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 



Value 



Minister 







Aldringham with Thorpe V. A Elope Harvey (Impr. 24) 10 Now no minister. 



church and a chapel. 



Knodishall cum-Buxlow R. ' Bux- Sir Arthur Jennye ... 55 George Jennye, ' an able preaching 

 low church decayed and ruinated minister.' 



tyme out of minde.' 



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

 other church which is now 

 fallen into decay, and out of 

 use and fit to be taken down.' 



Southwold. 'Impr. chappell an- Sir John Rons (Impr. 10 Thomas Spurdeons, ' an able minister.' 

 ciently belonging to the vicarage j 20 )- 

 of Reydon.' 'A mile from the 

 decayed chapel of Easton.' 

 Raydon V ........ Sir John Rous (Impr. 17 Thomas Warnc. 



*8). 

 Easton Bavents ...... Jeffrey Howland ... 10 Thomas West. 'Hath not preached 



there these foure yeares, there being 

 neyther church nor chappell.' 

 Westhall V. ...... Late dean and chapter of 60 John Goldsmith. 



Ipswich (Impr. 22). 

 Sotherton R ....... Sir John Rous ... 38 Samuel Smithson. 



Brampton R ....... Heirs of Thomas Leman . 50 Now no minister. 



Uggeshall R ....... Sir W. Playters. ... 55 Henry Young, ' a painfull preaching 



minister.' Lyonell Playters, late 

 incumbent, sequestered. 

 Stoven V ........ Bartholomew Ashdowne John Colbache, ' a Preaching minister,' 



(Impr. 25). used to have $ a year, now the 



impropriator allows 40*. a year for a 

 sermon once a month. 



Wangford-cum-Henham V. ' The Sir John Rous (Impr. Mr. Shepheard, curate. For preaching 



chapel at Henham was anciently 22). twice a day he has his diet, house- 



used for divine worship.' keeping, and 20. 



Wrentham R ....... Robert Bronsten ... 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.' 

 Frostenden R ....... William Glover. ... 45 Thomas Plye. 



Henstead. ' The church of Hen- Heirs of William Sidnor . 70 Edward Witing sequestered. ' John 

 stead some eight years since was Allen a preaching minister put in by 



burnt downe and nothing left the Parliament.' 



butt the stone walls, which are 

 able to beare a new roofe.' 

 Southcove R ....... State ....... 31 Walter Manning, 'a preaching minister.' 



Benacre R ........ Henry North .... 62 William Suttlary, 'a reverend preaching 



minister.' 

 North Hales alias Cove Hithe V. Jeffrey Howland ... 1 8 Thomas West. 



1 Besse, Sufferings of the Quakers, 2 vols. fol. (1753). The part relative to Suffolk is i, 657-87. 



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