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ward the north, upon a high artificial hill of steep ascent, and also surrounded with a deep moat, stood the keep, or strong tower, the foundation of which now remaining is very thick, and apparently circular. On the west side is a pretty large space, in form resembling an oblong square, that seems to have been an out-work of the castle, the east side of which abuts upon the moat before-mentioned, and is somewhat irregular. The north and west sides are rectangular, and encompassed with a smaller moat, as was perhaps the south side, though there is now no appearance of it. The ground exceeds seven acres, which is occupied or enclosed by these works.

The manor and park of Haughley were the estate of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, from whom they came by purchase or exchange to the crown, and were afterwards granted to sir John Sulyard, of Wetherden. The manor is very extensive, and the lord formerly possessed a jurisdiction of Oyer and Terminer, trying all causes in his own court, of which instances may be found so late as 11 Elizabeth. Thus at a court held 15 Edward IV. the lands tenements, &c. of John Buxton, of Stow, were seized because he had vexed one William Turner, by the writ of our lord the king, contrary to the ancient custom of the manor, that no tenant should persecute another tenant in any court

except this. At another court in the same year, it was ordered, that the abbot of Hales in Gloucestershire, to whom the parishes of Haughley and Shelland were impropriated, should erect a new pair of gallows in Luberlowfield in Haughley, under a penalty of forty shillings; and in the 8th year of the same reign, William Baxteyn held certain lands by the service of finding a ladder for the lord's gallows.

Haughley park was lately the residence of G. W. Jerningham, esq. eldest son of sir W. Jerningham, bart, who married Francis, daughter and co-heiress of the late E. Sulyard, esq.; but the public papers state, that in October, 1811, this manor, extending over 2442 acres, 22 dwelling-houses, and 28 messuages, with the spacious mansion-house and offices, and a park and land containing about 396 acres, were sold for £27,810. exclusive of timber. William Crawford, esq. is now possessor and lord of the manor. Here is also the seat of Charles Tyrell, esq. who married Mr. Ray's heir. This parish contains 854 inhabitants.

NEWTON was one of the estates belonging to Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, at her death, 33 Henry VIII. This lady was the daughter of George, duke of Clarence, brother to Edward IV. by Isabel, the daughter of Richard Neville, the celebrated earl of Warwick and Salisbury. She married Richard Pole, lord Montague,

whom she survived, and upon her petition to Henry the VII. obtained the possessions of her grandfather, and the title of Countess of Salisbury. It was probably her proximity in blood to the royal house of York that gave umbrage to the jealous tyranny of Henry VIII. who caused her to be accused of a traitorous correspondence with the Marquis of Exeter, her son Cardinal Pole, and others. She was accordingly attainted of high treason, and in the 70th year of her age beheaded in the Tower of London, with circumstances of great cruelty. She had been condemned, as was not unusual in that reign, without trial, and when she was brought to the scaffold, refused to lay her head on the block, in obedience to a sentence, the justice of which she would never recognize. She told the executioner, therefore, that, if he would have her head, he must win it in the best way he could, and ran about the scaffold, while he pursued her, aiming many fruitless blows at her neck before he was able to put an end to her life. Newton hall, with her other estates, passed, however, to her son Henry Pole, lord Montague. The Manor has since belonged to the late Bishop of Winchester, and now to Prettyman, esq. Newton with Dagworth contains 577 inhabitants.

ONEHOUSE,-About a mile south of Shelland, is supposed to have formerly belonged to the

Weylands, and was certainly the estate of Bar tholomew Burghersh, who died seized of it in the 43d year of Edward III. He was one of the twelve noblemen to whose care the Prince of Wales was committed at the battle of Cressy. On the site of his old hall encompassed with a moat, a farm house has been built. The grandeur and solitary situation of the ancient fabric probably gave name to the parish, the greater part of which, two centuries ago, was a wood, except a narrow slip declining to the south-east, near that distinguished mansion, situated on a rising ground that gently sloped into a valley, with a rivulet winding through it. About two hundred yards to the north of the the church, which is small, and has a font of unhewn stone. It appears to have been a Saxon building; but a part of the north wall only, extending about ten yards from the tower, which is circular, is all that remains of the original structure. Not less than one-fifth of the lands belonging to this parish, at present, consists of woods and groves, finely planted with timber; and even part of the rectorial glebe, adjoining to the parsonage-house, is a wood of ten or twelve acres.

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In the chancel of the church of Onehouse lies buried, but without any inscription, the Rev. Charles Davy, author of Letters upon the Sub jects of Literature, in two volumes, octavo, &c.

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In the preface to this work, he says, “Most of these little essays were written many years ago: they have been collected from detached papers, and revised for publication as a relief to the author's mind during a confinement of more than eighteen months continuance. It seemed good to the Supreme Disposer of all things to reduce him in a moment, by an apoplectic stroke, from the most perfect state of health and cheerfulness, to a paralytic permanent debility; a debility which has not only fixed him to his chair, but brought on spasms, so exquisitely painful, and frequently so unremitted, as scarcely to allow a single hour's repose to him for many days and nights together. Under the pressure of these afflictions, God hath graciously been pleased to continue to him his accustomed flow of spirits, and to preserve his memory and his understanding in some degree of vigour. These alleviating blessings have enabled him to borrow pleasure from past times in support of the present, and to call back the delightful and instructing conversations he enjoyed in a society of worthy and ingenious friends, and to resume those studies and amusements which rendered the former part of his life happy."

The following lines are extracted from a translation of a Latin poem, by the Rev. Charles Davy, written in the reign of James I. entitled Edes Solitaria. "I shall," says he, "apply

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