Henry VIII. which belonged to the præceptory at Battisford. Here is also another manor, for the relict of John Vere, twelfth Earl of Oxford, held the manors of Chels worth, East-bergholt, and Brook-hall, in Suffolk, as her own inheritance, 1472. This last manor is now in Na

thaniel Acton, esq.

This is a large village consolidated to Brantham, The cloth manufacture formerly flourished here. It is supposed to have been a market-town; the church is a good structure and many parts of it are of very elegant workmanship. The bells which are five in number are fixed in a shed in the church yard. In 1526 and 1527, many legacies were given towards building the steeple; but it seems as if these were not sufficient for the purpose, for it is not yet built. South from the church is a neat mansion, built by Thomas Chaplin, esq. which together with the manor and advowson devolved by marriage to the Hankey family. It is now the residence of Peter Godfrey, esq. 1246 inhabitants.

FRESTON. The hall, manor and advowson of this church, were anciently vested in a family who took their name from the place. Philip de Freston was admitted a free-burgess of Ipswich as early as 18 Henry 111. And the estate continued in them for many years till about the time of Henry VIII, when it came to the Laty

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mers. They continued here till about 1590, when the Goodings of Ipswich had this estate; from whom it came to the family of Wright. The last of that family who had it, severed the manor and advowson of the rectory, by selling them to Thomas Thurston, of Holbrooke, esq: it is now the property of Charles Berners esq. of Woolverston, the hall-house is pleasantly situated on the bank of the Orwell; but the chief thing worth notice here, is the tower; which is a square strong brick building, six stories high, containing as many rooms one above another, these communicate with each other by a winding steeple stair case, which, for the greater strength of building, is on the east side of it next the river. It is not easy to say for what purpose, nor is it certainly known, at what time this tower was built. But as there is among the records of the manor, a very exact and particular account of the manorhouse, and all the out-buildings and offices belonging to it in Henry VII. time, and no mention is there made of the tower, it is pretty certain it was not then built. So that it is reasonable to suppose it to have been the work of the Latymers. From the smallness of the windows in all the other rooms, it looks as if they were built chiefly for the support of the uppermost room, which, having large windows on three sides of it, seems to have been contri

ved by some whimsical man, for taking rather a better view of the river Orwell, than can be had on the neighbouring hill. 189 inhabitants. HARKSTEAD. Odo de Campania, was lord here at the taking of Domesday survey. Edward 111. in his charter to the nunnery of Dartford in Kent, gives or confirms to it the manor of Brandiston, in Herkestede in Suffolk. And the manor of Brandiston, late belonging to that nunnery, was granted 31 Henry VIII. to sir Percival Hart, knt. It came afterwards with the advowson of the rectory to a family of Cocks, in Worcestershire; who had it some time, and then sold the manor, hall, house, &c. to Knox Ward, esq. Clarencieux king at arms; whose heir sold them to Thomas Staunton, of Holbrook, esq. who was editor of the second edition of this work. Besides the parish church here was formerly a chapel dedicated to St. Clement. It is now wholly down; but the spot where it stood is still to be seen at the southeast corner of a field, from thence called chapel-down, A legacy was given to this chapel of St. Clement, in the year 1528. And a house was bequeathed in 1685, with the garden and one pightle abutting south upon St. Clement's Church-yard, and upon the Mill way towards the north. The site of the chapel is now ploughed up. 301 inhabitants.

HIGHAM. This was given to Trinity priory in Ipswich, by Maud de Munchensi, and was impropriated thereto. But the impropriation was purchased by Mr. Gibbs, or Mr. Smith, and given to the ministers. 262 inhabitants.

HINTLES HAM,-Was anciently the lordship of the Talbots; and for very many years of the Timperlys. The hall, &c. was bought of them by Richard Powis, esq. sometime member for Orford. Erom him it was purchased by Sir Richard Lloyd, knt. one of the barons of his Majesty's court of Exchequer, but is now the seat of R. S. Lloyd, esq. The church was impropriated to Kings-Hall, now part of Trinity College, Cambridge, about the year 1349, but before the year 1400, the impropriation was given up, and the Minister presented and instituted into the Rectory as formerly. Here was formerly a chapel in this parish, and there is yet a place called Chapel Field.

Here was another Manor, which belonged to Bury Abbey, and was granted to Robert Downs, by Henry the VIII. and came afterwards to the Veseys. Here was a third Manor or estate, which belonged to St. Peter's Priory in Ipswich, and was granted with that to Cardinal Wolsey, 19th Henry VIII. In the chancel of the parish church are several monuments of the Timperleys, and it has been said a tomb of blue marble, on which was the portraiture in brass

of a man in complete armour, and a woman with a hound at her feet, with this inscription, "Here lyeth the venerable man, John Timperley, esq. heir and lord of Hintlesham, and Margaret his wife, which John died an. 1400." This tomb, if such it ever was, is now reduced to a stone in the pavement, the brasses all gone, except a single shield. The inscription was in Latin, and may be found in Weever.

sham contains 562 inhabitants.

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HOLBROOK. This in the time of Henry III. was the Lordship of Richard de Holbrook, who paid fines to Ipswich for himself and villains in Holbrook and Tattingston; afterwards it was Mr. Daundy's, then it was the Clenches; Judge Clench, who died in 1607, lies buried in the Church. 641 inhabitants.

HOLTON. The Lordship here belonged formerly to a family of Fastolf, then to the Mannocks, and afterwards to Sir John Williams. This parish contains 213 inhabitants.

RAYDON. Robert de Roydon had a grant of a market and fair here, 4 Edward II. or in 1310. John Hasting earl of Pembroke, died seized of the manors of Ottley, Raydon, &c. 43 Edward III, afterwards the manor and chief estate here came into the hands of the same owner who had that of the next parish. 501 inhabitants.