Erwarton, who has 55A. 1R. 26P. of glebe, and a yearly rent charge of £479, awarded in lieu of tithes, in 1839. Here was formerly. a chapel, dedicated to St. Clement, and its site is still known, at the corner of a field called Chapel down, though it has long been cultivated. Alderton Wm. cattle dealer Battell Wm. carpenter & vici. Rose Roper Robert, gentleman Scott George, manager of Mr Berner's FARMERS. Abbott Abraham, Vale Farm Rudland Edward Wm. | Wood S. Wrinch Robert Henry, Nether Hall CARRIERS, James Alderton and Wm. HIGHAM is a handsome village, with several large mansions, pleasantly situated on a gentle acclivity near the confluence of the rivers Brett and Stour, on the southern confines of Suffolk, 5 miles E. of Nayland, 5 miles S. of Hadleigh, and 10 miles S.E. of Ipswich. Its parish contains 293 souls, and 863A. 17P. of fertile and well-wooded land, P. P. Mannock, Esq., is lord of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to Edward Cooper, Esq., Mrs. Dawson, and the Rev. A. C. Reeve, who have neat houses here. Higham Hall, the seat of E. Cooper, Esq., is a neat white brick mansion, with pleasant grounds, commanding fine views of the Stour Valley. The Church, (St. Mary,) has a tower and six bells, and is a perpetual curacy, valued in K.B. at £5. 6s. 8d., and in 1835 at £238. It was appropriated to Trinity Priory, Ipswich, by Maude de Munchensi; but the rectorial tithes were purchased by a Mr. Gibbs or Mr. Smith, and given to the minister. Certain trustees are patrons, and the Rev. A. C. Reeve is the incumbent. The glebe is about 50A., and in 1840 the tithes were commuted for a yearly rent of £220. In the reign of Charles I., Thomas Bedfield charged his house and land here with the yearly payment of 10s. to the minister. In 1725, Thomas Glanville left a cottage here, for the relief of poor widows of Higham, Holton, and Raydon. POST, via Colchester. Allen Ebenz. maltster & corn mercht Blomfield John, farmer, Pound Branford James, shopkeeper & brewer Cooper Edward, Esq. Higham Hall Cowles George, butcher & vict. King's Head Dawson Mrs. Eliz. Higham House Harris Stephen & Wm. seed crushers, Hallock Wm. farm bailiff HINTLESHAM, a large and well-built village, 4 miles E. by N. of Hadleigh, and 54 miles W. of Ipswich, is pleasantly situated on the road between those towns, and has in its parish 584 inhabitants, and 2828A. 3R. 24P. of land, mostly the property of James Hamilton Lloyd Anstruther, Esq., the lord of the manor, who resides at the Hall, a fine Elizabethan mansion, in the form of the letter H, standing in a beautiful Park of 150 acres, and containing many spacious apartments, and a fine collection of paintings by Vandyke, Gainsborough, and other distinguished masters. The manor was anciently held by the Talbots, and for many years by the Timperleys, who sold it, about 1725, to Richard Powis, of whom it was purchased by Sir Richard Lloyd, Knight, one of the Barons of the Exchequer. It was bequeathed to its present owner by the late Miss Harriet Lloyd, in 1837. The Cooke and some other families have small estates in the parish. The Church (St. Nicholas) is a handsome structure, with a tower and five bells. The nave and aisles are leaded, but the chancel is covered with tiles. In the latter are several monuments of the Timperley family, one of which is a tomb of blue marble, bearing the portraits in brass of John Timperley, Esq., and Margaret his wife. The former died in 1400. Here is also a neat monument to the late Misses Lloyd. In 1849-'50, the church was restored, and newly fitted with open benches. The western gallery was removed, and a handsome stained glass east window was presented by the Hon. Mrs. Anstruther. Four of the chancel windows were also enriched with stained glass at the expense of the rector. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £33. 9s. 6d., and now at £477, is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Henry Deane, who has 44A. of glebe, and a yearly rent charge of £450, awarded in lieu of tithes in 1838. The Free School and playground of 2R. 12P. were built and given by the late Misses Lloyd, in exchange for the old playground. The school estate, which was purchased by the parishioners many years ago, with the assistance of Francis Colman, is copyhold, and consists of a a cottage, small barn, and about 6A. of land at Aldham, now let for £10 per annum, for which the master teaches seven free scholars reading, writing, and arithmetic. He has also £6s. 6s. a year for teaching four or five poor children of Chattisham, as noticed with that parish. Miss Harriet Lloyd, who died in 1837, left £10 a year for the education of five poor children, and £10 a year to provide coals for poor parishioners. Here is a small Independent Chapel, which is used as a school for young children. POST via Ipswich. Anstruther James Hamilton Lloyd, Meadows Thomas, wheelwright Esq. Hintlesham Hall Beer David, shopkr. & wood dealer Donghton Robt. "vermin destroyer," Kingsbury John, jun. shoemaker Norfolk Jas. butcher; & Wm. smith HOLBROOK is a large and pleasant village, with several handsome houses, 6 miles S. of Ipswich, near a brook or rivulet from which it has its name, and which falls into the river Stour at Holbrook Bay, near the hamlet of Holton Green, or Lower Holbrook, about a mile S. of the village. Its parish contains 857 inhabitants, and 2203A. 2P. of land, including about 370 acres of woods and plantations. John Berners, Esq., is lord of the manor, but the greater part of the soil belongs to the Harland, Reade, Vernon, Deane, Rodwell, Wilkinson, Gosnall, Western, and a few other families. The lordship was successively held by the families of Holbrook, Daundy, Clench, Thurston, and Staunton. Judge Clench, who died in 1607, lies buried in the church. The late John Reade, Esq., of Holbrook House, who died in 1843, had been a chief judge in India, and was sheriff of Suffolk in 1830. The Woodlands, a handsome brick mansion in the Tudor style, built in 1845, is the seat of Wm. Rodwell, Esq. Holbrook House and Cottage are two other pleasant seats in this parish. The Church (All Saints) is a large ancient fabric, with a tower, supported by massive buttresses. It was re-pewed in 1824, and has 550 sittings, one-third of which are free. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £11. 11s. 3d., is in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. J. B. Wilkinson, B.D., who has 6 acres of glebe, and a yearly rent charge of £490. 10s., awarded in 1838 in lieu of tithes. The Rectory House is a commodious mansion, erected in 1822 by the Rev. Thomas Holmes, the late incumbent. The Wesleyans have a small chapel here. The interest of £30 (arising from £10 given by two benefactors, and £20 received in 1802, on the sale of the workhouse,) is applied in the distribution of coals at a cheap rate to the poor. Two National Schools, for boys and girls, are supported by the rector and other subscribers; and there are in the village two respectable boarding schools. The POST-OFFICE is at Mr. James Shepherd's; letters via Ipswich Those marked are at Holton Green. Allen Robert Wm. plumber & painter | *Quantrill James, sweep & fireman Goodwin Robert, cooper Hare George, gentleman Ranson Henry, corn miller Woods John Bloomfield, schoolmaster Herbert Jph. B. butcher & vict. Com- BOOT & SHOEMKRS. | Keeble Rt. Brook HOLTON ST. MARY, a small parish and village, 43 miles S.S.E. of Hadleigh, and 9 miles S.W. of Ipswich, contains 192 souls and 837 acres of land, nearly all freehold, and mostly belonging to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and partly to Robert Lawson, James Rumsey, and a few smaller owners. The manor anciently belonged to the Fastolfs, afterwards to the Mannocks, and then to Sir John Williams, from whose family it passed to Sir Wm. Rowley, Kt. The Church (St. Mary) is a Rectory, valued in K.B. at £7. 14s. 7d., and in 1835 at £257, but now having 33 acres of glebe, and a yearly rent charge of £220, awarded in lieu of tithes, in 1837. Sir J. R. Rowley, Bart., is patron; and the Rev. Joshua Rowley, M.A., of East Bergholt, is the incumbent. Here is a Charity School which was established and endowed by the exertions and through the pecuniary aid of the Rev. Stephen White, a late rector, and for some time it was supported chiefly by annual contributions, but the only subscription now regularly paid to it is £3. 3s. a year from Corpus Christi College. The property of the school is as follows:-A school-house was erected on the waste, which, with a garden of 10 perches, was conveyed by Sir Francis Mannock, lord of the manor, to trustees, in 1749. The Town Pightle, 6 acres, was demised in 1755, by the churchwardens and overseers to the rector and his successors for 99 years, for the use of the school, at the yearly rent of 188., to be distributed among the poor at Easter. The Dock Meadow, 3A., in Stratford, let for £6 a year, was given by the Rev. Stephen White, in trust, that the rents should be applied in raising premiums, to be given in October, to the children in the school, or those who have been taught there, and could bring certificates of good behaviour. Two cottages, let for £3 each, were built by the trustees, on the site of one granted by the lord of the manor, on lease, at the yearly rent of one penny. The trustees have also upwards of £500 three per cent. stock, purchased with benefactions and surplus income. The yearly income from these sources is about £32. The master has £12. 12 a year, and the use of the school premises, for which he instructs, as free scholars, 16 boys and 9 girls in reading, writing, and arithmetic. The remainder of the income is applied in furnishing books and rewards for the children, and a suit of clothes for each on leaving school. The Town Pightle, noticed above, will revert to the poor in 1855. A cottage belonging to the poor was sold, in 1803, for £20, which was applied towards making the Town Well, towards repairing which a yearly rent charge is paid out of a piece of land adjoining the churchyard. The sum of £30, left to the poor by one Partridge and other donors, is lent on interest. The poor parishioners have 20s. yearly from Glanville's Charity, as noticed with Higham. In 1773, the Rev. STEPHEN WHITE left £500 in trust, to pay one half of the interest thereof to the rector of Holton, (provided he resides in the parish or neighbourhood; if not, to the curate,) for his own use; and to apply the other moiety, in four equal shares, for the parishes of Holton, Stratford, Nayland, and Brantham, for distribution among the poor. This charity now consists of two sums of £321. 7s., one, belonging to the rector, and the other to the poor of the four parishes. Post via Colchester. Lott John, gentleman Dobree Rev John Gale, M.A. rector of | Hill Edward, shoemaker Rolph Jane, shopkeeper RAYDON, 3 miles S.S.E. of Hadleigh, is a parish containing two small villages, called Upper and Lower streets, about a mile south of Raydon Station, on the Hadleigh branch of the Eastern Union Railway. It has 555 inhabitants, and 2335A. 1R. 3P. of land, extending to Masons Bridge, on the river Brett, 2 miles S. by E. of Hadleigh, and including 418A. of woodland. Walter Skirrow, Esq.,and Dr. H. W. Thomson are lords of the manor, and owners of a great part of the soil, and the rest belongs to several smaller owners. Robert de Raydon had a grant of a market and a fair here, in 1310. The manor was afterwards held by the Hastings, from whom it passed to the owners of the neighbouring manor of Shelly. The Church (St. Mary) is a plain tiled building, without a tower. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £14, has 48A. 2R. 6P. of glebe, and a yearly rent charge of £511, awarded in lieu of tithes, in 1841. The Rev. Thos Reeve is patron and incumbent. In 1663, the Rev. John Mayler, D.D., left out of his lands here two yearly rent charges, viz., 10s. for the minister, and 40s. for ten poor families. Five poor widows of Raydon have 20s. a year from Glanville's charity, as noticed with Higham. Post from Hadleigh. SHELLY, a small village, pleasantly situated in the vale of the river Brett, 3 miles S. by E. of Hadleigh, has in its parish 138 souls, and 928 acres of freehold land, including 62 acres of woodland. Mrs. Charlotte Cripps owns 650 acres, and the rest belongs to P. P. Mannock, Esq., and a few smaller owners. Mrs. Cripps is lady of the manor, impropriator, and patroness of the Church, (All Saints,) which has a tower and five bells, and is a perpetual curacy, valued in 1835 at £72, and now enjoyed by the Rev. Henry Jones, |