A GUIDE TO THE TOWN, Abbey, and Antiquities OF BURY ST. EDMUND'S, WITH A LIST OF THE NUMEROUS BENEFACTIONS, AND OTHER GENERAL AND USEFUL INFORMATION. SECOND EDITION. Bury St. Edmund's: PRINTED BY W. T. JACKSON, FOR J. DECK; SOLD BY LONGMAN AND CO., AND SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, LONDON. 1836. PREFACE. THE improved and improving state of the delightful old town of Bury St. Edmund's calls for a concise illustration of its history, antiquities, great religious foundation, and its ancient and modern celebrity. Such a detail required not less for the accommodation of that influx of visitors with which Bury is occasionally honoured, than for the use of the inhabitants, and for the general information of the public, will, it is hoped, be found in the present attempt. The late Dr. Yates's "History of Bury," a work of much importance to the learned and antiquarian reader, remains, it is to be lamented, in an unfinished state. However, if completed, it must have been regarded as too expensive, and as upon too large a scale for general perusal; and, from necessity, being without any account of recent changes, it is altogether inadequate to the wishes of those who were anxious for a portable guide through the town. This volume will furnish all the |