A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



these exceptions toleration was unknown. The times were cruelly hard for 

 Anglicans and Romanists, as well as for Quakers and Unitarians. 



In Suffolk, as elsewhere, the Quakers were most severely treated. It 

 should, however, always be remembered that the early Quakers were in many 

 respects the exact opposite of the peaceable folk who now bear the name. 

 The curious consciences of George Fox and his immediate followers found 

 a virtue in doing their best to upset the worship of others. When the 

 matter is inquired into there is hardly a county of England where this was 

 not their line of action in the Commonwealth days, and it is small wonder 

 that such conduct provoked much resentment, and brought them within the 

 action of the law. Their own historian affords ample evidence of this, 1 and 



Parish 



Patron 



Aldringham with Thorpe V. A Elope Harvey (Impr. £24) 



church and a chapel. 

 Knodishall cum-Buxlow R. ■ Bux- Sir Arthur Jennye . . . 



low church decayed and ruinated 



tyme out of minde.' 

 Dunwich V. All Saints. 'An- William Page (Impr. £22) 



other church which is now 



fallen into decay, and out of 



use and fit to be taken down.' 

 Southwold. ' Impr. chappell an- Sir John Rous (Impr. 



ciently belonging to the vicarage £ 20 )- 



of Reydon.' 'A mile from the 



decayed chapel of Easton.' 



Raydon V Sir John Rous (Impr. 



i>8). 

 Easton Bavents Jeffrey Howland . 



Westhall V. Late dean and chapter of 



Ipswich (Impr. X22). 



Sotherton R Sir John Rous 



Brampton R Heirs of Thomas Leman . 



Uggeshall R Sir W. Playters. . . . 



Stoven V Bartholomew Ashdowne 



(Impr. £25). 



Wangford-cum-Henham V. 'The Sir John Rous (Impr. 



chapel at Henham was anciently X 22 )- 



used for divine worship.' 



Wrentham R Robert Bronsten . 



Frostenden R William Glover. 



Henstead. ' The church of Hen- Heirs of William Sidnor 



stead some eight years since was 



burnt downe and nothing left 



butt the stone walls, which are 



able to beare a new roofe.' 



Southcove R State 



Benacre R Henry North . . . 



North Hales alius Cove Hithe V. Jeffrey Howland . 



' Besse, Sufferings of the Quakers, 2 vols. fol. (1753). 



46 



Value 



£ 



10 



Minister 



55 



Now no minister. 



George Jennye, ' an able preaching 

 minister.' 



22 William Browne. 



10 Thomas Spurdeons, ' an able minister.' 



1 7 Thomas Warnc. 



10 Thomas West. 'Hath not preached 

 there these foure yeares, there being 

 neyther church nor chappell.' 



60 John Goldsmith. 



38 Samuel Smithson. 



50 Now no minister. 



55 Henry Young, 'a painfull preaching 

 minister.' Lvonell Playters, late 

 incumbent, sequestered. 

 John Colbache, ' a Preaching minister,' 

 used to have ^5 a year, now the 

 impropriator allows 40;. a year for a 

 sermon once a month. 

 Mr. Shepheard, curate. For preaching 

 twice a day he has his diet, house- 

 keeping, and j£20. 



60 'Mr. John Phillips, an antient and 

 reverend preaching minister is the 

 incumbent, and supplies the cure 

 every Lord's day, with the assistance 

 of Mr. William Amys, sonne to the 

 late reverend Doctor Amys.' 



45 Thomas Plye. 



70 Edward Witing sequestered. ' John 

 Allen a preaching minister put in by 

 the Parliament.' 



31 Walter Manning,' apreachingminister.' 

 62 William Suttlary, ' a reverend preaching 



minister.' 

 18 Thomas West. 



The part relative to Suffolk is i, 657-87. 



