124 6 Die Martis, duodecimo die Augusti, ibidem, Smalebridge1, dispenss' £. s. d. 71. 10s. 8d.; Buttil' 197. os. 9d.; Gard' 7l. 18s. 24d.; Coquina 281. 148. ; Pullia 161.9s. Sd.; Scutt' 71.; Salsar' 20s. Sd; Aula, &c. 238.; Stabulum 251. 5s. 61⁄2d.; Vadia 10l.; Elimosina 4s. Die Mercurii, decimo tertio die Augusti, ibidem, dispenss' 71. 10s. 8d.; Buttilia 187. 58. 5d.; Gard' 7l. 16s. 114d.; Coquina 297. 17s. 10d.; Pullia 167. 78. 2d.; Scutt' 119s. 4d.; Salsar' 19s. 4d.; Aula, &c. 4l. 9s. 6d. ; Stabulum 197. 178. 61⁄2d.; Vadia 10l.; Elimozina 4s. HEMINGHAM 2. Die Jovis, decimo quarto die Augusti, ibidem, ut et Hemingham, Adhuc HEMINGHAM. 121 7 127 19 1 104 2 6/2 110 15 10 92 0 2/1/1 Die Veneris, decimo quinto die Augusti, ibidem Hemingham Die Martis, decimo nono die Augusti, ibm et Gosfeld Smalbridge, in the Parish of Buers St. Mary, was the seat of the family of Waldegrave from the time of Edward I. Sir Edward Waldegrave, a great favourite with Queen Mary, was committed to the Tower, and died here September 1 this year. Here resided the now noble family of Waldegrave, which was of great consideration in Suffolk for some centuries. 2 ⚫ Helmingham, in Bosmere and Claydon Hundred, not far from Ipswich and Needham, became the seat of the Tollemaches by marriage with the heiress of Helmingham. This was long before the reign of Elizabeth the seat of the Tollemaches, now earls of Dysart, and was at that time possessed by a Sir Lionel Tollemache, who probably now had the honour of entertaining her Majesty, and whose son was created a baronet at the first institution of that dignity. His grandfather Sir Lionel was High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk 4 Henry VIII. 1513, as was his grandson and namesake. • Gosfield was another mansion of the Rich family by marriage of Sir Hugh, second son of the Chancellor, with Anne, only daughter and heir of Sir John Wentworth, who on the death of her first husband, 1554, was re-married to Henry Fitz Alan, Lord Maltravers, who died 1556, and she 1580, so that it is very probable she resided in this mansion during her widowhood. LEES1. Die Jovis, vicesimo primo die Augusti, iðm & Lees ALLINGBURY MORLEY 2. Die Lunæ, vicesimo quinto die Augusti, ibm et Allingbury Morley, 109 15 10 Adhuc ALLINGBURY MORLEY. Die Martis, vicesimo sexto die Augusti, iħm, 102 5 8 Lees was another mansion of the Rich family, being a priory granted 26 Hen. VIII. to the Chancellor of that name. He made it his capital mansion. It was all built of brick, and consisted of two courts, the inner one towards the garden faced with stone. Three parks belonged to it, long since converted into farms. It continued in the family till it passed by marriage with a daughter to the Earl of Manchester; thence by purchase to Edmund Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, who died 1735, and by his Father's will it descended to his half brother Sir Charles Sheffield, who sold it for 40,000 pounds to the governors of Guy's Hospital, who have caused it all to be taken down except the gatehouse, and the lands to be converted into farms. Such were the beauties and conveniences of this mansion, that Mr. Knightly, a Northamptonshire Gentleman, said to Robert, the second Lord Rich, "My Lord, you had need make sure of Heaven, or else when you die you'll be a great loser." And Dr. Anthony Walker, in his funeral Sermon for Charles, Earl of Warwick, pays it a compliment not quite so strained, when addressing the Earl of Manchester, to whom it was bequeathed, he concludes, "your noble uncle hath left you, after your noble aunt, a secular elysium, a worldly paradise, a Heaven upon Earth, if there be any such." In 1760, at which time as much was remaining as appears in Buck's view of it, 1738, was shewn a room called Queen Elizabeth's; and in the desolated garden was a neglected fountain, not unlike that which appears in the forest of the Champ de Drap d'Or. 2 Allingbury Morley, or Great Hallingbury, was the residence of the Morley family from the beginning of the fourteenth century. An heir female conveyed it by marriage to William Lovel, who took the title of Lord Lovel of Tichmarsh, whose daughter succeeded to it, and married Sir William Parker. Their son Henry was summoned to Parliament, 1529, by the name of Lord Morley, married Alice, daughter of Sir John St. John of Bletso, and died 1556; their daughter Jane was wife of George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford; and their son Henry was created Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn; so that the Queen was here among her relations. On the North side of the chancel is an altar-tomb, and over it, against the wall, in six compartments inscriptions on two brass plates, commemorating the several branches of this family to Sir Henry, who died 1556. In the centre of these plates is a beautiful and well-preserved little skeleton carved in alabaster. The old mansion-house here was completely modernised by Jacob Houblon, Esquire, whose family became possessed of it early in the seventeenth century. STANDEN. Die Mercurii, vicesimo septimo die Augusti, ibm et Standen, HARTFORD 2. £. 8. d. 112 15 7 73 102 10 41 93 4 3 105 11 7 Die Sabbati, tricesimo die Augusti, ibm et Hartford, 120 15 1층 121 3 3/ 124 8 8 4 Standen, in Hertfordshire, was the seat of Sir Ralph Sadler, who for his bravery at the battle of Musselburgh was created one of the last Knights bannerets; and the pole of the King of Scotland's standard, which he then took, stands now by his monument in Standen Church. He was of the Privy Council to Queen Elizabeth, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He built the mansionhouse here on the site of another which had belonged to the Plantagenets, till Edward IV. brought it to the Crown, and Henry VIII. gave it to Sir Ralph. His initials are over the hall door in the wooden spandrils, and over the porch in the right hand spandril is R. S. with a lion rampant sinister in a field Ermine, dated 1546. The house forms a quadrangle, built entirely of brick, entered by a gate sided by two octagon embattled towers, and two more at the end of the front. On the right is an oriel window to the hall: most of the windows are sashed. The offices form a second quadrangle on the right, but have been partly pulled down. Sir Ralph's eldest son, Thomas, entertained James I. two nights here in his way from Scotland. Sir Thomas's daughter Gertude married Sir William Aston, of Tixall in Staffordshire; and on the death of the last Lord Aston his two sisters sold the estate to Mr. Plummer, of Blakesware, whose son leased it first to a Popish seminary, and since for a hunting inn, which not answering, much of the house has been taken down by piecemeal to repair farms, and the rest let to a farmer. The Chapel is now only distinguishable by tradition. A singular trap door was found in the garret floor, opening to a matted well-like place. Brithmere, Abbot of Croyland, 1030, built a stately house here for his accommodation in his way to London. " Of the Queen's visit to this Town no memorials remain in the books of the Corporation. The Town was indebted to her for a Fair and a Charter. The Castle was by her Father once intended for his residence, and with that view he caused a survey to be taken of it, and the Arms of England are quartered over the gate. |