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 EYE • SUFFOLK 
 
 
 
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 A N 
 
 Hiftorical Account 
 
 OF THE 
 
 TWELVE PRINTS 
 
 O F 
 
 MONASTERIES, CASTLES, antient 
 CHURCHES, and MONUMENTS, 
 
 I N T H E 
 
 County of S U F F O L K, 
 
 Which were drawn by JOSHUA KIRBY, 
 Painter in Ipswich, 
 
 AND 
 
 Publifhed by him March 26, 1748. 
 
 IPSWICH, 
 
 Printed by W. Craighton, 
 M DCC XL VI IX.' 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 A S Jeveral of my Subferibers have defir ed me to 
 publijh a longer Hi/forical Account <with my 
 Set of Prints , than is ufually done with 
 Things of this Nature , and finding that it could not 
 pofibly be put under the Prints without [polling the 
 Uniformity of them , l have collected, from the befi 
 Authors , whatever is moft remarkable upon theje Sub- 
 jects, and publijh' d it by itfelf I was moreover in- 
 duced U do it, that 1 might infert feme /mail Sketches 
 of whatever is moft remarkable in the Buildings (as 
 Monuments, Infer iptions , and the like) which could 
 not be put upon the Plates, and which I thought 
 would entertain the CJurious . So that in thefe Prints, 
 and this fenall Pratt, we have all that now. remains \ 
 or that is worthy of Notice in the Monajleries, Cafiles 
 and Churches, and an Hifiorical Account of every 
 Thing relating to them, from their Foundations to 
 the prejent Time ; And in the Monuments, an Ac- 
 count of tbofe illuftrious Perfons to whofe Memory they 
 were eretted , and a Jhort Summary of what eve? was 
 remarkable in their Lives and Actions, 
 
 I mufi 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 I muji frankly acknowledge , that Jome of my Ac- 
 taunts are copied almojl verbatim from others : How- 
 ever, as this will fpare the trouble of referring to 
 them, I humbly hope that it will give fome Enter- 
 tainment to my generous Subfcribers ; which if it does , 
 1 fall think my Time and Pains well beft owed, and 
 Efficiently rewarded ; and do with all Humi- 
 lity and Gratitude dedicate this fort Treatife to the 
 Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy, who have honoured 
 with their Subjcriptions , this frf Effay of 
 
 Their moft Obedient, 
 
 AND 
 
 Dutiful Servant^ 
 
 Joftiua Kirby. 
 
 IPSWICH, 
 Mar. 26 j 17 $8. 
 
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An ACCOUNT of 
 
 Clare Castle ^w/Priory. 
 
 HIS Cattle ttands near the river Stour, 
 which divides the two Counties of Suf- 
 folk and Eflex. It fee ms to have been 
 are&angular building, with a large round 
 Tower on the weft fidp of it, upon a 
 very high Eminence, and from its fitua- 
 tion, and by what now remains of it, 
 we may reafonably fuppofe it to have been a place of 
 great Strength. It was encompafied with double Ditches, 
 which were fupplied with water from the above River $ 
 and there now remains a great many vaft Ramparts of 
 earth, upon which theWallsof the Cattle were built, the 
 Foundations of which are now to be feen, and are of a 
 prodigious Thicknefs. 
 
 That this Cattle is a very antient building is evident; f 
 K>r in the time of King Canute, a famous Earl named 
 Ehinc, or Affrick, founded the Church of St. John Bap- 
 till in the cattle here, and therein placed feveral Secular 
 Canons; but in A. p. 1090, Gilbert de Pare gave thi$ 
 Church, and all its Prebends and Endowments, to the 
 Monaftery of Bee, in Normandy, and thereby it became 
 a Cell of Benedi&ine Monks to that Abbey until the year 
 j 1 24, when his Son Richard removed them to Clare, 
 which was in the time of King Henry I, J* He pre- 
 
 * Vide Tanner’s Not. Mon. 
 f Ibid. 
 
 P- 599- 
 
 fented 
 
2 Clare Castle end Priory. 
 
 fented the Monks of this place with a littleWood, call'd 
 Stoke- Ho, likewife every year a Doe, out of his park at 
 Hunedene j he alfo commanded that all Ins Barons, and 
 other Tenants, fhould permit them to difpofe of their 
 relpeftive Tythes how they pleafed. 
 
 * This Caftle, and the Manor of Clare, was given to 
 Richard Fitz-Herbert by King William the Conqueror, 
 who greatly advanced him both in honour and poffefiions, 
 for hTs eminent iervices in aflifting him to get the Crown 
 of England, and for kis near Affinity of blood to the laid 
 King.° He had, befides this manor of Clare, 94 more 
 manors in this County, befides 1 3 Burgcfies in the Cor- 
 poration of Ipfwich. He was the firft Earl^of Clare ; but 
 as he chiefly refided at Tonebruge (now Tunbridge) he 
 went ufually by the name of Richard de Tonebruge ; what 
 time he died is uncertain, f but he is faid to have been 
 flain in a woody traft (called the ill way of Coed-grono 
 in Wales) by one Jerwerth, who lay in ambufh for that 
 purpofe •, which was after the death of King Henry 1 . 1 ! 
 He had four fons, Giflebert, Roger, Walter and Robert, 
 from whom the Fitz- waiters are defeended : Giflebert fuc- 
 ceeded. him, who married Adeliza, daughter of the Earl 
 of Clermont, and had by her, Richard, who fucceeded 
 him, Giflebert, from whom ddeended the famous Richard 
 (commonly call'd Richard Strongbow) Earl of Pembroke 
 and Conqueror of Ireland, and Walter. Richard, the 
 eideft, being flain by the Welfb, left two fons, Gilbert and 
 Poo-er. Gilbert, under King Stephen, was Earl of Hert- 
 ford j notwithftanding which, both he and his llicceflors, 
 from their chief feat at Tonebruge, wrote themfelves de 
 Clare : He dying without iffue, was fucceeded by his bro r 
 ther Roger, whofe fon Richard married Amicia, daugh- 
 ter and Coheir of "William Earl of Glocefter, and in right 
 of her, his pofterity were Earls of Glocefter : But at laft, 
 upon default of Heirs Male, Leonel, the third fon of 
 Kin« Edwardlll. (who married Elizabeth, daughter and 
 foie Heir of William de Burgo, Earl of Ulfter in Ireland, 
 
 * Vide Dugd. Baron, p. zio. 
 
 •f Ibid. p. 206. 
 
 |J Camb. Brit. T>. ^70. 
 
Clare Castle end Priory. 3 
 
 by Elizabeth de Clare ) was honoured by his father with 
 the new title of Duke of Clarence ; but he having only a 
 daughter, named Philippa, wife of Edmund Mortimer, 
 Earl of March, King Henry IV. created his youngeft fon 
 Thomas, Duke of Clarence, who was Governor of Nor- 
 mandy, and in the afiaults of the Scotch and French 
 was (lain in Anjou, leaving no iffue behind him. A con- 
 fiderable time after. King Edward IV. conferred this ho- 
 nour upon George his brother, whom, after bitter quar- 
 rels and a moft inveterate hatred between them, he had 
 received into favour ; yet, for all that, he at length dis- 
 patched him in prifon, ordering him to be drowned (as 
 common report goes) in a butt of Malmfey wine. 
 
 Thus the title of Clarence lay dormant again, till the 
 twenty- fecond of King James I. when Sir John Holies, 
 of Houghton in Nottinghamfhire was created Earl of 
 Clare ; to him fucceeded John his fon, who marrying 
 Elizabeth, one of the Cohcirefles of Horace Lord Vere 
 ©f Tilbury, had two fons, John, who died in his in- 
 fancy, and Gilbert, who fucceeded him in his honour 
 and eftate - r who by Grace his wife(daughter of the Earl 
 of Kingfton) had feveral fons, of whom the eldeft, John, 
 fucceeded him- in this Earldom, A.D. 1688, and married 
 Margaret the third daughter of Henry Cavendifh Duke 
 of Newcaftle. He was after the death of his father-in- 
 law (6 K. William III.) created Marquis of Clare and 
 Duke of Newcaftle. He died July 17, A.D. 1707, be- 
 ing fuppofed the richeft Peer in England of his time. 
 Having no ilfue he left the bulk of his Land eftate to 
 Tho. Holies Pelham (Son of his youngeft Sifter Grace,) 
 who was by King George I. created Earl and Marquis of 
 Clare and Duke of Newcaftle. When this Caftle was 
 demolilhed, we know not. It is now the property of 
 Sir Hervey Elwes, Bart. 
 
 *The Priory, which is fuppofed to have been founded by 
 Richard de Clare Earl of Glocefter Lord of the Honour 
 of Clare, was Hrft of Friers Heremites, of the order of 
 St. Auguftine, who are faid to have been feated here by 
 him A.D. 1248, and were thefirft of this kind of Mem. 
 
 * Tanner’s Not. Mon. p. 527. 
 
4 Clare Castle and Priory. 
 
 dicants in England ; but afterwards it was changed to a 
 College of a Dean and Secular Canons. 
 
 * In WeevePs Funeral Monument s, is a dialogue (in 
 Englifh. and Latin) “ between a fecular afkyng and a 
 “ frere anfwering, at the grave of Johan of Acres, fhew- 
 M ing the lineal defcent of the lordis of the honoure of 
 •* Clare, fro the tyme of the fundation of the freeris in 
 M the fame honoure, the yere of our lord a.M.CCXLVIII, 
 “ unto the firft of May, the yere, a. M.CCCCLX/* 
 
 This Priory was valued at its diffolution at 342 1 . 4 s. 
 id. I* per ann. and was granted 31 King Hen.VIII. to 
 Richard Friend : To whom it descended afterwards we 
 know not, but the Priory is now converted into a farm- 
 houfe, and the Chappel (which was built by Joan de 
 Acres) into a barn. In a nich in the garden are the 
 arms of Clare, carved in ftone, (viz. 3 chevrons im- 
 paled with a crofs,) and under them this infcription, 
 Perantiqua Injignia Clarenfis. 
 
 Among the Perfons of note buried in this place, 
 were, the above Joan de Acres, daughter of King Ed- 
 ward I. fb called from the city where lhe was born, in 
 the Holy Land, (i. e.) Ptolomais, commonly known by 
 the name of Aeon, Aker, or Acres. Here is alfo interr'd 
 the body of her fon Ed. Monthermer, Earl of Gloucefter 
 and Hereford, whom fhe had by Ralph Monthermer, her 
 fecond hufband, (who was formerly her fervant.) Alfo 
 the remains of Lionel Duke of Clarence, and Earl of Uf- 
 fter in Ireland, Son of King Edward III. together with 
 his wife Elizabeth,- daughter and heir of William de Burgh, 
 Earl of Ulfter aforefaid. And alfo, Richard de Clare, 
 Dame Alice Spencer, Sir John Beauchamp, Knt. andfe- 
 veral other perfons of note. 
 
 In the chancel windows of the Parifh church are 
 feveral coats of arms, very well painted upon the glafs ; 
 amongft which are the arms of SirThomas Barnardifton, 
 Bart. Sir George LeHunt, Sir John Higham, and Sir 
 William Clinton, Knts. who, ( as it is expreffed on the 
 glafs) were great Benefactors to this church A. D. 1617. 
 
 * Vid. Weever’s Fun. Mon. p, 754. 
 
( 5 ) 
 
 Sudbury Priory. 
 
 HIS Houfe was of the Order of Preaching or Do 
 
 minican Friars, faid to have been founded either by 
 *Simon Theobald, or Sudbury, Archbifhop of Canter- 
 bury, and one John de Chertfey j or elfe by Baldwin 
 de Simperling and Chabil his Wife. But that it was not 
 founded by Simon de Sudbury and John de Chertfey is 
 very evident, becaufe it was in being long before theif 
 time. For in the time of King Edward I. the Domini- 
 can Friars got an habitation here, by the favour of Bald- 
 win de Simperling, and therefore molt probably he was 
 the Founder of this Religious Houfe. 
 
 This Priory was granted the 3 1 ft of King Henry VIIL 
 to Thomas Elden, Efq; one of the clerks of the privy- 
 council, and furrender’d 36 King Henry VIII. when it 
 was found to be worth, in annual rents, 222 1. 18 s. 3d. 
 It is now the eftate of Denny Cole, Gent. 
 
 At the bottom of the Priory was an infcription, but 
 the few remaining letters are fo much defaced that it 
 cannot now be - made out. In the Hall windows are fe- 
 veral coats of arms, burnt into the glafs, among!!: which 
 are the arms of England and France quarter’d, and ano- 
 ther, viz. argent a fefs gules, thereon three garbs proper 
 between as many chevrons azure, each charged with three 
 efcallop fhells argent ; and alfo a third, which is nebulee 
 of fix pieces argent and fable, on a chief gules, a lyoa 
 paflant guardant, or. 
 
 In the Priory Church were interred the bodies of John 
 de Simperling and Chabil his Wife, Robert the Son of 
 Sir William Simperling, Knt. Sir Robert Carlonell and 
 Sir John his Son, Knts. Sir William Grey, Knt. Sir Pes- 
 ter Giffard, Knt. and Dame Julian his Wife, Sir Thomas 
 Giffard his Son, Knt. Sir William Giffard, Knt. Sir Wil- 
 liam Cranville, Knt. Sir Thomas his Son and Maud his 
 Wife, Sir Gilbert of Greymonde, Knt. and Gunnora his 
 Wife, Dame Agnes de Bello Campo, Dame Alice de In- 
 
 • Vide Weever’s Fun. Mob. p. 743. 
 
 f Tan, Not. Moa, p. 529. 
 
 B 
 
 
6 Bun6ay CastII 
 
 fula, Wife of Sir Robert Fitzwater, Knt. Dame Catherine 
 Hengrave, Sir John Culthorp and Alice his Wife, the 
 Heart of Sir Thomas Weyland, Knt. Sir John Giffard* 
 Knt. Sir John Goldingham, Knt. and Dame Hillazia his 
 Wife, Sir Thomas Lotun, Knt. Sir William Tender- 
 ing, Knt. qui obiit 1375* and Margaret his Wife, quae 
 obiic 1394 ; Dame Joan Shelton, Dame Joan Walde- 
 grave, Maud Hankedon, Daughter of Sir Thomas Lacy*. 
 Knt. William Waldgrave, John Drury Son of William 
 Drury, and fome other perfons of note.* 
 
 x Bungay Castle. 
 
 T HIS Caftle fiands near the banks of the river Wa~ 
 veny* which feparates the counties of Norfolk and 
 Suffolk. It is fuppofed to have been built by fome of 
 the Bigods, Earls of Norfolk ; and we find that Hugh 
 Bigod, in the time of King Stephen, had made it fo 
 ftrong, that he looked upon it as a place almoft impreg- 
 nable ; faying (in the wars between that King and the 
 Emprefs Maud) *f 
 
 Were I in my Caftle of Bungay* 
 
 Upon the River Wavney, 
 
 I would ne care for the King of Cockney. 
 
 But when King Henry II. came to the throne (as he 
 always hadfided with K. Stephen) he was forced to capi- 
 tulate for this his Caftle, and pay a very large fum, and 
 give fufficient hoftages, to fave it from being demolifhed. 
 He was likewife Proprietor of the Caftles of Felixftow 
 and Framlingham •, but as he had joined and allifted Ri- 
 chard, fecond fon of the faid King Henry, in the rebel- 
 lion which he carried on againft his father, his Caftle of 
 Felixftow was demolilhed, and thofe of Framlingham 
 and Bungay taken from him ; and in the reign of King 
 Henry III. this of Bungay was demolifhed : But Roger 
 Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, obtain’d a licence, 10 KingEd- 
 
 • Vide "Weevcr’s Fun. Mon. p. 744. 
 
 'f Caaib. Brit. p. 376, 
 
 ward 
 
Ch R IST’s HoSPl T AL. J 
 
 ward I. to embattle his houfe in the place where the 
 Caftle flood. After him it reverted to the Crown ; but 
 in the reign of King Richard II. William de Ufford, Earl 
 of Suffolk, died poffefled of the Caftle, Borough, and 
 Manor of Bungay. He married Joan, Daughter of Ed- 
 ward Montacute by Alice his Wife, Daughter and Coheir 
 of Thomas Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, and fifth Son 
 of King Edward I. on whom it is probable, this King 
 fettled them. To whom it defcended afterwards we 
 know not, but it is now the property of a Tradefman in 
 Bungay. The houfe between the two towers was lately 
 built, and is inhabited by poor people. 
 
 Christ’s Hospital in Ipfwich. 
 
 T HIS was a Houfe of Black Friars (who fettled 
 here the latter end of the reign of King Flen. III.) 
 and fuppofed by fome to have been founded by Henry 
 de Manefby, Henry Redred, and Henry de Loudham % 
 or by others, by John Harys or Haws. This Friary was 
 granted the (33 King Henry VIII.) to William Sabyn*, 
 but it was afterwards the Eftate of John Southwell, the 
 King’s Chirurgeon, of whom this Corporation pur- 
 chafed it, with a pious arid charitable defign, to found 
 therein an Hofpital, for the relief and maintenance of 
 poor aged Perfons and Children, for the curing poor 
 fick Perfons, and for the Correction and Employment 
 of the vicious and idle poor people. This was con- 
 firmed to them by a Charter, bearing date May i6> 
 1572, in the 14th of Queen Elizabeth, under the name 
 and title of Chrift’s Hoipital. It was fupported at firft 
 by annual Subfcriptions, but afterwards the Corporations 
 tnade an order, that every Free-Man, upon his being 
 admitted to his Freedom, ftiould pay fomething toward# 
 the fupport of it, before he was fworn. 
 
 The Corporation was not only appointed by the Char- 
 ter, Truftees for this Chanty, but were alfo to fee after 
 the application of it, They were impowered to make 
 * Yi$> Tas? Not. Mon p. 528. 
 
8 Christ’s Hospital. 
 
 what Laws and Regulations they fhould think proper, 
 for the better government of the Poor of the faid Hoff 
 pital, and they were to choofe four Governors annually 
 upon the feaft day of St. Michael out of the Burgeffes, 
 who were to receive all the rents, &c. belonging to it % 
 «.nd thefe Governors were to pafs their accounts every 
 year, when four new Governors were to be chofen. 
 Thefe Governors had feveral officers or fervants under 
 them to affift them in the difcharge of their office. 
 
 And that the pious defign ot the Donors might be 
 effectually carried into execution, thefe Governors, Off 
 beers, or Servants, were commanded by the Charter, ta 
 learch every fufpe< 5 ted houfe in the Corporation or Liber- 
 ties thereof ( or any other place in the county of Suffolk) 
 which were receptacles for Rogues, Vagrants, Vaga- 
 bonds, fturdy Beggars, or any other loofe, diforderly, 
 or immoral perfons, and to commit fuch perfons, (and 
 like wife thofe who harbour them) to the workhoufe in 
 th’s Hofpital, and there to keep them to hard labour, 
 and otherwife to punifh them as the faid Governors 
 fhould think good, lawful, or expedient. And any 
 other free Burgefs of the faid Town, might at the in- 
 ffance or command of the Bailiffs or Governors, appre- 
 hend any loofe, idle, or mafterlefs perfons, who ffiould 
 be found ftroling about it, and commit them to this 
 place, and compel the faid idle vagrants to exercife 
 themfclves in fome honeft labour or work. 
 
 This was the original defign of this Charity, and & 
 very laudable one it was, calculated folely for a publick 
 good, and therefore refleds much honour to the Cor- 
 poration. 
 
 It is now an Hofpital, where about twenty poor boy* 
 are maintained, cloathed, and educated, who have two 
 mafters over them-, one to teach them to read and write, 
 and the other to take care of and provide them the com- 
 mon necefiaries of life. The number of thefe boys, in 
 1689, was but twelve, but they are now (fometimes) 
 augmented to double that number : This was partly owing 
 to a large donation given by Nicholas Philips, Efq; 4 
 ToiCn^n of this Town, who by his Will, bearing date 
 \ \ ' • - aa 
 
Chr ist’s Hospital* <* 
 
 #3 May, 1670, gave to the amount of Sixty Pounds pq? 
 annum “ towards the learning and teaching poor Chik 
 “ dren, providing books, ink, paper, and convenient 
 apparel, binding them out apprentices, and for the 
 “ providing of flax, hemp or wool, or fuch other need-? 
 85 ful things, as well for the fetting fuch poor Children 
 to work, as for the help of them •, and alfo for the 
 providing bedding convenient and neceflary for fuch 
 Children •, and alfo a convenient Houfe for the faid 
 “ Children to be taught in.” 
 
 Mr. Philips may be confider’d as the Founder of this 
 School, as there does not appear to have been any regular 
 School there before his gift ; but fome fmall legacies have 
 been given flnee his Donation, particularly one in 1745, 
 of 240 1 . by Dame Amy Kemp, of Kefgrave, Relidt of 
 Sir Robert Kemp, Bart, and Daughter of the above Ri« 
 chard Philips, Efq. 
 
 The Bridewell is {fill continued, but ferves only for a 
 place of correction for offenders within the liberties of the 
 Corporation. At the end of the Bridewell is a very pretty 
 Chapel, neatly feated, and over it a large fpacious Room, 
 now the Town Library. This Library has had near 1 70 
 Benefactors to it, flnee the year 1612; but before that 
 time the Books belonging to the Corporation were kept 
 in a cheft, being but few in number and thofe of fmall 
 value. The Keys of this Library are kept in the hand* 
 of the Bailiffs, and the Matter of the Grammar-School, 
 and every Freeman has a right to take out any of the 
 Books, upon his giving a proper receipt for them. 
 
 The Cloifters of the Fryers Preachers are now ftanding 
 entire. There is alfo a very large Room on the fouth-fide, 
 which lerv’d formerly for a publick Dining-Room for 
 the Friars : It is now converted into a School-Room, and 
 is where the Grammar-School is now kept; but it was 
 not kept in this place till the time of King James I, 
 however there was a Grammar-School in this Town in 
 1477, which was under the dire&ion of the Bifhop of 
 Norwich; and in 1482, one Richard Felaw, Portman 
 (eight times Bailiff, and twice Member of Parliament for 
 this Town) gave the profits of Join? lands and houfes to- 
 wards 
 
i® 
 
 Chris t’s Hospital. 
 
 wards a Grammar-School, and amongft them a houfe for 
 the Mafter to live in. Thefe houfes and lands were 
 alienated, 20 King Hen. VIII. at the requeft of Cardinal 
 Woolley, and given to his new College in this Town; 
 but as the Cardinal fell foon after, all that belonged to 
 this his College was feized, and very probably thefe lands, 
 &c. along with them. But notwithftanding Woolfey’s 
 College and School came to nothing, by his being ftrippM 
 of all his honour and riches (which otherwife might have 
 been one of the mod remarkable Colleges in England, 
 as he had fuch a Angular regard for this Town, the place 
 of his birth) yet what he did, was evidently the caufe of 
 King Henry’s Foundation. This Charter was renewed 
 and confirmed by Queen Elizabeth, and an annual fti- 
 pend of 38 1 . 13 s. 4d. given out of the Crown Lands 
 (in the County of Suffolk) for a Mafter and Ufher for 
 the faid School : The Mafter was to have 24 1 . 6s. 8d 0 
 and the Uiher 14 1. 6s. 8 d. per ann. which was a very 
 confiderable fum at that time. There have been no 
 great additions made to either of their falaries fince, the 
 Mafter having now but 32I. 6s. 8d. (exclufive of a 
 houfe to live in) and the Ufher but 19 1. per ann. The 
 Corporation has the power of choofing and nominating 
 both Mafter and Ufher, vefted in them, and can make 
 what rules they think proper for regulating and govern- 
 ing of the faid School. 
 
 Part of the Hofpital is now an Alms-Houfe, which 
 was founded by Mr. Henry Tooley, a Portman of this 
 Corporation, A.D. 1551, (and is called Tooley’s Foun- 
 dation) and confirm’d by a Charter of Philip and Mary. 
 |t was originally intended for the relief of ten poor per- 
 sons only of this town who were unfeignedly Lame, by 
 peafon of the King’s Wars, or otherwife, or thofe who 
 £ould not get their living or one half of it. Each per- 
 fon was to be paid 6d. weekly, for his maintenance, 
 and every other year was to have a livery and badge, 
 and to be allowed a fufficient quantity of firing. And 
 in cafe the annual income of the eftate fhould be more 
 
 than fufficient to provide 
 directed by his will, that 
 
 for thefe ten poor perfons, as 
 then the, Bailiffs or Wardens 
 
If 
 
 Christ’s Hospital. 
 
 fhould have a power to procure Houfes, and put fn? 
 more, in proportion to the faid yearly Income, but that 
 the number Ihou-ld not exceed Fifty ; however, theWill 
 ©f the Donor, (in this refpect) has not been punctually 
 obferved, fince near Eighty Perfons has received benefit 
 from this Charity at one time, which is more by Thirty 
 than was originally intended, and more than the prefent 
 Income of the Eftate is fufficient to maintain •, the con- 
 fequence of which is, that not fo many can receive fo 
 much benefit as they otherwifb might, or what by the 
 Will of the Donor they are entitled to ; but the prefent 
 Gentlemen of the Corporation are endeavouring to re- 
 drefs this inconvenience, by reducing the number to 
 Fifty, or under, and thereby to replace it upon its an* 
 tient foundation. 
 
 A little after the death of Mr. Henry Tooley, the 
 annul Income of the Eftate was but ioo Marks, but k 
 is now between three and four hundred pounds per ann.. 
 
 Among the many good Rules and Orders to be ob- 
 served by the poor of this Hofpital, thefe were fome y 
 that they fhould conftantly attend divine worfhip, and 
 every Morning and Evening, fhould fay diftindly the 
 following Prayer, which is the more remarkable as it 
 was conypofed by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of 
 the Great Seal of England. 
 
 « O Almighty and moft merciful Father incline we 
 « befeech the'e, thy moft gracious Ears unto us thy poor 
 “ Creatures, but yet the Work of thy Hands, which 
 « here upon our Knees do yield unto thy divine Ma- 
 « jefty from the bottom of our Hearts, our moft humble 
 * c Thanks for thy continual budding Benefits daily ex- 
 it hibited to us ; but especially for that it hath pleafed 
 « thy Holy Spirit to move and ftir the Heart of Henry 
 « Tooley, deceafed, late Merchant of this Town, to 
 « will and give Lands and Poffefiions, fufficient for the 
 « Relief of° us thy poor Servants, and to the perform - 
 « ance of feveral other Deeds of Charity about thi* 
 « Town. And further we pray to endow from time to 
 £ time with thy Gwe, all thofe Feite that mv have,, 
 
12 5/* James’^ Church, & d . 
 
 u or hereafter may have the Difpofitions of the Profits 
 
 of the faid Lands and Poffeffions, as this Work well 
 “ begun, may be for ever continued, to the comfort of 
 “ os thy poor Creatures, and to the fetting forth of thy 
 “ Honour and Glory. God fave and preferve the 
 “ Queen’s Majefty, her Heirs, and Succeffors, and Sir 
 “ Nicholas Bacon, Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great 
 “ Seal of England, and his Offspring, Devifor, and 
 “ Maker of the Ordinences for well executing of the 
 “ Will of the faid Henry Tooleyj and John Southwell, 
 “ Efq-, Richard Bryde, Gent, and William Dandy, 
 * c Merchant, Executors of the faid Henry Tooley’s Will, 
 “ and the Bailiffs and Burgeffes of theTown of Ipfwich, 
 • c appointed to fee the Execution of the fame Will. 
 u Amen.” 
 
 Thefe poor people are paid upon the Tomb of Mr 
 Henry Tooley every Friday Morning, at the Church of 
 St. Mary Key, where Divine Service is performed, for 
 which the Minifter has 4I. per ann. and the Sexton or 
 Clerk 20 s. for tolling the Bell. 
 
 Upon Plate I. is represented a Flan of what now remains 
 of this Hofpital. 
 
 St. James’s Church and the Priory 
 Church at Bury St. Edmund’s. 
 
 r TPHIS Church is built of free-ftone, and is a very 
 good Gothic building, particularly the weft end of 
 it, which isextreamly beautiful. The infide is very neat, 
 well feated, and kept as clean as any church in England % 
 a thing however trifling in itfelf, is very worthy of imi- 
 tation. It was built in the reign of King Edward VI. 
 Who gave 200 1. (a very confiderable fum at that time) 
 towards the building of it, as appears from the following 
 infeription, which is upon the weft wall, withindide the 
 Church ; “ Our molt noble Sovereigne JLorde Edward 6, 
 
Plate. 
 
St. J a m e s’i Church, &c. i% 
 
 * by the Grace of God Kynge of Englande, France and 
 ‘ Ireland, Defendour of the Faith, and in Earth of the 
 ‘ Church of Englande and alfo of Ireland, the fupreame 
 ‘ Hed, of his godly Devotion gave to the finifhing of 
 ‘ this Church ccl, and alfo xxl, yerlye for the Maynte- 
 
 naunce of a Free Grammar-Schole within this Town* 
 
 at the humble Suit of John Eyre and Chriftopher 
 
 * Payton* Efqrs.’* . . . 
 
 The length of this Church is 137 feet* and of the 
 
 chancel 56 feet 8 inches, in all 198 feet 8 inches: The 
 width of the Church is 69 feet and of the chancel 27 feet 
 5 inches : There are but two Monuments of note within 
 this Church, both lately erected, one to the memory of 
 Lord Chief Baron Reynolds* and the other to the memory 
 of his Lady. 
 
 The Steeple ftands above 30 feet detached from the 
 Church, and is a very ftrong building, the eaft and weft 
 fides of which are fupported by two large femicircular 
 arches, through which coaches oftentimes pafs. It was 
 formerly a Portal to the Priory Church, as feems evident 
 from fome emblematical figures which are upon the weft 
 fide of it ; the firft of which (on the left-hand fide and 
 near the foundation) reprefents Mankind in their fallen 
 ftate, under the dominion of Satan* the other (which is 
 over the arch) their deliverance from his bondage : The 
 former was very aptly reprefented (but now very much, 
 defaced) by the figures of our firft Parents, with a Serpent 
 twined round them, and the Devil on the back ground 
 infulting Adam; but the latter, by our Saviour fitting 
 within a circle, in a triumphant pofture, and fupported 
 by two Angels. But although this ftrongly confirms its 
 having been a Portal to the Priory Church* yet it feems 
 to carry in it fomething of greater Antiquity than any* 
 other Building in Bury; and was there any probability 
 that this Town was once the Villa Fauftini of the Ro- 
 mans, we might reafonably believe that it was built by 
 jbme of thofe flourifhing and warlike People, 
 
 The Abby (of which but a fmall part is feen in my 
 Print) was once, one of the moft famous Priories in 
 England, the beauty and largenefs of which may partly 
 
14 ' Sb James’.? Church, &c. 
 
 be feen by the ruinous Walls now {landing, particularly 
 the Abby Gate, which is a moft curious piece of work- 
 manftup, and no fmall ornament to the Town $ and it is 
 great pity but that care fhould be taken to keep it from 
 crumbling into dull, which it muft inevitably do in a few 
 years, if fome means are not ufed to prevent it. With- 
 in-fide of this Gateway were many curious groined 
 Arches, and there now remain very perfect the Arms 
 of England, Weftminfter and Brother ton. 
 
 * The original Founder of this Abby was Sigebert 
 King of the Eaft Angles, A. D. 633, and about the 
 time that Chriftianity was planted here by Felix the Bur- 
 gundian, who having quitted his crown, retired to this 
 place, and took upon him a religious life; but after the 
 death of that Prince, we have no certain account of the 
 ftate of this Place till A.t>. 903, when the Body of St. 
 Edmund King of the Eaft Angles (from whom this 
 Town took its Name) was tranflated from Hoxne hither; 
 for there it was that this moft ChnftianKing was cruelly 
 fhot to death with arrows by the Pagan Danes, becaufe 
 he would not renounce his Faith in Chrift. He was firft 
 interred at Hoxne, but afterwards removed hither, and 
 buried in the Priory Church, f which was then a lar^e 
 wooden building, afterwards reduced to afbes by the fury 
 of Suenas a Pagan Danifh King 5 but when Canute his 
 Son had conquer’d this Kingdom and gotten pofteffion 
 of the Englifh Crown, being terrified (as 5 tis faid) by a 
 vifion of St. Edmund, and in religious devotion to ex- 
 piate for his Father’s Sacrilege, he rebuilt it in a more 
 liimptuous manner, enriched it with divers Benefactions, 
 and offered his Crown upon the Martyr’s Tomb. ’Tis 
 the Ruins of the Weft End only of this Church which is 
 feprefenced in the Print. The Remains of this Church 
 are now converted into feveral good dwelling- houfes, 
 and one part of it to no better ufe than that of a Stable : 
 Such are the Alterations which Time makes, eyen in the 
 moft facred and magnificent Structures 1 
 
 * Vide Tanner’s Not. 'Mon. p. 504, ' ' 
 
 •f Wecvcr’s Fun. Mon. p. .721, 
 
 • The 
 
Lavenham Church. 15 
 
 * The Priory was endowed with To many -Eftates, 
 Royalties and Immunities by St. Edmund, Theored, 
 Bifhop of London, King Canute, and others, that this 
 Abby was inferior to very few in Revenues, and to none 
 in England as to Situation, Buildings, Ecclefiaftical Ex- 
 emptions, or Civil Ffanchifes and Liberties. In the Va- 
 luation, 26 King Hen. VIII. its yearly Income was 
 computed at j 6 59 1 . 13s, nd, by Dugdalej, but by 
 Speed, at 2336 1 . 16s. The Site of it was granted the 
 2d of Queen Elizabeth to John Eyre, but it is now the 
 Eftate ot Sir Robert Davers, Bart. 
 
 f Among the Perfons of note which were buried in 
 this Priory were, the Bodies of St, Edmund, Allan Earl 
 of Britain^ obiit An. 1093 ', Thomas Brotherton, fifth 
 Son of King Edward I. Anno 1338 ; Thomas Beauford, 
 ($on of John of Gaunt) Puke of Exeter and Knight of 
 the Garter; Mary, Queen of France, obiit An. 1533 ; 
 and John Boon, Abbot of this Monaftery, who died the 
 pth of King Edward IV. 
 
 Lavenham Church. 
 
 T HIS Church is one of the bell: pieces of Gothic 
 Architecture, if not the moft beautiful Fabrick in 
 its kind of any in the County of Suffolk ; it is fituated 
 on a rifing Hill at the Weft End of the Town, i$ 
 chiefly built with Free Stone, and the reft very curious 
 Flint Work ; it is adorned with variety of carved Work 
 in the Gothic Tafte, and a great number of Coats of 
 Arms, Cyphers and Infcriptions, which undoubtedly 
 were the Charadterifticks or thofe generous Perfons by 
 whofe pious Munificence it was erected. The Roof is 
 well carved, and the two Pews belonging to the Earls of 
 Oxford and the Springs, were hardly to be equalled by 
 any in K, Henry VIPs Chapel in Weftminfter, and have 
 *heir Arms upon them in many Places •, that belonging 
 
 * Vide Tanner’s Not. Mon. p. 504; 
 q- Weevpr’j fun, Mon. p. 725, 7 z6. 
 
 C 2 to 
 
i6 Laven ham Church. 
 
 to the Springs is pretty intire *, but the other is much 
 defaced, yet there now remains upon it the Arms of 
 Sherrard Lord Harbourough, and the Arms of Clare. 
 The Church (which is kept very neat) is 94 Feet 6 
 Inches long, and 68 Feet wide, the.Chancel and Chapels 
 36 Feet long, and 71 Feet wide, befides the middle Me 
 of the Church, which is continued 26 Feet to the Altar, 
 fo that the whole length of the Church is 156 Feet (5 
 Inches j the Steeple is 141 Feet high and 42 Feet in 
 diameter, and in it are fix large Bells, of which the 
 Tenor has fuch an admirable Note as not many Steeples 
 in England have the like, It weighs but 23, but founds 
 like a Bell of 40 hundred weight. 
 
 This Steeple is an admirable piece of workmanfhip, 
 and altho* it may vie with almoft any piece of Gothic 
 Architecture in this Kingdom, both for Strength and 
 Beauty ; yet it is the opinion of experienced Architects, 
 that it never was finiftied, but that fome fmall Spires 
 were to. have been put upon the Comers, or fome other 
 things as uniform and agreeable. 
 
 That fome of the Pe Veres, Earls of Oxford and the 
 $prings (who were rich Clothiers in this Town) were 
 the principal Founders of this Building, is very evident 
 from their Arms being put upon fo many places of it, 
 but which of them it was, or when it was begun, we 
 have no certain account -f, but we are told “ that iu 
 “ the time of one Tho. Spring (a rich Clothier) this 
 «* Church was old and decayed, whereupon he gave 
 
 CC 1 . towards the repairs, and his pofterity joining 
 “ with the Earls of Oxford, the pofterity of his daugh- 
 ** ter finiflied it j** and \\ Mr. Weever fays that Tho. 
 Spring, firnamed the rich Clothier, died in A.D.M.D.x, 
 and was buried under a Monument on the North Side 
 of the Chancel, and that he built both the South, and 
 North Chapels, on each Side of the Chancel, but herein 
 he muft be miftaken, as appears from the following In- 
 fcri prions which are in two legends near the top of the 
 
 
 
 * Sec Plate II. Fig. 1. 
 
 4 Vid. Mag. Brit. Hib. Antiqua & Nova, p. 117. 
 
 U Vid. Wecver’s Fun. Mqn. p. 767. 
 
 ■ ' . m 
 
LavenhamChurch. 17 
 
 faid Chapels. That onthe South fide is. Orate pro 
 arims Thom* Springe Armig et Alicie uxoris ejus qui ijlam 
 Capellam fieri fecermtAnno Dom. CCCCC vkefiimo quinto ; 
 
 and that on the North fide is, — — — ~ Simonir 
 
 Bramhi et Elizabet— uxoris ejus qui ifiam Capellam fieri 
 fecerunt , fo that in the former of thefe Infcriptions, it 
 is very evident he was miftaken as to the time when this 
 part of the Building was ere&ed, and in the latter, 
 the perlon who was the founder of it, and as to the 
 Monument which he mentions, there are not at thi 
 time the leaft traces of it to be found. In the Veftry i 
 a n old Monument* and upon it this Infcription. Orate 
 aJbz Thom* Sprynge qui hoc Veftibilm fieri fecit , in vita fu 
 et Margarete uxor ei. A- D. Millimo CCCCLXXXVI 
 et p dca — Margaret e obijt - die MejJ — A. D, Milh 
 CCCCLXXXI V . — quor aiabz ppiciet Ds Amen. Fro 
 hence it appears that this Thomas Spring built theVeftr 
 and I think, in all probability, that he, joining wit 
 fome of the De Veres, Earls of Oxford (who were the 
 Lords of the Honour of Lavenham) began to lay th 
 foundation of this curious Structure, and that their d 
 fcendants finiflied it; what ftrengthens this my co 
 jedure is the different quartcrings of theArms,^?c. upo 
 the Building. Upon the Steeple are the Arms of E 
 Yere, quartered with thofe of Nevil, Howard and Mo 
 tague, which I take to he the Arms of John de Ver 
 the 13th Earl of Oxford, who died A. D. 1513, an 
 was t High Chamberlain and Admiral of England ' 
 the reign of King Edward IV. He married Marga 
 the daughter of Richard Nevil Earl of Salifbury^ a 
 as he was Heir Apparent to both the Title and Efta 
 of John De Vere his Father, had a right of quarteri 
 the Arms of his Mother, who was the daughter of 
 John Howard, Knt. (Uncle to the firft Duke of N 
 folk of that name) as he had nlfo of quartering t 
 Arms of his Wife’s Mother, who was the daughter 
 Thomas Montague the 4th Earl of Salifbury, and w’ 
 confirms me moreover in this opinion, is, becaufe 
 
 * See Plate II, Fig. 2. * 
 
 J Yid. York’s Heraldry, 
 
iS 
 
 Laysnham' Church. 
 
 Arms are not in a Garter, and he was not a Knight 
 of that noble Order ; and further, becaufe the fame 
 Mark which is upon the Monument of Thomas Spring 
 in the Veftry, is upon feveral Places of the Steeple near 
 the foundation *, however, I fubmit this to the learned 
 and curious Antiquarians, and only offer this as my own 
 poor conjecture. 
 
 Upon the Steeple alfo are the Arms of Monthermer, 
 Earl of Gloucefter and Hertford, and the Epifcopal 
 Arms of Canterbury and London, and upon the top of 
 jt 26 Coats with the Arms of the Springs only. 
 
 The Porch is a molt curious piece of Architecture, 
 very highly enriched, and on it are fix Shields all within 
 Garters, with the Arms of the De Vere’s impaled and 
 quartered, with the Arms of many of the moft noble 
 amilies in this Kingdom j they are adorned with Boars, 
 which were the Supporters of the De Vere's Arms, and 
 pon one of them, (i,e. the fifth Shield) * are the Letters 
 and O probably the initial Letters for the Name of John 
 he 14th Earl of Oxford, who was Knight of the Garter, 
 nd who married the Daughter of Thomas Howard Duke 
 f Norfolk and died A.D. 1529, and in all probabi- 
 ity was at the foie expence of building this Porch, and 
 lfo, -it is very likely that he, joining with the above 
 homas Spring who built the South Chapel, carried th,e 
 eft of the Building into execution, 
 
 I ftiall in this place make a ftiort digrefllon, and give 
 in Explanation of thefe Arms upon the Porch, a* 
 t may be of fomc amufement to thofe who fhouLd 
 :hoofe to examine them upon the Building*, and though 
 hey are not painted ftiall blazon them in their proper 
 :olours. In the firft Shield (to the leftrhand) are eight 
 Soats quarterly, Firft, the Field is azure, three Crowns 
 >r, within a Bordure argent (which was an addition to 
 he Arms of Robert De Vere, Marquis of Dublin, and 
 inth Earl of Oxford, by King Richard II. who created 
 ,im Duke of Ireland, and gave him that Kingdom and 
 e Sovereignty of it during his Life.) Secondly, De 
 ere, viz, quarterly gules and or, upon the firft a MuP 
 * Sec Plate II. Fig. 3. f Vid. SPugd, Baroo. p. x 19- 
 
 k% 
 
Lavenham Church, 19 
 
 let argent. Thirdly, Ingelram de Coucy, Earl of Bed- 
 ford, viz. Barry of fix vaire and gules. Fourthly, Saer 
 de Quincy, Earl of Winchefter, viz. a Fefs, in chief a 
 File of 1 1 points. Fifthly, De Vere as the 2d. Sixthly, 
 De Vere, as the ift. Seventhly, as the 4th. Eighthly, 
 as the 3d. 
 
 In the fecond Shield is De Vere impaled with a Fefs 
 between two Chevrons. 
 
 In the third Shield is De Vere impaled with four 
 Coats quarterly; the Firft, Nevil, ermine, a Saltire gules. 
 Secondly, Plantaginet, Earl of Warren and Surry, viz. 
 Cheeky or and azure ; the 3d as the 2d ; the 4th as the 
 1 ft. 
 
 In the fourth Shield, De Vere impaled with the Arms 
 of Howard Duke of Norfolk, viz. Gules on a Bend inter* 
 fix Crofs crofiets Fitchie argent, an Efcutcheon or, 
 thereon a demi Lion in a double Treffure, counterflory, 
 pierced through the Mouth with an Arrow, gules. 
 
 In the fifth Shield are 16 Coats quarterly, Firft 
 De Vere, fecond Howard, third Eaftoft, viz. fable fix 
 Efcalops, three, two and one, or ; fourth Fitz- Williams, 
 Lozengy, argent and gules; fifth Howard, fixth De 
 Vere, 7th as the 4th, 8th as the 3d, 9th as the 3d, 10th 
 as the 4th, nth as the ift, 12th as the 2d, 13th as the 
 4th, 14th as the 3th, 1 5'th as the 2d, 1 6th as the ift. 
 
 In the fixth Shield, eight Coats quarterly, Firft De 
 Vere, fecond Howard, third Montague, Earl of Salif- 
 bury, viz. argent three Lozenges in Fefs gules ; fourth, 
 Nevil Earl of Salifbury, viz. gules a Saltire argent, a 
 Label of three points gobonated argent and azure ; fifth 
 Howard, fixth Howard, the 7th as the 4th, the 8 th as 
 the ift. 
 
 In the Church Windows are thefe Arms painted upon 
 the Glafs, viz. fix Coats quarterly, Firft De Vere, fecond 
 Howard, third Tiptoft, viz. argent a Saltire engraft’d, 
 gules ; fourth Scrope, viz. azure a Bend or ; and one now 
 obliterated, all within a Garter, with the Motto Horn 
 foit qui mal y penfe. 
 
 There are alfo the Arms of De Ewes, viz. Or three 
 Cater Foils pierced gules, impal’d with Simonds, viz. 
 
 Party 
 
25 Lavenham Church. 
 
 party per Fefs fable and argent, a Pale and three Tree* 
 foils counter-charged \ alib the Arms of Spring, viz. 
 argent on a Chevron inter three Mafcles gules, as many 
 Cater Foils or*, and alio the Arms of Copinger, viz. of 
 fix pieces or and gules, on a Fefs a^ure three Plates. 
 
 * On the Left-haud Side of the Altar is a very curious 
 Monument of alabafter and marble, painted and gilded, 
 creded to the Memory of the Rev. Mr. Henry Copinger, 
 which I have reprefented in Plate III. There are the 
 Figures of himfelf, Wife, and twelve Children, alfo two 
 A no-els, each having a Scroll in his Hand* in one of 
 which is, Diltfti dccipite Cor ortam Vita , in the other, 
 Mortui venite ad Judicium *, over one Angel (upon the 
 Corona of the Cornice) is, Novijfimus Lettus Sepulcbrum , 
 and over the other, Vivcntes fequentitr Mortuos. In a large 
 Pannel on the Left-hand Side is this Infcription. 
 
 Sacrum Memorise 
 
 llenrici Copingeri antiqujfwia Copingerorum Camilla in agro 
 hoc Suffolcienci oriundi , hujus Ecclefia quadraginta e t quince 
 Annas Pajtoris Pacifici, fidelifimi et vigilantijjimi , Monu- 
 mentum hoc> Amoris et Pietatis ergo dilcdtijtfima Uxor Anna y 
 Marito optime merenti hek ikvita fuperjles nicer ens pofuit* 
 Amans Maritus prole foecundus Pater y 
 Sanffi pius Pajlor Gregis. 
 
 Qui fenfa dextre codicis docuit facri y 
 JSfec voce quam vita magis. 
 
 El ui largo, abunde paint indigos monk 
 Securus annona domi. 
 
 Hie plenus amis plenior Deo jacet y 
 Secum polo gregem trahens . 
 
 Mutus jacet : Sed lingua qua vivo decks i 
 Vilam paravit mortuo. 
 
 And on the Right-hand Side this Infcription: 
 k ‘ This Monument was ereded at the foie Cofts of 
 *« Mrs. Ann Copinger, in Memory of her dear Hufband 
 4 ‘ the Reverend, Learned and Godly Divine Mr. Henry 
 «* Copin o-er, fourth Son of Henry Copinger, ofBuxhali 
 * l in this County, Efq; by Agnfcs his Wife, Daughter 
 * Sec Plate III. 
 
 M tO 
 

LavenhAm Church 2 i 
 
 k to Sir Thomas Jermine, of Rufbrook Hail, iCnt. the 
 «* painful and vigilant Redtor of this Church by the 
 « Space of 45 Years, Prebendarie of the Metropolitan 
 tc Church of St. Peter in York, Lord of the Town and 
 « Patron of the Church of Buxhall, who married Ann, 
 « Daughter of Henry Fifher, of Linne in Norfolk, Gent. 
 “ by her he had eight Sons and four Daughters, and 
 <c after he had lived godly 72 Years, died peaceably 
 
 21 Dec. Anno 1622/* 
 
 , Under all is this Infcription : 
 
 Juftorum Memoria Benedicetur * 
 
 * Dr. Fuller tells us this Story of Mr. Copinger, 
 That Dr. Reynolds* who had been Minifter Of it, re- 
 « volting to Rome, the Earl of Oxford, who was Patrons 
 “ of it, prefented one Mr. Copinger, but upon this 
 <c Condition, that he fhould pay no Tythes for his 
 ci Park, being almoft half the Land of the Parifh. Mr. 
 ec Copinger told his Lordlhip, That he would rathef 
 “ return the Prefentation, than by fuch a finful Grati- 
 « tude betray the Rights of the Church. Which An- 
 « fwer fo affedled the Earl, he reply’d, I fcorn that 
 « my Eftate fliould fwell with Church Goods. But 
 €t notwithftanding thefe Words, the Earl’s SuccefTor 
 “ contefled the Right, and it coft Mr. Copinger 1600L 
 « to recover it, and leave it to the quiet Pofleffion of 
 “ his Succeffors.’* 
 
 From this Mr. Henry Copinger is defcended the Lady 
 of John Moore, of Kentvvell-Hall in Long-Melford, 
 Efq; who is the prefent Lord of the Manor of Laven- 
 ham •, but the Living is in the Prefentation of the wor- 
 fhipful the Maker and Fellows of Caius College in 
 Cambridge. 
 
 In the North He is a fmall Monument, with a Man 
 and Woman engraven in Brafs, from his Mouth pro- 
 ceeds a Label which has thefe Words upon it, In manus 
 
 * Vide Mag. Brit. Hib, Antiqua & Nova, p. 177. 
 
22 Lavenham Church, 
 
 turn dne comendo fpiritum meum y and underneath this 
 Infcription : 
 
 Contynuall prayfe thefe lines in Brafs, 
 
 Of Allaine Differ here, 
 
 A Clothier vertuous while he was 
 In Lavenham many a Year : 
 
 For as in Lyefe he loved belt. 
 
 The poor to cloathe and feede. 
 
 So with the Riche and all the reft. 
 
 He neighbourly agreed; 
 
 And did appoynte before he dyed, 
 
 Afpecial yearly Rent, 
 
 Whiche fhoulde be every Whitfontide, 
 Amongft the pooreft Ipente. 
 
 Et obijt Anno Dm 1534* 
 
 Bat whatever this Benefaction was, it is now loft, and 
 nobody either willing or able to give any Account of it. 
 
 There is alfo in the Chancel an old Graveftone, 
 which had formerly a Saxon Infcription upon it, but the 
 Letters are now too much defaced to be made out ; and. 
 in the Church- Yard is an odd jingling Epitaph on a 
 Tomb ereCted over one John Wiles, Batchelor, who died 
 A.D. 1694. 
 
 Quod fait ejje quod eft, quod non fait ejje quod ejje 
 
 EJfe quod eft non /jj'e, quod eft non eft erit ejje . 
 
 I have alfo added a Plan of this Church, as it is fuch 
 a regular and curious Piece of Architecture, which fee, 
 Plate IV. 
 
 Blithburgh Church 
 
 and Priory. 
 
 T HIS Church is a curious Building and feems to 
 be a very old one ; it was made eminent for a 
 College of Prebendaries founded by King Henry I. who 
 granted it to the Canons of St. Ofyth in EfTex *. This 
 
 * Vid. Tan. Not. Mon. p. 5 1 3. 
 
 Priory 
 
^Blithburgh Church and Priory. 23 
 
 Priory was of the order of Black Canons, and was de- 
 dicated to the blefied Virgin, and valued the 26 K. Hen. 
 VIII. (about which time herein were five Religious) at 
 48 1. 8s. rod. per ann, and was granted 30 of the 
 lame King to Sir Arthur Hopton. It is now the Eftate 
 of Sir Charles Blois, Bart, who is alfo Patron of the 
 Church. 
 
 This Town (though now a very mean Village) is a 
 place of great antiquity, of which the word Burgh, 
 which fignifies a walled Town or Caftle, is an evidence 9 
 and that it was a place of note formerly is alfo evident, 
 from the many Roman Urns which have been dug up 
 here thefe late years, and alfo in the Saxon times * the 
 Goal was kept here for the divifion of Beccles ; but ic 
 is moreover memorable for being the Burial Place of 
 Anna King of the Eaft Angles, and Firminius his Son, 
 who (if common report may be credited) lies buried in 
 this Church, in the North Side of which they (hew you 
 a Tomb, which they fay, was eredted to his Memory. 
 I remember that about fixteen years ago an Infcriptioh 
 upon Paper was put over it, fignifying the Time and 
 Manner of his Death, and that he was interred in that 
 very Place, *f* I have added a Print of this Tomb, and 
 leave it to the curious and learned Antiquarians to 
 judge whether it was his Maufoleum or not, and alfo 
 the Print of another, which fome would imagine was 
 eredted over Firminus his Son ; which fee PlateVI. || He 
 was flain with his Son Firminius, in a pitched battle, be- 
 tween him and Penda a Pagan, who was King of Mer- 
 cia, which wa* fought near this Place, A. D. 654 j of 
 which bloody addon an ancient Poet thus fings : 
 
 * Penda anone, his hofte wyth hym he led 
 
 * And on Anna came fyrft with mykle pryde 
 
 * Kinge of Eaft Englond, whos dowte* Egfred wed 
 
 * And flew hym 
 
 * Mag. Brit. & Hib. Antiqua & Nova, p. 103. 
 
 4 See Plate V. Fig. 2. 
 
 || Vide Wcever’s Fun. Mon. p, 760. Camb. Brit, p 374. 
 
 But Rapin fays that he died whilft he was preparing to go to War 
 with Penda. Vide Rapin, Vol.I. p. 56. 
 
 D 2 
 
 * Anna 
 
24 Blithburgh Church and Priory. 
 
 * Anna was a man of great virtue, and father of a 
 bleffed iffue, and one of the moil famous Kings of the 
 Eaft Angles; he had two Sons, Firminius, who was 
 flam with him, and Erkenwald, who was Abbot of 
 Chertfeie and Bifhop of London; and he had four 
 Daughters, who were all remarkable for their eminent 
 virtue ; the eldeft, whole name was Etheldred, was firft 
 married to Tombert a Nobleman, and afterwards to Eg- 
 frid King of Northumberland, and lived with them both 
 in perfect Virginity, notwithflanding all their entreaties 
 and allurements to the contrary; and having got a re- 
 Jeafe from her laft Hufband fhe retired to Ely, and was 
 afterwards made Abbefs thereof, where fhe died and was 
 buried, and has been known to pofterity by the Name 
 of St. Audrie. His fecond Daughter (whofe Name was 
 Sexburgh) was married to Ercombert King of Kent, by 
 whom fine had two Sons and two Daughters ; but after 
 the Death of her Hufband, fhe took upon her the habit 
 of a Nun, and fucceeded her Siller Etheldred as Abbefs 
 of Ely, where fhe died and was interr’d ; their youngefl 
 Sifter Withgith was alfo a Menchion with them in the 
 fame Monaflery ; and fuch was their piety and virtue, 
 that they were all canoniz'd for Saints. Ethilburghe his 
 third Daughter, was made Abbefs of Barking in Eftex, 
 which was built by her Brother Erkenwald Bifhop of 
 London, wherein fhe lived and laflly died. 
 
 The Windows of this Church are very numerous, and 
 were once extremely beautiful, as may now partly be feen 
 by what remains of the painted Glafs ; they were 
 adorned, with a great many Coats of Arms, of which 
 the following are now remaining intire; i. argent a 
 Chevron azure, in chief a Label ermine. 2. or three 
 Chevrons gules, a Label of three points azure. 3. azure 
 a Chevron or. 4. azure a Bend or. 5. argent a Fefs 
 inter fix Crofscrollets fitchee gules. 6. per pale, firft, 
 argent a Chevron azure ; fecond, argent three Chevrons 
 gules and a Label azure. 7. gules a Crofs argent : And 
 upon the Roof are near thirty Coats, painted upon 
 boards, which are cut into the fhape of Efcutcheons ; 
 but thefe do not appear to have been of very long {land- 
 * Yid, Wsever’s Fun. Mon. p. 761. 
 
Bungay Church and Priory. 25 
 
 ing, nor yet to be done very corredly. The Roof is an 
 exceeding good one, is painted and gilded, and upon it 
 (in almoft innumerable Places) are the Charaders % % & 
 (i.e. Jefis Hominum Salvator.) There are no remarkable 
 Infcriptions now remaining, but there is one Stone in 
 the form of a Crofs, upon which is, Orate pro Arimabz 
 the reft defaced. * Mr. Weever fays that there was in- 
 terred in this Church the Bodies of William Collet, John 
 JJaret, Jone Ranyngham, John Ranyngham, Simon 
 Todyng and Jone his Wife, and Roger Boreham and 
 Kat, his Wife, 
 
 The length of this Church is 127 feet, and the width 
 54 feet 2 inches. 
 
 In the Porch (upon the Ceiling) is a Figure which is 
 reprefented by Plate V. Fig^. round it a Label with 
 this Infcription, Orate pro aiabz Johne Majin et Katerine 
 axorls eius •, and upon the Chancel is the Figure of a 
 King fitting, and near the Foundation the Charaders 
 reprefented by Plate V. Fig. 1 . 
 
 Bungay Church and Priory. 
 
 T HIS Church is a very neat Building, and the Steeple 
 is a great ornament to the Town, it was built 
 about the Year 1696, as appears from this Date being 
 put upon the Roof in the South Ifle of the Church : It 
 was dedicated to the Blefted Virgin : The length of it is 
 85 feet and the width 60 feet ; it is principally built 
 with flint-ftones, and rufticated at the angles with free- 
 ftone. In it are two neat marble Monuments, one ereded 
 to the Memory of the Wife of Mr. John Van Kamp, and 
 the other to Mr. Robert Scales whofe Epitaph, as he 
 was a Benefador to this Church, I fhall here tranfcrihe, 
 
 M, S. 
 
 Roberti Scales generoft , 
 ghiem optima indoles charum Hominibus 
 "Et opera bona (uti fperamus) Deo accept urn reddiderant < 
 Ducentas libras legavit y 
 * Vide Wcevcr’i Mob, p. 7^1, 76a, 
 
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26 Bungay Church and Priory. 
 
 Ad extruendum in hac Ecclefid Qrganum y verfus quod indi 
 gitat puer 
 
 Supra hoc fepulchrum ereElus. 
 
 Dedit infuper annuum reditum fexdecim librarum % 
 aut ipft Organifta, 
 
 Ant ad Organum fartum teblum confervandum, 
 
 Dedit annuum reditum viginti Librarum , 
 
 Ecclefid Anglicans Clerico , 
 
 Publicas preces fmgulis Hebdomadis bis in hac ipfa Ecclefid 
 perlegenti , et decern Pueros Latinam Linguam edocenti, 
 Dedit annuum reditum decern Librarum , 
 
 Egeno cuidam confanguineo quamdiu vixerit. 
 
 Dedit etiam duodecim Libras , 
 
 Ad Calicem Euchariftictim comparandum. 
 
 Obiit vii° Die Novembris , Anno Dorn. Mdccxxviii% 
 AtLtatis fua xxix°. 
 
 Margarita , dileSla Conjux Roberti Scales , 
 
 Obijt xxn° Die Maij , Anno Dom. Mdccxxvi, Mtatis 
 fu<e xxi. 
 
 The other Church is a very old one, and was much 
 damaged fome Years ago by a violent florin of thunder 
 and lighting, when the Steeple was fplit from the top to 
 the bottom, and the Bells melted. It was the Priory 
 Church, aud was dedicated to the bleffed Trinity. Upon 
 the Steeple are the Arms of Weftminfter and Bury, 
 Bigod, Brotherton, Montacute, Beauchampe, and Norris 
 of° Ricot : The Chancel is now in Ruins. 
 
 * The Priory was founded by Roger de Glanvil and 
 the Countefs Gundreda his Lady, in the time of King 
 Henry II. which was a Benedidline Nunnery to the ho- 
 nour of the bleffed Virgin and the holy Crofs. Here 
 were in the time of King Edward I. a Priorefs and fif- 
 teen Sifters Religious, but at the Diffolution not above 
 feven Nuns, who had an yearly Income, rated at 
 62 1 . 2 s id. per annum, This Houfe was granted 29 
 King Hen. VIII. to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 T?ie Living of the Trinity is in the prefentation of 
 the Duke of Norfolk, and that of St. Mary in the Bi- 
 fhop of Ely. 
 
 ♦ Vide Tap. Not. Mon. p. 519. 
 
 The 
 
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 The Tomb of Thomas Howard 
 Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 T HIS Tomb is of Free-ftone, and is in Framling- 
 ham Church, and was erefted to the Memory of 
 Thomas Howard, the third Duke of Norfolk of that 
 name, who was Uncle to Queen Anna Bullein, the 
 Mother of Queen Elizabeth. He was the Son of that 
 noble and valiant Peer Thomas Howard Duke of Nor- 
 folk, who commanded the King’s army in the memora- 
 ble battle of FIodden-Field, againft the Scots, in which 
 they were totally defeated, and their King killed by two 
 wounds from an arrow and a bill, * for which fignal fer- 
 vice he had an augmentation made to his Arms, viz. to 
 bear upon the Bend thereof the upper part of a red Lyon 
 (depicfted as the Arms of Scotland are) pierced through 
 the Mouth with an Arrow, and was fhortly after created 
 Duke of Norfolk and Lord Treafurer of England. His 
 Mother was Elizabeth, Daughter and Heir of Sir Frede- 
 rick Tilney, Knt. and Widow of Humphry Bourchier 
 Lord Berners. 
 
 In the 3d King Hen. VIII. he commanded one of 
 thole Ships under his Brother the Lord Edward, then 
 Lord Admiral, when that famous Pirate Sir Andrew 
 Barton, Knt. was taken, and upon the Death of Thomas 
 Marquefs of Dorfet, he commanded an army in Spain, 
 againft the French j and in 5 King Hen. VIII. upon the 
 Death of his Brother the Lord Edward, in that attempt 
 upon Breft (being then Knight of the Garter) was created 
 Lord Admiral in his ftead ; whereupon, bringing the 
 fleet out of the harbour, he fo fcoured the feas, that not 
 a French fifhing-boat dared venture forth. Upon the 
 irtvafion of King James IV. of Scotland, he landed with 
 5000 veteran men, and commanded under his Father in 
 the above mention’d memorable battle of FIodden-Field ; 
 and at the fame time that his Father was created Duke 
 of Norfolk, himfelf was honoured with the Title of 
 Earl of Surry. 
 
 * Vide Dug Baron, p. 266. 
 
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28 Tomb o/*Tho. Howard Duke ^Norfolk. 
 
 In the 1 2th of King Hen. VIII. he was conflicted 
 Lotd Deputy of Ireland •, where amongfl other things 
 he reprefted thofe interruptions of the O Neales and O 
 Carrol s, and governed fo acceptably that he gained the 
 
 love of’ all that Country. . c , , „ 
 
 In the 14th of King Hen. VIII. having fitted the Fleet 
 he landed nearMorleys in Britanny, forced the town and 
 burnt it, and having wafted the country thereabouts 
 went into Picardy to join with the Imperiahfts, then 
 laid fiege to Hefding;' but the winter approaching, he 
 quitted it again, and having burnt Marquire, and iome 
 other places near theEnglilh Pale, returned. 
 
 In the 14th Year of King Hen. VIII. 4. Dec. he was 
 
 conftituted Lord Treafurer, and upon the 6 of February 
 
 following, was made General of the King’s whole Army, 
 then defigned to march againft the Scots ; all this being 
 
 in his Father’s Life-time. . , 1 j 
 
 In 16 Hen. VIII. upon his Father’s death he had a 
 fpecial Livery of his Lands, and was again made General 
 
 In 21 Hen. VIII. upon the Fall of Cardinal Wool fey, 
 he was one of the Lords who fubfcribed the Articles 
 againft that great Cardinal •, and obtained a Grant from 
 Pope Clement theVIIth’s Bull, in Fee, of that Religious 
 Houfe at Felixtow, with all that belonged thereto, to- 
 wards building thofe two famous Colleges of Oxford and 
 Ipfwich, which the Cardinal had begun. 
 
 * In 24 Hen. VIII. he attended the King (amongft 
 many of the Nobility) to Calais and thence to Boloin, 
 where the King was moft magnificently received by the 
 King of France, and fhortly after he was one of the 
 chief Embaffadors fent to the King of France, to ac- 
 company him to Nice, where the Pope and Emperor 
 met him, and communed with his Holmefs about the 
 
 Kl Upo?rrHen. VIII. he was conftituted Earl Marfhal 
 of England, and alfo Vice Roy of Ireland. 
 
 In 2 § 8 Hen.VIII. he marched with considerable forces 
 into Yorkshire, to the afiiftance of the Earl of Shrewf- 
 
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 bliry, for the Supprefllon of that Infurre&ion there, 
 called the Pilgrimage of Grace. 
 
 In 32 Hen. VIII. he was coiiftituted Lieutenant-Ge- 
 neral of all the King’s Forces beyond Trent : And 
 fhortly after fent Embafiador into France to offer the 
 Afliftance of King Henry for the recovery of Millaine. 
 
 In 34 Hem VIII. being made Captain-General in the 
 North, he entered Scotland with an Army, and wafted 
 the Marches thereof, and there ftaid a conliderable 
 time without any offer of Battle by the Scots. 
 
 And in 36 Hen. VIII. being made Captain General 
 of the Rereward of the King’s Army, then defigned 
 for France > as alfo General of the whole till the King’s 
 coming over ; he was fent to beftege Montrueil \ alfo 
 upon the King’s advance to Boloine, he led the Van 
 Guard of his Army, which was clad in Blue-Coats 
 guarded with Red, having Caps and Hof§ party-colour’d 
 and fuitable. 
 
 But after all thefe great and fignal Services, in 38 
 Hen. VIII. fcveral of the Nobility, either out of Malice 
 or Envy, took advantage of the King’s weaknefs (he 
 being then declining apace) and put jealoufies into his 
 head, of fome danger from his greatnefs ; and there- 
 upon he was fuddehly apprehended, and committed to 
 the Tower, and the King was fo highly incenfed againft 
 him through ftnifter fuggeftions, that he did not only 
 give order to feize his goods, but to advertife his Em- 
 bafiadors in foreign Parts, that he and his Son had con- 
 fpired to take the Government upon them during his 
 Life, and after his Peath to get the Prince into their 
 hands. 
 
 Of his great Merits, for his manifold Services both 
 to the King and Realm (having been fo famous for his 
 noble exploits both in France and Scotland ) that which 
 hath been already faid is Teftimony fufficient ; but not- 
 withftanding all that he had done, and that he fub- 
 mitted himlelf with all humility to the King’s Mercy, 
 had not the death of the King (which happened foon 
 after) prevented it, *tis thought that he would have loft 
 his Head, as his moft noble Son the Earl of Surry did ; 
 
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 2 Tomb of H. Eitz-Roy Duke 0/ Richmond. 
 
 capacity of Mind, one of the choicefl Youths of that 
 Age: Unto him did Leland, that learned Antiquary, 
 dedicate a Book of Copies, to inftruft him to write the 
 great and fmall Roman Letters ; as appears from the 
 following Hexaftichon, to be found among Leland’s 
 Epigrams. 
 
 Ad Jllufiriffimm Henricum Ducem Richmontanwu 
 Quo Ro'mana modo majufcula Litem pingi t 
 Pingi quo pojfit Liter a parva modo : 
 
 , flic Liber ecce tibi Signis monfir abit apcrtis y 
 Princeps , Anoij. Spes et Alumne Qregis : 
 
 Qui tibi ft placeat {quod certo fpero fulurum ) 
 Maxima pro parvo Munere Dona dahis. 
 
 In fmall pannels round the Monument are reprcfented 
 in Buffo Relievo, feveral of the moft remarkable events 
 in the Old and New Teftament: Thofe upon the Print 
 are. The Creation 1 of Woman out of Man* Adam and 
 Eve put in poffeffion of Paradice; the Angel warning 
 them of. the dangerous Defigns of Satan, And their Ex- 
 clusion from that happy Place. 
 
 The length of this Tomb is 9 feet 2 inches, it is 5 
 feet wide, and 4 feet 9 inches high, and upon it are the 
 Duke’s own Arms, impaled and differently quartered 
 with thofe of Howard. There are no Figures either of 
 hirnfelf or Dutchefs now remaining upon if, tho* very 
 likely there formerly were fome •, but it is thought they 
 we re deftroyed in the time of the Civil Wars. ' 
 
 The Tomb of Henry Howard 
 Earl of Surry. 
 
 T H I S Tomb is alfo in Framlingham Church and 
 was eredted to the Memory of Henry Howard 
 Earl of Surry, and of his L,ady, who was Frances the 
 Daughter of John da Vere Earl of Oxford : He was 
 Son of the above Thomas the third Duke of Norfolk, 
 by Elisabeth Daughter of Edward Stafford Duke of 
 Buckingham, ~ ' "Id 
 
Tomb <?/“ Henry Howard Earl of Surry. 33 
 
 * In 34 of K. PJen.VIII. he march’d with an Army 
 (whereof his Father, had the command as Lieutenantr 
 General) which in Q&ober in that. Year, entered Scot- 
 land and burnt feveral Villages ; and in 36 Hen. VIII. 
 upon that Expedition to Boloine in France, he was 
 Field Marlhal of the Englifh Army ; and, after the 
 winning thereof (being then Knight of the moft noble 
 Order of the Garter) was the 3d Sept. 37 Hen, VIII. 
 conftituted the King’s Lieutenant and Captain General 
 of all his Army within the Town and County of Boloine. 
 
 This Earl was of a ripe Wit and great Learning, 
 being (faith Pugdale) the learnedft amongft the Nobi- 
 lity, and the moft noble amongft the Learned, being 
 alfo a Perfon very gracious with the People, expert in 
 the Military Art, and efteemed fit for public Govern- 
 ment: Which great Virtues, were too great Faults} 
 for the King growing jealous of him was refolved to cut 
 him off: Treafon therefore was obje&ed againft him, 
 find upon that furmife he was fent to the Tower with his 
 Father, That which was the principal thing againft 
 him, was his bearing the Arms of Edward theConfeffor 
 with his own, and that a Servant of his had been in 
 Italy with Cardinal Pole (a mortal enemy to this King? 
 dom) and was by him received at his return For which 
 he was arraigned at Guild-Hall, upon the 13th of Ja- 
 nuary, 38 Hen. VIII. before the Lord Chancellor, the 
 Lord Mayor and other Commiflioners ; but being a per- 
 Ion of great underftanding, fharp wit, and deep courage, 
 he defended himfelf feveral ways; fometimes denying 
 the accufations as falfe, and weakening the credit of his 
 adverfaries; fometimes interpreting the words where- 
 with he was charged, in a far different fenfe than they 
 were reprefented. As to his bearing the Arms, he 
 vouched the opinion of the Heralds therein, who jufti- 
 fted that he had a Right to them : And upon producing 
 a witnefs againft him, who pretended, that upon dll'- 
 courfe with him, wherein he ufed fuch. high words* 
 that “ a braving Anfwer was returned,” he made np 
 other defence to the Jury than “ that he left it to them 
 44 CQ judge, whether it were probable that this man 
 
 ^/Vide Dugd, Baroa. 
 
34 Tomb of Henry Howard Earl of Surry. 
 
 “ fhould ufe fuch exprefllohs to the Earl of Surry and 
 <s he not ftrike him again.’* He pleaded Not Guilty*, 
 hut notwithftanding that, and the defence which he 
 made, the King being refolved that he ‘fhould die, he 
 was found Guilty by a common Jury, and executed on 
 TowerrHill nine days before the King’s 1 death. His 
 Body was firfb interr’d at the Chapel in the Tower, and 
 in the Reign of King James I. his Remainder of Allies 
 and Bones was removed to this Place by “his Second Son 
 Henry Earl of Northampton, who ere&ed this Monu- 
 ment to his Memory. 
 
 This Monument is of alabafter and marble, painted 
 and gilded, and upon it are the Figures of himfelf and 
 Lady •, and as he was beheaded, his Coronet is not upon 
 his Head but fet upon the Tomb by his fide ; at the 
 Feet of him is a Lyon upon a Chapeau, with a' Label 
 about his Neck *, and at the Feet of his Lady a Boar ; 
 being the Crefts which belonged to thole noble Families. 
 At one End ate his two Sons, and at the Other his three 
 Daughters, in a praying Pofture : There are alfo, in 
 one Shield, the Arms of Howard quartered with thofe 
 of Brotherton, Warren and' Mowbray, and in anothef, 
 the Arms of De Vere y and upon it the following In- 
 fcription, in the fquare Pannel, viz. 
 
 Henrico Howardo ‘Thorns fecund Duds Norfolci<e Pilio 
 primo genito^ Thom# tertii Patri, Comiti S-uri ie, et Georgian: 
 Qrdinis Equiti aurato immature Anno S.alutis Mdx?.vj 
 <a,brepto'\ Et Francifc a Uxori ejus , filU Joannis Qomiths 
 Oxonian . ; Henri cus Iiozvardus Comes Northamptonia Filiu& 
 fecundb genitus hoe. fupremum Pietatis in Parentes Menu,*-. 
 inenlHm pofuit* 
 
 Anno Domini 1614.. 
 
 And near the Bottom. 
 
 J-ohanne Griffitho nuper Comiti 
 Northampton i<s ali Epifwlis cur ante, . 
 
 AH thefe three Monuments fas well as feyeral more 
 belonging to this noble. Family, which ar,ein this Church, 
 are kept extremely clean, and in good Repair, 
 
 Th$ 
 
The T omb of William Lord 
 Bardolf. 
 
 npHIS Tomb is in Dennington Church, and is of Ah* 
 
 A batter, painted and. gilded, and was erettted to the 
 Memory of * William Lord Bardolf, who fomqtimes re« 
 Tided in this Place, and ihA.D. 1437, founded a Chauntry 
 at Dennington for two Priefts to celebrate divine . Service 
 every Day, at the Altar of St. Margaret in Dennington 
 Church, for tht good, eftafce of hirnfelf and joan° hk 
 Wife, as alfo for their Souls after their Departure hence ; 
 and likewife for the Souls of King Henry the IVth and 
 King Henry the Vth, and all the faithful deceafed. He 
 being Chamberlain to King Henry the Vlth, did bear 
 the Title of Lord Bardolf, though never fummoned to 
 Parliament : But by his Teftament dated the ill of De- 
 cember 1438, he ftiles himfelf Lord Bardolf, and be- 
 queathed his Body to be buried with his Anceftors at 
 Dennington aforefaid, before the Altar in the faid 
 Chapel of St. Margaret, and appointed that a thoufand 
 Malles lhould be celebrated for his Soul, by the feveral 
 Orders of Friars in the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk 
 allowing four-pence apiece for each Mafs : He gave alfo 
 to this Church, after the deceafe of Joan his Wife a 
 certain Mafs-Book, call’d a Gradual, one. Silver Cenfer 
 and one Legend 5 and appointed, that upon the carriage 
 of his Corpfe to Bennington, twenty Torches IhouTd 
 be borne about it, at the entrance thereof into every 
 Town through which it lhould pafs ; and that at his 
 Months-Mind, (i. e. earneft Delire) 24 Torches, as alfo 
 24 Tapers, each of them weighing four pounds of Wax 
 lhould bum about it, during the time of his Exequies 
 and Mafs ; which 24 Torches to be carried by twenty- 
 four of his own poor Tenants cloathed in Black, and 
 24 Tapers by twenty-four poor Women his Tenants, 
 ^allo cloathed in White, every one of them having eight- 
 pence for their labour. Afterwards, by a Codicil dated 
 
 ? irota a S, in the Parfeviage-Houfe at Dennington. 
 
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36 Tomb of William Lord Bardolf. 
 
 the 8th of July next enfuing* he bequeathed his Body 
 to be buried in the Church- Yard of Dennington afore- 
 £iid, and within one Year after departed this life. 
 
 Upon the Tomb are the figures of himfelf and Lady, 
 (who was the Daughter of Thomas Lord Bardolf, which 
 Thomas was in the Infurre&ion in the time of King 
 Henry IV, and which was carried on by Thomas, Earl 
 Marfhal and Nottingham, and Richard Scrope Arch- 
 bifhop of York,) at his Feet is an Eagle with Wings 
 difplay'd, and at her Feet a Dragon : The length of the 
 Monument is eight feet* *md four feet the height. 
 
 FlittS. 
 
 A LIST 
 
LIST 
 
 O F 
 
 SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 A 
 
 S IR Jofeph AylofFe, Bart; 
 Hon. and Rev. Mr. 
 Henry Afton, 2 Sets. 
 John Affleck, Efq; 
 
 Nath. A<5ton, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Ames, S. S. A. 
 Tho. Atkinfon, Efq; 
 
 B 
 
 Sir John Barker, Bart, 
 
 Sir Charles Blois, Bart, 
 Lamb Barry, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Chriftoph er Barry, 
 
 Mr. Tollemach Bacon, 
 
 Mr. James Barrow, 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Barker, 
 
 Robert Bateman, M. D. 
 Rev . M r. Charles Beaumont, 
 Rev. Mr. Robert Beaumont, 
 Alexander Bence, Efq; 
 
 Rev. Mr. Thomas Bence, 
 Henry Bcndifh, Efq; 
 William Berners, Efq; 
 
 Mrs. Avice Betts, 
 
 Mr. Henry Beven, 
 
 Mr. William Biddell, 
 
 Mr, William Blakely, 
 
 Rev, Mr. Ralph Blois, 
 
 Rev. Mr. Thomas Bolton, 
 Mr. Samuel Borret, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Bowell, 
 
 Hon. Ellis Brand, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Thomas Brereton, 
 
 Mr. John Brown, 
 
 Rev. Mr. John Bullen, 
 William Bunbury, Efq; 
 James Burrows, Efq; 
 Jonathan Burward, Efq; 
 
 C 
 
 Caltrope, Efq; 
 
 Rev. Mr.Richard Canning, 
 Rev. Mr. Philip Carter, 
 Rev.Mr. James Carter, jun. 
 Rev. Mr. George Cheriton, 
 Mr. Ofmund Clarke, 
 
 Mr. Goodchild Clarke, 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Clarke, 
 Richard Clive, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Thomas Coggefhall, 
 Philips Coleman, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Nathaniel Cole, 
 
 Mr. John Coles, 
 
 Mr. William Colchefter, 
 Mr. Denny Cole, 
 
 Mr. Edward Coldham, 
 
 Mr. George Coldham, 
 
 R ' ~ Mr. 
 
2 LIS T of Si 
 
 Dr. John Copland, 
 
 John Cornelius, Efq; 
 
 Rev. Mr. Wm. Cornwallis, 
 Mr. John Coulter, 
 
 Ambrofe Crawley, Elq-, 
 
 Mr. William Craighton, 
 William Crofts, Elq*, 
 
 Mr. John Crifp, 
 
 Mr. John Crowfoot, 
 
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 John Dade, Efq; 
 
 Mr. William Dade, . 
 Griffith Pavis, Efq'-, 
 
 Robert Penny, Elq* 
 
 Mr. John Dobfon, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Dove, 
 
 Rev. Mr. Hatley D’Qyley, 
 Rev. Mr. Geo. Drury, jum 
 
 E 
 
 Right Honourable Earl of 
 Effingham, 
 
 homasEordBiffipp of.Ely, 
 hpodore Ecdeftpn, Elq. ; 
 2 Sets* 
 
 WUliamEdgar, Efq; 
 Robert Edgar, Elq; 
 Mele&n Edgar, E% 
 
 Mr. JohnEimy, 
 
 Mr. James Elmy. 
 
 ' ■ r *. ' ■, ;■ r 
 
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 Sir CotdeLHrehtace, Barf. 
 Abraham Earley, Efq; 
 T^QmasE’onnercau, E% 
 Rev. Mr. Francis Foljcard, 
 Rev/M^Eepiard Fournier* 
 SheppardEtere, Efq? 
 
 BSCRIBERS. 
 
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 His Grace the Duke of 
 Grafton, 
 
 Sir William Gage, Bart. 
 Mr. Thomas Gardner, 
 
 Rev. Mr. Thomas Gibfon. 
 Major Giddes, 
 
 Mr. Caefar Thomas Gooch. 
 Mr. Nathaniel Goodrich, 
 John Goodman, Efq-, 
 
 John Goodwyri, Efq-, 
 
 Mr. William Goff, 
 
 Charles Grey, Efqv 
 Mr. John Gravenor, 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Groves. 
 
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 Right Hon. the Lord Vi£« 
 count Hereford, 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Eliz. Hatton, 
 Sir Jofeph Hankey, Knt. 
 Edmund Hammond, Efq; 
 Mr. William Hammond, 
 Mr. Canham Hart, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hadfield* 
 James Hatley, Efq; 
 
 Mr. John Haywood, 
 
 Mr. JohnHervey, 
 
 Rev. Mr- Thomas He wet* 
 Mr. Charles Hil liar, 
 
 Rev. Mr- Feter Hingeftone; 
 Rev. Mr. Beter Hinge- 
 ftone* jup. 
 
 Rev. Mh Rob. Hingeftone, 
 Mr. Johp Hihgeltone, 
 
 Mr. Robert Holmes, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hopkihs ? 
 Rev., Mr. Hie n Howard*, 
 Mr, LewisHtibner. 
 
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LIST of Su 
 
 I. 
 
 Mr. Robert Jacobs, 
 
 Mr. Richard Jenkinfon, 
 Rev. Mr. Gibbon Jones, 
 
 K. 
 
 Mr. John Van Kamp, 
 Samuel Kent, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Ambrofe Keddingtpn, 
 Mr. Henry Keddington, 
 Mr* George Kirke. 
 
 L. 
 
 Hon. Henry Legge, Efq; 
 Sir Richard Lloyd, Knt. 
 Henry Lawton, Efq; 
 George Lawrence, Efq; 
 Mr. Samuel Lawfel, 
 
 Rev. Mr. John Leeds, 
 
 Mr. Robert Le Grys, 
 
 Mr. William Leman, 
 
 Mr. Ralph Lewis, 
 
 Mr. Walter Lincoln, 
 
 Mr. William Lock, 
 
 Mr. Nehemiah Lodge, 
 Charles Long, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Simon Love, 
 
 William Lynch, Efqi 
 Mr. James Lynn, 
 
 M. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Lord Maynard, 
 Mr. Jofeph Maulkin, 
 
 Mr. William Meadows, 
 John Moore, Efq; 
 
 Rev. Mr. Philip Morant, 
 Mr. Richard Mott, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Mulliner, 
 Rev. Mr. William Myers, 
 
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 1SCJIIBERS. J 
 
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 His Grace the Puke of 
 Norfolk. 
 
 Dr. Thomas Nafh, Chan^ 
 cellor of Norwich'. 
 
 Hon. Richard Savage NaT 
 fau, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Charles. Newell, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Newgenr, 
 Mr. Charles Norris, 
 
 Rev. Mr. Martin Nur)„ 
 
 Q. 
 
 Robert Oneby, Efq; t 
 Mr. Gerrard 6ldroyd ? 
 
 P. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Pallant, 
 
 Mr. Thomas Paulfon, 
 
 Rev: Mr. William Peppen. ? 
 Mr. Nicholas Phipps, 
 
 Mr. Robert Potter, 
 
 Mr. John Prefton, ~ . 
 Baron Prettyman, Efq ; 
 John Price, Efq; 
 
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 Right Hon. the Earl pf 
 Rochford, 2 Sets. 
 
 Sir John Roufe, Bart. 
 Reginald Rabett, Efq; 
 Humphry Rant, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Thomas Ray men 
 John Revet, Efq; 
 
 Mr, Robert Ruft, 
 
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 Charles Scrivenor, Efq; 
 Mr. Tobias Searfon, 
 
3, Efq; 
 Wright e 
 
 William Yallop, 
 
 John Sheppard, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Robert Sherman* 
 
 Rev. Mr. John Sherringham 
 Mr. Roger Sida, 
 
 Mr. Robert Singleton, 
 Henry Skynner, Efq; 
 
 Mr. John Slacke, 
 
 Mr. John Smith, 
 
 Mr. John Snow, 
 
 Mr. John Spackman, 
 
 John Sparowe, Efq*j 
 Mr. Robert Sparrow, 
 
 Mr. Francis Spendlove, 
 Rev. Mr. John Squires, 
 Thomas Stanton, Efq; 
 
 Mr. John Stannard, 
 
 Henry Stevens, Efq; 
 
 Mr. Robert Stevens, 
 
 Mr. Charles Stiftead, 
 Cotton Symonds, Elq; 
 
 Mr. Richard 
 Michael Thirkle, Efq*, 
 Samuel Thompfon, Efq*, 
 Thomas Thurfton, Efq; 
 Mr. William Trotman, 
 
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 Mr. Thomas 
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 Hon. Edward Vernon, Efq; 
 Rev. Mr. Edward Ventris, 
 Rev. Mr. Uvedale. 
 
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 Rev. Mr. Thomas Ward* 
 Thomas Weftern, Efq; 
 Mr. Matthew Whaley, 
 Mr. Godfrey White, 
 Richard Williams, Efq; 
 Rev. Mr. Edw. Williams, 
 Mr. John Wilfon, 
 
 William Wi; " 
 
 Rev. Mr. James 
 Mr. Philip 
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 IPSWICH, Dtttmto »; 1746, 
 
 PROPOSAL 
 
 FOR 
 
 Engraving and Publilhing by Subscription, 
 
 TWELVE Perfpeaive VIEWS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Moft remarkable M o n a s t e r i e s, Castles, antient Churches 
 and Monuments, in the County of Suffolk. 
 
 By JOSHUA KIRBY* 
 
 As there are lo many remarkable Pieces of Antiquity in this County, 
 which proclaim the Greatnels and Piety of their Founders, or whole 
 Ruins Hill dilcover their former Grandeur) and alfo Monuments erected 
 to the Memory of illuftrious Perlons, who made a great Figure in their 
 Time, of which no Drawings have yet been made publick : The Au- 
 thor, with the Encouragement of leveral Gentlemen, thinks it will not 
 be an unacceptable Thing to the Curious, to have the Drawings of fiich 
 Pieces of Antiquity tranfmitted to Pofterity, before they are mouldered 
 into Duff, or the Memory of fome of them entirely buried in Oblivion. 
 
 TheD RAWINGS 
 
 1. Clare Caftle and Priory. 
 
 2. St. James's Church, with the Ruins 
 of the Abby Church, at Bury. 
 
 3. Bungay Priory and Church. 
 
 4. Bungay Caftle. 
 
 5. Chrifi's Hofpital in Ipfwich. 
 
 6 . Blithburgh Priory and Church. 
 
 7. Sudbury Priory. 
 
 S. JLavenbam Church. 
 
 propofed to be publifhed are, 
 
 9. The Tomb of Lord Bardotf. \ in Dsn* 
 nington Church. 
 
 10. The Tomb of Thomas Howard , 
 Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 11. TheTomb of Henry Fitzroy , Duke 
 of Richmond and Somerfet. 
 
 12. The Tomb of Henry Howard , Earl 
 of Surry. 
 
 Thefe Three la(l in Framlingham Church . 
 
 CONDITIONS. 
 
 I. That the Drawings lhall be taken on the Spot, from the beft Stations, in the 
 molt correct Manner, and be curioully Engraved, and Printed on Half a Sheet 
 of the beft Royal Paper. 
 
 ^ ie ^ r * ce tp Sublcribers fhall be one Guinea, one Half to be paid at 
 the Time of Sublcribing, and the other upon the Delivery of the Prints. 
 
 ^•^kat the Prints be delivered to the Subfcribers by Chrijlmas 1747, if this 
 
 Undertaking meets with Encouragement ; otherwife, the Money to be re- 
 turn’d again. 
 
 *% Moftof the Drawings are already finifhed, and may be feen at the Au- 
 thor’s in Ipfwich. . 
 
 , ^ Y inscriptions are taken in, at Norwich, by Mr. Gleed *, at Yarmouth , 
 r il a » at Bury, by Mr. Watfon ; at Cambridge, *by Mr. Thurl bourn •, at 
 
 Mchqter, by Mr. John Kendall ; and at Ipfwich , by W. Craighton, and the