The progresses and public processions of Queen Elizabeth: Among which are interspersed other solemnities, public expenditures, and remarkable events during the reign of that illustrious princessCollected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, &c., &cIllustrated, with historical notes . of Sir William Cordell, who at this time held thatoffice, as he had done in the preceding Reign (seep. 1 IS.)—This noble seat retains its venerableappearance in a good situation, built of brick, with four small round towers in front. Sir William dyingwithout issue,
The progresses and public processions of Queen Elizabeth: Among which are interspersed other solemnities, public expenditures, and remarkable events during the reign of that illustrious princessCollected from original manuscripts, scarce pamphlets, corporation records, parochial registers, &c., &cIllustrated, with historical notes . of Sir William Cordell, who at this time held thatoffice, as he had done in the preceding Reign (seep. 1 IS.)—This noble seat retains its venerableappearance in a good situation, built of brick, with four small round towers in front. Sir William dyingwithout issue, left it with his estate to the youngest of his two sisters Jane, married to Richard Allington,of Horse-heath, in the county of Cambridge, Esquire. He sold it to Savage Earl Rivers, in which familyit continued till the Restoration, when the Cordells re-purchased it, Robert Cordell, of Melford,Esquire, was created a baronet 1660. From the Cordells it descended to the family of Firebrace, andwas occupied 1764 by the relict of Sir Cordell Firebrace, Bart, late one of the Representatives of theCounty. She re-married to the Hon. William Campbell, of Leyton Hall, Essex ; and died in 1782,upwards of 80 years old. After her death, Mr. Campbell sold it to Sir Henry Parker, Bart, fromwhom it descended to her son, Sir William 5i 1 ...-::..., »..:«;-WWV»^»-^^irKW~~Jfei^gJ*f<1 - s yy .?„.,*
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