Moor George, butcher Robinson Fras. thatcher & vict. Star BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS. Dossor Charles || Ransby Saml. FARMERS AND GRAZIERS. Borrows Saml. || Robinson Francis Felgate My. Ann, Emma, & Sarah, Utting Gardner, High House CARRIER. Philip Cutting, to Ipswich,Mon. and BOULGE, 34 miles N. of Woodbridge, is a small parish containing only 45 inhabitants and 545 acres. John Fitzgerald, Esq., of Boulge Hall, a neat mansion with pleasant grounds, is lord of the manor and owner of a great part of the soil. The Church (St. Michael) is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £3. 12s. 1d., and in 1835, at £222, with the rectory of Debach annexed to it. The two rectories were consolidated by the Rev. Sir William Bunbury, about 1730. The Rev. Osborne Shribb Reynolds, M.A., is patron and incumbent, and has 4A. 1R. 31p. of glebe. The tithes of Boulge have recently been commuted for a yearly modus of £134. Messrs. Charles Moor & Son, of Woodbridge, are stewards of the manors of Boulge Hall, Bast Struttings, and Debach-Burgh. Robert Todd is the parish clerk, and the farmers are Charles Bugg, Joseph Smith, and Samuel Smith. The BOYTON, a pleasant village, 4 miles S. W. of Orford, and 7 miles E.S.E. of Woodbridge, has in its parish 247 souls and 1890 acres of land, extending more than a mile eastward of Butley river and Orford Haven, and westward to a tract of open heath. The Church (St. Andrew) is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £5.12s. 1d., and in 1835 at £365. The Rev. Wm. Wogan Aldrich, B.C.L., is the incumbent. advowson and the manor were held by Butley Priory, but were granted by Henry VIII. to Wm. Forthe and Richard Moryson. They afterwards passed to the family of Warner, and are now vested in the trustees of Mrs. Mary Warner, as will be seen in the following account of her munificient charitable bequest. The principal inhabitants are the Rev. W. W. Aldrich, B.C.L., Rectory; Samuel Arnold, butcher; Robert Bloomfield, joiner; Wm. Cloughton, blacksmith; Sarah Ann Flory, shopkeeper; Hy. Francis Summers, vict. Bell Inn; and Chas. and Edward Bennington, Robert Johnson, and Wm. Miller, farmers and graziers. WARNER'S CHARITY :-In 1736, Mary Warner gave the undermentione valuable estates, &c., for the erection and endowment of an ALMSHOUSE at BoyTON, for six poor men and six poor women, and for other charitable uses. After the erection of the Almshouse, she directed the trustees to apply the yearly income of the trust property as follows; viz. 4s. a week to each of the 12 almspeople; 50s. yearly to each, to buy them suits of brown warm clothes; £40 a year to the minister of Boyton, or any other persons who should be appointed to look after the almspeople, and read prayers to them daily; £10 a year to the master of Stradroke School, for teaching 12 poor children; £5 every Christmas to each of the parishes of Dennington and Parham, for the poor; and to apply the residue of the income at their discretion, towards releasing insolvent debtors, in the county of Suffolk, whose debts should not amount to more than £10. This charity did not come into operation till 1757, after the death of Mrs. Warner, when an almshouse for 12 poor people was erected by the trustees at Boyton. The income being much greater than the expenditure, various schemes and orders have been sanctioned by the Court of Chancery since 1790, for extending the various branches of the charity. In 1802, it was ordered that four new apartments should be added to the Almshouse, so as to encrease the number of the almspeople from 12 to 16, and that each of them should have a weekly stipend of 7s., and a yearly allowance of £2.15s. for clothing; £2.5s. for firing, and £f. 1s. towards the expense of their washing. It was also ordered that the nurse, (who occupies a house near the almshouse, and acts as servant to the almspeople,) should also have 78. a week, and the same allowance for clothes and firing, as well as 1s. 6d. per week for heating the common-oven; that £12. 128. a year should be paid to a surgeon for attending the almspeople, and supplying them with medicines; and that the annuity paid to the master of Stradbroke School should be encreased to £15. These and the other branches of the charity have been considerably extended since 1829, when the charity estates were let for £1129. 11s. 5d. per annum, besides which the trustees receive yearly £202 from the dividends of £1000 Navy five per cents, and £4000 new four per cent. annuities, purchased with the savings of former years. The perpetual advowson of the rectory of Boyton also belongs to this charity; and its other property given by Mrs. Warner, comprises the manor and quit rents of Boyton, (worth about £15 a year,) Boyton Wood, 7A. 3R. 3P.; two farms in Boyton, containing 1012 acres; two cottages and a farm of 162A. 3R. 3P., at Stradbroke, and a farm of 69A. 17P. at Dennington. The Almshouse contains 16 sets of rooms, with a small garden to each. Sir T. S. Gooch, the Earl of Stradbroke, Sir Chas. Blois, Charles Tyrell, Esq., and others are the trustees. BREDFIELD, a scattered village 3 miles N. of Woodbridge, has in its parish 468 inhabitants and 1067 acres of land, partly in Loes Hundred. Edward Jenny, Esq., is lord of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to John Wood, and Francis C. Brooke, Esqrs. The Church (St. Andrew) is a fine ancient structure, with a flint tower, containing four bells. The nave and chancel have a beautifully carved ceiling. A small gallery was erected in 1838, at the cost of E. Jenny, Esq. The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £4. 4s., and in 1835 at £249, is in the patronage of the Crown, and incumbency of the Rev. Geo. Crabbe, M.A., who erected a new Vicarage House in 1836, at the cost of £1400. The glebe is 30A., and the tithes have recently been commuted for a yearly modus of £325. Six acres of copyhold land, let for £7. 10s. a year, have been held by the parishioners from an early period for charitable and public uses, but the rent is all expended in the service of the Church. Here is a small Independent Chapel, erected in 1813. Bredfield Hall, still the property and formerly a seat of the Jenny family, is now unoccupied. From several urns and other antiquities discovered in 1843, it is supposed there was a Roman Encampment about a mile north of the Church. High House is a fine specimen of ancient brick work, with ornamental chimneys. Atkins Edw. grocer, draper & tailor FARMERS. Burrows David || Garrod Mary JOINERS AND WHEELWRIGHTS. Clark John, jun. (and blacksmith) BROMESWELL, a straggling village on the east side of the river Deben, 2 miles N.E. of Woodbridge, has in its parish 200 souls and 1442 acres of land, mostly the property of the Marquis of Bristol, and Sir Charles E. Kent. The former is patron of the rectory, valued in K.B. at £4. 15s. 7 d., and now at £150, in the incumbency of the RevThomas Simons. The Church (St Edmund) is a small ancient edifice, which was new-roofed in 1820. The parish is in the manor of Staver ton-with-Bromswell. (See Eyke.) The Town Lands, let for £5. 2s., comprise 3A. 2R., in this parish, and la. in Ufford, and have been vested from an early period, for the relief of the poor, but the rents have for many years been applied with the Church-rates. The poor of Bromeswell have £4. 14s. 8d. yearly, from Sir M. Stanhope's charity. (See Sutton.) Directory: Robert Goodchild, parish clerk; Robert Parker, vict. Cherry Tree; and Samuel Burrows, Thos. Gross, John King, Joseph King, and Noah Patrick, farmers. CAPEL ST. ANDREW is a small scattered village and churchless parish, nearly 4 miles W.S.W. of Orford, and 7 miles E.S.E. of Woodbridge, containing 222 inhabitants, and about 2000 acres of land, belonging to Lord Rendlesham, and extending a mile eastward to Butley river, and westward to the sandy heath, near Tangham Farm and Capel Folly. The church was standing in 1529, and was appropriated to Butley Priory, but all vestiges of it are gone. It stood on the site of the farm house occupied by Mr. Oxborrow, where many human bones have been dug up. The parish has for a long period been connected ecclesiastically with Butley. A cottage and IA. 3R. of land at Butley, have from an early period belonged to the poor of Capel, and are let for £6 year, which is added to the poor rates. The farmers are James Button (and shopkeeper,) John Luccock, My. May, & Stn. Oxborrow. DALLINGHO0, a scattered village, on an eminence, 4 miles N. of Woodbridge, has in its parish 346 souls, and 1495 acres of land, partly in Loes Hundred. Here was a handsome hall, built by Wm. Churchill, and for some time the seat of his son-in-law, Fras. Negus, Esq., but it was burnt down in 1729. Here are two manors, of which John Wood and Andrew Archdeckne, Esqrs. are lords, but part of the soil belongs to the Wade, Jarrold, Reeve, and other families. The Church (St. Mary) is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £13. 6s. 8d., but now having 32A. of glebe, and a yearly modus of £427. 1s. 11d. The Rev. Ellis Walford is patron and incumbent. Jacobs Benjamin, shopkeeper Kent Isaac, schoolmaster and regr Last John, blacksmith Leggett Wm. shoemaker Motum Jn. wheelgt. & machine mkr FARMERS. Bendall Arthur || Blake Arthur CARRIER, John Shepherd, to DEBACH, 5 miles N.N.W. of Woodbridge, is a small scattered village and parish, containing only 121 inhabitants and about 500 acres of land, mostly the property of the Rev. Osborne Shribb Reynolds, M.A., who is also patron and incumbent of the rectory, which is consolidated with that of Boulge. (See page 142. The Church (All Saints,) is a small ancient fabric, and near it is a neat Rectory House, which was much improved in 1813. The "Town Lands," comprise about 27A., including the site and gardens of four cottages, belonging to the same trust. The cottages are occupied by poor families at small rents, and the land is let for about £40 a year. From old deeds, it appears that part of the land was anciently held in trust for payment of tenths and fifteenths for the parish of Debach, and for the relief of the poor, and the reparation of the church; and that the other part thereof was purchased with money arising from the sale of the eighthpart of a ship, left for the poor, by Richard Francis. About onethird of the rent is distributed among poor parishioners in coals, &c., and the remainder is mostly applied to the use of the church. Directory:-George Mannall, corn miller; Stephen Marjoram, shopkr. and wheelwright; Rev. O. S. Reynolds, M.A., Rectory; and Samuel Copling, James and Christopher Marjoram, John Newby, John Reynolds, Daniel Stammers, and John Ward, farmers. HOLLESLEY is a well-built village, pleasantly situated on the banks of a rivulet, about a mile and a half from Orford Haven and Hollesley Bay, 6 miles S.W. of Orford, and 7 miles S.E. of Woodbridge. Its parish contains 590 souls, and 2600 acres of land, extending southward to the sea, and northward to a large, sandy, unenclosed heath, of which it comprises about 440 acres. Sir Charles E. Kent is lord of the manor, but part of the soil belongs to J. Barthorp, Esq., R. Brook, Esq., C. Walker, H. Balls, and several smaller owners. The Church, (All Saints,) has a lofty steeple, which is a conspicuous sea-mark. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £12. 16s. 8d., is in the patronage of W. Bolton, Esq. The tithes have recently been commuted for a yearly modus of £943. The poor have have £4. 16s. 8d. yearly from Sir M. Stanhope's Charity. (See Sutton.) During the late war, Hollesley Bay was often visited by ships of war. In 1804, two very ancient and curious pieces of cannon were found here. Barthorp John, Esq. Grove Blacksmiths. Rouse Thomas EFT Warnett Charles, bricklayer Wilmhurst Wm. grocer, draper, and tailor. Post office, letters desp. at half-past 3 afternoon FARMERS. Barthorp John corn miller) Joiners, &c. Broom Thomas Broom Simon Burrows John Wright Wm. wheelwright CARRIER. Richard Clark to MELTON is a large, pleasant, and well-built village, on the western side of the river Deben, about a mile N.E. of Woodbridge. Its parish increased its population from 501, in 1801, to 980 souls, in 1841, including 217 in Suffolk Lunatic Asylum. It comprises about 1410 acres of land, stretching southward to the suburbs of Woodbridge, from which the navigation of the Deben has been extended up to a new quay here, constructed a few years ago by Mr. R. W. Burleigh. The soil belongs chiefly to J. H. Buckingham, F. C. and T. Brooke, E. Jenney, T. Pytches, and J. Jeaffreson, Esqrs., and several smaller owners, some of whom have neat mansions here. The Dean and Chapter of Ely are lords of the manor and patrons of the Church (St. Andrew) N which is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £9. 6s. 8d., and now enjoyed by the Rev. Christopher George Walton. The tithes have recently been commuted for a yearly modus of £395. 3s. 5d. Wilford Bridge, which here crosses the Deben, was rebuilt by the county about 1539, when several small legacies were left by Richd. Cook and other donors, towards the expense of its renovation. Melton Church and Poor's Estate is partly freehold and partly copyhold, and consists of seven cottages let at low rents; 2A. 1R. 12p. of land, called Green Man Meadow, let for about £10 a year, and given to the poor many years ago by one John Jenner; two cottages and 28A. 1R. 4P. of land in several enclosures, appropriated at an early period to the repairs of the church, and now let for about £35 a year; and 15A. 6P., worth about £19 a year, and given at soine remote period by persons named Halifax, Cook, and Histed, for providing fuel, &c., for the poor. SUFFOLK LUNATIC ASYLUM, which stands in a healthy and airy situation, near Woodbridge, but in Melton parish, was originally erected as a House of Industry for the parishes of Loes and Wilford Hundreds, which were incorporated for the maintenance of their poor in 1765, but disincorporated in 1827, when the building was purchased by the county magistrates, chiefly for the reception of pauper lunatics. Whilst a workhouse, it had sometimes as many as 250 inmates, and there are now within its walls upwards of 200 persons labouring under that worst of all human maladies-insanity. They are nearly all Suffolk paupers, for whom their respective parishes pay at the rate of about six shillings per week per head; but there are a few boarders paying from 9s. 4d. to 21s. each per week. This useful and well-regulated establishment, including the purchase of the grounds and the original buildings, and the subsequent alterations, enlargements, and improvements, with the furniture, &c., has cost about £30,000. It is now so crowded, and the applications for admission have been so numerous, that it is in contemplation to make considerable additions to the present buildings, which are well ventilated, and are provided with warm and cold baths, and are aired by Arnott's stoves. The grounds are very extensive, and are partly laid out in gardens, lawns, and shrubberies, affording pleasing recreation and healthy employment to the inmates, who are managed with such skill and tenderness that personal restraint is seldom necessary. Dr. Kirkman, the resident physician, in his report of the Asylum for 1842, says, "We have found great advantage this year by the additional piece of ground (nearly 2A.) at the back of the house, retained in cultivation by the patients. We have generally as many as 15 or 20 employed on this piece of ground, and they work very much under the direction of a very insane man, who fancies him. self a king, but who never appears to suppose that his monarchial dignity can be compromised by the use of the spade. We have a queen too, in our laundry, who bears great sway, and though hers is not quite so mild a government, as that of the aforesaid king, yet she labours effectually herself for the general good, and keeps her subjects in due order." Mr. Head is house steward; Dr. Lynn, of Woodbridge, consulting physician; the Rev. T. W. Hughes, chaplain; and Mr. Pizey, auditor. |