East Anglia's History: Studies in Honour (Honor) of Norman Scarfe

East Anglia's political and economic importance in the middle ages is plain for all to see, stemming initially from its crucial position on the eastern shores of the North Sea and its participation in the successive patterns of invasion and settlement of England. Archaeological evidence abounds: burial mounds, castles, great churches deriving from the wealth created by sheep, yeoman farmhouses, and market towns of eighteenth-century elegance. Behind these visible manifestations of the march of centuries lie particular histories, and these seventeen studies from the region's best scholars reveal some of those jigsaw puzzles of time, ranging from the Domesday herring industry by way of monasteries, memorials, wills, Gainsborough and garden history to the growing passion for natural history and science in the mid nineteenth century. They make a serious contribution to an understanding of the region, and at the same time honour Norman Scarfe, whose own studies have played a notable part in the interpretation of East Anglia's history. Contributors JOHN BLATCHLY, JAMES CAMPBELL, CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, CAROLE RAWCLIFFE, DAVID DYMOND, PETER NORTHEAST, COLIN RICHMOND, JUDITH MIDDLETON-STEWART, DIARMAID MacCULLOCH, HASSELL SMITH, TOM WILLIAMSON, EDWARD MARTIN, JONATHAN THEOBALD, RICHARD WILSON, HUGH BELSEY, STEVEN PLUNKETT, GEOFFREY MARTIN, MICHAEL HOWARD. Machine generated contents note: Norman Scarfe: An Appreciation 1 John Blatchly Domesday Herrings 5 James Campbell Searching for Salvation in Anglo-Norman East Anglia 19 Christopher Harper-Bill 'On the Threshold of Eternity': Care for the Sick in East Anglian Monasteries 41 Carole Rawcliffe The Parson's Glebe: Stable, Expanding or Shrinking? 73 David Dymond Suffolk Churches in the Later Middle Ages: The Evidence of Wills 93 Peter Northeast Sir John Fastolf and the Land Market: An Enquiry of the Early 1430s regarding Purchasable Property 107 Colin Richmond Sir Philip Bothe of Shrubland: The Last of a Distinguished Line Builds in Commemoration 123 John Blatchly and Judith Middleton-Stewart A First Stirring of Suffolk Archaeology? 149 DiarmaidMacCulloch Concept and Compromise: Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Building of Stiffkey Hall 159 Hassell Smith Shrubland before Barry: A House and its Landscape 1660-1880 189 Tom Williamson Garden Canals in Suffolk 213 Edward Martin Estate Stewards in Woodland High Suffolk 1690-1880 243 Jonathan Theobald A Journal of a Tour through Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire in the Summer of 1741 259 Richard Wilson Thomas Gainsborough as an Ipswich Musician, a Collector of Prints and a Caricaturist 289 Hugh Belsey Ipswich Museum Moralities in the 1840s and 1850s 309 Steven. Plunkett John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831-1901) and the Ipswich Borough Records 333 Geoffrey Martin The Caen Controversy 349 Michael Howard Select Bibliography of the Writings of Norman Scarfe 357 John Blatchly. Seventeen studies from the region's best scholars illuminate aspects of the history of Suffolk and Norfolk from the 11th century to the 20th.East Anglia's political and economic importance in the middle ages is plain for all to see, stemming initially from its crucial position on the eastern shores of the North Sea and its participation in the successive patterns of invasion and settlement of England. Archaeological evidence abounds: burial mounds, castles, great churches deriving from the wealth created by sheep, yeoman farmhouses, and market towns of eighteenth-century elegance. Behind thesevisible manifestations of the march of centuries lie particular histories, and these seventeen studies from the region's best scholars reveal some of those jigsaw puzzles of time, ranging from the Domesday herring industry by wayof monasteries, memorials, wills, Gainsborough and garden history to the growing passion for natural history and science in the mid nineteenth century. They make a serious contribution to an understanding of the region, and at thesame time honour Norman Scarfe, whose own studies have played a notable part in the interpretation of East Anglia's history. Contributors JOHN BLATCHLY, JAMES CAMPBELL, CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, CAROLE RAWCLIFFE, DAVIDDYMOND, PETER NORTHEAST, COLIN RICHMOND, JUDITH MIDDLETON-STEWART, DIARMAID MacCULLOCH, HASSELL SMITH, TOM WILLIAMSON, EDWARD MARTIN, JONATHAN THEOBALD, RICHARD WILSON, HUGH BELSEY, STEVEN PLUNKETT, GEOFFREY MARTIN, MICHAEL HOWARD.