charge of £2. 10s., out of two houses now belonging to the Crawley family. It is distributed in coals, together with £4 a-year paid out of the poor-rates, as an acknowledgment for the premises left by Isaac Blomfield, in 1772, and long used as the parish workhouse. In 1723, Mary Chapple left a house, yard, &c. for the benefit of the poor. The house was rebuilt by the parish, at the cost of £100, and converted into two cottages, now occupied by paupers. The poor parishioners have also a yearly rent-charge of £1. 6s., left by John Blythe, in 1756, and one-half of Thorne's rent-charge of £2. 12s., as noticed with the parish of St. Mary Stoke. The poor of St. Stephen's parish have distributed among them, on New Year's day, £10, as the rent of 4A. 7P. of land, at Grundisburgh, purchased with £100, left by John Reynolds, in 1647. It EAST SUFFOLK AND IPSWICH HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY is a handsome structure, of white brick and stone, and was erected in 1835 and '6, at the cost of about £2500, upon a bold eminence, overlooking the town and a wide extent of the surrounding country. stands near the centre of about two acres of land, which was purchased by the trustees of the Rev. W. C. Fonnereau, and is now tastefully laid out in lawns, gardens, and shrubberies. It is approached through a lofty portico, of the Ionic order, and affords accommodation for upwards of 50 in-patients. The wards and passages are spacious, and well ventilated, and the interior arrangement is highly creditable to the skill of the architect, Mr. B. Backhouse. R. D. Alexander, Esq., and a few other gentlemen, first called the attention of the inhabitants of East Suffolk to the establishment of this house of mercy, for the relief of the sick, lame, and infirm poor; and the generous flame spread so rapidly, that before the opening of the hospital, on August 3rd, 1836, no less than £5000 had been raised by voluntary contribution, and a list of annual subscribers showed a yearly revenue of more than £800. The charity has since received many legacies and benefactions, and its income is now about £1000 per annum, nearly £600 of which is derived from yearly subscriptions, about £200 from the dividends of stock and the interest of money vested with the Dock Commissioners, and the remainder from donations and other irregular contributions. Patients are admitted on the recommendation of subscribers or benefactors; but in cases not admitting of delay, no recommendation is necessary. The number admitted yearly is upwards of 200 in, and 450 out patients, but seldom more than 30 are fed and lodged in the hospital at one time. Sir Wm. F. F. Middleton, Bart. is president; and he and Sir Robert Harland, and Andrew Archedeckne and F. W. Campbell, Esqrs. are trustees of the charity. The Rev. J. C. Aldrich, M.A., is chaplain ; A. W. Baird and E. Beck are the physicians; and A. H. Bartlett, G. Bullen, C. C. Hammond, and G. G. Sampson, are the surgeons. BELLE VUE ASYLUM, pleasantly situated on the Woodbridge road, is a private establishment, for the reception of persons afflicted with insanity. It was commenced in 1835, by its present proprietor, Mr. Jas. Shaw, surgeon, and has accommodations for 40 patients. Besides those already noticed, here are several other charitable institutions, supported by the contributions of the benevolent, for the solace of poverty; and among them is a "Society for Clothing the Infant Poor," of which Mrs. J. Cobbold is president. Here are also many Friendly Societies and Secret Orders, in which the members, by small monthly or other contributions, make provision for sickness, superan nuation, and death; and one of them is the Seamen's Shipwreck Benevolent Society, established in 1825, and held at the White Elm Inn. Here are three Lodges of Free Masons, viz., the British Union Lodge, held at the Assembly Rooms, on the Monday on or before full-moon; St. Luke's Lodge, at the Coach and Horses, on the second Wednesday of every month; and the Lodge of Perfect Friendship, at the Bee Hive, on the third Wednesday of every month. There are in the town two SAVINGS' BANKS, both established in 1818, viz., the Ipswich Provident Bank, in Queen street; and the Ipswich and Suffolk Savings' Bank, on Cornhill. In November, 1842, the former had deposits amounting to £70,696, belonging to 2048 individuals, 37 charitable institutions, and 15 friendly societies. The Suffolk and General Country Fire Office was established here and at Bury St. Edmunds, in 1802, for securing houses, buildings, farming stock, goods, merchandise, and ships in harbour, against loss or damage by fire. During the last few years, the temperance cause has made as much progress here as in most other parts of the kingdom, and has wrought a great improvement in the morals and habits of a large portion of the inhabitants. The Ipswich Total Abstinence Society now numbers several hundred members, who hold their meetings in the Temperance Hall, a large and handsome building, of Doric architecture, erected in 1840, at the sole expense of R. D. Alexander, Esq. This Hall will accommodate 800 persons, being 68 feet long, and 40 feet wide, and having a spacious gallery and platform. HAMLETS, &c., IN THE BOROUGH. (See pages 50, 68, and 87.) WESTERFIELD, a small village, pleasantly situated, 2 miles N. by E. of Ipswich, has in its parish 1070 acres of land, and 324 souls. About 464 acres of land, and 70 of the inhabitants, are in Bosmere and Claydon Hundred, and all the rest of the parish is within the jurisdiction of the borough of Ipswich. The soil belongs to the Rev. M. G. Edgar, and several smaller proprietors, and is partly in the manor of Wykes-Ufford. The Church (St. Mary) is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £11. 10s. 7 d. The Bishop of Ely is patron, and the Rev. Chas. Drage, M.A., is the incumbent. The tithes have lately been commuted for a yearly modus of £350. The National School was built by subscription, in 1840; and the mistress receives the rent of a cottage and four acres of land, at Claydon, left in 1662, by Bridget Collet, for schooling poor children, and now let for £10 per annum. 1775, James Brooks left £300, and directed half of the yearly proceeds to be expended in providing clothes and religious books for poor scholars of Westerfield, and the remainder to be laid out in coals for the industrious poor not receiving parochial relief. This legacy was vested in the purchase of £323 old South Sea Annuities. The Poors' Houses are two tenements, let for £6 a year, which is applied in clothing poor children. In Hammond Jeremiah, shoemaker Norman Nathan, joiner, shopkeeper, Salter Susanna, school mistress Threadkell Wm. Barrett, corn miller FARMERS. Bird Samuel || Bird Thomas WHITTON is a small, well-built village, on the Norwich road, 2 miles N. by W. of Ipswich. Adjoining it, on the west, are the Crown Inn, the White House, and a few other buildings, which are in the parish of Bramford, but in the borough of Ipswich, which includes all the parish of Whitton, except a few houses at the northern extremity, which are in Blything Hundred. Whitton parish contains 1437a. of land, and includes the ancient hamlet of Thurlston. It had 422 inhabitants, in 1841, exclusive of the County Gaol and House of Correction, which had 116 inmates, and is partly in this parish, but mostly in those of St. Margaret, St. Helen, and St. Stephen. The principal owners of the soil are the Rev. Edward Woolnough, the Ipswich Charity Trustees, W.C. Fonnereau, Esq., and Mr. J.O. Flindell. Whitton Church (St. Mary) is a small ancient structure, without a tower, and is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £6. lls. 5§d., and now at £250. The Bishop of Ely is patron, and the Rev. Wm. Howorth, M.A., incumbent. Thurlston Church (St. Botolph) was parochial, an dis no doubt the church mentioned in Domesday Book, under the name of Thuriweston. It was appropriated to St. Peter's Friory, and was granted by Henry VIII., with the manor, to Cardinal Wolsey, and by Queen Elizabeth to Thomas Seckford, Esq. It was in use in 1500, but the vicarage being consolidated with the rectory of Whitton, it was neglected after that period, and has long been used as a barn. The great tithes of Whitton-cum- Thurlston were recently commuted for a yearly modus of £440, of which one-half belongs to the Rev. E. Woolnough, the impropriator of Thurlston, and lord of the manor. The Poor's Land, about 4A., let for £5 a-year, was purchased with 20 marks, left by John Reynolds, in 1647. WHITTON DIRECTORY. Lovely Wm. nurseryman and vict. Nunn John, cattle dealer & drover Smith Richard, shoemaker Steward Rev Ambrose, White house Green Benj. P. (and Blakenham) COURTS, LANES, HAMLETS, VILLAS, FARMS, &c., IN THE BOROUGH OF IPSWICH, WITH REFERENCES TO THEIR RESPECTIVE SITUATIONS. Adelphi place, Lower Brook street Albert terrace, Norwich road Albion street, Fore Hamlet Albion wharf, Quay street Bourn bridge, Halifax Bramford road, Norwich road Cottage place, Orford street Cox lane, Carr street Coyte's gardens, Friars' street Crown lane, Westgate & Bridge st Duke street, St Clement's street Fore Hamlet, St Clement's street Brook st.(Upper & Lower) Tavern st Goldroyd, Belstead road Brooks Hall, Norwich road Cold Dunghills, Eagle street Cook row, Corn hill, Market place Goodwin's gardens, Providence st Groves House, St Helen's street Haill's road and ter. London road Halifax, Wherstead road Handford Hall, London road Handford street, Mount King street, Corn hill Mount, and Mount street, Elm st New Market street, Falcon street Orwell Works, Duke street Red House, (1 m.) Tuddenham rd St Clement's street, Fore street St. George's terrace, Globe lane Shirehall yard, Foundation street Silent St. or New Market street, St Smart's wharf, Quay street Thurlston, 2 m. N.N.W. Henley rd Upper Orwell street, Carr street Victoria terrace, Woodbridge road |