The Suffolk traveller: or, A journey through Suffolk

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John Bagnall, 1735
 

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Page 39 - Eye, and in token of their dominion during the vacancy of a prior, they used to place a porter at the gate to be maintained out of the revenues of the house, and who, at the instalment of the next prior, was to receive five shillings to buy him an ox.
Page 43 - Michaelmas, and at eight of the clock in the morning and four in the afternoon from Michaelmas to Lady Day.
Page 65 - ... monks of their own, that is, the Benedictine order. The abbot was exempted from all episcopal' jurisdiction by the council of Winchester; and he encompassed, not only the abbey, but a part, if not the whole of the town, with a wall and ditch, the ruins of which are still to be seen in many places. The abbots were made parliamentary barons, and their wealth annually encreased. But notwithstanding the restrictions laid...
Page 55 - Its Church is a Sumptuous Building, graced with a Spire Steeple, and being near the middle of the Town is a good Ornament to it. 'Tis of lome Note now for the Manufacture of Woollen Cloths, but not...
Page 7 - ... Mildred's church, and All Saints chapel, I finde in the record of the Courts of this towne." Again Bacon gives us another glimpse of the church, by saying " 5th Edward III, a tenement in Mildred parish, between a 'tenement on the west in the Apple Market on the east, one head abutting on St. Mildred's church on the south, and the Corn Hill on the north.
Page 81 - -y had two Sons, John who died in his Infancy, and Gilbert who fucceeded him in his Honour and Eftate, and by Grace his Wife the Daughter of the Earl of Kingfton, hehadfeveral Sons,of whom the Eldeft, John, who fucceeded in this Earldom 1688, married Margaret third Daughter to Henry Cavendifh Duke of Newcaftle.
Page 41 - In the year 1734, the bones of a man, an urn, and the head of a spear, were taken out of a...
Page 39 - Baron of Eye. This Town was a Borough before the Reign of King John, and is called in Writing the Town and Borough of Aye. HERE appears on the Eaft Side of the Town, the Ruins of a Monaftery of Benediaine, or Black Monks, founded by the aforeiaid Robert Mallet, who.
Page 33 - Rendlesham estate, to the father of the present noble- possessor. In the church of this priory was interred the body of Michael de la Pole, third Lord Wingfield, and Earl of Suffolk, who fell at the battle of Agincourt, with Edward Plantagenet, Duke of York. The priory was both large and magnificent ; its walls and ruins occupy near twelve acres of ground. The gate-house was an elegant structure. Its whole front is embellished...

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