bridge, to be paid by his executors when the county would go about it; and there were about the same time, two other legacies towards it. So that most likely the present bridge was built soon after. Richard Cook also gave his tenement and lands in Melton and Bredfield, called Edgores, for the use of the parishioners. Here is the seat of T. Brooks, esq. which is pleasantly situated in the centre of the park. In this parish is the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum, which is now ready to receive patients; it was formerly the House of Industry and disincorporated a short time since, when it was bought by the county for the sum of £8000. for the present purpose; the inside has been all pulled down, and rebuilt from the plan of Mr. Brown, Architect of Ipswich, under the superintendence of Mr. Goodwin, of Coddenham, it is very pleasantly situated on a hill, commanding a delightful view of the country. It will contain near 200 patients and cost the county near £30,000. 607 inhabitants.

PETTISTREE. This church was impropriated to the nuns of Campesse in 1413. The family of Wyard long resided here, but is now extinct. The manor of Pistries, otherwise Over Pistries, is now vested in Dudley Long North, esq. This parish with the hamlet of Loudham contain 260 inhabitants.

RAMSHOLT. In this parish stood Peyton-hall, the seat of the Uffords, earls of Suffolk, which

afterwards belonged to lord St. John. Reginald de Peytona, (sewer to Hugh Bigod, earl of Norfolk,) was lord of Peyton-hall manors in Boxford and Ramsholt, in Suffolk, in the time of king Stephen, or Henry I. In 53 Henry III, Robert de Ufford (a younger son of John de Peyton, of Peyton-hall in Suffolk,) assuming his name from the lordship of Ufford where he had then his residence, was made justice of Ireland. The manor now belongs to Mrs. Wise.

The church of Ramsholt

has

a round tower, which is remarkable for being supported by three buttresses, an appearance very rare. This parish has been long celebrated for producing the most excellent breed of Suffolk cart horses. 174 inhabitants.

SHOTTISHAM. The Glanviles formerly were patrons of this church; and the Wingfields were so for a hundred years, from the year 1480. Shottisham hall lately the residence of Mr. Mills, belongs to B. Edwards, esq. who is lord of the manor. 235 inhabitants.

ler, esq.

SUTTON. The manor of Fenhall in Sutton, belongs to B. Edwards esq. Sutton hall Talvas, Stockerland and Campsey is in H. WalThe church was given by Roger Wolferston and John Stanton to the nuns of Bruisyard, who got it impropriated to them about the year 1390. The impropriation and advowson of the vicarage were granted 30 Henry VIII. to Nicholas Hare; but is now in the Earl of Stradbrook. 577 inhabitants.

UFFORD. The family of the Uffords, originally descended from the Peytons of Peyton-hall, in Boxford, resided here. They were a family of vast possessions, and were at one time proprietors of the castles of Orford, Eye, Framlingham, Bungay, Mettingham, and Haughley. Their seat in this parish stood about two furlongs north of the church, where a farm house now stands, appropriated to charitable uses in Framlingham The manor now belongs to the trustees of Jacob Whithread, esq. deceased.

There was in this parish the ruins of a chapel called Sogenhoe chapel; which was in stituted into from 1310 to 1527, upon the presentation of the Uffords and Willoughbys; there is also a manor of Sogenhoe always mentioned with the manors of Bawdsey, Bredfield, &c. among the possessions of the Uffords and Willoughbys. The manor of Windervil is likewise frequently mentioned among the possessors of this family immediately after Sogenhoe; but it is not known precisely where it lies. On the west of the site of Sogenhoe chapel is a piece of land in the form of a rectangular parallelogram, containing about one acre and half: there still appears a ditch or moat surrounding it; on which piece of land, it is said, there stood a castle.

In this church are monuments for some of the Woods of Loudham. In commemoration of the family of Lamb who had been great bene

factors to this church, their names and the figures of lambs are carved in many parts of the wood work and ceiling. Weaver says this is a very beautiful little church. The top

of the font was very beautiful, as well as the church; but they were both much defaced in the grand rebellion. In the journal of the parochial visitors, [mentioned p. 39.] they say in 27 Jan. 1648, "we broke thirty pictures, and gave directions to take down 37 more, and 40 cherubims to be taken down of wood, and the chancel to be levelled; and we took up six inscriptions in brass." It appears, that in May following they sent a person to see whether what they had ordered was executed, but the churchwardens would not let him in. In the month of August afterwards, they returned themselves, when they completed what had been begun in the preceding January. The journal saith, "we broke 12 cherubims on the roof of the chancel, and nigh an 100 Jesuses and Maria's in capital letters, and the steps we levelled. And we broke down the organ-cases, and gave them to the poor. In the church

there was on the roof above an 100 Jesuses and Maria's in great capital letters, and a crosierstaff to break down in glass; and above twenty stars on the roof. There is a glorious cover over the font, like a pope's tripple crown, with a Pelican on the top picking its breast, all gilt over with gold." Then they complain of Brown

and Small, the old churchwardens, for not obeying their orders; and of Sunnard and Strowd, the new churchwardens, for making them wait two hours before they would let them have the key of the church; and then for abusing them, and charging them with rifling and pulling down the church. This cover to the font is still preserved, though much impaired by length of time. Had the pelican on the top been a dove, doubtless it would have shared a harder fate but as those men, when armed with the power of that enthusiasm which raged in 1648, though they were provoked and put out of temper by the churchwardens, could not persuade themselves to destroy so pretty a thing, even not withstanding its resemblance of the pope's crown; it is a pity the parishioners do not think it worth while to repair it; for though it be but a toy in itself, it is now become venerable by its antiquity; and is, perhaps the only thing left that gives any notion of the Ufford's magnificence. Old wills mention a chauntry in the manor of Ottleys, in this parish.

The Rev. Richard Lovekin was rector of

this parish 57 years; for the mandate of his induction bears date 2 June, 1621; and he was buried 23 September 1678, in the 11th, year of his age. It is said he performed all the offices of his function to the last, and preached the Sunday before his death. This gentleman was plundered in the grand rebellion, and lost all