10~2 HUNSTON . (KELLY'S

HUNSTON is a village and parish, 3~ miles north from including 16 acres of glebe, in the gifi. of Major Clement I<~lmswell station on the Bury and Ipswich sectiOn of the I;Ieigham, of , and held since 1891 by the Rev. George Great Eastern railway and 9 north-east from Bury St. James Hutchinson, of St. Bees, who is also vicar of and re­ Edrnunds, in the North Western division of the county_, sides at Bad well Ash. Mrs. Mary Page, who died in 1731, Black bourn hundred and petty sessional division, Stow union, bequeathed £8 yearly, principally for the teaching and Bury St. Edmunds county court district, rural deanery of catechizing of children. Major Clement Henry John , archdeaconry of Sudbury and diocese of Ely. Heigham, of the Rosary, Ipswich, who is lord of the manor, The church of St. Michael, which stands in the rear of the and Arthur Maitland Wilson esq. J.P. of Stowlangtoft Hall, Hall, is an ancient building of flint, in the Early Eliglish are the principal landowners. The soil is mixed ; subsoil, style, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept, south chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and porch and a westem tower containing 3 bells : the chancel turnips. The area is 957 acres; rateable value, £1,131; was thoroughly restored in 1878 by the late J. H. Heigham the population in 188r was I34· esq. : in the south transept is a good double piscina ~ the Parish Clerk, John Buckle. chancel retains two ancient benches, with well-carved poppy­ heads : the font is Norman: in the chancel are marble Letters through Bury St. Edmunds, by messenger from monuments to Arthur Heigham (1787), Rev. Henry Heig- Ixworth, arrive about 7.3oa.m. LETTER Rox cleared at ham M.A. (1824) and Elizabeth his wife (r832): the chancel 5-55 p.tn. & at ILlS a.m. on sundays. Ixworth is the floor was relaid with mosaics by Major Clement Heigham in nearest m0ney order & telegraph office 1887: there are 150 sittings. The register dates from the The children of this place attend the schools at Langham & year IS57· The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value£so, Norton Heigham George Travers, Hunston cot Huffee ·walter, shoe maker Turner Spencer Richard, Buttenhaugh Heigha.m Wm. Treherne, Hunston cot. Turner Amy (Mrs.), frmr.The Lodge fm Green farm Walford Lt.-Col.Hy.Alex.J.P. Hunstn.hll Turner John Henry, farmer, Dairy farm Turner Wm. farmer, Chestnut cottage

HUNTINGFIELD is a village and parish, 4~ miles assumed the name of the parish in which he lived, as was west-by-south from station on the Ipswich and the custom of the successful Normans. 'fbe manor con­ Lowestoft section of the Great Eastern railway, in the North tinned in this family until 1382, when by the death of his Eastern division of the county, Blything hundred, petty mother, who was the daughter of Sir John de Norwich, sessional division and union, Halesworth county court dis- knight, hy Alice de Iluntingtield, Michael de la Pole, Earl of triet, North rural deanery, Suffolk archdeaconry Suffolk, came into possesswn of it: it continued in this a.nd Norwich diocese. The church of Ht . .Mary, standtng family until I$I3, when Edmund de la Pole; Earl of Suffolk, within the rectory grounds and surrounded by tall oaks and who then pD~>sessed it, was attainted: his wife, Margaret, elms, is a building of flint, dating from about u8o to I$00, however, held it for her life, after whose death it fell to the and consisting of large chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and Crown, and Henry VIII. in 1531 granted it to Charles Bran-­ tower with pinnacles, containing 5 bells : at the east end of don, Duke of Suffolk: it, however, soon reverted to the Crown the north aisle i.'! a mortuary chapel belonging to Lord Hunt- and formed part of the pension of £3,000 a year which was ingfield, in the vault beneath which many members of the settled by Henry VIII. on his divorced wife, Anne af Cleves, Vanneck family lie interred: in the chnrch was formerly a who died in 1557; and Elizabeth in 1559 granted it to her cbantry,endowed with lands of the yearly value of £4 17s. 6d. cousin Lord Hunsdon, who was succeeded by his eldest son, and also a chapel dedicated to i:lt. Andrew and St. Mar- who left an only daughter, and she, marrying Sir Thomas garet: there is a brass to .John Paston esq. father of Bridget Berkeley, knight, had issue one daughter: this lady married (Paston) 1st wife of Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, a Sir Robert Coke, knight, second son of Sir Edward Coke, small brass to an infant daughter of the judge, and a monu- Lord Chief Justice, and thus conveyed her estates into that ment to Anne (Moulton), wife of John Paston esq.: the roof family: previously, however, the Lord Chief Justice, then was richly illuminated by the late Mrs. Holland, wife of the Edward Coke e..'>q. had in 1582 married Bridget, daughter Rev. William Holland M.A. rector 1848-92 : the stained and heiress of John Paston esq. of Huntingfield Hall, and ' east window is a memorial to the late Lord Huntingfield, had acquired with her a fortune of £3o,ooo in lands in this who died at , xo Aug. 1844: there are 26p sit- and the neighbouring parishes; in 1754, Thomas Coke,Earl tings. The register dates from the year 1565, but is not of Leicester, sold this property to Sir Joshua Vanneck bar~. perfect. The living is a rectory, consolidated with Cookley of Putney; and his son Joshua was, in 1796, created Baron in 1773, average tithe rent-charge /.,"643• net yearly value Huntingtield, of Heveningham, and in thi~ family the manor £5II, including 145 acres of gl~be, with residence, in the still continues. When Baron Hunsdon held the property it gift of Lord Huntingfield, and held since 1892 by the Rev. was honoured with a visit from his cousin Queen Elizabeth, Richard Spencer Turner B. A. of Queen's College, Oxford. who is stated to have shot a deer from an oak tree, still The charities belonging to the parish consist of lands and standing and known as Queen Elizabeth's oak ; the girth of tenements, amounting in yearly value to about £46: in this tree at seven feet from the ground is thirty-six feet. r862 a scheme for their future regulation and management Lord Huntingfield is lord of the manor and owns nearly the was obtained from the Charity Commissioners, according to whole of the land, The soil is much mixed, the hills being • which the net income is yearly divided int.o three equal parts heavy land and the valleys lighter; subsoil, principally clay. and severally applied by the trustees to the repairs of the The chief crops are the usual cereals and roots. The area is church, the suppl)rt of the school and the benefit of the poor: 2,134 acres; rateable value, £2,56o; the population in 1891 the trustees are the rector, the lady of the manor of , was 378. Lord Huntingfield, Francis Evans Babington esq. of Hales- Sexton, James Mudd. worth, the Rev. Frederick French M. A. of Worlingworth, and PosT OFFICE.'-Robert M inter, receiver. Letters received Col. the Hon. Joshua Charles Vanneck J. P.: there is in ad- through Halesworth, which is the nearest money order & dition a yearly rent-charge of £·4, left in 1725 for the school, telegraph office, arrive at 8 a.m. ; dispatched at 5.30 p.m. by Bury Snelling; the school was built in 1849· In the Postal orders are issued here, but not paid time of Edward the Confessor, Edric of Laxfield held Hunt- ingfield, of which he was deprived at the Conquest, when it PILLAR LETTER Box, Cross ways, cleared at 5-5 P· m was given to Robert Malet, lord of the honor of Eye, whose National School (mixed), erected in 1849 & enlarged 1870, under-tenant, when Domesday Book was made, was Waiter, for 6o children; average attendance, 56; Miss Annie son of Alberic: Roger de Huntingfield (the first of this Booth, mistress name mentioned) was probably the son of this Waiter, who CARRIER.-Thos. Mudd, daily, to' White Hart,' Halesworth Turner Rev. Richard Spencer B. A. Dona.ld Joseph, land agent & farm Moy Jas. farm bailiff to J. M. Yetts esq [rector], Rectory stwrd. to Lord Huntingfield, The Hall Mudd James, blacksmith & sexton COMMERCIAL. Foster James, farmer Mudd Thomas, carrier . Aldous John, farmer Harvey Robert, Huntingfield Arms P.H Page James, farmer, New hall Balls Robert Jn. Meen, farmer, assessor Kerry Robert, farmer, Valley farm Ransby John, carpenter & collector of taxes & landowner Long James, miller (wind) & farmer Todd Charles, shoe maker , Barrell Henry miller(wind) & farmer Minter Allan, tailor Wakeling Mary (Mrs.), farmer Coe George, farmer Minter Robt. grocr. & drapr. Post office Witton Robt. carpenter.&!; wheelwright ICKLINGHAM is a township, comprising the parishes Bury St. Edmunds and d· east-south-east from Mildenhall. of St. James and All Saints, which are united for civil pur- Thetwochurchesstandlessthanha.lfamileapart. St.James', poses and form one village, in the North Western division an ancient edifice, chiefly of flint, in various styles, consists of of the county, hundred and petty sessional division of Lack- chancel, nave, a.lSles, south porch and an embattled western ford, union and county court district of MildenhaH, rural tower containing one bell ; there are memorial windows to deanery of Mildenhall, archdeaconry of Sudbnry and diocese the Gwilt family, including one to Major-Gen. Gwilt c.B. of Ely. The village~ about a mile in length, stands on the erected by his sister, Miss Gwilt, and others to the family of north bank of the river Lark, a tributary of the Ousl', 5 Gibbs : the church was completely restored in x864, at a miles south-south-west from Higham on the Cambridge, cost of £x,6oo, defrayed by the late Charles Edward Gibbs Newmarket and Bury branch rdilway, 8 north-west {rom esq. and affords 2~ sittings. All Saints' church, standing