Chorography of Suffolk

The Chorography of Suffolk reconstructed in this volume is one of the first attempts of a county survey of Suffolk. It has remained almost unknown and unconsidered by antiquaries since it was compiled, at the end of the reign of Elizabeth I, for no county antiquarian tradition comparable to those in Essex and Warwickshire ever emerged in Suffolk. The unknown author of the Chorography intended his work to be a village-by-village survey of the county, including descriptions of church monuments, other antiquities, local ecclesiastical and manorial customs, and property ownership as he found them in his own day. The resulting work, although never completed, is an invaluable gazetteer of Suffolk as it was in the first five years of the seventeenth century. The manuscript passed into the library of the eminent doctor Sir Thomas Browne, before its acquisition by Peter Le Neve, the indefatigable but eccentric eighteenth century antiquary. It was Le Neve who was responsible for the dismemberment of the Suffolk Chorography manuscript into several hundred fragments, so that from the dispersal of his collections in the 1780s until the present day, the pieces of the Suffolk manuscript have become scattered through at least six different English archive collections, and some of it remains lost. The present volume forms the fruits of a great academic jigsaw puzzle following the first chance rediscovery of a large number of the fragments, and it represents about 95 per cent of the text as it existed before Le Neve's vandalism.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15069-7

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Handbook of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk & Cambridgeshire (1892)

Published in 1892, a wonderful description of all of the towns and villages in the four counties.    

Price:  £15.11

Handbook of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk & Cambridgeshire (1892)

Published in 1892, a wonderful description of all of the towns and villages in the four counties.    

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Pigot's 1831 Topography and Gazetteer of England

Superb and rare topography and gazetteer of; Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Middlesex, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex and Wiltshire.    

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The Breviary of Suffolk

The original book was written in 1618 by Robert Reyce and this is a transcription from the original manuscript by Lord Francis Hervey. A superb topographical description and history of the county with genalogies of noteworthy familes, the names of the lords of the manors, knights, justices etc. Hervey also took the time to compile an excellent index which is included here.    

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The Suffolk Traveller

The author took surveys of the whole of Suffolk in the years 1732, 1733 and 1734. This publications contains his observations regarding the places he visited including; A section devoted to Ipswich which gives accounts of the Churches, Religious Houses, and the Trades of the Town as well as providing a translation of the Charter of King Henry VI to the Burgess of Ipswich. Lists of the High Sherriffs and Knights of the Shire. 4 road maps. See More info for place names.    

Price:  £9.79