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Caldwell, St. John Baptist at, 313.

Caldwell, or Cold Hall, 313.

Cambridge, duke of, 134,

Canal to Stowmarket, 184, 185.

Canning, Rev. Richard, editor of the Suffolk Traveller, 7, 205, 315,

Capon, William, his letter on Wolsey's college, 28 to 32.

Caroline, Queen, 147.

Chapels. Salem, 195; Wesleyan, 217; Tacket-street, 230; St. Nicholas' street
and Unitarian, 212; Stoke, 269; Quakers', 273; Jews' Synagogue, 319;
Catholic Chapel, 321; Bethesda, 332.

Chantry in St. Lawrence, 201; house so called, 353.

Charities, 423,

Charles 1., curious painting of, 207.

Charles II., 46, 47, 50, 51, 54, 212, 213, 283.

Charters, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 25, 36, 43, 58, 59, 430.
Chedworth, Lord, monument and account of, 179.

Christ Church, description of, 328.

Christ's Hospital, account of, 277.

Chronological account of kings, poetical, 22.

Churches, 4, 169. St. Matthew, 169; St. Mary at Elms, 195; St. Lawrence, 200 ;

St. Stephen, 217; St. Nicholas, 231; St. Peter, 249; St. Mary at Stoke, 262;
St. Mary at the Key, 270; St. Clement, 300; St. Helen, 312; St. Margaret,
322; St. Mary at the Tower, 337; Westerfield, 333; Whitton, 335; Thurls-
ton, 336; Sproughton, 353; Bramford, 356.

Clarence, duke of, 135.

Clavigers, 11, 86,

Cliff described, 367,

Cobbold, Elizabeth, 229; her monument and character, 347, 348.
Coins, Saxon and Norman, 3; Roman, found at Walton and Felixstow, 385, 415.

College, Wolsey's, 27, 250.

Colson, Thomas, alias Robinson Crusoe, 368, 369.

Common-council, 12, 55, 65, 97, 342.

Common Quay, 297.

Convents and Religious Houses. St. Mary's Chapel, 178; Carmelites, or White
Friars, 199; Franciscan Grey Friars Minors, 241; St. Peter and St. Paul,
250; St. Leonard's Lazaar House, 261; Friars Preachers, or house of Black
Friars Dominicans, 277; St. James's Hospital, 302; Leprous House of St.
Mary Magdalen, 302; Trinity Priory of Austin Black Canons, 322; Alnesborn
Priory, 371; Priory at Felixstow, 388.

Corn Exchange, 176.

Cornhill as it was, 171, 173, 174; as it is, 415.

Cord, scarcity of, 44, 100, 103, 107, 109, 124, 127, 257,
Corporate body, 49, 139; poem on ditto, 139, 140; 158.

Corporation surrender their charter, 57; charter restored to, 60; privileges, 62;

hints for improvement, 61; disputes of, 72; fends of, 75; power of, 78;
further disputes, 80; with Mr. Cooper Gravenor, 86; examine into the cha-
rities, 95; into the accounts, 112; description of 423.

Cranes Gifts, 292.

Crickitt, C. A., 111, 350.

Cromwell, 45.

Cubitt, William. Stoke bridge, 260; tread-mill, 319.
Curzon, Lord, 25; his house, 241.

Custom-house, account of, 297.

Danes, invasions of the, 3; destroyed the ramparts, 167.

Daundy, Edmund, erected the Market Cross, 173; Alms-houses, 178; repre-

sented the borough, 201; founded a chantry, 201; died, 201.

Dedham, Jacob, strange account of, 197

Doomsday Book, nine churches, 4.

Doomsday Book, Ipswich described, 19.

Downham Reach, 369,

Dowsing, William, destroyed images, 201, 255.

Draper's Hall, in Star Lane, 294.

Ducking Stool, 298.

Duncan, Lord, visits Ipswich, 127.

Dundas, R. A. entry with his colleague, 160.

Dunkon, Robert, his Letter in favour of the Quakers, 51; his tomb, 311.

Dysart, Earl of, 106, 148.

Edgar, King, 262.

Edgar, Mileson, account of the family, 339.

Edgar, Master Mileson, St. Clement's, 302.

Edgar, William, steeple at St. Mary Tower, 339.

Edmund, St. a Pountney, 314.

Edward I. seized the borough, 12; renewed the charter, 12.

Edward II. granted a charter, 13.

Edward III. confirmed the charters at Walton, 14.

Edward IV. guaranteed former charters, 36.

Edward VI. confirmed former charters, 36.

Etections, the first contested, 64; violent contest, a man killed, 91; a man

lost his life, 91; remarkable contest, 104; bribery suspected, 110; for the
county, 115; for the borough, 1163; for officers of the borough, 118; con-
test for two days, 132; for six days, 141; again, for six days, 143.

Elephant and Castle, 67, 340.

Ely, Dean and Chapter of, Patrons of Stoke, 263.

Elizabeth, confirms all the charters, 37; visits the town, 37; bill of her expences,
38; proclamation, 38; act for paving the town, 40; horses sent to Tilbury
Fort, 42; Ipswich vessels serving against the Armada; grants a charter to
Christ's Hospital, 277.

Erwarton Hall and Gate, 398.

Fairs, for lambs, 184; St. Margaret's fair, 331; St. George's, May 4, for toys, &c.
Felaw, Richard, 282.

Felixtow and Walton, 384; Names in Doomsday, 398; Old Hall, 389;
Edward III. passed some time there, 389; confirmed the charters of Ipswich
there, 389; Wadgate Haven, 390; Baptist Meeting-house, 3913; Martello
Towers, 391; Prodigious Bones, 391; Good Houses, 391; Felixstow Cottage,
392; Marine Productions, 393; Bathing Place, 395; Verses by Bernard
Barton, 396.

Felix, the pious Burgundian, 387.

Fire-works, the first in Ipswich, 93.

Fishery and Fish Market, 419.

Fludyer, Sir S. B. bart., residence at Felixstow, 392.

Fonnereau, Rev. Charles William, owner of Christ-church, 329.

Freston Tower, account of, 401; Sketch of it, 403; Original Poem on seeing

the Sketch, 404.

Fuller, his account of Wolsey's College, 252; Description of Rev. S. Ward, 343.

Gaol, county, description of, 319.

Garrett, Jacob, his cast-tron manufactory, 432,

Garrick, David, his first appearance on the stage, 227.

Gas Works, 366.

George II. visits Ipswich, 92.

George III. Address on his accession, 102; On his escape, 112; Poetical Address,

113; On his recovery, 114.

George IV. Accession celebrated, 142; His coronation, 149.

George's St. Chapel, 170,

Gipping, the river, 257.

Gloucester, Prince William, of, resides at Ipswich, 125.

Goward Miss, 161; Her history, 228.

Gower, R. H., his residence and publications, 408.

Grammar-school, account of, 281.

Granville, Lord, resided at Wherstead Lodge, 405.

Great court, the first, 9; or er of, 49; respecting the Plague, 50; respecting the

head-boroughs, 83; for preserving the charters, 85; respecting the water, 85;

restrictions on trade, 89; how constituted, &c. 429.

Green, Benjamin Palmer, leaves £500, to St. Margaret's parish, 328,
Greenland trade at Ipswich, 406,

Green Man inn, a man killed there, 109,

Greenwich farm, 368.

Grey's, Lady, chapel, 221.

Grey, Lady Jane, 220.

Guild-holders and Guild-wardens, 15.

Gusford Hall described, 262.

Haldimand, W., splendid procession at his chairing with T. B. Lennard, 144.
Half Moon publie-house described, 276.

Hallowtree, 371.

Handford bridge described, 184.

description of it, 183.

Handford hall, mortgaged, 55; again, 74; again, 16; in danger of being lost, 85;
Harland, Sir Robert, bart., elected high steward, 150; commissioner of the river,
365; his residence at Nacton, 373; some account of his father, 373.

Harrison, Susanna, her tomb, 233; her works, 234.

Harwich, encampment at, 121; short account of, 396; curious missal found near,

397.

Hatton, Sir Christopher, resided at Ipswich, 351.

Head-boroughs, exceed their authority, 84.

Henry, son of Henry II., landed at Ipswich, 12.

Henry VI. grants a beneficial charter, 15.

Henry VII. confirms former charters, 19.

Henry VIII. grants a charter and defines the liberties, 25; appoints a suffra-
gan bishop, 241; his arms on Wolsey's gate, 251; grants a new charter for the

Grammar-school, 283.

High stewards, list of, 427.

Hitebam, Sir Robert; bis alms-houses at Levington, 377.

Hog Island, 368.

Holy Trinity priory, 171.

Honorary freemen, 151, 152, 153, 155.

Horticultural Society, 186.

House of Correction, 319.

Howorth, Rev. William, master of the Grammar-school, 285.

Humane Society, 426.

Ipswich, names and derivation, 2; paving and lighting, 121; Ipswich regiment,
123; improving the port, 129; Ipswich Journal, 214; Ipswich Mercury,
215; Ipswich Gazette, 215; Ipswich New Fly Coach, 216; finest view of the
town, 268; Ipswich spa waters; present state described, 414, 415.

Isabel, queen of Edward II., landed, 13.

James I. confirms all former charters, 43; present of a horse to the king of Den-
mark, 43,

James II. visited the town, 46; receives the charter into his own hands, 58; grants

another, 59; annuls this last, 59.

Jews' Synagogue, 319.

Jews' wedding, 320.

John grants the first charter, 9; ramparts repaired, 167; confirms the fair to Trinity

priory, 323.

John's Ness, 370.

Jury, exemption from set aside, 17.

Justices, as istant, the first, 14.

Kemp, Dame Amy, 297.

King, Rev. John, master of the Grammar-school, 285.

King's Head, 32.

Kirby's Suffolk Traveller, 6.

Lamb-fair, 184.

Landguard Fort described, 382.

Lany, John, recorder, his monument, 325; John Lany, his son, ditto, 325; Benja-

min Lany, also his son, Bishop of Ely, 325, 326.

Lawrence, Rev. Matthew, town lecturer, 342.

Leman, Robert, and his wife, singular monument, 218.

Lennard, T. B., petitions against R. A. Crickitt, 143; extraordinary procession at

his chairing, 144.

Lending Cash Fund, 292.

Letes or wards, stated in Doomsday, 168.

Levington, description of, 377.

Liberties of the borough, 26, 27; by water, 161.

Life-boat, 410.

Linen-manufactory, 65.

Linsingen, Count, entertains the Prince Regent, 140; builds Birkfield Lodge, 266.
Louis XVIII. arrives at Ipswich, 133.

Lutestring-manufactory, 68.

M'e Adam's mode of paving recommended, 416.

Mackinnon, Chas., with his colleague, R. A. Dundas, make their triumphal entry,

160.

Man-of-war, subscription for, 111.

Market, regulations of, 70; new market described, 213.

Market-cross, history of, 173, 174.

Marshalsea-rate, 61.

Martin's gift, 287.

Mary's, St. chapel, 178.

Matthew's, St. gate, account of, 193; street M'c Adamised, 415.

Mechanics' Institution, 207.

Medical and Vapour Baths, 415.

Mendicity Society, 427.

Mildred's, St. church. part of the old town-hall, 170.

Milton, Christopher, deputy-recorder, 59; his chapel, 226.

Mineral springs, account of, 187; spa water, 216.

Mint, King John, 3; Stephen and Henry II., 4.

Missal, curious, in the possession of Mr. Hooker, 397.

Missionary societies, 426.

Mortality amongst the cattle, 108.

Nelson, Lord, 126; chosen high-steward, 127; sorrow for his death, 130.
New Place, or New Palace of Queen Edith, 5.

Norman, son of Eadnoth, 199,

Norwich, Bishop of, preached at the church of St. Mary at the Tower, 138.

Nova Scotia ship-yard, 406,

Odd family, in the reign of King William, 69.

Old chest on the Town-hall, 428.

Old house in Lower Orwell-street, 296.

Orange, Princess of, and Hereditary Prince of, 124.

Organ, magnificent, at the church of St. Mary at the Tower, 342.

Orwell, the river. Derivation, 2; high tide, 163: ground sinks near it, 103; lines

on its beauties, 266; description of it and its banks, 364; sonnet to the, 365;
act for improving it, 365; a town so called, 387; junction with the Stour, 398;
verses by Drayton, 398; poem in praise of it, 411.

Orwell, Lord Viscount, 373.
Osterbald church, 302.

Ostrich public-house, view from the garden, 406.
Our Lady of Ipswich, chapel and image, 178.

Paget, William, his poem on Admiral Vernon, 373.

Parishes. St. Matthew's, description of, 169; St. Mary at Elms, 195; St. Law-

rence', 199; St. Stephen's, 217; St. Nicholas', 238; St. Peter's, 249; St. Mary
at Stoke, 262; St. Mary at the Key, 270; St. Clement's, 300; St. Helen's,
312; St. Margare 's, 322; Westerfield, 333; Whitton, 335; St. Mary at the
Tower, 337; Sproughton, 353; Bramford, 356; Rushmere, 360; Playford, 363.

Parker, Sir Henry, built Erwarton Hall, 398.
Pemberton, John, his tomb, 202; his charity for widows, 425.
Petronille, St. Image at, destroyed, 371.

Pett, Grace, her extraordinary death, 309.

Pett, Sir Phineas, extract from his journal, 53.

Peyvale, Richard, author of Ipswich Doomsday, 19.

Phillips, Richard, his legacy to Christ's Hospital, 279.

Philological Society, 293.

Pin Mill, 399.

Piper, Stephen, curious picture of Charles I. in his possession, 207.

Pitt club dinner, 152.

Plague raged at Ipswich in the year 1666, 50.

Pleas, Court of Small, 60.

Polesbead, extent of the liberties by water, 26.

Pond Hall, 370,

Pooley, Joseph, died in his bailiwick, 163; his monument, 327.
Pope, Sir Thomas, owner of Christ Church, 324.

Population, 69, 128, 148.

Porter, Sir Robert Ker, his picture in St. Lawrence' church, 206.
Portmen, the first, 10; several discharged, 82; ten of them discharged, and

others elected, 99; two of them obliged to disclaim, 155.

Present state of the town, 414.

Press-gang, a man killed in a scuffle with the, 109.
Prince Regent, at a ball at the Assembly-rooms, 135; stopped two or three days

at Ipswich, 136; receives an address at Sudbourn, 140.

Printing in St. Nicholas' parish, 35.

Protestants burnt, 33; imprisoned and persecuted, 36.

Public Dispensary, 426.

Quakers persecuted and imprisoned, 51; Robert Dunkon's letter in their favour,
51; meeting-house described, 273; first received their name, 273; account

of them, 273; persecuted at Bramford, 359.

Queen's Head tavern, Mr. Hammond's house, 351.

Races, 107, 129, 362.

Rainbird's mill, account of riot there, 257.

Ramparts, fragments of, remaining, 167.

Kanson's, R. G., paper and tobacco manufactory, 422.

Ransome's, James and Robert, ironfoundry, 422.

Raw, Johu, has a curious portrait of the Rev. S. Ward, 314.

Read, Thomas, left £500. to the Blue-coat School, 424.

Recorders. Judge Clench the first, 41; list of, 437.

Red House described, 333.

Regalia of the corporation, 429.

Representatives, the first, 15; first contested election, 64; how chosen, 429; list

of, from 1447 to 1827, 436.

Requests, Court of, 422.

Richard I. fined the town, 9.

Richard II., reference to charter of, 14.

Richard III. confirmed former charters, 17.

River-commissioners, 366.

Rochester, Earl of, his description of the town, 331.

Rotunda described, 176.

Royal Oak, carved corner at the, 352.

Russel, Metcalfe, cured by the medical waters, 189; his tomb, 363.

Sailors riotous on the Quay, 121.

Schools, 423.

Seamen's Shipwreck Society, 427.

Sessions for the borough, 294; for the county, 293.

Shambles, description and representation of, 173.

Sharford, Judge, offended with some sailors, 14.

Shire-hall, subscription for building it, 71; account of it, 293.

Shipping employed against the Spanish Armada, and against Cadiz, 42; the Ips

wich 70 gun ship, 43; account of, 417.

Small-pox rages, 107; means to prevent contagion, 139.

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