. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. ingham by themarriage of Lionel Tollemache, of Bentley, Esquire, with Edith, daughter and soleheiress of William Joyce, of Crekes Hall, in Helmingham, who in the first year of theeighth Henry was found, by requisition, to hold the Manor of Bentley by knights served the office of High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in the fourth year of thesame reign. By this Lionel Tollemache, Helmingham Hall was built. He died in theearly part of the reign of Edward the Sixth, and was succeeded by his son, LionelTollemache
. The baronial halls, picturesque edifices, and ancient churches of England. ingham by themarriage of Lionel Tollemache, of Bentley, Esquire, with Edith, daughter and soleheiress of William Joyce, of Crekes Hall, in Helmingham, who in the first year of theeighth Henry was found, by requisition, to hold the Manor of Bentley by knights served the office of High Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in the fourth year of thesame reign. By this Lionel Tollemache, Helmingham Hall was built. He died in theearly part of the reign of Edward the Sixth, and was succeeded by his son, LionelTollemache, Esq., who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, who, during her progressthrough the counties of Suffolk and Norfolk in 1561, honoured him with her presence atHelmingham Hall, on August 14th and four following days, where she was entertainedwith great splendour and hospitality. During the visit, Her Majesty stood Godmotherto her Hosts eldest son, Lionel: to commemorate this event, she presented to him, as wehave stated, a Lute, still preserved as an heir-loom in the Family. 3. HELMINGHAM HALL. His son, the first Baronet, was advanced to the dignity by James the First, in died at Helmingham on the 5th of September, 1612, and was buried there on thesame day (in the Parish Register the interment is entered, Et eodem die sepultus fuit).Helmingham Hall continued in his male descendants until the death of WilbrahamTollemache, Earl of Dysart, in 1821*, when it devolved upon his sister Louisa, Countessof Dysart, and upon her death in 1840, to the present proprietor, John Tollemache, Esq., for North Cheshire, eldest son of the late Admiral Tollemache, grandson to LadyJane Halliday, sister to Lionel, fifth Earl, and Wilbraham, sixth and last Earl of Dysart. The Earldom of Dysart came to the family by the marriage of Sir Lionel Tollemache,Bart., with the Lady Elizabeth Murray, eldest daughter and heiress of William Murray,first Earl of Dysart; upon the death of her father she succ
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