The new Suffolk garland; a miscellany of anecdotes, romantic ballads, descriptive poems and songs, historical and biographical notices, and statistical returns relating to the county of Suffolk;

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CORNELL

UNIVERSITY

Preface

The gathering of the materials for the present voliime has been the work of several years, and since the announcement of its intended publication, no amount of research has been considered unprofitable or irksome.

"We had intended to give a return of the gross estimated rental, the rateable value, and the amoimt expended for the relief of the poor during the year ending Lady day, 1864, for every parish in the county of Suffolk, and the clerks of twelve Unions in this county had kindly furnished us with returns for that purpose ; but as we could not obtain such returns from the Unions of Bosmere, Hartismere, Mutford, Thingoe, and Woodbridge, we were at last reluctantly compelled to abandon this part of our plan.

"We hope that this volume of miscellanies will be welcomed as an addition to Suffolk Literature, and by local readers become numbered with that pleasant class of books which Horace Walpole describes as " lounging books, which one takes up in the gout, low spirits, ennui, or when one is waiting for company."

To those Ladies and Gentlemen who have kindly given their names as subscribers to prevent our risking a loss by publication, we tender our hearty thanks. Had not our materials extended to fifty pages more than we promised in the Prospectus, we should have had great pleasure in giving a Hst of our Patrons.

JOHN GLTDE, Jun.

Ipswich,

December 1st, 1865.

CONTENTS,

PAGE

Anecdotes and Biographical Eeminisoencbs . 1

Superstitions, Old Ballads, Historical Notices, Curious

Customs, Scarce Documents, &c. . . .163

Selections from Suffolk Poets, Bards, and Ehymers 319 Statistical Keturns . . . . 417

Lennard and Haldimand's Election . . . 435