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believe that he was the aitual (milder of large portions 



of the present house, whose timler work, including 



the 1 I ill (ineptly called King John'-,), is 



un rather than Tudor and is therefore 



4iiten,.r to the Henry VII ^alehouse, which 



approximates more nearly to that at St. Osyth's. 



We may, therefore, assume that in the hands of 



Philip Mann 



and his immediate 



successors the 



house took the 



form it Still 

 presents to us. 



the Mannock 

 family was of great 

 antiquity, and is 

 said to have come 

 originally from 



Denmark, a cir- 

 cumstance which is 

 alluded to in the 

 inscription upon 

 the monument of 

 Sir Francis Man- 

 nock in Stoke 

 Church. I t s 

 members had con- 

 siderable estates in 

 Hun tingdonshire, 

 Cambridgeshire, 

 Essex and Suffolk, 

 and had been 

 located at Stoke 

 from the time of 

 Edward HI. Their 

 descent is traced 

 from Robert 

 Mannock, who was 

 living in that king's 

 reign and who was 

 the great-grand- 

 father of Philip 

 Mannock, the first 

 of his family to 

 possess Giftbrds 

 Hall. John, George 

 and William fol- 

 lowed, the latter 

 dying in Queen 

 Mary's reign. 

 I-ong before that 

 the place must 

 have assumed its 

 final state, except- 

 ing the later 

 windows on either 

 side of the timber 

 oriel in the quad- 

 rangle. Under 

 Charles I. the 

 family obtained a 

 baronetcy, the holders of which followed in quick 

 succession, four brothers at one period successively 

 holding the title. 



Sir George Mannock, the ninth and last baronet, 

 of Great Bromley Hall ami Cliffords Hall, was killed 

 by the overturning of the Dover mail on June }rd, 



1787, and left no heir to his honours. Collaterals, 



hundred year*, during which the pUe ran down, the 

 gateway alone being at the last inhabited. 



But toward the end of the nineteenth tentury 

 better days dawned for the old house. Mr. James 

 Winter Briltam, to whom is due so miuh of the 

 beauty of the house as it now stands, hail known it 

 from his early years and doubtless had appreciated 



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both its fine character and it* great possibilities. 1 le 

 came into possession in the year 1888, and forthwith 

 undertook the work of restoration. There was much 

 to be done, and a great deal of wise planning was 

 necessary before the place could be brought into 

 the state which our pictures exhibit. During the 



restoration Mr. Brittain discovered on the west side 

 taking the name of Mannock, then followed for a of the quadrangle some of the finest timber-work 



