Sir Edmund was a highly worthy man, but not in his first youth, and ponderousa Whig, moreover, and an intimate friend of the masterful governor of the island, Lord Cutts, called the "Salamander."
BURY ST. EDMUNDS, or ST. EDMUNDSBURY (16), a market-town in Suffolk, 26 m. NW. of Ipswich, named from Edmund, king of East Anglia, martyred by the Danes in 870, in whose honour it was built; famous for its abbey, of the interior life of which in the 12th century there is a matchlessly graphic account in CARLYLE'S "PAST AND PRESENT.