The Life of Thomas Tusser, written by himself.
A Despairing Author, by Thomas Nashe.

A Funeral Elegy on the Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Drury,
by John Donne, D. D.

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An Elegy to his Tutor Thomas Young, Vicar of Stowmarket, by John Milton.

Clodio from the Market Town, a MS. Poem, by Mr. John
Webb.

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Ambrose Curteen, by Mr. John Webb.

Elegy to the Memory of Thomas Gainsborough.
On the Death of Lionel Robert Tollemache esq.
Verses, written after the Funeral of Billy Twigger, of
Hadleigh.
Clerio: from the Market Town, a MS. Poem by Mr. John
Webb.
An Elegy on the much lamented Death of the Rev. Edward
Pearson, D. D.
Elegy to the Memory of the Rev. Richard Broome, B. A.
The Worthies of Haverhill, by Mr. John Webb.
Suffolk's Tears; or an Elegy on that Renowned Knight,

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311

313

Sir Nathaniel Barnardiston.
Lines on the Death of the Rev. Wm. Humphryes, by Mr.
John Webb.

Verses on James Chambers, the Suffolk Itinerant Poet, by
Mr. John Webb.

PART THE FOURTH.-MANNERS, HABITS, AND
CUSTOMS.

The Suffolk Horkey, a Provincial Ballad, by Robert
Bloomfield.

337

A Description of Husbandry Furniture, by Thomas Tusser. 345 Carol for St. Edmund's Day.

Dick Delver, the practical Philosopher: a Suffolk Ballad
from real life, by the Rev. John Black.
Corn Harvest, by Thomas Tusser, and Robert Bloomfield.
The Lamentation of Stephen Spink, the Brandeston Post
Boy, by the Rev. William Clubbe, LL. B.
The Ploughman's Feasting Days, by Thomas Tusser.
Suffolk Cheese, by Robert Bloomfield.

.. 349

352

355

356

359

The Farmer's Daily Diet, by Thomas Tusser.

375

Harvest Home, by Robert Bloomfield.

376

The Haverhill Matchseller, a Suffolk Tale, by Mr. John

A Description of Huswifery, by Thomas Tusser.

Mendlesham Games, 1735.

Suffolk Provincial Songs, Ditties, Healths and Proverbs. 395

383

391

107

242

300

EXPLANATION OF THE ENGRAVINGS.

Title Page.-A representation of St. Edmund's Head, copied from
a pane
of painted glass, which was taken from a window of the
Abbot's Palace at Bury, and is now in the possession of the
Rev. Edward Mills of that town.

PART THE FIRST.

Vignette.-Freston Tower, with the River Orwell.
Tail-Piece. The Town Hall at Aldeburgh.

PART THE SECOND.

Vignette. The Ipswich Bellmen, with the curiously carved corner of the old Coffee House, in Tavern Street.

Page 111.-The Ipswich Great Court Trump. This Horn is of brass, its length 2 feet, 9 inches, and its weight 4lbs. It is blown at midnight in the town of Ipswich, before the meeting of the Great Court, by the Common Cryer, who then proclaims the following notice :

"O-yez! O-yez! O-yez! Master Bailiffs, streightly charge and command, in his Majesty's name, all Portmen and Free Burgesses, to make their appearance on the Moot Hall, at Twelve o'Clock, this day, on pain of a penalty on those who fail therein. God save the King."

The antiquity of this Horn is unquestionable: Mr. Seekamp, one of the Portmen of Ipswich, is of opinion that it was given, together with the Charter, by King John.

Tail-Piece.-The Whale, on the banks of the Orwell, November th, 1816.

PART THE THIRD.

245 Vignette.-Dan John Lydgate, Monk of Bury, copied from an original drawing in a MS. in the Harleian Library, No. 1766, with two Figures from an old chest in the Moot Hall, at Ipswich. Page 301.-William Twigger, copied from an original drawing, with the Gate House to the Rectory, Hadleigh, built about 1490 by William De Pykenham, LL. D. the Rector, Chancellor of Norwich, Archdeacon of Suffolk, and Dean of the College of Stoke Clare.

333.

Tail-Piece.-James Chambers, the Itinerant Poet, with the Church and Lawn of the Rectory House at Earl Soham.

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PART THE FOURTH.

Vignette. The Suffolk Horkey, or Harvest Supper.

Tail-Piece.-The Arms of Ipswich, with the Great Court Trump.

Part the First.

LOCAL DESCRIPTIONS.

A lovely SPOT

"For all that life can ask! Salubrious; mild! "Its hills are green; its woods and prospects fair! "Its meadows fertile! And to crown the whole "In one delightful word,it is our HOME."

COTTLE'S ALFRED.

Morning-River Scenery-The Glen-The Artist -The Fisherman-The Spell-The Yacht--Days of Yore-Conclusion.

The picturesque beauties and characteristic features of the River Orwell are very accurately and tastefully described in the following Poem.

The "Ancient Fisherman," whose character is pourtrayed in these Stanzas, is not a mere creature of the imagination, but an eccentric Being, once resident in the parish of St. Clement, Ipswich, by name THOMAS COLSON, but better known by the appellation of Robinson Crusoe. He was originally a wool-comber, and afterwards a weaver; but a want of constant employment in both these occupations induced him to enter into the East Suffolk Militia; and whilst quartered at Leicester, he learned, with