LIBRARY

OF THE

UNIVERSITY

CONTENTS

PART THE FIRST.-LOCAL DESCRIPTIONS.

The Invocation, by Mrs. J. Cobbold.

Onehouse, by the Rev. Charles Davy.

Sonnet to Great Blakenham, by Miss S. Evance.

Stanzas, written after visiting the Beach at Felixtow, by
Mr. B. Barton.

..

To the Rev. Mr. Murdoch, Rector of Stradishall, by James

Thomson.

Description of the Coast at Aldeburgh, by the Rev. George

Crabbe.

A Pastoral Song, written at Butley, 1792, by the Rev.

John Black.

An Elegy, on the Enclosure of Honington Green, by Na-

thaniel Bloomfield.

Verses, written at Dunwich, by Henry Dell.

Sonnet to the River Orwell, by J. T. Shewell.

Stanzas, addressed to the Inhabitants of Yoxford, by Ann

Candler.

Address to the River Gippin.

Barnham Water, by Robert Bloomfield.

Holy Wells, a Legendary Tale, by Mrs. J. Cobbold.

Lines, written on leaving Ipswich.

Lines, written at Southwold, October 1809.

Haverhill, by Mr. John Webb.

To the River Orwell, by Mr. B. Barton.

Burnt Hall, by Robert Bloomfield.

Lines, written on the Coast of Suffolk, August 27, 1793,

Inscription for the Tomb of Guthrun the Dane, in St. Mary's

Church, Hadleigh, by N. Drake, M. D.

An Epistle to Carteret Leathes, esq. by the Rev. William

Broome, LL. D.

Journal of a Young Lady's Tour through part of Suffolk.

The Glories of Bury.

The Church Yard at St. Edmund's Bury.

A Day at Aldeburgh, by the Rev. C. E. Stewart, M. A. 102

PART THE SECOND.

CIRCUMSTANCES AND EVENTS, HISTORICAL,

POLITICAL,

LEGENDARY AND ROMANTIC.

The humble Address of the Bellmen of the Borough of

Ipswich.

Page.

121

126

128

139

A Song of an English Knight, that married the Royal Prin-

cess Mary, sister to King Henry the VIIIth.

Captain Death, written by one of the surviving Crew.

Epistle from Mary, Queen of France, to Charles Brandon,

Duke of Suffolk.

The Pleasant History of the King and Lord Bigod of Bungay. 135

The Fakenham Ghost, by Robert Bloomfield.

A Merry Song on the Duke's late Glorious Success over

the Dutch.

The most rare and excellent History of the Duchess of Suf

folk's, and her husband Richard Bertie's Calamities.

Admiral Vernon's answer to Admiral Hosier's Ghost.

On the removal of the Market Cross at Ipswich, by Mr.

B. Barton.

An heroic Epistle from William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk,

to Margaret, Queen of Henry the VIth.

161

The Reason for taking down the Ipswich Cross at length

discovered

The Origin of the Monday Night's Club, at Ipswich.

The Suffolk Comedy, in three Parts.

Prologue spoken at the Lowestoft Theatre, August 14, 1790.

The Politick Maid of Suffolk; or the Lawyer Outwitted.

On King George the IInd's Landing at Lowestoft, January

A true and tragical Ballad concerning John and Elizabeth

Smith, of Cookley, near Halesworth.

The Shannon and the Chesapeake, or the Glorious Fight off

Boston Light House, &c. &c.

199

The Fall of Edmund, King of the East Angles, a Tradition-

ary Tale.

The Lily of Nettlestead, by Mrs J. Cobbold.

On the Unfortunate Seamen, who were wrecked on the Coasts

of Suffolk and Norfolk, October 31, 1789, by P. Homer.

The Melford Disaster, a new Ballad, 1794.

Lines, written in the Park of Christ Church, Ipswich.

The Loyalty of Woodbridge, by William Stygall.

Verses on the Consecration of the Standard, presented by

Lady Rous to the First Troop of Suffolk Loyal Yeomanry

Cavalry.

The Elvedon Hunt, 1754, by Richard Gardiner, esq.

The Whale, November 5, 1816.

PART THE THIRD.-BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS,

ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS.

Dan John Lidgate.

.. 245

Lines, written at the Stone, near Hadleigh, which com-

memorates the Martyrdom of the Rev. Rowland Taylor,

LL. D. by N. Drake, M. D.

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.

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.

Ambrose Curteen, by Mr. John Webb.

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255

269

272

278

284

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,

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.

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PART THE FOURTH.-MANNERS, HABITS, AND

CUSTOMS.

The Suffolk Horkey, a Provincial Ballad, by Robert

Bloomfield.

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. 359

The Lamentation of Stephen Spink, the Brandeston Post

Boy, by the Rev. William Clubbe, LL. B.

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

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 44lbs. 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.

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.

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

PART THE FOURTH.

Vignette. The Suffolk Horkey, or Harvest Supper.

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