PRINTED BY SAMUEL TYMMS,

60, HIGH STREET, LOWESTOFT.

THE

EAST ANGLIAN;

OR,

Notes and Queries

ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE COUNTIES OF

SUFFOLK, CAMBRIDGE, ESSEX, & NORFOLK.

EDITED BY SAMUEL TYMMS, F.S.A., F.G.H.S.,

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE SUFFOLK INSTITUTE OF ARCHEOLOGY, &C.;
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, &c.;

LOCAL SECRETARY FOR SUFFOLK OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

VOL. III.

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1869.

In a cupboard on the belfry of Bungay Saint Mary three-handled Jug, of rather coarse brown earthenwar about one foot three inches in height, and three feet fi in circumference in its largest part. It holds thirty-fou incised inscription in common writing hand (marked burnt), as under :

1827.

A Gift

to the

Society of Change
Ringers,
of

Saint Mary's,
Bungay,
by

Thos. Hurry,

Norwich.

Bungay.

A Gospel-tree, or Gospel-bush (vol. II, p. 370), cond correspondent "L" enquires, was a tree, or bush, grov town boundary, beneath the shadow of which, at Roga brought to a standstill the processioners engaged in parish, and read a "Gospel," or said a portion of a religio for the occasion. A full account may be seen in Brand ties, Bohn, vol. I, p. 197.-W. H. S.

Suffolk Words (vol. I, pp. 327, 363.)-Allow me for his reply to my query on Suffolk words. I shall s ance in these numbers. (See East Anglian, April, p. should be sile, 10, 13, 14, 15, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 40.-W. H. S.

THE EAST ANGLIAN TRADESMENS' TOKENS OF THE 17TH CENTURY.-NO. 3.

(VOL. II, P. 368.)

Caxton.

Thence to Caxton. I was led in
To a poor house, poorer bedding:
Some there were had me suspected,
That with the plague I was infected.

Barnabee's Journal.

Hvgh. Conny of Caxton and Elsworth-three rabbits.
His Halfe Penny-H. C., 1666.

Robert Millard. Baker-A pie-crust.

R.

O.

R.

Of Caxson. 1668-His Halfe Penny.

Chatteris.

Thomas Coape at the-a gate.

At Chatteris Ferrey-His Halfe Peny, 1670.
Thomas Dring of Chatteris-His Half Peny.
R. In the Isle of Ely, 1667-T. I. D.

0.

0.

William Smith of-a cooper making a cask.

R. Chatris, 1670-His Halfe Penny.

Chesterton.

William Limber-a hart trippant.
In Chesterton-W. D. L.

Cottenham.

Philip Chambers-His Half Peny.

In Cottenham, 1668-a wild man with a club over his shoulders.

Doddington.

Robert Adams, 1668-His Half Peny.

0.

Of Doodington-R. A.

I do not know whether I am right in assigning the two last tokens to the Cambridgeshire Doddington, there being several other places bearing the same name.