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appurtenances in Godlesford, Belsted parva, and Wherstead in Suffolk, were granted as parcel of the possession of the priory of Canons-leigh in Devonshire, to sir John Reinesworth, knt, 32 Henry VIII. This house is described in the perambulation of the 26 Edward III. as belonging to Robert Andrews; which family seem to have inhabited it many years; for in 13 Henry VIII, it was sometimes called the gate of old Robert Andrews, now of sir Andrews Windsor; who took his christian name from the last mentioned family of Andrews he was afterwards lord Windsor.

St. Mary at Tower, Was given by Norman the son of Eadnoth, to Trinity priory. There was formally a handsome spire upon the tower of this church; and Mr William Edgar, of Ipswich, by will left two hundred pounds towards erecting another. But by some misunderstanding amongst those entrusted with this benefaction, the money was thrown into chan cery, and the object of the testator has never been carried into effect.

About 1325 the confraternity of Corpuschristi Gild was instituted. This brotherhood agreed to go in procession every year on the feast of the Holy Sacrament. Their tabernacle in which the host was carried, their money, &c. used to be kept in the church of St. Mary at Tower; and probably that hollow place in the

north wall of the vestry, guarded by an exceeding strong door, very lately taken away, might be made for this purpose. Among the rules of this society, one was, that all the parish priests of Ipswich, when certified of the death of any of the fraternity, by the beadle thereof, or otherwise, were to say mass for his soul, &c. From hence, as we think, the present custom of ringing a bell at every church in the town, on the death of every Portman, might have its rise. In upper Brook-street, within this parish, and near the North-gate, is the house of the archdeacon of Suffolk, sometimes called the archdeacon's Place, or palace. It was built, or at least the outward wall and gates were, by Wiltiam Pykenham, L. L. D. who was Archdeacon of Suffolk, and principal official or chancellor of Norwich, 1471. The initial letters of his name are still upon the gateway.

St. Mathew. It has always been called a rectory, and the incumbent is instituted into it as such; but the great tithes are impropriated to St. Peter's priory, and granted to Webb and Breton, 7 Edw. VI. but afterwards granted to the family of Fonnereau. The crown did not get the advowson by the dissolution of the priory, but always presented while the priory was standing. This parish formerly included four other churches or chapels, long since down or disused, viz. All-saints, St. George, St: Mildred, & St. Mary.

All-saints chapel was annexed to St. Matthew, before the year 1383, when Thomas Moonie was instituted into the church of St. Matthew, with the chapel of All-saints annexed. But where the chapel stood we know not. with any certainty; yet we are inclined to think it most probable, that it stood in the triangular field at the corner near Hanford bridge, where the road from Handford mill, meets the other road from St. Matthew's street, towards the bridge.

St. George's chapel is yet almost entire in George-lane without the west-gate but it is now used as a barn. It was used as a chapel so late as the time of Henry VIII. when Mr. Bilney who suffered Martyrdom, was apprehended there, as he was preaching in favour of the reformation.

North of St. George's chapel, viz. on the hills which lie near the north west corner of the open field called Great Bolton, stood IpThese are still called Castlehills, though the castle was demolished entirely by Henry II. after the defection of the Earl of Norfolk.

swich Castle.

St. Mildred's church is now a part of the town-hall. It was parochial, and impropriated to St. Peter's priory. The prior and convent. of the Holy Trinity, 1393, granted a piece of ground to the Burgesses of Ipswich, &c, in the

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parish of St. Mildred 24 feet long and 18 wide, one head abuts towards the south, and the other on the corn hill to the north.

St. Mary's Chapel commonly called the chapel of our Lady of Grace, is said to have stood at the north-west corner of the lane without West-gate, from thence to this day called Lady lane, and is opposite to St. George's lane. Mr. Daundy who built the alms-houses in Ladylane by his will in 1515, gave wood to each of his alms-houses besides our Lady of Grace. This chapel became very famous for an image of the virgin, which was resorted to in the superstitious times; and, in old wills, many pilgrimages were ordered to be made to it. It is Hentioned in the third part of the homily against peril of idolatry, together with our lady of Walsingham and our Lady of Wilsdon, by the stile of our Lady of Ipswich. It was to this chapel that cardinal Wolsey ordered an annual procession to be made by the dean of his college, on September 8th, being the popish feast of the nativity of the Virgin Mary, the tutelar saints of Ipswich. There is an account of one of them in dean Capon's letter, published by Dr. Fields and Mr. Grove. But this admired image had the same fate with other puppets of the like kind, for it was carried to London, and there publicly burnt. The place where the chapel stood is now built upon.

St Nicholas, Was impropriated to St. Peter's priory, and the impropriation was granted to Webb and Breton. No such church is mentioned in Domesday; and probably it might be built to supply the loss of the dilapidated church of St. Michael before-mentioned; which is said in Domesday to have had eight acres of Land, and is supposed to have stood not far from it. It might possibly be built upon the same place, and with some materials from. that; and to this conjecture, a stone at the west-end of the south isle, which rudely repre sent St. Michael fighting with the Dragon, may: give some colour of probability. We cannot give any account of the neighbouring stone, or how it came there; but the letters over the bristles of the Boar seem to be or rather to have been, In dedicatione ecclesie omnium sanctorum.

On the south side of the passage leading from St. Nicholas-street to this church-yard, stood the house where tradition says, Cardinal Wolsey was born; The Cardinal's father bequeathed in his will 68 8d to the high altar of St. Nicholas in Ipswich, and forty shillings to the paintings of the archangel there.

West of St. Nicholas church, and on the bank of the Gippen, stood a convent of Franciscan Grey Friars Minors, founded by lord Tibtoth of Nettlestead, in the reign of Edward 1. who with many of his family, were buried

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