Besides the princely mansion of Westhorpe, it is more than probable that West Stow Hall, in the parish of that name, was the occasional habitation of the Duke and his family. It yet exists shorn of its splendour, but still exhibiting the capabilities it once possessed, for baronial feastings and lordly festivities. It is not improbable the building was erected by Brandon, as the armorial bearings of his wife, are standing upon the porch. The place once contained a goodly shew of armour. It is now used as a farm house.

The Priory of Mendham, seated upon the course of the Waveney, between the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, was in 1539, given by Henry to Charles Brandon. In 1555, it came into the possession of Richard Freston, who was afterwards knighted. The priory was not demolished until 1815, and then a portion of the ruins was removed to another site.

On scaling the wall over the fire-place of one of the rooms in the mansion, was discovered a painting of the arms of Suffolk's wife, and of Suffolk himself. The arms of France impaling France and England quarterly, were supported by the French supporters, two angels, surmounted by an open crown, and encircled by a dimidiated collar, one half on the French side, consisting of the escallop shells of the order of St. Michael, and the other of the roses-en-soleil of the royal livery of England. In the left hand corner, the same emblem was more fully displayed as a badge, viz., a rose-en-soleil, party per pale, Gules and Argent, seeded Vert. Above this, behind the dexter supporter was a shield of Brandon, quartered, with Beke and Willoughby, also quarterly-the insignia of the Queen's stalwart husband, Charles Duke of Suffolk, and commemorative of his fourth marriage, after her Majesty's death, with Catherine Lady Willoughby, of Eresby. In other parts of the house, were carvings in stone, of the Queen's and Duke's arms, each under coronets, and the latter within a Garter. There were also other distinguishing marks of the connection which the Brandon family held with Mendham.*

* Gent's Mag.

The original portraits of Charles Brandon are not numerous. He is generally represented as being a man of great size of body. The celebrated antiquary, Mr. Maurice Johnson, described and sketched a portrait of this nobleman for the Spalding Literary Society, which had the following characteristics. He wears the collar of the Garter and George, a glove in his right hand, a nosegay in his left—the four round pomels of his chair and ornaments of his orders gilt with gold-the curtain green-his complexion fair, eyes bright, beard white-his close cut coat red velvet-his tabard and gloves dark brown-his bonnet black velvet and a little linen appears at the gathering of his shirt round his neck.

IPSWICH.

WOLSEY'S GATE.

"Ever witness for him

Those twins of learning, that he raised in you,
Ipswich and Oxford! one of which fell with him,
Unwilling to outlive the good that did it."

SHAKESPEARE.

UPON the right hand side of College Street, Ipswich, leading from Lower Brook Street, to St. Peter's Street, stands the only memorial left to the present times of the College, erected by Cardinal Wolsey, in his native town. It is a structure principally composed of brick, and if we may judge from its decrepit appearance, is fast nodding to an oblivious fall. This gateway is not considered to have been the principal entrance of the College, but an outlet from a wing of the building. As t is however the only memorial which corroding time on the one hand, and the destruction of the College on the other, has left to tell the tale of the existence of the College itself, it cannot but be regarded as a relic of considerable interest and historical importance.

A little beyond the gateway, stands the Church of St. Peter, formerly used, it is believed, as the place of worship attached to the

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