The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

28 The English Ancestry of
preserved ; it is square, and the bason is sculptured with
animals, in later Norman style ; the pillar and plinth which
support it are of more recent date.
In the rear of the Church, at the south-east end of the
Church-yard, is " Wolsey's Gate," the only relic of the fine
buildings erected for a college by the famous Cardinal. A
picture of this Gate, showing also the lofty tower of St.
Peter's and a portion of the Church at the left, is given by
Wodderspoon. The value of the "living" in 1895 was ^280.
The earliest list of the curates which I have found begins
in 1604. In 1895 St. Peter's was in population the second
Parish in Ipswich, and the Rev. William Berry was the vicar.
The monastery of the "Grey Friars," a Franciscan order,
was in the Parish of St. Nicholas, a little to the south-west
of that Church. It stood A on the bank of a stream called
the Gipping, now covered over. It was founded in the last
decade of the thirteenth century by Sir Robert Tiptot, of
Nettlestead, who died in 25 Edward I (1297). It was well
endowed, as shown by the long list of its possessions re-
turned to Henry VIII,* when so many of the religious houses
were suppressed and their property taken by the crown.
The names and gifts of its benefactors, many of whom, and
especially of the family of its founder, were buried in its
grounds, may be found in the Ipswich records. Here there
was a printing press before 1500, on which Indulgences r and
other religious documents were printed. A fragment of the
ruins of the building was preserved in the garden of one of
* See Wodderspoon, cited above, pp. 314 et seq.