OF GREAT ORMESBY, IN THE COUNTY O , in the County of Huntingdon, and Founder of the Brit Elizabeth Shirley, daugh-Thomas Cotton, ter of Francis Shirley, of Staunton Harold, co. Leicester, ancestor to of Connington, co.Huntingdon, Knt. of theShire Sir Robert Cotton, Baronet, of Con- Elizabeth, daughter and coheir nington; founder of the British Mu- of William Brocas, of Thedin Worth, county of Leicester. ed Frances, daugh- Philip Cotton,.... William Mary, dau. Frances ried S Proby, ton Ha ried Sir Monnou Wotton, shire. Alice Co Ormesby, in Norfolk; ob. 9th Jonathan Symonds, of Great Mary Cot- Wil- Alice Cotton, C F C M Authorities. Edmonson's Baronagium; Collins's Baronets, edit. 171; Blomefield's Norfolk; Ormerod's Cheshire; Nichols's Leicestershire; Monum Mary Symonds Elizabeth Sym Alice Symonds. ton Symonds, of Ormesby, High Sheriff for Norfolk 1756; ob. 26 Frances Symon were the arms of Hopton, argent, a chevron, azure, and a file of three, ermine. The other two churches have been long since destroyed, and the fragments of one of them converted into a barn. Adjoining to Ormesby is Scroteby, or as it is now generally termed Scratby. This manor was long in the possession of the Bishops of Norwich. Bishop Beaufoe gave it, with other lordships, to be held of that see. The parliamentary baron Aguillon held it some time: afterwards Isabel de Aguillon, his daughter, brought it (temp. Hen. III.) to Hugh Lord Bardolph, of Wirmgay, her husband. The manor, with Cromer, came to the Lords Beaumont; and on the attainder of the Lord Viscount Beaumont, was granted, 19 Edward 4th, to Anthony Earl Rivers. The family of Scroteby had large possessions here as early as the reign of Henry III. This family was not of very long continuance in this place, and expired in coheiresses. In 1557 these estates were the property of the Cleres of Ormesby, and continued in their descendants till nearly the close of the 17th century. They were subsequently in the hands of various proprietors, till about the year 1775, when John Ramey, Esq. of Great Yarmouth, bought them, and left them, with other considerable possessions at Ormesby, Clippesby, and Hickling, to his widow for life, with remainder to his daughter Abigail, third wife of Alexander, ninth Earl of Home; and with remainder over, as to the possession of Scroteby, to his grand-daughter, Lady Charlotte Home, afterwards the wife of the Rev. Charles Baillie, (now Hamilton) Archdeacon of Cleveland, second son of George Baillie, Esq. of Jervis-Wood, by whom she has issue. On the death of her mother, Lady C. B. Hamilton succeeded to the Scroteby property, which is now, with the hall, a very comfortable house, and the extensive gardens and hot-houses, let on lease to Isaac Everitt, Esq. The farm, part of these possessions, is leased to the Waters's, a family who have long had their residence in this parish and its neighbourhood. The manor was in very early times united to that of Great Ormesby. There was formerly a church here, dedicated to All Saints, which was a rectory. John Grey, Bishop of Norwich, appropriated it, in 1205, to the use of the Sacrist of the priory of Norwich, saving a pension of 5s. to the Cellarer, and a vicarage was appointed. The Peterpence were 20d. Robert Allen was the last vicar, in 1548, when the living was consolidated with Great Ormesby, and the church was licensed to be demolished. The vicarage was valued at £5. The sands opposite to this part of the coast, well known in our charts as the "Scroby Sands," have often proved fatal to many an adventurous seaman. LOTHINGLAND, IN SUFFOLK. Retracing our steps, and crossing the Yare at Yarmouth bridge, we enter the half-hundred of Lothingland, a narrow tract of land, at the northeast corner of Suffolk, having the German Ocean for its boundary on the east, the river Yare on the north, the Waveney to the west, and Lake Lothing, a beautiful and extensive sheet of water, upon the south. It is about ten miles in length from north to south, and six in breadth, east and west, and contains fifteen parishes, of which Lowestoft is the principal and only market town, and five hamlets. Some authors have conjectured that Lothingland derived its name from Lake Lothing, others, with more probability are of opinion that both received their names from Lothbroch, a noble Dane, who was treacherously assassinated by Bern, a Saxon retainer of Edmund, King of the East Angles, to whom he unjustly imputed the crime. Hinguar and Hubba, the two sons of Lothbroch, in revenge, assembled a numerous army, and landing in England, ravaged the whole kingdom of the East Angles, took King Edmund prisoner,whom they barbarously murdered, |