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SHRU5LAND FARM, 



IPSWICH 



THE. SCAT or 



BARON DE SAUMAREZ. 



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great place-. in tlu- east t 

 England have so inadequate 

 a record of their pi-t :is 

 Lord de Saumarez's mansion nnd famous gardens at Shrtihl.md. 

 Some remains of the original house still exist ;it a little 

 distance from the present Hall. The date, 16^7, anJ tin- 

 initials, N.B.. show th.it it was prnlviKy built in the later 

 days of its tenure hy the Bacn<. It appears that the place lrin 

 the days of Edward III. p.i-seJ throu^li a ureat number of 

 anJs, and did not remain lonj; in th.- p.i->,-,,i in \ any famil .' 

 until Helen Lytton, ^randJau^hter nt Sir Robert Lytt-m of 

 Knebvvorth, brought it to l-.dward Bacon, third son of Sir 

 Nicholas, the l.orvl Keeper. It remained in the Bacon family 



air yc:u rations following ihe liist nu.u-r oi ihe name. 

 \\a sMiJ. .iiti-r th- death of the K. \ . VJi-lax Bacon in 17.1;. 

 t.i N\r. William Mi.Klleton of Crowlield, who was creaU-J a 

 Bironet in 1X04. an. I assiinirj, by si^n-tnanual in l8i?, the 

 nun- ' I wle, in aJJition to and before that of MicKllet n. 

 Sir William was a native i S"'ith (Carolina. ; nJ a yiaiuUon of 

 a foimer (ioveinor <>t that colony. The e-tati 1 , alter the- 

 death ot his Mm. Sir William Kou le Mi Mleton. passed t 

 nephew, Admiral Sir (n-'r^e Bmke-Middli t n, aiul after his 

 death to his ni-.ve, the present l.a.ly de Saumare/, dauuhti r of 

 the late Captain Charles Acton Broke. Sir Philip Broke, who 

 commanded the Shannon in the famous action against the 

 Chesapeake, married a daughter of Sir William 



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