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BENTLEY. In the reign of Henry III. the manor of Little Bentley belonged to the Tollemaches; ancestors of the Earl of Dysart.

This church was given to the priory of the Holy Trinity in Ipswich, by Henry of Dodneis. And the manor of Bentley, the rectory and advowson of the vicarage, with two woods, Portland grove and New grove, were granted as part of the possession of that priory to Lionel Talmage, 36 Henry VIII. This family removed from hence to Helmingham, in Claydon hundred.

At a place called Dodneis in this parish, there was a small priory of black canons, which had revenues valued at £42. 18s. 8d. It was suppressed by the first bull of Clement VII, and granted to Cardinal Wolsey. Bentley contains 366 inhabitants.

BRANTHAM. King William Rufus gave the church of Brantham, with the berewics of Ber. cold, Scotlege, Meelflege, and Benetlege, to the abbey of Battle in Sussex; and the advowson of this rectory, as late belonging to that abbey, was granted, to John, Earl of Oxford, 36 Henry VIII.

Within this parish is a hamlet called Cattiwade, where was formerly a chapel near the bridge, over the river Stour into Essex. About

the year 1460, sir John Braham, of Brahamhall in Cattiwade, is mentioned. And afterwards William Lancaster, esq. of Cattiwade, who married a daughter of Braham's. Brantham contains 385 inhabitants.

BURSTALL,-Is called a berewic or hamlet of Bramford. The manor of Horrolds in Burstall was granted to Cardinal Wolsey, as parcel of the possession of St. Peter's priory in Ipswich. Burstall contains 203 inhabitants.

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CAPEL. Here are three manors; ford-hall, Boitwell-hall, belonging to Queen's college, Cambridge; and another small manor. This parish contains 561 inhabitants.

CHATTISHAM. The manor, impropriation, and advowson of the vicarage, belonged formerly to the priory of Wykes, in Essex; and were granted first to Cardinal Wolsey, and then to the provost and fellows of Eton; this parish contains 231 inhabitants.

CHELMONDISTON,-commonly called Chemton. Here is Chelmondiston-hall, the advowson of the church is in the crown. 366 inhabitants.

COPDOCK. The hall-house here is the property of lord Walsingham; who is also patron of the church, and lord of the manor. Copdock contains 278 inhabitants.

EAST-BERGHOLT. Henry 11, gave the templers all his lands in Bergholt, and a manor here was granted to John, earl of Oxford, 36

Henry VIII. which belonged to the præceptory at Battisford. Here is also another manor, for the relict of John Vere, twelfth Earl of Oxford, held the manors of Chelsworth, East-Bergholt, and Brook hall, in Suffolk, as her own inheritance, 1472. This last manor is now in Nathaniel Acton, esq.

This is a large village consolidated to Brantham. The cloth manufacture formerly flourished here. It is supposed to have been a market-town; the church is a good structure and many parts of it are of very elegant workmanship. The bells which are five in number are fixed in a shed in the church-yard. In 1526 and 1527, many legacies were given towards building the steeple; but it seems as if these were not sufficient for the purpose, for it is not yet built. South from the church is a neat mansion, built by Thomas Chaplin, esq. which together with the manor and advowson devolyed by marriage to the Hankey family. It is now the residence of Peter Godfrey, esq. 1246 inhabitants.

FRESTON. The hall, manor and advowson of this church, were anciently vested in a family who took their name from the place. Philip de Freston was admitted a free-burgess of Ipswich as early as 18 Henry III. And the estate continued in them for many years, till about the time of Henry VIII. when it came to the Laty

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mers. They continued here till about 1590, when the Goodings of Ipswich had this estate; from whom it came to the family of Wright. The last of that family who had it, served the manor and advowson of the rectory, by selling them to Thomas Thurston, of Holbrooke, esq. it is now the property of Charles Berners, esq. of Woolverston, the hall-house is pleasantly situated on the bank of the Orwell; but the chief thing worth notice here, is the tower: which is a square strong brick building, six stories high, containing as many rooms one above another, these communicate with each other by a winding steeple stair case, which, for the greater strength of building, is on the east side of it next the river. It is not easy to to say for what purpose, nor is it certainly known at what time this tower was built. But as there is among the records of the manor, a very exact and particular account of the manorhouse, and all the out-buildings and offices belonging to it in Henry VII. time, and no mention is there made of the tower, it is pretty certain it was not then built. So that it is reabeen the work of

sonable to suppose it to have the Latymers. From the smallness of the windows in all the other rooms, it looks as if they were made chiefly for the support of the. uppermost room, which, having large windows on three sides of it, seems to have been contri

ved by some whimsical man, for taking rather a better view of the river Orwell, than can be had on the neighbouring hills. 189 inhabitants.

HARKSTEAD. Odo de Campania, was lord here at the taking of Domesday survey. Edward III, in his charter to the nunnery of Dartford in Kent, gives or confirms to it the manor of Brandeston, in Herkestede in Suffolk, And the manor of Brandiston, late belonging to that nunnery, was granted 31 Henry VIII. to sir Percival Hart, knt. It came afterwards with the advowson of the rectory to a family of Cocks, in Worcestershire; who had it some time, and then sold the manor, hall, house, &c. to Knox Ward, Esq. Clarencieux king at arms; whose heir sold them to Thomas Staunton, of Holbrook, Esq. who was editor of the second edition of this work. Besides the parish church here was formerly a chapel dedicated to St, Clement. It is now wholly down; but the spot where it stood is still to be seen at the southcorner of a field, from thence called chapel down, A legacy was given to this chapel of St. Clement, in the year 1528. And a house was bequeathed in 1685, with the garden and one pightle abutting south upon St. Clement's Church-yard, and upon the Mill way towards the north. The site of the chapel is now ploughed up 301 inhabitants.

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