Retrospect of Domestic Literature— Antiquities. 
“The site of the house built by King 
James at Newmarket, and a house called 
the Hare-park lodge, are on lease to the 
Duke of Rutland: the present king’s 
house is a moderate-sized brick man- 
sion; a room is shewn in it, called King 
William’s apartment, another called 
Queen Anne’s. The Duke-of Rutland 
is lord of the manor of Newmarket, by 
inheritance, from Charles Duke of So- 
merset ; who gave it, with Cheveley, and 
sonie other manors in the neighbourhvod, 
in marriage with his eldest daughter, to. 
the Marquis of Granby. It had been 
before, for many generations, in the 
Alingtons, and their predecessors the 
Argentines,* who had also the patronage 
of a chapel in Newmarket, dedicated to 
eSt. Simon and St. Jude, a 
** Ancient records speak of a manor 
in Newmarket, which belonged to the 
priory of Fordham ; the manor of Bote- 
ders, which belonged to the ancient fa- 
mily of that. mamne;{ the manor of 
Wyke’s-place, belonging to the Slades;§. 
and a manor which belonged to the 
priory of Thetford.|| 
“Inthe parish church of All Saints, 
is the monument of Tregonwell Framp- 
,ton, esq. a celebrated sportsman, who 
was keeper of the running-horses to king 
William, Queen Aune, King George I. 
and King George If. He died in 1728, 
at the ave of eighty-six: there are two 
portraits of hin in mezzotinto, one of 
which is inscribed, “The father of the 
turf.” The benefice of All Saints is a 
perpetual curacy, in the gift of the bishop 
of Norwich: it isa separate and distinct. 
parish, in no way connected with Wood- 
Ditton, as hath been erroneously sup- 
posed. 
“There are two charity-schools ih 
Newmarket, one for twenty boys, the 
other for twenty girls, endowed by Queen 
Anne with fifty pounds per annuin.” 
** Great Shelford, in the hundred of 
Triplow, and deanery of Barton, lies 
about four miles nearly north of Cam- 
bridge. The Bury manor, in Shelford, 
was given to the monastery of Ely, by 
the parents of Leofsin, when he was pro- 
fessed’a monk :§ having been assigned to 
‘the bishop in the reign of Henry f. it 
“continued to be annexed to the see, until 
re LE EE re ee Se Ee er et OY a , 
* see hkscheat Koils trom ‘Edw. di. to 
Henry VIII. 
+ Escheat Roll, Edward II. 
. $ Esch. Henry IV. 
§ Esch. Henry VIII. 
|| Layer’s Manuscripts. 
@ Bentham’s Ely, 
Montuiy Mas. No. 178, 
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595 
alfenated to the crown by Bishop Heton, 
in the year 1600. After having been, 
in the intermediate time, in the fanmuly/ . 
of Goldwell,* it was purchased in 1614, ’ 
of the executors of Christopher Rogers, 
for the sum of two thousand pounds, by 
the master and fellows of ‘Gonville and 
Caius college. ; 
“The manor of Valence, Moynes, or 
Grendons, now corruptly called Gran- 
hams, was anciently in the Le Moynes, 
of whom it was purchased in the reign 
of Edward II..by Agnes Valence :+ it 
was held, by what was called Goldsmith’s 
service, that is, the making or repairing 
the king’s crown whenever either should 
be wanted, being allowed two shillings a 
day for wages.t From the Valences, 
this manor descended to the family of 
Hastings, under which it was held ‘by the 
Greudons: in the reign of Henry VILE. 
it was purchased by Sir John Hinde, ong 
of the justices of the common pleas, 
whose son, Sir Francis, sold it to the 
Goldwells.§’ In 1632, it was the pro- 
perty of Valentine Cary, bishop of Ex~ 
eter, whose nephew, Ernestus Cary, in 
the year 1646, sold it to the family of 
Ventris: it passed afterwards to the 
Dancombes, of whom it was purchased 
in 1714, by the master and fellows of St. 
John’s college, in Cambridge. 
“The parish church is said to have 
been built by Bishop Fordham, who died 
in 1425; the steeple was blown down by 
the great storm in 1703, and again in 
1798; it has since been rebuilt by sub- 
scription, In this church are monu- 
nrents and other memorials, for the fa- 
milies of Goldwell, Turrell, and Redman: 
of the latter family was Dr. William / 
"Redman, bishop of Norwich, who died in 
1602: his widow was buried at Shelford: 
Mary Redman, a young lady of this fa 
mily, who died in 1612, is described in 
her epitaph, as “a fair flower, whom too 
hasty death pluck’d from the face of the 
earth to stick in the bosom of heaven.” 
“The Bishop. of Ely is impropriator 
of the great tithes, and patron of the 
vicarage,” ; : 
We are pleased with the present me- 
thod of publishing the Magna Britannia, 
in detached counties, ) 
_ The “ History of Markét Harbo- 
rough,” by Mr. Harrop, will be 
found both a useful and a pleasant 
* Layer’s Manuscripts. 
+ Ibid. | 
Hundred Roll, 8 Edw, I, 
Layer’s Manuscripts. tl 
4G work, 
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