The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ... Triuity parish contains Arable, pasture, &c 1301 3 29 Roads, &c 25 2 18 Half the river 438 1332 1 15 Outney Common......... 401 3 31 Half the river 7 2 27 409 2 18 Stow fen 87 2 27 Half the river 1 1 20 89 0 Total 2716 0 25 Gross Rent-Charge payable to the Titheowners in lieu of Tithes for the Parish of Bungay Trinity, in the County of Suffolk (including 2. 3s. 6d. for appropriate Tithe of Glebe, at 5. per acre; and 7s. 2d. for Vicarial Tithe of Glebe, at 9d. per acre), 347. 7s., viz.: ILKETSHALL ST. JOHN. This is a small parish, containing about 740 acres of land, with a population of only 71 souls, according to the last census. It is now the manor of the Rev. Jeremy Day, of Hetherset. The advowson of St. John's Church was conveyed in the year 1267, by Sir James de Ilketshall, with one acre of land, which he held of Robert de Meynwaryn, to the Prioress of Bungay; whose successor, with monastic rapacity, obtained its appropriation in 1307, as has been already shown. It passed with the other possessions of Bungay Nunnery, in the sixteenth century, to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, and lapsed to the Crown, on the attainder of his unfortunate grandson, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It has never been re-granted; and is one of the Crown livings in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor. There is an ancient and singular intrenchment in this parish, about three quarters of a mile eastward of the church, which consists of a conical hill encircled by a moat, and strengthened with a breastwork and outer ditch on the south. The hill, which is now not more than fifteen feet high, is about ninety feet in diameter at the base; and the breastwork measures one hundred and eighty-six feet, from east to west, which is its greatest extent, projecting only one...