highly deserving of the antiquaries' attention, as a good specimen of the architecture of the time; and though not inhabited, is still in a good state of preservation.

CAPEL is on the same side of the road. Here are three manors, Churchford Hall, Boitwell Hall, belonging to Queen's College, Cambridge, and another small manor. On the opposite side of the road

lies

EAST BERGHOLT, which, with Brantham, is situated on the Stour opposite to Manningtree in Essex. King Henry II. gave the Templars all his lands in Bergholt, and a manor here was granted to John, Earl of Oxford, 36 Henry VIII. as lately belonging to the preceptory at Battisford. The relict of John Vere, twelfth Earl of Oxford, held the manors of Chelsworth, East Bergholt, and Brook Hall in Suffolk, as her own inheritance, A. D. 1472. East Bergholt is still a considerable village, the church of which has been consolidated with the rectory of the contiguous parish of Brantham. It is supposed to have been a market-town, and a considerable place of trade in the cloth manufactures. The church is a good structure, and many parts of it are of very elegant workmanship; but the building of the steeple, towards which many legacies were left in the sixteenth century, has not yet been undertaken.

The bells, five in number, are fixed in a shed in the churchyard. South from the church is a neat mansion built by Thomas Chaplin, esq. which, together with the manor and advowson, devolved by marriage to the family of Hankey. It is now the residence of Peter Godfrey, esq.

BRANTHAM. King William Rufus gave the church of Brantham, with the berewics of Bercold, Scotlege, Meelflege, and Benetlege, to the abbey of Battle in Sussex; and the advowson of this rectory, as late belonging to that abbey, was granted to John, Earl of Oxford, 36 Henry VIII. In the hamlet of Cattiwade,

in this parish, there was a chapel near the bridge over the Stour into Essex. About the year 1460, Sir John Braham, of Braham Hall in Cattiswade, is mentioned, and afterwards William Lancaster, esq. who married a daughter of the Brahams.

Having noticed all the places of any interest on our left, on our right we first observe

GREAT WENHAM, or Burnt Wenham. Robert de Vaux, who was one of the knights of Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, was admitted a freeman of Ipswich in the reign of King John, and paid fines for himself and villains in Wenham. The manor and advowson of the rectory formerly belonged to the priory of Leigh in Essex; in the 28 of Henry VIII. it was granted to R. Cavendish; but afterwards came to the heirs of Sir Philip Parker Long, bart. About two miles westward of this place is

HOLTON. This lordship belonged formerly to the family of Fastolf, then to the Mannocks, and afterwards to Sir John Williams. About a mile to the north is Raydon, now nowise remarkable.

HIGHAM is about a mile and a half to the south-west of Holton. This was given to Trinity Priory, in Ipswich, by Maud de Munchensi, and was impropriated thereto; but the impropriation was purchased by Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Smith, and given to the minister. About a mile south of this place lies Stratford, which will conclude our present excursion.

STRATFORD is the southern limit of the county. William de Munchensi had an estate here in the four

teenth year of Edward I. Michael de la Pole procured a special charter to hold a court leet in his lordships of Stratford and Heigham, in this county, in the 7th of Richard II., and likewise for a market here on Thursday in every week, and a fair on the eve, day, and morrow, of the Translation of St. Thomas the Martyr, in the third year of Henry V. The advowson

belonged formerly to the Dukes of Suffolk; but ever since the reign of Henry VIII. it has been in the crown. The north aisle of this handsome church was built about the year 1500. The family of Mors were such great benefactors towards it, that some of their names were expressed in the stone work of the water table.

About a quarter of a mile south-west of this place, on the bank of the Stour, is a camp, where some antiquarians fix the much disputed Roman station Ad Ansam. The opinions on this subject are thus summed up by the late Mr. Gough, and his conclusion seems to be perfectly satisfactory :-" Ad Ansam seems to be the most undetermined station of any in the county (Essex, in which it was placed by various writers). Mr. Burton declines fixing it, and only tells us that Mr. Talbot, in some copies, set it at Catawade Bridge, where the Stour makes an island. One would think he had read it ad Insulam; and thereabouts, or at Stratford, Dr. Stukeley places it, as does Richard of Cirencester, changing its name to Ad Sturium amnem. Mr. Horsley, by the fifteen miles between Combretonium and Ad Ansam, is induced to carry the last to Mersey island, where are great remains of the Romans. Afterwards supposing the military ways to have met at Colchester, and coincided for four or five miles, he carries it to Casterford, called in Dr. Stukeley's map, Chesterford and Canonium; but unfortunately the Doctor mistook Easterford, or Kelvedon, for Casterford, else we had had a Roman station beyond controversy. Mr. Horsley, in his table, page 443, makes the road take a course perfectly answerable to his friend Ward's idea of an Ansa, a curve: carrying it by Witham, Maldon, Fambridge, Chelmsford, Leiton, to London, which is in the form of an inverted z. If we allow Camalodunum to be Colchester, Ad Ansam is to be sought for on the Suffolk edge of the county, and then Richard