to be held on the day and morrow of St. James the apostle; some small remains of which fair still continue. When the Leprous-house of St. Mary Magdalene was dissolved, the revenues of it were annexed to the rectory of St. Hellen of Caldwell, 9 Henry VIII. And with them probably the revenues of St. James's hospital; for, besides the piece of glebe before mentioned, the rector of St, Hellen was entitled to some portion of the tythes arising annually from the lands in the hamlet of Wykes-bishop; and for this portion, a composition was constantly paid by the rector of St. Clement, before the consolidation of the two churches.

St. Hellen. Although this church was formerly impropriated to the hospital of St. James, or St. Mary Magdalene, it hath been instituted into a rectory, above two hundred years. The bishop of Norwich had the advowson till he parted with the manor of Wykes.

In a field almost opposite to Caldwell-hall, now called Cold-hall, on the south of the road leading to Kesgrave, stood the church of St. John baptist, in Caldwell; of which there are no remains. It was impropriated to Trinity priory, and granted with that to Sir Thomas Pope.

St. Edmund a Pountey, corruptly so called for Pontiniac in France, where he was buried, had a chapel which stood towards the south

west corner of Rosemary-lane, Brook-street; and which was impropriated to St. Peter's priory; but being in the gift of the bishop of Norwich, as St. Hellen's was, they were given to the same incumbent till they were united. John de Bergham is mentioned 26 Edward 1. as parson of St. Edmund's chapel, in Ipswich. This St. Edmund was Archbishop of Canterbury, and being weary of the Pope's exactions in England, became a voluntary exile at Pontiniac in France, where he died, in 1240; with the honour and reputation of a saint. The rector of St. Hellen enjoys a portion of corn tithes from certain lands in Hoxne, one field of which is called Pountney close; and these tithes did probably, belong to this chapel.

St. Laurence is said, in Domesday, to have had twelve acres of land. Norman, the son of Eadnoth, gave this church to Trinity priory, who got it impropriated to them. But there having been no Prædial tithes belonging to it for many years, there was no grant of the impropriation at the dissolution. The present building was begun by John Bottold, who died in 1431. The chancel was built by John Baldwyn, draper, who died in 1449; and his name is in the stone work under the east window, now plastered over. Several legacies were about that time given towards building the steeple.

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In 1514. Edmund Daundy, portman of Ipswich, founded a chauntry in this church for a secular priest to offer at the altar of St. Thomas, in behalf of himself and his relations, among whom he reckoned Thomas Wolsey, then dean of Lincoln; and his parents Robert and Jane Wolsey, then deceased: and gave this priest and his successors, his house in St. Law rence parish, for a mansion: and his lands in Sproughton, Stoke, and Alnesborne, for a maintenance. Mr. Daundy first built the Marketcross, and was one of the most respectable men of the town, in his time. All his daughters married gentlemen of good Fortune; and the issue of one of them, was the wife of Lord Keeper Bacon. It appears then, that Cardinal Wolsey was well allied; and as we meet with nothing that gives the least countenance to the common notion of his being the son of a butcher, it is very probable that his parents were not in such mean circumstances, as the cardinal's enemies have taught the world to believe.

St. Margaret. This church was impropriated to the priory of the Holy Trinity.-Trinity church, from which probably the priory had its name, stood near St. Margaret's churchyard; and is mentioned in Domesday, as being endowed in the conqueror's time with twentysix acres of land. The strong foundation of this steeple was, many years ago undermined

and blown up with gunpowder. The priory was founded and chiefly endowed before 1177. by Norman Gastrode, for black canons of the order of St. Austin. Henry II. granted the prior and convert a fair on Holy-rood day! Sept. 14. to continue three days. Not long af+ ter the founding of this monastery, the church and the offices were burnt down; but they were rebuilt by John of Oxford, bishop of Norwich; whereupon Richard 1. gave the patronage of the priory to him and his successors. The grant of the fair was afterwards confirmed by king John, who, moreover, gave to the priory all the lands and rents formerly belonging to the churches of St. Michael, and St. Saviour's, in Ipswich. From this expression, it seems as if both these churches were even then dilapidated. It is not known where they stood; but there is a sort of uncertain tradition, which says, the church of St. Saviour stood behind St. Mary Elms; and that the church of St Michael, which is said in Domesday to have had eight acres of land, stood somewhere near the church of St. Nicholas. The revenues of this priory in 26 Henry VIII, were valued at £88. 68. 9d. per annum. and were granted 36 of the same reign, to sir Thomas Pope.

The church of St. Margaret is not mentioned in domesday, so that it was not then in being;

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wholly appropriated to the use of the prior and convent, we think this church might be built for the use of the parishioners.

The parliamentary visitors who acted in Suffolk, by virtue of a warrant from the Earl of Manchester in the year 1648. and who from their hatred of painted glass, may be called, the Windowbreaking Visitors, took down from this church the twelve apostles in stone, and ordered between twenty and thirty pictures to be taken down. This appears from the journal of William Dowsing, of Stratford, who was principally concerned and had power of appointing deputies to visit and deface churches in Suffolk; a part of which journal accidentally came into our hands.

St. Mary at Elms. This church was given to Trinity priory by Alan the son of Edgar Aleto, and Richard the son of Alan. But there seems to have been no grant made of the impropriation, since the dissolution of that monastry. In Domesday book only one church is mentioned, as dedicated to St. Mary; which is supposed to be St. Mary at Tower. From hence we may conclude, that this church was not then built; but that it succeeded the dilapidated church of St. Saviour, as St. Helen's did that of St. John in Caldwell, and as St. Nicholas was built instead of St. Michael's church. And if this be admitted, we will add one further