. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. H ENGRAVE HALL, SUFFOLK HENGRAVE HALL, engrave Hall— an embattled Manor-house, with Turrets of singulardesign and a Gate-House of acknowledged beauty —is situateabout two miles from the ancient and venerable town of BurySt. Edmunds.* The founder of the building was Sir ThomasKytson, a wealthy cloth-merchant of London, by whom it waserected, between the years 1525 and 1538, probably upon thesite of a mansion still older,—the ancient hall of the de Heme-graves. A brief history of the several families through w
. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. H ENGRAVE HALL, SUFFOLK HENGRAVE HALL, engrave Hall— an embattled Manor-house, with Turrets of singulardesign and a Gate-House of acknowledged beauty —is situateabout two miles from the ancient and venerable town of BurySt. Edmunds.* The founder of the building was Sir ThomasKytson, a wealthy cloth-merchant of London, by whom it waserected, between the years 1525 and 1538, probably upon thesite of a mansion still older,—the ancient hall of the de Heme-graves. A brief history of the several families through whosehands the Manor has passed into those of its present possessor,Sir Thomas Gage, Bart., may interest the the reign of Edward the Confessor, it formed part of the territory of St. Edmund,by whose monks it was held at the Conquest. About the middle of the twelfth centuryit was granted by Anselm, the seventh Abbot, to Leo and his heirs; and by them wasassumed the surname of Hemegrave. The de Hemegraves filled the highest offices inSuffolk for upwards of two centuries, when the race was extinct, and the
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