1823.] Compendium of County History.-Suffolk. Seats. Euston Hall, Duke of Grafton, Lord Lieutenant. Acton place, Lord Howe. esq. Marine Villa, Leveson Vernon, Alderton Rectory, with a view of the Ger- Barking Hall, near Needham Market, Lord Barton Hall, Sir H. E. Bunbury, bart. Parsonage, Rev. John Mitford. Brandon, Edward Bliss, esq. - Hall, the late John-Julius Anger stein, esq. Brent Illeigh Hall, Sir Felix Agar. Brome Hall, near Eye, Sir Miles Nightingall, K. C. B. Carlton Hall, Edward Fuller, esq. John Rabetts, esq. Chadacre Hall, Plampin, esq. Gunton Hall, Thos. Fowler, esq. 321 Hadleigh Rectory, Dr. E. A. H. Drummond. Hardwick House, Sir Thomas-Gery Cullum, bart. Harts Hall, Saxmundham, Charles N. Bayley, esq. Hasketon, Edmund Jenney, esq. Place, Sir Thos.-Gery Cullum, bt. Helmingham Hall, Countess of Dysart. Hengrave Hall, near Bury, Sir Thos. Gage, bart. Henham Park, Wangford, Earl of Stradbrook. Herringswell, Samuel Mure, esq. Heveningham Hall, Lord Huntingfield. High House, Lowestoft, Rev. Chas. Fishers. Hintlesham Hall, the Misses Lloyd. Hobland Hall, John Penrice, esq. Holbrook Hall, Robert Bevan, esq. Holy Wells, Ipswich, John Cobbold, esq. Hoxne Hall, Henry Maynard, esq. Ickleton, Hon. P. Wyndham. Icklingham, D. Gwilt, esq. Ickworth Park, Earl of Bristol. Ipswich, Christ Church, Rev. C. W. FonneKentwell Hall, Loggan, esq. Kelsale, John Sheppard, esq. Parsonage, Rev. L. R. Brown. Livermere Hall, Nath. Lee Acton, esq. Chauntry, near Ipswich, C. S. Collinson, esq. Melton, Thomas Brooke, esq. Chilton Park, Col. Addison. Clare Priory, Mrs. Baker. Cockfield Hall, Sir Charles Blois, bart. Dalham Hall, Sir James Affleck, bart. East Bergholt Lodge, Sir John - Thomas Easton White House, Earl of Rochford. Finborough Hall, Stowmarket, Roger Pettiward, esq. Flixton Hall, near Hartston, Alex. Adair, esq. Fornham St. Geneveve, Duke of Norfolk. Gipping Hall, R. Dalton, esq. Glemhall Hall, Dudley-Long North, esq. Glemham (Great), Rev. Dr. Kilderbee.. Glevering Hall, A. Arcedeckne, esq. Great Saxham, Thos. Mills, esq. Grundisburgh Hall, Sir William Anson. GENT. MAG. October, 1823. Charles Sharpe, esq. Mildenhall, Sir H. E. Bunbury, bart. Nacton Hall, Sir Philip-Bowes-Vere Broke, bart. Onehouse Parsonage, Rev. D. Pettiward. Red House, Ipswich, Mileson Edgar, esq. Rushbrook Hall, Robert Rushbrook, esq. Ryes Lodge, near Sudbury, Nathan. Barnardiston, esq. Saint Edmund's Hill, M. F. Cocksedge, esq. 322 Compendium of County History.-Suffolk. Sotterley Hall, Miles Barnes, esq. Parsonage, on the banks of the [Oct. Thornham Hall, Lord Henniker. esq. -Taylor, Wherstead Lodge, Viscount Granville. Yoxford Grove, Sir George Crewe, bart. Peerage. Ashfield Barony to Thurlow; Braudon Dukedom to Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton in Scotland; Brome Viscounty to Cornwallis; Bury Viscounty to Earl of Albemarle; Dennington Barony to Rous; Dunwich Viscounty to Rous; Euston Earldom to Duke of Grafton; Eye Barony to Marquis Cornwallis; Huntingfield Barony to Vanneck; Ickworth Barony to Earl of Bristol; Ipswich Viscounty to Duke of Grafton; Rendlesham Barony to Thelusson; Stradbroke Earldom to Rous; Sudbury Barony to Duke of Grafton; Suffolk Earldom to Howard; Thetford Viscounty to Duke of Grafton. Members to Parliament for the County 2; Aldeburgh 2; Bury St. Edmund's 2; Dunwich 2; Eye 2; Ipswich 2; Orford 2; Sudbury 2; total 16. Produce. Several kinds of fish, as mullets, turbots, smelts, salmon, sprats, mackarel, soles, skates, whitings, and herrings, the fisheries of which last. are very extensive. Agate, amber, cornelian, crag, carbonate of lime, and geodes. Barley, clover, wheat, and all kinds of corn and pease. Hops, hemp, and saffron, formerly to a considerable extent. Cows, long celebrated for the abundance of their milk. Manufactures. This is not a distinguished manufacturing county, but an agricultural one. Woolpit brick, equal in beauty to stone. Ropes, hempen cloth, calamancoes, gun flints, says, silk, butter, salt, and woollen cloth. POPULATION. Hundreds 21. Liberties 3. Whole Parishes 500. Parts of Parishes 5. Market towns 30.-Inhabitants, Males 132,410; Females 138,132; total 270,542. Families employed in agriculture 30,795; in trade 17,418; in neither 6,851; total 55,064.-Baptisms. Males 38,655; Females 37,672; total 76,327.— Marriages 19,885.-Burials. Males 19,585; Females 20,949; total 40,534. Places having not less than 1000 Inhabitans. 1823.] BY Account of Public Schools in Westmoreland. Mr. URBAN, Rosegill, Oct. 2. Y the Parliamentary Enquiry in 1819, respecting_the_ Education of the lower classes in England, it was found that Westmoreland was the best educated County in the kingdom. The following is a brief account of Schools with endowment in this County; some of them are in high repute for classical acquirements, and have produced many eminent characters both in Church and State. APPLEBY, founded by Queen Elizabeth, in 1574, and endowed by her with 57. 10s. 8d. a year, payable out of the rents accruing to the Crown within the County of Westmoreland. Numerous benefactors have since contributed to increase its revenues. The amount of the Master's salary is now estimated at about 3001. a year. This School has valuable exhibitions to Queen's College, Oxford. AMBLESIDE, in the parish of Windermere, founded in 1723, by John Kelswick of Ambleside, and endowed by him with an estate at Ambleside. ASHBY, built by George Smith, Citizen of London, a native of this parish, in 1688, and endowed by him with 20s. a year. Dr. Thomas Smith, his cousin, and Bishop of Carlisle, and a native of this parish, left 1007. for the benefit of this School. BAMPTON, founded in 1623, by Thomas Sutton, D. D. a native of this parish, and Rector of St. Saviour's, Southwark, and endowed by him with 500l. which was expended in the purchase of tithes of corn and hay in the parish of Bampton. In 1724 the Rev. Wm. Stephenson, a native of this parish, and Rector of Laxton, in the county of Nottingham, bequeathed the sum of 150l. equally between the Church and School at Bampton, which was laid out in the purchase of lands at Bomby in this parish. In 1816 John Noble, esq. of London, a native of this parish, gave 500l. in the 3 per cents. the interest of which to be paid to the Master for the time being. BARTON, founded in 1649, by Dr. Gerard Langbaine, and Dr. Lancelot Dawes, and who, with the assistance of Dr. Adam Airey, Dr. Wm. Lancaster, and a contribution among the parishioners, endowed it liberally. The money with which this School was endowed is now invested in a dwelling house and field at Barton, an estate at Slowgill in the county of 323 York, and another at Firbank in BOLTON, in the parish of Morland, founded in 1721, and endowed with 190l. given and bequeathed by various individuals at different times. BROUGH, founded in 1506, by John Brunskill, and at the time of the dissolution of Monasteries (1535), 77. 11s. 4d. was directed to be paid to the School-master by the King's Auditors, out of the rents and revenues which formerly belonged to it as a Chapel, which had been endowed by the above founder and other benefactors. BURTON, founded about the year 1657, and endowed by John Hutton with the residue of the rents and profits of an estate at Hindon, in the parish of Cockfield, in the county of Durham, after paying thereout 40s. a year to the poor in the parish of Burton, and 20s. a year to the poor in the parish of Cockfield. A subscription amounting to about 1177. was also raised for increasing the endowment of this School. CROSBY RAVENSWORTH, founded about the year 1630, by the Rev. Wm. Willan, Vicar of this parish, who gave 100%. to it, which was afterwards laid out in land. In 1784 the School was rebuilt at the expence of Wm. Dent, esq. of London, a native of this parish, who, with his brother Robert, and Anne Viscountess of Andover, contributed to increase its revenues by the gift of 500l. which was invested in the South Sea Annuities. DUFTON, founded by Christopher Walker, in 1670, and endowed by him with the interest of 401. and by Michael Todd, with 47. a year, payable out of lands at Knowle Green, in the parish of Staines, Middlesex. GREENHOLME, in the parish of Orton, founded in 1733, by George Gibson, esq. and endowed by him with 400/. original Bank Stock. HEVERSHAM, founded in 1613, by Edward Wilson, esq. of Heversham Hall, and endowed by him with the yearly rent charge of 211. 3s. 10d. is suing out of certain burgage messuages and tenements in Kendal, and a rent charge of 37. a year, issuing out of a field in Strickland Ketel called Dawson's Close. In 1773 the sum of 230l. was raised by subscription by the Rev. Henry Wilson, Vicar of this parish, for the better endowment of this School, which was laid out in the pur chase 324 Account of Public Schools in Westmoreland. scholars educated here. [Oct. chase of a dwelling house, out-houses, both to Oxford and Cambridge, for and two fields in Hevershamn. This School has several exhibitions both to Oxford and Cambridge. KABER, in the parish of Kirkby Stephen, founded by Thomas Waller, about the year 1680, and endowed by him with 1331. And in 1727 Miles Munkhouse gave 51.; and in 1744 George Petty of Kalver gave 20. for the benefit of this School, KENDAL, founded about the year 1525, by Adam Pennyngton of Boston, and rebuilt in 1592. Edward the Sixth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, were benefactors to it; their respective grants amounting together to 197. 5s. 4d. yearly, are payable out of the Crown revenues in Westmoreland. Mr. Richard Jackson (the Schoolmaster here, and removed to Appleby), gave 100l. to be applied to the benefit of the School-master. Dr. Airay was another benefactor. There are several exhibitions to Queen's College, Oxford, for scholars from this School. KIRKBY LONSDALE, founded by letters patent, granted by Queen Elizabeth, in 1591, and endowed by Mr. Godsalve of Newton, in the parish of Whittington, with 1007. to which was added another 1007. raised among the parishioners; with which 2001. was purchased of Mr. Tenant, a rent charge of 201. a year, payable out of the manors of Bedale and Scotton, in the county of York. Lady Elizabeth Curwen, heiress of the family of Carus, gave the ground upon which the School was built, and also certain parcels of land to the same, lying near to a place called the " Biggins." In 1628 the School was rebuilt at the expence of Mr. Henry Wilson of London, a native of this parish, who also gave 1201. for the support of an usher here, which was laid out upon the demesne lands of Thurland Castle, in the parish of Tunstal. In 1808, when the inclosure of the common lands in the manor of Kirkby Lonsdale took place, an allotinent was awarded to this School. There are exhibitions at Christ's College, Cambridge, and at Queen's College, Oxford, for scholars educated here. KIRKBY-STEPHEN, founded in 1566, by Thomas Lord Wharton, and endowed by him and others with various benefactions. There are exhibitions LOWTHER, founded in 1638, by Richard Lowther, esq. and his nephew Sir John Lowther, and endowed by this Richard Lowther, esq. with 100l. and by this Sir John Lowther, with "one piece of ground in the Slacke." A rent charge of 101. a year is paid to the Master from the Priory of Lambly in Northumberland, supposed to have been purchased with the above 1007. given by Richard Lowther, esq. The School was built at Lowther in 1640, and in the year 1810 was removed and rebuilt near the village of Hackthorp, by the present William, Earl of Lonsdale. MEASAND, in the parish of Bampton, founded in 1711, by Mr. Richard Wright, and endowed by him with a messuage and lands at Nether Scales in the parish of Orton. In 1723 Richard Law of Cawdale in this parish (great uncle of Bishop Law), gave a garth, in which the School stands. MORLAND, founded in the year 1780, by the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, who endowed it with an estate in the township of Morland. ORTON, built in 1730, and rebuilt in 1808, was originally endowed with an acre of land in Orton High-field by Agnes Holme, and afterwards Robert Wilson gave 51. Thomas Addison 51. and Henry Bland 107. for the benefit of this School; and in 1781 Frances Wardale bequeathed 4007. to it, which was laid out by trustees in the purchase of houses and lands at Orton. the RAVENSTONEDALE, founded about year 1668, and endowed by Thomas Fothergill, B.D. Master of St. John's College in Cambridge (a native of this parish), and others of his name and kindred. With the money given by the founders and others, were purchased three estates for the sum, of 4471.; viz. with 140l. was purchased 84 acres of land at Blaterne, called Horngill, which the trustees impro. perly sold in 1703 to Thomas Pattinson of Breeks, subject to the trifling rent charge thereout of 6. a year. Another estate was purchased at Foxell-rigg, in the parish of Sedbergh, for 1121. which the trustees in like manner sold, subject to the inadequate rent charge of 51. a year. Another estate was purchased at Bowsfield, in the parish of Orton, for 1957. which remains 1823.] Schools in Westmoreland.-Dudley Castle. remains for the benefit of the School. A rent charge of 51. a year was also left to this School by Philip Lord Wharton, payable out of an estate at Raine, in the parish of Orton. STANEMORE, in the parish of Brough, founded in 1594, by Cuthbert Buckle, who by his will left 87. a year, payable out of his estate at Spittle. In 1699 Thomas Earl of Thanet repaired the Chapel, and built a School-house near it, and enclosed a large track of waste land for the benefit and profit of the Curate and Schoolmaster. SWINDALE, in the parish of Shap, founded in 1703, by Thomas Baxter of Truss Gap in this place, who gave to it an estate, consisting of between two or three hundred acres of land, called Wastdale Foot, adjoining the Spa of Shapwells. The trustees, in 1750, improperly sold it to John Brown of Wastdale Head, subject to a rent charge of 10l. a year; he sold it along with his estate of Wastdale Head to the late Sir James Lowther, who, about the year 1775, from some cause or other, refused the payment of this 107. a year, and withheld it during his life; but when the present William Earl of Lonsdale came to the Lowther estates in 1802, he agreed with the trustees henceforth to allow 251. a year out of the Wastdale Foot estate, instead of paying up the arrears due from his predecessor. TEBAY, in the parish of Orton, founded by Robert Adamson, esq. in the year 1672, and endowed by him with estates at Ormondil Biggin and Blacket-Bottom in Grayrigg. THRIMBY, in the parish of Morland, founded in 1681, by Thomas Fletcher, esq. and endowed by him with a rent charge of 10l. a year, issuing out of his messuage and lands called Bryham Tenement, and High and Low Sandriggs. WAITBY, in the parish of Kirkby Stephen, founded in 1680, by Mr. James Highmore, Citizen of London, and a native of this place, and endowed by him with 4007. which was laid out in purchasing an estate called Cantley Thwaite, in the parish of Sedbergh. WINTON, in the parish of Kirkby Stephen, built in 1659, at the expence of the Rev. Win. Morland and other principal parishioners, and endowed in 1681, by Robert Waller of Win 325 ton, with divers parcels of land in the Mr. URBAN, Tipton, Sept. 15. BSERVING in Dr. Booker's Sermon on the death of the late Lord Dudley (reviewed in p. 56), an : "For time has been, that lifts the low, dona, |