his goods except one silver spoon, which he hid in his sleeve.

This parish furnished London with a lordmayor as early as the year 1434, who was Wil. liam Ottley; from whom, we suppose the manor above-mentioned might take its name.

This

The family of Hammond had their seat here. which is now vested in Rev. C. Brook. parish contains 629 inhabitants

WICKHAM-MARKET, seems to have its additional name of market only to distinguish it from Wickham-Brook and Wickham-Skeith; but it had a market formerly, though it has been long disused. The quarter-sessions were formerly held here when there was a shire-hall for that purpose; but it was removed by order of the lord of the manor, and a farm-house was built at Letheringham, with the materials called the Old hall. The church and spire-steeple are situated on a hill; and though the steeple is not above 23 yards high it affords the best prospect of any in the county and in a clear day you may easily view from thence, very near if not altogether, 50 churches.

The family of Ufford had this manor till it was given with the church to the Nuns at Campess. The manors of Wickham, Gelham, Harpole, and Bing, which belonged to the Nunnery of Campess, were granted 30 Henry VIII. to Anthony Wingfield; they now belong to the earl of Rochford; but the advowson of the vi

carage is still in the crown. As to the rectories of Wickham, Pettistree, and Bing, they are vested in the trustees of Mr. John Pemberton, formerly of Ipswich, who bequeathed them to charitable uses in the year 1718, viz. he directed that out of the profits 25£. per annum should be given to poor widows and orphans of deceased clergymen, within 15 miles of Ipswich; and the residue thereof, after taxes, repairs, and all other out-goings are discharged, he gave to the charity-schools of Grey-coat boys and Bluecoat girls in Ipswich.

The isle or chapel on the south-side of the church was built by Walter Fulburn, of Wickham, who was buried there in 1489. This parish contains 1015 inhabitants.

PLOMESGATE.

THE hundred of Plomesgaté contains 24 parishes and hamlets, is bounded on the east, by the ocean; on the West, by the hundred of Loes; on the north, by the hundred of Blything and Hoxne; and on the south, by Willford.

ALDBOROUGH, has its name from the river Ald, which runs near the south end of it, affording a good quay at Slaughden; it is washed on the east side by the sea, which during the last century committed great ravages here, having đe stroyed one whole street, and since that period it has swept away several houses; together with the old market-place and cross.

William Martel gave the manor of Aldebure to the Abbot and convent of St. John's in Colchester, in 1155. The manor of Aldeburgh, with the manors of Scoto and Tastards in this Neighbourhood, were granted to Cardinal Wol sey, as parcel of the possessions of the priory of Snape, which was a cell to the Abbey of Colo chester, and they were granted to Thomas duke of Norfolk 24 Henry VIII, and now belong to L. Vernon esq. The rectory and advowson of the vicarage, which belonged to the said abbey, were granted to Edward Downing and Peter

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Ashton in Exchange, in 23 Elizabeth. They are now vested in the Rev. Mr. Bradley.

Aldborough is a town corporate, governed by two bailiffs, twelve capital burgesses, and 24 inferior offices; but it did not send members to parliament before 13 Elizabeth. Willis supposes it was made a borough in 10 Elizabeth; when she granted the duke of Norfolk a Saturday market at this his manor here. It now sends two members to parliament, and has a small market twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. According to the last returns it contains 282 houses and 1212 inhabitants. It has two annual fairs; the first on March 1, the other on the 3d of May. It had formerly three streets in a row, and was nearly a mile in length; but is now reduced to two by the encroachment of the sea it is allowed by physicians to be one of the most healthy places along the coast, and as remarkable for longevity, being fanned by cooling and refreshing breezes from the sea, on which account a great deal of company resort to the town in summer for the benefit of. their health and sea-bathing, to which the pleasantness of the spot invites. The shore is also much admired for the evenness and regular declivity, so convenient for the bathing machines, five of which are kept here upon a remarkably safe and commodious construction. A plan of the town of Aldeburgh, as it appeared in 1559, proves it to have been then a place of consider

able magnitude, and represents the church as being more than ten times its present distance from the shore. From the same plan it is apparent that there were then denes, or downs, of some extent, similar to those at Yarmouth, between the town and the sea: these have long been swallowed up. Aldeburgh, depopulated and impoverished by the encroachments of the sea, was, till within the last 20 years, hastening to complete decay; but several families of distinction, wishing for a greater degree of privacy and retirement than can generally be enjoyed at a fashionable watering-place, having made this town their summer residence, its appearance has totally changed. Excellent turnpike-roads have taken the place of those deep sands which once led to this town; and instead of the claybuilt cottages of the poor, which impressed the mind with a gloomy feeling of dirt and misery being hid within, we now see many neat and tasteful mansions, the property, and occasionally the comfortable retreat of persons of rank and fortune. The manners and morals of the lower classes, likewise, are very much ameliorated; and it may fairly be presumed, from their general good conduct, that their improvement has been commensurate with that of the general appearance of the town. Till then, these lines written by the Rev. Mr. Crabbe, who is a native of this place, were strictly appropriate :