Hic Johanna jacet Domina Aston quæ pia quondam Hæc Matrona potens prolis Joanno benigna Atq. secundo, ut aiunt Mors tua vis nimia est Anno Milleno Quingenteno quoque his sex Ac quingenta Deo ac Domino deficit. The date of the building of this house is farther fixed by the following inscription, fairly cut in the lower part of a stool of one of the windows, still very legible: William Yates made this house. MDLV. The next in succession was sir Walter, who built the gatehouse here shown. He was sheriff anno 1569 and 1574. He died the 2d of April, in the 3d year of queen Elizabeth, anno 1560. This estate continued in the family of the Astons till the death of lord Aston, and is now the property of esq. who married one of his co-heiresses. Clifford, Tixall House, a view of which is engraved in Plot's History of Staffordshire, was a handsome building: the first story was of stone; the rest, according to the prevailing fashion of the times, of timber and plaster. It is now taken down, and another mansion built near its site. The gatehouse, which much resembled the mansion, is of that style of architecture which then began to be adopted, being a medley of the Grecian and Gothic. It is entirely of stone, and well finished.-This view was drawn anno 1772. Is a maritime county that belonged to the British principality of the Iceni, and under the Romans was included in their province of Flavia Cæfarienfis. During the Saxon Heptarchy, it made part of the kingdom of the East Angles, which began in 575, and ended in 792, having had 14 kings. At prefent it is in the Norfolk circuit, in the diocese of Norwich, and principality of Canterbury; being bounded on the N. by Norfolk, S. by Suffex, E. by the German Ocean, and W. by Cambridgeshire. It is divided into 22 hundreds, 575 parishes, 95 vicarages, 1500 villages; having 30 market-towns, viz. Ipswich the county-town, Bury, Sudbury, Aldborough, Orford, Dunwich, Eye, Clare, Leoftoff, Woodbridge, Bilfton, Southwold, Brandon, Budefdale, Bungay, Beckles, Stow-market, Debenham, Hadley, Halesworth, part of Haverill, Ixworth, Lavenham, Mendlesham, Mildenhall, Needham, Saxmundam, Woolpit, Neyland, and Framlingham. It fends 16 Members to Parliament, pays 20 parts of the Land-tax, and provides 960 men to the National Militia. Its rivers are the Little Oufe, Waveney, Blyth, Ore, Stour, Berton, Orwel, VOL. V. Hic Johanna jacet Domina Aston quæ pia quondam Atq. secundo, ut aiunt Mors tua vis nimia est Anno Milleno Quingenteno quoque his sex Ac quingenta Deo ac Domino deficit. The date of the building of this house is farther fixed by the following inscription, fairly cut in the lower part of a stool of one of the windows, still very legible: William Yates made this house. MDLV. The next in succession was sir Walter, who built the gatehouse here shown. He was sheriff anno 1569 and 1574. He died the 2d of April, in the 3d year of queen Elizabeth, anno 1560. This estate continued in the family of the Astons till the death of lord Aston, and is now the property of Clifford, esq. who married one of his co-heiresses. Tixall House, a view of which is engraved in Plot's History of Staffordshire, was a handsome building: the first story was of stone; the rest, according to the prevailing fashion of the times, of timber and plaster. It is now taken down, and another mansion built near its site. The gatehouse, which much resembled the mansion, is of that style of architecture which then began to be adopted, being a medley of the Grecian and Gothic. It is entirely of stone, and well finished.-This view was drawn anno 1772. |