THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES O F T H E COUNTY of NORFOLK, VOLUME II. CONTAINING THE HUNDREDS OF Clavering, Depwade, Difs, and Earfham. Pro me : Jl merear, in me. NORWICH: PRINTED BY J. GROUSE, FOR M. BOOTH, BOOKSELLER. M.DCC.LXXXI. * XX T II E HISTORY O F NORFOLK. HUNDRED of CL/WERING. Doomfday-book called Clavelinga, from j X. Clay (as Clay by the lea coaft, andCockley Clay in Clackclofe hundred) and Linga, lying or being feated by the water and low meadows, It was in the crown, and united to the hundred of Loddon, and farmed together, by fir John, de C layering, in the reign of Edward I. This fa mily might take their name from the town of Claver- ing, (ituated near the rife of the river Stort, in the hundred of Clavering in Eflex, of which town fir John de Clavering, a nobleman, being lord in the A reign 2 HUNDREDOF reign of Edward I. was by that Icing's appointment called de Claveting; it is alfo a furname in the north of England. Sir Thomas Oavering, bart. of Axw ell Park in the county of Durham, is now re- prefentative in parliament for that county. This hundred is bounded on the north by the river Yare, which divides it from Walfliam, on the fouth and eaft by the river Waveney, and on the weft by the hundred of Loddon : the greateft extent in length is from the bridge atBungay, to the confluence of the Yare and Waveney at Braydon near Yarmouth, about eleven miles ; and the greateft extent in width is from Heckingham to Burgh St. Peter, about fix miles. It is a very rich and pleafant part of Norfolk, and contains the following towns, to which we add the number of votes polled by freeholders refident in each at the contefted election in 1768. W. deG. A. C. Aldby - 7711 Bergh Apton ^ 4 3 4 Brooke i i 9 9 Burgh St. Peter "*- 3 3 i i Ellingham - " 4 5 3 2 Geldeftone i i i i Gillingham St. Mary ) ^ Gillingham All Saints ] 5 * 3 Haddifcoe and Hadddifcoe Thorpe Hales Heckingham - Q i i o Howe 7 ', ; o o 2 2 Kirby-Cane - 3 3 o Norton Subcorfe 5621 Raveningham - i i i i Stockton - i i o o Thurlton CLAVE R I N G. Thurlton 4 6 i it. Tult Monks 5 4 2 *& \Vhetatre All Saints 1 1 Total 55 57 34 35 and principal Houfes in this Hundred. Brooke, John Fowle, efq. Ditto, Roger Kerrifon, efq. Burgh St. Peter, Rev. Samuel Bovcat. Gillingham, Francis Schutz, efq. Raveningham, Sir Edmund Bacon, bart. The parifhes of Bergh Apton, Brooke and Howe, are fcpaiated from the other part of this hundred by the hundred of Loddon. C layering pays to the ge- neral rate of the county of Norfolk 19!. 45. 6d. to a Cx hundred pound levy. ALDBY. ALDEBY, ALDBIE, or ALDEBURGH, wrote in Doomfday-book Aldeburg. Ralph de Beaufoe had a grant of this lordfhip from the Conqueror, and poflefied it at the furvey ; a free-man of archbifhop Stigand was lord in king Edward's reign ; it was va- lued at 405. and there was a church with twelve acres, valued at ss. there were alfo lands, 8cc. valued at 335. but at the furvey at 61. los. The whole was one leuca long, and half a leuca broad, and paid as. id. ob. gelt, whoever pplfefled it. Ralph de Beaufoe was a near relation, or fon to William de Beaufoe, bifhop of Thetford, chancellor to the Conqueror, and left at his death an only daughter, Agnes, who brought it by marriage to Hubert 4 HUNDREDOF Hubert de Rye, caftellan of Norwich cattle, fon of Hubert de Rye, a trufty fervant to William tile- Conqueror, when duke of Normandy : this Agnes, at the requefl of Herbert, bifhop of Norwich, granted great part of this lordfhip to the priory of Norwich, founded by that bifhop, with the patronage of the church, which the faid bifliop appropriated to the laid priory, and a (mall priory was erected here, as a cell to that priory, dedicated to St. Mary, confiding of a prior and three black monks. Henry I. by his prxcipe commands, " that the chuich, all the land and men, Sec. which Agnes de Iklfo gave to the monks of the Holy Trinity of Nor- wich, in Aldcbi, be held bv them in perpetual alms, and that no injury, :c. be offered them." The faid king confirmed the grant of Hubert dc Rve, of tithes in Swanton, Hockering, Deopham, 8cc. " with the church and manor of Aldby, which Agnes de BeHo, his wife, had granted to the faid priory, with Ri- chard, her fon, and Anthony, her chaplain, whom they had taken into their fociety, the tithe of the whole village and hall, loo acres of arable land, loo flieep, a marfh with pafture for 100 fhcep. alfo common of pafture, a carucate of land, with fix foe- men, fix lancheches,''' and 405. rent in Thurkcteliart," on the petition of Henry de Rye, fon and heir of Hubert and Agnes. Henry de Rye granted two parts of the tithe of all the lands which his father, or he himfelf ever held in demean, to the priory of Norwich, as his father and mother had granted when they laid the fecond flone. on the foundation of the priory church in Aldby. In * Landcheap, or Lancheches, an ancient cuftomary fine paid n the fale, &c, of land. CLAVERING. 5 In the 14th of Edward I. William Rofceline gave t the. k;ng l ol. for a licence to purchafe of William. prior of Norwich, and the convent, the lordfhip of this town, called in the record Audeby, excepting thirty mcfluages, five hundred acres of land, forty of meadow, three hundred of marfh, forty of wood, a mill, ten marks rei-u per ann. and the advowfon of the cluirch, all which the prior referred to the con- vent, and was called the prior's manor, diftinc~t from the other. This fhews that manors have been erected within time of prefcription, though fome lawyers fay othcrwife ; and what is another proof, in a pleading A. 6. Edward II. the jury for the hundred of Mid- dleton, in Kent, prcfent, " that in the time of Ri- chard I. Stephen de Northwode purchafed force af- iarted land, which land was at the time of ihe pre- fcmment called the manor of Northwode Cafteneys. 1 ' In the 14th alfo of the faid king, the prior claimed the aflife, view of frank pledge, Sec. of his tenants ; and in the 35th year, had a grant of free-warren. Laurence, prior of Norwich, vicar general to Thomas, bifhop of Norwich, appoints John de Bedingfield, prior of this cell, to take the confeffions., to abfolve and to enjoin the penances of the priorefs, and nuns of Bungay ; dated at Norwich, May 27, The temporalities of the priory were valued in 1428, at ;1. 155. 6d. in the 6ih of Edward IV. the lady Ifabcl Morley died patronefs, as heir to the founders, Hubert and Agnes de Rye. On the diffblution it came to the crown, and on the foundation of a dean and chapter at Norwich, by Henry VIII. in 1538, was granted to them, and io continues. B In 6 HUNDRED OF In 1376 fir Thomas Savage, km. was buried by the fouth porch in the church yard of the piiory church: all the monks, except two, were at the diffo- tution (aid to be defirous of being difcharged. The family of de Rofceline had an intereft in this town ; William de Rofceline held here and in Whet- acre, a quarter of a fee, A. 20 of Henry III. of John de Marfhal (baron of Rye, in right of Alice his wife, daughter and coheir of Hubert de Rve, the laft heir male of that family ;) he was father of fir Tho- mas de Rofceline, who in the ^d of the faid king, was querentin a fine, and William, fon of Adam de Audeley, dcforciant of a meffuage and forty acres of land here and in Whetacre, granted to fir Thomas, who covenants to grant to William, for life, compe- tent maintenance in eating and drinking, as one of his efquires ; and in the 55th year had a grant of free- barren, and a weekly market and fair in this town. In the 1 4th of Edward I. .William Rofceline claimed the affife of his tenants, view of frank-pledge, a gal- lows and free-warren ; having purchafed a iordfhip of the prior of Norwich, in this town, there being certain differences between the prior and fir William, about the rights of common, the prior was allowed by fir William to take marie out of the great com- mon of Aldby, called then Mekylheyth, to marie his lands, by agreement, dated 1310. This we men- tion to prove that this method and way of improving lands in the county of Norfolk, was then (fo many years paft) made ufe of. Sir William Rofceline and Joan his wife, in the 4th of Edward II. fettled it on themfelves for life ; remainder to William Marshall, baron of Rye, and his heirs, by fine ; and John le Marfha.ll, his Ion, B 2' died CLAVERING. 7 died lord, whofe (ifler and heir, Hawife, brought k by marriage to fir Robert Morley, who was lord in 1330 J in tm ' s family it remained till Alianore, daugh- ter and heir of Robert, lord Morley (the lafl heir male ,of that family) being married to William, younger Ton of William, lord Lovell of Titchrnarfh, was baron of Rye, and loid of this manor in "her right, and died lord in 147 -,. Henry, his fon, dying without ilTue, Alice, his only fifter, wife of fir Wil- liam Parker, inherited it, and was baron of Rye, whofe defcendant, Edward Parker, lord Morley, baron of Rye, was lord in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and conveyed it to his fecond fon, Henry Parker, of Horn caflle in LincolnQiire, efq. After this it came to the Calthorpes, and by an inquifition taken in l37, fir Henry Calthorpe, of Ampton in Suffolk, fecond fon of fir James Calthorpe, of Cockthorpe in Norfolk, knt. died feifed of it ; he was recorder of London, Sec. and James was his fon and heir, who poiTelTcd it in 1660, and James Calthorpe, efq. his fon, in i6gS ; in the laid family it remained in i 742. This manor was called Aldby-hall. The church was dedicated to St. Mary, and ap- propriated by bifhop Herbert to the priory of Nor- .wich, being valued at fixteen marks. On a grave-flone in the chancel Margaret, wife of Edmund Bendijh, gent, who died Sept. 26, 1681. One William Wall, eldefl fon of Franc. Wall, of Aldeby, gent, died June 23, 1685. Another John Denny, gent, buried Feb. 11, 1680. John Bafpole, gent, buried in the church 1530, and Thomas Bafpole in the iomh ajle, by his pa- rents, 8 H U N D RED O F rents, A. 1551. This family had a leafe of the priory manor. The family of London lived here, and had a leafe of it. In the church was a chapel dedicated to St. Fur- ceus ; offerings were made to this faint, and certain tithes belonged, to it. '.o At the furvey we meet with a town, of which Ralph de Beaufoe was lord, called Thurketeliart, of which a free-man of Stigand's was deprived. It had a church endowed with 20 acres, valued at 4od. fifteen free-men belonged alfo to the lord, and were under his protection, with fix carucates and fix acres of meadow, valued at 4!. before, and the fame at the furvey. This confiderable village, as it appears to have been- at the furvey, is now quite deftroyed, and the lands being near to Aldeburgh are included therein, and were made part of the priory lands there, in the reign of Henry I. as is before obfervcd. In 1 756, the Rev. Abraham Dawfon was prefent- cd to this curacy, by the dean and chapter of Nor- wich. This village is pleafantly fituated on the funny fide ef the navigable river Wavcney, three miles from Beccles, and five from St. Olave's bridge. BERGH APTON. Mr. Parkin, coritinuator of Blomeneld's Eflay, places this, and the parifh of Brooke, in Loddon hundred. APTON. CLAVERING. 9 APTON. Called in Doomfday-book, Appleton. Roger Bigot had then 30 acres of land in demean, and one borclerer. This, with foine land of his in Thurton, Carleton, and Mundham, were then va- lued at 305. and the foe was in the lord of the hun- dred. Robert de Vaux held it under Roger, and from the Vaux it came to the lords Roos, Sec. The lord- fliip of Bergh alfo extended into it ; but this town has been deftroyed time immemorial. A church formerly belonged to it, dedicated to St. Martin, was a reclory, in the patronage of the Vaux, and came by the heireffes of that family to the Nere- fords, and loid Roos. In the 8th of Henry III. Robert de Nereford was querent, and Roger le Pa- villy impedent, of the advowfon of this church, and five acres of land granted to Robert and his heirs. In the reign of Edward I. the reclor had a manfe, with ten acres of glebe; it was then valued with Bergh, and the lord of Bergh was patron. After this we find it called a chapel, and has been deftroy- cd about two centuries pad. BERGH-APTON. This town does not occur in the book of Doomfday, fo as to give us a fatisfaclory account of the tenure of the principal lordfhip; we only meet with a fmall fee, or lands, which St. Ethel- dreda (that is the church of Ely) held in Thurton and Thorpe in this hundred, as may be there feen, and are faid to belong to Berc, with all their cufto- mary dues, and to be valued there. It is certain that the ancient family de Monte Ca- nifio were foon after the Conqueft poffeffed of it. AgneS io HUNDREDOF Asries, widow of \\arine, lord Montchcnfv, held k about the soth of Henrv II. being then fixty years of age, of the church of Ely, as laid, and was a widow in the king's difpofal or gift. Sir William and fir Ralph de Momchenfy were her fons, and Hu- bert, who was a clerk, file had alfo two daughters. William de Montchenfy, by deed, fans date, grants to Ralph de Bradeker all the land which was Gilbert de Karlemant's, belonging to his manor of Bergh, paying isd. per ann. Warine, lord Montchenfy, gave in the 15th of Jking John two thouland marks for livery of his in- heritance ; and had by Joan his wife, daughter and co-heir of William Marfhall, earl of Pembroke, William his fon and heir, who married Dionyfia, daughter and heir of Nicholas Anneflev, whofe fon William, leaving an only daughter and heir, Diony- fia, brought this lordfhip, &c. to Hugh de Vere, and dying without iffue, her inheritance defcended to Joan, her father's fifter, married to William de Valentia, earl of Pembroke, lord of Bergh and Ap- ton. In the yth of Edward II. his fon and heir Aylmer, earl of Pembroke, married Mary, daughter of Guy de Chatillon, earl of St. Paul in France, but dying in the i jth of Edward II. his two fitters were found to be his heirs. Ifabel, the eldeft, had a grant of difpenfation from the pope, on account of confanguinity, to marry John de Haftings, lord of Abergavenny; and Joan, the youngeft, married John Comyn, lord of Baden- haugh in Scotland. On a divifion of the eftate, this lordfhip came to the Ha flings. John CLAVERING. 11 John de Haftings, carl of Pembroke, dying with- out iffue, in the i c>th of Richard II. fettled (through the perfuafion of his mother, as is faid) the Haftings tftate on her nephew, fir William Beauchamp, sd fon of Thomas earl of Warwick, by Catherine his wife, daughter of Roger Moriimer, earl of March, lifter to Agnes, mother of John, earl of Pembroke, aforefaid, by Laurence carl of Pembroke. Great law-fuits commenced on account of this fet- tlement, between Reginald Grey, lord of Ruthyn, as heir, and fir William Beauchamp, which were corii- promifed in the 15th of Richard II. and fir Willi- am had a grant of this lordfliip, Sec. with the barony of Abergavenny in Wales. Joan, widow of fir William, fifter and co-heir of Thomas, earl of Arundel, died feifed of the cafllc and manor of Abergavenny, Pembroke's Inn in Lon- don, and Kidderminfter in Worcefieiitiire, as part of her dower. Richard Beauchamp, his fon and heir, was earl of W^orcefter, and by Ifabel his wife, daughter and co-heir of Richard, fon and heir of Thomas, lord de Spencer, had a daughter and fole heir, Elizabeth, who brought the inheritance to her hufband, fir Ed- ward Nevill, lord of Abergavenny in her right, fourth fon of Ralph Nevill, earl of Weftmoreland. At his death, in the i6th of Edward IV. George was his fpn and heir, who died in 1498, at Chatham in, Kent. George Nevill, lord Abergavenny, his fon and heir, had by Mary his fecond wife, daughter of Edward duke of Bucks, Henry his fon and heir, who married Frances, daughter of Thomas- earl of Rutland, 12 HUNDREDOF Rutland; he dying in the 2gth of Elizabeth, left an only daughter and heir, married to fir Thomas Vane ; fo that his brother Edward's fon fuccecded him in honour and eft ate, and was lord Abergavenny. Tn this family it ftill remains, the Right Hon. George Neville, lord Abergavenny, being lord and patron, vvhofe daughter is lately married to fir John Berney, bait, of Kirby-Bedon. At the time of the law-fuits abovementioned, John Maycote, of Brenchefley in Kent, depofed, that he then lived with fir William Brenchefley, who was of counfel to fir Wm. Bcauchamp, (afterwards a judge) and one day he invited to. dinner at his houfe, at the end of Pater-nofter-row, London, all the faid coun- fel, viz. fir Robert Charkon, William Pynchbeck, William Brenchefley, John Catefley, and other judges of the law ; and at the end of dinner he arofe from table, went into his chapel, and a little while after, came back, laid a noble before each counfel on the table, faying, " Sirs, for God's fake inform me fully whether I " have any right or not, and delay me no longer.' They fitting in doubt of his anger, Wm. Pynch- beck faid, " Sir William, certainlv there is no man who will affure you thofe lands and lordfhips, unlefs you have a releafe from the heirs of Haft- ings, and that heir being under age, his releafe would not fignify." Upon this the compofuion was made afterwards. Sir Andrew de Hingham had an intereft, and held lands of this manor, and for thirty-five marks of filver gave them to Henry de Norwich, clerk, in the 8th C L A V E R I N G. J 3 Sth-of Edward L and in the iyth of Edward U. Henry de Heylefden held in Bergh cum Aplon the fixteenth part of a fee of the barony of Montchenfy. In the rVn of Edward III. Bartholomew Bateman and John de Acre conveyed to John de Berney lands here, in Thurton, Seething, and Mendham, part of \vhich Agnes, widow of Henry de Hcylcfden, held for life. Richard de la Rokeley, in the ijth of Edward II. held lands here of the earl of Pembroke, and Tho- mas his fon held them, in the aoth of Edward III. of Mary de St. Paul, countefs of Pembroke, Adam Home, in the 24th of Edward I. granted by fine to Richard de la Rokeley, land, &c. hete, in Apton, Holveflon, fcc. Apton and Holvefion were at this time hamlets belonging to Bergh; now, as we conceive, depopu- lated. Richard Berney, efq. of Langley, fold his intereft herein to Mr. Green, a yeoman, whofe fon Thomas enjoyed it; only two copyholders then belonged to it, and the free rents were about 135. per ann. It was held in . foccage of the lords Abergavenny's manor. On an inquifition taken in 1652, it was found that there were 592 acres of land, fubjecl to be drowned. Here was alfo a little manor called Wafliingford's, from its owner. Francis Wolfe, gent, of Thurton, bought it of William Weflgate, and it was held of' Bergh Aptori manor, paying as. per ann. about the: reign of queen Elizabeth. G The 14 HUNDREDOF The temporalities of Norwich priory were 35. Mr. Roket, reclor, gave twenty-eight acres of land to pay Lhc Icct fee, 6s. 8d. to the lord yearly, &c. The church of Bergh cum Apton is a refiorv, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, has a nave and fouth aile covered with lead, a fquare tower with fix tuneable bells, and a chancel covered wkh lead. In the chancel is a grave-ftone, In memory of Ro- bert Connould, reclor 48 years and 8 months, who rebuilt the chancel, and died October \, 1715, in the y 6th year of his age. Sarah, wife of John Berney, efq. was buried in the chapel of St- Anne in the church, and by his will, in the 48th of Edward III. he gives a legacy to the making of a new window in the new chancel of this church. In the reign of Edward I. William lord Mont- chenfy 'was patron of the church ; the reclor had then a maufe, with fourteen acres of land, and held it with Apton, and a mediety of the church of Hol- vefton ; there was alfo a vicarage creeled out of the profits of the rcclory, belonging to the fee of the priorefs of Carrowe, endowed with thirty acres of land, and valued together at 26 marks. Carrowe priory had a portion of tithe valued at 265. 8d. given by William lord Montchenfy. The prefent value of Bergh with Apton and Hol- veflon mediety, is 13!. 6s. Sd. and pays fitft fruits, &c. The C L A V E R I N G. 15 The chapel of Apton was Handing in 1339. Holvefton appears then (o have been a village, and to have had a church, to which there belonged t vvo medicties ; to one of theie the reclor of Bergh was prefeutcd in 1359, and fo remains annexed at this time. There was a good family that took their name from, it ; John de Holveflon, and Thomas his fon, were lords of a manor in Heveringland in the reign of Edward III. In 1765, the Rev. Nevill Walter was prefented to the re&ory of Bergh-Apton, with a mediety of Hoi- vefton, by the Right Hon. lord Abergavenny. BROOKE, wrote in Doomfday-book Bro. The lordfhip of this town was in the abbey of St. Ed- mund of Bury at the furvcy, and Frodo held it or. the faid convent, with a carucate of land. Toll was lord of it, and fherifT; he gave it to St. Edmund, (that is the abbey) in the time of king Edward the Confeffor, and afterwards held or farmed it by the fervice of finding that convent provilion for two days. It was valued at twenty (hillings, and the foe was in the abbey. This account, which is authentic, is partly con- tradicled by a regifter of Bury abbey, which fays that William the Conqueror gave it to St. Edmund, when he firft fupplicated his favour and protection, falling proftrate before him, and placing a fmali knife, wrapped up, on the altar of St. Edmund, in the prefence- of many of his chief ncbilitv ; and alfa the grant, figned vrith his feal, which the regilter C 2 obferves i6 H U N D R D O F obfervcs was at that time preserved in the faid con- vent: " He grants it, with ail, its appurtenances, fac, foe, 11 and all cuftomary dues, as Grith, the powerful " earl, hc!d it in the time of good king Edward, " and as he, now king of England, poflcffcd it." Before this grant or confirmation of the Conquc- ior, Grith, or Gucrt, was faid to have held it, who was fifth Ion of earl Godwin, and brother of king Harold, flain with him at the battle of Mailings. In the Regifter of the Sacrifl, this manor we find was appropriated to the ufe of the chamberlain of this abbey, as the reclory was appropriated alfo. The abbot, in the igth of king John, had a dif- charge of fcutage for fifty-two knights fees in Nor- folk and Suffolk, on the Scotch war; and in the 52d of Henry III. he pleaded an exemption, and would not funer the king's bailiff* to enter this lord- In the loth of Edward I. he had a grant of a weekly market and a fair. In the Iter of the Judges of Norwich, a fine was levied the day after ^St. Michael,- between William de Dunfion, Thomas de Ncrcford, William de Gun- thorpe, 8cc. peterits, and John, abbot of Bury, te- nent, whereby they rclcafe to the abbot all their right in this manor and advowfon. In the 14th of Edward I. and in the following year, the abbot claimed view of frank-pledge, affife, free- CLAVERING. 17 free -warren, arid other privileges belonging to that abbey. Their temporalities were valued in 1428 at 35}. 145. 5d. ob. It continued in this monaflery, held by one fee, till the general diflblmion, when it came to the crown ; and on May 27, in the 3d and 4th of Phi- lip and Mary, was granted to Francis Yaxley, and Richard his brother ; and foon after, in the faid year, Thomas Yaxley alienated it to Jeffrey Warde, gent, who died feifed of it in the ill of Elizabeth; and Thomas his fon and heir had a grant in 1576, from Robert Cook, Clarencieux, of arms. In this family ic remained, Robert Warde, gent, was lord in 1672. Thomas Seaman, fen. gen-t. was lord in 1723 ; and Thomas Seaman lord in 1 740, and patron. The church is dedicated to St. Peter, and the rec- tory was appropriated to the chamberlain of St. Ed- mund's Bury, a vicarage being fettled, valued at five marks, the redory at 50 marks. To the reclory belonged a carucate of land"; the vicar had a manfe and ten acres of land ; but in the reign of Edward I. there was no land. John Grey, bifhop of Norwich, appropriated the reclory to the chamberlain, after the deceafe of Hu- bert de Brock, reclor, faving an honourable fupport for the vicar, to be ailigned by the bifhops of Nor- wich. C 3 At iS HUNDREDOF At the diffoludon, the re&ory, 8cc. carae to the crown, and queen Elizabeth, on July 25, in her 6th year, granted to Thomas Watwood, and Matthew Byfmere, the great tithes, or the reclory. In 1603, the vicar returned 130 communicants, and that the king was patron. On a mural monument againft the north wall of the chancel, Ad hujus muri pedem jacet Johs. Burghill, jilius Johs. Burghill, e domo Thinghill, Pa. in paroch. de Withington in comit. Hereford. Armig. obit. 1659. On a grave-ftone in the chancel, Aitgujl. Wood, gent, who died Nov. 6, 1671, aged 63. Jeffrey Ward, gent, was buried here in 1558.- Thomas Ward, gent, in 1584. Robert Wood, efcj. in 1654. Thomas Burghill, gent, in 1659. Robt. Sugden, gent, in 1666. This town gives name to a large deanry, compre- hending all the towns in Henftead, Loddon, and Clavering hundreds ; and is in die archdeacomy or Norfolk. The deacons were collated by the bifliop of Nor- wich ; the laft was in 1436. Brooke is an handfome village, with fome neat houfes, as lummer retreats from Norwich. It lies on the great road leading from Norwich, nearly fe- ven miles, to Bungay, ieven and a half. John.Fowle, efq. Roger Kerrifqn, efq. receiver- general of the land-tax in Norfolk, alderman, and ierved C L A V E R I N G. ig ferved the office of mayor of the city of Norwich in ] j/S-g, and the Rev. Samuel Cooper, rcfide here. ELLINGHAM, wrote in Doomfday-book Elin- cham. Manv towns begin with El ; as Elford, Eilefmere, Eling, EHlon, Elwick, from their fcite near the water, or a wet foil. This lordfhip was part of archbifhop Stigand's manor of Stigand, and on the conqueft was ieized on by the king, At the furvey we find William de Koiers to be the kings Reward of both, and this was valued and accounted for in Stockton: at the fame time it is faid that there were five focmen alfo in El- lingham, who had half a carucate and fifteen acres of land, which William de Noiers had the care of for the king, belonging formerly to Sligaud, and a, church endowed with 24 acres. King Stephen granted it, with Srockton, to Hugh Bigot, earl of Norfolk ; and it was held of the earls of Norfolk by the Bigots, a younger family, defcend- ed from the earls. By the heirefs of the Bigots it came to William Garneys, fo to the de la Poles, and' the crown, and was held by Simon Smith in the icign of Charles I. of that king, by a fee-farm rent, as in Stockton. NEVILL'S MANOR. The abbot of Bury's manors of Loddon and Thwaite extended into this town, arid by a fine levied in the 8th of Richard I. Er- noid de Charneles, acknowledged that .he held of the abbot of Bury one fee here, in Norton, &c. by the payment of twenty (hillings fcutage, and to Norwich taiilc guard, before the king's juflices at Weflminfler, C 4 After 20 H U N D R E D O F ; After this the abbot was found to have one fee here, in Stockton, 8cc. held by Rager de Thweyt. In the reign of Henry VIII. Thomas Rifhop con- veyed to Richard Spooner, lands, 8cc. in Ellingham, Stockton, Kirkby, Sec. John Caflell had livery of the manor of Elling- ham-NeviiTs, about the 2oth of Elizabeth, which was purchafed of him by William Copping. Ri- chard Hamond, of Ellingham was lord in 1602, and John Hamond, gent, died pofTeffed of it in 1632. In 1688 it was fold to Miles Bafpole, of Aylfham, by John Hamond, and Miles conveyed it to fir Wil- liam Hicks, of Rockholt in Eifex. The temporality of Langley abbey were los. $d. of Broomhoim priory i rs. The church is dedicated to St. Mary, and is a redory. In the reign of Edward I. Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, as capital lord, was patron. The redor had then a manfe and 40 acres of glebe ; it was va- valued at twenty marks ; the prefent value is i al. In 1320, Thomas de Brotherton, earl of Nor- folk, was patron. In 1603, the redor returned one hundred and fix communicants. The Right Hon. the earl of Suffolk is patron, and the prefent value is i al, and pays firfl fruits Sec. In C L A V E R I N G. 21 In ihc fouth ai!c, on a grave-done, Orate, p. aia Johs.-Ellyngham, gen. qui obt. 21 Maij, 1497. Againft the wall here, on a monument, Johs. Ha- uiond\ gen. (.id ah anno 3, ad 31 Regine. Elijah, in hac villa pie, horicfle el fn/galiier vixi, Calend. Feb, inalura fencctute dtctffit, et hie jacet fepulius. This John pur- chafed Nevill's manor of Copping. . In a window of die faid aile are the arms of El- lingham. In i 740", the Rev. Richard Chafe was prefented to this reciory by ihe bifliop of Norwich, by lapfe. GELDESTONE, GELDESTON, or GELDISTON. This town is not mentioned in the book of Doomf- day. being included and accounted for under the great lorddiip of Stockton^ of which archbifhop Sti- gand was deprived; and William de Noieis was the Conqueror's fteward of it at the (urvey. It remained in the crown till king Stephen granted it to Hugh Bigot, on his being created earl of Norfolk ; Roger Bigot, his Ion, being earl, enfeoffed fir Ralph Bigot, his brother of this town, and of Stockton, and wus lord of both in the 24th of Henry III. and dying without iffue, fir John Bigot, of Setinghain in York- fhire, was lord in the i ^th of Edward I. In this family it remained til! Elizabeth, daughter and heir of fir Ralph Bigot, brought it by marriage to Wil- liam Garneys, efq. who died lord in the 8th of Ri- chard V. from that family it came to the de la Poles, earls and dukes of Norfolk; after this, by a grant of the crown, to Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, &6. In oo HUNDREDOF In the reign of queen Elizabeth it was again in the crown, and fo continues, as may be ken at large in Stockton. The church is a reclory dedicated to St. Michael, in the reign of Edward I. valued at ten marks, and the carl of Norfolk was patron; the rector had a manfe with thirty acres of land. In 1603 the fctlor returned fixty-four communi- cants, and the patronage was in the crown. The prefent value is 61. and is difcharged. Sir Ralph Bigot was buried in the chancel of St. Michael's church, of Geldeftone, in 1415. In (he call window of the chancel Orate pro a fa Radulphi Garnej?, antiigen, quondam dm, de Stockton. In 17.54, the Rev. John Fayerman was prcfentcd to this rectory by the king. GILLINGHAM, called in the grand furvey Kil- dincham. Two free-men of Guert, king Harold's brother, had 30 acres, with half a carucate and an acre of meadow, and on their deprivation it was in the Conqueror's poffcfiion, and valued with the ma- nor of Gorleflon in Suffolk. Stigand had formerly the foe; and it is here exprelfed, that every church v/as valued with the manor, which (hews that the prefentations were at that time in the lords of the manors. Another-part was, in king Edward's reign, poffcffed by twelve iree-mcn. In the fame town, lour free- mtn had 15 acres and half a carucate ; and Stigand had the foe before the couqueft : this was added to, and C L A V E R I N G. 23 and valued with S ti Band's . manor of Ercham, and was meafurcd with Stockton. William de Noie:$ was the king's fleward of it at the furvey. Out of thefe two fees arofe two lordfhips, with two churches ; one was granted by king Stephen to Hugh de Bigot, on his being created earl of Nor- folk, and to this belonged the patronage of the church of All Saints. Roger earl of Norfolk dying without iflue, in the reign of Edward I. gave it to that king, and was after granted to Thomas de Brothcrton eail of Norfolk, and came by marriage to John lord Sea- grave, and to the Mowbrays dukes of Norfolk. This was the capital lordfhip, and had the patronage of the church of All Saints, and was that which Sti- gand, archbifhop of Canterbury, was deprived of. From the Mowbrays it defcended to the Howards, dukes of Norfolk, and being forfeited to the crown on the attainder of Thomas duke of Norfolk, in the reign of queen Elizabeth, was granted by James I. to Henry Howard, earl of Northampton, on June j 7, anno i, from whom it came to Thomas Howard carl of Surry. Sir Nicholas Bacon, bnrt. of Redgrave, was lord and patron, and gave it to his fixth ion. Nicholas, whofe defcendem lir Edmund Bacon, bart. enjoyed it in 1742, as after appears in the following lordihip. The other lordfhip of which Gucrt was deprived, had the patronage of the church of St. Mary, and was in Jeffrey de Pome, or Fount, in the 551!! of Henry 111. but when granted from the crown does not appear. In the faid year Jeffrey granted by fine to Roger de Pome for life, the remainder to Jeffrey and o 4 HUNDRED OF and his heirs, land, Sec. with the advowfon of St. Mary's church. In 1320, Bartholomew Bateman prefented to the church, as guardian of ChriMiana, daughter and heir of William de Horsford ; and in 1344, fir Bar- tholomew Bateman prefented in his own right as lord; and in the 35th of Edward III. Ralph Ger- berge, fon of fir Edward Gerberge, rckafed to fir Laurence de Bremle and his heirs, all his right in the Eioieties of Martharn and Gillingham, with lands in Winflon, Windele, 8cc. Thomas Bateman, efq, (a dcfcendent of Bartholo- mew) of South Elmham. in the paiifli of St. Mary, of Flixton in Suffolk, died in 1485, and left this, amongfl oilier manors, to his eldeft fon Robert. In the aSth of Henry VIII. Thomas Bateman palled it by fine, with the advowfon, to John Evc- rard. William Everard, gent, in the ift of queen Elizabeth, was found to die feifed of it, held of the queen's manor of Stockton. In the manor-houfe were the arms of Everard, impaling Heveningham, alfo impaling Appleyard ; and Chauncey, of Edgecote in Northampionfliire. . Sir Clement Higham, and after him Michael Hare, efq. held it in the 44th of Elizabeth. After this it was in the Bacons, and fir Nicholas Bacon, bart. was lord in the gth of James I. of Redgrave in Suffolk, premier baronet of England, and eldeft fon of fir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper of the great feal. This fir Nicholas, the baronet, mar- raqd Ann, daughter and heir of Edmund Butts, efq. by CLAVERING. 25 by whom he had feveral fons, &c. To Nicholas, his fixth fon, he gave this lordfhip, who married, fnft, Ann, daughter and heir of fir James Wefton, baron of the Exchequer, by whom he had a daugh- ter, Ann, married to John Rons, efq. of Henham in Suffolk: by his fecond wife Mary, daughter of Euf- tace Darcy, cfq. he had Nicholas his ion and heir, created a baronet Feb. 7, 1661. By Mary his wife, daughter and heir of Richard Freeftone, of Mend- ham in Suffolk, efq. he left fir Edmund, his eldeft Ion, who died without iffue in 1684, and was fuc- ceeded by his brother fir Richard, who married Ann, daughter of fir Henry Bacon, bart. Ton of fir Butts Bacon, bart. of Mildenhall in Suffolk, and dying without iffue in 1685, gave his eflate to fir Henry- Bacon, bart. of Herringfleet, his wife's brother. This fir Henry, by a daughter of iir John Caflleton, bart. of Sturflon in Suffolk, was father of fir Edmund Ba- con, bart, Sir Edmund Bacon, bart. died Ocl. 2, 1738, and left his only fon, fir Edmund Bacon, bart. who was lord and patron in 1742. Sir Edmund Bacon, bart. who died 061. 2, 1738, married the daughter of Martin Rebow, efq, of CoL- cheftcr in Effex and left iffue one fon and a daugh- ter ; fir Edmund, who fucceeded him in honour and eftate, and Sufan, afterwards married to Francis Schutz, efq. the fon of colonel Schutz. Sir Edmund was member of parliament for the borough of Th.et- ford. Sir Edmund Bacon, bart. his only fon, at the deceafe of his father, was a minor, and educated at WeUminfter fchool: from Weftminfter he removed to Gonville and Caius college in Cambridge, and was 26 HUNDREDOF ivas admitted a nobleman of that univerfity. After finifhing his fludies. he was introduced at court to the late king George II. by the late duke of Grafton, then lord chamberlain of his majefty's houfehold, and foon after was appointed one of the gentlemen nftiers daily waiters, with a view of fucceeding fir Henry Bellenden, as gentleman ufher of the Black Rod to the Houfe of Lords; but unfortunately catch- ing the fmall-pox at London the latter end of the year 1749, he died in a very few days, univerfally lamented, having furvived his father only twelve years, and in the 25th year of his age. The following infcription to his memory was wrote by major Richard Gardiner, of Mount Amelia. EQMUNDUS BACG?T~BARONULUS JE.vi Flos ep'Decus fui A. S. M.tJCC.XLIII. In Academia Claruit A. M.DCC.XLIX. Variolis Corruptus Occubuit yEt. xxv. Flevit Soror Optima Pulcherrima De Die in Diem Amici Extinclum Plorant Flet Soror Flent Amici At Mater! See, mortal ! where yon hallow 1 d tapers burn, Another BACON bearing to his urn! Born with all charms, and bleft whh ev'rv art To win, to warm, to captivate the heart: The joys of virtue all the joys he knew, Tho 1 brave and fair, and gay and young as you. To CLAVERING. 27 To footli affliction, or to foften pain, He never fpoke, nor ever look'd in vain. Love's fweeteft fmiles fat blooming on his brow, Graceful in all he did, as them art now. Love's fvveeteft fmiles, alas ! too weak to fave, See ! doom'd like thee and victims to the grave : Yet (hall he live, grim tyrant! and defy . Thy fling, O Death ! 6 Grave ! thy Victory. Far from the white-plum'd hearfe Aftrea fled. The pemive Graces, weeping, hung the head ; Ev'n Envy figh'd as fhe beheld the bier, And from her eye burft forth th' unwilling tear. O Friend ! for let me call thee by that name, What verfe, O fay! can give thee all thy fame? Or to proud Norfolk's fons his virtues tell, Who died fo lovely, or who liv'd fo well! In this town were two churches. All Saints was aredlory, containing two ailes, and a chancel thatch- ed, with a fquare tower and three bells. In the chancel was a grave-Rone, In memory of John Frebrygge, retfor, who died 1 5xviii. Alfo one, In remembrance of Margery Smith, eldejl dzught'>r of Nicholas Garneys, of Rcdjham Hall in Suf- folk, Efq. 2d wife of Thomas Smith, if Win/Ion Hall in Norfolk, Efq. who died in 1656.. In the church-yard, by the fouth wall of the chan- cel, is an altar tomb, and againfl the wall, on a mo- nument, Thomas Smith, of Win/ion, Efq. died June 6, 1639, and the arms of Smith and Roberts. Robert Towre, buried here in 1530, orders by will a fubftantial window to be built of (tone, with elafs, by his executors. In sS H U N D R E D O F In the reign of Edward I. the earl of Norfolk was patron ; the rcclor had 34 acres, but uo manie, and it was valued at nine marks. In 1603, the re inheritance came by a fitter and co-heir, in the reign of Henry III. to fir Robert de Tatefhale; and Robert lord Tatefihale held the th part of a fee here, in the 31 ft of Edward I. from them it came to the Caleys and the Cliftons; fir Adam de Clifton was lord in the time of Edward III, and in the jgth of Richard CLAVERING. 3 J Richard II. the prior of St. Olave's held it of fir Conilantine de Clifton. Roger Bigot, anceflor to the earls of Norfolk, had a grant of land, Sec. which nine free-men of Stigand were deprived ; valued at i^s. it was one leuca long, and eight furlongs broad, and Robert de Vaux held it under Roger. A focman of Edric de Laxfieid had land, &c. valued at IDS. at the furvey at 135. 4d. This focman put himfelf under the protection of Al- win de Tetford, in the time of the Conqueror, and was in poffeffion of it when that king gave it to Roger Bigot. A free-man had in this town one acre and an half, with one borderer, valued at gd. Roger had a grant of this, and Robert de Vaux held it at the furvey under him. Here alfo a free-man of king Edward had an in- tereft ; Alwi held /it in commendation of the king, and was in poffeffion of it (before Roger Bigot) when king William came ; this was granted to Bigot, and Turold held it under him at the furvey ; valued at los. and Stigand had formerly the foe. All thefe tenures were inherited by the dependents of this Roger, arid by the grant of Roger, earl of Norfolk, who died without iffue, came to Edward I. and fo to Thomas de Brotherton, his fon, earl of Norfolk ; then to the lord Seagrave, and to the Mowbrays ; and from them to the Howards, dukes of Norfolk. Ralph, lord Bainard, had by an exchange, lands^ &:c. of which a free-man of Stigand was deprived ; valued at 25. and the foe was in Stigand. This D 4 feems 36 H U N D R E D O F feems to have been held with Bainata s manor of Whetacre. Here was a preceptory of knights templars, to which Henry III. was a confiderabie benefaclor: and in the 52d of that king, Thomas Rofceiine conveyed by fine to friar Roger Fitz-John, mafter of the tem- plars in England, fifteen acns of land here. In the 1 4th of Edward I. the mafter of the templars claimed view of frank-pledge, the aflife, &c. of his tenants, as Henry III. had granted to them. In the faid year the preceptor fet up croffes on the houfes here and in Sifland, belonging to him, and their temporalities were valued at i6s. In the soth of Edward II. Thomas de St. Omer, fhcrifi of Norfolk and Suffolk, gave an account of the late lands of the templars, till ' he delivered them to Henry de Seagrave, who fucceeded him. The temporalities of the priory of St. Olave's, were 3$. ob. Of Norwich, iSd./ Hatfield, Hathorp, Hatherly, Hatton, fo called from fome water or river ; the Hat or Had, Hadleigh in Suffolk, Haddon in Derbyshire, and HaJdenham in Cambridgeshire ; whence the name of this town.* The church is a reclory, dedicated to St. Mary, and is covered, as the chancel is, with lead; has. a round tower with five bells. In the chancel, on a mural monument Carolus AJhby ecckjiff. hujus reftor, memories Elizabeths, Jilia Sa- muelis Harvy dc Wange in com. Effex, gcneroji, ' conjugis * Parkin, C L A V E R I N G. 37. cafli/jima monnmentum hoc amovis ergo dedicat, oliji Apr. 19, 1671, atat. fiuc 28. In the middle aile, a grave-Rone For John Buck- tnham, gait, ioLo died September 16, 1712, and James I. anno i , beftowed it on Thomas, lord Howard, of Waldcn, and Henry Howard, after- wards earl of Northampton, from whom it paffed to- Thomas Howard, earl of Surry, who in the 21 ft- of the laid king, April i, had licenfe to alien it to An- thony Hobart, efq. and his heirs ; Anthony conveyed k in the fame year to James Hobart, his fon and heir,, who, by deed, dated September 12, in the isthof Charles I. fold it to Henry Humberftone, efq. Ion pf William Humberftone of Loddon. Henry was father of William Humberftone, efq. who married Mildred, daughter of Charles Wai de- grave, efq. of- Sianmnghall in Taveiham hundred, who 4* HUNDREDOF who conveyed this manor to Francis Gardiner, efq. mayor of Norwich in 1685, and bnrgefs in parlia- ment for that city in 1695; Stephen Gardiner, efq. his fon, was recorder of Norwich, and died in 1727. Ralph, lord Baynard, was rewarded with a lorcl- fh'rp, of which Toke, a free-man (of Stigand, the archbifhop of Canterbury) of French extraction, was deprived; the whole valued at 17$ but at the furvey at 305. A family who took their name from this town, was early enfeoffed of it, and held it under the lord Baynard. Sir Roger de Hales, by deed without date, confirmed the exchange of lands (between two per- fons) that were held of his fee in Hales, which fhews that it was the cuflorn for lords of manors to confirm the purchafes before the flatute of Ouia Ernptores, &c. Sir John dc Hales was living in the 2oth of Edward 1JI. arid by Catherine (after married to Roger Wellefham) was father of John de Hales, who died without iflue in the A^d of Edward III. and held this lordfhip of the barony of Fitz Walter. In the 17th of Richard II. William, fon of Ed- mund cle Reclefham, of Kirby Cane, conveyed by fine to fir Robert de Willoughby, fir Miles Stapleton, John, fon of fir John de Norwich, Sec. the manor of Hales-Hall in Loddon, and rent, 8cc. in Hales, Lod- don, Kirkby, with the advowion of Hales-Hall cha- pel, purchafed by John de Norwich in reverfion ; fir George Fclbrigg, of Tottington, holding two parts of the manor and lands, in right of his wife. Sir Simon Felbrigg in the 12th of Henry IV. re- coviM'd the manor of Hales-Hall by writ of Novel Uillaliu, againft John -Hotot, and it was after fettled on C L A V E R I N G." 41 on his two feoffees, fir John Howard, and fir John* de Ingoldefthorpe, See. In the 1 gth of Henry VI. Nicholas- Waleys, and John Pewk, were quercms in a fine, and Henry Walpole, deforciantof lol. rent per ann. in Loddon- Hales manor, conveyed to Pewk ; and in the goth. of that king, Hugh Croke, vicar of Hale, was a truftee of Thomas Clcvmons, cfq. deceafed, late lord. After this it was poffeffed by James Hobart, attor-. nev general, and of the privy council to Henry VII. of whom, and his anceftors, we refer to Plumftead Parva, in Blofield hundred. His benefactions and good works, teftify his chaiity and gencrofity ; he idided in his manor-houfe here, which he built for the moft part (and died heie) with the elegant parifh church of the Holy Trinity, at Loddon ; alib a fair bridge over the Waveney river, between Norfolk and Suffolk, called St. Olavc's Bridge, with a good caufc- way to it ; contributed to the rebuilding of the council chamber in the Guild-hall of the city of Norwich, and to the noble arched ftone roof of the cathedral church of Norwich. Sir Walter Hobart was his fon and heir, and lord of this manor, fhcriii of Norfolk .and Suffolk in the ift of Henry VIII. hi the 2oth of that king he fettled this lordfhip, with that of Chedgravc, Lilleford's, and Tilney in Nor- folk, and others in Suffolk, on fir Walter Hobart, his fon and heir. James Hobart, efq. of Hales-Hall, fold it in thfc 12th of Charles I. to Henry Hurnbcrflone, efq. with Bigot's manor, whole Ion William, is faid to have conveyed part of it to Francis Gardiner, elq. and part to the lady Dionyfia Williamfon, relicl: of Or Thomas Williamfon, 4 2 H U N D R E D O F Williamfon, baronet, of Markham Marjna in Not- tinghamfliire, daughter and heir of William Hales, cfq. who was lady of this manor of Males-Hall in 1666, arid rcfided here; (he gave 40.00! to there- building the church of St. Dunflan in the Eaft, of London ; to the rebuilding of St. Paul's cathedral, Qoool. and was a benefaclrefs to the rebuilding of the church of St. Mary Le Bow, in London, giving 2000!. and at her death left Halcs-Hall to John Hof- kins, efq. her nephew, who was lord in 1097, with the impropriated reclory of Loddon. The abbot of St. Edmund's Bury had a lordfhip, which Frodo held of them at the furvev, valued xvith Loddon. Frodo alfo held of the abbot one acre, of which two free-men were deprived, valued Godric, the king's Howard, held one acre 'and a half, out of which a free-man was ejecled; this was granted to Godric on the forfeiture of Ralph, earl of Norfolk, who had a moiety (as lord) of this frec- The temporalities of St. Olave's were Sd. and of Langiey abbey 248. The church of Hales was a reclory, but granted in the 4th of Henry L by Ralph de Chedgrave to the prior of St. Olavc's, probably founder of that priory; and a vicar was appointed on its appropria- tion to that convent. It was dedicated to St. Mar- garet, and it appears by the regiuer of Langiey ab- bey, that the prior and convent of St. Olave's at Herringfleet in Suffolk, were rectors of Hale, and had the tithe of 35 acres of land in Hale parifli, belonging to Langiey abbey, in exchange for 235 acres C L A V F/R ING. 43 acres of land in Loddon and Heckingham, belong- ing to the priory of St. Olave's. In the reign of Edward I. the reclory was valued at eleven marks, and the vicarage at 405. The vicar had then a manfe with thirty acres of land, and the patronage was in the prior of St. Olave's. In 1503 we find it ferved by a ftipendiary curate for 5!. per ann. and he then returned forty-rive com- municants, John Hill being the impropriator ; and in 1742 the heirs of Mr. Peter Lavves. Hales is at this time (1780) a curacy. Here alfo was a chapel at Hales Hall, belonging to the manor of the family of de Hales, dedicated to St. Andrew; this, with the hall, flood in the pariih. of Loddon, and in 1287 it is faid to Hand in the manor of Wrantiihaugh, belonging to fir Roger de Hales, in Loddon pariih, and leave was then granted to him that he might inftitute the chaplains. Alexander de Hales, Ailed Doclor Irrefragabilis, who died in 1245, was born here. Mr. Parkin fays, Hales, Halefwofth, Hafdlead^ Alefham and Aylesford, is io called as being near to fome river or water. HECKINGHAM, wrote fo in Doomfdav-book, and alfo Hethingham, and Ekingham. Godric, the Conqueror's fteward, had the grant of the principal lordfhip in this town, held by Hagan, under Stigand, the archbiihop, in the reign of the Confeffor, with a church, endowed with eight acres. Roger Bigot claimed thirty acres of land out of this lordfhip, be- longing to Alellan's manor in Hales (which Roger had 44 HUNDRED OF had the grant of.) Seventeen free-men had alfo a carucate, with another that was held by commenda- tion only, and four carucates of meadow. Ralph, earl of Norfolk, added to this lordfhip in the time of William I. eight free-men, and there were fix free-men under thqm. 'In king Edward's time the whole was valued at 205. at the furvey at 6os. and what the free- men held, at 305. The town was one leuca long, and eight furlongs wide. LANGLEY ABBEY MANOR. On the death of Godric k feems to have come again to the crown, and was granted to the carl Warren, and a family that took their name from the town was enfeofFcd of it, and held it of the earl Warren. In the loth of Richard I. William de Rochage, who took his name from an hamlet in this town, fur- rendered by fine to Baldwin Adeftan de Heckingham, fifteen acres of land ; and in the ^th of king John, Alan de Heckingham was lord, and Herbert de Rochage conveyed lands to him by fine. It appears from the regiftei of Langlcy abbey, that Alan gave to Simon de Blaveney, with Muriel his daughter, in marriage, this lordfhip, and they fold to fir Roger de Thurkelby (an itinerant judge) fifty acres, part of ic, with the fcrvices of feveral tenants in this town, Hales, Norton, &c. and fir Roger hacl a grant of free-warrant in the 2,ith of Henry 111. Alan alfo fold to fir William Rofceline, and Lastitia his wife, the advowfon of this church; this Lastitia. in her widowhood, gave it to Langley abbey ; fhe after mar- ried fir Roger de Thurkelby ; and in 1289, from an extent then made of the manor of Heckingham, which the abbot held of the gift of fir Roger, with the appropriate reclory and advowfon, and the tithe of wheat was then efteemed, one year with another, at ten combs, each comb valued at 25. Melling, twenty C L A V E R I N G. 45 twentv comb, at i 8d. per cornb. Peafe, ten comb, at 1 8d. per comb. Oats, two comb, at 120!. per comb. Six fcorce comb of barley, at i Sd. per comb. The manor-houfe contained eleven acres, with the out ditches, mote, Sec. Apples in the or- chard, valued at 6s Sd. per aim. the mill, gs. there was a great pond of three acres, coney-garth and broomyard, liberty of a free bull and boar in fum- mer, wkh pleas and perquisites of court, reliefs, wards, &c. lands in feveral fields, 8cc. The abbot's temporals in 1428 were valued at yl. iSs. 4d. ob. At the diflblution it was, Auguft 16, in the Henry VI11. granted to Thomas Godfalve, eiq. Here was a controverfy, without date, between the abbot, Sec. of Langley, reclors of this church, and Ralph de Butiler, reclor of Raveningham, about tithes ; and it was agreed that Ralph and his fucceffors (hold have the the tithe of twelve acres and a half in Raveningham, and the abbot of twelve acres here, butted, &c. Langley Regr. fol. 68. Ralph was living in 1290. Lands, Sec. were alfo granted to the abbey of Langley by Robert de Vernon, fir Roger de Hales, Ralph de Earlharn, &c. In the 42d of Edward III. William Bergh died, and had a part of a fee. Joan Ward died poffeffed of a Jordfhip, as by her will in 1 464. E Thomas 4 6 HUNDRED OF Thomas Denny Was lord of a manor in the reign of queen Elizabeth, and had licenfe, December i, in the Cth of James I. to alien it to Thomas Fifke, who in the i4th of Charles I. conveyed it to Wil- liam Coppin, gent. Roger Bigot had the grant of twenty-fix acres, Sec. which a free-man pofleffed in the time of the ConfelTor; Turold held this of Roger, and it was valued at i6d. Roger had alfo thirty acres of land given him, which Rondo, a free-man, was deprived of, belonging to Ulcheteirs fee, who had by commendation a moiety of him in die reign of king Edward, and in right of his wife, the whole commendation ; Godric, the Conqueror's fteward, claimed him on the forfei- ture of Ralph, earl of Norfolk, and the hundred -witnefles that he performed fervices to Godric, but know 'not by what right; there belonged to it alfo a carucate arid two acres of meadow, valued in the whole at 43. The families of de Loddon and dc Hales feem to have ibme intereft here. In the yth 'of Edward I. John de Gernemuth, or Yarmouth, had free-warren here, in Norton and Loddon. In die 12th of that king, William, fo'n of Fir John de LodJon, confirmed to Thomas Wyth, of Yarmouth, a marfh and a fun- cary, called Lam-Holme, after the deceafe of the lady Alice de Quitwell, widow of fir John, his lather. Intlie'gth of Edward TI. the abbot of L'angley and Robert de Hales, were returned to be lords of this town. Roger C L A V E R I N G. 47 Ro^er Bigot had another {'mall fee held of him at the furvey by .Robert de Vaux, out of which a free- man of S:igand, the archbifhop, was ejeclcd, va- lued at 45. The church was a reftory, and is dedicated to St. Gregory; pn the oth of Henry ill. a line was levied before Man in de Pzuefhull, &;c. the king's Jufticcs,' between William, fon of Rofcelyne, and Lecia his wife, petents, and Alan de Heckingham, deforciant, of the advow.fon of this church, purchafed by them and the heirs of Lecia, who afterwards ^gave it by deed \viihout date to the abbey of Langley. Sir Thomas, her fon, releafed.all his right herein, in die ,54th of that king, as did William, fon of Adam de Heckingham, in the s^ch of Jrienry III. to the .faid convent, and they covenanted to receive him and his heirs into ail prayers and benefactions to be made in that abbey ; it was after appropriated to that abbey, and a vicarage fettled. At the dhTolution of the abbey, the reclory, and patronage of the vicarage came to the crown ; and in 1 603 the church was fcrved .-by a flipcndiary curate, who returned 59 communicants. On February 19, in the i6th of Elizabeth, the re&ory was granted to Bernard Gylpin and Chrifto- pher lemon, with ihe redlory of lliwaite. Charles Rigges was inftitrated vicar in i6<2j, pre- fented by the king, but in i 748 it was ferved by a itipendiary curate, nominated by the heirs of Mr. Peter Lawes. The church has a nave, and a foutli aile, with a chancel antique, turned round at the eaft end, and a round 'tower with two bells. Ea In 48 HUN. D REDO F In the nave a grave-flone To John Crowe, gent. who died in In the Couth aile, one To William Mingay, gent. who died in i 7 13 with his arms. In a window of the faid aile, the arms of Erping- h am Clifton impaling Erpingham alfo impaling Clifton. Heck, fays Mr. Parkin, the Water Etymologijl, fcenis to be the name of a rivulet Heckford in Hampfliiic. and in Norfolk ; Hcckmondwyke in Yorkfhire ; Heck- ingtou in Lincolnihire, Sec. A lioufe of induftry for the hundreds of Loddon and C layering has been lately creeled in this parifh, of which, we hope, to be enabled to give fome ac- count in the appendix to this hundred. The Rev. Mr. Colman was prefented to the curacy of Heckingham by the Crown. HOWE, or Hoo, wrote in Doomfday-book Hon. This village, now accounted part of the hundred of Clavering, was part of the hundred of Henflead ac the grand furvey, where we find this account of it. Alnoht, a free-man of archbifhop Stigand, was lord in king Edward's reign, and on his deprivation the Conqueror feized on it, and Godric, his fteward, took care of it for him : in Alnoht's time it was valued at 405. and at the furvey at 6os. was fix furlongs long. and four broad. It remained in the Crown till William II. gave \i to William de Albini, his butler, anceftor of the earls of Arundel. A family C L A V E R I N G. 49 A family took their name from this town (being lords of it) according to the cuflorn of former ages, and was enfeoffed thereof by William de Albini. In the gth of king John Roger de Howe enjoyed it, and then paid ten marks for the king's favour, anct his land that was feized for beating the king's tarvants. In the soth of Edward II. Miles de Howe grants Lis intereft herein to Edward Rofe, of Yarmouth, William March, of Stanhowe, and Walter de Bintre, with the reyerfion of what Nicholas Hovell, and Joan his mother, held in jointure for life; and foon alter, the (aid Edward, William, and Walter, grant it to fir Walter de Norwich: fir Walter is faid, in the ^d of Edward III. to hold it by luk of court of the manor of Wymondham, then valued at 61. los. per annum. Sir John de Norwich, fon and heir of fir Walter, was lord and patron in the 4th of Edward III. Sir John de Norwich in the 31 ft of Edward III. had a charter of free-warren, and in the 4"th of that king, conveyed it to his feoffees, fir John de Plays. &c. to fettle it on his college of Mettingham in Suffolk ; and in the 4gth was fettled by the lady Catherine de Brews, coufin and heir of fir John, and the faid truilee^ accordingly. On the i4th o[ April, in the cjgd of Henry VIII. the king granted this manor belonging to Mettingham college, to fir Anthony Denny, one of his privy coun- cil, who died poffeffed of it in the gd of Edward VI. alio loid ol Mettmgham-caftle, the manors of Ilke- E 3 tefliale, 5 o HUNDRED OF tefliult?, B ram Ford, Sibeton, Wenhafton, in Suffolk, &:c. in this family it remained. BURGH-ABBEY MANOR, Another lordfhip in this town belonged to the abbey of Burv, and was part of the great manor of Loduon, winch extended here. Bald- win, abbot of Bury, xvho lived in the reign of the Conqueror, enfeoffed Frodo, his brother, of it, &:c. and Gofceline de Lodnc, or Lodcion. held it under Frodo. In this family it continued till Gofceline c'e Lqdne, a defcendent of the aforcfaid Gofccline, dy- ing without iffue, his inheritance was divided among his five fillers and coheirs, and this lordfhip, on a divifion, came to Emma, the fourth fitter and coheir, \vhon-arriedRalph dc Howe. Sir John de Howe in the 5oth of Henry III. granted by fine to Magda- len, priorefs of Carrowe by Norwich, the advowfou of a moiety of the church of St. Maty in this town, and the priorefs was patron in die reign of Ed- ward I. Sir Richard de Boyland, the judge, purchafed of de Howe in the i4.th of Edward I. this manor, with lands, Sec. in Shottiiham and Framlingham, and John de Boyland held it in the gth of Edward II. and in the 4th of Henry IV. the aboot of Bury had a quarter of a fee, called Boyland's. Sir William dc Norwich feems to be lord, and fo was united to the other manor, and came to the Dcnnys. The church of Howe is dedicated to St. Mary, and formerly confided of two mcdieties, or rectories ; one belonged to the manor of Howe, of the Arundel fee, the other to Bury abbey fee. In the reign of Edward I. fir Ralph de Howe was patron, when this mediety was taxed at iix marks and C L A V E R I N G. 51 and a half, and the reclor had 'a man fe with thirty acres of land. After this, Miles Howe, efq. fon of fir Ralph, was lord and patron, and granted it to fir Walter de Nor- wich in the reign of Edward III. In 1603 the reclor returned fixty-three communi- cants, and the patronage was in John Denny, elq. Jn 1728 lady Elizabeth HafUngs prefented. The prefent value is 13!. 175. 4d. and i$ dif charged. The church is a fingle pile and a chancel, both covered with tiles, and has a round tower with one bell. In 1405 the two medicties of Howe were confoli- dated, and they with the church of Poringland Parva, May 6, 1734. In 1767 the Rev. George Robert \Yadef\vorthwasprcfented by the right honourable Francis HaDings, carl of Huntingdon, F. R. S. and one of his maj city's moil honourable privy council. This town, with Rergh Apton and Brooke, are fe- 1 - parated from the other parifhes in Clavering, by the hundred of Loddon. Howe, or Hoe. fignifies a rifing ground, or a hill, as Houghton, 1 lougham, Greenhowe, Sec. KIRBY CANE, or KIRKEBY KAM, wrote in Doorrifday-book Kcrcheby. The principal manor in this town was in the abbey of St. Edmund of Bury, to which it was givi.-n by Algiva, queen of England, mother of Edward the Conieflbr. It is to be obferved here, that Emma is by hiflorians gene- E 4 iall v 52 HUNDRED OF rally called the king's mother, who fir ft married Etheldred, king of England, bv vvhom-fhc had king Edward, and afterwards married Canute, king of England, See. the Saxon chronicle calls her /klgiva Ymma, and it is probable that fhe gave it about the year 1020, when king. Canute, her lord, was a great benefaclor to that abbey. The faid abbey held it at the grand furvey, and Rafrid of the abbot; it had a church endowed with twenty acres in free alms, and two parts of a church endowed with fourteen acres. The whole valued at 405. but at the furvey at 61. and the twenty acres of the church at 2od. it was nine furlongs long, and five broad. Rafrid was fucceeded by Godbold de Kiikebia, his fon, to whom Anfehn, abbot of St. Edmund's Bury, granted this lordfhip with all it appurtenances, and to his heirs, to be held by one fee, without date, and this grant was confirmed by the letters patent of Henry I. " Henricus Rex Anglic, See. Epifco. Norwic. Sciatis ME concefliffe Godeboldo de Churchebey terram de Chirebeiam cum foca, et faca, See. Teft. A. Line. Efpico. Gajfrido Cancell. Auberio de Vere, Robto. filio Walteri, Gilb. de Blund, &c." It appears that this king's grant was in the fingu- lar number Me concejjlfft, and not Nos. William, fon of Godbold, held it in the reign of king Stephen. In the 8th of Richard I. Alexander, his brother, left a daughter and heir, Mary, married firil to Gilbert de Norfolk, and after to Walter dc Cam ; Robert de Norfolk, her fon, rcleafed to her, and G L A V E R I N G. 53 and Walter her hufband, in the gd of Henry III. all his right in his land here, by fine. Alter this the lordfhip feems to have been divided, and in the ^scl of Henry III. Richard de Thwaite, and William de Stockton, granted by fine their inte- reft in the acivovvfon of this church, to Richard de Cadomo, or de Cam, or Cane, who gave that name (as lord) to this town. Walter de Cam in the reign of king John, let to Thomas de Longvilie, a mill in this town, alfo a lordfhip here, as appears from the deed, without date. Sir Richard de Cam was his fon, and inherited this lordfhip, who lived in the ^d of Henry III. and marred Maud, filler of Adam de Mendham, and died about the year 1286. Walter de Cam, his fon and heir, fucceeded, was lord in 1287 ; and in the 3ifl of Edward I. did ho- mage to the abbot of Bury. This Walter in the 15th of Edward II. Ibid this manor to Roger Gavel, a burgefs of Great Yarmouth ; in rhe following year, Richard, the fecond fon of Walter dc Cam, rcleafccl to Roger all his right; and in the icjth, reciting. That whereas the laid Roger and his wife, daughter of the late ele Cam, were to pay to him an annuity of sos. and to provide him a new robe every win- ter, he had releafed the lame to them. Onejohn de Cam was fummoned to Parliament, in the 28th and 32d, 8cc. of Edward II. and was of the king's council. Edmund 54 H U N D R E B OF Edmund Gavel was lord of Kirkby in the lath of Edward III. in the lythof that king he leafed the manor of To-How's marfh in Thurgarton, to An- felm de Fordel, paying him 5!. per ami. and folding him and Mary his wife, dice at his table, Sec. for tw > years. In the next year he was in rebellion againit the king, riding about Suffolk with banners difplaycd, imprifoning and committing many murders, for which he was indicled before William de Sharefhull, &c. the king's juflices, and after had a pardon un- der the broad feal, dated June 29, in the laid year. Nicholas Gavel was his fon and heir, in the 251!! of the faid king : he married Catherine, daughter and heir of Myniot, and was lord of Myniot s manor in Kirkflead, in her right. Robert Gavel was his fon : he died in 1439, and was buried in the chapel of St. Mary, on the north fide of the chancej of this church. Thomas fuccecded his father Robert, was lord of this manor and of Kirkflead: he died in 1461, and was alfo buried at the door of the chapel of St. Mary in this church. Henry Gavel, gent, inherited this lordfhip and EI- lingham in 14/4, and was buried in the chapel aforefaid. Bartholomew, fon and heir of Henry, was father of 1 homas Gavel, the laft heir male of this family, and lord in the i 2th of Henry VII. by Ann, his wife, daughter of Henry Everard, efq. of LinRead in Suf- folk, he left Join daughters and coheirs. This C L A V E R I N G. 5.5 This Thomas died in 1522, and was alfo buried r.) the church of Kirby. To Thomaisne, his eldeft daughter, he gave this lordfhip, who brought it by marriage to Leonard Copledike, efq. fecond fon of fir John Coplcdike, of Frarrtpi,on in Linco'infbire, and of Horham in Suffolk. On the death of this Leo- nard (by whom fhe had a fon and heir, John) fhe re-married Edward Calthorpc, efq. in 1525; and in the 22d of Henry VIII. this {ordfhip and advowfqn, with meffuages, [vc. in this town, EJlingham, Stock- ton, Gelelcftone, and Hale, were fetrlcd on the faid Edward and Thomafine, for their lives; remainder to John Copledike, (on of the faid Thomaiine, and his heirs : fhe died in 1557. Edward was fon of Edward Cahhorpe, efq. of Ludham ; in the 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary, 44 he demifed to John Copledike, efq. the fcite of this' manor, which he held for life by the courtcly of England, after the deceafe of Thomafine, his wife, John paying to him 20!. per ann. In the hall of the faid houfe Edward was a lib to have meat and drink for himfelf and one fervant, as often as he fhall refj.de there; and two chambers, one for his own, the other for his fervant' s lodging; with convenient fewcl ; the keeping of three geldings or mares, in furnrner time at grafs, in the winter in the liable, with hay, &;c.' and Edward to pay to John lol. per ann." In 1557 he died, and was buried by his wife in the chancel of this church. John Copledike, efq. was lord in the 6th of Eliza- beth, and held it in capita of the caftle of Norwich ; he married, firQ, Ellen, daughter and heir of John Wodehoufe, efq. and his fecond wife was Maud, daughter of John Highrield, efq. of Calais, who .died iviihoi t iiiuc ; by his firft wife he left a daughier and 56 HUNDREDOF and folc heir, Thomafine, who married Humphrey Copledike, cfq. of Hetherfet, ^th fon of fir John Copledike ; John died pofTeffed of it, held of that cjueen, by knight's fervice. Humphrey had feveral children, but he fold this lordihip to Thomas Catelyne, efq. of Lakenham by Norwich. Richard Catelyne, efq. was fheriff" of Norwich in 1331, and alderman of that city; he died in 1536- Richard Catelyne, efq. his fifth fon ; in the 4th of Edward VI. he was autumn reader of Lincoln's Inn. ierjeant at law May 19, 1 552 ; fleward of the city of Norwich, and king and queen's ferjeant October 16, 1555 ; deputy lieutenant and juitice of the peace, and one of the commiflioners to try the rebels in the reign of queen Mary ; he died before his father, in Awguft, 1556, and was buried in the chancel of Honingham church ; was lord of Honingham-hall, and of WaHoken-Popenhowe in Norfolk. Richard Catelyne, efq. firft fon of the ferjeant, was lord of Wolverilon hali in Suffolk, and died March 11, in the 43d of Elizabeth, and was father of Philip. Philip was father of Richard, who had Philip his fon, who died unmarried. Thomas Catelyne, efq. fecond fon of the ferjeant, married Judith, daughter of Edward Ellington, of Thoydon-Bois in Eilcx, was lord of Wingfield-hall in Suffolk ; in 1604 was lord of Hanings-hall and \Vhitfoot-hali in Inning land, and he purchafed of Humphrey C L A V E R I N G. 57 Humphrey Copledike this lordfhip of Kirby Cane. He died in 1636. Richard Catelyne, efq. fon of Thomas, married, firfl, Mary, daughter of fir Robert Houghton, one of the judges of the King's-Bench ; flic died without iffuc: his fecond wife was Dorothy, daughter of fir Henry Nevili, of Biliingbcre in Berkfhire, by whom flic had a fon and heir, fir Nevili. and Richard who died without iffue ; alfo four daughters. Sir Nevili Catelyne was knighted by Charles IT. at Somerfet-houi'e, London, in 1662, lord of this town and Wingfield cailie in Suffolk: he married, firQ, Dorothy, daughter of fir Thomas Bedingfield, of Darfliam in SuHolk; and his fecond wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Houghton, of Ran- wonh, efq. and had children by both, who died young : his third wife was Mary, daughter of fir William Blois, ban. of Cockh'eld-hall in Yoxford, Suffolk, and of Grundefburgh: Sir Nevili was bu- ried in this church in July 1702. She furvived fir Nevili, and married fir Charles Turner, .of Warham in Norfolk, and "were both liv- ing here in 1720; and fir Charles was lord and pa- iron in 1 740. Rafrid, as has been observed, held at the furvey this lordfhip of the abbot of Bury by one fee, and fo did Godbold de Kirby, and Alexander his ion; but after, this fee was divided arid held by three dif- ferent families; the family of de Cam heid one-third part; the Bigots, earls of Norfolk, had alfo an in- tcrefl in another third part, which came to the Bi- gots, lords of Stockton. la 58 HUNDRED OF In the ! 4th of Edward I. fir John Bigot, lord of Stockton, claimed view of frank-pledge, affrfe, free warren, as his anceftors had held of the abbot of Bury: this came to the Ganreys, de la Poles, &c. with Stockton. Another third part was in Richard de Thwayte, who, with William de Stockton, granted by fine, in the 52d of Henry III. their intereft in the advovvfon of this church to Richard de Cam. William de la Grene, of Kirby, confirmed to fir Richard de Cam, in the '6th of Edward I. for eight marks, all his land in this town, Stockton, Hales, 8cc. with the ferviccs, homages, rents, &c. except the capital mefluage in Kirbv. This third part was thus united, and to came to Gavel's manor, Sec. as above. Ralph, lord Baynard, was lord of a manor in this town. When Doomfday-book was made, Ul- rnar, a free-man of king Edward, held it with 30 acres of land: Robert, ton of Corbun, laid claim to this land, and had livery. There were alfo eight free-men belonging to the lord's fold, and under his protection, "whole i-mercft was valued at the furvey at 405. . It came to Baynard by an exchange. By the forfeiture of the lord Baynard, this came to the lords Fitz-Walter, and was called Loot's, or Lowt's fee, being held by John Loot of the lord fritz-Walter, in the ;:/! of -Henry III. Roger de Hales had an interest herein about the fame 'time, and John de Hales in the ad year of Edward III. This was foon after united to the above-mentioned manors. About 4266, William de Wendling had a mefTu- age, Sec. here, in Ravcrrrn gharri, See. which Philip Loor C L A V R I N G. 59 Loot had conveyed to liifti, and William gave tiicm to the canon of LangJey-, aiTd w the king's re- membrancer in the exchequer: he farmed, in the loth of the faid king, the hundreds of Humbleyard, Biofield, Taverham and Walfham, during the king's pleaiure, C L A V E R I N G. 69 pkafure, at 28!. per ann. and in the faid year bought lands in this town of Walter de Mortimer. . Sir Nicholas de Stutevile, in the i6th of that reign, conveyed to him the manor of .Bedingham in Loddon hundred: he was alfo, in the 14th of thac king, a baron of the exchequer ; and was lord of Hormngtoft in Launditch, in the iSth of Edward I. In the sgth of Edward I. Gregory de CaftcHo, as a truftee, fettled on Nicholas de Caftello twenty-one meffuages, 700 acres of land, fourteen of meadow, eight of wood, 94 of maiih, 77 of juncary, with lol. 6s. rent in Raveningham, Hales, Loddon, &c. for life; in the 5bth and 57th of Henry III. he was warden of the mint, and in the ifl of Edward 1. prefented Bartholomew de Branceftre to make the affay of money. Mr. Parkin has given the pedigree of this family, as collected from old writings, &c. but being in fome things erroneous, he has from many ancient records corrected it: but as it is not to our purpofe to enter into a genealogical detail of families, we will, in this inftance, decline giving his errors amended. Mary, daughter of John Caflell, efq. of Raven- ingham, married fir Edmund Bacon, bart. of Gil-> lingham, his fecond wife, and had the impropriate of Raveningham and Norton. The Dennys convey- ed it to the Caitells. In 1742, John Caflell, efq, was lord, and bears argent, three caflles, tripple towered gules; crcit, a dragon's head, The 7 o II a N D R E D O F The abbot of Langley had a lordfliip held of th* lord .Fitz- Walter, a. defcendent of lord Bavnard, lord at the furvey, given with lands by feveral benefaclors, fir Roger de Hales, Jeffrey de Mortimer, John de Mortimer, fcc. William de Vernon. of Ravening- harn, gave lands in this town and Norton. Their temporalities were valued in 1428 at 2s6s. gd. and granted at die diffolution to Thomas God- falve, efq. Sir Edmund Bacon, premier baronet of England, is the prefent loifl : he married a daughter of the late fir William B(-auchanip Proclor, bart. and knight of the Bath, and has an haudfome feat here. DEAN and CHAPTER of NORWICH'S FEE. Willi- am de Beaufoe, biurop of Thetford, had a grant from William I. of iat^l, Sec. valued at the furvey at 35. of which a free-man was deprived, who was under the protection of Aylmer, bifhop of Elmham. which bifhop Beaufoe held as a lay-fee, and gave k at his death to his church or fee, and fo are part of the revenues of the dean and chapter at this time. In 1298, there was a composition between the prior and convent of Norwich, for two parts of the great and fmall tithes of the demean lands of Ro- bert, late fon of Thomas Bavnard, held by Nicho- las de Caftcllo, paying yearly to the almoner 405. and was farmed by die reclor of this church. The temporalities of this fee was held by the lords Baidolph.of the fee; before them by the family of cie Ages. William, fon of fir William dc Ages, Lad an imereft here. John de Ages gave to Jeffrey dc Mortimer, rector of this church, a certain ho- C L A V E R I N G. 71 mage in the reign of Henry III. At this time there is a lordfhip that bears this name. At the grand fiirvey the Conqueror had a lordfhip, of which Godric was his fleward. Olf was lord in "king Edward s time and deprived, and after him Ro- bert Malet had an imercft in it. Eleven free-men belonged to the lord's fold, and held in commendation what was valued in king Ed- ward's time at 305. at the furvey it paid 6os, quit- rent. Keielfrcda had ieven acres with a marfli, va- lued at i2d. This lordfhip remained in the crown fometime, and then was granted to the earl Warren on an ex- change for other lands. The ancient family of de Mortimer held it under the earl Warren. Sir Wil- liam de Mortimer pofteffcd it before the reign of Henry II. lord alfo of Attleburgh. In the 4th of Edward I. fir William de Mortimer recovered the advowfon againil Robert de Ravcning- ham; after this it came to the Rofcelines. Sir Peter de Rofceiine was lord in the year 1312, and pi e- fented then to this church, fir Thomas, his fon and fceir; but being in the rebellion in 1323, the king preferred. Soon after it was conveyed by fir Thomas Rof- ceiine, by deed, dated at Norwich in the 6th of Ed- ward J1I. to dame Catherine, relict of fir Walter de Norwich, and fir John their ion, and to Remigius (de Hederfet) brother of the fame dame Catherine, this lordfhip, and the homage and fervice of fir Gregory de CaUello, knt. which he owes to him for lands and tenements, which formerly were Roger dc 72 HUNDREDOF de Raveningha-m's, in Ravcningham, Tibcnham, Thurton, Loddon, and Norton, together with the advowibn of the church of Raveningham, Sec. Sir Walter de Norwich was one of the barons of .the Exchequer, conflituted locum icncns of the trea- furcr of the Exchequer in the 5th of Edward II. till the king could provide one, and in the faid year, on Oclober 25, admitted one of the privy-council. By Catherine his wife he had fir John de Norwich, Jiis eldcLl fon anct heir, who in 1350 founded a col- lege here, and fettled this lordfhip, Sec. on it. Another confiderable lordfhip was granted on the c-onqueft to Roger Fitz-Renard. of which Ofborn was deprived, a riiane of king Edward ; and there -was a church endowed with 60 acres; the whole valued at the furvey at 4.0$. before at 2os. The fon and heir of Fitz-Renard affumed the name of Hadeflon, formerly a town, but now the chief manor in fiunwell, and was held by them of the earl Warren. The Mortimers had an intereft in iti and were enfeoifed of it by that earl, and continued in that family till it came to the Rofcelines, who conveyed it to the family of de Norwich, and by them fettled on the college of Raveningham, where it continued till its diffolution. ' Roger Bigot, ancefior of the earls of Norfolk, had r. grant of twelve acres of land, valued in his lord-' iJbip of Haddifcoe. In the 35th of Edward I. John de Dunhead, and I (abet de Haggele, held in this town, WacTton, Lod- cton, Kirby, Sec. three fees, Sec. of Roger Bigot, earl wi Noitolk. Ralph C L A V E R I N G. 73 Ralph de Beaufoe had one focman, with one acre of land, valued at 2d. which belonged to his lord- (hip of Aldby, in this hundred. Alan, earl of Richmond, had the grant of thirty acres of land, which a free-man of king Edward was deprived of, valued at 55. Here was alfo belonging to the king's manor, a free-man, who before the Conqueft held his land independent of any lord: this free-man, called Che- tel Frieday, had fevcn acres and a borderer, and a marfh valued at i 2d. Ralph, the late carl of Norfolk, held it when he was outlawed ; it belonged to his fee then, and after, but paid no fervice to him, or to the king, at the iurvey, as he proved ; this was for the maintenance of the lord. Under the title of Invafions,'* we find that Ralph, late earl of Norfolk, had a free-man who held three acres under him, and that Nicholas, the goldfmidi of Hugh earl of Chelier had feized on it, valued at 6d. but at the furvey was in the Con- queror's hand, and granted after to the earl Warren, and fo united to his loidOiip abovcmentioncd. William de Noicrs took care of 30 acres of land, &:c. of which three frcomen of bifhop Stigand were deprived: this belonged to the king's manor of Toft- Monks, and was valued with it. RAVFNINOHAM COLLEGE, was founded by fir John de Norwich in 1330, for a mailer and eight fecular priefts, * Invafiones In Ravingeha' i lib. hora. de iii ac. 7 erat in cenfu de Ravingeham qu*. Rad: forisfec. hunc detinuit Nichs. . Comitis Hugon. 7 val. vid. mo. e. in manu regis. 74 HUNDRED OF priefts, to officiate in the church of Ravcningham, and was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In his foun- dation deed he expreffes hirnfelf in thele words : " Calling frequently to mind that faring of the vl Apoftle, that what feed a man (hall fow, the fame *' fhall he reap, 8cc. for his own foul's health, and " that of Margaret his wife, for the honour of God " and his mother, St. Andrew the Apoflle, and all " the Saints ; he- founds it by deed, dated at Thorpe " by Norwich, July 25, 1350." This fir John was vice-admiral of England ; his two brothers, fir Thomas and fir Roger de Norwich, lie buied in Raveningham church. Sir Walter, fon and heir of fir John the founder, married Margaret, daughter of Mr Miles Staplcton, of Ingham, and was father of fir John de Norwich, \vho died in 1373, and was buried in Raveningham church, by his father fir Walter, " there to reft, " till it could be removed to the new church of " Norton-Coupe-Cors;" to the building of which he gives 450!. He was the laft heir male of this family. The college, by the founder fir John and his heirs, was nobly endowed with the manois of Lyng, Howe, Blackworth, Hadeflon, Snoring Parva, the advow- fou and appropriation of this church of Ravening- ham ; lands and tenements in Eaft and Weft Wre- tham, and Illington, Mcttingham caftle, the manors of Tlketefhale, Shipmeadow, Melles, Broomfiekl, Wenhafton and Redelham ; lands in Barfliam and Beccles; the reveifion of the manor and advowfon of Dalinghow, and the fifth part of the lordfhip of Alderton in Suffolk. The GLAVERING. 75 The jury, in a writ of Quod Damnum, in the 5th of Richard II. find it would not be to the king's prejudice, if fir John de Plaiz, fir Richard de Bois, kc, removed this college of eight chaplains to Nor- ton, and augmented it with five more ; and in the 3 nh of Richard If. the college was removed from this town to the reclory houfe at Norton. In the j^th of that king, Holm-hall in Raveningham was granted to it; and in his i /th year, fir Miles Sta- pleton. Sec. feoffees, aliened to it three meiluages, land, &c. in Noiton, Carlton, Howe, and Peres-hail in Bunwell, with lauds in Ingham, Knapton, Brin- ton, Sec. the advowions oi Tybenhaui and (Jarlton, Bunvveli and Howe. On the death of fir John de Norwich, t,he lafl heir male of this family, without iffuc, the lady Ca- therine de Brewes w:>.s found heir to fir John, and the inheritance, as his coufm, being daughter and licir to his brother, fir Thomas dc Norwich. To this lady, her uncle, fir Roger de Norwich, convey- ed the lordfhip of Kimberlev about 1374. In the 49th of Edward III. fhe confirmed the grants of her. anceftors to this college, and fettled her inheritance on her truftees, and being a nun at Dartfoid in Kent, in the ift of Richard II. and lady of the capital ma- nor of Great Mamngham in Noiiolk, licence was granted in the Sth of that king, on September 3, to Ler feoffees to amortife it to the priory of Dartford. On July 5, anno 6th of Richard II. licence was granted to the truflccs to remove the. na after and eight chaplains of this college from Noiton to the. caflle of Mettingham in Sufiolk, and to increafe the fame to thirteen ; to endow them with the faid caflle, the manor of Ilketediall in Suffolk, Sec. where it continued till the diffolution, being furrcndsrcd to Henrv 7 o HUNDRED OF Henry VIII. on April 8, anno 33- and on the of the faid month and year, was granted to fir An- thony Denny, with the appropriated reaories of this town, Norton, &c. held by his ion Henry Denny, cfq. in the 4th of Elizabeth. In 1349, the firft matter of this college admitted, prelented by fir John de Norwich, and alfo reclor of Raveningham, as all his fncccffors were. In 1392, Robert de Willoughby, lord Erelby, prefentcd. Mr. Richard Shelton occurs in 1530 ; he had fuch fkill in water-works, that in 1528 his advice was ii fed in cutting Yarmouth haven. In 1539, Thomas Manning was prefented to the college by Charles duke of Suffolk, in right of his wife Catherine. He was fuffragan bifhop of Ipf- \vich-. The town feems to derive its name from fome wa- ter or river, called Raveri ; thus Raven fwortli in Durham, and Ravensrield in Yorkshire, Ravenlborn, a river in Kent. The church of Raveningham is dedicated to St. Andrew, and was anciently a reftory, valued at 32 marks; arid in the reign of Henry III. the reclor had a manfe belonging to it, with a carucate of land. Gatherine; relicl of fir Walter de Norwich, and fir John de Norwich, had licence of mortmain to give the patronage to the city of Norwich; but this not taking effect, they had a new licence to annex it to Hickling priory ; but Catherine dying, fir John had a grant, in the i yth of Edward III. to give and appropriate C L A V E R I N G. 77 appropriate it to his college here. Anthony, bifhop of Norwich, on this refcrved^ the firft fruits to his fee; and on July 24, 1350, bifhop Batcman decreed a penfion of 365. pcf ann. to be paid to his fee. At the difiblution the appropriated rcclory was granted, as is above-mentioned, \\ith the patronage ef the curacy, to Gr Anthony Denny, and from that family to Roger Caflcll, eiq. who held it in the 8th of Elizabeth, in \\hich family it continues, and is icrved by a llipendiary curate. The curate returned, in 1603, 92 communicants. The church has a nave, north and fouth aile, with a chancel covered with lead, and a round tower ivith liiree bells. In the chancel lie many grave-flones in memory of the Caftells. &c. John Cajlel, Efq; aged 44, buried April 16, 1593, find Frances his wife, daughter of Thomas Planter, of Sotterley in Suffolk, EJq; Febru- ary 14, 1614, with the arms of Gaftell impaling Playtcr. Roger Cajlell, EJq. of Ravcningham, true owner of the retteries and parfonages of Norton-SubcourJt and Ra- veningJiam, died May 4, 1582. Eleanor, latt wife ofTalmach Cajlell, ofRaveningham, EJq; daughter of Sir William de Grey, of Merton in Norfolk, departed, be. Nov. 9, 1648, with the arms of Caftell and Grey. Roger Cajlell, efq. fecond Jon of John Caflcll, Efq;; teas buried Sept, 3, 1644, -and Caftell impaling Tal- aiache. G 7 8* HUNDREDOF Mary, late wife of Roger Cafldl, EJq; fecond daugh- ter of Sir Liondl Tallemache, of Helmingham in Suf- folk, Bart, buried June 23, 1667, in the 8 ad year of her age. Avice, wife of John Cajlell Gent, departed, kc. Sep- tember \. 1715, aged 54, with the arras of C a dell, and London of" Aldby. By the communion table Here lyeth Ann, the wife cf Roger Cajlell, jim. and daughter of Richard Gardi- diner, of Cranford in Sujfolk, who died March 2, 1697, aged 21 years. On the foutli fide of the chancel, by the wall, an altar tomb, and on it a black marble, thus infcribed, Roger Cajlell, Efq; youngejlfon of Roger Caftell, Efq; and Mary his wife, daughter of Sir Lionell Tallemaclie, Bart, departed, &c. Jan. 17, 1708, in the &6th year of his age, and left two fons, John and Roger. He was eminent for his loyalty to King Charles the Firjl, hav- ing ferved him in all the civil war raifed again/l him. On the north fide of the nave between the two upper pillars, a grey marble, with an effigv of brafs, See. Here lyeth buried under thisjlone of mdrbyil, Margaret, fometime wife of Humphrey Cajt)ll t Late wife unto Ralph Willoughby, Squier for King Richard the Third's bodyl The yere of God M.CCCC.LXXX and three t On the ix of March departed foe For whofe fowle befeche yon hartyly to pray And devowtly a pater nojler and avc to 'fay Jtr C L A V E R I N G. 79 'It wns ornamented with brafs efcutcheons ; one was -lately remaining, with the arms of Willoughby impaling Bokenham or liraunch. Near to this, Orate p. aab; Jo/is. tis et Elcne u\or. fuar. quar. aiab; ft pitidur Herc arc alfo feveral tomb-fkmes, in memory of the faraiiics of Denny, Pearfe. Broome, Cooper, 8cc. William Raveningham was buried in an altar tomb in the church-yard, anno' 1640, by the end of the north aile. In the i 6th of Richard II. it was found that fir George Felbrigg, 8ce. might grant a mefluage and 160 acres of land here, to the priory of Herringfleet in Sutiolk, held of Ralph Bigot, Nicholas Caftell, and \Villiam Ingleby, knt. This was granted on January 26, anno aSth of Henry VIII. to Henry Jerningham. In 1739, the Rev. William Johnflon, curate of Norton-Subcourfe, was prefented to the curacy of Raveningharn. STOCKTON, wrote Stoutuna InDoomfday-book. William de Noiers, at the grand furvey, was fleward of this lordfhip, for the Conqueror, on the depriva- tion of Stigand, archbifhop of Canterbury, who was lord before the conquest, and held it as a lay fee, and as a beruite to his manor of Earfham ; it was two leucas long, one broad, paid 53. 4d. gelt, and was valued in Earfham. It remained in the crown till king Stephen granted it 'to Hugh Bigot, on his being created earl of Nor- G 2 folk So HUNDRED OF folk; Hugh, his grandfon, earl of Norfolk, married Maud, daughter and co-heir to the Marfhals, earls of Pembroke, by whom file had Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, and fir Ralph, a younger fon, who was cnfeoffed of this lordfhip, and held it under the ear! ; to this Ralph, Walter de Shipmeadow, of Suffolk, conveyed by fine, in the 24th of Henry 111. his right of fifhing in the river Wavency between the towns of Stockton and Shipmeadow, and in the cut- ting of reed, rufh, flag, Sec. he married Berta, daugh- ter of the Lord Furnival, and died without iffue, as .did Roger, his brother, earl of Norfolk; fo that thr inheritance came to Roger Bigot, eldeft Ion of Hugk Bigot, who is faid to be chief-juflice of England. Roger being thus heir, and earl of Norfolk, con- firmed to his brother, fir John Bigot^ this lordfhip ; and in the 15th of Edward I. was found to have free-warren, the affife, a gallows, Sec. he died in the 330! of Edward I. when it was held by him in capitc of the king. Roger, his brother, the earl, having no children, made the king his heir, and difinherited fir John and his children in fomc difguft : fir Henry .Spelman lays, " that the carl being indebted to him, he was too prefling on that account." He left a fon, fir Ralph, who proved his age in the 34th of Edw. I. had livery, and was living in the 3d year of Ed- ward III. Sir Ralph Bigot, fon of fir Ralph, fold in the i6th of Edward III. to fir Roger de Sotterly, i is. 6d. rent per annum, with the rent of 1500 herrings, in Gi- ielham, Sotterly, &c. Sir John Bigot was his fon and heir, and died lord about 1390, lather of fir Ralph, who married Eli- zabeth, daughter and co-heir of fir Thomas Morti- mer C L A V E R I N G. 81 mcr, of Attleburgh, by whom he had a daughter and heir, Elizabeth. Sir Ralph's will is dated at Gel- dellone, February 20, 141 <, ; fhe furvived him, and married to her fecond hufband, Henry Pakenham, efq. and to her third, Thomas Manning, efq. By her will, proved in 1463, fhe was buried in the Au- guftine Friars church of Norwich, and gave to her hufband Manning, her manors in Ellingham Magna, fcc, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of fir Ralph Bigot, brought it by marriage to William Garneys, efq. his will is dated February 13, in the 8th of Henry V. xvhercby he gives to Elizabeth, his wife, this lordfhip, and the foe of Stockton, with the manor of Berys in Geldeflone, Sec. for life, and at her death, to Ralph, his fon and heir, Sec. Ralph Garneys, efq. of Kenton in Suffolk, inhe- rited it, but died without iffue in 1446 ; and in the fkid year, Edmund Swathing, efq. conveyed by fine, his right in this lordfhip to William de la Pole, mar- quis and earl of Suffolk. After this, in the firfl year of Edward IV. Alice, then dutchefs, and John her fon, duke of Suffolk, was querents in a fine, and Margaret Swathing, Thomas Sharington, Amabil Morpeth, and William Garneys, deforcients (as heirs to Ralph Garneys) furrender their interefl herein. We have feen a particular grant of this Alice, as follows : " Know all myne executors, and all (oiks, " that I Alyfe, dutchefs of Suffolk, have geven and " granted to my dere and well-beloved fone John, ' duk'e of Suffolk, and to my lady Elizab. his wife, ' iiilcr to pur ibyercyne lord, king Edward 4, all my G 3 ftuffc S* , HUNDRED OF * Ruffe and plate of filver and gilte, and of gold, ' and all my beddys of clorh of gold, and of (ilk, '' and of arras, and of tapeftre work, Sec. with God's *' bleffing and myne for ever. Dated at Eve. Oc- *' tobei'3, ao. xi, Edward 4. In wimels of which " thinge, to this dede and graunte, figned of my " hande, I have fett my feale, ALYCE. On the attainder of Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, it came to the crown, and was granted by Henry VIII. to Charles Brandon, dtikc of 'Suffolk, and on his death to lady Ann, of Cleves, and flic held it in the 2d of Edward VI. then the divorced wile of Henry VIII. After this it was again in the crown, and queen Elizabeth pofTefTed it, with the foe, valued in 1570 at 49!. 145. 3d. and was farmed of her by Mr. Smith, of Winfton, paying a fee-farm rent. The foe took in the manors of Ellingham, Gillingham, Goldefton, Winfton, Windale, and Kirby Cane, the court baron and lete for the foe were then annually kept on St. Margaret's day, and the cuftora of the manor, Sec- was, " that the bailiff, or any tenant of the fame, might take diftrefs in the foken of any man, either dwelling or having goods within the fame (the debt being under 405.) and have the aclion tried on St. Margaret's day; the fheriffof the county could not arrefl within the foken, but break the writ, and direa the warrant to the bailiff of the manor who executed it : by their charter they are not to ferve at affife or feffions, and all the tenants have liberty to common in the fen called Micklefen, which lieth in Geldefton and Ellingham." On the firft of July, in the 3 d of James I. this manor and ioc was granted to Charles, Duke of York, C L A V E R I N G. -? s York, the king's fon ; and in the lyth of Charles I. \vas held in fee-farm rent of him, by Simon Smith, efq. The temporalities of Langley abbey were 35. id. ob. and the loi dfhip of Kirby extended into this town. - The church is a reclory, dedicated to St. Michael : in the reign of Edward I. Roger Bigot, earl of Nor- folk, and earl marfhal, as capital lord, was patron, and it was then valued at twelve marks ; the reclor had a manfe with thirty acres of land. In 1505 John Pinchebeke died reclor. and was buried in the college church of Mettingham, and gave eleven acres of land in Kirby field to his fuc- ceflbrs, with one acre and an half in Winfton field, " to keep every year a certain and yere-day with iiicfle and dirige ;" and to the church of Stockton 1 1 acres in Winfton: from the Mowbrays this came to the Howards, dukes of Norfolk, who were patrons. In 1603 the reclor' returned forty-one commu- nicants. In 1758 the Rev. Yalentia Lumley was prefented to this reclory by Valencia Lumley, gent. . The prefent value is 81. and is difcharged ; the patronage is in the duke of Norfolk, who is lord. In the chancel, on a grave-ftone with a brafs plate " Hie jacet Johs. Sale, S.T.B. in medicina licen- " ciatus, egregie in utraq ; facultate doclus, legum " infuper quas vocant communium non mediocriter 41 peritus, qui poftquam hie Stockton reclor anima- G 4 " rum 84 H U N D R E D O F " rum curx diligenter et fideliter p. quinquennium " inferviflet, ac tantum non callapfas reclbrix aedes " fuis folis fumpdbus inftauratfet, ifto fub marmoie " conditus eft, 5 -Marty, 15. In the chancel, on a grave-flonc Orate p. aia Willi Wright, qui obi. 25, die Maij, 1513. In the church the arms of Steward impaling Read, and Or ale probono Jialu Augi'Jlini Steward, civis et al- dmnanni Xorwici, 1335. Hncaux impaling Padon. Hobart impaling Hneaux. Godfalve. Bigot of Stockton, alfo Carvil. William Wright, of this to\vn, buried in the church, 1515, gives to the commoners of Stockton, 61. on condition " that they can find means to get more friends, and purchafe as much land as (hail purchafe the whole fee. Reg* JohnJon,foL 226. THORPE, called Haddifcoe-Thorpe. or Thorpe near Haddifcoe, to diftinguifli it from cither towns of the fame name in this county. This town is not mentioned in the grand furvey, being part of Roger Bigot's manor of Haddifcoe, and part of Ralph de Beaufoe's manor of Aldby in this hundred, and therein accounted for. From the JBigots, earls of Norfolk, it came to Thomas de Brotherton, earl of Norfolk, by a grant of his bro- ther Edward II. and fo to the lord Seagrave, the Mowbrays, and the Howards, dukes of Norfolk. Tn the soth of Edward III. Stephen de Catfield, William de Thorpdale, 8cc. held a quarter of a fee, which Nicholas de Potter, and the tenants of Johu de Thorpdale, formerly held of the earl of Norloik ; and CLAY E'R I N G. 85 and in the 4th of Henry IV. the lord had a quarter of a fee. called Potters. Richard de Catfield died feifcd of the manor of Thorpe by Haddifcoe, in the i ft year of Richard II. William Caificld, of this town, died in 14/4., was buried in this church, and gave this manor to Alice, his wife, for life remainder to Richard de Southwell, efq. of Wood-Rifing, who had bought the reverfion. The Bigots, the Mowbrays, and the Howards, were alfo capital lords of tlm lee, and prefemed to a of the church. Ralph de Reaufoe's intcreft herein, as lord of Aldby, came to his daughter and heir. Agnes, mar- ried to Hubert de Rye, and this was held by the Rofcelines, with Aldby. William de Rofceline was lord and patron of a moiety of this church in the reign of Edward I. under the barons of Rye. After this it was in the Marfhalls, and from them came to the Lovcls and the Parkers, lords Morley ; Edward lord Morley, in the reign of queen Eliza- beth, conveyed it to his fecond ion, Henry Parker, efq. After this it was conveyed to the Calthorpcs, and Chriiiopher Calthorpe, eiq. of Aldby, prefent- ed to this church in the yth of James I. Sir James Calthorpe, his fon and heir, gave it to his fecond Ion Henry, who was recorder of London, and a knigrr, and died feifed of it in the year 1637, and ot Ampton, near Bury St. Edmund's, in Suffolk.: and his immediate defcendeut, James Calthorpe, eitj. is lord. Robert's 86 HU-NDREDOF Robert's (fon of .Corbun) lordfhip in Ha-ddifcoc, alfo extended into this town, which came after to the Albini's, earls of Arundel, the Tatefhales, and the Cliftons. In the co th of Edward III. the -prior of St. O- lave's, the heirs of Robert de Gillingham, 8cc. held here a quarter of a fee, which the prior and Robert formerly held of the lord Tatefhale ; and in 142$ the temporalities of that priory here were valued at los. ob-. Adam Bacon aliened to it three meifuages and 45 acres of land here, in Norwich,. Sec. anno 6th of Edward II. The Gilberiine nuns had temporalities alfo, valued at los. The church is a reflory, dedicated to St. Matthew, and confided of two medieties. In the iSth of Henry III. Andrew Wafcelein granted by fine to John Rofceline, the advowfon of a mediety ; and in the reign of Edward I. William Rofceline was patron of a medietv, valued at 405. and Robert de Loddon, patron of the other, valued at 405. In January, 1361, there was an agreement between lord Movvbray, and William de Morley, marfhal pf Ireland, patrons, to confolidate the two medieties, and to prefent alternately. In 1591, the patronage of one mediety went to the king, on the attainder of Philip earl of Arudel ; and in 1603 the recior returned thirty-eight commu- nicants, The prefent value of the church is 3!. 6s. 4d. In 'is .difcharged. C L A V E R I N G. 87 In 1758, the Rev. Samuel Browne was preferred to ihis reclory by the crown, who has an alternate prefentation widi James Calthorpe, ei'q. of Ampton* THURl.TON, or THURVFRTON. In this town were feveral fordfliips at the time that the grand fur- vey vyas made. One was in the king's hand, and William de Noicrs took care of it for the king, of which Stigand the archbiihop was deprived. One free-man pcffeffcd it under Stigand, and va- lued at 2s there were alib two free-men with land, &c. valued at i6d. and here was one free-man, the predeceflbr of Ralph de Bcaufoe, widi eight acres, valued at isd. It remained in the crown till it was granted to Ro- bert de Beaumont, earl of Leicefler, who gave it to the abbey of Preaux in Normandy, with the lordlhip of Toft-Monks in this hundred. The lord Eaynard's manor of Chedgrave extended into this town, and was held of them by the family of de Rofceline ; from that family it defcended to the lords Willoughby, who held one fee here, in Chedgrave, Sec. of the lords Htz- Walter, and were patrons of a medicty of the church. In the gift of Henry VIII. fir Nicholas Hare con- veyed by fine to William Read, citizen and mercer of London, the manor of Baynard's in Thurverton or Thuriton, with mefluages and lands in Thorpe, Raveningham, &c. and his fon and heir, William, was lord in the reign of q-ucen Mary, and Thomas Ward in the g-jth qf Elizabeth. Aflr 88 HUNDREDOF Afh Windham, cfq. was lord in 1742, and his fon, William Windham, efq. fucceedccl him, who dying in 1 761, left his fon and heir a minor, Willi- am Windham, of Felbrigg, efq. Alan, earl of Richmond, had a frnall fee, of which a free-man was deprived, valued at 1 6d. William de Scohies had the lands of feven free- men, with the moiety of another, and Odar held it of William, of thefe his ptedeceffor, Ralph de Beau- foe, had the protection only, in the reign of king Edward ; and the moiety of a church, valued at ios.. with 12 acres. Roger Bigot, anceftorof the earls of Norfolk, had the giant of a fmail fee, and Robert de Veaux helcj it under Roger : this belonged to Haddifcoe manor. Roger, fon of Reynard, pofTeffed lands, &c. xvhich fctAJ .W * kj^ "' ' J THE HISTORY O F NORFOLK. Hundred of D E P W A D E, IS about eight miles in length from eaft to weft, and fix from north to fouth, and takes its name from the Depe-ford* over the river by Tafburgh, which though now of no great remark, in early days was otherwife, the river --Tints being then very broad, and fordable in no place in this hundred but here. The hundred is bounded on the north by the hun- dreds of Humbleyard and Forehoe ; on the eaft by Henftead and Loddon ; on the weft by Shropham ; A and * Depe, deep, and waden, to wade, fo that Dep\yade is the deep ford. 2 HUNDRED OF and on the fouth^by Difs and Earfham hundreds. The fee of it was in the crown till Richard I. gave it to Gundred thecountefs; and in 1225 Henry III. gave it for life to Roger de Hadifco. In i 249 it was ..valued s.t nine marks a year. In 1274 it was in the hands of Edward I. and was valued at 61. per annum clear; this king fettled it on John de Clavering for a term of years, and iq 1315 Edward II. afligned it to fir Walter de Norwich; but in 1327 Edward III. granted it to fir John de Clavering, with Cofteffey, &c. and his heirs, fince which time the inheritance of it attended Coiteffey, and was afterwards fold by divers of the lords there; the fcveral lords of the manors purchafed the royalties and Jeets belong- ing to their manors, by which means the hun- dred-court failed. This hundred paid 65!. 135. lid. clear to every tenth, and now raifes annually 10 the land tax, at 45. in the pound, 3057!. 145. gd. it alfo pays to the ge- neral county rate 25!. i is. 6d. at a fix-hundred pound levy.. This hundred contains the following towns, to which we add the number of votes polled at the contefled eledion in 1768: W. deG. A. C. Afhwekhorpe - 5344 Allaclon - 213* Bunwell a o 55 Carleton-Rode 4 3 12 11 Forncet St. Mary > Forncet St. Peter ] 497 Fritton " 3 3 Fundenhall o o i i Hapton D E P W A D E. 3 Hapton - o o 2 2 Haidwick - 6" 5 4 3 Hempnall - 4488 Moulton All Saints Moulton St. Michael Mourningthorpe i I i i Shelton - 2220 Stratton St. Mary ) Stratton St. Michael } 7 Tacolneflon - 5 3 l l Tafburgh 5 3 ^ Tharfton o o b 6 Tibbenham i 1.5 5 Wadori Magna and Parva 113^ 47 40 76 6S Thefe villages make up the dcanry of Dep\vacfe, \vhich contained twenty-three parifhes, and u-as taxed at 1 6s. and the deans were collated by the bifeops of Norwich, till 1498, when Mr. Thomas Wolfcy, A. M. was the lafl rural dean of Depwade. Tht. Seals and principal Houfes in this Hundred arc Carlcton-Rodc, Rev. John Buxton, Forncet, Hempnall, Mourningthorpe, Rev. Thomas Howes. Stratton, Long, Rev. Randall Burroughs, TacolncJlGn, Knipe Gobbet, cfq. Ditto, Rev. Thomas Warren. Ditto, Rev. Charles Browne. Tibbcn!ia}nC'iannons,]olin Baxton, efq. As This 4 HUNDREDOF This hundred, fays Mr. Blomefield, " being fa near Norwich, it hath not any place where there is a market now kept. The foil is rich and well inclofed, and hath much wood and timber in it, but the roads (as a necefiary confequence of good land) are dirty and bad;" but this, fince that author's time, is much altered ; die turnpike roads leading fiom Norwich to Scole Inn, and to New Buckenham, through this hundred, are excellent; and the great improvements lately made, and now making, by cnclofing wafte lands, forming new roads, and. othcrwife enriching the face of the country, has rendered Mr. Blomefield's account now erroneous. ASHWELTHORPE was anciently called Thorpe only, and Afhwell was a hamlet in Thorpe, but there being fo many Thorpes in the county, about the time of king Stephen it began, for diflinclion fake, to be called Afhwelthorpe ; the name of Afhwell* does not once occur in Doomfday-book, though it feems to have been a well inhabited place ; for in 1311 fir John de Thorpe, knt. founded the Free Chapel of St. Mary the Virgin, at Afhwell, and built a houfe for the refidence of a chaplain, or chan- try prieft, to perform daily fervice in it to the inhabi- tants of the hamlet, and to pray for his own and wife's fouls, and thofe of his anceflors and fucceffors for eVer. Having obtained a royal licence of mort- main, he fettled the houfe and five marks a year for the chaplain's maintenance ; but in 1315, thinkine he had not fully endowed it, he added to it other pot- ieffcons, which the king, and fir John de Clavering, knt. his chief lord, confirmed. The revenues of this chapel were valued at 3!. and paid 6s. annual tenths; but at the diiioludon of chantries, in the time of * It fignifies the well ; or fpring, by the a(h-trees f D E P W A D E. 5 ef Edward VI. the whole was feizcd, and granted away bv that king; and in 1398 fir Thomas Knevet purchafed the chapel-houfe, and al! that belonged to the difiblved chapel of Afhwell, and ever fince they have continued with the manor. Afliwcll was alfo a diflincl manor from Thorpe, (and a family had their firnamq from this hamlet). Ric de Afhwell was lord of itiin the time of Henry III. and after him fir John Efwell, or Afiiwcll, his fon, who fold it to the Thorpes; they joined it to their manor of Thorpe, with which it flill conti- nues, but the title was not compleatcd till 1347, and then John de Afhwchhorpe, fon (we fuppofe) of fir John, confirmed the whole to fir Edmund de Thorpe, knt. and his heirs. THORPE contained one manor onlv; at the Con- feflbr's furvey it belonged to a thane of bifhop Sti- gand, and was worth 5!. per annum. At the con- queft it belonged to carl Euftace, and was worth 61. it was a mile and a half long, and five furlongs broad, and paid bd. ob. q. gelt. It foon after this belonged to one William, ibmetimes diftinguifhed by the addition of Norwich, where he lived; and that Roger mentioned in the record, called Tefla de Nevile, feems to have been his fon ; he was fucceed- ed by Robert, called Fitz-Roger, and after by the name of fir Robert de Maffingham-Ptf ;v0, who held, feveral fees ia Thorpe, Maffingham, Anmer, and many other towns, of the honor of Bononia, or Bou- logne. His wifej Eda, furvived him, and held Thorpe in 1209, when fhe was called Eda de Thorpe. Hugh, fon of Robert, lived at the fame time ; he is alfo called fometimes Hugh de MaiTing- ham, and was fucceeded by fir John the knight, fon A 3 . of; G HUNDREDOF of fir Hugh, often called John Fitz Robert; he was lord of AQiwelthorpc, Fundenhall, Wrcnningham, Bunwell. 8cc, and married Margery, daughter of fir Robert, de Creake, lord of North Creak, and Hilling- ton, in Norfolk, and Combes, in Suffolk. Robert Fitz-John de Thorpe, their fon, fucceeded them, who in the tirrJe of Henry III. anno 1236, was one of the refident barons of the Exchequer, his countryman, mallet 'Hervey de Belet, being then diief baron. In 1266 Henry TIT. confirmed to Robert Fitz-John cle Thorpe free-wan en in all his dcmefncs here, 8cc. This" Robert in 1264 had feveral manors, lands, Sec. confirmed to him by Robert, fon of fir Richard Nar- ford, knr.. of Wrenningham. In 1271 he was im- pleaded for creeling a gallows at Afhwdthorpe, when the manor never had that liberty, which he took down again ; buthad then free-warren, view of frank- } ledge, and affize ef bread and ale, allowed to the manor in eire. It feems Margery Creake, his mother, was alive in 1274, and had an annuity out of the rnanor. In this year Robert Fitz-John de Thorpe* was high fheriff" of Norfolk and Suffolk. In i 284 he was alldwed the liberties of a gallows, pillory, and waif, in this manor. John de Thorpe, fon of Robert aforefaid, fuc- ce.?ded, being lord. In 1203 he was fummoned among the great men to attend Edward I. at Portf- mouth, on the ill of September, in order to recover Gafcoign, * In 1249 tki 5 appears to have been a numerous family. In 1274 it feems that a John Fitz-John de Thorpe was defcended from the family of Lovell. D E P W A D E. 7* Gafcoign, then pofTeffcd by the French king; and this year he procured his father's executors to advance, by way of loan to the king, 167!. ss. lod. ob. on his going that journey. In 1307 he was fummoned as oae of the king's council ; and in 1309 had ano- ther fummons to attend Edward III. at Newcaftle upon Tyne. to march again ft the Scots, who had broken the truce' made with them, at the inftance of Philip the French king. In 1314 this manor was held of fir John de Clavering at one fee; in 1315,' being appointed high fheriff of the county, he got a letter lent to fir William de Norwich to get him ex- cufed, by reafon of his corporal infirmities ; and another to Hervy de Stanton, chancellor of the Ex- chequer, from the prior of Norwich, by whofe inte- reft he got off ferving the office at prefent. In 1321 a commiflion ifTued to fir John de Thorpe, and others, to feize all perfons in Norfo[k and Suf- folk who fhould rife in arms againit the king. la 1322 he and Thomas Bardolph were appointed war- dens to guard the coaft of Norfolk againfi any in- valions of the Flemings, or Scots; and the fame year he, and Alice, his wife, conveyed the manor of Ailefwefthorpe, in Freebridge hundred, and the ad- vowfon of the moiety of that church, &c. after their deaths, to the prior of Pentney, and his fucceffors. In 1323 he was joined with Walter de Norwich, Si- mon de Hetherfete, and John de Redenhall, ^knts. who were all appointed the king's juftices to examine into the frauds committed by the collectors of the taxes, feveral of them having collecled more than they returned into the Exchequer ; but dying'" on the A 4 i6th * Juft before his death he was joined with fir Edmund Baccn, knt, to treat of, aad affent to, a match between Alphonfo, el- deft 8 HUNDRED OF i6ih of May this year, John de Clavering was made juftice in his ftcad. He, and Alice, his wife, held jointly at his deaih, Hillington, Hemlingham, Maf- iingham-Ptfrt/a, Tittlefhall, Thorpe, Wrenningham, Fundenhall, Hapton, Combes, Sec. manors, and -Robert de Thorpe was his eldeft fon ; he married Beatrix, daughter of fir Edmund de Hengiave, and died pofieffed of thefe manors in 1329, leaving a wife, and John de Thorpe, his eldeft fon and heir ; and John dc Clavering, his chief lord, was his guar- dian. In 1339 he made fir George de Thorpe, knt. and John Yernme, of Norwich, his attornies to pre- fent to his livings during his being out of England, in the king's fervice, in France; he died in 1340, and Joan, his widow, who was heirefs to Lucy, and Maud, her fillers, daughters of Roger Atte-Efhe, was alive, and married, in 1345, fir Roger le Strange, who was lord here in her right during her life ; but they having no iffue, fir Edmund de Thorpe, his brother, inhe- rited; and in 1348 there was a fuit commenced to prove Joan, his then wife, a baftard; but on trial, bifhop Batcman certified, that fhe was legitimate, and was filler and heirefs of Thomas Bainard, who died feiied of Colkirke and Gately manors jn 1329, and therefore Edmund had thole manors of her in- heritance. In 1358 he infeoffed his manors, 8cc. to raife a hundred marks per ann. for twenty-one years, to pay his debts, and Tool, to each of his daughters, Beatrix, and Joan; John, his fecond fon, was to have all his lands in Suffolk to him and his heirs ; and Robert, his third fon, to have Bunwell. In deft fon to the king of Arragon, and Joan, daughter of Ed- ward II. king of England ; the day for the treaty being fixed by the patent, to be held at the Tower of London, February 19, 1322. D E P W A D E. 9 In bis time the feveral fees and manors held of the manor of Aftiwelthorpe were extended, and by the extent renewed, it appeared that half a fee in 44 Sweynefthorp, Gouthorp, and Dunfton," was held by the annual payment of a pair of boots to the lord- of Afhwehhorpe, and a pair of bufkins, lined with felt, to the Lady there, which was then held by John de Hetherfete; and Nicholas de Aldburgh held in Demon, and Aldburgh, one fee, by the payment of a pair of gilt fpurs every Eafter. This family had many fees held in Norfolk, Suf- folk. Cambridgefhire, and Eflex, of their feveral manors of Mjffmgham-Parva, North-Creak, Fun- denhall, and Hemlingham; befides which, the fa- mily of the Thorpes inherited eflates and fees in Creak and Hillington. A cotemporafy and relation to fir Edmund (but how near we cannot find) was fir William de Thorpe, who was made a king's ferjeant in the i6th of Ed- ward III. and afterwards juftice both of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, and November 26, 1347, chief juftice of the King's Bench. In 1350 the record of judgment had againft fir William Thorpe, late chief juftice, was affirmed, confidcring that againil his oath he had received bribes*, but he was foon after reftored to the king's favor, and made a baron of the Exchequer. 1- * In the loth of Richard II. fir William Thorpe, late chief juftice of the King's Bench, was adjudged heretofore to death, and to forfeit his lands, for receiving 20!. of one, for a matter depending before him. 10 HUNDREDOF In 13*) 3 fir Robert de Thorpe, brother to fir Wil- liam, was made the king's ferjeant, and furnmoned to parliament, among the judges and king's council, in 1 1356; chief juftice of the Common Pleas in 1357; and lord chancellor of England, March 26, 1372. Sir Edmund de Thorpe, jun. elded fon of fir Ed- mund aforefaid, was married October 6, 1368, to Margaret, daughter of Richard De-la-Rivere, afte r whofe deceafe he married Joan, daughter and heircfs of fir Robert de Northvvood, of Northwood-Barning- ham* in Norfolk, and of Northwood, in Kent, who was widow to Roger lord Scales, of Newcels ; for which match, riot having obtained the kings licence, he was pardoned in 1387, upon paying the king 20!. for a fine for that tranfereffion, the faid lady hold- ing divers lands in capitt. In 1370 fir Edmund de Thorpe, fenior, was high fheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. In 1380 his manors, advowfons, and lands, in Afhvvelthorpe, &c. were fettled by feoffees on his Ton and others, paying him an annuity of lool. per ann. In 1381 fir Edmund de Thorpe, jun. knt. purchaf- ed divers meffuages, Sc'c. and feveral villains here. In 138$ he, and fir Richard de Waldegrave, knt. &c. had a grant of the temporalities of the bifhop of Norwich, during the forfeiture of Henry Spencer, bifhop of the fee, except the knights fees, and ad- ,'owfons of the churches, paying fifty marks yearly ^ the Exchequer ; and in 1385 they had a writ di- .ed to them to reftore them to the bifhop. In 1393 fir Edmund de Thorpe, fen. died, and- was buried by Beatrix, his wife, in the chancel at Afhwehhaipe, D E P W A D E. ii Afhwelihorpje, and -gave five marks to any one that would take a pilgrimage for him .to St. Jarnes the Apoftle, and legacies to his, tenants wherever he was- lord; manv rings, jewels, Sec. to Joan, his wife, for life, and then to fir Edmund, bis ejdcfl fon and heir; and particularly the murrey cup, tipped with iilver, which is the charter-cup of Thorpe, was to go from heir to heir, to all that fhould be lords of Thorpe, of his blood, and three gold rings, fet with oriental fa- phircs ; he gave Edmund, his heir, ail his goods in his manor-houfes at Golkirkc, with Appleton-hall, and Little Maffingham ; he ordered to be buried un- der, a plain tomb, without funeral pomp; Joan, his widow, died at Colkirke, Feb. 1399, and was buried by her hufband ; and then fir Edmund de Thorpe, her fon, held his firfl court here, and foon after put his eftatcs into feoffees hands, upon his going beyond fea. This fir Edmund new roofed and glazed the church and chancel at Afhwelthorpe, and founded Thorpe's chapel for his own burial place, and that of his fuc- C-ffors, on the north fide of the chancel; it was uvauy-feven ieet long, and twelve broad, within the walls, lie was mayor of Bourdeaux, in Gafcoign, in 1399. In 1415 Joan lady Scales, wife of fir Edmund de Thorpe, jun. died, and was buried, by her order, hi AQiwelthorpe church-yard, and gave 2ol. to make her a tomb. Thomas de Thorpe, efq/''" fecond fon of fir Ed- mund de Thorpe, fenior, had Bunwell manor for life; * In 1452 Thomas Thorpe, efq. fpeaker of the commons, \vas imprifoned, the commons petitioned tor his liberty, accord- ing 12 H U N D R E D O F life; in his will, dated 1414, it appears, that by Elizabeth, his wife, he had one daughter and heirefs, named Eleanor ; he gave lol. as a flock to be always lent out to fome perfon in Afhwehhorpe, the intereft to be laid out in buying new altar-cloths, and orna- ments for the chancel, in which it feems he was bu- ried; he ordered Bunwell manor to go to Elizabeth, his wife, for life, then to his daughter and her heirs ; the remainder to his nephew, John de Thorpe, and his heirs ; but fir Edmund, his brother, was to have the preference, if he pleafed to buy the manors. In 1417 fir Edmund dc Thorpe, Sec. were ap- pointed by Henry V. to treat of and compofe all dif- ferences which arofe from any violations of the truce between the duke of Burgoigne and that king: this fir Edmund is the fame perfon whom Holingfhed calls the lord Thorpe, who was killed at the fiege of Lo- vers-caftle, in Normandy, with the lords Scales and Darcy ; but his body was brought over and buried in the new aile of his own foundation, under a fair tomb, on which he lies in compleat armor, with his helmet under his head, and a crown and plume for his ereft; his wife lies by him, with a pillow under her head ; both the ftatues are of white alabafter, and lie under a Wooden canopy. The arms of Thorpe, quartering Bainard, are cut on his armor; he hath a chaplet about his head, and a fword lying by his fide, fjgnifying, that though he loft his life in war, yet he obtained the vidlory ; at his head an angel holds an inefcutcheon of St. George ; at her head the aims of France and England; at his feet a greyhound, and at her s a lap-dog. On the fouth fide are four angels holding four fhields, 1. Thorpe and Bainard quartered. ing to their privileges ; the lords would not confent, but or- dered the commons to choofe a new fpeaker. D E P W A D E. 13 quartered. 2. Northwood. 3. Clifton. 4. Barry. And on the north fide are fliields with the arras of Kerdefton, Calthorpe, &c. Sir Edmund left two daughters his coheirefles; Joan was thrice married, and laftly to fir John Clif- ton, of Buckenham-caflle, knt. but on failure of if- fue. according to the entail, the eflate of the Thorpes veiled in her fitter, Jfabel, who married Philip Tii- ney, of Bofton, in Lincolnfhire, efq. and they kept their firft court ia 1436; in which year (Nov. 6) flic died, and lies interred under a marble, with a brafs circumfcription, in Thorpe chapel, with the arms of Tilney, impaling Thorpe, quartering Bainard, and her effigy. After her death her hufband retired from the world, took on him a religious habit, turned fecular canon, and was admitted to St. Butolph's prebendary in Lincoln cathedral, where he was buried in 1435; the arms of Tilney, impaling Thorpe, quartering Bai- nard, are on his grave-flone there. They had three daughters, and three fons: Frede- rick Tilney, of Bofton, efq. the eldeft fon arid heir, who inherited all the eftate ; he married Elizabeth, daughter and heifefs of Laurence Cheney, of Cam- bridgefhire, efq. and had only one daughter, Eliza- beth, who married fir Humphrey Bourchier, knt, eldeft fon of John lord Berners ; he was flain at Bar- net-field, on the part of Edward IV. April 14, 1471, in the life-time of Jiis father, and was buried in St. Edmund's chapel, in Weftminfter-abbcy, under a tomb of grey marble raifed, and on it is curiouiiy engraved, on brafs plates, the effigy of fir Humphry, armed cap-a-pee, his head on his helm, with a creft, and $4 HUN D R E D O F and his feet fupppried, the one by a 'leopard, and the other bv an eagle, with the arms of Bourchiei*, quartering Billete, impaling Tiiuey, Ruos, 'I'horpc, Bainard, &c. and an inscription. Elizabeth, his wife, was a widow in 14/0 ; but before 1472 fhe was married again to Thomas, fon and heir of John lord Howard, knr. afterwards earl of Surrey, and duke of Norfolk; and in 1506, No- vember 6, by^ the name of Elizabeth duchcfs of Norfolk, flic made her laft will, by which fhe was buried in the nuns choir of .the Minorics, without Aldgate, London. The duke 'furvived her, and held the manors, by the courtefy of England, to his death, in 1524, when he was buried in the priory church of Thetford, commonly called Thctfoid- abbey. Sir John Bourchier, knt. fon and heir of fir Hum- phry, and grandfon and heir of John lord Bcrners, \vas fummoned to parliament as lord Berners in the 1 ith and isth of Henry VII. and in the ift, 3d, 6th, and 21 ft of Henry VIII. and died deputy general of the town and inarches of Calais, March 19, 1532, in the 23d of Henry VIII. He ordered his body to be buried in the chancel of St. Mary's church at Ca- lais, and after the deceafe of his lady, gave his ma- nors of Houghton, Offley, and Doxlcy, in Hert- fordfhirc, to fatisfy the king for 500!. ftcrjing, that was due to his majefly, and the overplus of their va- lue was to go to perform kis will, Sec. He married Catherine, daughter of John Howard, duke of Nor- folk, who furvived him, and died March 12, in the He was made knight of the bah at the coronation of Ed- D E P W A D E. * 5 in the 2yth of Henry VIII. 1535. This lord Ber- ners, in the iSth of Edward JV. was made knight of the bath at the marriage of the duke of York, fccond fon of Edward IV. with the daughter and heirefs of the duke of Norfolk. In the yih of Henry VIII. he was retained to ferve that king with, two fpearmcn, himfelf of the number, each having his cuilrel (a fcrvant to a man of arms, or a prince's life-guard-man) and page, and nine demi-lances on horfeback, in order to an expedition into France ; and accordingly, Ocl. i, the king took fhipping at Sandwich, and the lame day landed at Calais with a large army, and laid fiege to Boulogne till Nov. 8, when a peace was made, to which all the peers con- fented, and among them this John lord Berners. In 1495 he aflented to a peace made with France on the lea, near Boulogne. In 1513 he had the king's letters of protection, being made Captain of the pi- oneers at the fiege of Therovene. In the 6ih of Henry VIII. he was made chancellor of the exche- quer for life ; and that year attended lady Mary, the king's filler, into France, to her marriage with. Lewis XII. In the igth of Henry VIII. he obtained a grant from the king- of the inheritance of the manors and advowfons of feveral towns in Surrev, Oxfordfhire, "Wiltfhire, and Hamplhire, with all the knights fees belonging to them. It is alfo obfervable that this John lord Berners was a pcrfon fo eminent for his learning, that by the command of Henry V11I'. he tranflated the Chronicle of fir John Froifart out of French into Englifh: he likewife tranflated feveral other works out of French, SpaniQi, and Italian, as " The Life of fir Arthur, an Armorican knight," " The famous Exploits of Hugh of Bourdeaux," " Marcus i6 HUNDRED OF ' Marcus Aurelius," and " The Cattle of Love." Befides which he compofed a book, " Of the Duties of the Inhabitants of Calais," and a comedy, in- tided " Ite in Vineam." He had iffue only two daughters, Mary, married to Alexander Union, efq. fon and heir of fir Thomas Unton, of VVadley, in Berkfhire, knt. to whom flie was fiifl wife, but died \vithout iffue, and Jane, her fifter, by her death, became fole heirefs to her father. She married Kd- mund Knevet, efq. ferjeant-porter to Henry VIII. who became lord and patron of Afhwelthorpe, and owner of the Thorpe's eftate ; he was fecond fon of Edmund Knevet, efq. of Buckenham-caftle, and fet- tled at Afhwelthorpe-hall, and had, in his wife's right, all the manors in Suffolk, the Ifle of Ely, Lincolnfhire, Yorkftiire, Staffordfhire, and in Nor- folk, belonging to that family, except the fix lafl manors fold by lord Berners. He was conftituted receiver of the revenues of the king's demefncs in Denbighfhire, and dying in 1546 was buried in the chapel adjoining to Afhwelthorpe chancel. Jane, his widow, died in 1561, and was buried by her huf- band. In the faid chapel is a grey marble with a brafs plate, and an infcription, obijt Feb. 17, 1561. John Knevet, efq. of Plumftead, their eldefl fon and heir, died in his mother's life-time; in 1537 he married Agnes, daughter of fir John Harcourt, of Stanton-Harcourt, in Oxfordfhire, knt. fhe died in 1579, and fir Thomas Knevet, of Afhwelthorpe, her eldeft fon and heir, fucceeded, and in the year 1616, having petitioned the king for the barony of Berners, defcended to him from Jane, his grand- mother, he obtained a certificate (upon a reference of his petition by James I. to the lords commif- fioners for the office of earl marfhal) of his right and D E P W A D E. 17 and title to the faid barony, but died the gth of February following, before he could obtain the king's confirmation thereof; he was knighted by queen Eli- zabeth in her progrefs into Norfolk: in 1579 he was high fheriff of the county; hjs will was proved in 1617, by which it appears, that Thomas Knevet, efq. his grand-child, was his heir; Abigail Munde- ford, Katherine Pafton, and Muriel Bell, were his three daughters ; Elizabeth Afhfield was his fifter, and had a daughter, named Abigail; he was buried at Afhwelthorpe, February 9, 1617. He married Muriel 1 *, daughter of fir Thomas Parry, knt. rnafter of the court of wards and liveries, and treafurer of the houfhold to queen Elizabeth, fifter and coheirefs of fir Thomas Parry, of Welford, in Berkfliire, knt. chancellor of the Duchy of Lancafter, and ambaflador leidger in France, in the time of queen Elizabeth ; (he died April 26, 1616, and was buried here. An elegy, wrote in the higheft zefl of panegyric, to this lady's memory, by a Mr. Oliver Johnibn, of Norwich, begins thus : Here Norfolk's wonder lies, a Phcenix right, Who might be terrrid for her good deeds Jo many ; In doing good who took her chief delight, Not caring for vain pleajurc momentary. Sec. This fir Thomas was a man of great repute, and much beloved for his hofpitaiity and good nature, for which he was eminent, as the following ballad, containing an incredible ftory, (the tradition o which flili remains} fully declares. B The * This Muriel brought to the Knevets the moiety of fir Tho- mas Parry's eftate. iS HUNDREDOF The BALLAD of ASHWELTHORPE, Made in Sir Thomas Knevtfi time. Once there liv'd a man, Deny it they that can, Who liberal was to the poor; I dare boldly fay, They ne'er were fent away Empty handed from his door. When mifers in holes crept, Then open houfe he kept, Where many then did refort ; Some for love of good beer, And others for good cheer, And others for to make fport. There was a gentleman, From London city came, The country for to fee j And all in the prime, Of jovial Chriftmas time, There merry for to be. This Londoner did fay, If the gentry would give way, That a trick to them he'd fhow, That an acorn he would fet, If they would pleafe to ha't, Which to a great tree fhould grow. The acorn he pull'd out, And fhewed it all about, In his hand then he took it again, In the prefence of them all, In the middle of the hall, He fat down the acorn plain. D E P W A D E. 19 While one could drink a cup, There did an oak fpring up, Which was fo huge and tall, With arms it fo put out, And branches all about, That it almoft fill'd the hall. This oak then did bear, Which was a thing moft rare, Acorns, both black and brown ; For which the fwine did bufk, And they did loofe their hufk, As they came tumbling down. This great oak there did fland, To the view of every man Who faw, it was fo plain ; But room then to afford, To bring fupper unto board, They wiih'd it gone again. jf Then loudly he did call, And two came into the hall, Who were both (lout and flrong; And with the tools they had, To workHfhey went like mad, And laid this oak along. I'll tell you here no lie, The chips there then did fly, Buzzing about like flies, That men were forced to ward, Their faces well to guard, For fear they fhou'd lofc their eyes. B 2 He 20 HUNDRED OF He bid them then be bold, And ev'ry one take hold, This oak for to carry away ; And they all hold did get, But cou'd not ftir't a whit, But ftill along it lay. He faid they had no ftrength, Which he would prove at length, For it (hould not lie long on the floor; Two goflings, young and green, They then came whewting in, And carried it out of the door. Then gone was the oak, That had fo many a ftroke, Before that it fell down ; Thus as it grew in hafle, So quickly did it wafte, Not a chip then cou'd be found. This ftory is very true, "Which I have told to you, 'Tis a wonder you didn't hear it; I'll lay a pint of wine, If Parker, and old Hind, Were alive, that they would fwcar it. Sir Thomas Knevet, of Afhwelthorpe, and Thorn- age, knt. eldeft fon and heir of fir Thomas Knevet, the elder, and Muriel Parry, his wife, died in Sept. 1605, in the life-time of his father, and was buried in St. Mary's church, at Fcltwell, September so ; he was knighted at the charter-houle, May 11,1 603, by- James I. In 1592 he married Elizabeth, fecond daughter D E P W A D E. 21 daughter and coheirefs of fir Nathaniel Bacon, of Stifkey, knight of the ba'.h, who furvived him. Thomas Knevet, of Afhvvehhorpe, efq. their fon, was baptized June I >, 1396, and inherited at the death of his grandfather. In 1625 he was fummoned- to receive the honor of knight of the bath at the co- ronation of Charles I. He died at Henham-hall, in Suffolk, the feat of his fon in-law, fir John Rous, knight and baronet, and was buried at Afhvvehhorpe July 2. 16 58, with this on a black marble grave- flone, in Thorpe chapel : Here lies loyal Knyvel, who haled anarchy, Lived a true Protcjlant, and died with monarchy. Obijt Junij '30, 1658. On this flone are the arms of Knevet, quartering Bourchier, and Bourchier quartering Burners. He married Catherine, fourth and youngefl daughter of Thomas lord Burgh, of Gainfborough, filter and co- heirefs of Thomas lord Burgh, her brother, who died under age j fhe was buried at Afliwelthorpe May i, 1646, leaving two fons, John and Thomas. Sir John Knevet, of Afhwelthorpe, their eldeft fon, was made knight of the bach at the coronation of Charles II. he married Mary, daughter of fir Tho- mas Bcdingfield, of Darfham, in Suffolk, knt. in 165^, and fettled on her the manors and advowfons of Afhwelthorpe, Wrenningham, Sec. In 1662 he was appointed by Horatio lord Townfhend one of the deputy lieutenants for the county, and dying June 28, 1673, was interred without any folemnity in the eait end of that chapel, in the church of Afh- welthorpe, belonging to his family, where there is a flone with his creft and arms, and a L.atin infcription. B 3 He 22 HUNDRED OF He gave a handfomc fet of communion-plate to the altar, and was high fherifF of Norfolk in 1682. Mary, his wife, furvived him, and dying April 18, 171^, aged 80 years, was interred in the vault of Afhwelthorpe chancel, by her hufband's body, with an infcription flone ; fhe lelt two fons and five daughters : 1. Thomas Knevet, efq. of Afhwelthorpe, eldeft fon and heir, was colonel of a regiment of militia in the county of Norfolk, died unmarried, and was bu- ried by his father, under a marble, Odober 4, 1693, aged 3 7. 2. John Knevet, efq. was captain of a foot com- pany in the fervicc of William III. and died at Lif- burne, in Ireland, unmarried, Feb. 15, 1659, and was buried in the church there. 1. Elizabeth, the eldeft daughter, married Tho- mas Glemhain, efq. of C-rlcmham- Parva, in Suffoll^ where they were buried. They had one child, Tho- mas, who furvived his parents, and was captain of a company of dragoons under brigadier Pepper, in Spain, in the fervice of queen Ann, and died un- married about 1711, at Valladolid, and was buried there. 2. Catherine, who by the death of all her brothers and fitters without ifftie became fole heirefs ; (he married, firft, John Hairis, of London, gent, by whom (he had no iffue ; fecondly, Richard Bucken- ha-ii, of VVeflon -Market, efq. high fheriff of Suf- folk, by whom flic had no ilfue. In 1720, fhe being wife to the faid Richard, claimed the barony of Ber- ners, and after a hearing in the houie of lords, their lordftiips D E P W A D E. 25 lordfhifis were of opinion, " That fhe had fully proved her claim to the faid barony of Berners, in fee. and had a right to the faid barony in fee ; and accordingly, by his majefty's command, fhe was al- lowed to be Catherine baronefs Berners, by defcent from John Bourchier, lord Berners, who was firft fummoned to parliament by writ, dated May 26, in in the 33d of Henry VI." She died December 3, 1743, and was buried at Weflon, by her hufband, aged 89. 3. Mary, died unmarried, Olober 29, 1710, aged 47, and is buried at Afhwelthorpe, under a marble grave-flone, with Knevet 1 s arms in a lozerige. 4. Jane, married Oliver le Neve, efq. of Great Witchingham, but died before her hufband, without iffue, June 19, 1704, and is buried under a black marble in the chancel of Great Witchingham, obijt 19 Junij, annojalutis nojlra 1704. 5. Muriel, died unmarried, and is buried in the chapel here; flie died Sept. 8, 1688. This branch being thus extinguished, the barony and eftate defended to the heirs of Thomas Knevet, efq. of Mutford, in Suffolk, fecond furviving fon, but third fon born, of Thomas Knevet, efq. eldeft fon and heir of fir Thomas Knevet, cf Afliwel- thorpe, who died in the life-time of his father. John Knevet, of Norwich, efq. only fon and heir of Thomas Knevet, efq. of Mutford, married Lucy, daughter and coheirefs of Charles Suckling, efq. of Bracondale, who are both dead, and lie buried at Trowfe ; they had five fons and three daughters ; the fons all died without iffue. The daughters were,, 64 i.Eli- 24 HUNDREDOF 1. Elizabeth Knevet, married Henry Wilfon, efq. of Didlington, in the hundred of South Greenhoe, who was buried firft at Trovvfe, but fince remoseJ to Afhwelthorpe; flie lived his widow, and was in pofieffion of the manors of Afhwelthorpe, Wrenning- ham, Fundenhall, and Hapton, by the will of the late lady Eerners, with the advovvfons of Aihwel- thorpe and Wrenningham, and had two fons, and one daughter, living. Mrs. Wilfon, who was the reprefentative of the ancient and honorable family of the Knevets, died Auguft 21, 1757. aged 65, and is fucceeded in eftate by Henry Williarri Wilfon, efq. of Didlington, the pivcfcnt lord and patron. 2. Lucy Knevet, now dead, married, firft, Mr. Thomas Holt, by whom (he had a daughter, named Elizabeth Ann; fecondly, John Field, carpenter, at Reading, in Berkfhire, by whom (lie had two daugh" ters, Lucy and Catherine. 3. Catherine Knevet, who died young; fo that now the barony* of Berniers, or Berners, is in aoey- ance, both the fillers having furviving iffue. The church hath a fquare tower, and four bells, a nave, chancel, and north chapel. There is a hand- iome ftone font, erecled by Thomas Knevet, efq. and Katherine Burgh, his wife; it is an oclagon, an4 hath. * Journal of the houfe of lords, die Marti s, 19 die Marti), 1694. " The heralds being tnis day heard at the bar, purfuant to an order of the i6th inftant, in relation to defcents of ba- ronies by writ, and (debate thereupon, &c. this queftion was put; Whether, if a perfon fummoned to parliament by writ, and fitting die, leaving iffue two or more daughters, who all die, one of them only leaving iffue, fuch iffue has a right to de- mand a fummons to parliament? It was refolved in the affir- mative." D E P W A D E. 25 hath eight fhields ; I. Thorpe; 2. Tilney impaling Thorpe; 3. Bourchier impaling Tilney ; 4. Knevet impales Bourchier; 5. Knevet impaling Harcourt ; 6. Knevet impales Parry, alias Vaughan ; 7. Knevet and Bacon ; 8. Knevet and Burgh. In the eaft window of the chapel, quarterly, France and Eng- land ; Scales impaling Northwoud; Burgh in the garter ; Thorpe and Bainard quartered. In the eaft chancel window, Thorpe 'and Barnard 1 . lu the belfry window, Bainard impaled with lozenge, erm. and gul. In the other windows, lord Morley. North- wood wiih the creft ; and Aflack, On a black marble, Knevet with a crefcent;-^ Dt- pojita Nathaniclis Knevet, armigcri, quiobijt 13 die Nov. A. Z). 1695. He was fon of fir Thomas Knevet, knt. In the eaft window are the remains of a knight in, armor, kneeling at an altar-tomb, and Knevet and Clifton quartered by him, with a crefcent; againft him is a woman kneeling, in the drefs of that age, with the faid quarters in a lozenge, impaling or. a fefs fab. furmounted by a Caltyr gul. and there was a picture of it at Afhwelthorpe, which we take to have been creeled either to the memory of that fir John Knevet who married Joan, daughter and heirefs of fir John Boutetort, of Mendiefham, in Suffolk, knt. or rather of fir John, his fon, and his wife, Eliza- beth, daughter of fir Condantine Clifton, of Buck- enham-caftle, knt. who was buiied in Wymondharu- abbey church, Sept. 1551. The rectory is valued in the king's books at 61, 135. 4d. and being fworn of the clear yearly value of 30! it is difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation. The 26 HUNDRED OF The church is dedicated to All Saints, and when Norwich Doomfday-book was made, fir Robert Fitz- John was patron. The re&or had a houfe and tevi acres of glebe, and it was valued at nine marks. The terrier hath a houfe and about eight acres of glebe. The church of Afhwell is down, and imme- morially annexed to Thorpe. There is weekly fer- vice here. The village hath about twenty families, and it paid to each tenth s6s. clear. The etymology of its name is, " The Thorpe by the well, or fountain at the afhes." Here was a guild of the Holy Tri- nity. In 1504 the tenor bell was made by the con- tribution of Sarah Sawer, and others. In 1298 Philip de Thorpe, reclor, brother to fir John de Thorpe, patron, was buried under a ftone, with a crofs only on it, on the north fide of the altar. John Snetel, of Wymondham, re&or, was buried in the church porch in 1420. John Brown, re&or, died December 27, 1593, anc * was buried here. John Harrifon, A. M. returned anfwer in 1 603 that he had ninety-one communicants in this In 1728 the Rev. John Browne, re&or, had it of the gift of Catherine baronefs Berners ; and in 1775 the Rev. Francis Leighton was prefented to the rec- tory of Afhwelthorpe by Henry William Wilfon, efq. lord and patron. From D E P W A D E. s, From the parifh regifter, in 1485, Thomas Longc, of Afhwelthorpe, went to the king's hod at Notting- ham. Rtgr. Caftonfol. 252. By which it feems he was a perfon of diflin&ion here. ASLACTON, alias HASKTON, OSLACTUNA, or OSLAC'S TOWN, and ESTINGTON, commonly called ASLINGTON, was a berewic to the manor of Forncet, was a league long, and half as much broad, and paid gd. to the gelt. Here was a focman, who held fix acres, belonging to Alan earl of Richmond, and pafll'd afterwards with the manor, which was granted from Forncet when Roger Bigot infeoffed William de Verdon, in the time of William II. and it remained in the Verdons till Vido de Verdon gave it in mar- jiage with his eldeft daughter, Alice, to Nicholas ,de Brunefle, who was -to hold it of Verdon at one fee ; and Nicholas gave it with Oriel, or Muriel, his daughter, in marriage to Walter Malet, and their heirs. In i "263 John de Vaux had a grant for a weekly market, and yearly fair here, now difufed, and for free-warren, by patent from Henry III. In 1309 William De- la-Park, of Ilketefhall, in Suffolk, (from whom the manor took the name of Park's) and his parceners, held the manor of fir John. Verdon, and he of the earl Marfhall, in right of Elizabeth, his wife; and in this family it continued till Joan Park, the fole heirefs of the family, inhe- rited it ; fhe firft married John Duke, efq. of Bramp- ton, in Suffolk, by whom fhe had iflue; fecondly, John Strange, efq. of Norwich, who releafed all right in this manor, 8cc. to Thomas Duke, and his heirs. Ambrofe 2 8 HUNDREDOF AmbrofeDuke, of Brampton, died in 1609 feifed of the manors of Park's here, Wa&on, and Hedden- ham, 8cc. leaving them to his fon, Edward, who married Catherine, daughter of fir Thomas Hol- land, of WortweJl-hall, knt. and in 1631, by the name of Edward Duke of Benhall, efq. fold the ma- nor to fir William Platers, of Billingford, 8cc. in truft for fir William le Neve, knt. This branch of the le Neves defcended from Jeffry le Neve, of Ti- vetfhall, whofe fon, Laurence, fettled at Afladon, where he was buried, May 17, 1587. Sir William le Neve was educated at Caius Col- lege, in Cambridge; created herald by the title of Mowbray, June 29, 1694; foon after made York herald ; afterwards norroy ; and at laft clarencieux, and knighted. In 1643 he was fent by Charles I. the day before the battle ofEdgehill, to the parlia- ment army under the earl of Eflex, with a proclama- tion of pardon to fuch as would lay down their arms; but when he offered to read it aloud in the carl's .prefence, and to deliver the effecl of it, that he might be heard of thofe that were prefent, the earl rebuked him with foroe roughnefs, and charged him, as he loved his life, not to prefume to fpeak a word to the foldiers, for obeying which command he was very uneafy ever after. He died unmarried, at Hoxton, near London, Aug. 15, 1661 ; and John le Neve, his brother, being dead before him, without iffue, in 1630, the manor and his eftate went to the heirs of his uncle, Jeffry le Neve, of Aflaclon, who married Margaret, daughter of Robert Burcham, of Afla&on, by whom he had four fons ; i. Jeffry the eldeft, who releafed to his fecond brother, William le Neve, clerk of Aflaclon; he had two wives, and Laurence le Neve, his eldeft fon and heir, was lord D E P W A D E. 29 lord here in 1697 ; he was then married, but had no iflue ; and his brother, Rich, le Neve, was unmarried in 1699 ; after this the manor was purchafed by theBux- tons, by the name of Afla&on's, Park's, or le Neve's manor, in Afla&on, the free rents being il. 7$. $d. per ann. and the copyhold rents 81. 6s. lod. q. and and John Buxton, efq. of Chanons, in Tibbenham, and Shadwell-Lodge, is the prefent lord, as alfo of William's manor*, in Aflaclon, and Forncet, the quit rents of which are only 45. yd. a year. The PRIORY MANOR was given to the prior of Thetford by Roger Bigot, their founder, together with the advowfon of the church, and it remained in that monaftery till its diflblution in 1540, when it was given with that houfe to the duke of Norfolk, and continued in that family till 1561, and then was fold to Charles le Grice, of Brockdifh, and John Tiler, who in 1564 fettled it on John Rivec, and Chriftopher Thetford ; and in 1572 Andrew Thet- ford had it. In 1574, after Charles le Grice's death, it was granted to Andrew Mansfield, of Norwich, gent, whofe daughter, Sufan, was married to the {aid Charles, who died feifed, and devifed it to pay his debts ; it was fold to Thetford, and by him, in 1598, to the Buxton's, in which family it now remains, John Buxten, efq. being lord. The quit-rents are 4!. 133. per ann. and the fines of this, and Park's manor, are at the will of the lord. The church is dedicated to St. Michael the Arch- angel, and was given by Roger Bigot to the priory of Thetford, * This was part of William's manor in Tacolneflon, which which was not granted by the earl of Aruadel to the Clere's with it, but to the Buxtons foon after. 5 o HUNDREDOF Thetford, of his foundation, to which it was appro- priated, and no vicarage endowed, but was fervedas it is now, by a parifh chaplain, or curate, it being a donative in the gift and nomination of the impro- priator. There was a re&ory-houfe, and two caru- cates of glebe ; it was firft valued at ten, and after- ivards at twelve marks. The prior was taxed for his fpirituals at twelve marks, and paid i6s. to every tenth, and for his temporals at ;1. 75. 3d. In 1603 the perpetual curate here returned anfwer, that there were 120 communicants, and that this town paid i6s. to every tenth. There are now (Blomefield) about thirty families, and weekly fervice, the falary being 20!. per ann. The impropriation always attended the priory ma- nor, and was left by Laurence le Neve, gent, to Reuben Gihnan, of Loddon, and his heirs ; and he at his death gave it to his younger brother, Mr. John Gilrnan. The nave, fouth aile, and fouth porch, are leaded, the chancel tiled ; the fleeple is round, and hath five bells. In the fouth aile, le Neve impaling Aldham ; For William le Neve, gmt. 1609. A tomb-ftone by the altar, For John le Ntve, tbijt 24 die Nov. anno Dom. 1559. Laurence le Neve died June 29, 1724, g6 by Stokes, who in 1603 was chaplain to the archbi- ihop of Canterbury, and returned anfwer, that there were 340 communicants in this parifib. In 1619 Thomas Stokes, L. L. B. was prefented by fir William Doyly, affignee of Thomas Denny, and was afterwards reclor of Heigham, by Norwich, from which, as alfo from this, and a temporal ellate of about 30!. per ann. he was ejected by the earl of Manchefter, April 28, 1(144., for abjence, keeping an mjujficient curate, oblerving the rules of the church, refufmg to contribute to the rebellion, and being an ale-houle haunter ; he had a wife and three children. In 1660 Edward Atkinfon was prefented by Ro- bert Barton, efq. he lies buried under an altar-tomb cm 44 HUNDREDOF on the fouth fide of the church-yard, with the arms of Atkinfon, obijt May 4, 1698, and was buried at the Friars- minors in London, arid by inquifition taken at her death, it was found rbrt her daughter and heirefs, Elizabeth, married to John Lord Mow- bray, had iffue John, created earl of Nottingham, who dying under age, ifTuelefs, was fucceeded by Thomas Mowbray, his brother, who was duke of Norfolk, earl of Nottingham, baron Mowbray, Se- grave, Bradfe, and Gower, knight of the garter, and, as Coke upon Littleton faith, the firfl earl mar- fhal that fliied hirnfelf earl marfhal of England t ; D 4 his * Sir Walter Manney, knt. in right of Margaret, his wife, held Forncet manors and honor in chief, as parcel, or head, of the barony, of the earl of Norfolk, by knights fervice, and 255. per annum paid for caftle-ward to Norwich cattle ; and he had free-warren belonging to the manor, which was worth twenty mark* a year. It had then a capital manfion houfe, 178 acres of land, 23 of meadow, divers woods and alder-carrs, two wind-mills, the fourth part of the tolls and profits of Stratton- market, lett at as. per annum, &c. f He was conftituted earl- marftial of England for life, but afterwards obtained it in remainder to the heirs of his body, with an union of the office of marfhal in the ccurts of king's bench and exchequer, and marftial cryer before the fteward, and marfhal 3 6 H U N D R E D O F his chriftian name was Thomas, in refpec"t to Tho- mas, the archbifhop of ihe diocefe of Canterbury. He was To much in the king's favor as to be created carl of Nottingham, to which honor he was advan- ced the very day his grandmother, Margaret, (the heir- efs of Brothenon) was created duchefs ; but as his greatnefs was founded in blood, fo he foon after ir- recoverably fell ; for being accufed by Henry of Bo- lingbroke, for words fpoken indecently of the king, whom he faid, " notwithstanding his fair pretences and oaths, meant to opprefs the duke of Lancafter, and others," that prince, though he had fo great a favor for him, for being aclive in the deftruclion of Richaid earl of Arundelt, his f.ither-in-law, and Thomas of Wcodftock, duke of Gloucefter, as to create him duke of Norfolk, and give him his father- in-law's forfeited eflate, yet he committed him prifoner to \-Vindfdr-cafile, and a challenge, or camp-ordeal, enfued between them, when the duke came to the place appointed for the combat, wi;h his horfe capa- rifoned with crimfon velvet, embroidered with filver lions and .mulberry-trees ; but the king then prohi- bited the combat, banifhed Henry, caned earl of Hereford, f;:r ten years, and the duke for life; and this happened ou the very day twelve-month that he had marfhal of the king's houfehold, and on that account he and his heirs iliould hear a golden truncheon, enamelled with black at each end, having the king's arrr.s engraven at the upper, and his own at the lower end. f He had two wives ; ift. Elizabeth { daughter of the lord Strange, by whom he had no iffue ; 2d. Elizabeth, fitter and only heircfs of Thomas Kitz-Alan, e^rl of Arundel, by whom ihe had iiTue Tho/nas lord Mowbray, beheaded at York, with Ri- chard Scroop, archbilhop of Canterbury, in the year 1405 ; John, his fccond fora, who fucceeded him ; Margaret, his eld- ell daughter, married fir Robert Howard, knt. Ifabel, the fe- cond daughter, imnied, firft, Henry Ferrers, of Groby, and afterwards fir James Berkeley, knt. father of William marquis D E P W A D E. 57 had been acceflary to the murder of the duke of Gloucefter : Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, were allotted for his exile, purfuant to which fentence he departed, but never returned ; for as he came from. Jerufalem, he died of the plague at Venice, in the year 1400, in the ift of Henry IV. feifed of this manor, with the court, called the " knighten-couit," thereto belonging, and Elizabeth, his widow, inhe- rited them, and afterwards remarried fir Gerard de Ulllete, knt. who held them till her death, in 1424. The knighten-court belonging to this manor was the ancient court, to which all thofe great men that held their feveral manors, lands, and tenements, of the Bigots honor, were obliged to do fuit and fervice, and pay catlle-ward for the guard of the earl's caftle at Norwich every three weeks, and to do their ho- mages, pay their reliefs and aids for the feveral knights fees they held of the honor, at every death, alienation, or aid, granted to the earl. It appears that there were many fees held both of the old and new feoffment in the Bigots times ; but it was greatly augmented in 1337, when the divifion of all the fees belonging to Thomas de Brotherton, late earl of Nor- folk, was made by the king's writ between his two daughters and heirefles ; Alice married fir Edward de Montague, and Margaret, fir John de Segrave, who had Forncet for his (hare, and above fifty knights fees, many of which he transferred from Rifing- Caftle, and other places, and added th^rn to the knighten-court here. : - I This court was held conflantly every three weeks, and had the following officers belonging to it: 1. An auditor, whofe bufmefs was once a year to audit and pafs the year's accounts, receive the money, and 5S HUNDRED OF and return it to die lord;- he was generally a man of ibme principal family in the county, and had a hand- fomc falaiy for life, it being held by patent. Sir Richard Fulmerfton, km. and feveral of the Kempes, Sec. were auditors. 2. The feodary, an office of honor and great pro- fit^ his bufinels was to take inquifuions at the death of each tenant that held any fees, or parts of fees, by knights feivicc, and inroll all deeds of alienations of any fees or parts thereof. 3. The collector, whofe office was to attend at the doing of all homages, and to receive all reliefs, aids, caflle-guard money, wards, marriage money, &c. 4. The ferjeant, who was the feodary's officer, to ferve all proceffes, make enquiries, ferve all funa- raonfes, return the jurors, and certify the deaths. 5. The bailiff, v:ho was to fummon the under te- nants, give notice of the courts, make feizures, re* turn copies of the rolls, &c. to the evidence-room. The feodary-book of this honor was laft of all re- newed in 4609, when the noble Henry earl of Nor- thampton, baron of Marnebill, lord guardian of the Cinque-ports, lord keeper of the piivy-feal, and knight the garter, was lord. It had then above fifty fees held of it in the county of Norfolk only. At the death of Elizabeth duchefs of Norfolk, in 1424, John Mowbray, licr fecond fon and heir, by the cleaih of his eldeft brother, fucceeded to the ho- nor and manor ; he was one of thofe valiant n0ble- rneri that ferved Henry V. and VI. in their wars with France, in which, having behaved with the greateft courage D E P W A D E. 55 courage and fidelity, he was by parliament reflored to the title and dignity of duke of Norfolk (being before ftiFed earl marfhal and earl of Nottingham only) in 1424. In 1414 he was at the fiege of Har- ileur with Hen ry V. where he got the flux by eating too much fruit, and fo was forced to return before the famous battle of Agincourt. In 1416 he was at the fiege of Caen, in Normandy, and continued in tho(e parts till that king's death,, and Was foon after retained to fervc Henry VI. in his wars, by whom he was made knight of the garter ; he died Oclober i g, 1433, at nis manor of Epleworth,, in the Ifle of Ax- holm, in Lincolnfhire, and was buried in the charter- houfe of the carthufians there: by Katherine, daugh- ter of Ralph Nevile, firft earl of Weftmoreland, and of Joan, his wife, daughter of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancafter, he had John lord Mowbray, duke of Norfolk,' earl MarQial and Nottingham, lord Segrave, Gower, &:c. knight of the garter, and lord of this ho- nor and manor, who in 1438 went ambaflador into Picardy, to make a peace between the kings of Eng- land and France, and had then a grant of a place and feat in parliament next to the duke of Exeter. In 1446 he went in pilgrimage to Rome; and in 1436 he had licence to vilit other holy places in Ireland, Scotland, Bretaigne, Piccardy, and Cologn, and to the blood of our Saviour at Wind if mark; as aiio to go a fccond time to Rome and Jerufalem, having vowed to do it for recovery of the king's health. In 1460 he was confirmed by Edward IV. jullice-itine- rant of all the forefts fouth of Trent, but died in 1461, and was buried in the abbey of Thetfqrd, as was Eleanor, his wife, daughter of William lord Bourchier, and fifler of Hen. Bourchier, earl of Eflfex. He was fucceededby his fon, John lord Mowbray, who during his father's lifetime was created earl Warren and Surrey by Henry VI. and by Edu'ard fro II UNBRED OF IV. was macle knight of the garter. In 1473 ^ iat kin?; retained him to ferve in the French wars ; he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Talbot, fir ft earl of Shrewsbury, and had iffue only one daughter; he died in 1475, and was buried by his anceftors in Theiford priory church, and this manor was affigned to Elizabeth duchefs of Norfolk, his widow, who prefentcd here in 1496; but the honor of Forncet went to Ann, their only daughter, who married Rich. Plantagenet, of Shrevvfbury, duke of York, lecond ion to Edward IV. who, becaufe the title of duke of Norfolk was by creation limited to the heirs male of the Mowbrays, he obtained a patent from his father, creating him duke of Norfolk, and 'earl Warren, with annuities of 40!. a year out of the revenues of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and 20!. per annum out of the profits of the counties of Surrey and Suffex, to be paid by the fheriffs of thofe coun- ties ; in right of his wife he was earl rnarfhal, and had the baronies of Mowbray, Segrave, and Govver, together with the vaft inheritance of her family. This Richard, vviih his brother, Edward V. was by the unnatural and cruel command of that monfter Richard duke of Gloucefter, their uncle, afterwards Richard III. barbaroufiy murdered in the Tower of London in 1485, and leaving no iffue, the inheri- tance of this great houfe fell to two heireffes, Ifabel and Margaret, daughters of Thomas de Mowbray, firft duke of Norfolk, the fir ft of whom married fir James Berkley, and the other fir Robert Howard, km. to whofe family this honor, manor, and advow- fon, palled, and hath continued in it to this day : we fhall therefore conclude our account of the Bigots and Mowbrays, and proceed to "the noble family of Howard*. The * Mr. Blomefield, in his efTay, concludes his accounts of tha Bigots and Mowbrays with the copy of an ancient manufcript, calkd D E P W A D E. 61 The moft honorable family of the Howards being not only the firft of this county, but of ail England, next to the royal family, we fhall treat of them at large in this place, this town being the chief, or head of the honor, beginning as far back as we can trace them, from the many ancient, pedigrees, roils, evi- dences, printed accounts, and other memorials, that we have met with concerning them, chiefly following that pedigree* which is in Caius College library, in Cambridge, the greateft part of it being proved by extracts out of authentic evidences and deeds, which are entered upo,n it. 1. Fulcho, orFulk; he is exhibited on his knees in armor, with a plume of feathers for his creft, on the top of his helmet; the fafli on which the fcab- bard of his fword hangs, goes in the form of a band, and is tied with a knot on his flioulder; he hath his . drawn fword creeled in his right hand; from the oval that he is drawn in hangs his fhield, made in the fhape of a heart, and on it, gul. a bend between fix crofs croflets fitche arg. which arms have been conftantly borne by the Howards to this day. 2. Galfrid, or Jeffery, foii of Fulk, fucceeded, who had two fons, Humphrey, the younger, arid 3. Alan Fitz-Jeffery, the elder, whofe fon, 4. William, took the firname of Wiggenhall, from the town f that name in Freebridge Marfhland, where he was born, and had lands confirmed to him by called " The Book of Pleas," now remaining rn the guild-hall in the city of Norwich ; which we omit, as thinking it a dull reiteration of what we have already faid on the fubjecl:, * The title of that pedigree is, Stsmma et accurata dtduftiv, preeclar# families Hiwardorum, ufqtte ad annum 1605. 62 HUNDRED OF by the abbot and convent of St. Edmund's Bury, HJ Suffolk ; he had three Tons ; Aikill, his fecond, and Wilfric, his third fon, both continued the fimame of Wiggenhall, but 5. John, his eldeft fon, took the firname of Hey- ward, Hauuard, or Howard, and was the firft of this family of that firname*, which, as we imagine, he took from the office of heyward there ; he married Lucy Germund, by whom he had 6. William Howard, of Wiggenhall, with whom fir William Dugdale begins the t pedigree of this noble family. This William being bred to the law, made fo great proficiency therein, and raifed fuch fortunes, that he was knighted about the 6th year of Edward I. and had his feat at Wiggenhall, where by various purchafes he acquired a confiderable eflate ; he had a brother, named Thomas, who was called iometimes Thomas de Wiggenhall, and fometimes Thomas Howard, of Wiggenhall; and alfo another brother, called Hugh Howard, who was inflituted to the vicarage of Wiggenhall St. German's, May 7, 1304^:. This William was fnfl appointed one of the * This name is faid, by different people, to be derived from different origins, as hot ward, the warden of an hall; hold- ~jjard, the warden, or keeper of any ftrong hold ; of hoch, high; and -ward, a warden; or hold, a favor; and -word, \vorthy , I'eui. or of hold, hofpitality, and ward ; but all thefe ^re little to our purpofe, otherwife than the natural origin of it, the Heyward, or Howard, being the high or chief warden, or keeper of any place or thing ; and indeed we believe that this John was the Heyward here. f* The Peerage, publifhed at London in 1715, begins with this William ; but the edition in 1741 with Hervey. 'J The Howards remained in thefe parts asany generation* after the chief branch removed. D E P W A D E. 6 5 the judges in the court of Common-pleas by Ed- ward I. about 1280; and on the i ith of OiHober, i 296, in the s^th of Edward I. he was (worn chief juftice of the King's-bench ; was conftantly fummon- ed to parliament till the time of Edward II. in which. year he was lent into Scotland with Robert de Wate- ville, on the king's affairs ; and on the rath of De- cember, 1307, had letters of protection from his ma- jefty to anfwer no funs, and not to plead to any thing till his return, which patent was produced in the i ft, sd, and 3d years of Edward II. fo that he did not return to fettle till after that time. By various deeds we find that he purchafed eftates in Walpole, Tilney, North Wotton, and many towns in that neighbourhood : he had two wives ; Alice, daughter of fir Robert Ufford, knt. by whom he had no iffue; and Alice, daughter of fir Edmund Fitton, of Wig- genhall, knt. by whom he had iffue John and Wil- liam ; he is faid to have died about 1308, but where buried we do not find; the Peerage, v. i. p. 7. faith, he is pourtrayed in glafs in judges robes in a window in Long Melford church, in Suffolk, with two other judges, and this infcription under them: Pray for the goodjiate. of William Haward, chief jujtis of Yng- land, and the : : : : P)cot and John Haiigh fu/lis of the law. 7. Sir John Howard, knt. his eldeft fon, fucceeded him, who in 1305 was gentleman of the bed-cham- ber to Edw I. afterwards fherifT of Noifolk and Suf- folk, andcuftos, or governor, of Norwich caftle ; went into the Scottifh wars, and to Gafcoigne, to fervc the king there ; his brother, William Howard, purchafed Eaft Walton manor, and many other eftates in Nor- folk ; but dying without iffue. before 1316, he be- tamc his fole heir. He married Joan, fitter of Ri- chard 64 HUNDRED OF chard de Cornwall, who furvived him, as appears from the inquifition taken at his death, in the 5th of Edward III. in the year 1330, when he was lord of feveral manors in Wiggenhall, Eaft Walton, Terring- ton, Souih Wotton, 8cc. and though it hath been faid that one Edmund Howard was brother to this iir John, we cannot find any thing like it, but take it to be a miftake for that Edmund Howard, who was prefented in 1309 by Edward II. to the -reclory of Weeting St. Mary ; now this iidmund we take to have been fon to a younger branch of the family. 8. Sir John Howard, jun. knt. fon and heir of fir John Howard, fen. knt. and Joan Cornwall, his wife, married Alice du Bois, daughter of fir Robert cm Bofco, or Bois, of Fersfield, knt. by ChriP.ian, daughter of fir William Laiimcr, knt. who in 1333 became fole heirefs to fir Robert du Bois, her only brother, and inherited the large eftate of that family. Sir John in 1335 was conftituted by Edward III. ad- miral of the king's whole fleet, from the mouth of the Thames northward ; in 1 344 was fherifF of Nor- folk ; and in 1346 obtained a grant for a market every Friday, and a fair yearly, at his manor of Wig- genhall, and had a new patent to conflituie him Ad- miral again ; he was efquire of the body to Edward III. and behaved well in the fiege of Calais, in the i ft year of that king ; he had iffue, g. Sir Robert Howard, knt. who married Marga-\ ret, daughter, and at length one of the heirefles of iir Robert Scales, knt. lord Scales and Newcels ; he liad all the Bois'$ eftates at the death of his mother, , in 1371. In 1378 he was committed to the Tower for detaining Margery de Narford from Alice lady Nevile, her grandmother; fir Robert died July 3, 1388, D E P W A D E. 65 1388, at Eaft Winch, where he lies buried. Accord- ing to the fettlement made by him in 1356, Margaret, his widow, enjoyed the greateft part of the Boil's eftate during her life; and at her death fhe was bu- ried by her hufband, who died before his father, leaving iffue, 10. Sir John Howard, knt. his eldeft fon and heir, who at his grandfather's death became heir to the whole eftate, except the manors of Brookes, in Suffolk, and Eaft Walton, in Norfolk, the former of which was fettled by fir Robert Howard on Edmund Howard, his fecond fon; the latter, on Robert Howard, his third fon ; but both dying without if- fue, they reverted to fir John, their elder brother, who was retained to ferye Richard II. for life, and had two wives : by Margaret, his firft wife, daughter and heirefs of fir John Plais, of Weeting, knt. he had iflue fir John Howard, jun. knt.* who married Joan, daughter and heirefs of fir Richard Walton, knt. and by her had Elizabeth Howard, their folc daughter and heirefs, who married John de Vere, twelfth earl of Oxford of the Vere family. Marga- ret Plais, his firft wife, died in 1391, and he married again to Alice, daughter and heirefs of fir William Tcndring, knt. and Catherine Clopton, his wife, who died in 1426, and was buried at Stoke-Neyland, in Suffolk, by her father, fir William Tendring ; and in 1437, when fir John, her hufband, died, he was buried by her. He had iffue by his laft wife two fonst; Henry, his youngeft, whofe only daughter, E Elizabeth, * Sir John Howard died in 1410, twenty-feven years before his father. f He had alfo by her two daughters ; Margaret, marrie 1 to fir William Daniel, knt. and Catherine, to Edward Nevile, lord Abergavenny. 66 HUNDREDOF Elizabeth, married Henry Wentwonh, of Cobham ; and fir Robert Howard, his eldeft, lord of Forncet manor and honor in his wife's right, died in his fa- ther's life-time, leaving ifiue by Margaret, daughter and coheirefs to Thomas dc Mowbray, duke of Nor- folk, by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and coheirefs of Richard earl of Arundel. i i . Sir John Howard, knt.* who began very early to diftinguifh himfelf in the wars. In the latter part of the reign of Henry VI. he accompanied John viC- count Lille to Blay, with 22000 men, and foon after marched to the relief of Chatillon with John earl of Shrewfbury, where that valiant earl was flain. In 1442 he was fent by Henry VI. to appeafe the great riot at Norwich. In 1460, in the ift of Edward IV. he was iheriff" of Norfolk and Suffolk, and confe- quently had the cuftody of Norwich-caftle, then the king's prifon, and was appointed one of the king's Carvers ; and in connderation of his great fervices obtained a grant of feveral manors, which were then in the crown by the attainder of John earl of Wilt- ihire. In the fecond of Edward IV. he had the joint command (with the lords Falconberg and Clinton) of the king's fleet, and did confiderable fervice againft Fiance, being alfo at that time treafurer of the king's houfliold. In 1467 he was iheriff of Ox- fordfhire and Bcrkfhire. In 1469, bearing the tide of lord Howard, (by which title, in 1471, he was fum- moned to parliament as a baron of the realm) he was made captain-general of the king's forces at fea, for baffling the attempts of the Lancaltrians, then making a powerful * Thus it appears, that this fir John Howard, the firft How- ard duke of Norfolk, by his mother, was defcended from Ed- ward I. by his fecond wife, Margaret, daughter to Philip the Hardy, king of France. D E P W A D E. 67 a powerful head under the flout earl of Warwick* In 1470 he was made deputy-governor of Calais and the Marfties, with lord Haflings, and having behaved with fingular prudence and fidelity, he obtained a grant in tail fpecial of divers lands and manors. In 1473 ne obtained of the king the wardfhip and mar- riage of fir John Bourchier, knt. lord Berners, then a minor, whom he afterwards married to 'Catherine Howard, his only iffue by his fecond wife. In 1477 he had a grant of the office of conftable of the Tower of London, and the next year was again made captain-general of the king's fleet againft the Scots, and was alfo inftalled knight of the garter in the reign of Edward IV. to whom he adhered faith- fully during the whole courfe of it; as he did to Richard III. after he had got the crown, (though without having any evil hand in the barbarous ac- tions which were exercifed thereto) fo that to oblige him the more, he was upon June 28, in the ift yeaf of that king's reign, made ear] marQial of England, and advanced to the dignity of duke of Norfolk, (Thomas, his fon, being then alfo created earl of Surrey) ; and the day preceding the king's coronation was conftituted high admiral of England for that day, alfo lord-admiral of England, Ireland, and Aqui- tain, for life; and at the fame tirne obtained a fpecial grant of divers manors and lordihips, and confirma- tion of his mother's inheritance, and among others this manor, advowfon, and honor, and of all the liberties, fmce, and now called the duke of Nor- folk's liberties, which were firft granted to John loid Mowbray. But thefe great honors and van: poffeffions were not long enjoyed; for in 1485, being placed in the front of the army at Bofworth-field. he was there flain.with the king, Auguft the 2sd; and being after- wards attainted, great pait of his eftate was feized E* by 68 HUNDREDOF by Henry VII. His body was brought back, and in- terred in the abbey church at Thetford. Catherine, daughter to William lord Molins, was his firfl wife, by whom he had one fon and four daughters ; Ann, married fir Edmund Gorge, knt. Ifabel, fir Robert Mortimer, of ElTex, knt. Jane, fir John Timperley ; and Margaret, fir John Windham, knt. By his ie- cond wife, Margaret, daughter of fir John Chetworth, knt. he had only Catherine, who married fir John Bourchier, lord Berners. 1 2. Thomas Howard, his fon and heir, being e fqu ire of the body % to Edward IV. was retained to ferve him in his wars. In the 15th of Edward IV. 1474, he was fheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk; and in the id of Richard III. 1483, was created earl of Surrey; and though he took part with the {lain king, being taken prifoner at Bofworth-field fighting in his own defence, yet did the conquering prince, Henry VII. receive him into his favor, made choice of him for one of his privy council, and in 1488 re- ftored him to his title of earl of Surrey, and em- ployed him to reflrain the Scots incurfions, and the northern infurreHons: about this time he fhared wirh Maurice, brother of William marquis of Berke- ley, the lands which came to them by inheritance, by reafon of his defcent from the coheirs to Mowbray duke of Norfolk. In 1499 he attended the king and queen to Calais ; and the next year was advanced to the high office of lord treafurer of England, and Co-much was he in his mailer's favor, that he confti- tuted him one of his executors ; and immediately af- ter the accefTion of Henry VIII. that prince nomina- ted him one of his privy council, renewed his patent of lord treafurer, and the year following made him carl marflial of England for life. In 1512, being fent general of the Englifli forces againft the Scots, he D E P W A D E 69 he flew James IV- king of Scotland, and routed their army at Flodden-field ; for which great fervice a fpe- cial grant paflfed by the king's order, that he, and the heirs male of his body, fhould for ever bear, 'as an honorable augmentation to his arms, on the bend of the Howards arms, the upper half of a red lion, (depicled as the arms of Scotland are) pierced through the mouth with an arrow. In 1513, February i, the king advanced him to the dignity of duke of Nor- folk, which title John, his father, (deriving his de- fcent, through the heirs female of Mowbray and Se- grave, from Thomas of Brotherton, fon to Edw. I.) did enjoy. At the fame time he had a new patent for the office of lord treafurer, and a grant of divers lordfhips and manors from the crown, and confirma- tion of many others ; among which the honor and manor of Forncet, then valued at 44!. per ann. and its appendages of Swanton, Southgate, and Callow- green, were included; and in 1516 he iffued his let- ters to fir Nicholas Appleyard, knt. chief flcward of his honor, and to other the learned counfel of the law, who were conftantly retained by him, and to John Crane, his high bailiff, to renew the extents, rentals, and evidences, of the honor and manors be- longing thereto, which was done very exally. In 1521 he performed the office of lord high fteward at the trial of Edward duke of Buckingham, and gave fentence of death upon him, but not without tears ; and in 1522 obtained a grant to his fon, Thomas earl of Surrey, of part of the faid duke's lands ; and re- figning to him his office of lord treafurer of England, he retired, with the king's leave, to his caflle at Framlingham, in Suffolk, where he kept an honor- able hbufe to his death, and being above eighty years of age, died there, on the ifl of May, 1524; and when he was carried out of that caflle, towards his burial in the abbey church at Thetford, " he cudc 3 '* not 70 HUNDREDOF 11 not be afked one grote for his debte, 1 " as appears from an exaft account of his life, which was fixed on a table by his monument. He married two wives ; firft, Elizabeth, daughter and fole heirefs to fir Fre- derick Tilney, km. and widow of fir Humphrey Kourchier, km. lord Berners, by whom he had eight fons, of which Henry, John, Charles, Henry, and Richard, all died young, and the other three furviv- ed him. viz. 1. Thomas, his eldeftfon, created carl of Surrey in his father's life-time. 2. Sir Edward Howard, knight of the garter, and lord admiral, was a man of as great account as any of his cotemporaries. In 1491 he was in an expe- dition then made into Flanders, in favor of the em- peror Maximilian. In 1509 he was made ftandard bearer to Henry VIII. who in 1512 conftituted him lord high admiral of England, when he convoyed the marquis of Dorfet into Spain, to aid Ferdinand the emperor againft the French ; and having fcoured the fcas, he landed in Britaigny, did great execution in that country, and returned home laden with honor and fpoils. This put the French to re-inforce their navy, and that encouraged the king to do the fame ; upon which, to the honor of this lord admiral, he fearched for the French, and met them coming out of Breft, and, after a Qiarp encountre, obtained a fig- nal victory. He was alfo fent after fir Andrew Bar- ton, the famous " Scotch pirate, 11 whom he fought and took. Afterwards the French could never dare to look out of Breft, fo that refolving to attempt them in their harbour, he entered a galley, and boarding the admiral of the f reach galleys, the grap- lings giving way, the galleys parted, and he was left in his enemies hands, where fighting courageoufly, in the D E P W A D E. 71 the heat of the a&ion he was borne over board, and loft his life. He married Alice, fifter and heirefs to Henry Lovel, lord Morley, and widow of fir Wil- liam Parker, knt. (he died April, 1313* His brother, 3. Lord Edmund Howard, was at Floddsn-field, and with his elder brother, lord Thomas earl of Sur- rey, led the van-guard of the army, and behaved very gallantly ; he was then a knight, and marfhal of the hoft. He married, firft, Joice, daughter of fir Richard Culpepper, of Hollingborne, in Kent, by whom he had three fons ; Henry, who died an in- fant ; fir George Howard, knighted in Scotland by Edward duke of Somerfet, in 1546 ; and fir Charles, flain in France; all dying without iffue; and five daughters; i. Margaret, married fir Thomas Aiun- del, knt. grandfather to Thomas the firft lord Arun- dei, of Wardour. 2. Catherine queen of England, fifth wife to Henry VIII. 3. Mary, married Edward Trafford, efq. 4. Joice, married John Stanney, efq. 5. Ifabel, married Bainton, efq. His fecond wife was Dorothy- daughter of Thomas Troys, efq. by whom he had no iffue. The faid duke by his firft wife had alfo three daughters : 1. Elizabeth, married fir Thomas Boleyn, after- wards vifcount Rochford, earl of VViltfhire and Or- mond, by whom fhe was mother of queen Ann Bo- leyn, who had by Henry VIII. her hufband, Eliza- beth queen of England. 2. Muriel, who firft married John Grey, vifcount Lifle, by whom (he had Elizabeth, wife of Henry Courtney, and fecondly, to fir Thomas Knevet, knt. and had iffue fir Henry Knevet. 4 The 7 s HUNDRED OF The aforefaid Duke's fecond wife was Agnes, daughter of Hugh Tilney, eiq. fifler and hei?efs>to fir Philip Tilney, of Bofton, in Lincolnshire, knt. aiid had iflfue by her, 1. William, afterwards created baron Howard, of Efiingham, of whofe defendants more will occur hereafter. 2. Sir Thomas, who marrying lady Margaret Douglas, daughter to Margaret queen of Scots, niece to king Henry, was attainted of treafon, on fome fufpicion of his afpiring to the crown, and di- ed in the Tower of London. 3. Richard, who died march 27, 1517, and was buried at Lambeth, with two ethers of his brothers who died infants, and four daughters, i. Anne, the eldefl, married to John Vere, earl of Oxford, but left no iflue by him. 2. Dorothy, to Edward Stanley, earl of Deiby. 3. Elizabeth, to Henry Ratcliff, earl of Suffex. 4. Katherine, married firfl to fir Rhefe-ap-Thomas, and afterwards to Hen- ry Daubeny, earl of Bridgewater. 13. Thomas, earl of Surrey, eldeft fon to the laft memioned duke, fuccecded him in hie honors ; in his father's life-time he commanded a Qiip under his brother Edward, who was then lord admiral, when the famous pirate fir Andrew Barton was taken, in 1512. He accompanied the marquis of Dorfet into Spain, in aid of king Ferdinand, 'againft the French ; and the faid marquis falling fick, he had the com- mand of the Englifh army. In 1513, upon the death of lord Edward, his brother, being then knight of the garter, he was conftituted lord high admiral in his D E P W A D E. 73 his ftead, and fo fcoured the feas, that not a French fiihing-boat durft be ieen ; and landing in \Vhitfand- bay, he ravaged the country thereabouts. Upon the invafion of James IV. in Scotland, he landed 5000 Telerans, and joined his father, the earl of Surrey, then general of the Englifh array, fending a meflagc to that king to jtiftify fir Adrew Barton's death ; at the battle of Fioddor-field he behaved gallantly, when he commanded the vanguard with his younger brother, Edmund, who being in great diftrefs, was fuccoured by him and fir Edward Stanley ; and in recompence of thefe fignal ferviccs, he was, foon af- ter, created earl Surrey, the fame day that his father was made duke of Norfolk, in the fifth year of Hen- ry VIII. and on a difpute in parliament concerning his place there, it was declared that he fhould fit ac- cording to his creation, and not as a duke's eldcft fon. In 1520, being appointed lord deputy of Ireland, he fuppreffed the O'Neal's and O'Carrols, and governed fo acceptably, that he gained the love of that coun- try. Afterwards, having performed many-fignal fer- vices in France, he was conflituted lord-ireafurcr, and made general of the king's whole army, defigned to march againft the Scots, and all this in his father's life-time ; after whofe death he was again made ge- neral of the army, at that time raifed to advance into Scotland, to fet the young king free, whom the duke of Albany kept then in cuftody at Sterling caftle. He afterwards attended the king into France, and was fent chief ambafTador to the French king, to at- tend him to Nice, and commune with the pope, as to his delaying king Henry's divorce. In 1536 he marched to the affiftance of the earl of Shrewfbury, when he fuppreffed the refurre&ion in Yorkfhire, cal- led " the pilgrimage of grace," raifed on account of the difiblution of the leffer monaftries, and was foon after made lieutenant-general of all the king's forces beyond 74 HUNDREDOF beyond the Trent. But after all thefe fignal fer vices, (fo little gratitude reigns among the great) by the in- Gnuating peri'uafions of forac of the nobility (be- caufe on fome occafion he had called them " the new raifed men," which they counted a difhonor to them), the king was fo far milled and incenfed againft him, that he not only lent him prifoner to the Tower, but gave otder for feizing his goods, and gave notice to his ambaffadors abroad, that he and his fon had con- fpired to take upon them the government during his life, and after his death to get the prince into his hands ; all which jealoufies (the king being in a de- caying and weak condition) fo far prevailed, that the duke, and his fon, Henry earl of Surrey, were both attainted in parliament ; the earl loft his head, and the duke had fared no better, had not the death of that inexorable prince haftened him to give an account of his own adions, at that bar to which he had fo lately fent the fon, and defigned to have hurried the father alfo. However, though his life was fpared, yet his enemies fo far prevailed over him in the reign of Edward VI. that though a pardon was given by proclamation to all perfons of what crimes foever, yet was he, with five others, excepted by name. As to the particulars laid to his charge, though the aft of attainder itfelf be not on record, the aft of re- peal in the reign of queen Mary I. rcciteth, that there was no fpecial matter in the aft of attainder, but on- ly general words of treafon and confpiracy, and that out of their care for the prcfervaticn of the king and prince they paffed it. And this aft of repeal further lets forth, " that the only thing with which he flood charged, was for bearing of arms, which he and his anceftors had borne both within and without the kingdom, in the king's prefence, and fight of his progenitors, which they might lawfully bear and give, as by good and fubftamial matter of record it did D E P W A D E. 75 did appear." It alfo addeth, " that the king died after the date of the commiiTlon." Likcwife, " that lie only empowered them to give his confent, but but did not give it himfelf ; and that it did not ap- pear by any record that they had given it." Moreover, that the king did not fign the commifHon vviih his own hand, his (lamp being only fet to it, and that not'at the upper part, but to the nether part of it, contrarv to the king's cultom.' 1 At the attainder all the manors and eftates of the duke were feized, and among others, the manor and honor of Forncet, of which a curious furvey was then made. He afterwards retreated to his palace at Kenninghall, in Norfolk, where he died in 1554, and was buried at Fraraiing- ham, in Suilolk. He had two wives; the firfl was Anne, third daugh- ter to king Edward IV. by whom he had a fon named Thomas, who died young on the third ofAuguft in the twenty-third year of the reign of Henry VII. and was buried at Lambeth, though fhe lies buried at Framlingharn, in Suffolk. His fecond wife was ^lizabeth Stafford, eldeft daughter to Edward dukef of Buckingham, by whom, he had two fons* ; Henry, earl of Surrey t, beheaded in * He had four daughters, Jane, wife of Charles Nevlle, earl of Weftmoreland ; Margaret, married to Henry lord Scroop, of Bolton ; Kstherine, to Henry lord Berkeley. f This Henry carl of Surrey married Frances, daughter to John Vere, earl of Oxford, Thomas the fourth duke of Nor- folk, and Henry, were reftored in blood in Parliament in the firft year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, and on May j, in the reign of James I. he was made privy-counfellor, warden of the Cinque-ports, and conttable of Dover-caftle ; and the 1 3th of March following he was advanced to the title and ho- nor of baron of Marnhiil, in Dorfetlhire, and dignity of earl of Northampton, and one of the commiflioners for the office of arl marihal of England, and April 24, 1605, made knight cf 76 HUNDRED OF in his life-time, and Thomas, who married Elizabeth, one of the daughters and co-heireffes to John lord Marney, and Chriflian, his wife, daughter andheirefs cf fir 'Roger Newburgh, knt. He had livery -of the lands of her inheritance, was reftored in blood in the firft of queen Mary I. and in the firft year of the reign of queen Elizabeth was advanced to the tide of vilcount Howard, of Bindon in Dorfetr*ii-e, and foon after fummoned to parliament, and died, February 14, 1582, leaving four fons ; Henry, who fucceeded him in his honor, but dying without male iffue, Thomas, his next brother, enjoyed the title of vifcount Howard, of Bindon, and was inflalled knight of the garter in the fourth year of the reign of James I. but died without iffue. 14. Thomas, the elded fon of Henry earl of Surrey, on the death of his grandfather became the fourth duke of Norfolk, of this family, being then upwards of eighteen years of age : he was fully re- ftored in blood, and the acl of his grandfather's at- tainder made void in the reign of Mary I. In the fecond year of that queen he commanded the forces againft the Kentifh men, and continued in efteem all her reign, and was inftalled knight of the garter in the iirft of Elizabeth; and in the third year of the reign of that queen he was conflituted lieutcntant-general for the northern part of the realm. In 1365 he, with Robert earl of Leicefler, was folemnly inverted with the habit and enfigns of the order of St. Michael, in the chapel of the queen's palace at Weftminfter, by an embaffy fent from the French king. In the ele- venth year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, being lufpecled to be not only a favorer but a great ad- mirer the garter; and in 1608 lord privy-feal : he died June 2 1614, and lies buried under a goodly monument in the church of Dover-caftle. He was a man of ready wit, furprifing elo- quence, and excellent learning, and died fingle at his houfe, Gharing-Crofs. D E P W A D E. 77 mirerof Mary queen of Scots, he was caft into pri- fon, accufed of defigning to marry her, tried, con- demned, and beheaded, June 2, 1572, in the fifteenth year of the reign of queen Elizabath, on Tower-hill'"', to the great grief of many, for he was a good man, and much beloved by his country. He married three wives, firft, Mary, daughter and co-heirefs to Henry Fitz-Alan, earl of Arundel, by whom he had Philip earl of Arundel, his fon and heir. She died at Arundel-houfe in the Strand, Aug. 25, 1557, and was buried in St. Clement's church, near Temple-bar. His fecond wife was Margaret, daughter and fole heirefs to Thomas lord Audley, of Walden, chan- cellor of England, widow of Henry Dudley, a young- er fon to John Duke of Northumberland, who was flain at St. Quintin's, in Picardy, in 1557, by whom he had Thomas, afterwards lord Howard, of . Walden, and duke of Suffolk, (of whofe defcent more hereafter). Secondly, William lord Howard, of Naworth-caftle, in Cumberland, born Dec. 19, 1563, and two daughters, Elizabeth, who died an infant, and is buried at Framlingham, in Suffolk, and Margaret, born Aug. i, 1562, afterwards mar- ried to Robert Sackvile, earl of Dorfet. This du- chefs died at Norwich in 1563, and is buried in the church of St. John Maddermarket. His third wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Fran- cis Leibourn, knt, widow of Thomas lord Dacres. of * He was a great friend and benefaftor to the office of arms, was earl of Surrey, earl marlhal of England, lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Brufe of Gowtr, and privy councilor. He is buried in the chapel of the Tower, and {he at Kenninghall. 78 HUNDRED OF of Gillfland, by whom he had no iftue. She died in 1567, and was buried at Kenninghall. 15. Philip Howard, fon and heir to the laft men-* tioned duke, was earl of Surrey, lord Howard, Mowbray, Segrave, and Brufe of Govver, and carl marfhal of England ; alfo, in right of his mother, he affumed the title and honor of earl of Arundel, with the appurtenances thereof, it having been anti- ently adjudged in parliament to be a local dignity. fo that the poffeiTors thereof fhould enjoy that tide of honor. Whereupon he fat in Parliamant by the ti- tle of Philip earl of Arundel in the twenty-third year of the reign of queen Elizabeth, in which parliament he was reftored in blood from the attainder of his father, Thomas duke of Norfolk, beheaded in the year 1572. This noble peer being a mofl zealous papift, was much maligned ; being accufed to queen Elizabeth by fome of his potent adverfaries for holding a cor- refponce with cardinal Allen, Parfons the Jefuit, and others, the took a great diflike to him ; for which reafon, after the (iricl laws made again ft the papills, he endeavoured to go beyond the feas without leave, but being difcovered, was apprehended and commit- ted to the Tower, in the year 1584, and his eftate feized ; and among others, this honor and manor of Forncet, of which the queen took immediate poffef- fion, and demifed part of it to William Pennant for twenty-one years, namely, all that part which, af- ter the attainder of Thomas, late duke of Norfolk, had been granted the lady Mary, the then king's fifter, and by her had been leafed to the faid William. In 1586 he was fined io,oool. pounds in the flar- chamber for his mifdemeanors and attempt to go be- yond the feas ; and three years after was arraigned aud B E P W A D E> 79 and condemned by his peers in Weftminfter-hali for divers praHces in relation to his religion, and fa- voring of the Spaniards ; nevertheiefs, by the queen's grace, he obtained her pardon for his life, but con- tinued prifoner in the Tower, and at length died in cuftody there, Nov. 19, 1595, being not full forty years of age, having, during his imprifonment, lived in the feverity of his religion a moft ftrift and auftere life. He married Anne, fifler and co-heirefs to George lord Dacres, of Gillfland, by whom he had his only fon. 16. Thomas earl of Arundel, who was born during his father's imprifonment, and was reilored in blood by James I. in the year 1602, in the parlia- ment held at Weflminfter in the firft year of his reign, and had livery of all eftates from that prince, and, among others, of his honor and manor of Forncet. He was earl of Arundet and Surrey, earl marflial', and premier earl of all England, knight of the moft noble order of the garter, one of his majcfty's mofl honorable privy-council, and lord fteward of the houfliold, and by Charles I. was conftituted chief juflice of the forefts norch of the Trent, and general of the army in the firft expedition to Scotland, in the year 1638. He fat as lord high fteward of Eng- land in Wefttninfter-hall, at the remarkable trial of Thomas Wentworth, earl of Stafford ; fhortly after which, forefeeing the civil wars then beginning in Eng- land, he willingly refigned his ftaffof lord fteward of the houfehold, refolving to travel. His lady alfo took the the fame refolution, and a fair and honor- able opportunity prefently offered, for the queen mo- ther of France, having been in England about two years, was at this time neceffitated to return, and ihe 8a HUNDRED OF the cane of conducing her to the fca-fide, and wait- ing on her over, was committed to this eail, who af- terwards fpent fome time at Utrecht, but in the win- ter returned to England, and by reafon of his fpecial fervices and great merits, as alfo in refpecl; of his li- neal defcent from Thomas de Brotherton, earl of Norfolk, (a younger fon to Edward I.) was by letters patent, dated June 6, in the soth of Charles I. ad- vanced to the title of earl of Norfolk ; fhortly after which, difcerning the flames of war to encreafe daily, his age and infirmities alfo rendering him unfit for any further employment, he obtained leave of the king to travel ; whereupon retiring to Padua, in Italy, he died there, Sept. 14, 1646, in the 61 ft year of his age, and his corpfe being brought over, was buried at Arundel, in Suflex. He married lady Ala- thea*, one of the daughters and coheireffes of Gilbert Talbot, earl of Shrewfbury, by whom he had iffue, i.James lord Mowbray, and lord Maltravers, who was one of the knights of the bath at the coronation of Charles I. and after making the tour of France, and Italy, died in his return, at Gaunt, in Flan- ders, unmarried. 2. Henry lord Mowbray, who fucceeded him. 3. Thomas. 4. Gilbert. G.Charles, who all died infants, in their father's life-time. Wil- liam, the fifth fon, married Mary, fifter and fole heirefs to Henry lord Stafford, and in the i6th of Charles I. was created baron of Stafford, and fhe at the fame time baronefs of Stafford, from whom the, prefent earl of Stafford is defccnded. During this time this manor and honor paffed in the tru flees of the family, along with Fersfield manor. This mod noble earl was the greateft favorer of arts, and promoter of fciences, that we have met with * She brought the title of baronefs Strange, of Blackmere, to her hufband. D E P W A D E. Si with. He had an excellent knowledge in painting, iculpture, carving, building, and defigning, his col- lection of defigns exceeding that of any perfon then living, and his flames were equal in number, value, and antiquity, to thofe in the houfes of mod princes ; to gain which, he had perfons many years employed both in Italy, Greece, and many parts of Europe where rarities were to be bad ; all which w^ere by him placed in the garden, and certain rooms belong- ing to Arundel-houfe, in the Strand, and are accu- rately defcribed in that tracl; of his, intitled " Mar- mora Arundeliana," and will remain a lading monu- ment of his highly deferved fame to future ages. Henry duke of Norfolk, his grandfon, beftowing them on the univerfity of Oxford, they were orderly placed in the walls, inclofing the ftately theltre, but are fmce removed to a room over the Bodleian li- brary. His paintings likewife were numerous, and of the moft excellent matters, having more of that exquifite painter, Hans Holben, than were in the world be- fides. He had the honor to be the firft perfon of quality that fet a value on them in our nation, being alfo the perfon that brought in uniformity of build- ing, and was chief commiffioner to fee it performed in London ; he was likewife fumptuous in his houfe- hold fluff; full of date and magnificence in his en- tertainments, efpecially offtrangers; at his table very iree and pleafant ; he was more learned in men and manners than in books, yet underflood the Latin tongue very well, and was matter of the Italian; he was a great favorer and admirer of learned men, as appears by his intimacy with Mr. Cambden, Mr. Selden, fir Robert Cotton, and fir Henry Spclman, the lights of their age. He was a promoter of order and ceremony, and kept greater diilance towards his F fovcreigu S 2 HUNDREDOF foverefgn than any perfon at court, often complain- ing, that the too great affability of the king, and the French garb of the court, would bring majefty into contempt. In council he was grave and fuccio&j rather difcharging his confcience and honor, than complying with particular intcrcfts, and fo was never at the head of bufinefs, or principal in favor. He was free from covetoufnefs, and fo much above a bribe of gratuity (for favors done) as no perfon ever duift tempt him with one. He was in his religion no bigot, or puritan, and profefifed more to aflccl: moral virtues, than nice queftions and foolifh con- troverfics ; if he was defective in any thing, it was that he could not bring his mind to his fortune, which, Upough very great, was far too little for the va'lnefs^tf his noble defigns, which were only for the glory and ornament of his country, and may well be excufed. When he was conftituted earl marfhal of England, he revived that honorable court, which had been anciently held by the conftable and marfhal jointly, wherein remedy was given for fuch abufive provocations as might occafion no little bloodfhcd by duels, or other mifchievous ways of revenge; and fome fcruple being made as to the ju- riftliclion of earl matflial alone, he the year after obtained other letters patent, bearing date Auguft i, 1621, in the soth of James I. whereby ,.the king, after mature advice had with the lords of his council, did declare, that in the vacancy of the conftable of England the earl marfhal had the like jurifdi&ion in the court, as both conftable and marfhal, jointly, ever exercifed, and commanded him to proceed accord- ingly ; which he thereupon did, with much honor to himfelf and his authority, and to the great fatisfac- tion of the nobility and gentry of the realm, in cafes where they received fuch affronts and injuries; for which D E P W A D E. 83 which (by the rule of the common law) no rcdrefs could be had, until by the votes oF a predominant party in that parliament, (which deftroyed monarchy and epifcopacy, and brought all things into confu- fion) his jurifdi&ion in the court was queftioned. 17. Henry Howard, lord Mowbray and Malsra- vers, (as he was called in his father's life-time, and as fuch fat in parliament) fucceeded him in his ho- nors. In 1626 he married lady Elizabeth Stuarr, eldeft daughter of Efme Stuart, lord of Aubigny, earl of March, and afterwards duke of Lenox , but it being without the king's confent, he and his ladv were confined fame time to Lambeth, with archbi- fliop Abbot; but after that he was called up by writ to the houfe of peers, as lord Mowbray and Maltra- vers. When the rebellion broke out in 1461, he faithfully adhered to the king, and ferved in his ar- my till about the end of the year 1465, when he vi- fited his father in Italy, was with him when he died, and returned with his corpfe into England. During the tyrannic government of his native coun- try under Cromwell, he lived retired to his death, which happened April 17, 1652, when he was bu- ried at Arundel. He had by his lady nine fons, and three daughters, whereof Ann died young; Ca- therine married John Digby, of Gothurft, in Buck- inghamfhire, efq. and Elizabeth, Alexander Macdon- uel, grandfon to the earl of Antrim, in Ireland: his foils were, Thomas, Henrv, Philip*, Charles, Talbot, Edward, Francis, Bernard, and Efme. 2 1 3. Thomas * Philip Howard, the third fon, travelling with his grand- father, Thomas earl of Arundd, into Italy, took up the habit of a Dominican, or black friar, at Cremona, at fifteen years of age; and on the marriage of Charles II. with Catherine t|ie In- fanta 84 HUNDRED O F iS. Thomas Howard fucceeded him in Jiis titles of earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk ; and after the reftoration of Charles II. in the year 1661, at the humble petition of James Howard, earl of Suf- folk, Thomas Howard, earl of Berkfhire, William Howard, vifcount Srafford, Chailes lord Howard, of Chailton, Edward lord Howard, of Efrick, Charles lord Hovvaid, of Naworth, all lineally defcended from Thomas the laft duke of Norfolk, and above eighty others of the nobility, he was reftored by acl: of parliament to the title of duke of Norfolk, to re- main to him and the heirs male of his body, w r ith all the privileges, precedencies, and pre-eminences thereunto belonging; by which he became the fifth duke of Norfolk: but dying at Padua, in Italy, in 1678, unmarried, the title and eflate defcended to his next brother, 19. Henry Howard, the fixth duke of Norfolk, who on March 26, 1669, in the sift of Charles II. was created lord Howard, of Cattle-Riling, in the county of Norfolk ; and on the 2gth of December, 16-2, in confideration of the eminent fervices done by his noble father and grand-father, to Charles I. and the crown of England, at home and abroad, as alfo for many perfonal fervices performed to Charles II. in his exile, was created earl of Norwich, which honor was limited to hin- and the heirs male of his body; and alfo by the Tame patent had the office and dignity ot earl marfhal of England granted, with ail rights, powers, jurildiclions, precedencies, and authorities thereto belonging, &c. to him and the heirs fanta of Portugal, became lord almoner to her, and continued in her fervice feveral years; but retiring to Bornheim, in Flan- ders, to an Englifti convent of his own order, he had a cardinal's cap fent to him there by pope Clement X. in May, 1675, and made his public entry into Rome with great magnificence. D E P W A D E. 85 heirs male of his body; and for default of fuch if- fiie, to the heirs male of the body of lord \\ illiain. Howard, of Navvorth, in the countv of Cumberland, youn:?;eft fon to Thomas duke of Norfolk, (who was beheaded in the 15th of Elizabeth) ; and for default of fuch iffue, to Charles Howard, carl of Notting- ham, and the heirs male of his body. He was born July 12, 1628, and died at his houfe in Arundel- flreet,Jan. 11, 1683. He married to his firft wife, lady Ann Somerfet, eldefl daughter to Edward mar- quis of Worcefter, by Elizabeth Dormer, his firft wife, and by her he had two fons and three daugh- ters ; by his fecond wife, Jane, daughter of Ro- bert Bickerton, efq. gentleman of the wine cellar to Charles II. (a lady famed for her beauty and accorn- plifhments) he had, firft, lord George Howard, who married Arabella, daughter and fole heirefs to fir Ed- mund Allen, of Hatfield-Peverel, in the county of Effex, bart. widow of Francis Thompfon, of Hum- bleton, in the county of York, efq. and died March 6, 1720, without iffue. The fecond fon was lord James Howard, who died a bachelor, being drowned in Auguft, 1702, attempting to ride over Sutton- wafh, in Lincolnshire. The third fon was 'lord Fre- derick Henry Howard, who married Catherine, daugh- ter to fir Francis Blake, of Oxfordfhire, relicl of fir Richard Kennedy, of Mount Kennedy, in Ireland, bart. and died March 16, 1726, his lady furviving, who died January 23, 1731. Lady Catherine, and lady Ann, both nuns in Flanders ; and lady Philip- pa, married to William Standifh, of Standifh-hall, in the county of Lan caller, efq. and died in January, 1683. The duke's daughters by his firft wife were, the ladies Ann-Alathea, Elizabeth, and Frances, where- of the latter was married to the marquis Valparefa, a F 3 Spanifh 86 HUNDRED OF Spanifh nobleman in Flanders ; the fecond, to Alex- ander Gordon, marquis of Huntley, in Scotland, who was created duke of Gordon in that kingdom ; and the elded died in her infancy. His ions were, Henry, and Thomas* This lord Thomas Howard, at the coronation of James II. as lord of the manor of Workfop, in Nottinghamfhire, claimed to find the king a right-hand glove, and to fupport the king's right arm while he held the fceptre; and it being allowed, he performed that fervice. In 1685 he was made mafler of the robes to James II. and be- i;;g of the Romifh religion, was in great efleem at court; fo that in 1688, when king James withdrew himfelf into France, this lord (oon after attended mm into Ireland ; but in his return to Breft was un- happily caft away at fea, in November, 1689. His lordfhip, in Oclober, 1681, married Mary Elizabeth, daughter and fole heirefs of fir John Savile, of Cop- ley, in the county of York, bart. who died in No- vember, 1 733, and by her left a daughter, Mary, married to Walter lord Aflin, of Forfar, in Scotland, and feated at Standon, in Hertfordshire, and died in i 723 ; he had five fons, Thomas the eighth duke of Noifolk, Sec. 20. Henry Howard, feventh duke of Norfolk, was born Jan. 11, 1654, and on January 27, 1677, was fummoned to parliament by writ j|by the title of lord Mowbray ; and upon the death of prince Rupert was made conflable of \Vindfor-caftle, waiden of Wind- for-foreft, and lord lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum. of the counties of Norfolk, Surrey, and Berks ; and on May 6, 1685, in the ift of James II. being elected knight of the moft noble order of the garter, he was inftalled the 2-sd of July following. This Duke obtained a commiffion under the great feal, dated D E P W A D E. 87 dated Auguft 13, 1687, in the 9,d of James II. whereby his grace, as earl marfhal of England, fliould revive and hold a court of chivalry, Sec. and felting out for France the 24th of March following, confli- tuted his brother, lord Thomas Howard, his lieute- nant in the court of chivalry, and fir Thomas Ex- ton, and fir. Richard Raines, f urrogates. His grace returned from Flanders July 30, 1688 ; and on the landing of the prince of Orange in England, being then in Norfolk, he immediately declared for him, and brought over this, and fome of the adjacent counties, to his intereft, for which fervicc lie was foon after fworn of his privy-council, and fo conti- nued to his death ; afterwards he was made conftable and governor of his majefty's royal caftle at Wind- for, lord warden of Windfor-foreft, lord Meutenant of the counties of Norfolk, Surrey, and Berks, and of the city of Norwich, and county of the fame, as alfo cuftos rotulorum for the counties of Norfolk and Berks, and fellow of the royal fociety. He died at his houfe in St. James's-fquare, April 2, 1701, having married the lady Mary Mordaunt, daughter and fole heirefs to Henry earl of Peterborough, from whom he procured a divorce in parliament for incon- tinency, which in the year 1 700 pafTed both houfes ; and having no children by her, he was enabled. to marry again ; but leaving no iffue, his honor and cflate delcended to the eldefl fon of his brother, lord Thomas, viz. 21. Thomas Howard, the eighth duke of Nor-, folk, who was born December u, 1683; and in 1709 his grace was married to Mary, fole daughter and heirefs to lir Nicholas Sherbourne, of Stony- Hurft, in the county of Lancafter, bart. but dying without iffue, Dec. 23, 1732, (Henry, his next bro- F 4 ther, 8S HUNDRED OF thcr, being dead without iilue) his honor and eft ate went to his third brother, 22. Edward Howard, ninth duke of Norfolk, Sec. lord of ihe honor and manors of Forncet. He married, in the year 1727, Mary, daughter to Edward Blount, of Blagden, near Torbay, in the county of Devonflrire, efq. a younger fon of fir George Blount, of Sodington, in Worceflerfhire, bart. The honorable Richard Howard, his next brother, died without iffue. Philip Howard, efq. of Buck- enham-houfe, in Norfolk, his youngcft brother, rnanied January 7, 1723, Winifred, daughter of Thomas Stoner, of Waclington-park, in the county of Oxford, efq. by whom he had a fon, named Tho- mas, born February 3, 1727, fmce dead, and a daughter, named Winifred. Since the deceafe of his lady, he temarried, Nov. 1739, Mrs. Proley, widow, a fitter to the ducheis dowager of Norfolk, by whom he had no male iffue. He died in the life-time of his brother, the late duke, on whole de- mi fe in 1777, without iffue, the honors and eftates devolved on the neareft heir male, Charles Howard, efq. of Greyftock, in Cumberland. 23. The high, puifTant, and moil noble prince, CHARLES HOWARD, the prefent duke of Norfolk, earl marfhal, and hereditary earl marfhal of Eng- land*, earl of Arundel, Surrey, Norfolk, and Nor- wich, * Creations.] Earon Howard by writ of Summons to parlia- ment by Henry VI. 15 Oft. 1470; lothof IV. and alfo 19 Aug. 1472, 1 2th of Edward IV. earl marfbal, and duke of Norfolk, and earl of Surrey, 28 June, 1483, ift of Richard ^ confirmed earl of Surrey, 3 Nov. 1492, 8th of Henry VII. and D E P W A D E. S 9 \\lch, baron of Mowbray, Howard, Segrave, Brevvfc of Govver, in Carmanhenfhire, Fitz-Alan, Warren, Clan, Ofwaldeflre, Maltravers, Greyflock, Furnival, Verdon, Lcvetot, Strange, (of Blackmere) and How- ard, of Caflle-Rifing, premier duke, earl, and baron o! England, next the blood royal, chief of the truly illuftrious family of the Howards, and lord of the honor and manors of Forncet. His grace the prefent duke is decended from Charles, fourth fon> of Henry earl of Arundel, Sur- rey, and Norfolk; by Elizabeth, daughter of Efmc Stuart, lord d'Aubigny, earl of March, afterwards duke of Richmond and Lenox. He was born in 1720, and in 1739 was married to his prefent duchefs, Catherine, daughter of Tho- mas Brockholes, efq. of Lancafliire, by Mary, his wi l e, who is lineally defcended from Henry lord Scroop, of Bolton, in Yorkfhire, knight of the mod noble order of the garter, by Eleanor, daughter of and again 13 May, 1509, ift of Henry VIII. again earl of Surrey, and duke of Norfolk, i Feb. 1513, 5th of Henry VIII. earl of Arundel, in the county of Sulfcx, (a feudal ho- nor, or local dignity, as adjudged in parliament, 8 July, 1433, j ith of Henry VI.) by inheritance and poflelfion of that caftle only, without any other creation, alfo by fummons to parlia- ment, 1 6 Jan. 1 5 Bo, 23d of Elizabeth. By defcent originally, as well before as after the conqueft, by William I. and by Maud the emprefs, in the time of king Stephen, confirmed by Henry II. and alfo June 27, 1189, ift of Richard I. earl of Nor- folk, 6 June, 1644, zoth of Charles I. duke of Norfolk by aft of parliament, with an entail on the heirs male, and divers li- mitations; 8 May, 1669, 1 3th of Charles II. baron Howard, of Rifing-Caftle, in Norfolk; 27 March, 1669, 2ift of Charles II. earl of Norwich, and hereditary earl marital ; 19 October, 1672, 24th of Charles II. baron Mowbray, by writ of fum- mons to parliament ; 6 March, 1678, 3 ift df Charles II. and likewife 21 March, 1639, uth of Charles I. 'by defcent, ori- ginally 8 June, 1294, 2zd of Edward I. go HUNDREDOF of Edward lord North and Grey, which title of lord Scroop is now in abeyance. His grace has now liv- ing one fon, Charles earl of Surrey, born in March, 1 745 wno * n jySo read his recantation, abjuring the errors and fuperftitions of the church of Rome ; and in the fame year was chofen one of the reprefen- tatives for the city of Carlifle in the prefent parlia- ment of Great Britain. His lordfhip is married, and has iffue. The duke of Norfolk has precedence of all other peers, next to the royal family, not only by creation, but in re(pel to his high office as earl marfhal of England ; yet after the lord great chamberlain, lord great conflable, lord high admiral, lord high ftew- ard, chamberlain of the king's houihold, and lord privy feal. The arms, creft, fupporters, and motto, of his grace the duke of Norfolk are, Arms, gul. on a bend between fix croflets fitchee arg. a Chield or. there- in a demi lion ramp, (pierced through the mouth widi an arrow] within a double treffure coumerflory of the firft. Creft, on a chapeau gul. turned up erm. a lion (or leopard) paffant guardant, (his tail extended) gorged with a ducal coronet arg.* Sup- porters, on the dextei fide a lion, and on the {inifler a horfe, both arg. the latter holding a flip of oak fru$ed proper. Motto. Sola virtus invifta. The chief feats of this family are at Arundel- caftle, in Suffex, at Workfop-manor, in Nottingham- fhiie. at Deepden, -in Surrey, and at Greyftock, in Cumberland. * This creft belongs to the duke, as being defcended from Margaret, daughter and heireis of Thomas de Brothcrton, fifth fon of Edward 1. D E P W A D E. 4 91 Cumbcland. They had formerly a feat at Kenning- hall, in Norfolk, and a houfe in Norwich. Their town-houfe is in St. Jarnes's-fquare, London. Ci. AVER'S, or CLAVERING'S MANOR, was originally pan of ihe capital manor granted by the Bigots to John de Claveiing, from whom it took its name, and \vas held of it at a quarter of a fee. In 1283 Wil- liam le Claver, or Clavering, of Stirfton, and Miles le Parker, of Stirfton, fettled it on Ralph de Creep- ing; and in 1286 John de Vaux was lord, and had free-warren allowed to it in eire. It afterwards be- longed to John le Graunt; in 1306 to John Jermy; and in 1308 to Henry Page, in whofe time an ex- tent of it was made, and the cuflomary perch, or pole, was then found to be fixtecn feet and an half. It had a manor-houte, and above eighty-fix acres in dcmefne, twelve acres of wood, nine copy, or cuf- tomary tenants, and fixty-five free-men. Thomas Brampton was lord, and held it in 1432 of John Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, as of his honor here, in which family it continued till 1536, when William Brampton fold it to Thomas Reeve ; and in 1570 it was fold to Edward Clere, efq. who in 1571 fold it to William Moore, gent. In 1605 Thomas Lingwood died feifed of a moiety of it; it afterwards paffed through the Cocks, and Edwards, and belonged to the late Mr. Matthew Gofs, a dyer, in Norwich. Here are two churches now in ufe, which were given by Roger Bigot to the monks of Thetford, who releafed that gift very early; thefe churches were annexed very foon, for we never find them prefemed to feparately, though Doomfday-book makes them both parifh churches, governed by one rector, who had then in their right a houfe and forty acres QZ HUNDREDOF acres of glebe. They were valued as one benefice at thirty marks: all the inftitutions are to For.ncet only till 1465, and then to Forncete utraque\ the .rectory always paying double mftitution fees, (hews it to have been an ancient confolidation, though for many ages St. Peter's church hath been efteemed as a chapel of eafe to St. Mary, the mother church ; there were anciently three guilds 'here. The terriers have eighty-five acres of glebe, and a good parfonage-houfe, and it pays firft-fruits and yearly tenths, it being valued at sol. in the king's books. The prior of Buckenham's temporals were taxed at 4cl. and thofe of the monks of Thetford at i 75. 6d. The whole town of Forncet St. Mary, or Forncet Magna, with Forncet St. Peter, or Parva Forricet, paid 3!. IDS. clear to every tenth. Here is a farm belonging to the girls hofpital at Norwich. In i 256 the reclor of Forncet was prefented by the prior of Thetford, but afterwards by the lords. In 1541 Thomas duke of Norfolk prefented John Richards, his domeflic chaplain, and prebend of Nor- wich ; and in 1578 the queen, by lapfe, gave it to Robert Norgate, who was B. D. fecond prebendary of Ely, and mailer of Bennet College, in Cam- bridge. In 1584 William Dix, and William Cautrell, feoffees to the duke of Norfolk, gave it to George Gardiner, dean of Norwich: and in 1630 Hugh Williams, A. M. had it by lapfe ; he was fequeftered, and afterwards kept fchool at Low-Layton, in Effex. In D E P W A D E. 93 Tn 1725 Rowland Hill, A.M. was preferited by the honorable Richard Hill, the advowfon having been purchafed of the duke of Norfolk by Dr. Hill, who hath obliged his heirs for ever to prefent a fel- low of St. John's College, in Cambridge, and ac- cordingly at Mr. Hill's death the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, fellow there, was prefented ; and in 1764, Novem- ber 30, fir Rowland Hill, bart. of Hawkeftone, in Shropfhire, prefented the Rev. Zachariah Brooke, D. D. to the confolidated reclory of Forncet St. Mary, with St. Peter, p.j. The church of St. Mary hath only a nave and chancel, both thatched, a north porch, which is leaded, and a fquare tower and three bells. There are no memorials in it. The church of St. Peter hath its fleeple round at bottom, and octangular at top, with five bells ; the north porch, nave, and two ailes, are leaded, and the chancel is tiled. In the communion rails, on the north fide, on a black marble, with the arms of Aggas, William Ag- gas, A. M. who was twenty-Jeven years vicar of Hemp- nail, and twenty-three years reftor ,of both the Forncets, September 4, i 7 24, aged 5 1 . There is a black marble in the church, For Ed- mund Marcon, Sept. 16, 1709. Grace Mar con, Aug. 22, 1710. Edmund Mar con, his Jon, November 8, 1727. John Mar con, May 20, 1728, Ogtd %Q* Ri- chard Barker, obijt May 31, 1485. There is a curious altar-tomb, with the figures of a gentleman and his wife, engraved to their middle, creeled to the memory of Thomas Drake, and Eliza- beth, 94 HUNDREDOF beth, his wife ; the infcription is now gone, but part of it remains in Weaver's Funeral Monuments, fol. 823. Near it, on the ground, on a {tone inlaid with brafs plates, To Thomas Baxter, April 15, 1535. . Three fhields, two of Baxter, the third having the paternal arms of Drake. FRITTON, called in Doomfday-book Fredetuna, Fretuna, Fritletuna, Frietuna, and Frieftuna. The chief part of Fritton, or Free- town, to which the advowfon belonged, was part of the honor and ma- nor of Forncet, and from its enjoying the liberties of the honors that extended hither, it might take its name as being free from many things that other vil- lages were fubjeft to. There was another fmall part held of the manor of Hempnall by Thomas Trot, in 1384. Robert Malet, lord of the honor Eye, which extends hither, had two free-men here, and their fervices. The honor of Richmond alfo extends into this village, for in i 636 it appears, by the rolls of that honor, that Roger Ward, gent, was amerced 205. for detaining from the king, as lord of the honor, id. a year of ware-pound rent for his lands in Friuon. The abbot of St. Edmund had lands here belong- ing to his manor of Mourningthorpe, which he affigned with that manor to Robert de Vals, and it hath paffed to this day with Mourningthorpe, or Thorpe-hall ma- nor. To this alfo Was joined one free-man, and two borderers under him, and their fervices, which belonged till then 10 the king's hundred of Dep- wade. Befides D E P W A D E. 95 Eefides thefe parts there was a confiderable fhare of the parifh, which in the Confeffor's time was held by Oiketel, a Dane, and freeman of Ederic de Lax- field's, the anteceffor of Robert Malet, lord of Eye, and by Gifart, under Robert Fitz-Corbun, at the conqueft; and there were then feven tenants of this manor that had power to fell their land, if their lord refufed to purchafe it of them ; it was always worth 255. and had the liberty of foldage ; the town was a mile long, half a mile broad, and paid d. to the gelt. This was afterwards called Boyland manor, and hath paffed ever fmce as Boyland-hall, in Mourn- ingthorpe. Another part of this village extended imoHenfiead hundred, and was held of Roger Bigot's manor of Forncet at the twentieth pait of a fee, by Rainulf, or Ralph, and belonged to Ulf, the Dane, in the Gori- feflbr's time. In 1264 Roger le Hayre, Eyre, or Ayer, was found to be a rebel againfl Henry III. and to hold a manor in Fritton of loos, value, which the king feized; but in 1276 it was reftored to William le Ayer; in 1306 Roger Ryvet had it ; and in 1432 John Storer, and after that Roger Bennet, by whom it was fold to the lord of Boyland, and fo became joined to it. The Manor of BAVENT'S, BURTOFT'S, and HE- MENHALE'S, was infeoffed by the lord of Forncet in Peter Fitz-Nicholas, to be held of Forncet at the fourth part of a fee; and in 1198 he fettled it by fine on Euftace de Bavent, and his heirs. About 1210 Ralf deFretton, and John, his fon, were lords; and in 1245 John de Burtoft, who in 1*64 was found to be one of the rebels againft Henry III. but having obtained his pardon in 1285, his fon poffefTed it g6 HUNDRED OF it. In 1515 fir John de Sturmyn, knt. was lord, and in 1327 had a charter for a weekly market, and yearly fair here., and for free-warren in this town, Stratton, and Mourningthorpe. In 1329 Ralf de Burtoft fold it to John de Hemenhale, and in 1331 the reft of his lands here ; it continued in that family till about 1400, and then James Rees, and Edmund Young- hufband, held the lands and fcite of Hemenhale, alias Burtoft's manor, in Fritton ; but the manor con- tinued with Hempnall, and lord vifcount Grimfton now hath it*. The church is dedicated to St. Catherine, was va- lued in the old taxation at Gxteeri marks, and had a houfe and eleven acres of glebe. The whole village paid 3!. i os. clear to every tenth. It Hands thus in the king's books: gl. Fritton re&ory; 40!. clear yearly value. It is difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation. There is a meffuage and ten acres of town land, and the following religious houfes had temporals here, taxed as follow: the prior of the monks at Thetford 305. The abbot of Wymondhom lod. The prior of Dunmow as. And the facrifl of St. Edmund at Bury 43. 4d. Robert de Bofco, or Boys, of Great Thornham, re&or here, purchafed the parfonage-heufe, and a ad. rent in 1319, of William le Eyre, and fettled it on the church by licence of mortmain from Edward II. who prefented him. In * On account of exchanges made between the lords of Boy- *land and Burtoft's, it hath paffed by the name of Fritton cunt Boyland for fome time. D E P W A D F, 97 In 160^5 the relor returned eighty-eight commu- nicants; and in 1627 Ralph Smith, of Friiton, gent, (having purchafed the advovvfon of the Norfolk fa- mily) prefentcd George Cook, who in 1636 was ftif- pended by bifhop Wren, for not complying vviih the rubric ; but after his fubmiflion he was reflorcd, and died reclor. In 1714 John Howfe, fen. efq. had purchafcd the ndvowfon, and prefented ; at xvhofe deceafe John Howfe, efq. his fon, was patron. The prefent patron and incumbent is the Kcv, Thomas Howes, of Mourningthorpe, in 1763, and 1775. P'j- The church and chancel are leaded, the Tomb porch is tiled, the fteeple is round at bottom, anci oct- angular at top, and hath three bells. There is no memorial of any kind in this fabric, except the arms of Bigot, Thetford abbey, and Bro- therton, in the chancel windows. In the yard, againft the fouth chancel wall, under an altar-tomb, lies buried, -Thomas Holmes, reflor here fourteen years; he died in Augujl, 1729, aged 44. FUNDENHALL, or FUNDENHALE, at the Con- fjflbr's furvey belonged to one of his thanes, named Burkart, who owned the chief part, anci was patron of the church, which had then twenty-four acres of glebe. Aluric, a freeman of bifhop Siigand, had another part ; and there was a berewic in Nelondc which belonged to it. C Walter gS HUNDRED OF Walter de Dol-, lord of Habetuna, or Hapton' became lord here, and made thefe two villages one manor; he had them both of Roger Bigot, who held them of earl Hugo, except two parcels, which the faid Roger kept as belonging to his manor of Forncet, with which they always paffed to this time. This town was a league in length, and half a one in breadth, and paid igd. ob. to the tax. The manor was very early in a family which took their name from the town of North Creak, where they were lords, and always refided. Sir Robert de Creak much augmented his eftate by marrying one of the heireffes of the Glanvillc family. John de Creak in 1285 obtained a charter of free-warren from Ed- ward I. for this manor, and that of Creak, when it was found that it extended into Hapton and Wy- mondham, and that one fee of it was held of Chei- ter honor, and another of the earl Marfhal, as of Forncet manor; but he dying without iifue, his inhe- ritance went to fir John de Thorpe, knt. in right of Margaret, (or Margery) his wife, daughter of fir Ro- bert de Creak ; and from this time it always paffed as the manor of Afhwehhorpe, with which it flill remains at this day. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and was a re&ory appendant to the manor, till Margery, wi- dow of fir Bartholomew de Creak, foundrefs of Flixton nunnery, in Suffolk, gave it*, with a mef- fuage, and twelve acres of land, and many rents and fervices heret, to the priorefs of Flixton, and her fucceffors, for ever ; and that convent presented till * It continued in the convent till 1392, and then the priorefs there fold it to fir Edmund de Thorpe, knt. f This conftituted the rectory manor, which always attended the impropriation. D E P W A D E. 95 till it was impropriated to their houfe, by William Bateman. bifhop of Norwich, in 1347, an annual penfion of two marks being referved to -the bifhop, in lieu of fii ft-fruits ; and 2s. a year to the facrift, as to the high altar at the cathedral, and the priorefs was to nominate and rind a ftipendiary chaplain, to be approved by the bifhop, and pay him for ferving the cure; and from that time it hath been a dona- tive, in the gift of the impropriator, who names a chaplain, or clerk, and pays him for ferving the cure, to which, when licenfed by the bifliop of the dio- cefe, he is a perpetual curate. When Norwich Doomfday-book was made, the reclor had a houfe and forty acres of glebe, and it was valued at fifteen marks, with all the tithes. In 15273 an inquifition was taken in the confiftory court at Norwich, on the oaths of John vicar of Thorpe, Roger vicar of Tharfton, Gilbert chaplain of Hapton, and others, who prefented that the rec- tor for the time being ought to repair the church of Fundenhall, and, if itfhould happen, to rebuild it; and that a certain lady, called Bertha de Glanville de Fundenhale, gave to the faid church, and rcclors thereof, for ever, fifteen acres of land in Fundenhall- field, and a mark yearly rent in the town of Harpol, on condition that the reclor and his fucceflfors, for ever, fhould repair and rebuild it as often as it fliouid happen to want, which lands and rent the reclor then enjoyed; and that in a former controverfy between the parifhioners and Robert du Boys, then reclor, it was adjudged by the bifhop's official, that the reclor fhould repair it, and not the parifhioners. At the diffolution, in 1536, the king granted to Richard Stephens, and George Buck, " ail ihc.rec- G 2 toiy, lod HUNDRED OF tory of the church of Fundenhall, in the county of Norfolk, and the advowfon of the vicarage of the parifli church of Fundenhall, to be held by the rent of 6s. &d. per annum, and the yearly ftipend of one chaplain performing Divine offices, and taking the cure of the fouls of the faid parifli ;" and in 1547 Stephens had licence to fell it to fir John Clere, km. and his heirs. Afterwards Thomas Knevet, of Afti- vvelthorpe, efq. lord here, and the inhabitants, peti- tioned the houfe of commons, " that the lady Clere, of Cotton, laie wife of fir Francis Clere, and John Smith, efq. who purchafed the reverfion of the im- propriation of fir Edward Clere, brother to the faid lir Francis, who died without iifue, might be called to fliew, why they fhould not pay a competent fti- pend out of the profits, fufficient to find a ferving minifter, that might ferve it regularly, and continue vvith them, inftead of fuch poor ftipends as twelve or fixteen pounds a year, at moft, by reafon of which no minifter would flay any time on the cure, there having been forty returns of curates in the memory of one man; 11 but it appearing that one Mr. Syraoncis, who obtained a prefentation from the king in 1608, could not enjoy it, as not being prefentatjive, but that the impropriator was to nominate a chaplain, or curate, and pay him out of the profits a competent f Upend, they were difmiffed ; however, Mr. Edward Voice, the then curate, being returned to the houfe as a " Godly, confcionable, and painful preacher of God's word," was appointed minifter, and had a competent ftipend* affigned him out of the profits, by virtue of the order of the Houfe, made Dec. 19, 1640. The impropriadon now belongs to John Ber- ney, * They petitioned for 30!. per annum, and an apartment in the parfonage-houfc, which was not allowed, but only 20!. per 1 D E P W A D E. 101 ney, efq. of Bracon-afh, and the Rev. Thomas Mo- ney had this curacy in i 766. In 1603 the curate returned anfWer, that he was perpetual curate, it being a donative, and that there were ninety-three communicants in the parifh, which paid 463. to each tenth. The prior of Wymondham's temporals were taxed at i 2. and the fpirituals of the priorefs of Fiixton* at fifteen marks, and were to pay sos. to each tenth; but in 1347 the nuns being returned to be very poor, they were excufed the tax. Here was a guild of St. Nicholas, and that of the Virgin, in the church, which is built in the collegiate form, with a fquare tower, under which William Petifer, parifh chap- lain, was buried, in 1374; and in 1460 William Norman, parifh chaplain here, was interred in the chancel; he was a benefaclor, as was John Daniel, who gave twenty marks to repair this fteeple, in which there are three bells. The roofl-loft is whole and painted ; in the middle of it is a fhield with the Eaft Angles arms, and round it, Ave rex gentis Anglorum, tu rex regis Anglorum. ' Eadmunde! Jlos marly rum, vdud roja vel lilium, 6?. There are two or three flones difrobed of their plates, under one of which lies buried John Kemp, of Fundenhall, who inherited an eflate here. There was anciently a manor, or free tenement, called Sun- G 3 day's * In 1433 Catherine Pilly, priorefs of Flixton, refigned, being old and blind ; but as fhe had governed well and laudably, the biftiop, as patron of the nunnery, afiigned her a chamber, and maid to wait on her, and an honorable penfion for life, out of this impropriation. io2 HUNDRED OF day's, which was joined to the other manor early, and now continues with it. William Knyvet, gent, feconcl Pin to Edmund Knyvet, efq. ferjcant porter to Hemy VIII. died, in 1594, and was buried in the church of Fundenhall, where he lived; and John Knyvet, of Fundenhall. his cldeft fon, married Joan, daughter of Robert Browne, of Tacolnefton, and had John Knyvet, of Fundenhall, who married Joanna Smton, fiom whom defcended William Knyvet, efq. oi Fundenhall, late coroner for the county of Norfolk. HAPTON, HAPETON, HABETON, or HARPTON advovvfon, was given by fir Robert de Narford*. founder of Lingcrfcroft hofpital, by North Creak, af- terwards called the inonaitery of St. Mary de Pratis, or Creak abbey, to that houfe, to which it was ap- propriated, and was to be ferved by a chaplain, or parifli curate, to be nominated by the convent, and paid a competent annual flipend for the fervice ouc of the profits ; and Alice, daughter of John Poun- chatd," formerly wife of fir Robert de Narford, con* firmed it, with the moiety of the church of Wren- rangham, as did Edward I. in 1273. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret, was firfl valued at feven, and after at eight marks, had twenty- ihrce acres of glebe, and the abbot of Creak paid for his Ipirituals los. 6d. to each tenth, and for his tem- porals 255. id. In 13 14 John Afhwell, by royal licence, aliened to the abbot of Creak three roods of land in Hapton, to enlarge the fcite of the reclory-houfe there. In * It is to be obferved, that the advovvfon did not attend the manor, but belonged to the Bigots manor of Forncet, and was by them inf coftecl in the Creaks, from which family it went to tlieNar. fords. D E P W A D E. 103 In 1426 the abbot fold to John Fleet, and his heirs, a meffuage, called Dalyot's, in Hapton, and four acres of land, paying 2s. and an hen yearly to that houfe. In 1461 John Sheltqn, efq. lefTee to John abbot of .^ Creak, leafed to John Wood, then parifli chaplain of -"' Hapton, all the lands, lioufes, and great and fmall tidies, for ten years. About 1 506 this monaflery was looked upon as diflblved, becaufe the abbot died without a convent to elel another, whereupon all the lands and reve- nues, by the procurement of lady Margaret, coumefs of Richmond, mother to Henry VII. were fettled on her college in Cambridge, called Chrifl's College; and ever fmce the impropriation hath remained in the rnafter and feltows there, who nominate a perpetual curate to ferve the parifh, and pay him out of the profits, it having been efleemcd a donative in their gift ever fmce the foundation, and as fuch it now re- in 1 603 the perpetual curate returned anfwer, that there were forty-three communicants, that the whole parifh paid 505. to each tenth, and that Chrifl's Col- lege had twenty-three acres of glebe. The priot of Thetford was taxed at 22d. ob. for temporals here ; the prior of Walfingham 6d. the abbot of Sibton los. and the prior of Buckenham 2s. gd. ob. The church, which {lands on an eminence, hath no fleeple, the nave is leaded, and the chancel thatched. In the eaft window are the arms of Thorpe, Clifton, Cailly, 8cc. but there are no other memorials, There is a bell hanging in a wooden frame in the church-yard. G 4 There 104 H U N D R E D O F There was an ancient family firnamed from the town. Stephen de Habeton was an owner here. In 1348 William de Habeiun; and in 1412 John Hap. ton, of Wyraondham. The manor was joined to that of Fundenhall at the conqueft, by Walter de Dol ; the church had then fifteen acres of glebe. The town was a mile long, and a mile and a quarter broad, and paid 6d. ^cj. to (he gelt. It was always held of the Norfolk family, as of Forncet manor, at one quarter of a Jte, and always attended the manor of Afhwelthorpe. The manor-houfe is called Hapton-hall, and was al- ways the jointure houfe of the Knyvet family. The ftiie ol the manors now run, " Afhwelthorpe with Wicrininghara, and Fundenhall with Hapton." The manor of Forncet extended into this town, and haih done fo ever fince the conqueft ; for then there was another part in this village of about ninety acres, and fome fmall rents, held by knight's fervice, of William de Vallibns, or Vaus ; and in 1426 they were held as parcel of Wormegay honor. The late Rev. Thomas Thurlow, father of Ed- ward lord Thurlow, and lord high chancellor of Great Britain; 2. Thomas bifhop of Lincoln; 3. John Thurlow, eft], alderman of Norwich, mayor in 1 779, and candidate to reprefent that city, Sept. 1 1, 1780, was curate here, and was fuccceded by the Rev. Richard Perkinfon. HARDWICK, or HERDEWIC, fignifies the place at the wic, or winding of the river, where the herd was ufually fed; it was in many parts at the con- queft, the whole being two miles long, and one bioad, and paid gd. to the gelt. The honor cf Eye extended D E P *W A D E. 105 extended hither, and there was one part which be- longed to the abbey of Ely, as to the manor of Pul- ham ; and. another to Bainard-caflle, as'belonging to die manor of liempnall, which was held of that honor. The CAPITAL MANOR, called afterwards BARRET'S, belonged to Roger Bigot at the conqueft, and was al- wavs held of the Norfolk family at one fee, as of their manor of Forncet. This manor in the time of Henry III. belonged to the Barrets, and was fold by Ivo Barret to Robert Bacon. In 1308 Bartholomew de Evereux had it. William le Waleys, of Shelton, was lord and patron here; and in 1308 Margaret, reli& of Walter le Waleys ; it then palled along witli the advowfon in the Barrets, .and their feoffees, till Catherine, daughter and heirefs of Simon Barret, carried it to William Shelton,* of Shelton, efjj. her hufband, in the time of Henry IV. and it continued in the Shel tons till fold to Thomas, father of Peter Gleane, of Norwich, who was knighied by James I. and ferved as member of parliament for that city in the i ft of Charles I. 1627. He married Maud, daughter of Robert Suckling, of Norwich, efq. and was fucceeded by his eldeft fon, Thomas Gleane, of Hardwick-hall, efq. who married Elizabeth, daughter and heirefs of Thomas Brewfe, efq. (defcended from fir Richard Brewfe, of Topcroft, knt.) for whom is an infcription on a tomb again ft the north chancel wall: he died January 27, 1660, aged 74; fhe died July 22, 1630, aged 45. Gleane impales Suckling, Ditto impaling Brewfe, and Brewfe impaling Brewfter. Peter Gleane, their eldeft fon, fucceeded, who was created a baronet in the i jth of Charles II. he ferved member for Norfolk in the parliament called the 3iftof Charles II, at Weftminfter, 1678, and was rcchofea- io6 HUNDREDOF rechofen to ferve in the fucceeding parliament, 1681 ; he married Penelope, daughter and coheirefs of fir Edward Rodney, of Rodney-Stoke, in Somerfetihire, knt. Sir Peter died about 1694, and his lady Fe- bruary 17, 1689, and are buried within the altar- rails of the chancel, under an altar-tomb, by which hang two atchivements ; the firft hath Gleane quar- tering Brewfe, with the Ulfler arms, or Baronet's badge, in the fefs point, and this motto: Jay fervy mon roy and the arms, creft, and motto of Rodney. Sir Peter Gleane, bart. Jerved Charles I. in all the. ci- vil wars ; raifed and armed two companies of foot at his own charge; he ferved the crown faithfully above forty years in military offices, from a lieutenant to a colonel of foot, and in this county of Norfolk, lieutenant-colonel of the militia, and was deputy lieutenant, and likewise colonel and deputy lieutenant for the city of Norwich. In his civil Jlation, he bore the characler of ju/lice of the peace witliin this county above twenty years, and had the honor twice to be chofen one of the reprefentatives for the fame, to ferve in parliament ; in which feveral fervicss for his king and country he fpent hisflrength and fortunes, and the wounds with that received, were not healed in this year, 1683. This fir Peter was lord alfo of BOUTON'S, or BOL- TON'S MANOR here, which was held by Wiftret, a free-man of the Conqueror, at the furvey, and it feems to have been in the crown fome time after- wards. In 1315 fir John Sturrnyn, knt. had it, and in 1332 Roger de Hardwick, when it was held of Forncet, as of the manor of Hempnall, at one fee; it afterwards came to the Bois's ; Catherine, daughter and heirefs of Roger Buis, carried it to her hufband, Jenney, and fo it paffed along with Intwood, till it was fold to the Gleans's, by William Grefham, of London, D P W A D E. 107 London, efq. and ever fince thefe two manors and advowfon have continued together, the ftile of the court being, " The manor Boughton's, and Barret's, in Hardwick." The Atlas, p. 334, fays, that Henry Bouchier, earl of Effex, had Bolton s manor here, which was bcftowed upon his father, William, by Edward IV. becaufe he married Ann, one of the daughters of Richard Woodvile, earl of Rivers, filler to his queen. The lord hath waif and flray only upon his own demefnes; the eldeft fon is heir, and the fines are at the lord's will. Hardwick was fold by fir Peter Gleane to fir John Holland, of Quiddenham, and given by him to his fecond fon, Brian, for life; and in 1713 we find Waller Bacon, efq. of Earlham, lord and patron, whofe relic!;, Mrs. Frances Bacon, enjoyed it. Ed- ward Bacon, efq. of Earlham, now member in par- liament for the city of -Norwich, being their eldeft fon and heir, is now lord and patron. Shelion manor always did, and now doth, extend into this town, and therefore that manor is ftiled Shelton cum Hardwick, and the churches annexed. The churcli hath a fleeple round at bottom, and octangular at top, with one bell in it ; the nave is leaded, the fouth porch tiled, the chancel part leaded, and part tiled, in the windows of which are the arms of Shelton fingle, and again impaling Mor- ley, and Fitz-Walter's arms fingle ; and on a flat Hone the arms of Bacon, of Baconfthorpe. In locS HUNDRED OF In a north window, Shclton impales arg. a fefs fab. between three mullets gul. Thomas Crabbe, hujus ec~ defuz rector, cb. Feb. 3, A.D. 1680. Rand impaling Brock, The Rev. Samud Rand, A. M. 33 year's reclor, who died June 7, 1714, aged 65; Maria, his wife, died Augitft 5, 1724, The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. Wil- liam le Waleys was patron when Norwich Doomf- day-book was wrote ; the reclor had a houfe and three acres of glebe, though the terriers have fmcc fix; it was valued at eight marks and an half, and paid il. 8s. clear to each tenth. The monks of Thetford had temporals here va- lued at los. and in the regifter of the facrift of Bury abbey it is laid, that Robert le Gros rclcafed his right in the advowfon to the abbot of Bury, but we do not find the abbot ever prefented, or had any thing to do here. Jt Hands difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths in the king's books, and is capable of augmentation. 3!. Hardwick rectory ; 40!. cleat yearly value. In 1 344 Roger de Herdegr**/, citizen of Norwich, was patron ; and in 1412 fir Ralph Shelton, krit. in right of his manor, called Barret's ; in which family ihe advowfon remained till 1620, when Thomas Cronfhay had it of William Bofwell for his turn ; he was turned out April 28, 1644, by the earl of Man- rhefler, for obfervmg^the orders of the church, dif- fuading his parifhioncrs from aflifling the rebellion, and faying, " The parliament arc lay-men, and have no power to order religion, or church government. 1 ' He had at that time a wife and ten children, the youngeft of which was not above three years old; he was D E P W A D E. 109 was alfo very poor, and by confequence, when fe qucftered, was, with his numerous family, turned a begging. Walker, part II. fol. 223. After this the Gleanes and Bacons were patrons. In 1718 the Rev. Samuel Shuckforth had the church united to Shelton. He was alfo minifter of Seething, and the two Mundhams, all which he re- figned in 1746, being then D. D. and prebend of Canterbury. He publifhed, " The facred and pro- phane Hiftory of the World, connected from the creation of the world, to the dififolutioii of the Afiy- rian empire, at the death of Sardanapalus, and to the declerifion of the kingdom of Judah and Ifrael, under the reigns of Abaz and Pekah." The firft volume, o&avo, was publifoed at London, in 1728. June 15, 1445, the reel ory of Hardwickwas con- folidated with the two medieties of Shelton ; and in i 748 the Rev. John Kinderly was preferred by Mrs. Frances Bacon, widow, p. j. Since which the Rev. John Salmon, then curate, has been prefented. HEMPNALL, or HEMENHALE. The rectory here was given by Walter Fitz-Robert, patron of Dun- mow priory, in Effex, to that houfe, to which it was impropriatcd, and a vicarage endowed, which was prefented to by the priors there till the diffoluiion, and then Henry VIII. granted the impropriation, and advowfon of the vicarage, to Robert earl of SuiTex, and his heirs, to be held of him in capitc, by knights fervice, and ever fince they have attended the manor here, with which they now remain. Before the appropriation the reclory had a houfe and twenty acres of glebe; it was taxed at twenty-fix marks, and confequently the prior paid 545. 8d. to each io HUNDREDOF each tenth. The vicarage was taxed at ten marks, or 61. 135. 4d. as it now ftands in the king's books, and being not difcharged, it pays 1 35. 4d. yearly tenths, and is not capable of augmentation. In 1 605 the re&or returned anfvver, that he had 400 communicants in the parifh. William Barwick, A.M. rector here, was Tequef- tered April 28, 1644, by the earl of Manchefter, for obferving the orders of the church, declaring againft the parliament and rebellion, oppofing the lectures of godly minifters in the town, and fwearing by his faith and troth. And from this time feverai of the intruders kept pofleffion till 1649, and then John Potter had it, who was buried here, Auguft 4, 1692, when fir Capel Luckyn was patron ; and in 1 / 23 lady Mary Luckyn, widow, was patronefs. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and is twenty yards long, the breadth of the nave and two aiiles is twelve yards, being all covered with lead ; it hath a fquare tower about fixteen yards high, and only one bell and a clock; part of the chancel is ruined, and the remaining part is tiled. We find no infcription, fave one, on a flone in the north ailc, which lies over Robert French, gent. Aug. 31, 1711, atat. 57. * The town lands were given by Mr. Scwell, and and are now lett at 22!. IDS. a year. This town paid 61. los. clear to every tenth. In 1615, October 13, Elizabeth Gray, aged above 100 years, was buried here; fhe \vas a defcendent from John Gray, efq. lord of the manor of Little- hall, D E P W A D E. in hall, in Topcrofr, in 1408, which manor extended into Hempnall, Woodton, and Bedingham. The priory of Dunmow had anciently divers lands here ; but in i 234 the prior fold four acres to Roger, fon of William de Hemenhale ; and in 1204 die prior had fold others, fo that the prior was taxed'6d, only for his temporals, and the priorefs of Bungay at i2d. for hers. The abbot of Bury had a water-mill, and divers fuits and rents belonging to it here, for which he was taxed at 345. 4d. it was named Tvva- grind, and was confirmed to that monaftery by Wal- ter Fitz-Robert, being fituate on Long-bridge, and anciently was called " Piper-mill on Rucham-river, in Hemenhale," and was given by Roger de Bucken- ham, and William de Rucham confirmed it. The manor of HEMPNALL, or HEMENHALE, be- longed to Torn, a Dane, at the Confeffor's furvey ; had then three free-men, 41 borderers, (or copy- holders) and 54 villains ; it had one priefl, (or rec- tor) and two churches, endowed with a carucate of land, and four villains and four borderers that held two carucates more of them, valued at 155. there was a wood, called Schietefhaugh, which maintained 200 fwine, and the abbot of St. Bennet at Holme claimed part of it; the manor was then worth 15 1. At the Conqueror's furvey it belonged wholly with its foe, fac, and jurifdiclion, to Ralph Bainard, when it had lands, 8cc. worth 24!. 55. a year, &c. it was four miles long, and three broad, and paid 1 8d. ts the gelt, or tax. It had ten acres held by a freeman, which lay in Fritton and Hardwick, and Forncet manor extended hither. A free-man of Alwius, or Alwine, of Thetford, had thirty acres, &x. worth ii2 HUNDRED OF los. at the firfl furvcy, all which was held by Turolcl at the laft. This Ralph lord Bainard was a powerful baron, one of thofe that came in with the Conqueror, lord of Caftle-Bainard, in London, and of the barony of that caftle; all which William Bainard, his de- fcendent, forfeited by his rebellion to Henry I. and he gave the whole to Robert Fitz-Richard Fitz-Gil- bert, the firft earl of Clare, and his heirs; he gave it to Robert de Tonebridge, his fifth fon, and he to fir Walter Fitz-Robert, his fon, who was to hold it of the barony of Bainard's-caftle : this Robert was lord of the manor of Difs. with which this paffed to the Fitz- Walters, and Ratcliffs, earls of Suflex, being always held of the Fitz-Walters barony. In 1 545 Henry earl of SuGTex, on his fon's match ivith Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wriothefley, fettled it on them and their heirs, and it remained in the family till Robert Ratcliff fold it to fir William Luckyn, alias Capel ; he was the firft baronet of the family, fo created in the 13th of Charles I. and married Mildred, third daughter of fir Gamaliel Ca- pel, of Rookwood-hall, in Efiex, knt. by whom he had fir Capel Luckyn, ,bart. who married Marv, eld- eft daughter of fir Hai bottle Grimfton, of Bradfield, in EiTex, bart. matter of the rolls ; fhc died in March, 1718, aged 86. Sir William Luckyn, of Meflinghall, alias Bai- nard's-caftle, in Eifex, bart. fecond, but eldeft fur- Viving fon, fucceected ; and lady Mary Luckyn, his widow, daughter of William Sherrington, alderman of London, was lady and patronefs, and prefemed 'in 1724, this manor having been ufually the jointure of the ladies of ail its owners. Sir D E P W A D E. 113 Sir Harbottle Luckyn, the elded foil, is dead, and the title abforbed in William Luckyn, the fecond fon, who being adopted heir to fir Samuel Grimfton, bare, changed his name to Grimfton, and was created vifcount Grimfton, of the kingdom of Ireland, May 4, 1719; and fir James Bucknall Grimfton, bart. lord vifcount Grimfton, is now lord and patron. This manor had liberty of free-warren, view of leet and frank-pledge, in the prefencc of the bailiff of the king's hundred of Depwade; a weekly market on Monday, granted by Henry III. in 1225, and a fair granted by Edward I. a pillory, ducking-ftool, gallows, and affize of bread and ale, allowed in 1286. In 1327 the manor-houfe had a park of 260 acres, and 5 79 acres in demefne, 96 acres of under-wood, and lol. 2S. 3d. q. rents of affize, here and in Pul- ham, Hardwick, and Shelton ; and there was 61. i gs. paid yearly to the manor for caftle-ward from Whet- acre, Chadgrave, Langley, Hales, Kirkby, Broome, Boketon, or Bowton, Barton. Stradfet, Tivetfhall, Haleholme, and Wicklewood, viz. for every fee, every twenty-four weeks, 35. 4d. the tvhole value of the manor being eftimated at 48!. per ann. In 1315 lordFitz-Walter was returned entire lord of the town. In 1379 John Fitz-Walter procured a charter of Richard III. to hold their market every Friday, and lo the Monday market was laid afide ; the Friday market is now difufed; and to hold another fair on St. AndrewVday, which is ftill annually kept on that day ; and the ancient chapel of St. Andrew, which at the conqueft was parochial, though depend- H cnt 114 HUNDRED OF cnt on the mother-church, is now ufed (as we arc in- formed) for a repofuory for the flails. Sir RALPH'S, or CURPLE'S MANOR, in Hempnall, took its name from Roger Curpeil, who had one fee in Hempnall of the gift of Walter Fitz-Robert, and it was always held of the Fiiz-VVaker's barony of BainardVcafUe, as of their manor of Hempnall; this Roger Curpeil, or Capell, (as he is alfo called) di- vided the fee into four parts, one of which he gave to Walter de Valoines, and his heirs. The part in the Valoines family came to the family firnamed de Hemenhale, or Hempnall ; and fir Ralph de Hemenhale, who was knighted by Edward I. was the firfl lord of that family, from whom it was ftiled fir Ralph's manor ; he was fucceeded by Ralph, his fon, who was lord of this part in 1227, and added to it by purchafing many lands. Sir Ralph de Hemen- hale had now, 1307, the whole, except one fourth part*, all which remained in this family. In 1389 fir Robert Hemenhale, knt. of Hempnall, (where this family rcfided) releafed to firGeo.Felbrigg, knt. and ottu truflees, his manors in Norfolk, and Suffolk, and all the poffeffions of his father, fir Ralph ; he was firfl hufband to Joan, daughter and heirefs of fir John De-la-Pole, knt. by whom he had only one fon, William. It appears that fir Robert died before 1306, for in that year William being a natural, this manor and 405. rents in Fritton, Mourn- ingthorpe, and LongStratton, were committed to the cuftody of John Beaver ; but this William was dead fome time before 1419; for in that year his father's arms * Thomas de Hemenhale, of this family, was elefted bifhop of Norwich, and confecrated bithop of Woicefter. D E P W A D E. 115 arms were fixed up in the window of the Auftin- friars church at Norwich, among the reft of the knights that had no furviving iflue ; and John, fon of Robert de Hemenhale, his uncle, inherited, and died without iffue. In 1407 David Hemenhale, efq. lived here; he was a witnefs in the caul'e between fir Reginald Grev, and fir Edward Hallings, of Elfing, for their arm', in which he depofecl, that Walter Ubbeflon, of Ub- befton, in Suffolk, was his father-iu-law, and tutor to the carl Marflial, who died at Venice ; it feems he had no iffue, for the manor went to fir Thomas Brooke, of Somerfetfhire, in right of Joan his wife, daughter and heirefs of John De-la-Pole, by Regi- nald Braybrook, fon of fir Gerard, her fecond huf- band, according to a fettlement made on her and her heirs, by fir' Robert de Hemenhale, her firfl hulband, in cafe of failure of the iffue of his own family ; and in 1468 fir Edward ikooke, of Cobham, fon of iir Thomas, died feifed. In 1490 Richard Bromvyle, or Blundevyle, efq. had this manor, and Heveringland, and died feiicd of them in 1503; it continued in that family till after 1580,, and then it was fold by Thomas Blun- devyle, efq. In 1612 fir William Bowyer, knt. and Thomas Awdeley, efq. conveyed it to Thomas Ri- chardfon, and George Allington, efqrs. and their heirs ; and fince it is manurnifed and divided, fo that we do not find it fublilting as a manor at prefent* In 1 774 the Rev. Cofle Leicefter was prefemed to the vicarage of Hempnall by the right honorable lord vifcount Giirnflon, p.j. H 2 MOULTON ii6 HUNDRED OF MOULTON St. MICHAEL, GREAT MOULTON, or MOULTON Magna"' manor, was held of Roger Bi- got, "as of his manor of Forncet, by Algar, at the time of the conqueft ; and another part of it belonged to Alan earl of Richmond, and was valued with his manor of CoflefTey. Little Moulton belonged alfo to the faid Roger, and Algar held that alfo of him ; it had then a church and fifteen acres of glebe, and the king had two free-men here, who had an inheritance, held of the abbey of Holme, to which the advowfon belonged. Both the parifhes were three miles long, and a mile broad, and paid J3d. ob. gelt. In the time of William Rufus the earl of Norfolk enfeoffed William de Verdon in it, along with Brii- fingham, and it attended that manor for many ages, being held of the Verdons, one half fee of it of the Norfolk family, and one fifth part of a fee of the ho- nor of Bainard's-caftle, which was purchafed of Ralph de Camois, and added to the manor. It af- terwaids went with Brilfingham, till Ifabel, daughter and heirefs of fir John Verdon, married fir. Imbert Noon, of Shelf hanger, and carried it into that family; it paffed with it till 1512, and then Henry Noon, of Shelfhanger, efq. fold it to Thomas Spring, of Lan- ham, cloth-man, and Thomas lermyn, his feoffee, together with the advowfon, at which time it extended into Waclon and Forncet ; by him it was foon after conveyed to Leonard Spencer, of Blofield. It after- wards belonged to fir Thomas Jermyn, knt. then to fir William Drury, knt. afterwards to Robert We- therber; and in 1562 to Andrew, John, and An- thony Rivet; in 1570 to John Rivet, of Brandeflon, efq. * Muleton, or Moleton, feems to fignify the town at the molcndiuum, or mili, and the fuit to this mill feems remarka- ble, fourteen free -men being forced to grind there. D E P W A D E. n j efq. in which year it was found that the fuperior lordfhip over the commons, &c. belonged to the ma- nor of Forncet. It continued in this family till after 1689; and in 1717 Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Chute, efq. had it: it now belongs to Mrs. Ann El- win, of Norwich, widow, and Thomas Lobb Chute, efq. of Pickenham, in joint tenancy, and a third turn of the fmecure reclory of Waclon P&rva is appendant to it, as alfo this patronage. The Rev. Richard Drake, L. L. B. reclor here, was buried by the church-yard gate, by his houfe, and gave all he had to be divided among his poor parifliioners of Moulton, arid Grifton. Moulton hath now town lands of his gift, in 1526. The church is dedicated to St. Michael, was firft valued at ten, and afterwards at twelve marks. The reclor had a houfe and twenty acres of glebe. The portion of the monks at Thetford was valued at 6s. 8d. and in 1612 was paid to Afladlon manor, in right of Thetford priory. There was a chapel of our Lady in this church, and an altai dedicated to her alfo in it, by which, flood her image, with a light burning before it. In 1504 Walter Taylor gave a legacy for a new bell; and in 1674 a licence paffed to leffen the great bell. It ftands in the king's books at 61. 133. 4d. and being fworn of the clear yearly value of 30!. it is difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmen- tation ; and the whole parifh paid 5!. clear to every tenth. In 1329 lands here and in Hardwick were fettled on the prior of the Holy Trinity at Ipfwich, by H 3 Richard uS H U N D R E D O F Richard Mundham, William Weybred, Walter de Thorpe, and R. Fugar, and their wives. The prior of the monks at Thetford was taxed for divers temporal rents here, belonging to their eftate ia Afla&on, at 133. 5d. The fteeple is round at bottom, and oclangular at top, and hath five bells ; the fouth porch, fouth and north uiles, and nave, are leaded, and the chancel is tiled. The arms of Verdon', Vice de Lou, and Noon, were very often in the windows. In the nave, Hie jacet corpus Johannh Roope, gent, qui obijt 30 die Julij, 1667. In the fouth aile, Hie jacet corpus Roberti Roope, gent, qui obijt 27 die Julij, 1666. Dorothy Roope, 23 08. 1673. In the chancel, Richard Wilfon, reclor 27 years, 28 Nov. 1716, (Zlat, 60. William Needham, reclor, is buried north andjouih under the altar. On a brafs, Hie jacet Wil'dmus Machett, quondam reclor ijlius ecclffie, qui obijt xi die Sept. A. D. 1620. On an altar-tomb by the fouth chancel door arc the arms of Wickham*, Thomas, Jon of Thomas Wickham, gent. Apr. 5, 1661. Thomas Wickham, gent* the elder, Dec. 16. 1688,. aged 66. Mary, wife of Thomas Wickham, 23 May, i 706, aged 80. William, their fon, Am* . 5, 1706, dgwf 45. At * This family defcended from William of Wickham, found- er of New College, in Oxford, as the arms plainly fhew, and as fuch, their dependents are the founder's kinfmen. D E P W A D E. ng At the fouth-weft corner of the church-yard is a very antique altar-tomb, but no arras or infcription. John Moulton, born here, a white friar, or carme- lite, in Norwich monaftery, flouriflied about the year 1400; Pitts, page 568, tells us, that he was a pious, learned, and eloquent man, and an excellent preach- er; hepubHftied a book of ninety ferrnons. MOULTON ALL SAINTS, LITTLE MOULTON, or MOULTON Parva, at the furvey was in two parts ; that held of Forncet, by Algar, belonged firft to Ralph, and then to Robert de Agnellis, and the whole was held of Forncet at a fee, but part of it the lord of Forncet held of the honor of Gloucefter; and in 1212 Lambert Teuionicus, called alfo le AI- main, who afterwards took the firname of Moulton, agreed with Roger Bigot, earl of 'Norfolk, the capi- tal lord of the town, and purchafed divers rents and lands from the manor of Great Moulton, of Bertram de Verdon, of whom it was fettled this manor fhould henceforward be held; fo that by this pur- chafe the quit-rents of this manor became 5!. per annum. In 1235 Richard de Brewfe, and Oliver de Reed- ham, were concerned in it; and in 1246 the faid Richard, jointly with Eleanor, his wife, held a court baron. In 1306 Reginald le Gros fettled it on Oli- ver de Reedham, and Joan, his wife. In 1309 Wil- liam de Wafcotc fettled it on Thomas de Moulton, who held it in 1315 of Richard de Brewfe; and in 134.5 it was purchafed by William De-la-Park, and joined to his manor, called Park's, in Waclon, and from that time there hath been no court kept in this parifh. H4 The i2o HUNDREDOF The advowfon from the Conqueror's time belonged to the abbot of St. Bennet at the Holme, who was- taxed at 285. 6d. for temporals here, but had no manor, only free-rents, or penfions, paid out of fuch lands as belonged to him, which were granted to be held free. The re&ors were prefented by the abbots of Holme till 1535, when fir Robert Matthew, chaplain, was the lafl prefented by the convent ; after which the re&ors were prefented by the bifhops of Norwich, as abbots of Holme. In j 664 the relor was prefented to it as ajinecurc, and lett the whole profits, both of tithes and glebes, at lol. per ann. though in the time of Henry VIII. it was returned to be then worth 20!. per ann. and now ftands at 30!. clear yearly value in the king's books ; but in 1670 he lett it at 81. per annum only. It was held by fo many, with Great Moulton, that the lands titheable to this re&ory are fcarce known, though they were about one third of the parifh's. The church was dedicated to All Saints, and when Norwich Doomfday-book was wrote, the relor had no houfe, but thirteen acres of glebe; it was valued at three, and afterwards at four marks ; the abbot of Holme's portion was 45. The church was in ufe till 1570, and then was totally demoliihed ; the fcite of it is ftill called All Saints church-yard: it is capable of augmentation, being returned of 30!. value, it is difcharged of firfl-fruits and tenths, and now ftands thus in the king's books: 4!. 35. id. ob. Moulton Omnium Sanftorum, alias Parva re&ory, 30!. clear yearly value. In D E P W A D E. id In 1762 the Rev. John Malyn was preiented to this reclory by the bifhop of Norwich. MOURNINGTHORPE, or MORINGTHORP, was known by the name of Thorpe only in the Con- feflbr's time ; and to diftinguifh it from the many villages of that name, it began to be called Moring- thorpe about the time of the Conqueror, from the mere, marc, or more, it was fituated by. It was given before the Confeffor's furvey to the abbey of St. Edmund at Bury, in Suffolk, by Turketel, a Danifh thane, or nobleman, along with the town of Caflor by Norwich, and the abbot held it as a manor, having one carucate in demefne, of 205. a year va- lue, to which belonged a church and twenty acres of glebe; but before the Conqueror's furvey the whole (except the advowfon, leet, and fome fmall parcels which always attended the abbey to its diffoiution) was infeoffed by the abbot in Robert de Vals, or Vaux, who held it of the abbey by knights fervice; it was then rifen to 305. value, and the town was a mile long, and three furlongs broad, and paid id. ob. q. to the gelt, or tax. The reclors of Mourningthorpe were prefented by the abbots of Bury till the diffolution, when the ad- vowfon veiled in the crown, and ftill remains there. In 1603 the relor returned fifty-eight communi- cants in this parifti. In 1722 the Rev, William Smith, relor here, pub- Hfhed a tranflation from the French of the dialogues concerning eloquence, by the late archbifhop of Carabray. la 122 H U N D R E D O P In 1756 the Rev. Thomas Hovvfe, jun. the prefcnt reclor, had it of the gift of the crown. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptift, who had a guild kept in it to his honor. The recldr had a houfe and nine acres of glebe when Norwich Doomfday-book was made; it was valued at eleven- marks, and the prior of the Holy Trinity at Ipfwich had a portion of tithes valued at 325. per annum ; the village paid clear to every tenth il. 135. it now {lands in the king's books by the name of Morn- ingthorpe rcclory, valued at 7!. but being fwi>rn of the clear yearly value of 45!. it is difcharged of firft- fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation. The temporals belonging to Bury abbey here were affigned to the ufe of the facrift of that monaftery, and were taxed at 45. 6d. 1 he prior of Dunmow, in Effex, had a mill, lands, and rents, of 355. sd. per annum. The temporals of the prior of Norwich were taxed at 55. lid. and thofe of the prior of Wy- raondham abbey at 7d. There is a penfion of iSs. a year paid by the rec- tor to the re&or of Stratton St. Michael ; and in 1612 we find another penfion of 6s. Sd. per annum was paid out of this reclory to the rectory of Stratton St. Michael. The lleeple is round, the church is leaded, and the chancel tiled. There is an altar-monument in the fouth part of the chancel, For John Roope, gent, of this parifh, who died February 11, 1686, aged 77; with his arms. In the church is a memorial, For Francis Ha- mond,gcnt. December 7, 1687. A black D E P W A D E. 12$ A black marble in the chancel, In memory of John Roope, jun. gent. June 30, 1685. Elizabeth Roope, icife of John Roope, gent, died Nov. 15, 1680. A black marble hath an inscription, and two fhields: I. Garnifli impaling Ruclge, or Rugge. 2. Dilto impaling So a me ; John Garntys, of Boy ~ land-hull, cjq. who dud December 15, 1661; as alf& Charles Garners, of ~Boyland-hall, efq. (father of the faid John Garncys,) andfome time high Jher iff of this county, who died Jan 30, 1657, in the 8gth year of his age. Many others of this family are interred here. Againft the north chancel wall is a mural monu~ ment, with this : John Howe, efq. died in i 737. He was a pious man, and tfie world the better for him. - Hovvfe impaling Keddington. The late John Howfe, efq. refide'd at his feat in this town ; he married Barbara Sidnor, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Sidnor, re&or-of Hempflead, and vicar of Honingham, who w : as defcended from a brother of Richard Sedenore's, alias Sydnore, arch- deacon of Tomes, in Devonfhire. The Rev. Tho- mas Howes now refides here. In 1429 John Howes, efq. did homage to Bury abbey for his eftates in Afhfield; in Suffolk. There is a mural monument again ft the fouth chancel wall, For John Wormall, gent, of this parifh, Jan. 4, 1729, aged 55, and others of his family. Nine coats quartered : i. Garnifli; 2. Ramfey; 3. Wellytham ; 4. Ken ton ; 5. Fraunce ; 6. Denfton ; 7. Waunflon; 8. Toppesfield ; 9. Church. Gar- nifli 124 HUNDRED OF nifh with a crefcent impales Berney. Ditto impaling Tirrel. Ditto impaling on a chev. 5 martlets. On a white mural marble monument, with the arms of Goftlin and Garnifh, on a coat of pretence, To the memory of Dams Mary Gojllin, daughter of John Gar- nijli, of Boy land-Hall, in the county of Norfolk, cfq. jljltr and coheirefs of Wentwcrth Garneys, efq. who died January' '23, 1723, in the 6gth ytar of her age ; Jhc left ijfue one fon, Charles, and one daughter, who mar- ried fir John Bendijh, of Steeple- Bumpfiede, in the county, of Effex. Alfo near this place lieth the body of her huf- band, fir William Gojllin, knt. who was alderman and Jhcrijj of the city of London. There is a town-houfe, and twenty yards of land in length, and fourteen yards in breadth, held of Mourningthorpe, or Thorpe-hall manor; and a mef- fuage and thirteen acres and an half of land, of which three acres and an half lie in Shelton-field, and the reft in this parifh, the clear yearly profits of which is to be laid out about the repairs and ornaments of Mourningthorpe church. The honor of Richmond extends hither, and did fo at the conqueft ; for Alan earl of Richmond had a freeman, and other fervices here, valued at 45. per annum. MOURNINGTHORPE, or THORPE-HALL MANOR, pafifed in the Vaux's, who held it of the abbot of Bury at one fee ; the abbot always being fuperior lord held a leet, which at the diflblution vefted in the crown, and was granted to the Shcltons, and ad- ded to the manor, which was fettled by fine, levied in 1186 on Henry, fon ofjoceline, who had it of the Vaux's by the abbot's confent; and in 1198 Henry D E P W A D E. 125 Henry fettled it on the de Shimplings, in which fa- mily it continued long, all of them releafing to the abbots all right in the advowfon. In 1202 fome of this family had aflumed the firname of Thorpe*, from this his manor. In 1274 the heir of Roger de Shimpling had affize of bread and ale, and free-war- ren allowed to the manor; and in 1286 had view of frank-pledge of all his tenants in Mourningthorpe, to be held in the prefence of the bailiff of the hun- dred, paying the king by him i 2d. a year, and alfo aflize of bread and ale, and waif; and in 1287 held it at one fee of John de Vallibus, or Vaux, of Tharf- ton. In 1363 Ifabel Shimpling held the third part in dower, and conveyed it to John de Eafthall, on con- dition to marry her ; but he not performing his pro- mile, flie was forced to fue for her lands again'; and in an aclion brought in 1401, it appeared, that Roger Shimpling died feifed of this, and Shimpling, and left three daughters and heireffes ; Ifabel, married to John Kirtling; Katherine, to William Ellingham ; and Joan ; to whom this manor was allotted in 141 2. It was foon afterwards, in 1412, purchafed by the Sheltons, and continued in that family till fir Ralph Shelton, knt. fold it to theGarneys, of Bpy land-ball, in this parifli, and ever fince it hath been united to Boyland-hall, in Mourningthorpe; for at the Con- queror's furvey Boiel andt was a feparate villd, and afterwards was united, part of it to Fritton ;, and the greater part to this town. Torn, the Dane, owned it * This family, though the manor went to the Shimplings, continued here, and had a good eftate. In 1274 Walter de Mcringthorpe, and his father, had free-warren to their eftate here. f- Boieland, Boifland, or the woody land. J Theftileof Fritton court runs, Fritton and Boyland cum Fritton ; and Boyland, in Mourningihorpe, extended into Fritron. T 2 6 H U N D R fc D O F it in the time of Edward the Confeffbr, when the demefnes and manor were worth 205. and Ralph Bainard had it at the Conqueror's furvey, when it was worth 408. a year, and had the foe and fac be- longing to it, with lect, and all other jurifdidions ; and it palled in this family till they fold it, about 1 190, to Ralph, who fettled here, and took the name of Boyland from this place. Sir Richard de Boy- land built Boyland-hall, in Briffingham, and fettled there, and from his time it patted in that family, and continued with Boyland-hall, in Briffingham, till about 1334, and then it was purchafed by John Gar- ricy, late of Mendlefham, in Suffolk, and joined to Mourningthorpe manor, which he purchafed as be- fore. The family of the Garneys, or Garnifhes, is, and hath been many ages, efleemed one of the principal families of the county. In 1384 Robert Garneys was one of the lords of Soham-nall manor, in Barford. William Garneys, efq. of Geldeflon, married Eli- zabeth, daughter of fir Ralph Bigot, of Stockton, km. and died feifed in fee of the manors of Geldef- ton, Kirby-Cane, and Stockton, in Norfolk, held of the abbot of St. Edmund's Bury, in 1428. Thomas Garneys, of Kenton-hall, in Suffolk, eldefr, fon of fir Peter Garneys, km. married Margaret, daughter and coheirefs of Hugh Fraurice, of Gil- fard's-hall, in Suffolk, who out-lived him, and re- married Thomas Peyton, of Ifelham, efq and of Peyton-hail, . in Boxford, in Suflolk: they had two fons ; Richaid, his fccond fon, fettled at Mcrdlc- Ihara, and married Elizabeth, daughter of William Toppesfield, D E P W A D E. 127 Toppcsfield, by whom he had John Garneys, efq. who having purchafed the manors of Mouvning- ihorpe, a'nd Boyland-hall, as before, removed from Mendlefliam, and fettled here; and by Urfula, his wife, daughter of Thomas Bcrney, efq. of Reed- ham, had four fonst, of which the eldeft was Ri- chard Garneys, elq. of Boyland and Mendlefham, who built the prefent fabric, called Boyland-hall'", which he finifhed in 1571, as the date on the por- tal fiiews, on which is the full coat of Garnifli, fup- ported by two mermaids, and in the windows is his motto, in which every word begins with a G. the initial letter of his name, viz.Goddefs Grace Go- Garncys. In the hall windows are the arms of Garney quar- tering the different families connected with them, be- {ides others that are now defaced and loft. Richard f The fecond fon was fir Francis Garneys, knight of the Rhodes. * In 1352 there was- a chapel belonging to Boyland-hall, called Mourn ingthorpe chapel. The prefent building is moated i.n, and hath been a grand houfe. We are {hewn a painting here of Henry VIII. with Edward VL at his right hand, and queen Mary at his left, with thefe verfes on it : Venitt Benenifli Patris mei , pojfidste regnum. 1. The kyngdom of Heven be Chrift, 'leys refembled to this noble kyng With riches inroded mercy for to lern, and to have com- paflion. One of another, after goddes FafTyon. 2. The kyng here hys fervantes before hym dothe cali, Accountes for to make, of hys goodes grete^and fmalle ; Among them ys one, that ten thowfand talants owght, But wherewyth for to pay, the man had right ncnvght .'3. Wherfor the kyng commawnded that he fhuld be folde, His wyfee, children, and goodes, payment to be tolde, On knees he afked refpight, and payment promyfythe, The Lords do relealFe hym, and all his dett fyrgyvythe. i2S HUNDRED OF Richard Garneys, efq. married Margery, daughter of James Tirrell, efq. of Columbine-hall, in Suf- folk ; but dying without iffue, all his inheritable lands went to Nicholas Garneys, efq. of Kenton, de- fcended from another branch of this family. Nicholas Garneys, of Kenton, efq. fole heir of the family, was high fheriff for Suffolk in 1592, .arid his eftate in Kenton, Mourningthorpe, Ringsfield, Redif- ham, &:c. was above 1200!. per arm. he married Ann, daughter of Charles Clere, efq. of Stokefby, in the hundred of Weft Flegg, and dying about 1599, left fix fons* and five daughters : I. Charles Garneys, of Kenton, efq. the eldeft, removed to Boyland-hall, and fettled there ; he was high fheriff of Norfolk in 1652, and married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wentworth, efq. fitter of fir John Went- worth, of Somerly-Town, in Suffolk, knt. the great Jawyer, who bought it of Jernegan ; and on her brother's death, without iffue, the faid Charles had it in her right, as one of the coheireffes to fir John ; he was buried at Mourningthorpe in 1657. John Garneys, of Boyland-hall, and Somerley- town, only fon of Charles Garneys, and Elizabeth Wentworth,, had two wives ; firft, Ann, daughter of William Rugge, of Felmingham, gent, by whom he had Ann, who died unmarried, and was buried here in 1688, and Thomas Garneys, efq. of Redifham, who died without iffue. His fecond wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Soame, alderman of London, by whom he had three fons and five daughters ; he died * From Clere Garneys, efq. 6th fon of Nicholas Garneys, efq. of Kenton and Boyland-hall, is defcended the prefent Charles Garncys, efq. of "Hedenhaai, who was high (herrff of Norfolk in 1777- D E P W A D E. 129 died in 1661, aged 54, and was buried here; and Wentworth Garneys, efq. his eldeft fon, fucceeded him, and married for his firft wife, Ann, daughter of fcr Charles Gaudy, of Crowftiall, in Debenham, knt. who died in 1681, and is buried here, but left no child ; and for his fecond wife, Mary, daughter of fir Thomas Abdy, of Felix-hall, in Kelveden, in Ef- fex, but had no iffue ; he died in 1685, and is bu- ried here, leaving Boy land -ball, and this eftate, to his lifters, and it is now in the heirefs of his fourth fifter, Martha, then married to Robert Raworth, of London, merchant; (he died in 1694, and is buried here, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth, and three fons, Henry, Robert, and John, and it is now, fays Mr. Blomefield, in William Drake, efq. L. L. D. of Shardelowes, in Bucks, member in parliament for Agmondefham, in that county, who in 1 746 married the heirefs of the Raworths, a young lady of a large fortune. The manor, called HOO-HALL, BLOMFFIELD'S, and SEAMAN'S, from the names of the feveral owners, be- longed to fir William de Hoe, knt. in 1572 ; and in 1479 to Thomas Hoe, efq. who infeoffed fir Thomas Arundel, knt. and others in it, and Worthing manor. In 1565 John Blomefield conveyed it to Philip Tir- rei, efq. and he to Richard Garneys, efq. and it haih been ever fince joined to Boyland-hall manor, in Mourningthorpe, and Fritton ; the fciie of it is be- tween Mourningthorpe and Hempnall, into which it extended^ as alfo into Siraiton, Tafburgh, and Sax- lingham. S HELTON, or, as it is wrote in Doom fday -book, SCELTUNA. This town in the Confeffor's time be- longed to bifhop Stigand, and was held of him by Aldwin. or Ailwin ; but at the Conqueror's furvey i: i3o HUNDRED OF was in three parts*; the head, or principal manor, called afterwards Over-hall, belonged to Roger Bigot, who infeoffed Durand in it; for which reafun it was always held of the earl of Norfolk's honor of Forn- cet at one fee: it was then a league long;, and half a league broad, paid gd. gelt, or tax, and had a church and fixteen acres ef glebe, the advowfon of which then folely belonged to this manor; but when the tithes of the manor, called afterwards Nether-hall, were joined to it, the lords of that manor prefented to one turn, and thofe of this to another; but when the moieties were feparated, and one of them given by the Sheltons to Langley abbey, and the other re- mained with Nether-hall manor till that fell into the Sheltons, then the turn that belonged to the convent being fold to John Jenny, fen. efq. it paffed with Int- wood and Hardwick till it was fold byWm. Grefham, cfq. to the Gleanes, and they joined the alternate prefentation to their manor at Hardwick, with which it now remains. NETHER -HALL MANOR at the conqueft was held by Nigel, of Robert Fitz-Corbun, and was then worth 2os. per ann. it paffed afterwards with Boyland's manor, in Scole, till 1322, when it belonged to fir Ralph Hemenhale, knt. and before the extinction of that family was vefted in the Sheltons, truflees, and ever lince have been joined to their MANOR of OVER-HALL, which went as the capital- manor of Scole to the Sheltons very early ; which family, though they took their name from this vil- lage, were anciently featqd at Stradbrooke, in Suf- folk. Nicholas de Shelton was then one of the re- belling * There was a third part which belonged to the manor -of Forncet. : i D E P W A D E. 131 belling barons again ft king John, and upon the fur- render of Framlingham-caftle, in Suffolk, he fub- niitted, and gave his fon, Robert, as a pledge for his future allegiance. This family had large inheritance here and in Suffolk. Sir Robert de Shelton, knt. had livery of them all in 1286, and had liberty of free-warren allowed to them in eire. In 1502 he had fees in Mundham, Shelton, Bedingham, and Scole; and the manor of Brent-Illeigh, in Suffolk. In 1345 fir Ralph Shelton was lord. In 1346 Edward III. granted him his letters patent, fignifying that he was in the king's own company in the battle of Creffy, and there received the order of knight- hood, the king pardoning him the contempt and pe- nalty which he had incurred for not taking that or- der upon him before, when his majcfly iflued his proclamation, that all thofe who had 40!. a year in land fhould take that order upon them. -In 1355, on going beyond fea with Edward III. he had his letters of protection, and being in the battle of Poic- tiers, he took John Rocourt prifoner, for whom he ob- tained a fafe conducl in 1336. This fir Ralph was coufin and heir of ftr Ralph Burgullion, of Kerdit- tone, and dying in 1372, Nov. 17, was buried in the chancel of St. Mary's church at Shelton, and his grave-ftone lieth in the midft of it, with his effigy in compleat armor. He left fir Ralph Shelton, jun. 'km. his fon and heir, who married Alice, daughter of fir Thomas Uvedale, of Tacolnefton, knt. la he attended John duke of Lancafter in his expedition into Spain, and was at the famous battle of Nazarett. He was in the voyage of St. Maloes de L'iile, and in that into Scotland with Ri- cliard U. and in that into Spain where fir Hugh I Haftings 1 3 2 HUNDRED OP Haflings died: fir Ralph died April 25, 1424, as the infcription on his tomb in Great Snoring church faith. He was fucceeded by his brother. William Shelton, efq. who died feiled, in 1420, of the manors of Over-hall, and Nether-hall, in right of his wife, Catherine, daughter of Simon Barrett, who lies bu- ried in Shelton chancel, Augufl %, I4 r )6. There are arms of Shelton and Burgullion quartered, and Shelton and-Barrett impaled. He had the manor of Barret's, in Hardwick, and was alfo poffeiled at his death of the manors of Snor- ing Magna, Thursford, and Burgullion's, in Kerdif- tone, as heir of the Burgullion family, and of Brent- Illeigh, in Suffolk, all which he left to John, his fon and heir*, who had livery of his 1-ands in 1427, and died in 1430, leaving Ralph his fon and heir. In 1500 Margaret Shelton, of Shelton, late the wife of fir Ralph Shelton, knt. willed to be buried in Shelton chancel, by her hufband, in " a tumbe which is ordeyned to that intent." She gave the tenements in Mouringthorpe, called Roper's, with the appurte- nances, to pay the fifteenths for the towns of Shel- ton and Fritton. Sir John Shelton, their fon and heir, was high fheriff of Norfolk in 1504, and was made knight of the bath at the coronation of Henry VIII. In 1512 a pardon was granted to this fir John Shelton, who married Ann, daughter of fir William Boleyn, of Blickling, knt. and died December ,21, 1539, .in the 6sd year of his age, and is buried un- der '* In the eait window of the north ailc are the effigies of Ralph Shelton, and Margaret his wife, in furcoats of their arms. This Ralph was high fheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk hi - D E P W A D E. 133 ^er a tomb .in Shelton chancel. On the fouth fide of the tomb are thefe arms: Shelton, Illeigh, Burgul- Jion, and Sbelton quartered in the nombieil. Cock- field, Shelton, and Boleyn impaled. On a north fide, Shelton and Boleyn impaled. Boleyn and Butler earl of Ormond quartered. The eafl window of this chancel was glazed at fir John's charge, and in it is his own effigy, in a praying poflure, with his arms on his furcoat, and that of his wife, with Boleyn's asms. Sir John, fon and heir of fir John Sheho:i knt. was high fheriflf of Norfolk in 1522, and again in 1525,'* and had livery of the manors of Shelton, Stratton- Sayes, Reef ham-Burgullions, Scole, B^ dingham. Snor- ing, Callowes, &c. in Norfolk, and of Brent-Illeigh, and Milding, in Suffolk. He manied Margaret, daughter of fir Henry Parker, knt. fon and heir of Henry lord Morley, and was one of thofe gentle- men that joined queen Mary at Kenninghall, in order to advance her to the crown. He is buried under an altar-monument in the chance', on the north fide, November, 1558; with the arms, of Shelton and his quarterings; Shelton impaling Morley, Woodhoufe, Sec. Sir Ralph Shelton, knt. high fheriff of Norfolk in 1570, had livery of his father's inheritance: he mar- ried two wives ; firfl, Mary, daughter of fir William Woodhoufe, of Waxham, knt. Secondly, Ann, daughter of Thomas Barrow, efq. of Barningham, in Suffolk, who afterwards married fir Charles Corn- wallis. He lies buried on the north fide of the altar, June 15, 1568; with the arms of Shelton, Illeigh, Burgullion.andCockfield, quartered, impaling Wood- houfe, of Waxham. I 3 Thomas i 3 4 HUNDREDOF Thomas Shclton, efq.'" his deleft fon and heir, married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Flowerdew, efq. baron of the Exche^u-r, and was lord of Shel- ton, and gentleman-porter of the Tower; he died, and was fuccceded by his brother, fir Ralph Shelton, knt. who married Dorothy, daughter of fir Robert Jermyn, of Rufhbrook, in Suffolk, knt. He was killed at the Ifle of Rhe, in France, and dying with- out iffue, Henry Shelton, only furviving fon of fir Ralph Shelton, by Ann Bariovv, his fecond wife, in- herited, who was a captain in the low countries fixty years ; he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thorras Jermyn, of'Depden, in Suffolk, e(q. and dying Oc- tober 8, 1634, at Barningham, was buried here, and was fucceeded by his fon, Maurice Shelton, of Shel- ton, efq. and of Barningham, in Suffolk, which he had as heir to Ann Barrow aforefaid, his grandmo- ther; he married Elizabeth, daughter of fir Robert Kemp, of Giffing, bart. and is buried at Shelton leaving four fons and four daughters. Maurice Shelton, the elded fon, married Martha, daughter of Robert Appleton, of Great Walding- field, in Suffolk, efq. and dying without iffue male, was buried at Shekon, and the eft ate went to his fe- cond brother, Henry Shelton, of Barningham, in Suffolk, efq. who lies buried under a black marble in Shelton chancel, with the arms of Sheltcn impal- ing Churchman : he married Hefter, daughter of fir John Churchman, of Illington, knt. and died May 24, 1690, eetat. fuii, and Cahhorpa hadSturflon manor, and a rent charge of il. 6s. out of this, which fir James Calthorpe, and his fon, Chriftopher, fold to William Matchet, of Moulton, clerk, who had purchafed this manor of John Legge; and in 1539 fir John Shelton, knt. was lord, and Ralph Shehon, his coufin, was lord in 1570; he it was that rhanumifcd the whole, fold the rents to the lev eral tenants, and the demefnes to Nicholas Porter, and fo the manor and leet alfo extinguished for want ot tenants. The fcite came afterwards to the Cul- lyer's, and Abigail Nocris, wjdow, of Barton-Tuft,, fold it to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Howes, reclor of Mourningthorpe, who now owns it, and the demelh.es, called Say's. Suaiton St. Michael. This rectory was given by Walter Giffard to the priory of Longevile, in Nor- mandy, with Wefton, and Witchingham, in Eynsford hundred ; the reclor had then a houfe and ten acres ot glebe, and now there are twenty-eight acres and an half, in thirty-one pieces, lying about the town. The parfonage houfe joins to the fouth-eaft part of the church-yard, and the eafl part of it, (as we are informed) is copyhold of Rhees's manor, and belongs to a farm adjoining to the eaft pait of the parfonage- ho/ufe, now owned by Thomas Howes, clerk. It was valued without the portion at eight marks, and paid IDS. 8d. tenths, and the reclor paid a portion of 135. 4d. per ann. to the prior of Longaville, which is now paid to New College, in Oxford, who had the patronage D E P W A D E. 153 patronage from William of Wickham, their founder, b.y grant from the king, it being veiled in the crown as belonging to a diflblved alien piiory. It (lands in the prefcm value bv a falfe name thus: '61. 125. d. ob. Stralton Omnium Sanflorum R. i ^s. gd. tenths, - and we fuppofe came to be fixed fo, bccaufe an- ciently the church is called St. Michael and All Saints ; bin ftrange it is, that the names both of St. ^eter .and St. Michael, (by which only this reftory is known) fliould be omitted: as it is not difcharged it is capable of augmentation. The church, which (lands about a furlong eafl of the turnpike road, is twenty- five yards long, and feven broad; It is a fmall church, with a fquare tower, and no bell*; the fouth porch is tiled, the nave and chancel thatched, the la ft of which was built by John Cowall, redor here in 14X7 ; he lies buried in the middle of the chancel, with an infcrip- tion on a brafs plate, now loofe. But though he built the chancel in 1487, he continued reclor till I 09; bis will is in regilter Spyltimer, fol. 225, in which is this: " Alfo my houfe in the (Irect, called Pcpyrs, I " wol the ftate ther of, with all the lands ther of, " fliall remayne in the handys of feofFys, and in the " attorneys of them, to my perifliincrs beholfe, in ex- " cufing of tenths and tallage, when it fallyth, and " the overplus to the reparation of the churchys of " St. Michael, and St. Peter, .in the faid town, ever- " more; feen, that the cunftabyll and the church- " wardynns fiiall let it, and repare it, with the- ferine " of it ; and the refidewe of the ferme I wol yt re- " inayne in the handys of the faid conftabyll and " wardynns, * There were three ; for in 16993 licence pafled to fell a bell, under pretence to repair the church f which had lands fui- ficient for its reparation. 154 HUNDRED OF " wardynns. and yerly they make accounte before " all the parifhe, and they to excufe the rent of it to " the lordys of the fee." T. his houfe, with about twelve acres of land, part copy, and part free, is now in feoffees hands, and is worth about lol. per ann. and the churchwardens receive the rent, and apply it as it ought to be, to repair the church, fince the taxes of tenths and tallages are ceafed. The nave was finifhed in 1440. There was another brafs plate in the chancel, now loft, For Richard Vynnt* , Jan. 26, 1626, aged 76. Theic is an altar-tomb in the church-yard, on the fouth fide, For William Weddall, gent. 1730, and Mary, his wife, who was daughter of Thomas Dixon. There&or of Mourningthorpe pays a yearly pen- fion of 1 8s. to the rector here, on Lammas-day, for exchange of tithes, as mentioned in the Terrier. In 1347 the reclor was firft prefented by the king, the prior of Newenton Longaville's lands being feifed into his hands, on account of the war with France. It remained in royal patronage till 1439, when fir Ralph Rochford, kut. prefented ; and being granted from the crown, it was fettled on the cuftos and fcholars of St. Mary, alias Winchefter College, in Oxford, at the rcqueft of the founder; and in 1449 was con folidated to St. Peter's: ever fince >New Col- lege hath two turns, and the duke of Norfolk the third ; but the perpetual advowfon of that third turn was fold to John Soley, rector of Straiten St. Mary, from * This family were redors here for near two centuries, many f whom lie buried in the chancel. D E P W A D E. 155 fiorn whom the late Rev. Edward Hibgame bought In 1 603 the redor returned anfvver,|that here were ninety-one communicants. In 1629 John Merewether held it united to Taf- burgh, from both which he was ejected by the earl of Manchefter's fcandalous committee, and one Gooke was put in, " being a godly man," to preach, and had 55. a Sunday allowed him by the fequ eft ra tors out of the tithes, and Mrs. Merewether had a fifth part of the profits to maintain herfelf and fix children ; he being allo deprived of his temporal eflate of 50!. per annum, the reft was ordered to go towards maintain- ing the parliament forces, &c. but it feems Cooke was not * godly" enough for thofe rebels ; for in 1654 they put in one Richard Laurence, who held it by intrufion till Merewether's death, which happened before the reftoration, when the cuftos, &x. prefented in 1 660. In i 762 the late Rev. Edward Hibgame, as patron of this turn, prefented himfelf to the re&ory of Strat- ton All Saints, with St. Michael, and St. Peter, p. h. v. In 1778, April 28, he died, and the Rev. Francis Wickham Swanton was prefented by New College, Oxon. Aug. 15 following. WELHOLME'S, or WELHAM'S MANOR, was granted by the Strattons, from their manor, to the Welholmes ; and in i 285 Alexander de Welholme had a leet, or view of frank-pledge, and aflize of bread and ale allowed him in eire, on condition he paid 8d. a year to the * The prefent tithes of this reftory, we are told, are worth one hundred and fifty pounds, befides furplice fees. j 5 G H U N D R E D O F fhe king's bailiff of Depwade hundred for that li- berty ; and he held it at half a fee, and half a quar- ter of a fee, of fir John Inglofe, he of Ifabel queen of England, and fhe of the king, as heir to Momealt, lord of Rifmg-Caftle. In 1401 John Brufvard had it, and it was purchafed by fir John Marling, knt. and ever fince hath palled as Stratton-hall manor, the cuftoms being the fame, and the court is always held at the fame time'' 1 '. Thedemefnesandfcite fevered from the manor were late Booty's, and wereowned by the late John Howfe, efq. of Mourningthorpe, who alfo had the demefnes of Rhees's manor here, fevered anciently from that manor, which is now (and for a long time hath been) joined to Welholme's, the ftile being, Welhohne's, or WelhariTs and Rhees's, in Stratton. This manor was infeoffcd by Fitz-Corbun, as is already obferved, in one Hunfrid, or Humfrcy, vvhofe defcenclems afTumed the name of Stratton, and it was in Robert de Stratton I. In 1249 Ralph de Stratton, called alfa dc Bofco, or Bois , held it at one fee, and was fined for not being a knight. In 1285 John de Stratton was killed by William de Dunfton ; but it being found that he did it in his own defence, and not felonioufly, or malicioufly, he had the king's pardon, which he pleaded before the itine- rant juftices at Norwich. In 1270 Robert de Stratton fold part of the de- melnes to Richard de Boy land, who joined them to his * Here are lands now called Welholme, or Wellum woods. {He fold the advowfon from the manor. + Took the additional name of dc Bofco from the wood he dwelt by. D E P W A D E. i 57 his manor of Boyland-hall, in Mourningthorpe. In 1404 it belonged to John Rhees, and William Rhees, efq. who fold the manor in 1407 to John Kirtling, clerk, and Robert Park, and the heirs of John, but re- ferved the fcite and demefnes ; the manor was fooii afterwards conveyed to fir Robert Harling, and ever fince haih attended the manor of Siratton-hall. The fcite and demefnes, called Rhees's me{Tuage, in 1449 were conreyed to Thomas Ludham, clerk, and Thomas Howes, chaplain to fir John Faftolf, and their heirs ; and in 1464, Howes and Ludham having conveyed it to fir John, John Pafton, heir to fir John Faftolf % died feifed, and fince it hath paffed through many conveyances to John Howes, efq. In 1285 it was returned before the juftices in eirc that the king was defrauded of the fervice of a fer- jeanty, due for lands here in the time of king John, worth 5!. per ann. by the ferjeanty of finding one horfeman in the king's war whenever there happens to be war in England, and that Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, then held it fubtrafted from the king ; to which the earl, by his attorney, anfvvered, that he held it of Richmond honor in capite, and that it was in the hands of Henry III. who gave that honor, with all belonging to it, except Coftefley manor, to Peter de Subaudia, or of Savoy ; and after that Roger Bigot, anceftor of the prefcnt earl, purehafed it of Richard de Haddefco, as held of the faid honor, and that it was now held of John de Britain, lord of the honor, by the fervice aforefaid, but not by any fer- jeanty ; ^ There is a piece of land, about half an acre, moated round, where the manor-houfe of Rhees formerly ftood ; but there arc now no retruins of t'ue building. 158 HUNDRED OF jeanty; upon which he was difmifled, and it hath ever fincc paffed with Forncet manor. A weekly market was formerly held in Long Strat- ton, which, on account of an epidemic diftemper that raged in this part of the kingdom, was difufed. That this town hath been of note is evident by the vaft number of coins found about it. A John Sharpe hath in his pofTetlion a great many Roman, Saxon, and Englifh coins, and petrifactions, taken up here in the laft twenty years by himfelf ; he has dug up feveral ancient coins in his garden ; and in 1773, on opening a gravel-pit about a furlong from the town, feveral urns were found in a very re- gular form, fix feet below the furface, moft of which were broke by the workmen, one only being pre- fcrved from their ignorance and careletanefs ; it is curioufly ornamented, and had a common red pan laid over it: it it now in the collection of fir John Berney, bart. of Kirby-Bedon. About ten yards diftant from the fame gravel-pit, . and at about the fame depth, a hearth was lately dif- covered ; it is four yards fquare, and had on it afhes and burnt earth three inches deep. This, no doubt, was the place, according to ancient cufiom, where dead bodies were burnt. Two copper coins were al- fo found on the hearth, but fo imperfect that they cannot be made out. The village of Long Stratton is pleafantly fnuated on the great turnpike road from Norwich, ten miles, to Scole Inn ten, Bury thirty-two, Ipfwich thirty- three, Colchefter fifty, and London 100 miles. The flage coaches pafs through daily, and its vicinity to Norwich renders a refidence here very dcfirablc, either for buftnefs or pleafure. TACOLNESTON, D E P W A D E. 159 TACOLNESTON, commonly called TACLESTON*. belonged to Stigand the bifhop in the ConfefTor's time, who held it as a berewic to Wymondham ; it was then worth lol. per ann. when the Conquerors fur- vey was made 20!. and it belonged to that prince, and was under the cuftody, or care, of Godric his fewer; it was about three miles in length, and one in breadth, and paid lod. ob. to the gelt, or tax. There was then a part of it which belonged to Roger Bigot's manor of Forncet, and went as Forri- cet manor did, and continues with it to this day. The whole town, except Bigot's part, was in the crown till Henry I. gave it to Richard de Lucy, who held it at three fees, and paid caftle-ward for them to Dover-caflle, and he gave two of them to (ir Robert de Mounteney, who held them in 1161; and the other fee to Hugh, fon of Hamel, or Harneline, who then held it of Dover-caftle, and they were always held afterwards of the honor of Dover, and of the Fitz-Walters, as of their manor of Hempnall. Hugh was fucceeded by Reginald Ove^ale, de Uvedale, or D'ovedale, and John de Uvedale, his brother; the firft held his part at half a fee of Walter itz-Robert, and the laft held his of him at the fourth part of a fee, and this conftituted the manor called afterwards, from its owners, D'ovedalc'.s, Do- verdale, or Tacolneflon manor. Simon Fitz-Richard held a fourth part of a fee, which made up the ma- nor, called afterwards the earl's manor; Hugh, fon of Euftace, of Tacolnefton, held one fee of Walter Fitz-Robert, which was afterwards called William's manor ; and Bartholomew Malherbe held one fee of Walter * Villa Tacolvi, from fome ancient owner ; it is wrote Ta Colneftuna in Doomfday-book. i6o HUNDRED O $ Walter Fitz-Robert, which was afterwards joihed tft Tacolnefton manor; and the aforefoid manors had their feveral fhares in the advowfon, all which were purchafed by Hugh de D'ovedale, and io the ad- vowfon attended D'ovedale's manor. TACOLNESTON, or D'OVEDALE'S MANOR, defcend- ed from Reginald de Uvedale to Hugh de Uvedale, who in 1214 purchafed a part of the advowfon of Robert Mortimer, and became lord and fole patron j at which tirhe Malherbe's part was united to it. In 1274 he had liberty of free-warren allowed to the manor, view of frank-pledge, and aflize of bread and ale overall his tenants. In 1285 the king's charter for liberty of warren was allowed in cire, but the oiher liberties belonged to the king's hundred, whofe bailiff was to be prefent at every lect, and re- ceive three {hillings a year of the lord for liberty of holding a leet. He was lucceeded by fir John D ove- dale, his fon arid heir, about 1306, when he held here one fee of Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk. In 1318 this John gave his manor of Bedingham to the ca- nons of Walfingham, upon which an inquifition be- ing brought, the jury prefented, " that befides the manor of Bedingham which John de Uvedale gavfc the canons of Walfingham, at that time John had his manor of Tacolnefton, and feveral lands and tenements in Newton-Flotman, to the value of 40!. which would fully faiisfy all cufloms and fervices, as well of the manor fo given, as of the lands re* xnaining in fcutage, view of frank-pledge, aids, tal- lages, wards, fines, redemptions, amerciaments, con* tributions, and all emergencies ; and that the faid John might flill be put on all affizes, juries, and recogni- zances, as before the faid gift, fo that the country would not be more charged than before the faid John gave that manor. 1 ' This we have tranfcribcd at length D E P W A D E. 161 length, as fliewing, in a good meafure, the rcafon for making the ftatute of mortmain. This lordfhip continued in the poflefflon of this Family* of the D'ovedale, or Uvedale, and in 1388 fir John obtained a charter from Richard II. confirm- ing the charter of Edward I. dated May 16, 1303, by which that king granted to fir John de Uvedale, and his heirs, a weekly market on Wednefday, to be held at his manor of Tacolnefton, and two fairs yearly, to be held at the faid manor; the market and fair have been longfmce difufed. He died about 1434 ; for in that year Robert Clere, efq. of Ormefby, held his firft court for the manor of Tacolnefton D'ove- dale's, jointly with Elizabeth, his wife, only daugh- ter and heirefs of Thomas Uvedale, efq. She out- lived him, and died in 1492, and was buried by her hufband, in Norwich cathedral. About 1600 fir Henry Clere, ban. of Ormefby, mortgaged it to Mr. John Browne, of Sparkes, in Tacolnefton, who af- terwards joined with fir Henry, and fold it to Richard Brockden, or Brogden, alderman of Norwich. His fon, James Brockden, was killed before Namur about 1695 ; he had three wives, but no iffue by any; his mother, Mary, held this manor for life, and after- wards remarried to John Ladd, furgeon, of Norwich ; it afterwards belonged to Benjamin Andrews, who fold it to Edmund Knipe, of Tacolnefton, efq. the late lord, who refided at a good houfe here, about two furlongs weft of the church, anciently the feat of the Brownes, called Sparkes: William Knipe, efq. was his fon and heir. This manfion is now the feat and manor-houfe of Knipe Gobbet, efq. alderman (and mayor in 1771) of the city of Norwich, and L lieutenant- * This was a very numerous family, many of them being confiderable owners in this county. 162 HUNDRED OF lieutenant-colonel of the Weft Norfolk regiment, in which corps he has ferved for many years. In 1779 he gave the corporation of Norwich one hundred pounds, to be diipofed of as they might think proper, and foon after that corporate body prefented the co- lonel with a handfome field tent, marquee, and camp equipage, in tefiimony of their efteem for his thus dedicating fo much of his attention to the defence and fervice of this country at a time when threat- ened by an INVASION. WILLIAM'S MANOR was granted to William fir- named of Tacolneflon, the place of his birth and education, from whofe Chriftian name the manor took its name. In 1249 it was held at a whole knight's fee ; but Hugh de Tacolneflon was not yet knighted. In 1285 fir William de Tacol- nefton (though he is often called fir William Fitz- Euftacc) had view of frank-pledge of all his tenants, and affize of bread and ale. In 1381 John de Ta- colneflon was lord; the famous John Tacefphalus (we believe) was born here, and was elecled prior of the carmelites, or white friars, in Norwich, in 1404, of whom Pits fpeaks, p. 607. He was D. D. a man of great learning, remarkable piety, and a good ora- tor ; a great preacher againfl the difciples of Wick- liff, Hus, and the Lollards ; he publifhed two books, by way of comment, on the Revelations; a collec- tion of fermons for the faints days, and many others; and to make them of the greater authority and efteem, he went to pope Martin V. to Rome, to ob- tain his approbation and public recommendation, which he had juft obtained when he died, and was buried there; and it is probable the manor fell by cfcheat to the lord of Forncet manor, of which it was held, and continued with it till about 1570, when the earl of Arundel was returned lord of Wil- liam's D E P W A D E. >6 3 " liam's manor, in Tacolnefton, and chief lord of the commons there, in right of the earl's manor, which belonged to Forncet manor; but it was fold by the earl to the Cleres, and by them to the Brownes. In 1623 Edmund and Robert Browne, fon and heir ap- parent of Edmund, articled with Thomas Knyvet, efq. and for igool. fold him Tacolnefton manor, and the manor of William's, with the advowfon and the rents of affize there, above i il. per ann. fix capons, two hens, and five eggs : but it did not take place ; for William's manor defcendcd to John Browne, who joined and fold Tacolneflon manor as aforeiaid to James Brockden, but kept this to hirnfclf. In 1657 the faidjohn Browne, the elder, gent, was lord; and in 1664 John Browne, his eldeft fon and heir, kept his firft court, in which it was found, that the cuftom of the manor is to the eldeft fon ; it hath continued ever fince in the Brownes, and at the death of Richard Browne it defcended to his fon, the Rev. John Browne, late re&or of Afhwelthorpe. The Rev. Charles Browne is the prefent lord, and refides here. EARL'S MANOR was held as aforefaid by Simon Fitz-Richard ; and in 1199 by Richard Fitz-Walter. In 1306 Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, and marfhal of England, held it jointly with Alice, his wife, of Robert Pitz-Walter, by the fervice of two parts of a fee; and from that time to this it hath paffed as Forncet manor. The church is dedicated to All Samts ;'when Nor- wich Doomfday-book was wrote Hugh de D'ovcdale was patron ; the re&or then had no houfe, but two barns, and twenty-three acres of glebe, though now there is a handfomc houfe, barn, and outhoufes, ad- joining to the north fide of the church-yard, and about thirty acres of glebe; it was firft valued at ten,, L 2 and ' HUNDRED OF and after at twelve marks, and the town paid al. IDS. clear to' every tenth. The prior of BuckenhanVs. temporals were taxed at 6d. and thofe of the monks Of Thetford at 25. ob. The rectory {lands undif- charged in the kings books at 12!. pays firft-fruits, and il. 45. yearly tenths. There were two guilds here. The church was rebuilt about 1503; for there were about that time many legacies given to the foundation of the church of Tacolnefton. The tower is fquare, and hath five bells in it; the nave and chancel are thatched, the fouth aile is leaded, and the fouth porch tiled. Ricardus Browne de Sparkes in hac parochia gen. hie jacet Jepultus, qui mortem obijt 21 die Augujli, A. D. 1678, atat.Juce 45. Browne impaling Knevet. Pietate et Charitate. Hie jacet corpus Murielis, nuper uxoris Johannis Browne, apud Sparkes, gcneroft, qua fuit unajiliarum Johannis Kncvet, generofi, et vitam hanc cum morte commulavit 16 die Martij, 1671. Hie jacet corpus Johannis Browne, apud Sparkes, ge- neroji, qui vitam hanc migravit 29 die Sept. A. D. 1666. The Brownes are an ancient family, having been in this parifli ever fince the time of Henry VI. and many of them lie buried here. Alfo forae of the Knipes. In the eaft window, quarterly, i . Barry, or Berry ; 2. loft ; 3. Pafton ; 4. Mautby. In a north window, Bohuh. * In D E P W A D E. 165 In 1603 the reftor returned anfvvcr that there were 123 communicants in this pariflh. In 1660 Robert Baldock, efq. ferjeant at law, pre- fented, who in 167 I, by the name of fir Robert Bal- dock, knt. gave it to John Baldock, whofe wife lies buried here, Ocl. n, 1692; and in 1681 Richard Kerrington had it, but was deprived for not taking the oath to William III. In 17 64 the Rev. Thomas Warren was prefented to this reclory by Dame Sufannah Ward, p. h. v. Mr. Warren is now patron, and incumbent of this church. The advowfon was fold from the manor by fir Henry Clere, and was afterwards purchafed by fir Robert Baldock, who defcended from an ancient fa- mily of that name in this county; for Richard Bal- dock, of Ne&on, owned a good eftate there in 1 263. In 1683 the faid Robert was appointed king's ferjeant by patent, and being an aclive man in the time of James II. he was one of the king's council at the trial of the feven bifhops in 1688, in which caufe (hewing much zeal, he was the fame year made one of the juftices of the King's Bench, in the room of fir John Powell, knt. who was turned out for main- taining that the bifhop's petition to the king could not be a libel, becaufe it was founded upon the king's incapacity to difpenfe laws, which was very frue: he had two wives; firft, Mary Bacon ; fecond, the relic! of fir William Hewet, of Breccles : by the firft he had two children ; Henry, his only fon, who died without iffue foon after his father, and left his only fitter, Mary, then wife of George Townfhend, of Little Wrotham, efq. his fole heiiefs, whofe only furviving fon was the late reclor. Sir Robert Baldock aforefaid built a houfe oppofite to the Couth part of L 3 the 166 H U N D R E D O F the church-yard, which is commonly called Tacol- neflon-hall, in which he dwelt, but now being de- cayed, great part of it is pulled down. This eftaie, with the advowfon, was fold fome years fince to Mr. Ferrer, who left it to his fon, William Ferrer, gent, and his fifter carried the patronage to her huf- band, Bernard Hyde, gent, of Seven-Oaks, in Kent. In 1778 the moft noble Charles duke of Norfolk, as lord of the manor of Forncet, Knipe Gobbet, efq. as lord of the manor of Tacolneflon, otherwife D'ovcdale, the Rev. Charles Browne, a* lord of Wil- liam's manor, the Rev. Thomas Wan en, as patron and re61or, and feveral other proprietors of lands in this parifli, obtained an aci of parliament for dividing and inclofing the commons and wafle lands belong- ing thereto, which is now laid out in convenient por- rions, and new roads made much to the benefit of the country. Ten acres of land is allotted for the benefit of the poor refiding in the parifh, and not receiving alms j this i* vefted in the hands of the manor lords, re&or, churchwardens, and overfeers, for that purpofc. TASBURGH, or TASEBURGH. The name of this town fhews its original to have been the burgh, or fortification, on the river Taus, or Tefe ; and accordingly Dr. Gale, in his commentary on Anto- ninus's Itinerary, tells us, this river was called Tau, and that the flation ad Taum, mentioned in the Pentingerian tables, was here""'; and indeed the parifh church ftands in the fortification, the dimenfions of which are ftill very vifible; and an advantageous fi- tuation it was, to guard the pifs cf the river, leading to * He tells us of coins found here with 1C. DVRO. T. D E P W A D E. icy to Caftor, being on the very fummil ' of a high hill, which furveys the adjacent country, and hangs over the river, which turned eaftward by it, and made a commodious finus, or bay, for fuch veffels as came up hither; and though for many years this ftream hath declined through neglect, it would be an eafy matter to make it navigable for lighters and fuch fore of veffels up to this village, which would be an ad- vantageous thing to ah the neighbouring country ; this good project hath been twice attempted, and as often mifcarried, rather through want of conduct and a proper application, than ability of the under- takers. The entrenchment, or burgh, here, is fquare, and contains about twenty-four acres ; it feems to be that encampment of the Romans which, by the cho- rographical table published by Mark Velfer, is called Ad Taum. This place hath given name to the an- cient family of the Tafburghs, who being lords of the town, had anciently their feat there ; but after their removal hence had their chief feat (and that a very pleafant one) juft otit of the county, on the bank of the river Waveney, which parts this county from Suffolk, not far from the abbey of Fadix-Tovvn, commonly called Flixton, in Suffolk; the houfe is a grand ancient building, and fronts the road from Bungay to Harlefton, The church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, who hath her guild here , the fleeple was built in 1385, is round, and hath four bells in it; there is a north porch ; the nave is leaded, and the chancel tiled. In 1694 the rector had licence to fell the lead off the chancel, and cover it with tiles. L4 Qn i6S H U N D R E D O F On an altar-tomb on the fouth fide of the church, Bludworth impaling Baxter, and this on a brafs plate at the top: Elhabdha,Jilia et heres Georgij Bludworth, gen. el uxor Thoms. a year, which in 1612 was paid to the lord of Afla&on priory Riano-r, in right of Thetford priory. It now flands in the king's books undischarged, and there- fore is not capable of augmentation. SI. Tafburgh reel. i6s. yearly tenths. This town paid 3!. to every tenth, when the taxes were raifed by tenths and fif- teenths. The MANOR of UPHALL, or BOYLAND'S, in Taf- burgh, was the capital manor, and belonged to bi- fhop Ofborn in the time of the ConfefTor, and was held by Tar.olf, a free-man of bifhop Stigand, at the Conqueror's furvey, and then it extended into Forn- cet; at the firii furvey it was worth aos. per annum, and 305. at the laft. All Tafebure was a mile and quarter long, and feven furlongs broad, and paid jyo HUNDRED OF gd. gelt. The fucceffors of this Tarolf affumed the name of Tafeburgh about i 239. In 1247 R^ph de Tafeburgh was lord, and had infangenthef, or liberty to try all theft committed by his tenants, in his own court baron and leet here, and to execute them, and take their forfeited goocib. In 1280 his fon, Roger, had fold it to fir Richard de Boy land, who in i 284 had the leet, paying 6d. yearly to the king, by the bailiff of the hundred ; aflize of bread and ale, a ducking flool, pillory, and common gallows ; he lived here, and had his cha- pel of St. Michael* adjoining to his houfe. It was foon afterwards fold to Richard de Uphall, of Taflburgh, from whom it was called Uphall manor. In 1 298 he fold it to Henry De-la-Salle, when ii contained ten meflfuages, one hundred and forty acres of land, twenty-four of meadow, ten of pafture, eight of wood, two of marfh, and 61. as. $d. ob. rent, in Tafburgh, Newton-Flotman, Saxlingham, Waclnn, and Hempnall. It afterwards came to Kalphde Bumpftead, citizen of Norwich. A moiety rjf this manor in 1539 was fold by Thomas Wifeman to Charles duke of Suffolk, who ill 1542 fold it to fir Richard Grefham, who the year befoie had purchafed the other moiety of John Branch, and others, who bought it of Edward Tafe- burgh ; and before 1570 it was fold to William Fern- jcy, 01 Farlowe, of Greeting, in Suffolk, and by him to fir Thomas Gaudy, of Glaxton, who died feifed, and left it to Henry Gaudy, efq. his fon, who fold it * This was a free chapel belonging to the manor -houfe, and was for the fole.ufe of the family ; we do not find it was ever endowed, but the ferving prieft was fupported by the lords, to pray for them, their family, and anceftors ; this con- tinued to the difiblution,but being the fole property of the lord,, the ftatute hath nothing to do with it. D E P W A D E. 17I it according to an agreement made before his father's death, with the manor of Hunt's, in Tafburgh, to Gafcoign Weld, who left it to Jofeph Weld, efq,* his fon, ferjeant at law, whofe two daughters, Elizabeth, and Mary, inherited; Elizabeth, married Richard Rutter, of Kingflcy, in Chefhire ; and Mary, Wil- liam Starkey, clerk, whofe daughter, Mary, inherited the whole, and carried it to herhufband, John Jcrrpy, of Bayfield, in Norfolk, efq. whofe only fon and heir, William Jermy, efq. was fince lord. HUNT'S MANOR belonged at the Confeffor's furvey to Almar, who held it of bifhop Stigand, and at the Conqueror's Roger de Ebrois held it of William de Schoies, and Richard de Hadefco held it about the time of king John of the honor of Clare, at the eighth part of a fee; and in 1235 John \Vythe, and Roger de Broome, had it. In 1266 Henry III. granted liberty of free-warren to Thomas Rofcelinc, then lord, by purchafe from Richard le Chamber- lain, of Haddifcoe; and in 1270 the faid Thomas fold it to Roger dc Hales. In i 289 William de Nar- ford had it; and in 1315 it belonged to Dunmovv priory, in EiTex, at the diffolution of which it came to the crown, and being granted from it, in the l 2th of queen Elizabeth it belonged to fir Thomas Gref- ham, knt. lord mayor of London, and by him was joined to the manor of Uphall, with which it now remains * About 1700 Jofeph Weld, efq. ferjeant at law, brought his ae~i.ion againit Mr, Carter, an attorney at Norwich, then lord of Ranthorpe-hail, for cutting down trees on the common of Tafburgh; it went for the plaintiff, it being proved by the evi- dences and court-rapt, that in the time of queen Elizabeth the lords of Tafburgh granted licence to the lord of Ranthorpe-hali to plant trees, and to make a caufeway through the common to go to the church, and that all tre drifts, filhing, and other royalties, belonged to the lord ofTafburgh. i 7 * HUNDRED OF remains. The ftile of the court now is, Tafeburgh- Uphall, Boyland's, and Hunt's. The honor of Richmond extends hither, two par- cels belonged to Alan, lord of that honor; the one was valued with his manor of Cofteffey, and the other belonged to the manor of Swaffham ; and in 1632 Matthew Weld, gent, was obliged by procefs to pay 2!. los. to the king as his forfeiture for not pay- his Majefty an annual rent of sd. ob. called war- pound rent'", due to his honor of Richmond. There was a ferjeanty held under Roger Bigot at the furvey, by Berard and Afceline and afterwards by the earl Marfhal, who held it of Richmond ho- nor. RANTHORPE-HALL MANOR was held of Roger de Ramis by William, at the furvey, and after him by Jeffrey de.Rainefthorp, or Ranthorp, at one fee, in 1156; and it is now divided, and in that pan in Taf- burgh he was fucceeded by John de Rainefthorp, and he by William de Raines, or Reymes ; it continued in this family a long time. In 1307 John de Reymes, or Rarnefthorp, had it ; and afterwards, in 1342, it belonged to William de Rhees. In 1550 Ann Chap- man held it of Forncet at half a fee; and in 1579 Dudley Chapman fold it to fir Thomas Cornwallis, knt. Thomas Baxter had it about 1600; he built the houfe, called Ranthorpe-hall, in the windows of which are the following arms : Howard duke of Nor- folk, quartering Brotherton, Warren, and Mowbray; Robfert * War-pound, " beware of your pound rent," the forfei- ture being one pound 'for every penny left unpaid. E. Rot. Pea. P. L. N. inter Rot. Honoris Richmond, in Norff. ex parts Strattoa- Longa in Dtp-wade hund curia ibm 16 y.. D^E P W A 'D E. 173 Robfertt impaling Kerdefton, Sec. Appleyard and Thornbury, Baxter impaling Drake, quarterly ;. Baxter and Bludworth ; Bludworth and Croffe, quarterly; Baxter and Bludworth quartered, impaled with Bovv- ycr, Sec. Baxter and Sherman; Ditto and Flint. Thomas Baxter, efq. fold it to Thomas Newce, efq. of Hodfdon, in Hertfordshire, Stephen Bowyer, and Thomas Heyward, efqrs. being truftees; at his death it went to his only daughter, married to Mor- gan Jenkyn, whofe only fon, Newce Jenkyn, fold it to Mr. Richard Carter, fen. attorney at law, in Nor- xvich, and his fon, Richard, had it, whofe widow fold.it. THARSTON. This village is called by va- rious names in old evidences, as Sterftuna, or Sleres- Town*. Therfton, Teftun, Thurfton, and Tharf- tpn, and was in divers parts at the Cpnqueft, feve- ral of them belonging to the manor of Forncet, of which the capital manor was always held ^ at one fee. LJluric held it of bifhop . Stigand at the Con- feflbr's furvey, and Robert dc Vallibus, .Vals, or Vaux, of Roger Bigot at the Conqueror's. The church had forty acres of glebe, valued at 35. per ann. the manor was worth '5!. 6s. and the town was a league and an half long, and half a league broad, and paid i^d. ob. to the gelt. This \vas afterwards 'Called Narford's, or Thariton-hall manor. Another f In 15 86 "fir Echvard Stafford, of Grafton, ambafiador in France in 1586, married Mrs. Chapman, of Kanthorpe-hall, by whom he had a fon, William ; and llie was rclid of Rob- iert when he married her. * From the fleers, or young bullocks, it being probably appropriated for a place to breed and bring up young cattle in, in the Sctxon times. 174 HUNDRED OF Another part belonged to Robert Fitz-Corburi, which was worth IDS. per ann. in rents at the fiift, and 2 os. at the laft furvey ; this conflituted the Matior of THARSTON, or ST. OMER'S MANOR, taking both its names from the lords of it; in 1236 Richard de Tharfton was lord, and held it at a quarter of a fee of Robert de Shelton, of whom he purchafed it, and Shelton held it of Robert de Tatefhale, lord of Buckenham-caftle, from which it had been formerly fold by the Albanys. In 1317 Richard de Tharfton fettled it on Ralph de St. Omer, and it foon after divided into two parts*; but before 1401 St. Omer's part was joined in William Rees, efq. who was lord of this, and NARFORD'S, LOVENEY'S, or THARSTON-HALL MA* XOR, as it is now called, which continued in the Vaux's a long time; in 1275 John de Vaux had a charter for free-warren here, and in 1285 he had a leet held once a year, but the king's bailiff of the hundred was to be prefent, or the lord could not hold it, unlefs he agreed with him yearly, which was afterwards done conftantly, till it was bought in perpetuity; and then the lord had view of frank- pledge, aflize of bread and ale, and waif. In 1288, upon the partition made between the two daughters and co-heireffes of John de Vaux, Maud * In 1303 Joh'n Jerrhy purchafed of Roger de Hales three mefluages, j 20 acres of land, four of meadow, eight of paf- ture, fifteen of wood, and zos. rent in Tharfton, Wadon, and Korncet ; this was held in the time of Henry III. by the fef- jeanty of finding one flinger, with a fling to caft ftones with in the kino's army. Jenny's manor continued in that family, and M as fome time afterwards joined with the other manor. D E P W A D E. 175 Maud, married to William de Roos, and Petronel, to William de Narford, who had this manor, and that of Shottefham, in Henftead, and the moieties of Holt and Cley, the whole advowfon of Holt, with divers knights fees in Thorpe, Winch, Bee- chamwelJ, Thurneton, Mourningthorpe, Sec. and it continued in the Narfords. Sir Thomas Roos, of Hamlake, knt. who de- fcended from Maud, the other daughter and co- heirefs of Vaux, had it; and. in 1394 Margery de Narford releafed and conveyed all right in it to William Roos, or Rees, efq. and his heirs, who held it in 1403 of Thomas Mowbray's manor of Forncet at one fee. In. 1410 this William Rees. efq. by will, gave his two manors in Tharfton, the one called Narford's. and the other St. Omcr's, to be fold by his execucors, with his manors of Caxton and \Vroting, in Cambridgefhire, to found a chan- try in the college of St. Mary in the Fields, in Nor- wich, and to pay fir Thomas, the anchorite, near that college, 2s. a week for life ; and foon after it wns fold to William Lqveney, and afterwards pur- chafed by fir Robert Clere, knt. who held it in, 1432, and it patted in that family with Kefwick. In 1549 fir John Clere was lord, and the manors were valued at 30!. but he manumited much, and and died Auguft 21, 1557, leaving fir Edward, his fon and heir. He made a long leafe of the de- mefnes to John Woolmer, and fettled the manor. He left it to fir Edward Clere, of Ormefby, his fon and heir, who fold it to John Smith, efq. of Ar- minghall, and he in 1617 to ^ r Thomas Knyvet, of Afluvelthorpe, knt. when there were 319 acres, three roods and an half of copyhold, which paid lol. 2s. ^d. quit-rents, befides fix capons, two hens, three, geek, ten eggs, two buQiels of oats, feven days work 176 H U N D R E D O F work and an half in barveft, feven days work in winter, half a day's work in hay-feele, and half a day's work in weeding, which were even now paid in kind. The freehold rents of antient te- nure were 61. zs. 4d. per ann. twelve capons, five hens, one comb of wheat, half a pound of pepper, and one July-flower. The freehold rents of the new purchafes, or manumiffions, were 2!. 75* ^d. one capon, and one red rofe. The rents of 159 acres of demefnes granted off free, 61. 175. ob. and one capon. The profits of the court one year with another 81. los. The lord hath had a warren of coneys at Holme-hill, and hath lett Holme cha- pel to farm. It then paid gd. per ann. to Forncet, and is. to Stratton manors. In 1626 Thomas Knevet, of Afhwekhorpc, efq. fold it to Robert Wood, efq. of Bracon-Afh, and it hath paffed ever fince in that family. WFLHOLME'S, or WELHAM'S MANOR, laid inStratton St. Michael, and this town. Before the Welholmes removed to their new made manor-houfe at Stratton, they du elt in the old fcite of their manor by Holm- hill, in this parifh, to which belonged an ancient free chapel dedicated to St. Giles, called Holme, or Welholme's chapel, the fcite of which now belongs to the manor of Tharflon ; and on account of this it is that we often meet with the churches of Thar- fton mentioned, but the manor united to. Stratton- hall. The advowfon of the rectory of the church of St. Mary the Virgin, at Tharfton, was given in the time of king Stephen to the priory of Pentney, in treebridge-Lynn, by Robert dc Vaux, founder of that houfe, to which it was appropriated before 1273; it was firft valued at fifteen, afterwards at eighteen marks, D E P W A D E. 177 marks, and had a houfe and forty acres of glebe. The vicarage is valued in the king's books by the name of Thurfton, at 5!. is. 8d. and being (worn of the clear yearly value of 45!. it is difcharged of firfl-fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmenta- tion ; and in 1571 the queen's receiver-general paid to the vicar, out of the impropriate tithes, a yearly penfion of 3!. 6s 8d. There was a guild held in honor of the Bleffed Virgin, and the following reli- gious peifons had temporalities, valued as follow : the prior of Thetford monks at as. the abbot of Creake 6d. the prior of Buckenham ss. the prior of Norwich 45. 6d. and it paid clear to every tenth 4!. I2S. The church hath a fquare fteeple and four bells, the nave is leaded, the chancel and north porch are died. There arc two monuments of black marble in- fcribed to Robert Wood, efq. fon and heir to fir Ro- bert Wood, of Ayljham, knt. who died May 23, 1623. Alfo Anne Wood, wife to the fold Robert, -daughter and one of the co-heireffcs of Robert, Wodmer, efq-ifhe died at her houfe at Bracon-AJh, Jan. 7, 1646. The f aid Robert and Anne had ijjue three fons and two daughters, fir Robert, their eldejl fon, married Elizabeth, the third daughter of fir Thomas Richardfon, knt. late chief -juf~ lice oj the Kings-Bench. John Woolmer, efq. fome time clerk of the aJJiT.es for this circuit, and Alice, his wife; he died in this town Dec. 2, 1598, and Alice, his wife, died at Croxton, near Thetford, Dec. 9, 1610. inn mot Lii. ~.K;.-i*i:. ! j /; .v-v.oj. 1 1 'io' tin . r co The vicars of Tharfton were prefented by the priors of Pentney till 1500, when the prior granted M the 17 S HUNDRED OF the next turn to Thomas Codde, Alderman of Norwich. The impropriate re&ory, and advowfon of the vicarage, vefted in the crown at the diffolution, and the king lett the impropriation to farm at 61. 6s. &d. referved rent, and preferred to the vicarage one Robert Ringer, who in 1554 was deprived by queen Mary for not complying with the Romifh re- ligion, which fhe endeavoured to eftablifh, and (he gave it to Robert Vaffour ; and in 1557, he being outed, Thomas Underwood, alias Babington, took it by lapfe. The impropriation and advowfon of the vicar- age was fettled in i6ftl by he crown on the bi- Ihopric of Ely, the bifhops of which fee have all along, and do now enjoy them. In 1 603 the vicar returned 136 communicants in this parifh. The Rev. Mr. Thurlow, father of the prefent lord high chancellor of England, was vicar of Tharfton; and in 1762 the Rev. John Salmon had it. In 1775 the lord bifhop of Ely prcfented the prefent vicar, Thomas Howes, of Mourningthorpe. TIBBENHAM, or TIBENHAM. The church here is dedicated to All SaintSj and hath a fquare tower and five large bells; the fouth porch, fouth aile, nave, and chancel, are all leaded; the vicarage- houfe joins to the weft part of the church-yard: there are the emblems of the four evangelifls at each corner of the tower, carved in flone, and four mar- bles in the chancel : I. Ro- D E P W A D E. i. Robertus Herne, generofus, ob. Mar. 2, A. D. 1685. Anna Herne, ob. 20 Mar. A.D. 1729, at. 81. 2. Richard Herne, gent. 1668. 3. Herne' s arms and crcft. Robertas Herne, armiger, jilius Robcrti Hcrne, generoji, ob. 12 die Aug. A.D. 1720, at. 66-. 4. Gooch impaling Hernc. Here lieth Sarah Gooch, tlie wife of Clement Gooch, late of Earfliam, in the county of Norfolk, efq. and daughter of Robert Herne, of this parijh, gent. Dec. i, 1729, TO *-' * Wecver, fol. Si 4, ito HUNDRED OF lodgement, or habitation impaled with Warner; alfo Buxton impaled with Herne, and Buxton im- paling Pert. Here is another brafs plate for the aforefaid Johan- nes de Buxton, and one with Buxton's arms impal- ing Pert For Johannes Buxton, de Channom, apud Ty- benham, armiger, obijt 29 die menjis Aprilis, anno Dm. 1660, tftatis Jutz 51, et Margareta, uxor, fiha Gu- K.'lmi Pert, of MontncJJiny, comitatu Effex, armig. obijt II die mentis Maij, anno Dni. 1687, at.futz curren. 76. There is a flone For Benjamin, third Jon of Wil- liam Buxton, who died April 16, 1681. And ano- ther head-ftone by the chancel door For Mary, wife of Francis Buxton, gent, and Mary, his wife, who died Jan* 29, 1723, &t* 22; and Hannah, their daugh- ter. T/iomas Talbot, armiger, juris confultus, jujliciarus, vir Deo devotus^ omnibus boms charus, amicus fidiffimu s , natalibus virtutibus, dignilatibus indytus, mortem patiendo corporahm victor abibat in vitsm elernam, per Dommum nojlrum, Jefum Chriftum, cui onmis laus, gloria, ho- nor, &c. in fecula feculorum. Amen. Here was a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, {landing by itfelf in the church-yard, at the eaft end of the chancel, the ruins of which may flill be feen. William Lynfter, alias Bocher, in 1493, was buried in the chapel of the Bleffed Virgin Mary at Tibbenham; he gave a meffuage and lands to the parifh church of All Saints here, ordering the churchwardens to apply the neat profit to repair and adorn the church for ever; he gave alfo nine acres of freehold lying at Mill-hill and Rowe-Bufhes, for the conflables to receive the rent, and with the neat D E P W A D E. igi neat yearly profit thereof to pay the king's fif- teenths for the poorer fort of people, and when there are no fifteenths, then the churchwardens are to re- ceive it, and repair and beautify the church with it. There were three guilds here, the brethren and fifters of which had one common guild-hall, fince turn'd into a fchool-houfe ; thefe guilds had divers lands here, which at their diffolution were feized by the crown, where they continued till 1609, an( i then James I. granted them to John Eldred, efq. and Mrs. Joan Verdon, and their heirs. The fur- niture of the guild-hall remained till 1650, when the hall was ruined ; for then the officers fold 30!. of pewter, 92!. of lead, four fpits that weighed iSglb. a metal pot that weighed 44 Ib. two pots of brafs of 89 Ib. and a brafs pan of 9 lb. A plain proof of the jolly doings at thefe guilds ! But as the poor of the parifh always were partakers with them, we much queftion whether their revenues were not better fpcnt then, than they have been fince they were rapacioufly feized from the parishes to which they of right belonged. In 1652 the town lands to beautify and repair the church were lett at above 28!. per ann. In 1-506 John Blomefield, of Norwich, gent, be- queathed to the paving of St. Nicholas's chapel, in Tibbenham church, a thoufand paving tiles, or mo- ney to the value. The vicars of Tibbenham were prefented by the priors of Horfham St. Faith ; or the king, when he feized that priory into his hands, as being an alien. In jS* HUNDRED OF In 1393 the advowfon of Tibbenham was alU cnated by fir Miles Stapleton, and others, to Norton- Subcrofs chantry; but they having ; no other right in it, only a grant from the king, as part of the pofTeflions of an alien priory, when that was made a denizen, the grant ceafed. In 1554, the vicar being deprived, and a pen- fion affigned him, fir Richard Southwell, knt. by leafe from the crown of the impropriation and ad- vowfon of the vicarage, gave it to Peter Walker*. They were afterwards granted by queen Elizabeth, in exchange, to the bifhopric of Ely; and ever fmce the bifliop of Ely hath been patron of the vicarage, and leafes out the impropriation. In 1603 the reclor returned 210 communicants here, that the bifhop of Ely was patron of the vi- carage, and had the impropriate redorv, which had formerly been endowed with part of the vicarage, viz. the tithe hay. In 1227 it was a re&ory, for Richard le Chaum then granted two parts of the advowfon to Auguf- tine, prior of St. Faith, at Horfham, who had the other third part before in right of their lands here; and the church was appropriated and confirmed to them by the bifhop of Norwich, according to art agreement made in the time of his predeceffor, fav- ing a fufficient maintenance to the vicar ; and in 1428 the prior was taxed for his fpiritualities at 33 marks, and his temporals paid 1 2d. to each tenth. At the diffolution their temporals as well as fpiri- * Dna. Regina habet prefentationtm vicarie d Tibenham, rec- fr(ut fft in manu Rid Southwell, jnilitit, pro tsrmino annorwn /- turoruOi, froredditu 8/. l$t.6, called afterwards Bacon's manor, belonged to Roger Bigot's manor of Forncet at the conqueft, and the feveral parts before their union belonged to different families. Weft-hall was held by Richard de Hadefco, by the fourth part of a fee, in the time ef Richard I. and after that was joined to Hackford's manor, which pafled as Hackford's manor, in Weft Harling, and from thence to the Seckfords, and was by one of them fold to the Bacons, and joined to Chanons manor, as before-mentioned. The manors of SKEYTON-HALL, alias WHITWELL'S, and LAUNDE'S. are now joined to the manors of Bun- well, Carleton, and Tibbenham, cum Mcmbris, the members of it being thefe two manors: Skeyton-hall D E P W A D E. 189 Skeyton-hall manor, alias Whitwell's, took its jaame from fir John de Skegeton, or Skeyton, lord of it in the time of Edward I. as sflfo of Skeyton-hall, in Skeyton, from which village he took his name. Richer de Whitwell had it in 1261. Launde's manor in 1 264 belonged to Richard Lem- ming, of Tibbenham, who forfeited it for rebelling againfi Henry III. In 1278 Robert de Buckenham had it ; and in 1283 William de Cruce, De-la-Croyz, or At-Crofs, owned it. In 1287 John de Tib- benham had affize of bread and ale, arid waif, al- lowed him here. In 1478 John Heydon, of Baconf- thorpe, died feifed, and from that time to this they have paffed as Bunwell, John Buxton, efq. being now lord. Alan earl of Richmond's manor of Carlcton. extended hither. Tibbenham vicarage is valued in the king's books at 61. 165. 8d. and being fworn of the clear yearly- value of 46!. it pays no full-fruits nor tenths, and is capable of augmentation. WACTON, or WATCH-TOWN, might probably take its name from the watch that ufed coniiantlv to be kept upon the Roman highway, at the entrance of Siratton, in order to guard the paflage to their fortification at Tarburgh. At the Confeffor'6 and /Conqueror's furveys the whole of Waketuna belong- ed to, and was included in the manor of Forncer, except one part, which belonged to the honor of Richmond, and afterwards became Park's manor here. There was a fourth pait of A fee held by Durand at ihe Conqueror's f'urvey, and this was the manor of WACTON jgo H U N D R E t) O WACTON Parita, or LITTLE WACTON, which al- ways attended the rtjanor of Great Moulton from that time to this, in fcght of which the third turn of the fmecure reclory here is flill appendant to it. The other third part of the village of Waclon Parva always belonged to Forncet, and a third part of the advowfon, till it was lately purchafed of the duke of Norfolk by the late Rev. John Soley, reclor of Strat- ton St. Mary, who had alfo the other third part of the gift of Thomas Buckenham Tirrel. lord of the manor of Parks, in Great Waclon, to which it lately belonged, though formerly it was appendant to the manor of Stratton-hall, according to an agreement made in 1288, between Roger le Bigot, earl of Nor- folk, and Gilbert de Bourne, owners of Stratton- hall, by which this turn was fettled on Bourne and his heirs. In 1755 fir Edward Duke, bart. prefented the Rev. William Baker, A. M. to this reclory; and in 1762 the Rev. James Anfdell was prefented by Thomas Lobb Chute, efq. of Pickeuham, in the hundred of South Greenhoe. The church was dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, and when Norwich Doomfday-book was made, the reclor had a houfe and fixteen acres of glebe ; the revenues were fo fmali that it was not valued in the firft taxation, but at the fecond it was valued at 408. though not taxed ; it now ftands in the king's books thus: al. 135. 4d. Waclon Parva reclory 30!. clear yearly value; no church; fo that being discharged, it pays no firft fruits or tenths, and is capable of augmentation. In 1606 this panflh was valued by itfelf at 233!. 135. 8d. per annum to the tax. The church was in eonftant D E P W A D E. 191 conftant life till about 1500, and then it began to be called a chapel ; and in 1510 was returned to be in decay. In 1520 it was fo bad that fervice began to be omitted, and then there was a defign of rebuilding it, though it never took place; for in 1522 William, Cullyng, of Wa&on St. Mary, was buried there, and willed, " That when it fhall pleafe the pariff- " heners of the feid Wekton, to go about the " halowynge of their churche, yf that they will doo " geve the bifhop his dener that day, then I wyti ' that mine executors (hall foo geve the bifhop his " ftypende, as he or they may agree." But not- withftaiiding this it fell down, and was never re- paired. It flood on the piece of glebe now called Dove-houfe-acre, or chapel-yard; but the founda- tions are plowed over, though the re&or upon every inftitution reads prayers there forenoon and afternoon, as in other reclories ; the filver cup which belonged here is now the only cup in Great Wadlon church, as the infcription on it fhews. The parifh is now fo far fwallowed up in Great Wa6on, that the bounds are not commonly known; fo that all the tithes are received by the reclor of Great Wa&on ; there being no houfe, church, or pa- rifhioner, it is 'an abfolute fin^cure. The reclor.ac this day is poffeffed of nothing but about fixteen acres of glebe, and even that pays all taxes, tithes, and rates, to Wa&on Magna, being rated at 5!. los.'per annum. Twelve fmall pieces of this glebe laid intermixed in ten or twelve inclofures of land belonging to Mrs. Martina Robe, widow, but are newly ex- changed for the like quantity of land in two inclo- v fures, containing about eight or nine acres, by con- fent of the bifhop, reior, and patrons. WACTON igz HUNDRED OF WACTON Magna. The church is dedicated to All Saints ; the advowfon belonged to Forncet manor, till fold from it lately; when Norwich Doomlday- book was made the reclor had a houfe and fixteen acres of glebe ; the houfc is fhuaied againft the church-yard, and much the fame quantity of glebe now remains ; it was firft valued at five, and after- wards at eight marks, and the monks of Thetford had a portion of tithes, valued at 6s. fcd. the whole village paid si. 6s. 8d. clear to every tenth. Elizabeth Bafpoole, widow, tied her eftate in Waclon, now Mr. Jofeph Cotman's, of Great Yar- mouth, for ever, to pay 2!. 1 2S. yearly, to be given weekly at church, by is. a week in bread, to fucli poor people of the parifh as conflantly attend there. The re&ory of Great Wac"lon was in the duke of Norfolk in right of Forncet manor; and in 1603 the redor returned 67 communicants here. Jn 1752 the late Rev. John Soley, of Long Strat- ton, (as patron of this turn) prefented himfelf to the reclory of Great Wa&on. WACTON PARKS is the only manor in this parifh, except the parts belonging to Forncet, and to the ho- nor of Richmond, (of which this manor is held) and to the honor of Eye, both which extended hither; he duke of Norfolk, as lord of Forncef, and the lord of the honor of Richmond, are fuperior lords of the commons and waftes, and had their leets here, though there is a leet belonging to this manor, the jurisdiction of which extends to the tenants of the manor only, as the ether leets do ove'r the feveral te- nants of the honor. It-was firft held by the family of the VVadons, and Stephen de VVadon, who had in D E P W A D E. 195 iti n i 230, was the laft lord of that name here. In 1235 Walter de Waleys owned it, who was fucceeded by Thomas dc Camera, or Chambers, of Baclon. who in 1283 had leet, or view of frank-pledge, and affize of bread and ale of all his tenants here, by the, king's grant ; this leet belonged to the king's hun- dred, and therefore the lord was obliged to pay 6d. per annum fee farm for it to the bailiff of the hun- dred. In 1298 it had 130 acres, one mill, and 16. inefTuages, belonging to it, and extended into Aflaclon, Stratton, and Forncet. In 1315 Thomas De-la- Chambre was lord, and after him it came to. the Parks, and pafled with the manor of Park's, in Afla&on , and fo to the Dukes, of Benhale, in Suf- folk, and after the death of fir Edward Duke, ivhu fold Aflaclon, it went to fir John Duke, his fon, who ferved as member of parliament for Orford, in Suffolk; he married Elizabeth, daughter and coheirefs of Edward Duke, M. D. by whom he had four, daughters, and one fon, fir Edward Duke, bart/" who married Mary, daughter of Thomas Rudgc, of Staf- fordfhise, but dying without iffue, he gave it to his lifter's .fon, Edmund Tirrel, of Gipping, efq. who fold it to his brother, Thomas Buckenham Tirrel, of Belftead, near Ipfwich, cfq. The fines are arbi- trary, the eldeft fon inherits, and it gives no dower. ; There was a fourth part of a fee of the Forncet part granted from it, and was to be held of it ; this was called GREYSHAUGH, LA VILE'S, or BACON'S MANOR, and anciently belonged to Richard la Vile. In 1345 Thomas Grey, chaplain, and his parceners, had it. In 1370 Robert Bacon, of Dickleburgh, lord of it, N was * The t\vo hundred and ninety-firft baronet, created in 1661. i 9 4 HUNDRED OF was outlawed for felony, and it was feized by the king; but Joan, his wife, recovered it, and held it in 1391 : at her death it went to the crown, and was purchafed by the lord of Park's manor, and joined to it, and fo continues. The church and chancel are both of a height, and thatched, there is no porch, the tower is round, and hath three bells. On a brafs in the nave are the arms of Knevet, with a cretcent in a lozenge; Hie jacet Abigal Stdley, vid : filia Johannis Knyvet, dt Ajhwould- thorp, armi- geri, et nuper uxor Martini Sedley, de Morley, armigert, qu<* 2 2 6 6 Burfton - V r 2 2 i i Dickleburgh 9 8 3 3 Difs - 21 20 3 2 29 Fers field O 2 a Frenze O u GifTmg 2 2 3 3 Ofmundfton, alias ) Scole r 2 2 2 Roydon 3 3 3 3 Shelfanger 5 5 8 . 8 Shimpling 6 6 9 2 Tivetfhall St. Mary P and St. Margaret j 4 O I Thelveton i i Thorpe o o Winfarthing 2 3 4 3 Total 58 58 66 63 This hundred is about feven miles by five in ex- tent, and pays 17!. 55. to the general county rate, at a fix hundred pound levy. Seats and principal Houfes in the hundred of Dtfs. Dickleburgh, Mr. Rant Jii: JDtfs, Philip Meadows, efq. Rojdon, John Frere, efq. F. R, and A. S. . Thclveton, Thomas Havers, efq. A 2 The 4 HUNDREDOF The whole hundred is inclofed, and abounds much with wood, it being reckoned as part of the Woodland half of Norfolk: the roads are verv bad in winrer, efpecially that part by Gifling, arid Tittle- fhall; the lands in general are moid, occafioned by their being flat, and having a blue clay within a foot or two of the earth's furface, through which ihe wa- ter cannot pierce, it containing twenty or thirty feet in depth in many places; the foil is in general rich, and about one half of the land is ufcd for the plow, the other for the dairy and grazing; it produces much wheat, turnips, clover, and all other grain in abundance, except buck, or brank, and cole-iced, of which there is butlittle fown. This hundred was the firft written and published by the late Rev. Francis Blornefield, in his " Effay towards an Hiflory of Norfolk," and. we believe, the moft correct and particular. He refided at Fers- field, both as reclor and patron of that church, which enabled him to defcend to that minutiae of de- fcription which muft appear trifling to a common reader. We have endeavoured to fele& the more important and interefting pafTages ; but we find it difficult to confine the vaft variety of matter to proper bounds. BRISSINGHAM,BRISINGHAM, or BRESINGHAM*. This town about 963 was given by Ofulph le Sire, and lady Leofrine, his wife, to the abbey of St. Ed- mund's Bury, to which it belonged in the Confeffor's time, except that part which Almar then held of that houfe, which was almoft half the town. This part was a manor alfo, and held in the Conqueror's time by Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, who was afterwards infeofied * This feems to fignlfy the village of broad low meadows. D I S S. 5 infeoffed in the other part by abbot Baldwin, to hold it of the abbey at one fee, and to pay nothing to the ward of Norwich caftle, becaufe the abbot paid 75. evety twenty weeks for the whole town. The capi- tal manor at the furvey was in the abbot, who had then two carucates of land in demefne, and twelve focmen, who held fixty acres of land, but could not fell or give it any one without licence. In the Con- feifor's furvey the manor was of 405. value, but in the Conqueror's was rifen to 6os. The town was then two miles long, and a mile and a half broad, and paid I2d. Dane gelt; it extended at that time into Shimp- ling, Fersfield, Shelfanger, and Roydon. In William Rufus's time the earl had the whole town, all which he infeofifed in William de Verdon about" 1 100, or before, and it was all along held of the Norfolk family. In 1285 fir John' Verdon, knt. claimed view of frank-pledge, aflize of bread and ale, infangthef. gallows, and free-warren, in all his lands and ma- nors in Norfolk, viz. BriiTingham, Moulton Magna, Saxlingham, and Roydon ; all which privileges were granted to his father by Henry III. as the charter then produced evidently proved. About 1328 the prior of Blythburgh had i sd. a year paid out of this manor, and it paid 4d. per ann. to the hundred for the leet fee, the lord of the hundred having granted this manor liberty of a leet for that payment, and for fuit of the hundred court; which being troublefome, the lord paid 35. per ann. in lieu thereof. The manor-houfe flood near Briflingham- wood, in the Hall-grounds, the Swan-hill and the large motes ftill remaining, plainly fhew the fcite of k^ In this feat the Verdons had lived many ages 6 HUNDREDOF / ages ; but at this time fir John Verdon removed from hence to Martlefham, in Suffolk. We have Teen at inventory of the goods left in the houfe here, dated 1328, among which feveral things for the ufe of the chapel are named, and a poor 3 box ftanding at the great hall door, the cuftcm of that time being, to put in what every one pleafed, inftead of giving fervams, as is ufual now: he feems to have been a man of great hofpitality; for he left eighty difhes, feyenty- five plates, forty faucers, and twelve cups, to treat his tenants at his coming over. Sir John de Verdon, knt. his fecond fon, became lord ; he held Briflingham, with the advowfon, of the earl Marfhal, at two fees, and the earl held it of the abbot of St. Edmund, and the abbot of the king; the faid John had view of frank-pledge, and all other liberties before fpecified. The manor-houfe, and 300 acres of ploughed land in demefne, being then valued at 7!. los. which is 6d. an acre; thirty acres of wood, valued at ;s. 6d. per ann. forty acres of mowing meadow, worth 3!. 6s. 8d. that is, lod. an acre; nineteen acres one rood of pp.flure ground, valued at 6s. <>d. a year; and two windmills, at sos. per ann. ^elides the commons lying round the whole town, which in eggs, hens, and days works, paid to the lords by the commoners, were worth los. per ann. and the lord had twenty acres of fen to dig turf in, worth 55. a year; he had alfo liberty of free-warren by the king's charter, and a free fifhery, with all ma- nor of boats and nets, throughout his manors of Briffingham and Roydon, as far as Difs ; to the faid manor belonged ninety-five copyholders, who held among them feventy-four meffuages, and 588 acres two roods of land in villainage ; there were fix cot- tagers in villainage, and the lord paid yearly 35. in full fatisfaclion of all iuit to the hundred court of Difs, D I S S. 7 Difs, and the fame extent faith, that Filby's manor, and Boyland's manor, 8cc. were held of him. The pro/its, cujloms, fervices, and tenures, of the manor of BreJJingham, made on Wednejday befoe thefeajl of St. DunJIan, in the I ^th year of king Edward III. anno 1341. Memorandum, " That all the commoners upon the " commons of this town, both freeholders and co- " pyholders, pay hens eggs, and days works, with " their plough, to the lord, except thofc that have " liberty of faldage, and that all copyholders are 41 obliged to have their fheep in the lord's fold, from " Pentecoft to St. Martin." The quit-rents, (in money) and free rents, were 4!. as. 2d. q. and three roots of ginger, of id. value ; ninety-five hens, juftly valued at 75. ad. feventeen capons, valued at id. ob. each; five ducks, valued at lod. 539 ggs, and more, valued at 3d. a hundred; 212 days works in autumn, the workmen to be maintained by the lord, valued at id. a day; 174 afternoons works in autumn, id. each, the workmen having no vic- tuals ; twenty-five days work with their carts and horfes, and no victuals allowed them, valued at 2d. each day; 120 alebeves*, or as many as will come ; 183 journeys at plough, without victuals, if all come in to do their work, and if they do not, they muft work half a day for every day of ploughing, the whole valued at 75. 3d. ob. 170 days work and an half in fheering, i 74 days work in mowing, every four days valued at id. fifteen haymakers to make it, as the mowers cut it, they being obliged to make and * Thefe were general carting days, on which the tenant ufed to go, or not, as they pleafed, and had their name becaufe the lord ufcd to treat them well with provifions and ale. - * , 8 HUNDRED OF and mow 59 acres one rood, the whole of cutting and getting up is valued at 4d. an acre ; fifty-four days to cut and make the lord's wood, and to finifli it before Chriftmas ; twenty days to pull the lords hemp; 120 days work of a man and horfe, every day valued at id. thirty-three days work of a man, each worth a id. befides days made uncertain, be- caufe when they do not plough, or cart, they are to do other work, as the loid pleafes ; but there are 220 works more, of half a clay each, value certain ; twelve chickens, one halfpenny each ; forty-one car- riages to carry corn, worth sod. ob. 160 days work in carting out the muck ; forty-one days to carry the hay, valued at 2od. ob. three days to cart the tim- ber ; fourteen loads of hay to be threfhed, valued at sd. a load; fourteen loads of corn to be threfhed, valued at cd. a load ; twenty-eight days to make- hurdles for the fold ; eighteen to clean and repair the cow binns ; and ten to repair the horfes flails, all which fervices were valued at 5!. us. gd. q.t By this account we may fee ihe difference of the value of things then and now ; in what a fervile condition the copyholders were, and how grand the lords muft be, who had all works done without any expence. This being as perfect an account as we ever faw of any manor, we could not omit inferting it, and do not doubt its being acceptable to fome, though, we muft own, to others it may feem ufelefs; however, certain it is, that the quit-rents of the ma- nor have remained to this day according to this com- Ifabel, F -J- The Extent, or Compofiuoa Rol. ' J Blomefield. D I S 9 Ifabel, daughter of fir John Verdon, knt. by a fe- cond wife, married fir Irabert Noon, of Shelfangcr, in whofe pofleujon the manors were in 1391 ; but Briffingham went to Margaret, his only daughter by his fiift wife, his fole heirefs, who was lady here in 1396, and lived, with her mother-in-law at Shel- fanger ; at whofe death this manor and others came to fir John Pilkington, in right of Margaret, his wife, who was widow of fir Hugh Bradfhaw, and daughter and heirefs of fir John Veidon; but Moulton, Shel- fanger, $cc. went to the Noons. This family took their firname from a town which they were lords of in Lancafhire, where they were poflefled of a great eft ate. as is proved by the efcheat roils in the Tower, and in particular by a grant of free warren to this very fir John Pilkington, in all his manors in that (hire, in which twenty at leaft are named. In 1401 fir John held Briffingham manor of Tho- mas Mowbray, earl marfhal, at two fees and a half quarter, as of Forncet manor. In 1405 the manor was lett for fcven years, at 24!. per ann. the fifheryr in Roydon for 305. and that in Briffingham for thirty more. In this family the manors remained, and fir Tho- mas Piikington iu 1450 was admitted one of the chamberlains of the Exchequer ; he was very ftedfaft to the YorkiPts, and all along in thofc civil wars took part with Edward IV. and fufiered much for it: after the death of that king, and of Edward V. and Ri- chard III. he was one of thofe who joined with the carl of Lincoln, earl of Kildare, lord Lovel, fir Tho- mas Broughton, and other Lancafhire gentlemen, on the bebalf of Lambert Simnell, the counterfeit Plan- B tagenet, io HUNDREDOF tagenct. and fighting on his fide at the battle of Stoke, near Newark, in 1487, was there (lain ; whereupon all his lands were forfeited to the crown, and the year following were granted to George lord Strange, fon of Thomas Stanley, earl of Derby, and to his heirs male, Stagenhoe. in Hcrtfordfhire, the feat of the Pilkingtons, and this manor, being among them; but notwithftanding this, in 1493 inquifiiions were awarded into Norfolk and Suffolk, as at the death of fir Thomas aforefaid, in which it was found that fir Roger Pilkington, knt. was his fon and heir, who in the mean time had got his father's attainder, and the grant made to the lord Strar,g\ reverfed, and now he inherited his paternal eftate ; he married Alice, daugh- ter of fir John Savage, knt. and began to rebuild Briffingham church and tower, though he lived not to fee them finifhed ; at his death his eflate was di- vided among his fix daughters, viz. Margaret, mar- lied to Thomas Pudfey ; Catherine, to John Allow, or Auhow; Alice, to Edmund Sahmarfh ; Elizabeth, to William Huntley ; Margery, to Henry Pudfey ; and Joan, to John Daniel, of Darefbury, in Chefhire ; each of which had a fixth part of the manor and ad- vowfon in right of their wives. Afterwards fir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper, being fole feoffee, in whom the title was entirely vefted in order for iale, the whole manor, with the advowfon, was fold by him to Thomas duke of Norfolk, and his feoffees, who kept their firfl court here the loth of February, 1364. In 1578 his fon, Thomas duke of Norfolk, kept his firfl court, upon whofe attainder it was forfeited to the crown, and the queen kept court here; fhe granted it to fir William Cecil, knight of the garter, and others, whether to the ufe of the Howard fa- mily, D I S S. 11 Hiily, or not, we cannot fay ; however, certain it is, that it was in Philip earl of Arundel and Surrey, and upon his attainder, in 1589, was feized again by the queen ; from which time it remained in the crown till the i ft of James I. when Thomas, fon of the faid earl, was reftored to his honor and eftate ; and in that year the king by letters patent, dated June i 7, reftored the manor and advowfon to Thomas lord Howard, and Henry Howard, to each a moiety. In 1625 it was mortgaged; but about 1665, the debt being paid, it was conveyed to the duke of Nor- folk, in which family it hath ever fince continued, Charles Howard, duke of Norfolk, earl marfhal of England, being lord and patron at this time, 1781. BOYLANO MANOR belonged to Aifius in the Con- feflbr's time, and was in the Conqueror's hands at the furvey, being by him committed to Godric's cuf- tody, and was then very fmall. It was afterwards in the earl of Norfolk, and by him united to the great manor, and fo continued till the firft fir John de Verdon, about 1240, conveyed it to Walter de Brif- fingham, to be held by him and his heirs, of the ma- nor of Briffingham; but his grandfon fold it in 1268 to fir Richard de Boyland, knt. from whom the ma- nor took its name. The Briffingham family were of good account, and had large pofieffions here and in other places, as we find by feveral evidences. This fir Richard was a very great man in the time of Edward I. being juftice itinerant in this county, and owner of many gieat lordfhips andcllaies, but how he acquired them we may eafily judge; for Mr. Weaver informs us from Stowe, and other hillorians, that he B 2 being 15 H U N D R E D O F being one of .the commiflioners for the government of the kingdom in the abfence of Edward I. was at the king's return found guilty of manifeft corruption in the administration of juftice, and fined 4000 marks for his intolerable extortions. After this he retired htther, where he built a noble feat, furrounded with a large moat, which he continued round the or- chards, park, and all his lands, the remains of which mav be feen at this dav ; but his greateft work was that fubterraneous vault, or arch, now remaining, commonly called the conduit, which was made with a double dcfign. both for bathing and for a continual fupply of water to thefe moats. It is fituate about half a furlong S. W. from the houfe, and is very re- markable, being arched over very flrong, cieled very fmooth, and paved at the bottom ; the mouth of it is about three feet wide, but when you enter, beyond the rubbifh which is thrown in, a man may fairly walk upright, it goes in a (trait line, about thirty or forty roods in length, and near the further end is a Jarge well, exceeding deep, beyond which there is a wall, and there the ftrait line of the vault ends. This well continually overflows, fo that the water runs about a foot deep the whole length of the vault, occafioned by its outlet being almolt (topped up with rubbifh, or elfe it would not run above two or three inches in depth ; when you have entered this vault about four roods, there are two mouths of other arches, one on the right hand, and another on the kft, from which the water continually flows into the great arch, fo that the three currents have one dif- chargeonly: what is in thefe two we know not; for though the mouths feem large, the arches are not big enough for one to enter : right over the well in the clofe is a hill raifed, to determine the place where the well is ; when the water runs out it comes dire&ly into a fquare bath, over which there was lately a bathing- houfe D I S S. 13 ho'ifc of brick, with a f .mmer-hoiife joined to it, the ruins of which flill nrruin; out of this the water runs into fuch another fquare bath, which was de- figned as a common one, it being never covered: from this is a fmall conveyance, which fcems to have been arched over formerly, that ieads direclly into the moat that furrounds the orchard. Whether this water was heretofore remarkable for any medicinal virtue, we know not ; but if not, are apt to think that this overflowing fpring induced him to fettle here, a fpring of any kind being very rare in this part, there being little water for ufe but what comes from ponds and moats, which might be the reafon he beftowed fuch coft on it. The water is very cold, and in the extremity of froft never freezes, though the motion is but little. The people that come to fee this place have pulled down moil of the ruins, to throw into the vault, to hear the found, which is very great, and continues long ; the meadow is called the Conduit Meadow, and is part of the eftate of the duke of Norfolk. In 1285 he had a charter for free-warren in all his demefnes heie; and about this time he added to the manor divers lands and tenements in this town, which he purchafed of Robert le Bretun. Sir John Boyland, of Boyland-hall, in Brifling- ham, who died without iffue male about 1370, leav- ing only one daughter, Maud, married to John Lan- cafter, fen. efq. of Briflingham, was of a good family in this country ; he added to it by purchafmg Filby's manor and uniting it to this, as he did the te- nement of irland's and all the fervices thereto be- longing, which was of his own inheritance, all which came to Edward Bolton, efq. in right of his wife, Benedida Lancafter, about 1500. B 3 His 14 HUNDREDOF His great grandfon. Edward Bolton, dying with- out iffue, the manor and tenements aforefaid defcend- ed to his four fitters, and their hufbands fold them to Philip earl of Arundcl in 1,583. together with Rofe's and Irland's: at this time the (cite of the manor, with the demefnes, whereof part was in the park of Ken- ninghall, was lett to the keeper of the old park for his dwelling, and fo had been ever fince 1571, be- fore which ume it was hired by the Norfolk family, if not mortgaged to them by William Rolton, though there was no title compleated till now: from this time it continued in the Norfolk family, tbc prefent duke being now lord. MIDDLETON'S MANOR had its beginning in 1276, when VVigona de Vet don and her partners held it; a part of it afterwards came to a branch of the Brif- fmgham family. In the time of Edward II. Hugh de Pool, of Brif- fmgham, feems to have had it. In 1338 his grand- fon aliened it to Wrn. de Middleton. of Briffingham; thus it continued to 1359, and then the faid Wil- liam, and all other parties concerned, joined in a fine, and conveyed it absolutely to Mary de Brewfe, countefs of Norfolk, and her heirs, at which time the extent of it was 118 acres of land, four of mea- dow, twenty-four of wood, twenty of paflure, arid 6cs. rent, lying in Briffingham, Sec. It was afterwards united to the capital manor. FILBY'S MANOR had its fcite in this parifh, though half of its lands and rents were in Roydon ; it was part of the great manor till the firft fir John Verdon gave it to his chaplain ; foon after which it was in the Morleys, lards of Roydon, who held it of fir John Verdon, lord of BrifTmgham, by the annual payment D I S S. ,5 payment of ss. and aos. fcutage, and in them it con- tinued. From this family it went to the Filbys, who in 1335 paid three roots of ginger, or id. per annum, to the capital lord of Brifllngham, in lieu of all fer- vices. In 1460 John Lancafter, lord of Boyland manor, had purchafed all that part of this manor that laid in Briflingham, and joined it to his manor of Boyland, except the part that laid in R/>ydon. in 1480. John Lancafter, gent, in 1521 fold it to Wm. Bolton, gent, and fo it was joined again to Boyland manor, with which it continues at this day,. though the demefnes are fold from it. The PRIORY^ MANOR was taken out of the great manor in the beginning of the reign of Edward II. when fir John de Verdon granted it to the prior of St. James the ApofUe, of Old Buckenham. The value of this manor in 1479 was 315. d ob. in quit-rents, befides the demefnes ; the whole tem- poralities of the prior here were taxed at 265. in 43- It continued in this houfe till its diflblution, from which time it remained in the crown till 1557, when Philip and Mary, by their letters patent, granted it to Thomas Guybon, of Lynn-Regis, efq. and William Mynne, of London, gent, to be held by feahy only in free foccage, as of the manor of Eaft Greenwich, in Kent. In a few years time they fold it to Robert and Francis Buxton, of Tibbenham, in Norfolk ; and they in 1560 to Edmund Hoare, of Palgrave, in Suf- B4 folk; 16 HUNDREDOF folk; and he in 1361 to Thomas Howard, of Bur- flon. A daughter and heirefs of the Howards married Mr. Dowe, and fhe in her \vidowhood paffed it to the Bringloes, Mr. John Bringloe being the laft male of that family that enjoyed it, whofe daughter mar- ried Mr. Robert Onge, of Kenninghall, lord of the whole manor, and part of the demefncs. The other part, called Prior's lands, lying at Crofgate. in Fers- field, and BrhTingham, were ibid from the manor by the Buxtons, and are now divided into parcels, fome being held by Mr. John Edwards, of Winfarihing, and others by divers pcifons. The cufloms of thefe manors are as follow, viz. " The fines are at the lord's will, and the copyhold defcends to the eldcft. fon ; the tenants have liberty to pull down and wafte their copyhold houfes, to fell and cut down wood and timber on the copyhold, without licence, and to plant and cut down all man- ner of wood and timber on all the commons and waftes againft their own lands, by the name of a free-board, or out-run, and to dig clay and turf, and tat furze and bufhes, on all the commons." The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptift, and had fifteen acres of land belonging to it at the conqueft ; it is a redory, to which belongs a manor, called The RECTORY MANOR, the cufloms of which are the fame as the other manors, except this, that the te- nants cannot wafte, or pull down their copyhold houfes, without licence. The glebe, or demefnes, in the time of Edward III. were forty acres ; and in 1 554 fiiiy-one acres and an half; but much being granted to D I S S. ,7 to be held by copt of court-roll, they are now re- duced to about twenty acres. The patronage always hath, and now continues with the capital manor, and the re&ory is N alued in the king's books at 15!. In 1715, September 23. the Rev. Humphry Clar- ton, A. B. was prefemed to this reclory by William Clayton, and Thomas Dwyer, clerk, patrons for this turn. The following religious perfons had temporalities here, which were thus taxed in 1428 :-The prior of Kerfey's at i 2d The abbot of Sibton's (being pait of Friers manor in Shelfanger, that extended hither) at 6s. Sd. And the prior of Buckenham's at 263. Befides thefe the prior of St. John Baptift's com- mandry of ihe hofpitallers of St. John of Jerufalem, at Carbrook, had an annual payment of id. out of {even acres of land lying here, which was held free of that houfc by the laid payment. This land was owned by Francis Blomefield. cleik, of Eersfield. The church here was much decayed, as fhould feem by the rebuilding the prefent fabuc, which was begun by fir Roger Pilkington, knt lord of the ma- nor, whofe anus are cut in ftone over the weft, door of the tower, quartering the arms of Verdon ; on the other fide of which is a fingle coat of fome bene- faclor to the building, which was alfo in the church windows, though now loft. But though it was be- gun by him, he lived not to fee it finifhed, for it was not perfected till 1527. Among Mr. le Neve's papers we find, that- againft the north wall of this chancel, at the upper end thereof, 18 HUNDREDOF thereof, "was a fair raifed monument, once adorned with two fair portraitures, and efcutcheons of brafs, but now all reaved, with the epitaphs ; he obferved, that the inhabitants told him it was a knight of the family of the Pilkingtons: and in Mr. Anftis's book it is faid, that there is a fair monument, having its brafles taken away, erected for a Pilkington, from, which we imagine that this fir Roger Pilkington, and his wife, were buried under it, the tradition flill re- maining that it was the tomb of the builder of the church ; it is now taken down, and the top ftone laid level with the floor, that it might not hinder the uniformity of the altar-rails, the fleps of which half cover the Hone. ^ The building is very neat and uniform, having a nave, two ailes, and fouth porch, all covered with lead, a fine lofty fquare tower, with a tunable ring of five bells ; the chancel is tiled, which was not re- built with the church, it being much more ancient. Here are but few itones, and thofe that had braffes are all difrobcd. In the windows the following coats flill remain, viz. In the fouth aile the arms of Bury abbey ; in the north windows of the nave are Verdon's arms ; and in a north aile window, Creffi, or Morley. Thofe that follow are now loft, Scales and ' Howard Bro- therton, Ufford and Beck, Vefey, Segrave, the Eaft Angles, and St. George's. In the chancel a black marble, with the arms and creft of The Rev. Francis Tilnty, A. M. obijt Sept. 13, 1715, cEtat. 81. Alfo of Elizabeth, his wife, who died April 2.3, 1691; and of their fon. John D I S S. ig John Lancafter, jun. efq. was buried here, with feveral of that family, whofe memorials are all loft. In 1569 Henry Sym.onds, buried in this church, gave 2os to the poor, and died poffeffed of a good eflate here ; he had purchafed the fcite only, and two clofes, of Philby's tenement, or manor, from Boyland's, manor. Two guijds were kept in this church, the one de- dicated to St. John the Baptift, the other to St. Peter; a fair book of their accounts and lands is flill in the church. St. John's guild had above twenty brethren and fitters on their bead-roll when the guild was dif- folved in 1547; and their hall was veiled in feoffees for the ufe of the poor. St. Peter's guild was a lefs fociety, and having no liall, it was kept at the guild-holders houfes ; they had two pieces of land, which at the diflblution were vefted in feoffees for the ufe of the poor, and are freehold. In 1506, April 2, Thomas Smetherfte, rector here, made his will, which is a very remarkable one! as not having ontfuperflitious bequeft in it, the fubftance of which is, that what God gave him he bequeathed as follows: "I commend thofe things which are Csefar's, " to Caefar, the earth, to the eaith, and thofe things " which are God's, to God ; that is, my foul to " Chrift. And I will, that all the poor that come " to my burial have as much money diftributed " among them as^my circumftances will allow, at the " difcretion of my executors ; and if I have de- ' frauded any one, fo that he can in confcience fay* " I ought to recompenfe, I will that recompence be made so HUNDREDOF ' made him. I give to fir Richard Becflon, par'fh ' pricft of Roydon, for his conftant and true f iei.d- ' fhip, 6s. 8d. and one of my gowns ; and I make f fir James Smetherfte, my brother, executor." ID 1517 there was a gathering in all the neighbour- ing towns for to finifli the roof of the church. In 1632 Henry Rufl^ls gave lol. to the benefit of the poor. Mr. Tirrcl gave lol. and the parifli had 61. J$s. ^d. out at ufe, of divers gifts ; the town gave 4!. out of their flock, and fold a piece of iown land, which laid in Baldrycs, with another piece in Winofalls, for sol. to Mrs. Frere ; thefe two pieces were free- hold of Giffinghall manor, held at gd. per ann. and were given in the time of Edward IV. by Robert Kyrkebi, and John Gooch. This they expended about paving, fcating, and adorning the roof of the church, and carving the (tools, what remained being kept for town flock. In 1638 the inhabitants petitioned thebifhop, that, Whereas the village of Briffingham grew very po- pulous, and the parifh church was large and neat OQ the outfide, but much unbeautified within, the pave- ment and feats being decayed, and others wanting addition, the parifhioners fitting in no order, the font Handing in an obfcure place, behind one of the pillars, 8cc. that they might have licence to do ail things convenient for the beauty of the church, and decent placing the inhabitants therein. In 1644, April 7, captain Gillcy was paid 6s. by the town for viewing the church, to abolifh fupcrjti- tious pi&ures, and immediately after John Nun was paid D I S S. 21 paid for two days work for taking down glafs and pictures about the church, and filing the letters off the bells. This church fuffeied much in thefe times; for in 1664, 54!. iis. 8d. was railed by rate to put it in order, and to buy it ornaments, of all which it was fpoiled. About 1668 the town purchased certain lands, called le Holmes, 8cc. now lett at 395. per ann. The town clofe, lying againft BriflTingham great common, heretofore called Chedbury-clofe, is free- hold, and is lett at al. ios. per ann. this hath be- longed to the church many ages, even before 1400. The town houfe, in which two poor families dwell, {landing on the caft fide of the great common, was creeled about 1630, by the inhabitants, upon a piece of their common. Elizabeth, widow of Mr. John Barker, reclor of Fers- field, by will dated June 18, 1728, gave lands, Sec. ly- ing in Briflingham, the profits of which to be expended in the teaching of as many poor children (whofe pa- rents are fettled inhabitants of Briflingham) above eight, and under ten years old, in reading, writing, fpinning, and other work, and learning the church ca'.echifm, as the produce will pay for. Several other charitable donations belong to this parifh. In 1549 the crofs was pulled down, and the mate- rials fold, as was all the church plate, (except enough to make a new cup) with a veftment, rochet, crofs cloth, and altar cloth; but in queen Mary's time they bought a new rochet, and proceffion book, in tnglifh. This 22 H U N D R E D O F This town, as appears from ancient evidences, not- withftanding the common received opinion to the contrary, was moft field uninclofed ; for at all times great number of licences were granted the tenants to inclofe their lands, and vaft numbers of them in the time of Henry VII. when it feems they com- pleated the whole, and this is the reafon that all the highways and lanes in this and the neighbouring pa- rifhes are meafured into the lands that lie againft them. The commons are very large, and fo they were al- ways ; for in an extent iu Gr John Verdon's time it is (aid, that the town is furrounded with common, the names of which at this time are, Boyland-green, Whitehoufe-green, PiddockVgreen, the Great Com- mon, with Aldwood green, and JayVgreen, now joined thereto, Roydon-green, the Fenn Commons, Derby's-green, Winley-green, and Thwayt-green. In this parifli lived one Mr. Harrifon, who was a cuiious collector of Roman coins, of gold, diver, and copper, from Pompey the Great, to Honorius and Arcadius ; his collection was fold by his fon to fir Simon D'Ewes, of Stow-Langetot, in Suffolk, knt. he was a very curious perfon, and lived in the houfe in which Robert Kent, fen. fince dwelt, which was adorned in a very odd manner : in the parlor flood the effigy of a man, which had a fpeaking trumpet, put through the wall into the yard, fixed to his mouth, fo that upon one's entering the room it ufed to bid him welcome, by a fervant's fpeaking into the trumpet in the yard. On the parlor door you may read the following diftich in brafs capitals, in-laid in the wood: Rccla D I S S. Re Fa, patens, felix, Jtfus, via, j anna, vita, Alpha, docet, verbum, ducit, omega, beat. 2 3 And on the flair-cafe door is a brafs plate, w'th a circle engraved thereon, equally, divided by the twenty-four letters, and this diftich, in capitals of lead, in-laid in the wood: Difficiiu, eels fera, porta, Olympi, Fit, Jacilis,Jidei t car dint, clave, manu In 1364 John Spilwan held lands here, which fa- mily were of good account in this country, though, we do not find them owners of any manors. In i 603 it was returned that there were 160 com- municants in this parifh, which had in 1735 near feventy dwelling-houfes, and about, 400 inhabitants. It ufed to pay 3!. 145. for every tenth. Parliament valuations under the atfociations were 1150!. and 1104!. the pi efent valuation being 1093!. los. The leet-fee paid to the lord was 205. but the leet being dropped, there is no fee paid. BURSTON is wrote in Doomfday-book BER- STUNA. The church and guild here were dedicated to the Bleffed Virgin ; it was a redlory appropriated byjohn of Oxford, bifhop of Norwich, to Butley priory, who were patrons, it being given them by Henry I. at their founder's requeft, before he gave the manor to the Fitz- Walters. In 1293 their tem- porals were taxed at 265. 6d. and their fpirituals at .17!. 6s. 8d. The impropriation was confirmed by the archbifhop, and the vicar had a penfion of 26s. 8d. payable by the prior out of the great tithes, all which were afterwards difappropriated by the piior and convent's refi going up the church and tithes 14 HUNDRED OF tithes, and preferring a reclor In 1510 a pen f] on of 405. per ann was referved to the prior out of the reclory. The lands that belonged to the priory were granted by queen Eiizabcih to different perfons, foine to Edward Dyer, Hugh Crefliner, and others. This reclory is valued in the king's books at i61. In i ^46, Auguft 20, Thomas Mildmay, efq. one of the king's auditors, piefented. who had this turn from Nicholas Airowfmith efq. who had it by grant frpm the prior before the houfe was diilblved. In 1550, May 24, Edward VI. prefented, from which lime the relors have been prefented by the crown; and in 1741 George II. prefented the Rev. Ifaac Cowper to this reclory. The church is (mall, and is leaded, the fouth porch and chancel are tiled, the fteeple is round at bottom, and octangular at top, having five bells. Here are no memorials, fave a black marble in the church, for Francis Alpe, gent, who died July the \^ih t 1670, aged And in the yard, at the eaft end of the chancel, a grave-poft much decayed, for Hugh Mure, late rector ; by which it appears that he was a Scottck- man, though it is now almofl illegible. Burfton at firft was in three parts, though the whole . was held of Robert Mallet, lord of the honor of Eye, and then was two miles long, and one broad, and paid i sd to the gelt. Thefe parcels foon after became two manors, one called Brockdifh-hall, from a family of that name ; the D I S S. 25 the other MeaulingVhall, from Peter de Meauling, or Melding, lord thereof, and now, by corruption, Milding-hall, both being always held of Eye honor. The MANOR of BROCKDISH-HALL was given by Henry I. to the Fitz-Walters, from whom it went very early to Geffry de Brockdifli, whofe defcendents enjoyed it. Sir Stephen de Brockdifh in 1327 purchafed lands to this manor of Ernold de Monteney, and had view of frankpledge allowed him in 12.^6, and afluc of bread and beer. In 1380 William Ufford, earl of Suffolk, as lord of Eye honor, claimed the fines and amerciaments of Brockdifh's tenants, in Burflon, and elfewhere, in the half hundred of Difs, where Walter le Fitz- Waker, of Wodeham, was lord, as being the capital lord of whom this manor was held. We do not find how it went from the BrockdUh family, but it was in the Boylands, from whom it paffed by Maud, the heirefs of that family, to John Lancafter, of Brif- fingham, arid went as Bjyland-hall till about 1500, when it was aliened to lir John Sharpe, km. who in 1514 obtained licence to alien it to \VilliamTyler, or Tylot, and his heirs, to be held as formerly, by che fervice of a ted rofe yearly, payable to the duke of Suffolk, to his honor of Eye. In 1518 this fir -John Sharpe, km. and fir William Tyler, knt. &c. Jords of Brckdifh, and the prior of Old Buckehhaui, and the convent there, lords of the manor of Meld- iog-hal-f, agreed' to divide the two manors, which hav- ing for a long time been fanned together, were now o one Congham, of Wells, of whom George Chambeilain, D. D fellow of Trinity College, in Cambridge, pur- chafed it, and prelentcd his nephew, Samuel Need- ham, to it; after whofe death he gave it to the fenior fellow of Trinity College, for ever. The rector hath a good houfe. and eighty acres of land adjoining to it, together with the Reclory Manor, thecuftom of wlvch is, that the copyhold defcends to the youngeft ,011, and the fine is at the lord's will. It is in the libeay C4 of 3* HUNDRED OF of hrs Jrrace the duks of Norfolk, and is valued in the king's books at 28!. The firft portion, called Fouldon, or the portion io the mafh, and Scmere portion, were confoiidated October 2 IB D I S S. 33 In 164^ Clmfto.pher Bernard " was di-fpofff (Ted " by the earl of Mnnchefter, who tendered him the *' covenant, and offered him to keep his place if he " would take it, both which he generoufly refufed, " and by neceffary confluence brought on himfelf ." discommon, calamities and fate .which- then at- *' tended loyalty and fidelity to his majcfty ; for his " houfe was plundered and rifled of a great deal of 44 plate, linen, and oiher goods; he was alfo feized " and dragged away towaids Norwich caflle, but by " his exccik-m life and doclrine he had fo much " recommended himfclf to his parifhioners. that V they thought a greater judgment could not befall 41 them than to lofe him, and fo by confcnt they 11 followed the party that had him in ciiftixly, and *' refcued him: they alfo gave this further teftiinony " of their affcflion towards him, xha; when the yil- 4i lains had defigned to plunder his houfe a fecond 41 time, unknown to him, they voluntarily went, and 41 by force fecured the remainder of his goods in " their own houfes, and even the very women and *' children affifted in this perilous undertaking, to 11 the manifcft hazard of their fafetv, perhaps of 44 their lives, if it had been difcovered. He had 41 at the time of his fuiferings a wife, and at leaft 44 nine young children, which helped to compleat 4< his raifery, and fufficiemlv aggravated the barba- " rities which- were exercifed upon him; 'tis remark- 44 able he had always a firm pcrfuafion of his ma- " jcfiy's reflorarion. which he afterv\aids lived 10 fee, w and was himlelf one of ihe Hiit mil illers rcftored 44 in this county, after which he enjoyed his re&ory 44 twenty years, and having been admitted about the 44 year 1620 and not dying ii!l if)8o, (in the S4th ! 4 year of his age) he muil in all have been reclor of it near fixty years*." Thus * Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part z, fol. 204. 34 HUNDRED OF Thus far Mr. Walker, in which account there arc feme fmall errors, all which may be conecled by the infoiption on his Hone in the chancel: he died Oc- tober 5, 1680, aged 83. The church is a regular building, having a nave, and two ailes, with a chapel at the eaft end of each of them; the chancel, veftry, and fouih porch, are all covered with lead, and a fquare tower and five befls at its weft end ; it is dedicated to the honor of AH Saints, and had a guild held in the fouth aile chape!, which acknowledged St. Peter and Paul for their patrons. The Guild-hall now Hands on the tveft fide of the church-) aid, and ij> ufed as a town- houfe. The arms of bifhop Lyhart, England, and \\aker- ing, weie in this chancel, as Mr. Auflis's manu- faipis tell us. In the upper windows of the church there flill re- main the crofs fwords, and crofs keys, the emblem. of St. Peter and Paul, the patrons of the guild, the emblems of the Trinity, and of the Sacrament, the iuflruments of the Paflion, the arms of Bury Abbey, of the Eaft Angles, and of St Geoige, and alfo an insperfecl coat of the arms of the bifboprfc. On a done in the middle aile. neai the pulpit, is Jarnegan's aims, foi Mrs. Eliiabcth Vvnippie, wife unto Thomas Whip pie. gent, and daughter of John far- negan, of Baton, in Somcticc, ejq.Jun if Sir Jij negan, knt.jJie died September 4, 101 -. , aged 65. A black marble in the chancel, for Maria, wife cf John Wiiufidd, reftor here. Oft D I S S. 35 On the north fide of the chancel is a noble mural monument, of various forts of marble, with a lady holding a book, and under her the following in- fcripiion : (Le Neves Monuments, vol. 2, p. 42.} Hereundtr lieth buried the body (if Dame Frances Play- tcrs, the daughter and heirefs of Charles le Grys, of Bil- ling ford, in Norfolk, tjq-jhf married Sir William Play- fcrs, ofSotttrley, in Suffolk, knt. and hart, fame time one of the deputy lieutenants, and vice admiral of the faid coun- ty , and ju/lice of the peace and cor am. and colonel of a re- giment of foot, 'till turned out of all by the then rebellious parliament, whereof he had the misfortune to be a member. She had ijfue by him only Thomas, who married with Re- becca, the daughter and coheirefs of Thomas Chapman, of Woonnly, in the county cf Plertford, efej. which faid Sir Thomas was a great traveller before and after marriage, with his lady fame time beyond thefeas with him, a learned fcholar, an exacl lingui/l, expert in all arts and know- ledge, of rare temper and courage, arid of great ejteem in mojl courts in Cluijlendom; high flier iff for the county of Suffolk by commijjion from his majejly of bleffcd memory, anno 1646, till forced by that fatal parliament to fee to the king at Oxford, where, by commijfwn from his ma- jefly, he raifed a regiment of horfe. wherewith he perform- ed remarkable fervice, till his majeftys Jotce* were totally ruined, and then he departed the kingdom, arriving in Cictlia, where, by commijfwn from that viceroy, he had command of a fquadron of Jixjhips, againjt all enemies to the crown of Spain, which being prepared, he put to fea, and performed many gallant Jervices, much to the honor of the Spanijh Jlag. In July, 1651, he put into the port of Mejfina with a very rich prize, and poflcd to the court at Palermo, where he met with an honorable reception, for the fever al good fervices he had performed- but at four days end he there fell ill of a violent fever, whereof with- in eight days he died, aged about 3 5 years, and by the princes order had an honorable interment, and much la- mented 36 HUNDRED OF merited there, lut muck greater caufe a' 1'owe, lefi-chiv no ijjue, but a forrowful widvw, r,nd fr,d c'ti'-He-s pa-ents the fa id Dame Frances died al Itillin* ford hall t'ie gtk of September, 16 59, from whence by her own de/irejhe was brought and interred in this pnrifli to which Jhe oj- ten manijejled a charitable ofjcciivn. On the top are. the arms of Piavters, impaling le Grice ; Playters with. Ulfler arms, and his quaiteiings, with le Grice, and. hi& cjuarterings. On the eafl fide of this monument is an ancient painting on the wall, half of which hath been lately renewed, viz. Chrifl beaiing hiscrofs; the other part, that is dill obfcure, we lake to be Chnfl riling from, his fejnilchrc. The plate belonging to the altar is very fine ; the flaggon holds about two quarts, on which is this : A gift to the church of Dickleburgh, anno \ - 1 5. The cup is a very good one, and. was ptnchafcd by the parifh in queen Elizabeth's time, togeiiier with a neat imall falver for its cover ; on it is this : Dj-ckelbourgh, T. F. W. A. Remember God. There is alfoa good falver, on which, Tho. Button, gent, et hn and Thomas Holland kept their firft court as truflees to that family, and fome time after fold it, with their confents, and by their order. The cufloms of this manor are thefe: -"The eldeft fon is heir, the fine is at the lord's will, it gives a third dower, the tenants cannot wafte their copyhold houfes, D I S S. 39 houfes, nor fell timber upon the copyhold, or wafte, without licence." There were formerly three other manors, all which belonged to Semcre, and are now fallen into pickle- burgh-hall manor. The chief of Semere was at the conqueft in the abbot of Bury, who held it as a manor, worth at that time 403. it being a mile and quarter long, and as much broad, and paid 6d. gelt. This vvas foon after the conquefl divided into three parts, the firft of which belonged to the Gianvilis. In the latter end of the reign of Henry III. Jjhnde Somery'* held in Semere the fourth part of a fee: it continued in this family till 1401, and not long after was joined to the Earl's manor. After various changes the Eatl's, or Dickleburgh manor, was purchafed in the year 1733 by the late Horatio lord Walpole, of \Vooltertoti, and his foil, Horatio lord Walpole, is the prefent lord, (1781.) The fecond part of Semere was in the Conqueror's time held by Walter, under Robert M-ilet, lord of Eye, to which honor it was appendant for fome time; and about the year 1200 fir \Vilham Cheyney had it, as part of his barony of Horsford, from which time we meet with no account of it till 1370, when it belonged to Robert Bacon, who was out- lawed for felony ; he is faid to hold it of Edmund Ufford le Coufyn, by knight's fervice, as of his ba- lony of Horstord. Joan, wife of the faid Robert, in 1414 had licence granted her by the bifHop of Nor- wich, " to have mafs faid to her in any decent place. 1 * Thefe licences were then ufually granted to aged people that could not come to church, or to people * The family of the Semeres, or Sjmerys, arc very ancient. 40 HUNDRED OF of diftinflion thru lived at a diftance, in which cnfe the pricfl always had a confecraied portable al'ar to officiate at. John Shelton conveyed it by fine to Henry Whipple, in whom ii w as joined to the earl's manor. MANTEtAKE's, Of MANCLPRK*S MANOR, was the third manor in Scmere, and had its name from feme of its former lords. In iiqi Roger de Dicdcfburc had it, after which it paffed through many hands, till in i r ,g8 Thomas Spnoner, gent, iold it to William Holmes, and Thomas Edwards, and then it extend- ed into Seething, Mundham, and Loddon ; and foon afier, in I'^Sy, it was loft in the earl's manor, td which it had fome tirrre been joined. Diccles-Burc, or Burgh, may take its name from fome rcmaikable Saxon that fettled here, and railed a f< rtification of fome fort or oihcr to defend himfclf and his adherents againft the ini'alts of the Danes. In 1603 here were 224 communicants ; and in 1735 about eighty houfes, and 400 inhabitants ; it paid 3!. los. tenths; the parliament valuation was 1032!. and the prefent one is, for Langmere part 335!. and for Dickleburgh part 6681. In 1428 the abbot of Bury was taxed at 315. fid. ob. for his temporals in this town, it being part of the land belonging to his man< r of Tivcifhall, that extended hitlur, together wkh a tenement, given to the abbey in the year 1120 by Thomas Noeli ; the cuttomb and lervice^ remitted by the abbot to Henry Freeman, and Matthew de Cambridge, are faid to be thele, viz. that the tenants of the rector's manor were obliged to do lu t of court every fifteen days, at Ti- vetfLiall court, aad to j-ay aid and talia^c whenever it D I S S. 41 .'t was laid on the town of Tivc-tfhan, and to carry fa t of the abbot's wine and board from Norwich, or Yarmouth, to PaJgrave-bridge, and to hedge and ditch round Tivetfhall fiack-vards. and to plough one day, and reap another, the abbot finding them diet. In i 2^4 the reftors had aflize of brend and beer of all their tenants allowed them upon a Qvo Warranto. Humphry Rant, of Dickleburgh. efq. by will, dated May 13, 1726, gave ^5*. a year to the poor, as long as William, las fon, lived, in thefe words: " Item. \ give to the poore of Dickleburgh, and 41 LangtRcre, the fmn of il. i ',. to be paid yearlv, " and upon New Year's Day. as Chapman's Dole is, " by my Ion, William, during his life;" he was grandfather to the prefent Mr. Riant. Thehoufe, called Dickleburgh-hall, is a good old /eat, having about 230 acres of land belonging to it, and is owned by Henry Harold, elq. of Crowfield* hall, in Suffolk.. tilomcficid. The commons are Semere-green, which contains about fixty acres; on this Pulbam-Markrt inter- commons, as far as Pnlham-bridgc; Dicklebulgh- moor contain^ about eighty acres, "and Pound, or Hi^h-Green, about fifty acres, on both which Dickie- burgh commons lolely ; and whereas it is faid in Nor- wich Doom(day-book, that all rhis town is the king's, (Tola Villa tji Regalis) when the crown was never concerned in the manors, it will be proper j/> ob- (erve, that it is meant of the jurifdition and fpecial privileges which the crown had in this and many oiher towns, all which were granted by Edward IV. fo John duke of Norfolk, and is now in the prefent ciiirie, wbofe liberty extends all ovei this town. D The 4i H U N D R E D O F The village of Dickleburgh lies on the turnpike toad from Norwich, fevemeen miles, to Scole three. DISS, DYSSE, or DICE, in the time of the Confeflbr extended into Suffolk, nay the town itfelf was then in Hertefmere hundred, in that county, as we learn from Doomfday-book, where we find that it was in king Edward's poffeffiort as demefnc of the crown, there being at that time a church and twentv-four acres of glebe; that the whole was worth 15!. per ann. which at the Conqueror's time was doubled, it being then eflimated at 30!. with the foe of the whole hundred and half belonging to it; it was then a league long, and half a one broad, and paid 4d. Dane gelt, by which it appears that it was not fo large in its bounds as it now is, which is eafily accounted for from the fame record ; for Watlingfct manor, as it is there called, which was as large as Difs, andfeemingly fuller of inhabitants, as we may- judge by the gelt, or tax, that it paid, was foon after quite loft in Difs, to which it was appendant at that time. This was afterwards called Walcotc, and in- cludes part of Hey wood, as appears from its join- ing to Burfton, into which town this manor ex- tended. The manor thus joined, with the advowfon and hundred, continued in the crown till Henry I.* granted them to fir Rich, de Lucy, a Norman knight, a man of great renown in thofe days ; the record, called Tejla de Ncuilt, fays, that it was not known whether it was rendered unto him as his inheritance, or * The manor was then valued at 51!. per annum, and at the time of the grant the king referved a rent of 4od. per annum, to be paid at Norwich caftle. D I S S. 43 or Tor his fervice, but without doubt it was for the latter, it having been always demefne of the crown. This Richard was governor of Falais, in Normandv, in the 3d year of king Stephen, which he manfully defended againft Jcffcry earl of Anjou, who had bs- fieged it ; he was a great inftrument towards the agreement between that king and Henry II. and had the Tower of London, and caflle of Winchefter, put into his hands, by the advice of the whole clergy, upon his fwearing to deliver them up at Stephen's death to king Henry ; all which he faithfully accom- plifhed, which fo far advanced him in that king's fa- vor, that he made him chief jufticc of England, and in his abfence he was appointed governor of the realm, during which time he took prifoner, in a pitched battle near Fornham, in Suffolk, Robert earl of Leicefter, together with his Amazonian proud coun- tefs, Petronell, or Parnell, and put to the (word above 10,000 Flemings, which the faid Robert had levied and fent forth to the depopulation of his country ; all, or the moft part of which, were buiied in and about Fornham in 1173; their fepulchres are now tp be feen near a place called Rymer-houfe, on the right hand of the road leading from Thetford to Bury, and are now called the Seven Hills, though ihcre are many more; but fevenofthem being much larger than the reft, are particularly taken notice of by thofe that pafs this way, under which moft pro- bably the commanders were buried: this memorable battle was fought in this field. But to onr purpofe, it appears he had two fons, Jeffery. or Godfrey, after- wards bifhop of Winchefter, who in 1204 died with- out ififue, as alfo did Herbert de Lucy, the fccoud fbn, fo that the inheritance came to his daughter^ ; Maud, the eldcft, married Walter Fitz- Robert, the progenitor of the Fitz-Walters, to whom he gave iwo parts of the hundred, manor, and maiket, of Difs D 2 wiih 44 H T J N D R E D O F with her in man-Iage. Avelihe. Ihf ' Richard Riprrijs, (or Rivers) of Stanford-Rivers. Rofe, or Rohnis, the third, to Richaid de Warren, natural fon of king John. Dimiifia, a fourth daugh- ter, mairied Arnold de Monnteny, knt. who had with her the other third part of the manor, hundred, and market, fo that from that time there were two ma- nors bv'the divifion of thi third part, which was Walcote, and part of Heywood. In i 179 Richard de I. ucy, cKefJM Hice of England, deceafed, and was buried in the choir of (he abbey church at Lefties, in Kent, which he had founded, and where he had taken . upon him the habit of a canon-regular the year before. From this Richard the manor came to fir Walter Fifz-Robert, ion of Robert de Tonebrigge, or Tun- bridge, the fifth Ton of Richard Fitz-Gilbert, firnamed de Tonebrigge, the firft earl of Clare, who came in with the Conqueror, of whofe gift he had the caltle and town of Clare, in Suffolk, with Tunbiid^c, in K<"nt, and divers other great lordfhips in England. This earl was fon of Gilbert, firnamed Crifpin, ea>rl of Brion. in Normandy, and fon of Jeffery, natural fon to Richard I. of that name, xduke of Normandy ; he bore, as the Fitz-Wakers ever after did, the carl of Clare's fhield varied; he had two wives, Maud de Rocham, or de Bohun, and Maud, daugh- ter of fir Richard de Lucy, as aforefaid, in whofe right he had this manor, to which he firfl obtained a charter for a fair. He was juftice itinerant in Nor- folk and Suffolk, and died in 1 198, being buried in the midftof the choir of the priory church of Little Dunmow, in EfTex, of which his father was firft founder; he was fomeiimes called Walter of Claie, fometimes D I S S. 45 fomeciraes Robert Fiiz- Walter,' but moftlv Walter Hu Robert ; he lefi Robert tht Valiant his heir. Sir Robert Fitz Walter, km. commonly called Robert the Viiliar.t, had two wives; Gunnora, daughter and heireis of Philip de Valoines, and Ro- hcfia, or Rnfe, v\ho furviyed him. and had ihe ma- nors of Difs, Hempnall, (which always went wiih Difs) Theye, and Difs hundred, in do\ver ; he it was that firft divided this manor, by giving a moiety of the two parts which he polTeffed to fir GilbertPecche, knt. with his daughter, Alice, in free marriage, with the third part of the hundred and market, and fo ihere branched a third manor, which was called Pecche's fee; this Robert was leader of ihofe barons that rofc againft king John, the beginning of which was on this occafion, a^ the book ol Duumow in- forms us : " About the year 1213 there arofe a great difcord " between king John and his barons, becaufe of Ma- *'. tilda, firnamed the tair, daughter ol Robeit Ficz~ " Walter, whom the king unlawfully loved, but " couid not obtain heT, nor her father's confent V thereunto; wheieupon (and for divers other like '.' caufes)) enfued war throughout the whole realm ; " the king banilhcd the faid Fitz-Walter, among ' others, and caufed his caftle, called Baynard, and " -other his houfes, to be fpoiled, which being done, " he lent a mefTenger unto Matilda the Fair, about " his old fuit in love, ancj becaufe fhe would not agree to his wicked motion,, the meffengcr poiforied M a boiled, or potched egg, againft (he was hungiy, " a,nd gave it unto her, whereof fhe died in 1212.". Her tomb was (landing between two pillars in the priory church of Little Dunmow when Aii. Weaver uublifhed his book. > D 3 "in 46 HUNDREDOF In the rear following her banifhed father was re- fiored to the king's favor upon this occafion : " King " John being then in France with a great army, it " happened that a truce was taken between the two 44 kings, of England and France, for the term of five 44 years ; and a river, or arm of the fea, being betwixt " either hoft, there was a knight of the Englifh hoft 44 that cried to them of the other fide, willing fome " one of their knights to come and jtifl a courfe ot " two with him; whereupon, without flay, Robert ' fritz-Walter being on the French part, made him- 41 ielf ready, ferried over, and got on horfeback, and *' (hewed himfelf ready to the face of his challenger,- " whom at the firft courfe he ftruck fo hard with his " great fpear, that horfe and man fell to the ground, ** and when his fpear was broken, he went back again 4 ' to the king of France, which king John feeing, by : 44 God's tooth, quoth he, (for fuch was his ufual 44 oath) he were a king indeed that had fuch a knight. " The friends of Robert hearing thefe words, kneeled 44 down and faid, O king, he is your knight, it is "Robert Fitz-Walter ; whereupon the next day ** he was fcnt for, and reftored to the king's favor, *' by which means peace was concluded, and he re- *' ceived his livings, and had licence to repair his *' caftle of Baynard, and all his other caflles." Not- withflanding this, he afterwards joined the barons that flood againfl the fame king for their liberties, during his whole reign, and at the king's death, by his advice, there was an agreement made between them and the fucceeding king, from which time he was always in great favor both in court and country. Holinfhed, that faithful hiftorian, gives him this cha- rafter: that he was " both excellent in counfel, and " valiant in war." He went with Ralph earl of Chefler's army to aid the Chriftians againfl the Infi- dels, who had befieged the city of Damieta, in Egypt, where D I S S. 47 where he performed noble atchievements: " Afier " which this flrenous knight, this Mars of men, thi$ " marfhal of God's army and holy church, (for fo he " was (tiled by the common multitude) lived in all af- *' fluence of riches and honor till 1235, when he " died, and was buried by his daughter in the faid " church:" Holingflied fays, " anno 1234, in Ad- " venc, died the noble barori, the lord Fitz-WaL- " ter." Robert Fitz-Walter, his fon, often called Walter Fitz-Robert, fucceeded ; he was a man of renown in thofe days, "and in great favor with his prince; he inherited the lands of his father, except this manor, and thofe of Hcmpnall and Theye, which were held in dower by Rofe, his ftep-mother, who pofTefled them to 1250, from which time he held them, and dying feifed in 1258, was buried in the conventual church of Dunmow, leaving Robert, his fon and heir, who was knighted in 1274, and had a great part of his poffeffions in his own hands before that time, though this manor, with Hempnall and Thcyc, were in the hands of Stephen Fitz-Walter, his uncle, as his guardian and trufiee. This Stephen in 1286 claimed a market every Wednefday and Friday, with all rights belonging to a market, and it was allowed in tire. It feems that Henry I. eftablifhed this mar- ket, for he granted it to fir Ricard de Lucy along with the manor ; at this time Stephen held a third part of the hundred, which was worth five marks yearly, and Ernald de Mpminiaco (Arnold Mounieny) held of him another third part, which was worth 6os. per annum; and Ricnard de Boyland held of the laid Stephen another part, which was worth 283. per annum. This Stephen, as capital lord of the whole, paid into the Exchequer a rent of 4od. a year, being entitled in ki&part to view of frank-pledge, affize of D 4 bread 4 S H U N D R E D O K bread and ale, infangthef, waif, and all other liber- ties which belonged to a hundred, all which toon after came to Robert Fitz-Walter aforefaid. In izcj^ he was fummoned to attend Edward I. into Gal- coigns, in order to recover his inheritance from the Fiench king, to which place he went in the retinue of Edmund earl of Lancafter. In 1296 he was in the Welfh expedition ; and in 1 29*) in the Scotch wars. It was this man that aliened Bainard's-caflle in London, and Momfitchet tower, to the archbifhop of Canterbury, referving his barony that belonged to it to himfelf and his heirs; he was the firfl of this family that (tiled himfelf lord of Woodham, in Ef- fex, where he had a feat and a fine park : he had two wives; Devorgil, daughter and coheirefs of John de Burgh, fon of Hubert de Burgh, late earl of Kent, and chief juftice of England; and Eleanor, daughter of earl Ferrers, by whom he had Robert, his fon, who fucceeded him : in this year he obtained a char- ter of confirmation for a fair every year at his manor of Difs, upon the eve, day, and morrow, after the feaft of St. Simon andjude, and dire'-' days follow- ing; he was one of thofe parliamentary barons that fcaled the letter to the pope, anno 1301, "denying that the kingdom of Scotland was his fee, or that he had any jurifdi&ion in temporal affairs: 1 ' he lealed with his paternal coat, fupported by two harpies, which feal of his we have feen affixed to feveral deeds, and in particular to a grant made in 1298, to William Partckyn, - of Priileilon, (now Billingford) dyer, by which he granted " for his homage and fer- vice, and half a mark of filver in hand paid, two rnef- fuages in Difs, with liberty of wafhing his wool and cloths in Difs-meer whenever he would, with this re- ferve, that the grofs dye fhould be firft wafhed off, and that he fhould not fuffer the drain of his dying- office to run into the meer." The. efcheat rolls of the D ;fc s s; 49 the i ^th of Edward Tl. fav, that he held Difs a: three knights fees, and Hempnall by baronv: he re- nounced all the rempor.il matters, and then -entered himfelf a friar minor in the friarv at Colchefter, which he hirnfelf in 1309 'had founded, and there took upon him the habit of a religious votarv, where he fpent the reit of his days. In the catalogue of emperors, kings, princes, and other potent period, that have- entered into this religious order, this Ro- bert was one. It.ieenis as if the church of Difs was built by this man, his arms cut in Hone flill remain- ing feveral times on the (outh porch. Robert Fitz-Walter, his fun/ married Joan de Mou! ton, who furvived him, and had for her dower an affirmation of the manors of D:fs, and Hempnall, in Norfolk, 8cc. In 1361 this Joan purcha fed of Ni- cholas de VValcote one mefluage, eighty acres of land, fixty acres of meadow., fix acres of pafture, four acres of wood, and 145. per annum quit-rent, in Difo, Frenze, and Burflon, which were added to the Capital manor, and was part of Walcote manor that wad granted by one of the Mountenys to William de Watcote, the father, or grandfather, of this Nicholas. 'She it was alfo that brought the caitle of Egremont, in Cumberland, and a third part of that manor, and many others, to this family. This Robert was in the expedition made'into Scotland in 1326, and died the year following, leaving John, his Ion, poffefled of two parts of his eftate, the third being held by the faid Joan in dower ; he was a ward of Henry de Percy; but- in the gth of Edward III. by the king's fpecial favor, his homage was accepted, and livery made to him ; Difs manor ihen was valued at 31!. Hempnall at 48!. Fincham at 61. 135. 4d. He was in the French wars in 1359, being one of thofe ap- pointed to accompany fir Walter Manny in that fkirmifh 5 o H U N D R E D O F fkirmifh at the barriers of Paris, the duke of Nor- mandy then lying in that city, and was then knight- ed: he married Eleanor, daughter of Henry lord Percy, his guardian, was fummoned to parliament from the i^th to the 34th of Edward III. exclufive, and died in 1360, leaving Walter, his fon and heir, Joan, his mother, furvivinghim ; (he died in 1362, v/hereupon Walter, her grandfon, was found to be next heir, this manor being then held at three fees, as of the barony of Bainard-caftle. Walter lord Fitz -Walter making proof of his age in 136-2, and doing his homage, had livery of all his lands. In the 44th of Edward III. he was in that expedition made into Gafcoigne, and there re- puted one of the moft expert foldiers in the whole realm; but being taken prifoner in thofe wars, was forced to mortgage his caftle and Jordihip of Egro xnont for loool. towards raifing the fine lor his re- demption. In 1372, an invafion being feared from the French, having raifed what power he could for the defence of Eflex, he was commanded to repair into Norfolk, for the lafeguard of thofe parts. In 1379 he procured the king's charter for a weekly market every Friday.at his lordfhip of Hempnall, in Norfolk, and a fair yearly ; foon after, in 1381, he did great fervice in Effex againfl the rebels under Jack Straw, by fuppreffing thofe that endeavoured to make head there. Many other great and noble ex- ploits of this man may be feen in the firft volume of Dug. Baron, fol. 222, and in the fecond volume of Holinfhed's Chronicle, fol. 405, 419. He was lieu- tenant to Thomas duke of Gloucefter, conftable of England in the great caufe between the lords Lovel and Morley, for the arms of Burnel, in the court of chivalry, in 1384 and 1386, in which year he died, in Spain, on Wednefday before St. Micliael, being one I D I S S. 51 one of thofe that accompanied John duke of Lan- cafter, king of 'Caftile and Leon; in his expedition thither, where the Englifh, not able to bear the heat of the country, died in great numbers: '* Among " others there died before the breaking up of the " camp one of the greateft barons of all the com* " pany, the lord Fitz-Walter." There is an ancient deed of this Walter in French, by which, as lord of Difs, he granted a mefluage and eight acres of land to one William Moundary ; it was dated at Henham, in the 4oth of Edward 111. to which his feal was fatt- ened, being his paternal coat, and an eftoil between fu'o plumes for his crefl, circumfcribed Sigillum Wal- ter i Filij-Walteri. His fon, Robert, married Philippa, daughter and coheirefs of John de Mohun, lord of Dunfter, and died before his father, without iffue ; Philippa, after his death, manied again to Edward Plantagenct, duke of York, and earl of Rutland, who held Difs manor, hundred, and market, together with Hempriall, till he was killed at Agincourt, and from his death file held them till 1431, in which year fhe diedfeifed; and fir Walter Fitz-Walter, .brother and heir of. fir Robert Fitz-Walter, firft hufband of the faid Phi- lippa, had livery of the manors of Difs and Hemp^ nail, with their appurtenances, all which (except the advowfons) were held in dower by the faid Philippa ; but they went with the reft of the eftate of the faid Robert, and had been in pofleffion of the faid Wal- ter ever fince 1389, when he had livery of them, as heir to Walter, his father, and Robert, his elder bro- ther ; and accordingly, we find, he prefented to Difs, in 1390. This Walter married Joan, daughter of fir John Devereux, knt. he died in 1408, leaving Hum- phry lord Fitz-Walter, his eldeft fon, under age at his father's death, and was a ward of Henry V. who granted 5* HUNDREDOF granted the cuftody of him to John de Beaufort, carl of Somerfct; the earl dying foon after, left him to his executor, Henry Beaufort, bifliop of Winthcftei ; but dving before he came of age. he never was in pofleflion of his inheritance, but it went to his bro- ther, Walter Fitz-Walter, who was under age, and Jiad not poffeffion of his cftate till 1428, at which lime he had livery thereof, but not of Difs and Hempnall, till 1451, when Fhilippa died, who had held rhem all this time in dower. This Waller was one of the nioft a&ive men in the French wars, in the time of ihnt vi&orious prince, Henry V. who in the 8th year of his reign, .for the great Cervices' be had done him, gave all the lands and Jordfaips which Sr John Cheney, km. deceaied, held in the Duchy of Normandy, which reverted to the crown for default of heirs male of the faid John, and were of the value of 5000 fcutes. He was then a very young man, not being of full age till 1422, though in 1421 be was taken prifoner by the French, but foon got re- Icafcd; he died about 1432, and was buried in Dun- mow priory. Elizabeth, his wife, furvived him, who held in dower Hempnall and Difs manors, with the hundred of Difs ; the manors of Shimpling, and Thome, in Suffolk; of Wodeharn- Walter, Heuham, Leiden, .Vitring, Dunmow Parva, Burnham, Win- bufh, and Shering, in Effex ; fhe after married Wil- liam Mafley, and died June 14, 1463, leaving Anne, wife of Thomas Ratcliff, efq. and Elizabeth, (then fingle) her daughters and heirefles ; Anne had no iflue, but Elizabeth afterwards married fir John Rat- cliff, knt. brother of the faid Thomas, who was loon after fummoned to parliament, as lord Fitz-Walter, and in right of. his wife enjoyed all the honors and poffeffions of this noble family. . This D I S S. 53 This family, as Mr. le Neve thinks, came firft into this county in 1411, when John Ratcliff, efq. father of this fir John Ratcliff, married Cecily, the widow of fir John de Marling, by which he much advanced his family; this fir John after he was lord Fuz- Walter fided with Edward IV. agninfl Henry VI. and being by him appointed to keep ibe pauage at Ferrybridge, which lord.Clifford refoived to gain by furpiife, wus there flain. in 1460, as he arofe from his bed, un- armed, with a poll ax only in his hand, in onU-r to appeafe the fray (as he thought) among his own men leaving his eftate in poffeffion of Elizabeth, his wile, and John RatclifF. aftei wards lord Fitz* Waller, his foo, all which the faid John enjoyed till 1493\ when he was attainted of treafon, and being appie- hended, was> bi ought into England, \viih fever a! otiicr knights, among which u-as fir Robert Ratcliff, who wa* beheaded ; but lord Fitz-VValtcr was pardoned-: after that he went to Calais, and being there laid in hold, was beheaded, becaufe he would have corrupted the keepers with many promifcs, to have efca^eJ out of the fame, intending (as was thought) to have gone to Perkin. at lhac time a Pretender to the crowii ajrainfl Henry VII. who at the time of his attainder feued upon all his revenues, and among tliem, o-i this manor, hundred, and advowfon, together w;th the manor of Wai ion, or Cock-flreet, and Walco e, in Difs, boih which were become members of the great manor; and in 1498 the king prefented here by rcalon of the foileiture and attainder. ; < . . . : They remained in the crown till Henry VIII. re- ftored them to Robert RacclifF, fun of the faid J >hn, who was in fo great favor with that kin, that he not only refloied him in blood and efiate, but made him kuight of (he garujr, lord Fiiz-Wal er. Egremont, and Buincl, and afiei wards, Jun, i5 5 1525, created him vikoimt 54 HUNDRED OF vifcount Fitz -Walter, and December 8, 1^29, earl of Suflex: he had three wives ; by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Stafford, duke of Buckingham, he had Henry lord Fitz-Walter, who fucceeded him ; he died at Chelfea the 28th of November, 1542, and is buried in the church of Boreham, in London diocefe, with two other earls, his fon, and grandfon, under a fumptuous monument. Henry Ratcliff, earl of Suflex, vifcount Fitz-Wal- ter, lord Egremont, and Burnel, held his firft court in 1542 ; he was in great favor with queen Mary, and of her privy council, and by her grant, dated No- vember 2, in the ift year of her reign, had " Liberty " licens and pardon to were his cappe, coyf, or " night cappe, or twoo of them, at his pleafor, as " well in our prefens as in the prefens of any other " perfon or perfons within this our relme, or any " other place of our dominion, during his life." He died at Weftminfter, February 17, 1556, leaving if- fue by Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, Thomas the third earl of Suffex, and Henry the fourth earl. Thomas the third earl in 1557 was feifed of Difs, Attleburgh, and feveral other lordfhips in Norfolk ; he died June 9, 1583, leaving Frances, his widow, this manor, and great part of the eftate, for life, and at her death to Robert lord Fitz-Walter, his fon, who died before her, fo that it came to Henry Ratclifi, his brother, who died feifed the 14th of December, 1 593, when it defcended to Robert Ratcliff, his fon, who in 1621 fold it to Frances Shute, widow, and her heirs, who held a court in 1622. In 1635 it was in John Duke, efq. of VVorlingham, in Suffolk, who about 1649 l e ft it to Parnell and Ann Duke, his daughters, who t D I S S. 55 who kept their firft court in 1636: this John fo!d the advovvfon from the manor. Parnell married Roger Pepys, of Impington, efq. who afterwards had Ann's part alfo, and at his death left it to Talbot Pepys, efq. his fon, who married Hannah, daughter of John Man, alderman of Nor- wich ; (lie out-lived him, and held the manor and hu-ndred till 1694, when fhe died, and left it to Roger Pepys, her fon and heir, on whofe death Mrs. Ann Pepys, his widow, was lady thereof, in 1735. PECCHE'S MANOR, now called HEYWOOD-HALL, had its rife out of the capital manor ; fir Robert Fitz- VValter, who held two thirds of the hundred and town of Difs, granted one third thereof with his> daughter, Alice, in marriage to fir Gilbert Pccche. km. lord of Brunne, in Cambridgefhire, upon whofc death it. defcended to fir Hammond Pecche, knt. his ton, who died in 1240, leaving feveral children ; Gil* bert was his eldeft ion and heir, but this was given to Robert Pecche, his fourth fon, who held it in 1286. in which year he claimed view of frank-pledge, and affize of bread and ale of all his tenants. It was this Gilbert, and Agnes, his wife, that in 1292 conveyed two third parts of this manor to fir Robert Fitz-Wal- ter, fo that it was again joined to the great manor, alt but one third part, which they in 1285 had conveyed by fine to fir Richard de Boyland, together with a third part of the demefiies, and 283. per annum quit- rent, and this part conflituted that manor here which is now called Heywood-hall, of xvhich we find a fine levied in 1289 by fir Richard de Boyland to Stephen Fiiz-Walter, lord (in truft) of the great manor, who dcfigned to join this, as his predeceflbr had done the other parts, to that manor, in order to make it more compleat : but it proved of no force; for in 1314 Richard, 56 HUNDRED OF Richard, "Ton of fir Richard de Boyland. fuetl Robfrt Fhz- Walter for it, and recovered it, it having been fettled on his mother before the fine was fued, to which he was not a party; at fir Richard's death it came to fir John de Boyland, of Boy land-hall, in Biiffittgham; he left only one daughter, married to John Lancallcr, of Biiflingliam, cfq. fcnior, v\ho left it LO Ellen, his vvife, for life, then to J;>hn Lancafter, junior, of Briflingham, efq. he by will, proved Julv 28, 14/0, left it to Elizabeth, his wife, for life; and aftei her dcceafe to William Lancafler, efq. (hei ion) of Catyvvacle and Brifunghain, who had BenecJicla. 1m lolc hciicfs, mairicd to Edwaid Bolton about th year 1505; and by will dated July 15, 1528, be- queathed it to Thomas Boitou, of Suham Tony, his Jecond fon, who died fcifed in 1544: it was, fold o fir Thomas Jermyn, knt. but it continued vciy liitie \vhiie in that family; for in 1616 William Mafon, efq. and John Befelcy, gent, fold it to William Webb. and Charles YYifcman, gents, from whom it came to the I i fliers, Richard x Fifner, gent, being feifed in 1636, and Edvvaid tifher, gent, in 1662. From 1607 to ;6S4 we find it in John Euxton, gent, and afier in Robert Buxton, eiq. of St. Margaret's, in South Elmham, who was luid in 1713. We mull obftrve, that in a court roll of this ma- nor, among Mi. lc Neve's papers, in 1423, when El- len, widow of John Lancaiter, fcnior, held- her firft court, there weic two diflincl juiies, one for the part of the manor in Diis, and the odier for that part in Burflon ; it was always held of the great manor of piii, by fealty, and 55. per annum rent, in full for jtll luit and fcivice, beiug ciUuiatcd at bl. per annum. HEYWOOD, D I S S. 57 - Hr.Wv'ooD, HEWODE, or HEYWODE MANOR, was always part of Winlarthing manor till it was fepa- ratcd by Henry I. who gave it to fir Richard de Lucy, and fo joined it to Difs ; he gave a third part of the hundred, manor, and market, in frank-pledge, with Dionifia, his daughter, to fir Robert de Mun- tcnie, or Mountcn.y ; and in the year 1161 the faid Robert held of R ichard , in Walcote, a member of Difs, one fee. Sir Arnold de Munteney, his fon, i'uc- cecded him in 1230; and Robert, his fon, in 1286 had view of frank-pledge, and died feifed of this manor, with a third pait of the hundred, and market, leaving it to Arnold, his fan and heir, who claimed libertv of free- warren in all his demefnes, and had ic allowed. In 1293 he was fummoned to attend Ed- ward I. into Gafcoigne, for the recovery thereof. 'This Arnold granted part of this manor to William, his Cccgnd fon, which at William's death, in 1313, was fettled on Katherine, his widow, then married to Gilbert Balioi, for life, and the remainder to Dionifia, afterwards wife of Hugh de Vere, daughter, of the faid William, by which Dionifia it reverted to Win- fai thing manor .again, .and being joined in the faid liugh, it hath gone with it everfince.. The cujloms of the manor of Difs, confirmed by the lord and tenants at a general court of furvey there held, the i^th of September, 1036, are as follow, as appear by the original, now in the churchwardens hands : & * " The fines are arbitrable upon every alienation and defcent, and on every death the lands defected to the eldeft fon, or next allied, according to the courfe of the common, law, and are fubjeci to fuch -for- feitures as the common law dcth dircd. E * The 58 HUNDRED OF 41 The copyhold tenants may fell timber without forfeiture on the copyhold lands. " The lord's bailiff can take but one penny for each bead's poundage. 1 he tenants can dig gravel, fand, turf, &c. on the wafte, and make hemp pits on Difs-moor, and Cock-flreet-grecn. " The tenants can plant upon the wafles againfl their own lands and houfes, by the name of an Out-run. " They can alfo flub furze and bufhes on all the wafles. " The lord hath all the ftrays, he hath no warren, but liberty of hawking, hunting, and fifliing, in the manor; and the lords formerly have granted liberty of fifhing to divers tenants; and it is returned, that John Turner, Samuel Folfer, Thomas Shreve, Regi- nald Shuckforth, and Henry Turner, have, and maintain certain pits in their yards and grounds, with inlets from them to the great meer, as by cuftom they can juftify. " The tenants can make fleps out of their doors into the flreet, and flairs out of their cellars, and alfo they can fet up buoys, or props, at their windows, and feats at their doors, according to cuftom. 41 The lord hath a market every Friday, a fair on Sts. Simon and Jude, when his bailiff takes 2d. for every tilted flail, and id. for every one untilted, and no more ; and for the market flails he takes either a weekly or yearly rent, but all that ftand under any houfes, pent-houfes, Sec. pay the bailiff ^d. per ann. by id. every quarter, and no more ; but all they that D I S S. 59 tint fell any manner of visuals pay DO&hig, {land where they will, and all corn, com carts, Sec. pay nothing. " As to the extent of the manor, they fay that it extends from the river dividing Norfolk and Suffolk, on the fouih, in and through a great part of the town of Difs, and into Roydon, Burfton, Frenze, Shelf- anger, and Winfarthing, and that Thomas earl of Arundel and Surry, earl marfhal of England, hath a manor here, called Hey wood ; alfo John Havers, gent, a manor that extends into this town, called Roydon- hali cum Tufts ; Richard Fiftier, gent, hath a manor, called Heywood-hall ; and Richard Nixon, gent. Frenze manor, which extends into this town; the manor of Difs re&ory, and the manors of Brockdifh- hall, and Mildenhall, in Burllon, extend hither. The lord of this manor hath a manfion-houfe, in which Samuel Pethaugh now dwells, and 35!. per annum, and a part of the toll-houfe now in decay for want of tiling, and a piece of land, called Hingelfwood, and a piece of maifh in, Briflingham. " The advowfon belongs to the lord, whofc offi- cers are, a fteward, a bailiff, and a hey ward. " N. B. The manors in Difs give a moiety dower." The capital manor-houfe, called Difs-ha!l, is Fituated at Hey\vood-green, which, with lixteen acres three roods of land, is held by copy of court-roll of this manor. 9 WATTON'S MANOR, now called COCK-STRFET, was very fmall, being held by a free-man of William Ma- let, lord of the honor of Eye, in Suffolk, though it 2 did *o HUNDRED OF did not belong fo his fee: Wai er de Cadomo, Caam. or Canz, difleifed him ; this was afterwards called Walton's, from one of its lords ; it continued fo mo- time in Walters family, and was afterwards held of the capital manor. In 123<> Ralph de Cunges, or Canz, a (dcfcendent from the faid Walter) was lord ; he held it by the fourth part of a ice ; from him it came to Richard de Cunges, who enlarged it, by purchafmgmore lands and rents to it of the Fhz-Walters. In 1322 Reginald le Man, of Difs, was lord, who in 1337 left it to Alice, his wife, from which family it came to the Wattons. About 1420 John Walton was lord, who before 1431 had conveyed it to Henry Sircok, for then he occurs lord ; it was foon after purchafed by the Fitz- Walters, and added to Difs manor, with which, in 1493, upon lord Fitz-Walter's attainder, it was feifed by the king, as a member of that manor, and was then called Walton's, or Cock-ftrcet, in Difs, from which time it hath been always included in the manor of Difs. The fcite, or manor-houfe, abuts on Cock- flreet-green, weft, and was granted in 1494 by Henry VII. to be held by copy of court-roll, paying 45. 6d. per annum quit-rent. Diss RECTORY MANOR hath all along gone, and now is in the rector of the parifh; the cuftom of which is, that all lands and tenements defcend to the eldeft fon, and the tenant cannot wafle his copyhold houfes without licence. The fines are at the lord's will, but in all things elfc the tenants may do as they pleafc. Sale, D I S S. fa A I Bale, in his A6lions of Englifh Votavlcr, ("ol. 98. b) fay^, that pnpe Alexander wrote to John of Oxford, then bifhop of Norwich, thai William, :he now par- ion of Difs, for claiming the pa-'fonage of Difs by inheritance, after the death of his father, who be- gat him in his pricfihood, fhould be dijpojjejftd, and no appellation admitted. Edward III. by letters patent, dated the 26 of July, prefented Martin de Ixning, one of his chap- lains, to this church; he had feveral ecclefiaftical preferments given him both before and after. It was a prefentaiioH only for the turn when void, if he Jived fo long, and was obtained by the king; from the Fitz-VValter family ; however, he never polIeHed this living. John Skelton, the king's orator, and poet laureat, was reclor in Will?am Browne, reclor here, was deprived for being married. In 1554, May 6, the right Rev. John Salifbury, bifhop of Thetford, fuffragan to the bifhop of Nor- wich, was prefented by Henry earl of Suflex to this reclory, which was void by the deprivation of the laft incumbent; he was bifhop of the J fie of Man, and held in commendam the deanry of Norwich, the arch- deaconry of Anglefcy, the church of Thorpe on the Hill, in Lincoln diocefe, and the reclory of Difs, by licence from archbifhop Parker, dated anno 1570; he was reclor for fome time of JLopham, and feveral other parifhes in this county ; he died at Norwich, and is buried in the middle of St. Andrew's church there. 3 In 6fe HUNDRED OF In 1587 John Reeve, A.M. was inftituted at the prcfemation of Frances, then vvidoW of the laid Tho- mas earl of Suffex; but he had not peaceable poflef- fion ; for Henry earl of Suffex, brother to Thomas, hufband of the faid Frances, brought his aflion again both patronefs and incumbent, and ejccled him in 1589 ; and on May 1 7, in that year, Richard Cox, A. M. was inflitmed. The difpute feems to have been this ; that though the faid Frances held the ma- nor for life in jointure, yet the advovvfon, as the earl would have it, was not in the fettlement*. But it ended not here, Frances contending her claim, Cox was ejecled, and Reeve declared incumbent: but he remained fo but little time ; for Nov. 17, 1591, Cox was re-inflituted, awd very foon after ejected again, and no incumbent declared, nor none presented, fo* long that it had laid from the latter end oT 91, to Dec. 93, when one William Goddard, A.M. was prefented, but denied inftitution ; whereupon Cox, to make himfelf fure, and end all difputes, took the broad feal, it being lapfed to the crown, and obtained queen Elizabeth's letters patent to void all other pre- femations, on which he was inftituted December 2, > and held it to 96, when he died. In 1647 Edward Palgrave, B. D. was prefented by Richard Prettyman, of Grifton, gent, it was not long before he was ejecled by the proceedings of the times, a- nd his living given to Richard Moore, A.M. who figned the atteftation of the minifters of this county in 1648; but he was foon difplaced, and it was taken by John Hobart, who held it by ufurpation feme * Theadvowfon of Great Maflinghnm at this day (1780) is in the carl of Orford, though the manor is held for life in jointure by his mother, Margaret, the prefent countefs dowager of Orford. D I S S. 63 Tome time, but was afterwards thrown out by Mr. Moore, who held it till 1662, when he was ejected, and Edward Bernard, clerk, inftituted upon his de- privation, at the prefentation of John Hobart, efq. In 1729 William Burlington, of Difs, gent, pre- fented the Rev. Edward Bofworih to the relory of Difs, but the right honorable the earl of Suffex is patron. The Rev. Mr. Manning is the prefent rector. Here is a good rectory-houfe, and convenient out- houfes, with twelve acres of glebe adjoining to it, alt which abut fouth on Difs-moor. It is valued in the king's books at 33!. 6s. 8d. In the dean and chapter's book, called Norwich Doomfday, it is faid, that the rector then had a man- fion-houfe much in decay, with another houfe, which was formerly the vicar's ; it may feem odd that there was ever a vicar, but we are to remember, that often in thofe times vicars fignified no more than curates, and were removeable at the rector's pleafure; in- deed, when churches were appropriated to monafte- ries, and the religious were forced to fet out a portion of the glebe and tidies for the maintenance of a vi- car, fuch a one is called a perpetual vicar, made prc- fentive and inftitutive;* but there are no footfteps of any inftitution to the vicarage of Difs, not but that the rector might, with the confent of the bifhop and patron, have at any time created a vicarage, and made his own fhare afmecurc, as was done at Eaft Dere- ham, Terrington, Sec. and this fince the council of Lateran ; nay, in the diocefe of St. Afaph, there are fuch feparations of tithes made, and vicarages erect- ed, as low as the time of Henry VIII. 4 In 64 HUNDRED OF In the time of James I. there was a -long fuit about ihecufloms of this redlofy, and at length it was ended, and an exemplification under leal palled, November 21. i6ip, in which it was thus acknow- ledged on all fides : " That the reclor is to receive in kind the tenth fheaf of all corn bound up. And of all corn not bound up, the tenth heap, ready heaped. Of peas he is to take the tenth ftetch. " For the fall of every calf, Iamb, or pig, under feven, he is to receive one halfpenny ; but if there be feven, he is to take the fevcmh, and to pay to the owner three halfpence, becaule there lacks thiec of ten ; if there be eight, one penny ; if nine, one half- penny ; if ten, nothing. Por the fall of every foal the reclor to receive one penny. Every feventh gof- ling, allowing one farthing for each gofling wanting of ten, and taking one farthing for each gofling un- der feven. The tithe eggs are due in kind. Tithe wool, every tenth pound. Everv tenth bate, or fiicaf of hemp, in kind. , " Jn lieu of tiihc wood the reclor is paid one penny every Sunday, houfe after houfc, throughout the town ; for when holy bread was ufed, three penny- worth of bread was brought 10 the parfon every Sun~ day, of wfoich he distributed to the poor two penny- worth, and the third, penny he had to his own ufe, by the name of hanhage, and at the time of taking away holy bread, the inhabitants paid as above for wood and hauhage. 41 In lieu of tithe hay the rector receives two- pence per acre for all mowing ground, by the name of fcnage. For every milch cow he receives one penny D C2K'--" s s. 65 penny per ann. by the name of laclnge. For every orchard, and garden plot, he receives one peony per annum in lieu of its tithe. For -every hive of bees one penny per. annum, except it be the firft year they {warm, and then nothing. For every gaft heifer, fleer, or colt, feeding from one year old to three, one penny. " The tithe calves are to be paid at feven weeks old, and not before ; pigs at five weeks old ; chick- ens at a month old ; lambs and goflings at Lammas ; eggs are due at Eafter; herbages, la&ages, and fen- ages, to be paid between Lammas and Chriftmas." By the churchwardens books it appears that upon every burial in the church they receive 6s. 8d. for breach of the pavement. In 1571 Richard Foulfer paid it for his wife's burial, and Nicholas Eftowe did the farae. The church here is dedicated to the honor of the Virgin Mary, and is a regular building, having a fquare tower joined to its weft end, with fix bells, a clock and chimes ; the nave, two ailes, and tw//<. wdso/iecj '.he daughters of Sa- muel Manning, ^ nt. deceafed, who died the I'^th of Sep- tember, i 708, a^id 28. On the feconrl, Bofworth's arms and crefl; for Edward Bofworth late reftor of this parijh, who died January 18, 1713, aged 65. On an altar-tomb by the fouth aile, Thomas She- riff e, gen : & artium magi/lcr, Jub tnmulo a laboribus hie repofitus quicjiil, daeffit April: $ 13, anno atatis 61, JU* Another altar-monument, with the arms of Cog- gcfhall ; William Coggejhall, gent, late of Dijs t who died An gi-.Jl <), 1/14, aged 48. t Befides the monumental infcriptions we have men- tioned, there are fonie to the families of Shuckfort, Baylie, * This man, though he was info great favor with the anti- royalifts as to be made and continued a jufljce of peace, yet altogether deferves a good character, for by him \ ere many royalifts faved from their defgned ruin ; When the gentlemen, of the neighbourhood were impeached, or itrprifontd, he pri- vately fent them letters, informing them wh^t was intended, and advifing them how to procud, by which means feveral efcaped out of Ipfwich gaol, and others were faved from threat- ened defiru&icn ; by which beh;.viour he gained fuch efteem, that though times altered, he lived beloved, and died refptded, for the good he had done. f- This William was fon of Henry Cogge(hjll, a defccndent from the arcient family of the Coggefhalls, of C^ggefliall, in Ef- fex, which family flourifhed there from the time of Henry I. down to Queen Mary. This Henry much improved the art of gauging, by inventing the rule called after his name. D I S S. 69 Baylie, Harrifon, Kett, Burroughs, Cann, and Car- ncll. In 1558, February 10, fir Thomas Johnfon, prleft, was buried here. In 1494 Richard Edon de Difs was buried here: " I will that the (town) village of Difs have ray houfe and land in Sturflon. (except ray paflure at Overgate-went, and half an acre and a rood at Wet- land-went) and alfo my meadow in Scole, and half an ;icre at Sondewey there, and one acre and an half at Broome, for ever, on condition that the annual profits thereof be applied to pay the common fine (i. e. the leet-fee) of the town of Difs, for ever, and that they annually keep my obijt for ever, for the fouls of me and all benefactors, 4d. to ring; 35. 4d. (pro ctrtitudiite) for a certain." In 1579 the plague was at Difs, of which fifty-fix perfons died this year. John Petit died Sept 21, 1727,^. 71. By his lafl will he gave IDS. perann. forever, to the minifter, or curate, for the time being, to preach a ferrnon an- nually on the day of his interment, by way of ex- hortation, to prepare for death, is. per ann. to the fexton, and one to the cleric, to attend the fervice of the day, and los. perann. to the poor, to be dilr/ri- buted on the fame day, which is the 23d of Septem- ber, for all which he tied his eftate, called the Uni- corn, in Difs. Iri 1497 fir John Dowe was buried in our Lady's church here. In 7 o HUNDREDOF In 1504 Margery Covvper was buried in the church : " I wyll myne executors pay the money I promyfyd " to the purchafe of the church, (this was towards 44 Framlingham lands) : Item, to Thomas, myne fon, " Mil Clofe to ringe the yereday for me and rnyne ** hufbande, fo long as it fhall plcafe the faid Tho- *' mas, but never tke leffe, 1 conftrayne him not to " do it, but at his awn voluntary will -be it done." In 1^05 John Prikke, of Difs, fenior, was buried in the church ; he gave 6d. to repair lefuwlejlothe, (foul flough) towards Roydon. February 2, 1506, John Clarke ordered his exe- cutors to pay to the purchafe of Framlingham, quar- terly, " To a pilgrim, a prieft, to be in prayer and " pilgrimage at Rome, the whole lent there, to pray *' and fyng for me and myne children, my fader and " moder, Robert, and Gate, John Kew, and Maut, 11 Stephen Brightled, and John Payn, the which I am ' in dut (debt) to." In 1512 Thomas Cowper was buried in Difs church : " Item, I wyll that my cloien, called Chepys, " and the Mylle-clofc, fhall find the lamp with, " for the rood, and the certen, and the yerday, for *' the foulys of Stephyn Cowper, and Margery, his " wife, Thomas Cowper, and Agnes, his wife, and " all our children, for whom a pried fhall be found 44 to fing Ix yers, of my londs in Harleflon." In 15 14 Thomas Purchafe, alias Spicer, of Difs, buried in the church there, gave his wife and fon a meadow in Difs, called Mekill-clofe, with a houfe on it, on condition to keep his anniverfary yearly, for evermore, in the church, that is, with iis. 4d. to be jiven to three honejl priefts. In D I S S. 71 In 1563 John Rivet, of Difs, was buried in the fteeple-porch, September 25 ; he gave a furplice, and 2os. to repair the Market-ftreet pavement, 2os. Some of the lands that were fettled on the foul priefts, and to maintain the lamps, &c. were feized by Edward VI. in 1547, and were granted with di- vers other to fir Roger Townfhend, knt. and fome to others. The foul priefls of Difs had ftipends of 5!. 6s. &d. per ann. each. At the Reformation the church plate was fold to Henry earl of Suffex, Auguft 15, 1546, at wh-ich time he gave the inhabitants a bond for twenty marks for it ; and after this we find a letter from the fame earl, dated at his manor of Attleburgh, July 25, 1587, dire&ed to the chief inhabitants, figned by him, Your lovynge and affurcd good lorde, (as he calls himfelf) defiring them, that as he JUad already re- ceived part of the town plate, that he may have the nay (as we call it) of fuch portion more as fhall be fold, at a reafonable price, which (hall be paid them by warrants directed to his bailiff, out of his manor of Difs ; at the fame time intimating, that as they do by him in this affair, they may expect he fhould do to them and theirs. We never could meet with an account of the plate, but do not doubt but that it was ' fine and valuable, elfe fo great a man as the earl would never have thought it worth his while to trouble himfelf about it. We find that they fold all fo far, that in 1571 they had only one cup of 23 oz. weight. There is now belonging to this church a chalice, a cup, two (ilver difhes, a fmail plate, a fpoon, and a filver-hafted knife and fork. This 7? H U N D R E D O F This place is faid 10 have produced the following writers, and remarkable men : Ralph de Diceto, dean of St. Paul's, and a great benelaclor thereto, was a very learned man. and a great author; fome of his works are printed; he lived in the time of Henry II. of whom moie may be feen in Nevvcourt's Repcrtorium, and in fir Wil- liam Dugdaie's Hiftory of St. Paul's, ad edit. p. i o, where by mi flake (as le Neve fays) it is called Difca, in Suffolk, though in page 501, it is called Difce.* William of Difs was facrifl of St. Edmund's mo- nailery at Bury, cluly elecled ; but he continued fo but four days, having fo great fear upon him, that he could not difcharge his office well, that all that time he could take no reft, and therefore petitioned abbot Samlbn that he might refign, who confeming thereto, Robert de Gravely was chofen in his place. Walter of Difs, born here, was a carmelite friar at Noi with, one of the mod ignorant of all that convent in his youth ; at length he turned the reverfe, con- tinually applying himfelf to gain knowledge and learning, in wiiich he fo much profited, that he took his do i S S. ,01 the ill of James I. he was reflored to all the eftate and honor that his father enjoyed, by which he be- came earl of Arundel and Surrey. In 161 i he was made knight of the garter; and in 1620 earl marfhal of England, for life, with socoh per ann. penfion, and chief jufticeof all the forefts on the north fide of Trent. In the i6th of Charles I. 1640, gene- ral of the army raifed againft the Scots, and in re- fpecl of his lineal defcem from Thomas Brotherton, earl of Norfolk, (a younger foh to Edward I.) was by letters patent, bearing date at Oxford, June 6, in the 2oth of Charles I. advanced to the title of earl of Norfolk; fhortly after which the wars breaking out, and he grown ancient and unfit for military fervice, he obtained leave of the king to travel ; whereupon going to Padua, in Italy, he died there, Oclober the 4th, 1646, and was buried at Arundel, in Suflex. He fold a great part of the eftate in this county, and kafed out other parts for a long time. In 1604 his truftees aforefaid, with fir William Howard, of Axminfler, in Devonfliire, mortgaged this manor, with others, for iSool. to William Harvey, of the Savoy, James Guiccardin, of Folfhunt, in Effex, and Thomas AylofFe, of Lincoln's-Inn, efq. In 1608 John Holland, of Kenninghall, efq. John Cornwallis.of Earl-Soham, in Suffolk, efq. and Ro- bert Causfield, of St. Clemenc's Danes, London, granted to Joan Woodward, of that parifh, an an- nuity of 44!. per annum out of this manor, for 450!. paid by her. In 1610 John Davis, bailiff of the earl's manor here, accounted for gl. per annum quit rent, 5!. for the fcite of the manor and deraefnes, Thomas Brew- fter being farmer of the Lodge. In 1619 thefe tftates were leafed out at 6ool. per ann. Henry 102 HUNDREDOF Henry earl of Arundel, lord Movvbray, and Mal- travers. died at Arundel, in Suffex, leaving his eflate to Thomas Howard, his eldeft (on, who in 1660, the 13111 of Charles II. was reftored by acl of parliament to the title of duke of Noiiolk. which he enjoyed during his life, and then upon his dying without ifTue it delcendcd to Henry lord Howard, of Caftle Rifing, carl of Norwich, his next brother, who in 1671 had the marfhalfhip of England limited to the heirs male of his body, at whofe death Henry earl of Arundel, his eldeft fon, fucceeded, and was made governor of Windfor-caftle, upon the death of prince Rupert, and was inftalled knight of the garter in the ift of James II. In i6&8, upon the landing of the prince of Orange, this duke being then in Norfolk, he im- mediately declared for him, and brought over that, and fome neighbouring counties, to his intereft ; for which, foon after his royal highnefs had accepted the crown of thefe realms, he was Iworn of his privy council, and fo continued to the time of his death, in 1701 ; he left no iffue, upon which his honor and eflate went to his brother's fon, Thomas duke of Norfolk, whofe father, Thomas lord Howard, upon king James's withdrawing, went with him into France and Ireland, from which lafl place, as he returned to Breft, he was caft away in 1689, leaving five fons and one daughter, of which this Thomas, his eidefl fon, at his uncle's death became duke. Henry How- ard, the fecond fon, left no iffue. Edward Howard, the third fon, upon the death of Henry, his eldeft bro- ther, became duke of Norfolk, and lord of this ma- nor. Richard, the fourth fon, is dead. Philip, the fifth fon, is alfo dead, and left a daughter, married to lord Petre, who refides at Buckenham, the feat of his late father-in-law. This Philip, brother of the late duke of Norfolk, had an only fon, much efteemed, %vho died greatly lamented before the late duke, by whole D I S S. 103 who fa deceafe die title and eflate went to Charles Howard, efq. of Greyftock, in the county of Cum- berland, the prcfent duke, (1781). His eldeft fan, the prefent earl of Surrey, has read his recantation of the Roman Catholic religion this year, before the ho- norable and mod reverend Frederick Cornvvallis, lord archbifhop of Canterbury, primate of all Eng- land, and is become a Proteftam. fo that the honor of FIRST PEER of England is likely to return again into a PROTESTANT branch of the ILLUSTRIOUS fa- mily of the HOWARDS. The lord of this manor hath a court leet as well as court baron, which was always kept annually till i 7 1 9, at which time Mr. Bath, then fteward to his grace, gave notice, that he would keep leet no lon- ger, becaufe there was no leet fee*, from which time there hath been no leet kept here. The cuftoms of this manor are as follow : the fines are at the lord's will, and the copyhold de- fcends to the eldeft fon ; it gives no dower ; the te- nants have liberty either to erecl: or pull down houfes on the copyhold, at their own plealure, and to cut down timber on the copyhold without licence, as al- fo to plant and cut down all manner of wood and timber on all the commons and \yaftes againft their own lands, by the name of an out-run, or free-board, and to dig marl, or clay, and cut furze and buflies on the commons and wafte. There * No leet-fee, becaufe it was the Conquerer's own manor : The leet never belonging to the him Ired, it being granted with the manor, and all its royalties, before the hundred was granted from the crown. 104 HUNDREDOF .-> " i' m -^ *' * There were two other fmall manors, or tenement?, in Thvveyth, or Whait, a hamlet to Fersfield and Bri!- fingham; the one was called ROSE'S, to which be- longed fourteen acres, adjoining to the tenement, with other fmall rents. This was fome time copyhold of the manor of Fersfield, and bv the lord thereof was granted to one Thomas Rofe, who was owner of it in 1443, and foon after fold it,, with all its rents, fer- vices, and appurtenances, to John Lancafter, junior, cfq. lord of Boyland, who united it to that manor. The other was called IRELAND'S, being originally a part of Fersfield manor, which jn the time of Ed- ward 11. was granted by the lord to one Jeffery of Peafenhall, from whom it was firft. called Pcafen- hall's, and from him it went to John of Ireland, from whom it had its prefent name. They both conflantly attended the manor of Boyland, and with it were fold to the Norfolk family, in which they continued till March 12, 1651, when Henry earl of Arundel, and his truftees, among other large eftates. conveyed to Ann Henfhaw, widow, and Thomas Henfhaw, efq. and their heirs for ever, all the demefnes of the capital manor of Briflingham, now called the Hall- farm, and Hall-grounds, and alfo all that tenement called Rofe's, with fixteen acres of land thereto be- longing, lying in Briflingham and Fersfield, together with all that tenement called Ireland's, lying in Fers- .-field aforefaid, with a certain wood lying there, call- ed Winley-wood, and two other inclofures, called Marketfield, with all other the royalties, privileges, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, all which were to be held free without any referved rent what- foever; the faid Thomas and Ann, Feb. 3, 1656, fold all the eftates to James Perrot, of Ammerfham, in Bucks, efq. May D I . S S. 105 May 13, 1724, James Perrot, of Northlcigh, in Oxf>.>idfhirc, Efq. conveyed thefe two tenements, c. with ail their rights and appurtenances, to Henry Klornefield, of Fersfield, gent, and his heirs ; the {'aid Henry, bv deed dated ihe iqth of March. 1731, conveyed Win Icy- wood and Marketfield to the late rev. Francis Blomefield, who at his deadi bequeathed the two tenements with all their right and appurte- nances to Peter Blomefield, his fecond ion. The commons in the time of Henry VIT. were very different from what they are now, for all the Sou th field was then common, which contained i 10 acres by meafure, all which was inclofed by the lord, with the tenants conf'ent, in lieu of two market fields. . which were {old off by a former lord. An equal quantity of that which is now called the Great-com- mon was laid out, by which means the two greens, called Fersfield-green, and Old-green, were joined together, and laid into one common ; that part which is now Forty-acres, being pait of Fersfield- green, and the part from the town meadow to Daw's clofe, being Old -green : and thus they continued, till Thomas duke of Norfolk, in the time of Henry VJII. defiring to make his great park at Kenninghall (in which his palace flood) every way compleat, in- clofed 44. acres of Fersfield-green into the laid park, bccaufe it extended like a harp (as it is laid in the evidences) into it, and very near to his palace. Upon this the inhabitants petitioned his grace for relief, who ordered his bailiff thereupon to aflign them other lands, to the full value and quantity of their land inclofed. But it feems this was neglecled to be done, for foon after they brought an action, and feized upon their antient common, which had been thus inclofed ; upon which the duke ordered certain demdne lands pf his manor of Fersfield, and othcis of his manor H ef io6 HUNDRED OF of Lopham, which joined to the faid common, to be laid out to the inhabitants of Fersfield, in recom- pence for the 44 acres inclofeJ ; but it happened at this very time, that the duke was attainted, and the manor feized into the king's hands, upon which ihe workmen were flopped levelling the banks ; upon this the inhabitants laid the cafe before the Commif- fioneis for the furvey of the manor when it was feized, as appears upon the furvey, who took the Jands that were to be laid out to the king's ufe, to- gether with the inclofed 44 acres, and permitted the inhabitants to enjoy their antienc 110 acres of com- mon, which had been inclofed, and which they had feized again in lieu thereof, with which all parties were fatisfied ; and thus they continued till James I. when Thomas earl of Arundel and Surrey, defirous to perfect the park, and to make the demefnes of his manor of Fersfield as compleat as they were before this common was feized by the inhabitants, came to an agreement, upon which the faid tenants and in- habitants yielded up to the faid earl, all their right in the faid common, which they had feized for them- felves and their heirs for ever, on condition that the faid earl fhould tie that part of the Southfield, called the Great-ground, lying on the fouth fide of the church of Fersfield, to be always un ploughed, and to be feized and entered upon at any lime by the faid inhabitants, for want of performance of any thing in the indentures contained, " that they may remaine, " contynue, and be for ever hereafter perpetuall, " flable, and firme to poflerhy, for ever to endure." Thefe indentures bear date the 2oth of November, in the 8th year of the reign of James I. 1610. Twayt, orWhait-green, alfo belongs to this parifh and Briffingham, where they are intercommoners, each having a drift ; it was appropriated to Tweyth, or Tweyt, D I S S t 107 'Tweyt, a hamlet which belonged to both thefe towns, and was fo called from Hervey de Tweyt, who lived in 1340, and had a good eftate here. It now con- tains between twenty and thirl y acres, though it was much larger formerly ; for a contention arifing be- tween the lord of thefe towns and the tenants, con- cerning the cultoms of the manors, it was jointly agreed between them, that upon confirmation of their old cuftoms, and the addition of this new one, viz. to wafle their copyhold houfes without licence, (which before that time they could not do) theyfhould yield up 50 acres of this common to the lord's fole life, which was done accordingly, and the lord enjoys it at this day, it being lett with Byland hall farm, and is now called the Cow-paftures : this was about 157!. i There is no other common but Win ley-green, to which Lopham park joins, and had its freeboard on this common. All the parks hereabouts had that privilege, which was to plant whatever bufhes and trees they would againft the parks, which the inhabi- tants could not cut, (as they do, and always have done, all other trees, bufhes, Sec. on the commons in thefe manors) but were to belong to the lord for the game-keepers to kill their game from, and to hinder efcapes from the park. Briffingham are inter-common- ers here. All the trees on the commons, that are out of the freeboards of the lord, or the out-runs of the te- nants, were always taken down and flowed by the churchwardens for the ufe of the poor, and the ponds on all the commons that are out of the freeboards, and out-runs, are to be kept clean by the inhabitants. The benefactors were, Jeffiy Ellingham, of Fers- field, who by will, dated April 18, 1493, gave four marks to build a fouth porch, and ordered his execu- H 2 tors loS HUNDRED OF tors to make a new bell-foliar* in the church, like that at Eafl Hailing, that the proceflion might go un- der it while the bells ring. He gave alfo his mef- fuage and tenement in which he lived, lying in Fers- field aforefaid, with all his lands inclofed, and the privileges thereto belonging, together with one pightlc inclofed, and half an acre of meadow lying in the common meadow of Fersfield aforefaid, to Margaret, his wife, for life, and at her deceafo to the ufe of the inhabitants of the faid town, for ever; all which were to be vefted in feoffees for divers ufes, with con- dition, that if thofe ufes fhould fail, (as it hath hap- pened fince) then the clear profits arifing from the faid premises fhould be laid out in repairing and beautifying the parifh church for ever; and all the reft of his lands he ordered his executors to fell, with thefe refliidions, that the purchafer fhould not be a gentleman, nor have any other lands or tenements in the world, and that he or they fhould Jive in the houfes, and occupy the lands themfelves, to the ad- vantage of the parifh. The farm is now in feoffees hands to the ufe of tue church, about which the profits are expended, either in repairing, beautifying, or purchafmg proper orna- ments to it: it is now lettat i81. perann. and pays a yearly quit-rent to the manor of Fersfield of los. gd. a year. July 2, 1589, Matthew Walter, of Bliford, in Suf- folk, gave.to the poor people of Fersfield 2os. and to the poor people of Briffingham sos. This lega- cy is yearly paid to the reclor and churchwardens, and is diftributed among the poor at tHeir difcretion. In * This was taken dcwu in 1722, when the gallery was buiit. D I S S. 109 In 1687 the eRate belonged to Robert Brodwell, of Wefthall, in Suffolk, and now, 1735, to Mr. William Crowefoot. of Becclcs, who pays the mo- ney without any deduction for taxes, thete lands be- ing exempted on account of the charity. I" 1 59*> John Dalton furrendered half a rood rtf land in Billing's-meadow to the ufe of the inhabitants of Fersfield, for ever. This was fold by general confent in the year 1600. There is alfo half an acre of land, called the Town Patch, which is freehold, lett at los. 6d. per annum, now vefted in feoffees to the ufe of the church, but by whom it was given we do not find. There is another fmall piece of ground, which was taken off the common U> build a town-houfe upon, and alfo a fmall piece, called BeckVyard, on which a town-houfe formerly flood. Fersfield Reflory being under the value of (en marks, pays no firft-fruits, though it does yearly tenths, it being undifcharged. Jt hath a reclory- lioufe, and fifty-one acres of glebe, and all tithes are due in their proper kind. It was taxed at eight marks in the old value. In 1603 the reclor returned that there were feventy. five communicants in the parifh, and that fir Thomas Cornwallis and Anthony Wingfield were patrons by- turns. It is valued in the king's books at 61. 6s. 8d. The prior of the priory of the monks of St. Mary atThetford (now called the abbey) had two tithe (heaves out of every three of all the wheat growing on certain lands in this parifh, which portion of tithes was.give.n them by Wnu de Bofco, or Bois, in the 1 1 tix H 3 century, no HUNDRED OF century, foon after their foundation, and was con- firmed among other donations by William Bigot, th* principal lord of the fee, of whom it was held by the Bois' : the reclor afterwards came to a perpetual competition with the prior for this portion of lithes, for which he and his fucceffors were to pay for e*-er an annual petition of 6s. 8d. which is now paid to his grace the duke of Norfolk, to whofe predecellors the laid priory, with all that belonged to it, was given at its diffolution: and this was the only religious houfe that was ever concerned in this parifh, except the priory of St. James at Old Buckenham, the prior of which held lands here, that were purch'afed of fir John Verdon, along with the Priory Manor of Brif- lingham, all which pafled as that did. The Rev. Francis Blomefield, author of " An ESSAY towards an Hiftory of Norfolk," was inllituted to Fersfield at the prefentarion of Henry Blomefield, gent, patron of this turn, September 13, 1729. In 1752 the Rev. Samuel Carter was prefented to the reclory of Fersfield, alias Farsfield, by Thomas Lambert, clerk. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew the ApoRIe, \vhofe effigy was painted on the wall over the north door, though now whitened over: who was the firft, founder of a church here we know not, but the pre- fent nave, in all probability, was built by fir Robert de Bofco, km. about the latter end of the ijzth cen- tury, whofe third fon, William de Bofco, prieft, built the chancel, and referred an arch in the north wall for his own burial, his father, fir Robert, being bu- ried clofe by him. After this, about 1308, fir Robert de Bofco, eidcft fon of fir Robert, began to build an additional kmth aile, with a chapel at its eaft end, in D I S S. in in which he referved an arch under the fouth win- dow for his own grave; but dying in 1311, the work flood feme time unfinifhed. Sir John Howard, jun. knt. finished the work, and adorned the fepulchre of the faid fir Robert, his father-in-law, and the win- dows of the aile, with the arms of his own and wife's family, and both were buried in the chapel dedicated to St. Anne, at the eafl end of this aile; it was he alfo that built the fteeple, as the arms carved in (lone plainly prove. The fouth porch and belfry were built in 1494, with money given by Jeftry El- lingham, of Fcrsfield, for that ufe. It is a fmall. building, but in good repair, the nave, chance], and fouth porch being tiled, and the fouth aile leaded ; the fteeple is fquare, and hath but two bells, though it had three till the fecond was fplit by a tempeft about 126 years fmce, together with the fleepie, which is now fupported by iron cramps ; part of its metal was fold in 1 708 towards repairing the church, which was then new paved, together widuhe chancel, at the charge of Mr. John Barker, then rector, by whom the chancel was new roofed. At the ftep of the altar He two black marbles; one infcribed to JPhilippa Felgaie, wife of Mr. William Fcigate, of London, Jkinner, who died January 18, 1645, atat. fue 62. The other to Annt Frere, wife of Mr. Thomas Frere, citizen andjkinner, of London, who died January 25, 1643, aged 29. On a fmall black marble in the altar-rails, lies buried Henry Blomefield, gent, who died November 3, 1670 Ann, hisjirjl wife, lies at his right hand, and Diana, his fecond, at his left. Under an arch in the north wall, about two or three feet from the eaft end, lies the effigy of a prieft H 4 ia XI4 II U N D ft E D O V . ^ in his habit, carved in flone, having hnd four prteftg kneeling in their furpiices by him, iwo on each fide. This lying level with the floor had contracted moif- turc, and began to decay very much, and therefore iir order to hinder its decaying further, Mr. Blonicfield can fed it to be taken out of its place, and the whiten- ing, vviih which it had been waflicd over, to be fcrapcd off cautioufly, upon which were difcovered the colours with which it was fir ft adorned, and found that the large ilone, on which he lies, was green, re- prefenting the earth ; his head lies on a pillow, and that on a cushion, both which were red, the cufhioif being flowered with filver, and the pillow with gold ; his feet lie on a buck couchant ermine, which is the crcft of ihe Bois' ; his gown was black, his caifor red, gilt all over, in imitation of embroidery, and powdered all over with ermine ; round his wane is a girdle which was green, buckled with a black buckle; upon his breaf}, from the neck to the girdle, was the compleat arms of the Bois', which may ftill be feen in two of the chancel windows; the circumfcription was in French, the letters being only painted on the ftone which he lies on, and is all loft but thefe words; :KI:- : AVERA: . However, we are not at a lofs to know who he was, for from the arms and crcft it is plain he was a Bois, from the habit that he was a prieft, and from the arch that he lies in, (which muft have been made when the chan- cel was built, as any one upon fight of it muft own) that he was builder of the chancel ; fo that it can be no other but William du Bois, prieft, reclor here, who when he built the chancel, referved this place for his own interment. At the removal of the effigy it was. found to be joined in the miclft, and hollow, being full of burnt coals, which were put there to fuck up the moifture, and keep the ftone dry, that its colours might not be injured; Mr, Blomefield had it railed above D I S S. 113 above a foot high from the ground, and painted in its original colours, caufmg this infcription to be put on a plate, and fixed to the wall: William du Bois, priefl, founder of this chancel, patron, and reclor of this church, and of Garboldifliam All Saiiils, vicar of Great Conerth, in Suffolk, third fan of Sir Robert du Bois, knt. and brother to that Sir Robert who lies buried in the fouth aile ; he died about 1352. Upon the ground, clofe to the arch, lies a large railed coffin-ftone, with a crofs on three Grieces, the monument perhaps of his father. There are two (tones in the chancel difrobed of their infcriptions, but never had any arms, or ef- figies. On the fouth fide of St. Anne^s chapel, in the fouth aile, under the window, in an arch in the wall, lies the effigy of a knight, armed cap-a-pee t cut out of one piece of oak, which being in a dirty condition, Mr. Blomeficld, the worthy re&or, in 1729 had it taken out and wafhed very clean, and upon removing it, he found it hollowed and filled as trie former, with burnt coals ; the plank on which it lies was painted green, with flowers, grafs, and leaves; the effigy is ex- ad fix feet, and proportionable in all parts, a fword hangs on a belt by his fide, under the head was a board, having on it when he firft took it up the arms of Bois and Latimer very perfect, and in Latimer's coat was a label of three arg. which plainly proves who he was that was buried here. The colours of the arms fcaled off in two or three days after they were expofed to the air, for which reafon he had them painted on the pillow under his head, his hel- met and gantlets were powdered with ermine, and every other folding of his military caffoo, which H4 HUNDRED OF hangs down lower than his armor, was the feme, it being the field of his own coat ; the other fold- ings were guK the field of his wife's ; his feet reft on a buck couchant, arg. fpotted with ermine, being his crcfL His armor was mail, gilt all over with gold, and on his breaft-plate was his perfect coat, erm. a crofs fab. his head lies on a pillow painted \vith red, and flowered with filver, and that lies on a cufhiou painted as of green velvet, flowered with gold, with which his fpurs are covered ; feveral embellifhments were gilded on a cement, and Jet into the wood in fe- veral places, on his belt, fword, and fpurs, and on the edge of the plank that he lies on, and then co- vered with glafs, but moft were defaced ; thofe that remained were, a man's head coop'd at the neck, with leaves in his mouth, a fpread eagle, a dog meeting a hnre, a dog fighting a lion, a bull toffing a dog, and a lion couchant, with an eagle (landing on him, pick- ing out his eyes, all which ieem to intimate, that the dcceafcd delighted chiefly in war, and rural exercifes; but on a very large one that came off" the edge at his feet was a reprefentation of a, building with arches, under which were two hands joined, holding up a book, to fignify his founding this aile ; the infcription was on the edge, After removing the feats that Hood before it, Mr. Blomefield caufed it to be painted in .the. fame colours, as near as could be, and added this jnfciiption ; Sir Robert du Bois, knt. Jon of Sir Ro- bert, and grand/on of Sir Robert du Bois, knts. founder yf this aile, lord of this manor , and patron of this church, tiled in 1311, aged 43 years. He married Chrijtian, daughter of Sir IVilliam Latimer, and widow of Sir John Carbond, of Waldingjield, in Suffolk, by whom he had .Sir Robertt his only Jon, who died unmarried in 1333, and Alice, an only daughter, who married Sir John, Jon of Sir John Howard, knt. and carried the whole ejtate of the Jfoi* to that noble family. The D I S S. 115 The windows of the aile, and in particular the eaft xvindow of the chapel, were formerly beautifully adorned with paintings on glafs, of the twelve ApoRles, the Bleffed Virgin, and St. Anne, her mo- ther, to whom the chapel was dedicated. She had a famous image Handing in it, and a large guild kept to her honor, to which moft that died in this, and the adjacent towns, generally gave fomething, and often left money to find wax candle, and lights, continually burning before it ; from this place proceflions were ufually made to a well, or fpring, aboutv fixty yards from the north gate of the church-yard, at the foot of the hill, which is ftill called Tann's well, being a cor- ruption of St. Anne's well. There was a feparate chaplain that ferved here from its foundation to 1411, and then it was united to the parifh church, the rcdor being obliged to find a chaplain, who from this time was removeable at his pleafure. The windows were glazed by fir John Howard, knt. whofe effigy remained in the eaft window when Mr. Weaver publi(hed his book, We find that every window is ftill filled with the following letters: the firft is a J. and an H. joined with Howard's arms in it, for John Howard. The fecond an M. with fix efcallops in it, to fignify Mar- garet Scales, his mother* In the windows are the following arms, all which now remain, except the two laft, which are gone, as alfo the arms ol Uftbrd and Beck quartered, Howard impaling Spencer, Howard impaling Plais, Clifton impaling Howard, Morley, Courtney with a label az. impaling Scales, Shardelowe, ermine a crofs gul. impaling Scales, and there ftill remain thefe impaled coats; Ufford and Scales, Howard and Scales, and J5ois and Latimer, though they are fomewhat broken. la u6 HUNDRED OF In the nave, at the entrance of the chancel, lies a black marble, infaibed to Mr. William Flowerdew, cf Fcrsfield, who died February 12. 1731, aged 43 and io two of his children, who died in ttieir infancy. On another ftone, in fhape of a coffin, John, fa- ther of Jcjfry Ellin gh am, died anno 1478. He willed to be buried here, and gave fix marks to repair the church. Before the pulpit lies a hrge ftone, having had a fcrate plate on it formerly, which being loft, the townfmen had an infcription cut upon the (lone; Ellingham, of Fersfield, died anno 1493, ^ c - Another black marble, infcribed to John Blame" Jeld, gent, fomt time of Corpus Chrijli Coll: in Cambr: afterwards an inhabitant of this place, where he lived^ find died December 22, 1700, aged 55 years; and aljo- Elizabeth, his wife, with two of their children. Between the north and fouth door in the nave, and in the foiuh aile, are ftones wiih inicriptions to fe- veral others of the Blomefields ; and to Mrs, Eliza- beth Batch, widow, who died December 2, 1 720., aged 81 years* Againft the fouth wall is a mural monument of white marble, having the creft, arms, and quarterings, of Biomefield, impaling Jolly, Mufker, Peak, and Batch, with a genealogical infcription and eulogium to the memory of Henry Biomefield, gent, of Fers- field, olijtjune, I, 1732, at. 52; and to Alice, his wife, who died March 27, i 729, aged 52. This ele- gant monument was put up, as the infcription (hews, by the late Rev, Mr. Biomefield, to the memory of bis parents. D I S S. 117 In the weft end of the aile is a fmall, but exceed- ing ftrong veiby, it having been the repofuoiy for the relics, plate, evidences, and ornaments of the church, at which no one conld heretofore come without paffing eleven locks; a plain demonllration that there hath been plate of good value, though now ihete is only one cup left. An altar-monument by the fouth chancel wall, in the church-yard, to John Barker, retfor, who died March 13, 1729, aged 72; and to Mrs* Elizabeth Bar- ker, widow, who died Oflcbcr 2, 1731, who by will Jellied a tenement and lands, lying in BriJ/mgham, upon the rec- tor and churchwardens, and their fuccejjors; the clear profits of which are to be applied in teaching as many poor children of that parijh above eight, and under ten years old, to read, write, f pin, and learn the church catechifm. as the profits will pay for : She alfo tied her houfe and land, called Ten Acres, to keep up this tomb, en failure of which, the churchwardens of Fersfield are impowered to Jeiu on the fame, and repay themfelves what monies they Jhall be out of in repairing and beautifying it, together 'with their charges. There are feveral head-ftones for the Howchins, who had a good eftate in the parifh ; the family ex- tinguifhed in Mr. Robert Howchin, who died April 10, 1717. In the time of the rebellion this church was purged .of fuperftition (as they called it) by the rebels, who defaced the carvings on the h^ads of the feats with iheirfwords, and hacked the effigies of the Bois' ; what few brafles there were, were all reaved, fevqral arms broken out of the windows, and the altar-rails pulled down. The evidences, king's arms, Sec. were takcu ii r HUNDRED OF taken away before by Mr. Piddock, the church- warden, who juftly returned them at the refloration. In 1658 Henry Clark, of Difs, George Francis, and Robert Skurle, of Fersffcld, informed againft Arthur Womack, rector of Fersfield, Mr. John Pid- dock, and Mr. Robert Howchin, of the fame, charg- ing them with endeavouring to prepare at their coft a horfe and man for the king of Scots (as king Charles was then commonly called) and with harbouring ma- lignants in all their houfes, and the faid Arthur was particularly charged with fpeaking thefe words: Here is a health unto his majejly, Pray God confound his foes, And the Devil take all round heads, For we are none of thofe. And alfo that he abufed the government thus : Hey-ho ! for a two-penny halter. When you are hang d you fhall havt good quarter $ Oh ! 'twould be a brave fight to fee All the round heads hang on a tree. Oh ! ye rogues, ye muft all come to it. And further, that he offered to raife 500!. for ther king of Scots, and often drank [the king's health, and profperity to the royal family. Upon thefe informations they were carried before Thomas Sheriffe, efq. of Difs, then juftice of the peace, who committed them to Ipfwich gaol, where they continued fome time; but by the affiftance of the faid Mr. Sheriffe, who by private letters informed them of all that was intended againft them, they were all difcharged, after they had got certificates, ac- cording D I S S. n 9 cording to his advice, of their good behaviour, from the towns of Difs, and Fersfield ; upon which he had eiders to examine the witnelTes apart, and then they confeffed, that they had malicioufly informed againit them, and forfworn themfelves, in hopes of getting advantage by fo doing; all which confeflions they figned before witneffes, and thus, after much trouble and expence, they were at laft f eed. This town contains about forty families, and 200 inhabitants; it paid il. 145. when the taxes were railed by tenths, and was valued at 750!. to the af- iociation rates, and now to the king's tax at 557!. In the time of Edward lit. the great plague reach- ed even this obfcure village; for in the court-roHs a year or two after, the deaths of many of the tenants were prefented, and it is laid that they died in the great peflilence; at this time the parifh was almoft all wood, there being no lefs than four large woods, befides feveral groves, among which Home-wood, or Great wood, is firft named, and faid to contain abovr 400 acres, Winley-wond, Wilcox,and Riche's woods, being of no fmall extent, all which are now cleared. FRENZE, FREXSE, or FRENGE, or, as it is wrote in Doomfda^ -book, Frifa, was always one manor, which. in the Conqueror s time was held by Hubert of Ro- bert Malet, lord of Eye; it was then worth 155. per annum, being five furlongs long, and four braad, and paid $d. Dane gelt. IL was always held of Eye ho- nor at one quarter of a knight's fee, and paid IDS, relief; we do not meet with any lords names before 1280, when John de Ludham was lord and patron, \vhofe family took their firname from a village fo called in Suffolk, in Wilford hundred, which they held many ages. la 120 HUNDRED OF In 1336 fir John Ludham, knt. purchafcd fevcrat large parcels of land of Ralph de Shimpling, being the firfl of this family that had Boyland's manor, to- gether with this advovvfon, held of Edmund de Uf- ford, lord of Eye. John Lowdham died April 28, 1428, and left only one daughter, married to Thomas Heveningham. efq. and after that to Ralph BleverhafTct, efq. both 'of whom foe outlived, not dying till June 20, 1501, being 97 years of age; (he was feifed of Boyland's, the other moiety of which was grained by JohnLowd- ham to John "Wodehoufe. John Bleverhaffet was her foil and heir, being 77 years old at his mother's death. This is a very an- cient family, taking their name from Bleverfeta, or Bleverhayfet, in Cumberland, where the eldeft branch continued a long time. 1111510 this John died, in the 87th year of his age, feifed of Frenze, and a moi- ety of Boyland's ; and fir Thomas, his fon and heir; died feifed of Frenze, and Boyland's, June 27, 1531, leaving George, his eldeft fon, who died in 1543, and Mary, his daughter and heirefs, brought the eltate to Thomas Culpepper, elq. her firft hufband; fhe fet- tled Frenze on Francis Bacon, efq. her fecond huf- band, and Edmund, his fon, for their lives, both which had it, Edmund Bacon, of Harleflon, being feifed of it in 1572, after whofe death it reverted to John Bleveihaffet, who had enjoyed Boyland's ever fince the death of the faid Mary. This John was brother to George, her father ; he fold the moiety of Boyland's to fir Thomas Cormvallis, knt. and his heirs ; but Frenze continued in this family ; for in 1595 Samuel Bleverhaflet held it: how or when it went from this family we do not find; but in 1666, November 24, Richard faton, efq, died feifed, and Diamond D I S S. 121 Diamond Nixon, his grandfon, fold it to fir Robert Kemp, bart. whofe Con, fir Robert, was lord and pa- tron in 1735. The church is a fmall building, of equal height, covered with tile, and not having a fteeple the bell hangs on the outride of the roof, at the weft end j there is no partition between the church and chancel, but there is a beam fixed acrofs the eaft chancel win- dow, on which the rood was conveniently placed; the church is about twenty-four yards long, and feven wide, the fouth porch is tiled, and it is dedicated to. St. Andrew the Apoftle; the meannefs of the fabric hath preierved the infcriptions from being reaved, for it looks like a barn at adiilance. In the chancel is buried Ralph Bleverhaflet, efq. whofe effigy, (landing on a lion, ftill remains on his flone, and this infcription ; Hie jacet venerabilis vir Radulphus Blcverhajfet, armtgcr, qui obijt xiv die menfis JVovembris, anno Dni. MCCCCLXXV, cujus anime propid- etur Deus> Amen. There are fhields flill remaining; BleverhafTet quartering Orton, ditto impaling Lowdhara^ and Lowdham fmgle. The intcription for his wife is now loft, but was, as we learu from Mr. Anftis's manufcripts,- (marked G. 6. fol 39.) as follows : Here lieth Mrs. Joan Blevcr- hajjlzt, the wife of Ralph Bleverhaffet, efq. the daughter - and heirejs of John Lowdham, who died the soih day of June, 1501. The fame manufcripts hath the following infcrip- tion, now gotie ; Here lieth the venerable gentleman I Jolw 122 HUNDREDOF John Blevcrhajfy, efq. who died the sjthvf March in the year of our Lord 1514. A ftone by the fouth door has the efiigy of a wo- tnan bidding her beads, v.-ith three (hields under the infcription ; Jane Bleverha\Jjet, wedour, late w\f onto John Bleverhaffit, ejqnier, whichc Jane departed oule of this prefent'lyf the vi day of October, the yere of our Lord God MVXXI. On a ftone at the eafl end, Here lieth Sir Thomas &leuerhqffqi, knight, which decejfyd the xvii day of June, (he ) ere of ' our Lorde MVXXXJ. and xxxiii yere of the reigne of our foveraygne lord kyng Henry the VIHlh, whois foule God pardon. -At each corner is a coat of HafleL quartering Orton, Lowdharn, Keldon, Heigh- am, Beacham, 8cc. his effigy flill remains in compieat armour, having a furcoat of his arms, with his quar- terings ; under his head lies his creft, viz. a fox paflant. ''V ?: A marble, three yards long, and a yard and half wide, with this on a brafs plate ; Here lyeth dame Margaret Bleverhatfet, wedowe, late wyf to Syr Thomas Bleverhayfet, of Frens, knyght, dowghter to John Bra- ham, of Wetheryngjet, efquyer, who dyed the xxiii of Julye, in the yere of our Lorde 1 56 1 . Adjoining is another fione, having had two coats, ivhich are reaved, as is the effigy of the man, that of the woman remains ; her head lies on a pillow, and her beads hang before her; the two remaining fhields have thefe arms; Duke quartering Banyard, Park and Ilketfhall impaling Haffet, quartering Lowdham, Sec. Heart under Iteth George Duke, ejquyre, who mar- ryed Anne, the dowghter of Syr Thomas Bleverhayjfet, , the whiche George dyed the, xxvi day of July, in the D I S S. 125 fa yert of our J^ordeGoda. MCCCCCLI. whos Jowle God pardon l Amen. >:; Tfs ,, Here are alfo ftones, with arms and infcriptions at length, -To John Blevtrkayfet, ejq. November 8, 1510, To Maria, wife of Sir George BleverhaJJet, barf. Sep- tember 1 ], 1587. at. 70. ToTkomafin, ID if e of William Platers, e r q. of Soiterlty, December 23, i 560. To Jo- hanna, wife of John Braham, November 18, 1519. On a hrafs plated ftone, near the north door, a man in his winding-iheet, and this ; Pray for the Jowle of your charite, Of Thomas Hobfon to the Trynyte. Three flat marbles are for Richard, Jon of Richard Jiixon, efq. who died Augnji 28, 1678, aged 22. - Reliquite Richardi Nixon, armig. qui obijt 24 Novemb: anno Dni. 1666, cetatis Jua 77. - William Cooper, gent, died March 30, 1693, aged In the windows are arms and funeral efcutcheons of the Haflets, &c. moft of which flill remain. At Mrs. Hill's, at Caftor, near Yarmouth, Mr. Blomefield faw an ancient canvafs furrounding two rooms', painted with the matches of the Bleverhaf- fets : John Bleverhaffet, who married a fifler of the faid Mrs. Hill, and died in 1704, was the la# no\v living of this branch of that family ; their names ar under each coat, but with hanging againft moift walls feveral are worn out ; thofe that are perfect we have added here, though they are fo difplaced thst .the time of the matches cannot be determined by their fucceflion. Bleverhaffet impaled with all the fol- lowing coats : Frogmorton, Braham, Tindall. Evre, 1 2 Pickerell, i24 HUNDRED 0* Pickerell, Clopton. I ovvthe, Creffi, Culpepper, Co- vert, Baynaugh, Brampton, Meawes, Lowdham, Kelvcdon, (or Keldon) Orton, Skelton, Cornwallis, Hare, Heydon, Wyngrield, Reade, Kempe, Gofcold. Spilman, Colby, Alcock, Rowfe, Drury, Hubbard, Heigh am, Warner quartering Whemall, Calthorpe, Lovell, and Ruthyn, This reclory of Frenze being fworn of the value of 30!. per ann. only, is difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation ; here is a reclory-houfe, and about three or four acres of glebe; it is a fmall village, having only fix houfes, and about fixty inhabitants. In Norwich Doomfday- book it is faid that the reclor then had a houfe. and twenty acres of land, not taxed. 1 he old tenth was il. 55. the afibciation valuation 204!. per ann. and the prefent valuation is 149!. It is valued in the king's books at 2!. 135. 4d. The cuflom of the manor is to the eldeft fon, and the fine is at the lord's will; the l.eet belongs to the hundred, the Icet-fee being $d. per ann. In 1767 Dame Elizabeth Kemp, and Eleazar Davy, efq. prefented the Rev. Charles Browne ; and in 1774 the Rev. Simon Adams had this reftory of Eleazar Davy, efq. GfSSINC, orGwissiNG. The church is dedi- cated to St. Mary the Virgin, and in 1209 was a rec- tory, a moiety of its patronage being then fettled on Butley piiory, by John, fon of Geffry; about 1217 Thomas de Mailings granted to the monaftery of St. Mary at Butley, in Suffolk, the perpetual advowfon of the other part, and the bifhop not only confirmed it, but^agreed to appropriate the whole to that houfe; S. Ifl 5 and in 1271, the 56th of Henry III. endowed the vicarage with all the offerings, the tythes of the mills, a vicarage-houfe and meadow, and an acre of jand adjoining, with twenty acres more of the church's free-land, and all other fmall tithes, except hay, which with all the corn tythes, and the reft of the glebe, together with the reclory manor, and all its appurtenances, were to belong to the prior, who was always to prefent to the vicarage. In 1569, Auguft 7, Richard Denney, of Bawfey, prefented as patron of this vicarage, for this turn only, by grant from Thomas, late prior of the dif- folved houfe of Butley, the grant being made before its diflblution. After this it was in the crown. ; , In 1668, Dec. 24, John Gibbs, A. M. was prefent- ed by Charles II. he continued reclortill 1690, being then ejected as a nonjuror^ he was an odd, but iiarmlefs man, both in life and converfation ; after his ejection he dwelt in the north porch chamber, and laid on the ftairs that led up to the rood loft, be- iween the church and chancel, having a window at his head, fb that he could lie in his narrow couch and fee the altar; he lived to be very old, and at his death was buried at Frenze. In i 730 the Rev. Thomas Kemp, A. M. was pre- fented to this church by his father, fir Robert Kemp, bart. who died in December, 1734, leaving this pa- tronage and manors to fir Robert Kemp, bart. his eldcft fon, then lord and patron, r In 1761 the Rev. Edward Howman was prefented by fir John Kemp, bart. p.j. l The i a6 H TJ N D R E D O f The impropriation, according to B-iuley rcgifler, xvas confirmed by fevcral arehbifhops of Canterbury, and was taxed at i61. 138. 4d. and paid 335. 40!. tenths. It appears alfo by the faid regiOer, that fir John Aumbler, as reclor of Gifting, acknowledged a peiifion of 265. d. to be yearly due to the prior of Butley out of the reel ory, which was now in effecl di (appropriated, and united to the vicarage, all but the manor, the impropriate glebe, and its tithes, which remained in the prior, and fell to the crown at the diflblmion, in which they continued till queen Elizabeth, by letters patent, dated the ifith day of April, 1563, granted to Edward Dyer, and Henry Creflinor, in fee-farm, the rents, lands, tenements, woods, and portion of tithes, in Gifting, lately be- longing to Butley -priory, at the yearly fee-farm rent of 4!. id. ob. to be held in foccage; and this Ed- ward on the I jth of February, i r , 74, ibid them to Robert Kemp, cfq. and that year the queen by other letters patent, dated December 22, granted to An- thony Kinwellmarfh, and his heirs, the reclory, or advowfon of the reclory, Sec. who on the gth of Fe bruary, in the fame year, fold it to Robert Kemp, efq. but notwiihftanding this the queen recovered her prefentation to the church, becaufe though the reclory was united, yet it had been all along prefented to by the name of a vicarage, and fo could not be included in the grant of the reclory ; and from this time it re- mained in the crown till Charles 11. gave it to the Kemps, who united the tythes of the impropriate glebe, and fo made it a compleat reclory, and as fuch it hath been prefented to ever fmce. Few inftances (if any) of fuch gcnerofity occur in the prefent age, (1781) notwithstanding the verv great impropriations obtained at the time of the dijjolution, when fo many abbeys and religious houfes were plundered, D I S 9. 127 plundered, and fo many families enriched, facrilegi- oujly enriched, by the lands belonging to the church, and by the ruin of priories, and convents, dedicated to the fervice of God, in the poflfcfllon o r which thcle unhallowed fpoilers ftill triumph to this day, and all the noble endowments of oqr anceftors for pious ufes, and public ads of charity, are wafted away in the loofe revels of extravagant riot, and the perpetual diffipations of private luxury. The infant yet unborn Will curfe the time the abbeys werepulfd down : I pray you where is hofpitality ? Where now may poor diftrefled people go. For to relieve their need, or reft their bones, When weary travel doth opprefs their limbs ? And where religious men (hould take them in, Shall now be kept back by a maflifF dog." In 1569 the Priory-clofe, in Gifling and Burfton, Containing thirty acres, and other lands of the value of 20!. per ann. were granted to Nicholas Yetefworth, and Bartholomew Brokefby. In 1364 John deCalthorpe held a meffuage and lands in this town by petit-ferjeanty, viz. by the payment of a well -feathered arrow, of id. value, every year, to the king, by the hands of the fheriff. It is called in the king's books Gwifing, alias Gif- fing, and is valued at 14!. i6s. sd. ob. Here was a chantry in honor of All Saints, in a chapel of that dedication in the church-yard, founded by fir Nicholas Hafting, km. "about 1280 ; for in that year the laid fir Nicholas, and fir Adam de Gifling, Lot, endowed it with a meffuage and divers lands, 1 4 which i58 HUNDRED OF \\hich were copyhold of fir Nicholas' manor, aH which were manuraifed by the laid Nicholas; it wa9 for one pried only, who was bound daily to fing for their fouls, and thofe of their anceftors ; it is now quite gone, and we know not in which part of the church-yard it flood. In i d copyholders. GISSIKG-HALL MANOR, in Gifting, was held ofRo- bert Malet, lord of Eye,- by William de Giffing, in the time of the Conqueror, as of the honor of Eye, and foon after the conqueft the manor of Giffing- hall, in Roydon, was joined, and constantly attended this manor till 1579. The other parcels alfo were afterwards added to this manor, and that is the reafon that it was partly held of Eye honor, and parti) of the abbot of Bury ; for in the time of Henry III. it was thus diftin- guiflied : Giffing. Pro parti honoris Eyi. Pro parti Abbatis Set. Ectmundi. ? In the pipe rolls of the 34th of Henry II. and in the ift of Richard I. it is found, that Walter de Gif- finges paid Henry II. one mark, that it might be re- corded in the great roll, that Bartholomew, his elder brother, and htii to his fa'hcr, releafed his inherit- ance to him in the king's court. This fliews the re- gard which thole times had lor the rolls of the pipe, there being mam inflances in thofe rolls of fuch en- tries, a collection of which bath been made andfcvcral of them printed by Mr. Maiidojt, in his Hiftoiy of D I S S. i 3 p In 1322 fir Thomas de Giffing owned this manor in Giffing and Roydon. In 1355 he had great pof- fc'fions in Cambridgefhire, being patron of Kingflon, &c. He was in the army with Edward the Black Prince in Aquitain, during which time Thomas Min- tinore. of Foxton, in Cambridgefhire, carried away his wile ; for which, at his return, he recovered 500!, damages. He attended the king into Gafcoigne, and died in 1382, leaving only one daughter and heirefs, Joan, who kept her firfl court in 1382, on her father's death. This Joan married fir John Heveningham, fenior, km. Sir John Heveningham, knt. his grand- fon, had Gifling-nall, in Giffing, together with ano- ther manor here, called Dagworch's, which he pur- chafed, it being held at half a fee of the lord Grey, of Ruthvn, as of Win farthing hall manor, which half fee fir John Dagworth formerly held. By failure of iffue male the manor of Giffing, cum Dagworth, and the manor of Gifling-hall, in Roydon, which was held of the queen as of Eye honor, at a quarter of a fee, defcended divifible between three fifters ; firfl, Mary, then married to John Smith ; fe- cond, Ann, to F^dward Evcrard ; and third, Jane, un- married, who i'eems to have afterwards married Ed- ward Sulyard, who bought in all the parts, and then fold them to fir Arthur Heveningham, of Heveningham, knt. who was the male heir of that family. He kept his firft court in 1579, anc * ^ oon a ^ er manumifed the manor in Giffing by felling every tenant their own part, fo that the united manors of GilTing-hall, and Dagworth's, were loft, all but the royalties and fair, which the faid Arthur fold to Richard Kemp, of Weftbrook, in Suffolk; but the manor of Gifling- hall, in Roydon, flill continued in him, though he manumifed a great part of that alfo. K DAGWORTH 13$ HUNDRED OF DAGVVORTH MANOR was in the Confeflbr's time yart of carl Algar's manor of Winfarthing, under whofc sfole protection the free-men then were; but upon the carles foifeiture it fell to the Conqueror, with Winfarthing, with which it was committed to Godric's cuflodv, and remained in the crown till Henry II. in i 189, gave it to fir William de Mun- chenfi, km. in which family it remained, with Win- farthing, and went as that did, till Hugh de Verc granted it to fir John de Dagworth, who was lord in 1315: Thomas, his fon, fucceeded him, and fir Ni- cholas, his fon, followed; all thefe were great men and famous warriors in their days. Eleanor, widow of T'vicholas, in the fame year that he died, viz. 1401, conveyed it to fir John Heveningham, km. who held it of Win farthing-hall manor by the fervice of a quarer of a fee, from which time ic always paffed with the manor of Gifling-hall, in Giffing, till 1570, when Henry Heveningham died feifed, and Ann, his wife, daughter of fir Edward Windham, en- joyed it for life, as part of her fettlement ; at her death it reverted again to the Heveninghams, of whom fir Edward Sulyard purchafed it, with Gifling-hall, in Giffing, and Gifling-hall, in Roydon ; he fold it to fir Arthur Heveningham, knt. who after he had manumifed great part of it, fold it with the manor of Gifling-hall, in Gifling, to Richard Kemp, of Weft- brook, in Suffolk, and fo in 1595 it was united to his other manors in this town. DALLING'S, alias DAWLING'S MANOR. Stephen Fitz-Walter, one of the lords of Difs hundred, in- feoffed Walter le Breton. This Walter married Al- beria, daughter of fir Thomas Haftings ; in this fa- mily it continued till Henry le Breton, of Stanton- \Vyvil, in Leicefleifhire, fold to Rkhard de Boy land, clerk, the inheritance in this manor. John, fon of iir D I S S. 139 fir Richard de Boyland, fold it to Simon de Dalling. This Simon purchafed of Robert le Breton, of Stan- ton-Wyvil, an annuity of lol. rent, which he was to leceivc out of this manor, and foon after he pur- chafed all his right in the manor, and to augment it, bought all the lands that John, fon of fir Richard de Boyland, had here, and to compleat the title, had a releafe from all parties. From the Dallings it came by marriage to the Shimplings, 8cc. Roger of Shimp- ling died feifed, leaving three daughters, of whom Katharine, married to William Ellingham, had this manor ; they left Roger their fon and heir, from whofe dependents (if not from him) it came to Thomas Gardiner, who joined it to his manor of Haftings, with which it went joined to the Kemps; and thus having joined all thefe manors in that family, we (hall now fpeak of their rife and defcent, obferving that this manor always continued in the eldefl branch, except when it was held in jointure. The name of Kemp is derived from the Saxon word to kemp, or combat, which in Norfolk is re- tained to this day, a foot-bail match being called camping, or kemping, and thus, in Saxon, a kcmpcn, fignifies a combatant, a champion, or man of arms*. This family hath been of long continuance in this county; Galfrid Kemp lived at Norwich in 1272, (i ft of Edward I.) from whom defcended Alan Kemp, of Wefton, in Suffolk, efq. who married Ifabel, daughter of fir Philip Haftings, and had iffue John, to whom fir Philip Haftings, his grandfather, in 1324, gave the manor of Gifting; this John married Alice, daughter to Robert Duke, of Brampton, in Suffolk, K 2 coheirefs * If we tniftake not, kemp, or kemping, is alfo a term in Norfolk for gleaning or gathering the r. mains of corn on ftub- tic fields inlurveft. 24P HUNDREDOF cohcirefs to Julian Buttevelyn, and had for hrs fhare of her inheritance the manors of Haflings and Bailing, in Gifliug, and left iflue; he is foraetimes called in evidences Johnde Flordon, efq. Robert Kemp, of GifTmg, efq. had four daughters, one of whom, Elizabeth, was lady of the bed- chamber to queen Catherine, in 1523, and one fon. Richard Kemp, efq. fucceeded to the manors of Flordon, Gifting, Bailing, Buttevelyn, and Bag- tvorth, together with Gifimg fair, in 1594; ^ e was a barriiler at law ; and Robert Kemp, gent, his fon and heir, held Haflings, alias Buttevelyn's, alias Kemp's manor, of the king, as of his manor of St. Edmund's Bury, by half a fee ; Bagwonh manor, of Edmund Buckenham, efq. as of his manor of Thelve- ton ; Balling, of John Shardelowe, gent, as of his manor of Shimpling-Elhngham, at the eighth part of a- fee; Flordon manor and advowfon, of Henry earl of Northampton, as of Forncet manor, at one fee; and Burnett's, of fir William Grey, knt. as of Hadeflon, or Bunwell manor. He left two daugh- ters, Borothy, and Elizabeth, and one fon, fir Robert Kemp, of Gifting, knt. and bart. created March 4, 1642; he married Jane, daughter of fir Matthew Browne, of Surrey, knt. and was fucceeded by fir Robert Kemp, bart. whofe eldeft fon, fir Robert Kemp, ef Ubbefton, in Suffolk, bart. had four wives; by his fecond wife he had fir Robert Kemp, bart. John, a merchant ; Ifaac, a barrifter at law ; Tho- mas, late relor of Giffing, and Flordon; and Ben- jamin, of Gains College, in Cambridge ; Elizabeth, unmarried; and Jane, reli& of William Blois, efq. fon of fir Charles Blois, bart, befides Edward, Letitia, and Ann, who died young. By his third wife he had William, D I S. 141 William, Tome time of Pembroke-hall, in Cambridge, and Martha, a daughter, unmarried, befides a former daughter, named Martha, that died an infant. By his fourth wife he had no iflue. Sir Robert Kemp, bart. of Ubbeflon, in Suffolk, was lord and patron of Giffing, Flordon, and Frenze, in the county of Norfolk, and Ubbefton, in the county of Suffolk. His brother, the late Rev. fur Thomas Kemp, bart. reclor of Giffing and Flordon, fuccecdcd him in the title, which is now extincl. We meet with two great men oT this name, John Kemp, born at Wye, in Kent. L. L. D. of Merton College, in Oxford, archdeacon of Durham, dean of the Arches, firft bifhop of Rochefter, then qf Chi- chefler, then of London, archbifhop of York, and afterwards of Canterbury, cardinal of St. Balbinc, afterwards of St. Rufine, which was fignified by this verfe ; Bis primas. ter prcejts, et bis cardmefunlus> H died a very old man, in 1453. The other was Thomas Kemp, his nephew, wrjo was confecrated bifhop of London in 1449, by his uncle, the archbifhop ; but whether they were any way related to this family we cannot fay. Trie hall was an ancient building, being the feat of the Haftings, and afterwards of the Kemps, till fir Robert, upon his removal to Ubbefton, pulled it down. The windows were adorned with the follow- ing coats: Kemp quartered with Bmtevelyn, or B,ut- tevelyn impaled with Loveday ; Kemp arid Butte- velyn quartered, impaling Bleverhaffct ; the fame, im- paling Jarnegan ; the fame, impaling Throkmorton, quartering Bainard, of SpeckfhalL In 142 HUNDREDOF In the parlor windows were, Kemp impaling Haft- ings. Buttevelyn, Duke, Gurlen, Appleyard, of ftra- conafh, St. Legcr, Calthorpe, Alleyn, Cockerham, Heiris, D" Grey, of Merton, quartered with Bainard, Smithin, or Smythwyne, Kemp and Buitevelyn quar- tered, impaling White, of Shouifham. In a manufcript of Mr. Anftis's, thefe arms are faid to be in GhTmg-hall, at that time the feat of Richard Kemp, efq. when the chapel was new glazed: In the chamber, by the hall door, were the arms of Giffing, Felton, and Framlingham, and the pictures of two laborers ihrefhing wheat- Cheaves, or garbs, in allufion to Kemp's arms, and Kemp quartering Duke. In 1603 here were 150 communicants, and in 1735 fifty-one houfes, and about 300 inhabitants; it hath a fair yearly on St. James's-day, (July 25, 17^1) which in 1378 was granted to fir Thomas de Giffing, km. together with a weekly market at Gifling, but that is now difufed; it paid to the old tenth 3!. los. but il. being deduced it was reduced to 2!. 8s. The parliament valuation was 1232!. and the piefent value is 761!. The lect belongs to the hundred, and the prcfcut leet-fee is ss. The village of Gifling is fituated on the road from Norwich by Bracon-Afh, fixtcen miles, to Difs four. The country hereabouts is a deep clay foil, and the roads very indifferent. OSMUNDESTON, alias SCOLE. joins to the cafl part of Difs, arid is bounded by the Waveney on the fbuth : we cannot find who this Ofmund was that gave name to this town, but imagine him to be a Saxon, and owner of it. Scole was a hamlet to Ofmundefton in the time of Edward III. ancL gave name D I S S. 145 name to a numerous family, one of which was relor- of'Frenze in 1397. The antient inftitution books have no fuch name, though it now (lands in the laft value by the name of Ofmondfton, alias Scole, which laft name prevailed about the time of Henry VIII when this hamlet was increafcd fo as to become the chief part of the town, and might firft receive its name from the fhoals, or (hallows of the river on which it is fituated. Here is a very good inn for the entertainment of travellers, (the White Hart) much noted in thefe parts, being called, by way of diftin&ion, Scole-inn. The houfe is a large brick building, adorned with imagery and carved work in feveral places, as big as the life. It was built in 1635, by John Peck, efq. a merchant in Norwich, whofe arms, impaling his wife's, arc over the porch door : the fign, which is now gone, was very large, beautified all over with a great number of images of large ftaturc, carved in wood, was the work-of one Fairchild, and coft 1037!. The arms about it are thofe of the chief towns and gentlemen in the county, viz. Norwich, Yarmouth, duke of Norfolk, earl of Yarmouth, Bacon of Gar- boldifham, Hobart, Cornwallis, impaling Bukion, Teye, Thurfton, Caftleton, and many others. Here was formerly a very large round bed, big enough to hold 15 or 20 couple, in imitation (we fuppofe) of the re- markable ' great bed at Ware.' The houfc was in all things accommodated at firft for large buunefs but the road not fuppor.ing it it fell into decay, though there is a good bowling green, and a pretty large gar- den, with laud iufficient for paffen^crs horfej>. The bufmefs, fays Mr. Blomefield. of the two inns here are much fupported by the animal cock-matches that are fought." K 4 SOU 144 HUNDRED OF Still further to elucidate this prodigy of human fol- ly, " the wonderful fign at Scbic-inn." we have pro- cured the annexed engraving of its north-eaft view, to which we add an explanation of the figures. l. Jonah coming out of the fifh's mouth. 2. A li- on fupponing the arms of Great Yarmouth. 3. A Bacchus. 4 The arms of Lindiey. . The arms of Hobart, now lord Hobart. 6. A fhepherd playing on his pipe. 7. An angel fupponing the arms of Mr. Peck's lady. 8. An angel fupporting the arms of Mr. Peck. 9. A white hart, with this motto, Implcntnr veferisbacchipingvifnutz ferirue, an. Dom. I 05 ^ . 10. The arms of the late earl of Yarmouth, l i. The arms of the cjuke of Norfolk. 12. Neptune on a Dolphin. 13. A lion fupporting the arms of Nor- wich. 14. Charon carrying a reputed witch to heil. 15. Cerberus. 16. An huntfrnan. 17. Acleon. 18. A white hart couchant. 19. Prudence. 20. For- titude. 21. Temperance. 22. Juflice. 23. Diana. 24. Time devouring an infant. 25 An aflronomer who is featcd on a circurnferenter, and by fome chymical preparation is fo affecled. that in fine weather he faces the north, and againft bad weather he faces that quarter from whence it is about to come. What could induce a merchant, above a century ago, to ere& fo coflly a piece of workmanfhip, we are at a lofs to conjecture, unlefs to indulge his con- fummate vanity, or fingularity of temper ; for we confefs, that we do not difcover the fmailefl trait of judgement or taile in the whole compoiition : had he confulted everv artift in the kingdom to leave a monument of his ftupidity. they could not have pro- duced a better eiFccl. Had he expended fo confider- able a fum at thai time, as 1057!. on a fubjed which would have perpetuated his memory, without an impeachment D I S S. 145 impeachment of his underftanding, pofterity might have looked on it with indifference; but they faw it witljt contempt, and let this " Sign of Infanity" moulder with its firfl proje&or. " Schoale Inn, fo called from its being twenty miles diftant from the city of Norwich, Ipfwich, Bury St. Edmund's, and Thetford, the roads to which places divide themfelves at the door." This account of diffances is taken from a print publifhed by Harwin Martin. May i, 1740. The real mrafurcd di fiances are now from Scole Inn to, Norwich 20 miles, Ipfwich 23, Bury St. Edmund's 22, and Thetford 20; Difs 2, Hading 12, Har- leflon 8, Bungay 15, Yarmouth 36, Eye 4, Sioneham, i 2, and Botefdale 7 miles. The ftage coaches be- iwcen Norwich (by Bury and Colchefter) a^id Lon- don pafs here daily. Poft-chaifcs and horfes are kept it the White Hart. Concerning the capital manor we find that Ralpti de Felgeres had it a long time, and at his death left it t> his poflcrity, from whom it came to fir Aymer de Icniles, and was held of him anno 1270 by Henry dc Sielton, by the rent of 25. 2d. per ann. This was a f parate manor then, and the demefnes fifteen acres. There was alfo another part in Ofmundefton which tis Henry de Shelton united in 1270 to the manor aorefaid, held of Roger Bigot. The Sheltoite alfo hd the advowfon. From this family it came to the Adhams, and in 1553 John Aldham, of Shimpling, vus lord and patron, who left it to William Aldham, ad in 1561 he conveyed it to fir Thomas Corn- vwllis, knt. in whofe time the ilile of the court ran tiu i OJmundejlon, nuper Aldhams, quondam Sheltom. In 146 HUNDREDOF In this noble family the manor hath ever fince com?- nued, the prefent earl Cornwallis being now both lord and patron. BEZILE'S, or BOYLAND'S MANOR, was that part of Ofmundefton that was in the crown in the time of king John, and was then \vorf_h 81. 135. 4d. per ann. it being an cfcheat of the Norman lands. This king gave it to Ralph earl of Chefter, for life, at whofe death it came to Henry III who granted it to In- gerard de Tane, for life; he dying foon after, the fame king gave it to fir William de Syvag, (or Sina- gon) for life, and at his death to Ailmaric de Berriles, or Beziles, in 1272, to be held of him by knight's fervice, incapite; the manor then wns thus valued, j viz. the rent of aflize of the freeholders at 61. i 25. ^d. per ann. and of the copyholders in foccage at 325. 6d. iq. Sir Avlmer, or Ailmaric, died in 1279, and the ef-i cheator feized on his lands for want of an heir. Thej king after the feizurc did not hold it long; for in I 284 Edward I. granted in fee to fir Richard de Boyland, and his heirs, all that fir Aylmcr de Berrile held oj him here, and in Sturfton at half a knight's fee, frorr whom it took the name of Boyland's manor. Tl Richard was a great lawyer, and one of the juftice of the King's-bench ; he left it to fir John Boylan his fon, from whom (but whe'her by purchafe, < not, we cannot tell) it came t John de Lowdham who in 1345 paid los. for his relief; from whic time it continually weni as Fienze manor, till Joh Lowdham fold one moiety of it to John Wodehoufe the other moiety went with his daughter to the H! verhaffets, and in 1561 John Bleverhaffet granted to fir Thomas Cornwallis. kin. wh fc heirs purchafe the other half, after many conveyances o! it fro Wodehuu D I S S. 147 Wodehoufe to Gryme, and from Gryme to Rant, and others, and in this family it hath continued ever fmce, it being now annexed to the capital manor. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew the Apoftle, having a fquarc tower, and but one bell, though for- meily there were five ; the church, chancel, and fouth aile, are leaded, and the fouth porch is tiled. On a black marble lying in the chancel, Fremoulc impaling Bedingfield, for Elizabeth, wife cf Joelis Fremoult, who died July 4, i 720, aged 53. In a fouth aile window were the arras of Lowd- ham, Braham, Shelton, and Ufford, with a bend arg. all which are now loft, except Lowdham. This reclory is valued in the king's books at g). but is now difcharged, being fworn of the clear yearly value of 46!. fo that it is capable of augmentation, and is freed from firfl-fruits and tenths. Here is an annual fair held on Eafter Tuefday, April 17, 1781. In 1603 here were 81 communicants, and in 1735 about forty dwelling-houfes, and 230 inhabitants ; it paid il. 175. tenths, and was allowed ys. deductions out of it ; it was rated in the parliament affociation at 500!. and now to the king's tax at 435!. In 17 56, the Rev. Thomas Roger du Quefne, of Ball Tuddenham, was prefented to the reclory of Of- mondefton, alias Scole, by the late right honorable Charles Cornwallis, earl Cornwallis, who dying June 23, 1762, was fucceeded by the prefent earl Corn- wallis, 145 H U N D R E D O F wallis, now ferving in America, and lord and patron here. ROYDON, wrote in Doomfday-book Rcgedona. This church is dedicated to the honor of St. Remi- gius, who flourifhed about the fifth century; the de- dication day was kept on the i ft of October, being the day of his tranflation. The rectory is valued in the king's books at 9!. but though the glebe lies valued at 51!. 35. in the Terrier, yet the real mea- fure, including the fcite of the relory-houfe, does not much exceed forty acres. In 1 603 there were 1 24 communicants, and in 1735 about fixty families, and 240 fouls; it is now affefled to the king's tax at 630!. los. When the taxes were raifed by tenths this paid al. los. and to the monthly levies during the affociation, fometimes at the rate of 752!. and fometimes 780!. The patronage was long in the Morleys, after whom it feems to be often changed. In 1704 Robert Burroughs, of Difs, gent, pre- fented. In 1 746 the Rev. Francis Blomefield, " Au- thor of an Effay towards an Hiftory of Norfolk," pre- f^nted Edward Chappelow; and in 1777 the Rev. Leonard Chappelow had the rcdory on his own pre- iemation, p.j. The inclofure that joins to the fouth part of the church-yard is called Chapel-clofe, in the midft of which formerly flood a chapel, dedicated to the honor of the Bleffed Virgin, in which was a chantry of three or four priefls, daily finging for the foul of fir Robert de Morley, their founder. The foundation deed was produced in the caufe between John lord Lovel, D I S S. 149 Lovcl, and Thomas lord Morley, about the arms of a lion rampant, which being on this feal, proved that lord Morley's anceftors had anciently ufed thofe arms. This chapel was well endowed, many free larYds in Roydon were held by paying an annual rent to it; it was dilfolved in 1547, and foon after pulled down, and the fcite conveyed by the crown to lay hands ; it was owned in 1 735 by the Rev. Mr. John Dawney; it was founded about 1282, bat being a free chapel without inflitution, it is never mentioned in thofe regifters. The prior of Eye, in Suffolk, had the tythes of about 1000 acres of land here, given to that monaf- tery by Odo de Charune, who gave two parts of the tythes of his land in Roydon, in the Conqueror's lime, and by Richard Hoveel, of Reindun, who gave all the tithes of his lands here; and in the charter of king Stephen, granted to that houfe in 1137, they were confirmed to the monks among their oihcr re- venues : and in the regifter, called Danoun, which formerly belonged to this priory, in the hands of the late Mr. Martin, of Palgrave, we find, that the porr don of tythes belonging fo the monks of St. Peter at Eye, lying in lloydon, were lett to the reclor at two marks a year, and fo continued for forne, time, till af- terwards a perpetual compolition was made for the redors to pay 35. 4d. per arm. Thus it continued till the difTolution, and then the penfion went witli the priory to the crown, from whence it was granted off, and hath fince paffed through many hands; it was fume time payable to Catherine, queen of Charles 11. but lately belonged to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Pylc, of Lynn-Regis. Here 150 HUNDRED OF Here were feveral freeholds held of the honor df Eye. In 1355 fir Robert de Morlev, knt. confirmed to Edward III. the advowfon of this church, with the chapels annexed, under dims limitations; notwith- flanding which it hath all along paffed with the manor. The abbot of Sibton, in Suffolk, had temporals here taxed at 35. being part of their manor, called Friers, in Shelfangei , which extended hither. This church is very ancient, having its nave only Handing, the fouth aile having been a long time in ruins; it is covered wiih lead, though ihe chancel and fouth porch are tiled ; the flceple (which is iu a very ruinous condition) is round at bottom, and oc- tangular at top, and had formerly four bells, but be- ing unable to bear them, the pari(h:>;ncrs obtained a faculty in 1680, and fold three of them. The chancel feems to have been built by one of the Fitz-Walters, about the time of Henry J. buried here under an arch in the north wall, out or which the Hone coffin, now {landing in the church-yard, was taken fome years ago, and the pavement, fomc of which ftill remains, was adorned with the arms of the Fitz- Walters. In a north window are the arms of Ratcliff, earl of Suffex, and of Morley, and Knevet. In the chancel are feveral flones with infcnptions, feme of which are printed in le Neve's Monuments, and forne are not j Mr. Blomefield gives tranfcriptS oi them all. A black D I S S. 151 A black marble in the rnidft of the chancel, for "Robert Homer, gent, of BriJfmgham,Jon of the Rev. R&- *bcrt Homer, rettor here, who died December 4, 1 708, aged 62. Here are alfo feveral other monuments in memory of this family. Another black marble, for Henry Danes, gent. olijt tertio die Apr His, anno Dni. 1691, alal. 61. Margaret, the wife of John Dawnty, clerk, died line $d of September, 1691, aged 6 1 . Hannah, wife of Thomas Deynts, gent, and owe of the daughters of Clement Rolf, gent, deceafed. u-as htrt o- ried October 15,' -1663. The aforcfaid Thomas Deyna died November ay*tmno Dni* 1075. On the fouth fide of the chancel, in the church- yard, is an ahar-tomb, covered with a black marble. having die arms of Burroughs impaling Camell; the -inscription (compofed by Dr. Cam.!;) is as follows: ^LcElor, juxta hum tumulum exuvias innenies, Robert* Burrough, Roberti et Maria Burrough, de Dijs in com: Norf. gent.filij natu maximi, parentum fjwn, amcorum dejiderium, prtfdujit mors lieu ! - r -irnis iinmatura, ijl collegio Sta. Trinitalh apud Cantab: 14 die Decemb: anno Dni. 1723, atat. 19. Filio diltMiJfimo pLadde ob- dormiu; i parentes ambo, charijfinus conjugis conjux HU amantijfimus, unionem c&njunBiJJimam mors ipfa v?'.v, et Tie vtK quidem feparabat praivit enim tile 28 die Jan: anno Dni. 1727, atat. 52. Canjcquitur ilia 6 die Mar: tflat. 46. Monumentum hoc fepulchrale pietatis ct giatitudims ; ergo Gulidflius^liuz eorum natu minimus. mar ens pofuit. Thh village joins to Difs on the eaft, to ham weft, Shelfarger north, and the county river 'ibuih : HUNDRED OF -fouth ; it hath now two manors only, though for- merly it had three, which were in one in the Con- queror's time, and was then two miles and a half long, and two broad, and paid gd. Dane gelt ; it was held by Lefriz, fon of Bofe*. a thane, or guard, of the Corifcffor's, and was afterwards given by the Con- queror to Ralph de Belio-fago, or Beaufo, of whom it was held by Hugh at the time of the furvey. It afterwards came to Hubert de Rhie, who died in 11 ri, without male iffue, leaving his barony of Rhie divifible bciween his daughters, Ifabella, and Aliva, the firft of whom was- married to Gcffry de Chefler, and at his death to Roger, fon of Hugh de Crefli, who paid a fine of twenty marks and twelve palfreys to king John, for marrying her without li- cence; upon which, the king revoked the feizurethat he had made of all his lands in Norfolk, and elfe* where ; it appears that he had for his part feventeen knights fees and an half, though the other part of the barony feems to have been the head, ieveral of thefe fees being held of it. In the i ft of king John, Robert Fitz-Roger, a great baron in Northumberland, gave 300 marks for Aliva, the \ounger daughter of Hubert de Rhie, to marry to his nephew; and in the 13th of the fame king, John Marfhal, his nephew, anfwered for feventeen fees and an half of that barony. In the gth of king John he had obtained a grant in fee of the office of marihai of Ireland, and had livery of it in the i yth of that king; he died in 1234. Aliva, his wife, fur- viving him, who by the death of Ifabel de Crefli, her fitter, was heirefs to the whole barony of Rhie ; and agreeable to this, in the record called Tefta de Neville, it is found thai Roger de Creffi held one fee Regius). This is fometimes rendered a thane, or no- bleman, fomctimes a freeman, fometimes a guard of the king's. D I S S. 153 in this town of Walter Fuz-Robert, and that Matthew de Morley held another fee of the barony of Rhie, of which it was ever after held; it was this, Robcit that in 1253 nac * a g ra "t of free-warren to this manor. At the death of Matthew aforefaid it dc- fcendcd to fir William de Morley, knt. who died be-. fore IV4- and Robert, his fon and heir, married Hawife, liller and heirefs of John Marfhal, whereby the barony of Rhie, the marfhalfhip of Ireland, and all the inheritance of the Marfhals, came into the Morley family. Thomas de Morley, marfhal of Ireland in 1416, died feifedj and left it to Elizabeth, his widow, for life; afterwards to Margaret, his daughter and heir- efs ; (he married Thomas Ratcliff", w-ho in 1487 died feifed. leaving it to Jeftry RatclifF, of Framefden, in Suffolk, efq. his fon, who dying in i ^114, without heirs male, the manor came to his three daughters and coheireffes; Elizabeth, married to Chriflopher, Spehnan ; Eleanor, the fe,cond, to Thomas Lovcl, junior, of Enfield; and Joan,, the thirdj to John Stur- geons, of Cranwich. In 1546 Thomas Sherman, of Yaxley, gent, and- William Kettleburgh, gent, held the three parts by' purchafe, and thus it continued till 1586, at whicli. time the courts then kept had two homages, one for this manor of Roydon-hall, and the other for Tuft's manor, which was joined to it; they extended into Roydon, Difs, Btiffingham, and Shelfanger ; it went ifi thefe families till about 1600, and then the whole was purchaftd by Edward Havers, and Wil- liam, Wavers, efq. fold it to Mr. Robert Bui rough, of l)i!s, whofe youngcft fon, William, in 1.733, lold it to Mr. Philip Dykes, of London, ^i The i 5 4 HUNDREDOF The leet belongs to the hundred, the leer-fee being abou 2s 5d. The advowfon was always appendant t"> the manor til! Mr. William BuiTOttgh, of Difs, le- vered it, by felling it to Mr Edward Chappelow, ot Difs, clerk, whofe fon is the prefent patron and The cuftom of this manor is, to the eldefl fon it gives dower, and the fine is at the lord's will. The fcite of the manor oFRoydon-hall. and the demefhes adjoining, are freehold, and were fold off about 200 years fince, being late the eitate of Mr. John Dawney, clerk. GISSING-HALL MANOR, which was fo called from a family of that name, the ancient lords thereof, and was originally in two parts, one of which belonged to the honor of Eye, and the other to the abbey of Bury; that belonging to Eye was held by Edric, the anceftor of Robert Malet, lord of that honor in the days of king Edward, and by one Walter in the Conqueror's time; the other was given to Bury abbey in 962, byThurketcl, the Dane. Afterwards it came to the abbey, they held it till the Conqueror's time, when it was held of them by Fulcher, being of the yearly value of 205. it was foon afterwards joined to the other part, but was always held of the abbey, as that was of the honor, arid William de Gifting in 1 1 74 owned them both ; from which time to 1579 it pafled with the manor of GifTing-hall, in Gifling. In 1579 f ]r Arthur Heveningham, of Heveningham, km. was lord. In 1590 Anthony Reve had it, who this year fold it to William Kculeburgh, gent, and in l6oo John Kemp, of Flordon, kept his firfl court. In 1612 John Kettleburgh, gent, held his firfl court; be fold it to John Pykarell, gent, in 1618; and in i 735 John Pykarell, gent, was lord. The D I S S. 155 The fcire of this manor alfo, with the demefnes, are freehold, and were fold fiom the manor about 1200 years fince ; and in 1735 were jn the poGTefllon. of Mr. Richaid Waynforth. The cuftom of this manor is. Borough EngliQj, that is, the copyhold falls by defccnt to the youngeft fun. the fine is arbitrary, but in all things elfie the te- nants do as they plcafc. TUFT'S MANOR was ere&ed after the time of the Conqueror, it being then, as it is now, included in the manor of Roydon-hail. In 1272 it belonged to Sampfon de Roydon, or ReiJon. It came about the time of Henry III. to Wydo de Verdun, lord of Barfingham ; in this family it con- tinued fome time. It was owned by William Roos towards the latter end of the 131!! century, and foon after it fell into the great manor again. It was held of the barony of Rhie, which fhews that it was a part of the great manor, at firft granted to fome younger branch of the Morley family. The fcite was granted from the manor along with Roydon-hall, and is now quite deftroyed; the old motes ftill go by the name of Tuft's-hall-yard. BRISSINGHAM MANOR extends into this town, ami hath fo done ever fince the conqueft ; for we read that there were then four foe-men that had five acres of ground valued in that parifh. FILBY'S MANOR, in BrifTingham, and Roydon, was joined to Boy land manor, in Briflingham, L 2 The 156 H U N D R E D O F The gifts to this panfh are fraal! viz. Two acre* of copvhold land, held at Giffmg-hall, given long before 1577, as appear horn the court books. About 1609 William Kettleburgh, gent, gave 2os. per annum to the poor to be divided by the church- wardens where moft need (hall be ; and there is a fmall houfe, now the fign of the Hart, with a garden thereto adjoining, tied for the payment of it, the overplus of which is the eftate of Mr. John Dawney. Mr. Robert Homer, who died in 1708, gave the freehold clofe, called Fuller's, joining to the eafl fide of the rectory-garden, for even to the rector, on condi- tion that he preaches an annual fermon on Good Friday, and diftributes 405. per ann. to doath four poor widows of Roydon. The commons are very fmalt, being called the Dort, Way n forth 1 s- green, the Parfonage-green, and the Little-green, in all which they common alone, and intercommon on Roydon-green, which joins to Briflingham-pound. The church of Roydon Hands on the fouth fide of the road, one mile weft of Difs; two furlongs more weft, on the north fide of the road, is Roydon-houfe, the feat of John Frere, efq. moft delightfully fituated on an eminence which rifes from the river, and com- mands an extenfive and picturefque view into Suffolk. This gentleman is Fellow of the Royal and Antiqua- rian Societies. SHELFANGER. This village hath gone by thefe following names ; Scelvangra, Schelfangyll* Shelfangles, Shelfhangre, and now Shelfanger. The church flands againft the road leading from Difs to Winfarthing, and hath a fquare tower, and D I S S. 157 four bells ; the nave is thatched, and the chancel and north porch are tiled; it is dedicated to All Saints, as was the guild that belonged to it. It is a reclory, and had anciently two reclors, each having inftitii- tion to a mediety ; the patronage of one belonged to Bofvile's, afterwards called Hoe's manor, and the other to Vifedelieu's. In 1375, March 21, fir John de Verdoun, knt. and Adam Bofvile, then patrons, confidering the fmall re- venues of each mediety, confolidated them for ever, at the death of Gilbert Colman, in John Baffet, then reclor of Bofvile's mediety, the prefentation hencefor- ward to be alternate. In 1766 the Rev. Randall Burroughes was pre- fented to the two medieties by Jeremiah Burroughes, efq. p. h. v. and in 1777 the Rev. George Betts was licenfed curate. On the font are the arms of Bofvile carved in flone, with A. on one fide, and B. on the other, being the initial letters of the name of Adam Bofvile, who was patron in 1362, about which time this was fet up; and in a fouth chancel window we find the fame arms quartered by Noon. Before the altar-rails lie three large ftones, robbed of their arms and infcriptions ; under the firft lies Henry, fon of fir Henry Noon, who died in 1487; and under the next lies Eleanor, his wife. The arms of Vifedelieu were on a flone in the chancel, but are now gone. Under a fmall free-ftone is buried, Robert, fon of Robert Co/bourne, of l/leham, in Cambridge/hire, efq. L and I5 8 H U N D R E D O F and Abigail, his wife, who died March 27, 1722, aged 5 years. Here is a town-houfe for two dwellers, a freehold clofc of three acres, leu at about 505. a year, half the piofus of which are given to the poor, and the other half to be applied to what ufes the church- wardens pleafe. The reclor hath alfo a clo(e of three acres, given to find bell-ropes, called Bell-rope-clofe. The commons are inconfiderable, except their inter- commonage wiih Briffingham. on Boy land -green.' and a large tracl of meadows, which are called Lammas- meadows. Thisparifhin 1603 had 142 communicants, and in 1 735 40 dwelling houfes. and contained abcut 200 inhabitants. It paid to the old tenths 275. was taxed to the affociation rates at 980!. and now at 763!. IDS. It is valued in the king's books at 17!. Here was a chapel, dedicated to St. Andrew the Apoftle, but when, or by whom founded, we -cannot certainly learn, but moft probable by fome of the Veres, lords of Winfarthing; it ftood on the great road leading from Shelfanger to Winfarthing, and by its not being mentioned in the iriftitution books, ap- pears to have been a free chapel ; it was Handing in 1518. for then Matt. Halyett, of Winfarthing, gave a bell to the chapel of St. Andrew, in Shelfanger. It was fupported by lands given by the founder, all which ai the diflblution came to the crown, and fp re- mained till the 12th ot Elizabeth, and then fhe gave them to Nicholas Mynne, efq. and John Hall, gent, and in 1587 they were held by the Cieres, of the manoi of Eafl Greenwich, by fealty only; they are faid to lie in Deep-meadow, and in other places in Sbelfanger and Winfai thing. The D I S S. 159 The priory of Eye had a portion of tithes given them by Hugh de Avilicrs, out of his Hemefne lands here, which was confirmed to the redor by (hat houfe, fora penfion of 55. g4 a year, which' at the diffolution went to the crown, and was grained for twenty-ome years by queen Elizabeth to George Petre. The monks of Theiford had alfo a portion of tithes here, which ihey granted to the reclor for i8d. a year penfion. The inhabitants of North Lopham held a meffu- nge, called Elwin s, and other lands, formerly de- mefncs of Shelfanger, Vifedelieu manor; ail which in 1412 were manurnifed by fir Edmund Noon, knc, lord of that manor, and granted to Richard Boffe, to be held by the rent of a red role yearly. 1 his Ri- chard infeoffed the parfon of Shelfanger, and others, to hold it for ever to the ufe oj the parifti ol North Lopham, to repair their parifti church. This land is Hill enjoyed by that parifti. The town was in divers parts at the furvey ; Colo, a freeman of Nafger Sialre, in the time of king Ed- ward, had one manor, which in the Conqueror's time Hervicus. or Hervey, held, and Modephefe, a tree- woman of Algar's, had another, both being held of Alan earl of Richmond; the town was a league long, and half a one broad, and paid 9d to the gelt, or last: From this time they continued (eparate, till they united in the Norfolk family ; the one was af* terwards called Hoe's, and the other Vifedehcu's, to each of which a moiety of the advowfon was appendant, L 4 Hoi's i5o H U N D R E D O F HOE'S MANOR was held all along of Richmond honor, and foon after the conqueft belonged to Hue- line de Hugethale, or Uggefhale, fo called from the place of his habitation. Roger was hrnamed da Hoe for the fame reafon, and Peter, fon of the (aid Roger, was called Peter de Schelfangell, and fome- times de Hoe. Roger de Hoe gave lands here to Sibton abbey, and added to the manor by purchafmg of Robert de Morley, and Roger de Gifling, knis. lords of Roy don, much land in that town, which occahoned this manor to extend thither; he lived about 1190, and his defcendems inherited here. In 1^18 Guido, or Eudo de Hoe, alias de Shelf- anger, was lord, who the fame year had a grant of free-warren to his manor ; he is fomeiimes in evi- dences called Kudo Fitz Ofbert, from his father: he granted his moiety of the advowfon in 1227 to Ralph, fon of Reginald, whofc heirs in 1256 fold it to fir John de Hoe, and then it was joined again. In 1275 he was fheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and paid the third penny of the county to the earl of Norfolk. He held much land here of Bury abbey, and many rents and fervices, to the value of 112 acres: to this fir John fucceeded Eudo in 1276, in whofe time it was firft called Hoe's manor. How it continued from 1307 till 1345. we know not certain- ly, though it feems to be in a family firnamed De-la- Polei of Briftingham ; and it is probable that De- la-Pole's daughter might marry Buteviile; for in 1362 Robert de Bo fe will, or Boieville, had the ma- nor In 1423 Thomas Terrell, efq. had it, from whom it went in 14^5 to Henry Noon, from which time it hath paffcd, joined with Vifedelieu's manor, as it is atihis day. The D I S S. a6i TheMANORof VlSEDELIEU, OfVlCEDE LOU, which was the part held by Modephefe, had its name from d*c lords thereof; Humfridus Vifedelieu, or Wolf's-face, (for fuch is the fignification of the name) Hved in die time oi the Conqueror, and held lands in Beikfhire (as Doomfday-book informs us) whofe defcendem. William, was lord herein 1170. la this family it continued many ages. Sir Thomas Vifedelieu, km. had free-warren to this manor, with the moiety of the advowfon, and left two daughters, co-heireffes, between whom it was divifi- ble. Ifabel married fir John Verdon, kat. and Mar- garet, Thomas Moflelis, efq. The moietv of the advowfon went with Verdon:* part, and ddcended with the manor to fir Imbert Noon, of Shelfanger, who married Ifabel, the daughter and heirefs of fir John Verdon, aboui 14.08, and prefented in 1410 In 1412 fir Henry Noorr, knt. fucceedcd who this year had a grant of free- xvarren and liberty to inclofe 310 acres for a park, but he died before he had compleated his defign, leaving Henry Noon, e(q. his fon and heir, who much encrealed his eftate by his valiant exploits, being a brave foldier and an experienced officer. He couitantly attended Henry V. in the French war*, where he behaved fo gallantly, that the king gave him the caftlc, lands, and lordfhip of Tonde, in Nor- mandy, which was late the earl of Montaigne's, being 2000 fcutes a year. He died in 1465, leaving this manor to Elizabeth his wife, till Henry his fon catne of age, who enjoyed it till Ws death in 1487, and xvas buried under a large grave-ftone in this chancel, the inscription of which is now torn off, but his arms lately remained. His wife, Eleanor, after his de- ceafe, x62 HUNDRED OF ceafe, married William Lancaflcr, of Briflingham, efq. and after lhat Robert VVingfield, efq. .Henry Noon, fon and heir, fucceeded. In 1519 the faid Henry, and Robert Holditch, (who ws ioid of the other moiety) manutnifed a great part of the manor. Whether it was this liemy, or his fon Francis, that fold the manor, we cannot fay, but it was purchafed by the duke of Norfolk, who kept court herein 1532. The other moiety went with Margaret, the other daughter, to Thomas Moflcils, cfq. her hufband, \vlio having no male iflue, it came to their daujzhiers. Margaret and Joan, fb that this moiety was divided again ; but in 1326 Richard Yaxlcy held the whole of this moiety, and in 1532 fold it to Thomas duLc of Norfolk, and his heirs, who having purchafed the other moiety of the Noons, as alfo Hoe's manor, be- came now fole lord and patron, and it hath been ever fince, and now remains in that honouiable family, the prefent duke being lord and patron. Here was another manor, called FRIERS, which belonged to the abbey of Sibton, in Suffolk. This was formerly the pcfTcfiion of Edric, falconer to the Coufeffor, and had only fifteen acres demelnes at ihat time. This Edric was ancestor to Robert Mala, lord of Eye honor, who in the Conqueror's days, or foon afterwards, infeofted Walter de Qadcmo, (Caam, or Caus) in the barony of Horsford, to be held of his honor, with which this patted. \Villiam de Cadomo, his great grandfon, was cal-- led aftei wards de Cayneto, de Chethmey, or Chey- ney, who, according to his promife, founded the abbey ol Sibton, in Suffolk, in his own land, in the D I S S. 1% year 1145, endowing it with many revenues, and among them with this manor, which was then very fmall, but was foon after augmented by divers gifts given to that houfe. In 1361 it was lett to Bofevile, at 405. per annum. In 1336 the abbot new-built Frier's-hall, at the expence of 50!. the dcmefnes were then 50 acres. In 1403 the convent leafed out their whole po(Te (lions here to John Lancafter, efq. lor feven years, at 3!. is. per annum, the demefnes being cxcepted : it now extended into Sheltanger, Roydon, Briffingham, and Difs, in Norfolk, and Thrandefton and Yaxley, in Suffolk. About 1530 Henry Noon farmed it, with one of acre marfh, hi Bnffingham, and the commonage of 200 fheep there, and fo it continued till the twenty-eighth year of Hen- jy VIII. in which year the abbot and monks, fore- feeing what was coming upon them, bargained with Thomas duke of Norfolk, and refigned their houfe to him and his heirs, with all that belonged thereto, the duke having procured leave of the king that he might receive it, and hold it to him and his heirs lor ever, which was confirmed by a& of parliament in the thirty-firft year of the reign of Henry VIII. and then it was joined to the other manors, with which. it now continues. The commonage of the 200 fheep was, laid to Vifeclelieu's, or Shelfanger-hall, as it is now called, and Frier's-hall was foon after demo- lifhed. It flood juft by the gate going from Briffing* ham-comrnon to Shelfanger-hall. SHELFANGER MANOR, alias D'AVELER'S, was ori- ginally the demefnes of the Gonfeflbr, afterwards given (Cither by him or lovne other) to St. Edmund's abbey, at Bury, of which it was held in the Con- queror's time, The 164 HUNDRED OF The firft parr conftitmed the manor called D'Ave- ler's. The fccond was rn the abbey till the diflblution. with other lands that were afterwards given. The third was joined to BrifTingham manor, and always attended it. As to the firft it was very early granted from the abbey in two parts, which foon after was joined, and in 1190 Hugh dc Vilere was lord. The polfeflions of this Hugh, which laid here, and in Broome, and Arwarton, in Suffolk, were then worth 40!. per annum, and were all held by ferjeamy, viz. " by the fervice of conducting the foot foldiers of the two counties of Norfolk and Suffolk for 40 davs, at the king's fummons. from St. Edmund's-ditch, now tailed the Devil's-ditch, on Newmarket heath, to the king's army in Wales, for which he was to have four- pence of each for conduct money, and the rfeft, for their maintenance, was to be at the king's coft ;" and by this tenure it always patted. John de Avilers fold all to Walter de Shelfanger, and John de Sotefbrook, or Stokefbrook, who after- wards became one of the heirs of the faid Walter, and in 1286 took poffeffion by the king's licence, and had free-warren allowed him in all his lands. This manor had a houfe and park, and by marriage thefe manors came to fir Oliver Calthorpe. It was after- wards divided into many parts, by which the manor vas all loft, except fome trifling rents which were in the duke of Norfolk in 1536, it was then called Sherwood's, in Shelfanger : it remains now with the other manor. The other part, which was Loverd's, was made a free tenement, and called by the owner's name, to which many fervices belonged, and daily increafed, as the owners of the tenements fold off their lands, fell which they made payable to the cellarer of the abbey D I S S. 165 abbey, to difcharge the capital tenement of the lent and fervice due from it to the abbey, and when enough was fold to anfwer that purpofe, it became a freehold only, and as fuch has paffed ever fince. Thefe came to Henry VIII. who gave Ibme of them to divers perfons, and others were granted to Norton, &c. by queen Elizabeth, to be held free of the manor of Eall Greenwich, in Kent. Here was another free tenement, called Winfar- thing Tenement, from its fituation on the great road near that place; it laid in Shelfanger, and anciently belonged to the Bardwells, being held of their manor of Gateflhorpe by the annual rent of a pound of pepper: half of it in 1280 was owned by Walter dc \Vinfarthing, who paid half a pound of pepper for himfelf and all his tenants, which were about thirty in number; fome of them were obliged to double iervice for their lands, viz. to pay one rent to the lord of the tenement, and another to the chief lord of the fee : the other half was held by John le Lord, and his tenants, by the fame fervices. Thefe manors in 1532 were all in Thomas duke of Norfolk, and being then joined, have continued together without any other diflinCtion, as they do at this day, the flile of the court running thus ; " Shelf- anger, Vifedelieu's, Hoe's, and Frier's." The cufloms are thefe, the eldeft fon inherits, they can fell timber, pull down, build up, plant, and cut down on the copyhold, and wafle without li- cence, but the fines are at the lord's will. The Ictt belongs not to the manor, but hath patted with Difs hundred, the lord of which keeps it at this time, and hath as. lect-fec. SHIMPLING, .166 HUNDRED OF SHIMPLING, or SHIMPLINGHAM. as it is wrote in Doomfday-book, is bounded on the eaft by Dicklebuigh, on the weft by Burflori, on the fouth by Thelveton, and on the north by Giffing : it is a reclory appendantto the manor, and being difcharjred of firft fruits and tenths is capable of augmentation. The reclory hath a houfe and fixteen acres of glebe. Norwich Doomfday book fays, that Richard dc Boy land was then patron, and that the le&or had a houfe and 15 acres of land. It is valued in the king's books at lol. 135. ^d. and the glebe amounts to about 20 acres. In 1753 the Rev. Stephen Whifton was prefented to this reclory by Robert Buxton, clerk, p. j. but in 1771 the faud Rev. Robert Buxton held it as reclor and pairon, Edward Moon being licenftd curate in 1777. The church had a fteeple, round at bottom, and oclaugular at top, and four fmall bells ; it is leaded, though the chancel is thatched, and the north porch tiled. It is dedicated to St. George, whofc effigy, with his fhield, viz. arg. a plain crofs gul. is to be fecn in a fouth window of the chancel, and feems to be as old as the building, which in all appearance was in the beginning of the igth century, (though the fteeple is much older) for then William de Shimp- ling was lord and patron, whole arras ftill remain under this efRgy. Here was a guild in honor of the fame faint, and a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, which flood on Shimp- ling-hithe, of which there are no remains, being down before the general diCTolution, for we meet with no grant of it at that time. St. D I S S. 167 St. George and the dragon, and the arms of ShirnpHng, are carved on the font. The chancel is covered with large grave-ftones, all difrobed of their braffes ; feveral of them were laid over the reclors, as appears from the chalice and wafer upon them, that beinp: the fymbolof a prieft. The reft, that had arms, we take to be laid over the Shimplings, and the Shaixielowes. On a fmall flone, towards the weft end of the church, Richard Leffingham, ob. 5 die Qftob. anno Dni. 1703, On a marble, near the pulpit, the arms of Potter ; ~icill Potter, gent, dyed Jan. 29, 1693, a S e( ^ 7 Here are twelve penny loaves given to as many poor people, by the reclor and churchwardens, on the fiift Sunday in every month, there being land tied for In the Confeflbr's time Torbcrt held this manor of Stigand. it being then worth sos. of whom the part in Giffing was alfo held by another freeman, and was then of 55. value, but was rilen to ten in the Conqueror's time, though Shimpliug continued at the fame value. This, as one manor, was given by the Conqueror to Roger Bigot, who gave it to Ro- bert de Vais, de Vallibus, or Vaus, it being then a mile and quarter long, and a mile broad ; the whole paid $d gelt. There was then a church and ten acres of glebe, valued at iad. and feveral other ma- nors extended hither. The Vais's held it of Bigot's fucceffors till 1237, in which year Oliver de Vallibus granted * This was Icfi by W. Denrangton, of Meadham, y i6& H U N D R E D O F granted it to Richard Rupella (afterwards called Ro- kele) to be held of him by knight's fcrvicc. In 1280 Roger de Shimpling held it by knight's fervice of Richard Rokclc's heirs, and was lord of the manor and patron. Roger dc Shimpiing pre- fented in 1328, and held till about 1345, when he \vas dead, and Emma his wife had it, at whofe death it fell divifible between their three daughters, and was firfl held by John de Kirtliug, and then by the de Ellinghams. How it went from the de Ellinghams we don't know, but imagine it muft be by female lieirelTes ; for in 1521 Humphry Wingfield had a moiety of it, and John Aldham had another part ; he died in 1558 and was buried in this chancel, leaving his part to John, his fon, who held it jointly with Bonaventurc Shaidelowe in 1571 ; Mr. Aldham had a fourth part of the manor, and a third turn, and Mr. Shardelowe three parts and two turns. The patronage and ma- nor was in Mr. John Moite. who was buried Oclo- ber 7, 1640*. It looks as if the Mottes had Aid- ham's part, and afterwards purchafed Shardelowe's of Mr. John Shardelowe, v\ho held it till 1611. He conveyed it to Edmund Skipwith, efq. and Anthony Barry, gent, and they to Thomas Wales, and John Bafely, gents, who conveyed it to the Mottes, from whom * 1640, 7thOftober, Mr. John Motte, my airlifted patron, wasburiedby me, Nich. Colie Memorandum, that the laft day of February, or the firft of April, 1636, I felled a licence, and delivered it to my prefent patron, iVL . Motte, allowinge him liberty accordinge to the ftatute in this cafe provided to eat fome flefhe meate this Lent, for his comfortable relief in his prefent ficknefs and weaknefs in nature." Tefte me, N. Colte, tcftore ib. D I S S, 169 whom, we are apt to think, it came to the Proctors, for John Buxton, of St. Margaret's, in South Ehn- harc, had it in right of his wife, who was kinf- vvoman and heirefs of Mr. Proctor, reclor of Giffing. After this it came to Robert Buxton, efq. who died and left it to Elizabeth his wife, who is fince dead, and Elizabeth Buxton, their only daughter, a minor, was lady and patronefs in i 735. It is now with the Rev. Robert Buxton. The leet belongs to the manor, and the fine is at the lord's will. As to the other parts of this village, they being parts of the manors of Tivetfhall, Fers- field, and BrifTingham, it is fufficient to obferve, that they went with thofe manors, except that pare held by Fulco, of which the regifter called Pinchbeck, 'folio l &2, fays, that Fulco, or Fulcher, held of the abbot in Simplingaham and Giffing feventy acres and four bordereis, being infeofied by abbot Baldwin, in the time of the Conqueror. Ihis manor about the time of Edward I. was in fir John Shardelowe, a judge in that king's reign, in whole family it continued till 1630, when it was fold to Mr. Motte. The feat of the Shardelowes is now called the Place, and is the eftate of the duke of Grafton, and formerly belong- ed to Ifaac Pemrington, alderman of London, one of thufe regicidts that fat as judges at the king's trial, for uhich he was knighted. He lived to the reftora- tion, when 4iis eflates were ieized as forfeited to Charles II. who gave this to the duke of Grafton ; upon the forfeiture, the copvhold on the different manors were alfo feized, which is the reafon that the quit-rents to Gifling, Titvetfhall, 8cc. afre fo large, ihey being made fo when the lords regranted them. This parifli had fixty-nine communicants in 1603, and in 1735 twenty-three houies and about 130 in- M habitants. i;o HUNDRED OF habitants. The town is valued at 300!. per annum. Here are three acres ft/ town-land, one piece is a fmall pightlt abutting on the land of Robert Leman, efq. another piece is called SufanVpightle, lying in Gii- iing, and was given by a woman of that name to repair the church-porch (as we are informed) ; the other piece lies in Difs-Heywood, and pays an an- nual rent of 53. The commons are, Kett's-fenn, which contains about four acres ; Pound-green, one acre ; Hall- green, four acres ; the Bottom, fix acres ; and the Lower-green, fix acres. TIVETSHALL, or TITSHALL. is varioufly writ- ten in different ages, firft Toteffala, Tivetelhall, or TyvetfhaJl, and Titihall, afterwards Tiftefhale, now Tivetfhall St. Mary and St. Margaiet; thefe churches and manor were begged of his parents by Syward, a monk of Bury, whom Leofstan the abbot had made dean, who at his requeft gave it to that monaftery ; and in 1274 it appears that he was foil of Ofulph le Sire, who held it of the crown in capite, by the annual rent of 205. which the abbot paid quarterly at Nor- wich caflle, by the name of waytefee, and held it as part of his barony, having court-leet, aflize of bread and ale, and liberty of free-warren ; the whole was allotted by the convent to the abbot's own ufe, who was taxed for his temporalities here at 30!. iss. 4d. and paid yearly 55. lod. to the lord of the hundred to excufe him and his tenants from all fuit to his hundred-court. In the time of the Confeffor there- were two churches, with forty acres of land, and the manor extended into Gifling and Shimpling, and was then valued at 7!. and in the Conqueror's time at gl. 153. it being then a league and four furlongs long, and half a league broad, and paid i/d, gelt; from D I S S. 171 this, time it continued in the abbots till the diflblu- tion of their monaftery, when it was feizel by the crown, and was granted by Henry VIII. in the year 1542, to John Cormvallis*, who for his fingular courage and conduct under Thomas duke of Norfolk,, at the taking of Morlaix, in Bretaigne. had the honor of knighthood then conferred on him, and foon after his return from thofe wars was made (toward of the houfhold to prince Edward ; he died feifed in i 5494 at Afh bridge, in Buckinghamshire, and is buried under a noble monument in Berkharnfted church, in that county, leaving it to Thomas Cornwaliis, knt.. his fon and heir, who had then livery of it ; he being fheriffof Norfolk and Suffolk in the laft year of the reign of Edward VI. railed great forces againft the oppofers of queen Mary's title; for which feivices he was firft fworn one of the privy council, then made trcafurer of Calais, and afterwards comptroller of her houfliold ; at his death, in 1604, it went to fir William Cornwaliis, knt. of Brome, in Suffolk, who died feifed November 13, 1610. leaving it to Frederick Cornwaliis, his fon and heir, who was created baronet by Charles I. by letters patent, dated May 4, 1627, and " having fervcd that prince both " in court and camp with great fidelity, for which he " fuffered in thole unhappy times both imprifon- " merit, exile, and the 4 lofs of his eftate; in teftimo- " ny of which, to reward his great merits and ac- " complifhments," he was by Charles II. in 1061, made a baron of the realm, by the title of lord Cornwallis, baron of Eye, in Suffolk : 'at his death it went to Charles lord Cornwaliis, his fon and heir, Ma / who * Upon the grant there was a fee-farm rent of 4!. 6s. ^d. ob. referved, which was p;iid to the crown till William 111. granted it to the lord Offulton, to whom it was paid in 1688* and belongs to his excellency now, (1735) fo that the manor is difchargcd of it. 179 HUNDRED OF who is buried at Culford, in Suffolk ; he left it to Charles lord Cornwallis, his fon and heir, who was one of the lords of the admiralty in the reign of William III. and lord lieutenant of the county of Suffolk ; he left it to Charles lord Cornwallis, his fon and heir, at vvhof- death it defcended to the late Charles lord Corr.wallis, his fon and heir, who fold it to Horatio lord Walpole, whofe fon, the prefent Ho- ratio lord Walpole, of Wookerton, is lord and patron. Another part of this town belonged to Winfarthing manor; another to the abbot of Ely's manor of Pul- ham ; another to William bifhop of Thetford, which was of his own inheritance, and not in right of his bifhopric, at the conqueft, of aos. value; it was af- terwards held by die le Neves, from whom it was called le Neve's Tenement, in which family it con- tinued till the i6ih century; and another part of this manor extended into Gifllng. Bcfides thefe there were feveral tenements, or ma- nors, as tney are often called, all which had their origin by the abbots infeoffments, and are now in- cluded in the great manor. In 1307 William Bateman, bailiff of Norwich, a man famous in his time, from whom fprung William Bateman, bifliop of Norwich, purchafcd a free te- nement here. It appears in the regifter, called Pinchbeck, fo!. 195, thai Walter" a fon of the dean of Norwich, held a free tenement, with fixty acres of land, #nd divers rents and fervices, of the abbot's grant ; it be- ionged afterwards to Thomas de Pakenkam, then to Joha s. '72 John de Hoe, who infeoffed fir Richard de Boyland in it, who held it in 1294. The MANOR called UPHALL had its firft rife in die time of Samfon abbot of Bury, who firft infc-' offed Thomas de Tiftefhall in it, and foon after it came to fir Adam de Tiftefhall, knt. It continued to be held by this family, though they quite left off the firname of Tiftefhall, and took UphalU It was fold to fir Edward Jennty about 1500; from the Jcnneys it carne.to the crown, and was granted in the 24th of Henry VIII. to the duke of Norfolk, who afterwards conveyed it to Edward White, of Totfal! to be held of the manor of Forncet, by knight's fervice; his fon, George White, fold it to John Cornwallis cfq and (bit fell into the great manor; it extended at that time into Dickleburgh, Shimplingr, Moulton, JPulnam, Giffing, and Watton. Several lands fettled for obijts, and other fuperfti- tiousufes were feized in 1547, and were granted to Ihomas Wodehoufe, gent, and his heirs, to be held m foccage ol the king's manor of Brooke.. The cuftoms of the manor are thefe; " the fine is at the lord's will, the copyhold defcends to the eldett Ion, they cannot wafte their copvhold houfes nor fell timber, without licence." In 1266 ( 44 th of Henry HI.) there was an extent - '' Whkh lime Che T- / n ers Tivetfhali and Shimpling*. if the lord was at M 3 Bury, the , C . onfu ! turlin "y, or copyholders belonging to lotter! ' 6 ^ , m nUmbr ' 31ld ea ^ had twelve ,?res Allotted him, for which they werc to do all the lord's work, by whoa i?4 HUNDREDOF Bury, were obliged to carry two parts of the abbot's provifion, and the men of Dickleburgh and Semere the other third part ; the lord had then a large park, and a fneid, or fneih, fenced round, which was re- paired by the tenants yearly: William de UphaU held this manor by the payment of 45. sd. per ann. and 8d. a year to the abbot, to be free from fuit of the hundred court, for which freedom ihe abbot paid 55. a year for the whole town. All who held free tenements, or fmall manors, under the abbot, were.to .do fuit to the abbot's court, and to plow and cart with all the cattle they had for the lord, and were to pay a third part of the abbot.' s general aid for Tivet- rtiafl and Shimpling, and to find a third part of the. lord's wine, and to carry it to Palgiave-bridge, and to fence in the park, fneid, and flack-yards, and re- pair them yearly, thefe free tenements being iirft granted by the abbots to be held of their chief ma- nor upon thefe conditions. Here are two churches, about a mile diftant from each other ; the mother church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin ; the other is a parochial chapel, whofe patronefs is St. Margaret, both of ancient foundation, even before the Conqueror, it was al- ways a firgle infihution, appendant to the manor, as it ftill remains, though the parishes are feparate, and hath now. and ever had, diftind officers; it is valued in the king's books at 20!. In 1307, May 2. fir Thomas de Botetourt, fub- deacon, one ol an ancient and good family in this county, was infiituted, but upon his infthution was obliged whom they were to be maintained, and h?ve 8d\ a piece every futnmer, a^d a perch of grafs, and a bundle of hay, and 6d. every autumn. D I S S. 175 obliged to fwear to William de Knapeton, then arch- deacon of Norwich, that whereas he was then a plu- ralift, and held Euftone and Troftone livings in this diocefe, both which had care of fouls, that >he would immediately refign one, unlefs he obtained a difpen- fation from the pope, as foon as he quietly received the profits of Tivetfhall. In 1603 ^ ie rec "^ or anfwered, that he held thefe two churches, being one benefice, with the benefice of Heigham by Norwich; he was inftituted June 15, 1600, and prefented by fir Thomas Cornwallis, knt. In 1765 'he Rev, Thomas Martin was prefented by the right honorable Horatio lord Walpole to the retory of Tivetfhall St. Mary, with St. Margaret. St. Mary's is the mother church, over which the biftiop and archdeacon's vifitatorial power extends ; it is an old building, having its nave, chancel, and fouth porch, thatched, a fquare tower, and five bells. The following arms were formerly in the windows of the church, ftecple, and chancel, but are all loft, except thefe firft three, viz. Botetourt, Fitz-Otes, Jingland, St. Edward the Confeffor, the Eaft Angles, St. Edmund, Boyland, Kcrdefton, Ufford, Lowdham, and Norwich; Bacon impaling Scales. On the rood-loft an efcutcheon of lady Jarnegan, viz. i. Jar- negan. 2. Ingaldefthorp. 3. Fitz-Ofbert. 4. Mor- timer, 5. Arg. on a chev. fab. three efcallops errn. 6. Picrpoint. 7. Or. a faltyr ingrailedin a bprdure fab* M4 O* I 7 6 HUNDREDOF On a grave-flone were Ailmcr's arms; it lies in the chancel, but the effigies, arms, and inscription, are gone. Here are two black marbles ; one hath an ef- CUtcheon for John Boys, recior, who died December 30, lobi. The other is for Helen, his wife, who died September i, 1661. In the church-yard, on the fouth fide, is an altar- tomb, covered with black marble, for Mary, wije of Robert Aeltle, daughter and heirejs cf Mr. William Ful- ler, of Brijifingham, who had Jour child? en, all buried by her, dbijt Feb. 27, 1728, aged 63. The parochial chapel of St. Margaret acknow- ledges no vifitatorial pov\er but that of ihe bifhop only, for it pays the archdeacon no procurations but as much again as the mother church does, to the bi- fhop for fynodais. The nave and fouth porch arc leaded, the chancel thatched, the tower is fquare, and hath five bells in it. In the chancel, under an arch in the north wall, is an pld hee-ltone altar-monument, with a crofs foimy on it, bu^t no inlciipiion to diicover who he was, though without doubt it was for fome religious per- fon that founded the chancel. > On abrafs, Hicjacet Bngilta, nuper uxor Antonij Barry, generofi, out obijL 4 ait Maij, anno 1635, atlat. tli Here are three black marbles ; the fit ft for Chrif- topher Burrel, late reftor, w; o did "January 6 1701. The fecond for L : arlt* o of the Rev Charles Gibbs, redor, and Elizabeth, /ii> Wtje y who died April D I S S. 177 22, 1721, aged 16 yearn. The third for Mrs. Margaret Stannatd, relitt of Mr. 'John Stannard, late of this parijh, firjt married to Thomas Halls, gent, jke died September i, 1 735, in the -j^th year of her age. The cu floras of this re&ory are thefe ; they pay .6d for every calf under feven, id. ob for every co.v, intlead of tyihe milk, and id. every houfe for harth-filver for all wood burnt in the town, all wood fold out of town pays tythe according to its va- lue, and all other tythes belonging to this reclory are paid in their proper kinds. .;: ; sd i The parifh of Tlvetfhall St. Mary hath a frnall cottage fituate near the church, a piece of land con- taining half an acre, which abuts on Mill-green north, fbuth, and eaft, and on Henry Goodwin's lauds weft, a fmall piece, called Sent's-yards. about Tmerood, rented at Ls. per ann. lol. in money, the iniereft of which is given to the poor yearly upon. Ealler Monday, and the poor receive yearly los. from the churchwardens of St. Margaret's. The parifh of St. Margaret, in Tivetfliall, hath fix acres of land lying in Mi.-ulton, part is copyhold, and part free, tvhich is rented ai 3!. los. a year, and was given by Jeiicry Neeve; ir abuts on Moulton com- mon on the weft, Mr. Fulcher's on the fouih, and on the way leading to Moulton High green on the eaft ; the rent is received by the churchwardens, ibs, 6d is paid every Eafte; to me poo of St. Margaret's, and 106. 10 the poor or St. Ma y's as aforefaid, the reft is given towards repairing the church. The commons are, Tivetfhall-green. Bateman's- green Mill a;recu, Pound green, and Beck green, all ef them comainiwg about jooacies, b j 7 S HUNDREDOF In 1603 there were 93 commun'cams in St. Mary's pari/b, and 108 in St. Margaret's; there were in 1735 about 35 dwelling-houfes in St. Mary's, and 150 inhabitants, and 40 in St. Margaret's, and 180 inhabitants : they were valued at 3!. together to the tenths, and 1394!. to the parliament valuation, but now they are affeffed fmgle to the land tax, viz. St. Mary's at 1. and St. Margaret's 344!. Near the fixteen mile ftone from Norwich, on the turnpike-road to Bury, Ipfwich, and London, is an inn called Tivetfihall Ram, where poft-chaifes and horfes are licenfed to be lett. THELVETON, THELTON, or, as it is wrote in Doomfday-book, Tclvetaham, Telvetunam.and Tel- ventuna, had two manors, befides a pan that be- longed to the honor of Eye. The manor that belonged to Ely was granted from that church, among others, to Henry de Rhie, and was afterwards by the Marfhalls, who fuccceded in that honor, given to the Scales', who in 1282 held both the manors. Jeffery de Scalarijs, Sealers, or Scales, died feifed the year following. Hardevinus de Sealers, the firft of note of the family, was one of the valiant Normans that aflifted the Conqueror in his great expedition, who gave him many manors, and made him baron by tenure. The advowfon of the rec"tory was given to the con- vent of St. Mary Overy, in Southwark, very early, by fome one of this family, all the redlors that are to be (net with in the inftitution books being prefcnted by the priors there till the diflblution, and from that time by the crown, where the patronage now remains ; the ilie priors had a portion of 55. paid out of the rec- tory, which was taxed at 6d. A quarter of a fee of the manor of Thelvcton hia in Gifling, and was alienated by Thomas de Scala- rijs to one of the family fimamed de I helveton ; and John de Sealers, or Scales, died in 1466, leaving Thelveton and Whaddon to Maud, his wife, who died in 1470, and left three daughters, coheirelles ; Alice, married to John Moore ; Ann, to John Har- court; and Margaret, unmarried ; but to which this was allotted we find not. neither can we tell who owned it till 1538, March 10, and then it belonged to Beatrix Harman, fole daughter and heirefs to Henry Moine, efq. who was lord of Thelvcton. Geoige Bowgham, efq. n-;xt kinfman and heir to the faid Beatrix, immediately after had the eftate releafed to him and his heirs ; this George the fame year fet- tled it on William Rogers, and Catherine, his wife, and their heirs ; and Catherine furviving her huf- band, in 1554, April 24, fold the manor to John Stubbe. gent, whofe eldeft fon, John Stubbe, gave it to Ann, his wife, to be fold, of whom Thomas Ha- vers, of Winfarthing, gent, in 1592 purchafed it, and died in 1603 ; from which time it hath paffed in a lineal defcent in this family. The Havers' had their rife unddr the Norfolk fa- mily, which they have ferved for many generations ; John Haver^ was gentleman of the horfe to John duke of Norfolk, and attended him in the battle at Bofworth-field, where that duke was flain ; John Havers, of Winfarthing, in Norfolk, was fleward to the family, as was Thomas Ha/ers, his fon, who pur- chafed the manor, and built the prefent manfion- houfe, which is a good brick building, and very uni- form ; John, his iecond fon, was bailiff to the earl of Arundei i8o HUNDRED OF Arundei in 1610; Edward, his third Ton, was fteward of his courts ; and Tliomas, his fourth fon, was farmer of the parks ; William Havers continued the fame office at his father's death, and Thomas Havers, gent, the prefent lord, now hath it. The cuftoms of the manor are thefe ; the copy- hold defcends to the youngeft fon, the fine is at the lord's will, the tenants cannot wafte their copyhold !}pufes, nor fell timber without licence j it gives no dower. This re&ory is valued at gl. in the king's books, and being difcharged ot fail-fruits and tenths, is ca- pable of augmentation; it hath a rectary-houfe,- which, with three acres of land belonging to it, was given to the church in 1375, when the re^.rr obtained 3 licence in mortmain to confirm it. At the time of the Lincoln taxation the re&or had twenty-two acres of glebe; the rectory was valued atfeventetn marks, belides the prior of Southuark's portion of s. out of it, and in the Norwich taxation the portions of the canons of Somhwark were taxed at feven marks. The church is a fmall building, confuting of a rave, chancel, and fouth porch, all tiled, and a fquare fteeple and two bells only one being formerly fold to repair the church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew the Apoflle. On two flat ftones by the altar ; the find hath Ha- vers' arms ; Hie jacet corpus Thoma Havers, qui obijt Febr. i, anno Dni. 1697, titet.JiuB 66. Requicjcat in pace. Ann, ddtjl daughter of Thomas Bramton, of Norton, efq. ^ O F churcb. It was foon after appropriated by trie bifhop of Norwich to the monks of Birley, a pen- iion of s6s. 8d. payable quarterly, being referved out of the great t\thes to the vicar. a!l which was fevcal times confirmed by the archbifhops of Can- terbury and fo it continued til! 1424, and then Re- ginald de Gray, lord Haflings, &:c. recovered the ad- vowfon from them, and prefcnted a rector, from which time it hath continued a re&ory. It feems ihev could produce no grant from the king for the advowfon, nor confirmation from ihe pope of the appropriation. Here is a fmall re&ory-houfe, barn, ftable. back-houfe, and 04 acres of glebe, and a piece without contents. I( is valued in the kingY books at 1 2 1. In i C i o, Sept. 20; Sam. Garey , I^L. B. was prefented .by John Holland, elq. truft.ee to the Ho ward family ; |ie was piebendary of Norwich and author* of ma- ny iermons, and other divinity Era&s, fome printed, ibme MSS. In 1774 the Rev. Combe Miller was preleuted to this rectory by the right lion. Georgq carl of Albermarie, p. j. a minor. The tower is fquare, having a peal of five bells ia it, the nave, fouth aile, and north porch are leaded, the cliancel is thatched. On a brafs plate in the nave ; Hiejacd Matthcui Jialhcl, qui mortem obijt 3 die Maij, anno Dni.. i _,86 t anno txtatisjuez 54. Thwnas Haliytt, gent, fecond '-on cf Robeit tiallyct, gent. (u;.o alfo lyeth buried in this ehurc.j died July 1 8, 1612, aged hn. grandfather of this earl; but by iorne inquifuions Hugh de Haftings, great- grandfon of the fame John de Haflings, by . fabeL the daughter of Hugh le Uefpencer, his.fecond wife, was found his heir male, but of the half blood, for which reafon he did not inherit, though there was a great druggie lor it, as there was for the arms of the Haflings. between Edward Mailings, great-grandfather to this Hugh, and Reginald lord Grey, of Ruthyn ; it lafted little lefs than twenty years in the court, before ,the condable and marfhal of England, and in the end the faid Edward, though he was heir male, was not only condemned in 970!. 175. lod. cofls, (Grey {wearing that he had fpent i ooo marks more) but he was imprisoned fixteen years for difobeying that fen- tence, which was reputed a very hard and unjufl one, and (o Mailings thought it, for with extreme anguifli of mind he died, leaving God's curfe, and his own, upon his dependents, if diey did not attempt the- vindication of their right. But to return ; Roger lord- .Grey, of Ruthyn, by the faid Elizabeth Mailings, ha;i Reginald lord Grey, whole fon, Reginald, inherited,- and from an extent in this manor it appears, that here was then a hall, or manor-houfe, with a park, well docked with deer, all which were nothing worth above their outgoings and repairs; and another in- clofure, called a park, fenced in with pales, contain*- ing above eighty acres of arable land, worth 2d. each ao c ; that there were eight acres of meadow, worth Sci. each acre ; that the quit-rents were lul. beliues fcoo days work ia winter, worth a halfpenny each day, i$ HUNDRED OF day, and 300 days work in autumn, worth id. each day, together with a wood, called Hulver-wood, the underwood of which was worth i ad. a year ; there was alfo a chace upon Winfatthing-common, and Banham-gieen, worth 6d. a year; a wind-mill, worth 2S. a year; the fuits and perq'uifites of the courts, worth gs. 4d. a year clear. But though lord Grey inherited the reit of the carl of Pembroke's eftate. this and Heywood manors were in dower, and held by Philippa, widow of the laft earl, till 1400, in which year (he died, having enjoyed it notwith- itanding the claim of Edward Mattings ; he mar- ried Margaret, daughter of fir William de Roos, by whom he had John.- who married Conftance, daughter of John Holland, duke of Exon. and relict of Thomas Mowbray, earl marfhal ; he died before his father, leaving two fons, Edmund, and Thomas, at his grandfather's death, which was in 1440. Ed- mund became heir to his honor and eflate; he mar- ried Catherine, daughter to Henry Percy, carl of Northumberland, and in the 5th of . EdwaidlV. was created earl of Kent; at his death in 1488 he left thefe manors in dower 10 Catherine, his widow, who died about 1499, and then they went to George earl carl of Kent, their fon, who by fuffering a recovery fettled it on Henry VII. for payment of a great debt, with a remainder to himfelf and his heirs : after this it was fettled on Catherine, his fecond wife, who en- joyed it for her life, and then it went to Richard Grey, earl of Kent, who died in 1523. having greatly wafted his eflate. This and Heywood were part of the jointure of Elizabeth; his wife; but in 1505, with her and her truftees confent, he fold them to Robert le Strange, and his heirs, and a fine was le- vied accordingly, viz. of 2800 acres of land, 30!. rent in Winfarthing, Difs, Shelfanger, Tivetfhall, and Buckenhatn-caftlc, and thus it pafTed from that fa- milv, D I 5 S. 193 jtiily. This Robert le Strange dung feifed, left it to John le Strange, his executor, to (c!I, of whom it was purchafed by Thomas duke of Norfolk ; from which time it went with that family, till Thomas earl of Arundel and Surry fold this and H'eywood about 164310 fir JohnMarfham.of Cuckftone, in Kent, bare, who died (eifed in 1692, leaving it to his fon, from whom it descended, and fir Robert Marfham, who by letters patent was created baron o{ Romney, in Kent, in 1720, obtained an acl of parliament to fell this 'eRate, and to fettle another in Kent, already pur- chafed, to the fame ufes ; upon which it was vetted in fir Thomas Dea'.h. bart. and Edtn. Probyn, ferjeant at law, (afterwards judge) who in 1724. conveyed it to Humphry South, of London, merchant, to the life of Mrs. Elizabeth Gray, (only child of John Gray, late of the ifland of Barbadoes, efq.) who by virtue of that purchafe was patronefs and lady of both Winfarthirig and Heywood, which is called Win farthing Outloken Manor. John Biiftowe, efq. prefemed in 1749, and the earl of Albemarle in '7.74- In the time of queen Elizabeth there was a great Juit for thefe manors between the earl of Surrey, who recovered, and the earl of Kent, at which time Hev- wood manor was 26!. and Winfarthing 14!. per ann. The leet belonged to the court baron, and the courts of the infoken and outfoken of this manor extended into Briflingham, Kenninghall, 8cc, Here were two parks, viz. the Old and New Park, and the rector had the herbage of both, for the compofuion of which 2L)S. 4d. was paid him ; the rent of Hulvcr- wood was 6d. To this manor belongs Banham- heath,' a 'great part of which lies in Difs hundred, which is divided by the meer, called the Hundred Meer, which divides the hundieds of Difs, Shropharn, O and 194 H U N D R E D O F and Guiltcrofs, and the drift of it as far as that meet belongs to Winfanhing, and is in the bounds of that parifh, and according to ancient cuflom the tenants of Winfarthing always drive their part the lad day of April, and impound all waifs and ftravs in a ground called the Hall-yards, in Winfarthing Great Park, in which the manor-houfe did heretofore (land. In 1604 this park was full of deer, and fir Bailing- bourne Gawdy, of Weft Harling, km. had every year a fee doe and buck, and liberty of hunting then* in that park, which was then lord Arundel's. This parifh hath lands belonging to it, now left at i61. per ann. of the gift of divers perfons, out of which 2!. i is. (called Lowndes 1 and Alden's gifts) is annually, at Eafter, to be divided among fuch poor as are not colleclioners, by the rector and church- wardens, the reft was given to repair the church: they have alfo three to wn-houfes ; one hath an acre of land adjoining to it, and another was the Old Guildhall, the lands of which guild were feifed by the crown, and were given by queen Elizabeth in the Qyth year of her reign to the Hallyats. In 1 603 there were 1 89 communicants and in 1735 fifty dwelling-houfes, and about 260 inhabi- tants. It paid il. i6s. to the tenths, was valued at 1256!. to the parliament valuation, and now at 934!. to the land tax. The cuftoms of the manor are thefe; the eldeft fon is heir, the fine is at the lord's will, it gives no dower, the tenants build up, pull down, plant on the wafte, and fell timber, without licence. The leet be- longs to the hundred, The D I S S. 10,5 The cuftoms of the re#ory were firft exemplified in the 45th of Elizabeth, and after that in the 8th of ]ames I. June 7, and are thefe: They pay id. a year for each cow in lieu of laclage. For every calf under feven, id. ob. the feventh being due in kind to the re&or, he allowing id. ob. for each calf above, feven, and under ten. Inftead of tithe hay, or herb- age, the parifhioners pay 2d. an acre to the reclor, except all tythe-hay growing on the common mea- dows, which is due in kind. They pay for every foal id. a year till it comes to work; and for every heifer id. a year till it is milked, or otherwife con- verted. Every inhabitant on All Saints Day pays id. ob. in lieu of all tythe for fruit, and all fewel fpent in the town. Tythe peafe are due every tenth fletch, as foon as they are cut by the owner; all corn and other fmall and great tilhes whatsoever are due in their pro- per kind, the i'mall tythes on Lammas-day, the rell as they are feparated. THE HISTORY O F NORFOLK. Hundred of E A R S H A M. THIS hundred, or rather half hundred, is wholly in the liberty of the duke of Norfolk, and joins to Difs hundred, on the weft ; Depwade, and Loddon, on the north ; and by the river Wavency, (which divides Norfolk from Suffolk) on the fouth ; the eaft end of it terminating upon the town of Bun- gay, in Suffolk, which ifland'", by the winding of the river northward, juts out, as it were, into Norfolk. The fee of it is appendant to the manor of Ear- fham, and was firft granted with it to Roger Bigot, A earl * Bongeye, or the Good Ifland, 2 HUNDREDOF carl of Norfolk, by Richard I. Roger Bigot, carl of Norfolk, gave Richard I. 1000 marks to have fcifiri of his county of Norfolk, this town, and half hun- dred, with that of Pirnhoe, 8cc. and was confirmed to Hugh Bigot by Henry II. when he made him earl of Norfolk. In i 285 Robert de Tatcfliale, lord of Euckcnham- caflle, iued Roger Ic Bigot, earl of Norfolk, and John Grcencurtcl, his warrtntr^ or game-keeper, for this half hundred, for taking awav his dogs, and two hares, from the game-keeper of his manor of Demon, in the halt hundred; upon which the earl fet forth his liberties, and fhewed, that in the Confeflbr's time bifhop Stigand had the f6c and, fac of all the half hundred, except Thorpe, which belonged to St. Ed- mund's at Bury, tine Puffijims to St. Etheldied of Ely,* and inch part* of Rcdenhall, and Demon, as belonged to earl Ralph, who had the foe, fac, and all jurifdidiori of his own men, or tenants, there, when he forfeited ; and when the grant of the hundred palled to his anceflors, they then had, as he now hath, free-warren through the whole hundred ; and the lecLS, or iuperior jurifdiclion, and paramoumfhip, in his own, and all other perfons fces r except thofe before mentioned- with view of frank-pledge, afli^c of bread and ale, a common gallows, infangthef, waif, and all other liberties belonging to a hundred'"; the J Warrener, the keeper of the liberty of free-warren, or game-keeper of a manor ; for the liberty of free-warren, or gaming, every where belonged to the crown, till granted thence by the feveral charters of free-warren. * A hundred court, to te held at Harleflon on the market day, every three weeks, &c. whh the tolls of the market, and fairs, it Harltfton, paying 3*. 4d. to the king, as to the caftle of Norwich, felons goods, Sec. E A R S H A M. $ the whole, with Earfham manor, being valued at 30!. and held of the crown by a fee-farm of 4od. to which Robert anfwered, thai he had free-warren alfo to his. manor of Demon, and it appearing that it was that part which belonged to carl Ralph, it was agreed between the parties, at the in (lance of R. de Hing- ham, and his fellow juftices itinerants, at Norwich, that both fhould have free-warren in Demon. In 1352 the jury for the hundred prefcnted, that the inhabitants of Bungay ufed, time out of mind, to repair the bridges between Bungay, in Suffolk, and Ditchingham, and Eaifham, in Norfolk. In 1374 the whole perquifites received this year from the hundred, and accounted for to the head manor of Forncet, was 46!. 155. 5d. 5q. and in 1537 much the fame as before. This was often written anciently Eileflham, and was thought to take its name from the earls of Nor- folk, the lords of it ; but it is not fo, for it was' called by this name long before it belonged to the earls: Herfam, as fpelt in Doomfday, feems to fig- nily the Ration of the army, and accordingly there is an encampment by the church; this hundred, (with that of Difs) makes up the deanry of Redcnhall, in the archdeaconry of Norwich, and paid clear to every tenth 49!. iSs. 4d. The towns in this hundred are as follow, to which is added the number of votes polled by freeholders refident in each, for knights of the (hire, at the gene- ral election, March 23, 1 768, fir Armine Wodehcufc, ban. Thomas dc Grey, eiq. fir Edward Aftley, and \Venmau Coke, efq. being candidates. Aldburgh HUNDRED OF W. deG. A. C. Aldburgh 6 6 6 6 Biilingford i i BrocdiQi 3 2 7 6 Dcnton o 6 6 Earfham 8 8 o Mendham, 5 4 3 i Necdham i i 3 3 Pulham St. Mary Mag. \ 1 St. Mary Virgin i 2 5 5 3 Redenhall aim Harlefton 12 7 34 28 Rufhall - - : 1 i 2 2 Starflon - 6 5 5 4 Thorpe-Abbots i i Wort well ^- . 3 2 8 7 70 61 81 67 This hundred is about eleven miles in extent, from oppofue Bungay to Biliingford, and not more than four in width. It is chiefly inclofed, and as good fertile foil as any in Norfolk. It pays 2303!. igs. to the land tax, at 45. in the pound, and igl. igs. 6d. to the general rate of the county, at a fix-hundred pound levy. The principal feat in this hundred is Earfharn, William Windham, efq. The Rev. Dr. George Sandby has a feat at Demon ; John Kerrich, cfq. at Haiief ion ; and William Smith, Efq. at Topcroft- hall, in Denton. ALDBURGH, ALDEBURGH, or ALDBERGH, in Doomfday-book Aldeberga, commonly called ARBO- ROUGH; EARSHAM. 5 ROUGH'"; its name fignifies the old Burgh; it is often written in evidences Akenberwe, or the Burgh of Oaks. There are three manors; the fuperior manor and jurisdiction, with the leet and advowfon, belonged to bifhop Stigand, afterwards to Ralph earl of Norfolk, who forfeited it, by his rebellion, to the Conqueror, and he affigned it to the care of William de Noiers. The town was then a mile long, and five furlongs broad, and paid lod. to the geld. It was afterwards granted to the Bigots, earls of Norfolk, with Earfham, and hath palled always with it to this day, his grace Charles duke of Norfolk being now lord. The fecond manor is HOLKBROOK, or ALBURGH- . HALL, which was in two parts; Alfric held one as a bcrewick to Tibenham, in the Confeflbr's time, and Moivan after him ; a free-man of St. Audrey, of Ely, held the other, which Herfrind had afterwards, and his fucceffor, Eudo, had the whole of the Conqueror's gift It came afterwards to Nicholas de Lenham, who occurs lord in 1256; and in 1274 was purchwfed of John Dagworth, and others, by John de Hole- brook, who added lands to it, by purchafc, from William de Alburgh. In 1342 John de St. Maur, or Seymore, (lord of Semere's manor, which extended into this town) was lord ; and in 1350 fir William Seymour, knt. conveyed it to fir John Wingfield, knt. and his heirs; foon after they all joined and fold it to Gilbert dc Debenham, efq. who was in pof- B feffion * Mr. Fuller, among other county proverbs, hath this, (fuch as it is :) " Den ton in the dale, and Arborough in the dirt, "' And if you go i Hemersticld, your purfe will get the fquirt." Homcrsrield lies in Suffolk, juft by, and is a fmall village^ abounding with alehoufcs. 6 HUNDREDOF feffion in 1360, when it was worth ten marks a year, and was held of Earfliam hundred. It continued in the Dcbenhams a long time, though in 1436 Ha- mond Ic Strangle had an interefl in it. o Mr. Rice, in his furvey, fays, that the manor- houfe, or hall, was down in 14^0, and that it belonged to the heirs general of the Brewfes. two ladies ; one married to fir Edward ThemilLhorpe, km. The demefncs and quit-rents were 30!. per ann. the fines were at will, and there were about twenty tenants. The third is the RECTORY MANOR, which hath about 40$. per ann. rents, and the copyholds are at the will of the lord. There was alfo a fmall part belonging to the ho- nour of Richmond, but that belonged to Redcnhall manor. The church is dedicated to All Saints, was firfl va- lued at twelve marks, and after that at fevcnteen. The re&or had a houfe, and forty acres of land, when Norwich Doomfday-book was made ; now reduced, by the rector's granting them to be held as copyhold or their reclory manor, to about eight acres. The town paid 5!. clear to each tenth; it pays fir ft fruits and tenths, and is not capable of augmen- tation, {landing thus in the king's books: 12!. Al- bergh rc&ory. il. 43. yearly tenths. The abbot of Langley's temporals in this town were taxed at 6d. the prior of Mendham's at 55. id. ob. E A R S H A M. f I'd. ob. the prior of Weybrige's at ss. 5d. fo that the religious were little concerned here. The prefentatinn was chiefly in the dukes of Nor- folk, as appears from the inflitution books, from 1503 to 1699. Richard Whetlcy, the reclor here, was deprived by queen Mary, among others of the clergy, whofe fole offence in thofc days was matrimony. In 1603 the rector returned 156 communicants in his parifh Blomefield fays, that in 1729 the Rev. Mr., Fair- fax Stillingfleet, A. M. late fellow of St. John's Col- lege, in Cambridge, was prefented by fir Rowland Hill, of Hawkfton, in Shropfhire, bart. to this rec- tory, it being one of the livings purchafed of the duke of Norfolk, to which the family muft always prefcnt a fellow of St. John's, college, Cambridge; and the bifhop's regifler has, 1754, the Rev. William. Cole prefented by St. John's college, Cambridge. The tower is fquare, had originally three, but now there are fix' bells; the chancel is thatched, the church and fouth porch leaded ; the north veflry is down. On marbles in the chancel, Thomas Green, gene- rofus de Putham Sta. Maria calebs, mortuus eft quarto die Mart, anno Xti. MDCCVI. JLt. LXIX. with his arms. Mr. Richard Cooper, June 16, 1669, S6. Anne, his wife, Oct. 26, 1669, 65. B 2 Over HUNDRED OF Over the north door remains a painting of St. Chriflopher, as ufual, very large ; and there was an image of our Lady in the chancel ; a chapel, dedica- ted to St. Laurence, in the church, and an image of St. Catherine, by which the Wrights (a very ancicrit family in this parifh, arc interred, and were benefac- tors towards building the porch, in 1463 On a grave-poft in the foiith fide of tho church- yard a latin epitaph to Robert Bayes, clerk, obijt December 8, 1702, atal. 78. Alfo, to Samuel Bayes, efq. obijt Aug. 24, 1689, &tat. 29. An altar-tomb at the weft end of the fleeple, for Robert Jay, gent. Jan. 12, 1723, aged 84; and two cf his wives, and fourteen children. A grave-poft for John Hambling, March 2o/ 7 /, 1712, aged 63. Friend! I am gone, and you muji follow, Perhaps to-day, perhaps tQ-morrow, Tour time isfhort, improve it well. Prepare for heaven, and think on hell. Here is an eftate belonging to the boys hofpital in Norwich, town houfes, and two commons, contain- ing about 100 acres, on which Wortwell and Al- burgh intercommon. Here is alfo an eftate of 57!. per anh. given by Richard Wright, of this parifh, appropriated to the church and poor, by a decree in Chancery made in the 14th of James J. The defcription of the penance of Thomas Pye, and John Mendham, in 1428, may be read in Matter Fox's Ads and Monuments, at fo. 663.* * Blomcfield. E A R S H A M. g BILLINGFORD. The original name of this place is Prelefton, or the "Town of the Battle, 1 ' in all probability fo called from fome remarkable battle fought here, when the Romans poflcfTed the land ; and by this name onlv it is mentioned in Doomfday- book. Its prcfent name firft occured in the time of Henry III. when the inhabitants began to fix theoi- fclves by the ford, or pafs over the river into Suffolk: for Billingford fignifics the dwelling at the ford by the low meadow ; and fuch is the lituation of this village at preicnt. Stigand the bifhop was fuperior lord here at the Confeffor's time, and Roger de Ramis at the con- queft. One part of the town formerly belonged to the abbot of Bury, and another to the abbot of Ely ; all which Warenger held under the faid Roger, and retained the fuperior jurifdiclion to himfelf; in thofe lands which formerly belonged to Bury; the one pare was given to Bury along with Thorpe, and the orhcr to Ely, with Puiham, to which manors they then belonged. Soon after they were divided, and one moiety con- tinued in Roger's family till 1 249, and then Richer de Reymcs fold it to Roger de Hcrdebarow, or Herle- burgh, who by this purchafe became lord of the whole ; for the other moiety went to the Bigots, and in 1211 was fold by William Bigot to Hughde Her~ leburgh: the whole was held always of Forncec ma- nor at one fee, and 2d. ob* per ann. caftle-ward: his two daughters and co-heireffes afterwards inherited it; but in 1285 Roger Bigot claimed liberty of free- warren, as fuperior lord of the fee ; and after this it was divided again into moieties. Ela, one of Heiie- burgh's heirefles, married Walter de Hopton, and preiented here in 1300; and John de Peyto married the 1.0 H U N D R E D O F the other ; whofe fon, by the name of John de Petto, jun. prefented in i 337 ; but i.n i 338 they joined and fold the whole to (ir Walter dc Hopton, knt. In 1360 John de Clinton was lord for life, jointly with (ir Walter de Hopton; and in 1375 Agnes, re- licl of John Brown, and Richard Brown, clerk, their fon, fold it to fir Simon Burley, knight banneret, the great favourite of Edward the Black Prince, and tu- tor to Richard, his fon, afterwards Richard II. who advanced him to many honors, and places of truft and profit*, he being knight of the garter, one of his privy-council, chamberlain of the houfhold, governor of Windfor cattle, conflable of Dover cafllc, and lord warden of the Cinque-ports. In 1 3 7 8 he obtained a grant from the king of the cattle and lordfhip of Llan Stephan, in Pembrokefhire; and in 1382 ano- ther, to be matter of the kings falcons and game kept at Charing, with the manor of Barrock, by Gravefend, and many other lands, &:c. in confidera- lion of his great ferviccs done to him from his in- fancy, before he was made a knight, and at that time, and after, when prince of Wales, and fmce, when king of England; but being fo great in his matter's favor, rt railed him to luch an intolerable degree of pride, and its conference, opprcilion, that he incurred the difpieafure of the whole nation, and being attainted in Parliament, was beheaded on Tower-hill in 1388. This manor was not forfeited thereby ; for in 1375 fir Simon conveyed it after his deceak' to fir John Burley, his brother, and he fettled it (or rather a moiety of it) on fir John" Hopton, of Shiopfhire, * He could difpend but twenty marks a year of his own in- heritance, but by his Prince's favor attained to 3000 marks of yearly revenue ; he gave fomctimes 220 lireries in a year of fcarlct, &c. E A R S H A M. ii Shropfhire, knt. who married Ifabcl Eurlcy, his daughter, and their heirs. '& The other moiety, afterwards called CORBET'S MANOR, belonged to fir Nicholas Dagworth, knt. and in 1401 to Thomas Young, efq, of Sibton, and after to John Corbet, efq. in whom the whole united again. In 1460 John Corbet, efq. was found his heir, in right of his wife, Catherine, only daughter and heirefs of Walter Hopton, and it continued in the Corbets a long time. Roger Corbet, efq. died lord in 1539, leaving An- drew his fon and heir, who (old it in 1544 to fir Ro- bert Southwell, of whom it was purchafed by Chrif- topherGrice, gent, who died in 15,58, and was bu- ried in this church, leaving Robert his fon and heir, who dying in 1601, lies buried here, leaving only one daughter, Frances le Gricc, who married fir William Platers, of Sotterley, knight and baronet, deputy lieutenant and vice admiral of the county of Suffolk, and member in Parliament; they lelt fir Thomas Platers, bart. their only fon and heir, who was high-fhcriff of Suffolk, and a colonel of a regi- ment of horfc to Charles I. and afterwards had a command at fea under the king of Spain: he mar- ried Rebecca, daughter and co-heirefs of Thomas Chapman, of Wormley, in Hertfordfhire, and died at Medina, in Sicily, in 1651, without legitimate iffue, but fettled this manor aad eftate on Elizabeth, his natural daughter, who married fir Edward Chi- fenhall, knt. of an ancient family in Lancafhire, and had iffue William Chifenhall, of whom it was pur- chafed by the Carters, and in 1704 Edward Carter, fenior, was lord and patron ; and afterwards by the Holts, and Rowland Holt, efq. of Redgrave, in Suf- folk, is now lord and patron. Thi if HUNDREDOF The re#ory of Billingford is gl. and the clear yearly value 4.5!. This rcclory being difcharged, pays neither firfl-fruits nor tenths, and is capable of augmentation. When Norwich doomfday-book was made the rclor had a houfe and ten acres of land ; the houfc flood near the fummer-houfc at the hall, and was long fincc burned down, and never rebuilt. The terrier hath thirty-fevcn pieces of glebe ; it is in the liberty of the duke of Norfolk, who in right of his hundred of Earfham is loid paramount here. There was a family firnamed of the town : In isbo Matthew of Prelefton, and in 1316 John of Piilleilon lived here. The church is dedicated to St. Leonard ; the nave and fouih porch are tiled, and the chancel is thatched ; there was a large Icjuare tower, which is fallen down, 10 that it is no higher than the church, is covered iu, and hath one "pell in it. On a brafs plate Here lyeth buryed the corps of Qhrijlopher It Grys, ejq, feme lime lord and patron of this dutch, only child to Robert le Grjs, cftj. and Sufan, his wife, daughter and co-heire to Thomas Ayre, of Bury, in Suffolk, cfq. lineally defended from fir Robert Ic Grys, 1 1 Langley, in Norfolk^ knt. on? of the (querrics to kixg Richard the ijl. he married Margaret, daughter' and heir to Thomas Whipple, of Dicklelorough, in Norfolk, gent, and Elizabeth, his wife, daughter and co-fheire to John Garrtingfiam, of Helton, in Suffolk, ejq. and had : her only Frances, who married withjir William Playtcrs, of Sailer ley, in Suffolk, knt. and bart. He ended this life 'the \yth of October, A. 1601, and inltkc. fc A R S H A M. 13 tyd year of his age. RESURGAM. With the arms of le Grice, Whipple, and Jcrnegan. On another brafs, -Here lyeth buryed tlie corps of Chrijlopher le Grice, ejq. fame time lord and patron of this church, fonn to William le Grys, of Brotdijli, and Sybell, his wife, daughter and heire to Edmund Syngleton, tfq. he married Ann, eldtjl daughter to Robert Howard, of Brocdi/h, gent, by whom he had three fonns and two daughters: he died Jan. 19, 1558. Grice impales quarterly, Singleton and Howard, f Brockdifh. Here tyeth buried the Corps of Charles tc Grys, gent, the only fonne of Henry le Grys, and Ann his wife t daughter to Anthony Yaxley, of Yaxley, in Suffolk, efq. he died Sept. 4, 1634. In the chancel windows are the arms o Haftings, and Valence, of Anthony Grys, with three martlets on the top, and of Henry Grys, with, a crefcent ; and on a tree hangs a (hiekl with the arms of Brewfe on it. The font hath the arms of St. Edmund, St. George. and a chev. and chief in one fhicld, all carved in, ftone. In 1267 there was a vicar here; after this the vi- carage was re-united to the re&ory, and fo it conti- nued a re&ory ever fmce. William de Eaflhawe, re&or, was buried in the chancel in 1385, and made the lattices between the church and chancel. The re&or returned eighty communicants here irt 1603, C June 14 HUNDRED OF June 1 2, 1 739, the church of Billingford, alias Pryleflon, was confolidated with Thorpe parva, and in 177 2, the Rev. John Malyn was preferred to the re&ory by Rowland Holt, efq. knight of the fhirc for the county of Suffolk. There were formerly many arms of the Grices, with their impalements and quarterings, both in the tall and church windows, but are now fome of them removed, and the reft fo broken and defaced, that there is no depending on them for the exaclnefs of the feveral coats. Billingford is the mofl foutherly town in Norfolk, and the coach-road between Yarmouth and London paflcs by it. BROCKDISH, or BROOKDISH, is the next ad- joining town to Thorpe-Abbots, eaflward, through which the great road paflcs to Yarmouth; on the left hand of which ftands the church on a hill by itfelf, there being no houfe near it but the parfonage, which joins to the eaft fide of the church-yard. The advowfon always belonged to the Earl's manor here, with which it now continues. In Norwich Doomfday-book we read, that the Teclor had a houfe, and thirty acres of land, and it was then valued at fifteen marks. It ftands in the king's book thus, " lol. Brokedifh relory, il. yearly tenths," and confequently pays firft fruits, and is incapable of augmentation. The church ftands included in the glebe, which is much the fame in quantity as it was when the aforefaid furvey was taken. It is in the Duke of Norfolk's liberty, though he hath no ket, warren, paramountfhip, or fuperior jurifdidion E A R S H A M. 15 jurifdiclion at all in this town, the whole being fold by the family along with the manors of the town. In 1603 there were 103 communicants here, and now (Blomefield) here are 50 families, and about 300 inhabitants. The prior of St. Faith at HoHham owned lands here, which were taxed at as. 6d. in 1428. The prior of Thetford monks had lands here of the gift of Richard de Cadomo, or Caam, who gave them his land, &c. in Brockdifh, which from thofc monks is now called Monks -hall Manor, and the water-mill there. In the time of Richard II. the monks bought a piece of marfh ground to make a way to their mill, which not being contained in the grant of Monks-hall Manor from Henry VIII. to the duke of Norfolk, William le Grice, efq. and Charles Newcommon. who had a grant of fuch lands as they could find concealed from the crown, feized on this as fuch; and upon their fo doing, the owner of the mill was obliged to purchafe it of them by the name of Thetford-Mill-Way, and it hath ever fince belonged to, and is coniiantly repaired by the owner thereof. In 1356 Mary countefs MarQiall, widow of Tho- mas de Brotherton, who had recovered the advowfon by the king's writ againft fir J. Wingfield, knt. and Thomas, his brother, William de Lampct, and Alice, his wife, and Catherine, her fifter. prefemed ; and it remained in the Norfolk family till 1561. In 1 739 the late Rev. and learned Francis Blome- field was prefented rector by Mrs. Ellen Laurence, of Cafde-Acre, widow: He published three volumes C 2 Of 16 HUNDRED O P of Ah ESSAY towards an Hi/lory of Norfolk, which was continued in two volumes more by the Rev, Mr. Parkin. In 1766 the Rev. Lawrence Gibbs was prefented to this reclory by Samuel Gibbs, p. j. The church is dedicated to the honor of the Apoflles Sts. Peter and Paul, and hath a fquare tower about fixteen yards high, part of which was re-built with brick in 1714; there arc five bells, the third is faid to have been brought from Pulham in ex- change. The nave, chancel, and fouth ailc are leaded, the fouth porch is tiled, and the north porch is in ruins. The roof of this chancel is remarkable for its principals, which are whole trees without any joint from fide to fide, and bent in fuch a rifmg manner as to be agreeable to the roof, The chancel is thirty feet long, and twenty broad ; the nave is fifty-four feet long, and thirty-two broad, and the fouth aile is of the fame length, and ten feet broad. At the weft end of the nave is a black marble in- fcribcd to Richard Wythe, gent, who died Sept. 6, 1671, aged 64 years, 4 months, and nine days. This family had refided here ever fihce the time of Edward III. till lately, and had a confiderable citato here, and in the adjacent villages. Another marble, near the defk, to John Moulton, gent, who died June 12, 1718, aged 38 years; and to his two wives who died before him. . In a north window are the arms of De-la-Pole, quartering Wingfield. In E A R S H A M. 17 In 1469 John Wurliche, of Brockdifh, was in- terred in the nave, and left a legacy to pave the bot- tom of the fteeple. In 1518 Henry Bokenham, of Brockdifh, was buried in the church, as were many of the Spaldings*, Wythes, Howards, Grices, Tendrings, and Lau- rences, who were all confiderable owners, and fami- lies of diftinion in this town. The chapel at the eaft end of the fouth aile was built by fir Ralph Tendring, of Brockdifh, km. whofe arms remain in the eaft window to this day. His ahar monument {lands againft the eaft wall, north and fouth, and hath a fort of cupola over it, with a holy water ftope by it, and a pedeflal for the image of the faint to whom it was dedicated to ftand on, fo that it ferved both for a tomb and an altar; the brafs plates of arms and circumscription arc loft. On the north fide, between the chapel and nave, {lands another altar tomb, covered with a moft cu- rious marble, difrobed of many brafs plates of arms and its circumfcription, as are feveral other ftones in the nave', aile, and chancel. This is the tomb of John Tendring, efq. of Brockdifh-hall, who C 3 lived * This family was originally of Spalding, in Lincolnfliire. In the houfe belonging to the family was a pichire of Samuel Spalding, town clerk, of Cambridge, in his alderman's gown, with a book in his hand, anno 1664, astat. 74. Another of his wife, anno 1664, aetat. 63, with her arms; another of Frances, their daughter, in her wiading-fheet : this child being young, went into a garret in a remote part of the houfe, and the door (hutting upon it, it was there ftarved to death, notwithftanding flrict enquiry had been made after it. This Samuel was father of Samuel, father of Daniel Spalding, gent, deceafcd, iS HUNDRED OF lived there, and died in 1436, leaving five daugh- ters, his heireffes, fo that he was the laft male of this branch of the Tendrings. On the eafl chancel wall on the fouth fide of the altar is a white marble monument, with a latin infcription to the Rev. Robert Lawrence, retor and patron here, who died Dec. 31, 1739 aged 25, with the arms of Lawrence, Attack, Lany, Cooke, Bohun, Bardolph, Ramfcy. On a flat ftone under this monument is a brafs plate infcribed to Robert Lawrence, efq. ob. July 28, 1637 ; the arms on a brafs plate are, Lawrence impaling Lany, and his quarterings, viz. Attack, Cooke, Bohun, Delis, Birdolph, Charles, Ramiey, Tendring, Wachefam, &c. There is a picture of this Robert Lawrence, efq. drawn in 1629, aged 36. He built the hall in 1634; it ftands near half a mile north-eatt of the church, and was placed near the old fcite of Brock- difh-hall, the feat of the Tendrings, whofe arms, taken out of the old hall when this was built, were fixed in the windows. The arms of this man, and his wife, and fcveral of their quarterings, are carved on the wainfcot in the rooms. On the fouth fide of the church-yard is an altar tomb, covered with a black marble, with the creft and arms of Sayer, or Sawyer, to the memory of PVances, late wife of Richard Tubby, efq. who died December 22, 1728. Adjoining is another altar tomb In memory of Eichard Tubby, efq. who died December 10, 1741, in the %Qthycar of his age. He E A R S H A M. 19 He was high fheriff of Norfolk in 1729, and his wife was niece and co-heirefs to Thomas Tennifon, archbifhop of Canterbury, who died December 14, 1715, and was buried at Lambcih. The town takes its name from its fituation on the Waveney, or Wagheneye, which divides this county from that of Suffolk, the channel of which is now deep and broad, though nothing to what it was at that time, as is evident from the names of places upon this river, as the oppofuc Ville, now called Sileham, (oftentimes wrote Sayl-holm, even to the time of Edward 111.) fhews ; " for," fays Mr. Blomc- field, " I make no doubt but it was then navigable for large boats and barges to Jail up hither, and con- tinued fo till the fea, by retiring at Yarmouth, and its courfe being ftopt near Loweftoft, had not that influence on the river fo far up as it had before, which occafioncd the water to retire, and leave much land drv on either fide of the channel ; tho' it is fo good a ftream, that it might with eafc, even now, be made navigable hither, and it would be a good work, and very advantageous to all the adja- cent country." That brod-dic fignifies no more than the broad-ditch is very plain, and that the termination of 0, can, or water, added to it, makes it " the broad ditch of water" is as evident. Before the Confeflbr's time this town was in two parts, bifhop Stigand owned one, and the abbot of Bury the other ; the former afterwards was called the Earl's manor, from the earls of Norfolk ; and the other Brockdifh-hall, from its ancient lords, who xvere firnamed from the town. The fuperior jurifdi&ion, lect, and all royalties, belonged to the earl's manor, which was always held c 4 rf 20 HUNDRED OF of the hundred of Earfham, except that part of It which belonged to Bury abbey, and that belonged to the lords of Brockdifh-hall ; but when the earl's manor was fold by the duke of Norfolk, with all roy- alties of gaming, fifhitig, Sec. together with the leets, view of frank-pledge, &c. free and exempt from his hundred of Earfham, and the two manors became joined as they now arc, the whole centred in the lord of the town, who hath now the fole jurifdidion, with the leet, belonging to it; and the whole parifh. being freehold, on every death, or alienation, the new tenant pays a relief of a year's freehold rent, added to the current year.; the annual free rent, with^ out fuch reliefs, amounting to above 3!. per ann. At the Conqueror's furvey the town was fcven fur- longs long, five furlongs and four perches broad, and paid 6d. to the gelt, or la*. At the Confeflbr's furvey there were lands, Sec, field of bifhop Stigand, and others held under the abbot of Bury, who held the whole of Stigand. There were two foe-men, with land, Sec. here, which were given to Bury abbey along with the ad- jacent manor of Thorpe-Abbots, but were after fe- vered from that manor, and infeoffed by the abbot of Bury in the lord of Brockdifh-hall manor, with which it pafTed ever after. BROCKDISH-EARL'S MANOR, or Brockdifh Comilis. This manor always attended the manor of Forncct after it was granted from the crown to the Bigots, along with the half-hundred of Earfham. It was moltly part of the dower of the ladies of the feverai noble families that it pafled through, and the living was generally given to their doiaeitic chaplains. In E A R S H A M. 21 In the ^d of Edward I. the abbot of Bury tried an action with Roger Bigot, then lord and patron foe the patronage, pleading that a part of the town be- longed to his houfe, and though they infeoffcd their manor here in the family of the Brockdifh's, yet the right in the advowfon remained in him ; but it ap- pearing that the advowfon never belonged to the ab- bot's manor before the fcoffment was made, but that it wholly was appendant ever fince the ConfeiTor's time to the earl's manor, the abbot was caft: not- with (landing which, in 1335, fir John Wingfield, knt. Ecc. owners of Brockdifh s manor, revived the claim to the advowfon, prefemed here, and put up their arms in the church windows, as patrons, which dill remain; but Mary countcfs Marfhall, who then held this manor in dower, brought her quarc impedit, and ejccled their clerk; fince which time it conftantly at- tended this manor, being always appendant thereto. Jn the 15th of Edward I. Roger Bigot, then lord, had free-warren in all this town, as belonging to this manor, having not only all the royalties of the town, but alfo the adize of bread and ale, and ^amercia^ rncnts of all the tenants of his own manor, and the tenants of Reginald dc Brockdifli, who were all obli- ged to do fuit once a year at the earl's view of frank- pledge, and leet, in Brockdifh. It continued in the Norfolk family till 1570, and then Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, obtained licence from queen Eli- zabeth to fell it, it being held in capiic, or in chief, of the crown, as part of the barony and honor of the faid duke, who accordingly fold the manor, advow- fon, free-fifhery, and all the place, or manor-houfe, and demelne lands, together with the leet, 8cc. and all other royalties whatfocver, free and exempt from any jurifdiction, or payment, to his half-hundred of Earlham, to Charles le Grice, of Brockdifh, cfq. 22 HUNDRED OF and his heirs, who was dcfcendcd fiom fir Robert Ic X^rys, of Langley, in Norfolk, knight, equerry to Richard I. This Charles re-built the houle called the Place in 1567, and fixed his own and wife's arms and quarterings in the windows there. He married two wives, from whom defcended the nume- rous branches of the Grices, of Brockdifh, Norwich, Wakeficld, in Yorkfhire, 8cc. He was buried in this church April 12, 1575, and held his manor of the hundred of Earfham, in free foccage, without any rent or fcrvicc. and not in capita ; and Brockdifh-hall manor of the king, as of his barony of Bury St. Ed- mund, in Suffolk, which lately belonged to the ab- bey there, in free-foccage, without any rent or fer- vice, and not in capiic, and William le Grice was his eldeft fon and heir, who was poffeflcd of the whole eftate; for in 158 ^ William Howard, then lord of Brockuiih-hiiil manor, agreed and fold it to this Wil- liam., and Henry le Grice, his brother, and their lie'irs ; but Howard civ ing the next year, the purchafe was not compleated till 15^8, when Edward Copplc- dick, gent and other truftees, brought a writ of en- try againft John, fon of the faid William Howard, gent, and had it fettled abfolutcly in the Grices, from which time the two manors have continued joined, as they are at this day : he left Francis le Grice, efq* his fon and heir, who fold the whole eflate, manors, and advowfon, to Robert Laurence, of Biockdifh, efq.'" and the heirs of the family of Laurence enjoy the eftate to this day. BROCKDISH-HALL MANOR belonged to Bury ab- bey as aforefaid till the time of Hemy I. and then the * Oliver Laurence created banneret by the duke of Somerfet before Roxborough, in Scotland, in 1547, was of this family, which was originajly of Bueldnghamlhire. E A R S H A M. 23 the abbot infeoffed fir Stephen de Brockdifh in it, from whom it took its prefent name; he was to hold it at the 4th part of a knight's fee of that abbey ; it contained a capital rneffuage, or manor-houfe, called now Brockdiih-hall, 105 acres of land in demefne, twelve acres of wood, eight of meadow, and 4!. 135. lod. rents of affizc. Sir Stephen de Brockdifh, knt. was capital bailiff of all the earl of Norfolk's manors in this county, and was lord of this manor about 1329. Reginald de Brockdifh:* left two daughters and heireffes, and not long after the whole was united, and belonged to fir William Tendring, of Stokeney- land, knt. and fir Ralph Tendring, of Brockdifh, knt. built the old hall (which was pulled down by Ro- bert Lawrence, efq. when he creeled the prefent houfe) and the fouih aile chapel, in which he and feveral of his family are interred. John Tendring, of Brockdifh, efq. his fon, left five daughters, co-heireffes, who joined and le- vied a fine, and fold it to Thomas Faflolf, efq. and his heirs; and the year following they conveyed all their lands, See. in Wiggenhall, Tilney, and Ifling- ton, to fir John Howard, knt. and his heirs, and vefted them in his truftees, who the year following purchafed the manor of Faftolf to himfelf and heirs ; this fir John left Brockdifh to a younger fon, Robert Howard, efq. who fettled here. William * The family of this name were very numerous, and many collateral branches continued a long time in this county ; fir John, Brockdifh, prkft of Mend I eft am, in Suffolk, was one of the Marian perfecutors, mentioned by Mr. Fox, vol. II, fol. 1913* 24 HUNDRED OF William Howard, who died in 1566, fold this manor the year before his death to the Grices afore- faid ; but upon the fale he referved all other his cftate in Brockdifh, in which he dwelt, called How- ard's Place, fituate on the fouth fide of the entrance of Brockdifh-flreet, which houfe and farm was lately in Mr. Bucknall Howard, of London. The fcite and demefnes of the earl's manor, now called the Place, was fold from the manor by the Grices fome time fince, and after belonged to fir Ifaac Pennington, alderman of London, and one of thole who fat in judgment on Charles I. for which his eftate was forfeited at the reftoration, and was given by Charles II. to the duke of Grafton, and his grace the prcfcnt duke of Grafion now owns it. Benefactions to this parifh are, amongft others, one clofe, called Algorfhegge'"", containing three acres, and a grove arid dove-houfe formerly built thereon, containing about one acre, at the eaft end thereof; the whole abutting on the king's highway north, and the glebe of Brockdifti rectory weft: and one tene- ment abutting on Brockdifh-ftrect, fouth, called Sc- riches, with a yard on the north fide thereof, were given by John Bacon, the younger, of Brockdifh; the clear profits to go yearly to pay the tenths and fifteenths for the parifh of Brockdifh, when laid, and when they are not laid, to repair and adorn the pai ifh church there for ever. His will was proved in 1453. There are always to be twelve feoffees of fuch as dwell, or arc owners in the parifli, and when the majority jof them are dead, the furvivors are to fill up the vacancies. This tenement, with a town-clock fixed therein, was rebuilt in 1583, in the lime * It pays a free rent of 4d. ob. E A fc. S H A M. 25 -time of Richard Gibfon, reclor, who contributed thereto, with many of his parifhioncrs. . John Sherwood, late of Brockdifh, deceafed; pur- chafed and lefc in 1572 an annuity, or clear yearly rent charge of 6s. 8d. iffuing out of fix acres of land and paflure in Hoxne, in a clofe, called Calflon's- clofe, to the only ufe and behoof of the poor of Brockdifh, to be paid on the ifl of Nov. in Hoxne church porch, between twelve and four in the after-. noon of the fame day, with power to diflrain and enter immediately for non-payment ; the faid fix acres are warranted to be freehold, and clear of all incumbrances, except another rent-charge of 133. 4d. granted to Hoxnc poor, to be paid at the fame day and place. In 1592 John Howard, of Brockdifh, fold to the inhabitants there a cottage, called Laune's, lying be- tween the glebes on all parts; this hath been dilapi- dated many years, but the fcite ftill belongs to the parifh. In the reign of queen Mary we find, by the old town-book, that feveral fums were paid for churcli utenfils, 8cc. then ufed; but in 1558, as footi as queen Elizabeth afcended the throne, all thcic popi/h images, Sec. were removed out of the church. In 1657 feventeen fhillings was laid out for the re- pair of the Brockdifh part of Sileham-bridge, leading over the river to Sileham church. This bridge is now down, through the negligence of both the pa- rifhes, though it was of equal fervice to both, and half of it to be repaired by each of them. la 2 6 HUNDREDOF In 1618 the church was wholly new paved and re- paired; and in 1619 the pulpit and de{k new made, new books, pulpit-cloth, altar-cloth, 8cc. bought. DENTON takes its name from the Saxon word den, a cave, or hollow place'"", between two hills, which cxaclly anfwcrs to its fituation. The prcfent church {lands on a high hill, and the parfonage houfe on the north fide of the church-yard, in the very den, or hollow, from which the village is named. The fu- perioi jurifdidion over divers free-men of this town, from the time of the conquefl to this day, hath pafTed with the hundred of Earfliam ; but the chief mawor of Demon was held of bifhop Stigand by Alfriz, in the Confeffor's time, and by Eudo, fon of Spiruwin, at the Conqueror's furvey, when it was worth 4!. per ami. the town being then a mile long, and four fur- longs broad, and paid iSd. gelt. This came to William de Albany, who joined it to Buckenham- caftle, with which it pafled many ages. Another part, which formerly belonged to Bury abbey, was held by Tarmoht, and after by the (aid Eudo : this conflituted that manor called Payone's, in Demon. DENTON cum TOPCROFT MANOR paffed with the Albanys, and at the divifion of the eftate of that fa- mily, among female heirdfes, was allotted, among others, to fir Robert de Taiefhale, knt. in whole fa- mily it continued till the failure of iffue male. In 1227 Henry III. granted to fir Robert de Ta- tcfhale, knt. a charter for free-warren here, which was confirmed to Conflancine Clifton, his heir; and in 1285 * Thus, den, an&flrand, in the old law terms, fignifies li- berty for a (hip to run a-ground, or come a-lbore, which they ulually did in fuch places for" their fafety. E A R S H A M. , 27 1285 Roger Bigot, as lord of the hundred, had joint free-warren with him. It went from the Tatefhales through the Bernaks, Orrebys, Sec. to the Clihons, and continued in that family, with Buckenham-cillle, till 1447, and then fir John Clifton, knt. gave this manor to Robert Clifton, his coufin, and his heirs, who conveyed the united manors of Denton aim Top- croft t, the manors of Hoes, and Littlehall, in Den- ton, with the advowfon of the church, to fir Gilbert Dcbcnham, knt. and the advowlbn of St Giles's cha- pel, in Topcroft, the manors then extending into Denton, Topcroft, Aldburgh, Bedingham, Woodton, Hemenhale, Haddifcoe-Thorpe, and Dickleburgh. Sir Thomas Brewfe, of Salle, in Eynsford hundred, and of Wenham. in Suffolk, in right of Elizabeth, his fecond wife, fifter and heirefs to fir Gilbert De- benhani, inherited this eftate, from whom it. de- fcendcd to Robert Brewfe, cfq. of Topcioft-hall, his fecond fon. John Brewfe in 1602 was lord; he was afterwards knighted, and married Cecily, only daughter of John, Wilton, of Topcroft, gent, and . foon after the Wil- tons were lords. It parted with the Wiltons till Ni- cholas Wilton, efq. fold it in ifiSo to George Smyth, doclor of phyfic, fecond fon of John Smyth, efq. of North Niblcy, high-flieriff of Gloucefterfhire, de- fcendcd from the Smyths of Elkington, in Lincoln- fhire, who flourifhed in the time of Henry VI. and were returned among the gentlemen of that county; and from thence, about 1527, fettled at Nibley, *-. Tn 1464 Robert and Elizabeth Clifton lived in the princi- pal manor-houfc, called Topcruit-hall, a-id had free hunting, hawking, fifhing, and fowling, for thtir lives, in the unite! manors of Denton cum Topcroft, H :o, and Liulchail, in 7'opcrcft. as HUNDRED OP Nibley, where the elder branch have refided to this day, from father to Ton, This George took his mailer of arts degree at Oxford, May 21, 1661, and afterwards travelled beyond fea twenty-five years ; and on the 24th of December, 1638, was admitted doclor of Phyfic at Padua, as a fine diploma now irt the family certifies; in which he is called J\ r oL"ilis Anglus ; he married Mary, daughter and heirels of David Offlcy, of Chefhirc, efq. by whom he had one fon, Offley ] his fecond wife was Ann*, dailghtet of William Chilcot. of Iflewpnh. in Middlefex, cfq. who furvived him, but had ho iilue ; he is buried in Topcroft chancel, with .he arms of Smyth between thofe of Offley and Chilcot on the flone ; obijt Aug. Offley, his fon, inherited at his death, who was likewife a great traveller, and never redded at Top- croft, but died at London in 1708, and lies buried in >t. Bride's church there, leaving this manor and eflate to George Smythf, efq. his eldeft (on, by Mary, daughter of Thomas Archer, of GloucefteifLire, cfq. who fetilcd at themanor-houfe of Topctofc-hall, the piefent feat of the family ; he married Mary, third daughter of William Churchman, cfq. of Illington, In 1735 he was high flieriff of NorfoJk, and died Decuubei, 1745, leaving a numerous family. Wm. Smyth, of Topcroft, efq. his eldeft fon, is novtf lord of thefe united raauois ; lie married the eldeft daughter * She died May 10, 1708, aged 64, and lies buried in the chancel of Topcroft church. f Againft the north chancel wall at Topcreft there is a neat mural monument of white marble to this gentleman, with the creft and arms of Smyth quartering Churchman, and a Latin in* icription; he died December 12, 1693. E A R S H A M. 29 daughter of Alderman Black, of Norwich, by whom he has iiTue. In the late war he commanded a com- pany in the eaftern battalion of the Norfolk militia, ivhen upon an expected invafion they were ordeied down to Portfmouth. The faid George Smyth left alfo a fecond fon, Officy Smyth, gent, of Harlefton, who by Branfby Branfby, his wife, hath iffue. And alfo Ann, a daughter, married in Gloucefterfhire. HOF.'S MANOR, in TOPCROFT, is joined to Denton cum Topcroft ; it belonged at the conquefl to Bury abbey, and at the furvey Berengarius held it of the abbot ; the leet then belonged to it, and was worth. 405. perann. In 1196 Roger de Hoe, or Howe, owned it; he divided it into two parts; that in Topcroft Roger de Coggefhale, and the other Nicho- las de Falfham had, and being foon after united, it paffed through many hands, and was purchafed by Andrew de Bixton, citizen of Norwich, whofc feoffees in 1348 conveyed it to Jeffrey, his fon and heir, who fold it to the Clifions; and in 1378 fir John Cliiton was lord. In 1458 Robert Clifton, efq. who had it by inheritance from his father, joined it to Fopcroft cum Denton manor, with which it ftili remains. LITTLK-HALL MANOR, in Topcroft, is alfo joined to the aforefaid manor: this had its original in 1302, when Robert de Tatefhale, the fourth of that name, then lord of Topcroft and Denton, granted to Wil- liam de Bernak, and his heirs, about the third part of the manor, to be held of his capital manor at sd. a year; and with Margaret, daughter and heirefs of fir John Bernak, it went to her hufharui, John Stone- ham, efq. and fo to the Greys ; John Grey, efq. of D Topcroft, S o HUNDRED OF Topcioft, was the firft. that owned it of that family ; he left it to Robert Grey, his fon and heir< who fold it to John Stanbawe, of Bedingham, whofe fon, Ralph Stanhawc, before 1447 fold it to Robert Clif- ton, efq. who joined it to his other manors, with which it flill remains. The cufloms of thcfe manors are, the eldcft fon is heir, they give no dower, every meffuage pays 6s. 8d. fine certain, every acre of land of the old grant, or feoffmem, pays 25. each acre fine certain, and every acre of the new grant 45. fine certain. The quit-rents, ex parle Den ton, are i81. 195. ad. and at partcTopcroft 19!. i8s. a year. A decree in Chancery paficd Nov. vhich is covered by a feat, James Hobart, efq. Au- gufl 20, 1669. Befides thefe there are feveral memorials for others of this family. There is an under manor, or free-tenement, called Midleton-Hall, in this town, which belongs to Mrs. Whitaker, and is a good old feat ; here Richard de Midleton lived in 1373. This family continued here a long time. In 1558 Henry Reppes, of Mcndhara, died feifed of it; and in 1562 Richard Whetlcy, reclor of Homersfield, leafed his reftory to Baffing- bourn Gawdy, of Midlcton-Hall, in Mcndhaiu, efq. by E A R S H A M. 51 by whom it was fold, and fo became joined to the other manors. There is an ancient feat here, called Oaken-Hill, (but no manor) in which the family of the Batemans have refided ever fince the time of William Bateman, bifhop of Norwich. William Bateman, gent, of Mcndharn, lafr-ly dwelt there. Moft of this family have had the Chriflian name of William ever fmcc the bifliop's time. Mendham church is a good building, with a fquarc tower and five bells, haying a nave, two ailes, and fouth porch,' leaded, and chancel tiled, in which are feveral memorials, befides thofc already taken notice of. In the north ailc window, France and England in a bordure, gul. impaling or. an eagle difplayed fab. quartering Morley. On a mural monument againft the north chancel wall, In media -hujus-ce templi tramite, junta Cincrcs main's fua pietij/imae, Theop. Rant, fuos eliam voluit de- pom Fre/tonus Rani, armiger, cum quo una fepeliuntur urbanitas, el fuaviffima facetiarum copia, cum quo una abripiuntur ditijjima placcndi vena, animufque arflioris amialia neceffitudini accomodatus, hocjuvcne adempto, vix alterum reperies, aut liter arum Jcicntia prceccllcntiorcm au humanitate parcm, cum dijficilem legis Anglioe dottrinam, univcrjam fere quinquennium apud hojpitium Grayenfe Jtudio fane laudabili projtcutus eft, acerba Juis, luftuoja Jbdalibus, gravis omnibus, labori vitceque morsjinem im- pofuit 23 Sept. A. 1728, at. fuae 27. Et luftus et pietatus monumentum, pater fuus amantij/fimus, Jacobus Rant, atmiger, hoc marmor pofuit. E 4 Jamea 5? HUNDREDOF James Rant, efq. his father, is fmcc dead, and bu- ried by him ; and William Rant, efq. his only furvi- ving fon, lived in Mendham priory, which is fuua- tedjuftby the river Waveney, about live furlongs fouth-weft of the church, \vhcrc theie is a good old chapel flill left, which is kept clean and neat, but there is no manor remaining with the fcite. In the chancel, James Tirrtl, efq. May 22, 1636, 48. In the church-yard is a memorial for Johannis Kerrich, clerici regions de Sternefidd, in cumitatu Suf/cl- ci, Aincn. On another, Pray for the foule of Mrs. Anne Gawdye in the peace of God, 1350 Or ale pro anima 4gnetis Gaw- dye, que obijt xiv die Sept. anno Dni. MCCCCCX. cujus tuiinc propicittur Deus, Amen. A black marble in the altar-rails To Mrs. Ptm- lope D'Oyly, wife of the Rev. Mr. James l?0)iy, who died the %th of Oftober, 1721. The bodyes of John Rand, A. M. a. late painful p readier of the go/pel, at Redenhall cum Harlejlon, and of Anne, * We find in the old church -wardens book, that in I j$8 was received for fir Thomas Gawdy's grave 6s. 8d. In 1693 a feoff- ment made of the chapel and chambers, and town-clofe, which contained about three acres, and was lett at 4!. per ann. faid to be given by the Gawdys, the profits to be givdn to the poor every Chriftmas. The hamlet of Wortwcll was anfwerable for a fourth part of all charges, and it intercommons with Aid- burgh, and hath each a drift ; but there are no commons to Redenhall. In 1461 the chancel was levelled, and the org^n cafe pulled down. In 1464 the oroiles at the end of the chapels were taken down, and the pirtures in the chancel defaced. la 1761 paid the ringers for ringing when the king 'paflcd by. 74 H U N D R E D O F Anne, hit wife, and Elizabeth, their daughter, Sept. 27, 1 659. Here expeft the rejurretlion. three temples of l/ie Holy Ghoft, Ruirid by death, ly here as lojl; St. John s fell Jirft, St. Annzs next year, Then'St. Elizabeth fell here ; Tet a few day es, and thcs againe, Chrijl will re-build and in them rcigne"^.. The north vcftry is leaded, and the north chapel tiled, in which is an altar-tomb for fir Thomas Gaw- dy, buried here m 1588. The roof is adorned with ipread. eagles. There is an hatchment with the crcft and arms of Wogan, impaling Sandcroft. Several memorials are in the nave, in which (lands a fine large brafs eagle. Two ions of Henry Fenri, i of Rcdinghall, gent. Tobias, fon of Tobias Frere, gent, and Eliabeth, his fifler. AHo, Tobias Frere, cfq. February 6, 1655. On a neat mural monument again ft the fouth wall, at the weft end of the nave, Inpiam mcmoriam Tobia: Frere, armigeri, vidua ipji Juperjles, Doinina Sufanna Frere, una cumfilio, Tobia, monumcntum hoc arnoris et officij infigne Jlatui cur aver unt, obijt autem 66 agem. Febr. 6. anno Dni. 1655. J\ r e quisjuccumbatfato, ecdatvt Jepulchro, Non pietas, virtus, ncn medicina valet Cuique ejl difta, dies,jalix qui tempora vita Sic agit, utfit ei, grata fuprana dies. On J \Vhat a compofition of prcfumptuous fuperftition is here ? Three madsrn faints in one church lie buried, tempera * O morn / E A R S H A M. 73 On altar-tombs on the fouth fide of the church- yard, Jo/in Dove, clerk, obijt Martij 26, A. I). i6go at. 46 Edward Hart, Sept. 22, 1731. Stephen Free- man, of Harle/lon, gent, obiji anno at.Jutf 42, A.D, 1684. Infcriptions are on head-flones, To Hannah Wot- ton, March 12, 1715, at. 48. Fleetwood Wotton, gnti. her hujband, Jan. 17, ij$o,at. 68. Etnabetha Sara Kerrich, Jilia Guallcri et Anna, ob. 22 * die Apr. 1726, at.Juae 25. Sub hoc marmort reconduntur ancres Gnalleri Kcrrich, qui mortem obijt Jan. 8, I 705, atatis verqjtta. 38*. Thomas Baylie, gent. Nov. 20, 1717, at. 72. Mary, his wife, 1701, at. bi, June 21. The church is fituate near the midft of the parifli, fo that it might be equal to the tenants of the feveral manors, t>eing cqui-diflant alfo from its two principal hamlets of Harleflon, and VVortvvell, near a mile irom each. Redcnhall takes its name from* Rada, the dean, who was lord in the time of Edward the Confeflbr, and held it of Edric, the antcceflbr of Robert Malet, lord of the honor of Eye. It was then 3!. per ami. but rofe to 81. value, and was a mile and an half long, half a mile and three perches broad, and paid lod. to the Dane gelt. It extended into Alburgh and Starflon ; there were twenty free-men in this town, vvhofc rents Were 4.1. per aim. but they were after fe- parated from this manor, and added to earl Rail 's hundred "* Radanahalla, Doomfday-book. 76 HUNDRED OF hundred of Eaifliam. Ivo Tallcbois, af f .er the carl's forfeiture, got them for fome time, but being rcftored, they have continued ever fincc with the hundred. A free-man of Edric's had a part of the town, which the falconer to the earl afterwards held, and his manor, called HAWKER'S, was free from all fcrviccs to the capital hall, or manor, and afterwards held of the king, under Godric; as for the free-men, and fu- perior jurifdiclion of the xvhole town, they all be- longed to bifliop Stigand, by him were forfeited to the king, who committed the care of them to Wil- liam de Noiers, and they have ever fince paffed with the hundred. There are now only two lords here; Rcdcnhall cum Harleflon, the Icct, hundred-court, market, fairs, tolls, free-warren, and all fuperior jurifdiclion of the whole town, belong to his grace the duke of Norfolk, and have paffed with the carls and dukes of Norfolk, along with Forncet manor. The other manors are now joined, and belong to John Wogan, of Gawdy-hall, cfq. viz. the manors of Rcdenhall, Coldham-hall, Holbrook-hall, Merks, and Hawker's. They were all in the Bigots as one manor, and by them parted arid fold to different perfons. REDENHALL MANOR, and half the advowfon, was owned by Henry de Agneux, orAnews, and half by Richard de Argentine, in the time of Henry II. This Henry in 1 196 being a rebel to Richard 1. that king feized all his lands, and granted them for two hundred marks to Ralph de Lenham ; and in 1199 Walter himfelf confirmed the grant. In 1247 fir Nicholas de Lenham was lord, and in 1256 had a charter E A R S H A M. 77 charter for free-warren here, upon which Roger Ic Bigot, earl of Norfolk, lord of the hundred, arid fu- perior lord of the fee of the whole town, fued him, and fcized on this manor, becaufe he had leafed it. 10 the queen for fixtecn years, whole attornies the earl ejecled, the manor being held of him by 5!. yearly rent, and other fervices; and though the leafe was made to the queen, it was in effecl the fame as if it had been to the king, fo that no diilrefs could be taken ; but upon the king's granting him letters parent that the leafe fhouid not be to the dis-herifon of him, or his heirs, but that he might didrain for the rents and fervices, the earl confirmed it. In 1257 this fir Nicholas fold all his pOiTeflions here to Peter de Su- baudia, or Savoy. In 1261 Henry III. fays, that his beloved uncle, M after Peter de Savoy, furrendered into his hands to the ufe of prince Edward, his eldelt ion, the ma- nors of Rcdenhall, &c. and the king confirmed them to the prince and his heirs, and fo. to., the kings of England for ever; but ihe prince granted it with his father's confent to Nicholas de Yatingdon, and his heirs, to be held by the fervice of two fees. The other moiety continued in the Argentein fa- mily; though in 1206 William dc Cuicun gave twenty marks to king John to have it. In 1281 Giles de Argentein held here and in Thirning four fees of Richmond honor; his grand- father, Richard, having marriedjoan, widow of Ro- ger de Lenham, and this Giles conveyed it to Mailer Henry de Brantefton, who had the whole manor, and moiety of ihe advowfon. G Ofbcrt ?S HUNDRED OF Ofbert de Clinton, lord here in 1317, conveyed ic from Joan and her heirs to Thomas de Brothcuon, carl of Norfolk, marfhal of England, and his heirs; tvho in 1325 fettled it on triiftees, for Alice, one of his daughters and coheireflcs, married to fir Edward de Montacute, or Montague, who owned it in 1344, and mortgaged it to John de Coloigne, arid Thomas de Holbech, merchants, of London, by the king's patent and licence ; and in 1360 Edward, fon of Ed- xvard Montague, and Alice, his wife, one of the daughters and heircfles of Thomas de Brotherton, carl of Ndrfolk, held it; and in 1365, at the death 6"! Edward Montague, Etheldrcd, his filler, had it. In 1390 fhc married fir Hugh Straulcy, km. it after, in 1414, belonged to William Dc-U-Pole, earl of Suf- folk, and lord of Wingfield caflle ; and in 1485 William Catefbie owned it, who was attainted in the iQ of Henry VII. and that king granted it to fir Wil- liam Norrcys, knt. In 1558 it was granted to Tip-' per and DavvCj and foon after belonged to the Gaw- dys, and fo it came joined to the manor of HOLE- BROOK, or Gawdy-hall, which was held of the honor of Richmond at half a fee. This anciently belonged to the Turbeviles, of Devonshire, and Henry dc Tur* bevile was lord in 1223 ; it took its name from the fituation of the manor-houfc, being in a hole by the brook fide, the hills adjoining Hill retaining the name of Holebrook Hills, and are on the left hand of the road leading from Hailcfton to Yarmouth, near to \Vortwell Dove; but this was pulled down by the Gawdys when the houfe, called Gawdy-hall, was built, in which John Wogan, elq. the prcfcnt lord, now dwells, In 1230 Walter de Turbcvile was lord; he fcrved Henry III. with three knights, for one whole year, to Poi&ou, to be released of 150 marks due to that king. E A R S II A M. 7? kin. In i 259 Roger de Thirkelby, one ofilie jufti- c< s -itinerant, was lord here Li 1313 Robert Tcndo Vile, of Harlcftoh, fccms to have hacj it; and probably it continued in this family a whole century, for in i/)i4 Ricliard Tviitidle, of Dean, in Northampton - fhirc, owned it; it continued in the family till i 542, and then Thomas Tyndale, and Ofbcrt Mundeford, efqrs. conveyed it Robert Bacon, of Spcclcfball, cfq. and in 1551 the title was compleated. In 13 70 his ion and heir, Edward Bacon, cfq. had it, and foid it to Thomas Gawdy, cfq. and lo it became joined to- the MANOR of COLDHAM-HALL, which was held of the earls of Norfolk, and to which the moiety of thfe advowfon belonged, till fold from it. In 1259 \Va- rine dc Redenhall, lord of it, iinpleaded Roger Bigor, earl of Norfolk, to permit him to enjoy certain liber- ties belonging to this manor, which he held of him. In 1303 Simon de Coldham, of Redcnhalt, (from vJioiu it took its pielent name) ibid the moiety of the, advowfon which belonged to it, and ihc manoi, (ex- cept an hundred Qiillings, land, and fomc rents, after- wards called Mcik's manor) to fir William dc Burgis, Lnt. and in 1309 the faid fir William, and Thomas dc Burgis, inld the moieiy of the advowlon to Tho- mas de Brothertoh, earl ol -Norfolk, (patron of the other moiety) and the manor to John dc Rivcfhale, or Rufhall. It afterwards belonged to the De-la-Poltb r and continued in the earls of Suffolk till the attainder of Charles duke of Suffolk; and in 1551 was grant*- cd by Philip and Mary to Edward lord North, and afterwards it was purchafed by the Gawdys. , In 1510 John Gawdy, of Harlefton was Imii^d iri Rsdenhall church. In 15-2-3 Thomas Gawdv, of Womvell, gent, ob* tained a iiianumilfion oi ail his luudi in Memlbam G 2 Metficld So II U N D R E D O F Metfield, and Witherfdale, held of the manors of Metfield priory, and King's-hail, of the prior of Mendham. In 1545 Thomas Gawdy, of Redcnhall, fen. and in i 5^6 Thomas Gawdy, jun. efq. of Harlcflon, were buried in Redenhall church. In 1370, Thomas, the elded fon of the latter, put- chafed Weybrede manor of William Calthorpe, efq, and in 15 82 he fold this manor to fir Thomas Gawdy, knt. he was one of the king's judges, but dying in 1588 was buried here, being feifed of Claxton, Hel- lington, Rockland, Poringland, 8cc. leaving Henry Gawdy, efq. his fon and heir ; and in 1615 fir Henry and fir Ctipefby Gawdy, knts. were lords. In 1633 fir Thomas Gawdy, knt. and it was mortgaged by Charles Gawdy, efq. to Tobias Frere, who afterwards purchafedit. In 1654 he was one of the juftices of peace for Norfolk, a fequeftrator, and member in parliament, and was buried here in 1655, leaving Su- fannah, his widow, and Tobias, his fen and heir ; his widow married John Wogan, efq. who was lord here in 1688 ; and now John Wogan, efq. is lord of all the aforefaid manors, which arc joined with the MANOR of MERKS, which was part of Coldham- hall manor, that continued in the Redenhall family as aforefaid, and was fold to John de Marleburgh, of whom John de Redenhall purchafed.it in 13*5, and held it of the earl of Norfolk at the eighth part of a fee; it came after, 1358, to James Ormond, carl of Wilts, and at his attainder to the crown. It was granted by Edward IV. with feveral manors in Suffolk, to fir Thomas Waldegrave; and palling through divers hands in the year 1551, it was pur- chafed by Robert Bacon, and joined as aforefaid. HAWKER'* E A R S H A M. 81 HAWKER'S MANOR firft belonged to Edric, of whom it was held in the Confeffbr's time by one of his free- men, when it was worth 205. per ann. After the coriqueft Ralph Guader, or Wayct. earl of Norfolk, had it, and gave it, to be held free of his capital ma- nor, to Roger, his hawker, or falconer, who held it free from all fervicc but that of falconer : when the king had the capital manor by earl Ralph's forfeiture, and when Godric, to whom he had intruded the care of it, claimed fervices of him, he appealed to the king (of whom he held it freely) as his proteclor, and was difcharged accordingly ; from this tenure the manor and lord-; alfo took their names. The record, called Te/ta de Ncvil, tells us, that Warine le Oftricer, or Hawker, fon of the faid Roger, held it by the grand ferjeanty of keeping a gofs-hawk for the king's ufc, and carrying it every year to the king at his majefty's colt. This Warine added much to the manor, by purchafe from Maud de Beauchamp, in isggt. In 1380 the manor-houfe had 144 acres of demefne, and the manor was found to extend into Aldburgh, and other adjacent towns. Soon after, 1436, it paffed to Robert Clifton, coufin to fir John Clifton, of Buckenham-caftle, from which time it paffed with Topcroft, and Denton ; all which in 1481 Thomas Brewfe, in right of Elizabeth, his wife, had affigned to him as parcel of the lands of Robert de Clifton : it continued with the faid ma- nors till 1621, and in that year John Brewfe, gent, fold his manor of Hawker's, cum Shacklock's, to To- bias Frere, efq. and in 1627 John Brewfe, and Tobias Frerc, cfqrs. conveyed it to fir Clipefby Gawdy, knt. andfo it became joined to the other manors. G 3 WORTWELL * This family of the Hawkers were very numerou?, and many of them had good cftates here, and elfewhere. is HUNDRED OF \VORTVVELL MANOR was form after the conqutfl in a family called Pcccatum, or Pccchc. In 1196 Gilbert Pccche a benefaclor to Burv abbey, held two fees of thathoufc in Wortwcll, Ihrleflon. and Drinkflon, in Suffolk. In 1298 it belonged to William Carliol, arid the manor then extend. -d into Aldburgh : this family lived in the manor-houfc for fevcral defcents. In 1428 Robert Warner was lord, in which family it continued till 1/546, when Jolm, third fon to Brian Holland, of Wortwcll, married Ann, daughter and hcirefs of Robert Warner, of Wingficld, with whom he had this manor: this John came and fettled at Wortwell-hall, and purchafed the greateft. part (if not the whole) of the copyhold: it hath continued in this family till this day, it being now owned by the heirs pf the late fir William Hol- land, bart. HARLESTON, anciently called Herolf'Aon, and ITe- rolvcflon, from Herolf, one of the Danifh leaders that earns with Swain, king of Denmark, into Britain, about the year 'jpio, in order to fubdue the Eafl-An- gles, and bring them under their power; \vhich they did fo effccl.ua 1 1 y, as to feize their poffeiTions ; and it is mod likely that Herolf fettled here, and gave name to the place, which is, and always was, of fmall extent, ior it never contained more than twenty-five acres of land in its bounds, which at the Conqueror's furvey was divided (as it now continues) into two parts, thirteen acres of it, held by Frodo, being added to Mendham, to which it now belongs, as the other twelve do to the hundred of Earfharn, on which the chapel and town now (land, being the Middle-row only; the reft (though commonly called Harleflon) being in the parifh of Redenhail, to which this is a chapel of cafe, and hamleu The E A R S H A M. 83 The manor alwys attended the hundred of Ear- fham, and flill continues with it, in the Norfolk fa- mily, and the houfes are all copyhold, except thofe called the ftonc-houfes, which are free. On this fpot of ground formerly flood Hcrolf's ftone, or crofs, where Richard de Herolvefton, about 1109, fettled, and took his firname from hence ; from whom de- fcended the famous fir John Herolvefton, fo often mentioned in our Englifh Chronicles for his valiant prowcfs in martial exploits, and particularly for be- ing a great inftrument in quelling the grand rebel- lion in thefe counties in the time of Richard II. of whom much may be feen in Froiflart, Holingfhed, and Stowe's Chronicles: from him defcended the fa- mily of the Harleftons, of good account in both counties. They had eftates in Shimpling, in Suf- folk, fettled at Norwich, and afterwards at Mattifhall, in Norfolk ; archbithop Parker married one of them. This town hath a weekly market on Wednefdayv and two fairs in a year ; one is held on Midfummer- day, being the nativity of St. John the Baptift, to whom the chapel is dedicated, fa that this is the feaft, wake, or dedication day; and the other was granted by Henry III. in the year 1259, to Roger le Bigot, carl of Norfolk, and marfhal of England, to laft eight days, viz. the vigil, and day of the decolla- tion of.St John the Baptift, and fix days after. The faid carl had a hundred-court held here every three weeks, and the toll of the market and fairs, affizc of bread and ale, free-warren, and waif. In 1570 there was a rebellion intended to have been begun here. The chapel of St. John the Baptift was a free chapel, founded, in all probability, by fir John de G 4 HerolfHon, .$4 H U N D R E D OF HcroHfton, for his;own ufe ; It never had any infli- tution, but was always dependent upon its mother church at Redenhall, the rec"tor of which ferves here one part of the day every Sunday; it hath admini- fl ration of both facraments belonging to it, but not burial ; the flreet furrounds it, fo that there is no convenience for that purpofe. At the caft. end is the inarket-crofs, which, with the chapel, was rebuilt about i 726"". Jt is tiled, hath one bell, and a good clock in a fort of a cupola, for there is no tower. 'In j688, being almoft ufelefs, and deferted for want of fit endowment, that pious and charitable prelate, William Sandcroft, archbifhop of Canter- bury, fettled on the matter, fellows, and fcholars, of Emanuel college, in Cambridge, 54!. per ann. paya- ble quarterly out of the hereditary revenues of the ex- cifc, in trufl and fpecial conhdence that they will re- ceive it, and conftantly nominate a chaplain and fchoolmaftcr, and pay it fo received to him, " Upon " condition, and folong as he the faid chaplain, and M. .chaplains, or fchool mafler, and fchoolmaflers, for " the time being, fhall perform and celebrate pub- " lickly in the (aid chapel at Harlcflon aforefaid the 't-.tJae daily office of Divine fervice, morning and 'V evening, on eveiy day of the week throughout the " year (except only the Lord's days, when the inha- " ibitants of Harleflon are bound to repair to the " mother church of Redenhall aforefaid) according to * Being a free chapel was diflfolved by the ftatute of Edward VI. and became .afterwards vefted in ,the inhabitants., and was by them fettled on feoifees, to their ufe. In 1726 it was .re- paired at the expence of nool. feven hundred of which was raifcd in the parifli by contribution only, and the rqft by the neighbouring gentlemen. ]Part"of'jt was formerly hi&de^ a mar'kct-crofs, and chambers over it, but th-e whole is\no\T;lai.d' inly the chapel as at f.rt, and a crofs built at its eaft end. E A R S H A M. $5 " to the Liturgy of the Church of England by law ," cftabliChed ; and alfo to hold and keep a public " fchool there, for the education of youth, in fome " convenient place near the faid chapel, which the " inhabitants of Harleflon aforefaid, in confederation " of the great benefit which bv this donation may " accrue to them and thcir-children, sre dcfired from " time to time to provide ; and particularly, befides " the common grounds of learning, fliall teach and " inflruct all his fcholars in that excellent Catechifm " of the church of England, and caufe them to get " the fame perfectly by heart, together with the Ni- " cene, and Athanafian Creeds ; the Te Deum, and " fuch other prayers, pfalms, and hymns, as arc " contained in the Primmer, and common Prayer- " book, and are fit for every good Chriftian to learn " and ufe ; and alfo to take care, that all the fcho- " lars whom he fhall undertake to teach be con- " ftantly prefent, with himfelf, at the prayers of the " church, whenever they fhall be publicly performed " in the faid chapel, and behave thcmfelves foberly " and pioufly there, and be taught to ufe fuch gef- 41 turts, and make fuch anfwcrs as the church pre- " fcribes." The mafter and tellows, under their col- lege feal, arc for ever to nominate fome able and competent pcrfon in holy orders, to be licenfed by the bHhop to read prayers, and teach fchool here. The prefent chaplain and fchoolmafler was nomi- nated by the mailer arid fellows, receives the annual falary, and keeps fchool in a houfc provided for that purpofe by the inhabitants. Other benefactions here arc, A rent charge of 405. per ann. payable out of the profits of the bul- lock fair held here, and the annual intcreft of aool. given by Mr, Dove, for a fchoolmafier to teach poor boys 86 HUNDREDOF boys to read, and write, with which an rilnte is pur- chafed in Rufhall, and the profits are enjoyed by tii6 ichoolmafler. This hamlet is in the liberty of the duke of Nor- folk, as well as Redenhall. RUSHALL, RIVESSALLA, or REFVE'S-HALL. fo called from the Prepofitus, or Reeve of the hundred, that anciently dwelt there, ws in three parts ; the firft (which belonged to bifhop Stigand) was feizcd by the conqueror, and was afterwards granted to the Bigots, and hath attended the manor and hun- dred of Earfham to this time : his grace the duke of Norfolk keeping leet here, is lord paramount in right of the hundred. In 1285, Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, had free-warren allowed him here. The fecond was, RtrsHALL MANOR, which before the confeflbr's 'lime belonged to Bury abbey, who infeofled Henry in it, but at the conqueifc it was given to Ralfh Peverel, of whom Warincus held it, it being then of 3!. per ann. value. The town was then half a mile long, and five furlongs broad, and paid bd. geld. The third part belonged to Stigand, of whom Bricnic, a Dane, held it ; the conqueror gave it to. Robert Fitz-Corbun, of whom Gunfrid held it at the furvey ; this was afterwards divided into many parts, and conflituted the manors called Vauce's, Sturmer's, Branched, St. Faith's, and Langley, or the re&ory manor. RUSHALL-HALL, or the capital manor, was held of the honor of Peverel at one fee, by Warincus, whofe iucceffor, Alan, affumed the name of Rivefhale, or Rufhall, E A R S H A M. 87 Ruri all, from this his lordfhip ; his fon, Miles ds Rivefhale lord here, gave in free alms to the monks at Norwich ; he was fuccecded by Sir Henry de Rivcfhale, knt. who in 1263 obtained a charter of free-warren for this manor, and that o Semere in Suffolk, ot Henry HI. Mis grand fon, John de Rive- fhale. left Winefia, his daughter, fole heirefs, who held it atone fee in I34 r >, and by her marri-ge with Sir Oliver Withe, carried it out of the R vefhale fa- mily. Sir Oliver Withe being thus pofTeffed of this, purchafcd the other manors of Vauce's, Branche's, and Sturmyn's, in this town and Pulham, and joined them to Rufhall hall, the demefnes of them being excepted, having paffed fcparate to this day. the demefnes of Branche's in Rufhall making one farm, and thofe in Pulham another, both which arc novy known by their antient names. From the Withes thev came to the CarboneJs, Sir Robert Carbonel being the firft lord of that fami- ly, whofe (on, Sir John Carbonel, knt. poiTeifed them in 1421, and in 1425 Sir John Heveningham fen. knt. owned them ; they after paffed thro 1 the Groofes and Calthorpes ; and in i ^65 Thomas Bcanrnnnd, and Thomas Gooch, fold ihe manors of Rufhall-hall, Vaunce s, or Vauce's, Stuimyn's, and Branche's, in Rufhall, Pulhr.m,Dickleburgh, Harlefton, Rcdcnhall. and Dils, 10 Thomas Crane, and hb heirs. In 1571 Anthony Tebold had it, it a'lerwards was purchafeci by the Pettus family, and haih continued in it fornc time, the heirs of Sir Horatio Pettus, bart. of Rack- heath, being the prefcnt proprietors, but hold no court, the whole being either purchafed in, or manu-. mifcd, and the demefnes are about 30!. per ann, The PRIORY is a farm-houfe, owned by the Bal- lards of Mctingham ; it is fo called as belonging SS HUNDREDOF amicmly to the priory of Buckcr.ham, to which it was given by Richard de Sengles, together with his whole tenement, in Rufhall, and Lincroft a ham- let thereto. In 1401 the prior ofBuckenham held it at the fourth part of a fee, and was taxed for his temporalities at 3!. 2S. At the diflblution it went to the crown, and was granted by Philip and Mary to Thomas Gawdye, and was held by Anthony Gawdye, who conveyed it to Sir Baffingbourn Gaw- dye, knt. The RECTORY, or LANGLEY MANOR, confided of two parts, the firfl was the manor originally belong- ing to the reclory before its appropriation ; the other was a manor owned by Wulnard Bctckarl, and after by Euftace dc Hoe, whofe daughter, Imbria, before 1195, was married to Baldwin de Burcs. the then lord. This was after given to the abbot of Langley, and joined to the impropriation ; but the whole hath been long fmce manumifed, and no court is now kept for thele manors. The abbot held it at half a fee of Horsford, and fo of Eye honor, and was tax- ed for his temporalities at 5!. 6s. This xvas given in divers parcels to this abbey; and in 1427 the abbot of Langley was profecuted for purchafing and hold- ing 200 acres of land in Rufhall of lay fjr, but up- on proving that all his lay -fees here were joined to his fpiritual impropriate reclory, and taxed with it as fpirituals, and that he was ccfled for it with the clergy, he was acquitted. The : Prior of St. Faith, at Horfham, had a quarter of a fee of the founder's gift in this parifh, held of the honor of Eye, it was firfl taxed at 303. after, as fpirituals, 3t 405. and fo paid 45. tenths, ail E A R S H A M. S 9 'all the tithes belonging to it being paid to St. Faith's, and not to the redor, or vicar. This houfe was taxed at 255. d. for their temporalities in Rufhall. Being vefted in the crown, Henry VIII. in the gStli year of his reign, granted all the lands, rents, and poflfeffions belonging to the priory of Horfham, late in the tenure of Catherine Branche, to John Caryll, and his heirs. The Reclory was given to the abbey of Langley, and appropriated to that houfe. In the old tax- ation, the abbot of Langley was taxed for his manor and lands at fix marks ; the reclory was valued at fifteen, and in the new valuation at twenty-fix mark::. There was a houfe, manor, and carticare of land be- fore the impropriation; the vicarage endowed was valued at five marks, but was not taxed ; the vica- rage is difcharged of firfl fruits and tenths, and is ca- pable of augmentation ; it ftands thus in the king's books : 4!. Rufhall vicarage, 30!. clear yearly value. In 1548 Edward VI. granted to John Pykarel, and John Barnard, the tithes, glebes, 8cc. with the appurtenances of Rufhall reclory, late parcel of Lang- ley monaflery, paying 2os. per ann. to the vicar; in the time of Queen Elizabeth, a confirmation of it pafled to the Gleres, and in 1603 Sir Edward pre- iented to the vicarage, as an appurtenant to the re&ory ; it was afterwards conveyed to Thomas Sherwoood, who in the reign of James I. fold about feventy acres, with the parfonage houfe, to one Ket, but excepted the tithes, 8cc. and fixed 6s. 8d. per ann. to the vicar for his dividend of the aos. a year ; it belonged after that to the Redes, and then to William Long, in right of his wife, and he fold k to the Branfbys, and being; fold by James Braufbv, Elq. $o H U N D R E ti 6 Efq. of Shottifham, to Emmanuel college, in Cam- bridge, they are now rented of that focicty at 85!. los. per aim. The i'mall tithes belong to the vicar. In 1605 there were ninety-two communicants in the parifh. In i 620, John Thirleby was prcfenied by the crown, and was the laft vicar, it being lerve'd by (equellration 'til the year i 733, and in 1764 the Rev. John Stockdale was prcfented to this vicarage by James Branfby Efq. and again in 1774. The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, hath a fteeple round at bottom and oclangular at top, and only one bell, the nave, chancel, and fbuth porch are tiled. There was a fmall chapel on the north fide of the nave, which is now demolifhed, in which there was an altar, image, and guild held, all in the honor of the Holy Trinity, to fuflain which there was a clofe given at Bonwcll-Crofi'"". The ftone of John Braunch lies in the middle of it, but hath loft an effigy in armour {landing on a lion, and lour fhieids ; he had good eftatcs ia the town. There are no copyholds but fuch as are held of the manors that are in other places and extend hither, as Semcrc's, in Mcndham, Gunfhaw's, in Starflon, Manclcrk's, in Dicklebui gh, Sec. STARSTON, STERSTON V , or STERES-TOWN, was an- ciently in many parts ; the head manor belonged to Bury abbey, and was infeoffed by the abbot in Roger Bigot, who obtained of the king a free-man and his fervices * Thefe lands contain fix acres, lying i three pieces, and are in feoftces hands to repair the church with the profits. There is alfo i town-hoafe for the poor. There -re two pieces ot Irad belonging Co Ncedham ihat lie in this ton n? A R S H A M. 91 fervices here, which belonged to the mona fiery at HJv ; and another part, which was Stignnd's, he had as belonging to his manor of Earfham; all whi:li he left to his fucceffors, and they continued in his fa- inily till one of them granted off two fees, which made ivvo manors, to be held of the manor of Forncet, and referred the fuperior jurifdiction, leet. and advovvfon) with liberty of warren, &:c. to his heirs; all which have pafled, and now continue (except the advowfcn. with the manor, and hundred of Earfham, in the iluke of Norfolk, lord thereof, the chief part of the town being free fuitors to the hundred-court at Har- lefton. The town at the Conqueror's furvey was a mile and five furlongs long, and five furlongs broad, and paid i^d. gelt. STARSTON-HALL MANOR being granted from the Bigots to be held of Forncet at one fee, was owned by Bartholomew Evercus, or Devereux, and was foon after, 1308, fold to James Herwardcftoke. John de Herwardeftoke, citizen of London, ibid it to Ro- bert de Bumpftead, citizen of Norwich; and his Cong fold it to Roger Pycot; whole fon, fir Bartholomew Pycot, knt. was lord in 1375. Thomas Pycot, efq. was lord in 1432, and left the manor at his death, vefted in truftees for the ufeof his daughters and heireffes, who fecm to have married Hugh Auftvn, uf Frarnlingham-calile, gent. Hamon le Strange, e(q. of the king's houfhold ; Roben Bernard, ek]. and Chnflopher Calihory)e, ciq. htld h-;s firit court in 1515, in right of his wife. Sir James Galthorpe, of Cotklhorpe, in th hundred of North Grcer.Lr was lord in 1610; it was ti.cn tlie chief manor in the town, and had a convenient nouie belonti:j toil; si afterwards belonged to the Wiltons, ot Wiibv, in ' 9 2 HUNDRED OF the hundred of Shropham, was mortgaged to John Strange, of Rcd-Lion-Square, and is fmcc ovvucd by Mr. Mills, of London. BRESINGHAM'S MANOR takes its name from its an- cient lords ; Walter de Brefingham was lord about 1235, and it continued in the family till 1462. when John Brefmgham. cfq. died, and was buried in Brock- difh church ; he left the manor to Elizabeth, daugh- ter of William Grice, of Brockdifh, his wife, and her heirs ; it continued in the Grices till they (old it to the Pycots, or Pigots ; and in 1578 William Pycot was lord, who fold it to Bartholomew Cotton, efq. In his time it was returned to have a houfe, dcmefnes, and royalties, but no copyhold tenants, nor court baron, the whole being manumifed, and the free- holders belonging to it paid but igs. per ann. free rents: he died June 21, 1613, aged 76, and lies bu- ried under a fumptuous monument on the north fide of the chancel; his effigy, with a ruff about his neck, is kneeling at a dcfk, with his creft and armo- rial bearing. An altar-tomb, with Cotton's arms, To "John Luckin Cotton, gent, who (being about 23 years of age) was interred Jan. 17, 1634, and cj his two infant Jons. Several others of this family lie buried in the chanceL In 1689 Robert King, of Great Thurlow, in Suf- folk, in right of his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Steward, of Barton-Mills, in Suffolk, was lord here, and lived hi 1 703 ; his fon, Thomas, about 1698, was killed by Sir Sewfler Peyton, bart. but by a fitter and heir of Sir John Cordel left one fon ; flie died his widow in 1 706. STABSTON- E A R S H A M. 95 StjsrRon-Place is now owned by Waldegrave Pel- liam, efq. and is a good Houfe, near the church. BECKHALL MANOR is fo called from the fcite of it (long fincc demolifhed.) being near the beck, or rivu- let, that runs through this village. It was very an- ciently in William de Bovilc's hands, who held it at one fee of Forncct manor. In 1296 William dc Ingham had it ; and after, 135$, it pafled with Hing- ham, in the hundred of Happing, to the Stapletons. In 1418 fir Miles Stapleton, km. was lord, and it continued in the family till 1501, when Dame Eliza- beth Fortcfcue, daughter and heirefs of fir Miles Sta- pleton, firfl the wife of fir William Calthorpe, after of fir John Fortefcue, lord chief juflice, and laftly of fir Edward Howaid (while Fortefcue's widow) fettled it on the heirs of her body, and fo it came to the Calthorpes, afterwards to the Gawdys, and was joined by the Cottons to Bremngham manor. BOUTON'S, or BOLTON'S MANOR, paffed in a great nieafure like the manor of the fame name in Hard- wick. In 1285 William le Claver had it ; whofc grand-daughter and heiiofs, Maud, married Walter de Burwood. It was fold by Wiiliam Greham. efq. to Peter Glcane, of Norwich, at which time it had no houfe, but feveral copyhold tenants belonging to it. GUNSHAW'S MANOR, in Starflon, Needham, Sec. was anciently held by William de Arches, of John dc Mcndham, at half a fee; it formerly belonged to the Keylocks, and was purchafed of the Wifemans about the time of Charles I. by Mr. Stiles, of Codenham, whofe wife married a fccond hufband, and held it for life. It hath a farm-houfc, and about 50!. per ann. bcfides the royalty, and many copyhold tenants. It H is 4 HUNDRED Of is now (Blomeficld) owned by Mr. Nun, of S'outh- vvold, in Suffolk. The fcveral manors of Seymer's, and Hunting- field's, in Mendham ; Gunfhaw s, and Buit's, in Keedliam, Pulham, &c. and Payone's, in Demon, extend hither. The church of Starfton is dedicated to St. Mar- garet. The rc&or hath a good houfc, and about forty-three acres of glebe; there are no cuftoms. all tithes being due in their proper kind; it is undif- charged of tenths and firft fruits, and iiands thus, in the king's books: 15!. Starflon rcc"lory. il. los. yearly tenths. in the old value it was valued at thirty marks, and the town paid clear to every tenth 3!. 155. The monks of Thetford had lands here, and the tidies anting therefrom were anciently valued at 205. but were afterwards compounded for perpetually at 6s. per ann. and in 1612 was paid bv the reor to the lord of Aflaclon manor, in right of Thetford priory; at the fame time alfo the relor paid a penfion of 35. 4d. to Mendham priory, as a perpetual compofuion. for the tithes of that part of their manor of Hunting- field's which extended hither, for which lands that houfe was taxed 245. ad. ob. The prior of Norwich had temporals in the parifh, taxed at 53. lod. and the priorefs of Garrowe at i4d. The advowfon continued in the dukes of Norfolk till 1699. In 1603 the re&or returned 120 communicants in the parUh. There E A R S H A M. 95 There is a neat monument, with the creft and arms of Arrowfmith, impaling Smith ofCratficld. Thomas Arrowfmith, M. A, reflor of this parijh and Aldburgk 30 yean \ he died March 2 5, 1 7 29, In 1725, Angtifl 15, Philip Williams, S. T. B. fellow, and Come time prefident of St. John's college, Cambridge, was prcfented by fir Ro-.vland Hill, bart. by purchafe from the duke of Norfolk, he being obliged to prefent a fellow of St. John's college, in Cambridge; and in 1769 the Rev. Thomas Framp- ton, D. D. was prcfented to the re&ory by fir Row- land Hill, bart. of Hawkftone, in Shropfhire. The tower is fquare, and hath five bells : the nave is leaded, and the fouth porch and chancel are tiled. On a brafs by the church door, William Bugott, gentleman, died Nov. 1580. In 1740 Thomas Aldous, a poor man, was buried here, aged 106 years. Twenty fhillings a year is paid to the ufe of the poor, out of 'he cftate of John Smith, late of Har- lefton, butcher, and fince owned by francis Bouerit, of St. James's, Suffolk. There is a town-houfe for four families, and an inconfiderablc quantity of town land. THORPE-ABBOTS, fo called to diftinguifh it from other villages of this name, it being for many ages part of the poffcrlions of the abbot of Bury, and oif thofc manors that were appropriated to ihe abbot's own ufe ; and from its being much larger than the ether neighbouring villa, called Thorpe Parva. in H 2 Difs g6 HUNDREDOF Difs hundred, it is often nnmed Thorpe Magna, and of late years Thorpe Comvvallis, fiom its lords. This town belonged to Ailfric bifhop of Elmharn, in the time of king Edgar, who gave it to Bury ab- bey, to which it belonged ever fince, to its diffolution, the abbots of that houfc being always lords and patrons. At the furvey the manor was feven furlongs long, and fix broad, and paid 4d. gelt, or tax. The church had twelve acres of glebe, then worth 2s. a year, the abbot had the foe, or fupcrior jurifdiclion here, exempt from the hundred, except the fervices of two free-men, which belonged to Earfham ; and in all re- turns made to the king, the abbot is faid to hold this town as part of his barony. In 1285 Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, as lord of Earfham hundred, claimed free-warren here, but it was not allowed him, the abbot recovering it againft him, proving by Doomfday-book that he was folc lord, and had the paramoumfhip of Thorpe in right of his church, exempt from the hundred. About thii time Robert de Thorpe held it by leafe, for life, from the abbot, and it appears that he had a good eftate in the town, for in 1271 he purchafed of Arnold de Bedingfield feveral lands here, and in Billingford. At the diiTolution it was bought of Henry VIII.* by Giles Bridges, eiq. citizen and draper of London, fori * There was a fee-farm rent referved to the Crown of lol. I as. 8d. per ann. which was granted among other fee-farm rents by king William to the lord Oflulfton, afterwards carl of Tan- kc'rville, and is now paid to the honorable Horatio Walpole. E A R S H A M. 97 fon of fir John Bridges, knt. lord-mayor of London : this Giles conveyed it to Robert Southwell, efq. wh(* in 1546 fold it to Thomas Cornwallis, efq. and his heirs ; he was afterwards knighted, and became a man of great figure and reputation. [An account of him and his dependents (who have been lords here) may be feen in the fourth volume of the Peerage, edit. London, 1741, p. 175.] The right honorable Charles Cornwallis, earl Cornwallis of Eye, vifcount Brome, and baronet, conflable of the Tower of Lon- don, lord lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets, lieutenant general of his majefty's forces, and colonel of the ^gd regiment of foot, is now lord and patron, and haih the leet here. His lordfhip hath ferved in Ame- rica with great honor ; a circumftance which does not often occur in a ftatc of political war-fare. ' The reclory (lands thus in the king's book : 61. Thorpe-Abbots rcdlory, 49!. clear yearly value. And being difcharged of firit fruits and tenths, is ca- pable of augmentation. In Doomfday-book we find that the church is dedi- cated to All Saints, and the re&or had a houfe and nine acres of land, -Sec. that were valued at fifteen marks. The vicarage was diffolved, and fell into the re&ory. The abbot of Bury was taxed for his temporalities here, viz. the manor, dcmcfncs, mi\\,Jilva cedua. Sec. at 20!. 45. id. and the village paid 365. clear to every tenth. The rectors were prefcnted by the abbots of Bury from 1303 to 1538. In gS HUNDREDOF In 1603 the relor returned fixty-three communi- cants ; and in 1607 the rector was presented by Mary coumefs of Bath, younger daughter of fir Thomas Cornwallis, knt. on whom he had fettled this town for life. In 1 757 the Rev. Nathaniel Scott was prefentcd to the reclory of Thorpe-Abbots, alias Cornwallis, by- carl Cornwallis. The fteeple is round at bottom, and octangular at top, having a clock and two bells; the chancel, chuich, and fouth porch, are tiled. There was a brafs by the pulpit with this on it : Orate pro anima Rogtri Harvey, cujus anime propicietur Dcus. The arms of the Eaft Angles, and Bury abbey, are in the windows, but no other memorials fave a piece of black marble fixed into the fouth iide of the wall in the church-yard with this: Near this place lieth the body of Sitjan, late wife of Henry Chamberlain, late of Flor don-hall, who died March i, 1707, aged 7 1 years. University of California SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1388 Return this material to the library from which it was borrowed. THE LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOP, NOBLES 8 0159 UC SOUTHERN REGIONAL LIBRARY FACILITY 000007507 7