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manor of Poins Hall, which, from the reign of Henry HI. to 

 the middle of the reign of Edward HI., had belonged to the 

 family of Pointz, and the manor of Beauchamp Hall, which, 

 for nearly the same period, had belonged to the Beauchamps 

 of Somersetshire. These united estates, by the name of the 

 manor of Dullingham, were given, on the attainder of John, 

 Earl of Oxford, in the reign of Edward IV., to John Howard, 

 who soon afterwards exchanged Dullingham with the crown 

 for other estates ; it was restored to the Earl of Oxford, who 

 continued in possession in the reign of Henry VIII. As early 

 as the year 1 595 it was in the possession of the Wingfields, and 

 they continued to possess it till 1656, when it was purchased 

 by Col. John Jeaffreson, ancestor of John Jeafifreson, Esq., who 

 resided in the manor house at the beginning of the present 

 century. Another manor in Dullingham was granted in 1540 to 

 Sir Edward North, who about five years afterwards surrendered 

 it again to the crown. In the reign of James I. it was in the 

 family of Peniston. It is probable that this has been united 

 cither to the last-mentioned manor or that of the rectory. 

 The whole manorial property of the parish at the beginning 

 of the present century belonged to Colonel Jeaffreson, whose 

 ancestor, in 1733, purchased of the Edgar family an estate, 

 described as the manor, rectory, and advowson of Dullingham. 

 The rectory of Dullingham was before the Reformation parcel 

 of the estates of the prior and convent of Thetford, and had 

 been granted in 1539 to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk. In the 

 year 1535, Thomas Hildersham had a small manor in this 

 parish called Matfereys, from the family of Matfery, who 

 possessed lands in Dullingham in the reign of Edward I. 

 About the beginning of the present century Earl Grosvenor 

 built a handsome house at Hare Park, which he held on lease 

 under Colonel Jeaffreson, and usually occupied it during the 

 Newmarket meetings. It is now the property of C. W. 

 Robinson, Esq., J. P., and occupied by the Duke of Hamilton, 

 K.T., and his trainer, Dick March, who frequently (owing to 

 topographical influences over which he has no control) plays 

 the part of a March Hare [Park] for the edification of the 

 Newmarket drag-hounds ; and although he has been fre- 



