slow steps, and frequent pauses, to the Church aforesaid. In the first aisle stood the foresaid 70 poor women, paling the passage on either side, through whom passed the whole action up to the East end of the Church, where the pulpit was purposely placed, and also the hearse.The seven principal mourneresses were placed by Mr. Garter king at armes within the inward rail of the said hearse, with their faces towards the same, and the rest of the gentlemen ministers to the funeral were placed in the outer rails, about two yards distant from the pall of the coffin; all others sat in seats adjoining. The company thus placed, and the psalm ended, (which had received the corpse at the entrance into the Church), your chaplain, Edward Cowper, ascended the pulpit, and towards the end of his learned sermon, took a fit occasion to speak of her learned and virtuous life; A lady, never known to dissemble, or heard to swear, with speech modestly carried,' sealed also with the knowledge of many hundreds there present, wrought such effeet, that seldome hath been beheld a more sorrowful assembly at a subject's funeral, nor tears more dropping down. The sermon ended, another psalm was begun, during which, all such mourners as before are said to wear heads of lawn, together with the two assistants, walked in procession wise about the hearse; in which procession, the waiting gentlewomen and chambermaids were severed from the rest, and aptly seated on one side the aisle extending to the offertory, where they continued till all ceremonies were ended. But all the rest, by their circular walk, were seated in their former places; which \done, the offertory began, first, by the principal mourneresses, and after, by the other six, each conducted by Mr. Garter; then were the banners offered up by such as formerly I have noted to bear them; which finished, Mr. Berkeley, your eldest son, was, by Mr. Garter, led to the offertory, and there by him invested with the honours of his deceased mother, by delivery and acceptance of the banners, and other ceremonies; which done, and be solemnly conducted back to his former place, then were next brought before the hearse, the two principal officers of the household, the steward and gentleman usher, who after many obeisances and humble reverences, brake their rods, commending them to the custody of the corps and hearse; which ceremony ended, the whole company arose, and in the order they came, returned to Mr. Hopkins' house aforesaid, and thence to Callowdon, where 5

your Lordship for them and many hundreds more had so plentifully provided, that the excess herein appeared, when with such dishes, as for most part passed untouched at former tables, more than one thousand poor people were plentifully fed the same afternoon; and thus have you performed that part of your late letter to her brother, the Lord Henry Howard, that as her life was honourable, so you intended her funeral should be. -Finis.

"Thus the paper I delivered to this Lord. John Smith.

"Her body was after interred in a vault, in the North-east corner of that Church, near the Draper's Chapel there; and I think it hardly possible to have all things better performed than were at this funeral, and after at the feast, wherein no error was by any observed to be committed; so careful were the servants of this Lord in their several offices and charges committed to them, who also for more comeliness had attired themselves the gentlemen in black sattin suits, and black silk stockings, with gold chains, folded in black scarfes, and the yeomen in silk sashes, grograms, and taffeties of black colours. Reliquet nomen, narrantur laudes. "GOD grant us all such race to run, To end in Christ as she has done."

Topographical Account of the Parish of TOTTINGTON, in Norfolk. OTTINGTON is a small irregular

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village in the hundred of Wayland, deanery of Breccles, and archdeaconry of Norwich, and lies on the road between Thetford and Watton, distant eight miles from the former, and four from the latter place. The parish is bounded on the north by Threxton, Little Cressingham, and Merton; by Merton and Thompson on the cast; on the west by Stanford; and on the south by Wretham and Sturston.

We find mention of no less than six manors in this parish; viz. Tottington or Mortimer's manor, Strange's, Stanford's, Campesse, Thetford-Monks', and Bokenham's or Macham's manors. All these had their rise from the two principal manors, Mortimer's and Stanford's. A full and particular account of the descent of property may be seen in Blomefield's elaborate History of this county, from which I have abridged a few particulars respecting the two principal manors, in order to shew how they became divided.

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TOTTINGTON or MORTIMER'S

MANOR.

Alwi, a Saxon, held it in the Confessor's time, and the Conqueror gave it to Robert Bigot*, of whom Ralph Fitz-Herlewin held it at the survey. It contained four carucates, three of which were demesne. The manor was worth 80s. afterwards it fell to 60s. The whole town was better than four miles in length, and two in breadth, and paid 15d. to the gelt. It continued in the Bigots; and in King Stephen's time Hugh Bigot owned it, who divided it, and gave part to the Prior of Thetford, which constituted "Thetford-Monks' Manor," and the other part to John le Strange; and it appears that part of it was afterwards conveyed to Warner, or Warin de Tottington, who gave the tithes of his estate, which contained half a knight's fee, to Thetford priory. In 1195, there was a dispute between Robert Mortimer, of Attleburgh, and John le Strange, of Hunstanton, concerning five fees in Hunstanton, Tottington, &c.; and at last, Robert released the whole to John, and John gave the church to the nuns at Campesse, with all the lands belonging to it, excepting divers rents and services; that constituted the manor called "Stranges," which continued in that family till John le Strange, of Hunstanton, esq. by deed dated 5 Hen. V. confirmed to the Prioress of Campesse his manor in Tottington, called Strange's, with all thereto belonging t.

STANFORD'S MANOR.

Alwin, a Saxon, owned this part in the Confessor's time, and Roger de Ramis held it, allotted him by the Conqueror. He gave it to Waregius, who held it at the Conqueror's Survey, when it was worth 20s. per ann. it being fallen half its value since Alwin's time. It contained three carucates, one of them being demesne. In 1275, Maud de Ebroicis granted to Thomas de Solariis, for life, with remainder to herself and heirs, this manor, which then contained two carucates. About 1290, Thomas de Ware held it at half a fee of Petronil de Vaux; in 1344, Osbert de Boyton died seized of this manor; and in 1466, it was settled in marriage by John Wyndham, esq. the father, on his son John and Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir John Howard, knt. afterwards Duke of Norfolk, and their heirs.

"Bokenham's or Macham's Manor," had its rise out of Stanford's Manor, when Thomas de Ware settled half of it on Hugh de Bokenham, in 1345. It seems to have been divided soon after; for, in 1402, Thomas de Tottington held a part of it of the Honor of Richmond."

In 1558, the manors were all joined, for Sir Richard Southwell, knt. suffered a recovery of the manors of Tottington, Stanford's, and Mortimer's, with the impropriation and advowson of the vicarage, to the use of himself for life; the remainder to Elizabeth, wife of George Heneage, daughter of

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Sir Richard, for life; and, in 1572, George Heneage had it. It came after to Sir Robert Southwell, who sold it, 16 May, 40 Eliz.* to Edward Coke, esq. and his heirs.

In 1635, the Lady Jane Harte paid 201. per ann. out of these manors, to John Harte, according to the will of Sir Eustace Harte, knt. deceased. It afterwards belonged to Thomas Garrard, esq. and after that to Sir Nicholas Garrard, of Langford, bart. who died in 1727, leaving it to his widow. Sir William de Grey, lord chief justice of the common pleas, purchased it, whose descendant, the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, is the present proprietor. Indeed, the whole parish, except the glebe and one cottage, now belongs to his Lordship.

In 14 Geo. III. (1774) an Act of Parliament was passed, entitled, "An Act for dividing and inclosing the common fields, halff-year lands, common pastures, common meadows, commons, commonable lands, heaths, and waste grounds, within the parish of Tottington, in the county of Norfolk." About two furlongs north-west of the Church, there is a barn, which has been moated in, and had a good fishery belonging to it; by this place are several foundations of buildings, which are supposed to have been the old manor-house. As some workmen were digging here, in 1812, they found a large old key, much corroded; it is now in the museum of the Rev. M. D. Duffield, F.S.A.

There is a mere, or sheet of water, about a quarter of a mile north west of the Church, which in rainy seasons covers seven acres of land. Such meres are common in the county; within a few miles of Tottington, there are three others; viz. Stow-Bedon, Soham, and Scoulton.

There are two public-houses in the village, known by the signs of the Cock, and the Green Man.

It is, perhaps, worthy of remark, that a pair of stocks, which is so commonly seen on the green of every village, though the use is at this day almost unknown, never was erected in this parish, which shews either the peaceableness of the inhabitants, or the carelessness and inactivity of the parish officers

In 1801, there were 26 houses, and 40 families, consisting of 104 males, and 94 females, in Tottington.

According to the Return made to Parliament for the year 1817, the poor's rate amounted to 292l. 148. Od.

The only charitable bequest which I have met with in this parish, is a piece of land called Chandler's Pightle, containing less than an acre. It was formerly let by the parish officers to Lord Walsingham, for 4s. a year, and is believed to have been given for the industrious poor. In 1777, it was let for 5s. but has not been mentioned in the Terriers since that time. Like Naboth's vineyard, it has been taken from the owner, perhaps for a garden of herbs, and affords us another instance to the many hundreds which have been brought to light, of the "industrious poor" having been deprived of their rights, not perhaps by the great and wealthy, but by those who are put in authority under them t.

There are about 2266 acres of land in the parish; the soil consists of a light sand; so light indeed is it in some of the adjoining parishes to the west, that it frequently drifts in the wind, and is bare of vegetation.

THE CHURCH, which is dedicaled to St. Andrew, was, in 1196, given by John le Strange, with the consent of Robert de Mortimer, to the priory of St. Mary and the Nuns at Campesse, in Suffolk, and was appropriated to that house in 1302, the rectory being valued at thirty, and the vicarage at six marks.

In Pope Nicholas's Taxation, 1291, Tottington is rated at 201. *

In 1404, there was great complaint made that the profits of the vicarage were much impaired by the number of rabbits on the warren of Sir John FitzRalf, knt. so that it was not able to pay the whole tenth of 40s. At the dissolution,,the impropriation and patronage devolved to the crown, and were given by Henry VIII. in 1530, to Sir Richard Southwell, knt. and his heirs. Mr. Le Neve, in his Collections, says, that this impropriate rectory was sold by Sir Thomas South well, knt. to Thomas Hall, and that Francis Windham, esq. was late farmer of it, at 17. 13s. 4d. per ann. and that it was given by King James I. to the Divinity Professor in Cambridge, it being settled on Trinity College, in trust for him. It now belongs to the Governors of Chigwell School, in Essex; but by what means the Professor of Divinity lost this rectory, or how and when the Governors of the School became possessed of it, I cannot learn; suffice it to add, that the present value of the great tythes is 2507.; the vicarage is worth 60%. and the curate, who bears the burthen and heat of the day, receives 401. a year t.

The site of the parsonage joined the east part of the Church-yard, where a large barn now stands. The only glebe belonging to the vicarage consists of half an acre.

A Sunday-school was opened here, Oct. 5, 1817, by the present curate, at which upwards of 50 children regularly attend, and are by this means kept from idling away the Sabbath on the village green.

Service is performed once every Sunday, alternately morning and afternoon. (To be continued.)

culars respecting the remarkable discoveries that have been made upon the estate of Ebenezer Hollick, esq. of Whittlesford, at a place called Got Moor, between Whittlesford and Triplow, two miles from Newton.

Mr. Hollick employed some labourers to level three antient tumuli upon Got Moor, called The Chronicle Hills, with a view to the improvement of his land. These tumuli stood in a line nearly North and South, upon the North side of a brook separating the parishes of Triplow and Whittlesford. The old road from Cambridge to Triplow, through Shel-' ford, crossed this brook; it may have been a Roman way. Upon the left (i. e. Eastern) side of it, were the tumuli; and also other sepulchres of a very remarkable nature, as we shall presently show.

The middlemost of The Chronicle Hills was 8 feet high, and it was 27 yards in diameter; the others were much lower. They ranged along an antient wall, constructed of flints and pebbles, which the workmen are now removing. Its length was 4 rods, its thickness 30 inches, and it had three abutments upon its Eastern side. Beyond this wall, at the distance of 12 rods to the East, was found an antient well made with clunch, 9 feet in diameter, full of flints and tiles of a curious shape, so formed as to lap over each other. Some of these tiles had a hole in the centre; and, from their general appearance, it was believed that they had been used in an aqueduct. In this well were found two bucks' or elks' horns, of very large size. Upon opening the tumuli, the workmen removed, from the larger one, four human skeletons, which were found lying upon their backs, about two feet from the bottom. Some broken pieces of terra cotta, with red and with black glazing, were found in opening the tumuli, heaped among the earth, which, from the nature of the workmanship, seem

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