686 ELVEDEN. (LACKFORD HUNDRED.) Keppel. The living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £12. l7s. 6d., and now having a yearly rent-charge of £300, awarded in 1840. Wm. Newton, Esq., is patron, and the Rev. James Isaacson, incumbent. The poor have 10s. a year from two roods of land given by an unknown donor; and .£3 a ye8l' {)ut of the rectorial tithes, left by Suckling Jay, Esq., in 1675. PosTjrom Thetford. Newton Wm., Esq. Elveden Hall Gayford Henry, farmer Isaacson Rev Jas. surrogate & rector, Harnwell Edward, gardener & boarding academy, Rectory Hatch George, steward Alien Isaac, gamekeeper Lusher Charles, vict. Albemarle Arms Brown Christopher, shopkeeper Payne Fdk.Charles, farmer & warrener Brown Fanny, schoolmistress Thurston James, parish clerk ERISWELL, a scattered village on at;t acclivity, 8 miles N. of Milden­ hall, has in its parish 524 souls, and about 6620 acres, mostly a light blowing sand, extending westward to the fens, and eastward to the exten­ sive warren of Lakenheath. The manor was anciently held of the King it~ .capite as of the honour of Boulogne, by the Roucestre family, and after­ wards by the Tuddenbams. A religious society, called the New England. (Jompany, are now lords of the manor and owners of a great part of the soil; and the remainder belongs to Alex. Murray, Esq., (who has a neat seat here,) Mr. S. Newdick, and several smaller owners. The Church (St. Peter) is a small thatched fabric, with a tower and three bells. It bad a cbantry, of the yearly value of .£9. 4s. 6d. ; and near the Hall, on the north ~ide of the parish, was a chapel dedicated to St. Lawrence, the remains of which is now a dove-cote. Near the same place is an old water-mill, now unoccupied. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £16. 6s. lOd., has fJ2A. of glebe, and a yearly rent-charge of .£640. 18s. lld., awarded in 1839. T. B. Evans, Esq., is patron, and the Rev. E. Evans, incumbent. Here is a Wesleyan and also a Primitive Methodist Chapel, the former built in 18431 and the latter in 1839. The lords of the manor support a small Fre~ School. The PooR's EsTATE consists of two double cottages, with small gardens, occupied by paupers ; an allotment of 14A.. 14P., let for £4. !Os., and 3B. 38P., in Holme and Rowley Croft, let for 20s. a year. PoST from Mildenhall. Ashley John, blacksmith Shinn Robert, shoemaker Evans Rev Henry, Rectory Sutterby Henry, vict. Bell Gathercole Theobald, net. Chequers Wicks John, bricklayer Halls J ames, shopkeeper FARMERS. Manning John, grocer, &c HorrexJane 11 Rnssell Wm. Mash James, wheelwright Newdick Philip, Eriswell Hall Milton Thomas, shoemaker Newdick Shadrach, corn merchant and M nrray Alexander, Esq. Eriswell Lodge miller Palmer Matthew, parish clerk Pearmain John, Rake Heath Peck J ames, tailor Roberson Thomas, Chttmberlain'a HaU Bntterford Mrs Harriet, joiner, & agent Turrington George 11 Warren John · to Royal Exchange Insurance Co Webb John, and sheep dealer EXNING is a large and well-built village, pleasantly situated in 41. small fertile valley, with a rivulet running through it, 2 miles N.W. of Newmarket. Its parish, with St. Mary's, Newmarket. forma a. small portion of Suffolk, surrounded by Cambridgeshire, and joined to the rest of this county only by the turnpike road. It con· ta:ins ono acres of land, and had 1556 inhabitants in 1851, includ· ing 322 in Newmarket Union Workhouse, which is situated here, as .
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