John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks: with a Facsimile of The Suffolk Traveller, 1735 (Suffolk Records Society)

John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks with a Facsimile of The Suffolk Traveller, 1735 John Blatchly

JOHN KIRBY’S SUFFOLK: HIS MAPS AND ROADBOOKS

SUFFOLK RECORDS SOCIETY President Norman Scarfe Vice-Presidents James Campbell, FBA Geoffrey Martin The Hon. David Erskine Chairman Dr John Blatchly General Editors David Dymond (co-ordinating editor) Christopher Harper-Bill (Suffolk Charters) Secretary Gwyn Thomas Suffolk Record Office 77 Raingate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 2AR

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Oil portrait of John Kirby by Thomas Gainsborough

JOHN KIRBY’S SUFFOLK: HIS MAPS AND ROADBOOKS

Introduced by

JOHN BLATCHLY with contributions by JENNY JAMES

General Editor

DAVID DYMOND

The Boydell Press Suffolk Records Society VOLUME XLVII

© The Trustees of the Suffolk Records Society 2004 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner A Suffolk Records Society publication First published 2004 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge ISBN 1 84383 051 5 Issued to subscribing members for the year 2003–2004

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The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Contents

List of illustrations and tables

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Preface

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Abbreviations

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Glossary

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Introduction

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THE SUFFOLK TRAVELLER, 1735

(with original pagination)

Index to the hundreds in both editions of The Suffolk Traveller

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Index of towns and parishes in The Suffolk Traveller, 1735

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Appendices A. Alphabetical directory of the nobility, clergy and gentry, c.1735 B. Alphabetical directory of the nobility, clergy and gentry, c.1765 C. John Kirby’s geometrical accuracy D. Features on the large-scale maps E. Maritime craft decorating Kirby’s maps F. Other maps and surveys by Kirby, Bacon and Emerton

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Index of persons in the Introduction and Appendices C to F Index of places in the Introduction and Appendices

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Contents of the packet of maps 1–4 Suffolk, 1736, engraved by Richard Collins, black and white, originally one-inch to the mile, reduced to 56 per cent linear scale. Printed by John Bagnall for John Kirby. By kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 5. Suffolk, 1737, engraved by Isaac Basire, hand-coloured, originally half-inch to the mile, reduced to 51 per cent linear scale. Printed for and sold by I. [John] Shave, Bookseller, Ipswich [c.1766]. By kind permission of Mrs Charles Abel Smith. 6. Suffolk, 1764, engraved by Andrew Baldrey, hand-coloured, originally quarterinch to the mile, reduced to 84 per cent linear scale. Printed for John Shave and issued as the frontispiece to the second edition of The Suffolk Traveller. By kind permission of A.T. Copsey, Esq. 7 and 8. Four road maps, 1764, engraved by Andrew Baldrey, reproduced at original size. Printed for John Shave for insertion in the second edition of The Suffolk Traveller. From the editor’s collection. 9–12. Suffolk, 1766, engraved by John Ryland, hand-coloured, originally one-inch to the mile, reduced to 45 per cent linear scale. This was printed from the original plates and hand coloured for sale by Stephen Piper of Ipswich in 1825. From the editor’s collection.

Illustrations and Tables

Frontispiece Oil portrait of John Kirby by Thomas Gainsborough. By kind permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Figures 1. Extract from James Corbridge: An Actual Survey of the County of Suffolk, to which is added great part of the County of Norfolk, 1735. By kind permission of the Suffolk Record Office. 2. Prospectus for the second edition of The Suffolk Traveller, London 1763. By kind permission of Bodley’s Librarian. 3. Armorial bookplate for Viscount Hereford, printed from a copper cut from the Kirby map of 1736. By kind permission of Paul Latcham, Esq. 4. Detail of the 1736 map showing the Tunstall, Wantisden, Wickham Market triangle where Kirby began his survey. 5. Detail of the 1736 map from the Minsmere River to Slaughden Quay. 6. Three details from John Kirby’s plan of Beaumonts Hall Farm in 1737. By kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 7. John Kirby’s undated manuscript survey of Naunton Hall Farm, Rendlesham. By kind permission of the Suffolk Record Office. 8. Two details from printed borders of Nathaniel Bacon’s survey of Mileson Edgar’s estate in Tuddenham St Martin. By kind permission of the Suffolk Record Office.

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Tables 1. Distances and bearings in Kirby’s first triangle 2. Distance from Ipswich of fourteen towns in Suffolk and Norfolk 3. Windmills and watermills shown on the maps of 1736 and 1766

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The Society is publishing John Kirby’s Suffolk to make more widely available four rare and little-known early large-scale maps of the county and four road maps. A facsimile of the scarce 1735 edition of The Suffolk Traveller is included because this is believed to be the first single county roadbook, and although later editions are better organised and more informative, there are many rewards from an adequately sceptical reading of this somewhat quaint piece of topography. Drawing on the arms, families and houses shown on the maps and named in the roadbooks, it has been possible to make select alphabetical lists of the great and the good of the county in the mid-1730s and 1760s in Appendices A and B respectively. John Kirby’s claims to accuracy have been examined in some detail, and his other known surveys and those of his partners have been listed in Appendix F. Jenny James has combed the maps for the features which are tabulated or listed with some explanation in Appendix D. Hers are the comments on changes to selected areas in east Suffolk since Kirby and the notes on Naunton Hall Farm in Appendix F. Hugh Moffat describes the ships shown sailing off the coast of Suffolk on all four maps in Appendix E. David Dymond has, as usual, been a meticulous general editor, bringing order and consistency where this was lacking. Dr Pat Murrell kindly lent transcripts of several illuminating newspaper advertisements and Edward Martin helped distinguish some of the antiquities which Kirby lumped under ‘castles’ and ‘hills’. Raymond Frostick, a Norfolk enthusiast for early maps, helped with Norwich newspaper evidence, and John Millburn identified surveying instruments. Our President Norman Scarfe elucidated the strange ‘Benhall Sr Roberts’ at Friston and was, as always, enormously encouraging. Joan Corder and her dictionaries were the sources of heraldic information, and others are thanked by name in the map and illustration credits. J.M.B.

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BL CUL DNB NRO SROB SROI SROL

British Library Cambridge University Library Dictionary of National Biography, in 2004 the Oxford DNB Norfolk Record Office Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft

Glossary

chain compass rose furlong perambulator surveyor’s level theodolite triangulation

a measure of 22 yards, a tenth of a furlong and the device for measuring this distance which had one hundred links, each of 7.92 inches a circular design which indicates the cardinal points on a map 220 yards, an eighth of a mile a wheel of known diameter on a handle, with a device which counts the revolutions spirit level on a stand which is the base for a theodolite an instrument with optical sights and a scale so that the angle between two distant objects can be measured the method of using bearings and distances from three vantage points to check accuracy, and adding further triangles as necessary

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The earliest large-scale maps of Suffolk were the result of a survey of the whole county carried out by John Kirby and Nathaniel Bacon between 1732 and 1734. Though it is easy to point out inaccuracies, they are highly decorative and correct many of the errors common on earlier Suffolk maps in county atlases. They are also informative about the owners and occupiers of the larger estates at two dates thirty years apart. The one-inch maps were published in association with two editions of The Suffolk Traveller, the first of which has often been described as the earliest single-county roadbook; indeed those who subscribed for the 1736 map received the 1735 Traveller gratis. In 1972, for Volume XV of the Suffolk Records Society, our present co-ordinating editor David Dymond prepared an edition of Joseph Hodskinson’s Map of the County of Suffolk, engraved and first published by William Faden in August 1783. Rare and valuable in the original, this map at a scale of one inch to a mile has always proved a most useful work of reference for those studying the county in the century before directories became fully informative. The 1972 facsimile was reduced to approximately three-quarters of an inch to a mile.1 Hodskinson, however, was not the first in field, for John Kirby (1690–1753) spent the years 1732 to 1734 surveying the county for a map, also at one inch to a mile, which appeared in 1736, with a half-inch map following the next year. Before this flurry of activity, county maps for atlases had been copied more or less blatantly from those of Christopher Saxton, the last man to attempt anything like full surveys of individual counties. The challenge to action from a Norfolk rival It is likely that Kirby was spurred into action by the activities of James Corbridge, originally from Northumberland, who as early as December 1727 advertised his intention to survey the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk,2 and in 1730 published a map of Norfolk.3 In October 1731, Corbridge and his then partner Francis Emerton of Gillingham announced that they were surveying Suffolk in order to make ‘a compleat map of the 2 counties together’,4 though, long before the Suffolk map was ready in December 1735, Emerton had for some reason decided to transfer his loyalty to Kirby. Corbridge claimed, without justification, that his maps were the result of new surveys, but the merest glance shows that they perpetuate the errors of earlier 1

Hodskinson’s Map was republished by the Larks Press in 2003. The A4 map sections are at the original scale and Dr Dymond’s introduction is slightly abbreviated. 2 Norwich Mercury, 2 Dec. 1727. 3 There is a copy of Corbridge’s Norfolk map of 1730 in a later reprint (c.1785) at CUL Maps d.77.78.1. The NRO has some twenty surveys by Corbridge with dates between 1720 and the early 1730s. He was appointed assessor to an estate in 1738 (see Colman catalogue). 4 Norwich Gazette, 2 Oct. 1731.

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Fig. 1. Extract from James Corbridge: An Actual Survey of the County of Suffolk, to which is added great part of the County of Norfolk, 1735 (59% linear).

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smaller-scale maps. The coastline of the Suffolk map is copied from Saxton and Speed, and many parishes are strangely named and oddly placed.5 The clarity and decorative quality of the Corbridge maps is not improved by two sets of concentric circles drawn at three-mile intervals radiating from Bury St Edmunds and Norwich and by wide borders crammed with tables of place-names and the symbols needed to locate them.6 Kirby lost no time in responding to Corbridge’s declared intention to survey Suffolk. In November 1731 the first of his many advertisements in the county newspapers promised his own survey of the county, and more followed the next year. At this stage Kirby was as anxious to recruit Norfolk subscribers in opposition to Corbridge as to arouse interest in Suffolk. He announced that he would be assisted by Nathaniel Bacon junior, little known apart from a handful of Suffolk estate maps dated between 1736 and 1744. The price was fixed at the outset and never varied. Progress on the map was slow, lasting from late 1731 to 1736, but, to keep his supporters enthusiastic, successive advertisements skilfully reveal new information piecemeal about the contents of the map and details of the survey methods to be employed. [Ipswich Journal No. 587, 13 Nov. 1731 and Norwich Mercury, 22 Jan. 1732] Proposals for surveying the county of Suffolk, by Nathaniel Bacon, jun. and John Kirby. In which map shall be described all the rivers (and where navigable) brooks, bridges, locks, &c., roads (and the true distance from town to town), the ground plots of all market and other considerable towns, parish churches, castles, demolished in whole or in part, monasteries, and other religious houses, and what order they formerly were of, the names of their founders, when founded, with their ancient revenues, division of hundreds, antient kings’ seats, and fields of battle, the seats and parks of all the nobility and gentry residing in the said county, with their arms on the sides of the map, latitude and longitude,7 with whatever else remarkable that may offer itself to view in surveying the same. This map shall be protracted from a scale of one mile to an inch, and is proposed by subscription at ten shillings a map; the one half paid in hand, the other on delivery; they who subscribe for six shall have a seventh gratis. [Ipswich Journal No. 598, 29 Jan. 1732; cf. Norwich Mercury 19, 26 Feb., 4 Mar. 1732] Whereas Nathaniel Bacon, jun., and John Kirby did lately publicly advertise their design of taking an actual survey of the county of Suffolk; these are therefore to certify, that the said surveyors do design to begin the said survey . . . as soon as the roads are fit for perambulation to travel in, which will be March or April next at longest. The authors plan to begin at Ipswich, and first to take a true and actual survey 5

Craven Ord’s copy of the Suffolk map is bound into Vol. 20 of his 24-volume ‘Collections for the History of Suffolk’ (SROI HD1538/20). 6 As on all Suffolk maps before Kirby’s, Corbridge showed Aldringham on the coast and Thorpe[ness] inland, but only he named where Seckford Hall stood ‘Beckford’, and sited a second Buxhall near Woolverstone. His Witnesham is Wittlesom, Bucklesham is Buckleston and Chelmondiston is Chatsham als Chelmodiston. The hundred ‘Bartsmere’ is his worst gaffe. 7 This promise was hardly kept: just ‘Latitude of’ and ‘Ipswich 52d. 14m.’ is found at the extreme edges of the map. Reasonably accurate latitude and longitude could have been taken from Morden’s map of the county. Basire did add them to his half-inch map of 1737 but the longitude was based on Ipswich.

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of the said town, and from thence to proceed in a trigonometrical method to find the true bearings and distances of every parish church in the said county from the said town of Ipswich; the bearings and distances in the roads shall be taken with a perambulator; and in the said map shall be inserted the true distances not only between market towns, but all other towns of any traffic in the said county. The Rivers and Brooks shall be traced up to their Fountains Head, and the Coast from Harwich to Yarmouth; all woods that are remarkable shall be taken notice of; as also all Monasteries, Religious Houses, Gentlemen’s Seats and Parks, antient Kings’ Seats, &c. as before proposed. And the whole work shall be performed with that care and industry as shall render it useful, pleasing and intelligible, and so as to stand the Test of a Mathematical Demonstration. [The Norwich Mercury version ends:] Subscriptions are taken in and receipts given in Norwich by Mr William Chase; in Suffolk by the Revd Mr Christopher Eachard in Cransford, by Mr Hugh Wright in Ipswich, by Mr John Calver in Woodbridge, by Mr Henry Warner in Wickham-Market, by Mr Thomas Crispe in Saxmundham, by Mr Nicholas Newson in Framlingham, by Mr William Roberts in Aldeburgh, by Mr John Scoulding in Orford, by Mr Henry Searles in Yoxford, by Mr William Soans in Halesworth, by Mr Abraham Todd in Beccles, by Mr James Percivall in Bungay, by Mr Robert Money in Harleston, by Mr Benjamin Shuckforth in Diss, by Mr Daniel Meadows in Redgrave, by Mr William Butler in Buddesdale, by Mr Michael Barnes in Rickingale, by Mr John Mason in Euston, by Mr Hannibal Hall and Mr Thomas Baily in Bury St Edmund’s, and by the Authors in their progress through the county. Kirby had a network of innkeepers (where an inn is named), parsons and booksellers in the two counties acting as his agents while he and Bacon were peripatetic around the county. A brief life of John Kirby8 John Kirby’s origins are elusive. According to his grandson William the well-known entomologist, he was descended from a north-country Royalist who, his circumstances reduced by his loyalty, brought his family to Halesworth. The reference supports William Kirby’s belief that his father William used the arms of the Lancashire Kirkbys of Kirby, a family with royalist leanings, mentioned in heraldic visitations.9 The only John Kirby in the Halesworth registers was born to a local shoemaker, Stephen, in 1682 and died in 1736. Apparently, John Kirby at first kept a school at Orford, but was certainly ‘of Erwarton’ occupying ‘a small overshot mill at the bottom of the park [of the Hall]’ when he married Alice Brown at St Nicholas church, Ipswich, on 10 October 1714. Moving to Wickham Market where John kept a mill, probably Glevering watermill,10 Alice bore him five sons and six daughters all christened at Wickham Market or at 8 9 10

See also his entry in Oxford DNB, 2004. F.R. Raines (ed.), Visitation of Lancashire 1664–65, Chetham Society 1872, ii, 169. The watermill at Wickham Market appears on none of the Kirby maps whereas the one at Glevering is marked on all of them, nor is the former mentioned in either edition of The Suffolk Traveller. It may not have been built in Kirby’s time. Mention in advertisements of his house in Wickham Market is puzzling, but from a distance Wickham Market would be a better postal address than Glevering.

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Hacheston.11 The best known are three of the four eldest: John (1715–50 s.p.), Under Treasurer at the Middle Temple; Joshua, artist and friend of Gainsborough (to whom John and Alice sat for separate portraits12); and William, attorney of Witnesham Hall. Family letters published by William’s grand-daughter Sarah Trimmer demonstrate that John Kirby brought up the family to be devoutly God-fearing. By 1725 Kirby was land surveying to support a growing family, and plans exist of estates in more than twenty east Suffolk parishes (and one west) with dates between then and 1745,13 when he was also selling books at Wickham.14 From the tower of the church there, those of ‘very near, if not altogether 50 parish churches’15 were visible, giving Kirby a head start in one part of his survey. John Kirby is best known as author of the slim duodecimo roadbook The Suffolk Traveller of 1735. His careful manuscript draft of part of the work is at Ipswich.16 John Tanner, vicar of Lowestoft from 1708 to his death in 1759 was the ‘reverend gentleman’ thanked for the forty-page table of parishes, patrons and impropriations at the end of book. However, it is Kirby’s large-scale map of the county which ought to be celebrated, because when the book was ready in August 1735, at which time the plates of the map were ‘very near engraved’, an advertisement in the Norwich Gazette offered the book free to existing and new subscribers for the map.17 By 1751, the Kirbys had moved to Ipswich; John died on 13 December 1753 of ‘a mortification of the leg which came on very suddenly’ at William’s Ipswich house, and was buried three days later in St Mary-le-Tower churchyard. His wife Alice survived until she was laid beside him on 30 October 1766, aged 80. Their table tomb has not survived churchyard reorganisation. Changing loyalties Returning to the autumn of 1733, between Kirby’s August and October announcements, Nathaniel Bacon’s name is significantly dropped, and the local agents listed have changed a good deal; there are many more innkeepers, perhaps recruited after lodging with them on the survey. In Corbridge’s absence in Devon surveying an estate of the Hobart family there, ‘that curious Surveyor Francis Emerton at Gillingham’, near Beccles, deserted him for Kirby. Emerton gave up working on Corbridge’s Suffolk map and, what is worse, gave Kirby the names and subscriptions of those who had ordered it from him. These subscribers would instead receive Kirby’s map on payment of the difference between the two sums. It seems likely that, judging Kirby’s work superior, he preferred to give his clients better value for money. [Ipswich Journal No. 625, 5 Aug. 1732] Whereas Nathaniel Bacon, jun. and John Kirby have formerly advertised their designs of taking a true and actual survey of the county of Suffolk, the proposals for doing thereof, and in what manner they proposed to do the same, need not be here mentioned, as being before made public in taverns and other public places. 11 12 13 14

Registers of Wickham Market for 1733 and Hacheston 1715–29. Gainsborough’s portraits of John and Alice Kirby are in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge. See Appendix F. The imprint in The Psalm-Singers Devout Exercises, London 1741, includes Kirby at Wickham Market as a stockist. 15 Suffolk Traveller, 1735, 18. 16 SROI HD376/1. 17 Norwich Gazette, 30 Aug. 1735.

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This is therefore to give notice, that the said surveyors have begun the said survey, and made a considerable progress in the same, having now surveyed the coast from Dunwich to Harwich, and up into the country, so as the Hundreds of Colneis, Wilford, Loes, Plomesgate and Carlford, are very nearly finished, with part of some other Hundreds, in respect of the true bearings and distances of the parish churches situate in the said Hundreds. The beginning of the said survey was on Tunstall-heath, by taking (on a plain parcel of land) a measured distance of fifty chains, or five furlongs, by help of which the true distance was found between Tunstall church and Wantisden church; and likewise between the said churches and that of Wickham-market, having thus completed a triangle by gaining all its sides and angles (which upon proof was true, according to the rules of geometry, having its three angles equal to 180 degrees), from thence the calculations have been carried on hitherto (and it may be said without boasting) with great exactness,18 for as it is undeniably true that, if two or three lines concur in one point, the work cannot be erroneous, so in the perambulation that has been taken, the object for proof was Stoke wind-mill in Ipswich (being all that could be discerned of Ipswich town from off Rushmere steeple); then taking another perambulation from Baudsey through the Hundred of Wilford, Colnes and part of Samford, at Woolverston the angle was taken from Nacton to the said wind-mill at Stoke in Ipswich; also again at Freston another observation was made of the quantity of the angle from Nacton to the said wind-mill at Stoke in Ipswich; and by drawing two lines from Woolverston and Freston (according to the quantity of their respective angles observed from Nacton), they concurred in the point before assigned for the said wind-mill, so that, although we dare not say that it is mathematically true (for if so it must not vary the thousandth part of an inch), yet we dare take the liberty to say, it will stand the test of a mathematical demonstration, and be useful, pleasing, and intelligible. And as such an undertaking is too great and too expensive to be undertaken by private persons, without encouragement, it is hoped that, as several gentlemen have already subscribed, others will follow their examples, for the promoting so useful an undertaking. There shall be no more printed than are subscribed for, nor sold for any other or lower price. [Suffolk Mercury, 29 Oct. 1733] Proposals for surveying the county of Suffolk: By John Kirby [only]. [Description and prices as in the advertisement of 1731.] The author gives this publick notice, that such gentlemen as think fit to subscribe for their arms, may do it to the persons undernamed; the author defers the engraving of the plate for that reason, till the first day of next March. Subscriptions with arms are taken in and receipts given, in Ipswich by Mr William Craighton, bookseller; in Bury St Edmunds by Mrs Mary Watson, bookseller; in Yarmouth by Mr Holliday, bookseller; in Lowestoft by Mr John Stannard at the Queen’s Head; in Southwold by Mr Turner at the Swan; in Halesworth by Mr Palgrave at the Angel; at Harleston by Mrs Money at the Pye; in Bungay by Mr Percivall at the Tuns; at Scole-Inn by [the proprietor] Mr Harwin Martin;19 in Sudbury by Mr Samuell Lawsell at the Crown; in 18 19

Detailed comments on Kirby’s accuracy appear below, page 231. Harwin Martin at Scole Inn commissioned from Joshua Kirby two drawings of his premises, giving prominence to the elaborate sign which stretched across the road. They were engraved by Joseph Wood. But see Suffolk Traveller, 1735, 53.

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Lavenham by Mr Thomas Paulson; in Beccles by Mr Abraham Todd at the King’s Head; by that curious surveyor Mr Francis Emerton of Gillingham (who has declined to the survey of the county of Suffolk and a delivered a list of his subscribers to me, with a valuable consideration for their subscription money), and by the author in his progress through the county, and at his house in Wickham Market. The author does hereby oblige himself to deduct out of his subscription money the money that have been subscribed to Mr Francis Emerton. Dated from Haverhill, 22 Sept. 1733. [Ipswich Journal No. 645, 23 Dec. 1733] The survey of the county of Suffolk, as before proposed to be undertaken by Nathaniel Bacon and John Kirby, has been, and now is, attended on by the said John Kirby; the coast now being truly surveyed from Harwich to Yarmouth, and the river Waveney from Yarmouth to Diss in Norfolk. The authors hope it will not be unacceptable to the readers to give an account of the true horizontal distances of the several towns under-named, from the market cross of the town of Ipswich, viz. from the market cross in Ipswich the horizontal distance to Diss, 17m. 5f.; Eye, 15m. 3f.; Debenham, 10m. 6f.; Harleston, 22m. 1f.; Yarmouth, 43m. 7f.; Halesworth, 22m. 1f.; Framlingham, 13m. 1f.; Lowestoft, 38m. 2f.; Southwold, 27m. 2f.; Wickham-market, 10m. 3f.; Woodbridge, 7m.; Aldeburgh, 18m. 6f.; Orford, 15m. 4f.; Harwich, 9m. 3f. Corbridge must have been devastated at Emerton’s defection, but toiled on for two more years until in December 1735 he could announce that the maps of Norfolk and Suffolk were printed and ready to be delivered to subscribers at Norwich. He also promised a four-sheet map of Cambridgeshire which seems never to have materialised.20 Kirby, however, needed even longer to produce his map. Ever hopeful of soliciting a few more subscriptions particularly from the gentry, he was prepared to set new deadlines for the receipt of gentlemen’s arms. [Ipswich Gazette, 12 and 19 Oct. 1734] The survey of the county of Suffolk being now compleated by John Kirby, and a great Part thereof engraved by Mr Collins at Bury St Edmunds who proposes to have the plates compleated in January next. The county of Suffolk contains in circumference 196 miles, its greatest length from east to west is from Southwold to the county river in the fen country of Mildenhall and is 52 Miles; its greatest breadth south and north is from Landguard Fort to Harleston, and contains 28 miles; containing 1196 miles square, and 748160 acres. [Prices and terms unchanged.] Subscriptions are taken in by Mr Craighton, bookseller, and Mr Bagnall, printer; in Bury St-Edmund’s by Mr Collins, engraver, and Mr Watson, bookseller, and by the author in Wickham Market. Such gentlemen as please to have their arms, are desired to send them to any of the abovesaid persons truly blazon’d by the end of November next, otherwise they cannot be inserted. [Suffolk Mercury, 14 Oct. 1734] The survey of the county of Suffolk being now compleated by John Kirby, and engraving at Bury St Edmunds, will be ready for the press by February next.

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[County dimensions repeated, terms unchanged and final invitations to Gentlemen to have their Arms inserted.] In just under a year, the book’s publication was announced in Ipswich and Norwich in late August, with yet another appeal for new subscribers to the four-sheet map. The book was offered gratis to all those who had ordered the map, and to those who now put their names down. There seems to have been no separate offer of the book for sale on its own. It was also too late to have one’s arms engraved. [Ipswich Journal, 23 Aug. 1735; Norwich Gazette, 30 Aug. 1735] This day is publish’d in 8vo. The Suffolk Traveller: or, a journey through Suffolk. [The descriptive material which follows is familiar.] The books will be delivered to such gentlemen as have already subscribed to the map with all speed, and such other gentlemen as please to become subscribers may have these books sending their names and subscription money (which is 5s. down, and 5s. on delivery of the map) at the following places, Mr William Creighton bookseller, Mr Stephen Kirby at the Gryffin, both in Ipswich, Mr Watson bookseller, and Mr Richard Collins, ingraver, both in Bury, Mr John Gudgeon in Eye, Mr Hall in Debenham, Mr Francis Emerton at Gillingham, near Beccles, the printer J. Bagnall in Ipswich, and the author at his house in Wickham-Market. N.B. The plates of the map are very near engraved, which when finished, shall be printed off without loss of time, and published with all expedition. The first maps and roadbook published When in 1736 the decorative and well-printed map eventually appeared it was worth the long wait. Kirby dedicated it to Charles Fitzroy, 2nd duke of Grafton, placing a full achievement of his impressive arms at its head. For this there will have been no charge, but more than one hundred members of the nobility, clergy and gentry paid the premium to see their arms engraved also. The engraver Richard Collins of Bury St Edmunds had used four copper plates 750 by 600mm. In 1747 he engraved Thomas Warren’s plan of Bury, beautifully embellished with elevations of the principal buildings and arms of local worthies.21 Complete copies of Kirby’s maps are rare; of the one dated 1736 copies have been located only in the Map Rooms of the British Library and Cambridge University Library, both uncoloured save for washes along hundred boundaries.22 The map is singularly free of explanations of the conventional signs, but mills, churches, houses, parks, woods and castles are easily recognised without them. Watermills appear as pierced and rayed black circles. There is a compass rose, and a delightfully decorative cartouche with John Kirby’s name, the date, the engraver’s name, ‘According to Act of Parliament’ and a scale of miles. Winged putti are busy with measuring instruments and a large globe. Otherwise the following notes suffice: N.B. This Character [a church inverted] denotes a Church or Chapel to be in ruins. This [a house] a Steeple in ruins. The Roads Survey’d are mark’d thus, .............. Cross Roads not Survey’d thus, ====== 21 22

A framed copy hangs on the staircase at SROB; BL Maps 5250(I). Suffolk 1736 by John Kirby: BL Maps K.Top 39.4, 11YAB and CUL bb.17.G.62.

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Taken together, Kirby’s map and book provide a selective directory of the nobility, gentry and clergy of the county. Much of the detailed information Kirby promised on the 1736 map had to be consigned to the book which has become rare, so that it is here reproduced in facsimile and, for the first time, given an index and tables of mills and other features of interest. In 1737 a cheaper edition of the map appeared at half the scale; the heraldry, names of property owners and much other detail was omitted, and the engraver was Isaac Basire whose characteristic rococo shell cartouche contains all the titling and descriptive matter. The earliest copy of this map so far located was printed in the 1760s by John Shave, the Ipswich publisher of the second edition of the Suffolk Traveller in 1764, who added his imprint in the lower margin of the impressions he took for sale then.23 Perhaps as a response to the Corbridge maps, which fit together in a way which makes some journeys between the counties plain, Basire’s map has Norwich at the extreme northern edge and roads join that city to Thetford, Bury St Edmunds, Botesdale, Scole and Ipswich, Bungay, Beccles and Yarmouth. Further plans unrealised It is not generally realised that John Kirby began to plan a new edition of the Traveller as early as 1739. Indeed, according to his July advertisement that year, it should have appeared early in 1740. Failing that, there is no known reason why he did not complete the project before his death in 1753. [Ipswich Journal, 14 July 1739] John Kirby, the author of the map of Suffolk and Suffolk Traveller, published in the Year 1736, is obliged in gratitude to acknowledge the encouragement he received from the subscribers to that undertaking: which has emboldened him to publish a second edition of his Suffolk Traveller, with considerable additions and corrections. The book is designed to be put to the press before Christmas next; and it will be acknowledged as a great favour, if any gentleman will be pleased to give the author notice of any errors or omissions that they have observed in the first Impression, by letters directed to him at Wickham Market; which he desires may be left with Mr William Craighton, bookseller in Ipswich; or Mr Samuel Watson, bookseller in Bury St Edmunds. [Ipswich Journal, 22 Sept. 1739] [As last with this additional note:] NB His last map of Suffolk, (Price 2s) is sold by S. Watson at Bury, and W. Craighton at Ipswich.24 As well as advertising for improvements, John Kirby called on two expert antiquaries, Thomas Martin of Palgrave (d.1771) and the Revd John Tanner of Lowestoft (d.1759) to suggest amendments and additions to the first edition. It was during Kirby’s lifetime that at least some of the material was added to an interleaved copy of the first edition,25 but as it was not until the early 1760s that the Revd Richard Canning of 23

Suffolk 1737 by John Kirby, republished in 1760s by John Shave of the Butter-Market, Ipswich: SROI MC4/14. 24 It is the 1737 half-inch map which is offered for two shillings; by March 1750 the price was further reduced to 1s 6d. 25 The annotated copy is now Bodley, Gough Adds Suff. 8vo 31. John Tanner’s own interleaved copy containing most of the additions and corrections he contributed is in SROI HD1538/66. In just a year after

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Ipswich began to incorporate them in the second edition of 1764, discussion of their nature will be found in the section after next. [Ipswich Journal, 31 March 1750] [This advertisement offers the Basire half-inch map of 1737 cheaply.] Whereas there are a quantity of the lesser sort of maps of the county of Suffolk, taken from an accurate survey made by the Author John Kirby, undisposed of: Notice is hereby given, that the publick may be supplied with them by Joshua Kirby, painter in Ipswich, and Mr Tinney, print seller, in Fleetstreet, London at 1s 6d each, till all are sold. NB. No more will be printed, unless by subscription. Joshua and William Kirby continue their late father’s work Just as the first maps were preceded by the 1735 edition of The Suffolk Traveller, so the later ones came out shortly after the 1764 edition. In 1763, Joshua and William Kirby (John’s second and third sons) advertised an octavo Traveller, with frontispiece map (4 miles to the inch) and four detailed road maps all prepared for the engraver by Andrew Baldrey, Joshua Kirby’s partner in business as domestic and heraldic painters. The Kirbys made a special point of giving pride of place to their late father’s name on the prospectus and title-page of the new edition, perhaps because in his lifetime he carried out more of the work of revision than is yet known. The first page of the bifolium prospectus26 is reproduced in Fig. 2. That the Revd Richard Canning was the editor of the improved Traveller is only revealed in the account given of his life and work in John Nichols’ Illustrations of Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. The subtitle of the section is ‘The Editor of the second Edition of the Suffolk Traveller’, and there is no reason to doubt Nichols’ authority since Canning chose anonymity in five other publications, only putting his name to two sermons, and the Traveller was his last.27 The book was published on 15 September 1764, price 5 shillings sewn in paper wrappers and 6 shillings bound. A plan of Ipswich, reduced from Ogilby (1674) and maps of separate hundreds which Baldrey had drawn for the new book exist only as originals in private possession. Useful additions to this edition were the lists of borough and county Members of Parliament and High Sheriffs. Shave offered copies of John Ogilby’s nine-sheet map of Ipswich at the same time for just 4s 6d.28 Revisions between the first and second editions The process of amending and supplementing the information in the 1735 edition probably began as soon as the first readers answered John Kirby’s invitation in his preface. The appeal was repeated in the Ipswich Journal of July 1739, about which time John Kirby sent an interleaved copy of the book to his two principal helpers, John Tanner and Thomas Martin. Tanner, the natural administrator, gave accurate and precise information; Martin’s style was more anecdotal. his death it passed from Browne Willis to William Cole, both of whom added notes which do not appear in the 1764 edition. The book went from Cole, Ord and Phillipps to Lord Iveagh. 26 The only known copy was collected by Richard Gough in Bodley, Gough Gen. Top. 364 at fol. 750. 27 Nichols VI, 538–45 (1831) and see his entry in Oxford DNB, 2004. 28 Surveyed in 1674, published in 1698.

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Fig. 2. Prospectus for the second edition of The Suffolk Traveller, London, 1763.

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John Kirby’s frequent ‘To whom it was granted at the Dissolution of that priory we find not’, was just not good enough. Bishop Thomas Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, first published in 1696, contained information of which Kirby was unaware. John Tanner, the bishop’s younger brother made sure that all the monastic foundations in the county were correctly described (as abbey, priory or college) and that the date of their dissolution and names of new, mainly lay, proprietors were given. Tanner was also the first to quote Dugdale’s Monasticon. Both antiquaries gave dates at which disused churches ceased to hold services. Tanner enthusiastically combed wills (most of them ‘in the Beccles office’) for bequests to church buildings, towers and porches, etc., and these details he gave at, for example, Woodbridge and Framlingham. He corrected an error of some twenty years in the date of the arrest of Thomas Bilney while preaching in St George’s chapel, Ipswich (not in Mary’s, but in her father’s reign). Tom Martin and John Kirby debated the non-existent silver crown of Mendlesham in time to take it out of the second edition. On page 31, Kirby gave ‘In this Age some Persons in digging here, found an Antient Silver Crown weighing about 60 Ounces, which is thought to have belonged to Redwald, or some other King of the East Angles.’ Thomas Martin corrected him: ‘I think this was found at Rendlesham, not here’ but Kirby only confused matters by adding his ‘Answer: That was a Piece of Money according to this Author, not a Crown.’ It was of course Bishop Gibson who, in his 1695 edition of Camden’s Britannia, reported the find at Rendlesham in the 1660s; it was unfortunately sold and melted down before it was recorded. This is the story repeated in the second Traveller at page 105. If Kirby had used Camden, he misread the placename. It was also left to his helpers to add information from John Weever’s Antient Funerall Monuments, 1631. Both Martin and Tanner did much to improve the account of Bury St Edmunds, and the places near which they lived and worked: Botesdale, Bungay and Beccles, Lowestoft and the whole north-eastern part of the county. Kirby had taken very little trouble over Lothingland and Mutford. Tanner understood what was caught by the fishing vessels of the coastal towns, correcting ‘herring’ at Aldeburgh to ‘sprats, soles and lobsters’. Unlike Kirby, Tanner and Martin had the status to penetrate the private chapels of large houses, such as Tendryng Hall. They also eliminated much of the faint praise which Kirby had lavished on such places as Haverhill, and, surprisingly, Wickham Market. On the other hand, they felt that Kirby praised some ‘Houses of good Entertainment’ too highly, particularly those at Botesdale, Halesworth and Scole.29 Tanner pointed out that East Bergholt’s church tower was unfinished rather than in ruins. No one spotted the error ‘Barham’ for Baron Pretyman at Bacton on page 109. Tanner wanted Covehithe called Northales, and improved such names as Ash-boken. Kirby, no stranger to the Shotley road, should have known Freston Tower, but did not mention it, leaving Martin to suggest that ‘Freston is remarkable for a Sumptuous high tower near the River.’ Tanner noted that the ‘steeples of Alderton and Bawdsey made very good sea marks, but both greatly decayed’. Both men tried to demonstrate that Hartismere hundred had the best record for longevity of its inhabitants, citing a man dying at ninety-five, whose wife had borne him a daughter in her fifty-eighth year. Under the parish of Cotton the new edition has two similar stories. It was, however, Martin who provided the last and best anecdote about the Revd Richard Lovekin, for fifty-seven years rector of Ufford, said to have been 111 years old when he died in 1678, having preached the Sunday before his death.

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‘This gentlemen was plundered in the grand Rebellion, and lost all his Goods except one Silver Spoon, which he hid in his Sleeve.’ The 1764 edition, better organised and about half as long again as the first, has this story on page 116. John Kirby acknowledged the help he found in Browne Willis’s Parochiale when compiling the final table of parishes, church dedications, patrons and impropriations. Tanner stated the obvious when he urged Kirby to revise it completely for it was thirty years out of date. The new edition uses the table, stripped of Hundreds, Deaneries and Religious Houses to which livings belonged (two-hundred-year-old information), to provide an index of parishes and hamlets. Canning certainly accepted all the suggestions made by Tanner and Martin, as well he might. It was he, however, who quoted Dowsing’s Journal in his edition, from the manuscript version of one of his St Lawrence parishioners, Edward Duck, brasier.30 No printer is named on the second edition title-page, but as Henry Woodfall printed the prospectus, he probably took on the whole volume. The one-inch map of 1766 [Ipswich Journal, 20 Oct. 1764] The editors of the second edition of the large map of the county of Suffolk, request the favour of those gentlemen who have subscribed for their arms, and have not yet sent them to the agents of the editors, that they would send them truly blazon’d, within one month from the date of this paper, to Mr Shave, bookseller, in Ipswich, or the same cannot be inserted on the map. Having published the new Traveller, Joshua and William Kirby, mainly as underwriters, turned their attention to a new edition of the one-inch map. The brothers still owned the original plate for the half-inch map and could reprint it without alteration. But the larger map presented two problems, one trivial and the other insurmountable. At some stage, to provide an armorial bookplate for one of the viscounts Hereford, a piece of copper measuring 3½ by 3 inches was cut from the north-east plate.31 A fragment of the upper swirl on the ‘V’ of Viscount which appears below the motto scroll on the bookplate demonstrates its origin. None of the other arms have been found in similar use, so that four large copper plates were ruined by one thoughtless piece of cannibalism. A more serious problem for the Kirbys was that the copper plates had passed from Craighton to a rogue printer and bookseller, called Thomas Page, who enters the story twelve years later. Meanwhile, a complete re-engraving of the map was essential and John Ryland was chosen to do this. Like their father, the brothers had to coax subscribers to order in advance and to pay extra for their arms to be displayed. There is no evidence that the second edition Traveller was offered free of charge to map subscribers. The new plates had all things decorative in the latest fashion. First of all, however, since no fresh survey was carried out and the accuracy of the 1736 map was accepted, Ryland pasted sheets of the first map on to the face of his copper plates so that he could score through the outline of the county, its rivers and roads without further trouble. Fresh titling was then added, and the names of the owners of arms and estates were revised. The ‘Explanation’ at bottom left makes explicit for the first time the symbols used on 30 31

Trevor Cooper (ed.), The Journal of William Dowsing, Woodbridge 2001, 142–3. Price, 9th viscount, succeeded 1700, sold Christchurch at Ipswich in 1735, and died in 1740. Price, 10th viscount, died in 1748 and with the death in 1760 of Edward, 11th, the line ended.

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Fig. 3. Armorial bookplate for Viscount Hereford, printed from a copper cut from the Kirby map of 1736. the earlier map, adding a black letter B for Boroughs and M and T in ligature for Market Towns. The measured distance between two places is expressed by a figure in a circle placed across the linking road. The example given was for Ipswich and Woodbridge: 7-5 in a circle indicating 7 miles and 5 furlongs. The title of the map in the cartouche at top right reads: 1766 A New Map of the County of Suffolk; Taken from the Original Map published by Mr John Kirby in 1736. Who took an Actual & Accurate Survey of the whole County; Now republish’d (with Corrections, & Additions) by Joshua & William Kirby, sons of the Author, 1766; And Engrav’d by Jno. Ryland. Again, contemporary impressions of the new plates are exceedingly rare; just one copy at the British Library is known.32 There is approximately the same number of coats of arms as on the first edition, but the landowners are those of a generation later, and room was made for twelve views of antiquities, seven owing something to the engravings of the brothers Buck (with a B below), and five others (K below) from Joshua Kirby’s own pen. Suffolk antiquities depicted on the 1766 map B Burgh Castle K Butley Priory B Mettingham Castle B Wingfield Castle B Framlingham Castle K Covehith [sic] Church 32

BL Maps K.Top.XXXIX.5 or Maps C.24.e.26; SROI S1/2/300/5.

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B Orford Castle K Bungay Castle B Leiston Abbey

B The Gateway to Bury Abbey K Blithburgh Priory K St James’s Church at Dunwich

These twelve views of antiquities in the county are reproduced on the jacket of this volume. The 1764 Traveller, its subscribers’ list and the 1766 map provide the select directory to the county in the 1760s in Appendix B. Joshua and William Kirby called ‘Pirates’ Ten years after the new one-inch map was published, Thomas Page (born 1710), a ruthless operator on the fringes of the Ipswich book trade, advertised copies of the 1736 and 1737 Suffolk maps for sale. He began as journeyman to William Craighton who in 1738 bought John Bagnall’s business, selling the bookbinding side to Page, on condition that he did not trade in books. Page did not keep to his side of the bargain, and in late 1750 he and Craighton conducted an acrimonious correspondence in the pages of the Ipswich Journal, of which the latter was the publisher. At some stage before 1776, Page either bought, was given, or misappropriated not only a considerable stock of the earlier maps, but also the original copper plates of the large-scale one. He could now, with some justification, refer to the Kirbys’ 1766 map as ‘a pirated or pretended survey’. After all, he was selling the original fruits of John Kirby’s three-year survey. [Ipswich Journal, 2 Mar. 1776] The large set of maps of Kirby’s actual and real survey of the county of Suffolk, printed off upon four sheets of imperial paper, from the finely engraved copper-plates, thereof, are sold by Tho. Page, bookseller and stationer in Ipswich. The beauty and correctness, as well as the very small price of the above map, being only 10s a set, it is presumed will recommend it to the public in opposition to any pirated or pretended survey. NB. Any bookseller or other persons in Suffolk, Essex, or Norfolk, desirous of vending the above map, may be supplied with sets, with proper allowance for their trouble, by applying to the said Thomas Page. Also the above plates are to be disposed of. Enquire further of the said Tho. Page. One week later the Kirbys, through Shave, expressed their disapproval in dignified terms, stating that Basire’s and Baldrey’s maps were to be ‘sold wholesale and retail by J. SHAVE, bookseller, and by no other person in Ipswich’. It is odd that they were not offering the 1766 map, for, even if they had exhausted the first printing, they presumably still had the plates. Perhaps they saw an advantage in offering maps at a fraction of the cost of Page’s. [Ipswich Journal, 7 Mar. 1776] Mr Kirby’s map of the county of Suffolk, taken from an actual survey, on one large sheet of imperial paper, and coloured, is sold wholesale and retail by J. Shave, bookseller, and by no other person in Ipswich, pr. 1s 6d and may be had of all the vendors of this paper; likewise the smaller map, price 6d only.33 33

The maps here offered are Basire’s engraving of 1737 for 1s 6d and Baldrey’s frontispiece map to the second Traveller for 6d.

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Of whom may be had, Mr Kirby’s last edition of The Suffolk Traveller, price bound 6s a book, found truly useful for every person who is desirous of acquiring the knowledge of the history of this county; giving a large and full account of Ipswich, with its suburbs; the hundreds contained in the county, in their several orders, viz. Babergh, Blackbourn etc. . .; and from the above every village is taken in alphabetical order, and some account given of each. To render this work of general utility, to this edition is added four engraved plates, by which the traveller is directed by Plate I. from Stratford upon Stour to Yarmouth. Plate II. The road from Yarmouth thro’ Beccles, Bungay &c. to Newmarket. Plate III. From Ipswich to Thetford, and from thence to Newmarket. Plate IV From Ipswich to Scole, and from Bury through Melford, Sudbury, Boxford and Hadleigh to Ipswich; with directions at large for travelling all the cross roads in the county. It likewise contains lists of the members of parliament. . . Alphabetical lists of the parishes in the county, and the patron of the livings, with their valuation, as they stand in the King’s book. Stephen Piper reprints the 1766 map in 1825 The hand-colouring of most extant copies of the 1766 map, including the one reproduced for this edition, was added in 1825, when Stephen Piper of Ipswich, claiming to have revised the plates, merely amended the fifth line of the title. He erased the words ‘Joshua & William Kirby, sons of the Author, 1766’ and substituted ‘S Piper, Bookseller &c., Ipswich’. Piper was unconcerned that, by 1825, most of the owners of properties named on the map were long dead. Piper had obtained the 1766 plates from the estate of a fellow ‘Yellow’, Henry Seekamp, Whig leader of Ipswich in the early nineteenth century. Piper was completely open, however, about what he had done in the following advertisement. Prices had inflated a good deal since the map originally appeared, especially for the more elaborate. [Ipswich Journal, 12 Nov. 1825] This day Stephen Piper advertises this late impression from the 1766 plates which were until his death penes Henry Seekamp. Few impressions had been taken earlier. The whole map measures five by four feet, and includes 124 coats of arms and twelve views of antiquities in the county. Plain uncoloured sheets 15s.; coloured sheets 20s.; On rollers and canvas 30s.; ditto coloured 35s.; views and arms coloured £4; highly finished £6 6s. 0d. Later editions of the Traveller Two contemporary editions of The Suffolk Traveller claiming to be more up-to-date were printed at Woodbridge and sold by Smith and Jarrold, c.1817, and John Munro in 1829; the second is the more useful. Augustine Page’s Supplement to the Suffolk Traveller (Ipswich 1844) has much information not found in earlier editions.

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TRAVELLER: A Journey through S~ffolk: In which is inkrted the true Di-

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fiance in the Roads, from Ip/zuitb to every Market Town in S~f'nlk, and the fame from Bury St. Edmundr. Likewife tbe DiRance in the Roads from one Village to another; with Notes of DireCtion for Travellers, as what Churches ,and Gentlemen's Seats are aged by, and on which fide of the Roag, aod the diftance they are'at from either of the faid Towns.

With a Short Hifiorical Account of the A.na tiquities of every Market Town, Mona* iieries, CaRles, &c. that were in former Times.

Br J O H N K I R B Y , Who took an Atfua2 Survey of r be 6holt Couaty in the rearj 1732, 1733 and 1 7 3 4 "

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Of the Courlty of SUFFO LK. Right Honourable, Worihipful 2nd R everend,

Y your Encouragement I have been enabled to make an AiYlral .Yarvey of the County of .Yi~@olk. At firfi I only propos'd to my fiff-(hzing taken the Horizontal DjRances of the Pariih Churches and other remar kablc Places) to Survey the Roads of the mofi confiderable Traffic iifuing from Ip/. wicb, Bury St. E~mund'sand other confideable Towns in the County, and t o infert the DiRanc~sin my M A P ;with an Account of the Civil Government of each Town, the Fairs, Markets &c. But in my Travels many venerable Pieces of Antiquity offering themfelves'to View, I thought A 2 it

i t would not be unacceptable to give a fhort Hifiorical Account of the Monqfteries and Caftles that have been in the County, whofe Ruins hill befpeak their former Grandeur. T o all which L have added a fhort Acp count of your Scats, and from whom they dcfcended to you, according to the beR Accounts I could get. What Errors 1 may have committed in this or any other Matters, (which at the firfi Effay were almofi unavoidable) I hall be very ready to acknoweldge and correa in another Edition which I dcfign to make in a .little Time, upon better Information ; and I ball acknowledge it as a great Favoor, if any Gentleman will be pleafed to give me Notice of fuch Errors, and how they hould be correEted, by Letters direEted to me at ZPickhnm-Market. A N D here I muR thankfully acknowledge, that being defiitute of that Learning that might qualify me for fuch a Work, I have been favoured by bveral-Reverend and Learned Gentlemen, with fuch Materials as I could not my felf have found, befidcs the correaing my incoherent Copy ; particular!^ to one Reverend Gentleman for the Alphabetical Table at the end of this Treatife; but I forbear to Name them, without leave, for fear of givlng Offence. Wickham-Market.

I am, hfy Good Lords, and Worthv Gentlemen, Your mofi obliged and obedient Humble Servant,

JOHN KIRBY.

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bridgefiire, on the South with the Rives Stour, dividing it from Egex ; and on the North with the Little-OuG, and Waveny,dividing it from Norfolk. Its length from Eait to WeR is 5 2 Miles, its breath from South to North is 2 8 Miles ; making the Circumference 196 Miles ; containing therein 1169 Milee Square, or j4S,~60Acres ; being divided into 2 2 Hundreds, in which are zS Market-Towns, the whole Namber of Pariihes is j2j, befides Hamlets, of which more at the End of this Treatife. T H 1 s County is naturally divided into the Sand& . lands, the Woodlands, and the Fielding. The Sandlands is that TraCt which cxcends itielf b y the Sea C0&, from Landguard-P'ort to Yarmouih, and contaills mofi (if not all) of the Huudred of Colil:s, pxrc of the Hundreds of Carlford, Wilford, Lox, P13rnctB. gar6

( a): gate, 31ythiog, bfutford, and Lothingland. This Parr may alfo be fuhdivided into the hlarfh, Arable, and Heathlands. (The Marfh-land is naturally Fruithful, reat Numbers of Oxen and Sheep; and fome. times w en ploughed i affords the greatefi Crops of Corn of any other Land in this Gounrry, T h a t Part which ' is Arable, is in fome Places i~acuralIygood for.TGllage, and produces excellent. &ups. of all forts~of.Corn; and where it is in a manner Barren, it is. found fit forllmprovement by Challr Rubbifh, Clay, and;a late diicovered Cragg, or Shelllsthsught [phere it can 'be found) p-eferable to the other two, and alfo Cheaper: to come at. So that many Hundreds of Acres of that Land which formerly w& counted of little Value, now prdduce oobd Crops, ro the no fmall Profit of the indufiritrious%uf" bandman. T H E Heathy Part may c o n t a i ~about ~ one-~hird of the Sandlands, and is uikd for Sheep-walks. T H E Woodland Part extends itfclf from the NorrhEaft Corner o f the Hundred of Blything, to tf e Southb Weft Corner of the County at Haverill; and includes @art ofthe Hundreds of Carlford, Wilford, Loes, PlomeG gars, Blything, Blackbourne, Thedureftry, and Thingqoe$ all t h e Hundreds of Risbridge, Babergb, Cosford, Sarnford, Stow, Bofmere and Clcydon, Hartdinere, Hoxne, Thrcdling, and Wangford. This Part is ge~lerallyvcry. Dirty and Fruitful. I11 ctlis Part is made the SuEolk.Butter, To managed by the Xeat DairyWife, that io is jultly elteemed the plcaf'antefi and beff iu England. The Cheeie, if right, made, none rnucll bettcr, and if not fo, I I O I I ~can benwarfe. T H E Fielding Parr contait~s;all thc Hundred of Lacktbrd, and the remaining Pares of the Hundreds OF Blackbourne, Thedweilry, and Thingroe; and is moil of ir Sheep-Walks, yet afiords,gdod Corn in divers Parts,

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more convenient Govcrnmei~cwhereof, it is divided inta two Archdeaconarics, viz. Suffolk containing the Eafiern Parts of thisCounty, and Sudbury including the Weit: crd?arts,. Thefe two Archdeaconries are tubdivided inta -. - --

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zt Desilsries. The Deanaries in the Archdeitconry bf Suffolk are, 8ofmere, Cleydon, Hoxne, Lothinglanti, nrilhrd, Loes, Carlford, Samford, Wangford, Durlwich, Orford, Southelmham, Gipwic, and Colnes. T h e Dea. naries in the Archdeaconary of Sudbury are, Sudbury, Stow,Tl~ingoe,Clare, Fordham, Hartfmere, Blackbourne and The'dweltry. T h e Towns and Parilhes in each Deanary, appear in the Table of the Ndmes of the Towns and Villages at the End of this Treatife. T h e r e are moreover in the Archdeaconar~of Sudbury 1 2 Parifhes in Cambridgemire, whofe Names appear in th'e Map, uiz. Afhly, Silverley, the Burwells, Cheevcly, Chippenham, Fordham, Kirtling, Kennct, Snailwell, Soham, Wooddicton, and New-Market-All-Saints; 9 Hamlet of Woodditton, they are Part.of rhe Deanary of Ford ham.

T H E CIVIL Government of this County, is in t h e High sheriff, for.& Time being T h e divifion of this County, in ref$& of its Civil Government, was formerly divided into the Geldable, and the Liberties of St. Edmund, ;St. Ethelared, anddSt.Audry ; but the prefcnt -Divilion, IS into the:GeldaBle and the Franchire or Liberty ofiSt. Edrnund, leach df them furnifhes a diitinCt: Grand Jury at the AITtzes. W h a t Part is in each L i berty appears at the Enti of this Trearifi. Suilblk and Norfolk were formerly under the Government of one High-Sheriff, till the 17th Year d f @eel1 Elizabeth, when SuEolk had a High Sheriff of its own, diitine from Norfoltc, which was .Robert Afhfield of Ncther-

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T o w A R D s the M IL E T ARY Defence of the Kitlgdom, this County furni&es, as itsQuota .ro4theMilitia, 4 Regiments of Foot, the White, the Red, the Yellow, and the Blew, each coniifliog of -6 Companies. The White is raiied in the South Part, the Red in the North about Hoxne Hundred, the Blue: in the EaR about B e e cles, and the Yellow in the WeB about Clare. T h e r e is olie Reginlent of Horfe of four Troops, each fiverally carrying the Colours of the Foot Regirncnts, and belonging to them, being raikd in the fame Parts of the CounB2 trJ'

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try. T h e Militia is under the Command of the Lord Lieutenant of the County, the Moft Noble C HARLES Duke of G RAF TON, being ,the' prefent Lord Lieutenant.

A s to this Surve , the Author in making it firft took the true Horizontal iflances of the Parim Churches, and other remarkable Places, at 250 Stations, 'from the tops of Steeples, the Country being Woody, or the Parifh Churches moAly fituated in Vallies, which made 'the TasIc more tedious ; having taken the Horizontal DiAances of Places, his next Task was to take an A&ual Survey of the Roads ; which being effeee'd, in the blap is infated the nearkit DiAance that can be found bc tween any two Places, alld alfo the TmvelIi~~g Gifiance ; as for ExampIe, frdm Ipfwich to Saxmundham, the true Horizontal Diftance is IG Miles and 'g Furlongs ; the Travelling Diitance exaaly zo Miles, and l o of the reA. T h e Journal t h ~ twas taken in the Suryey of the Roads ~rrforms1heTravellerof the Biftances in the Roads, not only from one Marlret Town to anotber, ,but liktwife from one Villa e to another, the Turnin s to be avoided to the Rig t and Left, with oiher goons of DireBion, as what Churches and Gentlemgno Sedts ar,e paged by, and on which 6de of the Roag' tb'ey afe fituate, with other Remarks touchink the 'Ancient EDate of a11 Monaeeries, .. Cafiles, and :other Pieces ' 'of Antiquity. T HE Roads do not follow in an Alphaljeticil Order; but Ipfwich is made the firR Centre, aria'Bury St. Edmund's the nexr, and then otherTownsLasthky foilow ; and the-Rdads are treated of, as they iKue- ther5from. I N O w of no MiRakes, in either tht 'Ho,rlzontal orTravelling DiRances; but as nothing of t'h~snatute was ever yet performed with that Atcuracy, blut' that fome h a l l Slips might be obierved by the Curious, this perhaps may be my Cafe : yet if the Map, 'and this fmaII TreatrE be judged of with as much Candour and Impartiality, as the Author ul'ed Indufiry and Care, in cornpleating thcm, he doubts not-but both will meet with Acceprauce.

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lar.geToan, and thechief Town inthe County. It 'lies 011 the North Gde o f the River Orwell, which rifis -chiefly irom two Springs, one in Rattlefden, and the ather in P1'erheiden, though there are,folne other Syringa ~h;hichr11n iryoit, the moil obfervabic of which are deXcr~bed in the-Map. T H I s T o w n was pillaged cwice hy the Danes in the %pace of I I Years ; and before that Time it lmi been a Corporation, and HaifiHundred, and had divmHam. t'ts and el 7ht Rarfies, viz T r i a i r g , %:Mary, S.t Mic h k l , St.. otolph, St Laurence, St. Peter, St. Stephen, Jhe eighth' by 40me miRake is omitted in the Book of Retords from whence this Account is taken, but ir m y be fuypofed to be ORerbolr ; fur it1 the z ~ f of i Edward rhe ' l ~ l d I. find mention of a Tenement abutting on 'St, Clement's-Greet on the Ea#, and upon the Em p t y $'lace cali'd Shire Houfe-Hill, and the Church-Yard of zhe antiquated Church of ORerbolr on the Weit; and in the 3d Year of the fame King there is menriot1 made of a Tenemel~tin the Key l'arifh, which had ,Shire-Houfe Hill on the North, and the-Salt Water otl ghe Souttr ; from whence may be. colleLked r l ~ a xShire-. 'Houfe-Hill was on the n'orth of the AngelfInn at the ' K g y , and r)iterboltvs Church-Yard above that. The Town had $3 Acres of Demefn, and, paid 154: per ' qnnum Fee-Farm Qent to the .King, Jt was oncampaged with a Rampart and Ditch, which the Daacs demoliflied in the Year 991 ;. bpt King Johnqin the: 5th Year of his Reign, ordered them to be re-buiit,tjy. the Aid of the Country, and of the County of Cambridge* 'bVbc11 the Normans got Poffeaoti of this K i n g d o g $fie Conqueror, to keep the People in Awe, vbqiit many t CaRles, and among them one at IpKwich, whkki'Hugh '.Bigod, Earl of JYorfollr, mainqiperl againlt Kin Ste:.p,Ij.tiq!~,but was ,pbliged to Surrender ir. This Cafl e is fo ehtkely dsmolijhed: that not the leaR Rubbiih. of it is fo be found It is -by many iuppofed to have flood"in mr nigh WafierSeld, but b o t k r s more probabIy an 'the Berth-weit &de~f the own, between Brook%?bEaEi .!add

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confiderable Maritiine Tradt, bug nw p e a t as formerly, it having been reduced in its Ship. ping by Shipwrecks and other hlisfortunes, particularIr by the Iofi of the Cloth Trsde, of which vaR quantities were ihipped off here for Foreigu Parts. T h e r e have been fix Yards confiantly in ufe, where were built near 20 Ships, every Year, and, there have been. reen. in the Winter near 200 Sail- of Ships belonging to the Town, many, of them of 300 Tons, and+none under 80. H a R E are at prefknt in this T o m but I z Parik. Churches,St Mary Tower, St. Margaret, St. Laurence, St. Stephen,. St. Nicholas, St. Peter, St. MaryKey, SC. Clement, St.HeIen,, St, Mary-Stoke, St. hlary at Elms, and St. Matthew ; but there arc evident hlemoirs of four others, St Mildred, St. Auitin, St. George and St. Edmund Pountney; the former was where the T o u nHall, now is, and is frequently mentitioned in the Recotds of the Town, and it was a Church To larely ass. And that it was a Parilh Church apSpeed's Surve pears from a ecord in the 6th Year of Edward IN. where there is mention of a Tenement it1 St. hlildred's Parilh, between a Tenement on tha We& and. the Ap* ple Marltet on the EaR, one Head abutting on St. M I L dred's Church on the South, and. the Corn-hill 011 thc Sorth. I N the Rolls of Court Pleas, 5th of Edward IT. mention is made of a Tenement between Loligate-way a n d . St, Auitin's Church on the. oilel Part, and the Salt Water on the other. I N the ;d of Edward I'I. E',leEtors were cboGn one+ af the feveral Parifhes ro choole Portmen, viz. o u ~of St.Margaret's 4.Tower 4. St. Marthew's and Sr.Georgeb 3 St. Mary-Elms and St. Nicholas's 4; St. Peter's all& St. Aufiin's 4. Key and Ss. Clementb 9, St. Saphen's a n d Lat~rence's4. St. Helen's being 1ek o~it.ih this E1eeion.t A N D in the q,th of Richard 11. there is a Roll of t h e lawhl Men of full Age in the feveral Pariihes, where-B. find tbe Hamlet of S t ~ k ewas united to St. Auitin's ; far there we have in St. Margaret's 214. St. Hellcl~'s zg.,Sr, Clement's 13 j Key 45. St. Petecs's 10;. Brooks Ham6 9 .

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performed there, and on that Accou!~vifted by Pi?, grims from all Countries ; it is m~ntioqed-ih one of the Homilies of our Church (againR the Peril af Idalatry, Part 3 .) by the Namt of our Lady of Ipiwich. This fioed at the Northwelt corner of Lady Lane, llear St. Matthew's Gate, over againit the George inti. There was aifo a miraculoys Rood in Srolte Parih, near the Place now called Golden Kood Lane. Here were aifo many other -Religious HouCes, filled with Monks, and Friers viz? 1. Tw E Priory of theHoly Trinity replete with black Canons AugoRins, founded by Norman GaQmdc, the Son of Ednot, and John de Oxenford Bihop ot Norwkh, in the Rei n of Henry 11, King John, irl the 5th Year of his ke$n, confirmed to them tbis HouTr, with the feveral Lands, Churches, and other Poi'l'cliiouu iven them by many BendaBors, and gracted them a kair to laR for three Days, beginning on Holy Kood Day, Sept. 14. But this Pair was lince gratued to the Town by rhe firit Charter of King Charles 11, to be held in roch Place ds they fhall appoint. Tius Houfc was valued at its I~iffolution at 88 1. 6s. 9 d per Ann. io the Kin s Books. It was fince granted to Edmui~d Withipol, by the InrereR of Philip Ba-nard, Ell,; of Rice Hall in Akenham, Efcheater to the King, a M a n of a valt Ellate, faid to have been owner of tnolt of the Lands between Wood bridge and Scow -Market, whore Daughter Mr. Withipol married, and builr a hanGmc_ Sear: here, called Chriti-Church. It cootiuned in the Family of the Wirl~ipols till the la@ of them, whole Daughter was married to LeiceRer Lord Vii; coum Hereford, who left his Honatir and ERxe to t w o Sons by aficond Wife, LeiceRer a i d Edward, CuccefiveIy. After them his Ddughrer, who married a privdte Gentleman, enjoy'd the Efiare. T h i s delightful S e d t has been latelypurchafed by C LA U D B F ON N ~ K E A U ,U;; 11. T H E Priory of St. Percr and St. C ~ u l , a Priory likewiie of Btgclr: Cdnons, near St. Peter's Church This Moufe w ~ sgrauted to C d i n a l Wotfey ; ,a~d here he built and plent~fully endowed a Gallege, as a Nurfery ro his College at Oxford, then &!led Cardilrdl Coiledge ; bur acer it was feized by C the a

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fhe King it was called, as it is now, ehrifl-Church College. T h e Gateway leading into this College at &pfwich, is now ftanding entitie with the King's Arms over it in the Came Manner as over White-Hall-Gate, which was likewiG built by him. This is now a Gate. .way to a private Houfic built where the College Aood. 111. T H E White Friers Carmelites, founded by Lord lardefly, Jeoffery Nadleigh, and Robert Norton Knt. This flood where the County Goal lately was and the Eeifions Hode, which was a part of the old Building ; but that, and almofi all the refi, is now pulleddown. IV. T n E 6t-e~ Fpiers Minors, or FramciGang, founded by Lord Tiptoth. T h i was in the Parifh of St. Nicholas, near the Church by the iide of the Frefh River. Confiderable remains of it are yet to be fecn V, T H E Black Priers Preachers, founded by Henry d e Manesb , Henry Redred, and Henry de Londharn, was at its uppreflion granted to Mr. John Southwell, the King's Chirurgeon, of whom the Town purchafid she greateft Pan, where now Chritl'E Hofpital, the FreeSchool and Library are ; and the Executors of Mr. Henry Tooly pur chded the reif, whbc now his Foundation for the Poor is, of which anon. T H E R E is alfo mention io the I 9th Year of Edward HI of the. Friers of St. James and St. Mary Magdaletre, and of an ERate &flatbelonged to them. T a E B H was befides there the Houfe of Sr. John Ba till, where now the CroE-Ke Inn is. Likewife t IC Hofpital of St. Mary Magda ene over againft St. HeItn's Church, frequently mentioned in the Records of he Town with that of St, James's. And in the fir@ Year ,ofKing John St. James's Fair was granted to the Eck Houfe ot St. Mary hlagdaleae. T M E R L are remains of mapy other antient BuIIditlgs to be ken, but what the were is unknown. There is alfo fre~uenr mentionof 'r. Leonard's HoTpitarl, parti cdai-lv In the z 5th Year of Queen Elizabeth; and in her 418 Year &lr,.VbrilliarnSmart by his Will left .a Betac* daCtiuu ro the Sick and Lazar Houfes ok St. Leonard iu lpfwich and Sr. Thoqus Apountney. I find alfa a ipection

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mention of the Church of St. Petronilla, on the Heath towards Bixley, Among the Perfons of Note born,or inhabiting in this Town, Cardin~l Wolfey muR have the firit Place; who was ( according to common Tradition) a Butcher's Son of this Town. His mofi trufly Setvant, who always attented him, even to the Hour of his Death, who wrote his Life, and mhR be fup ofed to have had a4 cvaa a knowledge-of him as any lociodg,f y s , Truth it is, Cardinal WolGy was an hone@ poor Man's So11of Ipfwich in the @ountyof Suffolk.' Heroic to the hipheff Pitch of Honour and Grandeur, that it was poable for a Subjea so attain to, and was fuddenly Rripped of all, bein arreffed for High Treaton at his Archiepifcopal Pa ace at Cawood in Yorkkire, (he being Archbifhop of that Provh~ce)and as he was carrying to London, he ,died at LeiceRer Abby, and was buried in St. Mary's Chapel befon ing to the Came : Thus felt the greatefi Clergyman t at ever England bred. C H A R L E S B R AN D O N , Duke of SutioIk, who married the ueen Dowa er of France, SiRer to King Henr VII , had a anlion Houfe here, now the coac Houre i n Brooks- R ~ c t . T h e ManOon-Houie of Sir Humpl~ryWingfield, Knight of the Garter, is in Tankard-Rreet- There is Rill a beautiful Room, with a very fine Chimny-Piece, and a Ceiliqg wrought ibrnething after the manner of that in King Henry VIT Chappel at Wehinfier, finely painted and gilded, and adorned with a great Number of Coats of Arms, This was a Popifh Chapel, in King James IId's Time, when Sir Ch riitopher Milton, one of the udges, lived here ; it ha. been for fomc Years a ancing-School. T h e Manfion fometime of Lord Curfon, and after him of divers Knights of that Name, now commonly known by the N a m ~of the Ki~~g's FIofpital, becaufi in therime of t h e Holland -Wars, it y a s an Hofpital for lick and wounded Seamen, Gnce known by the Name of the ElephantsndCaBle, is remarkable for its fiatel Porch. I r now belongs to the B i h o p of ~ o r w i c &and is Lett upon Leafe. T h e Archdeacon of SufFolk has alfo a very good Houfe in - . Brook-fireet near St. Margaret's ~ a t a *

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his MajeRy's Courts at Weflminfier, and to a11 other Courts whatfoever, though they be Caufes that may concern the Crown ; and they ihall be allowed, fhewing their Charter. They appoint the A&ze of Bread, Wine, Beer and other Provifions, by Weight and hica. fire. No Free~nancan be obliged to firqe on Turks out of the Town, nor to bear any Offices for the king, without his Codent ; yet many of them havC beer, made Sheriffs for the County. Nor are they obliged to pay any Tolls or Duties in any other Parts of the Kingdom. They have CaR the City of London in a Tryal at Law, for Duties demanded by the City of Freemen's Ships in the 'River Thames. They are entit~iledto all Waifs and Strays, Goods of Felons, Outlaws and Fugitives, and other Deodands, within their Liberties ; to all Flotibns and etfons, or Goods loR at Sea and fwirnrnil~gor calt or^ S lore wkhin 'theit. Admiralt Jurifdi&tion, which reaches to allplaces where the Sea f rows, or in time to come lhall flow, from the Town to the farthen Point of LanwrthRon, at a Placc; called Lepoiles,Polle&ened, or ~oRiilhedin Alto Mari, and to allplaces within that,on the Coafi ofEffcx beyond Harwich, and on the Suffolk Codlt on either fide; and the Bailiffs hold their Admiralty Court on the Gi Point of LangarthRon, bevond Landguard Fort, fu rnoning aJury or Inquell 'of ille Inhabiunts on both lidos. And their Water Bailiff receives Money of all Ships for Anchorage or taking up BallaR within thele Limits. This Town is honoured in givin the Title of a Vikount, to his Grace C HARLES uke of GRAETON. T Hu s rnucl~.for Ipfwich, from whence we will now Cct out npon our Survey of the County.

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W 00D B R I D G E, a confiderable large Market Town, extending icfelf oq the Road from North to Souch fomethitlg above half a Mile, and near as much from Eait to WeR. It is iituate near I I m. from the Sea on the WeR Gde of the River Debeli, which is Navigable to the Town, where Ships of confiderable burthen come up to the Key to lade and unlade their Goods. It drives a confiderable Maritime Trade, having kveral Veifels imploy'd in the NewcaRle, Holland and London Trades ; there arc one, or more PagageHoys that Weekly fet out for London on T h u d days ; and others return from thence Weekly. T h e Church and Steeple are noble Buildiugs, founded by John Lord Segrave, dedicated to the Blelfrd Virgin Mary. On the South Gde of the Church h o d tho Priory, founded by Sir Hugh Roufe or Rufus, to which one Hanfard was a confiderableBenefa&tor, but of what Order I am not infoi-med. Ic was valued at its Diffolution 50 L 3 S. 5 d. per Ann. Ie is a good old Seat, now the Eitate of Thomas Carthew of Benacre in this Coui~ty, Elq; This Town has formerly traded cot~lderablrfin Sackcloth; and now is impl~y'din refining Salt. It has a tolerable Market weekly on MredneCdays, w hitt~erthe Farmers in the Neighbourhood reiort to it11 their Corn, Cheefe, Butter &c. It' has two Fairs yearly, the one on the 25th day of March, very confiderable for young Cattle, the other on the z ~ f i(lay of September. la the midft of the Market Place is a Handfome Pile of

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'F a o M, t l x Crown Inn in Wickham; At z 3 E the left turns to Eaficn. At 4 9 f. is Wickham Bridge, a little further a Dladsfmith's Shop, clofe on the lefc, the right leads to Campfey-Afi. At 5 4 f, the left t o P;~*andlii~gham, of which hereafter; herc torn on the right. At I m.isthe 5 Crois-ways, the right to CampG y - A f f ~the , right acute brwad to Aldeburgh (of which hereafter) the left to EBfion, At I m. 5 f. the left acute forward to Glemham mag. At I m. 7 f. aB1acku f n~ith'sShop clofe on the right ; the right goes to Or ford, the left so Framlingham ; pafling from hence over the River Ore at Dymers Brid e, at 3 m. is Glemham pawn Village ; palling from leaving the Park and Mp. North's fine Seat on the right, at m. 5 $ f is the Korth View of the Hall. At 4 m.6 f. Strat-. ford St. Andrew's Church a lirtle on the left, the left to Glemhanl mag. here turn to the right over the Bridge through Farnham Villagc. At j m. I f. the lefc roa.1 forward ; goes to Sweffling; here turn on the rig!^^. At 5 m.4 f. i s Benhall Stockhouie clofi on the I&, the lift acute backwards leads to Sweffling. A t 5 m. 5 f. h e right to Aldeburgb. At G m. the right acute backward to Langham-Bridge, here n ~ r nto the Iett pafi Benhall Dial Pofi on the lefr, and Benhall Green on the right. At 7 m. 5 f. is Saxmundharm, a Blaclchith's Shop clofe on rlie right, thc right Pea& to Aldeburgh, of which hereafter.

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Y A R M OU 'I'M, is a Towll in Norfolk, built upon a little Tongue or flip of Land between the River and the Sea. The River Yare wafhes the Weft.-tide rhereof, making the bcfi Key in England. It is a vcsy neat well built Town, and well filled with Gentry and other Inhabitants. It drives a confiderable Maritime Trade to divers Parts, It is urual to fee in the Winrer Seafon zoo Sail of Ships unrigged and laid up in .the Kiver, the chief Part of wh~chbelon to the Town. There is in this Town but one l'arik Church, but that a noble StruErure, and is a good Ornament to the Town. It was built by Herbert Bifhop of Norwich. But here is a Cha cl of Eafe to rhc Psrifh Church, a curious Piece o ArchiteAure, lately builr* T h i s Tow11 drives alfo a calliderable Trade in exporting Herrings, Malt k c . It is a Town Corporate . ~ c r n e dby a Mayor, Remrder, and S~eward. 5?gh"i

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G OR LES TON, is a tolerable well built Village about 4 f, in length., in which is nothing obfervable, but the Ruins of an old Budding, fuppoi'ed by Air. Camden to be the remains of fome Religious Houfe, P A s s I N G along f ~ o mhence about 3 f. beyond Corlefton, we obkrved a Stone Crofi in the Road. The Hoadlnow leads over Commons; pafing through a Hamlet of Hopton called Brothertbn a litt!e beyond this at 4 m. 5 f. is Hopton M'hite Hart Inn. Here the Road right forward goes to Rlutford Bridge, of ehich hereafrer ; therefore turn to the lefr, at 4 m. j Kis Hopton Church cloie on the lefr. At 6 m. 2 f is Corton Churcll dofi on the lefi ; the right goes to kound. At 6 m. 5 f. the left turns backward to Gorlefion by the Shore tide. Paifing from hence leaving Glinton Church about 3 f on the righr, avoiding the right hand Way leadingto Loweftoft Church. At 8 m. 6 f. enter Loweftoft-Areet, and at 8 m. 7 f f. come tos

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S~UTHW 0WLD,a Town pkafaatly Ctuate nr a ~ i l j ,being almoff furrounded with the Sea and she River RI th, over which it ha& a Bringc for entrance into .t e Town. The Bay, called corruptly Sowl-Bay, is a commodious Place for Anchorage, a& makes the Town much reforted to by Mariners, which adds exceedin ly' to its Trade Bnd Commerct. I t is alio Famous the Rendezvoas of the R o y ~ l Navy, and near it $he E,nglifh and Dutch have dif. pured the Dominim of the Ocean with Powder and Ball, efpecially in .at,memorable Sea-Fight, ~ I - I D Elom. 167a, in w the Englifh reinained Conquerm. II I is a T ~ w nCorporate, governed by two Bailiffs .and other Sub-Oilicers, but fends. no Members to Parliament. It has a tolerable Market. weekly on ThurG days, indifferemly well ferv'd with Provifmns; . and. two Fairs yearly, the one on the Monday after Trinity Sunday, and the other on the FeaPc of St.Bartholomeu~. Et drives a confiderable Trade in Salr and old Beer, having excellenr Spring9 of good Water, drhich may be the greateft Reahn their Beex-is to much efieemed. T H u s much for Southwould. Returning back ever the Bridge, at 4+ f. the right as -aforefaid goes aver Potters Bridge to Loweitoft. At 5 f. the lefi leads over Wolfey-Bridge to Hareikorth. At I m 4 f. the right turns to Froitendon. At I m. 5 f f. is Raydon church clofe on the right. At 2 m z f. f. the right goes to FroAendon. At 3 m. z f. is Wangford Village, where the right turns to Henfiead, of wbicla hereaf~ee Here turn 01.1 the left.

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dderable remains of it adjoyning to the C b u r d q. pear at this Day. A r 3 m. 4 f. crofs the River Wang ; paG alon r -voiding the firfi turning to the right leading to gerhsll, and leaving Henham Park clofe on the righr, at 5 m. 1 f. the rightleadsto Hdlefworth, the left ovcp Wolfey-Bridge, to Southwodd. At 5 m. 4 &,f.is the Beecles Road through Bulchamp Hamlet. At 6 m. .;f- f. is Blithburgh White-Hart Inn. CQ Y T I N U I N G our Journey from Blithburgk White Hart Inn to Me!ton Village, we yafi nlbng from thence, avoiding the firfi turning to the right leading to Yoxford, and keeping the Road right Lrward. At 2 f. the left leads to WeRwood Lodge. A ' 5 4 f. is a Windmill clofe oh the righr, t h right goes to Wenhafton, the left to Walderfw~ck. At I m, bf. the firfi right hand Road leads to Halefworth, the jecond to Darfham, the left to Walderfwick. At 3 m. 3 f. the right goes to Dariharn. At 3 rn, 6 f. the right leads to WcRletai, the left to Dunwicb, leavi ~ itg on the left about 2 Miles.

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D U N W I CH, is a very ancient Town, and RQman Coins are often found here, from whepce i t may reaionably be inferred that it was formerly a Roo man Station. I n the R e i ~ nof William the CsnqueL ror, we are told in Doomfday Book,* whac a con&derable Place it was, 6%That in it were I 30 Burgenes, and xooPoor ; and that it @asvalued to tbarICing at 50 1. and 60000 Herrings. I n Kin H ~ n r yI1das Time we are told it was a famous Vil age wA1 itor.. ed with Richcs of all Sorts. It was then fortified w i t h aRamport, on purpofc t o awe rhat Arch-Rebel, R w bert Earl of Leicefier, who infulted and over run all thefe Parts; fome remains of which now appear. I T was made a Bilhop's See, in the Reigp of K inu Sigibert, Anno Dom. 6 3 0 Felix, being ~ofiirure% the firfi %&op ; who governed this See 1 7 Year$. Afcer him Cucceeded Thomas his Dedcoo, w b govern e d here 5 Years. T h e next was Bergllfus +Q grtverned I 7 Years ; aud after him fqcceeded Bifas, whq being Old and Infirm, divided the Bimoprick jot9 E; z aws

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ham ; in the other he continued himfelf. There were I o Bifhops of Elmham, and I I (after Bifus) at Dunwich. But by reafon of great Troubles in thoie Times, thefe Sees flood void almofi 100 Years, I n tbe Year 9 5 5 , in the Time of Edwy King of the Eafl Angles, one Athulfus was ordained Bifhop at Canterbury, and had his Palace at Elmham ; and after him r r others had alfo their Refidence at the fame Place, till the T i m e of William the Conqueror, who fubflitutin hi, Chaplain ArfaRus in the Pfnce of the laft of t eie, by his Advice trapflared the See from Elmham to Tbetford. William Herbert fucieeded him in Thetford, having purchaGd it of William Rufus for 1900 1. T o fatisfy for which Simony, Pope Pafchal enjoyned him by \tray of Penance to build certain Churches and Monafierie~at his own Charge, which he did, and amongit them the Cathedral Church at Norwich, laying the firit Stonc ot the Foul~dationwith his own Hands, with this Inkription, HUNCP R I M N M nu J U S T L n z P L I L A P I D E M , DOMINWS HEREBERTUS POSUIT SN N O M J N B P A T R l S B T F I L I I 'ET SPIRITUS S AN CT I, A M E N . He dedicated this Church to the Blefled Trinity. And cranflated the Epiicopal See from Thctford thither. T H E R E were fcveral Religious Houks in Dunwich ; 3 R. T h e Friers Minors, who had a very fail Church, and their poufe, which was encornpafled round with r Wall, was a good Building, as was alfo, 2d. That of the Dominicans or Black Fricrs. T h e former was founded by Richard Fitz-John, the latter by Sir Roer kloliihe. gd. St. James's Hofpital, which had a Erg= Church, and divers Tenements, HouGs and Lands belongin to it, which were appropriated to the Ufe 2nd Su enance of Sick, Poor, and impotent perfons. Maifon Dieu, another Hofpital dedicated to the Holy Trinity, now wholly in Ruin& The Temple of our Lady, was a very old Church, or Religious Houfe: It was a Place of great Kote for Pardons and $~dulgenzes, and had divers finements, Houiis'and

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There are confiderable remains of it now tanding ; i t was valued at its Diifolution at 18 I 1. I ; s. I $ d. er Ann. and is now in the Hands sf two PerCons: . $hat now called the Abby, and the Manour of this Town, is now the Eitate of the Lady Anne Harvey. T h e other Part called Lady's old Abby, was the Eftate of Edward Spencer, Efq; and now remains to his Family. There remain the Ruins of a Chapel on the South of Mifmer-Haveni which doubtlefi was part of this Priory. T H d s much for Leifton Priory, Return we now t o LeiRon White-Horfe Inn, to purfie our Journey t o hlelton, G o I N G from the White-Nore Inn aforefaid avoid the left hand Way, which goes to Aldeburgh, and the right that leads to Saxmondham, and take the Way n g h t forward. At I w. I f . is ColdfkirGreen, where there is a Fair kepr yearly on thc FeaR of St. Andrew and the Day following. . At I m, 4 f f. tbe right goes to Knodifhall, the kft to Aldeburgh, leaving a Windmill a little on tlle righr. A t z m. 3 f. the right goes to Saxmundham, tile left to Aldeburgh. At 2 rnt 5 f. is Polsborough; Gate ; the left goes to Aldeburgh, the right to Benu hall ; leaving Friffon Decoy a little on the left, at g rn. 3 $ f. a View tr, FriRon-Hall. At 4 m, the left acute backward, over Snape Rate-Ground, g o a to Aldeburgh. At 4 m. 3 f. is Stupe Gown Inn.

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thereto, than the Payment of half a Mark as a Penfion of Acknowled ement; and that the Abbot of ColcheRer might 8 f i t them twice a Year, and abide there with t z Horfes foulr Days. I t was valued a t its Diff01utio.n at 99 1. I s. I I 2 d. per Ann. It is now the Efiate of the Right Hon. the Earl of Strafford ; very little now remains of this MonaRery. I n rhb Parifh is a very confiderable Fair iearly for HorCs, now called Dunnifer-Fair, beginning the I I th of AuguA, and lafling 4 Days ; to which the London Jockeys relort. T nu. s much for Snape MouaRerp &c. PaIiing froin the Crown Inn aforefaid over Snap-Bridge, leaving the Abby a little on the right, avoid the.fir8 left hand Way leading to Orford, raking the right hand K d d . At 5 m. I f. is Dunniogworth Hall clofc on the right ; aveid the right hand Way that leads to Wickham-Market, (of which anon) and $.leaving the Ruins of Dunningworth.Clirpel a little oh the right. go ffrait forward for TtinRall Church, avoiding divers turnings ta tk right and left. At m. z f. is TunRall Village, the left turns to Orford. Here turn an the ri ht, a t 7 m. 3 f. is Tunfiall Inn ; the right turns to Iaxhall, the Road right forward goes in a t a Gate to Csmpfey-Ah, therefore curn to the lefr. A t 8 m. 2 f, the r ~ g h tgbes to CarnpCky-Ah, the left to Butley. At 8 m. 6 f. is a View of RendlekamHoufe.

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R E N DLE S H A M,or as Eede talls it, RBNDLi. C. as he Interprets it, the Houie or Manlion oc Rendilus. Here it was that RMwald King of the Eafi-Angles kept his Court. He was the fir& ZISHAU,.

sf that People that was Baptized and became a Cl~riftian, but dtuwards being reduced by his Wife, he ha6 (as Bedc express it) m the CIf fame Church, one Altar for the Chriitian Religion, aed a lirtle one for Sacri.fices to Devils. The Palace where hc thea kept his Court, h o d in the fame Place, where Rendkfhm-Houie now itands, which was the Seat of Edward Spencer, Efq; and now remains to Madam Anae Spencer hie Daughter, Here it was ghar Suid-

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to. Baud& -Ferry. back in the la& det!cribed Road over Wilford-Brid e, at 5 f. take the right hand Way up Wilford kills ; at r m. 3 f. leave the right which goes to Sutton Church, paifing over Heathy Land, leaving the one Bough Oak about half a Mile on the left, and Sutton Holly Bufh a little on the righs. At z m. 4 f. the right goes to Swon Cburch

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was aidently a Marlcdt Town (but i$ no& at prefent fo) for we find that Robert de Urford, after he had been twice ~ u k i c eof Ireland. obtained a ~ i c e o c of e King Edward I, in the I ~ t Year h OF liis Reign, to hold a Market weekly on Fridays, and a Fair yearly upon the Eve Day and Morrow of the Nativity of our BleK:d Virgin, September 8, at hia Manolir of BawdreTcy. How long this hlar'ket and Fair has bcen difufid we know not. R 6 T u R N we now to Meltoil Villagr", and from thence to Orford. R I. r u R N I N G from I d e l t ~ i Village l in the Blit!~burgh Road, at 5 m. 3 8 f. corning ar th:: SaldPit before mentioned, avoid the lett fbrward lesding to Eyke, and rhe right leading to Suttdn, take the middle Way, avoidi~gdivers turnings to the rig& and lefc. At 3 m. the right !:ads to Hollefly, the left to Eyke, eater in at a Gatc, p a a a g tljrougl~ Spratsl$trcet. A t 4 m. 3 f. Stavender-Pdrk on tile left. At 5 m, 2 f. leave it. At' 5 m, 5 F. is ButleyOyffer on the rig!lt,the right dn this fine the Oyfflr goes id Capell, ti,\: right oil the orlrer fide to BuJcyDREseY,

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B U T LEY, was of Nore for a Priory of Canoris Regular there founded by Ranulph de Glanvill, and dedicated to the Bleired Virgin Mary, about the Year of our Lord I I ;I , (after he had founded his Priory at LeiRon.) T h e Revenues and Podenlons of this Riory were very large, for bddes the Endowments of its Founder and other BenefaEtors, we find King Henry VII, in the aqth of his Reign, granted to Robert Brornmer, Prior of this Monaitery ofBut4 ley, and the Convent of the Came, the Priory of the Virgin Mary at Snape, in this C d n t y , with all the Rents &c. to. be annexed to the faid Priory at But& ley. I n was valued at its Diffoiution at 3 I 8 1. 2 7 s. z 5 d. per Ann. It is now the Eitate of Wright, Sfq4 In the Church of this Priory was ititerred the Body of Michael de la Pole, the 3d Lord Wingfield and Bar1 of Suffolk, who was Slain at the Battle of Agincourt in France, with Edward Plant agenet Duke of York. T H v s much for Butley-Abby. Purfue we now Qur Journey to Orford. Turnicg on the left atButley-Uyfier, pafs over the River ; at 5 m. j f the left goes to Wantifdeo, therefore turn on the right, pafs~n g over Pud dle-Water. At ;m. is Cilillesford Church a little on the left. At j m. 2 f. the right turns acute backward to Chillesford Mill, the left goes to Tunfiall. At 7 m. 3 E is Chiiksford Froize Itin, -pa&i12g from thence by the fide of Sudbourn Park, at 9 m. $ f. the left goes to Saxmundham ; here turn on the ri ght. At xo m. 2 f. is Orford Blatket Crofi. From Mrmdbridgc to Orford is

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.' 0R E PO R D, now commonly called ORFORD, is fituate on the &orth-Weit Side of the River Ore, and fo took its Name of Orcford. llfloft ofour Hiftorians Cay it is fituate on the River Ore, where it empties it felf into the River Ald, which is notoriorifl P alfc; for the Conju~~Aion of thofe Rivers are about s Mile South-Eafl ot Glemham Parva Cliurch, and rhercfore eould never be where: Orford now is. Xt w a s ansientlf

ciently a Town of gooh Account, havin file for its Defence, which formerly be onged a ltrongtothe Valoinies, afterwards to the de Ufbrds, and now to the Hon. Pryce D'Evereux, Efq; Son and Heir Apparent to the Right Hon. the Lord Vifcoutit Hereford. Other Towns on this Coafi complain of tlx l[ncurf~ons of the Sea upon them; but this Town has more reaton to complain of the Seas unkindneii, which with drawing, ir felf feems to envy it the advantage of an Harbour. At prefent it is but a mean Town, yet .it is a T o w n Cor .orate, governed by a Mayor, 8 Portmen, and rz d i e f Bur eGs, and fends t w o Members to Parliameqr. It as a mean Marlret on hlondays, and a Fair yearly on Midfummer-Day. 7'H E R E appears in his Town, towards the Keg, the Ruins of a BenediEtine Nunnery founded by Ralph de Albineio ; but the Time of its Ebulldation, or its Revenues doe not appear. There a?e confiderable remaitis now ftanding of the Caitle and Nunnery. R E T u R N we now once more to Melton Village, to take a Survey of the Road leading- from thence to Aldeburgh. P A s s I N G alon from Melton Village over Wilford-Bridge, t h r o u a Eyke, TunRall and Snapc, m Polsborough-Gate ; it being thither, (as is mentioned in the Road from Blithburgh to Melton) so m. ); f. here take the right hand'way, leading through a Lane called Rnihmer-Street, over Haflewood Common, at j m. I f. from the fiid Gats, is Aldeburgh Marker Crofi.

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Filhitlg for Herrings in the adjacent Seas, in their Seaions; yet it trades for Coals to N'ewcaitle, and Con1 is lranf~ortedfrom hence to other Parts. I t is tolerably firuare for Strength, and has feveral Pieces of Canncn fkr its Defence. T h e c h u r c h ftands on a Hill a little mreO of the Town, and is a very good StruBure. It is a T o r n Corporate, governed by two RailiEs, ten capital Burgeffcs, and z+ ~nfcriourOfficers. Jt e ~ ~ j o ydivers s Privileges, fending two Memhers to Parliainent &c. Here is a fmall Market ueekly on Saturdays ; afid t n o Fairs yearlv, the cne on the 3d of Scptcrnber, and the other &I the firit Tuefday in

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Yarrnouth Road,leading from thence to Eye, to Ncedham, and to Harlelton. A N D firit of the Road from wickham-Market to Eye. Pa(Tiog along from the Crown Inn in W i c k h a p Market, avo~dthe riglit fol-ward being the Sarmundham Koad, a ~ l d rhe left which goes to Dallingho; here crofi the Hill. At 3 $ f. the lefi goes over Potford Qreen, toward Meedham, of which anon. A t 5 $ f, crofi the River Debea at Glevering-Bridge. Pafling aIon , lraviilg Gleverin - Hall a little on the right, an8 the liJl a little on t c left, at I m. 2 f. the ri h t turns backward to Campfey-Ak. At I m. 3 f is af i o i ~ Brick-Kiln clofe on the right. At 2 m. 3 $ E is Eafion Church cJofe on the right, and the R7biteHoufe (the Earl of Rochford'sSeat) cloG on the left; here the right goes to Parham, the left to Letheringham. At z m. 5 f. is a Pound 011 the right, werc the' right goes to Framlingham. At 3 m. 2 E Letheringham-Abby is in View.

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the right oes to Framlingham. At 4 m. 5 f, is Mr. Sparrow's hanfion, clofe on the right; a little further the left right forward goes to Debenham, therefore turn on the right. At 4 m. 7 $ f. the left goes to Debenham, the right to Framlit~gham, and leave Brandcflotl-Hall about I f. on the left, of which more the Way right forward in another Place. Keepin? pa s by a Maofion now called over BrandeRon-Green, the Firtree, formerly the Seat of the worthy Family of the Stcbbii~gs. At 7 m. arrive at Earl-Soham Village, leaving the Church about 3 f. on the right.

E A R L - S 0H A M, probably the Place where Feliu the firR Bifhop of Dunwich i'ometime rcfided. For my Author fays, that Felix having governed in the See of Duilwich I 7 Years, died Anno 647, and was burped in his Church there. His Body was afterward removed to Soham, where he had his Seat fometime, and was bury'd in the MonaRery there, which was not long after demolifhed by the Danes. Capgravc tells us, That fome Ages after, Abbot Ethelflan having with great Pains and Charge found out bis Bones, removed them to his Abby of Ramfey in the-Rei n of King Canute. From all which 'tis probable 'cwas t ]is Soham, or the other adjoynit~gcalled Monks-Soham, it could not be the Soham near Ety ; that being in Camhridgefhire, and therefore not in the Diocdi of Dunwich. The Lodge at Soham is a good old Building, but whether it was raiied out of t h e Ruins of that Monaftery is uncertain, however the Lord Vifcounts Hereford had their Seat there before they removed to ChriR Church in Ipfwich, and it now remains to that Family. In this Par-iih is a new Fair for Lambs on the I 2th Day of July yearly. Thus much for Soham. P A s s I N G over a Brook: avoid the left turning to dfhfield At 8 m I f. i s Clough s-Corner, where the left goes to Ipfwich. At I o rn. I f. is a Direttion Pd, the kit gocs to Debenham. At 10m. g f. is Kent011 Chtlrctl a little on the left ; the left goes to Debenham. At I I m. I f. the right leads to Worlingworth, At I I m, 2 $ f. the left forward to De benhav, here turn on the right1 At I I m 7 $ f. tbe

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EYE, a Town ttuate in a Bottom between two Rivers, is a Town Corporate governed by two Bailiffs, 10 Principal i3urgdki, and 24 Common-Councilmen, Enjoys divers Privileges now, but they were hore extenfive formerly, reaching even to rhe Gates of York. It fend two Members to Parliament. The Town ir meanly .built, and the Streets dirty. Here is a mean* Market weekly on Saturdays, .and one Fair yearly on Whitfon -Monday. A s to the Antiquities of this Town ; we find that Robert Mallet, a Norman Baron (whofe Father came in with the Conquerar) havin fignallized hirnfelf in keeping King William on the hrone, has his Father had in fittling him on it, obtained d that King the Lordlhip of Eye, *it11 all the Appendages ot it, being zzr Manours, or the great& Part of them. He being thus yoffeffed of this Lordihip, built the CaRle here, upon a Hill near the WeR end of the Church ; fome of the ruinous Walls are Rill to be feen. This Robert was difherited of this Lordihip of Eye 'by King Henry I, and it was by him given to Stephen Earl of Bologne who afierwards became Kink of England. He lcfr i i to his Natural Son Willlam, who Riled himfeff Earl of Bologne &c. but he dying without %rs, Anno I 160, ~r reverted to the Crown. Afterwards Richard I, ave it to Henry V. Earl of Brabant and Loraine. bow Long it was in that Family we find not, bur it appears that it was in t5e Kings Hattds 9th of Edward XI, and fo continued, till Edward 111. Reg. 4. granted it to John of Eltham Earl of Corn-

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of Eyt. This Town was a Borough before theReign of King John, and is called in Writing the Town and Boi-ough of Aye.

H E R E appears oe the Eait Side of the Town, the Ruins of a MonaAery of Henedittine, or Rlaclc Monks, founded by the aforeraid Robert. Mallet+ w h o gave tcr i t the Church of St. Peter in-?Eye, with divers other Churches, Lands &c. T h e Foundation of this Houfe was no fooner laid, than it found confiderable Benefaeors ; for Ranulph de Glanvil one of the Barons or Gentlemen of Eitates were then called) of Robert hlaliet the cbief Lord of the Hox~ourof Eye, gave thci'e a Houfe in Jakefl bert de Monchenfy gave them alfo about tl e fame time his own Houfe in the fame Place ; William Earl8 of Bolein confirmed to there hionks the Lordihip of Acol (I fuppore Occold) and Stoke. f n the Reign of King +Stephen all tbefe Benefd&ions were confirmed to this HouCe, with a grievous Curfe ro the Violaters of them. This MonaRery was a Cell to the Abby of Bernay in Normandy, whoie Abbots were the Patrons of this at Eye, and in Talcen of their Domi. nion, during the Vacancy of a Prior, ufid to Place a Porter at the Gate, to be maintained out of the kouG, who at the Initallment of the next Prior, was to receive 5 s to buy him an Ox. It was valued at its DiC. fdution at 1 6 1.~ 2 s. 3 S d per Ann,Cays Dugdale, and at 184 1, 9 s. 5 d. Speed, Weaver.. This alfo is now the Eftate of the Right Hon, rhe Lord CornwaIlls. T Hv s much for Eye. R e t u r w e now to wickham-Market, and the b a d leading from thence, to Needham by Way of Coddenham. Pafling from thc Crown Inn in Wickham in the Rosad iaR treated of, a5 3 4 f. leaving the right going towdrds Eye, keeping the

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ham Street, pafling by the Parkon rKe rigIit. At 2 m, f. leave the Parlr, where the right 6 e s to Lether9 ~ngham. At 2 rn. 6 f. thc right fbrwai.agoes toChars. field Church ; therefore turn on the lefr over a Erook. At 3 m. 3 f. t b e right goes to Charsfield-Church; At 4 m. 4 f, is a Diredion P o t , the left goes to Wood-. bridge. At 5 m. 3 f. a Blackfmith's Shap clofe on the right, where the right'gocs to Hod, the left to Clopton. At 6 m'. is Catts-H111, waqrc the rigtit turns backward to Moneden. At 6 rn. z f. the left goes forward to Woodbridge, wherefore' turn on the riglit. At 6 m. 7 f. the ri ht forward goes to Otley Church, therefbre turn on t e left. At j m, j f: is a Dire&ion Poff, the right gbes to Helmingham, the left to Ipcwich. A t 8 m. 3 f. the right goes to M b a c k iog, the lefr to Iplw'ich. At 8 m. j f. 'is Hemingikon Hare and Hounds Inn ; the Road right forward goes to Henley : here. turn on the right. At 10m. 4 f. is Stonewall, a Blacl~hirh's Shop clofe on the left, where the right goes to Helmingham, the lefr to Ipiwich. At om. 7 t. the left goes to Hemingiton. At I r m. 3 f. the right goes to Gosbeck, therefore tpfe the left At I r m 5 f f. . is Coddt1d8fnL C r o m , the right goes to Debenham, and a little fur ther the left goes to lpfwich. At I m. I f f. we ~,rois: the Pye Road, of wh'lch here; i?ter. Palfing along through the Fields at 14m. 2 f , is Eofmere Rlill. Al 14 m, ;6, is Needliam Chapsl. 3

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PA R H A M, wzs the Lordhip and, Demcfi~of go.bert de Ufford Earl of SuffoUc, 9 Edward 11. He died polie&d of it 43 Ed ward 111. and left ir to h i s Son William, who bull& the Church here, but dying fuddenly in the P;1-%iment Houfc, it defcended to his cldcft Siitcr Cir-,iy, who married Sir Robert WilfoughbyKnt. ~ n carried d it into that Family. Their 1'0.. fieriry afcerwards became Lords Willoughby of Eresby, and for ibmetimc were in PoffeGen of this hlanour, rill Chriffopher Lord Willoughby of Eresby gave i r to his poungefl Son Chriito her, who took up his Kefidenee here, and for Difiin A5 OIL was called Willoughby of Parham. This ChriGoyher Lord Willoughb avc in his lslt Will, dated hlay 8, 1 8 Henry ~ 1 1 i ko'bur Pounds a Year to the Church of Parhrm in Satisti&ion of all T .tkes and OiFerings by him negligently forgotten. Wiiliam Willoughby Lis Sou and Heir, was in the 1 E d ~ a r dVI created Lor&Qrilloughby of Parham, 20th of February in that Year, he died r 6 Elizabeth, i 5 ;4. whore Succefli~rsnow enjo that Honour. Parham-Hall and hlanour, fince the d;illoughby*s, has been in Ceveral Families, and is now the EAat e of John Corrance, Ei;!; T H a R E is a remarkable P ~ c cof Curiotity in Pa1:barn Park, viz, a Thorn that every Year on the Ere behre thc Nativity of our Rlefled Saviour, Blii:' foms, and very h e r ] blows out, befides its blowing a t the ulual-Time, which ir always does very early. 1 N this Parifh in the A ~ r u m n ~ a r t e r 734, , out of a Gravel Fir, in a Field called b the Nsme of FrycrrClc6, was takcn the Bones o a Man, an Urn and the Head of a Spcar, fuppofed to be the lome Danifh commander. Thus much tor h r l s r n . l'ucfuiog our Journey to Pramliogham,, &a.

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A T 3 m. I f. we conle to Parhnm-Bridge, the right goes to Cransford, the left to Ealton. At 4 m. 5 E the Ieft goes i n ar a Gate to Eaffon ; therefme turn on the right over '.the River Ore at the broad Wav ter At g m. ;{.f. leave the left going through Framgingham to Dennington. At 5 q. 7 2 f. is Framlingham Broad Gatcs Inn.

F R A I I L I N G H A M , is a Town d a large extent, and in the midfl of it is the Borough ; it is plqaf ~ ~ l t lirated, y and well built, upon a Clay Hill near the Head of the River Ore, which rifing in the Hills 01.1 the North of the Borough, pa&th throu h the Town, and falletb into the Sea at Hollefley eyond. Orford. T h e Marker is' weekly on Saturdays, and a Fair on hlonday and Tuefday it1 M'hitfin-Week (procured by Thomas de Brotherren, Earl of Norfolk) and another .on the FeaA of St. Michael, Sept. 29. T h e Market Place is a very fpacious, being almofl an eauilateral Triangle. Between the Market Place and the Church, Rood the Hall of the Guild, or Faternity called the Guild of the 33leged Virgin in Framlingham. T H E Church and Cafile arc ear Ornaments of this Town. The L31urch is indee a Rarely Boilding, built (as is fuppofed) b fome of the Mowbreys, Earls of Norfolk,as appears y their Arms at the bottom, and, on the middle of the Steeple, but bein not comleated, was fit~ifhedb King Edward V . it1 the Piles lies bJrySdfevera of the Earls and Dukes of Norfolk. T H E R B are two Alms-HouTes, worth our remark in this T o w n ; the one ereCted by the Will, and at the Charge of Sir Robert Hitcham, for 1 2 of the poorefl and molt decrepit PerCws' in Fiqmlingham, and for their hlaintenance they are allowed z 9. ~ e r Week each, and 40 s. a Year for their Gown and Firing; they arc obliged, to attend the Prayers of the Church daily, at Eighr of the Clock in the Morning, and Four in the Afterl~oon; which if they ntgle@ to do, -their weekly Allowance &all be abated, except they can plead iuch Excok ns mall be allowed by the Mini> G 2 at$

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cr of the Toan, and cerrain otllers mentioned I t ) the h i l l ; and that Prayers be read confimtly, he fittled $or Eacrupon the Reader or Curate 20 1. a Year, and 5 I. a Yea 'upon the Clerlc or Sexton X j-~E ot er Alms-yon*, waS built by the T r u i t e ~ s of Tho. ~ i l i s who , had been a Wheelwright, but in the fate Times of difbrder t'um'd Texher, or Holde7forth among the Anabaptifts a t Saxted near t h i Town, ~ i n which Perfwafion he died Anpo I i o i , or there abouts. A .little after his @iqh his Truaees built this Alms-Houfe, for ej@t Poor Perions. His Servant Francis Mayhew, (if I *miflake nor) was a t the Charge of bqilding twp of rhek Apartments. Thefe pool- arc allowed Half-a-Cro n a WeeIc each, and yegrly an 'outward Garment, and ;o s. each for Firing. This they are to enjoy during Life, unlefi they are rurned out by the TruAecs for any Mifdemeanor. S I R Robert Hitcham by his Miill ordered a' Free Scllool to 'be founded w in t h i s T o ~ n ,with a Salary of 40 1. a Year to tl?e Msger, to Teach 40 of the poor? krt Children ef &is Town, to Read, Write, aad CaR Acconlpts, and wl~cnthey are perfeein tbc#, to give each r o 1. to bind them A rentices. A E to tbq nngiquity o this Town, we arc told nirh f ~ m epx'obbility that it war n Town of the Brit o n ~ ,ahd was ceiquered by ck Romans, wtien they defeated Boadicea rhe BrjtifEr Apazon. The. %aftle, which is the moll remarkable Rece of 'Antiq.ui,t it1 rhis TOWO,~ igs' built, as i3 iuppofid, by fome o the Kings of the ...Angles, but which of tl~em'ourH+ Kories do not mention. But it ma be not igproba: bi y ~ q p o f c dtq have been bqi~tby 4edsa~drlir: greatcR of them, whp kept, his Cours at ?$endke@ain, as i; rnel~ti~ried before; y er. this is wly Gon'eBure. ~ h { s Cafile is ilarge, beaurift$, and lfrong Buildin , c a a &sing in Land an Acre, one .Rood, aid i I bcrcbcs within the wailpnow Randing, but former1y a greatcr ?usnrity. The Walls arc 44 Foot high, aqd 8 thick, w kich are now itanding p r a y $mire ; there are r 3 Towers 14.Foot 'higl-rer than rhe Walls, two of which are 'Watch Towers. , Ir was Inacceffible on 11lcEsfi fide, becaufe of rhe: Meer adjo~nigg, and oq

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%addingham, the left to &ndiih. Here going up a Hill in a very indifferent Road, at 5 lh. j t. the right oes to Laxfield Church. Here turn on the Ieft througl a way called Sdrup Street. At 6m. 7 if. is Laxfield White-Horfe Inn, where the ri ht goes to tarfield Church ; h e n rdrn on the left. i t rn. I f. the left foryard goes to Stradbrook ; here turn on tile right, leavin the Seat of the late Archbifiap Sancrofi on the eft 3 f. At 8 In. 6 f. the right goes to Cratfield ; here turn on the left. At 10 m. f: the left goes to Stradbrook, the left forward to , therefote turn on the right. At 10m. 4 f. isFre$" mgfield Church Clofe on the right

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iE&wich. it had a conitant Garrilbn wi'th a Chap4 and many Houfes for the Governor and other OCcers,Gunners &c. It was lately dernoliked, and a Cia31 PlaMorm made illfiead of it, by the Waters Side. T h i s Fort is faid to lie in the County of Effex, and t h a t A r y of the Sea, which runs u p to Ipfwich, to have ran formerly between Langarthiton and the HighLalid of' Snffolk ; that L a d does ii~deed appear to )ave been formerly a Cliff' wafied by the Sea, and 1 am well informed t5at it is within the JurifdiAion of t h e Biihop of .Londot~. THUS much for .Landgaatd Fort opoiiie .to whichon the otlier iide of the Water is,

HXRWICH in Eifex, a Town itrong~yfituate by Nature being encon~paffed aln~ofirouhd by the Sea. It' was formerly well fortified, but the Fortifications were

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bearitlg date the 12th Day OF Jul in the Gme Yeart and they were commanded to Lrbeai levying th &id Duties, bur thar notwirhltanding, they had levyed the fame ar fiver31 Times mentioned in ' the Card Report ; upon which it was decreed that rliis Risht was iolely in the Bailiffs and Burgenes of IpTwich. This Cornmiflion, executed by two of the abovenamed CommiRioners, with ibe Report ligncd by the Jurors, is now to be i'een in the 'Records #ofthe Town of Ipfwich. Harwich is a neat, 'clean, well built Town, and enjoys a good Maritide Trade. It is 'a Town Corporate, governed by a Mayor kc, and fends two Members to Parliament, has a Market every TueG day, and Friday, and two Fairs Yearly, the firit on May Day, and the other on the ~ S t hof OLkober. Thus much for Harwich. Return we now to I

W A L T 0N, in which there itill remains the ruins of a Priory, of Black Monks of Rochefter ; dedicated to St. Felix the firit Rifhop of the Eait Angles, T h e Rigods Earls of Norfolk are fuppofed to have been the firit Founders, or at leslt great Benefa&ors to this Priory, T h e Monks were called t h e Monks of R o chefiex, becaufe Robert Bigod, their firR Founder, gave it as a Cell to the Monks of Rochefter, Ahno .Dam. I r 05 ;thc value we find not, it is now the E h t e of Alrs Atkini'on, W A LT O N has been an Antient Market Town, and though the Market is trow diiuled, the Market-CroTs is Ail1 remaining. IN the Neighbouring Parifh of Felixfiow, on r1.c Colnes tide of Woodbridge Haven, ftill appears tEIc Ruins of a Quadrangular Cnltle advantageouny fituated. I n the War brrween King Henry the 11. and his Son Henry, Robert Earl of Lcicefier(who was rngsscd for the Son) acternpred this Cafile at his firfi Landi~?g here wich a great Number of Flemings, and N ~ r m a n : ~ who tl~ough ai5fied by the Earl of Norfolk, whofeDcrnefn it then was, could rlot win it ; but, marching oB to Bury St. Edmunds, at the Battle of Fornharn was cncoritered by the K i n g i Forces, his Army totallp routed, hirnfelf and Lady taken Prifoners. It was aM ko~la

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Claydo11Villa5e, where the left goes acure backward to Bramford. At 3 rn. 7 $ f. the left over Claydon Bridge goes to Stew-Marker, of which anon. At 4 tn. is <:laydon F ~ l c o nInn,- a HouCe of good Entertainment. From thence we go through the Turnpike, and at m. z f f. the rightgoes by B~rhamChurch to Heilly2 %it 4 rn. 7 f. the right goes r b r o ~ g hCoddenham to Dcbenham of which hereafter. At 5 m. 6 f. is a Black d, fmith's Shop clofe on the left ; here the right gozs to Shrubland Hall. At 6 m. I f. the iefi g&s to Needham, At G m. 7 $ f. the left goes to Needham, tlie right to Coddenham, paGog over a Brook. At 7 rn. z $ 4 . crofi the Road leading from Wickham Market to Needham by way of Catts Hill, which is bzfore treated of. At 7 m. 5 f. is a Rlacltimith's Shop clofc on the left. At 8 m. z f. is Creeting Rlack-Horfe-Inn. From thence paffing along leaving Edrl -Stonham Church on.the Iefknesr 4 f. At lo m. I $ f . i s StonhamTurnpike, where the right goes to Stonham~Afpall, the left to Stow-Market. At 10 m. 5 I the left goes to Stonham-Parva. At 10m. 7 f. is Stoqi~~rn Pye Inn, 3 Houfc OF good Entertainment, clofe on the left. At: 1 1 m. 4 f is the four Elms, now the Seat of Thomas BlomGeld, El.], At I I m. 7 f. the right goes to Dzbenham, the left to Srow-Market, A t 12 m, 5 f. the Ieft gees to Mtndlefham. At 12m, 6 If. the lefi in at a Gate to Capt. Gibfon's, and towards Mendleiham. At 13 rn. the right oes to flrockforh Green. At 14 m, the right goes to %rockford Green; palIiog along, aboqr 6 f. on the left offers, itfelf to view,

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P ~ H S V I our N G Jouiney in tile fame Road, at 14 in. 6 f. the right goes to ~etheringfettCli~rch. At I 4 m. j f. is Brockford Village, here the right goes ta wetheringfelt Church, the lefr t6 Mendleiam, paGng along leaving Thwaite Hall and Park on the lefi, at 15 h. 5 $ 6 is Thwaite Buck's Heaa Inn.

T W W A I TE, this Villake has beep honoured with the Retidehce of the Kni htiy Family of Keeve,.who Iisd their Seat ar the Ha 1 here ; Sir George Keeve Knight was the 2zd of Jannary 1661 created a Baronet; this Family is now extin&. There are two Fairs Yearly held here; the o?e an the zgtbDay of June, and the other on the I 5th Day ,of sovcmbir. Here are two Houfis of good Enterrainment. At I 6 m. 3 t. the-righr gou to Thorndon, the left to Wiqkham Shgth. At 16 m. 5 t. the right o ~ to s rhorhdon, paning from hence over a Brook, eaving Stoke Aih Church a little on the right, ak I 7 m. i f E is Stoke White Horfe Inn, ;Z Houfe of &od Entcrtsinment; here the ri ht goes to 'Framlingham, the left to Thornham $f%na. ht IS m..I f. .'the r(ght to Braielworlh. A t 18 m. 2 f. is .Yaxley ~ull,filn,where the right goes to Eye, the left to Thornhkm Parva, At 19 in. sf. is Yaxley Church clofe on the ,right. At 119rn, 4f. is Yaxle' Pound, where, the r2ghr goes to 8 e the left to d d ~ c;ipafi along I&vlng o ~ i ciCiL t .a little an the f&. At t o m. ;, f. the right goes to Ilyi, the lcfi to Palgrabe. ' Now p&n$ over Great Lanthorn Gice?, at l r m. f , is Rroame S+n Ipn, where the r ~ g h'goes t over the fiid Green to Eye. A t 12 m. 2 3-4 f. is Stufian Stone, where the left gdes in at a Gate ,to bifs,.of which .anon. Pa@% from hence, le$ving Stufion Church about 2 f,@ tlie left. A t ri m. . r ) f. the right gvb to. H i n q tlk left to DiCs. At 22 m. 3 f. here the Boa@comes in that leads Ffom Bury St. Edmunds, to Yarmouth; of which 'hereafter. At z z m. j enter Norfolk rr ScbIe Bridge. And st 2 2 m 7 f. ts Stole-Inn:

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D I S S, is T o k n in Norfqlk, plcafinil fitnare aq a rifing Hill on the North Side of the iver Waveny. It is a confiderable large, and tolerably well built Town ; the Church is a very good Struehrre; thq Streets are now for the moR part well paved, and very clean, the Meere on the South fide of the Town is aa Ornament to it. It has a confidcrable Market werklf on Fridays, ,well fervcd with Fie&, Fih, and all other Provifions. It s bqt one Fair in the Year, and that i s held on the afi of St. Simon and St Jude. Thb chief Trade of this Town is in Linnen, Cloth, Yarn, &c. Here are divers reputable Inns of good Entertain: ment. THUS much for Difi We will now return to Ipfwich to take a Survey of the Road leading from thence td Debenham. P A S S I N G along in the laR mentioned Road through Claydon Village and the Turnpike as is aforefaid, at 4 m. 7 f. leave the Pye Road which r s right forward, and turn on the right leaving S rubland Hall and Park on the left. At 6 m. 4 f, the right turns to, Hemingfion ; therefore turn on the lefr over -a Brook and aA Coddenham Church, wherc the left goes to 'Need am, crds the Pye Road before treated of. At 6 m j f. is Coddenham Crown Inn, a good Houfe of &nertainment, where the right goes by Stone Wall Ito Wickhapl Market as is before mentiobed. At 7 m. 5if>

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t u t n on the lefr. At z m. 5 f crofi the River Orwell at Bramford Bridge. At t m. 6 $ f. the left goes through Sproughton to Copdock and into the Londorl Road, therefore turn on the right through Bramford Village. At y m. 5 f f the right goes to Claydon and the Pye or Norwich Road. At 4 m . 4 f f. the riglie on Road goes through Blalcendham magna to Need. ham and Bury. Here turn 011 the left, p a h g alo19g leave la ken ham parva Church near I f. on the right. At 5 m. j f. is Someriham Church a little on the left, where the left goes to Flowton. A t 6m. 3 f: is Somcrfham Village, where the lefr goes to Flow. ton, the right to Nettlefiead. A t m. f. the left to Elrfit. At ;m. z f the Road right on goes to Barking-Tye, therefore turn on the left by a Black.. h i t h ' s Shop. At 7 m. g $ f. the lefr goes to OffconCafile, Here turn on the right.

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he had Slain Etheldred King of the Eafi Angles. This Callle is now To entirely dernolihed that not the leait Rubbiih of 'it remains, It is now in the Hands' of kveral TruOees for Ufes unknown to me. This Town took its Name from King OEa, being called Offa's Town, now corruptly Offron.A T 7 rn. 6 f. the right goes to Barking-Tye, At ;m. j f. is Offton Church clofe on the left. At g m. 4 f. the right goes to Brifet. "At l o m. z f. rhe right goes to Brifct At ro m. f. t k left goes to Naughton. A t ro m. b f. the left goes to Naughtoil Church, leaving it on the left about z Now p;ifing over Nedging-Tye, leaving Wattiilam Church about 6 f. on the rigkr, at 12 m. 6 $ f. is Bildcitol-\ KeRory Houfe at the end of BildeAon Street .'. anti at 1 2 m, j 3 f. is Hildefion Market-Crofi.

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R E T V R N VJC now to Ipfwich, to Survey the Road leadin from thence to Hadleigh, again F R o nl t e Market-Crofs in Ipfwich through St. Mathew's Street, at z $ f.leave the Wheelwright's Shop on the right,and go in the London- Road Over Handford Bridge. At 6 f f. leave the London Road which goes oh right forward, and turn on the right by Hanford-Hall. A t I m. 4 f f. is a View of the Chantry, of which hereafter. At 2 m. I f f. is Clptain Harland's hlanfion on the left. At 2 m. 4 f. the right goes to Sproughtou, the left to Copdock, At 3 m ' 4 5 t. the right goes to BurAall Strcet. At 3 m. 7 f. crols a B r o ~ k . At 4 m. .& t. the left goes to f. I S Hintlefiam GeorgeWafhbrook. At , Inn, where the le t goes to Chattifham ; leave the Church clofe on the right. At 5 m. I f. is a View to Hintlefiam Hall, of which in another Place. A t 6 m. 5 f, the left goes to Chattifiam. At 7 m. 6 $ f, the Road right on goes to Lay ham, therefore turn on the right. At S m. 4 $ f. the lefc to Layham. At 8 m. 5 f. the right goes to Hadleigll Place; here turn on the left. At y m. ; $ f. enter Hadleigh Street ; here the lefc goes to Stratford; (ofwhich hereafter) torn on the right, and at p m. 4 & f. is Hadleigh George Inn.

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Anno 1555. Dr. Taylor for defending what was good,, I n this Place fhed his Blood. '

. I T has beetl, a Town Corporate, governed by a x Mayor &c. But a Quo Warralao bang brought a- . ainR their Charter, in the Reign of Jdmes XI, they gave never renewed it fince. Here are two hldrkts Weekly, on Mondays and Saturdays; the Market is very cotlfiderable on Mondays, (efpecially in the Antumn Quarrer) whither the Merchants and Fatmers refort to Contra& for large Q~antities of Corn ; and it is well ferved with all mmner of Provifions. Here arc two Fairs Yearly, the one on Monday in Wirfot~Week, and thg other on the 29th of September. T h e Town' is inditierently built, and being in a Bottom is generally dirty. Here are feveral Houfes of good Enterpiameat. T H u s much for HadIeigh. We will now return to Ipfw-ich, to take a Survey of the Road leadirlg f r o b thence to Stratford it1 the London Road. ?

FR the Market: CroG pall;ng through S t hfat. the& Strezt (in rhe lait mzntioned Road) over Hanford Bridge, at 6 f. avoiding the right turning to Hadleigh, keep rhe Way right forward. 4t I m. 5 if is a View to the Ci~antryon the right. At a rn. z f. the right acute forward goes ro Ci~~ttifham.Ar 3. m. z f. is Copdoclc Black-Boy Inn clok on the rlgh~,where the right goa through Brmfotd and I

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a Gate to BelAead, At 3 m. 7 $ f. is Copdock White Elm Inn clofe fin the right, a Houk of good Entertainment, where the right goes to Chattifham. A t

4 m. j , 3-4 f. the right to Wenham. At 6 m. 2 f, the left goes to Bctltly. At 6 m. 3-4 f. is Capel WhiteHorii: Inn, ciofe on the right. Here the right goes to Wenham. At 7 #m.5 $ f. is Capck Brook. At j m.. 7 E- the right goes to Wenham, the left to hfibergeholt. Pafling by a Blackimith's Shop clole on the right, at 8 m. the left goes to Eafibergeholt. At 8 m. 3, 3-4 f. here the right goes to Hadleigh, the left to Iiaftbergeholt. At 8 m. j $ f, the right goes to Higl~am. At 9 m, the left goes to Eailbergeholt; At p i n 5-4 f:rbe left goes to Eafibergeholt, of which hereafter. At y m. 7 f f. the left forward through a Watery Lane to Dedham. Here turn on the right, leaving Stratford Church clofe on the left. At I o m. I $ f enter Stratford Street where the right goes to Higham. railing through the Street avoiding the right 'leading to Sudbury and Hadleigh, of which anon. At 10 m. 5 $ f. is Stratford Swan Inn, a Houi2 of good, Entertainment, and at I I m, I $ f. is Stratford Bridge;

S T R A T POR D,is a through.-fareVillage, where the Woollen lManufa&ury. There is a great Trafic through the Pillage. Stratford Fair is Yearly on the I ~ t ot h the Inhabitants implo); themielves in June.

R a T a R N we 118w to Ipfwich, to the Road leading from thence to Cataway Bridge, l? R o I C ~ the the RIarlcer--Crofi palling tlirough St. 3ichoIas's Street, at 3 f. is Stoke Bridge At I m. 6't: is Bourn bridge, the left bv the Waters fidc gees to Shody, of which anon. Beep the Way right fbrwai'd. At*2 m. 5 f.. the left goes to Capt.BrandS, therefwe turn gn the right. Then avoiding diveis tirmin& tq-&z- right and left) at 4 m. 5 f, is . SaiJy

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Sandy Hill I t ~ n , whrre the Iefi gocs to 'l'attinglton Church. At 4 m . 7 f'. is BeiltIy Brook. ffA: j m. j f, the right goes to Bently, tilt icfc to Tdttingfion. A t 7 m. 3 f . is Brantham Bull Iil11, where the left acute backward goes to Shotly, of. which hereafter. Ar 7 m. 7 f. the right forward gocs ro Eafibergeholt, therefore turn on the lefi. At S m. r f. is Brantham Church clofe on the left. A t S m. ;f. the right a cute backward goes to Bectly, tllc right forward t o Eailbergeholt, therefore turn o ! ~the left. At 9 m. 3 f. the righr goes to Eaftbergehdlt, ot which hereafiitr. A 9 m . ; $ C is Cataway fire Bridge, and at 9 m. 5 1s the Cecotld Bridge, and about a Mile beyond is

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P A s s I N G from the Market-Crofi it1 the lafi metitioned Road, at I m. 6 E as aforetaid, is Boar11Bridge ; avoiding the Road righr forward leading to Cataway Bridge and Maningtree,, take the left hand Way by the Water fide. At 3 m. 4 f. is Frefion Root Ir~n. A t 3 m! 7 Sf. the right goes to FreRon Church, the Road x~ght forward goes to Holbrooke, therefore turn on the left. At 6 m. 2 f. is Chelmondifton Liorl Inn. Leave the Church about a Furlong on thc lefr. At m. f F. the left goes to Shotly Church. At 8 m. 6 f. is Arwerton Park clofe on the right. Here the right goes to Cataway Bridge, of which above, rheretbre turn dn the left. At 8 m. 6 f. is

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R E T v R N w e now to rFfwich, to take a Survey of the Hoad leading from thence.to Bury St. Edmunds, being the l ~ f Koad l M e fiall treat of w i t h relation to Ipfwich. F R Q M the Market Crofi in Ipfwich, pafi through St. Mathew's Street into the Pye Road through Whrtst 3 m. j $ f. leave the toll, and in Clay Con Villa Pye Road which goes r ~ gt folwald, arld take the left hand Way over Claydon Bridge, A t E, in. 6 f. the lefi goes through Bramford, being the Kcad ro Lot~don,therefore turn on the right. At 4 m. ; f. is Blakenham Turn p ike, leaving the Church ciole on the right, At 5 m. 5 $ f. the left goes thlcwgh t l x Flelds to Bayleham. At 6 m. is a Uiackiiniril's Sliop clofe on the left, where the left turns acute backward to Baylcham. At 7 m. 6 f. the rif;ht goes to Coddenham, the left to Barking, At 7 m. 7 $ f: enter heedham Street, where the left goes to Barking. At 8 m. ;', f. the right goes through Ccddenham by S t ~ n e wall to W'ickharn Market, which is before treated of, and at 8 m. z 5 f. is Seedham Chapel clofe on the righ.

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to diltinguifh it fi.c.m other Places of that N a m e in the County ot Suflhlk, as Stow-Langtoft, Wtfi-Ltow &c, I t is a tolerable large well built Town, very near the Center of the County (Needham bcieg fomething nearer it ) Jc is fituate near the ConjucAion of the two chief Springs of the River Orwell. That Head that rifes at Wetherden wahes the Eat+ fide of the Town, and the other tliat rifes i~ Rattlefden iuns into that at the South er:d of the T o w n a t Com%s Ford, between this T o w n a t ~ dCombs. The greiitefi Ot-nament to this Town is its fpacious Church and Spire Steeple, dedicated to St, Peter. But there was formerly ;cother Church in tlle Came Church Yard, dedicated to tl,e Bfrffed Virgin. T h e Parimes of StowMarket. and Stow-Upland are now cor iolidared, but they have Ail1 diitin&kOfficers for edch Pdl iih. There is a Hamlet on the North Weit fide c.f tile Town called by the Name of Chilton, whi: h is now a Member of Stow-Market. Its Market is Weekly on 'I'hurfdays, and a very confiderable one it is far Corn, and weil ferved with all manner of rrovifions. This Town has two Fairs Yearly, the one on t l ~ e297% of June, and the other (a Lamb Fair) on rhe firfl Day of Augilk Here are feveral Woufes of good Enrertair.ment, Thus much for Stow -3larket. F R o M the Market-Crofs in Stow, pals out at the Korth end of the Town, and at I m. 6 f . the right hand Way goes through Haughley tb Botefdale,of u hich hereafter. At z m. g f.the right gces to Haughiey, the left io Haliton. At 3 m. I f. the left gccs to Shelland. At 3 in. 3 $ f. the Road right forward goes through Wetherden to Ixworth, (of which hereatler) theretore turn on the left by Haughly Park, ar?d nafi over Wulpit Heath. At 5 m. is the end of the Heath, where the right goes to $il~~~iviell, the left

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W U LPIT, is a through-fare Village, extenling ir filf on the Road abour a Quarter of a Mile. It has a handcome Church and Spire Steeple. This Towtl is by Come fuppofed to be the ancient Sitomagus, by rearon of the pl-efent appearance of large and deep Ditches, which are conjeettlrcd, to be Roman Works. It is as preient of no remark but for making the beit White Bricks, and a Fair for Hories &c. Yearly, beginnii:g September the 6th, which holds a Week &c. P a o c E E D I N 6 from W l p i t Church, ar f f: tile left goes tq Rattleiden ; therefore tarn on the 1 i;+t through Wulpit S~reer. At 4 f. the right gcc- so ElmCwell, crofing over a Broolc alld leaving K'dtock Church about 2 f. on the right. At I m. I f. the right goes to Toflock Church. At I m. 4 f. the left to Dritlkflon. At 2 m. j -?, f. is Reyton Bull Ir.11, where the right goes to ThurRon, the left to He& . At 3 m. 4 f. is a View on the right of KocghamHoufe, the Seat of Johr~ Corrance, Efq; Ar 5 m. f, the right goes to Thu'rAon, the lefr through the Fields to Rongharn Church, leaving the Marllion of John Cook Efq; a little on the left. At 4 m ;f. is a Blackimith's Shop clafe on the right, where the right goes to Ixworth, the lefi pafi Bradfield Manger Inn to Lavenham. Pafing along at the el ring of the Heath the right hand Way leads into $urg St. Edmunds through the EaR Gate ;. keep the right forward Way over the Yeath, avoiding divers turnings to the right and left. At 7 m. I f. is the River Lark ; here the left turns to Rufhbrook. At 7 m 3 f. is *BurySt. Edmunds South Gate ; here the left goes to Lavenham, of which hereafter. Patling through the South Gate Street, Church and Guild-Hall Streets, at ? n 2 f f. is Bury St. Edmu~idshlarlrer-Crofi.

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#OS08O%@@@@I~~@OD U R Y St. E D M U NDS, is fituate on the Welt iide of the River Lark, which is at pre'rent Navigable from Lynn to Fort~ham, a Mile Nwth of the Town. I t has a moR fruitful enclded Country on the South and South Weft, and on the North and North Welt the noit delicious Champaign Fields, extending thernti3ves to Lynn, and that Part of the Norfolk CoaR. The Country on tlx Eat? is partly open and partIy enclofid. I t is fo regularly bulk, that aimoR all the Streets cut one another ac right Angles ; And it itauds upon fuch an eafy ATcent, that an ancient Writer has recorJed this Encomium of it : " That the Sun fhines not upan a Town nore a'' greeable in its' Situation. T H I S was the V I L L A FAUSTINI of theRomans, and afterwards had the Name of REDERICESWORTH~ or ~ ~ o ~ ~ r c ~ s differently w o ~ ~ Spdt r r , by different Authors, as Saxon Names frequently are, and taken, if we might credit the Records of the Old Monks,

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A s to St. Edmund, from whom this Town has ever fiuce retained its Name, we may well iuppofd him to have defcended from the Royal Blood of the Saxorls ; but tile particular Account, that Alkumundus was his Father, efpecially that Siwara was his Mother, mufi be deemed Fabulous. He began ro pcign, as Ki.1 of the Eafi Angles, Ailno Dom. S 5 5 , in tile 14th &ar of his Age. Some have imagined that this was the Place of his Coronation: But our Zeal for the Hotlour of this T o w n (Says my Author) ,ought nor to lead us into fo vulgar an Error ; for this Ceremony was .~erformedat Buers, oot at Bury. O thers have reprerented him as one abandoned to LUKury, and whore Courage was loft by thc Effeminacy of thore Times ; but Alrerius who was co-cval with him refutes this Calumny. H E reigned 1 5 -Years, being killed Anuo Dom, S;o, irl the 29th Year of his Age ; and his CorpCe havnlg lain interred in the Town where, he was kit led (generalty fipp~frd to be Hoxne) ;3 Years, was reo moved to Bui . 011 this Account, and ttiro' the SuperRirion o f t e ~ g e the , Revenues of the Abby illcreaGd fc, fait, chat the hfonks, greedy to fwallow all , accufcd the Seculars among other Things of Neg igerlce and Irrevercnce ro the Corpfe of Sc. E d m ~ n; d and fo petulanr was t l Accufation, ~ fo itrong their luterefi, as to procure Power and Authority to e'eQ all the Seculars, and to fill their Places with t ole of their owq, the BenediRine,Order; this they ~ c o m p l i h e dabout the Year 1020, and in the 4th Year of King Canute, who then laid the Foundation of a more Magnificent Church ro the Hoclour of this hlarty r, the former in which he had been depofited being bur a Wooden. Building, or, at bell, covered with Wood. The: Expence for this Fabrick wasraifed by an annual T a x of no kfi that] Four Pence on every Piough Land i n Suffolk and Norfolk. I t was fillifhen in the fpace of about 1 2 Years, and coniecraced by &i helmth or Agelnor h Archbifhop of Canterbury, aud dedicated to ChriR, St. Mary and Sr. Edmund. U v I v s, Prior of Hnlm, was coal'ecrated the GrA Abbot, Auno b m . 1 ~ 2 0 and , in the next &Year1this

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Bb8y was eaernped from a l l ~ p r c o ~ a uriiditiio!~ l by the Cout~cilof WincheRer. He fir enr,orno.d&d the Abby and a Pxc, if not the whole, or' che Town with a Wall and4 Ditch, the Ruids of which are Ciil to be feen in nlady Places; T H'U s was the Grandeur of this Abby b:~,nun : Its Abbots were rhade Parliamentary Barons, and its Wealth yearly encreafid until its final Diblutio~lby Henry VIII, when its Valuation exceeded all, except Glaffenbury, it being then valued at 1659 1. 13 S . I I i d . per Aunum, accorbng to Dugdale ; but hlr. Speed and others fay at 2;;6 1. rri s. When this Abby was. io its Prolperity, rhere was a Chapel1 at every one of the Gates, which are five in Number, the Eait Gate, WeR Gate, North Gate, South Qate and Riebp) Gatc. Some Peri'ons pretend to know the-Names cf there Chapells; but the Reverend Gentleman who favoured me with chis Account of Bury, informs me, there is Fou~~darion for this, therefore I fo16bear Cap. ing any thing further ef &em* I N s T E A D of the many. Chapels and Oratories which were form~crlyin .qh'iS Town, th-\-re arc now only two magnificent and Rdtely Ciiulrhes fidnding i d the fame. Cknrch-lard ; ,the one dedicated to SC. Mary, which is I 39 Feet z Inches long, and the Clanccl 5 3 Feet ~ a I a c h e s ,i n a l l a13 Feet, T h e . w1d.h of this Church is 6 ; Feet 6 Inches ; the width of rl;c .Chancel, includitlg the fide Ifles, 65 Feer. There is a fine accent of fix Steps to the -Altar, on the North fide of which is the Tomb of Mary Queen of France, Daughter to Henr VLI, a d afterwards married to Charles Brandon uke of Suffolk. 0;1her Leaden Coffin is this Infcription, ~ ~ A RQUEEH, Y I 5 3 3 , OE FRANC&. EDMVND. H. Oil the Souti1 fide of t h e Chancel is a large hlonument of Roger D r u r y ETq; and Agnes Fis,Wite, with this Inlcript~onrouud abour it, SUCH A S Y E BE, S O M E T Y M W E R E W E : SUCEIA S we ARR, S U ~ HS H A L L Y E BB. He died 1472,. fie i n 144.3. Over againlt this on the North fide is atlother large Monument with rhisInfcriptiou, WILL E L M K C A R E W MILITIS~ U OIB I I T x x v i Dra ni~rJsrsM A L C . lgor --MAR@AKET~ - ---- - COrJSoRT-l& sua- Q,U ii -0 1-i r s T b..-L B JG

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irl Har tfi~ereHundred, and RickingaIe Blackbourn. T h e Mother Church to Borefdale is Redgrave. There i s a n~elinMarker weekly on Saturdays, and a Fair yearly on Holy 'l?huriilay. Here are kveral Inns of good Entertainment. F R o M the Crown Inn in Botefdale, pafi by Redgrave-Hall, a fine old Seat, leaving it on the left about z f. of which more hereafter. At I n?. ? f f the right goes to Burgate. Pa& along over Wortham@
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the idr .to DiG. At 6 m. 3 f. enter the q c Road leading from lyfwich to Scole Inn, which is before treated of, and at 7 m. is Scole Inn. P v R s v I N G theRoad from Scole Inn to Harleflon, avoid the Road right forward to Xorwich, and turn on the right. At I m. $ f. is Billingford H Q ~ & Shoes Inn, where the right goes TO Broom, the left to Dickleborough. At 2 m. 3 f: Thorp Abbots Church c1oG on the left. A t z m. 5 F. the right to Hoxne, the left to Thorp Street. At 4 m. leave the right ,leading over Sylcham-Btidge to Stradbrook, and pats along through Brocltdiih Village. At 5 m. 6 f. is Xeedham Church clofe on the Irf~.~A t 6 m. I , 3-4 f. the left goes to Starflon. At 6 m. 6 $ f. enter H a r lefton Street, where the right acute backward goes over Sliottisford-Bridge to Framlingham, which is before created of, and a t 7 m. & f. is Marlefton Chapel. A T 2 f. from hence leave Harlefion Street, avoidipg divers turnings to the right and left. At I m. 3 f. is Redenhall Church clofe on the right. At 2 z f, is MTortwell, a little Village fo called, in Norfolk, where the right goes to Mendham, the left to Alborough. At z m. t f. the right leads through Hornersfield and Flixton to Bungay, Pals along In a tolerable ftrait Way, avoiding the turnings to the right, apd left. At 4 m. I f. is Dentbn-Bridge, phere the left goes to Denton Church. Here turn.on the right. and paG by Earfham Park on the left. At 5 m 2 f. the left is the nearefi Way from hence to Gillingham Village, and is the Coach Road from Bury to Yarmouth; but we f i a l l take the right hand Way, defigning to pds through Bungay. At 6 m. 2 f. is Earfiam Queeq's Head Inn, where the leic goes from Aungay to Norwich, therefore turn on the right, and leave Earfham Church about 2 t. on 71.e right. A4 j m. I f. re-enter Suffolk ar Bungay Bridge, and at j m . z f is Bupgay Market-Crofs. B U N G AY, is a Town pleafantly tltuate on the Piver Waveny which is Navigable for Barges from Yarmouth hither. T h e Town fs wc1l built ; but the Streets are, moll of thcm, unpaved. It confifis of two diein& Paziihes and has c w Parifh ~ Churches, olle q,f which

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I t u now the Eftare of Tobias Hunt, ECl; 1N this CaRle was founded a College or Chailtry, by Sir John de Norwich Knight Vice Admiral of England, dedicated to God am4 the Bleffed Virgin Mary. I t was furrendred to King Henry VIII. in the 83 Year of his Reign, and then the Yearly Income was found. to be 202 1: 7 s. 5 f d Speed, Weav. C o N T c N v I N G our Journey to Beccles. At ;m. f. is Ship Meadow Church cloie on the right. kt1 3 m. 3f. the lefe acute forwatd (with Ba'fiam Church on the right) goes to Beccles. At 3 m. 7 f. the right goes to Reddilham. PaG by Barham Church on the' left. At 4m. I f the right goes to Ringcfield. A t 4 m 4 f f 'is a Briclr +Btridge, At 5 m. z f. is Rofe Ball, the Seat of Sir Robert Rich Baronet, clofe on' the lefi, where he right goes to Ringsfie!d., And at 5 rn. 6 f. k Beccla Church. For the reR tee the Road from IpCwich
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worth. leaving the' Church on the lefr 2 & At 3 m. 6 f: tho right to Ixworth. At 5 m, 2 f. a Blackfmith's Shop . clofe on thc lefi, where the right goes to Ixwort& the lefr to livermore mig. leavrng thc Church on the left near 2 f. At 6 m. z f. is .TroBon Bull Inn, cloie oti the right ; here the lefi goes to td Rhymer HouGg tllerefore turn on the right ; and a little farther. the sight goes to Ixworth, t h t Road right forward to Ixworth Thorpt Here kt-11on the left in at a Gate, l s v e TroRon Church a little on the right. A t j m. z 5 f. the right to Bardwell, the left, to Thethrb. At 8 rn the Road right acute backward to Ixworth. Here the Road comes in from Ix. S,orth to Thetford, of which hereafter ; leave Hon. irlgt011Church a little on the ri ht. At 8 m. ) E is Honington Street, where the le c go& to Livermore parva; t h e Road right forward goes. to Thetford. Here turn on the right over the Rzver. A t 8 m. 7 if. is Sapifion George Inn. A 9 m. $ f. the right to Slpifion, the left to Fakenham. At 9 m. j f . a Brick Kiln clok on the right. Pafs b Barningham Park on thc left. At I I m. 4 f. thc rigr9t to Banling. ham, the left to Thecford. At I r m. 7 4 f. the right to Rarningharn, the left to Thetford. Ac I 3 m. 3 f, the right to Hopton, the Iefr to Ruthford; leave Knett~kalIChurcti I f. on the right. At I 3 m. 4 E r!le right acute backward goes paR Kaettiihall Church ro Coney-Weiton, paf?ing by a Pound on the right, xLlere the right goes to Hopron, the left to Tltctford, qf which hereafrer. At I 5 m. 5 3 f. enter Norfolk, and at 13 m. 7 $f. is GaRrope Gate Inn. T H E ncxt ihall be the Rodd from Bury St. Ed-. munds to Thetford. F R o M the hlarket-Crofs paang along in the lafi mentioned Road through the North Gatc and 0 ~ the River, Ac I m . 5 $ E the right goes to Gaitrope Gatc being the Road lait. treated of ; leave,Fornham St. Martin's Church clofe on the left. At c m. 7 f, the Koa& ri he forward goes to Brandon, of which hereafrer. A k e the right Hand way, thin leave the ri kr to Timworrh. At j rn. L t f. crofi a rookb by a Found a:a rh? lefi ; lcavc Tim worth Church on die right near,

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further towards Barnham, lo entirely demoliff~rd t h ~ there is not a Stone remaining, but the Foulldatiolls are .p!owcd over. I r is a Tovrn Corpovatc, governcd by a Mayor, ro Aldermen, and zo Common Cou~~cil Rlen ; f e ~ ~ d s two Alcmbers to Parliament; has a ple!itiful Marltrt weeltly on Saturdays, and three Fairs Yearly, the fi;R on the third of hlay. the fecond on the 22d -Day ot June, and the third 0 1 1 t h c 14th of Septcmbcr. Tile kxnt Afizes for the County of Norfolk are held lrre, Thus much for Tiletford. W E will now return to Bury Sr. Edmund's to Survey the Road leadin3 from thence to Brandon : F r o q the Market Crofs i n Bury, paGt~gout at the Norrh Gate in the lafi mentioned Way to Fori~hamSt. Martin's Village, at rm. 5 $ f. avoiding the right going to Thetford, laR treated of, take the Road rlght forward. A t 2 m. 3 F. the left acute forward goes to Fornham All Saints. Ac 2 m. 7 f. leave Fornhsm Ge noveve Church 2 f on the left. At 4 m, z f. is Cul- ' ford Cllurch, 2 f. on the lefi. At 4 m 4 $ E the right forward Hoad goes to Thetford, rhereforc turn on the lcfr. At 4 m. ;f. the left to Wefiow, the right to IngBam. At 5 m. 4 f. is Wo~dwcllChurcf~ clofe on the left. At 8 m. g f. theright goes to Thet-. ford, the left to Icktingham. At 9 m. 3 f. the right acute forward to Elvedon. At ro m. 2 F. crofi the Road corn Newmarket to Thetford, ef which hereafter. Pafling along over Sandy Lands, at I $ m. $ f. is i3randolr Maiden's Head Inn, where the left goes to hlildeohall, of which hereafter, and at I 5 m. 3 f. is Brandon Bridge.

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the'fecond on Et.lBarnabas's Day Jcne I :, zild the third on St, hiartin's Day Kov. I 1. . I r was firR bonoured in giving the Title of a Ba- ]on to Charles Gerrard, who for his faithful Services to his Royal Mafler Ki13g Charles f , was by him created Lord Gerrald of Brandon. He was afterwards by King Charles I1 created Earl of hlacclesfield; but that Family being Extixi&, Queen Ance, Anno Don?. r I I , created Duke Hamilton a Peer cf England by ihe Stile and Title of Baron of D u t t o n c and Duke of Brandon, w hofe Succeffor now enjoy .that Title. T H I s T ~ w nfur~~iihed London with a Lord Maycr Anno Qcm. 1445, who was John Eyie, Eon ot Jchn Eyre of this Tcwn, Draper. He built Leaden-Hali for t h e Ufe of the City, and left befid~sthat gcco Marks (a Prodigious Sum in thofe Day) to Charitan ble Uies. He died Sepr. 18. 1459. Here are leveral Inns of good Entertainment. L E A v 1 N G Brandon, w e will now return to Bury St. Edmoul:ds, to take a Survey of the Road leading fi-cm theme to hlildenhall. F R o M t h e Market- Crofi in Bury pafs cut a t the Risby - Gate thrcugh the Risby Street. At 3 $ E the right to Fo~nham A11 Saints, the left goesto Eorm ingfieath. At 6 f. the left to Saxham. A t I rn. 6 3-4 t. the left to Wefily. At z m. leave the Road .right forward leading to Newmarket, and rake the right hand Way. At g m. 3 8 f. is Risby Church clok on the right. Pafi through Risby Street, and along in an o en Country, a~:dat j m. I f. is Cavenham Church c ofeon the right, where the right goes to Lackford, the left to Higham Green. Leave the Alanfion of Richard Webb, Efq; clofe on the left, At 8 m, ;f. the left turns backward to Barrow. Here turn on tl:e right. Ar 8 m. 7 f. is Tuddei~hamChurch clofe cn the right. At 9 m. 3-4 f- the right to Ichling-. ham, the left to Kentfcrd. At g m. 4 f, the left acute forward goes to Mrorlington. At 1 0m. ; f. is Barton-Mills Inn, a Hout'e of ood Entertainment ; where the left forward goes to ewmarket, of which bereafter, therefore turn on the righr, over the XIver 34,

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m. the Road right foruard goes fioa Nevr market, to Brandon, ao.d Therford, o f 11 hicQ , hereafter. Here turn on the lefi. Ar X I m. 6 f. em ter blilderhall Street, v,Lere the Road fi-on1 Brandon to Mildenhall cLmes in, and at 12 m, z f. is Mildenhall Market-CsoG. ver.

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firuate on the Rivcr Lark, very large Town in Bounds, and a haSf Hundred of i t felt. The Burrough(corn~onlycalled High Town Rlildenhall) is a pIeaf.int well built Town. .Its noble Church and tall Steeple are good Oraamet~ts to it. There is a plentiful Market weekly on Fridays, w e l i itrved with Fifll, Wild-Fowl 2nd 311 other Provibons. Its Fair brgi1.s yearty cn the 29th of Septtmber, and a very confiderable ore it is, lalting four nays. Ncrc are irveral Woui'cs of gccd E n t e r t a h mcnt. Towal.ds the Fens are feveral large Streets as big as ordinary Towns, caIled by the Inhabitants Rows, ss WeR-Row, Beck-Pow acd Hollyaell-Row. T H E Lolidfhip of this Town, in the 9 Edward 11, did belong to the Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds. Who it was granted .to at the Di&lutictl cf , h a t Abbey we find not ; but afterwards it deiceodtd t o the noble Family of North ; from them it dcf'cended to Lir Thomas Harmer, Bart. who now wofily refides there in il, noble Macfion a little North of the Church. ' I H' I s Town. furnilhed London with two Lord, Mayors, viz. Henry Barton, Scn of Nel~ryBarton of this Toun, who was Lord Mayor Anco Dom. ~428; and Mrilliam Gregory, Son of Roger Gregory of rliis Town, was Lord Mayor Anno Don. 1451. May I ; Anno Dom. I 0 7 , a great Part of thrs To1511 y a s confumed by 'ire. R r T v N I N 6 from Mildenhall to Bur ilow rake a Survey of the Road leading to Heu market. Paifing fiom the Crofs in Bury thr~ugh the Risby Gate in the laR mentioned Road, rtt 2 m. leave the Road on the right to Mildenhall, kegping the right cn Wa At 2 m. 3 f, the left 5-9 Saxham. At 3 m, r e right goes to Risby, rliiitldt to Saxham. Leave Bisby Church on the. right abaut 3 fAt

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on Tuefdays, well ferved with a11 manner of ProvxEons. Herr is a Free School endowed by King Charles the XI. T x I s Town hath not grown up to its Height by any Manr;fa&ures uied in it, or an particular hierchandize, but by its iituatiorl upon a con lderable Road, andaffording Conver~ienciesfor Pasengers ; hut chiefly from the fre uent refort of the Court or Nobility thither Twice a ear for Horfe Racing and othei Diverfio~~s, thofe fpacious Plains which furround this Town, ca led NewmarI<et Heath, which draws Multitudes of Speaators thither ro fee them. A T 2 f. from the Greyhound Inn in Newmarlcer leave the Street and the left hand Way which is the f.,oncion Road. At 5 f. is the Stand clofe on the right, At 2 m. pai's through that Noble Rampart called by the Vulgdr the ,. ,

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Benefatio~ous whofe Gifts were all confirmed to the hlonks by Pope Alexander. Afterwards it was . changed from a Priory of Monks to a C ~ l l g eof a Dean and Secular Can~ns. This Houte was valued ar its diffolution at ;rq 1.4s. r Id. per Ann. Dugd. A s to the prefent Condition of this Town, It is bur ,meanly Built or Inhabited ; the Streets not paved, but dirty ; 1:s Church is a very good Srruaure, which with the Ruins of the CaRle and Monafiery are the only things worthy Notice here; it has a mean hlarkdr weekly on Fridays, if it deferves that Name, and two Fairs Yearly, the one on Eatter Tuefday, and the other on July the 26. T h e General and Spiritual Courrs are held here for this Part of the County. Here are feveral Houfes of good Entertainment. W E w'ill now returti to Bury St. Edmund's and take a Survey of the Road leading from thence t9 Sudbury. From the Market Crofi in Bury a t j f, is the South Gate, where the left turns to Stow-Market, of which before ; keep the Road right forward. Ar I m. $ f. the right goes to Nowton. At r m. 4 $f. right' goes to .is Bury Bounds PoR. At 2 m. 2 2 f. Hawitead ; leave Kuihbrook Pakfk cloie on the left. At z m. 7 f. crofi a Brook at Sic&lefmoreVillage. At ;'m. the left goes to Welnetham h r v a ; leave a Pound f. the Road right forward on the left. At 3 m, goes through the Bradfieldsto Felkam, thzrefore turn on 'the right. At 5 m sI E the left goes to Bradfield St. George. At 5 m. z f. is Bradfield Manger Inn, a Houfe of good Enterrainmeor; leave Bradfield Combui) or Burnt Bradfietd Church clofe oa the right. A t 6 m. the right goes to Stanningfield. At 6 m. j 6 is a DireAion PoQ, where the left turns through Cockfield to L-ivenham, ofi which anon ; keep t h e Road right forward. At 6 m. 6 $ f. is Lawfhall Pofi. At .i m. 3 )i f. the riqhs goes to Lawhall. At 7 m 3 $ f. the. letr goes to kockfield ; here turn on tho rlght. At rn. 7 f f. the right goes to Shimpling Rreet, the left to C3cltfield. At S m. z f , is S hitapling Pofi. At 9 m. 4 3-4.F. theright goes to Shimpling. A t 10 m. 1 3-4 f. is Alpheton Bridge in Bridge. Rreet, whe14e M a left

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CllurcIl is a very beautiful1 and Noble Structure, itanding at the North End of the Town. This T o w n furaiihed Londoll wit11 another Lord Mayor, which was John Milbourn, Draper, Son of John Milbourn of this Place. He was Lord Mayor Ar~noDom. I 567. Melford Fair is Yearly on Tuelday in Whitfbn Week. Here are feveral Inns of good Entertainment. PaGng along through Melford Frreet, at 14m. 4 f. the right goes to Borely i~ Effex, the left to Aeton, and at 16 m, z f f. is Sudbury Market Crofi.

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S U D B U R Y is fituate on the River Stour Navigable for Barges from Maningtree hither, which reatly to its Trade. It was anciently called Southadds urgh, in Oppoiition to Norwich, which is faid to have been the h'orth-Burgh or Village, Ir is a very ancient Town, and at prelent confiRs of three dinin& Parifies, having there111 three beautihl and large parifh Cl.lurches, St. Gregory's, St. Peter's, and All-Saints. T h e Town is tolerably well built, but the Streets (being mofily unpaved) are dirty. It has a fair Bndge over the Stour, where the Road leads through Ballingdon into Effex. T H I s Town was one of the firit Places where King Edward 111 plac'd the Dutcljnten, whom he had allur'd by his EmiEaries to come into England, out of the Netherlands to teach the Englifh to Manufa&ure their own Wool, which they were wholly Igxlorant of before ; and here the Woollen Trade hath sontinued ever fince in a flourifhing Condition; the Inhabitants at preient imploy them~elves in making Says &c. I T is a Town Corporate, governed by a Mayor, 4 Aldermen, 24 Capital Burgeffesand other Sub-Officers, enjoys divers Privileges, fends two Members to Parliament, and is honoured in giving the Title of a Baron to hisGrace C H A RL E S Duke of GRAFTON. Simon Tibold, or Theobald, Surnamed Sudbury, Archbifhop of Canterbury, tranflated thither from the See of London, June 6. I 37 5 , was a Native of this Town. He was murdered by the Infligation of one John Ball, 4 fediti~us &talecontent and Fanatical Preacher

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Preacllcr in Tn7atTyler's Rebelliorr. The King f e w to know the occafion of their RiGng; they required hitn to come to them and he kould know it. T h c Aychbihop and Sir Robert Hales, Lord Treafurer, adviGd his Majetly not to TruR his PerCon with them. .Upon this they came to the Tower of London, where the Court was, demanded the Archbiihop and Sir Rober't Hales, whom they dragged to Tower-Hill and beheaded. T h e Archbikop kneeled down, and received the tirfi Blow without falling, he put his Hands to !he Wound raying, '' A ha ! i t is the Hand of God." T h e iecond Blow cut off his Fingers ends and felled h i q to the Ground, and at the eighth Blow they got off his Head, nailed his Hood upon ic, and fixing it upon a Pole fit it upon London Bridge. One John Starting,'who 3oaR;d he had belleaded him, loR his Head for the~famea few Days after. He was a moil Be'veGnd, Wife; Learned, Elorluel~t,Liberal and Merciful Man ; he built the upper end of St. Gregory's C h u ~ c hin this Town, where his Head is &own ro this ; it was not long iince entire,covered with the F l e k an Skin dried b Come Art, the Mouth wide open, occdioned by the ying Convulfions. He founded in the J'arnz Place where his Father's Houfe iIood a goodly College, which he furnifhed with Secular Priefis and other hf~nifiers,andCo bountifully endowed it, that at the ~ u ~ p ~ e t l iito nwas valued at I 2 2 1. I S s. per Annum, Speed, Weaver, Goodwyn ; it is now in Ruins. H K R E was a l f ~a Priory dedicated to the Honour of our Saviour and St. Bartholomew the Apofile, of the. Order of St. Augufiine, founded (as Mr. Speed fays from Leland) by the fame Archbiihop Sudbury and one John de Cbertfey ; but Mr. Weaver from his Manufcript tells us, That it was founded by one Baldwin de Shipling, or Simperling, and Chabil his Wife ~ n l y ,who lie buried in the Priory-Church with many ptkers of Note. This Priory (fays Mr. Weaver) was Tiurrendred to King Henry VIII. Reg. 36. Dec. 9. and was found in Anuual Rents worth 2 2 2 1.. I 8 s. 3 d. T o whom this Priory was granted at its Diffolurion v e know not. It is IIQW 3 very gcod old Building and

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L A V E N HA 11, L A N H A M or LEVENITAM, an indifferent large well built Town, itanding upon a Branch of the River Breton or Bret. It is fituate on a Hill sf an eaijl afccnt, on the top of which is a fpacious Market Place, whore Market, being weekly on TueG days, was formerly very confiderable, but now fkarc delerves the Name of a Market. The Fair is yearly on the 29th of September, which is of grear Repute, efyecially for Butter and Cheefi. T H E Staple Trade of this Town for Blue Cloths was ancientlv verv famous and much enriched it. Ic was then, fo; the 'better regulating their htanufa&ut-e anti employing and provtding for their Poor, divided into three Guilds or Companies. who had each ot them - d i ~ i n &~onltitutioniand orders, viz. the Guild ot St. Peter, granted by John Earl of Oxford 2 Edward Vl, whole Hall was in the High Strcct. a. The Gluild ~fthe Holy Trinity, granred by the Came Earl,

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Grdrnmlr School ; and Edmutld Colman of Furnivals h n , EG1; gave, the S William 111, 209 I. to the which *the Inhabitants and Come other Pious Perfons gave fuch Additions as purchafed a convenient Dwelling and School.,I-loufe, and an Annuity of 3 0 1. a Year for the Matler, 3, Robert Rice, Gent. gave 5 1. a year for ever for bindin out two Poor Boys of P r e h n , where he lived; and or want of Such there, of Lavenham: Edward Colman, ECq; aforefaid gave zoo 1. ro be laid our in Land for b i d i n g out one Poor Boy yearly of 14 Years of Age, born and brought up in Milden, Bretlt-Ely or Lavenham. This Town fiirniked Lon* don with a La:-d Mayor Anno Dom. 14.6j, wlio was Thomas Cooke, Draper, Son of Robert Cooke of this

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T H E Generals and Spiritual Courts are held here for this Part of the Arch-deaconary of Sudbury, Hare are feveral Houfe of good Entertainment. 'I H u s much for Lavenham ; we will now take a Survey of the Road leading from thence to Sudbury. F R o M the Swan In11 in Lavenham, avoid the left hand Way leading to Bildeiton, of which hereafter. Pais righr forward, leaving the Church cloie on the right. At z f. the Koad right forward goes to Alphetor. ; therefore turn on the lefc. At 4 2 f. is a direaion Poff where the right goes to Xseltbrd. At I m, f f. enter Waihmore Green, where the left gozs croG the Green through Wddingfield Parva, over Coriierd Heath, to Bures. At 2 m. 7 4 f. is another dire&ion Polt, @here the left turns acute b~ckward through Wdldingfield Parvs to Ri!d..Ron. Ac 3 m., z f. enter Babergh Heath, where on the righr is the: hlanfioll of Roger Kedington, Getit. Here the right goes over the Heath through A&on to Melford. the left through Waldingfic1d Magna, paff the Mdniiotn of Jofeph Aliton, Efq; iu EdwardRon, to Kerfey and Hadleigh, being the neareR way from Melford to IpG wich. Pa6 direaly forward over the Heath, A t 4 m I f. the Koad right forward goes to Colcheiter ; here take the right hand way. At 4 ma 7 f. is a view of

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H A V I N G finihcd the Survey of the Roads ifliiing fiorn 3ury St. Edmunds we will now make Sudbury ihe next Centre, and take a Survey of three tioads ifl'uit~g f r o m thence, viz. to Haverhill, Hadleigh, and through Bures and Eeylal~dto Stratford Swan 1l:n. Ai d fir'ft of tile Road leading through Clare to Haver~lill. Rdfli,lg bdck in the fbremzntiorled Road leadi!:g from Bury 40 Sudbury, tl~roughMelford Village, over the River, leave Melford Hall and the Bury Road on

t h i righr. At ;m. 5 3-4 f. is Melford Black Lioci Inn; here turn on the Icft. A: 4 m. the light goes threugh Stansfieid and Wicliham Brook towards Newmarket, of which here~fier. At 4 m. 6 3-4 f. is Glemsford Bridge. A t 5 m. I f. tlne right goes to Gleinsford ; pa&ilg alo1:g leave Pentlow Church in Eflex, about 2 f. on tfie left. At 6 m. j f. the left goes to Foxerd or Foxearth, .At 6 m. j ;-4 f, crofi; a brook at the end of Gvendifh itreet, where the righr goes to Glemsfbrd. A t j In. r 2 f is C a v e r ~ d i kChurcil cloC,'e,onthe right, uliere t!:e rig?t gces to PcOi1igibr.d.

C ,4V E N D I S H, a Village fituate upon the Stour, Is memorable for giving Name to the noble Family of Cavendifi. Sir John Cavendifi Rorn in this Place was Lord Chief Juiiice of the King's Bench 46 Edw. 111, arid continued in that Sratiorl till the 5 Rich. dl. He was hor~eRalid Iearlxd, great faults in thort unhappy

9 1 ) u:lhappy Times. For wGch QialiGcations he was ht, hclded by the Rebellious Crew hcaded by John Raw-, a Priefi, and Robert Wefibroom, ar Bury St. Edmundb. F r o q this Lear:~cdand upright Judge defcznded M'il. liam Cavesdifh, who xas h e ;J AC I. a d v ~ c e dto the Digniry of Baroil C ~ v e o d i hof Hardwick and Earl of Devo;lChire, whofe Sucrefl3r is now Duke of Devonfhire. P cr R s n r N G our Jourr~ey to Clare, ure leave a Windmill C I O ~ C on the left ; a lirtIe beyond, crois a" Brook, ar the elltrance of Cl~re,where the right gocs to Chiiton ; Ieavc the Ruins of Clare CaRle on the left, A t g rn. 5 L: is Clare Half Moon Inn. P ~ i s thrcugh Clare Rreet, at the end of which avoid the lefc going rhrough Hraitltree in Effex towards London, At I r rn. 2 f,- the rig:^^ goes to H ~ n d o , i ,therefor-, turn OTI the lcft. At I L m. I f. is Srolie 4: lurch clofe on the lefr, where the lefc goes over the Stour into

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STOKE Juxta Clare, is of Remlrk for a Priory tra:;flatsd from the Csftle of Clare thithx b yr Richard de Toabruge, Earl of Clare. It: was of rile UenediLZine Order. Edmund Mortimer E d of M ~ r c h , changed it from a Priory to a collegiate Church of a D a n and Secular Cailotls, Pope John XXIll and Mzrrin V ratifying this Change. It was valued at its DiiLltion a t 3 zo 1. 4s. I d . per Annum Dudgale. W h o r h i College was gran:ed to a t its Diflblution we k:low not, lf it was not then granted, it afrerwards cdnle to the Family of Elwes, for Jervaiie Elwes, Efi;; of Stoke Juxta Clare was created a Baronet, July zzd, I 660, whofc SucceiTor Sir Harvey Elwes now enjoys the Ho lour and EtLte. Hc rcfides in a good old Sedt wilere the Priory itsod. Stoke Fair is on Monday in W!lirfon Week. P A s s I N G from Srolce, leave thc Priory on the lefr. At 1 3 m. r 5-4 F. the right goes throogh Keding~onto Newmarlret ; here turn or1 the lcft o ~ e the r S r ~ u rcurer ; Effex. At I ;m. ; f. is Barhan Inn, clolc oo t h s Iefi, where tlle Road right forwards goes to Cdlchefier ; thereFore turn on rhe right ; leave Wilixoc Church aboat 3 f on the Came hand. At 14 m. I t. the right to ' N z Whixoq

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R a T u R N we now to Sudbury to Survey the Road leading from thence thro:~gh Boxford to Hadleigh. From the Butter Market-Crofi in Sudbury, leaving the Rures Road turning to the right ; pafs out at the Ea& end of the 'I'owl~, A t 5 f. the left goes to Chiltotl , At 6 $ f. is a Brick Kiln clole on the right. At I m. fi f. enter Cornerd Heath, where the lefr goes over tlre Heath to Waldingfield Parva b t I m. 7 f. rhe right goes to Bures, the left over the Heath thro~igh MTaldingfield and Lavenham to Bury St. Edmunds, being tJ:c C9mmon Road from Bures to Bury. At z m. I $ f is the End of the Heath wbcre the left acute bacltward goes over the Heath, to the \Valclingfields. At 2 m. 6 f. is Newton Sarafe~sHead Inn. P ~ t sover Newton Green ; leave the Church about 3 f. on the lefi. At 3 m. $ f, leave the G1.ee11,wherc the right goes aco:e backward to Rures. At 3 m. 5 f f the Itoad right forward goes t hraughSto1te to Ded ham,bcing the cornmonRoatl from Sildbury thicher ; thercfdrc turi: on the left. At 4 m. ;,f. the left goes to NcwtonChurch. At 5 m, the right goes to Afington. At rn. 2 f f.is8

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BOX b 0R D, a neat well built Village Gtuate in a bottom between rho Brooks, (who have their conjunAion a lirtlr below it) is a Plsce of great Traffick, and confiderable Trade; here are two Fnirs Yearly, ehe one on Eafier Monday and the otl~eron the FeaG of St. Thomas, September a r . A B o v T a MileSaut1.r Eait of this Village, fituate in the Parifhes of Boxford, Stoke and ringt ton, we obierved Peyton Hall, granted by William I, to RL bert Mallet, a Normar Baron, a Progenitor of the ancient Family of Peyton, from which defcended the de Uffords Earls of Suffolk, w h ~afl>mcd :he Sur-1, name of Peyton, according to the Cultom of chofc Times. From the Peytans it came to the Dafhwoodd, and is now the Lordfhip and Demefne of George Dafh' wood, Efg; who has a Sear in or near Sudbury, calk{ by the name of Wood-Hall. S o v T H Weit of Boxford C'lurch we obferved Cod- ' denham Hal,, a vory good Sedt, f(~rmcrlythe Lordihip and Demefi~eof Sir Jofeph Brand,, n ~ o f T h o . mas Bennet, Eiq. A T the Eafi End of Boxford Street. is anotfict very neat Manfion, now the Seat ofHenry Eenyon,ETq. P A s s r N G from Boxford, where the left oes through Lavenham to Bury, take the right hand &ay yait the Fleece Inn, a Moufe of good Entertainment ; avoid the left going to Groto:l ; p a 6 bv the Manfion of Henry Benyon, ETq; A t 6 m 2 f. the Road right forward goes to Stratford, therefore turn on the left. At 6 m f. the left goes to Groton. P d 6 along over VSrickerfireetGreen. A t S m. z f. is Coit's Tye, where the right goes to Polfiead, the left to Milden. At 8 m. 4 f f. on the left comes in the Rqad before mentioned leading from Atelford, thr.ough A&on, over Babergh Heath, pait WaidillgficId magna Church, and the M a n f i ~ nof Jofeph AlAon, kq;through Hadleigh, t o Ipfwich. At S m. 5 $f. the right goes to PolRead. '

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K E RS E Y, is memorable only for a Prior): of Monks of St. BenediB, of which we obferve ~ ~ o t h i nmore g but that Nefta d e Colceficld, Widow of Thomas de Bur h, gave to God and the Church of St Mary and St. flnthony in this Place, and to the Canons ferving God there, divers Lands of wl~ic': f i e and her Huf* band prTed a Fine 4 Henry 111. Here is a Fair yearly on Eaftcr Turfday. PU R s u I N G our Journey to H ~ d l e i g h , at 10 m 3 f. the lefi goes to BildrRon, of which Flerealer ; here lurn on the righr. At I I m. I f. is the end of Hadleigh Street, where the right goes to PolRead ; here tura on the left over Hadleigh Bridge. A t r I m. 2 3-4f.the Road right forward goes to Aldham; tur= oti the right, and at r I m. 4 j-qf. is Hadk i g h George Inn.

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Street ; pafs over Cornerd Mere. At I m. j E is another Blaclrfmith's Shop 011 the right. At 2 m. I 3-4.f. the left goesto Little Corncrd. At 3 m, 3-4 f. the Iefi goes to Little Corncrd. Pafiing along, avo& ing. divers turnings to the left, keep the R::ad turning to the ri hr Ar 5 m. I f. eater Bures Street, where the le t goes acute backward to Ebxford. At g m. 3 f. is Bures Church cioie on the right ;here the right goes over Sures Bridge to ColcheRer.

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B U R E S, a Villiage on the Stour, over which it has a fair Bridge leading through Kutes Hamlet (in Effex) to Colchefler, Galfridus de Fontibus ( v ~ ho wrote about the Year I I 56) tells us, That King Edmund who was cruelly murdered by the Darles at Hoxlle i n :his County,was Crowned here. H~sWordsare there, 6 6 Edmund being unanimoufly approved by the Eafi 6 6 Angles (who had been without a Kills 60 Years) 6' they brought him to Suffolk, and in the Villagc 4' called Burum made him their King; and the Ve" nerable Prelate Hutliberr attending, he ariointed and fi colliecrated him. Now Burum is an ancient Royal " Villd, the known Boundary bemeen Eafi Saxe and " Suffollt, and ficuare upon the Srour, aRiver very rapid 1' both in Summer and Winter." Which Paffage (fait4 the Author of the Add; ,ions to Cambdei~)is the mord obfirvable, becauit ir 3hev:s what we are to under@andby Burva, in Aflerius's Lifc of Alfred ; that it is not Bury, as fome have conjeklured, nor yet Bourn in Lincolnkire, as or hers have agerred ;but this Bures, or Buers, as Matthew Wefttninffer calls it. T H E Church and Spire Steeple were grezt Ornar ments to this Village, but in the Year I 7 3 3 the Spire was f i t on Fire by Lightning and burnt down to the Steeple ; the Bell Frames were likewire burnt, the Bells melted, axld the Steeple much damaged. Bures Fair is yearly on Holy Thurfday. A T SmdIi-bridge in this Parifh long refided the ancient Family of Waldgrave, which is now extin&. Y A s s i N G through kures Srreet, at 9 m. 5 $ F. is Bures Found clofe on the right, where the right go= to Burcs Mill, At 4 m,4 $ f. crofs over a Brook. At 7 m,

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Williams, Knr. one of the refent Aldermen of London. P&f?ingalong leave t e Park on the r,ight. A t f. is the end of the 'Park, where the right goes 12 m. to Neyland. At 13 m. s E the right goes to Roxited, the left to Hadleigh. PaG through a Village called Thurilor~alias Thirteen Street and over a Broolr. At I g m 5 $ f. the ,right goes to Langham. At 14m. :f. is Higham Brid e. At 14 ma 7 -4 f. is Higham biila e, where the cfc goes to Ha leigh, of which herea ter ; the Road right forward goes to IpCvzich; therefore turn on the right palt Higham Church on the fame haud. At I 5 m. 4 f f. the left goes to Holton, the Raad righr forward to lpfwich ; hete cilrn on the right, and at r6 m. I f. is Stratford Swan Inn.

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Cloth Manufahre formerly flourifhed here, and there is Comething of it Rill remaining ; it is fippofed to have been a Market Town, but the Marlret is now diG ufed, Here is a Fair Yearly at Whitfontide. The CIlurch is a very good StruAure, but the Steeple is in ruins; yet there is a good Ring of Bellsin a'Cage in the Churchyard, which are rung b' Hand. A little South of the Church is a neat Man on built not many Cha lin ECq; from whom it dekended Years fince by to Sir Henry Hankcy, Ent. one of the prerent Aldermen of London. I t is now a Country Sear for that Family. P A s s r N G from the Bull Inn aforefaid out at the Eafi end of the Street over a Common, corruptly called Rarfield Heath, at 5 m. 3-4 f. is Cattaway Bridge clofe on the ri ht, where the right oes over it to Manningtree, t lerefore turn on the le r pafing along in the aforementioned Koad from lpfwich to Catziway Bfidge, pait Branham Church. At 7 m. 3-4 f. is BranthamBull Inn clofe on the right. Here Zeave the Ipfwich Koad going towards the left, keeping tlie Road right forward. At 8 m. I tf. is Stutton Hall about 5 f. on the right ; Pa6 through Stutton Village, ar the End of which the left oes to Ipfwich ; here turn on the right, and a little urther the Road right forward goes to Stutton Church, therefore turri on the left. At I o m. 2 .$ f crofi the River at Holbrook Mill. A t ro m. ' 3 $ f- the Road right forward goes through Holbrook Street to ,Ipiwich. Here turn on the right. At 10 m. 6 f. is Holbrook Hall, where the left oes to Ipfivich ; therctbl-e turn on the righr leavit~gthe all cloie on the lefr. Avoid divers turnings to the lefr ; leave Harkitsad Church about ; f. 011 rhe lefr. At 1 3 m, j $ f. the Road right forward goes to Chempron or Chelmondeflon ; here turn on the right. At 14 m. I 3-4 f. is Arrverton Queen's Head Inn. At I 4 m. 5 f. is ArrtfcrtonChurch cloh on the right. Pafling along through Arwerton Mall Yard leaving the Hall cloie on the right (of which hereafter) pafi by rhc Park on the right at tlle Corner of which tile Road from Ipfwich to Shot-. ley Gate comes i n on the left, Pai's along to the right in the &id Koad. A t I 5 m. 5 f: is Shotley Bull Inn, and at r 7 m. z t. is Shoriey Gate Inn.

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P A s s I N G along through Lidgate Village, at I o m. is Wickham Brook Church ctoG on the right. AB 10 m, 4 fi is the Plumbers Arms Inn, where the right goes to Straddifllall, the left through Dqpden to Bury. At 12 m. G f. is a direAiot~Po@ where the left goes to Eury St. Edrnunds. YaGng along in the afswmentic:~ed Road frop Bury qt. Edrilunds to Clare, at I a m . 7 f. is Stai~sfieldChurch clofe on the right ; crois a Brook. At 1 3 m. I f. the Bury Road turns o p the right towards Clare ; avoid,divcrg turnings €9 the right and lefr. At L j rn ; & is Glemsford Shqrcb clofe

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is Rralpoole Vi!lace, where the Road right forward goes through Hut~tlngfieldto Crartield; here turn orr t h e left, avoiding the fire lefi hand Way leading to Bramfield. At t m. ~f f. the right goes through Hcv.eningham and Ubbelton to Laxfield. At 4 rn. is Threadbare Hall clafc on the left. A t 4 m. 3 f. the right goes to Hcveningham, the left to Sibton Green ; enter in at a Gate ; pafi through the Fields. At 5 m. 3 f. the right goes through Heveningham Long-Lane to UbScRoi! ; here turn on the lefr through Boy Street. A t 5 m. 5 S f. rhe right goes through PeaCenhall and Baddingham to Framlingham. At 5 m 3 45 is a Gate to Sibton Abbey.

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ward to ; leave he Sear of Ba~ba-mPrettyman,Efq;clofe on the left, and Ba&toton ~hu"i'%h~clofe on the right. A C j in. the Road ~ightforward goes through Cotton tohlendlharn, here tarn on the left over a Common called by -rhe Name c f Middlegate way. At m. 5 f f, the right goes to Metldleifiam. At 8 in. f. the right p e s to Wickham Skyth, the left to WyverRon, where is the E I I ~ of hliddlegate Green. At 8 m. I $ f. is Fiiiningham MThiteHorfe Inn (aHoufe of good Entertainmcnt)wheiy the left goes .to Bury, (of w hiGb hereafier) the 1ight to Thornham Magna. F I N N I N G H A M Hall, is the Seat of Edmund Fre~e,Efq; here is a confiderable Fair Yearly for Cattle beginnin Augufi 24. Leaving Finninllarn White HorIe nn pars by the Cl~urch on rbe right. At S m. 3 $ f. the right goes to Giflingham; leave Finningham Hall on the left. At 9 m. 6 f. eater Alud Green, At lo rn. 6 f. leave it. A t 12 rn. 2 f. is Rickingale fuperior Chur'ch on tbc right ; the Road ,ri ht forward goes to Whattisfield, t h e ~ f i r r : turn on t e right. *At 1 2 m. 4 4 f. is the Road from Bury to ?Jarmouth before treated of ; here turn on the right through Botefdale Street, and at 1 3 a 3 f. is Botefdale Crown Inn. R E T u B H we now to Stow Market to rake s Surv e p f the Road leading from thence through Ixworth te Thetford. .From the Market Crols in Stow pafi along in the lait mentioned Road. At I m, 6 f. go pa fghe aforefaid Road on the right which goes through Ha yg hley to BateCdale,and 'keeptheRoad rsght forward bkg the Bury .Road before treated of, but at. 3411.3$-f. avoid t11e left going to W.~~lpit and Eury and keep the .right forward Kpad. At 3 m. 7 f is Wetherden Village, wheve the right goes paR the Church towards Raughley Green, Wulpi't. At 5 m. I 3-4 t. the right goes t o Elmfwell Grcen, the left to Wulpit. At 5 m. 4 f. the right acute backward goes to Elmfwell Grcen ; kave the Church clok on the right. At 5 m. q f. the Road right forward goes to ToPock, here take the right hand way. At 7 m. -6 5 f. tbc rkht goes to AfJlfield, the lefr te Bury and Norton Dog Inn,

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S bounded on the Eaff by the Hul~dredof Sam'ford, on the Weit by the Stour and part of Risbridge Hundred, .on the North by the Hundreds of Thingoe and Thedwefiry, and,on the South with the Stour dividing it from EiTex. It' is in Ieogth 12 Miles, in breadth 11, making the Circumference $2 Miles. The Towns and Villages in this Hundred are, viz. AsC T 0N ; the Manour of .;,hip Parifh in 9 Edward I, was the Iaheritance of Bobcrt.de Buers or Buris. King Edwad IV aft&rwa;dsmgaveit to Henry Lord Bourchier. Hedying, 23 Edward IV, left ir m Henry his Grandfon ; to whom it defcended afterwards we find bot. A&on-Place is, a aoble .Building, and is now the Seat of William 'Jcnfiens, Efq; by whom .it was lately Built. On the Gde of Babergh Heath in this Parifi is the Seat of Ambrofe Kedington, Efg. A L P H E T 0N, formerly the Lordfhip of John de Welnetham. A S s I NG T O N, the ~ o r d h i pof Roger Carbet 9 Edward I, but in later Tines it has been the Sear of the Family of Gusdon, Men of Figure .and Efiate in this County. John Gurdon ofthis Place, Efq; was High Sheriff for this C o u ~ t y26 Queqn Elizabeth ; they. are ail1 in Repure in this Place ; the prefellr PoffeiJbr is John Ourdon, Efq. BOXFORD, See Page 9;. BOX S T E A D, formerly the Lordfhiy of the Ahb ~ ofBury t St.Edmunds, bur aftrrwa,rd, (by what means is uncertain) rhc 9 Edward I, it was granred to Robert Harleiton, Efq; who being Attainted in the Reign of Edward IV; it 'was granted to Richard Duke of Glo* cefler, Rrorher to the i B i King. -It is XIOW tb Sea :of - ' Poole , Efq. B U R E Q ~ ~ ~ B SU, see E page-95. a

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GLEMSFORD, or GVTHELNESFORD, 2iie of rho& Manours which Odo Earl of Champaign, a near Kinfman of nrilliarn the Conqueror, was found poff'efi'd of when the General Survey of En land calied Doofisday Book was taken. Afterwards it eIonged co the!Bifhop. of El7 ; 'but whether ib aQw, we know not. IT is a very large Town, in Bounds and very full of Inhabitants; but the Hour@ are Ccatteri~lgl~ .fitz, ate, which were they Contiguous it is fi~ppos'd there. would not be four larger Towris in this County, The Fair is yearly June the 24th. G R O T 0 N, formerly the LordOrip of-the Abbot of R ~ r St. y Edmonds ; who it-dekendedto a t the Diffolution of that Abbey we know not. It is now the ~ 6 r d fhip qf Thomas Warren, ETq; who refidcs in the Place ; agood 014 Manfion, a little North of \he Chnrch, HARTEST, formerly the Lordfiip of the Biilrop of Ely; but wh& at prefent we lrnow not. , LAVENJ3-dBM,See Page8;. L A W S H A .LL, formerly the Lordfhip of the Abbst sf Ramfey ; bur to whom it belongs ar prsfeia wc know IYO~. . . M E L F O R D , See Page 84. M I L DE N, formerly the Lordkip and Dernefne of Remigiys de- Milding or Milden, who took his Name from this Place. Afterwards it defcended $0 the Allingtons ; from them by purchate to the Psmily of canham. It is now vefied in John ,Canhap, ETq; who has +his Seat ar the Hall. M ON-KS-E LY, fo called kcaulc the Lordaip formerly belonged to the Monks o f S t, PeterS 111 Canterbur :, To whom it belongs at prefinr we know,not. N T ON, formerly the Lorrlfhip of William Butvillein; but to,whom it aow belongs we know not. N E Y L A N D , See Page 96. P 0L S T E A D, formerly the Lor dfiii of Jam= Lamburti, ECq, I t is at .prefeat of Remark for its Cher'ries. Here is the Seat of Jacob Brand, EXq P R E S T 0 N, formerly the Lordfiip and M a r e of the Hofpital of St. John of Jerufilem p Edward 1, but afterward of the de Veres.. Earb of Oxford ; but to whom .it. defcended after we kr~ownot. .. SHIhfJ?&ING,

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B L A C K B O U R N Hundred, I s bounded on the EaA with the Hundreds of Hartfmere, and by Stow on the South, by the Hundred of Lachford and ThedweRry on the Weit, and on the North by the Little Oufe dividing it from Norfolk. Its gsrateff length is 16 Miles ; its great& breadth is 9 Miles, making the Circumference 1 2 Miles. T h e Towns and Villa es in this Hundred are, viz. ASHFIE BADWELL-ASH,tbe Lordihip of WilliamCreketotc 9 Edward I, but to whom it belongs now we know not.

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of John Packenham and Ifibella de Wykes; afcerwards it came into thefpamily of Kead; one of which married the Daughter and Heirefi of n7illiam Crofts of Saxham Magna in this County, who was by King Charles I1 at Brabant, May IS, 1658, created Lord Crofts of Saxham, from which Marriage rhey took the Sirname of Crofrs. It is now the Lordhip of Thomas Crofts Read, Efq. B A R N H A M, confiRing of two Pariihes, viz. St. Martin and St. Gregory, having formerly had two ParifiChurches; but St Martin's Church is now in ruins; It was formerly the Lordihip of James de Shrylle, and now belo~~gs to his Grace the Dukepf Grafron. B A R N I N G H A M, formerly the Lordfiip of John de Montfort, aud the Prior of Blefworth, in the 9 Edw. I. The Family of the Sheltons have long refided in this Village ; the prcGnr Gentlemanof that Family, Maurice Shelton, Efq; refides in a good old Sear ncar the Church, who is now Lord of this hlanour we k<nowlnot ; but the Duke OF Grafton, lately yurchafed of the faid vr. Shelton the ~ e f f u a ~ e a n d Mare in or ncar this B r i m calied by the Name of Barnin gham Park. C O N Y - W E S T O N , formerly the Lordfhip of the Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds. CULFORD, or CVLPORTH, was formerly the Lordihip of the Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, a Village adorned with a neat Seat buiit by Sir Nicholas Bacon. The Lords Cornwallis for many Years Honoured this Village by refiding in this Manfion. E L M S W E L L, formerly the Lordihip of the Abbot cf Bury St. Edmunds, now of Charles Wood, Efq* E U S T O N , was formerly the ~ o r d d and i ~ Dem e p e of a Family of that Name ; afterwards it defiended to the Family of Pattifhall, from them it deftended to Sir Henry Bennett, who, as a Reward for his faithful Services to his Ro a1 MaAer King Charles I, vras by his Son, King 'harles 11, made Secretary of State, created Lord Arlington, Yifiount Thetford, and Earl of Arlington. He being induced by the pleafant - Situation of this Village raifid a

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sf the Family of Roufe. John Roule of Henham, Efq; was created a Baronet Augufi 1 7 , 1660. I11 whofe Family ir now remains. 9 HENSTEAD, of 1.0 remark at prefint. HINTON, a Hamlet of Blithburgh. \ HOLTON, of no great remark. HUNTJNGFIELD, formerly the Lordfiip aod Demefne of a noble Family of that name; afterwards it def'cended to the Family of de Norwich, but has been for fome rime the Lordfhip and Demeiile of the Lord Lovels A?cefiors, and is now vefied in that Noble Lord. KNOGISHALL, where we obferved a good Old Seat much decay'd, which for fome Ages has bcionpd to the Family of Jet~ng, and now remains to that banrily. LEISTON, Bee Page 29, LINSTEAD Magna, and LINSTEAD Parva, of tlo'remark at prefint. MELLS,a Hamler of Wellhaiton ; the Church is now in H uins, and as the Corn Tithes of Wenhafion now belong to Mells Church or Chapel, it may from thence be fuppofed it was antiently the hiorher Church. MIDDLETQN, at prefent of no remark ; South of Middleton Church iu the fdrne Church yard remain t h ~ Ruins of Fordley Church. PEASENHALL, of which we have nothing to remark. RUMBURGH, worthy of remark for a Benedi$ine Monaiter~founded by Stephen Earl of Breragn, and by him dedicated to God and the BleffeA Virgin Mary. What the Revenues of this Houfe were at its Diflolution, and to whom it w a s then granted does not appear. It was afterwards the ELtate of the Earls of Oxford, and was lately purchakd by Mr. Corbold a wgalthy Quaker. RAYDON, at prefint of no remark. SIBTON. See Page 104. SIZEWELL, a. Hamblet of Leiffon.

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BOSMERE and CLAYDON Hundred I s bounded on the South by the Hundred of Samford, an the W-cA by rhe Hu~dredsof Cosford and S t o ~ ian , the North by the Hundred of Stow and Hartfinere, and on t h EaR by the Hundreds of Thredling and Carlford, Its greateit length is 1 2 Miles, its greateit breadth 10 Miles, making rhecircumference 45 Miles.

T H E T O Wand ~ SVillages in this Hundred are viz. AKENBAM, formerly the Lordihip of PhiIip Barnard Efi; who had his Seat at Rice Hall, a Gentleqmn of a vnfi EPnte, Wd $0have been ru ner'of molt of

of the Lands betweell Woodbridge and Stowmarket. I t was afterwards the Seat of the Family of Hawys? and now belongs to Walter Plumer, kfq. ASH-BOCKBN, at p,refent ot imail hemark. BADLEY. Here is a good Sear where the Parrily of the Poleys have for fome time refided. but it has been lately Purchafed by Madam Csowiey. BAKHAM has nothing more wort1.y of Remark at preiint, but that here is the Seat of Simon Dove, Efq-, WATTISFORD; the Hall is the Seat of Philip Baccn, 'Efq. a Grandfon of Sir Kicholas Bacon Knight of the Bath. BARKING. is a.Seat lnte John CrowleySs,Eq; which now remains to his Family. BAYLEHAM, of which we have nothing to Remark.

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Family of A&on has had their Seat at the Hall in this Parifi , and it is now vefled in VV illizm A&on, E$. BRISET, of Remark for a Priory founded by Radulphus Fitz-brian and Emma his Wife, and by them dedicated to God, St. Mary and St. Leonard. They endowed it with divers Lands and Tythes, zmong which were the Tythes of Smithfield in London. What the Revenues of this Priory were at its Diffolution, or to whom it was granted, we know not. CLAYDON, a through-fare Village 011 the Road from Ipfwich t s Sorwich and Bury. CODDENHAM, another through-fare Village on the Road from Ipfwich to Debenham. SHRUBLAND-Hall in this Parifh is a good old seat, and has been for ibme time the Sear .of the Bacons, now remaining to Nicholas Bacon, Efq; whore Grandfather, Sir Nicholas Bacon, was created Knight of the Bath at the Coronation of King Charles 11. GREETING All-Saints, CREETING St. Mary's,

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DARMSDEN is a Harnler of Barking. EARL STONHAJI, anriently the Lordhip of the de Brotherton's Earls of Norfolk ; to whom it defcended from them we firid ~ o t . It is now vefied in the PerCon of Thomas Driver, Efq.

FLOWTON. GOSBECK. Here is the remains of a Seat of the Styles, who removed fram hence to Hemingeon. WEhtINGSTON, a Manour held by Haldwin 1e Petteur (that is the Farter, Mr. Cambden bids us obierve the Name) by Serjeanrry (as the book expreffes it) for which he was obliged every ChriAmas-Day to perform before our Sovereign. Lord the King of England one Saltus, one Suaatus, and one Hombulus ; or as it is read in anorher Place, that he held ic by a Saltus, a Sufflatus and a Pet, that is (as Mr. Cambden interprets the Words) he was to Dance, make a Noire with his Cheeks puffed out, and let a Fart. Such was the plail~jolly Mirth of thoie Times. It was many Years in the Famil of the Styles lately extin&, but it is now the Lord ip of h'athaniel A&on, ECq; w hok Sedc formerly went by tile Name of Style. HELhfINGHAM, a Place honoured many Ages ait with the Keildence of the ancient Family of %allemitch, who before they Gtrled here had their seat at Bently, in the Hu~ldredof Samford. Lionel Tallemach of this Place, Efq; was creared a Baronet the azd of hlay 161I . Bur Cince, thi: Family has been cr:obleri by the Earldom of Dyfert in Scotland. The Noble Lord who now enjoys ic being the Right Hon. LiotleI Earl of Dyfert, who fiucceeded his Grandf;lt!ler of the fame Name, and he inherited it f r o g his Mother, Elizabeth Durchefi of Lauderdale. HENLEY, where the Veres have for many Years had a Seat, it being now vetted in Thomas Vere, EQ; now Mayor of Norwich, and Member of Parliimeizt for that City. .

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I s bounded op the Souch by the Hundred of Colnca, Eait with the Hundreds of Wilford and Loes, on the North and Weft by the Hundred of Bofmere and Claydon, and the half Hundred or Liberries of Ipfwich. Its greatefi length is 8 Miles, its greateff breadth 6 Miles, making the Circumference 29 Miles. T H E R E being no Market Towns in this Hundred, t!~e Villaaes &e, viz. BEA L ~ N G SMagna, antienrl y the Lordfhip of RoL bert de Tuddenham ; afterwards it defcended into the Fdmily of Ciynch ; from them to the Webbs ; from the Wcbbs it came by Purchai'e to John Pitt, EQ; who removed from Crows-Hall near Debcnham hither, and made Bealings Hall his\Seat; but he dying without Male I&, afier the Death of his Lady (who now refides In ,the Hall) it reverts with his other Effates to his Elder Brother. BEALINGS Parva. BRIGHTWELL, antiently the Lordfhip of John de Lamputt ; afterwards it defcended to the Wingfields; from the Wingfields it dcfcended by Porchafe to the Barnardiftons, Sir Samnel Barnardifion of this Place, Knt. was created a Barot~ct May I I , 1663, which Honour is now extin&, b'ut the Efiate is frill nl that Family, and is a t prefcnt ~ c a e din Arthur Barnardifion, Efq. an the

BURGH. CLOPTON, CULPHOE. FOXHALL, formerly a difiind h r i f i of it felf, but now a Hamlet to Brightwell.

GRVNDISBURGH, of Note for being the Lordhip of the Family ofBfois, who had their Seat at the Hall in this Parik. Charles Blois of this Place, Bfq; was created a Barone: April 15, 1656, now reliditig ;It Cockfield-Hall in Yoxford, HASKETON. KESGRAVE. MARTLESHAM, N EIVBOURNE.

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C 0 L N E S Hundred Z s bounded on the South by the Ocean, and- the River Orwell dividing it from the Hundred' of Samhrd on the WeR; by the half Hundred or Liberties of IpCwich and by Carleford Hundred on the North, and on the Eafi by the River Deben dividing it from the Hundred of Wiiford. Its length is 6 5 Miles, its breadth 4 Miles, making tlie Cir~u*ference 2 5 Miles. T H E Villages in this Hundred are BUCKLESHAM, antiently called BULECAMP.

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was a Nagive of this Place ; of whom fee more in the Account df Framlin ham, Page 4.3. NACT&, is of remark for being the Birth Place of Sir Robert Broke, who was Lord Chief JuRice of the Common Pleas l'n the Reign of Queen Mar One of his ~~~~~ity Robert Broke of NaEtan, was Knighted: by: K i ~ Charles g 11, fom after theKeitoration, who dying witl~outMale IGe, his Nephew Kobert Broke, Efq; whb hitd married his Daughter and Heirefi, left three Sons, one of which Phil~pBroke, Efq; a worthy Member of the lafi Parliament,$reGdes now in the Seat of the Famil N. B. There is a Baronezs atent here, before Sir Richard Broke the Grandfather of Sir Robert, perhaps this Honour may be maintained by fome elder Branch, which may be the Cbcfhire Family, unleCs it lies negleAed here. Edward Vernon, Efq; another worthy Member of the 1aB Parliament, does likewiie Honour this Par& with his Kcfidence, having built a xlavt Manfin No~fe

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LINDSEY. NAUGHTON. XEDGlKG. SBAMER. THOLtP, antiently the Lordniip and Demeiile of Hugh de Moileux, and perhaps from him might derive c e Nsme of Thorp Aloreux. h~~~~~~~~~ WHATTISFIELD,WOTFIELD or WHEATFIELD a t prei'ctlt of no great remark, but for its excellent Seed, Wheat. T H I s Hundred contains -3 7 Pnrifhes.

H A R T S MERE Hundred Is bounded on the EaA by the Hundreds'of Hoxna ard Loes ; on the South 'bthe Hupdreds of Thredling, Bofiere and Claydon.; on the -Weit by the Hundred of Blackbourne, and an the North hy: thcBiver Waveny dividng it from @Torfolk. Its Length is I I hlilcs,, its bre&th $ Miles, making the Circumference 35 Miles: T H E Towns and Villages .inthis Hundred are, viz. A S P A Lfi, CIS ASPALE,a Vil4 e h a t e at the River Dtben. T h e Hall here was ormerly tbe S a t of the Noble Family of- the Btookes Lords Cobbarn.; which Family being exhna, who it deCcended to from them we know not. I t it now v&ed in ClemnsChevalier, Eij; who has his Sear .there. BACTCjN, antienrly h e Grdfhip and DRmfne of the Bifhop of orw wid, but whether fo at prefkrit we k11ow not. Here is now a neat Manfion being the Seat of B a r ~ nFretyman, Efq.

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Noble .Family of Cornwallis. My Author itiforms me. that Sir John Cornwallis of Broome Hall, Kright, was Steward of the Moukold to Prince Edward, afterward King Edward VI. His Son Sir Thomas Cornwallis being High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in the lait Year of King Edward V1. raifid confiderableForces againft tlx OFpoErs of Queen Mar 'S Title, Robert Gofnold of Otley roop of Horfe at hiq own Charge, fet has on tlie Throne of her Apceflors. He was promoted by that Qugen ro be one of her Privy(bunci1, Treafgrcr ot Callis, and. Comptroller df her Houihold. From him defcended Frederick Cornwallis of Broome, ECl; who was created a Baronet May 4, 1627. He fiuuffered much in the great Rebellion, by the SequeQration of his m a t e and Im~ifonmentof his-Perfon. King Charles the 11, at his Leftoration, in TcRimony of the EReem he had tor Ids Merir, not only made him Trealurer of his Houihold, Comptroller and Privy Councellor, but by Lertqrs Patents bearing date April 20, 1661, created-him a Baron of rhis R q l m by the Title of Lord Cornwallis o£.Eye, to him fucceeded his Son Charles Lord Carnwallis. He wasonc of the Lords of the Admiralty it1 the Reign of King William 111, and, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Suffolk, whofe Son Charleq WPS Father of the pre@nt Lord Cornwallis. B R 0C K F O R D, a Hamlet of WetheringTett. BURG ATE.

CUTTOM, E YE. See Page 39. F I N N I N G HAM, See Page 109.

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ry pt Hack Wprp or BeqcdiBines, founded to the; Honour of God md the I$le@d Apollle St. Andrew, (Mr. Speed l a s Virgin Mary) by Msndes Earl of G&cs jud &nu his Wife, and endowed by them with

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with the hlatlour of this Pariih. Their Deed of Settlepent (fays my Author) bears date Anno 1120. The Annual Keve~~ues of this Houfe at the Supprefion was found to be 6; 1. o s. I d. Cays Dugdale, but Speed and Leland fay they were S I 1. z s. g -$ d. T HE Family of Beddingfield have long enjoyed this Monaffery, if it was not granted to them at its Diflolurion, and made it their Seat ; but it has lately been purchafed bv John Willis, Efq. ' H E D G K A VE, antiently the Lordhip of the Abbot of Bury St. Edmund's; but in the& latter Ages i t came into thc Family of the Bacons, who ha$ their Seat at Redgrave Hall. Sir Nicholas Bacon of this Place, Knt. was by King James I, created the firft Baronet in England, May 22,161 I. T h a t Family has now its Seat at Garboldikam in the County of Norfolk; for the late Sir Edmund 'Bacon of Redgrave Hall hart. fotd this Noble old hlanfion, and his Eftate in thefe Parts to Sir John Holt, Knt. Lord Chief Juitice of the King's Bench, ill which Family it now kemains, being a t p~efintvcited in Rowland Holt, Efq. I N or near this P a r i k is Lopham Gate, or Caufeway,or Lopham Ford, remarkable for the Headaof two h g e Navigable Rivers which arifi one on one fide of the Gate, and the other on the other, viz. The Waveny running Eafiward empties itfelf into the Sea at Yarmouth, and the Little OuSe running Weflward empties irfelf into the Ocean near Lynn. But the chief Sprrng Bead of the Little Oufe is in or nearWhattisfield,which iovns ir&lf with the Ouie about a hlile WeR of Lop. ham Gate. R I C K I N G A L E Superior. KISHANGLES. STOAK-ASH. STUSTON, Stufion Hall is a good old Seat apd was for many Ages the Seat of the Knightly Family of the Caitletons

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T H O K N H A M Magna, at prefint of remark only for the Refidenceof Charles Kelligrew, Etq; w hd has beautified the Hall, and made it his Seat.

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bur not at prefent fo : Thomas dc Moulion Lord Ergemour, IS Edward I. obtained a Charter for a hlarket to be held here weekly onTuefdays, and a Fair yearly on the Eve Day and Morrow after the FeaR of Sr Mary Magdalen. How long this Market and Fair hati been difcontinued we know nor. ThrandiAon Fair is new yearly oh St. Margaret's Day, July 2Q. Thralldiito~iHall is now tht Sear of the Lord Chief Baron Reynolds, w b married a Daughter of Thomas Smith, Efq; the former Poi'l'eflor of it, T H W A T T E . Seepage it. WE S T H 0R I?. The Hall by the ruins now reinainin befpeaks ir to have been a very noble Structure. f t was antiently the Seat of Chailes Brandon, Duke of Suffolk ; but for Come Ages it has been the Efiate of the Sheltons. and is now vefied in Thomas Taylor, Eii; who has, his Scat at Welthorp-Lodge iti tl~isParik. Pil~~~WeRthorplChu?ch is the Seat of JohnEllis,Ef$

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Is bounded on the South by the Hundreds of L ~ e s qnd Plomeiga te; on rhe Weft by the fame Hundred oE Loes and the Hundred of Hartfiere ; on the North by the River M'aveny dividing it frorn Norfolk, and OLI rhe EaR by the Hundreds ot Wangford and Blichiog. its length is 15 Miles, its breadth l o Miles, making the Circumfqence 41 Miles. T H P R E being no hlarkcr T o m s in this ~ ; n d r c & ~ the Villa es a1.e as ftallowerh. ATH ~ L I G. N

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[lie # a d y of tllc Alexanders have long refided ; Waldgrave Alexander, Gent. now refides there. T h e Patronage of thechurch is now veiled in the Reverend Barrington Blomfield, D.D. who has lately built a neat hlanfion not far from the Church. BEDDINGFIELD, of remark for a Family of that Name who werc Lords of the Manour, and, as it ws iaid before, had their Seat at Kcdingfield Hall.

BEDFIELD. BRUNDISH, where the Family of the Wyards have long refided in a Manfion near the Church, and is now veRed in the Perfan of Jdmes Wyard, Gent.

CARLETON. DENHAM.

DENNIGTON, of Note for being the Burial Place of the Lord B~rdoffwho lies buried in this Church, and had his Seat at the Hall in this Pariik, which by the ruins appears to have been a fumytuous Building ; afterwards it defcended to the Wingfields, then to the Roufes, and now is veiled in She Jolin Roufe, Bart. a Minor. FRESSINGFIELD. See Page 46.

HORHAM. HOXNE, givieg Name to this Hundred ; but more memorable for belng the Place where the Danes cruelly Martyr'd Edmund King of the Eafi Angles. For here it was that, bccaufe this moit ChriRlan King would not renounce his Faith its ChriR, thefe barbarous Pagans bound him to a Tree and Shot his Body full of Arrows ;and to increafe his P a h and Torture made Wound upon Wound 'till their Darts gave Place to one another. Ou R Poets have thus refl:&td upon his Death: '

An Dennis by his Death adorned France, So Edrnund's Sufferings did our Land Advance ,; T h e Crown his Head, Sceptre his Hand renown'd; But he was greater by his Blood and Wourds. His Death happened Anno 8 70. his Body i'o flain was removed to Bury and there buried, of which fee morc

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ICELLESAL or KELSAI, antiently rhe Demefie of John Duke of Norfollc which be had ~ i t h the Csuntefs Rlarihal as a Portion, rjll being att a inted fur fiding with the HouTe of York agaiillt Henry Duke of Richmond, this Manour and his other ERates being fiized were given to John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, how long it rernain'd in that Family we lcnow not ; the Manour of this Town is now veAed in fiveral PerCons, but the Lodgc has for many Years been ia the Hobart's Familyi and is now the Seat of Hobart, Efq. LAXPIbLD is Gtuate in a dirty Part of rhe County;' Its Church and Steeple are vtry beautiful Edifices. Ir &ems Laxfield was formerl y of more remark t h a ; ~it is ac prei'ent, there being G i l T w o Fairs yearly, the one on May-Day, and the other OLtober I;. T h e Family of Jacobs alias Bradilhagh have long had their Seat in this Parifi, which is now veAed in Nicholas Jacobs, EGl; MENDHAM, a Parill firuate on both Gdes of the River Waveny, taking into its bounds part of the Town ef Harlefior?: METPIELD. MONK-SOHAM, ib called, becaufe she Monks of Bury were I'atrons of t l g Rettory, and had probably %heManour here. SAXTEAD. SYLEHAM.

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WETHERSDALE. WEYBREAD. WILBYE. WINGFIELD, fimetime the Eitate of Richard de Bruce,but more antiently belonged,to a Familywho took their Names from it, and were called Dc Wingfield, they were a Family of great Reputation here for many Ages; but they had their Habitation in afier Times at Letheringham, asis mentioned under the Head of Loes Hundred. 'T'hat Noble old BuiIding called Wingfield CaRle, which was the Seat of this Family before the Norman Canquefi(as ap ars by an antient Pediree now in that Family) who e ruinoosWalls befpeak its grmer Grandeur, has been a Colle c or Chantrg ;of which we know no more than t at the De la Pol9 Earls of Suffolk were Patrons of it, -and that at the SupprelIionof it, 36 Henry VIII. it was found worth j o i. 3 s. 5 d. per Annum, Weaver. But Mr.Speed and Leland give the value to be 69 1. r q s. 5 d. per Annum. To whom this College was granted at its Diffolu. tion we know not. It has for tome A es been v&d i n the Family of Catalyne, and at pre ent ternaim to the Lady of Sir Charles Turner, Bart. (She was the Reli% of Sir Nevi1 Catalyne) afier whofc Death it defcendr to Thomas Leman of WenhaRon, E4. WORLING W ORTH. T ~ r Hundred s contains 26 Parifiea,

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in length 12 Miles, in breadth X I Miles, making the Circumference 40 Miles, cxcluGve of the Parikcs of New-Market St. Mary's, and Exning, which arc part of this Hundred. T H s Towns and Villages in this Hundred arc ar followeth. B A R T O N Mills, or B A R T O N Parva, to diainguiih it from another Parifh of this Namc in the Hundred of Thedweitryt B R A N D O N , See Pa e 75. CAVENHAM, corrupt y called Canham, antiently the Lordfhip and Demcrihe of Gilbert Earl of Clare; but now of Richard Webb, Efq. DO W N H AM, very fitly called Sandy-Downham; the Sands often in windy Weather are blown off the Hills into the Valle s here, fo as to render them unfruitfull. Mr. Hol ihgfhead tells us that in O&ober 568, there were taken at the Bridge in this ViIlagc r 7 Monflrous Fifhes, ibme ot them 27 Fcrt, others 24, and the leait 20 Feet in length.

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HERRINGSWELL. HIGHAM GREEN, a Han~Ietof Gaiefly. ICKLIKGHAM, confifis of two diitit~&Pariihes, S t . James and All-Saints, having 'two Pnrifi Churches. Near this Village there ha\ e been wit hi^^ the hien;ory of fome now (or very lately) 11viilg. RJeral Roman Coil~sdug up, which Ihews the Anrilluiry of t l ~ e Place, and that it probably el-lough has bezll a Roman Station.

LAKENHEATH, ano:her large Village in this Hundred, fituate by the GGe of the Fens 111 an urlwhoieiome Air, at preferit of no great Remark, cxccpt it be for the R.c-Gdence of Sir Simeotl Sicwart, ulio has a Seat there. MlLDENHALL. See Page ;7 . NEW-MARKET. See Pdge ;-So

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L 0 E S Hundred Is bounded on the North with the Hundred of Hoxne ; on the Eat't with the Hundred of Plomefgate ; oil the South by the Hundred of Wilford,a~ld on the Wefi by theHundreds of B~fmereandClaydon,Thredling, and Hqrtil-nere. Its length is I 5 miles, its breadth in ibme Places j, and in other Places not 3 Miles, malting its ~ircun;ferences40 Miles, T h e Towns and Villages in this Hundred are, viz. BRANDESTON; this in the Cotiqueror's Time was the Lordfiip of Odo or Eudo de Camyania, Earl of Roldenlefi, whofe Poiterity granted it to the Hurnells, from them ir defkerlded to the Weylands; from the Weylands to the Tuddenhams; from the Tuddenhams to. the Beddingfields, the faR of which Henry Beddingfield, Efq; was a cruel Jailor to ihe . Priccefi '(afterwards Queen) Elizabeth i n the Heign of bcr Sifter (&cen hlary. Andrew Kevet,

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deficn arld made the Hall is Sea:. To him fi~cceeded ETq; hiseldeft Son ;to him Nichoias Rivet,

on of the faid John; to him John Revet, Efiy Sol: of the Gid Nicholas; to him Thomas Revet, Efii; Son of rhe fdid John, and to him Joh!: Kevec, Ei;i;

Son of the faid Thomas now living. BUTLEY, the Church is i : ~this, the Abbey in Plomefgare Hundred, of which Sec Page 34. CAhllPSEY A%, -\.vorchy of ~ c m a r kfor 3 Kunnery, firfi of the Order of St. Auguitine, but afi-erwards t l l ~ ~ r of St. Clare, foulldcd 6y Joan and Agms de Voloines, rwo SiAers, who dedicated it to the Hooour of God anti the B l e a d Virgin Mary. This hfonafiery was l'eared in a fruitful and plcafint Valley on the EaR of the liivcr Deben; on rhe North it had a large Mere or Pool of Water; as the Water fupplied them withFiih and Wild Fow~, ib the Land afforded them almoit all the ncceffaries csFLife. bfaud de Lancafler, Coui~tefiof W;iler, who afterwayds married Ralph de Ufford, Chief Jufiice of Ireland, obtained a Licence of Kit~gEdward 111. to found a Chantry of 5 Cl~aplains, Secular Prieits, to Pray and Sing hiafi in the Church of this h'unnery for the Souls of William deBurgh, Ralph deUfford,and for Elizaberh de Burgh and Maud de UCord her Daughrers, and for the good EAate of herfelf and oFSir John de Ufford, and Sir Thomas de Hereford, R ~ t sduring , their Lives qnd for their Souls afrerwards. Which Chantry having remained there Comc Year; was 1-emoved by the faid Lady to the Manour of Rokeball in Bruifjard. I11 the Window of the Pdriour in the Abby Houfe is a Piece of Glafi, now itailled with the Arms OF the de Ugord's, and in the Windnu: i i ~:he Chamber over it is the Effigies of a Lady Itain'd on a piece of Glafi, with thefe Words undernc3th i-I old Roman Capitals, GOVERNAS G R A C E . This Lqonaitery was valued at fts D i b l u t i o i ~ the , ;j Heilsy Y l l I . a t I 8 t 1.9s. 5 d. per Annum, and qranted by thai Kicg to Sir William Willoughby,~ho Sold it t o Johr, Lane, Gent. From the Lanis it was purcl~afedby Frederick Scet, Gent. who Sold it toSil Henry Wood of Loudham, irt whofe Family it itill remains, being m w vefied in Charles MTood,

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Wood. Efq; In this P a r i k of Campfey, is an old SCPI which was fbrrnerly the Efiate of Theophilus Howard Earl of Suffolk. '1his was Purchafed by John Rraham, or Brame He was the Son of George Braham, Son of Sir ohn Braham ofRraham'sHal1, Kt. andtccfled here, ma .ingit his Seat, but that Family failing of Iffue hlale, itisnow veiled in two Maiden Ladies of that Name. T h e hi h Houfe in Campfey Afh is a good Seat, and was bui t by John Glover,, Elq; fomctime Servant to Thomas Howard, Earl of Norfolk, whofi SucceKor removing to Frofiendon in this County fold this Seat to John Sbeppard, Gent. whore Succeifor John Shep. pard, Efqf now the prefent Potreffor has made great Ad. ditions to it. ' CHARSFiELD, formerly the Lordihip of the Bed in sfields, and by them Sold to Sir John Leman, Knt, Aherman, and Lord Mayor of London. T o him Cuc ceeded William Leman, Etq; the eldeit Son of John Leman, Efq; the eldefi Son of William Lernan of Bcccles, Eiq; the eldefl Brother of Sir John Lernan. T o him fucceed John Leman, Ef?; his eldett Son, and to him his Son William Leman, Ef ; whore rcli& Elizabeth [the only Daughter and eir of Robert Sterlin of this Parifh Gent.) now refides there.

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Hundred. Here was a handfomc Seat built by William Churchil, ELq; who Come time refided here. He granttd it to his Son-in-Law Francis Negus, Elq; who. rcbujlt it, bur: it was unfprtunately codumed by Fire. Anno Dom. I 529. EARL-SOHAM. See Pa e 38. EASTON, fii~mcrl the &rdfhip and Dernefne of rhe antient Family of nightly Degree in Kittleburgh, Sirnamed Charlez; afterwards the Wingfields of Letheringham, of like Degree, were Pmpriteon et both, in which Ii'amlly they c~ntmusda longer fpace of time than in the former. Anthany Win field, Efq; removing from Letheringharn to Gody ns in oo, was created a Baronet May 17, A D. 1627. He built the Whire HouCe in Eafion, and removing from Hoo thither, made ir his Scat. T o him ficceeded Sir Rich rd Wingfield, Bart. afier him Sir Robert Wingfield, art. Atter him Sir Hen-

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to him his clde8 Son Sir Hear Wiagfield, Bart. who fold this Seat and the kenaindrr of the Wingfield's ERarc in the Neighbourhood, to the Right Hon. William Zuileflein, Lord of Zuileitein, in the Province of Utrecht, MaRer of the Robes to King William 111, created Baron of Enfield, Vifcount Tunbridge, and Earl of Rochford 10 May, 7 William 111. William Henry Earl of Rochford, his eIdeB Son fuccecded him in Honour and Efiate ;he commanded the left Wing of the Enlifh Army under General Stanhopc at Lertda, in the: @lainsof Balaguer in Spain, vbere valiantly Fighting for the Honour, tho' not for the Profit of his Country, he was Qain Jul I 4, I j I o F R I D ~ RI!Iarl ~C of Rochford his Brother now living fucceedcd him in his Honour and Efface, and hatb honoured his Pariib with his Refidencc chiefly at the White Houfe.

EYKE, FRAMLTNGHAM. See Page 43. HACHESTOX. See Page 42.

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KITTLEBURGH, in this Parifh is the Scat of Robert Sparrow Gent. King Henry 111. Anno Don, 1z6k.!ranted a Market and Fair to the Manour of itr eburgh, bur how long they havc been diCuCed we knaw not. ' KENTON, the Ware ns defcended from Robert Wareyn D.D, Reeor o Melford ejeaed r 641, havc s Seat in this Parih wherein now refides John &'aw reyn Gat. LETHERINGHAM. See Page 3 7. MARLSFORD, the Manour of which did anGently belong to the Sackviles i then to thc Kokcs; afierwards to the Druries ; lately to the Dcvtreuxes, md now to Simon Dove of Barham, Efq. MONODEN or Noncwden, at preknt of little rc-

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LOTHING

LOTHING or LUTHIXG EAND~ u n d r e d Probdbly took its Name from that Spacious Lake called by Rlr. Cambden rhe Lake LutIii~~g.It is recltoned, in r e f p e a of the Civil Gotrernmtr~tof the County, but a Half Hundred ; h e other Haif Hundred i s called the Half Hrzndred of Aiurfol-d; and they are generally called the Half Hundreds of Lothit~glatid and Mutford. Rut it1 the Map of this Coutlty, following the natural Divifion of them, That part ofthis Hundred on the North fide of the Lake Lothing which divides the two Half Hundreds, we have called Lorhingland Hundred and That on the South fide, Murford Hundred. TheHundved of Lothil~glandis bounded on the Baa with .the, Ocean and the River Yar ; on the Weft by the River Waveny dividing it from Nor folk ; on the North by Bredon Water and the River Yar; and on the South by the Lake Lothing or Luthing Its length from North to South is 8 Miles; Its breadth from Eafi to W e @ fi Miles, making the Circumferetlce z I hIi1e.s. THPTowns aiid Villages in this Hundred are as follovseth : ASHBYE.

BELTOX. RLUNDESTON. BRADWELL. BURGH CASTLE. See Page CORTON. FLIXTON.

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HOPTON. HERIXGSFLEET, in which Parik was a Priory, of which fee more Page 22. LOUND. IAOfirESTOFT.See Page 2 5 .

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having for maljy Years been the S ear of the KnightIf Family of Allen, who iometime had their' Seat a t Blundeiton. Our Author informs us, that Thomas A l ien, of BlundeRon, ETq; was created a Haronct the 7th of February 16j z , which Sir Thomas or Ilis Succeffor,gave this Seat to his N ~ h e w Anguilh Efi;. T h i s Gentleman or his Sutceflbr Richard Anguiih alias Allen of this Place, Efq; was created a Baronet 'December the 15, 1699. This Noble Seat is XIOW vcfled in his So11 Sir Thomas Allen Baronet. THI s Hundred c~ntains r 6 Parifhes, but befides thefie Parifies we obferved divers Hamlets, as Brotherton, a Hamlet now conhlidated to Hopton ; Browfion, a HBmlet coniolidated to Belton. Brofion Hall is the Seat of Symonds Efq. XORM ANSTON, now corruptly called ~ o r n a c s Town, lies between Mutford Bridge and the Town of Loweitoft. I t is now the Eitate of Richard Jellkinfon Gent. Adjoining to Yarmouth Bridge is dn Hamlet called VITefiown,and nearer to Gorleito~lis anott~erHamlet called Sourhtown ; and thefe two viz. Weftown and Southtown are called in old Writing Little Yarmouth.

M U TFORD ~undrek Is bounded on the EaR by the Ocean; on the ~ o r t h by the Lake Lothing ; 01.1 the Weit by the River Waveny, and on the South by the Hundred of Blithing. Its length horn Eafl to Wel) is 4 Miles ; i l c breadth from North to South is 3 Miles, making t h e Circumference to be I 5 hliles. T H E R E is no Market Town sin this Hundred ; the Villages are as followeth,

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KESSINGLAND,formerly of more remark than it is as yrerent, as may be conjeAured from rhe R ~ i i Si sf its old and once beautiful Church. KIKKELY. The Church is now in Rcics,

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P L O M E S G A T E Hundred Is bounded on the Eaft with the Ocean ; on the' North with the Hundreds of Biithit~g and Ho~ne; on the VFTefi with rhe Hundred of Loes, and on the South with the Hundred of Wilfard, Its iength is IZ Miles; its breath 9 Miles ;making the Circumference 42 Miles Tws Towns and Villages in this Hundred arc ar fdlloweth, ALDEBURGH.See Page 35. BENHALL, of remark for a beautiful Seat, which for Come time has been the Seat of the Knightly Family of the Dukes ; Sir Edward Duke of this Place Knt. who built this dilightful Msnfion was created a Baroxlet July I 7, I 661; to him fucceeded in his Honour and Eitate Sir John Duke Baronet ;T o Sir John fucceeded Sir Edward Duke Baronet, who dying without I uc, the Honour is now extin&. Bur thxs Seat is n w veited in Edmund Tyrell, Efq; the Sifcr's Son of the late Sir Edward, by Thomas Tyrell, ECq; of Gipying Hall.

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BLAXHALL. BRUISYARD, aemorabl e for a College of Nunns foundtd by Matilde de LancaAer Couhtefs of UlRer (at that time a Nunn it1 the Collegiate Church of Campiey) for five Chaplains, whore order of Government William Bifhop of Norwich appointed in the Year I 3 54,which are too long te be here infened. This College was dedicated to the BleIled Virgin Mary, and was valued at itsdiifolurion at 56 1.2 s x d. per Annum. T o whom this Collage was granted at ns SuppreGon we know not. It has been for lome time in the Family of the Routi's, and is t~owvefttd' in Sir John Houle Bart. a blt'iaor. BUTLEY. See Page 34..

CHILLESFORD. CKA&St(ORD,

( 147 ) D U N N I N G W O R T H , now a Hamlet of Turl-.

RaI. FARYHAM. FKISTON antiently belonged to the Priery of Sr:ape. Sir Henry johnfon, Knt. having purchafkd the Caid Priory and its A ppendances, built Frifion Hall and made it his Sear; whofe only Daughter and Heirefi marrying the Right HOII.Thomas the Ear1of Strafford carried this delightful Seat and a plentiful Eftare into that Noble FamiIy. GEDGRAYE. GLEMHAM R ~ A G N A or NORTH G L E N H A Mis, of Note for the Family of Edgar, who have for many Generations had their Seat in this Pariih. This Family was divided into three Branches, vit. T h i s at Glemham of which is William Edgar, Efq; now livins The Second at Ipiwich, of w hichisDevcreux Edgar, of Ipfwich; T h e Third at Eye now extin&, the HeireCs of which Family at Eye married Arthur Jenny, late of Bredfield, Efq. GLEMHAM Parva, farnous for a Race of Gentlemen who took their Namesfrom it, beir~gcalled deGlemham. which Family flourifhed therefor many Defceuts. In the lafl Century, w e find T w o of chis Family bright Examples i n Church and State; viz. Dr. Henry Glemham, who adhearing firmly to the Church of England was a'great Suffcrer in the late Tlmes of Dif: order; whom King Charles 11; afrer his ReQoration, createdBifhop ofS t. ATaph. He diedJanuary I 7, 1669, and wa8 Buryed in the Vault belonging to his Family, 'in the Parik-Church of Little Glemham. Of like Eminence in theistate was his Bco;her Sir Thomas Glemham, r h o was alfo a great Sufferer in thofe unhappy Times, underbing great Troubles in the Service of hisRoyal MaRer ; he, with his two worthy Country men, Colonel GoCnoId of Otley, and Major Naunton of Letheringham, defended Carlifle with remarkableCircumftances of Courage, Indufir , and Patience ;at lait, dying in Holland in the Y!ar 164.9, his Body was brought into England, and Buried in the aforcfiid Vault belonging to this Family. The Glemham Family being reduced and failing of Male Iffue, their plcafant Uz and

EG:

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ai;d t;ob!c Seat, with the rcfi ofthcirEitate,

was purckafed

by Dridley North, Efq; who added greatly to its Beauty. It is now vefted in his So11 Dudley North, Efq. HASLERrOOD, a Hamlet of Aldeburgh.

IKEN. ORFORD. See Page 54, PARHAM. Set Page 42, RENDHAM. SAXMVNDHQM. See Page 18, SNAPE. See Page 30. STERN FIELD. STATFORD St. Andrew. SUDBOURNE, orremark for a nobIe Seat, for fame time the Refidence of tlie Vifcounrs Hereford. It is now the Seat of the Hon. Price Devereux, Efi; Soli and Heir Apparent to the Right Hon. the LordVifcou~~t Her&ford. SMTEFLING, TUNSTALL. WANTISDON. T H I s Hundred contains 23 Parifies and 3 Hamlet q.

R I S B R I D G E Hundred Is bounded on the Eafi with the Hundreds of Babergli, Thingoe and part of backford ; on the Weit with Cambridgefhire; 01.1 the a u t h with the River Stour dividing it from Effex, and on the North with the Hundred of Lackford. Its len th is I 5 Miles, its breadth 8 Miles, making the tiicomference 45 3! iles. THP Towns and Villages in this Hundred are as followeth. BARNARDISTON, corruptIy caned BARNSON, G€ no great Note, but for giving Name to a Family w h o k feveral Branches have their Seats at Kedkgron, Brightwell and VSTvverfion in this County. BKADLEY Magna. is a Fair yearly Sepfember

ere

29.

BRADLEY Parva. CLARE, See Page

83.

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CHEDRURGH. CHILTON, a Hamlet of Clare. T h e Church Cer

p a p e l ) is now converted into a dwelling Houfe. COOLING, corruptly called CUL I D G E or C OWL I D G E . In this Pariih IS a good Seat called by the Name of Branches, which (with the Manour of this Town) was the Efiate of William Long-Efpee Earl of Salisbury and Someri'et, bafe Son to King Henry 11, by Fair Qfamond. T h e y are now ueited i n Francis Dicltins, Efq. 11: this Town are held two Fairs yearly, the one on July 20, the other oti UAober 6. DALHAM, anciently the Lordihip and Dernefile of William de Ufibrd Earl of Suffolk; afterwards it came into the Fsmily of the Stutevills. It is now. the Lordfhip,asld Seat of Gilbert Affleck, Efq. DENHAM, anciently the Lordkip of hlargaret d e Say ; but now of the Right Hon. the Lord Lynn, Son and Heir Apparent to rhe Right Hon . the Lord Vifcount Townfind, who has his Seat at Denhan-Hall, DENSTON. Iu this Pariih is a beautiful Seat which now or late was tIie Manfionof the Hon. John Robinfon, Efq; Lieut. Col. in the Cold Stream kegimenr. of Foot Guar Js, DEPDEN. T h e Hall did form2rly be!ong to the Jermyns, afterwards to the Coels, atid now is the $eat of Coel Thornhill, Efq. GAZELY, or GAIESLY. HAVERHILL. See Page 92. HAWKEDON. In this Village is now the Manfion of Hamnaond, Efq.

HUNDON. KEDINGTON, or (as it is written in Domefday Book ) KEDITVNE,now corruptly called KETT O N , was then the Lordihip apd Dernefile of Ralph Raynard ; afterwards it belonged to the Earls of Clare. 111later Times the Family of Barnardifion have had their Seat bere. Sir Thomas Barnardifion of this Place Knt. was created a Baroner the 7th of April 166 jp and Sir Samuel Barnardifion, Bart. now refides at Kedington Hall, a beautiful Seat. $edington Fair is yearJuly 29-

KENTFORD.

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LIDGATE. See Page roo. MOULTON. OUESDON. In this Pariih is the Sear of Richard Mofely, Efq.

POSLINGFORD, or (as it i.s written in Domefday Book) PO~ELINGWORD, was antiently (as Kedingt~n)the Lordfiip of Ralph Baynard. Poflingford Hall is now the Seat of Geor e Golding, Efq. STANSFIELD. Li this Pari is the Seat of Robert Kedington Gent. STOKE by Clare. See Page 91.

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STRADDISHALL. THURLOW Magna. The Hall in this Parifhis the Seat of James Vernon, ECq.

THUKLOW Parva, in

this Parifh we obfirv'd a nobk old Seat where the Pamily of Soame have long refided. Ir is now the Seat ofStephen Soame ECq.

WHIXOE.

VL ICKHAM-BROOK, now a Parifhof large Bounds,

to which Ceveral Hamlets (or Parifhes) have been annexed, four of which appear in fome old Parchment Writings now in the CuRody of Robert Edgar 06 Ipfwich, ECq; viz. the Hamlet or Parifh of Clopton (pr Cloptune) T h e Tythes of which Hamlet did antiently belong to $toke College. Badmondesficld, Alderisficld, and Nether-Attilton. BADMONDESFIELD Hall was formerly the PoffefXatl of Charles Somerfer Son and Heir of Sir Geor e Somelfet, who was the fecond Son to Charles ax1 of WorceRer. Siuce Sir Henry North's now Warner Eiq. GJ~~ORD Hall ' S once in Sir Hugh Francis, fince Thomas Heigham, Efq; afterwards Charles Owers Gent. now George Cbinery Gent. CIOPTON, or WICIHAM Y O ~ S Ewas , formerly the Habitation of Major Robert Sparrow, and now tometimes the Relidence of Dcvereux Edgar of Ipf. . wich, EGj,

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WRATTING Magna. WRATTING Parva. THIS Hundred contains 30 Pariihes and the afirefaid five Wamlcts. SAMFORB

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Index to the Hundreds in Both Editions of The Suffolk Traveller

The Hundred in which a parish or town occurs can usually be found by looking up the later page in the following index and comparing it with this table. E.g. Alderton (162) must be in WILFORD (162). Hundreds BABERGH BLACKBOURN BLYTHING BOSMERE and CLAYDON CARLFORD COLNEIS COSFORD HARTISMERE HOXNE IPSWICH and the Liberties LACKFORD LOES LOTHINGLAND MUTFORD PLOMESGATE RISBRIDGE SAMFORD STOW THEDWASTRE THINGOE THREDLING WANGFORD WILFORD

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1735 113 116 120 124 128 130 131 132 135 5 138 140 144 145 146 148 151 153 155 158 160 160 162

1764 254 230 128 199 72 72 269 172 164 7 238 95 150 149 118 246 61 186 222 211 184 155 109

Index of Towns and Parishes in The Suffolk Traveller 1735

Modern spelling is used throughout Acton 113 Akenham 124 Aldeburgh 35, 146 Alderton 162 Aldham 131 Aldringham 121 Alpheton 113 Ampton 155 Ashbocking 125 Ashby 144 Ashfield 160 Ashfield Magna 116 Aspall 132 Assington 113 Athelington 135 Bacton 132 Badingham 136 Badley 125 Badwell Ash 116 Bardwell 116 Barham 125 Barnardiston 148 Barnby 145 Barnham 117 Barningham 117 Barrow 158 Barsham 161 Barton Mills 139 Barton Magna 155 Battisford 125 Barking 125 Bawdsey 33, 162 Baylham 125 Bealing Magna 128 Bealing Parva 128 Beccles 21 Bedfield 135 Bedingfield 136 Belstead 151 Belton 144 Benacre 121 Benhall 146 Bentley 151 Beyton 155 Bildeston 55, 131 Bing 162 Blakenham Magna 125 Blakenham Parva 125 Blaxhall 146 Blundeston 144

Blythburgh 19, 121 Blythford 121 Botesdale 68, 132 Boulge 162 Boxford 93, 113 Boxted 113 Boyton 162 Bradfield Combust 155 Bradfield St Clare 155 Bradfield St George 155 Bradley Magna 148 Bradley Parva 148 Bradwell 144 Braisworth 132 Bramfield 121 Bramford 125 Brampton 121 Brandeston 140 Brandon 75, 139 Brantham 151 Bredfield 162 Brent Eleigh 113 Brettenham 131 Bricett 125 Brightwell 128 Brockley 158 Brome 132 Brockford 133 Bromeswell 162 Bruisyard 146 Brundish 136 Bucklesham 130 Bulcamp 121 Bungay 69, 161 Bures 95, 113 Burgate 133 Burgh 128 Burgh Castle 22, 144 Burstall 151 Bury St Edmunds 63, 158 Butley 34, 141, 146 Buxhall 153 Buxlow 121 Campsey Ash 141 Capel St Andrew 162 Capel St Peter (Mary) 151 Carlton 136 Carlton Colvile 145 Cavendish 90, 114 Cavenham 139

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Charsfield 142 Chattisham 151 Chedburgh 149 Chediston 122 Chelmondiston 151 Chelsworth 131 Chevington 158 Chillesford 146 Chilton by Clare 149 Chilton by Stow 154 Chilton St Mary 114 Clare 81, 148 Claydon 125 Clopton 128 Cockfield 114 Coddenham 125 Combs 153 Coney Weston 117 Cookley 122 Copdock 152 Cornard Magna 114 Cornard Parva 114 Corton 144 Cotton 133 Covehithe 122 Cowlinge 149 Cransford 146 Cratfield 122 Creeting All SS, etc. 125 Creeting St Peter 126, 154 Cretingham 142 Crowfield 126 Culford 117 Culpho 128 Dagworth 154 Dalham 149 Dallinghoo 142, 162 Darmsden 126 Darsham 122 Debach 162 Debenham 54, 160 Denham St John 136 Denham St Mary 149 Dennington 136 Denston 149 Depden 149 Diss (Norfolk) 53 Drinkstone 155 Dunningworth 147 Dunwich 27, 122

INDEX OF TOWNS AND PARISHES Earl Soham 38, 142 Earl Stonham 126 East Bergholt 97, 152 Easton 142 Easton Bavants 122 Edwardstone 114 Ellough 161 Elmsett 131 Elmswell 117 Elveden 139 Eriswell 139 Erwarton 151 Euston 117 Exning 139 Eye 39, 133 Eyke 143 Fakenham 118 Farnham 147 Felixstowe 130 Felsham 156 Finborough Magna 154 Finborough Parva 154 Finningham 109 Flempton 158 Flixton St Andrew 144 Flixton St Mary 160 Flowton 126 Fordley 122 Fornham All SS 158 Fornham St Genevieve 156 Fornham St Martin 156 Foxhall 128 Framlingham 43. 143 Framsden 160 Freckenham 140 Fressingfield 46, 136 Freston 152 Friston 147 Fritton 144 Frostenden 121 Gazeley 149 Gedding 156 Gedgrave 147 Gipping 154 Gisleham 145 Gislingham 133 Glemham Magna 147 Glemham Parva 147 Glemsford 115 Gorleston 24, 144 Gosbeck 126 Groton 115 Grundisburgh 128 Gunton 144 Hacheston 42, 143 Hadleigh 56, 131 Halesworth 103, 122 Hardwick 158 Hargrave 158 Harkstead 152 Harleston (Norfolk) 46 Harleston (Suffolk) 154

Hartest 115 Harwich (Essex) 48 Hasketon 128 Haslewood 148 Haughley 107, 154 Haverhill 92, 149 Hawkedon 149 Hawstead 158 Hemingstone 126 Helmingham 126 Hemley 130 Hengrave 159 Henley 126 Henham 122 Henstead 123 Hepworth 118 Herringfleet 22, 144 Herringswell 140 Hessett 156 Higham Green 140 Higham St Mary 152 Heveningham 122 Hinderclay 118 Hintlesham 152 Hinton 123 Hitcham 131 Holbrook 152 Hollesley 163 Holton St Mary 152 Holton St Peter 123 Homersfield 161 Honington 118 Hoo 143 Hopton 118 Hopton St Margaret 144 Horham 136 Horringer 159 Hoxne 136 Hulver Street 161 Hundon 149 Hunston 118 Huntingfield 123 Ingate 21 Ingham 118 Icklingham 140 Ickworth 159 Iken 148 Ilketshall St Andrew 161 Ilketshall St John 161 Ilketshall St Laurence 161 Ilketshall St Margaret 161 Ipswich 5 Ixworth 67, 118 Ixworth Thorpe 118 Kedington 149 Kelsale 137 Kentford 149 Kenton 143 Kersey 94, 132 Kesgrave 128 Kessingland 145 Kettlebaston 132

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Kettleburgh 143 Kirkley 145 Kirton 130 Knettishall 118 Knodishall 123 Lackford 158 Lakenheath 140 Landguard Fort 47 Langham 119 Layham 132 Lavenham 87 Lawshall 115 Laxfield 137 Leiston 29, 123 Letheringham 37, 143 Levington 130 Lidgate 100, 150 Lindsey 132 Linstead Magna 123 Linstead Parva 123 Livermere Magna 156 Livermere Parva 119 Long Melford 84, 115 Loudham 163 Lound 144 Lowestoft 25, 144 Manningtree (Essex) 59 Marlesford 143 Martlesham 128 Mellis 133 Mells 123 Melton 163 Mendham 137 Mendlesham 51, 133 Metfield 137 Mettingham 71, 161 Mickfield 127 Middleton 123 Milden 115 Mildenhall 77, 140 Monewden 143 Monks Eleigh 115 Monk Soham 137 Moulton 150 Mutford 146 Nacton 130 Naughton 132 Nayland 96, 115 Nedging 132 Needham Market 60, 127 Nettlestead 127 Newbourne 128 Newmarket 78, 140 Newton 115 Newton Green 155 Normanston 145 North Cove 161 Norton 119 Nowton 159 Oakley 133 Occold 133 Offton 55, 127

INDEX OF TOWNS AND PARISHES Onehouse 155 Orford 34, 148 Otley 129 Oulton 144 Ousden 150 Pakefield 25, 146 Pakenham 156 Palgrave 133 Parham 42, 148 Peasenhall 123 Pettaugh 160 Pettistree 163 Playford 129 Polstead 115 Poslingford 150 Preston 115 Ramsholt 163 Rattlesden 156 Raydon 152 Redgrave 134 Redisham 161 Redlingfield 133 Reed 159 Rendham 148 Rendlesham 30, 143 Reydon 123 Rickinghall Inferior 119 Rickinghall Superior 134 Ringsfield 161 Ringshall 127 Risby 159 Rishangles 134 Rougham 156 Rumburgh 123 Rushbrooke 157 Rushmere St Andrew 129 Rushmere St Mary 146 Santon Downham 139 Sapiston 119 Saxham Magna 159 Saxham Parva 159 Saxmundham 18, 148 Saxtead 137 Scole (Norfolk) 52 Semer 132 Shadingfield 162 Shelland 155 Shelley 152 Shimpling 116 Shipmeadow 162 Shotley 152 Shottisham 163 Sibton 104, 123 Sizewell 123 Snape 30, 148 Sogenhoe in Ufford 163 Somerleyton 144 Somersham 127 Somerton 116 Sotherton 123 Sotterley 161 South Cove 123

S Elmham All SS 160 S Elmham St George 161 S Elmham St James 161 S Elmham St Margaret 161 S Elmham St Michael 161 S Elmham St Nicholas 161 S Elmham St Peter 161 Southwell 160 Southwold 26, 123 Southolt 137 Spexhall 123 Sproughton 152 Stansfield 150 Stanton 68, 119 Sternfield 148 Stoke Ash 134 Stoke by Clare 91, 150 Stoke by Nayland 96, 116 Stonham Aspal 127 Stonham Parva 127 Stoven 124 Stowlangtoft 119 Stowmarket 61, 155 Stowupland 61, 155 Stradishall 150 Stratford St Andrew 148 Stratford St Mary 58, 152 Stradbroke 137 Stuston 134 Stutton 152 Sudbourne 148 Sudbury 85, 116 Sutton 163 Sweffling 148 Swilland 127 Syleham 137 Tannington 138 Tattingstone 152 Theberton 124 Thelnetham 119 Thetford (N & S) 74 Thorington 124 Thorndon 134 Thornham Magna 134 Thornham Parva 134 Thorpby Ashfield 160 Thorp Morieux 132 Thorpeness 124 Thrandeston 135 Thurlow Magna 150 Thurlow Parva 150 Thwaite 52, 135 Timworth 157 Tostock 157 Trimley St Martin 131 Trimley St Mary 131 Troston 119 Tuddenham St Mary 140 Tuddenham St Martin 129 Tunstall 148 Ubbeston 124 Ufford 163

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Uggeshall 124 Waldingfield Magna 116 Waldingfield Parva 116 Waldringfield 129 Walpole 124 Walsham le Willows 119 Walton 49, 131 Wangford SS P&P 26, 124 Wangford St Denis 140 Wantisden 148 Washbrook 153 Wattisfield 120 Wattisham 132 Wenham Magna 153 Wenham Parva 153 Wenhaston 124 Westerfield 127 Westhall 124 Westhorpe 135 Westleton 124 Westley 159 Weston St Peter 162 Weston Market 120 West Stow 120 Wetherden 107, 155 Wetheringsett 135 Weybread 138 Whatfield 132 Whelnetham Magna 157 Whelnetham Parva 157 Whepstead 159 Wherstead 153 Wickambrook 150 Wickham Market 17, 164 Wickham Skeith 135 Wilby 138 Willingham 162 Willisham 127 Wingfield 138 Winston 160 Wissett 124 Wissington 116 Withersdale 138 Withersfield 150 Witnesham 130 Wixoe 150 Woodbridge 16, 143 Woolpit 62, 157 Woolverstone 153 Wordwell 120 Worlingham 162 Worlington 140 Worlingworth 138 Wratting Magna 150 Wratting Parva 150 Wrentham 124 Wyverstone 135 Yarmouth (Norfolk) 23 Yaxley 135 Yoxford 19, 124

Appendix A ALPHABETICAL DIRECTORY OF THE NOBILITY, CLERGY AND GENTRY compiled from the 1735 Suffolk Traveller and the 1736 map, giving owners and tenants of estates, and indicating those whose arms are shown on the map

The 129 coats of arms, prefixed A, are numbered serially in their order on the map. P = seat in park shown enclosed on the map; R = rector; V = vicar; pc = perpetual curate.

A32, P A33 A30, P A34 A11 A35 A13, P A25 A36 A37, P A23

A38

A39 A40 A28

Acton, Nathaniel, Esq. Acton, William, Esq. Affleck, Gilbert, Esq. Alexander, Waldegrave, Esq. Allin, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bart Alston, Joseph, Esq. Alston, William, Esq. Arbuthnot, Robert, Esq. Bacon, Sir Edmund, 6th Bart Bacon, Nicholas, Esq. Bacon, Philip, Esq. Baker, Samuel, Esq. Barker, Sir John, 6th Bart Barker, Sir William, 2nd Bart Barker, Francis, Esq. Barlow, Lewis, Esq. Barnardiston, Arthur, Esq. Barnardiston, Sir Samuel, 5th Bart Barnardiston, Thomas, Esq. Barry, Anthony, Capt. Bedingfield, Charles, Esq. Bedingfield, Henry, Esq. Bence, Alexander, Esq. Bence, Robert, Gent. Bennet, Thomas, Esq. Benyon, Henry, Esq. Betts, Thomas, Esq. Birch, Joseph, Esq. Bishop, Thomas, DD Blois, Sir Charles, 1st Bart

A41 Blomfield, The Revd Dr Barrington Blomfield, Samuel, Esq. Bloss, Tobias, Esq. Bohun, Edmund, Esq. A42 Bohun, William, MD Bokenham, Thomas, Esq.

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Hemingstone Bramford Dalham Badingham Somerleyton Edwardstone Priory Bildeston Bentley Garboldisham and Gillingham, Norfolk Shrubland Hall, Barham Battisford Giffard’s in Wattisfield Grimston Hall, Sproughton and Trimley Bocking Hall, Essex and Ringshall Yoxford Brightwell Kedington d.s.p. 1736 Wyverstone Weston and Syleham Thornham Parva Stoke Ash Thorington Henstead Coddenham Hall, Boxford Boxford Halesworth, Spexhall Brandon Ipswich, St Mary-le-Tower, pc Grundisburgh and Yoxford, Cockfield Hall Badingham & Cransford, R Four Elms, Stonham Parva Belstead Westhall Beccles Gedding

APPENDIX A

A43 Bond, Henry Jermyn, Esq. Braham or Brame, The Misses Brand, Capt. Ellis Brand, Jacob, Esq. Brewster, Humphrey, Esq. A44 Brewster, Philip, Esq. P Bridgeman, Orlando, Esq. Bright, Thomas, Esq. A45 Broke, Philip, Esq. A46 Bryan, William, Esq. Burch, Joseph, Esq. A47 Burward, Anthony, Esq. A9 Butts, The Right Revd Robert Calthorpe, James, Esq. A48 Canham, John, Esq. A50 Carter, James, AM A49 Carter, John, AM A51 Carthew, Thomas, Esq.

A52

P A53

A7, PP A54 A55 P P A18, P

A56, P A27, P A57 A6 P A59 A58 P A60

Chamberlen, Dr Chevallier, Clement, Esq. Chilton, Jacob, AM Chinery, George, Gent. Clarke, Sir Robert, 2nd Bart Cocksedge, Henry, Esq. Coke, Thomas, baron Lovel Colman, Edward, Esq. Colman, Philip, Esq. Cook, Roger, Esq. Cooke, John, Esq. Coppinger, George, Esq. Corbould, Mr William, ‘a wealthy Quaker’ Cornwallis, Charles, 5th baron Corrance, John, Esq. Cotton, Frederick, Gent. Crofts, William, Esq. Crowley, Ambrose, Esq. Crowley, Mrs Cullum, Sir Jasper, 4th Bart Cullum, John, Esq. Curwin, John, Esq. Dade, Mr John Dashwood, George, Esq. Davers, Sir Jermyn, 4th Bart Davers, Thomas, Esq. Devereux, Price, 9th viscount Hereford Devereux, the Honble Price Dickins, Francis, Esq. Discipline, Thomas, Esq. Dove, Simon, Esq. Downing, Sir George, 3rd Bart D’Oyley, James, AM Driver, Thomas, Esq. Duke, Lady Eachard, Christopher, AM

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Bury St Edmunds Campsey Ash Wherstead Polstead Wrentham Wrentham Combs Pakenham Nacton possibly Whelnetham Magna Brandon Melton Lord Bishop of Norwich Ampton Milden Hall North Cove, R Wilby, R and Sibton, Peasenhall, V Benacre, Easton Bavants and Woodbridge Priory Alderton Aspal Mendlesham and Ufford, V Gifford’s Hall, Wickhambrook Freckenham and Snailwell Drinkstone Holkham, Cratfield and Huntingfield Brent Eleigh Weybread ?Bardwell Rougham Buxhall Rumburgh Brome Hall, Culford Hall and Ingham Rougham Marlesford Saxham Parva Barking Badley and Combs Hawstead Hardwick Pakenham Tannington Heveningham and Peyton Hall, Boxford Rushbrooke, Villa Sicklesmere Horningsheath Christchurch (until autumn 1735) Sudbourne (succ. 1740 as 10th visct) Cowlinge Bury St Edmunds Barham and Marlesford Dunwich Layham Earl Stonham Redisham Debach and Cransford, V

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Edgar, Devereux, Esq. Edgar, William, Esq. Edgar, Robert, Esq. Edgar, Mileson, Esq. Eldred, John, Esq. Ellis, John, Esq. Elwes, Sir Hervey, 2nd Bart Eure, Edward, Esq. Ewen, John, Gent. A67 Fairfax, Blackerby, Gent. A29 Firebrace, Sir Cordell, 3rd Bart A1, PP Fitzroy, Charles, 2nd duke of Grafton A61 A62 A63 A64 A65 A19 A66

A68 A31 A69 A22, P

A70 A71

A72 A73 A74 A12

A75 A76 A4, P A78 A77 A79

A80 A81 A82 A83

c.1735

Clopton House, Wickhambrook Glemham Magna Ipswich, Grimston House The Red House and Westerfield Saxham Magna Westhorpe Stoke-by-Clare

Raydon Woodbridge Melford Hall Euston Hall, Barningham Park and Barnham Fonnereau, Thomas, Esq. Christchurch, Ipswich (from autumn 1735) Fowke, Sir Sydenham, Kt West Stow Fox, Capt. Simon Stradbroke Frere, Edward, Esq. Finningham Gage, Sir Thomas, 3rd Bart Hengrave Hall Gibson, Barnaby, Esq. Stonham Parva Gibson, Capt. Mendlesham Glover, John, Esq. Frostenden and High House, Campsey Ash Godbold, Richard, AM Sudbury All Saints, V Golding, George, Esq. Poslingford Gooch, The Revd Sir Thomas, 2nd Bart, Benacre Hall (later bishop) DD Gooday, George, Esq. Fornham All Saints Goodrich, John, Gent. Ipswich Gurdon, The Revd Mr Brampton, AM Archdeacon of Sudbury Gurdon, John, Esq. Assington Hamby, Robert, Gent. Ipswich Hammond, Philip, Esq. Hawkedon Hankey, Sir Henry or Joseph, Esq. East Bergholt Hanmer, Sir Thomas, 4th Bart Mildenhall and Great Barton Harland, Capt. Robert Sproughton Harvey, Lady Anne Leiston Harvey, Mrs Cockfield Harwood, Henry, Esq. Crowfield Heigham, John, Esq. Hunston Heigham, Arthur, Esq. Hunston and Rougham Hervey, John, 1st earl of Bristol Ickworth, Barrow, Bealings, Shotley and Wordwell Hobart, Capt. Kelsale Lodge Hodges, Thomas, Esq. Ipswich, St Matthew’s Holt, Rowland, Esq. Redgrave Hunt, Tobias, Esq. (now Mrs) Walsham le Willows Hutcheson, Francis, Esq. Fornham St Martin Jacob, J., Gent. Yaxley Jacobs alias Bradlaugh, Nicholas, Esq. Laxfield Jenkinson, Richard, Gent. Normanton nr Lowestoft Jennens, William, Esq. Acton Jenny, Robert, Esq. Knodishall Jenny, Edmund, Esq. Bredfield Johnston, Henry, LLD Stowmarket and Monk Soham, R Kedington, Ambrose, Esq. Acton

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A84 A85 A17 A86 A87 A88, P A89 A90 A91 A92 A93 A21

P A15 A24 A94 A95 A96 A97 A98 A99 A100 A101 A14 A102 A103, P A104, P A105 A106

A107 A10

Kedington, Robert, Esq. Kedington, Roger, Gent. Kelligrew, Charles, Esq. Kemp, Sir John, 4th Bart Kent, Samuel, Esq. Kerridge, Thomas, Esq. Knapp, Thomas, Gent. Knipe, Charles, Esq. Lathum, A., Esq. Lee, Baptist, Esq. Le Heup, Michael, Esq. Leman, Robert, Esq. Leman, Suckling, Esq. Leman, Thomas Leman, Mrs, widow of William Leybourn, Robert, DD Lloyd, Richard, Esq. (recte Sir) Long, Charles, Esq. Long, Sir Philip Parker, 4th Bart Luck, Thomas, Esq. Macro, Cox, DD Maddocks, Robert, Esq. Major, Sir John, 1st Bart Mannock, Sir Francis, 4th Bart Martin, Sir Roger, 2nd Bart Martin, Thomas, Gent. Maynard, Thomas, Esq. Meadows, Daniel, Gent. Moore, John, Esq. Mordant, William, Esq. Mosely, Richard, Esq. Mussenden, Hill, Esq. Naunton, William, Esq. North, Dudley, Esq. Norton, Thomas, Esq. Pitt, George, Esq. Plampin, Robert, Esq. Plampin, William, Esq. Playters, Sir John, 7th Bart Plumer, Walter, Esq. Poley, J., Esq. Pooley, –––, Esq. Powys, Richard, Esq. Pretyman, Baron, Esq. Pretyman, Dr Prime, Samuel, Esq. Purvis, George, Esq. Rabett, Reginald, Esq. Radclyffe, Hugh, Gent. Ray, Richard, Esq. Read, Thomas Crofts, Esq. Revett, John, Esq. Rewse, William, Esq. Reynolds, Lord Chief Baron James Reynolds, John, Esq. Risby, H., Esq.

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Stansfield Waldingfield Magna Thornham Magna Ubbeston Fornham St Genevieve Shelley Battisford Haughley Badwell Ash Livermere Parva Hessett Brampton Weston Wenhaston and Wingfield Charsfield Pluralist, Suffolk links untraced Hintlesham Hurts Hall, Saxmundham Erwarton Hall Herringswell Norton Troston Worlingworth Hall Gifford’s Hall, Stoke by Nayland Melford Place Palgrave Hoxne Hall Witnesham Kentwell Hall, Long Melford Shelland Tostock Herringfleet Letheringham Glemham Parva and Hurts Hall Ixworth and Stowlangtoft Crows Hall, Debenham Chadacre Hall, Shimpling Shimpling Sotterley Chediston and Akenham Boxted Hall Fornham All Saints Hintlesham Bacton Laxfield Bury St Edmunds Darsham Bramfield Glevering Hall Shelland, Wetherden Bardwell Brandeston Thrandeston Felsham Thorpe Morieux

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Robinson, the Hon. John A26 Robinson, Sir Thomas, 3rd Bart A20, P Rous, Sir John, 1st Bart Sancroft, William, Gent. A108 Sayer, John, BD A109 Scrivener, Charles, Esq. Shelton, Maurice, Esq. Sheppard, Francis, Esq. P Sheppard, John, Esq. Sheppard, Thomas, Esq. A110 Smyth, Charles, Esq. A111 Smyth, Samuel, Gent. A112, P Soame, Stephen, Esq. Sparhauke, H., Gent. Sparrow, R., Gent. Spencer, Miss Anne A16 Spring, Sir William, 4th Bart Stewart, Sir Simeon, 2nd Bart A113 Sturgeon, James, Gent. P Sulyard, Edward, Esq. A114 Syer, Dey, Gent. Symonds, Thomas, Esq. P Tasburgh, George, Esq. A115 Tasburgh, Richard, Esq. Taylor, Thomas, Esq. Thompson, Samuel, Esq. Thornhill, Colonel Thurston, Mrs P Thurston, John, Esq. Thurston, Thomas Tisser, Mr John, AM A5, P Tollemache, Lionel, 4th earl of Dysart A8 Townsend, Charles, 3rd baron Lynn Turner, John, Esq. Turner, Lady A116, P Tyrell, Edmund, Esq. Tyrell, Sir John, 5th Bart Tyrell, Thomas, Esq. Tyrell, Thomas, Esq. junior A117 Van Heythuysen, Gerard, Esq. Ventris, Edward, Esq. A121 Vere, Thomas, Esq. A118 Vernon, Edward, Esq. Vernon, James, Esq. P Ward, Knox, Esq. Ward, Neal, Gent. A119 Wareyn, John, Gent. Warner, Samuel, Esq. Warren Thomas, Esq. Watts, ––––, Esq. A120 Webb, Richard, Esq. Wentworth, Anne, baroness

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Denston Worlingham, formerly Melford Henham, Bruisyard, Darsham and Dennington Fressingfield Wickham Market, V [elected not admitted] Sibton Barningham Hall and Westhorpe Exning Brockford Tunstall Thurlow Parva Leiston Kettleburgh Rendlesham Pakenham Lakenheath Bury St Edmunds Haughley Waldingfield Parva Browston Hall, Belton Flixton Hall South Elmham St Peter Westhorpe Bredfield and Ufford Depden Hall Wenham Parva Hoxne Holbrook Kedington, R Helmingham Denham Langham and Horsecroft, Horringer Wingfield College Benhall Elveden Gipping Weston Market Oulton Sproughton Henley Nacton Thurlow Magna Woolverstone Bramfield Kenton Waldingfield Parva and Badmondesfield Hall, Wickhambrook Groton perhaps Walpole Cavenham Nettlestead

APPENDIX A

A3 Wentworth, Thomas, 3rd earl of Strafford Wenyeve, John, Esq. A124 Wild, John, Gent. A122 Wilkins, The Revd Dr David A123 Wilkinson, William, Gent. P Williams, Sir John Willis, John, Esq. Wingfield, the late John MA U V A125 Wingfield, Thomas, Gent. W Wodehouse, Sir Armine, 4th Bart A126 Wollaston, William, Esq. Wood, Charles, Esq.

Friston and Snape Brettenham probably Lowestoft Hadleigh, V and Archdeacon of Suffolk perhaps Walsham-le-Willows Tendryng Hall, Stoke by Nayland Cranly Hall Redlingfield Broughton Hall, Stonham Aspal Chilton Hall Finborough Blythford, Campsey Ash and Elmswell and Loudham Bury St Edmunds Tattingstone Pettistree Brundish Letheringham Lodge

A127 Woodroffe, John, Gent. Wright, Thomas, Esq. A128 Wyard, Hunn, Gent. A129 Wyard, James, Gent. A2, P Zuylestein, Frederick Nassau de, 3rd earl of Rochford

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The two-year difference between book and map may account for changed names. Places of residence are usually placed before manorial holdings. The 124 coats of arms, prefixed B, are numbered serially in their order on the map. P = seat in park shown enclosed on the map; R = rector; V = vicar; pc = perpetual curate. Names in the subscribers’ list to the 1764 Suffolk Traveller have, where they occur, been compared with names in its text and on the map. B23 P Acton, Nathaniel, Esq. P Adair, William, Esq. B24 P Affleck, John, Esq. Aldham, ––––, Esq. Aldrich, The Revd Mr William, AB Allen, The Revd Mr Ashurst P Allin, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bart Alpes, Mr –––– B25 Alston, Edward, Esq. Alston, William, Esq. Arnold, Sampson, Esq. Arrow, The Revd Mr John, AB Arrowsmith, Thomas, Gent. Ashburnham, George, 2nd earl of Ashburnham Ashby, George, Esq. Aspin, The Revd Mr Harvey, AM Atkinson, Mr Jonathan B26 P Bacon, Nicholas, Esq. Bacon, The Revd Mr Nicholas, AM Bacon, Philip, Esq B12 Barker, Sir John Fytch, 7th Bart P Barne, Miles, Esq. Barnwell, The Revd Mr Frederic, AB Barry, Capt. Barry, Lambe, Esq. Beachcroft, Sir William, Kt B27 Beaumont The Revd Mr Robert, AB Beddingfield, Charles, Esq. Benet, The Revd Mr James, AM Bennet, Thomas, Esq. Benyon, Revd Mr George

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Bramford Hall, Claydon Flixton Dalham Abbots Hall, Lavenham Stowmarket (unbeneficed) Blundeston and Flixton, R succ. 3rd Bart Somerleyton, Belton, Corton etc. Brokes Hall, Ipswich Edwardstone Priory Bildeston, Edwardstone Beccles Lowestoft and Kessingland, V Bungay Barking Thornham Parva Hartest and Boxted, R Seckford Hall, Bealings Magna Shrubland Hall, Barham Baylham, Coddenham, V and Barham, R Battisford Hall Sproughton, Levington and Trimley d.s.p. 1766 Sotterley Lawshall and Brockley, R Weston Syleham Preston Hall, Kettlebaston Witnesham (unbeneficed) Gislingham Aldeburgh and Snape, V Coddenham Hall, Boxford Boxford, R

APPENDIX B

B28 Berners, William, Esq. Betts,The Revd Mr George, LLB B29 Bishop, The Revd Mr Thomas, AM B30 Blake, Patrick, Esq. B16 Blois, Sir John, 5th Bart, High Sheriff B31

B32

B33 B34

B15

B35 B36 P B37 P B38 B39 B41 B40 B42 B43 P

later Woolverstone Park Wortham; Bressingham, R Ipswich St Mary-le-Tower, pc Langham Hall Cockfield Hall, Grundisburgh, Kelsale Lodge, Culpho Blomefield, Samuel, Esq. Four Elms, Stonham Parva Bohun, Edmund, Esq. Westhall Bokenham, Thomas, Esq. Gedding Bowers, The late Thomas, Esq. Crows Hall, Stutton Boyce, James, Esq. Stonham Parva Boyfield, John, Esq. Earl Soham Lodge Braham, The Misses Campsey Ash Brand, William Beal, Esq. Belstead, Polstead and Bildeston Brewster, Philip, Esq. Wrentham Hall Bridges, George, Esq. Great Bealings Hall Bridges, James, Esq. Crows Hall, Debenham Broke, Philip, Esq. Broke Hall at Nacton Broke, The Revd Mr John, LLB Nacton, minor canon of Norwich Brome, The Revd Mr Richard, AM Ipswich Brooke, Francis, Esq. Ufford Place Brown, The Revd Mr James Died Ipswich 1763, Nedging and Baylham, R Brundish, Mrs Troston Bunbury, Sir Thomas Charles, 6th Bart Mildenhall and Barton Magna succ.1764 Bunbury, Revd Sir William, DD, 5th Mildenhall, V. Barton Magna d.1764 Bart Burch, Joseph, Esq. Brandon, Barham Burrell, John, Gent. Ipswich Burton, The Revd Mr George, AM Elveden and Herringswell, R Burward, Jonathan, Esq. Woodbridge Buxton, The Revd Mr Robert, AM Darsham, R Calthorpe, James, Esq. Ampton Hall Calvert, Turner, Esq. Brundish Lodge Campbell, William Henry, Esq. Melford Hall, Fellow of Pembroke, Cambridge Canham, John, Esq. Milden Hall Canning, The Revd Mr Richard, AM Ipswich St Lawrence pc inter alia Capell, Edward, Esq. Troston and the Stantons Carter, The Revd Mr James, AM North Cove, R. Sibton and Peasenhall, V Carter, The Revd Mr Philip Tunstall and Bromeswell, R Carthew, The Revd Mr Thomas, AM Woodbridge Priory Chapman, The Revd Dr John Archdeacon of Sudbury (otherwise not beneficed in Suffolk) Chapman, William, Esq. Loudham Hall, Bromeswell, Eyke, Wantisden, Campsey Ash etc. Chedworth, Dowager Lady Erwarton Hall Chevallier, The Revd Mr Temple, AM Aspall, pc Chilton, The Revd Mr Jacob, AM Ufford, R Chilton, The Revd Mr Richard, AB Mendlesham, V Chinery, George, Esq. Giffards Hall, Wickhambrook Chinery, Mr John Chilton Hall, Sudbury Church, The Revd Mr John, AM Boxford, R Clarke, Sir Robert, 4th Bart Freckenham Clarke, T., Esq. Melton Clubbe, The Revd Mr John, AB Whatfield, R

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B44 B45 B46 B47 B6 PP

B49

Clutterbuck, Thomas, Esq. Cocksedge, Ambrose, Esq. Cocksedge, The Revd Mr Roger, AM Coggeshall, Thomas, Esq. Collett, Anthony, Esq. Collett, Henry, Esq. Atty at Law Colville, Richard, Esq. Cooke, The Revd Mr Thomas, AM Cooper, John, Esq. Cornwallis, Charles, 2nd earl Cornwallis Cornwallis, The Revd Mr William Corrance, The late John, Esq. Couperthwaite, The Revd Mr William, AB Courtney, The Hon. Elizabeth Coyte, Dr William, MB Coyte, The Revd Mr Wm, B, MB Craske, The Revd Mr Walter, AB Crofts, William, Esq. Crossman, The Revd Mr Henry, AM Crespigny, Philip Champion, Esq.

B48 Cuddon, Thomas, Esq. Cullum, Sir John, 5th Bart Cullum, The Revd Mr John Cullum Cullum, Mr Thomas Gery, Surgeon Curry, ––––, Esq. B50 Dade, John, Esq. Dalton, Isham, Gent. Daniels, Mrs Dashwood, George, Esq. B67 Dashwood, Henry, Esq. P Davers, Sir Charles, 5th Bart Davers, The Revd Mr Thomas B51 Davy, Eleazar, Esq. Dawson, John, Esq. B53 D’Eye, Francis, Gent. D’Eye, Nathaniel, Gent. B52 D’Eye, The Revd Mr Thomas De Grey, Thomas, Esq. B54 Dickins, Ambrose, Esq. B55 Dove, Thomas, Esq. B56 Dove, The Revd Mr Fynn, AM Downing, Lady D’Oyley, The Revd Sir Hadley, 5th Bart D’Oyley, Peregrine, Esq. B57 Drury, The Revd Mr George, AM D’Urban, John MD B58 P Edgar, Mileson, Esq. of Red House B59 Edgar, Robert, Esq. Edgar, William, Esq. Edge, The Revd Mr Peter, AM Elwes, Harvey, Esq.

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Grove Park, Yoxford Drinkstone Bury St Edmunds Shaddingfield Eyke Ipswich Hemingstone Semer, R Burgh Castle Culford Hall and Brome Hall, Wordwell Ipswich and Chelmondiston, R Rougham Place Clopton, R, formerly St Helen, Ipswich Leiston Ipswich Ipswich Bury St Edmunds, Minister St Mary’s Saxham Parva Sudbury, Cornard Parva, R Broughton Hall in Stonham Aspal and Creetings Shaddingfield Hardwick House Hawstead, R Bury St Edmunds Monewden Tannington Bury St Edmunds Frostenden Peyton Hall, Boxford, Wood Hall, Sudbury perhaps the late, succ. by George Villa Sicklesmere, Rushbrooke, and Whelnetham Parva Whelnetham Parva, R. Stowlangtoft, V perhaps already tenant at Ubbeston Hall Groton Bungay Palgrave R Washbrook Braunches Hall, Cowlinge Marlesford (not beneficed) Dunwich Ipswich, Felixstowe, R Layham Claydon and Akenham, R. Wherstead, V Halesworth Ipswich and Sibton, Occold Ipswich, Grimston House and Wickham House, Wickhambrook Sutton Hall Drinkstone, pc Stoke by Clare

APPENDIX B

Evans, The Revd Mr Evans, –––––, Esq. Ewer, The Rt Revd Dr Bishop John of Llandaff Farrell, –––––, Esq. Fenn, Thomas, Esq. Firebrace, Dowager Lady B1 P Fitzroy, Augustus Henry, 3rd duke of Grafton B60 P Fonnereau, Thomas, Esq., MP Forster, The Revd Mr Thomas, AM Fowke, Sir Sydenham, Kt Fowler, The Revd Mr Richard, AB B61 Freeman, John, Gent. French, The Revd Mr John, AM

B62 B14 P

B63 B17

B64

B116 B65 P B68 B66 B69 P

B70 B21

Wortham Brandon

Wickham Skeith Sudbury Melford Hall Euston Hall, Barningham Park, Honington Christchurch, Ipswich Halesworth, R West Stow Hall Framlingham Dallinghoo and Easton, R Rickinghall Superior Bury St Edmunds, Saxham Magna and Horningsheath, R French, William, Gent. Edwardstone Frere, Edward, Esq. Finningham Frere, Sheppard, Esq. Bacton Freston, Cook, Esq. Mendham Gage, Sir William, 4th Bart Hengrave Hall, Flempton Gallaway, The Revd Mr John Cole, AM Botesdale Master of the Grammar School Glanville, R. G., Esq. Elmsett Glover, John, Esq. Frostenden Goate, Edward, Esq. Brent Eleigh Hall; Wells Hall, Milden Golding, George, Esq. New House, Poslingford, Kelsale Gooch, Sir Thomas, 3rd Bart Benacre Gooch, James, Gent. Brundish Goodall, The Revd Dr Henry Mildenhall, R and Archdeacon of Suffolk Goodwin, The late John, Esq. Martlesham Gordon, The Revd Dr William Tacket Street Meeting House, Ipswich Grant, The Revd Mr Andrew, AB Foxearth, Sudbury All Saints, pc Grigby, Joshua, Esq. Horningsheath, Whepstead, Bury, Woolpit and Drinkstone Gurdon, Nathaniel, Esq. Assington Hall Gwynn, Dr Nicholas, MD Ipswich, Tacket Street Haddick, The Revd Mr Brandon Hall, Samuel, Esq. Fritton Hallum, Thomas, Esq. Ipswich Hamby, Robert, Esq. Ipswich Hamilton, Elizabeth, widow of the 6th Easton Park, Rendlesham duke of Hamilton and Brandon Hamilton, William, Esq. Sparrowes Nest, Thurleston Hammond, Philip, Esq. Hawkedon Hankey, Sir Joseph, Kt East Bergholt Hanmer, Walden, Esq. Waldingfield Parva Harland, Robert, Esq. Sproughton and Belstead Harvey, Lady Anne Leiston Harvey, The Revd Dr Charles Cockfield, R. Prebendary of Ely Haynes, The Revd Mr Hopton, AM Ipswich, Elmsett and Stansfield, R Hayward, John, Gent. Mettingham Castle Heigham, The Revd Mr John Walsham-le-Willows Heigham, Arthur, Esq. Hunston Heigham, Pell, Esq. Maltywards, Rougham Heigham, John S., Esq. Hunston Hall Herbert, Hon. Nicholas Great Glemham

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B4 P Hervey, George William, 2nd earl of Bristol Hewett, The Revd Mr Thomas B71 Hill, The Revd Dr Henry Hingeston, The Revd Mr Peter, AM Hodges, Thomas, Esq. Holden, John, Esq. Hollingsworth, William, Esq. Holmes, John, Gent. B72 P Holt, Rowland, Esq., Knight of the Shire Hudson, The Revd Mr Robert Hunt, Miss Ingham, Mr John, Attorney at Law Jeaffreson, The Revd Mr Christopher, AB Jennens, William, Esq. B73 Jenney, Edmund, Esq. Jessup, Mr Samuel Johnson, The Revd Mr Thomas, AM Johnson, ––––, Esq. Kedington, Ambrose, Esq. B75 Kedington, Robert, Gent. B74 Kedington, Roger, Esq. Kemp, Sir John, 4th Bart Kent, Samuel, Esq.

Ickworth and Shotley Bucklesham, R Buxhall pc Capel St Mary, R Wenham Parva, V Ipswich Herringswell Pakenham Bungay Redgrave Hall, Rickinghall inferior Ipswich St Nicholas, pc Walsham-le-Willows Grove Park, Yoxford Melton, Butley, pc

Acton and Charsfield Bredfield and Knodishall Leiston Abbey and Rumburgh Wickham Market, R Cavenham Acton Stansfield Waldingfield Magna Ubbeston Hall Fornham St Martin, St Genovieve and Denston Kilderbee, Mr Samuel, Attorney at Law Ipswich Kirby, Mr William Witnesham Hall Lathbury, The Revd Mr Peter, AM Westerfield, R Lawrence, The Revd Mr Philip Akenham, Henley and Ashbocking, V Layton, The Revd Mr Andrew, AM Ipswich St Matthew, V B76 Leake, Seymour, Esq. Yaxley B77 Leake, John, AM Willisham P Lee, Baptist, Esq. Livermere Parva, Magna and Lawshall Leeds, The Revd Mr John, AM Woodbridge, Ramsholt and Sutton, V. Shottisham, R B78 Le Heup, Michael, Esq. Hessett Leman, The Revd Mr John, AM Wenhaston (and Norfolk livings) Leman, The Revd Mr Robert, AB Ellough Leman, The Revd Mr Robert, AM Debenham, Mendham, V. Pakefield, R Leman, Robert, Esq. Wickham Market, Brampton Leman, Thomas, Esq. Wingfield Castle Leman, William, Esq. Letheringham, Kettleburgh and Weston Lewin, The Revd Mr Debenham B80 P Lloyd, Richard Savage, Esq., MP for Hintlesham Hall Totnes Long, The late Sir Philip Parker, 4th Erwarton Hall Bart B79 Long, Charles, Esq. Hurts Hall, Saxmundham Long, Mrs Parham Hall B81 Lord, The Revd Mr Thomas, AM Whelnetham Magna, R Lumpkin, The Revd Mr John Grundisburgh Luson, Robert, Esq. Blundeston Lynch, William, Esq. Ipswich and Abbot’s Hall, Stowmarket Macro,The Revd Dr Cox Norton B19 P Major, Sir John, 1st Bart Thornham Magna

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B9 P B108 B82 P

B83

B84

B20 P B85 B99 B86 B87 P B88

B7 B121 B89 B90

Mandevile, The Revd Mr Charles, AM Manning, Thomas, Esq. Mannock, Sir William, 5th Bart Martin, The late Sir Roger, 3rd Bart Maynard, Charles, 1st viscount Maynard Meadows, Daniel, Esq. Merest, John, Esq. Middleton, William, Esq. Mills, The Revd Dr Bernard Milner, Robert, Esq. Montgomerie, George, Esq. Moore, Henry, Esq. Moore, John, Esq. Moore, Richard, Esq. More, R., Esq. Mosely, Richard, Esq. Mosely, Thomas, Esq. Mulliner, Thomas, Attorney at Law Mumbee, Valentine, Esq. Mure, Hutchinson, Esq. Mussenden, Henry Hill, Esq. Myers, The Revd Mr William Nassau, Hon. Richard Savage Naunton, William, Esq. Neden, The Revd Dr Gervase Negus, Henry, Gent. Negus, William, Esq. Newcome, P., Esq. Newcomen, The Revd Mr Newman, The Revd Mr John, AM Newton, R., Esq. North, Dudley, Esq. Norton, Richard, Esq. Nun, The Revd Mr Martin, AB Nunn, The Revd Mr Robert, AB Ord, Mrs Parish, Robert, Esq. Parmenter, Mr William Pawsey, The Revd Mr James, AB Perceval, John, 2nd earl of Egmont Peyton, J., Esq. Philips, Giles, Esq. Pickering, Samuel, Notary Publick Plampin, John, Esq. Plumer, William, Esq.

B91 Pocklington, Robert, Esq. B92 Poley, George Weller, Esq. Powell, Mr Seth B93 Preston, The Revd Mr Thos Dymock, AM Pretyman, The late Baron, Esq. B94 Pretyman, George, Gent. Primatt, The Revd Mr Humphry, AM Prime, Lady Punchard, The Revd Mr Henry, AM

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Hardwick House, Woolpit and Beyton, R Bungay Gifford’s Hall, Stoke-by-Nayland d.1764 Melford Place [Sir Mordaunt succ.1762] Hoxne Hall, Denham near Eye Botesdale and Witnesham Bury or Wortham Crowfield Bury St Edmunds, Lecturer St Mary’s Ipswich, Seckford House Worlington Glemsford Kentwell Hall Long Melford Stonham Parva Ousden Hall, Rattlesden Tostock Place, Fornham All Saints Stratford St Andrew Horningsheath Saxham Magna, Depden Herringfleet Walton Easton Letheringham Abbey Rougham Hall Bungay Dallinghoo Hobbetts, Layham Ipswich Sudbury, Cornard Parva, R Leiston Hall Glemham Parva Ipswich and Ixworth Priory Holbrook and Hepworth, R Pakenham, V Fornham St Martin Ipswich Playford Hall Stuston and Mellis, R Perhaps tenant Erwarton Hall Ipswich Ipswich Chadacre Hall, Shimpling Rice Hall, Akenham, Halesworth and Sweffling Chelsworth and Whatfield Boxted Hall Rendham Priory Waldingfield, Polstead and Wratting Parva, R Bacton but a Robert of Wingfield Higham, V Thwaite Gazeley (unbeneficed)

NOBILITY, CLERGY AND GENTRY c.1765

B115 Purvis, Rear-Admiral George Wager, Esq. Rabett, Reginald, Esq. B95 Rant, Humphrey, Esq. B22 Rawlinson, Sir Thomas, Kt B96 Ray, Richard, Esq. Read, Thomas Crofts, Esq. B97 Reilly, John, Esq. B98 Revett, John, Esq. Rich, Sir Robert Risby, The late H., Esq. Rookwood, Edward, Esq. Robinson, Lt Col. John B13 P Rous, Sir John, 1st Bart P Rowley, Admiral Sir William, KB B100 P Rush, John, Esq. B101 Rush, Samuel, Esq. crescent B102 Rushbrooke, Barham, Esq. Rustat, The Revd Mr Tobias, AM Safford, John, Gent. Sancroft, James, Esq. Saunders, Vice Adml Sir Charles, KB B103 Sayer, John P., Esq. Scott, The Revd Mr Scott, J. M., MD B104 Scrivener, John Friston, Esq. B5 P Seymour-Conway, Francis, 16th earl of Hertford Sharp, The Revd Mr James Sheldon, Mr –––– P Sheppard, John, Esq. Smith, –––– Smyth, William, Esq. B105 P Soame, Stephen, Esq. Sparrow, Robert, Esq. Stane, William, Esq. B106 P Staunton, Thomas, Esq., MP

B107 B109 B110 B111 B112 B113 B114 B117

Harwich Bramfield Ipswich Stowlangtoft Haughley, Shelland Bardwell, Ixworth Thorpe Westhorpe, Coney Weston Brandeston Hall, Cretingham Roos Hall, Beccles Thorpe Morieux Coldham Hall, Stanningfield Denston Hall Henham Tendryng Hall, Stoke by Nayland Benhall Shelley and Raydon Mildenhall Stutton, R Bungay Fressingfield Hall Gunton Cretingham Ipswich Felsham Hall Sibton Sudbourne Hall, Iken

Bury St Edmunds Edwardstone Priory High House, Campsey Ash, Thwaite The Lee, Ashfield Leiston Little Thurlow Hall Worlingham Hall, Kettleburgh Kenton Pykenham’s House, Ipswich, Holbrook and Harkstead Stebbing, The Revd Mr Titus, AM Tattingstone, R Steggall, The Revd Mr William, AM Wyverstone, R Stewart, Sir Simeon, 3rd Bart Lakenheath, Hawkedon Stisted, Thomas, Esq. Ipswich Strudwick, Edmund, Esq. Ipswich Suckling, William, Esq. Barsham Sulyard, Edward, Esq. Haughley or Wetherden Syer, The Revd Mr Dey, AM Waldingfield Parva,V. Badingham, R Symonds, John, Esq. Ixworth Symonds, Mrs Whelnetham Parva Tanner, The Revd Dr Thomas Hadleigh, V and Dean of Bocking Tash, Colonel Haverhill Thirkle, Michael, Esq. Ipswich Thomas, George, Esq. Kesgrave, Ramsholt, Brockley and Ipswich Thompson, John, Gent. Southwold Thorrowgood, Sir Thomas, Kt Kersey, Sampsons Hall Thruston, John, MD (Mott before 1744) Market Weston

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Thurston, Thomas, Esq. P Tollemache, Lionel, 4th earl of Dysart Townshend, George, 4th viscount Townshend Trigg, The Revd Mr Thomas, AM Trotman, William, Esq. Turner, Mr Benjamin B118 Tyrell, Edmund, Esq. Tyrell, Edmund, Esq. Tyrell, Sir John, Bart Tyrell, Thomas Bokenham, Esq. B120 Uvedale, Samuel, Esq. Uvedale, The Revd Dr Samuel, LLD Van Heythuysen, G., Esq. B18 P Vanneck, Sir Joshua, 1st Bart Venn, Dr Edward Ventris, The Revd Mr Edward, AM B10 P B119 P B122

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Little Wenham Hall Helmingham, Stutton Denham

Leiston, R Ipswich Horsecroft, Horningsheath Gipping Hall and Redisham Stowmarket Elveden Stowmarket Barking Barking and Combs, R Oulton Heveningham, Huntingfield and Aldham Ipswich Burgate, R, buried St Nicholas Ipswich 1764 Vernon, Francis, baron Orwell of Newry Orwell Park, Nacton and Levington Vernon, Henry, Esq. Great Thurlow Hall Vesey, The late B.W., Gent. Whatfield Ward, Knox, Esq. Woolverstone Wareyn, John, Esq. Kenton Waring, Thomas, Esq. Groton Hall Warner, Mrs Waldingfield Parva Warner, The late Nathaniel, Esq. Badmondesfield Hall, Wickhambrook Warren, The Revd Mr Thomas, AB Chattisham, V Watson, Jonathan (or William), Esq. Ringshall Hall Watts, –––, Esq. Walpole Wayth, Daniel, Esq. Glemham Magna Wayth, Mr Daniel Flowton Wentworth, William, 4th earl of Friston and Aldeburgh Strafford Wenyeve, Edward, Esq. Brettenham Whimper, Mr Thomas Glevering Hall Whitaker, The Revd Mr Thomas, AM Mendham, V White, Robert, Esq. Tattingstone Place Whitmore, Edward, Esq. Bury St Edmunds Whittington, The Revd Mr John Orford, Sudbourne and Theberton, R Wilkinson, The Revd Mr Brome Willis, John or Henry, Esq. Redlingfield Wilson, Thomas, Esq. Botesdale Wodehouse, Sir Armine, 5th Bart Chilton Wollaston, The Revd Mr Frederick, Bury St Edmunds, Lecturer St James LLB Wollaston, William, Esq. Finborough Wright, George, Esq. Butley Priory Wright, Thomas, Esq. Santon Downham Yonge, The Rt Revd Philip, Lord Bishop of Norwich Zuylestein, William Henry Nassau de, Easton 4th earl of Rochford

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Appendix C John Kirby’s Geometrical Accuracy

A year into his survey of the county, in the announcement of August 1733 (see page xv), Kirby was warning his subscribers not to expect absolute accuracy: ‘We dare not say that it is mathematically true (for if so it must not vary the thousandth part of an inch).’ However, he was still claiming a great deal for his methods, as an extract from his 287-word sentence shows. We can examine his claims in detail for the triangle of churches at which he began: The beginning of the said survey was on Tunstall-heath, by taking (on a plain parcel of land) a measured distance of fifty chains, or five furlongs, by help of which the true distance was found between Tunstall church and Wantisden church; and likewise between the said churches and that of Wickham-market, having thus completed a triangle by gaining all its sides and angles, (which upon proof was true, according to the rules of geometry, having its three angles equal to 180 degrees), from thence the calculations have been carried on hitherto (and it may be said without boasting) with great exactness, for as it is undeniably true, that, if two or three lines concur in one point, the work cannot be erroneous, . . . Kirby is here guilty of a truism: he would be hard put to it to draw a triangle whose three angles did not add up to two right angles. It is a simple matter to trace the Tunstall (T), Wantisden (W), Wickham Market (M) triangle from a modern OS map, and to compare its sides and angles with the same triangle on the 1736 map. The angles can be measured with a protractor, but one must accept Kirby’s engraved scale of miles to estimate his distances. Fig. 4 shows what Kirby’s triangle looks like. Table 1. Distances and bearings in Kirby’s first triangle of churches Distances in metres OS Kirby % error

TW 1900 1900 0

WM 6500 6920 6.5

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<WMT 17 17

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Kirby seems to have been able to lay out his measuring chain along the whole length of the straight line joining Tunstall and Wantisden churches to obtain an accurate distance. With just one distance measured correctly, he could in theory have progressed round the whole county provided that his bearings were reliable. Bearings from the tops of church towers should have been straightforward using a theodolite, and he did obtain the correct 17-degree angle between the two distant churches from Wickham. However, the 3-degree error in the other two angles of that triangle led to errors in its other two sides. Kirby’s triangle drawn on the OS map moves Wickham church some 300 metres to the north of its true position. To test his claim (pages 231

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Fig. 4. Detail of the 1736 map showing the Tunstall, Wantisden, Wickham Market triangle where Kirby began his survey. (Full size) 17–18) that fifty churches were visible from Wickham tower, and in the hope that he took particularly careful bearings from it, a ‘star’ of bearing lines to other churches on his map was laid over the modern map (using the correct Wantisden and Tunstall bearings to anchor it). The results are mixed; no other church is on exactly the right bearing, and Chillesford, for example, which should lie outside the W/T angle, lies inside. Was it to help Kirby that Tom Martin listed the churches visible from his house and church at Palgrave? The heading is: ‘From Palgrave Steple 3 April 1735 we saw’, which may imply that Kirby was with him. He claimed to see a total of forty churches and Brome Hall.1 From the roof of his Palgrave house he made a rough plot of thirty-three churches and Brome Hall, which ‘may be seen’. There is a small drawing of his house near the middle. Kirby’s advertisement of December 1733 gave more hostages to fortune in supplying the ‘true horizontal distances of the several towns under-named, from the Market Cross of the town of Ipswich’ because measurements made on modern maps show them all to be too long. If the percentage errors were consistent it might indicate that Kirby was using a different mile to the modern standard, for until the Act for the Uniformity of Measures in 1824 several different measures were current. However, Kirby’s figures, given in the second column of Table 2 and converted from furlongs to

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decimals, show that the errors fluctuate wildly. It will be wise therefore to look for other advantages than geometrical accuracy in Kirby’s maps. Table 2. Distance from Ipswich of fourteen towns in Suffolk and Norfolk Distances in miles from Ipswich to: OS

Kirby

Diss Eye Debenham Harleston Yarmouth Halesworth Framlingham Lowestoft Southwold Wickham-market Woodbridge Aldeburgh Orford Harwich

22.5 18.3 11.9 24.75 45.7 24.75 14.0 38.4 29.0 11.0 7.25 20.0 16.4 10.0

17.6 15.4 10.75 22.1 43.9 22.1 13.1 38.25 27.25 10.4 7.0 18.8 15.5 9.4

% error 28 19 11 12 4 12 7 0.4 6 6 4 6 6 6

If any further demonstration is needed, the road leading from Sudbourne to Orford Quay on the modern OS map runs approximately south-east. On Kirby’s map the roads in the centre of the town are neatly aligned north–south and east–west. Furthermore, Butley church is shown north-north-east of the priory whereas it is to the north-north-west, continuing the 45-degree misalignment in the area (see Fig. 5).

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Appendix D Selected Features on the Large-Scale Maps

Windmills and water mills Since the 1766 map is little more than a tracing of the 1736 map onto new copper plates, differences between them may be intentional or inadvertent, and it is rarely possible to be certain which. This is most easily demonstrated by listing the wind- and water mills which are shown (see Table 3). Table 3. Windmills and watermills shown on the maps of 1736 and 1786 Parish Map: Aldeburgh Alderton Aldham Barnhams Barton Mills Battisford Bealings Magna Bealings Parva Beccles Benhall Blakenham Magna Blakenham Parva Blythford Boxford Bradley Parva Bradwell Bramford Brampton Brandon Brent Eleigh Bungay Bures Bury St Edmunds Campsey Ash Capel St Andrew Cavendish Chelsworth Chillesford Clare Cornard Magna Cornard Parva Creeting St Peter

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Parish Map: Darmsden Darsham Debenham Diss (Norfolk) Easton Flempton Flixton St Mary Framlingham Glemham Parva Hacheston Hadleigh Halesworth Harwich (Essex) Haughley Holbrook Holton St Mary Holton St Peter Homersfield Hoxne Hulver Street Icklingham Ipswich Ixworth Lackford Layham Laxfield Letheringham Long Melford Lowestoft Melton Mendham Monks Eleigh Nayland Needham Market Newbourne Normanston Oakley Orford Pakenham Ringshall Sapiston Semer Shottisham Sibton South Elmham St George Southwold Sproughton Stoke by Nayland

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Parish Map: Stowmarket Sudbury Syleham Tattingstone Thelnetham Thetford Thornham Magna Thurston Trimleys Ufford Uggeshall Walpole Wangford St Denis Westleton West Stow Weybread Wissington Wixoe Woodbridge Woolpit Wrentham Yarmouth (Norfolk) Totals

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Had five windmills been demolished in thirty years, two at Woodbridge and one each at Long Melford, Woolpit and Harwich? It seems unlikely. Had four watermills been built? It is easy to point to omissions of both types. Mill experts list early mills ignored by Kirby and his revisors.1 However, some are mentioned in the Traveller which do not feature on the map. For example, at page 61 ‘turn on the right over Combs Ford. Pass between Stow Windmills, and at 3m, 4½f, is Stowmarket Cross.’ The Stow mills were in fact first recorded ‘south of the town’ on a map of 1675. At Coldfair-Green (page 30) Kirby records ‘a Windmill a little on the right’ between Leiston and Snape, but fails to mark it on the map. As records here only go back to 1836, Kirby confirms that it stood here a century earlier. Seven other windmills not noticed by Kirby pre-date his survey. They were surely in existence, but were mostly on roads he did not take on his journeys. They are, or were, at Barrow (on a map of 1730), Combs (a map of 1736), Drinkstone (on a map of 1689 and still standing), Leiston (a monastic mill in the town pre-1603 and only demolished in 1870), two windmills at Stradbroke (map of 1688, demolished 1941; and map of 1704, demolished 1940, respectively) and one at Shotley. Kirby’s own overshot mill at Erwarton is totally ignored by his survey. To show that Kirby’s recording and mapping of windmills was incomplete and unreliable one need only consider the mills of Woodbridge. He showed two on the 1736 map, but they were not transferred to the 1766 edition. Hodskinson (1789) marked three, but there were four on Mill Hills at some time, three pre-1819, one still there in 1866, and three more on Theatre Street, Drybridge Hill and Victoria road in 1825, one of them still there in 1930, and two remain, Trickers and Butrams which are both earlier than 1820. 1

Brian Flint, Suffolk Windmills, Woodbridge 1979.

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Other Features Castles Kirby’s castles are very varied in their true or probable nature: they are here arranged in approximate date order: Burgh: Roman fort Clare: Norman motte and bailey with remains of a masonry shell-keep. Haughley: Norman motte and bailey; footings suggest that it had a stone keep. Framlingham: stone castle, twelfth century. Orford: stone castle, twelfth century. Walton ‘Stone’: presumably Roman fort reused in twelfth century as a Bigod castle. Lidgate: Earthwork probably twelfth–thirteenth century; isolated stone wall in churchyard is probably part of a wall flanking the approach to the to the castle gate. Mettingham: stone castle, fourteenth century. Wingfield: stone castle, fourteenth century. Landguard Fort: Henrician and later fort (what survives is 1744 and later). Bredfield: just a moated site, apparently locally known as ‘Oliver’s Ditches’ and now ploughed flat. Ipswich: the castle at Ipswich is a complete enigma as to site and type, but Kirby (1735 Traveller, pp. 5–6) gives his own theories. Monasteries, working from north to south Burgh (in both editions of the Traveller). Eriswell (ruins are of a parish church). Flixton St Mary. Eye (1736 only). Hoxne (1736 only; 1735 Traveller, p. 137 has useful discussion). Wangford. Mendham. Blythburgh (1766 only). Snape. Leiston (and earlier site). Campsey Ash (and mere). Butley. Walton (1736 only). Kersey. Edwardstone. Ferries between Yarmouth and Gorleston. Woodbridge and Sutton (1766 map only). Bawdsey and Felixstowe. Landguard and Harwich. Rivers named Waveny (sic); Alde, Ore, Stour, Brett, Ouse, Lark, Mildenhall Drain.

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Estuaries named Woodbridge Haven, Orwell Haven, Stour Haven, Minsmere Haven. Bridges2 On the maps Mutford bridge crossing between Oulton Broad and Lake Lothing. Latimer Bridge over the Hundred River between Kessingland and Benacre. Potters Bridge inland from Easton Broad. Woolsey (sic) bridge over a tributary of the Blyth west of Southwold. East Bridge over the Minsmere River at Theberton. Snape Bridge over River Alde/Ore at Snape. Wilford Bridge over the Deben at Melton. Bourn (sic) Bridge over Belstead Brook south of Ipswich. Two Cattawade Bridges over the Stour between Brantham and Manningtree. Bridges mentioned in Traveller but not on Maps At Martlesham a bridge over the Finn. At Wickham a bridge over the Deben. Dymers bridge over the Ore. Langham bridge over the Alde. Haddiscoe Dam over the Waveney. At Yarmouth a bridge at the town end of Breydon Water. At Southwold a bridge over Buss Creek. At Claydon a bridge over the Gipping. At Scole a bridge over the Waveney. At Glevering a bridge over the Deben. Durrance bridge on road from Framlingham to Badingham. Froizly bridge at Dennington. At Bramford a bridge over the Gipping. Handford bridge over the Gipping. Stratford bridge over the Stour. Stoke bridge over the Orwell. Lights at Lowestoft and Orford Ness. Decoys, with what remains of them today Fritton: Decoy woods and lake in Fritton Country Park. Flixton: Decoy farm and lake just south of the prison. Friston: see below, p. 241. Snape: Decoy farm and Decoy wood with a pond just north of Sailors Path. Iken: The pond in an almost square wood half a mile south-east of the church was the decoy. Chillesford: Decoy pond and wood south of the village. Foxhall: Decoy pond still there on Purdis Heath golf course. 2

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Parks around houses Of the emparked houses on Saxton’s Suffolciae map of 1575, only eight remain on Kirby’s 1736 map: Henham, Heveningham, Huntingfield, Letheringham, Redgrave, Hintlesham, Tendryng and Ickworth. Kirby, however, shows twenty-seven new parks at Bacton, Badley, Bealings, Benhall, Brettenham, Brightwell, Brockford, Brome (the park Saxton shows at Denham may have been this one), Christchurch (Ipswich), Combs, Culford, Dalham, Euston, Flixton, Haughley, Hawstead, Helmingham, Hengrave, Hoxne, Livermere parva, Melford Hall, Redisham, Rushbrooke, Somerleyton, Saxham parva, Thurlow parva and Woolverstone. The twenty parks ‘lost’ since Saxton were Westwood, one to the south-west of Yoxford, Framlingham, Wingfield, Monk Soham, Debenham, Thwaite, Denham (see Brome above), Burgate, Westhorpe, Nettlestead, Smallbridge, Cavendish, Chilton, three near Lavenham and three between Stradishall and Hundon. Racecourses The courses at Ipswich and Snape, marked on the map at the bottom of the avenue of trees from Friston, are a reminder of the universal popularity of the sport of kings. Snape Race-Ground is omitted by Hodskinson. Had it fallen into disuse by 1783? Beccles racecourse, shown on Emerton’s 1757 survey of Beccles Fen, is not marked on any Kirby map. Other archaeological features The Devil’s Dyke. The Seven Hills east of Ipswich are on the boundary of three parishes: Bucklesham, Foxhall, Nacton. Most are in Nacton and there are in fact fourteen mounds. The Seven Hills north of Bury are on the boundary between Ingham and Little Livermere. Three mounds survive of more than seven there in Kirby’s time, but seven were larger than the rest. These seem to be Bronze Age round barrows or tumuli.3

3

See A. J. Lawson, E. A. Martin and D. Priddy, ‘The Barrows of East Anglia’, East Anglian Archaeology 12, 1981, 8, 14, 80, 82, 84.

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Fig. 5. Detail of the 1736 map from the Minsmere River to Slaughden Quay. (50% linear)

Notes on selected areas Differences on the maps of 1736 and 1766 are probably accidental, but much that they show has changed in the last 250 years. 1. The Lower Alde and Ore valley (see Fig. 5) This area is bounded on the north by the Minsmere River, its haven marked by Kirby. Further south he does not name the Hundred River or indicate Thorpeness Mere, which on Hodskinson extends from Thorpeness through the marshes as far south as the rising ground at Aldeburgh. Kirby marks the mouth of the Hundred River as Great Sluice where the Mere then flowed into the sea near the present Sluice Cottage. Kirby’s eastern seaward margin allows for streets to the east of the Aldeburgh Moot Hall and a wider isthmus at Slaughden Quay on the Alde Estuary. Kirby’s tracks crossing sandy heathland are now cut by new roads from Friday Street to Blackheath Corner (A1094) and the new road from Sternfield past Snape church to Snape Bridge. The original road from Snape to Leiston followed the line of Sandy Lane past the Golden Key Inn, and continues as a grassy track across fields to Blackheath Corner. Here the B1069 Snape road follows the line of Kirby’s road to Leiston and the A1094 continues along Kirby’s line to Aldeburgh. Kirby’s road through Friston to Saxmundham survives as the B1121. The area around Friston is confused on the 1736 map; the relative clarity on the 1766 map mainly reflects distinct omissions. A prime feature of the 1736 map is the avenue of trees running south from Friston Hall to ‘Snape Course’. Though omitted (perhaps for clarity) on the 1766 map, it is marked by Hodskinson and survives today 241

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as a lime avenue. Kirby records Snape Race-Ground as he passes, ‘leaving Friston decoy a little on the left, at 3m 3¼ furlongs, a view to Friston Hall. . . .At 4m. . . over Snape Race Ground . . .’ He ignores the avenue which he had mapped, but the decoy, the remnants of whose pond may still be there in Decoy Wood next to Decoy Farm just north of the Sailors Path, is both mentioned and marked. Hodskinson has no racecourse and there is no sign of it on modern maps. There is today, however, a wide flat field of rough grass south of the Sailors Path and north of New England Farm which is suitably positioned on heathland above the flood plain of the Alde. The positions of Snape Mannor (sic), Haslewood Mannor, Beckling Mannor, and Aldeburgh Mannor are all squeezed in on the 1736 map, but are pruned to just ‘Snape’ and ‘Haslewood’ by 1766. Only on the 1736 map does The earl of Strafford’s name in capital letters stretches across the countryside from Friston to Aldeburgh. On the maps of 1766 and 1783 it appears reduced in size at Friston Hall. All that remains today of the Benedictine monastery described by Kirby in the Traveller is the fine Abbey Farm. Nearer Friston than Benhall on both Kirby maps is the surprising ‘Benhall Sr Robert’. White’s 1844 Directory has ‘an estate [so named] forms a small manor’, which Copinger4 calls Benhall Sr Roberts, held in 1292 by Robert de Benhall, clerk, and by several generations of Benhalls until Sir Robert de Benhall died seized of it c.1400. 2. Lowestoft and Lake Lothing Kirby records in the 1735 Traveller that he left Lowestoft by ‘passing out at the South-end of the Town, between the Shore and lake Lothing’. In doing this he was crossing the sea bank which blocked the original outlet of the Waveney to the sea. By 1833 this channel had been reopened and the Island of Lothingland had been recreated by Act of Parliament. The Norwich and Lowestoft Navigation Channel was cut through the sea bank to create a direct route to the sea for vessels using the Yare and Waveney. Present-day travellers still cross the deep lock and cast-iron swing bridge as they leave Lowestoft.

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Manors, V, 106.

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Appendix E Maritime Craft Decorating the Maps

Hugh Moffat’s tentative descriptions are given working from north to south on each map. The 1736 one-inch map Off Corton: probably a brig, a two-masted square-rigged vessel, widely used in the naval and merchant services. Off Covehithe and Sizewell: probably warships with long commissioning pennants at the mainmast head. The one off Sizewell is a three-decker (80+ guns) with probably a vice-admiral’s flag at her foremast head. Off Slaughden: a ship-rigged merchantman (square-rigged on three masts). She could be a collier, or almost anything capable of ocean voyages. Lower corner: certainly warships. The nearest flies a vice-admiral’s flag at the foremast. The single-masted vessel may be an Admiralty yacht, as royal yachts were usually ketch-rigged with two masts by this date – unless the picture is out-of-date. The 1737 half-inch map Off Yarmouth: perhaps a small fishing boat working off the beach. Off Corton: probably a small trading sloop. Off Benacre: the men here may be working with crabpots, or perhaps tubs of smuggled liquor. Off Southwold: perhaps a small fishing boat working off the beach. Off Theberton: perhaps a ship’s boat. Off Aldeburgh: a merchant ship, perhaps a collier or Baltic trader. A West Indiaman would mount a few guns. Lower corner: a warship of about 20–24 guns. The 1764 quarter-inch map Off Corton: perhaps a small trading sloop. Lower down: all four vessels appear to be engaged in fishing (one for crabs and lobsters). The 1766 one-inch map Off Yarmouth: a warship. Off Corton: a trading sloop. Off Lowestoft: a small merchantman, but the foremast was usually the shorter of the two. Off Covehithe: a warship. Off Southwold: a warship, and, smaller, a yacht. Various small craft as on the earlier maps. Off Orford: a merchantman 243

Appendix F Estate Maps and Surveys by Kirby, Bacon and Emerton1

Each list for these surveyors is arranged in chronological order. Since most surveys are titled ‘A plan of an estate lying in [parish] belonging to [owner], in the year A.D. [date]’, just the date, parish and owner are here given before the reference. Most are on vellum; paper plans are so indicated. John Kirby Kirby’s twenty-five known estate maps are generally less decorative than the work of earlier surveyors, even of his contemporary William Brasier.2 One notable exception is the plan he made of Christchurch, Ipswich, for Thomas Fonnereau in 1735, which has a south elevation of the house, achievement of arms and an ungainly putto placing his dividers on a scale of perches. Another is the only known commission which took him west of Mendlesham. This is his 1737 plan of Beaumonts Hall Farm in Pakenham, Stowlangtoft and Norton. The client was the recently ordained Benjamin Lany, a junior cousin of the namesake who was twice master of Pembroke Hall and holder, successively, of three East Anglian bishoprics. This map’s embellishments are charmingly naïve, particularly the antics of the ‘LASCIVI PUERI’3 surveying merrily on a plinth which is also a scale (Fig. 6). There is a similar scene on the 1736 map of Suffolk. However, since the miniscule ships on his plan of Hulver Marshes in Sudbourne are so unimpressive, those on his county maps must surely be the work of far finer draughtsmen, perhaps the engravers concerned. 1725: Melton, Daniel Vickers, Gent. (SROI HD80/1/1, fol. 27) 1726: Rumburgh and South Elmham St James, John Clayton, Gent. (SROL 742/H1/9) 1726: Mendlesham, Wetheringsett 1727: Bawdsey, Campsea Ash, Mendham Book of 7 plats of several estates of John Sheppard, Esq. of Campsey Ash (SROI HA 30:50/22/26.1) [Paper book of plans] 1728: Great Bealings, John Pitt, Esq. (SROI HD 417/2) 1729: Rumburgh, Mr Manning (SROI HB 24/2) 1729: Great Bealings glebes (SROI HD 417/2) 1731: Friston and Knodishall, Benjamin Lea of the City of London, Gent. (SROI HA 15/B11/1) [From 1732 until 1734 or 1735 Kirby was surveying the county] 1734: Martlesham, Mr William Leggat (SROI HA 119:562 [Box 8, bundle 4]) 1

It is well to remember that Kirby’s association with Bacon ended in autumn 1733 and at the same time Emerton, at the outset of his career, joined Kirby as agent in south Norfolk, but only to recruit subscribers for the map. 2 Brasier’s survey of several Stour valley parishes in 1731 is SROI: FB 191/A8/1. 3 Horace, Satires, 1, 3, 133.

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Fig. 6. Three details from John Kirby’s plan of Beaumonts Hall Farm in 1737: the scale of perches with surveying putti, compass rose enclosing another of the ‘lascivi pueri’ and the armorial achievement of Lany.

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1735: Bredfield, Samuel Thompson, Esq. (SROI HD 80/1/1, fol. 29) 1735: Christchurch Estate [in Ipswich], Thomas Fonnereau, Esq. (Ipswich Museums [original framed and hanging in the Mansion]) 1736: Sudbourne, certain marsh lands. . . Hulver Marshes, Edward Hawker, Esq. (SROI HB10: 427/831) [with small and nondescript drawings of ships moored at Slaughden Quay and others sailing in the Ore] 1737: Beaumonts Hall Farm in Pakenham, Stowlangtoft and Norton, the Revd Mr Benjamin Lany (CUL Map Room MS Plans FR.x.1.) 1738: Loudham Hall in Pettistree, Charles Wood Esq. (SROI HB10: 50/20/41.1 (2)) [includes a naïve south-east elevation of the Hall] 1738: South Elmham St James, a certain common and ancient King’s highway. . . from St James to Rumburgh. . . past the house late Stephen Elmy’s to. . . Beccles. (SROL 192/1) 1740–41: Flixtow (sic), Walton, Trimley, the Lordships of Sir John Barker Bart. [The original is lost, but SROI HA 119/3/2/1/1/1 is Isaac Johnson’s version of the entire Orwell Park Estate made for George Nassau Esq. in 1784, and SROI HD 1899/1 is a copy made in 1872 by R.F.] JK’s written survey is SROI HB8/1/201 1741: Trimley St Martin and St Mary, parish perambulation (SROI HB 9:517/D5) 1741: North Glemham, Benhall and Sweffling, Mr Edmund Newson (SROI HA 43: T495/10) 1741: Glemham and Marlesford, William Tovell (NRO DS 413) Not dated: Rendlesham, Eyke, Tunstall and Wantisden, various owners (SROI HD 427/1) [Paper book of 5 plans] The Naunton Hall Farm survey in this last collection is a better than average example of Kirby’s work (Fig. 7), showing as it does the house and outbuildings in some detail, and the avenue of trees then leading to the old road from Wilford bridge to Snape bridge. The short stretch of road from the old school to the gothic lodge perpetuates the line of the avenue. The [Campsey] Ash Road which passes near to the house is not marked, nor the church which lies south of the Farm and east of the same road. Few of the field boundaries and none of Kirby’s names persist. Nathaniel Bacon junior, fl.1733–50 There survive by this man four plain but well designed and lettered surveys of estates to the north of Ipswich. It was not surprising, therefore, to discover that he came from Tuddenham St Martin where Nathaniel Bacon senior was a yeoman farmer. When father died, he ‘was carried to his grave by his own direction by his six sons & burried [in Tuddenham churchyard] November 30th 1743’.4 Nathaniel junior was probably the eldest, and as his father was twice married (in 1684 and 1687), his mother Mary may have been a Keble or a Catchpool. In either case he was probably somewhat older than John Kirby. Still a bachelor and of Ipswich when in 1712 he married the widow Sarah Aylmore, also of Ipswich, the surveyor Nathaniel was buried at Tuddenham in 1750. It is quite likely that Bacon and Kirby divided the work of individual surveys between them, but Kirby realised that his whole-county survey could not be a co-operative venture. Bacon’s 1733 plan of the Leathes estate at Walton is his most accomplished. That of 1736 for Mileson Edgar, Esq., at Tuddenham has a most 4

Charles Beaumont, rector, wrote this unusual entry in the burial register. Bacon senior’s will (SROI IC/AA1/172/68) mentions only his widow Mary and one of the sons, Phillip, named executor. Phillip was presumably taking over the farm.

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Fig. 7. John Kirby’s undated manuscript survey of Naunton Hall Farm, Rendlesham. (57% linear) unusual feature. The plan, mounted on rollers, has worn decorative borders about two inches wide pasted around its edges with engraved scenes of surveyors at work and groups of their instruments (Fig. 8). 1733: Walton, Carteret Leathes, Esq. (SROI HA 403: T1039/13) 1733: Eccles town and manor, William Green Esq. (NRO MS 4527) 1736: Witnesham glebe lands, The Revd Mr Charles Beaumont, Rector (SROI HD 245/2) [a nineteenth or early twentieth century copy] 1736: Claydon, The Revd Mr George Drury, Rector (SROI HB 8/5/81) [Two versions: one on paper] 1736: Tuddenham St Martin, Mileson Edgar, Esq. (SROI HD 245/1) 1737: Culpho, Robert Edgar, Gent. (SROI HD 12:2750) 248

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Fig. 8. Two details from printed borders of Nathaniel Bacon’s survey of Mileson Edgar’s estate in Tuddenham St Martin. The surveyor is using a spirit level with sights, which he would first level using the oversize thumbscrew. The seated putto, beside a surveyor’s chain of 100 links totalling 66 feet, holds a simple theodolite without optics, which would always be used on a stand. 1744: Bond’s, Freston, The Revd Mr Charles Beaumont, Rector of Witnesham (SROI HA 93/12/2) 1749: Grundisburgh, John Hurt, Gent. (HB10: 427/832) Francis Emerton, fl.1733–61 The lands mapped by ‘that curious Surveyor Francis Emerton at Gillingham’, near Beccles, lie along the Waveney valley, and just one as far south as Huntingfield and Cratfield. Bacon and Kirby, whose ‘curious’ probably meant ‘inquisitive’, could have learnt from him. Emerton’s careful work appears more accurate than theirs. A tiny perspective view of every building is drawn in ink and watercolour and his tables have dignified classical frames. The decoration and delicate colouring he adds to dividers 249

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and scales and to compass roses is delightful. If some of his lettering and his tables are overlarge, he nevertheless achieved legibility. As Kirby’s agent in south-east Norfolk he was only involved in recruiting subscribers for the Suffolk map. Late in life Emerton moved to Flixton near Bungay, whence in January 1761 he wrote to Mr Moor, master of the Free School at Beccles: ‘As I was lame in both my legs and one ancle at Xtmass and could not be at that time with you at Beccles. . . I was still very unfitt for so long a walk. . .’ 1733: North Cove, Richard Manthorp (SROL 332/6/1) [This map has a triangular ‘pediment’ at the top containing the achievement of the Bakers Company to which Manthorp presumably belonged.] 1741: Haddiscoe and Thorpe next Haddiscoe, Elizabeth Castell (NRO MC 1785/1, 832 × 8) 1749: Ormesby 1749, copied 1833 (NRO LW 1560) 1752: South Elmham and Homersfield, John Boatwright, Gent. (SROL 741/HA 12/D4/10) 1753: Norton Subcourse Glebe Land (NRO BOL 3/78, 741 × 3) 1755: Needham, Robert Williams (NRO MEA3/639, 659 × 5) [with view of house] 1757: Beccles Fen (SROL Collection 1227, accession 1263) [A large and detailed survey including the Race Ground.] 1758: Huntingfield and Cratfield, Richard Aldous Clarke, Gent. (SROI HD 216/1) 1759: South Elmham St Margaret, James Denny (SROL 741/HA 12/D4/11) 1760: Bungay, Richard Nelson, Gent. (SROL 742/H1/2) 1760: Bungay Trinity, Thomas Sheriffe, Gent. (SROL 884/1) Not dated: Ditchingham and Earsham, Zachariah Mayhew, Gent. (SROL 742/H1/24)

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(Appendices A and B are alphabetical by name) Aylmore, Sarah 247 Bacon, Mary 247 Bacon, Nathaniel senior 247 Bacon, Nathaniel xi, xiii, xiv, xv, xvii, 245, 247–49 Bacon, Phillip 247 Bagnall, John xvii, xviii, xxv Baily, Thomas xiv Baldrey, Andrew xx, xxv Barker, Sir John, Bart 247 Barnes, Michael xiv Basire, Isaac xix, xxv Beaumont, Charles 247, 248, 249 Bilney, Thomas xxii Boatwright, John 250 Brasier, William 245 Butler, William xiv Calver, John xiv Canning, Richard xix, xx, xxiii Castell, Elizabeth 250 Chase, William xiv Clayton, John 245 Cole, William xx Collins, Richard xvii, xviii Corbridge, James xi, xii, xiii, xv, xvii, xix Craighton, William xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xxv Crispe, Thomas xiv de Benhall, Robert 242 de Benhall, Sir Robert 242 Devereux, Price, 9th viscount xxiii Dowsing, William xxiii Duck, Edward xxiii Dugdale, William xxii Dymond, David xi Eachard, Christopher xiv Edgar, Mileson 247, 248 Edgar, Robert 248 Elmy, Stephen 247 Emerton, Francis xi, xv, xvii, xviii, 245, 249–50 Faden, William xi Fitroy, Charles, 2nd duke of Grafton xviii Fonnereau, Thomas 245, 247 Gainsborough, Thomas xv Gough, Richard xx Green, William 248 Gudgeon, John xviii Guinness, Edward, 1st earl of Iveagh xx Hall, Hannibal xiv Hall, Mr xviii Hawker, Edward 247

Hodskinson, Joseph xi, 237, 240, 241 Holliday, Mr xvi Hurt, John 249 Jarrold, John xxvi Kirby, Alice (née Brown) xiv, xv Kirby, John passim Kirby, John junior xv Kirby, John, of Halesworth xiv Kirby, Joshua xv, xx, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxvi Kirby, Stephen, of Halesworth xiv Kirby, Stephen, of Ipswich xviii Kirby, William xiv, xv, xx, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxvi Kirby, Revd William xiv Lany, Benjamin 245, 247 Lawsell, Samuel xvi Lea, Benjamin 245 Leathes, Carteret 248 Leggat, William 245 Lovekin, Richard xxii Manning, Mr 245 Manthorp, Richard 250 Martin, Harwin xvi Martin, Thomas xix, xx, xxii, xxiii, 232 Mason, John xiv Meadows, Daniel xiv Moffat, Hugh 243 Money, Mrs xvi Money, Robert xiv Morden, Robert xiii Munro, John xxvi Nassau, George 247 Newson, Edmund 247 Newson, Nicholas xiv Nichols, John xx Ogilby, John xx Ord, Craven xx Page, Augustine xxvi Page, Thomas xxiii, xxv Palgrave, Mr xvi Paulson, Thomas xvii Percivall, James xiv, xvi Phillipps, Sir Thomas xx Piper, Stephen xxvi Pitt, John 245 Pretyman, Baron xxii Roberts, William xiv Ryland, John xxiii Saxton, Christopher xi, 240 Scoulding, John xiv Searles, Henry xiv

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INDEX OF PERSONS Seekamp, Henry xxvi Shave, John xix, xx, xxiii, xxv Sheppard, John 245 Shuckforth, Benjamin xiv Smith, Benjamin xxvi Soans, William xiv Speed, John xiii Stannard, John xvi Stisted, Charles xxii Tanner, John xv, xix, xx, xxii, xxiii Tanner, Thomas xxii Tinney, Mr xx Thompson, Samuel 247 Todd, Abraham xiv, xvii

Tovell, William 247 Trimmer, Sarah (née Kirby) xv Turner, Mr xvi Vickers, Daniel 245 Warner, Henry xiv Warren, Thomas xviii Watson, Mary xvi Watson, Samuel xvii, xviii, xix Wentworth, Thomas, 3rd earl of Strafford 242 Williams, Robert 250 Willis, Browne xx, xxiii Wood, Charles 247 Wood, Joseph xvi Woodfall, Henry xxiii Wright, Hugh xiv

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Parishes are in Suffolk unless otherwise indicated and modern spelling is adopted throughout. Acton 219, 227 Akenham 220, 225, 227, 228 Aldeburgh xiv, xvii, xxii, 223, 230, 233, 235, 241, 242 Alderton xxii, 218, 235 Aldham 230, 235 Aldringham xiii Ampton 218, 224 Ashbocking xxii, 227 Ashfield 229 Aspall 218, 224 Assington 219, 226 Bacton xxii, 220, 226, 228, 240 Badingham 217, 229 Badley 218, 240 Badwell Ash 220 Bardwell, 218, 220, 229 Barham 217, 218, 223, 224 Barking 218, 223, 230 Barnham 219, 235 Barningham 219, 221, 226 Barrow 219, 237 Barsham 229 Barton Magna 219, 224 Barton Mills 235 Battisford 217, 220, 223, 235 Bawdsey xvi, xxii, 238, 245 Baylham 223, 224 Bealings Magna 219, 223, 224, 235, 240, 245 Bealings Parva 235 Beccles xiv, xv, xvii, xix, xxii, xxvi, 217, 223, 229, 235, 240, 250 Belstead 217, 224, 226 Belton 221, 223 Benacre 218, 219, 226, 239 Benhall 221, 229, 235, 240, 242, 247 Bentley 217 Beyton 228 Bildeston 217, 223, 224 Blakenhams 235 Blundeston 223, 227 Blythburgh xxv, 238 Blythford 222, 235 Bocking (Essex) 217 Botesdale xiv, xix, xxii, 226, 228, 230 Boxford xxvi, 217, 218, 223, 224, 225, 235 Boxted 220, 223, 228 Bradley Parva 235

Bradwell 235 Bramfield 220, 221, 229 Bramford 217, 235, 239 Brampton 220, 227, 235 Brandeston 220, 229 Brandon 217, 218, 224, 226, 235 Brantham 239 Bredfield 219, 227, 238, 247 Brent Eleigh 218, 226, 235 Bressingham (Nfk) 224 Brettenham 222, 230, 240 Brightwell 217, 240 Brockford 221, 240 Brockley 223, 229 Brome 218, 225, 230, 232, 240 Bromeswell 224 Bruisyard 221 Brundish 222, 224, 226 Bucklesham xiii, 227, 240 Bungay xiv, xvi, xix, xxii, xxv, xxvi, 223, 225, 227, 228, 229, 235, 250 Bures (and Smallbridge) 235, 240 Burgate 230, 240 Burgh Castle xxiv, 225, 238 Bury St Edmunds xiii, xiv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xxii, xxv, 218, 220, 221, 222, 225, 226, 228, 229, 230, 235 Butley xxiv, 227, 230, 233, 238 Buxhall xiii, 218, 226 Cambridge xv Cambridgeshire xvii Campsey Ash 218, 219, 222, 224, 229, 235, 238, 245, 247 Capel St Andrew 235 Capel St Mary 227 Cavendish 235, 240 Cavenham 221, 227 Charsfield 220, 227 Chattisham 230 Chediston 220 Chelmondiston xiii, 225 Chelsworth 228, 235 Chillesford 232, 235, 240 Chilton 222, 224, 230, 240 Clare 235, 238 Claydon 223, 225, 248 Clopton 225 Cockfield 219, 224, 226

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INDEX OF PLACES Coddenham 223 Combs 218, 230, 237, 240 Coney Weston 229 Cornard Magna 235 Cornard Parva 225, 228, 235 Corton 223 Cotton xxii Covehithe xxii, xxiv Cowlinge 218, 225 Cransford xiv, 217, 218 Cratfield 218, 249, 250 Creeting 225, 235 Cretingham 229 Crowfield 219, 228 Culford 218, 225, 240 Culpho 224, 248 Dalham 217, 223, 240 Dallinghoo 226, 228 Darmsden 236 Darsham 220, 221, 224, 236 Debach 218 Debenham xvii, xviii, 220, 224, 227, 233, 236, 240 Denham St John Baptist 228, 240 Denham St Mary 218, 221, 230 Dennington 221, 239 Denston 227, 229 Depden 221, 228 Devon xv Diss (Nfk) xiv, xvii, 233, 236 Ditchingham (Nfk) 250 Drinkstone 225, 226, 237 Dunwich xvi, xxv, 218, 225 Earl Soham 224 Earl Stonham 218 Earsham (Nfk) 250 East Bergholt xxii, 219, 226 Easton 226, 228, 230, 236 Easton Bavants 218, 239 Eccles (Nfk) 248 Edwardstone 217, 223, 226, 229, 238 Ellough 227 Elmsett 226 Elmswell 222 Elveden 221, 224, 230 Eriswell 238 Erwarton xiv, 220, 224, 227, 228, 237 Euston xiv, 219, 226, 240 Exning 221 Eye xvii, 233, 238 Eyke 224, 225, 247 Felixstowe 225, 238, 247 Felsham 220, 229 Finborough 222, 230 Finningham 219, 226 Flempton 226, 236 Flixton 221, 223, 236, 238, 239, 240, 250 Flowton 230 Fornham All Saints 219, 220, 228 Fornham St Genevieve 220, 227 Fornham St Martin 219, 227, 228 Foxearth 226

Foxhall 240 Framlingham xiv, xvii, xxii, xxiv, 226, 233, 236, 238, 239, 240 Freckenham 218, 224 Fressingfield 221, 229 Freston xvi, xxii, 249 Friston 222, 230, 239, 240, 242, 245 Fritton 226, 239 Frostenden 219, 225, 226 Garboldisham (Nfk) 217 Gazeley 228 Gedding 217, 224 Gillingham (Nfk) xi, xv, xvii, xviii, 217, 249 Gipping 221, 230 Gislingham 223 Glemham Magna 219, 226, 230, 247 Glemham Parva 220, 228, 236, 247 Glemsford 228 Glevering xiv, 220, 230, 239 Gorleston 238 Groton 221, 225, 230 Grundisburgh 217, 224, 227, 249 Gunton 229 Hacheston xv, 236 Haddiscoe (Nfk) 250 Hadleigh xxvi, 222, 229, 236 Halesworth xiv, xvii, xxii, 217, 225, 226, 228, 233, 236 Hardwick 218, 225, 228 Harkstead 229 Harleston (Nfk) xiv, xvi, xvii, 233 Hartest 223 Hartismere hundred xiii, xxii Harwich (Essex) xvi, xvii, 229, 233, 236, 237, 238 Haughley 220, 221, 229, 236, 238, 240 Haverhill xvii, xxii, 229 Hawkedon 219, 226, 229 Hawstead 218, 225, 240 Helmingham 221, 230, 240 Hemingstone 217, 225 Hengrave 219, 226, 240 Henham 221, 229, 240 Henley 221, 227 Henstead 217 Hepworth 228 Herringfleet 220, 228 Herringswell 220, 224, 227 Hessett 220, 227 Heveningham 218, 230, 240 Higham St Mary 228 Hintlesham 220, 227, 240 Holbrook 221, 228, 229, 236 Holkham (Nfk) 218 Holtons 237 Homersfield 237, 250 Honington 226 Horringer 218, 221, 226, 228, 230 Hoxne 220, 221, 237, 238, 240 Hulver Street 237 Hundon 240 Hunston 219, 226

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INDEX OF PLACES Huntingfield 218, 230, 240, 249, 250 Ingham 218, 240 Icklingham 237 Ickworth 219, 227, 240 Iken 229, 240 Ipswich passim Ixworth 220, 228, 229, 237 Ixworth Thorpe 229 Kedington 217, 221 Kelsale 219, 224, 226 Kenton 221, 229, 230 Kersey 229, 238 Kesgrave 229 Kessingland 223, 239 Kettlebaston 223 Kettleburgh 221, 227, 229 Knodishall 219, 227, 245 Lackford 237 Lakenheath 221, 229 Lancashire xiv Landguard Fort xvii, 238 Langham 221, 224 Lavenham xvii, 223, 240 Lawshall 223, 227 Laxfield 219, 220 Layham 218, 225, 228, 237 Leiston xxv, 219, 221, 225, 226, 228, 229, 230, 237, 238, 241 Letheringham 220, 222, 227, 228, 237, 240 Levington 223, 230 Lidgate 238 Livermere Magna 227 Livermere Parva 220, 227, 240 London xv, xx Long Melford xxvi, 219, 220, 221, 224, 226, 228, 237, 240 Loudham in Pettistree 222, 224, 247 Lowestoft xv, xvi, xvii, xix, xxii, 219, 222, 223, 233, 237, 239, 242 Manningtree (Essex) 239 Marlesford 218, 225, 247 Martlesham 226, 239, 245 Mellis 228 Melton 218, 224, 227, 237, 239, 245 Mendham 226, 227, 230, 237, 238, 245 Mendlesham xxii, 218, 219, 224, 245 Mettingham xxiv, 226, 238 Milden 218, 224, 226 Mildenhall xvii, 219, 224, 226, 229 Monewden 225 Monk Soham 219, 240 Monks Eleigh 237 Nacton xvi, 218, 221, 224, 230, 240 Nayland 237 Nedging 224 Needham (Nfk) 250 Needham Market 237 Nettlestead 221 Newbourne 237 Newmarket xxvi Normanston 237 North Cove 218, 224, 250

Northumberland xi Norton 220, 227, 245, 247 Norton Subcourse (Nfk) 250 Norwich (Nfk) xiii, xiv, xix, 242 Oakley 237 Occold 225 Orford xiv, xvii, xxv, 230, 233, 237, 238, 239, 241 Ormesby (Nfk) 250 Oulton 221, 230, 239 Ousden 228 Pakefield 227 Pakenham 218, 221, 227, 228, 237, 245, 247 Palgrave 220, 225, 232 Parham 227 Peasenhall 218, 224 Pettistree 222, 247 Playford 228 Polstead 218, 224, 228 Poslingford 219, 226 Ramsholt 227, 229 Rattlesden 228 Raydon 219, 229 Redgrave xiv, 219, 227, 240 Redisham 218, 230, 240 Redlingfield 222, 230 Rendham 228 Rendlesham xxii, 221, 226, 247, 248 Rickinghall xiv, 226, 227 Ringshall 217, 230, 237 Rougham 218, 219, 225, 226, 228 Rumburgh 218, 227, 245, 247 Rushbrooke 218, 225, 240 Rushmere St Andrew xvi Santon Downham 230 Sapiston 237 Saxham Magna 219, 226, 228 Saxham Parva 218, 225, 240 Saxmundham xiv, 220, 227, 241 Seckford Hall xiii Scole (Nfk) xvi, xix, xxii, xxvi, 239 Semer 225, 237 Shaddingfield 225 Shelland 220, 229 Shelley 220, 229 Shimpling 220, 228 Shotley xxii, 219, 227, 237 Shottisham 227, 237 Sibton 218, 221, 224, 225, 229, 237 Snailwell (Cambs) 218 Snape 222, 223, 237, 238, 240, 242, 247 Somerleyton 217, 223, 240 Sotterley 220, 223 South Elmham St Cross 250 South Elmham St George 237 South Elmham St James 245, 247 South Elmham St Margaret 250 South Elmham St Peter 221 Southwold xvi, xvii, 229, 233, 237, 239, 239 Spexhall 217 Sproughton 217, 219, 221, 223, 226, 237 Stanningfield 229

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INDEX OF PLACES Stansfield 220, 226, 227 Stanton 224 Sternfield 241 Stoke Ash 217 Stoke by Clare 219, 225 Stoke by Ipswich xvi, 239 Stoke by Nayland xxii, 220, 222, 228, 229, 237, 240 Stonham Aspal 222, 225 Stonham Parva 217, 224, 228 Stowlangtoft 220, 225, 229, 245, 247 Stowmarket 219, 223, 230, 237 Stradbroke 219, 237 Stradishall 240 Stratford St Andrew 228 Stratford St Mary xxvi, 239 Stuston 228 Stutton 224, 229, 230 Sudbourne 218, 229, 230, 233, 245, 247 Sudbury xvi, xxvi, 219, 224, 225, 226, 228, 237 Sutton 225, 227, 238 Swefling 228, 247 Syleham 217, 223, 237 Tannington 218, 225 Tattingstone 222, 229, 230, 237 Theberton 230, 239 Thelnetham 237 Thetford (Sfk and Nfk) xix, xxvi, 237 Thorington 217 Thornham Magna 220, 227, 237 Thornham Parva 217, 223 Thorpe by Haddiscoe (Nfk) 250 Thorpe Morieux 220, 229 Thorpeness xiii, 241 Thrandeston 220 Thurleston 226 Thurlow Magna 221, 230 Thurlow Parva 221, 229, 240 Thurston 237 Thwaite 228, 229, 240 Tostock 220 Trimley 217, 223, 237, 247 Troston 220, 224 Tuddenham 247, 248, 249 Tunstall xvi, 221, 224, 231, 232, 247, 248 Ubbeston 220, 225, 227 Ufford xxii, 218, 221, 224, 237 Uggeshall 237 Walberswick (Westwood at) 240 Waldingfield Magna 220, 227, 228 Waldingfield Parva 221, 226, 229, 230

Walpole 221, 230, 237 Walsham-le-Willows 222, 226, 227 Walton 228, 238, 247, 248 Wangford St Denis 237 Wantisden xvi, 224, 231, 232, 247 Washbrook 225 Wattisfield 217 Wenham Parva 221, 227 Wenhaston 220, 227 Westhall 217, 224 Westerfield 219, 227 Westhorpe 219, 221, 229, 240 Westleton 237 Weston 217, 220, 223, 227 Weston Market 221, 229 West Stow 219, 226, 237 Wetherden 220, 229 Wetheringsett 245 Weybread 218, 237 Whatfield 224, 228, 230 Whelnetham Magna 218, 227 Whelnetham Parva 225, 2298 Whepstead 226 Wherstead 218, 225 Wickhambrook 218, 219, 224, 225, 230 Wickham Market xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xxii, 221, 227, 231-3, 239 Wickham Skeith 226 Wilby 218 Willisham 227 Wingfield xxiv, 220, 221, 227, 228, 238, 240 Wissington 237 Witnesham xiii, xv, 220, 223, 227, 228, 248 Wixoe 237 Woodbridge xiv, xvii, xxii, xxvi, 218, 219, 224, 227, 233, 237, 238 Woolpit 226, 228, 237 Woolverstone xvi, 221, 224, 230, 240 Wordwell 219, 225 Wortham 224, 226, 228 Worlingham 221, 229 Worlington 228 Worlingworth 220 Wratting Parva 228 Wrentham 218, 224, 237 Wyverstone 217, 229 Yarmouth, Great (Nfk) xvi, xvii, xix, xxvi, 233, 237, 239 Yaxley 219, 227 Yoxford xiv, 217, 225, 227, 240

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