f 500
pounds a year. Mrs. Inchbald, however, well knew how to take care of
herself. No one better. She had learned the art in rather a hard
school, and, besides, she knew how to take care of her poor relations.
None of her sisters seem to have done well, and she had to aid them all.

Sudbury was the birthplace of that William Enfield, whose 'Speaker' was
the terror and delight of more than one generation of England's ingenuous
youth. Lord Chancellor Thurlow, of the rugged eyebrows and the savage
look, and fellow-clerk with the poet Cowper, was born at Ashfield, an
obscure village not far off. Robert Bloomfield, who wrote the 'Farmer's
Boy,' came from Honington, where his mother kept a village school, and
where he became a shoemaker. Capel Loft, an amiable gentleman of
literary sympathies and pursuits, and Bloomfield's warmest friend,
resided at Troston Hall, in the immediate neighbourhood of Honington. At
one time there was no writer better known than John Lydgate, called the
Monk of Bury, born at the village of Lydgate, in 1380. 'His language,'
writes a learned critic, 'is much less obsolete than Chaucer's, and a
great deal more harmonious.' Stephen Gardener, Bishop of Winchester, and
an enemy to the Reformation, was born at Bury. At Trinity St. Martin
lived Thomas Cavendish, the second Englishman who sailed round the globe.
Admiral Broke, memorable for his capture of the _Chesapeake_, when we
were at war with America, was born at Nacton. The great non-juring
Archbishop Sancroft was born at Fressingfield, where he retired to die,
and where he is buried under a handsome monument. The great scholar,
Robert Grossetete, Bishop of Lincoln, was born at Stradbrook. Of him
Roger Bacon wrote that he was the only man living who was in possession
of all the sciences. Wycliff, on innumerable occasions, refers to him
with respect. Arthur Young, the celebrated agriculturist, some of whose
sentences are preserved as golden ones--especially that which says, 'Give
a man the secure possession of a rock, and he will make a garden of
it'--and whose valuable works, I am glad to see, are republished, was
born and lived near Bury St. Edmunds. Echard, the historian, was born at
Barsham, in 1671. Porson was a Norfolk lad.

Sir Thomas Hanmer was one of the most independent men that ever sat for
the county of Suffolk. Mr. Glyde, of Ipswich, terms him the Gladstone of
his age. Pope appears to stigmatize him as a Trimmer,