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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... could not by possibility be excluded from entering upon mercantile affairs. The history of the trade of the nation, therefore, when in the reigns of Richard the Second and Henry the Fourth it became increased to a large extent, will afford us a fair insight into the condition of the town. One of the earliest monasteries established in Ipswich was that of Trinity or Christ church. It was situated near the site of the present St. Margaret's church, and dates its origin previously to the year 1177. The establishment was that of a community of Augustine canons, "founded or chiefly endowed by Norman Gastrode fil. Eadnothe, Ernoldus, and Fulco, canons here, and Simon fil. Osberni." The monks appear to have been driven from their convent by a conflagration, hut they were reinstated in their possessions by John de Oxford, bishop of Norwich, previously to the year 1200. The community was not large, as at the dissolution of monasteries the convent was found to accommodate only a prior and six or seven canons. The value of the possessions appear according to Tax. Eccle. 1291, 47. 17s. 4jd.--according to Valor Ecclesiasticus, 1534, the clear value of 88. 6s. 9d.--by Liber Val, the gross value of 119. 16s. 2d. These sums were derived from the advowsons, and portions of the churches of St. Lawrence, St. Mary at Tower, St. Mary at Elms, St. Savoir, St. John Baptist, St. Margaret, Trinity, and St. Michael in the borough of Ipswich. In other parts of the county, the c convent possessed property at Tudenham, Momingthorpe, Mendham, Rushmere, Foxhall, Bentley, Higham, Willisham, and Preston. It also owned a water course, and a mill in Hagonford--pasturage for four hundred sheep, free warren in eleven parishes, and rents in many other...

Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.