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A Journal of Excursions Through the County of Suffolk, 1823-1844 A JOURNAL OF EXCURSIONS THROUGH THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK 1823-1844 ---�-7- n- The Interior of Rumburgh Church in 1849. Watercolour by Henry Davy (B.L.) A JOURNAL OF EXCURSIONS THROUGH THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK 1823-1844 David Elisha Davy Edited by John Blatchly Published for the Suffolk Records Society by The Boydell Press Volume XXIV © Suffolk Records Society, 1982 Published for the Suffolk Records Society by The Boydell Press, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, PO Box 9, Woodbridge Suffolk IP12 3DF First published 1982 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Davy, David Elisha A journal of excursions through the county of Suffolk 1823-1844. - (Suffolk Records Society; v.24) 1. Suffolk (England) - Description and travel I. Title II. Blatchly, John III. Series 914.26'40474 DA670.S9 ISBN 0-85115-162-0 Photoset in Great Britain by Galleon Photosetting, Ipswich, Suffolk and printed by Nene Litho Wellingborough, Northants Contents List of Illustrations Vl Acknowledgements Vll Editorial Note and Abbreviations Vlll List of Sources lX Introduction 1 David Elisha Davy, his Life and Work 4 A JOURNAL OF EXCURSIONS THROUGH THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK 1823-1844 21 Index of Suffolk Parishes visited 236 Index of Persons named in Introduction and Journal 240 V List of Illustrations The Interior of Rumburgh Church in 1849. Watercolour by Henry Davy (B.L. ) Frontispiece Portrait of Henry Jermyn. Anon ., pen and ink (S.R.O.) 7 The Grove, Yoxford, in 1801. Pencil, Cornelius Varley The Ichnographies of Acton and Alpheton Churches drawn by D. E. Davy. (B.L.) 9 Ufford House, Davy's home after 1823. The Wall Tablets of Eleazar Davy and David Elisha Davy in Yoxford Church . 19 Two Rectories: Gisleham 'the prettiest', built for the Revd. George Anguish . Witnesham 'the most appropriate', for the Revd. J. G. Whaley. 25 Two Views of Holbrook Plantations in 1799. Watercolours by Luigi Mayer. (Ipswich Museums and A. B. Parry, Esq.) 53 The Urn found 3 June 1824 on Hinton Common. Watercolour by Henry Davy. (Paul Grinke, Esq.) 64 Creeting St. Mary Church after 1801. Watercolour, anon. (Soc. Antiq. ) Thurleston St. Botolph Church in 1845. 94 Watercolour by Henry Davy . (S.R.O.) The W. face of the Stone Screen, c. 1250, formerly in Wenham parva Church. Reconstruction by Birkin Haward . 107 The North front of Somersham Rectory in 1845 Watercolour by Henry Davy. (S.R.O.) Rubbing made by D. E. Davy (1829) of achievement of Steresacre from brass, c. 1420 to Margaret Steresacre, formerly in Baylham Church. (B.L. ) 121 Three Wall Monuments to: Admiral Viscount Keppel, d. 1786, at Elveden, Sir Thomas Gooch, Bt., d. 1826, at Benacre, John, 1st. Earl of Stradbroke, d. 1827, at Wangford. 141 Carved oak sill on house opposite St. Mary's, Bungay . Watercolour by W. C. Edwards (Paul Grinke, Esq.) 155 Statue of Dudley Long North, 1833, by John Gibson, R.A., at Little Glemham. 225 Ringsfield Church, engraved after a drawing by Henry Davy for Excursions through Suffolk, 1818. Vl Acknowledgements My first thanks must go to Bill Serjeant, County Archivist of Suffolk, whose enthusiasm for the publication of Davy's Journal in extenso was the spur to action. He kindly gave permission for the illustrations on pages 7, 94, and 107, all from the Fitch Collections in his care. His staff too, and Trevor James, County Photographer, have, as always, lent stalwart support. Dr. Whaley, Keeper of Manuscripts at the British Library, arranged for me to read Davy's Out-county Journal before it was permanently accessionied and generously gave the Society permission to reproduce the watercolour of Rumburgh Church as frontispiece and jacket illustration, and other items from Davy's own collections on pages 9 and 121. Mr. M. A. L. Borrie, Assistant Keeper, sent me details of the purchase of Davy's MSS. by the Museum in 1852. The Curator of Ipswich Museums and Adrian Parry kindly allowed their watercolours to appear on page 53, and that on page 94 is reproduced by permission of the Society of Antiquaries of London . Many kind friends have helped with special knowledge of their own part of the County, with the loan of books and plans, and the fruits of their own research: George Arnott, Alan Barker, Alan Bottomley, Joan Corder, Simon Cotton, R. John Day, Gwenyth Dyke, John Fitch, Mollie and Geoffrey Smith, Sir John Gooch, Bt., Paul Grinke, Birkin Haward, Seymour de Lotbiniere, Edward Martin, Lionel Mizon, John Page-Phillips, Joy Rowe, Margaret Statham and Richard Wilson. David Smee's are the comments on Davy's botanical sightings. To all of them my thanks, also to the many incumbents who have patiently dealt with time-consuming requests for information. Tony Copsey has once again put his incomparable collection of Suffolk books at my disposal, and most generously presented the colour plate. Peter Northeast has from time to time neglected his own studies to solve problems I have raised, even making detours to visit obscure parishes in pursuit of details. Norman Scarfe's tireless work as General Editor has supplied many of my omissions and saved me, I hope, from gross error; if not, the fault is mine entirely. Finally I would like to thank Maureen Bailey for her typescript of the whole, bravely tackling the text with a magnifying glass, and my wife for many hours of patient work on draft and proof checking, and for assisting at innumerable visits to churches where in 'just a few minutes' I could take a photograph or note an inscription. Ipswich School March 1982 John Blatchly vu Editorial Note Davy's spelling is preserved throughout save for obvious errors on his part, as is his punctuation except where the meaning would be obscured. His generous use of commas is unaltered, as are his abbreviations, odd though they often seem. Place-names in the Journal, are as he spelt them, inconsistencies and all but the Index of Places has modern versions. Omissions in the Journal are supplied in square brackets, and to Davy's dates of entries are added days of the week. Abbreviations R. Rector succ. succeeded V. Vicar patr. patron C. Curate prop . proprietor P.C. Perpetual Curate mont. monument inst . instituted aet. aetatis suae B.L. British Library S.R.O. Suffolk Record Office (at Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds ) N.N.R.O. Norfolk and Norwich Record Office N.C.C. Norwich Consistory Court D .N.B. Dictionary of National Biography Gent. Mag. Gentleman's Magazine P.S.l.A .(H. ) Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology"( and History ) M .B.S .Trans . Transactions of the Monumental Brass Society M.S. Mill Stephenson's List of Monumental Brasses, 1926 Vlll List of Sources Printed Anon., Concise Description of Bury St. Edmunds and its Environs, 1827. Anon., Excursions through the County of Suffolk, 1818. Blatchly, J.M., The Topographers of Suffolk, 4th edn., 1981. Cotman, J. S., Engravings of the Sepulchral Brasses of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1819 and 1839. Ford, J., The Suffolk Garland, 1818. Gilbert, R. (ed.), The Clerical Guide, 3rd edn. 1829, 4th edn. 1836. Kirby, J., The Suffolk Traveller, 1735 and 1764. Munro-Cautley, H., Suffolk Churches and their Treasures, 1937, 1954 and 1975. Nichols, J . G. (ed.), The Topographer and Genealogist, Vols I and II, 1843-6, 1853. Pevsner, N. B. L., The Buildings of England : Suffolk, 1961 and 1974. Pigot and Co. 's Directories for 1823, 1830 and 1839. Shober!, F., TheBeautiesofEnglandandWales : Suffolk, 1810, 1813and 1820. Suckling, A. I., History of Suffolk, Vol. 11846, Vol. 21848. White, W., Directory of Suffolk, 1844. Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings J. W. Darby's MS. Monumental Inscriptions in Suffolk. Boxed by Hundreds. S.R.O . Ipswich. qS 929.5 D. E. Davy's Collections for the History of Suffolk by Hundreds and Parishes. B.L. Add. MSS. 19,077-19,113 . Microfilms in S.R.O. D. E. Davy's Pedigrees of Suffolk Families. B.L. Add. MSS. 19,114--19,156. D. E. Davy's Drawings and Sketches of Antiquities in Suffolk, mainly by Henry Davy . B.L. Add. MSS. 19,176--19,181. D. E. Davy's Miscellaneous Collections. B.L. Add. MSS. 19,185-19,197. Original Letters addressed to Eleazar Davy and D . E. Davy. B.L. Add. MSS. 19,213-19,241 (Index in 19,213). Three Volumes of Letters addressed to Eleazar Davy, given by D . E. Davy to F. C. Brooke. In private possession. D. E. Davy's Let ers to G. B. Jermyn , 1830-1840. S.R.O. qS929.2 D. E. Davy's Journal of Tours in Counties other than Suffolk. B.L. Add. MS. 61,946. Collections of Illustrations for the History of Suffolk made by W. S. Fitch, c. 1840. S.R.O. HD 480: 31 Volumes. Collections of Suffolk Illustrations made by W. Starkie-Bence of Kentwell Hall, c. 1850. The 46 Volumes sold in 1970 are in various private collections. R. T. L. Parr, 8 Vol. typescript 'Yoxford Yesterday'. S.R.O. Ipswich qS Yoxford 9. lX Introduction The publication of the recently discovered Journal kept by David Elisha Davy during the latter half of his working tours in Suffolk provides an opportunity for the first proper appreciation of the most devoted historian the county has had, I almost dare say the most thorough any county can boast. Davy was the most careful and persistent collector of materials, and these he organised flawlessly. His search for books and manuscripts took him to public and private collections where he abstracted charters, deeds, terriers and registers, and the notes of his predecessors in the field, but, most important, he visited every corner of the county, often returning more than once to record interesting features of churches, ancient buildings and sites.
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