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

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the citizens of Ipswich, and perhaps still remains. A pict-
ure of the ruins, with St. Nicholas's Church in the back-
ground, is given by Wodderspoon, p. 241, and a view of the
old Priory was long preserved in the vestry of that Church.
The "Crosse" to which Robert leaves three "sylver
sponys," raises an interesting question : while it may have
had some connection with the "high altar" which he re-
members, it seems more probable that it was the predecessor
of the famous " Ipswich Cross " which stood in the Market
Place. Wodderspoon describes this as a large octagonal
structure of wood, supported by eight stone pillars, and hav-
ing a circular roof, terminated in the centre by a spiral point
carried to a considerable height, which was surmounted by a
small stone cross on which stood a well-executed figure of
Justice with her usual attributes. The building was twenty-
seven feet in diameter, and fifty from the ground to its top
it was erected about 15 10 by Edmund Daundy, a relative of
Wolsey, and stood until 18 12. If our conjecture is correct,
there must have been an earlier Cross than Daundy's,
which one authority says was the first. Crosses in market
places, erected as preaching stands, and for public conven-
ience, are of great antiquity.
Whether Roger and Robert of Ipswich were brothers, or
even relatives, we do not know. As bearing on this, it may
be noted that we find the Christian names of each, and of
their sons, in various families of later generations ;
shown above, had a son Thomas ;
Thomas
Robert, as
of Ipswich, whose
wife was Anne, had a son and grandson Thomas ;
Robert of
;