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• 234 LEISTON. SUFFOLK. • [KELLY'S . Markham Louisa (Mrs.), dress maker Rose J onathan, boot maker, Sizewell rd Taylor William, coal merchant Mechanics' Institute & Library (J. B. Rowland E'rnest, grocer, Sizewell road *Thornton Jonathan,grocer & provision Harrison ~ J. Peck, hon. secs) Sawer Katherine & Mary (Mis,ses), dealer, & post office, Cold Fair Green Mayston Robert, Black Horse hotel fancy drapers, High street- Titlow WaIter David, ironmonger, &; Morling Winter, butcher Sawer Robert Everard, grocer &; drapr agent for W. &; A. Oilbey Limited. Moss Willi~m, coal dealer, Prospect pI Semmons George & Sons, builders wine 1& spirit merchants Nerwman Wil1iam, station master Smith George Baily, White Horse Tyrrell John Robert, farmer Odell Ernest, gardener to Miss New- family & commercial hotel &; posting Vale William, shopkeeper SaID, Crown lodge house Volunteer Battalion (1st) Suffolk. Regi- Parker Thomas Chamberlain, baker &; Smith Robert, milk seller ment (H Company), Oapt. & Hon. confectioner Smith Harry, fishmonger, Sizewell rd Major O. P. Ogilvie; Frank Gar- Parsons Arthur, hair dresser Smith William,vet. surgeon,Sizewell rd rett, lieut.; Rev. B. W. Raven M.A. Parsons William James, tailor Smyth George Allan, upholsterer, acting chaplain; Sergt.-Instructor Partridge George, bricklayer, Fern viI house furnisher, builder&; cabinet George Stewart, drill instructor Peskett Family String :Band (Robert maker; funerals furnished Wallis Edward Darby M.R.O.S.Eng.• Peskett, manager) Snowden Nathaniel, farmer L.S.A. surgeon, certifying factory Pooley Fredk. builder &; contractor Snowden Winter, farmer,Crossing frm ~mrgeon, medical officer & public Redgrave J ames. Alfred, plumber, Starling. Brothers, drapers &; milliners, vaccinator, 5th district, Blything Grimsey road Market place; &; at Aldeburgh union, St. Minver Reeve Emma (Miss), fancy warehouse Stephenson William, 'Watch maker &; Warne David, Volunteer Arms P.H. Rivers Walter, grocer &; draper tobacconist, Market place Snape road Rope Geo.&; Arth.farmers,Lowr.Abbey Stewart George, drill instructor Warne Isaac, farmer *Rowe Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Cold: Sylvester Herbert Mayris M.R.C.S. Westbrook Charles (Mrs.), baker Fair Green Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. physician &; Wingfield Wm. shopkpr. Valley road Rowe William E.blacksmith,bellhanger surgeon &; medical officer of health Woolnough Harry, pork butcher &; gasfitter, agricultural implement to the Leiston Urban District Coun- maker &; agent, High street cil, St. Petroc LETHERINGHAM is a parish and village on the by Sir J. Boyville of Bovile as a cell to St. Peter's Priory. river Deben, 3 miles south-west from Parham station on Ipswich, and valued at the Dissolution at £,26 I8s. Sd.; the Framlingham branch, and 4l from Wickham Market the domestic buildings, (}f which there are now no re­ junction station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of mains, stood on the north side of the church: the site is the Great Eastern railway, 4 south from Framling- now a stack yard. The house called The Abbey, and now ham, 3 north-west from Wickham Market and 7 north a farm residence, was fOl'merly the seat of the Naunton from Woodbridge, in the North Eastern division of the family and is the property of the trustees of the late Duke county, Loes hundred, Plomesgate union, Framlingham of Hamilton K.T. (d. 1895), who are lords: of the manor petty sessional division, Framlingham and Saxmundham and own the whole of the parish with the exception of county court district, rural deanery of Loes, archdeaconry four cottages. The soil is mixed; subsoil, clay and sand. (}f Suffolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. '1'he chief crops are wheat, roots, barley and hay. The Mary, comprising in part the church of the Austin priory, area is 1,144 acres of land and 9 of water; rateable value, is an ancient building of flint in the Decorated style, con- £935; the population in 1891 was 207. 4- sisting of nave, south porch and an embattled western Letters through Wickham Market arrive at 7.45 a.m.; tower with pinnacles containing (}ne bell: the tower is a dispatched at 6.10 p.m.; sunday, 10.40 a.m. Wick- fine specimen of flint work: the chancel was entirely ham Market is the nearest money order office &; Easton removed about 1750 : there are 220 sittings. The register the nearest telegraph office, I mile distant dates from the year 1588. The living is a vicarage, con- solidated with that of HOD, joint net yearly value [lOO, This parish is united with Hoo aoS a Voluntary School ineluding 60 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of district the Ohurch Patronage Society. Here was formerly The school here is temporarily closed &; the childreD a priory of Augustinian or Black Canons, founded attend the schools in the adjoining parishes Airey David, farmer &; carrier Oooper Wm. miller (steam &; water), HickSi William, farmer Burch lsaac Abblett, blacksmith &; merchant Randall Frederick, farmer Cuthbert Robert, farmer Haywal"d Thomas, farmer Searby William, farmer, The Abbey LEVINGTON is a parish and village on the north bank I three of Nacton and three of Levington, founded by Sir of the navig-able river Orwell and I~ miles south-east from Robert Hitcham kt. in the year 1636. Capt. Ernest Orwell station on the Felixstowe line of the Great Eastern George Pretyman M.P. of Orwell Park, who is lord of the railway, 7 south from Woodbridge, and 6 south-east from manor, and the Lord de Saumarez, of Shrubland Park, Ipswioh, in the Sonth Eastern division of the county, are the principal landowners. The soil jg. sandy; the Oolneis hundred, Woodbridge petty sessional division, subsoil, sand and cra!r, used for manuring the land. The union and county court dis,trict, rural deanery of Colneis, crops are wheat and barley. The area is 1,020 acres, 28 archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of Norwich. The of tidal water and 30 of foreshore; rateable value, church of St. Peter is an ancient structure of brick in the £I,18:!; the population in 189! was 175. Late Decorated style, consislting of chancel, nave, south Post Office.-Mrs. Emily Woolnough, postmistress. Let- porch and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: ters received from Ipswich at 5 a.m. &; 3.40 p.m.; dis- there Me 150 sittings, more than half being free. The patched at a.50 p.m. by mail cart. Postal orders are register dates from the year 1562. The living i9 a rectory, issued here, but nat paid. Nacton is the nearest money consolidated with Nacton, net yearly value [300, includ- order & telegraph office, 2 miles dispant ing 22 acres of glebe, in the gift of Capt. E. G. Pretyman The children of this place attend the school at Naoton M.P. and held since 1894 by the Rev. Arthur Hawtrey Carriers to Ipswich.-William Punt, tues. thurs. &; sat.; Watson M.A. of Keble College, Oxford, who resides at GeOJ'ge Baldwin, tues. thurs. & sat.; Oh.a.rles Cowie, Nacton. There are almshouses for six poor single women, tues. thurs. &; sat :Moorsom Edgar R. Levington hall Everett William, farmer Wiseman John Mac1ean, land surveyor Barcham ,farm bailiff to J. O. Daw- Moorsom Edgar R. land surveyor to to Capt. E'. G. Pretyman M.P son esq. White House farm Oapt. Pretyman M.P Woo:nough Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Oowie Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Punt William, Ship P.H Post office LIDGATE (or Lydgate) is a parish and sman village, in 1895 at a cost of £400: in the chancel is a brass figure on the borders of Cambridgeshire, 7 miles south-east from of John of Lydgate, the head of which has been restored Newmarket station and :12 west-south-west from Bury St. by the rector: there are 200 sittings. The register dates Edmunds, in the Western division of the county, Ris- from the year 1547. The living is a rectory, net yearly bridge hundred, Newmarket petty sessional division, value £215, with residence and 55 acres of glebe, in the union and county court distriCll;, rural deanery of Thur- gift of Mrs. Wilson, and held since 1889 by the Rev. low, archdeaconry of Sudbury and diocese of Ely. The Ernest Awdry Gray, of Trinity College, Dublin. Here is church of St. Mary is a building of flint and stone, in the a Congregational chapel. Rowling'oS Charity, derived Perpendicular style, consig.ting of chancel, nave, aisles, from 12 acres of land, is partly applied to church purposes south porch and a square western embattled tower con- and partly in aid of the poor. John of Lydgate, a monk talining 5 bells: the chancel was partially restored and a of the Benedictine abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, and !I stained window inserted in 1853: it was further restored celebrated poet of the earlier half of the 15th century, in 1863; a rood cross and gates were added by the last was born in this village, c. 1375. died c. :1415; of his r~ctor in 1871 and a fUl"theT restoration was undertaken numerous works the" History of Troy," printed in 1513..
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  • The Reduced Population and Wealth of Early Fifteenth

    The Reduced Population and Wealth of Early Fifteenth

    THE REDUCED POPULATION AND WEALTH OF EARLY FIFTEENTH-CENTURY SUFFOLK by DAVID DYMOND, M.A., F.S.A. and ROGER VIRGOE, PH.D., F.R.HIST.S. IN THE SESSION of Parliament which met between 27 January and 25 March 1428, the Council governing England during Henry VI's minority asked for subsidies to pay for the continuing war in France and for the safe-keeping of the sea. In response the Commons made three grants.' The first was of tunnage and poundage for a year; the second a grant of 6s. 8d. per knight' s fee, a traditional and by now obsolescent feudal aid; the third was a novel, if not quite unprecedented, tax levied on parishes and not, like the normal fifteenth and tenth, on townships.' The last of these grants is the most interesting. Payment had to be made by each rural parish which had ten households or more. If the living of the church was assessed for clerical taxes at less than ten marks, householders were to pay half a mark (6s. 8d.); if it was assessed at ten marks or more, they were to pay at the rate of one mark (13s. 4d.) for each ten marks' valuation. In boroughs the householders of each parish were to pay at the rate of 2s. for every £1 in the valuation of the living. Those parishes which contained fewer than ten households were exempt from payment. It is not the purpose of this paper to examine the reasons for this peculiar hybrid tax, which was not repeated.' For the local historian the most interesting information in the returns is the listing of exempt parishes with small populations.