[PDF] A Handbook Of Bury St Edmunds In The County Of Suffolk eBook

Author : Samuel Tymms
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230064079

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...now remains in the town of a race of bell-founders which flourished here before the Reformation; an old bell, supposed to have been cast in Bury, was sold, with some other fine old bells, towards the cost of repairing the organ! Dame Mary Jermyn, wife of Sir Thomas Jermyn, Knight, of Rushbrooke, 1679; Mrs. Coel, daughter of Sir Henry Crofts, of Saxham, 1677; Dame Elizabeth de Grey, relict of Sir Robert de Grey, of Merton, Norfolk, 1692. Preachers and Reaa'ers.---J. Knewstubs, ejected for nonconformity, was reader here in 1613. Samuel Slater, preacher, was removed for nonconformity in 1661. Anthony Sparrow, afterwards Bishop of Down and Connor, author of "An Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft," was preacher in 1660; and Robert Butts, afterwards Bishop of Norwich and Ely, in 1 7 22. THE NORMAN T0 WER, principal entrance to the Cemetery of St. Edmund, is immediately opposite the west entrance to the Abbey Church. It is mentioned by monastic writers under the names of "the great gate of the church of St. Edmund," or "the great gate of the churchyard." At the dissolution of the monastery, if not before, it became a parcel of the parish church of St. James. In a rental of Thomas Gnatsall, sacrist, 18 Henry VII., it is called "the church-gate of St. James," and in the deed of feoffment of the Guildhall feoffees, it is spoken of as the "gate and bell-tower called St. James' steeple." It is 86 feet in height, and 36 feet square. The walls, which are nearly six feet in thickness, are faced with an ashlaring of Barnack stone. The general design of each front is the same, except that a few of the mouldings are different and that the eastern archway is plain. The porch on the...

Author : John Parker Anderson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385430143

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Frank Meeres
Publisher : Phillimore
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2010-10
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ISBN : 9781860776571

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Bury St. Edmunds has an extraordinary history. The ancient Saxon settlement of Bedricesworth was transformed when the body of Edmund, the martyred King of the East Saxons, was brought to the town in the early 10th century. Around his tomb grew one of the largest abbeys in England, together with a planned new town, the grid pattern of which still survives. In the Middle Ages, Bury had an importance out of all proportion to its size: Parliaments were held here and many Kings of England were visitors.After the abbey was dissolved, Bury remained the heart of West Suffolk and was formally county town between 1888 and 1974. This new book combines archaeological evidence with documentary research to create a vivid picture of the town at every stage in its development and of the lives of its people; how they made their livings, their health, housing, religion, culture and entertainments. Famous townspeople are discussed, but the emphasis is on the ordinary inhabitant. The story is brought right up to the present day, including the effects on Bury of the great conflicts of the 20th century, in the second half of which it enjoyed rapid growth, with new light industry and tourism supplementing the traditional agriculture-based trades.In this, his seventh book on the history of East Anglia, the author, a professional historian and teacher of local history, has provided a much-needed account of Bury's entire past, richly illustrated and very readable, which will appeal to everyone who knows the place ... one of the most beautiful towns in England.