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Mendlesham in Suffolk County England History and GeographyMENDLESHAM, a parish (formerly a market town) in the hundred of HARTISMERE, county of SUFFOLK, 15½ miles (N.N.W.) from Ipswich, and 79 (N.E.) from London, containing 1250 inhabitants. The town is situated in a deep miry soil, and consists of two long and irregular streets; the houses are of mean appearance, and the adjacent roads in bad condition. A market was granted in the reign of Edward I., but has been long disused. A fair is held on the 2nd of October and the following day, for cattle and toys. Two constables are elected at the manorial courts. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeacory of Sudbury, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £14. 9. 2., and in the patronage of the Rev. Robert Field. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a handsome structure. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. In 1473, Robert Lake bequeathed, for charitable purposes, property in land, which, with other benefactions, produces about £350 per annum, from which £20 per annum is paid for the support of a charity school for fifteen poor children; £20 per annum for the maintenance of a Sunday school; and nearly £200 per annum is distributed by the trustees in weekly gratuities to the necessitous poor. There are six unendowed almshouses. About the close of the seventeenth century, an ancient silver crown, weighing sixty ounces, was found here; and, in 1758, a gold ring, bearing an inscription in Runic characters, was turned up by the plough: from these and other circumstances, Mendlesham is supposed to have been the residence of Redwald, one of the kings of the East Angles. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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