timate connexion with a part of this county, but particularly Bury, where even the arms of the town have been formed to commemorate the savage protector of the royal monarch's head, and which has also furnished a number of artists with a favourite subject for the exercise of their various abilities. Two fine specimens of painted glass were in the possession of Sir Thomas Gery Cullum, bart. of Bury. One exhibits a bust of St. Edmund, crowned, and inscribed in black letter Sct. Ed. The other represents the wolf holding his head between his paws. Underneath are also in black letters the words heer, heer, heer; said to have been the exclamation of the head when his friends were looking for it! and above is this inscription, In salutem fidelium. These ancient performances are in fine preservation, the colours uncommonly brilliant, and the designs remarkable for clearness and precision Other examples of this nature appear in the engravings to Yate's Monastic History. After the course of some years, the ecclesiastics having reported that miracles were wrought at the grave of St. Edmund at Hoxne, a large church was constructed for the reception of his body, at Beodricsworth, or Bury, to which place it was removed; and as some ecclesiastics immediately devoted themselves to a monastic life, under the protection of the royal saint and martyr, to these circumstances St. Edmund's Bury owed its hrst rise and its growing consequence. Canute, as before observed, favoured Suffolk on account of the cruelties practised by his Danish predecessors. He even heaped grants and privileges upon the abbot and convent, and took it under his special protection. personages were afterwards drawn to Bury from motives of piety and the fame of its abbey. Henry I. came here in the year 1132 to pay his devotions at the shrine of St. Edmund, out of gratitude for his deliverance from a tempest on his return from France. Here

Many royal and noble

too a considerable army was formed during the contest between Henry II. and his sons, to support the cause of their rightful sovereign against Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, who had landed at Walton, in this county, and Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, at Framlingham Castle, who had espoused the same cause: these earls being met by the royal army, on their march into Leicestershire, were defeated after a sanguinary engagement, the Earl of Leicester and his countess taken prisoners, and at least five thousand of their followers slain. In this engagement the standard of St. Edmund was borne before the royal army. Richard I. before and after his departure for the Holy Land, paid a visit to St. Edmund's shrine, and the honour of a visit was conferred upon this celebrated town by several of his successors, down to the time of Queen Elizabeth, who arrived at Bury on the 7th of August, 1578, in her journey through Norfolk and Suffolk.

In the fourth year of the reign of James I. this monarch granted the town of Bury a charter of incorporation. Ten years after he gave the reversion of the houses, tythes, and glebes, called the almoner's barns, and of the fairs and markets of the town in fee farm, the reversion of the gaol, with the office of gaoler belonging to the liberty of Bury, and also the toll-house, afterwards the market cross, in present possession. Some years after he gave the churches, with the bells, libraries, and other appurtenances; also the rectories, oblations, and profits of the same churches not formerly granted; and much enlarged the liberties of the corporation for the better government of the town. At the same time he confirmed to the feoffees of Bury all lands and possessions given by former benefactors.

EXCURSION I.

From Bury St. Edmund's through Sudbury to Neyland, Bury St. Edmund's, Whelnethan, Bradfield, Alpheton, Long Melford, Rodbridge, Tudbury, Newton, Marshals Green, Neyland.

BURY ST. EDMUND'S is pleasantly situated on the west side of the river Lark, and having a charming enclosed country on the south and south-west, with champaign fields extending into Norfolk, is upon the whole so salubrious as to be called the Montpellier of England. The streets, which are always clean, are wide, well paved, and lighted, and have been very much improved by the erection of modern buildings. Bury, including the suburbs, is about a mile and a quarter broad from east to west, and about one and a half in length from south to north. It is divided into two parishes, and according to the returns made in 1811, the population of this town was 7938.

Bury is certainly very ancient, as about the year 638, Sigbert, fifth monarch of the East Angles, founded a christian church and monastery here, which Dugdale says was denominated the monastery of St. Mary at Beodericworth; but after Canute founded his monastery here, the name of Beoderic fell into disrepute, and the place began to be called Burgh, or Bury. Edmund succeeded his uncle Offa, king of the East Angles, in 855, but his life, as indicated before, is disguised under a veil of impenetrable fiction. Edward the Confessor considerably increased the fame, wealth, and import