A Catalogue of the Whole of the Very Interesting and Historical Contents of Hengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmunds PDF Download

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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Whole of the Very Interesting and Historical Contents of Hengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmunds: Collected During Two Centuries by Members of the Kytson and Gage Families Hengrave, in the reign of Edward the Confessor, formed part of the territory of St. Edmund. In 1231, King Henry III., by Charter dated at Kensington, 14th June, gave Thomas De Hemegrave free warren in demesne in Hemegrave and Westley. The Manor of Hengrave having been held for two centuries by this knightly family, passed by purchase to the Hethes, of Little Saxham, and at the decease of Thomas Hethe, without issue, was sold on the 31st of March, in the nineteenth of Henry VI. to Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, afterwards created Duke of Buckingham. In 1521, Sir Thomas Kytson, the elder, purchased the Manor of Hengrave from Edward, Duke of Buckingham. A wealthy citizen, and member of the Merchant Adventurers' Company, the beautiful and stately mansion of Hengrave is a monument of his magnificence: it was commenced about 1525 and finished in 1538, at a cost of three thousand pounds, a sum equal to about forty thousand pounds in the present day. The South front, the gate house, and the inner court, are rare examples of the domestic architecture of the time. The inner court, of fine masonry embattled, appears in its original state, and is distinguished by the bay window of the hall on the North side. Sir Thomas Kytson had the honour of twice receiving Queen Elizabeth at Hengrave, on the occasion of her progress to and from Norwich, in 1578. Returning from Norwich by Thetford, says Churchyard, the Queen came to Sir Thomas Kytson's, "where in very deed, the fare and banquet did so far exceed a number of other places, that it is worthy the mention. A showe representing the fayries, as well as might be, was there seen, in the which showe a riche jewell was presented to the Queen's Highness." A walk leading from the park to the Hyde Wood, and marked out by old thorn bushes, is still called "Queen Elizabeth's Walk," and the Queen's chamber is to be seen in the hall. In the State Paper Office are to be found several letters on matters of historic importance, addressed by the Queen, Lords Burghley and Leicester, &c, from "the Court at Hengrave," to Sir Francis Walsingham, Ambassador in the Low Countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.