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A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Suffolk
A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Suffolk Author:John Kirby General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial... more » access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PLOME8GATE. THE hundred of Plomesgate contairts 2 parishes and hamlets, is bounded on the east, by the ocean ; on the West, by the hundred o Loes ; on the north, by the hnn'dfed of Ely thirl and Hoxne ; and on the south, by Willford. AtoftortouGfl, ha's its nartie from'the river Afd, which runs near the south end of it, affording ft good quay at Slaughderi it is washed on th east side by the sea:, which during the last century committed great ravages here, having d- stroyed one whole street, and since that period it lias swept away seVeYal houses; fcgethef with the old market-place arid cross. William Martel gave t'he manttr of AMebitate ta tile Abbot and convent of St. John's ih Co- chestef, in 1155. The manor of Aldeburgft, with the1 manors of Sdotb and Tastardd in this Neighbourhood, were granted to Cardinal WdK sey, as parcel of the possessions of the priotfy of Snape, which Was a tie'll'to the Abbey of chesteir, attd they wefe1 granted toi'Thomas of Nttfftllk 24s Henry VIII. artd riow'belotlg W fi. Vefnon esq. The rectory rittd' advowSon of the vicarage1, wliidi belbngeid to the said abbey-, granted to Edwttrtl DttVinittg,- and Ashton in Exchange, in 23 Elizabeth. They are now vested in the Rev. Mr. Bradley. Aldborough is a town corporate, governed by two bailiffs, twelve capital burgesses, ami 24 inferior offices; but it did not send members to parliament before 13 Elizabeth. Willis supposes it was made a borough in 10 Elizabeth ; when she granted the duke of Norfolk a Sattw- day market at this bis manor here. It no...« less