Buffolk. (KELLY S Colored Freestone with a Canopy Supported on Six Lord of the Manor and Sole Landowner, Is a Tudor Man
7 180 HENGRAVE. bUFFOLK. (KELLY S colored freestone with a canopy supported on six lord of the manor and sole landowner, is a Tudor man:. pillars, and a recumbent effigy to Sir Thomas Kytson, sion, standing in a park of 300 acres, erected in I525 by ob. I54o, and Margaret (Donington), his relict, pre- Sir Thomas Kytson, and a fine example of the archi viously widow of Sir Richard Long, of Shengay, Cambs. tecture of that period, the gateway in particular being and eventual!ly third wife of John (Bourchier ), second of singular beauty and in excellent preservation: the Earl of Bath; she died in London, 20 Dec. I56I, and was domestic chapel has a large window containing some buried here I2 Jan. I561-2 : there are some other monu- rare and ancient Flemish glass: the interior of the ments. The register dates from the year I56I. The mansion generally has undergone careful restoration living is a rectory, consolidated with Flempton, joint net at the hands of the present owner. The soil is good yearly value £3oo, with IO acres of glebe, in the gift of mixed; subsoil, chalk, gravel and clay. The chief John Wood esq. and held since I896 by the Rev. Robert crops are wheat and barley. The area is 887 acres of Woods Worhley B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, who land and IO of water; rateable value, £I,22I; the popu resides at Flempton. The Almshouses, consisting of lation in I9II was 190. four tenements, were erected and endowed by Sir Post Office.-Arthur Cooper, sub-postmaster.
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