Map|Names of Places.| County. | Number of Miles From | +--+----------------+---------+-------------+------------+ 34|Babcary pa|Somerset |Somerton 4|Ilchester 5| 27|Babingley,[A] pa|Norfolk |Cas. Rising 2|Lynn 6| | or Baburghley | | | | 34|Babington pa|Somerset |Frome 5|Bath 10| 6|Babraham[B] pa|Cambridge|Linton 4|Cambridge 5| +--+----------------+---------+-------------+------------+ |Dist.| Map|Names of Places.| Number of Miles From |Lond.|Population. +--+----------------+-----------------------+-----+------+ 34|Babcary pa|Castle-Cary 7| 120| 453| 27|Babingley,[A] pa|Heacham 8| 102| 38| | or Baburghley | | | | 34|Babington pa|Shepton Mal. 9| 109| 206| 6|Babraham[B] pa|Newmarket 12| 51| 273| +--+----------------+-----------------------+-----+------+ [A] BABINGLEY. In this parish, the first Christian church in East Anglia is said to have been built. Several hills in the vicinity, called Christian Hills, render the opinion highly probable. The village is situated near that part of the Lincolnshire wash called Lynn Deeps. [B] BABRAHAM, anciently Badburham, is situated in the hundred of Chilford. This place, which was one of the manors of Algar, Earl of Mercia, at the time of the Norman survey, formerly had a market on Mondays. About the year 1576, the whole manorial property in the parish fell into the possession of Sir Horatio Palavicini, a Genoese. According to the tradition of the neighbourhood, this gentleman was collector of the Pope's taxes in England, in the reign of Queen Mary, on whose death, and the consequent change in religion under Elizabeth, he (like the Vicar of Bray,) changed his faith, converted the Pope's money to his own use, and settled in this country. The following whimsical epitaph relates to this occurrence: it is printed in "Lord Orford's Anecdotes of Painting"-- "Here lyes Horatio Palavazine, Who robbed the Pope to lend the Queen. He was a thief--a thief? Thou lyest: For what! he robb'd but Antichrist, Him death with besome swept from Bab'ram. Into the bosom of ould Abraham: But then came Hercules with his club, And struck him down to Belzebub."