Had Suffolk been polled shortly after Elizabeth’s accession for or against the Reformation, there is reason to believe that there would have been a majority in the negative.
Queen Mary.
No county surpasses Suffolk in fulness of incident in the summer of 1553.
Henry VIII. And Edward VI.
The great revival of learning has brought forth few more notable characters than Cardinal Wolsey, son of a substantial grazier and wool-stapler of Ipswich, born in 1471, the year of Barnet and Tewkesbury.
Perpendicular Architecture-Domestic Life-Sir Tames Tyrell-Trentals-Lord Mayors.
While the din of arms was resounding in other counties, the clink of the trowel was rather the prevalent note in Suffolk. The church-building and house-building which went on apace in the middle and the latter part of the fifteenth century have left us some grand later Perpendicular examples, eminently the churches of Lavenham and Long Melford.
Colleges, Lollards, Pilgrimages, Etc.
Many and various were the elements in the great stir which reached its height in the reign of Richard II. Amongst them labour stands prominent.