The editor of Cambden adds, "It is said that in digging here about thirty years since, there was found an ancient silver crown weighing about sixty ounces, which was thought to have belonged to Redwald, or some other king of the East-Angles; but it was sold, and melted down.

The palace where Rendilus kept his court, is thought to have stood in the same place where Rendlesham house now stands, which was the seat of the Spencers, and was afterwards vested in her grace the Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, who married the Hon. Mr. Nassau ; she resided here after the death of her husband, at her decease it descended to her son lord Archibald Hamilton; who sold it with the estate to sir George Wombwell; from whom it was purchased for £51,400 by P. J. Thelluson, afterwards created lord Rendlesham, father to the present noble possessor of the title and estate. This was always a handsome commodious dwelling but by new improvements in the house and grounds, it has become quite a princely residence surpassed by few, though the style of architecture is in imitation of the gothic. Lord Rendlesham has built a fine gothic ruin, out of the remains of Butley abbey, as an entrance to his grounds.

Here were four small manors in this parish, viz. Colvyles, to which the advowson was formerly appendant, This belonged about the year

1300 to a family of Holbrook, afterwards to a family of Fastolf, and came to the duke of Norfolk in the time of the reformation. By his attainder the advowson came to the crown; but the manor, with that of Bavents, came to the Corances. The four manors now belong to the trustees of Peter Thelluson, esq.

The other two manors are those of Naunton hall and Caketons, which in the time of Henry VIII. belonged to Mr. Christopher Harman. This parish contains 249 inhabitants

WOODBRIDGE. This town took its name it is supposed from a wooden bridge built over a hollow way, to make a communication between two parks, separated by the road which leads by the market-place towards Ipswich. At the foot of the hill from this hollow way, about a stone's throw from where the bridge might stand, is a house which to this day retains the name of the Dry-bridge. The streets, though narrow, are paved, and the longest is nearly a mile in extent. The market-place is clean and well built. The river Deben, on which this town is situated, discharges itself into the sea about ten miles below it, and is navigable up to the town. Here are two quays; the common quay where the chief imports and exports are, and where the fine Woodbridge salt was formerly made; and above this is the Lime-kiln quay, where formerly the Ludlow man-of-war was built. Some years since there was another dock be

low the Common quay, where the Kingsfisher man-of-war was built; but this is now enclosed from the river by a mud wall, and almost filled up. This place is generally admired by travellers for its healthy and salubrious air, many of its inhabitants having lived to the advanced age of eighty, ninety, and some few to near an hundred years old. A considerable trade is carried on here in corn, flour, malt, cheese, coals, timber, deals, wine, foreign spirits, porter, grocery, drapery, and ironmongery goods. The shipping, of late years, has much increased in the exportation of corn. Regular London traders sail to and from this port, weekly; the other vessels are employed for the most part in the Newcastle and Sunderland trade. There being no particular staple commodity, it is much to be wished a manufactory of some sort could be established to employ the poor in the town and neighbourhood; the profits arising from spinning wool was the chief means of their support for a number of years, but is now quite in the decline, owing to the low prices paid by combers for their work. The manufacture of sackcloth, for which this place was formerly noted, and the refining of salt, are now quite relinquished, other places affording them on cheaper terms. The number of houses is 657, the inhabitants, 4132. The market is on Wednesday; and there are two fairs yearly, one on April the sixth, the other on October the twelfth, for

toys, &c. The quarter sessions of the peace for this division are held here, in a noble old hall, built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by Thomas Seckford, esq. master of the requests; who also erected two alms-houses in this town, in 1587, for thirteen poor men and three women, which was then endowed by him with an estate in Clerkenwell, London, a part of which is at present called Woodbridge-street, first let for £112. 13s. 4d., but leased in 1767, for sixty years, at £563. per annum. More than £20,000. have since been expended on this estate. The governors of these alms-houses are the master of the rolls, and the chief justice of the Common Pleas for the time being. Sir Thomas Sewell and Sir Eardley Wilmot increased the annual allowance to the residents of this alms-house to the sum of £27. to the principal, and £20. to each of the other twelve poor men, besides a suit of clothes, a hat, three shirts, two pair of shoes and stockings, and a chaldron and half of coals. The three poor women appointed as nurses reside in a house built in 1748, close to that of the men, upon the site of one formerly called Copt Hall. These women receive £12, per annum, and a proportionate supply of clothing. The men wear a silver badge with the Seckford arms, and are required to attend divine service at the parish church on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and holidays in general. The same ordinances

direct ten pounds a year to be paid to the minister of Woodbridge for instructing the almspeople, and visiting them when sick; five pounds to each of the two churchwardens for receiving the rents, superintending the distribution of the money, and enforcing the orders of the establishment; and ten pounds to the poor of Clerkenwell; the remaining £230. to be expended in clothing, firing, medical attendance, and repairs; and the surplus, if any, distributed among such poor of Woodbridge as receive no relief from that or any other parish. The leases of the Clerkenwell property having expired, Michaelmas 1827, and new ones having been granted at a very increased rental, it is hoped the governors of the charity, will be enabled to apply a portion of the surplus, in such a manner, as may conduce to the real benefit and prosperity of the town. Several other donations of less concern have been made to charitable uses in this town, by persons, whose names, with the particulars specified, are more fully expressed in the Terrier, exhibited into the bishop's registry at Norwich: particularly a Free Grammar School, founded in the year 1662, by Mrs. Dorothy Seckford and others, endowed with a yearly stipend of about £34. and a school-house rent free. By the ordinances, the master is obliged to teach ten foundation boys, being children of the inhabitants of the town, free; and also any other like boy,