gives and confirms to it the manor of Brandiston in Herkestede in Suffolk. This manor was granted, 31 of Henry VIII. to Sir Perceval Hart, knt. It came afterwards, with the advowson of the rectory, to the family of the Cocks in Worcestershire, who had it some time, and then sold the manor, hall, house, &c. to Knox Ward, esq. Clarencieux king at arms, whose heir sold them to Thomas Staunton, of Holbrook, esq. The advowson was sold to the Rev. Richard Canning, who was editor of the second edition of Kirby's Suffolk Traveller. Beside the parish church, here was formerly a chapel dedicated to St. Clement, no vestiges of which have remained for many years; but it stood at the south-east corner of a field, from thence called Chapel Down. A legacy was left to this chapel of St. Clement in 1528; and a house was bequeathed in 1685, with the garden, and one pightle abutting south upon St. Clement's churchyard, and upon the millway towards the north.

ERWARTON. The lordship of this place formerly belonged to the family of the D'Avilers; but afterwards came to the Bacons, when Sir Robert Bacon married Isabel, the daughter of Bartholomew D'Avilers, about the year 1330. About 1345, this family procured the grant of a market and a fair here. In 1577, the estate was purchased of Sir Drue Drury by Sir Philip Parker, knt. whose descendant of the same name was, in 1661, created a baronet. It now belongs to Charles Berners, esq.

Erwarton Hall is situated on a point of land at the junction of the Orwell and Stour, commanding a fine view of these rivers. Neither the house nor the offices are remarkable for their antiquity or appearance, though the gate of this mansion has attracted considerable notice. It has been urged, from the whimsical taste of its construction, that it must have been

erected in the time of Elizabeth, or James I. when architecture seems to have been at its lowest ebb, the buildings of those days being neither Grecian nor Gothic, but an unnatural and discordant jumble of both styles.

About a mile to the north-west of Harkstead is

HOLBROOK. This, in the time of King Henry III., was the lordship of Richard de Holbrook, who paid fines to Ipswich for himself and his villains here and at Tattingstone. It was afterwards Mr. Daundy's, then the Clench's. Judge Clench, who died here in 1607, lies buried in the church, with this inscription.

In obitum Colendissimi Suiq Temporis,
Antiquissimi Judicis Johannis Clenche,
Qui obiit XIX. Die Augusti, Anno Salvatoris
1607.

Ecce jacet subter venerandus marmore judex
Terram terra petit, pulvere corpore inest,
Ast anima ad superos sumiq; palatia cœli,
Fertur et æterni vivit in arce Dei.

STUTTON is about two miles from Holbrook, and is seated on the Stour. The manor of Stutton Hall once belonged to Mr. Thomas May, but was purchased by the Earl of Dysart. Another hall in this parish, called Crow's Hall, was vested in the family of Bowes. The manor of Greping, or Creeping Hall in Stutton, was granted to Humfry Wingfield, 29 Henry VIII. ; and in 4 Eliz. to Thomas Seckford, as parcel of the possessions of the priory of Coln in Essex. A family of the Jermys formerly lived here, as appears by the monuments in the church. To the right of this place are the houses called Alton Hall and Hales Grove, which we leave on turning towards the high road, and proceed to

TATTINGSTONE. Here was an old seat called the