with these words Grace Govern us. The nunnery was valued at the dissolution, 35 Henry VIII. at £182. 98, 5d. per annum, and granted to sir William Willoughby.

Ash High house in Campsey, is a good seat, and was built by John Glover, esq; sometime servant to Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk whose successor removing to Frostenden in this county, sold it to the Sheppards. It is now the seat of J. Sheppard esq. and called the High house Campsey Ash. It has certainly been erected at different periods but the central part is the original building and being four stories in height it has gained its present appellation; here are several fine cedars, the park is noted for its fine trees which form several beautiful avenues of great length and height. This parish contains 342 inhabitants.

CHARSFIELD, was formerly the lordship of William de Weyland in king John's time, who fined for his villains in Charsfield and Westerfield; afterwards of the Bedingfields, and sold by them to sir John Lemon, knt. lord mayor of London; now the property of earl Howe.

The church was impropriated to Letheringham priory, and is now a donative; that is, filled by the patron, without presentation or nomination to, or licence from the bishop. 549 inhabitants.

CRETINGHAM. This church was impropriated to St. Peter's priory in Ipswich. The manor of St. Peter in Cretingham, also belonged to the

said priory. The manor of Kettlebars, belonged to a family who took their name from it; from them it passed to the family of Mulso, and from them to the family of Cornwallis. The manor of Tyes in Cretingham, belonged to a Mr. Revett, of Brandeston, and was the estate of his ancestors about two hundred years. The parish was anciently divided into two villages, one called Great Cretingham, and the other Little Cretingham, near Otley, which had a chapel belonging to it. 375 inhabitants.

DALLINGHOO, Part in Willford. Here was a handsome seat built by William Churchill, esq; who sometime resided here. His son-in-law Francis Negus, esq; who was formerly one of the representatives of the borough of Ipswich to whom he gave it, rebuilt it; but it was unfortunately consumed by fire, in 1729.

One manor in this parish and hundred of Loes belongs to to the honour of Eye.

The other in the hundred of Willford, called for distinction sake, Earl-Dallinghoo, as having been in the hands of several of the earls of Norfolk and Suffolk, is vested in the earl of Rochford, as was the advowson; but it has since belonged to the Rev. W. Brown, the late rector; afterwards to E, Moor, esq. of Great Bealings; and now to the Rev. 1. Clarke, the present rector. Before the Earls of Rochford had them they belonged to the Wingfields, and anciently to the Bovilles, of Letheringham. This parish contains 303 inhabitants.

EARL SOHAM, is so called, because it belonged to the earls of Norfolk. Roger Bigod had a grant of a market as well as a fair here, 20 Edward I. and Thomas de Brotherton earl of Norfolk had it confirmed to him, 7 Edward II. The market hath been long disused, but there is now a fair yearly on August 4th principally for lambs.

Soham lodge, is a modera building, encompassed with a brick wall and a large moat, standing within the park, to which the manor of the town belongs. It was anciently the seat of the family of Cornwallis; from one of them it was given by will to the Corderoys, who sold the manor, advowson, lodge and park to John Cotton, second son of sir Allen Cotton, lord-mayor of London in 1626. He dwelt here, and was sheriff of Suffolk in 1644. His son sold this estate to Leicester Devereux lord viscount Hereford, it then passed through the hands of various proprietors, to John Ayton esq. of Messendon abbey, Buckinghamshire. This parish

contains 641 inhabitants.

EASTON, was formerly the lordship of an ancient family in Kettleburgh, surnamed Charles. Afterwards the Wingfields of Letheringham, were proprietors of both. Anthony Wingfield removed from Letheringham, to Godwyns in Hoo; and was created a baronet 17 May, 1627. He built the White House at Easton, and removing from Hoo made it his seat. To him succeeded sir Richard, sir Robert, and sir Henry

Wingfield, baronets, whose son sir Henry sold this seat and the remainder of the Wingfield's estate in the neighbourhood, to the right honourable William Zuilestein lord of Zuilestein in the province of Utrecht, master of the robes to king William III. created baron of Enfield, Viscount T Tunbridge, and earl of Rochford, 10 May, 7 William III. He was succeeded by his son William Henry earl of Rochford, who commanded the left wing of the English army under general Stanhope, at Lerida in Spain, where he was slain 14 July, 1710. The present hall at Easton, is a handsome brick building and is the seat of the earl of Rochford who is now lord of the manor. Easton.contains 371 inhabitants.

EYKE. Roger Bigod endowed Alice his second wife with the manor of Staverton in this parish, 18 Edward I. so called, from a family of the name of Staverton, who formerly possessed it. Thomas Mowbray, first duke of Norfolk, died seized of the manor of Staverton, 1 Henry IV. and it was assigned to his relict as part of her dowry, 3 Henry IV. It now belongs to Barnardiston esq. The pasture called Staverton park, was granted as parcel of the possessions of Butley priory to Thomas duke of Norfolk, 32 Henry VIII. At Eyke was a chantry, called Bennet's Chantry, of the yearly value of £8. The lands belonging to it lying in Eyke and Rendlesham, were granted 3 Edward VI, to sir Michael Stanhope and John

Delle. The rectory is in Jacoc Chilton, clk. Eyke contains 396 inhabitants.

FRAMLINGHAM, is a parish of large extent, containing upwards of 5,000 acres of rich arable and pasture land; the town is of great antiquity, its name being composed of the Saxon words Fremdling and Ham, meaning the habitation of strangers. It is pleasantly seated, and pretty well built, upon a clay hill near the source of the river Ore; which rising in the hills on the north passes through the town, and falleth into the sea beyond Orford. The market is held on Saturday; and here is a fair on Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun-week, procured by Thomas of Brotherton, earl of Norfolk; and another fair on October 12th. The market-place is triangular, and almost equilateral; in the centre of this stood an ancient market cross; the church and castle are great ornaments to the town. The church is indeed a stately edifice of black flint built (as is supposed) by the Mowbrays earls of Norfolk, at least great part of the steeple seems to have been so as appears from their arms at the bottom, and on the middle of it; but it was not completed till the latter end of Henry the eighth's reign; for there are many wills in the archdeacon's office, in which legacies are given towards building the steeple at Framlingham; and in 1520 legacies begin to be given towards the battlements of the steeple; and such legacies occur so late as the