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Botesdale in Suffolk County England History and GeographyBOTESDALE, a chapelry, (formerly a market town) in the parish of REDGRAVE, hundred of HARTISMERE, county of SUFFOLK, 26 miles (N.N.W.) from Ipswich, and 86 (N.E. by N.) from London, on the road to Norwich, containing 584 inhabitants. The name, contracted from Botolph's Dale, is compounded of Botolph, the name of the tutelar saint of the chapel, and the dale in which the town is situated. The town consists principally of one long street, which extends into the parishes of Rickinghall Superior and Rickinghall Inferior: the houses are indifferently built, but the inhabitants are amply supplied with water. The market, formerly on Thursday, has been discontinued: a small fair for cattle and pedlary is held on Holy Thursday. Courts leet and baron are held at Whitsuntide, at the former of which constables and other officers are appointed. The chapel, which has been substantially repaired, is a neat edifice in the later style of English architecture, of which it exhibits good specimens: within are some interesting monuments, among which may be noticed those to Sir Nicholas Bacon, and that celebrated lawyer and patriot, Lord Chief Justice Holt, whose remains are deposited here. The free grammar school was founded and cndowed in 1576, by Sir Nicholas Bacon, for a master and an usher, who are appointed by the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in which there are six exhibitions belonging to this school: the income is £30 per annum, of which sum, the master receives £20, the usher £8, and the remainder is expended in repairs. The school-house, which stands to the west of the chapel, was erected at the expense of Edward Britiffe, Esq. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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