Bury St. Edmunds

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22661, 16 March 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

Bury St. Edmunds

Bury St. Edmunds is a city and market town of Suffolk. With the exception of the Norman tower (about 1120) and the beautiful, decorated abbey gate (1057) little remains of the once magnificent Benedictine abbey. The cld parish church of St. James. begun by Abbot Anselm, partly rebu'lt in the fourteenth century and fifteenth century, and completed in the reign of Edward VI. It was in 1914 made the cathedral of the new diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. It was restored under the direction of Sir Gilbert Scott in the nineteenth century. St. Mary’s church contains the tomb of Mary Tudor; Moyses Hall, now a museum, is a fine specimen of a Jew’s house of the early twelfth century. The grammar school, founded by Edward VI, was transferred to a new building in 188 M The city is a centre of agriculture and is the town of the administrative county of West Suffolk. Before 1918 it was separately repiesented in parliament. It was at one time the capital of East Anglia, and was named after Edmund the Martyr, •Who was buried there. _ . .

The Magyars The Magyars are the people of the Hungarian race. They are a branch of the Mongolian family and closely allied to the Finns. They

have been in Hungary since th» tenth century. The Magyar language is the official language of Hungary. There are about 9.000 000 Magyars, and they are nearly all in Hungary.