ON THE REMOVAL OF THE MARKET CROSS, At Ipswich: BY MR. BARNARD BARTON. Edmond Dandy, esq. a Portman of Ipswich, and a very rich and religious man, erected at his own expence the Market-Cross in the year 1510, during his Bailiwic. He was one of the Representatives for the Borough in the Parliaments of 1511, and 1514; and served the office of Bailiff three times, viz. in 1498, 1503, and 1510. In 1514, he founded a Chantry in the Church of St. Lawrence for a Secular Priest to offer, at the altar of St. Thomas the Martyr, in behalf of himself and his relations, amongst whom he reckoned Thomas Wolsey, the celebrated Cardinal, then Dean of Lincoln, and his parents Robert and Jone Wolsey, deceased. He nominated Sir James Crowfield the first priest; and to him and his successors he gave his house in St. Lawrence Parish, adjoining to the Crown in King's Street, for a residence, and his lands in Sproughton, Stoke and Alnesborne, for a maintenance. This Mr. Dandy was one of the most respectable men of the town; all his daughters married gentlemen of good fortune; and the issue of one of them was the wife of the Lord Keeper Bacon. He died in May 1515, and was buried in the church of St. Lawrence. Mr. Beaumont, who was Minister of that parish in 1729, says, that there was part of a white stone, then placed in one of the windows of the chancel, on which there had been brasses, and on which was the following inscription: Here under lies buried the body of Edm Dandy Some Time Portman and Bailief of Ipswich. The Antient Founder of ye Market Cross and of the Alms houses in Lady Lane, to Every one of wch he gave an 100 of wood agst winter to the maintenance whereof he gave certain Lands in Holbrook to ye Bailieves of Ipswch and their Successors for ever. He dyed May 1515 and had Issue by Alice his wife daughter of Bacon m Dandy of Cretingham in Suff who married Agnes daughter of Thomas Aluard of Ipswich Robert Dandy married Joice, daughter of Thomas Read of Beccles in Suk. John Dandy Jone Dandy and Agnes Dandy. On a broken black stone, which was under the little seats in the north side of the chancel, and which seems to be a part of the flat stone which lies at the chancel door, was the following inscriptiou : Here lies intombo the body of Anne Dandy. daughter of Baron of Blakenham First Wife of Edmd Dandy Portman e bailief of This Town by whom She had Issue M. Dandy of Cretingham who married Agnes daughter of Thomas Aluard of Jps. Esq Robert Dandy Portman e bailief of this Town who married Joan daughtr of Wm Read of Beccles and Margaret his wife daughter of Pooley Johanna dandy Agnes dandy married to m Fernly of London Esq by whom she had Issue; Jone Fernly married to Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Beeper Jone dandy upon which Posterity God have Mercy. His second wife Margaret, after his death, became an Abbess. Hawes. 597. The deed for the foundation of the Chantry in the church of St. Lawrence is copied from Tanner's MSS. into the Register Book of that parish. 66 An account of his charitable bequests to the town of Ipswich extracted from his Will, may be seen at large An Account of Gifts and Legacies that have been "given and bequeathed to Charitable Uses in the Town of Ipswich, &c. 1747." 8vo. pp. 163. 164. 195. in Lost to our view that ancient Cross, so fair, Thence knights of shire exhausted oft their breath, Proud of the produce of their native soil, Tried and condemn'd, without judicial form, No more the traveller shall its dome admire, From forth its canopy no more shall sound And to the joyous crowd sweet peace proclaim. Peace to its manes! doom'd no more to live, An Heroic Epistle FROM WILLIAM DE LA POLE, duke of suffolk, TO MARGARET, THE QUEEN OF HENRY THE VI. William De La Pole, Duke of Suffolk, was a brave and skilful officer, and during the latter part of the glorious reign of Henry the Vth. served with much reputation in the wars of France, and was made a Knight of the Garter. Upon the death of that king, he was left in France with the Earl of Salisbury, for the defence of the English acquisitions there; and in 1424, upon the taking of the city of Maine, was made governor thereof. In 1442, in consideration of his manifold services, he obtained a grant to himself, Alice his wife, and their issue male, in reversion, of the Earldom of Pembroke, in case Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, should die without issue male. In 1444, he was created Marquis of Suffolk; and obtained a grant to himself, his wife and the heirs of their bodies of the manors of Nedging, and Kettlebaston, to hold by the service of carrying a golden sceptre, with a dove on its head, upon the coronation-day of the king's heirs and successors; as also another sceptre of ivory, with a golden dove on its head, upon the day of the coronation of the then queen, and all other queens of England, in time to come. In 1443, he was sent over to France, apparently to settle the terms of a truce, which had then been begun, but in reality to procure a suitable match for the king. The princess, selected to be the partner of his throne, was Margaret of Anjou, the daughter of Regnier, titular king of Sicily. The treaty of marriage having been soon brought to a conclusion by Suffolk, he was sent as the king's proxy to espouse the princess, and conduct her to England. He enjoyed ever afterwards a high degree of favor with the queen, through whose means he was made Lord Chamberlain, Lord High Admiral, and raised to the dignity of Duke of Suffolk. This nobleman is accused of having been concerned, with the Cardinal of Winchester, in the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester; and after the death of the Cardinal, governed every thing with uncontrolled sway. His conduct soon excited the jealousy of the other nobility; and every odious and unsuccessful measure was attributed to him. He was charged with mismanagement; waste of the public treasure; the foul murder of the duke; and the loss of divers provinces in France; with many other high crimes and misdemeanours; for which he was committed to the Tower; and though the queen interposed and effected his release, yet the popular resentment against him was so strong, that the king, to skreen him as much as possible, sentenced him to five years banishment. This was considered by his enemies as an escape from justice; and when the Duke left his castle at Wing field, and embarked at Ipswich, with an intention to sail to France, the captain of a vessel was employed to intercept him in his passage. Being seized near Dover, his head was struck off on the gunwale of a boat in 1449, and his body thrown into the sea; but being cast on shore, it was removed to Wingfield, and interred in the chancel of the collegiate church, where under a purfled arch with a bouquet on the point, and a quatrefoil in the pediment on a freestone altar-tomb is his recumbent figure in stone with whiskers, pointed helmet, gorget of mail, gauntlets, square-toed shoes, a lion at his feet and under his head a helmet without a crest. On the front of the tomb are four plain quatrefoils with shields. It is recorded of the Duke, that when his father and three brothers had lost their lives in the service of their country, in the wars with France, he spent thirty years in the same campaign, and for seventeen years never returned home. Once he was taken prisoner, whilst |