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knight,) in which family it continued three descents, and was purchased by Sir William Beachcroft, knight and alderman of London.In the reigns of James and Charles the First, here lived Robert Rice, esq., an accomplished gentleman, and a great preserver of the antiquities of this county. This parish contains 320 inhabitants.

SHIMPLING, was in the conqueror's time the lordship of Odo de Campania. It afterwards descended to the lords Fitz-walter. Robert Plampyn, esq. had his seat here, called Cheracre, or Shadacre-Hall, where the family of Fiske now reside. The manor is vested in Thomas Halifax, esq. Shimpling contains 450 inhabitants.

SOMERTON.The lordship of Thomas de Burgh, 1274. It was afterwards vested in Lord Blundel, of Ireland. This parish contains 156 inhabitants.

STANSTEAD. The manor of Overhall and Netherhall in Stanstead are vested in Hart Logan, esq. This parish contains 341 inhabitants.

STOKE juxta NEYLAND, called in our histories Stoke-Neyland to distinguish it from StokeClare, Stoke-Ipswich, &c. Its church and steeple are noble structures: the steeple lifting up a majestic head is seen as far as Harwich, near twenty miles distant. Here was a monastery of good note before the conquest; but we

meet with little or nothing of it afterwards.— Stoke has two fairs; one on the 24th February, the other on the 1st of May.

Giffards-Hall in this parish, has belonged to the ancient family of Mannocks ever since the time of Henry IV.

name.

Tendring-Hall, belonged to a family of that William de Tendring had a grant of a market and fair at Stoke by Neyland, 31 Edward the First. Sir William Tendring, about the year 1421, left Alice his daughter and heiress, who married sir John Howard, knight, direct ancestor to the dukes of Norfolk. From that family it came to the lord Windsors. From the Reformation it was the seat of the Williams'sSir John Williams, knight, and lord mayor of London in 1736, built here a noble seat, which by purchase became the property of admiral sir William Rowley, knight of the Bath, and is now the seat of sir W. Rowley M. P. This parish contains 1393 inhabitants.

SUDBURY, is a borough and market town of high antiquity, situated upon the river Stour, over which is a stone bridge, leading into Essex. This place consists of three parishes, each of which has a handsome parish church, St. Gregory's, St. Peter's, and All-Saints. This town contains 990 houses, many of which are good, and 5343 inhabitants. The market is held on

Saturdays, and here are three annual fairs, held. in March, July, and September.

Sudbury was anciently called Southburgh, to distinguish it from Norwich, then called Northburgh. It was one of the places where the Flemings brought over by Edward III. were setled for the purpose of instructing the English in the various branches of the woollen manufacture, which continued to flourish at Sudbury many years, and to afford subsistence to a great number of persons, chiefly employed in the weaving of says, funeral crapes, ship's flags. Simon de Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1375,— and who was beheaded by the populace in Wat Tyler's insurrection, was a native of this town: He built the upper end of St. Gregory's church, and on the spot where his father's house stood, he founded and endowed a college, which at the suppression was valued at 1227. 18s. per annum. The same prelate, in conjunction with John de Chertsey, founded a priory here of the order of St. Augustine, though according to Weever, this was founded by Baldwin de Shimpling and Mabel his wife, both interred in the chancel of the priory church. During the reign of king John, Amicia, countess of Clare, founded an hospital in this town, dedicated to Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, and near it a church or chapel dedicated to St. Bartholemew, which was given to

the abbey of Westminster by Wulfric, master of the mint under Henry 11. in consequence of which a priory of Benedictine monks, subordinate to that abbey was settled at Sudbury. This priory was not taken down till the year 1779.The body of Simon of Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, was interred in St. Gregory's church in this town, where in 1748, it is said, "his head is still shown: it was not long since entire, the flesh and skin dried by art, the mouth wide open," &c. Mr. Gongh says that it is still

shown, the skin tanned, and the ears entire. It is now deposited under a marble stone, four yards long, and two broad, in the chapel or part of the church which he built. The monument erected to his honour in the cathedral of Canterbury is merely a cenotaph. An inscription in the window of the chapel, near his tomb, recorded his foundation in these words;

"Orate pro Domino Simone Theopold alias Sudbury qui istam capellam fundavit, Anno Domini 1365, iu commemoratione Omnium animarum, Dedicat. dat. Consecrat.

Sudbury, since the river Stour has been rendered navigable to Manningtree, has carried on a comparatively brisk trade in the commodities consumed by the neighbouring counties, but of late it has been subjected to its share of the general depression occasioned by the transition

from war to peace. It is governed by a mayor, recorder, seven aldermen, including the mayor, a bailiff, town clerk, 24 common councilmen, and two serjeants at mace. Sudbury is distant 56 miles from London.

Sudbury was the birth place of Thomas Gainsborough, one of the most eminent English painters of the 18th century. He was born in 1727, and at a very early age, manifested a remarkable propensity for the art in which he was destined so highly to excel.

William Enfield was also born at Sudbury, in the year 1741. After receiving his education among the protestant dissenters at Daventry, the congregation at Liverpool made choice of him for their minister, when he was no more than 22 years of age.

WALDINGFIELD Magna, formerly the lordship of James Butler earl of Wiltshire; and afterwards of the earls of Essex. Sir John Carbonwell had a manor here, and the advowson of the church about the year 1300; but the advowson is now in the college of Clare-Hall, Cambridge. About the year 1360, Hawis the relict of sir Roger de Bavent, released the manor of Brandeston-Hall in Waldingfield Magna to the Nunnery of Dartford in Kent. The manor of Moreves was granted to Henry Lord Bouchier 14 Edward IV. at present it belongs to the family

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