lords here; afterwards the Fleetwoods; then Walter Plumer, esq; who beautifully rebuilt the hall; at his death he gave it to his brother William, but it is now a farm-house. The manor of Bavents was vested in the late William Plumer, now in Mrs. Plumer; The manor of Hovells in Chediston is now vested in the heirs of the late Daniel Birkell esq. This parish contains 427 inhabitants.

COOKLEY. The same patrons presented to this church who presented to Huntingfield. There are two manors here: that of Cookley belongs to lord Huntingfield, and that of Cookly-Grange, to Mrs. Plumer, which last formerly belonged to Sibton Abbey, and was granted to Thomas duke of Norfolk, 28 Henry VIII. This parish contains 274 inhabitants.

CRATFIELD, Ralph Barnard held Cratfield when domesday-book was made. It was afterwards separated into three parts. For in 1140, Maud de St. Liz, daughter of William St Liz earl of Northampton, and wife of William Abenni, gave one third part of her manor of Cratisfield in Suffolk to the priory of St. Neots in Huntingdonshire; and William Abenni her son, gave the church of Cratfield to the Monks of St. Neots, who had the profits of the rectory, and were patrons of the vicarage till the dissolution; when the rectory and advowson of the vicarage were granted by Edward VI. to Thomas Sidney and Nicholas Haleswelle; but being in the

hands of John Lany, esq., of Ipswich, in 1635; he piously and generously conveyed the rectoryhouse, with two acres of glebe and all the tythes, except the tythes of corn, and twenty marks per annum, out of the rectory, to the vicar for the time being for ever.

2. Robert de Tateshall daparting this life 28 Edward I. his relict Eve was endowed, amongst other things, with the manor of Cratefield, in Suffolk; and this we suppose to have been the second part of the manor. Henry Piercy earl of Northumberland, died seized of a manor in Cratfield, 43 Edward III. and out of this the priory of Buckingham in Norfolk had a yearly rent of £3. ls. 7d. issuing out of a manor in Cratfield, was granted in 8 James I. to John Eldred, esq., and John Verdon, gent. as part of the revenues of the priory of Buckenham.

3. A third part of this manor seems to have been in Thomas de Brotherton earl of Norfolk, who died 12 Edward III. and after his wife's decease 36 Edward III. to have descended to his grand-daughter Joan, married to William de Ufford. The earl of Leicester sold all these manors to sir Joshua Vanneck. They now belong to lord Huntingfield. This parish contains 717 inhabitants.

DARSHAM. William the son of Roger Bygod, founder of the priory of Cluniac Monks at Thetford, gave those Monks about the year 1110, all the land of Asceline de Dersham, with its ap

purtenances, and the church of the same village. And upon the dissolution of that house, the manor, rectory and advowson of the vicarage, were granted 32 Henry VIII. to Thomas duke of Norfolk. Another manor here was granted 28 Henry VIII. to Charles duke of Suffolk; and 36 Henry VIII. to Thomas Denton and Richard Nottingham, as a parcel of the possessions of the abbey of Leiston. There are still four manors here: Darsham cum Yoxford, Abbots, Austins, and Gerrards. All which were lately the estate of the Beddingfields, and now of the Earl of Stradbrooke.

There seems formerly to have been several hamlets in this parish; for we have met with Cheyneys, in Darsham; Buckles, in Darsham; and Barstill, in Darsham. There were also several legacies given in wills, between the year 1460 and 1505; towards building the steeple. 487 inhabitants,

DUNWICH. Though the traditionary accounts of this place are involved in much obscurity, it is certainly of great antiquity. From the discovery of Roman coins here, the idea of a Roman station was consequently adopted. With respect to its ecclesiastical history, we learn that Felix, the Burgundian bishop whom Sigebert, king of the East Angles, brought here to reconvert his subjects to christianity, fixed his episcopal see at Dunwich in the year 636. Three bishops succeeded him, whose jurisdic

tion extended over the whole kingdom of the East Angles. At length the see was divided; and a bishop for the northern part of the kingdom being placed at Elmham, the bishop of Dunwich (Domoc or Donmec, as it was then called) had the Suffolk part only. After this division of the see, only eleven bishops sat at Dunwich, the succession being prevented by the troubles that broke out, and which put an end to the bishopric before it had continued 200 years. In Domesday-book, Dunwich was valued as paying £50. a year to the king, and 60,000 herrings. In king Stephen's time it appears that the ships at Orford paid some kind of toll to Dunwich, which was then valued at 30s. per annum. In Henry II's time Dunwich was a place of considerable notoriety, and is said to have been stored with riches of all sorts. In the first year of king John it had a charter of liberties, and a grant of the wrecks of the sea. This monarch, among other things mentioned in this charter, granted to the burgesses the liberty of marrying their sons and daughters as they would, and that of giving, selling, or otherwise disposing of their land and houses within the said town at pleasure. This charter, dated Gold Cliff, 29, June, 1 Johan., cost the townsmen 300 marks, besides ten falcons, and five gerfalcons. Here were certainly six if not eight parish churches. St. John's, which was a rectory, seems to have been swallowed up by

the sea about the year 1540. St. Martin's, which was likewise a rectory, as was also St. Nicholas and St. Peter's. St. Leonard's and All Saints were impropriated; and the former was probably lost, as in a will made in 1450, the testator bequeaths his house in the parish anciently called St. Leonard's. The register of Eye mentions also the churches of St. Michael and St. Batholomew in Dunwich, which were swallowed up by the sea before the year 1331. Besides these churches, Weaver notices three chantries, dedicated to St. Anthony, St. Francis, and St. Catharine: the latter is often mentioned in old wills as being in St. John's parish there was a guild belonging to it, and it was standing and used in the time of Henry VIII. Here was also the Temple church which probably belonged to the Templars, and afterwards to the Hospitallers, who had a good estate in this part, and might as other lords often did, build a church for their tenants, whose houses were all distinguished by crosses. The ruins of a noble ancient church belonging to St. James's Hospital were lately visible; and there was another church built for the use of the hospital, called Maison Dieu. Besides these, there were two houses of Franciscan and Dominican friars; each of these foundations had their respective churches. The walls of this house still remain, with the arches of two out of the three gates by which they were entered.