 
 on the iitf/?, by Wangford and BIy thing. It contains the- 
 Parifhes following, w'z. 
 
 Athelington- The Prior and Convent of Butley 
 were Patrons of this Church before the Reformation j the 
 Crown did not prefent to it before the Year 1555. 
 
 Baddingham. The Hall was for many Years the 
 Seat of the Family of Rous, and is now vefted in the Heirs 
 of the Rev. Mr. Fynn, who married a Lady of that Family. 
 The Family of Alexander hath long refided here ; alfo 
 Colfton Hall here belongs to Rowland Holt, Efq; and the 
 Manors of Col/ion-Ha\l and Baddingham-Ha\\ to Mile/on 
 Edgar, Efq. The Patronage of the Church is now vefted 
 in the Rev. Mr. Chevalier. The late Redor Dr. Blom- 
 fieldy built a neat Rectory- Houfe not far from the Church. 
 
 Beddingfjeld, was remarkable for a Family of that 
 Name, who were Lords of this Manor, and had their Seat 
 at Redlingfield. The Manor did belong to the Priory of 
 Snape, and was granted 17 Henry VIII. to Cardinal Wolfey. 
 towards the Endowment of his College at lpfwich. After 
 the DifTolution of that College, it was granted to Thomas*. 
 Duke of Norfolk j and in 7 Edward VI. to Thomas and 
 GtorgeG aiding 1 and came to the Beddingjjelds foon after- 
 It 
 
Hundred of Hoxne. 16*5 
 
 it is now vefted in Beddingfield, of Ditchingham, 
 
 Efq; who is Patron likewife of the Benefice. 
 
 Bedfield. The Manor and Advowfon was given 
 <to the Priory of Eye, by Robert Mallet, and granted 
 31 Henry VlII. to Anthony Rous, Efq. They are now 
 vefted in Sir John Rous, Bart. 
 
 Br un dish. Here was a famous Chauntry, founded 
 by Sir John Pyjhall, Rector of Cajlon, one of the Executors 
 Of Robert de Vfford Earl of Suffolk, in 7 Richard II. for 
 fix Chaplains to pray for the Soul of the faid Earl, and 
 all his Benefactors : It was of the yearly Value of 13/. 
 y\.d. and furrendered 25 June 1545, by William Bifhop 
 of Norwich and John Per/on Incumbent, with theConfent 
 of Richard Fulmerjlon Patron, and granted on the firft of 
 Augujl following to the faid Richard Fulmerjlon. It is 
 now vefted in <— Gooch, Gent, who refides in a Man- 
 fion near the Church : Here is alfo the Seat of Turner 
 Calvert, Efq; calhsd the Lodge. It is remarkable, that all 
 the Land within this Parifti is Freehold. 
 
 Carleton. A Chauntry was founded here about the 
 Year 1 330, by John Framlingham, Re&or of Kelfale, for 
 three Chaplains to pray for the Soul of Alice of Hainault, 
 Countefs of Marefchall. It was granted 36 Henry VIII. 
 £0 William Honing. 
 
 Denham, The Manor is vefted in Lord Maynard. 
 
 Dennington. In this Church is the Burial-place of 
 Lord Bardolph, who had his Seat at the Hall, which by 
 the Ruins appears to have been a fumptuous Building. 
 Here were two Chauntries, one called our Lady's Chaun- 
 try, as belonging to the Altar of St. Mary, this is men- 
 tioned in 1306, and was of the yearly Value of 9/. "]\-d. 
 the other to the Altar of St. Margaret, founded in 1437, 
 by Sir William Philips, who by marrying the Daughter of 
 
 M 3 Lord 
 
166 Hundred of Hoxne. 
 
 Lord Bardolph, was Lord Bardolph in her Right, and 
 called Philips's Chauntry : This was for two Priefts to 
 pray for his and his Wife's Welfare during their Lives, 
 and for their Souls, cjfr. after their Deceafe ; it was of 
 the yearly Value of 26/. 4*. yd. They were both 
 granted to Richard Fubnerjlon. T^he Hall with feveral 
 Eftates and the Lordfhip of this Parifh and the Advowfon 
 of the Redlory, have been long in the Family of Rous, 
 and are now vefted in Sir John Rous, Bart. Leland fays, 
 U All the Rous 's that be in Suffolk, come, as far as I can 
 « £ learn, out of the Houfe of Rous of Dennington. Divers 
 " of the Rous' 's of this eldeft Houfe lie in Dennington 
 <l Church, under flat Stones. Anthony Rous, now Heir of 
 <* Dennington Hall, hath much enlarged his Pofleflions." 
 L eland's Hen. VI. p. 10. 
 
 Fresingfield. Here are, or were feveral Manors : 
 X. Belonged to Michael de la Pole, who died feifed of it 
 12 Richard II. and William de la Pole died feifed of the 
 fame when he was beheaded, 28 Henry VI. 2. A Manor 
 which belonged to the Priory of Eye, and was granted 
 28 Henry VIII. to Edmund Bedingfield. 3. The Manor 
 or Hamlet of Chepenhal, which was given to Bury Abbey 
 by one Stvartingjlone. 4. The Manor or Hamlet of Wit- 
 ingham, which had anciently a Chapel belonging to it : 
 Part of this Lordfhip was given to Bury Abbey, by Thir- 
 ketel; but Part of the Tythes to Eye Priory. It is now 
 chiefly of Note for being the Birth-place and Burial- 
 place of that truly pious and moll: reverend Dr. William 
 Bancroft, Lord Archbifhop of Canterbury, who had a Seat 
 in this Parifh, and lieth buried in the Church-yard under 
 
 a handfome Monument. . Sancrcfi, Efq; a Def- 
 
 cendant of the Bifhop's, now refides in the Family Seat. 
 The Advowfon of the Church is, by the Bifhop's Dona- 
 tion, in Emanuel College, Cambridge and the Manors of 
 Chevenhall alias Chepenhal/, and Ufford HaW in Frefwg field, 
 are now in the Bancroft Family. 
 
 HORHAM. 
 
Hundred of Hoxne. 167 
 
 Horham. Here arc, or were three Manors : Horham- 
 JUrodocks, late Copleditche, Horham-Comitis, and Horham- 
 Shermans, late Jernegan's. Sir Hubert Jernegan, who died 
 A. D. 1239, had his capital Seat at his Manor of Hor- 
 ham. Sir Hugh Jernegan his Son, made Stonham "Jerne- 
 gan the chief Seat of the Family. Sir Peter jernegan, 
 Grandfon of Sir Hugh, whofe Mother was Heirefs of the 
 Eitz-OJlerts of Somerley, made Somerley the chief Seat of 
 the Family. All thefe Manors are now faid to be in the 
 Sail of Leicefer. 
 
 Hokne gives Name to the Hundred, but is more re- 
 markable for being the Place where the Danes martyr'd 
 Edmund King of the Eaji- Angles, becaufe he would not 
 renounce his Faith in Chrift, by binding him to a Tree, 
 and {hooting him to Death with Arrows : His Death hap- 
 pened A. D. 870. His Body was removed to. Bury, and 
 there buried. A Chapel was built on the Spot where he 
 was flain, which was dedicated to him ; and afterwards 
 improved to a Houfe of Bcmdifiine Monks, as a Cell to 
 Norwich ; it was of the clear Value of 18/. is. per Ann. 
 It is now converted into a Farm-houfe ; and that, with the 
 Eftate belonging thereto, lately vefted in John Thru/Ion, 
 Efq; is now the Eftate of Lord Maynard. The Hall, the 
 Manor, the Reclory, and Advowfon of the Vicarage, be- 
 longed to the Bifhops of Norwich ; who ufed frequently 
 to.refide here, till the Year 1535; when it was given up 
 by A£t of Parliament to King Henry VIII. who Ihortly 
 after granted them to Sir Robert Southwell. It is now the 
 Manfion of the Right Hon. the Lord Maynard. 
 
 Here is a confiderable Fair for Cattle, beginning yearly 
 on November 20, being St. Edmund's Day. 
 
 Kelsale near Saxmundham,was anciently the Demefne 
 of John Duke of Norfolk, which he had with the Countefs 
 Marefchal, as her Portion ; till being attainted for Tiding 
 
 M 4 with 
 
i68 Hundred of Hoxne, 
 
 with the Houfe of York againft Henry Duke of Richmond, 
 •this Manor was given to John de Fere, Earl of Oxford > 
 but it is probable it did not remain long in that Family, 
 for it was in the Duke of Norfolk's Family again A.D. 
 1545 ; and his Truftees prefented to the Church all Queen 
 Elizabeth's Reign. In King James the Firft's Time Sir 
 Thomas Holland had it j and in King Charles the Second's 
 Jleign, John Bence, Efq. It is now vefted in George Gold- 
 jng, Efq; in Right of his £ady the Heirefs of that Family. 
 
 KELSALE-Lodge, did alfo formerly belong to the Dukes 
 of Norfolk, and parted from them to the Family of TVeaken- 
 ham, and from them to the Hobarts. It is now Sir John 
 Blois's. 
 
 Laxfield. Robert Mallett gave what he had in this 
 Place to the Priory of Eye; and a Manor, the Re&ory, 
 ^nd Advowfon of the Vicarage were granted as Parcel of 
 the Poffeffions of that Priory, 28 Henry VIII. to Edmund 
 Bedingfield. Another Manor in Laxfield was granted as 
 Parcel of the Poffeffions of Leijlon Abbey to Charles Duke 
 pf Suffolk, 28 i&/?ryVIII. John Whigfield obtained a 
 Grant for a Market at Laxfield in King Edward I Vth's 
 Reign . an d there are two Fairs here yearly, May ift, and 
 Qttober 1 3th j from whence we may fuppofe that this. 
 Place was pf more Note formerly, than it is now. The 
 Church and Steeple are very beautiful Edifices. There 
 were many Legacies in old Wills about the Year 1445, 
 given to the Building the Steeple here. The Family of 
 Jacobs have long had their Seat in this Town, which is 
 now vefted in the Heirs of that Family. 
 
 Mendham, is fituated on both Sides pf the River 
 Waveney, taking into, its Bounds Part of thcTown of Har- 
 Jejlon : There was formerly a Chapel in this Church- 
 yard, at a little Diftance from the Church : And in the 
 puffolk Part pf this Parifh, William the Son of Roger fa 
 
 Hunt- 
 
Hundred c/ Hoxni. 169 
 
 Huntingfield founded in King Stephens Reign a Cluniac 
 Priory, dedicated to the Blefled Virgin, and fubordinate 
 toCaflleacre in Norfolk; which, at the DhTolution, was 
 granted to Richard Frejlon and Ann his Wife. Sir John 
 Howard had a Grant of the Manor of Mendham in Suffolk 
 15 Edward IV. which was lately the Eftate of John Earl 
 of Oxford* attainted. And the Manor of Winchenden, in 
 this Parifli, was granted to Richard and William Frejlon, 
 1 Edward VI. as Parcel of the Poffefiions of the Prior and 
 Convent of the Holy Trinity in Ipfwich, who had a Share 
 of the Church here by the Gift of Robert the Son of Angot, 
 and is now vefted in Cook Frejion, Efq; who refides in a 
 good Seat here. 
 
 Metfielp, is fometimes called a Chapel to Mend-r 
 ham : The Lordfhip is in William Plumer, Efq; 
 
 Mqnk-Soham, fo called becaufe the Monks of Bury 
 were Patrons of the Rediory, and had the Manor here by 
 the Gift of Alfred, Bifhop of the Eajl- Angles. It was 
 granted 37 Henry VIII. to Anthony Rous, and fold by 
 Thomas Rous in 3 Elizabeth, to Lionel Talmach. The 
 Manor of Blomviles, or Woofer -oft- Hall, in this and the 
 neighbouring Parifhes, belonged to John Caldwell, mA.D f 
 1460 j and is now vefted in Anthony Deane, Efq; 
 
 Saxstead, is the Lordfhip of the Mailer and Fellows 
 of Pembroke-Hall, in Cambridge. 
 
 Syleham. In thjs Parifti there is a Hamlet called E- 
 Jham, in which there was formerly a Chapel. The Manor 
 pf Syleham Comitis is now vefted in William Chapman, Efq; 
 this is probably the Manor which belonged to Michael 
 and William de la Pole, as mentioned in DugdaWs Baron. 
 Roger Bygod had Lands here, by Exchange with Bifhop 
 flerbert, which he gave to his Cluniac Monks at Thetford, 
 yppn whofe DhTolution z Manor in Syleham (perhaps that 
 2 which, 
 
syo Hundred <7/Hoxne. 
 which is now called Monks- Hall) was granted to Thomas 
 Duke of Norfolk, 32 Henry VIII. Henry Jemegan, Efq; 
 who died A. D. 1619, had a Manor in Syleham; but 
 which of thefe it was, does not appear. In this Parifti is 
 the Seat of Lamb Barry, Efq; 
 
 Southolt, is but a Kind of Hamlet and Chapel of 
 Eafe to IVorlingworth, and feems to have belonged toBury 
 Abbey, as that did. 
 
 ■S trade rook, is a confiderable and large Village. 
 There is a Patent granted by King Henry III. for a Mar- 
 ket here on Fridays, but it hath long been difufed ; but 
 the Fair on Sept. 21, is kept up. Here are two Manors, 
 sft. Schehon's, in which John de Schelton had a Chapel, 
 which was inftituted to for about 150 Years, viz. from 
 the Year 1306, to the Year 1455. 2. A Manor which 
 Michael de la Pole died feifed of 1 2 Richard If. William 
 de la Pole died feifed of it 28 Henry VI. and Thomas Lord 
 Howard and Ann his Wife, probably had this granted to 
 them A. D. 1 5 1 1 . Robert Grojlhead, Bifhop -of Lincoln, 
 was a Native of this Parifti ; he died hi 1 253 : He was a 
 Man of good Learning, the Age corffidered, (faith Lam- 
 hard) and was fuch an Adverfary to the unholy Proceed- 
 ings of Pope Innocent IV. that, after his Death, the holy 
 Father confulted to have him taken up, and burnt. 
 
 Tannington. Here the Family of the Dades have 
 long had their Seat in a good Manfion, now vefted in 
 the RelicS of Dr. Dade. 
 
 Wethersdaxe. The Patronage of this Church is in 
 Emanuel College, Cambridge; and it is held with Pre- 
 fmgfield. 
 
 Weybread. Oliver de Ingham died 18 Edward III. 
 feifed of the Manor of Weybread, in Suffolk. The Patten 
 
 of 
 
Hundred o/Hoxne. 171 
 
 of this Church is Philips Coleman, Efq; of Ipfivicb, who 
 is likewife Lord of the Manor. 
 
 Wilby. "John Nevil Marquis Montague, had a Grant 
 of the Manor of Willy, 8 Edward IV. It was Part of the 
 WingfieloTs Eftate, and doth now belong to the Earl of 
 Rochford. Here is alfo a Manor called RuJJ'els, in Willy, 
 belonging to William Stane, Efq; 
 
 Wingfield, was fometime the Eftate of Richard de 
 Brews, who had a Grant for a Fair here 3 Edward III. 
 or 1328; but more anciently it belonged to a Family 
 who took their Name from it, and were in great Reputa- 
 tion here for many Ages : In After-times they had their 
 Habitation at Letheringham and Eajlon, in the Hundred 
 of Loss. It is faid, that in the Reign of Henry VIII. 
 there were eight or nine Knights at the fame time, all 
 Brothers, and two Knights of the Garter of this Family. 
 That noble old Building called Wingfield-Cajlle, was the 
 Seat of this Family before the Norman Conqueft, as appears 
 by an ancient Pedigree now in that Family. It was for 
 a long time and till lately vetted in the Family of the 
 Catalynes. The Lady of the late Sir Charles Turner, Bart, 
 was the Relict of Sir Nevil Catalyne, after whofe Death it 
 defcended to the Heirs of Thomas Leman, of Wenhajlon^ 
 Efq; in whom it now is. 
 
 At the South weft Corner of the Church-yard the Exe- 
 cutors of Sir 'John Wingfield erected a College about the 
 Year 1362, for a Provoft or Matter, and feveral Priefts : 
 It was dedicated to St. Mary, St. John Baptift, and St. An- 
 drew, and was valued at the Suppreftion at 50/. 3*. %\,d. 
 and was granted by K. Edw.Vl. to the Bifhop of Norwich, 
 probably in exchange for fome Manor taken from him. 
 
 Worling worth. Bilhop Alfric gave this Lordfhip 
 and Church to Bury Abbey ; and the Manor and Advow- 
 fc>n of the Rectory were granted in 31 Henry VIII. to 
 
 Anthony 
 
172 Hundred cf Hartismere. 
 
 Anthony Rous, John Major, Efq; is now Lord of the 
 Manor. 
 
 Hartismere. 
 
 JjARTlSMERE Hundred is bounded on the 
 Eaft, by the Hundred of Hoxne ; on the IVeJl, by 
 Blackbourn; on the North, by the River IVaveney, which 
 parts it from Norfolk ; and, on the South, by the Hundred*; 
 of Bofmere, Claydon and Stow. It contains the following 
 Parifhes. 
 
 Asp all, is fituated at the Head of the River Deben : 
 The Hall was formerly the Seat of the noble Family of 
 Brooks, Lords Cobham : Edmund Brook Lord Cobham, died 
 2g May, 4 Edward IV. feifed of the Manors of Herde- 
 lurgh and Jfpali, in Com. Suff. but this laft is now verted 
 in the Rev. Mr. Chevalier, who hath his Seat here. The 
 Church feems to have belonged firft to the Prior and 
 Convent of Caflleacre, and to have come afterwards to the 
 Prior and Convent of Butley ; for the Impropriation was 
 granted as Parcel of the Polleifions of Butley, to Francis 
 Framlingham, 34 Henry V 'III. but Sir Charles Gawdy ge- 
 neroufly fettled it upon the Minifter for the Time being 
 for ever. 
 
 B acton, was the Lordfhip and Demefne of the Bifhop 
 pi Norwich till about the Year 1535, when it was given 
 up to King Henry VIII. who, probably, granted it to the 
 Duke of Norfolk ; for A. D. 1558, the Duke of Norfolk 
 conveyed the Manors of Baa on and- Cotton to Sir John 
 Tyrell, of Gipping, in exchange for the Manor of Banham 
 in Norfolk. Here is now a neat Manfion built by George 
 Pretyman, Efo^ and is now the Seat of — . 
 
Hundred 0/ Hartismere. iy$ 
 
 In the Year 1739 Henry Howard died in this Paiifh, aged 
 Ninety-five Years, whofe Wife bare him a Daughter int 
 the Fifty-eighth Year of her Age. 
 
 Botesdale, or Botulphsdale, is a long Tho- 
 rough-fare Town j but the greater Part of the Houfes, 
 altho' fo called, ftand in Rickengale Inferior ; the Mo- 
 ther Church to Botefdaky is Redgrave. There is a Market 
 Weekly on Thurfday, which was granted to the Abbey 
 of Bury, as Lord of Redgrave with BoUfdale, and GiJIing- 
 ham. (See Redgrave.) There is alfo a Fair yearly or* 
 Holy Tburfday ; but by the Charter of Henry III. by whom, 
 it was granted, it is to be held on the Eve and Day of 
 St. Botulph, viz. May 17 and 18. 
 
 Here is a free Grammar School, founded by Sir Ni- 
 cholas Bacon about the Year 1576, and eftablifhed by 
 Queen Elizabeth's Letters -Patent. The Mafter and U flier 
 are to be elected out of Bennet College Cambridge, where 
 Sir Nicholas was educated ; and there is 20 /. per Annum 
 given by Sir Nicholas to the faid College for fix Scholars 
 out of the faid School. It is faid Archbifhop Tennifon, 
 by his laft Will, gave fix Pounds yearly to thefe fix 
 Scholars. At the Eaft-end of the School-Houfe was for- 
 merly a Chauntry, built by John Sheriff, for the Benefit 
 of his and his Wife's Soul ; in which the School is now 
 kept. 
 
 Breisworth. Sir Robert de Sacvill had the Lordfhips 
 of Breifworth, Cation and Bradford, in Suffolk, in the 
 Time of Henry 1. probably Breifworth, Cotton, and Brock - 
 ford. Earl Gornwallis has this Lord/hip and Advowfon 
 now. 
 
 Broome. Here is a fine old Manfion, which has long 
 fince been the Seat of the noble Family of Cornwallis. 
 This Family has furnifried the State with many worthy 
 5Hid refpe&able Men. Sir John Cornwallis^ of Broome- 
 
 Hall, 
 
174 Hundred i?/ Hartismere. 
 
 Hall, was knighted for his Courage and Conduct at the 
 Siege of Marlaix in Britany ; and was made Steward of 
 the Houfhold to Pri nee Edward, who was afterwards 
 King EdwardVJ. His Son Sir Thomas being High-Sheriff 
 of Norfolk and Suffolk in the laft Year of Edward VI. 
 raifed confiderable Forces againfl the Oppofers of Queen 
 Mary's Title, and by their Affiftance, fet her on the 
 Th rone of her Anceftors : He was promoted by Queen 
 Mary to be Privy Counfellor, Treafurer of Callice, and 
 Comptroller of her Houfhold. A fecond Sir Thomas Corn- 
 wallis was Ambaflador to the King of Spain in the Reign 
 of James I. and Mr. Cottington, afterwards Lord Cotting- 
 ton, was his Secretary : From him defended Frederick 
 Cormvallis of Broome, who was created a Baronet 4 May, 
 1627 : He differed much in the great Rebellion by the 
 Sequeftration of his Eft-ate, and the Imprifonment of his 
 Perfon : He attended the King in all his Wars ; and in 
 particular at the Battle of Copredy-Bridge, againft Sir 
 William IValler, he refcued a General Officer, who was 
 fallen into the Hands of the Rebels. King Charles II. in 
 reward of his Merit, not only made him Treafurer of his 
 Houfhold, Comptroller and Privy Counfellor, but created 
 him a Baron of this Realm in 1661, by the Stile of Lord 
 Cornwallis, of Eye. To him fucceeded Charles Lord Corn- 
 wallis, who was one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and 
 Lord Lieutenant of the County of Suffolk in the Reign of 
 King William III. His Son Charles Lord Cornwallis was 
 Poftmafter-General of England, and Paymafter of the 
 Army in the Reign of King George I. He left nine Sons 
 and one Daughter : His eldeft Son Charles was by his 
 late Majefty King George II. advanced to the Dignity of 
 an Earl, by the Style of Lord Vifcount Broome and Earl 
 Cornwallis, and was in the Reign of King George III. 
 Conftable of the Tower of London^ and one of his Ma- 
 jesty's moft Honourable Privy Council ; and the fine old 
 Seat, together with the Lordfliip of Broome, is now veiled* 
 in his Son the prefent Earl Cormvallis, There 
 
Hundred f/ Hartismeke. 175 
 
 There were formerly two Medieties in the Church of 
 Broome ; the Prior of Thctford was Patron of one, and 
 Mr. Calthorp Patron of the other. They were confoli- 
 dated A. D. 1448, and Earl Cornwallis prefents. 
 
 Brockford. See before Breifworth. Some Part of 
 this formerly belonged to Bury Abbey. It is a Hamlet 
 
 of Wether in g^ett. 
 
 Burgate, formerly the Lordfhip of Sir William de 
 Burgate, who refided in this Parifh, and lies buried under 
 a very good Tomb in the Chancel. This Lord/hip, and 
 alfo the Advowfon of the Church, are now verted in 
 Rowland Holt, Efq. 
 
 Cotton. William de la Bole died feifed of this Manor 
 28 Henry VI. It came afterwards to the Duke of Norfolk, 
 who, A. D. 1558, afligned it to Sir John Tyrell. 
 
 The Country hereabouts feems to be remarkably- 
 healthy, if we may judge by the Longevity of the Inha- 
 bitants ; for in the Year 1739, the Widow of one Dr. 
 Ellis, a Practitioner in Phyfiek, died in the Ninety-fifth 
 Year of her Age ; and, fince that, one Woods died in this 
 Parifh, aged One Hundred and Two Years. 
 
 Eye, is fituated in a Bottom, and is a Town Corpo- 
 rate, governed by two Bailiffs, ten principal BurgefTes, 
 and twenty-four Common Council-men : It enjoys divers 
 Privileges now, but they were more extenfive formerly j 
 they are faid to have reached even to the Gates of York. 
 It fends two Members to Parliament, is faid to have been 
 a Borough before the Reign of King John, and to be 
 called in old Writings the Town and Borough of Aye ; 
 but it did not fend Members to Parliament before the 
 13th Year of Queen Elizabeth. This Town is improved 
 in its Buildings of late Years, but from its Situation it is 
 2 dirty. 
 
176 Hundred of Hartisme&.£. 
 
 dirty. There is a fmall Market Weekly on Saturday:^ 
 and one Fair Yearly on Whit f on- Monday. 
 
 Robert Mallet, a Norman Baron, whofe Father came inf 
 with the Conqueror, obtained of him the Lord/hip of Eye 1 
 with all the Appendages of it : He being poflefled of this 
 Lordfhip built the Caftle here, near the Weft-end of the 
 Church i fome of the ruinous Walls of which are ftill to 
 be feen. But this Robert was deprived of the Lordfhip* 
 and Honor of Eye by Henry I . and it was given by him 
 to Stephen Earl of Bologne, who was afterwards King of 
 England. He left it to his natural Son; but, he dying 
 without Heirs, it reverted to the Crown. Richard I. gave 
 it to Henry the fifth Earl of Brabant and Lorain ; yet it 
 was in the King's Hands 9 Edward II. and fo continued, 
 until Edward ILL granted it to "John of Eltha?n, Earl of 
 Cornwall j but he dying without Ifiue, the fame King 
 granted it to Robert de Ufford, whom he had lately made 
 Earl of Suffolk. The Honor and Manor of Eye Sokemeri 
 belongs now, but not in that vaft Extent which Robert 
 Mallet had it in, to the Right Hon. Earl Comwallis. There 
 is alfo another confiderable Manor in this Town, called 
 Netherhall in Eye, belonging to Sir John Rous, Bart, and 
 another Manor called Eye Priory, belonging to . 
 
 On the Eaft-fide of the Town appear the Ruins of a 
 Beneditline Monaftery, founded by the laid Robert Mallet, 
 who gave it to the Church of St. Peter in Eye, with divers 
 other Churches, Lands, &c. No fooner were the Foun- 
 dations of this Houfe laid, than it found confiderable Be- 
 nefactors ; for Ranulph de Glanville, one of the Barons (fo 
 Lords of Manors were then called) of Robert Mallet, Chief 
 Lord of the Honor of Eye, gave it his Houfe in Jakejly. 
 Hubert de Monchenfy gave about the fame time, his own 
 Houfe in the fame Place. William Earl of Bologne con- 
 firmed to thefe- Monks the Lordlhip of Acol, (we fuppofe 
 Occold) and Stoke. In the Reign of King Stephen all thefe 
 Benefactions were confirmed to this Houfe, with a grievous 
 
 Curfe 
 
Hundred <?/ Hartismere. tjy 
 
 Curfe upon the Violators of them. This Monaftery was 
 at firft an alien Monaftery, fubordinate to the Abbey of 
 Bernay in Normandy, whofe Abbots were the Patrons of 
 this at Eye ; and in token of their Dominion, during the 
 Vacancy of a Prior, they ufed to place a Porter at the 
 Gate, to be maintained out of the floufe ; and who, at 
 the Inftalment of the next Prior, was to receive Five Shil- 
 lings to buy him an Ox. But it was made Denifon by 
 King Richard II. and granted at the Diflblution, when it 
 was valued at 161/. 2f. clear of Reprifes, to 
 
 Charles Duke of Suffolk. This is alio now the Eftate of 
 the Right Hon. Earl Cornwallis. 
 
 P , inningham-/&//, is the Seat and Lordfhip of Ed- 
 ward Frere, Efq. Here is a confiderab'le Fair for Cattle* 
 beginning every Year on Augujl 24. 
 
 GiSLiNGHAM. The Manor-Seat called Swatfal-Hall, 
 was lately re-built by Charles Beddingfield,- Efq; but Part 
 of the Lands in this Parifh hold of the Manor of Rujhes 
 and Jenneys, which belong to Rowland Holt, Efq. There 
 is a School here. 
 
 Mellis, is the Lordfhip of Rowland Haiti Efq. 
 
 Mendlesham, is a dirty Town; for which Hugh 
 Fitz-Otho procured the Privilege of a Market and Fair 
 from King Edward I. The Market is on Tuejday Week- 
 ly, and the Yearly Fair on September 21. The Lordfhip 
 of this Town has for fome time been vefted in the Family 
 of Duke, and now belongs to EdmundTyrell, Efq. King 
 William Rufus gave the Church of Mendlefoam with An- 
 drejlon, to the Abbot and Convent of Battel-'m Suffix, who 
 had the Impropriation and Advowfon of the Vicarage until 
 the Diflblution* 
 
 N 
 
 Oakley. 
 
1 78 Hundred of Hartismere. 
 
 Oakley. Here were formerly two Churches and Pa- 
 riihes ; Great Oakley, dedicated to St. Nicholas; and Little 
 Oakley, dedicated to St. Andrew : They were confolidated 
 27 Oil. 1449. The Lordflaip is in Earl Cornwallis. 
 
 Occold. The Manor of Occolde belongs to Milefon 
 Edgar, Efq; alfo here are two other Manors belonging 
 to the Malyn Family. 
 
 Palgrave. The Lordfliip of the Abbot of Bury* 
 given thereto by Earl Wolffian, and others. In the Weft 
 Part of this Parifh was a Chapel of St. John Baptijl, fub- 
 ordrnate to the Abbey of Bury, where five fecular Priefts 
 bad their Refidence, and faid Mafs daily. The Manors 
 of Palgrave and Fenhoufe in this Parifh, are now vefted in 
 Earl Cornwallis. 
 
 Redlingfield, is chiefly memorable for a Monafter.y 
 of Benedictine Nuns, founded by Manaffes de Gratia Earl 
 ciGuifnes, and Emma his Wife, J.D. n 20, and en- 
 dowed by them with the Manor of this Panifli. This 
 Houfe was valued upon the Dilfolution at 67 /. i^d. It 
 was granted 28 HenryVWl. to Edmund Beddingfield, which 
 Family enjoyed it till it was fold to John Willis, Efqj 
 who now hath it, 
 
 Redgrave, was anciently the Lordfliip of the Abbot 
 of Bury, to whom it was given by Ulfketel Earl of Eaft- 
 England. It was granted by Henry VIII. in the laft Year 
 of his Reign to Thomas Darcy, from whom it came ftiort- 
 ly into the Family of the Bacons. Sir Nicholas Bacon, 
 Lord-Keeper,, made it his Seat j and his Defcendant Sir 
 Nicholas Bacon, of Redgrave, was created by K. James I. 
 fhe firft Baronet in England, 22 June, 16.1 r. The late 
 Sir Edmund Bacon removed to. Garholdijham in Norfolk, 
 and fold this Eftate to Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Juftice 
 of the King's- Bench \ in vvhofe Family it now is, being 
 7 the 
 
Hundred u/ Hartismere. 179 
 
 the Seat of Rowland Holt ', Efq; one of the Reprefentative3 
 in Parliament for this County. 
 
 Thomas IVolfey Chaplain, afterwards the famous Car- 
 dinal and Archbiftiop of York, was inftituted to the Rec- 
 tory of Redgrave, 8 June 1 506, upon the Prefentation of 
 the Abbot and Convent of Bury. This Church, for beau- 
 tiful Monuments, may vie with that of any other Village 
 in England. There are feveral to the Memory of the 
 ancient and honourable Family of the Bacons; particularly 
 in the Right-Ifle is the Effigies of Sir Nicholas Bacon and 
 his Lady, raifed on a Tomb, which for Beauty of Marble 
 is very fine. In the Chancel is the Effigies of Lord Chief 
 J uftice Holt, fitting in his Chair and dreiTed in his Robes, 
 which, as it is faid, coft 1500/. 
 
 Near this Parifti is Lopham Gate, where is a great na- 
 tural Curiofity ; for two Springs rife, one on each Side of 
 the Gate ; and one of thefe running Eaftward forms the 
 River Waveney, which emptieth itfelf at Yarmouth ; the 
 other running Weftward forms the little Oufe, which 
 emptieth itfelf into the Sea at Lynn. But the chief Spring- 
 head of the Oufe rifes at JVhattisjield, and joins this Spring 
 about a Mile Weft from Lopham Gate. 
 
 Kicking ALE-fupcrior. The Manor of Facon' s Hall \n 
 this Parifti, is now vefted in Rowland Holt, Efq; 
 
 Rish angles. The Manor and Advowfon of the Rec- 
 tory belonged to the Nunnery of Redlingjield, and were 
 granted as Parcel of the Pofleffions of that Houfe to 
 William Honing and Nicholas Cutler, 4 and 5 Philip and 
 Mary. They now belong to the Right Honourable 
 Lord Orwell. 
 
 This Manor was given to the Priory of 
 Eye by the Founder, and granted 28 Henry VIII. to Ed- 
 mund Bedingfield. Thomas Tyrel Bokenham, Efq; hath the 
 Manor now. Another Manor here, called Stoke -Hall, 
 N 2 with 
 
r8o Hundred of Hartismzre'. 
 
 with Thorpe, fate in Charles Killegreiv, Efq; is now veftetf 
 in John Major , Efq. 
 
 Stuston. The Hall is a good old Seat, and did be- 
 long to the knightly Family of the Cajllcions ; after that 
 to the Mariots ; then it was purchafed by Samuel Travcrfe, 
 Efq; and the Truftees of the faid Samuel are now Lords 
 of the Manor of Hugh Margarets, and Earl Cornwallis 
 is Lord of Boylands Beauchamps, and Faueons. The Manor 
 of Faueons in Stufton, was granted as Part of the Pofiefliona 
 of the Nuns of Flixton to John Eyre, ^GHen.VUl. and mod 
 of this Village was Church-Land before the Reformation. 
 The middle Part of the Hall was built by Bifliop Nix, the 
 two Wings are of later Date. There was an Oratory on 
 the North-fide of the Chancel, dedicated to St. Katharine; 
 and the Field adjoining Northward to the Church-yard 
 called Golds, was tied for the Payment of Three Shillings 
 yearly, to fupply the Lamp of the Virgin Mary with Oil. 
 
 -Thorndon. Edmund Ezd of Carnival died feifed 29 
 Edward I. and Robert de Ufford died feifed of the Manor 
 of Thorndene 43 Edward III. William de la Pole had it 
 when he was put to Death, 28 Henry VI. It is now 
 vetted "m Rowland Holt, Efq; and hath Jurifdidion of 
 Courts-Leet within the Parifties of Occolt, RiJJjangles, and 
 AfpeL 
 
 THORKHAM-Magna, fate the Lordfhip of Charles 
 Killegrew, Efq; defcended from the famous Killegrew in 
 the Time of King Charles the Second. This Eftate, and 
 a good Seat . there are now veiled ia John Major, Efq; 
 Member for Scarborough. 
 
 Thornham.?^w. 
 
 Thrandiston. This Place in former Accounts has 
 keen miilaken for Tburjion in Tliedwaftre Hundred, called 
 
 ancietnly 
 
HUNDRED of HaRTISMERE. l8l 
 
 anciently Tburjlanefton (fee the Account there). For 
 Thfandiflon Fair is on the Feafr. of St. Margaret, and not 
 of St. Mary Magdalene, which was the Day of the Fair 
 granted to Tburjlanefton. William Smith, of Thetford, 
 died poflefied of the Manor of Welholmes in Ihrandiflon, 
 A. D. 1622 ; and the Hall in this Parifti doth now be- 
 long to Sheppard Frere, Ejq; the Grandfon of Thomas 
 Smith. 
 
 Thwaite. This Village was honoured with the Re- 
 sidence of the Family of Reeve. Sir George Wright, alias 
 Reeve, was created a Baronet 22 Jan. i66r. This Fa- 
 mily is extincl ; but the Manor and Eftate were lately 
 vefted in John Sheppard, Efq; who married the Countefs 
 Dowager of Leicejler, a Daughter of Sir Robert Reeve, 
 Bart. The Lady of Sir Samuel Prime has this Eftate 
 for her Life, and the Reverfion is in John Shepherd, of 
 Campfey-AJh, Efq. Here are two Fairs, one on 20 June, 
 the other November 15. 
 
 Westhorp. Robert de Blundhul this when Domef- 
 day Survey was taken. William deEllingham, or Elmham, 
 had the Grant of a Market and Fair here 46 Edward III. 
 or 137 1. Sir William de Ehnham, Knt. died poffefled of 
 this Manor, A. D. 1403, and left it to his Wife Elizabeth, 
 who died here in 1419, and was buried by her Hufband 
 in Bury Abbey. William de la Pole died feifed of the Ma- 
 nor of WeJlhorp-HaU, when he was beheaded 28 Hen.VL 
 or 1448. By the Ruins of this Hall it feems to have 
 been a noble Stru&ure, and it was afterwards granted to 
 Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. This Eftate has been 
 for a long time in the Family of the Sbeltons, from whom 
 it patted to Thomas Taylor, Efq; and is now vefted in 
 John Reilly, Efq. 
 
 Wetheringsett. TheLordfhip of this Town did 
 anciently belong to the Bifhop or Church of. Ely, given to 
 N 3 St. 
 
182 Hundred of Hartisme re, 
 
 St. Etheldred in Edward the Confeflbr'sTime by Thurftany 
 but now it belongs to the Right Hon. Lord Maynard. 
 Richard Hackluyt, Prebendary of Wejlminjler, who wrote 
 EngUJh Voyages, &c. in 1598, was Re£tor of this 
 Church. 
 
 Wickham-Skeith. Robert de Sackville, Lord of this 
 Place, gave the Manor to St. Johns Abbey in Colchejler, 
 in the Time of Henry I. and the faid Manor with the 
 Reclory and Advowfon of the Vicarage were granted as 
 Parcel of the Poffeflion of that Abbey to Richard Frefton, 
 34 Henry VII T. The Manor of Wickham-HzW, with the 
 Re£rory and Advowfon of the Vicarage, are now vefted 
 in Sir Armine Woodhoufe, Bart, in Right of his Lady, who 
 was a Daughter of the late Sir Edmund Bacon, of Garbol- 
 dijham : And the Farm called the Abbey, was in the Har- 
 veys, by whom it was fold to Richard Canning, of Ipfwich^ 
 Efq; in 17163 and now continues in his Heirs. 
 
 Worth am. A.D. 1272, Giles de Wachejham had this 
 Manor, and Hugo de Creping held Part of Bloitwiles in 
 Deopham Norfolk, of the faid Giles, as of the Manor of 
 Wortham in Suffolk, A.D. 1358, Sir Robert de Wachejham 
 had the Manor and the Advowfon of one Mediety of the 
 Church. 
 
 One Manor here called Wortham, late the Abots, is 
 now vefted in Rowland Holt, Efq; and another Manor 
 called Wortham-HdM, in Edmund Jenney, Efq. The Ad- 
 vowfon of the Church of Wortham is in Moieties ; one of 
 which was lately in Barnaby Gib/on, Efq; who fold it to 
 Mr. Holt, who before was poffeffed of the other Moiety. 
 
 Wyverston. Gilbert de Bland had this Lordfliip in 
 the Time of William the Conqueror. William de la Pole 
 died feifed of it 28 Henry VI. The Tenants of this 
 
 Manor 
 
Hundred <?/ Hartismere. 183 
 
 Manor enjoy feveral Privileges, faid to be granted by the 
 Dukes of Suffolk. It is now veiled in the Right Rev. 
 John (Ewer ) Biftiop of Landaff, by Marriage of Eliza- 
 beth, one of the Coheirefles of Thomas Barnardijhn, 
 Efq. 
 
 Yaxley. 
 
 N 4 THREDLING. 
 
[ l»4 ] 
 
 THREDLING. 
 
 rH RED LING Hundred lieth South-Eajl of Har- 
 tifmere ; and contains only five Parifhes, and one 
 Hamlet, viz. 
 
 Ashfield. The Church is now in Ruins : TheMa^ 
 nor and Impropriation did belong to the Priory of Butley, 
 and were granted 34 Henry VIII. to Francis Framlingham : 
 They now belong to James Bridges, Efq. 
 
 Debenham, is fo called from the River Deben, which 
 rifes near it. The Country round this Town is very deep 
 and dirty, but the Town itfelf is clean, ftanding on a 
 fifing Hill. The Church is a good Building. Sir Robert 
 Hitckam, by his Will, ordered that Twenty poor Chil- 
 dren of the Parifli of Debenham, fliould be taught at hi$ 
 School at Framlingham ; which being impoljible, an Or- 
 dinance was obtained from Oliver Cromwell, for a School 
 and Maintenance of a Schoolmafter at Debenham, out of 
 the Eftate of the faid Sir Robert Hitcham. In confequence 
 whereof 20 1, per Ann. was appointed for a Mafter at De- 
 benham. Here js a mean Market on Fridays, and a Fair 
 "June 24. 
 
 The Manor, Impropriation and Advowfon of the Vi- 
 carage did belong to the Priory of Butley, and were granted 
 by Henry VIII. A. D. 1542, to Francis Framlingham', 
 from whom they came about the Year 1600 to the Gaudys, 
 who had their Seat at Craw-Hall, in this Parifh. Si| 
 Charles Gaudy, of Craw-Hall was created a Baronet 29 
 4$*H from the Gaudys they came by Purchafe 
 
 (9 
 
Hundred of Thredling. 185 
 
 to John Pitt, Efq; and from the Pitts by Purchafe like- 
 wife to James Bridges, of Beatings, Efq; who now pof- 
 fcffes them. 
 
 Mr. Bridges hath alfo the contiguous Manors of Scot- 
 petts and Bloodhall. 
 
 The Prior and Convent of Ely had Pofleffions here in 
 the Time of Edward the Confeffor. 
 
 Befides the Manors before-mentioned, here are alfo 
 two others, WverJion-HvW and Sackvyl's, which the Cor- 
 poration of Ipfwich hold by the Will of Henry Tooley (who 
 died in 1 55 1 ) for charitable Ufes, 
 
 Framsden. Roger de Montealto or Monthalt, paid a 
 f ine to Ipfwicb in King John's Time, for Freedom from 
 Toll for his Villains in Framfden ; and Roger Montealto 
 died 25 Edward I. feifed of the Manor of Framfden in 
 Suffolk, leaving his Brother Robert his Heir ; who, for 
 want of Iffue, fettled this Manor 1 Edw. III. upon IfakI, 
 Mother to the King, for Life ; and, after her Deceafe, to 
 John Eltham, Brother to the King, and his Heirs for ever. 
 The Church was impropriated about 20 Edward III. to 
 the Minoreffes without Aldgate, London. They both be- 
 long to the Right Hon. the Earl of Dyfart. Here is a 
 Yearly Fair upon Jfcenfion-Viay. 
 
 Pett AUGH.This Manor belonged formerly toLeijlon- 
 Abbey, and was granted 28 Henry VIII. to Charles Bran- 
 don Duke of Suffolk. It is now, with the Advowfon of 
 the Church, veiled in Bennet, of Bath, Efq; 
 
 Thorp, is a Hamlet of AJhfeld, and belongeth to 
 
 James Bridges, Efq; 
 
 Winston. One Manor and the Impropriation of this 
 Church, with the Advowfon of the Vicarage belongeth 
 to the Dean and Chapter of Ely. But there is another 
 Manor which belonged formerly to the Nuns of Brufyard, 
 and was granted 30 Henry VIII. to Nicholas Hare. 
 
 Stow. 
 
[ 1S6 ] 
 
 Stow. 
 
 TH E Hundred of Stow is bounded on the North 
 by Hartifmere ; on the Weji by Blackbourn and 
 Thredwajire j on the South and by Cosford 9 
 Bofmere, and Claydon Hundreds. 
 
 Buxhall, was theEftate of Bartho. de Burgherjh, 23 
 Edward III. It is moft remarkable as the Birth-place of 
 Sir IVilliam Coppinger, Lord-Mayor of London, A. D. 
 15 1 2. At his Death he gave half his Eftate to charitable 
 Ufes, and half to his Relations, who lived here in plen- 
 tiful Circumftances, 
 
 Combs, in 43 King Edward III. was the Lordfliip of 
 Robert de Vfford ; then it came into the Family of Wil- 
 loughbys Lords of Ere/by j and from them to Charles Bran- 
 don Duke of Suffolk, who married the Heirefs of the other 
 Family : It came afterwards into the Pofleffion of the 
 Dandys, It was for fome Time the Seat of the Bridgmans. 
 William Bridgman (Son of the Right Rev. the Lord Bifliop 
 of Che/ler, who was Brother of Sir Orlando, Keeper of the 
 Great Seal in the Reign of King Charles II.) was Clerk 
 of the Council in the Reigns of King Charles II. King 
 James II. King William and Queen Mary. His Son 
 Orlando Bridgman, Efq; rebuilt the Hall ; which, after 
 his Death, was fold to Mr. Crowley; and by his Heirs 
 not long fmce pulled down. 
 
 Another Manor here was granted to Dartford Nun- 
 nery ; and afterwards in 35 King Henry VIII. to Sir 
 Richard Grejham, Knt. 
 
 Chilton, 
 
Hundred 0/ Stow. 187 
 
 Chilton, is now a Hamlet of Stow. 
 
 Creeting 5/. Peter, or Wejl-Creeting, is a Re&ory 
 in this Hundred : The three other Creetings are in the 
 Hundred of Bofmere. The Manor and Advowfon of this 
 Church were very lately vefted in the Heirs of Mr. 
 Glover, of Frojlenden ; and the Manor is now vefted in 
 Mr. Brograve. See Hundred of Bofmere and Claydon. 
 
 Dagworth, is a Hamlet of Newton. William Lord 
 Furnival married Thomafme, Daughter of Sir John dt 
 Dagworth, and thereby obtained this Manor j he died 
 feifed of it 6 Richard II. Thomas Nevil, Brother to Ralph 
 Earl of Wejlmorland, having married Joan the Heir of 
 the faid Lord Furnival, had Livery of this Manor jRic. II. 
 and William de la Pole died feifed of it 28 Henry VI. 
 
 Exning, or Ixning, a Village fituated in the very 
 utmoft Bounds of this County towards Cambridge/hire, is 
 with Newmarket reckoned in this Hundred of Stow. It 
 was formerly of greater Note than it is at prefent. It is 
 faid, here Ethelreda Daughter of King Anna, was born. 
 Here Ralph Earl of the Eajl-Angles confpired againft 
 William the Conqueror ; and from hence Harvey, firft 
 Bifhop of Ely made a Way to Ely; and in digging thro' 
 Devil's Dyke near Jxning fome Pieces of ancient Coins 
 were found ; but now it is a Town of no Note. King 
 William Rufus gave the Church of Exelinges, in the Dio- 
 cefe of Norwich, to the Abbey of Battel in Suffex ; and 
 the Re&ory and Advowfon of the Vicarage of Exning in 
 Suffolk were granted to the Dean and Chapter of Canter- 
 bury 33 Henry VIII. as Part of the Pofleflions of Battel 
 Abbey. Elizabeth, the Wife of John Lord Comyn, and 
 afterwards the Wife of Richard Talbot, being one of the 
 Heirs of Audemere de Valence, 18 Edward II. as her Pur- 
 party, inter aliQi had the Manor of Ixning in Suffolk. 
 
 Great 
 
188 Hundred of Stow. 
 
 Great Finborough. The Defcendants of Ranulf 
 Glanvile gave Potieflions here to the Prior and Convent 
 of Buiky, who had the Re&ory and Advowfon of the 
 Vicarage till the Diflolution j but A. D. j 559, they were 
 granted to the Bimop of Ely, in Exchange. The Manor 
 was 3 Edward II. in Ralph Lord Pipard. William Wol- 
 lafon, Efq; hath a fine Seat in this Pari/h, which hath 
 been greatly improved by him. 
 
 Little Finborough. This Church was impropriated 
 to Bricet Priory, and given with that to King's College, 
 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Gipping, is a Hamlet of Newton ; it hath its Name 
 from its Situation near the Rife of one of thofe Springs, 
 which form the River Gippen. It is chiefly noted for be- 
 ing the Refidence of the Family of Tyrell. They are 
 defcended from Sir Walter Tyrell, Knt. who held the 
 Lordftiip of Langham in Efex, at the Time of the general 
 Survey. William Tyrell, of Gipping, was the fecond Son 
 of Sir Walter Tyrell. who was the eighth Knight in a 
 lineal Defcent from Sir Walter firft named. He was the 
 Father of James Tyrell, Captain of Guifnes in France, in 
 the Reign of King Henry VII. and from him is defcended 
 the prefent Proprietor of Gipping, now a Minor. 
 
 Halston, or Harleston. The Manor and Advow- 
 fon of the Rectory were granted, as Parcel of the Poffef- 
 fions of Butley Priory, to Charles Vifcount Life, 31 
 Henry VIII. 
 
 Haughley, is varioufly written in old Records : 
 Near the Church arc the Remains of a very ftrong Caftle, 
 which was, moft probably, a Saxon Work. It is of a Fi- 
 gure inclining to a Square, fortified with a deep Ditch or 
 Moat, and (except on the North-fide) a Rampire propor^ 
 
 tionable, 
 
Hundred of Stow. i 89 
 
 tionable, and ftill entire. Towards the North upon a 
 high artificial Hill, furrounded alfo with a deep Moat, and 
 of fteep Afcent, flood the Keep, or ftrong Tower ; the 
 Foundation of which, now remaining, is of great Thick- 
 nefs, and in a manner circular. On the Weft-part is a 
 pretty large Spot of Ground, in Form refembling an ob- 
 long Square, which feems to have been an Out-work of 
 the Caftle ; the Eaft-fide thereof abuts upon the Moats 
 beforementioned, and is fomewhat irregular. The North 
 and Weft Sides are rectangular, and encompaffed with a 
 leflerMoat; as was, perhaps, the South-end, or Side; 
 tho' there is now no appearance of it. The Ground 
 which thefe feveral Works take up, and the Areas they in- 
 clofe, amount in the whole to upwards of feven Acres. 
 This, without doubt, was called Hagenetb-Czfk\e, which 
 was in theCuftody of Ralph cle Broc, and was dcmoliftied by 
 Robert Earl of Leicejler, 1 3 Oft. 1 173. (See Fornham, in 
 Thcdwajlre.) This Caftle afterwards belonged to the 
 de Uffords, Earls of Suffolk ; the laft of whom is faid to 
 have died feifed of it 43 Edward III. The prefent 
 Proprietor is Richard Ray, Efq. 
 
 The Manor and Park were the Eftate of Charles Brandon 
 Duke of Suffolk, and came to the Crown by Purchafe or 
 Exchange with him. Afterwards they were granted to Sir 
 'John Sulyard, of Wether den. (See p. 193.) The Manor 
 is very large and extenfive : The Lord of it had for- 
 merly a Jurifdidion of Oyer and Terminer, trying all 
 Caufes in his own Court. At a Court holden i$Edw. IV. 
 the Lands, Tenements, &c. of John Buxton of Stow, 
 were feifed ; for that he had vexed one William T \irncr 
 by the Writ of our Lord the King, contrary to the ancient 
 Cuftom of the Manor, that no Tenant mould profecute 
 any other Tenant, in any Court faving this. And there 
 are other like Jnftances, fo late as the eleventh Year 
 of Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 At another Court in the fame Year it was ordered, that 
 the Abbot of Hales in Gloucejlerjhire, to whom the Pa- 
 rishes 
 
190 Hundred of Stow. 
 
 rifhes of Haughlcy and Shetland were impropriated, {hould 
 creel a new Pair Of Gallows in Luberlow- Field in Haughley, 
 under the Penalty of Forty Shillings. And, in the 8th 
 Year of King Edward IV. William Baxteyn held certain 
 Lands by the Service of finding a Ladder for the Lords 
 Gallows. 
 
 This was an ancient Market-Town, out of the Ruins 
 of which Stow feems to have rifen. For in 3 Edward IV. 
 William Hoxon of Stow, was fined, for lying in wait near 
 the Town of Haughley, and buying Chickens, Eggs, &c. 
 And in 31 Henry VIII. the Butchers of Stow were amerced 
 3 J. 4.d. becaufe they fold the Meat out of the Market on 
 a Market-day, contrary to the Cuftom of this Manor. 
 In the Year following the Amercement was advanced to 
 6 j. Sd. but the Market hath been long difufed. Here 
 is a Fair Yearly on Augujl 15, being the Aflumption of 
 the Virgin Mary, to whom the Church is dedicated. 
 
 New-market, at the Extremity of the County, is 
 a well-built Thorough-fare Town, confifting chiefly of 
 one long Street, fo fituated that the North-tide of the 
 Street is in Suffolk, and the South-ddc in Cambridge/hire. 
 There are two Churches, St. Marys in Suffolk, and All- 
 Saints in Cambridge/hire. His Majefty hath a Houfe here 
 for his Refidence during the Races j and there are many 
 good modern Houfes built by Noblemen and Gentlemen, 
 who delight in Horfe-courfing, and fometimes condefcend 
 to countenance that Sport with their Prefence. 
 
 There are two annual Fairs, one on the Tuefday in 
 IFhitfun-Week j the other Oiiober 28. Here is alfo a 
 good Market on Tuefday s ; and a Free-School, which was 
 endowed by King Charles II. The Town is fupported 
 not by Merchandife or Manufaftures of any Kind, but by 
 its Situation upon a confiderable Road, and by the Com- 
 pany which frequent the Horfe-Races on the neighbour- 
 ing Heath. 
 
 About 
 
Hundred of Stow. 191 
 
 About two Miles Weft of the Town is the Devil's- 
 Dyke, by the Vulgar fo called, who readily afcribe to him 
 what they cannot account for. It is alfo called Recbe- 
 Dyke, from a little Market-Town at the Beginning of it. 
 From Reche it crofles the Heath near to Stickworth. It 
 was formerly the Boundary between the Eajl- Angles and 
 the Mercians j and is now the Boundary between the Bi- 
 ihopricks of Norwich and Ely. It is uncertain who was 
 the Founder of fo great a Work ; fome afcribe it to King 
 Canute, but that cannot be true ; for Abbo, who men- 
 tioned it, died before Canute began his Reign : Befides, 
 the Purpofe for which he is faid to have done it, was far 
 from being equivalent to the Expence of fuch a Work, 
 viz. as a Mark beyond which the King's Purveyors were 
 not to come towards Bury. It is raoft probable, it was 
 caft up in the Reign of King Edmund ; for Matthew Flo- 
 rilegus declares, that the Battle againft Etheiwolf was 
 fought between St. Edmund's two Ditches. The other 
 Ditch is about five Miles farther towards Cambridge, now 
 called Seven-mile Dyke j formerly Fleam Dyke. 
 
 Newton. Margaret Pole, Mother of Cardinal ?cle % 
 and Countefs of Salijbury, who was beheaded hi the 
 Seventieth Year of her Age, died feifed of Newton-Us.il 
 in Suffolk, then valued at 17 /. per Ann. See Stow. 
 
 One house, probably belonged formerly to the Wey- 
 lands ; it was certainly the Eftate of Bartholomew Burg- 
 berjh, for he died feifed of it 43 Edw. III. See JVitnejham H 
 
 Shell and, was the Lordfliip of the Bourchiers, Earls 
 of EJfex ; from whom it defcended to the Family of Deve- 
 reux, and was fold in 1591 by that great, but unhappy 
 Favourite of Queen Elizabeth, Robert Devereux, Earl of 
 EJfex. The Manor of Reeky Us in Shelland,. formerly be- 
 longed to the Drurys ; a Family of great Note in this, 
 County. Thefe Manors, with their Demefnes, are now 
 the Eftate of Richard Ray, Efq. Stow- 
 
192 
 
 Hundred of Stow. 
 
 Stowmarket, is fo called to diftinguilh it from 
 Stowlantoft, S tow-Upland, JVefl-Stoxv, &c. and ftands very 
 near the Centre of the County; but Needham is fome- 
 thing nearer it. It is alio fituated near the Junction of 
 the three Rivulets, which form the River Gippen. Thofe 
 tvhich rife near Gipping and Wetherden wafh the Eaf-fide. 
 of the Town, and the other which rifes at Rattle/den 
 meets them on the South -End of the Town at Combs- Ford. 
 The chief Ornament of this Town is the Church and? 
 Spire-fteeple. The Pari/nes of Stow-market and Stow- 
 upland, are now confolidated ; but they have ftill diftinct 
 Officers for each Parifh. K. Henryll. gave the Churches 
 of BIyburgh and Stow-market, with all the Chapels there-' 
 unto belonging, to the Abbey of Chick, or St. OJyih, iti 
 EJJex ; and the Manor of Stow market, the Rectory and 
 Advowfon of the Vicarages, the Rectory of Newton, and 
 the Advowfon of the Vicarage, and the Rectories or Im- 
 propriations of Gipping and Dagworth (Chapels of New- 
 ion) were granted 38 Henry VIII. as Parcel of the Poffef- 
 fions of St. Ofyth, to Thomas Darcie. The Manor of 
 Thorney near Stow-market, belonged to the Nuns of Cam- 
 pejfe, and was granted 37 Henry VIII. to Thomas Duke 
 of Norfolk ; and is now vefted in the Earl of Jerfey. 
 
 Richard de Amour devil obtained a Grant of a Market 
 and Fair here, 1 2 Edward III. The Market is on Thurf- 
 day ; and they have now two Fairs, one on June 29, St. 
 Peter's Day, to whom the Church was dedicated ; the 
 other is a Lamb Fair, on Lammas-Day Augujl 1. The 
 Manor of Stow-market, otherwife Abbots-Ha\\, and the 
 Fairs and Markets, are now vefted in William Lynch of 
 Ipjwich, Efq. 
 
 Wetherden. Roger de Scales obtained a Grant of 
 Free Warren here, 1 8 Edward L This Grant was eon* 
 firmed to John Sulyard, who was feifed of the faid War- 
 ren 8 Edward IV. and confirmed again to John Sulyard 
 
 and 
 
Hundred of Stow. 193 
 
 and Ann his Wife 1 Richard III. This was Judge Sulyard 
 afterwards mentioned ; and his Lady was the Daughter 
 of 'John Andrews, of Bqilham * in Suffolk, by Elizabeth 
 Scratton ; which Elizabeth was lineally defcended from 
 Humfrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Ejfex, by his Coun- 
 tefs Elizabeth Daughter of King Edward I. We have 
 lately received the following Account of this refpec"table 
 Family, which we fhall infert pretty nearly in the Words 
 it was fent. 
 
 In this Village is a very neat Church, the Porch of 
 which, and a very large Ifle continuing from thence to the 
 Chancel, was built by Sir John Sulyard, of Wetherden- 
 Hall ; which Sir John, in the Pedigree of the Sulyards, is 
 called only a Judge ; but in the Baronetage of England, 
 under the Title of Rous, is faid to have been Lord Chief 
 Jujlice of England. Round the Porch and along to the 
 Chancel on the Stones next above the Ground, are finely 
 carved the Arms and Quarterings of this ancient Family, 
 to the Time the Ifle was built. In this Parifli is the Place 
 called Wether den-HzU, which was the Seat and Refidence 
 of the faid Sir John ; and, by the Ruins of it, appears to 
 have been a very large and noble Building. It remained 
 the Seat of this Family until the Reign of Queen Mary, 
 and was at that time inhabited, by Sir John Sulyard, the 
 Defcendant of the firft-mentioned Sir John. This laft 
 Gentleman was a Soldier, and by the Memoirs now ex- 
 tant in the Family, he appears to have been the firft who 
 took Arms, and levied" Men, in the Defence of his So- 
 vereign, when fhe fled from the Ufurpation of Lady Jane 
 Grey. The underwritten is the Mandate (in the very 
 
 Words 
 
 * The other Daughter of John Andrews, and Co-heirefs 
 with Sir John Sulyard's Lady, married Thomas Wind/or, whofe ' 
 Son Sir Andrews Wind/or was afterwards created Lord Wind- . 
 for. The Family of Andrews removed their Seat to Bailbam, 
 from Ipfmich. See p. 42. 
 
 0 
 
194- Hundred of Stow. 
 
 Words and Spelling of that Time) he carried from the 
 Queen, when he guarded and protected her Perfon in the 
 Caftle of Framlingham. 
 
 *.* Mary, the Queen, 
 " Henry Bedhigfielde^ 
 
 " Theys ar to require and cofnaunde you to give moft 
 4 4 faythfull and allured Orders to this Berer our truftie 
 •« and well-beloved Svient Sut John Sulyard; and in any 
 " wyfe as ye love us and tendre our Favor not to fayle 
 " to accomplifh and putte in execution that which he 
 *' fhall declare unto you from us to be our Pleafure, fo 
 « fare ye hartylye well. From Fframfn. the 23 off Jan'* 
 
 So foon as the Queen was reftored to her Throne, {he 
 made a Grant to Sir John of the Park and Manor of 
 Haughley, for the eminent Services he had done her; 
 and he built the fine old Seat that is now ftanding in the 
 Park. This Gentleman lived until the 12th Year of 
 Queen Elizabeth ; and to him fueceeded his Son Edward, 
 who fuffered much in this Reign for Recufancy, both in 
 his Perfon and Fortune : Having been a Prifoner a great 
 Part of his Life, as appears by Tranfcripts from the Roll 
 ofRecufants. He was one of the firft, if not the very 
 firjly who was convi&ed. And this is to be obfeived to 
 his Honour, that though he adhered, under every Difad- 
 vantage, to the Religion of his Anceftors, he held their 
 Loyalty as firmly evidenced, by his Denial of the Power 
 of the See of Rome to depofe the Queen, in the following 
 Declaration : « I Edward Sulyarde, of Stiff. Efquier, doe 
 " acknowledge our mod gratious Sov'eigne Ladie Queene 
 " Elizabeth, to be our undoubted lawfull and onlie Queene 
 *« of Englande and Irlande, and no other forreyne Prince, 
 " notwithftandinge any Excommunication, under whofe 
 «' Power are all Perfons both Ecclefiafticall and Tem- 
 " porall, within any her MajefHes Dominions. And alfo 
 " by this doe manifcft. myfelfe bounden and readie, a» 
 
 " becometh 
 
Hundred a/StoW. 1^5 
 
 « s becorheth a true and duetifull Subject, with Body, 
 5C Lands and Goodds, to defend her Highnefs againft the 
 " Force of any Prince, Pope, Potentate, Prelate, or what- 
 44 otherfoever her Majefties Enemies, which God graunte 
 *< (he may overcome, and longe contynue her profperous 
 *' Raigne over us. Written in the xxiiijth of Ottoler^ 
 « 1 588. 
 
 " By me Edwarde Sulyarde.'\ 
 
 Declarations of the fame Tenor were figned by divers 
 other Knights and Gentlemen, of the fame Communion ; 
 among whom we muft not omit the Mention of Edward 
 Rook-wood^ Efqj of this County, whofe Family is related 
 to that of Sulyard-y and the Heir of it now enjoys a fair 
 Fortune at Coldbam-Ha\\ in Stanningfield, near Bury. 
 
 The following Petition of this Gentleman and War- 
 rant, by that great Minifter Walfingham, will evince his 
 Sufferings at that Time. 
 
 tc To the Right Honourable the Lords of her Majefties 
 " Mode Honourable Privie Councell. 
 
 tc In moft humble wife befeecheth your Lordfhips your 
 " humble Supplicant Edward Suliard, of Wether den in 
 " the Countie of Suffolk, Efquier. That whereas your 
 " Supplicant, upon the Statute of Recufancie hath paid 
 " Seaventein hundred and - threfcore Pounds, and yet is 
 " to paie into the Exchequour to her Majefties Ufe in 
 *< Mighelmas Tearme, now next commyng the Some of 
 " C.C.C.C. Marks and vij /. and for the Accomplifh-- 
 " ment thereof ftandeth yet utterlie unprovided and dif* 
 " abled, by reafon of diverfe Chardges which heretofor 
 " and yet dailie fall upon him, as of late your Supplicant 
 •* having Libertie by your Lordfhips Graunt to repaire 
 " to his Houfe in the Contrie, to make Provifion of 
 " ftame Money which he then ftoode chardged to paie 
 " to her Majefties Ufe for his faid Recufancie, in which 
 O 2 «' Tyme 
 
ra6 Hundred ef Stow. 
 
 " Tyme of his being in the Contrie he received a Privie 
 " Seale from her Majeftie for the Loane of L 1 . which 
 ** Some according to his Duetue he paid out of the faid 
 " Money which he had provided for her Majefties Ufe, 
 and being enforced to make up that Some againe for 
 " the Difcharge of the faid Paiment in the Exchequour, 
 " did fend up to London vj fatt Oxen to be fold for pre- 
 " fent Money, which Oxen comming to London v of 
 " them were taken for her Majefties ProvHion, for which 
 * fe your Supplicant hath received no Paiment, though they 
 " weare muche underpraifed, in refpecT: of that which 
 '* was offered for them in prefent Money ; fo that your 
 " Supplicant for the Difcharge of his faid former Pay- 
 " ment was conftrained to take up other Sommes of 
 " Money for the fatisfying again wherof your Suppli- 
 tc cant ftandeth ftill endangered alfo : And moreover, 
 " may it pleafe your Honours to take fome companion 
 " of your Supplicant's faid Troubles, having ever lyved 
 f e a true Man to her Majeftie ; not long before the Time 
 " of your Supplicant his faid former Commitment, a Sen- 
 " tence patted againft him and one other deceafed in the 
 " Court of Awdience for C.C.C.X.X. /. from which 
 " your Supplicant (by reafon of his Imprifonment) cold 
 * c not apeale, and at this prefent ftandeth in great 
 *' danger to be urged with the Paiment thereof, unlefs- 
 ** by your Lordfhips he being allowed Libertie may feeke 
 " his beft Remedie in that Behalf. It maie therefore 
 «« pleafe your good Lordfhips in regarde of the diftreffed 
 '« Eftate of your faid humble Supplicant to graunt to 
 « him the Contynuance of his Libertie at his owne Howfe 
 *' within the faid Countie of Suffolk, as well for the 
 *' better and more fpeedie preparing of the faid Sommes 
 " of Money payable to her Majeftie in Micbac/masTearme 
 * c next, as for the obteyning of fome Remedie or Relief 
 " touching the faid Somme of C.C.C.X.X. /. for which 
 " Sentence is given againft him and the other Partie as 
 
 '< afore- 
 
Hundred of Stow. 197 
 
 <c aforefaid, without which your Honors Graunt of Li~ 
 " bertie he fhall be forced to bring up his Wyfe, Chil- 
 " dren, and Famelie to London, which he cannot bring 
 " to pafs in anie reafonable Sorte, but to his great Charge, 
 <c extreame Loffe, and Hindrance, which in no wife he 
 " can long endure, but in fhort Tyme will be his uttre 
 m Ouerthrow and Undoing ; and your Supplicant (as in 
 " Dutie he is bound) fhall daily pray to Almightie God 
 l< for your Lordfhips in honor and happie Eftate long 
 to contynew. 
 
 " Whereas Edwarde Syliarde, of Wether den, in the 
 Cl Countie of Suffolke, Gent, having ben a long Tyme 
 « reftrayned of his Libertie for Mater of Religion, was 
 *' lately for certain Confiderations permitted to remayne 
 " at his Howfe in Suffolk ; and yet notwithftanding, as 
 *■■' it is informed, hath fynce that Tyme ben troubled and 
 ** molefted onely for Recufancy. Theafe are in her 
 " Majefties Name to will and require you, and every of 
 " you to whom it may appertayne, to forbear to fue or 
 " trouble him any further in refpecl: of his faid Recufancy 
 « untill you fhall underftand her Majefties further Plea- 
 «« fure herein, and theas fhall be his fufficient Warrant 
 " in that Behalf. Dated at my Howfe at Barnelmes the 
 *« 19th of June, 1586. 
 
 *' Fra. IValfyngham. 
 « L. S. 
 
 " To all Juftices of Aflize, Juftices of Peace, Sheriffs, 
 " BaylifFs, Purfuivants, and Mefleangers of the 
 " Chamber, and all other her Majefties Officers and 
 " loving Subjects to whom it may apperteyne, and 
 " to every of them." 
 
 To this Edward Sulyard fucceeded another Sir John 
 Sulyard> to whom all thefe Forfeitures and Penalties were 
 remitted by King James the Firft j who conferred the 
 Honour of Knighthood, both on the faid Sir John, and 
 O 3 his 
 
198 Hundred o/ Stow. 
 
 his Son Edward in his Father's Life-time ; and they lived 
 on their Family Eftate in Peace and Quietude till the great 
 Rebellion, when the Loyalty of Sir Edward procured the 
 Confinement of his Perfon, and the Sequeftration of two 
 Parts in three of his Eftate, during the deteftable Ufur- 
 pation of Cromwell At the Reftoration Sir Edward was 
 reftored to his Eftates and Liberty: This Gentleman 
 married the Daughter of William Lord Sturton ; but, dy- 
 ing without Iflue, his Eftate devolved on his next Bro- 
 ther Ralph , who married Elizabeth the Daughter of James 
 Willford, of Wan/worthy Efq; and by her had a numerous 
 IlTue. To him fucceeded Edward his eldeft Son, who 
 married Penelope, the eldeft Daughter of Sir Edward Gage, 
 of Hcngrave, and by her had many Children. At the Re- 
 volution it does not appear this Gentleman at all med-, 
 died, or at all fuffered ; but continuing obftinately a Pa- 
 pift, he was left out of the Commiflion of the Peace. His 
 next Brother Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Sulyard follow- 
 ed his unhappy Mafter abroad, and entered afterwards 
 into the Dutch Service, married a Lady of Boijlcduc in 
 Brabant, and there died ; his Iflue are ftill living in Flan- 
 ders j and on Failure of the elder Branch are next Heirs 
 of this ancient Family Eftate, which is now in the Pof- 
 feflion of Edward Sulyard, the Grand fon of the laft men- 
 tioned Edward. The Sufferings of this Family are here 
 mentioned to induce Gentlemen who are fo unhappy as 
 to adhere to the Church of Rome, to make a Comparifon 
 between the Severity of former Reigns, and the great 
 Clemency and Mercy of the late and prefent Reigns j 
 which have kept, and ftill keep the penal Laws, like a, 
 iharp Sword in the Scabbard, to be drawn only on De- 
 fence and Provocation, 
 
 Bosmere 
 
[ J 99 ] 
 
 Bos mere and Clay don. 
 
 THE Hundreds of Bofmere and Claydon are bounded 
 by the Liberties of Ipfwich and the Hundred of 
 Samford, on the South ; on the Norths by the 
 Hundreds of Stow, Hartefmere, and Thredling ; on the 
 Eq/i, by Thredling, Loes, and Car/ford ; and on the Weft, 
 by the Hundreds of Cosford and Stow. It contains the 
 feveral Parifhes and Hamlets following, viz. 
 
 Akenham, was the Lord/hip of Hugh le Rous in 
 King John's Time ; for he was admitted to his Freedom 
 of Jpfwich, and paid a Fine for Freedom from Toll for 
 himfelf and his Villains in Akenham, Hemingfion, Hafketon, 
 and elfewhere. From that Family the Hall had its 
 Name, now corruptly called Rice-HaM. In the Reign 
 of Edward IV. it was Philip Barnard's ; then PFbiiepoIe's, 
 who fold it to Mr. Hawes, Town-Clerk of Ipfwich. It 
 is now vefted in William Plumer, Efq. This Church 
 was lately confolidated with Claydon by Sir Thomas Gocch, 
 Bart. Bifhop of Norwich. The Advowfon of both beine 
 now vefted in the Rev. George Drury, late Rector thereof. 
 
 Ashbocking. This Church was impropriated 24 
 July 1326, to the Prior and Convent of Chriji '-Church, 
 Canterbury, who were Patrons of the Vicarage till the Re- 
 formation. The Crown is now Patron j and the Vicar 
 enjoys both great and final 1 Tithes. 
 
 Here is a Manor called Ketts de Campo, now vefted in 
 the Earl of Dyfart ; and another Manor called AJIj-HaW, 
 belonging to Capt. Cockerel/. 
 
 O 4 Badley, 
 
200 Hundred a/Bosmere and Claydon. 
 
 BaDley, formerly the Seat of the Mortimers. The 
 Pooleys had it from about the Year 1460. Richard Gipps, 
 Efq; married an Heirefs of the Pooleys, and fold it to Mrs. 
 Crowley ; and it is now vefted in the Earl of AJhburnham, 
 and Charles Boone, Efq; Member for Cajlle-Rifmg ; who 
 married the two HeireHes of the Crawley Family. The 
 Impropriation was given to the Templars by Robert Fitz- 
 Jefferey and Beatrice his Wife, and confirmed to them by 
 Richard Clare Earl of Hertford. There was a Chauntry 
 here valued at 10/. per Ann. 
 
 Barham. The Manor with the Advowfon of the 
 Rectory belonged to the Prior and Convent of Ely, which 
 with a W ood called Bergham Coppice^ were granted 37 
 Henry VIII. to John Southwell, Efq; there is a noble Mo- 
 nument for one of the Family in the Chancel : It was 
 afterwards in the Family of Wood ; then in the Webbs^ 
 who fold it to Mr. Burch, whofe Son now enjoys it. But 
 the Advowfon of the Rectory is in Nicholas Bacon, of 
 Sbrubland-HdM, Efq. 
 
 Barking. The Manor of Barking with the Advow- 
 fon of the Rectory belonged to the Church of Ely, from 
 the Time of King Edward the Confelfor to the fourth 
 Year of Queen Elizabeth, when they were alienated from 
 it. Queen Elizabeth feems to have kept them in her 
 own Hands ; for Sir Francis Needham bought them of 
 King James I. His eldeft Son fold them to Francis Theo- 
 bald, J£fq; whofe Son is mentioned with Honor for his 
 Skill in Oriental Languages by Dr. Cajlle, in his Lexicon. 
 They now belong to Mrs. Crowlefs Heirs. (See Badley.) 
 
 Battisford. Here was an Hofpital of St. John of 
 Jerufalem, of the yearly Value of 53/. 10 s. which at 
 the Diffolution was granted to Sir Richard Grejham, 
 One of the Manors in this Parifli belonged formerly to 
 
 the 
 
Hundred of Bosmere and Claydon. 201 
 
 the Bifhop of Norwich ; but it was furrendered by Act 
 of Parliament to King Henry VIII. who granted it in 
 1545 to Sir Richard Grejham, and Richard BiU'wgford. 
 Philip Bacon, Efq; had his Seat at the Hall, in Right of 
 his Mother, which hath lately been taken down. 
 
 Baylham, about the Year 1300 was the Lordfhip 
 of John de Burnaville and of his Defendants, till near 
 the Year 1400. About 1450 it came to John Andrews, 
 whofe Daughter Elizabeth marrying to Thomas Wind/or, 
 Efq; it became the Poffeffion of their Son Sir Andrews 
 Wind/or, of Stanwell, afterwards Lord Windfor. The 
 Manor and Advowfon is now vefted in Nathanael Atton % 
 Efq. 
 
 Blakenham Magna. The Manor and Advowfon 
 here was given to the Abbey of Bece in Normandy, by 
 Walter Gifford, Earl of Buckingham ; and was given by 
 King Henry VI. to the Provoft and Fellows of Eaton. 
 
 Blakenham P«to. The Lords of Nettlejlead were 
 Patrons of this Rectory, when the Tibetots, Defpenfers, and 
 Wentworths had that Lordfhip. The Manor and Ad- 
 vowfon were lately in the Milners, but now are veiled 
 in the Right Hon. Lord Orwell. 
 
 Bramford, in 22 Edward I. was the Lordfhip and 
 Demefne of Robert de Tibeiot ; but for many Years the 
 Family of Atton has had their Seat here. ' The Church, 
 with the Berewick of Burjial and Albrightcfton belonging 
 to it, was given to Battle Abbey by King William Rufus ; 
 and that Abbey had the Rectory and were Patrons of the 
 Vicarage till 33 Henry VIII. when it was granted to 
 Chriji-Church Canterbury, in Exchange. The Manor 
 here hath an uncommon Tenure belonging to it ; for 
 the Tenants hold of the Lord by a Leafe of 21 Years, 
 renewed from Time to Time upon a Fine ; and, upon 
 
 the 
 
202 Hundred <?/Bosmere and Claydqn. 
 
 the Death of a Tenant, or an Alienation, the new Tenant 
 is admitted to the Remainder of that Term unexpired ; 
 fo that the Lord hath more Profit from the Lands, than 
 the Tenants have. There was another Manor in Bram- 
 ford belonging to the Bifhop of Ely, as late as the Year 
 1547, which feems to have been in the Hands of Francis 
 Colborne, in 1593. 
 
 Bricet, was remarkable for a Priory founded by 
 Raclulfus Fitzbrian and Emma his Wife, and made a Cell 
 to Nobiliac in France, which occafioned its being fup- 
 prefled as an alien Priory ; and the Revenues of it were 
 thereupon granted to the Provoft and Fellows of King a 
 College in Cambridge, who are Lords of the Manor, and 
 Leffors of the Tithes. 
 
 Bricet Parva. The Prior and Convent of Cluniac 
 Monks at Thetford had the Advowfon of the Church and 
 twelve Acres of Demefne Land, of the Gift of Robert 
 de Reims. The Church, having been long down, hath 
 been annexed to Offton ever fince the Year" 1 503. Tal- 
 mach-Ha\\, in this Place, is faid to have been fometime 
 the Seat of the Kemps, but lately in the Family of the 
 VAutreys ; and of John Luther, Efq; Member for EJex, 
 who is Lord of the Manor of Little Bricet, alias Talmafh- 
 Hall. 
 
 Claydon, is a thorough-fare Village, where the Road 
 divides ; that right forward from Ipfwich, leads to Nor- 
 wich', and that on the left, to Bury St. Edmunds. Thomas 
 Southwell, Efq; had the Manor of Claydon, 9 Elizabeth. 
 The Manor of Claydon-HaW is now vefted in Nathanael 
 Jflon, Efq. The Patronage of the Church feems to have 
 belonged to the Manor of Akenham ; but the Churches 
 are now confolidated, and the Patronage of both is now 
 vefted in the Rev. George Drury, late Reftor thereof. 
 
 Cod- 
 
Hundred of Bosmere and Claydon. 203 
 
 Coddenham. This Church was given to Roy/Ion 
 Priory by Eujlachius de Merc, the Founder of that Priory, 
 about the Year 1220. The Impropriation was granted 
 36 Henry VIII. to Jo. Atkyns ; and coming into the 
 Hands of the Rev. Mr. Balthazar Guardemau Vicar here, 
 was pioufiy by him fettled on Truftees for the Ufe of the 
 Vicar for the Time being for ever. The chief Manor 
 here of Dennies, is now vefted in Nicholas Bacon and 
 Milefon Edgar, Efqrs. Another Manor called the Vicarage t 
 is vefted in the Vicar for the Time being ; and the Manor 
 of Shrubland-Ha.\\ in this Parifh, has for fome time been 
 in the Bacons, now remaining to Nicholas Bacon, Efq; 
 whofe Grandfather Sir Nicholas Bacon was created Knight 
 of the Bath at the Coronation of Charles II. 
 
 Greeting All Saints, and Creeting St. Olaves. 
 There are four contiguous Parifhes in Suffolk, to whom 
 the Names of Creeting is common : That of Creeting St. 
 Peter, already mentioned in Stow Hundred, and thofe 
 three which will be mentioned here. For, tho' Creeting 
 All-Saints is in the Deanery of Stow and Archdeaconry of 
 Sudbury, it is in the Hundred of Bofmere, as well as 
 Creeting St. Olave, and Creeting St. Mary. The Church 
 of Creeting All-Saints is a very ancient Building ; but that 
 of St. Olave hath been long down ; for which Reafon 
 thofe two Reaories were confolidated about the Year 
 1 71 1. St. Olave 's was Handing in 1532, when John 
 Pinkeney ordered his Body to be buried in the Chancel, 
 The Manor of Gratinges in Greeting St. Qlaves, was given 
 by Robert pari of Moreton in Normandy, and of Corniual 
 in England, in the Time of William the Conqueror, to the 
 Abbey of Grefiein in Normandy, which in After- times 
 made it a Cell to that Monaftery, and annexed the Ma- 
 nor to it, as it was held 9 Edward I. It was taken care 
 of by fome Monks belonging thereunto, or by their A- 
 gent the Prior oi Wilmington in SuJJ'ex, their chief Cell in 
 
 England. 
 
 4 
 
204 Hundred of Bosmere and Claydon. 
 
 England. King Edward III. granted this to Tydeman de 
 Lymburgh, a Merchant ; and afterwards, about the Year 
 1347, the Abbot and Convent fold it, by the King's Li- 
 cence to Sir Edmund de la Pole, by the Names of the 
 Manors of Mikelfeld and Creeting. The laft Priors of 
 St. Olave's were William Beverley in 1468, Thomas Baget 
 in 1492, and William Dale in 15 19. The Manor and 
 Advowfon of Creeting All-Saints, as well as St. Olaves> 
 were vefted and continued for a confiderable Time in the 
 ancient and reputable Family of Bridgman ; whofe Heirs 
 in 1 753 an( J conveyed the fame, together with their 
 other Eftatcs in thefe two Parifhes, and the other Greet- 
 ings, to Philip Champion Crefpigny, Efq; of Dottors Com- 
 mons, the prefent Owner and Pofleflbr thereof. 
 
 Creeting St. Mary, is alfo a Rectory ; the Parifh 
 Church of which is clofe to Creeting All- Saints ; and as 
 they ftand very near each other upon an Eminence, they 
 are eafily feen at fome Miles Diftance, and are commonly 
 called Creeting-two-Churches. Creeting St. Mary was 
 in ancient Times mod ufually ftyled the Priory of Creet- 
 ing, and was a Cell to the Abbey of Bernay in Normandy ; 
 and, after the Suppreffion of thofe foreign Houfes, was 
 made Part of the Endowment of Eton College j and it 
 now belongs to the Provoft and Fellows of that College. 
 
 Crowfield, is a Hamlet of Coddenham, and hath 
 nothing worthy of Remark but the Hall, which formerly 
 belonged to the Family of Woodhoufe, who fold it to John 
 Harbottle ; one of whofe Daughters and Coheirefles mar- 
 ried to Henry Wingfield. It was lately the Seat of Henry 
 Harwood, Efq; then of Theodore Ecclejlon ; and now of 
 William Middleton, Efq; who is alfo Lord of the Manor. 
 
 Darmsden, is a Hamlet of Barking. The Manor of 
 Tajion-Hall in Darmfden belonged to Lord Windfor, A.D. 
 1596. It is now in ths Heirs of Mr. Crowley. 
 
 Flowton* 
 
Hundred of Bosmere ^tz^Claydon. 205 
 
 Flowton. 
 
 Gosbeck.. Here feems to have been three Manors in 
 Queen Elizabeth's Time, viz. one belonging to Mr. "Jer- 
 myn, to which the Advowlbn was appendant ; and this, 
 we think, belongeth now to Lord Orwell ; another be- 
 longing to Mr. Stibes ; and another called Ketfalfield y be- 
 longing to the Talmachs. 
 
 Hemingston. Mr. Cambderis Account of this Place 
 is this : '* That in it Baldwin le Pettcur (obferve the 
 " Name) held Lands by Serjeantry, for which he was 
 " obliged, every Cbri/imas-day, to perform before our 
 " Lord the King of England, one Saltus, one Sufflatus, 
 *f and one Bumbulus ; or, as it is read in another Place, 
 " he held it by a Saltus, a Snjflas, and Pettus ; that is, 
 
 (if I apprehend it right) he was to dance, make a noife 
 ** with his Cheeks, and let a F — t. Such was the plain 
 " jolly Mirth of thofe Days. It is alfo obferved that the 
 *' Manor of Langhall belonged to this Fee." Cambd. 
 Vol. I. p. 443. Here is the Seat of Richard Colvilky 
 Efq. 
 
 Helmingham. The Priorefs and Nuns of Flixton 
 near Bungay were Patrons of this Reclory, till about the 
 Year 1 320 ; when they gave this Patronage to the Bifhop 
 of Norwich, for that of Flixton. From that Time the 
 Bifliop was Patron till the Reformation, when the Crown 
 claimed it, and hath prefented ever frnce. This Parifli 
 hath been remarkable for a Family who took their Name 
 from the Place, arid had their Seat at Crekes-Ha]), now 
 called Helmingham-RaW ; but it hath for many Years 
 been more memorable for being the Seat of that very an* 
 cient and noble Family of Tallmache. Toed/nag, as the 
 Name was then fpelt, was faid in Domefday Book, to' 
 poffefs Lands, &c. Hugh Tahnache fubferibed the Char- 
 ter fans Date (about the Reign of King Stephen) made to 
 2 the. 
 
£o6 Hundred c/Bosmere and Claydon; 
 
 the Abbefs of God/low, in Oxford/hire. The Family wa3 
 feated at Bent ley in San/ford Hundred, until Lionel Tal- 
 
 mache of Bentley, married the Heir of u Helmingham, 
 
 of Helmingham, Efq; whereby he acquired the Inheritance 
 and made this Place his Refidence. Lionel his Grandfon, 
 was High-Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 4 Henry VIII. or 
 J 5 J 3 : A g aill > Sir Lionel the Grandfon of this Gentleman 
 was High-Sheriff of Suffolk 34 Elizabeth •, and knighted 
 by her. He was fucceeded by his Son and Heir 
 Z/W/, who was created a Baronet at the firft Inftitution 
 of that Dignity, 22 A% 161 1 ; and was the twelfth 
 Perfon who received that Honour. Sir Lionel Talmache, 
 Grandfon of the firft Baronet, married Elizabeth Daughter 
 and Heir of William Murray 9 Earl of Dyfart in Scotland ; 
 and his Son and Heir Sir Lionel Tabnashe fucceeded him 
 in Honour and Eftate ; and after the Death of his Mo* 
 ther (who had married for a fecond Hufband John Mait- 
 land, Duke of Lauderdale) by the Laws of Scotland, he 
 became Lord Huntingtower and Earl of Dyfart. He was 
 ele&ed Knight of the Shire for Suffolk in three Parlia- 
 ments called by King William III. and was again elected 
 Knight of the Shire till the A6t of Union 6 Queen Anne 
 declared him a Peer of Great-Britain. He was in Queen 
 June's Reign Lord Lieutenant, Cujlos Rotulorum, and 
 Vice-Admiral of Suffolk, and High-Steward of the Bo-' 
 rough of Ipfwich. He had Iffue Lionel Lord Huntings 
 tower, who died in his Father's Life-time, leaving Iffue 
 Lionel his Son, who fucceeded his Grandfather in Honor 
 and Eftate ; and is the prefent Earl of Dyfart, Knight of 
 the Thiftle, and High-Steward of the Borough of Ipf- 
 wich. The Lordlhip of this Parifti is vefted in his Lord- 
 fhip, called Creikjhall. 
 
 Henley. The Veres have for many Years fat leaii 
 200 Years) had a Seat here, which is now vefted. in 
 Thomas Fere, of Norwich, Efq; and lately one of the Re- 
 prefentatives in Parliament for that City. 
 
 Mick- 
 
Hundred of Bosmere and Claydon. 207 
 
 Mickfield. Two Manors are mentioned here, viz. 
 the Manor of TVolney-UzW, and the Manor of Flede-Hz\\*. 
 The firft of which feems to have belonged to the alien 
 Priory of Grejlein in Normandy, and to have been by that 
 Convent fold to Tydemannus dc Lymbergh, about the Year 
 I3.47. One of thefe Manors belongeth now to William 
 Middleton, of Crow field, Efq; the other to Lord Orwell. 
 
 Needham, is a Hamlet of Barking. It hath formerly 
 had a considerable Trade in the Woollen Manufactory, 
 but the Trade is now in a manner loft : However it is 
 pretty well built, and has a mean Market Weekly on 
 Wednefdays, but a confiderable Fair Yearly on 28, 29, 
 and 30th Days of Otlobcr ; which, as we fuppofe, is the 
 lame that was granted to the Bifhop of Ely, to be held 
 in his Manor of Barking, 10 Henry III. 
 
 Nettl e stead. The Earls of Richmond and Brit- 
 tany had the Lordfliip here from the Conqueft to 17 
 Henry II. when Conan the laft Earl died. Sir Peter Mau- 
 clere (who married Alice the Daughter of Conjlance, the 
 only Daughter and Heirefs of Conan) had Livery of this 
 Manor 15 Henry III. Peter de Savoy had a Grant of it 
 25 Henry III. Robert Tibetot died at Nettlefiead, poffefled 
 of this M anor, 25 Edward I. Pain de Tibetot died feifed 
 7 Edward II. John de Tibetot died feifed 41 Edward III. 
 and Robert de Tibetot died feifed 4.6 Edward 111. leaving 
 no Male Iffue. After this it belonged a little while to 
 the Family of Defpenfers. About the Year 1450 it be- 
 came the Eftate of Roger Wentworih, whofe Defendants 
 were created Lords by Henry VIII. and it continued in 
 this Family to the Time of King Charles I. when Thomas 
 Wentworth Earl of Cleveland fold it to William Lodge, 
 Citizen of London. It fince belonged to Mr. John Fuller, 
 of Ipfwich; and is now vefted in the Heir of William 
 
 Bradley, 
 
 * See Creetlng St. Olaves, &c. 
 
208 Hundred <?/Bosmere and Claydon. 
 
 Bradley, Efq; who married the only Daughter and Heirefs 
 of Mr. Fuller. 
 
 Offton, is remarkable for a Caftle built on a chalky 
 Hill by Offa, King of the Mercians, after he had flam 
 Etheldred King of the Eajl- Angles ; and from him it is 
 faid the Town took its Name. The Caftle is now fo en- 
 tirely demoliftied, that not the leaft Rubbim. of it remains. 
 The Prior and Convent of Monks at Thetford, had the 
 Advowfon of the Church, and thirty Acres of Land here; 
 and the Manor, Re&ory, and Advowfon of the Vicarage 
 were granted, as Parcel of the faid Monks Poflefiions, to 
 Thomas Duke of Norfolk 32 Henry VIII. in Exchange. 
 The Manor is now veiled in Gideon Glanville, Efq. 
 
 Ringshall. Befides the Parifti Church here was for- 
 merly a Free-Chapel belonging to the Prior and Convent 
 of Norwich, endowed with thirty Acres of Land : Some 
 Ruins of it are faid to be now remaining. The late Sir 
 William Bar for, Bart, of Ireland, had the Hall and Manor 
 here ; but, upon his Death they were fold, and are now 
 vefted in William Watfon, Efq. 
 
 Somersham. The Family of Bohun Earls of North- 
 ampton, were many Years Patrons of this Rectory, and 
 Lords of the Manor ; which, with that of Offton, were 
 granted to Henry Stafford Duke of Buckingham, by King 
 Richard III. in 1423. Katherine Queen of England pre- 
 fented to it, in Right of the Manor of Somerjham, which 
 fhe had by the Grant of King Henry VI. The old Wills 
 make mention of a Chapel in Somerfloam-Jlrect. The 
 Manor and Advowfon are now vefted in Richard Gideon 
 Glanville, Efq. 
 
 Stonham-^/, is fo called from a Family of the. 
 Name of Jfpale, or Hafpele, who were for many Years 
 Lords and Patrons here. It was alfo called Stonham An- 
 
 tegan. 
 
Hundred of Bosmere and Claydon. 209 
 
 fegan. The Manor and Advowfon of Stonham- Afpal is 
 lately veiled by Purchafe in IViUiatn Middleton, Efq; of 
 Crowfeld-Haft. In this Pafifh and very near the Church, 
 a Branch of the ancient Family of Wingfeld (fee p. 171.) 
 had a Seat called Brougbton-Hz\\, and were Lords of a 
 Manor here called Breugbton-HzW Manor. The laffc 
 PoflelTor whereof the Rev. John IVingfield, M. A. died 
 without Iffue Male ; as did his Brother Thomas not long 
 fince, who was the laft Heir-Male of this Family. Philip 
 Champion Crefpigny, Efq; purchafed the Eflate and Manor 
 of Broughtcn-HzW, and is the prefent Poflcffor and Pro- 
 prietary thereof. 
 
 Stonham-.£W, is fo called, becaufe it was ancient- 
 ly the Lordfhip of Thomas Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk j 
 and afterwards of William Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, who 
 married the Grand-daughter of Thomas Brotherton. It 
 was afterwards Sir Thomas Grejham's. It is now veiled 
 in Thomas Driver. The Duke of Norfolk had a Grant 
 of a Market and Fair here, 1 Edward III. And all the 
 three Parilhes of Stonham are ftill a Part of the Duke of 
 Norfolk's Liberty ; but the Advowfon of this Church is 
 in the College of Pembroke- Hall, in Cambridge. 
 
 Stonham -Parvs , or Stonham Jernegans, becaufe the 
 fernegans were Lords here till the Time of Edward VI. 
 (fee Horham, in Hoxne ;) then the Goodwyns, who fold the 
 Manor to Lady Rivers. It is now verted in the Right 
 Hon. Lord Orwell. 
 
 Swill and. Bartholomew Burgherjh, and after him 
 Edward le Defpenfer died feifed of this Manor in the Time 
 of Edward HL The Church was early impropriated to 
 the NunS of Wykes, in Ejfcx ; and the Impropriation was 
 granted to Cardinal IVolfey, towards the Endowment of his 
 College at Ipfwich, A.D. 1528 ; but the Vicar hath now 
 the great as well as fmall Tithes, 
 
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■ } 2io Hundred a/Bosmere and Clay wnr. 
 
 Willisham. The Church here was given by Albert 
 G relit to the Prior and Convent of the Holy Trinity in 
 Ipjwich, before the Year 1203 ; and, at the Diflblution, 
 the Tenement, Canons, and the Impropriation, were grant- 
 ed as Parcel of the Pofleffions of that Priory to Andrews 
 Lord Wind/or, 31 Henry VIII. ft was afterwards Bifliop 
 Brownrigg's ; and is now veiled in the Rev. Mr. John 
 Leake, and the Rev. Mr. Upcher - } as is the Lordfhip of 
 Willijham. 
 
 Westerfield. See Ipfwich, p. 51. 
 
 Whitton. In tills Parifh is a good old Seat, com- 
 monly called the Sparrows- Nejl, but formerly Whitton- 
 Hall j lately the Refidence of Edmund Hammond, Efqj 
 and now of William Hamilton, Efq. See p. 51. 
 
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Hundred of Thingoe, 
 in the Francbife of St. Edmund. 
 
 THIS Hundred abutteth Eaft on the Hundred of 
 Thediuajlre j South, on Babergh and Rijhridge ; 
 Weft, on Rijbridge and Lackford; and North, on the 
 Hundred of Blackbourn. 
 
 We begin with this Hundred, becaufe Bury St. Ed- 
 munds, the Metropolis of this Part of the County, is con- 
 tained in it. Had it been in our Power, we mould have 
 been glad to have been more particular in our Account 
 of this beautiful Town. 
 
 It is fituated on the Weft-tide of the River Lark, which 
 is now made navigable from Lynn to Fornham, about a 
 Mile North of this Town. It has a moft beautiful in- 
 clofed Country on the South and South- Weft, and on the 
 North and North- Weft the moft delicious Champaign 
 Fields, extending themfelves to Lynn, and that Part of 
 the County of Norfolk. The Country on the Eqft is 
 partly open, and partly inclofed. Stow tells us, " That 
 " in the Year 1608 April 1 1, being Monday, the Quarter- 
 " Seflions was held at St. Edrnundjbury, and by Negli- 
 " gence an Out-Malthoufe was fet on Fire ; from whence 
 " in moft ftrange and fudden Manner, through fierce 
 " Winds, the Fire came to the fartheft Side of the Town, 
 " agd as it went, left fome Streets and Houfes fafe and 
 <c untouched. The Flame flew clean over many Houfes 
 <c near it, and did great Spoil to many fair Buildings far- 
 " theft off ; and ceafed not till it had confumed Onehun- 
 ec dred and fixty Dwelling-Houfes, befides others j and 
 " in Damage of Wares and Houfhold- fluff to the fulj 
 P 2 «« Value 
 
212 Hundred of Thingoe, 
 
 « Value of Sixty Thoufand Pounds." This Accident, 
 however terrible and diftrefsful in itfelf, might poflibly 
 occafion in a good meafure one agreeable Circumftance, 
 which is, the great Regularity of the Streets. For thefe 
 are now feen cutting each other at Right- Angles, which 
 contributes much to the Beauty of them, and as the 
 Town (lands upon an eafy Afcent, it deferves the Enco- 
 mium which an ancient Writer has given of it, viz. 
 " That the Sun Alines not upon a Town more agreeable 
 " in its Situation." Leland. 
 
 The Abbey which was once fo illuftrious was firft built 
 by Sigebert King of the Eajl- Angles, foon after Chriftia- 
 nity was planted here by Felix the Burgundian, and being 
 finimed King Sigebert about the Year 638 retired into 
 k, and fecluded himfelf from all temporal Affairs. 
 
 As to St. Edmund, from whom the Town hath taken 
 its Name, we may well fuppofe him to have defcended 
 from the Royal Blood of the Saxons. He began to reign 
 as King of the Eajl- Angles A.D. 855, in the fourteenth. 
 Year of his Age. Some have imagined that he was 
 crowned here j but our Zeal for the Honour of this 
 Town ought not to lead us into fo vulgar an Error, for 
 that Ceremony was performed at Buers, as will be men- 
 tioned in our Account of that Town. He reigned fifteen 
 Years, being killed A.D. 870, in the twenty-ninth Year 
 of his Age ; and bis Corpfe having lain interred in the 
 Town where he was killed (generally fuppofed to be 
 Hoxne) thirty-three Years, was removed to Bury. On 
 this Account, and through the Superftition of that Age, 
 the Revenue of the Abbey increafed fo faft, that the 
 Monks, greedy to fwallow all the Prey, accufed the Se- 
 culars among other Things of Negligence and Irreverence 
 to the Corpfe of St. Edmund j fo petulant was the Accu- 
 fation, and fo ftrong their Intereft, that they procured 
 Power and Authority to eject all the Seculars, and to fill 
 their Places with thefe of their own> the Bmediftine Or- 
 der, 
 
Hundred c/ Thingoe. 213 
 
 der. This they accomiplifhed about the Year 1020, and 
 in the fourth Year of King Canute, who then laid the 
 Foundation of a more magnificent Church, to the Honour 
 of this Martyr ; the former in which he had been depo- 
 sited being but a Wooden Building, or, at beft, covered 
 with Wood. The Expence of this Fabrick was raifed by 
 zn annual Tax of Fouj-pence on every ploughed Land 
 in Suffolk and Norfolk. It was finifhed in the Space of 
 about twelve Years, and confecrated by Othelnoth, or A- 
 gelnorth, Archbifhop of Canterbury, and dedicated to Chri/l i 
 St. Mary, and St. Ed?nund. 
 
 Uvius, Prior of Hidm, was confecrated the firft Abbot, 
 1020; and in the next Year this Abbev was ex- 
 empted from all Epifcopal Jurifdi&ion by the Council of 
 Wincbejler. He firft encompafled the Abbey, and a Part, 
 if not the whole of the Town, with a Wall and a Ditch, 
 the Ruins of which are ftill to be feen in many Places. 
 Thus was the Grandeur of this Abbey begun ; Its Ab- 
 bots were made Parliamentary Barons, and its Wealth 
 yearly increafed, until i ts final Diffolution by Henry VIII. 
 when its yearly Revenues amounted to 2336/. 16s. in 
 the whole, and to 1659/. 13X. 1 \\d. clear of Reprifes. 
 And the Plate, Bells, Lead, Timber, yielded 5000 
 Marks to the King. When the Abbey was in its Pro- 
 fperity, there was an Hofpital or Religious Houfe at every 
 Gate of the Town. There was an Hofpital of St. 
 Peter, without the Rijly-Gzte, for the Maintenance of 
 leprous and infirm Priett-s ; an Hofpital of St. Nicholas, 
 without the Eq/l-gate 3 of St. John within, and St. Pe- 
 tronilla without, the South-gate : The Ruins of them 
 are at this Day to be feen. But the moft famous of the 
 Hofpitals was that of St. Saviour's, without the North- 
 Gate ; an entire Window of which is ftill remaining. 
 It was in this Building that the Parliament met in Henry 
 the Sixth's Time ; and it was here that Humphrey Duke 
 of Gloucejler was murdered, at the Inftigation of the 
 
 P 3 Monks. 
 
214 Hundred Thingoi, 
 
 Monks. There was alfo a College of Priefis, with 3 
 Guild to the holy or fweet Name of Jefus, the Situation 
 of which is not known ; and a Houfe of Grey Friers at 
 Barwell, or the Toll- Gate, without the North-Gate 5 
 whither they retired to, after they were driven out of the 
 Town by the Abbot. 
 
 Lands and Tenements called Hencotes, near Bury, with 
 Pafture for 360 Sheep late belonging to the Abbey, were 
 granted 1 Mary to Sir William Drury Knt. And a Mea- 
 dow in Bury, Nowton and Whelnetham-parva, called 
 Siclefmere, late belonging to the Abbey, was granted 
 I Mary, to Ambroje Jermyn. The Site of the Abbey, 
 with two Meadows and a Manor or Farm in Bury called 
 Haldotis, were granted to John Eyre, 2 Elizabeth. A Parcel 
 of Tithes, the Markets and Fairs and Toll of the fame, 
 and the Toll-Houfe, the Butchers Stalls, Goal, and Goal- 
 Houfe, and Market- Crofs, were granted to the Aldermen 
 and Burgeffes 6 Jac. I. as Parcel of the Pofleflions of the 
 Abbot and Convent. 
 
 The Abbot, as was faid before, was a Parliamentary 
 Baron ; but it is obfervable this Borough made no Return, 
 tho' it had a Precept iffued to it 30 Edward I. (except to 
 a Council, 11 Edward III.) before the Time of King 
 'James I. who made it a Parliamentary Borough about the 
 twelfth Year of his Reign. 
 
 A Parliament was held here by King Edward I. J.D. 
 12985 and another by King Henry VI. A.D. 1447 ; 
 when Humphrey Duke of Gloccfter was murdered here, 
 as Mr. Lombard reports, by the Hand of Pole, then 
 puke of Suffolk. 
 
 The Civil Government of the Town is now lodged in 
 the Hands of an Alderman, a Recorder, twelve Capital 
 Burgeffes, and twenty-four Common Burgeffes : Thefe have 
 the fole Right of chuling their own Burgefles in Par-? 
 Jjament. 
 
Hundred of Thingoe. 215 
 
 "King Edward I. and King Edward II. had Mints in 
 Bury ; and fome of their Pennys, coined here, are yet re- 
 maining. Stow fays, here was alfo a Mint in King 
 Johns Time. 
 
 Inftead of the many Chapels and Oratories which were 
 formerly in this Town^ there are now only two magnifi- 
 cent and (lately Churches, Handing in the fame Church- 
 yard : The one dedicated to St. Mary 9 is 139 Feet long 
 by 67 Feet and a half broad, and the Chancel of it is 
 74 by 68 : The Roof of the Nave of St. Marys Church 
 is truly magnificent : There is a fine Afcent of fix Steps 
 to the Altar, on the North-fide of which is the Tomb of 
 Mary Queen of France, Daughter of Henry VII. and af- 
 terwards married to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. 
 This Queen of France was buried in the great Church 
 of the Monaftery, and was removed after the Diflblution 
 of it into St. Mary's Church ; her Body is cov-ered wich 
 L.ead, refembling an human Shape, and on her Breaft is 
 infcribed, " Mary Queen of France, 1533." Her Tomb 
 was not only fimple and unadorned, but for a long Series 
 of Years entirely neglected. It was even without any 
 Infcription till the Year 1758, when a Gentleman of the 
 Town, out of a pious Regard for Antiquity, and efpe- 
 cially for fo valuable a Poffefiion, had the Tomb repaired 
 at his own Expence, and a Marble Tablet inferted into it. 
 
 The' other Church, dedicated to St. James, was nniflied 
 in the Reign of Edward VI. who was himfelf a Contri- 
 butor to it, as appears from an Infcriptioirin the Church : 
 It is 137 Feet long by 69 Feet, the Chancel is 56 by 27 
 Feet ; at the Wejl End of the South Me are two large Mo- 
 numents creeled to the Memory of James Reynolds, Efq; 
 Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and his Lady, who 
 were buried here. In this Church is an Organ lately 
 erected, and a Library convenient enough, but which has 
 no Curiofities, except a M.S.- of Beck's Ecclefiaftical Hi- 
 story, and Demetrius Chalcondylass Edition of Homer* 
 
 ? 4 The 
 
2i6 Hundred of Thingoe. 
 
 The Steeple of the Church of St. James, and the Ab-» 
 bey-gate, are Buildings which muft excite the Attention 
 of the Curious : The former was anciently the grand 
 Portal, that led to the great Church of the Monaftery j 
 the Arches of the Tower are all round of a Saxon Form, 
 and feem to be much older than Henry Third's Time, 
 The Abbey-gate, which conducted you to the private 
 Court of the Abbot, is a Mafter-piece of Gothic Architec- 
 ture ; it was built in the Reign of Richard the Second 3 
 the Townfmen having demoliflied the former Gate in his 
 Grandfather's Time, upon a Quarrel with the Monks : 
 The Infide of it is adorned with the Arms of Holland 
 Duke of Exeter, and of Edward the Confeflbr, who was 
 the Favourite Saint of Richard II. 
 
 The reft of the public Buildings are the Guild-Hall, 
 jche Grammar- School endowed by King Edward VI. the 
 Market-Crofs, the Wool-Hall, and the Shire-Houfe ; 
 nor myft: we omit the Butchery, which has been lately 
 built at the Expence of the prefent Earl of Brijlol, his 
 Majefty's EmbaiTador at the Court of Spain. 
 
 There are two Market-Days, Wednejdays and Saturr 
 days', the chief Market is on Wednefday, which is very 
 well ferved with all manner of Provifions. There are 
 alio three annual Fairs ; the firft on Eajler T'uefday, the 
 fecond for three Days before the Feaft of St. Matthew, 
 Sept. 21, and three Days after ; but this is ufually pro- 
 tracted to an uncertain Length, for the Diverfipn of the 
 Nobility and Gentry that relurt to it : The third is ori 
 St. Edmund's Day, Nov. 20. 
 
 The other Towns in this Hundred are thefe, viz. 
 Barrow, was anciently the Lordfhip and Seat of the 
 Countefs of Glocejler ; afterwards it belonged to Bartho- 
 lomew Lord Badlejmcre, who adhering to the Earl of Lan- 
 cajler againft King Edward II. was taken Prifoner at 
 jBurrow-Brigg in Torkjlnre, and hanged at Bleen near 
 
 Canterbury^ 
 
Hundred of Thin go e. 217 
 
 Canterbury, 16 Edward II. or A.D. 1322. By an Inqui- 
 fition taken 2 Edward III. he died feifed jointly with 
 Margaret his Wife of the Manor of Barewe in Com. Stiff. 
 and the Advowfon of the Church : Giles, his Son and 
 Heir, died feifed 9 Edward III. leaving his four Sifters 
 Jieirs : His Widow enjoyed Barewe for Life ; but, after 
 herDeceafe, 15 Edward III. it was upon Partition af- 
 figned to his Sifter Margaret, then the Wife of John de 
 Tybetot. Robert, the Son of John de Tybetot,, died feifed 
 of Barewe, 46 Edward III. leaving his three Daughters 
 Heirs. The Ruins of their Seat a little South of the 
 Church, befpeak it to have been a very noble Structure. 
 The Manor is now vefted in the Earl of Brijlol ; the Ad- 
 vowfon of the Redory in St, John's College, Cambridge. 
 
 Brockley, is the Lordfliip of George Thomas, Efq. 
 
 Chevington. KingWilliam the Conqueror gave this 
 Lordfhip to the Abbot and Convent of Bury, at the De- 
 fire of Abbot Baldwyn, The Manor, Park, and Advow- 
 fon of the Church were granted 3 1 Henry VIII. to Sir 
 Thomas Kit/on. The Earl of Brijlol is now Lord of the 
 JVIanor. 
 
 Flempton, This Manor belonged likewife to Bury 
 Abbey, and was granted 31 Henry VIII. to Sir Thomas 
 JCitfon. Sir William Gage, Bart, now hath it. 
 
 Fornham All-Saints, is the Lordfhip of Sir William 
 Gage; in this Parifh is a Seat which belongs to Thomas 
 Mofely, Efq. The Advowfon of the Redory is in Clare- 
 Hall, Cambridge. 
 
 HAKBWicK-Houfe, is extra-parochial, and came by 
 Marriage from the Drurys to the Cullums. Near it is an. 
 Pofpital for fix Wjdows, founded by the Drurys. 
 
 Hargrave. 
 
 2 
 
2 i o* Hundred u/-Thingoe. 
 
 Hargrave. This Manor and Advowfon belonged to 
 Bury Abbey, and was granted 31 Hen. VJII. to Sir Thomas 
 Kit/on ; from the Kitfons they came to the Gages by Mar- 
 riage, and by Sale from Sir Edward Gage to the Earl of 
 
 Briftal 
 
 Hawstead. Thomas Fitz-Eujlace had this Manor and 
 Eftate 9 Edward II. but in the Reign of Edward IV. it 
 belonged to the very ancient Family of Drurys, who had 
 their Seat at the Manor-Houfe called Hawjlead-Place. 
 This Family produced many famous Men, the greateft of 
 whom was Sir Willia?n Drury, who atchieved great Things 
 in Ireland, mentioned by Mr. Cambden in his Life of Queen 
 Elizabeth. The Cullums are now in Pofleffion of this 
 Manor and Seat, by marrying an Heirefs of that Family. 
 The Founder of their Family was Sir Thomas, Citizen and 
 Sheriff of London 22 Charles I. His Son Thomas Cullum of 
 this Place, was created a Baronet 18 "June, 1660. In the 
 Parifh Church are fome very old Monuments of the 
 Drury s, 
 
 Hengrave, anciently the Lordfhip of Edmund de Hen- 
 grave , in the Reign of Edward I. Thomas Hethe was Lord 
 of Hengrave , A.D. 1375. Henry Lord Grey of Codnoure, 
 had a Grant of the Manor 1 Richard III. but afterwards 
 it came to the Kitfons, who built Hengrave-HAl in Henry 
 the Eighth's Time, and made it their Seat. It has for 
 fome Defcents been in the Family of the Gages, from 
 Mary Daughter and Coheir of Sir Thomas Kit/on it der- 
 fcended to Sir Edward Gage, as Inheritor of his Mother's 
 Eftate. George Gage, of Heng rave- Hall, Efq; was created 
 a Baronet 1 5 July, 1662. The Honour and Eftate is 
 now vefted in Sir William Gage, Bart. The Houfe is ex- 
 tremely large, and defervedly efteemed one of the fineft 
 old Fabricks in England. There are a few Monuments 
 in the Church, among which thofe of the Bouchiers Earls 
 of Bath, are the moft famous. 
 
 BoR- 
 
Hundred of Thingol 219 
 
 Horn ingsherth, commonly called Horringer. Here 
 were formerly two Parifh Churches, diftinguifhed by the 
 Names of Horningjhertb Magna, and Parva : The latter 
 Church is quite demolifhed. The Parifhes were confo- 
 lidated yf. D. 1548. They feem formerly to have be- 
 longed to Bury Abbey, and are now the Lordfhip of Sir 
 Charles Davers, who is Patron of the Church. Here are 
 two Fairs for Lambs, on St. John Bapti/l's Day, and St. 
 Bartholomew's Day, upon the Sheep Green ; at the up-* 
 per End of which Valentine Mumbee, Efq; hath built a 
 neat Seat. 
 
 Horsecrgft, is a Hamlet to Horringer, in which the 
 very ancient Family of the Lucas's refided. The Eftate 
 was purchafed by Mr. Turner, of Bury. 
 
 Ickworth, formerly belonged to the Abbey of Bury y 
 by the Gift of Theodred, Bifhop of London. The whole 
 Parifh is now converted into a Park, in which is the 
 Seat of the Family of Hervey s, who acquired this Eftate 
 by their Marriage with the Drurys. John Lord Hervey 
 was created a Baron of this Realm by the Title of Lord 
 Hervey of Ickworth, by Queen Anne j and his Lordfhip 
 was advanced to the more honourable Title of Earl of 
 Brijlol, by his Majefty King George I. The prefent Earl 
 is the Grandfon of John the firft Earl. In this Place the 
 late learned Dr. Battley, Archdeacon of Canterbury, aflerts, 
 that in his Memory a large Pot of Ro?nan Money was 
 found. The Park is full nine Miles in Circumference, 
 and may juftly vie with any one in this Ifiaiid. 
 
 Lackforq. Hugh de St. Philebert died feifed of the 
 Manors of Lackford and Blemton in Suffolk, 7 Edward III. 
 The Advowfon of the Redlory, late belonging to Bury 
 Abbey, was granted 2 Mary to Edward Lord North, and 
 John Williams, It is at prefent the Lordfhip of Samuel 
 Kent, Efq. 
 
 Now TON, 
 
220 Hundred c/ Thingoe. 
 
 Nowton, is theLordfllip of Sir Charles Davers, who 
 is Patron likewife of the Church, and of all the Villages 
 near Bury ; it enjoys the moft beautiful Situation. 
 
 Reed, confifteth of two Manors; Pickards, which is 
 the Earl of Brj/iol's ; and Reed-Hall, which belongs to 
 Philips Coleman, of Ipfwich, Efq. In this Parifliis a Man- 
 fion called D awnings, the Inheritance of the ancient Fa- 
 mily of Sparrowe. The Church is in the Gift of the 
 Crown. 
 
 R isby. King Edward the Confeflbr gave this Manor 
 to Bury Abbey ; it was granted in 31 Henry VIII. to Sir 
 Thomas Kit/on ; and is now vefted in Sir William Gage 9 
 Bart. 
 
 SAXHAM-Magna. The Manor and Advowfon belonged 
 to Bury Abbey, and were granted 33 Henry VIII. to Sir 
 Richard Long and his Wife. It was for many Years the 
 Seat of the Family of Eldrcd. Revet Eldred, of this Place, 
 Efq; was created a Baronet 29 Jan. 1641 ; but the Ho- 
 nour is now extinft. The Hall and Eftate is now in the 
 Pofleffion of Hutchinfon Mure, Efq; who purchafed it of 
 the late Mr. Eldred. 
 
 $AXHAM-Parva. Thomas Hetbe was Lord of Saxham- 
 Parva, about the Year 1375; but this Place is moft 
 noted for having been the Seat of the Family of the Lucas's, 
 and afterwards of the Crofts ; of which William Crofts, 
 Efq; was by K. Charles II. at BruJJ'els in Brabant, created 
 Lord Crofts, of Saxham ; he leaving no Male Iflue, the 
 Honour became extinct at his Death : But the Hall and 
 Eftate here belong now to William Crofts, Efq; who is 
 a Gentleman of that Family, and refides chiefly at Har- 
 ling in Norfolk, 
 
 S0UTH-.fW s 
 
Hundred c/Thingoe.. 221 
 
 So\JTH-Park, Southwood^ or Southwell-V 'ark, is an ex- 
 traparochial Place ; the greateft Part of which belongs to 
 Gilbert Jffieck, Efq. 
 
 Westly, was anciently the Lordftiip of the Abbot of 
 Bury, by the Gift of Bifhop Alfrie, furnamed the Goody 
 and granted 31 Henry VIII. to Sir Thomas Kitfon. It is 
 now vefted in Sir William Gage. The Advowfon of the 
 Rectory is in Clare-Hall, in Cambridge. 
 
 Whepstead. The Manor and Advowfon here were 
 given to Bury Abbey, by Tbeodred Bifhop of London, and 
 granted to Sir William Drury 31 Henry VIII. The firft 
 is now vefted in Mr. Grigby, of Bury ; and the latter in 
 Mr. Horrex, of London. 
 
 Hundred 
 
[ 222 j 
 
 Hundred <?/ Thedwastre. 
 
 ' § ^ H E Hundred of Thedwajlre is bounded on the 
 South by the Hundreds of Babergh and Cosford; 
 on the Eajl by the Hundred of Stow; on the 
 
 North by the Hundred of Blackbourn ; and on the Weji 
 
 by the Hundred of Tbingoe. 
 
 Ampton, was anciently the Lordfhip of the Abbot of 
 Bury. The Calthorpes have long refided at Ampon-YLtiX, 
 which is now veiled in James Calthorpe, Efq. 
 
 Barton, called Great Barton, to diftinguifti it from 
 Little Barton or Barton- Mills, in Lackford Hundred, was 
 formerly the Lordfliip of the Abbot of Bury. Bifhop 
 Theodred gave one Part of Barton ; Edwin, a wealthy 
 Man, gave another Part ; and Erec the Provoft, the 
 other Part : We don't find to whom the Manor, Rec- 
 tory and Advowfon of the Vicarage of this Place were 
 granted ; but a Parcel of Land in Great Barton, called 
 Ox-Pajhre, containing One Hundred Acres, late belong- 
 ing to Bury Abbey, was granted 31 Henry VIII. to Sir 
 Thomas Kit/on. But fince this has been the Eftate of the 
 ancient Family of the Cottons, who dwelt at 2V^77-Hall 
 >n this Parifh, which was purchafed by Thomas Folkes, Efq; 
 
 °f Audlcy, Efq; by whom the prefent Manfion was 
 
 built. The Manor and a confiderable Eftate with it, 
 was conveyed to Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart, who married 
 the Daughter and Heirefs of Mr. Folkes. It is now the 
 Seat of the Rev. Sir William Bunbury, Bart, the Nephew 
 and Heir of Sir Thomas Hanmer, ajid of late Years hath 
 
 been 
 
Hundred cf Thedwa stre. 223 
 
 been very confiderably improved by him ; whofe Son is 
 now Reprefentative of the County. 
 
 Beighton, though a {mail Village, has a Donation 
 for a Lecture on the firft Thurfday in every Month. The 
 Lordfhip of it belongs to the Crown, and the Rectory is 
 in the Gift of the Lord Chancellor. 
 
 Bradfield-GwzZw/?. This Manor belonged to Giles 
 Lord Badlef?nere i whofe Daughter Margery married Wil- 
 liam Lord Roos, of Hamclake ; and after her Mother's 
 Deceafe had Brende Bradjield afligned to her, 15 Edw. III. 
 Thomas Lord Rofs died 8 Richard II. feifed of the Manors 
 of Wyfette and Brende Bradjield. Mr. Blomfield fpeaks of 
 the Jervaces of Sutton-Ha\\, in Burnt- Bradjield, and of 
 Mr. Edmund Wright's marrying the Heirefs of the Family. 
 The Heir of the late Dr. Young has the Advowfon of the 
 Church and Lordfliip. 
 
 Bradfield St. Clare. The LorcHhip belongs to Ed- 
 ward Wenyeve, Efq; defcended from an old Family in 
 this County. (See Brettenham, in Cosford.) 
 
 Bradfield St. George, or Monks-Bradfield, fo called 
 for Diftin£tion ; becaufe the Manor and Advowfon of the 
 Church belonged to the Abbey of Bury, by the Gift of 
 Bifhop Alfric, and Earl Ulfketel. They were granted 31 
 Henry VIH. to Sir 7bomas Jermyn, Knt* a.nd are now 
 vefted in Sir Charles Davers, Bart. 
 
 Drinkeston. Henry Lord Bouchier died feifed of the 
 Manor of Dringejlen in Suffolk, 23 Edward IV. The 
 Manor and Advowfon are now vefted in Thomas Mofeley, 
 Efq. Here is the new erected Seat of Jo/lma Grigby, Efq. 
 
 Felsham. This belonged to the Abbot of Bury, by 
 the Gift of Earl Ulfketel : There is a neat Manfion here, 
 2 being 
 
124 HuNfiREt) Of ThEDWAStRE. 
 
 being lately the Seat of the late Mr. Reynolds, and now of 
 Dr. Scott ; and there is a confiderable Fair for Lambs orf 
 the fifth of Auguji. 
 
 Fornham St. Genoveve. The Manor formerly be-* 
 longed to the Abbot of Bury, and was granted 31 Henry 
 VIII. to Sir Thomas Kitfon. It is now veiled in Sir Wil- 
 liam Gage, Bart. Samuel Kent, Efq; has a Seat in this 
 Parifib. At this Place 20 Henry II. or A. D. 1173, 
 Richard de Lucy Chief Juftice of England, and Humphrey 
 deBohun the King's Conftable, beat Robert Earl of Lei- 
 cefter in a pitched Battle, and killed ten thoufand Fie* 
 mings, whom he had got over to his AfTiftance. M. Blom- 
 field faith, " Their Sepulchres are now to be feen near 
 " a Place called Rymer-Rouk, on the Right-hand of the 
 " Road leading from Thetford to Bury, and are now 
 " called the Seven Hills, though there are many more j 
 " but feven of them being much larger than the reft, are 
 «« particularly taken notice of by thofe that pafs this Way, 
 ♦ { under which, moft probably, the Commanders were 
 " buried." 
 
 Fornham St. Martin. This Manor alfo belonged to 
 the Abbot of Bury, and was granted with the other Forn- 
 ham 31 Henry VIII. to Sir Uhomas Kitfon. It is now 
 vefted, as well as the Advowfon of the Church, in Samuel 
 Kent, Efq. In this Parifh is the Seat of Mrs. Ord t 
 Daughter of the late Mr. Hutchinfon. 
 
 Gedding. In this Parim is the Seat of the Heirs of 
 
 Bokenham, Efq. The Advowfon of the Church 
 
 was, by the Will of Jeremiah Catling, given to the Cor- 
 poration of Jpfwich j and upon a Vacancy the Bailives, the 
 eldeft Portman not being one of the Bailives, the Recor- 
 der and the Town-Clerk for the Time being, are to no- 
 minate a Clerk. The Manor belongs to the Daughters 
 of the late Mr. Bokenham* 
 
 Hesset, 
 
Hundred of Th e d wast r e. 225 
 
 Hesset, or Hedgsett, was the Lordfli'p of the Ab- 
 bot of Bury, by the Gift of Earl Vlfkctcl, and granted ^2 
 Henry VIII. to Thomas Bacon. Michael le Heup, Efq; 
 has a Seat here, and is in PoiTellioii both of the Ad- 
 vowfon and Manor. 
 
 "LmtL-nLQSJL-Magna. John Bohenham was Lord of this 
 Manor and Patron of the Church, A. D. 1467 ; his Son 
 John died feifed 1484 ; Thomas Bokcnham died feilVd 1535 ; 
 John Bokenham, the Ml Heir Male of this Family, died 
 feifed leaving Dorothy his Sifter and Henefs, who 
 
 married Thomas Caryl Earl of Sujji-x, who piobably fold 
 her Eftate here. The Abbot and Convent of Warden fh 
 Bedfordjlnre, had a Grange at Livei-more before 10 Ric. I. 
 and a Manor or Grange at Livermore in fy^Wf, in the 
 Occupation of Edward Biuhvocd and Clement Heigham, 
 was granted 38 Henry Vlll. to Richard and Jgjg*/ 77;- 
 verner, as late belonging to that Abbey. This Benefice, 
 and that of Livermore-parva, are coniblidatcd, and are in 
 the Gift of Baptijl Lee, Efq; who is hkewife Lord of the 
 Manor. 
 
 Pak ENMAM. The Family of the Springs have long 
 had their Seat here, who came originally from Houghton, 
 a Village in the Bimoprick of Durham ; which has been 
 always called llougbton-U-Spring, to difiinguifh it from 
 other Towns of that Name. The firft of the Family 
 who made any Figure in this County, was Thomas Springs 
 of Lavenham, the rich Clothier, who dieu" A.D. 1 5 1 o i 
 and lies buried in the Church at Larenham, under a Mo- 
 nument of his own Erection. From him dc/cended Wil- 
 liam Spring, of Pakenham, who was c/eat'ed a Baronet 
 ii Jlugujl, 1641. The faje Sir WxUic.m Spring dying 
 without Blue, the Honour came to his Uncle, and his 
 Eftate to his two Sifters ; who were married to the lafc 
 Thomas Difciplinc, Efq; and the Rev. Dr. Syrmuh. The 
 
 Q, Vicarage 
 
2z6 Hundred of Thedwastre. 
 
 Vicarage and Manor are veiled in the two Daughters of 
 Mrs. Dijiipline. 
 
 The ancient Family of the VEJlranges had alfo a Seat 
 here, which was purchafed by John Curivin, Efq; and 
 
 now belongs to ■ Hollir.gjworth, Efq. The Mo- 
 
 najlicon faith, King Edward gave Pakenham to the Abbot 
 and Convent of Bury ; but perhaps they had little here 
 but the Impropriation and Advowfon of the Vicarage. 
 
 The Family of the Jjhfields had formerly their Seat 
 at Nether-Hal!, in this Parilh. John AJhfield was the 
 firft High-Sheriff of Suffolk, (feparated from Norfolk) 17 
 Elizabeth ; from whom defcended Sir John AJhfield, of 
 Nether- Hall, Knt.' who was Cfeated a Baronet in 1626. 
 That Family is now extinct, and the Vicarage and Manor 
 are vetted in Edmund Tyrrell, Efq. 
 
 Rattles den, belonged to Ely in King Edward the 
 Confeflbr's Time : The Manor was alienated from the 
 Bifhopriclc of Ely, 4 Elizabeth, and granted 2 Jac. I. to 
 Philip Tyfe and William Blake ; being then valued at 43/. 
 9 .r. y~d per Annum. It is now veiled, as well as the 
 Advowfon, in Thomas Mcjdey, Efq. 
 
 Rough am, was given to the Abbey of Bury by Earl 
 XJljketel, and granted 34 Henry VIII. to Sir Arthur Drury, 
 in whole Family it continued till 1640 : Soon after which 
 it was in the Poffeflion of Sir Jcffery Benwell, Knt. whofe 
 only Daughter married Robert JValpcle, of Houghton in 
 Norfolk, Efq; of whom it was purchafed by Sir Robert 
 D avers, Bart, who fold it to Clemence Corrance, Efq; 
 whofe Family hath now Part of the Eftate, formerly pof- 
 feffed by the Drurys, together with the Eordfhip and Scat 
 of Rougham Place. 
 
 Roughcun- Hall, formerly part of the Eflate belonging 
 to the Drurys, was lately the Seat of John Cooke, Efq. 
 It is now, with Part of the Manor, veiled in Mrs. Neden, 
 Daughter of the late John Cooke, Efq; and Wife of GV- 
 8 vard 
 
Hundred 0/ Thed wastr e. 227 
 
 mrd Nederiy D.D. Sir Robert D avers, Bart, is Patron of 
 the Church. 
 
 Another Manfion in this Parifti was formerly the Seat 
 Of the Maltywards, and now of Pell Heigham, Efq. 
 
 In this Parifh is alfo the Manor of Eldo, alias Old-Hal/, 
 or Oldhaugh, as it is ftiled in the moft ancient Books. It 
 was a Grange of the Abbot of Bury, and was granted by 
 King Henry VIII. with other large Demefnes to the Jer- 
 myns ; and is now veited in Mrs. Symonds, who inherited 
 it from her Mother one of the Heirs-General of Lord 
 Jermyn. 
 
 Rushbrook. The Manor here belonged to the Abbey 
 of Bury, and was once in the Poffeffion of the Rujhbrooks, 
 a very old Family, who took their Name from that Town. v 
 It has been remarkable, fince the DhTolution, for the 
 Family of the Jermyns, who have had their Seat at Rujh* 
 brook Hall. Sir Thomas Jermyn was Privy Counfellor and 
 Comptroller of the Houfhold to King Charles!. His for 
 cond Son Henry Jermyn, was Mafler of the Horfe, and 
 Chamberlain to his Queen : He was created Lord Jennyn 
 of St. Edmond/bury, SSept. 1644; and at Bredah in Bra- 
 bant 27 April 1660, was by King Charles II. created Earl 
 of St. Albans ; and in the Year 1672* was created Knight 
 of the Garter. Pie died unmarried, and the Title of Earl 
 of St. Albans being limited to him, became extind. Tho- 
 mas his elder Brother, being then dead, the Title of Lord 
 Jermyn BarOn of St. Edmondjbury ', defcended to Thomas 
 Jermyn, Efq; the elder Brother's Son ; and Henry the fe- 
 cond Son* was by King James II. created Baron of Dover \ 
 arid died without Iflue in 1708. This Family concluded 
 in Heirs-General, the eldeft of which was married toRe-, : 
 bert D avers, Efq; only Son of Sir Robert D avers, Bart, of 
 Rough am, fo created 12 May, 1682; by which means 
 this Eftate and Seat was brought into the Family of 
 Daven, and are now vefted in Sir Robert Davers, Bart; 
 
 2 
 
228 Hundred j/ Thed w a s t r e . 
 
 Son of the late Sir J.ermyn Davers, who reprefented the 
 County for many Years. In the Church are feveral Mo-, 
 numents of the 'Jermyns. 
 
 Tostock. The Manor here belonged to Brithulf, 
 the Son of Leomar ; and Baldwin Abbot of Bury St. Ed- 
 munds, begged this and fome other Eftates of William the' 
 Conqueror : Afterwards it came into the Family of the 
 Lords North and Grey, who had their Seat at Tojlock- 
 Place, which now is vefted in Thomas Mofeley, Efq. But 
 probably here was alio another Manor ; for the Manor 
 of Tojlock-HA\ is faid to have been William BcrdeweWsy 
 J. V. 1445. 
 
 Thurston. Thomas de Mult on, of Egromont, 18 Ed. I, 
 obtained a Market on Tuefdays, and a Fair on the Eve, 
 Day, and Morrow of St. Mary Magdalen, at his Manoj? 
 of" "J hurjlanejkn, in Suffolk ; which we take to be this 
 Place. 'John de Multon his Son, died feifed of it 8 Ed. III. 
 The Church was impropriated to Bury Abbey, and the 
 Rectory and Advowfon of the Vicarage granted 5 Jac. I. 
 to William Blake and George lyte. 
 
 Tin worth, was lately confolidated with Ingham;, 
 Earl Cornimllis is Patron of the Church, and Lord of the 
 Manor. 
 
 Wh elnetham - Magna. In a Chapel here dedicated 
 to Thomas Becket, was a ftnall Houfe of Crouched or Crojfed 
 Friers, which was granted by King Henry, VIII. to An- 
 thony Rous. Sir William Bunbury is now Patron of the 
 Church, and the Manor belongs to Mrs. Symonds, Grand- 
 daughter of Lord Jermyn. 
 
 There were found formerly in digging, Abundance, 
 of Potfherds and Platters of Roman Earth, ibme of which 
 had Infcriptions ; as alfo Coals, Bones of Sheep and Oxen, 
 .many Horns, a facrificing Knife, Unis and Afhes : This 
 7 .. is 
 
HuNDREp tf/ THED W A S T R E . 2 ~> 9 
 
 is Ca?nbden$ Account. And, of late Years, fome Difco- 
 ^veries have been made of fevcral Roman Coins. 
 
 r WHELNETHAM-ParM. Bartholomew Burgherjb, 23 
 Edward III. had, in Right of his Wife, who was Daughter 
 and Heirefs of Richard de IVeyland, free Warren in the 
 Manor of Whelnetham, in Suffolk ; and died feifcd thereof 
 43 Edward III. Edward le Difpenfer, who married Burg- 
 herjh\ Daughter, died 49 Edward III. feifed of the Manor 
 of Whelnetham-Parva, in Suffolk ; and Edward de Langley 
 Earl of Rutland, died 3 Henry V. at the Battle of Agln- 
 tourt, feifed of the Manor of Whelnetham, in Suffolk. The 
 Lordfhip and Patronage of the Church are now in Sir 
 Robert D avers, Bart. 
 
 Woolpit, or Walpitt. This is faid in the Mo- 
 .tiajlicon, p. 292. to have been given to Bury Abbey by 
 King Edward the Confellbr ; and p. 294. it is faid to have 
 been given by Earl Ulfkeicl. However this be, the Manor, 
 Advowfon of the Rectory, a Warren, and a great many 
 Lands, Paftures and Woods, in Elmfivell and JValpitt, 
 were granted 8 Jac. 1. to Sir Robert Gardiner, Knt. as 
 Parcel of the PofTeffions of Bury Abbey. Here is a con- 
 siderable Fair for Horfes and other Cattle, which begins 
 annually on the fixth of September, and holds a Week. 
 The Lordfhip of the Manor belongs to Mr. Grigby. It 
 is in this Parifli where one fees the Bounds between the 
 ,Geldable and the Liberty of 5/. Edmund. 
 
 Hundred 
 
t 2 3° 3 
 
 Hundred of Blackbourn, 
 
 LAC KBOURN Hundred lieth Eaft of Lackford, 
 and Weft of Hartifmere ; it is parted on the North 
 
 from Norfolk by the Little Oufe, and bounded on 
 the South by the Hundreds of Stow, Thedwaftre, an(J 
 Thingoe. This Hundred was granted as Parcel of the 
 .PoflTeflions of Bury Abbey, 3 Eliz. to Sir Nicholas Bacon, 
 Knt. and is now vefted in Rowland Holt, Efq; whofe 
 great Uncle Lord Chief Juftice Holt purchafed it of the 
 Baccn Family. It contains the follojwing Parifhes, viz, 
 
 Ashfield. The Smiths have long refided in this Pa- 
 rifh, in a Seat called the Lee. 
 
 Badwel;-//, or Little AJhfield. The Lordfhip of 
 William Creketote, the 9th Edw. I. The Manors and 
 Rectories of both thefe Paiifhes belonged to Ixworth 
 Priory, and were granted at the Dihoiution to Richard 
 Codington, and Elizabeth his Wife. Here is alfo the Ma- 
 nor of Shackcrland in this Parifh, now belonging to — 
 
 Clough, Efq. 
 
 Bard well, was in the 9th Edw. III. the Lordfhip of 
 ydhn Pakenham, and Jfabella de Wyies ; afterwards it came 
 into the Family of Read, one of whom married the 
 Daughter and Heirefs of William Crofts, afterwards created 
 Lord Crofts, of Saxhorn ; from which Marriage they took 
 the Name of Crofts, and it ip now the Lord/hip of Thomas 
 Crofts- Read, Efq. 
 
 It 
 
Hundred of Black bourn. 231 
 
 It is faid there was a Family who took their Name 
 from this Town, where they lived in the Conqueror's 
 Time ; and it appears from the Account given of them 
 in Mr. Blomfisld\ Hift of Norfolk, p. 202. that Sir Wil- 
 liam Berdewelle, the great Warrior, whofe Effigies ftill 
 remains in painted Glafs in a AV^Windowof the Church, 
 died feifcd of this Manor In King Henry Vlth's Reign, 
 or A. D. 1434. 
 
 Barnham, confifts of two Parifhes, St. Martin and 
 St. Gregory ; having formerly had two Parifh Churches, 
 but the Church of St. Marihi is now in Ruins : It was 
 formerly the Lordfhip of John cle Shyrtle, and now be- 
 longeth to his Grace the Duke of Grafton. Here are a 
 R ank of ten or eleven Tumuli between RuJJford, Eufton, 
 Barnham, and Thetford; where, as Mr. Blomfield thinks, 
 that great Battle between King Edmund and the Dana 
 feems to have been fought, A. D. 871. 
 
 Barningham, formerly the Lordfhip of John de 
 Montfort, 9 Edward I. The Family of the Sbeltom long 
 refided here ; of whom the Duke of Grafton purchafed 
 tfce MelTuage and Eftate in or near this Parifh, called 
 Barningham -Park. 
 
 Qo^ -IVefton, formerly the Lordfhip of the Abbot of 
 B.ury 'p and now of John Rally, Lfq. 
 
 Culford, was formerly given to the Abbot of Bury, 
 by Turketel Tyreing, alias Dreing, and granted 32 Henry 
 V III. to Chrijiopher Cote. This Village is adorned with 
 a neat Seat, built by Sir Nicholas Bacon. It now belongs, 
 to the Right Hon. Earl Comwaliis, who chiefly reficfep 
 here, and is Lord of the Manor. 
 
 Elmsv/ell. This Lordfhip was given to Bury Ab- 
 bey by King Edwin, and granted 8 Jac. i. to Robert Gar- 
 diner i and is now veiled in William Chapman, Efq. 
 
 Q_4 Euston, 
 
23 2 Hundred cf Blackbourn. 
 
 Luston, was formerly the Lordfhip of a Family of 
 that Name ; afterwards it defcended to the Family of 
 Eattifjaii; from them to Sir Henry Rennet, who by Kin? 
 CharlcsW. was made Secretary of State, and created Lord 
 Arlington, Vifcount Thetford, and Karl of Arlington. He 
 built %#5 W Ha?J, and leaving only one Daughter Ifabella, 
 married to ILwy Fitz-Roy, one of King Carles the Se- 
 cond's natural Sens by the Duchefs of Cleveland, he was 
 by his Father created Farl of Eujlon and Duke of Graf 
 ton; and this is nov/ the Seat of his great Grandibn his 
 Grace the prefent puke of Grafton. 
 
 Fakfkham Great, formerly the Lordfhip of Gu:i- 
 drcd de Warren, defcended from the Earls of Surry; af- 
 terwards by Marriage it came to the Nevils ; from them 
 to the Crown, it was granted by Henry VI. to Reginald 
 de IVeJle, who died feifed of Fakenbam-Afpes in Suffolk, 
 29 Henry VI. His Son, a great Favourite of Henry V III. 
 enjoyed it. Afterwards it was in Polleffion of the Tal- 
 machs; from whom it palled through the Taylors to the 
 Duke of Grafton, who is now Lord of the Manor. 
 
 Fakf.nham Little, nov/ in part, if not all impaiked 
 with Eujlon ; there are no Remains of a Church, but 
 there is a Sine-cure in his Grace's Gift. 
 
 Hepworth. Gilbert de £ W rrad this Lordfhip when 
 Domefday-Book was made ; afterwards it was given to 
 the Abbot of Bury ; and is now veiled in , Ord 
 LVq; and Air. Nunn. 
 
 Hi ndercl a y, was the Lordfhip and Demefne of the 
 Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, given thereto together with 
 Redgrave, Rickcngale, Wulpit, Rougham, P art ifBradfield, 
 HelJJKnn and Hedgefjet, by Ulfketel Earl of the Eajl- Angles; 
 afterwards it came into the Family of the Bacons, and was 
 fold by Sir Edmund Bacon, of Garbcldijham in Norfolk, to 
 
 Sir 
 
Hundred c/ Buckbourn. 233 
 
 Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Juftice ; and is now veiled hi 
 Rowland Holt, Efq; his great Nephew. 
 
 Hopton. Henry Lord Bouchier died feifed of the Ma- 
 nor of Hopton, 23 Edward TV '. it afterwards belonged to 
 
 the Abbot of Bury, and is now veiled in Ca~ 
 
 vendifh, Efq. 
 
 Honington. The Lordfhip of this Parifh did like- 
 wife belong to the Abbey of Bury, but now to his Grace 
 the Duke of Grafton. 
 
 Hunston, anciently the Lordlhip and Demefne of 
 JVil!ia?n de Langham ; the Manor and Re£tory was grant- 
 ed to Richard Codington and Elizabeth his Wife, 30 Henry 
 VIII. as Parcel of the Pofleffions of Ixworth Priory. 
 Arthur Heigham, Efq^ now refides in a good old Seat in 
 this Parifh. 
 
 Ingham, was formerly the Lordfhjp of John de Ing- 
 ham : The Manor and Advowfon of Ingham were granted 
 to Sir Nicholas Bacon, 31 Henry VIII. as Part of the Pof- 
 fefiions of Bury Abbey. The Lordfhip of Ingham with 
 T'ur.worth, is now veiled in Earl Corniuallis. 
 
 Ixworth, is a Thorough- fair Town, fitunted on the 
 Road from Bury to Yarmouth : It has a mean Market 
 every V/ eek on Friday. Here are two Fairs, one on May- 
 day, the other on 18 Oclob. It is a dirty ill built Town, 
 yet it is memorable for a Religious Houfe founded by 
 Gilbert de Blund, or Blount, about the Year 1 100, in a 
 pleafant Valley by the River Side. Its Order was of Ca- 
 nons Regular of St. Aujlin, and dedicated to the Virgin 
 Mary. It had many Benefactions, being, valued at it? 
 SupprcfTion at 280/. qs. 5^. as Speed fays ; but at 168/. 
 iqs. 7 d. according to Dugdale. At the Piflblution^ as 
 appears by a mgnumemal Inscription on the North Side 
 
 of 
 
2J4 Hundred Blackbourn. 
 
 of the Altar, it was granted by Henry VIII. to fachard 
 Codington and Elizabeth his Wife, in Exchange for the 
 Manor of Nonefuch, in .SVry-. Afterwards it was in the 
 Family oiFiennes. It has for fome time been in the Nortm 
 * amily, who have built a neat Manfion where the Priory 
 flood, which is now the Seat of Richard Norton, Efq. 
 
 Ixworth-TW The chief Eftate and Rcdory be- 
 longed to Txworth Priory, and were granted to the afore- 
 faid Richard and Elizabeth Codington. Thomas r Crofts Ready 
 E% is now Lord of this Manor. 
 
 Knattishall, or Gnattshall. John de Her- 
 tyng, of Eaji-Herlyag in Norfolk, was Lord here A. D. 
 1360 ; and it continued long in that Name and Family. 
 Sir Thomas Lovel died feifed of this Manor A. D. 1522* 
 and left it to his Coufm Francis Lovel', and it is now vefted 
 ia «, Cavsndijh, Efq. 
 
 La kg ham, formerly the Lord/hip of William de Cn- 
 ketote; it is now vefted in Patrick Blake, Efq; who hats 
 iiow a Seat here. 
 
 Live RMORE -£//*•/,?, anciently gave Name to Bartho- 
 lomew Livcrmore, who was Lord of the Manor: After- 
 wards it was Mr. Cokes, who built the Hal], and left id 
 to the Duke of Grafton, who fome time refided here. 
 Baptiji Lee, Efq; has greatly augmented this neat Man- 
 fion, inclofed it with a large Park, and has made it his 
 Seat. 
 
 Norton, was the Lordlhip of John de Pakenham, 
 9 Edward III. Here was lately the Seat of the Millefons ■ 
 then, of Millefon Edgar, Efq; a Defendant from the Heirefs 
 of that Family, who fold it to Alderman Macro, of Bury; 
 whofe Son the Rev. Cox Macro, D. D. now enjoys it. 
 It goes by the Name of Little Law, or Little Loe-UAl 
 
 Rich em- 
 
Hundred of Black bourn. 235 
 
 Richengal JL-Inferior, anciently the Lordfhip and 
 pemefne of Ulfketel, Earl of the Eajl- Angles : He being 
 killed in the Battle of Ajfingdon, in EJfex, left this Manor 
 to the Monks of Bury : Afterwards it was granted to 
 Sir Nicholas Bacon, and fold with divers others to Lord 
 Chief Juftice Holt, by Sir Edmund Bacon ; and now be- 
 longs to Rowland Holt, Efq. 
 
 Sapiston. Gilbert de Blund had this Lordfliip when 
 the Survey in Domefday-Book was taken, and made it 
 -Part of the Endowment of his Priory at Jxivorth. The 
 Manor, Rectory, and a Grange here, were granted to 
 Richard and Elizabeth Codington before-mentioned, 30 
 Henry Vlll. The Manor is now vefted in the Duke 
 of Grafton. 
 
 Stanton, confifb of two Parities, St. John and All- 
 Saints, and lieth upon the Road from Ixivorth to Botcf- 
 dale. Here is a Fair Yearly on the laft Day of May, and 
 the firft Day of June. King Edward the Confefibr gave 
 the Manor and Advowfon of All-Saints to the Abbey of 
 Bury ; and they were granted 31 Henry VIII. to Sir 
 Thomas Jermyn, Knt. The Advowfon of St. John's be- 
 longed to Robert AJhfield. The two Rectories were con- 
 solidated A. D. 1457. ^he Manor is now vefted in 
 Edward Capell, Efq. 
 
 Stowlangtoft, fo called as fome think, from the 
 Family of Langtofts who lived here, to diftinguilh it from 
 other Towns named Stow , in this County. The Flail or 
 Manor-Houfe, was the Seat of Jejferey Peche, 9 Ed. III. 
 but afterwards of the D'Ewes. The learned Sir Simon 
 D'Ewes, Knt. was created a Baronet 15 July, 1641. 
 That Family is now extindt. The Lordfhip and De- 
 mefne in this Parifh was for fome time the Eftate of 
 Thomas Norton, Efq; but is now vefted, by Purchafe, in 
 
 Sir 
 
2j6 Hundred of Biackbourk, 
 Sir Thomas Rawlinfon, Knt. Lord-Mayor of London in 
 the Year 1754. The Church is faid to have been built 
 about 4 5 Edw.llL or A.D. 1370, by Robert Dacy, of 
 4/hfield, who died in 1401 ; and before his Death was 
 called Robert AJhfield, In the Chancel is a noble Monu- 
 ment for that great Scholar Sir Simon D'Ewes. 
 
 Thelnetham, corruptly called Feltham^ anciently 
 the Lordfhip and Demefne of John de Thelnetham. It is 
 now vefted in Dr. Thrujlon. 
 
 Troston, formerly belonged to the Abbot of Bury; 
 then it was in the Family of Maddox : It is how vetted 
 in Mrs. Brundijh. 
 
 Walsham in the Willows. Gilbert de Blund had a 
 Lordmip here in King William the Conqueror's Time, 
 which he probably made Part of the Endowment of his 
 Priory of Ixworih. For at the Diflblution, a Manor in 
 Waljkam, and the Redory and Lands called Eajl-Houfe 
 Lands, were granted as Parcel of the Poffeffions of that 
 Priory to Richard and Elizabeth Codington, Co often men- 
 tioned, 21 July, 30 Henry VII[. And this is probably 
 the Manor and Eftate now belonging to Rowland Holt, 
 Efq. Another Manor in Waljham belonged to William 
 de la Role Duke of Suffolk, in Henry Vlth's Reign ; and 
 upon the Attainder of fome of his Defendants, was 
 granted 6 Henry VIII. to George Earl of Shrew/bury ; and 
 this feems to be the Eftate which hath for fome time be- 
 longed to the Family of Hunt, and is now vefted in a 
 Maiden Lady of that Name. 
 
 Watesfield, vulgarly called Watchfield, was 
 the Lord/hip of the Abbot of Bury. It is now vefted in 
 NocoldTompfoK, Efqj and Mr. Samuel Moody. 
 
 Westow 
 
Hundred <?/Blackbourn. 237 
 
 "West on -Market, anciently the Lordftiip of Hugh 
 Hovel ; afterwards it defcended to the Family of Boken- 
 ham, from them to the Tyrrels, and is now veiled in Dr. 
 Thru/Ion, who has his Seat here. 
 
 Westow. It appears by a mural Monument in the 
 Chancel, that the Crofts were in PolTeffion of this Manor 
 as early as the Time of Edward III. and there is a Roll 
 yet extant of a Court Held in his Reign by one of that 
 Family. Afterwards it was the Abbots of Bury ; thea 
 the Kitforis ; after them the Bacon s ; and then came into 
 the Family of Progers ; and is now veiled in Sir Sydenham 
 Fowke, who married the Heireis of Progers, and makes 
 the Hall his Seat. 
 
 Word well, anciently the Lordfhip of Tlmnas de 
 Wordwsll. It is now vefted in Earl Cornwall'n. 
 
 Hundred 
 
[ *3» 1 
 
 Hundred 0/* Lackford. 
 
 T J CKFO RD Hundred is partfed from the County 
 ' of Cambridge by the River Cam, and from the' 
 County of Norfolk by the Oufe ; and is 
 
 bounded on the Eajl and South- Eaji by the Hundreds of 
 Blackbourn and Thingoe. It contains the following 
 Parifhes, Wz. 
 
 Bartoh- Mills, or Z/V/^-Barton, to diftinguifh it 
 from another Parifh of this Name, in the Hundred of 
 Tbcdwajlre. The Manor here was given to the Abbey 
 of Bury, by one Robert Hoo; and at the Diflblution was 
 granted to Simon Stewart, 7 Edward VI. But the Ad- 
 vovvfon of the Church was given to the College of Stoke+ 
 by Clare ; and at the Diflblution fell to the Crown. 
 
 Brandon, isfituated on the Little Oufe, which is na- 
 gable from Lynn to this Town. The Town is pretty 
 well built, and the Road lies through it from St. Edmunds- 
 hury to Lynn. The Manor and Advowfon of the Church, 
 which is a very good Structure, belonged to the Bifhoprick 
 of Ely until the 4th Year of Queen Elizabeth, when it was 
 alienated from it. It was granted to Charles Duke of 
 Xork 3 Joe. I. Weft from the Church is the Seat of 
 Jofepk Birch, Efq. This Town has a fmall Market on 
 Fridays, and three Fairs, viz. on 14 February, nth of 
 "June, and the nth of November. The Lordfhip now 
 belongs to Rowland Holt, Efq. The Town was firft ho- 
 noured by giving the Title of a Baron to Charles Gerrard^ 
 who was by King Charles I. created Lord Gerrard, of 
 
 Brandon* 
 
Hundred 0/ L, ackford. 23^ 
 
 Brandon. He was afterwards by King Charles II. created 
 Earl of Macklesfield ; but that Family being extinct Queen 
 Anne in 171 1 created Duke Hamilton a Peer of England^ 
 by the Stile and Title of Baron Dutton and Duke of 
 Brandon; whofe great Grandfon now enjoys this Title. 
 The Town furnifhed London with a Lord-Mayor in 1445* 
 who was John Eyre, Son of John Eyre, Draper. He built 
 Leadenhall for the Ufc of the City, and left befides that 
 five thoufand Marks, (a prodigious Sum in thofe Days) 
 to charitable Ufes. He died 18 Sept. 1459. 
 
 Cavenham, for Shortnefs called Canham, was an- 
 ciently theLordfhip and Demefneof Gilbert Earl of Clare, 
 The Manor of Shardelowes in Cavcnham, belonged ta 
 Humphrey Duke of Buckingham 28 Henry VI. The 
 Church was given to Stoke, by Clare ; and the Impropria- 
 tion was granted to George Bingley and William Blake, 
 4 Jac. L The Lordfhip now belongs to Lord Vifcount 
 
 Townftend. > John/on, Efq; hath a Seat in this Parifh, 
 
 where he commonly refides. 
 
 Downh am. A Manor here was granted to Sir Thomas 
 Kitfon 31 Henry VIII. as Parcel of the PolTeflions of 
 Bury Abbey, which had the Manor of Dunham given to 
 it by~lVilliam the Conqueror, at the Defrre of Abbot Bald- 
 win. Another Manor in Downham, and the Impropria- 
 tion of this Parifh were granted to Richard Codington and 
 Elizabeth his Wife, 30 Henry VIII. as Pared of the Pof- 
 fellions of Jxworth Priory. It is now very fitly called 
 Sandy- Down ham, by reafon of a Sand-Flood, as it may 
 be called, which happened in the Year 1668; the Cir- 
 cumftances of which are related at large in the following 
 Letter, written by Thomas Wright, Efq; then living upon 
 the Spot, and. a great Sufferer by it. 
 
 In which he fays, 44 He found fome Difficulty in tra- 
 <c cing thefe wonderful Sands to their Original, but he 
 ** found it to be in Lakenheath, a Town about five Miles 
 
 * 4 South- 
 
240 Hundred of Lack ford. 
 
 •* South-weft of Dozvnham, where Tome great Sand-Hills 
 " ha ving the Superficies broken by the tempeftuous South - 
 ** weft Wind, were blown upon fome neighbouring; 
 " Ground 3 this being of the fame Nature, and having 
 '* only a thin Coat of unthrifty Grafs over it, which was 
 ** foon roited by the other Sand lying on it, joined the 
 * c Lakenheath Sand, increafed its Mafs, and accompanied 
 
 its ftrange Progrcfs. Mr. Wright fuppofes, that at the 
 *' firft Eruption the Sand did not cover more than eight 
 " or ten Acres of Ground ; but* before it had travelled 
 '« four Miles from its firft Abode, it increafed fo much 
 " that it covered more than a thoufand. All the Oppo- 
 " fition it met with from Lakenheath to Doivnham was 
 * { from one Farm-houfe which the Owner endeavoured 
 c< to fecure by building Bulwarks againft it ; but perceiv- 
 " ing this would not anfwer his Purpofe, he changed his 
 " Plan, and inftead of trying to prevent its Approach, 
 ** he flighted all his Works, and-every Fence which might 
 «« obftruiSr. its Courfe ; and thus by giving it free Paf- 
 M fage, in four or five Years Time he was fairly rid of it. 
 " It was about thirty or forty Years before the writing 
 " of this Account, that the Sand firft reached Downhatn, 
 «' where it continued for ten or twelve Years in the Out- 
 " fkirts of the Town, without doing any confiderable 
 *•* Damage. The Reafon of which (as Mr. W. ima- 
 " gined) was becaufe its Current was then down- hill, 
 f* which flieltered it from thofe Winds which gave it 
 '* Motion ; but the Valley being once pafied, it went 
 *' above a Mile up-hill in two Months Time, and over* 
 *« ran above 200 Acres of very good Corn-Land the fame 
 " Year. It is now got into the Body of this little Town, 
 " where it hath buried and deftroyed divers Houfes, and 
 
 hath forced them to preferve the Remainder at a greater 
 " Expence than they were worth. He at )aft gave the? 
 " Flood of Sand fome Check, tho' for four or five Years 
 «* his Succcfs was doubtful. It had pofleflcd all his A- 
 
 '* venues, 
 
Hundred of Lackford. 249 
 
 venues, fo that there was no Paffage to him, but over 
 i( two Walls that were eight or nine Feet high, and en- 
 << compafTed a fmall Grove before his Houfe, then al- 
 *' mod buried in Sand. Nay, at one time it had pofleiTed 
 ** his Yard, and was blown up almoft to the Eves of his 
 *' Out-houfes. At the other End it had broken down 
 " his Garden- wall, and flopped all Paffage that Way. 
 " For four or five Years Mr. Wright flopped it as well as 
 *« he could with Furze Hedges fet upon one another as 
 " faft as the Sand levelled them, which he found to be 
 " the beft Expedient. By this means he raifed Sand-banks 
 <c near twenty Yards high, and brought the Sand into 
 *' the Compais of eight or ten Acres ; then by laying 
 < c fome Hundreds of Loads of Muck and Earth upon it 
 tl in one Year, he reduced it again to Terra firma, and 
 " then he cleared all his Walls, and by the Afiiftance of 
 " Neighbours who helped him away with 1 500 Loads 
 " in one Month, he cut a Paffage to his Houfe thro' the 
 " main Body of Sand. But the other End of the Town 
 " met with a worfe Fate, where many Houfes were over- 
 " thrown or buried, and their Paftures and Meadows 
 "which for fo fmall a Town were con fid er able, were 
 " over- run and deftroyed. That Branch of the Little 
 " Oufc, on which this Town borders, (better known by 
 te the Name of Brandon or Thctfcrd River) for three 
 " Miles together was fo filled with the Sand, that a 
 i& Veffel with two Loads Weight palled with as much 
 *' Difficulty as before a Veffel would with ten ; and had 
 <c not this River interpofed and flopped the Progrefs of 
 *' the Sand into Norfolk, great Part of that County had 
 " been ruined. For (as Mr. W. obferves) according to 
 " the Proportion of the Increafe of the Sand in thofe five 
 " Miles, which was from 10 Acres to 15CO or 2000, in 
 " a Progrefs over ten Miles more of the like Soil, it would 
 *' have been fwelled to a huge and amazing Quantity.' 
 Mr, Wt, imputes the Caufe of this Flood to the Violence 
 
 R - of 
 
242 H U ND R E I> of L A C K F 0 R E*. 
 
 of the South-weft Wind palling over the Level of thsr 
 Fens without any Check, and to the Sandinefs of the 
 Soil. The Levity of this, he believed, gave occafion to 
 that Story of the Actions that ufed to be brought in Nor- 
 folk, for Ground blown out of the Owners Polleffion ; 
 but, he fays, the County of Suffolk was more friendly hi 
 that Particular, for he had pofTelfed a great Quantity of 
 that wandering Land without Interruption. Phil. Tranf 
 N°. 17. 
 
 The Lordfhip of this Parifb now belongs to the Heirs 
 of Thomas Wright, Efq. 
 
 Elvedon. Alvedon Manor and the Advowfon of the 
 Rectory, and Stanes alias Monks-Hall Manor, with the 
 Tenement called Walters? and fome other Things in- 
 Jhedon, were granted as Parcel of the Polleffions of Bury 
 to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, 32 Henry VIII. and after- 
 wards to Richard Fuhnerjlon in Exchange, 3 Edward VI. 
 Another Manor in Elvedon was granted, as late belonging 
 to Rujhworth College, to Henry Earl of Surry, 33 Henry 
 VIII. who, about four Years after, alienated it to Thomas 
 Duke of Norfolk. It was lately the Lordfliip of Thomas 
 Qrifpe, Efq; and is now vefted in Sir John Tyrrel, Baxt. 
 who married the Heirefs of that Family. 
 
 Ere swell. This Manor was held of the King in 
 Capite, as of his Honour of Bohigne, by Ralph of Rou- 
 cejlre, and his Defendants ; and in the firft Year of 
 Edward II. was fo held by Robert de Tudenham, and Eve 
 his Wife. Befides the Parifh Church, dedicated as we 
 think to St. Peter, there was at the North End of the 
 Parifh a Chapel dedicated to St. Laurence ; and in one of 
 thefe there was a Chauntry of the yearly Value of 9 /. 
 4 -f. 6d. The Manor is now in the Dean and Chapter 
 of Ely. 
 
 Ex KING, 
 
Hundred Lackford. 243 
 
 Exning, or Ixning. Seep. 187. 
 
 Freckingham, is a Peculiar of Rochejier Diocefe; 
 and has been fo from the Time of William the Con- 
 queror, as appears from Domefday-Book. It is alfo the 
 Lordfhip and Demefne of Sir Robert Clarke, Bart. 
 
 He ringswell. T he Manor and Advowfon belonged 
 to the Abbot and Convent of Bury, being given thereto 
 by Ulfric, a very wealthy Man. The Manor is now 
 vefted in John Holden, Efq. 
 
 High am -Craw, is a Hamlet of Gazeley. 
 
 Icklingham, confifts of two diftinfl: Pariflies, St. 
 Jmnes and All-Saints, having two Parifh Churches. The 
 Manor and Advowfon of Icklingbam St. James belonged 
 to the Abbey of Bury, and were granted to Anthony I^ous 
 31 Henry V III. It is now vefted in Daniel Gzvilt, Efq. 
 The Manor of All-Saints belongs to the Earl of EJJex. 
 Near this Village there have been within the Memory of 
 fome, now, or very lately living, feveral Roman Coins 
 dug up ; which fliewj the Antiquity of the Place, and 
 that it probably enough has been a Roman Station. 
 
 Lakenheath. The Prior and Convent of Ely had a 
 Grant for a Market and Fair here A. D. 1309. They 
 had a Grant for a Market here long before ; and the Ab- 
 bot of Bury got an Inquifition in the fourth Year of King 
 John, to try by a Jury whether the lately erected Market 
 at Lakinge, was not to the Detriment of the Town and 
 Market of Bury f The Manor and Advowfon now be- 
 long to the Dean and Chapter of Ely. It is a large 
 Village, fituated on the Side of the Fens, in an unwhole- 
 fome Air; at prefent not remarkable, except it be for the 
 Refidence of Sir "Simeon Stewart, who has a Seat here. 
 
 R 2 MlLDEN* 
 
244 Hundred of Lackford. 
 
 Mild enh all, fituated on the River Lark, is a very* 
 large Town in Bounds, and a Half- Hundred of itfelf. 
 The Borough, commonly called High-Town Mildenhall, 
 is a pleafant well-built Town ; its noble Church and tall 
 Steeple, are good Ornaments to it. There is a plentiful 
 Market Weekly on Fridays, well ferved with Fifli, wild 
 Fowl, and all other Provifions. The Fair begins Yearly 
 on Sept. 29, and a confiderable one it is, lading four 
 Days. Towards the Fens are feveral large Streets as big 
 as ordinary Towns, called by the Inhabitants, Rows ; as 
 Wejl-Row, Beck-Roiv, and Holywell- Row. 
 
 One Manor of this Town was given to the Abbey of 
 Bury by King Edward the Confeffor, that the Religious 
 might eat Wheat, and not as they did before Barley- 
 bread. At the Diflblution it was granted 4 and 5 Philip 
 and Mary, to Thomas Reeve and Chrijlspher Ballet : It is 
 now the Eftate of Sir William Bunbury, Bart. Nephew of 
 Sir Thomas Hanmer, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons in 
 the Reign of Queen Anne, who conftantly refided here in 
 a noble Manfion North of the Church. This Town has 
 furnifhed London with two Lord-Mayors, Henry Barton, 
 who was Lord-Mayor in 1428, and JVillia?n Gregory, who 
 was Mayor in 145 1. In the Year 1567, May 17, great 
 Part of this Town was confumed by Fire. Here is alfo 
 the Seat of Rujhbrooke, Efq. 
 
 Thetford. The whole or greateft Part of this an- 
 ciently famous Place feems originally to have been on the 
 Sujfolk-iide of the River ; and there is ftill one Parifh, viz. 
 St. Mary's, confiding of about thirty Houfes in Suffolk, 
 and Part of this Hundred of Lackford-, tho' as to Eccle- 
 fiaftical Matters, under the Jurifdidtion of the Archdeacon 
 of Norwich. In the Reign of King Edward III. there 
 were thirteen Pariflies on the Suffolk- fide, and but feven 
 on the Norfolk- fide. 
 
 The 
 
Hundred of Lackford. 245 
 
 The Priory of Cluniac Monks was firft founded on this 
 Si4e, tho' foon removed into the other. The Houfe of 
 Benedicline Nuns, and thofe of the Canons of the Holy 
 Sepulchre, and Dominican Friers, continued on the Suffolk- 
 fide till the Diliblutipn. 
 
 TuDDENH AM. 
 
 Wangforp, was the Seat of -the Lord Chief Juftice 
 JVrighf, well .known in the Reign of King James IL The 
 Lordmip of this Parifh is now vefted in Rowland Holt, 
 Efq. 
 
 Worlington. This is thought to be the fame Place 
 which is called Wredelington, which William de Valence 
 Earl of Pembroke had the Advowfon of, 20 Edward L 
 Ifabel, Daughter of the faid Earl, became the Wife of 
 John Haftings, Lord of Bergavenny ; and John Ha/lings, 
 Earl of Pembroke, great Grandfon of the laid John and 
 Ifabel, died feifed of this Manor 49 Edward III. and Anne 
 his Wife had it afligned to her as Part of her Dower. 
 William Beauchamp Lord Bergavenny, died feifed of it 12 
 Henry IV. It was Part of Herbert the late Earl of Or- 
 ford's Eftate ; then of Lord Sandys, who married the 
 Heirefs of the faid Earl ; and it was fold by him to George 
 Montgomerie, Efq; late one of the Reprefentatives in Par- 
 liament of the Borough of fffwkh. 
 
 JriUNDR£B 
 
[ 2 4 6 ] 
 
 Hundred of Risbridge. 
 
 TJISBRIDGE Hundred is bounded on the Eajl by 
 J- the Hundreds of Baberg, Thitigoe, and Lackford; on 
 the We/1 by Cambridgcjhire ; on the South by the 
 &<wr, which parts it from EJJ'ex ; and, on the North, by 
 Lackford. It contains the following Towns andParifbes. 
 
 Barn ardiston, commonly called Bran/on, gives 
 IMame to a Family whofe feveral Branches have had Seats 
 at Kedington, Brightwell, and Wyverjlon, in this County. 
 The Lordlhip is frill in the Family of Barnardijlon, of 
 Kedington. 
 
 Great Bradley. Thomas Lord Botetourt was Lord 
 here 8 Edward III. in Right of his Wife Joan, one of the 
 Sifters and Coheirs of John de Someri, Baron of Dudley. 
 
 Here is a Fair yearly on Sept. 29. Brand, Efq; 
 
 is Lord of the Manor, and Patron of the Church. 
 
 Little Bradley. This Church feemingly belonged to 
 Stoke College. 
 
 Clare, a pretty large Town, fituated on the Stour; 
 it is now of little Note, but formerly was, for its Owners, 
 and the Earls defcended from them. 
 
 Richard Fitz-Gilbcrt, a Kinfman of King William the 
 Conqueror, was the fu ll Earl of Clare ; he was alfo called 
 from the ufual Place of his Refidence, Richard de Tun- 
 bridge. The Earldom continued in that Family to the 
 Time of King Edward II. when Gilbert the Son of Gil- 
 bert Earl of Clare, by Joan de Acres Daughter of King 
 
 Edward 
 
Hundred of Ris bridge. 247 
 
 Edward!, dying without Iflue Male, the Honour became 
 •extinct. Afterwards Lionel, third Son of K. Edward III. 
 in the 36th Year of his Reign was created Duke of Cla- 
 rence : His Daughter marrying Edward Mortimer Earl of 
 Mard^ carried this Lordfliip into that Family, who en- 
 joyed it fome Time. The Dukedom was extincT: at her 
 Father's Death ; but 13 Henry IV. Thomas his fecond Son 
 was created Duke of Clarence, who dying without Iflue 
 Male, the Title of Clare lay again dormant, until George 
 Plantagenet Brother of King Edward IV. was created 
 Duke of Clarence : Upon his Attainder and Death, the 
 Title was extinguiihed again j but in 22 fames I. fohn 
 Hollis, of Houghton in Nottingham/hire, was created Earl 
 of Clare : In 1688, fohn his great Grandfon fucceeded 
 to his Earldom, who married Margaret the third Daughter 
 of Henry Cavendifo, Duke of Newcajlle : After his Fa- 
 ther's Death, he was in 6th King William III. created 
 Marquis of Clare and Duke of Newcajlle. He died with- 
 out Iflue 17 fuly 1707, and left the Bulk of his Land 
 Eftate to Thomas Hollis Peiham, Son of his youngeft Sifter 
 Grace, who by King George I. was created Earl and Mar- 
 quis of Clare, and afterwards Duke of Newcajlle. 
 
 South-Eaft of this Town, between it and the River, 
 are ftill the Ruins of a very ftrong Caftle, built by one 
 of the Earls of Clare ; but it is not certain which of 
 them. 
 
 In the Church of St. fohn Bapti/i in the Caftle, was a 
 very ancient fmall Houfe of Benedicline Monks, a Cell to 
 the Abbey of Beet - in Normandy, until the Year 11 24, 
 when they were removed to Stoke. Here was alfo a Houfe 
 of Friers Eremites, of the Order of St. Aujlin, founded by 
 Richard de Clare Earl of Gloccjler, A.D. 1248 ; which 
 was given by King Henry VIII. to Richard Friend. It is 
 now vefted In Mr. Poulter. 
 
 The Church is a very good Structure, which with the 
 Ruins of the Caftle and Monaftery, are the only Things 
 R 4 worth 
 
248 Hundred c/Riseridge. 
 
 worth Notice. There is a mean Market on Fridays, if 
 it deferves that Name ; and one Fair on Eajler-Tuejday^ 
 and another on July 25th yearly. Not far from Clare is 
 Honedon ; where, in the Year 1687, the Sexton digging a 
 Grave, found a large Quantity of Saxon Coins. See Phil. 
 Tranfacl. N°. 189, 203. 
 
 Chedburgh. This Church is now confolidated with 
 Jchvorth ; the Lordfhip and Patronage belong to the Right 
 Hon. the Earl- of Brijfol. 
 
 Chilton, rather Chipley, is a Kamlet of Clare. Here 
 was formerly a frriall Priory, which was united A. D. 
 1468, to the College of Stoke ; the Remains of which 
 are now converted into a Dwclling-Houfc. 
 
 Cooling, corruptly called Coolige. In this Parifli is a 
 good Seat, called by the Name of Branches ; which, with 
 the Manor, was the Eftate of William Long-Efpee Earl of 
 Salifbury and Somerfet, bafe Son to King Henry II. by fair 
 Rofamond. They are now veiled in Ambrofe D.ickins, Efq; 
 who has a handiomc Manfion here. Here was anciently 
 a Free Chapel, dedicated to St. Margaret; on whofe 
 Feaft-day 20 Jufyi one of the Fairs is kept ; the other is 
 on October 6. The Advowfbn of the Church was grant- 
 ed A. D. 1333, by Sir John and Sir Thomas de Sharde- 
 loive, Sons of John Shqrdelowe, Jufiicc of the Common- 
 Pleas to the Cuftos and Scholars of 'Trinity-Hall in Cam- 
 bridge, to be appropriated to their Ufe. 
 
 Dalham, anciently the Lordfhip and Demefne of 
 ^Viltiam de Ufford? Earl of Suffolk ; afterwards it came 
 into the Family of the Ejhtevilles, who fold it to the Right 
 Rev. Simon Patrick Bifhop of Ely, and his Son difpofed of 
 jt to Gilbert Affleck, Efq; Father to John Affleck, late one 
 of the Reprefeiuatives of this County, 
 
 pENHAM ? 
 
Hundred of Risbridge. 249 
 
 Denham. Thomas Hethe was Lord of Denham, by 
 Barrow, in the latter Part of King Edward the Third's 
 Reign ; the Lordfhip, after that, belonged to Margaret de 
 Say, then to Edward Lukemore, Efq; then to Horatio 
 Lord Vifcount Townfend, who married Mary, fole Heirefs 
 of Edward Lukemore j and is now poiTefled by that Fa- 
 mily. 
 
 It was extraparochial until Sir Edward Lukemore built 
 a Church or Chapel here, and endowed it with the Tithes. 
 
 Denston, or Denardeston. Here was a College 
 or Chauntry endowed with 22/. 8 s. qd. per Ann. and 
 granted with a Manor called Beaumonds thereto belong- 
 ing 17 June 2 Edward VI. to Thomas and John Smith, 
 Thomas Smith fold it 9 Elizabeth to IFiUiam the Son of 
 JVilliam Bird, Citizen and Mercer of London. In this 
 Parifh is a beautiful Seat, which now is the Manfion of 
 John Robin/on, Efq; late Lieutenant-Colonel in the Cold- 
 Jlrea?n Regiment of Foot-Guards, who has the Lordfhip. 
 
 Depden. The Hall did formerly belong to the Jer- 
 myns', afterwards to the Coels ; from them it became the 
 Seat of Coel Thornhill, Efq; who fold it to Hutch. Mure, 
 Efq. 
 
 Gazely, or Gaiesly. This Church was given to 
 the College of Stoke-Clare, to be the Portion of one of 
 the Prebendaries ; and the Re£tory was granted 9 Jac. I. 
 to Francis Moore and Francis Philips. 
 
 Haverhill, is a long Thorough-fare Town ; the 
 South-end of the Street is Part in this County, and Part 
 in EJJcx. It has a mean Market on IV idnefdays, and two 
 Fairs, i. e. on 1 May and 1 5 Augujl. Here were for- 
 merly two Churches, or at lean: a Church and a Chapel j 
 one of y/hich was called Le nether Chirche, in HaverhrL 
 
 The 
 
250 Hundred R isbridg e. 
 
 The Manors of Dcfening and Haverhill were Lord Staf- 
 ford's, 4 Henry IV. and Humphrey Duke of Buckingham's 
 28 Henry VI. ifcwry Lord Grey of Codnoure, had a Grant 
 of the Manors of Haverhill and Her/ham, 1 Richard III. 
 The Church was impropriated to the Priory of Cajile- 
 acre, in iW/*/i ; and the Reaory and Advowfon of the 
 Vicarage were granted 29 Henry VIII. to 7&mw« Lord 
 Cromwell. 
 
 Hawkedon. There are two Manors in this Town ; 
 one belongs to Philip Hammond, Efq; who has a Seat 
 here : The other belongs to the Family of Maltyward. 
 Gilbert d'Umfreville died feifed of the Manor of Thorjlan- 
 ton, or Thwjzruflan in Hawkedon, 4 Richard II. Robert 
 Lord Harmgton died feifed of it 7 Henry IV. in Right of 
 his Wife, who was Daughter of Sir Nigel Loryng, Knight 
 of the Garter. There is alfo a Seat called Swan- Hall, 
 which was long in the Family of Abbot, and fince pur- 
 chafed by the Stewarts ; in whofe Family it now is. 
 
 Hundon. Lionel Earl of Clarence died feifed of the 
 Manor of Hundon, Erdbury, and Wood- Hall in Sudbury* 
 43 Edward III. The Church was given to the College 
 of Stoke-Clare, by Alojlan Prieit of Hunden, and Edward 
 his Son ; and the Rectory and Advowfon of the Vicarage 
 were granted to Sir John Cheke, 5 Edivard VI. The 
 Manor is now vefted in Henry Vernon, Efq. There was 
 alfo a Manor or reputed Manor in Hunden, with the Parks 
 called Great Park, E/lry Park, and Broxley Park, granted 
 to Sir John Cheke 3 Edward VI. as Parcel of the Pohef- 
 •fions of Stoke-Clare. 
 
 Kedington, or as it is written in Domefday-Book 
 Kcditure, now corruptly Ketton, was then the Lordfhip 
 and Demefne of Ralph Barnard ; afterwards it belonged 
 to the Earls of Clare; but in late Times to the Barnar- 
 dijhm* who have been here ever fince the Year 1 500, 
 
 according 
 
Hundred of Risbridge. 251 
 
 according to Weaver, p. 733. Sir Thomas Barnardifton^ 
 of this Place, Knt. was created a Baronet 7 April, 1663. 
 Sir Samuel Barnardifton lately refided at Kedingion-Hall, a 
 beautiful Seat. It was the Jointure of his Lady ; but, 
 upon her Death, it came to Sir John BarnardiJlon\ who 
 had fold the Reverfion to Mr. Mertins, Goldfmith and 
 Jeweller in London. The Fair is Yearly on July 29. 
 
 Kentford, a Hamlet to Gazely. 
 
 Lidgate. Here was a Mount moated round near the 
 Church, on which remain the Ruins of a Caftle : But 
 this Parifli is more memorable for giving Birth and Name 
 to John Lidgate, who was a Benedicline Monk of Bury St. 
 Edmunds. He died A. D. 1440, and was famous for his 
 Learning and his Poetry. 
 
 The Lordfhip of this Town did formerly belong to 
 John Hajlings Earl of Pembroke, 49 Edward III. fince to 
 the Lord Jermyn, late to Sir Jermyn Davers, Bart, and 
 then by Sale to his Grace the late Duke of Somerfet. 
 
 Moulton, is a Peculiar to the Archbifliop of Canter- 
 bury, and under the Jurifdiction of the Dean of Backing. 
 John Agncrus had the Grant of a Market here 26 Edw. I. 
 Sir John de Chyvere/lon was Lord 25 Edward III. but he 
 fliortly after fold the Manor to Elizabeth, RelicT: of Sir 
 Andrew Lutterell ; one of whofe Defendants, Sir Hugh 
 Lutterell, died feifed of it 6 Henry VI. 
 
 Ousden. In this Parifli is the Seat of Richard Mofelcy, 
 Efq; who is alfo Lord of the Manor. 
 
 Poslingford, was anciently the Lordfhip of Ralph 
 Baynard. New~Houfe, in this Parifli, is the Seat of George 
 Golding, Efq. The Impropriation and Advowfon of the 
 Vicarage belonged to the Priory of Dunmow, in EJJex ; 
 and were granted 28 HenryVlll. to Robert Earl of Sujex', 
 and are now vefted in Henry Moore, Efq. 
 
 2 Stans- 
 
J5 J Hundred of Rise ridge. 
 
 Stansfield. In this Parifh is the Scat of Robert Ke~ 
 dington, Gent. The Lordfliipis in the Crown. 
 
 Stoke juxta Clare, is remarkable for a Priory tranf- 
 lated from the Caftle of Clare thither, by Richard de To- 
 nebridge Earl of Clare : It was of the Benedicline Order. 
 About A. D. 1 41 5, Edmund Mortimer Earl of March 
 augmented its Revenues, and got it changed from a Priory 
 to a Collegiate Church, confifting of a Dean and Secular 
 Canons 5 the Popes John 23d and Martin 5th ratify- 
 ing this Exchange. It was valued at the Di Ablution at 
 324/. 45. i\d. per Annum, and granted to Sir John 
 Cheke, and Walter Mildmay ; from whom it paAed to the 
 Family of Trigg ; then it became the PoAeffion of Sir 
 Gervaije Elweys, who married Amy the Daughter of Dr. 
 Trigg. He was created a Baronet 22 July, 1660 ; whofe 
 SucceAbr Sir Hervey Ehveys, now enjoys the Honour and 
 Eftate. He refides in a good old Seat, where the Priory 
 flood. Stoke Fair is on the Monday in Whitfun-Week. 
 
 Straddishall, 
 
 Great Thurlow. Here was a fmall Hofpital or Free 
 Chapel, of the yearly Value of 3/. which was granted by 
 King Edward IV . to the Maifon de Dieu in Cambridge, 
 now Part of King's- Col lege. The Lordfhip formerly be- 
 longed to John King, Efq; then to the Waldegraves, then 
 to Sir Cor del Fir ebr ace, Bart, who fold it to James Vernon, 
 Efq; whofe Son Henry has his Seat at the Hall in this 
 Parifh. 
 
 Little Thurlow. In this Parifh is a noble old Seat, 
 where the Family of Soame have long refided. It is now 
 the Seat of Stephen Soame , Efq. 
 
 Whixoe. 
 
 WlCKHAIVJ- 
 
Hundred c/ Risbridge. z$$ 
 
 W i c K. H a m " Brook, now a Parifli of large Bounds, to 
 which feveral Hamlets or Parifties have been annexed : 
 Four of thefe appear in fome old Writings, now in the 
 Cuftody of Robert Edgar, of Ipfwich, Efq; I. The Ham- 
 let or Parifh of Clapton, or Cloptune, the Tithes of which 
 did anciently belong to Stoke College. 2. Badmondisfield- 
 Hall, was formerly the Pofleflion of Charles Somerset, Son 
 of Sir George Somcrfet, who was the fecond Son of Charles 
 Earl of Worcejler ; fince Sir Henry North's ; now of 
 
 Warner, Efq. There was a Free Chapel here 
 
 dedicated to St. Mary, of which Sir John Hajlings Lord 
 Bergavenny, and his Defcendants, were Patrons j and af- 
 ter them John Grey, of Ruthin ; this Chapel was granted 
 by Queen Elizabeth in 1583, to William Manfey, Iron- 
 monger of London. 3. Gffirds-HaW, once in Sir Hugh 
 Francis ; fince in Thomas Heigham, Efq; afterwards in 
 John Givers ; now in George Chinery, Gent. 4. Clopton, 
 or Widbam-Houfe, was formerly the Habitation of Major 
 Robert Sparrow, and now ibmetimes the Refidence of 
 Robert Edgar, Efq. 
 
 Wethersfield. 
 
 Great Wrattwg, and Little Wratting. Lady 
 Barnardijhn is Lady of the Manor in thefe Parifiies. 
 
 Hundred 
 
t 254 J 
 
 . immmmmumumv^ mtgg^ 
 
 Hundred of Babergh. 
 
 A B E RG H Hundred is parted from EJfcx by the 
 River Stour; it is bounded on the North by Things 
 and Thedwajhe ; and on the Eaft by Cosford. The 
 Towns and Villages in this Hundred are as followeth, viz. 
 
 Acton, formerly called Aketon. The Manor in this 
 Parifh in 9 Edward I. was the Inheritance of Robert de 
 Buers. King Edward IV. afterwards gave it to Henry 
 Lord Bouchier ; he left it to Henry, his Grandfon. Sir 
 Richard Bacon, Bart, is now Owner of the Hall, and 
 Lord of the Manor. ASion-Place, was formerly the Seat 
 of the Daniels ; they fold it to Robert Jennens, Efq; who 
 began to rebuild the fame ; it is now finifhed by William 
 Jennens his Son, and is a fine Structure. There was an- 
 ciently in this Parifh a Chauntry, of the yearly Value of 
 7/. 2 *. %\d. Ambrofe Kedington, Efq; has a Seat in this 
 Parifh, by the Side of Babergh- Heath. The Advowfon 
 is in Mr. "Jennens. 
 
 Alpheton, was formerly the Lordfhip of John de 
 Welnetharn, who in the Reign of Edward III. left a 
 Daughter his Heir, married to Edmund Broke/born, Efq; 
 by whom he had Iffue Eleanor, who married Sir William 
 Raynsforth, Knt. This Manor is now vefted in Mrs. 
 Little. 
 
 Assington. Sir Andrew de Nevile claimed the Patron- 
 age and Advowfon of this Church, 18 Edward I. but he 
 releafed it to the Prior and Convent of Hatfield Peverel; 
 upon the DifTolution of which Houfe the Rectory and Ad- 
 vowfon 
 
Hundred Babergh. 255 
 
 vowfon of the Vicarage were granted 29 Henry VIII. to 
 Giles Leigh. The Manor belonged to the Family of the 
 Corbets, which were feated here ; Sir Piers Corbet was a 
 Knight Banneret in the Time of Edw. I. and Sir Thoma> 
 Corbet was at a Tournament in DunJiable, 2 Edward II. 
 This Family continued here until the Reign of Hen.Vlll. 
 then Robert Gurdon, Efq; purchafed the Eftate of the 
 Corbets. In the 26th Year of Queen Elizabeth, John 
 Gurdon, of JJJington, Efq; was High-Sheriff" of this 
 County ; and ever fince their firft Settlement here, the 
 Gurdons have been Men of Figure and Eftate in this 
 County, as they ftill remain. The prefent Pofleflor is 
 Nathaniel Gurdon, Efq. 
 
 Boxford, fituated in a Bottom between two Brooks, 
 which join each other a little below it. It is a Place of 
 confiderable Trade. Here are two Fairs yearly ; one on 
 Eajler- Monday, and the other on December 21. Tli& 
 Crown prefents to it. 
 
 About a Mile South-Eaft of this Village, fituated in 
 the Parifhes of Boxford, Stoke and Affington, is Peyton- 
 Hall, granted by William the Conqueror to Robert Mallet, 
 a Norman Baron, and a Progenitor of the ancient Fa- 
 mily of Peyton, (from which defcended the Uffordi 
 Earls of Suffolk) who being firft feated at P^/<j«-Hall in 
 Ram/holt, in Willford Hundred, afterwards fettled at Pey- 
 ton-Hz\\ in this Parifti, by Marriage with Gernoon. There 
 was a Sir John Peyton, of Suffolk, in the Time of Edw. f. 
 and John de Peyton was Knight of this Shire 28, 29 Ed. III. 
 This has for lome Time been the Eftate of the DaJJ> 
 woods, and is now vefted in George Dajlnvood, Efq; who 
 has a Seat in or near Sudbury, called Wood- Hall. Here 
 is a Free Grammar-School, founded by Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 South-Weft of Boxford Church, is CeMnham-Ball ; a 
 very good Seat, formerly the Lordfhip and Demefne of 
 Sir Jofeph Brand ; now of Thomas Bennet, Efq. At the 
 
 Eafi- 
 
256 Hundred of Babergh'. 
 
 Eajl-end of Boxford-Jlreet Is another neat Manfion, nov/ 
 the Seat of the Rev. Mr. Benyon. 
 
 Boxstead, formerly the Lordfhlp of the Abbot of 
 Bury St. Edmund, gEdw. I. but afterwards, by what means 
 we know not, it was granted to Robert Harlejlon, Efq; 
 who being attainted in the Reign of Edw. IV. it was 
 granted to Richard Duke of Glocejier, Brother to the faid 
 King. It was afterwards the Seat of the Pooleys. This 
 ancient Family of Knights Degree fpread itfelf into feve- 
 ral flourifhing Branches here, and at Columbine -HzM in 
 Stowmarket, and Badlcy in Bofmere Hundred. Sir John 
 Pooley, the laft Knight of this Houfe, was chofen Bur- 
 gefs for Sudbury in the Convention of 1688. It is now 
 the Seat of George Wcller, Efq. 
 
 Bures, or Buers, is a Village on the Stour, over 
 which it has a fair Bridge, leading through Bures Hamlet 
 in Ejjex, to Colchejier. Galfridus de Fontibus, (who wrote 
 about the Year 11 56) tells us, that King Edmund who 
 was cruelly murdered by the Danes at Hoxne in this' 
 County, was crowned here. His Words are thefe : " Be- 
 *< ing unanimoufly approved they brought him to Suffolk, 
 *' and, in the Village called Burum made him King j the 
 " venerable Prelate Humbert afFifting, and anointing and 
 *' confecrating Edmund to be King. Now Burum is an 
 " ancient Royal Hill, the known Bound between Eajl- 
 *< Sexe and Suffolk, and iltuate upon the Stour. a River 
 *« moft rapid both in Summer and Winter." Which 
 PafTage (faith the Author of the Additions to Cambden, 
 from whom we have it) is the more obfervable, becaufe 
 it (hews what we are to underfiand by Burva, in Affirms"* 
 Life of Alfred ; that it is not Bury, as the Chronicle un- 
 der Brompton's Name fuppofes ; nor yet Burne in Lincoln* 
 Jhire, as hath been afl'erted ; but this Bures or Buers, as 
 Matthew JVeJlminfler calls it. 
 
 The 
 
Hundred Babergh. 257 
 
 The Church and Spire-fteeple were great Ornaments 
 to this Village ; but in 1733 the Spire was fet on fire by- 
 Lightning, and burnt down to the Steeple ; the Bell- 
 Frames were hkewife burnt, the Bells melted, and the 
 Steeple much damaged. In a Tomb on the Nortb-dde 
 of this Church lieth a Knight crofs-legged, his Name is 
 fuppofed to be Cornard, who is faid to have fold a Farm 
 in this Parifh called Corn Hall, for Four-pence j Temp. 
 Hen. III. Buers Fair is yearly on H-j/y-Thurfday. 
 
 Small- Bridge, in this Pariih, has been memorable for 
 the Waldegraves, an ancient Family, who long refided 
 here; but afterwards removed into EJfex. Sir Richard 
 Waldegrave was Knight of the County of Suffolk, 50 
 Edward III. 
 
 Gilbert de Clare, who died A. D. U$l ? gave the 
 Church of Bures to the Monks of Stoke-Clare. Hugh 
 Lord Bardolf died 32 Edward I. feifed of the Manor of 
 Bures in Suffolk, in the Right of his Wife Jfabel the 
 Daughter and Heirefs of William Aguillon. King Ed- 
 ward IV '. in the 19th Year of his Reign granted unto 
 Anne the Wife of William Lord Bouchier, and Sifter to 
 his Queen, the Manor of Overbad, as alfo the Manor of 
 Netberball, otherwife called SyhcJlers-hzU, in St. Mary 
 Bures, in Suffolk and EjJ'ex. 
 
 BREUT-Illeigb, a Village and Manor belonging to the 
 Anceftors of Sir Henry Shelton, by Marriage with the Co- 
 heirefs of Tdeigh ; who procured a Market for it of 
 Henry III. long fince difcontinued. His Polterity flourifhed 
 here a long time ; but afterwards it defended to the Fa- 
 mily of Colman, who now enjoy it. Dr. Colman, Fellow 
 of Trinity College Cambridge, built a fine Parochial Li- 
 brary at the End of the Chancel, and well furnifhed it 
 with Books. Since that Edward Colman, Efq; built a 
 neat Alms-Houfe for fix poor People, and plentifully en- 
 dowed it* The laft of which Family Edward Colman^ 
 
 S Efy 
 
258 Hundred 0/ B a b e r g h. 
 
 Efq; gave this Eftate to his Kinfman Edward Goat, Efq; 
 whofe Son Edward is is now pofleffed of it. The Manor 
 and Advowfonof the Vicarage were granted ^Hen. VIII. 
 to Robert Goodwin, as Parcel of the Poffeffions of St. 
 Ofith's Abbey, in EJJex j but the impropriation was granted 
 5 Elizabeth to Bartholomew King, and Edward Wifeman. 
 
 Cavendish, is fituated on the Stour, and is memo- 
 rable for giving Name to the noble Family of Cavendijh. 
 Sir John Cavendift), bom in this Place, was Lord Chief 
 Juftice of the King's Bench 46 Edward III. and con- 
 tinued in that Station until the 5th Richardll. when un- 
 happily falling into the Hands of that Rabble aflembled 
 under 'John Raw and Robert Wejlbroom, he was beheaded 
 by them at Bury. From this learned Judge defcended 
 William Cavendijh, who was created by King Jac. I. 
 Baron Cavendijh of Hardwick, and Earl of Devonjlnre ; 
 his Succeflor is now Duke of Devonjlnre. Jefus College 
 in Cambridge hath the Advowfon of the Church. 
 
 • Chilton, is faid to be a Hamlet of Great Waldingfuld. 
 The Hall appears to be a good old Seat ; it formerly be- 
 longed to the Knightly Family of Crane ; for Sir John 
 Crane, of this Place, Knt. was created a Baronet nMay 9 
 1627 j which Family is now extincX It is now vefted 
 in Sir Armine TVoodhoufe, who is Lord of the Manor there, 
 called Waldingjield -Ha\], Carbonells with Chilton. 
 
 Cockfied, or Cokejield, or Cookjield, confifts of the 
 Manors Cockfield-Hd\\, which probably belonged to the 
 Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds ; but Sir William Spring, Knt. 
 died feized of it 42 Elizabeth. The other is Earls-HaW, 
 fo called from the Veres, Earls of Oxford. In 24 Edw. I. 
 Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford had it. Afterwards John 
 Earl of Oxford taking part with the Lancaflrians againft 
 Edward IV. forfeited his Eftates, and the faid Edward 
 gave them to his Brother Richard Duke of York., But 
 
 Henry 
 
Hundred of Babergh. 259 
 
 Henry VII. rertoring him to his Honours and Eftates, his 
 Succeilors enjoyed them till the Death of Awbrey de Vere, 
 the laft Earl of that Family. Thefe Manors are now 
 vcfted in John Moore, Efq. The Advowfcn is in St. 
 Johns College, Cambridge. 
 
 There is a handfume Manfion in this Parifh, which 
 has been for ibme time, and now is the Seat of the 
 Herveys. 
 
 Corxard- Magna, formerly the Lordfhip of the Ab- 
 befs of Mailing, in Kent ; who bought it of Thomas de 
 Grey, about A. D. 1317- It was granted to the Arch- 
 bilhop of Canterbury in Exchange, 32 Henry VIII. but 
 refumed by Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 Corn ard- Parva, was the Lordfhip of Thomas de Grey. 
 Sir Roger de Grey, of Merton in Norfolk, Knt. died feifed 
 of it 1 37 1 5 and Sir V/illiam de Grey, of the fame Place, 
 died feifed of Cawftons Manor in Little Cornard, 19 Oc- 
 tober 1632. 
 
 Edwardston, a Village of Note for the Lords for- 
 merly inhabiting in it. Herbert de Montechenfy was here 
 in the Time of the Conqueror, whofe Son Waryne fuc- 
 ceeded him in this Lord (hip. Hubert, Son of Waryne, 
 married Mariel the Daughter of Peter de Valoignes, and 
 had Iffue by her V/illiam de Montechenfy, who was a great 
 Soldier, and in high Efteem with Edward I. and the whole 
 Kingdom. This William married a Daughter of U Al- 
 bany Earl of Arundel, by whom he had Waryne, who was 
 fo vaftly wealthy that he was called the EnglijhQrosfw, and 
 died worth above 200.CC0 Marks, according to Cambden. 
 The Lordfhip defcended at length to the Waldgraves, by 
 a Marriage with Jane fole Daughter of Sir Edward Mon- 
 techenfy. Sir William If aldegrave, about the Year 1598, 
 fold it to John Brand, of B oxford, Clothier; from which 
 Family it came to the late Sir Robert Kemp, Bart, by his 
 S 2 Marriage 
 
260 Hundred of Babergh. 
 
 Marriage with the fole Daughter of John Brand, Efq. 
 Sir Robert fold the Manor and Advowfon to William 
 French, Citizen of London and Draper in 1 7 14, who now 
 enjoys it. 
 
 St. Edward's Place, was formerly a Religious Houfe, 
 and a Cell to the Monaltery of Abingdon, near Oxford .\ 
 but the Monks were removed about the Year ,1160 to 
 the Priory of Colne, in EJfex ; which got the great Tithes 
 of this Parifh appropriated to it. It is now the Eftate of 
 the Bifhop of Ely, to which See it was annexed by Queen 
 Elizabeth in 1599, in exchange for fome valuable Manors 
 which belonged to that See. The Bifhop of Ely pays to 
 the Vicar after the Rate of Twelve-pence a Day, or 
 18/. 5 s. per Annum. 
 
 A little South of St. Edward's- Place is a neat Man- 
 fion, which was the Seat of Jofeph Aljlon, Efq; and was 
 lately fold by his Heirs to Mr. Sheldon, of London. 
 
 Glemsford, was one of the Manors which Odo was 
 poffeffed of when Domefday-Book was taken. Some 
 Rents are paid out of this Lordfhip to the Bifhop of Ely, 
 and the Inhabitants are exempted from ferving on any 
 Juries elfewhere but at the Ifle of Ely. The Church of 
 Ely had Poffeffions here as early as Edward the Confef- 
 for's Time. It is a very large Parifh in Bounds ; and if 
 the Houfes flood contiguous, it is fuppofed, there would 
 not be four larger Towns in the County. The Fair is 
 yearly on June 24 ; and the Manor now belongs to Henry 
 Moore, Efq. 
 
 A Sermon is to be preached at Glemsford once a Year, 
 by a Fellow of Chrifl's College Cambridge, according to 
 the Will of Dr. Hawford 1580, who charged Lands in 
 Dullingham for the Support of it. 
 
 Groton, formerly the Lordfhip of the Abbot of Bury. 
 It was granted at the DifTolution of that Abbey to Adam 
 
 Winthorp, 
 
HuNDREt) of B A BERG U. 26 I 
 
 Winihorp, Efq; in which Family it continued till about 
 the 4th Year of Charles I. when it was purchafec! by 
 Thomas Waring ; and is now the Seat of Thomas Waring, 
 Efq. 
 
 Hartest, belonged to the Convent of Ely, in King 
 Edward the ConfefTor's Time ; but was afterwards ap- 
 propriated to the Bilhopric, and alienated from it 4 Eliz. 
 
 Lavenham, ftands on the River Breton, and isfituatcd 
 on a Hill of eafy Afcent, on the Top of which is the 
 Market-place. The Market is on Titcfdays ; but tho' it 
 was formerly very confiderable, when the Trade for 
 blue Cloth was largely carried on here ; fince that was 
 loft, it is almoft reduced to nothing. The Fair is on 
 Sept. 29, much frequented for Butter and Cheefe. The 
 Church and Steeple are the chief Things remarkable here, 
 both efteemed as being very fine Buildings, perhaps the 
 beft in the County of their Kind. They were built by 
 the Veres Earls of Oxford, affifted by the Springs ; Thomas 
 Spring, the rich Clothier, lies buried in the Church ; he 
 was a great Benefactor to it. In the Steeple are fix large 
 tuneable Bells, much admired by the curious, particularly 
 the Tenor, which is faid to weigh but 23 C. yet founds 
 like a Bell of 40 C. Weight. The College of Gonvile 
 and Cains, in Cambridge, are Patrons of the Rectory. 
 
 Lavenham was one of the Two hundred and Twenty- 
 one Lordfhips in Suffolk, that King William the Con- 
 queror gave to Robert Mallet j but he forfeited by joining 
 Robert, eldeft Son to the Conqueror, in the 2d of Hen. I. 
 which King gave it to Aubrey de Vere ; in whofe Porterity 
 it remained till alienated by Edivard Earl of Oxford in Q. 
 Elizabeth's Time to Paul D'Ewes, Efq; and is now veiled 
 in Henry Moore, Efq. 
 
 There are many good Charities belonging to thisTown. 
 The Inhabitants purchafed an Eftate of 80 /. per Annum 
 for repairing their Alms-houfes, and maintaining the Poor 
 S 3 thereof. 
 
262 Hundred of Baberch. 
 
 thereof. Dr. Coppingcr, formerly Rector, gave 10/. per 
 Ann. for the Maintenance of four poor People. John 
 Carder 40 J. per Ann. to be given to the Poor in Bread: 
 And John Cream 40 /. towards the Maintenance of twelve 
 poor Widows. Others have given liberally for the Edu- 
 cation of Children here, viz. Richard Peacock i^Car. II. 
 gave 5/. per Ann. for educating five poor Boys : Edward 
 Cobnan, of FurnivaFs-lnn, in 1696, gave 200/. to which 
 ether Perfons gave fuch Additions, as purchafed a conve- 
 nient Dwelling-Koufe and School- Room, and an An- 
 nuity of 30/. for a Mailer. Mr. Cobnan gave 200 /■ more 
 to be laid out in Land, the Rent of which is to be applied 
 towards binding out one poor Boy yearly from Milden y 
 Brent-llleigh, or Lavenham. And Robert Rice gave 5/. 
 per Ann. for binding out two poor Boys from Prejion, or 
 for want of fuch there, from Lavenham. Thomas Ccok, 
 Lord-Mayor of London, A. D. 1463, was a Native of 
 this Town. 
 
 Lawshall. Alfwinm the Son of Bricitis, gave this 
 Lordfiiip A. D. 1022, to the Abbey of Ramfey y in Hun- 
 iingdonJJnre ; at the Difiblution it was granted, with the 
 Patronage of the Rectory, to John Rither, 37 Hen. VIIL 
 and belongs now to Baptijl Lee, Efq. 
 
 Mellford, commonly called Long-Mellford, is above 
 a Mile in Length from South to North j it is a pleafant 
 Village, and perhaps one of the largeft in England, that 
 is not a Market-Town. Mellford-RzW is a noble old 
 Seat : Sir William Cordell, Matter of the Rolls in Queen 
 Elizabeth's Time, had a great Kindnefs for this Town, 
 and fettled his Family at the aforefaid Hall ; but dying 
 without IfTue, he made Jane the youngeft of his twq 
 Sifters his fole Heir, who married Richard Allington, of 
 Horfeheath, in Cambridgejhire, Efq. Upon this Marriage 
 the Eftate was fold to Savage Earl R,ivers, in which Fa- 
 
Hundred of Babergh. 263 
 
 mily it continued to the Restoration, when the Cor dels 
 became Purchafers. Robert Corded of Mellford, Efq; 
 was created a Baronet 2,2 June, 1 660. From the Cordels 
 it defcended into the Family of Firebrace, and is now the 
 Seat of Lady Firebrace, Relict of Sir Cordel Firebrace, 
 Bart, late one of the Reprefentatives of this County. 
 
 Kentwell-HaU, another good old Seat in this Town, 
 belonged to the ancient Family of the Cloptons ; they con- 
 tinued here for many Defcents, and to their Memory 
 feveral fair Tombs in the Church are erected. From the 
 
 Cloptons it defcended to Darcy, Knt. and from 
 
 him to the Robinfons ; Themis Robinfon, of Kentwell Hall, 
 Efq; was created a Baronet 26 Jan. 1681 ; but his Heir, 
 who lived at IVorlhigham near Beaks, fold his Eftate in 
 thefe Parts to John Moore, Efq; Citizen of London, and 
 Uncle to John Moore, Efq; the prefent PoiTeiTor. 
 
 At the South- end of the Town is an old Seat, where 
 the Family of Martin hath long refided. Roger Aim-tin, 
 Mercer, Son of Laurence Martin of this Town, was Lord- 
 Mayor of London in 1567 : His Defcendant Roger Aiartin, 
 of this Town, Efq; was created a Baronet 28 March 1667 : 
 It is now the Seat of Sir Roger Martin, Bart. The Church 
 is a beautiful and noble Structure, {landing at the North- 
 end of the Town : There were two Chauntries in it, one 
 founded by William Clapton, of the yearly Value of 61. 
 6 s. 8 d. and the other founded by John Hill, of the 
 yearly Value of 7/. 5 s. Weaver faith, that on ibme 
 Part of the Out fide of the Church are thefe Words : 
 
 Pray for the Souls of John Clapton and Richard Boteler, 
 ** of whofeGoodys this Chapel was built." The Manor 
 and Advowfon of the R.e£r.ory belonged formerly to the 
 Abbey of Bury, to which it was given by Alfric the Son 
 of Widgar, a famous Knight. They were granted by 
 Queen Mary I. to William, afterwards Sir William Cor- 
 del ; who built here an Hofpital for the Poor, and plen- 
 tifully endowed it. The prefent Biftiop of Worcejler is a 
 S 4 Native 
 
264 Hundred 0/ Babergh. 
 
 Native of this Place, and Son to the late Rector. Melt* 
 ford-kWx is yearly on the Tuefday in Whitfun Week ; but 
 it was granted to the Abbot of Bury 19 Henry III. to be 
 held on the Eve, Day, and Morrow of the Holy Trinity 
 with a Market on Thurfdays. 
 
 Milding, formerly the Lord/hip and Demefne of 
 
 Remigius de Milden, who took bis Name from this Place. 
 Afterwards it defcended to the Allingtons ; from them, by 
 Purchafe, to the Canhams. It is now veiled in John Can- 
 ham, Eiq; who has his Seat at the Hall. 
 
 In this Parilh is alfo JVells-HaU, fome time belonging 
 to the Family of Shore/and. The Heirs of that Family 
 fold it to Paul D'Eives, Efq; who left it to Sir Simon 
 D f Ewes, Knt. his Son. Afterwards it was fold to the 
 Caimans ; and from them it came, with the Eftate at 
 Brent- Illeighy to Edward Goat, Efq. See p. 257. 
 
 MoNKS-Jlleigfj, fo called becaufe the Lordfllip formerly 
 belonged to the Monks of St. Peter (now commonly 
 called St. Aztjlhis) in Canterbury, to whom it was given 
 with Hadleigh, by Briihnoih, Dux or Comes of EJJex, when 
 he went to fight againft the Danes, by whom he was 
 killed at the Battle of Maiden, Anno 991. It is a Peculiar 
 of the Archbifhop's, who is alfo Patron of the Church \ 
 but the Manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter. 
 
 Newton, formerly the Lordlhip oilVdliam Butvillein. 
 
 Neyland, a Town fituated on the Stour, over which 
 it has a fair Bridge leading into EJJex. The Church and 
 Spire-Steeple, (landing in the Middle of the Town, are 
 good Ornaments to it. The Woollen Manufacture has 
 flouriflied here, but not now fo much as formerly ; yet 
 the Inhabitants make Bays and Says. Here is a mean 
 Market Weekly on Fridays; and o-ne Fair Yearly on 21 
 Sept. The Manor belonged to Lord Scroope, ot Majham, 
 1 3 Edward III, 
 
 PoLSTEAIJ, 
 
Hundred of Babergh. 
 
 265 
 
 Polstead, formerly the Lordfhip of James Lamburn, 
 Efq. It is at prefent molt remarkable for its Cherries. 
 Here is the Seat of Wilham Beal Brand, Efq. In this 
 Parifti there was anciently a Chauntry of the yearly Va- 
 lue of 61. 6 s. o^d. 
 
 Preston, is a Village, which comprehendeth feveral 
 Manors : The firft is called the Priory, as originally be- 
 longing to the Priory of the Holy Trinity in Ipfwich, which 
 prefented to the Vicarage ; but the Advowfon of the Vi- 
 carage is now in the Mafter and Fellows of Emanuel 
 College, Cambridge. The next is the Manor of Maijiers, 
 as belonging to the Maijlers at Batisford, the Commandery 
 of this County, where the Tenants paid their Rents ; and 
 from thence they were paid again to the Prior of St. 
 Johns oVJerufalem, and his Brethren Knights of the fame 
 in London. Thefe two Manors were granted by King 
 Henry Will, in the 35th Year of his Reign to Andrew 
 Judde. The third was called Mortimers, in which Name 
 it long continued, till the Heir^general was married to 
 Ferrers, and his Daughter to Crefjener, who afterwards 
 fold it to other Lords. The fourth is the Manor of 
 Swifts, which Cecily the Mother of King Edward IV. 
 gave to the Guild of Jefus College, in Bury; and, at the 
 Diiiblution, was granted to Richard Corbett, 2 Edw. VL 
 There is yet another Manor near the Church, called 
 Pre/lon-UzW, which belonged to the Earls of Oxford; till 
 John the fourteenth Earl, dying without J flue about the 
 1 8th of Henry VOL it defcended to his Sifter (married to 
 Sir Anthony IVmgfield, Knt.) in which Family it con- 
 tinued three Defcents, and was lately purchafed by Sir 
 William Beachcroft, Knt. and Alderman of London. In 
 the Reigns of James and Charles the Firft, here lived 
 Robert Rice, Efq; an accomplifhed Gentleman, and a 
 great Preierver of the Antiquities of this County. 
 
 Shimpling, 
 
266 Hundred Babergh, 
 
 Shimfling, was in the Conqueror's Time the Lord- 
 fbip of Odo de Camp ania. Jt afterwards defcended to the 
 Lords Fitz-walter. Robert Plampyn, Efq; has now his 
 Seat here, called Cheracre, or Shadacre-Hz\l. 
 
 Some r ton. The Lordfhip of Thomas de Burgh, A.D. 
 J 274. It is at prefent veiled in the Lord Blundel, of the 
 Kingdom of Ireland. 
 
 Stanstead. Sir Robert de Wachejham had the Ad- 
 vowfon A.D. 1358. 
 
 Stoke juxta Neyl and, called in our Hiftories Stoke- 
 Neyland to diftinguifh it from Sxoke-Clare, Stoke- Ipfwich, 
 &c. Its Church and Steeple are noble Structures : The 
 Steeple lifting up a majeftic Head, is feen as far as Har- 
 wich, near twenty Miles diftant. Here was a Monaftery 
 of good Note before the Conqueft ; but we meet with 
 little or nothing of it afterwards. Stoke has two Fairs ; 
 one on the 24th Feb. the other on the 1 ft of May. 
 
 Giffards-Uz\\, in this Parifh, hath belonged to the 
 Mannocks ever fince the Time of King Henry IV. and 
 it is now veiled in Sir William Mannock, Bart. 
 
 Tendring-WzW, belonged to a Family of that Name. 
 William de Tendring had a Grant of a Market and Fair 
 at Stoke at Neyland, 31 Edward I. Sir Wi/liam Tendring, 
 about the Year 142 1, left Alice his Daughter and Heirefs 
 who married Sir John Hoivard, Knt. direct Anccftor to 
 the Dukes of Norfolk. From that Family it came to the 
 Lord Windfors. From the Reformation it was the Seat 
 of the Williams's. Sir John Williams, Knt. and Lord- 
 Mayor of London in 1736, built here a noble Seat, which 
 by Purchafe is now become the Property of Admiral Sir 
 William Rowley, Knt. of the Bath, and one of the Lords 
 of His Majefty's Board of Admiralty. 
 
 Sudbury, 
 
Hundred c/ Baberch. 
 
 267 
 
 Sudbury, ftands upon the Stour, which is navigable 
 for Barges from Maningtree to this Town. It was an- 
 ciently called South-Burgh, as Norwich is faid to have 
 been called North-Burgh. It is a very ancient Town ; 
 and at prefent eonfifts of three Parifhes, having three 
 beautiful and large Parifh Churches ; St. Gregory's, St. 
 Peters, and All Saints. This Town was one of the firft 
 Places where King Edward III. put the Dutchmen whom 
 he brought into England from the Netherlands, to teach 
 the Englijh to manufacture their own Wool ; and the 
 Woollen Trade hath continued here ever fince. 
 
 It is a Town-Corporate, governed by a Mayor, fix 
 Aldermen, twenty-four capital Burgeffes, and other Sub- 
 Officers. It has divers Privileges, and fends two Mem- 
 bers to Parliament. His Grace the Duke of Grafton takes 
 the Title of Baron from this Place. 
 
 Simon Sudbury, who was Archbifhop of Canterbury 
 A.D. 1375, and beheaded by the Rabble in Wat Tyler's 
 Infurre&ion, was a Native of this Town : He built the 
 upper End of St. Gregory's Church ; he founded a Col- 
 lege where his Father's Houfe ftood, and endowed it Co 
 well that it was of the Value of 122/. iSs. per Am. 
 when it was fupprefled. He is alfo faid by Leland with 
 John de Chertfey, to have founded a Priory here of the 
 Order of St. Auflin ; tho' Weaver afcribes it to one 
 Baldwin of Shilling (Shimpling perhaps) and Mabil his 
 Wife. This Priory was valued at 222/. 18 s. 3^. It 
 is now the Manlion of Denny Cole, Gent. Town-Clerk 
 of Sudbury. 
 
 Waldingfield Magna, formerly the Lordfhip of 
 James Butler Earl of Wiltjhire; and afterwards of the 
 Earls of EJJex. Sir John Carbonwell had a Manor here, 
 and theAdvowfon of the Church about the Year 1300; 
 but the Advowfon is now in the College of Clare-HdW, 
 
 Cambridge. 
 
268 Hundred &f Baberch. 
 
 Cambridge. About the Year 1 360, Hawis the Relidr. of 
 Sir Roger de Bavent, releafed the Manor of Brandejlon- 
 Hall in Waldingfield Magna to the Nunnery of Dartford 
 in Kent. The Manor of Moreves was granted to Henry 
 Lord Bouchier 14 Edward IV . at prefent it belongs to the 
 Family of Keddington. 
 
 Waldingfield Parva, the Lordfhip of William 
 Beauchamp and William Fitz- Ralph 9 Edward I. Sir 
 Ralph Lutteril is faid to have died feifed of this Manor 
 6 Henry VI. The Rev. Dey Syer hath it now. 
 
 Wiston, fometimes called Wiffmgton. The Cluniac 
 Monks at Tbetford had the Advowfon of this Church by 
 the Gift of Robert the Son of Godbold, and they gave it 
 to their Cell of Horkefley in EJfex, A. D. 1240. 
 
 Hundred 
 
[ 269 ] 
 
 Hundred of Cos ford. 
 
 COS FORD Hundred joins to the Hundred of Ea- 
 bergh before-mentioned towards the Wejl ; and con- 
 tains the feventeen following Parifhes. 
 
 Aldham, the Lordfhip of the fecond Robert de Vere 
 Earl of Oxford^ 24 Edward I. The third Robert died 
 feifed of it 33 Ed. III. as did Thomas de Vere 45 Ed. 111. 
 Sir John Howard obtained a Grant of this Manor 15 
 Edward IV. as Part of the Eftate of John late Earl of 
 Oxford^ attainted. It belonged lately to the Earl of Lei- 
 cejler ; now to Sir Jojhua Vanned, Bart. 
 
 Bildeston, is a Town in a Bottom, meanly built, 
 and the Streets are dirty ; it appears to have been more 
 populous than it is now, which is owing to the Decay of 
 the Woollen Manufacture which formerly flourifhed here. 
 The Church is a very good Building, (landing on a Hill 
 on the Weft-{\&<z of the Town, near which is the Man- 
 fion of the late Bartholomew Beat, Efq; who left two 
 Daughters Heirefles : One married Jacob Brand, Efq; of 
 Pol/lead ; and the other William Al/ion, Efq; of Bram- 
 ford, defcended from the Aljlons formerly of Marhford y 
 in the Hundred of Loes. Here is a mean Market Week- 
 ly on Wednefdays, and two Fairs Yearly ; the one on AJh- 
 Wednefday, and the other on Jfcenfion-Dzy . Befides the 
 Parifh Churches, there was formerly a Chapel of St. Leo^ 
 nardj in which before the Reformation there was a Chaun- 
 try, called Erdingtons Chauntry ; and long after the 
 Reformation there ufed oftentimes to be Divine Service 
 
 performed 
 
 A 
 
1 Jb Hundred c/ Cosford. 
 
 performed in it, by rcafon of the Diftance of the Church 
 from the Town. Henry Lord Bouchier died feifed of the 
 -Manor of Bildeflon, 23 Edward IV. William Lord Parr 
 having married Anne Daughter and Heirefs to Henry Bou- 
 chier Earl of Ejfex, had Livery of all the Lands of her 
 Inheritance 33 Henry Will, and amongft others of the 
 Manor of Bildejlon in Suffolk, with the Advowfon of the 
 Church. They now are both vefted in William Beal 
 Brandy and William Aljlon, Efqrs. jointly. 
 
 Brettenham, a Parifh at the Head of the little 
 River Breton, fuppofed to be the Combretonium of Anto- 
 ninus ; at prefent of no Remark but for the Family of 
 Wenyeve, who have their Seat here, which is now vefted 
 in Edward Weny eve, Efq; Son of Sir George Weny eve, by 
 Chrijlian Daughter of Sir Dudley (afterwards Lord North) 
 Temp. Car. II. The Earl of Glocejler was Patron of 
 this Church till 1344; the Earl of Stafford till 1432; 
 the Earl of Buckingham till after 15045 and the Crown 
 did not prefent till 1552. 
 
 Chelsworth. In this Parifh the River Bret or Bre- 
 ton, before-mentioned, receives the Water of two other 
 Rivulets, and becomes more confiderable. On a rifing 
 Ground near the Church are the Remains of the Foun- 
 dation of a Stone-Building, which appear to have been 
 very large, and to have been encompalled by the River ; 
 and near them is a Field called, The Park; and other fields, 
 called Park- Fields ; and a fmall Wood, called, the Park- 
 Wood. From which Circumftances it is fuppofed to have 
 been the Habitation of fome Perfon of great Figure and 
 Confequence ; probably, of the Founders of the Church, 
 which formerly belonged to the Duke of Norfolk's Fa- 
 mily. Sir John Howard, Knt. by Will dated 1111385, 
 .gave a Legacy of Twenty Shillings, towards the Repair 
 of his Church of Chelfworth. Mthelfled the Daughter of 
 Alfgar had Chelfworth of the Gift of King Edgar, and 
 
 according 
 
 1 
 
Hundred (p/Cosford. 271 
 
 according to her Father's Requeft gave it to the Abbey 
 of Bury ; yet John de St. Philibert had free W arren in 
 his Demefne Lands here 10 Edw. II. and died feifed of 
 a Manor in Chelfworth 7 Edw. III. Richard Plaiz had a 
 Manor here, 27 Edw. III. or 1352 : And John de Vere 
 had a Manor here in 1472, in Right of his Wife, whofe 
 Grandmother, Wife of Sir John Hoivard before-mention'd, 
 was Daughter and Heirefs of Sir John de Plaiz. His Son 
 dying without IlTue, it defcended to John Vere his Nephew, 
 Son of Sir George Vere, Knt. This John married Ami 
 Daughter of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, and was the four- 
 teenth and laft Earl of Oxford, of that Name and Family. 
 He died without Iflue in 1526, and all his Eftates went 
 to his three Sifters : Dorothy, married to John Neville, 
 Lord of Latimer ; Elizabeth, married to Sir Anthony Wing- 
 feld, of Letheringham ; and Urjula, married to Sir Edward 
 Knighiley. This Manor afterwards became the Property 
 of the Family of Jenny ; of whom it was purchafed in the 
 Year 1737, by Robert Pocklington, Efq; who has built a 
 handfome Manfion, and now refides there. 
 
 Elmsett. This was the Birth-place of that eminent 
 Critic in the Greek Tongue John Bois, Prebendary of Ely. 
 Here is a Fair Yearly on the Tuefday in Whitfnn-Wetk. 
 The Lordfhip of this Parifh belongs at prefent to Richard 
 Gideon Glanville, Efq. The Advowfon of the Reclory 
 to CIare~Ha\\, in Cambridge. 
 
 Hadleigh, is a large Town on the North-fide of the 
 River Breton. Its Church is a fumptuous Building, 
 graced with a Spire-fteeple, which is a great Ornament 
 to it ; but our Antiquaries have a greater Re/peel for it, 
 as being the Burial-place of Gulhrum, or Gormo the Dam'. 
 This Guthrwn the Pagan King of Denmark, being over- 
 come in Battle by King Alfred, was by his Perfuafion 
 jjaptifed, who afterwards gave him freely the Country of 
 the EaJi- Angles to govern ; which he did twelve Years, 
 
 and 
 
272 Hundred u/ Cosford, 
 
 and dying in the Year 889, was buried in this Church. 
 However this may be, it is certain Hadleigh has fince that 
 been remarkable for the Martyrdom of Dr. Rowland Tay- 
 lor, who was Rector of this Church, and burnt A. D. 
 1555, upon the Common in this Parifli, tho' commonly, 
 but improperly, called Aidham Common. On the Spot 
 where he is faid to have been executed, was a Stone with 
 this mif-fpelt Infcription : 
 
 Anno 1555 
 Dr. Taylor for defending what was god 
 In this Place fhed his Blod. 
 
 It has been a Town Corporate, but a Quo Warranto 
 being brought againft them, they furrendered theirCharter, 
 and their Deed of Surrender being enrolled, and Judg- 
 ment being entered up againft them upon Record, they 
 could not be reinftated by the Proclamation of James II. 
 of 17 Oft. 1688 j and no other has been granted fince. 
 Here are two Markets Weekly, on Mondays and Satur- 
 days ; the Market on Monday for Corn, is very confider- 
 able. Here are two Fairs Yearly on the Tuefday in Whit- 
 fun-Week, and on the 29th of Sept. The Buildings and 
 the Town in general have of late Years been much im- 
 proved, fofeph Beaumont, D. D. and Regius Profeflbr at 
 Cambridge, was a Native of this Town. 
 
 Dr. Wilkins the late Rector, erected a very handfome 
 Altar-piece in the Chancel ; and both the Church and 
 Parfonage-Houfe have been greatly improved and beau- 
 tified by the prefent Rector, the Rev. Dr. Tanner. 
 
 The Manor, which is very extenfive, is now vefted in 
 Ebenezer Maurice, Efq. 
 
 The ftrong Gate- way to the Rectory- Houfe was built 
 by that Dr. Pykenham, Chancellor of Norwich, who built 
 the Archdeacon's Houfe in Ipfwich. See p. 43. 
 
 Pond-hall in this Parifli was formerly the Seat of the 
 D'Oylys, before they removed to Shottijbam in Norfolk ; 
 
 where 
 
Hundred of Cosford. 273 
 
 where Sir William D'Oyly was created a Baronet 29 July* 
 1063. This Honour hath lately defcended to the Rev. 
 Sir Hadley D'Oyly, of Ipjwich ; but this Eftate is come 
 by Purchafe to the Right Hon. the Earl of Dyfart. 
 
 Hitch am. The Manor and Advowfon belonged to 
 the Bilhop of Ely, till 4 Elizabeth. The Crown did not 
 prefent to this Church till 1561. 
 
 Kettilbarston. William de la Pole Marquis of 
 Suffolk, obtained a Grant of the Manors of Kettilberjlon 
 and Nedding in Suffolk, 23 Hen. VI. to hold by the Ser- 
 vice of carrying a golden Sceptre with a Dove on the 
 Head of it upon the Coronation- Day of the King's Heirs 
 and Succellbrs ; and another Sceptre of Ivory, with a 
 golden Dove on the Head of it, upon the Day of the Co- 
 ronation of the then Queen, and all fucceffive Queens of 
 England. It is faid the Waldegraves had their Seat at the 
 Hall here > afterwards it defcended to the Lemans ; from 
 them to the Beachcrofts, in which Family it now is. 
 
 Kersey, is memorable only for a Priory of BenediRine 
 Monks, as fome fay ; but rather of Aiijlin Canons, dedi- 
 cated to St. Mary and St. Anthony. It was granted by 
 King Henry VI. to King's College in Cambridge. Here 
 is a Fair yearly on Eajler Tuefday. 
 
 Here is a large Manfion called Sa?npfons-Hall, formerly 
 in the Family of the Sampfons who gave Name to it. 
 It is now the Property of Sir Thomas Thorrowgood, Knt. 
 late High-Sheriff of this County, who refides there. 
 
 Leyham. John de Leyham was found 1$ Edw. I. to 
 hold the Manor of Overbury-llzW in Leyham in Suffolk, of 
 the Earl-Marftial. Edmund Woodjhck Earl of Kent died 
 leifed of the Manors of Kerfcy and Leyham in Suffolk, 4 
 Edward III. Ed?nund his Son died feifed of the fame Ma- 
 nors without Iflue ; and Joan his Sifter, then the Wife of 
 Sir Thomas Holland, was found to be his next Heir. The 
 
 T faid 
 
2^4 Hundred of C o s-fo r d. 
 
 ftid died feifed of thefe Manors 9 Richard II. Tfoi 
 2& Holland her Son, died feifed of the fame 20 If. 
 Whofe two Sons dying without IJTue, Edmund Mortimer* 
 Earl of March, who married one of their Sifters had this* 
 Branch of the Eftate, and died without IfTue feifed of the 
 Manors of Kcrfey and Leyham, 3 Hen. VI. Henry Grey, 
 Lord Poivis died 28 i/<?». VI. feifed of the Manor of Ker- 
 fey, and one third Part of the Manor of Leyham. Richard 
 his Son died feifed 6 Edw. IV. yet Sir John Howard is faid 
 to have a Grant of a Manor in Leyham in Suffolk 1 Ed- 
 wardlV. Perhaps this was only one other third Part 
 the remaining third Part was in Sir John Tiptoft, who 
 <lied feifed of it iiHen.Vl. Thefe Manors and Manfion 
 were fometime vefted in the Family of the Hodges 's, of 
 whom they were purchafed by the D'Oylys r and are now 
 the Property of Peregrine D'Oyly, Gent. 
 
 j Lindsey, is an Impropriation belonging to King's CoU 
 lege, Cambridge. 
 
 Naughton. The Manor is in the Heirs of the U Au~ 
 treys ; and the Advowfon of the -Living in the Family of 
 the Stuhbings: 
 
 Nedging. Sec Kettilbar STON. 
 
 Seamere. This Lordfhip belonged to the Abbey of 
 Ilury, and was appropriated to the Ufe of the Celarer. 
 The Manor, Advowfon, and a great Part of the Eftates 
 in this Parifh are vefted in the Rev. Thomas Cooke, M. A. 
 the prefent Rector. 
 
 Thorp, Morieux, anciently the Lordfhip andDemefne 
 of Hugh deM.orie.ux, and perhaps from him might derive 
 its Name. The Lordfhip belongs at prefent to ■ 
 •Rijby, Efq. 
 
 Wat-* 
 
Hundred of Cos ford. 275 
 
 Wattisham. Giles de Wachejham held this Manor 
 •hy the Serjeantry of jumping, belching, and f-^-g before 
 the King, as appears by the Memorandum in the Ex- 
 chequer, Anno 21 Edw. I. In %i Edward ox A. D* 
 135^ Sir Robert de Wathejham had it. The Church was 
 impropriated to the Priory of Bricet, and the Impropria- 
 tion belongs to Kiog's College in Cambridge. 
 
 Whatfield, or Whe atfield, has four Manors 
 in it : The Manor of Cosford, late Sir Henry D'Oyly's, and 
 how the Right Hon. the Earl of Dyfarfs ; the Manor of 
 Barrard's, late Sir William Spring's, and now in the Heirs 
 of Thomas Martin, Gent, the Manor of Hcrnham, late 
 Robert Barwell's, Gent, and now Robert Pocklingtorfs, Efq; 
 and the Manor of Whatfield-WdM, late William Fefefs, 
 Gent, (of whom there is a fair Monument of white Mar- 
 ble in the Church) and now William Maybeivs, Gent, of 
 Colchejler, in EJfex. 
 
 This Town is chiefly remarkable for growing the mod 
 Excellent Seed- Wheat. The Advowfon of the Re£tory 
 is verted in Jefus College in Cambridge. 
 
 CROSS- 
 
[ 2 7 6 ] 
 
 cross-roads 
 
 Not Engraved. 
 
 From Ipfwich to Catawade Bridges. 
 
 FROM Bourn-Bridge go right forward ; at 2 Miles 1 
 5 Furlongs from the Crofs in the Market-fquare 
 the left goes to JVberJiead Church,: turn on the 
 Right, then on the Left, and avoiding feveral fmall Lanes 
 to the Right and Left keep in the principal Road ; at 4 m. 
 5f. the Left goes to Tattingjlon Church; at 4m. y.f. 
 crofs Bently Brook ; at 7 m. 3 f. is Brantham-Jlreet, 
 where the left Acute backward goes to Stutton and Shot- 
 ley; at 7 m. 7f. turn on the Left, the Right goes to 
 Eajlbergholt ; at 8 m. if. is Brantham- Church clofe on 
 the Left; at 8 m. 3f. turn on the Left, the right Acute 
 backward goes to Bentley, the right forward to Rajlberg^ 
 holt ; at cj.m. 3. f. is Catawade firft Bridge. 
 
 From Ipfwich to Shotly-Ferryk 
 
 At Bourn Bridge turn to the Left by the Water- fide p 
 at 3 m. 4 f. from Ipfwich Crofs the Right goes to Frejlon 
 Church y on the Left yon fee the Tower ; at 3 m. 7 f. the 
 Right goes to Belflead and Copdock y the forward Road to- 
 Holbrook, Stutton, and Brantham, turn to the Left ; at 6 m. 
 2 f. the Left goes' to Chelmondijlon Church, leave the 
 Church about a Furlong on the Left ; at 7 m. 4f. the Left 
 goes to S hotly Church ; at 8 m. 6 f . is Arwerton Park 
 clofe on the Right, turn on the Left ; at 9 m. 6 f. the 
 Left in at a Gate goes to* Shotly Church y at 10 m. 2 f. 
 is Shotly:- Ferry. 
 
 From 
 
Cross Roads. 
 
 277 
 
 From Ipfwich to Longer- Fort and Felix/low- Ferry. 
 
 Through St. Clement's-ftreet and the lower Hamlet, 
 when you are up Bifoop's Hill, keep by the Left-hand 
 Hedge, the Right-hand Road goes to Nation ; pafs the 
 .Race-ground clofe on the Right; at 2 m. 5 f. is the 
 Warren-houfe clofe on the Left j at 4 m. 5 f . are the 
 fovea Hills, the Right goes paft the Houfe of Induflry to 
 Nation, the Left thro' Bucklesjham to Woodbridge ; keep 
 ■fight on; at 8 m. 6 f . are Trimly two Churches; at 
 10 m, 2 f. is Waltcn-Qxofe ; at 10 m. 5 f . the forward 
 Road leads to Felixjlow- Ferry ; turn on the Right, and 
 at 13 m. I f. is Langer-Fort, and Orwell- Haven. 
 
 From Ipfwich to Debenham. 
 
 Through Claydon Toil-Gate at 4 m. 7 f . turn to the 
 Right, paft Shrubland-H-dW and Park, clofe on the Left ; 
 at 6 m. 4f. the Right goes to Hemingjlon, turn on the Left 
 over Coddenham Brook and pafs the Church, where the 
 Left goes to Needham ; at 7 m. the Right to JVickham- 
 Market ; at 7 m. 5 f. turn to the Right, the Left goes 
 to Crow field and Stonham-Jfpal ; at 9 m. 2 f. the Right 
 goes to Go/beck ; at 9 m. 5 f. the Left Acute backward to 
 Crowfield Chapel ; atiom. 3 f . the Right to Helming-* 
 ham\ at 10 m. 6 f . is Pettaugh Church, a little on the 
 Right ; the Right to Framfden ; at 1 1 m. 5 f. the Right 
 to Winjlon, leaving JVinjhn about a Mile on the Right ; 
 at 13 m. the Right leads to that Church ; at 13 m. 1 f. 
 the Right leads by Jjbfield-Swzn to IVickham Market; 
 at 13 m. 5 f. is Debenham Market-Crofs. 
 
 From Ipfwich to Bildejlon. 
 
 At the Stones-End in St. Matthew' 's-ftreet take into 
 Claydon Road, but leave it at the firft Turning on the 
 Left-hand Acute forward ; at 1 m. 3 f. the Left goes to 
 Sproughton ; at 2 m. 3 f. turn on the Left, the Right to 
 
 T 3 Whitton-y 
 
<2.j$ Cross Roads. 
 
 Whitton\ at 2 m. 5 f. crofs the Gippen ; at 2 m. 6f. yoif 
 enter the London Road from Stow to Copdock^ turn on the 
 Right through Bramford ; at 3 m. 3 f . the Right goes to 
 Claydori; at 4 m. 4 f . the Right-on Road leads to Stow 
 and Bury^ turn on the Left, leave Little Blakenham Church 
 I f. on the Right ; at 5 m. 7 f . is Somerjham Church, 
 where the Left goes to Flowton\ at 6 m. 3f. is Somerjham 
 "Village, where the Left goes to Flowton> the Right to 
 Ncttlejlead ; at 7 m. the Left to Elmfett ; at 7 m. 2 f. 
 the Right-on Road leads to Barking-Tye, turn to the Left; 
 at 7 m. 3 f. the Left leads to Offton Caftle-Hill, turn oni 
 the Right ; at 7 m. 6 f. the Right to Barking-Tye ; at 
 7 m. 7 f . is Offton Church on the Left; at 9 m. 4f ? 
 and at 10 m. 2 f . the Right to Bricet ; at 10 m. 4f. the 
 Left to Naughton ; at 10m. 6 f. the Left to Naughton 
 Church, leaving that 2 f. on the Left, crofs Nedging-7ye, 
 and leaving TVattiJham Church about 6 f. on the Right $ 
 at 12 m. 6f, is Bildejlon Market-Crofs. 
 
 From Woodbridge to Baudfcy- Ferry. 
 At Melton in the engraved Road turn on the Right ? 
 and crofs the Deben over Willford-Bridge ; at 2 m. take 
 the Right-hand Way up the Hill j at 2m. ${. take the 
 Right which goes to Sutton Church, and pafling over 
 heathy Land at 3 m. 6f. the Right* goes to Sutton, the Left 
 to Eike, and avoiding divers Turnings to the Right and 
 Left leave Shottijhqm Church a little on the Right ; at 6 m. 
 she Right goes to Shottijham, the Left to Hollejly\ at 8m. 
 the Right leads to Ramjholt, turn on the Left leaving Al- 
 gerian Church a little on the Right ; at Alderton Village 
 turn on the Right, leaving the Left-hand Way to Hob 
 lefly ; at 9 m. if. is Baudfey Church j and at 1 1 m. 1 f. 
 js Baudfey-Ferry. 
 
 From Woodbridge to Orford. 
 Crofs the Deben over Wil/ford-Bridge, as before ; at 
 %m. pf. is a Sand-pit, avoiding the Left forward to Eyke^ 
 
 £ an 4 
 
Cross Roads; 2 79 
 
 and the Right to Sutton, take the middle Way ; at 4 m. 
 2 f. the Right to Hollejly, the Left to Eike, enter in at a 
 Qate 3 at 5 m. 5 f. StayertonJ'axk on the Left ; at 6 m. 
 4f. leave it; at 6m. yf. is Butley Outer; the Right, oh 
 this Side the Oilier, goes to Capel ; the Right on the other 
 to Butley Abbey, therefore turn on the Left over the Ri- 
 ver; at 8m. if, turn to the Right, the Left to Wan- 
 tlfden ; at 8 m. 2 f. is Chtllesford Church on the Left ; at 
 8 m. 4f. the Right to ChiUesford Mill, the Left to 7 unjial; 
 pafs on the Side of Sudboum Park ; at 10m. 3 f. turn to 
 the Right, the Left to Saxmundbam ; at urn. .4/. is Or- 
 ford Market-Crofs. 
 
 From Woodbridge to Aldbsrough. 
 
 Crofs the Deben over Willford-Br'idge, and at 2 m. 6 f. 
 by the Sand-pit take the Left-hand Road, and leaving 
 Bromefwett Church 2f. on the Left; at 3 m. 4f. are two 
 Gates, the Right to Sutton, the Left to Vfford ; at 5 m. is 
 Eike Church on the Right, where the Right leads to Or- 
 ford, the Left to Ujford; at 5 m. 4f. the Left leads to 
 Campfey-Ajb, and palling by Rendlejbam Church on the 
 Left; at 6m; 4f. the Right to HolleJly,\\\e Left to Wick- 
 ham; at 7 m. 2f. is Rendlefloam Houfe ; at 7 m. 6f. the 
 Left to A$, the Right to Butley ; at 8 m. 5f.' the Left 
 to Blaxhail, the Road right forward to AJb, therefore turn 
 to the Right ; at 8 m. 6 f. is Tunjlall Village, the Right 
 to Orford, avoiding divers Turnings to the Right and Left, 
 and leaving the Ruins of Doningtvortb Chapel a little to 
 £he Left ; at 10 m. 7f. is Doningworfb-HaW clofe to' the 
 Left ; from thence palling over Snape Bridge at 1 1 m- §f, 
 is Snape Crown Inn ; then leaving Frijlon Decoy a little 
 on the Right, at 13 m. 3f. is Poljborough Gate, take the 
 Right-hand and fo over Halefwood Common; at i$m, 
 I f. is Aldborough. 
 
 T 4 Th<? 
 
2So Cross Roads. 
 
 The Back-Road from Woodbridge to BUM trough, by 
 Snape Bridge. 
 
 Proceed over Willford Bridge in the Road now men- 
 tioned to Aldborough, crofs the Ore at Snape Bridge, and 
 proceed to Pol/borougb- Gate at about 12m. where the Right 
 to Aldborougb, the Left to Benhall ; at 12 m. 2 f. the Right 
 to Aldlorough) the Left to Saxmundbam ; at 13 m. I f. the 
 Right to Aldborougb, the Left to Knodijhall ; at 13 m. jf, 
 is Colt-Fair-Green ; at 14 m. 5f. is Leijlon White-Horfe, 
 leave the Abbey a little on the Left ; at 15 m. 6f. the 
 Left to Toxford; at 17m 1 f, is Eaji-Bridge, and leaving a 
 Wind mill a little on the Left ; at 18m. 4 f. the Right to 
 Dunwicb, the Left to Wejlleton ; at 18 m. 7 f. the Left te» 
 Wejlleton^ the Right to Dunwich, leaving it about 2 m. 
 diftant; at 19m. 2 f. the Left to Darjham ; at 20m. 7f. 
 the Right to IValderfwick, the firft Left-hand Road leads 
 to Darjham^ the fecond to Hale/worth-, at 21 m. jf. \s a, 
 Wind- mill clofe on the Left ; the Left leads to IVen- 
 ho/ion, the Right to JValderjhwck; at 22 m. 3 f. the Right 
 Jeads to Wejlwood Lodge \ and about 2 f . farther is 
 Blithborougb. 
 
 The exact meafured Diftance from IVoodbridge to 
 fiUthborough. 
 
 By TVillford and <SVr^ is . 22 m. c^f, 
 
 Through JVickham and Sax- { nundham—2im. 6*f. 
 
 So the laft- mentioned is the neareft by 6|f. 
 
 See Plate I. 
 
 Crofs- Road from Wlckham- Market to 
 From the Crown Lin at 3 f . the Left goes to Need-. 
 hum\ atff. crofs the Deben at GUverlng Bridge; at 
 J m. 2f. the Right turns back to Catnpjey- AJh ; at 2 m. 
 3 f. are Eqfton Church on the Right, and £ a/ion White- 
 Houfe on the Left ; here the Right to Parbam, the Left 
 tp Letheringham ; at 2 m. 5 f is a Pound on the Right, 
 and that Road leads to Framlingham ; at 3 m. 2f. Letber* 
 Ingbam is in view ; at 3 m. 5 f. the Left to Hoo ) the Right 
 
 to 
 
Cross Roads. 
 
 to Framlingham ; at 3 m. 7 f . is Ketileburgh, where the 
 Right to Framlingham ; at 4 m. 5 f. Mr. Sparrow's Houfe 
 elofe on the Right, then the Left forward to Debenham, 
 turn on the Right; at 4m. 7 f. the Left to Debenham, 
 the Right to Framlingham ; leave Brqndi/lon-Ha\\ about 
 1 f. on the Left, keep right forward over Brandijlon- 
 Green; and at 7 m. is Earl-Sobam, palling over a Brook 
 avoid the Left-turning to JJh/ield; at 8 m. if. the Left 
 tolpfivich; at 10m. if. the Left to Debenham j at 10m. 
 3 f. is Church on the Left, the Left-Road leads to 
 
 Debenham ; at nm. if, the Right to Worlingworth ; at 
 Jim. 2f. the Left forward to Debenham, turn on the 
 Right ; at 1 1 m. 7 f. the Right to Worlingworth-Gtttn ; 
 at 12m. 1 f. the Left to Rifoangles, turn on the Right, 
 and avoiding feveral Turnings to the Right and Left, at 
 13m. 3f. is Occold Church clofe on the Right ; at 14 m ? 
 5f. the Left Acute backward to Tborndon; at 15 m. the 
 jLeft to 7 borndon; at 16 m. the Right to Framlingham , 
 turn on the Left over the fridge ; at 16 m. 4f. is Eye 
 Market-Crofs. 
 
 Croft-Road from JVickham- Market to Needham- Market, 
 
 From the Crown-Inn at 3 f. avoid the laft-mentioned 
 to Eye, and go forward over Potford ' Green ; at 1 m. 3f, 
 js LetberingbamrPzrk on the Right ; at 2 m. leave the 
 Park, where the Right leads to Letheringham ; at 2 m, 
 6 f. turn on the Left over a Brook, the Right forward 
 leads to Charsfield j at 3 m. 3 f . the Right to Cbarsjield 
 Church ; at 4m. 4f. the Left to Woodbridge\ at 5 m. jf. 
 the Right to Hoo, the Left to Clopton ; at 6 m. is Catts- 
 Hill, the Right backward to Monevoden ; at 6 m. 2 f. 
 turn on the Right, the Left to Woodbridge\ at 6 m. 7f, 
 turn on the Left, the Right tp Otley Church j at 7 m. 7f. 
 the Right to Helmingbam, the Left to Ipfwicb ; at 8 m. 3 f. 
 the Right to AJhbocking, the Left to Ipjivicb ; at 8 m. 7 f. 
 Jurn on the Right, the forward Road leads to Henley \ at 
 
 iom. 
 
 I 
 
282 Cross Road s. 
 
 jom. 4f. is Stonewall) the Right to Helmingham, the Left 
 to Ipfwich ; at io m. 7 f. the Left to Hemingjlon ; at 1 1 m. 
 3f. take the Left, the Right to Gojbeck; at u m. 5 f. is 
 Coddenham, here the Right to Debenham, and a little far- 
 ther the Left over the Brook to Ipfwich ; at 13m. if, 
 crofs the Pye-Rozd near the Brook ; at 14m. 2f. is Bof~ 
 mere Mill 5 and 5 f. farther is Needbam Chapel. 
 
 Grofs-Road from JVickham- Market to Harlejhn. 
 From the Crown-Inn over the Bridge, at about 5 f. 
 leave the Yarmouth Road on the Right, and take the Left- 
 hand Road ; at 1 m. the Right to Aldborough, the Left to 
 Eajlon ; at i m. 7 f . is Hachejlon Church clofe on the 
 Right, the Left to Eajlon; at 2 m. if. the Right back- 
 ward is the Road from Framlingham to Or ford; at 2 m. 
 3 f. is Hachejlon Village, the Right to Parham, the Left 
 to Eaflon; at 4 m. 5 f. the Left in at a Gate to Eajlon, 
 turn on the Right and crofs the Ore at the broad Water ; 
 at 5 m. 3 f. avoid the Left to Denington ; and at 5 m. 7 f. 
 is Framlingham Griffin-Inn ; paffing the Ore at 6 m. 1 f, 
 the Left Acute forward leads to Saxted ; at 8 m. turn on 
 the Right, the Left forward to Stradbrook ; at 8 m. 3f. }s 
 Durrants-Btidgc ; at 8 m. 4f. turn on the Left, the Right 
 forward to Badingham ; at 9 m. is Bennington Parfonage a 
 little on the Left, the Left forward to Brundijh ; turn on 
 the Right at 9 m. if. the Left Acute backward to Saxted, 
 and Bennington Church is clofe on the Right ; at 10 m. 
 is Froizly-Bndge, where the Right to Badingham, the 
 Left to Brundijh; at 12 m. 3 f. the Right to Lax field 
 Church, turn on the Left; at 13 m. 3 f. is LaxfieldWhhc- 
 Horfe, turn on the Left ; at 13m. 4 f. turn on the Right, 
 the Left to Stradbrook, leaving Archbifhop Sancroft's Seat 
 3f. on the Left; at 15m. if. turn on the Left, the 
 Right to Cratfield; ati6m. 6f. turn on the Right, the 
 Left to Stradbrook, the Left forward to Eye; at 16 m. 7 f. 
 is Frjmgficld Church clofe on the Right, through the 
 
 Street^ 
 
Or g s s Roads. 283 
 
 Street, the Rjght goes to Cratfeld, therefore turn on the 
 Left, and over a Brick-Bridge, where turn on the Right 
 at 19m. if. the Left to Weybread Church i a little fair 
 ther turn on the Right, the Road right forward leads to 
 Weybread at 19 m. 5f. the Left Acute backward 
 
 to Hoxne ; at 19 m. 6f. the Right to Wetherfdale ; proceed 
 over Shoitisfird Heath, leaving a Wind-mill a little on 
 the Right; at 20m. 2f. the Right to Hale/worth; at 
 20m. 3f. is Shottisford Bridge; turn on the Left, the 
 Right to Mendham ; at 20 m. yf. the Left Acute back^ 
 ward to Scale Inn ; and at 21 m. 2 f. is Harlejlon Chapel, 
 
 Crofr-Road from Wickham- Market to Aldborough. 
 From the Crown- Inn take the Saxtnundharn Road, and 
 at the five Crofsrways take the fecond Turning on the 
 Right; at 1 m. 2f. the Right to Campfey-AJh, the Left 
 to Hachejion ; at 1 m. 6 f. the Right -forward to Tunjlal\ 
 at 2m. is the Well-houfe, where the Right to Campfey- 
 AJh, the Left to Marlesfqrd; at 2m, 5 f. is Black-flock 
 Water, the Left Acute backward to Marlesford ; at 4 m. 
 is Blaxhall Church on the Left ; at 4 m. 4f. leave Blax- 
 hall-lane, the Left Acute backward to Little Glemham ; at 
 4 m. 5f. the Left to Langham^vidge ; at 5 m. yf. Dun~ 
 ningworth-Hzll clofe on the Left, pafs the Ore at Snape- 
 Bridge, and fo on in the Road from Woodbridge to Aldbo- 
 rough ; (p. 759-) and a,t 1 im. 4 f. is Aldborough Market- 
 Crofs. 
 
 Road from Yoxford to Hakfworth. 
 At 1 m. 1 f. on the Right is a Spur-way leading from 
 Yoxford to Halejworth t take the Left-way ; and at 2 m. 
 1 f. from Yoxford is Sibton Church clofe on the Left ; at 
 2m. 3f. is a Gate leading to Sibton Abbey ; at 2 m. 5 r. 
 the Left thro' Peafe?ihall and Badingham, to Framlmgham ; 
 at 2 m. 7 f. the Left thro' Heveningham- Long-lane to Ub- 
 beflon ; at 3 m. 7 f . the Left to Heveningham, the Right to 
 §ibton- Green ; at 4 m- 3f. js Thrtadbare-Ha.il clofe on 
 * the 
 
284 Cross Roads. 
 
 the Right; at 5 m. 6f. the Lzh ihvo' Hevemngbam 
 Ubbejhn to Laxfield ; at 5 m. 7 f. is Walpole Village, turn 
 on the Right, pafs by IValpole Church on the Left; at 
 .6 m. 6 f. the Right Acute forward leads to Bolton ; at 7 m. 
 turn on the Left ; at 7 m. 1 f. crofs the River Blytb; md 
 at about 8 m. is Hale/worth Church. 
 
 Crofs-Road from Halefworth to Bungay. 
 
 At the End of the Street the Right leads to Lowejloft ; 
 a* 7 f. from the Marlcet-Crofs the Right to Holton ; at 
 I m. 1 f, the Right Acute forward to Beccles } at 1 m. 5 f. 
 is Fair/lead-Qztt on the Left ; at 3 m. 5 f . the Right to 
 St. Andrew's-, at 4 m. 6f. the Left to St. Margaret's f 
 at 5 m. 7f. the Right to St. Laurence, the Church about 
 1 f. diflant ; then thro' a ftrait Way called Stone -Jlreet 
 turn on the Left, and at 6 m. 6f. is St.J^'s Church clofe 
 on the Right ; at 8 m. 2 f . the Left to Homers field, the 
 Right to Beetles ; at 8 m. jf. is Bungay Market-Crofs. 
 
 Crofs-Road from Halefworth to Southwold. 
 
 From the Market-Crofs avoid the Roads from Wijfet 
 to Bungay, both going to the Left, keep the Right-hand 
 Way thro' the Street ; at 1 m. 2 f. is Holton, where the 
 JLeft goes to Beccles ; leave the Wind-mill on the Rioht, 
 pafs Blytbford Church on the Right ; at 2 m. 7 f. the 
 Right goes over B/yttf or d-Bridge to IFenhaJion ; a little 
 farther on, the Left goes to Sotberton-Moor, avoiding fe r 
 yeral Turns to the Right and Left ; at 4m. if. crofs the 
 great Road from Ipfwich to Beccles ; at 5 m. 7f. is JVdlfey- 
 Biidge ; and at 8 m. 6 f. js Southwold Market-Crofs. 
 
 Crofs-Road from Male/worth to Lowe/loft, after croffing 
 the Road from Ipfwicb to Beccles. 
 
 From the Market-Crofs, paffing in the Road laft-men- 
 jioned, avoid the Road on the Right leading to IVolfey- 
 £ridge, and pafs on leaving Henham-Pzrk on the Left ; 
 
 at 
 
Cross Roads. 285 
 
 at 6 m. 6f. is Wangford Church clofe on the Right 5 here 
 the Right thro' Ray don to Southtvold, keep the Road right 
 forward ; at 6 m. 7 f. the Right to Southwold, the Left 
 Co Uggejhall ; at 8 m. 2 f. turn on the Right, the Left to 
 FroJienden\ at 8 m. 4 f. turn on the Left, the Right to" 
 South-Cove ; at 8 m. 7 f . the Right to Benacre\ at 9m. 
 6f. is Wrenth&m Church clofe on the Left ; leave the Hall 
 a little on the Right, and pafs over Satterly Common ; 
 at 1 i m. 6f. the Right to Benacre, the Left paft Herjlead 
 Church to Beaks, leave the Church a little on the Left; 
 at 13 m. if. is Rujhmer Church clofe on the Right; at 
 14 m. 7 f. is Carlton- Colvile Church a little on the Left ; 
 at 15 m. are the five Crofs-ways where the Right Acute 
 backward to Soutbwcid; the Right to Pakefield, the Left 
 to Becdes ; at 16m. 6f. is Mutford- Bridge, where the 
 Road right forward to Yarmouth ; turn on the Right, an$ 
 at 1 8 m. 7'f. is Lowejioft Queen's- Head Inn. 
 
 Crofs Road from Hale/worth to Becdes. 
 
 From the Market-Crofs" in the Road to SoutJjwold, at 
 t m. 2 f. is Holton Blackfmith's Shop ; here turn to the 
 Left, leaving the Church about a Furlong to the Left ; 
 at 4 m. 4f. is Wefthall Church, clofe on the Left; at 
 5 m. if. is Brampton Church ; here you enter the en- 
 graved Road from Ipjwich to Becdes. Plate I. 
 
 Crofs-Road from Halefviorth to Harleftori. 
 
 Proceed through Cbeddijlon-Jireet y and at 2 m. is the 
 Church clofe on the Right s at 3 m. 3f. is Linjlead Cha- 
 pel clofe on the Right ; at 7 m. if. is Metfield Church 
 clofe on the Left; at 8m. 6f. is Wetherfdale-Q,io(s, 
 where the Right to Mendham, the Left to Freffmgpld- V 
 at 10m. 7f. is Shotti 'sfor ^-Bridge ; and at urn, 6f. is 
 Harlejlon Chapel. 
 
 Crofs- 
 
*86 
 
 Cross Roads, 
 
 Crofs-Road from Stowmarket to Botefdale. 
 From the Market-Crofs proceed in the Bury Road' ; at 
 I m. 6 f. leave the Bury Road which is right forward, and 
 take the Right-hand Way over the River ; at 2 m. 4 f*. 
 enter Haughley -fir e'et, where trie Right Acute backward 
 goes to Newton ; at 2 rite 6 f. is Haughley Church on the 
 Left, turn on the Right ; at 3 m. the Right to Newtorn 
 turn on the Left over Haughley '-Green ; at 4 m. 4f. leave 
 the Green ;' at 5 m. 6f. the Left to WyuerJlon \ at 6 m. 
 3 f. the Left to IVyverjlon, the Road right forward to 
 WeJlhorpe\ turn on the Right, Baclon Church clofe oh 
 the Right ; at 7 m. the Road right forward goes through 
 Cotton to Mendlejham ; turn on the Left over a Common j 
 at 7 m. 5 f. the Right to Mendlejham; at 8 mil the Right 
 to Wickham-Skeith, the Left to JVyverjlon ; at' 8 m. if. 
 1s F'tnningham Whire-Horfe, where the Left through Pa- 
 kenham to Bury., the Right through Thofnh'am to the Pye- 
 Road, pafs the Church on the Right ; at 8 m. 3f. the 
 Right to Gijlingham ; at 9 m. 6 f. enter Alured Green ; 
 at 10 m. 6f. leave it; at 12 m. t f« is the Church of 
 Rickingale-fitperior on the Right, the forward Road leads 
 to Whattisfield, turn on thfc Right ; at 12 m. 4 f . is ths 
 Road from Yarmouth to Bury, turn en the Right ; and at 
 13 m. 3 f. is Botefdale Crown Inn. 
 
 Crofs-Road from Stowmarket to Ixworth, and from* Ix- 
 zvorth to Thetford. 
 From the Maiket- Crofs at im, 6 f . avoid the laft- 
 mentioned Road to Botefdale, and keep the Bury Road .j 
 at 3 m. 3f. avoid the Left-turning, which leads to Bury, 
 and keep the forward Road ; at 3 m. 7 f . is tVetherden- 
 flreet, where the Right to Haughley-G reen ; at 5 m. if. 
 the Right to Elmfwell, the Left to JFoolpit ; at 5 m. 4f. 
 the Right Acute backward to Ebnfwell-Gveen, leave 
 the Church clofe on the Right; at 5m. 4f. turn 
 to the Right, the forward Road to Tojlock ; at 7 m. 6 f» 
 
 the 
 
Cross Road£. 287 
 
 the Right to Ajhfield, the Left to Bury, Norton-Dog 
 clofe on the Right ) at 8 m. 3 f. you fee Dr. Macro's 
 Seat on the Left ; at 8 m. 7 f. the Right through a Gate 
 to Stow-Langtoft ; at 9 m. 2 f. crofs the Road from Fin- 
 ningham to Bury j at 9 m. 4 f. crofs a Brook, pafs over 
 the Fielding; and at 11 m. 2f. is Ixworth Jlreet, where 
 the Right to Botefdak, the Left to Bury. 
 
 From Ixworth crofs the River, and leave the Mill on 
 the Left ; avoid the Left-hand Turning to Livermere, 
 and keep the forward Road ; at 1 m. 4 f. is Ixwsrtb-Thorp 
 Church dole on the Left ; pafs over a Common, and at 
 2m. 6f. comes in on the Left the Road from Bury to 
 Gajlr -op --Gate, leave Hunnlngtan Church clofe on the 
 Right ; at 2 m. 6f. the Left to Livermere, the Right to 
 Gaftrop, keep the forward Road ; at 4 m. 4Y. the Right 
 Acute backward to Sapi/ion, leave Fakenham Church clofe 
 on the Right, pafs over the Champaign La/ids, leave 
 Eujlon Church on the Right; at 6m. the Left to Bam- 
 bam, turn on the Right over Eiflon-Bridge, the Park clofe 
 on the Right; at 6m. if. turn an the Left through 
 Eujlon Village; at 6rn. jf. enter Norfolk at Carlford- 
 Bridge, avoid the forward Road, and take that on the 
 Left-hand over the Warrens ; at 8 m. 4f, re-enter Suffolk 
 at Folly-Bridge - 3 and at 9m. 3f. is fhetford-Bndge. 
 
 m. f. 
 
 The exaft Diftance from Stow to Ixworth, is 1 r 2 1 
 From Ixworth to Thetford> is 9 31 
 
 From Stow to Thetford, is 20 6 
 
 Crofs-Road from Stowmarket to Blldejlon, and from Bil- 
 dejlon to Hadleigh. 
 
 Pafs over Combs-Ford in the Ipfwich Road, at 4f. a- 
 void the Left to Ipfwich, and the Right to Finborough, and 
 keep the forward Road, avoiding feveral Turnings to the 
 Right and Left j at 3 m. 6f. enter Batthfrd-Tye, where 
 
 the 
 
Cross Roads. 
 
 the forward Road leads to Ring/hall, take the Right-hanci 
 Road over the Tye ; at 4 m. 3 f. leave it ; at 6 m. 3 f. 
 is Wattijham Church, clofe on the Left j at 6 m. 6 f . is 
 a Blackfmith's Shop, clofe on the Left j at 7 m. 3f. the 
 Acute backward leads to Needham j and at 8 m. . 2 f. is 
 B'ddejlott Market-Crofs. 
 
 From thence at 1 f. avoid the Left-turning to Ipfwich^ 
 and at ii. the Right leading to Lavenhain ; leave N edging 
 thurch about 2 f. on the Left, and pafs over Seamere- 
 Bridge; at 2m. 3f. the Right to Kerf ey ; at 3 m. the 
 Left to Naughton ; at 3 m. 3f. the Right to Kerfey, the 
 Left to Cosford- Bridge ; at 3 m. 7 f. comes in the Road 
 from Sudbury to Hadleigb } and at 5 m. if. is Hadleigh 
 George. 
 
 m. f. 
 
 The exadt Diftarice from Stow to BildeJlon y is 8 a| 
 From Bildejlon to Hadleigh, is — 5 ii 
 
 From 57a w to Hadleigh 13 4 
 
 Crofs-Road from Hadleigh to Stratford. 
 Avoid the Right-hand Road leading to Layham y and 
 the Left leading to Ipfwich^ and keep the forward Road j 
 at 4f. is the End of the Street, leave Layham Church 2 f. 
 on the Right ; at 1 m. 7 f. crofs a Brook, where the for- 
 ward Road goes to EaJlbergholt % turn on the Right j at 
 2 m. 6 f. turn oh the Left, the forward Road leads to Shelly j 
 leave that Church 2 f. on the Right ; at 3 m. pafs a Brook j 
 at 3m. if. turn on the Right, the Left to Raydon ; at 
 4 m. 6 f. the Left to Holton\ at 4m. yf. is Higharn Vil- 
 lage, where the Right to Stoke, the Left to Ipfwich ; and 
 at 6m. and half a Furlong is Stratford Swan. 
 
 The Road from Bury to Gajlrop-Gate, being the Road 
 to Norwich. 
 
 Through the North-gate at 1 m, 5f. leave the engraved 
 Road to Thetfordy and turn to the Right, leaving Fornham 
 
 St. 
 
Cross Road s,' 289 
 
 St. Martins Church a little on the Left j. at 3 m. if. the 
 Right to Barton, the Left to Timworth ; at 3 m. ^f. the 
 Right to ]x worth, the Left to Timworth, the Church on 
 the Left 2f. at 3m. 6f. the Right to Ixwortb ; at 5 m. 
 
 2 f. the Right to Ixwortb, the Left to Great Livermore^ 
 leaving the Church on the Left near 2 f. at 6 m. 2f. is 
 Trojlon Bull-Inn clofe on the Right, where turn on the 
 Right, the Left to Rhymer-Houfe ; a little farther the 
 Right to Ixwortb, the forward Road to Ixwortb-Tborp ; 
 turn to the Left in at a Gate, Trojlon Church a little oil 
 the Right ; at 7 m. 2 f . the Right to Bar dwell, the Left 
 to Thetford ; at 8 m. the Road comes in from Ixwortb to 
 Thetford, leave Honington Church on the Right ; at Hon- 
 ington-Jbeet turn on the Right over the River, the Left to 
 Little Livermore, the forward Road to Tbetford; at 8 m. 
 7 f. is Sapiflon George-Inn ; at 9 m. the Right to Sapiflon, 
 the Left to Pakenham ; at 9 m. 5 f. a Brick- kiln clofe on 
 the Right, pafs by Barningbam-Park on the Left ; at 
 1 1 m. 4f. the Right to Barningham, the Left to Thet- 
 ford; at 13 m. 3 f . the Right to Hopton, the Left to 
 Rufliford, leave Knottijhal Church 1 f. on the Right ; at 
 13 m. 4.f. the Right Acute backward to Coney-WeJlon y 
 pafling by a Pound on the Right, where the Right to 
 Hopton, the Left to Thetford; at 13 m. 5 f . enter Nor- 
 folk; and at 13 m. 7|f. is Gajlrop Gate-Inn. 
 
 From Bury to Brandon. 
 
 A* 1 m. 5 f . on . the Road laft-mentioned, avoid the 
 Right to Tbetford, and keep the forward Road ; at 2 m. 
 
 3 f. the Left Acute forward to Fornham All-Saints ; at 
 2 m. 7 f. leave Fornham Genoveve Church 2 f. on the Left; 
 at 4m. 2f. is Cuiford Church 2f. on the Left; at 4m. 
 
 4 f. the forward Road to Thetford, turn on the Left ; at 
 4m. 7 f. the Left to Wejhw, the Right to Ingham; at 
 
 5 m. 4f. is Wordwell Church, clofe on the Left ; at 8 m. 
 5f. the Right to Thetford, the Left to ^cklmgham; at 9m. 
 
 U 3 f. 
 
2go Cross Roads. 
 
 3f. the Right Acute forward to Elvedon ; at iom. 2f. 
 crofs the Road from Newmarket to Thetford ; at 15 m. 
 pafs the Maid's-Head Inn, where the Left to Mildenhall', 
 at 15 m. 3f. is Brandon-Bridge. 
 
 From Bury to Mildenhall. 
 Through RiJl/y-Gate at 2 m. leave the engraved New- 
 market Road, and take the Right-hand Way ; at 3 m. 3 f. 
 is Rijby Church clofe on the Right ; pafs Rifby-Jlreet, 
 and at 7 m. 1 f. in an open Country is Cavenham Church 
 clofe on the Right ; where the Right to Lackford, the 
 Left to Higbam-Green ; at 8 m. yf. turn on the Right, 
 the Left Acute backward to Barrow ; at 8 m. 7 f . Tud- 
 denham Church clofe on the Right ; at 9 m. the Right 
 to Icklingham, the Left to Kentford ; at 9 m . 4 f. the Left 
 Acute forward to WorYington ; at 10 m. 7 f. are Bart on- 
 Mills, turn on the Right over the River ; at urn. the 
 forward Road goes from Newmarket to Brandon, turn on 
 the Left ; at 1 1 m. 6 f. enter Mildenhall-Jlreet ; and at 
 I2m. 2f. is Mildenhall Market-Crofs. 
 
 Road from Bury to Finnlngham. 
 Pafs out at the Eaft-Gate in the engraved Road to Yar- 
 mouth, pafs Barton Church clofe on the Left ; at 3 m. 4 f. 
 leave the engraved Road to Ixworth, and take the Right- 
 hand Way ; at 4 m. 5f. the Right leads to B 'radjield- 
 Manger, the Left to Ixworth •> at 5 m. the Left goes to 
 Jxworth, turn on the Right through Pakenham Village; 
 at 5 m. 1 f. is Pakenham Bell on the Left, the Road right 
 forward goes to Norton, turn on the Left leaving Paken- 
 ham Church a little on the Right; at 6m. 6f. the Right 
 goes through Norton to Stow, the Left through Ixworth 
 to Thetford ; at 7 m. if. is Stowlangtoft Church clofe on 
 the Left ; at 8 m. 1 f. is Hun/don Church a little on the 
 Right ; at 8 m. 7 f. is a Wind-mill a little on the Left, 
 where the Right goes through JJhfield to Finningbam, but 
 the Road right forward is the common Coach Road ; at 
 8 9 m, 
 
Cross Roads. 291 
 
 f)m. 2f. is Badwell-AJh Church clofe on the Left, the 
 Road right forward goes to Waljham-> turn on the Right 
 leaving Badwell Church about 3 f. on the Right ; at 10 m. 
 1 f. the other Road through JJhfield comes in on the 
 Right j at 1 1 m. 5 f. enter in at a Gate by Cutting's Hole 5 
 at 12m. if. the Right leads to Baclon, the Left to Mr. 
 Barnardijloris, leave Wyverjlon Pond clofe on the Left ; 
 at 12 m. 7f. Wyverjlon Church clofe on the Left; at 
 13 m. 3 f. a Gate on the Right, which leads to Bafton- 
 Hall ; at 13 m. 7 f. is IFeJlhorp-Ha\l, a little on the Left i 
 and at 14m. 6f. is Finningham White-Horfe. 
 
 From Bury to Clare. 
 
 Through the Wejl- Gate at 5 f. is Stanford-Bridge ' f at 
 6f. the Left Acute forward to Haw/lead, a little farther 
 the Right to Horringer ; at 1 m. 2 f. Bury Bounds Poft j 
 at im. 4f. the Right Acute forward to Horringer \ at 
 3 m. 3 f. the forward Road to Brockley j at 4 m. 1 f. the 
 Left to Nowton, turn on the Right, leave Whepjlead 
 Church 2 f. on the Left ; at 4 m. 4 f. the Right to Che- 
 vington\ at 6 m. 5 f . .the Right to Reed Church, leave 
 it about a Furlong to the Right ; at 7 m. 3 f. the Left to 
 Brockley ; at 8 m. 3 f. is Hawkedon Church a little on the 
 Left ; at 8 m. 4 f. the Left Acute backward through So- 
 merton to Hartejl, the forward to Glemsford, turn on the 
 Right ; at 9 m. 2 f. the Right to Burnt- AJh Bridge, thro 9 
 Wickham-Brook to Newmarket, leave Stansfield Church a 
 little on the Right ; at 9 m. 4f. the Right thro' Denf- 
 ton to Staddijhall, the Left to Hartejl, crofs over the Brook ; 
 at 9 m. 3 f. the Left to Boxted ; at 9 m. 6 f. the Right 
 to Kedington ; at 12m. if. the Right to Hundon, leave 
 Pojl'mgford Church a little on the Right ; at 12 m. 2f. 
 the Left to Glemsford j at 13 m. 2 f . the Right through 
 Chilton- Jlreet to Kedington, turn on the Left paft Chilton 
 Chapel, now a Dwelling- Houfe j and at 14m. -if. is 
 Clare Market-Crofs. 
 
 U 2 From 
 
292 
 
 Cross Roads. 
 
 From Bury to Lavenham. 
 Through the South-Gate in the engraved Road to Sud- 
 bury, at 6 m. avoiding the forward Road, take the Left- 
 hand Way ; at 6 m. 7 f. is Cockfield Church 2 f . on the 
 Left; at 7 m. 3f. a Wind-mill, the Left to Feljham; at 
 8 m. 6 f. the Right to Alpheton ; at 10 m. 6 f. is the End 
 of Lavenha?n-Jireeti where the Left to Pre/ion j at nm. 
 4 f. is Lavenham Swan-Inn. 
 
 Crofs-Road from Lavenham to Sudbury. 
 
 From the Swan- Inn avoid the Left-hand Way to Bil- 
 dejlon, proceed leaving the Church clofe on the Right j 
 at 2 f. turn on the Left, the forward Road to Alpheton ; 
 at4f. the Right to Meiford; at I'm. enter Wafnmore- 
 Green, the Left thro' IValdingfield to Bury ; at 2 m. 7 f. 
 the Left Acute backward thro' Little IValdingfield to Bil- 
 dejlon ; at 3 m. 2f. enter Baberg Heath, the Right thro* 
 Aclon to Meiford, the Left through Great IValdingfield to 
 Hadleigh, being the nearer!: "Way from Meiford 'to IpfuOich ; 
 at 4m. 1 f. the forward Road to Colchefler, turn on the 
 Right; at 4 m. 7 f . is a View of ChUton-HzM, about a 
 Furlong on the Left ; and at 6 m. 2jf. is Sudbury. 
 
 m. /. 
 
 From Bury to Lavenham, is 1 1 oL 
 
 From Lavenham to Sudbury, is 6 2 4 - 
 
 From Bury to Sudbury by way of Lavenham 17 3 
 F'rom Bury to ditto by way of Meiford 16 
 
 The Way by Meiford is nearefl: by 1 oi 
 
 The Crofs-Road from Sudbury to Haverhill. 
 
 In the engraved Road from Bury to Sudbury thro' Mei- 
 ford, leave Melford-HzW and the Z?#ry Road on the Right } 
 and at 3 m. 3f. is Meiford Black- Lion, turn on the Left; 
 at 4 m. the Right thro' Stan field and JFickham-Biook, to 
 
 Newmarket ; 
 
Cross Roads. 
 
 Newmarket; at 4 m. 6 f. is Glemsford- Bridge ; at 5 m. 
 I f. the Right to Glemsford ; leave Pentlow Church in 
 EJfex about 2 f. on the Left ; at 6 m. 7 f. the Left to 
 Foxearth ; a little farther crofs a Brook at the End of 
 Cavendijh-Jlreet, where the Right to Glemsford \ at 7 m. 
 
 I f. is Cavendijb Church clofe on the Right, where the 
 Right to Pojlingford, leave a Wind-mill dole on the Left ; 
 a little farther crofs a Brook at the Entrance of Clare, 
 where the Right to Chilton, leave the Ruins of the Caftle 
 on the Left ; at 9 m. 5 f. is Clare Half- Moon Inn ; thro' 
 Clare-Jlreet avoid the Left thro' Brantree to London ; at 
 
 I I m. 2 f. the Right to Hundon, turn on the Left ; at 
 12 m. if. is Stoke Church clofe on the Left, where the 
 Left goes over the Stour into Ejjex, leave the Priory on the 
 Left; at 13 m. if. the Right thro' Kedington to New- 
 market, turn to the Left over the Stour into Efjex ; at 13 m. 
 3f. is Bathan Inn clofe on the Left, where the forward 
 Road to Colchejler ; turn on the Right, leave Whixoe 
 Church about 3f. on the fame Hand ; at 14 m. 1 f. the 
 Right to Whixoe Mill, turn on the Left; at 14 m. 3f, 
 the forward Road to Burn/led, turn on the Right ; at 
 14 m. 5f. is What far- Bridge ; at 14 m. 7 f . the Right 
 to Whixoe ; at 15 m. 4f. is Sturmer Village, where the 
 Right to Kedington, the Left to Bumfled j at 16 m. 3f. 
 re-enter Suffolk at Haverhill Bounds ; at 16 m. 5 f . the 
 Right to Keclington ; and at 17 m. 3^-f. is Haverhill 
 Church. 
 
 From Sudbury to Stratford Swan. 
 At the Ea/l-End of the Town avoid the engraved Road 
 to Ipjwich ; at 4 f. the Left to Chilton ; at 7 f. is Great 
 Cornard Church clofe on the Left ; at I m. 1 f. the Right 
 to Cornard-MiW, the Left to Cornardjlreet ; at 1 m. 5f. 
 the Right to Arney Mill, the Left to Cornard-Jlreet j 
 at 2 m. the Left to Little Cornard ; pafling along and a- 
 voiding feveral Turnings to the Left, keep the Road 
 turning to the Right ; at 5 m. 1 f . is Bures-Jlreei ; and 
 
 at 
 
294 Cross Roads. 
 
 at 5 m. 3 f. is the Church clofe on the Right ; here the 
 Right to Colchejier ; at 5 m. 5 f. is the Pound clofe oh 
 the Right 3 at 6m. 4.L pafs over a Brook j at 7 m. 5 f. 
 the Left to Newton, turn on the Right j at 8 m. if. the 
 forward Road to Jftngton, turn on the Right, leave Wif- 
 ton Church 2f. on the Right ; at 8 m. 6f. turn on the 
 Left 3 at 8 m. 7 f. the Left to AJftngton 3 at 9 m. 6 f . 
 enter Nayland-Jlreet 3 at 10 m. Nayland Crofs-ftreet, the 
 Right to Colche/ler, the Left thro' Stoke to Lavenham 3 at 
 1 1 m. is Stoke-Pzrk, crofs a Brook, and leave Stoke 
 Church on the Left, and Sir William Rowleys Seat on the 
 Right j at 1 1 m. 6 f. is Stoke Village, where the forward 
 Road to Hadleigh, the Left thro' Jjfington and Newton to 
 Sudbury, turn on the Right 3 leave the Park on the Right ; 
 at 13 m. if. the Right to Boxted, the Left to Hadleigh j 
 pafs thro' Tbirteen-Jlreet over a Brook 3 at 13 m. 7f. the 
 Right to Langham 3 at 14 m. ^f. is Higham Bridge 5 at 
 14 m. 7 f. the Left to Hadleigh, the forward Road to Ipf- 
 wich, turn on the Right paft the Church ; at 15 m. 4*". 
 the Left to Holton, the forward Road to Ipfwich, turn on 
 the Right 3 and at 16 m. 1 f. is Stratford Swan-Inn. 
 
 m. f. 
 
 From Sudbury to Bures, is 5 ^ 
 
 From to Nayland 4 5* 
 
 From Nayland to Stratford Swan 6 04. 
 
 16 1 
 
 Crofs-Road from Lavenham to Bildejlon. 
 From the Swan-Inn turn on the Left at the Corner of 
 the Houfe ; at the End of the Street the forward Road to 
 Kettlebarjlon, turn on the Right j at 7 f. crofs Brent Ely 
 firft Bridge j and at 1 m. 3 f. crofs the fecond 3 at 2 m. 
 the Right to Little Waldingfield, turn on the Left, paffing 
 by the Church and Hall on the Left ; at 2 m. avoid the 
 forward Road to Pre/Ion, turn on the Right thro' Brent- 
 ^Village 3 at 2 m. 3f. the forward Road to Milden, 
 
 turn 
 
Cross Roads. 295 
 
 turn on the Left over the River ; at 3 ra. 3 f. the Right 
 to Milden, the Left to Kettlebarjlon ; at 3 m. 7 f. Monk's- 
 Ely Church, the Left to Kettlebarjlon ; at 4 m. 2f. the 
 Right turns over the Bridge to Hadleigh and Ipfwicb, be- 
 ing the common Road from Lavcnham thither, but keep 
 the forward Road ; at 4 m. 6 f. the Left to Kettlebarjlon ; 
 at 4 m. 7 f. Chelfworth Church a little on the Right ; at 
 5 m. the Right to S earner e ; a little farther the Left to Bil- 
 dejlon Church ; at 5 m. if. the Right to Nedging ; at 
 5 m. 7 f . enter the Road from Bildejlon to Hadleigb, turn 
 on the Left; and at 6m. %\f, is Bilde/lon-Crofs. 
 
 Crofs-Road from Newmarket to Sudbury. 
 From the Greyhound-Inn pafs in the Bury Road ; at 
 ii f. leave it, and take the Right-hand Way over Cham- 
 pain Plains, avoiding divers Turnings to the Right and 
 Left, leave Cheevely Church about a Mile on the Right ; 
 at 3 m. 5f. are the Ruins of a Chapel on the Right ; at 
 4 m. 4f. are the Ruins of Silvery Church, a little on the 
 Left ; at 6 m. 3 f. crofs a Brook ; at 6 m. 4f. is Lidgate 
 Church, a little on the Left ; palling thro' Lidgate Vil- 
 lage at 10 m. is Wickham-Brook Church, clofe on the 
 Right; at 10 m. 4f. the Right to Straddifoall, the Left 
 thro' Depden to Bury ; at 1 2 m. 7 f . is Stamfield Church 
 clofe on the Right, crofs a Brook; at 13m. 1 f. the Bury 
 Road turns on the Right to Clare, avoid divers Turnings 
 to Right and Left ; at 17 m. 7 f. is Glemsford Church clofe 
 on the Right ; at 18 m. 4 f. the Left to Bury, leave Stan- 
 Jlead Church 4f. on the Left ; at 20 m. 3f. enter the 
 Road from Sudbury to Clare ; at 21 ra. is Melford Black- 
 Lion Inn ; pafs thro' Melford Jlreet in the Road from Sud- 
 bury to Clare before-mentioned; and at 24m. 3^-f. is 
 Sudbury Market-Crofs. 
 
 Crofs-Road from Thetford to Brandon, and from thence 
 to Mildenhall. 
 
 At 1 f. avoid the Road to Bury and turn on the Right, 
 and leaving the Ruins of the Friers Preachers Houfe on 
 
 the 
 
igS Cross Roads, 
 
 the Right, enter in at a Gate ; at i m. the forward Road 
 to Lakenheath, the Right to Doiunham, take the middle 
 Way dire&ly for the Warrener's Lodge ; at 2m. is the 
 Lodge clofe on the Right ; at 2 m. 7 f, is another Lodge 
 clofe on the Right ; at 5 m, 7 f. is Brandon Maid's-Head 
 Inn, where the Left to Mildenhall, the Right to Downham. 
 Leave Brandon Church 6f. on the Right ; at 4 m. 5 f. the 
 Left to Bury, the Right to Lakenheath, leave Erefwell 
 Church about a Mile on the Right ; at 8 m. 36 the Left 
 Acute backward to Thetford ; at 8 m. 4 f. the Road comes 
 in on the Left from Bury ; and at 9 m. is Mildenhall 
 Market-Crofs. 
 
 Crofs-Road from Tljetford to Ga/?rop-Gate. 
 From the Bridge take the firft Right-hand Way, at the 
 Eaft-end of the Town ; at 5 f. crofs over Melford- Bridge, 
 avoiding the Left to Shadwell-Lodge, and the Right to 
 Eufton, take the middle Road j leave a Shepherd's Lodge 
 half a Mile on the Right, going diredly for Rujhford ; at 
 3 m. 5 f. is Rujhford Church on the Right, the Left to 
 Shadtvell ; at 3 m. 6 f. re-enter Suffolk at Rufford-Bridge, 
 leave the Red-Houfe clofe on the Left, pafs over Cham- 
 pain Lands, having the Little Oufe on the Left ; at 6 m. 
 6f. is a Pound, here the Right goes from Ga/lrop- Gate 
 to Bury ; turn on the Left over the Oufe into Norfolk j 
 and at 7 m. \\t is Gafirop- Gate Inn. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
[ 297 ] 
 
 BY the Affiftance of Mr. Bacons MS. and the Great 
 Court Books of this Borough, we are enabled to carry the 
 Lift of the Reprefentatives of Ipfwich almoft one hundred 
 Years higher than that in Willis s Not. Pari. goes. Mr.Bacon 
 remarks, that John Smith and Wm. Ridout in 25 Hen. VI. 
 were the Firft Burgefles fent by this Borough to Parliament. 
 This further mews how much the Town was favoured by 
 that King. For his Charter [which fee p. 54] was granted 
 in the 24th Year of his Reign, and in the following Year, the 
 Borough was permitted to lend Members to Parliament. 
 
 Members of Parliament for IP SWICH. 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 ohn Smith and William Ridout, Burgefles 
 Refident. 
 
 ohn Smith and William Wethereld, at Five 
 
 Marcs each. 
 John Andrews and Richard Felaw. 
 John Smith and Thomas Duncon. 
 Gilbert Debenham and John Smith. 
 John Smith and Edm. Winter j the laft with- 
 outFee.— This, we think, was the firft Bribe. 
 Jn. Timperley & Gilb. Debenham, jun. Efq; 
 William Worfop and John River, at 13d. per 
 
 Day each. 
 Richard Felaw and William Baldree. 
 Wm. Worfop and John Lopham.— Worfop to 
 have zod. a Day at York ; at any nearer 
 Place 1 6d. and at London 1 2 d. — Lopham 
 1 z d. a Day every where. 
 John Lopham and Wm. Worfop. 
 John Wallworth and Wm. Ridout. 
 John Wymondham and James Hobart. 
 John Timperley, junior, and John Alfray of 
 Hendley — Timperley at 8d. per Day ; Al- 
 fray ferveth in Confideration of his Admif- 
 lion to be a Free Burgefs. 
 Wm. Worfop and John Wallworth.— Worfop 
 at 5 s. per Week, and if the Parliament 
 be adjourned to have 1 s. per Day; Wall- 
 worth 3 s. 4d. per Week. 
 James Hobart and John Timperley, at 26 s. 
 
 and 8d. each, or 2 Marcs. 
 John Timperley and Roger Wentworth. 
 
 Tho. Baldry and John Wallworth Baldry 
 
 at 2s. per Day; Wallworth at 1 s. 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 25 Hen. 6. 
 
 A. D. 
 
 H47 
 
 26 Hen. 6. 
 
 .448 
 
 27 Hen. 6. 
 
 28 Hen. 6. 
 
 29 Hen. 6. 
 31 Hen. 6. 
 
 1449 
 1450 
 1 45 1 
 
 »453 
 
 33 Hen. 6. 
 38 Hen; 6. 
 
 H55 
 1460 
 
 1 Edward 4. 
 
 2 Edward 4. 
 
 1461 
 1462 
 
 3 Edward 4 
 
 4 Edward 4. 
 7 Edward 4 
 9 Edward 4 
 
 12 Edw. 4. 
 
 17 Edw. 4. 
 
 I Edward 5, 
 I Richard 3 , 
 
 H 6 3 
 1464 
 
 1467 
 
 1469 
 
 1472 
 
 H77 
 1483 
 
±gS Members for 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 i Richard 3. 
 I Henry 7. 
 3 Henry 7. 
 
 A.D. 
 1483 
 
 xm 
 1487 
 
 7 Henry 7. 
 
 1490 
 
 1 1 Henry 8. 
 
 1494 
 
 12 Henry 7. 
 19 Henry 7. 
 
 I496 
 
 »5°3 
 
 J Henry 8. 
 
 1509 
 
 3 Henry 8. 
 6 Henry 8. 
 14 Henry 8. 
 
 i$ti 
 1514 
 1522 
 
 21 Henry 8. 
 31 Henry 8. 
 33 Henry 8. 
 1 Edward 6. 
 7 Edward 6. 
 1 Mary. 
 
 I C2Q 
 
 '539 
 1541 
 
 »547 
 »S53 
 '553 
 »5S4 
 
 
 1 Ph. & M. 
 
 JbCv \ J. i !• CXI VI . 
 
 4&5 Ph.&M. 
 
 1554 
 
 I c c c 
 
 *557 
 
 I Elizabeth. 
 
 iS59 
 
 5 Elizabeth. 
 
 1563 
 
 j 3 cai^. 
 14 Eliz. 
 
 I C7 I 
 1572 
 
 27 Eliz. 
 
 1535 
 
 28 Eliz. 
 
 I586 
 
 31 Eliz. 
 35 Eliz. 
 
 I588 
 1592 
 
 I P S W I C H. 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Benet Caldwell and Thomas Baldry. 
 Tho. Samfon and William Wimbell. 
 Tho. Faftolf and John Wallworth, at 12 a*. 
 
 per Day each. 
 John Yaxley & Tho. Baldry.— -Their Wages 
 
 to be at the Order of Great Court. 
 John Faftolf and Ed. Bocking; at il. 6s. 8d. 
 
 each, if at Weftminfter ; if further off, to 
 
 be order'd by Great Court. 
 N. B. The Great Court ordered more to Faftolf, 
 
 4/. to Bocking 3 /. 
 Thomas Alvard and Richard Bailey. 
 Thomas Baldry and Thomas Alvard. — To 
 
 ferve without Wages, not otherwife. 
 Wm. Spencer and Thomas Hall. — Spencer 
 
 to have 40 s. 
 
 N.B. He had 6 s. Sd. more. 
 Thomas Baldry and Edmund Daundy. 
 The fame. 
 
 Hump. Wingfield and Tho. Rufh ; and they 
 came into Court, and took their Oaths of 
 Free-Men. 
 Tho. Rufh and Tho. Haward. 
 William Sabyn and Edmund Daundy. 
 Ralfe Gooding and John Sparrow. 
 John Gofnold and John Smith, alias Dyer. 
 John Smith, alias Dyer, and Richard Bird. 
 John Gofnold, Efq; and John Sulyard, Efq; 
 Clement Higham, Efq; Privy Counfellor, and 
 
 Thomas Pooley, Efq; 
 Ralfe Gooding and John Smith, alias Dyer. 
 John Sulyard, Efq; and Richard Smart, Efq; 
 Wm. Wheecroft and Philip Williams. —The 
 faid Williams remitted to the Town half 
 his Burgefs Fee. 
 Tho. Seckford, jun. Efq; and Robert Bar- 
 ker.— Barker had 31 1. 4s. 
 Tho. Seckford, Efq; Mafter ofRequefts, and 
 
 Edward Grimefton, Efq; 
 Edw. Grimefton, Efq; and John Moor, Gent. 
 Tho. Seckford, jun. Efq; & Edward Grime- 
 fton, Efq; 
 
 Sir John Higham and John Barker. Efq; — 
 Provided Sir John Higham fhall take the 
 Free-Man's Oath. 
 John Lany, Efq; Recorder, and John Barker, 
 Portman. 
 
 John Barker, Efq; and Wm. S mart, Gent. 
 Rob. Barker & Zac. Lock, Efq;— Lock 5 I. 
 
Kings Reigns. 
 39 Eliz. 
 4.3 Eliz. 
 1 James. 
 12 James. 
 
 1 8. James. 
 
 21 James. 
 1 Charles t. 
 dit. zd Pari. 
 3 Charles. 
 15 Charles. 
 
 16 Charles. 
 
 13 Cha. 2. 
 25 Cha. 2. 
 
 2 Wm. &M. 
 7 William 3 
 9 William 3 
 1 2 Wm. 3. 
 
 1 3 Wm. 3. 
 1 Ann. 
 
 3 Ann. 
 
 »S97 
 1 60 1 
 
 1603 
 1614 
 
 1620 
 
 Members for Ipswich. 299 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Michael Stanhope and Francis Bacon, Efqs 
 The fame. 
 
 Sir Henry Glemham, Sir Francis Bacon. 
 Sir Francis Bacon, Robert Snelling ; and af- 
 terwards Wm. Cage in the Place of Sir 
 Francis, who was elected by the Univerfity 
 of Cambridge. 
 Robert Snelling, Wm. Cage, Gent. — Snel- 
 ling 50 1. Cage 50 1. 
 Robert Snelling, William Cage, Efq; 
 The fame. 
 
 Robert Snelling, Sir William Younge. 
 Wm. Cage, Efq; Edmund-Day- f -Ge»t>- 
 William Cage, John Gurdon, Efq; of Great 
 Wenham. — John Gurdon had 104 Votes, 
 Edmund Day had 95. 
 John Gurdon, Wm. Cage, Efq; and in the 
 Place of Cage, deceafed, Fra. Bacon, Efq; 
 N. B. 18 Car. !, Cage bad 100/. and Dec. 5 , 
 1643, "John Gurdon had 100/. andCage 50/. 
 more, bejides the 100/. formerly granted. 
 Nathaniel Bacon and Francis Bacon, Efqrs. 
 The fame. 
 The fame. 
 
 Sir Frederick Cornwallis in the Place of Na- 
 thaniel Bacon, deceafed. 
 John Sicklemore, William Bloyfe, Efqrs. and 
 
 John Wright in the room of Sicklemore. 
 Gilbert Linfield, John Wright. 
 John Wright, Gilbert Linfield.— 60 1. was or- 
 
 der'd for Mr, Wright, 20 1. for Linfield. 
 The fame. 
 
 John Wright, Sir John Barker, Bart. 
 Sir John Backer. Peyton Ventrifs ; and in the 
 Place of Ventrifs (made a Judge) Sir Cha. 
 Bloife. 
 
 Sir John Barker, Sir Charles Bloife. 
 Sir John Barker, Charles Whitaker. 
 Samuel Barnardifton, Richard. Phillips. 
 Jofeph Martin, Efq; Sir Charles Duncomb. 
 Charles Whitaker, Richard Phillips. 
 Charles Whitaker, John Bence. 
 Henry Pooley, John Bence j and in the Place 
 
 of Pooley, Wm. Churchill, Efq; 
 John Bence, William Churchill. 
 Wm. Churchill, Sir Wm. Barker. 
 The fame. 
 
 Wm. Churchill, Wm. Thompfon. 
 Sir Wm. Thompfon, Francis Hegus, Efq; 
 X 2 
 
 I.64.O 
 
 1654 
 1656 
 1658-9 
 1660 
 
 l66l 
 
 1678 
 
 I68I 
 1685 
 1688 
 
 1689 
 1695 
 1698 
 1700 
 I701 
 1702 
 1705 
 
 1708 
 17 IO 
 
 >7 l 3 
 1714 
 
 172Z 
 
;oo Members for Ipswich. 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 
 A. D. 
 1727 
 
 *734 
 1740 
 
 1747 
 »754 
 
 1761 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Sir Wm, Thompfon, Francis Negus. 
 In the Place Sir Wm. made a Judge, P.Brokc. 
 In the Place of Negus, dead, Wm. Wollafton. 
 Wm. Wollafton, Samuel Kent. 
 Samuel Kent, Edward Vernon. 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame.— In the Place of Vernon, Thomas 
 Staunton; — In the Place of Kent, Geo. 
 Montgomerie. 
 
 Tho. Staunton, Francis Vernon, (afterwards 
 Lord Orwell.) 
 
 Knights of the Shire in Parliament 
 
 For the County ^Suffolk. 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 
 33 Henry 8. 
 I Edw. 6. 
 7 Edw. 6. 
 1 Mary. 
 
 1 Ph. & M. 
 2&3P.&M. 
 4&5 P.&M. 
 1 Eliz. 
 5 Eliz. 
 
 13 Eliz. 
 
 14 Eliz. 
 
 27 Eliz. 
 
 2 8 Eliz. 
 31 Eliz. 
 35 Eliz. 
 39 Eliz.- 
 43 Eliz. 
 l James. 
 12 James. 
 18 James. 
 21 James. 
 1 Charles, 
 dit. 2d Pari. 
 3 Charles. 
 
 1 5 Charles. 
 ; 6 Charles. 
 
 5 J ul X- 
 
 4.D. 
 542 
 547 
 553 
 553 
 554 
 554 
 555 
 557 
 559 
 563 
 57" 
 572 
 
 5*5 
 586 
 
 588 
 
 592 
 
 597 
 601 
 603 
 614 
 620 
 623 
 625 
 
 628 
 640 
 640 
 6 53 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Sir Arthur Hopton. 
 
 Sir Ant. Wingfield, Sir Tho. Wentworth. 
 Sir Wm. Drury, Sir Tho. Bedingfield. 
 Sir Wm. Drury, Sir Henry Jerningham. 
 Sir Tho. Jerningham, Sir Wm. Drury. 
 Henry Jernegan, Sir Wm. Drury. 
 Henry Jernegan, Sir Wm. Drury. 
 SirT. Cornwallis, W.Cordeli, Efq; Speaker. 
 Robert Wingfield, Wm. Walgrave. 
 Wm. Walgrave, Sir Robert WingfieId T 
 Sir Owen Hopton, Tho. Seckford. 
 Nicholas Bacon, Efq; Sir Rob. Wingfield. 
 Sir Wm. Drury, Sir Robert Jermyn. 
 Sir Robert Jermyn, Sir John Higham, 
 Anthony Wingfield, Arthur Hopton, Efqrs. 
 Edward Bacon, Sir Clement Fleigham. 
 Sir Wm. Walgrave, Hemy Warner, Efqj 
 Sir Henry Glemham, Calthrop Parker. 
 Sir John Higham, Sir Robert Drury. 
 Sir Henry Bedingfield, Sir Robert Drury. 
 Sir Robert Crane, Tho. Clinch, Efq; 
 Sir Wm. Spring, Sir Roger North. 
 SirEdmund Bacon, Bart. Tho. Cornwallis, 
 Sir Robert Naunton, Sir Robert Crane. 
 Sir Wm. Spring, Nat. Barnardifton, Efq; 
 Sir Nat. Barnardifton, Sir Phil. Parker, Knr. 
 Sir Nat. Barnardifton, Sir Philip Parker, 
 Jacob Caley, Francis Brewfter, Robert 
 
 Dunken, John Clark, and Edward, 
 
 Plumftead. 
 
Rings Reigns. 
 Parliament 
 
 Parliament 
 
 Parliament 
 
 Knights of the Shire for Suffolk. 301 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Sir Tho. Barnardifton, Sir Win Spring, Bart. 
 Sir Tho. Bedingfield, Knt. Wm. Bloyfe, Efq; 
 ohn Gurdon, Efq; Wm. Gibbs, Efq; 
 John Brandling, Efq; Alex. Bence, Efq; 
 John Sicklemore, Efq; Tho. Bacon, Efq; 
 Sir Henry Felton,Knt. Sir Tho. Barnardifton. 
 Henry North, Edmund Harvey 
 Edward Wyneive, John Sicklemore. 
 Wm. Bloys, Wm. Gibbs. 
 Robert Brewfter, and Daniel Wale, Efqrs. 
 Sir Hen. Felton, Sir Tho. Barnardifton, Knt. 
 Sir Hen. Felton of Playford, Sir Henry North 
 
 of Mildenhall, Barts. 
 SirHen.Felton, Sir Hen. North: And Sir Sam. 
 
 Barnardifton, in the room of SirH.N rth. 
 Sir Gervafe Elwes, Sir Sam. Barnardifton. 
 Sir Wm. Spring, Sir Sam. Barnardifton, 
 The fame. 
 
 Sir Robert Brook, .Sir Henry North. 
 Sir John Cordel, Sir John Rous. 
 Sir Gervafe Elwes, Sir Sam. Barnardifton. 
 The fame. 
 
 Sir Sam Barnardifton, Sir Lionel Talmachj 
 
 Earl of Dyfert in Scotland. 
 Earl of Dyfart, Sir Sam. Barnardifton. 
 The fame. 
 
 Earl of Dyfart, Sir Dudley Cullum. 
 Earl of Dyfart, Sir Rob. Davers. 
 Sir Rob. Davers, Henry Martin in the room 
 
 of the Earl of Dyfart, a Peer of Gr. Brit, 
 Sir Tho. Hanmer, Sir Rob. Davers. 
 The fame. 
 The fame. 
 
 Sir Tho Hanmer, Speaker, Sir Rob. Davers, 
 Sir Tho. Hanmer, Sir Rob. Davers, and Sir 
 
 Wm Barker in room of Davers, dead. 
 Sit Wm. Barker, Sir Jermyn Davers, and Sir 
 Rob. Kemp in the room of Sir Wm. dead. 
 SirR. Kemp, Sir J. Davers. — Sir C.Firebrace 
 
 in the room of Kemp, dead. 
 Sir Jermyn Davers, Sir Cordel Firebrace. 
 Sir Cordel Firebrace, John Affleck. 
 ;ir Cordel Firebrace, John Affleck ; and in 
 
 the room of Firebrace, Rowland Holt. 
 Rowland Holt, Tho. Charles Bunbury, 
 
 A. D. 
 1654 
 
 [656 
 
 1658-9 
 1660 
 
 1661 
 
 1678 
 1679 
 1681 
 1685 
 1688 
 1 690 
 1695 
 1698 
 
 1700 
 1 70 1 
 1 702 
 1705 
 1707 
 
 1 710 
 
 •7'3 
 S 7H 
 1722 
 
 1727 
 
 ^734 
 
 1740 
 1747 
 •754 
 
 1761 
 
[ 3°2 ] 
 
 Members for D u n w i c h, 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 33 Henry 8. 
 l Edward 6. 
 7 Edward 6. 
 l Mary. 
 
 a Ph. & M r 
 2&3P.&M. 
 
 4 & 5 P.&M. 
 I Elizabeth. 
 
 5 Elizabeth. 
 
 13 Eliz. 
 
 14 Eliz. 
 
 27 Eliz. 
 
 28 Eliz. 
 31 Eliz. 
 35 Eliz. 
 39 Eliz. 
 43 Ehz. 
 1 James. 
 
 j j James. 
 18 James. 
 21 )ames. 
 1 Charles. 
 jHtto 2d Pari, 
 3 Charles. 
 1 $ Charles. 
 $6 Charles. 
 
 Parliament 
 Parliament 
 ^Parliament 
 
 542 
 547 
 553 
 553 
 554 
 554 
 555 
 557 
 559 
 5 6 3 
 57 1 
 572 
 585 
 586 
 588 
 592 
 
 597 
 601 
 603 
 614 
 620 
 623 
 625 
 
 628 
 640 
 640 
 
 654 
 
 656 
 
 ,58-9 
 
 660 
 
 661 
 
 678 
 679 
 681 
 685 
 688 
 690 
 
 695 
 698 
 
 700 
 701 
 
 Names of the Memberf. 
 Robert Brown, George Coppya^ 
 Robert Coppyn, John Harrifon,. 
 Francis Yaxley, Robert Copping. 
 Robert Coppyn, Nicholas Harborough. 
 Robert Browne, George Jerningham, Efqrs. 
 Robert Browne. 
 
 George Saxmundham, Andrew Greave. 
 Tho. Peyton, Gent. John Browne, Gent. 
 John Mulwick, John Browne. 
 Robert Hare, Efq; Robert Coppyn, Gent. 
 Wm. Humberfton, Arthur Hopton. 
 Robert Coppyn, Richard Lane. 
 Walter Dunch, Efq; Anth. Wingfield, Efq; 
 Anthony Wingfield,Efq; Arthur Miller,Gent„ 
 Edward Hcnnmgs, Walter Dunch, Efqrs. 
 Henry Savill, Thomas Corbett, Efqrs. 
 Arthur Atyte, Clipfeus Gawdy, Efqrs. 
 John Suckling, Francis Mingay, Efqrs. 
 Valent. Knightley, Philip Gawdy, Efqrs. 
 Sir Robert Yaxley, Edmund EXoubleday. 
 Clement Coke, Thomas Bedingfield. 
 Sir John Roufe, Sir Robert Brooke. 
 Sir Robert Roufe, Sir Robert Broke. 
 
 Sir • Roufe, Thomas Bedingfield, Efq; 
 
 Sir Robert Broke, Francis Winterton, Gent, 
 Henry Coke, Anthony Bedingfield, Efqrs. 
 Henry Cooke, Efq; Anthony Bedingfield, an4 
 
 in his Place Robert Brewller, Efq; 
 Robert Brewiler of Wrentham? Efq; 
 Francis Brewfter, Efq; 
 Robert Brewfter, John Barrington, Efqrs. 
 John Rous, Henry Bedingfield. 
 Sir John R.ous, Richard Cook ; and in their 
 
 room Sir John Pettus, William Wood. 
 Sir Philip Skippon, Thomas Allen. 
 Sir Robert Kemp, Sir Philip Skippon. 
 The fame. 
 
 Roger North, Thomas Knivet. 
 
 Sir Philip Skippon, Sir Robert Rich. 
 
 Sir Robert Rich, Sir Philip Skippon ; & John 
 
 Bence.in the. room of Sir Philip dead. 
 Sir Robert Rich, Henry Heveningham. 
 The fame, and Sir Charles Blois in the room 
 
 of Sir Robert Rich, dead. 
 Sir Charles Blois, Robert Kemp. 
 The fame. 
 
Kings Reigns. 
 
 Members for Dunwich. 303 
 
 A. D. Names of the Members. 
 
 Sir Charles Blois, Robert Kemp. 
 Sir Charles Blois, John Rous. 
 Sir Richard Allen, Daniel Harvey. 
 Sir Geo. Downing, Rd. Richardfon, Serjeant 
 at Law. 
 
 Sir Robert Kemp, Sir George Downing. 
 Sir Robert Rich, Charles Long. 
 Sir George Downing, Edw. Vernon, wav'd ; 
 Sir John Ward in his room, and Jn. Sam- 
 brook in the room of Sir John, dead. 
 Sir George Downing, Thomas Windham. 
 Sir Geo. Downing, Sir Orlando Bridginan. 
 Sir. Geo. Downing, Jacob Garrard Downing. 
 Sir Geo. Downing, Miles Barnes. 
 Sir Jac. Gar. Downing, Alex. Forrefter. 
 Henry Fox, Sir Jac. Garard Downing. — In 
 the Place of Fox, now Lord Holland, Eliab 
 Harvey. 
 
 1702 
 1705 
 1708 
 1710 
 
 1713 
 1714 
 1722 
 
 1727 
 
 '734 
 174© 
 
 1747 
 
 *754 
 1761 
 
 Members of Parliament for the Borough ^Orford. 
 
 Kings Reigns, 
 
 A. D, 
 
 33 Henry 8. 
 
 1542 
 
 j Edward 6 
 
 1547 
 
 7 Edward 6. 
 
 '553 
 
 i Mary. 
 
 1553 
 
 I Ph. & M.. 
 
 1554 
 
 2 & 3 P.&M. 
 
 •555 
 
 4 & 5 P.&M. 
 
 x 557 
 
 i Elizabeth. 
 
 * 559 
 
 5 Elizabeth. 
 
 «5 6 3 
 
 13 Eliz. 
 
 1571 
 
 14 Eliz. 
 
 1572 
 
 27 Eliz. 
 
 
 2 8 Eliz. 
 
 1580 
 
 31 Eliz. 
 
 1588 
 
 35 Eliz. 
 
 '59* 
 
 39 Eliz. 
 
 J 597 
 
 43 Eliz. 
 
 1 601 
 
 1 James. 
 
 1603 
 
 1 2 James. 
 
 1 61 4 
 
 1 % James. 
 
 1620 
 
 21 James. 
 
 1623 
 
 1 Charles. 
 
 1625 
 
 ditto 2d Pari. 
 
 
 3 Charles. 
 
 1628 
 
 15 Charles. 
 
 1840 
 
 16 Charles. 
 
 1640 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 John Cook, Efq; 
 John Hare, Thomas Godfalve. 
 William Honing, Henry Cornwallis, Efqrs. 
 George Jerningh am, Thomas Hervey. 
 Thomas Seckford. 
 Thomas Seckford, Thomas Spicer. 
 Francis Stone, Thomas Seckford, Efqrs. 
 Thomas Seckford, William Yaxley. 
 Laurence Meres, William Yaxley, Efqrs. 
 Anthony Wingfield, Anthony Rume, Efqrs. 
 The fame. 
 
 Henry Wingfield, Efq; John Cutting, Gent. 
 Rich. Wingfield, Efq; Wm. Downing, Gent. 
 Rich. Wingfield, Elq; Geo. Chilting, Gent. 
 Edw. Grimflon, fen. John North, Efqrs. 
 Thomas Pivet, William Forth. 
 Sir John Townfend, Sir Richard Knightley. 
 Sir Michael Stanhope, SirW. Cornwallis. * 
 Sir Wm. Cornwallis, Sir Robert Gardiner. 
 Sir Lionel Talmache, Sir Robert Townfend. 
 Sir Robert Hitcham, William Glover, Efq; 
 Sir Robert Hitcham, Sir Wm'. Whitepole. 
 Sir Robert Hitcham, Charles Croft, Efq; 
 Sir Cha. Le Grofs, Sir Lion.Talmache, Bart. 
 Sir Charles Le Grofs, Edward Duke, Efq; 
 Sir W. Play ters, Bart, SirCh Le Grofs, Knt. 
 
 f 
 
304 Members for O r f o r £>.' 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Thomas Edgar, Efq; Jeremy Copping, Gent. 
 Walter Devereux, Sir Alan Broderick. 
 The fame. 
 
 Lionel Lord Huntingtower, Sir Jn.Duke, Bt. 
 Sir John Duke, Henry Parker. 
 Sir John Duke, Thomas Glemham. 
 Lionel Lord Huntingtower, Tho. Glemham, 
 Sir John Duke, Thomas Glemham. 
 Thomas Glemham, Thomas Felton. 
 Sir Adam Felton, Bart Sir John Duke, Bart. 
 
 Sir T. Felton in the room of Sir Adam, dead. 
 Sir Edm. Bacon, Bart. Sir John Duke, Bart. 
 Sir Edmund Bacon, Sir Edward Turner. 
 The fame. 
 The fame. 
 The fame. 
 The fame. 
 
 Clement Corrance, William Thompfon. 
 Sir Edward Turner, Clement Corrance. 
 The fame. 
 The fame. 
 
 Dudley North, William A£ton. 
 Price Devereux, wav'd ; Dudley North, dead.. 
 
 William A&on, Robert Kemp. 
 Richard Powis, Lewis Barlow. 
 Lord Glenorchy, Henry Bilfon Legge. 
 Henry Bilfon Legge, John Walgrave. 
 | Henry Bilfon Legge, John OfHey. 
 JohnOhHey, Thomas Worfley. 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 
 A. D 
 
 Parliament 
 
 1658-9 
 
 
 1 660 
 
 
 1661 
 
 
 1678 
 
 
 1679 
 
 
 168 1 
 
 
 1685 
 
 
 1688 
 
 
 1 690 
 
 
 1695 
 
 
 1698 
 
 • 
 
 1700 
 
 
 1701 
 
 
 1702 
 
 
 1705 
 
 
 1707 
 
 
 1708 
 
 
 1710 
 
 
 1713 
 
 
 1714 
 
 
 1722 
 
 
 1727 
 
 
 1734 
 
 
 1740 
 
 
 1747 
 
 
 >754 
 
 
 1761 
 
 Members for the Borough of Sudbury. 
 
 (The Borough of Sudbury did not fend Members to 
 Parliament before 1 Eliz.) * 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 I Elizabeth. 
 5 Elizabeth, 
 l 3 Eliz. 
 14 Eliz. 
 
 27 Eliz. 
 
 28 Eliz. 
 31 Eliz. 
 35 Eliz. 
 39 Eliz. 
 43 Eliz. 
 1 James. 
 
 A. D. 
 
 J 5?9 
 i5 6 3 
 1571 
 1572 
 .585 
 1586 
 1 58S 
 1592 
 
 •597 
 1601 
 
 1603 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Clement Throgmorton, Hen.Fortefcue,Efqrs. 
 John Heigham, Thomas Andrews, Efq; 
 John Hunt, Gent. John Gurdon. 
 Richard Eden, Gent. Martin Cole, Gen. 
 Edward Walgrave, Henry Blagge, Efqrs. 
 Thomas Eden, Thomas Jermyn, Efqrs. 
 Henry Blagge, Efq; GefFry Ruiham, Gent. 
 William Fortefcue, Dudley Fortefcue, Efqrs. 
 William Walgrave, Efq; John Clapham. 
 Philip Gawdy, Edward Glaffcock, Efqrs. 
 Sir Thomas Buckingham, Henry Eden. 
 
for Sudbury. 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 i 2 James. 
 1 8 James. 
 21 James. 
 I Charles, 
 dit. 2d Pari. 
 3 Charles. 
 
 15 Charles. 
 
 16 Charles. 
 Parliament 
 
 3°S 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Charles Cibborne, William Towfe. 
 Edward Ofborne, Brampton Gurdon, Efq; 
 Sir Robert Crane, Sir William Pooley. 
 Sir Robert Crane, Sir Nath. Barnardifton. 
 Sir Nath. Barnardifton, Tho. Smith, Gent* 
 Sir Rob. Crane, Bart. Sir Wm. Pooley, Knt. 
 Sir Rob. Crane, Bart. Richard Pepys, Efq; 
 Sir Simmons D'Ewes, Bart. Sir Rob. Crane. 
 John Fothergill, Efq; 
 John Fothergill, Efq; 
 Samuel Hafel, John Fothergill, Efqrs. 
 John Gurdon, Jofeph Proud. 
 Sir Robert Cordel, Sir Gervafe Elwes, Barts. 
 Sir Robert Cordel, Bart. Gervafe Elwes. 
 Sir Gervafe Elwes, Bart. Gervafe Elwes. 
 The fame. 
 
 Sir John Cordel, Bart. Sir Geo. Weneive,Knt. 
 
 Sir John Poley, Knt. Philip Gurdon. 
 
 Philip Gurdon, John Robinfon. — Sir Tho. 
 Barnardifton in the room of Gurdon, dead. 
 
 Sir T. Barnardifton, Bt. Sir J. Robinfon, Knt. 
 
 Sir Tho. Barnardifton, Sam. Kekevvieh, both 
 dead.— John Gurdon, Sir Gervafe Elwes. 
 
 Sir Gervafe Elwes, Sir John Cordel. 
 
 Sir Gervafe Elwes, George Daftiwood. 
 
 Sir Gerv. Elwes, Philip Skippon Sir Har- 
 vey Elwes in the room of Sir Gervafe,dead, 
 
 Sir Harvey Elwes, Philip Skippon. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 Philip Skippon, Sir Harvey Elwes. 
 John Mead, Robert Echlin. 
 Sir Harvey Elwes, Robert Echlin. 
 Sir Harvey Elwes, Thomas Wefton. 
 John Knight, William Windham. 
 John Knight, Carteret Leathes ; and in the 
 room of Knight, dead, Richard Jackfon. 
 Richard Price, Edward Stephenfon. 
 Carteret Leathes, Thomas Fonnereau. 
 Thomas Fonnereau, Richard Rigby. 
 Thomas Fonnereau, Thomas Walpole. 
 Tho. Fonnereau, John Henniker. 
 
 Y 
 
 Memhers 
 
1 306 ] 
 
 Members for the Borough of Aldborough. 
 
 (Aldborough did not fend Members to Parliament before 
 13 Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Roger Woodhoufe, Tho. Highford, Efqrs. 
 Francis Beaumond, Charles Seckford. 
 Peter Olborne, John Fox, Merchant. 
 Peter Ofborne, Edmund Bell, Efqrs. 
 Edward Cook, Efq; William Bence. 
 Thomas Knevet, William Bence. 
 Francis Haton, Francis Johnfon. 
 Martin Statevill, Francis Corbet, Efqrs. 
 Sir William Woodhoufe, Thomas Revet,Efq; 
 Sir Henry Glemham, Sir John Samms. 
 Sir Henry Glemham, Charles Glemham,Efq; 
 Nich. Ryvet, Efq; John Bence, Gent. 
 Sir Tho. Glemham, Charles Glemham, Efq; 
 Sir Tho. Glemham, Wm. Mafon, Efq; 
 Sir Simeon Steward, Knt. Marm. Rawden. 
 Wm. Rainborough, Efq; Squire Bence. 
 Squire Bence, Efq; Alex. Bence, Efq; 
 Laur. Oxburgh, Efq; John Bence, Merchant. 
 Robert Brooke, Thomas Bacon. 
 The fame. 
 
 John Holland Bar, John Bence. 
 
 Sir Richard Haddock, Knt. Henry Johnfon. 
 
 John Bence, John Corrance. 
 
 John Bence, John Corrance. 
 
 Henry Bedingfield, King's Serjeant, Jn.Bence. 
 
 Sir Henry Johnfon, William Johnfon. 
 
 Sir Henry Johnfon, Wm. Johnfon. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame. 
 
 The fame, both dead. — In their room Sam. 
 
 Lowe, Walter Plummer. 
 Samuel Lowe, Walter Plummer. 
 Wm. Wyndham, Sam. Lowe, both dead.— In 
 
 their room Sir Jn. Williams, Geo. Purvis. 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 
 A. D. 
 
 1 3 Eliz. 
 
 IC7I ' 
 
 J ' 
 
 14 Eliz. 
 
 IC72 
 
 27 Eliz. 
 
 1585 
 
 28 Eliz. 
 
 1586 
 
 3 1 Eliz. 
 
 ic88 
 
 j 
 
 35 Eliz - 
 
 1592 
 
 39 Eliz. 
 
 '597 
 
 43 Eliz. 
 
 1 60 1 
 
 1 James. 
 
 1603 
 
 1 2 James. 
 
 1614 
 
 18 James. 
 
 1620 
 
 21 James. 
 
 1 62 1 
 
 1 Charles. 
 
 1625 
 
 ditto 2d Pari. 
 
 3 Charles. 
 
 1628 
 
 15 Charles. 
 
 1640 
 
 j 6 Charles. 
 
 1640 
 
 Parliament 
 
 1658-9 
 
 
 1660 
 
 
 1661 
 
 
 1678 
 
 
 1679 
 
 
 1681 
 
 
 1 005 
 
 
 1688 
 
 
 1690 
 
 
 1695 
 
 
 1698 
 
 
 1700 
 
 
 1 70 1 
 
 
 1702 
 
 
 1705 
 
 
 1707 
 
 
 1708 
 
 
 17 10 
 
 
 
 
 1714 
 
 
 1722 
 
 
 1727 
 
Members for Aldborough. 307 
 
 Kings Reigns, 
 
 •A. D. 
 
 173 + 
 1740 
 
 •747 
 '754 
 1761 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 William Conolly, George Purvis. 
 William Conolly, Richard Plummer. 
 Wm. Wyndham Alhe, Zach. Phil. Fonnereau. 
 Wm. Wyndham Aftie, Zach. Phil. Fonnereau. 
 Zach. Philip Fonnereau, Philip Fonnereau. 
 
 Members for the Borough of E y e. 
 
 (Eye did not fend Members to Parliament before 13 Q; Eliz.) 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Richard Beddal, Charles Cutber, Efqrs. 
 Charles Calthorpe, Charles Cutber. 
 
 Bafingborne, George Broke, Efqrs. 
 
 Kings Reigns, 
 
 A. D. 
 
 
 I C 7 I 
 
 14 Eliz. 
 
 1572 
 
 27 Eliz. 
 
 ! 5 8 5 
 
 28 Eliz. 
 
 ic86 
 j 
 
 31 Eliz. 
 
 1588 
 
 35 Eliz. 
 
 1592 
 
 39 Eliz. 
 
 1597 
 
 43 Eliz. 
 
 1601 
 
 I James. 
 
 1603 
 
 1 2 James. 
 
 1614 
 
 1 8 James. 
 
 1620 
 
 21 James. 
 
 1623 
 
 1 Charles. 
 
 . r - 
 
 IO25 
 
 dit. 2d Pari. 
 
 3 Charles. 
 
 1020 
 
 1 5 Charles. 
 
 I64O 
 
 1 6 Charles. 
 
 I64O 
 
 Parliament 
 
 I658-9 
 
 
 l660 
 
 
 l66l 
 
 
 1678 
 
 
 I679 
 
 
 l68l 
 
 
 I685 
 
 
 1688 
 
 
 169O 
 
 
 1695 
 
 
 I698 
 
 
 I7OO 
 
 
 I7OI 
 
 
 1702 
 
 Bartholomew Kemp, Tho. Bedingfield, Efqrs. 
 Edward Grimfton, Edmund Bacon, Efqrs. 
 Edward Honing, Philip Gawdy, Efqrs. 
 Anthony Gawdy, John Honing, Efqrs. 
 Edward Hunnings, Ant. Gawdy, Efqrs. 
 Edward Honing, Efq; Sir Henry Bockenham. 
 Sir John Crompton, Sir William Croft. 
 Sir Roger North, Sir John Crompton. 
 Sir Henry Crofts, Francis Finch, Efq; 
 Sir Roger North, Francis Finch, Efq; 
 Sir Roger North, Francis North, Efq; 
 Sir Roger North, Francis Finch, Efq; 
 Sir Fred. Cornwallis, Bart. Sir Roger North. 
 Sir Fred Cornwallis, Bart.. Sir Roger North, 
 
 and in his Place Morris Barrow. 
 Edward Dendy, Jofeph Bliflet, Efqrs. 
 Charles Cornwallis, George Reeve. 
 Charles Cornwallis, George Reeve. 
 Sir Robert Reeve, Knt. only. 
 Sir Charles Gawdy, Sir Robert Reeve, Bart. 
 Sir Charles Gaudy, Sir Robert Reeve, Cha. 
 
 Fox, Geo.Walch. 
 Sir Charles Gaudy, Sir Robert Reeve. 
 Sir Charles Gaudy, Sir John Rous. 
 Thomas Knyvitt, Henry Poley. 
 Henry Poley, Thomas Davenant. 
 Charles Cornwallis, Tho. Davenant.— Corn- 
 wallis made a Peer, Sir Jofeph Jekyl. 
 Spencer Compton, Sir Jof. Jekyll. 
 The fame. 
 The fame. 
 The fame. : 
 
 y % 
 
3 o8 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 
 Members Jor 
 
 A. D. 
 1705 
 1707 
 1708 
 1710 
 
 1 7 1 3 
 1714 
 1722 
 1727 
 
 J 734 
 
 Eye. 
 
 1740 
 1747 
 
 *7S4 
 1761 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 
 The fame. 
 The fame. 
 The fame. 
 
 Sir Jof. Jekyll, Thomas Maynard. 
 Thomas Maynard, Edward Hopkins. 
 Edw. Hopkins, Tho. Smith. 
 Edward Hopkins, James Cornwallis. 
 Stephen Cornwallis, John Cornwallis. 
 Stephen Cornwallis, John Cornwallis, 
 
 Stephen Cornwallis, John Cornwallis. 
 Edward Cornwallis, Roger Townfttend. 
 Courthorpe Clayton, Nicholas Harding. 
 Jofhua Lord Vifcount Allen, Richard Burton. 
 
 Members for the Borough of St. Edmond's Bury. 
 
 (St. Edmond's Bury did not fend Members to Parlia- 
 ment before 12 James I. 
 
 Kings Reigns. 
 1 2 James. 
 18 James. 
 21 James. 
 I Charles, 
 ditto 2d Pari. 
 3 Charles. 
 15 Charles 
 1 $ Charles. 
 
 Parliament 
 
 A. D. 
 1614 
 1 620 
 1623 
 1625 
 
 1628 
 1640 
 1640 
 
 1654 
 1 656 
 1658-9 
 1&60 
 1661 
 
 1678 
 1679 
 168 1 
 168; 
 1688 
 1690 
 
 1695 
 1698 
 1700 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 Sir Thomas Jermyn, Robert Crane. 
 Sir Thomas Jermyn, John Woodford. 
 Sir Thomas Jermyn, Anthony Crofts, Efq; 
 Sir Thomas Jermyn, Sir Wm. Spring. 
 Sir Thomas Jermyn, Emanuel Gifford. 
 Sir Thomas Jermyn, Sir William Hervey. 
 Sir Thomas Jermyn, John Godbold. 
 Thomas Jermyn, Efq; Sir W. Spring, and in 
 
 his Place Sir Tho. Barnardifton. 
 Samuel Moody, John Clark, Efqrs. 
 Samuel Moody, John Clark, Efqrs. 
 John Clark, Tho. Chaplin, Efq; 
 Sir Henry Crofts, Sir John Duncombe. 
 Sir Henry Pooley, Sir John Duncombe. — In 
 
 the Place of Pooley, Sir John Duncombe ; 
 
 and of Sir John, Sir William Duncombe. 
 Sir Thomas Hervey, Thomas Jermyn. 
 Sir Thomas Hervey, Thomas Jermyn. 
 Sir Thomas Hervey, Thomas Jermyn. 
 Sir Thomas Hervey, William Crofts. 
 Sir Rob. Davers, Bart. Sir Tho. Hervey, Knt. 
 j Sir Rob. Davers, Henry Goldwell. — In the 
 j Place of Goldwell, dead, John Hervey. 
 Sir Robert Davers, John Hervey. 
 Sir Robert Davers, John Hervey. 
 Sir Robert Davers, John Hervey, 
 
Members for St. Edmond's Bury. 309 
 
 Kings Reigns, 
 
 A.D, 
 1701 
 1702 
 
 1705 
 
 1707 
 1708 
 
 1710 
 
 1713 
 1714 
 
 1722 
 
 1727 
 
 1734 
 1740 
 
 1747 
 
 •754 
 1761 
 
 Names of the Members. 
 fohn Hervey, Sir Thomas Felton, Bart. 
 John Hervey, Sir Tho. Felton.— In the room 
 of Hervey, made a Peer, Sir Rob. Davers. 
 Sir Tho. Felton, Sir Rob. Davers.— -In room 
 
 of Davers, who wav'd, Avvberry Porter. 
 Sir Thomas Felton, Awberry Porter. 
 Awberry Porter, Sir Tho. Felton. — In room 
 of Felton, dead, Jofeph Weld, Serjeant at 
 Law. 
 
 Jofeph Weld, Awberry Porter. — In the room 
 
 of" W e ld, dead, Samuel Batteley. 
 Carr Harvey, Awberry Porter. 
 Carr Hervey, Awberry Porter.— In the room 
 
 of Porter, dead, J. Reynolds, Serj. at Law. 
 James Reynolds, Sir Jermyn Davers, Bart. — 
 
 In the room of Reynolds, made a Judge, 
 
 John Lord Hervey. 
 John Lord Hervey, Thomas Norton. — In the 
 
 room ©f Lord Hervey, become a Peer, Th. 
 
 Hervey. 
 
 Tho. Hervey, Thomas Norton. 
 Tho. Hervey, Thomas Norton. 
 Lord Peterfham, Felton Hervey. 
 Lord Peterfham, Felton Hervey. 
 Charles Fitzroy, William Hervey. 
 
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 *Ihe Valuation «/ the Parifies in Suffolk. 
 
 Parifbes. 
 
 A&on All Saints, — — — • 
 Akenham St. Mary, -— — — — — • 
 Aldborough St. Peter and Paul,- 
 Alderton St. Bartholomew, — 
 Aldham, 
 
 Aldringham St. Andrew, 
 
 All Saints, South Elmham, — 
 Alpheton, 
 
 Ampton St. Peter, — — ■ ■ ■ 
 
 Arwerton St. Andrew, 
 
 Aflibocking All Saints, ■ 
 
 Afliby, 
 
 Am, bv Campfey, St. Jn.Bapt. 
 
 Amfield All Saints, 
 
 Alhfield St. Mary, — 
 
 Alhfield in Blackbourn, ■ 
 
 Afpal, 
 
 Aflington St. Edmund, — — — 
 
 Athelington St. Peter, 
 
 Bafton, ■ 
 
 Baddingham, — 
 
 Badley St. Mary, 
 
 Badwell Afh St. Mary, 
 
 Bailham St. Peter, 
 
 Bardwell, ■ • — — — 
 
 King's Books. 
 
 Barham St. Mary, ■ -> 
 Barking St. Mary, ■ 
 Barnardifton All Saints, — 
 
 Barnby, 
 
 Barnham St. Gregory, — 
 Barnham St. Martin, — 
 Barningham St. Andrew, »- 
 
 Barrow, 
 
 Barmam Holy Trinity, — 
 Barton Great, ■ 
 
 Barton Little, 
 
 Battisford St. Mary, — 
 Bawdfey St. Mary, — 
 Bealings Great, St. Mary, — 
 Bealings Little, All Saints, 
 Beccles St. Michael, — 
 Beddingfield St. Mary, - 
 Bedfield St. Nicholas, - 
 
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Valuation of the Parijhes in Suffolk. 
 
 Parijlies, 
 
 3 11 
 
 Beighton, — — 
 
 Belftead Little, St. Mary, — — 
 
 Belton, All Saints, 
 
 Benacre St. Michael, ■ 
 
 Benhall St. Mary, 
 
 Bentley St. Mary, — - 
 
 Bildeiton, ■ 
 
 Bing, 
 
 Blakenham Great, St. Mary, ■ 
 
 Blakenham Little, St. Mary, 
 
 Blaxhall St. Peter, 
 
 Blundefton St. Mary, 
 
 Blyborough Holy Trinity, . 
 
 Blyford All Saints, • 
 
 Boulge St. Michael, 
 
 Botefdale, - '• - 
 
 Boxford St. Mary, 
 
 Boxted, (confolidated with Harteft) 
 
 Boyton St. Andrew, — — - 
 
 Bradfield St. George, — 
 
 Bradfield St. Clare, . ■ 
 
 Bradfield-Combuft, 
 
 Bradley Great, — — — — 
 Bradley Little, — — — — 
 Bradwell St. Nicholas, ■■■ 
 Braiefworth, ■ - — ~ 
 
 Bramfield St. Andrew, 
 
 Bramford St. Mary, 
 
 Brampton St. Peter, ■ 
 
 Brandilton All Saints, 
 
 Brandon St. Peter and Paul, • 
 
 Brantham St. Michael, 
 
 Bredfield St. Andrew, 
 
 Brent-Illeigh St. Mary, ■ 
 
 Bretenham St. Mary, 
 Bricet St. Mary, — — 
 Bricet St. Laurence, — — 
 Brightwell St. John Baptift, 
 
 Brockford, • ■ 
 
 Brockley St. Andrew, 
 Bromfwell St. Edmund, - 
 
 Broom St. Mary, 
 
 Brundifh, — ■ 
 
 Brufyard St. Peter, 
 
 Bulchamp, - — ■ — ■ 
 Bucklefham St. Mary, 
 Bungay Holy Trinity, — 
 
 King's Books. 
 
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312 Valuation of the Parijhes in Suffolk. 
 
 Purifies. 
 
 Bungay St. Mary, 
 
 Bures St. Mary, , 
 
 Burgate St. Mary, 
 
 Burgh St. Botolph, 
 
 Burgh-Caftle St. Peter, 
 
 Burftal, 
 
 Butley St. John Bap tilt, - 
 
 Buxhall St. Mary, 
 
 Buxlow, .-■ 
 
 Campfey-Alh, 
 
 Capel St. Mary, . 
 
 Capel St. Andrew, 
 
 Carlton-Colvile St. Peter, - 
 
 Carlton in Hoxne, 
 
 Cavendilh St. Mary, 
 
 Cavenham St. Andrew, — 
 
 Charsfield St. Peter, 
 
 Chattiiham St. Mary, - 
 
 Chedburgh, — . 
 
 Cheddifton St. Mary, 
 
 Chelfworth All Saints, — 
 Chelmondifton St. Andrew, 
 
 Chevington, . 
 
 Chelsford St. Michael, _ 
 Chilton, 
 
 Chilton by Stow, 
 
 Clare St. Peter and Paul, 
 
 Claydon St. Peter, 
 
 Clement, (St.) Ipfwich, 
 Clopton St. Mary, — 
 
 Copdock St. Peter, 
 
 Cockfield, 
 
 Coddenham St. Mary, - 
 
 Combs, 
 
 Cony-Wefton, 
 
 Cookley St. Michael, 
 Cooling, or Coolige, — 
 Cornard St. Andrew, - 
 Cornard All Saints, — 
 Corton St. Bartholomew, 
 
 Cotton St. Andrew, 
 
 Covehithe, . 
 Cransford St. Peter, *- 
 Cratfield St. Mary, 
 Creeling St. Mary, — 
 
 Creeting St. Peter, . 
 
 Creeting All Saints, — 
 
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Valuation of the Parijhes in Suffolk. g 13 
 
 Parijhes. 
 
 Greeting St. Olave, 
 
 Cretingham St. Andrew, — — 
 
 Crovvfield, 
 
 Culford, — 
 
 Culpho St. Botolph, — 
 
 Dagvvorth, - 
 
 Dalham St. Mary, 
 
 Dalinghoe St. Mary, • »« ■ 
 
 Darmfden, 
 
 Darlham All Saints, ■ 
 Debach All Saints, • — 
 
 Debenham St. Mary, 
 
 Denham, — — - 
 
 Denham St. John the Baptift, 
 
 Dennington St. Mary, 
 
 Denfton, ■ — — — 
 
 Depden St. Mary, — — _ 
 Downham St. Mary, ■ ■ 
 Drinkefton, — — — 
 Dunwich All Saints, ■ .. 
 Dunningworth, ■ ■ 
 
 Sarl-Soham, • • 
 Eaft-Bergholt Chap. (See Brantham) 
 
 Eafton-Bevint St. Nicholas, 
 
 Eafton All Saints, — - — — .,- 
 
 St. Edmondfbury St. Mary, >■ 
 
 St. Edmondfbury St. James, • 
 
 Edwardfton St. Mary, ■ 
 
 Eike All Saints, . 
 
 Ellough, — ■■ . 
 
 Elmfet St. Peter, . ■ 
 
 Elmfwell, 
 
 Elvedon St. Andrew, — - 
 
 Endgate St. Mary, 
 
 Erifwell St. Lawrence, ■ . 
 
 Erwarton (See Arwarton) — 
 
 Eufton, 
 
 Exning, ■ ... ~ - — 
 
 Eye St. Peter and Paul, 
 
 Eyke, (See Eike) . 
 
 Fakenham St. Peter, — 
 Fakenham St. Andrew, — 
 Falkenham St. Ethelbert, — 
 Farnham St. Mary, — 
 Feli How St. Peter and Paul, 
 
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314 Valuation of the Parijhes in Suffolk. 
 
 Farifies. 
 
 Felfham St. Peter, 
 
 Fihborough Magna, 
 
 Finborough Parva, ■ 
 
 Finningham, • — 
 
 Fiemton St. CatK. with — — - 7 
 
 Hengrave R. annexed, 5 
 
 Flixton St. Mary, — 
 
 Flixton St. Andrew, - 
 
 Flowton St. Mary, ■ 
 
 Fordley with Middleton, Holy Trin 
 
 Fornham All Saints, — 
 
 Fornham St. Genoveve, — 
 
 Fornham St. Martin, — 
 
 Foxhall, • 
 
 Framlingham St. Michael, - J — 
 
 Framfden St. Mary, — 
 
 Freckingham St. Andrew, 
 
 Frefiingfield St. Peter, 
 
 Frifton St. Mary, 
 
 Friltoh St. Peter, 
 
 Fritton St. Edmund, ■ 
 
 Frollenden All Saints, , ■ 
 
 Gazely All Saints, with Kenford 
 
 ' Chapel, • 
 
 Gcdding, — - i — 
 
 Gedgrave, 
 
 Gifleham Holy Trinity, 
 
 Giilingham St. Mary, 
 
 Glembam All Saints, 
 
 Glemham St. Andrew, - ■ 
 
 Glcmsford St. Mar)', 
 
 Gorlelfon St. Andrew, 
 
 Gofbeck St. Mary, - — 1 
 
 Groton St. Bartholomew, » 
 
 Grundiiburgh St. Mary, 
 
 Gunton St. Peter, > 
 
 Hachefton All Saints, < 
 
 Hadleigh St. Mary, 
 
 Halcfworth St. Mary, 
 
 Hardwick-Houfe, ■ 
 
 Harc;rave, 
 
 Harkitead St. Mary, 
 
 Harlefton, 
 
 Kartell: All Saints, with Boxfted ann. 
 
 Halketon St. Andrew, — — 
 
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Valuation of the Parijhes hi Suffolk. 315 
 
 Parijbes* 
 
 Haverhill St. Mary, — 
 
 Hawkedon, •— ' 
 
 Haughley St. Mary, — 
 
 Hawited All Saints, 
 
 Hedgfett, 
 
 Helmingham St. Mary, — 
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 Hepworth St. Peter, — 
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 Higham St.'Mary, — 
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 Holton St Mary,, > • 
 
 Holbrook All Saints, — 
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 Honington All Saints, 
 
 Hoo Sr. Andrew, 
 
 Hopton, j 
 
 Hopton St. Margaret, - 
 Horham St. Mary, , 
 Horningherth, •— — 
 Horninglherth, — — 
 Horfecroft, 
 
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 Hulveritreet, —■ — 
 
 Hundon All Saints, 
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 Huntingfield St. Mary, 
 
 James (St.) South Elmham, 
 Icklingham All Saints, — 
 Icklingham St. James, — 
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5 1 6 Valuation of the Parijhes in Suffolk 
 
 Parijbes. 
 Uketmall St. John, 
 
 Ilketfhall St. Lawrence, 
 
 Ilketfhall St. Margaret, 
 
 Ingham St. Bartholomew, 
 
 Ixning, or Exning, . 
 
 Ixworth St. Maj-y, , 
 Ixworch, Thorp, „ 
 
 Kedington St. Peter and Paul, 
 
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 Kentford, , , 
 
 Kennet St. Nicholas, - — ■ 
 
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 Kerfey St. Mary, 
 
 Kefgrave, ■ ■ . . 
 
 Settlehafton, ~ 
 
 Kettleborough St. Andrew, • 
 
 Keffingland St. Edmund, 
 
 Kirkley All Saints, , 
 
 Kirkton St. Martin, «~ * 
 
 Khattilhall All Saints, . 
 
 Kjiodifhall St, Lawr. with Buxlow, 
 
 Lackford St. Lawrence, w 
 
 Lakenheath St. Mary, — ~ 
 
 Langham St. Mary, — - 
 
 Lavenham St. Peter and Paul, 
 
 J^awrence (St.) Ipfwich, . i - 
 
 Lawlhall All Saints, » ,. - 
 
 t,eyham, • 
 
 Leifton St. Margaret, . 
 
 Laxfield All Saints, • 
 
 ^etheringham St. Mary, — .. ... . 
 
 ^evington St. Peter, «■»■■■ ■ 
 
 Xtidgate, 
 
 Lindfey, — . — 
 
 Jjnftead St. Peter, — — — ■ 
 
 I^inftead St. Margaret, ■■ — 
 Livermore St. Peter, • . ■ ■■- 
 
 Livermore St, Peter and Paul, — 
 
 £ound St. John Baptjfl, 
 
 J.oweftoft St, Margaret, 
 
 J*oudham» ■■■ — 
 
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 Margaret (St.) South Elmham, 
 
 MarLford, 
 
 Martlefham St. Mary, ■ .. . 
 
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Valuation of the Parijhei in Suffolk. 
 
 Parijbes. 
 
 Mary (St ) at Elms, Ipfwich,- 
 Mar'y (St.) at Key, Ipfwich, 
 
 3 1 / 
 
 Mary (St.) at Stoke, Ipfwich, 
 Mary (St.) at Tower, Ipfwich, 
 Matthew (St.) Ipfwich, — 
 
 Melford Holy Trinity, 
 
 Mellis St. Mary, 1 
 
 Mells, 
 
 Melton St. Andrew, 
 
 Mendham All Saints, 
 
 Mendlefham St. Mary, 
 
 Metfield, 
 
 Metingham All Saints, — 
 
 Michael (St.) South Elmham, - 
 Mkkfteld St. Andrew, ■ 
 
 Middleton, — 
 
 Mikling, . 
 
 Mildenhall St. Mary, » 
 
 Monewden, . 
 
 Monks-Illeigh, 
 
 Monk-Soham, (See Soham-Monk) 
 
 Moulton, ^ 3| 
 
 Mutford St. Andrew, with Barnby, 
 
 Na&on St. Martin, — 
 
 Naughton, > 
 Needham, ~ 
 
 Newbourn Si. Mary, ■ 
 
 Nedging, — 
 
 Nettleftead St. Mary, 
 
 Newton St. Mary, - 
 
 Newton All Saints, • — - 
 
 Newmarket St. Mary, 
 
 Newmarket AH'Saints, Chapel 
 
 Nicholas, (S6.) Ipfwich, 
 
 Nicholas South-Elmham, 
 
 Northcove St. Botolph, »t 
 
 Northales St. Andrew, 
 
 Norton St. Andrew, — *H 
 
 Nowton, ■ » t 
 
 OakLey St. Nicholas, — 
 
 Occold St. Michael, 
 
 Ofrley St. Mary, 
 
 Offton St. Mary, 
 
 Onehoufe. St. John Baptift, 
 
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3 1 8 Valuation of the Parifies hi S uffolk. 
 
 Parijhes. 
 
 Orford, (Chapel to Sudbourn) 
 
 Oulton St. Michael, 
 
 Oufden. — 
 
 Pakefield All Saints, . U 
 
 Pakenham, 
 
 Palgrave St. Peter, > ■ ■ 
 Parham St. Mary, 
 Peafenhall, (confol. to Sibton) 
 Peter, Ipfwich, — — — 
 Peter, South Elmham, - 
 
 Pettaugh St. Catherine, 
 
 Pettiftree St. Peter and Paul, — 
 
 Playford St. Mary, 
 
 Polftead St. Mary, 
 
 Pollingford, — — 
 Preflon St. Mary, — A 
 
 Ramfholt AH Saints, 
 
 Rattlefden St Nicholas, 
 
 Raydon St. Marg. with Southwold, 
 Raydon St. Mary, 
 
 Redgrave St. Mary, with Botefdale, 
 
 Redifham St. Peter, . — 
 
 Redlingfield, — . 
 Rendham St Michael, . 
 Rendlefham St. Gregory, — — 
 Rickengale fuperior St. Mary, 
 Rickengale inferior St. Mary, 
 Ringsfield All Saints, ■ 
 
 Ringfliall, . 
 
 Rilby St. Giles, 
 
 Riftiangles St. Margaret's, ■ 
 Rougham St. Mary, « 
 Roydon, (Church down) 
 
 Rulhbrook, • 
 
 Ruftimere St. Andrew, • 
 
 Rufhmere St. Michael, — — 
 Rumburgh St. Michael, ■ 
 
 Sancroft St. George, ■ . 
 
 Sapefton St. Andrew, 
 
 Satterly St. Margaret, 
 
 Saxham, » 
 
 Saxham St. Nicholas, • 
 Saxmundham St. John Baptill, 
 
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Valuation of the Parifies in Suffolk. 319 
 
 Bmjb sf . 
 
 Saxftead All Saints, . — 
 
 Seamere All Saints, * 
 
 Shadingfield St. John Baptift, - 
 
 Shelland, ■ 
 
 Shelly All Saints, • 
 
 Shimplingthorn St. George, < 
 
 Shipmeadow St. Bartholomew, - 
 
 Shotley St. Mary, 
 
 Shottilham St. Margaret, 
 
 Sibton St. Peter, 
 Sizewell, 
 
 Snape St. John Baptift, 
 Soham-Monks St. Peter, 
 Soham-Earl St. Andrew, 
 Somermam St. Mary, - 
 Somerliton St. Mary, 
 
 with Heringfleet St. Margaret, 
 Somerton, ■ 
 
 Sotherton St. Andrew, 
 
 Southcove St. Laurence, « 
 
 South-Park, • ■ 
 
 Southwold, * ; • 1 
 
 Southolt, -'■ - 
 
 Sprekfall St. Peter, 
 
 Sproughton All Saints, ■ 
 
 Staningfield St. Nicholas, — 
 
 Stanftead St. James, ■— 
 
 Stanton All Saints, • 
 
 Stanton St. John, — - 
 
 Stansfield, ■ 
 
 Stephen (St.) Ipfwich, 
 
 Sternfield St. Mary Magdalen, ■ 
 
 Stoke by Clare, 
 
 Stoke-Afli All Saints, 
 
 Stoke-Nayland St. Mary, . 
 
 Stonham-Afpal St. Mary, — 
 
 Stonham-Earl St. Mary, 
 
 Stonham Little St. Mary, — — 
 
 Stoven St. Margaret, 
 
 Stradbrook All Saints, 
 Stradiihall St. Margaret, 
 
 Stratford St. Mary, 
 
 Stratford St. Andrew, — 
 Stow-Langtoft St. George, 
 Stow St. Peter, 
 Stow St. Mary 
 Sturfton, 
 
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320 Valuation of the Parifies in Suffolk. 
 
 Parijhes. 
 
 Stutton St. Peter, 
 
 Sudbourn All Saints with Orford, 
 Sudbury All Saints, — — 
 Sudbury St. Gregory with St. Peter 
 Sutton All Saints, ■ ■ 
 
 Sweffling Sc. Mary, . 
 
 Swilland St. Mary, 
 
 Syleham, - 
 
 Tannington St. Mary, 
 Tattinglton St. Mary, 
 Theberton St. Peter, 
 
 Thelnetham St. Nicholas, - 
 Thetford, ■ 
 Thorndon Al! Saints, 
 Thornham Great, — 
 Thornham Little, — 
 Thorp-Ixvvorth All Saints, 
 Thorp-Morieux, — 
 Thorp by Debenham, 
 Thorp in Blything, — 
 Thorington St. Peter, 
 
 Thrandifton, 
 
 Thurlefton St. Mary, 
 Thurlow Great, — 
 
 Thurlow Little, 
 
 Thwaite St. George, ■— 
 Thurfton St. Peter, — 
 Tinworth St. Andrew, 
 Toftock, 
 
 Trimley St. Martin, « 
 
 Trimley St. Mary, ■ 
 
 Trofton St. Mary, 
 
 Tuddenham St. Martin, — 
 Tuddenham St. Mary, 
 
 Tunftal St. Mich. w. Dunningworth, 
 
 Ubbefton St. Peter, 
 Ufford St. Mary, 
 Uggefhall St Man , 
 
 Walderfwick. 
 
 Waidingfield St. Laurence, 
 Waidingfield Little, — 
 Waldringfield All Saints, 
 
 Walfham le Willows, 
 
 Walpole St. Mary, — 
 
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Valuation of the Parijhes in Suffolk: 321 
 
 Pari/bejt. 
 
 Walton St. Mary, 
 Wangford St. Dennis, 
 Wangford St. Peter and' Paul, 
 Wantefden St. John Baptift 
 Wafhbrook St. Mary 
 Watfield, — 
 Wattisfield St. Margaret, — 
 Wattifham, — — 
 
 Welnetham, ■ ■ 
 
 Welnetham St. Mary Magdalen 
 Wenham St. John, 
 Wenham Little, ■ — 
 Wenhallon St. Peter, 
 Wefthall St. Andrew, 
 WefthorD St. Margaret, 
 Weftley St. Thomas Becket, 
 Wellieton St. Peter, 
 Weiterfield St. Mary Magdalen 
 
 Weiton-Market St. Mary, 
 
 Weiton-Coney St. Peter, 
 Wefton in Wangford, 
 Weflow, - 
 Weftwood-Lodge, « — 
 Wetherden, 
 
 Wetheringfett All Sts. w. Brockford 
 Wetherfdale St. Mary Magdalen, — 
 Wethersfield St. Mary, 
 Weybread St. Mary, 
 
 Wh'epftead, 
 
 WherlteadSt Mary, 
 Whitton St. Botolph, 
 Whixoe, 
 
 Wickham-Market All Saints, 
 Wickham-Skeith St. Andrew, 
 Wickham-Brook All Saints, 
 Wilby St. Mary, . ■ 
 
 Willingham All Saints, 
 Willingham St. Mary and St. Peter 
 Williftiam St. Mary, — — 
 Wingfield St. Andrew, 
 Winllon St. Andrew, 
 
 Wiflet St. Andrew, 
 
 Wiflington St. Mary, — 
 Witnefnam St. Mary, 
 
 Wiverftone, 
 
 Woodbridge St. Mary, — 
 Woolpit St. Mary, >— — 
 
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322 Valuation of the Parifkes in Suffolk, 
 
 Parijhes, 
 
 Woolverfton St. Mary, — . 
 
 Wordwell, 
 
 Worlingham All Saints, — 
 
 Worlington, - 
 
 Worlingworth St. Mary, with 
 Southolt St. Margaret, — r*. 
 
 Wortham Eftgate St. Mary, 
 
 Wortham Everard, — — — . 
 Wratting Great, — — 
 Wratting Little, 
 
 Wrentham St. Nicholas, — — 
 
 Yaxley St. Mary, — _ 
 Yoxford St. Peter, — . 
 
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 ',4 Lift of the Patrons 0/ the federal Parijhes in 
 Suffolk, with a Reference to the Page where 
 they are to be jound. 
 
 Pari/bes. 
 
 A&on All Saints, — - — 
 Akenham St. Mary, — 
 Aldborough St. Peter and Paul, 
 
 Alderton St. Bartholomew, — 
 
 Aldham, — — 
 
 Aldringham St. Andrew, *— 
 
 All Saints, South Elmham, — 
 
 Alpheton, — - . — — 
 
 ^mpton St. Peter, — - — 
 
 Arwerton St. Andrew, — — 
 
 Aihbocking All Saints, — — 
 
 Afhby, — ' ' — — 
 Am, bv Campfey, St. Jn. Bapt. 
 
 Afhfield All Saints, — — 
 Alhfjeld in Blackbourn, 
 
 AfpaJ, ^ — — 
 
 Affington St. Edmund, — — 
 .Athelington St. Peter, — 
 
 Bacton, — — 
 
 Baddingham, — — 
 
 Badley St. Mary, — — 
 
 Badwell Aft* St. Mary, — — 
 
 Patrons* 
 
 Mr. Jennens, ~ 
 Mr. Drury, — 
 E. of Strafford, — 
 Bifliop of Norwich, &c. 
 Sir Jofhua Vanneck, — 
 Mr. Hervey's Heirs, — 
 Mr. Adair, — — 
 Mr. Martin, — 
 Mr. Caithrop, — 
 Sir P. Parker's Heirs, — 
 The Crown, — — - 
 
 Mrs. Braham, — — 
 Mr. Bridges, — 
 
 Mr. Chevalier, — — 
 Mr. Gurdon, — — 
 The Crown, ■ 
 
 Mr. Barker, — 
 Mr. Syer, — 
 Mr. Crowley's Heirs, — 
 Mr. Clough, — — 
 
 Bailham 
 
Patrons of the Parijhes, &c. 323 
 
 Parifhes. 
 Bailham St. Peter, — 
 Bardwell, — * 
 Bar ham St. Maiy, — 
 Barking St. Mary, — 
 Barnardiiton All Saints, 
 
 Barn by, 
 
 Barnham St. Gregory, — 
 Barnham St. Martin, — 
 Barningham St. Andrew, 
 Barrow, ■ 
 Barfham Holy Trinity, — 
 
 Barton Great, 
 
 Barton Little, » 
 
 Battisford St. Mary, — 
 Bawdfey St. Mary, 
 
 dealings Great, St. Mary, 
 
 Bealings Little, All Saints, — 
 Bcccles St. Michael, — — 
 
 Beddingiield St. Mary, 
 
 Bedfield St. Nicholas, — 
 
 Beighton, ■ — 
 
 Belltead Little, St. Mary, 
 
 Belton, All Saints, 
 
 Benacre St. Michael, 
 
 Benhall St. Mary, . — 
 
 Bentley St. Mary, — 
 
 Bildefton, 
 
 Bing, 
 
 Blakenham Great, St. Mary, — 
 Blakenham Little, St. Mary,— 
 
 Blaxhall St. Peter, 
 
 Blundelton St. Mary, 
 
 Blyb-orough Holy Trinity, — — 
 
 Blyford Ail Saints, ■ — 
 
 Boulge St. Michael, 
 
 Botefdale, « — - 
 
 Boxford St. Mary, — — 
 Boxted, (confol. with Harteft) 
 
 Boyton St. Andrew, — 
 
 Bradfield St. George, - 
 
 Bradfield St. Clare, . 
 
 Bradfield-Combuft, 
 
 Bradley Great, » ■ 
 
 Bradley Little, — ' 
 
 Bradwell St. Nicholas, 
 
 Braiefworth, ■ ■ — 
 
 Bramfield St. Andrew, » ~ 
 
 Braraford St. Mary, 
 
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 R. 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 R, 
 R. 
 R. 
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 R. 
 V. 
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 R. 
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 Patrons* 
 Mr. Adlon, 
 
 St. John's Coll. Oxford, 
 Mr Bacon* 
 
 Mr. Crowley's Heirs, — 
 Mr. Unvvin, — — 
 
 Duke of Grafton,- 
 Mr. Evans, 
 
 St. John's Col. Camb. 
 
 Mr. Miffenden, 
 
 Sir Wm. Bunbury, — 
 
 The Crown, ■ 
 
 Mr. Watfon, • 
 
 The Crown, ■ 
 Mr. Bridges, » 
 Mr*. Atkinfon, 
 
 Mr. Bence's Heirs, — 
 Mr. Bedingfield,- — — 
 
 Sir John Rous, 
 
 The Crown, — — 
 
 Captain Harland, 
 
 Bilhop of Norwich, — 
 Sir Thomas Gooch, 
 
 Mr. Rufh, — 
 
 Mr. Dean, 
 
 Mr. Beale's Heirs, — 
 
 Eaton College, — - — 
 
 Lord Orwell, 
 
 Mr. Jackfon, 
 
 Sir Thomas Allen,— 
 
 Sir John Blois, 
 
 Mr. Chapman, 
 
 Sir Wm. Bunbury,— 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 Mrs. Warner's Truftees, 
 Sir C. Davers, . — 
 
 ^ Mr. Young, 
 
 Mr. Brand, 
 
 Mr. Dickens, — 
 Sir Thomas Allen,- 
 Earl Cornwallis, 
 The Crown, — • 
 Chapter of Canterbury, 
 
 A a 2 Brain p- 
 
 201 
 230 
 200 
 200 
 246 
 49 
 251 
 
 216 
 l S9 
 
 Z2% 
 238 
 20O 
 IO9 
 72 
 
 73 
 
 "59 
 164. 
 
 -165 
 
 223 
 
 6i 
 
 •Si 
 
 128 
 119 
 61 
 
 269 
 1 10 
 201 
 
 201 
 U9 
 
 'S 1 
 128 
 
 130 
 
 1 10 
 
 ! 73 
 
 256 
 1 10 
 
 223 
 223 
 223 
 246 
 z<|6 
 
 '$« 
 
 173 
 130 
 201 
 
324 Patrons j/ 
 
 Parijhes, 
 
 Brampton St. Peter, 
 
 Brandilton All Saints, 
 
 Brandon St. Peter and Paul, — 
 
 Brantham St. Michael, 
 
 Bredfield St. Andrew, . 
 
 Brent-Illeigh St. Mary, 
 
 Bretenham St. Mary, 
 
 Bricet St. Mary, . ■ ■ - 
 
 Bricet St. Laurence, 
 
 Brightwell St. John Baptift, — 
 
 Brockford, 
 
 Brockley St. Andrew, ■ 
 
 Bromfwell St. Edmund, 
 
 Broom St. Mary, 
 
 Brundifh, ' ■ — 
 
 Brufyard St. Peter, . 
 Bulchamp, — — — 
 
 Bucklefham St. Mary, 
 
 Bungay Holy Trinity, — 
 
 Bungay St. Mary, — 
 
 Bures St. Mary, — — 
 Burgate St. Mary, ■ 
 
 Burgh St. Botolph, 
 
 Burgh-Caftle St. Peter, • 
 
 Burftal, 
 
 Butley St. John Baptift, . 
 Buxhall St. Mary, — — 
 Buxlovv, — 
 
 Campfey-Afh, — —- 
 Capel St. Mary, — — 
 Capel St. Andrew, ■ ■ ■ — 
 Carlton-Colvile St. Peter, — 
 Carlton in Hoxne, — — - 
 
 Cavendifh St. Mary, 
 
 Cavenham St. Andrew, ■ ■ < 
 Charsfield St. Peter, — — 
 Cbattifham St. Mary, — 
 Chedburgh, — — 
 
 Cheddifton St. Mary, 
 
 Chelfworth All Saints, — 
 Chelmondiiton St. Andrew, — 
 
 Chevington, — — — 
 
 ChUesford St. Michael, — — 
 Chilton, — — — 
 
 Chilton by Stow, - — > 
 
 Clare St. Peter and Paul, 
 
 C!aydon St. Peter, — — — - — 
 
 the Parijhes y &c. 
 
 
 Patrons. 
 
 
 R. 
 
 Mr. Leman, 
 
 130 
 
 V. 
 
 Truftees for a Charity, 
 
 95 
 
 R. 
 
 Mr. Holt, — — 
 
 238 
 
 R. 
 
 Sir Jof. Hankey, 
 
 62 
 
 V. 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 1 1 1 
 
 V. 
 
 Mr. Goat, 
 
 257 
 
 R. 
 
 The Crown, ■■ 
 
 270 
 
 C. 
 
 King's College, Camb. 
 
 202 
 
 
 (See Offton) 
 
 202 
 
 C. 
 
 Mr.Barnardifton's Heirs 
 
 73 
 
 
 
 »74 
 
 R. 
 
 Mr. Grigby, — 
 
 217 
 
 R. 
 
 
 l 73 
 
 R. 
 
 Earl Cornwallis, . 
 
 1 12 
 
 
 Mr. Major, 
 
 165 
 
 C. 
 
 Sir John Rous, - . ■« 
 
 I 20 
 
 
 
 131 
 
 R. 
 
 Mr. Broke, 
 
 73 
 
 V. 
 
 BifhopofEIy, . 
 
 157 
 
 c. 
 
 Duke of Norfolk, 
 
 '57 
 
 V. 
 
 Mr. Benyon, 
 
 256 
 
 T) 
 
 K. 
 
 Mr. tlOJt, ■ 
 
 1 75 
 
 R. 
 
 Mr. Barnes, 
 
 73 
 
 R. 
 
 The Crown, ■ • 
 
 151 
 
 C. 
 
 (See Bramford) 
 
 62 
 
 C. 
 
 Mr. Howard, [95 & 
 
 1 20 
 
 R. 
 
 Dr Hill, — 
 
 186 
 
 
 Confol. withKnodilhall, 
 
 ■3 l 
 
 
 
 95 
 
 R. 
 
 Mr. Hingeflon, 
 
 62 
 
 C. 
 
 (See Butley) 
 
 1 1 2 
 
 R. 
 
 & V.] SirTho. Allen, 
 
 149 
 
 
 165 
 
 R. 
 
 Jefus College, Camb. 
 
 258 
 
 V. 
 
 The Crown, ■ 
 
 2 39 
 
 C. 
 
 Mr. Leman, • 
 
 97 
 
 V. 
 
 Eaton College, 
 
 63 
 
 R. 
 
 liarl or Isnitol, . 
 
 248 
 
 V. 
 
 Mr. Plummer, • 
 
 131 
 
 R. 
 
 The Crown, - — 
 
 270 
 
 R. 
 
 The Crown, — 
 
 63 
 
 R. 
 
 Mr. Turner, 
 
 2J 7 
 
 R. 
 
 Mr. North, — 
 
 I 20 
 
 R. 
 
 Sir Armine Woodhoufe, 
 
 248 
 
 V. 
 
 The Crown, — - — 
 
 246 
 
 R. 
 
 Mr. Drury, 
 
 2C2 
 
 
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 m-:nt 
 
Patrons of the Parijhes, &c. 
 
 Pari/hes. 
 Clement, (St.) Ipfv/ich, — 
 Cloptori St. Mary, • 
 
 Copdock St. Peter, _ 
 
 Cockfield, • ■ 
 
 Coddenham St. Mary, 
 
 Combs, ■ 
 
 Cony-Wefton, — — — — — 
 
 Cookley St. Michael, ■ 
 
 Cooling, or Coolige, < 
 
 Cornard St. Andrew, 
 
 Cornard All Saints, 
 
 Corton St. Bartholomew, 
 
 Cotton St. Andrew, 
 
 Covehithe, ■ • 
 
 Cransford St Peter, *- 
 
 Cratfield St. Mary, 
 
 Creeting St. Mary, 
 
 Creeting St. Peter, 
 
 Creeting All Saints, < 
 
 Creeting St. Olave, < 
 
 Cretingham St. Andrew, 
 
 Crowfield, - 
 
 Culford, 
 
 Culpho St. Botolph, 
 
 Dagwortli, — — 
 
 Dalham St. Mary, 
 
 Dalinghoe St. Mary, 
 
 Darmfden, ■ 
 
 Darlham All Saints, 
 
 Debach All Saints, 
 
 Debenham St. Mary, 
 
 Denham, — • — 
 Denham St. John the Baptift, 
 
 Dennington St. Mary, 
 
 Denilon, — 
 
 Depden St. Mary, 
 
 Downham St. Mary, — 
 Drinkefton, ■ 
 Dunwich All Saints, • — 
 Dunningworth, -— — 
 
 Earl-Soham, 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 R. 
 R. 
 V. 
 R. 
 R. 
 R. 
 C. 
 R. 
 R. 
 V. 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 
 R. 
 
 C. 
 
 Patrons. 
 
 Mr. Adkin, 
 
 Mr. Couperthwaite, — 
 
 Mr. De Grey, • 
 
 St. John's Coll. Camb. 
 
 Mr. Bacon, 
 
 Mr. Crowley's Heirs, 
 Mr. Lewis, 
 
 Sir Jof. Vanneck, 
 
 Trinity Hall, Cambr. 
 
 £ Mr. Eldred, { 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 Mr. Pretyman, — 
 
 3 2 5 
 
 Page. 
 3 Z 
 74 
 63 
 58 
 
 203 
 86 
 
 231 
 
 3 2 
 
 2 4 & 
 
 Mr. Syer, 
 
 Earl of Leicefler, 
 Eaton College, - 
 Mr. W. Bacon, - 
 
 Mr. Crefpigny, 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 Confol. to Coddenham, 
 
 Earl Cornwallis, 
 
 Sir John Blois, 
 
 R. Mr. Affleck, — 
 R. I Earl of Rochford, 
 
 Eaft-Bergholt Chapel, 
 
 Earlon-Bavent St. Nicholas, 
 Eafton All Saints, 
 
 St. Edmondfbury St. Mary, 
 St. Edmondfbury St. James, 
 
 Sir John Rous, ■ 
 
 Sir William Bunbury, 
 
 Mr. Bridges, . ■ 
 
 Lord Townfhend, 
 
 Lord Maynard, — ~ 
 
 Sir John Rous, ■ 
 
 Mr. Robinfon, -■ 
 
 Mr. Mure, . 
 
 Mrs. Wright, j 
 
 Mr..Mofeley, 
 
 Sir Jacob Downing, 
 
 (See Soham-Earl) 
 (See Brantham) 
 Sir Thomas Gooch, 
 Mr. NalTau, 
 
 | The Corporation, ^ 
 
 Edward- 
 
26 Patrons of the Pariflxs, &c. 
 
 Patrons. 
 
 V. Mr. Sheldon, 
 
 R. Mr. Howard, 
 
 Tartjhi's'. 
 Edwardflon St. Mary, — 
 Eike All Saints, - — 
 Ellough, _ 
 Elmfet St. Peter, — % 
 
 Eimfwell, . 
 
 Elvedon St. Andrew, 
 Endgate St. Mary, — 
 Erifwell St. Lawrence, — 
 Ervvarton'(See Arwarton) 
 Eufton, — r— 
 Exning, » 
 Eye St. Peter and Paul, 
 Eyke, (See Eike) 
 
 Fakenham" St. Peter, — 
 Fakenham St. Andrew, - — 
 Falkenham St. Ethelbert, — 
 Farnham St. Mary, — 
 Felixtow St. Peter and Paul, 
 Felfham St. Peter, ■ 
 Finborough Magna, ■ 
 
 Finborough Parva, 
 
 Finningham, . _ 
 
 Flemton St. Cath. with 
 
 Hengrave R. annexed, — 
 
 Flixton St. Mary, 
 
 Flixton St. Andrew, 
 Flowton St. Mary, 
 
 Fordley with Middleton, H.Tr. 
 
 Fornham All Saints, . 
 
 Fornham St. Genoveve, 
 
 Fornham St. Martin, . 
 
 Foxhall, - - ■ — — 
 
 Framlingham St. Michael, 
 
 Framfden St. Mary, 
 
 Freckingham St. Andrew, [R.& 
 
 Freffingfield St. Peter, . 
 
 Frifton St. Mary, 
 
 Frellon St. Peter, 
 
 Fritton St. Edmund, — . 
 
 Froilenden All Saints, 
 
 Gazely All Saints, with- 
 Kenford Chapel, — — - 
 Gedding, 
 
 Gedgrave, — — 
 Gifleham Holy Trinity,- 
 Giflingham St. Mary, . 
 
 Sir John Playters, 
 
 Clare Hall, Cambridge, 
 
 Mr. Chapman, 
 
 Sir John Tyrrell, 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 Mr. Evans, ; 
 
 Duke of Grafton, 
 Earl Cornwallis,— 
 
 D uke of Grafton, 
 Duke of Grafton, 
 The Crown, . 
 Mr. North, 
 
 Mr. Atkinfon, 
 
 Dr. Scot, . , 
 
 Bifhop of Ely, 
 
 King's Coll. Cambridge, 
 Mr. Frere, 
 
 j- Sir Wm. Gage, ^ 
 
 Mr. Adair, 
 
 Sir Tho. Allen, 
 
 Mr. Sherwood, 
 
 Mrs. Freake, — 
 
 Clare Hall, Cambridge, 
 
 Mr. Hill, 
 
 Mr. Kent, 
 
 Pembroke Hall, Camb. 
 
 Earl of Dyfert, 
 
 St. Peter's Coll. Camb. 
 Emanuel Coll. Camb. 
 
 Earl of Strafford, 
 
 Mr. Staunton, 
 
 Earl of Strafford, 
 
 Mr. Glover's Heirs, — 
 
 Trinity Hall, Camb. 
 Corporation of Ipfwich, 
 
 The Crown, ■ 
 
 Mrs. Bedingfield, 
 
 Glem- 
 
Patrons 
 
 Parijhes. 
 Glemham All Saints, — 
 Glemham St. Andrew, — 
 Glemsford St. Mary, 
 Gorlefton St. Andrew, 
 Gofbeck St. Mary, — 
 Groton St. Bartholomew, 1 
 Grundifhurgh St. Mary, 
 Gunton St. Peter, — — 
 
 of the Parijhes j &c. 
 
 Patrons. 
 Mr. North, — I 
 Bilhop of Ely,- 
 
 Hachefton All Saints, 
 Hadleigh St. Mary, 
 Halefworth St. Mary, 
 Hardwick-Houfe, 
 
 Hargrave, • 
 
 Harkltead St. Mary, - 
 Harlefton, 
 
 Harteft All Sts. w. Boxfted ann 
 
 Hafketon St. Andrew, 
 
 Haflewood, ■ 
 
 Haverhill St. Mary, . 
 
 Hawkedon, — • 
 
 Haughley St. Mary, 
 
 Hawlled All Saints, ; 
 
 Hedgfett, 
 
 Helmingham St. Mary, 
 Helens ( St. ) Ipfwich, 
 Hemingfton St. Gregory, ■ — 
 
 Helmly All Saints, 
 
 Hengrave, (See Flempton) 
 
 Henham, . — 
 
 lien ley St. Peter, 
 
 Henftead St. Mary, — 
 
 Hepworth St. Peter, 
 
 Heringfleet, 
 
 Heringlwell St. Ethelbert, 
 
 Heveningham St. Margaret, — 
 
 Higham St. Mary, 
 
 Higham Green, 
 Hinderclay St. Mary, 
 Hintlefham St. Nicholas, 
 Hinton, ■' ! ■ 
 
 Hitcham, — - 
 Hollefley Ail Saints, - 
 Holton St. Peter, — — 
 
 Holton St. Mary, 
 
 Holbrook All Saints, 
 Komersfield St. Mary, — 
 Honington All Saints, 
 Hoa St. Andrevv, —~ 
 
 Sir John Kemp, 
 Lord Orwell, • — 
 Mr. 
 
 Waring, 
 
 Trinity Coll. Camb. — 
 Sir Cha. Saunders,-: 
 
 Mr. Corance's Heirs, — - 
 Archbp. of Cantei bLiry, 
 Mr. Plummer, 
 
 Mr. Canning,— 
 Sir Wm. Gage, 
 The Crown, — 
 Mr. Stebbing, 
 
 Mr. Coldham, 
 Mr. Gilly, - 
 Mr. Turner, 
 
 Sir John Cullum, 
 Mr. Le Heup, 
 The Crown, 
 
 Confol. to St. Clement, 
 
 Mr. Nunn, 
 
 The Crown, ■ 
 
 D. and Ch. of Norwich, 
 Mr. Holowday's Heirs, 
 Meffrs. Rye and Nunn, 
 
 Mr. Holden, 
 The Crown, 
 In Truilees, 
 
 3 2 7 
 
 Page. 
 
 I 22 
 
 122 
 
 260 
 
 152 
 
 205 
 
 Mr. Holt, 
 Mr. Adkin, 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 Mr. Chapman, — 
 The Crown, — 
 Sir Wm. Mannock, 
 
 Mr. Nunn, 
 
 Mr. Adair, : — 
 
 The Crown, ■ 
 
 Mr. Leman, <.m ■ - 
 
Patrons 
 
 Varijhes. 
 
 328 
 
 Hop ton, 
 Hopton St. Margaret, 
 Horham St. Mary, 
 
 Horningmerth, 
 
 Horningmerth, — 
 Horfecroft, 
 
 of the PartJheSy &c» 
 
 Patrons. 
 The Crown, 
 
 Hoxne St. Peter and Paul, 
 
 Hulverftre'et, — 
 
 Hundon All Saints, 
 Hunfton, 
 
 Huntingfield St. Mary* 
 
 James (St.) South Elmham, 
 Icklingham All Saints, — 
 
 Icklingham St. James, 
 
 Ickworth, 
 
 Iken St Botolph, 
 
 Ilketmall St. Andrew, ■ 
 
 Ilketmall St. John, 
 
 Ilketmall St. Lawrence, 
 
 Ilketmall St. Margaret, 
 
 Ingham St.' Bartholomew, 
 
 Ixning, or Exning, «-> — 
 Ixworth St. Mary, -■ 
 Ixworth, Thorp, 
 
 Kedington St. Peter and Paul, 
 Kelfale, with Carlton St. Peter 
 
 Kentford, 
 
 Kennet St. Nicholas, 
 
 Kenton All Saints, ■ 
 
 Kerfey St. Mary, 
 
 Kefgrave, ■■■ ■ 
 
 Kettlebafton, 
 
 Kettleborough St. Andrew, -~ 
 Keffingland St. Edmund, — — 
 Kirkley All Saints, — ; — 
 Kirkton St. Martin, ■ - 
 
 Knattimall All Saints, 
 
 Knodifhall St.Lawr. w. Buxlow, 
 
 jL-ackford St. Lawrence, 
 Lakenheath St. Mary, 
 Langham St. Mary 
 
 Lavenham St. Peter and Paul, 
 
 Lawrence (St.) Ipfwich, 
 
 Lawmall All Saints, — 
 
 Leyham, 
 
 Leifton St. Margaret, 
 
 R 
 R 
 
 R 
 V 
 
 c 
 c. 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 R 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 V. 
 R. 
 R. 
 C. 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Ic. 
 
 D. and Ch. of Norwich, 
 Earl of Leicelter, 
 
 I Sir Rob. D avers, £ 
 
 Lord MaynarcL 
 
 Jefus Coll. Cambridge, 
 
 Mr. Symonds, 
 
 Sir Jof. Vanneck, 
 
 Mr. Adair, - 
 Earl of E#ex, . 
 Mr. Gwilt, - 
 Earl of Briftol, 
 Mr. Jeffrefon,- 
 Mr. Adair, - 
 The Crown, - 
 Mr. Strange, 
 
 Eman. Coll. Cambridge, 
 Earl Cornwallis, 
 
 Chapter of Canterbury, 
 Mr. Norton, 
 
 Mr: Chevalier, 
 Mrs. Bence, 
 
 Confol. with Gazely, — 
 Mr.Barnardifton's Heirs, 
 Mr. Bridges, 
 
 King's Coll. Camb. 
 Mr Barnardifton's Heirs, 
 Mr. Leman, • 
 Mr. Sparrow, 
 
 Bifhop of Norwich, 
 
 Mr. Willfon, 
 
 The Crown, ■ 
 
 Mr.Crofts Read, — 
 Lord Orwell, — 
 
 Mr. Kent, 
 
 Dean andCh. of Ely,- 
 The Crown, 
 
 Caius Coll. Cambridge, 
 The Parifhioners, 
 Mr. Lee, 
 
 St. John's Coll. Camb. 
 Haberdalhers Co. &c. 
 
 L-axfield 
 
Patrons 
 
 Parijbes. 
 L?xfie!d All Saint;, 
 Letheriugham St. Mary, 
 Levington St. Petei:, 
 
 Lidgate, • i 
 
 Liridfey, 
 
 of 
 
 Linfleau St. Peter, 
 
 Linftead St. Margaret, 
 
 Livermore St. Peter, 
 Livermore St. Peter and Paul, 
 Lound St. John Baptift, — — 
 Loweftoft St. Margaret, •— 
 Loudham, • 
 
 Margaret (St.) Ipfvvich, 
 Margaret (St.) South Elmham, 
 
 Marlsford, 
 
 Martlefham St. Mary, 
 
 Mary (St.) at Elms, Ipfwich, — 
 Mary (St.) at Key, Ipfvvich, — 
 Mary (St.) at Stoke, Ipfwich, 
 Mary (St.) at Tower, Ipfwich, 
 
 Matthew (St.) Ipfwich, 
 
 Melford Holy Trinity, 
 
 Mel lis St. Mary, 
 
 Mells, 
 
 Melton St. Andrew, — 
 
 Mendham All Saints, — -— ■- 
 
 Mendlefham St. Mary, 
 
 Metfield, 
 
 the 
 
 Patrons. 
 Sir Jof. Vanneck, — 
 
 Mr. Naanton, 
 
 Confol. toNadton,- 
 Lo;d Gran by, - 
 
 King's Coll. Camb. — 
 
 Sir Jof. Vanneck, 
 
 Sir Jof. Vanneck, 
 
 Mr. Lee, 
 
 Mr. Lee, 
 
 Sir Thomas Alien, 
 
 Bifhop of Norwich, — 
 
 Metingham All Saints, 
 
 Michael ( St. ) South Elmham, 
 
 Mickfield St. Andrew, 
 
 Middleton, . — 
 
 Milding, ■ . — 
 
 Mildenhall St. Mary,— ^ 
 
 Monewden, . - ■ - ■■ 
 
 Monks-Illeigh, ■ . 
 
 Monk-Soham, 
 
 Moulton, < "* 
 
 Mr. Fonnereau, ■ 
 
 Mr. Adair, 
 
 Mr. Williams, 
 
 Mr. Gooding,' 
 
 The Parilhicners, 
 
 The Parifhioners, > 
 
 Dean and Ch. of Ely, — 
 The Parifhioners, — 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 Lady Firebrace* 
 
 The Crown, — 
 
 TR.& V 
 
 Mutford St. Andrew, w.Barnby, V 
 
 Na&on St. Martin, 
 
 Naughton, — 
 
 Needham, 
 
 Dean & Ch. of Ely, 
 
 Mr. Whitaker, 
 
 Mr. Chilton, 
 
 The Parifhioners, — 
 
 Mr. Hunt, 
 
 Mr. Adair, . 
 
 Mr. W. Ray, 
 
 Mr. Gurdon, 
 
 Sir Wm. Banbury, 
 Mr. Lumpkin, 
 
 Newbourn St. Ma 
 
 mary, 
 
 Nedging, — 
 Nettleftead St. Mary, 
 Newton St. Mary, 
 
 — R. 
 
 — R. 
 
 >• 
 B a 
 
 Archbp. of Canterbury, 
 ('.ee Soham-Mcnk) 
 
 Chrift'sCoil. Camb* 
 
 Cams Coll. Cambridge, 
 
 Lord Orwell, — — — 
 Mr. Stubbing, ■ 
 
 I Mr. Weftcrn, 
 
 j Mr. Colman, 
 
 329 
 
 Pfge. 
 
 168 
 
 104 
 
 77 
 z S i 
 
 2 74 
 «4 L .' 
 
 I4t 
 
 225 
 234. 
 
 j 3 
 *53 
 » 1 2 
 
 3*' 
 
 156 
 
 lc > 
 
 78 
 
 39- 
 40 
 
 4* 
 42 
 
 43 
 262 
 
 177 
 141 
 
 • '3 
 
 1 68 
 
 177 
 1 09 
 158 
 156 
 207- 
 
 »4« 
 
 264 
 
 244 
 105 
 264 
 
 251 
 150 
 
 7S 
 27-4 
 206 
 81 
 
 — 206 
 '191 
 
 Newto 
 
Patrons of the Parijhes, &c» 
 
 Patrons. 
 
 31° 
 
 Parijhes. 
 
 Newton All Saints, 
 
 Newmarket Si. Mary, — 
 
 Newmarket All Saints, 
 
 Nicholas, (St.) Ipfwich, — 
 Nicholas S uth-Elmham, — 
 Northcove St. Botolph, ■ — 1 — 
 
 Northales St. Andrew, ■ 
 
 Norton St. Andrew, 
 
 Nowton, — 
 
 Oakley St. Nicholas, 
 Occoid St. Michael, 
 Offley St. Mary, 
 Offwn St. Mary, 
 
 Onehoufe St John Baptift, — 
 Orford, (Chapel to .Sudbourn) 
 
 Oulton St. Michael, 
 
 Oufden. ■ — 
 
 Wakefield All Saints, 
 
 Pakenham, — — 
 
 Palgrave St. Peter, — 
 
 Parham St. Mary, ■ 
 Peafenhall, (confol. to Sibton) 
 Peter, (St.) Ipfwich, 
 
 Peter, South Elmham, 
 
 Pettaugh St. Catherine, 
 
 Pettiftree St. Peter and Paul, — 
 
 Plavford St. Mary, — 
 
 Pol'ftead St. Mary, — 
 
 Poilingford, — 
 
 Preflon St. Mary, . • 
 
 Ramfholt All Saints, • — 
 
 Rattlefden St. Nicholas, 
 
 Raydon St Marg. w. Southwold, 
 
 Raydon St. Mary, — «— 
 
 Reed, 
 
 Redgrave St.Mary, w.Botefdale, 
 
 Redimam St. Peter, ^ — 
 
 Redlingfield, — 
 
 Rendham St Michael, — 
 Rendlefham St. Gregory, — 
 Rickengale fuperior, St. Mary, 
 Rickengale inferior, St. Mary, 
 
 Ringsrield All Saints, 
 
 Ringfhall, — 
 
 Rifby St, Giles-, 
 
 RilhJmgTes St. Margaret's,— 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 C, 
 R. 
 R. 
 V, 
 R 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 R 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 R. 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 
 R. 
 
 R . 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 R. 
 R. 
 R. 
 C. 
 
 c. 
 
 R 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 St.Pet^r's Coll.Camb.— 
 Marquis of Gran by, f 
 Chapel to Newmarket 1 
 
 The ParilluoneiS; 
 
 Mr. Adair, 
 
 The Crown 
 
 Sir Thomas Gooch, — 
 St. Peter's Coil. Camb. 
 Sir Charles Davers,- — 
 
 Earl Cornwallis, 
 
 Mr. Malyn, 
 
 Lord Abergavenny, 
 
 Mr. Leake, 
 
 Dr. Petty ward, 
 
 Mr. Vanhuythufen, 
 Mr. Mofeley, 
 
 Mr. North, 
 
 Mifs Di'fcipline, 
 
 Earl Cornwallis, 
 
 Heirs of Mr. Corrance, 
 
 Mr. Fonnereau, 
 
 Mr. Adair, 
 
 Earl of Dyfart, < — 
 
 The Crown, • 
 
 Earl of Briftol, 
 
 Mr. Alfton, ■ 
 
 Mr. Golding, 
 
 Eman. Col. Camb. — 
 
 Mr. Pvfartin, ' 
 
 Mr. Mofeley, 
 
 Sir John Rous, . 
 
 Mr. Lord, 
 
 The Crown, ■ 
 
 Mr. Holt, — 
 
 Confol. to Ringsfield, — 
 
 Mr. Willis, — 
 
 Mr. Povvel, 
 
 The Crown, — 
 
 Mr. Holt, 
 
 Mr. Holt, — — 
 
 Mr. Dawfon, 
 
 Mr. Peppen, 
 
 Mr. Hill, ~ 
 
 Lord Orwell, ■■■ 1 
 
 Ro 
 
Patrons of the Parijhes, &c. 
 
 Patrons. 
 R. Sir Charles Davcrs, 
 C. (Church down.) 
 R Sir Charles Davers, 
 V 
 R 
 
 Parifies. 
 jRougham St. Mary, 
 
 Roydon, 
 
 Rufhbrook, — - 
 Rufhmere St. Andrew, 
 Rufhmere St. Michael, 
 JUmbureh St. Michael, 
 
 Sancroft St. George., > 
 Sapefton St. Andrew, 
 .Satterly St. Margaret, 
 
 Saxham, 
 
 Saxham St. Nicholas, 
 Suxmundhan* St. John Baptift, • 
 
 Saxftead All Sa'nls, 
 
 Seamere All $ -lints, , ■ .. 
 
 Shadingfieid St. John Baptift, — 
 
 Shelland, — r — 
 
 Shelly All Saints, 
 
 Siiimplingthorn St. George, — 
 Siiipmea.iow St. Bartholomew, 
 
 Shotley St. Mary, 
 
 Shottiiham St. Margaret, 
 
 Sibton St. Peter, : — r- 
 
 Sir.ewell, ' 
 
 Snape St. John Baptift, ■ 
 
 Soham-Monks St Peter, 
 
 Soham-Earl St. Andrew, 
 
 Somerfham St. Mary, 
 
 Somerliton St. Mary, with <> 
 Heringfleet St. Margaret, S 
 
 Somerton, : . — 
 
 Sotherton St. Andrew, ■ 
 
 Southcove St. Laurence, 
 
 South-Park, — 
 
 Southwold, — 
 
 Southolt, r 
 
 Spekfall St. Peter, 
 
 Sproughton Ail Saints, 
 
 Staningfield St. Nicholas, 
 
 Stanftead St. James, 
 
 Stanton All Saints, / 
 
 Stanton St. John, \ 
 
 •Stansfield, 
 
 Mr . B arnard ilton 'sHei'rs . 
 
 Mr. Garneys, 
 
 Mr. Eimv, 
 
 Mr. Adair, 
 
 Duke of Grafton, — 
 
 Mr. Barnes, 
 
 Mr Mure, — , 
 
 Mr. Crofts, 
 
 Mr. Long, 
 
 Conf. to Framlingha: 
 Mr. Cook, ■ 
 
 Earl of Briftol, &c- 
 
 | Mr. Ray, 
 
 Mr. Samuel Rum, - 
 
 ' Mr. Fifke, 
 
 Mr. Suckling, 
 
 Earl of Briftol, — 
 Heirs of Mr. Kell, ■ 
 Mr. Edgar, 
 
 Stephen (St.) Ipfwich, 
 
 Sternfield St. Mary Magdalen, 
 
 Stake by Clare, — 
 
 Iftoke-Alh All Saints, 
 
 Scoke-Nayiand St. Mary, 
 
 R. 
 
 Earl of Strafford, 
 
 Mr. Capper, 
 
 Mr Capper, 
 
 Mr. Heckford, — 
 
 Sir Thomas Allen, 
 
 Lord Blundel, : 
 
 Sir John Rous, — 
 The Crown, 
 
 The Crown, — . ■ 
 
 Earl or Briiio", — i 
 
 Sir Charles Davers, 
 Mr. Lloyd, ; 
 
 Mr. Capel, - — 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 Mr. Fonntreau, 
 
 Mr. North, — 
 
 Sir Harvey Eiwcs, 
 
 Mr.Tyrrd, — — 
 
 i V. Sir Wm. Rowh 
 
 B 
 
 33 1 
 
 Past, 
 226 
 
 6 7 
 227 
 
 82 
 150 
 
 1 56 
 
 2 3S 
 i 6z 
 1 10 
 
 223 
 I 26 
 I 69 
 274 
 162 
 l 9 I 
 
 67 
 266 
 162 
 
 67 
 I.4. 
 1 42 
 
 4i 
 1 26 
 
 1 69 
 9^ 
 
 H4 
 
 266 
 
 H3 
 144 
 221 
 
 M$ 
 170 
 1 4-4 
 
 ; ^ 
 
 ) • 
 
 ; 2 66 
 
 I 2 3S 
 ; 2 3> 
 252 
 
 49 
 126 
 
 266 
 
Patrons 
 
 132 
 
 Par'?JI)cs. 
 Stnnham-Aipal St. Mary, 
 Stppham-Earl St. Mary, 
 Stonham Little St. Mary, 
 Stoven St. Margaret, — 
 Stradbrook All Saints, - 
 
 Stradiihall St: Margaret, ■ 
 
 Stratford St. Mary,° ■ 
 
 Stratford St. Andrew, 
 
 Stow-Langtoft St. George, — 
 
 Stow St. Peter, ) '■ 
 
 Stew St. Mary. \ 
 
 Sturiton, — — • 
 
 Stutton St. Peter, • 
 
 Sudbourn All Sts. with Orford, 
 
 of the PariJIoes, &c. 
 
 Patrons, 
 Mr. Middlecon, — 
 
 Sudbury All Saints, • 
 
 Sudbury St. Greg. w. St. Peter, 
 
 Sutton All Saints, • 
 
 Svveffling St. Mary, . 
 
 Swilland St. Mary, « — 
 
 Syleham, • 
 
 Tannington St. Mary, 
 Tattinglton St. Mary, 
 Thebertori St. Peter, - 
 
 Thelnetham St. Nicholas 
 
 Thetford, ■ 
 
 Thorndon All Saints, 
 Thornham Great, 
 Thornham Little, — 
 
 Thorp-Ixworth All Saints, - 
 
 Thorp-Morieux, ■ - 
 
 Thorp by Debenham, 
 
 Thorp in Ely thing, ■ 
 
 Thorington St. Peter, — — ~ 
 ThrandiJton, 
 
 Thurlefton St. Mary, 
 Thurlow Great, — 
 Thurlow Little, — 
 Thwaite St. George, 
 Thurfton St. Peter, 
 Timworth St.' Andrew 
 
 Toftcck, ~ 
 
 Trimley St. Martin, 
 Trimley St. Mary, — 
 Troftcn St. Mary, . 
 Tuddcnham St. Martin,. 
 Tuddenharn St- Mai 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 C. 
 V, 
 R. 
 R. 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 V. 
 
 R. 
 R , 
 R. 
 V. 
 
 c. 
 v. 
 
 R. 
 V. 
 
 Pemb. Hail, Cambridge, 
 
 Mr. Alexander, 
 
 Mr. Payne, . 
 
 BifhopofEly, 
 
 Duke ofDevonfhire, — 
 
 The Crown, . — 
 
 The Crown, ; 
 
 Mrs. Smith, . 
 
 Mr. Aldrich, 
 
 Earl Cornwallis, 
 
 Mr. Ruitat,- : 
 
 The Crown, • 
 
 Mr. Little, , 
 
 Mr. Sands, 
 
 Sir John Rous, 
 
 Mr. Dove, 
 
 The Crown, — — — 
 
 Bifhop of Rochefter, — 
 Mr. Stebbing,- 
 The Crown, - 
 Mr. Tyrell, 
 
 Mr. Howe, 
 
 Heirs of Mr.Kiliigrew, 
 
 Mr. Norton, 
 
 Mr. Fiflce, ■ 
 
 Mr. Bridges, 
 
 R 
 R 
 V 
 R 
 R 
 
 r: 
 
 v 
 
 R. 
 V. 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 — JR. 
 
 |y. 
 
 Mrs. Bence, 
 Earl Cornwallis,- 
 Biihop of Ely, - 
 The Crown, — 
 
 Mr. Soame, 
 
 Mr. Williams, - 
 Mr. Tyrel, — — rr 
 Earl Cornwallis,- 
 Mr. Moieley, 
 
 Sir John Fytch Barker, 
 
 The Crown, 
 The Crown, 
 Mr. Fonnere 
 Earl of Briflc 
 
 LU, 
 
 Pcigi* 
 208 
 209 
 209 
 
 44 
 170 
 
 5 2 
 68 
 27 
 
 4.35 
 
 192 
 
 18a 
 
 68 
 
 12/ 
 
 267 
 267 
 
 114. 
 
 1 27 
 209 
 169 
 
 17® 
 69 
 
 144 
 
 236 
 244 
 
 1 80 
 
 180 
 
 1 80 
 
 2 34 
 274 
 
 185 
 
 '45 
 144 
 i8q 
 
 5° 
 253 
 
 ?52 
 i$i 
 228 
 
 228 
 
 228 
 
 S3 
 88 
 z 3 6 
 88 
 
 Hi 
 
Valuation of the Parifies In Suffolk. 
 
 Fatrons. 
 
 Purifies* 
 Tunftal St.'Michael, with 
 Duniniiffworthj — — — 
 
 IJbbeflon St Peter, 
 tjfford St. IVfaiy, 
 Uggeiliall St Mary, 
 
 Walderfwick, 
 Waldingfield 
 
 R. 
 
 - V. 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 Laurence, — 
 
 Mr. Jeffrefon, - 
 
 Sir John Kemp, 
 Mr. Chapman, 
 Sir John Rous, 
 
 333 
 
 127 
 
 Waldringfieki All Saints, 
 
 Walfliam le Willows, 
 
 Walpoje St. Mary, — ■ 
 
 Walton St. Mary, 
 
 Wangford St. Dennis, — — 
 Wangford St. Peter and Paul, 
 Wantefden St. John Baptiit, — 
 
 Waihbrook St. Mary, 
 
 Watfield, — — 
 Wattisfield St. Margaret, — 
 Wattifiham, — — 
 
 Welnetham, ■ • 
 
 Welnetham St-Mary Magdalen, 
 
 Wenham St. John, — 
 
 Wenham Little, — 
 
 Wenhafton St. Peter, ■ — 
 
 Wefthall St. Andrew, — — 
 
 Wellhorp St. Margaret, 
 
 Weiiley St. Thomas Bechet, — 
 
 Sir John Blois, • 
 
 Clare Hall, Cambridge, 
 Mrs. Syer, 
 
 Weftletcn St. Peter, 
 
 Weiterneld St.Mary Magdalen, 
 
 Weiton-Market St. Mary, 
 
 Weiton-Concy St. Peter, 
 
 Wefton in Wangford, 
 
 Weltow, 
 
 Wefhvood-Lodge, 
 
 Wetherden, 
 
 C. 
 V. 
 R. 
 C. 
 C. 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 R. 
 
 C. 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 R, 
 
 C. 
 
 V. 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 ■V. 
 
 R. 
 
 R. 
 
 D 
 
 Mr.Barnardiiton's Heirs, 
 
 Mr. Hunt's Heirs, 
 
 Mrs. Forward, 
 
 Mr. Atkinlbn, 
 
 Mr. Holt, 
 
 Sir John Rous, 
 
 Mr. Chaoman, 
 
 We therm gfett All Saints, 3j 
 
 with Brockford, S 
 
 WethcrfcialeSt.MaryMagda.len, 
 
 Wethersfield St. Mary, 
 
 Wey Bread St. Mary , 
 
 Whepitead, — t — 
 
 Wherftead St Mary, 
 
 Whitton St. Botolph, ■ 
 
 Whi.voe, — — 
 
 W i c k ham-Market All Saints, 
 Vyivkham-Skeith St. miarcw, 
 
 Confol. to Copdock, — 
 Jcfus College, Camb. — 
 Mr. Settle, — — 
 King's College, Camb. 
 
 Sir Wm. Bunbury, r 
 
 Sir Charles Davers, — 
 Sir P. Parker's Heirs, — 
 Mr. Hingefton, 
 
 D. and Ch. of Norwich, 
 'Mr. Reilley, — — 
 ! Clare Hall, Cambridge, 
 
 Eifnop of Ely, 
 Mr. Tyrel, ' - 
 I The Crown, 
 
 R. : Mr. Edward* 
 
 R. The Crown, — — 
 
 R. Mrs. Ciofe, — 
 
 R. I Confol. to FreHingfieldj 
 R. ! Marquis of Granby, — 
 V. I Mr. Clubbe, — ' — 
 
 V. The Crown, -— — — 
 
 R.IBifliop of Elv, - 
 
 R.| Mr. Berkley, — - 
 V. ' The Crown, — - 
 V. : Sir Aniline 
 
 '45 
 114. 
 
 146 
 
 i 45 
 
 26 7 
 268 
 
 8S 
 236 
 1 46 
 
 2 45 
 1 46 
 
 127 
 69 
 275 
 236 
 275 
 228 
 229 
 70 
 70 
 146 
 
 ! 47 
 iSt 
 
 221 
 H7 
 
 5 l 
 
 257 
 234 
 162 
 
 2 37 
 147 
 
 IC,Z 
 
 1 8 £ 
 
 1 70 
 
 253 
 170 
 
 22 f 
 
 5 1 
 
 252 
 
 ! l6 
 
 llSz 
 
 Wocdhbufe, 
 
 Wickham 
 
Patrons of the P arises, &c. 
 
 334- 
 
 Parijhes. 
 Wickham-Brook All Saints, 
 Wilby St. Mary, 
 
 Willingham All Saints, — 
 Willingham St.Maryand St. '. 
 Willifham St. Mary, 
 Wingfield St. Andrew, — 
 Winlton St. Andrew, — 
 
 Wiilet St. Andrew, , — , 
 
 Wifiington St. Mary, 
 
 Witneiham St. Mary, — - 
 
 Wiverftone, — 
 
 Woodbridge St. Mary, — 
 
 Woolpit St. Mary, 
 
 Woolverfton St . Mary, — - 
 Wordwell, — 
 Worlingham All Saints, — - 
 Worlmgton, — 
 Worlingworth St. Mary, with 
 Southolt St Margaret, — 
 Wortham Eftgate St. Mary, 
 
 Wortham Everard, — 
 
 Wratting Great, 
 
 Wratting Little, — 
 Wrentham St. Nicholas, 
 
 Yaxley St. Mary, 
 Yoxford St. Peter, 
 
 Patrons. 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 Earl of Rochford, • 
 (See Ellough) 
 The Crown, 
 Mr Leak, 
 
 Bilhop of Norwich, — 
 D. and Chapter of Ely, 
 
 The Crown, 
 
 St. Peter's Coll. Camb. 
 Dr Ewer, Bp ofLandaff, 
 
 Mr. Carthew, ■ 
 
 Mr. Chapman, 
 
 Heirs of Mr. Tyfon, — 
 
 Earl of Briftol, ' 
 
 The Crown, . 
 
 Mr. Montgomerie, 
 
 Mr. Ranfom, 
 
 Mr. Holt, 
 
 Mr. Holt, 
 
 Mr. Chevalier, 
 Mr Syer, — 
 Mr. Brawfter, - 
 
 Dr. Thrufton,- 
 Sir John Rovis, 
 
 ID EFORE the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk had each 
 of them a feparate Sheriff of their own, the Ufage was 
 for the Crown to appoint a Sheriff, one Year out of the Gen- 
 tlemen of Suffolk, and the next, out of the Gentlemen of 
 Norfolk; and fo on alternately, as the Cuftom ftill is in the 
 neighbouring Counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon. This 
 appears from the following Lift, and therefore we begin it 
 before the Separation of the two Counties. 
 
 High Sheriffs of Suffolk and Norfolk. 
 
 Reign. 
 
 I Eiiz. 
 
 Tear. 
 
 1 5S9 
 1560 
 1561 
 1562 
 '5^3 
 
 Sheriffs. 
 Sir Ambrofe Jermin, of Rumbrook, Knight. 
 Jo. Appleyard, Efq; 
 
 Sir Robert Wingfield, of Letheringharr*, Knt. 
 
 Sir Thomas Tindall, Krit. 
 
 Sir William Butts, of Redgrave, Knt. 
 
 Sir 
 
High Sheriffs of Suffolk and Norfolk. 
 
 1564 
 ,565 
 1560 
 
 1567 
 1568 
 
 1569 
 1570 
 
 157' 
 .572 
 
 '573 
 1574 
 '575 
 
 She riffs. 
 Si r Thomas Woodhoufe, Knt. 
 Sir Owen Hopton, of Yoxforth, Knt. 
 Wm, Pailon, Efq; 
 
 Lionel Talmach, of Helmingham, Efq; 
 
 Edward Cleere, Efq; 
 
 William Walgrave, of Smalbridge, Efq} 
 
 Sir Chriftopher Heydon, Knt. 
 
 Edmund Wethypol, of Ipfwich, Efq; 
 
 Radolpli Shelton, Efq; 
 
 Sir Ambrofe Jermin, of Ruflibrook, Knt, 
 
 Henry Doyly, Efq; 
 
 Thomas Felton^ of Playford, Efq; 
 
 Sheriffs of Suffolk fingly. 
 
 576 
 
 577 
 
 578 
 
 579 
 $'So 
 
 581 
 
 5S2 
 
 583 
 
 584 
 
 585 
 586 
 
 587 
 5S8 
 589 
 590 
 
 59 1 
 59 1 
 
 593 
 594 
 
 59 
 59 6 
 
 597 
 59S 
 
 599 
 600 
 
 60 1 
 602 
 603 
 604 
 605 
 606 
 607 
 <6c8 
 
 Robert Am field, of Stowlangtoft, Efq; 
 
 John Higham, of Barow, Efq; 
 
 Sir William Spring, of Pakenham, Knt. 
 
 Sir Robert Jermin, of Rumbrook, Knt. 
 
 Sir Philip Parker, of Arwerton, Knt. 
 
 Sir Thomas Barnardifton, of Kedington, Knt, 
 
 Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Redgrave, Knt. 
 
 Sir William Drurye, Of Hallted, Knt. 
 
 Sir Charles Framlingharfr, of Debenham, Knt, 
 
 John Gurdon, of Affington, Efq; 
 
 George Colt, of Candifh, Efq; 
 
 Wm. Clopton, of Kentwell in Long-Melford, Efqj 
 
 Francis Jermye, of Brightwell, Efq; 
 
 Philip Tilney, of Shelly, Efq; 
 
 SirWm. Waldegrave, of Smallbridge, Knt. 
 
 Thomas Rowfe, of Henham, Efq; 
 
 Nicob. Garnifh, of Kenton, Efq; 
 
 Lionell Tallemach, of Helmingham, Efq; 
 
 Robert Ford, of Butley, Efq; 
 
 Thomas Crofts, of Saxham, Efq; 
 
 Sir William Spring, of Pakenham, Knt. 
 
 Thomas Edon, of Sudbury, Efq; 
 
 on Anthony Wingfield, of Letheringham, ICnt* 
 
 Henry Warner, of Mildenhall, Efq; 
 
 Anthony Felton, of Playford, Efq; 
 
 Edward Bacon, of Bergham, Efq; 
 
 Sir Edmund Wethipoll, of Ipfwich, Knt. 
 
 Thomas Eitotevill, of Dalham, Efq; 
 
 Sir Nicholas Bacon, of Redgrave, Knt. 
 
 Edmund Bokenham, of Great Thornham, Efq; 
 
 Sir Thomas Playters, of Soterly, Knt. 
 
 Anthony Penning, of Ipfwich, Efq; 
 
 Jo. Wentworth, of Somerlyton, Efq; 
 
 Lionel 
 
Charles 
 
 336 High 
 
 Reim. Tear. 
 James* i6oy 
 
 161© 
 
 16 1 1 
 1612 
 1613 
 1 6 1 4 
 1615 
 •1616 
 1617 
 
 1618 
 
 1619 
 
 1620 
 1621 
 1622 
 1623 
 . 1 624 
 1625 
 f 1626 
 r i6z 7 
 1628 
 1629 
 1630 
 1631 
 1632 
 1633 
 1634 
 
 l6 35 
 1636 
 
 1637 
 
 1638 
 
 1639 
 1640 
 1641 
 1642 
 1643 
 1644 
 1645 
 1646 
 1647 
 1648 
 1649 
 1650 
 165 1 
 
 165: 
 
 Sheriffs of Suffolk and Norfolk* 
 
 Sheriffs. 
 Lionel Talmach, of Helmingham, Efq; 
 \ Sir Thomas Wingfield, of Letheringham, Knt. 
 \ Sir George Le Hunt, of Bredfield> Knt. 
 Thomas Tilney, of Shelly, Efq; 
 Sir Calthrop Parker, of Arwerton, Knt. 
 Sir Martin Eitoteville, of Dalham, Knt. 
 Sir Robert Brook, of Yoxforth, Knt. 
 Sir Rob. Barker, of Trimley, Knt. of the Bath. 
 Thomas Clench, of Hoibrook, Efq; 
 Sir Lio. Talmach, of Helmingham, Knt. and Bart. 
 S Sir Edward Lewknor, of Denham, Knt. 
 2 Sir Charles Gavvdy, of Debenham, Knt. 
 Jo. Wentworth, of : omerlyton. 
 Sir Henry North, of Wickham-Brook, Knt* 
 Sir William Spring, of Pakenham, Knt. 
 William Whettel, of Ampton, Efq; 
 Robert Brook, of Nafton, Efq; 
 Sir Nath. Barnardilton, ofKediton, Knt. 
 Galfridus Pitman, of Woodbridge, Efq; 
 Samuel Aylmer, of Akenham, Efq; 
 Sir John Prefcot, of Hoxon, Knt. 
 Mauritius Barrow, of Bermingharn, Efqj 
 Brampton Gourdon, of Afiington, Efq; 
 Sir Henry Buckenham, of Thornham, Knt. 
 John Acton, of Bramford, Efq; 
 Sir Robert Crane, of Chilton, Knt. and Bart. 
 Sir William Soame, of Thirlow, Knt. 
 Sir Edmund Bacon, of Redgrave, Knt. and Bart. 
 Sir John Barker, of Trimly, Bart. 
 Sir john Rous, of Henham, Knt. 
 Sir Philip Parker, of Arwerton, Knt. 
 \ Sir Ant. Wingfield, of Letheringham, Bart. an<4 
 £ Edward Duke, of Benhall, Efq; 
 John Clenche, of Creeting, Efq; 
 Sir Simons Dewes, of Stowlangtoft, Knt. 
 Sir William Spring, of Pakenham, Knt. 
 Sir Win. Caftleton of Bury, Knt* and Bart. ] 
 Maurice Barrow, of Bermingharn, Efq; 
 Jo. Cotton, of Earl-Soham, Efq; 
 Sir Arthur Jenney, of Knodifhall, Knt. 
 Thomas Blofs, of Belftead, Efq; 
 Thomas Kerridge, of Shelley, Efq; 
 Robert Wright, ofWangford, Efq; 
 pSir W r m. Wifeman Bokenham, of Thornham, Knt, 
 Sir William Hervey, of Hengrave, Knt. 
 Edward Clarke, of Ealt Bergholt, Efq; 
 Sir Robert Coke, of Huntingfield, Knt. 
 Edward Wennieve, cf Bretcnhara, Eiq; 
 
 Robert 
 
Reign. 
 
 j 1^57 
 I l6 5 8 
 j » 6 59 
 Cha. II. 1660 
 I ] 66 1 
 1 5662 
 1 1663 
 j 1664 
 1665 
 1666 
 [667 
 1668 
 1 669 
 1 670 
 1672 
 i673 
 
 friGH Sheriffs ^'Suffolk* 
 
 Tear, 
 
 1654 
 165s 
 165b 
 
 Sheriffs. 
 Robert Cordel, of Long-Melford, Efq.; 
 Sir John Barker, of Trimleyj Bart. 
 Martin Salter, of Battisford, Efq; 
 James Calthrop, of Ampton, Efq; 
 
 fliomas Baker, of Freilingfield, Efqj 
 John Wyard, of BrundiJh. 
 The fame. 
 
 Sir John Caftleton, of Bury, Bart. 
 Renold Williams, of Stoke, Efq; 
 Joleph Brand, of Edward lion, Efq; 
 Francis Thebald, of Barking, Efq; 
 
 JohnBenee, of Ringsfield, Efq; 
 
 Sir Edmund Bacon, of Redgrave, Bart* 
 
 JefFery Howland, of Covehithe, Efq; 
 
 Samuel Blackaby, of otowmarket, Efq; 
 
 Sir Robert Diver, of Ipfwieh, Bart. 
 
 John Clarke, of Bury, Efq; 
 
 John Rilby, of Thorp-Morieux> Efq; 
 
 William Soamej of Haly, Efq; 
 
 It was very lately, and by Accident, that we were favourd with a 
 Copy "of the foregoing Lift. We wilh this Chafm could be filled 
 up, but that could not be done without fearching the publick Offices 
 in London ; and fuch a Search would greatly delay the Publica- 
 tion of the Book ; which, we fear, our Subfcribers think, has been 
 already in hand too long. It is, therefore, thought proper to give 
 the Lift imperfect as it is, ahho' the bell Information we can procure 
 here in the Country, reaches no further back than the Year 1724. . 
 
 Geo. \. 
 
 Geo. II. 
 
 1724 
 1725 
 1 726 
 1727 
 1728 
 1729 
 1730 
 
 •73' 
 1732 
 
 .733 
 
 '734 
 •735 
 «73 6 
 l 737 
 *73 8 
 
 1 739 
 1740 
 
 1741 
 
 Gregory Coppinger, Efq; 
 Huilings Wilkinlbn, Efq; 
 Thomas Driver, of Earl-Stonham, Efq; 
 Robert Goodrich, Efq; 
 Sir John Playter, of Satterley, Bart. 
 Tobias Biofs, of Belftcd, Efq; 
 Sir Thomas Allen, of Somerliton, Bart. 
 Nath. Afton, of I lemingfton, Efq; 
 George Daihwood, Efq; 
 Alexander Bence, of Thorington, Efqj 
 John Eldred, Efq; 
 John Reynolds, Efq; 
 John Corrance, of Rougham, Efq; 
 Reginald Rabbit, of Bramfield, Efq; 
 Sir William Barker, of Ipfwieh, Bart. 
 William Afton, ofBramford, Efq; 
 Edmund Jenney, of Bredfield, Efq; 
 Samuel Lucas, of Chelmonuifton, Efq; 
 C c 
 
 Baron 
 
338 High Sheriffs of Suffolk. 
 
 £eo.III 
 
 Tear. 
 742 
 
 743 
 
 744 
 
 745 
 746 
 
 747 
 748 
 
 749 
 750 
 
 75 1 
 752 
 
 753 
 754 
 
 755 
 7S 6 
 
 757 
 758 
 
 759 
 760 
 
 761 
 
 762 
 
 763 
 
 764 
 
 Sheriffs. 
 Baron Prettyman, of Bafton, Efq; 
 Sir John Barker, of Sproughton, Bart. 
 Robert Leman, of Wickham-Market, Efqj 
 Charles Scrivener, of Sibton, Efq; 
 Philips Colman, of Ipfwich, Efq; ' 
 Robert Edgar, of Ipfwich, Efq; 
 Lamb Barry, of Syleham, Efq; 
 Thomas White, of Tattingfton, Efq: 
 Robert Oneby, ofLoudham, Efq; 
 George Goodly, of Fornham, Efq; 
 William Naunton, of Letheringham, Efqj 
 Robert Sparrow, of Brandifton, Efq; 
 William Jennings, of Afton, Efq; 
 Cooke Freefton, of Metingham, Efq; 
 John Canham, of Milden, Efq; 
 Henry Moore, of Melford, Efq; 
 Robert May, of Sutton, Efq; 
 Sir John Rous, of Henham, Bart. 
 Thomas Thorowgood, of Kerfey, Efqj 
 Thomas Mofely, of Oufden, Efq; 
 Shadrach Brice, of Clare. 
 Ezekiel Sparke, of Walfham in the Willows, 
 Sir John Blois, of Ypxford, Bart. 
 
[ 339 ] 
 
 INDEX to find 
 
 Page. 
 
 Babergh, . — r 254 
 
 Blackbourn, .« 230 
 
 Bii thing, . — 128 
 
 Bofmere and Claydon, — 199 
 
 Carlford and Colneis, — 72 
 
 Cosford, — — 26^ 
 
 Hartifmere, —— 1 7 2 
 
 Hoxne, • ■ j 64 
 
 Ipfwich, ■■ 7 
 
 Lackford, - 238 
 
 J,oes, 95 
 
 the Hundreds, 
 
 Page. 
 
 Lothing, — — 150 
 
 Mutford, — 7* — — — - — ■ 14.9 
 
 Plomefgate, — 1 1 8 
 
 Rilb ridge, ■ ■ ■- 246 
 
 Samford, > 61 
 
 Stow, . 186 
 
 Thedwaftre, — — 222 
 
 Thingoe, ■■ — 211 
 
 Thredling, i — 184 
 
 Wang-ford, — ■ — 155 
 
 Will ford, i — 109 
 
 INDEX to find the Roads. 
 
 The great Road from Stratford upon Stour, through Ipf- "> 
 wich, Woodbridge, Wickham Market, Saxmundham, Yox- > 61 
 ford and Beccles, to Yarmouth in Norfolk, See flat* 1.— > 
 
 The great Road from Beccles, thro' Bungay, Harlefton, } 
 Scole, Botefdale, Ixworth and Bury, to Newmarket. See^lSS 
 Plate 2. ' — 1 \f 
 
 The great Road from Ipfwich through Needham, Stow- p 
 market and Bury, to Thetford, and from Thetford to New- £ 199 
 market. See Plate 3. 3 
 
 The great Road from Ipfwich to Scole, and from Bury } 
 St. Edmund's through Melford, Sudbury, Boxford and Had- >z 1 1 
 Jeigh, to Ipfwich. See Plate 4. „ , 2> 
 
 The CROSS-ROADS. 
 
 "rom Ipfwich to Catawade Bridge, . , ^_ 2 y6 
 
 Ipfwich to Shotley-Ferry, ■■ 276 
 
 Ipfwich to Langer-Fort and Felixftow, 1 - - 277 
 
 Ipfwich to Debenham, . 277 
 
 Ipfwich to Bildefton, ■ * 277 
 
 Woodbridge to Baudfey-Ferry, ■ — 278 
 
 Woodbridge to Orford, . , 278 
 
 Woodbridge to Aldborough, 279 
 
 Woodbridge to Biithborough, by Snape Bridge, 280 
 
 Wickham-Market to Eye, ' . — z%q 
 
 Wickham-Market to Nredham-Market, 281 
 
 Wickham-Market t:o Harlefton, — — * »- 282 
 
 From 
 
34o Index to the Cros s-R o a d 
 
 raget 
 
 From Wickham-Market to Aldborough, ,. i - 283 
 
 Yoxford to Haiefworth, -■■ 283' 
 
 Haiefworth to Bungay, • — — - 284 
 
 Haiefworth to Southwold, 284. 
 
 Haiefworth to Loweftoft, ■ . , 284 
 
 Halefv/orth to Becclesj . . ~ 285 
 
 Haiefworth to Harleflon, 1« 285 
 
 Stowmarket to Botefdale, ■ . . „ — 286 
 
 , Stowmarket to Ixworth and Thetford, * — 286 
 
 Stowmarket to Bildefton and Hadleigh, « 287 
 
 Hadleigh to Stratford, — - - — — 288' 
 
 Bury to Gaftrop-Gate, — — - — 288 
 
 Bury to Brandon, • ■ — . 289 
 
 Bury to Mildenhall, — — — 290 
 
 Bury to Finningham, — - — — . — 290 
 
 Bury to Glare, ***** ■ . #* 291 
 
 Bury to Lavenham, ■ ■ ■ 292 
 
 Lavenham to Sudbury, — — - — 292 
 
 Sudbury to Haverhill, — — 292 
 
 Sudbury to Stratlbrd-Svvan> — ->~ ~ * A. 293 
 
 Lavenham t© Bildefton, — — - « 294 
 
 Newmarket to 'Sudbury, ■ • — 295 
 
 Thetford to Brandon and Mildenhall, — — — 295 
 
 Thetford to Gaftrop-Gate, — « — — 296 
 
 The Reader is defired to correct the following Errors. 
 
 Page 5, Line 28, for Edward r. Henry. P. it, 1. iz, for Walk r Wa 7. 
 P. 17. Read the latter Part of the nrit Paragraph thus 5 Duties andlmpofls. 
 many of which there ivere : Under the Norman Kings, ihefe Officers, Sic. 
 P. 32, in the Note, for 40/. r. 4.0 Shillings, P. 3$, 1. 12, r. instituted ifisi 
 to as aReftory. P. 50, 1. 19, for as r. if. P. 65, 1. 18, for Hall, Houfe, 
 r. Hall-Houfe. P. 91, 1. fixth from the Bottom, for certainly r. commonly^ 
 P. 227, 1. 1 and laft, andelfewhere, for Robert Davers, r. Charles Davers. 
 P. 243, after Freckingham, infert, or Freke"Nham. P. 336, in the Run- 
 ning-Title, dele and Norfolk. P. 324, r. Broomfwell, p. 1 j 2, and Broom, 
 p. 173. P. 337, Hadleigh, r. p. 271. P. 330, Newton, r, p. 264. An<i 
 P. 317 & 33c, for Offley, r. Otiley. 
 
 F I N I S: 
 
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