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in the church belonging to this house this building is in a gardener's ground which now occupies its site.

Another convent of white Friars Carmelites, stood partly in this parish and partly in that of St. Laurence, founded by sir Thomas Loudham and others, about the year 1279. Upon the dissolution it was granted to John Eger. It was of large extent; reaching from St. Nicholas-street to St. Stephen's lane. Part of it was standing in the early part of last century, and was used for a county gaol, before the county agreed with the corporation for the common use of their goal by the west gate. This house was famous for many learned men, who had their education here; there are no remains of it now left.

St. Peter's church had in the confessor's time large possessions. The church was afterwards impropriated to the priory of St. Peter, and St: Paul, which was contiguous to the church yard, and founded by the ancestors of Thomas Lacy and Alice his wife, for black canons of the order of St. Augustine, in the reign of Henry II. It was surpressed 6 March, 1527 by Car. Wolsey; who having obtained bulls from the Pope, and letters patent from the king for that purpose, founded instead of it, a college; for a Dean, 12 secular canons, 8 clerks, and choristers, to the honour of the virgin Mary; toge

ther with a grammar school which he intended as a nursery for his great college in Oxford, but this noble foundation was scarce completed, before' the disgrace of that prelate; and the site of the college containing by estimation six acres, was granted 23 Henry VIII. to Thomas Alverde; and in 9 Fac. 1 to Richard Percival, and Edmund Duffield. The college was soon demolished, no part of it was left standing except one gate which yet remains. They dug up the very foundation, insomuch that the first stone was not long since found in two pieces, worked into a common wall in Woulform's lane, with a Latin inscription to this effect in the year of Christ 1528, and the twentieth of the reign of Henry VIII, king of England, on the fifteenth of June, laid by John, Bishop of Lincoln. This was John Longland, who was also employed by the cardinal to lay the first stone of his college, in Oxford. But though this attempt did not succeed, the cardinal occasioned some good by it; for we may reasonably suppose that this put king Henry VIII, upon founding the grammar school, and endowing it with what was, at that time, a very handsome allowance for a master and usher.

The water from Stoke hills was brought hither for the use of the convent, before the year 1491.

The journal of the visitors before mentioned,

as 'at St. Peter's, was on the porch the crown of thorns, the sponge and nails, and the Trinity in stone, and the rails were there, all which L ordered to brake in pieces.'

In the suburbs beyond the river stood the church of St. Austin, near the green of the same name. It is often called a chapel; but it had in the conqueror's time eleven acres of land. and procurations were paid for it by the prior of St. Peter's so that it was parochial, and im. propriated to that priory. It was in use in 1482; the houses and land on the south side of the Orwell, belonging to St. Austin's parish; not far from this church, and perhaps almost opposite to it, stood St. Leonard's hospital: it is now a farm-house, belonging to Christ hospital, in this town.

St. Stephen's is a rectory, the presentation to which devolved with the Christ church estate to the family of Fonnereau,

In Brook street in this parish Charles Brandon duke of Suffolk, had a mansion, where the coach and horses Inn now stand. The Tankard, ale-house, next door, formed part of a play-house; opposite to which sir Anthony had a chapel for the use of his family.

Here was also in Ipswich a church of St. Gregory, which was impropriated to Woodbridge priory; but this is all we know of it. And in the abuttals of a messuage, the antiqua

ted church of Osterbolt is mentioned in 21 Edward 111. By which it seems to have stood somewhere not far from St. Clement's steeple ; and as the East-gate formally stood there, it might possibly have the name of Osterbolt from that circumstance; and this being allowed, as the church of St. Clement is not mentioned in Domesday, it is not improbable this might be bailt, instead of that dilapidated church.

In the precincts are the churches of Thurleston, Whitton and Westerfield.

Thurleston, the manor of Barnes here, with the impropriation and advowson of the vicarage, belonged to St. Peter's priory. The manor and impropriation were granted to cardinal Wolsey, 19 Henry VIII. and in 19 queen Elizabeth to Thomas Seckford, esq. they afterwards belonged to the heirs of Edmund Hammond, esq. The church was in use since the year 1500; but the vicarage being united to the rectory of Whitton, the church was neglected after that time, and was for some time used as a barn.

Whitton church is sometimes called Whitton chapel, but improperly for it has been institu ted into as a parochial church, upon the presentation of the bishop of Ely, ever since the year It is dedica1299, and probably long before. ted to St. Botolph. If any of the churches' now in being, were built in the conqueror's

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in the church belonging to this house Part of this building is in a gardener's ground which now occupies its site.

Another convent of white Friars Carmelites, stood partly in this parish and partly in that of St. Laurence, founded by sir Thomas Loudham and others, about the year 1279. Upon the dissolution it was granted to John Eger. It was of large extent; reaching from St. Nicholas-street to St. Stephen's lane. Part of it was standing in the early part of last century, and was used for a county gaol, before the county agreed with the corporation for the common use of their goal by the west gate. This house was famous for many learned men, who had their education here; there are no remains of it now left.

St. Peter's church had in the confessor's time large possessions. The church was afterwards impropriated to the priory of St. Peter, and St: Paul, which was contiguous to the church yard, and founded by the ancestors of Thomas Lacy and Alice his wife, for black canons of the order of St. Augustine, in the reign of Henry II. It was surpressed 6 March, 1527 by Car. Wolsey; who having obtained bulls from the Pope, and letters patent from the king for that purpose, founded instead of it, a college; for a Dean, 12 secular canons, 8 clerks, and choristers, to the honour of the virgin Mary; toge

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