Proc Suffolk Inst Archaeol Hist 40 (4)

Essay, based on historical documentary sources, on the clothiers of Suffolk during the 1460s, and in particular Thomas Spring II of Lavenham. The article looks at their domestic and commercial lives, at their socioeconomic status and at their influence on their local communities and on southwest Suffolk generally. Includes

Article on a table tomb in Hadleigh church, which the author suggests may have been that of William Pykenham, rector of Hadleigh during the later fourteenth century. The article describes what is known about William Pykenham and about his contemporary John Hopton, whose tomb at Blythburgh is compared to the one at Hadleigh.

transcription of the letter described in the article

Description of two recently reported early-nineteenth-century dovecotes, one at Great Hallows, Stoke Ash, and the other at Grove Farm House, Little Bealings.

Description and discussion of a fragment from a gold penannular `tress-ring', found by a metal detector user c. 1996; the author also discusses its method of manufacture, and reports that this appears to be the first such tress-ring to be found outside Ireland.