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garrison; the entrance into this fort is by the common medium of a drawbridge. Over the gateway is the chapel, which during the late war was converted into a barrack, so that divine service was either performed under the gateway or in the open air. Opposite the gate is a large building for the military, and on the right of it a handsome brick dwelling-house, containing apartments for the governor and lieutenant governor. The fresh water used here is conveyed from Walton, a distance of three miles, by means of subterranean pipes.

WITNESHAM. Sir Edmund Bacon had this lordship about the year 1291; sir Warine Latymer, 1341; sir John Brewse, in 1361;"

whose descendants had the advowson till the reign of Henry VIII. when the Audleys had it. Sir Richard de Wayland had a manor here; Bartholomew Burghersh, who married Cecilie. his daughter had a charter for a free warren in his domain lands in--Witnesham, &c. and died 43 Edward III. seized of it. And Edward le Dispencer, who married Burghersh's daughter, died seized of it 49 Edward III. Bartholomew Burghersh had a good old seat here, the site of which may still be seen, it had a moat round it; the road now corruptly called Burrage lane, had its name from him. He was one of the first knights of the garter, or as they are called, one of the founders of that order. The family of Meadows have had a seat here from the

time of Richard III. The advowson of the rectory was bought of some of them by the late Mr. Beaumont, and sold by his son to St. Peter's college, in Cambridge. Here was formerly a free chapel dedicated to St Thomas, and mentioned in bishop Tanner's not, mon. the ruins of which were in a meadow called Burghersh. The river Fyn which empties itself at Martlesham, rises in this parish, not far from the church. From hence the street near the bridge is called in domesday, Fynford; and, in old wills, the bridge is called fynford-bridge. This parish contains 515 inhabitants.

LOES.

The hundred of Loes lieth eastward of Carlford; north of the hundred of Willford; and contains the following 19 parishes

BRANDESTON, in the conqueror's time was the lordship of Odo de Campania; his successors granted it to the Burwells; and from them it came through the Weylands, and Tuddenhams, to the Bedingfields. Andrew Revett esq; purchased this manor of them, and made the hall his seat.

The advowson of the vicarage and the great tithes, were appropriated to Woodbridge priory by sir Thomas Weyland, about 1290. After the dissolution they came into the hands of the Seckford family; but are now vested in Feoffees, in trust, to support some dissenting meetinghouses in London. Brandeston contains 458 inhabitants.

BUTLEY Abbey, two miles west of the sea. This was a priory of black canons regular, of St. Augustine, founded in 1171, by Ranulph de Glanvile, a famous lawyer, and afterwards chief justice of England. He dedicated it to the honour of the blessed virgin, and well endowed it with lands and churches. The ruins of the abbey, still to be seen, prove it to have been very spacious. The founder being removed from

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his office, took the cross from feelings of chagrin and disappointment, and resolved on a journey to the Holy Land. Accordingly he went there, in company with king Richard I., and was present at the seige of Acre. Previous to his departure, he gave to Maud his eldest daughter, the entire manor of Benhall, and the patronage of the monastery of Butley. The remainder of his estates he divided between his other two daughters.

The priory and convent of Butley had the priory of the virgin Mary, at Snape, about five miles to the north of Butley, granted to it by Henry VII. in the 24th of his reign, with all the lands and tenements belonging to it, or which Thomas Neyland, the late prior of Snape, enjoyed in right of the same; to hold in perpetual alms, and without account of any rents, and to be annexed to the said priory of Butley. The priory of Snape was originally a cell to the abbey of St. John, at Colchester, by the appointment of William Martel, the founder,; but a bull of pope Boniface IX. deprived that house of this appendant, under pretence that it did not maintain there a sufficient number of religious, according to the will of the founder. Snape priory was therefore made conventual, and absolved from its subjection to Colchester. But it appears from the register of the bishopric of Norwich, that this bull had little effect, as the abbot and convent of Colchester presented the priors down to 1491; and, probably, the canons

of Butley found this cell more trouble then profit, as, in 1509, they resigned all claim and title to it.

This priory, however, enjoyed a very ample endowment. At the dissolution, the annual income was estimated at £318. 17s. 2d. Henry VIII. granted the site of Butley priory to Thomas, duke of norfolk. George Wright, esq. whose property it was in 1737, then fitted up the gate-house, and converted it into a handsome dwelling, which has since been inhabited as a shooting seat by various persons of distinction, From Mr. Wright it descended, after the death of his widow, to John Clyatt, a watchman in London, as heir at law, by whom it was sold to Mr Strahan, printer to his majesty: it was afterwards the property of lord Archbald Hamilton, by whom it was sold to the father of the present noble possessor, lord Rendlesham. The body of Michael de la Pole, third Lord Wingfield, and Earl of Suffolk, who fell at the battle of Agincourt, was interred in the church of this priory.

The walls and ruins of this large and magnificent edifice occupy nearly twelve acres of ground. The gate-house was an elegant structure. Its whole front was embellished with coats of arms, finely cut in stone; and between the interstices of the freestone were placed square black flints, which by the contrast of their colour, gave it a beautiful and rich appear

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