LINES, WRITTEN IN THE Park of Christ-Church, Ipswich, THE SEAT OF THE Rev. Charles William Fonnereau, LL.B. BY J. R. 1809. Christ Church is a spacious brick mansion, situated on the site of the ancient Priory of the Holy Trinity, in the parish of St. Margaret, Ipswich. It was erected and surrounded with a pale by Sir Edmund Withipoll, Knt. in 1549, as appears by the following inscription, over the porch of entrance: FRVGALITATEM SIC SERVAS VT DISSIPATIONEM NON INCVRRAS 1549. This family came from Italy. Sir Edmund Withipoll was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1571; and in 1601 was knighted. He died Nov. 25, 1619, and is interred under an altar tomb, in the chancel of the church of St. Margaret, on which is the following inscription: EDMVNDVS. WITHIPOLL. A°. DNI. 1574. SIBI. ET. POSTERITATI. POSVIT. MORTVI. SINE. HOSTE. E.W. He married Frances, the daughter of Sir William Cornwallis, Knt. and had issue Sir William W. who married Jane, the daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope, of Sudbourn, Knt. the relict of Henry Lord Fitzwalter, eldest son of the Earl of Sussex, and had issue by her a sole daughter and heir, Elizabeth, who married Leicester Devereux, the sixth Viscount Hereford. She died in her husband's life time, leaving one daughter Frances, married to William, Viscount Tracy, of the kingdom of Ireland. Lord Hereford by his second wife Priscilla, the daughter of John Catchpole, of this county, esq. left issue two sons, and two daughters, of whom Anne, the 2nd daughter, by the death of her two brothers without issue, and of her eldest sister, who died unmarried. became sole heir to the lordship of Christ Church. . She married Leicester Martin, esq. by whom she had issue an only daughter and heir, Elizabeth, who married in 1720, the Hon. Price Devereux, esq. Knight of the shire for the county of Montgomery, and the only son of the Right Hon. Viscount Hereford, and dying without issue August 16th, 1735, was interred in the chancel of the church of Sudbourn, near Orford. After her death Lord Hereford, in 17 sold this estate to Claude Fonnereau, esq. in whose descendant the Rev. Charles William Fonnereau, it is at present vested. This gentleman, with a liberality not very common, allows, on certain days, free access to this park, which is a most agreeable promenade, to the inhabitants of the town. Here is still to be seen a large bowling-green, which was formerly a necessary appendage to a gentleman's mansion. The surface of the park, though not of great extent, is pleasingly diversified, and commands some delightful views of the river, town, and adjacent country. It is well-timbered, and contains some fine, venerable Spanish chesnuts; and is stocked with some handsome deer, of a white colour spotted with black, which still further contribute to the beauty and variety of the scene. HERE, where my infant feet have trod, Or bade its lovely hues adorn Oft, when our sportive feet have strayed, Or, starting, heard the bugle horn, For she, the sister lov'd so well, Still spreads yon beech its ample shade, These rustling leaves, by autumn spread, Yet 'mid the winter of the grave, The germ immortal God will save, Water'd by immortality; Around whose fount, in grace divine, These earth-rear'd plants shall ever shine. Delightful day-dreams, where I see Bright visions of futurity! Oft have ye robb'd me of my care, Let no stern moralist look down Oft have they stol'n an hour from grief, THE Loyalty of Woodbridge: BY WILLIAM STYGALL Friday July the 8th 1814, being the day appointed for the grand Festival, in commemoration of the return of Peace, the ringing of bells, the soul-cheering music of the fife and drum, and the deep thunder of artillery, greeted the arrival of the morning. All was noise and glee and jollity; and that the amusements of the day might not be alloyed by the dull occupations of business, the shops were closed |