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days, with two horses, two grooms, and two hounds. In 

 the year 1545 Henry VIII. gave the manor of Great Wil- 

 braham, with the rectory and advowson, which, after the 

 suppression of the Templars, had been granted to the 

 Hospitallers, to the College of Fotheringay ; this college 

 having been suppressed in the reign of Edward VI., Queen 

 Mary gave the manor and rectory of Great Wilbraham to 

 Sir John Huddleston, as a recompense for his seasonable 

 assistance, when Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed queen 

 immediately after her brother's death. Dr. Watson, after- 

 wards Bishop of St. David's, purchased this estate of the 

 Huddlestons in 16S3 ; it passed next to Mr. Ward, who 

 married the bishop's niece, and was purchased of his family, 

 in 1788, by the Rev. James Hicks, whose descendant, Edward 

 Hicks, Esq., M.P., is the present lord of the manor. 



Little Wilbraham lies about seven miles east of Cam- 

 bridge, and about the same distance west of Newmarket. 

 The manor of Little Wilbraham was held by the Veres, Earls 

 of Oxford, in the reigns of Edward I. and Edward II. ; in 

 the succeeding reign it was held under the Veres by the 

 family of Chamberleyne ; it afterwards belonged to Sir 

 William Phelip, and passed by female heir, with the title of 

 Bardolf, to William, Lord Beaumont, who was attainted in 

 1 46 1. Edward IV. granted it, in 1468, to Richard Quater- 

 maynes, who, having founded a chantry in the parish church 

 of Rycot, in Oxfordshire, endowed it with this manor. After 

 the Reformation, the manor of Rycots, in Little Wilbraham, 

 was granted to Sir John Williams ; and having passed by 

 sale to the family of Hinde, was purchased with the advowson 

 of the rectory in 1570, by the Master and Fellows of Benet's 

 College, in Cambridge. The manor of Anglesea, in this 

 parish, was given by Mr. Thomas Wale, citizen of London, 

 in the year 1625, to the corporation of the city of Coventry, 

 in trust for charitable uses. The neighbourhood has been 

 noted for its salubrity, several of the inhabitants from time to 

 time having attained great age ; an inscription on a tomb- 

 stone in the parish churchyard, erected to the memory of 

 Elizabeth Hobbs, who died in 1804, testifies that she lived in 



