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 AN 
 
 ESSAY 
 
 TOWARDS A 
 
 TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 COUNTY OF NORFOLK. 
 
 VOLUME I. 
 
 CONTAINING THE HUNDREDS OF 
 
 DISS, GILTCROSS, AND SHROPHAM.
 
 AN 
 
 ESSAY 
 
 TOWAllDS A 
 
 TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 COUNTY OF NORFOLK, 
 
 CONTAINING A 
 
 DESCRIPTION or THE TOWNS, VILLAGES, 
 AND HAMLETS, 
 
 WITH THE FOUNDATIOXS OF 
 
 MONASTERIES, CIlLllCIIKS, CHAPELS, CHANTRIES, AND 
 OTHER RELIGIOL'S liUlLDLNGS: 
 
 ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF 
 
 The Ancient and Present State of alt the lUc/ories, Vicarages, Donatives, and 
 Iniprupriatiuns, their I'ormcr and I'raeiit I'utrons and Jncuinhen/s, -atth their 
 several Valuations in the King's Books, whether discharged or not : 
 
 LIKEWISE, 
 
 AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CASTLES, SEATS, AND 
 MANORS, THEIR PRESENT AND ANCIENT OWNERS; 
 
 TOGtTllER WITH THE 
 
 Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Anns in all the Parish Churches, and Chapels ; with 
 
 several Di au^hts of' Churches, Monuments, Arms, Ancient liuins, and other 
 
 RELICKS OF ANTIQUITY. 
 
 COLIECTED OOT OF 
 
 LEDGER-BOOKS.REGISTERS, RECORDS, EVIDENCES, DEEDS, COURT-ROLLS, 
 AND OTHER AUTHENTICK MEMORIALS. 
 
 BY FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD, 
 
 RECTOR OF FERSFIELD IN'NOUFOLK. 
 
 Kos patria; fines, et dulcia scripsimus ana. Viro. 
 
 VOLUME 1. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
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 BY W. BULMER, AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW, ST. JAMES's. 
 
 1805.
 
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 MOST NOBLE 
 
 CHARLES 
 
 DUKE OF NORFOLK, 
 
 EAR L-M A R S H A L, 
 
 AND 
 
 HEREDITARY EARL-MARSHAL OF ENGLAND, 
 
 EARL OF ARUNDEL, SURRY, AND NORFOLK, 
 BARON HOWARD, MOWBRAY, 
 
 ^■c. <5c. 4"C. SfC. 
 
 NOT MORE DISTINGUISHED BY 
 
 NOBLE ANCESTRY, HEREDITARY HONOURS, 
 
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 OF ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCH: 
 
 IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY 
 
 HIS GRACE'S 
 
 AlOST OBLIGED, MOST DEVOTED, AND 
 MOST HUMBLE SERVANT, 
 
 WILLL\M MILLER. 
 
 A 
 -A/ 
 
 1SS5^;10S
 
 ADVERTISEMENT 
 
 TO 
 
 THE SECOND EDITION. 
 
 In presenting to a numerous and most respectable body 
 of Subscribers, the first volume of an expensive and im- 
 portant republication, the Publisher feels it an incumbent 
 duty of justice and gratitude, to acknowledge the prompt 
 and liberal patronage Avith which his Proposals have been 
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 able increase that has taken place upon every article con- 
 nected with literary publication, and the great expense 
 that must consequently be incurred in republishing a work 
 so extensive as Blohkfield's Norfolk. 
 
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 pated all fears upon the subject of expense, the Puljlisher 
 has been anxiously solicitous to evince his gratitude, by 
 a minute and scrupulous attention to render this edition 
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 The careful examination to which this volume has been 
 subjected in passing a second time through the press has 
 detected several typographical errours that appear in the 
 folio edition ; the most imj)ortant of these errours have
 
 viii Ai)Vi.ini>r.Mr.NT 
 
 been lomcttil ; Imt in some lew instances it has been 
 touml impo-jsiblc to makt- the corrections without a rtt'cr- 
 cncc to the orijjinal ilocunicnts, wliich cannot now be 
 
 obtained. 
 
 Sonie |)a^'es of Aiblenda that were j»iven by tlic Autlior 
 ill ilctaclied parts, are now, in their pro|)er places, incor- 
 por.iletl into the body of the work ; and it is lioped tijat 
 the arrangement, of the text, an<l the notes particularly, 
 will be found more distinct than in the former edition. 
 
 To facilitate a reference to particular parts previous to 
 the publication of the Cicucral Indexes, which cannot 
 appear till the conclusion of the work, a new index of the 
 hundreds and parishes is given, and will be continued at 
 the end of each succeeding volume. 
 
 An high degree of curiosity being always telt re- 
 spectin;4 the persons and manners of those wliose dis-- 
 tinguished merit has entitled them to celebrity and publick 
 ap|irobation, the portraits of eminent literary characters 
 are generally much valued and esteemed. 
 
 Considerable exertion has therefore been made to dis- 
 cover a Portrait of the Norfolk Top()gra|»lier; and although 
 the residt of the enquiry appears to prove that nt)ne was 
 ever executed, yet it is m ith much satisfaction the Pub- 
 lisher informs those who contemplate with pleasure the 
 countenance of genius and merit rescued from oblivion by 
 the graphick art, that his trouble has not been altogether 
 without its reward. 
 
 The celebrated antiquary and conteniporary of Blome- 
 field, Thomas Martin, Esq. had prefixed to his own copy 
 of the History of Norfolk, an indittercntly executed 
 mezzolinto print, engraved a.s the portrait of another per- 
 son, but which Mr. Martin very highly estimated as a 
 strong resemblance to his departed friend. 
 
 This bouk afterwards became the property of the late 
 John Ives, jun. Es<j. of Varn»ou;h, antl is now, with the 
 portrait, iu the possession of the Publisher of this ctlition.
 
 ADVERTISEMENT. ix 
 
 The late Mr. Thomas Miller of Bungay, was also well 
 acquainted with the person of Blomcfield, and the Pub- 
 lisher has often heard him declare, that this print was a 
 striking likeness of the Historian of Norfolk. 
 
 These testimonies, it is hoped, Mill be considered suf- 
 ficient to justify the additional expense voluntarily in- 
 curred by re-engraving this plate, in a sincere and earnest 
 wish to add (without increasing the price of the book) 
 to the gratification of a liberal publick. 
 
 The Publisher has also the satisfaction of announcing 
 that, from the arrangements he has now made, the work 
 will be completed with all possible dispatch ; and that it 
 is probable the subsequent volumes may be ready for 
 delivery at periods earlier than those mentioned in the 
 Prospectus. 
 
 WILLIAM ]\IILLER. 
 
 June 8th, 1805. 
 
 VOL. J.
 
 THE 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 TO THE FIRST EDITION. 
 
 As this work appears in publick, contrary to common 
 practice, without either Preface or Dedication prefixed, I 
 looked upon mysell' necessarily obliged to say something 
 byway oi Introduction, both to inform my readers the 
 reason of it, as well as the design of the following Essay. 
 It is well known (and it would be the greatest ingrati- 
 tude in me, to forbear acknowledging it) how much I 
 have been assisted in this work, by that Right Reverend 
 Prelate, the late Bishop of St. Asapli, whose kindness was 
 so o-reat, as not only to help me to the sight of vast num- 
 ber's of records and manuscripts concerning this county, 
 but also to fix my method, and revise my collections 
 when put together, town by town, as I compiled them. 
 To this worthy Prelate (by his own knowledge and appro- 
 bation) was this Work dedicated ; but alas ! to my par- 
 ticular great loss, as well as to the world in general, he is 
 no more : gratitude therefore obliged me to dedicate it to 
 his memory, not doubting but that will ever be valued by 
 all the learned ; and as a Dedication to any other Patron 
 could have been no real compliment, I am sure it would 
 have been far from shewing a grateful respect to my 
 deceased benefactor. 
 
 And now as to the design in general, which I do^ not 
 pretend to call a History of Nokfolk, but an Essay 
 onlv towards it, being very sensible that there may be 
 several things of moment, in almost every parish, that 
 may be impossible for me to know, or come at ; but thus 
 far I may venture to say, that the successions of the 
 lords of the manors ; the patrons and incumbents of the 
 churches ; the series of the religious ; the ancient and 
 present valuations of each parish, are as perfect as my own 
 collections, the original manuscripts and records that I 
 have met with, and the collections of my friends, could 
 possibly make them : whatever pedigrees or evidences,
 
 xu INTRODUCTION 
 
 relating to any fanulii-s ot" worth, merit, or antiquity mi 
 the county (as far as tlicy conct-ru this History, und h:ivc 
 conic to n>v hantU> shall he taithfully insc-rtf<l, tojjctlicr 
 with all the ancient arms antl insi-riptions, that arc any 
 where touml in the churches, or other places ; as also all 
 puhlick gifts and hcncfactions that I can meet with, in 
 order to preserve them, as tar as can he, from devouring 
 lime, and to animate others hy those txaniples, t») a wor- 
 thv emulation of such charitahle works, amiahle t(* CJod 
 and man. For the same reason it is, that I shall he very 
 exact in mv descriptions of the tiuiichcs, Ciiapels, iS:c. 
 that posterity may know, what signal trihutes of honour 
 and reverence our ancestors paid to those holy places, 
 which thev generously huilt, richly adorncil, and pru- 
 dentlv set apart for (iou's \Norsliip. And I shall be as 
 careful as I can, truly to transcribe the original names of 
 places antl pLrsons, and not in the least vary the »)rtho- 
 graphv of the ancients, but always represent them as they 
 are in the originals, m hether they be right or wrong, false 
 language or true, by which means it will often hap|>en, 
 that the sanie word will be spelt many diHercnt ways in 
 one page, and perhaps false language may occur as often; 
 and in such places where inscriptions or evidences are 
 partly illegible, I shall give them as they arc, without 
 variation, imagining, that though they he imperfect, I 
 ought not to oinit them, they being designed to perpe- 
 tuate the memories of our oncc-llourishing ancestors, to 
 future ages. At first I determined to have translated all 
 the /Mtiii inscriptions, for the English reader, but was 
 prevailed upon to omit it, because if it be an inscription 
 for any remarkable person, it w ill be hinted in the History, 
 and then the tramUitiun would be of no other use, but to 
 swell thv book, and enhance the price, both which are 
 contrary to mv design, which is to comprise it in as little 
 room as can be, without injuring the subject. I have 
 added, for the use of the curious, an exact copy of Domes- 
 day to every town, and placed it (together with all the 
 references) by w^y of note, that it may not be any hind- 
 rance to the reader, having referred to the several authors 
 an<l originals that I have made use of, in all cases, except 
 where the originals arc cither in Mr. Le Neve's or my own 
 collections, which at present I design to join to his, so 
 that being together they may be consulted at ;ill times, 
 and theret'ore to quote them would be labour to no 
 purpose ; but in all cases w here my friends have been so
 
 INTRODUCTION. xiii 
 
 kind as to oblige mc Avitli a sight of their evidences or 
 manuscripts, I shall freely refer to them, and own their 
 favours. 
 
 Several reasons there arc that induced me to publish in 
 this method, among which, these are the chief, viz. the 
 improvements that may be made as I go on, by gentle- 
 men's seeing in what manner I proceed, and helping me, 
 as I come to their parts, to a sight of old evidences, or 
 antiquities, or by subscribing for plates of their seats, 
 monuments, arms, ruins, or other things worth observa- 
 tion, which advantage I could not have had, if I had done 
 it at once ; besides, I do not fear but I may hereafter 
 meet with several Subscribers who will willingly expend a 
 trifle every month, that would not have chose to lay down 
 half the price before-hand, (as is the common way), nor 
 to have expended it all at once ; and this is the reason 
 why I do not design to publish the list of my Subscribej's 
 till the whole is finished, because then I can do it com- 
 plete. And that this work may be done to my own liking, 
 and corrected by myself, I have procured a workman, who 
 hath put up a press in my own house, for the publication 
 of it ; so that all that now have, or hereafter shall, sub- 
 scribe, shall be upon the same terms ; neither shall there 
 be any alterations or additions made after it is finished, 
 except such memoirs as may come in too late, all which 
 shall be published by way of appendiji\ to be bound up 
 with the last volume. 
 
 And as to the use of this History, I shall only observe, 
 that the ancient and present lords, patrons, and incum- 
 bents, the difterent customs of the manors, the customs 
 and yearly outgoings of tlie livings, and the divers valu- 
 ations of the parishes, are things that will be oi use to the 
 present, and future proprietors. Not to insist upon the 
 delight and pleasure that many take in historical aifairs, 
 which, though it may be decried and run down by some, 
 yet it must be acknowledged, that History is the light of 
 truth, and life of memory, as the git&t Orator* formerly 
 observed ; and if there be nothing more in it, experience 
 teaches that by recording the lives and actions of the 
 good, those that come after them are thereby encouraged 
 to imitate their virtues, for nothing so much incites the 
 mind oi' vian, to an emulation of others, as the report of 
 the noble actions of them that have gone before them ; 
 and on the other side, nothing more affrights people 
 
 • Cic. de Orat.
 
 xiv INTHODIXTIOX. 
 
 from iloiiig base and wicked actions, than the terrible ex- 
 amples ot* those, who have descrvedlv sufVcre<l the greatest 
 misfortunes, as the just reward of their evil doings. 
 
 It will be convenient also to advertise my Kkadehs, 
 tlial I ilesign three general imlrscs to he bound wp with 
 the last vulunu", viz. one ut' pltica, a second oi tiatnes, an«l 
 a tliird of the oniu, mentioned in the M'ork, though I 
 nuiNt own I am no accurate herald, and therefore ask par- 
 don, if I make use of any terms improper in that science. 
 I liave diligently examined whatever printed authors I 
 could meet with, in relation to this county, from whom I 
 am often obliged to vary, but it is always wlicn I have 
 the utmost certainty for so doing, and never, unless I am 
 fullv convinced they are in errour, from which it is im- 
 possible for anv one (in a work of this nature) to be 
 altogether free. 
 
 I need not ipiotc tlic Rt^'istciw or Jintiltitiun Books, iu 
 the Bishop of Suruuli's Office, they going in a chronolo- 
 
 fical order, and the series being complete,* (which I 
 elieve tew, if any oflicc in Kn^laml, except this, can 
 shew.) and are now kept in good and regular order, by Mr. 
 Marker, the present officer, whose care in this aftair ought 
 to be pnblicklv commende«l, there being too many in 
 such places, who know not what records tiiey have under 
 their care, nor the value nor use of them. 
 
 But before I close this Introduction, I .should be guilty 
 of great injustice to my generous benefactors, should I 
 not publickly own the many and great favours, helps, and 
 assistances, that I have already, and now daily continue 
 to receive from them, viz. 
 
 The Worshipful Dr. Nash, Chancellor of Aora/cA, 
 who of bis great kindness hath assisted me, by a large 
 subscription to the work, and the use of the best 
 records that arc any wlicre extant, concerning this 
 county. 
 
 Sir AxiJRfcw ToLx rAix of Sarford, Knt. who t'a- 
 vours me with some very anti(|ue curiosities, such as 
 are no where to be met with but in his great and 
 elegant Collection. 
 
 The Kcvcrenil Dr. IIiinhv Bkiogs, rector of Halt 
 
 * Tlir Rcgi»tenkrpt during the \acaiicic» of Ibis tee aic in ibc Aicbbi»bop'» 
 
 OtT.ir.
 
 INTRODUCTION. xv 
 
 in Norfolk, whose great pains in collecting the whole 
 hundred of Holt, and expense in subscribing for 
 several plates, I cannot but in gratitude mention. 
 
 The Reverend Mr. James Baldwin, rector of £««- 
 •well and Carlcton, who hath for many years past, 
 much assisted me in collecting, transcribing, and 
 compiling many things in this way. 
 
 The Reverend Mr. Charles Barnwell, rector of 
 Beeston hy Mikham, and Dr. Newdigate ofA/W- 
 singham, who have supplied me with many curiosities 
 of good value. 
 
 Beaupree Bell, Junior, Esq. to whom I am much 
 indebted, for collecting many evidences, seals, and 
 drawings, of great use to me in this undertaking. 
 
 Anthony Norris, Esq. who hath with great la- 
 bour, and uncommon exactness, examined the parish 
 churches in several hundreds. 
 
 But in a particular manner am I obliged to the 
 Reverend Mr. Charles Parkyn, rector of Oiburg/i, 
 whose pains in drawing up the whole deaneries of 
 Cranwich and Fincham, besides many other great as- 
 sistances, can never be sufficiently repaid. 
 
 As also to that judicious antiquary, Mr. Thomas 
 Martin of Palgrave in Suffolk, who not only sup- 
 plies me with whatever occurs in his own large and 
 valuable Collection of Antiquities, but also with the 
 whole Collections of that late industrious and perfect 
 antiquary, Peter Le Neve, Norrov, who for above 
 forty years at his great expense, and immense trouble, 
 amassed together the greatest fund of antiquities for 
 this county that was ever collected for any single 
 county in this kingdom ; all which, by the favour of 
 Mr. Martin, I have the perusal of, they resting in 
 his hands till they be properly disposed of, according 
 to Mr. Le Neve's will. 
 
 A great many others there are, to whom I am much 
 indebted for their encouragement ; but as it would be too
 
 xvi INTKODICTION. 
 
 tctlioiis tunu'iitiun tiicin all. I sUM rct'er it tu the scvci-al 
 plair>, «licrr iht-ir lifl|i> will In- iiiMTlcd. 
 
 1 am wril a|>|>ri/i-d « hat nutnlirr of carpcrf. ami »iu*- 
 inirs this work will meet with; but think they must be 
 such as kiiiiw T ''I what ditliiulty, length ot time, and 
 
 expense the ' ■ tor this Kssut/, have lueu got toge- 
 
 ther. Some perhaps may censure me, it" they hit on a 
 thing that 1 have not seen, or perhaps hern misinformed 
 about ; others there are, 1 do not doubt, who will think 
 me too particular in many things, and others, perhaps, 
 not particular enough; so that as it is a thing impossible 
 to please all, if it is but approved of by my Sul/scndcrs, (to 
 whom only I am (d)liged,) I care for nought else, not 
 doubting but that it will be universally allowed, that 
 there will be much nuire of the history tif this county, than 
 was ever published before, ami if so, my greatest cucinies 
 must allow- w ith the poet. 
 
 Est quodam prodirc teiius^ si non dattir ultra. IIor. 
 
 As to what I have related beyond the present age, I 
 have the originals, or my authorities are always (juoted ; 
 but as to the present time, it is either upon the credit of 
 such perst>ns as had no reason to speak further, or other- 
 wise, than their own knowledgi- dcjth reach, or upon my 
 own inspection, having already seen, or determined to 
 sec every particular place in this county that 1 shall treat 
 of; and therefore I liope there will be no such g rait viis- 
 lakrt, but what the candid reader may well pardon, pro- 
 fessing that my chief end is, to deliver nothing but truth, 
 with an honourable respect to every one. .\nd thus sub- 
 mitting to my readers' courtesy, I shall conclude with 
 the poet ; 
 
 Si quid noxisti nxtitts istis, 
 
 Candidas imperii : si non, his utcre mtcuin 
 
 I'trtlitld, Hank 25. 
 1736".
 
 fc|l Vi \i?! \fti I ^ 
 
 ,..^.,^i:^-i?s^ 
 
 THE 
 
 HUNDRED OF DISS. 
 
 A II I s hundred hath its name from the capital town, which is so 
 called from the mere situate on its south side; dice in the Saxon, lan- 
 guage signifying a standing water, lake, or ditch. It is bounded on the 
 south by the river IVdvcmj, which now divides Noifol/c and Sulf'ol/c, 
 on the west by the hundrud of Gillcivfis, on the north by Depxcade, 
 and on the cast by the liaif hundred o( Ears/iam, whicii joined with 
 ti)e half hundred of Diss, makes up a whole hundred, or, according; 
 to the old division, Iwo whole hundreds, and completes the deanery 
 oi llcdeii/iatl, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Nor- 
 wich ; the fee of it wholly belonged to Edrcard the Confessor, as 
 demean of the Crown, till ho granted to U/Jict and Sliguml the soc 
 of their own lands,' aiul to the Abbot of St. Edmund'^ liuri/^ the half 
 part of the sue and sac of his lands, and of all his freemen. 
 
 But by the way, it will he necessary to observe, that what we //«,-;) 
 call Diss hiutdicti, in llie Confes>or's time was a hundred atid half; 
 the hundred was called liiin/crthiiic JJiindred,\\h\ch Earl Jia/jj/i held, 
 upon whose forfeiture it came to the Crown, and was ailded to the 
 
 ' Rcgistnim Album, olim pcrtin. 
 Mon. bancti bdmiindi, (u\. 34. a. This 
 Register is iiu* in ihc (H)b'C>sion of Sir 
 Edmund I'acun of G^:rboMesh.iiii, Bart, 
 to whom I acknowlfdj;e niyidl much 
 obliged, lor the iiie of tins, and several 
 other valuable mjnusrri|>i!i. 
 
 * Norfulc Kex hundret dim, Huiid. 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
 dc Dice. (Domsd. fol. 10.) Totasocact 
 sjca islius dim. Iiund. j'retcr terrain 
 i-ancti L^dmiiiidi (was the Kmg's) rt dc 
 ilia sanctiis dim. ct Krx aliaiii mcd'.ctj. 
 tciii, preler terrain Ulhct et prcter tcr- 
 ram Sti;.'andi, ei de omnibus aliis, !>oca 
 tiiit in hund. T.K.b, (i c. tcm|)orc re> 
 gis Hdwarili.) 
 
 13
 
 DISS. 
 
 hi"^' hail 
 mill lliit It 
 
 o( Dice, nn«1 con'"-- ' ■ i iiu. i .1. ji.ui i.f it, 
 
 :i lliiit the titiL- in / is, the hundrtd ' and 
 
 . ■• of wliii.i, w.ih all ihe juri»«iii-lioii 
 
 ■ 1 to the AhUil, In Ltfid, Hiid ^Stigaiul,) 
 
 . luul ihr Mil-* utitl Mc* of ull hii 
 
 :il li»> ihiiii lliiriv acrt'*, l>cloiii;c-d 
 
 liul of lhos<* ihal lu'hl ihirty acrci or more, 
 iti to the hiindicd oi Winrfcrthinc, whicli Earl 
 
 I manor of llic town, 
 ' liiscoursx.' of it kingly 
 
 ranie into t 
 frwnoii in i... 
 to hi* manor of / 
 th. ' ■ . 
 
 /{, 
 
 IJul in II liuih nlway* nltcncUtl tli 
 and now rcmuuis vsiiJi it, I luvc no ui . 
 ■ny further. 
 
 DICE, now DISS, 
 
 In iht lime of the Confessor ext<?ndod inlo Suffolk* nny the town 
 itsell' was thi'ii in that rounly, in Iltrtcsmtre'' imndrrd, u» wc icarii 
 fiom Doini-*duy, where hc find th:it it was in Kint; Eduiird's poisfs- 
 5ion us dctnt-an of the Crown, tlierc being nt that time a eliurch unci 
 twenty-four acrw of tjlfbe ; that tlie wJiolc was worth l.'d.prr annum, 
 which at the Coii(|ueror's time was doubled, it being tlieii e!>timated 
 nt sol. with the sn- of the whole hundred and half, IM-Iongiiii; to 
 it, it was then found to t»e a league long,* and half a league 
 broad, and paid 4d. Dnntgeld, by wliirh it appeur>< that it was not 
 so lur^c ill Its bounds, as it now is, whicii is easily aeeounted for, 
 from the sauie record : for Ifatlingselef manor, as it is there called, 
 
 ' Hundrrdum dimidium liundrcdi de 
 Dice. (Doincxl. fol. 9 — J9.) In l-'crvclla 
 jm. et locj rt uci 1 .K.K. de omnibus 
 
 qui r 
 <]UI ' 
 
 hun 
 dull 
 
 4 V 
 
 pn^ 
 
 qua. 
 idle. 
 krx 
 
 ' ' - . . ,in XXX. atr. dc illis 
 jjc. wjci el sjcj in 
 hinr, qiundo Ra- 
 .m. 
 
 II in your own 
 
 court I Icrms ol ilie Law, p. i4t. b. 
 
 hcnc- romr^ the word tuknc or sokcn. 
 
 ' ■ ■■, »ake, ij a royalty or 
 
 ic lord 10 have ihc amrr- 
 
 : l.;i lenanO in his own couit, 
 
 the Lnw, p. >4;. a. Minsheu. 
 
 " 1, de rcg one, 
 
 rvat in Sud- 
 
 rui. Dite lenuit 
 
 td' tin. lempore Regis 
 
 hdwardix... .el xxiiii. twrdarij. 
 
 tii. lervi, ct i. carural. in dominio, ct 
 striil i.r 111,!' !HMii. rt X. acr. prali et 
 evil 1. car. Kni|'«r 
 
 vii. ■ , ' , ' . tunc IX. anc. 
 
 niodo SI. semper v.caprae, tunc valebal. 
 sv. hbr. cum loca dc uno liundredo el 
 dmiid. CI diiiiidium diem de melle, cum 
 (uiiMictudiiiibui^ modo xxx: libr. ad 
 (jciiiuro. lubct I. Irug. in lunco, et di> 
 tiiid. in biu. el till. den. uc Geltu. 
 (Ul U. 67.) 
 
 'I with tome, who think 
 
 |l>.it I. 11 K- hundred lAck ilt name 
 (i^u the rucrc lu l)u> jJucc, tltcrc bcuig 
 
 no other large water or mere in that 
 hundred ; but this as conjecture only. 
 
 • Lcuga or Lcuca ; I have often ren- 
 dered thii word league, but mujt adver- 
 I'se my readers, that 1 du dot niraii by 
 il our common league of ihrrc milet, 
 nor yet with Mr. Bailey, the distance of 
 one mile only, (lliough hc sayt il it to 
 used in Domesday, ) being almost cer- 
 tain, thai leugj in Domes>)ay signifies 
 two miles, or iherc-ibouls ; for lh.il an- 
 twers 10 ihe generality of places thai I 
 have examined, as lu their extent, which 
 lo me seems Ihe best way of judging 
 Mich a point ; and u^wn looking into (he 
 various glussancs, 1 find that several of 
 Ihem concur in llie same opinion, lor 
 which reason, wherever Ihc word oc. 
 curs, I mean by il two miles, and no 
 mure. But for example sake, Ihal part 
 of Diss which was then in SiilTulk, it 
 taid to t>e a league long, and half a league 
 bruad, and \V atlmgsele, or ihc nuiih 
 part, Wat another league long, and 
 half a league broad, which joined to. 
 gclher, at 11 now lies, make it Iwu mile^ 
 broad in the broadcti place of itt 
 bounds, and four miles lung in Ihe 
 longest, which it very near, if not its 
 exact cxieni at this iimc. 
 
 f Norfulc. Rex huiidret. dimid. 
 hund. de Dice. Watlmgsrta trnuii Rex 
 b4wardu* piu manciHi v. carucal. Icrre
 
 DISS. 3 
 
 which was as large as Diss, ami seemingly fuller of inhabitants, as we 
 may judge by the gild or tax tiiat it paid, was soon after quite lost in 
 Diss, to which it was appendant at that time. This was afterwards 
 called Wakote, and includes part of llcijwode, as appears from its 
 joining to Burston, into which lown this manor extended. 
 
 The manor thus joined, with the advowson and hundred, conti- 
 nued in the Crown till King" llinrij I. granted them to 
 
 Sir Richard dk Lucy, a Norman knight, a man of great renown 
 in those days; the record called Tenia de Nevil says, that it was not 
 known whether it was rendered unto him as his inheritance, or for 
 his service; but without doubt it was for the latter, it having been 
 always demean of the Crown. 'I'liis Richard^ was governor of /a/a« 
 in Normandy , the third year of King Stepheu, which he manfully de- 
 fended against Jeffcry Earl oi Jnjou, who had besieged it; he was 
 a great instrument towards the agreement between that King and 
 Henry II. and had the Tower of London, and Castle of JVindiestcr 
 put into his hands, by the advice of the whole clergy, upon his swear- 
 ing to deliver them up at Stephens death to King Henry, all which 
 he faithfully accomplished, which so far advanced him in that King's 
 favour, that he made him Chief Justice of England, and in his 
 absence he was appointed govcrnour of the realm, during which time, 
 he took prisoner, in a pitched battle near Fornham in Suffolk, Robert 
 Earl of Leicester, together with his Amazonian proud Countess, 
 Petronell or Parnell, and withal put to the sword above 10,000 
 Flemings, which the said Robert had levied and sent forth to the 
 depopulation of his country ; all or the most part of which were 
 buried in and about Fornham, anno 117S; their sepulchres are now 
 to be seen near a place called Rymer House, on the right hand of 
 the road leading from Thetford to Bury, and are now called the 
 Seven Hills, though there are many more; but seven of them being 
 much larger than the rest, are particularly taken notice of by those 
 that pass this way, under which most probable the commanders were 
 buried: this memorable battle was fought in this field. But to our 
 purpose : it appears he had two sons, Jeffery or Godfrei/, after- 
 wards Bishop of Winchester, which, Dugdale says, died before his 
 father; but that is an errour, for Godwin tells us (p. 273) that he 
 lived till 1204; however, certain it is, he died without issue, as also 
 did Herbert de Lucy, the second son, so that the inheritance came 
 to his daughters. Maud,^ the eldest, married to IValter Fitz-Robert, 
 the progenitor oC the Fitz-ll alters, to whom he gave two parts of the 
 hundred, manor, and market, of Diss with her in marriage. Aveline, 
 
 tunc XX. villani. postea et modo xxiiii. ' The manor was then vahjed at 51/. 
 
 semperxxv. bord. semperxix.caruc.lio- per anniini, and at the lime of thegrant, 
 
 minum, tunc bilva XX. pore, modonichil tlic King reserved a rent of 40?. per 
 
 et ix. acr. prati et i. lib. homo de xx. ann. to be paid pt Norwich Casile. 
 
 acr. tene. et i. bord. sub eo. semper i. » The life of this man may be seen at 
 
 car. et iii. acr. prati et in Borstuna. vi. large in Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. fol. 
 
 soc. de xl. acr. terre, eto^mpcr i. bord. 563, and in Weaver, 777. Stow also in 
 
 tunc i. car. et dim. post et modo i. et iii. Iiis Annals, page 155, and most authors 
 
 acr. prati. habet i. leug. in longo et di- of any note in historical aifairs, mention 
 
 mid. in lato, et de gelto \'\\d. Hoc ap- him. 
 
 pend et ad Dice in Sutfulc. et ibi apprc- ' Weaver, 337. 
 tialur. (Domesd. fol. 9.) 
 
 VOL. I. B
 
 UISS. 
 
 the •(*ron(l, niarnnl Ituhant <h Ripariit (or River*) of Stanford 
 Rtirrt. Ri>u u( Rukait, the third, to Hickurd dt H'arrtH, nalurul mmi 
 of Kiiic John. iJioHiua,* n fourth diiUKhlcr, not inoiitioiirtl hy 
 eillnroTii 1 author*, man ir«l irnold dt Mniiiitrni/, Kill. 
 
 \»li'> ha>l .t. :hi-r thiid |iiiit of llic manor, huii(h(-d, ami 
 
 niarlki't; »«■ iliat, liuiii that tiuu-, ihoro wi-ri- Iwu n)nnor», by tht- 
 division of this third |>art, uliirh uiis It atcoir and part of Hcwiidi . 
 In 117'J, a» Slow' in In* AnnnU tells u«, Richard de jMcy, Chief 
 Justice of EughtHd, deccaM.-d, * and uns burii-d in the quire of the 
 abbev chiireh nt Ijcsnti in Krut, which he had founded, und where 
 lie had (ulken u|K>n huii the habit of it eunon regular the year befon-. 
 IVoiii (Ins Richard the niniiur enine to 
 
 Sir \\'altp.h I'lTt-KouKin ,' sun of Rulurl dr Toiinif)ri<^c, the 
 fifth Son ft( Riihiird h'ttz-liilbrrt , Mirnunu-tl dc 'I'oncbri'^'^t , llie hot 
 \u\t\ oi (Start, who came in with the CoiHjueror, of whose gilt lie 
 liHil the cbstle und town of Clare in .Vm/To/A', willi Tuiiliridgt in Kent, 
 and divers other great lord!ilii|i!> in Eii«r/aiid. This llarl was son of 
 (li/bcrt, ''\ri\umcd Crispin, l^uil of lirioii in Sormandif, and son of 
 Jcfi'try, natural mjii to Richard 1. of that name, Duke of Sormaiidy : 
 he bare, ii'. the I'ilz-H'aller^ ever after did, the Larl of Clare's shield 
 vnrieil, which is or, three eliivroiis gut. The I'ilz-lf a/Un Ik iiii; or, 
 a few between two chevrons g*//. He had two wives, Maud dc 
 fiocham, (u> Mr. H caver,) or rather Maraartt de liuhuii, (us Mr. 
 Duddalt,) nnd Maud, daughter of Sir Richard dc Lucy, as aforc- 
 snio, in uhoM' right he hud thii manor, to which he 6 rst obtained it 
 charter for a fair, on the eve, ilav, and morrow after the feust of St. 
 Simon aiitl Jude, und three days following, lie was Justice itinerant 
 in Sorf'olk and Suffolk, anil died in 1 lys, being buried in the midst of 
 the (juire of the priorv church of JJlllc DuiimoK in /l<wx, of which 
 Robert dt Touchrigee, his father, was first toiiiider; he was sometiiiics 
 called Walter of Ctare, sometinu-s Robert I'llz-IValter, but mostly 
 Halter Fitz-Roberl ; he left Rub,rl the I aliiiit his heir. 
 
 Sir HoBKHT 1'itz-Walteu, Knt.* son of Sir It alter litz-Rohert, 
 cxjmmonly called Robert the I'atiaiit, Uati two wives, fi'«//;iorrj, daugh- 
 ter and heiress of I'/iili/j dc I aluliies, and Rohnio or Rose, who sur- 
 vived him, anil had the maimr of Diss, //r/nrHA/z/r, (which always went 
 with Ihsf,) Thci/t, and Din liundr(d in dower. He it was that hrst 
 divided thi» manor, by giving a moiety of the two purls which he 
 possoised to Sir dilbrrt Pecche, Knt. with his daughter Alice (»oiue 
 Miy kistcr) in free marriage, with the third pitrt of the hundred und 
 market, nnd so there branched a third niuiior, which was callec) 
 I'ecche's Fee. This Robert was Icackr of those barons that rose 
 against King John, the iM-ginning of which was on this occasion, as 
 the IxMik of Duumotr inlorms us. 
 
 " About tlie year 1213,' there arose a great discord between King 
 
 ■ Rot. tnquii. in baga. dc quo war- 
 ranto V" i f h.^r tiund. 
 
 »S' i. • Wfarrr, 337. 
 
 ' i ul lh» Waller, miich 
 
 mijrr iiu\ l-c >crn in llif fulloning au- 
 ili >f> Oiigd^lc'i Bar. vol. 1. 109, iil. 
 Wcivcr, 6J1.3. Vinccotagaintt Brook, 
 lit, 66t, ;6i. 
 
 * Ann J Doinliii 139I dird Walirr 
 Kili.RotKrI, palron ot llic ihiirch of 
 Dunmow, wlu> is biirml in llic middle 
 of tlic choir llicrr, and Kobcrl Kill. 
 Waller ihr \'aliaiii, succeeded him. Lib. 
 Prior, dc Diiii'miw in Hib. Col. 
 
 ■ Weaver, fol.6js. Uu(;d. Bar. vol. i. 
 i. fol. III.
 
 DISS. 5 
 
 " Jofin and liis Barons, because of Matilda, sirnamed the Fair, 
 "■ chuightcr oi' Robert I'itz-lValter, whom the King unlawfully loverl, 
 "but could not obtain her nor her father's consent thereunto; 
 " Whereupon (and for divers other like c.uses) ensued war throughout 
 " the whole realm; the King banished the said Fitz-lVa/ttr, among 
 " others, and caused his castle called Bnynard, and other his houses, 
 " to be spoiled, which being done, he sent a messenger unto Matilda 
 " the Fair, about his old suit in love, and because she would not 
 " agree to his wicked motion, the mesicnger poisoned a boiled or 
 " potched egg, against she was lumgry, and gave it unto her, whereof 
 " she died in 1213." Her tomb was standing between two pillars in 
 the priory church of Little Duiimozc, when Mr. Weaver published 
 his book. 
 
 In the year following her banished father was restored to the 
 King's favour upon this occasion. " King John being then in France 
 " with a great army, it happened that a truce was taken between 
 " the two Kings of England and France, for the term of five years; 
 " and a river or arm of the sea being betwixt either host, there was a 
 " knight in the English host that cried to them of the other side, 
 " willing some one of their knights to come and just a course or two 
 " with him ; whereupon, without slay, Robert Fitz-lValter, being on 
 " the French part, made himself ready, ferried over, and got on 
 " horseback, and shewed himself ready to the face of his challenger, 
 " whom, at the first course, he stroke so hard with his great spear, 
 " that horse and man fell to the ground, and when his spear was 
 " broken, he went back again to the King of France, which King 
 "■ John seeing, By God's tooth, quoth he, (for such was his usual 
 "oath,) he were a King indeed that had such a knight. The friends 
 " of Robert hearing these words, kneeled down and said, O King, he 
 " is yonr knight, it is Rohert Fitz-Walter ; whereupon the next ■ 
 " day he was sent for, and restored to the King's favour, by which 
 " means peace was concluded, and he received his livings, and had 
 " licence to repair his castle of Bat/nurd, and all his oiher castles." 
 Notwithstanding this, he afterwards joined the Barons that stood 
 against the same 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 succeeding King, from which time he was 
 always in great favour, both in court and country. Ilolinshed,^ that 
 faithful historian, gives him this character, that he was " both ex- 
 " cellent in counsel, and valiant in war." He went with Ralph Earl 
 of Chester's army, to aid the Christians against the Infidels, who had 
 besieged the city of Daniieta in Egypt, where he performed noble 
 achievements: " After which,' this strenuous knight, this Mars of 
 " men, this marshal of God's army and holy church, (for so he wa.>; 
 " stiled by the common multilude,) lived in all aflluenee of riches 
 " and honour, till 1G34, when he died, and was buried by his 
 " daughter in the said church. Ilolinshed says,^«//«o li23c>j in Advent, 
 " died the noble Baron the Lord Fitz-Walter."^ 
 
 » Weaver, 951. Dugd. Bar. vol.ii. 'Vol. i. 219. 
 
 fol. 7^. Stou's AnnaU, fol. 170. ^ Anno 1234, obijt nobilis vir Ro- 
 
 » Hoi. vol. ii. fol. 184, &c. bertus filius Walteri, jiatroniis ecclesijc 
 
 • Weav. 633, Diinmow, qui tumulatur juxta rrjijiu
 
 <J DISS. 
 
 i;<t»r«T FiT7-W*iTrii.* Iii» Min. ollm cnll.d Hulltr Filz- 
 
 1: '-rl, tuct-t-rtlcd , Ik- \».i» a innii •>!' rciuiwn in ili<>- «ln\«, iimJ ia 
 
 '. Intour with lilt prini-t- ;' he inlu-ritr<t iIh- luiui* ol nik fath«-r, 
 
 • ''i » inanur nnd lh»>*«- ol" IlrmfuhaU uiid 'ihtift, «liith urrc 
 
 »cr bv Roi* lit* »U|iiiiolli«'r, who |H>*»<-ii»t«l lliciii l<» l'J.'>'i, 
 
 'ic lifW tliriii, uiid iivinfj «-iz«hI in l^t), miu buiud 
 
 . hurrli ol l>uiimotr, Irnvini; 
 
 li, ■M, «ho «^ ' ikI ill 
 
 j'j7.l .11 his im I -M-lorc 
 
 tli.it tiiiK', th> iniiiKir, ^tilli Urmrnhah nnd Ihri/r, Hns in (he 
 
 Ii.i:i«l4 ol' Stti..,: i ...H tiller, hit untli-, (as I inkr him lo be,) im 
 
 mi.iulinn nnd tni«U-c to ihe »uid Rohrrt. This Slruhtn * in l'J8(i 
 
 ' I market cvcrv \\'cdni-«lnv und Fridnv, willi nil ri)j;hl» bc- 
 
 ■ 1 a mnrkcl, nntl it wn* iillo«c<l in T-.'irc- It n-f-ms that King 
 
 iliiiri^ I. ■ ' 'ti this iiinrk«l, fur lie priintcil it to Sir Rirhanl dc 
 
 Imci/, :il ■ the innnor; iit this tune the jury also (iiul, that 
 
 llic - ^ 'I.N held a tliiid liart ol° the iiundied, whieh \Na<> worth 
 
 five I: ...irly; llint Krimld d( Monlitiiacu (Arnold Mounlnii/) 
 
 held ol him another thinl uart, which was worth (i<h. per annum, and 
 
 Uiat Rifhard d( Hoyhind held of the said Stephn nnolher part, 
 
 wliieh w:u worth '2tii. p<r annum ; and tliat this Stephen, as capital 
 
 lord of the whole, paid into tJic l\xchequer a rent of 4<V/. n year, 
 
 Ixlnrj rntithnl, in hi« part, to \ iew of frankpledge, assize of bread 
 
 ! all other lilK-rlie'. which belongtil to 
 1 came to Rubirl I'll z-lt alter afore- 
 •aid, lor 1 find hiin in p<>>M->>ion in his own name. In \2i)^,' he 
 was »ummoncd to nttoiul King I'.dirard I. into Ciascoign, in order to 
 recover hi» inherilnnce from the French King, to which place he 
 trcnt, in tlu' retinue of VAimiind Ciirl of I,ancailtr. In l'i[)H, * he 
 wa% in the Itelsh exp«<lition, and in \'2*J'.}, in the Scotch warn." It 
 was t)iis man' that aliened llai/nard castle in Ijondon, and Mont- 
 filchet Tow«T, to the Archbibhop of Canlerbnri/, reserving his Kaumy 
 that belonged to it, to him^lf and hi> heirs: he wuii the tirst of this 
 family that styled hiinstclf Lord of It odeham in I'.fsei, where he had 
 a »cttl nnd n fine park. He hod two wives, Devorgil, daui^hter and 
 coheir of John tie liurgh, son c)f Hubert de Iturf^h, late IlnrI of 
 KcHt, and Chief Juktice <if J'.npland, and Eleanor claiiirhtcr of Marl 
 Ferrers, by whom he had Robert hi- son, who succci-rled him. In 
 this year* In- olilained n charter of conlirinalion for a fair every 
 \enrat ' of Ihts, ii|M>n llie eve, day, und morrow after the 
 
 feast ol "" V . . an<l ,/(/</<•, and three days iollowing. lie was one' 
 of thoie parliaiuentary Barons that seaie<i the letter to the I'ope 
 anno 1301, denying that the kingdom of Scotland was his fee, or 
 that he had any jurisdiction in tciii|Miral alTairs. He sealed with his 
 paternn' coat, sup|>orted by two harpies, wiiich seal of his i have 
 
 ilurc in tit : Rot. Vaicon. ai F.. i. m. i. a]. 
 
 Wilirrut ' :.ib. E. i.m. i. * Cbui. >{ h. ni. I. 
 
 Dun. • K it E. I. iiKin. ii. 
 
 * DuK. Bar. fol. 119. Mon. Ang. ' t' il. i. ijj. 
 
 ♦oJ. • ' -' • I jw J 1 r . I. No. I. 
 
 ' : jo. ' Kx Auiog. pcnrt C^mcrar. Scacarii. 
 
 ' r._... ._...un« ipud Norwic. 15 E. (' ' "^ 
 tl. H. rM, i4in dono.
 
 DISS. 7 
 
 seen affixed to several deeds, and in particular to a grant made in 
 1298,* tofVilliam ParUhp, of VrilUston, (now Billing for,l,) dier, 
 by wiiieh he granted, for his homage and service, and iialf a mark of 
 silver Ml iiand paid, two messuages in Diss, with liberty of washing 
 his wool and cloths in Diss Meer, whenever he would, with tins 
 reserve, that the gross die should be first washed off, and that he 
 sliouid not siifler the drain of his dying office to run into the Meer. 
 Ihe Lscheat Rolls of the lyih of Edward II. say, that he held Diss 
 at three knights fees, and Uemcnhale by barony. Dii<rda/e' and 
 others imagine that he died tliis year, because we find that from the 
 C8th of Janiuay the eschcator accounted for the profits of his estates 
 till the 12th ot Fe/jniarj/ following, when he delivered seizin lo 
 Kobert FUz-IVaher, son of the said Robert, who was of full a<>-e- 
 but this 13 an enour, for at that time wc find that he renounced'^all 
 the temporal goods of this life, and, as Mr. IVeaver^ tells us ri^'htly 
 then entered himself a friar minor in the friery at Colchester, which 
 he himsclt, in 1309, had founded, and there took upon him the habit 
 of a religious votary, where he spent the rest of his days.' 
 
 In the catalogue of emperors, kings, princes, and other potent 
 persons, that have entered into this reli- 
 gious order, this Robert^ was one. It seems 
 as if the church of Diss was built by this 
 man, his arms cut in stone still remaining 
 several times on the south porch. 
 
 Robert Fitz-VValter,« LordonVode- 
 ham, his son, married in his father's life- 
 time, first' to Joan daughter of John de 
 Botetort in 1304, by whom he had no 
 issue; and after to Joan,'' one of the 
 daughters and coheirs of John de Moulton 
 of Egremond, who survived him, and had 
 nL'''!'nH°'^7 ^"/f ig""tion of the manors of Heuham in Essex, 
 5 '^K / Tv^^ in .Vor/ott, &c. £„ ,..30,, this Joan^ pur- 
 
 miy f 1' °f ^^r^"'* ^r"''''f ''"'' ^"""^ his wife, one messu^age 
 80 acies of land, 60 acres of meadow, 6 acres of pasture, 4 acres of 
 whSr 14.. per ««««« quit-rent jn Diss, Frenze, and Burslon, 
 which was added to the capital manor, and was part of Walcote mano 
 
 e f^.tf '' 1^' T "I 1"^" l°"f'-"'>^''' to fyUliam de iVakote, 
 
 the father orgrandtather ot this Nuolas. She it was also that brought 
 the Castle ot Egremond m Cumber/and, and a tliiid part of that manor, 
 and many o hers, to this family. This Robert was in the expedition 
 made into Scotland in 1320, and died the year following, leaEinT 
 
 John,- h.s son, then 13 years old, possessed of two parts of his 
 estate, the third being held b^- the said'^o^;. in dower; he^vas a ward 
 ot Elenry de Percys; but in the ninth of Eda^ard III. by the King's 
 
 <Autog.penesW,Camell de Diss.Gen. 
 
 » Dug. Bar. vol. i. 211. 
 
 ' Ibid. fol. 613. 
 
 ' Anno 1309, Robertus filiusWalteri 
 Custos de Essex, fimdamentum posuit 
 Fratrum Minorum de Colecestria. Lib. 
 Dunniow. 
 
 ' Frdter Dominus Robertus Fitz- 
 
 Walter Baro, fundator Conventus Col- 
 cestrie, intravit ibidem ordinem anno 
 Domini 1325. 
 
 ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. 221. 
 
 ' Pat. 33 E. I. P. I. mem. 13. 
 
 ■ Claus. II E. 3. P. 2. m. ac. 
 
 • Coll. P. L. N. 
 Dug. Bar. ibid.
 
 8 DISS. 
 
 -our, liii lull: ' ■ I""' ; 
 
 •I iIkii Htt* : : 1 1 ' ■■!"* nt 
 
 . /. He «•• in llif trmrh »nr» in l3Ay. bciiit; om- ol ih.i^t: 
 ......I li» ai-t^inpniiy Sir Itullrr MtiHmti in iluil >kiru)i»li ul lllt• 
 t■l|^n•^»of I'arit, till- i)uLi- ol \«*rwMi*iV •l»«"«« K'ni; •'• *'">' *^''V. 
 : v>.4< i!i. II l>in-liinl. \\v niiirriitl l^J( a nor t\i\UM\iler of Uriiry 
 I ■ .! /' ' ,. I, , .j.-,!.li.»n, wn* fuinnuinrti ti> i>itrliaiin-nt Ironi llm 
 1 •• • 111 itli . III. ixilumvc, unif ili«l n|M>n .MiMidiiy 
 
 i: ■ !. -t .1 •>!. / i.s.Hnn li%l, ii/iMo l.'l'iO, ltu\inu Hiillrr.ltth 
 
 . n .1 <i Ix ir, l(> vftini ol !»;:»•, JoiiH III* iiiotlicr ►urxiMiia liiiii; >li<' 
 iJml III I ;(>.', Mli'oriu|M>n H'attir lur i:r«nelM>n wii» fnunu to be nest 
 Itrir, and |i) years of age, tliii nianur' brin^ llicu liclil nl llirec feet 
 as of llu- Dnrony of IlaifHard t"u>llf. 
 
 W \i Tf.K l»rH FiTz-\S ALTKH,' inakinf! proof of lii* n!»c in 13'i«, 
 : III* li>>inai;c, liaci iivt-ry of all lii"> liintls. In lli<- 44lli of 
 / 111. Iir Wii* in dial c\|H-<liiiun made into iiaurui<rii, and 
 
 (licrt- n-pulitl one of llic ino«l f.\|H-rl vjldicn* in llie » hole realm ; but 
 being InLen prisoner in those war», was forced to niorlfjusie lii« 
 rnstle und ionUliip of Egrcmoitd for lOCX)/. towards raiaing hi« fine 
 for liiH redemption. In 1 >7'2, an invasion U-ing fearc<l from the 
 FrtHch, liavin'.{ raised what |M»wer he could for defcntv of /iWx, he 
 wns eoniinanded to repair inio Sorf'olk for ilie safepuard of tliose 
 parts. Ill l:)7y, ' he procuri-<l the kinij's ehurter for n witkly 
 market every Friclav, at lii» lordship of lit nuiihuU in Surfulk, and a 
 fair yearlv on the eve, day, and morrow after llie least ot St. 
 .4iid'rnc tfie Apustle. Soon ufler, in 13S1, he did greal service in 
 7,Wx a^aintt the relxU under Jack Slratr, by suppressing those 
 that enileavoured to make head there. Many other great and noble 
 I Nploils of thii man may be seen in the fir>i volume of />«•:. Baron. 
 lol. 'i'^'J, and in the second volume of Holiin/ifd's t.'liroiiiele, tol. 
 4*>.>, 41i). He was Lieutenant* to Thoniiis Duke of G/oi<rfj/f r, Con- 
 thible of Knf;/iind, in liic great cause iK-tweeii the Ixirds IjoxiII and 
 Morlcif, far the arms of liurnrf, in the Court of Cfiiiatry, anno \3S4, 
 and l:)8(i, in which year he died in Sfiaiii, on \\ ediies<lay liefore St. 
 Miihiifl, U-ing one of those that aecoinpanied John Duke of Lan- 
 coiter, Knig of Caslile and Im^oii, in his <-.\|K"<liti<>n iliitlu-r, where 
 the r.ii'j^liih, not able to ln-ar llie luat of the country, »lied in great 
 iniiiiU-is. " Among* oth<TS there died before the breakini; up of 
 '• liie camp, one ol llie greatest iiaroiis of all the company, the Lord 
 " till IS'ullcr." I have seen an ancient deed ' of this tfaltir, \n 
 Frrnch, by which, as Lord of l)ii\, he granted a mi-ssuage and 8 
 acre* of land to one }t Utiaia Mound: ^; it was date^l at llenham 
 44) /-.'. 111. to which his seal was fastened, being his paternal coat, 
 and an e»toil lM-lwi-<-n two pliiine> for his crest. (ciri'umsi-rilK'd, Si<;i/- 
 lum Hiilltri Ii/lj-lt allrri.) l\\-> lirst wile was /-.'/fo/n/r, by wlioui 
 111- had no issue ; his second, as .Mr. Dw^daU (I'lls iis, was I'/iilijij/u, 
 il.iiicliti r and coheir I<j John ile Mohun Lord of Diinslir, and 
 widov« of lltJuiird Duke of York; she survived him. But l^ Snr,' 
 
 > Coll. P. L. N. • MSS. caui. prrdict. pei.c* I'. L.N. 
 
 • \hi^. Bir. Vol. i. ill. * llul. vul. li. lul. 450. 
 
 ' t I'. "J N't-it Rk. >Ji, »n. rrg. ' Aulog. i-cn. '1. Mjitin, Cent, 
 s N. I • Col. P. L. N.
 
 DISS. y 
 
 in liis Collections, difTers in ihis point; for, as he justly observes, this 
 Pliilippa, widow of that Ehoard Duive of York who was killed in 
 the battle of Aginconrt, in the third year of Henri/ V. coidd iiever be 
 the wife of this Sir 11 alter Fitz-IValter, who died the tentli oi' Richard 
 II. before that battle was fought: to reeoncile this we must observe, 
 thiit Robert Fitz-l\ alter, the eldest son of tliis IV alter, lived to be of 
 age, thouu;li lie died before his father, witliout issue ; and he it was that 
 married Phil'ippa aforesaid, who, after his death, married ai^ain to 
 Edward Plantiigeiiet Duke of lurk, and Earl of Rutland, wiio held 
 Diss manor, hundred, and market, together with Henienhale, till he 
 was killed as aforesaid, and from his death she held them till 1431, 
 in which year it appears, by the iii(]uisilion then taken, that she died 
 seized, and that 
 
 Sir Walthii FiTZ-WALTtiH, second son, and now heir, of Walter 
 Lord Filz-lValler, brother and heir of Sir Robert Fitz-IValter, first 
 husband of the said. Philippa, had livery of the manors of Diss and 
 Henienhale, with their appurtenances, all which (except the advow- 
 sons) were held in dower by the said Philippa ; but they went with 
 the rest of the estate of the said Robert, and bad been in possession 
 of the said Walter ever since l.'JSi), when he had livery to them, as 
 heir to IValler his father, and Robert his elder) rother; and accord- 
 ingly I find, he presented to Diss, in l.iyO and in 139£); Philippa 
 aforesaid levied a fine, to Alexander 11 alden, 'Sw Richard Boitchier, 
 Knight, and others, settling these manors on herself for life, after to 
 tile said Walter and his heirs, as his inheritance. This Walter mar- 
 ried Joan' daughter of Sir John Devereux, Knight; he died in 
 J408, and ordered his body to be buried in Ilenham church, leaving 
 Joan his wife, who soon after married to Hugh Burnel, and two 
 sons, Humphry/ and Walter, and one daughter named Eleanor. 
 
 Humphry Lord Fitz-Walter, his eldest son, was under age at 
 his father's death, and was a ward of King Henrij the Fifth's, who 
 granted the custody of him to John de Beauford Earl of Somerset ; 
 the earl dying soon after, left him to his executor, Henry Beauford 
 Bishop of Winchester, but dying before he came of age, he never 
 was in possession of his inheritance, but it went to his brother, 
 
 W^ALTER Fitz-Walter, who was under age, and had not posses- 
 .sion of his estate till 1428, at which time he had livery thereof, but 
 not of Diss and Henienhale till 1431, when Philippa died, who had 
 held them all this time in dower. In this year he settled them in 
 trust on his feoffees,* Richard Baniard, and Simon Cistern, rector of 
 Berninghani, who presented here jointly with him ; and immediately 
 after that settlement 1 find a pardon passed the great seal, for the 
 alienation of his manors of Hemenhale, Diss, and Diss half hun- 
 dred, without the King's license. ^ This Walter was one of the most 
 active men in the French w'ars, in the time of that victorious prince 
 Henry V. who in the eighth year of his reign, for the great service* 
 that he had done him, gave to him and his heirs male all the lantis 
 and lordships which Sir John Choiei/, Knl. deceased, held in the 
 dulcliy of Normandi/, which reverted to the crown, for default of 
 heirs male of the said John, and were of the value of 5000 scutes. * 
 
 ' Dug. Bar. 2iz. ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. p. 211. 
 
 *P. L,N. ' Hoi. H. v. 44. b.
 
 10 DISS. 
 
 Hr mu ihrn a very young ninn, nol l>cinij of full nije till 1422, 
 
 t'l ' III UCI lie WB* Inkcn jiri»«)iuT by ihc h'rrnch, liut »ooii gol 
 
 Itfilirti ulmut M.i-. (in *»liu"h venr llic prubntc of liii will 
 
 <l to Im- Inirictl ill l/unmou' priorv. orticrint; liis 
 
 ir<-h III lln' « ill!, in-nr lii« iiiollicr * uriivr, hIIow- 
 
 >l lli:it his oivii, anil 
 I jMi»iic-<l.' F.lizabflh 
 
 III! wife kurvivrti liiio, who li«l(l in flower Hemciihalr unit />>•< niiinom, 
 willi IIk- liuii<lre<l of />«'»« in Sorjo/k, the nianorH of ' Sfiimpting and 
 'J'AorHt in Su/Tolk, of iVoiUhiim-H alter, lltuham. Ijcidtn, I tiring, 
 /' '■ ' . /I i/(/>M^. niui Shrring in Etsfi; she iiflcr 
 
 /, nnil livid U> Juiir 14, M'l.'i," al whiih 
 liiiH'ihi ■ iiig .litiu, \\\iv of Thointfi Uali-liff', V.m\. and hUi- 
 
 iitbtth, (.1. .'K^",) her daughters uiid liiircsM.-s ; ^////r had no i»>ue, 
 
 but I'Jizabflh utlerwnrdi inuiried to 
 
 John Katci.ifp, Knt. brotlier of the said Thomas, who was soon 
 aAer sumnione<l to |tnrhanu-nt a!> I>ord Filz-Hallrr, and in right of 
 lii« wife enjoved all the honours and |K)ssea*i<)ns of this noble family; 
 anil thnneli we have different aeeounts of lhi>i matter, the escheat 
 rull It to me ' that this iltizabrlh \\a» the wife of John, and 
 
 not • / '« liatcltll, as is said by siiine. 
 
 'I"hi» family, as ^(r. 7x- \(Vt thinks, laine first into this county 
 in 1411, when John Ratcliff, Ks^. father of this Sir ./o/i/i Ratclij}', 
 inametl Cecili/, llie widow of Sir John de Herling, by which 
 he much advancwl his family, lliis Sir John, after he w;is Lord 
 FttZ'iyalttr, sided with FAltrard IV. against King Uatri/ \ I. ' and 
 being bv him appointed to keep the passjigc at Ferri/brid^r, which the 
 Lord Chjforil resolved to gain by surprise, was there slam, on Satur- 
 day Ix-fore I'alm Sunday, l-Wk), as he rose from his bed unarmed, with 
 n poll a.\ only in his hand, in order to appease the fray, as he thought, 
 among his own men, leaving his estate in possession of Elizabeth his 
 » ife, and John Hotclijf, afterwards Lord I'ilz-lf alter, his son, all w Inch 
 the said 
 
 John ' enioveil till 14<)3, when he was attainted of treason, and 
 being Mppreliended, was bruught into F.iiglnnd with several other 
 knights, amoni; which was Sir llobirt linlclilJ, who was beheaded, 
 but tlie I»rd Fitz-H alter was pardoned; after that he went to 
 t'alai$, and beini; there laid in hold, was beheaded, because he would 
 have corrupteil the keepers, with miuiv promises, lo have esca|>ed out 
 of iIm: same, intending, as was thought, to have gone to I'erkj/n, at 
 that time a ^»reti-nder to the crown against llenrif VII. who, at the 
 time of Ins attainder, seized upon all liis revenues, and among ihem, 
 on this manor, hundred, and advow sim, together with the manor of 
 H'atlon't, or Cuck-ttreet, and H ulcote in Din, both which were 
 become memlK-nr of tlie great manor;* and in 14y8, the King 
 
 < . rijr. vol. i. i>j. " militarr ut pjrrrl. Uaronic itc FilB< 
 
 • I 4 K. 4. N. 37. " Wjlicr, rrnunJ' indc recn» hercdibui 
 
 • Cull. P. L. N. " ii>iiiii Waltcrl, quudquc KlizatKllia 
 
 • t4«v " Klizabrlha que fuit uxor " domini Kilr-Waltcr iiiipcr uxor Jo- 
 •' N"- ' V.Waller Irniiil die mio " luiinit Ralclifl r>i filu cl licrci ci 
 " ti' .. dc Hrint>iial cl Dy»s " cMlii tri^inla annul uni." 
 
 " u iilicdtf dc DyMC ciiiii twit • IIjII. K.6. loa. 
 
 "I' 'ic Rrgc I'cr icrviliuiii > Hall. H. 7, 34. a. ' Iiiit. No. 1.
 
 DISS. II 
 
 piTw^nlcd liore,by rti.^on of ihe foifcitiirc and attaiixlerof John late 
 L<ml Ittz-n alter. Tlicy remained in llie Crown till llairu VllI 
 risioied tliem to ^ 
 
 KoBEUT llATcr.iPF.son of the said .Joln,,^^\^o wasin so 'neat favour 
 with that kin-, that he not only restored him iti blood and estate, but 
 made nu. kmght of the garter. Lord Fitz-Jfalln; Egnmo„d imd 
 llurnd, and a terwards. ' on tbe Kith of ./««.■, I52j, Cealed him 
 \.scount /■//.-/» «//.r, and on the .Sth o( Dr amber, l.>jy, I-arl of 
 Wi : he had three wives; by Elizalnth dauj,d.ter nUlair,, StalTord 
 )ukeof liHclangluim, lie ha.l llnin/ Lord rUz-fValler. whosuceeeded 
 ill.. ; he died at C/u'/scj/ li,e '2Slh of Sovanba; 1,3 t'2, an<l is buried in 
 ilie elmreh ot Bortham, in London dioeese, with two other earl:,, his 
 son ami grandson, under a simiptuous monument, as appears bv their 
 inseriptions m Mr. Uaner's l-iMRial Monuments, fol ('j.j 
 
 Henky Ratci.ifi Earl of Sumi, Viscount Fitz-lf alter. Lord 
 J^gremoud ii,n\ Burml, held his f.ia .ourt in l.-.4'2; he was in Kieat 
 lavour with Queen Mar,/, and of her privv council;' and by her 
 .!,^rant, dated \oi^mber% in the first year of her reign, had " liberty 
 ^^ icens and pardon to were his cappe, coyf or night cappe or twoo o'f 
 ^ tiieiii at his pleasoras well in our piesens as in the prcsens of any 
 other person or persons within this our relmeor any other place of 
 * our dominion during bis life." He died at ]Vtst'mi,tster,\- Feb 
 rr ' hV\'° '^f.''%M l^'i'"l><--lh his wife, daughter of Thomas 
 Hoziord Uuke of horjoik, Thomas the third earl of Sussex and 
 Uciiri/ the fourth earl. 
 
 Thomas the third earl, in 1557, was seized of Diss, Jlt/ebur'rh 
 and Hemcvhale, Dockyng, Southmere, IVarners, BiUiugford, liushttn 
 rr'T^,' r"^^'""'"^' '"'d Sliirston, in Norfolk i he had two wives' 
 iLhzabeth daughter of Thomas nh-iothesley, by whom he had He,mi 
 lUHl liohert. who both died young, and Frances daughter of Sir 
 
 ," "'""'* ■^id'i'-J/. by whom he had no issue," whoflied June 0. 1583 
 leavino- ^' ' 
 
 I'RANCEs his widow this manor, and great part of the estate, for 
 life; and at her death, to Robert Lord Fitz-Walter, his son, who died 
 before her, so that it came to 
 
 Henry Ratcliff, his brother, who died seized the Utli oi Dec 
 15<)3, when it descended to 
 
 lioBEKT KATCLirr, his son, who in 1G21 sold it to 
 
 Frances Siiute, widow, and her heirs, who " held a court in ifj^'^ • 
 ni 103.^ it was in ~"' 
 
 John Dlkk, Esq ^ of IVorlingham, in Suffolk, who about 1(J4Q 
 lelt It to • .» 
 
 I'arnem. and Anne Duke, his daughters, who kept their first 
 court in 1650 : this John .sold the advowson from the manor. 
 
 Pa knell married 
 
 Roger ^v.vysoUmpingloii, Esq. who afterwards had Jnue'spati 
 also, and at his death left it to 
 
 Talhot Pei'vs, his son, who married /7a«waA daughter of JoA// 
 Man alderman oi' Norwich ; she outlived him, and held the manor 
 and hundred till l()94, when she died, and left it to 
 
 » Vincent against Brook, i«r. • Vincfnt, 562. » Vincent. 563 
 
 ' Cop. Cur. » Weaver, 636. • Cop. Cur. • P. L. N. 
 
 vol. I. C
 
 It DISS. 
 
 RocEM PEtv». her ton and lit-ir, who ii InU-ly [I'SC"] dead; and 
 Mr». AxxK Vr.fx*, hi« t«ido«r, la prornt [l7;J'iJ My ihcrcof. 
 
 rFXCHK'S MANOH, wor caU^d Hey wood Hall, 
 
 lUH lU ' r ; Sir Rohrrt Fil:-H allrr, who 
 
 hrld IMi> : loMil ot Ihu, graiitttl «ii«r (hird 
 
 tbrrruf wiih hit (liuii;hlrr (^M>inc miv »ikU'r) Jlicf, in inarriiit;!-, to 
 
 Sir CiiLBEBT 1'kcciib, Km. lortl of liruniif, in CambnJgtthire,* 
 U|Ki>i »lu>9<- dralli il clr«cendc4l (o 
 
 Sir IIamx I' ( iiK, Km. his rwn, who died in l'2-U), Iravint;, 
 
 by f.'io hi» u I childrt-ti ; (iilOcrt was hit eldc»l son and lii-ir, 
 
 but • to ' 
 
 ik. IiK, his fourth son, wlio htid il in ]'18f>, in whiili 
 
 yi'nr ho ilainieii view of Jrankp/nlgf, and assize of lireatl and a/e of 
 all hi- Itnanu.* It was tlii> (iilOirt, and -/^"" Ins wit"o,tliat in l'iy'2 
 conveyed two thin! nnrls of liiis manor to Sir liobrrl I'itz-lt tiflrr, 
 Ml thai it wa> a^ain (oiiicd to liie c^reat manor, all but one third |iiirt, 
 wlneh tliey in l'28.')liad toiiveyeil by fine to 
 
 Sir KirHARii nr. n«ivi.AN n, and Maud his wife, together with a 
 third uurt of the demeans, and '^Bs.pfr aiiiiiim (juilreni ; and this [>art 
 ron«lilutc<l tlial manor here, whicli is now called 
 
 l!Ii\W(X)D-llALL, 
 
 Of which I find a fine levied ' in 1889, by Sir Richard dc Box/land, 
 and Maud his wife, to SUjthcn Filz-H alter, lord (in trust) of the preul 
 manor, who designed to join thi;., a- lii> nreilecessor had done the 
 oilier pari- to that manor, in order to make it more coni|>lete, * but 
 it proved of no force, for in 1.114 
 
 UicilABD, son of Richard dc Holland, sued Robert Fitz-U alter 
 fur it, and recovered it, it having been settled on his mother Ix-fore 
 the fine war. sued, to which he was not u parly ; and soon after he 
 M-lli<d il upon ./o/iii dc Mortimer, in trust tor hitiiM-if and his heirs, 
 wimli John ii said to hold it in l.I'i"- At Sir Richard's death it 
 came to 
 
 .*iir John de Boyland, of Boi/laiid Hail, in Rrisinghum ; (in 
 which place more will be added of that ancient family ;) he Icfl only 
 one daughlt'r, marrie<l to 
 
 John Lancaster, of liritittgham, Esq. senior, who lefl it to 
 
 IIli.en * his wife, for life; then to 
 
 John Lancasteii, junior, of Wr<j/;/^Aa;H, Rsq.; he,' by will proved 
 !l8lh J«i/y, 1470, left it to 
 
 lived ill, few liijiorijn* are to be met 
 witli, lull wlul >{Hdk iiiucli uf tlicni. 
 
 • h>c. >5 II. J. 
 
 > Pliij. Coiunc dedicto anno. 
 
 • P. L. N. 
 
 > Fines divers, com. de dido anno. 
 
 • Cull. 1'. I„ N. 
 
 • Koi. Cur. 
 ' Will.BiKjk. uf ilijt vcar. 
 
 ' A 
 
 
 
 the Fill- 
 
 Wn'' 
 
 
 • 
 
 r'l B»- 
 
 
 . 1. lal. 
 
 
 ll- 
 
 1 
 
 Itv in nij 
 
 
 ' r . 
 
 ■ .e 
 
 
 
 
 ■lie 
 
 1 
 
 
 lit 
 
 
 
 
 'T 
 
 ;,. 
 
 
 
 ■ ^- 
 
 nurkabie 
 
 men in the 
 
 •evcr«l 
 
 agc> they
 
 DISS. IS 
 
 Elizauetii his wife, for lil'e, and hftcr lier decease" to 
 
 W'^iLLiAM Lancaster," Esc], (hvr son) oi Cati/wade and Brising- 
 ham, who married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of William 
 Notheam, b^y whom he had 
 
 Bknedicta, his sole heiress, who married to Edtcard Bolton, about 
 the year 1.50.3; and by will dii.'ed l.'jlli Juli/, 1528, bequeathed it to 
 
 Thomas Bolton, of Suham Tout/, his second son, who died seized 
 in 1544; it was sold to 
 
 Thomas Jkumyn, Knt. and William Curson, clerk, his trustee; 
 but it continued very little while in this family, for in iGlfi 
 
 William Mason, Esq. and John Beseley, Gent, sold it to 
 
 William Webb, and Charles Wiseman, Gents, from whom 
 it came to the Fishers. 
 
 Richard Fisher, Gent, being seized in iGsO; 
 
 Edward I'ishkk, Gent, in lG()'2; and in iGGj, I find it in 
 
 John Buxton, Gent, till 1()84 ; and after in 
 
 RoBF.KT Buxton, Esq. of St. Margaret's, in South Elmham, who 
 was lord in 1715 ; at his death it was held by 
 
 Elizabeth his widow, now [I73(i] dead; and 
 
 Elizabeth Buxton, a minor, their sole daughter and heiress, is 
 the [)resent [1731)] owner. 
 
 I must observe, that in a court roll of this manor, among Mr. Le 
 2Vfr«'.s- papers, in 14'2;5, when Ehit, widow of John Lancaster senior, 
 held her first court, there were two distinct juries, one for the part of 
 the manor in Diss, and the other for that part in Biirslon ; ^ it was 
 always held of the great manor of Diss, by fealty, and 5s. per annum 
 rent, in full for all suit and service, being estimated at 8l. per annum. 
 
 hewode, or heywode manor. 
 
 Was always part of IVinfarthing manor, till it was separated by 
 Henri/ 1. who gave it to 
 
 Sir Richard de Lucy, and so joined it to Diss., he gave a third 
 part of the hundred, manor, and market, in frank marriage with 
 Dionisia his daughter, to 
 
 Sir Robert de Muntenei, or Mountenei/ ;* and accordingly we 
 find, in the Black Book of the Exchequer, that in the year llOl the 
 said Robert held of the said Richard three knights fees, sc. in 
 Nezoton, a member of Stoic {marhet in Sujf'olh) one tee, and in Jl al- 
 cote, a member of /J/.ss, one fee, and in Sprecton (now Sprous'on, in 
 j^orjol/;) one fee, and in Tacuheston two fees; and in the same town, 
 Hugh, son of Haniel, held one fee ; (this afterwards was Uveda/e's 
 manor there;) of all which knights the ancestors oC Richard de Lnci 
 performed ward to Dover Castle ; ' and among Richard de Luei's 
 knights of the old feoffment, Hubert de Muntenei is said to h(jld five 
 fees, of which IValcute, a member of Diss, is one. 
 
 Sir Arnold de Munteney, his son, succeeded him; and in 12J0 
 it was found that he held it of Sir Robert Fitz-lValter at one fee, as 
 of his barony ; in 1239 a fine was levied between himself and Ilamon 
 
 ' P. L. N. published by Mr. Hearnc at Oxla.-d 
 
 ' Lib. Cur. W.ird. & Esc. 8 H. 7. 172S, Vol. I. 255. 
 
 * 1 he Black Book of the Exchequer, » Red Book ot the Exchequer.
 
 14 DISS. 
 
 CM<v*re, by wliich lie trltlctl it on liiintrlf nn«i hi» heir*. He »<«nKil 
 with a Uriui brtMceii ux iiinrtlrl*. riri-umki-iibe<i SigUlum JmulfiJii de 
 MmmlcHtt ; ill 1^77 lir •rlllitl tint and S^.rovttoH niauitrs on 
 
 iUiui'.RT* hit M>ii,«liu, ill lv>8(>, liiul virw ol'/r ' ' ' > . und died 
 K'i2rd ul' lliu uianur, Willi u third p4rt oi the liu. :i>l lliiilki'l, 
 
 Icaviiii; It lu 
 
 Aknuli> hit Mtii nnd heir, wliu clnimed liberty offri'e wnrrcn in all 
 hu deiiK-an*, nnd had it nllowi-d. In l*2<>3 lie was kuniuioneil t» 
 attend Kini; EtItLard I. into itauoi^itf for the recovery Uu-retif. Thi» 
 ^^rMoAy granted part of thin iniiiior, viz. 17 me**unge$, IM) aerei ot 
 luiid, 4*» (ure« nnd an half of uieadow, 3». 4</. Xq. rent, und the reut 
 of 14 hen», and ;M)fe-^*, !■• 
 
 \\ iLLiAM, lii» > I, nnd Ins hein, wliich nl /li/Z/f/m's dealli 
 
 nere, (iMiio l.'llj,' : . Itlcii oil 
 
 Katii.vri.nk, hii widow, then married lo (iilb<rt Jtaliol, for life, 
 R-niuinder to 
 
 DiOMSiA, afterward* wife of Hugh de f trt, daughter of the sjiid 
 iVilliam, by which Ihoinuii it reverted to M iiif'urlhhig manor a^^ain; 
 nnd being joined in the said Hii^h, it hiilli gone witli it ever nince, 
 fur which rca»on 1 shidl »ay nolhiiig fiirllier here, but refer lo 
 l\ Itijarthitt^, with which it halli !»o long |)u>>sed. 
 
 rm: customs of the manor of diss, 
 
 conftrmtd lit/ the Ijord and Tenunti, at a (itueral Court of Siinri^, 
 thert hcldtfu \Ath o/' September, Wi.OG, art as J'ollotc, aiajipiar by 
 Iht original, /loir [I73<)J in the Churchtcardcm' hands. 
 
 The fine* arc arbilrnble u|>on everv alienation and deseenl; nnd on 
 every death the lands de!<rend to the eldest M)n, or next allie<l, nccortU 
 inu to the roiif'.e of the common law, and arc subject to such 
 forfeitures hn the common law doth diioct. 
 
 llu' copyhold teiiant.s may fell tniilx-r without forfeiture on the 
 eopvliohl lands. 
 
 rile lord's iNiilifTenn lake but one penny for each beast's ponnilnge. 
 The tenants can dig gravel, sand, turf, &c. on the >»-Hste, and make 
 hemp pits on Diu Moor, and Vock-ilrttt Grtrn. 
 
 The tc-nants cnn |il.-iiit upon the wastes against their own lands nnd 
 hoiites, by (be name of an outrun. 
 
 Tliey can nlvi stub furze and bushes on all the wastes. 
 
 'llie lord bath all the strays; he bath no waneii, but liU-rly of 
 hawking, hunting, and Hshing, in the manor; nnd the lords formerly 
 have granted liberty of fishing to divers tenants; and it is returned 
 that John Turnrr, Samuel Fotstr, Thomas Hhrrir, Reginald Shufk- 
 f'orlh, and llenri/ Turner, have and mniiitain certain pits in their 
 yards nrj ' !-,witli inlets from them to the Great -l/r/r, as by 
 
 ciKlom I imljfy. 
 
 I'lie tt'ii.tiits «an make steps oul of their doors into the street, anil 
 •lain oul of their cellars, and also lliey cnn wt up booyes, or props, at 
 (heir windows, and scats at lliOir doors, according to custom. 
 
 • Pill. Coron. 15 E. I. 'Coll. P. L. N. 
 
 Kul. V'ascun d« dicto aano.
 
 DISS. 1'5 
 
 The lord hatli a market every Triday, a fair on St. Simon and St. 
 Jude, when his bailiff takes 2(/. tor every tilted stall, and Id. for every 
 oneuntilted, and no more; and for the market stalls he takes either a 
 weekly or yearly rent; but all that stand under any houses, penu- 
 houses, &,c. pays the bailiff, 4d. per annum by ] d. every quarter, and no 
 more; but all they that sell any manner of victuals pay nothing, 
 stand where they will, and all corn, corn carts, &.C. pay notiiing. 
 
 As to the extent of the manor, they say that it extends from the 
 river dividing TSIorfolk and Suffolk on the south, in and through a 
 great part of the town of Dhs, and into Itai/don, Burston, Frtnze, 
 Shelf hanger, and JVinJ'arthuig ; and that Thomas Earl of Arundell 
 and Surrei/, Earl-Marshal of England, hath a manor here called 
 Hei/wood; also John Havers, Gent, a manor that extends into this 
 town, called Rat/dun Hall cam Tufts ; Richard Fisher, Gent, hulh a 
 manor called llci/ioood Hall; and Richard Nixon. Gent. Frenze 
 manor, which extends into this town ; the manor of Diss rectory, and 
 the manors of Brockdish Hall, and Milden Hall, in Burston, extend 
 hither. The lord of this manor hath a mansion house, in which 
 Samuel Ptthaugh now [1736] dwells, and 35l. per annum and a part 
 of the toll-house now [1736] in decay for want of tiling, and a piece of 
 land called Hinge laipode, and a piece of marsh in Brisingham. 
 
 The advowson belongs to the lord, whose officers are a steward, 
 a bailiff, and a hey ward. 
 
 N. B. The manors in Diss give a moiety dower. 
 
 The capital manor-house, called Diss Hall, is situated at Heyreode 
 Green, which with sixteen acres three roods of land, is held by copy 
 of court roll of this manor. 
 
 WATTON'S MANOR, now called Cock-stkeet, 
 
 Was very small, being held by a freeman, of William Malet, lord of 
 the honour of Et/c, in Suffolk, though it did not belong to his fee, 
 till 
 
 Walter de Cadomo' (Caam or Caux) dis-seized him ; this was 
 after called JVattons from one of its lords ; it continued some time in 
 JValtei''s family, and was afterwards held of the capital manor. 
 
 In 1235, Ralph de Cunges, or Canz,' (a descendant from the said 
 Walter,) was lord ; he held it by the fourth part of a fee : from him 
 it came to 
 
 Richard de Cunges, who enlarged it, by purchasing more lands 
 and rents to it of the Fitz-Waltcrs. 
 
 In 1322,^ Reginald le Man, of Diss, was lord, who in 1337, 
 left it to Alice his wife, ' from which family it came to the 
 JVattons. 
 
 About 1420 John Watton was lord, who, before 1431, had 
 conveyed it to 
 
 Henry Sikcok,* for then he occurs lord; it was soon after 
 purchased by the 
 
 9 Invasiones, (jc.) Walter! de Ca- modo offert se necisse, ii. bov. val. 
 
 dorao. (Domsd. f. 30a.) In Disce i. xd. 
 
 lib. Iiomo. v. acr. tene de doininio ma- ' Norf. Feodary. 
 
 iierij, queni tenuit Will. Mallet, sed ■ Cart, pen. T. Coggeshall, de Diss,. 
 
 non pertinujt ad feuduni suum, eodem Gen. ■> Cart. pen. me.
 
 II 
 
 Iti DISS. 
 
 u|>uu tttr L«>rti i .. . _ '' 
 
 • luciiibrr ot' ihal inaour, nud wiu itn-n oulM It aHoii'$, or in.i.- 
 ./. p •: mi which tunc it hnlh btt-n nUny* iiidmlcd iii 
 
 ' '1 lie »uc or iiinnor-liouM' nbui* on Cotk-itrtct 
 
 I .11 I4<>4, b\ Kitii; //nirv VII. to In 
 
 I, ,^ At. (Jd. prr milium (|iiilrcnl. 
 
 DISS Ki:rrouY mandu 
 
 n -ill all alon^ none, nnd now i> in ihi- mtorol' the |inrii>li : tlu- 
 II nrwhitlMi, tliut all lumUuiiil lcn«-miiil» tk»r« ml Ui the il<ic»l 
 
 * II, .iiid tlu- tciiunlcannol wu>t«- lii» co|hIioIiI hoiisCk witliotil liccni»i-. 
 I ii. tiuf» urv 111 the lord'* will, but in all tiling* else the ' tenants 
 in;iN do u> they plruM?. 
 
 UKCTOUS. 
 
 liic tir»i tiiai i liml pus«i-»se<l, befon- iiku h.is any inslitutiun, 
 
 Mils 
 
 /• ulkrt<l' the priest, who left it to 
 
 H illiaiH his »on, as his hiwfiil heir. 
 
 litile, in his Actiom of Enc^liOi I oluric, (fol. "IS. b.) snys that 
 l*o|H- Jlfiandfr wrote to John of Oijord, tlun Kisliop of \urtcich, 
 that HiUifim the now parson of Diss, for claiming the parsonage of 
 /' ' iluritance, after the death »>f his father piirson Ifulketcl, 
 \ ,.il hini ill hisprit-sthood, should 1m- disjiossesst'd, and no aj>- 
 
 iw .l.iu.ii .idiiiiltcd. From his time to \'i[)[). when the institution books 
 lxi;in, I find no more rectors; nor tlun, till 
 
 LRU,' 7 kal. Dec. when Adam df H aiidritif^ticld, (or U ultling- 
 fSdd,) pricKt, wa« instituted, being presented by Sir KooiiRT I'n z- 
 U'AtTtB, Knl. 
 
 l.)l<), i non. \ov. Thoma% dc Couliiig, priest. Walter Fitz- 
 \\'aiti:h. Knt. Lord of llodiham. 
 
 K ' rd III.* hv letters patent, dated tlic 2d of ./;////, prc- 
 
 %,-nii ■ . I dr Iriiiir^,'' ouo ol' hi- chaplains, to this chur ;li ; he 
 
 had »rvcral < -iveii him, Ixjth befure and 
 
 ;.ti. r .1- ilie <i' ■ , ' I _ ' ' I , the eiislocly or inaslership 
 
 ■'int college III hail, and of yjorrArnNr hospital in Suliibury 
 
 •■') :•. canoiiry of Si. Slriiluu at l\ cstmiinlcr. 1 lake it, that it 
 
 .itioii only, for the turn when voiil, if be lived so loiii;, 
 
 .ii«<l l>v the Kinn from the filz-U alUr family. How- 
 
 1 .iin, that he never posscsscil this living, for i'/wmus de 
 
 toiiinij; ' did not resign it till 
 
 13.'.<i, in whiili year, sc. the ides of Vthninrif, Hilliam llallriiipc, 
 ('(u«t, was instituted, John Fitz-VValieu, knt. lioid of /I or/rmim, 
 iieing patron. 
 
 * E. Cop. Cur. prii. T. C. Gen. " tuiiu hxrcdi, ucerduliiiin dc D)»vi 
 
 predict, " rrllqiiil." 
 
 »I ,: ■ . \. ' l.ib. Init. No. 1. 
 
 » I Tf • P»i. f. K. J. p. J. 
 
 '• H. ii. ■■■> N V. ,i,,,.iiw.iu • Newcotirt AnlK). fond. Djoc. p. 
 
 " prrsbyicr, (. I», ut lcf;i- :««. * Lib. InX. 4.
 
 DISS. 17 
 
 1361, G Jail/, John de Vxrhiiig, priest; ditto, 
 
 149c, .'30 yliig. Huburl Tailour dc Tlwrhij, priest. Walter Fitz- 
 Waltek, Knt. he is often in evidences called Hubert de Tfiorlei/. 
 
 14'24, ii/t. Feb. lie resiuriicd lo liic/tnrd Drurywal, Waller Fitz- 
 Waltcr, and l\ odc/iam, liichurd Bainard, and Simon Cistern, rector 
 of Bernitisham, his feoflccs. 
 
 Edzcard Atherton, ^ priest, who was clerk of the closet to King 
 Ileiirij VI. and by him, December 2f), in the seventh year of his reign, 
 presented to this rectory ; he was succeeded in 14J7, in wiiicii year 
 he died, by 
 
 Richard Donyn^ton, priest, instituted iGth 'November. King 
 Henry VI. as guardian to tlic Lord Fitz-IVnlter's heirs, being patron. 
 
 145'2, 7 Oct. Richard lateshalc, A. M. priest, by Doiiynglon's 
 death. John Ratclifi', Esc]. 
 
 1465, 1 1 Feb. Tho. Motyng, (or Miilting,) at Tateshale's death. 
 Eliz. Fitz-Walter. This Mutyug was eitiier master or fellow of- 
 Metyngham college, where he resided much, as I find in the 
 accounts of the said college, (MSS. T. M.) 
 
 1490, If) April, John Uimbnche, (or Himburle,) S.T. D. on 
 Moutyiig's death. John Lord Fitz-Walteu. 
 
 1598, 16 Aug. Peter Greves, priest, presented by King Henry VII. 
 by reason of the forfeiture and attainder of John Lord Fitz-ll alter : 
 he was succeeded by 
 
 John Shelton, the King's orator and poct-laureat, whose institution 
 occurs not, but I find him rector in 1504, for in 
 
 1529, 17 July, Thomas Clerk was instituted, on the death of the 
 said John, at the presentation of Robert Lord P"itz-\V alter, 8cc. 
 Clerk died in 
 
 1545, And ll'illiam Browne succeeded, being presented by 
 Thomas Browne, Gent, who had this turn by grant from Henry 
 Earl of Sussex. This Brozvue was deprived for being married, both of 
 this and Stonham Jarnegan, and in 
 
 1554,' (J May, the Right Rev. John Salisbury, Bishop of Thetford, 
 suffragan to the Bishop oi' Norwich, was presented by Henry Earl of 
 Sussex, to this rectory, which was void by the deprivation of the last 
 incumbent;* he was Bishop of the Isle of Man, and held in com- 
 mendam the deanery of Norwich, the archdeaconry of Anglesey, the 
 church of Thorp on the Hill, in Lincoln diocese, and the rectory of 
 Diss, by license from Archbishop Parker, dated anno 1570; he was 
 rector for some time of Lopham, and several other parishes in this 
 county: he died at Norwich, and is buried in the middle of St. 
 Andiew's church there, being succeeded by 
 
 John Hilton, who was instituted Mahh '24, 1572, Thomas Earl of 
 Sussex being patron; he died in 1587, and on October 23, in that 
 year, 
 
 John Reeve, A. M. was instituted, at the presentation of Francf.s, 
 then widow of the said Thomas ; but he had no peaceable possession ; 
 for Henry Earl oi' Sussex, brother to 'J'homas, who was husband of 
 the said Frances, brought this action against both patroness and 
 incumbent, and ejected him in 1589; and on May 17, in that year, 
 
 Richard Cox, A.M. was instituted, as on the death of John Hilton, 
 
 • Lib. Inst. > Lib. Cur. R«ct. ♦ MSS. Parker, in Archiv. Cantuar.
 
 16 Dl.s.s 
 
 '■ . Ii l.p 
 
 . ■ ■ .1. i i iind 
 
 .'-riiorul llir ulc and tiiMiiul I'orltnt ..'n 
 
 1 , _: :■- Ufii ihu, llint lliuti^li \.\\k smA I'run^n 
 
 )h-M (Ir- luaiior for life in jointurr, ycl llir ndvuMtoii, n« the rnri 
 '^ 'r< have it, wa« not in the M-itlfniciii. Kiit it cnflcd not Ikti-; 
 / i.rt i-oniinuine ln-r cluiui. Cox «u* rjoclt-d, nn<l Krfff declnrcd 
 1 il »«> but littli- tiuu', lor No;. 17. \b\)\, 
 
 ( 1 \rtv MKin iirttT c|frlfd ni;iiiii, iiiul nu 
 
 li.iuir imnr iin'^t-iitcd, «> U>i)f{, lliul it liiid liiid Ironi 
 t ''.)l,l'> /*<■<■• l-i*)"i. «lu'noin- Win. I'loiidaril, \. M. 
 
 «Ri prv^rnU-d, but dctiit'd in-ititulion ; Hlu>rcii|Mtn 
 
 Cor, lu make liimM*!!' sun-, and end all ilii|iut('N, tciok the brond 
 •cal, it bctn;; lapM-d to tin- Cronn, nnd obtained Cjucen I'.liuihclh'i 
 IvKcr-i pnlrnt to void till otluT presentations, on mIik-Ii be was insti- 
 liiiid l>((. 'i, l.')<);",and held il to I5i»'i, when be died , and on \or. 18, 
 in ilint year, 
 
 Juhn I'artrnrr, preacher of God's word,* wnt institutetl, ui the prt- 
 ■cntationot' Uoiikkt Earl of Sinsex, in t'lill nsiit; all other claimants 
 whatever bein)' now dead, he continue*! rector to 
 
 l6l3, in which year, Dec. &)," Urn. Ifilhtn, A. M, was instituted; 
 be died in 16*7 . wlien 
 
 y^t^arii Val^ratf, \\. 1>. si]cccede<l, llie patron being KiciiARD 
 PRr.TT\ MAN oi (irntoii, fient. It was not lout; Ix'fore he was ejected 
 bv the unjust proceediiiv; of those rebellious timeii, and his living 
 given to one 
 
 Richard Moore, A. M. wlio signed the attestation of the ministers 
 of ihia county in 1648, as Calami/ informs us in W\* Addrnda, Vol. I. 
 p. 481 ; but he was soon displaced, and it was taken by one 
 
 John llobart, who held il by usurpation some time, but was aftfr 
 thrown out by Mr. Moore, who held it to 
 
 M'ltrl, when he was ejcctcti, and Kdrciird liernard, clerk, instituted 
 vipt>n his deprivation, at the presentation of John IIobart, llsq. ; lie 
 held it to l<)7S, and then die<i, being succeeded by 
 
 John liurlhii^lon, A. M. at whose death, in 1(»<>.5, 
 
 June 1, Eduard llonrorth, A. M. was instituted at the presentation 
 of \\'|LI-IAM IJoswoHTii, clerk, patron for this turn. In 
 
 17I.S, John Itrinn, A. M. was presented liy William niRiisi;- 
 To!«,of/>iM, (ieiit. the present [17->'»] patron; upon the death ot 
 ^lr. tlriari. the said \\ ii.liam, in 
 
 I7^!>. prex'iitefj the Uev.Mr. Edtcard DoiVorth, who is now 
 [ 1 73(ij rector. 
 
 DISS^KECTOKV 
 
 I<in the deanery of Rtdcnhall, archdeaconry of Nor/ii/A-, an«l diocesr 
 of Sorcrich, being ' still charged with first fruits, and the following 
 
 • lie «rai born »t Brrkyng, in tuex, Irnthi are d«l(irlr<t out uf die >iim il is 
 
 and dicU in i6i ], aged j5. clurj-ed al in the Kwkj'i books, llie rr- 
 
 ' He utaialxi rector of Welheringtet, maining luni ii llie suidimiiI tor ihcfint 
 
 Suffolk. ftuiO. I ihall alM> (akr i>o notice of 
 
 'I ' «n (lie fiiit fruits the procurations llul arc paid tu the 
 
 (hate^ 'cauK, if a year's bishop, upon his scplcnnial or primar)'
 
 DISS. ly 
 
 anmial sums, for synodals and procurations; it hath a good rectory- 
 house, and convenient ont-iiouses, with 1'2 acres of glebe adjoining 
 to it, ail which abut south on Diss Moor. 
 King's Books.^ I Tattlis. I Si/nodah. I Arclul.Procitr? I Norw.Taxa. 
 33 6 8 I 3 G 8 I 3 I 7 7 I?. I 55 marks. 
 Lincoln Taxa. I Acr. Glebe. 
 58 marks. I 12 O 
 In the dean and chapter's book ' called Norwich Domesdai/ it i» 
 said, that the rector then had a mansion-house much in decav, with 
 another house which was formerly the vicar's. It may seem odd that 
 here was ever a vicar, but we are to remember, that often in those 
 times ^ vicars signified no more than curates, and were reraovcable at 
 the rector's pleasure ; indeed, when churches were appropriated to 
 monasteries, and the religious were forced to set out a portion of the 
 glebe and tithes for the maintenance of a vicar, such a one is called 
 a perpetual vicar, made presentative and institutive; but there are no 
 footsteps of any institution to the vicarage of Diss; not but that the 
 rector might, with the consent of the bishop and patron, have at 
 any time created a vicarage, and made his own share a sinecure, as 
 was done at East Dearham, Tcniiigton, 8cc. and this, since the 
 Council of Lateran; nay, in the diocese of St. Asaph there are such 
 separations of tithes made, and vicarages erected, as low as King 
 Uenrif the Eighth's lime, 
 
 CUSTOMS OF THE RECTORY. 
 
 In the time of King James I. there was a long suit about the 
 customs of this rectory, and at length it was ended, and an exem- 
 plification under seal passed IVor. 21, l6lO, in which it was thus 
 acknowledged on all sides: 
 
 * That the rector is to receive in kind the tenth sheaf of all corn 
 bound up: 
 
 And of all corn not bound up, the tenth heap, ready heaped. 
 
 Of pease, he is to take the tenth stetch. 
 
 For the fall of every calf, lamb, or pig, under seven, he is to receive 
 one halfpenny; but if there be seven, he is to take the seventh, and 
 to pay to the owner three halfpence, because there lacks three of 
 ten ; if there be eight, one penny ; if nine, one halfpenny ; if ten, 
 nothing. 
 
 visitations out of eacli living.because one years,) drew up a descrijition of all the 
 
 general rule will serve for all that pay clergy's revenues in England : for every 
 
 them, viz. to remember that it is three- deanery of every diocese he appointed 
 
 pence in tlie pound, according to the the dean and three beneficed persons in 
 
 valuation \n tlie Kind's books. his jurisdiction, to certify upon oath the 
 
 8 F.ctnn's Valor. &c. true value of all preferments in that 
 
 9 There have been three taxations of deanery. The second is called the Lin- 
 the ecclesiastical preferments in Eng- coin taxation, and was made in uSo. 
 land. The first, which is called llie The third and last is the present valua- 
 Norwich taxation, was made in 1254, ation, which was made in the 28th year 
 and was confirmed in 1256, is so called of King Henry VIII. 
 
 from Walter de Suthfield, Bishop of ' In Edward the First's time, about 
 
 Norwich, who, by the command of Pope 1280. ^ Coll. Ep. Asaph. 
 
 Innocent, (wlio had granted the King the •• Exemp. sigillat. penes rector, ct 
 
 tenths of all ecclesiastical goods for three gardian. dictaj ecclesia;. 
 
 VOL. I. D
 
 I .il, liic ncU'f ii' f' . ■ |Miiii\. 
 
 I , iilloniiii; OIK- 1 l»i cucll gOslin 
 
 ' lUimg tut ctiili )ioi>lm under M-vrn. 
 
 i - ■ __^ 
 
 Tuln- »»i*>l, iwty liiiili pouiul. 
 
 Mvcrv It-ntli (uite ur klicul ut' lioinp in kind. 
 
 In lull i.r iiilic wood, ilic nvt"r i» j>iud one jR-nny every SnndBv, 
 1),. ' .lioul ihi- town; for Mlu-n lii>lv brcud wni 
 
 «i, >>r broad \\<i« Itroiitjlit to llu- pnrson l-vitv 
 
 Suiitliis, ul tiiiulilii tlisinbutttl to till- |M>or two |H-ntiyvNortli, nn<i 
 iIk- ihiid |Ki>iiy lif lii"l to Ills ovrn u**-, bv the name of hurtha^c ,• 
 nnd ut till- tiim- of tiikiiik; awuy holy brend, the iiihabitants pnid u« 
 nbovi' for wood nnd hortha'^c. 
 
 In lieu of lithe hoy, the rector receives two-pence ^rr ncre for nil 
 mow ins grouiul, hv the name offfnagr. 
 
 I'or ivtTv mikh-cow, he receives one penny per anrntm by llie 
 name of taclagt. 
 
 l"or every orchard and garden plot, he receives one penny per 
 annum in lieu of it- titlie. 
 
 Tor every hive of bee», one |ienny per annum, except il be the first 
 year they swnrni, and then nothing. 
 
 I'or every ga§l heifer, »teir, or colt, feeding from one ye;u- old to 
 three, one penny. 
 
 The tithe calves are to bo paid at M-vcn weeks old, and not be- 
 fore; pik^s nt live week* old; ehieken-< at a month old ; lambs and 
 goslios ut lemmas ; cui;* iire due at hlaslir ; herbage*, lactagcs, and 
 Jettaget, to be pan! belwt t-n iMmnuis and Cliriitinus. 
 
 + Bv the church-wardens' book it a|)p(ars, that u|)on every burial 
 in the church they receive tis. 8c/. for broach of the pavement. In 
 1371, Htehanl I'owUer paid it for hi^i wife's burial, nnd J^'icholas 
 Estotie did the same. 
 
 The church here is dedicated to the honour of the Virgin Marjif,^ 
 and IS a regular building, having n square tower joined to its west 
 end, with siK bells, a clock, and chimes ; the nave, the two isles, and 
 tno iNirchet, arc leaded; the chancel is tiled; iH-tweeii which and 
 the nave hangs n saint's bell, on which is this inscription, 
 
 Sanete Gabriel ora pro nobis.* 
 
 The vestry, w hich was on the north side of the chancel, is down ; at 
 the eml of the north isle is a eliapel, formerly belonging to Corpus 
 Ckruli Ciild ; oppukite is nnullier, belonging to the brothers of St. 
 \ fiiid: but u|>on lli<-ir incorporation, alxxit Henri/ the 
 
 .*>. lie, when they built St. Sieholat's chapel, they were for- 
 
 saken by them, and lel'tto the soul priests of the parish, who sang in 
 them until the reformution : the organs used to stand between tiie 
 fint u( these cha|H-U and the chancel. 'Hie roof* of the nave, chancel, 
 and two chapels, ate iitainetl with red and white. This building, 
 now standing [173(>1, wm without doubt built by the l'ilz-l\ alters,* 
 
 t I.. Conip. GtrdUn. dicte cc- • Thfy call lhi» llic Kar Bell, being 
 
 ileiix. acornmlton fur tlie Gibriel Bell. 
 
 ' Kfi^r. Ilaydon in OfBc, Norw. * VlsS. neiie* J. Aniti», Gsrter, 
 
 I - .. marked K. *6, fol. i«.
 
 DISS. 21 
 
 whose arms are often cut on the south porch, in stone, and were 
 formerly in many of the uiiulows, (see p. 7,) as were the arms of 
 fVingfiiU, and De-la-po/c : in other windows /■Y^z-MV/Z^fr impales 
 Vfford; in another were the arms lA' England a.v\A /'Vawre quartered, 
 and St. George; as also Biiri/ Abbej/ arms; and in another shield 
 the East Angles, all whicli are now "lost, except Fitz-Walters. 
 
 In an upper north window of the nave is a man in a blue robe, 
 with a red mantle, kneeling on a cushion, bidding his beads, and 
 saying, 
 
 Jesu Christe Dei miserere mei. 
 
 Opposite, (in the same window,) a woman in the same posture, 
 saying. 
 
 Mater Sancta Dei ora pro 
 
 There being no arms nor inscription, we know not who thev were 
 designed for. 
 
 In the south isle is an old inarched monument, with a coffin- 
 stone lying by it ; but there are no arms nor inscription. In the north 
 chapel was such another stone, which being taken up to make a vault 
 for Mr. IVilliam Burton, they found an entire skeleton ; by its head 
 was a silver chalice : this in all probability was some priest ; it was 
 buried again in the coffin. By this stone stands a fine altar tomb of 
 black marble and Portland stone, on which is this inscription in irilt 
 letters : *" 
 
 Underneath this stone lieth interred the body of Mr. IVilliam 
 Burton, late of Cock-street within this parish of Diss, who was 
 a person of known probity, justice, integrity, and charity, and 
 very much valued for his true and hearty friendship to his 
 neighbours; he departed this life the 14th oi' February, anno 
 Dom. 1705, in the 59th year of his age; and by his last will 
 and testament, bearing date the 26th day of December, 1705, 
 which was proved in the Bishop's court in Norwich (amongst 
 other charities), did devise, that his e.\ecutrix should purchase 
 lands to the value of one hundred pounds, f and that the same 
 should be settled upon two trustees, to the intent that this tomb- 
 stone, and the vault, should by the churchwardens of Diss be 
 constantly kept clean, and in good repair ; and what remains of 
 • the yearly profit of the estate, when purchased, or of the interest 
 money, till the purchase be made, should upon Christmas day, 
 yearly, for ever, be disposed of by the churchwardens and over- 
 seers of the poor for the time being, to such of the poor house- 
 keepers within this parish, as they, or the major part, shall think 
 fit; with a condition or proviso in the same will, that if this 
 stone, or the vault underneath it, should be broke open, other 
 than for the interment of Mary his wife; ' or if the church- 
 wardens neglected to keep the same clean, and in good repair; 
 or to keep an account in their books how, and to whom, the 
 money shall be yearly disposed of, then the payment of the 
 
 t That was laid out for land called lands ; 5^. per annum is settled to keep 
 Hingelswood, being copyhold on Frenze clean the tomb, the rest to tlie poor, 
 manor, and is now infeott'ed among other s Mary is dead, and interred in it [1736].
 
 ft l'I>>- 
 
 cliarity 10/ ■ ii'rili U> c»mm', niul lu In- |iti(l i<> 
 
 Ho^doH, U<- 1 uiidir tlu- liLc ('iiti(ii(i>jil!i , und if 
 
 Hii^oM make (Iviauit, litcti III like inunni-'r to HriiuHgkam. 
 
 \ .if \\\c north |iillnr4 in ilie niiddlc isle i> tiscd u ncnt 
 
 til, ,'., on th<- tu|> of wliu'li. III a tliii-ld, 
 
 Dfifiui irapaloMi^. tiinx'bouii heads cuupccor; aud tJii> iiiscriptiuii: 
 
 Lfftor, 
 Kfifde piiuiu 
 liifi- duiii til vide>i, 
 Conculfii". t'liifu-s vi'tu-raiido«, 
 Siih |u'dibuN JMci t i-i)i|>iis huinilc 
 Aiiuna iiiiiiiihori |>rui> liiiu° ii>rt'n'<a, 
 Martha llfiirict Drt/nti, ticn. Uxor, 
 Siir|ii!i, Sc'Xtis, l*ictai'i!i, Ornamentuni, 
 Qua- duin vivens, niudeiti^ silerc «olitu, 
 Jam inortuii ndhiic loquitur, 
 Obiji Miiij 3<» Anno 
 -Ltntis i-y 
 Dni. 
 16G1. 
 
 Ou the tame pillar auollicr small muniiiiK'nt i-. i.isicik-iI, 011 «liii;ii, 
 
 Jiixtn hoc nionununtuni 
 
 Jacfl Corjius Rici. Dcyiifi, 
 
 I'il. Jlcnrifivl Mart/ia, (Jen. 
 
 Qui obijt 25 die Julij Aano Dom. 
 
 171«. 
 
 I^laU suf 50. 
 
 All the stones an- robUd of their bnissos ; on one of which in the 
 
 chancel is liic in)|)ression of the clialicc and wafer, under which is n 
 
 priest buried. 
 
 Two black marbles in the ciiance! have the following inscriptions: 
 the arnif are, a liun raniiiaiit impaling a cross Horec between four 
 Ircfods ; cral, a plume oi feathers. 
 
 Here lieth the IVkIv of 
 
 Kfitidnl liufrrorl/i, late 
 
 lieclor of 'rhfhfton, who 
 
 departed thi> lite the 14th oi June 
 
 1714, a^od 40 vears. 
 
 And aixj Ihbonih his wife, 
 
 who was one of the daughters of 
 
 Samuct Manning, Gent, deceased, 
 
 who died the l.Slli of 
 
 Srpiemlifr, 17<>JJ, aged 
 
 128 years. 
 
 On llie second, Homorlh't arms and crest as before. 
 Here lyelh the Botly of 
 r.iltcani liofnoiih, hile 
 Ueclur of this parisli, who depart- 
 ed this life the l.stli Day ol January, 
 1713, aged (ii years.
 
 DISS. 23 
 
 In the cluirchyai-d, a. large Uixdk marble lies flal on the ground, 
 on the south side, by tlie chancel door. A chevron ermine, between 
 three eagles with double heads, displayed. 
 
 To the pious memory of Maiirarct Daughter of Mr. 
 
 Thomas lloxaching Heclor dc Pa/grave virtuous 
 
 wife of Mr. Ile/ni/ Shuckforlc, indulgent mother 
 
 of Thomas Margaret Uennj Samuel and Sarah their 
 
 Children she departed this life the 13th day of 
 
 October \(}()1 aged 70 Yeares. 
 
 Also to the pious memory of Thomas their 
 
 Eldest sone who departed this life the 2d 
 
 Day of March ]Go3, aged 
 
 20 Yeares. 
 
 On an altar tomb much decayed. 
 
 Thoma Bai/lie Gencrosl tatem Probitateni 
 
 Charitatem conjugaiem et parentaieiu Afleetum 
 
 vere spectabilis. 
 
 Qui cum Prudeiitia, Tortitudine, Dexleritate, et indefessa 
 
 in Kcbus Opera felieiter gestis, 
 
 Deo Patriaeqiie diu inservisset, de hac Villa oplime maeruisset,- 
 
 Rt ad Invidiam usque elaruisset, 
 
 Annorum jam satur bonorum cum Luctu 
 
 obijt, Jul. 18. Anno 1640 iEtalis sua; 76. 
 
 Observantiae 
 
 Et Amoris ergo posuerunt Execulores, 
 
 C. R. P.M. 
 
 Here lyeth interred 
 
 Anne Bai/lle VVife of Thomas Baylie 
 
 Who after shee him 
 
 52 Yeares departed Anno l638. 
 
 Near this Place Bodies 
 
 pf Thomas Barilie,\he Yonn^exl, 1619. 
 \ and Martha Bai/lie his daughter S ^^' 1620. 
 
 On another altar tomb. Crest, a garb. Arms, on acheif an eagle 
 displayed : 
 
 Here under lyeth the Body of .John 
 
 Harrison, Gent, who departed this Life 
 
 the 18 Day of May Anno 1665, 
 
 and Mary his Wife who departed 
 
 this Life the 1 Day of April An. Dom. 
 
 1673. 
 
 On an altar tomb by the south isle. 
 
 Sheriff's arms, viz. az. on a fess ingrailed between three griffins 
 heads erased or, a de-Ils between two roses gul. 
 
 Tiiomas Sherifl'e'' Gen. et Artium 
 Magister, Sub Tumulo a Lnboribus 
 
 Hie repositus (juiescit, 
 decessit ) . C ^1213115 61. 
 
 April 13, 1 ^""'^ IDom. 1669. 
 
 'This man, though he was in so great made and continued a justice of peace, 
 favour with the anti-royalists as to be yet altogether deserves a good character.
 
 i4 
 
 PISS. 
 
 Mrrr alw Ivotli tlu- IkxIv of ("bnrlt* 
 
 KrU. {'ifUt. »lui dt-piirtrd 
 
 tliii LifV n.iy ot Juii«- l6«KJ. 
 
 AntI 1 Ki tt 111- Son mIio 
 
 dicti in ihc uunt' Monili being 
 
 abuul twu ^ i-aivi o( Ag«-- 
 
 On another altAr tomb, Sfirri^'s arnik a* bcforr. 
 
 Condilur hie 
 
 Johnnni!> Slu-rifle 
 
 ChnriiMnius Apolliiiis Filiut 
 
 Vir rere probu-, it civilis Orti«ij non ignarus, 
 
 oniiiibus bi-nevuluii 
 
 ob Peritiani in lie mcdu-a nun vulgarcin 
 
 Pitioiibui aci'cptus, 
 
 ob prompliini Animuni ti-nuibus opitulandi 
 
 Uuut I)icbu» quvsitus, 
 
 ilt'funclus utnsque pluratos, 
 
 obijt Prid. Id. Jul. Anno Duni. HiQ8. 
 
 .'Ltulis sua; i6. 
 
 On anollier altar monument : 
 Cipsf'^oli, org. u cross, between four escaUops mI) Cretf, n 
 buck cuucllant»<j6. ulUrwl or. 
 
 Were reslclh in hopes of n joyful 
 
 KeMirroction, tlie Uudv of 
 
 AN'illiam Coijgeshall,' (jcnt. 
 
 Late of Dis», b«>rn at Slrelfonl 
 
 lu Sulfoik, who departed this Life 
 
 August the <Jth, 1714, a^^ed 48 
 
 Years. 
 
 And under the North Side of this Stone, 
 
 lieth John, Son of 
 
 WilHam Coggesliall, Gent. 
 
 And Elizabeth his 
 
 Wife, whij departed this 
 
 Life April the i.ltli, 17<J<>, 
 
 Age<l (i Years. 
 
 for by him were many royaliirs saved down to Queen Mar)- ; Roger dc Cog. 
 frt)m iheir designed ruin; when the peshall andMjry hij wife lived in nXi ; 
 gentlemen or the neiphb«nirhood were bir John Coggcilull of Rewenhall in Ks- 
 im|>ejched or ini; '. ' - privately »ex, Knt. in 1356 ; Sir William dc Cog- 
 
 tent them letleri, them »hjt f;e»hall,Knt. inij95,was lordand jialron 
 
 wa< intended, anil j.iv-u.j; iherti how of Arleiford, CogKe^hall, &c. having a 
 lo pro*. fed, bv which mram jeveral ci- large c%talc in that county until Queen 
 
 C" ■ ' I !..>.. 1 1 ,...1 ...l.r,, Elizabeth'] time. Tliij Henry much 
 
 w improved the art of gauging, by invent- 
 
 ing the rule catl'd alter hit name. He 
 was graiidfalhet to the present [i7l6] 
 Mr. I lioni.i- Cn;;gc»hall of Di»>. The 
 creitlK! "i:>taniily was granted 
 
 in Que 'h'» tune. Autug. 
 
 len. Joli. Lutkje'.liall, CJent. dc Fram- 
 linjiham Sufl". t. Lit. Wil. Ilulman de 
 i;iu.) n. un.'iri Haltted, Euex, pen. T. Cogjjeslull de 
 King Hen.'y I. Di>j. Gent. 
 
 I . 
 I' 
 
 I). 
 
 he haii 
 
 C 
 
 Alllug. ) Clio UK.) 
 
 w n "'n of Hrnrv
 
 DISS. 
 
 25 
 
 On another altar tomb. 
 
 Here lieth the Body of Ehzabeth Burroughs, 
 
 Uclict of .lohii Bunoiighs, Gent. 
 
 And Daiiirhtcr of Mr. Samuel Cann, late 
 
 of this I'arish, who departed this life, 
 
 Dec. the I2d, 1711, in the 5yth Year of her Age. 
 
 Plere also lyeth the body of 
 
 Hugli Cann, 
 
 Who departed this life 
 
 The xxii. of Febr. I688, 
 
 iEtatis suae xxviij. 
 
 Here are three coffin stones; the first for, 
 William, Son of Robert Camell, and Elizabeth his Wife, born at 
 Diss the lltli of April, lG:34, obijt '29, Jan. 1702. Margaret Wife 
 of Robert Camell, Gent, died 24 Dec. lG85. 
 
 Mary 2d Wife of Robert Camell, Gent, died 22 May, 1705. 
 
 Robert Camell ' 
 
 Gent, obijt xvi^. Die 
 
 Novem. Anno Dom. 
 
 MDCCXVP. 
 
 The steeple hath a passage through its arches, which serves for a 
 west porch; on a small marble fi.xed in the wall is this. 
 
 Near this Place lyeth the 
 
 Body of Thomas Shreeve, 
 
 Who departed this Life 
 
 The 11th Day of February', in the Year 
 
 Of our Lord 1721, 
 
 Aged 34 Years. 
 
 Sheriff, impaling a chevron between three roundels. On an altar 
 tomb, 
 
 M. S. 
 
 Elizabethae 
 
 Johannis Sheriffe, 
 
 hujus Oppidi dudum Incolae, 
 
 necnon Medici inclyti, 
 
 Viduaj pientissimse 
 
 Quorum, Sobolis Pietas, 
 
 Parentum Moribus imbutae, 
 
 hoc Monumentum, poni voluit, 
 
 Ilia autem, pacified s[)e Beatae Resurrectionis, 
 
 ad Vitam sempiternam, Natura; Debitum solvit. 
 
 Anno jEtatis 46 
 
 Mov. V. 1702. 
 
 ' Robert Camell, being about four- 
 teen years of age, came out of Scotland 
 in the time of the war between that na- 
 tion and England, and settled at Gis. 
 linghani in Suffolk in 1583; he died 
 April 12, 1687, leaving Robert his eldest 
 son, who died anno 1667 ; William 
 Camell of Diss was his third son, who 
 left this Robert, his eldest son, who left 
 
 three sons, all now [1736] dead, except 
 Mr. William Camell of Diss, his second 
 son, to whom I am much obliged for a 
 sight of the evidences of this (own, and 
 ot several other antiquities. Robert, the 
 eldest was of Sidney College in Cam- 
 bridge, LL.D. rector of BradwcU and 
 Lounde in Lotliinc;Iand : he died on 
 Wednesday, November 21,1731,31 Nor-
 
 DISS. 
 
 In the (oulh (torrli i> u mnrbic, tliui intcribod : 
 llt-M lirlh the Wo»ly of John IVtit,» wlu) ilixl ill*- '.'Ut of Si-plc m- 
 Iwf, Anno IKjui. 17'2T, ni;<tl 7 I ^lar-. AI.0 mar tin* IMnct- lirtli the 
 RmU ,.r \ . firii \Vif«-, Mrhu tlii-d Jlic 17«I» of Mnroh, Anno 
 
 I'. 111. I Ti ' '• Y«'Mr« : 
 
 iHc lid ' IVC, 
 
 Chri-i ,1 , 
 
 \N'c cutninu both SjuI and liody to liit I'rolcclion, 
 
 In ho|>c« of n joyful |{c»uin"clion. 
 
 1]LUIAI>TAKI:N FIIOM TIII: UQilSlER. 
 
 ]'>5<, 10 Ftb. Sir Thomai Johmoii, prii-.sl. (Me was Uic lail soul 
 pru-".! iKff.) 
 
 1379, 30 June, Thomas, the ^on of pllr^on Crahh, of llii' pl.ij^uc. 
 ('I'hc pliigiit- wiis licrc- thisyi-^ir, Mi pfr>ons duil i>l ii/) 
 
 IfiM, 2^ Drc. John Travenoiir, clerk, buni-d. 
 
 iOilt, Susu I, aou of H'U I i(im l^ak, C-i|. \!tth Sept. 
 
 MIS, John lliiiis,ir, ciia|ilaiii, buried in the thiirch; he was a 
 benefiiclor to Corpus Chritti Gild, and to St. I'cttr's Gild al Pal- 
 grave. (H. Gtlour.) 
 
 1414, 28 ."»Vf/.' Stephen Cowptn was buritd at I)ii$, and pive 
 hia tt-nt-nu-nl called L'hq}pi/i, in Diss, to Thomas his son, on con«lilion 
 that he and Wi» \wm for ever bhonid, out of the snid tenement, keep 
 a lamp burnuii; in thi» church, ni time of s«.-rvice, on all holidays, 
 before the crucifix, and nl>o his anniversary evcr>' year. 
 
 1494,' Uir. KnoN dc Di.v, buried there: I will that the (iorrn) 
 \illam- of />/v« have my Iioum" and land in Stnrsloii, (except uiy pas- 
 ture ut Ihrrf^ale-trciif , and half an acre and a rood at If rlfliind-Tirnl ,) 
 and also inv meadow in Skole, and h'llf an acre at Soiidcuri/ there, 
 and one acre and a half in llroome, for ever, on condition that the 
 aniiuid prolitj thereof lie applied to pay the common fine (i. c. the 
 leti- f'rr) of the town uf Diss t\)T e\er, ami that they annually keep n»y 
 obil for<vcr, for the souls of mc and li^urs my wife, of llviiiy T.doil 
 and Marf^aret his wife, of liobi-rt .Ivrli/n and I'.mma bis wile, and ol 
 llfnrtf (trrk, nn<l of all l)encfttelors, 4d. to ryng ; 3*. -Ul. (j>ro err- 
 litudine) for a cerlyn. 
 
 wicli, «hfre hr had liernrlcrlcd lecturer aonkm, for fvtr, to ilic miniucr or cu- 
 of St. Pc-nr'i Mancrofi, Dec. Jj, 1731. rule for llic time brinj;, lo cioacli a scr- 
 He fnibliihed »ever»l ingcniou> tracts monafiniiallyontlicdayoflii* interment, 
 oithotit 111 J rumr, and three vrmuns by way of exhortation lo prepare for 
 I rr4<-|"-<l *i Ysmtoiiih, *iih it afGxed death; 11. ^rr amiirw lo the wxlon^ and 
 
 one lothc clerk, lo attend the »erviceof 
 
 the djv ; and loj. ptr annun lo the 
 
 ' . ■ 1 ■ 1 .1^ Mine d.iv, 
 
 ' r, lor all 
 
 „,;w. ..• .,■■...■- cd \\k Unt- 
 
 tori, in Dill. 
 
 ' Kegr. Cajlon. int. Arch. Ep. Nor- 
 wlc. 
 
 *RegT. Woolman, par. »cda. fo. 197. 
 
 ' ler. Mi well 
 wji he e». 
 
 ' I 
 
 1 ■ . - -■. I;c 
 
 itbiined.) \e.x kvid. pen. V ill. Cainell 
 (Jr Dxt, Ijent. 
 • Uy h» latt w:ll he gave lOi. /er
 
 DISS. 27 
 
 1497, Sir John Dow e, biuictl in our LaJi/'s church lierc, gave x. 
 niiulvs for a silver bason ; to Sir John Pe'/ii/, Sir Jo/iii Co/op, Sir 
 Jo/i/i Pi'pi/x, .ind Sir Uilliam Thoii/ki; lo each Gs. 8d. to bearliim to 
 ciiiircii and pray for his soul ; and to the parish priest the same ; 
 and a legacy to the tabernacle of St. Nicholas in the church.* 
 
 1504/ John IIerold, parson of Stcrstou, gave two bushels of 
 wheat and two bushels of malt to Corpus Christ) Gild, and the same 
 to St. Nicholas's Gild, and to the priest's service in the same town 
 6s. Hd. (This was to ihe priest that daily said Jesls mass, in one of 
 the chapels in this church.) 
 
 l.)04,* Margery Cowper, buried in the church before the rode 
 awter by her husbondc, to the high altar (is. 8d.; to Corpus Christi 
 Gitd,'Md.; to St. Mcho/as's Gild, is.; to the Gild of Si. Mcolas my 
 gretest cadern (caldron) and an ale tubbe. " I will myne executors 
 " pay the money I promysyd to the purchase of the chm-ch [this was 
 " towaids Framliiighain lands.] Item, to Thomas myne son. Mil 
 " Close to ringe the ycreday for me and myne husband, so lon-r as it 
 " shall please the said Tho/nas ; but never tlie Icsse, I constrayn% him 
 " not to do it, but at his awn voluntary will be it done." 
 
 Uitnessed by master ./o//M .SAeV^OH, laureat, parson of Disse, 
 and Sir .Jo/in Clarice, sowle priest of the same town : proved' 
 (ith Mar. 1504. ' 
 
 l.)05,' John Prikke, of Dissc, seiier, buried in the church of the 
 Blessed Vngin Man/, in Diss : he gave towards the purchase of lands 
 in Franiliiigham, 20.v. perauuum until the purchase is completed ; to 
 the Gild of St. Sicolas the bishop (i^. sd.; to the Gild of Co'rpus 
 Lhrisli, OS. He iouiided an oliil for two years in the church, and 
 gave U) marks to the priest for it; to repair /e/oa/e slotlie' \_tou\ 
 slough] between the pightelt of Thomas Shreeve and Margeru Cooper 
 towards Reydon, (id.; to repair St. Spinas in Disse church, a silver 
 spoon. Witness John Collop, chaplain; proved 25lh MaiJ, 1,3<3(J. 
 
 U06,« 2 Feb. proved 14th Jp. 1507. John Clarke; he ordered 
 his executors to pay to the purchase of /V«w//W,flw, (marlejlv to 
 each ot the two Gild.^, 8d. He left money " to a pylgrNm, a |)riest 
 " to be in prayer and i)iigrimage at Rome the whole^Lent' there to 
 " pray and syn^ for me and myn children, mv fader and inoder 
 " Hnhcrt^nd Late, John Kew and Maut, Steven Brighllcd, and 
 " John I'aj/ne, the which I am in dett to." 
 
 1512," Thomas Cowper, buried in Disse church. " Item I wvll 
 
 "that myclosen called Chepys, and ihc Mylleclose, shall lind the 
 
 lamp with, lor the rood, and the certen, and the yerday, for the 
 
 * In I4JO, Jolin dc Diss, rector of ^ r ,jj 
 Melton, by Woodbriggc, in which priory + K. ix'. 112. b. s ibid 
 lie was buried, gave to (he altar at Diss " R. ix. foJ. 460 Norw. 
 
 pel 6s. %d. 
 
 VOL. I. T?
 
 id DISS. 
 
 " - ', ' . iintl Mar^rri/ lii> wilf, Ihomat Cutepri , 
 
 '• .1 uur <-hil<lrei). fur »lu)iit u prit-»t kliull 
 
 " U; luuiiil (o Mtig, \x. yvik oi' my loU(l> in Harleslon." 
 
 Iil4,* Thomas PrnniASV, filia% Svict.u, o( Dnu, hurif<l in ihc 
 church tlierr, give* Margarrt \ui wiiv, tor life, and at'icr lu Tfiomat 
 hit tun, a inetlou in Ihts, cnllMi M«kill Cluu-, widi u Iuium: on it, on 
 condition to kofp hi* unnivi-rsary ycrcly lor e-viTinorc in the i-hurrh, 
 that li Milh 1 Is. •!(/. lo he given tu tlirvt* huniiit |iri«.-.stt, mid in ulhrr 
 dee dk ot i ' kI ryngyng, to pray for my miuI, and the muU of 
 
 fnendii and > iour>. 
 
 1563, John Hivet of Dim, 23th SqU. buried in the steeple porch; 
 he gave a surphce : to repair tlic Markel-streel puvcuieiit, iOn. 
 
 Some of tile lAndk thnt were tetlled on the stjtil i>rie»ts, and to 
 niaiiilaiii tlie hiiiipk, Si-c." were teucd by I'.ilaanJ \'\. in 1047, and 
 were t^riintcd with <hvers uthers to Roger 'J'uwiiu-iul, Knt. and koinc 
 to otheni. 
 
 SOUL PRIFirrs OF DISS. 
 
 1487, Sir John Doiidvs, Sir William Alked, und Sir JoHS 
 
 COLLOI*. 
 
 \4[)i), William Bokynham ; \5(H, Sir Juhn Clerk. 
 
 153(i, Sir Kec.inald Wotton, and Sir Ko(;er Birde. 
 
 1 j4C, Sir John Collei, and Sir DuiiiiES ; their stipends were 
 5/. (it. 8</. prr annum each. 
 
 At the lUformalioii. tlie church pinte was sold to Ilenrif Earl of 
 Suuei, .1ui:,mt Ijlh, 13Mi, at wiiicli lime he gave the inliabitnnts a 
 bond for ^O marks fur it ; and after this I find a letter from the same 
 earl, dated at his manor of Atthhurgh, Juli/ '25th, li87,' directed to 
 the chief inliabitaiils, signed by him, 1 our lovyng and aasurcd good 
 Lonlc, (as he culU himself,) desiring them, that as he hud already re- 
 ceived part (if their town plate, that he may have the uni/ (as we call 
 it) of such (Kirtiun more, jis shall be sold, at a reasonable price, which 
 shall be paid them, by warrants direcled to his bailitl, out of his 
 manor of Diss; at the same liiiu- intimating, that as lli< v do by him 
 in this affair, they may expect lie should do tu them and theirs. I 
 never could meet with un account of the plate, but do not doubt but 
 tliat it was fine and valuable, else so great a man as (he earl would 
 never have thought it worth his while to trouble liim>-elf about it. 
 I find ' that tiiey sold all so far, that in 1.^7- they had only one cup 
 of '2.1 o:. wl. 'I'here is now [17;)()] belonging to this church, a 
 chalice, a cup, two silver dishes, a sniall plate, a spoon, and a 
 silver-hafli-d kiiil'c and fork. 
 
 '1 his place is said to have pnuluccd the followiii" w rilci'B and 
 remurkuolc men: 
 
 KALl'll de DICLTO. 
 
 I><an of St. Paufs and a great benffaclor thereto, was a very learned 
 man, and a great author; some of his works are printed : he lived in 
 
 • HcgT. Bnggi, fol. II. • Ex. Autog. pen. J. Briars, Rcct. 
 
 * At CfKpyi Olid MilUclotr. 'TS- 
 
 '- L. Comp. Card.
 
 DISS 29 
 
 the time of King IJeniy II. of whom more may be seen in "New- 
 court's Repertorium, and in Sir William Dttgdale's History of St, 
 Paul's, 2(1 cd. p. 10, where by niistaite (as Le Neve says) it is called 
 Disco, in Suffolk^ though in page 501 it is called Disce.f 
 
 WILLIAM of DISSE/ 
 
 Was sacrist of St. EdmuiKTs Monastery at Bury, duly elected; but he 
 continued so but four days, having so great fear upon liim tliat he 
 should not discharge his office well, that all that time he could take 
 no rest, and therefore petitioned Abbot Samson that he might resign, 
 who consenting thereto, Robert de Gravely was chosen in his place. 
 
 WALTER of mSSE* 
 
 Born here, was a Carmelite friar at Norwich, one of the most igno- 
 rant of all that convent in his youth ; at length he turned the reverse, 
 continually applying himself to gain knowledge and learning, in 
 which he so much profited, that he took his doctor's degree in t'am- 
 hridgc, with the utmost honour. He was afterwards confessor to 
 John Duke of Lancaster and Acquitain, King of Leon and Castile, 
 and also to Constance his queen ; ' and a great stickler for Pope 
 Urban, and the other popes, that were by him and his faction named 
 the Anti-papes, of whom he obtained, through the duke's favour, cer- 
 tain laculties, to be distributed to such as would piay, and pay for 
 them, of which one was, to make all those, whom he thought good, 
 the pope's chaplains, according to form of law, and the custom used 
 in the court of Rome; and because such as obtained this favour en- 
 joyed great liberties, {viz. to hold as many ecclesiastical preferments 
 as they could get, &c.) many were glad to give largely to be so pre- 
 ferred. Another bull gave him power to create fifty doctors, and as 
 many prothonotaries ; to reconsecrate such things or places as had 
 been profaned ; to legitimate bastards, and such like. In 1 jS7 he 
 was made the pope's legate a latere, to preach up the crusade against 
 the auli-pape's faction, granting indulgences to all those that helped 
 or went to those wars, in as ample a manner as if they went against 
 the common enemies of religion, \he Turks: this he did in Urbau's 
 and Popa Bonniface the ISinth's time, with success, and that not in 
 E'lgland only,'' but in Castile, Portugal, Acquitain, Leon, Navarre, 
 Gascoign, and several foreign parts ; ' at last he returned to his 
 jnonastcry, in which he died, and was buried August 14th, 1404, 
 near the his^h altar of their church. 
 
 o 
 
 t 1 own I am no ways certain of liis * Possevin. Apparat. Sacr. torn. i. 
 
 original, for Lcland doubts whether he fol. 614, et 693. VVeav. S06. 
 
 was an EngUshnian, and liis name is ' He composed the following treatises, 
 
 spelt so very different in old manuscripts, and several others. 
 
 that I can make no inference from Lecturam Theologise, Lib. I. 
 
 thence, though I find him placed under Contra Lollardos sive Wiclefitas, 
 
 this town in Le Neve's Collections. Lib. I. 
 
 ^ Mon. Ajig. torn. i. p. 300. De Scismate, Lib. I. 
 
 ♦ Bale de bcrip. Anglic, edit. Gip- Sermoiies de Tempore ac de Sanctis, 
 
 peswici. qo. Anno 15S8, p. 175. &c. (see Possevin.) 
 
 ' Hoi. vol. ii. 542.
 
 30 
 
 DISS. 
 
 WILLIAM o/IMSS,' 
 
 A frwr |m-i>« licr, w.u conl\ «or to kirn; lli-nty V. wiili whom lie wtiii 
 lo (Wn in Surmamlif, lu tlif »ixll» v»ar ol lii> rvifjn, wlun- tin- Kini; 
 liraniii> of llic lioly Me nmi InHjuint iiiiniclo of one / ittfrnl of 
 .4rro^um,i\ ' uluT, lu- utiil lliu l\ illiam lo liim, wlio brought 
 
 him io till ! «lu>ui lu- \vu» lionournljly itccivctl, aniio 1417- 
 
 JOHN SKLLTON, n.<to, oj DISS, 
 
 \Vm a (ilt-itvint iniTTV poet," »o much etletmctl for his orntory, us 
 
 well (u fKJctrv, that he was made |HHt liturent ami Kin«'s orator.' lie 
 
 tlouri>>h<-«l in' the time* of Kiim Hriiri/\'ll. and Vlll. was rector, 
 
 mill hve<l here in liOi and lill,' n» 1 find l>y hi» l»eing witiiCM to 
 
 fcvernl will* in this year. 1 take it thai SkftloH wa«. not only rector, 
 
 Imt n native of ilii% plmv, k-in:; vn of H illntiii Shrllon, and Mar- 
 
 ^arrt bt> uiU-, wliov; will w a« provetl at NorKiVA, .\oi . 7thi lil'i, 
 
 [Htfii Juhnwii] llial lii> nana- was .Shcltoil or Skrllvii, a|i^K-nrt 
 
 from hik succes»«iur\ insliiulion, viz. " 15'2<(, 17 ./I'/y. I'homns ( Itik, 
 
 instiliitetl on the death of Joint Sbclton, last reclor.' Ami indeed, 
 
 tiiou^h ihe lute Dithop of St. .Iun>h, in his notes to me ujH)n thiii 
 
 Hundietl, obserxes, that Hale, Hooil.&ic. make him to have been 
 
 born 111 lumlitrliiiuh and thoui;li one ol IkiiIi hi» names waa udmilled 
 
 t.. ■ ol the diirclaU, and M-enis lo have iHtn beneficed in 
 
 N <( I he much doubts whether it was the >ame with our 
 
 jKKi, tlioiii;ii lie was an Oioiiiaii, laiireatcd in that university, or- 
 
 daiiud de.-icon Ipril Mill, l4<).-i, and |>rirsl tin- Bill of Jiiiif following, 
 
 by ihoma* Saiugc, itikliop ol Ijoiidon, " [Johannes .Skclton, poeta 
 
 " Inureatus, London dioc. ad litulum .Moiinslerij de Gracijs juxta 
 
 Dill. Prioiil. Spalding, Bib. 
 : l>. 117. 
 
 • («' i'ocia Laurcatuj.) 
 
 I . . . :;j X lllli place, a 
 
 >t Doctor kniplit's Lilc of 
 I ', p. 111. lu »cl (he nui- 
 
 Irr ol )<act laurcat in a Inic li(,hl, moit 
 l<<-ople ticin;' cfirn drcrivrd in ihal 
 jwini " I' the j;icat rr(;ard 
 
 •■ lijil jtxM.' lu itirkc Mudio, 
 
 V. tlicir 
 ir, ilie 
 
 " of r 
 
 " ven' ,_ , , , 
 
 " under llie name and iitic ol Hubert 
 " Whylinpdon, a trciiLir chaplain, 
 " ji.d a f (Hilar of (lie art ol rlic- 
 " t. r ik. J lluit witrrrai Ite had »(ictil 
 " four'reii 
 •' an, ami • 
 
 " (after be had compoicU a huodred 
 
 " vfr»ei, which were ituck up in pub. 
 " lick platci, especially on llic iio<.ir, or 
 " door^ of St. Mar) s church} very 
 " solemnly crownevl, or his temples 
 " adorned with a wreath of laurel, that 
 " IS docloralcd in the arts of grammar 
 •* and rlielunck, 4 July (he tame year. 
 •* And this may diwovcr the errour of 
 " some, who not considering the crown 
 " of laurel as the ensign ol" a degree, 
 " have been apt to ihiiik that a j>oet 
 " lau;'- • ■ ' • 'I as of lale, had 
 
 •< ilial ' 11 with it, from 
 
 • • the 1 . ...,■•. ■ ■'"■ '" •" '' - 
 
 " un'Vcrsiiy, in t ■ 
 " of Dr. ol Gram; . 
 '• to Brrnanl Andreas, tutor ot Hriiuc 
 ■• Aithui, lo John bkelton, tutor of 
 " PriiKC Henry, &c.'' 
 
 » 1504, the will ol Mary Cowper of 
 
 Dit«e, "witnesses Master John Skellon, 
 
 •< laureal, parson of Disse, Ac." And 
 
 ' ■ "Ii. Thoiras 
 
 ■ III the te- 
 
 IIUIC I'l .»l.l^^^ I - » t t n -i . , i.i u i Cjl - 
 
 ■ Lib. Inst. No. il, 1519, 17 July, 
 Tho. Clerk, instituted •:> tl^ iUaili uf 
 John Shclton, rector.
 
 DISS. 31 
 
 *'Tiiiiim London, ordiaatur Diac. per Thorn. London/ Ep. 14 April, 
 " 1498, Presbit. 8 Juii. seqiien. [llegr. Savage Ep. Lond.]" li'ilL 
 Caxton, in his preface to his translation of I irgifs JEne'uh, printed in 
 1490, iiath lliis; " I pray niaysler John Skeltun, late created poete 
 " laureat in the Universite of Oxforde, to over see and correct this 
 " sayd Boivc." 
 
 Mr. Le Ne<ve says, tliat his institution does not appear in tin- 
 books ; which is true, for often tiiose that were collated by the pope 
 had no institution from the bishop, many instances of which in those 
 books occur ; hut it is certain, from abundance of records and evi- 
 dences tiiat I have seen, that he was rector several years. Erasmus 
 himself arives him this character in his letter to Kinsj Henri/ VIIL that 
 
 o 
 
 in/ 
 
 he was the light and honour of the Brilish learning.* He was scho- 
 lar enough, and no bad poet, unless for himself; for being addicted 
 too much to satire, he creatc^d three such enemies as ruined him, 
 both in reputation, liberty, and estate ; U illiain Li/li/, the Domi- 
 nican friars, and Cardinal liaise i/ ; the first of these was that great 
 schoolmaster, the author of our Latin Gramniur, upon him he 
 reflected as a bad verse maker, to which Lillj/ replied, 
 
 Skeltoiie, dnm tibi parare famam, 
 lit docttis fieri, stitdes poeta, 
 Doctririam nee habes, nee es poeta. 
 
 Whilst, Skclton, thou to get esteem, 
 A learned poet fain would seem ; 
 Skelton thou art, let all men know it. 
 Neither learned, nor a poet. 
 
 The Dominieans were very obnoxious to his satirical pen, for 
 their vices, and he could not forbear exercising his wit upon them ; 
 but the}', who would bear no serious reproofs, would much less endure 
 his poetical scofi's ; whereupon they stirred up Richard Nix, then 
 Bishop of Norwich, to call him to an account for keeping a concu- 
 bine, (though we ought to observe with Bale, that she was his wife,) 
 for which the bishop suspended him from his benefice. But these 
 were not his worst enemies, for the cardinal ' it was that completed 
 his misfortunes. Our poet having inveighed against some of that 
 great prelate's actions, and charged him with too much truth, he 
 prosecuted him so hard for it, that he was forced to take sanctuary 
 in Jf estminster .Ibbei/, where Abbot Islip treated him with much 
 respect in his confinement, in which he died, Jane 21st, 1529, and 
 was buried in the chancel of St. Margaret's church, J I estminster, 
 under a stone, with this epitaph ; 
 
 Johanes Skeltonus, I ates Pieriiis, hie situs est. 
 
 He foretold Cardinal Jlolsey's downfall ; and being charged with 
 
 * Atlas, p. 335. " in England, wlicreof Master Skelton 
 
 5 Hall's Chronicle, Hen. VIII. fol. " a merry poet wrote, 
 ,10, b. " The cardinal by his power „ ^^^j,^ p^^,,^ y^-^ j^„„ „, . j.^earde, 
 
 '%"",r' ^irir ,"'\ '^°7°"''°" " For Peter of Westminster hath shaven 
 " at Paul s called by the Archbishop of ,[^ hedvA " 
 
 " Canterbury, and called him and all ^ 
 
 " the clergy to his convocation to West- For this and sucli like jests it was, that 
 
 •' minster, which was never sene before the cardinal prosecuted him so eagerly.
 
 M 
 
 I) I S S. 
 
 k. I. Ill 
 
 hi'' 1 iiul 
 
 declarr it, brcnuw* U>rnii-ulioii in (hi* t-lt-rfjy wa« thought n htiic »in, 
 nnd iiiiirriagc « gn-u( uur. 
 
 Mr. M ixv/. III h\i .HheM4t OxoHifnus, trlU us, thnt " (he generality 
 " »aw (hal liu wit(v «!i»cuiir«e* were liitint;, hi» lnut;hti-r o|»prol)rioiM 
 " nnd Mxiiiilul, ntid LkjuIm** cdiiiiiioiiIv Klinrp iiii(i M-lU'ctini.'." Ili« 
 chornodr mav Ix- «<fii at Inrce in Holt" and I'itu, wlirri- tlnTf is 
 nl«o an urcouiit of tonic ot hi« ^v«l[L^i.' inus( uf nhii li \uti- |)llll|l^hed 
 till* _vc«r. < ITJ*!.] H»' «ro(e u1m> a |u>oni in Iliif^liJi, c-iilU-d l/ir 
 Ymagf K^ YptKrrsif, U-ing u bi((cr invective ngninst the monkt nnd 
 frinr*, and kuiue of tlie great men of that nge : Mr. l^e .Vrrr s«y« 
 that (lie mnnusrript was in his own hiinds, and thnt he had it out of 
 the .tshutH-'I'/iorp library, and that it wan allowc-d lo be Skc/lon't 
 own handwriting; it now [I7''><ij bfloni;!t t-i Mr. /If%/, who pur- 
 chased It al Mr. Ix Nrir'j aiiclion. 
 
 JOHN nUI.MtS, A.M. Halor of DISS, 
 
 Was chaplain to C/iar/ti Bishop of Sortrich ; ho published 
 
 A Sermon preached at I'algravc in SulJ'olk, at the first meeting of 
 
 the centleinrn and elt-rgy, for enroiirnging the charity school lately 
 
 •ft u|> there, on I'hil. iv.; 17 etlit. ImmiI. 1711. 
 
 And also a pani|ihlet, entitled, the yre\ent Itiharioiir of' Mankind 
 
 inconsiilrnl uilh tfif true Spirit of L harilif, which aloiu can prove 
 
 axailabU topiit an rml to our unhappy Divisions: being o discourse 
 
 on the 13th chapter 1 Cor. 
 
 And MTvcral poems without his name, inserted in divers miscellanies. 
 
 He was also rector of liitlingford by Difi, where he was buried, 
 
 Jan. 1st, 1728. 
 
 ST. NICIIOLASS CHAPEL. 
 
 TVrjidrs the parish churih, there was a free rh;i|>el <ledii-nted lo 
 tile honour of St. Sicholas the bishop, which was built about the 
 
 • Balr 
 
 Buil. a 
 ' Piti 
 lorn. i. 7 
 
 rii.t.ir Rritan. fol. 631. 
 n. 
 
 Anglic Script. 
 Pari', 1619. 
 
 • Pithv, p!f iMiint and iirofitablcWorkcs 
 of ' Vrliun Pocic Laureate lu 
 
 K. > MI. 
 
 I. 1 f Lawrel. 
 
 1. 'I ; : Cburt. 
 
 4. hi<i*it<i llic Koiirlh. 
 
 5. Aeainit llir Scoltct. 
 
 6. The Tunning of Elinour Rum> 
 
 ming. 
 7 Why come you not lo Court. 
 I. Colin Clout. 
 9. P' we. 
 
 10. Li 1 ■■ Man'iHcjd. 
 
 11. \N jic il;c lldwke. 
 I J. Of ilirrr Koules. 
 
 Ij. I-.: t a Paris. 
 
 14. Ei 'v«u Knaves of Due. 
 
 I f . Lamentation for Norwiche. 
 
 16. The dulorout Death of the Earl oi 
 
 Northumberland. 
 
 17. A Parable by William Cornish in 
 
 ihe FIcetc. 
 il. Against venemoui Tongues. 
 19. Of Calliope. 
 With wvcral olhcrT'i>cms and Fpilapht. 
 
 Pririird for C. Djvu in Patcrno\ter- 
 row, nrar Aincn.<orncr, London. (Price 
 txtuiid, 51.} 
 
 Itc wrote 54 treaties, a> Pills uyt, 
 some of Mliah were printed in Queco 
 LliubelliS time, j«, 
 
 Colin Clout, &c. 
 
 Chonis de Oys contra Scoltei, See. 
 
 Chorus dc Diss, contra Oallos, &c. 
 
 Warrthr Hawlic. 
 
 I- il el johaimic 
 
 CIr -e. 
 
 Iliiii) III'- \ il. \ r pii.ipli ; and that 
 on Mary Countess of Riclunond, Ace.
 
 DISS. 33 
 
 time of Ifenn/ V. by llie bietlireii and sisters of St. Nicholas and 
 of Corpus C/iiisti Gilds, wliicli then were consolidated.' /t seems, by 
 the evidences and wills that I have seen, as if these two gilds were 
 ancient, mention being frequently made of them in the time of 
 Richard 11.; upon their joining logetlier, it shews as if they were rich 
 at that tim<;, for they soon built this chapel, and began a fund to 
 purchase land suHicienb to endow it; but though they joined their 
 common slock, yet each, to tlicir dissolution, had a priest that sepa- 
 rately belonged to each of them ; and all gifts were given as to se- 
 parate gilds ; and the brethren and sisters of each were severally 
 admitted and enrolled. The gildhall was common to them both, 
 being the same that) is now standing at the south-east corner of the 
 diurchyard, which was granted to the inhabitants, and is now used 
 for the charity-school house.' It was at that time well furnished for 
 the merry meetings of the brethren and sisters of those gilds, for I 
 find that, in 1375, here were kept the standard scales and weights 
 for the market ; that there then was left to the use of the town, in 
 this house, 
 
 1 Caldron. 4 Platers. 
 
 1 Brass Pot. AG Mease of plates. 
 5 Spits. 40 Mease of dishes. 
 
 2 Bowls. 40 Mease of trenchers. 
 
 1 Ladle. 9 Dozen of spoons. 
 
 2 Trewets. 4 Cups. 
 
 20 Salts. G Table cloths, &c. 
 
 by which we may conjecture what jolly doings there had been for- 
 merly. Their chapel stood in St. Nicholas' s-street, exactly where the 
 house now [1730] stands, between the street that leads down to the 
 steeple, and that that goes on the right hand to the market-place, 
 the chapel yard extending east to the blacksmith's traverse, and no 
 further. This, in the second year of Edward the Sixth, suffered the 
 fate of all other free chapels, being then dissolved ; from that time 
 it stood in a decaying condition, and was in the Crown, by virtue of 
 the act, until June 18th, 1584, at which time the Queen granted "All 
 " that chapel with the appurtenances in Diss, in the county of .\or- 
 " folk, now in decay, commonly called St. Nicholas's chapel, which 
 " was formerly used for the celebrating masses, and other supersti- 
 " tious uses," to If'illiam Croft, and John Hallyet, by her letters 
 patent dated at Westminster, the day and year aforesaid, all which 
 they were to hold to them and their heirs, of the Queen and her 
 successors, as of her manor of East Greenwich in Kent, by fealty only, 
 in free soccage, and not in capite, or by knight's service, paying 3^/. 
 into the Exchequer; they held it until lj<j5, and then sold it to 
 Henry Culli/der, butcher, of Diss, and Robert JIaiill, of Palgrave, 
 notary publick, and they, the year after, sold it to li illiam Chambers, 
 of Diss, blacksmith ; now [1736] it is in the possession of Jonathan 
 fValpole. 
 
 , THE TOWN LANDS. 
 
 This town hath an estate dX Framlingham, in Suffolk, which (as 1 
 am informed) is now [1736] let at 56/. per annum. It was purchased 
 
 ' Evid. pen. Gardian. ' Lib. Comp. Gardian.
 
 I > ■- 
 
 . ■ ■ '> lit dmit (lifmham, and liobril .iUri'l ■ i 
 
 /. ■», bv llii- luml llint iln- bntlir«nol St. NkA /.. 
 
 ami ( (•i/</i liuil iiuiilf ; mIiioIi wua, ()iiit eviry l>i<<:li i 
 
 niiil •! , .iv n itrtuiii >um ivrry c)uarUr iiUo tlu- gil<l iIh ^l. 
 
 lo Im- k(|>( until It slunilil (tiiiuunl tii u »uiii kunicicnl tu piirt liatc 
 landi to endow their ktipi-niliary |>rii-»t. 'riiik who m> gciicrall}' u|>- 
 provdl of, that liw <lic.ti hire without It-nMiiK. «oino mure, tunic leu, 
 liiMiird* lliit |n , and the chii-i' in' ' '•'•d lo it, 
 
 thoinrli ilirv « I ihreii; iiav, MTVi'i. .iiiiiually 
 
 I' to it lor _vear» itlUi ilu n ik.ilii^. Tlnii by 
 
 I! ;o buv more than liny at lir»t iiiiciidid ; but 
 
 yri ihry laid out more than at that lime tluy li;iil, lor tl«*y IkjuuIiI 
 n.i k-»-. than eighty acn> of frefliold (•round, eallcd Culilhtiiig/i, uluis 
 i'oerlc-htill, in I'mnilin-zham ; and '1/iomas <.'oarp<r, ol' /)«'«, raluion, 
 r.ilu-iird t'ii)/>fr, John l^itetlult, and 'I'koinas i'olfcr, of the suime, 
 «■ n mreodi'd tlu rein : tlicy in I3<>8 iiiliiilTed Thomas .Shunlifuxc 
 and t'liuitcen lining mid b\ an Lni;li!sh sclu'dulc anncM-d, declaicd 
 the Uses of tin- Icolliin lit, viz. " tlial a hailly or olHrir, by llieiii or 
 " the mo»te |i:trl in noinbre of llicin H|»|n>iiited, Nhall lake and |i« r- 
 " eeyve the yerly profiles of the siide londes and tenemenis, and 
 •' otfier ihe preniises eomprised williin the said deed, iherwilh nii 
 " hone«t and Kovcnablc xeuler prcest, by the mosle |)arle of llie co- 
 " feolTees to Ik.- named, hiritl and \vaj;e<l eom|K'tenlly, yerly lo synijc 
 •• or !.e\e inas!<e» and other devvpne M-rviee, for tlie sowles of the 
 " brethein and sislirn of the glides and liateriiilies, of Corporis 
 " i hriili and S|. Suhnlitf the bi>lioi>, in the parisii ehurehe id" />(W, 
 " within the counle of y>orjf'. by the >[>aee and tcrme of Ixxxxix. 
 " yeres, next ensewing the dale of the seide present dede, and at 
 " ihe end of the seid Ixxxxix. ycres ihe seid feofces liieir heirs and 
 " assignes, and all maner of persons that then shall l)e lawfully 
 " seased, or iiifeoffe<l in the premises orony of them, at and for suche 
 " prii-e as liiey or the most part of them in nombre, cniine agree, 
 " shall M-Ile alle and every of the prcmist s wiih the appurlenaunccs, 
 " and with or for the monv thereoi or thciefor eoniyn;; or prowying, 
 " shall fynde annuelly, an hoiie-l govenabill seeiiler pieesl, to syiige 
 " for the sowlys nforeseid, or ellis with the seid mony or londs or 
 " teiienienles, and other the premises, <iliall make further provision for 
 " a eompelent Icvyiiiji for an honest prcesl for the tvme being, if it 
 '• then may Ik-, by an aniortisemcni, or oUierwise as they sliall seeme 
 " l>e»t, for the most se'wer and longer eonlinuance cd' the fyniiiiig of 
 " the <ieid honest precsl, to contyiu-we for ever, if it so may l>e con- 
 " lyuiicd, by the orduiir i>f the lawe, the same preesl for the tyme 
 " l»eing, lo <lo the devymie servyee, ;.iid synge for the sowles in 
 " manner and forme aU>\csaid." \\ hen all ihe feolVets are dead but 
 five, ihen they lu renew again, and lho.<e live to name twelve more 
 ut len«t,nll which arc to l»e brothers of one of the said gildv, anil nunc 
 of them heirs of the former leofTee-!!. The slipeml allowed to eaeh of 
 these priests was, at the Dissolution, 5l. <»«. 8//. though at first it was 
 but four marks eHL-h ; or if they ke|il one priesi onl>' for both gilds, 
 then he was to have eight marks y«r annum, and iFic overplus uus 
 laid out in repairing the steeple, church, and strei-Ls, evi-ry year. 
 Thus It continued until the second year of T.<luard\\. when it wu« 
 seized by the statute for dissolution of tlic gilds, chn|)cis, nnd
 
 DISS. 35 
 
 chiintiies ; but the townsmen of Diss objected against it, and stood 
 ail action with that Kinu; ; but it appearing that the tci in of tlie 
 feoirment was not expired, tlioy could do no good in ilie aflair, and 
 it continued in the Crown iiniil the forty-third of Elizabelh,\n which 
 3'ear the Queen granted ihein to Thomas Mildmay, for divers years 
 yet unexpired, at tlie yearly reserved rent of 4/. and Thomas, son of 
 the said Thomas Mildmay, of Framlingham, Gent, succeeded l;is 
 father under that grant, not thinking that the townsmen knew when 
 this term expired; but he was nuich mistaken in that matter; for 
 the original feoffment and writings (out of which I collected this 
 account) were carefully kept and preserved; and in ]G08, when the 
 ninety-nine years of the feoffment were expired, John Shrtevc and 
 the rest of the townsmen entered upon the premises, ejecting the said 
 Thomas Mildmay, and John Wood, his tenant, pleadmg that these 
 lands were settled only for ninety-nine years to superstitious uses, 
 and that duiing that time the priest had but eight marks, and when 
 there were two, they had but twenty marks yearly, and that these 
 stipends could be no longer than the settlement, which being now 
 out, they entered upon these premises, as the purchase of their fore- 
 fathers, the then townsmen, and would employ them (as lawfully 
 they could do) to the same uses of repairing their church and their 
 streets, as they always did. This they proved by an inquisition, 
 taken at Hoxne, in the very year that EdS)ardN\.. seized it; they 
 proved that it was purchased by the contribution of the townsmen, 
 by the book in which all the contributors names were entered ; and 
 in order to prove John Shreevc's entry good, they produced feoff- 
 ments, shewing that the feoffees, in the first feoffment above speci- 
 fied, did infeoff Thomas ShardcloTve, and others, who in 1534 infeoffed 
 Reginald Wotton and Rogtr liird, priests, and others, and they 
 conveyed it to Thomas ShardeluWf, John Baron, and others, with 
 one liobert Fuller, alias Garbksham, who was the last surviving 
 feoffee, and died seized thereof, and Edward Fuller, his great-grand- 
 son and right lineal heir, entered into part of the lands in the name 
 of the rest, and then by deed in 158y infeoffed MaUhezo Hilbye and 
 Thomas Shreeve, which Thomas died seized, and John Shretve, his 
 son, entered into the lands as his right, and brought the ejectment. 
 All this being plainly proved, the lands were given by verdict to the 
 town, and in tiie ninth Jac. I. the King, and the said Thomas Mildmay 
 and John H'uod, renounced all right, title, claim, or demand, in the 
 said lanils, or in the 4/. per annum stipend mentioned to go and be 
 paid out thereof. This cost the parish so much, that in 1(j13 the}' 
 sold to George Spaldyng part of this land, called Hellbrookjield, in 
 Framlingham, containing ten acres, for 150/. with which they paid 
 the charges, and then settled the rest by feoffment to the uses afore- 
 said, and then made a lease thereof to one Edward fVickham. 
 
 But though tlicy had such success with this affair, they met with 
 the contrary in relation to the other lands that were under the same 
 limitation in the same feoffment, viz. a close called Chawmpenyes, in 
 Diss and Fraize, and three pieces of land in Disne, at 18f/. rent in 
 Disse, Frenze, and ISkolc ; the first piece laid in Diss, in Frenze-Jicld , 
 and contained three acres; the second piece one acre ; the third piece 
 two acres ; for it appeared by feoffments, prior to this, that these 
 lands were given w'ithout limitation, to find lamps, anniversaries, 8cc. 
 VOL. I. l''
 
 I ' ». whiili 
 
 III I ■! I'rtnze, 
 
 iiniirr till' K .ml, ua»li_v .iiluiratiuii (.oiiliriiKMl lu tiiiii and lii« 
 
 heirs, «iul 1 llinf iiu-cc*. «lii(li wrir llicii in tJii- liiiiul* of 
 
 Mr. .linnet lUitiuejitlil , hy llii- ».uiie arbitnilion wiih (■iiiiliriiKHl lu him 
 and )il« li'-iis, n|Miii liio pnviii;; in/, tn llii- < liuri-li-wardcns of Diss. 
 liithunl liaine and Sic/ioias llranu, K<m|i«. \vi*rc arbiirutun, their 
 .r -laic JiiH. <), IMK). 
 
 .-iif i{i\«.-n l>y liubaid hUhn, in l4})-t, to nay tlie 
 Ufl Iff, iir t-oniiiiiin liiif ul' l)its lor fVtr, and to Ltrp hin oiit, tUc. 
 «err »<-i/f<l hv EdtcardW. and l»v him ^ruiilcd in lA4y lo Sir 
 lia/j'h SiidU^r, Knt. nnd iMunnce ntuiii/iiglon,(.it:iii. to Im- held uf 
 his innnur ot /-.'aW (irmitrich. bv ft-ally only; they f;avc ihcin to 
 't'lwmas CtKtk vt \ortricfi, (icnt. and i\ lU'uiin Sccliiii ol' llic kame, 
 who wild ihfni to Thoniny Aldnd, ol' /)/.v«, ,iiul othtTs. 
 
 1.''<.I'>. Mr. Ifiuiiiiis I'ulchrr ;;av«.- '.'■♦/. with wliich the townsmen 
 |>ur(-li:i<x-<l llirif louds ofeopyliuld land on the reelory manor, ••nllcil 
 llf/l .hre, in />/v«, wliich they Unik iij) this year, nnd settled the 
 jirotil> to be employed lo the relief ol' the |»oor of honest couversntion 
 in the said town. 
 
 ItiOl. ])fc. 'Zi, Richard Fishrr of Dim, by his will obliged 
 F.duiird his son to purcha-e half an uerc freehold in D'ns, within 
 l»*o Mill* after his deeease, and thereupon at his cost and eharge to 
 build a liouM' sutheu-nt for the dwelling of two poor people, and 
 alteiwards to inleoff the eluireh-w aniens and ehief inhabitants therein, 
 will) shall have power to place what jioor prr>|»le thev please ill lliose 
 ilwellincs. In Kilo he bought a piece of land in JJirt-slrert, built a 
 houiic thereon, and made a feoffment according to the will. '1 his 
 house is now [1 ".»''•) tlown, and the land is called the Tomiyard. 
 
 I(i().>. Juhn Krlhlmroiis/i of l-'lmiUn, in \orfulk, Gent, granted 
 t'> .Infill Oifi of II i/mciidnam, saddler, a pighllc of two acres in 
 Jii'i/iloii, called ihe ( iriiTe/-pilf, reserving n free rent of IhI. per annum 
 to Ills manor of /fov(/(>/i ///;//. This pightle in 1()72 was purchased 
 by llie town of Diss, and is now [iT.i'i] their gravel-pits. 
 
 I(il8. Ralph Lhapinan of Ihirston, granted to Jatms Blomejlcld, 
 senior, Cent, and Jamtt liis son, and otiier fcoffcH-s, an aniiuitv of 
 2<H. issuing out of Ins meadow in liiinlun e.illed Shimpliiii; C'losr, 
 nbultiiig upon the highway leading from Ihintun to "> 
 north, anil u[)on the |iroce»sion-way dividing liiinlon and > 
 east, winch meadow he piirchaseci of John Shardrlotrr, (ieiit. llie 
 money to l»e distributed by the chief pari of the feoffees every 
 Christ mai-daif, for the relief nnd comfort of sixty of the poorest 
 householders, most comfortless and distressed poor people of Dim, 
 viz. 4*1. to each, iis of tiie ulnis gilt and (foliation of the suid 
 Ralph. 
 
 \t>'i(). Mr. .Shrrmaii guvc 45/. to purchase a close of IViUiam 
 } t a /(-J, culled }fK7rj'» pightle, which by measure contains four acres 
 ai)d SIX j>erclies, two acres of which are free, nnd pay -id. per annum ; 
 tlie other two acres are copyhold on llie capital manor, and pay 
 1». 4d. (|uitrent. In Ui.'Ji Jamn Itloiiiffirld, (Jvnt. senior, and Janut 
 hi* ton, and others, were infeoffeil to t)ie following use, that it* rent 
 should annually be laid out lo pay the common fine or letl fee of 
 " alcolt hainltt in Din.
 
 D I S S. 3; 
 
 IGSO. The townsman purchased of Tlwmas Dei/ncfi of Carhlon- 
 rode, ii parcel of <;i()und 111 Cock-stnit, with a Uimc. thereon, heiii<>- 
 twenty-seven feet hroad at the south end, and thirly-thjee feet at 
 the north end; tliis is now [IT.J^JJ tlie stull-liouse on Cock-strett 
 (iirtii. 
 
 I(ij8. October 15, Richmond Girling of Old Bokcnham, Gent, 
 by wdl proved in tiio Fierogative Court, gave to the poor of yj/s.s I Is. 
 per annum for ever, tiie se.vton to have Is. a year for mendini,' the 
 grave of his late wife ; for which payment he tied his houses^'au'l 
 lands ill Siradbrook, whic-h he gave to Ralph Kiii<r, his hroiher. 
 
 1 7 1 .5. Robert Ihicton of St. Margaret's, South Elmham, Esq. lord of 
 tlie niaiio,- of Ha/wood Hall, gave to his parish a small house, called 
 the Hopper-house, lying at tlie east end of Diss Moor, which he 
 also nianumised, it being copyliold before it came into his hands. 
 This is now [173^)1 used as a pest-house. 
 
 John Petit of Diss, and Mr. Hilliam Burton, both which were 
 benefactors, are hel'ore spoken of. 
 
 Mr. Robert Burroughs built an alms-house of brick, on the east 
 side of the churchyard, for tour poor widows. 
 
 Here is a good regulated work-house, which was lately [1736] 
 built by the inhabitants for an alms-house, sUinding on the Mour. 
 'I he coiniuons are many, but not large; they are called by the names 
 
 ^^f J lei/zvode Green, l\ estbnmkGreen,U'alcote Green, Cock-street Green, 
 the Moor, (on which the eustom is never to put on any sheep, as ap- 
 pears by the town books,) and Reuning's Green, part of which, timeout 
 ot mind, (as the Church-wardens' Hook informs me,) hath been always 
 inclosed at Mai/-dai/, and so kept until Lammas, on which day there 
 IS yearly paid to ilie church-wardens, ]l.Gs.8d. rent, by those that 
 mow a, viz. the tenement Baxter's, that stands by it, hath always 
 onehalf of thccrop, and pays half the rent, the other half goes by 
 turns toeycry tenement on the Green, viz. Mr. Cason's, Mi. Pettoe's, 
 MT..tubb's twice, because this is two farms laid into one. 
 
 _The charily school was erected liisl^ at Palgrave, in Suffolk, in 
 1711, and two years after removed hither. Ah". Briars, rector of 
 Diss, |)rcaelicd a sermon, which was published at the first meeting 
 ot I he genllemen and clergy for encouraging this school, which he 
 <ledi(ated to Charles Hishop of Koruieh, (whose chaplain he was.) 
 in which it appears that the rector of Palgrave began it, at who«e 
 ief|ucst that jiarish set apart a large room belonging to the town for 
 that purpose, and subscribed witii him 10/. /ji ;•«/;««/« for its main- 
 tenance, the neighbouring gentlemen and clergy had then sub:,cribed 
 between 20 and 30/. besides casual gifts, which then came to about 
 12'. '1 hi' school was opened the January before. Ten boys of that 
 jjii^ish were taught and clothed, six more taught but not clothed. 
 This school is now [l7c>0j kept at Diss, where the master hath his 
 dwelling in part of the late Gild-hall, and keeps his school in 
 another part: there are now [1730] ten boys clothed and taught. 
 
 'J he grammar school is kept above, in the sime house, wjiere the 
 masler hath lodgings, and 10/. per annum ; but this is at tiie volun- 
 tary contribution ol thejjarish. 
 
 'i his is a neat eom|>act village,' situated on a rising hill, having a 
 
 » Atlas Norfolk, p. 438. Will. Camdl, dc Diss, Gen. aiina 
 
 L papyr. script, anno 1685, pen. 172S.
 
 58 PISS 
 
 1.1- t.wliuli 
 
 It vui\ \ Inr 
 
 ll It It IX):! Iiiilt Kiuiiil will laiUM'ii and 
 
 ga; IiNikvin , . Iitmi llu- wuU-r ; liul it Ik-iii 
 
 aliniMt a ^'. -Xi-, Imviiit; milv n uiiull run or Iwu into il, nn< 
 
 iinr only mii, .imi ull (he iiltli ot tin- tuMti i-cnliTitig hcrr, bi'kidrii 
 tlw ntttiiv ix>nvriiu-iu-«-* tliul iirc iilai-ttl ovt-r it, iiiukc ihi- wnJcr verjr 
 
 U. " ' , Ullll k» i ' ' ' wlu-n It 1 iM'H', 
 
 i\ I ittiiiks 1 !y. nml the 
 
 II 1, Ml thu'k lliai till \ t.iK< ii . llii-y 
 
 III ■ < U. It i» vrrv df«-|i : I , uinlH-d, i( w.u 
 found fii;lil yunU in llic dcc{M-»t pfacr, wliicli i« by the common 
 (latlir: tilt- lilK-rty lirri-of lH-loni(a to tlic loid ol the miuior uf Diu, 
 and without his li-uvc no man can kcf|i u bout, or fi»h, except at hit 
 own sLatlie, wlu-rc every o-ie can lay in bow-net^, leaps, «i'l-pole«, or 
 niiv iiilii r ('iii;ine«, !•> eMteli what tisli tliev ea i there, \v itiiout tile 
 I.: -e. III!' ■ ■■ out of thi'i :W<Tf Im- bto|i|ied up, ll IS of 
 
 ^f ...;e, l)v n' 1,; the vur(U that he round it; wherefore 
 
 it IS vie\ve<l at the /rrt, and it° it be not clear, the tjtinier, to whom it 
 always belongs to keep it i>o, is amerced, as is the township it' they 
 do not kivp up the rails at its mouth, tor want of which in 1()39, u 
 roan, OS he watered his horses, was drowne<l, and the town was fined. 
 It is of vreut use in ease of a fire, us was exp«Tienc«-d in 1(>40, when 
 ill ' ' .ie<l in thai street ; all the wells and pumps being 
 
 «li . I ve<l l>y this water. 
 
 1 lie chiet slrj-t'ts ar«' Smith-tlrtft, or Mound-itrttt, so called front 
 the mound ot hill that rises the whole leiiglli of it; Tem-slrtd , or 
 Mtre-ttrtel,vi\iic]\ lii-s ulong the 3/<Tf"« side; /JiW-s/rr*-/, properly 
 rnough »o called ; J/nrAfZ-s/rrf/, and St. \icholais-slrcet. 
 
 The hamlets ore Cock-slreel, where the fair is kept on St. Simon 
 and St. ./i/rff, It'iilcolf, II oliri/, Utiftrood, muX U ctthrook. 
 
 'Hie niarkil is kept weekly on i'ridaif, the chief of which consist* 
 II' -eldlh ni:uiut°aeture, for uliidi this market is famous, i;real 
 
 c]i "f It W\i\^ sold here; the streets Ixing newly paved is u 
 
 great oriiainent, as well as service to the town. 
 
 In Hx« then- were 4<K) communicants, and ut this time [17^6] it 
 contains near 24<) families, and near HHIO souls. 
 
 It is iioM [ I7.)<j] ass<->s^d to till King's ta.T ut 23(»(i/. In the civil 
 warn, during the ns.soeiation, when the puhlick charges were levied 
 by the month, there were two valuations made of this town, one ut 
 1i«)l6/. fxr iiiiiiiim, the otlu r at '2700/. prr nniiuni, which far c\cetds 
 the pre-<nt real value. Ii pujd 7/. for every tenth, when the taxes 
 Were a.sse»sed that way. 
 
 The leel fees for Diu and its hamlets now [1736] poid to the capital 
 lord, is I/. I3i. 4d. prr niiniim. 
 
 The following amis have been bom by the predecessors of, and 
 are now ("17.')')] Ixirii hv, 
 
 Iheltev. .Mr I'.thrrtrd /Jo»irorM (sec p. 22.) 
 
 Mr. Thuinoi ' '//(see p. 24.) 
 
 Mr. Tlioman \..._; (seep. 25.) 
 
 Mr. John (ioodtrin, or, tliri-e pullela sab. on a chief gu/. three 
 roartletn iif the field. 
 
 Mr. IVilham L'amtll, gironne of eight or and iab. a crescent, arg.
 
 R O Y D O N. :yj 
 
 Mr. Jo/iii Biiryoiig7iii,az. a chevron between tluee horseshoes aig. 
 There is lately [17'3()] put up a nuiral monument in the iniclsl o( 
 tile north isle ; on whicli is this inscri|)tion : 
 
 Near this phicc lyeth the Body of 
 JOHN KBTr, Gent. 
 Who departed tliis life 12 July l0f)2, 
 Asjed 74 Years. 
 Also PlilLlPPlA his wife, 
 Who departed this life 17 Jan. 1734, 
 In the 84 Year of her Age. 
 Kelt's arms are or, on a fess between three leopards heads erased 
 az. a lion passant guardant arg; crest, a leopard's head erased a:. 
 And thus much of Diss ; from whence 1 shall proceed to 
 
 R O Y D O N. 
 
 Ihis church is dedicated to the honour of St. Remigiits, who 
 flourished about the fifth century ; the dedication day was kept on 
 the first of October, being the day of his translation. 
 This rectory is* valued as follows: 
 
 King's Books, i Tenths. I Synodals. \ Procurations. I Glebe. 
 900 |0 1S0l0'20l 068 I 51 30 
 Pension, i Norziich and Lincoln Taxation. 
 3 4 I 14 marks, besides the pension. 
 
 But though the glebe lies in the terrier as aforesaid, yet the real 
 measure, including the site of the rectory-house, does not much exceed 
 forty acres. 
 
 In 1603 there were 1£4 communicants, and now [1736] there are 
 60 families, and 240 souls. It is now [1736] assessed to the King's 
 tax at 630/. 10s.; when the taxes were raised b}' tenths this paid 
 2/. 10s. and to the monthly levies during the association, sometimes 
 at the rate of 752/. and sometimes 780/. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 The rectors that I have met with are as foUow : 
 In 1198, Richard, the parson of Roydon, granted seven acres of 
 land to Roger his son.' 
 
 * Dominiis Robertus de Morle est Thus the Lincoln valuation, to wliich 
 
 patronus illius ; rector habet mansum the Norwicli exactly answers, only the 
 
 cum XV. acris tcrre ; estimatio ejus- Eye portion is valued there at but 151. 
 
 dem, praeter portionem xiiii. marc, and is called, Porfio Magistri Willi, de 
 
 portio Prions de Eye in eadeni, xxvi.j. Jakcle. In Mr. T. Martin's Register 
 
 v'm.d. procuratio vi.j. vii.rf. sinodalia of Eye Priory, against this portion are 
 
 pro term. Paschae xii.</. pro termino these words, " Solebat valere xl.j, his 
 
 Sancti Michaelis xii.rf. denarii Sancti " diebus non valet, i. marc." 
 
 Petri xii.rf. ' pin. Norf. 10 R. i. No. 176.
 
 40 ROY DON. 
 
 l3fV4, C cal. AfatiS, ^ . prif-sl . iinliiuUHl nl ihr 
 
 piv~ii,t .i;..i, 4,1" >VitLik-.. Iriland, Knt. ^uurcliuii lu 
 
 it' and heir <>t' Sir /f tlliam lU Moric, KiiL dL-cciui-d. 
 
 I .1, u icK-* lh(fmb<r, Holnrt dt Fylrby, doarun. Uouert dk 
 Mold »:, Kilt. |uilfoii. 
 
 1 .'■'. I'J ■..'. lujii-i. Unli.r Clartr, prit^l ; Sir ItonmiT uv 
 Miii.i 1 ^ . Kill. M.ii-li..! .1 Inliiiil. 
 
 I.i'-'O. 'i cal. luguii, he rf»i};iH-d, uiul Kubrrt dc Morhy, prii-»l, 
 <ii>'. . .ilt-<l. lUllo. 
 
 ■ ', 1J8 Snilfmlirr, Uohtrt dr Dinulii/, |irif»t. Ditto. 
 
 I ••«;», 2 Jiili/, M illiam (iniif, of Stravlott, pricsl. Ditto. 
 
 l57o, "21 \oit mix r, llrnri/ Smith nl />i.«, |iri«**t. Ditto. 
 
 1 '■"'7. IS Fibruartf, .lohn Dt lurtiiighum, [>ri»-»t ; 'I'liox \s ni. 
 Mi'iii i.\, NiarHlial of Irfland. 
 
 Ul'i, 2<) Jpril, John Ho/'pr <>l n,ilh<lc, |irir»t ; UoUEKT DE 
 MoRi.BY, Knt. 'Iliis rrcliir was hurkil 111 till- rluircli. 
 
 IJ"^), \'Z June, F.dmuiid Inglaiid, |iru-<il ; lii.iZMiETii, widow of 
 Thviiutt dr MorUif, son nl" liubirt de Morlcif, Marshal of Ireland. 
 
 IK>*J,m//. Diccmbrr, Edmund Iiigland, Ixing very old, rwigni'd to 
 Jofiu \ ' ' ' ■ (1 to piiy him a ptiisioii of five uiurks u 
 
 yrar, il . i Katcliff i: ]>alroiu'ss. 
 
 I Iflf, 1{> I ibrmiiif, .lohii H i/mbi/iich, {or H imbuchr,) S. T. D. by 
 l.i|>»f. Hf was rrctor of Diss. 
 
 UJjH.CT Srptrmb(r,JnhnCoppiH,\tncii\ SirEnMUNoARUNDKLL, 
 Knt. and Johanna iru wile. 
 
 I.M>«).:)1 May, I homat iluarhi, (-haplain, at CoppiHS dt-alli ; Wil- 
 liam Kammk-sri iiv. l>q. ill right of .\nm: his wife. 
 
 15 lo, Jd Mai/, Jltnitiiit Ilvcrton, priest, at Quarln's dealli. Ditto. 
 
 I.»I4, .'JO March, .lnhii Cukr, on l.irrtoii'* dtath, by lapse. 
 
 I5;J:), H May, Cokt r»-iiit;iied lo Ucnrif .V/«;i((.<, reserviiiu; a pension 
 for life of 4/. a year. The King, as guardian lo Elizabeth ImkU 
 Lady Morlcif. 
 
 John Tiiddtnham 8Ucccede<l Sturgfs, at wliosc deatli, 
 
 \5<)0, 8 .full/, liobrrt I'ordham, priest, was instituted. Thomas 
 She KM AN, (tent, of )uTlry. 
 
 l.'>7'2, '2(i I'rbruarif, John Ciilli/nrr, clerk, al Fordham's death. 
 Ditto. 
 
 l.i«M. 1 ■> John UoTHcr, :\.\\. on Ciillifiicr'$ death: William 
 KETTLEntKiiH, (mtron. 
 
 MrZ-'t, IS Dtctmber, Robert Horner, .A.M. <>n ./o/i/i Horner's death; 
 Mahy, widow anil relict of ,lohn llormr, clerk, by praiil from 
 Filtrnrd llaieri and iMitrenec /^»/ioi, (Jeiiti. 
 
 1(»7.'), I December, .lohn /' • lirk. A.M. on Robert Horner's 
 
 death; llontitT lU KTos '■'■ ' .■ ita-mare, Giiii. lor thi* tiini 
 
 only. 
 
 1704, 4 .lune, ihe Uev Mr. Rooktcood Srrant, the present [1730"] 
 rcclor.at J"A;i Datinei/'i<U-ul\i; Kobp.ht Hi itnoi^oHsof /J/m, Genl.' 
 
 I1ie enclosure that join^ to the itouth part ol the churchyard im 
 called Chapel Clote, in the midst of wliich form«rly stood a cliiipel 
 de<Ji< otetl to the hunoiir of the lllexsed lirgin, in which was a 
 chanlrv of three or four pricst.s, d.iily siiigini; fir the houI of Sir 
 
 ' From Ok Inititulion Books.
 
 11 Y D O X. 
 
 -41 
 
 lioberi, soil of Sir Mallhru; tic Moi/ct/, Uicir louiiJt.'i- : llic roiiiula- 
 lioii deed wivs |)iodiiccd in the cause between John Lord Loicll, 
 and Thomas Lord Morlti/, about the anus of a lion rampant, which 
 being on tliis seal, i)r(JvLd tiiat the Lord Morhi/s ancestors had 
 anciently used lliosc arms. This chapel was well endowed; many 
 I'ree lands in lioi/ilon were held by paying an annual rent to it; it 
 was (hssolved in 1.347, and soon al'Ur pulled down, and ihv site con- 
 veyed by the Crown to lay hands. It is now [17'30] owned by the 
 Rev. Mr. John Dawney. It was founded about 128'2 ; but being a 
 free chapel without institution, it is never mentioned in those, 
 registers. 
 
 The Prior o'i Eye,\\\ Suffolk, had the tithes of about 100 acres of 
 land here, given to that monastery by Odo dc Charuitc, who gave tw(i 
 parts of the tithes of his land in liui/doii, in the Concpieror's lime, 
 and by Richard llovcel of lieiiidiin, who gave ail the tithes of his 
 lands here ; and in the charter of King Stephen, granted to that 
 house in 1 137, they were confirmed to the monks among their other 
 revenues : ' and in the register called Danoitn, which formerly be- 
 longed to this priory, and is now [17.30] in the hands of Mr. Martin 
 of Palgrave, I find that the portion of tithes belonging to the 
 monks of St. Peter at Ej/e, lying in Koi/doii, were let to the rector 
 at two marks a year^ and so continued for some time ; until after- 
 wards a perpetual composition was made for the rectors to pay 
 3s. 4d. per annum. Thus it continued until the Dissolution, and then 
 the pension went, with the priory, to the Crown, from whence it was 
 granted off, and hath since passed through many hands : it some 
 time was payable to Catharine, wife of King Charles IL but belongs 
 now [I73(i] "to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Pi/tc of Li/nn Regis. 
 
 Here were several freeholds held of the honour of Ei/e. 
 
 In 1355,* Sir Robert de Morlei/, Knt. confirmed to King Edwardlll, 
 the advowson of this church, with the chapels annexed, under divers 
 limitations. His seal was a lion rampant, 
 in a shield, circumscribed Sigillum Roberti 
 de Morlei/ Militis, notwithstanding which it 
 hath all along passed with the manor. 
 
 The Abbot of Sibton,^ in Suffolk, had 
 temporals here taxed at 3s. being part of 
 their manor called Friers, in Shelf hanger, 
 which extended hither. 
 
 The present building is very ancient, hav- 
 mg its nave only standing (the south isle 
 having been a long time in ruins.) It is 
 covered with lead, though the chancel and 
 south porch are tiled ; the steeple (which is 
 in a very ruinous condition) is round at bottom, and octangular at 
 top ; it had formerly four bells, but being unable to bear them, the 
 parishioners obtained a faculty in 108O, and sold three of them : on 
 that which is left I read this, 
 
 Petrus ad JEterna ducat nos Pa%cua lite. 
 
 ' Eye Priory Register, in the hands of ^ The original in the Exchequer, 
 Mr. Thomas D'Eye of Eye, anno 1636, 1697. 
 d. p. s- '' Taxation ofthe religious,anno 1482.
 
 44 nov i>u.\. 
 
 lln- . ' ' ■ luTH built by on<* <>l llic I'lli-H ahcrt, 
 
 abuul / . b'll >vhi<-li of (licill il wiu I <Mnili>t 
 
 U*arii. I 'II iirc-b ill \\\r iiurlli wall, 
 
 otit ul ' 1^ III the (liurcliyard wu« 
 
 taken lumr vcnnt ago, iinii (he- |Nivriiien(, tome of wliioh »til! rr- 
 niain*. wa« uiturn^ with llir arm* of the Filx-H altcri, tomcttiix** in 
 athicld, «omrUtiu-s in n luzciict*. niui ik-vcr.il oiiiers with iiiiliui U-ller* 
 of mill' ' " . iiiwrK'd. 
 
 Ill 1 III" Si ;V/rr, to which Marif 
 
 P III tliiit tiiiii-,' iiinoiii: 
 
 Vn I. : ; . (IIHcIc- of till- lU(U(li 
 
 Ill 11 luirth window urc the arms of 
 Rutcli'j Ear! of Suiux, arg. a btMul in^rniled «i/». 
 Alorlfif ;ui<t Kiiiiit. Ill uiKiihir iiurih wiiidiiw is a iirtikni iiiscrip- 
 lion, wIikIi dfsirrs ihc ri-adt-r to |>ray for tlir irniil of oiu* L/utriibi/e. 
 Till ' lii is out on II «fat : 
 
 Hoc ^ > ii fiiit [H-r Kicar.Itiin ^^'uyllforlh rum sulk 
 
 firo|iria i'ccuniii, dccriio Die Junij, Anno Doniiiii l(>43, utque 
 ixMtuin in Locoulii I'uri-iitcs rju!i antiquituin sederunt, vKtalis dicti 
 Kicmdi quinto dtrriino Martij ult. pra-terit. (Jl. 
 
 In the ehnncel are several stones with insorijitions, some of which 
 mrv nnnlcd in L<- Seir's Monuments, und some are not; however I 
 shall give you transcripts of them all. 
 
 Here lyith the Body of 
 John Homer, Preaclier of 
 God's Word in this Par- 
 ish, which Wiis buried the 
 30th Day of July, 
 Amio Dom. 
 
 How lonn Lord ? 
 niis is on a freestone by the altar, and is in Le Ncce.^ 
 
 Adjoining, on n black marble, 
 
 Here lyeih buried the Rxly of 
 ftoliert Horner, Hector of'^this 
 Parish, who died July 7lh A" 
 
 Dni. 1()75, 
 
 iEtalis 75.' 
 
 A black marble in the midst of the Chancel has this, 
 Kobertus Homer de Hresinghain, 
 
 Generosus, 
 
 Filius Reverendi UolN-rti Horner, 
 
 NuiK-r hujus 1-lcclesia? Kectoris, 
 
 Hic Aiiiina: suir l^xuvias rc|>os(iit ; 
 
 ^ ir Literaruni Umamcntis decoratus, 
 
 Pielate, Probitate, et summa Charit^ile, 
 
 Kximie pncditus 
 
 Obijl 4to Die Decembris, A\ Dni. 1708. 
 
 /ttalii G-i.* 
 
 ' Rrer. Geloiir. ' Ibid, vol. ii. p, no. 
 
 ' Vol. i. p, 9t. * Ibid, rol. ii. p. 214.
 
 R O Y D O N. 4S 
 
 Another black marble : 
 
 Subter 
 
 hoc Marmorejacent 
 
 Corpora, 
 
 Henrici Deyns Generosi, qui 
 
 Obijt tertio die Aprilis, 
 
 A° Dili. Uiyi. iEtutisGl. 
 
 Simul et 
 
 Elizabethac Redrich, prasdicti Henrici 
 
 Socriis, et Kelicta Henrici Kedrich, 
 
 ISI. D. quae obijt 8vo. Maij 
 
 A° Dni. 1G88 iEtatistiS. 
 
 Flens posuit Conjux et Pilia.' 
 
 On a small monument over the altar, 
 
 Ad Pedem liujus 
 
 Monumenti sc- 
 
 puitajacet Ma- 
 
 rtlia Horner Uxor 
 
 Roberti Horner. 
 
 And on a stone on the ground, under it, is this inscription. 
 
 Here lyetli 
 
 the Body of 
 
 Martha, llie Wife 
 
 of Robart Horner, 
 
 Clerk, who died 
 October the '26th, 
 Anno Dni. I(i0'2. 
 
 Mtat. 
 
 Here lyeth Margaret the 
 
 Wife of John Dawney, Clerk, 
 
 Who died the 3d of Sept. 
 
 1 09 1, aged (j\. 
 
 Deynes, impaling three cocks. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Han- 
 nah, the beloved wife of Tlio. 
 Deyns, Gent, and one of the 
 Daughters of Clement Rolf, 
 Gent, deceased, who was here 
 Buried the 15tb Day of October, 
 1603. 
 To mourn for her 'twer Sin, 
 Rejoyce yee nither. 
 For she hath gain'd an 
 Everlastinge Father. 
 
 Here alsoe rcsleth the Body of the 
 
 aforesaid Thomas Deyns, who dyed 
 
 the 27th Day of November, Anno Doin. 
 
 lt)7o. 
 
 5 Lt Nevt, vol. iv. p. m. 
 
 VOL. I. G
 
 •ti 
 
 KOYDON. 
 
 On llic Mulli (uie of the chnncci, in the cliurrhrnrd, ii «n alUi 
 
 tomb, i-uvintl witli a black marble-, liavini; ilu- iiniis ut 
 
 liurrvugk, {MX p. .-jK, ) with u label of Uuif , imiMiling, 
 
 f " ;. 38.) «ub bi« rrc««, u:. a boar't hfod coupcc. Tlie 
 
 in .ipoivd by Dr. Cumelt) if tu fuiluw* : 
 
 Lictol, 
 
 Juxla hunc Tuniulum Rxuvinn invcnie», 
 
 HolUlini lU KUOl (;ll. 
 
 KOBERTl It MAKl.i: lU HUOLCJII, dr Dim in Com. 
 
 Nort". CJeni. Filij Nalu nui\inii, 
 
 Pari-nlum Spt-m, Aiuicoruni Dcsidrrium, 
 
 Pra-i-lu«it Slun hcu ! niinis imnintura, 
 
 Obijt Collcgio SSt«. Trinitaiis uyud Ciiiilab. 
 
 ■ . 1 T\ L 4 \ Domini ) 17'i3. 
 
 U d.oDecemb.AnnoJ ^^^^ J ,y 
 
 Filiu dilectiiuimu plucidc olnlonniunt 
 
 rAUKNlES A. MHO. 
 
 Charis'iima: Conjugi.s Conjux I lie amiintisHimus, 
 
 Unionein conjunctis-siumm Murs ipsa vix, 
 
 Et nc vix quidt-ni sepurubut, 
 
 Pneivit cnim Illc 28" die Jiui. 
 
 Anno 
 CoDscquitur Ilia, 6' die Mar. 
 
 Monumentum hoc Scpulrhralc Pietatis 
 
 Et graliludinis Erpo fJULIKLMUS, 
 
 Filius eurum Natu minimus 
 
 Mcerrns posuit. 
 
 Tin* village joins to Dim on the cast, to lirisinghain west, Shelf- 
 hanger norlli, and the county river south ; it luilh now [1736] two 
 manors onlv, though fonnerlv it had lliroe,ull which were in one in the 
 Conqueror's time, and was then two miles and an holt' long, and two 
 miles broad, imd jwiid [>d. DaiireeU. It was held by Lejriz, son of 
 li/se, a Uiane,* or guard of the Confessor's, and was afterward given 
 by the Conqueror to Ralph dc Itello-fago, or litaujo, of whom it 
 was held by Hugh at the lime of the survey.' 
 
 It after came to 
 
 MrntnT dk Kif., whohad it in II4(>. and died in 1I71> without 
 male lisue, leaving his barony of HhU divisible b»'tween his daugh- 
 ter* Itabrlla and Aliva, the first of which was married to Gfff'td/ 
 dt Chetler; and at his death, to Roger, son of Hugh de Crasi, who 
 |>uid a fine of twenty marks and twelvt palfreys to Kmg John, for 
 ninrrving her without license, upon which the King revoked the 
 sei/urc that he had made of all his lands m Sur/alk, and elik^'where ; 
 
 I Dni. J 
 ' f iElat. I 
 
 17'27. 
 52. 
 4G. 
 
 \ 1 TliW 
 
 the Kinj;'!. 
 
 ' (Domc«. fo. 115.) Terra R. de 
 Bcllot'jra. 
 
 H liT' Him. Rrfjrdona ten. Lrfhx 
 
 tunc ct pott xii. bor. nio. xi. lemp. i. 
 tcr. xnip. ii. car. in doni. el li. car. 
 Iioni. silr. XXX. por. ct liii. .icr. 
 praii. Scniprr ii. K(|ui in Aula. temp, 
 vi. an. tunc xl. por. mo. xxx. tunc Ix. 
 or. nfi . xiii. capr. et vi. soc. de 
 xxiiii. ac. terre. lunc ct potica i. car. 
 
 t proinan. modo m°. dim. Scuip. val. xl.i. x. >)uar 
 t IX. vill. m" V. loiig. ct viii. in lat. et dc Gelto ix.^.
 
 ROYDON. 45 
 
 it appears that he had for his part seventeen knights fees and an 
 haltj though the other part of the barony seems to have been the 
 head, several of these fees being held of it. 
 
 In the first of King John, Robert Fitz-Rogcr, a great baron in 
 Northumberland, gave 300 marks for AUva, the younger dauifhler of 
 Hubert de Rhie, to marry to liis nephew ; and in the thirteenth of 
 the same King, John Marshal, the nephew, answered for seventeen 
 fees and an half of that barony; in the ninth of King John he had 
 obtained a grant in fee of the office of Marshal of Ireland, and had 
 livery of it in the seventeenth of that King. He died in 1234,* 
 jiliva his wife surviving him, who, by the death of Isabell de Cressi, 
 her sister, was heiress to the whole barony of Rhie ; and agreeable to 
 this, in the record called Testa de Nevil, it is found that 
 
 Roger de Cressi held one fee in this town, of Walter FitZ' 
 Robert, and that 
 
 Matthew de Morley held another fee, which was formerly 
 Robert de Morley's, of AUva Le-Marshal, as of her barony of Rhie, 
 of which it was ever after held. It was this Robert that, in 1253, 
 had a grant of free- warren to this manor, which was allowed in Eire, 
 in 1285. At the death of Matthew aforesaid it descended to 
 
 Sir William de Morle, Knt. who died before 1304, for in that 
 year William Marshal, of Ireland, presented as guardian to 
 
 Robert, son of Sir William dc Morley, Knt.; this Robert after- 
 wards married Haxcise, sister and heiress of John, son of the said 
 JVilliam Marshal, whereby the barony of Rhie, the marshalship of 
 Ireland, and all the inheritance of the Marshals, came into the 
 Morley family. William Marshal, the father, died about 1313, and 
 John, his son, in 1316, Ela, wife of the said William, then surviving. 
 Upon this match it was that the arms of arg. a lion rampant sab. 
 double quevee, came to be quartered, and often bom, by the Morleys, 
 it being the arms of Roger de Cressi, whose inheritance went to the 
 Morleys, as is before observed. This Robert, in 1326, settled the 
 manor on 
 
 William de Morley, his son, for life, and Cecily, daughter of 
 Thomas Bardolf, his son's wife, and their heirs, as part of the join- 
 ture of the said Cecily, with remainder, for want of such heirs, to 
 Robert de Morle, his son, and his heirs male. Cecili/ outlived her 
 husband, and enjoyed it; but for want of heirs, it descended to the 
 aforesaid 
 
 Robert de Morley, Knt. Marshal of Ireland, who, in 1361, 
 settled it (with his wife Cecily's consent) on Sir Thomas Felton, Knt. 
 for life ; but he lived not long ; for in 1386 the said Cecily was lady; 
 and in 1387 
 
 Thomas de Morley, son of Robert de Morley, Marshal of 
 Ireland, was in possession, who, in 14l6, died seized, and left it to 
 
 Elizabeth, his widow, for life ; after to 
 
 Margaret, his daughter and heir, then one year old ; she after- 
 wards married 
 
 Thomas Ratclyff, who, in 1487, died seized, leaving it to 
 
 Jeffrey Ratclyff of Framesden, in Suffolk, Esq. his son, who 
 was then nine years old ; and dying in 1504, without heirs male, the 
 manor came to his three daughters coheiresses : 
 * Dug. Bar, vol. i. p. 6oo.
 
 40 ROYDON. 
 
 ULiiABETii.tlicn a^cd fiAcru yc«r»,MrhoMu» ninniinl (o VhnUopkcr 
 Sffilmam. 
 
 Clbanur, Uic •ccond. then tlurtwii yiixn old, marrivd lo Thomot 
 LovtH, )»n\or, of Hm/iflJ. 
 
 Jo»s. iIm- ihird, llun nine vc«r» old, ufu-rwardu inttrri<tl lo John 
 Si ■ ! : h. 
 
 I liic UmIi of Dfftmbcr, 1318, li-nviiiff Kliialnth. 
 
 In , iilit.li vr«rt old, wlio tiAcrwurdt luarrit-d hldmund 
 
 LlkanuK died a widow, in 1518, leaving V.liialxlh, lur diiui:litcr, 
 who held her third [mrt in 15^1 ; in 1j;1;J, ihe hus murric-d to Jama 
 I'cr^dor, 
 
 III I ;>-i6,' Thomas Siikkman of Yaxley, Gent, purchased one 
 third pnrl of John S(urpcuiu; and in \5j3, another ol Jamet 
 I'cr^rlor i and llie wnne year 
 
 \i iLLiAM Kkxtlkduiu;!!, Cicnl. porchftsetl the otiur part of 
 Kdmund Dfthiik, ami Eliznhdh Ins wife, so thai Shrrmiiii had two 
 tliirds, and KctlUburgh one; and thus it continued till i;>8(i, at 
 which time the court* then kept liad two hoinuges, one for this 
 manor of Roydon Hall, and the other for Tu/'t's manor, which wa« 
 joine«l to it; thev extended into Roydon, Diss, iirUiiisliam, and 
 ah '. It went in these families till about KiUU, and Uicn the 
 
 wii i^nrehasetl by 
 
 EnwAiin Mavkbs, uho was succeeded by 
 John II avkbs, (Jent. of ShtlfTiangfr, who left it to 
 Thomas Havkrs of Thtltetoii, his sou, from him it came to 
 William Havkrs, Esq. then to 
 
 Thomas IIateks, v*ho died in l(iij7,and it descended lo 
 AVii-LiAM IIavebs, E.»«|. his son , who sold it to 
 Mr. HonPRT lU hboioh of Diss, at wliosi' death it came to 
 M AKY Ik iiBOKiH, liis wife, who gave it lo 
 V\ iLMAM, her youngest son, who, in 1733, sold it to 
 .Mr. 1'hilip Dykks of Ijondoii, the present lord. [I7.3'>.] 
 The Icet belongs to the liundre<l, the left fee biing about 'Is. 5d. 
 The Advowson whs always ap|H'ndant to the manor, till Mr. 
 // illiam liurruiiah of Diss severed it, by sellmn it to 
 
 Mr. llnwAUD CHAFi'tLow of D/sj, clerk, who is the present 
 patron. [I7.;''-] 
 
 Tlie CtsToM OP THIS Manor is, lo the eldest son it gives dower, 
 and the liiie is at the lortl's will. The site of the manor ot Roifdon 
 I lull, and the demeans adjoining, are lieehold, and were s<.ild olfaboul 
 •20«J years since, being now [173'»] the estate of Mr. John Datsrney, 
 clerk. 
 
 GISSINGII.ALL .\l.\.\OU, 
 
 >\'liich was so calli-d from n family of that name, the ancient lords 
 thereof, an<i was origiiiully in two parti, one <if wliieli Ix'loiiged lo 
 the honour of /'Jyr and the other to the abbey u( Duty; that be- 
 longing lo Eyt* was held by Kdric, the ancestor of Robert Malel, 
 
 * Pcil. Fin. Hi). A. jl II. I, No. 7«. mcniJ.xz. arr. terrvmodolcnrlGjItcrus. 
 
 ' I D. ' fol. 77.) Tcrrr Kubcm Scmjvrr dim. car. rt i. acr. prati. nine. 
 
 M Dm. Hurxlr. In Rep*- ci post val. ii. w>l. y\.<l. modu lii. tol. 
 
 J . . I. Iibcr hoiiio Ednci cum- Tlic original of tliii lown'tnsnie iceiiit.
 
 ROYDON. 
 
 47 
 
 lovd of that honour in King Edzeard's clays, and by one Waller in tlie 
 Conqueror's time; the other was given lo Bun/ abbey in 9G2, by 
 T/iurkftcl the Danc.^ 
 
 After it came to the abbey, tliey iield it till the Conqueror, and 
 then it was held of them by Fukher,^ being of the yearly value 
 of 20s. 
 
 It was soon after joined to the other part, but was always held of 
 
 the abbey, as that was of the honour, and 
 
 William de Gissing, in 1174, owned them both; from which 
 
 time to 1579 it passed with the manor of Gissiiighall in Gissifig, to 
 
 which place I refer you. 
 
 In 1579,* Arthuh Heveningham of Heveuingham, Knt. was 
 
 lord ; in 
 
 1590, Antony Reve had it, who this year sold it to 
 
 William Kettleburgh, Gent ; in 
 
 1600, John Kemp of Flordon kept his first court; in 
 
 1602, Robert Kemp, Gent, his son, kept his first court ; and in 
 
 1612, John Kettleburgh, Gent, held his first court; he sold 
 
 it to 
 
 John Pykarell, Gent, in I6I8; he left it in 1649 to 
 
 John Pykarell, Gent, his son ; in 
 
 1707, John Pykarell of Cringhford, Gent, was lord, who left 
 it to his son, 
 
 John Pykarell, Gent, the present lord. [173(].] 
 
 The site of this manor, also with the demeans, are freehold, and 
 were sold from the manor about 1.50 years since, and is now [1736] 
 in the possession of Mr. Richard Waynforth. 
 
 The Custom of this Manor is Borough English,'' that is, the 
 copyhold falls by descent to the youngest son ; the fine is arbitrary; 
 but in all things else the tenants do as they please. 
 
 TUFT'S MANOR 
 
 Was erected after the Conqueror's time, it being then, as it is now, 
 [173G] included in the manor of lioydon Hall ; in 127C it belonged to 
 Samson, son of Roger, who was son of Reginald, son oi' Jejferi/ 
 of Reidun, who lived in the time of Henry II. ; this family bare 
 for their arms, chequy arg. and gules, a cross, and sometimes a 
 bend az. sometimes ermine.^ It came about Henry the Third's 
 time to 
 
 by the modern spelling, to signify the 
 King's down, or hill ; by the ancient 
 spelling it appears to be, the down or 
 hill by tlie water, and this is most likely. 
 Its situation answering exactly to it. 
 
 ^ Regr. Album, fol. 22. 
 
 ' (Doms. to. 181.) Terra Abbatis de 
 Sancto Eadmundo. Dice dim. Hund. 
 In Ragheduna tenet Fulcherus de do- 
 minio, car. terre i\uot^ tenuit S. E. 
 (Sanctiis Edmundus) semp. ii. vill. et 
 vii. bor. et i. car. in dominio, et K. car. 
 Iiom. et ii. ac. prati. et v. soc. de xxi. 
 
 ac. prati. Semp. ii. car. et i. rune, et it. 
 an. et v. per. et xii. ov. val. xx. sol. 
 
 ■* From the Court Rolls. 
 
 ' Burgh English or Borough English, 
 is a customary descent of lands or tene- 
 ments, whereby in all places where the 
 custome holdelh lands or tenements de- 
 scend to the youngest sonne, or if the 
 owner have no issue, to the younger 
 brother ; and the reason for this, as 
 Litleton sayth, is, for that the youngest 
 is presumed in law to be least able to 
 shift for himself. Minsheu. 
 
 * Chauncy, Antiq. Hertf. fol. 413.
 
 48 ROY PON. 
 
 WTDonrVi r«lot UriuHghanti III iliiJlauiily »l continued 
 
 Minu- lillir. It i> I l>_v 
 
 W'li i.i\M Ku()» tiiMar(l> tlu- latter end of the l.'itli century, and 
 vKiii alter il fell into the |u;(eut lUiiiior nt;nin. 
 
 It »n» heiil «if the barony of Khif. which »hcw» thut il wa* n part 
 of ■' U niiinor iil fin>t granted to some younger bruiuh oJ the 
 
 M .!>. 
 
 llic »iti ' from the manor ' iih liot/Jon Hall, 
 
 and i« now ., .td; tlu- oKi uioiit ' bv the iiuuic of 
 
 Tmjrt HaU iard*. 
 
 BHISINGIIAM MANOK 
 
 Extends into this town, nnd hntli so done ever since the Conquest; 
 tor we rea«l tiial there were tlicn four tocmtn thai hud five acres of 
 ground valued in lliat parish.* 
 
 IILHVS MANOR, 
 
 In lirisingham tiw\ i<ovr/oM, was joined to Boylantl mvLX\nx in Briung- 
 ham, for which reason 1 shall treat of it in Brimigham. 
 
 The (ii/is to this parish arc small, rii. 
 
 Two acres of copyhold land, held of Gissinghall, givea long before 
 1577, a' api>ear> from llie court books. 
 
 About l'K)y, II iHiam Kttllil'urpfi, Gent, gave iOs. per annum to 
 the |MX)r, to be divided by the tMiurch-wardens, where most need 
 shall be ; and there is a small house, now [1736'] the sign of the hart, 
 with a fjardcn thereto adjoining, lied for the payment of it, tljc ovcr- 
 plu<>of Mhlch IS the estate of Mr. John Datcncy aforesaid. 
 
 Mr. Riibtrt liorutr, who duel in 1708, gave the freehold close 
 calknl /•'i///^r's, joining to the <a.st side of the rectory garden, for ever 
 to the rector, on cundition that he preaches an annual scrinun on 
 (rood tridat/, and distributes 4(Js. j>cr annum to clothe four poor 
 widows of Koydon. 
 
 The commons arc very small, being called the Dort, Waynforth's 
 Green, the Parsonage lireen, and the lAltle Green; in all which 
 tht-y coinmoii alone, and intercommon on Roydon Green, which 
 joins to iiriiinghan pound. 
 
 These Arms are born by 
 
 Mr. John I'ickarell, lord of Gissinghall, in Roydon, sab. a swan 
 proper, a chief rrm. 
 
 Mr. Robert Iilake,tab. on a chevron gnl. between three garbs or, 
 a de-li« of the field. 
 
 Mr. Charles Deifiu, or, two bars in a bordure sab, 
 
 Mr. Rtchard If ai/nf'orth, or, a lion rainpaiil az. between three 
 hurts, i rest, a lion rampiuit guardant or, a hurl in his paws. 
 
 Tlie nrxl village on the river ioiniiiL' wisl to Roydon, li, 
 * In Krgailofu iiii. IOC. dc v.acr. ap^rctui. iuni in UicMogham. (Domci. ful.itj.)
 
 [ 49 ] 
 
 B R I S I N G H A M. 
 
 1 H I s town/ about 963, was given by Osulph le Sire, and the lady 
 Laverine, or Leofrine, his wife, to the abbey of St. Edmund's Bury, 
 to which it belonged in the Confessor's time, except that part which 
 Almar then held of that house, which was almost half the town. 
 This part was a manor also, and held in the Conqueror's time by 
 Roger Bi/god Earl of Norfolk, who was afterwards infeoffed in the 
 other part, by Abbot Baldwin, as Joceline's Chronicle, in the Cotton 
 Library, informs us, to hold it of the abbe}^, at one fee,^ and to pay 
 nothing to the ward of Norwich castle, because the abbot paid 7s, 
 every twenty weeks for the whole town. The capital manor, at the 
 survey, was in the abbot, who had then two carucates of land in de- 
 mean, and twelve socmen who held sixty acres of land, but could 
 not sell or give it any one without license. In the Confessor's sur- 
 vey, the manor was of 40s. value, but in the Conqueror's was risen 
 to 60s.' The town was then two miles long, and a mile and a half 
 broad, and paid 12<f. Danegeld; it extended at that time into Shimp- 
 ling, Fersfield, Shelffmnger , and Roi/don. 
 
 In William RuJ'us's time, the earl had the whole town, all which 
 he infeoffed in 
 
 William de Veedun;' and it appears from the Black Book of 
 the Exchequer, that Roger Bygod, father of Hugh Bygod, had in- 
 feoffed this William in six knights fees of his old feoffment, among 
 which, this old town was reckoned at two ; and this is the i"eason that 
 it was all along held of the Norfolk family, as capital lords, by the 
 Verdons, and all other owners. This feoffment was made about 1 100, 
 
 "> The White Regr. fol. ri. Regr. 
 Pinchbek, fol. 324, &c. 
 
 * Consuetudinary of the Abbey, p. 34. 
 
 ' Terra Abbatis de Sancto Eadmun- 
 do. Dice dim. Hund. 
 
 Bresingham tenet S. E. (Sanctus Ed- 
 mundus) semp. pro maner. et pro ii. 
 car. terre. semp. vi. villi, xvi. bord. et 
 ii. car. in dom. et ii. car. horn. silv. xx. 
 por. xii. acr. prati. m° ii. an. xi. por. 
 et xii. soc. de Ix. ac. et non poterant dare 
 vel vendere terram suam. semp. ii. car. 
 et dim. silv. vi. pore. iv. acr. prati. 
 Tunc val. xl. sol. modolx. Erclesiexv. 
 acr. val. ii. sol. Habet viii. quart, in 
 long, et vi. in lat. et xii.rf. de Gel. 
 (Doms. fol. 1 8 1.) 
 
 In Siniplinga i. lib. homo et dim. de 
 iv. acr. semp. dim. car. et i. acr. prati. 
 val. xxviii.f/. In Re;jadona iii. soc. de 
 V. acr. appretiati sunt in Bresingham. 
 (Doms. fol 1S2.) 
 
 Invasiones. Abas Sancti Edmundi 
 tenet. In Scelvagrava i. lib. homo Al- 
 
 gari commend, tantum T. R. E. xii. 
 acr. de Wineferthinc, qui fuit occisus ad 
 bellum Hastinges, postea tenuit abbas in 
 menerium suum Brasincham.* Semp. 
 val. xvi.i/. sed suus dapifer offert se ne- 
 cisse sicut juditium proportat. (Doms. 
 fol. 297.) 
 
 Of the other manor which Almar 
 held, we read thus : 
 
 Terra Abbatis de Sancto Eadmuiido. 
 Dice dim. Hund. 
 
 In Bresingham tenuit Almarus a 
 Sancto Edmundo T. R. E. i. car. terre, 
 ni° tenet Rog. Bigot a Sancto semp. i. vil. 
 et iv. bor. tunc ii. car. in dominio. Postet 
 modoi.etdira. tunc et post ii. car. horn. 
 m° i. silv. vi. pore. vi. acr. prati tunc iii. 
 Rune. m° i. Tunc iv. An. niodo iii. tunc 
 XX por. niodo viii. modo Ix. ov, et i. soc. 
 de i. acr. et dim. Semp. val. xx. sol. 
 
 • Page 283. 
 
 * This seems to signify, the village 
 of broad low meadows.
 
 M BUISl \(; HAM. 
 
 or bcfow, for in 1 107 iliu liorl Roger died.' llic next ihal I mrcl 
 
 «illi wa» niiulltcr 
 
 William de Vkkdum, «holiv«l in 1'2<17, and wm »ucrc«lcd by 
 ItiHTiivM Di: ViRDLM, lord hiTc, nnd of" Moullott, in \'Z\i. 
 
 llt^ >'>ll, 
 
 WvDo, «h«i I- Miinolinicsi-allf*! Iliiiiodc I tnlitiu,' in I'JIl, t;avc 
 Kln^ JoJin IU>/. llial lit- miiilu, «itli lii> a|.(ir<>batii.n, mnrry I'ltro- 
 ntUii, widow of //r/irv '/<■ Mnra, and linvf In r liiiid.* He wu* lord 
 in I'JJfi, lor tlitii ilu- unanls luoutflil a writ nguinsl liim lor surcluirg- 
 ing llie coiuuion iKitUiif. lie leA il to 
 
 Sir John nr. N KitntM".,' Knl. tind Jl'iguiia, or Dionisia de Ver- 
 don, (for »o 1 lind liir calletl in one J f odd ry,) nnd licr partner*; Sir 
 John lieltl one IW, and stie unotlier, liere and in Ilnpclon, about 
 I'iHl: in 1'27<), Sit John titled lliis manor on hiin^ell lor life, re- 
 mainder to J'homoi, his kon, and rh<imti-iiie, his wife; nnd for want 
 of licir^ it was to ^o to John, lii- other »on, who in I'JHO inherited on 
 this kcttleincnt, and was n ward of the Karl-Mar>liar.s.' In 1(283 he 
 chiinicti view oi frankpledge, assize of Arm./ and ale,iufini^,(hff, gal- 
 low -i, and friv-warren in all his lands and manors in SurJ'olk, viz. 
 Ilri*iii"hiiin, Miiltvn Magna, Saifi/ngham, and Kfi/ihn; all which 
 piivilege. were cranlitl to his falherby Kini; Henri/ 111. as the ehar- 
 ter then produeed evidently proved. How long he lived I cannot 
 say, but 
 
 John was his son nnd heir,' who, in i;)00, held this manor of the 
 Earl of Sorfolk, at one fit-; for w hicli he paid no eastle-guard, but w as 
 forced to do his humugc to John Abbot of liury, at his manor-house 
 of Rnl'^nire, and pay nis relief and seulage, as his predeci>ssors hud 
 idwa\s^lone; lie di«l >oon after, for in lin>2, and in 1.30'), 
 
 •'I'homas I)k X'kkuon held, in Itrisingham, Moiillon, Saxling- 
 ham, .lilacton, Tilirnham, Hapiton, Shadmjidd, and I'urncet, eight 
 fees of the Eiirl-Marshal. lie died in I.Jl.i, and left tliein to 
 
 Sir Jons de \ Enno.s, his son, who in I.J'iy, jointly with Maud 
 hi* wife, levied a fine, to settle Moulton and other manors on them- 
 selves, for life, nnd John, their son, nnd his heirs. I have several 
 ancient accounts of this manor in his time, in which it apjanrs, that 
 the Prior of Bliththurgh had \'ld. a year paid him out ot it, and that 
 it paid Ad. per aniiurn to the hundred of Diss, for the leel Jfe, the lord 
 of the hundred having granted this niaiior liberty of a leet for that 
 pnvnicnt, an<l for suit of the hundred court; wliieh being trouble- 
 Miine, the lord paid Zt. per annum in lieu thereof. The manor-house 
 stood near Brmngham wood, in the hall grounds; the swan-hill, nnd 
 the large moat still [173()] remaining, plainly shew the site of it. In this 
 neat the f erdom had lived many ages, but now Sir John removed 
 hence to Marllnham in Suffolk. I have seen an inveiilorv of the 
 goo<ls Icll in the house here, dated IJ'iW, among wliieii, seve- 
 ral things for the use of the chapel are named, anil a jioor's box 
 tUindmg at the great hall-door; the custom of that time U iiig, to put 
 in what every one pleased, instead of giving servanU, oi is usual now. 
 
 ' ' Com. Mlhjuhn. ' Plit. Coronc 14 E. 1. Rot. 14, 17, 
 
 ) , iiiti king John. Cluuncy'j Hrrlfordihirc, fol. 41J. 
 
 * Cait 1.. H J. m. I. ' While Krgijicr, «l (lie rnil. 
 
 • Kin. Norf. E. 1. L. 1. N 177- * KiC. jj K. 1.
 
 B RISING II AM. 51 
 
 He seems to have been a man of great hospitality, for he left eighty 
 dishes, seventy-five plates, forty saucers, and twelve cups, to treat 
 his tenants at his coming over. In 1329 he settled BrklesKorth in 
 Northamptomhire on himself, for life, remainder to his son Thomas, 
 and his heirs, remainder to John, his second son, and his heirs ;' and 
 the year following he settled Brhingham in the same manner. But 
 in 1344 this fine was revoked, and the manor settled again by him, 
 and Maud his wife, on Thomas, his grandson, son of Thomas, his 
 eldest son, and Margaret his wife, remainder to John, the second 
 son; he died in 1346, as the Escheat Rolls say, and then, according 
 to the settlement, it came to 
 
 Thomas de VEnDON,' his grandson, who died a few months 
 after him, upon which, according to the entail. 
 
 Sir John de Verdune, Knt. uncle to the said Thomas, and se- 
 cond son to the last John, became lord ; he held Brisii/gham, with 
 the advowson, of the Earl-Marshal, at two fees,* the fee that went 
 off with fVigona or Dionisia de Verdon being joined again in his time 
 (except those parts of it which were conveyed by her husband and self 
 before his death, viz. the fourth part of a fee to John de Lynne, and 
 a fourth part to IValter of Brisingham, both which were to be held of 
 the capital manor.) It seems (though I am not certain) as if this lady 
 after married Sir Richard Le Brewse, Knt. for he was lord here in 
 1315, and in 1326 the Account Rolls of the manor say, that Sir 
 John J'erdon was at 47s. Ad. expense for cloth, against the burial of 
 the Lady Brewse. In 1335, Sir Richard Le Brewse had the moiety 
 of swans going in Brisingham fens, and had two carried to him at 
 Fornham. He was alive in 1354; at his death it returned to Sir 
 John, who had the extent of the manor renewed,' from which it ap- 
 pears, that he was capital lord of the whole town, and patron of the 
 church, all which he held of the Earl-Marshal at two fees ; the earl 
 held it of the Abbot of St. Edmund, and the abbot of the King; the 
 said John had view ol frankpledge, and all other liberties before spe- 
 cified. The manor-house, and three hundred acres of ploughed 
 land in demean, being then valued at 7/. lOs. which is dd. an acre; 
 thirty acres of wood, valued at Is. 6d. per annum; forty acres of 
 mowing meadow, worth 3/. 6s. 8d. that is, ]0d. an acre ; nineteen 
 acres one rood of pasture ground, valued at 6s. 5d. a year; and two 
 windmills at 20s. per annum, besides the commons lying round the 
 whole town, which, in eggs, hens, and days works, paid to the lord 
 by the commoners, were worth 10s. per annum; and the lord had 
 twenty acres of fen to dig turf in, worth 5s. a year; he had also liberty 
 of free-warren by the King's charter, and a free fishery with all 
 manner of boats and nets, throughout all his manor of Brisingham, 
 and through all Roydon, as far as Diss. To the said manor belonged 
 ninety-four copyholders, who held among them seventy-four mes- 
 suages, and five hundred and eighty-eight acres two roods of land in 
 villeinage; there were six cottagers in villeinage, and the lord pays 
 yearly 3s. in full satisfaction of all suit to the li^undred court of Diss, 
 and the same extent saith, that Filbys manor, and Borland manor 
 &c. were held of him ; (but of them in their proper places.) 
 
 ' Fin. Norf. E. i. m. 176. ^ Inquis. Norf. 
 
 ' Chaiincy, 413. ^ Regr, Curteys, fol. 52. 
 
 VOL. I. H
 
 HHISI NG II AM. 
 
 Thu John nlway* M-ulcd wiili the* ann* of lii« fiiaiilv. 
 
 lie ftixxi tu the riulunii unci n(;rrcinrnit 
 uliicli Ills t'nilii-r hiui niiidi-, al In* i!<>iiig 
 nw ay U< .Mart If iJia Ml, u\\ whitli n|)|H-ur (rum 
 till- ntll * iiiailc III lilt fiitiu-r't lite Umc, in 
 li-U), «iiirli begin* lliut : 
 
 " The I'rofilt.CiiitomM, Sfn:icei,aHJ Ttnurti 
 " of I he .Vri/ior (>/' lihfinglinin, tnadr on 
 •• \\ t-tllifxiav bcforr the I'coit of St. 
 " DuMslan, in the IMh Yrar v/' King Ud- 
 •' ward ill. hiHO 1341. 
 
 •■ Memorandum, That ail tlie cummoiiers 
 " upon the commons of thi* town, both frct-hoUiers and copyholders, 
 " pnv hens, ogEr*. and dnvs works with their piutiuh, to the lord, except 
 ■• those that iiave liberty of fuldnse, and that all co[>yholders are 
 " obliced to have their >li<-ep in tlie lord's fold, from I'enlrcoil to 
 " St. Marlin." The iiiiitrtnl> (in money) and freerents were 4/. 'Zs. 
 2J. \q. and 3 roots of irinuir, of U/. value; <)j hens justly valued ut 
 7». 2rf. ; 17 capons valued ut \d. ob. each: 5 ducks valued at 10</. ; 
 day egi^s and more, valued at 3d. a hundred; 'i\'l days works in 
 
 autumn, the workmen to be maintiiined by the lord, valued at \d. a 
 day; 174 afternoon works in autumn, la. each, the workmen hav- 
 inj; no victuals; 25 days work with iheir carts and horses, and no 
 victuals allowed Uieui, valued at 'id each day; MO alibeies,' or as 
 many a.s will come; 183 journeys at plough, wiliuml victuals, if all 
 come in to do tiieirwork; and if they clo not, tluy must work half a 
 day for every day of ploughine, the whole valued at 7s. 3d. ob.; 170 
 davs work and a half in sharing; 174 days work in mowing, every 
 4 c)ay» valued at id. 15 haymakers to make it, a« the mowers cut 
 it, they being obliged to make and mow 5y acres 1 lood; tliewliolc 
 of cultmg and gi'ttiiii; up i^ valued at id. an acre ; 54 days to cut and 
 make the lord's wood, and to hnisli it l)efore Chriflinai ; 20 days to 
 pull the lord's hemp; 120 days work of a man and horse, every day 
 Valued at id.; 33 days work of a man, each worth I </. besides days 
 made uncertain, because when they do not plough or cart, they arc 
 to do otlier work as the lord pleases; but tltere are 220 works more, 
 of half a day e:i< h, value certain; 12 chickens one halfpenny each; 
 41 carriages to carry corn, wortli 2<></. oA. ; l(»C» <lays work in carting 
 out the muck; 41 days to carry the hay, value 2<kJ. ob.; 3 days to 
 cart the timber ; 14 loads of hay to t>e thriuhed, valued id. a load ; 
 14 lo!id> of corn to be thrashed, value 'Id. encii load ; 28 days to make 
 hurdles for the fold; 18 to clean aiKl repair tlic cow bings; and 10 
 to repair the horses' stalls, all whicii services were valued at 5/. 1 it. 
 9d. \q. 
 
 Uy this account we may see the difTerence of tiic value of things 
 then and now [ 173'i] in what a servile conditi<m the copyholders were, 
 and how grand Uic lords must be, who liod all works done without 
 any expense. 
 
 * The Extent or Cumpotitiun Roll 
 ' TlifK were |;rncral catling d*' 
 on wtuib the tcosolt utcd to go or not, with proviuooi and ale 
 
 they pleated, and hail tlicir n.imr, 
 TlifK were |;rncral carting day*, beciiine the lord ii>ed lo tre*t tlieui well
 
 B R I S I N G H A M. 
 
 53 
 
 This being as perfect an account as I ever saw of any manor, I 
 could not omit inserting it, and do not doubt its being acceptable to 
 some, though I must own, to others it may seem useless; however, 
 certain it is, that the quitrents of the manor have remained to this 
 day according to this composition. 
 
 In 1.349, Sir John,* and Maud his wife, settled it on Adam de 
 Buketon, parson of Yardele Hastyng, and Ralph de CrophiiU, parson 
 of Harpol, their trustees, to the use of tiiemselves for life, and then 
 of Edmund their son, and Jaiic his wife, and their heirs, upon which 
 settlement they inherited ; for afterwards this Sir Jo/iii Vevdon, 
 their father, married a second wife, viz. habell, one of the daughters 
 and heiresses of Sir Thomas Vise de Lou of Shelf hanger, Knt. on 
 which Isabell, in 13d.5,' he settled Martlesham, Stansted, SwiftUng 
 and Ntwbourne, Sax/ingham and Multon manors, and Shelfhanger 
 and Waketon advowsons, all which he entailed on themselves and 
 their heirs, remainder to Sj/mon Si/meon in fee, for divers uses ; but 
 by this settlement they descended to 
 
 Isabell,* their only daughter, married to Sir Imbert Noon of Shelf- 
 hanger, in whose possession they were in 1 391. 
 
 As to Brisingham, that reverted, for want of heirs, from Edmund de 
 Verdon, and Jane his wife, to Sir John I'erdon, their father, who 
 died about 1392, leaving 
 
 Margaret, his only daughter by his first wife, his sole heiress,' 
 who was lady here in 1396, and lived with her mother-in-law at 
 Shelfhanger, at whose death, according to the uses in the settlement," 
 the manor of Stansted, the manor and advowson of Chetburu, Stagen~ 
 hoe manor in Hertfordshire, Verdon s manor in Clipslon, this manor, 
 and others, came to 
 
 Sir John Pilkington, in right of Margaret his wife, who was 
 widow of Sir Hugh Bradshazo, and daughter and heiress of Sir John 
 Verdon; but Moulton, Shelfhanger, Sec. went to the Noons, in 
 3399 they settled this manor on themselves and the heirs male of 
 the said Margaret, remainder to Elizabilh, daughter of the said 
 Margaret, by Sir Hugh Bradshaw, her first husband. 
 
 This family ^ took its sirname from a town 
 
 which they were lords of in Lancashire, where 
 they were possessed of a great estate, as is 
 proved by the Escheat Rolls in the Tower, 
 and in particular by a grant of free-warren 
 to this very Sir John Pilkington, in all his 
 manors in that shire, in which twenty at least 
 are named; and there it is said, that this Sir 
 John was grandson and heir to Roger de 
 Pilkington, to whom that liberty was first 
 grauted in 1290, as being son of Roger, the 
 son of that Roger to whom the grant was 
 made. They always bore these arms. 
 
 In 1401, Sir JoHN,^ in an inquisition then taken, is said to hold 
 
 * Fin. Norf. 24 E. 3. L. 4, inter 
 niimer. 87, 88. 
 
 '' Kin. divers. Com. 4 K. 3, L. 6, 
 
 N. 14- 
 
 ' See Shelfhanger. 
 
 ' Accounts of the Manor. 
 ' Chauncy, fol. 413. 
 ^ Fin. divers. Com. i H 4, L 22, 
 N. 22. 1 Inquis. 3 H. 4.
 
 .4 HRISI N(; II A M. 
 
 liriuH^kam innnor of 'IJkomoi Mogbray lUrl-Miiiilial. («I»oi» imw 
 ui»«lti ■ • !>«o (vr* nmi n liiiir(]uarti-r, oiu- Ut- ami Imlf niiartrr of 
 ttliiiti MO* liicftarti tir tirnrtt't. of »huh John iMncattcr 
 
 1).. ' ' v» hull fuimfrlv wn» ./oAm/^ /''<y/uw»f>,* llmuull 
 
 ii . '. Iiulf a ftf ; II wn< tlu'ii lit-ld ot I'urtitit iiiu- 
 
 iiut, aiiti ilif IkmI |>.iut to Sir JiiMN ll<iM.\Rii, for lii!« |iai( of llir 
 tUluTv bv llir Ftii t'oiniiion, 3j. 4</. « jenr. In l-»<>.), th»- iiiiiiior Miis 
 kl for »«.-»tii year*, nl 'iAJ. jxr amniim ; the fi»ltrry m Reifdon for .U)*. 
 and (hat ill tiriumgkam (ot M*. tuort. 'Ilui Sir John dicil ulxjul 
 l-Ut'i, Icatin^ 
 
 Mahuaii.t, hi* widow, in po»se»sion,' »lio this year »ctllrd it 
 on Hi/mMtui and livtHtl l'Uk^iif;lvn, r.»«ir«. in tni»t that »hc should 
 ri rinij lit-c lih-, and nt h«'r dtiitli it should jjo lo Sir Johtt 
 
 l\ I, kilt. lurcldi>t son. lliiir bri'tlur, und to his hi-irs ; und 
 
 for want of turh, lo llif wod Eilmuiid and liolitrt in (nil, rfininndi-r 
 to tUizabttk, duughter of II tHiam liradshntr, Knl. This Margaret 
 livit) Hi a great age, and dii-d in 1436, leavini; the manor, according 
 lo the tint-, to 
 
 Sir John Pylkincton, Knl. her eldest »on, who bod it till 1*47,* 
 •n<l tli< n dvinc without is^ue, it went to 
 
 I.UMiND, Ins luxt brolht-r, w ho murrietl FAizabtth, daughter of 
 Thoniat lUiolhf, Knl. ut whose dealii 
 
 Sir liioMAS, his eldest »on, inherili'd ; he innrrie<l Margaret, 
 daughter o( Richard Harringloit, and in 145y ' he und Margaret hi» 
 wife, Ittlltam Hurringlon, Knt. and Elizabfth his wife, and Ar- 
 thur Vilkifns,toii, IcMed a fine of ihc manor mid advowsoii, 80 mes- 
 »uagt-», *KK> nert» of land, 40 acres of meadow, j<) of wihkI, and (»/. 
 rent, b) whiih, quit of the heirs of FMzabrth, it was set I led on Sir 
 'Jhoinui, riinainder lo Rogir I'Ukingtou, his brother, rcinaiiidir lo 
 Arthur I'llkington, then lo It liiiam Harriiigloii, then lo Juhti, bon 
 of Robert Pilkington, tLs<|. 'Ihis Sir Thumui, in 1450, was admitted 
 one of ihe Chamberlains of the hlichrqurr; he was very sledfnst to 
 the )'or/l-M/s, and all along in lhor<- civil wars look |>nrt with I'.dxcard W . 
 and suffered niutli for it. After the dralh of ihat King, and of Ed- 
 ■rarJ V. and Richard III. he wiis one of those who joined wilh the 
 Earl of Jjnco/ii, I^irl of Kildarc, Lord IaivcU, Sir Thomas lirou^h- 
 ton, and other ljanca\hire genlieintn, on the behalf of l^imbcrl 
 Simiifll, the counterfeit i'lantagcnrt, and lighting on his side nt the 
 battle of Stokt, near Sctcark, in 14h7, was there slain;* whereujwn 
 all hit Iniid* were forfeited In the Crown, and the year following were 
 granted to George Lord Strange,* son of J honia* StaiiUy Earl of 
 Derbf), and U) Ins heirs mule; iitagnihoe in Herfjordshire, the .seat 
 of till- I'llkingtons, and this manor, being among them. But not- 
 witlistaiiding this, in 14«>3 ini^uisilions were awarded into \orJotk 
 and Siilfnlk, ai at the death of Sir Thomat aforesaid, in which it was 
 found that 
 
 .Sir KooER Pilkington, Knl. was his son and heir, who in the 
 iiK'nn tune had i;ot his fallx-r's atlaiiider, und the grunt made to the 
 Lord Strange reversed, and now he inherited his |iatcrn.'d estuti' ; he 
 
 ♦ Account RoII» of the Minor. ' Fin. dirrrt.Com. 11.6, L.^. N. i il. 
 
 ' Kin. diterf. Com. leoip. H. «, L.i, ' Clwumv'* Hrrif. lol. 4ij. 
 N. y«. • Kk. *6 H. 6. >' Ku(. Pir. « II 7. Vaii unica.
 
 BRISINGHAM. 55 
 
 married ^/,-« daughter of Sir John Savage, Knt. He it was that 
 
 sU d\'uglu"ers"" 'J;'- ^' '" '^^''' '^'^ ^^^'^ "- ''-'^^'1 --S '- 
 Margaret, married to Thmas Pudsty 
 Cathekine, to John Allow, or Atthow. 
 Alice, to Edmund Saltmarch. 
 Elizabeth, to William Huntley. 
 Margery, to Htnry Fudsey. 
 Joan, to John Daniel of Daresburu, in Cheshire • 
 
 orthdr wives h'1 "f ''"''' P'"°^ '^' '"^"°^ ^"d ad;owson, in right 
 
 °he dauZe^ ' I "'T''' °/ """'^""'^ ^^ ^^e separate descenls'oT 
 
 fi,rdinth.'- ?'""""' ^-''''''^■*'"*=^^^e'">'P^''-'' but thus much I 
 
 In Ifi l'^""' Sf "'■'-'^OP'*^^. and other evidences,- that 
 
 n.r wK ' ?^ ^"'"'"''1' °^ *""'""' i" ^'i/'o/^-, ^vaslord of two 
 park, who, in 1550, purchased another part of 
 
 Sir KiCHARD Southwell, Knt. who had it of 
 
 of Vmoietv-'r °/"''f ""' ^^""S^'.V, Gent, by which he became lord 
 ot a moiety; he bought one of his Hrst parts of 
 
 o^^rKlS^^:^^:':^:^^"^'' ''- ^'''' ^^-S^'- -^ heiress to 
 
 had°a'pS ^'''°''^' ''^'^'''^''i-'^''^'''^^^'^'^ of Thomas JViat. Knt. ' 
 
 John Futter left his three parts, or moiety, to 
 
 dimru'eJ,' on" '°"' "'"' '"''''" '"'''"' settlements of it in I561, to 
 
 THovTf P,'*'''^^^ and Edmund Wiseman, who conveyed it to 
 
 k^l^»l V ^""^ ^l^'^Li'^M Phell.ps, who settled it on 
 
 tin. J . K ""''' ^•''"/ ^"' notwithstanding all this,^ when the 
 
 weretr,.Hf /'"'"' and fioW^ro, who purchased it of /ioAer^ 
 heinl I f A-^''^*'' "^r^'^r"'"^' '^\T Nicholas Bacou, Lord-Keeper 
 oE "artsf"^''' '" "'^°" ''^^ ^'*'^ ^«^ ^"^'-"J v-^t^d. As toE 
 
 Thomas,^ son oi John Daniel, sold his to 
 
 Christopher Coe, Gent, in 1528:* in 1535 
 
 John Atlow sold his to ' 
 
 cS" tt^^ld'tiT ' '"' " ^''' '''''' ^"^"^^^'^ ^^^^"p^'- °f 
 
 Sir Ralph Leicester of To/?, in 1561, sold apart to 
 
 £l?,rL^?''R'*'""'^-^''T^"^^'''^-^'^'^'^^'^''^h was settled on 
 r„.', i!^ « 7 Bacon, m order tor sale, as all the parts were. How 
 
 Sir Nicholas, and by him sold, with the advowson, to 
 S^Zl'^^ . <• p°V^"/n^' ^'"^ his feoffees, so. Sir A7c//o/«s tc 
 Eso Ihot 1 ,h ^'t'"^ Fulmerston, Knts. and .7o/i« BUverh.nset, 
 
 5 which rtn^hus':" "' """ *^"'' "" '"''^ ^'■^•'■^- '^«^' "'^ ^'^''^ 
 
 " M v?n.fk^'°f v'' ,^«"^'-*'"-o« and lete, of the noble Prince Tho- 
 mas Duke ot Norfolk, Earl-Marshal of En^la.d, Nicholas Le 
 
 Liyer s Reports, p. 220. ♦ ped. Fin. Pasch. 2^ H. «, N. 27.
 
 Afl DRISINGIIAM. 
 
 ** Strmg*. Riitutrti 1 I. Kilti. and John U .'. E«q 
 
 *• lnMtc«* to Uk- u*c o: .... -1 l>ulif, b» virtue of a I. — .r, mode 
 " bv Sir Snhotai li«com, Kot. Uird-lvrt-pcr of thr Great Seal of 
 " f. ' ' /' '.cii Aiutrfort, Francu Italtltro, and Edmund H'lte- 
 " m ' r tlit-ir purchatc* of the M-vt-riil |iart« of tint manor 
 
 " n ..111, uf Robert I hnigmertoH, It itlitim \i<rrri/f, Ralph 
 
 "I . Knl». I'hmmai Tr<^\ham, Ucmrif l.umlfi/t, L»qn. uud 
 
 •■ li^txrl t'ulttr, dent."' 
 
 ill MTo, t)u- Duke IcomhI it to Thoma> Kitson, ]Lm\. who kept 
 court in hit omo namr, by virtue of hii le«*e. 
 
 I.S74,* WitLiAM Dix»:, Kmj. und Ihomat CantereU, Gent, auif^n* 
 of Thomat Utc Duke of Sorf'olk for ten years to i-ome, kept their 
 fint II the style of which it a|>|H'iin>, that tlie maiior was 
 
 eiil.i 1 ■> : 
 
 On I'liiLLir llowAKn, Esq. eldest son of the siud Duke, other- 
 wise culled I'htllip l-jirl o( Siirrri/, and his heirs male, remainder to 
 hi* hrollier, Thomas HoirarJ, ll»ij. and his heirs mule, remainder to 
 Htllitun Howard, il<q. another brother, und his heirs male, re- 
 mainder to Ucnrtf Uotcard, Ei>q. unother brother, und his heirs male, 
 remainder to the riiflit heirs of Earl Vhillip ; and for want of such, 
 to Margaret Hurranl, his sibter, and her lieirs. 
 
 Ill 157^, Thomas Duke of Sorf'olk kept his first court, upon 
 whose alluinder it was forfeited to ine Crown, and 
 
 n>c CjcEEN kept court here; she craiited it to 
 
 William Cecil, knight of tlie Garter, and others ; whctlicr to 
 the use of the Uouard family, or no, I cannot say ; however, certxiin 
 it is, that it was in 
 
 Pii M.I.I F Earl of ArundfU and Surrri/ ; and, upon his attainder in 
 li8M, was vizcd !ii;ain bv the Queen ; 
 
 From which time it rtmuined in the Crown till the first of Jamfi I. 
 when 
 
 Thomaii, son of the said EnrI, wo-s re>torcd to his honour and 
 cftaie; and in that year, the Kini;, by letters patent dated June 17, 
 restored the manor and advowson to 
 
 TiioM AS ixrd Hos-aril, and Utnrtf Hoteard, to each a moiety. 
 
 In \(iii, HonKHT Cavsfikld of lx>ndon, Esq. trustee to nrtirtf 
 Earl of Arunddl, ni<>rti:a<;ed this manor and advowson, and the 
 lenementi Irland and Roui, to Sir Thomai Prnriiddock of Ual(, in 
 Southamplon.ihirr, Knt. and Sir llcnry IWdingficld of (Jibur^h, in 
 Sorjulk, Knt. with divers <ither larjje esliitcs, wliicli were afterwards 
 sold ; but those being insutiicient to pay the debts, it was afterwards 
 infi-ofTed in 
 
 John Dixe, alias Ramsrt/t, of If ickmrrf, in \orf'olk, and other 
 tru»lec», in order to pay the rest, whiili John left Ins brother'N son, 
 John, hit h<ir, who, in lM)«\ at the ri<iue>l ol' Hniri/ Hurrard, 
 second son to Utnrif late Earl of Arundrlt, absolutely grunted und 
 rclcfuKd to 
 
 Sir W'li.i.iAM I'l.ATf.Hs of Sotrrlrf, in Suffolk, Knt. and HarL 
 and Sir Richard (hnlotr ol' II fit i'landon, in Surrrt/, Knt. and their 
 licir* f.ir ever, (nmon;^ other*,) this inunor und advowson, to the in- 
 tent tliut they should take the debt absolutely on themselves, with 
 the lilic ; and soon after, the debt being paid, il uos conveyed to 
 
 ' Court-Copy. * Court Roll, among ihe evidences 
 
 of the Duke of Norfolk, anno 171I.
 
 BRISINGHAM. 
 
 57 
 
 The Duke of Norfolk, in which family it hath ever since conti- 
 nued; Charles Howard Duke of Norfolk, Earl-Marshal o( England, 
 being lord and patron at this lime. [1736.] 
 
 BOYLAND MANOR 
 
 Belonged to Alsius in the Confessor's time, and was in the Conque- 
 ror's hands at the survey, being by him committed to Godrie's' 
 custody, and was then very small. 
 
 It was after in the Earl of Norfolk, and by him united to the 
 great manor, and so continued till the first Sir John de Verdon, about 
 1240, conveyed it to Walter of Brisinghdm, to be held, by him and 
 his heirs, of the manor of Brkinghnm ; this Walter left it to IVilliam 
 of Brisingham, his son, and he to Walter of Brisingham, his son,' 
 who, with Margery his wife, sold it, in 1268, to Sir Richard de Boy- 
 land, Knt. from whom the manor took its name. The Brisingham 
 family were of good account, and had large possessions here and in 
 other places, as I find by several evidences. William, son of Walter 
 of Brisingham, lived in 1259; Richard, son of Rose of Brisingham, 
 in 1332; John, son of Robert of Brisingham, and Joan his wife, in 
 1349 ; all considerable owners in these parts. 
 
 In 1268, Walter of Brisingham sold to Richard de Boylond, 
 one messuage and a carucate of land, in demesne, in Brisingham, 
 Roi/don, and Shelf hanger, with all their homages, services of free- 
 men, and villeins, reliefs, &c. (for money,) and 80 acres of land, 
 that the said Richard granted to the said 
 Jf alter and Margery, in Pulham, being all 
 the land he had there. These arms were 
 always born by the Brisingham family, 
 though there were two younger branches 
 that bore different coats, viz. 
 
 Sab. two wings conjoined and elevated 
 org. 
 
 Arg. three mullets sab. between two bend- 
 lets engrailed gnl. 
 
 And according to this convev'ance, I read 
 in Curteys Register, fol. 52, that 
 
 Richard de BoYLOND,Knt. held a mes- 
 suage, 60 acres of land, 5 acres of wood, 1 of marsh, &c. of IVilliam, 
 son of Walter of Brisingham, and the said Walter holds them of 
 John de Verdon, by the service of a third part of a fee, and one 
 arrow, per annum, and the said John holds it of the earl, the earl of 
 the Abbot of Bury, and he of the King. 
 
 This Sir Richard was a very great man in Edzcard the First's 
 time, being justice-itinerant in this county, and owner of many great 
 lordships and estates, but how acquired we may easily judge, for 
 Mr. Weaver^ informs us from Stow, and other liistorians, that he 
 being one of the commissioners for the government of the kingdom 
 in the absence of Edward I. was, at the King's return, found guilty 
 
 ' Dim. Hiindret. de Dice. Terr, tunc iii. car. post ct raodo ii. silva. vi. 
 
 Regis quam Godricus servat. (Domesd. pore, et ii. acr. prati. 
 
 fol. 39.) In Bresingaham vii. liberi ho- ' Fin. Norf. lig. ix. No. 152. 
 
 alines Alsi comcnd. de xxx. ac. terre : ' Page 367.
 
 M BRISINGHAM. 
 
 of manirt^l t-ormpiion in llic .vliiiini>tr»tion of jutticr, and fined 
 4i»"<i iiinrkt for tut intolrrublr r\(orti<>iu. Aftfr thi» he retiitd 
 iiilli<-r, Mlirrc he built a tiublr m-uI, Kurix>iiiitic(l mtiiIi n lur^e inuut, 
 mIikIi lie* <-<>iitiiiuc-<l ruuiui (III- urrhnrilt, |Miik, iind nil his liiiuU, llir 
 rfrn.li lit ul mIiicIi inav In- m-cii lit lhi> (lav ; [l?*!''!] but lii> gr<'nl<-<t 
 \«'irk \\.\i tlinl •iibli-rniiit-tiU'i VHiilt, ur uri°h, hum rtniaiiiiiif;, 
 nifiilv callfd iIm- Con Dt I r, mIiicIi »u< iitud«- witJi a ditubic (i< 
 both fur bnthiiig and fur « rtintiiiiial tuiitily <>f Mau-r to thcte moult. 
 It i< titiiatr abuut half a furlong SW. from tlic- houM*, tind is \cry 
 rrmatkjblf, bi-inij arila-d uvfr vcrv stroiiu, cciIimI very »inoolli, and 
 pi«M (I at tht' botluin ; ihf mouth of it it about lliict- feet Midi-, but 
 \>lirii you enter U-vond the rubbish \vhic-li is thrown in, u man niny 
 fdiilv walk ui>iit;lil ; it giK-i in a slrai:;ht line nUiut ;)t) or -lo roifs 
 ill leiii{th, niid near llie furlher end is a largr mcII, exceeding deep, 
 b<-yond Mliieli iheie is a wall, and there the slrtueht line of the vault 
 ends. Thi-i well omlinually overtlowt, to that the waler runt about 
 a foot deep the wliole length of the vault, occationed bv ilt outlet 
 being uliiiost stopiK-d up with rubbisii, or else it would not run above 
 two or three iiunes in <le|>tli. W hen you have entered this vault 
 about four ro<U, there are two niouths of other iirchet, one on the 
 riglit hand and another on the left, from whieh the water conti- 
 nually Hows into the great arch, so that tlie three currents have one 
 disclinige only ; wiial it in Uiete two I know not, for though the 
 moutht stem large, the arrliet are not big enough for one to enter. 
 Hiirht over the well, in the cIom-, is a hill, raist-d (us I take it) 
 to determine the place where the well it; when the wuter runs out, 
 it comes directly into a stiuarc bath, over winch there was lately a 
 bathing-hoiiv of brick, wild a summer-house joined to it, ilie ruins of 
 winch ilill [17 WiJ remain. Out of this the water runs into such 
 another square bath, winch wat designed n« a common one, it being 
 never covered ; from this it a small conveyance, which seems lo have 
 Ut-n arched over formerly, that leadt directly into the inout that sur- 
 rounds the orchard. Whether this water was heretolore remarkable 
 lor any medicinal virtue 1 know mil, hut if not, nm apt to think 
 that tliu oveillowiiig spring induced hiiii to settle here, a spring of 
 liny kind Ix-ing very rare in this part, there being little water for u.se, 
 but what coinea from (Kinilt and moats, which might be iJie reason 
 he bettowed such a cost on it. The water is very cold, and in the 
 extremity of frotl never frit-zet, though the motion is but littU-. 
 'i he |K-ople that come In tee this plu<'e have pulled ilown most of 
 Ihe riiiiK, to throw into the vault lo ln-nr the sound, which is very 
 ureal, and continues long. The im .idow is called the Conduit 
 Alfailotr, and it part of the estate of the Duke of Norfolk. [I7.')().] 
 
 In \'i>i.'>, he Ii.hI a charier' for free wan en in all hit demeans 
 here, and in /> i//»y in Sotjolk, and LhrdcUoii in Suffolk ; about 
 tliit time he added lo the manor divert lands and tenements in 
 this Low n, winch he pur<lia»cd of Robert, son of Hojrrr I^ Brrtun, 
 and had them selthd on himself, and Maud Ins wife, and their 
 lieiri, all which* are t|Hiified in llie d<-ed enrolled in the King's- 
 Ik-nch. I am apt to think that S\r Uichard w.is .son of liogrr de 
 IIju/'IiiJ, and .^Itce his wife, whicli Roger uut deud before XtSii, for 
 
 ■ Cart 4 E. I. ' HIii. Trin. ij E. i. Rot. t.
 
 BRISIiNGHAM. r>o 
 
 then ' yllicc \v;is his widow ; she lived some years after, * being 
 buried in the churcli of the Carinelitc friars at Norwich, which was 
 not founded till 12(J8. In l'i95. Sir liickard, ')o\n\.\y with his second 
 wife Ekn, daughter of r/iilip de Co/vile, had this manor, with 
 others in Norlhwakham, Tivetahall, JVilhu and Ringstead, and lands 
 in Osmondeston, Hemenhnle, Tasburg/i, n'aclcton, and Gissiiig ; and 
 John ' was his son and heir, twenty-four years old, who sot)n after 
 succeeded ; and, in 1314, settled it* on himself and Emme his wife, 
 and their heirs, with the lands that belonged to it in lioydon, Slielf- 
 fiaiiger, and IVinfarthing. Me had a brother named Richard,^ who, 
 in 1307, was lord o{ Skotisfiam : in 1321 he sealed with a knight on 
 horseback, holding a shield with his arms thereon ; he left it to 
 
 Sir Richard de Boyland, who, in 1340, held it at a third part 
 of a fee, jointly with Mdud dc Bot/land, his mother-in-law. I have 
 a deed in 1350, to which he is a witness : at his death it came to 
 
 Sir John Bovland, of Bot^land Hull in Brisingham, his son 
 and heir, who died without issue male, leaving only one daughter, 
 3Iaud/ married to 
 
 John Lancaster, senior, Esq. of Brisingham, who was of a 
 good family in this country ; IVilliam Lancaster, Esq. was a tenant 
 of this manor in 1378. This John was seized of it in 1401, holding 
 it at the fourth part of a fee, but was charged at half a fee for his 
 relief; he added to it by purchasing Filbys manor, and uniting it to 
 this, as he did the tenement IrlancTs and all the services thereto 
 belonging, which was of his own inheritance, all which, at his death, 
 he left to 
 
 John Lancaster, Esq. of Brisingham, who married Elizabeth, 
 daughter and coheiress of Sir John Braham of Braham Hall in 
 Catiziade, in Suffolk, Knt. He by his last will, dated the 20th of 
 Nov. 1469, willed to be buried in St. John's church,' in Brisingham,' 
 leaving the manor to 
 
 Elizabeth, his wife, for life, with the manor of Heyjcood Hall in 
 Diss, and all the lands thereto belonging in Reydon, Shtlfhanger, 
 Fersfield, and Burston, all which John Lancaster, senior, his father, 
 had settled on Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knt. Gilbert Debenkam, and 
 other trustees, to the use of his will ; and at the death of Elizabeth, 
 the aforesaid premises were to descend to IVilliam, his eldest son, 
 except Filby's tenement in Brisingham, and Roydon. John and 
 Henry, his sons, were to have all his share in Boyton Hall manor, in 
 Capel in Suffolk, with lands there, and several towns thereabouts ; 
 and after the death of Elizabeth his wife, and IVilliam his son, they 
 were to have Filby's tenement, and his part of the manor of Braham 
 Hall in Catiwade, to them and their heirs. Elizabeth lived till 
 1478, and then died seized of this,'' and of a tenement, and 14 acres 
 
 2 Plit. Assis. 41 H. 3. Rot. 35, dors, east end of the south isle, the lattices 
 
 ♦ Weaver, 805. of which were pulled down by license, 
 5 Esc. 24 E. I.N. 60. when tlie seats were new made in 
 ' Fin. 8 E. 2. L. 2. N. 138. 1638. Petition of the Inhabitants, pen. 
 ' Cartular. de Metyngham penes me. 
 
 T. M. Gent. ' Regr. Jekkys in Archiv. Regr. 
 
 • MSS. Hcrne. Norwic. Pt. 2da, fol. 180. a. 
 9 I suppose in the chapel that be- - Court Rolls. 
 
 longed to his manor, and was at tlie 
 
 VOL. I. I
 
 (iO UK IS IN (J 11 AM. 
 
 hcW of Frri^^/i/ n illt-il /{oj^'s, ami of Uu- i« m nimt IrlantTt 
 
 in Ftiititld ixnA I (i.wilhnll ils •^■rvicfs; and li illuim l.an- 
 
 caitfr o( lioi/luii i HiiU iii linsin^htim, wiis Iht win un<l lifir. Il 
 M.iMu» khf niarrK-<t uiie L'ator lur lu-r ^c■l-oll(l husl)aii<l, lur by tliiit 
 name the is fjumi to die seixt^l.' 
 
 'Hii* William dm inurrit-d FAiuibtth, dauglitcr und colieirnu of 
 William Sotbtam of Suffolk, Csn. und ufler her deitlli, to * Eleanor, 
 widuw of Udtrif \ooii of Shel/haiiger, Esq. daughtiT of Derby of 
 i'heihire, wlui survived liiin, niid after married to Robert If i/nt^fifld, 
 Micj. whom she siirvivc<l ; und dving in IjOO, was buried by Hiiiry 
 Soon, lier hrst husband, in Shetj'han>'ir cliuncel. IJy her he had no 
 issue; by his tirsl wife he hud one daughter, named Jir/ir</ir/n, wiio 
 married 
 
 EnwARD UoLTON, Esq who had two sons, 
 
 ^VILL1AM IJoLToN of lioi/land Hall, to whom he gave this 
 manor, with IrtuiKr* and Rose's tenements, und ail their rents and 
 services in I'enfield, lirisinghtim, Raydon, and Shelf banger, by will 
 dated I5lli Jiiltf, 1.028. 1 o Thomas, his other .hoii, ho gave Uei/- 
 xcood Uiill mmuit m J)lss, mnl /f iH/iir/AiW, wliieh went off witlj 
 hiui, as in that manor nt large. This HiUiam married Elizabeth, 
 sister and heiress to Hitliam Curion of Carlelon iu yorfolk, clerk, 
 by whom he had 
 
 rKANCis BoLTO.N of Burston, Gent, who was lord here in 1371.' 
 He marrietl .-lime, daughter and heiress of John Pi/karell of London, 
 and Anne his wile, daughter of John Fnfietd u( Liui, bv wlioiii he 
 had 
 
 Edward Bolton, who dying without issue, the manor and tene- 
 ments aforesaid descended to his four sisters, Rulh, Elizabeth, Susan, 
 and Judith. 
 
 Ji DiTH married Edtrard Rochester of Thetford, Gent, whose son 
 Richard joined with Eustace Tirnl, Gent, who marrie<l another, 
 and the other sisters and their husbands, and sold it tu 
 
 Phillip Earl of Anindtlt, \»liowa9 possessed hereof in 1583, 
 together with Rose's and Irland's. At tins time the site of this 
 manor, with the demeans, whereof part was in the park of Kcnning- 
 hall, was let to the keeper of the old park, for his dwelling, and so 
 had l)een ever since 1371, before which time it was liired by the 
 Norfolk family, if not mortgagid to them by H'illiam Bollon, and 
 Elizabeth his «ife, though llierc wiis no title completed till now; 
 from this time it continued in the Norfolk family, the present duke 
 being now lord. [173G.J 
 
 MIDDLETON'S MANOR in Brisincham 
 
 Had its beginning in l'27G, when Higona de I erdon and her partners 
 held it, together with lauds in llapcton, at one fee; this soon 
 returned to the capital manor, except those parts which her partners 
 held, of which 
 
 John de Lynn * hud a fourth part of n fee, and 
 
 John de Boyland had anulher fourth part, which was forced 
 
 ' EsclK-ai RoIIj 10 E t. No. jo. » l..h. MSS. Herald, pen. T. M. 
 
 • Lib. Cage Kfgr. Norwic. • bee FtnJicldManer.
 
 B RISING HAM. Gl 
 
 to pay a relief, as lialf a fee, it being charged with the relief of that 
 part which was John de Lynn a, whose part came from him to a 
 brancii of the 
 
 Brisingham family, but not that which had the part afterwards 
 Boi/land's, for it remained in that family till it went to three heiresses, 
 married to 
 
 Henry Baille, Peter de Mayners, and David Cumyn, as 
 an inquisition of all the knights fees in Norfolk and Suffolk informs 
 nie : 1 take them to have been the heiresses of 
 
 Thomas de Brisingham, to whom King Edward I. for his 
 great services, gave divers lands iii Normandy. In Edward tlie 
 Second's time,' 
 
 Hugh du Pool of Brisingham seems to have had it; and in 
 1321, 
 
 Thomas DU Pool,* his son, who left it to 
 
 Henry de la Pool, his son, who, in 1331,' levied a fine of this 
 manor, which at that time consisted of 9 messuages, 218 acres of 
 land, and other great parcels in Brisingham, Lopham, Fersfidd, 
 Shelflianger, and Jtot/don, together with the advowson of Shelfhanger, 
 by which it was settled on flenru and Margaret, and their heirs, in 
 tail. In 1338 ' they had aliened it to 
 
 William de Middleton of Brisingham, and /irt^eMiis wife, 
 and John Howard and others ; and it seems as if this Isabel was 
 their daughter and coheiress, and had this part settled on her, as the 
 other part of their estate seems to be on her sister, that married 
 Bosiille. However, by an inquisition, 20th Edward III. it is plain 
 that 
 
 William de Middleton held it for life, by the fourth part of 
 a fee, and that he was to pay no relief, because it was charged on 
 Boi/land's part, which was to pay 45s. for both, as half a fee; thus 
 it continued to 1359, and then^ the said William and Isabel, aviA 
 all other parties concerned, joined in a fine, and conveyed it 
 absolutely to 
 
 Mauy de Brewse Countess of Norfolk, and her heirs, at which 
 time the extent of it was 118 acres of land, 4 of meadow, 24 of 
 wood, 20 of pasture, and GOs. rent, lying in Bresingham, Shelf- 
 hanger, Disse, Jf infarthing, Burston, Roydon, and Carleton by 
 Bnkenham. This Mary was widow of IVilliam de Breose, or Drewse, 
 lord of Brembre in Sussex, second wife to Thomas de Brotherton 
 Earl of Norfolk ; she afterward married Sir Ralph Cobham, Knt. 
 wiis daughter of IVilliam lord Roos,^ and died in 13Cil ; but how 
 this manor went till 1392,* I cannot say ; but in that year 
 
 Ralph or RoBiiRT de Champayne, and Beatrix his wife, 
 sold it to 
 
 Sir Robert Barney, Knt. and others, and his heirs. In 1401 
 Sir John Howard, Knt. had it, as appears by his letting the 
 fishery belonging to it, lying by ihe Fen Common, to Sir John Pil- 
 kington, Knt. then lord of the capital manor. In 1425 
 
 ' Inqiiis. 10 E. 3. * Fin. Norf. E. 3, Li. 5, No. 160. 
 
 ' Carta pen. me. "• ^ Vincent against Brook, p. 344. 
 
 » Fin. Norf. E. 3. Li. i. No. 136. ♦ Fin. Nort. R. z. L. i. No. 34. 
 • Plita. Term. Trin. A° 13 E. 3.
 
 0-i Mil I > I N (i II \ M. 
 
 Sir John Cahb«>m:ll,' by liiii will, provwl March :W, Rave every 
 une uf hii> cxivulor* It) marks, lo In- receivrtl out nl' the |iri)(il« of 
 ihc two purtj of \m inuiioni of llrriiiigham, 8cc. after wliicli 1 fiml 
 nothing uf it iiiiirr, m> tiiul it nliews m if it was piin-liuM-d by I'll- 
 kiitgtoH uf tlMr»c ex<-cuton; but liie ct-rtiuiity o( it 1 dare not hvuikIi, 
 tikough well know thut some way or other it vms now united lo the 
 capitul uian<.>r. 
 
 FILlUIiS MANOR 
 
 llud it:i site in thu porinh, tliough half of its lands and rents were in 
 RoyJoH ; it was port of the great manor till the tirtt Sir Johit Vcr- 
 doH gave it to his 
 
 Chaplain, who left it to his son 
 
 Hiicco; SKKin aHer it was in the 
 
 MoRi.tv-., iordj of Roydoii, who held it of Sir JoA/i I'trdon, lord 
 of Uriuiighiim, by the annual payment of '2s. and 20*. scutage; and 
 in tliein it continued till 
 
 Sir KoBEKT DE MoRLEY gave it to 
 
 Thomas, son of Mutthtu ih Morlcy^ who was of ayoungrr braneli 
 of this family ; Tlwiiun and his heirs were to bold it of Sir Uohtrt 
 and his heirs, l>v the service of bd. a year, lo be paid over un<l above 
 the old services, and (i<f. a yx'ar for ever lo the church of Httt/don, to 
 find a candle burniiii; there; and the said Robert held it of llriMiig- 
 ham manor, by the mtviccs aforcMiid : at this lime the demeans 
 were 30 acrrs, and there were several copyholders and cotlageni be- 
 longing to it. From lliis family it went lo the Filbics. 
 
 John de Filuik w;is lord in 1335, and |)uid ;) roots of ginger, 
 or \d. per annum, lo the capital lord of lirisingham, in lieu of all ser- 
 vices. In I Wit) 
 
 John Lancaster, who was lord of Tini/land manor, had pur- 
 chased all thai part of this manor that laid in lirisinghnm, and joined 
 It lo his manor of lioi/laiid ; but the part that laid in Rot/don in ItUO 
 
 Richard Sellers ' held of the manor of (UssinghaU, bv the ser- 
 vice of -iJ. lid. per annum, which wa.s soon after piirchiise<i by Lan- 
 casler, and joined to lioyland, witli which it continued, till 
 
 John Lancaster, junior, of lirisingham, tsq. gave it I'V will lo 
 
 John Lancaster, Gent, his younger son, who, in \b'l\, sold 
 it to 
 
 \\ ii.LiAM Bolton, Gent, and so it was joined again to lioi/- 
 land manor, wiili which it continues at this day, though the demeans 
 are sohl frohi ii. [I73().] 
 
 THE PRIOR V MANOR 
 
 Was taken out of the great manor in the beginning of Edward the 
 Second's reign, when 
 
 Sir John ue Verdon granted to the I'rior of St. James the 
 Apoille, of Oid Ilokcnham, and the convent there, divers lands, 
 teneiiieiils, rents, and sersicet, of the fee of the said .lohn, in the 
 town ol liri>ing/iam, ail which the King hceii^ed, Ihe prior, convent, 
 
 ' Rfg. Hymingr, par. idi, fu. ij4. ' Rot. Cur. de Gijjinghall. 
 
 * Rrgr. Cunr)>, lo. $1. • .Mon. Ang. loio. ii. to. J74.
 
 Mil i SING HAM. 
 
 and cniKiru liu-tr, |o | of liiiii, ufli-r «^ 
 
 Ihrill tti tliat lioUM-, ti> 'li nti m r«- <il In, 
 
 «liuli Uttharil, ioii of UuiiTt >t ~- n\. 
 
 Tin- vnltu- ol till* iiiiinur in . . /. ob. in niiilf. ui 
 
 b<^i<lr« the <li-ii|i-Blii ; llir wtiulc tcili|M>riili(ii-« ol ti»r { 
 
 Inxrti ut ^M. us ap|ican by ii luKulioii ■•> •)'• f'>- viri i>i ;..' ....,,,.,.- 
 
 in I4ltv.' 
 
 It continual in thii Iiuum* till it> (Iuvoiuiimii , 
 Fruiii mIiii-Ii tiiiir It rriiiiiiiMtl in (In- (!touii till I5'>7.' wIm-ii 
 PiiiLLir niid Marv, liy ' I it in 
 
 Thomas Cjivmis of /^,. ; i », iiamM^nsi 
 
 of ImhiIoh, ^MMit. to \tf hilil by icAliy only in Irer nK-t-aj^c, m» of tin- 
 
 niniiur of Eatl Liritiuruh lu Kent. lu u few yviwi> liutc tiK-y Mil«i 
 
 it to • 
 
 KonriiT nnd Francis Buxton of T^bbtnJuim, in Sorfolk; and 
 
 ttx-v, in lyio. to 
 
 Hdmind M<>\u»: of /' ^ ' M , lu, in I Vdl, to 
 
 'lllOM A< liow \UII fl / I lO(K(, kfl it to 
 
 Itoiii II r How \Hii III liurUoM, III* Hjn, mIio, with bit ft^ffvc, 7'Ao> 
 tnii\ ll,tricif i>\' Ijomlon, Ucnt. convrvctl it to 
 
 Koui.Rr i I o w A R i> of '/ jf fr/M'/iAam, iii» H>n and brir i \\\\% Rohttt, 
 l-'-'i'f '.•», Hil.'J, »«ild It to 
 
 i 'VAs lloMARu ol ItuniuH, hi* brollK-r, whoic daiii(liirr und 
 hciri'» iiinrrii'd Mr. IJotee ; •he in her widowhood |>um<-<1 it to the 
 liriuf^liMt, 
 
 Mr. John Rrim.i.oi: briiii{ ilu- lu*l mtdc of that family tliat ea- 
 joyi'd It, wln><M- daughter murrM-d 
 
 Mr. KoBKRT Unuk of A'f>iMi'>/'A<i//, the preirnt lord, who now 
 p75<)] hnth (he whole manor, ami jmrt of the deinenni : * llie other 
 |utrt, callt'd I'rmr't ImuJi. Iviiie ill Crotj^ati in Frrttitld. and liri- 
 tim^ham, wrn* ~ ' • 'ly llie /' 
 
 diMded irtlo psu. , liv .Mr. J 
 
 Jarlhii, 'iM'r*, liv chviT* |MT«,)n>. (I'.^'i.j 
 
 i'oi ' 111 ihi' |>ri<ir< uliii ui II' tiiiil'-, Ml' iiiiiliT /tfitvftAaM 
 
 Priory . 
 
 THE Crs-TY>\!s or THrsi \i \\(>U> 
 
 ■rr «« fidlow, ri:. 
 
 TJie tint* nrr at the lord* will, nnd tiie voy !» to th<- 
 
 ridett »on : tin- ten<iiu* lia\e liberty' to pull •: .iUt their 
 
 copvhtdd hou*e«, to fell and cut down wood and timber on llie eopy- 
 
 bolf), without li(^ '• :' ■■ • ! • ' 'I munmr ' ' 
 
 •nd timber, on lli< ir <•» 
 
 ^y lu Uig c!uy and tuil, uud 
 
 Cli 
 
 I liApiul, nixl li.i'l 
 
 of . .1 ll l* .1 Ic I !■ 'f % , 1 
 
 belong* • manor called 
 
 I 
 
 ii. d< Bokeiv 
 
 Vi K«ai. Ariiia(. J t4mMri»,jtr4ki, 
 
 . Gan.fe.io.*. 'hJ, iin^rt Tmyi Grtn, 
 
 a. aixl ■ i<.
 
 di RRISINGIIAM 
 
 Tin: KLC1X)KY MANOlt. 
 
 Tlie cHstomt uf wliicli nrc the Mine a* the oUirr inauor-, ivropt liiu, 
 ihut the tt-naiili cannut Hiute or pulldown their c'«>|>>hi)i(l huutcs 
 Hithiiut lircnx.'. 'IIk* t;lcl>o or dcnu'tiui, in /w/tran/ the riiinl's time, 
 wen- 4<1 acre<; and in l.'>34, 51 ui-ri'ii and u hull', but miikIi In-ing 
 ' u> be heJil i'\ ■■( c-Kurl-rull, lhc_v ure uuw rcdiiecd to 
 
 .'Micm. The ^' (' alwovit hath, und now euniinuc* Willi 
 
 the eupital manor. 
 
 Ainu's llookt. Trntlit. I Sifnodah. I Archd.Procur.'* 
 15 O 1 lO O I "o 'i O I O 7 7 t>i. 
 
 'Sorcc. atiil Lin. Taia. 
 'J t uuirk-i. 
 
 1301, 2 cal. Ffbr. Thomas Hickt/i/ng was presented. 
 
 130*2, Soul. Sow' Bo^o tic Cnorilc, uiias CucuiiUe, nccolile ; 
 Thomas iik Verdon, patron. 
 
 l.)|(j, 4 Don. F(br. 'Jhonias of Oxford, prusl ; Atirt I)K Hano- 
 Ma Cuunte&s of Norfolk, tor this turn, ui> guardian to Sir John 
 t'rrdon. 
 
 1330, 7 cal. Apr. Thomas de la Vole, clerk; Sir John ^'r.RDON, 
 Knt. 
 
 1330, enl. Dec. Jolm de Clipstoiit.^ Ditto. 
 
 IJ:11, eal. Aug. Robert de L'lijjiloiie* priest, at the resignation of 
 John de i'dpiloue. Ditto. 
 
 133y, 4 Febr. /^i/y;/i,M)n of .Sir Ralph dc Crophitt, Knt.; Sir John 
 LE VERDOt'N, lord of liricklcsworth. 
 
 1341, 29 May, He n.'sigiied in favour of John dc Crophill, clerk. 
 Ditto. 
 
 I.'MI, 4 Aup. this John resigned, and the aforesaid Ralph dc 
 Crophill, accolile, succeeded him. Ditto. 
 
 I.14'2, 'Jl June, Ralph changed with John Twetitimark,foi JVanop 
 iu Yorkshire, Ditto. 
 
 I.'WjI, 31 July, Johnde Roucebtf, priest;" Sir John Vehdo.\, Knt. 
 
 13»)8, 17 Aug. Robert de Roki/ngham, aerolite. Ditto. 
 
 1408, 17 Nov. Richard Farthingho, priest; Sir John Pylking- 
 Tos, Knt. 
 
 14'2'2, Richard IValdegrave.' 
 
 1457, 12 Mai/, John lintton ; Thomas Pylkincton (Sciitifer.) 
 
 1457, n Oetob. John Topclnj), cunon (I suppose of 0/(/ WoAai- 
 luim;) ions Paston, Esq. 
 
 * He had alio a meUicty of Shelf, in his tliiii), and of the regularity of hit 
 
 hanger. life and conversation. He dunged thii 
 
 ' This John de Clipstone wai insti- rectory, with this Robert, for Bnnton 
 
 iMted in I J jo, cal . Dr(rm. ; being an acco- in Lincoln diocese, 
 lite only, and very young, lie had a dis. • One of both hu names was Preben- 
 
 |ienulion from the bishop fur his non- dary of Litchfield about this time, 
 residence, with license not to l>c obliged ' OncoftMlh his names was Rector 
 
 to lake liracun's or priest's oiden, on of Harlow in Kstcx ij6i, and Prcben- 
 
 condition he was ordained siibdcacun dary of Brampton, in (he church of 
 
 Within a year alter his inslilutiun, and Lincoln, in 1)71. 
 
 that at the end of every year he sliould ' Hediedin 1447 j hil tvill is in Regr. 
 
 certify ibc tnshop wlut progress he made Betias, fo. 44.
 
 BRISINGHAM. 65 
 
 1461, 19 March, Nicho/as NaWe, diaplain. John Paston, Esq, 
 
 1477,^ 4 Mai/, John Nabbe, accolite 011 tlic death of l^icholas; 
 Thomas Pylkinoton. 
 
 1482, Thomas Bntcoke, on Nabbe's lesignaUon. Ditto. 
 
 1493, 18 Sept. Thomas Smcthurst, priest, on Bulcolce's death; 
 Roger Pylkington, Esq. 
 
 1506, 20 Jpr. Henri/ Taifleour, on Smethurst's death; Sir Richard 
 AsHTON, Knt. 
 
 1539, 23 Nor. Thomas Bleverhasset, A. M. Margaret Pud- 
 DESSY, widow, the eldest of the daughters and heiresses of Roger 
 Pylkington, Esq. deceased, true patroness of tliis turn. 
 
 Thomas Briggs,'' clerii, on whose deprivation in 
 
 1554, Q8 Jiili/, William Storme, priest, was instituted; Robert 
 FuTTER, Gent. 
 
 1557, Octob. 27, Storme resigned, and Thomas Goodwt/n, LL. B.* 
 succeeded. Ditto. 
 
 1504, 24 Mai/, Sir John Bardolph, clerk; Sir Nicholas Bacon, 
 Lord-Keeper. 
 
 1569, 3 Dec. William Jloulden, M. A. Bishop, by lapse. 
 
 1570, 22 .Jan. IVilliam Pecket, clerk, on Iloulden's resignation; 
 Thomas Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 1579, 3 Feb.' William Pecket; Phillip Earl of S/z/vn/. 
 
 IOI8, 1 Mai/, Edmund Baker, A. M. on Peckct's death; Edmund 
 GooDEN, by grant of the turn, from Jmie Countess of Jntndell, 
 and Thomas Earl of Anindcll. He died in 
 
 1667, and the 17 th Febr. Francis Tilnei/, A. M. was presented by 
 William CAMELLof Diss in Norfolk, by grant of this turn. 
 
 1715, 23 Sept. The Rev. Humphri/ Clayton, A. B. the present 
 [1736] incumbent, was presented, on Francis Tilncy's death, by Wil- 
 liam Clayton and Thomas DwYER, clerk, patrons for this turn. 
 
 The following religious persons had temporalities here, which were 
 thus taxed in 1428.^ 
 
 The Prior of Kerseys at \'2.d. 
 
 The Abbot^of Sibtons (being part of Friers manor in Shelf hanger, 
 that extended hither) at Qs. 8d. 
 
 The Prior of Bokenham's at 26s.' 
 
 ' Besidethese, the Prior of St. John Baptist's *Co7K/na?/f7ry of the 
 Hospitalers of St John of Jerusalem at Kerbrook had an annual pay- 
 ment of ]d. out of 7 acres of land lying in Thwcyt hamlet in Fersfield 
 and Brisingham, which was held iVee of that house by the said pav- 
 ment, 3 acres lying in Longland in Fersfield, and 4 acres in Oldfield 
 and elsewhere in Brisingham and Fers/ield. This land is now [1736,] 
 owned by Francis Blomefield, clerk. 
 
 The Church here was much decayed, as should seem by the 
 
 * He died intestate, and was buried ' He obtained a union at the same 
 here. Regr. Gelour. time to hold Fersfield; he seems to be 
 
 ^ Before the Dissolution, he was a a son of the first WtMiani. 
 preaching friar of the convent in Nor- ' Taxat. Relig. 10. 30 b, 40 a 
 wich, and was deprived by Q^ieen Mary ' i6j. in the Lincoln, and 101. in the 
 
 for being married. Norwich taxation. 
 
 ♦ He was Official to the Archdeacon • Cart. pen. me. 
 of Norfolk and lived mui;h atMatishall.
 
 «{ UK ISI NC; II A M 
 
 ribuil.lii»ml \inb\S\f liv^rr Puking- 
 
 tOM Km. lo: '"' •■"• '" »'l>"<" over till* 
 
 wr»t door ol" Uu* lowiT , tjUttftfring tlu- nrmi u( I enion, on the other 
 iiHe of »»hich i» n single owt of »onic iKiu-faclor lo tin- Ixiilding, 
 whicli wai uIm> in the cliurch wiiidowt, Uiouf^li now lost, unci is, arg, 
 a 4 1 . ./. lMtu«-< n tlirii- i ' ' _:■. itum-*! tab." 
 
 \\ i! i( wu^ Im-'JU!) ti\ ivr<l not to M-e it (iuitlicd, for 
 
 II Wiis ui't • r . .4> tiic ilalc on the norlli "■idr of the 
 
 navc ^still n-i;, -tons. Anion;' Mr. /^r Nnr'i |>ii|itT» 
 
 I find, that against tlie nortli wall i»f llii* cliiintvl, ut the up|M r fiid 
 ihfn-of, was ii fair niisod monunicnt, once iidorned with two Inir |>or- 
 Iraiturr*, and cicutcheon* of brui«, bul now all n-nved, with the epi- 
 tnphs; lit- ol>s«r\cd that the inhnbitiints told liiiii, it was a knight of 
 the family of tin- I'ilkiiij^tuHS.' Aiul i^ Mr .tmtii'i book it is »iiid, 
 that llu-rt- is a fair mouunuut, luiviiv^ iti brasses taken u\v;i_v, «Teel«-d 
 for a I'tlkin^tuii. Now 1 take it, that this Sir li'tgtr I'ilkiiiatun and 
 his wife were buried under it, the tradition still reinaining that it wtu 
 the tomb of the builder of the church ; it is now [ I7;5<)J taken down, 
 and the top stone laid level with the (loor, that it might not hinder the 
 unit'ormitv of llie alliir rail*, the steps of which half cover the stone. 
 
 Tile building is very neat and uiiiforin, having a nave, two isles, and 
 south porch, all covered with lead; a line loflv scjiiare tower, with a 
 tunable ring of five bclU; the chancel is tiU-d, whi«-li was not rebuilt 
 with the church, it In-ing much more ancient. Here are but few 
 stones, und tliosc that had brass are all disrobed. In the windows 
 the following cuata still remain, rt:. In ihc south isle, the arms of 
 Iturif abbey, and arg. three pallets g«/. on a bend uih. tJirec estoils 
 or. In the north windows of the nave an- / erdon't arms; an«l in a 
 north-isle w iiidow, Crrifi, or Morlri/. Those that follow are now lost, 
 •SVa/riand Hutcarri, lirolkfrton, Ujf'o rd uiui litek, I eity, Sfgrave,l\w 
 EaU Angles, and .St. George t. In the chaacel are tiie following in- 
 scriptions : 
 
 On a black marble ; the arms and crest of 
 TUney, arg. a chevron between three griffins heads erased gtiJ. 
 Crest, a griffin's head. 
 
 Sub hoc Marmore, 
 
 Ilumntur Corjius, 
 
 \'iri Venerabilis, 
 
 I'rancisri Tiliiey, A. .M. hujus Ecclesis, 
 
 Sepiem plus etQu.idriuiginta Annis, 
 
 Pustoris iiulefessi, 
 
 Obj.i, 
 
 13 Seplembris, 
 
 . • ( Sniulis 1716, 
 Anno< ,. ,.,, 
 I /Ltalis HI. 
 
 On u freestone. 
 
 Francis Tilney, son of Francis Tilnev, 
 
 Cler. and Fli/abelli his Wife, buried Suite 
 
 the 10 Anno Dni. I(i82. 
 
 • I find a cut likr tlii> born by the Brays. ' E. a(. fo. 14, b.
 
 B R I S I N G H A M. 67 
 
 Adjoining, 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of 
 
 Elizabeth, the wife of 
 
 Francis Tilney, Clerk, 
 
 Daughter of Tiiomas Read 
 
 of North Cove, Esq. who died 
 
 Apr. the 23. I691. 
 
 John Lancaster, junior, Esq. was buried here, with several of that 
 family, whose memorials are all lost. 
 
 1569, Henry Sj/mouds,^ buried in the church, gave 20s. to the 
 poor, and died possessed of a good estate here ; he had purchased 
 the site only, and two closes, of Philbi/'s tenement or manor, from 
 Boyland manor. 
 
 1623, William Houching paid the usual fee of 6s. 8d. to the 
 church-wardens, for burying his father in the church. 
 
 1620, John BlomeJiehP paid for his father's being buried in the 
 church, and a grave-stone laid, 12s. to the church-wardens ; the stone 
 is now gone. [1736.] 
 
 TWO GILDS 
 
 Were kept in this church, the one dedicated to St. John the Baptist, 
 the other to St. Peter ; a fair book of their accompts and lands is 
 still in the church chest, out of which I learned the following parti- 
 culars: that ill 153J, St. John's Gild had a stock of 30 cow beasts 
 belonging to them, which they let out at Is. a year each ; that the 
 town-house, standing on the north side of the churchyard, was their 
 Gild-hall, one room of which they reserved to hold their gild in, 
 and the other they let; that there were above 20bretheren and sistern 
 on their bead roll, their hall, when the gild was dissolved in 1547, it 
 was vested in feoffees for the use of the poor ; they had a chaplain 
 retained, to pray for them and for all their bretheren and sistern, 
 living and dead, for which they paid him a salary of 30s. a quarter. 
 In 1518, Sir Wylyam was their chaplain, who was continued to this 
 time. In 1527, Thomas Gierke of Wisbech left them a legacy of 10s. 
 and this year Sir Henry Tayleor, rector of Brisingham, was admitted 
 a brother ; they annually chose two Gild-holders, who were to 
 receive all the money at the church-ales, the plough-lode, and the 
 gilds, at some of which they received between 3 and 4/. besides the 
 legacies that were left them, in 1541 they boughta pair of chalices: 
 every year a great man}' brothers and sisters were added to them, 
 and it is plain they were not a poor society ; for, before 1517, they 
 had purchased divers grants from the following societies, that all the 
 bretheren and sistern of this gild should be partakers of the following 
 pardons, which was the reason of the great increase of this above the 
 other gilds, viz. 
 
 " '1 he pardoun of the beyds, pardonond by the Priour of the 
 " Chnrtur-house of Mount-grace, for every of om" Ladies-sawter said 
 " ower 2f»000 years of pardon. 
 
 " The pardun of the beads at the Chnrtur-house oi' Schene, for saying 
 " our Ladies-sawter is for every word in the Pater-noster, Are 
 
 * Regr. Ponder in the Bishop's Office. ^ Church-warden's Book in the Chest. 
 
 VOL. I. K
 
 68 lUnSINGIlAM. 
 
 " ^f-M<T, ami Cr(d(, 84 ' ' i. a< often at the nfore»aid 
 
 vr in aaid, anil i* i , ilon. 
 
 •• 1 lif piiiiluii ol i» at Stoii, wivirig our l^dia-tawler, 
 
 " evcrv I'litrr and ( i duyt of pardon. " 
 
 " Th. pardon ol tlic Crtut f'n/trtfi bc»ydc JjORiion Tower, 5(X) 
 •• day* of pnrdoii." 
 
 sr. I'dERS GILD 
 
 W as a lots !>.)cii'ty, mid Ii.imii- no liall, it wa* kipl nl tlio CiU- 
 iioUcrt' lioiiNts; iht-y lind two piitci ot land, encii cunluinining one 
 rood, tlu- first of «hiili lies in St. Peter's Grove,* and ua« given, 
 aboiil ll(i.J, by John (Jui/te, a brother of the pild, who also gave the 
 other piece which lies on the w.-tl side of Garbrond , bi.lli liit»c- at the 
 Dissolution, were vested in fiolicts for the use of the poor, and are 
 freehold. 'J'hey had a chaplain also, the same, I suppose, that St. 
 John's Gild had, for I find one only named at once, viz. l.S'26, 
 Robert Jgar, chaplain ; 13y<<, Robert If'ade ; 1401, John Copping; 
 U41, Strpfien Jliibbard. 
 
 14(,7, Henri/ Goman, chaplain, by will gave an antiphoual of 5 
 marks to llie church.' 
 
 1417, Robert 11'ode, clin|)lain, wax buried in the churchyard; he 
 gave vj.s. viij (/. to the high altar, and .\x.(/. to the |ioor.' 
 
 LifX), 2 .tpr. Thomiis Smetherste, rector here, made his will, 
 which is a very remarkable one, as not having one superstitious 
 betjiicsl in it ; the sub>tancc of which is ; that what God gave him 
 he bequeaUie<l as follows: " I commend those things which are 
 " Ctrtar's to Cenar, the earth to the earth, and those things which 
 " are God's to Goo ; that is my soul to Christ. And I will, that all 
 " the poor that come to my burial have as much money, distributed 
 *' among them as mv circumstances will allow, at the discretion of 
 " my e.vecutors; and if I have defrauded anyone, so that he can in 
 " conscience say, I ought to recompence, I will that recompence be 
 " madeliim. I give to Sir Richard Beeston, parish priest ot Roydon, 
 " for his constant and true friendship (is. 8d. and one of my gowns; 
 " and I make S\t Jama Smethcrstr, my brother, executor,"' 
 
 In 1478, John Catonr w;is buried in the church/ 
 
 Benefactors to the building of the church, besides tlie 
 principal ones, were, 
 
 .•^t. John's Gild, which pave 255. for frec-stonc. 
 
 Richard Medildichc «)t this town, who, in 150i, gave by will to 
 Su .lohn's Gild, 3j. to St. Peter's, <lOd. and 6 marks to buy lead, and 
 lay it in the churchyard for the use of the church.* 
 
 In I.517 there was a gatliering in all the neighbouring towns, for to 
 finish the roof. 
 
 * It i> to called from this piece of land ' Lib. probat. Tcjt. R. ix. 3+4. in 
 lying in it. offic. predict. 
 
 » Rep-. HyrningiioOfiic. Ep. Norwic. • Regr. Gelour. 
 
 * "»'d- » His Will, in my collcctionj.
 
 BRIS INGHAM. 09 
 
 TOWN LAND AND GIFTS.' 
 
 The town-house formerly belonging to St. John's Gild, standing 
 over against the north west end of the churchyard, is copyhold on the 
 rectory manor, pays Ad. quitrent, and is used for tiic dwelling of two 
 poor families. [1736.] 
 
 One rood of land in Peter's Grove, and another rood in Garhroad, 
 lying on the west side thereof, are freehold ; and in 16OO were 
 dooled out, and let at 7s. per annum to Mr. Fuller : the row next 
 South or Church-Jield, stands on the rood in Garbroad; these arc in 
 the estate late Mr. Salter's, now Mr. Robert Martin's of Thetford, 
 and are settled on the poor. [1706.] 
 
 1632, Henri/ Russels gave 10/. to the benefit of the poor. 
 
 Mr. Tirrel gave 10/. and the parish had 6/. 13s. 4d. out at use, of 
 divers gifts ; the town gave 4/. out of their stock, and sold a piece of 
 town land which laid in Baldri/es, with another piece in fVinosalls, 
 for 20/. to Mrs. Frere ; these two pieces were freehold of Gissinghall 
 manor, held at 9^. per annum, and were given in Edward the Fourth's 
 time, by Robert Kyrkebi, and John Gooch. This they expended 
 about paving, .seating, and adorning the roof of the church, and 
 carving the stools, what remained being kept for town stock. 
 
 A new pulpit and desk were made, and the altar railed in. 
 
 In 1638, the inhabitants petitioned the Bishop, that, Whereas the 
 village of Brisingham grew very populous, and the parish church 
 was large and neat on the outside, but much unbeautified within, the 
 pavement and seats being decayed, and others wanting addition, the 
 parishioners sitting in no order, the font standing in an obscure place 
 behind one of the pillars, &c. that they might have license to do all 
 things convenient, for the beauty of the church, and decent placing 
 the inhabitants therein ; upon which there was a commission to 
 four neighbouring clergymen, who viewed it, and certified, that at 
 the east end of the south isle, there was a sort of chapel parted from 
 the church, in which the family from BoylandHall used to sit, which 
 they thought ought to be removed, and another place assigned to 
 that family,^ which was done accordingly. After this, it was certified 
 that Edmund Salter,' A. M. had been a great instrument towards 
 this work, and had laid out above 40/. in building the 14 upper pews 
 of wainscot, for which they allotted the highest seat in the church, on 
 the north side, to be annexed to his house for ever,* .vhich was con- 
 firmed by the Bishop's Faculty ; in which seat this is cut on the 
 wainscot : Qnatuordecem ha supremce Sedes, exlructcefuerunt impen- 
 sis Edmundi Salter Clerici, Anno Domini, t674. 
 
 In 1644, yJpr. 7, Capt. Gillei/ was paid 6s. by the town for view- 
 ing the church, to abolish superstitious pictures, and immediately 
 
 ' All relating to the lands and gifts, 1624, when he was ordained by Nicho- 
 
 from evidences in the Town Chest, and las Bishop of Ely, in Downham-Market 
 
 in my own collections. church ; he lived and died here, and is 
 
 _^ Viz. The upper seat on the south buriedundera coffin stone in thechurch- 
 
 side of the church. yard, opposite to the chancel door. 
 
 ^ I cannot find he was ever in priest's * Mr. Robert Martin of Thetford 
 
 orders, or had any benefice; his letters now owns the estate. [1736. j 
 of deacon's orders are dated 19th Sept.
 
 :0 n K I SI NU 11 A Nf. 
 
 ai\vt, J' ^- ' t'lir l»o duv* work lor (nkitii; down glna* 
 
 uiid put ijiirch, and tiling tlu- letters t>tr tin- Ix-llt i* 
 
 and It i« pliiin that luTf Merc niuuy etbgies uiid arm*, lor the glatinff 
 of llie winduw* ^fter tin* rrlbruiatiun eiunc lu ^/. (>i. lliil tliuugn 
 severni of ihcm were lo»l, some were prcwrvcd, iind put up in the 
 llali window*, a* the fmlilnn of the Trinili/, St. John the Kvan- 
 gelitt, St. Catharine, the llolv / ir/ji/i, and Si. Mar^artt, loi^elher 
 with the nrui» of t trdon, ami I'l/kiMgluH, and Hohun Karl ol Sor- 
 ihampton, viz. az. on a Ik-iuI <ir». three mullet* uih. Ix-lween two 
 coUsc«, and six lion* rampant, or; all which (e.xcepl the la>l eoat) are 
 now put up in the cn»t chanttl window, at the ex[Kii*e o! the present 
 rector. [I73<).] Thi* church suflVreil much in the»e times, for iu I(i64, 
 647. Mi. Hd. was raised hy rate to put it in order, and to buy it 
 ornameui*, of all which it \\h> spoiled. 
 
 About l(j<)8 the town purrhaM'd, of the w idow iMii/iain, certain 
 lands called Le Ilolina, with the slock that remained of Haldric'i 
 land which was sold, and 1«)/. of the town money ; 3 roods of it (\a 
 two pieces) lie upon Ftnficld manor, and pays tut. lord's rent, and 1 
 acre on lirisingham, which pays is. per annum. It is now let at 3i)s. 
 per annum . [ 1 7 3<i .] 
 
 The town close lying against Briiineham great common, hereto- 
 fore called Chedhiiri/ (Vov, is freehold, and is let at '2l. IOj. per 
 annum ; llus hatli belonged to the chuicli many ages even betore 
 I4<K). 
 
 The town-house, in which two poor families dwell, [1730,] stand- 
 ing on the eust side of the great common, was erected about 1(J30, 
 by the inhabitanls.upon a piece of their common. 
 
 Matthew Halter of lUij'ord gave 'ZOt.per annum to the poor. (See 
 his Will, under Ft rshdd.) 
 
 Mr. .John It ilhain, late an inhabitant here, obtained leave of the 
 inhabitants, to cncloM- a cartway that led into the grounds at the 
 east end of his orchard, and to make it a footway only; in consider- 
 ation of which, he settled 40j. a year; 3s. 4d. ol which to be distri- 
 buted the first Sunday in every calendar month, in bread to the 
 poor, and tied his estate in lirisingham for the payment thereof; it 
 IS now owned by Mr. John Prentice of lioliulale, and is called 
 H'tlhami. [17 5<)."] 
 
 Elizabeth, widow of Mr. John Darker, rector of I'ers/icid, hy will 
 dated Jane IH, 17'2H, gave to tlve rector of the parish of lirisingham, 
 and the church-wardc-iis there, who should hapiK-n to l>e so, at the 
 time of her decejise, 2 acres of land called Hound Meadow, and one 
 tenement, and 2 acres and 20 feet of land, and half an acre of 
 marsh, copyhold on lirisingham manor, lying in the said town, all 
 which they are to hold to them, and the longest liver of ihcin: and 
 when all three are dead, tlio next rector and church-wardens to Ix- 
 admitted, to Uie use and trust following : that alter the deduction of 
 charges, the profits shall be by them applied, in the teaching of as 
 many poor children (whose parents are settled inhabitants of iiriaing- 
 ham) above eight and under ten years old, in reading, writing, spin- 
 
 ' 1644, Apr. 7. Paid to Cant. Gillry, down glass and picliirrt about the 
 
 6j f.,r rli- V rw II!' the cliiirch, forabo. cliurdi, and the letters alwiit the belli, 
 
 li.: IS piclurrs. Paid to iij^. iiij.d. Lib. Comp. Gard. 
 
 Jt. . uys »uik, for taking
 
 BRISINGHAM. 71 
 
 nitig, and other work, and learning the Church Catechism, as the 
 produce will pay for, the said rector and church-wardens being tied to 
 keep plain fair-written accompts, in a bound book, which shall be 
 produced to the minister, church-wardens, and overseers of the poor 
 of the parish of Fersfield, or to any one of them, within one week 
 after notice given, which notice must be on a Sabbath day, imme- 
 diately after divine service, and sermon is ended ; and if the accompts 
 be not produced in the time, the whole is forfeited, and vested in the 
 minister, church-wardens, and overseers of Fersfield, to the same 
 uses ; and further, the rector, church-wardens, and their successors, 
 are tied to agree with all that shall hereafter occupy the premises, 
 that they shall have no manner of commonage on the great com- 
 mon of Brisingham, but that the right of commonage which belongs 
 to this tenement shall be laid to the new built house and lands called 
 Ten Acres^ for ever, especially on that part of the common which 
 comes down to the same lands ; and the said tenement, as an acknow- 
 ledgment that it hath no right, shall pay Irf. yearly, if demanded ; 
 and for want of such bargain, the lands are forfeited to Fersfield 
 rectory and church-wardens, and if they fail performing it, then to 
 be forfeited to the heir at law for ever. And in another clause con- 
 cerning the Ten Acres, is this : " Item, I give unto my kinsman, 
 " Francis Tilney of Stradhrook, in the county of Suffolk, barber, 
 " all my lands, tenements, houses, and outhouses in Brisingham and 
 " Fersfield,'' with all and every their appurtenances, now in the 
 " occupation of Joh?i Fisher only, upon condition that the said 
 " Francis Tilney, and all other owners of the said premises, shall 
 "■ keep up the altar tomb, now erected over my dear deceased hus- 
 " band, on failure of which, my will is, that the church-wardens of 
 " Fersfield, shall seize upon the same, and pay themselves, what 
 " moneys they shall be out of in repairing and beautifying the same, 
 " together, with all their charges." 
 
 The town also receives 2s. a year from the blacksmith's shop at 
 the Cross-ways. 
 
 The vestry on the north side of the chancel was demolished in 
 1608. • 
 
 The bell that hung between the church and chancel, in 1GI8, was 
 run into the fourth bell. 
 
 In 1549, the cross was pulled down, and the materials sold, as was 
 all the church plate, Cexcept enough to make a new cup,) with a 
 vestment, rochet, cross-cloth, and altar-cloth, but in Queen Mary's 
 time, they bought a new rochet, and procession book in English. 
 
 About this time the Buts were made, and the town ordered to find 
 a foot arms. 
 
 This town, as appears from ancient evidences, notwithstanding 
 the common received opinion to the contrary, was most field unen- 
 closed ; for at all times, great number of licenses were granted the 
 tenants to enclose their lands, and vast numbers of them in Henry 
 the Seventh's time, when it seems they completed the whole, and 
 
 ' She erected a tenement on the said tomb is in Fersfield churchyard, on the 
 
 lands. south side of the chancel, under which, 
 
 ' The premises here tied, are the new in a vault, she and John Barker, late 
 
 built house and Lands, called Ten Acres, rector of Fersfield, her husband, are 
 
 which arc all freehold, aiid the altar- buried.
 
 72 B R I S I N G H A M. 
 
 this is the reason that all the highways and lanes in this and the 
 neighbouring parishes are measured into the lands that lie against 
 them. 
 
 The manors that extended into this town, besides what lie therein, 
 are Fersfield, Roydon Hall, Gissinghall in lioi/do>i,sxnd Frier's Manor, 
 in Shelf hanger, and the rector of Shelf hanger hath a small parcel of 
 glebe here. 
 
 THE COMMONS 
 
 Are very large, and so they were always, for in an Extent in Sir John 
 Vcrdon's time, it is said, that the town is surrounded with common, 
 the names of which, at this time, [1736,] are Boyland Green, White- 
 house Green, Piddock's Green, the Great Common, with Aldwood 
 Green, and Jay's Green now joined thereto, Roudon Green, the Fen 
 Commons, Derby's Green, Winley Green, and Thwaut Green. 
 
 Boyland Green is so called from Boyland Hall, which stands on the 
 west side of it, and anciently was appropriated to be fed by the tenants 
 of that manor only, and is now [173()] fed by tlic towns of Brising- 
 ham and Sbelfhanger, who are intercommoners here ; between these 
 towns there was a long contest, Shelfhanger claiming common 
 ofricinage on this green, II hitehouse Green, Piddoek's Green, and 
 the Great Green or common ; which contention lasted several years, 
 till at length, upon Brisingham's proving their driving the commons 
 solely, and always making the Shelfhanger people pay as trespassers 
 thereon, they were adjudged to Brisingham only, except this Boy- 
 land Green, on which tlicy were to be intercommoners, having proved, 
 that they had about G acres of land in their parish, at the north end 
 thereof, divided by a run of water; but the drift of this green also 
 was given to Brisingham only : all the Evidences of it* are in the 
 hands of the town, with many more ancient ones, that would have 
 set forth their sole right in a more clear manner than any they pro- 
 duced ; and in particular the ancient Extents of this manor prove, 
 that these commons were fed by the tenants of Brisingham only, in 
 right as well of their freehold, as copyhold messuages, lands,'and 
 tenements, with all manner of cattle, at all times of the year, exclu- 
 sive of all the tenants of Roydon and Shelfhanger, and all others, 
 except the Abbot of Sibton, who by grant of Sir John Verdon, then 
 lord, and his tenants, enjoyed common of pasture for 200 sheep, on 
 the Great Green of Brisingham, paying annually lid. to the lord of 
 the manor, and his annual alms to the poor of the parish ; this right 
 is now [1736] enjoyed by the Duke of Norfolk, as belonging to 
 Friers manor in Shelfhanger. which he had with the abbey of 
 Siblon, at the DissolutioTi, and the tenant that now occupies it with 
 Shelfhanger Hall, to which it is now [173G] joined, pays bread 
 annually on St. Thomas's day to the poor here, in lieu of the abbot's 
 alms. The lord granted several of the tenants liberty oi' faldage 
 hereon, and to drive the common sheep into their grounds to improve 
 them. Boyland Green contains about 35 acres, IVhitehouse Green about 
 20 acres, Piddock's Green somewhat more ; the Great Green or Cowj- 
 »i(wi, contains about 500 acres, .(^/(/aWe Green is that part of the Great 
 
 ' The verdict was exemplified, anno Tlie Case is reported, but I have not yet 
 5to Annse Regin. Term. Hil. Ret. 457. seen it.
 
 BRISINGHAM. 
 
 73 
 
 Green that extends from the Hound Pightle to the road that enters 
 Piddock's-lane, and contained about 20 acres, and is now [ITSO] laid 
 to the Great Green, as is Jai/'s Green, which is that part lying from 
 the Round Pightle to Fersfield wa}', on which the tenants of Fersfie/d 
 have an absolute right of intercommonage ; but it being with this 
 limitation, that their cattle must have a follower, it is disused, as not 
 being worth the while. On the Fen Commons there are no inter- 
 commoners, nor on Derby's Green, which is a small place, of not 
 above '2 acres, and had its name from John de Derby, whose house 
 stood against it in 1379- The Fen Commons are large, one was called 
 Wahtrete Common, and the otiier the Freth ; Roydon Green is a 
 small one, and is so called, because Roydon intercommons there, as 
 Fersfield does on Jl'inley Green and Thweyt Green, on both which 
 each parish hath drift. 
 
 In this parish lived one Mr. Harrison, who was a curious collector 
 of Roman coins, of gold, silver, and copper, from Pompey the Great 
 to Honorius and Arcadius ; his collection was sold by his son, to Sir 
 Symond D'Ewes of Stow Laiigetot, in Suffolk, Knt. He was a very 
 curious person, and lived in the house in which Robert Kent, senior, 
 now dwells, [1736,] which was adorned in a very odd manner. In 
 the parlour stood the effigies of a man which had a speaking trum- 
 pet (put through the wall into the yard) fi.xed to his mouth, so that 
 upon one's entering the room it used to bid him welcome, by a ser- 
 vant's speaking into the trumpet in the yard : on the parlour door 
 you may read the following distich, in brass capitals, inlaid in the 
 wood : 
 
 RECTA, PATENS, FELTX, lESUS, VIA, JANUA, VITA, 
 ALPHA, DOC15T, VERBUM, DUCIT, OMEGA, BEAT. 
 
 And on the staircase door is a brass plate, Avith a circle engraved 
 thereon, equally divided by the twenty-four letters, and this distich, 
 in capitals of lead, inlaid in the wood : 
 
 DIFFICILIS, CELS SERA, PORTA, OLYMPI, 
 
 FIT, FACILIS, FIDEI, CARniNE, CLAVE, MANU. 
 
 In 1364, John Spilwan held lands here, which family always sealed 
 with a cross flore in a shield, circumscribed Sigilhtm Johannis Spil- 
 wan de Brisingham ; they were a family of good account in this 
 country, though I do not find them owners 
 of any manors. 
 
 The Boyland family always bore these 
 arms. 
 
 Mr. U illiam Piddoek of Brisingham bears 
 chequy or and az. on a pale sab. a woman's 
 breast distilling drops of mUkproper. 
 
 In 1603, it was returned that there were 
 iGO communicants in this parish, which hath 
 now [1736J near 70 dwelling-houses, and 
 about 400 inhabitants. It used to pay 3l. 14s. 
 for every tenth. 
 
 Parliament valuations under the associa- 
 tions were 1150/. and 1104/. the present 
 [1736] valuation being 1093/. 10s. 
 
 The Leet Fee paid to the lord, was 20s. but the leet being dropt, 
 there is no fee paid. 
 
 Having no more to say of this place, I shall proceed to Fersfield.
 
 [ 7* ] 
 
 FERSFIELD 
 
 Is boundt-d on the cast and south by liritin^ham, on the we«l by 
 l^. .rtli bv KfMmM^Aa//; ihf hundr«Hl of Oiu extending 
 
 lo ti . l-< i>l ihis |inrisn, and no further. 
 
 Itind the naiiu- of it v< rv clitTcnntlv wnUen, ii» Ftnrvtlla, Fervts- 
 ttlla, t'tujtttd, Fairfcud, f'atnill, iind Fcrffdl, ull which »ttm to Mg- 
 njfv, a Fair Fee, or Village. 
 
 One part of it was very early in the Ablnit of Si. Edmumrs Burtf* 
 bting given about l)<i3, along willi lirisingham, bv Ouilph U Sire,' 
 and the Lwly Imkhiu, liis wife, and was v.ilue(I with that manor 
 in the Confi'v'^'r's and Conqueror's survoys ; this fee Uing not men- 
 tion* d in DuomaJui/, under FtTiJitld,\\, is evident it must Im- ineluded 
 in that manor, wilh which it was infi-offed by Abbot lialdarin,^ soon 
 after the Conquest, in 
 
 Roc;kr le BiooT Earl of Sorfolk, and that it was so appears from 
 
 an ancient nianu^crint of that abbey, now in Lord Comiialtni hands,' 
 in which it is said, that E:irl Rogtr ht Id three fees of that abbey, one 
 in Sorton, one in lirisingham, and one in Frnjidd, for wliicli he paid 
 nothing to the guard of \ornich castle, the abbot being answerable 
 for 7s. every 20 weeks. And in the same book* it i.s found, that the 
 fee in lirisingham was held of the Earl by John dr / crdon, that in 
 Fer^ield bv Sir Robert de liosco, (or Bois,) and that in Svrlonc by 
 Richard de Chum ; the fee in Fersfield, at the death of Earl Ro^er* 
 who died in 1107, went lo >Villiam,* his son and heir, and from 
 
 him to 
 
 Hi (.H Bvcon, his brother and heir,' who infcofTed 
 
 Sir Willi AM ni' IJosio in it in the time of llenrif II.' whose heir. 
 
 Sir KoBERT DE Bosco, held it in 1 lt)5; it w;ls near one half of the 
 
 town, and was ever after held of the Earls of Norfolk, who held it of 
 
 the Abbot of St. Edmund's Bury. 
 
 Tlie other pari belonged to jlsitis, a Thane (or nobleman) of Ed- 
 
 tcard the Confessor's; the demt-ans being valued at two carucates; 
 
 it vvii> then an extensive manor, part of ButsIoh, Br, ssingham, und 
 
 Shimpling, belonging to it. The manor with the Bcrcscic* and that 
 
 • Alb. RpRr. fo. It. 
 
 • Cronica Jocelini in Bib. Cot. Jocc- 
 liiK winlijpuir.to Abbot i;am|>ion, and 
 collrticd hi Chronicle of the Kniglils 
 ihjl held of that abbey, for llic abbut't 
 uie. 
 
 » He li»«l in ih« Conqueror » lime, 
 and -con after if.f> ' ' ' .»t all tlie 
 knigJitj tlut held ct c. Alb. 
 
 Reg. fo. 97. keg. Fii.itiLj.i*, fo. 116 
 
 'Lib. Coniuftud. baiicti fcdni. MsS. 
 |>. 34. * IbiJ. f. tos- 
 
 > Duft. Bar. vol. i. fo. iji, 3. 
 
 • In the iith of Hen. a, he certified, 
 that he bad I ij knigbu fce», of tUc old 
 
 feoffiuent, and 35 of the new, he died in 
 1177. Dug. Bau'. vol. i. fo. 133. 
 
 ' Lib. Rub. Scaccanj. Lib. Nigr. 
 edit, per Heme A" I7»l, fo. it}. 
 " Carta Comitii Hugonii B)god. Hoc 
 ejt Scril^tuni Comitii Hiigonit, qiioi le. 
 net in capilr de Rege de vcten feoff- 
 
 inento, quo» Ki " ' ■ iter suut 
 
 fefavit, sc. W . ridini. 
 
 et ipieconic\H. . . ....i nWill 
 
 de 80MO I mil. ct dmud. 
 
 • Te»la de Nevil. 
 
 ^ Part of a inanor, tlut lies ia another 
 town.
 
 r E R s r 1 E L D 
 
 73 
 
 part ill Jiurston lliiil bclonuifd to it, was llion valued at GOs.' but by ihc 
 Coiu|uesl was lisca to 7/. '>s. Sd. and all ibal belonged to it was then 
 valueil at 12/. (is. 8(1. of wliieli tlie i'reemen paid lOfis. 8fi. It was at 
 tli(; survey two miles long, and one broad, and |)aid to tlic Daiugc/d 
 7d. being at tbattime in tlie King's hands, under the nianagetneiit of 
 Earl (judric, and the sof and sac of all the freemen in the hundred, 
 that held less than 30 aeres,^ belonged to it. 
 
 Thus it passed with the Crown some time, but was after given to 
 the lh/god-1, then Earls lA' Norfolk, to be held at one fee ; ancl 
 
 KocKii By CO I) infeolled 
 
 Sir William de Bosco in it, as Hugh his son aftei^wards did in 
 the otlier fee, so that he had the whole town,' except a wood, and 
 l^s. 4d. rent belonging thereto, whicii had been held a long lime by 
 the Earl of yJrutidt// ; but the jury knew not how, or of whom, this 
 part that Earl had from the Crown, before the Bi/gods had the town ; 
 this also afterward eame by |)urehase to tlie Hoists; tVilliaindu lioi/a 
 aforesaid, at his death, left the whole town, manor, and advowson to 
 
 Sir UoBLRT UE Bosco of Fiijrfcud, kut. his eldest son and heir,* 
 who in I 1()5, held it of the Earl-Marshal at iwo fees ; his wife's name 
 was ho/da, who brought him a manor, held alone fee in Denton. This 
 Sir Uoln-H at his deatii left 
 
 GiLBEKT DE BoTS, Knt.' his eldest son and heir, who married, and 
 had an only daughter, ealled Joan ; he died in 1249, at which lime it 
 appears that '.he was married to IVilliani dc Boiile, who inherited, in 
 his wife's rigiit, all the lands and tenements of the said Gilbert, except 
 tin- manors of I'crsfitld, Garbaudcsham, &c. which descended by en- 
 tail to 
 
 Sir IloBERT DE Bosco of Fersfe ltd, Knt. second son of William, 
 and next brotlu^r to Gilbert, as heir male of the family, all which 
 lands and tenements the said William and Joan held till 125G, and 
 then Sir Robert purchased part of them ; and in 1285,' he purchased 
 all the remainder of the estate belonging to the Bois family, being 
 
 ' Terre Regis qiiam Godricus servat. 
 Dim. hiind. dc Dice. 
 
 Ferscvclla tcmiit Alsiiis Tegnus Re- 
 gis E. (Edwardi) pro ii. car. terre. 
 semper v. bordar. tunc ctpost iii. scrv. 
 modoi. semper ii. car. indominio. tunc 
 .i. car. ct dim. horn, post et modo i. In 
 Borstunu i. Bcruiiiita dc i. car. terre 
 pcrtincns in Ferscvclla. semper ii. viDan. 
 ct i. bordar. tunc dim. car. in dominio. 
 post nichil n\° dim. In Fer.scvclla xiii. 
 socman, Ix. acr. terre scnip. iii. car. 
 In eadem. iii. liberi homines Alsi T. 
 R. E. Ixxx. acr. terre ct iii. bordar. 
 Tunc ct post iii. car. m° i. ct dimid. In 
 Jiorstuna xi. liberi homines Alsi T. R. 
 E. dc XXX. acr. terre, scnip. i. car. ct 
 i. acr. prati. In Bresingaham vii. liberi 
 Itomincs Alsi commend, de xxx. acr. 
 terre tunc iii. car. post ct m° ii. silva. vl. 
 pore, ct ii. acr. prati. 
 
 Ferscvclla cum Bcriiiuita et Borstuna 
 tunc vaUiit Ix. sol. post vii. libr. ct vi. 
 col. ct viii.if. inlcrcensum ct consuctud. 
 modo valet xii. libr. et vi, sol. ct viii. 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
 blanc. et de his xii. libr. dant liberi ho- 
 mines c. solid, et vi. et vii.rf. Habet 
 Ferscvclla viii. quart, in longo ct iv. in 
 latOjCt de Gelto y'n.d. In Simplinga i. 
 dim. lib. homo dc iv. acr. terre. In Fer- 
 vella jacet soca ct saca t. r. e. dc omni- 
 bus qui minus habcnt quam xxx. acr. 
 De illis qui habent xxx. acr. jacet soca 
 ct saca in Hundrcdo. de Winfcrthinc 
 quando Radulfus forefecit habuit cam. 
 (Domesd. fo. 38, 39.) 
 
 * Invasiones (sc. Galteri de Cadomo 
 in Fervesella i. libr. homo Alsi com- 
 mendat. cum iv. acr. quem tenuit Will. 
 Malet, die qua fuit vivus et mortuu.i, et 
 Galterus modo (tenet) de Rege, scd Rob. 
 Malct contradic. sc nccissc usque ad 
 diem quo tuit inbreviatus. Tunc ar. ii. 
 bov. modo. i. val. viii.rf. (Doraesd. fo. 
 299.) 
 
 ^ Testa de Nevil, per Will. Mariscal. 
 Junr. ♦ Ibid. 
 
 5 Plit.deJur.etAssis. 41 H.3,Rot.33. 
 
 * Plita. de Jur. et Assis. apud Nor- 
 wic. Hillar. 14 E. i Rot. 38 in dorso.
 
 7f. r r n s F 1 1: l n. 
 
 i 
 
 Iwo <■ il m Fcrtfidtl, lirniir^hiiin, /xi/>A<imi, anii ^> 
 
 A41/C, I -, iind for tlic puvaii'iit tluicot In- iiiurt. I 
 
 (ho niuiiont, liiitds, fee. tliat dc ««'i'i)cl(.-<i to liiin, willi thov tliiil lir li.td 
 iinlmvcl of thfin iii F<rsf'cud, ( iarlHiudiUiiim, Dtnton, \(trton, lla- 
 rnlon, llrokift, &.C. with whoiu John Ix lirttun, and (iotUnd de 
 Utaumond ut-rf bound, nnd tii-d nil their landa in F.nglattd tor pny- 
 mcnt thcrt-of ; »o that bv tliis piircliuM- all the fstati- of (iilbcrt, liia 
 t.-ldc»t brutluT, was vt-stcd in liini. Hi' was u ntuii timt purcliasod 
 much, for Usidcs tlii«, lu- bought the manor of liiirsloii,' in this hun- 
 dnnl, and st'Vi-rul other land* in divjTs adjacent town*. In \'iS5* 
 be had the following privileges nllowed in Eire ut .Vorir/fA, to his 
 manor of Ftrsfirld, rir. a pilhrtf, iiiwize of bread and bctr, view o( 
 frankpledge, trij' uud Uraif.^ lie married Amtf, (Amic'ui,) widow of 
 T/ionnii llaili/ni^ of Gissing, and suing for Iter dower, recovered, and 
 had ihe manor of diisiiif' M-llli-d on Tier for life. Sir Robert' died 
 in l'29y, seized of I'trstield, tlun Vitlucd at !()/. l.'Ji. Vul. per ainiiim, of 
 which tliere is a fine eitent in llii- Escheat Koll, in which iheCireal 
 \V'o<hI, or Home Wood, fronj which the family first took their name, 
 is rocntioneil ; he is found also to be seized of a manor in Denton, 
 unnlher in Durston, unci of Garboldisham, &c. and 
 
 KoiiKKT, his son and heir, wiis then ihiriy years old, to whom he 
 left nil his nxuiors, &c.* except an eighth part of Frrsfield, or a (piar- 
 ter of thai f«-e, which was held of liurij al>lH-y, which he gave to 
 
 John de Uois, his isecond son: this ./o/i/i built anew hall upon 
 It, married :i wife named KiiUrine, nnd settled in it, calling his part 
 
 Tin: MANOR or NEW HALL, 
 
 \\'hich name he himst If is culled by in several Evidences, and in par- 
 ticular, !•) the .N«//i/«<i / illarum of the ninth of Kdrrard II. in which 
 John de Sova Aula, or .Nrff Hall, is said to liolil a manor h<re. He 
 lived to l3;Jo, and dying without issue, his manor reverted to the gre.it 
 manor again. 
 
 THE ADVOWSON OF FERSFIELD. 
 
 And 40 acres of land there, was^iven to If illiamde Dois, clerk, third 
 von of the sai<l Rnbert ; he was hrsl rector of Fersfteld, atti-rw ards of 
 (iarboldnliam Ill-Saints, and after that, vicar ut Coiurlhe-Magna in 
 Sufolk. In I30.5, he granted the land and advowson to 
 
 Sir Honr.HT, his eldest brother,' and by fine settled it on him and 
 Christian hi* wife, and their heirs, with a remainder to IVilliain Car- 
 bunrl, if lh<y h.nd no issue. Ilelived till after 13.')1, for in iIimI year, 
 by his «leed he rt:lease<l to Dame Jlice Hotrard all his claim in the 
 manor ami advowson, with a remainder to Jiolicrt hersim, by Sir John 
 llorcard, Knt. nnd his heirs, and if he hulh none, then to remain to 
 llie right heirs of Sir John for <'ver. 
 
 Tlierc were two other brothers, rir. \ifAo/o«, who lived in I2<4>» 
 
 ' See Bunln. ' Km:. 17 E. 1 No. 31. 
 
 » Plila. Coronr, 14 E. 1 Rot. 14 in * Ini|iii». E. 1. 
 dorio. ' Fin. K. 1, L. 7, No. ut 
 
 * Fin. divers. Com. h"- 4> ^-i- 4> 
 0.3 J 6.
 
 FERSFIELD. 77 
 
 whose son, (as I take him to be,) William de Bosco, and Christian his 
 wife, lived at Cretyng St. Mary in 1310, and lUdiard, a fiftii son, 
 whose son, Thomas de Bosco, in 1330 was presented by Sir Robert de 
 Bosco, his cousin, to Garboldisham. But to return to 
 
 Sir RoBEUT DE Bosco, who succeeded in 12.98, being then 30 
 years old,* at which time he had two fees, which formerly were the 
 Bi/gods, one of which was in Smalbiirgh, and the other here,* and 
 another in Fersfield, held of tlie Abbot of St. Edmund. He married 
 Christian Le Latimer, daughter of Sir JVilUam Latimer, and widow 
 of Sir John Carbonel of JValdingJield, in Suffolk, who was her first 
 husband, by whom she had William Carbonel, her son and heir to his 
 father. Upon Sir Robert's marriage, he settled tiiis manor upon her 
 for life, which she held some time after his death, for it appears by 
 the Institution Books, that she presented in 1316"; and tlie year after 
 Sir Robert's death, which was in 1311, she married a third time, to 
 Sir Thomas Mose, Knt. by whom she had a daughter, Mariot, married 
 to Sir William Botevile, or Bovile, Knt. Some pedigrees that I have 
 seen make this Thomas (or Robert Moose, Knt. as he is called in some 
 deeds) her first husband, but I am certain he was her last, for in 1312, 
 the very year that she married Sir Thomas, she presented here* by 
 the name of Christian de Mose, late wife of Sir Robert de Bosco, Knt. 
 He,' in 1308, held the third part of the manor of Carbonels, in Wal- 
 dingfield-Magna, in Suffolk, with the advowsons of that church, and 
 Chistoji, in dower, in right of the said Christian, of the inheritance 
 of William Carbonel, on which William the manor of Fersfield was 
 settled in tail, if they had no issue, as was the manor of IValton, and 
 the advowsons. In 1308, they conveyed the manor oi Burston to 
 this William and his heirs. Sir Robert, at his death in 1311,* was 
 seized of Fersfield, Denton, Garboldisham, &c. leaving 
 
 Robert du Boys, Knt. his only son and heir, then very young, 
 and one daughter, Alice. Christian his mother was his guardian to 
 her death, and thea he became a ward » of Thomas, Earl-Marshal, Earl 
 of Norfolk, who presented here in 1326, the said Robert being not 
 then of age : ' he died a bachelor in 1333, leaving his whole estate to 
 
 Alice, his only sister and heiress, then married to 
 
 Sir John Howard, junior, Knt. who was, upon Sir Robert's^ 
 death, possessed of Fersfield and Garboldesham manors and advow- 
 sons, with Denton, &,c. She lived to 1371, and at her death left 
 issue by the said John, to which the whole inheritance of the Boises 
 descended. 
 
 This family, I am apt to think, was at first a branch of the Bygods, 
 their arms varying only infield and colour. 
 
 ♦ Feodar. Norff. ' Cart. int. Coll, Dewesian. • Esc. S E. 1, 
 
 s Esc. 25 E.I. »Esc. 5E. ». »ibid, 
 
 ' Lib. Institut. I. » Esc 27 Ed. i.
 
 TERSFIELD. 
 
 ■ VGO D. noi s. 
 
 TboBut <i< Boko. 
 
 Sii WiUiiiD dr Botco of fcitlcud. 
 
 1 16^, R. dr Bo«co o( Feyrftud, Kal. — ' — lioldi bii wi(c. 
 
 ' ] 
 
 »149, Sir Rpbtft du Boil, Kol. Amicu, widow of 
 
 T. H*U)'iig ol Guiing 
 
 Gilbert dc Boico. 
 
 I 
 W. de Bovile Joht. Boit. 
 
 Richard. 
 
 I 
 Tttoom, 
 ttcter oi 
 
 C«rboU 
 drihani ■ 
 
 1199, Nicholu. 
 
 W 
 Crr 
 
 r)',AndLtiriit:<n 
 hi» wife. 
 
 WiUom 
 dr Botco, 
 rector. 
 
 John drBoico, 
 or De-Ncwhall, 
 bad DO i»»uc by 
 Kiterinc bit 
 wife.dictl about 
 '33i 
 
 Sir Rob. de — Chriu<an,dr.ef 
 
 Boico, Km. Sir Wm Ltii- 
 
 died in mer, widow of 
 
 1311. Sir J. Cacboiiel 
 
 ofWaldingAeld, 
 
 in Suffolk, and 
 
 afirrwirdt mar. 10 Tbo. Mote, 
 
 Km. the died about 1 31 3. 
 
 Sir John Howard,J_Alice du Boit, tole 
 janior, Knt. bcircti, died >3;>. 
 
 Sir Rob. du Boil, a minor in 1311, a Knt. 
 and oF age in 1318, died unmarried in 1333. 
 
 They »irnamMl thtnisolvcs De Bo.s< o, or Bois, from llio prtat wooci 
 whicli joined to their inan»ion-lu)iii.f, nnti was not rlfanfl till Qutx-n 
 Eltznbfth'i time; liofcui in Latin, or Hois in Frt-ncli, siiinifvinp a 
 wooci. Tlu- rrvst of this family was a buck coucliant, ermine. 'I lie 
 whole fjeneralion continually rcsidi?d here, fn)m IVtUiam, who was 
 first inffofltti ill it, to AUcc, wlio was the lust of that line. They were 
 aluuvh u M'porate family from the De Buscos of Ijitcohiihirr, or those 
 of 1 in Snrfolk, nhicli I'amilv ln-arN n <lilT<renl eoat from this; 
 
 aim ■• I liave no wherv mei with any pedigree of them, I liave 
 
 given you one coilecletl from the EvidcDccn before quoted, und oilier 
 ancient deerlt in my own custody. 
 
 In l,'?').'!. Sir John How aro, junior, Knl. was seized of llie manors 
 and advow»«ns of Frrsfitld, (iarboUiiham, Itrokrhall, &r. in rii^lit 
 of hi* wife. Tliis Sir John wiu ({rundson t<j /f illinm llonard of 
 }Vizs,(nhiiU in Norfolk, a Jutly in the Court of Common Pitas, in 
 luliciird th<- I'iri>t's time, and son o\' John llouard, Cienliemah of the 
 Uc-dehamlM-r to that Kin){. In lh<- tenth ni Hdirard III.' he was 
 constituted Admiral of the King's whole fleet, from the mouth of the 
 
 ' Pecragt, p. jo : Roll of the Arnit Kni|>ht>, that were uiih Kine E. III. at 
 bimI iiAinct of all the Noblemen and the winning of Cane and Calci.
 
 FERSFIELD. 79 
 
 Thames northward, being then in great esteem at court, as may be 
 collected from the many favours he obtained : he was with tliat King 
 at the siege of Calais, being then Admiral, and had in pay with him 
 1 banneret, 6 knights, 36 men of arms, and 35 archers on foot. In 
 1310,* he had the King's letters of protection at his going into Scot- 
 land with the Earl of Cornwal, the King being then at Yorl:. In 
 1317,' he was Sheriff oi Norfolk, and upon his second going into 
 Scotland, by the King's order, he made G. de Ely his attorney, to 
 account in the Exchequer for his office. In 1339,* he received 20 
 marks by action, against Sir John Segrave and his servants, for cut- 
 ting down trees, and carrying away the soil of Fersfield manor, under 
 pretence of cleaning the great ditch round his park, (now [1736] 
 called Lopham Park.) In 1347, he settled Fersfield on himself and 
 wife for life, remainder to Robert, their son and heir, and Margaret 
 his wife, for their lives, and their heirs; 
 
 Sir John Ufford being sole trustee/ and as such was lord and 
 patron. 
 
 Robert, the son, was of age in 1371> vvhen his mother died, being 
 then married to Margaret, daughter, and at length one of the heirs, 
 to Robert Lord Scales, Knt. Lord Niicels; he died before his father,^ 
 anno 1388, the 3d of Jiili/, so that he was never possessed of the 
 estate, leaving 
 
 Sir John Howard, Knt. his son and heir, then turned 23 years 
 old, on whom,' in 13b6, he had settled the reversion o( Fersfield, 
 Gurboldisham, Uphall, and Bokenham's, after his own death, and that 
 of IMurgaret his wife. Sir John Lovel, Sir John Tuddenham, Knts. 
 William Ufford Earl of Suffolk, John Holkham, John Marlere, rector 
 of Ilsj/ngiun, and Richard de Walton, being trustees ; according to 
 this settlement, at the death of Sir John Howard the father, they 
 descended to 
 
 Margaret his widow; and at her death they went to 
 
 Sir John Howard, Knt, her son,' who was retained upon his 
 knighthood, to serve the King for his life,'' the 10th of March, twelfth 
 Richard IL; he married first, Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir 
 John Plais of Weeti/ng, being then above 23 years old, and had a son 
 named John, then turned 6 years old, who was heir, after her decease, 
 to his grandfather, i'i2. to Welyng, Oclee-Magna, Benefield, and Stan- 
 stead manors and advowsons, with several fees, lands, and a park, in 
 Alchesley in Essex; the manor and advowson of Foulmere in Cam- 
 bridgeshire, and other lands and revenues,' all which were held by the 
 third part of the barony of Moiifjilchet. She died in 1391,'* after 
 which Sir ,/o/«« married again to ^/«Cf, daughter and heiress of Sir 
 William Tendring, Knt. and Catherine Clopton his wife, upon which 
 marriage he settled this manor and advowson, with Brakes in Suffolk, 
 &,c. on their trustees. Sir Sihion de Felbrigge, John de Rochford, 
 Michael Beverleye, dean of Middelham college, 8cc. to the use of 
 himself and Alice his second wife, for life, and his heirs; and if he 
 had none, to the use of the trustees' heirs. This deed is dated at 
 
 + Rot. Scotiae 4, 5 E. 2. » Cart. 10 R. 1. 
 
 5 Madox, Hist. Exch. fo. 661. ' Pedigr. Peerage, p. 40. 
 
 " Plita. 14 E. 3. ^ Esc. 15 R. 2, No. 31. 
 
 ' Lib. Inst. 4, 5. 3 Pin Pasc. in Scac, 18 R. i. Rot. 5. 
 
 ^ Esc. 12 R 2, No 2 j. ♦Esc. No. 31.
 
 ao F r. u s F I r. l d. 
 
 FerififU I3<)8:' »lic dic<l in 142(i, nixl wii* buric-d in tlie •oulli part 
 %t( Stoke- Srytand iliurcli, uiidi-r iIk- Minu- »luiic muIi Sn John lui 
 bii>Uttui. anil li\ liiT falluT.Sir It iHiam Tf miring,' IraviliR loSir Jo/r* 
 //mi I, it" hIivo, IIu- iltulior of Sfukr-\ci/lamf, with 
 
 Ikt ii.r lii» litV. Hubtrt llorcani, Kiit. tin ir eldest 
 
 »<.>ii, uiiiiiK-d Mur^arct, ilaii'^liln ot' 1 homiit Munrbrny Duke ot \or- 
 Jolk, wli(»e soil John wa-> tlit- tii-t UiiU- ot' llit« faiiiilv ; Sir John did 
 Dot die in I4<)0. i»« Mr. /Ifrturlialli it, (lol. 77ii,)»orlli<- L»ilital KoU 
 in I43'i trIU U4, tliul Sir John llozranl. Kill. lJu-n held I'frtficlJ of 
 John Motrliriiv l)uke ot' Nor/o/A', ot' his manor of" forwr*-/, ultwofccn 
 and lui I ' I ill 14.1J, lie made hi* will, in whieh he gave I'rrt- 
 
 Jiflii, (». ■">, Sic. to hi.i i;ianduiii;hter /,'/;:<i/>i //i, then Couiileis 
 
 of Oxf'onI, and lier issue, reuiuiiider to l{ol)crl,\u!> wm, by hi!) !>econd 
 wife, und Ins heirs; and lor wunl of »ucli, remainder lo Henry, his 
 second son, and his heirs; this mos dated Apr. I : he «lie<l in I4J7»' 
 in which year his will was provcti, (this is cuntiriiied by the Kscheal 
 Roll 1() ll. (i. N 3t).) In I4K)' he had levied a tine of this Iohu 
 aud lirvkes, lo Sir H alter Cloj/tou, and If iltiani t'lo]>iou, I'm], in 
 order to settle lluin unon hiinsell, and .■llicc lii» >eeoiid wife; and 
 to make it etTeclual, John Hottaril, llsij. bis son and heir by his first 
 wile, in I4t>8 released lo Sir John his father, and Jlue, Ins second 
 wife, and their heirs, all their right in them, tlu v beini; formerly set- 
 tletl on Robert Scales, and other trustees, in tail, for his use after his 
 father's <lcalh ; so that by this release, the fee was wholly in his fa- 
 ther, who did not settle it iis was <le»igned, and therelou- lie was im- 
 jMjwered to give it by will, as lu <lnl, Uj Ills graiidaughter. All the 
 pedigrees, that I have seen, say lie died in \M)0, grounding their 
 errour on the aforccilj-tl |)lace of Mr. IS eaver ; but if we consult that 
 author, page ll'A, where there is a draught ot the monument of this 
 Sir John, and Alice his second wife, we shall find that the mistake was 
 not in the author, for there Uic inscription is exhibited with an im- 
 perfect date, viz. 
 
 " Orate pro animabus Johannis Howard .Militis, qui objit, .Anno 14 — 
 " EtAllicicuxoris ejus que objit in festoSancti Luce Evnngclistc, 14'26. 
 " Quorum animabus propicietur Deus." 
 
 So that in page 772, where he is s.iid to die in 14CX), is an errour of 
 the press only, which all having followc«l in the pedigrees, without 
 any further examination of their author, is the cause that we meet 
 with g<> niunv mistako in relation to this Sir John Honnrd, that wc 
 now treat of, and ./<i/i/i lloirtird, 1>(|. his son and heir, by his first 
 wife, who, according to the jM-digrees, married Joan, daughter and 
 heiress of liichard liallon, Knt. (though in a fine levie<l anno 1 1 
 Henry IV. she is said to be his sister and heircM,) he died in 1410, 
 lH.'forc his father, as his will,* proved Oclohrr 'id, in that year, evi- 
 dently khcws, in which his father and the Countess of Hertford were 
 executors. His wile Joan, «ft» r Ins death, married Sir 'I'homas 
 Erpun^iham, Knt. with whom she lived till I »'24, and Uien left Eliza- 
 beth, her only child, 14 years old, her sole heiress. 
 
 ' Autog. pen, T. Due, Norff. anno ' Rcgr. LufTJopfiam, Ciu- Prerog. 
 
 1709. Cant. fo. 4I. 
 
 * Regr. LuiTiioplum in Prerog. Cant. • Fin. NorfT. I U. 4. L. 1, N. It. 
 
 fo. S4. * Rfgr. Mirchc Cur. Prerog. fo. 170.
 
 FERSFIELD. 
 
 81 
 
 This Elizabeth married John Vere Earl of Oxford, and carried the 
 manors of Fersfield, Garboldisham, Brokehall, and Foulmere in Cam- 
 bridgeshire, with their advowsons, into that family, (together with the 
 inheritance of the Plaises and WaltoHs,) all which, by the will of Sir 
 John Howard, her grandfather, were entailed on Sir Robert Howard, 
 his eldest son by his second wife, if the said Elizabeth had no heirs. 
 
 But because the branches of this honourable family are very numer- 
 ous, I shall here shew that branch only through which this manor 
 passed, reserving the complete pedigree for another place. 
 
 HOWARD. 
 
 Sir John Howard, jun. Knt. son of_ 
 Sir John Howard, sen. and grand- 
 son of Wm. Howard the Judge. 
 
 _Alice, sister and heiress of Sir Rob. 
 de Bosco, or Bois, of Fersfield, Knt. 
 she died 1371. 
 
 Sir Rob. Howard, Knt, died 3 July 1388,_ 
 in his father's life time, and was buried 
 at East Winch, his tomb to be seen in 
 Weaver, fol. 841, 2. 
 
 _Margaret,dr. and heirof Rob. Ld. Scales. 
 Knt. Ld.Nucellsjburied by her husband.' 
 
 Rob. Howard, £dm. Howard, on 
 these two, Fersfield and Brokes 
 manors were settled in tail, but 
 having no issue, they went to Sir 
 John, their eldest brother* 
 
 Marga. dr. & 
 heiress of Sir 
 John Plais, 
 
 jomi rials, -t- d 
 
 knt. died in Ni 
 
 '391- \ 
 
 Sir John Howard 
 Knt. died in 1437, 
 buried at Stol(.e- - 
 eyland. 
 
 John Howard, Esq 
 died before his fa- -p 
 ther, in 1410. 1 
 
 Joan sister & heiress Sir T. Erp- 
 of Richard Walton, — ingham, 
 Knt. Knt. 
 
 John Vere Earl Eliz. Howard, dr. and 
 of Oxford, son — heiress of both father 
 of Rich. Vere. and mother. 
 
 Alice dr. and 
 heiress of Sir 
 - W. Tendring, 
 buried there, 
 1426. 
 
 Sir Rob, 
 Howard, 
 
 Knt, 
 
 I 
 
 Margt, Mowbray. 
 
 John Howard, the firstDuke of 
 Norfolk of this family. 
 
 This John'' was the twelfth Earl of Oxford of the P'ere family, 
 being ' nine years old at his father's death, which was in 1415 ; he 
 was knighted by the King at Leicester, on JVhitsundai/, the fourth 
 of Henri/ VI. the King himself having received that honour at the 
 hands of his uncle, the Duke of Bedford. In 1428, being then a 
 
 ' Mr Weaver calls her Margery in 
 her inscription, it being an easy mistake 
 for Margarer. 
 
 ^ Vincent, fol. 406. 
 3 Dug. Bar. vol. i. fol. 
 
 196.
 
 M FEU!» II 1.1,1). 
 
 W;i .11 rtlofrvinl. witlioul I' ' fut 
 
 91* ; I '''' '"" *"' |>ttr<loii«-ii III >iijn, 
 
 and bclurr (itc nul ut Uii* year, iimkini; \>r\n>t ot liii iu;<-, liad livrry 
 ofhi^ IniKii. In I t:l4, Im- wu> liitnM.>d to travel tu the Huiy I.An(l, 
 Hiili t\vil\c (Marions ill hi* c-oiii|>tuiy i liic yc-ar after he \»«'ni iiilii 
 J'uanli/, li»r iht- ri-ln-ftir ('<i/</i«, and doiUK ln» hi d livt-ry 
 
 ill' uil tlu>>4' land> ««liit-li, bv the ilcntli ul' Sir Jc. 'J, kiit. 
 
 in 14.S7. t'aiiu- 111 I'Mzaheth liuuitt:. In It.SM, he was j<iiih-(I with 
 JoKh Pukf III' \orjolk, lotn-ut tor a (HT|K*tUttl |K-a(i- bc-twit-ii J'rance 
 and Unglanti : in 1453, ho wii»t>ne ot thow jfrt-ut nun that iindi-r- 
 took toli-ep tl»c seas for tlmt- yi-ur» nixl toilowinp. lK•i^^ ullowcd 
 the* *ub»idi(-« of tunnaf^t iiiid poumlap^r, then grantt-d t'or lliut 
 •tTvicf ; but wlirn HtluiirJ IN'. f;aiiu-'l llit- ciown, the l^^incastrian 
 party (of whu-h tlii<< Liiri wa^ t>iu-) s<k>ii fi-il ; for thut Kiiii;, in the 
 iir»t vi-ar nf his n-ign, «-alU-d u parliunu-tit, wlu'n-in liniri/ \'l. and 
 all Ins liiu'aiir, wt-rt- ilisinhorittti, und llu> iiiiri, ami Auhrri/, his rideat 
 Mn, attuiiitrd and l)ehfa<lfd, on the 2'ith of Frbruari/, 14lil,* and 
 were buried in the Austin Frian, London. His estiite* were all 
 bcizcd, except tho«e which were of the proper inheritiince of his 
 widow, all which she reljiined, and ainonp them these manors and 
 advowsons, which she hehl in her own lizht, and name also, till 
 147-, at which time John, her sou, (who alter «as Eiirl of Oxford,) 
 kept St. MichaeFs Mount in t'or«K u/ acainst the kinij, which made 
 her fear ill nieusures might be token against her ; and therefore, to 
 secure her estate, and prepare against the worst,' she and her feoffees, 
 ItiUiam (irri/ Bishop of K/i/, Sir Thomas Montgomcri/, (iHhert dt 
 Ihiihtim, lioarr Totntfhrnd, and oUiers, infeoffwl Richtird I>uke of 
 ill luce^ttr {\\\\<j was fourth son a( Richard Duke of \urk, brother 
 to liie KinL;)in the manors and advowsonsol (iarboldisham llutciirds, 
 Fir^licld, n<(ti/n^^, ToJ trees, Kmipton, Eusttcinth, li i^^rnhu//, and 
 'ritlnhalc, in \orf'o/k, and Chdtstcorth, Ka^lbfrghoit, and liniokha/l 
 in Suffolk; Fulbourne, or Foulmere, und Uauktston, in L'aml/ridge- 
 shirc, and several others in other counties, by two deeds, one dated 
 the Olh ui Jan. 12th r.dtrard IV . the other the <Mli uf Fihr. l.Uh 
 Kdtcard \\ . and by this means she enjoyed them to her death, and 
 left them to 
 
 John dp. Vere her son, who after became the 13th lilarl of 
 Oxford, I>)rd Uulbec, Samford, and Scales, Great Chamberlain, and 
 Admiral of Kngiand, who, afur his father's death, adhered to King 
 Ifrnri/ VI. in order to his restoration ; und after the loss of the 
 battle at /{flr;i<-/, he entered St. MichaeCs Mount in Cornnal, and 
 kept it some time against the Kini; ; lut bi ing at last taken, he 
 and the I^ird llraumont were sent to safe custody in tlie castle of 
 lliiinmt in Picardtf, and in Uie ne.xt parliament was attainted, with 
 ' _'<• his brother. But in the sccoiui of /f»f/i<i/Y/ III. being still 
 j..i-..iier in thut castle, and observing «hat hopes of aid Henry Earl 
 of Richmond hud fmm the French und others, in order to gain the 
 cro«n ; he and Sir James lllouni, the (iovernor of the casile, and 
 Sir John Forlescur, I'orler of the gates of C'alait, got thence, and 
 came to Montarget, to the l:jirl of Richmond, wIkj received liiiii with 
 inucli i'i\. b< inu u person of cre.it iiDbilily and integritv. and very 
 
 • \ .ncii, (VC.407. ' CUiis. la, ij E. 4. Hall's Chron. K. 4. lol. 1.
 
 !• £ R S F I E L D. 
 
 83 
 
 expert in mililaiy affairs; when King Richard lieaid that this castle 
 had dechired tor the Earl of Richmond through the contrivance of 
 this Earl, he ordered out part of tiie garrison of Calais to reo-ain the 
 castle, upon which, those within it sent a messenger to tiie^'Earl of 
 Richmond for more aid, who sent this Earl with a number of expert 
 soldiers, who, by his skilful conduct, drew off those in the castle 
 without any loss ; after which he went to the Earl at Paris, with 
 vvhom he came into England, and inarched to Bosworth, where Kin"- 
 Richard encountered them ; and by the prudent conduct of thi*^ 
 Earl, the battle in a great measure was gained, awl the Earl of 
 Ric/moiid crowned by the name of King Henri/ VH. who imme- 
 diately restored him to his honour and estate. This Earl presented 
 here in 1505. He had two wives; Margaret, daughter ot Richard 
 JSevile Earl ot Sahsbiuy, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard 
 Scroop, Knt. and widow of IVilliam Lord Beaumont ; she enjoyed 
 this manor after his deatii, and presented here in 1527. Upon his 
 dying without issue in 151'i, his estate and honour went to 
 
 John Vere, the fourteenth Earl of Oxford, only son of Sir Geor<re 
 Vere,K\\t. brother of the last Earl, by Marge n/, daughlerand heire'ss 
 of liilltam Stafford oi' Frame in DorsetMre,' Esq. the said George 
 dying before his brother. This John married .Inne, daughter to the 
 Duke of Norfolk, and died in 152(), without issue, leaving all his 
 estate to his three sisters, his coheiresses, of which 
 
 Elizabeth, the eldest, was married to Sir Anthonu Wiinaficld oi 
 Letheriiigham, in SiiJ'olk, Knt. ^ ./ e 
 
 DouoTiiY, the second, to John Nerile Lord Latimer, between, 
 which two the inheritance was divided ; for 
 
 Ursula, the third, married Sir Edit, a rd Knight ley ; but having 
 no issue, in 1599, when she died, her part came to the heirs of Sir 
 Anthony Hingfeld, and the Lord Latimer, as the inquisitions at her 
 death testify. 
 
 Hitherto the manor and advowson went together, but in 1533 
 tliey were divided; for Sir Anthony K't/ngjield uihvesaid, and John 
 ISevile Lord Latimer, coheirs of John Earl of Oxford, exchano-ed 
 the manors of Fersjield and Oarholdisham, with Thomas Duke*of 
 Norfolk, for the manor of Dalhy-Chacomh in Northamptonshire,^ and 
 settled them on the Duke and his heirs, reserving both the advow- 
 sonsto them and their heirs; all which was confirmed by parliament, 
 m the 25th and 26th years of King Henri/ VilL so that now the 
 advowsons of Fersfield and Garboldisham were one moiety in the 
 U yngjiclds, and the other in the Lord Latimer. 
 
 * Escamb. inter D. Norf. et al. 25 H. 8. 
 
 VOL. 1. M
 
 M 1- E U S F 1 E L D. 
 
 Joka d« V'cif, Ihr i«lk Eul of __^ Kl'takrih, il>u|tblrr of 
 Oaloid, bchfcdcd la 1461. I 811 JuKn Hoir>«i<i, kol. 
 
 ' T \ ' 
 
 Anbiry, iSc Mttftrrt, di, loha, ijik CliaabriS dr of 5ic C. Vcrr, U<>(rfy,df. 
 
 cldoi, be- ol Ri< Nnill utlulUi- K. S i.v .1 . Koi. K ' ditd tml Krirru 
 
 lw*lrd »iik Eiil oi S«ii».~lotd, ktd " ku ol W M<(. 
 
 k» (MltCf . kxuy. ao ttHic. cr. "T lotd oi 
 
 Ifomr, la 
 Duiwtthiic. 
 
 ' — r 1 \ — 
 
 Kn (hi. Ld. L*t>- iky. ulLnhctinjt- Ixih, iiud 1516, no ul I Ito. 
 
 ley, DO mci. hitni Km. thr iitur, tai j tii- Duke of 
 
 ■uac. cIdcM. lrrkCohcii>.wc> Noiiolk. 
 
 The moiety ihal bclongeil lo the H'l/iigfirlih uimh fr-jiii Sir 
 AntkoHif alDrt'iiaid, to 
 
 Sir UuiiKRr, hi* eldest lion, who, in 1558, had livery of u moiety 
 ot' Hf(ti/n;^ inu!)or, &e. and in 15<l,'>, died sei/ed ol' u ntoielv tiftiie 
 •dvoM'st)iis, ol t'lf^Udd and (iarlio/iuy/uini, \vlii<.'li advowMnis lie lielii 
 joiiitiv u ith Calcniu Couiili>> |l«»\\iii»tr ol' Utiiry Kaii ol' Sorlhum- 
 bir/iirni. Sir I'/iomas i'cci/. and l)orot/iif his wile, Sir John Ihiimrf, 
 and Klizob<th his wile, l\ iHiam ConiKaiiis, iin]. and Luri/ his wife, 
 daughter* and coheiresses ot\/oAM SciiU Lord Laliitifr.'' Sir Hubtrl 
 d^iiii; without i:>»ue. 
 
 Sir Anthony W'ingfiki.d of r.'oix/i'w'j, in Hor, in Suffolk, in- 
 herilfd : Ik- died Dec. '.'<>, Ilk).'), without issue, and was huried ul 
 / im,' leaving 
 
 >i AS \\'\ N(;iiEi.D of I.ilhtriiighain, his hrother, his lieir; 
 who, as the L»eheat Holl says, was then 50 years old; he died Jan. H, 
 \Ouy, and w<is burie<l at Lclheriiig/inm, leaving 
 
 Sir Anthony W iN(;rinLD, Hart, tif liodniiis in Hoe parish, his 
 heir, who died Julif'.V^, l(i.)S, seize«l of the nioietie-. of the advowsons 
 of (Jtirbuldisham and l'<r.^iild ;'' but of whom they were held the 
 jury knew not. 
 
 Sir KouKKT, his son, succeeded, and wa:i a minor in l(>42, and 
 dyini; «-t)oii after, 
 
 Sir Anthony, liis brotiier, followed him, who left it to 
 
 Sir HcNBY, his son, and he to his son. 
 
 Sir llt.NKY Wyngfield of Kaslun, who sold his estate in 
 l7fXi to 
 
 Mm. A.N N R Wroth, in trust, fur liilliam llrnrif Carl of lioch/onl,' 
 who left it to 
 
 William, his son, who deceasing without issue, the Wight 
 Honourable 
 
 Fucoi^RiCK Earl of 7!orA/brr/, llic present [1 73<>] patron, inherited. 
 
 ' Fxhfat Roll jl Eliz. • Coir* Inquii. vol. v. p. a6i. 
 
 • fc»c. 4 J. I. part ;. ' Pecngc, p. 347.
 
 FERSFIELD. 
 
 «5 
 
 WYNG FIELD. 
 
 Sir Anthony Elisabeth, eldest dr. of G. Vere, Knt. and 
 Wingfield. "T sister and coheir to John Earl of Oxford. 
 
 1 ~1 , 
 
 Sir Robert Sir Antho. Anne, dr. of Elizabeth, dr. of Sir Thomas Ratcliff, dr. of 
 
 died with- died with- W. Bird of Sir Drue Drury died 1609. Sir G. Gerrard, 
 
 out issue outissueio Denston, in of Linstead, in Knt. Mast. of the 
 
 101595. »605 
 
 Suffolk. 
 
 Kent, Knt. Rolls, diediSoi. 
 
 Sir Anthony Wyngfield, Bart, of Easton, died 1638a 
 
 Robert, a ward of King Charles I. who presented here 
 in 1642, by reason of his minority. 
 
 Sir Anthony Wingfield, 
 Bart. 
 
 I 
 Sir Henry, 1676. 
 
 Sir Henry Wingfield of Easton, who sold tfie estate in 1706. 
 
 The other moiety went to John Nevile, Knt. Lord Latimer, who, 
 upon the death of Richard Nevile Lord Latimer, his father, in 1.530, 
 had hver}' of his inheritance ; and upon that insurrection in York- 
 shire, called ihe Pilgrimage of Grace, he, with the Lords Scroop, 
 Lumley, and Darci/, was made choice of by the rebels, to treat with 
 the Duke of Norfolk, General of the King's forces, then advancing 
 against them. He died in 1542, as appears from the probate of his 
 will, leaving issue, by Dorothy his first wife, 
 
 John Lord Latimer, though Mr. Diigdale makes him the son of 
 Catharine, the second wife: but Mr. Le Neve, in this Pedigree, sa^'s, 
 that it cannot be so, for then the daughters of the last John could 
 not have inherited the lands of Fere, which came by Iloicard, as 
 IViggeiihall, Midlelon, East-Jl inch, and other great possessions in 
 Norjolk, of which Thomas Earl of Exon was lord, by Dorothi/ his 
 wife: he died in 1577, leaving 
 
 Perci/, Cecil, Cormcaleis, and Danvers, his heirs, in right of his 
 four daughters, whom ihey had married,' who, at his death, were 
 found to be heirs to all the manors, advowsons, &c. that he died 
 seized of, among which the moiety of this advowson, and that of 
 Garboldisham, with the manors and advowsons of /f eetina. Midleton, 
 Scales-hoe, Titlesliall, in Norfolk, as heirs of the said John, one of 
 the coheirs of fere Eail of Oxford ; and so it wa'^ held jointly by 
 
 *Esc. 20 Eliz.
 
 t6 FEUSFIELD 
 
 them till I59si, i« il>e E»cl>o»t Roll of tlic 'iSih of F.lhahrlli infur(i)» 
 u», wiili ilii» diffcrcncf only, (hut the Kurl ul SurlhumbcrliiHil U-ing 
 Am\, Catharine CounlCM DoMugtrr, lu» wife, lu-ld litr tinrd purl foi 
 life. 
 
 OorMby, it. wd cokciicu^lohn Lord LMimcf Kaihrtinr, dt of TKo Pirr, 
 
 •f lobo L»t\ ol Oi/ord. Tdtcd 154*- ol Kmdtli, Km tdri mii- 
 
 ' iKd 10 Kinf Henry Vlll. 
 
 eiicu Joba Lord i 
 rd. Tdi«d 154*. 
 
 Joba Ld. LaUBCf Lucia, dr. oi Hcarv Ctrl of 
 »>>. I J7J. T Woitrtur, ob. 13 feb. 1581. 
 
 \ I 
 
 JohaOan- Elm- W. Coraw*. , TKo. E»il of Doro. Hfory Pcicy C»the 
 
 «e>t,Kn(. bctJt. leu. Km. pj-X ''' E«on,rldc»i»on thy. EulofNor- ru»c. 
 
 HOD of 1 mo- 
 iHy 
 
 10 T. Cecil Ld. thunibciUnd. 
 
 Builcigh. 
 
 John Cornwilcit, Eu). Sir Tho. Coinwalcit hti ant lurn 
 prticmcd in 1^95. berc in ■63*, and Anth. Wingficid, 
 
 Km. ibc oihtr.' 
 
 The manor being conveyed, in 15.13, to the most noble Thomas 
 Uukc of NonroLK.und his heirs, he peaceably mjoycd it till the 
 o8lh of King; Henri/ \ III. In winch year, aflrr many sijinni ser- 
 vice* both to his King and country, he wus sudd. uly cuininitted to 
 tJie Tower, throu;;h sinister suimestions to the Kini^, and was 
 attainted in parliament the '20th of .human/, with his eldest son, 
 Heiiri/ Earl of Surrey, but eight days before that King's death, and 
 llien It wus seized by the Crown. 
 
 Bv his will, proved in l.'i.U, in which year he died at Kenning/iaU 
 in SorJ'olk, he l»e<iueiuhed his body to be buried where his execiilors 
 tiiought fit, leaving; his estate much impaired, without any fault of 
 his own, having sullered m> much by tlie various ebbs andtlowsof 
 fortune that lie had gone throu;:h. After his death, 
 
 Thomas Howaud, his grandson, son oi Henri/ Iloxrard Earl of 
 .S'urrry, who was bcheadea Ja/iuurj/ 1<J, 1347,* in his father's life 
 time, was fuUv rc-stored in blood and estate, in the first of (jueea 
 Mart/, anno 16.J.5, at which time this manor, nmong other posses- 
 sions, was redeliverc<l to him, it having bteii settled, timing its being 
 in the Crown, on the Liidy Mart/, (now Queen,) towards the main- 
 tenance of her household, it lying very convenient for hennin^halt 
 palace, at which she generally resided after it was settled on lier. 
 Tlii* Thomai in the second ol that Queen was made Commander 
 against the A'«i/i.«A/7icrt then in arms; in the first of /•J/i:tf<><-/A was 
 installed Knight of the (iarter, and in the third of that Queen, made 
 Lieutenant (ieneral of the northern parts ; and six years atUr, ho- 
 noured by the French Kingwith the KniglithocMl of tin- order oj .St. 
 Michael i but on u susineioii that he <lrsigned to mjirry ilie Queen of 
 Scots, he was beheaded on Totter /////,' upon the 2d ol June, klween 
 ■even and eight of the clock in the inornmc, unno 14th of tJiiabeth, 
 idli,'^ being much lamented by all men, for lie was a man good to all, 
 
 • M?S. pen. Sicph. Norri», Cler. ' Slow, fo. 67 j. 
 
 • Diigd. Har. vol. 11. (o. 174, and * Ncwcoiirt'» Rrp. vol. i. fo. 341. 
 frjio to. 16 j, to fu. i;o.
 
 FERSFIELD. 87 
 
 remarkable for his hospitality, even in those times^ when it abounded 
 every where. 
 
 The names of tiie Peers that passed sentence upon him may be 
 seen in Sir Richard Baker a Chronicle,^ and his dying words, as I 
 find them in Mr. Hare's Collections, in Caius College Library,' may 
 not impertinently be inserted here, as they give light to some things 
 that 1 have met with, which, in all appearance, were wrongfully 
 charged upon this Duke. 
 
 The Words pronounced by the said Duke, at his Death on Tower Hill,. 
 the 2A of June, 1572. 
 
 " It is no rare thing, good people, to see a man come hither to die, 
 albeit since this Queen's most blessed reigne, 1 am the first, [ pray 
 God I may be the last ; it is a hard matter for a man of my calling to 
 use long speech in such audience, either for that audacitie serves me 
 not, or for that coming to such end as I do, fear of death troubleth 
 me, and therefore I beseech yoii all heartily to bear with me ; 1 will 
 not be long, I will make a short speech, and divide my talk into three 
 parts ; and First, concerning my oftcncc towards my Prince, wherein 
 something I have to confess against my self, and in somelliiiig to 
 clear my self; I am not to comjilain against my Peers, 1 do acquit 
 them ; I have deserved to die. It is not unknown that I have dealt 
 with the Queen of Scots, in very great and high matters, without 
 making my Prince privy thereunto, otherwise than I ought to have 
 done; there is one thing which grieveth greatly my conscience, 
 that i'^, when I was first delivered out of this place, I made my 
 submission, and promised the Queen, never to deal further in the 
 matter, and yet contrary to my promise, 1 meant and did other- 
 wise, I am sorry for it. It was icported I made a vow, and took a 
 solemn oath, and received the Communion upon it, but that is not 
 true, the other was too much. It was reported also, that I went 
 about to destroy the city of Loudon, 1 take God to witness, I never 
 meant to hurt it, I have dealt with suspected persons, and such as 
 have shewed themselves enemies to this state, specially one whom I 
 will name, to witt, Kodoli'hi, whom I never talked to but once, 
 and then I liked not his dealings : he shewed me two letters, whick 
 be said came from the Pope." 
 
 Then said Mr. Branch, the Sheriff, " Good my Lord, be short." 
 
 He said, " I will be short, I have not much to say ; good Gentle- 
 men bear witness, I come not to clear uiy self : I saw two letters, 
 the one cyphered, and the other de-cy[)hereci, 1 was charged to con- 
 feder with the rebels, 1 take God to witness, 1 never did so." 
 
 Then the Secondary interrupted him and said, " I pray you, my 
 Lord, go not about clearing yourself, you have been tried as honour- 
 ably as any nobleman hath ever bet a in this land, 1 pray you make 
 hasle, the hour is past, it is upon peril of their lives." (meaning the 
 Sherifls ) 
 
 "01 pray you" (quoth the Duke) " give me leave a little while. 
 ' Baker's Chron. Load. 1653, fc. 494, 6, 7, 9. ' E. p. 101.
 
 S0 F i: II s V 1 1: L I). 
 
 " I conl'i-** mv faull ; llin i» my roiitV«u>n. TourJiing my rcli- 
 
 ?ion ii Italli Ik-vii iriKirtct), I linvc U-<-ii u I'lipi^l, a cuiili-di-rer willi 
 'api»l», n t'rM-iitl to ihcui, and u iiiainUiiiKT of lliciii and Uicir rrliipon ; 
 I Ukc (.luti lu witiUMU I nin nuiu-, nor never wiu a Papitt, »iiit-c I 
 knew wliat rcligiuii meant; I have had tVicndi, yea and tuiniliar 
 fneeul», uiui |>erudvc'nluri- Mrr\unt«, lliiil liavc U-en l'i»|»i»li., «ilJl 
 Mtioin 1 liavc l>urn«', but I eiill Ciod to «»i(nrs> I oiii none, I utterly 
 delie the I'ope uiid hII Iiis reliiiion, and I hoiK* to Ik* siivtd only by 
 niy taitit in Jesi!> Ciihim ; and 1 utterly abliur all nien'ii Irndiliuns, 
 and if at any Ume I did ^ive cuuntenunee to any I'upisl, wliereby 
 nny good man was oflendi^i, or the cliureh, 1 n^k them merey, there 
 is nu man duth allow belter of this religion than 1 do." 
 
 Tlun he was again desired lo bo short. 
 
 '• No»"(tiuolh the I>uke>" touching the uoodness of the Queen's 
 Mnjestv, I nni much bound lo her Grace, I do (hunk lui humbly, 
 for ihal she hath forgiven me all my olVeneen, mid hull) prolonged 
 my life !>4> long, you m-c how good she hatli been to me, I iiave 
 been looked for here long e'er tliis time ; Ciod send her long over 
 you lo reigiie : she hath promised lo be gnuious lo my poor orphan 
 children, (iud gr.inl thai my death may end all lrouble>, and il any 
 one of you have any one faction, or two, or three, or more, lei him 
 give over ami l'or>ake il ; many wi>h and de>ire divers ti)ings, but 
 ihev know not what thry wi>li, ihey se<-k Uu-ir own deslruetions : if 
 every man sliould Iwive his wish, God knowelh how many would 
 re|H'nt il, whatsoever ihey are, the Queen hnlh promisi-d in my death 
 to forgive nil, and I pray God Ate may live many yoares. 1 remem- 
 ber well the word^ of that good father, and holy martyr, iMti/mrr ; 
 he told the |>eople that for their wiekedness tiod woulil takeaway 
 his blessing fiom iheni, I pray God the contrary, that your go(ul 
 life inny be such, that God may turn away tho^e plagues that he huth 
 thrcatned. He spake il in an honourable |)lace, in the pulpit, 
 licfore King i>/srar</ ; yet let not this place disere<lit my words. I 
 pray (iod preserve the (Juecn's Majesty, and that she may live and 
 reign over voii many years, even to the world's end, which 1 "believe 
 some alive shall see." 
 
 'riien he kneeled down, and proved, and Mr. .Voire//, Dean of St. 
 Paur$, kneeled by him, and uepl.with many others; iiis prayer 
 was to God for continuance of his Truth, and of his Ghospell, and 
 prayed also most instantly for the Queen's most prosperous reigne, 
 .ino knccliog upon hi.* knees, said two psalms, \iz. Misfrcrr, and 
 Domint tie in furore, and in the first psalm, he prayed lo build the 
 walls of JrruMlrin a(<<irdiiig lo ihe I S4ilmes. Quoth Mr. Sotcr//, 
 " That is meant of Chn>l's church :"' — '• I kimw that « ell," t|uoth ihe 
 Duke, " I mean not tin- church of Ronif, nor the walls of Homr, I 
 abhor it ; hut I menu the church ui lin^laud, m\A of all the world 
 wheresoever it be : I have forgotten one thing, I thank thee, OGod, 
 thai ilinu hnst put me in mind of it, I forgive all (he world, and a>k 
 fort'ivene^s of all the world, and I protest before GckI, if I knew any 
 p:<! man whom 1 had olVended, 1 wouhl namely ask him 
 
 foi. 
 
 1 lien he read the other psalm, wherein adiilterv it mentioned ; 
 Tnd »khen he came to that point. In- s.iid. " I woulif I hiic ;h clear
 
 FERSFIELD. 89 
 
 in every tiling as that, save in thoiiglit, and that is yll." Then he 
 said a Collect, and in the end he said. In Manns tuas Do/nine, in 
 Latin and Kng/i.sk, and then desired the people to pray for him 
 while he yet lived, " For," quolh he, " 1 look not to have any ex- 
 cuse after my death ;" then he embraced Sir Henri/ Lee, and after a 
 few secret words between tliein, the Duke said to him, " As true a 
 subject as any she hath." Then Mr. Nowell, stood up and said to 
 the people ; " He desireth you all with one voice to say. Lord have 
 merci/ upon him! and after that to say no more words, nor to make 
 any sliout or skroekiiig, for troubliiiij; him in last visitation." 
 
 Then the Duke kneeled down, and Mr. Dean bowed himself 
 toward him, with many embracings, and took leave of each other. 
 
 Then the executioner kneeling down desired him to forgive him, 
 and then he requested sight of the axe, Mr. Nowell said, " I'iie sight 
 thereof will trouble you ;" but he answered, " No, let me see it," but 
 he saw it not, and then he laid his head upon the block, and the 
 executioner said, " My Lord, your head iielli not well." — " O, I will 
 make it lie well," quoth he, and thereto lifting up his body, laid his 
 neck again upon the block, which done, his head was stricken clean 
 off at one blow. 
 
 At his attainder the Queen seized on this manor, and kept it some 
 time, and then restored it to 
 
 Phillip Earl of .Irnudell, eldest son of ^Fiiomas Duke of Nor- 
 folk, by his first wife Alary, daughter and one of the heirs to ILtnry 
 Fitz-Alan Earl oi Arundell, the said Phillip being then restored in 
 blood ; but soon after, several things being laid to his charge he was 
 sentenced to death. 
 
 At his attainder the manor was again seized, and by letters patent 
 dated l/th April, 1.582, the manor-house, lands, and demeans, all 
 which were formerly reserved to the use of the household of the Duke 
 of Norfolk-, were let to William Dixe, and William Cantrell, the 
 manor being in the Queen, in whose name the courts were held, a» 
 the Rolls shew us ; and thus it continued to 159.5, when Phillip Earl 
 oi Arundell died in the Tower, leaving 
 
 Thomas Howard, his only son and heir, who inherited the 
 manor ; for in 1599, l-'^th of May, he conveyed it to his trustees : 
 
 Edh ARU Carrel of //e;7<//g, in Sussex, Knl. (whose daughter 
 Mart/ was married to Sir Phillip Uoroard, son and heir of IVilliam 
 Lord HoziHtrd, son to Ihomas fourth Duke of Norfolk, by his second 
 wife, which Lord was uncle, by the father's side, to this Earl,) John 
 Holland, John Cornwaleis, and liohert Caus/ield, Gent, to divers 
 uses. Li l602, the first of King James, he was restored to all the 
 estate ami honour that liis father enjoyed, by which he became Earl 
 of Arundell and Siurey. In Kill, he was made Knight of the 
 Garter, in 1G20, Earl-Marshal oi' England i'lin life, willi <i()00/. per 
 annum pension, and Chief-Justice of all the forests on the nortii 
 side of Trent ; and the Kith Charles I. 1()40, General of tlie Army 
 raised against the Hcots ; and in respect of his lineal descent from 
 Thomas Brothcrton Eur\ of Norfolk, (a younger son to King Ed- 
 ward I.) was by letter? patent bearing date at Oxford (iih June, 
 20tli Charles I. advanced to the title of Earl of Sorfolk; shortly' 
 after which, the wars breaking out, and he grown ancient antl unlit
 
 go r E K S F I E L n. 
 
 fur inililarv Krvicr, lie nbiniiu'tl li'a\c ul' (lie Kiiii; to Lra^cl ; Mlifr<- 
 ii|M>>t ....iti . til Padua ill llali/, lie diitl tJirrr, Uclobrr 4tli, |(>46, and 
 \«i.' it .irumUl in Su%mx. He Mtid • grral part ol'tlic ettatc 
 
 III ' ' .~i'<i out oilier |idrts, for a long tunc, la 
 
 l<> iiil. Midi 
 
 Sii \\ II.1.I.VS4 lloUAUiii>f .ItminUfr, in DrcoHshirr, mortgaged 
 lliii iliniior. Willi tilli(-r!>, lor iNMl/. lo 
 
 William IIaihey ot iIu- Saio^, Jamei iiuiccanlin oi I'oUhunl 
 III Kttrx, utul Ihomat /*//<'//• <>l l^H(oln't-lnn, IIkij.' In l(k>U. 
 Jokn Holland ut Af-fi>i</i<,'A'i//, Kmi. Johu CormifuUit of Earltuham, 
 in Siiffolk,\\*i\. unci Rolurt C'«/«/«/»i"/</olM. Llfinfttl'i iJanet, IjOtidoii, 
 groiilid to J (HI H It ootluard of iliiit purisii, uii annuity of 4 V/. fxr 
 aiiunm out of thit uiiinor, for 4.V)/. |iiiui by Ikt. In KilU, John 
 Davis, liailitfof ttic lliirl'* iiiunor here, lu-couiitcci for itl- per annum 
 quitreiit, i/. lor tin- »ilr of the uiaiior and ileuieuni, Th^mat lirctctlrr 
 being farmer of tlie Ijodgt.* 
 
 In Kiiy,' Julu \i, Hobrrl Caii^ield of lAUidon, and the E.irl of 
 Aruttdtll, leavd to lleiua^t Jiiic/i of the inner 'I'lmple. Esq. and 
 fhilip Ilill of hmdiiii, (jeiit. the muiiors of t'crt/ie/d, lioiflauiFi in 
 111 I, and Hfsltrich in 7Vi<7/br(i, the site of tlie priory of tJK* 
 
 C.' ic.uiid all other lands and leiieiiu-iil!> of the said Hubert 
 
 I'au'fiild, v^hieh the saiil Robert pureliased ol Sir Kduard L'b're oi 
 liokiiiham-j'i rri/, tor ten years, at (kX)l. per annum, which lea-e \va» 
 turned over to 
 
 John IMx of H'ickmere in Sorfolk, \Ln\. and hus lo continue for 
 1 1 years 1 1 moiitli'i. 
 
 In lii-i.'), I'^tli Julii* KouKitT Cai'sfield conveyed Uiis manor 
 and lioi/lantfi, to 
 
 Sir 'Thomas l'i:NUfiinorK of Hale, in Southampton, Knt. and 
 SirllKNtiY Heiii m;i'i LLUof Oj&uru, Kill, and ilii-ir lieir«, in trust; 
 and. in W>'29, 
 
 The Earl, jointly with the Liidy .llathea, his wife, levied a fine 
 and sullered a recovery of several manon<, lands. &c. and in parti- 
 cular of l'tr*tield Lt»dm', and •Z'Zfl aeies of land in Ftnjitld, after 
 which, lie vesiid iheiii, Uic manor &c. in 
 
 John Uixk, alias Ramseife, of /• lekmtrt in Sorfolk, Es»j. in trust, 
 to pay ail hisjust debts ; and in l(i.!7. 
 
 John Dixb, brollier'n iton, and heir lo the aforesaid Johu Dixf, at 
 the retjuest of 
 
 Henry, son of Ilenri/ lale Earl of Arundel, released it to 
 
 Jjir William l*L.MTtits of SotcrUy, Knt. and Sir Riehard Oiulow 
 i>( hiit Clandon in Surrey, Knt. and their heirs for ever, in trust 
 for 
 
 He.vby Earl of Arundel, Lord Motcbrai/ and Mallrarcn, son and 
 licir c)f ihomai late Eiirl of Arundel aforesaid, and his heirs. Thin 
 Henri/ died at Arundel in Sussex, leaving hi» estate to 
 
 Thomas Howard, his eldest Hon, who, in \(i(iO, ihe l.3tli C/iarles 
 H. was restorid, by Act of Parliament, lo the title of Duke of Sorj'olk, 
 which he enjoyed during his life, and then, upon Ins dying without 
 issue, il dcscxMidcd to 
 
 •Aulog.inlcr. Cart.H.D. Norff.A" ' Ib.d. » Ibid. 
 
 i6^. 'Ibid. * Aulog. pea. D. NorlT. 1699.
 
 FERSFIELD. 91 
 
 Henuy Lord Howard, of Castle Rising, Earl of Norwich, his 
 next brother, who in 1G71 had the Marshai'ship of England hmited 
 to the heirs male of his body, at whose death,' 
 
 Henry Earl of Arundel, his eldest son, succeeded, and was made 
 Governor of Windsor castle, upon ihe death of Prince Rupert, in- 
 stalled Knight of the Garter in the first of James H. In IG88, upon 
 the landing of the Prince of Orange, this Duke being then in Nor- 
 folk, he immediately declared for him, and brought over that and 
 some neighbouring counties to his interest, for which, soon after his 
 Royal Higaess had accepted the crown of these realms, he was sworn 
 of his privy-council, and so continued to the time of his death, anno 
 1701. He left no issue, upon which his honour and estate went to 
 his brother's son, 
 
 Thomas Duke of ATor/b/ft, %vhose father, Tho7nas Lord Howard, 
 upon King James's withdrawing, went with him into France and 
 Ireland, from which last place as he returned to Brest, he was cast 
 away in I689, leaving five sons and one daughter, of which this 
 Thomas, his eldest son, at his uncle's death became Duke ; Henry 
 Howard, the second son, left no issue, 
 
 Edward Howard, the third son, upon the death of Henry, his 
 eldest brother, is now [173G] Duke of Norfolk, and is lord of this 
 manor ; Richard, the fourth son, is dead, and Philip, the fifth, is now 
 [I73OJ living, and hath issue. 
 
 The lord of this manor hath court-leet as well as court-baron, 
 which was always kept annually, till 1719, at which time Mr. Bath, 
 then Steward to his Grace, gave notice that he would keep leet no 
 longer, because there was no leet fee f from which time there hath 
 been no leet kept here. 
 
 Thomas Duke of Noifolk. 
 
 Henry Earl of Surrey. 
 
 Thomas Duke of Norfolk, beheaded 1572. 
 
 Philip Earl of Arundel, died 1 j9 j. 
 
 Thomas Earl of Arundel and Norfolk, died 1646. 
 
 I 
 Henry Earl of Arundel, Lord Mowbray and Maltravers, died i6ja< 
 
 Thomas Duke of Norfolk no issue. Henry Earl of Norwich, Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 I 
 
 , ' , 
 
 Henry Duke of Norfolk no issue. Thomas, 2d son. Lord Howard, ob. 1689. 
 
 Thomas, eldest son, Henry,2dton, £dw. 3dson,D. Richard, 4lh Philip, jth son, 
 Duke of Norff. A? no issue. of Norfolk, A^ son, no issue, now living, and 
 
 1701, no issue. >734- hath issue.[i736.] 
 
 ' Peerage, p. 48 . with the manor and all its royalties, be- 
 
 ' No leet fee, because it was the Con- fore the hundred was granted from the 
 
 queror's own manor ; the leet never be- Crown. 
 
 longing to tiie hundred, it being granted 
 
 VOL. I. N
 
 9t FERSFIELD. 
 
 THE CUS'1X)MS OF THIS MANOR 
 
 are &> follow : 
 
 Thf fiocs lire i»t the lord'* will, luul llie copyhold discrndi to tiic 
 eldest »on ; it gives no dower ; tlie tcnnutji huve liberty eillier to erect 
 or pull down Iioum-s on the eopvliold, nt their own pleasure, and to 
 cut down timber on theco|ivhoul, xulhoui licen!>r, as ulso to plum and 
 cut down all muniier of wood und limUr, on ull the coininons and 
 wattes iu;uinst llieir own lands, by the name of an outrun oij'rrcborj, 
 and to iig inarlc or cluy, and cut furze and bushes on the commons 
 and waste. 
 
 There were two other small manors, or tcncmenlii, in Thtcet/th or 
 h'/uiit, a huuilet to Ftrtfield and Brisingham , the one was called 
 
 ROSE'S, 
 
 To which belonged 14 acres, adjoining to the tenement, with other 
 small rents. This was some time copyhold of the manor of Fers/itld, 
 and by the lord thereof was granted to one Thomoi Rose, who wag 
 owner of it in 1443, and soon after sold it, with all its rents, services, 
 and appurtenances, to John LancaUer, junior, Esc^. lord of Doyland, 
 who united it to that manor.' 
 The other was called • 
 
 IRELAND'S, 
 
 Being originally a part of Fmfteld manor, which, in FAiaard the 
 JSccond's time, was granted by the lord, to one Jafffrt/ of I'arnhaU, 
 from whiiin it was fir^l called FnstnhaU'i, imd from him it went to 
 John of Ireland, from whom it had its present niuue. This Jvhn it 
 was that sold several parcels of land, to be held free of his capital 
 tenement, and others oy other services, and so erected n small manor, 
 orjree tenement, as they called it; many of these tenements we meet 
 witli in several places, it not being allowed to call these Manors, that 
 were thus erected, though ihcy were such in reality ; but wherever we 
 meet with them, they all had their original thus. 'I'his also was pur- 
 chased by the aforesaid John iMncasler, and united to the same 
 manor : ui>on the purchase, it appeared that there was a capital tene- 
 ment, will! 20 acres in demean lying by it, with other lands and 
 woodf, lying in Ftnjield in 'J'uci/lh, and divers other lantis, rents, and 
 K.Tvic«i> in Fenfleld and lirisin^ham, all which paid a frit- rem of 
 6«. tW. per annum to the manor of Ftrsfidd, of which it was held by 
 Iiomage aii<l fealty, and one suit of court. 
 
 From this tim«: they both constantly attcndid the manor of Boy- 
 land, and witli it were sold to the \orJolk family, in which they con- 
 tinued, till March the I2lh, l<>3l,when 
 
 Hlnry Earl of .IrundiU. and his trustees, among other large 
 estates, conveyetl to Anne lliinhatc, widow, and Thomas llrnshaw, 
 Emi. and their heirs, for ever, all the demeans of the capital manor of 
 Bruingham, now called the Hall Farm, and Hall Grounds, and ulstv 
 
 ' CourtRoUsofFcr;.ficlJ. • Ibid.
 
 FERSFIELD. 93 
 
 all that tenement called Rose's, with 16 acres of land thereto belong- 
 ing, lying in Brisinsham and Fersfield, together with all tliat tene- 
 ment called Ireland s, lying in Fersjitkl aforesaid, with a certain wood 
 lying there, called Winley Wood, and two other enclosures called 
 marketfield, with all other the royalties, privileges, and appurte- 
 nances thereunto belonging, all which were to be ncld free, without 
 any reserved rent whatsoever. The said Thomas and Anne, Febr. 
 SA, 1656, sold all the estates to 
 
 James Perrot oi Ammersham, in Bucks, Esq. and his heirs, and 
 levied a fine of the whole. 
 
 May 13, 1724, James Perrot of Northleigfi^ in Oxfordshire, Esq. 
 and lienri/ Perrot, Esq. his eldest son, and their trustees, conveyed 
 these two tenements, Winley Wood and Marketfield, with all their 
 rights and appurtenances, to 
 
 Henry Blomefield of Fersfield, Gent, and his heirs; the said 
 Henru, by deed dated the IQth of March, 1731, conveyed Winley 
 Wood and Marketfield to 
 
 FRANcisBLOMEFiELD,clerk, the present owner; [1736;] and at his 
 death, bequeathed the two tenements, with all their rights and appur- 
 tenances, to 
 
 Peter Blomefield, his second son, who enjoys them at this day 
 [1736.] 
 
 THE COMMONS, 
 
 In King Henry the Seventh's time, were very different from what they 
 are now ; for all the Southfield was then Common, which contained 
 110 acres by measure, all which was enclosed by the lord, with the 
 tenants' consent, being divided into 8 enclosures, which are now called, 
 Morecraft, Horseclose, Claxtonsclose, the Great Ground, or Southfie/d, 
 Upper and Lower Marketfield, all now [1736] in the lord's hands, and 
 the two other Marketficlds, which were sold ofl' by a former lord : in 
 lieu of which, an equal quantity of that which is now called the 
 Great Common was laid out, by which means the two greens, called 
 Fcrfield Green and Old Green, were joined together, and laid into 
 one common, that part which is now fortu acres, being part of Fers- 
 fie/d Green, and the part from the Town Meadow to Dozo's Close, being 
 O/d Green ; and thus they continued till Thomas Duke of Norfolk, in 
 the time of King flenri/ VHI. desiring to make his great park at A'f«- 
 ninghall, in which his palace stood, every way complete, enclosed 44 
 acres of Fersfield Green into the said park, because it extended like 
 a harp, as it is said in the Evidences, into it, and very near to his 
 palace : upon this the inhabitants petitioned his Grace for relief, who 
 ordered his bailiff tlicreupon to assign them other lands, to the full 
 value and quantity of their land enclosed ; but it seems this was neg- 
 lected to be done; for soon after they brought an action, and seized 
 upon their ancient common, which had been thus enclosed, upon 
 which the Duke ordered certain demean lands of his manor of lers- 
 _/?i7rf, and others of his manor of Lopham, wluch joined to the said 
 common, to be laid out to the inhabitants of Fersfield, in recompense 
 for the 44 acres enclosed, which lands were called as follow, viz. 
 Neuehall Close, or Dow's Close, containing '20 acres, abutting on 
 Dog- Pond, west, lying in Fer field, and also another close joining
 
 «H rnnsFiELD. 
 
 to i\k former, rulli'<l tlic Coppui Cloie, \ying m Ij^ptiam, bolli of iUem 
 Imii^ t>4f>...t. f ..pham I'ark, ttiulii, and Jcrtfieiii Cammoit, nortii, 
 nnii aliir iii trr*^r/J I ommoh, niid \r«i on Dof-I'omd; the 
 
 . ' . J. ; .i lymij in t'rrffieU, on llu' othfr »idf ot' 
 
 .'- north an<l west, and on tlx- town land 
 i.I / ., all mUuIi \ ;i to Ih- laid out i -Iv. 
 
 liui , , .it tins vt-rv > i ' ilic l>ukc was all. uid 
 
 llic nianot »<.'i/(.-ii uitu the *Kin^ s liundii, u|>uii wliu-li the wurknu-ii 
 were tlopprd li-vcllinff ihc bouks; upuu tliis the inhahitantu hud the 
 cnjc before the CoiniiiiiUiioiiept for the survey of the inMnor when it was 
 11 tile survev, who Iook the lands thnt were to be 
 » iiM.-, together with the enrlo^<■^l -14 arrest, and 
 j'Hi; lo enjov their ancient 1 1() acres of conimon, 
 
 will. , and winch ihey had seized again, in lieu 
 
 tliereol, with which all parties were 8ati»fied ; and thus it continued 
 till Junta 1. when Thuintis Larl of Arundel and Surrey, desirous to 
 pe-rfect the park, and to ruidic the demeans of his manor of FtrifirU ns 
 complete as thev were before this common was M-ized by the inhabi- 
 tanis. came to agreement with lliLin in the follow ini; manner : Thai 
 ]ie and his succosors should for ever enjoy the 44 acres of land en- 
 closed into his park of K<nmnghaH, for which he siiould pay all man- 
 ner of dues, wimtsocver, lo the parish of I'cnjifhl, and should have the 
 same JrtebonI, for tlie use luid increase of his game, upon the common 
 oi Fenjidd, without the pales of the said land newly enclosed, as he 
 had upon the commons round his park, and in that part, before it was 
 enclosed, in lieu of which, the siiid l^rl agrees, thai the inhabitants 
 shall have, to them and tin ir heirs for ever, all the elose-s afore-ni<-n- 
 lioned, called Rufhte Vtajulc, L'ojipuc (Slou, and Ihu's Cfusr, as com- 
 mon fur CTer ; and that ihe inhabiUints shall not pay or be molested 
 in any tiling, for that purl in Lopham, but thai the lord of tiic manor 
 of Lopham, for ever, i-liall an.iwer all things relating thereto, as the 
 lord of the manor of I't-isfit/d shall do, for that part in I'trsfii/d An<l 
 whereas the iiihabilanLs held a piece of ground containing <i acres, cal- 
 le<l Moiif'ord'i CluM, which was formeily enclosed into Kdiiiiiifihall 
 
 Eark, with another sm;dl piece of one rood, held of lirisiiigfwrn manor 
 y ihe rent of <2J. a year, the lord conlirms the change thai had been 
 made, by assigning other lands in lieu thereof, called llie liotloms, to 
 the said inhabitants, together with all, and all manner of Ixnetits, privi. 
 leges, lustoms, constitutions, and by-laws W'halsoever,t() the said tenants 
 and iiihabilaiils, or any of tluir huids, tenements, and liereditamenU 
 in I'crfjtcld afoiesaid, in any wise a|ipertaining or lieloiiging ; upon 
 which, die sujd tenants and inliabitaiits yielded up to the said l^irl, 
 all Uieir right in the said common, whicfi they had seized, for them- 
 sclve-. and their heirs for ever, on condition that the said tarl should 
 lie that part of the Southjicid called the I'lnal Ground, lying on the 
 south sule of the church of Frr\hffd aforesaid, lo be alw ays uiiplough- 
 ed, and to be seized and entered upon, at any time by the said inha- 
 bilunts, for want of performance of unv thing in the indentures con- 
 tained, " that ihey may reniaiiie, contynue, and be for ever hereal'ler, 
 " (K-rpetuall, stable, and firme to posterity, forever lo endure." 
 
 1 hesi- Indentures bare date the 'ioili of .Nor. the Sth i>i .lamis I. 
 \C>\(>, and were made iM-twecn the Kiglit Noble and lloiKiurabIc 
 TuuMAs Enxl of Aruitdtl aud Surrri/, T/wmas Earl of Hujjolk, Lord
 
 FERSFIELD. 95. 
 
 Cliamberlain of his Highness's lioiischold, and one of his Majesty's 
 most Hon. Privy-Council ; Lord IVilliam Howard, youngest son "to 
 Thomas late Duite of ISorfolk ; John Cornwa/ei/s of Earlsoham, in 
 Suffolk, Esq. ; Sir John llobart of St. Mary Spittle, Knt. ; John Hol- 
 land oi Kenninghall in Norfolk, Esq.; Robert Caasfield of London, 
 Esq. ; Edward Hobart, and Robert Hohart, Gent, brothers of tiie said 
 Sir John Hobitrt, on the one part : John Blomejicid, Agnes Blome- 
 field, Samuel Blomefield, Roger Seaman, and otiiers, the townsmen 
 and inhabitants oi' Fers/ield, for themselves, and the residue of the said 
 inhabitants, on the other part. To this Indenture hang the following 
 seals; Jrundel, a liou rampant, quartering Multravers, a frette, in the 
 garter. Suffoike, in the garter. Howard, Brotherton, JVarren, and 
 Mozebrai/ quartered. Robert Causfield, frette. William Howard, a 
 hon rampant. Robert Hobart, the arms of Hobart. The other seals 
 have no arms. 
 
 . TWAYT OR WHAIT GREEN 
 
 Also belongs to tliis parish and Brisingham, where they are intercom- 
 moners, each having a drift; it was appropriated to Twej/th or Tztei/t, 
 a hamlet which belonged to both these towns, and was so called from 
 Hei-vey de Tweut, who lived in 1340, and had a good estate here, as 
 had his son IVilliam de Tweyt, and Robert his grandson. It now 
 contains between 20 and 30 acres, though it was much larger for- 
 merly; for a contention arising between the lord of these towns, and 
 the tenants, concerning the customs of the manors, it was jointly 
 agreed between them, that, upon confirmation of their old customs, 
 and the addition of this new one, viz. to waste their copyhold-houses 
 without license, (which, before that time, they could not do,) they 
 should yield up 50 acres of this common, to the lord's sole use, which 
 was done accordingly, and the lord enjoys it at this day, [1736,] it 
 being let with Boyland Hall Farm, and is now called the Cozv-pas- 
 tures. This was about 1571, soon after the Duke had purchased 
 Brisingham. By this addition, the old park of Kenninghale, and that 
 late Sir John Boyland's, were joined together: and it appears by a 
 lease made some years after, that the}- reserved a way from Wait 
 Green to Boyland Green (which joined before this was enclosed.) 
 At this time also it was, that the way which laid in a direct line to 
 Neze Bokenham, from the end of the Green (which is now the further 
 end of the Cow-pasture) was altered, and the entrance made at the 
 Great Park gate off Fersjield Common, and so cross the Park, into 
 the old way by the Grove. 
 
 There is no other common but 
 
 WINLEY GREEN, 
 
 To which Lopham park joins, and had lisfreebordon this common ; all 
 the parks hereabouts had that privilege, which was to plant whatever 
 bushes and trees they would against the parks, which the inhabitants 
 could not cut, (as they do and always have done, all other trees, bushes, 
 &c. on the commons in these manors,) but were to belong to the lord 
 for the game-keepers to kill their game from, and for to hinder escapes 
 IJrom the park. Brisingham are intercommoners here, and each town
 
 <)ii r E R s r 1 1: l d. 
 
 halli a drill, though funnerlv, il appcart, frum Uic Rolls, that r«cli 
 paritli had iJirir parts M-|>iirulc, niia tin- ditches arc |ilaiiily kct-n tu 
 this dav. f 17 >'•'] llic Mcll, or piH>l, uii this roiniuon, mIiu'Ii divides 
 ll.. ' ' ' ;: ". W'tll, mid now i<i.f'» \N'«1!. 
 
 \ ■'■ utliiirs urv III inv umii mid the 
 
 it! Iniiitit, »iili niuiiy iithcrs in the Cheiil, Iroin 
 
 v«i. (lie ti(.f!> nil tho i-uiiiin(iii!> tliat arc out uf the* 
 
 frttbords ol tlie lord, or the ouirum ol the tenants, were always token 
 down and stowcil bv tlie chureh-wardens, for the use of the poor ; and 
 Uiat the ponds on all the coiiimoiis tliat are out of l\\c frtcbonU and 
 ot. ' tu Im- kept I Ir.in hy the inhnhitant^ ; that the tuwii found 
 
 a : -; niul that thi- inniiors of Kcniiiuahall, Sfu/f htiiii;fr, liri- 
 
 suu'^''"' iii'l /' "/'i'''* ' \t' mlcd liilhi-r, and this manor extended into 
 lln>iii^h<:tii, l\.i:/'lnii, Hii'^t'iii, Keinini''h<iU, Sfiimpliiig, and II urthain, 
 a great part of which belonged to the BoisEs, and so was grunted to 
 be held of tliis manor, some by l>oiid, und oliieni by free tctiures, 
 luonv of which sull rcuioju. [I73(i.j 
 
 Tin: BKNKrACTORSiirrc 
 
 JArrRY Cllikciiam of Ffi-ifidd, who, by will datetl jlpr. 18, 1493, 
 commended his soul to God, the Rle^scd Virgin, and nil the Saints, 
 and his body to be buried in the church of I'tts/ir/J, aforesaid, to 
 which he gave a wax candle of a |>ound weight, to be placed before 
 tlie image of the Virgin Mary llierc, to Ik; lighted and burnt the 
 whole lime of divine service, as long as it will last. He gave al'O, in 
 honour of the passion of our Lohu J Esis Cubist, a cross of copper 
 gilt, ol 40*. price, and a good carpet to he Ix-fure the high altar. lie 
 also gave 4 murks to build a south |>orch, and ordered his executors to 
 make a new bell sollar in the church," like that at Eait Herling, that 
 die procession might go under il while the bells ring. He gave also 
 i marks towards building the new bell sollar at Kfiiiiiiigha/l, uiid '20d. 
 towards a new Ixll ut Itushtcorl/i, and 4</. apiece to the brothers of 
 ibe college there, to say Mass for his soul. He gave also his mes- 
 Miage and tenement in which he lived, lying in Fcrsficld aforesaid, 
 with uU hit lands enclosed, and the privileges thereto belonging, to- 
 gether wiUj one pighlle enclosed, and hall nn acre of meadow lying 
 in th«- common meadow of I'enficUl aforesaid, to Margard his wile, 
 for life, and at her decease, to Uic use of ihe inhabitants of the said 
 town lor ever; all which were to be vesled in feoffees Kjr divers U'-es, 
 vith condition, that if those uses should fail, (as it hath hap[H-iied 
 since,) ihen the dear profits arising from the said premises should be 
 laid out in repairing nnd beautifying -tlie parish church for ever; and 
 all the rest of his hinds he ordered his executors to sell, with these 
 rrstriclioni, that the purcha.vr should not be a gentleman, nor have any 
 other lands or tenenieiiis in the world, and that lie or they should live 
 il) th<' houso, anil o<-ciipy the lands ihciiiselve', to the ui'vanlage of 
 the parish. John Ciiiinilichf, clerk, rector, was his su|H-rvisor. Il 
 wa* proved the »«me year, on the '2()lh tif .liinr, at lloktiiJutm St. Ma- 
 tin i (or .Vfnr liokmluim.) before llartholomrv Sorthrrn, bachelor of 
 Jaws, commissary to Jiima liishop of Soitcich, who was then ou hit 
 
 * Tikis was taken down in i;>>i when tlir gxUcry v><s built.
 
 FERSFIELD, 97 
 
 visitation at Bokenham aforesaid. The probate is now in the Church 
 Chest at Fersfield, and is entered in the register called Awbrye, in the 
 3d part, fol. 141. in the Bishop's Office. 
 
 The farm is now in feoflees hands, to the use of the church, about 
 which the profits are expended, either in repairing, beautifying, or 
 purchasing proper ornaments to it. It is now [ij.'ifi] let at 18/. per 
 annum, and pays a yearly quitrent to the manor of Fenjield of 10s. 9(/. 
 a year. The messuage, with 3 acres of land adjoining, 3 acres and an 
 half enclosed, lying in the further close next the common, a pightfe 
 called Hoppin's of an acre and half, and half an acre in Billing's 
 meadow, is copyhold on the said manor, 4 acres called Pamroft, and 
 all other the lands thereto belonging, are freehold without any re- 
 served rent; some of the lands have been changed with the Duke 
 of Norfolk, an account of which you have with the commons of this 
 town. 
 
 In the name of GOD Jmen, 2 J«/y 1589. I Matthewe Walter 
 of Bliford in Suffolk, do make this my last will, Sec. my body to be 
 buried in the church yard of Bliford aforesaid. 
 
 Item. " I geve and bequeathe unto Margaret my wief,' all my 
 " tenement, landes, meadowes, feedings, and pastures, with the ap- 
 " purtenances, scituate, lying and being in Bli/ford aforesay'd, which 
 " I lately purchased of Thomas Back, to hold to her, and her assignes, 
 " during the tearme of her naturall lief; and after her decease, I will 
 " that the sayd tenement, together with all and singuler the above- 
 " resiled premises, with the appurlenaunces, and one close lying in 
 " Holton, conteyninge eightene acres, which I latelie purchased of 
 " W. Bonnett, and also one meadowe with the appurtenaunces, lyeing 
 *' in Bklchim, in the say'd countie of Suffolk, shall ymediately after 
 " the decease of the say'd Margaret, my wief, remayne unto John 
 " Parker my cosyn, and his heires and assignes for ever, upon this 
 " condition, that is to saye, that the say'd John Parker, his heyres or 
 " assignes, or anie one of them, shall yearlye and every yeare for ever, 
 " after the decease of the say'd Margaret my wief, paie or cause to be 
 " paied unto the pore people of the tovvnes, parishes, or hamletts, 
 " hereafter-mentioned, the somme often powndes of lawfull monie of 
 " Ingland, in the manner ensuing ; that is to saye, to the pore people 
 " of Farsfield in the countie oi' No/folk 20s. to the pore people of 
 *' Brest ngham in the same countie 20s. to the pore people of Holton 
 " in the countie of Suffolk 10s. to the pore people of Bliford afore- 
 *' say'd 20s. to the pore ])eople of Ilallisworth 20s. to the pore people 
 " of Btitheburgh 20s. to the pore people of Bulchim lOs. to the pore 
 " people of Suthwold 20s. to the pore people of Reydon by Suthzcold, 
 " in the countie of Siff. 10s. to the pore people of Wang ford 20s. to 
 " the pore people of Henham 10s. to the pore people of Uggeshall 10s. 
 " to the pore people of Stoven 10. Otherwise if the say'd John Par- 
 " ker shall make default of payment, of the say'd yearlie payment of 
 " ten powndes, in manner and form aforesayd, then I will, and my 
 " full mynd is, that all the premises shall go to Basingbourne Parker, 
 " brother of the sayd John, and if he makes default, then to Mr. 
 " Francis Braye, son of Mr. Saynt John Braye, under the same limi- 
 " tations." He gives the profits of his lands in Attleboroughe and 
 
 *- This Margaret, when he married her, was widow of H. Baker.
 
 ^ F n 11 S I I E L D. 
 
 llcllOH. nmi iIk- Iniult caJk-U Uic Okt, (except th« annuity that tx- 
 ijn. ' r U'li vi-iu*, to |Milt>rin 
 
 li . iiuil till- iiitiiiii' lluri-ul 
 
 <' t III ulid uilii>ii;;<'>t my 
 
 •• . . ; I r . iritic, bv llif tliMH'tioIl 
 
 " of ntv executor*, llrm, 1 Kivi- und Uiiui-utli unto Tkonutt Moru, 
 " tlir ton of Amtkomie, ntul to his licir», Jl ihul my nu'uduwo or fen 
 '• «ilh all uml MiiKular lU a|>puilciiauni-t-s in I s^tUiall. lo have unci 
 •• ■ ' ' ■ I'l for ever, upon couilitiun, that 
 
 *• . . . \ and fviTV your lor ever, alter 
 
 ** lliv decens<-, |>aie or euuse In \k |uiied to tile pore fx'ople ot t ^';,'ll- 
 - hall \iw Mjiumo of lOi." And lor di fuull tlunof it i« given to 
 Urnry Cnyufoot the younger, and hit l>cir» for ever, under ll»c 
 •amc limitatiuiu; >• ' ' :iiul John II a//rr, his brother*, exeeutors; 
 Thonuii Moru of / ', supervisor. Witnesses, Hin. linker, 
 
 John \ciU, ll'm. .Skutl, // III. I'ttcrs. It was proved ut Ulilhrhun'h, 
 before Mr. liartho. Sli/rt, elerk, surroj^ate lo Mr. Jolui Ma/ih-.ilcii, 
 Arelideacon of Siijfo/k, the 4lh of Soifmlur, 1 JMy. 
 
 Margaret, relict of the testator, \va* buried ul litiford, the 22d 
 June, Kill, OS up|H.-ur8 by the purish regislcr. 
 
 This leijacv is yearly paid to liie rector and church-w ardens, and 
 is distributeil anioiiij the poor at llieir tiiscrclion. In I6b7, the 
 estate biloOKid lo Robert hroJudl of IWsthttll in Suffolk, uiul now 
 (I7;><ij to Sir. It iHiain Croucjoot of ll<C(Us, who pay» Uie nioDey, 
 without any deducuon for Uuves, llieM laud« being exempted un 
 account of tiie charily. 
 
 Id lyji, John Dalton surrendered half a roo<l of land in IMUiu^'t 
 ilcadon:, to tiie use of the inliabitnnls of I'ersfieU for ever. 'Iliis 
 was »old by eeneral consent, in llie year ifioo, and was the very 
 piece that /{i?/i«^''< dale htood on, over which, ihe road into the 
 meadow (wliicn was ihen l^mnuis or half-year ground) puss4.'(l, by 
 which purciiftso the whole meadow (except the half acre of town 
 hind. Which I'Aingham gave) was got into one person's hands, who 
 aAerward, by coUK-nl of all tlie commoners, upon payinji; a sum of 
 inonev to the town's use, encloseil it ; from which lime it cciised to 
 be openeil at lAinunns, though the meadow on the other si»le of the 
 lane, at lljc west end oi it, in which there are several owners, slill 
 [I7J()] continues lAimiiias, at which time it becomes fowimo//, and 
 »o continue!) till the Slh of March. 
 
 TiK're is also half an acre of land,callcd the Totrn Patch, which is 
 freehold, let at 10». (k/. per annum, now veste<l in feoffees, lo the 
 use of the church ; but hy Mhoin it was given I do not find. There 
 IS another smnll piece ot ground, which was taken off the (oinnion, 
 lo Itiiild a tcivin-houHe ii|>oii, and aiuither small piece, colled Btck't 
 iiinl,v\\ winch a lowu-house formerly slooil. 
 
 FEKSrillLI) KLCTUKV 
 
 Is in the archdeaconry of Sorfotk, and deanery of UctUnhall ; being 
 undt r the value of lO marks, il pavs no first fruits, though it dtn-s 
 yearly tenths, it being unditcharged.* It hath a reclory-housc, and 
 
 ' All rf. tcjricjnotfxccr.Irj.- ilir •. .iliic firil fruits, though lliry do icnihi, un- 
 ^ , *nA iW ^ >■ leu iliry arc ditdurgca upon the act. 
 
 t.- Ill the Kin, J
 
 FERS FIELD. 99 
 
 51 acres of glebe, all in the rector's possession at this lime, and all 
 tithes are due in their proper kind. [173C.] It paid 12rf. Peter- 
 pence, and was taxed at 8 marks in the 0/d I'alor. In the Answers of 
 the Parsons, anno l603, Henry IVomack, A.M. rector, returned his 
 answer, viz. that there were 75 communicants in tlie parish; that he 
 was doubly benificed, holding this, with the vicarage of Great llUiiig- 
 ham, in Rockland deanery ; that Sir Thomas Cornwakj/s and Authont/ 
 Wyngfield were patrons by courses. 
 
 King's Books. 1 Tenths. 1 Sj/nodals. \ Archd. Procura. I Norw. Tax, 
 668 12 810101 050 | 500 
 
 Pension. 1 Acres of Glebe. 
 6 8 I 51 
 
 The Prior ' of the priory of tlie monks of St. Mari/ at Thetford 
 (now called the Abbey) had two tithe sheaves out of every three, ot 
 all the wheat growing on certain lands in this parish, which portion 
 of tithes was given them by fVilliam de Bosco, or Bois, in the 1 Itli 
 century, soon after their foundation, and was confirmed, among 
 other donations, by William Bygod, the principal lord of the fee, of 
 whom it was held by the Boises ,■ it is called two measures in that 
 deed, but in the Leiger Book of this house, two garbs, or sheaves. 
 This was afterwards, with other revenues, confirmed to them by 
 King Henry II. when he was at Thetford, m these words, Ecclesia dr. 
 Tirevilla, for Firevilla, or Fersfield; the rector afterwards came to a 
 perpetual composition with the Prior for thb portion of tithes, for 
 which he and his successours were to pay for ever, an annual pension 
 of 6s. 8d.* which is now [17jG] paid to his Grace the Duke of iVTor- 
 folk, to whose predecessors the said priory, with all that belonged to 
 it, was given at its dissolution : and this was the only religious liouse 
 that was ever eoncerned in this parish, except the priory of St. James 
 at Old Bokenham, the prior of which held lands here, that were 
 purchased of Sir John Verdon, along with the Priori/ Manor of Bri- 
 singham; all which passed, as that did; and therefore I need only 
 refer you thither. (See p. 62.) 
 
 Sir Robert de Bosco or Bois, Knt. with the consent of William du 
 Bois, Knt. his son, and William du Bois then rector of Fersfield, 
 
 ' Diigd. Mon. Ang. tom. i. fol. religious house or other parish than lliat 
 
 665, 7. in which the lands laid; and to such 
 
 + Before the Council of Lateran, anno gjrants as these it is owing, that often- 
 
 I J 15, every lord and owner, (though he times one parish hath tithes, or a portion 
 
 was obliged to pay his tithes,) had it in of tithes, from another parish, or some- 
 
 his power to pay them, or grant them times an annual sum or pension instead 
 
 to whoever he would, so that they were of it, (for there were generally perpetual 
 
 ecclesiastical pcrsonsthat received them, compositions made for such tithcs,which 
 
 to all which aibiuary grants this Council are nowcalled Pensions) though sonie- 
 
 put anend; and from these grants it was, times it continues other^vise to this day ; 
 
 that most pensions had their original, and indeed we find, that a lord when 
 
 the lord often granting the tithes of his he founded a church in his own manor, 
 
 demeans, or every third garb of them, generally endowed it with the tithes of 
 
 (just as he pleased,) to any religious house all the lands belonging to that manor or 
 
 that he had a favour for; and in like fee, in whatever parishes they laid, and 
 
 manner every common owner (with the this very thing was tlie foundation of 
 
 consent of the lord of whom the land such great intermixtures in many pa- 
 
 was held, and not otherwise) could grant rishcs, as we now find. 
 
 his tithes, or any part of tliem, to any 
 VOL. I. 
 
 o
 
 100 ieusiii:ld. 
 
 cave lo U»f Chmat monk* of Si. Mary ot Thitford, two purh. of 
 \^. ' '.' ^ of ull hi* (icmeun* in FrriHrfd, Mliirh Tu- licld in nil own 
 ..unrl> of all fruit, pruM-, uiul lH-iiii<k; the witiinuci were, 
 Kvf,tr liigol Km\ o( Sorjolk, Kob. d< llumnil, and uthcn.* 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 lYm. dt Boteo, or liois, patron nnd rector. 
 
 I.'JIS, kni. .VdfiA, l\m. Yngrrth, de Dcbtnham, priiisl. Chris- 
 tian DB MosK, formerly wife of Sir itoDUHT UK Bosco, Knt. 
 
 13l3,<)kaJ. Apr. IVm. d( ("(/r/ij/f, uicolite. Ditlo. 
 
 \Sl6, 4 ka\. Oct. IhoHUndt Merchttour, m-co\\W. Ditto. 
 
 1327, 7 ide« Ivr. Raft dt liliikeftlnne, jiriist. Thomas, Eari- 
 Miinhal. Eurl of SorfolU, son to the Kinj;, euardinn to Robert dt 
 hosco, Knt. ckcea»cd ; the inunor of FrrsluldXiKm^ held of tlie EjitI, 
 who, at the dentil of Christian, seized liini as liis ward. 
 
 1.12(j, IH kal. I'tbr. Sitho/as de Aschjidd, priest, at tile resiignatiou 
 of liluktidont. Ditto. 
 
 Sic/io/at Ullon, ri-ctor; he rciigncd, and iji 
 
 1344, '11 Dettm. Aiidrtn di/lour de IVymbotciluim, priest, suc- 
 cettleti. John Homakd, Km. 
 
 1352, 25 Ottober, Richtird Munch, priest, at Oiflour'i rosijjnalion, 
 who changed with him for the vicarage of St. Murif Magdulcn of 
 ly^S^enhiilt. Sir John Uffokd, Km. 
 
 I3j8, 4 Julif, Robert A^nz, (.or Agar,") priest, ot Mnnch's rc-signa- 
 lion, who changed for tllownorton !St. AiulrtK. Sir Joii.N de 
 I'fkobo, Knt. 
 
 l.JSI, 15 ./««<•, ./oA/i r»'ryw, priest, William de Ufford Earl of 
 .N////"o/)t, Sir John Lov ell, Sir John Tiddemiam, Knts. John 
 iloLKiiAM.JoiiN .Maiilere, reciot of Isli/ngton, and Richard de 
 U ALTON, true patrons, hy virtue of a fcolfraent in trust, made to 
 thcin by Sir Rtiiiiur Howard, Km. 
 
 l.'JDI, 17 Apr. .lohn Ciiilc of I'rtston, priest, at Grym's resignation, 
 who chanued tliis lor iiarboldithain. .Margaret, relict of Sir 
 
 RollF-KT lloWARII, Knt. 
 
 1405, 12 Maif, Sir I'homtu Kt/ngc of Drelhenham, priest Sir John 
 lIowA.tn, Knt. 
 
 UCK), a Apr. John Yittle {Guile or Gate) of Garboldiiham, priest 
 Ditto. 
 
 1411, 15 Febr. Sir Thomas Gotrthjitld of /jttoW*. priest. Ditto. 
 He was instituted to the parish church of Ftrsficld, with the chapel 
 of St. ,Y««r thereto uiine.ved. 
 
 I4'24, 7 .\'orr/;i. ./o/iM /{<7/^^.<, priest. Ditlo. 
 
 1477, Richard liiitlt, or Huulc, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1493, .lohn Caundiche, rector. 
 
 Richard Dullr died rector, having taken il again after his 
 resignation. 
 
 150;l, 28 Aug. Henry Gaytan, rector. John de Vere Earl of 
 Oxford. 
 
 1527, 17 .fan. Thomm H'titUy, A.M. on Gaylon's death. Eliza- 
 S£Ta Countess of Oi/ord. 
 
 ' E Rcgr. Prioral. Tlicford. Bib. Cot. lub. tit. Vitel. F. 4.
 
 \Tofaci pagt loi, 
 
 r« AK CI s Blouzi II LD, Rcctof of Fcrsficld, 1736. 
 
 JoHK Blomtild, Esq. died without issue about 1548; he was de- 
 ■ccndcd from Sir Henry Broumflclc, ahai Bronicfilde, Knt. who lived in 
 the time of King Henry VI. and was one of those sent by him in 1433, to 
 the council o\ Bitil, at which time he bore the same arms with this John. 
 
 Henry Bloufild 
 of FcrsScId, Gent. 
 
 John Blomcfilde of Fcrsficid, Gem. A" 1581 ; Agnes, dr. and coheiress of Mr. iVicholas Tollv 
 buried there in ifioo. T ,.rQ,-;.;«„u,™__jAir__i. ■ r ■^ ' 
 
 buried there in 1603. 
 
 ■i Brisingham, and Alice his wife. 
 
 1. John Blome- 3. Nic. Blomc- 
 
 field, LL.B.tcl- field of Kcn- 
 
 low of Trinity nmghall, from 
 
 . Bloi 
 
 Hal 
 
 n Cambr. 
 
 whom the 
 
 died without it- Blomefields of 
 sue in 16361 and that town de- 
 made Henry bis sccnded, which 
 brother hit aolc family is now 
 heir. cxtiacu 
 
 field off 
 ham had issue, 
 but the family 
 is now extinct. 
 
 5- Wm. Blome- 
 Held of Diss, 
 Gent, whose 
 ion, James 
 Blomcfield of 
 Diss, Gent, died 
 about 1635, and 
 that family is 
 now extinct. 
 
 Anne, daughter- 
 and coheiress of 
 Mr. Musket of 
 Brisiugham, 
 buried at Fcrs- 
 (ield. 
 
 -Henry Blome- 
 field of Fcrs. 
 field, Gent, 
 buried there. 
 
 John Blomcfield 
 sometime of Cor] 
 in Cambridge, 
 buried with hi 
 
 of Fcrsficid, Gem. Elizabeth, dr. and 
 pus Chnsli Collegcyhciress of John 
 [icd A= 1700, was Peak of Thorn- 
 ham-Magna in 
 Suffolk, Gent. 
 
 -Diana, dr. of 
 Mr. Bcnham 
 of Suffolk, 
 buried at 
 FersficlJ, ar. 
 a chevron be- 
 tween three 
 dc-Iiscs tab. 
 
 6. Tho. Blome- Bridget, the eldest daughter, married 
 
 held 01 Walton, Edmund Wallis of Fcrsficid, Gent 
 
 from whom the az. a bend imbattlcd arc. Anne thj 
 
 Blomefields of 2d. dr. married John Afdrich of Bed- 
 
 Watton and 
 Easi-Dearbam 
 arc descended. 
 
 logficld in Suffolk, Gent, or, on a fess 
 vert, a bull passant arg. Elizabeth, 
 the 3d. dr. married Abraham Youngs 
 of Methwold inNorfolk, Gent. arg. on 
 abend Jab. three griffins heads erased 
 of the field, in a border of the secoodi 
 eight bezants. Mary, the^ih dr. died! 
 without issue. ' 
 
 John Blome- 
 iicld, eldest 
 xoi), died sin- 
 gle in his fa. 
 thcr's life- 
 time, buried 
 at Fcuficld. 
 
 Henry Blomefield of Elizabeth, dr. of Wm 
 
 - --ngham, Gem. 
 buried at Blononon, 
 he bore a crcsc. or, 
 00 a Crcsc. sab. for 
 difference. 
 
 "Ptddock of Brising 
 ham, Gent, chequy, or, 
 and az. on a pale sab. 
 a woman's breast dis- 
 tilling drops of milk 
 proper. 
 
 1. Diana married Greg. Fisher 
 of Redgrave, Gent. g. a chief 
 crm. a dolphin in fess or. 3, 
 Anne, married Isaac Ncwson of 
 Bury St. Edmund's, Gent. az. on 
 a fcis arg. three crcaccntj of the 
 field. 
 
 a. Henry Blomcfield Elizabeth, dr. of 
 of Fcrsfield, Gent. "^"' " 
 now living, A" 1737 
 
 I. Style 
 
 Hcnrj', born in 1736. 
 
 Mcndh,mi„S«f- of Blo„or- C "l.o; ll Yr^^Hltr ■ "" •'°''° 
 
 Heniy Ebiabcth, eldest dr. married in 1699, 
 
 dird an to Rob. Shales of Oxburgh, Gent. gul. 
 
 infant, six escolops and a crescent in fess arg. 
 
 in 1676, after that 10 John George of Thetfoid, 
 
 buried Esq. arg. a fess gul. between three fal- 
 
 thcre. cons with their wings expanded ai. 
 
 armed or. In 1714, the married to 
 
 the Rev. Mr. Anthony Neech, rector 
 
 of Snilicrion and Warham in Norfolk, 
 
 and dying without issue in 1730, was 
 
 buried at Fertfield. 
 
 Henry Blome- 
 field of Fcrs- 
 ficid, Gent, 
 was born in 
 1680, and was 
 buried at 
 Fcrsficid in 
 1733- 
 
 Alice, dr. and Mary, 2d dr. m.irricd 
 heiress of Jn. Jn. Denton of Laking. 
 Batch of Lyn licaih in SufF. Gem. 
 
 Regis, Gcr , 
 she died in 
 1723, yEt. 5a 
 buried at 
 Fcrsficid. 
 
 ^. two bars gul. .„ 
 chief three cinqucfoils 
 sab. after that to Na. 
 Ihaiiicl Oaks of Snit- 
 leiton; she died with, 
 out issue; buried at 
 Snictcrton. 
 
 Anne, ,l,c 3d Sjrsb, tl,c 4ih dr. miri-icd Mr. lohij 
 , A'l-i"^- ^^"S'" °' TI,«ford in Norfolk. Sab. 
 "Wd 1683, a ehcv. between three de-lises or, on a 
 chief of the 2d, three de.lisei 32. a cres- 
 cent for difference. She is boned un- 
 der an altar tomb in St. Culhbert's 
 churchyard in Thctford, and of many 
 children, had only two drs. thill lur. 
 iir^'^j ^"! ^^^Ah, married to Henry 
 UartJ of iVewcaiile upon Tyne, Gent, 
 who hath issue, John; and Hellen, who 
 IS still single. 
 
 and was bu 
 ried at Fcrs- 
 ficid in i6go. 
 
 I 
 
 a. Peter Blomcfield 3. John Blome 
 
 of Fcrsficid, Genu field, bom in 
 
 born A" 1715, now lys?, now mh- 
 
 »inglc, 1737. gle, 1737, 
 
 1. Francis Blomcfield was born at Fcrsficid, July 03, 1705^ 
 was educated first at Diss, then at Tlietford, and from thence was' 
 sent to Gonvilc and Caius College in Cambridge, April 1, 1724. In 
 1737, made bachelor of arts, and the 17th of March in that year, 
 was ordained deacon i» the church of St. Giles iu the Fields, Lon- 
 don, by Dr. William Baker, Lord Bishop of Norwich; Oct, 15, 
 I7a8, was made a licensed preacher by Dr. Thomas Tanner, then 
 Chancellor of Norwich. In 1 729, was ordained priest by the tame 
 Bishop, in his piivalc chapel at Norwich, on the 27th of July. On 
 the xgth of the same month was instituted rector of Hargham in 
 Norfolk, at the presentation of Tho. Hare of Hatgham, Esq. and on 
 Sept, 13, in the same year, was instituted rector of Fcrsficid, at the 
 presciiiation of Henry Blomcfield, Gem. his father, and obtained an 
 union to hold both the rectories, which he did till Jan. a8, 1730, 
 when he resigned Harghara. 
 
 I 
 
 -filar^, dr. of the Rev. Elizabeth 
 
 "Mr. t*\^encc Wo- Blomcfield 
 
 mock, rector cf Gas- bom 1708, 
 
 tor by Yarmouth, and QOV.' '■ingle. 
 
 vicar of BuMon, cou. 
 
 sin and heir to Dr. 
 
 Lawr. Womock, late 
 
 Bishop of St. David's, 
 
 married at Ashmen* 
 
 hagh in Norfolk, Sept. 
 
 >. I73«* 
 
 Alice, bom in 
 1712, buried 
 at Fcrsficid 
 the same year. 
 
 10 1714, now 
 single. 
 
 Elizabeth Blomcfield, Alice, bom Sept. c6, 1735, died 
 born Octob. 14, 1733, March 21, in the sam« year; 
 
 sow living. 
 
 buried at FcriiUld.
 
 FERSFIELD. loi 
 
 1532, i Jan. Sir William Cotney, chaplain, on JVestley's resignation. 
 Elizabeth Countess of Oxford. 
 
 1559, 13 Febr. Sir Richard Flynt, priest, on Cotney's At&\h. Rob. 
 Wyngfilde, Knt. 
 
 1579> 29 Apr. John Dalton, clerk, on FlynVs death. Hugh Mul- 
 LEY, yeoman. 
 
 1579, 30 Dec. William Pecket, on Flint's death.* Robeut 
 Wyngfilde, Knt. 
 
 1595, 19 -^ug. Henry Womack, clerk, at Pecket's resignation.' 
 John Cornvtaleis, Esq.' 
 
 1609, 2 Dec. Lawrence Womack, S. T. B. by resignation.' Lapse. 
 
 1642, 21 Juli/, Arthur Momack,A.M. on Lawrence's death.' The 
 King, as guardian to Robert Wi/ngjield. 
 
 1685, 3 August, John Barker on Arthur's death. Thomas 
 Barker, Gent. 
 
 1729, 13 Sept. F-rancis Blomejield, clerk, the present [1736] rector, 
 was instituted on the death of John Barker, at the presentation of 
 Henry Blomefield, Gent, patron of this turn. 
 
 ' He had Brisiiigham also. advovvson, and Sir Thomas Cornwaleis 
 
 ' He had Great EUingham. was his brother and heir. 
 ' By grant of this turn from Robert ^ He had Lophani. 
 Wyngfield, Knt.; he had a moiety of the ' He had Q^udenlianu
 
 lot 
 
 F E U S F I E L D. 
 
 
 /it jMilf\ "rJl '^'.a/ / 
 
 ri. fr f .f 
 
 Tlie Chvrch is dedicated lo St. Andrerc the Apostle, whosff 
 cfiigies wa* pBiiitcd oil the wall over iht- north door, tlioueh now 
 whitrd over. \\'ho wns the first fotinder of a church here I know 
 not; but llic prckcnt nuve, in all probabihlv. was built by Sir Robert, 
 son of Sir JtobrrI d( Jiotco, Kill, about the liiller end of the lith cen- 
 tury, whow third son, /I illiam dr Hoico, priest, built the cluiiictl, and 
 rcMTved an iirch in the north v\all for his own burial, his father. Sir 
 Robert, bein^; buried (as I lake it) close by him. After this, about 
 I308, Sir Robert de liosco, eldest son o\ the last mentioned Sir 
 Robert, began to build an additionary south isle, with a cha|>cl at its 
 cast end, in which he reserved an arch under the south window for his 
 own grave ; but dying in I.' 11, the work stood some time unfinished, 
 his son Sir Rnlnrt beinc; a minor, who lived so little time after he 
 i; • als^)(lied, in I ;'i.).';, before it was perfected, Alice, 
 
 111- -, b« iiijj; then married lo S]t Jo/iii //oK«r(/, junior, 
 
 Knt. who finished tlie work, and adorned the sepulchre of llie said 
 Sir Robert, his falhcr-in-lnw, and the windows of the isle, with the 
 anns of his own and wife's family; and indeed I am apt to think 
 that llu-y both were buried in the ehaijel (which wiis dedicated lo St. 
 Amu) at the east end of this isle, for I do not meet with the place of 
 their buiial in any author; and by all that 1 can collect from evi- 
 dences, they lived and died liere. Me it was also that built the 
 »leeple, as the arms cnrvetl in slone plainly prove ; the first is a plain 
 cross, b<-ing the arms of ]li/god, from whom the lioiset had the town ; 
 tile s<-coiid is Hoist arms single, between wliich is his own coal, im- 
 paling that of his wife, liz. Ilouard aiul Hoii. The south porch 
 Mild l>«.-!fry were huill in 1494, with money given by .Irj/'eri/ LUiiig- 
 ham of 1 erffic/d, for that use, as may be seen in his will (p. <Ki.) 
 
 It is a sin.ill building, but in good repair, the nave, chancel, and 
 •outh porch being tiled, and the south i-'le leaded ; the steeple is 
 tfjunre, uiid hath but two bells, lliough it had three till the second was 
 split liy u tciniM-st about HO years since, together with the steeple, 
 which IS iiiiw [ 17'5''] supported by iron cramps. Part fif its metal 
 wa* sold in 1708, towards repairing the church, which \\m then new
 
 FERSFIELD. 103 
 
 paved, together with the chancel, at the charge of Mr. John Barker 
 then rector, and Elizabeth his wife, by whom the chancel was new' 
 rooted at that time ; she gave also a new set of clothes for the desk 
 and pulpit, of purple velvet, with a neat purple cloth carpet, wrou'rht 
 with gold, and a cushion for the pulpit, of the same, with cushions 
 to Jay round the altar rails, and a large cedar chest to lay them in 
 on the hd of which are the arms of Tilney impaling iJearf, beine the 
 arms ot Francis Tilntv, rector oi: Brisingham, her father, and his wife 
 daughter of Ihomas Read, Esq. her mother, under which is written, ' 
 
 H^c, Lector, Cedri Claus^ conduntur in area, 
 
 Vestimenta quidem Consecrata Deo. 
 
 At the step of the altar lie two black marbles, thus inscribed, 
 Felgate, cz. two fesses arg. between six mullets or, 3," 1 
 
 Crest, a griffin seiant gul. its wings elevated or, its body pierced 
 
 through with a broken spear : 
 
 HERE LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF 
 
 PHILLIPA FELGATE THE WIFE OF MR. WILLIAM 
 
 FELGATE OF LONDON SKINNER WHO 
 
 DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE ] 8TH OF JANUARY 
 
 1645. 
 
 Etate sue 62. 
 
 Fkere, gid. two leopards faces in pale, between as many flaunches 
 or. Crest, an antilope's head erased arg. out of a coronet G. 
 
 HERE LYETH INTERRED THE 
 
 BODY OF ANNE FRERE WIFE 
 
 OF MR. THOMAS FRERE CITE- 
 
 ZEN & SKINNER OF LONDON 
 
 WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 
 
 THE 25 OF JANUARY : 1643 
 
 AGED : 29 YF,ARES. 
 
 On a small black marble in the altar rails, 
 
 HERE LIES BURIED 
 
 HENRY BLOMEFIELD GENT. 
 
 WHO DIED NOV: THE 3D 
 
 1670. 
 
 ANN HIS FIRST WIFE 
 
 LIES AT HIS RIGHT HAND 
 
 AND DIANA HIS SECOND 
 
 AT HIS LEFT. 
 
 On the back side of the screens is this. 
 
 The 
 
 Father 
 
 The Word and 
 
 Tlie Holy Ghost, 
 
 And these Three, 
 
 Are one. 1. John 5. 7. 
 
 Three in One. Luke 3. 2 J. 22. 
 
 One in Three. Gen. J.2. Io:],3. 
 
 Is Unity, in Trinity. lohn; 15. 26.
 
 104 F E R S P I B L D. 
 
 r 1 the iKH-th wmII, about t^To or titrrr Ceat frooi the 
 
 ei\~ 'L'M'iot a pnrU in 111* tiiiiMt, cuvrj III ttSoe^hBTfaw 
 
 had lour por«l» knrrlme iii tbrir ■Kirplirrs I>t hiiii, twct on ««i-h iidr. 
 'lliu Wini( Wvrl w>th the rtnur, had ruulroc'trd muiMure, aiul botrao to 
 drcmr vrry much ; ami tli^reforr, in order to binder it« dri'Avuig hir- 
 ihrr, I Ciiuv-d it to he takeii out of lU place, aiid tho »hilin^, uilU 
 which it hnH Ix.'ert wa»hcd over, to be K-rap<'d odT cuutwuitU ; u|ioa 
 whiili, I diKOvcred the colour* Willi uhich il waa fint adoiiu-<l, and 
 found thill the liir^e »iouc on whi<-h he lies »•»» grwi, n'juctenliiig 
 the earth ; hit bend lie* on u pilluw, and tliHl on a cuihioii, both wiiicli 
 were red, the cushion betiig Howcred \«iih Mlver, luid ibe pillow wilii 
 gold ; hi* feel lie on u buck couchant ermine, which is the cre«l of 
 the BoiSRs; hi* irmTn tnu black, hr» ca«sork retl, pill all o\er, in 
 laiitatiuu ut' enibroideo', and |H>\vck.-rt-d all over with rrmiue ; roand 
 ba wa.^te ii a girdle, wliich was gret-n, bvcklcd wilJi u blitck buckle 
 DPoii III-, breast; tVoai the neck lu the girdle \vu« lite comulutc uruit 
 Ol ihc HaisES, which may slill l>e s<cii in two of tlic chancel w iiidows; 
 the circuinicription was in French, the letterj befnj» only painted on 
 
 tbe stone whirli he lies on, and i» nil lost but these words, : K(: 
 
 :AVE11A: . However, we are not nl a loss to know 
 
 who he was, for from the arms and crest il is plain he was a Jiois, 
 from the habit, that he was a priest, and from the arch that he lies 
 in, (which must have been made when the chancel was built, as any 
 one upon sight of il inukt ow n,) tlial li<' w;^ builder of Uie ciioncel ; 
 so that it ran be nobody but H li/itiiii du Bun, priest, rector here, w Ik>, 
 when he built the chancel, restned this place for his <jwn interment. 
 He aflenrards resipne<l this rectory, and was instituted to (iarbuldit- 
 ham AllSainti, wliich he resigned some years after, for the vicarage 
 KiiGrtat Coiifrth in .Vi//roft-,orwhich place he died vicar, about \3d'i. 
 At the removal of the effigies I fonna it was joined in the midst, and 
 hollow, beini; full of burnt coals, which were put there to suck up the 
 moisture, and keep the stone dr), that its colours minht not be injured. 
 J had it raised above a foot high from the ground, and painted in its 
 original colours, cauaing litis inscription to be put on a plate, and 
 fixed to the wall : 
 
 " UiUiam dn Rots, Priest, Founder of this Chancel, Patron and 
 " Rector of this Church, and of VntrboMnkam AU-Sainti, Vicar of 
 " Great Conerlh in Siiriolk third S<in of Sir Robert ilu Hois, Kiit. 
 " and Brother to that Sir Robert, who hes buried in the SouUi Isle ; 
 " He died aboul iSje." 
 
 Upon the ground, close to tiie arcb, lies a large raised coffin-stone, 
 witli a cross on ihne grieces, the munuinent, perhaps, of his fatlier ; 
 botii which are here presented to your riew. 
 
 There are two stones in the chancel disrobed of their inscriptions, 
 but never had any arms or efhgics. 
 
 On ihe south side of St. Aime'^ «h<ipel, in tlii' south isle, under the 
 window, in an arch in the wall, lies an ethc^es of a knight, armed cap- 
 >\-pi<^, cut out of one piece of oak, whi< h being in a dirty condition,! 
 had it taken out and wa-slicd tery < Uaiv, awl upon removing it, found it 
 hollowed alul iilled a» the former, with tHjrnt coaU : the jdaiik «»n w liich 
 it lies was painlc<l green, with dowers, grass, nod leave- : the iHigies 
 is cNnr t >i.\ feet, ami [>roportioiuibtc in uil purls ; a sword huiigs on
 
 V,f I P,i,i,- 104. 
 
 ^^Kcr^fit'ld m Nortolk. 
 
 S'. Ilo bcrt d a buis Ivn^ l «ln-i i in isn . 
 
 '.t /it\< tit Jl7//uiin ihi Rohs noht hanJ .
 
 r E R S F I E L D, 105- 
 
 a belt by his side. Under the head was a board, having on it, when I 
 first took it up, the arms of Buis and iMtimcr very perfect, and in 
 Latimer's coat was a label of three, arg. which very plainly proves 
 wlio he was that was buried here. The colours of the arms sealed off 
 in two or three days, after they were ex|K)sed to the air, for which rea- 
 son I had them painted on the pillow under his head. His helmet and 
 gauntlets were ^.owdered with ermine, and every other folding of his 
 military cassock, which hangs down lower than his armour, was the 
 same, it being the field of his own coat; the other foldings were gul. 
 the field of his wife's; his feet rest on a buck couchant arg. spotted" 
 with ermine, being his crest. His armour was mail, gilt all over with 
 
 fold, and ou his breast-j)late was his perfect coat, erm. a cross sab. 
 lis head lies on a pillow painted with red, and flowered with silver^ 
 and that lies on a cushion painted as of green velvet, flowaed with 
 gold, with which his spurs are covered ; several enibeliishments were 
 grided on a cement, and let into the wood in several places, on his 
 belt, sword, and spurs, and on the edge of the plank that he lies on, and 
 then covered with glass, but most were defaced : those that remained 
 were, a man's head cooped at the neck, with leaves in his month, a 
 spread eagle, a dog meetin^^ a hare, a dog fighting a lion, a bull toss- 
 ing a dog, and a lion couchant, with an eagle standing on him, pick- 
 ing out his eyes ; all which seem to intimate, that the deceased delighted 
 chiefly in war, and rural exercises ; but on a very large one that came 
 off the edge at his feet, was a representation of a building with arches, 
 under which were two hands joined, holding up a book, to signify (as 
 I lake it) bis founding this isle. 'I'he inscription was on the edge. 
 After removing the seats that stood before it, 1 caused it to be painfed 
 in the same colours, as near as could be, and added this inscription: 
 
 " Sir Robert du Bois, Knt. Son of Sir Robert, and Grandson of 
 " Sir Robert du liois, Knt. Founder of this Isle, Lord of this Ma- 
 " nor, and Patron of this Church, died in 1311, aged 43 Years. 
 " He marry 'd Christian, Daughtt^r of Sir Jf'm. Latimer, Widow of 
 " Sir Jo/m Carbonel, of Waldingjield in Suffolk, by whom he had 
 " Sir Robert his only Son, who died unmarried in 13:33, and Jlice an 
 " only Daughter, who married Sir .7()/<H,sonof Sir./oAw Howard, Knt. 
 " and carried the whole Estate of the Boiss to that Noble Family ."^ 
 
 The windows of the isle, and in particular the cast window of the 
 chapel, were formerly beautifully adorned with paintings on glass, of 
 the Twelve Apostles, the Blessed Virgin, and St. June her mother, to 
 whom the clapel was dedicated. She had a famous image standin'T 
 in it, and a large gi/d kept to her honour,' to which most that dicd^ 
 in this and the adjacent towns, generally gave something, and olten 
 Jeft money to find wa.v candle, and lights, continually burning before 
 it. From this place processions were usually made to a well or spring 
 about do yards from the north gate of the churchyard, at the foot of 
 the hill, which is still called Tami's Well, being a corruption for St. 
 Anne's Well. I'here was a separate chaplain that served here from 
 
 * 1326, Sir John Verdon, lord of 1505, Richard MIdlcditch of Bresing- 
 
 Brisingham, gave a quarter of wheat to ham, gave lod. by will to it. 
 St. Anne's gild at Fersfield. 1506, 24 Jan, Thomas Harlyng, priest 
 
 i47fi> Joh" Byllyng of Fersfield, gave of Hopton, g.ive lod, 
 his best rain to tliis gild.
 
 106 
 
 F K R S P I F. L I>. 
 
 II It wnt uiiiird In the p.iruli churrli, 
 1... 1 A rha|>liuii, uliicli iruni llii> tunc Ma» 
 
 rvni Hilt: : 1 meet with liut irw uf their nanicn. In 
 
 • • " " .Mf/»ervttl here, and nl hit going off, Sir Rrgi- 
 
 'Flu- window* were gliut-d bv Sir ./oA»i //ot'- 
 
 (I in till- ca»t window when Mr. /I riircr 
 
 j I ;) und It i« M-ry nliitli tioui the aroiii 
 
 aUiul It, ^mIiicIi wt-H- |M«^n«il ill thr iKilc^rtv <>( tlic I lotriirils,) that 
 
 • t wa* lliat Sir JuMm wlio niuini-d Mar^urrt , t\itu\^\iU[ ut Sir Jufiit 
 PtaU. 
 
 The fint coat bring Mow aiid iinpnhng Coin wall , n;.;. a hon 
 rampant gul- in « bordurt- ingniilcd lab. \)cian\6\ \Xw urins of Ins 
 grciii '' illii-r and ijrainlnioih»T. 
 
 '1 : 1 i« Itois and Latimi:ii ; his grandmother being a Jloit, 
 
 nnd Iki iitudici n IjUtimir. 
 
 'llic third islIuwAKU quartered with Plais, being his own and 
 wrift"« cojU. 
 
 Hie tburlii is CurTON iinnahng IluwAun ; the coat of Margaret 
 Jlotrard, hi* only daughter by I tai$, who was then married to Sir 
 L'oHStantine Clifton, Kiit. 
 
 ^ 
 
 Ij 
 
 m 
 
 \\p
 
 FERSFIELD. 
 
 107 
 
 And as a further memorial of him, we find that every window is 
 still [1736] filled with the following letters ; the first is a J and an H. 
 joined, with Howard's arms in it, for John Howard. The second aa 
 M with six escaiops in it, to signify Margaret Scales, hia mother. 
 
 In the windows are the following arms, all which now [1736] re- 
 main, except the two last, which are gone, as also the arms of Vfford 
 and iJfcA quartered; Howard impaling S/^eftcer,- Howard impaling 
 Plats; Clifton impaling Howard; Morley, Courtney with a label az. 
 impaling Scales; Shardelowe, ermine a cross gul. impaling Scales; 
 and there still remain these impaled coals, Ufford and Scales, Howard 
 and Scales, Bois and Latimer, though they are somewhat broken. 
 The lion rampant is collared az. 
 
 LATIMER. 
 
 HOWARD. 
 
 HOWARD. CORNWAL.
 
 106 
 
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 In the nave, at the entrance of the chancel, lies a black marhle 
 thus inscribed : 
 
 To the Memory of 
 Mr. WILLIAM FLOWERDEW 
 
 of Fersfield, 
 who died February the 12"" 1731. 
 
 In the 43'' Year of his Age, 
 And of Lawrence &> Catherine, 
 Two of his Children, who died 
 In their Infancy. 
 
 This Stone is placed by 
 
 Martha Flowerdew his Widow, 
 
 In Testimony of her Love and 
 
 Affection. 
 
 On another stone in shape of a coffin ; 
 
 John Father of 
 
 Jeffry Ellingham, 
 
 Died A° 1478. 
 
 He willed to be buried here, and gave marks to repair the church ; 
 to the altar 3s. 4c?.; to St. Anne, mother of the mother of God, 2s.; 
 to keep up the common torches of the town, \1d.\ to the friars 
 preachers at Thctford, x.s. 
 
 Before the pulpit lies a large stone, having had a plate of brass on it 
 formerly, which being lost, the townsmen had the following inscrip- 
 tion cut upon the stone : 
 
 JEFFRY ELLINGHAM, 
 
 of Fersfield, died A° 1493, 
 Who by will, dated the 18th Day of April 
 ^ in the same year, gave 
 
 4 Marks to build the South Porch, 
 I And his tenement and all the lands 
 
 thereto belonging, lying in 
 Fersfield, to divers Uses expressed 
 ; in his will, with this clause. 
 
 That if such uses should fail, 
 (as it hath since happen'd) 
 f then the clear Yearly Profitts 
 
 j' ... of the same are to be laid out 
 
 dn repairing, beautifying, and 
 adorning tliis Parish Churcb. 
 for ever. 
 
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 FERSFIELD. m 
 
 MRS. ELIZATlETH 
 
 BATCH, WIDOW 
 
 DIED DECR. THE 2d. 
 
 1729, AGED 8 [ 
 
 YEABS. 
 
 ALICE 
 
 WIFE OF HENRY 
 
 BLOMEFIELD, GENT. 
 
 DIED 17 MARCH. 1729 
 
 AGED 52 
 
 YEARS. 
 
 HENRY 
 
 BLOMEFIELD 
 
 CENT. DIED JUNE THE 
 
 ISt 1732, AGED 
 
 52 YEARS. 
 
 Against the south wall, to which the grave of the said Henry 
 joins, is a mural monument of white marble, having the crest, arms, 
 and quarterings of Blomefield, viz. 
 
 Blomefield, sa6. on a clievron or, three broom branches vert 
 budded guf. ; on a canton of the second, a spear sab. embrued, 
 broken in the truncheon. 
 
 Crest, a demi-tiger az. the mane and tail arg. holding in his paws 
 a sword proper, broken in the blade. Motto pro aris et focis. 
 
 Jolly, arg. on a pile in point vert, three sinister hands of the 
 field. 
 
 Musket, arg. two bars between six leopards heads gu/. 3, 2, 1. 
 
 Peak, vert, on a chevron between three lions heads erased or, 
 three croslets az. 
 
 Batch, arg on a bend gul, three bucks heads caboshed or. 
 
 Persons buried in the Church rcithout any Memorials remaining over 
 
 them, are: 
 
 Sir Robert du Bois, Knt. the last of that family. 
 
 1477, John Breese of this town; he gave the tenement Crows, and 
 6 acres 3 roods of land in Fcrfficld, to John Boole, then rector, to 
 sell it, and dispose of the money in masses, and other charity, for the 
 good of his soul.^ 
 
 1579, Richard Flint, rector, buried 29 ^pr. 
 
 1603, Febr. 18, John Blonujield, buried in the church. 
 
 1624, 10 March, ylgncs Blomcjicld of Fcrsficld, widow, buried by 
 the aforesaid John her husband. 
 
 1645, 4 March, Henri/ Blomfficld, Gent. 
 
 1652, 20 Jan. Thomas Frecre, Gent. 
 
 1687, 19 Jan. Atari/, wife oi John Barker, rector. 
 
 1687, Mr. John Arnold. 
 
 At the end of the beams of the roof of the south isle arc two coat*, 
 now painted in false colours, but should be Cormcal and Vfford. 
 
 3 Regr. Gclour.
 
 118 FERSriELD. 
 
 In the wc*t ei»«J of the i»lr u a »moll but pxc*«linp itrooip; rtttry, 
 it having lirt-n the rr|MMitur)- lor iIk- n-lirkt, {lUlr, cvidencct, and 
 urnanxiitJ o( the church, ul which ito otic could hcrctufurv come. 
 > ' ' I ItK-kt ; n plniii d<-iiioiMtru(i»ii lliat there liuth 
 
 1 . ..!uc, though now[i73(iiJ ihcic i> only oiir cup 
 
 Iclt. 
 
 Oil na altar luouamciit by tlic »outli chuoocl wall in tiic cliurcb- 
 yaxd . 
 
 Here lieth the l\o6y of Mr. 
 
 Joliti Barker, mIui miis Cuiule 
 
 Here from July the 7tli Kifil u»- 
 
 till Aug', tiie 2d l(J8.^, from 
 
 tliiit Tunc Hector, 
 
 until March liie 
 
 l.ltii IT'iH-M, tJien deceased, 
 
 A good Cliri'>iinii , iiiul one of the 
 
 best of iliit>b<inds ; 
 
 Aged 74 Years. 
 
 Mr«. ELIZAHiriH BARKCH, Widow. 
 
 di^tl Oct. the '2cl, IT'.I 
 Who by Will settled u'reiienient &, Lands, 
 
 lying in Uri^ingham, upon tiie Ucclur 
 
 8c Church-wnnieiis, nnd their Succe»»or«. 
 
 Tlw cleur Profilts of which, are to l)e 
 
 applied, in tencliing im miiny poor Children 
 
 of that parish above 8, nrxl under l(> ^ ears old, 
 
 to read, write, -ipin, and learn the Cliuri li 
 
 CHteeiii»in, a* the i'rofilts will liay for ; 
 
 She also tie<l her liouse and Land, called ten 
 
 Aca'», to keep up this tomb, on failure of 
 
 which, the Cliurch-wardens of I'ersfield are iinpowcrcd 
 
 to seize on tlie same, and repay llieinielves 
 
 what Monies they mIiuII Imj out of, in 
 
 Itepairing and Bcoutifving it, 
 
 together Willi tiieir Cfiurges. 
 
 llicrc arc several liead-stone-* for ihe lluirchint, who had a gooU 
 estate ill the parish ; the family extinguished in Mr. Hubert lioxixhiu, 
 who die<l .4pr 10, 1717. 
 
 In tlie time of tlie rebellion, this church wns purged of superttition, 
 (a» they calle<l it,) by Uk- rebels, who ilefaeed the carvings on (he 
 heads of the stats wiih their swords, uiid hacked the efligies of the 
 lioiut ; what few brasses there weie, were all rea\ed, and wvcral 
 ariiiH broken out of llie window*, and tlic altar rails pulled down: 
 the Lvidciiees, the Kiiiii's arms, Sic. were liiki.n awjiy before by Mr. 
 PiiJdofk the church-warden, who justly returned them at the Ke- 
 slorution. 
 
 In Ui j8, IlfHry Clark ui Hits, Gtorge Frrtwru, mid Robert Skiir/e 
 of I'tr^Jif/J, informed iii;:iin'>t Arlhiir H'omuck, rector of Ftrjicld, 
 S\r.Juh/i I'iflt/ork, nai\ Mr. Uolitrt //nf.f/ii«, of the same, charginj^. 
 lliein with endeavouring lo prepare, at their cost, u horse and man 
 iM the King of iVo/i, ^..is King (JharUt was then commonly culled,)
 
 FERSFIELD. us 
 
 and with harbouring mahgnants in all their houses; aiv^ the said 
 Arthur was particularly charged with speaking these words :* 
 
 " Here is a health unto his Majesty, 
 
 "Pray God confound his foes, 
 " And the devil take all Round Heads, 
 
 " For we are none of those !" 
 
 And also that he abused the government thus : 
 
 " Hey-ho ! for a two-penny halter, 
 
 " When you are hang'dyou shall have good quarter, 
 
 " Oh ! 'twould be a bi-ave sight, to see 
 
 " Ail the Hound Heads hang on a tree. 
 
 " Oh ! yee rogues ! ye must all come to it." 
 
 And further, that he offered to raise 500/. for the King of Scots, 
 and often drinks the King's health, and prosperity to the Royal 
 Family. 
 
 There was a copy of verses also laid to INIr. Piddock's charge, 
 which were not among the other papers, though the following lines 
 are there, and were made by some lioj/atisC, in praise of them : 
 
 " Hail, loyal poet, thy inspired breast 
 
 " Doth keep the rhyme, though thou forget'st the rest, 
 
 " Good ' small drink verses truly, and no doubt, 
 
 " They'd better been, but that the strong was out; 
 
 " The zeal I like, thou poet may'st commence, 
 
 " For though there's want of feet, there's none of sense, 
 
 " The things he writes are true, the verses false, 
 
 " The author's loyal, that's enough applause." 
 
 Upon these informations they were carried before Thomas Shcriffc of 
 Diss, Esq. then justice of peace, who committed them to Ipswich gaol, 
 where they continued some time ; but by the assistance of the said 
 Mr. Sheriff'e, who by private letters informed them of all that was iiv- 
 tended against them, they were all discharged, after they had gotten 
 certificates, according to his advice, of their good behaviours, from 
 the towns of Diss and Fersjicld ; u[)on which he had orders to ex- 
 amine the witnesses apart, and then they confessed, that they had 
 maliciously informed against them, and forsworn themselves, in 
 hopes of getting advantage by so doing; all which confessions they 
 signed before witnesses ; and thus, after much trouble and expense, 
 they were at last freed. 
 
 "This Arthur was ordained by Samuel Bishop of Norzvich, 21st 
 Sept. 1628, instituted l()4'i, and subscribed 15th Aug. WOi.'' 
 
 This town contiiins about 10 families, and GOO inhabitants ; it paid 
 l7. 14s. when the taxes were raised by tenths, ;uid was valued at7oO/. 
 to the association rates, and now to the King's tax, at Ai'l. [17"6.] 
 
 In the time of King Edward HI. the great plague reached even 
 this obscure village ; for in the court rolls a year oi two after, tiit 
 deaths of many of the tenants are presented ; and it is said, that 
 
 ♦ From the originals in my own s Alluding to his being plundered, 
 custody. ^ Consignation Book.
 
 114 SIIELFIIANGER. 
 
 They died in the great pestilence. At this time the parish was ahnost 
 all wood, there being no less than four large woods, besides several 
 groves, among which. Home Wood, or Great JVood, is first named, 
 and said to contain above 400 acres, Jl'inlei/ IVood, Wilcox and Rkhe'i 
 Woods, being of no small extent, all which are now cleared. 
 
 SHELFHANGER. 
 
 This village hath gone by these following n^mci, Scelvangra, 
 Scheifangyll, Shdfangks, Shelf haiigre, and now Shelf hanger, the sig- 
 nification of whicli I cannot the least guess at. 
 
 The Church stands against the road leading from Diss to Win- 
 farthing, and hath a square tower and four bells ; the nave is thatched, 
 the chancel and north porch are tiled. It is dedicated to all the Saints, 
 as was the gild that belonged to it. 
 
 It is a rectory, and had anciently two rectors, each having institu- 
 tion to a mediety ; the patronage of one belonging to Bosvile's, after- 
 wards called IIoc's, manor, and the other to J isedelieu's. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 Hoe's, or Bosevile's Mediety. 
 
 1272. Eudo, parson of Shelf kangre, in the time of John de Ho, 
 Lord.' 
 
 1285. Peter de IIo, rector.* 
 
 1347, 2 December, Thomas, atte churche of Tkelvetham, priest. 
 Rob. he Bosvill, patron. 
 
 1362, 2 March, John Basset, priest, Adam Bosvile, patron. 
 
 VisEDELiEu's Mediety. 
 
 Henri/, rector of Shelfhanger.^ 
 1313, 3 non. 'Nov. John atte Shelf hanger church, accolite; Tho- 
 mas de Vehdoun, lord of J^r)t7/sec'o;</(, Knt. 
 1310, a J u)ie , Thomas de W alpole , c]eik. Ditto. 
 
 1347, 25 December, Bogo de Knovill.^ Ditto. 
 
 1348, 25 Noiem. Simon de Cranesle, accolite. Ditto. 
 
 134y, 30 Oclobc r, John de Beck dc Banham ; Sim. V\'arde, Ralph 
 Crophuli, 'I'homas IIalcote, and William- Witlesham, 
 trustees to Sir. John VnnnoN and Isabell his wife. 
 
 ]3f)2, 30 Januari/. Nicholas Dene, pviest. Ditto. 
 
 13G8, 2 October, Hugh Greene, priest, on Dene's resignation. J. 
 Verdoun, patron. 
 
 7 Cart. pen. me. » He had Brisingham. (p. 64.) 
 
 ' ' These were rectors when the Nor- 
 wicli taxation was made.
 
 SHELFHANGER. us 
 
 1375. 11 Jufy, Gilbert Co/man of Thuryton, priestj on Greene's re- 
 signation. Sir John Veudoun, Knt. 
 
 1375, 21 March, Sir John de Verdoun, Knt. and Adam Bos- 
 vile, tlie present patrons, considering the small revenues of each 
 niediety, consolidated them for ever, at the death of Gilbert Colman, 
 in John Basset, then rector of Bosvile's mediety ; the presentation 
 henceforward to be alternate.' 
 
 1410, 20, Febr. Richard ^ndi/eness, priest. SirEDMUNDNooN,Knt,' 
 
 142:5, 25 March, John Motewyn of Buri/ St. Edmund's, priest, 
 Thomas Torrei-, Esq. 
 
 1430, SO May, William 7y, priest, on Mof€»'_yH's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1458, 3 Septem. Thomas Levereche. Henry Noon, Esq. 
 
 14^8, 28 Octob. IVilUam Rede, on Levereche's resignation. Ditto, 
 
 1511, 2 ]\[arch, John Elniham. Ditto. 
 
 150,9, 28 May, Anthony Haj/u'/, chaplain, at Elmkam's death. Ditto, 
 
 1554, 14 Ju/y, John Harrison, at IVarner's death. Thomas Duke 
 of Norfolk. 
 
 1570', 7 Decern. John Baron, on Harrison's death. William 
 DixE, VV^iLLiAsi Canterell, &c. trustees for the Duke oC Kurfolh. 
 
 1579, 0, March, Thomas Davies. Phillip Em\ oi' ylrundell. 
 
 1580, 4 Febr. William Skarlet. I'hc Bishop by lajise. 
 1594, 16 May, Edward Cotton, clerk. Earl of Suffolk, 
 1627, William Bagley.^ Thomas Earl of ^ruj/rff//. 
 1662, Richard Crosdale, rector. 
 
 1674, 12 January, Tltomas Barry, A. M. on Crosdale's deaths 
 Henry Earl oi' Norwich, Earl-Marshal, &,c. 
 
 1687, 18 January, Obudiah Browne, A. M. on Barry's death. 
 Richard Richmond, apothecary, London. 
 
 1689, 16 May, The Kev. iMr. Joseph Henchman, A. M.the present 
 rector, [1730,] on Browne's resignation. Kichard Marriot, Gent, 
 and John Coggs, goldsmith, by grant from the Duke oi' Noifolk. 
 
 King's Books.^ 
 17 
 
 Tenths. 
 1 14 
 
 Si/nodals. 
 2 5 
 
 Prociir. Archd, 
 7 7 ob. 
 
 Acres Glebe, 
 4 
 
 On the font I saw the arms of Bosville, (a I suppose,) carved in 
 stone, with A on one side, and B on the other, being the initial let- 
 ters of the name of Adam Bosville, who was patron in 1362, about 
 which tune this might be set up; and in a south chancel window I 
 find the same arms quartered by Noon, viz. 
 
 Arg. A fess gul. bctvvecn six de-lises sab. 
 
 And in the same window it quarters arg. two chevrons az. the 
 whole in a baidure gul. and over them this broken inscription : 
 
 ' Lib. Instit. 6, fo. 3 j8. "Conies Marescalliis est patromis 
 
 * He held it by union with Thelton. " unins niedietatis, rector habet niansum 
 
 3 Shelf hangi'r. "cum xxviii. acris terras; a?stimatiir 
 
 Portio Henrici xi. marc, et dim. This " ead. xv. marc." This was Vicedelieu's 
 
 wab Vicedelieu's mediety. mediety, tlie Earl-Marshal was patron, 
 
 Portio Petri, xi. marc, et dim. This as guardian only. 
 
 was Hoe's mediety. " Johannes de Hoest patronusalterius 
 
 Portio Monachorum de Eya, iiij.i. " Medietatis, rector illius habet man- 
 
 Portio de Eya, xv. denar. " sum, cum xxviii. acris terrse, ?estima- 
 
 Portio Monachorum de Thetford in " tio illius xv. marc, portio Prioris de 
 
 dechnis. xvi'i'j.d. " Eye, v.s. 'ix.d." (Norw. Domesd.)
 
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 I tnilf pro bono Jil. tliii. IltHr. Soon, 
 
 I ror, tut qui — - bretbilerjieri. 
 
 In aaotlicr toulli windovr tlii>, on a 
 
 tx-tui (i:. kix cU>-li«c» or. 
 
 1" • ro llie ultar ruilii lie llirrc lari;<- ttonr«, 
 
 ■ if ihrir iirnis and in*-ri]iti<in» ; iiiulcr 
 
 llif tii>( lies llnin/, stm <il'>ir Iltiirq Nooh, 
 
 wlio ilied in 1487 , under llic iicM liei HUii- 
 
 nor liis »vife. 
 
 'i lie arms of / icriMieii were on n stone in 
 tlif chancel, but arc now gone, ni is iliis coat, 
 viz. pill, three ches^-rooks ermine. 
 
 I'nder « »niatl I'lfcslniie i< hiiricd Robert, 
 Miu of Rolii-rt dnbmirn ot" h/rfuim in ( 'iivihridi^rtJiirt, Esq. and Abigail 
 his will', «|io died March 'i7, 17i-,aj;c<l live yeiiis. 
 
 Here is n tonn-liouM- for two dwellers, a freehold cKhc of ;? acres, 
 lit at about 50t. a year, half the profits of which arc given to the 
 I>oor, and the other half to be applied to what uses tl>e church-war- 
 dens please. Tin- rector hath also a close of 3 acres, given to find 
 iK-ll-ropes, calleil lfe//-ro/>t Ciote. 
 
 In 17 '!^, Mrs. Surah I'raiik/nnd fia\e lOO/. with which tliere was 
 tVeehuld land purclia-4.'d in (lie parish, the rent of which !■> to find '2s. 
 MorlJi of bread to be distributed to the poor every Sunday, by ll)c 
 rector and church-wardens. 
 
 Tl>c Commons are inconsiderable, except their interconimonagc 
 with Jtrisiiizham on Hot/land (iieen; (see p. 7-;) and a large tract of 
 meadows which are common from lAtmmtn to March, and arc called 
 the l^iininat Mcaduvs. 
 
 'riiis parish is in the archdeaconry of \or/b/A-,and deanery of Krden- 
 hiiU. In l(>03,ithad 14'2 roininunicants, Tiath now near 40 dwcliing- 
 houscn, and contains ntmut £(>) inhabitants. It paid to the old tenth 
 C7<. was taxed to the association rates at [)SOl. and now at 7ti3l. 10$. 
 [I7:M).] 
 
 Here was a chapel dedicated to St. Andrtrc the Apostle, but when 
 or by wluin) founded I cannot ccrtainlv learn; btit most probable, 
 by some of the / trrs, lords of /I infatthing : it stoo<l on the great 
 road leading from Shrlfhangtr to Ifinfarlhing, and by its not being 
 mentioned in the Institution Ikniks, appears to have been a fret' 
 chaprl; it was standing in 1J18, for then MaKhcw llalifclt otffin- 
 farthing gave n bell to the chapel of .St. Jndrru in Sh( (f/iangrr. It 
 was supported by Inndi given bv the founder, all wliicJi at the Disso- 
 lution came to-tije Crow ii, and so remainetl till the 12lh of I'.lizalnlh, 
 and ihen she Tjave tliem t(» \icl/o/as Mijinic, llsq. and ./oAh Hall, 
 <»ent. and ilieir brim ; and in 1387, they were held by the CUre*, of 
 the manor of East Crfrntrirh, by fealty only, 'i'hey arc said to lie in 
 Drrp-Mcadute, and in other jilaees in Shrif haugrr and It inf'arlhing. 
 
 '1 he Prior of Ki/e had a portion of tithes given them by Hugh de 
 Axilitn, out of his demean lands here, which were confirmed to the 
 rector by that house, for n pension of 5«. {)d. a year,* which, at the 
 
 ♦ Rfgr. Eye, foi. jj, i. Mon, Ang. torn. i. 357.
 
 SHELFHANGETl. 1,7 
 
 Dissolution, went to the Crown, and was ijianled for G! years bv 
 Queen Elizabeth, to George Petr,-. Tlie register of this priory, ca'lied 
 D(mo,oi,' which now [I7:J(j] belongs to iMr. Thnmns Martin o( Pal- 
 grave, tells us the lands' names from which this portion issued, viz 
 IVIujf towns, Bulloklts Close, Breche-Lond, and Ckappell-Lonrl, of 
 wluch the prior to have two tithe sheaves, and the rector one. 
 
 The mqnks of Thctford had also a portion of tithes h^ie, viz two 
 garbs out of three of all the demean lands of fVinfarllni,<r tenement 
 being 50 acres, which they granted to the rector lor 18f^. a year 
 pension. ■' 
 
 The inhabitants of North Lopham hold a messuage, called Elwines 
 and 13 acres of land, and one acre in South Meadow, and other lands, 
 tormerlj demeans ot Shelf hanger, Fisedelieu manor;* all which in 
 1412, were man urn ised by Edmund Noon, Knt. lord of thatmaii'or 
 and "ranted to Richard Bosse, and his heirs, to be held bv the rent of 
 'l,'f}/°^^ yearly. This Richard inieoSed IVilliam T,/, parson of 
 Sm hanger, and others, to hold it for ever to the use of the parish 
 o\\orth Lopham, to repair their parish church. And in U54 the 
 said llilham jy mfeoffed lienrij Noon, Edmund Bokenham, Esqrs. 
 John Halle, parson of Garboldisham, and others to the same uses. 
 I ins land is still enjoyed by that parish. [1736.] 
 
 The town was in divers parts at the survey; Colo, a freeman of 
 Nasgre Stalre, in King Edward's time, had one manor, whicif, in the 
 Conqueror's time, Hervicus or llcrvi/ held, and Modephefc a free- 
 woman of Jkar's, had another, both being held of Jlan Earl of 
 hicmond. The town was a league long, and half a league broad, 
 and paid Qd. to tlie Geld or tax.' 
 
 And from this time they continued separate, till they united in the 
 Norjolh hunily ; the one was afterwards called Hoe's, and the other 
 I'lcedelieu's, to each of which a moiety of tlie advovvson was appendant. 
 
 IIOE'S MANOR 
 
 Was held all along oi Richmondhonom; and soon after the Conquest, 
 belonged to 1 > 
 
 IIuELiNE m: HuGETHALE, (or Uggeshalc,) so called from the 
 place of his habitation, whose son 
 
 RoGEn was sirnamed de Hoe, for the same reason, and 
 
 1 ETER, son of the said Roger, was called Peter de Shelfan^cN, and 
 
 sometimes f/e Ho. Roger de Ho gave lands here to Sibtou abbey, 
 
 and added to the manor by purchasing of Robert de Merle,/, and 
 
 Roger de Gming, Knts. lords of Reydon, much land in that town, 
 
 I_rom iho tyidciices ui North Lop- iv. ac semper, val. xx. sol. 
 
 1^01, '!f I '°f I" m'"' '•'^''^^ ''^"='' '" Scelvangra ten. Modcphefe libera 
 
 ' T^rrr. A° p'^"""'"'.^'- .• fc™na Algad ii. car. tre.' semper iii. 
 
 H. nJr m 'i ?T'i"\ ^:'^ '^™- ^■■'"- " >^v.°bord. semper ii. car. in do. 
 
 !^nuU ciln lT i '°'' ^V S^'^^-g" "^i"io «. ii. car. horn, ct i. soc. de iv. 
 
 l^nuit Colo hber homo Nasgen Stalre acr. silva ad xl. pore, et iii. acr. prati 
 
 1 . K. t. pro mancno modo tenet heru- semper val. xl, sol. Scelvangra habet i. 
 
 bord. tunc et post. ii. serv. m° i. semp. Gelto hi.d 
 11. car. m dominioet.ii. car. liom. Sjlva 
 VOL. I, Q
 
 118 SHELrilANOER. 
 
 «] i»ionr<l this manor to t-xtriid thillicr. lie lived nbout 
 
 li- ' 
 
 Sir (iiLDrRT DK !Io, nliiK tit Schflf(tu<^fli,wwi hi'* miii and heir. 
 
 John db Ho, son ol Sir Cri/Arr/.au^mniti-d il inort-, having divers 
 land'. j;ri\ntr<i him by AUsmidcr Abbot of Stliton , niter him 
 
 Hi s' V • ■ Wo (Kcurs in a deetl withont dulc, and (Jtbtrl tic Ho, 
 ahai .*« 
 
 Ill I .; 1 8, til I DO or F.I' DO DE IIo,nlins</f Sheiftni!;rc,\vns]on\, who 
 the »«ine yrar had u firant of" frrc-wariiii to hu manor;' h»' it toiiic- 
 tiiuo in evidences eaUrd Kudo ritz-Osbert, I'roin hi» fullier; he 
 gmnted his nioietv of the ndvowson, in 1'2'27. to 
 
 Half, son of Urpnald, nnd hi* heirs, who left il to his son Jiil' 
 liiim, \thoM.' son Jiihn, in l'2o(>, sold it to 
 
 John dkl Ho; and then it was joined again. 
 
 In l'J75 he wasSheritVof \nrfHk and Suffolk, nnd paid the tliiul 
 
 Eenny of the eonnly to the Marl of \or/"(*/A. He hil«l much laud 
 ere of Burt/ abl>ey, nnd many rents nnd services, to the value of 
 112 acres. To this Sir John succeeded 
 
 EvDo in 127C, in whose time it was first called Hor.'s manor; he 
 cinimcd utreifn nnd had it allowed in 1220. H allrr tic Shclfatigrr, 
 one of this family, was Sheriff of \orJolk and Siiffotk, and wus fined 
 for extortion ; but whethrr he was ever lord or no I cannot say. 
 
 In 1280, Hor.tn Dt Ho had it, who left it the same year to 
 
 John de Ho; he granted a messuage, lands, and commonage in 
 }>h(ll hunger, to H niter o{ Shcljhangcr, uncle to John lic Shothroke, 
 who became Walter's heir in 1286, in which year this John de Ho 
 is said to hold it of the honour of Richmond, nnd had ftreif allowed 
 liim. In l.">02 it bclongi-d toanollier 
 
 Ror.i'.n DE Ho, who in i;'i07, upon marrying Jlgncf, (simamcfi 
 Sortcich probably, for Willuim dc Sorrciro, clerk, was delorciant in 
 the fine,) setlUd it on them and their heirs. How it continued till 
 \S\5 I know not «ertainly, though it seems to lie in a family sirnamcd 
 
 Df. la Pole of lirifingham;' for in 13J1, this advowson was set- 
 tled by Henry dt la Pole of lirisinghnm, and Margtirct his wife, on 
 themselves and their heirs, which Margartt might be heiress to Roger 
 and Jgnes de Ho ; and it is probable that De la Pole's daughter might 
 marry Jinsnillc : however, thus far I am certain, that in iliis year 
 
 H<iui;HT DE UosEwiLL, or UosTiLLB, had the raauor which was 
 lately Roger de Hue's. In 13(>2, 
 
 Adam Bosevm.lb was lord, and so to 1375; in 1423. 
 
 Ttio.M,\s TouiiELL, l>o. had it, from whom it went, in 1 I5j, to 
 
 Hknky Noo.n, from wliich time it hath po^iicd, joined willi I ice 
 de Licu's manor, as it is at this day. [I73(i.] 
 
 THE .MANOR OF VICE DE LOU, 
 
 Which was the part held by Modcphefr , had its name from the lonl.* 
 lliereoi'; HumJ'ridtts I' iic de Lou, or /I olj''$ Face,(f(yr such is the sig- 
 nification of the name,) lived in the time of the Conqueror, nnd held 
 lands ill Berk\)tire,ixi Domadiitf informs us, whose descendant, 
 
 • Rol. Vo-c. jl H. 3» p. J, la. iS, » Fin. Norff. E. .3 li. i. N* ij?.
 
 SHELFHANGER. uq 
 
 William, was lord herein I170. In this family it continued 
 many ages. In 1300, 
 
 7 V\^^J:i'^^- ^^- y^^^ °'" ^°" married Rose, sister and heir oi Eliza- 
 beth de b/iotisOro/ce. He it ^vas that procured a grant of iiee-warreu 
 to this manor, which he settled, with the moiety of the advowson 
 which had always gone with it, 011 ' 
 
 Sir Thomas Vise du Lou, Knl. Iiis son, whieli Sir T/iomas left two 
 daughters coheiresses, between whom it was divisible : 
 
 IsADLLL, married to Sit Jo/in J'erdon, Knt. and Marmrct to TAo- 
 mas Mossclls, Esq. This ancient family was some time seated at 
 ^hotla/, in Samford hundred in Suffolk, and continued above seven 
 descents, possessed of a large revenue in Shotly, ISimpc, See They 
 bare arg. three wolves heads erased gul. from which bearino- they 
 niit^ht have their name. ° ^ 
 
 The moiety of the advowson went with Ferdoii'n part,' (for Jolui de 
 I'erdou, Knt. lord of ^//c/f 6a;or<//,presented here often,) and descended 
 with the manor to 
 
 Sir Imdert Noon of Shelf hanger, who married Isabell, the dau<rh. 
 ter and heiress of Sir John Verdon, by Isabell, his second wife, about 
 140S, who presented in 1410. In 1412, 
 
 Sir Henuy Noon, Knt. succeeded, who this year had a "rant of 
 free-warren, and liberty to enclose 310 acres for a park; but he died 
 before he had completed his design, leaving 
 
 IIenuy Noon, Esq. his son and heir, who, in 1417, rcnevved the 
 grant for his free-warren and park. This Henrij much increased his 
 estate, by Ins valiant exploits, being a brave soldier, and an experi- 
 enced officer : he constantly attended Henry V. in the French wars, 
 where he behaved so gallantly, tiiat the King gave him the castle, 
 J^nds, and lordship oilonde in Normandi/,'' which was late the Earl of 
 dUortuignc's, being 2000 scutes a year. He died in U(J5, Icavin" 
 this uuaior to '^ 
 
 Elizaketh his wife, till Henri/ his son came of age, and then to 
 uim and Ins hens ; which 
 
 Henuy enjoyed it till his death in 14S7, as appears by the probate 
 ot Ills Avill, who, according to his desire, was buried under a large 
 grave-stone m this chancel, the inscription of which is now torn olF, 
 but his arms, impding a chevron in a bordure between three ea^-les 
 legs erased, lately remained. His wife Eleanor, after his decease, 
 married to Ihlliam Lancaster of Brisingham, Esq. and after that to 
 ■i^ofjcrt llj/ngjield, with whose consent she made her will, dated the 
 4th of ^oteml)er, 1500, in which she ordered to be buried in this 
 chancel by her first husband, and to have on her stone the arms of 
 'ly'igjicld siding Lancaster. 
 
 Henry Noon, son and heir, succeeded ; who, upon niarria"-e in 
 IjlO, settled the manor on Jnfoni/ IVyugJield, Robert Kemp,%q. 
 and AoOert Bonde, clerk, in tnist, to his use and his heirs, by Elra- 
 bcth, daughter of Sir John JVingfield of Letheringham in Siffolk; in 
 1 Jl9, the said Henry, and Robert Holdich, who was lord of the otlier 
 moiety, uiauumised a great part of the manor, among which, to 
 JtoOcrt, son of Matthew Hallj/at of JVinfarthing, three enclosures- 
 ^rendalesicoug, containing 60 acres, Bullock's Close 20 acres, and 
 
 » Sec Brisinshnra, p. 53. s Rot. Norraan. 7 H. 5. p. i, m. j.
 
 ito SlI KLril A N(; I. u. 
 
 r ' 10 ncr«, ni l')i. lu/. ("ittrciil. \\'h<llicr it wn» llii« 
 
 II iiK »>n Fraiicn, tliiit »ul(( llic uimior, I t aiitiol uiv, l>ul it 
 
 \t.. >Li\ (>\' (lit* Diikr ot* Sorfu/k, mIio kepi court licrf in \i3Z. 
 
 i ut «>>■•. r nuiiciv ivrill Willi Mtirfiiirtt, llii- ullicr claui'llli-r. In 
 
 Thomas Mosklls. Vj>t\. iiiT liu»baiid, mIiu liuviiig no ii>»uc- nialo, 
 
 i( ■ '•''■■», 
 
 ■ . »o ilint lhi4 moif ly wan divided ngnin. 
 
 M \ '■'Irullun, llixj. iiiul Wifi Ills \ri(l(i\v in 
 
 117''. i<r, «lio iiiiirru-(i liichanl )«j/(-v, 
 
 •> bv hiui had t»'o koiis, Thumat \axlry, rli-rk, tiic eldest, 
 
 «!•.• :. it to Richard Yaxifif, liis brotliir, utid liiii hpini. This 
 
 Kiihiitd, in I5'2<>. purclmst-d tlu- otlu-r moiety of this moiety, of 
 
 Til.. 1 s. [".>«!. which Thomas wii» son of Hubert Fdlon, 
 
 !>«]. ! i« wile, bister and heiress to Sir Tbomm Sdiiifjiun 
 
 o! Kilt, which liolterl was »oii of JoA« Chnp- 
 
 n, . ■ ■in, the oilier dau^liter of Thomas Mut*c//, 
 
 l\sq. This Richard iailrif had it M-ltlcd on himself and Rii/mrd 
 Iluldich, his trustee, iu I6'i7, uiid so held it to 1 jJ'J, when lie and Aunc 
 his wife Mild it to 
 
 Thomas Duke of \or/b//.-, and his heirs, who liavinc purchased 
 th«- other moiety of the \ooii», as also lloc'i inniior, became now 
 sole loni and patron ; and it hath been ever since, and now remains 
 in that lionuiirable family. I'he present Duke being now lord uud 
 patron. [17 -'J.] 
 
 Jlere was anotJicr Hianor, called 
 
 FlUER'S, 
 
 AVhit!, (I to the ahbev of vS'/7;/ii;i in Sufivlk; this was formrrlv 
 
 the p<'- "f T.dric, Falconer to the Confessor, and had only K» 
 
 vucre> demeans at that time.' 
 
 This T.dric was ancestor to Rulieil Mallei,* lord of Ej/c honour, 
 who in the Conqueror's days, or soon after, iiifeofled 
 
 Waltf.r PR Caoomo (Catim, or Cam) in the barony of Ilors- 
 ford, to Ix- held of his honour, w illi which ibis passed. 
 
 KoiiERT, son of H alter, succeeded in IVilliam Rufus's reign, who 
 left 
 
 John, bis son, sirnamed I icrcomet (or ShcriflT, bi-caiisc lie bad that 
 offie«-.) He was Baron of llonjord; he vowed to build an abUy of 
 monks in bis own land, but dying soon after, left 
 
 W iLi.iAM, his brother, his heir, whom he eommnnded to perforin 
 liis vow. This tyUliam was called afterwards dr Caiputo, de l'h<th- 
 neif, or Cheuiici/: who, according to his promise, founded the abbey of 
 Si/ilon in .Stiff utk, in his own land, in the veai I I4f), endowing it with 
 maiiv revenues, and among iheni willi this manor, which was then 
 very small, but was nxw after augmented bv divers gilts given to that 
 house,' among wtiich, Riiijdi, son of yiiehula* Ixn-erd of ShtlJ hanger, 
 gave them, Robert, son of llarthohmfU! dr DiiHwich, with his service; 
 /I lUiiim, son of (iodj'rey of It'alhaie, gave them ;>j. rent in Rej/doit, 
 
 ) Tem Edrici accipiiari. hunj. Dice. pore, et i. ac. prali. temper, val. ii. sol. 
 
 i',- ■ ' : ' ' * Mon. Ang. vol. ili. p. 31. 
 
 i ^n. Edricui xv. acr. > Cart. pen. li. Due. Nurf. 1(99. 
 
 •iTwij.. ... ^..... c( dim. car. tilv. in.
 
 SHELFHANGER. 121 
 
 ©r the fee of Gilbert Fitz-Rcilph, for tlie souls of his father .and 
 mother, and Muri/ his wife, of whose patrimony it was ; Jo/in de 
 I'enton, lord of Biis'nigham, eave them the going or commonage of 
 pasture for 200 sheep on Bnsiiig/iam Great Green, and many olliers 
 gave other lands, all which are particularly described in a chartulary 
 of the priory of C/iiniack monks at Tlictfor'd, fol. 23, which hook is 
 now among l\Ir. Le Neve's Collections. In ISfil, it was let to 
 Bosevill, at 404-. per annum. In 133G, the abbot new-built Frier's 
 Hall, at the expense of 50/. ; the demeans were then 50 acres. In 
 1403, John Abbot of Sibton, and the Convent,^ leased out their 
 whole possessions here to John Lancaster, Esq. for seven years, at 
 3/. \s. per annum, the demeans being excepted ; it now extended 
 into She/flianger, Itcijdon, Brisingham, and Diss in Norfolk, and 
 Thrandeston and Yai/ci/ in Siiffo/lc. About 1530, Henry Noun farmed' 
 it with one acre marsh in Brisingham, and the commonage of 200 
 sheep there; and so it continued till the 28th Ilenri/ VIII. in which 
 year the abbot and monks, foreseeing what was coining upon them, 
 bargained with Thomas Duke of No)fo/lc, and resigned their house to 
 him and his heirs, with all that belonged thereto, the Duke having^ 
 
 f)rocured leave of the King that he might receive it, and hold it to 
 lim and his heirs for ever, which was confirmed by Act of Parlia- 
 ment, anno 31st Henry Vlll. and then it was joined to the other 
 manors, with which it now continues.' [1736.] The resignation of 
 this abbey may be seen in Diigdale's Monast. vol. iii. fol 33, and was 
 signed by Wm. Flatbnry, abbot, Robert Biaigai/, prior, John Facon, 
 sub-prior, Tho. Hadlei/, celerer, JVm. Dumcich, Robert Dunuich, 
 and Peter Flniham, monks. The commonage of the 200 sheep was 
 laid to Vise de Lieu's, or Shelfhanger Hall, as it is now called, and.' 
 Frier's Hall was soon after demolished ; it stood just by the gate 
 going from Brisingham common to Shelfhanger Hall. 
 
 SHELFHANGER MANOR, alias D'AVELER'S, 
 
 Was original!}' the demeans of the Confessor, afterwards given (either 
 by him or some other) to St. Edmund's abbey at Bury, of which it 
 ■was held in the Conqueror's time. 
 
 Tlie first parcel constituted the manor called 
 
 D'AVELER'S.*' 
 
 The second was in the abbey till the Dissolution, with other lands 
 that were afterwards given. The third was joined to Brisingham 
 manor, and always attended it, so that I have no occasion to speak 
 any more of the two last in this place. 
 
 * Lib. Abb. de Sibton. MSS. fol. per- vi acr. et sub eo vii. bordar. et i. car. 
 gamen. penes Jac. Baldwin, rect. de Silva xii. pore. ii. acr. prati. val xi. solj 
 Bunwcl in Com. Norff. (who liath also (fo. i8i.) 
 
 another foho parchment MSS. of the In See! vagra i. liber homo Sa nctiEd- 
 
 accompts of this abbey.) miindi xii. acr. et ii. bov. val. xvi.i/. 
 
 ' See the Act. Ecclesie xvi. acr. val. W.s. et v\.d. 
 
 * Terra Abbatisde Sancto Eadmundo, Quando Radulfiis Comes fiiit potesta* 
 Dice dim. Hund. tiviis, et sui et terre sue servientes ejus 
 
 InScelvagraii. soc. dim, car. terre, et curabiere cum servientibus Sancti Ed.
 
 i« siiCLi HANG j:r. 
 
 A* la the fir»l, il wm yrry early gnutctl Inini tlic nbbty in Ur<> 
 \>atli, oiu* ol uliicli WiU ill 
 
 K vLPii ur iit'Bi.o, (lie odicr in 
 
 W'li 1 1 \M I ! !.o\ KHi>, or l^>i!i>, «lio«* •on John "jIcI liulfot'it to 
 
 ' •• ' ..■ of 
 
 lieUl ot tlic >aul Hi//iiitti, by tltc tcTvicv ol u |tair oi ^ : 
 
 but I niu»t iibsn-nt*. tliul .i'letjiiii de Srirrtfootl, ur H/irii.. 1 liic 
 
 }f»ti}i/ii \n\ix, ill wliiib i'ainily it cuiitiiiucti two or three v(i.iicraliouSj 
 ail<l (licil cailli- tu Hubert, t'ullit-r «>t' luirll aid. 
 
 Ill ll*>0, llt'l.ll !>.\ ViLLUL vva^ lurcl, . 
 
 li viiTiitii.u>ii:\v,.iiiit M)n, wliL), iiboul i 
 
 KitiiAUD, wliu wus in tlu: custody": < >iby 
 
 grnnt of llti^h de liiirgli, Juitu'iary (Cliicf-Ju!iiu-v,) wilii wiiuiii >lic 
 coni|>ouiidc-d for MOa, Tiic |)o»sc»iat)s of tliis Itic/iord,* uliicli \i.nl 
 licrc, and iu lirvme lUid Kicnmrton, (now .Irumton,) in Hicj , 
 v.cri' then worlli 40/. ixr annum, uiid were all litld b) sirjcantry, I'Z. 
 by the st.•^^•it■L• of (-unaucting the foot »olciiiT» of tin* tMo counlii-s of 
 ^ '" ' , lor 40 liays, at the Kind's suiiiiiiuii», from St. 
 
 1. /' ...w c:dl.d Ihvirs Dilih ou \i:,muikit llialh) to 
 
 the king's uniiy in l\ ales, for which he uaa Lo have 4<A of e^ich, lor 
 conduct money, and the rest of their uiaiuteiiuijcf wm to Ix. at the 
 King's cost, and by this tenure it altvays pa&iicd. I'iie Abbot at first 
 was to do this service, till he granted tlii^i part chargeable wiili it. 
 
 In \lbi, KiciiABO D'AviLuus, and lienlni his wite, hod it ; and 
 iu \-Z(V.), 
 
 nAUTUOLO>ii:w D'AviLEEs inherited, who died in i'J7 4, leaving 
 it to 
 
 John Im son, who died in anno 1318. This' John «old all to 
 
 AValter pb Suelfiianueu and John de Sotesduook, or 
 Sluktfbntok, who afterwards became one of the heirs of the j-aid 
 Walter; nnd, in \'lHf), took ]>osscssion by the King's license, and had 
 frit-warrcn allowed him in all his lands. This manor hatl a hou^c 
 and park, 80 .ocrcit of arable land, one acre and u half of me.ulow, a 
 mill, and 104. rent.* That in Bmmf hud a ine>.-tiiage, (>0 acres of 
 land, 4 of meadow, and 4 of pasture, &.c. ; nil which were to be held 
 of tlic said John lyAvelers, This John married Isabel Ujfurd, who 
 was endowed in Arrcartim manor, by whom he left 
 
 IUrtholomew, his son, who l>ecame lord ofallUicsc manors; bj*. 
 which it seems, that the grant of this and llroiiic was only for life. 
 Ho married Jitan, relict of John, s(.)n of t\ illuiin dc CaUUcolc, and 
 «licd I81I1 Ipril, I.J.JO, leaving her a widow, and tour daiiuhters, his 
 coheirs; Itabrt, married to Sir Robert lianm, Knt. had llundrlon ; 
 Ciceli/, lo lirian de Ili/keHirj;, and had Itnn/ie ; ^lar^nrrl and Jiuin, 
 ouc of which (I have some rc.uon to think) mnriied to lUcliard 
 
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 SHELFHANGER. 123 
 
 Daniel, who had Shelf hanger : the whole came afterwards to Isabel 
 Bacon, (probably for want of issue of the other sisters,) who afterwards 
 married to SW (J/ker Calthoip, and carried the three manors into that 
 family. The D'Avilicrs arms were, arg. three incscutcheons gul. 
 and are now quartered by Bacon and Catthorp, by the name of 
 D'Y/ers. It was after divided into many parts, by which the manor 
 was all lost, except some trifling rents, which were in the Duke of 
 Norfolk in 1536; it was then called Sherzcoud's hi Shelf hanger. It 
 remains now [1736] with the other manors. 
 The other part, which was 
 
 LOVERD'S, 
 
 INIade a free tenement, called by the owner's name, to which many- 
 services bclonjicd, and daily increased, as the owners of the tenement 
 sold oil' their lands, all which they made payable to the celerer of the 
 abbey, to discharge the capital tenement of the rent and service due 
 from it to the abbey; and when enough was sold to answer that pur- 
 pose, it became a freehold only, and as such has passed ever since ; 
 this was finished in 1GG6, by John le Loverd,^ when the lands of the 
 abbey were extended, and all their revenues settled on the sacrist and 
 celerer, who let theui to Guij of Shelf hanger, who was to answer all 
 rents and services for them. Ihe lords of Hoe's manor usually farmed 
 them and received the rents. The Black Register tells us, that Ham- 
 mond Peccatum* (or Fecche) confirmed to Abbot Ansclm all that 
 land, and Is. rent, which his grandmother Jenetta, and his mother 
 JE>3//;/, had given to that convent; all which, in 1281,*^ were valued to 
 answer 20s. per annum clear. 
 
 These came to Henri/ VIII. who gave some of them to divers per- 
 sons, and others were granted to Norton, 8cc. by Queen Elizabeth, to 
 be held free of the manor of East Grcenzcieh in Kent. 
 
 Here was another free tenement, called 
 
 WINFARTHING TENEliiENT, 
 
 From its situation on the great road near that place ; it laid in Shelf' 
 hanger, and anciently belonged to the Berclenells, being held of their 
 manor of Gatcsthorp, by the annual rent of a pound of pepper; half 
 of it, in 1280, was owned by Walter de IVinfarthing, and in 1298, 
 by Robert, his son and heir, who paid half a poinul of pepper for 
 himself and all his tenants, which were about thirty in number ; some 
 
 3 Lib. Cons. p. 66. Regr. Pinchbck. lid. quas Radulpluis de Shelfhangcr, ct 
 
 fol. 171. Rcrr. Sacrist, fol. 43. lixredes sui reddcnt iinoquoque anno, 
 
 ♦ Domino^ siio karissimo Anselino Sancto Eadmundo ct Saciistas, et Con- 
 
 Abbati Sancti Eadniundi, et 1 aleboto veiitiii, tribus Terminis, viz. v. sol ad 
 
 Priori, ct R. Sacristae, et ornni Convcn- Pastlia, et x. sol. ad l^rstum Sancti Jo- 
 
 tlii, et omnibus honiinibiis, Francis et hannis, et x. sol. ad Festiim Sanctx Ca- 
 
 Anglis de Honore Sancti KaUiiuindi ter- terinx.— Et ego pro i^ssc mco qiianidui 
 
 ran° tencjitibus, Haymiindii^ Peccatum vixero, maniitencbo id, quod constans 
 
 ill Christo salutem. Sciatic me cunces- sit, et post me volo, quod hreredes met 
 
 sisse tcrram el redditum, quain Jenetta hoc similiter faciant. (Regr. Satrist!e> 
 
 Ava nica ct mater mea Esilia, dcderunt MSS. fol. 53.) 
 
 et concesserunt domino mco Sancto * Moil. Anij. tom. i. fol. 298. 
 Eiiduiuudo et Conventui. Sc. xxv. so<
 
 1-4 Ml Ll.l IIA.NU r.K. 
 
 of them wore obliged to duuhlc •crvit'r for their lan«l», n:. lo pay 
 one rent to tlie l»rtl nf the leiicinciit, and unollier tu llie cliief lunl 
 of tlio f«-c, tiiul ttll toi»»'ilier wi-f»- li) |i ■ ' ' ' *' fooitli pari of 
 n iititliini;, lu tlw Kiiii;'9 Miitat^e, \ ir-<I, tlic vOihIl' 
 
 < III tii-ni' >, tlic Ulliout wIikIi wcic- <li\ loilili*, 
 
 i> -liiiil (o .^ . rtor, :in<l tuo to till- monks of Tfirt- 
 
 forii. i lie oilier lialt vva§ licUi ln° John It Ijonl, and Ins tenaiit!>, by 
 Jbc same wrrviees ; llie manor of iiiitnl/iurp (ut Gititlwrjt in Sorjnlk) 
 liad ibu rent nlwnvs |iai<l to it, mid it »aid lo extend into /( inlorihiii^. 
 In I.'?!)*i, the whole jM'|i|Hr ri-nl wii« luid upon out- acre, in one piece, 
 imd was tlien reci-ived ; I am apt to lliink, tlii-i uas that part of II in- 
 f' iiutnor llial reached inlo Shell /laii^er, niul that il was 
 
 ■ V the lords of H iiifiirthni>; lo the lord of (iiislhurp ; for 
 ^)i>mrnlatf infoiins xm, thai f\ nitnrthuiii^ n.-iu:hed hitlKT. 
 
 And thi;! is the whole 1 know of these manors, all wliieli in 1532 
 were in Thomas Duke of SorJ'olk, and being Uien joined, have eoii- 
 tinued togciber, without any other dislinetion, as they do at this day, 
 [I7.>'>,] live style of the court running thus, She/fhanger, I iseitelicn, 
 Jloe's, and Frier's. 
 
 Till: Ci^sTOMs aretluso: the eldest Non inherits; they can fell 
 timber, pulldown, build u|i, plant, and cut down on the copyhold, and 
 \\a>tc, without lircnsc ; but the tines are at tlie lord's will. 
 
 TTie Ijttt belongs not to the manor, but hath passed wilh Din 
 hundred, the lord of whicii keeps it at this lime, and bulb 2). for led 
 fee. [173G.J 
 
 Tlic Rev. Mr. Jo^i-ph Jhiirhman, rector, bears or, a chcvTcn 
 between tJircc bugle horn>, stringed, .«///. on a chief ^'///. three lions 
 rampant or. 
 
 Mr. IliUiain Elliot, senior, gu/. on a bend ingrai!< d m, .i Liltooii 
 of the field. 
 
 ' {fol. 38.) In Scclvangra i. vill. xv. which bclongnl totlic manor of Winfar. 
 acr. icrr. temp. dim. car. ct ii. tx)rd. thing, 
 tilva V. porci ct ii. acr. prati. — All
 
 [ 125] 
 
 B U R S T O N. 
 
 1 H E Cliurch and Gild here were dedicated to the Blessed Virgin ; il 
 was a recloij'' appiopriuU-d by John oi' Oxfuid, liisliop of \oru'uh, 
 to Uiithy priory," wlio were patrons, il being given Uiem by Ivin^ 
 Jlenri/ I, at tlieir founder's request, before lie yuve llie manor to tlic 
 I'itz-IVdIleis. Ill liifj,'}, tlicir temporals were taxed at Cljv. ()(/. and 
 tlieir spirituals at 17/. («. He/. 'I'lic inijjropriulion was couliriiied by 
 the arehbisliop, and tlie viear bad a |>cnsion of '2(j.v. H(/. payable by 
 the prior, out of tin; great titlies, all wliieli were afterwards disa]>pro- 
 jiriatcd, by the j)rior and eonvent's resiguing up the eliureh and 
 tillies, and presenting a rector. Jn 1510, upon Drai/Us's institution, 
 a pension of 40s. per utiiium was reserved to the prior out of the rec- 
 tory. The lands that belonged to the piiory were granted by Qucea 
 Ehzahi'tli to dill'ert.nt persons, some to Eduanl Di/er, Hugh Crcaincr, 
 and others. ,\ 
 
 Kiii'/s Books. I TeiiJ/ia. I Si/nodak, j Archil. Procnr, I Jcres Glebe. 
 Id I 1 1-2 O 1 "0 i: 4 I 7 7 06. | 74 
 
 RECTOR.S AND VICARS. 
 
 Wi/hart, rector : sans date. 
 
 \1\)9, '- kal. Mar. The rectory was void, and a sequestration 
 grante<l to Jdam de Colcefield,^ wlio was presented to it, with this 
 clause, that the bisiiop might recall it when he pleased. 
 
 1S04, 5 ides June, Richard de Sehadetifield, priest, was instituted to 
 the vicarage, with certain portions newly assigned by the Bishop, at 
 the presentation of the I'rior of Butlci/, who presented tlie following 
 vicars : 
 
 1314, 11 kal. Jiili/, Alan de Bedipigtone, priest. 
 
 1325, Ij kal. July, Robert, called Baldeuyne, priest. He rc» 
 eigned in 
 
 1331, id. Dec. and Richard fie Bototie, priest, succeeded. 
 
 1349, 2 July, Walter Stannard de Diss, priest. 
 
 134y, 28 ./«///, John Mortimer, priest. 
 
 13J1, 14 OcloO. Robert Mast of U'est Leiham, priest. 
 
 1401, 22 Jan. John Cok, priest. 
 
 140K, 'I Sept em. Richard Hail 1 1/, priest. 
 
 1424, C(j .hinc, }\ illiani Halle, ])riest. 
 
 1432, 2 Dec. l\ illiam Smylhc, by lapse; and the year following ttic 
 16th of April, the prior resfgned the impropriation ; and in 
 
 • RcRT. Butlcy, fo. 55. flic same in the Nomicli and Lincoln 
 
 » " Prior de Uu«elc« Jiabet cam in taxations. 1 liorc is a rectory - house 
 
 proprios usus, habet mansiim cum 50 here. 
 
 acris tcrrc, estiinatio e jusdem cum vica- ' He was instituted to Naullon in Siilf. 
 
 ria xxvi. marc. Vicarius liabct altera- -7 Apr. 1300. 
 
 ^utn suuni, cum a acri& tcrrc. It \i 
 VOL. I. K
 
 Hi n u n s T o N. 
 
 rapil" < nuiiior »ni lu'Id. I cannot rin<l how it w«nC 
 
 from ( "V ; but it wh» hi tlic 
 
 IkiY LA KD*, front Mliuin it poMctl by M<titd, the h<:iress of ilioH 
 ftunily, to 
 
 JuiiN Lancastkii of Bntiueham, bimI wrnt* •» Boylaiui Hall, till 
 •boot 1 '•<)(>, \rhcn it «ra^ alieiiMl tu 
 
 Sir John SiiARfK, K.iit. who, iu 1314, obtained hccnM to alien 
 it to 
 
 W'li.L. Tylri, or Tylot, niul hit heir«, to b« h«-ld a* fornwrlr, 
 bv tlie service ot" a red rose yeiirly, pnyablr l«> the Uuk«- of .Si/" 
 to his honour of Et(f. In l.MS, llii* Sir John Sfiarpf, kt. und H 
 Tyl(r, Knt. &.C. lords of iinKkdifJi Hull, and .lulin Millraiite, I'nor 
 of the priorv of the holv I ir'^iii, iin<l St. Jiuncs the Ano-.tlc of l)lii 
 liukfHham, and the convent there, lords of the inunor of Mehlifii'^hiill, 
 «gn'<d to divide the two manors, which having for a long lime been 
 formed toeelher, were now so intennixed, that they knew not llieir 
 acuaratc rights; wiierefore they got two hiwiks in indiiitcd bindiiig<i, 
 the one having tla- convent seal affixed thereto, and the other th(r 
 »eal» of tJie two knights, &.c. in these the division was entered, and 
 tlie one was dclivcre<l to the prior, and the other to Sir Jnhn Sharyc, 
 &c. which is now among the evidences of the manor, from which I 
 collected, th.it Mrltli/ii^ Hull abuts on Knot'n lionc north; the de- 
 means were .tI>oiiI 1:)7 iieres, copyhold held of it 4.'1<> acres, the (|uil- 
 renti about 18/. prr annum, iirokrtlif»/i Hall abnt-i upon \iirtlii:iitr 
 (irrcit north, and u;is then, with 1;! a<re> adjoining, copyhold ; (his 
 manor »vas about half llie value of Mrlili/nir Hull, John Mrllr:;nlr, 
 prior, Thi>. Urcrrhi, sub-prior, and I'ho. Hnncne, sacrist, signed it. 
 Unxkiliih Hull [(nul then KJ*. per annum frecrent to U'iiifiirthin<; : 
 it apponiN that 
 
 HonritT Hrownk was cousin iftid heir to Sir John Sharpe, from 
 whom it came to the 
 
 I'rttisks, and from them to Uoj.ton, and frem Ho/lau to 
 
 Thomas Proctor, senior, clerk, whose kinswoman and heiress 
 married to 
 
 Joit.M BtJXTON of .St. Mar^arel'$, who finding no license for the 
 alienation from liollon to t'roftor, was forced to get a royal pardon,' 
 from which time both these manors have been in that family, Lliza- 
 ■ETii UuxTON, a minor, being now lady [173G.] 
 
 MLLDINC; HALL MANOR 
 
 Was purel»fu»ed by Sir I'ktf:h nv. Meaimso, or Mf.ldino, of King 
 Hrnrt/ \. to be held by tins seijeanlry of service, that tlie owner of it 
 .diould always sell the beiiils taken in \i>rf'iilk or Suffolk for the King's 
 debts ; it was then valued at Hi. j)fr aniiiun. 
 
 ASii.i.iAM, his S4in, had it next; and after him 
 1'etkr, his son, who owned it in 1'2'2'>; and in l'2-l!)sold it to 
 Sir UoBERT m' liois of i'rr'JirUl, re-.erving a rent id" 4/. and the 
 serYicc of a quarter of knight's Ke, the whole of which he gave wiili 
 bis sister in marriage to llegiiiuld dc Sulluii ; for which alienation 
 
 • Sec BoyUuid manor in Briiiagham, • Sw Stiimpling, and Hewode lUII 
 fol. 57. manor in Duu
 
 B U R S T O N'. 129, 
 
 the King seized the scijeantiy, wkich was taken off this manor when 
 it was sold, and laid 011 MeHw^ manor in Suffolk, accoiding to a leofl- 
 ment made by this Petar tJe'Me/iiig to Luurcnce de Mc/iiig ; but lie 
 gave them tlie vahie in exchange. Sir liotieit da Jiuis, senior, left 
 it to 
 
 Sir Robert his son,' who gave it to 
 
 John de Boscg, his brother, who, in 128G had Kej/'here; but 
 before 1,008 it was again in Sir Jiohcit de Boh and Christian his wife, 
 who afterwards settled it on 
 
 Sir William Cauhonel, Knt. her son, (this Christian being 
 widow of Sir John Carl/ouet, Knt. when Sir Robert married lier,) 
 who was lord in 1315; and in l.'J<}7, 
 
 RoBEKT Carbonel, Knt. and Margery his wife, had it, and 
 John was his son and heir, 14 years old ; lioliert died seized this year, 
 on the e«h of Sept. to which Mr. Le Neve's Collections agree, 
 though he says it had been out of the Carbond family in that time, 
 and was the inheritance of 
 
 Sir Robert DE Caston, and descended to Margen/, wife of Sir 
 Robert Carbonel, and Mary, wife of Sir William iasto/f; however it 
 was, 
 
 John Carbonel, son of Sir Robert, inherited, who gave it to 
 
 Sir Roger Swillington of Ditchiiighant, and Joan his wife; he 
 died seized of this and Old Hall manor, in Sicillitigton in Yorkshire 
 and soon after his wife died also, upon which, the Iving received the 
 homage of 
 
 Robert de Swillington, brother and special heir of John, 
 according to the form of the gift made to Roger. Some time after it 
 came to 
 
 Sir John Swillington, Knt. at whose death it was divided ■ and 
 in 1404, 
 
 Sir John Graa, Knt. had two parts of the manor, in richt of 
 Margaret his wife, sister of Sit John Suiillington ; all which was'mort- 
 gaged to Thomas Murstede, Esq. for 200 marks. From this time to 
 1454 1 know nothing of it; but in that year 
 
 Sir Andrew Ogard, Knt. died without issue, seized of this manor 
 of Melding Hall; and it looks as if he gave it to 
 
 RoKENHAM Priory; for it appears from the Book of Accompts 
 of that house, that this manor belonged to it, and in 1479 was let at 
 15/. IDs. at which lime the prior hired the other manor, at 5/. loj. 
 fer annum, and let them together; and from this time it continued in 
 the convent till its dissolution, and then went to the 
 
 Crown, and being afterwards granted oft', it belonged in 1570 to 
 
 Francis Boulton ; and in 1573 it came by exeham'e to 
 
 Thomas and Michael Heneaoe; and after that, having passed 
 through divers families, though but with small continuance in any 
 of them, it came to the 
 
 Buxton s, and was then joined to the other manor. 
 
 Mr. Le Neve says, there was a manor here, (which was this, as I 
 take it,) that all along attended the fate of the Albanies of liokeiiham 
 castle, from whom it came to the (Jrrebi/s^ John of that sirname had 
 it in 1315; from thence to the Cailys, and so to the CliJ'tous, aai 
 
 ' See Fersfield, fol. 77,
 
 ?28 B U R S T O N. 
 
 capital lord of whom this manor was held. I cannot find how it went 
 from the Brockdish family ; but it was in the 
 
 BoYLANDS, from whom it passed by Maud, the heiress of that 
 family^ to 
 
 John Lancaster of Brisingham, ami went' as Boyland Hall, till 
 about 1500, when it was aliened to 
 
 Sir John Siiari>e, Knt. who, in 1514, obtained license to alien 
 it to 
 
 Will. Tyler, or Tylot, and his heirs, to be held as formerly, 
 b}' tiie service of a red rose yearly, payable to tlie Duke of SiiJ/'ollc, 
 to his honour oi' Ei/e. In 1518, tliis Sir John S/iaipe, Kt. and (Vm. 
 Tyler, Knt. &,c. lords of Brockdish Hall, and Jolui Millegatc, I'rior 
 of the priory of the holy Virgin, and St. James the Apostle of Old 
 Bokenham, and the convent there, lords of the manor of Metdtjitghall, 
 agreed to divide the two manors, which having for a long lime been 
 farmed together, were now so intermixed, that they knew not their 
 separate rights; wherefore they got two books in indented bindings, 
 the one having the convent seal affixed thereto, and the other the 
 seals of the two knights, 8cc. in tiiese the division was entered, and 
 the one was delivered to the prior, and the other to Sir John Sharpe, 
 &c. which is now among the evidences of the manor, from which I 
 collected, that Meldytig Hall abuts on Knot's Lane north; the de- 
 means were about 137 acres, copyhold held of it 439 acres, the quit- 
 rents about 18/. per annum. Brokedi^sh Hall abuts upon Norfhgate 
 Green north, and was then, with 13 acres adjoining, copyhold; this 
 manor was about half the value of Mcldi/ng Hall, John Melleirate, 
 prior, Tho. lieverh/, sub-prior, and Tho. Brozcne, sacrist, signed it. 
 Brockdish //«// p"aid then 10s. per annum freerent to Winfarthing: 
 it appears that 
 
 RonF.RT Browne was cousin jfnd heir to Sir John Sharpe, from 
 whom it came to the 
 
 Pettuses, and from them to Bolton, and from Bolton to 
 
 Thomas Proctor, senior, clerk, whose kinswoman and heiress 
 married to 
 
 • John Buxton of St. Margaret's, who finding no license for the 
 alienation from Bolton to Proctor, was forced to get a royal pardon,' 
 from which time both these manors have been in that family, Eliza- 
 beth Buxton, a minor, being now lady [1736.] 
 
 MELDING HALL MANOR 
 
 Was purchased by Sir Peter de Meaulij^g, or Melding, of King 
 Henri/ I. to be held by this serjeantry of service, that the owner of it 
 should always sell the beasts taken in Norfolk or Suffolk for the King's- 
 debts ; it was then valued at 8/. per annum. 
 
 VV^iLLiAM, his son, had it next; and after him 
 Peter, his son, who owned it in 122(i; and in 1249 sold it to 
 Sir Robert du Bois of I'ersfield, reserving a rent of 4/. and the 
 service of a quarter of knight's tee, the whole of which he gave with 
 his sister in marriage to Reginald de Nutlun ; for which alienation 
 
 ' See Boylajid manor in Brisingham, ° See Sliimpling, and Henode Hall 
 fol. 57- manor in Diss.
 
 BURSTON. 1^9 
 
 the King seized the seijeantry, which was taken off this manor when 
 it was sold, and laid on Melius, nianoi- in Suffolk, according to a feoff- 
 ment made by this Peter de Aleling to Laurence de Me/ing; but he 
 nave them the vahie in exchange. Sir Robert du Hois, senior, left 
 Tt to 
 
 Sir Robert his son,' who gave it to 
 
 John de Bosco, his brother, who, in 1286 had rceif here •■, but 
 before 1308 it was again in Sir Robert de Bois and Christian his wife, 
 who afterwards settled it on 
 
 Sir William Caebonel, Knt. her son, (this Christian being 
 widow of Sir John Carbuiiei, Knt, when Sir Robert married her,) 
 who was lord in 1315; and in 1397, 
 
 RoBEKT Carbonel, Knt. and Margery his wife, had it, and 
 John was his son and heir, J 4 years old ; Robert died seized this year, 
 on the 24th of Sept. to which Mr. Le Aefe'.s Collections agree, 
 though he says it had been out of the Carbonel family in that time, 
 and was the inheritance of 
 
 Sir Robert.de Caston, and descended to Margery, wife of Sir 
 Robert Carbonel, and Mary, wife of Sir William Fastolf; however it 
 was, 
 
 John Carbonel, son of Sir Robert, inherited, who gave it to 
 
 Sir Roger Swillington of Ditchingham, and Joan his wife; he 
 died seized of tliis and Old Hall manor, in Sicillington in Yorkshire, 
 and soon after his wife died also, upon which, the King received the 
 homage of 
 
 Robert de Swillington, brother and special heir of John, 
 according to the form of the gift made to Roger. Some time after it 
 came to 
 
 Sir John SwiLtiNGTon, Knt, at whose death it was divided ; and 
 in 1424, 
 
 Sir John Graa, Knt. had two parts of the manor, in right of 
 Margaret his wife, sister of Sir John Suillington ; all which was mort- 
 gaged to Thomas Murstede, Esq. for 200 marks. From this time to 
 1454 I know nothing of it; but in that year 
 
 Sir Andrew Ogaed, Knt. died without issue, seized of this manor 
 of Melding Hall; and it looks as if he gave it to 
 
 BoKENHAM Priory ; for it appears from the Book of Accompts 
 of that house, that this manor belonged to it, and in 1479 was let at 
 15/. 10s. at which time the prior hired the other manor, at 5/. 10s. 
 per annum, and let them together; and from this time it continued in 
 the convent till its dissolution, and then went to the 
 
 Crown, and being afterwards granted off, it belonged in 1570, to 
 
 Francis Boulton ; and in 1573 it came bj' exchange to 
 
 Thomas and Michael Heneaoe; and after that, having passed 
 through divers families, though but with small continuance in any 
 of them, it came to the 
 
 BuxToNS, and was then joined to the other manor. 
 
 Mr. Le Neve says, there was a manor here, (which was this, as I 
 take it,) that all along attended the fate of the Albanies of Bokenham 
 castle, from whom it came to the Orrebi/s ; John of that sirname had 
 it in 1315; from thence to the Cailys, and so to the Cli/tojis, sindj 
 
 ' See Fersfield, fol, 77,
 
 190 
 
 OSMl'NnrSTON, OR SCOLE. 
 
 w«« *<•llll^l b) Sir John L'IiI'Ioh, Knt. in 1447, 1>V hit will, on Jeviii \n» 
 wile, and lu"i lirir», wIiom: (Iuui^IiUt Mnrffarel married Sir Andrrw 
 O^anl, Knt. of U>e Ryt in llerijordshirr, »«lio died tcixc-d lu uiorv- 
 Mid. 
 
 lliu mii;lii be held uf them ns capital lord«, under Eye honour, 
 till the wholi- fi-e citine to Sir .liulrrtc, about 1 ". '!irr by mnr- 
 
 riaije, purvliaie, or il>-<KTtit. I i-aniMl Uarii. '\ . at lauiilv of 
 
 I 111' liunloH, l>enr», 
 11 .- i!i Kb. u year given to the poor, pay- 
 ublc out of .Mr. .ilpt It'iird't farm, und waa 
 pvcn by one ot the .4lp<i, and al»o two town- 
 
 llUUkC^. 
 
 In Wk)'., Iieic were HO coniinunicanis, mid 
 now [I7!'>J there are 4a tlwelling-liuusCs, and 
 about 'J.'>0 iiiii.ibilaiitii. 
 
 The old tenth v»a» 'Zl. l'i«. The valuation 
 at the association, was IVAtl. and Uiut to Uie 
 King's ta.x is J2S/. per annum. 
 
 The Commons ore Puiiml (ireeit, Church Green, and Bunion or 
 ^orlh^dle (Jn-eu, where tliey eommon solely. 
 
 Tlie Custom op tiic Manor is to the eldest sou, and Uic fine at 
 the lord's will. 
 
 The Leet belongs to the hundred, to which it pays 2*. /eet fee. 
 
 OSMUNDESTON. or SCOLE, 
 
 •'oiNs to the east part of Diss, and is bounded by the JVai(nyon the 
 - 'Ii: I cannoi hnd wlio lh\s Osmiimi was, tliat gave name to the 
 ! :i, but imagine him to he n Snxon, and owner of it. Scolcs was a 
 hiimlct to OtmiiiKlesltin, in the lime of I'.dudrd III. and cave name to 
 a numerous family, one of whieh was rector of Freuze in 1:597 ; the 
 ancient Institution Duoks have no ourh name, tliough it now stands 
 in the last / a/or. by the name of Ihiiutiubton, alias .SV/io/f, which last 
 name prevailed about the time of King J/rnn/ \ HI. when this hamlet 
 was incrcoM-d, «o n» lo heroine the chief part ol the town, and might 
 first receive its name Iruiu the iiholes or shallow s of the ri\cr on which 
 it is kituati d. 
 
 Here are two very good inns for the entertainment of travellers; 
 the /f hitt Hart is much noted in these parts, being called, by way of 
 dist. action, Scole Inn ; tlie house is a large brick building, adorned 
 will] imagciy and carved woik in several places, as big as thc> life. 
 It w;is h'lilt III Ki.'i.), by ./ii/i;i Peek, I>(|. whose arms, impaling his 
 wife's, arc over tlie porch door. 1 he sign is very large, beautified alfover
 
 OSMUNDESTON, or SCOLE. 131 
 
 wilh a great number of images of large stature carved in wood, and 
 was the work of one Falrchild ; the arms about it are those of the 
 chief towns and genllemei) in the county, viz. ISorickh, Yarmnuth, 
 Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Yarmoitt/i, Bacon of Garholdhhum, llobart, 
 Comimlds impaling Buktoii, Teye, T/iuis/on, Ciisth'ton, and many 
 others. Peek's arms are arg. on a chevron ingrailed giif. three 
 croslets pattee of the field ; his wife's are arg. a fess between two 
 crescents in cliicf, a Hon rampant in base gii/. which coat I think 1^ 
 born by the name oi'. I et/ieston. Here was lately a very large round bed, 
 big enough to hold fifteen or twenty couple, in imitation (I suppose) 
 of the remarkable great bed at If'are. The house was in all things 
 accommodated, at first, for large business ; but the road not sup- 
 porting it, it is in much decay at present, though there is a good 
 bowling-green and a pretty large garden, with land suHicient for 
 passengers liorses. The business of these two inns is much supported 
 by the annual cock-matches that are here fought. 
 
 Concerning the capital manor, I find that lialph de Felgeres had 
 it a long time, and at bis death left it to his posterity ; for in XIOQ^ 
 
 Richard de Fengeres had it, from whom it came to 
 
 Sir Aymeu de Beruill, of whom it was held aitno 1270, by 
 
 Henry de ScEr.TON,by the rent of 2s. Id. per annum; this was a 
 separate manor then, and the demeans \5 acres. 
 
 There was also another part in Osmundeston, which this Henry cPe 
 Skelton united this year to the manor aforesaid, which part was held 
 by Hugh de Corbun, of Roger Bigot ;^ and afterwards by this Henry 
 in 1270, when the Escheat* tells us, that he held here, of the Eari 
 of Jlrundell's fee, 100 acres of land, and 6 acres and an half of wood, 
 a mill, and several rents of assize, by the service of half a knight's 
 fee ; at his death 
 
 Robert de Shelton, his son, inherited, who held this manor, 
 with those of She/ton, and Bedingham, in 12S6, when he had liberty 
 of free-warren in all his manors allowed in Eire.^ 
 
 Robert de Tateshale held in capite 3 fees* in Shelton, Bed- 
 ingham, and Osmundeston, all which were held of him by this Robert 
 dc Shelton, and Isabel his wife, who in 1305 settled the advowson 
 and manor on themselves for life, and their sons, Thomas and Henri/ ^ 
 remainder to the right heirs of Robert, which Robert died seized, 
 and then held this manor by the fourth part of a fee of Robert ds 
 Tatleshalle ; from which time I find the following persons of this 
 name to be lords and patrons : 
 
 ' TerreRadulfi de Felgeres. (Domesd. ^ Dj^e ji^ Hund. In Osnuindestiina 
 
 fol. J7i.) Dice Dim. Hundrct. Os- invasit Hugo de Corbun sub Rogero 
 
 mundestiina tenet Algarus sub Heroldo Bigot, medietatem uniub liberi liouiinis. 
 
 T. R. E. jiro dim. car. terre semper, ii. C. x. acr. terre et parte Hegc. Iioc 
 
 villani. semper, vi. bordanj. tunc. ii. tennit R. Comes quando foristecit, et 
 
 ser. modo i. semper, i. car. in dominio, post cum fuit in manu Regis, invasit 
 
 sed due possint esse, semper ii. car. eum Hugo de Corbun, qui ni° tenet, 
 
 hominu.li. silv. x pore. vi. acr. prati. Radulfus de Fclgeris tenet manerium 
 
 semper i. equus in aufa, et ii. an. et. X. sed non habet banc partem. Semper 
 
 pore, et iiii. liberi homines de xl. acr. valet n.s. (Domesd. fol. 202.) 
 terre tunc. i. car. et dim. post, et m° ■* Escheat. H. 3. A" 55. Bundcll 3» 
 i. et iiii. acr. prati tunc val. \\.s. post. ' Plit. Coron. Rot. 15. in dorso. 
 1. et modo. habet. v. quart in long, et ' Esc. 31 E. i, 
 iiii. in lato, ec de Celto ij.i^.
 
 I*S OSMlNPnsiXJN, OR SCOLE. 
 
 lilJ.TuoMA* mimI IIknhy de Si-y^LTONt:. brwUtcn umI mm 
 
 vt UoUrt. 
 
 J uii, 1! A LI- II VI. Si hi: LI ON, km. 
 i:7I.K*LrH i>i; St ulliun, juu. iutl, 
 
 14.'<), N\ ILI.IAM SlItLTUN, I:jk|. 
 
 14S.I, Kali>m Siikltu.v, LU(|. 
 
 Hba, "il Lkc. John SuKLiwk, Kul. died Muzcd, leaving kw 
 in»tl«in of Sioia, SMorym^'iJiiii^HM, 4CC. U> 
 Ji>IIS SlIi.LI UK, tui »oll. 
 
 I'roui (Li* tiiuiily it raatc- to tlic lldhaiiu, in tlie yciu- I.V j<!, 
 J<*ii\ Aluham Ki\ ShuupUif' Milk lord «ii<l polrini, MiiulcH it to 
 AN'iLLiAM Alduam i wliu i« 1^1 lovicd * tiue, ami cuiiVfrL'<i 
 It to 
 
 Sir Thomas Cornwalkis, Kiit. in \vti<>»e liiuc tli« style of (lir 
 cuurt nin tliu* :' ( Wm/u/cWo/i, iiu/trr .tldhum't qiii'iiilam Slicllottt. In 
 lliiN nubic tunuly llie inuiiur Imtli i-vit siiK-c oniliuiKil. liif |>rc»«ui 
 I»nl CoruvaJrii U-iug uuw [17^0*] butii lurii and pulruu. 
 
 REZILE"S, OK BOVLANIVS MANOR, 
 
 \\ a» tltat part of (JsmundeUon * that was in llic Crown in king 
 John's time, and wus tiK-ii wortli Hi. \Ai. 4<i. per aHiium, it being im 
 c»clu'nt of tlif SormoHs laiiil>. This Kiiii; uavo it to 
 
 ItAi.i'ii Hurl ui' C/it-ilir, tor life, at uliusc (ieatii it came to 
 
 Kiiii; HLM!^ 111. who granted It to 
 
 IsotitAHD OL Tank, for life; ulio dying soon after, Uic same 
 king cave it to 
 
 Sir U'lLLiAM nK Syvac (or Simigoii) fur life, ond at Li» death to 
 
 Almauh dk Hlhhilks^ (or Itezila) and his bi>ir6, in \'i7i, to 
 be held of hjin by kiiight'ii scrviue, in capilt.' ; the manor then was 
 thus valued, i;;. ibe rent of as»ii;e of tlie freclioidern aX til. l"*. 7 J. 
 per annum, and of the co|>yliolders \\\*oc(age, ;yis. lid. \q.' in 120<), 
 8lli of King Jubu,^ JiluiH lie Statce/i lieltl it o< that king, >^hu had 
 it in an isehcat, it bciug licld of Richard dc J\jtgercs, lord of the 
 Cupilitl manor. 
 
 Sir A v. M Kit (or .lilmaric) died in I279> ttiid the esthcutor s<-iz)'d ' 
 on h\i LiuUs fur want o*' lui heir;' be \va:> born beyond aea, us the 
 jury atlirmed, who iiientiou Kmina his wile, and l\t(r de Ihrrih, his 
 gruiidsoii, to be hvjui:, but where, lliey knew not. It oppeurs at 
 tliis time, that one third of it laid in SnirsloM in SuffuU;, and netu' 
 one thiid in Jrcnze, and the rest here. 'I lie Kiim after the seizure 
 did not iiold it lung ; for, in 1^84, lUKard I. granted in fee to 
 
 Sir HiriiAKD III. Hoy LAND,* and lii« heini, all that Sir .liflmer dr 
 
 ' E. Cop. Ciir. pcrficieniliiiii, lunc dimJd. car. mixlo 
 
 • Terra Ko-,:cri Bigoli. Dice dim. niihil »riii|>. val. I. wl. 
 
 iluaiir. iDuiiitmI. iu\. 1 1 j.)()ununc!r4- '- Phu. Cproiix. 
 
 luiu leo. Algarut irrc. tub >- ■ I .b. I.cvcll. 
 
 T. R. fc. dim. car Ire. tt lend Hi Lib. Kub. Scij. fd. ti6. 
 
 Corbun. temp. ii. vJ. el vi. Ix. TrtudrNcvill. 
 
 icniii. I. car. Ill doininiv, *ed ii. \'< * i'ijtiu Curonc, A" 15 E. i. |}I6. 
 
 eue. Tunc et |>o»l ii. car. Iiuuu.mni, Kui. 15. 
 
 modu 11. el d m. >ilv«. iv. pore, ii vi. •• De KKselit. 
 
 acr. prali cl 1 lib. honioei dim. «lc xvi. «• Jumtorrt dicuni <juod AlnuriciK 
 
 »*t. fuil libciatus ad Iuk nuDcnuni << dc Uciill, icnuu quaiidam terrain la
 
 OSMUNDESTON, or SCOLE. 133 
 
 BerriU held of \\\xx\ here, and in Stuisto)i, at half a knight's fee, 
 from whom it took the name of lioj/tand's fee. lIc,joititly with 
 Eleii his wife, daughter of Phillip dc Colvik, held this manor and 
 one in lhisins;ham, one in North JVahham, and lands in Titshall, 
 Wilby, and RiiigMid, in the year 1 295, when Jolin was their son ancj 
 heir, and 24 years old.' This Ric/mrd was a great lawyer/ and one 
 of the justices of the King's-Bench, he left it to 
 
 Sir John Boylano hisson,ironi whom (but whether by purchase 
 or not, I cannot tell) it eame to 
 
 John de Lowdham, who, in 1345, paid x.s. for his relief, for the 
 manor late Sir- John Boi/iand's called Jiut/laiidjce, from which time 
 it continually went as Ireiize manor,' till John Lowdham sold one 
 moiety of it to 
 
 JohnWoueiiouse, the other moiety went with his daughter to the 
 BLEVERiiAssiiTS ; and in \r>Q\, John B/cverhansct granted it to 
 Thomas Coknw aleis, Knt. wliose heirs purchased the other 
 half, after many conveyances of it from l\ odeliousc to Gn/mc, and 
 from Grt/me to Rant and others; and in this family it hath conti- 
 nued ever since, it being now [173(>J annexed to the capital manor. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Jmlrezo the Apostle, having a 
 square tower, and but one bell, thouglx not long since there were 
 five. The church, chancel, and south isle are leaded, the south, 
 porch is tiled. 
 
 On a black marble lying in the chancel: 
 Fremoidt. A chevron between three ferdumolins 
 Bedingjield. Erm. an eagle displayed guL 
 
 Hie jacet 
 Elizabetha Joelis Fremoult, Generosi 
 Uxor dilectissima, 
 Edmundi Bedingfield, de Halesworth, Ar. 
 
 Filia natii maxima : 
 
 Verum Pietatis, et Fatientiae, Exemplar. 
 
 Dum Ilia in Cajlis Gaudet, 
 
 Amici omnes et Familiares, 
 
 Imprimis vero Maritus et Filius Charissimi, 
 
 Nee non Pauperes et Egeni, 
 
 In Terris Lugent. 
 
 ^Dni.MDCCXX. 
 
 ' [ impaled. 
 
 Obijt Quarto Julij, Anno ^"jj lijj 
 
 " Osmundcston, et Stiirston, in com' '< co in Osnumdestoiie, et SUirstone, 
 
 •« Siiff. que extenditur per ann. ad viij./. " que ad viij° libras et qiiinque solidos 
 
 " et v.s. de b-swetis Nornidnorum ct " per an. exienduntur. Habend' dicto 
 
 •' Richardus dc Boylund. modo tenet " Ric° et lieredibus buis de ipso Rege et 
 
 " terras illat, sed nesciunt quo war- " lieredil)us suis per servicium iiiedie- 
 
 " ranto. Q^ii vcnit et dicit, quod do- «' tatis iinius militis, pro omni servicio, 
 
 ♦' minus kcx nunc dcdit ci terrain illam *' &c." 
 
 «' per cartum huani, quam profert, et que This Richard at the same time claimed 
 
 " hcc teit.uur, quod Dominus Rex pro liberty of frce-warren in this manor, by 
 
 *' laudubili scrvitio quod dictus fidelis the King's charter, which he produced,, 
 
 " suus Richardus de Boylund ei im- and had it allowed him. 
 
 " peiidit, dcdit concessit ct carta sua ' Esrh. No. 6. 
 
 " confirmavit eidem Rich", omnes terras * See more in Brisingkam. 
 
 " « tenementa cum pertincntijs que Al- ' Vide Funse Maner, 
 
 " maricus dc Besile, dcfunctus tcnuit de 
 
 VOL. I. S
 
 154 OSMUSDESTON, oa SCOLE. 
 
 Til-'- ' thf pulpit, for " Aune Wife of George Sednr, 
 
 who 
 
 In a •oulh lilc window were iliMe arui*. and Vfforit$ witli a bend 
 ar^. all which arc now lost except LowdJiam, 
 
 LOWDHAM 
 
 BRAIIAM. 
 
 WW 
 V 
 
 5 HELTON'. 
 
 This rectory is in the deanery of Urdathall, arch deaconrj* of iVof- 
 
 folk, .iiid dioc< ,f of \oncichi valued in llie King's Buok» at 9/. but is 
 
 now discharged, being sworn of ihc clear yearly value of 4()/. so that 
 
 it is capjible of augmenlalion, and ih freed from first fruit-, and 
 
 tenths. 
 
 King'' Books. 
 
 y 
 
 Clear Falm. 
 40 O 
 
 Stftvtdah 
 O a O 
 
 Procurations. 
 ti 8 
 
 /teres (ilebt. 
 CO 
 
 -Vonr. Valitat, 
 a marks. 
 
 Lincoln I aliiat. 
 IG murks.
 
 OSMUNDESTON, or SCOLE. 135. 
 
 RECTORS.' 
 
 1297. John (le Petrestre, rector.' 
 
 1313, id. March, Alan de Hallegate, priest. Thomas and Henry 
 l)E Sheltonk. 
 
 1S14, 10 kal. Nov. Ralph de Sheltonc, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1343, 18 Decern, Sir Henri/ de Shelton, priest. Thomas de 
 Shelton. 
 
 1349, 14 May, Richard alte Lane of Walton, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1352, 7 Jan. Robert I'lemmyng^ priest, on the resignation of 
 Richard de Walton. Ditto. 
 
 1354, 21 Jane, John de Tyryngtone, priest, on tiie resignation of 
 Richard Fleming. Ditto. 
 
 ]36l, 6 Jan. John liarcourt de Brentillegh, priest. R.\lpii de 
 Sheltone, Knt. 
 
 1371, 31 March, Jndrezo de Colneye, priest, on the resignation of 
 John Harcourt. Ralph de Shelton, junior, Knt. 
 
 1407, 3 Jan. Sir Clerk of Casfleacre, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1416, 5 Decern. Robert Tiilbey, on Richard Wilehin's resignation, 
 who changed with him for Brome. ^VlLLlAM Shelton, Esq. 
 
 1420, 14 February, Robert Smith of Palgrave, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1442, 26 Jan. Henry Russell, priest, on the resignation of Robert 
 Smith. Alice Aluiuford, widow. 
 
 1483, 30 Sep?. Henry Russell; he had Thorp-Parva. Ralph 
 Shelton, Esq. 
 
 1520, 18 Sept. Richard Prior. John Shelton, Knt.* 
 
 1550, 19 June, Thomas Marbury. Ditto. 
 
 1533, 6 Nov. William Whyck, on the resignation of Thomas Mar- 
 bun/. John Aldham, Gent, of Shimpling. 
 
 ijjfi, 8 Jan. Nic. Awdeley, priest, at Ifhyck's death. Ditto. 
 
 1558, 13 Oct. Nicol.Calver, on Awdeley's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1560, 4 April, Richard Johnsone, priest, on the resignation of 
 Calver. Ditto. 
 
 156s, 1 Febr. John Trapett, on Johnsone's death. Henry Ald- 
 ham, Gent, 
 
 1597, 2(i May, John Smilh at Trapett's death. Thomas Corn- 
 wALEis, Knt. in full right. He was patron in 1510. 
 
 1598, 4 Nov. John Smith, on his own resignation, united to Frense. 
 William Cornwaleis, Knt. 
 
 1617, 6 Dec. Thomas Hall, A.M. Nathaniel Bacon, Esq. and 
 Jane Cornwaleis,^ patrons. 
 
 IG42, John Welles, A.M. Jane Bacon of Culford. 
 
 ' Dominus Henricus de Sheltone Rochford in Essex, and changed it with 
 
 est patronus, rector habet mansum cum Walton for this ; his name occurs not 
 
 XX. acris terre, procurat. vj.j. viij.i/. in Mr. Newcourt. 
 
 Sinod. pro termino Pasch;e xii.i/. pro * Richard Shelton, master of Metyng- 
 
 termino Sti. Mich. xii.</. Dcnarij Sii. ham coUegewas surety fortliefirst fruits. 
 
 Petri. xV}.d. estiinatio illius xvi. marc. ^ She was first wife of William Corn- 
 
 Do.-ncs. Norw. waleis, Knt. after of Nath. Bacon, Knt. 
 
 " Fin. Norf. N. 99. of the Bath, whose widow she was in 
 
 •Robert de Fleming was rector of 1 631, and lived at Brome,
 
 t:lS 
 
 l.lTTLi: TUOKIV 
 
 %(>::, \C> l\t. 1 i/rwr,* A.M. Cau. I-otil ConvwAi I ', 
 I70J, \[) l)t(. I Nil. Abraham Cotiptr, .A.M ' llii- jifi 
 
 [1730] ifclor, at ii</6oiirNr'i miguotion. Uuukkt HitiTirr, b*(|. 
 
 pr\) kac vict. 
 
 In W>t»3. here win- 81 comiminicsMit*, nod now [l?;!*^ ll>«Tr arc 
 nlxtiil 40 dwclline-liuuM-*, niiii 2:M) inhiibitiii)(». It puiil I/. I7i> 
 Iciitlii, anti Hal alloMoU ~s. clccluciiun* uiit ul it; it wo* rated in tlu* 
 j>iirliaiiii-iil uviocialiun at J(X>/. und iiuvv lu the King'* Inx nt 436/. 
 
 Here u uii auutiol fair kept un (ho Tueviuy utter Luster diiv. 
 
 THOKP-PAKVA, or LITTLE TIIOKP, 
 
 14 a small village on iho rast part of .^co/c, liavini; only lour iiousca 
 in it; till' nanie of Dopp in Ndi-u/i si(;nifu-> a inanor-houM', and this 
 is tailed in ancient eviiK'nees, Thorp Mhiihcucii, proliahlv (rom 
 Ralph tit Maiierijt, (or Manors.) lord ihcreol, un<l l.tlth I'horp, or 
 Pana Thorp, to distinguish it from Thorp-.-tbOols,vi\iic\t I let near it. 
 It paid to th<? tentlis I/. 4i. out of which 45. was deducted; tlie par- 
 hanienl valuation was 148/. and tlie present valuation is I'jo/. 
 
 It Is a re<-lorv, hut a siiircure ; the church, which iid<«licatcd to 
 St. Mari/ the I'irgin, beinii quite <lemolished, the ruins of liie steeple, 
 which was round, appear in this manner: 
 
 A i^ til.- wc-t p.'.it. n llu' xiiith. 
 
 * He piihlishcd %ertn\ tcnnon* on > lie holtli it united to Thorp-Abt>otj. 
 the jctli of January.
 
 <c 
 
 LITTLE TIIORP. 137 
 
 In l683, in the nianusc-iipt calli'd, the yJiiswers of the Parsons, it 
 is thus entered, " Hubert Dale, taiinor of this benefice saiili, that 
 " there arc about five coniinunieants, tiiat it is a rectory prese illative, 
 " valued in tiie King's liooks at 4/. that Edward J)ui//i/, list], is 
 " patron of it, (as it is said,) who reeeiveth the tithes, and so iiatli 
 " done of a long lime, that the parishioners liear divine service at 
 
 BiUingford." It is in Redeuhall deanery, and Norfolk archdea- 
 conry, and being sworn not to exceed the clear yearly value of 30/. 
 per annum, is capable of augmentation, and neither pays first fruits 
 nor tenths ; tlie advowson now is, and always was, appendant to the 
 manor. 
 
 In 14Cn, fVilliam White, Esq. of this parsh, who was lord and 
 patron, ordered his body to be buried in the chancel of the church 
 of the Blessed Virgin, at T/wrp-Parva, so that the church was in use 
 at that time, and I believe, long since.* 
 
 King's Books. I Clear value under I Norw. Tax. I Lincoln Tax. 
 4 I 30 O O I 3 marks. ' G marks, 
 
 Sj/nodals. \ Proc. Arch. 
 1 i 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1300, id. April, Robert dc Becc/es, chaplain. Daniel de 
 Beccles.' 
 
 1310, 15 cal. Oct. Simon de Ruburgh, priest to the church of 
 Thorp-Parva Mannezcen. Lucy, late wife of Daniel de Beccles, 
 
 lo'ld, id. Jug. Thomas de Shotishain, accolite. John de Neketon. 
 
 1335, 3 id. Aug. Thomas de Shotisham, priest. Katerine, widow 
 of the said John. 
 
 1338, \0 April, William de Tounbtrningham, accolite; on Shotes- 
 Jtam's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1339, 13 Oct. Rad. de Neketon, accolite. Ditto. 
 
 1340, 18 Jan. Robert de Caldewell, priest ; on Neketon's resigna- 
 tion. Ditto. 
 
 1344,27 March, Thomas Forrester, priest; on Caldeweirs resig- 
 nation. Caterine de Neketon. 
 
 1349j 25 July, Conrandus de Metlei/e, priest. Edmund de 
 Neketon. 
 
 1352, 6 Aug. Thomas Ilannock, priest; on Metlei/e's death. Ditto. 
 
 1355, 11 Dec. Benedict Brennewater, priest; on Hannock's resig- 
 nation. Ditto. 
 
 1371, 15 Jan. Thomas Palmer, priest; at the resignation of John 
 Freshwater, whose institution occurs not. Ditto. 
 
 1380, 17 April, John Norman, priest. Roger de Wulferton, 
 Thomas rector of Titcshale, and Richard Dautrys. 
 
 1390, 8 March, John Benselyn of Ilapton, priest.' William 
 Braytoft of Thorp-Parva, and Isabel his wife. 
 
 * Register Bet)'ns. ' Tliis John was buried by the south 
 
 ' Sir Henry bhelton was patron before gate of the churchyard, in 14JO. 
 Daniel de Beccleas.
 
 138 LITTLE Til OR p. 
 
 14«f), 0« V'l. llolxrt i'ord<b<tJ', prK>»(.° John Swan, Dq. for 
 
 Ull* lllMI. 
 
 14^!), 51 Viiy, l\ tlliam Sad. I'lu' Hishop, by lapuc. 
 
 J4-.. /.,.r. .Indrttc .-tal'i/n. Litpx'. 
 
 1-i /r/»r. licurtf HuutU held il uniled lo Sru&. UiCliAliD 
 
 Win 1 I , < ■< III. 
 
 I»|»J. ,7 Marfh.Jofitt M'tU, uHUe6ea(ini( \icholasCan(. Hkn'RY 
 Wyott, 11»*j. 
 
 I.WKi, 7 .\Iay, Sir Henri/ Ptuninf^, who had hit firsl fruiU rf milted 
 bv tile llisliop, oul of rc»jK'«'t iiiui love lo llninf H yoll. Ins patron. 
 
 I,'>10, 'JS Jan. Rotirrt llu/iiniliii n iiujiik : nil Pennine's di-atlu 
 
 IIlnry WiATT, km. 
 
 IJIfi, 
 
 1540, I May, Siehoia$ Tfmper/fi/,tcliQiw. Masgaret Wiiitb, 
 widow. 
 
 H)02, 2 Vor. John Bond, A.B. Kinc James, bv Inpst'. 
 
 Kki.'), ») .Vor. John Bound (or Bona) ulorcsaicf resigned ; but he 
 recalled it und was reiniituicd. 
 
 W>27, Mr. John litirgrs, rector. 
 
 Ifi3'2, Hii^h Nation.' Edward Doyly, Eso. 
 
 l6:J7, Eiiicard Hudson, A..M. Tlu- Kim; by Lapse. 
 
 iWi;., ;J() .Vol-. Kohtrt [llnnd, A.M. Tlir Kino by Inpso. 
 
 1700, iO Ffbr. John Ficldtr, A.B. Thomas Kuni.NiiON, Gent. 
 
 lie was buccccded by John Burgatt, after whose 
 death, 
 
 1724, 18 Jan. The Uev. Mr. Thomm Buiton, A. M. was instituted, 
 who held It united to Shinioluig. John Holt, Esq. 
 
 1738, 13 .\or. Samutl Birch, A. \i. instituted on Buxton's death. 
 Kow LAND lloLT, Emi. united to BiHin^f'ord. 
 
 IT,i!i. 'i'> .W(M/. died Samidl Birch, rector, and Uiis rectory was 
 consolidated to BHUngford. 
 
 Tliis town bt lunged to rjric,^ who held il of F.drir, the ancestor 
 nf Robert Mairt, lord of the honour of /-Jy?, ol whom it was held 
 by Hubert in the Conqueror's time, when llie manor extended (as it 
 now [i73f»] does) into The/ton; the whole being valued at .v.j. in 
 th«> ("iinfessor's, and 2<)s. per annum in the Conqueror's lime ; the 
 iigrcl then to the Kini;, to whom it paid .W. Geld, being a 
 I J, und three cjuarters ot a mile broad. 
 
 It afterwards came to the Miintchrnsiei, who held it of tlic honour 
 of Eye, which was held ot ihe King in caitite. In l'i<><», 
 
 W ILLIA.M D£ V\'i:sTON wog owucr ot it, und this year released 
 it lo 
 
 Alan Pictaviensis ; (afterwards called Alan dt Gotdynghum ;) 
 und in I'i.Vi, 
 
 * Robert d.c<l 1417. bond. temp. i. car. in dmo. lemp. 
 
 * k\r held II Mith Kiiull. il. (.»'■ homin. e( vi. acr. prali. rt in 
 
 * DuiucmI. fol. 77. Tcrrc Rotxrli Tclvcntuiu ii. lil>eri homines cjusdcm 
 Ma!ct. Dice Dim Huiidr. xiiii. acr. Irrrc scinp. dim. tar. tunc. 
 
 In Torp. (e.iuit bdiicus toe. Mib tuiiiiii valiiil x. sol. |>o>t ct in" xx. soca 
 Edrico antra. Male! Ixxx. acr. modo Rr(;i>. Torp habet tin. quart, in longo 
 icnct ilubcrtiis Kinp. iii. vill. et. iii. ct iii.in lalitiidinr ct dc Cclto iii.tf.
 
 LITTLE THORP. ,5^ 
 
 Daniel de Beccles ' hold it of tlie said Jhm, by the son-ire of 
 one kn.ghU fee; he of />////</,« dt Montecanlso, {or MonUha,su,) 
 he of the Earl of Lornwall, as ofJKye honour, and he of the KinYr 
 Ihis Daniel left it to ° 
 
 Lucy his wife, daughter of lialph de Manerijs, (or Manor,,) who 
 was lord here in trust, during his life; and lhen'L«f« aforesaid kept 
 the courts in her own name. In ]<299,* she had the lat, and nssile 
 of bread and beer. In laOB, she settled it by fine on herself for life 
 and after on * 
 
 John de Neketon, who owned it in 1315, and, in 13Q4 ' settled 
 It on himself and ' 
 
 Katherine, his wife, in tail, who was ladv in 1345,<^ and paid 40s 
 torher relief; at her death it went to ' 
 
 Edmund de Neketon, who, in 1377, settled it, with the advow- 
 son by fine, on Roger Mo//aston, Thomas rector of TitsfwU, and 
 Kickard Dautrys, m trust; he was succeeded by 
 
 IsABELL, late wife oi John de Neclon, son of the said Edmund 
 about 1401 ; she afterwards married Hi/llam Jhai/toft of Thoru- 
 1 ana, after whose decease it came to the IVhiles; for in l4Gy 
 
 ^ViLLiAM White of Thorp- Paria, Esq.' by will dated Man'hso 
 gave the manor and advowson to Mart/ his wife, to maintain hiJ 
 cliifdren, till Richard, his tluitl son, should be 22 years old, and then 
 he was to have it in tail, remainder to Robert, his second son, then to 
 John his fourth son, and then to Bartholomew, his eldest son re- 
 mainder to his daughters equally ; ' 
 _ According to which, Richard, the third son, succeeded, and held 
 It till 1492, 8th Henry VII.; but being then attainted of hi-h 
 treason, his estates were seized by the King, who granted them "to 
 nenry II wt, and his heirs male; but the attainder being taken off 
 It reverted to the family ; for John, the fourth son, who was doctor of 
 divinity, instituted to iv% rectory in 1505, which he resio-ned in 
 I0I2, mhented on the entail, and in 15)3 settled the whole on Ilenru 
 tVyatt, John Cutte, Richard Chamely, Knts. Richard and John, 
 ntat, clerks, H tlham Sparke, and fVilliam Damport. and their heirs 
 in trust, but to what uses does not appear. However, notwithstandinff 
 this, he IS found to have died seized, leaving 
 Edmund, his son, (as I suppose,) his heir, who died in 1551, and 
 
 Anne,^ his sister, his heir, who was then the wife of Henru Doiilu 
 of Shottesham, who held it of the King as of his honour of liw In 
 1572, this -^ 
 
 Henry was lord, who in 1584 levied a fine of it to Thomas Towns- 
 end, Lsq. and others, lu trust. In 159Ci, it was held by Donlie, and 
 and in 1632, 
 
 He.m;y Doyly was lord and patron. In 1715, 
 
 Tuo.MAsKoBiNsoN, Gent, was lord and patron, and sometime 
 after, it was purchased by John Sayer oi Eye, Esq. who sold it to 
 
 apiita. R Joli. Rot. I. indorso. 7 Rcgr. Bctyns .13, B. proved at 
 
 :?°'-°'=q"°'^^rranto. Hoxnc, 1470. 
 
 5 F.n . Norf. E. ,. L. j . N. 93. « Carta pen. me. 
 
 'Iiiquis. 20 E.J. '^
 
 140 
 
 r u r. N s E. 
 
 JcMIS llotT. r»q. «t 
 How l,*> l> H»U.1 ol 
 
 \i-<\ to 
 
 I _ iiuw [1736] lord and 
 
 p. ill Ml. 
 
 llu /<rf Mooi;^ tu the manor, K) Uial ihc lordofUic hundred bath 
 no jurudicUun in tlu> luwn. 
 
 F R E N S E 
 
 Was nhvnvsonc manor,* wlilch in King FAltrnrtTs lime was held l>y 
 I'.irte' of hjlric, for «nr carucnlc ; and in tin- CoiKnu-ror's time liy 
 Hubert, o( Rohert Malft, lord of Eift ; it was then wortli lis. pi-r 
 amiiim, being rive furlong* long, and four broad, and paid 3d. 
 
 J)i:iii^(tJ. 
 
 It was alwavs held of F.i/t honour nt one ({uartcr of a kni'^ht's fee, 
 and paid x.s. relief. I do not nuflwith any lords' names* before 
 IJ-^',' when John dr Ladfiain yMxs lord and patron, whose family 
 ti>ul« their sirnamc from a viliui^c so called in Suffolk, in H i/j'urd 
 hundred,* which they held many ui?es. In l'2<)7, it was settled on 
 
 ^Vll.l.lAM DE LiDHAM, ckiHl .lUct his wife, and John llicir son, 
 and his heirs. In \3'i[), 
 
 Joan, wife of Sir John /,i/<Mrtm, and John iMudhitm, Knt. son of 
 Thonuit, was '21 years old, anil lu-ld this miuior ; and in I.i.Ki, pur- 
 chaseil several large parcels «)f land of Ralph dt Shimjj/ni^, and 
 Katrrinc his wife, being the first of ibis family that bad Ituj/taiid's 
 manor; both which, together with this advowson, in 1343, they 
 *. nlcd bv fine »)n themselves, and the heirs of John ; lldmund dc 
 I " Til l( I'rcrt, and i'dtr dt Tcye, b<ing feoffees. In 1351, 
 
 Sir Jons, son and heir of Sir John ilc Loardhitm, and Joan his 
 wife, held this and liui/lniid manor in Ounundtiton, Frcnzr and .SViVj- 
 lun i he died in 1.5 '».'), and Joan bis wife hud it to her ilciith in 137 I, 
 and held it of Etlmund, son of Sir Thoinas dr V^ord, lord of h'.jjir. 
 
 John, aon of Thomas dt Lotrdham, knt. inherited, and died in 
 1373; and 
 
 Sir Thomas de Lowoiiam, Km. brother and heir of John, son of 
 
 * BoyUnd'i in Scole, it somrtimet uid 
 to be 10 Frcntc, txcautc tl cxirn>U intu 
 It, ii did iIk ntanors of Tiitlull and 
 ' ' ; I'arva. The Abbol of M. td- 
 . lord of 1 iitliill, in the Conqur. 
 i,, •■■..■ 1 ..I i>»o locHKn here. 
 
 (D' iti.) In Krcnie ii. 
 
 soc. > '>ti dc x\]. acr. bcmp. 
 
 dim. Mr. vai.u. tol. 
 
 A° lilts Hatting, held ij ar. i. 
 
 »ilji!> of ihc Abbot'i fee. 1367, Will. 
 
 dr i' irn/c held It. 
 
 •;Ujnit»d. fu\. 77.) Tcrre Rub. 
 
 Malct, Dice Dim. Hundr. Friia lenuit 
 Edricui »ub Kdnco, pro. 1. car. terre. 
 mudu Icnet Hubeituk, tunc ct po»l i. 
 vdUn. niodo li. tunc ei post. i. txird. 
 nuMio ii. srin|>er i. at. in dniu. temper 
 amnl homines cum duobuj bovil<i>s >-( 
 iiii.acr. prali, modo i.mol. tunc ' 
 valiut X.I. modu xv. habel v, qi 1 
 in longo ct mi. in lato ei iii.J. deOeltn. 
 
 * It teemi as if the Ludtumi liad it 
 from the Sheltonj. 
 
 ' Liber CcduUr. 
 
 ♦ Nooiina Villw.
 
 FRENSE. 141 
 
 Thomas, son of John, and Joan his wife, held itj jointly with Maud 
 his wife; he died in \38o, and 
 
 Sir Robert Cokbet, senior, Knt. held it, as guardian to John 
 Lowdham, who dying, left it to his wife; 
 
 And in 1401, the lady which was the wife of Sir Robert Corbet, 
 senior, Knt. held Boi/laiid's in dower, and Sir Robert Corbet, junior, 
 her son, held Frtrtze, during the minority of John Lowdham, son of 
 Thomas de Lowdham and Aland his wife, wiio, when his father died, 
 was but seven years old. This John died iJSlli April, 1428; .-Jlice his 
 wife surviving him : he left only one daughter, 
 
 Joan, then 14 years old, married to Thomas Heveni/ngham, Esq. 
 and after that to Ralph Blaverhasset, Esq. both which she outlived, 
 not dying till June 20, 1501, being 97 vears of age : she was seized 
 of Boi/knid's, the other moiety of which was granted by John Lowd- 
 ham to John ]\ oodhuuse. 
 
 John Bl.werhasset was her son and heir, being 77 years old at 
 his mother's death. This is a very ancient family, taking their name 
 from B/eversela, or Blevcrhai/set, in Cumberland, where the eldest 
 branch continued a long time. In 1382, Jlan Bleverhassct was 
 mayor of the city of Carlisle, as was John, in 1430.' In 1412, Ralph 
 Bleverhayset was parliament-man for that city, and so was Thomas, 
 in 1584. In 1510, this John died, in the 87th year of his age, seized 
 of Frenze, and a moiety of Boi/land's ; he had two wives ; Jane 
 daughter of Thomas Ileigham of Hcigham Green in Suffolk, Esq. by 
 whom he had Sir Thomas, his son and heir, now 49 years of age ; and 
 Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Tindall of Hockwold in Norfolk, Knt. 
 He came from South-hill in Bedfordshire, to Frenze, which estate he 
 gave to John, his son by his second wife, who dying without issue, it 
 was divided among his four sisters, Margaret, married to Robert 
 Jf arner of Besthorp, after to IVilliam Drury of the same; Jane, to 
 Sir Phillip Calthorp ; Anne, to Sir Henry Grey of Wrest in Bedford- 
 shire, Knt. ; Ellen to Mites Hobart of Plumstede in Norfolk, Esq. se- 
 cond son of Sir James Hobart, Knt. 
 
 Sir Thomas died seized of Frenze and Borland's, June 27, 1531, 
 leaving 
 
 George, his eldest son by his first wife, his heir: he died in 1543, 
 and by his will gave Frenze to Margaret liis wife for life, and liui/- 
 land's moiety to Mary, his daughter and heiress, then married to 
 Thomas Culpepper, Esq. she being to have Frenze also at Margaret's 
 death. This Man/, by fine, settled Frenze on 
 
 Francis Bacon, Esq. her second husband, and Edmund his son, 
 for their lives, both which had it, Edmund Bacon of Harleston being 
 seized of it in 1572 ; after wliose death it reverted to 
 
 John Br-r.vERUASSET, who had enjoyed Jioyland's ever since the 
 death of the said Man/. This John was brother to George, her fa- 
 ther : he sold the moiety of Boyland's to Sir Thomas Cormcahis, Knt. 
 and his heirs, but Frenze continued in this family ; for in 1587, 
 
 George Bleverhasset held it; and in 15y5, 
 
 Samuel Bleverhasset. How or when it went from this family 
 I do not find; but in ItiOG, 24th Nov. 
 
 Richard Nixon, Esq. died seized, and 
 
 5 Willis's Notit. Parliam. vol. ii. p. 2^3, 4« 
 VOL. I. T
 
 U2 r R E N S E. 
 
 KiciiARP wn« In* ton and lirir, wliotp ion. Diamond Sijom, m>IJ 
 ii tu 
 
 Sir UoBKBT ki.Mr, Uart. whuie »on, Sir Robert, it now lord nnd 
 pnlrun. [I ?:>(>■] 
 
 Titc CiiiiicH I* a Miiall iHiiUlmg, of ftjuul hfi^lit, t-ovrritl wilh 
 ulc ; niul liaxiiig iu> »Uvpli-. ihc Ih-11 Iibii};!i tin ilic milmir ot ihc roof. 
 at tlir wol riid : lltcrc »* n<i pnrlitiuii brlwccn the iluii'h hikI cliiin- 
 crl. but there i» n beam tixwl across the- ru»l cliaiuel window, on 
 which the rood wiu conTcniently placed. 'Ihe church it about 
 ■: : '- long, and 7 vanU wide; the south |>orch ii tiled. It i» 
 
 1 to St. Andrrtc the Apostle,' as iipjK ars fioin the will of 
 
 / .', who desired to be buried in the chancel of St. 
 
 / 'I'liu meanness of lite fabriik halii preserved the 
 
 inscriptions Irom beinj; rcaved, fur it loclk^ like a barn, at a di'ilance. 
 In the chancel, accoiding to his will, is burii-d Rnljih lilrxtrhvsut, 
 Esq. w hose efligies, slandijig u|>on a lion, still retnaiits ou a stone, and 
 this inscription : 
 
 Pir liirct trntralili^ Wir fiatiulpbuti !?lt^rrl).iri)5rtt 
 
 ilnnigtr qui obiit riiii° Oif .JHrn^is j"Jotocinbri^ 
 
 il' Oni. in" <CCC<C Irrt . ruiu? Jnimc iiroincittur 3^tu^ amtn. 
 
 There arc four shieUls still remaining. 
 
 1 . lUcvrrhasift w ith an annulet quartering Orton ; 
 
 2. Ihlto impaling lAitcdham; 
 
 3. As the s<.cond ; 
 
 4. Ijotrdhain sinirle. 
 
 llie inscription tor his wife is now lost, but was, as we lenrn from 
 Mr. ./f;M</i'i AlSS. (marked G. (i, fol. 3y.) as follows: 
 
 i\:t Inrtl) ,inr>. Joanr ^IrDrrhas^tt, the IDiff of fialpb CMrtrlia^iStr, 
 >i:.-il.tl)tT*aufll;tcrant)lHiro( -jLol)" UouiCiliam.vnboDicD thcjotlj C»an of 
 iunf \M\. 
 
 llie same MSS. hath the folluumt; mscri|itioii, now gone: 
 
 '• Here Iveth the venerable Gentleman John Hlavcrhasset, Esq; who 
 " died il)c 11th of March, in the Year of our Lord, 1514." 
 
 On a stone by the south door is the efligies of a woman bidding 
 her bend-i, with lluee shields under the inscription. 
 1. Jliiisft with an annulet, quartering lAinilhnm ; 
 i. Ditto impaling TiudiiU, quartering I'ecktin ; 
 3. Tindoll i|uartering Orton and Sciues. 
 
 f>ran (or tljc ^oulf o{ ^ant !?lc\Jtrljan#^rtt, ITfCioto, latt IPnf 
 onto Oo'jn CMaDtrbans^ttt, <:*quitr, toljirhr -;janf Qcpartto outc 
 of i\)\9 prtptnt Unf, tl)t Di ??ari of <Ottobfr, tt;i- Orrr of our Uor6 
 Cod, .m V rri on iDt]o»t z&ouic -Jihu t)at)c mcrcn, Jmrn. 
 
 On a hlonc at the ea>l end, 
 
 f rrt Inftb *ir fhomaS CJItutrhansiStttf. hnnobt, 
 toljifh DfttgjinO the rtjit I>ai' of -June, the Ocrc of our 
 lorDc Xi\ t)' rrri. ano irrni ncrr of rlic fitianc of our ,f>otif 
 tanflnt IfltO hi;na Pcnrn the liiutl), ttl)Oi)» /$>ouif JJooparOon. 
 
 • Rrgr. CutcBC in Archiv, Norw. fo. ilj, b.
 
 F R E N S E. 145 
 
 At each corner is a coat : 
 
 1. Ilasset with an annulet, quartering Ortoii, impaling Lowdham 
 and Keldoii, quartered. 
 
 2. Ilasset and Lozedham quartered, impaUng Heigham, his first 
 wife. 
 
 3. Hasset, Lowdon, Orton, and Keldon, quartered, iinpahng Bra- 
 ham, with a crescent. 
 
 4. Hasset, and the three quartered as in the last, impaling two lions 
 passant. 
 
 His effigies still remains, in complete armour, having a surcoat of 
 his arras, viz. Bleverhasset with the annulet, (which this branch alwa^'s 
 bare for difference,) with his quarterings, Lowdham, Orton, and Kel- 
 vedon ; (or Keldon ;) under his head lies his crest, riz. a fox passant. 
 
 On a marble three yards long, and a yard and half wide, is this on 
 
 a brass plate : 
 
 i?ere bctlj ©ame .IBargarct 2?Ielicrhaji^ct, ©etintoe, late IDjE to .f>pr 
 €i)oma^ SJIctcdjajisct off ?un^, ttnpgljt, gi>otoghter to 3of)n 23ra}jam 
 Df nDttljernnsiScr, ^iSquper, tobo had g^iSuc fao tlje ^"aib M>w 3Li)omai, 
 Vmn M>Dnnt^, SijomaiS a prps^t, anD 3;of)n 2BIcbcrijan.s'£t of 2?ar?l]am, bn 
 IBtdv'i in M)i\«. anD fytae ©otoaijtcr^, tljat ns <eii?alietlj fpr.st niarrieo to 
 Xponcll Hototlj, after to Jrrancut Clopton, ^IgnE.^ marricD to ^m 
 antonji ttotolii, innpijijt, anne niarricD fur^t to iScorgc ©ufec, after to 
 ^ctcr ai'Oe, Hiargaret furst marrieD to '3,oi)n ii?o.snoi&, after to antonp 
 IBpngfnlD, totjo Dpeo tlje ir^riii of 3|.utpe in tteiercof our ILotbe, I56i. 
 
 The first coat is lost, but was Braham impaling lleydon. 
 
 2. Hasset, Lorsdham, Keldon, Orton, Skelton, and Hasset, impaling 
 Braham ; the third is lost. 
 
 Adjoining is another stone, having had two coats, which arereaved, 
 as is the effigies of the man; that of the woman remains; her head 
 lies on a pillow, and her beads hang before her; the two remaining 
 shields have these arms : 
 
 1. Duke quartering Banyard, with the difference of two annulets 
 interlaced on the fess. 
 
 Park and Ilketshall impaling Hasset, quartering Lowdham, Keldon, 
 Orton,and Skelton. 
 
 2. Hasset, and his quarterings, as before. 
 Mr. Le Neve sa3's, that the two coats lost were, 
 
 1. Duke and his quarterings, as before. 
 
 2. Duke, &,c. impaling Jcnnei/, quartering Buckle and Lcislon. 
 Buckle, or, a chevron between three buckles. 
 
 l^earc unbcr lietl) n^eorgc S^ufic, «B^qu)ire. 
 tot)o marrpcD anne, tfje ©otogfiter of ^nr Cijomasi 
 SMetertiap^^et, ftnpgl)t, tljc vofiiclje 45£orge 
 t)i£t> tlje vTjJi bap of 3iulji, m tJje Here 
 of our 5Lorbe iSob, a. M. €€€€«!!. li. 
 toljo:^ ^otole <f2>ob garbon, amen. 
 
 Another stone hath its inscription torn off, and one shield ; the 
 other is 
 
 Cornwaleis impaling Froxmere.
 
 U4 FRENSR. 
 
 llic next hath a roaii in armuur, hi* (wokI hanging b«(bfe hiin on 
 ft Wit, hi* hantis cii-rlrd. 
 
 Iliitnl quartcu Ijoadham and Ortoit , Orton or LomtJu iin[i*lc» 
 
 IHf lafft s toir Oc 
 
 ha^ift. J. ■ .11 V ,.f 
 
 Oitny. i)oDciiU>: J 9ni. A\ b t. iu<U)» annac propintnir Xy«:>. 
 
 Uii nnulhcr ktoue : crc»t, a i'ox »cd«iit on u wre«lh, uuder it, ui a 
 lowngv : 
 
 1. Ilatxt, Lomdkam, Ortou, KcMon, Skeltom, Duk*, fre«t» - - - . 
 LoaiJK. 
 
 •2. I'lilix/'txr quartering n chevron iH-twccn eleven martlets, 
 
 3, 2, I, 4, J. •inpalins' //<Ji».-^ iinil i|i - ns bt>fore. 
 
 .i. HacoH inipuhni; Hmsfl uuti (ji> 
 
 4. Htiofl iiiul quartering*. 
 
 5. Ihike. will) an uauuhl, quartering three peUcans vulning them- 
 •elves, ami Iretle 
 
 (i. OrtoH. 
 
 Maria: filiw « I haircili unicac Gcorgij BIcverhasset, 
 
 Miiilu inaurati Enupta; uriroo Thomac Culpt.per, 
 
 j\ .[ui hie, poslen rran<isco Uacon, Ariuigero* 
 
 ' , 'ira: in Couiital: SiitV. luuiulatur, sine prole, 
 
 Dtluiicte VII Sejitenihr. 1J87. -litalis sua-, 70. 
 
 Vidua*, Fia-, Ca>la-, Ho»pilali, li<'nii;iiir ! 
 
 Joannes Cornwalcis, el Joanne* Ulevirhaisct, 
 
 Menions et ainoru ergo posueruiit. 
 
 On a brass fixed to the north ehaneel wall : 
 
 \f!ttt unbfT Inttht ffiomavn piatrr^', JF'auohKr of Ororoe 
 r>uhf, >i:*quiirr. ano IDifc to lOilliam piatfr^, Aonnc t l^cicr 
 of fliomas platrr* of .^lOtrrlm, "irviquirr, tohicljc <Cboiiia?in 
 6nt0 tljc J ;d oan of r'trcmbrr. in tl)f .•crono Pert of tijr 
 finijnc of our <S>ot)frtiont Uaon Ournc <{;l:?alictljc, ^ l.>(iO. 
 
 Platfn, arg. three bcods wav^ nz. 
 Platers impaling Duke and his quartering!). 
 
 More tiiwarda the east, on the sjiid wall, remains the im[)rrsMon of 
 a briis% ifh'^ies, and inscription now lo^l, l»ut in a MSS. (marked E. 
 26, fol. '23.) ID Mr. Anttii't hands we have the lollou ing uccuunl : 
 
 Platers'i arms and Duke's : 
 
 €^a(r pro animabu0 IPiKi piatrr^ ct ^homajinuron^ 'taa filiac ^ufit < < 
 
 As also otiliis, now lost: 
 
 Oratf pro I^onuna -Johanna 123tal;Ani, Sioua uf. ^Jatjni: ^ratiam Oc 
 HottObam, Jriniotri. 
 
 Tira/uim impale* Duke. 
 
 (h\ n stone having the cfligies of a woman in her winding^ sheet, 
 lidding hex beads :
 
 FRENSE. 145 
 
 ii^tc ifltet tumulata bomina ^oJjanna 2?ralbam, bi&ua at ©co Dicata 
 nlim ucoc ^oijannij; 2?rflljani acmnjcn que obiit vtoiii &ie .Roijcmbri^ 
 a° ©ni. Hiillimo <&€€.<£.<£. jrii'. cuiu.^ anime ptopicictur 5I5cusi, 3imen. 
 
 Braham single, and again impaling lieydon. Rei/don single. 
 
 On a brass plated stone near the north door, a man in his winding 
 sheet, and this : 
 
 ftrap for tl;c ^otofe of yDur Cljaritc, 
 <0l €])oma^ IJob.son to tlje Crpnjitc. 
 
 On three flat marbles : 
 
 Nixon, on a chief, an axe impaling three roundels. 
 
 Here lieth the Body of Richard the 
 
 Son of Richard Nixon, Esq; and 
 
 Susan his Wife, who departed this 
 
 Life the 28lh Day of August, 1678. 
 
 In the 22' Year of his Age. 
 
 Nixon, impaling a chevron between three lions rampant : 
 
 Reliquiae Richardi Nixon, Armig: 
 
 Qui obijt 24° Novemb: An° Dom. 
 
 J 066, iEtatis suae 77. 
 
 Per fess embattled three pheons impaling Nixon : 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of William Cooper, Gent, who died the .30"" Day 
 of March, 1693, Aged 54 Years. 
 
 In a north window was a man bearing Ufford's arms, and by him 
 stood pictured a lady in the arms of Sheltoii, covered with a mantle 
 of LowdhamJ 
 
 In the next window, or, a fess gul. Ilasset, Scales ; m.iny funeral 
 escutcheons for Hasset ; one for Catherine, wife to Thomas Froxmere, 
 Gent. 
 
 In the windows, Ilasset and Lowdham quartered. L,owdham, — 
 Ufford, — Dalimer,arg. three inescutcheons g«/. ; Shellon, Mortimer 
 of f'Vigmore, Ufford with ;i label, again with a de-lis, again with a 
 batoon gobonne arg. and gul. ; again with an annulet arg. 
 
 In the west window Lowdham. 
 
 Lowdham impales Bacon, gul. on a chief arg, two mullets of the 
 field, pierced sab. 
 
 Or, a fess gul. impales Scales. 
 
 Lowdham impales az. on a chief g«/. three leopards faces or. 
 Mascule or and sab. 
 
 Most of these arms still remain in the windows. 
 
 I find among the evidences of Brightlead's tenement in Scolc, that 
 Thomas B.opkyn was buried here, with this inscription, now lost: 
 
 p:ap foe tijc .Rotate of SiinmaiS iHopfinn. 
 
 I have now by me three brass shields, which I am apt to think were 
 stolen from this church some time agone; the arms being 
 Shelton impaling a cross ingrailed erm. 
 
 ' MSS. pen. J . Anstis, Gart. A. ii,io.2i2. Another MSS. marked E.a6,fo. 33-
 
 146 FRnNSE. 
 
 SkfJi ti iiiijdliDii a fi»» between fiHern billeU, 2,4, 3, 2, I. 
 
 At Mrt. llilft at i'aitor, neat Yarmotith, I mw nn anricnl canvau 
 
 ' -•oil)'!, pnint<-<l witi) the tnntclirxir the /i/rvrrAdu^O; 
 
 •.', wliii ui:ifiic«l Mr». lliU't itittrr, nnii dicil m 17'M, 
 
 !■ » art- under each i^>«l ; bul 
 
 V ^1 nri" worn oul : tJu>M- lliitt 
 
 urf iKTtctt I 10 M) (liKplactrtl, iliul the 
 
 tunc (iT tlic II,, \ ihcir »uc-f«-»»ion. 
 
 lllev<rkitatt,gui. a chevron, crm. between tlirec dolphins enibowctJ 
 
 Crttt on a wreath, arg. and gul. a fox tciant, gul. 
 
 Ill ' ■ ^ilh ull till- foP ..lis: 
 
 I II, f^ul. on a I r, three b«r» sab. 
 
 H'<i/iiiin, US in p. 134. 
 
 I'lnJiiH, arg. u Jis* indented in cliief llirix- cre»cenl» 51//. 
 
 A'yrr, urj^. on a fesi, three trefoils or. 
 
 Vickrrfll, us in p. AH. 
 
 CloptOH, sab. a bend arg. cotizttl, indenti-d or. 
 
 Lotrt/ie, sab. a lion rampant or, arnicti gul. 
 
 CVfMj, ur^. three bencoiis sab. 
 
 Cu/pr/iprr, ars^. u bend in^railed gul. 
 
 Covrrt. '^til. n fe$» between three lions heads or. 
 
 /' , gul. II chevron bclwcfn three hulls fuces or. 
 
 J: ^ ,gul. a saltire bclvvei n four croslets fitrliit- arg. 
 
 Mtatcft, pally of iix, or and arg. on a chief ^u/. three croidctj formj 
 of the fir>t. 
 
 Ijotrdham, ns in p. 1.14. 
 
 Ktlrtdon, (or Ktbloii,) gul. n pall reverseil erm. 
 
 (irt-ti, firg.u lion rampant giiardunt rrr/, crowned or. 
 
 .*>. :. on a fVs-. Utwccn lliree dt'-lisc»or, a crc»cenl fab. 
 
 ( ' , Hare, llrudoii, H iii'iiU'l'ly Heapt, KtmjH, (iusuold, 
 
 Spi/man, tolby, .ilcock, liorrtf, Orury, Jlubburtl, Iltigham, It arnrr, 
 fjuortering Hhdiiall, L'althorp, IajvcII and Jiuthi/n. 
 
 HECTORS. 
 
 12f)», John fie Prle.ilrr.ncior.* 
 
 lj'25, iirid. non. .Inn .Inhii fir Wivailomo ( \frrhnuse) de Snapa; 
 presented by Cecii.v, widow of Sir Jloberl de I'Jf'ord Earl ot Sujulk, 
 and lord of Ki/f, Koiikkt dk Shelton, and \Villiam Tastard, 
 guardians of .lohn dr iMtrdham. 
 
 1340, -1 •'^'V''- Utillrr Maiiiiei/ityn (after wrote in Deeds Malvesyn.) 
 Sir John Low ihiam, Knl. 
 
 1:581, 7 Mat), H illiiim Pai/ok, priest. Thomas de Ia)Wdiiam, 
 Knt. 
 
 1382, (> June, John llaxter, priest.* DiHo. 
 
 1.5<>.!, 4 June, Pticr Ruuf, priest. Sir Kobkrt Cohbf.tt, senior, 
 guardian to John de lA)tcdham. 
 
 ' Rr,;r. Curlryt, fol. !94. Kwfx, and rhlngni wiih Payok ; he died 
 
 '* li^ivicr wu vicar of EarlcKoln in 1 J9], and wat buried in this church.
 
 FRENSE. 147 
 
 1394, 20 May, Henri/ Brakkele, priest/ Sir Robert Corbett, 
 senior, guardian to John dc Loicdham. 
 
 1397, G Decern. Sir John de Scales, priest. Dillo. 
 
 1401, ult. Jan. Michael Crowe of Kenniiighall, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1404, 4 Oct. Sir Tho. Warner of Ltyham, priest. Gilbert de 
 Deben}iam, for this turn. 
 
 1405, 8 'blow Robert Pope of Frandeslon, priest. John Lowd- 
 HAM of Burgate. 
 
 141(i, 18 Oct. Tho. Biikkc of Me//es, priest.* John Lowdham 
 of Ipswich, patron, by rii^lit of inheritance in a lineal descent. 
 
 14lG, 20 Jan. John Grecve. Ditto. 
 
 1417, 22 Oct. Roger de Kni/veton, priest. John Hevenyngham, 
 senior, Knt. Will. Shelton, Esq. Will. Lord, clerk, and John 
 Intewode, for this turn. 
 
 1419, 22 Dec. John Rawe, priest, on Ktii/ieton's resignation. John 
 Lowdham. 
 
 1423, 31 Mai/, Simon Warner, priest.' John Lowdham, Esq. son 
 and heir of Thomas Loicdham, Knt. 
 
 1428, 10 April, John Bubicith, priest, on Warner's resignation. 
 John Hagh, Esq. 
 
 1479, 1 8 July, Henry - 
 
 1484, 22 Sept. Robert Stiikely, collated by the Bishop. I meet 
 with no more institutions till 
 
 1597, 21 April, Edmund Stanhaw. The Crown (as guardian to 
 Bleverhasset.) 
 
 1598, 20 Oct. John Smith, A. M. on Stanhaw's resignation. Sa- 
 muel Bleverhasset, Esq. united to Scole. 
 
 1603, John Smith, rector, of whom the Answers of the Parsons in- 
 form us, tiiat he was a preacher allowed by the late Lord Bishop of 
 Norwich, but no graduate. 
 
 16I8, 21 Api-il, Tho. Hall, A. M. united to Scole. Samuel Bla- 
 verhassf.t of Lowdham, Esq. 
 
 1642, 10 Sept. John Gibbs, A. M. on Halts death. Richard 
 Nixon, Gent. 
 
 1651, \QFebr. Toby Dobbin. Ditto. 
 
 1673, 22 Sept. Tho. Wales, A. B. on Dobbin's death. John 
 FiNCHAM of Outwell, in the Isle of Ely, Esq. ; he had Thcltou. 
 
 1702, 7 Oct. Tho. Palgrave, on Wales s death. Diamond Nixon, 
 Esq. 
 
 1725, 24 Aurr. Will. Baker, on Palgrave's death. Robert Kemp, 
 Bart, united to Wacton-Parva. 
 
 1734, the Rev. Mr. John James, the present [1736] rector, on 
 Baker's resignation. Sir Robert Kemp, Bart, patron. 
 
 Kind's Books. I Clear f'alue. I Si/nodals. I Procurations. I Norw. Taxa. 
 2 13 4 1 30 00 loiol 030 ' 100 
 
 Lincoln Taxa. 
 6 marks. 
 
 • Rector of Brensete in Canterbury in Essex, which he exchanged with 
 diocese, which he changed for this. Biikke for this. 
 
 » John Greve was aSnister of Wiley ' Afterministerof Thurrockm Essex.
 
 u« 
 
 Til ELTON. 
 
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 lir*t liuiU mill li'iiliit, iUui i> t.-ii)j«l>ii- ol uu^^iiuuLKtiuit , 1m-iv i> . 
 lor\-l)uUM-, umi ulxHil J v>r 4 iicrr* of ^IiIh. It u h kiiiall \; 
 haMitf; unly (> Iiu«mi>«, aitd abuut <k) iiilubitonU. [iT.tfi] lit Svrinch 
 l>L"neulaif it i« uid, liiut tlio rtvtor llicii liitd u Iioum- utid ^) ucrra 
 
 I rni, nut IkXl-d. '1 Ite ul«l t(S\tlt Wut I/. ,S«. itu: i«>«(KiatiO« VilluttlKill, 
 
 'JUi/. /*rr AfiMwM, and the prcx-nl volualiuii ii Wjt. 
 
 T 
 
 at tl 
 
 U or TIIK MaNUB It lo lllO cldc'al sull, Itlld llic fiw it 
 ill ; tlio IffI beluligt tu lliv liundicd, tltc i(tt-Jct l>u«iig 
 
 T II K L V () N, 
 
 1 IIELVETON, or, as ill the Conqueror's time, Tfhettiii, had two 
 manors, Ix'&idi-s u |>art tliut bt-loiigea tu llic liunourot' Ei/e* 
 
 'IImj manor that bclontt-d to L'/y was gninlcil from that church, 
 among olh«-rs, to Iltnry at llhia, wlio, in llic lilark Book of the 
 Kxcheqiifr.ii returned to hold thre«- kiiii;ht!> (w» of the churrh of Eti/, 
 and wua nflcr^ards, by the Murshals, who sucoccdrd in that honour, 
 given to tile Siolnn, who, in I'JS'J, held both tlu' manors; for in the 
 in(|ui»itiuii then taken at the death of Jn/in Ic Miiruhnll, .Infi'rn/ <le 
 Sfiilon)f (Stalfrsut Srairt) is presented lo hold the manor of Thrl- 
 letoH alone fee, logelher with llie oilier manor there, of the Bishop 
 of K/y't fee, by one fee more, which manor also belonc;i'd to the 
 tenure of the said John le Mursrhall, a« belonging to his barony of 
 JVit/f, holU which the said Jn(i'eni AwA seized of the year following, 
 as held of .llivn /<• MarM-Jmll, as of her manor tif //o<-/,Tr»n£j, Thomas 
 fon of .laffcri/ ilc Scalarijf, junior, his grandson, In'ing his heir, wlio 
 y hereof this year, lugelber with i\ haddun manor in (Sam- 
 
 I _ ..rf. 
 
 '1 his Tliumas waa born at Bolagnr, when the Queen, mother lo the 
 King, was there, in time of war, a* the record shews us.' He lind 
 
 4 '!^r. w.i.-.,, \f,'/-> n ,- .lim. 
 Hun >ra 
 
 ii. 1 ■ '...I. 
 
 viii. act. ' lis. 
 
 tunc ct )« liil, 
 
 temper *al. Jivi.<^. 
 
 Icrrm hancic Adeldrede (ic. de Ely) 
 Dice dim. Hund. fo. 190. 1 civeliinam 
 tenet temper Sancia A. tx. AdelJredji) 
 pro n. tar. terie, m 
 I boriiT. tunc li. < 
 null. >em|<cr I. car. I -i", 
 
 lunr ulva Ix. pore. val. xx. 
 
 iol. hat>et I. leug. 1:. ^ , .i dim. in 
 
 Uio, el de Gelto vu.d. 
 
 Terrr Ciileb«rti ArbaJitlarij. Dice 
 dim Hund. (o. itt. In 'I rivcntima, 
 Icnuit Aluus sub Kegc tdwardo pru n. 
 car. lerre temper iiii. vilttn. el ii. bor- 
 dar. tunc et pott ii. car. in dnio. modo 
 i. temper i. car. Iiomiii. tilva xx\. pore, 
 ct iiii, acr. prali, modo i. equiit in aula, 
 tunc. ix. un. modo viii. tunc viii. porr. 
 vat apum, et 
 III commend. 
 
 ni° XI. m° XX. ovci el 1. 
 
 »Ji , 'I n . uy I I'l .11 
 
 v.ihiit xl. tol. iiuido IX. 
 
 < Plili. Tenn. Hil. ij K 
 nwg. 
 
 II. ciir. inter 
 tunc el i>ott 
 
 I. bund.
 
 TH ELTON. HO 
 
 free-warren in these manors allowed him in i^yre, the first of which 
 was in this family soon after the Conquest.* Jlardevinits de Scalers, 
 the first of note of the family, was one of the vahant jSiormans that 
 assisted the Conqueror in his great expedition, who gave him many 
 manors, and made him a baron by tenure. The advowson of the 
 rectory was given to the convent ol St. ]\[fin/ Oven/ in Southaark, 
 very early, by souie one of this family ; all the rectors, that are to be 
 met with in the Institution Books, being presented by the priors there, 
 till the Dissolution, and from that time by the Crown, where the pa- 
 tronage now remains. The priors had a portion of 5s, paid out of the 
 rectory, which was taxed atM.' In 1304, 
 
 Thomas de Scalarus held it of IVilliam le Marschall, and had 
 the King's license to alien 40s. per annum rent out of it. In 1,'U2, 
 
 Thomas, his son, succeeded to IVuddon and T/ie/lon, which he 
 held of Sir Robert de Morley at one fee, and he of the Bishop of Ely, 
 and he of the King. 
 
 John, son of Tiionms, and grandson of this Thomas, was heir. He 
 married Amif, one of the daughters of Sir John de U'helnetham 
 Magna, Knt. which John left three daughters, Mari^^cri/, married to 
 Jokn de Sutton of H ivenlio, Knt. and Man/ to Michael de Bures, 
 between which three his inheritance, sc. the manor and advowson of 
 Great Welnetham, and the manor of Alpheton, See. was divided in 
 1371. In 1387, 
 
 John de Chalers, lord here, had Thomas a son, then aged 13, 
 whose son 
 
 John held it in 1401, of Robert de Morley, he of the See of Elu, 
 and that of the King, being then the King's ward, in custody of John 
 de Hevenyngham, Knt. which Sir John hclcl a quajter of a fee of 
 Julian, sister of John de Thelveton, as of the manor of Thelieton, and 
 was a part of it, which was held of the Abbot of St. Edmund, and 
 laid in Gissing, and was alienated by Thomas de Scalarijs as above, 
 to one of the family sirnamed de Thelveton. This John de Scalers 
 (or Scales) died in 14(jfi, leaving Thelton, and JVhaddon to 
 
 Maud his wife, who died in 1470, and. left three daughters co- 
 heiresses ; Alice, married to Juhyi Moore ; Anne, to John llarcourt ; 
 and Margaret, unmarried; but to which this was alloted I find not, 
 neither can 1 tell who owned it till 1,)38, 10th March, and then it 
 belonged to 
 
 Beatrix Harman, sole daughter and heiress to Ilenrif Maine, 
 Esq. who was lord of Thelveton, by whom it was settled on John It alts, 
 clerk, to the use of the said Beatrix ; and this year the said John 
 IValts infeotfed Beatrix in it for her life, remainder to George Boug- 
 ham, Esq. ne.xt kinsman and heir to tlie said Beatrix, and immedi- 
 ately after she released her estate for life to the said George and his 
 heirs ; this George the same year settled it on 
 
 William Rogers, and Catherine his wife, and their heirs; in 
 1540 George Bougham, IVilliam Rogers, and Catherine iiis wife, iu- 
 feoft'ed it in Thomas Codde, and tf illiam Loues, (or Love,) and their 
 heirs; and in the same year George Bougham released to all those 
 feoffees, all his right in it; and then Love and Codde infeoffed If il- 
 liam Rogers and Catherine his wife in it, to hold to them and their 
 
 Chauncy's Hist, of Hcrtf. fo. in. ' Taxa. Rclig. A" 1418, fo. 42. 
 
 VOL. I. U
 
 IJO TIIKLTON. 
 
 hcin: Ctitherint tuniving licr husband in 1J54, S4tb April, told ibe 
 niAnor (u 
 
 John Srinnr., firm, who pave it to FJitttlxth liit wife, for life, 
 niul then to John Stulitx hitt rldcit too, who gave it to Anne hi* wife, 
 lo he sold, of Mhum 
 
 Thomas llA>p.R«of H -i;;, Gent, in \S\r2, piirrh;i»cd it, 
 
 and died MiO.S, and Irt't it ' / •<th hik wife, for ht'e, i)h-ii to hi* 
 
 eldnt son, from whivii lime il haili patted in a hiieul dii>ccnt in thii 
 family. 
 
 Im Havkrsp.8 had tl>eir ri« under the Sorf'oik family, which 
 ihry have isen'ed for many geiiernlions ; Jnfiti Hiners \va« (•eutlcmaa 
 of the Hon»e to Jahti I)uk«- ol Vor/ii/A-, and alli-ndi'd liiui in the 
 had' f Horlli /-(f/r/, » liert' that (liikc wni khiin ; John lltiirrs of 
 
 Hii . in \iirf[t/k, wni Slowuid to the fainilv. a.s was '1'hnnuif 
 
 Ilairrs, his son, who piirrhaM-<l ihi- manor, and Iniiit the prctent 
 Uiansion-lioiise, which Is a tfood brick buildiiitr and very uiiifonn ; 
 John,\wi second son, vtbs Uailifl' to the liarl of ^rM/z/yi"// in ItilO; 
 I'ldtrard.Uii third son, was Steward of his courts; and Thimuu, hit 
 fourth son, was farmer of the |>nrkt>; \i illuim Haven coiitiuucd the 
 same offic-e at his father's death, and Thomus Havers, the present 
 lord, [I7;)(i,] now hath it. 
 
 Their armx are of ancient date, b«it were coiifinnod with the addi- 
 tion of .1 fre.it, h\ llolicit Cooke, C/ureiicieitx, in llicsi' words: 
 " (iottMe, on a fess siibles, three chess rooks of the field. 
 " Crest, on a wreath s^old and sii/>(es, a griffin sciaiit erui. with a 
 " crown for a collar, chaiiic<l and man I led /.'•u/. doubled ara." 
 As appearH t'roni the said couBrination, under &cal of the office, uoir 
 remaining in the family. 
 
 The Customs of the Manou are these : the copyhold descends 
 to the youngest son ; the fine is at the lord's will ; the teoauts cannot 
 waste tlieir copyhold bouses, nor fell timber willjout bceuse ; itgivei 
 uu dower.
 
 TllCLTON. 
 
 ^51 
 
 John Havers of Winrailhing.— ^ — Aone, daughter o( --•- Duiiiag of Bromt. 
 
 T 
 
 Anne, married 
 to Ed. Ward 
 •fUixley 
 
 I. T. Haver» of ' — Eliz. dr. of s. 
 
 Winfatlhing, T Wm. Dale. 4. Ca 
 
 died in i6oj. I issi 
 
 William 1. p. 
 wdy had 
 isuc. 
 
 3. Gilb. Receiver 
 
 for Norf. 
 5. Edmund, 
 
 John Havers o f | Elii» dr. of 
 Shclfh3n);er, . John Tindal 
 heir in 1610. of Banham. 
 
 I. Wil ob. 1. p. 
 g. Edward 4.Tho, 
 married Anne 
 Ward, 1617. i. Ed- 
 mund. 6. Henry, 
 married Elizabeth 
 Waid. 7. Dale. 
 
 Anne, married to T. Shardclow* 
 Gent. Ehz. to W. Killingworth. 
 Dorothy to John Whitefoot of 
 Forncct. Frances, a nun. Judith 
 to Wm. Brown. Maty to H. 
 Tindall. 
 
 Clere Havers of 
 Brakendalc. 
 
 Wil. H..vcrs, 
 lord 1664. 
 
 Su^an, dr. of - - - - • Brook 
 of Whitchurch, Southam. 
 
 Rich. J. Havers 
 mond, of Nor- 
 >, p. wich. 
 
 Mary, dr. Mary Engle- 
 
 'of field of 
 
 Collins of Bcrluhirc. 
 South- 
 wold. 
 SuSol. 
 
 T. Havers, 
 lord, ob, 
 1 Febr. 
 1697. 
 
 Alice, dr. and John. Su&an 
 coheiress of Sir mariied to T. 
 
 £. Moore of 
 Kitlington, in 
 Nottin|;hamsh. 
 Bare, of Nova 
 Scotia. 
 
 Risdcn. Eliz. 
 to H. Hudles- 
 ton, £«q. of 
 Saukton, in 
 Cainbndi^h. 
 died in i66j* 
 
 Thorn. Havers 
 of Norwich, 
 goldimilb. 
 
 Grace, dr. of Hen. 
 Barney, of Ane- 
 merc, Norfolk. 
 
 I — 
 
 Wm. Havers, 
 Esq. lord. j ' 
 
 ., ,., Ihomat, a re- 
 
 Mary Dormer. , ,, 
 
 ' ligioui. Hen- 
 
 ry. .Mary, a 
 nun at Bruges. 
 
 Thomas Havers^ Henrietta-Maria, 
 
 Esq. now[i736] dr. of Sir Simeon 
 lord. D'Ewcs, of Stow- 
 
 Langctoi, Suffolk. 
 
 Wil. Havers 
 
 of London John ob, s. p- 
 
 Marv, married to 
 II. lUdingficId, 
 Fiq. of Stol»> 
 Ash, SuOulk. 
 
 Thos. WUliant. £dwaid, Hcniicua-Maria,
 
 I5« TllRLTON. 
 
 'flu* ntcl»>ry it iu llu- nnlulcaconry of Sorf'olk, and tK-anfry of Rf- 
 tltHhitll i nnd bring (iiicliur^ffd uf hrtt fruiu nnd tt-ntlit, is caiiutilr of 
 aui;iiirniatu)ii. Il l>i»lh a riTtorv-lii>uv, wliiili, willi S acn"* i)f land 
 U ' i>> It, wa» niven In tlic chiirili in l;J73, wlu'ii the rector 
 
 oi-: . Ii(x*iiM- in uiortmain, locuiitirin it. 
 
 kiMg't Hookt. I Clfiir I tilmf. I S^ModaU. 1 Profuratioiu. 
 
 yoo I 4(iou l'o2ol a H 
 
 Norte. Tiiiiit. I Acrn (llrbt. 
 15 Mark*. I 7 O O 
 
 At llic time of the IahcoIh taxation, Uie rector had 22 acres of 
 gli-bf, the rectory was vnlticci at 17 marks, bcbidcs tlic Prior <)f.S(iM//i- 
 tcark's portion of \\t. out o'i il, and paid xiiij.f/. I'tlcr-pfiice, and in the 
 A'onrirA taxation, llie jwrljoiia of Uie canons of Southvark were 
 taxed at vij. marks. 
 
 The C'hircii is a small buililmg, cuiuisling of a nave, chancel, 
 and south porcli, all tiled, and a !.(ju:irc steeple, and two Ik-IIs only, 
 one Ik-iiii; lornurlv .<old to repair the cliiir»li, which is dedicated to 
 St. .Indrta the .AjMistle, as appears from the will of John I'eitm* of 
 Uiis town, who, in X-MMi, ordere<l lo he buried in St. jlitdreKs churcii- 
 yard here, and gave iii. to mend the kteeple, and 12</. to the iiigh 
 altar. 
 
 On the font are four shields; on the first, the emblem of the trinity; 
 on the second, three cups, on each a wafer, as an emblem ot the sa- 
 crament; on the tiiird, a plain cross; on the fourlli, a cross Horec, 
 the arms (I suppose) of the donor. 
 
 On two flat stones by the alUir, the first hath Havers a arms: 
 
 1 lie i...rt Corpus THO.M-t: H.WEKS.qui obijt I'ebr. 1" A° Dom. 
 l<Jy7. yElat. siue 66. Kcquiescal in Pace 
 
 Hen- lycth Anne eldest Dawijhter of Thomas Bramion ot' Norton 
 Esq; first married to K<hvard kenc &. had Issue, Edwaid, Henry, 
 Roger, Edmund, Bridget, after with Thomas Nash fit iiad Issue Anne, 
 dyed the l(i of December l<i25. 
 
 On a small mural monument on the soutli bide of the chancel : 
 
 yiere lyoth the Rody of Mary lilnglcfyld. Wife to Thomas Havers, 
 Esq; obijl 21 Octob. Anno Dom. KiH?, He(iuicscal in Pace, Eliza- 
 beth Englefyld her Sister, dedit. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1308, 6 non. Marr. Jf'i/l. dc lyangrford, accolilc. Prior of Orrry 
 
 1.311, kal. May, Francis dc (auslon, accolite. Ditto, 
 
 l.')22, 8 id. .hill/, lioptr df SottrU, priest. Ditto 
 
 1327, 12 kal. .iiir. John, son of l\ alter Joaet of H't/niifjerthi/iig. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 13J2, non. kal. Oct. Uiih. </■ I'Ji/, prie-i, mi JoTirt's reiiignalion. 
 
 Ditto. 
 
 * K«. Autyg. j-cn. Clinstoj'h. dllhorp, mil. bil. anno 170I.
 
 THELTON. 153 
 
 1351, 20 March, John, son of Tho. Duratid, priest, on El^s resig- 
 nation. Prior of Overtf. 
 
 1409, 4 July, Walter Arnald of Palegrave, priest, on Durand's 
 resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1425, 28 March, John Hahton of Salisbury diocese, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1442, 6 December, Tho. Drawesword, pncsl; by lapse. Ditto. 
 
 1466, John Hauteyn, at Drawesword's death. Ditto. 
 
 1483, 13 October, .lohti Penman, {ov Parman,) priest; collated by 
 the Bishop, because the person presented by the Prior was found 
 unfit to be admitted to it. 
 
 1528, John JVatts, on Penman's death. Prick of Overy. 
 
 1583, 11 Novem. Daniel Bowen (or Bowles.) The Crown. 
 
 1591, 2 April, Roger Bugge, alias Brigge. Ditto. 
 
 1612, William Bagley, A. B. Ditto. 
 
 1631, Edward Cartw right , A. M. united to Billingford. Ditto. 
 
 1679, 5 March, Tho. Wales, A. B. on Cartwright's death, united to 
 Frenze. Ditto. 
 
 1702, 21 Sept. Henry Swetnam, on Wales's death. Ditto. 
 
 1711, 18 Oct. Edzcard Bosrcorth, on Szeetnam's cession. Ditto. 
 
 John Randall, the father. Ditto. 
 
 1728, John Randall, the son. Ditto. 
 
 1729, the Rev. Mr. Thomas Turtier, A. M. the present rector. 
 [1736.] 
 
 This village in the Conqueror's time was two miles long, and one 
 mile broad, and paid \n.d. Danegeld ; in l603 there were 74 commu- 
 nicants ; now there are 20 houses, and about 100 inhabitants. [1736.] 
 It paid to tli£ tenths 2/. was valued at the association tax, at 612^ 
 the present valuation being 475/. 
 
 The Leet belongs to the hundred, the leetfee being Is. 
 
 The Commons are, Alte Green, which joins to Diccleburg, and 
 contains about 15 acres; Hill Green, about 80 acres; Bottom Com- 
 mon, about 10 acres ; West Common, about 50 acres ; and hittle 
 Green; and they interconimon on Scole Green.
 
 [ IM J 
 
 S 11 1 M P L I N G 
 
 Js Imuucitd oil till' ciL'-t I'V ih' ' I "i»lby Iiurilo>t,oii 
 
 ili<- ^(>ulll l«\ 'y>.«/.'u«, .iiul uu li. ,. .1 .»g. It ih u reclurv 
 
 ;i; '. to the iiiiiiiur, :iiui Uiiig iiiM'litUi;cti ol til at iVuitA anil 
 
 t< : ' ~ (-Hpubic ut auKiiuutaliuu. Tlie rccturv liutli u liuutc and 
 
 )6 acre* of itU-bc : .Vorti/cA DomtsJuif say!>, tiutt liiduird dt Houlaiul 
 wai then putruu, thai the rectur lioil a bou!'e and xv. acres uf Tnad ; 
 dial tiic procurutiuns were tlicn vi.i, \\u.d. and the syaoduU xxii.ti. 
 
 King't Books. I CUar Valut. | Synodals, i Arch. Procun. 
 
 Aerei Glfbe. I N'ornr. Taxat. I Lituoln Taxat. 
 l<i O O I 11 Mark-i. I 10 Marks. 
 
 T)m t'ullowiou; ptTsuui) u{)|>cui iv liuvc UcQit 
 
 RECTORS. 
 1305, kal. Dtc. Robert de Boitcylf, accolitc. Willi AM de 
 
 ScHYMPLlNt;. 
 
 l.SCa, 7 liul. Mar. IVUL de Schj/mpL/tig, accolitc. Roceb, sonof 
 fi ill. de Shi/mfjliiig. 
 
 1338, 12 Juli/, John de Qherchegate, priest to Sl Gevrge't church at 
 Shi/mplins. Ditto. 
 
 134y, Robert Sampwn, priest. Emma, late wile of Roger dc 
 ikhifinplyug. 
 
 l.Kil, IJ Sept. Ric. de Halle, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1S«)2, 21 Sept. I'eler S(olt. Ditto. 
 
 1386, 19 April, Tho. de fVellrs. Thomas de Glemf.sford. 
 
 1393, 28 March, lVelle% chiuigcd this with John .Miille lor Mildes- 
 tnn rcclori-, in Sarum diocest-. Roger de Ellinuiiam ond Joan 
 
 li AKDLGIIKY. 
 
 • •!!»'•, -'J .March, Mulle exchanged with Will. Stoue for Ludenham 
 \a Knit. Ditto. 
 
 1401, '1\) .4iig. John Driiri/, priest, who resigned Walton vicarage 
 in exchan;;c fur this. Hoctii dm I'Lly.ngii am. 
 
 1408, 7 Aug. John Cok of llliiigiuii, priest. 
 
 1421, 8 Oclob. Rff^iiiald Pepper of Berton Bendytch, priest, on 
 the resipiintion of Cok. Ditto. 
 
 \42\, ti .March, Tho. Young, on P»7>;)«t'i rcs.it;nnlion. William, 
 son of H"^rr de I'.li/iigham ol Elynghatn, near nungri/. 
 
 I '• ^liircfi, liich. Scin/ngiicll, OH }'(>u/ig '.i resignation. Ditto. 
 
 li .J' ^i/tt. H (liter Shiftir oi Disse. Lap!>e. 
 
 M.i'J, 2.1 Uctob. Thomai It right. Lapse. 
 
 U.il, 14 Dec. John (jrygby. William Elyncua.'H uf Elyng- 
 hum b^- Bungey.
 
 SiiniPLING. 155 
 
 1437, 12 Octob. Richard de Schympli/na, on Grt/gby's resignation. 
 WiLLTAM Elynomam of E/i/ngfiamoy Bungeif. 
 
 1449,31 Jan. Robert Caailc, resit^ned to fo/in Beest,'m exchange 
 for IVinlerbuni liassct rectory, in Wiltshire. Ditto. 
 
 1451, 21 Jpril, Thomas j\'lessiiigcr, on Beest's tlcalli. Ditto. 
 
 1504, John Odiham. 
 
 1507, 4 -4ug. .Tames G'«//t.' Lapse. 
 
 1525, \\) Octob. Thomas fVarde. Thomas Smardelowe, Esq. 
 
 153G, 2(i March, John Lanman.' on //7//y/'s death. John Aloham, 
 lord of the moiety of E/i/ngham's manor lierc, by turns. 
 
 1503, 2G June, Thomas Oxford, alias Farmer, A. M. Stephen 
 SlIARDELOWE, Gent. 
 
 1572, 24 Nov. William Luffh/n, on Oxford's resignation. Ste- 
 phen Shakdelohe, and John Aldmam, patrons. 
 
 1609, 1 -^ug. Nicholas Colte.^ John Sherdelowe. 
 
 1642, Jeremiah Gowcn.^ Adrian Mott oi Braintree, and 
 
 Margaret Carter oi' Stratford in Essex. 
 
 IG49, Thomas Cole,* clerk, A. M. John and James Mott, 
 
 Gent. 
 
 1G84, 9 Dec. John Rand. John Buxton, Esq. united to 
 Burst on. 
 
 1706, 1 Jan. John Culver, on Rand's death. Robert Buxton, 
 Esq. united to Gissing. 
 
 1729, The Rev, Mr. Thomas Buxton, the present rector, 
 
 [1736,] united to Thorp-Parva. 
 
 The Church hath a steeple, round at bottom, and octangular at 
 top, and four small bells; it is leaded, though the chancel is thatched, 
 and the north porch tiled. It is dedicated to St. George,' whose 
 
 ' He was buried in the chancel ; in nature. Teste me, Ni. Colte rec- 
 
 " Item, 1 wyll the pightel late John tore ib. 
 
 " Auncettsin Catt's Kcnnc, to bcletten In 1653, Aug. 4, one Alexander Di- 
 
 " to the best profet, and tlie yerely neington was chosen register, the first 
 
 " fernie thereof to fynd andkepea lyght of whose entry in tlie book here follow* 
 
 ." byrninge before the blyssyd sacra- literatim : " Upon tlie seconde day of 
 
 *' inente, in my sayd cliauncell for ever, " October 1654, I rccevid a requeste in 
 
 " in tymc of divine service." Regr. " wrightinge, for the publication of a 
 
 Briggs, fol. 179. " concenteof a marriage betwen Robte 
 
 ' Buried here May 3, 1563. " Cliase of Shimplinge, singleman, the 
 
 * Buried here Dec. 5, ,641. " sonne of James Chase of Shimplinge, 
 ^ Buried liere May j8, 1649. " aforesaide, and Margarette Bakcler 
 
 * He was licensed to preach in 1664, "of the same parishe, singlcwoman, 
 and was buried here Nov. 29, 1684, "the daughter of Eliz. BakelerofTi- 
 ••S^d 73. " vetshall. Margarctt have come be- 
 
 ' 1627, 4 April, Mr. John Sharde- " foir Thomas Shcrife, one of tliejus- 
 
 lowe my primitive and dearest patron " tices of peace for this coimly, and 
 
 buried, summo mane. " desired to be joyned together in mar. 
 
 1640, 7 Oct. Mr. John Mott my " riage,ackordinge to anact of theLittle 
 
 afflicted patron was buried by me Nic. " Horn'd Parliamentc, lately in that 
 
 Colt. Memorandum, that the last day " cause made and providid, in the pre- 
 
 of February or the first of April 1636, " scntis of Alexander Dencington and 
 
 I sealed a licence and delivered it to ray " Thomas Chase, brother to the said 
 
 present patron Mr. Mott, allowinge " Robte Chase.and Robte Bakcler,"&c. 
 
 him liberty accordinge to tlic statute in From the Parish Register, 
 this case provided ; to cat some flcshe In 1507, John Awnccll who was bii- 
 
 mcate this Lent, for his comfortable re- ried in the church gave to St. George's 
 
 lief in his present sickness and weakness Gild, in St. George's church at Sliim-
 
 156 .^11 I M I' 1.1 N ti. 
 
 ■1, Willi 1 n |il.iiii ' i» to be iwn in s 
 
 Miiiiltiw . . .il M'«'lll^ > '!(! ii!t tlir buildini;, 
 
 wiiii'li III all a|>|>riinuiit- win in tlic bcKiiiiiiiii; of (lir tliirttcnlli 
 c-<'tir\. iihougli tlir »U-<-ple i» mucli ulder,) for llii'ii H lUiam de 
 > wiu U>rd uiui patron. wIium- ornu »lill rvmniii under thu 
 
 rih-ii •>. Hi. nrt. n fliifrgi*/. n fciu between »ix de-li^e* uib. 
 
 ilere wn« a (itUi in honour of tlic lUknu- kuint," iiiid ii Cliam-1 dcdi> 
 rated to St. Marif, whu-li »t«M>d in S/iimfilitig lltlhi, of which there 
 art- no rt-niuins. 1 bi!> hii<i mhih' ('iiduwiiunt, lor iiimtrd the I'rior, 
 unci hi- I'haptcr «t .Norfi «cA, with the Hislinp's con>ent, Rninleil lu 
 Uukiird the eli.i|>iuin of S/iimjdiii!;, 7 ri»od^ of meadow in liurrkcr 
 in Shim/diMg, &.e. in |>or|H-tun( alius, paying yearly 5d. ut the hiijh 
 allur in llie cathedral, Ut uhieh Jufiii ricnon of Ciisiing, and other>, 
 VTfre wilnesM'-,* so that this imisl be before ISOI, for in thul ycor 
 (ierntrd the i'rior died ; this »us down before ibe general dissululion, 
 for 1 meet Milii no grant of it at that time. 
 
 St. (irorgf and the dragon, and the arms of .Shimpliug, arc carved 
 t>n the font; the »:haiu-el is covered willt large grave-stones, all dis- 
 rob«-d of their brasses; several of tlu-m were laid over the rectors, as 
 up|K-ar from the ehaliec and wafer upon them, titat being the 
 sNinbol of u piicst; tlie rest that had arms, I take to be laid over the 
 S'. ' V and the Shardrluus. The arms of 
 
 ■«■ are, org. a chevron gitl. between tlircc croslets fitcbee, 
 ai. CrtU, a plume of fvathers arg. 
 
 On a small stone towards the west end of the church : 
 
 Richard LesiDgbum,ob. i' die. Octob. Anno Uni. 1 7<>.i,-lil«tis gusc 
 
 Here let him rest, 
 
 Memory stile him dear, 
 
 'I'ili our Redeemer 
 
 Shall in itic clouds a{>pcar. 
 
 Ou a marble near the pulpit : arms of 
 Palter, sab. a fess between three mullets arg. (V«j/, an elephant's 
 
 head erasetl arg. guile de sang. 
 
 Here in ex[K'clatioii of u jovful resurrection, resleth the body of 
 
 Cicill Potter, Gent, who dyed Jan. the iyih, lG«J3, aged 70 years. 
 
 In tt window : 
 
 Gloria in €r(tHi^ ^to. 
 
 Mere are twelve penny loaves given to as many poor people, by 
 ihc rector and rhurch-wardcns, on the fi/«t Sunday in every montlK, 
 there being land tied for it. 
 
 In the Confiiisor's time Torbert held this manor of Stigand, it 
 l)eiiii; then worth 'JOj. of whom the part in Ciis.uiig was also held by 
 unotlier freeman, and was then of .»j. value, but was risen to ten in 
 the Conqueror's time, though ■S/iimpling continued at the same 
 
 pling (Ji. tJ. with legaclcj to St. M»r)''i wife Marcar«t'», »nd mother'*, and all 
 
 G>!J 3t RiirMoni and lo repair itie nay hit frirndi, as long at loo tnarkj UtI, 
 
 I' Waliot Croti to Diu mar- at % nurkt a yrar. 
 
 k >rcd bir 1 ho. Prrcivall hi» '' Rcgr. Hanyke. 
 
 pf.cii, i'^ ojntinuc hi* itrvice in Shinijx ' Rcgr. Sacrijt. Norwic. 
 
 tng church for hit own loul and tus * Browne's Kriit^nt, addend, p. 45>
 
 SIIIMPLING. 1J7 
 
 value. This, as one manor, was given by tlie Conqueror to Roger 
 lii/god, wlio gave it to Robert de f ais, (tie I (illibus, or I'ans,) it 
 being then a mile and a (|iiartcr long, and a mile broad.' Tiie 
 whole [)aid hd. Geld. There was then a eliureh and If) acres glebe, 
 valued at I2</. and several other manors extended hither, ol' wliieh I 
 shall afterwards treat in tlieir proper places. The I aiscs held it of 
 Jh/god's successors, till 1'2,}7, in which year Oliver de I a//iOus' 
 granted it to Richard de Ritpella, (afterwards called Roke/e,) settling 
 it on him and liis heirs by fine,* to be held of him by knight's service; 
 lie died in 1287, at which time he held it of Jo/iii de I alliliua. 'i'his 
 Ricliurd granted it to be held of him and his heirs by Richard de 
 Jiui/liiiid, in trust for Ralph Carhoiie/I,' who held it of Maud, wife of 
 Jl illiam de 7^oos, who was daughter and coheir oi John de laux. 
 This Ralph conveyed it to 
 
 HoGEii i)F, ScHYMPLVNG, to be iield by kniglil's service of 
 Richard Rokchs's heirs ; and in 1280, the said Roger* was lord, the 
 manor being settled upon him, and Emma his wife, in tail ; after their 
 deaths it came to IVi/liam de Schi/mpliiig,' their son, who held it of 
 Richard Rokcll at half a fee, he of the Carl-Marshal, and he of the 
 King in eapile. This II illiam married Margaret de Tacoheslon^ 
 on whom the manor was settled for life in 1305, it being then held 
 of U illiam de Roos and Aland his wife, and Rctroiiell de I aux, her 
 sister. This // illiam purchased a great part of the town of divers 
 
 1)ersons. lie had a son named Roger, who presented in 1328, and 
 leld it till about 1345, when he was dead, and L'/nwa his wife had 
 it, at whose death it fell divisible between their three daughters :' 
 
 Isabel, married to John Kirtlitig, to whom this manor was 
 allotted ; 
 
 JoAK, who had Moring-Thorp manor, and 
 
 Katkuine, married to II illiam de Elli/ngham, who had Dalliiig 
 manor in llordon. Isabell had issue, Roger and Emma, who left 
 none, so that this manor and advowson descended to Roger, son of 
 f'I'illiam de Elj/ngham and Katerine his wife, daughter of iiciger da 
 Schi/mplifng, which said Roger de Eli/ngham held it in 1401, by 
 lialf a fee, of John Copledick, Knt. who held it of the Lady Roos, 
 she of Thomas Alowbrai/, and he in capite of the King. How it 
 went from the Ehpighams I do not know, but imagine it must be by 
 
 '(Fol. 1 13.) Tcrre Rogeri Bygoti, 
 Dice Dim. Hiindr. Simplingaliam tenet 
 Robcrtus dc Vais pro manerio, et pro 
 xl. acris terre, qiiani tenuit Toibertus 
 liber lioino Stigandi T. R.E. tunc ix. 
 bord. postet modo vii. semper i. car. in 
 dominio, tunc. i. car. lioinin. post ct 
 mode diinid. silva vii. pore, ct vi. acr. 
 prati semper, i. equtis. modo iii. an. 
 tunc V. pore, modo xxiii. i.em)er ix. 
 ovcs et quatuor libcri homines liberati 
 ad hoc manerium perficiendum, xvi. 
 acr. terre, tunc. i. car. post et modo 
 dim. scmp. val. xx. sol. habet v. quar. 
 in longo et iili. in lato, et dc Geltov.i/. 
 quicunqiic ibi tcncat. una ecclesia x. 
 acris. val. \\\.d. Gessinga tenuit i. lib. 
 homo sub StigandoT.R.E. xlii, acr. ct 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
 semper, vi. bord. semper, i. car. in 
 dnio. semper arant homines cum duo- 
 bus bovibus, silv. viii. pore. et. iiii. acr. 
 prati, tunc et postea val. v. sol. modo 
 X. et tenet idem. (Sc. Rob. de Vais.) 
 
 ' Oliver de Vaux,or de Vallibus, was 
 son of Robert, son of Robert, son of 
 William, the son of that Robert who 
 held it at the survey. Dug. Bar. vol. i. 
 p. 526 : see more in Pentney, where tlie 
 first Robert founded a priory. 
 
 ^ Kin. divers, com. H. 3. L. 2. N.ii. 
 
 ^ Esc. 16 E. I. N. 59. 
 
 * Nomina Villar. 
 
 ' Fin. Norf. E. j. L. i. N. 110. 
 
 ' Fin. Norf. E. i. L. 7. N. 1J5. 
 
 ' Plita. Term. Trin. dc Banco, A'ii, 
 H. 4-N. 103.
 
 tid 
 
 -> 111 M I'MNC. 
 
 ''' u ij'ii, Hu/rtftJiri^ H tfmtfUU hnci a moiHr of 
 
 iiA<l a?M>tl» f |mr( ; lie aird in I.SJH, niid wa« 
 
 i>;irl to John bi« ton,' wliu lictd IC 
 
 ^ . (, III 1J7I , Mr. .Hiihata liud a 
 
 luuitli p.irt ol Ibo iiiiinur, aud a Utird turn, and Mr. Shartielou' titreo 
 
 n,\/U aud iMu turtu. 'lliv |>u(ruiiii^v and luttiiur \tii* hi Mi. ./u&m 
 
 Mitilt, wliu wiu bunt-d iktohrr 7 , MiUl, luid .^oAk Mottr, and bu 
 
 ! ' ' ; iil>-«i III l<>4;i. It luiiks iM it° till.- Muttrt had 
 
 r<T |>uf«'l>i»M-il Shanlilow'* «■! Mr. JoAn Sttar' 
 
 I Willi /* iior 111 I'lortUn, 
 
 ■I IJ«- ■/ it to EJmiiud 
 
 , Lxj. tttid Aututtff kiarrif.i'tini. and tliov tu t'homat iValett 
 
 ..'I Liaufif, (i«-nt. mIiu cunvevcd it lu tbe ^loUt, Iroiii whom, 
 
 I am apt to Uiiiik, it cnme to the l^rocton, fur John Buxlan of Su 
 If . . r/'i ill South E.lmham had it, in ri|tbt ot hi!i wilo, Mrho wua 
 
 lU and hcin'>s o( Mr. I'riHtor, rector ol (<4i.<fMi; ; uftt-r thit 
 
 II laini: to livlnrl litiJituH, 11.m|. v\ Iio died and lull it to Kiizahct/i hu 
 mitt, whu i* siiuc (li-iul, and Litmbtth liuxtun, their uiilv daughter, 
 tt minor, is now [17.U1J lady and |iaLi(>ii(':tf. 
 
 'ihc Ltd livluiiKa lu the in;u)or, and tlie fine is at ihc lord's will. 
 
 As to llu- other parl6ol' tbii> villuKe,*lhey beini; parts uftbe manor* 
 of 'littlmll, rirs^c/ij, ;uid BriaMg/uim, it in .xudiiienl to oW-rve, riiat 
 Ui«.-y went with tbos« niauoni, exct'|)l Unit part bt^ld hv Fulco, oi 
 wbuli tbv rt lilt'd Viiuhbek, lo. \Hi, ^\i ibut Fuko or I'ul- 
 
 rhrr held ol ■ .L 111 Smtplmnithain and (iissiiig, 7'J acres, and 
 
 ^ itil(.-i>di-d by Ab(>ot Liiiltluin in llie time ot the 
 * , , iibuut EJtcard tlic I'lrst'* lime, wa« in Sir ./u/m 
 
 aharilttoaf, a judgi.- in lliat Kind's reign, in whose faniily it conti- 
 nued till UiM, uhen it wan !>old to Mr. Molt. Ihe scut ot' the SJiar- 
 dehw is now caJled tlie Flact, aud i» the estuU: ut tJie DuLc of 
 Graj'lun; and (,a> I am inl'Lirined) I'ormcrly btlonijfd lo Isatir I'tt^ 
 MUiglu)!,' aldctnian ot London, one ot Uiosic rebels that Hai iu> judi^ 
 
 * Regr. Colnua, tejt. profaal. le Sep. 
 iii». 
 
 t>.) Trrrc Regis qutin Go. 
 
 vjt. Dice Dim. Hiinilr. Tn 
 
 iinut inlr^er lit<er humo 
 
 K.t ■' ' Ilk icrrc. 
 
 car. dc xvi. 
 
 caUiin|k 
 
 ' luindr. 
 
 — _:, quando 
 
 lumpiuaiurSanctut 
 
 •Fol. 
 
 hor.i I I 
 
 Kin per I 
 
 ''. horn, dc iiii. 
 
 t Mca cl aaca, 
 
 ^r.^^cil luilic Kjiig'i nia> 
 
 1 
 ocr. 
 &c 
 
 IIUI 
 
 (to!. I Si., Tcrnr Abbaiis dc Soo. 
 Eadnuirido. Diet Dim. Uundr. In 
 Siniplinca vi. loc. p«rtin. 1X1 nunrrio 
 (»c. to the Abljot'i iiunor of TiI^iaII) 
 de »>» ' -' <■% ' 'wrH. >-• '!. jtr. 
 pri' irc- 
 
 (K. in bbimpiingj libcr hgjug xl. 
 
 acr. quod tcaet Fulc etti. bard. Kmpar 
 I. car. ct ii, acr. prati. tilva iiii. porcL. 
 val. x.i. 
 
 (Ku. iSi.) In Simplinga i. lib. horn, 
 et dim. de xiiii. acr. semper dimid. car. 
 et I. acr. prati, valei xviii.i/. ct apprc> 
 tial. uiiit in BrcMndhani. 
 
 r 
 
 jc( Dioo 
 ijm >i. 
 >. i aote- 
 .11. lao- 
 luudo i. 
 
 fFol. 7».J Xcne 
 Dun. Huiidr. In 
 Iit>cri huminct r"' ■!' 
 cuMirik Rob. 
 tiuu. XV. acr. 1 
 but. M:iii|cr val. XMi.d, 
 
 Tliii [url belonged lo tli« liODour of 
 
 Rye, of uiiicli il wat alwjyt Ucid luthii 
 
 tiiif ; I have seen several old Uxaliuns 
 
 Ml, H Iter* we lucol wii)i iheie 
 
 , VIZ. 'Ilut lluipait belongs 
 
 ' Abbot 
 
 v.* 1 ' • t M..iiii'i xjt A ii.aiatl* 
 
 ' , vol, xii. p. ji, and. 
 
 30. Sec the id part 
 
 S»7. 
 
 uf die lliaury of Indcfcndency, p. loy^
 
 SHIMPLING. ,59 
 
 at the King's trial, fof which villainy he was kniuhted. He lived 
 to the Restoration, when, according to his deserts^' his estates were 
 seized as iorleited to King Charles II. who gave this to the Duke 
 of Grafton; upon tlie forfeiliire, the copyhold on tiie different 
 manors were also seized, which is the reason that the quiUents to 
 Gissmg, Titshall, &,c. are so large, they being made so when the Lords 
 reoranted iheni. 
 
 i have seen an ancient deed made by John Camerarius, or Ckam- 
 bem, oi Shimphng, to Richard dc Kentwe//, clerk, and J/ice his wife, 
 and then- heirs, of S acres of land in this town, w itnesscd by Sir 
 Gerard de Itachesam, Knt. and others, which is remarkable, fur its 
 never having any seal, and its being dated at Shimpliiig in the church- 
 yard, on Siindai/ ncKt before Paitccost, anno 12 H.* This shews us 
 that seals (as Lawftflrrf justly observes^) were not in common use at 
 tins time ; and, therefore, to make a conveyance the most solemn and 
 pubhck that could be, the deed was read to the parish, after service, 
 m the churchyard, that all might know it, and be witnesses, if occasion 
 required. I'lie Saxons used no seals, only signed the mark of a cross 
 to their instruments, to which the scribe affixed their names, by which 
 they had a double meaning ; first, to denote their being Christians, 
 and then, as such, to confirm it by the symbol of their faith. The first 
 sealed charter we meet with is' that oi Edward the Confessor to 
 Westmimter abbey, which use he brought with him from ISlormundu, 
 where he was brought up; and for that reason it was approved of by 
 the ISorman Conqueror; though sealing grew into common use by 
 degrees, tlie King at first only using it, then some of the nobility, after 
 that the nobles in general, who engraved on their seals their own 
 effigies covered willi their coat armour ; after this, the gentlemen 
 loUowed, and used the arms of their family for difference sake. But 
 about the time of Edward III. seals became of general use, and they 
 that had no coat armour, sealed with their own device, as flowers, 
 birds, beasts, or whatever they chiefly delighted in, as a dog, a hare', 
 &c.; and nothing was more common than an invention or rebus for 
 
 1609, John Shardelowe, Gent. Jiolds the other half, to whom the others are 
 the manor of Shimpling, formerly be- answerable for their shares MSS 
 longing to Wilham de Shimpling, and Feed. Mil. Tent, de D Norf Inqs'. 
 smce that to Stephen Shardelowe, Gent. A" 35 E. i . post mortem Roger! Bycod. 
 son and heir of Thomas Shardelowe, Comitis Norf. Will, de Roos, et Ma- 
 Gent, by the service of a fourth part, tilda, uxor ejus ac Petronilia de Vaux, 
 and half a quarter of a fourth part of tunc tenuere in Shimpling, Shottesham. 
 one lee, and the said John holds also 111 Sec. de eodem Comite 31 feod et dim 
 the said town, another eighth part of a et quart, part i. fcodi. Inquis. A" 32 
 fee, which was heretofore Kllingham's, Eliz. ix)st mort. Bonaventurc Sharde- 
 atterwardsJohnAldhams, son and heir lowe, q. tenuit advoc. et maner. de 
 of John Aldham, Gent. Robert Pen- Shimpling de manerio de Forncet per 
 Bington, r.t!zen of London, holds 50 tres partes unius feodi militis, quondam 
 acres, parcel of the demeans of the ma- Rici. de Shimpling et Will, de Ellin--- 
 nor by knights service; John Browne ham. A" 19 H. g. Tho. Shardelow^, 
 holds 40 acres of the demeans by the Pater Stephi. solvebat vij.rf. pro ration- 
 same service, late Martin Sidley's, Esq. abili aiixilio ad Kathennam filiam pri- 
 and Itiomas Gawdie, Esq. holds3acres mogenitam Ducis Norf. niaritand. 24 
 at Burston Moor, in right of his wife, Nov. 36 H. 8. predictus Stephanus 
 parcel ot the said manor, the whole of aolvcbat pro relevio 37J. v\.ct 
 which IS held of Forncett manor, al half » Carta penes T. Martin, Gen. 
 
 V M * u ,r"-"'' •'°''" Shardelowe, Gent. ^ Lambard's Peramb.of Kent, p. 40c. 
 holds half, and John Aldliam, Gent. >r t i
 
 Iflo SllfMPLING. 
 
 ihrir n(»m«. n» » »w«n nml a (tin tar Sxnnlon, a linrr fur Ifarf, tic; 
 mvl l...ii:>i' \rrv I'fw uf llu- t-uii)iiioiinlit_v could writr, (all learning 
 at l^niij among ihr rcliijioiu i»nly,> liic pcnton't nnmc was 
 
 Ukti.i \ I IK iimsi-nUti on hit irni, m> (hnt at unct' tliey Ml both Uicir 
 name uiul M-itl,uhii'h wn« »<> »acrf«l n thin^ in tliuM- day*, tliat one 
 niun nt-Ycr umhI uni':' ' ithout its bt-ini; particularly taken 
 
 none*' i»f in (Im- iii-i. !. unci tor this r<'«ioii, everyone 
 
 t-ai i!t tluiii, t itlicr on tlieir ring*, or on n roundel 
 
 las; ic) their |iurM-, sumrtimeii to their ginlte; nuy, 
 
 oHentimc* where a man'fi teal kiis not murh known, he procured 
 v)me one in puhlirk oftice to nfiix tlieirn, lor the greater contirmation : 
 tliu« Hugh tU Schaifrs, (or Sculei,) a younger «on ol the Lord Sialti$ 
 lamilv, pnrxin of Uartton in Camhritl^tthire, upon iiis aureeing to 
 pav the I'rior of lirriutcdl :'Ah. tor the two third parts oJ the titiie 
 corn dire to llie said I'rior out of M\eral land- in his pari^h, because 
 his fcul wns knonn to lew, lie procured the nrchdeucon's othcial lo 
 put his seal of" oHice, lor more ample confuujalion :* und when this was 
 not done, nothini; was more common thun lor u puhlick notary to 
 athx ids mark, which being registered at tlieir admission into liieir 
 oflice.was of as publick a natuie as any seol could he, and of as great 
 sanction lo any inslrumeni, those oflicers being always sworn lo the 
 true execution of iheir olhce, and lo attix no oilier mark, than that 
 thev had registered, to any instrument ; so their ti>limuny could lie as 
 ■well known bv their mark, as by their name; for which reason they 
 were calU-d Puhlick Sotaries, Sola in Latin signifying a mark, nod 
 Publick because their mark was publickly registered, and their olhce 
 was to l>e publick to all that hud any occasion fur them to streiigtheD 
 their evidence. There are few of these officers among us now, and 
 »uch as we have, have so far varied from the original of their name, 
 that thev use no mark at all, only add S. P. for Solari/ Puhlick, at 
 the end of their names. Thus also the us<.' of seals is now laid 
 aside, I mean the true use of them, as the distinguishing murk of 
 one family from another, and of one branch from another; and 
 was it enjoined bv publick authority, that every one in office 
 should, u|>on his admission, choose und appropriate lo himself a 
 purlicular s<al, and register a copy of it publickly, und should never 
 iis<- iinv other but thai alone, under a severe penally, i am apt to 
 think, in a short time we should sec the goocl elTeeU ol it;' for a 
 great number of those vagabonds that infest our country under 
 pretence of certificates signed by proper magistrntes, (whose hands 
 arc ofleiicr counterfeit Uian real,) would be delected ; lor lliuugh 
 
 * Aulog. pen. P.L.N. d*t. 4 ul. obvious to ill tlut search into there. 
 
 Auj;. il]7. lurdi uf lliosc pUccs, lo find mIiu used 
 
 ' i ' ' •' — ^- "-re found such a niaik ; ■"■' <^ ■■•', •( »c sec it on 
 
 so ' .Jl iner- a house, we m :c it lo have 
 
 chu |>ccuhar been ihal inan ^ ; if on » dis- 
 
 inai I all ihcir robed gravestone, that 11 mis his grave ; 
 
 wai' , -.twill;, if ofi a iti\:rih ^^indow, or any other 
 
 or. ;ms; wili. 't he was a bene- 
 
 ant' It marks t othinj; is of greater 
 
 the , and ^i.ivc-siunc^, uu: ilun a:.(..ciil liitds 10 make out their 
 
 in .1 t town, as Norwich, marks by, for diey always K4lc(l with 
 
 Lynn, .Vi. ty " , vl\ I lie memory of their tllcm. 
 CWDcri IS still j)rc:crved, it being very
 
 SIIIMPLING. l6l 
 
 it is easy for an ill-designing person to forge a handwriting, it is 
 directly the contrary as to a seal; and though it is in the power 
 of all to know the magistrates names, it is hut very few of such sort 
 of people that could know their seals ; so that it would in a great 
 measure (if not altogether) put a stop to that vile practice; and it 
 would be easy for every magistrate to know the seals of all others, if 
 they were entered pro|)erlv, engraved, and published : aud it might 
 be of service, if all the office seals in England (or in those foreign 
 parts that any way concern the realm) were engraved and |niblished, 
 for then it would be in every one's power to know whether the seals 
 of office affixed to all passes, &.c. were genuine or no ; for it is well 
 known that numbers travel this nation, under pretence of passes 
 from our consuls and agents abroad, and sometimes even deceive 
 careful magistrates with the pretended hands and seals of such, it 
 being sometimes impossible for them to know the truth, which by 
 this means would evidently appear. And thus much, and a great 
 deal more, may be said to encourage the true and original use of that 
 wise Conqueror's practice, who can scarce be said to put any thing 
 into use but what he found was of advantiige to his government. 
 
 This rectory is in Norfolk archdeaconry, and Redenhall deanery : 
 it had (]Q communicants in l(i03, and hath now [17'3G] 23 houses, 
 and about 130 inhabitants. The town is valued at :>00t. per annum.^ 
 Here are 3 acres of town land, one piece is a small pightle abutting 
 on the land of Robert Leman, Esq. another piece is called Susan's 
 pightle, lying in Gissing, and was given by a woman of this name, to 
 repair the chuieh porch, (as I am informed,) the other piece lies ia 
 Diss Heifwode, and pays an annual rent oi 5s. 
 
 The Commons are Kelt's Fen, which contains about 4 acres; 
 Pound Green, 1 acre; Hall Green, 4 acres ; the Bottom, 6 acres; 
 and the Lower Green, G acres. 
 
 * The dole of bread, mentioned in page for the payment lies in Shimpling. And 
 156, was given by W. Dcnington of I am lately informed that the glebe 
 Mendham, yeoman, and the land tied amounts to about 20 acrei.
 
 I J6i 1 
 
 C 1 S S I N O. 
 
 Tb K Ciiuncil i» < ■ to St. Mary die Virgin, ^^nt\ in 1205 
 
 was a rectory, a niou ._. ..- |i;itroniigc U-ing then sctllcd on liiittey 
 prior)-,' by John, son of (ifff'frjf ; about 1'217, Thomat tU Utntyngs, 
 wiib thf conscDt and joint net of John Risliup of .Vonr/cA, ijrnntcd 
 to Uif luoDUitcry of St. M'trit nt Uiiltfi/, in Suffolk, the |KT|H'tUQl 
 nclvow»on of the tilh«"r pari, and Uu^rr dr Skcriiing not only con- 
 iiniH.-<l it, but uCTet.'d to a|>prii|irint«- the whole to tlial house; and 
 ju )'J71,tl>c 50m of JJcnrtf 111. (ridowid thr vicnrgo wirh ull the 
 ofiehDg«, the tithes of thi- mills, a vicarage-liouse una meadow, and 
 au *crc of land wchoining, aiul twenty acres more of tl»c rhiireh's 
 free land, and ull oIIkt small titiiec, e.VL-ept hay, which, with all the 
 corn lilhcs, and the rest of the rIcIk-, together with tlie rectory 
 niuuor, and all it:> a|i|>iirlenaiices, were lo bdong to the prior, who 
 i^as jiwuy;> lo prcbcui lo the vicarage. 
 
 RECTORS.' 
 
 WUham of South Elmham, the first vicar, was sncccedod in 
 
 1:)07, prid. kal. Sfpt. by Hill. Iiigercth, oi Debcuham, priest, who 
 rcsigne<l it for I'tnfirlil. 
 
 ISl.i, 15 kul. July, Thomat of Palgrarr, priest. 
 
 1317, :} kal. Sijit'. Jlniry ulMrlln, pricl. 
 
 1328, 12 kal. May, II i/liam of I'akmhum, priest. 
 
 1 J44, -'» October, Walter le I'almer of Ipsvich, priest. 
 
 I • (<), '2 ; Sept. lioberl-dil Moor of Eye, priest. 
 
 i •, 7 October, Johii Ire of i'u/A«»«, priesl ; Robert atlc Moor 
 resigned. 
 
 IS<J2, 2.S Au^iil, Roger Wright, by change with Jolm Ice for 
 Litllf Ilrtinei/e, m Ixindon diocese, which John was also rector of 
 Shillou- llorells.o 
 
 1 Vj7, '.: March, It'alter of Wnt-Walton, priest. 
 
 14<Jl, (i ./i/Hf, Sir Robirt J'eli/i, priesl, on Halter's resignation. 
 
 ^4f).'>, Ifi Dec. John Carman of Yakalc, priest. 
 
 14 l<;, 'J4 Dec. Robert Theme, priisl, on Carman's resignation. 
 
 I4'2'>, <> March, Robert Smylhc, priest, on Theme's resignation. 
 
 I ' -.7 Octobir, Robert lialli . Bishop by lapse. 
 
 1 ,1, 2 Sffjl. Sir Thniiias lUi:iil:pai/n. 
 
 14.»l, 7 M(ir< ' I ^ (loblynton, an Aupiilinc canoaof Bulley, 
 
 on Ulankpayn'i 1 , on. 
 
 Robert Jltyn, priest. 
 
 ^Af1^, Febr. Robert Hale, on Alryn's resignation. 
 
 1 .- ■, I July, Thomui i\ ilbouriie, ou liali'jt resignaiion. 
 
 ? 
 
 Fin. ii. Job. Li. 5. No. j. Aiout 1100, atilic Rcgitterof thcSacritt 
 
 * Ooc Jotia wu rector uf O.rji^ ol Nunvicli slic»j us, y. Ca. 
 
 " Ncu'coiiri, \ol. 11. jii, iij.
 
 GISSING. 
 
 Ill J 
 
 T484, 4 Nov. John Winter, alias Capell, priest, canon oi Biitley. 
 1500, John Jumbfer' suc-ceeded, on Winter'x resignation. 
 
 All the above were presented by tlie Prior of Butley. 
 
 1534, 16 Nop. Peter Mannyng, priest, on J iimbfer's death 
 1549, 7 yiug. Michael Diuining,'- LL. B. Richard Denney, of 
 Barcdeseye, patron ot tins vicarage, for this turn only, by grant from 
 Thomas, late prior of the dissolved house of ButUi/, the o-Vant being 
 made before its dissolution. ° 
 
 1554, Gregory (or Geo.) Grange, on Dunning's resignation 
 
 1561, 26 Dec. John Hiltone, priest. The Queen patroness. He 
 had Burst on. 
 
 1578, 15 Octob. Thomas Proctor, A. M. Robert Kemp Esq 
 W79, 23 May, John ^ar.//, A. B. The Qdeen. ' 
 
 1579, 5 Sept. Thomas Proctor, A. M. The Qtjeen ; she ejected 
 him, and presented Saie/l, in order to recover her patronage, which 
 teing done, she presented him again. 
 
 1613, 27 March, Robert Proctor, A M. The King; he subscribed 
 the articles at the Restoration, Jug. 18, l662, being ordained deacon 
 by the Bishop of E/y, Sept. 25, l608, and was made a licensed 
 preacher on the day ot his institution ; he died in 1668. 
 
 1668, 24 Dec. John Gibbs, A. M. presented by King Charles II • 
 he continued rector till ]6yO, being then ejected as a nonjuror; he 
 was an odd but harmless man, both in life and conversation ; after 
 his ejection he dwelt in the north porch chamber, and laid on the 
 stairs that led up to the rood loft, between the church and chancel, 
 having a window at his head, so that he could lie in his narrow 
 couch and see the altar. He lived to be very old, and at his death 
 was buried at Frenze. 
 
 l6go, 28 June, Thomas Jeffery. Robert Kemp, Bart, united 
 to Flordon. 
 
 1694, 24 Jpril, John Calver, on Jeffery's death. Ditto; united 
 to Shimpling. 
 
 1730, the Rev. ]Mr. Thomas Kemp, A. M. presented by his 
 father. Sir Robert Kemp, Bart, who died Dec. 1734, leaving this 
 patronage and manors to Sir Robert Kemp, Bart, his eldest son, who 
 is now [1736] lord and patron. 
 
 The impropriation, according to Butleif Register, was confirmed 
 by several Archbishops ofCanterburi/,^ and was taxed at l6/. 13s. 4f/. 
 iind paid 33.s. 4f/. tenths. It appears also by the said register, that 
 Sir John Aumhler, as rector of Gissiiig, acknowledged a pension of 
 efts. Qd. to be yearly due to the Prior of But/ey, out of the rcctoiy, 
 which was now in effect disappropriated, and united to the vicara"-e, 
 all but the manor, the impropriate glebe, and its tithes, which re- 
 mained in the prior, and fell to the Crown at the Dissolution, in 
 which they continued till Queen Elizabeth by letters patent, dated 
 the l6th day ot April, 1503, granted to Edw. Dyer, and Henry 
 
 ' Regr. Cant, sede vacante, pen. tors in Fox's Martyrs, and in Browne's 
 
 Dec. et Cap. Norw. fo. iizb. Posthumous Works, edit. Lend. 1712, 
 
 * This Michael was vicar-general, p. s'- 
 and rector of North Tuddenhani, of ' Regr. ButJey, fo. 17, b. 
 wliom you may read among the persecu-
 
 IM GISSING. 
 
 l^ff..:..., i„ ftftvfiirm, tlie rrnl», lio-l- •■•'lonienU, hoo<U, Aui por- 
 li(, %, III Gissiitg, lately I' to llullry piiuiy, at tlic 
 
 Vt' . rt-ilt ul 4/. Ui. I</. on. i<> be licltl I. :uul 
 
 ill, < ITili uf /V//. 1.^74, mIcI tluiii br ' iii 
 
 cli 'Ucl lliiit yi'-ir, iIk ' \ ollu-r 
 
 Irt il««l t" AiiOi'tiy h riJt ntiii 
 
 bill iicir*, llif rectory, or uilvowsoii ot i' .^. . «lii> ilii'Mlliuf 
 
 Ftb. Ill lilt" »ainc yc«r, »iiUI it bv <!• ■ m iliiiin.vry, to 
 
 Uobrrt Krmfi, M»().; but uolwitlinliinding tin*, tlio Quci*ii recovered 
 bcr presentation to the i-liiircli, lvfiiti»c, llioiigli the rectory wu« 
 uuite<l, yet it Imtl been all iikxi!; |>iisiiilitl to by the iininc of h 
 vicurai^', luul itt could ii' ' ' ' I in the grant of tlip a-clorv : 
 
 nnd from tJii» time it ni Crown, till Kiiii; C/iarla ll. 
 
 gave it to tbe Kr/iy>f >, ulio umUil ll.t tiliu-> ol" the ini|tro|iriiite );lfb<-, 
 nod »o made it a coniplele rt-L-lory, and us !>iii'li it ImiIi been prc- 
 icntcd to ever »ince. 
 
 Ill lifiy, the I'rior^ Clote in (iittiiip and Uurtton, containing 30 
 acre*, and other land* of the value ot Wl. per annum were granted 
 to -Vic. Yeltstcorth and Ihirth. Ilrokahi/. 
 
 in I3(i4,* John, >oii and heir of i\ illiam d( Callfiorp, held u mes- 
 »uage and laiid> in this town, [)\ fxtit ^crjiiutlri/, viz. by the iiayinent 
 of a »eU-fealheri-<l arrow of \J. value, every year, to the king, by 
 the hand» of the !>l)erilV. 
 
 It tt called in the King's IVhi'^^, ('.u-Wmif :ili:u fHylln". .-hhI is tliii« 
 valued, viz. 
 
 King't Books. I Tmlhi. I SifnwIaU. I Vrocuratiout. I Peiuion.* 
 14 ItJ 5 o6. I I << 7 oi.y. I "o !2 8 I i) 7 7 ob. \ \ [) 7 
 
 Acres Glebe. 
 40 O 
 
 Here was a chantrv in honour of all the SuinLs, in n chapel of thai 
 dedication in the churchyard, founded by Sir Sicholas iluifi/ng, Kiii. 
 and continued by Hilliani Uisliop of NoririrA, about 1'28(); for in 
 that veur the said Si 1 '- ' '.>, and S\t .tJain de ( iiisim;, Klii. en- 
 dowed it will) a W' -lid divers lands, which were Miinetiinc 
 Koberl of ' lalht f of Sir Adam, and were e<i|iyiiold ol' Sir 
 \ic/to/at'i t ll whieli were nmnuniiH'd bv the said \icholai ; 
 it wait for one priest only, who wa-i Ixiund daily to sing for their 
 souU, and those of their nnccstors : it is now <|uilc gone, uod we 
 know not in which part of the churchvard it stood. 
 
 In 1544, it appi^'am that the townnfiip held of (iisiinif eum Dag- 
 Vorth manor a leiienK*nt called /ii/(-/.'(-;i/i(i/;r.<, »liieh abuts on the 
 w. Ill the cliiireh to 'J'tbin/uim l-on^ Uotee cast; and of 
 
 (,< i\ urn /)fi//</ig'i manor, anotlier tenement called Ou'/cj'f, 
 
 nnd one acre ot land lying iMlwecn the lord's meadow nortli, and 
 the common way \vc»l: and also one pieec called the Mcadotc- 
 I'ighlle, which aLut* on the drag-way norlh. I'hi* tencmcnl and 
 acre pay n rent of (ir/. and the pightle a rent of 7 </. a year. They 
 
 *T I ;; r ■' \, Builcy, and rrom i6i. ti/. it now [173A] 
 
 ■!ic Cruwn, r«iKd tu fji, iJ. 
 (» wiuii^i,!^ iu Liic uiA^vit i-^ priory ul
 
 G I SSI NO. iCJ 
 
 had also a freehold cottage and garden, at JVeil Green ; and the 
 Icetfee was then two shillings and four-pence.'^ 
 
 In 1548, Sir ylnlhoni/ llcveiiipighdm, Knt. lord of Ghsing cum' 
 Dagworth, settled three acres of land upon the cliinch-wardcns, to- 
 wards the maintenance of the poor, and ordered that Barlholomcw 
 Kernpe and his heirs should pay 3s. a year to the same use, out of his 
 estate.' 
 
 In 1537, John Tiler gave 20s. to the church; mayster BurthyH- 
 mew Kernpe, hathe in his hands to the use of the chirche lij.s. Daniel 
 Broome hath to the use of the crosse, :i5s. ad. 
 
 1550, .John Taylor gave 2Gs. 8d. to repair the cawnsey. 
 
 1598, Joan Freeman gave ];3s. 4cl. to the church. 
 
 1621, Mr. Tho. Vrockler, clerke, late of Gissiiigc, deceased, gave 
 40s. for town stock, to be put out b)' the church-wardens, to two 
 poor men, resident in the said town, they to have the benefit for 
 one year, lying in good security, and then the next year, to two 
 others, &,c.* 
 
 Here is a very good parsonage-house, with a barn and stable, built 
 all of brick, by Mr. Calver, late rector, (in whose time the old par- 
 sonage was burnt,) with a garden, orchard, and other conveniencies, 
 and 49 acres of glebe. 
 
 The Church hath a low small round steeple joined to its west end, 
 but yet it contains five bells; on the first and second is tliis^ 
 
 GOD BLESS THE CHURCH AND CONFOUND HER FOES. 
 
 Run'd out of one, by Mr. John Gibbes, Rector. 
 This on the third bell : 
 
 DEFUNCTOS VLORO, PESTEM FUGO, FESTA DECORO. 
 
 The nave is leaded, the chancel is tiled, and hath a chapel joined 
 to each side of it, both which are leaded ; that on the south side hath 
 no memorials in it, the vault for the family of tiie Kempes being 
 under it. That on the north was the ancient burial-place of the lords 
 of the manor, and is full of monuments and grave-stones. There is 
 only a cup belonging to the altar, on the cover of which our Saviour's 
 head is poorly engraved, and this, Gvsseing A° 1567. 
 
 There is nothing in the nave, but this inscription on a free-^tone : 
 
 Here lyelh the Body of Richard the Sonne of William Girling, 
 late of St. Andrews in the seven parishes in Sulfolkc, he was 
 born in December l633, and died in April 10'67, in the Service 
 of Mrs. Mary SoneWiddow, Mother-in-Law to Sr. Robert Kemp 
 Bart. He was exemplary good in his Life and Death. 
 
 In the chancel there are no memorials of any kind. In the north 
 chapel, which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, there are several grave- 
 stones which have lost their brasses, but the arms were as follow, as 
 Mr. Jnstis's MSS. (marked E. fol. 2[),) hath them : 
 
 Kemp and Curson, for Robert Kemp, who married a Curson. 
 
 '' From the eviHences in the Church * Evidences in the Church Chest; these 
 Chest. two tenements and the land are in pos- 
 
 ' From the rolls of the said manor, session of the town at this time. [1736.! 
 3 E. 6. pen. Rob, Kemp, Bar. A" 1699. 
 VOL. I, Y
 
 iCO CI SSI NO. 
 
 Kemp and Dukt, t'ur John Ktutp and AUcc l>u wife, daughter uf 
 Dmkf. 
 
 Kfi/' and Jlltyn, for Ihirth. Kemp uud ^m/i* liii wife, dauglUor 
 wt .///cyM. 
 
 Ktmp nnd Cocktrhain, which »Ull remninM. 
 
 Arm^ and Smyt/iainf, these nrm» and inKiiiuiDii !>iill itm;iiii, viz. 
 
 Here lycth buritii Kolxrl Kcinp, Estiuier, wlio 
 
 Marrv'd Ehutbvth, tl»e daughter of Joliii Suivthwmc, 
 
 L»quior, nnd iiud Imuo too Sunnes, nnd tliri-i- 
 
 Dauulilers; \w dvfd On- xxvii'' of April, in the 
 
 Yinrcof our Lord, )6i>(i, .Ltatis sua- LXXX. 
 
 keinp and Lt-Crey, hi* second wife, in colour*, on a stone in the 
 wall, uith tliiii : sFEito Lt cem. 
 
 Kfinj) (|uartcr« liutlrn/frj/ii, and impales four coats quartered, 
 l.f-Crttf with Oil annulet. 
 
 Connard, ar. a fess between two chevrons nr. 
 Berri/, per pale az. nnd gu/. a cross floree between four trefoils or. 
 On anoiiier stone in the wall, /vfm/7 quarters Duttcvfy/fi/ii impaling 
 chc<juy or and az. a fe>s in u borduregu/. 
 
 On a hlnck marble. 
 Here lyeth the Body of Jane Kemp, wife of William Kemp 
 of Antingham, second son of Sir Kobert Kemp ofGissmt;, Bart, 
 the died April 11 th 170jj and in tlic i*ji\i year of her age. 
 
 On a mural monument of while marble against the north wall, 
 having Kemp's arms and crest, sc on a wreath or and gut. a pelican 
 vulning herself, proper, and dilTers from Krnip'i crest on tlic next 
 monument, which is a iiawk standing on a garb, or. 
 
 Sir ROBERT KRMP of GI.SSING 
 
 In the County of xNORlOLK, BAKO.NET. 
 
 ^V . ivvn at WALSYNGHA.M-ABBEY, upon the 2d of FEBR. 
 
 I'i-i?, and died the af*"" of September, 1710, 
 
 In the 83' Year of Ins Age. 
 
 His fust Lidy was M.AKY the Daughter of 
 
 THOMAS Ki:HKlI)GE,by SrSAN his wife, she 
 
 Was born in l/).M)()N,in IVbr. Ki.M, they were married 
 
 Julv l.ilh KiJO, and she died in June, I<)j5. 
 
 Ihey had a Son &. 2 Daiighters born & 
 
 Christen'd, which died vounir. 
 
 The second Laiiy of tli.- said .Sir UOBEIJT KEMP, 
 
 Was MAIfV^tlie Daiii^hl.r of JOHN SONE 
 
 Of IblKstone, in tin. C'ouniv of Sull. (j<iu. by 
 
 MA!{Y,thc Uaugiii.r of William dade. 
 
 Of the said County, Est)'. She was born April 
 
 Tlie ti'N WJJ7 ; they were married Novr. the •2(^'^ 
 
 11)57. Slie died July the '.'!>'» 17().i. at l'BBE.SIX)N, 
 
 By whom ihey had .) Sons and •! I)aut;lilers. 
 
 Both these L;idies were very I'rudcnt, 
 
 und Pious, few exreedni ilic former, 
 
 aud scarce (uiy the latter.
 
 GISSING. irj7 
 
 On nnollicr mural moniimenl on the same side, Kemp's crest, arms, 
 and quarleiings. I. Kemp; 'i. sah. a lion rampant, ur:^.; 3. barry 
 ol' six, az. and $(ib. on a canldii gitl, a saltire or; 4. Jlastyiigs; 
 5. Dove, iiz. a chevron between three doves tir.; G. Jiuttevclej/n; 
 7. az. three roses or ; 8. sab, two chevrons arg. 
 
 Ktinp imj)ahng, on a bend sab. three roses or. The same quartered 
 willi gutie lie sung. 
 
 ROBERT KEMP, late 
 
 of Gissint;, Esquire, tlie 
 
 only Sonne and Child of iiicliard 
 
 Kemp of Gissing, Esquier, and Alice 
 
 Cockerhani, (Daugliter of Philip Coek- 
 
 kerhani of llainpsted, in the Coiiiitieof 
 
 Middlesex, Esquire, sometimes Olheer to K. 
 
 Edw. VI. &, Q. Alary, in theire Custom-house 
 
 at London) married Dorothy Ilcrrisj sole 
 
 Daughter of Arthur llerrisof Crixeth, in 
 
 the County of Essex, Esquire, by whom 
 
 lie had viij Sonncs &. iij Daughters whereof 
 
 vij Sonncs and ij daughters do yet survive 
 
 theire Father, who being xlvij Yeares, 
 
 ould, peaceably departed this transitory 
 
 Life, in the Taith of Christ, October 
 
 xxiij. MDCXII. having then bene 
 
 happily wedded unto hir xvij 
 
 Yeares, to whose never dying 
 
 Memorie, his beloved wife erected 
 
 this Monument at hir owne chardges, 
 
 April xxiiij M.DC.XIIIJ. 
 
 Painted in the glass of the east window : 
 
 Kemp and Buteie/ei/n quarlcred, impaling Hastings. 
 
 Ditto imjjaling Clij/'ord. Ditto impaling Gray. Ditto impaling 
 Lomnor of Manm/ngton. 
 
 Sab. a lion rampant arg. painted on the wall. 
 
 There are five coffins in the vault, one is Sir Robert Kemp's, who 
 died Dec. 17.34, and his three wives, and a child by the first wife. 
 Hatchments for them, viz. Kemp impales King of 'Ihurlow, vert, a 
 chief and a griffin or. 
 
 Kemp impales sah. a lion rampant ar. 
 
 Kemp im|)ales Bluchzcell, pally of six ar. and az. on a chief guA a 
 lion passant or. 
 
 Here were several manors, free tenements, and other small lord- 
 ships, of which I shall give the best account that I can, though I 
 must own that in some of tlie small manors the fees and tenures are 
 so intricate, that there may be some mistakes. 
 
 The capital manor, ai'lerwards called
 
 ifli GlssiN'r:. 
 
 lIASTINCrS MANOR, 
 
 ai the tiirvcv nn» iiirludrd uii<i viilui-d a» u llerctcick lo Tttikiill, witli 
 ^. u . i. ,1 ^KZL% given III tlic Abbot of iluri/,* wlui wiit luiii at tllr 
 ( t, niid iiniiu-dinU-ly iii'lcr, (lie iibb<it uviit;iic«l it tor life to 
 
 / ' < ' ,' . Aliltut ItrtliltciH inli-iilli-ii otw HicuarJ in 
 
 I stcwiinl-liiii I it that ultl>rv III i\r. I'roin 
 
 liiiii il luiiu- I '.' I'lamiivtir III Iximtcr- 
 
 thirf, wliow. /■ \ ill tllr time ot" yyi-z/ry I. 
 
 011(1 t'mni liiin lo Kohctl his »on. \tli<> ilu'<i witlioiit issue, leaving 
 I'.rnrtnire. iliuit;hter ot' //i<>;A FiainaiUr, lii* niece, liis lieir. Shi* 
 umrried //m'.'A tie Haitifiigi* son of H i/liain dc Ila%li/tii;i, Steward lo 
 Knit; lltnrii I. with wlioin ihis niiinur, and tlie slewaiiUhip ut' }lurif, 
 uilh Jiloit, ititmavilt iiuiiioi in lxi(fsl€r%hirf,Mu\i\.\\Uohfrt I'/amii- 
 .tt-,i-aiiie tullii*) tiiiiiily, wliK'li wus sirnained Injiii the port of 
 ii _, llie l;isliiv;e of winch, wilh ihat ui liht/t , ihcy tor a long 
 
 time luriiic<l ot" the Crown. This Hugh ltt\ Hilliam lii» son and heir, 
 who \vn.s Steward lo Henri/ 11.' n» well lis to the uhbcy ; he obtained 
 a tcmnt ot'cwnliriiialion ot' that Kin.{, uf all the luixU which II iUiam 
 d( Ilasli/ ' loiidralher, and Ifui^/i his ("ather had cniovi.tl. He 
 niarneif ,, tlaui;lilcr of Ho<iir Hi/gud Eiirl of Sorfolk, by 
 
 «hum he \im\ II illiiiin, lii> »on and heir, who paid l(X) marks for 
 his relief. In 1 li>4, sixlh IlicltarU I. he \vt\ Uriiri/, his eldest son, 
 his heir, though it iM*cms he had several bont>, and among others 
 John, to whom (his manor was ussigned, and Ju/iii a!>.signed it to 
 'I'homat df llnstifiigs, who wiis in nil likelihood unother brother. 
 Tliis Thomas luuf U!xii:'.e of bread and rt/r,** free-warren, lilK-rty of eii- 
 closin-.;, and lilx-riv of faldn^e, llirouuhout the low n, as well in other 
 folks lands as his own, which, u|>on a Quit II arranlo in 12'27, were 
 &ll(>w'c<l liini, upon pleading (hat IViUuimde llastitna, his ancestor. 
 Was seized of this manor, with those of 'I'ibbenhum, and others, of 
 llie fee of .St. Ldnuind, in the time of llcuri) 11. and that he then 
 
 tx'nreably enjoyed all lht!se liberties, which were confirmed to him 
 •y the charter of King Richard 1. in the seventh year of his reign, 
 A' 1 l<J.i, after who^e dealli they were peaceably eiijoyc<l lo tliis 
 lime. This Ihomai left il lo Hugh </<■ llastifugs, who got a confirma- 
 tion of it from IJriiri/, s<m of .Inhn dr lla<Ji/ugi. 'I liis Hugh married 
 the daui;hter of .^^dli de Ahcitau,'' by wfiom he had 'ihontas, who 
 inherited ; he married Amicia, who survived him, and \icho/as de 
 llaUtfugn, Knt. who was iheir son luid heir, had this munor, w hich, 
 in 1^4'i, he assigned to Amicia his molhcr, as part of her dower, 
 »h«- Ix-ing then married to Sir Uidint de limco of I'lrsfidd, Knt. In 
 I'i'ifJ, lie reiirwcd his charlir of free-warren ; he inarrii-d Kmelina, 
 (luughter oi II alter Urruii, by whom lir had six sons, Hugh, Jlmry, 
 
 • (Kc.l. i«o.) Tcrrc Abbitu dc iio. * Kctr. H.ndibcclc fol. |gi. 
 Exlimiiulo, Dice Dim. Huiidr. * Alb. Kcj^r. fol. •)t. 
 
 Itii iiuncnu (h. Tilslull) ail'.icct !. ' Burton't Ixiccstcrth. in Aston, 
 
 Bcruili (jcvtinclMni de i. cjr. rl i\. viU Fbmjrilc. 
 Un. ei u. lx>ru. >cm|>cr i.cjr. in dnio. * ^--^ '>■■■'" 'Mm. 
 rt ii car. hommiim. bilva xv. (Hire, rt ' !> ■ nl. i. p. 574. 
 
 «»iij. >oc. dc Uxix. acr. Fulclicnit * I' ..c A° la. Hen. fil. Joh. 
 
 Icnci xxii. acr. temper iii. b«r. el v. apiid Norwic. 
 car. et ii. acr. prati. ' Fin. Nort. H. j. L. 5. N. 144.
 
 GISSING. lf)j) 
 
 Edmund, Nicholas, Richard, and JVi/liam; lie died in 1285, leaving 
 Cissing to Emeliiic his wife, for lift.', as licr dower. It was this 
 Nicholas tliat in 124<) granted bv iirio to tlio I'rior of Pcntciiei/,' a 
 messuage and two carves of land in Odi/lon-'ihorp, and East-wiiich, 
 to be for ever held of his manor of Gissiiig by one kniglit's fee and a 
 pair of gilt spurs, or 7d. a year at Easter. This was afterwards 
 confirmed by llitgh de Hasti/ngs, his son ; and in 1382, there were 
 lOO.v. due for a relief for tiie fee, to the lord of this manor, by reason 
 of the resignation of Peter Ih/shop, late Prior of Penteiici/, for tiie 
 manors of Gai/ton-Thorp, and East-winch. He sealed with a mauneh, 
 and a label ot three for dillerence. 
 
 Hugh de Hastyngs, eldest son of the said Nicholas, sueeeeded; 
 he married avvife named Beatrice, and died before 1301, when she im- 
 pleaded Emcline, her mother-in-law, for the third part of this manor, 
 as her dower, to which it was answered, tiuit Hugh her husband, 
 after his father's death, assigned this manor to his mother for her 
 dower, upon wiiich /:J/«e//«c was dismissed. In l'2fj<), 
 
 Nicholas, son and heir of Hugh, came to it; he released to 
 Nicholas his uncle, and his heirs, all his right and claim to those 
 lands in Gissing, which Nicholas de JLasli/ngs his grandfather gave 
 to l\ illiam his son, and in ease that Nicholas his uncle should die 
 without issue, he granted that Richard de Hastyngs, and the heirs of 
 his body, should enjoy them, with a remainder to his own right heirs. 
 This Nicholas, in 127(i,' being then a knight, was retained by Ralph 
 Lord Grei/stokc, (according to the custom of those times,) by cove- 
 nants dated al Hilderskelf'in Yorkshire, to serve him both in peace 
 and war, for the term of their lives; viz. in time of war, witli two 
 yeomen well mounted and arrayed, and in time of peace, with two 
 yeoiiKMi and four grooms ; in consideration of which, he was to be 
 furnished with all accoutrcMiients for his own body, as also with one 
 saddle, according to the dignity of a knight; and in case he should 
 lose any great horse in the war, he was to have recompense according 
 to the estimation of two men. Furtliermore, wherever the Lord 
 Greijstoke resided, so that it was in Yorkshire, he should repair to 
 him upon notice, having allowance for his reasonable service in war 
 and peace. On account of this retainder, Sir iSlicholas had the manor 
 of 'Ihorp- Basset, in Yorkshire, from this Lord, paying a fee-farm 
 rent of Si. a year. I could nut omit taking notice of tins, to shew 
 the custom of that age, abundance of the knights then being retained 
 in the same manner. This Sir Nicholas left two sons, RalJ' and 
 William, between whom this manor was divided, one part being 
 henceforward called Gissing only, and the otiier Ilastj/ngs in 
 Gissing. 
 
 William, the youngest, had GISSING assigned to him, which 
 he left to his son (as I take it) Phillip de Ilasti/ngs, whose tiaugluer 
 Isabell, in l.'5'i4, married Alan Kemp ot'lftston, in Sutfolk, Escp to 
 whose sou Jo/i« the said Phillip granted the manor called Gifsing, and 
 to his heirs for ever, from which time it hath continued in that 
 family. 
 
 Sir Ralfh^ theeldest,had ITJSTINGS'S manoria Gissing; ami 
 
 ' Rot. Cur. inter Evid. Rob. Kemp, » Ex indentiir. 
 Bar:
 
 170 G I SSI NO. 
 
 in I '.ii*, hr ri'iirw«il lii« rluirler ot frif-wnrren for it, nftcr Uic divi- 
 ftion ; l»f inarruAl Mitr^artt, ojtiv llnu^lll(■ro^ Sir Ihllmm dc llcrU, 
 of Kirb^ III l^icfstrrthirr, mIu> nftrr Iwcahic m)Ic licir to Sir Robert 
 ilr lltrit hor brother, in 1jJ(i. We wiu Ciuvernuur of lorA- ctutlf,' 
 Mini ^liirilT <>i' iliat c-uunlv , iitui livitl in i;rcnl honour till l.'M.'i. in 
 mIiicIi \> ' (iiiil li.ittahiiiKii tl "^^ ' ■ "'<! 
 
 bv the 111 ■ ;' . ■ Hnicc Kint;ol> . ; / , '« 
 
 (luv ho uus inorliiJIv woiinclc-tl, ol which lu- died in ii ti'w iIuvh, mid 
 uuit buricil, accordini; to his u ill, in the iibbev oi Sulby, of \«iiicli he 
 was patron. 'Ilii»ciigai;«-inenl was called tlic biitlle of Secil-Crott 
 near Durhiini, in >vhicli iIk- Kini: of .SVoM, niui moiitofllic nobility 
 uf that kingdom, were luken pri»on(-r», and iheir army routed ; mid 
 I IS bv Sir litilph'i «ill,' tliMt he had taken oiu- of Uiom.- 
 
 t lor in it be di>|>os<>d ot tliat prisoner, ivliuin lie took in uur, 
 
 unto hu iR'plifW, F.dmuml Uasli/ni^s of HoiiseLv, mid to John lU 
 Kirhy, to Ik- shared between them ; leaving Margaret his wife alive, 
 and 
 
 ItvLPiif., hn son and iieir, who was a knight in 1.140, nnd re- 
 tained by indenture Jo/i)i kirln/ of l\ ig^eiilhorp in Yorki/iire, u 
 gentleman of an aneienl famiiv, to ser\e linn for term of life, and 
 not to U' displaced without goocf cause, whereof Sir Jiriaii Stajilttou, 
 Kill, and ollw-i-s wire to Ik." judges. The said linlplir was himself 
 retained hv lliiiry Duke of Caiicaiter, to serve him both in war and 
 peace, for 40 inarks ptr oJiiiitm, out of his manor of Pickering in 
 lorkshire : and u|K)n the death of that Duke, he luul a contirmation 
 Uiereof from Joint of iiauiit, mui of King lldward 111. Duke of 
 I^inciiilcr, Ilarl ai Richmond, and High Steward oi Kngland, who 
 had married one of the daughters and heirs of that Duke. The rest 
 of this great man, iind of his predecessors and suceessours, may be 
 seen in .Mr. l)ugdiil(\ Baronage, from llie 57yili page of the lirsl 
 voluoic, to the 68()th page of that book, from whence 1 have ex- 
 tracted great part of this account. 
 
 In the year l'}.j;J, Sir Ralph sold llie manor o{ Has(i/ngs in (iissing 
 to 't'hoiwif (ianiiiier of LhaUilon. and John Pickering, and John 
 Jllcnton, his tnistces, which Thomas hehl it to 1.509, and then le- 
 vied n fine to John Ilarconrt, and other trustees, by which this 
 manor of Hmtj/ngt, willi Datrling's manor in this lown^ were settled 
 on 
 
 Thomas GARniNr.R of ffi«/w^,his son and heir; lhis7%omai had 
 two wives, I'ecilif and EliziJit-lh; by the former he had a daughter, 
 iiaiiKil Jii.iii, who inherited Danling'i manor, and dving withoui 
 i-Mii 111 I i<^), (he left it Ut Sir Robfrt Jintt(V(li/u ot' IJordon, Knl. 
 who was lord of Uay/i/n'^i manor, by his marrying halrrinc, daugh- 
 ter of the said Thomas (ianliner, by his second wite, and half sister to 
 this Joan, so that now both these manors were vested in the said 
 
 Sir RoBEiiT BuTTEvEi.vN, wlio was descended from an ancient 
 famiiv of that name in Soiihnmptomhirc, of which l\ illiam lluutc- 
 X'li/ii, before the ISlli centurv, founded Pipttccll abbey: he b;irc as 
 llu^ lamily ever di<l, ar. tline crescents ^u/. 
 
 Ill- left Robert his son Ins heir, who Icli another Robirl, his heir, 
 whose inheritance came to IVilliam Ins son, and then to Robert, son 
 of miiiam, which Robert wua killed in Scotland, w ilii the Earl of 
 
 ' Rot. Fin : I E. J. m. }s. * Dug. Bar. vol. i. p. 579-
 
 GrssiNG. nr 
 
 Gloucester, June 24, 1314, leaving a son, whose heir was this Sir 
 Kobert of whom we now speak, whose son. Sir Robert Buteveteuiu 
 junior, in 1401, is said to hold the manor of the Lord G/ey of 
 liuthifu, at half a fee, which was heretofore Nic/to/as de Hastun«'s, 
 and another part of it, of the abbey of Buri,, at a quarter of a fee; 
 and another part ot il oi Shimplitig manor ; and in 1403, he settled 
 his manors called Hastj/iiges, and Dallhigs, upon Sir Simon Fel- 
 bngge Knt. Sir Robert Buttevelpi, senior, his lather, Rklmrd de 
 Loteshrook, narson o( Cotesbrook, John Rej/iies, John Clere, Esqrs 
 and Henry Lomnour, junior, and others, and their heirs in trust, for 
 the wife of Sir Robert Butteveyleyn, junior, for her life and the heirs 
 of their bodies. Upon the death of this Sir Robert the Abbot of 
 Bun/ seized his ward, by reason of the chief part of the manor which 
 was held of him by knight's service ; but this settlement being pro- 
 duced, he was forced to release his seizure, and at her death, 
 
 William Buttevelyn,* her son and heir, inherited the manors 
 oi±lorendon, Hasfi/nges, and Dawllngs; he died without issue about 
 1405, leaving these and Cotesbrook manor in Northamptonshire, and 
 I'cnwtck and Thorndich in Bedfordshire, to his sisters, Elizabeth and 
 Julian; Elizabeth maiTied Edmund Chaterton, and left one dau-hter 
 only, named EUzabelh, who mairied Thomas Herteshorne, '^alias 
 Hartstrong, of Gissing, Esq, ; Ju/ian married Robert Duke of 
 Brampton in Suffolk, Esq.; and left only one daughter, named 
 Alice, who married John Kemp of IVeston, Esq. ; between which 
 John, and Thomas lltrteshorn aforesaid, the estate came divisible 
 and by agreement they divided it ; Thomas had Cotesbrook, Fenwick 
 and Thorndich, and John had Flordon manor and advowson, and 
 Hastyngs and Dallings manor in Gissing, so that now he was lord of 
 three of the manors in this town, 
 
 r^e Customs o/ </;/.? Mange extracted from the Extent Roll in 
 1327, A" 2 Edward III.) a'A/cA was a renewal of the old Roll made in 
 the 5th of Edward II. in Sir Nicholas Hastyng's time, (1311,) zcereas 
 jollow ;' 
 
 A villein cannot divide his tenements, but all shall remain to the 
 eldest issue ; and if such issue withdraws out of the homafre he for- 
 feits his tenements. ' 
 
 Aprepositor and mes%or to be yearly chosen out of the tenants- the 
 messor to Live the custody of the fields, meadows, and woods': he 
 shall sow all the lord's seed, and give an account of all trespasses to 
 the lord, and shall keep a man all seed-time, to fri<rht the vermin • 
 the messor shall come to the lord's diet (or maintenance) the first day 
 of harvest, and shall be maintained all harvest time : he is to collect 
 the lord's rents, and profits of courf, and to warn the labourers and 
 all others to their duty ; and is to be paid his wages by the tenements 
 tliat are eligible into that office. 
 
 The bondmen to fine for their marriage at the lord's will. 
 
 The tenement of every copyholder, at each death is heriolable, by 
 the best beast ; and if they have no beast, they shall give os. 
 
 3 Regr. Curteys, fol. 281. b. 2. there isa verbatim transcript of this roll 
 
 5 VTilt i>'^- -ur „ """""S M''- L« ^''^^e'^ Collections, 
 
 5E Rot, penes R, Kemp, Bart.;
 
 I7« 1 SSI NO. 
 
 'Ittr lirir of the tenant slioll tnkchis inhrritancc by Rur, at the will 
 of tiir lord. 
 
 And tliall Rive for Uyenrilf* it Sd. 
 
 \ ' ',--■< 1 "I mnko rctlpiii|itinii ol tJicir bloo<l, ami 
 ;. U-i llir prtjtcilron id'nDV oilier lunl. 
 
 Li t.> lllr • ' 
 
 'li.. I, tliill til .. ir» of 
 
 the lord ihomat tie Htiilifii<;t, tir. ot tlic loni iMurnicr de thuti/ngt, 
 a> of the fw.- of the Abbot oi St. Eiitnuiia's, by tlie siTvico of out- 
 Lnii^ht'f fi-e, and no more. 
 
 And tlini one foe in I'.mt-llineh nnd (latftoti-Thnrp, were lately 
 i»iven bv llif niior*li>rs ol the iil'iir«-<nid lord I'fiomns, in pure alni!i to 
 (' '■ 'Ul of ilie manor of («;j<fH<T, nnd the 
 
 ^ / Miiiiior of (iisiiiisr, with llie apnurte- 
 
 ntinces, aiicl ttic-tennni'> in Miilil/rloii near I.i/iin,i\n6 in East-n iiuh, 
 and in (iciftou-T/iurp, to Sir \ico/as, his yoiini;er son, who wn* then 
 a knight, and to his heirs ; nnd this before tlie 34th of lUnrtf III. all 
 whieh he wns to hold of the said Thomnf, and his eldest sion, nn<l 
 tlicir hcii-s, for ever, by llie service of «)ne knight's fee; nnd that the 
 BUid \ichoUi(, his heirs an«l a*sii;ns, shoiild pay for the aforesaid 
 T/tomiit df llaili/iigs, and his heirs, to the AbUit of St. Edmund, 
 every 90 weeks, >ls. Ad. for Uic eastle-ward of St. Eilniiitid, to \or- 
 B-«fA'ca!.lle, for these manors, for ever to continue. And they iay, 
 Uiat in this manor there arc certain lenemeiils held of the heirs of 
 " ■ ' I-. ol'ilic ()h'«>Ayii of /f7»;/i;WAj/i;j, r/;. .')() acresof land, 
 
 : wood, ofuhieh the heirs of .S/r^Ar« t/c llrohediih held 
 ol lli« lord ol this manor 'i,\ acres. 
 
 'Ihe lord hath btlonginu; to this manor liberty of Jtif da s^e and clo- 
 ture through the whole town of GUsing, as well in other men's lands 
 as in his own. 
 
 And iAto frec-Tidrren in his own lands, 
 
 And liie correction of the assize of bread and ale of all his tenants; 
 all which were allowed the said Sir 'J'/ioinas dc Uusti/iif^s in an Ei/re 
 at Soruich, b<fore Hti;:fi .Ablxjl of Ihiri/, nn»l his leliow justices, in 
 the 12tli of Hiiirif III. which liUrlics the lord hath, and now doUj 
 peaceably enjoy. 
 
 In the rolls of the .'^Otli of Ednard 111. the jury present, that U il- 
 liam Ooo</.Y/«, a villein by blood, (of the lord,) was a rebel, and un- 
 grat<'ful towards his lord, for which his tenement and all his goods in 
 the lordship were -'i/i-d ; his offence was, that he falsely and mali- 
 ciou>ly said, that i ■• ccived and maintiiincd a thief, nnd kiiow- 
 
 inglv kept lour si p in his fold, by which the lord was da- 
 
 maged ■;()/. 
 
 In tlK- •>'!<] and 'i'.d of Edrcard III. it nnpears, that all the tene- 
 ments arc heriolnble, and :n tenants paid their heriots this year. 
 
 Riilitrt Hoot (lettalor ctrxnia, or ale-eomior,) was amerced for not 
 doing his office. 
 
 .llici- I A--lt rird pai(\ the lord li. for license to marry. 
 Aiioilier paul 'JIN. ihul she iniglil live out of the loidship, and marry 
 whoever she would. 
 
 In the 4'2d y-JJjf/in/ III. a tenant r..>i". ii, .1 •,!! his copyhold, only 
 because he claimed to bold it freely. 
 
 * It Mgnifics J fine paid by the lerunt to hu lurd, fur dcfiliag a bondwomaa.
 
 GISSING. 173 
 
 The widow of the copyholder, during the nonage of the heir, is his 
 guardian bj' custom. 
 
 I6th Edward IV. tlie manner of the lord's taking strai/ is thus set 
 forth: a horse came within the jurisdiction of the manor, and was 
 seized as a stray, and proclaimed according to custom, and nobody 
 challenging him in a year and a day, he was appraised in open court, 
 and sold. 
 
 1 could not forbear observing these customs, because they shew us 
 the former slavish condition of the villeins and copyholders. 
 
 GISSINGHALL MANOR in GISSING, 
 
 Was held by Aktan, a freeman under Edric (the ancestor of Roherl 
 Mdlet/ lord of Ei/c) in the Confessor's days, and by William, (sir- 
 named De Gissing,) of the said Robert, in the Conqueror's time,* as 
 of the honour of Eue, and soon after the Conquest, the manor of 
 Gissiiighall in Roi/don was joined, [and constantly attended this 
 manor till 1579. 
 
 The other parcels also were afterwards added to this manor, and 
 that is the reason that it was partly held of Eye honour, and partly of 
 the Abbot of i>«rj/,- for in Henri/ the Third's time it was thus dis- 
 tinguished :' 
 
 Gissing. Pro parte Honoris Eye. Pro parte Abbatis Sci. Edmnndi. 
 
 In 1179, William de Gissing held it; he left it to Bartholomew 
 de Gissing, his eldest son, who, in 1189, sold his inheritance to JVnIter 
 de Gissing, his brother; for in the Pipe Rolls of the 34th Henri/ II. 
 and the Ist of Richard I. it is found, that Walter de Gissinges paid 
 King Henri/ II. one mark, that it might be recorded in the great roll, 
 that Bartholomew, his elder brother, and heir to his father, released 
 his inheritance to him in the King's Court. This shews the regard 
 which those times had for the Rolls of the Pipe, there being many- 
 instances in those Rolls of such entries, a collection of which hath 
 been made, and several of them printed, by Mr. Maddox, in his 
 History of the Exchequer. This Walter left it to 
 
 Roger, his son, in II98, at whose death it descended to 
 
 Sir Robert de Gissing, Knt. his son, who settled Roi/don on 
 his wife Joan; by deed dated 1C87, he confirmed to Thunias de 
 Hustyngs, and his heirs, for his homage and service, and two besants 
 fine, all the tenement which the ancestors of Thomas held of his an- 
 cestors in this town. In 1280, he settled this manor on 
 
 Sir Adam de Gissing, his son, who the year alter joined in a 
 
 ' Terrc Robert! Mulct. Dice Dim. " See Gissinghall Manor in Roydon, 
 
 Hiindr. (fol. 77.) p. 46. 
 
 Gessinga tcnuit Ahtan, liber homo » Terra Abbat. Sci. Edmuiidi, Dice 
 
 Edrici. comd. tantiim. Ix. acr. tcrre, Dim. Hundr. 
 
 niodo tenet Williclmiis, semper iiii. InGessingai.libcTliomoctdimid.de 
 
 bord. semper i. car. in dnio. ct dimid. xxxiii. acr. ct ii. bord. tunc i. car. 
 
 car. homimnn. ct ii. iicr. pnai, tunc ct modo dimid. tunc valiiit iiii.i. niodo x. 
 
 po-tca valuit viii.j. modo XV. inva^it Uogonis lioiao Robert! Mulct. 
 
 In Gcssing.i i. liber hon;» Edrici (fol. iSi.) 
 
 com. lantum dc xi. acr. ct sub co. i. In Gessinga invasit Drogo homo Ro- 
 
 bord. ctval. xii.</. ct tenet Williclmui. berti Mulct x. ccr. dc dominica tcira 
 
 (Domsd. fol. 199.) Sancli Edmundi ct val. \x.d, (fol. 299.) 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
 z
 
 174 OISSING. 
 
 derti with hit fatlirr. to trUlc Itovdon on Jo»t», hi* mollier, for life; 
 
 I "f hrtail . ' ■ "1 ' ' n. 
 
 . Ix- lln- I, 
 
 ' liiijtl Ik I It-nt-iiii'iil lit'U, i> ' r 
 
 '1 liir lnT ii»c. In l.'!K'», <■ 'd 
 
 Miunure were conveyed by .\iVAo/</j tie Strad*elf, nnei oihcr 
 
 Sir ItoRKiTT, iou of Sir .iJam of Giaiug;, «lio ol his dcnlh left 
 Uieni to 
 
 JoAV hi* wiilrtw, who k««|ii court hero in her own nnme, the two 
 
 innr :i(l their \\r\vi in liiil. In IM'i, 
 
 >i I ' I. ,rl aiul JiHiii his wifr, owneil tlicm ; 
 
 in I'.D.i, 111- haid j;r«'al iiosx-ssions in Ciinilindtialme, beinn piilron of 
 Kinn'sttin, Sic. lie was in the nruiv with Eiiiriird the /{/«.A- Prince 
 in .Ict/iiitiiiti, during which lime Thomas Miiiliiiote of t'oxloii in 
 ( ' , . r ! nwnv hi» wife, for wliich, at his return, he re- 
 
 ( .' fie at tended tliir Kin^ into (»(/iro/;irH ,' he 
 
 I \wM)., .l^iio, \vl(o, jointly willi liim, CDiiveved ihe niiinor of 
 
 > lo Sir t'oinliiiilinc til- Mtirlimrr, Knt.; and ./oi/h, wlu) sur- 
 
 vived liiiii. lie thetl in lS8'i, and was (aeeording to his will) lairicd 
 in the collegiate eliureh of the iilcaed I ir^iii in the I'ielih, at Sor- 
 «rifA, (now called i'hapel Field.) In 1381, \\e cranled divers lands 
 in C$i%^in^ bv deed, to Thomm Gardiner, and Thomas liis son. His 
 %«ife liviil to 1. 1S8, when she died,' ordering in her will tliut she should 
 be buried in the same ehiirrli, near the tonib of her husband Thomas. 
 Thev left only one duugliler, their heiress, viz. Juan, who kept her 
 first court in I.JS'J, on her father's death. This ancient family bare 
 for tlieir arms, arii. on a bend az. lhre« eagles di>|ilayed or, mem- 
 bered and armed ^u/. 
 
 Tliis Joan married Sir .lohn Hevei/ni/nirham, senior, Knt. who gave 
 Ciissins and lioi/don to his sons, I'hilip and Thomas, for life only, 
 remainder to \ur> eldest son .lohn and iiis heirs, but whether he pos- 
 s<->sed it or not I cannot &.iy ; but 
 
 Sir John Hkvi.ynvni.ii am, Knt. prands<in of the first .lohn, had 
 (tiatniihnll in (iiisins, which was formerly Aj^ncs de (iisun'^'s, 
 iK-iiig partly held at a ijuarter tif a fee of .liilian, si>ter of John de 
 'J'hehelham, and she of the Abbot of linn/, and he of the King, toge- 
 ther with another manor here, calle<l hagrcarlh's,* which he pur- 
 fh.i- ' ' ' Ii'ld at half a fee of the Lor<l (Irri/ of Ualhi/n, us of 
 
 It II manor, which half fee Sir John fhifrtrorlh formerly 
 
 held. llii» ././." left them to .lohn llnenin^ham, Hanneret, his son, 
 from whom it went lo Thomnf, his eldest son, and from him lo his 
 son Ji'hn, who left it lo Anl"iii/ Iliirninsihani, Knt. his son and heir, 
 who hnd two wives, halheni>i\ daughter of Collhorfi; and Mary, 
 daughter of JtiA/i .S'Ar/fun. He held his (irst court in \53>i: by the 
 first, he left only one son, III mi/, m.-irried first to Anne, daughter of 
 Sir T.dmnnd II i^ndham. Kill.; Mcuiiillv lo y/H.-ir, daugliler of Kdcn of 
 Siidhuri/ ; but leavuiL' (" Doz'^-orlh, 
 
 and the manor of (< ■ <\i\ of llic 
 
 • Tcri:i. II!!. i,f, V. ;. Rot. 51. ♦ Sec Djg\*ortliM.inor in tlii. •J^^n. 
 
 > Iqnuii. 18 Aug. IJ70.
 
 GISSING. 175 
 
 Queen as of Ei/t honour, al a quarter of a fee, descended divisible 
 between his three sisters ;'' 
 
 Maky, then married to .John Smyth, 
 
 Anne, to Edward Evirard, and 
 
 Jane, unmarried, who seems to have after married to Edward 
 Sidiard, who bought in all the parts, and then sold them to 
 
 Sir Arthur Hevenynoham of Ihveiiiiigham, Kiit. who was the 
 male heir of tliat family, being the eldest scjn of Sir .Jntoiii/ llevcn- 
 ingham, Knt. by his second wife, lie kept his first court in 1579, 
 and soon after manumised the manor in (lissiiig, by selling every 
 tenant their own part, so that the united manors of Gissitig/ia/l and 
 Dagu'orlh's were lost,' all but the royalties and fair, which the said 
 Arthur sold to Richard Kemp of Iftsldroo/c in Suffolk; but the 
 manor of Gissiiighall in Roi/doii still continued in liim, though he 
 manumised a great part of that also.* 
 
 • DAG WORTH MANOR 
 
 Was, in the Confessor's time, part of Earl Algars manor of JVuifar- 
 ihiiig, under whose sole protection the freemen then were ; but upon 
 the Earl's forfeiture, it fell to the Conqueror, with ll'inj'arlhing, with 
 which it was committed to Godric's custody," and remained in the 
 Crown till King Henri/ II. in 1189, gave it to William de Mnnchensi, 
 Knt. in which family it remained with Wiiifurthing, and went as that 
 did, till Hugh dc / f;r granted it to 
 
 Sir John de Daoworth,' who was lord in 1J15. Thomas, 
 his son, succeeded hint; and Sir Nicholas, his son, followed; all 
 these were great men and famous warriors in their days, but design- 
 ing to speak of them in Blicklii/g, where they were lords, and where 
 the said Sir Nicholas is buried, 1 shall refer you thither, and shall 
 only add, that Eleanor,'^ widow of Nicholas, in the same year that he 
 died, viz. 1401, conve^'ed it to 
 
 Sir John HEVEN'¥NGHA^r, Knt. who held it of Wittfarthing Hall 
 manor, by the service of a quarter of a fee ; from which time it 
 always passed with the manor of (ussiiighall in Gissiiig, till 1570, 
 when Henry, son of Antoui/ Hevaiiiigham, died seized, and 
 
 Anne, his wife, daughter of Sir Edward IVtjndham, enjoyed it for 
 life, as part of her settlement; at her death it reverted again to the 
 Heieni/iighams, of whom 
 
 Sir Edward Sulyard purchased it with Gissinghall in Gissiiig, 
 and Gissinghall in Roi/don : he sold it to 
 
 Sir Arthur Hevenyngham, Knt. who, after he had manumised 
 great part of it, sold it with the manor of Gissinghall in Gissing, to 
 
 Richard Kem p of IVeslbrook, in Suffolk, and so, in 1595, it united 
 to his other manors in this town. 
 
 * Inquis.postmort. H. Heveningham. singa, T. R. E. viii. libcri homines, 
 
 13 Eliz. commend, tantum de Ix. acr. terre et 
 
 ' MSS. penes P. L. N. fol. 49. iiii. bord. semper, tunc. iii. car inter 
 
 ' See Gissinghall in Roydon. He- omnes postca et modo i. et dimid. et ii. 
 
 veningham bears, cjuarterly, or and ^d. acr. prati. 
 in a bordurcingrailed iai. nine escallops ' Dug. Bar. vol. ii. fol. 148. 
 arg. ^ This Eleanor was after married to 
 
 9 Terrc Regis quam Godricus servat. John Mortimer, Esq. in 1408. 
 Dim. Hund, de Dice. (fol. 38.) Ii; Ger-
 
 «:(, HISSING, 
 
 DALLINCJS. ALIAS U.UVLINO MANOR 
 
 .1 , r.i. s I'itz-Walteb. one of ihc lord* of Dui hundred, in- 
 l.olTttl Hultir l^-lirrtoHt iu U«c »cr(itx' of several villcintuf bloo<l, 
 \^ <',: n-, \»ilh u m< . lul Uic homasc and service 
 
 I.! . .111(1 other fri , td hold lluiii of hlin niid 
 
 l,i» ,u -. lonliol • iini,.il llii rrnt or<»(/. uyrnr. |)«»\tthlr 
 
 at H; .itjdSl. ./ . and 'id. \t;uls al lh<- ^hrille ol M. 
 
 I .imniii the King oiid Marlyr at liuiy.' 'I'lii* Hullrr luairn'^l 
 .///'. ri<j, daunhurof Sir ThomMs, ami sister of Sir Hugh Hatttfu^, 
 bv whom he had ilutdo, or (iu*. his son, who gTunted four of his 
 vill.iii*. which Sir Thomas //i«/v«<r had iirnuipd with liu mother, 
 from hii manor of Gi'oiiig;, to Su Huiih llmtifus:, Knl. son of Sir 
 'I'lwmiii. Ill this family it continued till Htmrif Le-lireluH of Slan- 
 ton-H ifiil in l^ictstirshtrc, sold to 
 
 Mailer ItiCHAiii) UK Boy land, clerk, and his luirs, Uie inhiri- 
 lan<x- in this manor, which Avcline and Amy his aunU lately held; 
 and lowartis the latter end of Heurtf 111. the inquisitions say, that 
 Miildd of llui/liimi luul it. In I'iSS, 
 
 John, son of Sir Ruhard of Borland, after ibe deatlt of Madid or 
 Af(iM</ his mother, sold it to 
 
 >iMoN DE Dallino, and Isabell his wife. This Simon purchased 
 o( Roliert l^-lirctHH of Sianlon-Wyxtl, and 'jldrn his wife, an an- 
 nuity of 10/. rent, which he was to receive mil of this manor, hy the 
 grant of hi* uncle, Robtrt Lc-lirilun ; and soon after, he purchased 
 uU his right in the manor; and to augmiiil it, bought nil the lands 
 dial Juhn, !»on of Sir Huhurd dc Holland, had lierc : and to complete 
 llie title, tliev had a release from habcll, widow of lioliert L<-BrctOH. 
 Simon and IuiIhH left issue, 
 
 John »k DALLiN(;,or /IWf-/)<///««g, who in 13;).'), setliid it on 
 Maud his wife; they left issue, a daugliter, who seems to have mar- 
 ried MUtiam of Shtmpiing, * ^ho left a daughter by her, .lofin. married 
 to one lirrxeif , for in the inquisition taken al iMtl. dc Shiiiip/iH^'s 
 death. Joan lltrxtft is said to hold the si.xth part of & fee o( /^'i//. 
 ■< •/. which was formerly Mntild of Boifland's. It looks us if 
 
 lio licir«, for 
 
 llot.EK or SuiMPLiNo died seized, leaving thri-e daughters, of 
 which 
 
 Katcrinc, married to Win. Elinghtim, had this manor; they left 
 
 HooF.R their son and heir,' from whose deiiceudunU (if uol from 
 him) it came to 
 
 Thomas Gahdinf.r. w1k> joined it to Uiis manor of llmlyns:}, with 
 which it went joined to the 
 
 Klmps ; and thus having joined all these manors in that family, L 
 kliall now speak of their rise and destrcnt, «l)scrviiig dial this manor 
 •Iwajs contjnuL-d in the eldest branch, exccjit when it was held in 
 jointure. 
 
 J F r.fi, jn< <!aic. Camcrar. Scac. i R. j. I.i. i No. »7. 
 
 * ^ They bad Oalling Maour lu Flordon 
 
 >1 temp. E. ]. penes alto.
 
 G I S S I N G. 
 K E M P. 
 
 177 
 
 The name Kemp is derived from the Saxon word to kemp or combat 
 which in Norfolk is retained to this day, a foot-ball match being 
 called camping or kemping; and thus in Saxon a Jcempeji signifies a 
 (ombatant, a champion, or man of arms. This family liath been of 
 long continuance in this county ; Galfrid Kemp lived at Noricick in. 
 1272, Robert Kemp in 1306, and soon after, or about that time, lived, 
 
 Norman Kemp, whose son 
 
 Roger, left 
 
 Ralph, who married a daughter of De-la-HanCs. 
 
 William Kemp, their son, married a daughter of one Barnstaple,, 
 or Bainspath, whose son, 
 
 Alan Kemp of Weston in Snffolk, Esq. married /s«/>»e/, daughter 
 to Sir Philip Hastyngs, and had issue John and Alexander, to which 
 
 John, Sir Philip Hasti/ngs, his grandfather, in 1324, gave the 
 manor of Gissing ; this John married Alice, daughter to Robert Duke 
 of Brampton in Suffolk, coheir to Julian Buievei/lcyn, and had for 
 his share of her inheritance, the manors of Hasti/ngs und^Dallings in 
 Gissing, and left issue Robert, Ralph, John, Alice, and Anne. He 
 is sometimes called in evidences John de Flordon, Esq. 
 
 Robert, the eldest, married Mary, daughter of Bartholomew 
 White of Shottisham, Esq. He had another wife named Agnes, and a 
 third, (as some pedigrees,) viz. Kateriiie, daughter of Roger Haukere 
 of Redenhall ; but left issue by Man/ only, viz. 
 
 Jaffrey Kemp of fVeston, Esq. who married tlie daughter of Sher- 
 rington of Cramcorth, Esq. and left issue, 
 
 Robert Kemp of Gissing, Esq. who married Margaret, daughter 
 of William Curson of Stitrston in Suffolk, and by her had issue, Ro- 
 bert ; and Edmund, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Style 
 of Eondon ; John; and IVilliam, who was rector of .S7h;s/oh ; Ralph i 
 and Cecily, w ho married John Melton of Sturston aforesaid ; and 
 Alice, a nun at Barking. 
 
 Robert Kemp of Gissing, Esq the eldest son, had two wives: 
 Elizabeth, daughter to John Jppleyard of Braken-Ash, Esq. by
 
 178 uissiN<;. 
 
 Vrtrv. il>nrri<''l lo Thonun .h-in^!>im 
 
 IjuIv of llif Hi<lcliiiiiiU.T 111 CJiufH 
 
 < III 1^^:.], and tlicil iiiuniirricil ; and Jniif, niarrifil to 
 
 /. ,. llacoH of I farlnloM, in \i>rf'o/k. Ili» wcond wito was ./««<-, 
 
 <l.iii^lii«T lo JoA« Cfiffonl uf llolm-tuilf, Ll>i].niul bv l»cr he lind iuue, 
 /' ' ' ..i ',' ii.cl to Hobr'il lUcverhaucI «.»' 
 
 / 'I ', wlio liad a rftluiiluliT ill Uiil ill 
 
 ' . uud IJortMi^, iuai(i«.'<l lo Richard II ood/iall of t'raunt- 
 
 Uartiiulomkw, the oldest, kt'|it lii;* first cuiirt in t^^7. and uinr- 
 1" '1 liuir, dauglitc-r lo Jnhn Atlrt/ii of lUirif St. l'.<hiiiiiiir$, ll»<|. und 
 iiuff his wife, dnu^hter mid licirc«* of Hilliam iiediling, by 
 ■ 11 he had issue, Holtcrf, linrl/wlomrt; , who married Unihnra 
 ^ j> of Ciiiiif>ritlii(i/iirf, .111 I III III I/, Edutiid, wlu) married Miirif, 
 <l.iii^lil«-r to I'.diiiur.d Dr (ini/ <it Mrrlmi ill Sor/'idk, l:l-i|. Ju/iii, 
 I'.' il itiiinarricd, Itt/Iium, /"//(/d /«, and /,7i:i;i< 'A, married lo l.ioiir/ 
 I ■!loii of I'lixtuii. 'lliii rmrlholoiiHii died in l.i.'>4, and was, 
 
 ^ to his will, buried in St. Ui/ry'j chapel, on the north side of 
 
 ' .'/^' ehniicel, by hit wife. Their stones are disrobi-d of iheir 
 
 bl .i>M'S, 
 
 liOBr.RT Kf.mt. Esq. succeeded, who had two wives; VJizahelh, 
 dauu'lilcr ti» r.diiiiiiid Smithtciiu (or Stciftliiii^) of lluckiii'^i^huiinkire , 
 \>\- uliiiin he ha<l lluhurd, and Jidiii, first marrii-d In .linn, duiigliter 
 of C. CuJdoii of H d'loii in SulJ'olk. See«iiidh-, lo .lime, daughter lo 
 - • - - . i'liltkurp i<i .lilt ilia ham in \oij\tlk, Murgamt, married to 
 ThiiiHiii Rouse vi L'raiiford \a Suffolk, and Aiinc,ii) yliit/ioni/ Driirif 
 of lifslhorp ill Sorf'ulk; his second wife was Elivilidh, daui;lil(T lo 
 'f/ioinas lic-Grcif of .Merlon in Sor/otk, Es(| h\ whom he had three 
 
 I- and one daughter; Tliomiis, married t<» .lime, one of the heir- 
 - i)f John Moore ; Hubert, married one of tiie heiresses of U illiain 
 '^h:iitou, Mst|.; llH/iiiiii, married Thomaiiiie, daughter ol 1) illiiiin 
 H i:/drgraif, Csti. ; I'.liznbith, married John, son and heir to Robert 
 Buxton, Csq. This Robert died seized of all the manors in this 
 town in I.>y4, K/izabeth his wife surviving, who was jointureil in 
 Flordon niuiior. 
 
 ItlciiARD Kkmp, his eldest son and heir, imuried .-//;Vc, daii'^h- 
 U-r (iT Jidiii (or I'liH/ijj) Coikfrh'im of 1 1 a nut cud \n Middlesex, l.xj. 
 I - old at (lis father's death, before wliieli time he had sel- 
 
 - oil in the iiiaiiurs of I'/ordon, (iiffinf^, Dallinp^'s, liiile- 
 : .//< i/h'.«, and Diigu'orth, (which he had |)urehas(.-d,) together with 
 Ltiy>uig lair, on his wit'c. He was a barrister al law, and left 
 
 KoiiKKT Kkmp, Gent, his son aiiJ heir, who settled Flordon, 
 (iiisiitfr, and Dallliig'f on his wife Dorothi/, daughter of .Irthur 
 Hnrri.it of IVodrham Mortimer, in Ilfui ;'' and In an inquisition il 
 tjipi ars, that he held lltisli/ng'x, aiiiui niitcici/lri/n'^, alias Keiiiji's 
 111. nor, ol the King, a-, ol" his manor of .SV. Ediniimrs l\urq by half a 
 fi-c ; Ihigtcorth manor of I'.ilniimd linkcii/iam, lisq. as of his iiiniior of 
 'J'hehrtliam; Dauliiig of John Shnnlelorve, CJenl. as of his manor of 
 Shiini>ling-l'Ulingham'f, al the eighth pari of n fee; Flordon manor and 
 advowsun of llenn/ ll.irl of Sorthainpton, as of Foriicrl manor, at 
 
 *(' lie had more ihiKlrrn tlicydicd young Md unmarried, 
 
 thiii .icd HI ihi> account, bul
 
 G I S S I N G. 179 
 
 one fee ; and Burnett's of William Grey, Knt. as of Hadeslitn or 
 Bumcell manor. He left two daughters, Dorothy and Elizabeth, and 
 one son. 
 
 Sir Robert Kf.mp of Gissing, Knt. and Bart. Treated March 4, 
 1642 ;* lie married Jane, daughter of Sir Matthew Ihoicne of Hurrci/, 
 Knt. and left Robert, Thomas, Matthew, liien man icd, Richard, and 
 Jane, married to Thomas Waldegrave of Smal/biidge, i>(|. 
 
 Sir IJonERT Kemp, Bart, had two wives ; Man/, daughter of John 
 Kerridge of Shelleij Hall in Suffolk, Esq. by whoui he iiad four ehil- 
 dren, but all died in their minority; his second wife was Man/, 
 daughter and sole heiress to John Soame of Ubheslon in Sufjolh, 
 Gent, by whom he had xaue, Robert, John, who died young, Uil- 
 liam,' who had yhitiiigham in ISIoifolk given him by will, M'iri/, 
 married to Sir Charles Blois of Cockjield in Suffolk, Bart, and J.:ne, 
 married to John Dade, M. D. of Tannigton in Suffolk. 
 
 Sir Robert Kemp of Ubbeston, in Suffolk, Bart, eldest son of the 
 aforesaid Sir Robert, had four wives; first, Let ilia, daughter to Robert 
 King of Great-Thurlotc, Esq. by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
 Steward of Barton-Mills, Esq. widow to Sir Robert Kemp of I'inch- 
 insfield in Essex, Knt. by whom he had one daughter only that sur- 
 Tived, r/r. Mart/, married to Sir Edmund Bacon of Garboldisham \n 
 Norfolk, Bart ; his second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of John 
 Brand of Edzeardeston in Suffolk, by whom he had Sir Robert, the 
 present Baronet, [173G,] John, a merchant, Isaac, a barrister at law, 
 Thomas, now rector of Gissing and Flordon, and Benjamin of Cains 
 College in Cambridge, Elizabeth, unmarried, and Jane, relict of 
 William Blois, Esq. son of Sir Charles Blois, Bart, besides Edward, 
 Letitia, and Anne, who died young. His third wife was Martha, 
 daughter of William Blackwe'll of Mortlock in Surrey, by whom he 
 had W7///«/«, sometime of Pembroke Ua\l, in Cambridge, and Mar/ha, 
 a daughter unmarried, besides a former daughter named jl/rt;/Aa, that 
 died an infant. His fourth wife was Jmi/, daughter of Richard 
 Phillips of Edwardeston m Suffolk, widow o'f John Burrough oi' Ips- 
 zcich, Esq. who is now [1736] living; by her he had no issue. 
 
 Sir Robert Kemp, Bart, of Lbbestjn in Suffolk is now [17.36] 
 lord and patron of Gissing, Flordon, and Frenze in Norfolk, and Ub- 
 beston in Suffolk. 
 
 I meet with two great men of this name, John Kemp, born at Wt/e 
 in Kent, LL. D.oiMerton College in Oxford, Archdeacon oi' Durham, 
 Dean of the Arches, first Bishop of Rochester, then of Chichester, 
 then of London, Archbishop of York, and afterwards of Canlerbnri/, 
 Cardinal of St. Balbine, afterwards of St. Rufne, which was siguir 
 fied by this verse : 
 
 Bis Primus, Ter Prases, et Bis Cardine functus. 
 
 He died a very old man in 1453 (as Mr. Weaver, fol. 029, where 
 is much more to be seen of him, as also in Newcourt's Repertorium, 
 vol. i. p. 22, and in Godwin, p. 248.) The other was Thomas Ktaip, 
 his nephew, who was consecrated Bishop of London m 1449, by bis 
 uncle the Archbishop, of whom you may read in // eavcr, fol. 36 1, and 
 
 « He was Gentleman of the Privy no fine nor fees for his creation or pa- 
 Chamber to King Charles I. and paid tent. » Of whom in Antingham.
 
 1M G I S S I N G. 
 
 in NVir<'oiirr, vol. i. fol. C.I, uud in liodiriM Df Prtti &c. IB3; bul 
 whrtiicr ihev Mi-rt- at\\ Viiw i< t >>' 'I lu lliu luuiily 1 ciiuiiul My. 
 
 l»n: JIALI. 
 
 ii-uiil In:. I till' 11 ASTTNnsK«, nfirr uf 
 
 i-s, till S. . iic |iii-»cm Sir Hulxrl,) u|k>» 
 
 111'' iviiuiviil ((> LbbfiloH, pullttl It (luwii. 'Ihc wiuiluw^ Merc iiduriuti 
 »i(li (ill- iulluMlu;; couts : 
 
 Arm^ quurlt-red Hith ItiittfrruUi/u, or liuttvtli/n, iinpulcd with 
 
 lA)rtthii(, {K*r pule (jr. and sdA. an i-ai;lr dupluyi-d uitli twu hcudt, 
 c-ouiitcr-i.'lianin.'a. iforecd \\\i\\ a ducal coruni-t, and unncd or. 
 
 Krmp and /' ' 't, iniluilini; lUnrrhin^ff. 
 
 'I'lu- Miuic 111 .. or. three mascle buckles aiil. 
 
 The same iui|Miliiig I hrukmoiluii, (jiiurtering liatiuini ot S/xcki- 
 hall, uib. on a Icsi bclMceu tnu chevron-- or, us many anuulcl« 
 united of the tield. 
 
 litil. a lion rainpant ar. within agarter, a marquis's coronet. 
 
 In tlic parlour windows: 
 
 Kemp imputing Ilastyngs. Kemp impales tlie following coaU, 
 viz. 
 
 HutleveltfH. Duke az. a chevron JK.'twecii three murtlcts ar. 
 
 Cur/en, erm. uU-nd counter- coni|>ony, ar. and sab. 
 
 Appleifurd of Rraken-AUt, az. a chevron U-tween three owls ar, 
 
 St. l-fger, az. frelte ar. a chief or. 
 
 Collhurp. 
 
 Allftfii, ]wrted (ler bend sinister dancette ar. nnd iab. six miirUc(;> 
 COliir -^ed. 
 
 ( . , ar. on a liend «»//». three leopards faces or. 
 
 Herns, or, on a iK-nd az. tiin-e cinquefoils pierced, of the field. 
 
 De-Grey oi .V<t/o/» quarli-rcd with liatnanl. 
 
 Smithin or Smythxrifne, sab. three chevrons ar. two mullets in chief 
 nnd one in btOM.- or. 
 
 Ktinp and Uutlvrlitn quartered, impaling 
 
 IVJiite o^ S' . ^i(/. in a bordure ingrailed, u chevron be- 
 
 tween three l>' ■ i-. coiipcd r;r.' 
 
 In a MSS. ot -Mr. Aii'^lh'i (li. 'J(), fol. '20) these anns arc said to be 
 in (iiuiiig Hall, at tlial iwne the seat of Hicliard hemp, Ksq. ; when 
 the cha|K-l was new glazed ; in the ehiunber by the hall door were 
 tin- arms of Giuiiii;, Frlloii, and J'riimiiii(/iiim, and the picture:, of 
 two labourers tlir:i.sliiiig vt heal-»iieave<. or garbs, in ailusiou to Kemp's 
 amis, and this coal, liz. A(7/<y< (|uar!eriiii; 
 
 Duke, and on an eMUtchcoii of pretence Hasli/ng's arms. 
 
 Kemp's crest is u pelican lighting upon a garb or. 
 
 In I603,* here were IM communicant'^, and now there arc 61 
 • Thcie arms wcrr Ijken by Mr. Oilub. 3, Rolwrt Kemp, E<q. biirird. 
 
 T .-.» trfi. r f r S.rvr 111 i '... 1 •$94, KobcM KfllM' ^ ' l,..r.>-J 
 
 id bilU April 4. 1600. 5 Api >, 
 
 ' li' Kc- E»q. biiriril. 1540, <. li- 
 
 E>ler being burnt in ll. Irr uf Kubrrl K<iii)r, b.i|>i>7.r>l. 1.^41, 
 
 >UK : 156}, blizalx'lli, '1 UartiliiicHc, mjii uf Kut>cil Kcnip, lup- 
 
 Rubert Kemp, Ey{. bapliJKU. '^('7, lizcd. i6»o, Riihard, ion of kub<'rt
 
 GISSING. 181 
 
 houses, and about 300 inhabitants ; it hatli a faiiyearly on St. James's 
 Dai/, wliicli in in78, was granlcd to Tlwmus dc (Jimiig, Knt.^ to- 
 getiier wilii a weekly market at G'm///" ; but that is now disused. It 
 paid to the old tciilli.j/. ]()s. but 1/. being deducted, it was reduced to 
 2/. 8.S. Tiic i)arliauKiil vaiuatiou was V2o'2l. and the present valua- 
 tion is 7^1 1/. [i7.:;'>.] 
 
 The Lete belongs to the hundred, and the present Icetfec is 2s. 
 
 WINFARTHING. 
 
 1 ms rectoiy is capable of augmentation, being sworn of the clear 
 yearly value of 4.')/. The nwfnks oiTlul ford had a portion of tithes 
 heie, lormerly valued at CO*.* It is in Rcdcnluill deanery, and A'or- 
 J'otU archdeaconry. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Man/ the Virgin, in honour of 
 whose assumption there was a g//(/ founded in it, and another to St. 
 Jo/i« Baptist, to both which, in 1,548, Natli. Ualli/et was a bene- 
 factor,' who at the same time founded a light of wax before the image 
 of our Lady of Peace yearly, to the value of 2s. for which he tied a 
 close called, Cocl;l;i/s Clone, for ever: he was buried in this church, 
 ■which was confirmed by Ilenn/ II. to the monks of Butte;/ in Siifoltc, 
 to whom it was soon after ajipropriatcd by Jo/iu of Oxford, Hishop 
 of Norwich, which was conhrmcd by Jo'tin Dc I'.rei/ and Tlio. de 
 Blundctilc, his successours ; a pension of 2fis. 8r/. payable quarterly, 
 being reserved out of the great. tithes to the vicar; all which was 
 several times confirmed by the Archbishops of Canterbitri/ ; and so 
 it continued till 1424, and then Reginald De-Ciai/ Lord' Ilaslj/iigs, 
 &e. recovered the advowson from them, and presented a rector ; 
 from which time it hath continued a rectory. It seems they could 
 produce no grant from the King for the advowson, nor no confirma- 
 tion from the Pope of the appropriation. Here is- a small rectory- 
 house, barn, stable, back-house, and 24 acres glebe, and a piece 
 without contents. 
 
 King's Books. I Clear Value, i St/nodals. i Procurations. \ Acres Glebe. 
 12 ' 45 O I 2 I 7 7 o6. I 24 
 
 Kemp, Fsq. baptized. i6oi, Arthur, Prior et Convcntus de Butlcj- habcnt 
 
 son of Robert Kqmp, Esq. ; he was a earn in proprios usus, habcnt unain 
 
 preacher hcciiscd by tho Bishop of Lon- grangiani cum xx. acris terra;, et tribus 
 
 don, and preached here in 163(5, as the acris pr.iti. Estimatio ejiisdem prxter 
 
 book kept for tliat purpose informs me. portioncm et vicariam xxiiij. marc. esti. 
 
 1567, 26 May, Mr. Antony Drury matio vicaria; illiiis vj. marc, portio 
 
 married Mrs. Anne Kemp. 1601, 17 Prioris Monachorum Thefordi.x- in ca- 
 
 Sept. Edmund Poole, Esq. married dcm xx. s. liabct enim idem vicarius al- 
 
 iVIrs. Alice Kemp. lCra^;iimictoc:oacras tcrrx scd nil habct 
 
 Rot. Cart. 2 R. 2. K. i. de tbcno ncque de bladls. (Nonvic. 
 
 ♦ Dominiis Will, de Montecanisio Domesd. p. loo.) 
 
 {or Montchcnsy) est patouus i]liu.s, * Kcgr. Gillys, fob iGj. 
 
 VOL. 1, A a
 
 I8i WINFARTl! TNG. 
 
 VICARS AND IU:CT011S. 
 
 ISSG, prill, kal. Jii/y, John de U Stidt, dc Schympliitg, nrifit, 
 at Ui noil o\' Tfiom<ii, tl»c hiil viair, prcKoUrd by the I'riok 
 
 of />■ >• wcii' all till- ti>lli>wing vicun. 
 
 I:!.)7. la kul. Junt, liartfi. de lianham, prietl, on Sflde't re- 
 liguatioD. 
 
 1333, i^J Moi/, John de Urck, of Baiihtim, priitt. Matthew, 
 Prior of UutUi/. 
 
 1354, 4 -Nor. iVill. Slannard of Diu, priciit. 
 
 I3(J6, 10 June, iSill. dc IVodtthorp, priisl. 
 
 1378, '28 April, 'iho. Kurman of (ii\sing, priest. ^V'ILL^AM, 
 Pnoriif UutUi^. Ho tlii'il ill lliti, and is buniHl licrc. 
 
 1416, '1\ Soi. John Belt of Utanttm, priest; be was the last vicnr, 
 for in 
 
 1424, 8 Oil. .lugustine Luce, priest, was instituted rector of the 
 pariiili church uf llinj'arthiiig, at the presentation of IIeginald df. 
 CJrf.y Lord Hastt/ni^s, Ifn/^Jord, and Uul/ii/n, who hy action at 
 law li.id rciovircd inc prc>ciitaliou .-luuiiist tlic I'rior ot liul/ei/, by 
 proving that it of ritjlil bclonijcd to his lurdsliip of If int'tirthing. 
 
 14'id, 10 Dee. IVill. Chircheman, priest, on Luce't resignation. 
 Reginald dk Ghey. 
 
 1427, \'l Feb. Hill. lialdirlon, alias 3f oh. priest. Dillo. 
 
 143(i, 18 Octob. Robert CIcj/e, priest, on Man's resie;iialion. Re- 
 ginald DE Grey, Stc. in right of his iordshi|> o( If inf'art/iing, 
 which Ciunc to him by hereditary descent; before this institution, 
 the prior and convent of liuthi/ were particuhiriv called upon to Jus- 
 tify their right (if they thouchl tluy had any) in this rectory. 
 
 144*), 13 Aug. Sir Jialphe I 'eil;e, priest. Edmund Grey, Knt. 
 Lord Hasfi/ng, Jtc. 
 
 144(i, 1^ Aug. John Tulleburif, on TViAv'i resignation. Ditto. 
 
 I44(), 3 .March, John ShaKf, on 'J'ulteburif't resignation. Ditto.. 
 
 1447, April, John ffitton. Ditto. 
 
 \45ti, ti Juli/, if ill. Spencer, at /I i7/o«'s deprivation. Ditto. 
 
 146y, 24 Octob. John Cokefield, doctor of Uie decrees, on Speucer't 
 resignation. I^dmund Gray Ivarl of Kent. 
 
 1477, 28 April, Hill. liankr, a licentiate in the decrees, oa 
 Cukefield's death. Ditto. 
 
 1488, 24 April, Uoberl Jacsuu, on Rankt's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1518, 5 t'cbr. Robert Laurence, on Jucson's death. 'Ihc Earl of 
 Surrey. 
 
 Ij23, ^8 March, Tho, Seaman, LL.H. on Laurence's resignation. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1535, 26 Aug. .Sir Richard Fli/nte, chaplain to Charles Duke 
 oi Suffolk, was by that Duke prex-iilj-d to the church of St. Mary uf 
 If'infarthing, which he held with liliiheiihnvi in Suffolk. 
 
 I57'i, -h May, Stephen Sinte, A. 15. (jui-en Eliza UKTH. 
 
 151)4, 31 Aup. John Christian. 'I'lieQuEE.N. 
 
 lOo.i, Ifill. Moblns, rector. 
 
 KilO, 20 Sept. Sam. Garey,*' LL. B. He bare gul. two bars or. 
 on each a muscle of llie first ; on a canton or, a leopard's face az. 
 Crest, a buffler's head quarterly, gul. and seib. chargeil with four 
 
 ' In i6il, he published a book calleU Great Britiin's Little KalcnU^.
 
 WINFARTHING. is:i 
 
 niascles. He was presented by John Holland, Esq. trustee to the 
 Hoxcard family. He was picljcndary of Kondcli, and aullior of 
 many sermons and otlier divinity tracts, some jirinlcd, some iMSS. 
 
 Hi21, Diiiiie/ liive o', lidiilitim, rector, died in lti'2e. 
 
 l(i'28, ti yhii!;. John Jewel/, A.M. Thomas Earl of Jriiiidc/. 
 
 1037, S Jiiiif, He resigned, and tlie>bishop gave notice to the pa- 
 tron, and soon after C'oo/>/t'/- Rcjjiiolih was insliluled, who died rector; 
 and in 
 
 lf)41, Jan. 1.), Philip Fli'^ht, AM. sureeedcd. Lionell Earl 
 o( Middlesex, Henky Lon\ MvkI/ioj/, Hemiy Lord Pieipuiiit, and 
 Edward Lord Ncicbiin/. 
 
 lG43, 1 Fehr. 6V;/«. Gardiner, A.M. on Flight's death. LiONELL,&e. 
 
 John Coppin succeeded. He died \uv. 'i;5, 1711. 
 
 1711, March CO. the Kev. Mr. John Phillips, the present [1736] 
 rector. Hobekt Marsuam, Bart. 
 
 The tower is square, having a peal of five bells in it; the nave 
 south isle, and north porch are leaded, the chancel thatched. 
 
 On two brass plates in the nave : 
 
 X^M iacct .nVarljcusi Iiallpct qui mortem ohiit 3° Me.lliaii,3. ©. 158G, 
 nnno ctati^' ^'u;-, j4. 
 
 POST TENEBRAS SPERO LUCEM. 
 HERELYETHBORYEDTIlEBODYOFTIIOMASnALLYAT, GENT.OFTHE 
 AGE OF 48 YEARES, Wno DECEASED THE 18lh DAY OF JULY, A. D. 
 I6l2, BEING THE SECOND SON OF ROB. H ALLY AT, GENT. WHO ALSO 
 LYETH BURIED IN THIS CHORCII. 
 
 POST MORTEM VITAM ylLTERNAM. 
 
 Many of this family (who were considerable owners) are buried in 
 this church, several of their stones being robbed of their brasses. 
 
 About IGOO, the following arms were in the windows, all which 
 are now defaced, except these, viz. 
 
 E.\ST-ANGLES. St. EDMUND. 
 
 ' He is buried on the north side of St. " lyeth the body of John Coppin, lalc 
 
 George's Tombland, Norwich, in the " rector of Winfarthing, who died Nov. 
 
 churchyard, having a stone fixed into "the ijd, i7ii,aged8i years, 
 tlie wall over Jiis grave, witJithis, " Here
 
 rulrnct Eiirl of i*tmbrokt, luirrj ot len |>icc7f ur. Btui a:, an orfe 
 
 MoHtclunnf, or. utvair. 
 
 liohuii, ii:. n U : ~>UMt, tind &ix lioiu rampant or. 
 
 y/r.iibriicl ra^lrd lab. Ar. three rune* /fu/. - - two bcadlcu or. 
 
 Ilclhen<t, az. a leopard wl^iit or. 
 
 t)ii tlir wall over tin- cuuiiiiuniuii l;il>lc were tlie arm* of .VonriVA 
 |i ' ■"■ -liini Hfifiwltft* urms, «illi tills dale, l(J7ft; 
 
 I .1 over. 
 
 Ill tiic iluiv 14 u black marble tor Elizubrlh Bclvillr, 
 
 ali.i-.Mi(. ilicd April 6, 1()83, aged 43. 
 
 Mude»ty, sobriety, and grace, 
 y\ m> the orniiuent, of ber race. 
 
 Horc \\!U a clock formcrlv, which now standi cIisiim d in tiie toiiih 
 aisle; and in acllu|K'l at llic up|MT cnii tlicrcot" «a% piactd a fHiiioiii 
 •word, called the livotl Suonl of 11 nitnrlhiii^, of uhich liecnn, in 
 Ins litliqiKs of Ronu, (printed in l.'jli.^,) fo. •)!, give* Ui the fol- 
 lowing account. 
 
 -jn \\ iiifarihiiig, A Iittif Ijiilaot in N(.rf.)lk.-, tijrrf toa^ n rrrtfnnc 
 
 jfttDrrO, calico tl)c"(Jo()d Swird of Winfarlhyiii:. tl)l^ fiVDCrO toaii 
 
 touiuco V.0 vrcfiou* a rdiquc, anD o( iso orcat vjirtuc , that tbrrt tea* a 
 ?olcninc inlflTiniaoc uscb unto it. tnitl; larjjc oiltr^ anb offnnijc^, toitlj 
 bouj mahinfls, frourhingci;. thisi^inBC^: tChi;; ^ttcrO toa^ toiiSitcD (ar 
 anb near, for mann t ^unDm vuirpoic^, hut gvicrialn for tljin^c? tljat 
 tocrf lost, anb for hortc? that tncrc ciithcr stolen or cUc rune astran. 
 It hclrib aUo unto the shortnino of a niarricb inan^ life, il that the 
 tontc tthirh u>a^ vocarn of her Iju^banb, usouio ur. a ranble heforc that 
 .:^U)erb etjern Aiinban for the ^pate of a whole neare, no ^unban er 
 cepteb, [or then all tiia^ tiain, Utljac^octjcr toa.i bone before. 
 
 ■"X hatie mann tinier l;carb(,siiys ihut author ) ttihcn 3. tea^ a ci)ilb, of 
 Biiicr*e ancient men anb Ujcmen.that this «^tocrb tons' the /f>tocrb of a 
 ctrt.T'nc thief, tohich tooh t-anrtuarii m that church »arb, anb alter 
 \ai:iii through the neoliflcnte o( the toatthmen e^capcb, anb left hii* 
 ^\rerb behmb him, u^hich heino fcunb, anb laib up in a certainc olb 
 chrt-t, tna-; aftertoarb through tl)C ^uttiltn of the pardon anb the clcrK 
 of the ^amc poruh, maoc a precious lielique, full of tiertur, able to 
 bo much, but ^pccialln to ennclj the bor, anb inahe (at tijc par^on'!» 
 pouctj. 
 
 jllgnr, a freeman of HfraltF.-, held all JV iiicfcrthinc as one maiiui 
 in the Confcs«<»r'» time, when it cciutainrd (i canieates of Iniid, two 
 in (lemeuii. an<I four among the teiiaiiU : at the survey it was in ihc 
 Con(|U<ror's own hai)d>, and then extended into Bursion, Shimpfiiijr, 
 'J'ilflia/I, and Shilj htiugtr ; it was valued in the Hrst survey at 4(l«. 
 and by the CoiKpienir at HL ils. -Xd. w iih the freemen ; he committed 
 it to iiodric't care, whoonhwered ll. and no more. It was two miles- 
 long, and one uile broad, and paid ijtl.gdd.'' 
 
 ••> r.,.i,...v 1.1. ...,.v, Ai , liber JiomoHcraiai.T.R.E. 
 
 < .vi. car. icrrc, scmprr viii. 
 
 .11 :,:■..: -1 -■ mpcr xx.burd. tune ct po»f. 
 
 ', ]I.) rerre regn quasi (iixl- iiii. scrv. modo ii. kcnipcni. car. in do. 
 
 ' I. minio. ct mi. car. hominum. tunc tilva 
 
 Duo. liuadr. dc Dice, WinfcrtJuoc tc ccl, pore, putt ct niodo cc. ct is. acr.
 
 WINFARTHING. 18» 
 
 This town is privileged as ancient demean, the tenants being ex- 
 cused fVom servinu; as jurors at liie sessions or assizes, or any wiiere 
 else out of the inaiior, and from toll in markets and fairs, upon re- 
 newing their writ every King's reign, and having it annually allowed 
 by thesheriHof the eounty. 
 
 It remained in the Crown till King Ilcnnj H. gave it to 
 
 Sir William dk Monte-caniso, {or Muiichensie,) Knt. who 
 gave a 100 marks to have seizin of this manor in 1189. He was 
 grandson to Hubert Munchoi^ij, who lived in the Conqueror's time, 
 and son of IVariiii: dc Miincluiisi/, and y^g«cs, daughter of Pain Fitz- 
 Johti, Ijiswife, and brother to Ralph, who died without issue, and 
 left Sir Waiiine, his cousin, his heir, he married Joan, second 
 daughter to IVilliam Mars/uil Earl of Piinbrook, and in 1222, had 
 scutage of all his tenants that held by military service in Norfnl/c, 
 SuJ'o/k, &c. ; and in 1241, he was at that famous battle of .Y^H^o/wf, 
 against the French ;' in which, by his valiant deportment, he won 
 great renown. In the 34th of /Av/n/ III. the King ratified to him 
 all the liberties belonging to the lands of Jia/ph ck Montchemi/, his 
 uncle, whose heir he was, all which were lirst granted by King 
 Htnri/ II. ; among which, the tenants here were excused from the 
 sheriff's turn, and from to/l, and from serving upon any juries out of 
 their manor, and he had assize of bread, ale, and zcine, with court- 
 leet * allowed him, and this further privilege, that the King's bailiffs 
 should not enter his baihwick of llinjurlhiw' to take any distress, 
 but the bailiftof that bailiwick should do it. He died in 1255, being 
 then reputed one of the most noble, prudent, and wealthy men of all 
 the realm, his inventory amounting to 4000 marks, a prodigious sum. 
 for that time. He left 
 
 William, his son, his heir, who had a park well stocked with 
 deer in this paiish. In 1259, in the 46th of Henri) III. he was one 
 of the discontented barons then at difference with the King, upon 
 which account he received notice, that in case he did not personally 
 repair to the court, to sign the agreement, (as divers of them did,) 
 lie might send his seal, for the better confirmation thereof; and in the 
 48th of the same King, having been one of the chief commanders on 
 the part of the rebeUious Barons in that fatal battle of Lewes, where 
 the King was made their prisoner, the next year, when they sum- 
 
 jirati. semper duo cqui in aula, ct vi. ail. qiiando forisfccit, de his calumpnintur 
 semper xiiii. pore, ct xiiii. caprae, et in Scs. Eds. xiiii. acr. In Tortessala ii 
 eadem qiiinqiie libcii homines Algari liberi homines Algari commendati cum- 
 comniendati tantum. T.R.E. dexl. acr, terra, xxxv. acr. terrc et i. acr. prati. 
 semper i. car. ct i. ac. prati. In Borstuna Siiva iiii. pore, semper i. car. In Scel- 
 iiii. libr. homines AlgaBi comniendati vangra i. vi\l. xv. acr. terre semper 
 tantum de xl, acr. terre et i. bor. seni- dim. car. et ii. bordar. Silva v. pore, et 
 per i. car. ct iii. acr. prati. In Ger- ii. acr. prati. tunc, vahiit Wincferlliinc 
 singa. T.R.E. viii. liberi homines AI- xl. sol. post et modo viii. lib. et iiisol et 
 gari commendati tantum de xl. acris iiij.;/. blanc. etisti omncs liberi cum soc. 
 lerre ct iiii. lx)r. semper. Tunc iii. car. quando Godricus reccpit, et modo, red- 
 inter omnes post et modo i. et dim. et duntvii. lib. sed amplius non possunt 
 ii. acr. prati. In Shiniplinga i. integer rcddere tantum. Wineferthinc liabet i. 
 liber homo Edrici T.R.E. de xii. acris leug. in longo et dim. in lato et de Gel- 
 terre. semper i. car. in cadem ii. Soc. to. ix. </. 
 
 de xvi. acr. terre semper dim. car. hoc ' Kot. Pip. i. Ric. i. Norff. SuflT, 
 
 calumpnintur Sci. Edmundus et hun- - Plit, j4 H. 3. Rot, 6. in dorso. 
 drct. testatur, sed R. Comes tenebat
 
 M6 WINF ARTIIING. 
 
 "•^ ' '^'" •» «'"c Km:;* I1UI1K-. Ill- wn« one of ilif cliiff of 
 
 "' '' ''"•" "i't tiarrin ; Ijut iiol long jilUr till.. Uing 
 
 rifi, ill lluit iioUililr kurpntc liind.- by llir I .r.x-« ot" 
 "' • "I'ltli- Ik-Iok- jIic Uttic ui Krftham'. ins i.mds were 
 
 •cimi, and tivon to l\ ilUam dt I alf„c(. liall lirolli.r to llir Km- 
 am! Larl ol Ptmbrook, who lind umrmd liu M,lir Ju«« , wli.reup.Mi 
 Ihomna.hii niolhcr, wlio «:is d.iiulit.r and luir o( Si.h,lal Je 
 .^lUitit, undtrtiH)k to brini? Inin, IkIoic tliv (i»ftt ot Si Ihllant •'> 
 the ;.|»lyear ol llml Kmi;. lo *tnju] to the jiid^'ni.-nl ,.( ihe Km>t 
 Cottr/, III i.ursuance of tlu- d.cree lallod Dutum ,U Knulworth , but 
 U-ins' notable to [Krlorm it nithin llint lime, bv reason of hi* si<kiic«« 
 she proiniied lobrinphim u|M)n llial very dnv.when he ha<l such fair 
 rwptct sbeuji iiiui tor lii« 8i«lcr's sake, Uiat H tlhatn ,it I alaicr her 
 m-bund, I reel y restored hiiii his lnnd»aRain; after «liieli m I<i77 
 he had a full njirdon for hi« r.beihou. andull the libi-rlu* i^ranled by 
 King y/r/.ry n. to his aiiicstor*. confiruK-d at large, Mith this ad- 
 d.Uonal one, iJiol he mi-jilu k,-e,i dops to hunt the hare, fox mid 
 wild cat in his loresU. In 128«). he went will, the Earl of Comtrafl 
 (U.cn Kovernourol the realm in tiie King's absence) into Hairs aeain^t 
 lid IpCnj/ith, «t that tune in the rastle of I)n,iu/au ; (who hid 
 made grcnl depredations in those parts;) an.l as he, with divers oUiers 
 endeatoured to demolish that ciislle. by undermininij it, he wasMitii 
 them ovenvhtlmed and killwl with Uie full thereof," at whose death 
 Dioniua his mother, had custody of liis daughter and heiress' 
 iiamcxl als6 ' 
 
 I)iomsia; nn.l immediately after Hugh de Vtre, a younger son 
 toA..6rr/ Larl ol Oxford, who was then the King's ^-ryam JJJ! 
 tained license, and married her in l-yO; and in con.Klerati'on of 
 his great seryices in the /r,«cA wars, hml luery of k-r mheriu.nee- 
 iJ/o/u«a, JK-r grondmother. l)eing then living, who being a devout 
 woman lounde.l H „terbuhc nunnery in CamdndsresAirf. in lOQS • 
 *lie died in kK).), and her lands drtcended to » ' -yj . 
 
 UioH i,E Vere. who had no issue by his wife Dionhia, so that 
 her inheritance reverted to /f.7/,«m dr lain.r,, who had married 
 Jo«« sister to die last If .l/uun de Muuchrnsi, who, after the .leath 
 of the Kod y/«;r,A, had view ulfranknlrdgr, us.ize of bnad mn\ ale 
 and a tumbrel, or cueking-.t.Hjl, allowed to this manor. And thus 
 much o< the ancient family of the Mumhensis ' 
 
 \VjLi.,AM dkVaiencV. l^irl of l',mhrook died seized, in right 
 ^.Uo,m his wile, aunt to U.e lost Z>,o;m««, and sister lo i\ Ul.am d) 
 Muiic/ifiisi, leaving 
 
 At DOM An or pmer. de JaUnct Earl of Pnnbrook, his heir • 
 
 who. n, 1321. held ,t by one fee of the barony oi Munches, "n\ 
 
 the manor or tenement called //ry-iroo./, of lioLrt l\tz.H olt r bv 
 
 he fourth part ot a fee He died in 1.0-), leaving no maJe issue Z 
 
 that Ins sisters inlierited, and this manor was ullotied to ' 
 
 «homhehad"''° ""'""*' ''''"' '^'"""^' ^"^ Abcrgovn.n^,, by 
 John db Hastynci, who succeeded him, and Elizabeth, a 
 
 d^^^bJH"^. ;!tr ,?.': "^rr'tii r,?" '"• •"• °^ '" '^ ^"'•^"' "^ 
 
 * Froiurt. 19 b. jo a
 
 WINFARTIIING. JS7 
 
 daughter, 'married to Roger Lord Grey of Ruthin ; John was suc- 
 ceeded by his son, 
 
 Lauuence, who was five years old at his father's death, and by 
 llie King's license was in the custody of Julian liis mother, who 
 withm a year after her first husband's death, married to Thomas It 
 Blount, after whose death she married a tiiird time to William dc 
 Clinton Earl of Huntingdon ; this Earl, in 1351, is said to hold the 
 manors of Winfarthing and Heywood, as guardian to the said Lau- 
 rence, who, as soon as he came of age, was declared Earl of Pembrook, 
 and the year following, being the 14lh of Edward III. he attended 
 the King in that great adventure against the French at sea, where he 
 worthily shared in tlie glory of that victory obtained against them 
 near Sluys in Flanders: but this was not the only brave action of 
 this Earl, for he behaved himself valiantly all his life, as we find in 
 Dugdales, Baronage, (p. 570,) where his brave achievements, and 
 those of his family, are amply treated of. He died in 1347, loavin"- 
 John IIastyngs Earl of Pembrook, his son and heir, who mai° 
 ried June, daughter of Sir IValter Mamny, Knt. Being very active 
 in the French wavs, in 1:371, he was made Lieutenant of ^cjh?7«/«, 
 at the special request of the inhabitants of tiial province, and was 
 then about 25 years old ; but unlucky it was for him that he had 
 that honour, for upon his coming to the port of Rochell, which was 
 then beleaguered by the French, no sooner was he got into the haven, 
 but the Spanish fleet fell upon him, before he could put his men in 
 order to fight, so that he was taken prisoner, his ships burnt^and all 
 the English killed or taken, with no less than 20,000 marks, sent 
 over by the King to maintain the war. After he had undergone 
 four years imprisonment, with most inhumane usage, for a sum of 
 jiioney he was to have been enlarged, upon which he came to Paris, 
 where falling sick, he hasted to Calais, but died on his journey, Jpril 
 16, 1374, seized of these manors, which, among others, were as- 
 signed to 
 
 Anne, his widow, for her dower: she died in 1383, 
 John de Hasty ngs, their son, being then about eleven vcnrs 
 old. This Jo/(«, at the coronation cf Richard II. (being then not 
 five years old,) claimed to carry the great golden spurs, and shewing 
 sufficient evidence of his right to do that service, Edmund Earl (it" 
 March (whose daughter Phillipa he married) was allowed to perform 
 it for him, by reason of his minoiity. He had no issue ; for in the 
 13th Richard H. being then but seventeen years old, the King keep- 
 ing his Christmass at IVoodsfock, and holding a tournament there, 
 this young earl ventured to tilt with Sir John St. John, by an unlucky 
 slip of whose lance he was run into the bottom of his'bellv, upon 
 which his bowels burst out, and he soon died, to the great grief of 
 many, being a person of so noble a disposition, that for bounty, 
 manhood, and courtesy, he exceeded all of his age, and most of ius 
 degree. His untimely death was, at that time, thought a judgment 
 upon his family, in regard that Aymerde Valence Earl of Pembrook, 
 his ancestor, was one of those that passed sentence of death upon 
 Thomas Earl of Lancaster at Pontfract ; for it was observed, thtit 
 after that judgment so given, none of the succeeding Earls of Pem- 
 brook ever saw his father.' At his death, 
 
 ' T. Walsingham. in eod. A*.
 
 168 
 
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 fuutitl lti> 
 
 T \o Jotin lie It 
 .■.1..1 li\ oUior i...|.. 
 »t>n of Kht 
 
 I «•! Illlf^h 1^ /' 
 
 ImiI lit iIh* liulf '■ 
 
 
 \\ ill-, \»il« 
 
 ■ 11 !«• iliij 
 
 du-niion ot their iiulit. 
 
 Uiit li> li lur n ]!i\'U 
 I' 
 
 ik I «. I N \ 1. 1» ri 111 I n« ( 
 
 iKiwefii I'.ihririt ll<mi/it^\, 
 
 . ^.iIIkt to this //KifA.and UniinuU 
 
 LonI ilrof of Rulhffn ; it la-.tcd link- lr»k 
 
 lliii' • ' «' r ■ '. ibn- ilic 
 
 t ' ; ttiiH III 
 
 lilt- iiiJ, ti^( K.tiil I'Aiuuiri, llioii^li Ik- hhs 
 licir male, »ns luit cuily (-<>ii<li-iiiiK-d in 
 <»7<>/. I7>. lO/. c«t>t», ((trry tWfiiiiiit; lliut 
 lie IiikI »|)ctit KXN) iiinrks nio><',> but itc- i^at 
 iin|ins(inrd sixti-eii yenrs (ih disubi-xini; that 
 Sfiili'iicf, wliii-h was rp(»iiU'd n voi\ hard 
 anil uiiiust uiii;, aixl ><i llatli/uoi llioii^lil it, 
 'id Im* du-<l, li'uMllt; (ioll'b fl KSK, 
 
 u, il ihi-y <lnl iiul iittciujil llif \iii- 
 
 r Lord (irtyof Ru(/itpi, liy llie said E/izabtth 
 
 ! Lord (irctf, wlioite miii 
 
 i; and tVoni an cxtoiit of (liis mnnor it np- 
 
 ]X'.ip<, that hi-re wan then n liall, or iiiaiior-lioiix-, \miIi a park well 
 btocLi-d witli (l(-<*r, alJxNliich were nothing; t^ortii alxive tiioir otit- 
 poiiip4, and npair*; and another cnclosuie, culled ii jmrk, fenced in 
 vith pale*, containinp; above Wi acre* of arable laiul, worili 'J//, each 
 acre ; that Uiere were 8 acres meadow, worth S(/ eai h acre ; that the 
 quitrentj were 10/. besides fiOO days workx in winter, worth n hall"- 
 pi-nny cnch day; and 3(>0 d^ys works in autumn, woitli \il. each 
 dnv. topellier with a wood eaili-il lln/vrr l\oo<l, the underMo<Ml of 
 <" ith I'-'f/. a year; there wa.H niso n chase ii|M>n i\iiif,u. 
 
 I ' ^ and Vuiiihitm (irrcii, worth Cxi. a year, a vuxiimll 
 
 wiifiji •it. u year; thi- siiili and |>er(|uisites of the courts worth ."ii. W. 
 ;i jiar clear. Hut though tin- LonI (ira/ inlicritcil the rest ol' the 
 ilari of I'tmhrook'i estate, this anil Urifwood inunurs were in <lower, 
 and held by I'hillifni, widow of Uie last eurl, till 14<if>, in whi< h year 
 •he died, havint; cnioyed il, notwithstandinir l-Attnird Un^ti/ii-j^'s 
 claim. I! '1.' , . . m il( ll>iui,\)y 
 
 wh'-m Ik oi JuIih llol- 
 
 I ' ' ""/ Larl- Marshal ; 
 
 1 ; ^ , J '.'</ and Thomas, a.\. 
 
 Jii^ crraind' .ilh, tTJiieli waii in 1440, 
 
 LuMi .'> ; .me heir to his liunnur and estate ; he married CVi- 
 
 thaniir , daughter to llrnrtf I'eircy l^irl of \orthiimlnrliiiul, and in 
 till ih of IMirnrd IV. was created I'.nrl of Kntt ; at his dralli in 
 1 Hh, he lift these manors in dowi r to L'athariiif, his widow, wliu 
 <licd ttboul 139<J \ and llieo they went to 
 
 * Du^;. Bir. vol. i, p. ^7!.
 
 WINFARTHING. 189 
 
 Geouge Earl of Kent, their son, who by sufl'ering a recovery, 
 settled it on King JItnri/ VII. for payment of a great debt, with a 
 remainder to himself and his heirs. After this, it was settled on 
 Catherine, his second wife, who enjoyed it for her life ; and then it 
 went to 
 
 RiCHAun Grey Earl of A'e«^ who died in 1523, having greatly 
 wasted his estate. This and Ilei/toood was part of the jointure of 
 Elizdheth his wife ; but in 1505, with lier and her trustees consent, 
 he sold them to 
 
 RoBKRT Le'Strange, and his heirs, and a fine was levied ac- 
 cordingly, viz. of '2800 acres of land, 30/. rent in ^Vinfurthiri'^, Diss, 
 Shi/Jh/intrcr, Tilshall, and Jioliciiham castle ; and thus it passed from 
 that family ;' this Robert Le'Strange dying seized, and lett it to 
 
 John Le'Strange, his executor, to sell, of whom it was pur- 
 chased by 
 
 Thomas Duke of Norfolk, from which time it went with that 
 family, till Thomas Earl oi Arundel midSurrj/ sold this and lleijicood, 
 about 1()43, to 
 
 Sir John Marsham of Cuckstone in Kent, Bart, who died seized 
 in 1()92, leaving it to his son. 
 
 Sir John Marsham, Burt, who died under age, and unmarried, 
 in IG94, so that it came to 
 
 Sir Robert Marsham, Bart, in Ifi})? ; he was one of the si.^c 
 clerks in Chancery, and uncle to Sir John ; lie was succeeded by 
 
 Sir Robert Marsham, his son, who, by letters patent, was 
 created Baron oi' Romnei/ in Kent, and, in 1720, obtained an Act 
 of Parliament to sell this estate, and to settle another in Kent already 
 purchased, to the same uses; upon which it was vested in 
 
 Sir Thomas Daeth, Bart, and Edmund Probyn,' serjeant at 
 law, who, in 1724, conveyed it to 
 
 Humphry South of London, merchant, to the use of 
 
 Mrs. Elizabeth Gray of Loh^oh, (only child of John Gray, 
 late of the island o'i Barbadoea, Esq.) who, by virtue of that purchase, 
 is now [173(5] patroness and lady of boiii ll'infarthing and Hetfwood, 
 which is called Winfnrthing Oulsokcn manor. 
 
 In Queen Elizabeth's time there was a great suit for these manors, 
 between the Earl of Surrei/, who recovered, and the Earl of Kent, 
 at which lime Hei/wood manor was 2(i/. and fVinfarthing 14/. per 
 
 annum. 
 
 The leet belonged to the court-baron,^ and the courts of the 
 insoken and outsoken of this manor extended into Brisingham, 
 Kenninghall, &c. 
 
 Here were two parks, viz. the old and neto park, and the rector 
 liad the herbage of both, for the composition of which 29«. 4d. was 
 paid him ; the' rent of Ihilver Wood was 6d. To this manor belongs 
 Jianlmm Heath, a great part of which lies in Biis hundred, which is 
 divided by the Mere called the Hundred Mere, which divides the 
 hundreds "of Diss, Shropham, and Ciltcross; and the drift of it, as 
 far as that Mere belongs to IVinfartliuig, and is in the bounds of that 
 
 ^ An account of these earls may be 187. In the Peerage, p. 147- And in 
 
 found in Dugdale's Baronage, vol. i. most other historical writers, 
 fol. 718, in Vincent against Brook, fol. ' The present [1736] Mr. Justice 
 
 " Probyn. »Lceltecis n. 
 
 VOL, I. 
 
 Bb
 
 '•"•». 
 
 igo WINFARTniNG. 
 
 !>.-.• ■ 
 
 «■<! i/rtfyi. Ill n i;(ouii(i tnlk-it Ittc Ji , iii Uttifatlfi, 
 
 p«rk, lu wtui'ii tlic iiiMtur-liowtr tliti lii ;> kUtiid. In li« 
 
 parL wa» lull ofdctr, and Sir Itauingboiini (iatnii/ of H'rit Uirltn^, 
 Ki ' ' ' . ' . .' M aiid buck.uiid liU-rtv of liuuung Ukui 
 
 ill 1 niv l^ird \.<\ Arundelii. 
 
 1 iiik |wii>li lukiit ' ' II, iioM [I7.10J let ut iG/. tier 
 
 annum, i.4 tin- i;ill > -, out ofwiiitli tl. Mi. (oalli-d 
 
 lA>triidt$' and Alliens pilL>; it aunually al ICattrr to br divided 
 unon|; turb |iutir iis an- not collrxrlixnt-r*, l>v iIk- rector ami cburvli- 
 w-ardeiu ; the ri-«t wut f^iveii U> n-pair the cliurrli. Tbi-y buve ul(o 
 llirtt- tou n-houM'N, one hutlt nii new of laud adjoining to it, and 
 ■ootluT ua!> llic old Ciildliull, the lalld^ (d uliicli f;t/d, werr K-ized 
 bv llio Crown, anil v ii by tjuctrii Elizabeth, in tlic 27lJi ye«r 
 
 ol'hcr reien, to ilic /- 
 
 la UJ(NJ. tlierc werv IHU coniinunicnntk, and now there urt; 50 
 dwclling-houst'*, nnd al»out ilk) inhabitunt>. It paid 1/. l(is. to llic 
 teotlv, was valued at Vljiit. to tiie |tariiauiciit vaiuatiun, uud now 
 at 934/. to tlie land tax. [ ITi^i] 
 
 The C'f>ToM> OF TiiK Mwoii are the«e : the ridest son is heir; 
 the fni'- IS at the lord"* will ; it i;ivei» no doMer; the leiiaiila build up, 
 pull doun. pliint on the w.uttc, and tell tiiubi-r, witboul ltcun«c. 
 
 The Uet Ix-longj to ll)e hundred. 
 
 The CisTOMS OF Tiir. Rp-rTonY rrrre first rremjiUjirti A" 45 Eliz. 
 atul nfttr that A" 8 Janics 1. 7 June, and art thrsr : 
 
 Tliey pay \d. a year for eaeh cow, in lieu oi Jnclage. 
 
 For every call' under seven, i ob, tbc .seventh bciiiji; due in itind to 
 the n'clor, he olIowiDg 1 ob. tor each cult above M.-veu, and under 
 ten. 
 
 Instead of tithe hny, or herhnzf, the parisliioners pay 2</. nn acre 
 to the rector, e.xeept all tithe liay growing on llie uoiuuiou iiu.'udo«v^, 
 uhirh i-i dw* m kind. 
 
 'fluy pay for every foal \d. a year, till it coiiK'* to work. 
 
 And tor e>-ery heifer I J. a year, till it \* utilked, or olhei'wiir 
 converted. 
 
 Every inhabitant on A/J-Saiul's Diiif pays I ob. m lieu of ull titiie 
 far fruit, and nil fuel spent in the lown. 
 
 Tithe |>eiuic are «lue every lenlli .steleli, as soon ft» they are cut by 
 the ownta- ; nil corn, and other small and p-enl tilheii whatsoever, 
 are doe in their propi.'r kind, the MiuUI tithes on Ldtnutun Dui/, tin: 
 rest a* they arc se|>arated.' 
 
 * The Abbot ol Bury Kjd onf frrr- trniiit R. Come*, qiundo if forisfccif, 
 
 nun >''r^, intl two. irrr^w Inch l)f longed ft |>««t Godiictit, in nunu Repu, poll 
 
 to 'v'-) (ioiinciim trnuK Hcrolfm, in term 
 
 :. icnet in Wine. Sancti bdmiindi, liccocu ]>rxpoMti 
 
 tciCui. I. Lbct liuiint (Ic li. acr. qiirui Abbat»|lc>tc liuiidrcl.
 
 [ 191 ] 
 
 DIGKLEBURGII 
 
 Is a large parish, containing the whole town oi Semeie,^ which, at 
 the Conquest, was as large ;ls Dickkburgli itself, to which it is now 
 a hamlet. This town was anciently' divided into four parts or por- 
 tions, each of which had a rector of its own, and served in their 
 turns in Dickhburgh church. The first portion was called some- 
 times Fouldon, sometimes the Portion in the Marsh, (it being the 
 lowest part of the town,) sometimes the Portion of Henri;, who was 
 rector in 125fi, but most commonly, the Portion of Riihurd, who 
 was rector of it when the Lincoln ta.\ation was made, it being then 
 valued at x. marks ; out of this portion the Abbot of linn/ had an 
 annual pension of xv.s. The second was called, the Portion in the 
 Fields, (it being the upper part of the town,) sometimes the Portion 
 of Henri/,'' and sometimes Ciilphoes Portion, John de Culphoc being 
 rector at the Lincoln taxation,* and John of St. Fdmund's Bury, at 
 the Norzsich taxation, when it was valued at c.s. and paid a pension 
 to the Abbot of St. Edmund of ix.s. yearly. The third portion belonged 
 to that part of the town which is now called Langmere ,^ and is still a 
 hamlet belonging to it, all which lies in the hundred of Earsham, 
 and hath a separate leet, which now belongs to Dictclebiirgh Hall 
 manor, and its jurisdiction extends to all that part of the town which 
 lies in Earsham hundred. The leet and royalties of the other part 
 in Diss hundred belonging at this time to the lord of the hundred, 
 but there are no leet fees due to either of them ; this was in the 
 Conquest included in Semere, of which it was near the half, and was 
 given to Butley priory, after the decease or cession of Raniilf the 
 chaplain, who had been presented thereto by l\ illiain de Aubervil, 
 and Maud his wife, which Maud was daughter to Ranidfde Glanvil, 
 and belonged to the land that the said Raiuilf held of Thomas Noell ; 
 at the Normich taxation itwas valued at x. marks, and in the Lincoln 
 at xiii. marks; it was appropriated to that convent about 1180, by 
 John of Oxford, Bishop of Xorzvich, without any vicar to be en- 
 dowed, they being obliged to find a stipendiary chaplain only, who 
 was to administer the sacrament, and perform all duties to the 
 parishioners of that portion only ;' this was confirmed by several 
 Archbishops of Canterbury, and by Thomas de Grey, and 'Thomas de 
 
 'See Semere in Domesday. yearly pension of 155. id. ob. per annum 
 
 3 This was one Henry Kreeman, who to be paid to Bury monastery for ever, 
 
 was rector of it m 1231, in which year ♦ Valued at xvi. marks in the Lincoln 
 
 there was a fine levied, to confirm the Taxation 
 
 agreement made between the Abbot ' That is the Long Mere, 
 
 and him, the Abbot remitting to him * " Salva tantum portione suificienti 
 
 and his tenants of tlie rectoiy manor, " portionis predicte, pro susteritatione 
 
 the services of carrying part of the Ab- «• imiuscapeilani parochianis eidem por- 
 
 bot'swine from Norwich, or Yiirmoutli, «' tioni pertincntibus divina et sacra. 
 
 to Palgrave Bridge, and from paying " menta ministrare," Lib. Inst, xi, 
 part of the tallage of Titshall, for a
 
 19« 
 
 lUt KI.KUL UU II. 
 
 ^ 'i ; niul iIhm i* <! 
 
 . . iiiM-nt «>l nil j ud 
 
 cxinH>lututi-<l to (hr uUicr I'uitioiit, the Abbot o( Ituri/ giving tin- 
 prior Mfcuriiy llint ihc fulurt.- reclor» kliouUi cvor pnv lo tiiiil priory, 
 u vfarly |K-n>ioii of :U. Ad. a year, clear of nil tcrvicc due Iroiii the 
 'flic prior uImi had liiiidi in llii* purl of llie town, 
 unit' iff (lloinil, wliiili werr Inxt-d ii( \d. oh.' 'Jlie 
 liiuilii I'udion t< " itf,' ntid coiitaiiud llu- oilier liiilt of 
 
 ■SViMf rr, llwit liiv I'i ■ .1, ami \»a!. MMiKliinci falle<i .Wfl</Ar«r"l 
 
 I'orlioh, from Mntthctc,^ «lio wiis rector ol' il at the "Soruich tnxn- 
 lioii, Mlien it Mat taxed at vj. tunrks ; it wns after named .ileiandrr't 
 I'vriion, but ino»t cominoiily Johu'i Portiun, from Juhn de llemrn- 
 A«/<-, wlio »i«s rcclor of it ut liie IJncoln taxation, in which it is 
 vnliK'd at '» marks und an half; llii* portion wa» of the sinallesl 
 «c it wn» fharm'ablc wilh a |M-nsion, (vahu-d in the Sor. 
 ■ 1 at Kj. and in tin- Ijiuoln at lOi.) payable every year, 
 lo the Trior of St. Faith's at Jlur\hiim; concerning this |Kn!,ion, 1 
 iind in a register formerly belonging lo liuri/ abbey,' a grant miulc 
 by Htifinuiiil, I'lior of St. I'uith'i, to Sir Ralph Utmcnhiile, parson 
 of the fourth part of Dicklclmrgh, and his suceetsrturs for ever, of 
 two parts «)f the tithes of the demeans formerly of .Sir i\ illiam de 
 Chci/iieit, of the fee of his barony of Honjnrd in this toun, by the 
 authority niid eons<.-iil of liu/f' de /I iiI/hiU Mishop of Sorrrich, and 
 his chapter, for the annual pavinent of lUs. sleiliiig, whiih tithes 
 were given bv the said /I illiam to that monastery ; all wliicii de- 
 means, with their several quantities, names, and tenants, are recited 
 therein. The deed was sealed by the liishop, the Abbot, the Prior 
 of bt. /(/i7A'», the Hector, and tin- I'rior of Vornr/rA, and for this 
 |>ension the I'rior was lo allow and pay \'Zd. tenths." The two Por- 
 tions ealletl J'oulduii and Scmrrt were i-onsolidaied in 14'2<»,' and in 
 1449, (hey were consolidated lo tlie Portion in the Fields; and in 
 14J4, the appropriatiim of Lnitgmerc Portion being resigned, it 
 became one rectory, chnr^'cablc wilh the annual pensions ol .'U. 4d. 
 to the Prior of IhiiUq, U)». lo the I'rior o\' St. Faith's, and 'i45. ]d. ob. 
 lo the Abliot of liuri/,* and halli so continued ever since. 
 
 This . i.wilh the manor niiw <-ailed Till- Ur.CTORV .Manoi?, 
 
 was piix ■• .Si/rt~'/ri/, a monk of /ii/ri/, at wliicii time it belonged 
 
 to tlie manor ol Filihall,^ and with that was given lo this inonnstcry, 
 there being at that time only one chaplain or parisii priest ; but before 
 the Conquest, the Abbot had given the manor lo the church, and 
 infcoffed it in l»o pri«-sls, who held it at the survey ;' liicsc, wilh the 
 (larochiol priest, made three portion^, all which were in the prcsenla- 
 
 ' Aburaci Cartar. Abbal. de Rullcy, 
 fo. 5. 
 
 • The Merc, from n larc'" Tncrr in il. 
 
 » Ma-lltcw deCa- ■ ' 'jin- 
 
 bridge, A" i>3n I lec- 
 
 meni with llie Abbot, l.<r rclci:^ ul ilie 
 ume «rr\-.tc» a« Henry Freeman did, 
 fur ' '>jt lu pjyix.i. |>er annum 
 
 en' was ilic original of llie 
 
 peiii > M , J <i uul of llietc (Kirtiuni lo 
 the AblMjt. 
 
 ' Rcjjr. Nigr. Vettiar. fol. 70, 71, 
 
 ' Tliat i», not yearly tenths, but to 
 Ihe lenlhi and filtecnlhs, which were 
 never )>aid bin when imposed in convo- 
 cation. ' Re(;r. Curtey», fol. 15. 
 
 * See p. 191, note j, and note 9oMhis 
 
 ' See Tiultmll manor. 
 
 * Terre Abb.ilii de Sancio Eadmiindo 
 el Dice dim. Hiind. (Dome>d. fol. ita. 
 Uiccles-Uurc, leniiil irnii>er Sancliii 
 bdmiindut pro nianerio ct diiobiii cam- 
 CJtii trire, mudo tcnciit duo prctbiteri
 
 DICKLEBURGII. 
 
 195 
 
 tion of the Abbot of Buri/ till tiie Dissolution/ each rector having a 
 house, with a caiucale of land, a third part of the manor, (which they 
 divided,) and the tithes of their separate portions; at tiie Dissolution, 
 theadvowson went lo the Crown, and was granted, in \b'M), to Thomas 
 and James Bacon, Esq. and the heirs of T/wmas; in 1547, they aliened 
 it to Nicholas Bacon, Esq. and his heirs; and he, in lj.30, to Thomas 
 Godsalve and his heirs, who, in 13o7, sold it to IVilUam Mingay, and 
 he soon after to Stephen Lacy, Gent, and he to John Whitman, who, 
 in 1567, aliened it to Charles Le-Grice, Esq. and his heirs, who kept 
 it but a little while; for in 1570, it belonged to John and Thomas 
 Tf hippie, and John Ji hippie of Pnlham-Murkct, in which family it 
 continued some time; for in l603, llilliam and Thomas 11 hippie 
 were patrons, who left it to their daughters; the one married to 
 Robert Boicns, the other to George Gatcdie, both which held it m 
 their wives' right in 1632,' from whom it came (I suppose by sale) 
 to Thomas Buxton, who at his death left it to Thomas, his son, and he 
 dying without issue, left it to his wife, and her heirs; and soon after 
 it belonged to one Congham of IVells, of whom George Chamberlain, 
 D. D. Fellow of Trinity-College \n Cambridge, purchased it, and pre- 
 sented his nephew Samuel iSeedham to it, alter whose death he gave 
 it to the Senior Fellow of Trinity-College for ever. 
 
 The rector hath a good house and 80 acres of land adjoming to it, 
 too-ether with the Rectory Manor, the Custom of which is, that 
 the copyhold descends to the youngest son, and the fine is at the 
 lord's will. It is in the deanery of Redenhall, and archdeaconry 
 of Norfolk, and liberty of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, and is thus 
 valued, the pensions being bought oflF: 
 
 Kings Books. 
 28 
 
 Tenths. 
 2 16 
 
 Acres Glebe. I Synodals. 
 80 I 3 8 
 
 Procurations. 
 7 
 
 de Abbate, semper iiii. villan. et xij. 
 bordarij, et ii. car. in diiio. et iiii. car. 
 homiinim, silva xvj. pore. vj. acr. prati 
 et iiii. soc. xx. acr. semper i. car. i. 
 acr. prati. val. xl.J. hab. v. quar. in 
 longo. et iiii. in lat. et yj.d. de Gelto. 
 Ecclesie xxx. acr. val. vj.s. . 
 
 ' Norwich Ta«alioii. Portio Henrici 
 X. marc Portio Abbatis Sci. Edm. in 
 ead. XV. s. Portio Johannis de Sancto 
 Edmundo c. s. habet Abbas de dca. por- 
 tione ix.j. 
 
 Portio Mathei vj. marc. Portio Sancte 
 Fidis de dominico de Semcre viij.j. 
 Portio Prioris de Buttelc in eadem x. 
 
 marc. , . , . . 
 
 Norwich Domesday, which w accord- 
 
 ing to the Lincoln Taxation, says thus : 
 Prior de Buttele habet unam partem in 
 proprios usus. Abbas Sancti Kdmundi 
 est patronus triiim partiiim, quilibet 
 rector habet niansum cum una carucata 
 terre. Tota villa est rcgalis. Estimalio 
 Portionis Prioris de Buttelc xiii. marc. 
 Estimatio Portionis Henrici, nunc Johan- 
 nis de Culpho in eadem xvi. marc. 
 Estimatio Portionis Alexandri postea 
 Joliannis de Hemenhale in eadem viii. 
 niarc. et dim. Estimatio Portionis Ri- 
 chardi postea Johannis dc Mclford in 
 eadem vj. marc, et dim. Estimatio 
 Portionis Prioris Sec. Fidis dc Horshaia 
 in eadem x.s. 
 8 MSS. pen. A. Norris, CI.
 
 504. DICKLEBURGII. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 The First Portion, called Fouldon, or the Portion in the 
 
 Mausu, 
 l'2jG, Hi'uri/ was rector. 
 
 Richnrd. 
 1291, John de Mel ford, priest. 
 1334, Rolitrt de Paiteiii/, accolite. 
 137(i, ai M(inli, John tie Jl'atton, priest. 
 
 1410, '28 Sgpl. Robert Seijeauut, priest. 
 
 1411, '27 October, John Ti/hhi/nhain, priest, ia whose tiiae Semere 
 Portion was eonsolidated to this, i/c. Octob, ij, 1429. 
 
 I44G, 17 Sept. John Briggc, chaplaiu, 011 Tybbtfnhants resignar 
 tion, at whose death, in 14J4, liiey were consohdated to tlie Portion 
 in the Field, and John Bulman had possession of ihein Dec. 13, 1454. 
 
 The Second Portion, or the Portion in the Fieliis. 
 
 Roger the parson. 
 1231, Henri/ Freeman, rector. 
 I27G, John o( St. Edmund's Buri/, rector. 
 1291, John de Culpho, rector. 
 1316, 13 kal. Oct. John de Culpho, sub-deacon. 
 1329, 7 id. Octob. Andreiode Bi/nham, priest. 
 1329, G k\. March, Robt. de .Vorfo/j, priest, on jBywAa/n'sreignatioH, 
 1349, 30 October, Robert de Fouldon. 
 
 Godfrei/ de Snetisham. 
 1391 J " '//. Corneuaille, priest, on Snetisham's resignation. 
 
 1392, Richard Manci/k, on CorneTcaille's resignation. 
 
 1393, Thomas FJyott, on Marzoyk's resignation. 
 
 1394, Richard Jlylzcei/n, on Elj/olt's resignation. 
 
 1402, 25 October, William Burdocliff, on Alynei/ns resignation. 
 
 John Osberne.^ 
 1417, 27 Jan. Tho. Wode, a shaveling. 
 
 John KnoKlls, on whose resignation 
 
 John Bulman succeeded, in 1449. 
 
 The Fourth Portion, or the Portion of Semekb. 
 
 1231, Matthew of Cambridge, rector to ^256. 
 125G, Jan. )8, Master Rustand, sub-deacon, chaphiin to the Pope, 
 presented by the King, during the vacancy of the abbey. 
 yllexander the priest. 
 ia66, Ivo the priest. 
 
 William de Lopham. 
 1 288, Ralph de Hemenhale, on Lopham's deatli. 
 129], Joh?i de Hemenhale. 
 
 » 1487. John Osberne, rector of the he was buried, viz. in the east chapel of 
 
 second Portion, was buried here, he the north isle, whi(h chapel now belongs 
 
 gave 6s. %d. to repair the church, to Langniere, and in which the chap- 
 
 30i. to repair the chancel, a vestment, lain for that Portion officiated, before it 
 
 two napkins, a portufory, and silver was disappropriated. 
 cup, to St. Mary s altar, before which
 
 DICKLEBURGH. 19s 
 
 1502, 10 kal. Apr. Robeit de Gravenny, or Cranehy, priest. 
 1322, 5 id. July, John de Hemenhak, priest. 
 1349, 4 Nov. William de Melford. 
 
 1357, Henry, son of John de Lydgate, priest, on Melford's resig- 
 nation. 
 
 1360, 22 Decern. Peter de Hoo, on Li/dgate^s resignation. 
 
 1360, 6 March, Thomas Osbernc, priest, on Hod's resignation. 
 
 1361, 17 Nov. Johnde li,dlins.ton, accolite. 
 
 1365, 27 April, Gilbert de iVortham, on Edlington's resignationv 
 
 1 399, Richard Fysch, priest. 
 
 1400, 8 Octob. Thomas Page, priest. 
 
 1402, 5 August, Simon Smith, on Page's resignation. 
 
 1402, 9 August, Thomas Faldyngtcorth, on Smith's resignation. 
 Thomas IVi/lomoiid, at whose resignation in 
 
 1417, 3 Sept. Thomas Kynthorp was instituted. 
 
 1421, Thomas Savage, priest. 
 
 William Brixey, on Savage's resignation. He died 1429, and 
 in that year 
 
 October 5, it was consolidated to Fouldon, or the Portion in the 
 Marsh. 
 
 1449, John Bulman^ was instituted to the Portion in the Fields, on 
 the resignation of Thomas JVode ; and in 1454, 13 Dec. the consoh- 
 dated portions of Fouldon and Semerc were consohdaled to this, and 
 possession given to John Bulman aforesaid, who held the whole be- 
 nefice till 1497, and then resigned it; upon which, in 
 
 1497, 6 June, John Alleyn, A. M. was instituted to Dekylburg, 
 with all the portions annexed.^ 
 
 1531, 24 Dec. Rich. Eden, doctor of the decrees. The King, by 
 grant from the Abbot. 
 
 1551, 4 Aug. Tho. Cordon, A. M, on Eden's death. Tno. God- 
 salve of NorraVA, Esq. 
 . 1554, 23 Dec. William Stockwith, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1557, 30 October, Richard Lusser, A. M. on Stockwith's resigna- 
 tion. 
 
 1558, 2 Sej>t. James Green. William Mingate, Alderman of 
 Norrcich. 
 
 1561, Tho. Roberts, A. M. on Green's resignation. Lapse. 
 
 1576, 28 June, Robert Sayer, D. D. on Robert's death. Henry 
 and Tho. Whipple of DickUhurgh, Gent. 
 
 1622, Christopher Barnard, dispossessed by the Earl of Manchester 
 in 1643. 
 
 ' He was secretary to Bishop Walter gilt silver cup, two osciilatories of silver, 
 
 Lyhert, rector of Heviiigham, and pre- two crewets of silver, his best missal, 
 
 bendary of the college of Stoke-Clare, altar-clothes, &c. and ordered a priest 
 
 rector of Rollesby ; (for which church to officiate five years after his death, for 
 
 he resigned this;) he willed to be bu- his and his father's and mother's souls, 
 
 ried in this chancel, under a black mar- and his good lords, Thomas Browne, 
 
 ble stone prepared, with an inscription and Walter Lyghert, formerly Bishops 
 
 thereon put, with mention of John Bui- of Norwich, Richard Hedge, William 
 
 man, his father, and Beatrix, his mother, Ivot, and Margaret his wife, and Ste. 
 
 who are there buried. He gave divers phen Brasier, and all his benefactors, 
 
 vestments to keep his and their obits, ^ MSS. Coll. Caj. D. 23, p. 76, where 
 
 and a pair of silver candlesticks, weigh- there is much to be seen concerning this- 
 
 ing 60 ounces, a little silver cross gilt, a rectory.
 
 196 PICKI.CnUUOH. 
 
 in of >fr. Jiitrnard ;^ 
 li. ,» (tiuiily, A' lUtS. 
 
 . /<drM<irt/ wa» mturrti, anil llu- 'ijd Sept. in ihii year, 
 li. >.. '<. < I., tl llir Articli'-i, brini; at llinl tinit- niutlcr uf art*.* 
 
 l(>,s(i, I I IhtiUxr, JitMu liiihiir, A. M. on lliiruartTt dcutll. JoilS 
 Kii II iR, and Nun. Iii> mmi, lur ilm turn. 
 
 !''>», 19 .4pn/, Siimiul SfrilAiim, uii Hichar't dcalh. (ip.nBuF. 
 CicAMHKKLAiN. S. T 1*. IVIlow ol I'rinilff-Vollfgc in Cambridge, 
 pof|H-tuiil palrun. 
 
 Hi- Mai iucccfdcd by John U hiljleld, D. D. of Triniltf-Collrge, 
 CtimbnJge. 
 
 Tlic Kfv. John linker, I). I), ilio pirsc'nl [173<»] rrclur, «ucfCf<li'd 
 at tin- dealli ol Dr. i\ hiijield. Tin mtv-Collkci., Cambridge, 
 palfoiM. 
 
 Jri Hi J 5. Chmtnphrr Deniind, " was disiMX-csw d l.y llx- FjiiI of 
 " Miimhrsler, wl)<i lL-lul<iid liini the ftivi luiiit, ami nirtrril litm to 
 '• fc<T|) >iii [Alice if lie would take u, botii wiiiili In- gincrouslv re- 
 " fu>t<l, und by nccciwirv ion>>fijiuiuc briui;,lit on him»i-lt the 
 " ronimon cnliimities nnu fate wliiili then niuiuhd loyally und 
 " fidelity lo his Majesty, for his Iiounc- wa» plundt red und riHedof a 
 " pn-ai <leiil ol plate, linen, and other i»oimI»; he was aKo sei/<d und 
 " . , towards \((;f>(f/i cuslie, l)Ul liy Ins jxeeili lit life and 
 
 •' . I. id so much retoninu-n(K<l liiiiisi-l| lo his parishioners, 
 
 " that thev ttiuughl a prenter judgment could not l<el'all litem, than 
 " to looto him. und *o by consent they followed the pnrly ihat had 
 " him in custody, and rescued him: they uUc gave this further testi- 
 " inonv of their nfTection towards him, that when the villains lind 
 " (le^ii-nc-d to plunder his house a second lime, unknown to him, 
 " they Voluntarily went, and bv force secured llie remainder of his 
 " poods in their own houses, and even the very women and children 
 " assisted in ihis |>erilous underlakint:, to the manifest hazard of 
 " their wfetv, perhaps of tlieir lives, if i( had been discovered. He 
 •' liad at the lime of his sufferings, a wife, and at Iciisl nine young 
 ' ' Iren. which hel|Kd to compleal his misery, und sullicienlly 
 .ivated the barbarities wliuh were exercised upon him; 'tis 
 'lie he had always a lirm perswasiuii of his Majesty's 
 «• i iion, which he afterwards live<l to see, nn<l was hiniM-lf 
 
 " one ot the first ininisiers rcsiornl in ihis counlv, alter which he 
 " cnjoy'd his reclory •£(> y«nrs, and having been admitted alniul the 
 " year U'rii), and not dying 'till U)8<t, (in tiic 84" year of his age) 
 " iie must in all have Ixreii rector of it near (><) years." 
 
 '1 hiii far Mr. llatkrr,'' in which account there are some small 
 errtiurs, all which may be corrected by this inscription on his stone ia 
 the chancel, viz. 
 
 ' CaUmy i. vol. Su^l. printid at Lon- ' Walker's Suffering* of ihe Clergy, 
 don 1717, p. 61S. part ii. fot. 104. 
 
 * CoHMgoatiun Book.
 
 DICKLEBURGIl. 197 
 
 D. S. 
 
 CkrislopJierm; Barxard Filius sccundiis Jioheiii 
 
 Barnard de Langliam, juxta Wells in Comitatu 
 
 Noif: Gen: Inijus Ecclesiac per quinqiiaginta, 
 
 Et octo annos Rector, et J/iria uxor ejus, lletirici 
 
 Coiighnm de Wells, Gen: et Jiiiuc ux-oris, fili'a prjniogenita, ex 
 
 Qua decern susccpit Liberos, Filios silicet, quatiior, /leiiricum, 
 
 EdKardian, liohcrtiim, ct ('/iri.s/up/ioriiiii, Filiasq; Sex, 
 
 Sc. Cecifiam, Aiiiiam, Mariam, .Ilicia/ii, BrigclUim, 
 
 Et Sara/i, E quibus altera Obijt xxi° Die Mensis Octobris A° 
 
 Dom: MDCLX. iEtat: Sum LX'li. alter quinto die Mensis Octob: 
 
 A°Dom: MDCLXXX. .^tat. Suae LXXXIU. contumulantur 
 
 Heic, in quorum Memoriam, J/icia Filia lliimp/tredi Rant, 
 
 Gen: uxor, hoc Marmor L. M. P. 1'. 
 
 Isti sunt Liberi Eduardi Bernard, Rectoris de Dyss, 
 
 Anna, sepulta 11 Fcbr. I(jfj2. 
 
 Edvvardus scpult. U) Sept. I(ifj5. 
 
 Sarah sepult. Hi Jan. IGG8. 
 
 Dorothea sepulta. ICi May 1670. 
 
 Quorum Exuviae 
 
 ad Caput hujus Marmoris 
 
 Sunt Depositaj. 
 
 The Church is a regular building, having its nave, two isles, with 
 a chapel at the east end of each oY them ; the chancel, vestry, and 
 south porch all covered with lead, a square tower and five bells at its 
 west end, on the second, third, and fourth bells are these verses : 
 
 2. <§onitu.{i €0iDii accen&it at) Culmina 4Lt\\. 
 
 3. <!?ulci,si .^i.sito mi\\i, €ampflna tjocor jBicliacIi^. 
 
 4. ^um iSo?a pul.sata munDi, IBana bocata. 
 
 It is dedicated to the honour of all the Saints, and had a gild held 
 in the south isle chapel, which acknowledged St. Peter &nA Paul for 
 their patrons. The guildhall now stands on the west side of the 
 churchyard, and is used as a town-house. 
 
 The following arms were in this chancel as Mr. Anstiss MSB, 
 tell us : 
 
 Bishop Lyhart, ar. a bull passant in a bordureiaft.bezante. 
 Eugland with a label of five az. 
 Wakcriiig, ar. three falcons leures sab. 
 
 And in the upper windows of the church there still remain the 
 cross-swords and cross-keys, tlie emblem of St. Peter and Paul, the 
 patrons of the gild, the emblems of the Triiiiti/ and of the Sacrament ; 
 the instruments of the Pyssion ; the arms of tiiiri/ abbey ; of the East- 
 Aiigles; and of St. George, and also an imperfect coat of three 
 escaiops, the arms of the bishoprick. Erin, a fess lozenge gul. Gul. 
 a fess ar. Az. a cross floree between five martlets or. 
 
 Round the step of the font is this : 
 
 Orate pro anima t^obccti 25unng, et pro animabu.^ quibuiS tcnctur, 
 
 qui i^tum 
 J^ontcm in Itjonorc ©ei fecit. 
 
 VOL. I. C C
 
 igS IHCKLEBUlt(iil. 
 
 JarutgOHi ( . ,|, troinii ritr->- 
 
 Iirl u (Idut-tw^it; (iu|>lti'k«.nl. 
 
 • li ■ ■' n lilt' lx>ril Ml 1 ' ( ill W lii|>|>l<-, ^\ 111 unio 
 
 Th' (mmU- iiikI I' ol Mr. Julin Jaiiu L,MH 
 
 ' ^ Sit Jiiliii JariK't;uu, K'" 
 
 I . V Dn> ol Sfjit; 10 17. 
 
 Agvd f».i. 
 
 W'hut uortli III Woman, or a Wife could be, 
 \\ liul (iiMxiiioj vuile<l ill iriiili Murtalitic, 
 A uutllv Miiifi, a i^lkkIIv slicipi' III Vuulli, 
 \ ljutjiilcoii> llaiu), wiiK.- lii'iiri, tiiispolU-d tnitli. 
 Tlitst- .lfs»flli ttiiM-d tii'lli llii;! ' I »f, by Dt'ulli, 
 
 1>> liwff hiiil u|», ihfir 0« iRT, I II. 
 
 Vc-ni citu Jcku. 
 
 Ou 41 stone ill lUe chancel : 
 
 DoroUiea Mii»on, IJclicla 'I'lionnc Mason, Vicnrij de Ashly- 
 Mairna, in agro Leicestriii', Obijl .Maij 7°"" J(il»0. 
 
 Anne tlic wifi- of William Owls, niiiii»ler of I?illingford^ daugliter 
 of Tliomas Saver, was buried liere in lO'JO, as appeoni by a circum- 
 scription on a stone in the altar rails. 
 
 On a black mnrblc in the chancel : 
 
 H. S. E. Maria, JohauHis Whitfield, S. l". 1*. hujus Ecc!esia> 
 Kectoris L'xor, Filia (iulU'lmi l'iit<^raie luipir de I'ullmm, d'en: 
 Qua- duin in C'oniiubio vitani a^^eret, per Quadrcniiiiiin ciiin 
 dimidio, C'onjupis optima; et amantissima' Vices pra-slilit, I'ietalc 
 ill suo«, Benignitute iu propinciuo:!, amabikin sine liblreetundi 
 Usu, pra;bere »c voluit, ct qnidem F^geiiis .><iiblevnndis 0[KTam 
 dare, ei ina.\imam erat in delieijs, oecubuil Falo, Chriiiti Meriti» 
 tidens, Julij 'Jl" • die. Anno M DC'CXXX. ^lltiUis sine trieesimo 
 U-rtio, Ilune Uipidciii Conjiinij eorum meinor, .Maritus posuil 
 MiiTtnN, Ipseetiam, apud It cm in Agro S;ilop: Nalus, (Joli:S.S. 
 Tiin: C'luit: aliquaiidu Socius, vir, luniis Literis, Clo<}uio. & liii- 
 inanitate, si quis alius, insignia, sub eudein hoc Lu{iide recjuiescit, 
 »«i Oclob: 1731. ililat: 50. 
 Armii are, a bend between two cottises ingrailed, impaling a lion 
 rampant. 
 
 On the north side of the chancel is n nubie mural monument, of 
 V-- irts of marble, with a lady holding a book, and under her the 
 
 , inscription : 
 
 ' Here under lyelli buried, the Boilv of Daiue France* I'lalers, 
 the daughter and heir of (Jhurles ix Grys, of Hillingford ii\ 
 N"iir Lmj; i-he uiarryed Sir \\'illiaiu Pluylers of Satterley in 
 •Siilf. Kill. ;fv Mart, somelimes one of the depiitie LicuetcniinUt, 
 and \'u-e Adniir: of the said Count v, and Justice of the I'eacc 
 £c Coram, aiui Coll. of a Uegimeiil of I'oot, 'till turn'd out t.>f all, 
 by llie then Kcbelliuus I'arliament, and lu fine oul of that llouft 
 
 * Lc Nevc't Monument*, vol. ii. p. 41. ' Ibid.
 
 DICKLEBURGII. 199 
 
 of Parliament, whereof he had the Misfortune to be a Member. 
 She had Issue by him only Tho: wiio married witli Kcbecka, 
 the Uaugliter and Co-iicir of Tiio: Cbapmanj of W'oormly in 
 the County of Hartford, Esq; \vliich said Sir Tho: was a great 
 Traveller, before and after Marriage, his Ladic sometimes be- 
 yond the Seas with him, a learned Seholier, an exact Linguist, 
 expert in all Arts and Knowledge, of rare Temper and Courage, 
 and of great Esteem in most Courts in Christendom, High 
 Shcrift'fortheCountie of Sulf: by Commission from his Majestic 
 of Blessed Memorie, A" 1G4G, 'till forced by that fatal i'arlia- 
 ment, to flee to the King at Oxiord, wlicre by Commission from 
 liis INJajestie, he raised a Regiment of Hors, wherewith he per- 
 formed remarkable Service, 'till his Majesties Forces were totally 
 ruin'd, and then he departed the Kingdome, arriving in Cicilia, 
 where by Commission from that Viceroy, he hiid Command of a 
 Squadron of Six Shipps, against all Enemies to the Crown of 
 Spain, which being prepared, he put to Sea, and performed 
 many gallant Services, much to the Honour of the Spanish Elagg. 
 In July 1()j1, he put into the Port of Messina with a very ricii 
 I'rize, and posted to the Court at Palermo, where he met with 
 an Hon'''' Ueception, for the several good Services he had per- 
 formed, but at 4 Days End, he there fell ill of a violent Fever, 
 whereof within 8 Dayes he died, aged about S.i Years, and by 
 the Princes Ordir, had an honourable liiterm'- &. much lamented 
 there, but much greater cause at Home, leaving no Issue, but a 
 sorrowful VV'id' 8c sad Childless Parents; the said Dame Frances 
 dyed at Billingford-Hall the y"" of Sept. l6j9, from whence by 
 her own desire she was brought, and interred in this Parish, to 
 which she often manifested a Charitable Aftection, 
 
 On the top are the arms of Platers, bendy wavy of si.v, ar. and az. 
 impaling 
 
 Lt-Grice, quarterly «2. and gul. on a bend ar. three boars sab. 
 Plater's crest, on a wreath ar. and az. a lion rampant ar. crowned 
 
 or. 
 
 Le-Grkc's crest, on a wreath ar. and gal. a boar sab. armed or. 
 
 Platers with Ulster arms, and his quarterings, zez. ].^r. a chevron 
 sab. between three estoils gul. 'i. Ferl, a lion rampant ar. 3. Sab. a 
 chevron erm. between three Catherine-wheels ar. 4. Ar. a chevron 
 between three nags' heads cooped sab. bridled or. ."J. Sab. a fess be- 
 tween two chevrons or. 6. Jr. on a fess az. two crowns or. 7 Az. 
 three cinqucfoils or. 8. Erm. on a chief gul. three lozenges or. 
 9. Ar. on a chief gw/. three de-lises or. 
 
 Le-Gnce and his quarterings, r/:. 1. Gul. three crescents or, a fess 
 ar. 2. Sab. on a chevron «r" three holly leaves vert. 3. liarry of 
 ten ar. and oz. on a canton gul. a lion passant or. 4. Ar. on a 
 chevron ingrailed Mb. three mullets of the field. 5. Quarterly, or. 
 and az. G. Az. a fess indented between three martlets or. 7. Sab. 
 a chevron between three cinquefoils or. 8. Er. a cross ehequy or 
 and gul. y. Sab. two lions passant guardantar. 10. Ar. two chev- 
 rons <rul. 1 1. Az. a fess between two chevrons ar. la. I ert, three 
 round buckles or. 13. Or, a raven ascending proper. 14. Ar. a 
 cross ingrailed sab. 15. Barry of ten gul. and az.
 
 •00 
 
 Di( KLi. lU' Rf; n. 
 
 r> 1 uiK-i^nt : rm the 
 
 wall . \ J. ; w (I, ti:. < I .riinnfj 
 
 Iiio cfOit; itu- uUicr uurl liui u »(ill otttcurc, I lake tu be Ciibut 
 ruing truiii liit srpulcfire. 
 
 I1ic plnlr btlonging (o Uic altar i» very tine; Uic flaggon holdi 
 about two quuiLs, uu uliicli i« tl>ii : 
 
 J Ciijl lu the Churrh of Dicklcburgh, A' 1715. 
 
 The cup is a \er\ p^ooti one-, ami was |>urrlKuic<l by the parish in 
 Queen EiiZ'ih<th's time, tugctlicr with h ncul kniall salver for its 
 
 • .Hit : nn It ill this, 
 
 DYCKLEBOVRGH. T. F. »'. A. REStlSlBLR COD. 
 
 There is ulso a good miIvit, on uhich, 
 
 Tho. Huston, Cicnt. et Eliz: uxor, de Diiklcburgk, ^orf: IGQT, 
 
 ■ An oflcring plute of silver, on which, 
 
 Ks Dono j-llicitr Rant. 
 
 Here IS a prnve-stonc which was laid over Robert Fremt,' in the 
 Middle Alteif, though the bruss is now gone. 
 
 TllL TOWN LANDS AND GIFTS 
 
 Arc, a messuage called Clerks, and a <-losc udjoiiiiiig, lying in Thorp- 
 Abbots, abutting on the highway south, and the coininon called 
 Thorp Green, and a close culled LiiiipIoiiiI, north, ami abuts west 
 on 'Jhorp Cireen, and also one acre in Thorp, the west head abuts on 
 Thorp glebe; and also a piece of nu-udow in Thorp, together witli 
 14 acres in lit^hall, all Ijciiig freehold ; the Thorp lands were given 
 bv John Ilillorne, chaplain, anno 1-18J, and the Titfhnit liiiuls by 
 l\ liliiim Hj/li uf DicktrburjT, anno 1484, and were all settled by deed 
 of leoflnunt, dated Tebr. 1(), lo(Kl, to the use of all the inhabitants 
 of the town and parish ot Dickieburg,^ as well those that inhabit 
 in the greater part of it, which is in the hundred uf I)i/sse, us those 
 that inhabit in the hamlets of lAiugmcre and l.inerojt, which lie in 
 the hundred of Htr*ham, towards the payineiK of the taHagrs and 
 filteen'hs of our Sovereign L/jrd the King, on this condition, that 
 the sixth part uf the profits >hall go towards discharging the hamlets 
 aforesaid. This land now belongs to the parish. 
 
 They have also a piglitle of one acre, called Duve-house Pijrht/e, 
 and n close of two acres, culled the Tonii Close, both which be- 
 longed lo litegild, and were purchased by the parish with the guild- 
 hall. 
 
 • i4$i. Rob. Frenie of DkUcburR, 
 buried in AII-dalloHcs church their, 
 ordcr'd a (:rjvr-stonc lo be Uid i.vcr 
 ' "' • •■ •■ "Utli tide 
 
 grjvcd 
 '•. •. lo »yng 
 
 " U' tot. U) 
 
 " II , ,, . .. ; .1 in lhi» 
 
 " thunh." In 1504, Rote Bctkcl wai 
 buried in tiie tl.urch, " She gave a 
 
 " monstre of silver gilte, lo be made by 
 " the rxci.ulor'i adviie, lo serve in ihe 
 " ihiirche forthe ucramcnl lo be burne 
 " in, lo be niinitlrcd lo ihr parishioners 
 " for ever, and a veslmeni of while 
 " baudkyn, a pair ol Latin candletiiiki 
 " to ^lJnd in tlie cancel, and a veil- 
 " mrni nf red and blew lo Sliymplyng 
 " churche." 
 » FeoffiDcotJ in the Churcli Chcit.
 
 DICKLEBURGH. 201 
 
 There is & gift also of 20s. a year, called Chapman's Dole, jjaid 
 out of lands in Bnrslon, which was given by Italpk Cluipmau, anno 
 1618.' 
 
 THE EARL's, or DICKLEBURGH HALL MANOR, 
 
 Was the most considerable in this town, (except that which was 
 granted by the Abbot to the rectory,) thougii its begiiininj; was ver^ 
 small, as we learn from iJo/wcsc/rt;/ ,•* but soon after ihe Conquest it 
 was enlarged, by the Abbot's infeolTing the Earl of iVor/o//f, in this 
 part, and all those lands, services, &c. which belonged to the Abbot's 
 capital manor, and were not granted with the rectory manor; and 
 in this family it continued, till the death of 7{oge/' iiygof/, the last 
 Earl of that line, who held it jointly witii Jlice his wife in the year 
 1306, at which time it contained 180 acres of land in demean, 7 of 
 meadow, 7 of pasture, 40 acres wood, 2 windmills, &c. and was 
 held of Robert Filz-JValter, lord of Diss hundred, at 2s. per annum 
 rent, paid to his hundred of Diss, to which the /eet of this part al- 
 ways did, and now [1736] doth belong. 'J'his Roger died in the 3Jth 
 oiEckcardi. without issue, upon wiiicli it came to the Crown, and 
 was granted anno 6th EdzcardW. to Thomas de Brotherton, Earl- 
 Marstial, with the barony of the 7Jygof/,s ,• in 131.3, the Countess- 
 Marshal had it. In 1331, John Lord Svgrureo'i J'lilkestone in A>/// had 
 it, in right of Margaret his wife, daughter of Thomas de Brolherlon. 
 In 1360, EdmirdlMountague/ (or de Monte Jcuto,) i\nd J/ice his 
 wife, one of the daughters and heirs of Thomas de Brotherlon, held 
 one moiety as part of the barony of that Earl, and Joan their 
 daughter, then wife of JVi//iam Vlford, was their heir. In 1371, 
 Walter Mannei/, Knt. held the other moiety in right of Margaret his 
 wife, late wife of John Lord Segrave, and one of the heiresses of 
 Thomas de Brotherion. In 1381", Uillitim de Ufford Ea\\ of Suffolk 
 died seized of one part: and in 1399, Thomas de Mouhrai/ Duke of 
 Norfolk, who had been banished for speaking disgracefully of King 
 Richard II.* died in banishment at fenice, of the plague, in his re- 
 turn from Jerusalem, seized of this among other manors in 1406, and 
 it was after held by Elizabeth his widow, who after married to Sir 
 Gerard de Usfletc, und died Juli/ 8, in the 3d year of King Henri/\'L 
 ]ea\\n<r it to John Moubrai/ Duke of •Sorfolk, who, in 1432, held it 
 as of -FoT-wef manor; and "in this family it continued till the male 
 issue failed, and then it descended to the lloxcard family, and con- 
 tinued in it till seized by Queen Elizabeth in 1572, upon the Duke of 
 Norfolk's attainder; notwithstanding wliicii, in 1576, Nov. 17, 
 William Dt/x of IVickmere, Esq.; and liilliam Canlerell of \orzcich, 
 (Gent, as trustees to the Noz/o/A- family) let to Tlwmas It hippie of 
 Dickkburgh, Gtnl. the liberty of (ishing and fowling in .S'ewtcf .l/oor, 
 and the Damm's Dj/che in Dickhbiirgh, tliat is, as nmch as to that 
 manor belonged, for 21 years, at 3s. 4rf. a year. In l602, Thomas 
 
 ■ See Diss, p. 36. prati val. v. s. 
 
 » Terrc Abbatis de Sancto Eadmun- 3 Esc. 15 E. i. Esc. 35 E. 3. a. p. 
 
 do. Dicedim. Hiindr. fol. 182. * The Atlas Norf. p. 335, errs in 
 
 Ineadcm (Sc. Scmere; tenet Fulche- saying King Edward II. instead ot King 
 
 rus i socman. Sancti Ednuindi de xx. Richard II. Vincent against Brook, 146. 
 
 act. et ii. bord. ct dim. car. et i. acr. Dug. Bar. vol. i. iol. jjo.
 
 .^i riiKLi nunnn 
 
 I l ii; 111 I'nH, .' 'm/ 
 
 Hit, at Initloct t<i : liy, 
 
 niicl Mtiiii- r K.MiUi ihi-ii cuiiMTiiU, niui b_v tlieii unicr. 
 
 lit l(»4l,' J i-- licijt. Mu* K>rd ; niid in KtVJ, AUakt Imu- 
 
 rruet, Em{. krpl court lit-rc. Iii MijA, John TitutuU kc|il liin tint 
 
 ' lit Utaihy Jilakf lAitcmicf. In l(i.>(), 
 iicr tir>t i-ouil ; and in 1(07. liol/€rt 
 t ; in I ' I ■ / kaomM 
 
 I . , , .1 ; III I' "It, wi- 
 
 dow, wai ludv ul U ; in ! ItuKun, mi't i\til/<>( llutcanl, 
 
 Gfiil. k«|»li\>urt; nnd ii» . , i N.'///f^ tlti«, wiis Unci. In 
 
 \t)Ti, Ahh< Soblft, wklow; in HiJH, Thomat Hiulou, Iw) ; in 
 IrtSI, TAomas Huxloit, (Jrnl. In Id lii« lirM court; in lOiH, Liiutbilk 
 ItHilott, widow ; III 170(». John Muhufl, ilerk, in rnjlit of his 
 MilV; III 17l(i, / • I' ■ wuiow, who durinw; her wkkiw- 
 
 ho«>cl cHK-.tid il . ^ ", cli-rk, ri-ctor of l>hlJe{iur^fi, 
 
 mid . ittlcr lior d<(t-a»f ; wlio iil hi* (1< alli f;avc il to 7,yf//« 
 
 \<. , wite. who kc|>t court in I72». lunl »Ik-. jointly wiih 
 
 Mr. lyi/Ham Stdham, late rector of Moult on- Ma^na, her cl<kvl 
 son. »old it, in the venr 17.»"5. to 
 
 Hi» r.xcilleiicv lloRATio W vLPOLK, Ksc|. who is tlic prc»enl 
 lord, [I73(i.] 
 
 llic CtsToMsor THIS Manor are these: The eldest son is heir; 
 the fine i» at the lord's w ill ; it gives « lliird dower ; the teniinls cnn- 
 uol waste ill Miouscit, nor fell timbei njion the copyhold, 
 
 or waste, w j. 
 
 n»erc were fonnerly three other manors, all wiiich belonged to 
 SfmrTf, and are now fallen into DickUhurgh Hall manor, of whicli 1 
 niiet Willi ilif followini; accounU. 
 
 The eliipfof Sancrc was, at the Conquest, in the Ahlxit of liurif'' 
 *ho held it as a manor, worth at liiat time W»». it biini; a mile and 
 quarter long, nnd us much broad, and paid (m/. gr/r/. 
 
 This was soon after tlie Contpiesl divided into three parts, liu- first 
 of wliich l)eloiiged to the IJlnntHU, and was given by lianulph dc 
 Gliiinill, with Maud his daut;hu-r. In Ifiltiiim df .'hilnr^il, u ho 
 innmed her, and was one part of that land which iM-longed to Iho- 
 min \ufll, of whom it was then luld ; it w;ls alter rhaiiL'ed with C>- 
 eili/( nrlmnd, for other lands which sin- had in /I aM/r»/<'///. In l'Jt<), 
 Hiilpk t'aibimfl wu» lord of it, and had the assize oi hrcad and Itrrr 
 of nil his teiionts, as the inquisition at that lime shews us. l-rom 
 hiin It went to Hii^li de Simrrr, who hel«i it of the Abbot ; and in the 
 latter end ol' Henri/ the Third's rcign, John dt Sonn rt/ held in Siimre 
 tilt- fourth |>nri ofn fee: it continued in his family till Uni, and 
 tluMi u <l by John de S.,meii/,' to John de liouHc, and not 
 
 long all' to iKJtiiiied to Uie LUirl's manor. 
 
 ' tor ihc rollowinR account I own du» pro inanerio de diiobui caninlis 
 
 ' •■ Mr. Francit icirc, Km^KT xii. iKird. cl ii. C4r. in 
 
 111, SccujfU ot dnio. ct ii. car. Iiomin. »ilv. xii. pore. 
 
 ,,.. , ,, 1 iij. *cr. prill, ct. i. -•• 'i' « icr. »fm- 
 
 ' Tcrre Al)bali» dc Sc". KaMmundo |'cr junl >iim dn u. vJef. 
 
 Dice i!'m. Mund. (Ooniod. fol. i»».) xl. i. tul)rt v. qiui- cl ». m 
 
 Scmcrc tcouit temper banctus Edinun. laiu. ri vi. J. tic Gcltd. 
 
 ' Die Umily ul tlie Sctncrcs, or S(v
 
 D I C K L E B U R G II. 203 
 
 The second part of Semere was, in the Conqueror's time, held by 
 Walter, uiidcr liohert MaUt,^ lord of Eye, to which honour it was 
 aijpendant for some time; and about the year 1200,' Sir IVilliuin 
 Cheyntj had it, as part of his barony of IJois/bnl, from wliicli time I 
 meet witii no accounts of it till 1,370,' when it belonged io Jiof/crt 
 Bacon, who was outlawed for felony ; he is said to hold it of Ed- 
 tnuiid Uj/'ord le Cousyn, by knight's service, as of his barony of 
 Horsford^ It then contained two messuages, 120 acres of land, 
 &c. and Joan was wife of the said Robert, who, in 1S91, sued the 
 King for it as her right, at her husband's death, in 1414;' she had 
 license granted her by the Bishoj) of Norwich, to have mass said to 
 her in any decent place. These licenses were then usually granted 
 to aged people that could not come to ciuirch, or to people of dis- 
 tinction that lived at a distance, in which case the priest always had 
 a consecrated portable altar to ofHciate at. In 14.55, Richard Bacon 
 had it; in 1538, John Shellon and Jhine his wife convcved it by 
 fine to llenrij IVhipplc, in whom it was joined to the Earl's manor. 
 
 MANTELAKE'S, or MANCLERK'S MANOR, 
 
 Was the third manor in ^'fwere, and had its name from some of its 
 former lords, though I meet with none of them of that name. In 
 1191,* a fine was levied of \i, Alan and IVilliam IValLcr {\.\so bro- 
 thers) being petents, and Roger de DiccUshurc tenant, whereby 
 they released it to Roger and his sons, lio, Thomas, and John ; this 
 Robert enlarged it by purchasing many lands of Robert de CoUcJield 
 and Posta/ina, his wife, in Titshall, Dicc/esbiirc, and Rivcshn//, in 
 1267. 1 know nothing more of it tilltiie lothcenlury, and then 7Ao«ffs 
 Abbes held it of the Duke of Norfolk, as of his jnanor of Forncet. In 
 1514,' Ric. Spoonerheld it of the King, by the service of I2s.per 
 annum, and it was then valued at 10 marks. In 1544, Thomas, son 
 and heir of John Cornwakis, Knt. died seized. In 155G, Thomas 
 Gawdi/c had it, and Thomas, his son the year following, who scein 
 to be trustees only ; for in 1598, Thomas Spooncr, GlmiI. sold it to 
 milium Holmes and Thomas Kdzaards, and then it extended into 
 Sethyng, Muudham, and Loddon ; and in \C)S3, there were divers 
 lands in Selhi/ng held of this manor, and soon after it was lost in the 
 Earl's manor, to which it had some lime been joined. 
 
 Diccles-Bnrc, or Burgh, may take its name from some remarkable 
 Saxon that settled here, and raised a fortification, of some sort or 
 other, to defend himself and his adherents against the insults of the 
 Danes, for Bupj originally signifies a fortified place, or a place of 
 defence,* and is pronounced ditlerently in divers parts; in the south 
 parts, buri/, in others burgh and brough, and often bcrri/ and barrow. 
 The reason we meet with so many places thus called, in all parts,. 
 
 merys are very ancient ; besides those ' Escaet. 45 Ed. 3. 
 
 mentioned as lords, I find Jordan de ' The UfTord's had both Eye and 
 
 Seniere lived in Ed. the First's time. Horsford. 
 
 ' (Tol. 76.) Terr. Rob. Malct. Dice ' Lib. 7 Instit. 
 
 dim. Hund. In Seinerc tenet (Galterus) *Reg. Nig. Vestiar. 174, Fin. Norf. 
 
 i. liber homo sub Edrico commend, tan- H. 3. Lig. 9. No. 83. 
 
 turn .\1. acr. el sub eo. iii. bord. semper ' Ex bundello 2 virtute officij, &c. 
 
 i. car. inter homines silva. inj. pore, et H. %. 
 
 ii. acr. prati. val. viij. s. * Camden's Remains, p. 95. 
 
 'Regr. Nigr. Vest. Ab, Bury,fol. 33.
 
 nicK I. nni no n. 
 
 III. 
 b. 
 
 ti.. 
 
 ■:> »Prc (ililli'cd Id pet ' 111 
 
 I 'ilily iIm'iiim-Ucs III tli< iiicr 
 
 illiiiiul I (it' lIlL- liitttet, uliil 
 
 xt-r llx- I. iiru-uliiin 111 rvrrv di»- 
 
 tnol «ra«, (il 1 may b<- ulluMcd to cnll it liy liuit iiiiiiu-,) tlieic they 
 a*M'ml>'' '' '■■ "'I'ut nuiiitxTii, niid fixed tlicir hubiLiitiuiis, n< well (u 
 gtiiirtl t Uiiund i;i>odii, a* tlii-ir dead Ijodten, Iruiii tlu- iittuitt 
 
 ot' '' . niid ill luinour ui tli<-ir (ir!>t leaden, lliut rni»ed tliric 
 
 fi< 'u'V et'iurallv ralli-d tlicin alter their nuiiie« ; lliiii 
 
 ^4 w III liave liad llieir names, llioiigli 
 
 ill Illy t'uiitiiiues, without the iKTMiiial 
 
 addition, but in sucii 1 beliexe otteii tlu- name ot° its lotiiider tiiuy be 
 ouiilttil lung since ils I'ouudution ; liiir^h in Lolhiiialund is iiii 
 instance of this kind, it iK-ing aiuienlly called Cnolifr's-Iturgh, from 
 (.'no/mti/i ,- and tliu> it is very plain, thai all places that retain this 
 name iiuvc without douht In-eii places of more than comnmn note in 
 carlv at;es, and tlie threat number of them that still retain this iiami; 
 ninJc me enlarge thus much upon it^ that it iiiav sutlice for them 
 all. 
 
 In iGoi, liere were 524 communicants, iuid now there are about 
 80 houses, ond 400 inhabitants. It paid S/. I(i«. tenths; the |)ar- 
 liament valuation was 1():!2/. and the present one is, for lAUigiiure 
 port, 3.).>/. and for nickleburgh part, i')itHl. [I'.'Ui ] 
 
 In I4'J8, the .Abbot of lliiry was taxed at .il*. iil. oh. for his tem- 
 ptirals in this town, it Ix'in;; part of liie land belonging to his manor 
 of i'lVi/irt//, that extended lutlier, together with a tenement given to 
 the abbey in 11 'JO by T/iumtn Nuf//,' the customs and services rc- 
 initte<l by the Abbot to llenrif I'rftnutn and M<itfu ic dt Cambridgf* are 
 uid to bi- these, tiz. that the tenants of the rector's manor were Ix-forc 
 obliged to do suit of court every lifti'cn days, at Ti'.leJwIe court, and 
 to nay ai<y and Inl/in^e whenever il was lai(f on thet<iwn ot'Tifhi/ia/r, 
 and to carry part of the Abbot's wine and bord from Soraich, or 
 Yiirmoulh, to I'al'^rmi: liridgc, and to hedge and ditch round 
 Tijleshalf Slnck-i/nrds and to plow one day and reap another, the 
 Ablx>t finding them </>>/. In 1274, the rectors had assize of bread 
 and bttr of ull their iL-nanU allowed them upon a Quo H'arraiito. 
 
 IlfMPHRY Rant," Ksq. of Dick/rbiirgh bearelh, rrm. on a fess 
 tab. thiec lions raiiipaiii ur. CiesL, out ol a coronet ar. u lion kciant 
 or. Ciranted by Look, Clarencieiii, anno 1674. 
 
 The Commons nrv Sancre (irren, which contains about <V) acres; 
 on this I'ulUam- Market intercommons an far as I'utham Bridge; 
 DicUebiirgh Moor contains about 80 acres, and Pound or High 
 Creeit about 50 acres, on botli wliich Dickltburgh commons solely. 
 
 'The WhitrRrgr. 
 
 • Rc{jr. I'inclit>ctki fol. 1I7 ; »«e p. 
 191, iiutt' J, Miitt |i. 191, nulc 9. 
 
 * Hunipliiy K.ini ul Dicklct>ui^h, Esq. 
 by Mill <tjicil M.iy I], I J It, |irovcd m 
 Inc arrlxlrjcon'i ufBi-e in 1716, R'vc 
 ]}i. a )cji lu >lic |>oor, as li>- ■ ^'^ ' 
 luin ti k w}n livrd, in lli 
 " licin, I },ivc Id llic (>oorc _. i- 
 " buri;li aiul Litiignicrc, the turn 01 1/. 
 
 " I it. eo he paid yearly, and upon New. 
 *' ycjr'i day, as Clia|>Mun'> dule ij, by 
 " my ion \\ ilium, diiniig lin life. 
 Hr wa* grandfather to the prc:.^! Mr. 
 Kanl. 
 
 The house called Dickleburgh Hall is 
 
 • — ■' ■ ■' " ', 'ivmg alwul J J. -acres 
 
 • It, and ilk uMncd by 
 
 1 , i^-^. of Crowficldllall, 
 
 lu butioik.
 
 TITSHALL. 
 
 205 
 
 And whereas it is said in Noizcich Domesday, that all this town is the 
 King's/ {tola villa est Itegalis,) when the Crown was never concerned 
 in the manors, it will be proper to observe, that it is meant of the 
 jurisdiction and special privileges which the Crown had in this and 
 many other towns, all which were granted by Edward IV. to John 
 Duke of Norfo/lc, and is now in the present Duke, whose liberty ex- 
 tends all over this town, as before observed, and will be treated of at 
 large under Lopham.^ 
 
 TITSHALL 
 
 Js variously written in different ages, first, Totessala, or Thetcshall, 
 after Tifteshale, now Titshall ; these churches and manor were beg- 
 ged ^ of his parents by Si/ward,* a monk oi' Burj/, whom Leofsfan 
 the abbot had made dean, who at his request gave it to that monas- 
 tery. And by an inquisition taken in 1274,' it appears that lie was 
 son of Osulph (Le-Sire) and Leverun his wife,^ who held it of the 
 Crown in capite, by the annual rent of 20s. which the Abbot paid 
 quarterly at Norwich castle, b}' the name of zcai/tej'ee, and held it as 
 part of his barony, having com t-leet uss'ize oi bread and ale, and li- 
 berty of free-warren ; the whole was allotted by the Convent to the 
 Abbot's own use, who was taxed for his temporalities here, at 30/. 
 12s. Ad. and paid yearly 5s. lOd. to the lord of the hundred, to ex- 
 cuse him and his tenants from all suit to his hundred court. In the 
 Confessor's time there were two churches, with 40 acres land, and 
 the manor extended into Gissiiig and Shimpliiig, and was then valued 
 at 7l. and in the Conqueror's time at Ql. 15s. it being then a league 
 and 4 furlongs long, and half a league broad, and paid 17d. Geld;'' 
 
 ' See 193, note 7. 
 
 '^ See Lopham, for the grant of ihe 
 Duke of Norfolk's liberty. 
 
 3 Regr. Alb. fol. 24. b. 
 
 * Monast. torn. i. 294. 
 
 ' Rot. Inquis. in Baga de Quo War. 
 in Curia Recept. Scacij 3 E. i. 
 
 '' See Brisingham, p. 49. 
 
 ' Terre Abbatis de Sancto Eadmundo, 
 Dice dim. Hund. (Domesd. fol. 180, i.) 
 Tiveteshala tenet semper Sanctiis Ed- 
 mundus pro. iii. car terre semper xviii. 
 villan. et xv. bordar. et ii. serv . et 
 iii. car. in dominio et xii. car. homin. 
 silv. Ixxx. pore. x. acr. prati semper v. 
 tunc xxiii. animalia xxxv. pore. xl. ov. 
 xxiii capr. et v. soc. in eadem de xl. 
 acr. semper ii. car. In eadem i. liber 
 homo bci. Edraundi. dim. car. terre i. 
 
 VOL, I. 
 
 vill. et dim. ii. bord. semp. i. car. silva 
 XV. pore. Due ecclesie de xl. acr. val. 
 vij.j. et v'l'i.d. Isti nianerio adjacet j. be- 
 revita Gessingham de j. car. etii. villan. 
 et ii. bor. semp. i. car. in dnio. et ij. 
 car. hom. silva. xv. pore et xviii. soc. 
 deviij..icr. Fulcherus tenet xxii. acr. 
 semper iii. bor. et v. car. etii. acr. pra- 
 ti tunc (sc. in the Confessor's time) va- 
 luit. vij. lib. modo ix. et xv. sol. Tive- 
 teshala hiibet i. leug. et iiii. quar. in 
 long, et dim leug. in lat. et de Gelto 
 xvij.rf. In Simplinga vi. soc. pertinent 
 isti manerio de xxxii. acr. et i. bord. et 
 ii. acr. prati semper inter omnes. i.car. 
 appretiatur sicut superius. In eadem 
 lib. homo xl. acr. quod tenet Fulc. etii. 
 bord. semp. i. car. et ii. acr. prati, 
 silv. iiii pore. val. x. s, 
 
 DA
 
 COG TITSllALI- 
 
 anil fruin tint time il runlinurd in Uio Abbott, till tlic dutolutiun of 
 llieir iiiuiiii!>(cry, »ltcn it niu tcizcd by Uic Crown, and was graiilcti 
 by Km? //ruryVlll. in l! to 
 
 Ji»iiN CoHN WAi i-\ s.' . 'if bit body,* who for hit iin- 
 
 gular !■■ 'I'M, l>ukc ot ^ ui the 
 
 liikiiii; I'M ! /. lioiKiiir i>t K , (I tbcn 
 
 cuiittrritl on turn; and toon utter tit* return from tliotc wart, wa« 
 made Steward of the Ilousebold to Prince Edward, lie died iteiz«d 
 in 1349. al .7i.^<Tij^f , (.or -/»Ar(<A»f,) in liuckin^hamihirt, and iii bu- 
 ried under It uoble aionuiucnt in iifrAA^nu/rt/ church* in that county, 
 leavini/ it to 
 
 Sir I'lioMAs C'onsw Ai.CYs, Kiit. hit son und heir, who had then 
 Lvcrv of It, ho b«-ini: Sherirt of Sorfotk uitd Siilfolk in the lust year 
 of t.dntird the Sixth's rcii{n. raised ureiit lorccs ajjiiiiist liie o|>|>osen> 
 ot Quei'ii Mary's title, for %»hich services he was first sworn one of the 
 jirivy-council, then made Treasurer of Calais, and aller Comptroller 
 of her Household. At his dealli in l(J04, it went to 
 
 Sir William Cohnwalkys, Km. ot Jirome in Suffolk, who died 
 sci/.ed \or. la, KilO, leaving; il to* 
 
 FucDKnuK CoK.swALLYS, his sou and heir, who was crealcti 
 Iwronet by Kinc; Charlcsl. by letters patent, date<l Mai/ 4, \(i'Z7, antl 
 '* having servcillhal prince both in court and camp with great fidc- 
 " iity, for which he sulVcred in those unhappy times, both imprison- 
 " ment, e.xile, and the loss of his estate ; in testimony of which, to 
 " reward his great merits and accomplishments," he was by King 
 CA«r/fj 11. in \t>6\, made a Imron «>f the realm, by (he title of Loitu 
 CoRSWAii.is, Barim of Lye in Suljolk, with remainder to tlie heirs 
 male of his body. At his death it went to 
 
 CiiARLE.s Lord Coit.NH ALKis his sou and heir, who is buried at 
 Ciilj'ord in Suffolk ; he left it to 
 
 CiiAKLKs Lord ConNWALRis, his son and heir, who wa< one of 
 the Lor<U of the Admiralty in the reign of King If itliam lU. and 
 Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Sulfolk ; he left it to 
 
 CiiABi.Es Lord CoRNWALEis, his son and heir, at whose death 
 U di'T>cended to the present [ I73fi] 
 
 CnAHLKs Lord Coknw ai.f.is, his son and heir, who sold il to 
 
 His excellency IlouATio Walpole, Lsq. who is now lord and 
 patron. 
 
 Another part of liiis town belonged to " iiij'arlhing manor, for 
 which see It infartliiiin. 
 
 Another purl In-longrd to the Abbot of Ely's manor of Pulham.' 
 
 Another to /I illiam iiishop of 'ihdj'ord, which was of his own 
 inheritance, and not in rii;ht of his (>i>hoprick, of whom it w-as 
 held at the Con(]UCsl by licinald dc I'crapiiiul, ami was of 2Ui. 
 
 • Upon \\\e grant there wai a fec-farm ' There it a monument for him at 
 
 rent of 4/. 61. iJ. ci. rctervcd, which Bromr, but it nuy be a cenotaph. 
 
 »»» I'jid 10 llie Cro»n, till King Wil. • He m buncdal Brume. 
 
 ' • - ' r totbeLorJ OtmUiun, to 'Terra See. Adcldicde, Dice dim. 
 
 .din |6>I, and Ix-lungt lliindr. (DoDietd. ful. 190.) Inli- 
 
 ' ' ' ' V now, to l)ut llic nu- *cietliala duo mkhi. dim. car. lerre, ct 
 
 nor d ot il. ii. acr.et ii.vilUn. el dim. cl ii. t>onl. et 
 
 *" ' „:, p. 100. i. car. iilva XV. pure. i. acr.et dim. prali 
 
 Tal. x.i.
 
 TIT SHALL. 207 
 
 value/ it was aflcr beld by the Le Neves, from vvlioin it was called 
 Neve's Tenement : Robert Neve,^ one of the owners, ordered to be 
 buried in St. Mnrgaret's churehyard ; he left it to Jofui Neve his 
 son, in which family it continued till the Ifith century. 
 
 For another part of this manor that extended into Ghsing, see 
 p. 168, note 9. 
 
 Besides these, there were several tenements, or manors, as they are 
 often called, all which had their originals by the Abbots fcolfnients, 
 and are now included in the great manor. 
 
 In 1307, William Bitteman, Bailiif of Nortcich, a man famous in 
 his time, from whom sprung William Baiemuu Bishop of Ao/ic'/cA, 
 purchased a free tenement here. 
 
 It appears in the register called Pinchcbck, fol. 195, that Waller, 
 the son of Norman the Dean of Norwich, held a free tenement, with 
 60 acres of land, and divers rents and services of the Abbot's grant ; 
 he was succeeded by Thomas his son: it belonged afterwards to Tho- 
 mas (le Pakcuham, then to John (le Ho, who infcofled Sir Richard dc 
 Boi/lund in it, who jointly with Elen his wife held it in li394.' 
 
 UPIIALL MANOR. 
 
 to John his son; and in IGfiG, William of Ophall of Tifteshall was 
 lord. In 1285, it was in Thomas, son of John of Tifteshall of Upliall, 
 who left if, about 1290,' to Robert of Uphall, his son ; he quite left 
 oflthe sirname of Tifteshall: in 1292, he gave it to Isabel de Bok- 
 land, of Hetgham, by the name of Uphall Manor, and in that 
 year the said Robert and Isabel, jomtiy with Maud, widow of Robert, 
 son of Thomas of Uphall, daughter of Isabel de Bokland, released all 
 their right to Sir John Thorp, and William their son, in this manor. 
 In 1294, Robert,'' son of Sir John dc Ji/shezcellethorp, and Maud his 
 wife, granted to Robert Carleford of Shoteshatn, this manor, in ex- 
 change for the said Robert's manor of Nelonde ; and afterwards the 
 said Robert de Carleford released this manor again to Sir Robert de 
 Thorp aforesaid, and 3Iaud his wife. In 1S04, it was settled on John 
 de Thorp, and yl/ice his wife ;' he died in 1323, and then held it of 
 the Abbot at 5s. per annum, it being then valued at Sl. 5s. 8d. It 
 seems to continue in this family till it was sold to Sir Edzcard Jenney s 
 father, for so the said Edward declares in his will, in 1522,' when he 
 gave it to his brother, and the next heir male; from ihc J ennci/s it 
 came to the Crown, and was granted in the 24th Henri/ VlII. to the 
 Duke of Norfolk, who afterwards conveyed it to Edward White ot 
 
 ♦ Terre Willi Epi. Tedfordensis dc 5 Regr. Norman, part i. ful. 12. 
 
 feudo. (Doms. fol. 162.) In Tivetessalla » Sec Bnsinghani, p. 59- 
 
 i. lib. l.omo xl. acr. tcrreT.R.E. x^. 'Regr. Kemp. fol. 44- 
 
 .-.cr. teste hundrcdo, et pertinuit pars » Cf"."''';- »'^'"'''== ^^ '^"" V," 
 
 viriad Sanciam Aldredam, et pars fe- mnnu Up.. (Moor) Nor«,c. '6b8. Jo'- 
 
 mine, 20 acr. ad Sanctum Edmundum, 127. &c. now in the Pubhck Library 
 
 semp. dim. car. et. ii. bord. Ervastiis at Cambridge, 
 
 invasit modo tenet, W. Episcopus ab » Esc. 17 E. 2. 
 
 antecessore, et Reinaldus de Perapur.d ' Regr. Briggs, tol. 109. 
 sub eo, tunc valuit v.s. modo 20,
 
 etM TIT SHALL 
 
 Tottttll, lo K' lu-lil of the innnor of I'ornerl, bv knighl'i tcnriif ; li!t 
 ■on. (i(or^r HhiU, <>ultl il to John Conittalrift, l'.tt\.; niid •<> il I'l-ll 
 ill! ■ ' 1 lliiit lime iiilu Dickltburgh, 
 
 SJi- . and /( iiltoH. 
 
 Sctt-iiit IhikI^ i «il>ii», iiiiii uiluT <.ii| :- ust'», wen* 
 
 «(-iu-«i ill 1^-17. griiiilt'il lu 'I'homm " , (jcnt. ali<l 
 
 bik bt-ii», to be held iti toccagt of the King** manor of lirokr. 
 
 Tlie Customs of tiif. Manor nre these; the 6ne i* nt the lord's 
 will; the cop\liuld dcscoiwU to tlie cidcitt »on : they cuiiiiul wu!»le 
 tlieir cu|>_vliol('l-huU3c», iiur fell limlKr williuul license. 
 
 In XliiC* there nns an e.vlent made of (his mnnur, at whicli lime 
 the eoiivhoider^ nl ittshalt iiiiil S/iimfj/ins;,^ if llii- lord was ut linn/, 
 ucrr obliged to carry two parts of the Abbot's provision, uixl Uie nieii 
 of DiekUburgh and Srmerc* the other third part ; the lord had then 
 a lar^c park, and a siieid or siielh fenced round, uhich was repaired 
 by the tenants yearly ; /( il/iam dt L'phtill held this manor uy the 
 payment of -it. '2iL ptr auiium, and S^/. a year Id the Abbot, to be 
 free from suit of llie hundred court, for which freedom the .Ablwt 
 paid 5s. a year for the whole town. (ia/J'ry de Bosco and his part- 
 ners, and \\ alter J'lli-Uogcr and the hoiiiai;es of Jo//« J'lti-JrJ/'ery, 
 and of John of Lphall, and of Hubert dt Schimpliiig, and the lio- 
 mages of the Abbot in Schimpliiig, and ho the chaplain and his 
 liomagers, and the homage of master AnuliiK, and Unlitrt de 
 Shinipliiig and his parceners, (all which held free tenements or small 
 manors under the AblK)t,) were to do suit lo the Abbot's court, and 
 lo plough and cart, with all the cattle they had, for Uic lord, and 
 were to pay a third pari of ihe .Abbot's general aid for Tit.\hul/ and 
 Shiinpiiiig, and lo find a third part of the lord's wine, and carry it to 
 /'(//g/arr bridge ; and to fence in the park, sneid, and stack-vards, 
 and repair them yearly. These free tenements being first granted 
 by the Abbots, lo be held of their chief manor upon these coodiiions. 
 
 litre arc two Ciiunciits, about a mile distant from each other; 
 the mother church is dedicated lo St. Man/ the Virgin, the other is 
 a parochial cha|a-l, whoso patroness is St. A'l(irg,iret,lx)\.\\ of ancient 
 foundation, even before the Conqueror. It was always a single in- 
 stilutioii, appendant to the manor, as it still remains, though the 
 parishes arc separate, and hath now, and ever had distinct ollicers. 
 
 Kins'* Uonki. 
 
 Tenths. Acre.y Glebe. 
 
 Sum. Tiiia 
 
 •JO 
 
 'ZOO 25 
 
 Lincoln Ttim. 
 3fJ marks. 
 
 '27 marks. 
 
 ' In t:£6, ihr consuetudinary, or CO- tvr- • , ind a pfrchcf grass, and 
 
 pylioldrri hclonping tu ilic nunor, were at ■\, and 6d. every anuimn. 
 
 jc h lud 11 atrci Lib. .Nli'i. Lunsuetud. Ab. Sci. tdu 
 
 al' they Mcrr to do jHrii. Dom. Cornnaleit, fo. 117, S. 
 
 all 11,' ,1.1,1 ' »«iK, li) nlioin ihey were ' See Sliimpling, p. ij8, note 9. 
 
 lo be maiaUiacd, and to luvc id. aj'icic * Sec y.t>)t, aolc j, and p. 192, note 9.
 
 TITSHALL. 2og- 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1301, non. Mai/, Andrew of Nortwa/l, rector, was collated to a 
 prebentlaiy in the college of St. Maiy in the Fields in Nurwic/i, by 
 the Bishop ; at his death, in 
 
 1307, C non. Mai/, Sir Tho. de ButtetitrU, sub-deacon, one of an 
 ancient and good family in this county, was instituted, but upon his 
 institution was obliged to swear to ]\ iUiam de Kiiapeton, then Arch- 
 deacon of Noncick, that whereas he was then a plurahst, and held 
 Eustone and Trostotie li\ings in this diocese, both of which had care 
 of souls, tiiat he would immediately resign one, unless he obtained a 
 dispensation from the Pope, as soon as he quietly received the profits 
 of Titsha/l. 
 
 Richard de Ditiimowe resigned this for Pa/grare in Suffolk ; and in 
 
 1357, 3 Mai/, Tho. de Calkhi/I, priest, succeeded, who resigned 
 Pahrave. 
 
 1307, 7 Juwp, CV/Z/c^y/ changed with Tho. de B /of ie Id, pv'iesi, for 
 Mulkberton, of which VVilliam de Hoo, Knt. was patron. 
 
 1394, jMr. JVilliam Rolf, a shaveling. 
 
 1398, 17 Dec. He changed with John Jllej/ii, for Frekeiiham. 
 
 1400, 14 April, Mill. Hei/cCard, priest, on A/ki/n's resignation. 
 
 1410,27 Jan. John Lollcicorth, priest, on liei/wardh resignation. 
 
 1416, 27 Dec. Thomas Lank, priest. 
 
 1418, 19 Nov. Nicholas Derniaii^^ bachelor in the decrees. 
 
 1424, 24 Dec. Robert Clermont of Car let on Rode, priest. 
 
 1431, 5 Nov. JValter Martin ; he changed Intwood for this, with 
 Robert Clements.^ 
 
 1434> 20 August, John Hei/ghundern, on Clements's resignation. 
 
 1455, 17 October, Richard Tat eshale, A.M. at John Hei/ghunder's 
 deprivation. 
 
 1460, ult. April, John Fletcher, on Tatesliales resignation. 
 
 1487, 30 June, John JIughson, on Fletcher's resignation. He died 
 in 1490. 
 
 1490, Tho. Asti/. 
 
 1533, 1 1 August, Robert Bosall, on Asti/'s death ; he was the last 
 rector presented by the Abbot. 
 
 1546, 27 Oct. Elias Lache, on Bosall's resignation. John Corn- 
 WALEIS, Esq. 
 
 15/8, 16 June, Jo/m Crane, S.T.I?. Thomas Cornw aleis, Knt. 
 
 1578, Tho. Crane, A. B. on ,fohn Cram's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1596, 16 April, Michael Denbigh, A. M. Ditto. 
 
 1600, Paul Chapman, who in l603, answered, that he was a ba- 
 chelor in divinity, and iield these two churches, being one benefice, 
 with the benefice of Heigham by 'Soruich; he was instituted June 15, 
 on Denbigh's death; presented by Thomas Cornwaleis, Knt. 
 
 1631,21 April Jeremiah Burroxccs, diirk, A.M. on Chapman's 
 death. Jane Lady Bacon of Bvome in Suffolk, widow, late wife, 
 of Nat. Bacon, Knt. of the Bath, before that, of ffyiiam Cormvaleis, 
 Knt.; he was deprived, and in 
 
 ' He was official or commissary of the Bisliop of Norwich. ' Rcgr. Curteys, 
 peculiarjurisdictionof theinanors ofthc fol. 72, 114,
 
 210 
 
 Tn .SHALL. 
 
 I' ' led. 
 
 !'■ . ' ^ ■.',ll of Johl Boift. H\ltBOTTLK 
 
 Orimstom:, Rirt. Charles Cohnwaleis, Knight of the Bath, 
 «nd Edmi'nd iiAitvEY, E>q. 
 
 I(i<j8, John Jermtf, :\. .M. on Kfn/'i death. Ciiables Lord Cokn- 
 wAi.Kis, Haron of Eiie. 
 
 W)7-, lo January, Christopher Burrcll, A. M. on Jermy's resijE^u- 
 tioii. Ditto. He died in 1701, and is burii-d iu St. Margaret's 
 clianccl. 
 
 1701, Mnrrh 1, Charlci Gihhs, A.M. the present [17SG] rector. 
 Charles Lord Curnwaleis. 
 
 St. Mary'i h the mother chorch,* orcr which the Bishop and 
 Archilcacon's visita'.urial |)<)\vrr extends, ti) whuiii it pays 1j. syno- 
 dal*, and 7.*. 'd. pfi. procurations; it is an old buildiris; havint; its 
 nave, chancel, and south porch ihutchrd ; a square tower, and five 
 bells; on the biggest is this : 
 
 {>(tru^ ab <i:trrnr, bucat no.^ po^rua Hitr. 
 
 Tlie following arms «irc formerly in the windows of the church, 
 steei)le, and chancel, but arc all lost, e.xcept these first three, r/:.' 
 
 Boittetoiirt, erm. a saltire ingrailed gut. Fitz-Utes, bendy of six, 
 or and az. a canton er. 
 
 Or, a saltire ingrailed v;ft. England, St. lldxnrd tlie Confessor, 
 the Kait- Angles, St. Edmund, Borland, Kcrdeston, Lfford single, 
 and «vilh all the following differences, viz. a label ; a de-lis ; a batt^a 
 az.\ a baton erm.; a baton chcquy az. and gul.; an annulet, Lotcdham, 
 yiortcich. (iul. a chevron between three cstoils sah.; or and sab. 
 mascule surlnut, Ijondham with a label gul. impaling az. on a chief 
 gul. three leopards or, and again siding gul. on a chief or, two 
 annulets sab. Bacon, or a fess gul. impaling Scales. On the Hood- 
 loft, an escutcheon ol the Lady Jai negan; liz. 1 . Jarncgan; '1. lugaldes- 
 thorp \ 3. Filzosbert ; 4. Mortimer, or scmi-de-lises sab.; 5. ar. on a 
 chevron sab. three escalops erm.; 6. Pierpoint.; 7. or, a sullire 
 ingrailed in a bordure sab. 
 
 On a grave-stone were yii/lmer's arms, viz. nr. on n cross ingrniled 
 tab. five l)ozants between four magpies proper; it lies in the chancel, 
 but the clligies, arms, and inscription arc gone. 
 
 Here are two black marbles, one hath an escutcheon of a griffin 
 and a crescent, for John Boys, n-clor, who died Dec. 30, lUGl ; ll»e 
 other is for Hcllcn bis wife, who died September I, \6f)l. 
 
 ■' He was prebcndjry of Norwich. 
 
 • In St. Mary* iliufch wa» held a 
 gild, dedicated lo her honniir, which 
 was disiolve<i in the tt\ cf t-dnard VI. 
 In I ' ■ iret Cock, widtw of thji 
 
 par will, *■' to paynt the Ta- 
 
 «' !)■ 1 ..111- wi wiir Ladi lOi. to |ia)nt the 
 •• Tniiilye T«l>ernji'r ki. »a. to llic 
 " hght afore St. N:lIi latand St. John 
 *< Bjpliit 4 kowe, to [uyiit a |ane above 
 " our Ljdi'i '. jbernacle ioi. lo the 
 '■ tnakynj of a hi-rsec ao</. to the bell 
 '* fiuue ixd. to 4 torcli p. ^d. lo the 
 
 " high altar iid. for a yereday for my- 
 " sen, Agnes and Margaret Cok my 
 " daii(;hleri, the pightellc.illed Derby's 
 " for ever, 4 marks for a prest to syng 
 " for me lialf a yere in the thurclKr.'' 
 
 IJI4, 1 Sept. John Griie of I'll.shall 
 
 willed 10 be buried in this church near 
 
 Margaret his wife. Kegr. Brif;^s, fol. 35. 
 
 ' MSS. k. 6, fol. a j, 4, pcncsj . An»tis, 
 
 Cart. 
 
 I find in Register Juhnion (fol. 117) 
 llul Mr?. Offka Moi.ir, Gciiilewoiiian 
 of Tytyshalc, wa* buned in this diurdi.
 
 TITSHALL. 8U 
 
 In the churchj'aicl, on the south side, is an altar-tomb, covered 
 with a black marble, for Mary wife of Robert Kettle, daughter and 
 heiress of Mr. William Fuller of Brisingham, who had four children, 
 Henry, Mary, John, and Grace, all buried by her, obijt Feb. 27^ 
 1728, aged 63. 
 
 The parochial chapel of St. Margaret acknowledges no visitatorial 
 power but that of the Bishop only, for it pays the archdeacon no 
 procurations ; but as much again as the mother church does to the 
 Bishop for synodals. 
 
 The nave and south porch arc leaded, the chancel thatched ; the 
 tower is square, and hath five bells in it, on one of which is this, 
 
 SANCXe eDCDUNDG ORA PRO NOBIS. 
 
 On the screens are Aylmers arms in proper colours. In the 
 chancel, under an arch in the north wall", is au old freestone altar 
 monument, with a cross formy on it, but no inscription to discover 
 who he was, though without doubt it was for some religious persoa. 
 that founded the chancel. On a brass^ 
 
 Hie jacet Brigitta nuper uxor Antonij Barn/, Generosi que obijt 
 4'" Die Maij A° 1635, Mta't. 21. 
 
 Here are three black marbles, the first for Christopher Burrell, late 
 lector, who died Jan. 6, 1701. The second for Charles, son of the 
 Rev. Mr. Charles Gibbs, rector, and Elizabeth his wife, who died 
 much lajnented April 0,2, 1721, aged iG^ears : 
 
 Quem Dij arrtant, Adolesccns moritur. 
 
 The third for Mrs. Margaret Stannard, relict of Mr. John Stannard, 
 late of this parish first married to Thomas Halls, Gent, whose cha- 
 racter as a wife, mother, mistress, and friend, needs no encomium, 
 she died Sept. 1, 1735, in the 75th year of her age. 
 
 The Customs of this Rectory are these; they pay 6d. for 
 every calf under seven, and \d. ob. for every cow instead of tithe 
 milk; and \d. every house for harth-silver, for all wood burnt in the 
 town, all wood sold out of the town pays tithe according to its value, 
 and all other tithes belonging to this rectory are paid in their proper 
 kinds. 
 
 The parish of Titshall St. Mary hath a small cottage situate near 
 the church, a piece of land containing half an acre, which abuts on 
 31ill Green north, south, and east, and on Henry Goodwin's lauds 
 west ; a small piece called Sent's Yards, about one rood, routed at 6s. 
 per annum, 10/. in money, the interest of which is given to the poor 
 j'early upon Easter Monday, and the poor receive yearly 10s. from 
 the church-wardens of St. Margaret's. 
 
 The parish oi' Si. Margaret in Titslwll hath G acres of land lying 
 in Moj///oH, part is copyhold, and ])art free, which is rented at 3/. 10s. 
 a year, and was given by Jcljery Neere ; it abuts on Monlton Com- 
 mon on the west, and Mr. Fulcher's on the south, and on the way 
 leading to Moulton High Green on the east ; the rent is received by 
 the church-wardens; l(js. 8(/. is paid every Easier to the poor of St. 
 Margaret's, and 10*. to the poor of St. Mary's as aforesaid ; the rest 
 k given towards repairing the church.
 
 ^Jt TITS HALL. 
 
 1\te (. oMMi.NN .III- Titihalt CirefM, liatrmaii'i (irttm. Mill drttii, 
 VotiHti lirrtM, iuitl litxk (Jrten, ull of lliciu cuiituining ubuul lUO 
 •crv*. 
 
 In KiO.J, tlioro wcrr pi communicants in St. Manx's piiri«li, nnd 
 I08 in St. Margiirel't , llicrc nrt- now [l7S(i] nboui :ib ilwc-llmj;- 
 huutrs in Si. .Uary'i, and \iO inhiibitnDls. •nJ4() in St. Mariiortl'i 
 •nd IHO inliabiUnU ; tlirv Men- valued at :)/. to^^cihcr to the tiiilhc, 
 and ISIH/- to tlic parlianu-nt xaliiation; but uuw tliev nn- a»«oiiM.-d 
 
 single lo Uic land Ulx, ti:. St. Mary's ul. /. and St. Margarrt't at 
 
 644/ 
 
 The whole IIundre«l is enclosed, and abounds much with wood ; it 
 being reckoned as pari of the woo<.il;itid hall' of Sorj'olk. The roadg 
 are very bad in winter, especiallv this part by (iissiiip and 'J'ilsliall. 
 The luiuli in general are moist, occasioned by their Ix'in^ flat, nnd 
 havnig n blue clay within a foot or two of the earth's surface, through 
 which the water cannot pierce, it containinij; 'JO or SU tcct in depth 
 in niuiiy places. The soil is in general rich, and about one hall of 
 the land ii use<l for the plough, llie other for the dairv, and graying ; 
 it produces much wheat, turnips, clover, and all other grain in abuiid- 
 :")•■■•, <xcept buck or brunk, and cole-seed, of which there is but
 
 [213 3 
 
 THE 
 
 HUNDRED OF GILTCROSS. 
 
 1 H I s Hundred takes its name from some remarkable cross that was 
 gilt, which either stood in it, or was to be seen in great part of it; 
 though Mr. Neve observes it was spelt anciently Gydecross, froni 
 some cross that was a guide to travellers; and I am apt to think it 
 might be Rowdham Cross, which at that time was seen in great part 
 of this hundred, and was certainly a very remarkable one, that town 
 taking its name from it, Rowdham, or Roodham, as it is anciently 
 written, signifies the Town of the Cross ; and thus also Bridgeham 
 in this hundred was so called from the bridge which was the passat^e 
 to this cross, which, with the road, became remarkable, from being 
 the common way by which pilgrims took their journey out of Siif- 
 folk, and other parts of the country, to our Lady of Walsingham. 
 This hundred contains thirteen towns, all which are in Rockland 
 deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It was in the Confessor's 
 hands, as belonging to the manor of Kenninghall, and came to the 
 Conqueror, who held it at the survey, as belonging to the same, it 
 being then worth 20s. a year, the soc of the whole hundred belonging 
 thereto, all which was committed to Earl Godric's care, who had it 
 but a little while, for the Conqueror gave it with Kenninghall, Bo- 
 kenham, Snetsham, and Wymondham manors, to William de Albaniaco, 
 or Albany, who came into England with him, all which were to be 
 held by the service of being the King's butler on the coronation 
 day ; IVilliam de Albany, or D' Aughbitiy, his son, succeeded ; and in 
 this family it continued till Hugh D Aubigny died seized in 1243, 
 leaving it in dower to Isabel, his wife, daughter of William Earl 
 Warren and Surrey, and foundress of Marham abbey. But as this 
 hundred hath continually gone, and still remains with the manor of 
 Kenninghall, I have no occasion to trace its owners any further. In 
 1236," it was found by a jury, that the King had more right of plead- 
 ing in his county court, pleas of xcithernam^ and of taking cattle, 
 than the hundreds of Frethebridge, ISmithdon, Gildcross, and Shrop- 
 ham, had in their hundred courts; upon which Hugh de Albany 
 being asked. Whether he had any charters of liberties? answered. 
 That he knew not, his deeds being deposited in Wimondham priory, 
 
 ' Placita coram Rege zi H. 3, rot. 4, strained and carried out of his county, 
 
 in dorso, et 17° in dorso. and restore them to the owner, he being 
 
 ^ Withernam is a writ to impower a not able to do it by a replevin. Terms 
 
 sheriff to take any goods that are de- oftheLaw, p. 270. 
 
 VOL. I. E e
 
 iU (ilLiCKOSS IIUNUKCD. 
 
 for which rrniun Uc cictirrd time to warrli : the court ordered hiin l« 
 tind •rcuri(_\ to niiNwrr llit- Knit; nil urn-nra fioiii ilic time of iili ouru- 
 iialioii ; u|K)n \»hu-li Uus/i >urr«M»dfrttl m-i/iii of tin- libi-riic* to 
 lh«- K'li';, niui llu- Kini; (li-ltTii'd iiiiktciiii; liiiii lor <inniiti:<-», till he 
 h.> with ihi- i'^ill Itarn-ii. 'I'Iiim uiM''> o|>|M>ltU!lll\ In nbvrvc, 
 
 th- \ !'.; wnitOicn |irfM.Mit in tin- I'oiiit, iiikI jiKl^int'iit «us ({ucn 
 
 by liiin. tlioui^h in hit own cuutc, winch it dirrnly f<j|jtrary to the 
 opinion of ducn> pn-nt men. Anil this n«vrtion may ho furtiier 
 provitl, by n record in tlit- 'Jith y«'iir of lhi» Kiiii;, wliere, in iin a|>|Mid 
 lor k-lony, tiic eiitrv on the roll i* thun : " And bt-caux- our Sove- 
 " n-igii l>ord the King was absent, and liien- beiii'.' but few of his 
 " ciiuncil there, tlu-y which were iir»s«nt would not ^ive judKmeul 
 " lor a duell, nor do any lliiii}!; cIm.' in the ubseiue of the Kinp, or 
 " the uinjor part of his council;" so that we tk-e generally the King 
 was pri->ent, or if not, there wa« no judgment pn»M.'d, unle^ the 
 greater part of hi< council were there. In Ili4y,' return was made, 
 that Italfl Countt>s of .IntmUl held 40/. a vear in land in tliix liun- 
 dn-d, (hut her niariiai^c wa,-. in the King's gift, and thai llie hundred 
 was worth 7 marks a year, and had not liberty of return of writs, nor 
 other liU-rties n» some hundrids had ;* and that it paid yearly 4<V/. 
 to the King's Use. In l'J74, Henry lyeSoblt, Sheriff of \orlolk, 
 Ul iiildcrvu and lirvlhercross hundreds for 4ii. n year, whicii used to 
 be lei ul 16/.; this was when llie King had the marriage of lutbrl 
 aforesaid, or when he seized some of her estates, for her bold but 
 true sptfch, that she made unto liini, which you mav see in Dug- 
 dalc'* llarunagf, vol. i. lol. 1'21. In l'26(i, when Hogtr de MontrnU 
 held it, ii was then valued at IJ/. per annum, m\t ot which he paid 
 tin- King 4()f/. yearly, and the liberties allowed to llic liundri-d, in an 
 Hyrr at Sorwieh, were tiiese, sc. view of frankiiltdse, assi/c of lirrad 
 and beer, a gaUotrt, and trei/f'. In l.'M 1, In an inciuisition then Laken, 
 it was found, that Roger de Monlrull, and Emme, Ins w ife, held it as a 
 member of their manor of Kmninglwll. In lj37, it was worth 07. 
 13«. 4</. ayear. in the cmirt-book of this hundred, in l57tS, which 
 is among Mr. .Nnr'i Collections, I find the following manors are 
 held of it, by certain yearly payments, liz. the manors of Lphall 
 aod Holienhamt in I'larbuldishtim, of Furneaux in Middle Her/ing, 
 of Seekj'ord'i ia Hest Her/ing, Mainvarring't, Fatcconer'i, and Fei- 
 briggi in Eoit Her/ing; Ifromt/ni/i and .SVwrrf'j in It/otnwrton, 
 Maaekffn'$ manor in Quiilenfiam, and Hotkfinm's manor there, Mar- 
 thaCs, iireiji, and IWfklia/l in lianliam ; Fsllintre, or Co//egc manor 
 in Hui/itiurl/i, and lio/d/uim's xnaxuir th«-re, which also U'longed to 
 ihc C(j//ige; I ii/ta/l am\ H rcl/nim'i in (j<itl/iiir/i ; C/arki's leiii-nKiit 
 in Sout/i Ijoyham, and I'orter's in Riiid/esicurt/i ; Sti/tcnrd'!' and 
 Ruue/r* tenements there; Goodton'i tenement in \orlh Ijop/iam, 
 with divers other lands; all which do suit and service to the hundred 
 Court at Kenningha//, every three weeks, each -lilt iK-mg valued at iir. 
 Tlie Icnenicnt or iiinnor oi' ./«//« C/inrr/t of Giir/>o/disnam, and Pa- 
 keiJiam't manor in (iarhn/dn/iam, owe suit everv three wci-ks, or 'is. 
 each suit. The hundred court was always kept at Krnningliu// every 
 three wet-ks, but on accuiint of that inurket's Uiii'.' di-ux-d, it was 
 removed, and kepi at Mnrktl-Htr/ing. 
 
 ' PIj< •. 3«, H. J. lo ilic Kini;'j l.hcrl), »)iii)i wu after 
 
 * Bti- " pnvilfgcj belonged graiitcj tu (he Duke of Norfolk.
 
 KENNINGHALL. 2i5 
 
 It is bounded on the east b\' Diss Iiundred, on the south by the 
 river Ouse, that parts Norfo/k luid Suffolk, on the west by Thetfovd, 
 and on the north by Shropham hundred, wiiich is divided From it by 
 the river that runs from Quidenham Mere to The/ford; the superiour 
 liberty, as to the game, and many otlier privileges, belongs to his 
 Grace the Duke of Norfolk, as lord paramount of the Iiundred, all 
 which is in his peculiar liberty and jurisdiction called the Duke of 
 Norfolk's Liberty, the original of whicli you shall have under 
 Lopham; and as for the vest of the owners of it, 1 sliall refer you to 
 
 KENNINGHALL, 
 
 A town of large extent, and great antiquity, so called from Eynmj, 
 which in Saxon signifies a King, so that Ci/nirig or Ketiniiigliall, sig- 
 nifies the King's House, and according to the etymology, it hath been 
 a seat of the East-Jng/ian Kings, who are said to have had a castle 
 here, which indeed seems true; the site of it is now called the 
 Candle-Yards;^ (because the offices for that purpose were built in it, 
 when Thomas, the great Duke of Norfolk, built the palace, this place 
 being distant enough, to hinder the smell reaching it;) it is south- 
 west of tlie palace about a furlong, being a square of four acres, 
 encompassed with a spacious trench, at each corner is a mount, but 
 that fo the south-east is much the largest ; the manor-house continued 
 through all its changes in this place, till the Duke pulled it down, 
 and built that stately house at the distance before mentioned, which 
 was after called Kenninghall Palace, or Place ; it fronted east 
 and west, and was built in form of an (H), having a porter's lodge, 
 and all things else in the grandest manner. It was situated in the 
 midst of a large park, which contained 700 acres, well stocked with 
 deer, the north side guarded with woods and groves, being distant at 
 least a mile from the town, which lies westward. At the Duke's at- 
 tainder it was seized by the King, and settled on the then Lady 
 Mary, who kept her court here. To this castle (as Stow calls it) she 
 removed from Hunsdon in Hertfordshire^ and hither resorted to her 
 several lords and knights of this county, as Sir John Shelton, Sir 
 Henry Bedingfield, Sir Henry Jerningham, and others, at the death 
 of Edward VI i'rom whence they weni to Fra?nlingliam castle. Af- 
 terwards it was in Queen Elizabeth's hands, who was often here; she 
 it was that ordered her tenant Chapman, who then lived in Fersfield 
 lodge, to la}' out the way now called Chapman's Entry, out of her 
 own ground, the old way being so strait that the Queen could not 
 conveniently pass through it; it is now disused, and is called Queen 
 Bess's Lane, from her being scratched with the brambles in riding 
 through it, as tradition tells us. It continued in the Norfolk family 
 as their capital seat in this county, till about 90 years since, when it 
 was pulled down, and the materials sold for a trifle, with which great 
 numbers of chimnies and walls in the neighbourhood are built, as is 
 evident from the Moubrays and Aritndels arms which are upon the 
 bricks. Spelman, in his Icenia,'' hath nothing more of this town, 
 
 5 Many urns have been found in this * Baker's Chronicle, p. 314; Stow's 
 town, near the Candle-Yards, which Chron. 610, 40. 
 shews as if the Romans had been here. ' Fol. 58.
 
 «lt» KENNING HALL. 
 
 than that it witk (hr tent of «umc of the rhirfi'tt baron<>. That it 
 bclonct-U to till- Crown in the nio»l lurly linic* i» plain, fur tlie Con- 
 ft - ' 'I in hisuMii hands, ' it Uiiij; then world HU. n vtiT ""•• 
 
 5 or hoiifv ; but it wu» riM-n hy llie Cuiu|ui-ror s time lo 
 
 y4/. 1(1 uiicoiiii-(l nioiicv, III U- |iiiitl hv «^■l^llt, and (it. of t-oiiicd 
 nioiK-y, which w.is jiuid by tulc. and a /i«c at oath king'* ucccMiun, 
 (lor »o 1 lakf L<rru">o "• ''»<■ •"»«""» *«> sinnily.) It had a rrtttnan 
 and :tO acri!> belonging to il in (iiiiilcthuN.'tuul Hal Hcrliuii also 
 wro* a Ixrctric lu il. It wait llitti llirii- inili-i long, and oik- luiU 
 broad, and puiil i5</. Douradd. It alwav» was and i» now, privi- 
 Ifgid lu ancient dt-mcan, the iiihahiuiiiU being excus<-<l Crom lull, 
 passage, and ilnltn^r, uud iVoni serving on any _/'(/r/Vj out of" the lord- 
 •lii|>, and payini' towaul> the churgcii of the knights of the sliire, 
 U|H>n renewing tjicir writ of exeuijition on the dealh of every king, 
 and having it aiiniiaily allowed bv the shenirof the county. 
 
 It retuuineti but liille while in the Crown, being given by the 
 Conqueror to Iti/Ziam de Jlbini, Albiiiiiico, or Jlban^, and his 
 heir»,' together with tlie lord!>hi|i of Uokciiham, &.c. to be lield by the 
 service of being chief butler to the Kings of Hnglund, on the day of 
 their coronation, upon whicii account he was at'fer culled I'inctriia 
 Rfgii; but as 1 must treat of this family largely under liokntliain, 
 the priory there, as well as that at l\ imoiidham, being founded bv 
 them, I shall say no more of them here, than what is necessary, iis to 
 the history of this manor, which is this, that it always went with 
 Jioktiihain, till llie division of the AUntiiq'% estate between the four 
 sisters and coheirs of lliigli de Jlliini, who died without issue, leaving 
 this manor in dower to Isabel his wife, daughter of William liari 
 II arrtii and Surrrt/, who, in l'J4:l, had it, among others, assigned to 
 lier by the King's license, at her «lcath it went to Roger di Muiitialt, 
 or De-Moiileallif, who had married Crcilif, one of the sisters and 
 coheirs of y/M^A </«• Albani ; this Hubert i\\e\\ seized in l'27l,' leaving 
 il to Robert de Moiilealt, and Emma his wife, who had it settled 
 upon Roger of Rising, parson of liutrardi/ii, her trustee, lor her use, 
 upon a writ ot ad ijiiud damnum, which was brought, the manor 
 
 * Tern Regis quam Godricus servat. kriuld lubcl i. leiig. ct dimid. in longo, 
 
 Gitlccrou Hiind. (fo. 33.) Chcninkr- cl dimid. in laio, ct xxv.i/. dc Gclto. 
 hali icnuil Rex Kdwardus v. canint. (F0I. 11.) Sub. tit. predict. Gildccros 
 
 lerrr temper xxiiii. villan. et xxiiii. Htind. 
 
 border, el xii. acr. prati e( i. molendin. In Gnalesliala i. liber homo de xxx. 
 
 »ilva ccc. pore. tunc. i. car. iti dnio. acr. lerre, et jjcel in Kenincliajj, et ii. 
 
 JXMI et inodo i. Tunc i. car. in dnio. villan. et i. acr. prati 5eni(vrr dun. mol. 
 
 post et modo ii. Tunc xii. car. homin. et dim. cir. et xxiiii. acr. lerre. Tutuin 
 
 port el modo xi. et i. pouet rertaurah, ejt in prrtio de Cficnincliala. 
 Minpcr i. runcin. el xii. socnun. c. So tfui Knalcihale llien extended 
 
 acr. lerre et xriii. acr. prati, et li. mol. over the county river, and llie jMrt on 
 
 temper iii. car. et i. liber homo i. car. Norfolk tide belonged to Kcnnin);hall. 
 lerre et ii. villan. et iii. bord. Silva (Fo. 106.) Teiia Willi, de Sclioiet. 
 
 xiiiii. pore, temper i. car. et dim. car. In CheiunclMla (tc. terr.) de vi font- 
 
 homin. Et Herlinga 1. Lcrcwita temper factum. 
 
 jacct Imic manerio. i. cjr. terie et m. • 'I lie texlary wat a Roirun measure 
 
 villan. et :iii. t>ordanj et v. acr. praii. containing tomeihing more tfian our 
 
 Tunc i. car. in dnio. et posict retUiirari. pint. 
 
 lotum va'ebat I. R. t. x. Iibr. ct v. ' Dugd. Bar. vol. i. fo. iiS. Vincent, 
 
 testariot mellis, )>osl xxvi. Iibr. inodu fo. 19. 
 xxiiii. Iibr. bUncat, el vi. Iibr. ad nu- * hic. } E. 1. 
 merum ct geriumam. Tolum Clicni.
 
 KENNINGHALL. 217 
 
 being held in oapite of the King; the writ is dated at York, March 6, 
 127^), and the return thereof was the 5lh day of yJpril following, 
 when the jury, sc. Roger del Hilt of Ilarli/ng, John, son of fVilliam 
 of Garboldishum, Richard al Quidenham- Bridge, and others, found 
 that it would be no damage to tlie King, if the manor was settled on 
 Emma and her trustee ; and they further say, that this manor, with 
 Bokenlwm and IVymondham, are lield in chief of the King, by the 
 service of butler, as aforesaid, and that it hath a certain capital mes- 
 suage, called East Hall,^ and another called aGrange,\\\\.\\ a ruinous 
 dove-house, and 400 acres of land, 100 of which are arable, and 
 yearly worth 10/. besides 18 acres of meadow, worth \8d. each acre, 
 a windmill let for 13s. 4rf. a large park, the herbage of which is yearly 
 worth 5l. and the underwood AOs. a year. There is a market kept 
 every Moridai/, which is let at 20s. a year, and also a fair, let at 2s. 
 a year; the yearly qultrents are 8/. payable by equal portions, at St. 
 Martin, Christmas, Easter, and Midsummer ; also 1200 days works in 
 autumn, worth \d. each day, also the fishery called the Setter, worth 
 2s. a year, the pleas, perquisites of courts, and views of frankpledge, 
 and leets belonging thereto, are yearly worth 8/. To this manor 
 also belongs Giltcross hundred, the pleas and perquisites of the hun- 
 dred court, with all the views of frankpledge and leets belonging 
 thereto, are worth ol. a year, the whole of the value being 44/. 15s. 
 And the jury further say, that the said Robert hath the manors of 
 Rising and Snetesham, and the hundred of Smithdun, and the fourth 
 part of Li/n Tolbooth unsettled, all which are valued at 80/. per aii- 
 num. From this Robert it came to Roger de Monteatt,* who, in 
 1286, had the following privileges allowed to this mananor, viz. free- 
 warren, view of frankpledge, assize of bread and ale, a pillory, cuck- 
 ing-stool, gallows, and weyf with a yearly fair, on the day of the 
 Translation of St. Thomas [Becket'],^ and a weekly market on Mon- 
 day,^ In the 1st year of Edward III.' this Robert petitioned the 
 Barons of the Exchequer, to be admitted chief butler on the corona- 
 tion day, by reason of his manor of Kenninghall, which office he 
 recovered against the Earl of A rundell, who claimed it as belonging 
 to his earldom, and performed the office accordingly, and obtained 
 a decree, that that office henceforward should be performed by the 
 several lords of the manors of Kenninghall, Bokenham, and IVymond- 
 ham, or their deputies, by turns, upon proving that Hugh D'Jubeney, 
 late Earl of Arundell, held these and Snetesham manors, of King 
 Henry III. by the said office, which he performed at that King's 
 coronalion, and died so seized, upon which Bokenham and IVymond- 
 ham descended to Sir Robot de Tateshall, whose heir now holds 
 them, and is under age; and Kenninghall and Snetesham came to 
 the said Robert de Montealt, (or Mohaut,) who now holds them ; 
 and at ihe coronation of King Edward II. he claimed, and offered to 
 perform, his part of the said service, in right of his said manors ; but 
 Edmund Ean of ^r?/«rfe//, by his great power (tliough he never had 
 
 ^ This was the nameof the old house, viz. July the ytli. 
 
 before the Duke built the palace, and * The market hath been disused about 
 
 was so called because it stood east of the 90 years, 
 
 town. 7 Lib. MSS. N° 1931, in Bib. Pepy- 
 
 * Placita Corone, 15 E. i. sianaColl. Magd. Cant. fo. 43. De Ser- 
 
 ' The fair is still kept on that day, jantijs in Anglia.
 
 «lrt KIlNNlMillALL. 
 
 »nv ol »' Is) |ii rfornicd ihc Mini irrvicc, lo iho di»hfri»on 
 
 ol'liini iitr, lor wliiili n-a*Kii now, ul tla- o>niiialii>ii ot 
 
 K, 1 Robert cluiiiH-)! and |>crri)rnu«l tlic wliolc 
 
 ^i: Ikiiii; umliT iii;<'. Tin.- rtlurii m|h>ii M-ari'li 
 
 ol the ncurtU ^nvs, iliai lu U\SHrttihiiin liaviiii^ u liirii iii llu- t«Hi<-c, 
 tlk-y III prt-uut o'oulil lind iiuiliint; ol il, l>ul iliul al ilii- coniiialinii ol' 
 EleiiHor, dnUk;liU-r of llu^h Km! M i'roiiW, graiidiimtlitr to tile 
 pit-«*iil King, Hugh (/f JttHim. lluii lunl of Jruitdfll, in right of 
 tJii-se tnanor«, und not o\ liu i-urld.jni, HTVi-d tliv siiid ofliix- by his 
 dt|iuty, ih«- llarl iSnrrm, U-tauM- he «a» lh«n excoinmunicHtid by 
 the Archbi>lioi) ol i'liiitrrlniri/, lor UiUing awuy the arclibishojiii dog« 
 from him, a* hf hunted in tlie >aid Ijiifs lorest in Suwj, the arch- 
 bishop alUging, tliut he had u riglit t.. hunt in any forest in I'.w^laitd, 
 whenever he would. This oHiee ^lill tonlinues by turn;, to tliesc 
 manors, though in a jK-lition direcUd to the Loids conimisiioned to 
 receive all claim* of 8«rvices to be |K.rformed at the coronation of 
 Quen .liiut, l>v reason of their tenures, 1 find that Char/cf Ltirl of 
 Carliilr, tiiri-Slarslial of I'.H^Iiinit <luriiig the minorily of Thoinm 
 Duke of Vor/o/A, and Harl ol trundeU, who wiu* then out of the 
 reahn, claimed to perform this service, in a double ca|mcily, liz. in 
 right of this manor and of liis earldom, setting forlli (liat he held the 
 manor bv tliis grand serjeanUy, which was performed in right of it 
 at the coronation of Elainor aforesaid, and at the coronnti<iii of 
 Richard ll.bvihe Larl of Jrioide// and .SMrrry, and of //f/jry IV. 
 bv I'honun then luirl of .trunddl and Siirrcif, and by Ilniry Ear! of 
 Arunddl, at the coronation of lAltmrd VI. in riglit (as was said) of 
 the earldom of Aruwitll, and by llcnrii Duke of \orjolk and Karl of 
 Aniitddl, by his <leputv, at I'le coronation pf King l\ illiam and 
 Queen hlarif, who then received all the lees and profits belonging to 
 tlie office, ri:. the best gold cop that the King diank out of on the 
 coronation day, with the cloths, napkin*, and linen then used, the 
 cups both of Void and of silver used that day in the King's wine- 
 cellar ; with all wine vessels, pots, cups, glasses, &c. In I.V27, a fine 
 was levied between this Robrrl,' who wits then Steward of t7l«^r, 
 and Kmmn his wife, bv which this manor was settletl on Hhenisilves, 
 and their heirs male, remainder to iMbel Queen of Kiiglaiid for life, 
 and then to John of Hilham, the King's brother, in tail, remainder to 
 Etiirard King of Enelaiui, and his heirs. Robert and Emma had no 
 male heirs, and so it came to Queen Iiabel, and Juhii of Eitham 
 dvini; without heirs, the reversion after the Queen's death was in the 
 Kint;, who, in l.'l.'WJ, gave it to Sir /ri7/inm (/< Uo/i/n/tH^o, or .Uun- 
 lagiu," who, upon p ■ Queen (j<)() marks, had a release from 
 
 her, and imme<iiate y n of it: he dietl seized in l.'!4.'3, and was 
 
 buried in the It hitr Iriars, iMiidun, having the manor to l\ illiam 
 de Montague,' his son and heir, in whom it continued till 1J77, and 
 then he settled it ujwn Sir i\ illiam Moiitagiif, Knl. hisson,uiMtn his 
 marriage with Elizabeth, daughter to Ruhtinl Eitz-.llan tarl of 
 Jiiiiiilcll, and the issue of their boil ies, but he Ixing unhappily slain 
 in a lilting a- f\ iitdsor,^ by his own father, in I 18'i, he lelt nc» issue. 
 Uj>on his death King Richard II.' kept court liere, but soon after 
 
 ' Fin.divcrj com. E. j. Lig. i. N''4. ' Vinccnl, 449- 
 
 » Du^. Bar. vol. i. 646. > Coun «• H . '• ^! M. 
 
 ' IbJ. to. 648.
 
 KENNINGHALL. 219 
 
 delivered it up to Elizabeth, widow of the said William, who accord- 
 ing to the settlement, enjoyed it for life, and at her death it was to 
 revert to her falhcr-in-law, William Earl of Salisfmri/ and Lord of 
 Man. This Earl itwas who, in i;J5o,* (before he had settled it on 
 his son,;^ granted to Jlbred de Pakcnham of Garhotdishuin a fold 
 course for 300 sheep and .30 muttons, with common of pasture for his 
 cattle, through the whole year, from a place called lioxsutiktij, 
 northward, partly to Kenninghall Gap, and from thence westward "to 
 Riiigmtre, and thence by the way leading from Keitniiigholl to Bioi/, 
 as the way leads to Gurboldisham Field, paying him a yearly rent for 
 it, which light is now enjoyed, as belonging to Garboldisham, Upliall, 
 ov Fakcii/iam's. This lady held the manor in 1388, at which time 
 she was married to Thomas Lord Motvbrai/, Earl-Marshal of Eng- 
 land, who was to hold it for her life iu lier right; and this year 
 Richard Filz-Alan Earl of Arundell and Surny,^ her father, pur- 
 chased the perpetual inheritance of it, of William Earl of Salisbur?/ 
 aforesaid, and had a line levied to settle it on him and his heirs. Sir 
 Payne Tiptoft, Knt. and others; being trustees, but upon his attain- 
 der in 1397, the King granted the reversion of the manor and hun- 
 dred, they being forfeited to the Crown, to Thomas, de Moiebrujj Duke 
 of Norfolk, and he being banished the year following, the King 
 granted it by letters patent, dated at Leicester, to John de Montague 
 Earl of Salisburi/,^ his great favourite, to be held b}- him of the Crown, 
 in as free manner as William de Montague, his uncle, Richard Earl 
 of Arundell, or Thomas Duke of Norfolk ever held it; but he dying 
 in 1399, never enjoyed it, it being then held by Elizabeth Dutchess 
 of Norfolk, who was then married to Sir Gerard Usfiet, her third hus- 
 band. In 141 1, Edmund Blankpaine is said to hold the manor and 
 hundred, as trustee only, I suppose; for in I42'2, it was settled by 
 Elizabeth Dutchess of Noifolk, late wife of Gerard Usfet,on divers 
 trustees, to several uses; this was upon her fourth marriage with 
 Robert Gowshall, Knt.' who, in 1420, held the manor and hundred in 
 her right; she died soon after, for in 14C8, Thomas de Montague Earl 
 of >S'«mZ»«n/ died seized,* leaving them to .-///cc, his only daughter 
 by his first wife, then married to Richard Nevill, eldest son to Ralph 
 Nevill, Earl of Westmorland, which Richard, on her account, was 
 made Earl of Salisburi/, and had livery of her lands this very year; 
 but soon after, he gave this manor and hundred in marriage with 
 Joan, his daughter, to William Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundell,'^ who in 
 the i-'fof/rt/v/ is said then to hold it; he, in all likelihood, sold it to 
 John Duke of Bedford, who about 1435 sold it again to the I'rior of 
 Thetford, in trust lor John Mowbray Duke of 'Norfolk, who settled it 
 on Elizabeth his wife, for life, and then- heirs; he died in 1475, and 
 she enjoyed it to her death, when it descended to Sir John Hoicard, 
 Knt. son of Sir Robert Howard, Knt. by Margaret his wife, who was 
 one of the coheiresses of Thomas Monbray first Duke of Norfolk, it 
 being assigned to him as part of the half of the il/oa'/)/«(/s inheritance. 
 This Jo/(w was created Duke of A'o;yb//.- in 1483, by {i\\\^ Richard III. 
 
 ♦ Carta inter Evid. Ducis Norf. A" ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. p. 130. Thl,- is a 
 1709. mistake of Mr. Diigdak-, lor it ap|jcars 
 
 5 Fin. Norf. 12 R. z. L. 1. N" ;. slie was after married to Robert Gow- 
 
 * Dug. Uar. vol. i. p. 650. shall, and did not die in 1424. 
 ' Ibid. 302. 9 Vincent, p. 32.
 
 t90 k i: N M NC; 11 A 1- I.. 
 
 luv! / ' ■ M ll 
 
 «( I. i : I ^ .lid* 
 
 Dukr ul Sorfuiii, lie Im i ' xi III liMM, In tliat cnrltioni iilid 
 
 estate ; in IXXi, lie hud »:. vi-ry •! "II tlic IiiikN Iii> fiitliiT died 
 
 ■eixed of, was made Ilarl-Slunliul kF h'.u^^land l>v Henry Vll^ in llie 
 ■econd year of hit rrii^n, and iiAtTwardi l)uki- of \orfolk ; lie died in 
 13^4, Icuvinu Thomat lim m>ii, lieir Ui lii» etlntc iind honour. 
 
 In liV, the <i 3J/. Hi. 1 \d. a year ; tin- farm of tin- 
 
 liundred ()/. I.ii . .cnt.i uf the- |iark, and pcriiuiNiU-t of llu- 
 
 fair, Si. bouio* liu- wnrti-n, windnull. uiul lUlnry. I'liis 'ih»min 
 being attaiiilrd, Ills olatc was s«-izi-«l, and wllkil on llu- Lady Man/, 
 who mided here; but it was rvilonxl to him aijain, u|>on her eoniing 
 to the Crown, and he came and died here in l.'il?, leaving Thomat, 
 his grandchild, his heir, who resided here with .Wrtr;f(irr(, daughter of 
 Thomas .luiUUy Itarun AudrUtf, his s<'i-(iiid wife, in 1. »(>(); lie W41* 
 beheaded in XSli' from wiiicli tiuic- it passcil us lersfi-ltl manor, llu 
 Duke of Sor/otk l)einf; now lord. 
 
 In KilO.'the quilrenLs were 47/. "J. Gd. the farm of the hundrcil 
 6/. ISi. 4*/. the prolits of the fair.')/, the keeiM-r of (lie palace's wages 
 per annum 3/. Hid. the park-keeper's wages 31. Os. Uk/. the gardener 
 ■\Lptr uMHum, the whole park within tin- pale contained 70.) acre*. 
 There w.is a rent paid out of the Nerr Park, which was due to tiie 
 late priorv of Thrlford, <*ilh which it came to the Duke, and then 
 ceasetl. In tiiis year the townsnu-ii piirchaseil the sheeps-waik ol' 
 the lord, and 'U) ma<l<- their land^ wliule-vear lands: at this time also 
 the inhabitants paid a small sum to the ford, as an acknowledgment, 
 or freercnt, for their n<'w entrenched groiintis, they having by con- 
 tent enclosed their common, called the I'ark Common, and appro- 
 priated the several parts to divers uses ; but this remuined but a small 
 lime, for the commoners disjigreeinc among themselves, they were 
 all laid commtm as at tirst, though llie bunks and trenches are still 
 visible [173'i.J 
 
 Tlic CfsTOMs OF THIS Manor and the Rp.ctoby Ma.nor are 
 the same, viz. the copyhold descends to the youngest son ; the fine it 
 certain, at (id. nn acre ; they give dower, and the tenants can waste 
 their copyhold-houses, fell timl>er, plant, and cut down wood and 
 timber on the waste against their own lands, w ithoul license. 
 
 THE UECTOHY MANOU 
 
 Went with the rectory till il» appropriation, and then l>ecame part 
 of the povvessions of Hokcnham priory, till its dissolution, and was 
 then grunted, with the impro|>riation,to the Sorj'olk family, forfeited 
 ol the Duke's alUiinder in Queen Eliziilielh'f Umc to the Crown, unci 
 by h« r, with the imjiropriation, given to the Hisliopnck of E/i/, from 
 which it was leizcd in the Kebellion, and tlie manor only, in l.>34, 
 
 ' Al hik trial (iIk hradt of which nuy ingalc, in lh« county of Norfulk. S«e 
 be vrn :„ lljkcr'i Chron. fol. 499.) he Fertfirld, |>. I7. 
 
 vtj '. ag.iin«t by the name of * Conijol. Minittror. Tho. Com. 
 
 Th' . ul Norfulk, Ulr of Ken- Arundell inter Kvidcnc. Hcnr. Ducit 
 
 Norf. A° 1699.
 
 KENNINGHALL. 221 
 
 sold by Sir John Woolaston, and others, trustees for sale of bishops' 
 lands, according to an ordinance of Parliament, to Robert Benson, 
 and his heirs, it extending then into Quideiiliam and Herling, tiie 
 church and churchyard being excepted out of the conveyance, as 
 also all lands and tithes, except a messuage or tenement with the 
 curtilages thereto belonging, called the Gvanan/,^ which belonged 
 to the said rectory. In lo57, it was again sold by Robert Benson, 
 Gent, for 149/. to Thomas Kendall oi^Thetford, and Thomas West, 
 from whom it was seized by the Bishop of Elij, at the Restoration, 
 and by him leased out ; (the advowson of the vicarage being ex- 
 cepted ;) and having passed through many hands, is at this time in 
 'Mr. Phillips Gretton, clerk, who is now, by virtue of the Bishop's 
 lease, both lord and impropriator [l7o6.] 
 
 This manor, when the rectory was appropriated, had a Icet, and 
 the amerciaments of all its own tenants, with the assize of bread and 
 ale, and coirections of weights and measures, and also common of 
 pasture on a common called Huchach, or {Soitthagh, now Southwell,) 
 in the said town, this common being apjjropriated to it. It was taxed 
 in 1428, with the other spirituals of that priory in this town, at xvi. 
 marks. 
 
 THIS VICARAGE 
 
 Is in Rockland deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry, valued at 
 5l. 7s. id. and being sworn of the clear j'early value of 40/. is dis- 
 charged from first fruits and tenths, though it still answers 2s. for 
 synodals, and 7s. Id. ob. for procurations, there being a mean vicar- 
 age-house joining to the east end of the churchyard, and 5- acres and 
 a half of glebe. 
 
 It was originally a reotory, in the gift of the lord of the manor, 
 to which belonged a manor, and a good quantity of demean lands, 
 and such it continued, till William de Albany, the second Earl of 
 Arundell of that name, gave it to the priory of St. .Tames at Old 
 Bokenham, which his father had founded. This William died the 
 4th of the ides oi October, 1176, trom which time the Prior pre- 
 sented to this rectory, till about 1223, and then, at the petition of 
 Walter \.\\& then prior, and the convent there, P a ndu Iff" Bishop of 
 Norwich appropriated it to that convent, reserving power to ordain 
 a vicarage worth 8 marks a year, to be settled upon the vicar, which 
 was accordingly done, and was to consist, according to the endow- 
 ment, (the original of which, Mr. Le Neve says, is in the hands of 
 the Dean of Norwich) in all the alterage, and all other small tithes 
 whatsoever, together with the small tithes of the Earl's House, and all 
 the hay, and great and small tithes of 140 acres of free land, which 
 belonged to the rectory, before the appropriation, and in other 
 things particularly mentioned in the endowment. By this means the 
 convent got into their hands all the tithe corn, and the rectory manor 
 with all it rents and profits, with most of the glebe. The rents of 
 assize were 3l. 7s. a year, as 1 learn from the accompt book of that 
 priory, fo. 2;* but for this they were obliged to give the nomination 
 
 3 This was the old Gild-hall, that + MSS. penes Mieux Rant de Boken. 
 belonged to the parish before the Disso- ham, Armig. 
 lution. 
 
 VOL. I. F f
 
 IM K£NMNC;iI A LL. 
 
 ofthr ^ I ever to llio St-c of Sortctch, ihc ni»liupi urMliioI» 
 
 evrr al;< . aalc-U U> Uic Prior »uch |H-rM>n> (u Uiry plroMMl, and 
 
 if ihry lixi not miini-tiintclv prvM-itt tlic |ht*oii nominatrd, Uie 
 It.-' " I liini accorilini; lo \l 'uciit ; and IciLtt tiu-rc 
 
 tl. .iliin- rlitin) fr-HH llu- In- niuiiDr (if /vf/i/iiM-;- 
 
 A(i/i, Uj ktliuli till' :i '^>'l> tlx' I'rior iiiid Cuii- 
 
 vi'iit gul lio^ir tie I .1" confirm to llioui llie 
 
 ndvuWM>n, manor, and uppruprialiun. i do not meet witli any uf Uiu 
 rectors naincii, but tlic 
 
 V ICA Us 
 here follow in their order. 
 
 1304, 8 Dfc. H'tUtam of Julham, collnlctl hy the Bisihop, at hit 
 OMn nomination, tlie I'rior refuting tu |ir<'>ent hiin. 
 
 IJI3, t( kal. Junr, lla/ler, son of Robert Covk of L'/y, rcjigncd, 
 and in 
 
 I3.S7, 2!> Oclol). litgiiialJ de If rl/istedf, priett, succeeded. 
 
 l:i.')7, 1) Junr, it all rill Of Jcffn/ Man of Tali/n-^toii, priesl. 
 
 13'>l, II Octub. John dc Bollon, super fiinie, priest, of York 
 diocev. 
 
 I3«i<>, 2(» Jan. lie changed with Petrr Siircard of Great Crtt- 
 singham, priesl, for Ovington rectory ; he resigned in 
 
 I.JMi, '20 June, to li'aller de lirunham, priest, wlio waa buried in 
 tlie chimcel in 141fi. 
 
 14 l<), 7 Juli/, John .4leyn,nf\ciX. 
 
 1-IH5, l.'l March, Ifilliam Li/naker, priesl. 
 
 iM).S,-2[) Sot. IVtll. Clark, on Lynakit's dciah. 
 
 \50(i,3 Dec. If ill. Ilartrom, oi Clark's death, 
 
 'llie above ten were nominated by tlie Bishops of A'ortriVA, and 
 prescDled by llu- I'riors of (Jld llokenham. 
 
 liU), 'i.i I'ebr. If illiam AndrcK, chaplain to Thomas Duke of 
 "Norfolk, hii patron. 
 
 10 1<>, 'i April, .Master Thomas Uriggs, D.I). Mary, sister lo King 
 Uaard VI. 
 
 1567, 13 Jan. Robert \uharn. Thomas Duke of \orfolk. 
 
 1571,5 Mai/, John Richardson, clerk, "ii \iiliam's resignation. 
 Thomas Duke of SorJ'olk. 
 
 {(jUrS.Johnlfilde. 
 
 1634, H June, Tho. Datj/e, A. M. buried here Jw/y 12, 1G84, 
 •gc<l 8.1. 
 
 l(iS4, 4 Jttlif, Tho. Darite,\us son, buried here Aug. 26, \rnj\. 
 
 I(j<»l,b (Jciob. Alex. Malcolm, A.M. he resigned, and was suc- 
 ceeded in 
 
 l(i<>2, 20 Dff. 15y If illiam Railc, A. M. who was buried Apr. 24, 
 1712. 
 
 1712, 17 May, Tho. Ibbol ; he resigned, and in 
 
 1717, 29 Aug. tin- Utv. Mr Ifumphrj/ Clai/ton, the present 
 [17.;')] vicar was insliluted, who holds il united to linuiigluim. 
 
 The last KVcu were prciented by the Bisliop of Ely, who is novT 
 patron. 
 
 > Mon. Ang. vol. 11. p. 274.
 
 KENNING HALL, 223 
 
 The Church is situate on a liiil, having a large square tower at 
 its west end, which was designed to be carried to a greater heiglit, but 
 was never finished, its head being shortened by tlic uiisfortunes of its 
 founder, Thomas Duke of l^orfolk, whose crest remains on the 
 buttresses at this time [l7'3(i.] IJerc are five very large tuneable 
 bells ; on the three biggest are these inscriptions : 
 
 On the third, ©ona rcpenbc pia, fioga JiagDalcna Biaria. 
 
 On the fourth, l)Ai non \jaOc t)ia, nitii Wtxi ^tic Jliai'ia 
 .f)it s^fmpcr imt XU, qui Jiiclji bicat ilbe. 
 
 On the fifth, Cripttf Persona, Crinita^, nunc gaubia &ona, 
 <©ui llegna^ trinu.^ 5>ei-.^oni^, ct ©eujS imusi. 
 
 The nave is 40 yards long and 7 broad, having a porch jcined to its 
 south side, and an isle to its north, all which are covered with lead, 
 and seem to be much older tlian the tower; the chancel is also 
 leaded, and was built hy John Millgate, the last Prior of Uohoiham, 
 whose monument remains in the south wall, though it is robbed of its 
 arms and inscription, which remained in Mr. Heaver's time, for he 
 tells us, fo. 859, that it appeared by his tomb that he built the 
 chancel, though there are two grand mistakes in his relation of it, 
 for he is called there /b'^jV^/g-a^e, instead oi' Mi/galc, and said to be 
 Prior of Windham, instead of liokenham. He bare for arms three 
 escalops, which are to be seen on a brick in the chancel wall, two 
 lions being the supporters, as also upon a wall of a house at Thompson, 
 in which Roger Colman, clerk, lately dwelt, with this under them : 
 
 PERPETUIS ANNIS, MILGATE MEMENTO JOHANNIS. 
 
 And this motto : 
 
 HGLP HANDIS. 
 
 By which it should seem as if this house also was built by him. Whe- 
 ther these were his paternal arras or no, I cannot say, but rather think 
 they were not; the escalops might be assumed (for want of arms) as 
 the badge of St. James, to whom his priory was dedicated, and the 
 rampant lions might be placed significantly enough as supporters, 
 that house being founded b}' William de Albaiu/ Earl of Jlrundell, 
 whose arms were, giil. a lion rampant or. Jn digging a grave for one 
 Mr. Watts, near this tomb, they happened on a vault close to the 
 wall, in which this prior's bones till that time laid undisturbed. To 
 the north side of the chancel joins a chapel or chantry, now con- 
 verted into a school-house, and vestry; it hath 1©. 23. cut in stone 
 over the north door; and in a window is a broken efhgies kneeling, 
 and this, 
 
 DOOOINUS CDICHI GRACIA. IN DOCOINO CONFIDO. 
 
 The step up to the altar still remains, and the altar stone is taken 
 down, and laid level with the pavement, north and south, exactly as 
 it stood, before which lies a large stone which hath been taken up, 
 and hath this lately cut on it : 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Habba''- Layman, Surgeon, who departed 
 this life the 5th Day of April, hw" Dom. l6yy. /Etatis sua; 51.
 
 tU K r.N M NOII ALL. 
 
 Till* «tonc IS rul>l>t<l til a !.■. - i-ftipie* and A'ur ahirlds, by 
 
 *hul» I lijirri, thai il is tlit- ^i n- ol (trorgf IloiKl, {\jt liU- 
 
 v<rhiis*rt,) Ijh\. \«bo firiil niurunl (Ik° (iuui;liter oi Jarnr^an, and 
 atttrr tiic duu^bti-r ul L' Luninge ; iot i iind in a MSS. ut Mr. 
 Atutitt, marked V.. ^Hi, fol. 29, tlml l>c is here buried under « fiur 
 grnve-stone, with his nrins quurtercd, and tliorc it iiu stone here tliat 
 fvtr liad iinv nrins, but tliis only, uii»l \\\v IP. C?. cut in stone over 
 the duor ui this chuntry niit;hl »ii^i)ilie /( lUiam lUcvtrhautt , by 
 ulioin il IS very liLely it might U- founded. 
 
 The screens bi'tween t}ic church iind chuncel, and the cover of the 
 font, which is neatly carved, are oUI, nnd seem to U.- put up at the 
 expense of odc Uakeliff, for in llie nrcli there is carved on a stone, 
 un acorn on an oaken branch, and IrpC under it, as u rebus or device 
 for tliat name. 
 
 On an old seat in the nave arc two images, uiuch defaced, under 
 whicit with dilliculty this may be read, 
 
 ^atr pro Jnimabu^ Robrrti lOattnd, rt iCli.^abctc uron^ eiu^. 
 Some of the fWitlics are slill living here. 
 
 On another old seal, wliich seems to have been pari of the screens 
 of the chantry, at the east end of llie north isle, is this, 
 
 Oratt pro anima Joljanni^ 1[iinn =.-..« 
 
 Ill ihe nave arc several stones pillui^ed of iheir brasses ; but on a 
 very large one before llie desk, the portraitures of a woman and five 
 lioys and five girls are slill left, the inscription and man's effigies 
 being ItMil ; under this stone, it is probable, Iio<^cr Diiiins is interred, 
 for whom, in Mr. Ifforcr's time,* this wiis reraainin!,', 
 
 Orati pro aniina fioflcrn C^cnnn?, ^fecnc^rl^alliCa^tal . . ; : 
 
 In the chancel is u small altnr tomb against the north wall, having 
 had an effigies, inscription, circumscription, and four shields, which 
 arc all gone ; n'otrcr savs it wa.s erected for Grorge Lord .iudrleif, 
 and his wife, the daughter of the Earl of Bath ; and indeed the arms 
 on the south side of it, which arc painted, and now whited over, did 
 intimate, that it w. -is erected for some of that family, the first being 
 
 .■ttii!c/ry, jT|//. a fret or, (juartering Tnuclutt, crin. a chevron guL 
 
 'I iioM AS llow .\Rii, Duke of Surf'ulk, and Margiiret Andrlty, his 
 second wife, resided here in 13(>0, about which time he adorned the 
 windows of the church ' with the following arms, some of which arc 
 now lost: 
 
 -ii/f/f/i/ quartering Toiichet, in a garter. 
 
 Aiidrlii impaling liourchitr, ar. a cross ingrailed gul. between four 
 water-boudget.H >al>. 
 
 Luxaiiit, gul. a fess between tix billets or. Quartered with 
 Aiide/i/. 
 
 Filz-lt'arreti, quarterly put. and tir. per fess indented. 
 
 AudeJi/imp-.iicx gul. three bows ar. 
 
 Audelif impales BadeUsincre, ar. a fess between two bars gemels 
 gul. 
 
 * Ftgc tj9. ' Vincent, s$t. MSS. Aoitit E. i6, lol. 39,
 
 KENNINGHALL. Qfi* 
 
 Ar. two bars wavy gul. Duke of Buckingham and Mow- 
 bray's arms. 
 
 Howard impales az. six lions rampant ar. 
 
 Howard quarters az. on a bend sab. three annulets of the first. 
 
 In a garter with a ducal coronet, four coats quartered, 1st. 
 
 2d. Howard with the augmentation, 3d. Earl Warren. 4th, Mowbray. 
 And this inscription, 
 
 %^<(t : ip^ Mebe, - - - all Ijelpj?^ o£ tlji^ ©cae. 
 
 This Duke's effigies, in his coat armour, having his hatchment in 
 the garter, was three times in one window, but all are now gone. In 
 the east chancel window is a large white rose, the badge of the house 
 of York. And, 
 
 England with a label of three points ar. impaling 
 
 Lord Talbot, gul. a lion rampant in a bordure ingrailed or, 
 quartering, 
 
 Ar. two lions passant gul. 
 
 Mowbray single, and Brotherton and Mowbray. 
 
 There are two marbles in the isle for John Bringloe, who died 
 March the J 8th, 1706, aged 58 years; and Hannah his wife, who 
 died the 15th of Jan. A" dom. 1682. 
 
 Another stone at the west end, for Mary, daughter of Mr. James 
 Watson, surgeon, and Sarah his wife, who died June 29, 1723, 
 aged 4 years. 
 
 On an altar tomb on the north side of this stone. 
 
 Here resteth the Body of JOHN RETT, late of Diss, Gentleman, 
 zvho died Oct. the P' 1728, aged 76 Years: Also the Body of MARY 
 his Wife, who died Aug'- the 21" 1729. To whose Memory their 
 Kinsman Mr. JAMES WATSON of this Parish, Surgeon, erected 
 this Tomb. 
 
 Though we did live so many Years, 
 
 Prepare O Youth for Death ; 
 For if he should at Noon appear. 
 
 You must give up your Breath. 
 
 On an altar tomb in the nave under the gallery. 
 
 Here resteth in Hopes of a joyfull Resurrection the Body of Eliza- 
 beth the Wife of JOHN BURRIHH of Banham, who departed 
 this Life the 25th of June 1728, in the 62d. Year of her age, And 
 also Elii;. llobt. and Ann Foster her Grand-chiideren, Eliz. died 
 Jan. 26 1724. Robt. died June lyth 1728, Ann died Apr. 21, 1732, 
 all in their infancy. 
 
 As in a ^Moment we are gone. 
 
 And as our Time do's fly. 
 Let us always prepared be 
 
 For blest Eternity.
 
 ta6 KLNN 1 N<; 11 A LL. 
 
 i the ( lianccl for Andrew ButliDgham »ho dioi 
 
 M . ■, ugitl ij vi-un. 
 
 All rnu ihnt stop lo fond mv Sionc, 
 
 f' '»• MXin 1 NVjlli uonf. 
 
 I' ■ 111 imu's dolli no W'umiiig give. 
 
 Then-tore be careful! Iiow you live. 
 
 1 ti'Ur old »loni5 111 (Ik- niuc-, in »lin|><- ofcoflin>, hul no 
 
 in' And on a bionc lu the wall of tla- |iu(i.ii is a lior»c- 
 
 c«rvf«l. 
 
 'Iliou^h tluK ..re no nu-niorials or nnv kind roniuining over ll.c 
 placet of iheir sepulture, yet I tind that on llu- :Hn\\ day of June A' 
 IMJ'-i, hen- was butii-d Jiiiif C'oiinlc.s of l\ tilmorrtuiid, «if<- to 
 Lharlet I»ril Nri iVr of /I (\tmijr<liinJ, lortl ol' Hiiby.Stiiiidro]), liraiu. 
 fxlh, If iirktioitfi, S/itrji/liiilun, and Midrlhum, (la(i';liUr of llcitri/ 
 HouarJ l^rl of Surtti/, and sister of Ihumas JJorard Duke of 
 
 litre lielh also, K/izubelli nulehess of yiorj'ofk, who was buried the 
 I8i\\ of Sept. IM)7, ^he «as id wift- to Thomas Jhaard 4lli Duke of 
 yorj'olk, dauifhtir of Sir I'rancis l^ihouriir, Knl. and widow of 
 Thomas I>ord ])'. Icrr oi lii/itiland aut\ Grtifstuck." 
 
 Thomas Duke of Sorju/k, who dit-d .-il his palace here in l.')J4, is 
 not buried here, (as bv sonic usscrlcd,) hut at rnimlitigham ia 
 Suffolk. 
 
 Od an altar tomb in the churchyard, by the soullj side of llic nave. 
 
 Her. lyelh the Rodv of TUANCIS GUOOMK, who departed this 
 Life, May the J" 1711, Aged 83 Years. And als.> FKANLT^his 
 Wife v*ho died Scpt.:\, \-\<i. Aged y2 Years. Also the Bo<iv of 
 NiCHOLAsGHooME.Sonof rKAiSCIS(;UOC)Mi:. and FRANCES 
 his Wife, who departed this Ijfc Octob. the a" 172a, in the 07'* Ye.-ir 
 of his Age. 
 
 On a coffin stone against the chancel, though at some distance. 
 
 Here lycth the Body of Rubarl Button, who died June the aO"* 
 betwixt G &. 7 a Clock at Night, aged 74 Yeares.' 
 
 Tljough they were so punctual for the hour, they forgot to insert 
 the year of his death, which was in 17 1 1. 
 
 Another altar tomb not far from the porch hath this, 
 
 In hopes of a jovful ri-«urrerlion, Ivelh llu- Body of SL'.SAN, the 
 Wife of WILLIANI SAKi:, who di< d D.e'- the 'V" 1727, aged (>7 
 Years. Also UlLLIAM SAUli, her Husband, died Jan. tlie 15 
 1727, Aged 74 ^ ears. 
 
 This church is dedicated lo St. Marif, as apix-.irs from Llie will 
 of Jaffty Ehngham, wlio gave j marks lowaids building the bell 
 sollar.* 
 
 •Tlr P., I, Rrgr. ^^i^|^ p. ,,,. 'Rf^Uler Gfloui in the yrjr 147I. 
 
 ' '• ■• In». Archiv. Epj. Norwic. bee Fcrw 
 
 i ^Ionunicnt%,vol.il. p. 14J. field, p. 96.
 
 KENNINGHALL. 227 
 
 'The most eminent person that this town hath produced amon"^ our 
 authors, was Brother John of Kenni/iighale* who became a Carmelite, 
 or while friar, in the convent at Norwich, and afterward ' was pro- 
 vincial prior of the whole order throughout all Ensr/and ; he died 
 AprillQ, 1451, and was buried in that monastery, fje wrote divers 
 treatises on several pieces of Amtotle, and twelve sermons upon 
 Chiust's death and resurrection, with other works that are now lost. 
 Bale,^ from Leland, gives us an account of anoliicr, who from his 
 name seems to have belonged to this town, and that was Pttcr Ken- 
 ingall, a Carmelite friar and noted preacher, of a good family, born 
 indeed in France, but of English parents; he studied at Oxford for 
 several years, and died there anno 1494, and was buried in "his con- 
 vent. He wrote certain Sermons, or Discourses to the People, and 
 some disputations. 
 
 The Commons belonging to this town are very large, containing 
 more than all the enclosed lands, and are thus called : the Park. 
 Common, because it joined to the park, Southache, or Southagh, now 
 Southwell Common, the Heath, which is appropriated for slfeep, (as 
 the others are for great beasts,) besides other small greens which are 
 common, though of no great extent. 
 
 The Town K-^nds are: three pieces in Quidenham Fields, let to 
 the farmer at Quidenham for 10s. per annum; one acre in Gobbit's 
 Close, let to the vicar (the rest of that close being glebe) for 6s. per 
 annum; Bar/y-C/ore's hempland, lying against the park common, 
 let at 7s. 6d. per annum ; one acre in %Iill Close, let at 6s. per 
 annum ; one acre in Camping Close, let at 6s. per annum ; five rood* 
 in Upper Furlong, and one acre in Polhwill Furlong, let at lOs. per 
 annum; Hilbridge Close about 2 acres, lying by Harlimr Field, let 
 at 10s. per annum. Mrs. Dorothy Gawdie gave 20s. a year, to be 
 paid out of lands in Garbnldisham, to the poor o^ Kenninahall. 
 
 In 1()03 there were 370 communicants, and now [i73Ci] there are 
 about 1 14 houses, 132 families, and 700 inhabitants. It |)aid to the 
 tenths 3/. 10s. and is now valued to the King's tax at \05\)l. 15s. It 
 is a neat compact village, standing round the market-place, which 
 must be a very convenient one, when the market was kept there. 
 
 I am lately informed [1736] that there is exactly eleven acres and 
 one rood of glebe, that there is a cup which weighs 6 ounces, and a 
 cover of the same weight; that the 1st bell weighs 700 lbs. the 2d 
 1000, the 3d 1200, the 4th 1400, and the 5lli 2500. 
 
 3 The Parish Regr. Mills, 527. ' Possevin. Apparat. Sacr. 904. 
 
 ♦ Weaver, xq; ; Bale de Script, part « Bale de Script. Brit, part ii. Num. 
 j. fol, 59a. Si.
 
 [ 2-28 ] 
 
 L O P II A M 
 
 Joivn 10 tlio «)utl> pail III ' wh.a tin* lowii'* nan>* 
 
 • !.:!iiti>-«, I kiunT not, aiul wli ..iblc, it iu'Tlt allirod hi 
 
 IVdih llio Cuiii|Ui.-roi\ liiiir to thfs ilny, (or in Dometday^ 
 :. 1 It thi- Mmc. Ill ll>o Ct»n(c!.»oi's tiim- Ixip/uiin wus two Ji>- 
 tinci town* uiid iliiri-n-nt manors, Ijopham-Maana, now Sorth I^p- 
 ham, bvluiiijed to Oji* u frfc'innn, his manor liuvini; three carucatei 
 of land in demean, and the olln-r Ijophmn, called ul'terkvurds [Aip/iain- 
 I'aria, ami now South ].ov/iiim, belonf^ed to .Ihim, u freeman, 
 wlioM- manor then eontaiiu-d two curiiraies in demean. 'Ihu .tUiui 
 hftd a manor in .Nur/ow, which in the Conr|iieror'i duv» he joined to 
 this, making it n btrcaic to it, after which it came into the Cod- 
 queror'B hand*, who gave them to Roger Itj/sot Earl of SorJ'olk, 
 who joined the two l.ophams, and grunted oil" the Sorlon part to 
 .^lur(d an llii^liihman ;"> from ih'xs Umc I A)]>hum hath continued as 
 one uinnor to tin-, dav, though they are two distinct pariiihes, each 
 having iheir separate tK>undi and olhcer*. 
 
 KociCK Uvi.OT, who wa* po>s«'^Sl(l of this n)an<)r at the survey, died 
 in 1 107,' and was Iniried in tfie abbey of Thdjurd, which he had built, 
 leaving IViHiam, his «xin and iteir, who gave llie church o( Lopham to 
 (he monks of ThelJorJ,* in the time of Ilritri/ I. w hicli w as appropriated 
 and then «-onlirme<l to that house,' with all its appurtenances, by 
 King Jlcnry II. This was South Lopham church, wliicli by ils con- 
 ventual form, and f jolhick tower, w.-is in all likelihood built at tliis 
 time, and it i« |>rubable some of iho>c monks had a cell here, and 
 served it fur some time, and this is the rc:ison that this church never 
 
 t p., 
 I 
 
 ..Ijv i.\ ,17. Terra Rogeri 
 
 nd. 
 
 ■ 'n^ 
 
 Edwardi 
 
 iii.i . -.r II. vil- 
 
 Ian. el xuj. limtljiij cl iiti. Kfvi. el xii. 
 acr. f nii. ki-k rt jv»it •!. c»r. indominio 
 mo ominum et »il. 
 
 »i. 1:1. 1. car. lerrc 
 
 cum »:iiiu I.IJ • x\\. acr. et li. 
 
 (AT. tunc. i. I I. rune, modo 
 
 it. tunc I ■ ' xl. pore, 
 
 tunc c. c . poit Vi- 
 
 luit li. •- '. -.1. 
 
 In jlio Lopham tenini Altiiii lit>er 
 
 lionv.. T 
 
 R !• il. f .If t'-ffr. ,riTl!<T 11, 
 
 vii:. 
 
 t xi. 
 
 aci. 
 
 ' aim. 
 
 car 
 
 r, (nnicl ret- 
 
 lau. 
 
 . . Cl iiii. Soc. 
 
 siii. Ji.1. 
 
 U'lic, cl 11. Imit. el i. liber 
 
 iMmo xt. 
 
 arr Icrre r bord. et i. acr. 
 
 cl dim. 1 
 
 ■ . rr i. 
 
 
 rune, lii 
 
 re. 
 
 luiK c. ■ 
 
 rt >. . \ .1- 1 J|>uin. 
 
 Soca dc 1 
 
 ir in Kcmclula. 
 
 In Nortuna i car. Ire. tenuit idem 
 pro nianrrio T.R.K. modo tenet Alure. 
 dm An^liis, sem^ier iiii. vilUni, et iiii, 
 bordarij et i. acr, prati tunc ii. car. in 
 dnio. pott el modo 1. et alia {Mjuet re»- 
 lauran, temp. dim. car. hominum et vii. 
 IOC. Ix. acr. terre et ii. bord. et i, acr. 
 prati jemp. i. car. Hanc terram addidit 
 Alum m Lopham pro berevila tempore 
 Kegis Willi, et eamhabebat promancria 
 T.K.E. et in ea xx. ovei. 
 
 Lopham valuil T.R.E. Ix. tol. et 
 Nurluna xx. lol. motto lot. valel Lop- 
 ham Ux. toi.et N'ortuna xxx. >ul. Tot. 
 Lopham habel i. letie. in longoci i. Icug. 
 in Uio el xxxiiii.dl et i, ot. (tc. de 
 Gelio.) 
 
 (Kol lit.) In Lopham v. libi. homi. 
 net i. car. terre et xx. acr. et v. bor. et 
 ▼. acr. prati temp. 11. car el dim. tilv. xl. 
 |K)rc. tolum val. xlviii. toL et iiii. d. 
 ioc.i in Kenichala. 
 
 "See Nurlun. 
 
 ' Dii^. Bar. vol. i. fol. ija. 
 
 ' Mon. Angl. torn. i. 664. 
 
 ' Ibidrm, 667.
 
 LOPHAM. 229 
 
 had any institution, -though the monks quitted all their right in it to 
 the lord, who had a release of it from the abbey, and added it, with 
 the appurtenances, to the rector of the other church, who took the 
 cure upon him from that time ; this must be very early, for, before 
 1340, it was taxed at 2G marks, a value that must include the whole. 
 This William being Steward of tiie Ilouseliold to King Ileiin/ 1. pe- 
 rished with that King's children, and divers otiier of tiie nobility, by 
 shipwreck, as they came fiom Normatid^ into Eiiglandin the year 
 1U9,* leaving 
 
 Hugh Bygod, his brother, his heir, who by King Stephen was 
 made Earl of the East Aiigles, or Norfolk, wiiich was again con- 
 firmed to him by King Henry II. together with the stewardship of 
 that King's household; yet, notwithstanding all these favours, he 
 took part with the Earl of Leicester, in the rebellion began by him, 
 adhering to young Hetiry (whom King Hetiry his father had crowned) 
 in his rebellious practices ; but meeting with no success, he was 
 forced to make his peace with the King, for a fine of 1000 marks, 
 and not long after, he went into the Holy Land with the Earl of 
 Flanders, and there died in 1177, upon which the King seized all 
 his treasure, and retained it in his hands. 
 
 Roger Bygod, his son, inherited, who in 1 189, was restored by 
 King Richard I. to his earldom, stewardship, and estate, upon 
 paying a fine of 1000 marks for these favours : ' he died about 1218, 
 for then 
 
 Hugh Bygod, his son, had livery of his lands, performing his 
 homage ; he died in 1225, and left 
 
 Roger, his son and heir, who died without issue in 1269, and 
 his inheritance went to 
 
 Roger, his nephew, son to his brother Hugh, who had then 
 livery of that great inheritance, being 25 years old, but he also 
 having no issue, in 1301, settled all his estate (e.xcept the ma- 
 nors of Acle and Custre, and the advowson of Geldestoii church 
 in Norfolk, and others in Yorkshire) upon King Edward I. after his 
 and his wife Alice's death, together with the marshal's rod, upon 
 condition to be rendered back in case he should have any children ; 
 though at the same time John Bi/god, his own brother, and heir ap- 
 parent, was living, who by this means was cut off from all, but the 
 manors that were excepted. This Roger,'' jointly with Alice his 
 wife, held this manor of the King's grant upon the settlement, at 
 which time the manor house had a demean of 335 acres of land, 13 
 of meadow, and 20 acres of pasture, with a park, 2 windmills, and 
 the fourth part of Hurling mill. He died about 1305,' seized of this 
 and many other manors, leaving John, his brotlier, 40 years old, his 
 next heir,^ who inherited nothing but the part excepted, the estate 
 oing to King Edward I. ' From which time it remained in the 
 rown till Edward H. in the 9"^ year of his reign, gave it, with the 
 rest of the Bj/god's estate,' to 
 
 • Dug. Bar. vol. i. 132. says, this John inherited the excepted 
 
 ' Fin. divers, com. H.3. L. 4. N" 23. manors. Fin. divers, com. temp. K. i, 
 
 *Esch. A°35 E. I. Lig. 5.N.11. 
 
 ' Vincent, 342. ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. says A" reg. 6. 
 
 ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. 136. Vincent says 9, p. 343. 
 'Notwithstanding what Mr. Dugdale 
 
 VOL. I. G g 
 
 g
 
 090 l.nrilAM. 
 
 1 111- this ypnr crraJcd 
 
 Vj\' I ^ '.ii-d ill I5.S8, leaving 
 
 hu twi« ~, .■tlic( inarrii>d to EJtrard itr Mnuttacule, 
 
 nod .U(i.-. ■- ■ : J (u ./oAn Ixtrd Srgravt, nnd n("t«-r to Sir 
 
 Italttr SlaMmjf, KnI. of the Garter, to wlio<o share, lhi», among 
 uthrr manors, wii* nllotted : in her riijhl John dr Scgrare became 
 L»»ril nn»l natron, upon Tfiomnt <h Umthfrton't Heatli, and held it 
 tdl he diod in 1351. leaviiiij / liter and heir, then 
 
 m:irru-tl to John, son o( John I. UMUi^h this manor re- 
 
 ni:tiiic-d III the aloniMiid Mtirgarrl'i hand!), and rame to her second 
 huibiind, H alter tic Munui/, Km. wliu had it till he died in 1371, 
 from whicli time it continued in the said Mar<;arft, till the ^4th of 
 3/arfA l.Sf)y, when she died. She was created Dutchess of Snrf'olk 
 lor term of her lilishv HicbarJ II. in 1397. It u|)(K'nrs that ihtTc were 
 great iifi -. iK'tween her and the lA>rd Ai-gratr, her first hus- 
 
 ban<l,* ; • ut in |H-r5on to liomr, in order to obtain a sentence 
 
 of divorce Iroiii him, of the Hope, having obiaincd letters of safe 
 conduct for her and her retinue, of the French King ; notwith- 
 standing which, she and her ser\'ants were all arresletl an<l taken in 
 their journey, at the instigation, m was thought, of her hu»band, 
 who was then under excommunication for not going to Home, ac- 
 cording to the lV>p<*'s citation, ihougii he had pleiuled that b«'ing n 
 baron of I'ligliind, he was not ctim|)ellablc to appear at that court ; 
 In ■ IIS he stop|>e<t her appearing against liim at Rome, at the 
 
 d.i_\ (I, and the matter atterwards was made up between ihcm. 
 
 At her death it descended to 
 
 Thomas Lord Mowbray, Duke of Nor/b/A-, her grandson, who 
 was son of her daughter Elizabeth, married as aforesaid to John, 
 son of John Lord .Mo\briiy, who died at / eiiice in l;)l>f), leaving this 
 'I'homai his sou, then 14 vears old, who, in 14<ll,' hud this manor, 
 though tile advowon and [>art of the demeans beloni;ed to Elizabeth 
 his mollier,* in rigiil of her dower, he never was duke, Ix'ing Ik"- 
 heafled at York, with Richard Scrope Archbishop of Caiiterburi/, in 
 140j,' 
 
 John, lii« brother, then 17 years oUI, being iiis heir, who was 
 r«lore<l to the title of Duke of S'orfolk in I t'24, and dying in 143'i," 
 Johu his son, then 17 yearsoicl, siicceede<l him ; but tfiis manor was 
 aisigned in dower to Ciilharinr his mother," «lauglller to Hnlph \ivU 
 llarl tt( II lilmord'Uiil, who afterward married lo Thomas .Strutfu'- 
 K-f/i/c, ll-fj. after that to ./oA<i Viscou I Ueauimiul, and lu>llv to John 
 HiJiilf, broiher to .Jiilliotiy Marl Jiiten, all which were lords here 
 in her right. Al iR-r death John Duke of Norfolk, her son, enjoyed 
 it, and died seized in 14(>l, a\n\ .Inhjt his son inherited, he died in 
 1474, leaving Inne, his sole daughter, then two \«-ars uiti, after- 
 wards married lo Uuhartl \)\\\n: ot \ork, second son to King l'.<l- 
 tcarJ IV. who \\iv> iiiuiderc<l in the t<nver in 14hij, and dyiu" issuc- 
 lc«*, It fill to the share of John lloaani, Kiit. son of Sir Robert 
 lloirard, Knt. mul .Marearet his wife, who was one of the two 
 daughters and coheirs ol Thomas Motcbray, fintt Duke of Sorfolk, 
 
 * E MSS. Bib. Col. Cjj. I. iS, p. "^ Vincent, j4«. 
 30t. b. • Ibid. 350. 
 
 ' Incjipi 3 It. ^. ' Dug. Bar, vol. 130, iii, 
 
 ♦ 1-ilj. I..!t. '
 
 LOPHAM. G^i 
 
 from which time it hath always attended llie fate of that family, and 
 is now the estate of the present Duke of Norfolk? 
 
 This manor was held as parcel of Jvirl Rogers barony, and in 1285 
 had view o( frankpledge, assize of bread and ale, and free-warren 
 belonging to it. Jn Kioy, the quitrcnts were above 21/. per aiiniiin; 
 in 1()41 the park was farmed at SQOL per annum. The Lcet belongs 
 to the manor, 
 
 The Customs of which are, that the fines arc at the lord's will ; 
 the copyhold descends to the eldest son; the tenants can build and 
 pull down, fell timber, and plant on the waste against their own 
 lands, without license. 
 
 GOODSON'S MANOR, or Fiiee Tenement, in North 
 
 LOPUAM, 
 
 Was h^ld of the hundred, by the service of Is. a year, to which be- 
 longed many copy and freeholders ;' the whole at first contained a 
 caracute of land, which was granted by Earl llogtr, to Richard of 
 Lopham, who died in 1194, in which year Ivo of Lophatn, his son, 
 gave 20s. to have a recognition of the death of his ancestor, for 
 a carucale of land in Lo/ji/jam, against Cmndred the Countess; and 
 in 1 lys,' the said Ivo granted half of the said carucale, with Ivo, the 
 steward ol Lopham, his family, and posterity, to Earl Roger, and 
 Gundred his Countess, and agreed to hold the other half of them by 
 the rent of 5s. a year, and 20s. 6d. scutage, so that now this Free 
 Tenement, as it was then called, contained half a carucate; the os. 
 rent was afterwards released, and it came to be held of the hundred, 
 and not of the capital manor, at \s. a year rent. In 1248, Henri/ (of 
 Lopham) the chirurgeon, had it; and in 1335, Henri/, the son of 
 Robert ,• (of Lopham i^) afterwards it was owned by John Goodson, 
 vicar of Fakenham, whose name it still retains. From this family it 
 went to John Ilawes, and from him to Robert Leader, then to John 
 Leader, and from him to Robert Jl'arnes the elder, and then to 
 Robert Warnes the younger, who had it in lti35, by which time the 
 copyhold was all manumised, and the freerents sold off, all but 
 Mis. lOfi. Siy.aycar. In 1684, Robert IVarnes, son of lhe\a.st Robert, 
 held it, by the rent of lQ.d. a year, in lieu of alb suit of court to the 
 hundred.^ It after belonged to Francis Bogas, Gent, who died in 
 10"92, leaving it to his widow, who afterwards married Mr. Samuel 
 Browning of Thetford ; and at her death it went to Mr. Samuel 
 Browning, his son, who sold it to Mr. Thomas Saunders of Thctford, 
 the present [1736'] owner; but there are no rents now remaining. 
 
 THE RECTORY MANOR 
 
 Always belonged to the rector, as it now doth, [1736,] its customs 
 being the same as the great manor ; there is a rectory-house, and 46 
 
 ' See how it passed in that family, Lopliam, liis son, who was a famous 
 
 under Fersfield. notary publick. 
 
 ' Rot. Pip. 6 R. I. Norf. ^ Much of this account is taken from 
 
 ' Fines A° loR. i. Norf. the original rentals, which were in my 
 
 * Of this family was Synion de Lop- custody, but arc now accidentally burnt, 
 
 ham, clerk, iji J334, aad Dionise de though iny e.\.tracts were preserved.
 
 tc* LO I'll AM. 
 
 . iimkI of Klebe in South Lopkam, and 9 acm 2 roodi 
 
 1 Sotth l.ophum. 
 •J. V . \ • " :..;., ' />' '' 1 / dcatjcry, 
 
 Tuli.. ,/. I4j. oA. 
 
 jrnrlv Icotiis. 1 be ■)UutlaL»arc ^. luul liic i>cucuri>UL*u» 7i. id.ob. 
 [1736] 
 
 Som/A Ixtpham Church i« dedicated to St. \irAo/<u; being built 
 in the cxinvfiituikl form, ilic tower i* square, being a very large 
 iiolhuk building;* in it arc (» gcxnl Ix-lU, tlic chancel, the nave, 
 •<»utb i»lc, and porch arc leaded ; lIuTC are no ariiu nor inscriptions 
 any where in it, except this on a lilone in the chancel, very obsolete, 
 
 l*ic lacit ^omtnu^ IDiUu^ lirling. 
 
 And on the outside, bctuecn the south windows, arc llie initial letters 
 for J ESC s Makia, &c. 
 
 In Mr. Anitii't book ' it appears the following arms were formerly 
 here, rir. 
 
 Sc^ravt. Drothertun. MoTcbray. Walter de Manet/, or, three 
 chevrons tab. I ere. Vfford ; and erm. a bend gul. cotiiscd or. 
 
 Coote, ur. a chevron between tJircc cools s/ift. llarvrif, ar. on a 
 bc-nd g«/. three trefoils \erl. for Chrislophcr Coot, and Barbary 
 Harvey, his wife. Of tliis family more will occur in Jllotc-Norton ; this 
 Christopher had a lease of this manor. Matthetc, his eldest son, was 
 born in 16<j.3,* in \5¥i, I^onard, son o( Rohtrt Coote, vfas buried; 
 liS<), 15 June, YVowf/jCootf, Gftitleman-Ushcr to Queen Elizabeth, 
 was buried in this chancel, in which tiic following insciiptions were 
 formerly on brass plates. 
 
 ^atc pro .Intmabu^ RoiJnbi Jr^icA, 3rniiorri, /Strriin&i p\lu <i3uooni^ 
 ar#ifh. militi^ qui fiolanou^ obiit i? 3^if l^cbr. 14<>7, ct .Jllaroarttac 
 urori^ riu^, filis fbomac l?untingficici, Dc hat totlla que quiDcm, Qlar 
 garrta obiit 25° Die Octobn^ i4U(i,Ouorum .Inimabu^ propitictur ^cu^, 
 imtn. 
 
 ^att pro Sntmabu^ IDilli Jlobcll De 3i\)fitlb, Urmigcri, cr Cliiabetlje 
 uroTW tiwi, qui quiDeni iDilIu^ ob. ''■, Die 3^1><i 1-^34, Cluor. aib^ 
 propitierur I*eu^, Jintn.' 
 
 In I52'», lloficrl Sounder was buried in this church, who gave 20i. 
 towards the repairs of the steeple. 
 
 North Ijopham Ciit:scii is dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle ; 
 the tower is sciuare having five belli in it; it was begun to be rebuilt 
 about 147y, lor then T/winas .fenle, who wo* buried here, gave 4 
 marks towards its building; but was not finished till about 152'),' for 
 till that time most that (lied here left something towards it ; there 
 
 * The lower, »i before 1 M here, rebuilt the chancel, between the 
 
 likelihood, Hjt built by V. ,d, yejn 1361, inJ i jSo. 
 
 about the tunc he gave it 10 1 iicnord ' K 16, fol. 14, b. 
 monks ; but the present church was re- '' Panih Register, 
 built long since, nsoJt l;kely by the ' Coll. P. L. N. 
 pvuh,whcn Nicltolas de ilurton, rector * Kcgr. Bng|;i, ful. 204.
 
 LOP HAM. 235- 
 
 were certainly a great number of benefactors, the initial letters of the 
 names of the principal ones being carved in the stone-work on the 
 south side, John Kailli the principd undertaker's name being at 
 length : 
 
 <©rate pro atnimnfauiS giobanni^ ICtailli. 
 ni. a. to. a. 21.25. m. b. JS. b. m. a. Stc. 
 
 The nave and chancel arc thatclied, the south isle leaded, and 
 the south porch tiled, in which there is a stone, fixed in the wall, for 
 Simon Aldrich, who died the 5th day oi June, 17 1.5. 
 
 In the south window of the chancel, a bishop, in \m poiitificalibus, 
 is represented as dead, lying along. 
 
 In the church is a black marble for Francis Bogus, Gent, who died 
 the 6th day of Jul^, A° Dom. l6g2. Arms, two fesses and a ctinton. 
 
 On one of the bells. 
 
 $Hm^ ^irgini^ Mant bat j^obi^ gauoia bite. 
 
 Here were two Gilds,^ one dedicated to St. John, the other to St, 
 Peter, which were endowed with lands, seized upon by the Crown in 
 the 1st year of Edward Y[. and so continued till King Phillip and 
 Queen Mary, in the 3d and 4lh year of their reign, gave them to 
 Thomas Retve and George Gallon, who sold them the same year to 
 Thomas Brooke, and William IVoodferme, who sold them again im- 
 mediately to the inhabitants, who now enjoy them, viz. a tenement 
 and half an acre at the west end of the churchyard ; three acres of 
 land in North Lopham, the first is called St. John's Acre, because it 
 belonged to that gild, and lies in Well, or Willbush Furlong; the 
 second is St. Peter's Acre, so called for the same reason ; this abuts 
 upon the common towards the west; the third is called Lamp Acre, 
 and abuts on the glebe, and was given to maintain a lamp burning ia 
 the church ; all which are now held of the manor of East Greenwich, 
 by fealty only, without any payment, and were settled to the use of 
 tlie poor. 
 
 In \^\<2,,S\r Edmund Noon, Knt. lord of Shelf hanger, granted a 
 tenement called Elwine's, and 13 acres of land, part of his demeans, 
 to Richard Bossc, to be held free by him and his heirs for ever, by 
 the payment of a red rose every Midsummer Dai/ at Shelf hanger 
 manor, all which lands, with others joined to them, he gave to this 
 town to repair the church for ever, settling them to that use upon 
 IVilliam Tye, parson of Shelf hanger, John Pycot, John Clare, and 
 John Gyles, clerks, who, in 1454, conveyed them to Henry Noon, 
 Esq. Edmund Bokenham, Estj. and John Halle, parson of Garbol- 
 dishiim, from wiiich time it hath been held by fcofftes, as it now 
 [1730] is, and the profits applied to that use, it being now let at 8/. 
 per annum. 
 
 In 1500, Robert Bolle of North Lopham gave a rood and half at 
 Willbush, to repair the church for ever. 
 
 In 1607, the inhabitants held a piece of land given by Thomas 
 Jentc ; a tenement called the Town-house, and a croft of one acre, 
 given by Catharine Tumor; a piece of pasture in Lyng Furlong of 
 2 acres, abutting on Kenninghall Common north. 
 
 9 Regr. Awbry.
 
 -.;♦ H) I'll AM. 
 
 'I in* lol III Iv:/. /XT o>iMi/m, wlicTiul W. lUt. a 
 
 \i. 1, itn<l \f. n yor iii > -"'A iMfthum. 
 
 Ucir i« 1% liiw ii-liuujc 1 ! l>v li^c I i|p. 
 
 Ill l'i«.;<>, Mr'.. Marif l< 'i i)l'(j(i»( ■/) gnTc n incaduw, 
 
 called S.'ulp Mfiidotc, III (iarOoliiiJiain, nt\t\ nnullicr iiicaduw ailiuiii-, 
 ing to It, Ui lliii pnn^li, Uie churili-uiinK-nt t>rw'liicli nre iiiiiiuallv to 
 rrcri\<- the rent, mid to bind «nit a |KH>r cliild every year to a tnidc ; 
 Olid i( llieir be no |KM>r cliild iii the |iarikli. tlicii lltcy iirc to Inv it 
 uut to elollii- till' txMir |H'<i|ile nC llic tjiid |iarisll. 
 
 in I" ! out u cottn^jv for fyt years lo 
 
 coaic, I _ __ annual rent ol It. It.' 
 
 SoiTii I.X)rii AM liutli un wtntc of :\0l. a yew at /) url/ium in SuJ'- 
 
 /olk, wliicli was given by one Vurdif for the re|>nirs ui the church, 
 
 and if there were any o\erp!u«, to cliarilnbli- uM.'s,!>i)ch a'* the feoffees 
 
 would up|ily it to, for the good i>f the towo : tlic Iiuumo, un<l liiu 
 
 gr< it of the farm, i^ ffcelioid. 
 
 I u has It, that I'lirdtf was a If'orlfiam man, and a leper, 
 
 and gave his <'State lo thi> loun, Ixcause lliey were Milling he should 
 be buried among them, \vhi(.h IVortltam was nut: but this lieing a 
 common story told in most places where ihcrc arc gifts of ihis nature, 
 1 look u|>on it as tradition only. 
 
 Here are three small cottages for llic poor, by whom they arc now 
 {173*)] inhabited. 
 
 lliis town hath alsoGo acres, called the 7nVA, taken off the com- 
 mon by the lord's consent, of whom they now hold it; it is marsh 
 ground, and let at 8/. prr annum, the inronie of which is gvcn to the 
 poor by the feoffees every C/iristmnt and Kaster. And also a mcs- 
 Buage, barn, and l6 acres of freehold land, lying in the parish, now 
 rented at I .!</. /mt (iii/ium, settled to repair and beautify the church 
 for ever; and before the tenure of knight's service was abolished, it 
 paid tciilaije, and a relief of 4s. id. oh. 
 
 Not many years since the inhabitants purchased a freehold estate 
 ia DickUbiirg/i, renlcd at b/. a year. 
 
 Tlie CoMMO.vs contain as much land as the whole towns beside, 
 on all which Sorth and South lAtfiham are joint commoners, but no 
 other parishes intercommon with them; they arc calleil the (irrat 
 ox Mill I'ommon, Siirlh (irrrn, Sorlh Cufi'/K'N, and the I'm Com- 
 mon, and the- inhabitants lirri-toforc had nil L'liimbrook Meadow,* for 
 common, which tin y giaiited to ihi- lord to make his fislitrv, ngrjcing 
 to rjuit nil right ul coinmoiiagc in il, and on all ollu-r the lord's 
 wastes, on the east side the hundicd ditch, and ]>ark b.mks, for which 
 the lord agreed to lay them out an equivalent of other lands ujton 
 their Great Common, which wa"» done nccoidiiigly, reserving the 
 trees, iuize, and bushes, growing, or which should ever hereafter 
 grow on the lands, so laid out, which privilege the lord still cnjuys, 
 the InntU l«;ing then cnllcd the Seirralf, aiul now the .illnmii, or 
 Ullandi. 
 
 ' rrcm llic evidence! lu the CImriii m iJie hjndi ol Joseph Doe, owner 
 
 Ct>e»i. of laiult jiljuininj; lo Cluiiibrook Mei- 
 
 * From divert evidcncrtof the manor dow, afurcuid. 
 in my own tuodi, and from otiiert.
 
 LOP II AM. 235 
 
 111 former times lliis town was most wood, though now it doth not 
 more abound witii it than its neighbours ; for it appears from a fine 
 sued in 1383, that there was then great plenty ; for in that year tlie 
 Countess of Norfolk settled GO acres of wood, and the pannage and 
 keeping one boar, aud 24 sioine in her park here, with liberty of 
 gathering acorns for three days, with 25 men, on herself for life, re- 
 mainder to the Countess of Pembrook for life, after to Sir John 
 Haslj/ngs, Knt. Earl of Pembrook, her son, and the heirs of his body, 
 remainder to the heirs of the Countess. 
 
 The honour of C/are extended into this town, there being divers 
 lands here, formerly held of that honour. 
 
 RECTORS OF LOPHAM, 
 
 1332. Robert de Cantuaria, or Canlerbiiri/, resigned, and JVilliam 
 Vygerous was instituted on the nones of Sept. presented by Thomas 
 DE BROTHEKTON,son of the King, Earl of Norfolk, and Earl-Mar- 
 shal of England; in 1335, on the kal. of March he had a dispensation 
 for non-residence, as domestick chaplain to Stephen de Gravesend 
 Bishop of London. This William, the 13th of the kal. oi' Jpnl, 
 1327, was presented by the Bishop oi' London, to Thorlei/ rectory, 
 being then an accolite only :' In 1329,* he changed with Stephen de 
 Sca/deford for Finchley rectory in Middlesex, to which he was insti- 
 tuted the 6th of the i'd. of Mai/, and was then priest; in 1332, on 
 the nones of Sept. he resigned Finchlei/, and took Lopham, for which 
 he gave his archdeaconry of Essex in exchange, to Robert de Lan- 
 tuaria, to which he was collated by the Bishop of London,' on the 
 4th of the nones of Dec. A° 1331 ; in 1336, he was collated to the 
 rectory of I'M/^ayn in Middlesex, which he held with Lopham to his 
 death, A" 1341. 'Yh\i Robert de Cantuaria wns chaplain to King 
 Ednard II. rector of Lopham, archdeacon of Essex, prebend of Cumb 
 in the church of Wells, and of Mapesbury in St. Paul's church, 
 jC-o«Jo«, 1331, and died about 1 333.'' 
 
 1342,29 March, Tho. de Thurleston, priest. Sir John de bE- 
 
 GRAVE, Knt. 
 
 1341,7 June, Johnde Louirhton,iicco\\le. Ditto. 
 
 1346, 17 July, He changed with Will, de DunUaple, rector ot 
 Chestreford, London diocese.' Ditto. 
 
 1349,4 Jit/u, Will. deAtterton, T^nest. Ditto. 
 
 1351, 4 March, Giles de Wyngreworth, a shaveling.^ King Ed- 
 ward, on account of the lands late Sir John Segraies, liavin- re- 
 covered this turn in his own court, against John de Segrave, those 
 lands being lately in the King's hands ,, „ ., . , 
 
 1352, 27 Jug. Giles resigned, and Richard de Penreth, priest was 
 instituted. King Edward, on account of Sir .]ohn Segr«re . lands 
 now in his hands, at Sir John's death. . ., 
 
 13Gi,27 Ji'h/, Nicholas de llorton, priest. Walter Lo«1/J-^>^- 
 NEY. This Nicholas was a monk of TA.(/arci, and founder of South 
 Lopham chancel; he had a long suit with Waller Pek, rector ot 
 
 3 Nevjcourt Rep. vol. i. S97. [ ^:rP.L.'N:'"M;-s:';;n. J. Anstis, 
 
 ' Ibidem, 72.
 
 C36 I.OIMIAM 
 
 ^^ ' ' ' " '' I ' ■ ■ :) laiuli of tlir 
 
 l< lie cit \«lll(-|| 
 
 • i ^ ' re iKi^Mtl a 
 
 tl' :■!■...'/, , :m, imr Uicir 
 
 farmers, tliotild p.-tv aoy tilhc to liarboldtsJiam, lliough the laiidi liud 
 iu lliut imritli. 
 
 IJSjt), 22 Augtitt, Sir Gi7ri rfr Uculock, pric»t. Makuarkt 
 Maictclial Cuuiitrsii of \<m ' .1 La«ly Srgraie ; ht wiut her 
 
 «.'ha|i|.tiii, nixl .!<•»« iir<l <>f Ix-i .1. 
 
 - " ■ , prif-t. I ' 
 
 «i "^ M I.I . ctor of ' / 
 
 •V. John, rciK-wiMl ilu- action nqainal tiu» Jejfcr^ for tilJic of iiii de- 
 nu>nn», but wiis intmediaU-lv I'luit. 
 
 M04, 12J /VAr. Jfff'rif rfsif»ncd, and Adam Coktlol, priest, suc- 
 cccdiil. Llizaiictii Oultlitis of \orfolk, in rinlil of ht-r duwcr. 
 
 l-t'iJ, '2'i Dec. xXui .iilam Ix-ini; ^ruwii old and hiind, !>o lliut he 
 (.■uuld not strvc the cure, roi^inid in favour of lUlmund L'oupfre, 
 prie>i. It ho was obhged by tlic iiiihop, ul liis institution, to |>a)' him a 
 ixnsiun uf lO/. a year, during hit iii'e. Llizabetu Dutcliess of 
 Sorf'o/k. 
 
 1431, I'i May, Edmund Conpcr resigned, and I loir y Ptrbroun wa« 
 in»titute<l. Ldmi'nd Wyntur, IIuckk IIintb, and Kobebt 
 Southwell, feort"ee« of John Moirbrai/ l)ul»i- of Sur/o/k. 
 
 14 is, 23 Sov. I'erliroun c-hani;e<l for Jlryduu with h illiain lirixeif, 
 priis!. Jons Duke of \t)r/(i/it. 
 
 144'», 17 •S'»7>'. Thii. If (x/r, chnphiin to John Dulie of \'tir('ulk. 
 Tlii* Thomai alle H wJe was warden of (ioiitilc Hall in L'amOrii)ge in 
 14'Jf),' which he held to 1454. lie was the first l>enefactor toward* 
 buildiiif; (he hall of tlint college, and the uardcn'!* old room; Dr. 
 Caiiit (by mistake") calK him CutKond. 
 
 I4'J^, y March, Uich. Dcrhi/. John Duke of y>orJulk ; iie was 
 nfler chaplain to the Dutchess.' 
 
 l-Vil , ult. Jan. John (irairli/, on the dealli of the last rector. 
 
 154<i, 2 I'flir. 'I'hf Hiyhl l(rv. John Salisbiiri/, bulfragan Bishop 
 of Tbrtford, was pres<-ntcd by the King, lie resigned in 
 
 13.^4 ; but on the (ilh of May, in the same year, he took it again, 
 and held it united to Din, being presented by Thomas Duke of Xwr- 
 Jolk. He returned iu 
 
 lAfiO, and John llorrifon, priest, was instituted June 20. 
 
 137<>, I'» ^"l. John Doxrfnld, A. M. Will. Dixe, and Will. 
 Cantcuell, llsqrs. feoflecs. 
 
 137H, '11 Srpl. Arthur IVomack, A.M. on Dorrfieltft resignation. 
 Ditto, lie was buried here the 18tJi oi June, l(i<)7. 
 
 \Gi07,i,0Junr, iMuraice iVomack, A.}>\. John Holland, and 
 Edward Carrf.ll, Esqrs. feoffees to Thouias Earl oi Anindcll ; he 
 dierl in ihf rclH-llion. niul f>ni- 
 
 /,7/m got i 1 of this rectory, who held it by iisurpa- 
 
 til. 'li,' but M ■ cprivcd by six justices, upon the act, 
 
 for holding anabujitisticai rrrours, and refusing to baptiz<- infants. 
 
 1003, Apni 24, r.dmund .Salmon, D. D. of L'ambridge, 11 en BY 
 
 • Parkrr't Hiii. of Carob. p. to. ' Rrgr. Reynolds, fol. 66. 
 
 ' Rcgr. Sjyne, fol. jj.
 
 LOPIIAM. 237 
 
 Howard, Knt. Will. Plaiteus, Bart. &c. trustees to tlie Norfolk 
 .family. • 
 
 1681, 2 Mai/, Samuel Slipper, A. M. chaplain to the Duke of 
 Nojfolk on Su/inon's death. John Meek and John J a v, patrons 
 for this turn. 
 
 1713, 1 1 June, the Rev. Mr. Rohert Hall, A. M. on Slipper s death, 
 presented by Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who some time after sold 
 the patronage to Dr. /////, who hath obliged his heirs for ever, to 
 present a fellow of St. John's College in Cambridge. Sir Rowland 
 Hill is now [1736] patron, and Mr. Hall aforesaid is incumbent, 
 ■who hath published a volume of Sermons, and another of Catechis- 
 tical Lectures, in 8vo. and a Sermon on the Peace. 
 
 This town is remarkable among the country people for the three 
 Wonders; (as they call them;) t!>c first is, the Selfgrorcn Stile, 
 being a tree grown in such a manner, that it forms a regular stile, and 
 serves for such in a common footpath. The second is, the Ox-Foot 
 5^one, which lies in a meadow so called; it is a large stone of the 
 pebble kind, on which is the fair impression of an ox's foot, which 
 seems to be natural; the fable of it is, that in a great dearth (nobody 
 knows when) there came a cow constantly to that place, which suf- 
 fered herself to be milked (as long as the dearth lasted) by the poor 
 people; but when that decreased, she struck her foot against that 
 stone, which made the impression, and immediately disappeared. 
 The third is called Lopham Ford, at which place the Ouse and 
 Waveney (those disagreeing brethren, as Spelman^ calls them) have 
 their rise, and though there is no greater division than nine feet of 
 ground, yet the former goes west by Thetford to Li/mi, and the latter 
 in a direct contrary course, by Diss, and so to Yarmouth, including 
 this whole county ; Leland calls it Lopham Market, (without any 
 authority,) and says that it belonged to Richmond fee, being led 
 into that errour, I suppose, by its being the place where the gaol of 
 the Duke of Norfolk's liberty was kept, of which Suajfham is the head 
 town in this county, where the coroner for the liberty generally re- 
 sided, and that town belonging to Richmond fee, might possibly lead 
 him into this mistake; and as this liberty is of large extent in the 
 county, it will not be amiss to give you an account of its rise and 
 privileges in this place, because it hath been generally reputed to be, 
 as it were, annexed to this manor. 
 
 King Edward IV.* by letters patent under the broad seal of 
 England, dated at Westminster the 7th of December, in the 8th year 
 of nis reign, and in the year of our Lord 1468, granted to John 
 Duke of Norfolk, and Elizabeth his wife, and their heirs, forever, 
 the return of all ts^ri^s whatsoever, and of all bills, summons, precepts, 
 and mandates of the Kin^, and of all acting under him, within the 
 liberty, manors, and hundreds following, viz. within the manors and 
 demeans of Forncet, Framlingham-Parva, Ditchingluim- Parva, 
 Ditchingham, Loddon, Syseland, Halvergate, Southwalsham, Cantley, 
 Strumpshazc, Castre, JVinterton, Dickleburgh, Boyton, and Bayfield, 
 
 ' Vol. vii. p. 45. grants of the privileges of the liberty, 
 
 ♦ This account is taken from a MSS. which is now in the hands of the Stew, 
 
 containing an exemplification of all the ard. 
 
 VOL. I. H h
 
 £3$ iOPHAM. 
 
 in the coonty of Norfolk, »nd also within Uie whole hundred of 
 Earsham, ami llic iialf hundred of Gildercrosse in the said county, 
 jind also in the towns, parishes, and demeans, of KehaU, Bonnagaie, 
 PeuicnhaU, CuUotf, Stonham, DeiiiiiiigloH, Brundhh, llketshalU, and 
 CrateJieUl, in Suffolk ; and in the rapes of Leu is and Bramber, and 
 all the parts and parcels thereto belonging; and in the hundred find 
 lordship of Bostham, and the town of Stoug/itou, in Sinsfx, in the 
 manor and lordships of Jieyi(rt^e and Barkyug in Surrey; and ihf 
 town, manor, and lordships of Ilaruich and Dovercourt in Essex; 
 and in all paicels, precincts, and jurisdictions of all the aforesaid 
 rapes, hundreds, towns, manors, and lordshi[)s, so that no sheriff, or 
 any other ofhcer whatsoever, should enter the said liberty, but that 
 every thing should be transacted by the officers of the said Duke, 
 appointed for that purpose. Furthermore, the King granted to the 
 Duke and his heirs, all manner of fines, profits, amerciaments, penal- 
 ties. Sic. of all residents in the said liberty, with all other things that 
 phould accrue to his royal crown and dignity, with full power for the 
 Duke's officers to seize for any of tliem, in as full a manner as the 
 King's officers should have done, if this grant had not been madp. 
 Further, the King granted to the said Duke and his heirs, all zveyfs 
 »nd strays, felons' goods, and forfeitures ; and also, that the residents 
 in this liberty shall not be sued or forced to answer in any other court, 
 tlian that of the liberty, for any sum under 40s. And further, the 
 King granted to the said Duke, full power and authority, to have his 
 own coroners, and clerks of the markets, in his liberty, with the same 
 power that those officers of the King have in any other place; toge- 
 ther with a steward of the liberty, who shall have power to determine 
 all actions under 4Qs. so that they arise within the liberty ; all which 
 privileges the King confirmed to him, in exchange for the castle, 
 manor, lordship, and burgh of C/iepstowe, tlxc manor of Barton, and 
 the jnanor and lordship of Tuddeuham, in the Welsh Mai'shes, to 
 which all the aforesaid privileges (and much greater) belonged, and 
 had been enjoyed by the Duke and his ancestors, time out of mind, 
 but were now by the Duke, at the King's earnest request, conveyed 
 to Wm. Earl of Pembrook, and his heirs, and a fine levied accord- 
 ingly. This liberty, with all its privileges, was enjoyed by the said 
 Duke, and his successours, till Queen Elizabeth's time, and tlien wer^ 
 exemplified under seal, at Westminster, the 4th of Juty, 1558, at the 
 request of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who was then seized in fee, and 
 so continued till 1568, when he settled this, among other large estates, 
 on Tho. Cornwallis, Knt. Nich. L' Estrange, Knt. Tho. Timperly, 
 Wm. Barker, Rob. Iligford, and Edw. Peacock, and their heirs, to 
 his own use for life, and to whatever other uses he should declare, by 
 any will or deed that he should make ; and soon after he declared by 
 deed, that they stood seized to the use of tlie faithful and beloved 
 servant* of the late Duke, John Bleterhasset, W. Dixe, William 
 Cantrell, and Laurence Bunnester, in Uust, that they sliould truly p^iy 
 the debts and legacies of the said Duke, and the overplus to remain 
 to Phillip Earl of Surrey, and his heirs, remainder to Thomas Lord 
 Iloitard, and William Lord Howard, and their heirs : but upon the 
 attainder of the Duke, and Phillip Earl of Surrey, it was seized by 
 the Crown, where it contii?ued till James I. by letters patent, dated 
 at Westminster in the year l602, being the first year of his reign, gav^
 
 LOP HAM. fi3d 
 
 and granted to his faithful counsellors, Thomas Lonl Horcavd, baron 
 of IValden, and Henry Howard, brother of Thomas late Duke of Nor- 
 folk, and son of Henri/ late Earl of Surrey, and their heirs, this liberty, 
 with the honour, lordship, and manor of Forncet, and the manors of 
 Earrs, or Little Framlingham, Hatvergate, Ditchiiig/iam, Siselatirl, 
 Dicklehurgli, Loddon, and Laiiiidich hundred in Noijolk ; the castle, 
 soke, and manor of Bo7igei/e, and manor of Cratjield, in Suffolk; (all 
 being part of the possessions of the late attainted Duke;) together 
 with all lawdays, amerciaments, views of frank-pledge, &c. the one 
 moiety to Thomas Lord Hoteai'd, and his heirs, the other to Henry 
 Howard, and h\s heirs; and the year following, on the 3d day of 
 April, the King, by other letters patent, granted to Thomas Earl of 
 Suffolk, Lord Chamberlain of his Household, and to Henry Earl of 
 Noiihampton, (Juardian of the Cinque Ports, (those titles being con- 
 ferred on them in the mean time,) and their heirs, the manors and 
 advowsons of Ditchingham and South Jl a/sham, late the attainted 
 Duke's; and by other letters patent, dated at Westminster, Noik 22, 
 in the 6th year of his reign, he gave them the half hundred of Gi/lt- 
 cross in Norfolk, and Cratfield and Kelsate manors in Suffolk, late the 
 said Duke's, with all their liberties, &c.; together with the barony, 
 burgh, and manor of Lewes in Sussex, and the barony and manor of 
 Bramber, with the office of itinerant bailiff, and of clerks of the 
 markets within the said baronies in Sussex, together with Darkyng 
 cum Capell manor in Surrey, with all the liberties of the late Duke of 
 Norfolk, as leets, Views of frankpledge, larodays, assize of dread and 
 beer, pleas, weyfs, streys, forfeitures of felons, fugitives, deodands, 
 knight's fees, escheats, heriofs,free-7i:arren, return of all writs, precepts, 
 8cc. in as full and arriple a manner as ever Thomas Duke of Noifo/k 
 enjoyed his liberty, before his attainder; by means of which grant, 
 each of them was seized of a moiet^', all which premises they divided 
 b)' indenture, dated the 13th day of May following. The manors of 
 Forncet, Ditchingham, Loddon, Si/seland, Halvergate, South IVals- 
 ham, Laundich hundred, and the half hundred of Earsham, with the 
 manor of Bongey, were assigned to Henry Earl of Northampton, and 
 his heirs, of wliich he died seized in ItilS, and they descended to 
 Th&mas Earl of Arundell and Surrey, (who was restored in blood, in 
 a parliament at Westminster, March 19, l602,) as cousin and next 
 heir, then aged 25 years,' he being son of Phillip late Earl of Arun- 
 dell and Surrey, deceased, son and heir of Thomas late Duke of 
 Norfolk, and elder brother of the said Henry late Earl of Northampton. 
 And after this, Henry Earl of Aritndell and Surrey, by indenture 
 dated March 1, l6l 7, purchased to him and his heirs, of Thomas Earl 
 of Suffolk, all his part, right, and estate, in the hundred of Gyltcross, 
 Kelsale and Cratjield manors in Suffolk; the rapes of Lewes and 
 Bramber and Noman's-Land in Sussex ; Darkyng and Capell manors 
 in Surrey, the barony, manor, and burgh of Lewes, with the office of 
 bailiff itinerant; the manors of Lewisburgh, Rymer, IlJ'ord, Seaford, 
 Meching, Middleton, Brithelmeston ; the free chase called Clers; 
 liberty of the sheriff's turn of Nomans-Lands,Shcffield, and Grimstead 
 manors; the barony and manor of Bramber, with the itinerant bailiff 
 there; the burgh of Horsham, burgh of Shorambury and Beding New 
 Park; the burgh of Steyning, anA the manor of Sotnpting-Abbots ; 
 
 ' Inquis. capt. apud Harleston, 9 Apr. iS Jac. I.
 
 «40 LOPHAM. 
 
 the office of clerks of the markets in Lewes and Bramber baronies, 
 Shejfielil and Lyngfield manor, the fourth part of Barki/iig and Capell 
 manors, tlie tollbooth of Southzcark, and Guilford in Surrey, and all 
 privileges that Thomas late Duke of Norfolk had in the letters patent 
 oi' Queen Elizabeth ; and particularly all those liberties, commonly 
 called the Duke of Norfolk's Liberty, by virtue of which, Thomas 
 Earl of Arundell and Surrey aforesaid was seized of the whole in fee, 
 and so continued till the 12th oi Aumst, U)4I, and then he and the 
 Lady Alathea Countess oi Arundell, u'm wife, and Henry Lord Mow- 
 bray and Maltraiers, their eldest son, and heir apparent, Henry 
 Bedingfield, Knt. and John Cornwaleis of Eiirl-Soham,lhe\r trustees, 
 settled it (among many other estates) on Lionel Earl of Middlesex, 
 Henry Lord Pierpoint, Edward Lord Newhurgh, llilliam Playters, 
 Knt. and Bart, and Richard Onslow, Knt. in trust, to whatever uses 
 the Earl, his lady, and their son, should declare by deed; and on the 
 ]6th of August, in the same year, they declared it was absolutely to 
 the use of their trustees, and their heirs, in order that they should 
 make sale of all, or any parcels of the said baronies, lands, tenements, 
 hereditaments, liberties, advowsons, Sec. aforesaid; and that the 
 money from thence raised should be by them applied to pay the 
 debts of Thomas late Earl of Arundell and Surrey, and the overplus 
 to remain to the Lord Maltraiers, or his heirs; and whates'er re- 
 mained unsold, after the debts paid, they were to sttind seized of, to 
 the use of the Lord Maltrarers and his heiis ; (and that the title might 
 be perfect, JVill. Hozcard oi Maynzcard, in Cumberland, Knt. joined 
 in the indentures;) and thus they stood >eized till Henry Lord Pier- 
 point, by the name of Henry Earl of ii?«_;s?OH upon Hull, Marquis of 
 Dorset, by deed dated the fJth of Feb. \ti56, at the retiuest of Henry 
 Hozcard, son of Henry late Earl of Arundell and Surrey, released to 
 Will. Playters, and Mich. Onslow albresaid, and their heirs, all his 
 right in the premises, by virtue of which they were solely seized, and 
 being so, by indenture, dated the 30th oi July, ]65y, they conveyed 
 them to Arthur Ousluzce, Knt. and WilUam Turner, citizen and 
 draper of London, and their heirs; (Forncet, Marshal's, and Grey's 
 manors in Banham, being particularly named;) and the said Arthur 
 and llilliam, by indenture dated the 4th of Nor. 1660, jointly with, 
 and -at the request of, Henry Hozcard, Esq. second son of i/e«r^ 
 Earl of Arundell, deceased, and Rich. Onslow of IVest Clandon, Knt. 
 Arth. Onsloii', his son and heir, John Fozcell of Fowellscom- in Devon- 
 shire, Esq. and Rich. Marriot of Clement's Danes in Middlesex, Knt. 
 conveyed the whole absolute!}' to John Taseburgh of Bodney in 
 Norfolk, Esq. and his heirs, in trust, and to the use oi Rich. On/lowe, 
 Arth. Onslowe, John Taseburgh, and IVill. Turner, and their heirs, 
 to the intention that they should sell the whole, or any part of the 
 premises, with the woods or timber, to raise money to pay all the 
 debts of the aforesaid Hen. Howard, with all their own expenses in 
 the affair, and the remaining overplus, whether in money, or estates 
 imsold, was to be to the sole use of the said Henry Howard, and his 
 Leirs, and of whomsoever he should assign it to, upon which the said 
 Rich. Onslowe, Arth. Onslowe, Uill. Turner, and John Taseburgh 
 being solely seized of the liberty, 8tc. beg that the liberties. Sec. 
 might be allowed and confirmed to them, which was done, upon their 
 producing the charters and grants, all which were allowed by JeJ'ry
 
 LOPHAM. 241 
 
 Palmer, Bart. Attorney-General, and at the request of* Hetiry Lord 
 Honard, were exemplitied under seal at Westminster, the 2d of April, 
 l6(i9, and soon after (the debts being paid) it was again vested in the 
 Howard family, the l)uke of Norfolk being now lord, who nominates 
 a steward and coroner, and keeps a gaol for debtors, either here, or 
 elsewhere, as he pleases. 
 
 In I603, there were in both Lophams 351 communicants, and now 
 [1736] there are 70 dwelling-houses, 95 families, and 470 inhabitants 
 in South Lopliam; and 74 dwelling-houses, 92 families, and 460 in- 
 habitants in North Lopham. They paid 3/. 12s. to the old tenths, 
 being valued together, but now they are assessed single to the King's 
 ta.x, viz. South Lopham at 785/. per annum, and North Lopham at 
 772/. 10s. each of them paying a teetfee of ISf/. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Robert Hall bears, arg. on a chevron ingraiied be- 
 tween three talbots heads erased gul. a mullet of the field, in chief a 
 crescent lor different*. Crest, on a torce arg. and gul. a talbot'S 
 head erased gul. 
 
 Mr. kVade Kelt of South Lopham bears, as in p. 39> a crescent for 
 difference. 
 
 Mr. Henri/ Branch of South Lopham bears, arg. a lion ramp. gul. 
 over all a bendlet sab. 
 
 Mr. Richard Flowerdew of South Lopham bears, per chevron in- 
 graiied arg. and sub. three water-boudgets counter-changed, a mullet 
 (or difference.
 
 [ 24« 1 
 
 NORTON, 
 
 Now called Blow-Norton, corruptly for Norton Bel'eau, as it is 
 snciently spelt, which signifies the north town upon the fair water, 
 or river, on which it is situated, and by which it is divided, on its 
 south part, from Sujf'olk. It had four distinct manors in the Con- 
 queror's time. 
 
 The first of which belonged to William Earl Warren^ and was 
 held by Fulcher under him, of his castle of J^eu'es, and laid in Ken- 
 niiighall Soken, before the Earl had it. Tliis was afterwards called 
 Brome Hall manor, and was held of the Earl ll'arren's castle at^cre, 
 by the service of the fourth part of a fee, which service descended 
 with that castle and honour ; it was after held of Tateshale barony. 
 
 The second was held as a distinct manor in the Confessor's days, 
 and in the Conqueror's belonged to Alsitis, who then added it to his 
 manor of Lop/tam,'' as a hircKic ; from him it became part of the 
 estate of Roger Bi/god, under whom, at the survey', Alurcd, an 
 Etiglishman, held it. It was given very early by the Bj/gods to the 
 Bromes, and so became part oi' Brome Hall manor, being always held 
 of the Earls and Dukes of Norfolk, by the service of a quarter of a 
 fee. 
 
 The third part belonged to the Abbot of Buri/, and was held by a 
 socman^ of his in the Confessor's days, and by Joceline,^ in the Con- 
 queror's, the whole town being then a league long, and half a league 
 broad, and paid 8f/. ob. \q. Danegeld; there were then 5 acres of land 
 belonging to the church : this was called Semere's manor, from the 
 Seymors, or St. Maiir's, lords thereof, and was held of the abbey by 
 the service of a whole knight's fee. 
 
 The fourth part belonged to Elj/ abbey ;' but I do not find who 
 
 * Terre Willi. deWarrenna, Hundr. 
 de Gildecros. (Domsd. fol. 91.) 
 
 In Nortuna tenet Fiilcherus i. car. 
 terre quam tenuit i. lib. homo, T. R. E. 
 semper vi. villan. et ii. bord. et i. acr. 
 j)rati. tuncet post. i. car. in dnio. ni°i. 
 car. etdim. et dim. car. hominum. dim. 
 mol. ct i. see. i. acr. terre tunc et post 
 valuit XX. sol. m" XXX. hoc est de cas- 
 tello de Laqueis. Soca in Chenighehala 
 Regis semper, donee Wills, habiiit. 
 
 ' See Lopham, p. 218. 
 
 * Terre Abbatis de Sco. Eadmundo. 
 Gildecros. Hundr. (Domesd. fol. 177.) 
 
 In Nortuna tenet idem (sc. Gosseli- 
 nus, de Abbate,) i. car. terre quod te- 
 nuit i. socman. Sci. Edmi. semper v. 
 villani. et tunc iiii. bord. m° v. i. acr. 
 prati. semper ii. car. in dnio. et dim. 
 car. hom. Silva x. pore. i. mol. et i. 
 soc. dim. acr. mo. iii. rune. xii. an x. 
 pore. xiv. ov. vi. vasa apum. val. xxx. 
 sol. 
 
 Habet i. leug. in longo, et dim. in 
 lato, quicunque ibi teneat, et v'ln.d. et 
 obol. de Gelto, et i. ferding. 
 
 ' This Joceline was brother to Abbot 
 Baldwin, who infeotfed him in the Con- 
 queror's time, in many great possessions 
 here, at Qiiidenham, and elsewhere, as 
 I learn from the White Register of that 
 abbey, (fol. 97,) from which it will not 
 be amiss to observe, that Abbot Bald- 
 win about that time infeoffed almost all 
 the knights that heldof the abbey. This 
 Joceline was not the author of the Chro- 
 nicle in the Cotton Library, so called, 
 the author of that being chaplain to Ab- 
 bot Sampson. 
 
 ' Terre Sancte Adeldrede Gildecros 
 H. (Domesd. fol. 188.) 
 
 In Nortuna i. soc. Ixxx. acr. ct i. acr. 
 prati et i. acr. ct i. vil. et vii. bord. et 
 i. car. val. xv. sol. Iste fuit de liberis 
 hominibus Rogeri Bigot, sed Abbas de- 
 rationavit.
 
 NORTON. ^4» 
 
 gave it, though imagine it was given with Garboldisham, to which 
 it might then belong ; it is plain it was seized as that was, and 
 recovered from Roger Bigot in the Conqueror's days, after which 
 the Abbot held it but a little while, for it came to the Earl Warren, 
 whether by feoffment or purchase I cannot say; one of those Earls 
 granted it to JVHUam de (a Snore, to be held of the castle at j^cre, by 
 the service of a quarter of a fee ; from which time I find nothing of 
 it till 1288, and tlien JVi//iam de Bhzc-Norton held it by that service. 
 In 1345, Adam de Norton was lord; in 1401, John Armiger had 
 it; in 1570, one Chittock had it; but it was soon after purchased and 
 joined to Semere manor. It is now called Brent Hall, or Burnt Hall, 
 because the mansion-house was burnt down ; it still retains a place 
 in the style of the court, which runs thus : Bronte Hall and Semere'sy 
 with Brent Hall in Blow-Norton. 
 
 BROME HALL MANOR 
 
 Was so called from^ the family of the Bromes, who had one part of it 
 of the grant of the Bj/gots, in very early days, the other part comin 
 to them from Roger de Somery, whose ancestors had it of the Ear] 
 Warren^s gift. It seems that Roger, son of" William de Brom, mar- 
 ried Petronilla,'^ one of the heiresses oi' Roger de Somery ; for in an 
 inquisition taken in the time oi Henry IlL it is said, that he held it 
 jointly with her, as part of the inheritance of Roger de Somery, of the 
 Earl oi Arundell; this was about 1280; in 1302, they settled the 
 manor and advowson on themselves for life, thep on William de 
 Brom, their son and heir, remainder to Robert, their other son, 
 Henry de Brom (brother to Roger) being trustee. In the next year 
 Roger died, and left William, his son and heir, who died before his 
 mother, so that Robert de Brom, his brother, at his mother Petronell's 
 (sleath, which was before 1443, inherited the whole, it being settled by 
 her on him and Joan his wife, in tail, in the year 1336, by a fine then 
 levied between them and Edmund Bacon, parson of Corton, in Siif- 
 folk, and Robert de J erne math, or Yarmouth; in an inquisition in 
 1345, it is said that he held both the parts of this manor, and paid a 
 relief of a.s. to the Earl oi Arundell, for the half part held of him, at 
 a quarter of a fee, and x.s. to the Earl Warren, as a relief for tlie other 
 half, that being held of him at a quarter of a fee. In I3G3, he held 
 it jointly with Roger Brom, his eldest son. In 1401, Robert Brome, 
 Est], son of the last -Roger, had it, who died intestate in 1453, leaving 
 Olive his widow, who administered, John Broome, Esq. his son, be- 
 ing very young; he afterwards was lord, and left it, at his death, to 
 Henri/ Brome, his son and heir, who left it to James Brome, his son 
 and heir, who died without issue about 1510, and it descended to his 
 two sisters, viz. Mary Jerniy, and Anne, first married to Rob. Siede, 
 Esq. after to Jolui Brampton, and then to Rob. Rookiaood, Gent. ; 
 at her death the whole went to Thomas Brampton, her son and heir, 
 who had purchiised the other moiety in 1533, of Ednard Jenny, son 
 
 * This Patronell was certainly daiigh- on which she places Maiilby's arms be- 
 
 ter of .-lir Kob. de Maltaby, Knt. and fore her husband's. How she came to 
 
 Olive, Jiis wite, as ap|jears from maiiy be one of Somery's heiresses I cannot 
 
 deeds in my cuUeciions, to one of wliicli ^y. 
 licr seal is fixed when slic was a widow, >
 
 2W 
 
 KORTON. 
 
 and lieir of Mary Broome, by Jenny, her first husband, she and Ralph 
 Skeltou, Esq. son of Sir John Slivlton, Knt. her second husband, 
 joining, to make a complete title; and thus it was joined to 
 
 SEMERE HALL MANOR, 
 
 Whicli was part of the revenues of Biiri/ abbey, and belonged to 
 J()n7(«(', brollier to Abbot L'rtWfi"/;/, wliu infeofled iiim in it in liie 
 CoiKjueror's time ; it after came to the Ih/goih, of whom it was held 
 in the eleventh century, by the family siniatned de Cadomo, or 
 Caam; Rich, de Caam was lord and patron of St. jlndreta's in 1'2S0, 
 and in 1285 Olive his widow, who held it in dower, remitted all her 
 claim and right to Sir John de Dykele, Knt. who seems to be heir 
 general to Rich, de Caam ; and in the same year Sir John granted it 
 to Ra/f de Saiicto Maiiro,^ or Sei/morc, and yJ/ice his wife, and their 
 heirs; and the said 0/iir, and U il/idiu de Turri, her second hus- 
 band, confirmed the grant, for which Ralf and Alice gave them an 
 annuity of 7 marks, and a gown every year worth one niaik, during 
 the life of the said Olive ; in 1311, Rolf being dead, J lice his widow 
 settled the manor and advowson, after her own death, on Edmund, 
 their son, and Joa« his wife, who was lady in l.'ilo; and in 1345, 
 John de Sei/mor was lord, son, I suppose, uf Edniitrid : he held it of 
 John de Hegvave, as of his manor of Forncet, he of the Abbot, and 
 the Abbot of the King, at half a fee, and paid 20s. relief. In 1423, 
 John de Sei/mor had it; in 1435, a fine was levied between Ralph 
 Gimton, and IValter Walton of London, mason, and Joan his wife, 
 by which it was settled on Ralph and his heirs; about 1510, it is 
 said to be in the heirs of John Botcrani, of whom, in all probability, 
 it was purchased by Christopher Coote, Esq.* who had it settled on 
 him and his trustees by fine, in 1521 ; he died Sept. 17, 1363,' seized 
 oi Seyniors manor here. Rich. Coote, his son and heir, being 34 years 
 old, who had immediate livery; he was afterwards knighted, and 
 lived to the age of 124 years; Sir Charles Coote, Knt. and Bart, who 
 translated himself and family into Ireland, where he was Lieutenant 
 in King Charles the First's time, and was killed in 1642, was the last 
 of the family that had this manor, it being joined to Brome Hall manor 
 by the Brampton's, who purchased it, and so had all the manors and 
 the whole advowson ; the pedigree of which family, as far as it con- 
 cerns this town, here follows. 
 
 ' This Ralph was attached to answer relating to it are very large ; it is said 
 the King, that whereas he had com- that Sir Nicliolas Coote, Knt. who lived 
 manded Jiim to attend him personally at in Queen Elizabeth's time, was a re- 
 
 Carlisle, with his whole service, in his 
 army against the Scots, 15 days after 
 Easter, or before that time to appear at 
 ihe Exchequer, and fine for that service ; 
 he despising the mandate neitlier came 
 to do the service, nor appeared to fine 
 for it. He pleaded that the precept was 
 not delivered, and that he held nothing 
 of the King for w hich he ought to do 
 that service J upon which he was dis- 
 missed. Madox Hist. Excheq. 461. 
 
 ♦ Mr. Martin of Palgrave hath the 
 most beautiful pedigree of this family 
 that I ever saw. Mr. Neve's Collections 
 
 tainer of the Duke of Norfolk's, and 
 upon his cause, happened to strike the 
 Attorney-General, for which he was 
 fined 20,000/. and laid in prison for it a 
 long time, and at last was forced to sell 
 his estate to pay the fine, with the con. 
 sent of Sir Charles, his son, who was 
 created A° 1660, Earl of Montrath. 
 See Lopham, p. 232. 
 
 5 When Christopher Coote bought it 
 it contained 60 acres of land, 120 acres 
 of pasture, 3 acres of wood, a fold- 
 course for 300 sheep, and an advowson.
 
 NORTON. 
 
 ^*5 
 
 JohnStedc, Escj._Anne, dr. of lohn Brampton of Broitie Hall, in BJo- Robert Rook- 
 
 sans tssuc ; he is 
 buried here. 
 
 Hen. Bromc, 
 Esq 
 
 norcon, Esq. from whom descended wood, GcQt. 
 
 the cidett branch of ihe Bramptons of 
 
 Brampton, by hi« first wife Thoma- 
 
 zinc, dr. of Sir J. Jermy of Mclfield, 
 
 Suffolk. 
 
 William Brampton, who 
 was lord of Eccles by the 
 Sea, for life; he kept his 
 sst court there in 1545, 
 and died without issue. 
 
 Thomas Btamp- 
 ton, Esq. lord 
 in S570, buried 
 in Norton chan- 
 cel. 
 
 Eliz. dr. of Rook- 
 wood of Langham, 
 in Norf. ob. 16031 
 buried by him. 
 
 1. Anne, dr. 
 of Vincent 
 of Marling- 
 ford, Norf, 
 
 Gaudy s Dorothy, dr. of Mr. John 
 
 Brampton, John Briscoe of 
 
 lord of Hackney in Middles. 
 
 Norton, purchased the estate 
 
 1660. of Mr. Watts, jointly 
 
 with her second hus- 
 band ; 3 sons s. p. 
 
 Best, who 
 purchased 
 the estate 
 of Mr.W. 
 Waits, 
 and gave 
 it to 
 
 1, H Bramp- 
 ton, Gent, he 
 and his wife 
 sold Eccles, 
 and had no 
 issue. 
 
 Katherioe 
 
 Everard, 
 
 married at 
 
 West- 
 
 Herling, 
 
 Ecbr. 19, 
 
 '537- 
 
 Hen. Brampton and his father Catherine, 
 sold the estate to Mr. Watts, onlydr of 
 an attorney in Norwich, of " ~ 
 whom Mrs. Dorothy, his mo- 
 ihcr-in-law, and her second 
 tiusband purchased it. s. p. 
 
 Sir Drue 
 Drury of 
 Riddles- 
 worth 
 Hall. 
 
 \ 
 
 Dorothy, 
 
 married 
 
 to Jctter, 
 
 besides 
 
 other 
 
 daughters. 
 
 Nathaniel Best, who was hii son by a former wife ; he is 
 buried in Norton chancel ; at his death be gave it to 
 
 Ut, Robert Brown of Blow-Norton, who is now [1736] 
 lord and patron. 
 
 The Leet belongs to the hundred, the leet fee being 14rf. The 
 lord of the hundred is lord paramount, having weuf and strei/, view 
 oi frankpledge and free-uaneii, assize of bread and beer, &c. for 
 ■when the lords of the several manors were forced by quo warranlos to 
 produce their charters, and plead what liberties had been immenio- 
 rially used, the lords here did not claim any. 
 
 The CusTCMs of the Manors are these : the fines arc at the 
 lord's will ; the copyhold descends to the youngest son ; it gives no 
 dower ; the tenants cannot fell timber, nor Wiiste their copyhold- 
 houses, without license. In Broiiie Hall manor every free tenant, upon 
 purchase of any freehold, pays a year's freerent to the lord, as a 
 customary relief. 
 
 I do not find the religious were much concerned here. 
 
 The njfenks of Thtlford's portion" of tithes out of St. Andreic's was 
 taxed at lOs. 
 
 The Prior of the canons of Thetford, in 1428, was taxed Md. for 
 his temporals here. 
 
 "This portion was given to Thetford of the tithes of all his demean lands 
 
 monks, by Richard de Caam, lord of belonging to that manor. Mon.Ang. 
 
 Semere Hall, and cumisted of two parts vol. i. fol. 665. 
 
 VOL. I. 1 i
 
 246 NORTON. 
 
 The Prior of Ixworth was taxed 2s. 6d. for his temporals here, 
 and 
 
 The Prior of Bokenbam 14s. for his temporals in this town. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 THE CHURCH OF ST. MARGARET. 
 
 1300, kal. May, Henri/ de Brom, Sir Roger de Brom, Knt. 
 
 1313, 12 kal. Oct. Nicholas de Blonoiton, priest. Petronell, 
 Tvidow of Sir Roger de Brom, Knt. he resigned to John de Hi/he- 
 Ij/'ige, and he resigned in 
 
 \3'28, to Clement de Cnapetone, priest, who was instituted 8 kal. 
 Maj/. Ditto. 
 
 13-13, 7 -Jpnl, Golfr.de Di/cht/iigham, itiicst. Robert deBrom. 
 After his death it laid without any institution till 1394, when Ro- 
 bert de Brom, the patron, obtained a perpetual union of it to the 
 church of St. Andrew, upon proving lo the Bishop that the revenues 
 were so small, that nobod3' would accept it; and it appearing that 
 the church was much decayed, both in its roof and walls, and the 
 parishioners very poor, and unable to repair it, and that St. Andrezifs 
 church, standing close by it, in the same churchyard, was big 
 enough to hold all the parishioners of both, he licensed them to pull 
 down St. Margaret's church. May 13, 1394, upon which it was levelled 
 to the ground, in such a manner, that at this day there appear no 
 remains of such a place. When Sir Roger de Brom was patron, 
 Noncich Domesday saith, that it had a house and 10 acres of glebe, 
 it then paid VZd. synodals, and 2s. 9,d. procurations ; from this time 
 «ach manor had an alternate presentation to 
 
 St. Andrew's, in Blow-Norton, 
 
 Which before belonged solely to Semere manor, when Sir John 
 
 Dykele was patron, the rector had 11 acres of glebe, but no house, 
 
 and paid lid. synodals, and 4s. procurations; The first rector I meet ^ 
 
 with is, V 
 
 Edmund de Brundyssch, who resigned in 
 
 1329, t) kal. May, and Peter, called, Le-Munk, priest, succeeded. 
 Edmund de Sco. Mauro, or Seymor, Knt. 
 
 1331, lo kal. A'oi'. John de Mellisde Brampton. Ditto. 
 
 1337, Edmund son of Edm. de Burnedi/ssch, sub-deacon. 
 
 1350, 12 April, lien. Lewyn, priest. Will. deMIdelton. 
 
 1355, 27 July, Rob. -Igaz (or Agar) de Brisingliam, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1358,2 July, Rich, Munch, priest, changed willi Agaz for Fersfield. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1365, 8 Oct. Will. Bonyng, priest, changed with Munche, for 
 Brundale. John Ermundgere de Stratford,' patron. 
 
 1368, 24 March, John de Binitam, a shaveling. John de Pys- 
 SALE, xecloi oi' A Iderton, true patron; in 1385, when the union of 
 
 ■^ N.B. Whether Will, de Midleton, say, though all of them, except Grym 
 John Ernuindegcre, &c. were lords of and BoUe, presented in right of that 
 Semere Hall, or only trustees, I cannot manor.
 
 NORTON. 2# 
 
 the livings was first attcrnpled, he obtained a grant of a messuage to 
 enlarge his parsonage, of John de Pyssale, his patron, (who also 
 seems lord of Semere,) and in 1384 it was confirmed him by the 
 King's license. 
 
 1414, 25 Nov. Peter Ingland, priest, on BirtAaw's death. Tho. 
 Grym and Rich. Bolle, patrons of this turn, by virtue of a feoff- 
 ment in a piece of land called Pottage Land in Blow-Norton, made 
 by John liinham before his death. 
 
 1413, c) Aug. John Model i/ng, priest, at J«g/artc?'s death. Mar- 
 garet, late wife of Rob. de Broome, Gentleman of tlie Bed- 
 chamber, patroness of this turn, in right of Bronie Hall manor. 
 
 1430, 3 .Tuh/, Sk Stephen Smith, ])v\(ist, John Almot of Melles, 
 and John Bertram, oi' I lepworth. 
 
 From the evidences and annals of Cuius College in Cambridge I 
 learn, that this Sir Stephen gave all his lands and tenements in Bar- 
 ningham, in Suffolk, ibr the maintenance of a fellow to be a priest, 
 to perform divine offices for the dead, in that college, and to preach 
 thrice every year at Barningham, viz. on St. Margaret's Day, in 
 Advent, and in Lent, and in his sermons to make mention of him, 
 his benefactor, and that he should be called Stephen Smith's priest ; 
 the lands given were then Al.per annum, and in Dr. Caius's time 5/.; 
 he is the fifth senior fellow on the foundation. The estate now con- 
 sists of a convenient farm-house, and 70 acres of pasture, 24 acres 
 3 roods of arable, all well wooded, the money rent being 8/. 6s. 8d. 
 the corn rent 2 quarters and a half of wheat, and 3 quarters and 3 
 bushels of malt [1376]. 
 
 1474, Smith resigned, and Rob. Woodward succeeded. James 
 Blundell, and Olive his wife. 
 
 1487, 7 March, Ric. Davi/, on Woodward's resignation. James 
 Blondell of ilff//(/s, Esq. and Olive his wife, who was widow of 
 Rob. Broome, Esq. 
 
 1536, 6 Feb. Tho. Li/n, priest, on D«dj/'s death. Ralph Shel- 
 BURNE, Esq. and Mary his wife, and Anne Bkamptone, widow, 
 for this turn. 
 
 1573, 28 March, Tho. Billingford, clerk. Tho. BRAMPTONE,Esq. 
 
 1605, 24 Nov. Edw. Wright to Blonorton Utraque. Henry 
 Bramptone, Gent. 
 
 1641, Rob. Rai/, rector. 
 
 l660, Nathaniel Vincent, D.D. subscribed for Norton, but no in- 
 stitution registered. 
 
 1722, Tlie Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Rt/e, on Tincent's death, Avho is 
 the present [1736] incumbent, and holds it united to Hepworth, 
 being presented by iMr. R. Browne, patron. 
 
 This rectorj' is valued at 5l. (Js. 6d. and being sworn of the clear 
 yearly value of 38/. 5s. is discharged of first fruits and tenths. There 
 is a rectory-house, and 25 acres of glebe. Here was a Gild dedi- 
 cated to St. Peter. 
 
 The Church is a mean fabrick,of one isle only, which is thatched, 
 as is the chancel ; the north porch is tiled, the tower is square, and 
 kath in it tliree bells, on which are the following inscriptions :
 
 248 NORTON. 
 
 1. .§)anctc <3oi)annc(i, ora pro nobiiS. 
 
 2. .^ancta iCatcnna, ora pro nobi^. 
 
 3. €> Martic Sarbara, pro me S^tum trora. 
 
 There is no inscription in the nave, this being now lost : 
 
 Orate pro anima Margarcte <Cootc <J5cnero^c que ob. j:» bit mcn.si. 
 ^tpt. a^©ni. 1321. 
 
 At the entrance of the chancel lies a stone robbed of its brasses 
 which had this, viz. 
 
 €>i nour <lll)aritic prao for tljc <f)0ulc^ of C^oma.si ©arncn^ €^([t. $ 
 aiice Iji? ©ifc, t\){ tol):cl) Cljoma^ DcccascD tl)t firjit SDan of ilugujSt m 
 tljc geare of our Eoro <!5oo i544, ontoiboj^'c ^oulc.^ 3ic.siu Ijatjc lliercp. 
 
 Garuei/s with a mullet on the chevron, impaling a fess dancette 
 between three crescents. 
 
 Another hath Stede impaling Brome. It is robbed of this in- 
 scription : 
 
 <0i pour Cljaritit prap for the .f>oul of '^ohti .fitcac €siqr. tljc to'bidj bi- 
 cea/cD t\)t <20©ap of ©cc in tlje gear of our 3LorO ^OoD 1540, on toljo^e 
 ^oul %t^u baue laerep. 
 
 Another stone was laid over a priest, the cup and wafer, the em- 
 blems of the priesthood, still remaining. 
 
 On three brass plates upon a stone at the north-east corner of the 
 chancel. 
 
 Brampton, quartering Brome, impaling Rookwood. 
 
 fitrt l\et\) intcreo CfiomaiS 25rampton <!r?quier toljo dccea^'cD tl)C if 
 ■^ape of |5o\Jcmbcr in rtje gere of our «3ob jUC>lial€€l)fVtii. 
 
 Bo faratic attpcr nor toorioin pompe, 
 
 25ut «5eatl)e in tpmc mill quelle, 
 
 get tJJramptone.s .§oule bv toirtuess Eore, 
 
 gi jjope in ifeben Dotlje DtticUe. 
 
 At the upper end of the chancel, on the south side, was a raised 
 tomb, covered with a marble, under which Mr. Christopher Coote, 
 who died in 1563, was interred; this is now taken down, and the 
 stone laid on the pavement. 
 
 The house right over against the church is called the Place, which 
 name it assumed when it was rebuilt by John Brampton, its old name 
 teing Brome Ilall.
 
 NORTON, 249 
 
 In the kitchen window (before it was repaired) I saw these arms: 
 
 BROME. 
 
 lAi.w.i.w.'J 
 
 CALTHORP. 
 
 w W ^ W 4^ 
 
 STEDE. 
 
 IVilHam Calthoi-p married Cecily Brome, and was owner of an 
 estate here, in 133(). 
 
 The arms of Stede were imperfect, and seemed to have been parted 
 per pa/e; and there was an imperfect coaX of Brampton. 
 
 In 1603, there were 1 10 communicants, and now[l736] there are 
 32 houses, and 160 inhabitants. It paid 50s. to the old tenth, and 
 now is assessed at 66O/. to the land tax. 
 
 Here is about 1 rood of land, which lies at Furze Common, a house 
 being lately pulled down there, and another rebuilt more convenient, 
 for two dwellers, on the waste, which hath about a rood of land laid 
 to it. 
 
 The Commons are, Neze Cross, which contains about 10 acres, 
 Furze Common about 30 acres. South Fen about 30 acres ; and there 
 are about 80 acres of common car and fen, on all which they 
 common solely. 
 
 Robert Browne, Gent, bears ar. on a bend saJ. three eagles dis- 
 played or. Crest, on a torce ar. and sab. a goshawk rising or.
 
 [ 250 ] 
 
 GATESTHORP 
 
 Is a small village, known by travellers by the n^me of Gasthorp 
 Gate, which is a publick-hoiise thai hath a gate for its sign, con- 
 trived at first, I suppose, from the name of the town; it stands on 
 a great road which crosses the river here : it seems to take its name 
 from some owner of it, Dasej- Dojip, or Gatesthorp, signifying the 
 village or mansion of some one of tliat name. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and is a rectory, dis- 
 charged of first fruits and tenths. It hath no parsonage-house, but 
 there are 30 acres of glebe. 
 
 King's Books I Ann, Val. with Riddlesworth, is I Procurations. 
 6 9 4o6. I 48 9 1 3 ^. ' 3 
 
 Synodals. I Lincoln Taxat. 
 1 I vj. marks. 
 
 The advowson belonged to the Prior of the monks at Tketford, 
 who always presented till the Dissolution, unless in cases of lapse, or 
 when that priory was in the King's hands as an alien, 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1289, Sir William, rector of Gatesthorp. Sir Adam de Lever- 
 MKRE, then parish chaplain. 
 • ]314, kal. Jan. Walter de Fakenham, priest. Lapse. 
 
 1327, 3 non. Oct. John de Boys, accolite. The Prior of Thet- 
 ford. 
 
 1349, Ifi March, .John de Melles of Brampton, priest. Mary 
 Countess of Norfolk, by grant from the King; who holds the ad- 
 vowson, the temporals of Thefford priory, which is an alien, being in 
 his hands during the wars. 
 
 1358, \6 March, John de Berkyng, a shaveling, instituted in the 
 person of Sir Nic. de Wrotham, rector oi Langford, his proxy. Mary 
 Countess of Norfolk. 
 
 1369, 19 Avg. Stephen de Rydon, priest. Tlie Prior of St. Mary 
 at Thetford. 
 
 1373. \2 Jpril, David Botiegent , priest. King Edward, during 
 the wars : he had license to plant on the lord's waste, called the 
 Holms, against his rectory-house. 
 
 1404', 13 July, Rich, de IVyrham, priest. The Prior. 
 
 1409, 5 Aug. John Skarlet, priest, on Wyr ham's resignation. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1410, 20 March, Walter de fVestwal ton, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1412, 29 Aug. John Covyn, priest, on Walter's resignation. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1413, 3 April, Roger Sekot, on Cofj/?i's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1414, 21 May, Jotm Blome of Ixworth, shaveling, on i'e/cofs re- 
 Ditto.
 
 GATESTHORP. 251 
 
 1417, 10 May, Rich. Flaxere, or Flaxbij, priest. The Prior. At 
 his death in 
 
 1438, 18 June, Joh/i-JValter de Elveden, priest. Will, de El- 
 VEDEN, sub-prior, the priory being void. 
 
 1459, i3 Dec. T/io. Hunt, chiipWm. The Prior. 
 
 1482, 29 April. Rie. Cokke. Ditto. 
 
 149G, 21 Febr. Will, de Ostelij)i. Robert Prior of TAfZ/bn/. 
 
 1510, IS Jan. JVill.Cramfodre, on Ostclyn's Ae^xlh. Ditto. * 
 
 1414, 27 March, John Baron. Ditto. 
 
 1525, 4 May, Tho. Jamys, on jBarou's death, united to Gnateshall. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1559, Dec. Thomas Pike, priest. Thomas Duke of JVot/o//.-. 
 
 1573, 25 June, Francis Clark, on Pike's resignation. He was 
 buried here Feb. 8, l(Jl6, Tno. Bleveuhasset, Will. Dixe, and 
 Will.Cantrell, feoffees for the Duke. 
 
 1617, 25 March, Gaudy Bolton, S.T.B. Robert Bolton, this 
 turn; he liad Garboldisham. 
 
 1634, 22 Dec. Robert IVotton, A.M. Anne, relict of Sk Drue 
 Druri/, Knt. and Drue Druuy, her son. 
 
 ]6'(3l, 25 Oct. Thomas Newcome, A.M. on IVotton's death. Sir 
 Drue Drury, Bart, united to Gnateshall. 
 
 1675, 8 June, George Rayner on Newcourt's deatli, united to 
 Riddlesworth: Robert Drury, Bart. 
 
 168 1, 30 June, Thomas Barnes, A.M. on Rayner's death. Sir 
 Robert Drury, Bart. He was instituted to Riddlesworth the same 
 day, and held them by union till the igih of December following, 
 and then he obtained a perpetual consolidation. See Ridlesworth. 
 
 The church stands alone on a hill, it is a very mean building of one 
 isle only, and a chancel, both of which are thatched ; the tower is 
 square, having only two bells, a third being sold in l607, to repair 
 the church; there is not one inscription, nor any thing else re- 
 markable, except several very ancient coffin-stones with crosses upon 
 them, \\hich were laid over some of the rectors, or other religious 
 persons that were interred here. Since the consolidation. Service is 
 performed here but once in a fortnight. 
 
 This village was always small, being but half a league long, and 
 half a league broad, and paid but Id.^Danegcld. It belonged to the 
 Conqueror, who committed it to Earl Godric's care; it had then one 
 carucate in demean, and was held by a freeman in King Edward's 
 time, and was in Kenninghall soken. ^ 
 
 The Abbot of Bury had a part here worth 5s. in the Confessor's 
 time, and 10s. in the Conqueror's, when it was held of him by an 
 Englishman.^ 
 
 5 Terre Regis quam Godricus servat, in Keninghchala. Tot. Gatcst]ior. ha- 
 
 GillecrosHundr. bet dim. leug. in long, et dim. in lat. 
 
 In Gatesthorpi. liber homo T.R.E.i. et vii. <^. de Gelto. (Fo. 34.) 
 
 car. terre, tunc vi. vill. m" viii. semper 'T^rre Abbatisde Sancto Eadmundo, 
 
 V. bord. et ii. serv. et viii. acr. prati, Gildccros Hundr. 
 
 semper i. car. in dnio. ctii. car. homin. In Gadesthorp tenuit liber homo 
 
 et v. socm. xx. acr. terre, semper i. T.R.E. xxx. acr. terre modo quidam 
 
 ar. silva xii. pore, tunc val. xx. s. m° Anglicus.deAbbatc. m°i. bord. in. acr. 
 
 •^1. Tot. Hundr. reddit xx. et tota soca prati, tunc dim. car. m° i. Tunc. val. 
 
 X
 
 S5£ GATESTHORP. 
 
 The wliole town, except the Abbot's part, remained in the Crown, 
 till King Henry II. gave it to William de Albany Earl of Anmdet, 
 before 1 198, and the year following, at his death, it went to IVilliam, 
 his son and heir, who made a feoffment of the whole, to 
 
 Warine nE Gatesthokp, and his heirs, who were to hold it of 
 him and his heirs, by the service of two knights fees, and this is the 
 reason that all the manors here were afterwards held oiTateshah 
 barony. Soon after this it was divided, for the Prior of Thetford had 
 the advowson and half a fee, and John de Berdeweli., and his 
 partners had another half fee, each of which constituted a manor. 
 (iatealkorp's whole fee was afterwards called. West Hall, or Wro^ 
 thania; the Prior's half fee. East Hall, ox Garlek's ; and Berdewell's 
 half fee was called ip Hall. 
 
 WEST HALL, or W ROTH AM'S MANOR, 
 
 Was, after IVarine's death, in Sir Adam de Gatesthorp, then in 
 Gal/rid de Stanton, and soon after in Adam de Jfrotkam; in 1346, 
 in James his son, and in 1350, Nic. de Wrotham was lord ; in 1364, 
 James de Wrotham, and Alice his wife, owned it ; in 1366, James 
 ■was dead, and the manor belonged to Roger de Felbrigge, John 
 Seek ford, Knts. and others, trustees o( Alice, his widow, who after 
 married to John Cocket, who was lord. In 13!)S, Tko. de Redeles- 
 worth,^ was lord, who left it to Jeffry de Redelesicorth, his son, who 
 by will dated 1415, ordered to be buried at Gasthorp, and gave 
 his manor there to Thomas his son, in tail, remainder to Sir William 
 Berdezcell, and Robert his son, who was executor, and inherited about 
 1450, Thomas Redelesicorth, son oi' John, dying soon after without 
 heirs, as did his two sisters, Agnes and Margaret, upon which 
 
 Robert, son of Sir William Berdeweli, Knt. did homage for it 
 to Ralf Lord Cromwell, as belonging to Tateshale harony, of which 
 it was held by one fee, ; and thus it was joined to the other manor, 
 and hath continued so ever since. 
 
 EAST HALL, or GARLECK'S MANOR, 
 
 Came, some way or other, very soon from Thetford Prior (who kept 
 the advowson to himself, and part of the demeans, valued in 1302 at 
 a quarter of a fee) to 
 
 JouN DE Furneaux, Will, and Roger de Maynzearyn, Hugh de 
 Snitlerton, and Nich. de Beatifeau, who were lords in 1280, being 
 Furncaux's trustees ; after this it belonged to 
 
 Jeffuv Bainard, whose son Roger was lord in 1C94, and lived 
 at U ramplingham ; he settled it on TVill.de la Menezearyn, rector of 
 East-Herling, who, in 1336, conveyed it to Sir If alter de Faktnham, 
 rector of Gasthorp, together with the reversion of the dower of 
 Marion, late wWe o( Jeff ry Bany a rd, who was aliU living. In 1346, 
 
 AvELiNE, late wife of Roger le Menewaiyn, was lad}'. In 1349, 
 
 Alice, late wife of Hugh de Bokenham, had it; and the same 
 
 ▼.J. modo X. Dehoc habuit Abbascom- Regis. (Fo. 177.) 
 
 mendat. T.R.E. soca in Cheninghala * For this family see Riddlesworth.
 
 G A T E S T H O R p. 253 
 
 year Roger Bauiard became lord, who was succeeded by Robert 
 .Halliard ixnd Maud his wife, wlio left a daughter named Margerj/ ;. 
 she and Jo/tn, son of Sir John Fiirneaux, Kiit. and Alice Avenaunt, 
 daughter of Rose attc IVyk of Fakcnham-Parva, niece to Rob. 
 Baiiiard, released all their rights to 
 
 John Garlek, of Gatesthorp, before l.'lGl ; and he, in 1381, 
 settled it on Nic. de IVhicbinghain and others, who in 1388 released 
 their rigiUs to Halter Garlek of Spor/e, his son, and Adam Monk of 
 Lerling, who conveyed- it to Tha. Jennei/, Knt. Ilenri/ and Edmund 
 de Pakcn/iam, in trust, and so it continued till about 1398, and then 
 it was purchased of the said Walter by- 
 Sir Will. Berdewell of Wat- i lerling, Knt. and joined to his 
 manor of Up Hall, both which, by will dated in 1391, he settled on 
 Margaret his wife, and Robert his son, in tail, naming Tho. Jennet/, 
 Tlio. JJemgrave, Knts. Henry and Edmund de Pukenham, his 
 trustees. 
 
 UP HALL, OR BERDEWELL'S MANOR, 
 
 Was granted to John de Berdewell, who was lord in 1285 ; at his 
 death .'Sara his wife had it ; she was daughter to Sir John de Furneaux, 
 and lady in 1290. In 1330, Thomas, her son, was lord; in 1342, 
 Ric. Rob. and Thomas, grandsons ui John and Sarah de Berdewelle, 
 were lords. In 134S, John de Berdeu-elle ; and in 1375, James dc 
 I'lrotham had it, during the life of Alice his wife, by grant from 
 T/io. Berdewelle. In 1399, Sir IVilliaui Berdewelle, Knt. was lord, 
 whose trustees, John Cokat/n, Tho. Dcrham, and Ric. Alfred, in 1403, 
 settled it on Robert, son of Sir Will. Berdewelle, and Elizabeth his 
 wife, after the death of the said Sir William, and Margaret his wife; 
 and in 1433, Sir IVilliam released Up Hall and Garleck's to his son 
 Robert, in whom all the three manors became united, and have 
 passed as J^cst-IIerling to this time; for which reason 1 shall refer 
 you thither. 
 
 In the Custom Roll of West Hall Manor, made in Sir John de 
 Gatesthorps time, this peculiar custom is entered : Tliat every tenant 
 of that manor that marries out of the homage, is obliged to pay the 
 lord a bed, bolster, sheet, and pillow ; this was constantly observed, 
 and there are abundance of entries in the rolls of such payments ; 
 but in Richard the Second's time the bed was omitted by the lord's 
 kindness,^ though the rest were paid in Queen Elizabeth's time, or a 
 composition for ihem. Every woman that had a bastard paid '2s. 8d. 
 lei/rwite, but the widows did not so. I'he dower of this manor was a 
 third part of all free and copyhold lantls, and a moiety of all lands 
 held in soccage. 
 
 It was fine certain, and the copyhold descended to the youngest 
 son; the tenants could not plant, nor fell timber, nor waste their 
 co{)yhold-housesi without license. The greatest part (if not the whole) 
 is purchased by the present lord, so that there are hut few if any 
 tenants at this time [j73G ] 
 
 In 1419, the town of Galhesthorp held a piece of pasture called 
 the Rodit/s, and then the cullel ' that went in the lord's Hock, and 
 
 » Per misericordiam Domini. lecta) or collect of sheep, was a collec- 
 
 I Hence it appears that a cullet (col- lion of different men's sheep, that Iwd a 
 VOL. I. K k
 
 254 GATESTHORP. 
 
 laid in his fold, paid as many small rents as amounted to 4s. per 
 nullum. 
 
 In 1390, Richard de Boi/laiid's tenants in IVilhi/ were attached to 
 do fealty and homage to i,(ist Hall manor, and also the tenants of 
 Wynnejhiliiiiig * for the same, and for one pound of pepper annual 
 rent, issuing out of the tenement, and 50 acres of land, which lies 
 between the way called Bokeuliam Gate, and the tenement of Sir 
 Hugh Le Jure, and abuts on Wynneftrthiiig town, the tithes of 
 which belong two garbs to Thctfoid monks, and one garb to She/J- 
 haiiger rector. This laid in Jf iiifarlhiiig and Shelf hanger, on tlic 
 road that leads from Shclfliaiiger to Hiiifarlhing. The rector of 
 IViiifarthing paid 20s. to the monks of Thetford for his portion, and 
 Shelf hanger rector 18c?. 
 
 KEMPE'S MANOR 
 
 Was that part which belonged to Bun/ abbey; in 1288, Adam 
 Keinpe had it, and paid 2*. ChI. a year to that abbey ; in 1289, Gilberl 
 Kempe owned it; in 1294, Jlill.Kempe, who gave part of it with his 
 daughter Lettice, in marriage to JVill. de Korzcich ; in 1297, he was 
 dead, and she married again to Simon de la Mai/iiwarj/n of Ilcrling, 
 and that part fell into East Hall manor ; the other part, in 1330, at 
 Hinma Kempe's death, came to John Kempe her son ; and in 1341 was 
 Will. Kempe's, by which time it was so far divided and aliened, that 
 there remained no rents. 
 
 This Norwich fditiWy was the most ancient of any that I meet with, 
 that lived here ; I have a deed without date, by which John de 
 Norwich, who lived at Gaslhorp, manumised Richard son of IVilliaiu 
 Codhewe, of Heiliiig-Parva, and all his posterity. 
 
 The Leet belongs to the hundred, the lord of which is lord para- 
 mount, and hath zcci/f, strei/, and all other liberties, the lords of these 
 manors not claiming any, upon the quo uarantos brought for each 
 lord to set forth his privileges. The leet fee is 12f/. 
 
 Mrs. Margaret Gawdie gave 20s. per annum to the poor of this 
 parish, which is now [1736] paid by the parish of Garboldisham. 
 
 In 1603 here were 27 communicants; and now there are 9 houses, 
 and about 60 inhabitants. It paid 38s. to the tenths, and is now 
 [1736] assessed at about 150/. to the laud tax. 
 
 right to go in the lord's flock, paying the roll ; memorandum, " That tenant that 
 
 usual yearly rents ; and in such places " beryth colyourship cone yer, beryth 
 
 where these cullets were, the office " the reveshypp the next yer." 
 called the cuUyorship was to collect ♦ See fol. p. 116, 123, 181. 
 those rents, for thus saitli anotlier old
 
 [ 255 J 
 
 GARBOLDESHAM, 
 
 G ERBODES, or Gerbold's Town, is so called from some Saxon who 
 was owner of it, ))am in their language signifying a house or village ; 
 it is bounded by the Lophams and Kenninghall on the east, by 
 Market-He ding north, and by West-Hcrling and Gatesthorp west; 
 it contained several manors, all which were united in Thomas Duke 
 of Norfolk in King Henr^ the Eighth's time, and continue so to this 
 day: the biggest manor was called JVica, afterwards JV2/kes, now 
 Wkken ; the" common called JVicken Li/iig is the only memorial now 
 remaining of that name. 
 
 The capital manor, in the year 1045, belonged to the abbey of E/i/, 
 Witfric, the sixth abbot of that house, being lord of it :^ this Abbot 
 had a brother called Gudmund, who proposing marriage to a noble- 
 man's daughter, was refused, because though he was of noble extrac- 
 tion, yet not having 40 hides of land, he could have no place among 
 the nwbleinen ; tlie Abbot to supply this, privately makes over to him 
 these manors belonging to his abbey, sc. Gerboldesham, Murham, 
 Lyvermere, Nac/ienttm, Acholt, 8cc.; the monks reclaim them, the 
 Abbot retires to Acholt, and there dies with grief, and is buried at 
 JE/y; r/i«r.s<a«, his successour, prosecuted the claim, and came to 
 this agreement, that Gudmund should enjoy them for life; in the 
 mean time the Normans invaded the land, and Hugh de Monlfort, a 
 valiant Norman who came in with the Conqueror,* (to whom he was 
 sometime standard-bearer,) seized those lands, and kept them from 
 the church. 
 
 MONTFORT'S MANOR 
 
 Had always 2 carucates of land in demean ; in the Confessor's time 
 it was worth 3l. and in the Conqueror's 6/. per annum. The whole 
 town, with all its manors, was a league long and a league broad, arid 
 out of every 206. Danegeld laid upon the hundred, this town paid 
 34,d. oh. Hwh lost his life in a duel with WalclieUne de Ferrers,'' 
 leaving issue, Hugh his son, who by his first wife had issue, Robert 
 
 5 Hist. Tho. Elien. fo. 609, vol. i. tunc et post (val.) Ix. sol. modo vi. lib. 
 edit, per Wharton. See also Spelman's totum liabeti. leug. in long et i leiig. in 
 Jcenn. 1^'- ct xxxiiii.<^. et i. ob. de Gelto. (fo. 
 
 * Terre Hugonis de Monte-forti. 235.) Invasiones &c. Hund. de Chillc 
 Hundr. de Gildecross. In Wica tenuit gros. (fo. 305 ) In Wicham, i. liberum 
 Godmundus ii. car. terre T.R.E. pro horainem tenet Hugo de Monte-forti, 
 maneho, tunc vii.villan. post et modoiiii. 
 semperiv. bordar. tunc iii. serv. post et 
 modoii. et iii. acr. prati, semper ii. car. 
 in dominio, et i. car. hominum, silva xii. 
 pore, et vii. socman. Ixxxx. acr. terre; 
 V. bord. et i. acr. prati, tunc et post ii. 
 car. et dim. m° iii. semper i. rune, tunc 
 iii. an. modoii. pore, semper Ixx. oves, 
 
 de xxx. acr. terre commendat. tantum, 
 i. vill. iii. bord. semper i. car. in dnio. 
 et dim. car. homin. etval. iii. sol. et 
 i'm.d. soca in Keninc. This part was 
 afterwards separated, and became the 
 manor called Churnhe's. 
 
 ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. fo. 407'
 
 ^56 GArxBOLDESIIAM. 
 
 and Hugh, which Robert was IVUVtam Fufns's general in lOpS; but 
 favouring the tillc of Robert Citrt/iose, in opposition to King llenrij I. 
 he was called in question for infidelity, whereupon being conscious of 
 his guilt, he got leave to go to Jeimalem, and left all his possessions 
 to the King ; they both died in pilgrimage without issue. 
 
 Tiiis Hugh granted the manor to William de Francheville, whose 
 son William, in 1179, confirmed two parts of the tithes of the de- 
 means of his manors oi' W'ikes or Gerbodesham, Lang ford, Bodneii, 
 and Ndcheloii, to the monks of Bermondesej/ in Surro/,^ to whom the 
 said Hugh de 3[oiitford had given them ; this portion was issuing 
 out of St. John Baptist's clmrch, tlie moiety of which advowsou 
 belonged to this manor; and in 1428, the Prior was ta.ved for his 
 spirituals here, at 13s. 4d.^ This William was called the elder, being 
 succeeded by JVilliamh'is son, who in 1<240 was married to Frescheutia 
 de Batiham, daughter and heiress of Ralph de Banhum, she being 
 then under age, and in custody of fl'enine dc Muiitclwusi, against 
 ■whom .llan de Hekiugham brought an action for the moietv of the 
 moiety of the advowson of St. John's, the said U il/iam^c Franchfvilk, 
 her husband, having presented last in her right; he recovered against 
 Alan, by proving that it belonged to William, son oi JeJ/'ri/, father 
 of the said Ralf dc Banhani, as belonging to his manor, so that by 
 this marriage he had a moiety of a moiety, another moiety belonging 
 to him before; and in the same year the manor was charged with an 
 annual rent charge of five marks, payable to Laurence de Boyton, 
 and his heirs, which, in 1250, was confirmed by Ralf de Francheville, 
 then lord, to LaurcUa dc Boi/ton, together with the manor of Lung- 
 ford, to be held of Ralf, and his heirs, by the service of two pair of 
 white gloves, and one penny yearly ; Ralf was succeeded by Robert 
 his son, who sold it to 
 
 Robert de Cantilupe, who covenanted to pay 6 marks yearly 
 out of it, to the said Robert Francheville and his heirs, so that there 
 were now in two annuities 11 marks issuing oi;tof it; and imnic- 
 diatel\- after it was conveyed to him, he agreed with TJ illiam de 
 Banham, that he should present to St. John's one turn, in right of 
 his manor called Fscois, and the said Robert the other turn, in right 
 of his manor, late Franchcville's, which was settled accordingly by 
 fine; and thus this advowson continued till 1280, when it was sold 
 by Robert son of Peter de Bokcnham (who had got the sole right of 
 presentation, by purchasing the turn from this manor) to Sir Rob. de 
 Bosco and Isolda his wife, and their heirs, from which time both the 
 advowsons went with their manor. In this or the next year, Joh)i de 
 Canlelupe, son of Robert, sold it to 
 
 William de PAKf:NHAM, and Joan his wife; he was afterwards 
 knighted, and became justice itinerant ; he made great purchases in 
 this town, all which he settled on Joan his wife for life, and then on 
 John, his fourth son; she was a widow in 1277, and at her death 
 John de Pahenham became lord, at whose death Peter de Pukenhani 
 occurs in l.il5 ; he was succeeded by Albred or Aubrey de Pakcn- 
 ham,' who in 134,3 paid 20s. relief for half a fee, which he then held 
 of the Earl-j\Iarshal ; he made a feoilmcnt of it to U illiam Curson, 
 
 ' Mon. Aug. torn. i. fo, 6i. » MSS. penes J. Anstis, Garter, (o. 
 
 14. a. • See Kenninghall, p. 219.
 
 GARBOLDESHAM. 257 
 
 to the use of Henri/ Pakenham, who was lord in 1380, and died in 
 1421, part of the manor being then held by knight's service o^ John 
 Hastyngs Earl of Pembrook. In his and his father's time many of 
 the demean lands were granted off, and certain barley rents reserved, 
 to be paid from them ; he left Ileiiri/ his son, who died in 1445, half 
 a fee being now held of the Lord Grei/ of Ruthi/ii, and William 
 Beaucliamp ; this i/t'«?7/, just before his deatli, settled it on Thomas 
 Tuddenham and Rob. Coiii/ers, Knts. Rob. Btrdiwell, Edm. Buken- 
 ham, Wilt. Grey, Will. IVarneroi' Thompstoii, Csqrs. and John Lalle, 
 vicar of Shropham, to the use of Rob. Pakenham of Shropham, Esq. 
 and his wife, and their heirs, remainder to William, brother of 
 Robert, remainder to PhilUppa Mownlenei/e his sister, remainder to 
 Rob. Berdeioelle, Esq. and his heirs. This Rob. Pakenham inherited, 
 and died seized of this and Verly's manor in Snetesham, and a manor 
 in Shropham, Snitlerton, and tbe adjacent towns, in 1463 Margaret 
 his wife being to hold it for life, and then it was to go to Henri/ Pa- 
 kenham, his son and heir, 30 years old at his father's death ; he died 
 seized without male issue, and in 1495 an inquisition came to enquire 
 what lands were in the King's hands at liis death, and were so still, 
 by reason of tlie marriage of Jniie, one of his daughters and heiresses? 
 I cannot say how many heiresses there were; but this 
 
 Anne married to John Dobbes, or Dowbes of Garboldesham, Esq. 
 who purchased all the parts ; for in 1526 he was sole lord of Paken- 
 ham''^ manor ; he left one only daughter, 
 
 Anne, married to Sir William Barwick, who was knighted by 
 King James at Jf'hitehull, May 30, l604; he, jointly with his wife, 
 and John Mallozces of Bury in Siijfolk, Gent. Thomas Traverse, late 
 of East-Herlivg, Gent, and Edw. Baridek, Gent, brother to Sir 
 'JVilliam, in 1607, sold it to 
 
 Sir John Holland of Kenninghall, and Sir Tho. Holland his 
 son, in trust for the Earl of Ariindell. The site of the manor was 
 ddapidatcd, and contained 5 acres ; to it belonged large demeans, 
 divers heriots, freerents, and rents of assize, barley rents, and a fold 
 course called Pakenhani's Tripp. It appears in 1571, that John 
 Dobbes, lord of Pakenham's manor, was dead, that he held Tase- 
 bourne's lands of 100/. per annum, and was bond and regardant (as 
 it is expressed) to Claxton castle in Noifolk, and that Henry Jerne- 
 gan, Esq. had formerly an interest in this manor. By this purchase 
 the Noifolk family became sole lords of all the manors in this town, 
 though tliey had not the udvowson, and so continued till 1627, and 
 then the Earl of Jrundell and his trustees sold the demean lands of 
 this manor, and its lold-course for 300 sheep and their followers, hi 
 Garbqldisham and Kenninghall, and all the barley rents, to Fram- 
 lingham Gazedy, Esq. of 11 est-Herling, and his heirs, (the weyfs, streys, 
 and all other royalties, together wtth all the freerents and wastes 
 being particularly excepted, to the Earl and his heirs;) and in 1629, 
 the said Earl sold the manor of Pakenham Hall, {Up Hall, Wigen 
 Hall, and Bokenham's being included in it) to 
 
 Sir Dkue Druhy of Ridlesworth, who kept his first court imme- 
 diately after the conveyance, the said Earl charging it with the whole 
 sum of 10/. a year rent charge, which now issued out of this and the 
 other manors that were joined to it, and obliged Sir Drue to give
 
 2j8 GARBOLDESHAM. 
 
 security to Framluigham Garvdif, Esq. to indemnify him and liis 
 heirs against any claim that should be made for any part of the 10/. 
 out of the said deiireans, fold-course, or barley rents, which were 
 conveyed to the said Framling/iain. After Sir Drue's death it went 
 to is'u'Dnie his son, then to Sir Robert Drury, Bart, who left it to 
 his wife, the present Lady Drury, who is now owner of it [173(3.] 
 
 The Lett belongs to the hundred, the leetfee is 5s. the castle-ward 
 was I'id. every seven weeks. In l609, the rents of assize of all the 
 manors were '2C/. 8s. Ctfj. It extended into Nortk Lopham, Gasthorp, 
 Hhropkam, and Norton. 
 
 The barley i-ents being sold to Framlingham Gawdi/, as aforesaid, 
 he in ^()'^l() sold off 40 combs, 3 bushels, C pecks and an half, to Rirfi. 
 Pcnde oi' Bun/ St. Edmund's, Gent. Tho. JVarn'ii of Great Thurhzc, 
 and .Tohn IVarren, Gent, of Garboldesham, his son and heir, which 
 issued out of divers lands formerly held by the Cootes, Barzciclcs, 
 Til/ots, Sec. the rest of them being recovered by decree in Chanceri/, 
 (some of the tenants refusing to pay them), continued in the 
 Gawdijs, till Sir Bassingbourne Gawdi/, the last of that name, or his 
 executors, sold them to Rob. Haylct of Garboldlsham, Gent, who 
 hath lately sold every one their part; the whole sum at first was 51 
 quarters 6 bushels and an half issuing out of the demean lands of 
 fVigen Halls, Bokenham's, and Pakenhaiii's manors, which laid dis- 
 persedly among the tenants lands; for which reason the lords de- 
 mised them to such as kept ploughs, for maintenance of their tilth, 
 some at two bushels an acre, and some at three, some at more and 
 some at less, according to the goodness of the land. 
 
 The rent chtuge of 10/. a year issued out of the manors of Paken- 
 hanis arnl Wigeuhale's ; in 1288, John de IVigeiihate acknowledged 
 liiat he ought to pay 5 marks 2s. Id. per annum out of his manor to 
 Sicholas Wojland, of whom he held it at the third part of two fees ; 
 and it appears, that the said Nicholas had the other annuities issuing 
 out of Pakinham's manor, settled upon him ; lor in 1290, he was 
 seized of 10/. rent issuing out of the manors of Garboldesham, which 
 he settled upon Robert his son, from which time it hath passed conti- 
 nually with the manor of Oxboro, from the IVeylands to the Tudenhams, 
 and from them to the Bedingjields, Sir Henry Bedingjield of Oxboro 
 being now [1736] possessed of it. 
 
 Tlie next manor was called 
 
 BOIS'S, ALIAS UP HALL, 
 
 And was held by Aluric, a freeman, in the time of the Confessor;, 
 but was seized by the Conqueror into his own hands, and by him 
 committed to Earl Godric's caier this is the only part that in 
 
 ^ Terre Regis quam Godricus servat, et dim. et dim. posset restaurari, tunc 
 
 Gillecros Hund. (f. 34.) Gerboldesham dimid. et post et modo similiter, et viii. 
 
 tenuit i. liber homo Aluricus T.R.E. pore. et. iiii. socman, xvi. acr. terre, 
 
 pro mancrio, ii. car. terre, semper iiii. semper din:, car. tunc valuit XXX. sol. 
 
 bord. et i. serv. et iiii. acr. prati, tunc post et modo xl. 
 ii. car. in dominio post et modo i, car.
 
 GARBOLDESIIAM. 
 
 259 
 
 Domesday is called Gcibo/desham ; it liad two caiucates in demean, 
 was valued in the first survey at 30s. and in the second at 40s. 
 
 it was granted froni the Crown to 
 
 Hugh Uygod Earl of iVor/o//c, and passed from liiat family along 
 with Fers/ie/cl, to iVillium du Hois, Knt. from which lime it went ex- 
 actly as J'en/ie/d did, to which 1 refer you.' 
 
 To this manor the advowson of Carholdcsham AUrSaints wholly 
 belonged; and in 1'280, St., /o//w'a advowson was joined to it, being 
 purchased by Sir Robert de Jiosio, and ho/da his wife, as is before ob- 
 served, both which continued with it till \5:]3, when the manor came 
 by exchange, to the Duke of Norfolk ; (ilic advowsons being ex- 
 cepted;) it was always held of the \or/o/k family at one fee, its 
 relief being 40s. ; and in 124G, Sir liolj. du Bois, then lord, had these 
 privileges allowed liiin to this manor, viz. a weekly market every 
 /> ednesdai/,* a yearly fair for three days, viz. on the vigil, the day, anii 
 day after, St. Luke the Evangelist, a pillory, a tumbrel or cucking- 
 stool, with liberty of free-warren, it being obliged to do suit to the 
 hundred court, or pay 2s. a year. 
 
 The manors of IVigeu llitll and Boken/iam's were both joined to this 
 before l.'38(j, for then the style of the court was. Up IIiil/, IVigcn Hall, 
 and BokiJi/tam's in Garboldesham, and thus they continued till I(i07, 
 and then were joined to Pakeii/iam's, ihe Earl of ^/rH«(/c// becoming 
 lord of the whole; and so it remained till 1627, when he sold Up 
 llall, Jl'igcii Hall, and I'ake/iliam's demeans, with the sites of all 
 those manors, their barley rents, their fold-courses for 330 ewes with 
 their followers, w ilh all the pastures and shackages belonging to that 
 course in Garboldvsluim, (all royalties, weyfs, strays, and money rents 
 being cxcei)ted, all which the 'Earl still "kept whole and undivided 
 till he sold them, in 1()29, to Sir Drue Druri/ of Ridehworlh,) to From. 
 Gazidi/, Esq. in which family they continued till iGGG, Sept. 14, and 
 then Sir /////. Gawdi/of IVest-Uerliug, settled all his estate on Maiy 
 his only daughter, to raise 2500/. for her fortune,' and made From. 
 Gatidif, Esq. her uncle, executor, who sold the Garboldesham lands 
 U> n'eiitworlh Ganiei/s, Esq. of Boi/land Hull in Morniiig-T/wip, the 
 heirs of whose family al this day enjoy it [1730.] 
 
 ■\VIGEN HALLS MANOR, 
 
 Al the survey, belonged to Bishop Osberii,^ and had two carucates in 
 demean ; it was valued at 20*. in the Confessor's, but was risen to 50s. 
 at the Conqueror's time, when it was in in Keuninghall soken. 
 
 This afterwards belonged to the Bi/gods, by whoni it was granted to 
 the Jleieiiiugliam.i, oi' which family it was always held by the third 
 
 Eart of a fee, of Tothaiu-Fana manor in Essex, as parcel of the 
 arony of Tohiiunt, of the honour of llakenet, the relief beinii 8s, Ad. 
 
 3 See Fersficld, p. 75, 76, &c. 
 
 ♦ Placita Coron« 15 E. i. Rot. 
 dorso. 
 
 ' Will in Cur. Perog. Cant. 
 1666. 
 
 et post vii. villan. m° viii. semper v. 
 9. in bord. ct i. sorv. et iiit. acr. prati. Tunc 
 
 et post i. car. in doniinio modo ii. sem- 
 dat. per iii. car. homiii. Tunc val. xx,*, 
 
 modo xl. ct X. liberi homines ct dim. i. 
 
 '' Tcrrc Osljcrni Episcopi Gildccros car. ter. et dim. acr. prati, semper ii. 
 Hund. (fo. 163.) In Wica, tenuit i. car. ct val. .x.i. soca in Kcninchala. 
 libcr homo 1. car. tcrre T. R. E. tunc
 
 SfiO 
 
 GARBOLDESHAM. 
 
 In King RlcJittrd die First's lime, Jo/in de Go-penvilk was lord ; at 
 l>is death John de Jarpcnville liis sou had it; he it was that confirmed 
 the grant made by liis lather John, to Johti, son of liobeit de Gar- 
 baudhham, ami his heirs, as appears under Gaibo/dcsham's free-tene- 
 ment; in 1239, Maud his mother being then a widow, for an annuitj 
 of 7 marks a year, released unto the said John the third part of a 
 messuage, 1(50 acres of land, and <) marks rent, which she held in 
 dower of his inheritance ; and the same year she impleaded Adam de 
 Wygcnhale for her dower, in divers lands which he had of her hus- 
 band's gift; in ]24<J, Roger de Ckarpenvitl was the King's ward, by 
 reason of his land here, whose wardship the King gianted to Robert 
 de Cantihipe, who married him. How it came to the lii/genhales I 
 do not find, though imagine it must he from the JVei/lands, for John 
 de IVi/genhale held it of Sir A?c. IVeijIand, by the service of a rent 
 charge of .5 marks a year, payable to him and his heirs, for which Sir 
 Nic. IVeyland distrained Henry de Clevbck, to whom John de Wi/s^en- 
 hnle had granted the third part of a third part of this fee, to be held 
 of tiie said John, by the service of 3 marks, 2s. id. a year, and doing 
 foreign service: but upon John's satisfying Sir Nieho/as, Henri/ was 
 discharged. In 1304, yJgnes de IVtfgeiihall had it, and settled it on 
 Reginald her son. in 1345, another Agnes de IV^genhak had it, 
 after which it soon fell into Bois's manor. 
 
 ESCOIS AND BOKENHAM'S MANORS 
 
 Belonged to William de Warren Earl of Surrey,'' in the Conqueror's 
 time, and had two carucates in demean, then worth 40s. it being given 
 liim bv the Conqueror, as one carucate, the whole of which was then 
 in Kenninghall soken ; after he had it, it was annexed to the castle 
 of Lewes ; this was afterwards divided into two manors. 
 
 ESCOIS MANOR, 
 
 Which was the first part, was held of the Munchensies, by the family 
 sirnamed de Bunham ;^ the 31unchensies had it of the Bifgods, they 
 of the Escoises, and they of the Earl Warren. In 1235, IVilliam de 
 Banham held two fees here and in Banham, of Warin de Muuehemi, 
 of those fees which he had oi' Roger Bi/god; and soon after Ralph 
 de Banham had them, whose only daughter Freschentia, in 1240, 
 was married to William de Francheville, lord of Pakenham's ma- 
 nor, to which this part was then joined, as was the moiety of the 
 moiety of St. John's advowson, which belonged to it, as you may 
 see under that manor, though the Banham family still continued to 
 bave a free tenement and many rents here, which was granted by 
 
 7 Terre Willi, de Warenna, Hund. 
 de Gildecros. (fo. 91.) In Wica tenet 
 Wills, i. car. terre quam tenuit i. liber 
 homo. T. R. E. semper v. villi ct x. 
 bold, et iiii. acr. prati tunc et post i. 
 car. in dnio. ni° ii. semper i. car. horn, 
 modo ii. niol. tunc. val. xx.j. mode 
 XXX. ct viii. socman, xxxii. acr. i. car. 
 et dim. semper et val. x.i. hoc totum 
 
 fuit liberatum pro una carucata terre, et 
 est de castello de Laquis, soca in Kinin- 
 cliala semper, donee Wills. Iiabuit. 
 
 ^ This is often called Escois Manor, 
 from some of that name that held it be- 
 fore the Banliams ; in 1240, Alan de 
 Hekingham had a right in it, during the 
 life of the widow of Ralf de Banham.
 
 GARBOLDESHAM. 261 
 
 this William, out of the fortune that Fresckentia brought him ; for 
 which see Banham's tenement. 
 
 BOKENHAM'S MANOR 
 
 Was the second part, and was given by Roger Bi/god Earl ofNotfolk, 
 with Adeliza his daughter, to 
 
 Aubrey de Verb, second Earl of Oxford, of whose family it was 
 held at half a fee, and the eighth part of a fee ; a part was after held 
 of !/'a/es^a/f's barony, and another small yi&n oi Munchcnsiea: Alan 
 was first infeoffed, who left £/iV(,Sj who had three sons, Alun, JVilliam, 
 and Robert, who all died without issue, and Emma, a daughier, who 
 married Ralph de Chadesgi ave ; she and her husband brought an 
 action against Stephen de Gissing, whom Peter de liukenham had 
 called to warrant the manor to him, (which then consisted of a mes- 
 suage, 100 acres of land, 19 acres of meadow, 8 of marsh, and 22s. 
 rent in Garboldesham, and the moiety of the moiety of St. Johns 
 advowson,) upon which, Slej)heii comes and warrants it to the said 
 Peter, by proving that Alan, grandfather of the said Emma, who now 
 claims it, granted it to Simon de Blakmei/, who gave it to Henri/ de 
 Neketon, who left it to Henri/ de Nekclon, his son, who granted it to 
 Tho. de Pej/tenia, and he to Stephen de Gyssyng, who granted it to Sir 
 Peter de Bukenham, and that all had released their rights in it, upon 
 which Emma's suit was dismissed. In 1277, Peter de Bukenham was 
 lord; he left Robert his son, to whom, in 1284, the said Ralf de 
 Chaddesgrave and Emme his wife released all their right, by a fine 
 then levied; and in 1286 he had weyf allowed to this manor, and 
 the moiety of St. John's, the whole advowson of which he sold in 
 1280 to Sk Robert de Bosco, having purchased the parts that belonged 
 to Pakenham's and Escois manors; in the same year, Peter son of 
 Robert de Bukenham had it, who died before 1345, for then it was 
 Robert de Bukenham's, and the year following was settled by Aubrey 
 de Pakenham, and William son of Rich, de Boi/land his trustees, on 
 himself and Catherine his wife for life, with the reversion of the third 
 part, which Cecily, widow of Peter de Bukenham, held in dower, 
 remainder to John, their son, remainder to Peter, their other son, 
 who inherited. About 1378, Robert de Bokenham was lord, and 
 Leonard de Bokenham in 1380, in whose time it was joined to Bois's 
 manor; for in the feodaries in ;402, we find, that the lady Margaret 
 Hotcard held the third part of a fee, which Leonard Bokenham held ; 
 but though this family parted from the manor, their descendants 
 continued to have a good estate here, and some small freerents be- 
 longing to it. In 14j4, Rob. Bokenham of Garboldesham died intes- 
 tate, and iiir Tho. Bokenham, c[vdp\a.\n, administered; in 1476, Sir 
 Ralph Bokenham of Garboldesham, Jantyhnan, desired in his will to 
 be buried in St. Peter's church oi' Much Livernicre. 
 
 CHURCHE'S MANOR, or FREE TENEMENT, 
 
 Took its name from its owners, who were so called from living near 
 the church of this town; at the survey it was part of Mhw//o//'4 or 
 Pakenham's manor, and so continued till it was granted from it by 
 the Francheviles to 
 
 VOL. I. LI
 
 262 GAR BOLD ES HAM. 
 
 Hugh at the Chnrche of Garbaiidesham, who is the first that I 
 meet with ot' this family ; but there being ho date to the deed, I can- 
 not ascertain tiie time ; in I2y0 it belonged to Gilbert at the Cherche, 
 from whom it went to Jeffry, and from liini to John atte Cherche, 
 senior, and from him to John his son, who was lord in 1429, as the 
 rental, in my own custody, shews me; he was succeeded by Ifilliam 
 atte Cherche about 1432, from which time I meet with no more of it 
 till 1540, and then Richard Lothczn/k had it; but the rents were now 
 sold off, the rental being only 5.s'. [)(l. per annum. 1 meet with no 
 more of it afterwards, so that it shews as If those rents were either 
 sold off, or the lands purchased to the tenement, one of which was 
 generally the end of these small manors. 'J'he parish of St. John's 
 held 3 roods of land at Hohbt/ns Mill, near St. John's rectory-house, 
 late Margerif Wright's, by the freerent of 'Id. a year, and the town of 
 Garboldesham held a messuage, called the Cnmping-Lond, late Will. 
 Flozi'er's, afler, Robert Heed's, by the freerent of 6a. a year. 
 
 GERBAUDESHAM'S FREE TENEMENT 
 
 Had its rise in Richard the First's time, it being till then part of 
 Wi/gen Hairs manor, which John de Jarpenville, lord thereof, granted 
 to Robert de Gerbuudesham, for his homage and service, and 8s. Qd. 
 a year rent, and Ad. 3q. a year ward money to Dover castle, and 12rf. 
 3q scutage, out of every 20s. that should be laid upon Jarpenvile's 
 manor of Garboldesham, and one suit of court at Euster, and another 
 at Michaelmas, together with all his right in a fourth part of all that 
 land which Aluyn de Garbaudesham had of the gift of fVill. dc 
 Francheville, senior, and all the land of Robert the priest of Garbol- 
 desham, which the said Robert had of the same William, viz. 31 acres 
 of land, and liberty of a fold belonging to it; and in consideration 
 of this grant, the said John, st)n of Robert de Garboldesham, was to 
 marry Maud, daughter of Thomas, son of Hill, de Ravenyngham : 
 witnesses to the grant were, William, son of Galfrid, William his son, 
 William de Francheville, Robert, son of Tho. de Ravenyngham, Jltx- 
 ander, son of Will, de Ravenyngham. Walter and Hunrf'n/, his bro- 
 thers, William, son of Roger of iiarboldesham, and Thomas his son. 
 Will. Curpel, Hugh, son of David, Galfrid, son of Hervi/, Thomas, 
 son of Gilbeit I'ersen of Gaibolihsham, and Jlan de Hekyngham, 
 who lived in 1240, which may si e>v something towards the date of 
 the deed, though there is none in it. This family was very numerous ; 
 those that I meet with 1 shall here add, though I do not imagine that 
 all of them were lords of this tenement. 
 
 Alexanoer de Gerbaudesuam, lord; Gilbert, son of ^Alex- 
 ander, was lord ; 1270, Uugh, son of David of Gerboldesham ; 1290, 
 Rich, son of Jefiy, H'illiam, son of Gilbert of Girboldeshum ; 1318, 
 John, son of William of Gerboldesham ; 1343, Henry, sun of J ejry 
 of Gerboldesham. 
 
 From this family it passed to the Monk>:, another numerous family 
 in this town, so nained from JIan Lr-Moyiie, or tlie monk, who had 
 lands here very early, as several deeds without date shew me. In 
 12yO, William, son of John Le-Monk of Garboldesham, WaA a mes- 
 .""asre and 10 acres settled on him, after the death of John, son of
 
 GARBOLDESHAM. 263 
 
 Rich. Le-Monk, and of Jeffri/ and Robert, sons of John, if they had 
 no heirs. In 13^7, 
 
 John Le-Monk had this tenement, which he then held with the 
 10 acres aforesaid, hj' tlie service of tiie hundredth part of a fee, and 
 2s. per aininm to the ward of Dover castle, and also 45 acres and two 
 messuages, which he held of Peter de lianham at 2s. rent. In 1328, 
 
 Richard Lf.-Monck, his son, had it released to him hy Alice, 
 widow of John Le-Monk, his father, John and Williani, his brothers, 
 being witnesses, and at this time IVilliinn dc Ban/ium released all his 
 right to him, in all his possessions in Gerboldesham, so that now he 
 had both Gerbo/disham's and Banham's free tenements; but how they 
 went after I do not find, though the family continued somewhat 
 longer in the town, Richard, son of WiV/. Monck, and Jgucs his wife, 
 John and Robert Monck, and Alice, late wife of Richard, son of Alan 
 Monck, hved here in 1332. 
 
 BANHAM'S FREE TExNEMENT 
 
 Had its rise out of Escois manor, since 1240, and consisted of several 
 lands and rents of that manor, granted by William de Francheville to 
 the Banham family, after he had married Freschentia, the heiress of 
 Ralph de Banham; and in this family it continued till 1328, when 
 fi'ill. de Banham released it to Rich, le Monck, Robert de Banham, 
 his father, having sold or mortgaged it before to John It Monck, fa- 
 ther of Richard, by which release it fell into Monk's tenement, as 
 before observed. Of 
 
 HOPTON'S TENEMENT 
 
 I know but little, only find it often named in evidences, and that 
 Adamde Hopton, lord of it in 12G8, was diseized by John le Dik/egh, 
 of his common of pasture in BloK-Norton, which belonged to nis 
 free tenement in Garboldesham. 
 
 The Customs of the Manor are these: the copyhold descends 
 to the eldest son ; the fine is at the lord's will ; the tenants can fell 
 timber on the copyhold, plant, and cut down on the waste without 
 license ; it gives no dower ; it hath liberty of free-warren, ro«^/", strcy, 
 and all other privileges, except the leel, return of writs, office of 
 coroner, clerk of the market,' and assize of bread and ale, all which 
 were excepted, when it was sold to Sir Drue Drnry, who after his 
 purchase sold off his part of the demeans, and settled "the rent charge 
 of 10/. per annum u[)on that part, from which it is now paid by the 
 owner of Ip Hall in Garboldesham, who hath the demeans of the 
 several manors, except those of Bukenhani's manor, which belong to 
 Sir Edmund Bacon of Gaiboldcsham, Bart. 
 
 THE RECTORY MANOR 
 
 Belonged to the rectors of St. .John's, who were always lords of it. 
 Tlie CusTO-Ms are the same as the sreat manor. 
 
 » The market and fair have been disused for some time.
 
 2(54 GARBOLDESHAM. 
 
 The Advowson of Ali,-Saints wholly belonged to Bois's or 
 Up Hall manor, and that of St. John's was purchased to it in 1280, 
 by Sir Robert dc Bois and holda his wife, as is before observed under 
 that manor, from which time they both passed with it, till 1533, and 
 then being parted, went as Feryield advowson did, till 1632,' and 
 then that advowson, or rather moiety of both advowsons, that be- 
 longed to Sir Thomas Corincaleis, Knt. came to Sir William IVilhipoll, 
 Knt. ; and in 1637, Lucy fVithipoll, and Tho. Cher, presented by his 
 grant; at his dcalh it went to Elizabeth Withipoll, his heiress, who 
 married Leicester Devcreux Viscount Hereford,' he was succeeded 
 by Leicester his son and heir, who died in 1682, and was succeeded 
 by Edward Devereux, who died issueless in 1700, leaving ^niie his 
 sister his sole heir; she married Leicester Martin, Esq. of Christ 
 Church in Ipswich, who sold it to the Honourable Sit Edmund Bacon 
 of Garboldesham, Bart, the present [17.*)6] patron. 
 
 The other advowson, or moiety of both the advowsons, belonged to 
 (he JViiicrfilds, und passed as Fersfi eld, from the Ifingjields to the 
 Earl of Kochford, the Right Honourable Frederick ]L:x\[ of Rochford 
 being now [1736] patron. 
 
 The religious concerned here were, the Prior of Thetford, the Prior 
 of Bermondesei/e, and the Prior of Camps, to whom Robert Ashfield 
 aliened lands in 1391 ; and in 1381, John Plais and others aliened 
 lands and tenements here, of 40/. value, to the chantry at Ravenj/ng- 
 ham. 
 
 There were several ancient good families inhabiting in this town, 
 besides those already mentioned ; one was sirnamed Atte Stone of 
 Garboldesham, another De-Ponte, or Atte Jirigge, another Le-lV ode- 
 ward, which family hath continued to this time. The Taseburghs 
 had a good estate here, of which John Taseburgh, Gent, was owner 
 in J 540. 
 
 The names of the streets in 1413 were; Wykyu-street, Nethergate- 
 street, and Churche-gate-street ; and there is a way much spoken of 
 called the Palmers-way; I suppose it is that which leads from Gates- 
 thorp-gate, by which the pilgrims used to pass in pilgrimage to our 
 haiiy at IVa/singham ; there is also a large ditch, commonly called. 
 Little Devil's Ditch, which runs from Gatesthorp moor to Herling 
 moor, and is said to have been an ancient intrenchment; but by 
 the proper name, I take it to have been made to divide Gerboldesham 
 from its neighbouring parishes, as it still does, it being called the 
 Boundary. 
 
 After the Dissolution, divers small pieces of land settled to super- 
 stitious uses, as for obits, lamps, &c. were granted to the following 
 persons : 
 
 One acre and an half in the tenure of Robert Rockett, given to 
 find an obit and light in the church, to Johri Parrel, Knt. to be held 
 of East Greenwich manor, by the twentieth part of a fee. 
 
 Other lands were given to the Duke of \orfolk, others to Edw. 
 Fines, Knt. Lord CUn'on, to be held of the honour of Hampton Court 
 by fealty only ; others to Wymurk, and Clere ; and others in All- 
 Saints parish, to Grey and his heirs. 
 
 ' See Fersfield, p. 76, &c. * Peerage, 38a.
 
 GARBOLDESIIAM. 
 
 265 
 
 The CnuncH of Si Jo/in Baptist is a good building, liaving the 
 nave, two isles, witii tin- chapels at their east ends, north vestry, and 
 noitli poreh, leaded, its chancel thatched, a tall square tower, and six 
 bills; the ehineh, isles, and ehaiiecl are ancient, but the tower and 
 norih porch are not so, being built about 1500, as is evident from 
 the name of IPi/liam Ptce, who was then a chaplain in this church, 
 and chief benefactor to the work ; for on the front of the porch is 
 this inscription, novv ^)artly tilled up with mortar: 
 
 (©rate pro anima ©iHi. pcce, €apellani. 
 And round its bottom this, 
 (Cbrijiitt, ^ancte gjojjannfjS SBaptijita, ^acljarie, €Ii?abet|3, gioljannc^. 
 
 On the tower are the names of several other benefactors. 
 
 There is only one brass plate left which is thus inscribed : 
 
 lli)£r£ Ipetf) buri£& ti}c 2?ol>ie of giobn (Carlton, late tobite \)t IpbeD n£ 
 (C>arbolDesiljam, JRcrrcr, tDf)0 bat> to Ijiji ©iifc (!21i?abetb, $ of bfr fotoec 
 ^onncsi, anb none g?auflbterio,tD})icb 3:obn oieotbe t^irD of april, m tlje 
 JJcre of our 5LorQ 43oD, 1579. 
 
 po^t tenebraifi ^pero 5lutetn. 
 
 In the east chancel window were these arms, 
 
 BARDOLPH. HOWARD. 
 
 SCALES.
 
 266 
 
 GARBOLDESHAM. 
 
 And three knights kneeling, one in a suicoat oi Howard, another of 
 Scales, and another of Bardolph, which being remarkable I shall here 
 exhibit it to your view, it being lately destroyed, with many other 
 arras and antiquities, when the windows were repaired. 
 
 In the windows of the north isle were these arms, 
 
 BOIS. HOWARD. CORNVVAL. 
 
 m 
 
 
 FELBRIGGE.
 
 CiA n HOLD KS MAM. «J7 
 
 In a •oulh clinncel wiiulow, Sealti'i nrnw wilh nn ctculop for » 
 cre»l ; Uotmrd and Scalt* iiii|>alid ; Howard wrilli a lubcl o» llinc. 
 
 In ihc wintlciwi of thf i»l«'t, Urotherlun, lloic<irJ,Mu\ I'/aii. 
 
 Itottiiril iiii|>itlilig, |Kr pale iiidrlitetl ur and gu/. u borduff of llir 
 M'cotid Ix-zaiilf. 
 
 J-'rHirififir iinpiilini; Scalct. 
 
 Or, a ili)vr xrri , c|uart<'riii}; fful. nn nnnulct or. 
 
 'I lif Utiiifi arnit art" ifi niiinv windown. Al thr caM «'ii(l of the 
 north iflc i» M rliajMl, wliuli lM-fonn«-d lo tinit family, m »lii< ti llirrc 
 \tat un uiliciiilin); chnplain for llic dead, und probably anotlur in ihc 
 op|M>^lt<■ « ha|Hl, in the noillh islf ; i\ic nninrn of »>mu' of ihcni thai 
 nivitl lur«', and in /Jomj rhn|>ol in All-Saint'i churcli follow, u« I 
 i-\lrai-li-(l llii-in out of «-vid«-iic-e» of laudii in ihi'* liiwn. Sir Adam 
 Dai I/: l;l<i.'>. Sir Ju/iti llryin , l.'IH.',, Sir Tho. /IJiIri/ ; \V>H, Sir 
 Jiihn Ha/ii/ii^ham ; ItU. Sir Huh. Ilnllr in .lll-Sainlf, and Sir 
 I'rler df (irnlou in St. Johu's ; U'i<J, Sir ihu. Jam(% ; U7 ), " il/iam 
 /ynv; i:>(My,Sn H'lHiam I'ece; XMV), Hob. HOodward ; IJUt, John 
 Jamff and Hi//. Cunon; 1553, Thu. Datrtt ; 1554, Sir Tho. 
 ltol.rtiham. 
 
 In till- vfstrv, undrr the «u.sl window, w.xi, an old altar Ktandini;, 
 over winch, oil the \sull, 1 kuw a rude |iainling ol the LuM Judgment. 
 
 Toward;! ilie west end of the churchyard, ore two altar tombs lliui 
 inscribed : 
 
 ' In Meinoriam Johannis \\'illi;imson, (j'en. hie Lapis positus est, 
 obijl setundo die .Murlij, 1(»<J<», Anno /Ktatis suae, 3'2. 
 
 VIGILATF. F.r OBATE. 
 
 Ilicjacel Maria filia Joliannis \\'illinmson,r>cn. Virgo verc pia et 
 I'uru, unncit ehara, omnibus benijjnn, desiderntiisima, objit Id2*'** die 
 AiiKU«ti, l'i«»7, Anno /luaii<i sutv 'i'Z'^- i'auperum inopiain, in Gar- 
 Ixiiiti^ham, l>i|>lii(iiii|iu- hepleiitrioiiali, et \V aldiiiL;field |iarvn viven- 
 tiiiiii, ledtlitu stiblevavil, inorieiis eiiiin 'rreceiitu> ipsis Libras U'guvil 
 in pcriictuum. 
 
 Lector ! abilo, cl tu fac similiter. Luc. cop. 10, vcr. 37. 
 
 Tlie site of the rcctory-liouso joined to the cast end of this church- 
 yard, till tlu' |ire<wnt iiu-umlH-nl built u new one, near u (juurter of a 
 inilc north-<.-u>t of liic cliurch. 
 
 All-Saints Ciit'Rrii stands north of St. .fohn't about h.ilf a fur- 
 Ions, or •uinewhal more, and was othciuled in till the death ot Mr. 
 I'iM in I7"2'>, from whn-h lime service was left off by decrees; nnd 
 utKin II |>etition of the patrons, incumbent, and parishiuncrk, in 1734, 
 lii-i-UM- wtu obtaiiii'd of tile Hi<ho|> to sutler il to dilapidule, upon 
 \ ' 't' of the nave wa< unlhatchcd, und that of thr north 
 
 I :. iiiid Ixith Were liiken down, the I'oiit and m-hIs pulled 
 
 up, the live Ixll* weic laki-ii down, nil which, with (he ollu-r mute- 
 rial<, (excfpt the leu«l b«-ll, which wn« carrud to St. Juhn't,) were 
 •old, and ihe mooejr applied lo n-puir and beuuUfy bl JoAm'i church. 
 
 • L« Ne»f, Tol. 11. p. 77.
 
 268 GARBOLDESHAM. 
 
 The bodies of the Bacon's buried in the chancel were taken up and 
 carried to a vault belonging to that family in Redgrave church, and 
 the marbles that laid over them were removed and placed in the 
 vestry of St. John a church, where they now lie. The windows both 
 of the nave and isle were chiefly painted glass, and very well done, 
 but were all broken to pieces ; the roof of the nave was board, 
 painted all over with the names of Jesus and Mary, and this in the 
 midst : 
 
 SSettDtv i^n ^\i anti 
 
 pc fioDc llDff, tic Bonglinu 
 
 \)<m paiib for lU? co.st. 
 gat UorO nat OrmD for allc .llianhpnDc 
 batoe mcrcp upon \)tm at Ijcr <itntit. 
 
 by which it appears, that it was done at the charge of the parishion- 
 ers, soon after 1450, and that John de fere Earl of Oxford, who was 
 then patron, would not assist them, for he muSl be the youngling 
 here meant ; and indeed it seems as if he designed to have had this 
 church (when he consolidated it to St. John's) fall down, it being then 
 much in decay, as is plain from the great repairs then done to it, the 
 parishioners not consenting to it, but on the contrary, shewed their 
 dislike by these verses, which it will not be amiss to render into more 
 modern language : 
 
 Between this place and the rood loft,* 
 The youngling han't paid for this cost. 
 That lord that died for all mankind. 
 Have mercy upon them ^ at their end. 
 
 The roof of the chancel also at that time was repaired ; and because 
 it should not be too burthensome to the rector, many pious people 
 contributed, as is apparent from these two verses still remaining 
 on it : 
 
 aile atlc fjtbir 'bolpe to nis! goob detb 
 ©Ob ^ent) Ijjicr ^otole l)Clp£ to Ijocr mcbc. 
 
 All, all, [that] ever helped to this good deed, 
 God send their soul help for their meed. 
 
 The cancelli or lattices between the church and chancel were 
 erected about the same time, being neatly carved and adorned with 
 the images of St. Maiy Magdalen, St. German, St. Agnes, and others, 
 and were made at the expense of fVilliam Bole, and Catherine his 
 wife, as this painting intimated : 
 
 J^rap for tije ©tlfarc of ©jiUiam 25oIc, anb ftattrpn f)ijS JE>pffc« 
 
 The windows also were new glazed, all of painted glass, and 
 adorned, some of them with the twelve Apostles, others with saints 
 and confessors, others with the arms of the benefactors at whose cost 
 they were put up, and others with their effigies kneeling, by which 
 it appeared, that some were made at one person's cost only, others by 
 
 ♦ Tlie rood loft was placed between 5 Tl,cm refers to the parishioners that 
 the church and chancel, so called because were at the charge of the work, 
 the rood or cross always stood on it.
 
 GARBOLDESHAM. SGj) 
 
 Ihreeor four that joined, and in most of them were the donors names, 
 all which were decayed except tliesc in the north isle windows: 
 
 •©rate pro ainima ficrarbi be 2?rom, qui iitam opcram fieri fecit 
 ','.','.:■. ianima IDalteri oc 2?rom, ^ -- ,- = ^ Ijaiic f cnc?tram ','.-''.'- 
 Their effigies remained. 
 
 On a soutir window, 
 
 ',',:-.-.'. £Fer no.si almc tui«i, CelejStia tSegna ttcDcmptiti. 
 
 In Jinolher, Luci/'s arms gu/. crusuly three luces, or pikes, hauriant 
 ar. impaling giil. a fcss and label of three ar. 
 
 Chcquy, or and sab. a fess ar. 
 
 At the east end of the isle was a chapel, which hath laid in ruins 
 many years; it was founded (as I take it) by Thomas de Bosco, rector 
 of this church, for his own interment, the initial letters of whose 
 name still remain carved in stone on its buttress; the entrance out 
 of the isle was by a large cross arcb. 
 
 There is a good square tower at the west end, built much about 
 that time, and as tradition hath it, in this manner, the foundatioQ 
 was laid by a tailor, continued by a woolcomber, and finished by the 
 parish : now 1 do not pretend to aver its truth, but mention it, be- 
 cause, agreeable thereto, I find a stone fixed in the building, about 
 10 feet from the ground, on which is cut a large pair of tailor's 
 sheers, and on another about 10 feet higher, is a wool comb. 
 
 On one of the bells this was to be read : 
 
 ^ancta Matia ora pro nobi.^. 
 
 The church is almost whole as to its walls ; the roofs still remain 
 on the chancel and south porch, though great part of the thatch is 
 gone; the doors are taken ofl'; the grave-stones still lie in their 
 places, some of which had brasses formerly on them, but they were 
 lost lonsj before the church was ruinated. 
 
 ■'& 
 
 On two black marbles that were in the chancel, hut now removed 
 to St. Johns as aforesaid. 
 
 Bacon, impaling a fess wavy between three de-lises. 
 
 Under this Marble is buried the Body of Sir Robert Bacon, Bart, 
 who departed this Life on tbe 31" of June, in the Year of our Lord 
 1701.* 
 
 Here lyeth interred the Body of Mrs. Jane Bacon, the Eldest 
 Daughter of Sir Robert Bacon, and Dame Elizabeth his Wife, (that 
 was buried at VVighton in this County) who died on the 14 Day of 
 October, ill the Year of our Lord 1705. 
 
 This joined to the south side of the former, and hath Bacon's arms 
 in a lozenge. 
 
 . ' Le Neve, vol. ii. p. 107. This laid and four and an lialf from the east 
 about three feet from the ncrth wall, wall. 
 
 VOL. I. M m
 
 270 G A R B O L D E S n A M. 
 
 Sir WiUittin Bancick, who died after lG07, is said to be burietf 
 liere, but 1 am not certain of it. 
 
 lu \50(), John alte Chcrche of Gaiboldcsham was buried in the 
 churchyard of JU-IIalloics there, anil gave 8 marks for an obit for a 
 year, and 40s. for a pilgrim to go to St. James in Gales, in the next 
 year of grace ; and to a pilgrim to St. Thomas of Caiiterbun/ 3s. 4(/. 
 and to a pilgrim to St. Mildred 12fZ. and to a pilgrim goiiig to St. 
 1 la 1st one's Gd. 
 
 Tlie Honourable Sir Edmund Bacon, Premier Baronet of all Eng- 
 land, Knight of the Shiie for Norfoll;, hath a seat in this parish, at 
 which lie mostly resides, of whose family I shall speak at large under 
 Riburgh, where he is lord. 
 
 RECTORS OF ALL-SAINTS, 
 
 1305, JVill. de Bosco, or Bois, resigned it for great Conerth in 
 Suffolk. 
 
 131 J, kal. Dec. JVilliam Yngreth de Debeiiham, to All-Saints 
 rectory. Christian de Mose, formerly wife of Sir Robert du 
 Bois, Knt. patroness of this turn. 
 
 1330, kal. Dec. Tho. du Bois, accolite. Sir Robert du Bois, 
 Knt. 
 
 1333, 11 kal. Oct. Tho. de Sudbury, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1351, 8 June, John Conyng, priest, to Garboldesham-Parva. 
 John de Ufford, Knt. 
 
 1375, 29 Oct. Tho. Howard, priest. The noble William de 
 Ufford Earl of Suffolk, Sir John de Tuddenham, Knt. John 
 Marlehe, clerk, Edmund Gurnay, and Richard de Walton, 
 patrons. (Feoffees.) 
 
 1392, 1 March, Nicolas de Beverly, a shaveling. John Mar- 
 leue, clerk, by virtue of a feofTiiient made by Sir Robert Howard, 
 Knt. deceased. 
 
 1394, 3 Dec. EicJi. Bolle of Garboldeshnm, priest. John de 
 Thorp, John de Felbuigge, and Will. Cobbe. 
 
 1429, Thomas Erl, priest, oa Bolle's death. Sir John Howard, 
 Knt. 
 
 1433, 18 Aug. John Taylifer, priest, on ErVs resignation. Ditto. 
 
 This John Taj/tifer d\cd rector in 1450,' and John de Veue Earl 
 of Oxford, Lord Bulbec, Samjord and Scales, Chamberlain and 
 Admiral of England, and Mr. John Halle, rector of St. John's, peti- 
 tioned for a consolidation, setting forth, " That the churches were so 
 " near, that they might be conveniently served by one rector, and 
 " that both when joined would maintain a rector, but were not suf- 
 " ficient to do so single : and besides the tithes were so mixed that 
 "■ they caused disputes on all sides, and the clergy so thin by reason 
 " of the great plague, that it was difficult to procure a clerk, upon 
 " which it was agreed, that a consolidation should pass upon the 
 " following terms, viz. 
 
 " That the church of St. John Baptist be henceforward the princi- 
 " pal and mother church, for all sacraments, for all the parishioners, 
 " and that the rectors shall be obliged to keep up only the rectory- 
 " house of St. John's, but should be strictly forced to keep up both 
 
 ' No, II Regr. Lyhert, fol. 63.
 
 GARBOLDESIIAM. 271 
 
 " the chancels, and by liimsclf, or a stipendiary curate, liave service 
 " pcrfornu'd (hily every week in .///-Saints church." This was Irans- 
 nrttd in ilic collci^iatf rhurcli of the Virgin M<ni/ in llie Fields, al 
 !\uni'ir/i, I'cb. '2.3, \\M),\iy Jo/in Ui/gen/iatv, Aoc\.oy uf llie decrees, 
 coniniissury, and vicar-gcnoral. 
 
 And in tlie same year," the feasts of tlic dodicalions of llie.se two 
 churches were altered ; that of St. Jo/in's used to be kept the day 
 before the feast of St. Lucia the Virgin, (Der. 12,) and that of Jl/- 
 Saiiits on the feast of St. I'eler's chair, (./««. 18.) but were now to be 
 kept !)uth on one day, viz. on the day of the dedication of No/vcicA 
 cathedral. 
 
 RECTORS OF ST. JOHN'S. 
 
 Robert, the priest oi Gur/io/tlca/uiin. 
 
 iyi4, 1 1 kal. June, Jio/nrt dc Ucni/tain, priest. The Lady Cmtis- 
 TiAN Di: MosK, wile of Sir Ron. du liois, Knt. by virtue of a hue 
 levied in the King's court. 
 
 1^56, '28 jDtv. /('aZ/t;- 7V/./.f, priest. Sir.loHN de UFFonn, Knt. 
 
 1383, Q:} -liig.S'n J(i/iii ,l/(///t/c, priest. Sir Ron. Howard, Knt. 
 
 1394, G Sov. Master Jafiit Cirj/me of Tyri/ii^tvn, priest. Master 
 John de Thoup, John de Fllbrigge, and Will. Cobbe, for 
 this turn. 
 
 1415, 7 Sept. TVil/. E/i/s de Caston, priest. Margaret, late wife 
 ofSirRoBEKT IIowAUD, Knt. 
 
 1430, '2.5 Octob. Hciiri/ JJivnii, bachelor in the decrees. Sir 
 John Howard, Knt. 
 
 1447, 20 M(in/i, Jo/in IIn//c, on Biozvns death. John de Vere, 
 Earl of Oxford, lord of Gar/ioldes/uim. 
 
 In 1450, he became reclov ot .l/Z-Saiiits, it being then consolidated 
 to St. Jo/iii's. 
 
 1478, 12 August, I'.diiiuiid A/boii, doctor of physick, and of all 
 the liberal arts, was instituted to the church of (iarbo/des/iam, St. 
 Ji)/iu Baptist, together with the church of .y//-.S(;/«/,s annexed ; pre- 
 sented by Tho. Okental, clerk, patron of this turn, on the resig- 
 nation of J o/i II IIii//e, who was incapacitated by old age, to whom 
 the Bishop assigned a pension of lO/. a year, out of the living, during 
 his life. 
 
 148.5, " Octob. Ric/i. C/iaiiiitri/ to St. .Jo/iii and All-Sainis, on 
 y//io«'s resignation. John ni. V eke Earl of Or/brrf. 
 
 1.500, \'o febr. Hi//. Cool;c, doctor of laws, on C/*aw«/n/'s death.' 
 Ditto. 
 
 1522, John Cokke, rector here and of Bildcsto/i, SuJ'o//:, died this 
 year ; and in 
 
 1522, Mai/ 22, Master Robert Fabian, alias C/erlic, was instituted 
 to Garlioldesham-Utraque, at the presentation of Elizabeth Coun- 
 tess of Oxford. 
 
 15.33, Hi Febr. Mr. Jo/in Scnlte, B.D. iVFary, Oxcnford, widow. 
 
 153U, Tho. Thompson, domestick chaplain to John t)ukc of Nor- 
 folk, presented by the Duke, patron of this turn, by grant of it 
 
 » Rfgr. Lyhert. » Regr. vac. Ep. in cust. Dec. ct Ca- 
 
 pit. aimd Cantuar. fol. 113. b.
 
 272 GARBOLDESHAM. 
 
 from Anionif IVi/niffield, Knt. true patron : in 1544, he had Hasfceton 
 also, which he held with this. 
 
 1537, 21 Mdi/, Rot). Dixoti, priest. Rob. VVingfield, Knt. 
 
 1575, 7 Oct. Simon rack, c\cYk. Elizabeth Naunton, widow, 
 true patroness. 
 
 1579, i5 Jitfi/, Rob, Graf Ion, A.M. Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 1589, 6 Jug. Rich. Brook, D.D. on Grafton's death. Will. 
 CoRNWALEis of London, llsq. and Lucy his wife, one of the 
 daughters and coheirs of the noble .lolin Lord Latimer, deceased. 
 
 1609, 3 Mai/, Giiicdi/ Bo/ton, A.M. Robeut Bolton, Gent, 
 assignee oi Antoni/ IVingfield, who is patron of this turn; he had 
 Gatest/iorp also. 
 
 IftM, 14 Nov. Antony Gaudy, A.M. on i3o//o«'s death. Mathias 
 Mann, clerk, by grant of this turn. 
 
 1637, 24 May, Will. Geast, the Bisliop's chaplain. Lucy Wi- 
 THIPOLL, and 'riio. Cleer, who had the grant of this turn, from 
 m//. J] ithipoll, Knt. true patron of it. 
 
 George Delidcn came in the rebellion, and died in 1663. 
 
 16()3, 10 Fcbr. Theophilus Llook, A.M. The Earl of Hereford, 
 patron of this turn. 
 
 l68f), (y April, Charles Wells, A.M. on //ooA's resignation. Peter 
 Parham, Dr. of physick, by grant of the turn from Edicard E,a.x\ 
 oi Hereford. "On Thursday, Oct. 8, I691, at noon, Charles Wells, 
 " clerk, A.M. late of Jesws Coll. in Cambridge, afterwards principal 
 " register to Anthony Bishop of Norzcich, died at Garboldesham, 
 " where he was rector, deservedly lamented by his numerous ac- 
 " quaintance, which his merits had acquired, in the Slst year of 
 " his age, and was buried in the chancel of the lesser church at Gar- 
 " boldesham, (sc. All-Saints,) in the place which he had chose in his 
 " life time."" 
 
 1691, 27 Nov. Tho. Filet, Edward Viscount Hereford; he was 
 buried in St. John's. 
 
 1726, 31 May, I'he Rev. Henry Stebbing was inslitured on Filet's 
 death, at the presentation of Sir Edmund Bacon of Garboldesham, 
 Bart. He is the present [1736] incumbent, being D.D. arch-deacon 
 ol Wilts, chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, rector of Rickinghall 
 Inferior in Suffolk, preacher to the honourable Society of Grei/'s-Inri, 
 lecturer of liow church, Cheapsidc, London ; author of the book en- 
 titled Polemical Tracts, in folio, and of several other ingenious 
 pieces. 
 
 This rectory is in Norfolk archdeaconry, and Rockland deanery, 
 and is still charged with first fruits and tenths. 
 
 King's Books. I Tenths. I Lincoln Taxat. 
 
 19 16 06. 1 1 ly 7 J. \ St. .Tohn'sxi. marks. All-Sts.x. marks. 
 
 Pension.^ 
 6 8 
 
 ' Lib. Institut. of Thetford, it being a perpetu.-il com- 
 
 * Tills pension is now paid to the position for the tithes of the demeans of 
 
 Duke of Norfolk, in right of the priory Ralph de Banham, lord of Escois manor.
 
 GA R BOLD ES HAM. 273 
 
 1412, John Chaloner of this town ordered his feoflees to sell 
 all his estate here, and with it to fulfil his will, which was, that a 
 pilgrim travel to Rome for the good of his soul, and oi Joan his first 
 wife's soul, and to have a Gregorie's trental for their souls ; Cecili/ 
 his wife to have a part for life, and then to be sold for the good of 
 his wives' and his friends' souls, and to paj- AOd. to some pilgrim 
 going to St. James (sc. at Compostella in Spain) for the same purpose. 
 
 1422, PicTER DE Gryston, cicrk, was buried in St. John's church- 
 
 !,'ard, before the north door ; he ordered 200 masses to be said for 
 lis soul; he was chaplain in this church. 
 
 1530, Susan Dibney of Garboldesham buried in St. John's 
 church, by her husband ; John Taseburg and JVill. Bolton were her 
 sons-in-law, and John Curson, clerk, was her son, and executor.^ 
 
 1531, May 1, W. Keye oi' Garboldeshani was buried in St. John's 
 churchyard ; he gave " To the hye auter iijs. iiijd. Item, to the led- 
 *' dinge of St. John Baptist's cherchc, whane they begyne to remove 
 " the leede, xiijs. iiijd. Item, to the gyldyng of the new candil bcm 
 " in the chirche of A ll-Seynis, vjs. iiijd. Item, to our Ladyes fryrys 
 " in Norwich, to be prayed for, half a trental, vs. Item, to the fryres 
 " at Babwell, iys. iiijd. Item, to eclie hows of frires in Thetford, to 
 " be praj-ed for iijs. iiijd. Item, to the nunys in the same town ijs. 
 " Item, to an abil preest to synge divine service for my sowle, and 
 " the sowles of all ray good frenaes, by the space of an hoole yere 
 " in St. John Baptist's cherche, viij marks, that is to say, half a year 
 " after my discesse, and thensforth every yere, a quarter, till the seid 
 " hoole yere be complete. Item, 1 gif half an acr of lond lying in 
 " Lopham furlong, to find yerely evermore, v. Gawdyes brennyng 
 " before our Lady, in the chancel of St. John Baptist; at every anti- 
 " phon of our Lady, and at every feste of our Lady, at maesse of the 
 " same feste, evermore : howbeit, I will that whosoever shall hold my 
 "■ place and londes, shall have the occupacon of the said lond, and 
 " the keepyng of the said v. Gawdyes, and they onys to be renewed in 
 " every yere. Item, I will have my Obit dai/ kept yerely after my 
 " decesse, for v. yeres, at which obit, I will my executors brewe ij 
 " combe of make, and bake v. bushell of whete, and [buy] chese to 
 " the value of iijs. Item, 1 give half an acre at Mede/tred-Ilegge, 
 " half an acre and half an rood at Copydthorn; j. aerej. rood at 
 " Di/che's-End, half an acre in Botoni/s, j. acre and half at Stani/e/l, 
 " j. acre at Nethir-Red-lIeggc, the whiche londs I have, and hold, at 
 ** the bequest of Sir I'Vi//. Pece, preest, to give to a brothir of the 
 " ordir of preachers in Thetford, to sey a sermon yerely evermore, on 
 " Tuesdnt/ in Esternweck, and to synge messe of requiem in the 
 " churche of St. John of Garboldeshani ; and to the parson and his 
 " depute, which is, and shall be for the time, to say dirige iiijd. Item, 
 " 1 gif iij rodes of medewe, j. rod by the lond of /(///. Curson, preest, 
 " and j. rod and half by the lond of the Countess of Oxforth, est, and 
 " iiij roods, and half and acre, for the entent to have always on 
 ** Monday in Eastern week, aforesaid, vj bushels of malte brewed_, 
 
 who gave his tithes to that priory : " Wica, et de Banhani decimaniAlbredi 
 
 " Ranulfiis (dedit) decimam siiam de " de Banham." Mon. Ang, torn, i. fol. 
 
 "Wica, (or Wicken,) et de Barnia, (or 655,7. 
 
 " Banham,)" and Henry II. confirmed 3 Regr. Haydon, 
 
 to them " decimam Ranulfi, dc (in)
 
 «7J. RIDLESU'OllTH. 
 
 " and iij bushels of whete baken, and ijs. in chcse, to the relccf and 
 " comroit of tlie parishioners ofGarbils/tam, there beinsj; ^tdiiige on 
 " the said Moiidai/, to pra^' tor my sowie, and the sowies of all my 
 " good trends, and to the fryer iiijd. to remember me in his niessc.'* 
 He gave his capital tenement to jJlice his wife for life, then to be 
 sold" and the money to find a prest to sing a quarter in eaeh year, 
 till eight quarters be ended, and the rest to repair and buy ornaments 
 for St. John's church, his wile and Jo/iit JVoodwurd being executors; 
 Leonard lii/ch(irdsoii, and U ill. Curson, preesls, witnesses. Proved at 
 Attcllmrah, Mai/ \Q, 1533. These lands still are in the hands of 
 the parish. 
 
 Here is a town-house purchased with Mrs. JVilliamsoii's money, 
 inhabited by three or four poor families. The town lands are let at 
 about 22/. per annum, and lie in Lophain, Norton, and Garbol- 
 ilfsham. 
 
 This town paid to the old tenths 7I. Gs. 8d. and is now assessed at 
 978/. 9s. There are about 80 dwelling-houses, and 400 inhabitants 
 [1736.] 
 
 RIDLESWORTH 
 
 Js a rectory, to which Gatesthoi-p is consolidated, and is discharged 
 of first fruits and tenths, both being sworu of the value of 
 
 Clear Value. I King's Books. I Syiiodals. I Procurations. 
 48 9 I ob. q. i 4 13 4 I 11 I 6 8 
 
 It is in Notfolk archdeaconry, and Rockland deanery, and hath a 
 rectory-house, and 29 acres, three roods of glebe. 
 
 Norwich Domesdaj/ says, Sir Jo/in Bacon was patron, and that there 
 was a house and 28 acres of land. 
 
 The temporals of Thetford monks here, were taxed at x.s. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1330, 16 kal. Dec. Nic.de Sparkeford, priest. Tho. le Archer, 
 rector of £//ws£<e, and Richard his brother. 
 
 1337, 8 non. June, Robert de Stanebrigg, priest. Agnes, widow 
 of Roger le Archer, and Roger her son. 
 
 * Will in my own custody.
 
 R IDLES WORT 11. '275 
 
 1344, 14 Sept. Tho. Archer of Floketon, shaveling. Roger 
 A II c 1 1 E R of yioketon . . 
 
 1350, 4./««. Roarer Pi/lhbiirgh, on J roller's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1375, 10 Dec. Ili/l. Gilbert, pii.-st. ALiixANDuiNA i.e Archer. 
 
 13ti4, '21 Jpril, Stephen Mundegime, priest, on Gilbert's resig- 
 nation. John Hosu, Knt. 
 
 1384, 3 July, Roli. Ski/nncre, priest, on Mundegome's resignation. 
 John Koose, Knt. 
 
 1387, '23 (Jrtoh. Hen. f,' /few, priest, on .S'AyHwer's resignation. -D?«o. 
 
 13<i3, 1'2 July, Greene changed with Hill. Bnxtere for Leltcrdes- 
 ton, in ][aUs: he was hurieifhere in 1419- Beatrix, reUcl of 
 Juhn Roosc, Knt. 
 
 14iy,9 iV6.jRo6. ]Vo»7A</e Cowei'«/o«, priest, Christ. Stuaunge, 
 
 Esq. 
 
 1424, 19. March, John Gibelot de Kekhale, prie&L Tho. Erping- 
 HAM, Knt. Oliver Groos, Esq. Will. Ellys, clerk, John 
 Walsham, John Clere, Kouyr Kushbrook, and Adam 
 MoBRE, feoffees. 
 
 14'i8, 20 Nor. Rich. Chichek, priest, on Gibelot's resignation. 
 Christ. Straunge, Esq- 
 
 1434, 15 March, Tho. Cole, priest. Ditto. 
 
 John Hunt, priest, on whose death in 
 
 1403, 'i May, Nic. Scott succeeded ; Tiio. Sankevyle, or Sack- 
 
 YILE, 
 
 1494, Richolas Bryan, rector, died. 
 
 1494, 2 March, Robert llaldysworlh, A.M. Tho. Rokes, Esq. 
 
 1495, 18 Sept. Rich, lluldysworth, accohte, on Robert's resig- 
 nation. Ditto. He died rector. 
 
 1510, 29 Nov. Rob. Helperby. Sir Rob. Druky, by grant from 
 Tho. Rooks, Esq. 
 
 1511, /////. IVard, rector. 
 1515, John Fuldser, rector. 
 
 Rich Wright, rector, on whose death in 
 
 1540, 14 fV6i-. Leonard Dent, chaplain, was instituted. Rob. 
 Drl'ry, Esq. 
 
 1557,5 .y«/y, TAo. Py/ce,priest,onD(Hr.sdcatIi.Ron.DRuaY,Knt. 
 
 1573, 3 March, Rich. Tici/n, on i^/Ae's death. Ditto. 
 
 1579, 27 Fcbr. Tho. Poyiilcr, alias Ji inter, on Tuyii's resignation. 
 Sir DiiUE Drury, Knt. 
 
 1601, 18 Jan. Henry Michell, S.T.B. on Winter's resignation. 
 Ditto. In lf)05, he held Redgrave wilh it. 
 
 1()08, 22 Dec. John Pain presented hy the Crown, the church 
 being then full of Htnry Mihcll, or Michel/, upon wlioni a citation 
 was served to shew by what authority he held it; Febr. 8, Pain was 
 instituted, by lapse to tlie'King: Mi/tell having voided it. 
 
 1(J32, Ql'Oct. Fdm. Draper, A.M. on Pain's death. The relict 
 of Drue Drury, Knt. 
 
 Jeremiah Sleiens, at whose death in 
 
 1661, George Rcyner was instituted. Rob. Drury, Bart. 
 
 1()62, George Reyncr, A.M. The King by lapse. 
 
 1681, .30 Jane, Tho. Barnes A.M. on Reyner's death. Rob. 
 Drury, Bart, it was first united to Gasthorp, lo which it was con- 
 solidated the 19lh of Dec. following. He is buried in the chancel.
 
 ^76 RIDLESWORTH. 
 
 1713, S 'Nov. The Rev. Mr. James Whalei), A.M. the present 
 [17;>6J rector, on Barnes's death. Bassingbourn Gawdy, Bart, 
 for this turn ; it was tlien united to Giiateshall, but now he liolds it 
 united to ff cst-IIerliiig : the Lady Dkdry, rehct of Sk Robert, is 
 now patroness. 
 
 This town is called in Domesdai/, Redclefuuorda , that is, the popS, 
 ■or village abounding with reeds ;"it belonged to Orgar, a freeman at 
 the Confessor's survey, and to 7/w»j/h/, son of ^/6mc, at the Con- 
 queror's, who had only this in the county ; it always had a carucatc 
 in demean, and was half a league long and as much broad, and paid 
 xi.f/. oO, ge/(L^ 
 
 This atlerwards became the lordship of RalfPererell, of whose 
 honour of Ptvere/l it was held, at the fourth part of a fee. In l'i55, 
 
 Jeffky Tregoz held this manor of the King, at aquarterof a fee, 
 of whom 
 
 Peter de Mealings, or Melding, of Bnrston, held it by that 
 service ; this Peter, in 1249, had settled it by fine on 
 
 Henry de Bathonia, justice itinerant, "and Philip de Flegg re- 
 leased his right to him. Jliva de Bathonia, relict of Henri/, d'ied in 
 1'273, leaving it to John, her son and heir. Kic. de Yatingdon was 
 her second husband. In 1276, this Jo/i« was summoned to attend 
 King Urfa'ard I. in his expedition against the Jf'elsh; in 1290, he 
 held it of Remigiiis de Melding, and John de Bathitn was his son 
 and heir, who married EleaJior, daughter and coheir of Jeffry de 
 Jliineell, and dying this year, left only Joan, their daughter and 
 heiress, 23 years old, married to John de Bohun, or Boon, it being 
 settled in trust, at their marriage, on Humfry de Bohun, who released 
 it to John de Bohun, at John de Bathonia's death. In 1279, it was 
 held of Simon de Fumeaux, as of his manor of Midle-Herling, who 
 held it of Rob. de Monlealt, and he of Remigius de Melding ; at 
 John de Bohun s death, Joan his widow, had it for life ; she died ia 
 in 1316, and left John de Boon, her son and heir. In 1330, 
 
 Tho. le-Archer, rector of Elmsete, and Richard his brother, 
 were lords ; and this year ihey settled it by fine on Roger le-Areher 
 of Floketon, and Jgnes his wife, and Roger their son, with remain- 
 ders to Thomas and Jgnes, their brother and sister ; I suppose Jgnes 
 the mother was heiress to John de Bohun. In 1341, 
 
 Roger, son of Roger le-Jrcher, married Alexandrina, daughter 
 of William De-la-Mote, Knt. and settled this manor on her foi'life. 
 
 In 134.5, he is said to hold it of Tregoz, and he of the King, it 
 being the quarter of a fee, formerly llamfry de Boon's. In 1375, 
 Alexandrina aforesaid, then a widow, had it, who was dead before 
 1384, for then 
 
 JouN Iioos, Knt. presented, and had it, as I imagine, in right of 
 Bealriee his wife, the heiress of Roger le-Archer, w ho presented in 
 
 ' Terre Humfridi filij Albcrici, H. et iii. bor. et ii. acr. pr.iti. seniper i. 
 
 Gildecross. (fol. 274.) Rcdelci'iuiorda car. tunc ix. pore, modo xiii. tunc x.\vi. 
 
 i. car. tcrrc teniiit Orgarus liber homo oves. n\° xxi. semp. val. xxx.j. de qua. 
 
 T.R.E. tunc et post ii. bord. modo tuor hominibns soca in Kcningehaia. 
 
 niillus. scnip. i. serv. et viij. acr. prati. Tota habet dim. leug. iii long, et dinx, 
 
 tunc et post ii. car. in dnio. ni° i. car. in lato, et xi. eti. obolum de Gclto. 
 Ctdim. et iiii. lib. hoes, xxvii. acr. tcrre
 
 RIDLES WORTH. 277 
 
 1393, being then a widow ; at her death their two daughters in- 
 herited, 
 
 Anne, married to Tho. Hakevyle, and 
 
 Cecilia, to Ckrislopher U Estrange, Esq. on whom it was settled 
 by fine, for their lives, remainder to Tho. Sakevylc, and Anne ills 
 wife, and liieir heirs, it being now iield of Tlw. Rfjkes, Esq. who 
 hehi it of Jo/in Duke of Dtdford, as parcel of liichmotid lionour. 
 
 Tho. Rookes, son of tiie said Thomas, became lord and patron 
 about 1456, whether in v\g\\l oi Elizabeth his wife, or no, I cannot 
 say, and so continued to 1315, and then sold it, and levied a fine to 
 Sir Wiltiam Waldegrave and Sir Philip Calthorp, Knts. From whicli 
 families it came to the 
 
 Drurys,'' who took their name from a village in Normand^i/, 
 whence their ancestor came with William the Conqueror, and had 
 no other name than that of Dniii/ ; ills son, John Druiy, Esq. set- 
 tled at Thurston in the county of Suffolk, at which place JoA«, iiis 
 son, Henry, his grandson, and John, his great-grandson, lived many 
 years : Henri/ Drury oi'Thurston, Esq. son of the last John, had two 
 wives; by Hawise Greene oi' Barkway, b\s first wife, he had three 
 sons, the two youngest of which, viz. Nigell was sheriff' of London, 
 and Sir Roger was parson of liradjield in Suffolk ; John Drury, of 
 Thurston, Esq. the eldest son and heir, married Amable, daughter 
 of Tho. Newton, by whom he had Sir Roger Drury, parson of Beke- 
 ton, and Nicholas Druri/ of Thurston, Esij. his eldest son and heir, 
 who married Joan, daughter and heir of Sir Simon Saxham, of 
 Thurston aforesaid, by whom he had three sons; Sir jRoo-e;- Z)/«ry, 
 of Rougham in Suffolk, Knt. was his eldest son ; he and his de- 
 scendants bore the paternal coat, as it had hitherto been always 
 bom, without a cross tau, but with a label of three points, as the 
 cognizance of the eldest branch ; John Drury, the third son, bore the 
 same arms, with his proper difference; Nicholas Druri/ oi' Saxham, 
 the second son, went to the Holy Land, at which time lie added the 
 cross tan to his arms, which he ever after bore, as did all his de- 
 scendants; he married Joan Heath of Mildenhall, b}' whom he had 
 two sons, Henry Drury oi Icktcorth, Esq. his eldest son, and Roger 
 Drury of Hausted in Suffolk, his second son, who had three wives ; 
 by ^'^/wj/, his first wife, he had no issue; Anne, his third wife, was 
 daughter and coheir of 11 illiam Hanningjield of Suffolk; and by 
 Felice, daughter of Jl illiam Denston of Besthorp in Norfolk, he had 
 three sons and one daughter, viz. John, his eldest son, /////. Drury of 
 Besthorp, his second son, from whom descended the Drurys of Bes- 
 thorp, (as may be seen at large under Besthorp,) Catharine, married 
 to Sir Henry U Estrange of Hunstanton, and Sir Robert Drury of 
 Halsted, or Hausted Knt. Privy-counsellor to King llenryNll.; his 
 third son, who married Anne, eldest daughter of Sir IVilliani Calthorp, 
 Knt. from whom the Drurys of Ridlesworth are descended, as the 
 i'oUowing pedigree will demonstrate. 
 
 ' There is an exceeding fine pedigree being quoted for wliat is said ; but lia\* 
 
 of this family in Lady Drury's hands, ing no opportunity to make proper ex- 
 
 with all its numerous branches, in which tracts, I could add nothing to this ac- 
 
 the lives and honourable actionsof many count, (which I had collected before,) 
 
 of the family are set forth at large, upon else should not have passed by such an 
 
 good authority, the deeds and records ancient family in such a cursory manner. 
 VOL. I. ' IS n
 
 278 
 
 RIDLESWORTH. 
 
 Sir Robert Drury of Anne, eldest daughter 
 Hausted or HalsiedTof Sir Wm. Calthorp, 
 in Suffolk, Knt. Knt. 
 
 Sir Robert Drury of Egerly in Bucks, second son of 
 Sir Robert Drury of Halsied, presented here as trustee 
 to his son and daughter, and died about 1575 ; he 
 fought a duel with his cousin, Sir William Wood- 
 housc of Waxham, in which both were wounded. 
 
 1, Eli^abeth, re- Sir Drue Drury of Linsted in Kent, Knt. Gen- 2. Katherine, dr, 
 lict of Sir Wm. tleman-Usher of the Privy-Chamber to Queen"]"and heir ofWm. 
 Woodhouse, dr. of Elizabeth, 3d son of Sir. Rob. Drury of Egerly, | Finch of Linstead, 
 SirPhilip Calthorp; died April 29, 1617, aged 99 years, and was Esq. married in 
 she brought a moi- buried hcie; he built Ridlcsworth Hall, and 1582; Wm. her 
 ety of Ridlesworth was the first of this family that settled there, father died 
 tothcDrurys. He was one of the keepers of Mary Queen of 1592. 
 
 Scots before she was beheaded, and sometime 
 Govcrnour of the Tower,' 
 
 Sir Drue Drury, son and heir, Anne, dr. and sole heir of Edw. 
 born Oct. 7, 1588, married 28"'~Waldgrave, Esq. of Lawford in 
 
 June, 1608, created baronet 
 the 7th of May, 1627, died in 
 1632. 
 
 Essex, born i^Sg; she brought 
 the other moiety. 
 
 Sir Drue Drury, 
 Bart, born June 
 17, anno 1611. 
 
 Susannah, dr. of Isaac Jones 
 of London, Merchant, sister 
 
 and coheir to Sir Jones 
 
 of Noithamptonshirc. 
 
 1. Eliz. dr. 2. Eleanor, dr. Sir Rob. Dru- 3. Diana, dr. of The Rev, Mr Wake 
 
 and sole heir' 
 of Ed. Dun- 
 Jtan of Wal- 
 dingfield,Sur- 
 iblk, Esq. 
 
 of Sam. Harsnet 
 of Great Frans- 
 ham, Esq. relict 
 of Wm. Marsh- 
 am of Stratton- 
 Strawless, Gent. 
 
 rv, Bart, died" 
 Apr. 7, 1712, 
 without issue. 
 
 George Vilet, of 
 Pinkeney Hall in 
 Norf. Esq. she is 
 now [1736] liv- 
 ing, and holds 
 the manor and:id- 
 vowsoD for life. 
 
 married a sister of 
 Sir Rob. Drury's, 
 whose SOB, Mr. Wil- 
 liam Wake, after 
 Lady Drury's death, 
 is heir to the estate. 
 
 ' Udall's Histt of Mary Queen of Scots, 8vo. p. 460.
 
 RIDLESWORTII. 279 
 
 Tlie Customs are these : tlie eldest son is heir ; the fine is at ihe 
 lord's will. This m.inor is become very small, the whole town being 
 purchased in, so that there are not above 4 or 5 acres held by co[)y 
 of court roll of it. 
 
 The Leet belongs to the hundred, the ket fee being 2s. and ail 
 liberties belong to the leet, the lords of this manor never claiming 
 any, it not being once named in the returns to the quo wnrrtintoa. 
 The manor pays a rent of 7s. per annum to the Duke of 'Sorfolk, as 
 to his hundred of Gi/llcross : there was a rent of Id. a year paid to 
 the lord of Midle-ller/in^ manor,' of whicli it is held, by the said pay- 
 ment and suitof court, tor which T/io. Sulay/e, ]ou\ of liid/eszeoit/i, in 
 1472, was distrained, as was Sir Drue Druiy, Knt. in 158L», and again in 
 1598, when he had two horses seized for this and other rents, for lands 
 that he held in liidleszaorl/i. 
 
 Here are three houses, and about 30 inhabitants. It paid .3/. 6s. 8d. 
 to the tenths, and is now assessed at 170/. to the land tax [1730.] 
 
 The family sirnamed De Redelesworth, is very ancient, and 
 had a good estate here, and in Gatedhorp, where they were sometime 
 lords; they bore for their coat armour, vert, a bull passant or. Crest, 
 a boar's head cooped sab. an oaken branch in its mouth proper, the 
 acorns or, 
 
 Jeffcrj' de Redelesworth. 
 
 12891 Per, )iis son, had a tenement and 
 lands ol the gift of Rob. de Montealt, lord 
 of the hundred, which he held by knight's 
 service, and3j. ^d. relief. 
 
 '335> Roger de >34«t Peter, son of In 1344, died Wm. son 
 
 Ridiciworth. Peter de Ridlesworth. of Peter de Ridlesworth. 
 
 ■ z^ — r- ■ ^ ■ 
 
 1371, Thomas, son of Peter Bartholomew, son 
 
 de Ridlesworth, lord of Gates- and hctrj no is&uc« 
 
 thorp Westhall, died in \^%%i 
 
 1 _ , 
 
 Jeffery dc Thomas, son of Thomas, died in Margery, his 
 
 Ridlesworth. *433) without issue, leaving his ne- wife, died in 
 
 I phew his heir. *4i5* 
 
 1435, Thomas dc Ridlesworth, in 1438, settled his manor of 
 Wejthall on Sir Wm. Berdewell, and Rob. Berdewell, his son, 
 who inherited about J45O, Agnes and Margaret, sisters of the said 
 Thomas, dying without issue. 
 
 In the Hall there are several family pictures, some of which are 
 much injured, and a curious old painting on board, containing ten 
 persons, each having his arms, or a cipher over his head, and an in- 
 scription at his feet. 
 
 1. Johannes de Lacy, Constable of Chester, and first founder of 
 St. Bennet's abbey, at Stan/owe [in Cheshire.'] 
 
 2. Roger de Lacy, Constable of Chester, the second founder of 
 
 • From Midle-Herling court rolls, in the hands of Richard Gipps, Esq. lord 
 
 tiiere.
 
 280 RIDLESWORTH. 
 
 that abbey ; his arms are, quarterly, or and gul. a bend sab. in chief 
 a label of five az. 
 
 3. John de Lacy Earl o( Lincoln, the third founder; arms, az. 
 three garbs or. 
 
 4. Edmund de Lacy Earl of Lincoln, the fourth founder, az. a 
 lion rampant or. 
 
 5. Henry de Lacy Earl of Lincoln, the fifth founder, who 
 translated or removed the religious of this abbey to Whaky in Lan- 
 cashire; or, a lion rampant g«/. 
 
 0'. St. Thomas Earl of Lawcos/er, son-in-law and heir of Henry de 
 Lacy ; D'Angleterre, lambel de Fraunce. 
 
 7. Henry Grismond Earl of L«wfa«/er, brother and heir of St. 
 T/wmas ; same arms. 
 
 8. Henry the first Duke of Lancaster, son and heir of Henry Earl 
 of Lancaster ; same arms. 
 
 9- John of Gakw^ second Duke of Lancaster, brother-in-law and 
 heir of Henry Duke of Lancaster ; gul. a castle or, (he being King 
 of Caslile,) quartering or, a lion ramp. az. 
 
 10. Henry IV. third Duke of Lancaster, and King of England; 
 arms of England. 
 
 James Earl of Desmond, anno 1600. Mr. Henrye Birde, 
 pieacher, «7ino 1583, ^tat. 66. Spero sed non Spiro. 
 
 Mr. Tho. ALDERSEYjg;//. on a bend mgrailed arg. three leopards 
 faces between two cinquefoils or, a crescent for difference, anno 
 1588, iEt. 66. 
 
 Sir Rob. Drurye, Knighte. Rob. Dhurye, Esq.; Drue 
 Drurye, A° 1556, iEt. 24, Droit et devaunt. 
 
 Sir William Drurye, Lord Cheefe Justice of Irelande, by whom 
 hangs an old plan of Edinburgh castle, and two armies before it, 
 round which is this : " Sir William Drurye, Knt. General of the 
 " Englishe wanne Edenburghe-Castie, J 573." On the picture is 
 this, " Sir \\'illiam Drurye, Knt. Marshall of Barwicke, Lord Gene- 
 " rail of this Jorny, and after Lord President of Munster, and lastly 
 "died Lord Justice oflrland, A° 1579." The crest and arms of 
 Drury without the tau, with fourteen coats, all which are imperfect. 
 
 The arms of the following persons are also most of them imperfect, 
 but their names remain, all which were with the Lord General at the 
 siege : 
 
 Mr. Henry Killigray, ambassadour ; Killegrew's arms ; Sir Geo. 
 Carie, Knt. Sir Tho. Cecill, eldest sonne to the Lord Burly ; Sir 
 Francis Trmhill, Knt.; Sir Henry Lee, Knt.; Mr. Michael Carie; 
 Mr. Henry Carie; Mr. Will. Knowles, after Knight; Mr. Diei/r ; 
 Mr. Cotton; Mr. Tho. Sutton; Mr. Kelwaye ; Sir William Selbye ; 
 -Mr. Tilney ; Sir William Killegray. 
 
 Anne Drury, 1597, iEt. V2. Frances Drury, 1597, iEt. 11. 
 
 Sir Walter Mildmay, Knt. ..Et. 52, 153-- f'irtute non Pi. 
 Sir Francis Russell, Sir Robert Bell, Lord Chief Baron, 
 ^111.41. Lady St. John, 1599. Lady Catharine Countess of 
 Huntington. A picture of one of the Jenny n family on which, crest, 
 u talbol passant collared or, on a torce ar. and sab. 
 
 JiUiMYN, sab. a crescent between two mullets in pale ar. 
 
 RusHBRooK, sab. a fess between three roses or. 
 
 HevemnohaMj with a crescent sab. for difference.
 
 RIDLESWORTH. 281 
 
 Jervill, pally of six, az. and or. 
 GissiNG, as in p. 174. 
 Redsham, ar. semi fleurs-de-lis g«/. 
 Revpes, erm. three chevrons mh. 
 Bo RG o 1 N E, az. a talbot passant, ar. 
 
 BoTESUAM, gal. three birdbolts in less reverted ar. Molto, Nee ah 
 Orienle nee ab Occidentt. 
 Frances Countess of Hartford, 1596. Edward Earl otHarte- 
 
 forde, 1580. , r i <^ r 7 
 
 Peregrine hoxA Willughby oi Ersebye. John Lord iit. John 
 
 of Bletsoe. 
 
 Mr. George Alyngton, En Dim est lout. Crest, on a talbot 
 passant erm. a crescent g«/. 
 
 Allington, sab. a bend ingrailed between six billets ar. impahng 
 Le Neve. 
 
 A man writing these words : De Governoure veut Uracta. 
 A" l601, Mt. 24, and these imperfect verses : 
 
 Sardanapalus ait, pereunt inortalia cuncta, 
 
 Ut crepitu podice disiliens 
 
 Qua pereunt fugiuiitque similima Fumo : 
 
 Aurea quam Nil nisi furaus erunt. 
 
 At mens culta viro, post Funera clarior Extat 
 . . vana volat. 
 
 An Archbishop of Canterbury with this motto, fincit qui patitur^ 
 
 Catherine Lady Drury. Sir Drue Drury, Kut. ^t. 68, 
 
 1599. Droi/t et Devaunt. ,. -r -i 
 
 Sir Drue Drury, that built the house, his wife on one side, a 
 
 lady, daughter of Lovelt, on the other side ; his arms on the house 
 
 tire, 
 
 Drury, with the tau, quartering 
 
 Finch, ar. a chevron between tliree griffins passant sab. and 
 Waldegrave, with a mullet m6. impaling Dcrham, quartering 
 Gul. a chevron vair sab. and arg. between three crowns ot the 
 
 second. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Teter ; it hath a square tower 
 and one bell ; the nave and south porch are thatched, the chance 
 tiled. Li 1474, Thomas Nehk of this town held three acres freehold 
 of Midle-Ihrling manor, to the use of this parish, to repair the 
 church for ever. i r 1 1 i 
 
 In the chancel, against the south wall, is an altar tomb ot black 
 and white marble, on which is this inscription : 
 
 Memorise Sacra? ROBERTl DKURY, BARONETTI, Filij 
 DRUGOiNlS DUURY, BAROKETTI, aniiqua Piosapia ori- 
 undi, mullis Reiro Sa^culis prasclaia Ingcnij Dotibus ornati 
 Poliliore Literatura imbuii, Trcs Duxit uxorcs, |e't'|^ i"!' 
 DIANA, FiiiaGEURGlJ VILtT, de Pinkney-Hall in Comi- 
 mitutu iNorfolcia: Armigeri, Quae Pietale veifi, et Amore con- 
 jugali, hoc Monumenlum posuit, obijt Vegessimo bepiimo Uie 
 Apiilis, Anno Domini 171iJ, iElatis su» 7^°V-/ 
 Crest, a grayhound currant ; Drury impaling I ikt. 
 * LeNeve, vol.ii. p. 34
 
 ^92 RIDLESWORTIL 
 
 On two flat marbles at the altar, 
 
 Dniri/'s arms and crest, as before impaling Ilarsnct. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Dame ELINOR DllURY, G'' Daugh- 
 ter of Sam: Harsiict oi' Great Franshum in Norfolk, Esq; the 
 Relict of JI'UI: Marslutin of Siratton-Straiclei/, Geni. the second 
 Wife of .§ir fiobcrt ^rurn of Ridlesworth in the County of Norfl'. 
 Bart, who was unfortunately kiii'd in the fatal Hurricane, Nov. 
 the a?"" in the Year of our Lord, 1703.' 
 
 Fisher's arms in a lozenge, viz. gul. on a chief erm. a dolphin 
 cmbowed or. 
 
 In Memory of the pious and virtuous Mrs. MARY FISHER, 
 whose Soul took her Flight to Heaven in the furious Hurricane, 
 on Nov. the 27'"' 1703 : This Monument of Respect is dedicated, 
 by her true and faithfull Lover ANTHONY DRURY, of 
 
 Mendham in Norfolk, Gent:'' 
 
 Lower down in the chancel lies a marble, for 
 
 THOMAS BARNES, late Minister of this Parish, who died 
 Oct. 29, 1713, aged 74. " He was a Person of a just, loyal, 
 " charitable, friendly, and quiet Disposition, for which, by his 
 " Life Time, he was universally beloved, and at his Death 
 " equally lamented." ' 
 
 In the east chancel window. 
 
 Crest, on a torce or and gul. a demi talbot arg. Gul. two lions 
 passant arg. quartering 
 
 Gul. a cross moline arg. the lions surmounted with a bend or^ 
 charged with three annulets sab. 
 
 There is a hatchment with the arms of 
 
 Drury quartering 
 
 Ilnrsnet, az. two bars dancette erm. between si.x croslets or, and 
 
 Marsham, arg. crusuly fitche sab. a lion passant gul. between two 
 bendlels az. eac-li charged with three croslets or. 
 
 Against the north chancel wall is a fine monument for Sir Drue 
 Druri), whose effigies is in armour in a kneeling posture, under a 
 canopy supported by two angels ; a book lies on a desk before him ; 
 the monument being adorned with the following arms. 
 
 Driiri/'s crest, a grayhound currant arg. collared or, and Drury 
 and his quarterings, viz. 
 
 \. Arg, a chief indented, and six croslets fitche, 3, 2, \,az. 
 
 2. Sab. six cinquefoils arg. 3, 2, 1, pierced of the field. 
 
 3. Chequy arg. and gul. on a fess az. three round buckles or. 
 
 4. Arg. a chevron gul. between three caps of maintenance az. 
 A coat of pretence of Finch, with a crescent or. 
 
 Drury impales Calthoip and ff aldegrave with a mullet. 
 
 •' Le Neve, vol. ii. p. 202. killed as they laid together in bed, by a 
 
 * Ibidem. These two ladies were fall of a stack of chimneys. 
 
 ' Le Neve, vol ii. p. 254,
 
 RIDLESWORTH. 283 
 
 Winssfield. 
 
 Deane, sab. a fess erm. between three white roses. 
 Botler, gul. ;i fess cliequy arg. and sab. between six croslets sal). 
 These three h>st impaling Drury. 
 
 Condignae Fanias & Memoria; sacrum, nobilis et ilhistris Viri 
 DKUGONIS DRURY, Milltis, l-ilij ievU], Rolxrti Dmrij de 
 Egerh/ in Comitatu Buckingham, Pilij secundi Robcrii Dniri/ 
 de Hasted in Comitatu Siijjolke, Miiitum, Rcgiiia; ELIZA- 
 30X11^11 a prinio Regni Anno, solius Silentiarij, Deinde 
 JAC0130 Regi nostro, & Anno Ijfjf), Pra!sidis Tunis Londi- 
 neusis, {Annoi nonaginta Novem, summa cum Laude, et Intc- 
 
 fritate complevit) bis Conjugio conncxi, primo Dominai Eliza: 
 Voodhouse Filia; Phil/ippi Ca/tkoi-p, Militis, sccundo, Kalha- 
 riuie Finch Filiae & Hajredi Gul/clmi Finch de Linstcd in Com: 
 Cant: Ax: per secnndaui uxorem relict8e,'DRUGO DRURY, 
 unicus Filius ejus, Uxorem duxil Annam yElate primam, et 
 unam ex Cohaeredibus Fdzvardi IVa/dgraie de Lazvford in 
 Comitatu Essex, Annig: Elizabetha prima ejus Filia, nupta fuit 
 venerabili Thoma; JVingefield ^i\V\U,de Levering/iam in Comitatu 
 Suffolke, Anna Filia secunda, Johanni Deaue de Deane Aula 
 Comitat: Essex prcedicto, ct Frauccsca Filia tertia, Roberto Bot- 
 Ur de Woodhall in Comitat: IlcHj'ovd: Militibus, ipse DRUGO 
 DRURY Miles prtcclarus, singuluii Integritate, Pietate, Virtute, 
 (et nulli in Terris interior) Charitate, pra^cipue praicellens, apud 
 Riddlesreorth in Comitatu Noifolke, 29 Aprilis l6l7. Mortem 
 [obijt.]* 
 
 On an altar tomb against the north wall, 
 
 Reponuntur hie Rehquiae, DRUG ON IS DRURII, primi 
 hujus Famiiia! Baronetti, Filij et Ha?redis DRUGONIS 
 DRURII Equitis Aurali, qui post 24' Connubij siii cum Anna 
 Waldegruve prajdiiecta sua Uxore evolutos soles, Triplici (ex 
 octo Isatis) tencra et in Minoritate, multie tamen plena Spei 
 superslite sobole, Drugone, Gulielmo, St Catherina, in 44'° Peri- 
 grinationis sua; Anno, ex liac Miseriarum Eremo, 1(),02, in 
 Ccelcstcm migravit Patriam, mulliplici quin & Candida, Mundo 
 Aniicisque valde lugentibus, relicta t'ama, magntc sua; crga Ueum 
 veramque Religionem Pietatis, assidua; et laboriosas pro Repub- 
 hca Cura;, ac integerrima: versus Amicos, interiores j)ra;serlim 
 ac vicinos, Fidelitatis.' 
 
 There is a hatchment over the north church door, with this coat : 
 
 Atwood, gul. a lion ramp. arg. in an orle of acorns or. 
 
 EX FUNERE ylTA. 
 
 Hie jacet RICARDUS ATTJVOOD, A.M. Vir doctus, 
 beneficusj plus, in Rebus ludicris egregie lepidus fuit et Elcgans 
 in Serijs perspicax valde et acutus. Totum fere Tempus opti- 
 inarum Literarum Studijs, lloras verc succisivas, sa^piuscule 
 Pisciculis captandis absumpsit, Ita in >icgotio laudandus erat 
 
 ♦ Le tieve, vol. i. p. 59, ' Ibidem, p. 140.
 
 ^4 
 
 RUSHVVORTH. 
 
 maxiino, in Otio minime culpandus. Aula; Pemhrochiaiia socins 
 fuit senior, Academiae Cantabrigiemis Beilel/us Aimigor, Ulri- 
 Hscjuc Grande Decus et Ornanientum ; Febie coireplus vehe- 
 nienli, noii sine incjenli omnium, quibus familiariter usiis est, 
 luctu, sedale placideque extremum Halitum in hoc Pago efflavit, 
 INIaij 3, 1734, ^Etalis 56. 
 
 Juxta liumatur Frater ejus GULIF.LMUS JTTIVOOD. 
 Mercalor Indiae Occidentalis, QuiTerra Marique, Multa passus, 
 in Tuto jam a Malis requiescit, obijt Oct: 17, 1730, iEtatis 57. 
 
 Et prope Jacent quoque, RICA RDUS, GULIKLMI, 
 Filius, qui obijt Apr: 1, n'23,el MARIJ Filia, quas ob: Sept: 
 19, 1727. 
 
 RUSH WORTH, 
 
 Ob the place abounding with rushes, (for so I take the name to sig- 
 nify,) was, in King EdziarcTs days, one league and a half long, and 
 one mile broad, and paid 1 id. ob. geldf' at the survey the abbey of 
 lily had a carucate of land then worth 205. but was sunk to 85. value 
 at the second, when it was held by John, nephew of Walerum ,' and 
 after, of the Earl of Glocester, at a quarter of a fee, by the heirs of 
 Bartholomew de Beamont, who in some records (by mistake) is called 
 Breaniysson ; but in Henry the Third's time, this part was in Nicholas 
 de Goniyle, whose son and heir John de Gonvile in King Edward the 
 First's reign, paid x.s. relief for it to the Earl of Gloucester, from 
 which time it continued in that family, joined to the head manor, till 
 the foundation of the college, on which it was settled ; and when the 
 head manor came to the college, was joined to it again, and so hath 
 continued ever since. This part was some time called Bo/dam's 
 manor, and seems to lie on Stiff o/k side, except a part of it, which was 
 in Shadwell. 
 
 At the first survey one Uluric had 60 acres here, which he held of the 
 abbey, all which he forfeited to the Conqueror by not paying 8/. that 
 he had forfeited to that King, who gave it to John, nephew of H'alerum 
 
 * Terre Ulchetelli Hund. Gillecross. 
 ^fol. 288.) Ill Rusceuuorda ii. car. 
 lerre tenuit Biindo liber homo T. R. E. 
 semper vi. viUani et i. bor. et i. serv. 
 et xii. acr. prati, et ii. car. in doniinio, 
 tunc ii. car. horn, modo i. et alia posset 
 restaurari. et i. liber homo xiiii. acr. 
 terre, quern revocat Uc dono Regis, 
 senip. i. car. modo c. oves et lii. ca- 
 prae et vii. pore, et totiim valet w.s. et 
 habet i. leiig. et dim. in longo, et iiii. 
 quarter in lato. Quicunque ibi teneat. 
 
 et iCt.d. et i. obol. de Gelto. Soc. de 
 libero homine i.'i Keninchala. 
 
 ' Terra Sancte Adeldrede Gildecross 
 Hund. (fol. 187.) In Riseurda i. car. 
 terre et dim. ten. bancta Adcldreda 
 sei.ipcr iii. villan. i. serv. viii. acr. 
 prati, tunc ii. car. modo null, sed possit 
 restaurari. tunc. dim. car. honi. modo 
 i. bov. et i. soc. ii. acr. tunc, valuit 
 xx.i. mo. viii. hoc tenet Johannes 
 nepos Walerami.
 
 RUSIIWORTH. 
 
 28j 
 
 aforesaid,* from whom it came to Roger Bigot, who gave it to the 
 monks of Tlictford, together witli (Juiiner ot'liidksn'orth and his landj 
 when lie founded that monastery," '"" 
 
 Of 
 
 THE CAPITAL MANOR, 
 
 JRumlowas the first lord that I meet with, and then Ulkelel; after- 
 wards it came to the Earls IVanen, from them to tlie liaidolplDi, who 
 held it by the service of half a fee of the caslle at Acre; from the 
 Bai(lo/p/is it came to the Ler/iiigs, and was held by them, by the 
 same service, as belonging to the llardolphi honour of IVormegni/. 
 
 Sir Ralf de Lerling, Knt. lord and pairon of Lcrling, Rushworth, and Newton 
 in Cambridgeshire, 
 
 John dc Lerling. 
 
 1267, Will, son of lohn. 
 
 , I 
 
 Rair, son of William. 
 
 I 
 
 1303, Edmund dc Lcr- 
 ling, rector here. 
 
 «2i8, Sir Richard de Lerling purchased a moiety of 
 Lcrling advowson of Richard dc Denevere, and in 
 1252, had free- warren allowed him, in all his lands 
 in the aforesaid towns, and in Fouldon and Pagravc. 
 
 1280, Will, de Lerling, rector of Lcrling, made divers 
 grants of lands in Rushworth and Lcrling to his sons.' 
 
 W^ill. de Lerii 
 
 ng. 
 
 Richard dc Lerling. Robert dc Lcrling. 
 
 Maud de Lerling, the heir general of the family, (but whose daughter 
 e was 1 do not find,) married William dc Gonvilc, and carried the 
 
 she 
 
 estate to that family. 
 
 * (Fol. 1S9.) In Riseurda Ulurlciis 
 liber homo Ix. acr. T. R. K. iiii. acr. 
 prati tunc 1. car. Socam Kcninghala 
 June valiiit x.s. m°v. hie Ultiriciis Foris- 
 factiis fiilt erga Regem Willum. dc viii. 
 lib. ct idco rcinanbit in maiiii Regis, hoc 
 etiam tenet idem de Abbate. (sc. Joliaii- 
 ncs nepos Waleranii.) 
 
 ^ The original deed in the hands of 
 Hcni7 Smith, Gent, of Haiitboys-Magna 
 in Norf. A" 1734. Roger Bigot gave 
 " GiinneriumdeKedessacum tota terra 
 " sua, et terrulam quam tenebat in Ris- 
 " seworda dc Abbate Elicnsi." 
 
 ■ Coll.Ep. Asaph. Libr, Appleton 67. 
 
 VOL. 1. 
 
 Oo
 
 €86 
 
 RUSHWORTH. 
 
 Nicholas de Goovyle, Gimcvylc, or Gonvilc, lived in the reign of 
 King Henry III. 
 
 John de Gonvile, his son, in the time of King Edward I. 
 
 Wm. de Gonvilc, his son, in 1285, had 
 the King's protection, being summoned 
 to go into France with him, to join 
 the French King against the King of 
 Arragon. 
 
 Matild, or Maud, 
 his wife, heiress 
 of the Lcrlings, 
 married in 1304. 
 
 Wm. de Gon- 
 vile, rector of 
 Thclvetham, 
 resigned it A° 
 
 1350,14 May, 
 Edmund de 
 Gonvile, a sha- 
 veling, insti- 
 tuted toThel- 
 vctham, on his 
 brother's re- 
 signation. 
 
 Sir Nicholas dc 
 Gonvile, Knt. 
 brother & heir 
 to Sir £dm. dc 
 
 Gonvile, the 
 
 founder. 
 
 John Gonvile, 
 Esq. son of Sir 
 Nicholas, paid x.j. relief for 
 his manor in Schadwell and 
 Rushworth, of his own inhe- 
 ritance, to the Earl of Glouces- 
 ter, and X.J. for Rushworth 
 manor, which was of his 
 grandmother's inheritance. 
 
 Sir Edmund Gonvile, pridst, founder 
 of Rushworth College, of Gonvile 
 Hall in Cambridge, and (as some say) 
 of the friari preachers in Thetford, 
 and of St. John's Hospital at Lynn; 
 he was first rector of Thelvetham, or 
 Feltam, in Suffolk, instituted Decem- 
 ber the 4th, 1320, by Adam dc Ty- 
 ryngtone, rector of Hopton, his proxy, 
 he being then in priest's orders; he 
 resigned this for Rushworth rectory 
 in 1326, and after he had established 
 it a collegiate church, m 1342, he was 
 instituted to Terryngton, of which he 
 died rector in 1350. 
 
 Edm. Gonvile, Esq. son 
 and heir of Sir John. 
 
 John Gnnvile, presented by liis father 
 to Lerling in 1344, and resigned it for 
 East-Herling in 1349, which he also 
 resigned in 1357. 
 ^ 
 
 John Gonvile, ESq. 
 son and heir in 
 1402. 
 
 r' 
 
 Eliz. dr. of Sir John 
 Jarnegaii of Somerly, 
 in Suffolk, Knt. 
 
 Sir Rob. Herling, 
 Knt. married 
 
 y. 
 
 J or Jane, heiress 
 
 general of Gonvilc. 
 
 ». Sir Wm. Cham- 2, Sir Rob. Anne, their only dr. and 3. John Lord Scroop of 
 
 berlain,Knt. of the Wyngficld, heiress, Lady Scroop, iiolion, by his will dated 
 
 Garter, buried Knt. A° 1500, buried with her 1434, at Easi-Hcrling, or- 
 
 ■with his wife under first husband, married to dered. if lie died in Nor- 
 
 thc arched tomb in Lord Scroop in 1492, a folk, (as he did, viz. 12 of 
 
 East-Hcrling chan- gr<;at benefactress to this July, 1494, at Herling) to 
 
 eel. college. be buried in the Black 
 
 Friars at Thetford. 
 
 In 1470, this lady procured license for the master and fellows to 
 receive 40 marks per annum, in mortmain, upon which she and her 
 trustees. Sir John Hevenynghani and Sir William Calthoip, Knts. 
 William BerdeweU, jun. Esq. and lieu. Spilmau, settled her manors 
 oi Rushworth and Ltrling, then valued at 20/. a year, in part of the 
 said sum of 40 marks, and thenceforward tiiey continued in the col- 
 lege till its dissolution, and then passed with it to the Earl of Surrej/, 
 as you will see in the account of the college. 
 
 There was another manor or capital messuage, consisting of 200 
 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, 2t)s. rent, a fold-course and separate
 
 RUSH WORTH. 287 
 
 fishery, in this town, and in Brettenfiam, Brulgcham, antl Thct- 
 ford, held al lialf a fee of the hoiioiu- of Clare, by William de Ihet- 
 tcitham, and John de liiolcedisli, in 1'297, and by livl/. Bai/giwrd and 
 oUieis, in 13,'3.'5, and by If il/i/ini de lireltctiham, Simon Filz, and 
 Rich. Bai/gnard, in 13<J8. In J411, the 8tli of Mai/, King Henry iV . 
 licensed llngh Sloppmli/ to gr;int ilic whole in mortmain, to the Prior 
 of the monks at Thclfoid, on condition that the King should be paid 
 50.S. every vacancy. 
 
 In 14.59, it was held of liohcrt Jiai/gnard, who held it of /Jrine, 
 wife oi' Edmnnd Earl of March, as lA' Clare honour; it went with that 
 house, at its dissolution, to the Norfolks, and at the Duke's attainder, 
 fell to the Crown. In 1591, Queen Elizabeth granted to IVilliam 
 Tipper, and Rob. Daroe, and their heirs, all the manor, fishery, lands, 
 faldages, Sec. in Riishworlh, Thetford, and Gatesthorp, in Nojfolk 
 and Suffolk, which late belonged to the monks at Thetford, to be held 
 by the rent of 2s. per annum, of her manor of East Greenwich, in 
 socage^ and not in capite ; and soon after it was joined to Rmhworth 
 manor, with which it novi' remains. 
 
 As to the separate fishery belonging to it, that laid in Scliadtwelt ,^ 
 (which is a hamlet to Rushwurlh,) and extended from Schruhzcell 
 Mill, to Berdezi'ell's Mill, in Jlerling-Thorp, on the south side of the 
 river, and had liberty of a boat, and a pool, or wear; towards the 
 latter end of the twelfth century, Philip de SchadcKell, who lived by 
 the river, owned it; in 1362, Jdani de Schadezeell conveyed it to 
 William de Rothi/ng, parson of Wcst-Ucrling, Hen. de Eolhijng, and 
 Cff//y his wife, and their heirs, by the Ucime of East- Fen Eisheri/ ; 
 they were to hold it in as free a manner as Joh)i de Schadezeell h'lfi 
 father held it; and at the same time Agnes, widows of Philip de 
 Schadezeell, lekwaed her right in it; in \S99, James de Brettenham 
 had it, and sold it to Tho. Gardiner, clerk, and in 1411, it was con- 
 veyed to Thetford priory, as aforesaid.' 
 
 in 12J2, the Abbot of JValtham in Essex had lands here, and in 
 Seaming and Gej/st, in all which he had free-warren allowed him, 
 for w liich he paid a rent of \2d. a year to Gonvile's manor. 
 
 Rnshzcorlh was a rectory, and so continued till Sir Edmund Gone- 
 ri/le, or Gonvile, who was both patron and rector, founded a college 
 for a castas, or master, and five chaplains, who were brethren, or fel- 
 lows, and were to elect their master, and present him at Lerling, to 
 the founder's heirs, who, if they were there, were to present him to 
 the Bishop, and not otherwise, after which he was to be installed, by 
 mandate to the archdeacon. Upon this foundation the church was 
 appropriated to the college, and no vicar endowed, because the cure 
 of the parish was wholly laid upon the master; and each of them 
 paid 8 marks first firuits at their installation ; at the Dissolution it 
 was granted to be held in the same manner, as the master held it, so 
 that it hath been served ever since by a stipendiary curate, nominated 
 by the impropriator, who, in 160.S, is returned in the Ansycers of the 
 Parsons, lo receive 15/. a year of the proprietary for his stipend, Tho. 
 
 ^ This liamlct is so called from a well now lord, built a neat box, rt'hich he 
 
 or spring wliicli rises among the trees on hath named Schadwcll Lodge. 
 
 the hill side, it being plainly the Shady- ^ From the Register of Tlietford 
 
 Well. In this hamlet John Buxton, Priory. 
 Esq. father of Robert Buxton, Esq.
 
 288 RUSH WORTH. 
 
 JVo/f, clerk, being then cmatc, there being then 66 communicants in 
 the parish, and now [1736] there are 7 or S houses, and about 60 in- 
 habitants. 
 
 The cliurch of St. John the Evaiigelht had a chapel, dedicated to 
 our Ladtf, on its north side, which is now down. 
 
 RECTORS AND MASTERS oi^ the COLLEGE. 
 
 1301, 10 kal. Feb. John de Bulcen/iam was presented. 
 1303, prid. kah Ju/j/, Edmund dc Ler/ing, accolite. Matild or 
 Maud de Lerling. 
 
 IS20, prid. id. Mar. Will, de CuUhorp, accolite. Sir Nicholas 
 
 DK GUNEVYLE, Knt. 
 
 1326,5 id. Oc/ob. Sir Edmund de Gunetyle, priest, on Calthorp's 
 resignation, who exchanged this for Thehetham. Nicholas Gon- 
 viLE, Knt. patron. This Sir Edmund, while he was rector, perfected 
 his foundation, which he is said to have designed as a seminary for 
 Gonvile Hall in Cambridge; he was the last rector, and had quitted 
 this church before Jan. 20, 1342, for then he was instituted into 
 Tyrington, John Pozcl, chaplain, being his proxy, at the presentation 
 of Simon Bishop of Ely, where he died rector in 1350, having nomi- 
 nated 
 
 John Godicyh, first Master of this College, who resigned in 
 
 1349, 18 ?i/ot'. and Nicholas de JVrolham, priest, fellow of the 
 college of St. John the Evangelist, was elected by the fellows, and 
 presented by Sir Edmund de Gonvile, priest, their patron and 
 fonnder, and installed accordingl}'. He resigned, and in 
 
 1351, 17 Not. Hugh Herbert, chaplain and fellow, was elected 
 master, and presented by Sir John de Gonvile, parson of £asN 
 Herling, and Edmund his brother, who were patrons. He was suc- 
 ceeded by 
 
 Tho. de Watton, who resigned, and in 
 
 1364, 2 May, Tho. Heyward (or Hozcard) of Rickinghall, late 
 fellow, was elected with the consent of Edmund Gonvile, their 
 patron. He resigned, and in 
 
 1371, 21 Jan. Sir Tho. Le-Mey was elected by the Fellows, who 
 had no presentation, the Gonviks being not resident at Lerling : the 
 fellows' election was returned to the Bishop, and the mandate made 
 out upon it; at every admission the master was sworn by the Bishop 
 to observe the statutes, to alienate nothing, to make no new feoft- 
 ments, not to mortgage nor pawn any thing belonging to the college, 
 whether moveable or immoveable, without the consent of every 
 member. 
 
 1374, 19 July, Rob. de Asshek, priest, fellow tli ere, elected on 
 Ij€-Mey's resignation. 
 
 1376, 10 Octob. Rob. de Wrotham, fellow, elected master. 
 
 1381, Rob. Carter* of Asshek, chaplain and fellow , elected master. 
 
 1385, 25 Jutte, Alexander The/i/k, priest, late fellow, obtained 
 license from Pope Gregory XU. dated June 3, 1409, that one bene- 
 fice more with cure of souls, might be appropriated to the mastership, 
 and that he might hold it with the mastership ; but if any master holds 
 
 ♦ The same Robert who was master A" 1374.
 
 RUSH WORTH. 289 
 
 a. benefice with his mastership, before one be appropriated to it, he 
 shall not receive his stipend of 50s. per annum, over and above tlie 
 benefit of tlie church of Riishworth, as lie usually tlid before this 
 license. The petition to obtain this sets forth; that the college was 
 founded by Sir Edmund Gunvi/le, late rector, the rectory being turned 
 into a collegiate church, for a custos, or master, and five brethren 
 chaplains, to pray for him, his ancestors, successours, and benefac- 
 tors, which master was to have the cure of souls, and the benefit ot 
 the church there, and that he designed to endow it much better, but 
 died in the meantime. The Bishop consented to this license, and in 
 1414, this. J leiHindtr was presented to the rectory of Lerling by the 
 fellows, and held it with liis mastership to his death ; yet notwith- 
 standing the Pope's bull, and the King's license upon it, they could 
 never get their rectory of Lerling appiopriated to them, as they 
 designed. 
 
 142\, Edmund Cooper e\ecle(l. 
 
 143G, l(i Juli/, Tho. Sigo, fellow, elected on Coo/>e/'s resignation, 
 byTno. Halyday and Kou. Fen, fellows. 
 
 1443, 13 ./«/j/, RoO. Crash, chaplain. 
 
 1443, '27 Sept. Crash resigned, John JVurli/eh, priest, elected. • 
 
 1444, C9 Jpri/, he resigned, and Edmund' Coupen, bachelor of the 
 decrees of St. John's College, Cambridge, was elected, (the same man, 
 I take it, that resigned in 1436.) 
 
 144G, 9 June, Ralph Beaut ord, on Coupere's resignation. 
 
 1450, at Beauford's death, Lawrence Gerard, priest, elected. 
 
 Tliese last five, were elected by Tho. Halyday, J. Kaye, and 
 John Barker, chaplains and fellows. 
 
 1472, 27 Feb. Gerard resigned, and Hen. Costesci/ was chosen. 
 Will. Halyday and John Maynakd, fellows. This Costesei/, 
 Cosse, or Cossa, was also rector of Banhani and // ilbj/, of all which 
 be died possessed in 
 
 1483, in which year, Aug. \8, John Zw/ZmrtH, priest, was elected, 
 by Halyday, Maynard, and John Kellynu, fellows. 
 
 1488, BuliHun resigned, and they elected John Bandijs, A. M. 
 
 1508, John Brennei/s (or Bandi/s) died, and 
 
 John Puipeti, fellow, was chosen master. 
 
 1526, 2e Jug. the Bishop collated Eduard Anson, priest, to a fel- 
 lowship, it having been void above si.\ months. 
 
 15'29, 17 Jul/, George IVindham, A. M. archdeacon of Norzach, 
 was elected master, at I'urpett's resignation, who was the last master, 
 it being dissolved in his time; he continued archdeacon till 1543. 
 
 The site of this college, with all its revenues thereto belonging, 
 sc. the impropriation, college manor in Rushicorlh, Lerling manor 
 and advowson, and a manor in Elden in Sufolh, were granted to 
 the Larl of Surret/, to be held in capiie by Knight's service. In 1545, 
 IJenn/ liarl of Surrei/, by the King's license, aliened a manor in 
 Elvedeu, and two manors in Ruslncorlh, one in Huffolh, and the 
 other in Norfolk, together with the site of the college, and the 
 impropriate rectory, with the other revenues of that college, in 
 Fuhenham, Thetford, fVeston, and Schadeuell, to 77,o/««s Duke ot 
 l^orfolk, by whose attainder thev fell again to the Crown, where 
 they continued till King Edward VI. in 1550, granted Rushuorth
 
 et)T> RUSH WORTH. 
 
 ■manors and rectory to Sir John Chehe, Knt. and his heirs, who, in 
 15J'2, let thciii tor '20 years to George Alijitglon of Stoke by dure 
 in SiiO'olk, Gent, who had married his sister. In 15.37, Sir Rich. 
 Fti/mersloii, had the manor lale the college's : in 1570, the Earl of 
 Siirrej/ had the manor \Mc Fii/inerslons ; in l6(X), the rectory and 
 site of the college, &,c. was gianted to Lord Howard of ll'aldeii, who 
 had license, in ItiOl, to sell it to Rob. Buxton, on whom the whole 
 was settled by fine, and at this time it continues in his fiimily, Rob. 
 Buxton, Esq. being now owner of both the manors and impropria- 
 tion (of whose family I shall treat under Tibbcnham.) 
 
 There are a rank of ten or eleven tumuli, or mounts of earth, in 
 the field between Rusbford, Eitston, Liarnham, and Thetford, where 
 (I verily believe) was fought that dreadful battle between King Ed- 
 mund unA the Danes, in the year 871.' 
 
 This indeed seems very true, for in the Abbreviation of the Life of 
 King Edmund, in Register Curtei/s,^ fol. 21.1, we find this account : 
 In the ]jth year of King Edmund's reign, the Dunes vMwe again to 
 Ensl England, to revenge themselves further of the Kin;;;, at which 
 time they burnt the monasteries of C;-o//a«f/, TAornfj/, I'etcrburgh, 
 Ratnsej/, Seham, and E/i/, with most of the religious in them, and 
 from thence passed through the country from west to north, .seizing 
 and spoiling all they could, Ubba staying to guard their spoils, and 
 w hat they had taken, at or near Eli/ : Iiigicar with his army entered 
 East England, and went to a city of King Edmund's, called Tlieod- 
 ford,'' where he encamped, and entered soon after, and burnt it, 
 killing old and young, and ravishing both virgins and matrons; King 
 Edmund, who was then at i'g/fsf/o;, "received a message from Ingicar, 
 that if he would renounce Christianity, and worshi|) his idols, then 
 they would divide the treasure with him, together with his kingdom ; 
 as soon as King Edmund received this message, he marched with his 
 arm\' against tiic enemies, and engaged not far off from Theodf'ord, 
 ivherc they fought sharply from morning until evening, a great 
 number being slain on holli sides, for which King Edmund was much 
 grieved, as well for tlie pagans deaths, as for those martyrs of his 
 iumy, who died there in defence of their Faith ; on the morrow the 
 Danes departed, and the King, with what remained of his army, re- 
 turned to Eglesdune, resolving nevermore to fight against the pagans, 
 but if it was necessary, to yield up himself a sacrifice for the people, 
 and for the Faith of Christ. Ingzear, much vexed for the loss of his 
 men, went again toTheodford, where Ubba came to him with 10,000 
 men, and joining forces, went to Eglesdune, and there martyred the 
 King, in the year of our lord 871, of his age 29, and of his reign 15. 
 
 At this time, without doubt, was that large mount and ramparts, 
 called Thetford Hill, raised by the Danes, in which they encamped ; 
 for its being round is a plain demonstration it is a Danish work, 
 raised to that height, in all appearance, to command the opposite 
 hill, on which Kiug Edmund's army then lay, on the extremity of 
 which, some of these tumuli arc placed. The most remarkable one is 
 called Tut Hill, under these the bodies of the slain were buried, it 
 being usual, iu these days, to heap the slain upon the earth, and raise 
 
 ' Coll. T.M. ' Thetford. 
 
 * In the hands of Sir Edm. Bacon, ' Now Hoxon in Suffolk. 
 Bart, of Gurboldesliam.
 
 RUSHWORTH. 291 
 
 hills over the heaps, that being more likely to continue their memory, 
 than interring them in a pit or grave level vvitii the earth's surface; 
 and usually where any coniniander or great men were laid, they 
 raised the hill over them to a larger size than ordinary, which might 
 be the reason ot this hill's being bigger than the rest. 
 
 The College revenues at its dissolution were valued at 85l.15s. 
 It had a manor, and the impropriate rectory,' and 102 acres of land 
 in liasliworlh, a manor in ElvcclcJi, and Le/7mi;' advowson,' and other 
 tenements of their founder's gift, who built them a college, on the 
 south side of the churchyard, with a dormitory, refectory, chapel, 
 and other convenient oflices, part of which are still standing, and 
 others are in ruins. About l.'!()2, the master obtained license in 
 mortmain,^ for Peter Frost, Robert -liskele, Tho. Smetheson, and Rob. 
 Fullere,^ to settle a messuage and a carucate of land, (JO acres of 
 pasture, As. rent, and the rent of a pound of cinnamon, on his col- 
 lege ; and at the same time Roger Cornwai/le, Adam Foxle, and Tho. 
 Bray, were licensed to settle two messuages, a carucate of land, 60 
 acres of pasture, and 4s. rent in Elveden, aforesaid, and the said Peter 
 and Will, de Shelton, and Tho. Bade, settled a toft in Rushworth on 
 the college, and Peter and Tho. Fullere, 3 tofts and 24 acres of land 
 there ; Rob. IVortham, John Beiihale, and Tho. Fullere, by the same 
 license, settled a toft and 60 acres in Brethenham ; and in 1470, the 
 lady Anne IVing field, by the consent of Sir Rob. IVing field, her se- 
 cond husband, settled in mortmain, her manors of Rushzvorth and 
 Lerling, called Gonviles manors. This was the chief of its endow- 
 ment, though it had other lands and tenements in Thetford, Faken-r 
 ham in Suffolk, JVest-Herling, and JVeiton. It was governed by sta- 
 tutes, confirmed by Tho. Piereij Bishop of Norivich in his visitation, 
 the heads of which, as they shew the state of the college, it will not 
 be amiss to insert. 
 
 The college had a master or custos, and five brethren or fellows, 
 who were to obey their master in all things lawful, the master to 
 have the cure of the parish, and all of them were to pra^^ for the souls 
 of Sir Edmund (ionvileiheiv founder, and of alibis ancestors, succes- 
 sours, and benefactors, every day, and to say such daily masses and 
 collects as are therein ordered, and to keep the founder's anniversary, 
 in a particular manner, all which would be to no purpose to enlarge 
 upon ; as the revenues increase, the number to increase, and ever}' 
 new fellow to have 10 marks per annum at least, and neither the 
 master nor fellows to be removed, unless for such crimes as would 
 remove a rector; they are all to sleep in one room, and to eat in 
 common together, unless in sickness; the master to receive a stipend 
 of 50s. a year, and each fellow 30s. (over and above their other sti- 
 pend.) The master to be elected by the fellows ; if he be one of the 
 college, the nnijorily is suthcient ; but if he be not, then there must be 
 two parts of the fellows, and if the votes be equal, and two chosen, 
 
 ' The rectory was taxed at 8 marks &c. in Elveden, which they had of the 
 
 according to tlie Lincoln taxation, and feolTment of William de Lerlinc;, it being 
 
 after its impropriation, paid according to the whole they had there, except the 
 
 that valuation to tlie Bishop, at every manor and oihcr revenues settled on 
 
 vacancy of the mastership. Rushworth colle^je. 
 
 ' In 1354, John and Edmund deGon- ^ Mon. Ang. torn. lii. 123. 
 
 vile, granted to Master Walter de Stanes ^ f^\\ members of this college, 
 of Elveden, all their lands, tenements,
 
 2!)'2 RUSH WORTH. 
 
 the Bishop is to choose which he pleases; every master thus elected, 
 before he be confirmed by the Bishop, must go to the manor of 
 I.cr/iiig, and present himself to the founder's heirs, if they be there, 
 and if not, he may go to the Bishop, who is to confirm hiin ; and if 
 they do not choose in three months after a vacancy, it lapses to the 
 Bishop, who must collate one of that college. In every vacancy the 
 fellows are to choose one of themselves, to look after tlie college 
 affairs, who is to account to the next master; the fellows to choose 
 the fellows, and each fellowship void above six montlis lapses to the 
 Bishop ; every fellow that leaves the college shall leave half his goods 
 to it, and at their admission, shall swear obedience to their master, 
 and to promote their college ; the fellows were obliged to constant 
 residence, and could not he one night out of the college, without their 
 master's leave ; the master was at hill liberty as to his residence, but 
 could not have any of his own family admitted to any oflice in the 
 college, without the consent of the majority of the fellows; the col- 
 lege to have a common seal, which, with the evidences a!id treasure, 
 shall always be kept in a chest, w ith three locks, the master to have 
 one key, and such two fellows as all the fellows shall choose, to have 
 the other two ; the master and fellows to make up their accounts 
 every Michaelmas, and lock up one part of the account in the chest, 
 and the master to keep the counterpart. The Bishop reserves power 
 for him and his successours to visit, correct, and reform, what he 
 thinks necessary, together with all episcopal power, jurisdiction, and 
 other rights whatever, belonging to his church of \oncic/i.''' Dated 
 at SchiihUunn, July 13th, ISGO. 
 
 It appears from an old rental in my collection, that Tho. Sigo, 
 ■master of the college, held of the capital manor of Ritshznorth, called 
 Gonvile Hall, his manor called Lerliiig Hall in RusliKoith, by the 
 rent of 6s. 8d. a 3-ear ; Piirn/'s tenement and 30 acres, with its fold- 
 course, al 3s. 4cl. rent, the capital tenement formerly John cle Bre- 
 ihenham's in Brelhenliam, at 3s. Ad. with 2s. Sd. oh. rent for his lands 
 on Suffolk side, and abundance of other rents on the ISorfolk side. 
 
 1492, William Ihili/dai/, senior, chaplain and fellow, desired to be 
 buried here by his parents ; he gave 6s. 8d. towards a new bell, 6s. 4d. 
 to the light of the holy sepulchre, to the gild of St. .foliii Baptist kept 
 in this church 3s. 4d. His uncle, Thomas Halyday, former)}' fellow, 
 sold seven acres of land to him, which he gave to the college, 
 after the death of Robert Schadezcell his brother, and Jlice his wife, 
 the profits to keep the south porch in repair for ever, (which looks as 
 if he was buried in it,) and to pray for him and his benefactors ;he 
 gave other 9 acres in RiiskwOrth, to Robert and ^lice for life, and 
 Thomas their son, if he live to be of age ; if he dies under age, it was 
 to go the master to find bread and wine for the Sacrainent. He gave 
 a good stone house in Riishnorlh, to the college in free alms, to be 
 used as a gild-hall, or at anj' time, when there was not room for the 
 guests in the college ; but the master was to find out of it a lamp 
 burning in the choir, before the Sacranvent at the high altar, for 
 ever, to which he gave a silver chrismatory of 4 marks value, John 
 Cavendi/sh, rector of Quidenlutm, and l\ ill. Pari/sh, fellow, executors. 
 Proved Jan. 23, 1492. 
 
 * Tliis- church is not exempt from tlie masters being all of them installed 
 episcopal uiid aichidiaconal jurisdiction, by the archdeacon.
 
 RUSHFORD. 293 
 
 This Collegiate Church was built in form of a cross ; the 
 quire, north and soutli cross isles are quite demolished, though there are 
 two grave-stones in the north cross isle, still to be seen in the yard, 
 but no inscriptions on them ; the nave is now used by the parish, 
 and a small part of it at the east end, separated from the rest, serves 
 for a chanctl : there is a very good square tower, having only one 
 bell, though there have been five or six, the frames still remaining ; 
 it is a good building, and seems to be of the same date with the 
 foundation of the college. On a stone in the south porch wall the 
 name of Jesus is inscribed ; the whole is covered with reed. 
 
 There are two hatchments in the church. Biixton quarters Heme, 
 and or, two bucks couchant gul. a coat of pretence, per pale arg. and 
 sab. a chevron between three talbots counterchanged, a chief g«/.; 
 motto, SERVAiir, mo bum. 
 
 Buxton impaling the former coat of pretence, quartered with, per 
 chevron vert and or, three lions passant, counter-changed. 
 
 On a black marble on the south side of the altar. 
 
 Hie requiescit quod mortale fuit Roberti Buxton, viri integerrimi, 
 ex Antiqua Prosapia de Channons in agro Norfolciensi oriundi, obijt 
 15° Die Julij, A" .Sltatis 32° Salutis 1691°. 
 
 On a stone by it, 
 Eliz. Bu.xton, died July 4, Anno Dom. 1730, ^t. 66. 
 
 Oa a stone in the ruins of the quire, 
 John Buxton, Esq. died Oct. 27, Anno Dom. 1731, Mlai. 47. 
 
 This town was in Kenningha/l soken. And now having gone 
 the length of the hundred, with the county river, which divides 
 it from Suffolk, we must turn back, and follow that stream, which 
 runs from Quidenfiaia Mere to Thetford, and there joins the county 
 river, or the Ouse, dividing this hundred all the way from that of 
 Shropham; and the first place that wc meet with nearest to Thetford, is~ 
 
 TOL. I. P p
 
 I 294] 
 
 SNAREHILL-HOUSE, 
 
 VV HiCH is deemed extraparocliial, and (with the lodge now called 
 Thetford Lodge,^) is all that remain of two villages. Great and Little 
 SnareshiU ; Great Sita7'eshill belonged to Thurstin of The/ford, a 
 freeman in the Confessor's time, when he had two carucates in 
 demean.* Little Snareshill belonged to Ailvin, or Elgar, of Thetford, 
 who had one carucate, and to Alestan an Englishman, in the Con- 
 queror's time, when it had 300 sheep belonging to it, five hives of bees, 
 and was of 20s. value.' 
 
 Theextentof both, was a league long, and half a league broad, 
 and paid \ld. ob. geld. 
 
 'Thurstin of Thetford had four freemen, that had 35 acres, which he 
 held under Roger Bigot, ^ who held the whole towns of the Conqueror's 
 gift, (except Biiri/ abbey's part,) all which the said Roger settled on 
 his priory at Thetford, at its foundation, and Herbert Bishop of 
 Noi^'ieh, and Jf'itliam Bigot, his son,' confirmed it; by this means 
 the church and all its revenues came wholly to that house, who got it 
 appropriated to them very early, for it was in ruins in King Edward 
 the Third's time, being then valued at 30s.' there are scarce any re- 
 mains of its foundation, though its site is well known.* 
 
 It continued in that house to its dissolution, and then went with it 
 o the Duke ot Norfolk,hy whose famil}' it was after sold, or forfeited. 
 
 ' The part on which the lodge stands 
 was Little Snareshill, and that where 
 the house stands, Great Snareshill; there 
 are no other inhabitants but these two 
 families. I do not find there was ever 
 any church in Little Snareshill, which is 
 now owned by Henry Campion, Esq. 
 
 ''Terra Rogeri Bigoti, Gildcross Hund. 
 (fol. ii6.) In Snareshill tenuit Tursti- 
 nus (sc. Turstin de Tedtord) liber homo, 
 T.R.E. ii. car. terre semper ii. bord. 
 et i. scr. et iii. acr. prati. tunc et post. 
 ii. car. in dominio modo i. et alia posset 
 restaurari semp. dim. car. hominum et 
 dim. pise. tunc. iii. rune, modo i. tunc, 
 iii. an. modo ii. tunc. xii. por. Time. 
 Ixxx. oves, modo Ix. tunc, valuit xvi. 
 sol. mo. XX. 
 
 ' In alio Snarehella tenuit AiUminus 
 (sc. Elgar de 1 cdfort) i. car. terre et 
 Ix. acr. hoc tenet Alestan Anglus, tunc 
 ii. serv. m° i. et vi. soc. de oiuiii con- 
 suetudinc sed unusquisque reddit semp"r 
 iii.i/. In Keninchala Regis, ex summagio, 
 et vi forisfacturas habet Rex ex jllis, in 
 dominio. semper i. car. et dim. posset 
 
 restaurari, dim. car. hom. tunc. i. nine, 
 semp. iiii. an. tunc. vi. pore. m° v. 
 tunc, c: oves, m° ccc. et v. vasa apuni, 
 et val. XX. J. Totum habet i. leug. in 
 longo et dim. in lato, et xi.d. et i. ob. 
 de Gelto. 
 
 * Invasiones in Nordfulc. (fol. 301.) 
 Hund. de Gildecross. In Snareshul i. 
 lib. homo XV. acr. ad feudum Turstini 
 de Tedfort, et inde suus antecessor ha- 
 buit commendationem tantum, soca in 
 Keninchala Regis, valet xv.<^. 
 
 In Snareshellaiii. liberi homines com- 
 mend, et soca falde, tota alia soca in 
 Keninchala et habent xx. acr. semp. 
 dim. car. val. xxd. hoc tenet Turstinus. 
 (sc. sub. Rogero Bigot.) 
 
 ' Donavit eis Rogerus Bigotus, ma- 
 neriuni Snareshelle cum omnibus per- 
 tinentijs suis, et totam teriam quam 
 Elgwi tenuit, in Theotordiani, &c. E 
 Carta pen. Hen. Smith, Gen. de Haut- 
 boys-Mag. 
 
 ' Reg. Archd. Norwic. Ep.E. 3. 
 
 * It stood near Snarehill-house.
 
 WEST-HERLING. 295 
 
 and hath since passed through several hands, as the Cleres, Sir Ed- 
 ward Clerc beins; lord in 1571, &c. till it came to the Buxtons,AnA 
 Robert £«x<o«,'Esq.ofSt. MargareCsm South Elmham, dying seized, 
 Elizabeth his wife had it, who is now dead, and Elizabeth, their 
 dau2;hter, now [I736]a minor, isownerof it. , , , . ^r i 
 
 The part wliich Fulcher held of Bwy abbey was lield in Henrii the 
 Third's time, by the fii'lecnthpartot'a fee, ot'/^'or^teT// manor, which wai 
 
 held of the abbey, by /('///. Ft/she, and John Byntliton, and in 1345, 
 Will. Fiphe, and Fcter Hemynton had it, and paid 2s. 4</. rebel, 
 they being heirs of IVill. Fys/te and Peter BenetjntonJ „ , . , , 
 
 In 1410, Tho. JVildc, clcrii, gave to Thctford monks all his lands 
 and tenements whicli lie had of Mar,/ his mother, lying in this place. 
 
 1411, Edmund IJei/ford oi Bern/mm gawe them two tofts and GO 
 acres of ground, and liberty of a free fold in Suareshitl, to increase 
 their revenues, and maintain them llie better; the Buri/ part was in- 
 cluded in this. 
 
 There was a family sirnamed of this town, of which Benedict, son 
 of Ihiu;h de SnareshiU, lived in 1250. 
 
 TheLeet always belonged to the hundred, but there being no suiters 
 to it in the place, it hath been omitted many years. The whole was 
 in Kennifighall soken, which may be the reason of the tradition, ot 
 its belonging to Kcnninghall; at this time, it is valued with Riishworth 
 to the King's tax, and paid 265. Sd. to the tenths. 
 
 The ne.\t town that we meet with upon this river (except the ham.- 
 let of Shadwell, of which we have spokea under Rushworth) is 
 
 WEST-HERLING, 
 
 Wu I CH is so called to distinguish it from the other Herlings; here 
 were several manors, of all which in their order. At the survey* the 
 manor was a berezcic belonging to Kennighall manor, with which it 
 was held by the Confessor and Conqueror, and was granted as a 
 member of it to the Jlbanys, who, in King Henri/ the First's time, 
 infeoft'ed it in the Aiigen'i/les, a family sirnamed from a place in 
 Normaudi/,' where they were lords ; it was to be held at half a fee of 
 the manor of Kenninghalt, as of tlie castle of Bokmham. In King 
 Henry the Second's time, 
 
 3 Terrc Abbatis de Sancto Eadmundo car. terre et iii. villani et iiii. bordarij et 
 
 Gildecross H. (fol. 177.) In SnareshuU v. acr. piati tunc i. car. in dominioet 
 
 tenet Fulchenis de Abbate xxx. ac. posset restau. (see f. i43-) 
 quod tenuit i. soc. semper i. bord. dim. ' Will, de AngerviUe, anno 1200, 
 
 car. valet li.i. Iiad a writ of right, against Robert de 
 
 ♦ Terre Regis quam, Godricus servat AngerviUe, for Angerville advowson. 
 
 Gillecross H. (fo. 33.) Chenninkehala Rot. Normanniiin Turn Lend. 2 Job. 
 
 tenuit Rex Ewardiis, &c. Heriinga i. Madox Hist. Exchcq. p. 360. 
 berewita, semper jacet huic nianerio, i.
 
 296 WEST-HERLING. 
 
 Sir Benedict de Angervili.e was lord, who died without male 
 issue, leaving his three daugliters his heirs, the first married to 
 
 William de Snitteuton, otherwise called William Bokenham 
 of Snitlcrton, as his family always continued to be called, viz. some- 
 times de Siiitterton, and sometimes de Bokenham de Snittertoti ; the 
 second to 
 
 Nicholas de Bello-Foco, Bello-Fago, or Beacfo ; the 
 third to 
 
 Sir Andrew de Sharnbourn, she died without issue in King 
 John's time, and her part reverted to her sisters and their heirs ; 
 
 So that now it divided into two manors, each held at a quarter of 
 a fee of the said Earl's, the one called Bokenham's, and the other 
 Beaiifo's. 
 
 BOKENHAM'S MANOR 
 
 Being thus come to Sir WiUiam de Bokenham de Snitterton, at his 
 death he left it to Hugh, and he to Ralph Boktnham, alias S)iitterton, 
 his son, and he to Hugh Bokenham of Sniftei-ton, his son, who was 
 lord in 1286 ; he left Hugh his son and heir, who died in 1290, Mar- 
 garet his mother then living, had a third part of the manor, and the 
 mansion-house, in dower : Hugh son of the last Hugh succeeded, and 
 in 1332, settled this and others on Sir Edmund de haconisthorp, Knt. 
 Sir John Bokenham, parson o( Snitterton, his brother, and Sir Nicholas, 
 son of Sir Gregori/ de Castello, during the life of Alice his wife, for 
 the maintenance of his children ; he died in 1339, and was buried at 
 Snitterton. 
 
 In 1345, the lady of Snitterton, (sc. this Alice,) held her manor in 
 West-Herling, at a quarter of a fee, of the Earl of Aruudcll, and he 
 of the King, which Hugh of Snetterton, held, the relief of which 
 was x.s. 
 
 1365, Hugh de Bokenham, (her son,) was lord, and Nicholas 
 Youngman and Alan Simonds, his farmers of the manor, kept theii- 
 first court this year. 
 
 In 1369, Hugh died, and Julian de Bokenham kept her first court. 
 
 In 1379, John Bokenham, senior, and John de Bokenham, 
 junior, were lords, in which year they conveyed the manor to Hugh 
 Bokenham, their brother, which they had of the grant of John de 
 Thclvelham, Julian de Bokenham, (his daughter,) Roger Dawnai/, par- 
 son of Snitterton All-Saints, and Andrew Green of Stayijord. 
 
 In 1401, Hugh Bokenham of Litermere, son and heir of Hvgh 
 de Bokenham of Snitterton, released to Robert Berdewelle, Esq. all 
 his right in Bokenham's manor in West-Herling, which was sold to 
 Sir Williain Berdezcell, Knt. by Hugh Bokenham his father, and thus 
 this manor was joined to Berdewelfs, thoua;h the Bokenhams still had 
 diverse lands here ; for in 1479, Edmund Bokenham, Squyr, by will 
 proved the 29th of March, ordered 24-. 8d. to be distributed among his 
 poor servants, of Snitterton, Shropham, Hargham, and Harlyng. 
 
 The fishery belonged solely to the lord, exclusive of all the te- 
 nants.
 
 WEST-IiERLING. 297 
 
 BEAUFO'S MANOR 
 
 Came to Nichohs de Bellofago, or Beaitfo, in right of his wife, as 
 aforesaid, Nicholas his son was lord iti 1219, Hxg/i his son in 1'256, 
 and Nicholas his sou till 1326, when he settled the manor and ad- 
 vowson on himself for life, remainder to Thomas Bcrdetcell, and Amy 
 his wife, daughter of the said Nicholas, awA their heirs; from which 
 time it was joined to BerdezoelFs manor, as was the advowson, the 
 whole of which, at first, belonged to Angervilcs manor, and with that 
 divided one moiety to Bokenham's, and the other to Beaufo's, till 
 Ralph son of Hugh de Bokcnham sold his moiety, with an acre and 
 half of land, to litigh son of Nicholas dc Beaiifo, and then this manor 
 had the whole advowson. 
 
 FURNEAUX'S MANOR, after called BERDEW ELL'S, 
 
 Passed with Middk-Herling,^ of which it was a part in the Conque- 
 ror's time, and so continued till Sir John Fiinieaiix, Knt. gave it in 
 marriage with Sara his daughter, to John de Berdercelle, to be held 
 of the^Earl of Brittain, as of Richmond honour, at half a fee, and 
 this was the first possession that the Berdewells ever had in any of 
 the Herlings; Sara was lady of it in 1280, soon after which it was 
 called, 
 
 BERDEWELL'S, or EAST-THORP MANOR, 
 
 By reason of its lying east of the church (as Hachford Hall manor 
 was sometimes called West-Thorp, ox Ilerling-Thorp, which name it 
 still retains, on account of its lying west of the church) and to distin- 
 guish it from Fnrneaux or Middle-Herling manor, to which it joined. 
 
 And from this time all these manors went in the Berdewell family, 
 as the pedigree will demonstrate. 
 
 The fines are certain at 4s. an acre, whether land, meadow, or 
 pasture, and no regard to houses or home-stalls, they being included 
 in the content ;'' it gives no dower ; the lands descend according to 
 the common law; for those lands that are heriotable, theheriot is the 
 best beast ; but if they have no beast, there is no heriot due : they 
 cannot waste their copyhold, nor fell timber, (unless to repair their 
 copyhold,) without license. Childeuyt is due to the lord, which is 
 2s. Bd. of every woman, bond tenant, Ihat halh a bastard. Chevuge^ 
 also is paid to the lord, it being a fine for every bond tenant, for 
 liberty to live out of the lordship, and women pay it as well as men, 
 viz. \d. a year each head. Bosage is also paid here, which is id. a 
 liead yearly for all cows and great cattle that feed on the commons; 
 every 10 sheep of the cullet, that laid in the lord's fold, paid \d. a 
 year. West-Fen common at Thorp-End belonged solely to the 
 manor ; all the tenants were obliged to grind at the lord's mill, and 
 the fishery of all the manors belonged solely to the lord. 
 
 '' See Domesday of Middle-Herling. manors aforesaid, it being after they 
 ' Extracted from the rolls of Berde- were joined. 
 well's manor, and included all the three * Capitagiiim, or a fine for each head 
 
 that lives out of the lordship,
 
 Q98 WEST-HERLING. 
 
 Faldage is a custom of this manor, tliat every five sheep that go 
 with the lord's, whether tiiey be of tiie cullet or no, if the owners will 
 not let tlieni lie in the lord's fold, but will fold them on their own 
 grounds, they must pay Id. a year, each five; the bond tenants could 
 uot sell any male young cattle of their own breeding without tlie 
 lord's license. 
 
 Hackfokd Hall Manor, afterward Seckford, or Westhokp^ 
 and now 
 
 HERLING-TIIORP. 
 
 This manor was in two parts, in the Confessor's and Conqueror's 
 time, the first was in Bun/ abbey, from its first foundation : the se- 
 cond in one Ai/ti's hands, in the Confessor's days, and Robert de 
 I er/i's m the Conqueror's,' from whom it came to the Earl IVarretif. 
 and went with the possessions of tin? younger branch of that famil}', 
 to the Bardolphs,* by them infeofl'ed in Sir Adam de Melhwolde, of 
 whom Sir fVilUam de Hakeford had it. 
 
 The Abbey's part, in the Conqueror's time, was in likuard,' by 
 feoffment of Abbot Baldzciii, who held it of the abbey, at one fee; 
 and from that time it passed ns Hastiiig's manor in Gissing,'- till Hugh, 
 son of UilUain de Hasli/ngs, Steward to King Ileniy I. infeofted Sir 
 Wil/iam de Hakeford, Knt. who held it also at one fee, paying ^8d. 
 every twenty weeks, to the Abbot, to the ward of NorTvich castle, 
 which tenure continued till after 1630; for then Framlitigham 
 Gaicdi/, Esq. paid it to the Crown, in right of the dissolved mon;is- 
 terv of Bury ; it paid then 2s. a year for suit to the hundred court, 
 and Od. every twenty weeks, to the lord of the hundred, for castlc- 
 ward, for Bardolph's part. 
 
 The Customs are the same now, [1730,] as the other manoi-s, but 
 were different formerly ; for in 1364, the copyhold descended to the 
 youngest son, and it gave a moiety dower. It was then fine certain, 
 at 4s. an acre.^ The bosage, faldage, and cfievage, were the same as 
 in the other manors,* but the childnyte was not certain, but at the 
 lord's will. They could sell all manner of beasts that they bred ; and 
 this custom prevailed here, that every copyholder that married paid- 
 the lord a bolster, sheet, and pillow, or fined for them, except the 
 tenants called molriien, which were not subject to this custom. 
 
 In 1346, there was a free tenement and 4'Jl aeies of land in Illiiig- 
 ton, held of this manor by Peter de Eslhal/e, and also an annual rent 
 of 1<7. a year, paid to St. John of Jerusalem's hospital at Karbrook, 
 for the souls of the lord's ancestors; and the brethren of St. John's- 
 college at Rushwortk had annually a fat lamb delivered them. The 
 
 ' Terre Robert! deVerliH.de Glide- »Terre Abbatisde Sancto Eadmundo. 
 cros. (fol. 173.) Herlinga tenuit Ami, Gildecrosi Hund. (Doms. fo. 117.) In 
 T. K. E. i. car. terre seinp. iii. villani Herling Riciiuard. i. car. tre. de Ab- 
 et iii. bordarij er ii. servi. iiii. acr. prati. bate, quod tenuit Sanctiis Edmuiidiis 
 tunc in dominio i. car. et post ii. bov. T. K. E. semp. iiii. vil. iii. bordarij, 1. 
 m° i. car tunc i. car. hominum et post, servi. iii. acr. prati tunc. i. car. in dnio. 
 dim ni° i. car. silva xii. pore, tunc viii. m" ii. semp. ii. car. homin. i. runcin, 
 anini. modo iii. et viii. pore. tunc, xiiii. viii. anim. iii. pore, tunc cxx. oves in*- 
 oves, m" cxx. et v. soc. xxx. acr. terre clxxx. tunc valuit xx.s. m° xl. 
 ct iii. acr. prati semp. i. car. et val. * Sec p. 16X. 
 Axx.f. et vii. acr. et dim. terre. ^ From the Court-Rolls. 
 
 • See Banham. ♦ See p. 299,
 
 WEST-HERLING. 29y 
 
 parish oi Middh-IIerUng held one acre and an half of this manor, 
 and paid (id. freercnt. Tiic ewes of tlie flock were milked daily, by 
 people hired by the lord for that purpose. It extended into all the 
 Ihrlinas, Qitidcnham, Rushzcorth, ShaderccU, and Il/iiigto/i. 
 
 Sir William de IIakeford, or Akefokd, Knt. bare for his coat 
 armour, checjuy or and vert; he held both the parts of the manor as 
 aforesaid, and left the whole to Sir Thomas de IIakeford, his son, 
 whose widow Mariona was lady in 1273 ; at her death it came to Sir 
 Nicholas de IIakeford, and Margery his wife, to whom Peter de Hake- 
 ford his brother released his right; they held it but little while, for in 
 1278, Sir IVilliam de IIakeford, a man that did much service in the 
 Scotch wars, settled the manor, jointly with Margery his wife, toge- 
 ther with that part of it in Bridgham, and the manor and advowson 
 of Couteshale, on Ralph de Ilackford, parson of Couteshale, in trust 
 for his two daughters, his heiresses; after this he purchased many 
 lands in Herling, of Adam de Raieniiigham, and settled thom, for 
 their use, on JVilliam Gostelyn, his trustee, who farmed the manor, 
 and kept courts in his own name, as farmer of it. 
 
 Sir John de Seckford of Suffolk, Knt. became lord in 1331, in 
 right oi Joan his wife, the eldest daughter of Sir JVilliam de IIake- 
 ford ; Henry de Ehnham, and Elizabeth his wife, who was Sir JCil- 
 tiam's other daughter, having released all their right in it, to Sir John 
 and his lady, who released to them all their right in that part of the 
 demeans that laid in Bridgham, and in the whole manor of Harford 
 Hall in Fringe : he bare for his arms, ermine, an escalop in fess gules, 
 which hath been since changed, this family having born for some 
 ages, ermine on a kss guL three escalops or; and for their crest, a 
 talbot passant ermine. He is sometimes called de Schirford, Segeford, 
 Sc^ord, and Secford. In the year 1359, Sir John, son of this Sir 
 JoTin, lived at Great Beatings in Suffolk, and upon his marriage, set- 
 tled it on /) illiam de Rothyng, rector here, and James de Rothing, to 
 the use oi Alice his wife, who kept court in 1372, after his death. In 
 1401, Sir George de Secford, Knt. was lord, and settled it on Margaret 
 his wife, who was daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Jeftney of Su(f oik, 
 Knt. After his death, she settled it on Sir Simon Felbrige, Knt. and 
 other trustees, upon her second marriage with Augustine Stratlon. 
 At her death it went to George Secford, Esq. who settled it upon Half 
 Full of Love, rector of this town, in trust for Alice his wife, who, in 
 1450, at his death, became lady; she was daughter of Tho.Rokes 
 {pi RidlesKOrth, as I take it,) and married again to Sir Henry Jl inf- 
 field, Knt. who joined with her in 1476, and released the liianor to 
 Tho. Seckford, Esq. lord of Seckford in Suffolk, who immediately 
 settled it on Robert Warner, Will. Brampton, Edmund Burn/, and 
 others, in tru^t for Margaret, daughter oi' .To hn Piurey, of Ai/lcsham 
 in Norfolk, his first wife, who died before him, and he married a se- 
 cond wife, named Elizabeth, soon after which he died, in 1507, leav- 
 ing Thomas Sekford of Great Beatings in Suffolk, Esq. his heir, who 
 married Margaret, daughter of Sir John IVingJield of Letheringham, 
 Knt. He and hisfatlier surviving feoflees sokl it to 
 
 George Nunne of Tostock in Suffolk, clothier, and IVilliam 
 Futter, his trustee, and the heirs of George. In 15G4, the said George, 
 and John his son and iieir, sold it to 
 
 Bassingbourne Gawdy of Mendham in Suffolk, Esq. and Anne
 
 SOO WEST-HERLING. 
 
 his wifcj antl their heirs, and for want of lieirs, to Edtvard Bardziell 
 and his lieirs for ever; and this jear they held their first court; and 
 from this time it was joined to the other manors, and so continues. 
 
 Tlie manor-house liath been down many ages, for in 1S98 the lord 
 lived at Scckford, and had a pond, or pool, in the late site of the 
 manor, called Scchford Hall-Yard Close, in U'est-Heiliii^. 
 
 In 1504, after a suit between the lord and Robert liernyngham. 
 Prior of the monks of St. Mary at T/icfford, the lord agreed for the 
 future to pay 2j!, a year to that monastery, out of lands called Gilden- 
 skves, which were joined to the manor by purchase, and did always 
 heretofore pay >2s. 6d. a year, and upon this agreement he paid 2s. 
 to Sir l\ illiam Ixworth, then monk of that house, to put him in pos- 
 session. 
 
 The family of the Berdewelles look their name from the town 
 oi Berdexcelle '\a Suffolk, v-'heve they lived in the Conqueror's time, 
 when Baldwin Abbot of Bury infeoffed Ralf de Berdewellt- of that 
 manor ;' they always bare for their arms, arg. a goat saliant gul. armed 
 or. and for their rebus or device, a bear with a well on his back, 
 and these two letters, DC. which cannot but make Bear-de-well, 
 or Berdzcelle ; and for a crest, on a wreath or and sab. a goat's head 
 erased gul. attired or, mantled sab. doubled arg. 
 
 In 1 196, William, son of Ralf de Berdezcelle, held Berdcicelle at 
 two fees, as he acknowledged in a fine then levied between him and 
 Abbot Sampson,^ John de Berdercelle, his son, had four sons, all which 
 had issue ; John de Berdezcell, the eldest, was lord of Gasthorp in 
 1274.' He had two wives, and issue byhoth, the eldest son by the 
 first wife was Thomas, who was dead before 1338, and left Richard, 
 Robert, and Thomas, who were lords of Gasthorp ; Thomas had the 
 whole by release from his brothers; he married Amy, daughter of Sir 
 Nicholas de Beaufo, with whom he had Beaufoe's manor in this town, 
 Alice, her sister, and .John Rivet of Freton, her husband, releasing 
 their right in it, in 1330. in 1348, John Berdezcelle, their son, was 
 lord, who had William Berdezcelle, his son, by Isabell, daughter of 
 Thomas Barro, Knt. and had free-warren allowed him in Berdzcelle 
 and Thorp in Suffolk; William, his son, married Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Tho. Hethe, lord of Hengrave, Denham \>y Barrozc, and Suxham- 
 Parva in Suffolk; he died seized oi Berdezcelle, Gatesthorp, Beaufoe's, 
 &c. leaving Margaret, his only daughter, who married John Ilarles- 
 ton, by whom she had Margaret, married to 'Tho. Darn/ of Daubj/ in 
 Essex, and Alice, to Sir Richard Fitz-Lewes, Knt. But the manors 
 aforesaid, for want of male issue, reverted to Sir William Berdezcell, 
 the great warriour, who was the male heir of the family by the se- 
 cond wife, viz. Sara," daughter of Sir John Fiirneaux of Midle-ller- 
 ling, with whom he had Furneaux manor in West-Uerling; they left 
 Sir William Berdezcell, Knt. their son and heir, whose son. 
 
 Sir William Berdewell, Knt. the great warriour, was born 
 1367, for in the 9th of Henn/ IV . {anno 1407,) he was 40 j-ears 
 old, being then one of the knights summoned as witnesses tor Sir 
 Edzcard Hasty ngs of Elsing, in the cause between him and Sir 
 
 ' Regr. Pinchebek, fo, jgj. Hegr. ^ See Gatesthorp, fo. 263. 
 Nigr. fo. 145. ' Sara was the Christian name of both 
 
 •■ Pinchb. fo. iiS. his wives.
 
 WEST-HERLING. yoi 
 
 Reginald Grey Lord Ruthi/ii, concerning the arms of Hasti/iigs,'> in 
 which he swore, that he was a soldier witli Sir Uinr/i H/isti/iigs, the de- 
 fendant, in the voyage made by Sir Ju/in /Iniudell on tlic sea, and 
 saw Sir Hugh bear tiie arms of or, a maunch gnl. with a label of three 
 points arg.; in the voyage of Sir Makes del lie, in the voyage of 
 King Richard li. into Scotland; in Brctaigne, in the dcceasecl Duke 
 of Lancaster's voyage into Spain ; and that he always understood 
 that the label was born by the next heir according to the usage of 
 England, as the Prince of If ales bears it, and was the conusance of 
 the next heir. In 1382, he was retained by Sir John Clifton of 
 Bokenham castle, to serve him with 7 men at arms, and 6 archers on 
 horseback, in the voyage of Croj/seri/e, and of the King, for one 
 year, for 100 marks for himself, witl'i Iwuche de court,' and for his 
 7 men at arms and 6 archers, 392 marks, to be paid half down, and 
 the rest quarterly, as the Bishop of Noruich should pay Sir John 
 Clifton.'^ In 1387, he covenanted with the Lord Camoi/s to serve 
 under hiui in the expedition at sea under the command of the Lord 
 Arundell, then Admiral of England, for four months, with 2 esquires 
 sufficiently armed, and 3 archers, and each of his men of arms to 
 have one servant to cairy tlicir bayonets. Sir fVilliam to find them 
 wages, who was to have ISaiiarks for his own service, and 20 marks 
 for his archers, and bouchc de court for all his retinue, all of them to 
 be ready at Southampton the 4th of Men/ following ; and if any great 
 chieftain was taken in the war by Sir' IVilliam, or his retinue, the 
 Lord Camois was to have him, giving sufficiently to him and his 
 men that should take him. In the year 1400, Michael De-la-poole 
 Earl of Suffolk granted him an annuity of 20/. during his life, out of 
 his castle, manor, and honour of Eye in ^'«/o//,-, in 'recompense for 
 the good and agreeable service that Sir William had done him in 
 times past, and shall do him in time to come, both in war and peace ; 
 and upon this Sir William obliged himself to serve the Earl with one 
 esquire, two servants, and five horses, all which were to have bouche 
 de court at the Earl's expense; and if he travels in England at the 
 Earl's command, he was to be allowed reasonable expenses ; and in 
 time ot war, he was to find as many men at arms, and archers on 
 horseback, as he could,>all which the Earl was to pay, as the King 
 paid him ; and he was to have two parts of their ransome, and the 
 Earl the other third part, but no prisoner was to be delivered up, 
 without the Earl's license. In this year he did homage to Thomas 
 Earl of Arundell and Surrei/, for his lands in Herling, held of Castlc- 
 Acre manor. He married Margaret, daughter and hdress of Theo- 
 bald (or John) de Pakenham, Esq. and Agnes his wife, daughter of 
 Tho. Saxham, who in her will ordcre<l to be buried at Bcrdezcell by 
 her husband. He settled Berdwell's manor on Ralph and Robert de 
 Bernt/ngham for their lives, remainder to Robert Berdewell, his son, 
 remainder to William, son of Robert, and his heirs. On the Istof 
 Octob. 1434, lie made his will, which is dated at Bury, where he died 
 soon after; for on the 29th of the same month it was proved before 
 
 "MSS. Cans, inter Grey etHastyngs, tlie palace of a prince, or liouse of a 
 
 penes P. L. N. vol. i. pag. 393. noljleman. 
 
 ' Bowge of court is a certain quan- * Autog. inter Cart. P.L.N, 
 tity of provisions allowed to a servant, in 
 
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 302 
 
 WEST-IIERLING. 
 
 brother John Craneaijs, sacrist ot" lliat monastery,' (he being, hy 
 virtue of tliat office, in the phice of archdeacon of the exempt juris- 
 diction of that house,) in whicli he ordciecl to be buried in Berde- 
 wdl chancel, to the reparation of which church he "ave 40s. and 10s. 
 to repair the roads, and 20/. to his daughter habell, and to Robert, 
 his son and heir, his basiiard, and all his gilt armour, his best girdle, 
 with his loose gown, furred with beaver. He died possessed of the 
 
 iryiics in »e/atafi/, anu inorp in oii[/uiii,, luiu was uimt-u at s>erae- 
 a'e/Z, where he chicHy resided ; in a north window of which church 
 a curious effigies of him still remains very perfect, of which this is an 
 exact resemblance : 
 
 He had issue, John, his eldest son, who married Elizabeth, daugli- 
 ler and coheir of Sir John (or Thomas) Clopton, by whom he liad 
 Willhiin and Rose, both which, as well as their father, died before 
 their grandfather. 
 
 Upon which his second son, Robert * BerdewcU of Behgh, Esq. 
 
 'The seal of tlie sacrist's office is were chose by the justices of thi* county, 
 
 oblong, it hath a wolf under a tree, to serve the King in his wars, as recruits, 
 
 holdin-; in iiis paws St. £diiiund'| as appears by the original privy seal and 
 
 head. return, now lying in the Court of Re- 
 
 ■* This Robert was one of those gen- ceipt of the Exchequer, at Westminster, 
 
 tlemcu of ancient coat armour, wlio in Raggeman Bag.
 
 WEST-HERLING. a03 
 
 (who built the old hall at Herling, and first settled there) became his 
 heir, who, in 143<J, did homage to the Earl of Arumhll for l\ est- 
 Herlin<r, and in 144G, to Ratf Lord Cromwell and Tafeshale for 
 Gatestfiorp : he had two wives, the first was Elizabeth; lus second 
 was Margery, daughter of Sir Thomas Jeniii/, who outlived him some 
 years, she being alive and his widow in 1402. He is buried with his 
 first wife, on the north side of the altar in this chancel; his stoije is 
 now much broken and defaced, it hath BerJacell's coat impaling 
 three na<Ts heads cooped, the three other coats being lost, as is part 
 of the circumscription, which I transcribed before it was defaced, viz. 
 
 <©rfltc pro anima t^obtrti 2?crbetocIlE, armigcri, qui ofaiit wii' 
 
 mc 2;anuarii 3° ©ni : .m'*JI€€C lti° ct pro 3nima «rli?ab£t. urorisi. 
 
 ciu^ quorum animabu.^ propicictur ©cu>^ 
 
 William Berdewell, senior, of IVest-Herling, Esq. his son 
 and heir, had two wives, by whom he had thirty sons and daughters ; 
 Eleanor, his first wife, was daughter and heiress of John C/«/;/;c, with 
 whom he had the manors of Midle-Jlerll/ig and Kimberle;L/na- 
 belh, his second wife, ssixs a. Mortimer. In 1441, the Duke ot Nor/o/A", 
 by deed dated at his castle of Framlitigham, granted to his beloved 
 servant, William Berclavell, senior, Esq, an annuity of 10 marks, for 
 the good services that he had done him : 1 have seen his will ot his 
 his owQ handwriting, from which I took the following extract : 
 
 Jesu mercye. Mary helpe. 
 
 " In Dei Nomine Amen. I Welyam Berdewell the Holder, 
 " Sana mente &> bona. Memorice, qwan I pas hawt of this misery 
 " werd,I beqwethe my sowle to the Trenite, Fadir, Sone, and Holye 
 " Goyst, Three Personis, and One God, my Bodye to be beryed m 
 " the Chansel of Westharlyng, on the south side, before Seynt Jon, 
 " betweene bothe my wyvys. And I besette to the Hey Awtyr, x.s. 
 " & to the Churche odyr x.s. also to the Lylys on the Candlestekys 
 " afore the Hey Awtyr odyr x.«. & to the feywe Joys afore our Lad^-, 
 " odvr x.«. And also I besette a Veystmente to the Hey Awter, and 
 " to "the place of the Frerys at Thetforth x.s. and to the Chapell of our 
 " Ladi in Thetforthe odyr x.s. also x.s. to Medylharlyng, 8c a Nobyl 
 " to the Freris of Babwell. Odyr x.s. to the Kwyle Frens of Nor- 
 " wiche ,• and also for to be preyd for in the Townys abowte me, and 
 " nowght to labour, I besette to Hest Harlynge Chirche a Nobyl, 
 " and forte Denar: and to Gatysthorp a Nobyl, viij. Sheep to Tre- 
 " nely Geld, [at fVest-Herlingl to the Channowyns [at Thetford] x.s. 
 " and to the Nunys ther, odyr x.s. to pre^' to God for me, and to the 
 " Hey Awter of Seint Marve Chirche ot Thetforthe x.s. and x.s. to 
 " our Ladi [at West-Herling\ and a Nobyl to the Chirciic. [He gave 
 " a good Legacy to his] Son Peter" to prey for [him] and tor [his] 
 " Weyfwys, with Fadyr & Modir, and al odyr Frendys, qwiche past 
 " the VVerd, &c." 
 
 According to his desire, he was buried on the south side of the altar; 
 
 5 Her arms were ar. three nags heads * He was rector here, 
 cooped sab. bridled er.
 
 S04 WEST- HER LING. 
 
 his effigicsj barelieaded, with a s;rayliouiid at his feet, and his sword 
 and spurs on, still remains, an^ two csculclieons, one of Be rdercc/le 
 quartering .l/(>;V//«t;r, and the other of BeidezeelU and Paken/Mm, and 
 this inscription, 
 
 «©rarci.iro animabus IPillicImi 2?cri)ctocn,armigcri, aiicnorc tt &\jabtt])t 
 luoruni cms, tt Crigmra filioriim tt filiarum suariim. quorum animabu^ 
 propicictur «?cu.s", ilmcii. 
 
 AV iLLiAM Beudewell, junior, Esq. his son and heir, succeeded, 
 who was of age in 1455, at liis grandfatlicr's death, who gave him 
 l^ostock Half manor, and to Edmund his brother, his manor in Norton 
 by If ii/pit, which was formerly Jgnes de Norlons ; he married Eli- 
 zabeth, daughter and coheir of Edmund de IVi/chi/ngham of Fislileu, 
 in 1459, and after her death, to Elizabeth, widow of John Cliekc, in 
 1490, who died in 150.5, and by will ordered her body to be buried 
 in Dcbenham church, by John Cheke, her first husband, by whom 
 she left issue, John, Robert, William, and Edmund, but none by her 
 second husband, who was buried in the midst of the nave of this 
 church, by Elizabeth his first wife: his effigies remains on his stone, 
 which is bareheaded, and in armour, liis wife's being in a bonnet. 
 The arms of Berdewclle and JVichinghani are first single and then 
 impaled. 
 
 On a scroll from his mouth are these words, 
 
 %ti\x fill «©ei, mi.sitrere mei. 
 xA.nd on another from her's, this, 
 
 iSancta ©ei dStnttrir, Ora pro mc. 
 
 And this inscription under them, 
 
 <0rate pro animabu.s; IDidr. f^rractocll, armigcn.ct (i;Ii?abct}je 
 uioris eiuiS, Vilnius' J^iliarum cZOiiiunDi ibndjimijbflm, ct pro 
 quifaus tencntur, quorum Jnimabus propicietur ©cuji. 
 
 He was succeeded by by his son, William Berdewelle of 
 TIerling, Esq. who married Mtirgant, daughter of John Framling- 
 ham of Crow's Hall in Delnnhum ; they both died in one week, 
 A° 1508, seized of Drayton //«// manor in Seaming, and Dillington, 
 Kelling, Salflwuse, Gasthorp, It est and Midle-Herling manors and 
 advowsons, and were buried together in the nave of this church, his 
 effigies bareheaded, with that of his wife by him, with their escut- 
 cheons, still remain, and this inscription, 
 
 (©rate pro anunabu? IDiIh: 2?cr&ctoel[,armigcn,i^tiu.s4rcclciciit' patronf, 
 et JJiargarttc urotis; ciu?, qui obitrunt m una >j2b&oma0a, menge 
 gjanuarii, 15O8. 
 
 He left issue, five, sons and four daughters; Robert, his eldest son 
 and heir, ^c/cfr'tfrd Berdezeell of Mendham, who was living in 1559, 
 whose son, James Berdewell, lived at Sanderoft, afterwards at Long 
 Ulratton ; in 1589, as heir male of the family, he released Limborn 
 manor to Bus. Gawdy, Esq.; John, the third son, married Mary, 
 daughter of John Cook, William was the fourth son, and Edmund
 
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 llie fifth: Eleanor, his eldest daughter, died younp;, Eleanor, the se- 
 cond daughter, married Tho. Pigeon of East Beckham, and Alice, or 
 Elizabeth, married a Howard. 
 
 KoBERT IJiiRDEWELL oi IVcst-IIerUng, Esq. died in the King's 
 service beyond sea ; his will was proved in 1.512, in which he ordered 
 to be buried at his father's head, in fVest-Ucrliiig cinirch, if lie died 
 in Enalund ;'' he ordered a priest to sing for hiin seven years in ihe 
 chapel of our Lady on the south side of Uertitig church; he left 
 Anne, daughter of Tho. Haion of Ilesset, his widow, who, in 1513, 
 married H'il/. Rookzoood, and after his death, to Roh. Keene of, 
 Thrandeston, whose widow she was in 1558, when she held Gasthorp 
 and Tostock manors. They had only one daughter, viz. 
 
 Elizabeth BiiEDEWELL,\\ho was but one year old at her father's 
 death, and her wardship fell to Sir Edrcard Howard, Knt. of whom 
 Seaming, &.e. was held, in right of Lady Morlei), Sir Edward's wife, 
 who, in 1512, sold it, iuimed'iateiy after lur lather's death, to IVill. 
 IVoolon, his executor, and he sold it, with her marriage, to Sir Robert 
 Souttncell, Knt. who married her to 
 
 John \Vooton of North Taddenham in Norf<dk, who confirmed 
 the exchange lately made of Salt house and Kellt/m^ manors, which 
 were lately the JVi/clii/nghams and Berdexcelles, foxDrai/tun Halt in 
 Seaming; he was son of .John IVoofon of Taddenham, and Elizabeth 
 his wife, sister of Sir Thomas, and daughter of Sir Robert L'Estran<re; 
 he kept his first court here in 1528, and in 153G his wife died ; at^ter 
 which he married a daughter of Nevill Lord Abergavenny, widow of 
 Lord D' Acres. 
 
 By Elizabeth, his first wife, he left one only daughter, Anne, whose 
 wardship .John Millicent, Esq. sold in 1545, to Sir Anthony Rouse, it 
 belonging to him as lord of Bergham manor, of which the manor of 
 Midle-Herling is held, as parcel of the honour of Richmond ; she 
 had three husbands, first Sir Thomas JVoodliouse of IVaxham, {William 
 ffoodhoase liaving purchased her guardianship of Sir Anthonij Rouse 
 in 1547,) by whom she had no issue, nor by Henry Reppes of Mend- 
 ham, Esq. her second husband, who kept his first court in 1551, and 
 was dead before 1556, for in that year Bassingbourne Gawdy, second 
 son of Thomas Gaicdy, seijeant at law, her third husband, kept his 
 first court, and held Midle-Herling of Robert Bemey,' as of liis 
 manor of Bergham, by the service of half a fee, and 5s. per annum ; 
 he was afterwards knighted. In 156'4, he purchased Secford manor ; 
 and tiius all the manors in fVest-Herling, Midle-Herling, and Gates- 
 thorp, came to the Gawdie's. She was buried at Herlin<r, Julu the 
 9th 1594. ° -^ 
 
 Gawdie's arms are, vert, a tortoise passant ar.; crest, on a wreath 
 ar. and gal. a chapeau turned up erm on which two daggers in pale 
 ar. hilted or, mantled gal. doubled ar. 
 
 Sir Bassingbourni^ GAwnii:, Knt. died seized, Jan. 25, I5C9, 
 of ail the manors, together with Limboume in Homereffield, Roud- 
 ham, Drayton Uall, &c. leaving two sons, Bassingboarn and Sir 
 Phillip, who married Brigit Strongman, by whom he had Francis, 
 
 ' There being no stone for him, I sup- ^ From the evidences of John Milli- 
 pose he was buried where he died. cent, Esq. of Berghdin, anno 1695.
 
 506 WEST-HERLING. 
 
 his son aiul heir, who died without issue, and five daughters, the last 
 *)t "whicli was born in 1()I4. 
 
 B.AssiNGBoi RNE Gawhik, Ksq. his son and heir, was 2fj years 
 old at his father's dcatii, when Thomas Guudic of Gatcdic Uail, his 
 uncle, was trustee for Sccford's manor. Tiiis Bassuighouru held 
 Wcst-Hcrling of tlie Earl of Arundcll, Midk-Herling of the Queen, 
 as of her honour of Rkhmojid, at half a fee, Secfurd's of the dissolved 
 abbey of Bury, at 3s. yearly rent, Drai/lon Hull, of the Lady Morlei/, 
 and Gust/wrp, oi Phillip Kiicvit, Esq. lie was thrice shcriii'of Nor- 
 folk, viz. in 1573, when he was an esquire only, in 1593, wiien he 
 was a knight, and in lOOl. He had two wives;' the first was ylinie, 
 daughter of Sir Churles Framliiigham of Dcbeiiham, by Dorothi/ his 
 wife, daughter of Sir Clement lleighum, KiiL; she was an heiress, and 
 brought the whole estate of the Frumliiighams, viz. the manors of 
 CroKshall, Scotncys, Havboroic, and Dcl/c/ilium, with tiie advowsons, 
 Maiidtvile's manor in Sleriiijield, ylbboCs Hall, and Ashjicld manor 
 and advowson. Sir Churles her father outlived her, and died .htlt/Q.S, 
 1594, leaving Frumliiigliuni Gazcdie, Esq. his grandson, his sole heir. 
 His second wife was Dorothi/, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon of 
 Redgrave, who held Gaslhorp manor for life ; and after his decease, 
 she married to Fellon, and died at Fukenham, Feb. 1, 1653, and was 
 buried here by her first husband, wiio died the 23d of Ala//, I6O6, 
 leaving issue by both his wives : by the last he had two sons and two 
 daughters, Hasdiigbourn and Bacon Gawdie, who was buried here in 
 1650, and Dorothi/ and Frances, both buried here, the first in 1659, 
 the last in 1G26, leaving no issue ; by tiie first he had two sons, Fram- 
 lingham, and Churles, who was born in 1591, and was afterwards 
 knighted, and had Crowshall, Scotnei/s, 8cc. given to him and his 
 heirs. 
 
 Framlingham Gawdie, Esq. was born Augt. 8, 1589, Sir Robt. 
 Knowles, Knt. was his guardian, and as such kept court in 1O06. In 
 1627, he was sheriff of Norfolk, and afterwards one of the Deputy- 
 Lieutenants of that county, by commission from Henri/ Earl of Nor- 
 tha77iploH, then Lord-Lieutenant : he married Lettice, daughter and 
 coheir or Sir Robt. Knowles, Knt. who was buried here Dec. 3, l6S0, 
 by Sir Robt. her father, who was buried Jan. 20, I6IS. He was 
 buried, Feb. 0.5, lG54, by his father-in-law, leaving six sons and two 
 daughters, viz, }\ illiam Framlingham, born in l6l3, Bassingbourii in 
 l(il4, Tho. in l(il7, who died single, Charles in ItilS, and Robt. in 
 1G20, Lettice died Feb. 8, ld22,and June, June 29, 16'22.» 
 
 William Gawdy, Esq. the eldest son, was created baronet, 
 .lull/ 13, l6(r3; he married Elizabeth Diijicld, who was buried June 
 10, ]G53, by whom he had four sons and one daughter, Bussingbourn, 
 the eldest, died unmarried at London, of the sraail-pox, and was 
 buried in the Temple, in 166O, Anne his sister was buried with him, 
 and IVilliam his brother, they dying of the same disease, Framling- 
 ham Gaiccly who lived at Bitrij, and 
 
 Sir John Gawdy, Bart, who was his second son and heir; he was 
 born Oct. 4, 1639, being deaf and dumb, notwithstanding which, he 
 was an admirable painter, and a most ingenious man; he married 
 
 9 All the Gawdiesof Herling, and most of the Crowsliall family, are buried here.
 
 WEST-HERLING. 307 
 
 Anne, tlaughterof Sir Roht. tie Gret/ of Martin, Knt. and E/izabelh 
 his wife, by wliom, at his death in l()<)\), he left one son and one 
 daughter. 
 
 Sir Basincbourn Gawdy, Bart, his son and heir, died unmar- 
 ried, on Thursday, Oct. 10, 17-3, of a bruise in his privities, wliich he 
 received by iii.-> horse's stumbling as he was hunting; he was wrapt in 
 searcloth, and buried in a leaden cuflin, in our Lady's chapel in this 
 church, which is lately taken down, (a I'aculty being obtained for that 
 purpose,) and his grave raised with bricks over it, is now to be seen 
 in the churchyard, on the south side, where the chapel stoo<l.' He 
 left his three nieces his licirs, they being daughtei's of his sister Anne, 
 by Oliver he Neve of Great l\ ictiingham, Esq. their son Oliver dying 
 without issue iu iGSfi, viz. Issabella, then single, yhinc, married to 
 John Rogers of Stwtl'ord, licentiate in piiysick, and Henrietta, to Ed- 
 zeard Le Neve, Gent, only son oi Edicard he Neve, citizen and mer- 
 chant-tailor of Loudon : who all joined, and conveyed the whole 
 estate to 
 
 Joshua Draper, Esq. who sold it to 
 
 KiCHARD Gipps, Esq. now lord and patron, who hath purchased 
 all this and Midle-Herling, and built a neat seat, which was- begun 
 by Mr. Draper, who pulled down the old hall, called Berdewell Hall, 
 the site of which joined to the south-east corner of tbe churchyard, 
 and began this new building, in the place where the old one stood.* 
 
 The ILeets of the two towns belong to the Duke of Noifolk's hundred 
 of Giltcross, to which hundred court eacli town paid 6d, leet fee, 
 and 7d. apiece for blancke-farm,6s. for three suit fines, and 7d. apiece 
 for castle-ward. 
 
 In l603, there were 132 communicants in tliis parish, and now 
 [I73fi] there are about 6 or 7 houses, and (iO inhabitants; it paid 38s, 
 to the tenths, and is now assessed with Midle-Herling at 427/. 
 
 Beedewell Hall was a fine old embattled stone building, 
 nioted round ; it was demolished in 172.5 ; there was a family cha- 
 pel in it anciently, and the following arms were in the parlour and 
 other windows, when it was pulled down, viz. 
 
 Berdewelle impaling Walcote, Moktimeu oi Attltburgh. 
 
 Fu Rneau X, sa6. a pale lozengee ar. 
 
 WicHiNGHAM, erm. on a chief 5«6. three croslets patee ar. 
 
 Framltngham,«7-. a fessg«/. between three Cornish crows proper. 
 
 WoTTON, ar. a s;dtire ingrailed sab. on which an annulet «i. 
 
 Jenney; Pakenham. 
 
 Glanvile, ar. a chief indented az. 
 
 Southwell, ar. three cinquefoils gul. on each five annulets ov, 
 
 L'Estrange, with abattoon or. 
 
 Ar. three nags heads cooped sab. bridled or. 
 
 ' Coll. P. L. N. William his son, who married in tjofi. 
 
 * Here was a family sirnameii Tunes In 1377, William attc Tunes end was 
 
 endc, or Towns end, in 1290. In 1301, rector of Midlc-Herlini^. They were 
 
 William atte Tune's ende lived here, all considerable owners, and most of 
 
 In 1304. John son of Thomas attc Tunes them sealed with the present arms of 
 
 end died, leaving Alice his widow, and the Townsend family.
 
 308 WEST-HERLING. 
 
 -■/<•. on a fess ingrailed between three iuescutcheous gul. as many 
 mullets or, pierced ar. 
 
 Pally wavy. ylz. on a cross ar. five escalops gul. 
 
 Gawdy impaling Bassingbourn, gironne of twelve or and az. 
 
 BoDRiGAN, a:, three bendlels gul. 
 
 Purp. a lion rampant, crowned or. 
 
 Ar. a saltire sub. between twelve red cherries, stalked proper. 
 
 Knowles, az. crusuly, a cross uiolinc voided or, quartered with, 
 sab. a chevron ar. between three human heads cooped at the neck, 
 twined w ith as many snakes proper. 
 
 Knightly, quarterly or and erm. in the first and fourth quarters, 
 three pallets gul. 
 
 CoNiSBY, gul. three coneys currant ar. quarterly first per bend, 
 indented ar. and sab. second az. a de-lis or, third as second, fourth as 
 first. 
 
 Bassing BOURNE Gawdy, 1593, impales Framlingham and his 
 quarterings, viz. 
 
 Lee, sab. a. chevron er. between three crescents ar. 
 
 BoRNE,s«6. a chevron gul. between three unicorns heads erased ar. 
 
 TiPTOFT, ar. a saltire ingrailed gul. 
 
 Charlton, or, a lion rampant g(//. 
 ^ Holland. 
 
 Inglethorp, gul. a cross ingrailed ar. 
 
 Bradston, ar. on a canton az. a rose or. 
 
 De-la-Pole, with an annulet. 
 
 Framlingham's crest is, a raven volant proper. 
 
 Framlingham impales Nevile and his quarterings, vie. 
 
 Nevile, gul. a saltire ar. a label of three gobone ar. and az. 
 
 Montacute, ar. a fess fusile gul. 
 
 Monthermer, or, an eagle displayed vert. 
 , Holland Earl o? Kent, England in abordurea/'. 
 
 Wake, or, two bars gul. in chief three torteaux. 
 
 Estottevill, barry of ten ar. and gul. a lion rampant sab. 
 
 Burgh, ar. a fess lozenge sah. , 
 
 Jeffery, or. a chevron sab. between three goldfinches proper. 
 
 ScoTHAM, flZ. three pheons ar. 
 
 Nevile's crest is a wolf passant ar. collared or, on his shoulder an 
 annulet for difference. 
 
 On a very old musket barrel that hung in the hall was this, 
 
 FURVIS JE SVIS, MAIS SANS FEV, JE NE PUIS. 
 
 which was thus translated. 
 
 Full I am, 'tis true, of ire. 
 
 But can do notliing without fire. 
 
 In 1382, a piece of land in Thorp-street was held by the rent of Q,d. 
 a year, to be paid to West-IIerling church, and Rob. Gildemleve held 
 1 acre by the rent of \d. a year, to find a light in that church. John 
 Ingman held a cottage, formerly Elizabeth Smith's, for which he was 
 to find yearly a wax candle of a quarter of a pound weight, to burn 
 there, and William Tumour was to find another yearly, of id. valuer
 
 WEST-HERLING. 309 
 
 In 1550, Sir Tho. Woodhome oF Waxham, Knt. confirmed to Robert 
 Barret 2 acres of" meadow, which ho had among other lands, of the 
 grant ol King Edward VI. in the second year of his reign> it being 
 given for an anniversary to be kejd here. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to all the Saints, having its nave and 
 chancel tiled, a square tower, with a tall freestone spire on it; there 
 were hut three biiis, till .losh.ta Draper, Esq when he resided here, 
 had tiii'in iio« i.iiined, and added two new ones. On the tiiird bell 
 was this, 
 
 ■^Hirgn t£orunata tmc no.ci ab Hcgna faeata. 
 
 The following inscriptions (besides those already spoken of) niav 
 be seen here. On a bra^s plated stone in the chancel, the effigies of 
 a priest, and under him tins, 
 
 Oratr pro .Inima ^^oljanni^ Itlicttid, qiionbant (jcctori^, 
 i.b'tiu.si viiciiesic, cuiu.^ ainime propicictur ©cii.s'. 
 
 On another slone, 
 
 Orate pro a.iima fiaDuIfi faW of 1 otic, quoiiDam ticctoris 
 ifitius <i2cclc.!^ic, qui obiit ilii Qic .ficptcmbrib' J ©nt. JU° €*£.<€,€■" 
 
 This man gave 10/. to build a new font in Hingham church, and 
 to the lights of Corpus Clirkti, St. /Iiidrezv his patron, and St. Mari/h 
 Jiglit in her chapel in Hingham church, '2lb. of wax, and 40d. to the 
 high altar. 'l"o (Vcsf-Uir/htg a missal of 8 or 9 marks, and two vest^ 
 merits of j/. vuluc, llill. Berdacel/, junior, and lleii.Spt/lman, Gent. 
 executors, the Lady Anne IVj/ng^/ield supervisor.^ [This out of his 
 testament.] By his will he gives a legacy to the Tabernacle of St. 
 Mary at llucham, to pray for Jlice his mother; he orders an annual 
 mass to be celebrated in Hingham church, for the souls of Tho. Ow- 
 dulj, of John Ashxcell, organ-maker, John Vagede, and Hen. Oicdolf, 
 ail of Norzcich, deceased ; 20s. to St. Thomas of Acris's hospital in 
 London; 2')*-. lo St. Thomas the Martyr at ito//(e. He gave a close 
 called Nozii/trd lo the rectors oi Hingham for 24 years, lOd. out of 
 it to keep Ins anniversary, and then to be sold to the use of the 
 church; 40.s. to IVilliam Birdereelle, his patron; 40.s. to each exe- 
 cutor for their labour; and 4 nobles of old gold to the Lady ^/i/(e 
 Wifugfield, to be supervisor Proved the last of Sept. 1479. 
 
 These arms were latel}' in the windows, though now several of them 
 are lost, the monuments here having sutl'eied much, when the old 
 hall was pulled down, by the workmen's working in the church. 
 
 Herling, Tuddenham, Berdeweli, PakenJiam, Ftirncanx, and Den- 
 net/. 
 
 And there were several effigies of the Berdetcelh in red habits, 
 (thai being the colour of the field of their arms.) In the bclfiy win- 
 dow were Berdetcel/'s and Seckford's arms. 
 
 ihc comniundments liang agaiast the north wall, under them is 
 
 this. 
 
 43o0 bleji^ oiir Idiin'', anb j-ienD bim long to reignc, 
 %n peace anD l^caltlj, t|3e «i2>o.HieI to maintaine. 
 
 * Regr. Avvbiye. 
 VOL. I. II r
 
 310 WEST-HERLING. 
 
 On the south side of the curch was a chapel dedicated to St. Mary 
 the Virgin, called BcrdeicelPs chapel, not, as I imagine, because that 
 family was buried in it, (for I meet with none,) but because it be- 
 longed to Beaufo's manor, which came early to the Berdetce/h. Tliis 
 in all probability was founded by Nicholas dc Beaufo ; but whoever 
 was its founder, he was interred, or rather immured, in its south wall, 
 for it falling to decay very latelj', a faculty was obtained to take it 
 down, and in so doing, the body of the founder appeared to be laid 
 in a stone coffin, enclosed in the south wall, which (by the present 
 patron's order) was preserved as it was found, and being covered with 
 bricks, now lies undisturbed, in the nature of an altar tomb. 1 am 
 told there was a small silver tiling like a candlestick in the coffin, but 
 rather think it to have been a crucifix. 
 
 In this chapel there was but one stone inscribed, and that being 
 taken up, is now placed as an altar tomb, in the churchyard. 
 
 Here licth the Body of Anne Le-Ncve, Daughter of Oliver 
 Le-Neve of Witchingham Esq; and Anne, sole Daughter of Sir 
 John Gawdy of West Herling in this County Bart, who died 
 29 Nov. 1689.* 
 
 Most of the Gaiidys were buried in this chapel. The founder's 
 tomb appeared on the outside of the south wall ; it had an arch turned 
 over it, and the gravestone or lid of the coffin was about two feet 
 from the ground. 
 
 In the window over the tomb was Gawdy quartering Bassing- 
 boiirne, impaling fVotton, BardiceU, Walcote, Bukenkam, Furneaux, 
 and Witchingham. 
 
 On a black marble in the chancel, 
 
 Cressener, ar. on a bend sah. three croslets fitchee or, impaling a 
 lion rampant. 
 
 In 
 
 Memory of HENRY CRESSENER, once Rector of this Parish, 
 
 and of ELIZABETH his beloved Wife, of apeacefull 
 
 and vertuous Disposition, is tliis Monument placed, 
 
 HENRY, and JOHN his Father, and NICHOLAS 
 
 his Grandfather, were successively Rectors 
 
 of this I'arish for the Space of ISO > ears, 
 
 none of them ever conteiiding in Law-Suits under unjust 
 
 Extortions of thei! just Demands. 
 
 HENRY, as a true Son of the Church, was of 
 
 a modest Demeanour, 
 
 a faceiious Conversation, 
 
 a peaceable Oifiposition, 
 
 an unlimited Benevolence, 
 
 a Support to the Needy, 
 
 a Hei.ler of Bre;iches, 
 
 a Comforter if the Afflicted, 
 
 a help to the Distressed. 
 
 ♦ Le Neve, vol. iv, p. iii.
 
 WEST-HERLING 311 
 
 HENRY and ELIZABETH, lived in conjugal Love 48 Years, 
 
 and oa the ^l\\ of Novtinbcr 17 KJ, She finislicd this Lite, 
 
 in the 87th year of her a^e, and lie on the lyth of October, 
 
 1730, in llie 7yth Year of his Age, Both under this Stone 
 
 Interred. 
 
 They, for a Time, enjoyed the Blessing of two 
 
 hopefull Sons, .lOllN, hi= eldesl, was for his 
 
 Great Learnnig, Sob lety, & Goodness, chosen 
 
 Fellow of '.Queen's Coll: in Cambridge, 
 
 HliNKV, the youngest, of Clare-hail, whose 
 
 early d aln debarr'd his succeeding Preferments. 
 
 ELIZABET.i CKl.SSi^N Ell, being the only surviving Issue, was the 
 
 mournful Directn.K of this Memorial, of her nidulgent 
 
 Parents. 
 
 There wire two Gi/ds in this church, one dedicated to the Tiinltt/, 
 and the other to St. John Baptist. 
 
 The Town Land is about 5/. a year, which was given by Mrs. 
 Margaret Gtmdtf, to clothe poor widows, if there be any ; if not, 
 any.poiJi people ; it lies in Kcnninghall and Baiihain, and the rent is 
 received by the rector and church-wardens, who apply it accordingly. 
 
 This rectory is thus valued with that of Midle-Uerliiig, which is 
 consolidated to it. 
 
 King's Books. I Year/i/ Tenths. I Sijnodah. I Archd. Procur, 
 
 y]8 4loi9iolo2ol OGS 
 
 Acres Glebe. I Norw. Taxat, 
 80 O I 8 marks. 
 
 with a ctdlet or 100 sneep going in tne lora s loia, iree oi an uuaigc. 
 The Prior oi' Bokenkam's temporals were taxed at Is. \d. and the Prior 
 ofTketford's atSs.fx/. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1331, Tho. de Saxham, rector, on whose resignation in 
 
 1337, 13 kal. Aug. IValter de Salopia, priest, succeeded, who 
 changed fros^o/j for this. Tho. de Bkrdewelle, patron. 
 
 1349, 8 J all/, Will. Wrothyng de Brettenham, shaveling. Ditto. 
 
 130(3, 27 July, Rob. de Swajluirn Bolbek, priest. John de Herw 
 LYNG, (feoffee,) he was after rector of St. Mari/'s in Long-Stiatton., 
 
 1381,17 Aug. Tho. Neve, priest. Ditto. 
 
 13yl, Rob.Graniesdcn, priest. John deTuddenham, for this 
 turn. . 
 
 1410, If) Odob. Sir Rob. Asty of Weston, priest. Robert, son of 
 Will, de Bcrdwell, Knt. 
 
 143S, 3 July, Master John dc Gyllyng, priest, on Asty s resigna- 
 tion. Ditto. 
 
 s There is a commission out (as I am I know not whether it be executed or 
 informed) exchange the glebe, but no.
 
 312 WEST-HERLING. 
 
 1440, 6 July, John Mj/chell, priest. Robert Berdewell, Esq. 
 in right of his manor called BerdtielFs. In 1437, he had Midle- 
 Herliiig consolidated to this. He is buried here. 
 
 Half i'u/l of Love, rector, who died ia 1479> 's buried here ; 
 he was succeeded by 
 
 Peter Bardwell, on whose deaiii in 
 
 1503, 8 Octob. Rob. Caiidehr succeeded ; on his death in 
 
 1525, 17 Dee. Henry Tliexton, was instituted. John Wotton, 
 and Elizabeth his wife. 
 
 1533, 26 April, ShJo/iii Thompson, chaplain. John Wotton, Esq. 
 
 1343, \0 April, Sir 'Iho. Thompson, cliaplain toTnoMAS Duke of 
 Norfolk. 
 
 At this time John Richard, rector of Fornecel, and Rob. Wright, 
 rector of Ilopton, were commissioners in order to take down MidU- 
 Ilerling church, 
 
 1357, 26 Jnne, Edmund Ki/ne, S. T. B. on Thompson's death. 
 An.n'e Wodehouse, alias Reppes. 
 
 John Kijng, rector; on his death in 
 
 1359, SOJulif, Edward Jucksonne, priest, was instituted. Bassinc- 
 bourne Gawdy, Gent, and Anne his wife. 
 
 1568, 8 Feb. Will Fronklinge-, on Jachsons resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1573, 8 Octob. fVill. Nashe, on Franklinge's death. Ditto. 
 
 1587, 30 March, Will. Hanye, chaplain, on Nashe's death. Bas. 
 Gawdy, senior, Esq. 
 
 1591, 15 Sept. n ill. Ilarvie. Bas. Gawdye, Esq. 
 
 1596, 21 April, Kick. Cressener, A. M. on Harvie's resignation. 
 Sir Bas. Gawdy, Knt. 
 
 John Cressener died rector. 
 
 1670, 31 Mat/, Henri/ Cressener, A. M. John Gawdy, Esq. 
 
 1720, 24 June, the Rev Mr. John Whaley, the present [1736] rec- 
 tor, was instituted on Cressener s death. Bas. Gawdy, Bart,; he 
 holds it with Ridlesworth and Gaslhorp.
 
 [ 313 ] 
 
 LITTLE-IIEULINC. 
 
 NOW CALLKO 
 
 Af I DDLE-H Eli LING. 
 
 BeCAl'SR it lie* in the midsl. bolwecn If'cst nnd r.ail-IIerliiig, wa* 
 liclil by ( Ichctfll i\ Dune, in tin- Confrssor's <liiys, :iiiil Ic .■fii\c/iileit 
 his (lesccnclaiitj (or son, us llic n;iine iiitiniutfs,) in llie (Ji.nqiieror's ;* 
 the whole ronluined 4 c-arucate« of land, whcreot" two were in de- 
 mean ; it was in Kcnningluill sokcn, and worth at first (\l then raised 
 to 7/. biit fell again to .5/. The part in H fsl-ller/iir^ winch heloiigcd 
 to the Furntaux family, and after bi-canie licnfertr/rs manor, was 
 valued into the 4 eariie.vtes at half a fee, all which were held in 
 capitc, by .Jltin liarl of Hicliinoiiil, (of whom L Ikftill held it,) as 
 part of (lis honour, at a whole fee; this ami 1\ rst-llvrliii;^, which 
 was measured and taxed with it, was a league and a half long, and a 
 league broadj and paid 'lid. gelJ, out of every COs. raisciT in the 
 baud red. 
 
 This manor was infeofled in tlic FoRNEAUX family, by tlie I!arl 
 of Hichmoml, along with licrgham, of both winch Sir .Irll'rn/ ilc i'ltr- 
 naitix, Knt. was lord about 1 180, and had his chief scalat lie inhom in 
 (Sambrid^tfhirc ; he had Robert, Jfjjeri/, and Hull ; Sir Robert de 
 /•«r/if//, the eldest, was a knight in r2l<J,aiid \u\Ao\' lleraliam, ofwhom 
 Jfjf'enf his brother held H-rliiig, as of the manor of Kerglitim, it being 
 given him by Sir Jrjf'eri/ his father, and he was the first of the family thai 
 si-lled here. Iliseldest brother, Sir Roberl,marucd .///re, by whoui he 
 had Sir Michael dc i'lirneunx, Knt. whose wife .lliee was buried in the 
 church of the canons of the llolif Sepitlrlire at Tlietfvrd. Their son, v 
 Sir Simon de Fiirnetnix, in 12H1, had a market and fair granted to his 
 manor o{ lierkliam, or liergham, where he resided, and tree-wurren in 
 liergham, Linton, in Cambridgeshire, and Stcani/nglnn in Sorjhlk ; 
 nnd some time before this, he was licensed to grant a m<'ssuai;r and 
 lands in lirrgham, to the |)rior and brethren of the lloh/ i'rois at 
 liergham. lie was lord o( I'tlhiim i'lirneaiix,'' and marrii d .-///Vr, 
 one of tlie sisters and coheiresses of l/fA j, son of I'hilip de llasti/ngs ; 
 
 * 1 rrf Ai.ini Citniiis, Giliecross car Icrrr . Soca in Kcnirluil* scmp. i. 
 
 Ilund. (Doms. fo. 6S.) In llrrlinf^, burd. rt ilii. acr. prjti. tunc et post ii. 
 
 irnrt AnKhilillus iiii. car. Icrrc, quas car m" i. wmpcr i. nine, in" mi. anim. 
 
 Iciiuit Ulcheicl, liber homo T. K. E. cl xx.)>or. scinixr Ixx. ovrt. tunc valuit 
 
 tunc XV. villani pott ct modo xiii. scmp. vi. Iitir. |>ost vii. lb. modo c. wl. 
 
 ill. l-ordar. tunc ii. serv. post et m'' i. Toliini hahcl i. laig. in longo, ct i. 
 
 Vim. act. prati, scmp. ii. car. in dnin, Icii;;. in lato, qiiiciinijuc ibi icncal, ct 
 
 tunc VII. car. horn, (wtt vi. m'^ iiii. scnv xxvii.dcn. dc Gr'io. 
 per i. niol. tunc. r. pitcin. modo i. ' Sir Henry Cluunry, fa. 140, uyi, 
 
 piA'in. et dim. ct iii. wcheinani dintid. he «ai lord of all the Pellumt.
 
 SU MIDLE-HERLING. 
 
 her sister Elizabeth married Giles Hevtl ; and Margery, Roger le Bo- 
 ti/trc. Sir Simon left only one daughter, married to Ju/iit de Lee, in 
 King Edward the First's time, in whom the eldest branch of tins t"a- 
 mil\ extinguished ; wherefore we must now relura to 
 
 Sir Jefiry de I-'irnals, Knt. lord oi' Herling, whose wife Ami/ 
 was buned m the church of the canons at 'Ihtljoru,^ to which house, 
 he gave the ninth sheaf of all his demeans in Bircham and llerliiig, 
 with a messuage and 12 acres of land adjoinnig, with commonage in 
 the marsh, and shackage in the field, willi Amy his wife, who devoted 
 herself, both living and dead, to that house ; and his son and grinidson 
 confirmed thc^e grants. Their temporals here' were tu.\ed at '.Vv. but 
 their sjiirituais' were never taxed, for the\ always receivetl a compo- 
 sition of ii'U. 4(/. a year, instead of the sheafs in kind, fie left two 
 sons, liiihard the youngest, and 
 
 Sr Simon de Furneaux, Knt. who was lord in 1'234 ; he had 
 three sons by Cteilij his wife, Gaiidcline, Michael, and Hubert, his 
 eldest son, w lio die I befoje him in 1C7S, leaving 
 
 Sir John oeFuuneaux, his son and heir, who became lord in 
 1C86, at his grandfather's death ; he granted his manors of yJijiidei by, 
 and lli/thestepell in Yorkshire, with their advowsons, to JclJri/ le 
 Scroop, and Juelta his wife, and Henry their son, and his heirs, to be 
 held by the payment of a red rose every Midsummer Day, for 20 
 years after the giant, and then b}' the payment of 40/. a year, to the 
 said John and his heirs. He married Mary, daughter of Nie. de 
 Tuynsted, she being then a widow ; he was buried by his father and 
 grandfather, in the cburch or the canons of Thei/urd, leaving one 
 son and two daughters; jinne, who became a protessed nun at Thet- 
 ford, in lo43 ; Elizabeth, married to John de Berdewell, with whom 
 lie gave the manor in i\ est- Herling, afterwards called BerdewelCs, to 
 be held of Rielimond honour at iialf a fee, which till this time was 
 part of this manor. 
 
 Sir John Fluneaux, junior, Knt. liis son and heir, was a ward of 
 Sir It i/l, Le-f aux, who sold his wardship to llilliam Le-Htislelere, 
 and Thomas, his son, who kept court liere as guardians : -in 1320, 
 Sir John, and Isabel, his first wife, kept court,- and in 1348, he settled 
 the manor and advowson on Sir John de Gontile, rector of East-IJer- 
 ling, and Petir de Nezcton, rector of Brom, in trust for Elizabeth, his 
 second wife, who died before him, and he married .</wi/, his third wife, 
 who outlived him, and mmried Rob. Denncy in 1384, in which year 
 tliey held their first court for the third part of the manor and advowson, 
 which she held in dower, and in I4.i0, they let it for 8 maiks. By 
 his first wife he had a son and one daughter, viz. 
 
 John de Furneaux, whom John Duke o{ Lancaster and Earl of 
 Richmond, the King's son, seized, together with Elizabeth his sister, 
 as his wards, by reason of his manor of Bergham in Cambridgeshire, 
 of which Midle- Haling was held, as oi' Richmond honour, and soon 
 after he granted their wardships and m;uriage to Hugh de Clider- 
 kotae, wlio, in 13(Jl, granted tiicm to John de Herlyng, by deed dated 
 at Bergham; this John died a minor this year, and Sir John de. 
 Herlyng kept his first court by grant of the Earl of Richmond. 
 
 ' He was buried by Amy his wife, in ' Viz. the house and ii acres^ 
 tlic canon's church,. ' The ninth sheaf.
 
 MIDLE-IIERLING. 315 
 
 Elizabeth Foeneaux, sole heiress, inairicd fust to Thomas 
 Crabbe, whose widow she was in 1401, in which year she settled this 
 manor and advowson, with tlie reversion oi' Ki/mberfee manor, after 
 the death of ili<og«>Tf, late wife of 7'/(0. Ftistu)f', Ivnt. on Sir Thomas 
 Erpuii^hatn, Knt. Tho. llalh of Crong'thoip, John Poit, rector of 
 EaU rierliiiir, and Uilliam C.nrhutl, ciuii>lain there, to her use for 
 life, and her heirs in tail ; after whieli slie married William Saridhmn 
 of Kimberlee, who sold Kimberke without her consent, timugh she 
 give him Ihrlins. for life. Her will is dated in 1415. By her first 
 husband slie liad two sons, John and Ui//i,im, who, in 14C4, sued 
 (fil/iam Jkrckwcll, Esq. for the manor, but Sir The. Erpnigham 
 proving tliat he and other feoffees had sei/.in of it, to the use of 
 Eliz. Crabbe, his mothei, for life, and llicn to John Ciabbc, her son, 
 and his heirs, it was confirmed to llitliam Iknlacell and his heirs. 
 
 John Crabde, the eldest son, died long before his mother, leaving 
 only one daughter, . 
 
 Eleanou, who married William BerdcweU,'- Esq. of IVest-Herliiig, 
 in whose right lie iiad the manor and advowson, all the feofiees re- 
 leasin;' their rights in 14;3;5, when they sellled it on him and his wife 
 and l^illiam their son and his heirs; from which time it hath conti- 
 nued joined to Wcst-Ilerling, as it now remains. 
 
 The Church was dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, being al- 
 ways appendant to the manor ; it was a rectory valued at ,5 inarks at 
 the Norzdch taxation, it is in Rockland deanery, and Notfollc arch- 
 deaconry, and still pays Is. synodals, and Is. Ad. archdeacon's pro- 
 curations; it paid 35.s.4f/. tenths, and is valued now [173ti] wiih West- 
 Hcrling to the land tax, there being 4 houses and about 30 inhabi- 
 tants. '^The churchyard is now glebe; the church remained in use 
 till 1543, and then it was entirely taken down, so that the foundations 
 only are now visible, it stood by the lane's side, in the close going to 
 Wesf-HerliiKT church. Here was a Gi'W dedicated to St. Audieic, to 
 which, in 1504, Tho. Lulpek was a benefactor. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1308, 12 kal. Oct. Simon de Foxton, priest, to Littk-Herling. 
 Rob. de Furneus, Knt. 
 
 1324, 11 U.a\.Sept. Bartholomew de Banham, priest, on Foxton's 
 resignation. John de Farneaus, Knt. 
 
 1337, 18 June, he changed this for Winfarthing, with John le 
 ■ Nelde, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1358, 28 Dec. Richard Gahfon, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1377, 30 jVoi'. Will, atte Tounseitde, priest. John de Herling. 
 
 1414, 2 June, Rob. Fi/tchet, priest, at Townsend's death. ^YI^I'• 
 Sandam oUiimber lee, 'in right of Eliz. Furneaux his wife, as 
 belonging to Farneaux manor. 
 
 1435, 18 Dec. Rob. Folk of Med^l-Herling, priest, on Fytchet'i 
 death. \\'illiam, son of Rob. Berdtwelle, patron. 
 
 »ThisVVilliainsiicdfor, and recover- " manor of Kyinberlee, ne no parcell 
 
 ed the manor ofKimberlc, by proving " thereof: and upon ys we recordyn, 
 
 that tlizabeth Sandham said, " That it " that after tyme, the forseyd manor 
 
 " was newyr her wyll, ne ascnt, tliat " was sold, ne she had newyr good 
 
 " her husband Sandon xuld sellcn the " day."
 
 316 EAST-IIERLING. 
 
 1457, SO Jan. John Mtfchell, priest : he was the last rector, it being 
 cousoliilated in Ins time to IVat-tierling, 
 
 In l3Cl,Sir/f)AH de Furnnanx Knt. in open court, enjoined all the 
 tenants of the manor, under the penalty ij(\1d. for eviy default, to 
 dig a St. Andrew's cross on each piece of their Imd, wiien thi-y sowed 
 it, to avoid ail disputes between the rectors of H\st and Middle- 
 He rling. 
 
 There were three lamps and a wax taper kept burning in this 
 church, at the e.\()onse of tlip lord of tlu- manor. 
 
 Ill 1344, the Old litid a teiieuKMU ami y acres freehold, of the Prior 
 of the canons of lue tiolt/ Scpulc/ire, at T/ietford, by the leiit of 12rf. 
 a year, ail which hnj/ IVuierhcnne held of tiie lord, by paying the 
 prior his rent, and \d. a year to tiie lord 
 
 Rilnrt Gildemekt died in 1444, and gave a messuage called 
 Piudi/e's at Middtc-Iitr/ing Green, and 9 acres of land, 4 acres and' 
 an half Iving at Dedm re, and 4 acres and an half at Blowlond, to 
 the inhabitants of Middle-Hcrling for ever, who, in 1J56, brought 
 their deeds into court, and proved that on Jpri/ the l,'5th, 1547, 
 Henry Cooper, then feoftee, made a new feoffment of Gildensleves, 
 to the use of the inhabitants, it being freehold, held of Bcrdezce lie's 
 manor in JVest-Uerling, by suit of court, and the rent of 6f/. a 3'ear 
 and one capon. 
 
 MARKET-HERLIXG, 
 
 OR 
 
 EAST-HE RUNG, 
 
 Js so called because it lies most east of all three; it belonged to 
 Kettl the Dane, a freeman in the Confessor's time, when it was one 
 manor, having two carucates in demean; in the Conqueror's time 
 Ingulf hekWt under Will, de Schoies, there being then a church and 
 4 acres of land belonging to it; the whole was 2 miles long, and 2 
 miles broad, and paid 17 d ]q. geld.^ 
 
 The whole came to the Earl H arren, and a part of it went with a 
 younger branch of that family to the Bardolphs, and Hugh dc Bar- 
 dolph held it at half a fee ; this after became Fawconcrs manor. 
 
 ' Terra Willi, de Schoies, Hnnd. 
 GiUecross. (Doms. fo. 206.) In Her- 
 linga, teniiit Keiel libtr homo T. R.E. ii. 
 car. terre pro nianerio, modo te:.etlngiil- 
 fus. semper v.vill.etiiii. bordar. tunc.i. 
 serv.et liii.acr. prati,senip.i. car. indnio. 
 et i. car. homin silva. xvi. yort. et i. 
 car. posset restaurari, semper i. mol. et 
 ii. socin. XX, ucr. terre et iii. acr. prati, 
 
 semp. dim, car. m" i. rune, senip. iiii, 
 animal. m° viii. pore, et ex. oves. et i. 
 vas apum. i. ecclesia iiii. acr. tunc va- 
 luit XXX. J. m"* xl. Totum habet i 
 Jeug. in longo et i. leug. in lato, et 
 xvii.if. et i. ferding, quicunquc ibi te- 
 neat. et vii. acr. et diinid. terre jacet 
 huic terre et silv. xii. pore.
 
 EAST-HERLING. 317 
 
 A quarter of a fee went to Robert Malet. 
 
 Another half fee went to Roger dc Schuvill, ^ , ^ , „. , 
 
 And the otlier fee and 3 quarters was held of the Earl Warren, the 
 
 whole making 3 fees, two fees and an half of which constituted the 
 
 capital manor called 
 
 FELBRIGGE'S MANOR, 
 
 Which contained a carucate in demean, and was held by a family 
 sirnamed Dc Norfolk, the last of which was Gilbert de Norjolk, who 
 died seized, leaving his five daughters cohenesses 
 
 The first married Eudo, son ot Adam de Mutton ; the second, 
 JVilliamde Vcrdon ; the third, Roger Bj/godoU'e/brigge, the fourth 
 miliam de Mai/mcari/n; the fifth, Rob. de Atgmllon ; and each of 
 Ihem had a fiftii part of the manor and advowson, which after this 
 division became so many separate manors. Martina de Norfolk was 
 Gilbert's sister, and William was her son, and both had lands here, 
 but were not concerned in the manor. 
 
 MULTON'S MANOR 
 
 Was soon united to Bi/god's or Felbrigges, for Eado released it to Sir 
 Simon he Bygod of Pelbrigge, and Maud his wife, and their heirs, 
 and so it fell into Felbrigge^s immediately. 
 
 VERDON'S MANOR. 
 
 William re Verdon, who married Maj/rf, daughter of Gilbert 
 de Norfolk, died before his wife, and she had her dower allowed her, 
 it havin"- been settled by them, before his death, on JVill. de Laken- 
 ham, an'ti habell his wife, after whom Alexander de Faux of Keswick, 
 and'Margaret his sister, had each a third part, which, before 12G8, 
 they released to John de laux, their brother, and Margaret his wife, 
 for they in that year released it (the advowson being excepted) to 
 Tko. deJernemuta or Yarmouth, who had it jointly with Ayetine his 
 wife, about 1284, which y/ie//«e remarried to John de Wachcsham, 
 and they, in 1303 settled it by fine on Simon Le liflgot, and his heirs, 
 and so united it to Felbrigge's manor; but the fifth part of the ad- 
 vowson, which was excepted, passed from the Fauxea to the Hales, 
 and so fell into Maynewaryn's manor. 
 
 MAYNWARYN'S MANOR. 
 
 William de Maynwaryn died in 1247; Emma or Amy, his 
 wife, daughter of Gilbert de Norfolk, recovered her dower against 
 Roger her son, who was joint lord with William his brother, in 1256; 
 Simon, son of Roger, was lord in 128G, against whom Lucia, late 
 widow of /CiV/iaw his uncle, then married to Stephen deGming, re- 
 covered her dower ; this Simon was married to l.etlice his wife in 
 1297, whose daughter, Agatha Mcyncicuryn, was lady in 1315, from 
 which time I meet with nothing of'ittill 1368, and then Sir Roger de 
 Hales had it, whose succeesour, Stephen de Hales, presented in right of 
 
 vol. I. S s
 
 :n8 EAST-HERLING. 
 
 Ills two fif'di parts of the advowson. In 1401, Lady Joan de Hales 
 had it, and very soon after it belonged to Sir John Gonvile, with 
 whose daughter and heiress it passed to Sir Robert Herling, and so fell 
 into the capital manor. 
 
 AGUILLON'S MANOR 
 
 Went from Robert to Walter de Jiguillon, and from liim to Robert 
 de Agelifn,\s\\o settled it on Si/mon Le Bygot of Fe/brigge, and Maud 
 his wife, and their heirs, for 10 marks per iinitum, to he paid to the 
 said Robert at Flitcham, during his life, and thus it fell into 
 
 FELBRIGG'S, on THE CAPITAL MAxNOR 
 
 Roger Le Bygot de Eelebuigge, who was as often called 
 Roger de Felbrigge, in right oi' Gilbert de Norfoll;'s daughter, whom 
 he had married,"had a fiith part of the manor and advowson; after 
 him succeeded Richard de Filbrigge, who gave Alfred Kokerbolle, 
 his villein, and all his services, to the canons at Tlietford: IVilliam de 
 Felbrigge was his son and heir, whose wife Mary, after his death, 
 married to Merlai, and held this manor in dower, which went to Simon 
 Le Bygot of Felbrigge, and Maud his wife, who held it of the Earl 
 Warren; in King Henry the Third's time he purchased Jgmllonsand 
 Multon's parts. In 12S0, Sir Roger Ic Bygod oi' Felbrigge had a charter 
 of free-warren for his manors of Herling, Felbrigge, Runton, Melton, 
 and Palling, when he and his parceners held Herling manors, late 
 Gilbert de Norfolk's at 2 fees and an half, of the Earl-Marshal. In 
 1303, Simon Le Bygod of Felbrigge, and Alice his wife, purchased 
 Ferrfort's manor; this Simon had the whole by grant from JVilliamLe 
 Bygod, his brother, who was rector here, and in 1,';47, he and his wife 
 conveyed the advowson, with 1 acre of land only, to him again, and 
 in 1350, they settled all, but the acre and advowson, on Nicholas 
 Bourne, of Long-Stratlon, who left it to his two daughters and heirs, 
 Elizabeth, manied to S'n Tho. Jenney, Knt. who, in 1361, released 
 all their right to Margaret their sister, and John de Herling her hus- 
 band, and their heirs, who purchased the advowson of William Bygot, 
 and so joined it to the manor again. 
 
 fawconer's manor 
 
 Came with they ounger branch of the Earl Warren's family to the 
 Bardolfs,* and from them to Phillip dt f irlye, from him to John de 
 Boyland, and from him to Ralph of Kenninghall, sirnamed Le Fal- 
 coner, and then to his son Ralf of Keninghall, lo whose son, Simoti 
 of Keninghall, William de Hastyngs of Qiiidenham granted a messu- 
 age and many lands there, free, at lid. a year rent.' In Henry the 
 Third's time, John Le Falconer held half a fee of Maud de Boyland, 
 and she of Phillip de Virlye, he ol Hugh Bardolf, he of the Earl 
 Warren, and the Earl of the King, at half a fee, the relief being 20s. 
 as the Feodary informs us ; this John was alive in 1283. 
 
 lu ifi86, Amy de Rusheuord claimed leeyf here, and William dt 
 
 See Banham. ' Coll. Ep. Asaph.
 
 EAST-HERLING. 
 
 319 
 
 Criiigkt/iorp, Aho; Amif migliL be Ju/coHf/'* widow, married again 
 to Ciingktliorp. 
 
 In 1288, John Le Fawconer, and Joan his wife, had lands here, 
 settled on them by Edmund de Mnupinzoti, and others. 
 
 In 1302, tlicy lived at Kcningha/l, were loids in 1315, and had 
 added other lands in Iierlin<i and Kcning/in//, valued at the eighth part 
 ot'afee, which they held ui lioheit de Taleshall, as of iioAf /(//«/« castle. 
 
 In 134j, Simon Le Falconer had it, and paid his relief; he was 
 succeeded by 
 
 John Fawconer, whose wife Julian died before him in 1374, and 
 he held her manors ior life, by the courtesy of Eiig/niid, they having 
 then no living issue ; she was daughter and coheir of T/io. de Ormesby; 
 her sisters were to inherit her manors at her husband's death: sc. 
 Gunnora, married to Perers,'' and had John Peicrs, who had one 
 daughter only, Elizabeth, married to Sir T/io. dc Nar/ord, Knt. ; 
 Elen, her other sister, married, and had two daughters, Agnes, mar- 
 ried to Snecke, and Alice to Dertitig. 
 
 It was soon after in the Gonviles, but how it came to them I know 
 not; ihe la/coners lived first a.1 Kcninghall, and afterwards in the 
 manor-house, which laid between Keninghall and Herling, and is now 
 called Jlilt-IIerling, or Gelding Hall. 
 
 From the Gonviles it went with their heiress to the Herlings, and 
 the whole being joined, it was called 
 
 HERLINGS MANOR. 
 
 The Herlings were a family of great antiquity in this parish, 
 from which they received their names; I find them mentioned in 
 divers evidences without date, as Walter de Eastlierling, and Ralph 
 his son, John de Herling, and Odo his son, who gave a rood of land 
 to the canons at Tbetford ; but as none of them were concerned in 
 the lordship before Jo/i;/ de Herling, ixboal 1350, 1 shall begin with 
 him in the following pedigree. 
 
 1350, John de Her- 
 ling, died 13921 bu- 
 ried here. 
 
 r 
 
 Margaret. 
 
 Margaret Jenney, ^Sir John Tuddenham bu- 
 
 buried in the. Black ricd in St. Peter's chancel 
 Friars, Thetford. at Ercswell in Suffolk. 
 
 3. Thomas. 2. Robert. Sir John de Her- 
 ling, Knt. buried 
 here. 
 
 Cecily Mor- John Ratcliff, 
 
 timer. Esq. 
 
 Sir Rob Tud- 
 denham, Knt. 
 
 Margarat 
 "Herling. 
 
 SirRob.Herlyng, Knt._Joan pr Jane, heir 
 
 died 14351 was sole 
 lord and patron. 
 
 general of Gonvile. 
 
 Robert Thomas Joan 
 
 lord 
 here ; 
 no is. 
 sue. 
 
 died an and 
 inlant. Mar- 
 gery, 
 num. 
 
 Margaret 
 
 married 
 
 to 
 
 Sir £d- 
 "mund 
 Bcding- 
 field, 
 Knt. 
 
 i 
 Who 
 told it 
 to Sir 
 Tho. 
 Lovell, 
 Knt. 
 
 Anne, dr. iSirWm. 2 Sir 3 John 
 
 ind heir- 
 ess, had 3 
 husbands, 
 but no is- 
 sue, so that 
 it reverted 
 to Margt, 
 Tudden- 
 ham, her 
 aunt. 
 
 "Chambei 
 lain, of 
 Gedding, 
 Knghl of 
 the Gar- 
 ter, buried 
 with her 
 husband 
 here. 
 
 Robert' 
 Wyng- 
 hcld. 
 
 Lord 
 Scroop 
 of Bol- 
 ton. 
 
 ' See Holt Perer's manor.
 
 320 EAST-HE RUNG. 
 
 In 1360, John de Hehling had free-warren allowed him in this 
 manor, and those of Qiiidiiiham, Gnateshall, Nezi'toii, and Corton in 
 Lot/iiiig/and ; in 136?, he settled tliis manor and advowson, Qiiiden- 
 ham manor and advowson, the manor of Gmitsliall, manors in both 
 Boketihams, Croiton and liol/ii/iigfia// manor in Birtteii/uim, on Tho- 
 vias llfi/uanl, master of JiH^Aaor//; college, and other feoffees; he 
 was a good soldier, and most expert manager of maritime affairs, 
 upon which account, in 1S4'2, he had the custody of the sea-water 
 at Bristol, during the King's pleasure. He w;is buried in the church 
 of St. Peter and Paul at Ea.st-Herliii'j;, (in Jlerliiig's chapel,) accord- 
 ing to his will, in which he ordered his best hoise to be led before 
 his corpse to the grave, as his principal or mortuuri/ for the priest. 
 He died seized of the aforesaid manors, with those of Long-Stratton, 
 and many others, leaving them all to his eldest son and heir. 
 
 Sir John de Herling, Knt. who, in 1389, settled on his mother, 
 then wife of Sir John Tuddtnham, Barnes, Sitnpe, and Stitrmine Hall 
 manors in Long-Stratton, the advowson of St. Mari/'s chapel in 
 ff alceton, and St. Mary's church in Stratton, and Rothynghall in 
 Bretttnliam. He married Cecily, daughter and coheir of Tho. Mor- 
 timer of /ittlchurgh, Knt. who survived him, and after married John 
 Ratcliff, Esq. son of Sir John Ratcliff, Knt. ; she brought a great 
 estate to the Herlings; his brother Robert had an estate in Newton, 
 and Corton, and Thomas, in Lounde in Lothingland. In 1374, he 
 settled on George de Felbrigge, Knt. and other trustees, this, and 
 Quidenham manors and advowsons, ols. rent in Bretteiiham and Bo- 
 kcnham, the manors of Gnatcshall and Corton, and others in Suffolk, 
 all which were possessed by Cecily his widow, and after by John 
 Ratcliff, her second husband, who, in 1440, held Newenham manor in 
 Cambridge town, of the King in burgage, remainder to Sir Robert 
 Herling, Knt. remainder to Aune his daughter and heir, married to 
 Sir Jl'ill. Chamberlain. 
 
 Sir KoBERT Herling, Knt. was a great warriour in France in tiie 
 time of that victorious prince King Henry V. whom he attended in 
 1412, at the siege of Meatix,^ which they took by assault ; and during 
 the rest of his life he was continually exercising arms in tiiat king- 
 dom, where he died like a brave soldier, in his calling, being killed by 
 the French at Pai-is, as he endeavoured valiantly to defend that city, 
 in the year 1433 ; from whence he was brought and buried in St. 
 Marys chapel,' in St. Peter and Paul's church at pMut- Herling, 
 under an altar tomb in the south wall, in which he founded a perpe- 
 tual chantry, for his own and his ancestors' souls, Jane his wife being 
 buried with him. She brought him Lirling manor and advowson, 
 Rushzcorth manor, called Gonvile's, J'aiiconer's, and Maynicuryns, all 
 which, with 100 acres in Motingthorp, were held at 3 fees, oi John 
 Moxcbray Duke oi' Norfolk, as of his manor oi' Forneet, and were set- 
 tled on Oliver Groos, John Kirtling, clerk, and John Inlicood, his 
 trustees. At his death. 
 
 An n f, his daughter and sole heiress, inherited, she lived to a great 
 age, and married three husbands. First, 
 
 Sir V\ ILLIAM Chamberlain o( Geddiiig in Suffolk, Knight of the 
 Garter, a man of great renown, an able governor, and expert soldier, 
 
 ' Hall's Chronicle, fol. 45. Henry 5. ' Otherwise called Herling's chapel.
 
 EAST-HERLING. 321 
 
 for during his beint; <;overnor of Craill upon Oise in France, \\W\c[\ 
 in 14 !6 was hrs.oged by ibe I'nnch, imin.d.alely after they had taken 
 ParhM iKjliavc-d hiin-elf so bravely, that with 500 Etig/ishmen only, 
 he issued out of the town, discomfited his enemies, slew 200 of 
 them, and took a great number prisoners.' He and his_ wife, in 
 1457 settled nine marks annual rent, issuing out ot la/coitcr n manor, 
 on the eliantry priests that ottieiated in Sir Ruh. Ilcrluigs dvdpeU 
 according tu his will, he is buried in a fine arched monument, with 
 his wife, on tho north side of this ehaiucl, leaving much to Elizabeth 
 Trmsdl, his sis er, by his will dated Mar. 3, 14G1, and proved in this 
 church 21 April, 14' .2. Her second husband was 
 
 Silt UoHEKT VViNGFiULD, Kill, sccond son to 'aw John tVingJield 
 of Lelhvrm-ham w Suffolk, and Elizabeth Fitz- Laces his wife; he 
 was Comptroller of the Household to King Ednard IV. a man of 
 great interest at court; in 1474, the King granted hiin a charier lor 
 a weekly market every Tuesday, at his manor ot East-lhr/iiig, and 
 two fairs every year, to last three days each, viz. one on the vigil, 
 day, and morrow, of St. George the Martyr, and another on the vigil, 
 day, and morrow of St. Echmrd;' and the same year, he and June 
 his wife, settled the manors oi' East- Ihrliiig, Fuwcuners, Quuknham, 
 Welham's, and Rem's in Long-Slratton ; Loug-Stratton manor, 
 Beriiham-Broom, Bekeriston, Stanford, the advowsons ot Herliiig 
 and Quidenhain, of Riishworth and JttUlmrgh colleges, and ot Her- 
 lifiir's chantry in Norfolk, of Gnateshull, Gorton, Newton, Lownde,^ 
 and Bltindeston, with Lownde advowson in Suffolk ; the manors of 
 Neunham Mortimer's, Foxton and Gonvile's in Cambridgeshire, w-iih 
 other larn-e estates, on themselves and their trustees, Edward Bishop 
 of Gar/is%, Sir John JVingJield, Sir John lieveningham. Sir Henry 
 Gretj Knts. Edmund Eokenham, Henri/ Spelmaii, U illiam Berdwell, 
 iuni^or, Thomas Chamberlain, and others, of all which, together vvitli 
 Gonvile's manor in IVimondham, Little Bittering, and Rothyiig-hall 
 in Brettenlwm, he died seized in 1480, after which she married to 
 
 John Lord Scroop of Bolton, her third husband, m 14^2, who 
 died in 14^4, and was buried in the Black Friars' church at Thetjord, 
 according to his will, which ordered that he should be there buried, 
 if he died at Herling, as he did, Juli/ 12, in this year, 
 
 Anne his wife surviving him; she was a hidy remarkable tor her 
 o-ifts to many religious foundations; she gave Lir/iiig manor and ad- 
 vowson, and Gonvile's in Riishuorth, to that college, and obtained 
 them a license of mortmain to purchase 40 marks a year; she sett ed 
 the stipend of her father's chantry priest in this church, and founded 
 the seventh fellowship in Gonvile Hall, in the year IJOi!, being then 
 Lady .SV/oou,- this she endowed with the manor ot Nefav//w/« called 
 Mortimer's, in Cambridge, with the watermill there, all which she 
 "ave for the maintenance of her tehow, who must be a priest, and ot 
 Norwieh diocese: his stipend at the foundation was 8/. a year, bhe 
 had a great value for this college, being daughter and heiress ot Mr 
 RubeH Herling, by Jane, daughter and heiress of John Gonvile, hsq. 
 descended in a direct line from Sir Nicholas Gonvile, Knl. brother to 
 the foundei ; she was born in 142G, and was alive in 1j02 ; but hav- 
 ing no issue, her estate went to 
 
 » Hollingshade, vol. 613. ' The market and fairs are still kept, 
 
 " according to the grant.
 
 SC2 EAST-HERLING. 
 
 Margaret, lier aunt, who married Sir Robert Tudenham, Knt. by 
 whom she had five children; Joan, a.x\\x\\ i\i Curroxo ; Margaret, a 
 nun at Shouldhnm ; Thomas, wiio died an infant, and 
 
 Robert, wIjo inherited, but died young and issueless, leaving 
 
 Maroaret, his sister, his sole heiress, who married Sir Henry 
 BedhrJLfield of Oxbur^h, who was made Knight of the Bath at the 
 coronation oi Richard \V\., He sold llerliiig manors and advowson to 
 
 Sir Thomas Lovell, Knight of the Garter, and kept Quidenham, 
 from which time it continued in the Lovells till 
 
 Thomas VV^right purchased it, and left it to 
 
 Mr. John Wright, his eldest son, who is now lord and patron. 
 
 The style of the court is Iler/iiig cum Meinbris, all the manors being 
 now joined. The fines are at the lord's will; the eldest son is heir. 
 The leet belongs to the hundred; the ketfee is 3s.; blanche-farm 
 lOd. ; castk-ward I4d. 
 
 The family of the Lovells being very numerous, and having been 
 possessed o{ Berton Bendish for many generations, before they settled 
 here, I shall treat of them at large under that town, and therefore 
 shall confine myself to that branch only that had this manor. 
 
 LovELL bears four coats quarterly, 
 
 1. LovELL, ar. a chevron az. between three squirrels seiant gul. 
 
 ^. Bendish, sab. a cross between four lioncels rampant or. 
 
 3. MuswELL, rtr. two chevrons ar. on each three cinquefoils gul. 
 
 4. Brandon, barry of eight, ar. and gul. a lion rampant or, 
 crowned per pale guL and ar. 
 
 Crest, a bundle of peacock's feathers proper, tied gul. Motto: 
 
 VINCIT, QUI PATITUR.
 
 EAST-HERLING. 
 
 343 
 
 Sir Ralf Lovell of Bcrton-Bendish in Norfolk, Knt. 
 
 Sir The. Lovell, his jih son, Isabel, dr. and 
 
 who purchased Hcrling, Knt. coheiress of 
 of ihe Garter, died wilhoul Edward Lord 
 iiiue in 1A24. Roos of Hara- 
 
 lakc. 
 
 Sir Gregory Lovell of Bcr- 
 ton Bendish, son and heir 
 of i\r Ralf, made Banneret 
 at the battle of Stoke, A° 
 1487. 
 
 Margaret, 
 dr. of Sir 
 William 
 Brandon, 
 Km. 
 
 3. Ed- 
 ward. 
 
 2. Sir Francis Lovell, execu- 
 tor and heir by gift, to Sir 
 Tho. Lovell, his uncle, died 
 in 1550, buried at Htrling. 
 
 Anne, dr. of 
 Geo. Ash- 
 field of Hare- 
 field in Mid- 
 dlesex. 
 
 Sir Tho. Lovell of Katherine, 
 
 Bcrton, Knt. eldest daughter of 
 son and heir. (Sec Tho.Wood- 
 Bcrton Bendiih.J house. 
 
 a. Gregory Lovell of Mrrton 
 in Surry, Cofferer to his Ma- 
 jesty's Household ; an inscrip- 
 tion for him on the south side 
 of the chancel of Merlon 
 church, died the 15th March, 
 J597, /Et. 75, had two wives, 
 and left issue.* 
 
 Sir Tho. Lovell, Knt._ 
 of tast-Herhnf;, died" 
 in 1567, buried there. 
 
 Elizabeth, dr. of Sir Phillip 
 "Paris of Linton in Cambr. 
 buried here A" 1591. 
 
 1. Sir Tho. 
 Lovell of 
 Herling, 
 Knt. died in 
 1604, burieo 
 here. 
 
 Alice, dr. of Sir 
 John Huddlc- 
 atonc of Sawsion 
 in Cambridgesh. 
 Knt. died in 
 1602, buried 
 here. 
 
 3 Robert. 4. Franci.':, 
 5. Henry. 6. Edmund, 
 7. Thomas, all died 
 without issue. Anne, 
 married to Grey of 
 Merton in Norfolk. 
 
 a. Phillip Lovell-j 
 
 -Widow of 
 
 1. Sir Fran- 
 
 Anne, 
 
 2 Sir Charles 
 
 a-Wm. 
 
 Rose 
 
 ef Garboldejham. 
 
 Dobb's of 
 
 cis Lovell 
 
 dr of 
 
 Lovell of Hcr- 
 
 Lovel, 
 
 Lang- 
 
 
 Garbol. 
 
 of Herling, 
 
 John 
 
 ling, lord in 
 
 Esq. 
 
 worth 
 
 
 desham. 
 
 Knt. buried 
 there ; no 
 
 Carey 
 Lord 
 
 1623, had four 
 wives ; but 
 
 
 
 
 
 issue. 
 
 Huns. 
 
 having no 
 
 4 children, all 
 
 
 
 
 don. 
 
 male issue, the 
 estate went by 
 
 died young. 
 
 
 
 
 
 entail to John 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lovell, grand- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 son to Phillip, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 who was un- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 cle to Sir 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Charles. 
 
 
 Ellen. 
 
 Ellen. 
 
 Tho. Bray 
 of Swanlon 
 Morley. 
 
 2. Tho. 
 
 Eliz. dr. of 
 Futter of 
 Thompson 
 college. 
 
 1. Geo. Lovell 
 of West Dear-' 
 ham. 
 
 Eliz. dr. of 
 Downes of 
 Bodney, 
 
 3. Philip 
 died is- 
 sueless. 
 
 -Tho Ched- 
 bury of 
 South Peck- 
 ham. 
 
 Phillip 1. Emma, dr. John Lovell of Dionisia, dr. 
 of Everard TEast-Herling, "Tof Edmund 
 
 Thomas 
 
 and 3 living 
 
 more, no in 1653. Buckworth, 
 
 issue. of Wisbitch 
 
 Esq. lieir to Sir 
 C. Lovell, lord 
 in 1641 
 
 Skipwytli of 
 
 Foidham, 
 
 Norfolk. 
 
 Anne and 
 Charles 
 died with- 
 out issue. 
 
 Gregory Lovell of Herling, Esq. John Lovell 
 married Immediately before his of Hcrling, 
 death in 1693, buried at West Esq. lord in 
 Dearham. 1707, who 
 
 so!d the es- 
 tate. 
 
 Dionisia, 
 married to 
 Humberston 
 Marsh of 
 Ashwicken 
 in Noifolk. 
 
 Mr John Lovell of New-Bokenham, 
 now'[i736J living, but hath no issue. 
 
 * Sec Awbrey's Antiquities of Surrey, vol. i. p. 233'
 
 324 EAST -HER LING. 
 
 Sir Thomas Lovell, Knight of the Garter, was an active man, 
 in Kino; Henry the Seventh's lime; in 1485, when he was an esquire 
 only, he was made Chancellor ot" the Exchequer for hfe, and the 
 same year had an annuity' of 40 marks, as Esquire to the King's 
 body; in 1473, llcnn/ Hei/don, Esq. granted him an annuity of 20s. 
 oot of his manor of Siiori/iig-Parva, called Dorketlj/'s, for his good 
 counsel, that he had already, and should hereafter give him. He 
 was first made Banneret, and in 1487, was knighted, at the battle of 
 Stoke, and afterwards installed Knight of the Garter; in 1302, he 
 was Treasurer of the Household, and President of the Council ; he 
 Mas one of the executors to Heiin/ the Seventh's will. Constable of 
 the Tower, Surveyor of the Court of Wards, Steward and jNlarshal of 
 the House to King Heiiri/V[l\ ; he built the Gale-house at Lincoln's 
 Inn, and placed on it the King's arms, the Earl of Lincoln's, and his 
 own, bv which I imagine he had been of that society ; he built East- 
 Herling Hall, on the tower of which his arms still remain, and a 
 brass bust of his own likeness, surrounded with the garter. He re- 
 foundcd Halliuell nunnery, near which he had a stately house, and 
 dying at Enjield, May 25, 1524, was buried at Halliwell, in a fair 
 chapel which he had built, on the south side of the choir of that 
 church, under a tomb of white marble. This priory was dedicated to 
 St. John the Baptist, being situate in Shoreditch parish by Norton 
 Fald-gate, London, and being much decayed, was rebuilt, and an 
 addition made to its endowment, by him, which occasioned the fol- 
 lowing verses to be inscribed on a wall of that house : 
 
 311 pc Bunns of l?alitocU, 
 
 J^rap \}t both ©an anD B'Stlt 
 
 ^or tljc .^oul of ^ir Cfjomasi %oticlf, 
 
 II?f)om S}arrp t])c ^tucntlj tnaoc Jl!tnigi)t. 
 
 By his will, dated Oct. 14, 1522, proved Sept. 26, 1528,' he gave 
 his manor-place at Enjield, called Elsings, (where he died,) to T/io. 
 Mannors, now Lord liosse ; and to his cousin, Prawc/s Lovell, all his 
 manors and estates in East Herling, Bridghani, Gnateshall, Brunsell, 
 Chosell, Bichamzcell, Ashjield's in Bichamwell, Irenhall, JVi/rcn/ial/, 
 JVrotton, Denver, Tirrington, Spoile and Pagrave, in Noifolk and 
 Suffolk ; and Tyde St. Giles in Lincolnshire ; Bitrghzcell, Badling- 
 ham, Ilarston, and Upnarc in Cambridgeshire; his manors in It'ollei/ 
 in Kent ; his lands in Iseldon, Hvlwei/, Edelineton, and Totenham in 
 Middlesex ; his tenements in Sandwich, Querington and Manhani in 
 Kent; his manors of Dukelington, Cockthorp, and Fringeford in 
 Oxfordshire ; lands in Redlings. Berford, and Dounton in Wiltshire, 
 to hold to the said Francis for life, remainder to Sir Thomas Lovell, 
 son of Sir Francis, &c.; after Francis's death, the manors of Lome 
 and Sibell's in If illingham, and WtU's in IVest-lVyckham in Cam- 
 bridgeshiic, to go to the said Thomas, son of Sir Francis, for life, and 
 to his heirs in tail : Eduard, the brother of Francis, to have the 
 moiety of Bassingbourne castle in Cambridgeshire for life, remainder 
 to Fra)icis and his heirs. His lady is buried in ii';///e/</ chancel, on 
 the north side, under an altar tomb, « ith an inscription in brass, and 
 Lovell and Musweirs arms quartered impaling Roos, He left 
 
 ' Regr. Jankyn, in Cur. Perog. Cant. q. 27.
 
 EAST-HERLING. 325 
 
 Sir Francis Lovell his heir, who died Jan. 21, 1550 ;* Thomas, 
 his son, being of age, inherited this manor and advowson, Rowdhum 
 manor, and the impropriate rectory, with the donation of the vicarage, 
 and all the possessions that Sir Thomas, Knight of the Garter, gave 
 to his father. 
 
 Gregory Lovell, Esq. was of that disposition, tlial he did all 
 he could to ruin the estate, being too malicious against his half bro- 
 ther ; and in order thereto, he let the manor-house almost down ; and 
 ■when he perceived his death grew near, married his servant, on pur- 
 pose to keep his brother out of it for her life; he having liberty to 
 jointure by the entail. He gave a personal estate of above 0(X)0/. to 
 sec his will performed, to Sir John Biickworth, and Mr. Borret of 
 Griston, his executors, from whom John Lovell, Esq. met with more 
 kindness and generosity than from his brother, they being so just as 
 to deliver up all the evidences, and whatever belonged to the estate, 
 to him, without any disturbance, notwithstanding which, he was 
 forced to sell it, having prevailed upon his son, the present [1736] 
 Mr. Lovell of Bokenham, (as I am informed,) to join with him in the 
 sale, 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 Paganus, or Pain, rector of East-IIerling. 
 William de Aldcherg, rector. 
 
 1283, Master Elias de Aliune Cherche, rector. 
 
 1289, Will, de la Menerearyn, rector.' 
 
 1332, prid. id. Oct. Willium, son oi Roger Bygot of Felhrigg, sub- 
 deacon. Simon Bygot of Pe/iz/gj^e, this turn. In 1347, this Wil- 
 liam, called then William de Felbriggc, was both rector and patron 
 by his brother's gift. 
 
 1349, 17 Jiili/, Sir John Gonvile, priest. John de Herling. 
 
 1357, 23 Sept. Hugh Pain, on Gonvile's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1373, iG Octob. Sir John Herling, Knt. recovered the advowson 
 upon the King's writ, against Sir Roger de Hales, Knt. 
 
 1374, 15 Nov. Richard Hiinte, shaveling, with whom Hulton 
 changed for the prebend of Heinburi/\n SalsoMarisco,(^or Saltmarsh,) 
 in ff'orcester diocese. Ditto. 
 
 1374, 27 Nov. at Eccles. Reginald de Hulton, shaveling. John 
 DE Herling. 
 
 1393, 10 Sept. John Pei/te,(or Poit,) priest. Stephen de Hales, 
 Knt. this turn. 
 
 1414, Robert de Estgate, rector.® 
 
 1430, 7 Febr. Edmund Covpere, priest. (Master of Rushworth 
 college) Sir William Berdewelle, Knt. John Eitz-Rauf, Esq. 
 Oliver Grogs, Esq. John Kikteling, clerk, Robert Pal- 
 grave, and John Intewood, Sir Rob. Herlings feofl'ees, in the 
 
 * Lib. Cedularum 5 E. 6. fol. 34. Bradfield, Swafield, Rydelington, Alby, 
 
 5 In 1314, he conveyed 18 messuages, Dcphani, Wykeiwode, Moriey, .'Vttle- 
 
 3 mills, 220 acres ot land, 7 acres of burgh, and Ellingliam, to Jolin de 
 
 meadow, I of wood, 40 of heaili, 6 acres Wylcby and Elizabeth his wife, and 
 
 of marsh ground, and /,8s. yearly rent their heirs. 
 
 in Edinthorp, Witton, Paston, Uakcton, '' From a deed. 
 
 North-Walsham, Honyng, Crostwcyt, 
 
 VOL. I. T t
 
 326 EAST-IIERLING. 
 
 manor and advowson. John Duke of Noi/olk claimed a right, but 
 did not proceed in it. 
 
 1448, 18 Oct. Laurence Gerard, priest,' on Coupers death. Sir 
 John Fastoi.f, Knt. Sir Robbkt's feofVee. 
 
 1474, John ylijhcard, on Gen arr/'s death, he resigned Litchavi for 
 this. Hob. VVingfield, and Anne his wife. 
 
 1503, 13 Nov. IVill. Borroiit, on Elwarde's death. Sir Tho. 
 
 LoVliLL. 
 
 1530, 23 July, Ralph Sparke, A.M. on Borrowers death. Sir 
 Francis Lovell, Knt. 
 
 1558, 20 March, Tho. Moore, priest, on Spark's death. Sir Tho, 
 Lovell, Knt. 
 
 15C8, 1 April, James Love, clerk. Tho. Moore deprived. Tho. 
 Pigeon, Gent, by grant from Sir Tho. Lovell. 
 
 1579, 16 Sept. Tho. Chapman, on Love's death. Tho. Lovell, Esq. 
 
 1595, 10 .Juli/f Henri/ liewse, S.T.B. on Chapman's death. Tho. 
 Lovell, Esq. he was a preacher licensed by the University of Cam- 
 bridge, and held Great Fakenham in Blackbourne deanery, Suffolk, 
 with this. 
 
 163 1, 10 Oct. Will. Reuse, A. M. on Henry Rewse's death. Tho. 
 Stoughton, clerk, for this turn. 
 
 1665, 3 May, Hill. Denny, on Will. Rewse's death. Glover 
 Denny of Raningham, Gent, this turn, by grant oi Andrew Knivet, 
 Knt. and Bart, and Alice his wife, and Gregory Lovell, Esq. of 
 Herling, true patrons. 
 
 l67y, 31 Decern. Theophilus Williams, A. M. on Denny's resigna- 
 tion. Gregory Lovell, Esq. 
 
 1716,9 June, Mathew Goodrich, clerk, on Williams's death. Tho. 
 Wright, Esq. who died Tuesday evening, Dec. 30, 1735, and is 
 buried here. 
 V 1719, 24 Jw/j/, T^o. iV/acro, on GooJ?7cA's cession. Ditto. 
 
 1720, 19 Dec. The Rev. Robert Wright, A.B. the present [1736] 
 rector, on Macro's resignation. Ditto. He is D.D. rector of Gncites- 
 hall in Suffolk, and of the sinecure rectory of Hackney, and pre- 
 bendary in the church of Litchfield. 
 
 This rectory is in Rockland deanery and Norfolk archdeaconry ; it 
 hath a rectory-house and several acres of glebe. 
 
 King's Books. I Yearly Tenths. I Line. Taxa. 
 12 I 14 I 18 marks. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Peter and Paul, and is a fine 
 uniform building, having its nave, two isles, and south porch leaded, 
 a square tower, with a spire thereon, and freestone ballisters instead 
 of battlements; it was built by Sir William Chamberlain, as appears 
 from the many blank shields, encompassed with the garter, cut on the 
 stones, finished about 1449, but the bells were not put up till 1465. 
 The greatest part of church, if not the whole, was rebuilt by that 
 knij^ht, the windows (as the arms and effigies in them discover) were 
 finished by Sir Robert Wingjield, who married his widow, whose 
 effigies, with that of his wife, still remain in this manner. 
 
 ' He was also master of Rushworth college.
 
 EAST-HERLING. 
 
 327 
 
 At the east end of the south isle is a chapel dedicated to tlie Virgin 
 Mary, called Herliiip's chapel, it being the burial place of that 
 family ; Sir Robert Herling, Knt. (who rebuilt it) lies under an altar 
 tomb in an arch in the south wall ; he founded a chantry of one 
 priest in this chapel, who was specially bound daily to pray for his 
 and his wife Jane's souls, for the souls of Sir William Chumberlain, 
 Knt. and Anne his wife, daughter and heiress of the said Robert, for 
 John Ilerlung and Cecily his wife, Robert's falhcr and mother, and 
 for John Herling his jj;randfather (all buried here:) in 1458, it was 
 endowed by Sir PVill. Chamberlain, and J?i>ie his wife, with 9 marks 
 annual rent, issuing out of Fawconer's manor, then worth 20 marks a 
 year, according to Sir Robert's will, he ordered that if he died with- 
 out heirs, then his manors of East Herling, Quidenham, with their 
 advowsons, Bokenham IVood, and Gnateshall manor, should be 
 settled for three chantry priests in this chapel ; but if he left a daugh- 
 ter, then she was only obliged to settle a provision for one priest. It 
 was not rated to any taxes whatever, but had institution in the same 
 manner as the rectory. 
 
 1458, 20 Nov. John Cavendysh, chaplain, the first chantry priest, 
 was instituted at their presentation. 
 
 1474, 30 March, Robert Cadyman priest. Sir Rob. Wingfield, 
 and Anne his wife. 
 
 The preamble to the King's license, which he granted to amortise 
 the said rent, is very particular, for it says, that his Majesty granted 
 this license to his faithful counsellor, Sir Wm. Chamberlain, Knt. 
 without any fine or fee, in consideration of the great and eminent ser- 
 vice he had done him in his kingdom of France, and dutchy of 
 Normandy, in the war there, and in other places ; and particularly 
 for the great damage he and his family received, by paying his fine 
 of redemption to the King's enemies oi France, (who took him pri- 
 soner in 1446,) and also for the great value he had for Sir Robert 
 Herling, the founder, who died in his service as he warred in 
 France. 
 
 This Sir Robert Herling ordered in his 
 will,' if he died in England, to be buried 
 liere, and so he was, though he died in the 
 French wars at Paris ; his effigies, with 
 that of his wife, beautifully carved in mar- 
 ble, lie on the top of the altar tomb; on 
 his breast are his own arms and those of 
 Mortimer, his mother; he looks with a 
 grim visage, his feet rest on a lion, the 
 usual emblem of those that died in war ; 
 his lady hath a water-bouget on her breast, 
 the whole tomb being adorned with uni- 
 corns and pelicans, the one the crest of 
 Herling, the other of Gonvile ; his arms are on the top, supported 
 by two unicorns. 
 
 They are often on the screens of the chantry, and sometimes with 
 crescents. 
 
 •Regr. Surflcte, fol. 187.
 
 318 EAST-IIERLING. 
 
 On the table that they lie on is a fillet of brass, which still remains 
 very perfect, on which is lliis : 
 
 .f>iifo nitirmorco tumulatiir m Ijoc potianisro, 
 l^iirlnng fiobcrtus .Jl^.ilc^s.tJir nobiliiS nrmis', 
 X.iussiia j-ranngcnisi, florcbnt rognita multii,,, 
 CanCicm pariiiibuii Hi iiucruhuit mutilatiivs 
 €. quatrr ct UliKc, riTti, ca&;t illc, 
 ©orgonu Jrcito, .f>cytcmbrc Die quoquc nono.' 
 
 Oil the same side of this ciiapel is a stately tomb of different-co- 
 loured marble, encompassed with an iron grate ; the statues of a man 
 in armour, with a peacock's tail proper at his feet, and of a woman 
 with two naked arms, holding a head erased, bearded and haired sab. 
 lie on an altai° tomb, under a canopy or bed of state, with this 
 inscription : 
 
 Here lyeth buryed Sir Thomas Lovell, Knt. Son and Heir of 
 Sir Thomas Lovell, Knt. and Dame Alice his Wife, Daughter of 
 Sir John Huddilston, Knt. he died the 12"' Day of Dec: 1604, 
 in the Year of his Age 64, and she dyed the 1st Daye of Septem- 
 ber 1 600, in the Yeare of her Age 64 ; they had Issue 5 Sons 
 and 3 Daughters, whereof 2 Sonns and one Daughter dyed in 
 their Infancy, 3 Sonns, viz. Sir Francis Lovell, Knt. Charles 
 Lovell, and William Lovell, Esqrs. over-lived them, and 2 
 Daughters were married in their Life-time, viz. Katheryn, first to 
 Sir Tho: Knevet of Bukenham-Castle, Knt. 2dly, to Edward 
 Spring, and Sdly, to Edward Downes, Esqrs. and Elinor to Ed- 
 ward Waldegrave, Son and Heire apparant of Charles Walde- 
 grave of Stanning-Hall, Esq.' 
 
 On the top. 
 
 Glim qui Cubuit, jacet hie cum Conjuge Conjux 
 Hie Ilia dubium est, hoc sit an ilia Prior, 
 Sive Ilia, sive hoc, (si demas hunc niodo et illam) 
 Haud Prior (indubium est) alt'ra vel alter erat. 
 Atria dum titiilis proavitis splendida Lterque, 
 Et Longa serie stemmata ncxa tulit, 
 Largus opum, nee deeoctor, plebi Hospitus, almus 
 Pauperi, uterque homini carus, uterque Deo, 
 lUe animi Prudens, et Magnus, Doctus, et Artem 
 , Quamve Sacer Codex, Quamve profanus habet. 
 
 Jura Tori rite ha2c coluit, pia, provida Virgo, 
 Virgo pudica, Pudens, Virgo probata, proba. 
 Cum jam Prole beati Essent, prolemque beassent. 
 Qua Locuplelando, qua poliendo suam. 
 Octavo hoc Lustro dirimit mors, dividil Urna, 
 Jungit at hos Tumulus, Jungit et hosce polus. 
 
 At the head is Hudleston's arms, and at the feet Lovell's. 
 At the top Lov ell's arms and quartcrings, mantle and crest. 
 On tuc side three escutcheons, 
 1. Lovell and his quarlerings, as before. 
 
 9 He died Sept, y, if ^ j. » Le Neve's Menuments, vol, i. p. 9.
 
 EAST-HERLING. 329 
 
 2. LovELL and his quarterings, impaling Hudleston and his 
 
 quarterings, viz. 
 
 1. Hudleston, g«^. fiette ar. with a crescent. 
 
 2. Knevet with a mullutsrtft. 
 
 3. Nevill, witli a hibcl of three, gobone, ar. and az. 
 
 4. Montague. 
 
 5. MoNTHERMER, Of, an eagle displayed I'fK. 
 
 6. Holland Earl oi' Kent. England in a bordure ar. . 
 
 7. "I'lHTOi'T, ar. a cross ingrailedg«/. 
 
 8. Inglkthorp, gut. a cross ingr^ilcd ar. 
 
 9. Bradesion, wr. ona ranton gut. a rose or. 
 
 10. Char LETON, «/■, a lion rampant gw/. Lord Powis. 
 
 11. Delapole with an annulet. 
 
 12. Az. on a less indented three bezants. 
 
 3. Hudleston and his quarterings as before. 
 
 The following arms were formerly (and many of thera now are) in 
 the south windows of the nave. 
 
 In a south window were the portraitures of a man in armour kneel- 
 ing, in long gruj' hair, having on his surcoatthe arms of Chamhtrlain, 
 with a label ; and opposite to him a woman kneeling ; between them 
 were these arms : 
 
 1. Chambeulain, gul. a chevron between three escallops or, 
 witli a label of three points, the escallops are sometimes ar. 
 
 2. Legatt, (as Mr. Leverland,) ar. a saltire ingrailed az. quartered. 
 Chamberlain impales Legat. 
 
 A quartered coat all lost, but sab. an inescutcheon in an orle of 
 martlets or. 
 
 Herling and Mortimer oi Atlleburgh quartered. 
 
 TuDENHAM, lozenge ur. and gul. quartering Herling. Gon- 
 viLE single. 
 
 Herling impaling Hemgrave, or. a chief indented g«/. 
 
 Bedingfield and Herling quartered. 
 
 Mortimer qnartering Giffard, gul. three lions passant gardant, 
 ar. and 
 
 Charleton Lord Poesyw. 
 
 WiNGFiELD quartering Bovile. 
 
 Scroop quartering Tiptoft. 
 
 Chamberlain quartering Fitz-Raffe, or, three chevrons guL 
 on each five dc-lises ar. 
 
 Fitz-Raffe quartering Gul. two bendlets ar. 
 
 Coniers az. a maunch or, quartering Fitz-Raffe. 
 
 In a high east window of the nave, 
 Tiptoft, and Az. a bend or. 
 
 On the north windows of the nave, 
 
 Windham, az. a chevron between three lions heads erased or, 
 impaling Howard. 
 
 Leg\t impaling Warren. Erpingham. 
 
 Bolleyn ar. a fhevron gul. between three bulls heads cooped 5a6, 
 qnartenug Butlee, or, a cluef indented az.
 
 330 EAST-IIERLING. 
 
 Heydon, quarterly ar. and gul. a cross ingrailed counterchanged, 
 impaling Boleyn. 
 
 Calthorp impaling Stapleton. 
 
 Hevenyngham impaling Uarcy. 
 
 WiNGFiELD quartering Dorew Also and Bovile. 
 
 WiNGFiELD impaling Fitz-Lewis, BrandoNj Glanvile, and 
 
 HONIPOT. 
 
 Jenny impales Wingfield, and so does Echingham and 
 Bovile. 
 
 Fkamlingham. Delapole quarters Wingfiei.d, who quarters 
 ar. seven torteaux, 2, '2, G, 1. 
 
 A man having Mortimer quartering Herling, 
 
 A woman, Gonvile, ar. on a chevron between two couple-closes 
 outwardly ingrailed sab. three cscalops or. Sir Robert Herling 
 and Jane Gonvile his wife. 
 
 In the south isle windows. 
 
 Scroop, az. a bend or. 
 
 TiPTOFT, quartered : their effigies. 
 
 Effigies of a Fitz-Williams and his wife, who was a Herling, 
 
 In the windows of Iler/iiig's chapel. 
 
 Sir Robert Herling, and Jane his wife, Sir JViU. Chamberlain, and 
 Anne his wife, with their arms on their surcoats, in the east window, 
 over the altar, and this, 
 
 (©rate pro animalnisi ©illi: <C1jamlicrlarin,lE>iIiti.si, ct annc ujrorijS m^ ct 
 liobtrti l^arlnno, .tliiliti.s, ct 2i0ljflnnc ui-oriiS ^ « ^ ^ * 
 
 The screens between the church and chancel are finely carved and 
 painted, being put up by Sir Robert Harlyng, whose arms and crest 
 are often carved thereon. 
 
 The chancel is leaded, having two chapels joined to the north side ; 
 that most east, is dedicated to the blessed name of Jesus, the other 
 to St. Anne ; they arc both leaded. 
 
 On the south side of the chancel wall, towards the east end, is a 
 stone mural monument, on which Lovell, and il/(«rfe// joined per fess 
 impale Paris, gul. three unicorns heads cooped proper, in a bordure 
 ingrailed. Lorell's crest. 
 
 Here lielh buried Syr Thomas Level Knyght, and Dame Eli- 
 zabeth his Wyfe whiche lived together in Godly Mariage 2J) 
 Yeares, and hadde Yssue, y Sonues and .'i Daughters, the sayd 
 Sir Thomas dccessed in the Yenr of our Lord God 1567, the 23 
 of March, and Dame Elizabeth deceased in the Yeare of our 
 Lord God, lo91- the last of Marche. 
 
 Pray God to joy their Soules together in Heaven. 
 
 Opposite, on the north side, another monument of the same kind, 
 but no inscription: 
 
 Lovell and Muswell impaling Ash/ieJd of Middlesex, az. a chevron
 
 EAST-HERLING. 331 
 
 or between three eagles displayed with two heads, ar. Lovell's 
 crest. 
 
 Tlie arms shew it was erected for Sir Francis Lovell, and Ahiip 
 AshJIild his wife; lie died Juii. 2."), 15.50. This is against Jrsls 
 ciiapel, winch i^ now [l7-'3()] a schooi-liuuse. 
 
 More west, in the north wail, is ■ most slalcl)- arched nionuinenl, 
 disrobed of il-. brasses, under which lie buried Sir U illiam Chamber- 
 lain, Kniplu ot till- (iarier, and June his wife, d;iughlcr and iieiress 
 of Sir Hubert Uitrli/ug ; tins divides the chancel from St. Ainu's 
 chapel, which was founded by liis lady, and dedicated to her name- 
 sake : the lend) fronts both into the chancel and into the ciiapel, the 
 ciianccl side being ado.ned with his arms, &c. and tlie cha|)el's side 
 wiili hi-'s ; in the arch is carved Chiimberlain's arms quartering 
 TiptoJi.whuU is again lut on the side of tlie monument Me.\t the 
 chancel, with mantle, crest, and supporters. Crest, a cameleopard's 
 head cooped. The supporters two beasts of the same kind. 
 
 On the chapel's side, IJerliiig and Mortimer quartered, with an 
 escutcheon of pretence of Gouvile and Herliiig. Crest and sup- 
 porters, 
 
 1/iiie Lady Scroop of Bo/ton, by will dated 1498, Aug. 28, be- 
 queathed her body to be buried in the chapt-l of St. Anne, iuljoining 
 to ihe chancel of St. Peter and Pan/, at East-Herliiig, in the tomb 
 of her late husband. Sir IVilliam Chamberlayn ,-* she gave to the 
 Austin fnars at Thetjbrd, where her great-grandame, Margaret Titd- 
 deiihum, daughter of Sir Thomas Jeimi/, was buried, together with 
 dame /snAf/ y/arg;are, her daughter, a vestment, and other gifts, to 
 Robert i\ ingfietd her nephew. Lord Scroop, her son, &e. 
 
 From a manuscript of llenrif St. George, Garter King at Arms, I 
 find a part of the inscription that was on this monument, and this 
 reii ark made by Mr. Le Neve: 
 
 I'hat here were their two effigies, and that the garter was on his 
 left leg ; and thou,ti Mr. Ashmole says, that Pitz-lVilliam's tomb was 
 the oldest, that had it so [ilaced, yet this is older. 
 
 ',-.','.',■- li^arhng Iticite Jir»oniiiiu.ii ^ -.-. ■. - marite, 
 9nna fmt ;picra, 'Ct)risti mulicr facnebicta, 
 .IKiiioi Oi^crti fiiit l'?arl no nata fiobtrti, 
 Jliiliti^ '■■■'-■- oigna, .Uiiortimct oe ^tirpc faenipn. 
 
 (C. qii'itcr cr jUiIlc Sefaomta ct Xxti caoit idc, 
 pcrpctuo ff.sto, c^cu.s illiu.^ mcmor c^to. 
 
 INIany of the memorials which were in this church are now lost; 
 one ai-count of them was taken by the Rev. Mr. l.excrtand, rector of 
 Fnimliw'ham casiie, in Suffolk, (a cop)' of whose .VISS. 1 have by 
 IT' ,) anrl others by different persons, iis Mr. Barret of Griston, Henry 
 Si. Geoige, &,c. 
 
 In thi> < hurc h is buried E/i:abelh Trusseil, sister to Sir William 
 Clitml.erli.in, vho died the la>i of April, 1472 ;■* but the four shields 
 »nd inscription were lost before these accounts were taken. 
 
 * Regr. Home Cur. Prerog. Cant. ' There are some lines lost here, 
 fol. i6 In 1718 a large stonrr coffin was ♦Weaver, 
 taken u)>, adjoining to the south side of 
 this tomb.
 
 332 EAST-HERLING. 
 
 Charles Wright, Esq. lately glazed the east chancel window 
 uith ancient glass that he found in his house, which t'ormeily came 
 out of this window, and contains the principal passages of the New 
 Testament, from our Saviour's incarnation to his crucifixion. 
 
 The etfigies of Sir Robert IVipigjield and his wife are now placed 
 in this window. 
 
 In 1479, Robert Smith was buried in the church, in which there 
 were then four gilds kept, viz. of the Holi/ Trinitij, St. Peter, All' 
 Saints, and St. John Baptist. The lights of St. Man/ and St. Sithe 
 were sustained by the benefactions of different people, as 1 find by 
 the wills in the Bishop's Office. 
 
 In 1511, the Gildhnll Croft belonged to the inhabitants.' 
 
 In 1528, The Gildhall in the Hei/-Toan street, belonged to the 
 gilds, and was given hy John Dojce of Diss, son and heir of Jo/«« 
 Dowe, late of East-Hcrling, anno 1487. 
 
 In 1528, the son and heir of Thomas Gonne of this parish gave to 
 St. Johns gild 2 acres of land at Kithescnd in Ilerling. 
 
 In 1536, the church-wardens antl inhabitants sold to Francis Lovell, 
 Knt. and his heirs, 21 acres and 1 rood ploughed ground of their 
 town land, lying in East-Herliiig ; and he. 
 
 In 1538, granted 32 acres and an half to the inhabitants, to be 
 town land for ever. 
 
 In 1548, Roger Moore, executor of William Deye, at the request 
 of Adam Dei/e, gave half an acre, at the end of John Dei/e's croft, to 
 the inhabitants. 
 
 InKing Jawifsthe First's time, John Hankins and other feoffees 
 made a new feoffment of the town land to Thomas Porter and others, 
 there being then fJO acres, besides a pightle called WasleU's. 
 
 These lands were given to repair and adorn the church. 
 
 The temporals of the Prior of Bokenliam in this town were taxed 
 at 2s. 4d. 
 
 In 1510. Rob. Banham, purchased of Will. Battham, a messuage 
 and G acres of free land in East-He rlinge, held of East-Herling 
 manor by 8f/. a year, to find a wax candle burning before the image 
 of the Virgin Mary in that church. In 1470, at a court then held, it 
 is said, that John Robards died seized of it, and that John, his son 
 and heir, W'as a scholar in orders; that formerly it was copyhold, but 
 v/as now held free of the church, the lord's ancestors having perpe- 
 tually ]>ardoned the fine and rents, in honour of the Blessed 
 Virgin. This year it was conveyed to John Ayhcard, rector, and 
 other feoffees of the parish. 
 
 These arms were formerly in Ilarling Hall windows : 
 
 LovELL impaling Bendism, MuswELL, RossEor Roos, Wood- 
 house, Detiuck, Huddllstone,Pakenham, Ashfield, Bran- 
 don, and Harling. 
 
 TnoMBURGii, erm. frettee, a chevron gul. 
 
 CoLTON, sab. a chevron between three griffins heads erased ar. 
 
 Vaux, cbequy «;•. andg«/. on a chevron az. three roses or. 
 
 Chamberlain and Legate ; Mortimer andGoNviLE. 
 
 ' From the Evidences in the Town Cliest.
 
 Q U I D E N H A M. 333 
 
 The badges of tlie red and white rose, of the pomegranate, of a 
 lizard gut. liis tongue or. Henry the Eighth's arms impahng 
 Castile, Leon, and Granada. 
 
 Mr. John Wright bears, sah. on a chief or, three spears heads 
 az. a chevron between three dc-hses ar. 
 
 Stephen de Gissing and Ijiui/ Manezoan/n his wife, for 26s. in hand 
 paid, by deed dated on St. Dumtan's day, in 1283,'' released to Simon 
 Manewaryn and his heirs, all manner of actions that they might bring 
 against him, for not building her houses in //er//«g, that she was to 
 have had built for her, in lieu of part of her dower ; and they bound 
 themselves, their heirs, and executors, in GOs. penalty, that no such 
 action should be brought, and subjected themselves to the Bishop of 
 Norwich, or his Official, in this case, who should excommunicate 
 them if the penalty was not paid ; further obliging themselves to pay 
 100s. towards the relief of the lioly-Land, if ever any such action 
 was brought ; and to confirm it, they promised it before Sir JVilf. de 
 Cruiigethorp, Knt. Master Edas Aliuue Chtrche, rector oi East-Iler- 
 ling, Sir Geffry de Gerbaudesham, chaplain, and others. 1 could not 
 omit taking notice of this deed, the penalties being remarkable. 
 
 The market is on Tuesdays and not on Thursdays, as the Atlas, and 
 the late Description of the Diocese oj' Norwich (which is chiefly a 
 transcript from thence) tell you, though it is right, as to its being 
 chiefly for linen yarn, and cloth, the manufacture of this part of the 
 county. 
 
 This town, in l603, had 223 communicants, and now [1736] there 
 are about 400 inhabitants. It paid 6/. 6s. 8d. tenths, and is now as- 
 sessed at 638/. 1 Is. 8d. to the land tax. 
 
 Q^UI DE NH AM 
 
 Is the next town eastward of Herling ; the church of this village is 
 dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, and is a rectory discharged of 
 first fruits and tenths. 
 
 King's Books. I Szcorn Value. I Synodals. I Arc/id. Proc. 
 849 I7. ' 40 00 I 0011 ' 068 
 
 Glebe. 
 60 acres. 
 
 It is in Rockland deanery, and Norfulk archdeaconry, hath a 
 rectory-house, and 60 acres 1 rood and 16 perches of glebe. It was 
 valued in the Norwich taxation at 10 marks, and the temporals of the 
 Prior of Bokenham were taxed at 6s. 8d. 
 
 * Autog. penes Ep. Asaph, 
 vol. 1. V u
 
 334 Q U I D E N H A iM. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 JFill. de Srcannington, rector, sold to Thomas, son of Wilf. 
 de Hakefoid, Knt. Walter, II iUia»i,anc\ A/ke,chMteno(Ra// Dod, 
 (who were liis villeins,) with their families. 
 
 1274, Sir mU. de Eleford, rector. 
 
 1285, Tko. de Hastyns,es, rector. 
 
 1305, 3 kal. March, )VUl. de Eleford. Miles, son of Phillip de 
 Ilasfi/ngs. 
 
 1334, non. Jan. .John Jordan, of Graf ham, clerk. Maud, late 
 ^vife of Miles de Jfastijtigcs. 
 
 1375, Iti Sept. Sir James de Uei/ham, priest. Sir John de Hek- 
 LING, Knt. 
 
 1400, 9 Nov. John Maundeville, shaveling. Margaret Ttjd- 
 DENHAM, late wife of John de Herling. 
 
 1400, 19 March, John, son of John Balie of Blithe, shaveling, on 
 Maiindetile's resin;nalion. Ditto. 
 
 1401, 20 Octob. Tho. Maundeville, ^triest. Ditto. 
 
 1410, S Feb. Edmund Hemgrave, shaveling. Ditto. 
 
 1411, 5 June, John Joj/ of Lutcham, priest, on Hemgrave's resig- 
 nation. Ditto. 
 
 1434, \i March, Laurence Gerrard, fr'iest, on Joi/'s de&lh. John 
 Fitz-Rauff, Oliver Groos, Esqrs. John Kirtling, clerk, and 
 John Intewodf., feoffees of Sir Robert Herling, in Quidenham 
 manor. 
 
 1448, 1 Dec. RalfJVode, on Gerard's resignation. Sir John Fas- 
 TOLF, Knt. feoffee. 
 
 John Sterre, on whose death, in 
 
 1465, 4 -Jug. John Caund^ssh succeeded. Robert Wingfield 
 and Anne his wife, 
 
 1504, 5 Nov. John Butler, A.M. on Caundi/ssh's death. Lady 
 Margaret BEDiNOFiELn, James Hobart, and Tim. Bachcroft. 
 
 I54i, 5 June, John Reder, chaplain, on Butlers death. John 
 Bedingfield, Esq. 
 
 15(30, 6 July, Tho. Dniye, priest, on Reder's death. John Sol- 
 yard and Alice his wife. 
 
 1570, 7 Dec. Rob. Xezcsham. John Sulyard, Knt. 
 
 1579, 28 July, Robert Dozcnes, A.M. by lapse. 
 
 1580, 27 Jli>ril, Thomas Richards, on Downe's resignation. The 
 Bishop collated by consent of Bedingfield, the patron. 
 
 1583, 27 Nov. .Tohn Dalton, on Richard's resignation. Lapse. 
 
 1584, 8 June, Daniel Reeve, on Dalton s resignation. The Bishop;, 
 by consent of Humphrey Bedingfield, Esq. patron. 
 
 1603, Daniel Reeve, D.iy. and rector of lianham, returned in his 
 answer, tliat there were 80 communicants here. Henry Beding- 
 field, patron. 
 
 1621, William Hoorf, clerk. 
 
 lG36, l6 Nov. Henry Halyard, A.M. on Wood's resignation. John 
 Holland, Bart. He held it united to Tostockin Suj/'olk. 
 
 1608, 15 October, Arthur Womack, clerk. Ditto. 
 
 1G85. Will. BonTcorth, A.M. on Womack's death. Ditto. United 
 to Icklingham St. James. 
 
 1705, 8 Febr. James Bulduin, A.M. on Bosworth's death. Sir
 
 Q U I D £ N II A M. 335 
 
 John Holland, Bait. He held it with Icklingham St. James; re- 
 signed June 24, 1 73 1 . 
 
 1731, The Rev. Mr. John IIuU, the present [1736] rector. Isa- 
 bella-Diana and Charlotte Holland, sisters and heiresses of 
 Sir William Holland, Bart. ; the patronesses, are ladies of the manor, 
 and owners of the whole town. 
 
 The Church is a small building, having its nave, chancel, and 
 south porch tiled, the south isle and north dormitory leaded, a small 
 steeple, round at bottom, and octangular at top, in which are three 
 bells, two of them are thus inscribed, 
 
 1. IKlisSsiusi DC CchiS, Ijahco nomtn ilBahrithsS. 
 
 2. 'Slirgo tjloronata, due nosi ab Wcgna bcata. 
 
 On a brass in the south isle, 
 
 HERE lyeth the body of RICHARD DA VYE, who deceased the 
 29 of March, lG28. 
 
 On a mural monument, on the south side of the chancel, 
 
 Crompion, ar. on a chief az. three pheons or, impaling Holland. 
 
 Sub hoc Marmore jacet Katherina Uxor et Relicta Robert! 
 Crompton, Ordinis Equestris, Filiaque Pulcherrima Thomae 
 Holland, ejusdem Ordinis, Qua; Katherina obijt in Edibus Hen- 
 rici North de Millnall, in Comitatu Suflfolcia;, Armigcri, vice- 
 simo Novembris, Anno Dom. l6J3, atque ^tatis sua; tncesimo 
 quarto, Qui Henricus in Honorem et Memoriam Domina; istms 
 praeelarissima;, hunc Lapidem posuit. 
 
 En ! Pia Nata, Piacens U xor, Materque bcmgna, 
 Faemina, dum vivit, die mihi, Qualis erat ? 
 
 On a mural monument, at the north east end of the north wall, 
 Holland im^aWng P anion, gul. two fesses em. on a canton sab. a 
 ferdumolin ar. 
 
 In Memory of the Merits of that excellent Person, the Lady 
 Alalhea Sandys, whose Bodie lyeth in the adjacent Dormitorie, 
 is this Monument deservedly erected ; she was the Daughter of 
 John Panlon, Esq. first married with William, Lord Sandys, 
 afterward with Sir John Holland, by whom she had G Souns, and 
 5 Daughters, and with whom she lived happily oO Years within 
 3 Months, and then in the 69 Year of her Age, upon the 22 
 Day of May, 1679, she Cheerfully rendred up her pious Soul to 
 God that gave it. 
 Under this is an altar tomb covered with a black marble. 
 Holland, Knevet, and Wigmore. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of that Worthy Knight Sir Thomas 
 Holland, who lived highly esteemed in his Country, and died 
 the 5. of Febr. in the 48 Year of his Age, and in that ot our 
 Lord One thousand six hundred twenty and five, universally 
 lamented.
 
 S36 Q U I D E N H A M. 
 
 On a black marble on the floor, by this tomb. 
 
 Here lyeth the Lady Holland, the second Wile to Sir Thomas 
 Holland, and Wife to Mr. Edward Barker, and buried in the 
 
 Year U)48. 
 
 On a mural monument against the north chancel wall, more west, 
 
 Holland and Panton. 
 
 Sir John Holland who erected this Monument for himself, 17 
 Years before his Death, marjed the Lady Alathea Sandys, he 
 was sent a Commissioner from the Parliament to K. C. the First, 
 and received Marks of Royal Favour, he lived an Honour as 
 well as Benefactor to his Family, beina; Eminent for his perlicular 
 Abilities and Integrity, and dyed 19'" of Jan. 1700, after he was 
 created Baronet 72 Yeares, and in the 98"" Yeare of his Age. 
 
 There is a stone lately laid in the church for Ami, relict of Thomas 
 Slapp of Rusfiford, daughter of T/io. Goddard of ff ret/iam, who died 
 Decern. 12, 1729, aged 37 years 1 1 months, and also for Sarah Slapp, 
 her daughter, who died Nov. 25, 1729, aged 22 years 9 months. 
 
 There is an altar tomb in the churchyard for John Buckenham, who 
 died April 22, 1731, aged 54 years. 
 
 In a south chancel window, is the effigies of the Virgin holding a 
 wafer, on which is this, ^\ Hl?ltC pC. ^ 
 
 On the south buttresses, 3,i<!c.f>l.§, 2i€.f)lfl.f> ^al^ator. 
 
 Upon old stalls in the chancel are the arms of Vere, Bardolf, 
 Herlixg, Plantaginet, Garnish, Ufford with a bendlet. A 
 fess between si.v de-lises. Two fesses. Gironne of eight. Three 
 roundels, on each three pales. On a bend cottised three escalops, a 
 rose for difference. 
 
 In the parsonage window is an eagle snatching a piece of a sa- 
 crifice, with some of the fire sticking to it, which being carried to 
 her nest, fires it, and burns her young ; under the flaming nest is 
 this. 
 
 So let him feare, who e'rc he be that dare, 
 Purloin God's Tribute, and the Churches Share. 
 
 and round the oval is this, 
 
 IT IS DESTRUCTIVE TO DEVOUR THAT WHICH IS HOLY, 
 
 Here are 13 acres, 3 roods, and 20 perches town land, in divers 
 jiieces, all which (with the glebe) are abuttalled in a survey «f tiie 
 manor, taken A° 1587. Ihc rent was 3/. per annum,'' ^a\A to the 
 church-wardens, and overseers, for the relief of the poor, and repairs 
 of th. church.* 
 
 ' From tlieold accounts of tlie parish. Foyster, and Kenninghall parish hath i 
 
 ' The vicar of Kenninghall liath 2 acre and 3 roods in divers pieces in the 
 
 acres of glebe in Q;^idenhani-ficld, in field j at the survey aforesaid, the yearly 
 
 the furlong between Scmere and Red- outgoing rents of tlie manor were these, 
 
 mere, and ^ roods ill Brymleye furlong, to Kenninghall manor, for Hockhams 
 
 intermixed with the lands of Mr. James tenement in Quidenham, i6i. %d. io\
 
 QUI DEN HAM. 337 
 
 In the dormitory on the north side, there are seven coffins of lead, 
 1. Sir John Holland the first baronet of the family. 2. Lady Alathea 
 Sandys, his wife. 3. Thomas Holland, Esq. of Bury St. Edmnnd, 
 their son. 4. Sir John Holland, Bart, his son. 5. Lady Rebecca 
 Paslon, his wife. 6. Sir William Holland, Bart, their son. 7. Eliza- 
 beth Holland, his sister.' 
 
 In 1723, at the bottom of the lime-pits in this parish, was found a 
 large copper medal, thus circumscribed, Antoninus. P.P. TR. coss. 
 iii. ; on the reverse a Genius, and S.C. by which the Romans should 
 have worked in these pits. 
 
 This town paid to the tenths, 3/. 10s. is now assessed at 274/. 10«. 
 and hath y houses, and about 50 inhabitants. Leelfee to the hundred 
 is 2s. per annum. 
 
 CUIDENHAM, or GUIDENHAM, 
 
 Undoubtedly signifies Villa Guidonis, or the country seat of one 
 Guido or G(/y, but who he was we know not; one part of it was 
 Godwic's, a freeman, under the protection of the Abbot of Bury, who 
 held it three years after King William came into the realm ; but 
 Godwin Awnd, a man of Earl RalJ's,' unjustly took it from him : the 
 soc was at firsimKenninghall ; it was worth 15*. and after 30; it was 
 then a mile and a quarter long, and a mile broad, and paid \1d. Iq. 
 geld, being at the survey, in the King's hands, who had taken it from. 
 Godwin, and committed it to Earl Godric's care. 
 
 Another part was given by the Conqueror to be held at a fee and 
 half, to n ill. de Albany Earl of Arundell and Sussex, who gave one 
 fee of it to Warine de Munchensi, who granted it to Miles Hastyngs, 
 against whom William, son of Warin de Munchensi, in 1 194, brought 
 his action to recover it, but to no purpose; this was after held at one 
 fee of the Munchensis, (lords of Winfarthing,) and their successours, 
 who held it of Botcenham castle. 
 
 Tho. Atbridge's tenement there i6s. $d. grown up, there being no remains of it, 
 for the faldage and pasturing of the but a large reedy swamp, 
 lord's flock of Quidenham, upon the The hall is a good seat, pleasantly si- 
 ling of Kenninghall, 3 days in a week, tuated In the library there was a fine 
 I J. to the same manor for the going of missal wiih this wrote in it, 
 five score sheep more upon the same Virgo, Parens vixit, Sexaginta tribus 
 ling 6j. 8rf. to the hundred court at Mi- annis, 
 
 chaelmas 4$. suit fine 4d. blanch-farm Q^atuor et decern fuit in partu Sa- 
 
 2d. to the sherift"'s turn 6d. for froward lutari, 
 
 rent to be paid on VVh't-bunday 2(i. ; in Triginta Tribus, cum Nato vixerat 
 
 all 2/. 55, lid.; to Banham manor yearly ejus, 
 
 445. albO 4J. sd. ol>. free rent, zd. for Terque decern annis, postquam Deus 
 
 forwath, 5J. for pasturing great beasts astra petivit. 
 
 on the moor, 55. and 3 capons for 200 '1565, July 1, Tho. Terryll, Esq. 
 
 sheep going on the moor, from Lammas son and heyr of Sir Hen. Tyrell, Knt. 
 
 time till weaning, a!;d sliack in the ad- married Mrs. Margaret Sulyard, daugh- 
 
 joining field; to llit manor of Bokenham ter of sir John Sulyard of Quidenham, 
 
 4d. See Kenninghall p. 227. 1 he mere Knt. and the same day, P.uvv son and 
 
 called Semere, belongs to this manor, heir of >ir John Sulyard, Knt. married 
 
 two thirds of winch ism tliis parish, and Mrs. Anne Heydon, daughter and 
 
 the rest in the parish of Kenninghall, heiress of Tho. Heydon, Esq. 1543, 
 
 it contains about 14 acres of waier, and John Butler, rector, buried. 1570, 10 
 
 had a deco) formerly. Kedemcre or Aug. Tho. Davy, rector, buried, ib^t, 
 
 Keedmere, lies on the left hand of the Frances, daughter of Mr. Jolin Lentall, 
 
 road to Kenninghall, and is now quite and Lady Frances Garnish liis wife, bap- 
 tized.
 
 SS6 
 
 QUIDENHAM. 
 
 The other half fee was given by the said Eail, in King Henri/ the 
 First's time, to the monks ot' liu fling in Ber/;s/iiie, in pure alms/ who 
 were obliged to grant it to Half, sirnamed the Great, {Magnus,) 
 conditional!)', that he and his successours should lor ever pay an 
 annual rent of one mark, for the health of his own, his ancestors, 
 and successours souls, to make a good dinner or repast in that con- 
 vent,^ on his uncle Jof(7///t's anniversary. It contained a carucate 
 of 100 acres of land in QiiidtiilKiiii, Keiiiiiiighall, and ylllUburgli, and 
 40 acres in Ridlesxcorfh, and divers rents and services, with common 
 of pasture on all the commons in Qiiidtnham, and a fold-course tliere: 
 from this RalJ it came to Brian his son, who settled it on William 
 de Hocham for life; and in 1 lys, Wirnar, son of William de Hocham, 
 had it confirmed to him and his heirs, by f\ iUiam, the third of that 
 name. Earl of .Iruiidcll and Sussex,^ from whom it it was called 
 
 HOCKHAM'S MANOR, or FREE TENEMENT. 
 
 John son oi Brian, agreed to this confirmation, on condition that he 
 should pay Is. a year to him and his heirs, and a mark sterling every 
 MichaAmas Dai), to the Earl and his heirs; and in 1200, Wimar and 
 John jointly conveyed it to Miles Hasti/ngs of Quiden/tam, who joined 
 it to his other part, w ith which it now continues.* It was always 
 held of the manor of Keiininghall, as of the castle of Bokenham. 
 
 One manor and moiety of the advowson, belonged to Bury abbey, 
 with the whole soc of it, in King Edward's lime, and was in the 
 Abbot's hands, till Baldrcin, Abbot there, infeofl'ed his brother Frodo 
 in it, in the Conqueror's time, who infeoffed Joceline, who held it at 
 the survey ;' this Joceline was sirnamed de Lodne, and was uncle to 
 William de Albani Earl oi Sussex, as he says in his deed. In II96, 
 Ernald de Charneles had it, between whom and Sampson Abbot of 
 Buri/ there was a fine levied this year, by which he acknowledged, 
 that he held it at one fee of the Abbot, by the service of '20s. sciitage, 
 and castle-guard to Norwich ; it then extended into Qiiidenham, 
 Aclee, Turistoii, Eli/ngham, and Norton, and had 60 acres in demean. 
 
 ' Mon. Ang. torn. i. 418. 
 
 ^ The donations of tliis nature in col- 
 leges are now called excetdings. 
 
 ^ Autog. inter Evid. Holland. 
 
 ♦ In 1 256, the Abbot of Rading sued 
 Rob. de Holkeham or Hocham for the 
 rent issuing out of this land, but upon 
 his answering, that it was sold by his 
 ancestors to Miles Hastyngs, he was dis- 
 missed. 
 
 ' Terre Regis quam Godricus servat 
 Gillecrcss Hund. (fol. 33.) Ciiidcnham 
 tenuit Godvic liber homo T. R. E. de 
 quo Abbas Sancti kadmundi habuit 
 commendationcm tanlum. T. R. E. i. 
 car. terre semper ii. vill. et ii. bord. et 
 iii. acr. prati et i. niol. tunc dim. car. in 
 dominio, post et niodo i. semper homi- 
 nium ii. bov. semp. i. r. et vi. pore, 
 xvi. oves. Tunc valuit xv.j. post et 
 in° XXX. hanc terram tenuit idem Go- 
 
 dricus tres annos de Abbate post quam 
 Rex. Will, venit, hanc eandem abstulit 
 ei Godvinus Avunds Radulfi comitis 
 injuste. Soca T.R.E. in Keninghehala 
 Regis. Totum habet v. quar. in longo, 
 et iiii. quar. in lato, et xvii.ii. et i. ferd* 
 ing de Gelto. 
 
 Terra Rogeri Bigoti H. Gillecros. 
 (fol. 128.) In Guidenhami. liber homo 
 xxiiii. T. R. E. m° iii. liber homines ii. 
 acr. prati tunc dim. car. ct val. ii. sol. 
 soca in Keninchala. This was after part 
 of Fawconcr's manor. 
 
 Terra Abbatis de Sancto Eadmundo 
 Gildecros H. (fol. 177.) Guidenham 
 tenet Goscetinus de Abbate quod tenuit 
 Sanctus Edmundus pro dimid. car. terrt 
 cum soca, semper ii. villi, i. bor. iii. acr. 
 prati dim. car. in dominio et ii. bov. 
 horn, tunc i. mol. val. x.s. (This was 
 Hastvng's manor.)
 
 QUIDENHAM. 
 
 339 
 
 two villeins, and one bordarerf and in 1199. it was in M^fe <k 
 
 HastyrtTs, a younger son (as I take it) of William de Hastyngs, 
 
 Stewai-5 to King Henry I.' He sealed with 
 
 Hasfyiig's arms, I cannot say whether with 
 
 any ditlerenc-e or not, though i have a seal of 
 
 hiicho/as de Hasti/ng's about this time, which 
 
 hath a label of five over the maunch. 
 
 Miles, his son and heir, was lord in 1264, 
 
 beinij then married loD/oH(Sf,daughterof Pe- 
 
 terGoIdin<rton o(Goldiiigton in Bedfordshire. 
 
 In the KulT of the Rebels and Adversaries to 
 
 King Henry III. and Prince Edward his son, 
 
 afur the battles of Lfwes and Evesham, this 
 
 Miles was found lo be one, being then lord 
 
 and patron, and holdmg 80 acres in demean, 
 
 all which were seized, it being proved that , „ , 
 
 he had taken the barons' part; it was afterwards restored, as all those 
 estates were which were seized upon this account. His brother 
 Will, de Hastyngs lived here; Miles de Hastyngs, son of Miles, was 
 lord of Slokt-Goklt/ngton, and Cavendish in Sufolk, Elesjord m 
 Oxfordshire, and Dh,/teford in Worcestershire; he settled Elesford on 
 Thomas, his youngest son, who was rector of this parish ; he married 
 Maud, who was lady in 1280, and soon after married to Pigaz, whose 
 widow she was in 1288; they had three sons and one daughter; 
 Mar^raret, who married Richard de Noers. ISicholas, the second son, 
 was aiive in 1282, at Phillip his eldest brother's death, who left Alice 
 his widow, who, in this year, recovered against Miles de Hastyngs, 
 her father-in-law, 10/. a year in land, in Cavendysdh for her dower; 
 but it appearing that those lands were settled on Ihomas, Nicholas, 
 and Manrerij, the younger children oUIiles, with the consent of her 
 husband,°slie had 20/. a year in Quidenham, with a watermiU there, 
 instead of it. Miles, son o( Phillip, was 30 years old in 1;304, and 
 at his o-randfuther's death became heir; he had two wives, Diomse, 
 and Maud who outlived him, and was lady in 1334, and so continued 
 till afttr 134.5. In 1355, John de Hcrling purchased a third part of 
 the manor and advowson, of William Eurneaux of Slujlield ,-w\\o had 
 married one of the three daughtei-s and coheiresses ot Mdes Hastyngs, 
 and another tliird part anno 1362, of U illiam de Jngaldesthorp,Knt. 
 and Eleanor his wife; and in 1371, the other third part ot Tho. taus 
 mid Janus de Hegham, by which means he h;>d the whole manor, 
 from which time it passed as East-Herling,' till Sir Ldmund lieding- 
 ficld sold Jlerlirig, and continued this, in his family. 
 
 PA^V CONNER'S MANOU, 
 
 Was made up of different parts ; it belonged at the survey to Roger 
 Bigot, and went to Walter Bygot of Fornsete, a younger brother of 
 that family, and irom him to Richard Bygot, his son, who conveyed 
 
 ' Bord lands are those which the by some service, towards finding hii 
 
 lords at first Vrv)t in their own hands, lord's table. 
 for the i-.aintenance of thc-.r boardor ' See Giss.ng, p. i68. 
 tabic, whence the border, bordar, or » See tast-Herling, F- j>S. 
 bordarcr, was a tenant tliat lield lands
 
 C40 Q U I D E N H A U. 
 
 a part to Ralfof Koiiiiiigfiull, called the Falconer; Edmund de Bella 
 Campo, or litauc/iamp, had 30 acres of it, and the moiety of the 
 ad vow so n ; he left it to John de lieattchaiiip, his sqn, who, ia 1287, 
 by deed enrolled in the Kini^'s-bcnch, granted it to Edicard, son of 
 Sir II i//. Charles, Knt. of whom it was purchased by Miles IJaslj/ngs, 
 ■who joined it to his manor, and so had the whole advowson. Ano- 
 ther part went to Simon Jii/god, who was lord in 1280, John le Fau- 
 concr being then lord of Eichaid Bj/got's tenement. In this year 
 Richard Le Baxter and Agatha Mai/nwari/n are said to have a manor 
 here, but it was only a part of Mai/nwar^/n's manor in F.ast-Hcrling, 
 that extended hither, and soon after John le Fauconer got Simon 
 BifgOiTs part, and so became lord of both ; Will. Ilastj/ngs of Qui- 
 deiiliam gave Simon Fawconer, father of John, a messuage and lands 
 here, which he added to this manor, and Aland de Ilasti/ngs conveyed 
 a quarter of a fee out of her manor to him, tills whole manor being 
 then held of her manor, at half a fee, and paid 20s. relief, and from 
 tlie time it was purchased by Half Le Falconer, always went as 
 Faticoner's manor in Easl-Herling, to which I refer you. 
 
 The manor which belonged to the family sirnamed de Quidenham, 
 was joined to this, by one of the Falconers. Jl illiam de Quidenham 
 lived in Ilenri/ the Second's time; Adam his son succeeded him, he 
 granted divers lands to be held of his manor, by the service of four 
 annual suits at his courts here. Hugh his son had (jilbert, who was 
 dead in 1319, Igred being then his widow ; 1 take it he was the last 
 of this family that was lord, though it did not extinguish till after 
 1400; for then H illiam QuedcidiamVived at Quidenham. About this 
 time also they yjurchased the messuage, and all thereto belonging, 
 which Richard Bi/got granted to Martin, father of Adam de Quiden- 
 ham, to be held of him in villeinage; and after that Bi/got sold him 
 as his villein, to Adam Neve of Quidenham, who sold to Rob. de Sui- 
 wode of IVymondham, Adam son of Martin de Quidenham, his villein, 
 with all his cattle, and family, born, or to be born, and all their ap- 
 purtenances. 
 
 The family sirnamed De-ponte de Quidenham, or atte Bri/gge,^ 
 continued here from Henri/ the Third's time, to about 1500, and had 
 a free tenement held of Kenninghall manor, at \6s. 5d. a year, which 
 is now joined to the other manor; and thus all the manors and free 
 tenements became joined in 
 
 Sir Henry Beding field. Knight of the Bath, in right of the 
 heiress of the Tudenhams; he left it to Peter Bcdingfield, his fourth 
 son, who settled here; he had two wives; by his last, who was 
 daughter of John Moninges of Greynford in Kent, he had John Bed- 
 innjield, Esq. his son and heir, who married Alice, daughter of Hum- 
 phry Kervile of IVigenhall St. Marie's, who outlived him, and after 
 married Sir John Suli/ard, Knt. who was lord here in 1550, her first 
 husband dying ^«h. 1, 1545;' at her death Humphry Bcdingfield, 
 
 ' Walter atte Brygge had Tlioiiias, 
 who liad Richard, Bartliolomevv, and 
 Amy widow of Williajn Humfrys of 
 (Quidenham, anno 1323. 
 
 ' At his death, the Inquisition says, 
 he held Qnidenhani manor and advow- 
 son of the Uiike of Norfolk, as of Ken- 
 ninghall manor, by fealty, and 34$. \d. 
 
 rent, ilb. of pepper, it containing 300 
 acres of land, 200 of meadow, 100 of 
 heath and furze, and 10/. rent, and also 
 100 acres of land and pasture in Qui- 
 denhani, called Chamberlain's, held of 
 Tho. Tirrell, Knt. as of Banham, by 
 fealty, and 44s. rent, and also of Ho- 
 chani-Parva manor, &c.
 
 QUIDENHAM. 341 
 
 Esq. her son, became lord; lie married Margaret, daughter of Ed- 
 ward Cocket oi Amptoii, by ivlioiu lie had Dorul/iy, that died willioul 
 issue, and Frances, bis sole heiress, who married .-Inthoiiy Tzcails of 
 Hardynghnm, whose only daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, married 
 JeJJ'eri/ Cobb o( Sandriiig/iam, whose son, Jl ill. Cobb oi' Suiidriiigliam, 
 was living in KiG-i. 
 
 This Ilumpluij, iu 1572, sold it to John Holland, Gent, and liis 
 heirs. 
 
 HoLAND, or Hoilland: this honourable family flourished in the 
 time of the Confessor, and took their name eitlier from Hulaiid in 
 JVest Derbi/ hundred, in llie county of Lancaster, or from llolaml in 
 Lincolnshire, botii which were the ancient possessions of this house. 
 Sir Ollio de Holland, lived before the Conquest,^ and left Sir Stephen 
 his son, whose grandson, Sir Ralph, son of Sir Ralph, lived at the 
 Conquest, and held divers lands of the Conqueror's gift; he married 
 Sibill, daughter to IVilUani de IVell, and left issue. Sir John, father of 
 Sir John, and grandfather of Sir Robert de Holland, Knt.' who wiis 
 summoned a baron of parliament, ./«/y C9, the 8th of Edzcard II. 
 (A^ 1314,) he founded the priory of black monks at lloland in Lan- 
 cashire ,• by his wife Maud, daughter and coheir to Alan Lord Zouch 
 of Jsliby, he had a numerous issue; his eldest son, Robert, was a 
 baron in parliament iu the tiuie of Edward 111. and dyin" without 
 issue male, left only Maud, married to John Lovell of lichmarsh, 
 afterward Lord Lovell. Sir Utlio, Otes, or Eton Holland, Knight 
 of the Garter, was at the siege of Calais, attended with three esquires, 
 where he was taken prisoner;* he bore a cross patee g«/. upon the 
 shoulder of his lion, for his gentilitial distinction; Sir Tho. Holland 
 also was at that siege, attended by four esquires, and four archers on 
 horseback ; he was summoned as a baron in parliament the 27th of 
 Edieard IIL and was Earl of Kent, and Baron Wake of Lydell, in 
 xight oi Joan his wife, sister and heir to John Plantaginet Earl of 
 Jient, and of his wife Margaret, sister and heir to Thomai Lord 
 IVake, which lady afterwards married the Blaek Prince. From this 
 Thomas proceeded the Hollands Earls of Kent, one of which was 
 advanced to the dignity of Duke of Surrei/ ; and by a younger son, 
 the Dukes of Exeter, and Earls of Huntingdon, some time enjoying 
 the title of Earl of Jvori/ in 'Sormandi/, and Edrc. Holland Earl of 
 Montaigne. The line of Kent expired in the 9th of Edzcard IV. for 
 want of male issue, as did also, about that time, the lines of Exeter 
 and Huntingdon; their lives are written at large in Mr. Dugdale's 
 Baronage, Irom fol. 7.3 to fol. 83 of the second volume, for which 
 reason Ihave no occasion to repeat it here. 
 
 The fourth son of Sir Robert de Holland first mentioned was JoA«, 
 who by the daughter and heir of Sir Jndiew de Medestede, was pro- 
 genitor to the Hollands of iVeare in Devonshire; his fifth son was 
 Villiam, of Denton in Lancashire, and from him branched the Hol- 
 lands of Clifton, and from them, by a second son, the Hollands of 
 
 f, 
 
 * From the pedigree. were witli the noble and victorious 
 ^ Dug. Bar. vol. ii. makes this Ro- Prince, King Edward III. in his wars 
 
 bert son of John, and father o. Ingelram in France and Normandy, and at his 
 
 de Holland ; but I rather choose to tol- winning of Caen and Calais. In the 
 
 low the pedigree. hands of Mr. Gooch Waites of Lyn. 
 
 ♦ From the Roll of the Knights that 
 
 VOL. I. X .X
 
 342 QUI DEN HAM. 
 
 Sutton ; his eUest son was also named WUUam, who had issue, 
 Richard Holland of Denton, who, by a daughter of Harington of 
 Hornbtf castle in Lancashire, had a son named Thurstan, and by 
 Amery, his second wife, daughter and heir of Adam Kenyan,^ had 
 another son named Richard. 
 
 Thuhstan Holland of Denton, Esq. his eldest son, married 
 Jane, daughter of John Ardcrne of lloKardinc, in the county of 
 CV/fs^cr, Esq. and had issue five sons; Robert, vi)^o married E/iza- 
 leth, daughter of Richard Ashton of Middlelon, Esq. ; the second was 
 Sir Richard Hot/and, Kiit who married twice, and left issue by both 
 wives; third Jy//«,- (ourlh Ralph ; Mlh TertJice . 
 
 John, the third son, had issue, Brian Holland, Esq. of Denton 
 Hall, with whom I shall begin the pedigree, his third son, John, 
 being the first of the family that settled in Norfolk. 
 
 Among the evidences of the Hollands there is a very large genea- 
 logical table of the family of the Hollands in Lincolnshire, from 
 which house all the families of this name are descended. It was col- 
 lected by Geo. Holland, one of the family', in 1563, and continued 
 since to I6OI ; it begins thus : " Estovinghall, Here ensueth the pedi- 
 " gree of the Hollandes of the house oH Estovenhall, in the partes 
 " of Holland, in the countie of Lincolne, and do dwell there, with- 
 " out alteration or change, eyther of house or name, by xiij""* 
 " descent before the Conquest," &c. 
 
 Before which time they all bore, parly per pale indented, of si.v, 
 or and gul. which the house of Esloven always continued, and since 
 the Conquest their descendants bore the present arms, with their 
 proper differences. 
 
 Sir Ralph Holland, who descended in a direct line from that 
 Sir Ralph that lived in the Conqueror's time, was entombed in 
 Swincshed abbey, anno 126'2; Sir John Holland, his great grandson, 
 was buried in the parish church of .S'tt'/«es/(ff/. In 1340, his great- 
 grandson's grandson was Sir Thomas Holland, who married the 
 Devilish Dame, called Elizabeth, daughter to Sir Piers Tempest, Knt.; 
 he spent his life in the Holy-Land, and came home but every seventh 
 year ; his son. Sir Thomas, lived about 1457, and dwelt two years at 
 Crordand, then at Boston, Easton, and at Li/iin, where he is buried, 
 in St. Nicholas's church. His son, Thomas Holland, was buried at 
 Bnri/ abbey; Tho Ho/land, his son, was first Comptroller of tlie 
 Household, and after Treasurer to the Dukeof J?/t7(/«o«(^'s good grace; 
 and Hamnnd Holland, his brother, was first apprentice in London, 
 and after, by great conjectures, was thought to be of great authority 
 under the Grand Turk ; this Thomas had three wives; by .7cf«e, his 
 first wife, he had George, Secretary to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who 
 died without issue ; by his second wife he had Tho Holland, Esq. ; 
 and by Jane, his third wife, d.iughter of Henry Smith of Norfolk, he 
 had Hen. Holland, who, in midsummer, 15fi3, proceeded master 
 of arts in Gonvile Hidl in Cambridge, and Christ. Holland, then stu- 
 dent in Ptmbrook Hall, whose son, Edw. Holland, in iGOl, was 
 student also in Cambridge. 
 
 Note, " At the dissolucion of the abbaye of Swineshead, I my 
 " self'e, [sc. George Holland,'] with my elder brother, and divers other 
 " gentlemen being there, sawe the body of Sit Ralf Holland our 
 
 5 Ex Indcntura 33 Ed, 3.
 
 QUI DEN HAM. 343 
 
 •' Ancestor, entombed there in the right-hand of the Quyre, by the 
 " Hi^h Altar, as the chief founder of the house, who was there 
 " buned A' 1262, lye as wholy to tlic sight of the eyes, asmiglitbe, 
 " 'till being touched with a little slone falling from the brinckc of 
 " the tombe, that wholly dissolved to duste; Cuthberl Tunstall, 
 " late Bishop of Durham in his youthc, near ij Yeres, was brought 
 " up in my great grand father -Sir Tliomas llollandes kilchin un- 
 " knowne, 'till being knowne, he was sent home to Sir Richard 
 " Tumtall liis father, and so kept at schoole, as he himself declared 
 " in manner the same unto me. 
 
 " Note, Sir Robert Holland was had in great favour and repu- 
 " tation with Thomas Earl of Lancaster, in 1^21, as my poore father 
 " was the like with the mighty Prince Henri/ Duke of Richmond, in 
 " the time of his father^ King Henri/ the Eight." (This Duke 
 married a daughter of Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk,'' by whose 
 means this George Holland became thai Duke's Secretary, and dying 
 without issue, lei't much to John Holland, Gent, of IVortxcell, his suc- 
 cessour to his place in that family, by which means the pedigree 
 came into this family.) " My grandfather lieth burj'ed ni Burne 
 " abbey, he had among other children, 7 sonnes, and made them 
 " all religious, viz. Dav^ and Laurence to Ramsey; Daniel and 
 " George to Croxcland, where I dwell next house to the late abbey; 
 " Richard to Wulsyngham ; John to Barl;y)ig, after that to Netc- 
 " bone; Nicholas parson ot'Thurlebi/, a bachelor of divinitye; and 
 " Sir Antony of Tuynne; and this John, channon of Larkyng, 
 " t Wynne brotiier to Sir Antony, was the first that ever King Henry 
 " the VTIl"" by his supremacie dispensed with, and so was secular 
 " prieste, and after that, parson ot I'clticelle in Norfolk. Doctor 
 " MakeryU, Abbot of Barki/ngc, who in the commotion, was called 
 " Captaine Cohlerne, killed him in person. 
 
 " Henryc Holland was bachelor of divinitye in Cambridge, and 
 " after vicar of Bo5fo;/, and so died. 
 
 " Note,T\rd* the cuntry of ifoZ/awrf being at the Conquest very 
 " strong, by abundance of waters, the Hollands, the Welles, and the 
 " Lords of Kyme, being confederate together (as by old men, from 
 " man to man I have heard credibly reported) kept out the Con- 
 " queror by force, 'till at length he had it by composition and agree-. 
 " ment, that they should keep their lands still, and so the grant to 
 " the Hollandes at that tyme from the Conqueror, passed in this 
 " sorte. 
 
 " Notescat omnibus Anglis Francis et Alienigenis nos VVillum : 
 
 " Regem, redidisse Kadulpho JSIiliti de Holand totum do- 
 
 " minium suum de Esteveninge, tam libere honorifice, quiete 
 
 " et in pace sicut aliqui alij de Baronibus nostris de nobis 
 
 " tenent. Teste, 6ic. 
 
 " This manor or lordship of Estevening continues his name and 
 
 " place, and never went from the Hollands since, and now Thomas 
 
 " Holland my brother is lieire, and enjoyeth it ; the same lordship 
 
 " hath by special charter very great privileges and liberties, viz, 
 
 « In the tyme of tlie olde most wor- most honorably delivered him out of his 
 
 thy Duke of Norfolk, my most singular long undeserved yraprisonment in the 
 
 good lord and master, who departed Towrc. 
 thys lyfe in the tyme of Q^Mary, who
 
 344 Q U I D E N H A M. 
 
 " free-cbace and free-wan-en, wyefle, stray, fellons goods, and 
 " onght to pay no manner of towle, nor pays no rent, but 5s. to 
 " castle-warde, and a marke for his liberties, whereby he may keep 
 " sessions within the lordship, as Sir r^omos T/o/ZoHtf my grandifather 
 " did, who executed two fellons at Drayton, within the lordshipp, 
 "■ arraingned and condemned at the said sessions. 
 
 " Edniund Holland, Earl of Kent, who was killed beyond sea, was 
 " Ibrought home and buried at Burne abbey, about 10 miles from 
 " Estorenhigeliall, where I see him lye entombed in the midst of the 
 " quire, with 5 or of my ancestors, entombed round about him, and 
 " there did my grandfather in his latter days keep house, and lies 
 " buried hard by ; the said Earl also, part of his tyme, kept house 
 " there, and was either founder, or a great benefactor to the priory 
 " of St. James at Deeping : none of the Hollands are buryed at 
 " Sayneshed church, but only Sir John, who hes flat with the Hol- 
 " lands quire there, the scripture of his burial being in French, the 
 " date worn out, he married Margaret, but further appears not, 
 " most of the Hollands were buried in abbeys, and friers houses; i 
 *' have seen them lye in great number at Bourne, Swyneshed, Bar- 
 *' ki/ng, Bardeney, Sempring, Gri/sled, Strikswold, Spalding, Crow- 
 " land; and the friers at Boston and Stamford, now being the 
 " Dukes of Suffolk, and my father lies in Spaldi/nge chxnch, to which 
 " houses of religion, my said ancestors to my knowledge, have been 
 " too great benefactors, my mother lies buried in the HollamTs quere 
 " at Srsineshead, and my uncle Blase at Boston. Geo. Holland was 
 " Secretary to the most worthy and mighty prince, Thomas Duke of 
 " Norfolk, grandfather to the present Duke, and served him in that 
 " calling, and Clerk of the Counsail in the warrs both in France, 
 " England, and Scotland, and when he was committed to the Tower, 
 " and his son of Su/vey beheaded in the last year of King Henry the 
 " VlII"", and being most worthily delivered thence by Q. Mary, I 
 " served him in that callinge till his death, and was with him against 
 " Sir Tho. Wiatt his godson, where he was most slenderly appoynted 
 " by his own men & capt: trayterously."
 
 [To/ace page z^^. 
 
 Brian Holland of Denton House in Lancashire, Esq. 
 lived in the time of King Henry the Seventh. 
 
 4. £dw. Holland of 1. Guy 2. Oliver 
 Glasthorp in Derby- Holland. Holland, 
 shire. 
 
 ■?. lohn Holland, Gent, of Wortwell Hall in Rcdcnhall Anne, daughter of Rob. Warner 
 
 in Norfolk, servant and trustee to the Duke of Norfolk, 
 died Febr. 10, 1542. 
 
 of WingSeld, Suffolk. 
 
 Elizabeth and 
 others. 
 
 John Holland, a divine, exiled 
 by Q. Mary for his religion. 
 
 Sir Thomas Holland Anne. | John Godfrey 
 of Kenninghal!, Knt. of Harleston. 
 
 Brian Holland of Wortwell,_ 
 Esq.' Escheator of Norfolk, 
 anno 1549- 
 
 Philemon Holland, D. D. the great 
 translater, was born about 1551. 
 
 Katherine, daughter and heir of Peter 
 Payne of Rowidham in Norfolk, who 
 died in 1583, and left Rowdham, 
 Newhall, and Trusbutt's manors to 
 her. 
 
 Elizabeth.J_Jeff. Miles 
 of Stoke- 
 Neyland, 
 Suffolk. 
 
 lohn Holland of Wortwell, Esq. anno 1586, commended Mary, daughter of Sir 
 
 Henry Holland, author of the Heroologia 
 Anglica, born about 1582, alive in 1640. 
 
 A younger brother, author 
 of Hollandi Posthuma. 
 
 as an ingenious painter, in a book called the Excellent Art 
 of Painting, p. 20. He purchased Quidenham, and Bo- 
 kenham park. 
 
 Edmund Windham of 
 Felbrigge in Norfolk. 
 
 Sir Martin 
 Stutevile of 
 Dalham. 
 
 — Mary 
 
 1. Mary, daughter of Sir Tho. Holland of Quidenham, Knt. and of 2. Mary, daughter and sole Mr. Edward Barker, 
 
 Sir Tho. Knevet, of 
 AshwelUThorp,Knt. 
 died in childbed with 
 Edmund her son. 
 
 / . 
 Katherine, 
 
 'Wortwell Hall, died Feb. 25, 1629, aged 48 
 years; he was buried here, and died seized of 
 Sexton's manor in Icklingham, with the ad- 
 vowson of St. James's church there. He was 
 knighted by King James at Greenwich, May 
 24, 1628. 
 
 'heiress of Sir Edw. Wig- 
 more, of Twickenham in 
 Middlesex, Knt. she was 
 buried by him. 
 
 ~hcr 2d husband. 
 
 John Holland was born at Ashwell-Thorp, A" 1603, was Alathea, daughter and coheir of 
 
 born i6i6. receiver, chief steward, and keeper of the Earl of Arun- 
 dell's park at Kcnninghall in 1626, created baronet June 
 15, A° 5 Car. I. 1629, being the 288th baronet by creation ; 
 died here 1700. 
 
 Pauton of Brinsap, in Denbigh- 
 shire, widow of William Lord 
 Sandvs of the Vyne in Hamp- 
 shire ; died May 22, 1679. 
 
 Sir Robert 
 Clench of" 
 Suffolk. 
 
 -Elizabeth. 
 
 Sir Robert_ 
 Crompton, 
 of "Yorksh. 
 
 Catherine, who 
 was buried here. 
 
 2. John. 3. William. Katherine died Peregrine, dr.- 1. Tho. Holland, Esq. Elizabeth, dr. 
 
 Brian died unmarried a professed nun of Sir Henry died before his father, "Tof Tho. Mead, 
 1732, all without is- at Bruges, NorthofMil- A° 1698. 
 
 Sue. about 1715. denhall, Suf- 
 
 folk. 
 
 of Lofts in Es- 
 sex, Esq. 
 
 Abigail, born at Utrecht, Jacob Garard, son of Ulster, town- Mr. Wright, 
 
 between 1646 and 1660, Sir Tho. Garard of clerkofBury. attornev at 
 and had three husbands.* Langford, Norfolk, 
 
 and Green street, 
 
 Essex. 
 
 attorney at 
 law in Bury. 
 
 I. Tho. Holland, 3. William 2. Sir John Lady Rebecca, youngest 
 
 who died unmar- Holland. Holland ofTdaughter of Wm. Paslon 
 
 ried in the West- Quiden- of Oxnead, Earl of Yar- 
 
 Indics. ham, Bart, mouth. 
 
 4. Jarvis, Alathea, &c. Tho. Dummer, Isabella. 
 
 Brian, died infants. Esq. hath male Dorothea 
 
 s, p. issue. Holland. 
 
 Charles and Sir William Holland The present Lady Holland, 
 
 Elizabeth of Quidenham, Bart. dr. of Mr. Upton, a Spanish 
 died young. * merchant. 
 
 Isabella-Diana- 
 Holland. 
 
 Sole heiresses of Sir William Holland. 
 
 -Charlotte 
 Holland. 
 
 » Thuanus, in his History, vol. ii. p. 520, says, that one Brian Holland was exc- said county, and at divers other times and places in the county, with arms offensive 
 cutcd in 1569, by Catlyn the Chief Justice, for the conspiracy in which the Duke of and defensive, as hand-gonnes, daggers, pistolets, privie coats, antl coats of °f'f'J^=: 
 
 CUICQ III 1 <^DU, Uy Vjdliyil Lilt v^iiii.. jnotiv.-, 1.-.. ...^ ..w.uj-..--^ ... .- .-- 
 
 Norfolk was principal; (whose family the Hollands served faithfully, being their 
 trustees and chief managers of their estate in this county;) whether he means this 
 Brian, I cannot posiiively say, but imagine he does, and if so, his being executed is a 
 mistake ; for 1 find a pardon passed the seal, March 8, 1573, by which the Queen out 
 of her abundant grace, at the humble request of John Holland, Esq. pardoned Brian 
 Holland, late of Rednall, Gent, his father, and Edward Fisher, late of Cringleford, 
 Yeoman, who were indicted for being in a conspiracy with John Applcyard of Nor- 
 wich, Esq. John Throgmcrton of the same, Gent, George Redman, late of Cringle- 
 ford, Gent, and Tho. Brook, late of Rollrsby, Gent, with abundance more, unlaw- 
 fully assembled at Cringlcfoid on the 24th of June, in the 12th year of her reign, 
 (which was 1569, ihc same year that Brian is said to have suffered,) designing treason- 
 ably ro compass the Queen's death, and to make open war against her in her realm; 
 
 \ (which was 1569, ihc same year that Brian is said to have sunercd,J designing treason- neo, ana two aaugnters, rtiamea, ine ciut 
 ably ro compass the Queen's death, and to make open war against her in her realm ; burgh, and Sarah, the youngest, to Sir Cha 
 and that they put such conspiracy in effect on the 25th day of June, at Trowse in the ther to Sir George Downing of Bedfordsh 
 
 aim ucieiisive, d> iirtiiu-^wiiuta, uo^^i.i.3, ^isi.\ji^i.ay ^...i.... .,v..«..^, - — ■ 
 
 and that at Trowse, op the said day, and at other times and places, they openly 
 declared these words: "We will procure the Commons to rise, and expulse the 
 " Strangers out of the City of Norwiche, and other Places in England, and when we 
 " have levied a Powrc, wc will loke about us, and so many as will not take our Partes, 
 " we will hange them up." And the said Brian, and Edward Fisher, with Christo- 
 •pher Platers of Norwich, Gent. Clement Harwarde of the same, Gent. Anthony 
 Nolloth of Yarmouth, Gent, and John Rochester of Norwich, Yeoman, well knowing 
 the traitorous designs of Appleyard and his rebels, and their intentions, yet went to 
 Cringleford on the 24th of June, to be aiding and abetting to their treasonable designs. 
 * She had issue by Garrard, Thomas baptized 1675, John 1681, both died unmar- 
 ried, and two daughters, Alathea, the eldest, married Sir Francis Beckley of Attle- 
 burgh, and Sarah, the youngest, to Sir Charles Downing of Bury St. Edmund's, bro-
 
 [345 ] 
 
 B A N H A M. 
 
 There were three manors in this town, all which are now united, 
 though each retains its. name in the style of the court, wliich is Ban- 
 ham, Marshall's, Beckhall, and Grey's. 
 
 The Customs of which are, that the lands descend to the eldest 
 son ; the fines are at the lord's will ; it gives a third dower ; and the 
 tenants cannot fell timber on the copyhold without the lord's license, 
 unless to repair their copyhold premises. 
 
 MARSHALL'S 
 
 Was the head manor, part of which was owned by the Abbot oiEly, 
 at the Confessor's survey, of whom it was held in the Conqueror's 
 time by William De'Schoies, L'Escois, or the Scot,^ who in his own 
 risht then held another part and the advowson. At this time the 
 cluirch had 30 acres of land belonging to it ; part of this manor 
 0/f/ar then held of the said William, at one carucate, which, with the 
 advowson, was afterwards given to York abbey; and in the Confes- 
 sor's time was held (together with the manor and advowson oiWylby) 
 hy Fader, L'Escois s predecessor. The whole town of Banham was 
 3 miles long, and 2 miles broad, and paid \4d. ob. geld or tax, out 
 of every 204". that was laid on the hundred.' 
 
 In the time of William Riifiis, William de Eschois, for the health 
 of the soul of that King, his lord, gave to the monks of St. Mary's 
 abbey by York walls, the advowson of this church, with a carucate 
 of land here; together with the advowson of /r/%, and two parts 
 of the tithes of his demeans, which were after valued at 8 marks per 
 
 » Terre Sancte Adelrede, Gildecross 
 H. (Domes, fol. 187,) in Benham i. soc. 
 ii. car. terre tenuit Sancta Adclreda, 
 T.R.E. tunc et post x. villani. m° iiii. 
 semp. vi. bord. tunc. iiii. serv. xxiiii. 
 acr. prati, silva c. pore, tunc ii. car. in 
 dominio post, dim, m° i. et i. car. potest 
 restau.ari tunc et post. i. car. homi- 
 nuni m° 1. et alia potest restaurari, tunc 
 iiii. anim. m° ii tunc. xvi. pore, modo 
 ii. Hoc maTieriumtenetWill.de Schoies, 
 de vbbatia, et iiii. soc. xx. acr. terre. 
 semp. dim. car. ii. acr. prati. tunc 
 vaLiit Ix. sol. m° xl In eade'.i iii. 
 liberi homines, dim. c.ir. terre. et v. 
 acr. de quibus non liabuit nisi cmn- 
 menddt. soca in KemncliaU Reps vi. 
 acr. prati. tunc. i. car. ei Jim. mi. 
 val. x.s Hos liberos homines lenuit 
 Rafridus, post Will de Schoies, ct Abbas 
 
 saisivit eos propter commendationem 
 suam. 
 
 (Fol. 99.) Totum (sc. Benliam) habet 
 i. leuget. dim. in. longo, et i. leug in 
 lato, et x'nW.d. et i. obolum de Gelto, 
 quicunque ibi teneat. 
 
 » Terra Willi de Schoies, (fol. 205.) 
 Hund. Gillecross. In Benham ii. car. 
 terre pro manerio, tenuit Fader liber 
 homo, T.R.E. semper v. villi, et vi. 
 bord. et i. serv. et xx. acr. prati. Silva 
 c. pore. semp. i. car. in dominio et i. 
 car. horn, et i. rune, et ii. anim. tunc 
 viii. pore, tunc xxx. ov. et xvi. soc. 
 xxiiii. acr. terre, tunc et post, ii. car. 
 modo i. car. et dim. et i. car. posset re- 
 staurari. i. ecclia. xxx acr. etval. xxii. 
 sol tune et post val. xl. modo 1. de hoc 
 manerio tenet Odarus i. car. terre, etii. 
 bor. et i. car. semp. val. xx. sol.
 
 346 BAN HAM. 
 
 annum, and tor that sum let to tlie rector and his succcssours. This 
 pension was after granted by that abbey to tlieir priory or cell at 
 Ji limb High in Sulfo/I:, in which it continued till it was dissolved by 
 Cardinal IVohey, who procured bulls to dissolve this and some other 
 small monasteries, in oidcr to erect two colleges, one at Oxford, and 
 the other at Ifswic/t ; and besides those bulls and letters patent that 
 he had obtained of the King, he procured releases of them from the 
 patrons, for the Abbot of St. ]\!uri/ at Y^ork released to Tho. Capon, 
 Dean of the Cardinal's college at Ip'izcic/i, all his right in the priory 
 o{Ritmbnrgli, and ail its possessions, lying in Banham, l\'ilb>j, Cossei/, 
 Bazi'burgli, und-Suaff'/iam in Noifolk, and in other places in other 
 counties. This portion was issuing out of his demean lands in Baii- 
 Jiam and JVilbi/ jointly, but yet tlie whole was paid out oi Banham, 
 that rectory being by far the best ; the donation was confirmed by 
 lieiiry I. and by Eierard Bishop oi' Norwich, and Theobald Arch- 
 bishop ot'Caiilerburi/ ; after this the said IViUiam sold the manors to 
 
 Walter Giffahd, who gave the advowsons to (he abbey of 
 Nutlet/, which he had founded in his park at Crcndon, near Tamt in 
 Buckinghamshire;' but it appearing that William de Escois had 
 given them to York abbey before the sale, Giffard's grant had no 
 force. 
 
 Waltek Giffard, son and heir of the aforesaid Walter, sold 
 it to 
 
 John le Maresiiall, whose son, John Le Mareschall, was lord 
 in 1276, in which year he brought an action against the Abbot of 
 Yo)k, in order to recover the advowson, but without success. In 
 1285, Havise, widow of John le Mareschall, was lady, and had free- 
 warren, view of frankpledge, assize of bread and 6cpr, allowed her to 
 this manor, which w-as then valued at 40/. a year; she held it in 
 dower of the inheritance of John le Marshall, a minor, then the 
 King's ward. It seems Johii died under age; for in 1314 she 
 held it in dower of the inheritance of William le Marshall. In 
 1332, Sir Jnselm Marshall, Knt. was lord, who, in 1345, held it at 
 the third part of a fee of the Earl of Gloucester, and paid 13s. 4d. 
 rehcf. This Sir Anselm united the manors, for he held the manor 
 which John le Greij and his tenants formerly held, at one fee, of the 
 Earl-iVIarslial, he of the Earl Warren, and he of the King, and paid 
 40s. relief; and the said Sir ^«se//«, jointly with If illiam de Banham 
 and his tenants, held half a fee of John de Beck, who held it of Hugh 
 le Fere, he of the Earl-Marshal, and he of the King, which manor 
 Havise le Marshall and Hill, de Banham lately held, and for this he 
 paid 20s. relief: after Sir Anselm's death,^ 
 
 William de Morley, Marshal of Ireland, was lord, who, in 
 1361, granted to Sir John de Holing and his heirs free commonage 
 in Banham, for all maimer of beasts. It was after in 
 
 Havise le MARsnALL, wife of Robert de Morley. In 1380, 
 Thomas de Fellon, Knt. and Joan his wife, had these and Wi/lby 
 manor; Joan held them to her death, which was long after her hus- 
 band's; they left two daughters their heiresses, 
 
 Mauv, the eldest, married to Sir Edmund Hengrare, Knt.; and 
 
 Isabell, or SiBiLL, to Sn- Thomas de Morley. 
 
 In 1401, the said Joan settled them after her death, on her two 
 
 ' Mon. Aug. torn. i. 155. * See Dug. vol. i. fol. 600, for this family.
 
 BANHAM. 347 
 
 daughters and their husbands, and their heirs, Robert Braiubrook 
 Bishop of London, Sir T/iu. de Erpingham, Knt. Sir Wil/. llj/killf 
 Knt. and others being trustees. 
 
 In 14 Ij, (hey were settled by John Spencer, and others, on Sir 
 Simon Felbrigg, John llubard, and others, in trust for Sibill de 
 Feltou Abbess of lierkj/ng. 
 
 In 1420, tliey were conveyed to Sir Lewis Robesart, Knt. who 
 settlt^d them on Catherine, v/klow oi'Jo/in Spencer, for hfe, remainder 
 to hi'm and Ijis heirs. Sir Simon Felbrigge, John llubard, clerk, 
 Robert Ashjield, and other feoffees, reiea'^ing their rights. 
 
 In 14J0, they were conveyed to John Eusfjictd, and IVi/l. Jbmyk 
 Bisiiop of No/Tcich, S'lv Ra/j Cromwel/, Mu\ other trustees, by Tho. 
 Chtmcer, and John Arundell, Dean of the free college of St. George 
 at Windsor, and others, John Tirrell at that time holding them dur- 
 ing the life of Katerine his wife, who was widow (I suppose) oi' John 
 Spencer. 
 
 In 1432, Sir Tho. MoRLEY, Knt. and IsABELLhis wife, conveyed 
 them in fee to IVilL Alnztyk Bishop of Norzaich, Sir John Tirrell, 
 Knt. R/i/f Cromwell, Knt. and tiicir heirs; and in the same year, 
 27io. Greene of IVest-Creeting in Suffolk, cousin and heir of IVilliam, 
 formerly vicar of East-Dearham, released to them all liis right in the 
 manors of Marshall's and Grej/'s, and the moiety of HeckluUl, which 
 formerly were the said Thomas Green's, and extended into Bunhani, 
 IVilbij, Quidenham, Old Bokenham, IVinfarthing, and Tihenham, from 
 which time tliey went with Bokenham castle, till they were sold to 
 
 Thomas Uuke oi Norfolk, in whose family it still continues, the 
 Duke of Norfolk being now [1736] lord.^ In 15J8, Sk John Tirrel 
 of Gipping granted all iiis rij^ht in the manor, with many lands here, 
 to the Duke, who gave him Cotton and Bacton manors in exchange. 
 
 GREY'S MANOR, 
 
 At the first survey, belonged to Lessius a freeman, who had one 
 carucate in demean ; it was IVilliam Earl Warrens, at the Conque- 
 ror's survey, and belonged to his castle at Letees.* 
 
 It went from Uilliam, the second Earl IVarren,\\ho died in 1135, 
 to Reginald de Warren, a younger son, whose chief scat was at Wir- 
 meguy, or fVrongay, in Norfolk, which he had by inarryina; Alice, 
 daughter and heiress to William de Wirmegay; at his death, liilliani 
 his son succeedid, who died in 1'209, leaving Beatrice his daughter, 
 then widow of Dodo, or Doun Bardolph,h\s heir, by which marriage 
 this manor came to the said Doun, who very soon after parted with it 
 to Hugh Bardolph, his cousin, who was son of llarneline, brother to 
 Will. Bardolph, grandfather to the said Doun. This Hugh was 
 sheriff of Cornzcal anno 1184, one of the King's Lieutenants in 
 
 ' SceFerbfield, it having passed as that car. in dominio, modo ii. semp. i. car. 
 
 did, ever since it was in the Norfolk ct dim. hominuni. silva de c. pore, et 
 
 t'ainlly. val. xl.j. et v. soc. tenet idem de xxxi. 
 
 ♦Terre Willi, de Warrenna H. de acr. terre et ii. acr. prati. tunc, ct post 
 
 Gildccros, (fol. 91.) In Bcnham lentiit i. car. et dim. post ct modo i. et valet 
 
 i. liber liomo Lcssms, I .R.t. i. car. v. sol. Totura est de Castello de La 
 
 terre, semp. ix. villi, et vi. bord. tunc qucis. 
 i. serv. et xii. acr. prati. tunc et post i.
 
 348 BANHAM. 
 
 England, when lie was in Normandi/ in 1 186, associate to the Bishop 
 of Durham and Ely, to administer justice in the reahn, during tlie 
 King's absence in the Holy-Land, being in such iiigh esteem with 
 King Richard, that in the third year of his reign, (1 191,) when he 
 was in the Holy-Land, and suspected Lis Chancellor, (to whom he 
 had chiefly committed the charge of governing in his absence,) he 
 wrote his letter to Hugh Bardo7]>fi and others, requiring them, that 
 if the Chancellor did not do as he ought, they should take upon 
 them the rule in all things; from which time lie was one of the 
 King's justices for some years, as also justice itinerant, of whose 
 warlike actions and honours more may be seen in Mr. D>i<rdalc's 
 Baronage. (Vol. I. '284.) He died in 1203,' the 5th year ot" King 
 Jo/iii's reign, without issue male, leaving Robert Bardo/p/i, his only 
 brothei-, his heir, and a widow, who after married Jo^iii de Brahose, 
 whom she outlived. This Robert was a priest, and parson or rector 
 of no less than thirty churches, an argument of his interest with the 
 Pope at that time, who usually used to grant, by way of proviso, (as 
 it was called,) many rectories to one man, under pretence that the 
 income, over and above serving them, should go towards the 
 expenses of the holy war, the darling enterprise of that age. Robert 
 died in 1224, leaving his inheritance divisible among his five sisters, 
 of which Isolda (as the Latin Records) or Odoj/ne, (as the French,) 
 the eldest, married Sir Henri/ de Grei/, Knt. to whose share this 
 manor, with others, was allotted ; by Isolda he had si.K sons, to the 
 second of which he gave this manor, viz. John, some time justice of 
 Chester, progenitor to the Greys of JVilton and Rtithi/n ; he was a 
 most remarkable man in King Henri/ the Third's time, of whom you 
 may see a large account in Dug. Bar. Vol. I. 7I0. In 1265, he 
 held it of the Earl Warren at one fee, and died this year, leaving it 
 to Reginald his son, who, in 1277, had free-warren allowed him; he 
 died in 1307, leaving Henri/ his son and heir, 40 years old, and Roger, 
 a younger son, by a second wife,'' from which Henri/ the Greys of 
 Wilton descended, and from Roger, those of Ruthi/n. Roger died 
 in 1352, but long before had parted with this manor, for in 1328, 
 Sir Robert de Morlei/ had an interest in it, if not the fee ; and in 
 1S45, Sir Anselm Marshall was sole lordj and held it united to 
 MarshaH's manor. 
 
 BECKHALL MANOR 
 
 Was in two parts in the Conqueror's time, the chief of it belonged 
 to Aluric, a freeman, who held it of Bishop Osbern, who owned it in 
 King Edicard's time; it had then one carucate in demean, and 
 woods that would maintain 100 hogs, the wiiole of that part being 
 then worth 205. and 40 at the survey.' The other part was only one 
 socman, and his services, of 2s. value, which ibrmcrlv belonged to 
 
 5 Sec his effigies in this church- villani et v. bordarij tunc i. serv. et x. 
 
 * Coiiipare Dug. Bar. vol. i. fol. 82. acr. prati semp. i. car. in do.ninio et 
 
 ibidem 681, ibidem 709, ibidem 6S4. dim. car. hominum. silva de d. pjrc. et 
 
 Monast. vol. i. 644, 645. iii. soc. v. acr. mo. i. rune. semp. iii. 
 
 '(Dome:)d. 163.) lerre Osberni Epi. anim. tunc vi. pore modo xxvii. tunc 
 
 Gildecross Hand. In Benham teniiit vi. oves, m°xxx. tunc. v. capr. m" xxx. 
 
 AluricuSjT.R.E. i. car. terre semp. iii. tunc, val, xx.j. m°xl.
 
 B A N H A M. 349 
 
 Ehf abbey, but after the Conquest, Roger Bj/got's ancestors had him, 
 of whom Berard held him.' 
 
 This manor afterwards came to the Crown, for when King 
 Henri/ II. {iniiio 1175) assessed his demeans, his tenants of Banhain 
 were taxed at lialf a inarlv.' 
 
 It was after in the Ui/gods, and then in the Miiiichetisies, of whom 
 John de Jerpenvilk iield it, who divided it ; for IVilliam, son of IVill. 
 dt Banhani, in 1218, held a good part of it of the said John ; and ia 
 1235, the said JVi/liarn held it of fVarin de Munchaisi, as part of the 
 fees i)i Rogtr Rigot.' 
 
 In 1237, Peter de Kenet and Isolda his wife, settled a moiety on 
 Ami/, widow of Rai/de Bauham, in dower. 
 
 Ill I24y, Warin de Munchensi/ and John de Plessi/, had that part 
 called Banham Haiigh, which was excepted when the manor was 
 sold. 
 
 In 1288, Robert Rose, Win. Genner, and Wm. le Parker held It. 
 
 In 1 305, John de Bek^ of Banham settled it on Nkho/as de Stanhou, 
 and Isolda, wife of the said John. 
 
 In 131 1, John, son of John de Bek of Banham, divided it into se- 
 veral parts ; he conveyed to Richard le Forester {ov Foster) of Ilerling 
 25 acres, with a part of the manor, and divers bondmen; holdu de 
 Bek, his mother, conveyed her right in 40 acres of land, to the said 
 Richard, which John de Bek her husband had settled on her, and 
 Nicholas de Stanhou, her trustee ; soon after the manor was settled 
 by John and Isolda, on Robert Cleri/z, (or Clere,) of Stokedi/, who 
 had another conveyance of it from John, son of James de Eggemere, 
 at which lime he settled it on himself and Maud his wife, Robert 
 Clcryz, his son, and ./oA«, his second son. In 1317, John de Bek 
 conveyed a part to IVill. de Criingtthorp and Jlice his wife. In 
 1323, "it was held of fVill. de Banham, but was divided by ihis John, 
 into so many parts, and each called Bekhall manor, that it is im- 
 possible to know how they all went, except the biggest part, to which 
 all the rest were afterwards joined ; and that in 1329, was owned by 
 William de Clai/don, and Eleanor his wife, and soon after was settled 
 by Thomas de Isenton, and Elizabeth his wife, (daughter and coheiress 
 of Clai/don,) on John Oliver of titamcay in Essex, to whom Bartho- 
 lomew de Btk released his right in l.JSS. In 1345, the heirs of John 
 de Vlaydon, and his tenants of the other part, viz. Walter Snovile, 
 Simon Le-Cotere, Nicholas de Stanhone, and others, held a moiety of 
 it of Hugh Le-Vere, he of the Earl-Marshal, and he of the King.' In 
 1374, l^eler de Bekhall conveyed his right in the moiety (which was 
 now reckoned as a whole manor) to Thomas Asty and his ticirs, Tho. 
 de Chaunticlere being trustee ; and soon after it was settled in rever- 
 sion on John Oliver of Stanway, in Essex, after Thomas de IJardcU's 
 death, wiio held it by the courtesy of England, after his wife's death, 
 who was heiress to it. 
 
 • (Domesd. ii8)TerreRoEeriBigoti, dox Hisf. of the Excheq. p. 486. 
 
 Gildecross Hundr. In Benliam i. soc. ' See Gafboldeshani, p. 260. 
 
 Ciim onmi consuetudine Sam te Adel- * See Beckhall manor in Wilby, for 
 
 drcdc T.R.K. postquam veiiit W. Rex, the Becks. 
 
 in Anglia antecessor R. Bigot, habuit ^ fhe other moiety was now joined to 
 
 commendationem tantiim et habet x. acr. the otlier manors, Sir Anselm Le-Mar- 
 
 ettcrrc, et val. lu. ni" tenet Berardus. shall having purchased it some time be- 
 
 9 Mag. Rot, 11 E. 1. Rot. 5. a. Ma- fore of John de Bek. 
 
 VOL. I. Y y
 
 350 B A N H A M. 
 
 In 1381, Tiio. DE Newto.n, and Elizabeth his wife, settled a 
 moiety of Bekliall on Ju/in C/enaux, clerk, &c. *" 
 
 In 140), John Darlington had it, and from that time till it 
 came to the Duke of Norfo/k in llenri/ the Eighth's time I am igno- 
 rant how it went ; but at his attainder, it was given to Sir Francis 
 Calthoiy of Ingham, and in 1558, iVill. Calthorp of Hempstead had 
 it, after which it soon came to the Norfolk family again. Sir John 
 IV/re// releasing it as aforesaid* 
 
 In 1C26, Stephen de Ebroic, lord of Hi/lby, (who held part of 
 the carucate of land in Banham, that was given to lork abbey, 
 which part always was included in If'ilbi/ manor, after he had pur- 
 chased it of Walter, son of Walter Giffaril, who sold the rest to the 
 Maishalls,) had a grant for a fair and market in Banham; the market 
 hath been disused time immemorial, but the fair is still kept on St. 
 Barnabas s day. 
 
 In 1(285, Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk claimed assize of bread 
 and ale in Lopham and Banham, but as to ZJaHAa/w, he acknowledged 
 that it belonged not to him, but to Roger de Montealt, lord of the 
 hundred. It was thought to belong to him on account oi' Bekhall 
 manor, which was held of him; the Countess of Arundell had liberty 
 of a gallows here in 1256, and Greys manor was then held of her, 
 
 THE HA WE 
 
 Was part of Beckhall manor which was excepted when it was sold, 
 and therefore that passed with Winfarthing manor,' in the Mun- 
 chemies, t' eres, and other families that owned it ; it was no manor, 
 but was originally part of the demeans of Beckhall, and contained 
 220 acres of wood and pasture, with a messuage thereon built; it 
 abuts east and south on Banham Heath. In 131 1, Sir Hugh Le-Fere 
 and Dionise his wife, then owners of it, purchased of Richard Le 
 Forester of Herling a parcel of land of Overhaghe in Banham, under 
 the said Hugh's wood, called Banham Haghe, extending itself from 
 the common pasture, lying at the head of the said land, and was only 
 10 feet broad, it being in order to enclose the Haghe. This came 
 with IVinforthing manor to the Norfolk family, and was farmed under 
 them by Sir Henry Dye, Knt. in l607; it was after sold off, and 
 hath continued in private hands ever since. 
 
 BANHAM HEATH 
 
 Is a large common containing above IGOO acres of land, Ij'ing in 
 the parislics of Banham and Hinforthing, and in ancient evidences is 
 divided into three parts: the whole that lies in Winfarthing is called 
 Winfarthing Chase; (see fol. 189, 190,) the part that joins to Tibenham, 
 Carleton, and New Bokenham, is called Banham Outwood, and con- 
 tains 300 acres; the part that joins to /J««//^//« is called Banham Green, 
 and contains 300 acres more ; on ail which the tenants and inhabitants 
 of Banham and ^rj/j/a/Y/ij/iff only have right of commonage, and are 
 intercommoncrs, each having the drift of their separate parts, and 
 can common all manner of great cattle, as well as sheep, at all time* 
 
 ♦ See p. 347. ' See Winfarthing, p. ii6.
 
 BAN HAM. 351 
 
 of the year. In King James the First's time, viz. I6I8, there was a 
 long suit between the townsmen of Baiiham, and the townsmen of 
 Tibenham, concerning ihe right of commonage upon this heath, the 
 substance of which was this; the townsmen of Tibenham claimed an 
 original right of commonage on the 300 acres called Banhani Out- 
 wood ill Banham, in right of their copyhold lands and tenements, 
 held of the manor of 7'i^e«A(»/j, and common of vicinage on Banham 
 Green, there being no fences or ditches between Banham Oiitwood 
 nud Banham Green; hut upon the trial, the townsmen oi'l'ibenham 
 were cast, and paid 30/. damages and costs, it being found by the 
 jury that the lord o( Tibenham manor, and his tenants, had no original 
 right on Banham Oulwood, nor no common of vicinage on Banham 
 Green ; and whereas there were divers tenants of the manor of 
 Tibenham, that claimed rightof commonage for set numbers of slieep, 
 going on this heath, by the grants of divers of the former lords of 
 the manor of Banham, all which commonages were held by copy of 
 court-roll* of the manor of Banham in fee, by a fine of 10*. paid at 
 every death, and two hens a year for the pasturage of every six score 
 sheep thereon, John Clark of Banham (in behalf of the parish of 
 Banham) brought his action against Mathezo Buxton of 'Tibenham, 
 for feeding 60 sheep and one ram on the heath, according to the 
 grant of the lord of the manor of Banham, made to the owner of his 
 tenement, called Easthangles in Tibenham, and recovered damages 
 and costs, it being found by the jury, that such customary pasturage 
 and commonage was not to be demised, neither was it to be demisible 
 by copy of court-roll, by the lord of the manor oi Banham, to any 
 customary tenant whatever : upon which all the commonages of this 
 nature were set aside. An exemplification of the whole under seal, 
 dated Febr. 13, 1625, now lies in Banham Town Chest. 
 
 In 1611, there were three separate juries, one for each manor, and 
 the leet belonged to the manor, the hetfee being Ss. 4rf. 
 
 This town paiil 4/. for a whole tenth, and is now assessed at 
 1439/. 5s. to the land-tax. In 1603, it had 400 communicants, and 
 now [1736] there are 126 dwelling-houses, and GoO inhabitants. It 
 is a pretty village, standing round a small green, the church being on 
 its west side. 
 
 This rectory is in Nor/b/fc archdeaconry and iiocA7a/irf deanery; it 
 hath a good parsonage-house joining to the west side of the church- 
 yard, and 37 acres 2 roods of glebe. 
 
 Kins's Books. I Tenths. I Synodals. | Archd. Prociir. 
 6 3 6 ly. I 18 4 I5'. I 10 ' 7 7 ob. 
 
 Lincoln Taxat. I Thetf. Pens.'' I York and Rumburgh Pcns.^ 
 36 marks. 1 13 4 " 1 16 O 
 
 6 E Rot. Manerij pen. roe. mark, Rumburgh priors i mark. Thet. 
 
 ' I he Thetford portion was for the ford pension is now paid to the Duke 
 
 tithe< uf the lands of Albred, or Aubrey of Norfolk, in right of Tlietford abbey ; 
 
 Ac Banharo, in this town, who granted Rumburgh and York's portion were 
 
 them to 1 hetford priory, which was compounded for, at i/. 161. which was 
 
 confirmed by Kng Henry II. as you may some lime paid to the Harl ofTanker- 
 
 see in Mr. DugdaL-'s Mon. vol. i.667. ville, but now to his Excellency Horatio 
 
 • 'he \bboi of York's portion of Walpi)le,Esq.; the temporals of the Prior 
 
 tithes was 8 marks, Thetferd monks i of Bokenham were taxed at 6t, id, and
 
 352 
 
 BANHAM. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1310, kal. March, Sir James dt Saiiicijs, son of the noble Sir John 
 de Salucijs, was instituted by his proxy, Beliiigariiis de Quibano, 
 rector of C/ippestoiie in Lincolnshire, at the command of R. Abbot of 
 Messendene, in Lincolnshire,'' executor of the apostolic indulgence, 
 granted to the said Sir James, by Pope Clement V. The Abbot of 
 St. Man/ at I'ork. 
 
 1329, 18 kal. Jan. Robert de Cane, priest. The King, on account 
 of the late vacancy of the abbey, in liis father's hands. 
 
 1331, 17 kal. June, Thomas de Staunton, priest; Caue resigned. 
 The King, the abbey being void. 
 
 1344, 4 October, Will. Galei/s, priest; Staunton resigned. The 
 JVbbot. 
 
 1350, 21 March, James Bek, priest. Mary Countess o(No>folk. 
 
 1360, William de Hawe, parson of/?.' 
 
 1361, \'^ Aug. JVilliam de Coti/ngham, priest. 
 
 ISOl, 11 Octob. John CVerraH.r, i)r)est, on Co<y«g/ia/n's resignation.* 
 They exchanged for a prebend in the chapel of St. Mary and all the 
 English Saints at York. The Abbot. 
 
 1378, 4 Dcf. Mr. Adam de Lakinhilh, priest; Ckrvaux resigned. 
 He exchanged for G rotmdesbiirgh in Suffolk. 
 
 1391,7 August, Andrew de Bondebi/, priest. 
 
 1393,3 April, he changed with Henri/ Ifarburgli, for the rectory of 
 Collingbourne Abbots, in Salisbury diocese. 
 
 1393, 20 Dec. Ilarburg changed with Tho. atte Ende for a canonry 
 in Wells, church, and the prebend of Codetcorth there. 
 
 1394, 8 June, atte Ende exchanged with .John Juel, for Anneport 
 vicarage in Winchester diocese. 
 
 1394, 5 Julij, Thomas Jewel exchanged with Nich. Saresbuny, for 
 Stockton, in Salisbury diocese. 
 
 1401, 12 .June, John Pygot, shaveling, on Saresbury's resignation. 
 
 1443, 8 April, John Cotyngham, priest. 
 
 1445, 8 October, Stephen Cloos, priest, scholar in divinif}-, on Co- 
 tyngham's death. John Abbot of York. 
 
 1452, 18 July, Cloos resigned, and Henry Cossey ' succeeded. 
 
 1483, 24 Sept. Richard Hoog, on Cossey s death. 
 
 1496, 24 iV6r. John Longe, A.M. on Hoog's death. William 
 Bishop of Carlisle, Abbot of St. Marie's at York. 
 
 151ti, 9 June, Roger Darley, on Louge's resignation. 
 
 1518, 4 .hute. Sir Brian Stapleton, on Dorleigh's death. 
 
 1520, 2() Octob. Rowland Lff, doctor of the decrees, on Stapleton's 
 
 Vfere part of those lands in Banlmm and 
 Attleburgh which Wni. Kelringham 
 and others, conveyed to that house in 
 1377; in 1428, tlie Prior oflhetford 
 (then collector of the tenth granted to 
 the King out of all s)>irituals) desired a 
 discount for York and Runiburgh's por- 
 tions in this town, they being exempt 
 (1 suppose) by the King's or liis prcdc- 
 cesser's grant. 
 ' He was to provide him a living when 
 
 any fell, wliich was in a monastery's 
 gift. 
 
 ' From a deed. 
 
 ^ This John, in 1370, acknowledged 
 the yearly pension of 8 marks, due from 
 the rectory to the Abbot or the priory at 
 Runiburgh. 
 
 ' In 1746 he had Wilby, and in 1472 
 was elected master of Rushworth col- 
 lege, and died possessed of them all.
 
 BAN HAM. 353 
 
 death. In 1534, he was consecrated Bishop of Lj<c/^e/(iaudCore«<7y, 
 and so voided this hving. 
 
 1534, 23 Matf, George, or Gregory Greves. (All these were pre- 
 sented by the abbot ) 
 
 1539, ^^ ylug. Barnaby Kirkebride, on Grere*'? death. Percivall, 
 Michael, and John Kirkebhide^ and John Sn ell, by grant of the 
 turn from the late Abbot. 
 
 1562, 14 Juli/, William Tompson, priest, on Kirkebride's death. 
 John Eglesfield, Esq. by grant of the turn, from William, late 
 Abbot of York. 
 
 1577, 18 Jul)/, Richard Stokes. Queen Elizabeth; from which 
 time it hath been in tlie crown, and so continues. 
 
 1587, 27 June, Daniel Reeve, S.T. B. in l603, ^.D. and rector of 
 Qiudenham. 
 
 1028,9 Mai/, Ilumfri/ Tovey, B.D. buried here. 
 
 1640, 23 June, Robert Caddiman or Cademan, on Tovey's death. 
 
 1671, 13 June, .John Gibbs, A.M. on Cademan s death, who was 
 succeeded by 
 
 Mr. Charles Kidman, who held it united to Twait in Suffolk, 
 of which he is now rector, having resigned Banham. 
 
 1735, 12 April, the Rev. Mr. Jolin Kerrich, the present [1736] 
 rector, on Mr. Kidma?i's resignation. The King. 
 
 Mr. Kerrich bears sab. on a pile in point ar. a caltrap of the field, 
 a martlet for diflerencc. 
 
 TheTiNDALS, «//as Kendals, had a very good estate here, to 
 which family Cambden, Clarencieux, granted arms in Juli/ I6I I, viz. to 
 JohnTindall of Dicleburgh, son of John Tindall of Banham, 
 son of John TiNDALLof jBo/cewAom, 
 
 Or, five mascles in cross, and a chief indented gul. Crest, a hand 
 proper, holding a cross of five mascles gul. 
 
 This grant, in 1085, was in the hands of Mr. Tindall of Banham. 
 The heir male of this family is Mr. Robert Tindall, who lately sold 
 the estate at Banham, and lives at Ratlesden in Suffolk [1736]. 
 
 The family of the Kendals, Clakks, Leches, and Colbys,* 
 were all considerable owners in this parish in 148'3, and none of them 
 are yet e.vtinct. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, and is a regular 
 building, 45 yards long, having a nave, two isles, chancel, south 
 porch, and vestry, all leaded; a square tower, with a spire of wood 
 covered with lead, on its top, and in it five bells, a clock and saints 
 bell. 
 
 ♦1571, John Kendal, alias Tendal ; ward liis son; 1587, Christopher, son 
 
 1587, John, his sonand heir, &c. ; 1571, and heir of Thomas Colby, Gent.; 
 
 John Clark of Westgate in Banham, and 1631, Thomas Colby, son and heir 
 
 John his son ; John Clark of Church- apparent of Thomas Colby, S. T. P. 
 
 Green in Banham, and Clement his son ; 1473, John Lcche of Banham, Sec. From 
 
 1483, Robert, son and heir of John the old feoffments in the Town-Chest. 
 
 Colby, late of Banham; 1549, Thomas The Canns and the Coldinghanis are 
 
 Colby ; 157J, Edward Colby, and Ed- extinct.
 
 jj4 BAN HAW. 
 
 In the south isle is an altar tomb for 
 
 Mr. Robert Clark, who died June the 18, 1685, aged 59. 
 But is Clark dead ? What dost thou say. 
 His Soul's Alive, his Body here doth lie. 
 But in a Sleep, until! the Judgment Day, 
 And live he shall unto Eternity. 
 Men say he's dead, I say so too. 
 And e're a while, they'll say the same of you.' 
 
 On stones in the chancel. 
 
 Hie jacet Humfridus Tovey, in Theologia Baccalaureus, 
 nuper hujus Ecclesis Rector, qui obijt Vicessimo primo die 
 Maij Anno Domini 1640.*^ 
 
 John Bringloe, Gent, died the ninth of March, 1683, John his 
 Eldest Son July 3, 1714, aged (JO years. Also Awdry, wife of 
 the last John, 26 Jan. 1713.' 
 
 In the north isle, at the east end, is a chapel or chantry, divided 
 from the church by screens handsomely painted ; in a niche in the 
 wall lies a knight in armour ; (founder of the church, if not, of this 
 isle at least, though I am apt to think the former, because the whole 
 building appears as if built at one time ;) it is oak, carved ; there is 
 no inscription remaining, but yet it is plain that it was made for 
 Sir Hugh Bardolph, Knt. some time lord of Grey's manor in this 
 town, who died 1203, for under his left arm is a large cinquefoil, 
 which is the badge of that family ; and in the adjoining window are 
 his arms, impaling Morley, which induces me to think he married one 
 of that family. This Sir Hugh was with King Richard I. at Messina 
 in Sicify, being one of those who, on the behalf of that King, under- 
 took that the articles of peace and friendship, which were then agreed 
 on betwixt King Richard and Tancred King of Sicily should be 
 firmly kept, in order to carry on the holy wars, as they were called. 
 This tomb is very antique and perfect, as the following representation 
 will shew you, for which 1 own myself much obliged to the Rev. 
 Mr. Kerrich, the rector. 
 
 ' LeNeve's Monuments, vol. iv. p. 67. ' Le Neve, vol ir. p. 64. 
 'LeNeve, vol. i. 88.
 
 BAN HAM. 
 
 J55
 
 356 
 
 B A N H A M. 
 
 The windows of the chapel, and those of the church, were adorned 
 with the following arms, of the lords of this town, and others related 
 to them, many of which now remain. 
 
 MARSHALL. 
 
 BARDOLPH. 
 
 UFFORD. 
 
 ERPINGHAM. 
 
 BROTHERTON. 
 
 CLARE. 
 
 
 ■^>~g> ^^'- 
 
 And besides these, there were the arms of Morley, Keedeston, 
 Caily, Bavent, iinpaling arg. a cross ingrailed az. Marshal!, 
 impalingTiRRELL. Tirbell single. BASSiNGBOURNEandGAWDY. 
 Clare impahng Plantagjnet.
 
 B A N H A M. 357 
 
 In the east window a broken efficies of Bardolpli. 
 
 Tliis chapel brloiiged to the lords ol' the iimiiors, wlio founded a 
 chanlry priest to sing for the dead in it : and in 141(), IVI/t. Morley 
 was ciiaplain ; in l.')!J2, //<■«. C')lrid ; ad in 1474, 'Hid. Selhiiig. 
 
 0|)[)osite, in the south isie, wa^ a;iotlier chapel, heretofore beiong- 
 inir to the gilds of the /Yo/y I'riiiili/ and St. Marif in this town, to 
 both which U ill/am (Si/r was a hem factor in 1471). 
 
 141(;, litariiKi/il MiiinJ'rci/, chaplain. 
 
 1474, John II /.«( . ciiapjain. 
 
 l47y, Rt^iiui/ti li.iuliiicinic, was chaplain here. 
 
 160.3, Jiiliit (i/mtr, chiiplain, to whom linger Midilton, who was 
 then buried in ihis church, gave a legacy, and .Yis. Hd. to rejjair the 
 church. 
 
 In tile cliancpl, in a norlh window, w-as an effigies in a religious 
 habit, with a broken sckiII from his mouth, on wliicii, 
 
 Here was a parcel of land given in Iltiin/ the Seventh's time, to 
 find lamps befoie Tiiiiili/ altar, called Liimij-Lond. 
 
 The ancient names of tiu streets are, Cliercliegate, Ti/cknald, Fres- 
 chena/e, IVcstmur, Ilardwick, and IVestnate. 
 
 'ilie crosses were timalmor Cross, IVhite Cross, Atle Borghe, and 
 Jllfortlic Cross. Seynt Maries-Metr, and Bctnham-Gup are often 
 mentioned in evidences. 
 
 142y, Ptier Pai/n of Dan/iam gave lo West-Acre prior fis. 8f/.; to 
 the canons there \3s. 4d.; to the bretliren of every house of friars in 
 Norwic/i \.s. to say 100 masses for his soul ; to each house of the 
 friais at T/iclforcl s.s. for 100 masses for his soul; to the prioress of 
 the nuns at Thetford Gs. 8d.; and to the convent (^s. 8rf.; to the 
 chapel of the Blessed V irgin at Thi'tjhrd (is. 8d.; to tlie repairing St. 
 Peter's church 6s. 8d.: he ordered to be buried in Ban/iam church- 
 yard, and gave 40s. to be divickd among th.e poor at his burial ; to 
 every hizar-house at \oraich 3s. 4d.; to the chapel of tiie Blessed 
 Virgin at Bticki/iigham l:]s. -id. to mend llnrdan/k way in Htinham 
 40s. and 40s. more to set up a cross at the end of it, where the way 
 parts ; Edmund atte Ilef/e, clerk, and others, were executors; the 
 will was proved the same year. 
 
 In 1437, Jo/in Jioptre of Baiiham gave 12*. to the lamp that burns 
 before the image of tire Virgin Man/ in the church. 
 
 In 14(i'2, Jelhy Ctiinie was executor to Bartholomew Count, senior, 
 of iianhum, who gave j marks to buy a new vestment to the red rope. 
 
 Mr Kidman haih two brasses, which came oH" a stone in 'liis 
 church, containing inscriptions of the same purport, one in Latin, 
 the other in English, viz. 
 
 $)it iatet 3Dna. «r(i?nlictija IPountcnnic, nt'ondniit priori^^ia, i)uiu^ 
 Uoti, pitc obiit n^ Die nUn^fii^' dprilis, Jniio <r>om: .flK£*e<£€ f^n° 
 tuiu.s aic: propicictur JT'cii?. 
 
 pranc for tlje ^otolc of ©ame iChjabctljc .Jliountcncp, i^omctimt 
 priotcs!*, of t\)\^ place. 
 
 • I have it as it was traiiicribed before Supplicat liic tiby mas Genetoi x de 
 
 it was brcken ; but so ignoraiitly, that Stantora Thomas Day. Int. Coll. P. L.N. 
 I can make nothing of it, viz, 
 
 VOL. 1. Z Z
 
 558 BANK AM. 
 
 It hath occasioned mncli suiniise how tliis inscription should be 
 trne, when tlieie was never any priory in this place ; but tiie mystery 
 lies in the impropriety of the wording the inscription, for llie words 
 of this place, do not refer to her being prioress, but to herself, she 
 being born here, where her family for n)any generations had a good 
 estate, and afterwards removed to IVilhi/, for she was prioress of the 
 monastery of nuns, of St. George liie jSlartyr at Thetjord, for in the 
 12th Insiilution Book I read "thus : in 14<J8, the 15th oH Sept. liie 
 Bishop confirmed the eleclion of the lady Elizabeth Motcutenci/e, a 
 nun of the priory of St. George at Thetjord, of the Benedictine 
 order, who was elected prioress there, at the death of the lady Joan 
 El/ton, by tlie president and convent of the said house. 
 
 TOWN LANDS. 
 
 In 1631, Thomas Caivic, only surviving feoffee of the frceliold 
 town lands of Baiiham, renewed the feoffment to Thomas Colbi/, son 
 and heir apparent of Thomas Colbif, S. T. P. ; Thomas, eldest son of 
 Richard Tiiidal, Gent.; Robert, son of Daniel Clark, Gent.; ]Var- 
 uick, son and heir of Robert Dade oi'Thelvetham, clerk, and heir 
 apparent of Roiclaiid JVarzcick of Banhani, his grandfather, and 
 otherSj settling all the following lands on them and their heirs, " for 
 " the profit and advantage of all the inhabitants of the town of 
 " Banham for ever." 
 
 A close of pasture by Oxnet/e Mcere, in three pieces, the whole 
 containing one acre, one rood find an half, abutting on Banham 
 Great Green east. One rood of it was purchased in 1438, the rest 
 in 1471. 
 
 One acre in two pieces in Banham ; the first lies at Langeroft, 
 and abuts on the way leading from yllforfh Cross to Banham Moor, 
 south, and upon ]\ ilby-Laicnd, now called l\ilbi/-U urren, north; 
 the second piece lies at Thwert-Furtong, this was given in 1473 by 
 Eduard Knith, clerk. 
 
 Two roods in Banham, in two pieces ; the first rood lies at 
 Mnspest. and the second in Brimli-tcong. This was town land in 1484. 
 
 Two acres in Broad-Meadoa at W'anfen in Lancroft-Vurlong ; 
 one acre of this was purchased by the inhabitants in 1571, and the 
 other acre was town land in lol'2. 
 
 One pightle, called Le Leete pightle, containing one acre and an 
 half, abutting on the common called Grissell-]\Ioor. The leetfee is 
 to be paid yearly out of the rent of this land. 
 
 One close called Semere-JVong, containing 7 acres and three roods 
 in Banham, abutting on Nete-Gale way, which leads to the Moor, 
 east. This was town land in Ilcury the Eighth's time. 
 
 One close called the Breche, and now the ToKn Close, containing 
 10 acres in Banham, which ibrmcrly was Edward Cann's, and then 
 abutted on the land oi Ambrose iVo/r/s, jun. west, the lord's lands, 
 east, the lord's wood, called the Great flood, south, and the land of 
 Tho. Reve, senior, north. The inhabitants had it of Sir 2'ho. Tirrel 
 oi' Gij'ijing in Siij'ollc, Knt. A" 15fi4. 
 
 In 1544,' Henri/ Cotcssey, or Cossey, clerk, rector here, settled a 
 messuage called the Gild-Hall, (which was copyhold on Gra/'s cum 
 
 •^ Cop. Cur.
 
 B A N H A M. 359 
 
 Beckhall manor,) on Edward Colby and Tho. Canne, who were to 
 hold It to this iiitcniiun and use, viz. to keep the obit of the said 
 Hennj in the cliurch of lianham, on the vigil and day of St. Mar- 
 garet the Virgin, and to eause mass to be ceTebrated for him on that 
 day, &c.; they held it till I j49, for that use, and then it fell to the 
 lord by vcrtue of the statute, who seized it aceordingly, and then 
 granted it to divers feoffees, who were to hold it " to the use and 
 proht of all the cojiyhold tenants of liunham manor, inhabiting ia 
 Banhuin, upon condition, that the lord of the manor and his heirs, by 
 himselt, his servants, oHicers, or deputies, shall for ever have liberty to 
 hold and keep his courts and lect for tiic said manor, in the said mes- 
 suage, with free ingress, egress, and regress, lor all the tenants, to do 
 their business at such courts, without the contradiction or molestatioa 
 of any one." 
 
 Ihe feoffees also iiold by copy of court roll of the said manor, a 
 parcel of ground, wiih a house thereon built, being '27 feet broad, 
 and 13 feet long. 
 
 Here was a small oratory or hermitage, at a place called Sioiiehiidge, 
 the foundation of which may still [173(J] be seen. 
 
 The half of this hundred towards Thetford is champaign, the land 
 being very light and sandy ; the other is heavy ground, aud enclosed ; 
 it produces plenty of grain of all kinds, and in the champaign pait 
 there are good flocks of sheep ; the soil there is chiefly a chalk under 
 Uk" sand.
 
 [ SGO ] 
 
 THE 
 
 HUNDRED OF SHROPHAM. 
 
 1 HIS hundred is bounded on tlie east by Depwade and Diss; on the 
 north by Wayland and Fore/ioe ; on the west by Grymshoe ; and on 
 the south by Gi/tcross, from which it is parted by the rivulet that runs 
 from Qtiideiiham Mcer into the Littlt Utise at Thttford, by the Atlas 
 called Thet, without any reason, tor I do not find it so named in any 
 evidences whatever. This is a large hundred, (or half hundred, as it 
 is sometimes called,) the fee of which, from the Confessor's time to 
 the latter end of King Henri/ VI.' constantly attended the Castle 
 manor of Bokenham,^ being sometimes whole, and sometimes divided, 
 as that was, but then it was wholly in William l)e-la-pole Marquis 
 and Earl of Sujf'ulk, who levied a fine of it lietween himself and his 
 trustees. It was in John De-la-pole Earl of Lincoln, who died in 
 1487 ; after in Edmund De-la-pole Earl of Suffolk , who was belieaded 
 for treason in 1513, and so it became forfeited to the Crown; imme- 
 diately after, it was granted to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, 
 and his heirs, who, about lJ4a, exchanged it for other lands with the 
 Crown, in which it continued some time. In 1573, the Queen let it 
 to Edw. Fludd, Gent, for 21 years, at 10/. a year, who surrendered 
 his letters patent to be cancelled in 1584, and the Queen, for 15/. 
 fine, let it to Tlio. Lovell, Gent, for 21 years. In 1G22, it was granted 
 by letters patent to Sir George Marshall, Knt. Rol/crt Causjield, Esq. 
 and their heirs, in fee, to be held by the tee-farm rent of 10/. a year, 
 in l628, Mr. Robert Tiehbourne and Mr. Andrcxc Palmer held it in 
 trust, with others, for Robert Hethe, serjeant at law, wlw, jointly with 
 his trustees, in lG34, sold it to Rob. Hilton, Esq. and his heirs,' in 
 whose family it continued till Nieliolus IVilton of If ilby, Esq. sold it 
 to Henri/ Kedington, Esq. of //of/i7(«/«, who sold it to Ralph Hare of 
 Harpham, Esq. and Hugh, son of Tho. Hare, Esq. of Hargham,* the 
 heir of that family, is now [1737] lord, who holds it by the aforesaid 
 
 ' In the Conqueror's time the whole 
 hundred belonged to the King, of « lioni 
 Godric farmed it, and [laid ^od. rent. 
 (Doms. fol. 33.) 
 
 In ni>5, tlic King brought an action 
 for this hundred against Robert de 
 Tateshale, to know what right he had 
 in it, who answered that ne lield it 
 jointly with Roger de Montealt, Mar- 
 garet Basset, John Le.Strange, Maudde 
 Erdington, Mabell dc Suthlcy, and 
 
 Richard Fitz-Alan, a minor, of the in- 
 lientance of Hugh de Albany, who died 
 seized of it; and being called upon in 
 the same manner, in relation to his mar- 
 ket at Attlcburgh, and market, fair, and 
 privileges, in Wilby, and New Boken. 
 ham, he returned the same answer. 
 
 ' See Bokenhain Castle, or 01d>Bo> 
 kenham. 
 
 3 Sec Wilby. 
 
 ♦ See Hargham.
 
 W I L B Y. 361 
 
 yearly fee-faim rent. The ancient rent that it paid before the forfei- 
 ture was only half a mark. The Uets of the whole hundred beloiig 
 to it with all superiour liberties, except those of Eccles, Hockliam- 
 Magna, and Old- lioheuham. All the towns are in Rockland deanery, 
 (which is made up of this and Giltcross hundred,) except Thefford, 
 %vhich, though it be in this hundred, I look upon as single, it beiMQ- a 
 deanery of itself belonging to the archdeaconry of ISiorwich, as this 
 doth to the archdeaconry of 'Norfolk. 
 
 This hundred paid for every tenth 100/. 14s. Ad. out of which the 
 deductions came to 7/. Is, so that the King received clear 93/. 13«. 4rf. 
 
 Wilby joins to Banham on the north, and had at the Conqueror's 
 survey two manors ; the head nianoi', which hath been since called bj 
 divers names^ according to those of its different owners, and now 
 
 WILBY HALL MANOR, 
 
 Belonged to Fader \n the Confessor's time, and to William de Schoies, 
 or Escois, (sc. the Scot, or IVill. of Scotland, as he is sometimes 
 called,) in the Conqueror's; it had a church then, and 10 acres of 
 glebe, the whole town being a mile long, and as much broad, and 
 paid \3d. out of every 20s taxed upon the hundred.' The advowson 
 belonged to this manor, and in the reign of fVilliam RiiJ'iis, Ililliam 
 de Escois, or Scoies, by the name of II illiam de Ilestois,^ gave the ad- 
 vowson of Wilby, along with that of Banham, and a carucate of land 
 there, together with two parts of the tithes of his demeans in both 
 places, to the abbey of St. Mary at York.^ In 1226, Stephen de 
 Ebroic was lord; he is sometimes called -L'iroM, D'Ebrois, Devercs, 
 and D'Evereux, and this year he had grant for a market and fair in 
 Banham ; he was succeeded by 
 
 William D'Ebrois, his son ; at his death Maud his widow held 
 it in doH-er, and in 10,56, 
 
 Will IVEveres was lord. Me, and Maudhh mother, sold it to 
 Sir KiciiABD DE BovLUND, and Maud his wife, in 1C7B, who had 
 a charier of free-warren for all his lands here and in Brisinghum.* 
 This ly illiam D'Everes pretended a ri2;ht to the moiety of the ad- 
 vowson, against Simon then Abbot of York, but was cast in the suit, 
 and forced to release all his pretensions. In 1295, Richard de Boy- 
 land and El/en his wife had it, and Joint their son and heir was 24 
 years old, who, in 1314, settled it on himself and Emme his wife, and 
 their heirs; but notwithstanding this, in 1315 Richard his brother 
 was lord here, who, in 1321, settled it on himself and Jlice his wife, 
 .John Lc-Claver and Adam Le-Long being his trustees. In 1345, Sir 
 John Boyland, Knt. of Boyland Hall in Briaingham, held it at three 
 
 ' Terre Willi dc Schoies, H. Sere- tunc. xl. oves, m'' Ix. Et luibet dim. 
 
 pliam. (Domesd. fol. 205.) In Wil- leug. in longo, et dim. in lato, quicunqiie 
 
 geby ii. car. terre teniiit Fader, T.R.E. ibi tcncat, et xv.d. de gelto, i. ecclesia 
 
 tunc X. villani post et m° vi. semp. ix. x. acr. et val. iii. sol. 
 
 bord. iiii. serv. m^i. et xiiii. acr. jirati. * Mon. Ang. torn. i. 387, ibidein, 
 
 tunc. i. car. et dim. in dominio post ct 390. 
 
 m' ii. tunc. i. car. el dim. honiiinim, ' See Banham. 
 
 post et m° i. silva x. por. tunc. i. r. • See Brisingliani, p. 58. 
 modo iiii. semper v, anim. et ix. pore.
 
 30a 
 
 \V I L B Y. 
 
 qnarters of a foe, half of John fValei/s, the other half of JoJin lierde- 
 !i(i/, who held it of the heire of Hugh dc Bokenhdm, tliey of the Earl 
 of Aruudill, ami he i)f the King, all which Maud de Boifland afore- 
 said latclv held, «nd paid 30s. relief. This part seems to be the free- 
 man and his scrviecs, which was Roger Bifgod'it at the Conquest, 
 aftenvards the liarl of jlrundeU's, then Ihtgh Bokenham's, lord of 
 fVest-llerUtig,^ after that the Berdtwells, by whom it was sold to the 
 Boi/laiids. 
 
 in 13(i3, SirTiio. de Felton, Knt. had it settled on him, by Sir 
 Jf'il/. [iitraldesthorp, Knt. and Eleanor his wife, it being conveyed to 
 him during the life of Eleanor ; great part of this manor was sold by 
 Sir John de lini/laiid, for it had now only two messuages, 108 acres 
 of land, 6 of meadow, and \Gs. rent. In 137'i. Sir Tho. Felton, 
 Knight of the Gaiter, was lord, by whom it was settled, as Rihurgh 
 was, of which he was lord.' 
 
 In 1380, Sir 1 no. de Felton, Knt. and Joan his wife, held it; 
 Man/, his eldest daughter, was then married to Sir Edmund Hengrave, 
 Knt. and Sihilla de Morlai was his second daughter.' 138(), Nicholas 
 Colerell, ( haplain, released all his right in it to Joan, widow of Sir 
 Tho. de Felton, who, in 1388, settled it on herself fur life, after on 
 Robert Bishop of London, and other trustees. 
 
 In 1-114, John, son of Sir John Ciirson, Knt. released all his right 
 in the manor, late the Lady Felton's, to John Clifton, Tho. Lophain, 
 and other feoffees, together with lugaldesthorp, Belugh, and Dersing- 
 hani manors in Norfolk, and Barrow in Sujfolk. 
 
 In 1470, Sir John Cuhson of Bechhalle in Belagh, Knt. gave this 
 manor to TVio/rtMs, his son and heir, reserving ses'eral annuities;^ he 
 was lord of Ingaldesthorp, &c. and died this year. In 151 1, it appears 
 by the will oi' Thomas Curson, Esq. son and heir of Sir John, that he 
 gave JVilbi/ and Darsingham manors to John his son, it being then 
 lield of the Earl of Jrundell, as of Castle-Acre manor. In 1546, 
 .lohn Curson, Esq. died seized, and JVilliam was his son and heir, 
 who had now livery of this, Ingaldesthorp, Darsingham, Bt/ntre, 
 Inckhall in Belagh, Harple, and many other manors. 
 
 In IjGj, William Curson, Esq. and Thomasine his wife, sold 
 the manor to Sir Tho. Love/I, Knt. and his heirs. ^ 
 
 In 1570, it was in Tho. Lovell, Esq. it being then called Wilby 
 Hall, otherwise Cursoiis; in this family it continued till l0"27, and 
 then Charles Lovell of llerling, Esq. sold it to 
 
 Edw Alio IloBARr of />rtHg/f(/, Esq. in trust : it had then a fold- 
 course, but no rents. In 1631, Kduard iiohart sold to Charles Lovell 
 of Hockering, Escj. and Edward Barken/ of the same, Gent, the ma- 
 nors of llilhif, whicli late belonged to Sir Tho. Lovell, Knt. deceased, 
 father of the said Charles, Sir Francis Lovell, Knt. deceased, and 
 IVtUiam Lovell, Esq. brothers of the said Charles, and Peter Pretiman, 
 Gent, ihey being conveyed to the said Edward, to the use of Sir 
 Thomas and the rest. 
 
 ' See Wcst-Herling. 
 
 « S« Riburgh. 
 
 ' See Baiiham Marshals. 
 
 ^ Sec Beiagli, in Kinest'ord hundred. 
 
 ^ It had then 40s. a year quitrent, 
 
 free-warren, a fold-course for looo 
 shcej', and it extended into Wilby, Old- 
 Boktnham, Banhani, Quidenham, Ec- 
 cles, Harphani, Bestborp, Attleburgh, 
 'iind KcninglMll,
 
 W I L B Y. 
 
 36'3 
 
 In 1565, CiiABLF.s LovEi.L of Etist-I furling, Esq. sold it to 
 Robert Wilton oi WilOy, Esq. and his heirs, and so it became 
 joined to 
 
 BECKHALL MANOR, 
 
 Which was owned by Ailid* in the Confessor's lime, and by Ralf 
 Bainard in the Conqueror's, midcr whom it was held by Solidaritts, 
 and had a carucate of land in demean, which sliews that it was an 
 exact half of the town, the other manor being of the same extent and 
 value. 5 In 1 104, Jii'j^a iWtnurd (his witlow 1 suppose) had it; and in 
 1106, Je(J'ri/ Hainuid, her son and hcir,vvho was a great benefactor 
 to St. M(iri/'.s abbey at York; he was succeeded by IVi/l. Baiiiard, 
 wlio taking part wiih FJias Earl of Main, Fhillip dc Bruose, ll'illiam 
 Millet, and other conspirators, against King Henry I. lost his barony, 
 the chief seal of which was called liainard's eastie, situate below St. 
 P«h/'s, near the 'Ihnmes: upon this forfeiture it was given by the 
 King to Robert, a younger son to Richard Fitz-Gi/bcrt, progenitor 
 to the ancient liarls of Clare, i\i this Robert was to the noble I'amily 
 of the Fitz-Walters,^ ot whom it was always held oi Bainard castle 
 at half a fee; Fulk Bai/nard held it oi Robert Fitz-JValtcr ; and in 
 1228, Robert dc Cokejield held it of JV alter Fitz-Robert, as did 
 Richard dc Cokefend, his son, whose son and heir, John, was a minor 
 in the wardship of Simo/i de Kokcfend in 124!). About 1272, 
 
 Robert de Beckham. 6rst had that half fee, which was formerly 
 Robert Cockjield's, and another (pKuter of a fee joined to it, held of 
 the Lady Mand de Boy/and, from whose manor he had purchased it. 
 In 1313, he held the "half fee of Fulk Baimrd, he oi' Robert Fitz- 
 JValter, and he of the King ; and in 1386, it was held of Walter Fitz- 
 JValter, Knt. and I'hiltipit his wife, as of their manor of Hemeiihale. 
 
 In 1345, the iS'uininu I illarum reckons Joh)i de Brandon, and John 
 de Hereford, as lords here, but it was only on accounlof their manors 
 of Ilargham, &-c. extending hither. 
 
 In 1360, and 1399, I'eteu de Bekhall had it, and held the quar- 
 ter of a fee of the Lady Felt on. 
 
 In 142<J, Nov. 4, Sir Richard Carbonell, Knt. by will, ordered 
 his manors of IVilby, Slodhagh, Jlitton, and Penesthorp, to be sold to 
 pay his debts; in 1459, --llice, widow of Sir ylndrew Ogard, Knt. of 
 Bokenham castle, after of Sir Hugh Cokesei/, Knt. died seized of a 
 part of it, which always vvent with that castle, till Sir Edmund Knevet 
 sold it. 
 
 In 1495, Tho. Mownteney and Tho. Curson, Esqrs. were 
 lords, it being held of the said Curson, as of his manor of IVilOi/ Hall, 
 by 4s. rent. 
 
 In 1526, John Mounteney of Foxele, Gent, conveyed to John 
 Green of IVilby, Gent, all his manors, lands, &,c. in IVilbi/, reserving 
 8 marks a year to Alice Mounteney, his mother, for life. 
 
 ♦ Hund. Screpliam, terre Radi Bai- oves m° cix. tunc, et post. val. xl.j. m° 
 nardi. (Domsd. fol. 257.) Willebeith Ix. 
 
 tenuit Ailid i. car. terre T. K. E. niodo 
 tenet Solidariussemp. ii. villi, et ii. bor- 
 dar. tunc. i. scrv. et vi. acr. prati. 
 Silva V. pore. semp. i. car. in dnio. et 
 dim. car. hominum, semp. i. rune. tunc, 
 iiii. an. m° v. modo por. tunc. cxx. 
 
 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Hund. Scere- 
 pham. (fol. 127.) 
 
 In Wileby i. (sc. liber homo) soca in 
 Bucham Regis. 
 
 ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. 461. 
 
 * See Diss, p, 6. •
 
 304 ^V I L B Y. 
 
 In 1532, Richard Bainard, Gent. Edm. Knevet, Knt. and 
 John A\ iiitk, Esq sold Bek'att manor to 
 
 John GKEEN,Jf>HN Guky, Esq. John Crofts of IVesl-Slozc, 
 Esq. Edm. Bacon oi' Troston, Esq. and John Brampton, Gent, 
 liis tiuslees; and so all the parts were joined again by Green's pur- 
 chase. 
 
 In loGl, Tho. Green of JVi/bi/, Gent, son oi John Green, died; 
 he married Cecilia, daughter of Tlio. Gvyboti of Lyi), and Roue his 
 uife, leaving his manor of Btckhall, in If i/hi/, Ilargham, Eccles, 
 liaiifiam, Bokeiiliaiii, Crostuick, and Rustoii, to Francis, his son and 
 heir, then three years old ; it then contained 12 messuages, 220 acres 
 of land, 220 acres of pasture, 4a-. Bd. rent, 8cc. all which were held of 
 C/iristop/ier Hei/don, Knt. in right of Temperance, his wife, relict of 
 Tho. Grej/e, as of his manor of Buinard's Hall ia Bunrcell; he died 
 seized also of Ilargham, &c. 
 
 In 1371, Matuew Bacon, Gent, was lord, in right of C^c/Zy his 
 wife, relict of Tho. Green, as guardian to Francis Green, her son, who 
 died without issue in 1580, leaving it divisible amon» his five sisters. 
 
 Rose, married first to Butterworth, then to Paul Gooch of 
 Hargham. 
 
 Prvidence, to John Laiince of Halisworth. 
 
 Thomasine, to Tho. Edgar of Glemham in Su^'olk, 
 
 The fourth, to John Prettiman, Knt. and 
 
 The fifth, to JliU. Slohes, Gent, of whom 
 
 John Wilton of Topcrojl, Gent, bought the several parts, and 
 completed his title in 1622. 
 
 John \\'h,ton of Topcroft, Gent, purchased the advowson, and 
 joined it to the manor; he left one daughter, Cec/A/, married to Sir 
 John Brtwse ol // enham in Snjj'olk, and Richard H i/ton of Topcroft, 
 Gent, his son and heir, who married jtnne, daughter of Robert 
 Buxton of Channons in Tibenham, Esq. ; he conveyed Beckhall to 
 Robert his son, reserving an annuity of 50/. a year to be paid in his 
 house at Tnnncgale Green in Topcroft, where he had a good estate : 
 lie died in 1(J37 : Robert IVilton of Jl i/bi/, Esq. his son and heir, was 
 born in 1599; he purchased J] ilby Hall manor, and the hundred of 
 Shropham, and by so doing, joined the leet to the manor,' and made 
 the estate complete : lie had three wives ; by Hannah, daughter of John 
 Jay, Gent, he had only one daughter, Hannah, who married to Ro- 
 bert Buxton, Esq. Aug. 24, 1654, by whom he had Robert Buxton, 
 born Jpril 9, 1659, and Elizabeth, born Dec. 16, l66l ; by Susanna, 
 his second wife, youngest d;'Ughler of Sir Anthony Drnry of Bt sthorp, 
 he had issue; and by Bridget, daughter of Sir John Mead, of Lo/'ts 
 in Essex, he had two daughters, and one son only, viz. Nicholas 
 flillon of in/bi/, Eic\. who married a Clinch; he sold the manors, 
 hundred, and advowson, to RalJ Hare of Hargham, Esq. whose de- 
 scendant, /i«g/t Hare, now [l737] a minor, son of Thomas Hare of 
 Hargham, Esq deceased, is lord and patron.' 
 
 The advowson of the rectory, after the Dissolution, came to the 
 Crown; and, in 1558, was held by Edward Lord North, and John 
 Ifilliams, and their heirs, in free soccage by fealty only, as of East 
 
 ' Leet (ea, 41. ^d. ' From the Collections of John Hare, 
 
 Richmond.
 
 W I L B Y. 365 
 
 Greenwich manor in Kent, and went afterwards as the institutions 
 shew you, till it was sold to John Wilton. 
 
 In 1504, William Hammond, senior, of Wilhjf, infeoffed a close 
 called 'Nells in Wilby, in Robert WaUen, rector iliere. Will. Moun- 
 tenci/, Gent, and others, to tlie use of the repairs of the church for 
 ever; he had it of Jolm Muiintenei/ of Wifhi/, chaplain, and Robert 
 Hamond, deceased ; it abuts west on the street, and was ffiven in 
 1480, by Jolm Nell of Wilb^.» 
 
 In 1637, Richard Wilton of Toperoft in Norfolk, gave a rood 
 of ground, and built an alms-house thereon, over the door of which 
 his arms still remain. 
 
 The manor of Old Bokenhnm extended hither; in 1366, Iliigli 
 Berntik had a messuage, and 39 acres of land, Sec. and 20s. rent in 
 New liohenham, IVilby, Jtllebiirgli, and FJingliam, held by the 
 twentieth part of a fee, which at his death was to revert to Alice 
 Bernalc, and John, son of Will. Bernak. 
 
 In 1367, Will. Li: Latimer had lands here, in which he was al- 
 lowed free-warren. 
 
 Eccles manor e.xtended hither, for in King Henry the Eighth's time, 
 Robert Wi/ngjield held half a fee here of that Kirig, and paid 18r/. to 
 the wardship of Norwich castle, it being part of the Bishop's manor 
 of Eccles, which was part of his barony before the exchange. 
 
 This rectory is valued thus in the 
 
 King's Books. I Si/nodals. I None. Taxat. 
 7 4 ob. 1 10 I 10 marks ; 
 
 and being sworn of the value of 48/. 14s. 2d. it is discharged both of 
 first fruits and tenths. It hath a good rectory-house, and several 
 acres of glebe; it is in Rockland deanery, and Norfolk archdea- 
 conry.' 
 
 It paid 3/. 6s. 8d. every tenth, and is now assessed at 4551. to the 
 land-tax. In l603, there were 88 communicants, and now there are 
 about UJO inhabitants [1737.] 
 
 Here were two gilds kept in the gildhall, one dedicated to All-Saints, 
 the other to St. Peter; to the brethren of each of these gilds. Robert 
 Hammond gave 6s. Sd. and a new bell to the church. 
 
 William JD'Eschoies, (or Le-Scot,) gave this and Banham advow- 
 sons, and a part of the tithes of his demeans, to St. Mary's abbey 
 near the walls at York, which was confirmed by Everard Bishop of 
 Norwich, and Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury ;* part of this 
 portion of tithes, with that at Banham,^ was settled by the abbey on 
 their cell at Rumburgh in Suffolk, and in 1528, was granted with it 
 to Cardinal Wolsexj, towards building his colleges in Ipswich and 
 Oxford, by patent dated Dec. 30, 20th Henry VllI, 
 
 s From a deed in the hands of the broke out in the parsonage-yard, occa. 
 
 Rev. M. Baldwin, rector of Buiiwell. sionedbycarrying a lightea stick through 
 
 ' Mortuaries are paid in this parish to it, wliich burned down the barn, stable, 
 
 the rector, according to tlie act. The gate-house, tlie roof and scats of the 
 
 temporals of Bokenham priory in this church, and chancel, and all the limber, 
 
 town were taxed at 7s. lod. In 1507, work of the steeple, to 790/. value, 
 
 the town of Besthorp had lands here, ^ Dug- Mon. vol. i, 404. 
 
 lying by the Gildltall. In 1633, a fire ' Sec Banham. 
 
 VOL. J. 3 A
 
 S66 WILBY. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1310, 16 kal. y^ug. John Le-Straunge, priest, instituted to Wilby, 
 in the Bishop's palace at Eccles. York Abbot. 
 
 13S0, 7 kal. M(ii/, John de JVilltt/, priest. Alan Abbot of Ybr A. 
 Nj'c. de IVilbif, parson of \aketoii, was iiis executor. 
 
 1362, John de Ilemc/ing, rector. (From a deed.) 
 Sir Raff'de Clifton; he resigned in 
 
 1370, 12 March, to Hubert de Twiwell, sub-deacon, in exchange 
 for Dighton rectory. York diocese. 
 
 1404, 1 1 Mai/, John Ilaxckeswell, shaveling. 
 
 1424, 13 Sept. Mich. IVolmcr, on Hazckesweirs resignation. 
 
 142(5, 3 'iug- Tho. Corki/, priest, IVolmer being deprived. 
 
 1452,21 Oct. Rich. Hoicson, on Corkbi/'s death. 
 
 1460, Robert Marchall, chaplain, on Howson's resignation. 
 
 14OO, 14 March, George Marchal, chaplain, on Robert's resig- 
 nation. 
 
 14(i3, 24 Oct. Tho. Stanton, by lapse ; John Basham, chaplain, 
 farmed it of liim at 13 marks a year, and serving the cure, and three 
 gowns a year, fitting the said Thomas's degree. 
 
 1470,30 May, Henry Cossa, or Cosset/, A. M. on Statiton's death. 
 Thomas Abbot of York. He had Banharn, and was master of Riish- 
 aorth college. 
 
 1483, Richard Grey, on Cossey's death. 
 
 1502, 6 Oct. Robert JValden, on Grey's resignation. All these 
 rectors were presented by the Abbots. • 
 
 1530, 11 June, Miles Spencer, doctor of laws, on IVnlden's death. 
 WiL. Cleyuon, doctor of laws, by grant from the Abbot. He w;is 
 after archdeacon of Sudbury, rector of Ilevenirigham and Redenhall 
 in Noifolk, vicar of Sohani in Cambridgeshire, dean of Chappel- 
 I'ield college, principal official, and vicar-general.* 
 
 loS'lyQl March, S'n John Mi/gate; the Abbot. Hewasthelast 
 prior of Bukenham.^ 
 
 1540, 7 Jan. Guy Ke/saij, chaplain. John Folbury, &C. by 
 grant of the turn from the late abbot. 
 
 1553, 16 May, Kelsny resigned, Tho. Peyrson, priest, succeeded. 
 King Edward VI. 
 
 1555, 16 Sept. George Vicars, on Peyrson's resignation. Leonard 
 Palmer, Gent. 
 
 IJtiS, 8 Sept. Ottinwell IVetwode, priest, on Fiker's death ; lapse; 
 buried at Eccles, where he was rector. 
 
 1586, \3 Jpril, Peter Tytley, A.M. Edward Gbigg, notary 
 publick, by grant of the turn. 
 
 158G, 6 Oct. Tho. Irland on Tithy's resignation. Peter Gooche 
 of Hargham, by grant of the turn from Ralf Mulley, who had it of 
 the grant of John Chitham, Gent, true patron. 
 
 1587, 24 Febr. Tho. B/udde, on Irland's resignation. Tho. 
 GoocH, doctor of physick, by grant of John Chetham, Gent, true 
 patron. He had Hargham. 
 
 * Antiq. Capellae, &c. published with 5 See Kenninghall, p. 913. 
 Browne's posthumous work. Lend. 
 1712, p. 51.
 
 WILD Y. 367 
 
 1587, iG Juhi, John Haljield, on Bludd'a rc-signalion. James 
 WnicHT, Gent, bv grant of Ju/tu C/iel/iam, gent, senior, true patron. 
 
 1G27, 10 Sept. 'Robert lioot/ie, A.M. on lltttjicld's death. John 
 Baiiley of Old Bokcnham, yeoman, true patron, (of whom the 
 IViltons purchased it.) 
 
 1()44, .hdin Stiikeli/, on Boot/ic's deatli. 
 
 lt)J7, Richard Unddelow, rector. 
 
 1()7!), 4 March,. lonalhan .Vor/o/J, A.M. Nicholas W^ilton, Esq. 
 
 Hi8(i, ly -iiig. Tho. liaron, on burton's deatli. Ditto, 
 
 l68G, 11 March, John Last, A.M. on Baron's death. Nicholas 
 Wilton. IaisI was also curate of O/d-Bokenharn. 
 
 l7'20,Q.(i Oct. Nicholas Neech, on Last's death. Anne Hare, 
 
 widow ; he held it with Shropluim, and resigned it for Snitterton, and 
 
 The l{ev. Mr. John Hare, LL.B. the present [1737] 
 
 rector succeeded ; who was presented by Thomas Hare of llargham, 
 
 Esq. liis eldest brother. 
 
 Tiic Church is dedicated to the honour of all the Saints ; tlie 
 chancel and south porch arc tiled ; there is a low square tower, and 
 five bells. 
 
 On stones in the chancel. 
 
 Kedington impales Buxton, with two falchio:is for Kedington^s 
 crest. 
 
 Henry Kedington, Esq. died March 21 Anno Dom: 1713, aged 40 
 years. 
 
 Kedington, arg. on a bend sab. sw. falchions in saltire proper, im- 
 pales Buxton. 
 
 Margaret, Relict of Henry Kedington of Hockham in Norff: 
 Esq; eldest daughter of Robert Bu.xton of Channons-Hall in 
 Tybenham, Esq; died Oct: 21, 1711, aQ;ed 56 Years. 
 
 Here lyeth the Bodyof that faithful Patriot, and true Lover of 
 his Country, Rob. VVilton ofWylby, in the County of NorfF. 
 Esquire, Son of Richard Wilton ofTopcroft in the same County, 
 Gent, by Anne the Daughter of Robert Bu.\ton of Tybenham, 
 Esq; his first Wife was Hannah, Daughter of Robert Jay, Gent, 
 by whom he had Issue Hannah, living at the time of his Death : 
 His second Wife was Susan, one of the Daughters of Sir An- 
 thony Drury of Besthorp, Knt. by whom he had 3 daughters, 
 Bridgett, Ann, Elizabeth, living at the time of his death: His 
 last NV'ife was Bridgett, one of the Daughters of Sir John Mead, 
 Knt. of Lofts in the County of Essex, by whom he left 2 
 Daughters, Joanna and Dorothy, and only one so much beloved 
 son Nicholas, he exchanged this Mortal, for an immortal Life, 
 the 19 of Nov, 1657, in tlie 58 Yeare of his Age. 
 
 Wiltons arms with three escutcheons joined to it, viz. Jai/,gul. on 
 a bend ingrailed sab. three cinquefoils arg. a crescent or for ditference. 
 Druri/. Meade, sab. a chevron or, between three pelicans az. vulning 
 themselves proper, a crescent.
 
 5G8 WILBY. 
 
 S. M. Dominae Brigitae, Robert! Wilton, Armigeri, conjugis 
 siiavissimae, Joliannis Mede, Equilis auiati FiliK quicquid uspiam 
 Aniorisj Sanctimoniae, Prudenliae, V'eritatis, Honoris, repertum 
 erat, in Terris experta, ncque beata satis, adhuc inde ccfilituin in 
 album adscribi voluit, 15 Cal. Apr. An" Dni. lG52, ^tatis suae 32°. 
 
 Arms against the north wall are, Wilton impaling Mede, Drtiry, 
 and Jay. 
 
 Bell impaling Knevett, which was put up for Muriell, widow 
 of Sir Robert Bell of Beaupre-Hall in Norff: Knt. Daughter of 
 Sir Tho. Knyvet the Elder, of Ashwell-Thorp in Norff: Knt. who 
 (they say) was buried here. 
 
 Per fess embattled, three suns proper, a coat of pretence, girone of 
 eight, on a chief three annulets. Crest, a hawk. 
 
 Here 13'eth the Body of Elizabeth Peirson, the second wife of 
 Tho. Peirson of Middleton, in the County of Norfolk, Esq; She 
 dyed at this Place the '27th of Oct. 1727. The Few Years She 
 hved in Norfolk, She gained a great Esteem by her good Nature, 
 and Humanity to all People, an Account of her Family, which 
 was very Honourable, as she was descended, from several Bishops, 
 as well as other Clergy of uncommon Credit, is to be seen in 
 the Church of Midleton. 
 
 The following inscriptions in the church. 
 
 Hie jacet Corpus Johannis Hatfield, Clerici, qui obijt 8vo die Sept. 
 Anno Domini, 1627. 
 
 Wilton impales Dnny. 
 
 D. N. Susannae Robert! Wilton, Armigeri, Conjugissecundje, 
 Anthonij Drury Equitis aurati Fihae, Tranquilli Cmeres, cujus 
 Pars purior. Turbine fatigata terrestri, ad Cceli Quielem advo- 
 lavit, Calendis Augusti, A° Dni. l643. .Stat, suae 34. 
 
 A broken inscription for Hannah, Daughter of Henry Jay of 
 London, Clothier, Wife of Robert Wilton, who died the 16 of 
 April, 1635, aged 31. 
 
 Another inscription for Jay himself, who died the last of Jan. 
 1635. 
 Anne, Sister to John Hatfield, Clerk, died the iQth of Jan. 1648.
 
 [ 369] 
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM 
 
 IvECEivED its name from the numberof bucks with wliicli tlie woods 
 here formerly abounded, Uuc/ium, Bukham, and Buhenkam, being 
 plainly' the village of bucks, and not of beech trees, as Mr. Camden 
 imaojiiied,' there being none of them in this county, as Sir Jlenri/ 
 Spelinan riglily observes;' and the additional title of Old was after- 
 wards added, to distinguish it from New-Biikenham, which was taken 
 out of it. 
 
 Ralf Gu-^dek Earl of Norfolk owned the whole town (except the 
 carucute which belonged to JSuri/ abbey) in the Confessor's time, 
 when there were 3 carucales in demean, and woods sufficient to 
 maintain 182 swine, 21 socmen of his own, and 43 that were under 
 the protection of other men, all which the Earl joined to his manor. 
 In the Conqueror's time it was worth Gl. 13s. 4d. and two se.xtaries 
 of hone}' ; and when all was joined, it was risen to 32/. 13s. 4d. and 
 20s. as a present or gift; it was two miles long and as much broad, 
 and paid \gd, geld or tax out of every 20s. raised on the hundred," 
 This Earl fled the realm, and so forfeited all his estate to the Con- 
 
 aueror, who owned it at the survey, when it was one of his manors 
 lat he entrusted Earl GoJeric witli the management of. At this 
 time tiiere were only two parishes, liz. All-Saiiits and St. Andrew's, 
 and a castle which stood just by the abbey. The land on which 
 New-Bukenham was after built was that part of St. Andrew's parish 
 which belonged to the Bishop of I'hctford's manor of Ecclcs, and was 
 called Bis/iop's-JIaitgh, the tithes of which now are, and always were, 
 paid to the rector of Eccles, the land belonging to that manor origi- 
 nally, and the Bishop granting them to the domestick diaplain of 
 his palace at Eccles, to whom he generally gave that rectory. 
 
 Albini. The Conqueror gave the castle and manor, and all that 
 belonged to Earl Jialf, to If illiam de Albany, Albini, Albigni, de 
 
 * Gibson's Camden, fol. 384, 
 
 ^ Spelman's Icenia. 
 
 " Serpeham Hiind. (fol. 32.) Torre 
 Regis qiiani Godricus servat. Biicham 
 lenuit Radiis. Comes, T.R.E. iiii. car. 
 terre et m° Itii. et dim. tunc et post ix. 
 villi, tuncxxiiii. m°xv. m° xxviii. bord. 
 et (line xii. acr prati m° xx. tunc i. 
 car. indnio, post et mudo ii. semper iii. 
 car. hominum ; tunc s Iva cxx. jwrc. 
 ir.° Ix. hic jaccnt xxi soc. ii. car. terre 
 et X. acr. piati et 1. bor. seinp. iii. car. 
 silva x. pore. semp. iui. animalia xii. 
 pore. etlxvlij.oveS) et xliii. soc, x. car. 
 
 terre, Ix. acr. prati. silva xxxx. pore, 
 semp. xii. villi, et xlvi, bord. Tunc 
 xxiiii. car. post et m" xvi. et ii. mol. et 
 in predictis xliii. sotliemanis habuere 
 alij homines commcndationem, sed 
 Kadulfus eos omnes addidit huic ma. 
 nerio tempore Regis Willi, totum valuit 
 tuncvi. lib. et xiii. sol. etiiii.<f. et duos 
 scxtarios mellis, post et modo xxxii. lib. 
 blancas, et xiii. sol. et. \\\\.d. et xx. sol. 
 de gersuma ad numerum. Totum habet 
 i. Irug. in longo, et i, leug. in lato, ct 
 xviii.J, de Gclto.
 
 c370 OLD-BUKENIIAM. 
 
 Albenio,^ who cainc into Eiighiud \\\{\\ him, together with IVymond- 
 ham, Siietts/iam, and Keniiiini/ia//,' to be held by the service of being 
 butler to the Kings ot" Eiigltiiid on the day of their coronation,'^ tor 
 which reason he was ahvays styled Piiicenia Rtgis, or tiie King's 
 Butler ; he founded H'l/inoud/iam abbey, where he was buried, before 
 the high altar, by Muitd his wife, daughter of Roger Bt/got Earl of 
 Noifolk, with whom he had 10 iaiights fees in Norfolk, of Earl 
 liogci's git't ; he was son of Roger dc Albhii, by Ann/ de Molbrai/ 
 his wife, and brother to that famous Nigel/ de Albiui, whose posterity 
 assumed the name oi Mozibray, or Mo/brai/, from that of his mother.' 
 William, his eldest son, succeeded him; he was called /(////«/« 
 rcit/i l/ie strong hand, because among other valiant exploits, he slew 
 a fierce lion; the occasion was thus, as Mr. Du^du/e relates it: " It 
 " happened that the Queen of France, being llien a widow, and a 
 " very beautiful woman, became much in love with a knight of that 
 *' country, who was a comely person, and in the flower of his youth; 
 " and because she thought that no man excelled him in valour, she 
 " caused a tournament to be proclaimed throughout her dominions, 
 " promising to reward those who should exercise themselves therein, 
 "■ according to their respective merits; and concluding, that if the 
 " person whom she so well aflected, should act his part better than 
 " others, in those military exercises, she might marry hiui without 
 ■" any dishonour to herself. 
 
 " Hereupon divers gallant men, from foreign parts, hasting to 
 " Paris, among others came this our /f ilUam de Albini, bravely 
 " accoutred, and in the tournament excelled all others, overcoming 
 " many, and wounding one mortally with his launce; which being 
 "■observed bv the Queen, she became exceedingly enamoured of 
 *' him, and forthwith invited him to a costly banquet, and afterwards 
 " bestowing certain jewels upon him, offered him marriage. But 
 " having plighted his troth to the Queen of England, then a widow, 
 " refused her : whereat she grew so discontented, that she consulted 
 " with her maids, how she might take away his life ; and in pursuance 
 " of that design, enticed him into a garden, where there was a secret 
 " cave, nnd in it a fierce lion, into which she descended by divers 
 " steps, under colour of shewing him the beast. And when she told 
 " him of his fierceness, he answered, that it was a womanish and not 
 *' manly quality, to be afraid thereof, but having him there, by the 
 " advantage of a folding door, thrust him in to the lion. Being 
 " therefore in this danger, he rolled his mantle about his arm, and 
 " putting his hand into the mouth of the beast, pulled out his tongue 
 " by the root ; which done he followed the Queen to her palace, and 
 " gave it to one oi' her maids, to present to her. 
 
 " Helurning therefore m\.o Engla7id,Wi\h the fame of tliis glorious 
 " exploit, he was forthwith advanced to the Earldom of Arundell, 
 
 *Mr. Le Neveobserves, this William Henry I. (Dug. Bar. vol. i. 120. Vin- 
 
 had no lands in Norfolk in the Con- cent against Brook, fol. 19.) 
 
 queror's time ! but it is a mistake, for ' See Kenninghall, p. 216. 
 
 all records say he had it of the Con- ^ This service is still performed by 
 
 queror's gift, though indeed the greatest the several manors in their respective 
 
 part of his estate, no less than 42 fees, turns, 
 
 was infeofTed in William his fatlier, by ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. ui.
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 371 
 
 " and for his arms the Hon given him ; nor was it long after, that 
 " the Queen oi England accepted him for her husband, whose name was 
 " Adeliza, or Alke, widow to King Henry I. and daughter to God- 
 "frey, Duke of Lo)Ta««, which yhlvlhu had the castle of ^;«/(rfe//, 
 " and county, in dowry from that King."* And in the beginning of 
 King lleniythe Second's time, he not only obUiined tiie castle and 
 honour of Aiundell to himself and his heirs, but also a confirmation of 
 tlie Earldom of Sussex,' granted to him by the third penny of the 
 pleas of that county, which in ancient times was the usual way of in- 
 vesting such great men in the possession of any earldom, after those 
 ceremonies of girding with the sword, and putting on the robes, 
 were performed, which have ever, till of late, been thought essential 
 to their creation, in the time of King Stephen he founded the abbey 
 here, and built the present castle, as you may see in the accounts of 
 them ; and dying in II 76, was buried by his father at IVymondlauu. 
 
 William de Albini, his eldest son. Earl of Amiidell, became 
 lord at his father's death, and paid 100/. for his relief, for his estate in 
 'Norfolk ; he married Mniid, daughter and heiress of James de Sancto 
 Hillario, and dying at Itaverlci/ in 1 1 70, was buried at JVijmondham. 
 
 William de Aluini, or A I bam/, E-dv\ oi' Antndell' ami Sussex, 
 his son, succeeded ; he married Mabell, daughter of Ilugli Kivitiock 
 Earl of Chester, by whom he had two sons and four daughters, 
 Williuru and Hugh, both Earls of Sussex; he died in 1199, and was 
 buried at IVymundhum. 
 
 William de Albany, Earl of Arundell and Sussex, son of 
 William aforesaid, and Muhell his wife, died in his return from Da- 
 mietu \n Fakstine, anno lC21,and was brought over mio England 
 by Thomas, a monk of St. Atbans, and buried by his ancestors at 
 fVi/mondham abbey, leaving his brother, 
 
 Huon DE Albany Earl oi' Arundel and Sussex, his heir,* whom 
 Hugh de Burgh, Chief Justice of England, had the custody of, which 
 he assigned to William Earl Warren, who in his right seived King 
 Henry III. at bis nuptials, with the royal cup, the said Hugh being 
 then a youth, and not knighted ; he married Isabel, daughter of the 
 said Earl Jlarrcn, who, after his death, founded the nuimery of 
 Marham, at her own charge, out of her dowry, and died in 124'2, 
 without issue,' leaving his great inheritance to be divided among his 
 four sisters, his heiresses,* and was buried with his ancestors in the 
 abbey church of St. Mary at II ymondluim, Isabel his widow having the 
 
 * Dug. Bar. vol. i. ii8. I am sensi- 
 ble hoH much .Mr Vincent ridicules 
 this story, (ful. 21,) but as I find it in 
 authors ot as good authority as himself, 
 and some of tlie ancient l>ejrings of the 
 Arur.dell family having the lion with- 
 out a tongue, 1 could not oniit inserting 
 it. 
 
 ' Though he was mostly known by 
 the titles of Arundell and Cliiihcbter, 
 at which places his ch ef residence used 
 to be, yet it was the county of Slls^ex 
 that he was' really Earl of. Dug. Bar. 
 vol. i. 119. He louiidtd ihe little priory 
 of Pynhani near Arundell, and liie cha- 
 pel of St. i homas die Martyr in Wy- 
 mondhaui. (Vincent 653.) 
 
 '• This Hugli, at the coronation of 
 Eleanor, daughter of Hugh Earl of Pro- 
 vence, then married to the King, de- 
 pu'ed the Earl Warren to serve his 
 office of the botelry, he being incapaci- 
 tated to serve that office himself, as being 
 then excommunicated by the Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, because when the arch- 
 bishop was hunting in the said Hugh's 
 forest in Sussex, he took away his dogs; 
 the archbishop claiming it asliis right to 
 hunt in any lorest in England, 'vlienever 
 he pleased, which matter was not then 
 deterni'ned. 
 
 ' Vuicent, 653. 
 
 ' 1 he pedigrees and accounts of this 
 family vary much, as may be seen by
 
 373 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 manors of Wimondham and Kcnuin^hall assigned for her maintenance, 
 till lier dowry was set out, which was done soon after, and tlie 
 manors of SntVfsAaw, lViinotidhnm,Plessct, viwA Kcnninghall, with the 
 hundred of Gi/tcross in Norjbll;, besides many ollicrs in other coun- 
 ties, were allotted to her.' 
 
 RonEUT DE Tateshale, and Mahell' his wife, who was the 
 eldest, had the castle and manors of lUtUenhain, IVimondbatn, &c. 
 for their capital seat. 
 
 John, son of John Filz-yJhin, and Isabel his wife, who was fourth 
 sister, had Arundel castle, manor, &c. for their capital seat. 
 
 Roger de Someky, who married Nicholea, the third sister had 
 Barwein Lekesterskire, &,c. for their chief seat. 
 
 Roger ee Montealt, who married Cecily, the second sister, 
 had the castle of Rising, with the manors of Kenninghall, Snetesham, 
 &c. for their principal seat; together with the hundred oi Sinithdon, 
 and the fourth part of tiic tollbootli at Li/nn, which was now divided 
 into four parts, so that a fourth part attended each of the inheritances. 
 And thus the castle and manor came to 
 
 Sir Robert de Tateshale, who made it his principal seat. He 
 was descended from Eudo, who with I'inco, his sworn brother in war, 
 (though no other way related,) came into England with Duke iVilliam, 
 and merited so well from him in that service, that in recompense there- 
 of he gave them tiie lordship of Tateshale, with Thoip hamlet, and 
 Kirkchif town in Lincolnshire, to be equally shared between them ; 
 jEf/rfo to hold his part of the King, and Pinco his of St. Cuthbert of 
 Durham. Eudo settled at Tateshale, and assumed its name for his 
 sirname. His arms were, chequy or and gul. a chief erm. ; he was 
 succeeded by Hugh his son, who founded Kirstead abbey in Lin- 
 colnshire. In 1139, Robert, his son, inherited, who left Philip, 
 whose son. Sir Robert de Tateshale, was so great a benefactor to 
 Bukenham priory, that the canons of that house altered their com- 
 mon seal, and put in his arms along wiiii their founder's. Among 
 other things, he gave the church of St. Martin in New-Buke?i/iam, 
 and half an acre of land in Gunncbi/, called Munkwell, with the ad- 
 vowson of the church of Gimnebi/, for a yearly pittance ;^ he left 
 
 Sir Robert de Tateshale, who married Alabell aforesaid, his 
 son and heir, who granted to the canons here liberty oi'faldage for 
 200 sheep in Atleburgh, with free pasturage for them there, and 53 
 acres arable land in liukenham; besides other gifts. In Lovelfs Book 
 in the Exchequer,' he is found to hold this castle and manor by the 
 service of the boteln/, and the manors of Babingle, Tibcnliam, Top' 
 croft, and Denton, in capite, as parcel of his barony. After Mabetl's 
 death he married a daughter oi' John De-Grey, and died in 1248, 
 leaving 
 
 Robert, his son and heir, then <lO years old, who married Joan, 
 daughter oi Rulf Filz-Ranulf, lord of Midleham in Yorkshire. He 
 stood firm to Henri/ III. in his barons wars, and was besieged in his 
 
 comparing Vincent, Brook, Mr. Dug- ' Amabillia, Dug. Bar. vol. i. 440. 
 
 dale, and others, of all vvhicli I have * Pittances were small portions at 
 
 chose to follow the first, his account best meals, added to the common allowance 
 
 agreeing with such records as I have of the monks; and in most religious 
 
 seen, though it varies much from Mr. houses the care of them belonged to an 
 
 Dugdale's. Vincent on iirook, fol. 19 officer for that purpose, called Pittanci- 
 
 to 2:, Dug. Bar. vol. i. fol, ii3 to 132. arius. 
 
 • See p. 213, 216, 3 Fol. 29.
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 373 
 
 castle of Bukcnham by Sir Ifmn/ llasli/ii;^s. He died in 1C72, seized 
 oi liukenluim manor and castle, ol iihcii/iiim, Topriii/h Dfiiton, &f. 
 willi all the knights tees held of the lor(lslii|) or honour, together 
 with the advousons ol Itei/don, Siaiihow, Con<^hiiin St. Man/, and two 
 parts of Atleburgh, of li'imomlhiim abbey, ihe Ibiirlii paii of Li/nn 
 tolboolli, &.C. leaving 
 
 Sir KoiiiiKT de 1 atf.sii ale, his son and heir, then 24 years old, 
 who, in l'2HJ, had view ot'/rankp/iflgv, free-warren, and gallows, and 
 a Saltirddi/ market, assize of li read and ate, and a fair yearly on St, 
 Martin's Day, and another market every T/iursdaif in Atlleburgh, 
 belonging to his manor of liukculiam eastle, and I'/assiiig Halt in 
 Jiesthorp. In an old roll about this lime, it appeals that there were 
 many manors held by knight's service of this eastle, and anionf^ the 
 free tenants by scutage were these. Sir IVillinm dv Muittecaniso, di/es 
 de IVacheslwm, Knt. Sir Harvif de Staiilian, Sir ll'i//iain Ciiini/ii, Sir 
 Richard de ilwilefe/d, the lady l,ora de Bai/lio/, the heirs of Sirnon de 
 Ketiiughall, lia/J de Morlei/, Richard de Hitiltertonc, Sir Robert de 
 Slultune, John de Berdexi'clle. 
 
 Mathew Cachevache, Robert de Bukenham, &c. were tenants in 
 socca^e. 
 
 IViUiam and Johnde Hanrham, Richard, son oi IVill. deSnitterton, 
 Tho. de Aschebif, held lands in Ilargham by soccage, and so did 
 Richard de lArling, and Sir /////. dc Lir/iiig's heirs; John de Methel- 
 hmd \n Lir/ing, Roger de Caston in KHiiigham, l\ ill. and Richard de 
 Mor/imer, Peter dc Thelvethain, IViHiam, son of /////. dc I'ossato, in 
 Attlcbargh, &c. In 1^88, he was lord of the castle and manor of 
 Bukenham, the manor of Lathes in Old-Uukenham, the burgage, and 
 th« court belonging to the weekly market in New Bukenham, the 
 manors of H imondhain, Topcrojt, Denton, Tibcnham, Freebridge hun- 
 dred, &c. and died in \'2[)7, leaving his estate to 
 
 Sir UoBEiiT,* his son and heir, then 24 years old, married to Eve, 
 daughter of Robert de Tibetol, who, alter his decease, married to Sir 
 John de Cove, and held Shropham hundred, Topcrojt and Denton 
 manors, in dower, till IJ49. He died in 1,'302, leaving 
 
 UouERT DE TateshalEjIus Son and heir, then Ij years old, who 
 died a minor, without issue, in 1310, leaving his inheritance divisible 
 among his three aunts, or their heirs: 
 
 Emma, or Amy, married Sir Osbert de Cai/i/, Knt, 
 
 Joan, Sir Robert ' dc Dri/bi/, Knt. 
 
 Isabel, Sir John de Oriet/i/, Knt. Among whom the estate was 
 divided, as follows. 
 
 Thomas' deCaily,' son of Sir Osbert, had livery of his mother's 
 inheritance in 1300, when he had Bukenham castle, and the advow- 
 
 ♦ This Sir Robrrt granted a manor in 
 Denton and Aldclrr^ to William Ber- 
 nak, and Alice hit witc, and their heirs, 
 as the ori|;inal tyrant in my own col- 
 lections informs me. 
 
 ' Others say, Simon dc Drjby. 
 
 * He had liberty of free-w»rren in all 
 his demeans of Wymondliam, Wnlter- 
 ton, and Babingle in Norfolk ; all which 
 he died seized of, and tlicy went to 
 Adam dc Clifton, This Tlionns was 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
 in the Scotch wars with King Edward I. 
 was si'mmonedto parlanienl in Kdward 
 the Second's time, Rfij;er de Clifton «a« 
 his Esquire, and got into such favour 
 with him by his good service, that he 
 gave him his sister Margaret iti mar- 
 riage. Some call this Thomas de Cailli, 
 Ac^m. 
 
 ' The Caillis took their name from 
 that town in Nomundy, (Ncustru Pia, 
 1>. ij.) 
 3B
 
 S74 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 son of the prioiy llicrc, the fourth part of the manor, and the half 
 parts of other manors tlicrcto belonging, two parts of JVimondham, 
 the foiuth part of all the lands in Atleburgh, and the third part of 
 those in Tibenham, the third part of two parts of the fourth part of 
 the profits of Li/nn tolbooth called the Green Garth, and 11/. 2s. 
 yearly rent in 'Norfolk; all of which, together with Craimich, East- 
 Bra^oiham, Hikkburicioorth or Hi/burgh, the advowson of Hilburgh 
 chmxh, and of St. Margaret's free chapel there, he died seized in 
 13 iG, leaving Adam, son of Sir Roger de Clifton, by Margaret, his 
 only sister, his cousin and heir, then nine years old. 
 
 Joan de Dbiby had the castle of Tatshale, See. and the 8th part 
 of Bukenhain manor, the third part of IVimondham, 150 acres of 
 land, several parcels of meadow and pasture, 7s. ob. rent, and the 
 rent of two sparrow or sparhawks, in Old and New-Buke/iham, Atle- 
 burgh, and Elingham, and a third part of the himdred of Sliropham, 
 which was then divided, and each had an equal share attending their 
 inheritances, all which l\\\i Joan, then widow of Robert de Driby, 
 settled on 
 
 Gilbert de Bernak, parson of Tateskalc, and Jo/in de Gisling- 
 ham, parson of If olfretoii, her trustees, who were to hold it for her 
 use during her life, remainder to William Bernak and Alice his wife, 
 who died about 1340, seized of the third parts oi' JVimondham imd 
 Btikcnham, manors, and the third part of Flassing Hull or Plesset's, 
 in Atleburgh and Beslhorp. 
 
 In 1340, the aforesaid Hiigh^ Bernak, clerk, died, when he held 
 Old-Biikenham part, for life, by feoftmcnt from Alice Bernak, and 
 John, son of William Bernak, remainder to John and his heirs, who 
 died in 1345, seized of the whole manors of Hetherset, Denton, and 
 Flassing Hall, and the third part of JVi/mondham, and Bukenham, 
 and this year Joan his widow was allowed her dower out of all the 
 said manors; but soon after it was settled wholly on particular 
 manors. John Bernak, his eldest son, died a minor, leaving his in- 
 heritance to William, his brother and heir, who died in 1359, leaving 
 Maud, his sister, then wife of Sir Ralfde Cromwell, lord of Tateshale, 
 his sole heir. 
 
 John de Okreby, and isaJe/ his wife, had among others, the 
 manor of Tibenham in Norfolk, (except the third part of the park, 
 which Tho. de Caili/ held, in part of his portion,) and the eighth part 
 ot iiu/.f«/iflm manor, in recompense of the eighth part of the parks of 
 Bukenham, which was assigned to the said Thomas, and the eighth 
 part of the \waAsm Attleburgh, viz. 19 messuages, &.c. in Attlehurgh, 
 Bukenham, Besthorp, Eli/ngham, and Ti/benham. Phillip de Onebi/ 
 was their son and heir, whose son, John de Orreby, died in 1352, 
 leaving Margaret his widow, who died in 1368, and Joan de Orrebj/, 
 
 ' This Hugh held the manor of Old- land, and 9 of meadow, 7 of pasture, and 
 Bukenham for life, (except the park,) ot 20s. rent in New - Biikenliam, Attle- 
 the j;ift and feoffment of Alice Bernak, burgh, Elingham, and Wilby, by the 
 and John, son of Will. Barnak, on con- service of the twentietli part, of the 
 dition that after his death it should re- third part of the fourth part of the bo- 
 turn to John, son ofWill. Barnak, andhis telry, to remain as aforesaid, and also 
 heirs, it being held of the King in ca)iite, one messuage, 43 acres, and the sixth 
 by theserviceof thceighth partofa third part of a watermill, itc. in Denton, by 
 part of the fourth part «f the botelry j he the service of the tenth part ot .he third 
 licldalso one messuage, 39 acres of arable part of the fourtli part of the botelry.
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 375 
 
 his sole (laughter and heiress, who married first to Sir Henri/ Percy, 
 wlio died in 1367, and after to Sir Comtaittine C/iJion; she iiatlonc 
 daughter. Mart/ Pierci/, her sole heiress, who was married to Sir John 
 Roos of Hamlak. Knt. without issue, but died before her mother. 
 
 In 1360, Sir Ralf Cromwell, Knt. in right of Maud Be ma k, 
 his wife, became lord of the manors of Jlethersete, PlassingliaU in 
 Besthorp, Denton, &c. all which (except Ilethenet^ were held of tlie 
 King in capite, as parcel of the barony of Tnteshall; he had his parts 
 of Bukenhain, IVijmundham, and Shropham hundred, for which he did 
 homage to the King, and had livery thereof, to him and his heirs by Maud. 
 In 1394, a writwasdirected to John Knevet, escheator of hJoiJ'o/k, to di- 
 vide the lands, and deliver seizin to Constantine de C/i/'ton, and Maud, 
 wife of Sir Ralf Cromzfcll, Knt. cousins and heirs of Man/, widow of 
 Joh?i. Lord Roos of Hamlak, daughter and heir of Joaw, daughter and 
 heir of John de Orrebi/. In 1395, he had the fourth pari of Lathes 
 manor, two parts of G;-j/s/«/«gA in /J'j//wonrfA«/M, and the parts of the 
 manors of Old and New-Bnkenham, Tybenham, 8tc. as they were di- 
 vided by their ancestors. This Ralfd'ieA in 1398, Maud his widow 
 died in 1418, leaving Ralf (after Lord Cronme/l) her grandson and 
 heir, he being son of Raff, who died in his father's lifetime ; he was 
 after Lord Treasurer, but having no issue by Margaret, daughter of 
 John, and sister and coheir of IVilliam Lord Deincourt, his wife, at his 
 death in 1455, his three aunts ^ became his heirs, viz. Elizabeth, 
 married to Sir John Clifton; Harcise, to Thomas Lord Bardolph; and 
 Maud; to John Fitz-Williams ; and they inherited his whole estate, 
 viz. Plasset, or Plassinghall manor, which is a member of Bukenham 
 manor, Bukenham, the fourth partof Ly» tolbooth, the advowsons of 
 Attleburgh, Congham, St. Agnes, and St. Mary, Slanhow, Denton, 
 and Tasboro, the manors ot Herdesete, TVi/mundham, Gonvyle's in 
 JVymundhum, Besthorp, Eccles, Tibenham, Denton, Babingle, &c. 
 He was buried in his collegiate church of Tateshale. 
 
 And now we must return to the Cliftons, who all along held the 
 castle, and the best part of the manor, from the year 1316, when 
 jldam,^ son of Sir Roger de Clifton, by Margaret, only sister to Sir 
 T/io. de Caily, became his heir; he married Eleanor, daughter of Sir 
 
 9 Hetherset was returned to be held 
 of some ptlier. 
 
 ' Dug. Bar. vol. ii. fol. 46. In 1431, 
 he was summoned to parliament, con- 
 stituted Chamberlain of the Household, 
 Treasurer of the Exchequer, &c. 
 
 * Mr. Neve rightly observes, that 
 these three were heirs also to the two 
 sisters of the last Sir Ralf Cromwell, 
 viz. John, who married Humfry Bou- 
 chier, Knt. Lord Ciomwell, and Maud, 
 that married Gervase Clifton, Knt. Vin- 
 cent says, Bourchier was Lord Crom- 
 well in right of Joan his wife, which 
 Joan, (as he says) was daughter of Ri- 
 chard Stanhope, Esq. and niece and 
 coheir of Ralf Lord Cromwell, and not 
 sister, as others say ; she after married 
 Sir Robert Ratclitf. In 1462, afine was 
 levied between tlie Bishop of Winches- 
 
 ter, Sir Thomas Tirrel, and other trus- 
 tees, by which Gunvile's manor in Wy. 
 mondham, Whethamstede in Hartford- 
 shire, and Little-Burle in Northampton- 
 shire, and others, were settled on them, 
 by Humfry Bourchier, Knt. Lord Crom- 
 well, and Joan his wife, one of the heirs 
 of Ralf Cromwell, late Lord Cromwell, 
 and Gervase Cliftoh, and Maud his wife 
 the other. (Fin. Divers. Com. E. 4. 
 L. i.N°8.) I J77, '398, Alice Ferrers 
 held part of Bukenham, Tybenham, and 
 Shropham hundred, and is a convict. 
 1498, Gilbert Talbot, Knt. is said to 
 to hold a third part of Bukenham castle, 
 Shropham hundred, &c. but I know 
 not in whose right. 
 
 ^ In 1 33 1, this Adam granted license 
 to Walter de Fileby, Sir Tho. de Pres- 
 ton, Parson of Colby, and Sir Stephen
 
 'TC OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 Hubert Mortimer of J lift bitrg/i, Knt. wlio died inl??66, and had 
 tvro sons , Coiistiiiitinv, his eldt-st, died but'oie liim, but left issue 
 by Katherine, daughter of /(//«, De-ln-pi)li', his wife ; Sir John C/iJ'tvii, 
 Knt. Sir .Jtlam He Ciilton, Knt. liis second son, who had Di iivcre, and 
 l'rebrid<fe hundred. Sic. to him and his heirs male, died unno lill, 
 leavin^Sir Robert Clifton, Knt. his son and heir, wlio was sheriflof 
 Nor/o/k in 1412, and died in 1442/ and was buried in Unlienhum 
 priory, as was Alice, his widow, in 1455 ; Thomas Clifton, Esq. their 
 son and heir, died in 1452 ; Jonn, his widow, was ahve in 14f)2; they 
 left Sir Robert Clifton, Knt ' their son and heir, who died without 
 issue male in 14yO, and his estate went to Sir J\i/li(im Knevet, Knt. 
 son of Sir John, and grandson of Sir John Knevet, who married 
 Elizabeth, sister, and at length heiress, to Sir John Clifton, the lasL 
 male of the elder branch, to which we must now return. 
 
 Sir John Clifton, Knt. oi' Bukenham castle in 1373, had livery 
 of all his lands, as heir to Sir Jdam de Clifton, his grandfather ; he 
 was summoned lo \)ar\iament from 1375 to 138S, when he died, 
 on St. Lawrence's Day, at Rhodes, seized of Bukenham castle and 
 manors, Hilburghzc-orth, fVest Bradenhani, and Cranii'i/se, with the 
 advowsons of Ililburirh and Cranwtpe, and the manor of Babyngle, 
 8cc. leaving ConUantine, his son and heir, then l6 years old. He 
 married Elizabeth, one of the heirs of Rnlf Lord Crnmicell, by which 
 match that part of Bukenham, &c. which she had for her share, 
 united again ; she outlived him, and married Sir Ednard Beusfcd. 
 
 CoNSTANTiNE, their son«ud heir, had livery of his inheritance in 
 1393, and was summoned to parliament in that and the next year, 
 but never after;*" he married A'a?/(c'ri/(f, daughter of Robert Lord 
 Scales, by Margaret, daughter of Robert Howard of East-Winch, who 
 outlived him, and held in dower, till 1432, ^n which year she died,> 
 the manor of Babyngle, two parts of Gryshangh in fVymondham, Bu- 
 kenham, Lathes manor, the profits of the court at Jttleburgh, the court 
 of the market at New-Bukenham, and the part of Lyn tolbootli, all 
 which at her death joined to the rest of the estate, in their son and heir^ 
 
 Sir John Clifton' of Bukenham castle Knt. who died in 1447, 
 
 parson of Lound, that they might give Tirrell, Esq. was a witness to it, he 
 
 a messuage and g acres of land, with the being then at Burdeaux. (Regr. Wylby, 
 
 advowson of St. Peter's church at 128, b.) 
 
 Mundham, with all other the tenements 'In 146-!, after his mother Joan's 
 
 wliich he liad licensed tliem to purchase death, he granted Denver manor, &c. 
 
 of Sir John de Shelton, Knt. in Mund- to Sir Willia'.n Wiliongliby, Knt. and 
 
 ham, Sethyni;, Tweyt, and Siseland, to his wife, and Sir John WiUoughby, Knt. 
 
 the master ai.d brethren of St. Giles's (Clans. 3 E. 4. M. 5. J In 1481, Tho- 
 
 hospital at Norwich ; his deed is dated at mas Brewse, in right of Elizabeth his 
 
 Hildeburgwortb, (or Hilboro,) and to it wife, had Denton and Topcri ft manors 
 
 hangs a fair seal of his arms. Autog. assigned to them, as parcel of the lands 
 
 penes Majorem et Commiinitatem Civi- of Robert de Clifton. (Claus. 22 E. 4 ) 
 
 latis Norwici in Annario suo. ''Dug Bar. vol. ii. 168. 
 
 ♦ Sir Rob. Clifton, Knt. Constable of ' 144". Sir John Clifton, Knt. as heir 
 
 Burdeaux in Normandy, by his will, of Sir Baldwyn Botetourt of Cranv^.rth, 
 
 (proved 1446, but dated in 1442,) or- released all his right in Botetourt's au- 
 
 dered his body to be buried in England, nor in Kymburle, to John Wodehouse, 
 
 in the conventual church of St. James at Esq. In 1437, he surrendered Tudcn- 
 
 Old-Bukenham: Alice his wife, the ham manor in Suffolk to Master Tli. mas 
 
 lady Hastyngs his daughter, and Alice Well and his assigns, it having been long 
 
 and Eleanor, two other daughters, who in contest between them, 
 were nuns, are mentioned in it. Will.
 
 OLO-BUKENHAM, 
 
 377 
 
 soized of Btiheiiham castle, and the gienfer parts of tlic manors 
 thereto belonging, of the liun(h'( d of Shropham, the ina:ior ol' Bi is/on, 
 Giis/iiigh, Tvpooji, Diiilun, liiiliin<ite, Uillxtro, Craiiwic/i, H^ist lira- 
 denluim, a third p.irl of /)Vco/('s manor, &<•. by his will, proved in 
 1447, Sept. 8, he oidered to be buried in the ehnrch of St Mary at l\ i/- 
 motidham |)nory, and gave to thehigli altar of tiie eliurehofSt Miirt.ti 
 at .VcK'- Biikcii/i'im, 40s. and 10 marks to repair the ehurch ; to the i^ild 
 of the B/fssed l.irgiii in that chureh, 10 marks; to (^>iii/, his gentle- 
 man, 100s.; to Julin Fadtr, 2s. a d.iy for his life, out of Buktuhum 
 castle manor, to keep the park; to Joan his wife, his manor of 
 Itiirston in fee simple," the castle of Biikeitham. J^olhcx manor. S/irop- 
 hiim inmdred, and Tilnitham manor, to her for life; and orders his 
 executors to perform the will of Constaidiiie Ciijloii, as to sctiling 
 10/. a year vent on Jhiken/Mm priory; he also gave 10/. annual rent 
 to the I'rior of ll'i/inoinl/niin, out of his own lands, to find a monk for 
 ever to sing lor his and Joan his wife's soul. He gave (iris/iagh 
 manor in tVi/moiid/iaiii, tiie manors of Babing/e and H oljeilon in 
 'Norfolk, and IVulderton manor in Sussex, and other lands and tene- 
 ments of his own purchase, to be sold, &c. tiie manors of liilhoro, 
 Craiiacich, and Best Bradciihani, to be held by his executors twelve 
 years, and then to go to his right heirs ; Robert Cliftoti, his cousin, 
 "to have the manor ot TopcroJ't iuin Denton to him and his heirs, on 
 condition he made a free estate to his executors in his manors of 
 Ilaukers in llarleston, and Slitllei/, one of wliich was to be sold by, 
 his executors, and the other to go to bis heirs, according to the 
 change agreed on between them ; Jo/i« LV/ggs to have an annuity 
 out of Lin/'ord nianor, and the refusal of buying it; Joan his wife, 
 ./'<//« Hei/don, John Brigge, &c. executors ; his good lord the 
 Mar(iuis of .S'«//o//i, Sir yiwrf/rrt' Ogard, Knt, and his cousin J/wmas 
 TMf/«c///in/», supervisors ; and by a codicil he declares, that he had 
 sold to his beloved son. Sir Andrew Ogard, Knt. for ,0000 marks, the 
 eastle, manors, and hundred of .S'/iro/j/m/M, two parts of Cris/iagfi, &c. 
 on condition to find a chaplain in the conventual church of St. James 
 at Old-Bukenhani, according to the will of Constantine Clifton, Esq. 
 his father, for which he was to amortise lands to that value ;' he also 
 ave GOs. towards the building of fVi/mond/iam new steeple. Joan 
 lis wife was daughter and coheir of Sir Edinnnd de Thorp, Knt. the 
 younger, ut-Jshrce/l-Thorp, and widow of Sir lioO. Echingham ; they 
 had only one daughter, viz. 
 
 IVl AitGARET Clifton, who married Sir Andrezc Ogard' of Buken- 
 ham castle, Knt.; she died issueless, before her lather; Sir Andrcza 
 died in 1454, and the whole estate reverted to 
 
 Elizabeth, aunt to the said Margaret, who married Sir John 
 KnetetjUnt.; but yet, in l-V)'J, Alice, first widow of H'lr And nro 
 Ogard, Knt. then of Sir //i/g/* Cokessei/ oi Coktssei/ in B orcestershire, 
 
 "Seep. 130. Biirston, Bittering-Parva, I.e-Rye, and 
 
 9 Burb(on Meldynghall was tlien Hilcigh manors m Herttord .hire, and 
 
 amortised, p. 119. Henry Ogard was his son and heir, fi>uir 
 
 ' Ini450, bir Andrew Ogard, Knt. yearsold ; Andrew (;gard, Esq. ; George 
 
 held, jointly with Richard KailofSalis- and Henry his sons weie leoti'ees, among 
 
 bury, and others, Bukenham castle, and others, tor Ecclcs manor by the sea, in 
 
 Old and New. liiikenham manors, Latlies, niy, when it was settled on Chriato. 
 
 Tibenham, two parts of Grisliagh, Hack- plier Coote, and islizabeth WichinghdiU. 
 hcclihall in hiuiicth, Mcldin^holl in 
 
 I
 
 378 OLD-BUKENIIAM. 
 
 held the castle and manors, and tliose of Lathes, New-Biikenham, 
 IJoni/ng/iam, Ti/heiiltam, and 1\ ylby, two parts of Giinagh, Bromla/, 
 and liokhdin in Surrey, to lur deatli in 14{)0. 
 
 John Fitz-VVilliams, lord of Eimli/ and Spotsburgh in York- 
 shire, married Maud, one of the heiresses of Ralf Lord Cromwell, 
 and in her right had a third part of the third part of the manor; they 
 left Sir John Filz-IVillianis their son and heir, who married Eleanor, 
 daughter of Sir Henri/ Green oi Drayton in Northamptonshire, whose 
 son. Sir John Fitz-ll illiams of Elmlei/, married Margaret, daughter 
 of Tho. Clavel the elder of Jhlnark, whose son. Will. Fitz-ff illiams 
 of Elmleij, married Elizabeth, daughter of Tho. Chazcorth, whose son, 
 .John Fitz-J( illiams, senior, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John 
 Com/ers, Knt. of Stockton in the county of Durham; John Fitz-ll il- 
 liams, Esq. their son, died in 14S7, before his father, and left by 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fitz-ll illiams, his wife, one son, 
 Jl illiani Fitz-ll illiams of Elmlei/, Esq.* who married Margaret, 
 daughter of Sir iio/>. Brought on, and dying without issue in 151G, 
 left his two aunts his heirs, Margaret married to Tho. Soulhill of 
 Southill Hall in Yorkshire, who had one daughter, Elizabeth, married 
 to Sir Henri/ Savile of Thornhi II in Yorkshire; and Dorothi/, to Sir 
 JVill.Cropleu of Sportsburgh, Knt. by whom he had Phillip Croplei/ ; 
 but as the chief, if not all this part, was united to the other, by diffe- 
 rent purchases, it will be needless to trace their descendants any fur- 
 ther, the whole being united in the Kncvels, 
 
 Sir John Knevet, Knt. of Bukenham castle, Norfolk, married 
 Elizabeth, sister, and at length heiress, of Sir John Clifton, Knt. and, 
 in 14G1, held the castle and ma lors of Old and New-Bukenham, 
 Lathes, two parts of Grishaugh in Jl i/mondham, &c. ; he was son of 
 John de Knevet, Esq. by Joan, daughter and coheir of John Butte- 
 tort of Mtndlesham in Suffolk, and grandson to Sir John Knevet, 
 Knt. Lord Chancellor of England in 1371. He left 
 
 Sir John Knevet of Bukenham castle, Knt. his son and heir, who 
 married Alice, daughter and coheir of Will. Li/nnes, by whom he had 
 
 Sir William Knevet of Bukenham castle, Knt. who, in 1483, 
 was attainted by the name of Sir II ill. Knevet, Knt. of Bukenham, 
 conjurer, together with the Earl of Richmond, John Earl of Oxford, 
 &c. in the parliament summoned the 25th Jan. 1st Richard III. as 
 being partakers with Henri/ Earl of Richmond, (afterwards Hcnri/\U.) 
 which cost him a good part of his estate, for he conveyed to that 
 King his castle and manor of Bukenham, the manors of Old-Buken- 
 ham, Curleton, and Tibenham, which he had again, when that mon- 
 ster was taken off; and then also he was forced to convey to Sir 
 James Tirrell, that Kind's great favourite, and then Constable of the 
 Tower, his manors of Hilboro, and two parts of Grishaugh in Wind- 
 ham. In 1491, he was found to be cousin and heir to Sir Robert 
 
 * In 151 1, Will. Fitz-Williams, Esq. the two moieties or whole manor called 
 
 died seized of the moiety of Stou.Bedon the Close manor, in Old-Biikcnham, by 
 
 manor, held by fealty of the Queen, as part of the bolelry, a moiety of Plassing- 
 
 of her hundred of Waylond, the moiety hall in Besthorp and Attleburgh, held of 
 
 of Hedirsete held of the Queen's manor Edmund, son and heir of Tho. Knevet, 
 
 of Swaft'ham, as parcel of Richmond Knt. by the rent of one pair of gilt 
 
 honour, by igj. rent, Wimondham, spurs a year. 
 Gryshaugh, alias Cromwell's raoicty,
 
 OLD-BUKENIIAM. 379 
 
 Clifton, Knt. beinjr then 51 years old. He had three wives; first, 
 yt/ice, daughter ot John Gra/, brother of Reginald Lord Grey of 
 MuthijH, and widow of Nicholas Gibson, sheriij of London ; liis se- 
 cond was Joan, daughter of Humjdiri/ Stafford Duke of Bucking- 
 ham; she was living in Richard the Third's time, and was called 
 Lady Beaumont ; the third was Joan, daughter of Tho. Courtney, 
 relict of Sir Ro^er Clifford, Knt. one of the sisters and coheirs of 
 Tho. Courtney Larl of Devonshire, b}- whom lie had no issue. By 
 jilice his first wife he had 
 
 Edmund Knevet, his son and heir, who married E/caHor, daugh- 
 ter of Sir William, and sister of Sir James Tirrcll, of Gipping in SuJ- 
 folk, Knt.; he was unfortunately drowned,^ but left several sons, of 
 which Edmund Knevet, his second son, was seijeant-porler to King 
 Henry Mill.,* he married Jane, daughter and sole heiress of John 
 Bourehier, the last Lord Berners, from whom descended the Anhivell- 
 thorp family. 
 
 Sir Thomas Knevett of Bukenham castle, Knt. his eldest son, 
 was Standard-bearer to King Henry VllL of whom he got a grant of 
 the priory at its dissolution, with its appurtenances in Old and New- 
 Bukenham, viz. St. ylndreie's and All-Saint's churches, the Priory 
 manor, &c. all which continued in the family till Sir Phillip Knevet 
 sold them. He married Muriel, daughter of TAo. Horfara Duke of 
 IStorfolk, relict of John Grey Viscount Lisle, by whom he left several 
 children. Sir Henry Knevet, his third son, settled at Charlton in Wilts. 
 
 Sir Edmund Knevet of Bukenham castle, his eldest son, married 
 Joan, daughter of Sir John Shelton of Shelton in Norfolk, by whom 
 he had 
 
 Sir Tho. Knevet of Bukenham castle, who married Catherine, 
 daughter of Stanley Earl of Darby, and died Sept. 22, 15(jy. By his 
 will, dated Sept. 8, 1509, he ordered to be buried in Neii-Bukenhum 
 church, in the same tomb in which Katherine his late wife lies, and 
 gave to every one of his yeoman-waiters 40s.; to each of his servants, 
 20.S. and ordered them to be maintained half a year after his death, 
 that they might provide for themselves; he gave 40s-. to repair the 
 church; his manors of Meudlesham in Suffolk, and Hilt/oro in .Vw- 
 Jolk, to descend to his ne.\t heir, which is for the whole and full third 
 part of all his manors, to the intent that the Queen's Majesty may 
 thereof be satisfied for her wardships, &c. ; but if they will not do, 
 the rest must be out of his manor of Bukenham. He settled Old- 
 Bokenham manors and castle, the burgage of Neu-Bukenham, Lathes, 
 Talersall's manor in Carleton, Tybeiiham manor, the little park, or 
 Cronmell's Park in IVyndham, Bukenham Close manor, the |)ai son- 
 ages of All-Saints and St. Andrew's, the priory with its appurtenances, 
 &c. according to the statute of the 3'2d of Henri/ V'lll. which allows 
 a man to assign Iwo-thirds of all his manors, for advancement of his 
 children, on his executors, during the minority of his eldest son, to 
 pay his debts, and raise 2000/. to buy manors with, to settle on Henry, 
 his second son, in fee simple, with whom he ordered '20l. per annum, 
 should be paid to the master and fellows of Corpus Christi college in 
 Cambridge, tu bring htm up tiil Iti yeui's old, and then the executors 
 
 ' In Britain Bay, in a sfa-finlii, in a that was biirnfd. 
 sliip colled tlicKcgeiil of bu^laiiii, v> hen * Dug. bar. vol. ii, 424.
 
 r.8o 
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 are to pay liim 40'- '^ year, till tho manors are settled when he is of 
 a"e. lie i^ave (he lease which he had of Hilburgh parsonage, of the 
 BXixwi oi iikhard Coggell, parson lliere, to his two brothers, //<'«n/ 
 and Antonii Ktievel, lisqrs. with the two next turns of that benefice, 
 and his e\vc-coiirse in Attleborough ; to Otiier Mclli/nge his servant, 
 the next turn of ^l/<'«rf/i's//«;« vicarage. Henri/ Kncvet and Ednnuid 
 his brother, Iloin/ his son, and T/iu. Kncvet, his eldest son, Roger 
 Jf'ode/ioKse of Kinibnr/e, Esq. I'niiirls T/iiir.slii/e of Coiighani, Esq, 
 Francis Gaudi/e of IWiltingtoii, Estj. and Robert Rogers of Colloii, 
 Gent, executors; r/iowr/s Duke oi Norfolk, Edward Earl ol' Dar/ii/, 
 Thomas Earl of 6'«.sse.r, and Henri/ Lord Murhy, supervisors. Hemy 
 Knevet, Esq. Gregory and Robert Buxton, Gents. &c. witnesses.' 
 He left 
 
 Sir Thomas, his son, then 3 years 10 months and G weeks old, who 
 married Catherine, daughter of Sir T/io. Love/i of Easl-Her/in^, who 
 after married Edztard iipring, and after that George Donne of lAlt/e 
 Me/ton, Esq. by whom she had issue. He died Sept. C6, 159-1-, leaving 
 
 Sir Phillip Knevet* of Bukenham castle, his son and heir, then 
 11 years, 4 months, and 22 days old ; he was sheriff of 'Norfolk \n 
 1650,-created Baronet June 29, iGll, and for 18,508/. lOs.' he sold to 
 Hugh Audley and his heirs the castle and priory of Old-Bukeiihain, 
 the manors of Old- Bukenham, viz. the castle manor, Lathes, alias 
 Laches, the Priori/, and the Close manors, the manor or burgage of 
 New- Bukenham, Talersa/rs, or Tibcnhain Hall, otherwise Tiirenham- 
 Kiievet's, otherwise Carleton-Rode, and the tithes of all the premises 
 in Bukenham, by deed dated 25 June, 1 649. 
 
 Hugh Au dley aforesaid was sheriff of Norfolk, and dying without 
 issue left three sisters; Elizabeth, married first to Stephen Peacock, 
 and after to John Jennings ; Alice, to Sebastian Beaufoi/ of London, 
 Gent. ; Sarah, to Robert Harvei/ of London,^ Comptroller of the 
 Custom-house, whose son, II illiam Harvei/ of London and Low- 
 Layton, was baptized a\. Bow chapel, 25th Sept. 1599; he married 
 iS«r«A, daughter of /(/'//. Barret of London, hy whom he had three 
 sons, Robert, Hugh, and Benjamin, each of which inherited a third 
 part; for in l66o, Oct. 6, the said Hugh settled the whole (except 
 Tibenham manor, which was settled on Robert Harvey? &c.) 
 on himself for life, remainder to 11 illiam Harvey, his nephew, for 
 hfe, remainder to Robert, Hugh, and Benjamin, sons of ]\ illiam, 
 equally to be shared ; Ambrose Holbeeh of Mallingfon in IVar- 
 zcickshire, second son of Ambrose Holbeeh of the same, married 
 
 ' Regr. Ponder. 
 
 ^ In 1634, the manor of Tibenham- 
 Knevct, &c. in Tibeiihain, Carleton- 
 Rode, Bunwell, Old Bukenham, i!cst- 
 horp, and Attleburgh, and the rectory 
 of Bukenham St. Andrew, were se'tlcj 
 on Robert Davy, and Will. Crop, by 
 Tho, Heme, Knt. Nic. Heme, Esq. and 
 John Dyx, Esq. all trustees, but to what 
 uses does not appear. 
 
 ' Deficiente sub Hen. III. Haerede 
 masciilo (bC.Comitis Arundeli.'c) ijisignis 
 haec ha;ieditas inter foeminas dispaitita 
 est : cessitque jam castellum dc Bucken< 
 
 ham, cum nobilissimo manerio Wimond- 
 ham, inter alia multa, per Tatsallos, 
 C'alios, Cliftonos, ad Knevettorum pro- 
 sapiam, E qua hodie Philipus Knevet, 
 Baronciti gauilet novo titulo ; sed pa- 
 trimonium velus, adeo labefactavit, ut 
 vix Bukenham cum ca.stello remaneant 
 integre. ( ipelman's Icenia.) 
 
 * Several of this family are buried in 
 St. Laivrcnce by Guildhall, London. 
 
 ' 'iibenhain was, on the marriage of 
 Rob. Harvey, settled for life on him 
 and his wife, &c.
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 381 
 
 Sarah Hanei/, and became possessed of that third part, which was her 
 brother Benjamin's ; and about 1693, partition was made between 
 Ambrose his son, who had got Hugh's part also, and Robert Harvey 
 of ILow-Laylon in Essex, who married Rebecca, daughter of ]\lr. 
 Bowalcr of London, and at his death left his part to John Harvej/, 
 Esq. his son and lieir, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir ./ames 
 Honblon of London, Knt. He built the scat at Old- Ihikenham 
 called St. Andreics,^ and settled there, and at his death left Robert 
 Harvey, Esq. his only son, who is now [1737] lord and owner of that 
 part, and Ambrose Holbech, aforesaid. Esq, is now lord of the other 
 two third parts. 
 
 The Park is a very ancient one, for the founder of the monastery 
 here, among other donations, allowed the monks the privilege of 
 taking wood in his park in this town ; and in 1242,'' the King sent his 
 writ to the keepers of the lands of Hugh de Albany Earl oi'Arundell, 
 that they should deliver to Robert de Tuteshale two bucks of his gift, 
 out of the park lately belonging to the said Hugh, in his town of 
 Bukenham. It was after separated from the manor; and in l626, 
 one Long of Hingham, at the request or by the order of the Honour- 
 able Mary Lady Hunsdon, late wife of the Lord Hunsdon, conveyed 
 all his right in it to Sir Tho. Holland of Kenninghall ;^ but it was in 
 various trustees hands, and incumbered, till the title was perfected by 
 John Holland of Woitzcell, Esq. from which time it hath passed in 
 this family, and still remains in the heiresses of Sir William* 
 
 In l6'iO, Sir Tho. Holland, Knt. purchased much of Henry Viscount 
 Rochjord. 
 
 There were several other manors here, as Bukenham's manor, the 
 Close manor, Lathes manor, the burgage of New-Buke?iham, and the 
 Priory manor. 
 
 BUKENHAM'S MANOR, 
 
 Belonged to Bury abbey,' and continued in it till Baldicin, Abbot 
 of that monastery, infeoffed Will, de Bukenham, who was to hold it at 
 half a fee, and pay lAd. every 20 "weeks to the guard of Noi-wich 
 castle, as I find i 1 the While Register of that monastery, (fol. 97;) it 
 Contained, when he was infeoffed, 1 carucate of land, 8 bordarers, 
 10 freemen that held 60 acres, for all which he did homage. It con- 
 tinued in this family (all of them being Williams) till 1345, and in 
 that year Will, de Bukenham paid 205. relief for it. How it went 
 fmm them, and when, I do not find ; but in 1401, it was divided into 
 small parcels, forin thefeodary of that year, Adam Cock of Bukenham, 
 and his partners, held it. In 1434, John Parker, Margaret Grey, 
 Adam Joly, Robert Cogell and 8 more, did homage to the Abbot of 
 
 ' It is so called because it was built teiuiit Sanctus Edmundus i. car. terre. 
 
 just by the site of St. Andrew's church, T.R.E. tunc iiii. villi, m" v. semp. viii. 
 
 which is now [1737] turned into a barn, bord. tunc liii. serv. modo ii. x. acr. 
 
 * Claus. 27 H. 3. prati tunc i. niol. m° null. semp. i. car. 
 ' They holding it hy mortgage from in dnio. et i. car. horn. i. rune, vii.ani- 
 
 the I ovcUs, \> ho aold it tolhe Hollands, malia vi. pore, xxviii. oves, vii. soc. 
 
 ♦ See Q^udciihani, p. 344. dim. car terre semp. ii. car. iii. acr. 
 ' Sccri ham H. t erra Abbatis de Sco. prati iii. bord. silva V. pore, val, xl, sol, 
 
 Eadnuindo, (tol. 177.) In Bucham 
 
 VOL. 1. 3 C
 
 S8« O L D - B U K E N H A M. 
 
 Burt/, for tlieir estate here.* About 1363, Richard Parker, Isabell 
 Cogi/I, John Rouse, and Margaret Parker, held jointly tluit half lee, 
 for which they used to pay to John Reeve, late and last Abbot of 
 -Burt/, \4d. every twenty weeks to Noruic/t castle-guard. This family 
 of tlie Bukenhanis always bore az. a cross chequy, or and gul. for 
 their arms, as appears from the seal of Will, de Bukenham, in 13(50, 
 and several others of that familv which 1 have by me. 
 
 In 1438, Tho. Croftes of Soircii/t settled the court, with all thereto 
 belonging, on Richard Gegh and Edmund Bukenham, Esqrs. Roger 
 Cans, John Biigges, Peter Park, chaplain, and others, except all his 
 villeins, and copyholders in Old-Bukeuham and ]f illtt/. In 1533, 
 Robert Jermye of Soiicich, Gent, made his will, and gave his manor 
 of Bukeuham in Noifo/k, to his mother-in-law, Elizabeth Jermt/e, and 
 divers lands in Jforsted to E/a his w ife ;' Robert Jermt/e was his eldest 
 son, and Tho. Jermi/e, his second son, whose mother-in-law, Margaret 
 Brounc, is mentioned in the will ; but whether it be this manor, or 
 in any other Bukenham, I am not certain. 
 
 Catchevache's, Cachevache s, now 
 
 CATSWACHE'S MANOR, 
 
 Belonged to 1MU. de Schoies in the Conqueror's time, of whom Roger 
 held it.* In the beginning of King Henri/ the Third's reign, Tho. de 
 Brokdish, Rob. de IVesenham, and Tho. de Bernham, held it of the 
 honour of Clare.^ In 1290, IVilliam, son of Matthezc Cachevache,' 
 had it, and Roger Cachevache, his son, in 131 1 ; in 1323, he settled it 
 on himself and Christian his wife; and in 1343, it belonged to IVil- 
 liam Catsvache of Old-Bukenham ; in 1401, Maud de Mountenet/, then 
 a minor, held it; m 1426, it was John Rnokwood's and others. lii 1533, 
 Hugh U i/kenson and others had Cutchvuche's manor in Old and ISlew- 
 Bukenharn, Jttlebridge, Ringstede, and Holme, and liberty uffaldage 
 in Old- Bukenham, scllleA on them by IVilliam Gradbu'ch (or Cats- 
 wac/i.) In 1600, Hugh IVilkenson was lord, since which time it hath 
 passed through many hands, which have sold off" most (if not all) its 
 rents. It some time belonged to the .Sorre/ls, and now [1737] to Mr. 
 J'ldsard Phillips of Banham, who owns the site of it, which is now 
 called Catsvache's Meadoic. 
 
 THE CLOSE MANOR 
 
 AVas part of the great manor till the division of it, and then it became 
 a separate manor, and had insuken and outsoken juries, with a lett, 
 and the profit of part of the market and stalls in JVtjmondham ; a 
 moiety of it, in 1383, belonged to the Prior of Bukenham, who hired 
 
 * Regr. Ciirteys, fol. 124. 9 In 1372, the honour of Clare had 
 
 ' E Libro Cook, int. Archiv. Ep. other lands held of it, Curia honoris de 
 
 Norw. 45. Clare apud Bukenham tent, coram Ro- 
 
 'Tcria Willi, de Schoies Screpham bert de Kediston, benl. ibm. 
 H. (fol. 205.) Ill Bucham tenet Ro- ' At the latter endof King Henry the 
 
 gerusi. car terre semp. iiii. bor. ct iiii. Third's reign, Mathew de Cathnache 
 
 acr. prati et i. car. in dnio. silva Ix. held it of the Earl of Gloucester, at the 
 
 pore, tunc xxiii. ov. rcP xxx. tunc et eighth part of a fee, as belonging to the 
 
 post val. xii. m" xi. fees of the lionour of Clare.
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. S83 
 
 the other moiely of the several loids, ft)i- thai moiety divided into 
 
 ?aits wiili the great manor, and went from the Ciomzcells tu t!ie 
 \tz-U'i//iiims, and from them to tlie Knevets; it hiid in Bukiiikam, 
 yltllihnrgli, litst/iorp, and IVi/mond/uiin, and was lield by part of tlie 
 botehy ; in 1353, Rolicrt Driny settled part of tiic moiety on Tlio. 
 Kiievct ; tlie oilier m;)icty eanie wlio'.ly to the Kuevcts at ihe disso- 
 hitron, along with liiikcii/inm priory, and from them to the Love/h; 
 for in \56(i, Thomas, son ;ind heir otT/io. Loit//, Kiit held the Chse 
 manor, and all that pa-itine for iCiO sheep called the LnthiS, Sec. of 
 the Queen. In I,>78, I'lio Lovcll was lord ; but by lf)l'2 it belonged 
 again to the Knevets, for then Pliilip Kiievet, Bart, delivered seizin of 
 the site of it to Gabriel Pope, doctor of physick, and Tho. Talbot, 
 Gent, at which time, I suppose, the rents and services of the manor 
 were either joined to the other manors, or all manumised ; how the 
 site^ passed afterwards 1 cannot say, but am informed that it now 
 [1737] belongs to the Windhuim. 
 
 The Lays, Lehs, Lathes, or 
 
 GRANGE MANOR, 
 
 Had its rise out of the great manor, at the same time with the Close 
 manor;' and in 1383, the Prior had a moiety of it along with that 
 manor; in 1400, theother moiety was divided ; ithad a het belonging 
 to it, and a fair to be kept on St. Martin's Day, at New-Biikenham, 
 the mere called Semere, or Otd-Hukenlmm mere, belonged to it; the 
 site and demeans called the Lathes, or Lai/s, contained 140 acres of 
 asture, 330 acres of wood, ik,c. and was held of the Queen in 1564, 
 ly Thomas, son and heir of Sir 2'Ao. Lovell, Knt. ; but the whole 
 manor was united to the rest by the Knevets, Sir T/io. Knevet, being 
 lord of the united manors of Lathes, the Close, the Priory, and 
 burgage of New-Bukenham, in 1594. 
 
 I 
 
 THE PRIORY MANOR 
 
 \\'^as part of the great manor given to the priory at its foundation, 
 and continued in it to its dissolution,* when it passed with that house 
 to Sir Tlio. Knevet oi' Biikenham, in whose family it continued till Sir 
 Philip Knevet sold it to John Eldred of London, Esq. and John 
 f'erdon, Gent.; and after many conveyances, it was settled on the 
 minister of NeK-Bukenham for the time being, who is always lord 
 of it. 
 
 The Castle was first situated by the abbey, on the east part ; the 
 site of it contains about 3 acres; it is a large entrenchment, sur- 
 rounded with a deep mote, the hills being still entire ; (see the plate) 
 on the north side is an old arch, which served for a sewer when it was 
 standing ; this was in some decay, when /fV//. de Albdny pulled it 
 down, and built the priory with its ruins, (which is the reason that 
 
 ' A° 163 1, the site of the Close alias ^ In 12S5, William atte Lathes of Ke- 
 
 CromweU s Manor, in Bukcnhiim, At- teringham, and Oliva his wife, lived 
 
 tleburgh, a. id Besthorp, was settled by there, but were not concerned here. 
 
 George Cuck, Esq. Kob. Ric. and ♦ The King kept his first court for 
 
 Francib Cuck, Gent, on KdmunU French the Priory manor after its dissolution in 
 
 and John bcuito, Gents. i j-t°-
 
 3S4. OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 there are none remaining,) and give the site of it to that house,' as 
 his foundation deed declares, and then removed to a far better situ- 
 ation, in St. jindiew's parish, the eastern part of which belonged to 
 the Bishop of Norwich, and was part of his manor of Ecc/es, kept in 
 his own hands to serve his palace there ; notwithstanding which, the 
 Earl procured the land which was part of ilie Hagli, of i\ ill. Ttirlxis 
 Bishop of Norwich, (who greatly favoured his foundation,) to be held 
 as freely as the old castle was before the priory's foundation ; the tithes 
 only excepted ; and on this part he built the castle, and founded his 
 burgh called Ncw-Biikeiih(U)>, close by it, having obtained license so 
 to do. It is pleasantly situate upon a hill, fortified with a deep mote, 
 which remains entire, and full of water; the building itself is quite 
 demolished, and ploughed over, except part of the gatehouse, and a 
 dungeon or keep, which all those places had ; (see the Prospect in the 
 plate;) it is 63 yards round, and the walls about 10 feet thick,- and 
 though it is not higher now than the entrenchment, I suppose it was 
 formerly, the upper part of those /^ceps generally being watch-tow-ers ; 
 it is divided in tne midst b}' a cross wail. The Kueveis dwelt in this 
 castle till it was demolished by Sir Philip, who sold it. 
 
 EXPLANATION OF THE PLAN OF THE NEW CASTLE. 
 
 a is the entrance ; b is the spot on which the castle stood ; c is the 
 site of St. Mari/'s chapel; d is the wall dividing the keep; e is the 
 entrance into the keep ;y' is the site of the barbican ; g hi are motes; 
 A: is a small sketch of the town from the keep. 
 
 The Priory, now called the Abbey, was founded by JVilliamde 
 Albany, Earl of Chichester, sirnamed the Strong, who died in 115G, 
 and by him dedicated to the honour of God, St. Mary, St. James the 
 Apostle, and all the Saints, in which he placed black canons of the 
 order of St. Augustine, who were governed by a prior elected by the 
 ni-ijor part of them, and confirmed by the Bishop oi' Norwich, after 
 which he was installed; they were daily to pray for the soul of their 
 founder, and of Queen Adeliza, or Alice, his wife, for the souls of 
 Stephen King oi' England, and Maud his Queen, and their progeny, 
 and for the souls of all his ancestors, successours, parents, friends, 
 and benefactors ; they were governed by statutes, allowed by JVilliam 
 Turbus Bishop ofNoraich, by whose advice it was founded, but they 
 were in all things to follow the institution or rules of the church of St. 
 Mary at Mertune; he endowed it with the rectories of the churches 
 oi' All-Saints, and St. Audracs, belonging to his manor of Bukenham, 
 which were immcdialely appropriated to it, and they took their w hole 
 revenues, the canons serving them; and also the site of the castle, 
 which was lo be pulled down, and 20 acres of land, and the wood 
 called Little Huge, and Midcrofts, with the adjoining meadow, and 
 New Crojl before the castle-gate, (on which the abbey was built,) 
 and Alured the Smith, with the land that he held, and ,5 acres which 
 was Spar-hauc's.'' The witnesses to his foundation were, Hugh Bigot, 
 liulj' de Buchant, or Bukenham, Hubert and Warm Montchensi, liob. 
 
 'Monast. Ang. vo). ii. fo. 174. * There founder before his death gave 
 " cum sede castelli, Ixxx, acia^, tt cas- 2 caiucates of land more in Bukenham, 
 wllum diruendnn." to be held in free alms. Lib. Inquis.
 
 Vol.l.Pa^e384.. 
 
 Thr f'n'sycrt .'/ Bukvnhiini {tisth- /rem tin Old JVooJ <',n-tintf >rn th<- outsiii^ of th- Crown hm , ui .\'ri\ StJcuJfiitn 
 77ic Amu^ tire- oti tJu- stvne housf .J^uvfpt tho Lut tJuec- , whioh arc Carv'd in' Stt/nc ,tjnd j-Lrt--d in a Wall af a- 
 /uytuc iuill^d tht- OtO'iic-n ]uyjur<: ,bcuuf hrouijht /ram tJw Castlt: .
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 385 
 
 de Vuedale, Half the chaplnin, Thurstin, then priest, or parson, of 
 Buckatn,(Bukcnham,) iind others; and afterwards he got the founda- 
 tion confirmed by the King and Bishop. The benefactors to this 
 house, that I meet with here, were. Will, de Albany, son of the founder, 
 who gave them the advowson of Kenninghall^ Richard de Scenges, 
 gave them the advowson of St. Mary's church at Bi:rwike,y in the 
 Brakes,) Peter de Cley, gave them the advowson of St. Peter's at 
 Cleythorp, (now Cocle-Clei/,) Richard, son of Robert de Sengles, gave 
 them his whole tenement, &c. in Riveshale, (now Rusal/,) and Lin- 
 croft, (a hamlet to Rasall,) John Malekin, and Katerine Le-Parker 
 released to the prior, Sec. all his services which he owed them for his 
 tenement, &.c. held of them in Riveshale, Sir Henry de Riveshale, 
 and Sir John his son, Knts. being witnesses.' 
 
 The said Richard, son of Robert de Sengles, gave them 90 acres 
 of land, held of Miles, son of Alan, and Miles his son, and the ser- 
 vice of Walter de Lincroft and his tenement in Lincroft aforesaic|, and 
 the tenement which the said Richard held of the Prior and Convent 
 of Norwich in Riveshale, and 10 acres of land which he held of Henry 
 Parker, and 1 acre held oi'Will. Fitz-Roeis, and half an acre held of 
 Jeffry, the Dean's nephew, and 3 acres and an half in Suthfettd, held 
 of 'Pho. de Stuttestune and Amy his wife, and one acre held of Walter, 
 son of Roger Lincroft, with the services of Fulcher Le-Feutrer, and 
 Walwane Le-Biile, and their families and tenements, and all that the 
 said Richard had purchased in these towns, with one acre of marsh in 
 Brisingham, a parcel of meadow in Est-Medwe in Semere, and the land 
 in Wrongeland, which he held of Alan, son of David. 
 
 Robert, son of Robert de Tateshale, gave them the advowson of 
 Gunneby, and a piece of land called Munkwelle, for a pittance, as is 
 before observed ; Robert de Tateshale, the third of that name, gave a 
 fold-course for 200 sheep in Attleburgh, and 53 acres and an half of 
 arable land in B«A-e«Aaw« ; S\x John deJ'erdon, Knt. granted them 
 divers lands, tenements, rents, and services in Brisingham, which was 
 afterwards the Priory manor there." Benedict de Brehull gave them 
 the homage and service of Roger Le-Leche and his heirs, besides 
 other gifts. Tho. de Sancto Egidio (or Giles) gave them his messuage 
 in the parish of St. Benedict in (Norwich) Jlestwic, with the advow- 
 son of that church, with all rents belonging to his messuage. Peter, 
 son of Sir Ralfde Cleij, Knt. gave 5 1 acres and an half in Cley Field, 
 with divers villeins, yearly rents, and services, with liberty of faldage, 
 common of pasture, and fuel in all his liberty. Roger de Montealt, 
 Steward of Chester, released to them all his claim in the advowson of 
 Kenninghall ,^ and granted them common of pasture in Soiithache in 
 Kenriinghall, and the amerciaments of all their tenants in Kenninghall, 
 who were punished in his leet there, to be received from his steward, 
 who was to receive them of the offenders, all which grants were con- 
 firmed by the King. In 1377, Will. Keleringham and others, aliened 
 to the Prior 100 acres of underwood in Bukenham, by the King's 
 license ; they had also 30 acres in Kcrthorp in Bukenham, settled on 
 them in 1353, by license; and divers lands and tenements in West 
 Bradenham the year before. In 1390, John Mounteny and others 
 
 in Scacio. pen. Remem. Regis, fol. 334; ' Autog. pen. P. L.N. 
 
 this was the Priory manor. ' See Brisingham Priory manor, p. 
 
 ' See Kenninghall, p. lii. 62. 
 
 ° Dug. Mon. Ang. vol. ii. fol. 174. ^ See p. 212.
 
 386 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 settled 60 acres of land, 2 acres of meadow, and a free fold in Ohl- 
 Bukiuham, by the King's license. In l.')(i(i, they had hcense to 
 receive divers lands in Tt/htnliam in Noifo/lc, and Cnitjie/d \n Su/fu/k. 
 Coiistantine C/i/ton gave !(>/. a year lo be settled on the I'rior, 
 which Sir Jo/iii Clifton, who died in 1447, onlered to be settled, and 
 accordingly the manor oi' Mt/diiig Hail in Burston, whith belonged 
 to the priory was settled on it by Sir Andrew Uguid, Kiit.^ Rob. 
 Clifton, Knt. Constable of Burdeaiix, who was bmied in the conven- 
 tual church of St. James the Apostle, was a good benefactor. Joint 
 f erdon, of this town, in IjyO, gave 5 marks by will, to repair the 
 church ; to the torches (or lights'in it) (is. 8(/. " To the Light of the 
 " Sepnicor iijs. \\\yl. Also to tiie Light of the Mess of ./«/( iijs. \\\]d. 
 " To the Pryor of Bokcnhain vjs. \'n\d. To ichc channon ijs. To 
 " the reparaiyon of the Churche of (Jidc- Bokenhani xxs. Also to the 
 " Gilde of St. Maityn in 'Sewe-Bokdiliam \js. viijr/. Also to the 
 " reparacyon of the Gilde of our Lady xx.s. Also I will have an 
 " honeste preste to syng for my sowie, and all my benefactors sowles, 
 " in the parische churche of fsezct Bokvniium beforseid, by the space 
 " an hole yer. Also 1 will that the place wiche I purehesid ijf Jolui 
 " Heicett, John Colby, and ij. acr. of londc lyeing all the gate in the 
 " heigh fcldc at Halt's Gate, remayne to the to\yn of Sewe Bokenliam, 
 " to the common proHght, in releif and ciiinfortyng of the poor 
 "■ pepnil fur evyrmor." 
 
 The probate is now in the Church Chest. Dated March 29, 1491. 
 
 In 1428,'^ the Prior's temporals in Old-Bukenham were taxed at 
 22/. \6s. lOd. ob. The total of the spirituals of this house, lying ia 
 Noifolk, were taxed at 77/. ISs. 4d. and paid 5l. l.'is. 8d. every tenth ; 
 the total of their temporals in Norfolk were taxed at 52/. gd. ob. 
 and paid ol. 4s. 1(7. every tenth ; the whole of their temporals and 
 spirituals at this time being taxed at IO9/. 14s. !</. oh. and so paid 
 e\eiy tenth 10/. 19s. gd.; at the Dissolution it was valued at 13i/. I Is. 
 per annum. In 1479, they had lands in all the Biikeuhams, Eli/ngliam, 
 Best/iorp, Stowebekyrton, Rokeland, Roicdiiam, Sneytyrtun, Norton, 
 Sthropliam, Q.iedenliam, Banliam, Million, JsUiclon, Carleton, Bon- 
 well, H yki/hcood, Reymerston, Craljield, Keninghall, Haplon, Tiben- 
 ham, ISioncich, Si. Benel, St. SKitliin, and St. Bcter Mancroft, Bra- 
 denham West, Barwyke, Brisingkam, Burston, Atlkburgh, Lyn, Se- 
 lliyng, Riveshale, East-IIerling, Caslon, Cley, 8ic. In 14("o, the 
 Bishop certified the Barons of the Exchequer, that the Prior of Bu- 
 kenliam held impropriated to that house, the churches of St. Benedict 
 in Noiuic/i, of (Jryslon in Bcccles deanery, oi Jiukcniiam All-Saints, 
 St. Jndrciis, and St. Martin's, St. Beler of Clei/, and li est Braden- 
 ham, in Craneuise deanery, and Burzcick in llicliam deanery, and 
 that they have been so held ever since 1177, and before, even from 
 ils foundation, and that the Prior always pays all taxes granted by 
 the clergy to the King for those churches, there being no vicars en- 
 dowed upon any of them.* 
 
 The site, after the Dissolution, was granted to Sir Tho. Knevet^ and 
 
 ^ See Burston, \>. 129. given after 1177, and there were vicars 
 
 ♦ From the accompt book of this pri- endowed at Kcnninghall, &c. but otiiers 
 ory, in the hands of Micux Rant, Esq. were only paid a "siij end annually by 
 MS^. fo. papyr. the house, who took tlic whole profits 
 
 > Weaver, 856. and answered all outf;oiny charges. 
 
 * Lib. Inst. No. 12. There were two ' The denieuns of the priory were let 
 
 kes in this return, for some were at 52/. per annum.
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 387 
 
 went with the Priory manor in that family, and is now ownetl by Mr. 
 Holbech. There are very few ruins remaining; the walls of the 
 church are quite down, but the foundations may be easily traced; 
 it was in the conventual form, with the tower in the midst, and had 
 a nave, two isles, two transepts, a choir, and north vestry ; the mo- 
 nastery stood on the north side of it, and was a good square court. 
 On the wood work of an old gate I saw the arms of Albany carved, 
 which looked very old. I have seen a piece of silver, which was 
 found in digging in the ruins of the church anno 1723, which has 
 a shield of arms, on which, a fess between two chevrons. A canton 
 erm. impales quarterly a bend ; this looks as if it had been buried 
 with its owner. See the plate for the seal, arms. Sic. of the priory. 
 
 EXPLANATION OF THE PLAN OF THE PRIORY CHURCH, NOW 
 CALLED THE ABBEY CHURCH. 
 
 a is the choir ; h is the place where the tower stood ; c c is the 
 nave ; d the north isle ; e the south isle ; ./the north transept; g the 
 south transept ; A is a vestry ; i is the almonry. 
 
 In 1579, John Margery was buried in this church, and gave every 
 canon and monk 4f/. and 8 marks, to be prayed for. Katherine 
 Brozcne was also buried the same year, and gave two silver phiolas, 
 and the rest of her goods, to Sir fri/L Whalley, then prior, to pray for 
 her. In 1507, Adam Sawer was buried here, and gave 4 nobles, for 
 his soul to be sung for in the church. In 1508 ,the church was new 
 roofed, and had an altar dedicated to St. Austin in it. 
 
 PRIORS OF THIS HOUSE. 
 
 1216, Wj/Z/am was prior of Bukenham. 
 
 1221, Walter, who got Kenninghall appropriated. 
 
 1269, Hugh. 
 
 128t», Richard de Otteley. Br. Rich. Belts succeeded Bukenham. 
 
 1307,5 id. Febr. Brother JoA?j de Mutton, a canon of St. James's 
 monastery at Bukenham, was elected piior by the sub-prior and con- 
 vent, and confirmed by the Bishop of Norwich, as were all the priors 
 to the Dissolution. 
 
 1329, 17 kal. Ju/y, Hugh de Brom, priest, canon there, elected 
 prior. 
 
 1354, 11 Octob. Brother Will, de Spykesworth, canon, elected prior 
 at Broom's death. 
 
 I.'i81,27 Sept. Brother Will, de Banham, canon there, elected at 
 Spykesworth's cession. 
 
 1402, 10 July, Brother Roger Carleton, canon, elected at Banham's 
 death, and installed by the Archdeacon of Norfolk. 
 
 1442, 12 July, Brother John Noncich, elected on Carletou's death. 
 
 1451, 9 Nov. Brother Barth. Melles, canon, elected prior at Nor- 
 wich's resignation. 
 
 1458, 17 Sept. Brother John Whalley, canon, elected on Melles's 
 resignation.
 
 388 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 1480, 13 Mai/, Brother John Btikenkam,' senior, priest, canon there, 
 elected prior at IVhalleys death. 
 
 149'3, John Flalti/ng, priest, was prior here. 
 
 15S4, 21 Jug. John Mylegate, or Millgate,' prior, Richard Ryntwz 
 and five others subscribed to the supremacy. This John was the last 
 prior, and resigned the house to the King ; Sir Tho. Broicne, &c. were 
 canons at the resignation. These were the 
 
 CANONS OF THIS HOUSE, 
 
 That received their stipends over and above their daily maintenance 
 and clothing, viz. 
 
 1479, Brother Tho. Fincham, Brotlier Rich. Cley, Brother Hen. 
 Lychefeld, Brother Thomas Bevtrle, Brother John Bukenham, junior, 
 Brotlier John Chambyr, Brother Richard Bukenham, cellerer. Brother 
 Hi/ 1. Haricych. 
 
 1480, the same canons, except Brother John Baron, who was added 
 to them. 
 
 1481, Brother Jo/(K Chambyr was added, and they continued till 
 14()3, and then brother John Foremale, a novice, was admitted 
 
 among them, so that the monastery, when full, consisted of a Prior, 
 an Auditor, who was not a religious, but one appointed by the lord to 
 audit their annual accounts, and ten Canons, who yearly received for 
 their stipends 40s. apiece, besides their maintenance and clothing ; 
 out of these, a Sub-Prior, Sacrist, and Celerer, were yearly chosen. 
 The temporal officers of the house were, the Steward of their Courts, 
 a Heyward, Woodward, and Janitor, constantly attending at the 
 mona'stery gates. In this year John Bonn was their auditor ; they 
 yearly received, for the total income of the monastery, about 110?. 
 and disbursed about 100/. 
 
 THEIR CHURCHES WERE 
 
 Bradenham West, an endowed vicarage. 
 
 St. Benedict in Norwich ; they repaired the chancel, and had a 
 parsonage-house. 
 
 Bukenham AU-Saints, worth clear 7/. 15s. and the stipendiary 
 serving chaplain paid. 
 
 Claj, an impropriation; no vicar endowed. 
 
 Giiston, had a vicar endowed ; great tithes were let at 15/. 
 
 Barwyk had a vicar endowed. 
 
 The offerings at the high altar of the monastery on St. James's Day, 
 6.S. 8rf. besides those on St. Margaret's Day, when the gild was kept 
 there. 
 
 •yEARLY RENTS. 
 
 West-Herling church-waTdens paid \d. a year to this priory, for 
 part of their town-land. 
 
 Norton church-wardens paid Qd. a year for quitrent to their manor. 
 
 " The expenses of his election, and 3/. » Lib. Comp. Prior, 
 for the feast at his installation, came ■ WillisN Names of Incumbents, 144. 
 to 7/. See much ot him at p. 223.
 
 OLDBUKBNHANr. 380 
 
 Kcnftint;A<i// Rcciory manor, i*oU of omisc were above G/. ptr 
 
 till II wn. 
 
 liriuHt'fiam IViorv manor, rcnti of oMize al>out 3/. ptr annum. 
 
 NiMtriiA (jiUI in !^l. I'rifr'i Sl,im rtiil , |>ui<l llicen 'v/. n yiar. 
 
 \<rui,h, \\\r l>c«n ol Si. .W./ry'« lyiligf III ihc I'lcldt, (now 
 Chavtt FttlH.) \Ot. 
 
 liurUun, iirotiu of lltv manor, Hi. Hit. OJ. 
 
 Criilefieltl trul* o( 3l. Md. ptr annum, from the nuinor of Uic Earl 
 of Sorlhumb<rlaH<r%. 
 
 AN.M'Al. UUTGOINOS. 
 
 Tlit-ir anniinl lem|>oral outi(oinKi were, to the manor* of Morlimer'i 
 nml t'ro««A.i//iii UlUbur-^h, Kv/.; to lli< nilor of /.Vu/-//fr/i«;j, 8</. 
 for I unci in hrniutf^kall ; to Uetthorp manor 3r/. ,° to my LiirU Crom- 
 lerU W. ,- to l-Hifn'^fntin niunur H</. ; lo .IthtrrUthitrp iiiiiiior S<. ■Ul. ; 
 For land* in Hcuifm/I X'ltl. ; to the liuliop, for luixU licld of liim in 
 the Itaict ?•• 'mA ,' to llic Abbot of Bury, for land* li«-ld of liiin iu OIJ- 
 linktHhtim, 'li. 
 
 KPittiTiAL oir«;oiN<;« 
 
 'Ilic nnnuni •|iiritual oulgoint;* lo ilic Hiiliop, fur tlu* |H.-nMont of 
 Hratltnhitm and (iriUon, 2lij. hJ. ; for lluktnham St. Anilrrir, nnd St. 
 Mnrlin, :U. -W. ; to thr I'o|K''» collci-tor, 7». ; to the An luU-iwoii of 
 SorH-ith, for procuration* for (Jriifon, (m.SH.; for the Buktnham 
 
 Iinrti>h<->, anil i /< - /. ; lo llie »airi«l of Sortirich catlu'drul, for 
 
 III pcn*!'^! out • ' , 1 nnd llrndenluun churclici, ;»». W. ; to /I ill. 
 
 />.• ' ( ,r one year, ')/. «m. 8//.; to 
 
 ill- •■ . 8<i. ; the Stijxnd of tlic 
 
 chaplain ol .4it-.S<tiHts, liiikrn/itim, 4/. (u. 8</. 
 
 I44<), paid to till- honour of If uriiifgfi/, (or the nincrciamcntt of 
 the prior'* tenant*, for their ^Ii'Im- land (Im-1iiiil;iii^ to (UntoM) in 
 CtfifoN, 12i. ,' fur Uointicol 3<y.; und to Tito. .Mouiilturiff, Clerk, 4t. ob.; 
 to hill Inghiim, their Stipendiary at i'lfi/, 5l. !.'••. 4</. n venr: lo iIr- 
 Vicur <if lutrui/k, l.s '••III, for In* vic.ir.iL;< , *>/. lo 
 
 jIndrrK Sonrirh, nl ' In* *tip<.-nd, 8tc. ( 7cy uai - . ..iid 
 
 ft4 acrt'» udj i. &.C. 1-187. at Sit/, anil inure >«;u laid 
 
 oat in rt-pnii ; : thi- Virgin Marif, uiUiiii tlie precinct* 
 
 of the muDutery. At the end of lliu ycmr'i uccompt are lhct>: line*. 
 
 (' 
 
 -f potutm. 
 
 iJiim .Shuiim III fiiiiiiiio, I iKtmitt c to, 
 
 Ummbui til iiuium, ijiioil ulu/uit •.,..,,■ /jtiim. 
 
 Paid to Ecdtt court for the yearly tuil due, (</. 
 
 The Chafrl or St. Mary the Virgin, in Old'Uukmhiim* was 
 fouiKleti toon after titc caatle, by the lord* of it, nnd woj tupplied bj 
 
 * Thr advowHio of ihu chapel was twlonism; to il wrrc let by ihe prior, 
 
 ---- i., ... . . ...^.. -, - _ -. ..u„J^^ 
 
 • fthfrn i 
 ipon II 
 
 VOL. I. 3 1>
 
 390 
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 a custos and two or three chaplains, his brethren, who had their dwel- 
 ling at the west end ot" it, and constantly served there; it was the 
 onfy place of worship that the burgh of New-Bukenliam had, till the 
 present church was tounded, which was some time after the chapel: 
 at the Dissolution it came to the lord's hands; and not long after- 
 wards was converted into a barn, as it now remains. It stands on 
 the south side of the castle, close by the road, as you enter into Nezo- 
 Bukenham? 
 
 The Parish Church of St. Andrew, in 01d-Bul;enham, was a 
 rectory belonging to the manor, till the foundation of the priory, to 
 which it was given by the foundej", and then appropriated to it, with- 
 out any vicar endowed, the monks serving it themselves to the Disso- 
 lution, when it was granted to Sir Tho. Kiitiet along with the priory,* 
 and soon after was desecrated, and converted into a barn; it is just 
 by Mr. Harvey's seat, which is called 'Al. Andrew's. It was taxed at 
 20s. and paid Is. every tenth. 
 
 The Church of All-Saints in Old Bukenham, is the present 
 parish church ; this was also a rectory appendant to the manor, and 
 given by the founder to the priory, to which it was then appropriated, 
 but no vicar endowed ; it was served by the monks, who found a 
 stipendiary curate there till the Dissolution, when it was granted with 
 the priory to Sir Tho. Kiievel, who received all the profits, and found 
 a curate to serve the parish;' and thus it continued in that family till 
 1611, when it was mortgaged, with the King's license, along with 
 Kiietet's manor in Tibeiiham, to Sir Tho. Herne, Knt. ; after this it 
 was mortgaged backward and forward several times, till at last Sir 
 Philip Kmvt't sold every one (that would purchase them) the tithes 
 of their own lands, and the rest the parish purchased, together with 
 the chancel and churchyard, and vested them in Robert If right and 
 John jlllen, and their heirs, who reconveyed to Sir Philip all man- 
 ner of tithes, oblations, &c. which might be due to the said rectory 
 from any of his own land, and all those tithes which they sold, as 
 trustees to Sir Philip, to Robert .Jollie, .Jacob Preston, and the rest 
 of the parishioners, that had purchased their parts, after which they 
 settled the chancel and .cluirch\ard of Old- Bukenham All-Saints, 
 ■with all the great and small tithes, oblations, obventions, offerings, 
 &c.' together with all other temporals whatever belonging thereto, 
 on a great number of feoffees, who were to hold all the rectories of 
 All- Saints and St. Andiew's, (except the churchyard, parsonage- 
 house, and glebe lands of St. Andrew's, and all those tithes which 
 
 placed in this chapel, of tlie gift of Julian 
 Manyng, besides a gift of 41. in money ; 
 and Tho. Beverle gava also ij. \d. the 
 produce of all its oblations, lands, &c. 
 this year, were %l. 6s. Sd. In 1485, 
 Brother John Lichefeld, custcs of this 
 chapel, received 6s. ad. as his stipend 
 for it, from the prior. In 1493, Sir 
 Richard Bukenliam, a canon, was custos. 
 ^ It being so near, it is sometimes 
 called St. Mary's chapel in Ncw-Bukcn- 
 ham. 
 
 ■• In 1557, Sir Tho. Kn?vet, was 
 owner of it. Andrew s church, the rec- 
 tory-house and glebes of which he then 
 let at 3A 16s. a year. 
 
 ' In 1603, Richard Montague, curate 
 here, returned answer, that it was an 
 impropriation, not endowed with a vi- 
 carage ; that Sir Tho. LovcU was pro- 
 prietor, and the number of communi- 
 cants were 240. 
 
 ' Autog. pen. Joh. Welhatn de Bu- 
 kenham pra:dict. gen.
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 391 
 
 were sold before this feoffment,) with all the tithes of corn, grain^ 
 hay, and all other great and small tithes, obventions, and oblations 
 whatsoever, to them and their heirs, in trust, to the following uses ; 
 that they, or the major part of them, shall for ever nominate, elect, 
 and choose, an honest learned minister, for, and in the name of, the 
 town of Old-liukeiihaiii aforesaid, to serve in yl/l-Saiiifs church, 
 once in a week, and perform all services there,' who upon such 
 choice shall be licensed according to the laws of the reahn,' after 
 which he shall be allowed out of the profits of the rectory aforesaid, 
 an annual stipend of Id/. 13a". 4(/. to be ])aid by the feoffees, one half 
 upon every '2d day of Febniarj/, and the other half upon the 1st day 
 of yy«g«s/, on which days they are to make and produce a just ac- 
 count unto Sir i'liilip Ktievet, and his heirs, and the church-wardens 
 of the town for the time being, and to all the rest of the inhabitants 
 of the town, who shall think fit to be there, to see the accounts of 
 the whole profits; and what ovci^plus of the profits remains (the sti- 
 pend and charges being deducted) shall be by them paid inlo the 
 churcii-wardens hands, to be by them employed to repair the chancel 
 and churchyard walls ; and when all the feoffees are dead to five, 
 they shall be obliged to make a new feoffment to ten persons at least, 
 all which shall be [wrisliioners of this parish; and lest there should 
 arise any disputes concerning the parts sold off, the lands and tene- 
 ments so discharged, with the several purchasers names, are men- 
 tioned, and all the lands which pay all manner of tithes to the 
 feoftees, are separately described in nine rolls of parchment, annexed 
 to the feoffment, among which, the Lai/es, containing 100 acres; a 
 messuage and 100 acres, being the site of BMAfH/fam C/ose manor; 
 6 closes thereto belonging, containing 80 acres ; 50 acres more be- 
 longing to the same messuage; 24 acres, called liromhiU Close ; 12 
 acres called Little Pond's Meadow; 8 acres called Fir Close; 30 
 acres called Hazcte Close, in the New Park ; 80 acres called Jlerli/ng 
 IVood; l6 acres called Thome Croft ; and (iO acres called Fir Closes, 
 are the largest parcels, though there are, besides these, 48 messuages 
 and cottages, and 200 acres thereto belonging. The prior was taxed 
 at 13 marks for the rectory, and paid l?*- 4t/. for it to every tenth. 
 Mr. Last, rector of Wilbi/, was curate here, and the Rev. Mr. Robert 
 Stone is the present [1737] minister. 
 
 Here were three Gilds, dedicated to St. Margaret, St. Thomas the 
 Martyr, and St. Peter. In 1373, Agnes Faucus of Old-Bukenham, 
 buried in ylll-Saints churchyard, gave a heifer for her mortuary, and 
 to Sir Roger, chaplain of the church, 6d. 
 
 The church and chancel are thatched ; the steeple is octangular ; 
 there are five bells ; the north isle is leaded. 
 
 ' 1317, John Chapman. 1348, David tin's &c. 148+, Alonson, parish chap- 
 
 Cobet, chaplain. 1400, Sir Roger Wood- lain, (S:c. accounted izi. for a mortuary 
 
 cock, chaplain here. 1479, Edmund received. 1485, John Sewall, cliaplain. 
 
 Nabbc, cliaplain, parish priest ; the J489, Henry Stanliovv, chaplain, 
 prior paid his stipend, 4/. 6s. id. 1481, * After which license it is a cure for 
 
 Will. Pec, parish priest, accounted for life, unless such objections are made as 
 
 the offerings at the high altar for this can enable the Bishop to recall his U- 
 
 year, it. 41. lod. At Bukcnham St. cense. 
 Andrew's liigh altar notliiiig, St. Mar-
 
 39C O L D - B U K E N II A M. 
 
 In the chancel lies a stone for 
 
 JOHN WELIIAM, Gent, who died July the lO'"" 17 13, aged 66 Years. 
 Earth have possessed him, Ashes, Clay, and Dust, 
 But Heaven contains his Soul, among the Just. 
 
 On a brass plate, Prestoti's arms and crest, 
 
 niC REQUIESCIT CORPUS JACOBI PRESTON,' GENR; QUI VITAM 
 
 HANC 
 F.XPIRAVIT IN FIDE (IIH1STI LXVI. ETATIS SU.-E ANNO DOM: l630. 
 
 On another brass plate, 
 
 Here lyclh the Body of iMntiiew Sturdyvant, Gent, who ended 
 this Life the 21st Day of March lOtM, when he was of the Age 
 of 8.') Years, and did give by his Last Will towards the Main- 
 tenance of a Schoole in this Parish for ever, 100/.' and towards 
 thre newe Bells to be bought 20/. 
 
 HODIF,, MIUI. CRAS, TIBI. 
 
 On a loose brass in the church, 
 
 ilat unocr rc.stctlj tijt 5?oi3))C of olljomaiti tfo'l' ^Ijc «6locr, toljo 
 ocpartcD tljijS -JLifc tljc pi ©an of Jamianjc, in tljc locate of ourc 
 aiorO, iGo-i. 
 
 Tiiere are stones in the chancel for 
 
 William, Son of Phillip Leigh, and Eliz. his Wife, who died Febr. 1, 
 
 1682. 
 Anne, Wife of Tho. Brewster, Gent, died Jan. 5, l68C. 
 
 In the nave on the south side, as Mr. Weaver informs us,* there 
 was a stone plated with brass, on which was a crane, and i©£0 43ratia^ 
 in a scroll from its mouth, and this, 
 
 ©rate pro Clnima CJ^omc 2?roton ruiuiS SInimc propitictur ®cu^, amen. 
 
 Elizabeth, Daughter of Sam: Baker, died Nov. 4, 1725, iEt. l6. 
 
 Over the King's arms, 
 
 AOHA ©En. 
 
 Vivat, vincat, et regnet Verbum Domini, et itt nobis, et Semini nostro 
 in JRternum, annue summe Deus, per Jesum Christum, unicum Domi- 
 num nostrum. 
 
 ' He had a good estate here ; and was am informed) something more is added" 
 
 grandfather of Sir Isaac Preston, Knt. to the stipend, 
 of Beeston St. Lawrence, in Norfolk. * Folio 8j6. 
 
 ' The school is still kept, and (as I
 
 OLD-BUKENHAM. 393 
 
 There were these arms in the windows, most of which now remain. 
 St. GEORGE. KNEVET. 
 
 nURV ABBEY. 
 
 Tatshall and Clifton quarterly. 
 
 Tatshall and Clifto.v impaled with Thorp, az. three crescents 
 arg. 
 
 Tatshall, chequy or. and gul. a chief erm. 
 
 The priory arms, arg. three escalops s/il>. 
 
 Barry of ten giil. and aig. quartering Cailv, chequy gii/. and or, 
 a bend erm. 
 
 Cromwell, «rg. achief ij«/. abends:. quarteringTATSiiALL. 
 
 Knevet quartering Clifton. 
 
 There are several angels holding some of the arms, «ith labels 
 from their mouths, I'iz. 
 
 &a[)oi ficgina .rciiitcr riiiscrctorCiie, 
 
 2>cntn 5r>ci Ocnrtrir jllariti. 
 
 ate ficgina ^Calorum, atoc ©omnia. 
 
 On hatchments in the chancel, 
 'Harvey, or, on a chevron between three leopards heads 
 
 f Harvey, or, on a chevron between thrc 
 1 A J S"'' ^'^ many flower-de-liscs arg. 
 impaled < jj^^. j,lon, «//as V an deprot, a;-'', on a 
 ^ houbloDs, or hop-poles, frucled prope 
 
 mound I'fr/, three 
 roper
 
 394 OLD-BUKENHAM. 
 
 Harvey, or, on <i chevron between three leopards heads 
 
 {Harvey, or, on a chevron betv 
 giii. three ciiiquefoils arg. 
 HouBLON US before, Harvey' 
 arg. a leopard chained or. A 
 
 s crest on a torce guf. and 
 
 Motto: IN MOllTE QUIES. 
 
 In the dormitory on the north side of tlie chancel are the coffins 
 of John Hurvty, Esq. Elizabeth his wife, and several of their children. 
 
 There are two altar tombs in the churchyard, against the chancel 
 door, for 
 
 Robert Watts, who died 7 Nov. 1652. and Andrew Reder, 
 who died 14 Dec. lG55. 
 
 On a head-stone by the steeple. 
 
 Here lieth the body of JOHN GREY, Gent. Steward of many 
 Alanours for (almost) Sixty Yeares, faithful to his Lords, 8c kind 
 to the Tenants ; he kept Courts and wrote very faire in the QOt/i 
 Year of his Age, (things rare) in which he died upon the l6tk 
 Day of July, Anno Dom. 1713. 
 
 The Customs of the manors are, that the fine is at the lord's will, 
 and the eldest son is heir. 
 
 This town is situated round a pleasant green, the church standing 
 on the east side of it ; the site of the abbey being north east, and that 
 of St. Andrew's south east. There is a fair kept on it every 29th of 
 Maj/.^ It is a town of large bounds, for it paid to the tenths 5/. 13s. 
 and is now [1737] assessed at I996/. to the land-tax, and hath 105 
 dwelling-houses, and about 550 inhabitants. 
 
 ' There is no authority for the fair, he is obliged to teach four poor children 
 
 but custom only. There is a house and of this parish, without any payment for 
 
 ground in the town settled on the school- so doing. 
 master, worth 6t. per annum, for which
 
 [ 395 ] 
 
 NEW-BUKENHAM. 
 
 Th I s town had its rise out of OM-Biikeuham, as is before observed, 
 when Will, de Jlbany founded the castle, and procured the land of 
 the Bishop of Norwich* to build it on, and to make his burgh, which 
 then took the name of Nea'-jBttA-fH/w/w, to distinguish it from Old- 
 Biikeiiham, which then had that addition for the same reason. He 
 or his successours* very early got it to be a burgh, with the tollownig 
 privileges, which were allowed in 1285, viz. view of frankpledge, 
 assize of bread and ale, a gallows, and a market every Saturday , with 
 the market-court,^ or burgage, then worth 5s. per annum, and kept 
 before the capital steward every Saturdai/, who was judge ot all 
 weights and measures, and every thing belonging to the market, and 
 of all debts contracted or acknowledged in the market or precinct of 
 the burgh, and of all such debts under that sum, in which any resi- 
 dent in the burgh was concerned, and had power to fine and levy, as 
 amply as the sheriff" in the hundred court; and also a fair in the said 
 burgh every St. Martin's day, with a court thereto belonging, called 
 the'fVarpound court,'' the rents being due and payable that morning; 
 
 ♦ It was part of the Bisliop's Hagh. 
 Exsartiim Dni. Norwicensis Episcopi in 
 Bukenham. 
 
 • The following note is taken from 
 the Addenda, vol. i. p. 37 ». of the folio 
 edition : 
 
 I must now add the certainty of it, 
 having since seen the charter of privi- 
 leges, which was granted them by Wil- 
 liam de Albany, the founder of the 
 
 the Earl's brother, Reiner his uncle, 
 and others, were witnesses. And this 
 charter was often confirmed by the lords 
 of the castle, even to 1493, for then Sir 
 Will. Knevet, Knt. one of the heirs of 
 the most illustrous William de Albany 
 Earl of Sussex, confirmed the said 
 grants, and also infeoffed Rob. Fawkon, 
 then principal burgess, (or high bailiflf) 
 in a messuage and curtilage, abutting 
 on the west side of St. Martin's church 
 
 castle and burgh, and confirmed by his . . j . . , 
 
 son, and grandson, the substance of in the said burgh, and on the burgh 
 
 which m English is, that he granted to ditch on the east, which messuage the 
 
 his burgesses of Bukenham, all tliose Prior and Convent ol St. James s in 
 
 liberties; free customs and lands in the Old-Bukenham had wasted, and the 
 
 burgh to be held of him and his heirs, lord had seized it, but favouring that 
 
 as ffeelv, peaceably, and honourably, as house, had voluntarily given other lands 
 
 they were held in the time of William his instead of it. It was dated at Buken- 
 
 father according to the first grant of ham castle, Peter Shawc, the lord s ca- 
 
 Earl William his grandfather, namely, pital bailiff, and others, being witnesses, 
 
 by the payment of one halfpenny per The original at this time being in the 
 
 annum, for every messuage, in lieu of church-chest. 
 
 all other services ; and he also granted ' The market court was kept every 
 
 them common of pasture for all their Saturday, and had these privileges, as 
 
 iiiessiiages in Bukenham, with liberty to appears by the rolls of the court. P.L.N, 
 sell all their lands and houses in the " This was appendant to Shrop- 
 
 burHi. to whoever they would, whether ham hundred, and now belongs to it ; 
 
 heirt, parents, or strangers, on condition in 1665, Robert '^,',''°"',,^^'\;(/^',!;^'^j3' 
 
 they do not remove their houses out of ' ' ' '■- " 
 
 the' liberty of the burgh, nor do not 
 suffer them to waste, decay, or stand 
 empty by their negligence ; and also he 
 granted the said burgesses liberty to 
 
 held his court called the Warpound- 
 court, at New-Bukcnham, upon St. Mar- 
 tin's day, the rents being due in the 
 morning of St. Martyn the Bishop, 
 which arc an halfpenny and no more for 
 
 hold pleas among themselves, and finish e.ich rent, lor divers freehold tenements, 
 
 and determine all causes of debt and lying all over the hundred, the total of 
 
 other things, happening within the which amount to but id. ob. 
 burgh 5 to which Godfrid de Albany,
 
 396 
 
 NEW-BUKENHAM. 
 
 and also iberty of free-warrcn in the demeans and manors of Buken- 
 ham castle, in the liukenlmms, Besthorp, and Jttlebursh/ and also a 
 prison tor all oftenders in the burgh, in the toll-house there." The 
 whole of this town belonged to the castle, and passed as that did, 
 hll Sf,rop/„„n hundred was sold from it, and after forfeited to the 
 Crown, and the Harpound court with it, and then that was in the 
 ifvdU, and the Mercate court or burgage in the Knevct's. In 1572, 
 Iho.Loiell, Esq. had one manor, and 2?,o. Kmvct, Esq. the other: 
 the n arpouud court went with the hundred, and still remains with it- 
 he market coi.rt or burgage, was sold by the Knevets. It after be- 
 onged to Lldrtd, and Ferdon, and after that was settled on feoffees, 
 tor the use of the curate, and by virtue thereof the high bailiff receives 
 tne profats. 
 
 Here were many lands, rents, and tenements, vvhich belonged to 
 the priory, a 1 which were seized by the Crown, and granted to divers 
 persons as the Lowells, Kxevets, &c. In 1G09, Jo/m Eldred, Esq. 
 and John ferdon, Gent, had a grant of the outsoken' manor of tke 
 priory, now called 
 
 THE PRIORY MANOR, 
 
 (the KiteveisreseiVwg to themselves theimoken of that manor, or ;ill 
 hat part ot it, which is now called the Prion/ manor, and goes with 
 the great manor, and lies in Old-Bukenkam, Which is the reason that 
 there are two manors called the Priory at this time,) together with 
 the market court, or burgage, all which the Knevets were licensed to 
 
 The temporal possessions of the Prior in New-Bukaiham, in 1428. 
 were taxed at 3-1.. and :)rf. In l603, there were 220 communicants 
 and now [1,:J,] there are about 400 inhabitants. It paid clear to 
 every tenth 4/. 3s. and is now assessed at 35S/. ISs. 4d. to the land 
 tax : It IS a compact burgh, of small bounds, having a Saturdaj/ 
 
 ' Placita C'orone. A° predict. 
 
 ^ Placita Coroiie, Coram, &c. i 285, 
 Robert Ganel, of Bukenha.Ti, and Rich- 
 ard, son of Will, de Biikenliam, fought 
 in New-Biikenhaiii, and Robert gave 
 Ricliarda blow with a ttaffon tlie head, 
 so that he died the third day after, upon 
 whicli he was se zed and carried to the 
 court of Robert de Tatesliall, at Buken- 
 liam castle, who did not commit him to 
 custody in the castle, but had him deli- 
 vered to Nigell, son of William de Uu- 
 kenham, his chief steward (or hi<'h 
 bailiff, as they are now called) who im- 
 prisoned him in the toll-house there. 
 The chief steward was elected by the 
 lord of the castle for a long time, till 
 some of them gave liberty to the inhabi- 
 tants, yearly to elect their high bailiff, 
 which they still do to this day. 
 
 ' The outsoken at tliat time contained 
 the following annual rents, viz. from 
 lands in the park, 6s. id. ; from lands 
 and shops in Bokenham-Nova, 3s. 6d.; 
 from lands in Attlcburgh, ^d.; from 
 
 the manor of Cratefield, late tlie Earl of 
 Sussex's, called Cratefield Manor, now 
 in the tenure of Simon Smith, 3/. u. ^d. 
 cb. ; from Keymerston a free rent of 
 lis. for those lands in the tenure of 
 Anf. Thwaites; for the rents and tithes 
 of the lands in Attleburgh, 6s. 6d. ; 
 from a tenement and void piece of ground 
 belonging to Will. Watts, Jisq. 13s. ^d.; 
 from Toppe's land in Bukenham, i is. 
 4a. ; from lands in Biirston, Tibenham, 
 and Gissing, 33s. 6d. ob. ; from the ma- 
 nor of Snctsham, and the site of the 
 manorcalled Hawkins there, i\l.iis.U.- 
 from the manor of Walpole in Norfolk| 
 43/- 5^- I id. iq. ; (1 suppose the rent of 
 bnetesham and Walpole were sold off 
 before it was settled on the inhabitants:) 
 together with the profits of the market- 
 court or burgage of New-Bukenham, 
 valued at ss. per annum, and these were 
 feoffees of this Priory manor (outsoken) 
 VIZ. Tho. Kendall, Gent. John Gooch, 
 Gent. Tho. Colnwn, Gent. Wm. Ken- 
 dall, Gent, and Robert Murton.
 
 NEW-BUKENHAM. 397 
 
 market, (which of late years is much decayed,) and an annual fair on 
 St. Maitin'i day, according to tlie grants before mentioned; at first 
 it iiad but few inhabitants to what ii halh at present, as is evident 
 from the chapel of St. Mary, which was then their only pUice for ser- 
 vice, and no large one, but as it increased Sir Robert de Talcs/iale, 
 lord of the cjistie, who died in 1248, founded 
 
 A Ciiuncn dedicated to St. Martin, on the north side of the 
 burgh, where it now stands, and gave it to the |)ri()ry, the sacrist of 
 whicii was, to the Dissolution, the parish priest ; he had a certain 
 salary allowed him by the inhabitants,' for which the prior was taxed 
 at '20.5. and other houses or lands given to him as sacrist, or serving 
 chaplain, for which he was taxed at KSv.; and after this was founded, 
 the chapel of St. Man/ continued to be served as formerly, by a 
 ciistos and brethren, at the prior's appointment, who dwelt in their 
 apartment at its west end. The present church was built at divers 
 times, the nave and chancel being the only (if any) remaining parts 
 of the first building ; the north isle was built about I479> hy the 
 contribution of several great men, some of whose arms still remain in 
 the windows, and of such other persons as pleased to be benefactors ; 
 for in that year John Cukt ordered to be buried in the new isle of 
 St. Martin's church in New-Bukin/iam, and gave 5 marks towards 
 leading it;'' he was a good benefactor to the gilds of St. Manj and 
 St. Martin, which were kept in the church.' 'l"he south isle, porch, 
 and tower, were begun soon after, by that Sir John Knevet who mar- 
 ried Clijion's heiress, and finished by his grandson. Sir II i/tiain 
 Knevet, as the arms in the windows and on the tower plainly demon- 
 strate. This church is a donative, the minister being chosen by the 
 majority of the votes of all the residents in the parish, that pay to 
 the minister's rate, and after such choice so made, and entered by 
 the church-wardens in the Town-book, he is to have a nomination 
 under their hands to the Bishop, in order for a license, whioh being 
 obtained, unless that be recalled, it is a cure for life. 
 
 In 1()0;3, Mr. Francis Bradleij was curate, whose answer was, that 
 he served it as an impropriate cure, without any stipend from the 
 impropriator; that it was in Rockland deanery, and Norfolk arch- 
 <leaconry, and that the set sti[)end from the inhabitants was 15/. per 
 annum, besides all gifts ; that iMr. Knevet was proprietor, who after- 
 wards sold it to be settled on the parishioners. There is a convenient 
 house, garden, and outhouses, for the minister's dwelling,* who hath 
 an estate in Suffolk, and part of the George inn in Netc-lhikenham, 
 the Priory manor, and the rate of 3d. in tlie pound, &,c. settled for 
 his maintenance. Mr. Coleman was predecessor to Mr. Robert 
 Stone, the present [1737] minister, who hath Old-Bnkenham, and \i 
 rector of Brandon-Parva and Ilaekford in this diocese.* 
 
 •This is now gathered for the mi- of St. Nicholas, and was a benefactor to 
 nister, and is jd. in every pound accord- the gilds in this and several neighbour- 
 ing to the rent, of all the houses in the ing churches, 
 parish. * The ministers housewas the old gild. 
 
 » E Regr.Test. in Offic. Epi. Nor>vic. hall. 
 
 ' In I4j6, John Warengerof this town * 1318, Sir Robert Trot, and Sir John 
 
 gave 4^. towards keeping a light burn- de Rcdenhall, chaplains. 1366 Sir Ko. 
 
 ing before the image of St. Mar)' in this ger Wodecock of Wymondham, and 
 
 church. In 1 J05, Richard Towlcr was Thomas de Gcsclc, serving chaplains, 
 buried in the church, before the image 
 
 VOL. 1. 3 E
 
 398 NEW-BXJ KENHAM. 
 
 The nave is leaded, having a neat square tower, wilh a clock and 
 five bells in it, joined to its west end, on which the following arms 
 are carved in freestone over the west door, viz. 
 
 Will, de Bohun Earl of Nvrthanipton. 
 
 HuMFUY DE Bohun, his son and heir. 
 
 Staffoud. 
 
 Holland, viz. France and England quartered, in a bordure. 
 
 Lynnes. 
 
 Knevet and Caily quartered. 
 
 Knevet quartered with, pally, a bordure charged with roundells. 
 
 Albany. 
 
 Knevet and Clifton quartered. 
 
 Knevet and Heveningham quartered. 
 
 Knevet and Clifton, with a canton. 
 
 In the nave there are stones for, 
 
 John Pitcher, Gent, and Elizabeth his Wife, he died Oct. 30, 1720, 
 aged 74, and she June 1705. 
 
 Thomas Richards, died 2-1 July, 1705. 
 
 Marj', Wife of Mr. Robert Harris of Lynn Regis, Daughter ol' 
 Mr. Tho. Richards, she left a Son and two Daughters, and died 
 Febr. 9, 1700, aged 23 Years. 
 
 Chiudius Grey, Gent, buried Fcbr. 18, 1700, T. Colman 1718. 
 
 At the west end of the nave there are stones for, 
 
 Mr. Tho. Fulcher, Apothecary, who died June 10, 1707,.S^t.58. 
 
 John Blake, Nov. 1723, ^t. 13, Tho. Blake, Nov. 28, 1728, iEt. 12, 
 both sons of Thomas and Mary Blake. 
 
 On the fonl, Kiievct's arms : it was erected, 
 j^cbruarp i, i6i<), CijomaiS Cotman, Cljri.stopticr <f»iibbiirii, Cljurdj* 
 
 The norlh isle is leaded, and hath a chantry parted from the rest, 
 with handsome carved screens at its east end, in which there is a 
 stone for 
 
 Mary, Wife of Mr. John Crow, who died March 30, 1729, aged 
 39, and Mary Barrs her Mother, who died Apr. 3, 1729, aged tiO, 
 Hannah Crow died May 7, 1729. 
 
 Tiiis chapel belonged to St. Mtiri/s gild, and was made when ilie 
 isle was built, as the arms of Cromicell, Tatcshale, Mortimer, &c. 
 phiinly shew us, they being in the windows of the isle as benefactors, 
 logclher wilh, 
 
 De-la-Pole quartering arg. a chief «;«/. over all a lion rampant or. 
 
 Howard and Brotheuton quartered. 
 
 Vere and Howard quartered. 
 
 Clifton and Caily quartered. 
 
 And on the screens are these two letters, 56' J^« and a rebus or
 
 N l-VV-BU KEN [I AM. 
 
 399 
 
 device of a pilgrim's staff, liaving a hat iiung on its top, and a pil- 
 grim's bag lying by it, whic-b, I suppose, intimates llie man's name to 
 be James Palmir, a pabiicr or pilgrim signifying the same, and James 
 rather than John, because so many palmers, or pilgrims, daily visited 
 St. James at Compostel/a, who was the |)alron of tlie adjacent prior}'. 
 
 There are also shields of various arms, viz. 
 
 Or, semide-lises s«/<. for Mortimer. 
 
 A fess between three roundels, for Courtney. 
 
 The arms of the priory. 
 
 Tateshai.e. And erm, a i'usa gitl. besides these. 
 
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 400 NEW-BUKENHAM. 
 
 The chancel is tiled ; on the north side is an inarched monument, 
 in which is an altar tomb ; the arms, inscription, and effigies of a 
 woman, with a label from her mouth, are all lost. 'I'his is tne tomb 
 of Sir Thomas Kuevtt of Buheitham castle,* and Katharine his wife, 
 daughter to the Earl of Derby. 
 
 On a flat stone is this, on a brass plate, 
 
 J^ic iacct aiicia,' qiionDam IJIror IPiIli: ftniibct, armigtri, que erat, 
 5Filia5oi)anni^<l5rf!,i, filiujn ©ommi tiCijinfliDi a^rcj, ^F'omint oc 
 Jiiit^un, que Dbut quarto Die .JlicngiiS apnli.^ 31 ©ni- .lilfM^LC^Ij.Tiiii" 
 
 The arms are, 
 
 Knevet quartering Clifton, impaling Grey quartered witli 
 HastyngSj counter-quartering Valence, with a crescent for dif- 
 ference. 
 
 The following inscriptions are lost,' the brasses being reaved, 
 
 J?ic iacet Sljomasi Jtop, Capellanu^ qui obiit rir Die .JRensii.si .€>eptcnifarij;. 
 anno S^oittini ^li.ceeclvv)fi»°. ""U!^ anime propicietuc ©cu^ amen. 
 
 $Jic iacet Bobt. .:§eman Capellanu^, qui ofaiit nono Die %m. 2." 
 ©cm; lE.cecc" I]tb° tuiu^ Snime * ^ * s ».*?*== * 
 
 ©rate pro 3nima l©ilti: PpIIjiS, qui obiit fvb tie 5&ecembri.s;, 
 anno J©ni: ,Ili.ctccc4T)ci. cuiujS animc propicietut beu^ amen. 
 
 There are many old stones without inscriptions, under which divers 
 of the family of the Knevets lie buried ; an ancient house, saith 
 Cambden? ever since Sir John Knevet was Lord Chancellor of Eng- 
 land, under King Edzcard III. and also honourably allied by great 
 marriages. 
 
 For over and besides these oi Bukenham, now baronets, from hence 
 sprung those right worshipful knights. Sir Tho. Knevet, Lord Knevet, 
 Sir Henry Knevet o( Wiltshire, and Sir Thomas Knevet oi Ashwell- 
 thorp, and others. 
 
 <@tate pro animabujS 5jol]annii5 Kltnebet, armigeri, et aiesSiee 
 ^jroti^ jiuff, qui ob: 1400.' 
 
 His effigies in armour in a coat of his arms, viz. Knevet quartering 
 Clifton, his wife by him in a gown, and an escutcheon between them 
 of their arms, viz. Knevet, impaling Lt/n, or Lynnes. -^rg. a demi- 
 lion rampant gul. in a bordure sab. bezant^. All this is lost. 
 
 l^ic iacet artottia^ 5?iliu^ K^entici Collet, ciiJi.si et aitiermannt 
 Citjitati^ Itonbon, qui obiit Die i,tjatitittati.^ i»ce: Jitiarae, 1479. 
 
 Collet impaled with Knevet, quartering Clifton, This is also lost. 
 
 ' See his will. p. 379. ' Weaver's Funeral Monuments, fo. 
 
 ' She was sister of Edmund Grey, the 855. 
 •*rst Earl of Kent of that family. » Camden, &c. » Coll. P. L. N.
 
 NEW-BUKENHAM. ^oi 
 
 On an altar-tomb on the north side of the chancel, 
 
 Gulielmus Barber hujus Parochiae Gen; 
 Obijt 24° die Januarij, 
 . f Xti. iTiys. 
 ^""niEtatis84. 
 
 Ille Senex omni ut clero succurreret ^vo, 
 Paupcribusque pius, Munera larga dedit:* 
 Ditibus Exempio, semper sua sint Benefacta, 
 
 Laudent Parlicipes proque Datore, Deum. 
 
 On a marble by the altar, the arms and crest of Tindall, alias 
 Kendall,^ impahng a chevron between three castles or towers. 
 
 P. M.S. INIaria, Henrici Scarborough, de Walsham Boreali, 
 in Com: Isorft": Gencrosi, Mauritij Kendal de Eadem Armigeri, 
 Eliz: et Mariae Kendal sobolum, Filia, Uxor, Mater, observantis- 
 sima, dilectissinia, pientissima, nee minus Deo quam Amicis 
 fidelis. Corpus in terra hie rcpositum, Virtutes in Prole bonis 
 Auspicijs clucent, Spiritus in CceIo Triumphal. 
 A C iEtat. 
 A""nDom.l693. 
 
 Another black marble more south, lies over 
 
 John Kendal, Esq; [Father of Maurice] who died the 14fA of Dec. 
 IG72, aged 59. 
 
 Kendalls arms single. 
 
 On a stone on the south side of the chancel. Kendal's arms. 
 
 In Memoriam piam Matris suae charissima; Elizabethae, Jo- 
 bannis Kendal Armigeri, conjugis dilectissimse. Quae vix ne vi.x 
 fuit altera, Dei Reverentior, Mariti observantior, Liberoium 
 Denique (at summo cum Religionis turn Morum studio) Indul- 
 gentior, hoc Marmor Pietatis Ergo, apposuit Mauritius Filius ; 
 obijt die 23 Febr. A^ Dni: l6'95, .Sltatis vero 80. 
 
 Another stone hath Kendall impaling Ashfuld, a fess between three 
 
 de-lises. 
 
 Faelicem expectans Resurrectionem hie jacet, Mauritius Ken- 
 dall de Norlhwalsham, in Agro Norfolciensi Armiger, Vir Pa- 
 terque indulgens. Amicus Juratissimus, Ingcnuis congruus, 
 nefarijs infensus, Ecclesiee & Monarchise Vindc.x acerrimus, 
 seditiosis Perduellis, Legum in omnibus observantissimus, Juris- 
 peritus ipse Eloquentissimus; obdormivit Anno salutis mdccxii. 
 .£tatis Lii. 
 
 * The church-wardens receive the an- dowed with a farm in this town of n/. 
 
 nual rent of lands let at 6/. a year, to per annum. There is a town-house, and 
 
 repair the church, and adarn it. The lands let at iil. i+j. a year, 
 alms-house was erected by Mr. Wm. ^ See Banliam, p. 3jj. 
 Barber, for four poor widows, and en-
 
 40« N E W - H U K E N II A M. 
 
 A large black marble near the screens balh this inscription, most of 
 it covered by buiiiiing a pew over il, 
 
 Here lyelh interred the Body of Dame Rebekah the Daughter 
 of Edward Warne, of New-Uiuliing!i.un, Gent, her first Hus- 
 band was Samuel Benson of Norwich, Gent, her 2d was 'J'hon)as 
 Davy of Norwich, her third was Sir Francis Bickley of Attle- 
 borrow. Baronet, her last Husband was Nicholas Pointer of 
 Norwich, Gent, she dyed the 18//( of August 1694, aged j4. 
 
 This stone was laid by JVilliam Bernham of Norwich, merchant, 
 her executor. 
 
 The south porch and isle are leaded, in the middle of which lies a 
 
 black marble for, 
 
 John, only Son of John Barber, and Elizabeth his Wife, who 
 died May '10th 1711. aged 44. leaving Elizabeth his Relict 
 (Younger Daughter of Henry Mcen, and Cicely his Wife) to be 
 the greater Comfort of Elizabeth, John, and Susannah his Chil- 
 dren, who survived him. 
 
 A stone for, 
 Hanah Pain who died March 14, 1728. iEt. 73. 
 
 The windows were beautifully adorned witli the following arms, 
 inscriptions, and effigies,* several of which are broken, though there 
 are some remaining whole. 
 
 In the east window of the chapel, at the upper end of the isle, 
 were the effigies of its founder, and his three wives, viz. 
 
 Alice Grei/, who is buried in the chancel ; she hath the arms of 
 Grei/ of RtUhi/>i, with a crescent or for difference, quartering Grey, 
 counter-quartering / itlence, on her mantle. The whole window is 
 powdered with ragged staves mb. 
 
 The second is mantled with the arms of Buckingham, Stafford, 
 &e. being made for Joan, daughter of Iliimfii/ Stafford Duke of 
 Buckingham. 
 
 The third is for Joan, daughter of Thomas Courtney, relict of Sir 
 Roger Clifford; on her mantle are the arms of Courtciiet/ Clifford, 
 &e. all which, with Sir // illiani Kncxet, their husband, are buried in 
 the chancel; over their heads was this, 
 
 <©rate pro animabu^ UMlli: Iftnctict, mihti.si, 9Iific fflis '^obanniiS «?rcp, 
 et 5£»omine "^oljannc filie liiimfribi 5?ur:?" 2?uch.fi, ft 5?ominc 3,oi)anne 
 ;f>arori!n, ct uniu.ti l)crcDiim JDoinini »Cf)o: aXourtncp, nupcr Comitiji ©etoon: 
 "Elforum Dicti IDiUi. 
 
 ♦ Sir Henry St. George's MSS. A. 23, fol. 218.
 
 NEW-BUKENHAM. 
 
 403 
 
 The following arms are in the windows, 
 KNEVET. STAFFORD. 
 
 WINGFIF.Ln. 
 
 Jenney, erm. a bend giil. cotised or, an annulet for difference, 
 impaled with WiiDLEY, or Wederup. 
 
 Knevet, Caily, and Clifton quartered. 
 
 Grey, harry of six, arg. and az. in chief three torteaux, a crescent 
 or for difference. 
 
 Hastyngs quartering Valence. 
 
 Humphry Earl of .S7 o/To'v/. 
 
 BoiiUN Earl of 'Sorthampton. 
 
 The same, with this difference only, that there are tiuee uiulicls on 
 the bend. 
 
 Courtney, or, three torteaux. 
 
 Beau FORD Earl of 6o/ne;se/, and Bohun Earl of Northampton, 
 impaled. 
 
 Clifton. Albany. Fitz-Alan. 
 
 Ta TESHALE, chequy or and giil. a chief frw?. 
 
 Caily and Tateshale quartered. 
 
 ytrl, a chevron between three conies arg. 
 
 Parted per chevron gnl. and lozenge arg. and az. a dove volant in 
 chief, of the second. 
 
 Or, on a cross gw/. five escalops arg. 
 
 Or, a chevron gul, between three torteaux.
 
 404 NEW-BUKENHAM. 
 
 rWEDERUP, vert, an annulet arg. a chevron, crin. bc- 
 I tweeu three cups of ihe second. 
 O -I ■ A ■^ "^'^^ escalops on the cross, as before. 
 
 I Lozenge, az. and aig. on a chief gw/. two lions recom- 
 
 I batant arg. 
 
 LOr, a chevron gitl. between three torteaux. 
 
 In llie east window of the isle these arms remain, 
 
 Knevet quartering Cailv. 
 
 Grey quartering Hastyngs, counter-quartering Valence. 
 
 Holland, England and France quartered, in a bordure arg. quar- 
 tering the Earl ot' Northampton. 
 
 Wyngfield, mixed with Bohun and Stafford. 
 
 The fifth shield is ihe same as the first. 
 
 Courtney quartering |)er bend, az. and or, a lion rampant coun- 
 ter-changed, impaling France and England in a bordure, gobone arg. 
 and az. 
 
 Clifton quartering Albany. 
 
 Caily quartering! atesh ale. 
 
 On an altar tomb, on the north side of the church, in the yard. 
 
 Wade's arms and crest, a lion passant chained. 
 j^rg. 3 bucks heads erased az. 
 
 THOMAS WADE died Oct. 17, 1708, and Robert Wade his 
 
 Brother 7 Jan. 1708. 
 
 JOHN WADE, Gent, their Uncle died 23 July, 1721, aged 73 Years. 
 
 An altar tomb on the south side of the church for 
 
 MARY, Wife of Richard Crowe, Gent, who died 25 Aug. 1689, 
 
 aged 2C) Years. 
 RICHARD CROWE, Gent, died 12 Nov. 1717, aged 57 Years. 
 
 From the Register it appears, that in 1543, Henry Spilman and 
 jinne Thiirsdai/ were married t'ebr. 7. 1561, Francis Travers, Gent. 
 and E/iz. Clere, Nov. 4. 1565, Thomas, son and heir of Sir 27«o. 
 Knevet, baptized 2 1 Jan. 1568, John Knevet, Gent, baptized June2. 
 Joan Knevet buried the same day. 1568, Kalherine, wife of Sir Tho. 
 Knevet, buried June 22. 156y, Sir Tho. Knevet died Sept. 22. 1577, 
 19 Sept. Richard Stocka and /Inne hoodhousc. Gentlewoman, were 
 mairied according to the law in that case for ministers provided. 
 1583, Francis, the brewer at the Castle, buried 5 Ju/i/. 1586, 14 
 Mar. Thomas, son of Tho. Knevet, Esq. buried. 1587, 25 March, 
 John, son oi' Tho. Knevet, ^■^q. buried. 1594, Mart/ his daughter 
 baptized 9 Jiili/, FJizubclh liis tinughter buried ISiliay, 1594. 1595, 
 Sir Tho. Knevet, Ktit. buried 2() July. 1599, Robert, son of Tho. 
 Knevkf, Esq. buried 24 Dec. IfiOO, 'Theophilns, son oH John Kendall, 
 buried the 13 Dec. l\ illiam his son, baptized 1 Nov. Uy02, Anne his 
 daughter l605. 1608, June 5, Thomas Havers, and Katlicrine Kendal 
 married. I(i09, 24 Apr. Philip, son of Sir Fhil. Knyvet, baptized. 
 I6l0, IS June, Will. Knevet his son, baptized. 1610, IS June, Ka- 
 lherine, the Lady Knevet, was buried. 1011, 15 Sept, Dorothy,
 
 E C G L E S. 40j 
 
 daughter of Sir Philip Knevct, baptized. l6l2, 30 .^ug. Elit. daugli- 
 ter oi John Kendall, junior, baptized. I6l3, II Aug. Mr. C/emciit 
 Hume and Mrs. Mary Knevet married. I6l4, 2 June, Katlierine, 
 daugiiter of Sir Philip Knevet, baptized. 13 June, John, son oi John 
 Kendall, junior, baptized, lfJ15, Jan. 23, Robert, son of Sir Phil. 
 Knevet, Bart, baptized. 1615, Will, son of Sir Philip, buried, 
 16 y6, John his son baptized. 1623, 14 June, William, son o{ John 
 Kendall, jnaioi, baptized, 1635, John Kendall buried 17 July. 
 
 E C C L E S 
 
 1 s bounded on the east by Wilbij, on the west by Lerlin^ and Snit- 
 terton, on the north by Harpham, and on the south by Quidenham ; 
 it hath one manor only, to wliicii the advovvson of the rectory now is, 
 and always was, appendant. It is often called in French deeds, 
 about the time of Edicard III, L'Eglise, or the Church, which hath 
 induced me sometimes to think, that it took that name by way of 
 eminence, it being the Bishop's own church, and a place where most 
 of them, to the time of Henry VIII. often resided in their palace 
 here,' as appears from the great number of persons that were insti- 
 tuted at this place, and from the additional name of Eccles Episcopi, 
 or Bishop's Eccles, by which it was always distinguished from Eccles 
 by the Sea. 
 
 The manor was very extensive, including all this town, great part 
 of St. Andrew's parish in Bukenham,'' or all Ncw-Bul;enham, .'uid the 
 Hagh in Old-Bukenham, besides lands in most of the adjacent pa- 
 rishes.' It was held by Half Earl oi' Norfolk, in the Confessor's 
 time, and after, by Earl Kalf his son ; they jointly gave it to Egelmar, 
 or Ailmar, Bishop of Elniham, just before the Conquest,^ who held 
 it of them, as did Bishop Arfast, or Herefast, who removed his 
 see to Thetford ; he was succeeded by IVillium Galsagus,^ Bishop of 
 Thetford, who held it at the lime of the Conqueror's survey, not as 
 belonging to the original revenues of his bishoprick, but as part of 
 
 ' The palace is now quite ruinated ; nuit Radulfiis Comes filius ejus, postea 
 
 the motes, foundations, Sec. may be seen Ailmarus Episcopus de iitroque, postea 
 
 in the Low-Meadows, about a furlong Arf. Episcopus, modo tenet Willus. 
 
 or more S.E. of the clnircli. Epus. semper xii. vill. ct xi. bord. 
 
 * See Old-Bukenliaui, p. 369, and tunc v. scrv. modo ii. xx. acr. prati, 
 
 New-Bukcnhani, p. 395. silv. c. pore, semper ii. car. in dominio 
 
 ' The whole tithes of New-Bukcn- tunc v. car. honi. modo iiii. semper i. 
 
 ham, and of the lands called the Bishop's mol. modo iii. acr. et vii. pore, clxxx. 
 
 Hagli, or Hawe, in Old Bukenham, are Oves, tunc val. c. sol. modo Ix. totum 
 
 now paid to the rector of Eccles yearly, habet i. leug. in long, et iiii. quart, in 
 
 ' Terra Epi. Tcdfordensis, ad Epis- lato, et vii.^. de Gclto, banc terram ha. 
 
 copatum pertinensT.R.E. fol. 248, and buit A. Epus. in tempore utrorumque 
 
 149. [Terra tjusdem de fcudo.] et Hundret nescit quomodo, et nunquani 
 
 Scerpham Hundret. In Eccles tenet sui de episcopatu teste Hund, 
 
 Rad. Comes T,R.E. iiii. car. post tc- » Godwin de Prass. 481. 
 
 VOL. I. 3 F
 
 406 
 
 E C C L E S. 
 
 those revennes that his predecessors had been infeoffcd in by other 
 pioHS benefactors, as I take the title De Fendo in Domesdai/ to signify, 
 and not of his own fee or inheritance, as some interpret it; it had 
 then 2 carucates in demean, wood ' able to maintain 100 hogs, pas- 
 ture for 180 sheep, it was fallen from 5/. value to 3/. and was two 
 miles long, and one broad, and paid Id.geid. In the record called 
 Testa de Neii/, it appears it belonged to the Bishop, but they could 
 not tell whether it was part of his barony, or whether he held it in 
 free alms.* In the year 1200, King John, by his charter under seal, 
 dated at Gay tint on, 28 Nov. in the second year of bis reign, con- 
 firmed to John Grey, Chief Justice of England, and Bishop of Nor- 
 jiich,^ his great favourite, and to the church of the JIo/i/ Trinity at 
 Norwich, and to the succeeding bishops and monks serving God 
 there, all their lands, villages, churches, possessions, rents, tenements, 
 liberties, and ancient customs, whatsoever, which they had confirmed 
 and given them in the time of King Henry* his grandfather. King 
 Henry his father, and King Richard his brother; and also all the 
 charters, deeds, grants, and gifts of all his ancestors. And further- 
 more, at the request of the said Bishop, by this charter he granted 
 them throughout all their lands, sac and soc, toll, theam, infengen- 
 thcf, &c.^ with the liberty of not serving at hundred courts, sheriffs 
 turns, or any other courts out of their manors^ and that they and the 
 
 ' This innst be Biickenham Hawe. 
 
 - He held it in free alms of the gift of 
 the said Earl. 
 
 ^ Pope Alexander III. by bull dated 
 1176, among other things, confirmed to 
 John Bishop of Norwich, " Eccles cum 
 •' Soca," &c. 
 
 ♦ It seems Henry I. had seized part 
 of the possessions of the Bishoprick, for 
 in the Monasticon, fol. 410. I read 
 this, A° iioi, Hcrbertus fiindator Nor- 
 vic. catliedrai. dedit dictje ecclesix ma- 
 nerium et ecclesiam de Eccles quam 
 redemi a Rcge Henrico pro 60 libris. 
 
 s Dedimus et concessinuis et ad im- 
 pctrationem venerabilis patris nostri 
 Joliannis Secimdi, Korwic. Episcopi, 
 hac carta nostra confirmavimiis, quod 
 habeant per universas terras suas, soc, 
 sac, toll, theam, infengenthef, et utfen- 
 genthef, cum jiidicio ferri, aque, ignis, 
 et diielli, bene et in pace, libcre et quiete, 
 plenarie et honorifice, infra civitates, 
 burgos, villas, et extra, in terris, in 
 redditibus, advocationibiis ecclesiarum, 
 capellarum, servicijs hominuni, et rele- 
 ■yijs, in bosco et piano, in vijs et semitis, 
 introitibus et exitibus, in salinis,ct stag- 
 nis, et vivarijs, in aquis et molendinis, 
 in piscarijs, in moris et mariscis, in tiir- 
 barijs, et in omnibus alijs locis et rebus 
 ad tenementa sua pertinentibus. Sint 
 etiam prcdicti Episcopus, ct monachi et 
 eorum dominici ubiciinque sint, per to- 
 tam terram nostram, soliiti, liberi et 
 quieti, ab omnibus scottis, geldis, Dane- 
 geldis, hydagijs, carucagijs, auxilijs, 
 
 placitis, qiierelis, summonitionlbus de 
 sectis shirarum et hundredorum, de 
 auxilijs vicecomitum et prepositorum, 
 de miserccordi:s comitatus et hundredo- 
 rum, et de placitis eorum, de murdro et 
 gaywite et latrocinio, de operationibus 
 castellorum, domorum, valloriim, par- 
 corum, vivariorum, pontium, et fossa- 
 rum, et de fredwita, et hengwita, et de 
 warde-peny, et averd-peny, et them- 
 peny, et flemenswita, leirwita, blodwita 
 et flictwita, gritbrigge et frememfrithe 
 et forstall, ct hamsocne et herfare et 
 franc, pleg. Ita quod visas franci ple- 
 gij, fiat in curia eorum, coram serviente 
 nostro sine admixtione hominum alieni 
 homagij, ita quod si aliqux miserecordia 
 vel forisfactura, vel ahquod proficuum 
 inde pervenerint, ipsi illud accipiant ad 
 opus eorum, sint etiam ipsi, et dominici 
 burgenses eorum in terra sua residentes, 
 ubicunque liberi et quieti de thelonio, 
 pontageo, passagio, paagio, lestagio, 
 fallagio, cariagio, pannagio, stallagio, 
 summagio, et navig. et omni alia con- 
 suetudine per totam terram nostram, 
 preter civitatem London. Sint etiam 
 quieti ipsi, et dominici burgenses sui pre- 
 dict! de omnibus rebus suis, quas eme- 
 rint vel vendiderint, et per aquam aut 
 per terram deportari fecerint per totam 
 terram nostram, ct homines de doniinicis 
 suis sint quieti de omnibus qu. emerint 
 vel vendiderint ad piopriuni victum vel 
 vestitum suuni, salva libcitate civitatis 
 London. Concessinms etiam et confir- 
 niatnus eis, c^uod si aliquis hominum
 
 E C C L E S, 
 
 40? 
 
 tenants residing in their manors, should transact every thing among 
 themselves, at the views oi fmnkp ledge \n their manors; and that atl 
 manner ot" felons goods, and I'orfeitiues of the tenants and burgesses 
 residing on tiie Bishop's demeans, should be free from all toll, pont- 
 age, paage, lastage, stallage. Sec. throughout all England, for all 
 goods which they shall buy, sell, and carry by water or land, except 
 within the liberties of the city of London, with other large liberties 
 expressed in the said charter, all which were exemplified* under seal 
 the 7th oi Febr. oQih oi Elizabeth, 1393, at the request of 2'/(0/nai 
 and James Plowman, alias Cann, and Thomas Barnes, inhabitants of 
 Eccles, on the behalf, and for the use of, the tenants, townsmen, an4 
 inhabitants of the said town, who had enjoyed the same liberties from 
 the first grant to the present time.' In 1230, PValter Bishop of 
 Norwich had a charter for free-warren here, and in all other demeans 
 of his bishoprick.^ In 1286,' he had view of frankpledge, assize of 
 bread and ale, a ducking-stool, a gallows,' and wei/J] and from this 
 time the manor continued in the bishoprick, till 
 
 Bishop Nix^ unfortunately falling under a premunire, for which he 
 was by law to suffer perpetual imprisonment and loss of all his goods, 
 was forced to purchase his peace of King HenryWiW. by exchanging 
 the large estates (viz. 30 good manors and more) belonging to his 
 bishoprick, for the abbey and revenues of St. Bennet of the Hulme;^ 
 and that this agreement might remain firm for ever, the King pro- 
 cured that it should be settled by Act of Parliament,* that the Bishop 
 of Norzoich should be always Abbot of St. Bennet of Htdme, and 
 on the contrary, the Abbot of Hulme Bishop of Norwich; b3' which 
 exchange this manor came to the Crown, and there continued till 
 Nov. 12, 1559, when Queen Elizabeth granted the manor, advowson, 
 sheep's walk, and all other privileges thereto belonging, to Sir 
 Nicholas Bacon, Knt. Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal, and to his 
 heirs, to be held by him and them, in as full and ample.a manner, as 
 any of the ancient bishops held it, when it belonged to that see. 
 He conveyed it to Sir Nathaniel Bacon, Knight of the Bath, of 
 
 suoriim vitam vel membrum debeat 
 amittere, vel fugerit, et jiidicio stare 
 noluerit, vel aliquod delictum fecerit 
 pro quo, calalla sua debeat amitiere, 
 ipsa catalla predictorum sint Episcopi et 
 Monachorum. Prohibemus etiani, ne 
 de aliqua possessione sua, ponantur in 
 placitiim, nisi in presencia nostra vel 
 heredum nostroruni. Hijs Testibus, 
 \V. London, S. Bathon et Glaston. 
 Episcopis, S. Wellen, Archidiacono, 
 Galfrido filio Petri Comitis Essex, Sec. 
 
 Indorsed, The Liberties of Jlccles 
 Manor and Town. 
 
 This charter is inroUed in Chancery. 
 In Rotulis Cancellarie infra Turrim 
 London, de Recordo remanen. 
 
 * 1 he exemplification in the hands of 
 Mr. Lanham of Yaxley in Suffolk, who 
 owns an estate here. 
 
 ' Plita Libertat. Epi. Norwic. temp. 
 Joh, Epi. A°4i H. 3.R.3I. Episcopus 
 
 Norwic. respondit pro catallis B. de 
 Eccles. Plita. Coron. A°5i H. 3. rot3. 
 
 s Cart. 35 H. 3. N^ 2. The leet al- 
 ways belonged to tlie manor, and it has 
 free-warren, and so was neverappendant 
 to the hundred, for which reason the 
 lord of the hundred hath nothing to do 
 in this manor. 
 
 ' Plita Corone apud Norwic. 15 E. 
 fil. Hen. Rot. 510. in dorso. 
 
 ' They stood on the hill called Gal- 
 lowe-Hill, almost a mile N. W. of the 
 town. 
 
 ^ Atlas, p. 382. 
 
 5 The Bishop of Norwich is tlie only 
 Abbot in England, awd now sits in par- 
 liament by virtue of the barony of Huline 
 abbey, the barony formerly belonging 
 to the bishoprick being in the Crown. 
 N. B. Hulme was a mitred abbey, and as 
 such its abbots always sat in parliament. 
 
 ♦ A" Reg. 27. viz. 1535.
 
 408 E C C L E S. 
 
 Stiveki/, or Stid-ei/, in Norfolk, his youngest son, who kept court 
 here, trom about 1572 to 1J95;' he settled a moiety of it on Eliza- 
 beth, his second daughter and coheir, upon her marrying Sir Tho; 
 Knevet, junior, Knt. son of Sir Tho. Kneiet of Ashwc/Zthorp, Knl.; 
 and in l63I, this moiety was settled by Dame Elizabeth Knevet 
 aforesaid, on Mitriell, wife of Sir Charles Le-Grosse, Knt. of Crost- 
 weyt, and her heirs. Sir Roger Toii'nsheiid, Sir Robert Garvdi/, and 
 others, being then concerned as coheirs of the estate of Sir Nathaniel 
 Bacon, who had settled the other moiety on Sir Ozcen Smith in re- 
 mainder, after the death of Dorotki/, his second wife, eldest daughter 
 of Sir Arthur Hoplon, Knight of the Bath, at the coronation of King 
 James, son of Sir Ozccn Hoptoii, Knt. whicli Dorothif was relict of 
 William Smith of Burgh castle in Suffolk ; and thus it continued in 
 moieties for some time. 
 
 In lfj'2'2. Dame Dorothj Bacon, widow of Sir Nathaniel Bacon, 
 kept court here; in 1629, Charles Le-Grosse, and Thomas Smith held 
 a court. In 1638, Sir Thomas Hopton, Knt. and Arthur Hopton, Esq. 
 held their first court for one moiety, and the year following Sir Ralf 
 Hopton, Knt. held his first court for the same moiety. In 1640, 
 Alice Smith, widow, and Sir Charles Le-Grosse, Knt. held their first 
 court for the other moiety. In l642. Sir Charles Le-Gros, Knt. and 
 Fitz-Nunn Lambe, Esq. held their first court, the Hoptons having 
 sold their moiety (as I suppose) to the Lambs, who after became pos- 
 sessed of the whole, in whose family it continued till about 17 12, and 
 then Mr. Edmund Lamb sold it to Mr. William Green of Stafford, 
 whose son, William Green, Esq. became lord, but is lately dead, and 
 Mrs. Marij Green oi' Eccles, his widow, is now [1737] lady. 
 
 The Customs of this manor arc, that the fine is at the lord's will, 
 the tenants cannot waste their copyhold without license; the eldest 
 son is heir; there is no leetfee or common fine, and it gives no 
 dower. 
 
 The Commons belonging to this town are these, the Wroo, Rozese 
 Hill, the Great Fen, the Little Fen, South Moore, North Moor, JVest 
 Ling, or the further Heath, containing in all about 180 acres, on all 
 which the lord hath no right of commonage, but it solely belongs to 
 the tenants, who can common horses, cows, and all other cattle, and 
 cut and carry away furze at all times from Rouse Hill, and the fur- 
 ther Heath, and flags and turf from the fens,* 
 
 There is a hamlet called Overey, which had a church formerly, for 
 I meet with one Bartholomew, rector of Overey; but it never had any 
 institution, which makes me think it always belonged to Eccles, and 
 was served by that rector, because in the beginning oi Henry VIII. 
 Overey is said to belong to Eccles, as it now doth. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Mary. It hath a round tower and 
 three bells ; the nave is leaded, the chancel and north porch tiled ; 
 
 5 E Lib. Curia;: there are many alien- Plita. Tre. coram Justic.de Banco de 
 
 ations, fines, &c. which vested tlie nia- Term. Sci. Hilarij 2 W. et Mar. rot. 
 
 nor in several otlier persons, but tliey K50. pen. Dan. Lanham de Yaxley in 
 
 were trustees only. Com. Suff. 
 
 • Ex Exemplific. Irrotul. in Coia.
 
 E C C L E S. 40g 
 
 the south isle (which hath a roof distinct from the nave) is thatched. 
 It is a rectory in Norf'u/k archdeaconry and Rotkland deanery, valued 
 in the King's Books at 14/. per anii'uiii, and pays 1/. 8s. ptr aiiiiuia 
 tenths. It is altogether exempt from archidiaconal jurisdiction, and 
 so pays no procurations, and it being the Bishop's own scat, he always 
 excused the rector from payment of synodals, so that there are none 
 paid, except at the general visitations. It is a small village, haying 
 much decreased for some time, by the lord's purchasing many of the 
 cottages and small tenements. In l603, ithad 108 communicants, 
 and now [1737] it hath about 150 inhabitants; it paid 30x. a year to 
 the tenths, and is now assessed at 338/. 10s. to the land tax. There 
 is a rectory-house, which was built (according to report) by Bishop 
 Nix, whose arms, with the arms of the see, were in the windows, but 
 were lost when the house was burnt down a few years since, in Mr. 
 Birch's time, who rebuilt it; there is a convenient quantity of glebe 
 belonging to it. 
 
 In Bishop Nix's time, anno 1510, one Thomas, a priest of Norwich, 
 was burned at Erc/es: when he was in prison, he was by persuasion 
 led away from his former opinions, wherefore, when he went to be 
 burned, he would for penance be carried on sharp hurdles made of 
 thorns.' 
 
 This Bishop was certainly a greater bigot to Popery than could well 
 consist with his learning and station, for when he was very old, he 
 obstinately opposed the reformation then begun, and held seciet cor- 
 respondence with the court of Rome, though he had with a solemn 
 oath openly renounced the Pope's supremacy. But at last being 
 accused and convicted, he was imprisoned a long time in the Mar- 
 ihalsea, so that his own sufferings may in some measure clear him of 
 his vices, and argue his sincerity in his religion, though erroneous.' 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1301, kal. Jpril, Simon <h Eh/, sub-deacon. 
 
 1302, prid. non. Feh. Jl illioi/i cle Knapiton, priest, LL. D. the 
 Bishop united it to the archdeaconry o(Noraich, which Dr. Knapeton 
 then held. 
 
 1324, l6 kal. May, Sir Solomon de Sti-aff ham -Prior, sub-deacon. 
 1338, 18 Ma^, John de Lam, priest, changed Caston rectory with 
 Solomon. 
 
 1340, 12 Oct. Roger de Ilaselarton, priest, changed his vicarage of 
 Ailtsham for this, with John de Lcnn. 
 
 1341, 21 Sept. Robert de Brmteuyk, priest, changed his rectory of 
 Lameleye in York diocese, with Ilaselarton. 
 
 1349; 5 July, Simon Gi/zam of Ei/nford, chaplain. 
 
 1357, The Pope named a rector, and certified tlie Bishop of it. 
 
 \400, Jitli/ a, Tlio. Jhademere de Hos^ham, priest; the Bishop 
 wrote to the Dean of his own manors, to induct him according to 
 custom, the Archdeacon never inducting any one in the Bishop's 
 manors. 
 
 ' Atlas, 411. p. 341. belongs to Ecclcs by the S«a, 
 
 • Atlas, 3«j. I must observe, that and is misplaced here, 
 what is said of Ecclcs in the Atlas,
 
 410 ECCLES. 
 
 140\, 50 June, Niclio/as Lyom, priest, in exchange with Bradc- 
 viere, tor Ro/lesf)i/. 
 
 1405, 4 Febr. John Park, alias Iliiiidon, priest. 
 
 14'24, 9 Nov. Biirthotomeii He/aghe oi' Moruich, priest. 
 
 144tt, 5 Hepf. Mr. Stq)htii Hole, chaplain, collated by the Bishop 
 himself in liis manor-house at Gaj/tcood, who wrote to Mr. T<<ichulas 
 Derman, official of the jnrisdiclion of his manors, to induct him. 
 
 1473, .SO Dec. T/io. tlei/r, alias Johnson, priest. 
 
 1511, 10 March, George Maurr, LL.B on Heyrs death. 
 
 Robert IValden, rector, chaplain to the Bishop, 
 held it united to JVi/bi/. 
 
 1530, 3 June, Cuthtert Owers, domestick chaplain to the Bishop, 
 on IValden's death. 
 
 1542, Mr. Tho. Briggs, S. T. P. rector, buried here. 
 
 1551, Sir Robert Picto, tector, buried 4 Jan. 1564. 
 All the above were collated by the Bishops of Norwich. 
 
 1567, 30 Dec. Otwell fVi/twooil, clerk, who died ^pril 30, 1586, 
 and was buried here; he held If ilbj/ i\\so. Nicholas Bacon, Knt. 
 Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. 
 
 1586, 24 June, Tho. Baskam,A. B. buried her JeA. 2, 1638. Math. 
 Bacon, Esq. 
 
 1639, Ambrose Money e. 
 
 1671, 17 Aug. Roger Bankes, A. M. The King, by lapse. 
 
 1688, 31 Jan. Simo7i Baidero, A.M. on Bankes's death. Simon 
 BoLDERo, Gent. 
 
 1702, 22 Aug. Tho. Newson on Boldero's resignation. Edm. 
 Lam BE, Esq. 
 
 1705, 10 Aug. John Last, A. M. on Newson's cession. Ditto. He 
 had IVilbi/ also. 
 
 1720,23 June, John Birch, A.M. on Last's death. William 
 Green, Esq. 
 
 1721, 2 Nov. Will, Rushbrook, on B/rcA's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1723, 12 Oct. Samuel Birch, A. M. on Ruslibrook's resignation. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1733, The Rev. ISIr. John Hull, the present [1737] rector, holds 
 it united to Quideuham. Ditto. 
 
 The south isle of the church seems a later building than the nave, 
 and was formerly appropriated to the Bishop's palace, but now be- 
 longs to the parish ; the altar in it, in all probability, was dedicated 
 to St. Nicholas the Bishop, his effigies being formerly painted on 
 the walls. In the north chancel window was a picture of St. German, 
 another of St. Anthony, and another of St. Beniiet, and this under 
 them, 
 
 ^Sflnctusi 45ermnnui». 
 
 2?eatc antoni, ora pro nofai^. 
 
 iSancte 23cneDictc, oca pro nofai^, 
 
 And the arms of Edward the Confessor, and Clifton and Tateshale, 
 in the first half of the escutcheon, impaling Howard, but most of 
 them are now lost. 
 
 On the north side of tlie chancel is a mural 'monument of white
 
 ECCLES. . 411 
 
 marble, exact in all things as that at p. 1 10, except the arms and 
 crest of Birch, and this inscription. 
 
 SAMUEL BIRCH, A. M. 
 
 Harbornise in Agro Staflbrdiensi natus, Oxoniae, in Colleglo 
 Pembr: Educatus, Hujus Ecclesiaeper Noveni fere Annos, Pastor 
 di"-nissimus, Vir vere Ileverendus, el doctus, et pius, et admo- 
 dum Justus, hie beatam expectans Resurrectionem, placide m 
 Dotnino obdormit, obijt duodecimo die Decembris, Anno Re- 
 demptionis humane, iVsS" iEtatis suae 32^ 
 Posuit, Maria, Uxor Gulielmi Green Armigeri, Soror amantissima. 
 
 William Green, Esq. eldest son and heir of William Green, Esq. 
 deceased, (who is buried in the chancel,) hath a seat here, [1737] and 
 is lord and patron, after the decease of Mrs. 3Iari/ Green his mother, 
 who holds it in jointure : his arms are, per pale, guL and az. a. chevron 
 betv/een three bucks passant or. 
 
 From the old Register, which begins 20 Jan. 30 Hen.Vlll. 1538. 
 1543, Jgnes, daughter of Mr. George Briggs of Saul, died. 154-, 
 Edward Nobs and Richard Pollard died at Norzeich in the time of 
 the insurrection. (They were killed in Kelt's rebellion.) 1580, Do- 
 rothu, daughter of Paul Gooch, and Rose his wife, was baptized. 
 1593, Tho. Wade of New-Bukenham, and Fortmia Chambers were 
 married. l600, Jan. 27, Math. Baron, Gent, buried. l601, Paul 
 Gooch, Gent, buried. l60G, George Rogers, rector of Bridgham, 
 and Elizabeth, relict oi James Leaver of Snitterton, clerk, were mar- 
 ried April 23. 16I2, Isaac Bentley, clerk, curate of Old-Bukenham, 
 and Elizabeth Barker of the same, were married 23 Aug. lG26, 
 Michael Robinson of Norwich, Gent, and Dorothy Colby of Banham 
 married.
 
 [41(2] 
 
 H A R P H A M. 
 
 1 u I s town never had but one manor, of which Vlf, a freeman, was 
 lord in the time of the Confessor, when it was valued at 'iO*.; at the 
 Conquest it was given to R. dc Bel/oJ'ago (or Beaiifo) who gave it to 
 Catiriticus, who held it of him at the survey, when it had 3 carucates 
 of lanil in demean, worth 30s. and was a mile long, and a mile broad, 
 and paid (id. ob. \q. Danegdd? The descendants of this Cauriiinis 
 assumed to themselves the sirname of Ihrktham, Ilairham, Harg/iam, 
 or Iliiipliam, tor their name, as well as that of the town, was often- 
 tin»es spelled different, according to the age it was wrote in. I'his 
 family soon became very numerous, for in Henry the First's time 
 there were three several branches of it in good repute ; but I shall 
 only take notice of the eldest family, which all along held the manor; 
 and the oldest that I meet with is William de Ileikeham,' whose son, 
 Tho dc Hanham, succeeded him ; Hoiry de Harcham, his son, sealed 
 with a lion sahant, as did Thomas dc Harcham^ his son, whose son, 
 milium de Harcham, was lord in 1249, and convoyed the manors 
 and advowsons of ISzaiutone and Hariigluim to Thomas his son for life, 
 in 1279; and afterwards the said IVitliam granted it to Sir JVarine,'' 
 sou of Thomas de Hereford, or Herforth of 5'a'o«f/;o«f , and his heirs. 
 Sir Joh)i de Eschalers, Knt. and others being witnesses; and imme- 
 diately after, the said If aiiiie gave this and Szcaiitone manors and 
 ikdvowsons to Henri/ de Herford, his brother, for life, on condition 
 that he should perform all the services due to the lords of the fees, 
 during the time he enjoyed them, and in particular the castle-ward 
 due for the fee of Hockeritig. This deed is dated at Gresseiihall, on 
 the kalends of October, 1279. This iif///;y, before 1313, conveyed 
 the advowson to John de Herford, of Srcanton-Marshall, (now called 
 Swanlon-Morlei/,) his brother, who presented Adam de Herford, 
 another brother, after which it was reconveyed to him again, and 
 settled on Mabell his mother, then wife of Tho. de Laienham, for her 
 life, and they presented in 13o0. In 1345,* aOth Edtcard III. the 
 
 5 Hund. Scerepliam. Terra R. de Garinus de eo. ii. acr prati tunc. i. car. 
 
 Bellofago. (fol. 211.) In Herkeham post dim. modo ii. bov. val. xx.</. de 
 
 tenet Caiirincusiii. car. terre, que tenuit liis Iwbiiit suns antecessor commendat. 
 
 Ulf, un lib. homo. T.R.E. tunc et post tantum T.R.E. ct Eudo eos tenuit. Soca 
 
 ii. villani. modo i. semp. ii. bord. tunc in Biichecham. 
 
 et post ii. ser. xii. acr. prali, tunc i. car. ' In 1184, Sir Robert de Harpliam 
 
 post ii. bov. m^ i. car. et dim. tunc ii. was elected Abbot of St. Mary's at 
 
 car. honi. post i. modo i. et dim. et x. York, and died 13 kalends of May, 
 
 soc. viii. acr. terre. semper ii. rune. 1189. Dur;. Mon. tom. i. 
 
 modo ii. vac. timcvi. pore. m° iii. tunc ^ This Thomas held it of Aliva Le- 
 
 xliiii. oves m" xxviii. tunc val. xx.j. Marshall, I's of her barony of Rhye, at 
 
 modo XXX. totum habet dim. leug. in one tee, and it was ever after held of the 
 
 longo, et dim. m lato, et vi. den. et i. owners of that barony, as the Morleys, 
 
 obol. et i. terding, de Gelto. (Fo. 304.) &c. Te'ita de Nevil. 
 
 Terra Radulfi. Scerepham luind. In ^ He had a manor in Badburgham in 
 
 Hcrcham tenet Radulfus de Bellafago, Cambridgeshire, 
 
 ii. liberos hoics, de xx. acr. quos tenet * Dugh. Mon. torn. i. fol. ^^.
 
 HARPHAM. 
 
 413 
 
 said Thomas settled all his manors of Swtiningtoti, Badbiir^Jiam (now 
 Bitbriirn) in Camhriclges/iirc, and Hargham, with the aclvowson of 
 Hargliaiii, after his nioUiei's dcatii, on Aland (k Lancaster Cuuntess 
 of Ulster,^ !\ic/io/as (icnioii, John Cas/e/ei/n, her trustees, and John, 
 son of IVarinc dc Hcrford, and Mabc/l liis wife, who was brother and 
 heir to Henri/, released their ri!>ht, so that the fee became vested in 
 Maud de Lancaster, relict of lii/l. de Jhirgh Earl of Ulster, wlio ob- 
 tained leave of )s.\n^ Edimrd \\\. at the intercession of/iewn/Earl 
 of Lancaster, her brother, to found a chantry, of a master anil four 
 chaplains, in the chapel of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, 
 in the priory church belonging to the nuns at Cainpessc in Suffolk, to 
 tile laud and honour of God, and the Holy Virgin, for the souls of 
 IViUiam de Burgh, formerly Earl of Ulster, her first husband, and of 
 Ralph de Uff'ord, her second husband, who is buried in the said 
 chapel, and of Elizabeth de Burgh and Maud de Ufford, her daugh- 
 ters, and also for her own soul, and those of John de Ufford and 
 Thomas de Hereford, or He/ford, Knts. then living, that is, for their 
 welfare when alive, and their souls when dead ; and in order to 
 endow it, the King granted license to the prioress and nuns of Cam- 
 pesse^ to receive and hold in mortmain the advowsons of the churches 
 of Burgh in Suffdic and Hargham in Norfolk, of the gift of the said 
 Countess, and to assign them to the cu%tos of the said chantry for 
 ever, with license to api)ropriate them to the custos and chaplains for 
 ever, for their maintenance.' But, about \335, she obtained a con- 
 firmation under the broad seal, of certain letters patent, under the 
 seals of li illiam Bishop of Norwich, of the prioress of Campsej/e, and 
 chaplains of Brusci/erd chantry, in which it was declared, that the 
 religious lady, Maud de Lancaster, then nun of the collegiate church 
 of Campessc, and late Countess of Ulster, having founded the said 
 chaplains, to reside in Ashe, and serve in the priory church at Cam- 
 pessc,^ which was too great a distance, they all agreed to remove the 
 chantry to Brusijerd, to the manor-house called Riddiallc.wheK the 
 chaplains did, and do now, d\yell ; and whereas it was certified by 
 Lionel Duke of Clarence and Earl of Ulster, that the chaplains went 
 in secular habits, neglected their office, and wasted the revenues of 
 ihe chantry, they all gave him leave to appropriate all the revenues 
 of the chantry to sustain an abbess, and other religious women, of the 
 order of St. Clare, in llokchall, in Brmi/erd aforesaid, and to erect 
 an abbey, and endow it with whatever belonged to the chantry ; upon 
 which the abbey was erected, and this advowson transferred to the 
 abbess, who presented to the Dissolution. And in lo7fi, the King 
 licensed Sir William de U ychingham, Knt. Sir Nicholas Gernon, Knt. 
 and Roger IVolferston, to give the manor of Uargham, which was 
 then held of the Lord II illiam Morlei/, as of his manor of Hockering, 
 atone fee, as parcel of his barony oi Rhi/e, and the capital messuage. 
 
 5 Robert de Morley, Marshal of Ire- 
 land, supenour lord of the fee, licensed 
 the Countess to amortise the advowson 
 to the nuns of Cainpesse. 
 
 '■ Sir Tho. de Hereford, Knt. Thomas 
 de Lavenham, and Mabell h s wife, tlie 
 Countess of Ulster, and Sir William de 
 
 VOL. I, 
 
 Wicliingham, Nicholas de Gernon, Ro- 
 ger de Wolferton, and John Castelyn, 
 her trustees, released their rights to tlie 
 prioress. 
 
 ' But the Bishops would never con- 
 sent to the appropriation. 
 
 ' Atlas, 2S5, 2S7. 
 
 3G
 
 414 HARPHAM. 
 
 160 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, and 20s. 
 rent, in North and South Ktppes, Cromere, Thorp, and Gimiiigham, 
 to Emine Beaiahamp, then abbess of Brusi/erd, and her successours 
 for ever ; and If illiam dc Morley, Marshal of Ireland, released the 
 services and fealty due from that fee, to the abbess; and from this 
 time the manor and advowson belonged to that ai)bey till its dissolu- 
 tion, and was then granted, in 1338, by the King, together with the 
 advowson, and all other lands belonging to the abbey lying in Hargham, 
 or Harpham,^ to 
 
 Nicholas Hare, and Kathf.kinf. his wife," and their heirs, to 
 be held in capite, at half a knight's fee ; and in 1539, Nicholas Hare 
 aforesaid, Esq. had license to sell the whole to John Green, and his 
 heirs, who h.id a great estate in IVilby, Snitterlon, Bauham, Attle- 
 burgh, Hargham, Ohi-Bukenham, and Keiminghull, who in 1548, 
 settled it by the King's license, on Tho. Green, his son, who in the 
 same year made a jointure of it to Frances his wife, who held it to 
 her death in 1580, and then it descended equally among their 
 daughters and coheirs ; Rose, then married to Paul Gooch, Gent, of 
 Bamham ; Prudence, to John Launce ; Susan, Elizabeth, and Tho~ 
 masine being single, and under age, were under the care of the Court 
 of Wards. In 1583, Paul Gouche, and Rose his wife, John Launce 
 of Halesxiorth, and Prudence his wife, William Brook of Eston in 
 Suffolk, and Susan his wife, Thomas Colby of Banham, Gent, and 
 Elizabeth his wife, and JVilliam Hunston oiU'alsokne in Norfolk, and 
 Thomasineh'xs wife, were possessed each of a fifth part, and Paul 
 Gooch hired the whole. In 1584, Tho. Colby had license to pur- 
 chase the fifth part of the manor and advowson of IVilliam Hunston, 
 and Thomasine his wife, and in the same year had license to sell two 
 fifth parts of the manor and advowson, to Francis Bolton, and John 
 Goldi/ngham of Banham, and the heirs of Bolton ; and in 1586, they 
 all joined, and conveyed the whole absolutely to Paul Gooch and his 
 heirs, who, in 1587, sold the whole to Henri/ Gurnay, Esq. who sold 
 it to Richard Hovell, junr. Esq. of Hillington, and he to Sir Ralph 
 Hare, Knt. who settled it in l620on Sir Tho. Covenlrye, Knt. upon 
 the marriage of his son with Sir Thomas's daughter, from which time 
 it hath passed in the Hares, as the following pedigree will demonstrate. 
 
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 others, aliened a messuage, 30 acres of to tlie Abbess of Bnisyerd. 
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 The Customs were these ; the eldest son was heir; the fines were 
 at the lord's will, and it gave no dower; the Icet belonged to the hun- 
 dred ; the leet fee \s. Ad.; but now there is neither /w^ nor tenants, the 
 whole being exehanged and manumised, or in the lord's own hands. 
 
 This reetory is valued in the King's Books at 4/. 4s. 9.(1. and being 
 sworn of the clear yearly value of 34/. U. Sd. it is discharged of first 
 fruits and tenths, though it pays yearly Is. Sd. synodals, and 3s. pro- 
 curations. It hath a rectory-house, and 30 acres, '2 roods, and an 
 halfofglebe.^ 
 
 In the lime oi Edward I. the rector had a house and 40 acres of 
 land, and the rectory was not taxed, and so paid no first fruits. 
 Domnd. Norwk. 
 
 It is a small village, the whole (except one farm) being purchased 
 by the lords, hath reduced it to 6 houses, and about 50 inhabitants, 
 though it had 55 communicants in 1(J03; it paid 30s. a year to the 
 tenths, and is now assessed at 230/. to the land tax. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to all the Saints, and it hath a nave, 
 cliancel, and south porch tiled, a square tower, and three bells. 
 
 At the entrance of the south door, on two small brass plates, 
 
 (j^ratc pro anima 3upetp^ (©all, cutUiS annne propicittut ©eu^. 
 <^iate pro anima Sijome iz>all,^ cuiu.ei anime propicictur @eu^. 
 
 There are stones by the north door for, 
 
 KOBERT STEWARD, who died Febr. 7, \67i,a7idBRlDGYTT, 
 who died in 106?. 
 
 On the bells, 
 
 1. ^fiancta Mana .JEtagOalcna ora pro nobiji. 
 c. ate .fllana ©ratia plena ST^ominu^ tecum. 
 3. ^anctc «£Dmon£ie ora pro nobi.b'. 
 
 On a black marble before the desk, 
 
 XXVIII'°. die Augusti, Anno Domini Mnccxxvm. obijt 
 Henricus Pitts Clerieus, Coll: Divi Johannis Evang: Can- 
 tabr: A. B. hujus Ecclesiie parochialis de Hardiam, per Ann. 
 XL. Rector, Ecclesiae de Uowdham per annos XVII Vicarius, 
 Vir in omni Doctrinie Genere Eruditus, omnibus Honestus, sic 
 vixit, sic mortuus est ; Hie, Lector, optimum habcs Exemplar, 
 Abi igitur, et tu fac Similiter. 
 
 *i() Sept. i68c! the lord and the rcc- there is nothing paid under 20/. value, 
 
 tor exchanged lands, the lord had 16 Fee for burial in the chancel 6s. %d. 
 
 acres and one rood, and the rector re- E Regro. Fee for an oiil-town person, 
 
 ceived for it 19 acres, 3 roods. ' The over and above the burial fee, 31. 4</. by 
 
 rector hath also two roods called Bell- custom. 
 
 Acre, besides the aforesaid glebe, for ' The Galles were a very ancient con- 
 
 which he is obliged to find the bell ropes, siderable family in this town; Robert 
 
 Mortuaries arc due in this parish, Galle was rector of West-Wrotham in 
 
 viz. every one that dies worth 30I. pays 1433. In 1485, Stephen Galle of Harg- 
 
 thc rector 31. ^d. if worth 30I. 6j. id. if ham, senior, was buried here, and thl$ 
 
 40/. 101. but it rises no higher, and 1 ho. Galle lived at that time.
 
 416 HARP II A M. 
 
 Tlierc were divers arms on tlio old roof of ilic chancel, (ull which 
 were defaced when the new roof was erected,) as 1 learn from a ma- 
 nuscript among Mr. Le 'Seve's Collections, viz. 
 
 Vere, Howakd,Verdon,Beai champ, St. George, Branch ; 
 and these; arg. a fessg///. hetwcen three birds «/6. three fusils in fess. 
 .'li<r. three lozenges g«/. a lion rampant urg. on a less gnl. three 
 plates. Jz. a cross ingrailed arg. Quarterly iirg. and gitl. in the 
 second and third quarters a frctte arg. over all a bend sah. Arg. two 
 bars az. Az. three cinquefoils arg. Gul. six roses 3, '2, 1, arg. 
 
 The following inscriptions are on black marbles in the chancel. 
 
 Hare, with a mullet, impales Geary, gul. two bars or, on each three 
 niascles az. on a canton a leopard's face. Crest, a demi-lion holding 
 a croslet fitchee. 
 
 Spe Resurrectionis, hie subtus jacet Nicholaus Hare Armiger, 
 e quinque Filijs Johannis Hare de Stow Bardolph, in agro Norff : 
 Militis, et Elizabethaa Filia? prima;, Thoma: Domini Coventrij, 
 Baronis de Allesborongh, Magni Sigiili Anglia; Custodis, Quar- 
 tus et Superstes, Katl)erinam Filiam, Gulielmi Geary de Bush- 
 mead, in Comitatu Bedforditc Armigcri primogenitam, Uxoreni 
 duxit, E qu^ Proiem Solam e Cunabulis superstitem, Radul- 
 phnm, hujus Marmoris Positorem, suscitavit, et post triginta 
 fere annos castse Viduitatis, Exuvias suas apud Hargliam, depo- 
 suit, XV. Novembris Anno Salulis MDCLXXXIX, iEtatis 
 suae LVII jam exeunte, Rarum Maritatis et paterni amoris 
 Exemplum. 
 
 Pius,justus, Prudens et eruditus, failixque expertus. 
 Quod bene vixit, qui bene latuit. 
 
 The arms and crest of Hare, as before, impaling Willis, per fess 
 tirg. and gul. three lions rampant counter-changed, in a bordure 
 ermine. 
 
 Hie requiescit in Domino, RADOLPHUS HARE Armiger, 
 NICHOLAI Patris et KATHERINyE Matris, Filius unicus et 
 Hacres, duxit in Uxorem ANNAM Domini JOHANNIS WIL- 
 LIS de Ditton in Agro Cantabrigiensi Baronetti, Filiam natii 
 niaximam, Cui sex Filij, totidemque Fiiias nati, octo superstites 
 sunt; Vir probus, pins, et doctus, Legibus Regni JNlunicipalibus 
 acurate peritus, proindeque clarissimo interiorisTempli Londi- 
 nensis Hospitio, in illustrem Assessorum Societateni merito 
 evectusest, Anno 1706, Cumqne Dei Opt : Max : Cultorem de- 
 votissimum Religionis reforuiatae in Ecclesia Anglicana, Pro- 
 pugnatorem strenuum, regia; Majestati, subditum fidelissimum, 
 serenissimis Principibus G'ULIELMO et MMUA ANNAQUE 
 rcgnantibus, Pacis Conservatorem vigilantissimum (eximia cum 
 Laude et Honore) dii sese praestitisset, incurabilis tandem Febris 
 Rabie, subito correptiis. Ex hac niisera in ajternam Vitam faeli- 
 citer emigravit, decimo sexto die ISovembris, anno YEtatis sua; 
 52° Redcmptiouis nostra; 170y. 
 
 In piam cujus Memoriam, ANNA dilectissima msestissimaque 
 Uxor et Rclicta, Monumentum hoc deposuit Ann : Dom : 1710.
 
 HARP HAM. 417 
 
 Hare's arms in a lozence. 
 
 ■o" 
 
 ALICIA HARE, Johannis Hare Militis, et Domina; Elizabe- 
 tliiE IJxoris, Filia Nutu ininima. Inter charissimuin Fratretn 
 Isicholaum et Nepoteiii Radulplium, liio jacet sepulta, Quae 
 dum vixit, Pictatis in Deum, Chaiitatis in Egenos, SexuS sui 
 extitit laudabile Exemplar, Nala apud Stow Bardolph, et ibidem 
 baptizata, 12 Septcmbris, 1637, et in bac Villa denata, 26 Aprilis 
 1713, iEtatis sua: 76, 
 
 Johannes I tr„ .„ 5 Nepos 
 et 'I'bomas 3 ' 1 Pronepos. 
 Fideles Executores, Hoc Monumentum pie posuerunt. 
 
 Hare's arms in a lozenge. 
 
 Catherine, fourth daughter of Ralph Hare of Hargham in 
 Norfolk, Esq; and Ann his wife, died Aug. CJ, 1722. aged 20 
 Years. 
 
 Hare and JflUis, impaled in a lozienge. 
 
 P. M. S. ANNiE, Vidua; et Reiictse, RADODPHI HARE 
 de Hargham Armigeri, Filia^ natu raaximae Domini JOHANNIS 
 AV^LLIS, de Ditton in Agro Cantabrigiensi Baronelti; eidem 
 RADOLPHO, per XVIH Annos desponsatro, quern Prole duo- 
 dena beavit, Tlioma, Maria, Anna, Susanna, Johanne, Radolpho, 
 Kicholao, Cathcrina, Margareta, Radolpho, Johanne, Eliza- 
 betha, Equibus Johannes, Radolphusque priores, ut et Nicholaus, 
 Catherina, et INIurgarela, Vita fundi sunt, Cateri septem su- 
 persunt. Quse ANNA, postquam Annos XIX Maritum super- 
 vixisset, tandem die XXV^ Septembris A. D. MDCCXXVIIP, 
 Animam Deo reddidit, Anno iEtatis suaj LVIl° currente. Stnpe 
 clara, Dolibus clarior, Pietate clarissima, Ueligionis pure Chris- 
 tianaj. Dogmata Verbis tueri, Pra;eepta Factis ornare, perita, 
 assueta. Fidelissima Conjux amantissimaque; Vidua, non ab- 
 scedens a Templo, diu noctuque Deum colens ; Parens indulgen- 
 tissima; Mater-familias prudentissima; omnibus benigna, prom- 
 deque deflenda. In cujus Memoriam ANNA, Filia mcEstissima, 
 Testamenti Executrix, hunc Lapidem P.F. A.D. MDCCXXX". 
 
 A black marble with Hare's crest and arms, hath this, 
 
 SuppositiE hie jacentTHOMiE HARE Armigeri, hujusPa- 
 rochia;, et Domini et Palroni, Vir Pius, et vere honestus, hmc 
 Morte subita abrcptus, Spe baud incerta, ad beatam Resurrec- 
 tionis Vitam. Cujus Memoriam hoc Monumento mandavit, 
 MARIA, Uxor Charissima, obijt vicesimo die Decembris An* 
 Dom Mdccxxxvi". iEtatis suae xlv°. 
 
 1581, Thomas Chapman, clerk, and Margery Mean, married. 
 1587, ^nt. son of Paul Gooch, Gent, and Rose his wife, bapt. 1592, 
 John Mouiiteforle, Cient. and Elizabeth Butler, Gentlewoman, mar- 
 ried. 1.M).'3, Edw. Green, Gent, buried. 1674, IMtert Steward, 
 Gent, buried. 1681, Hairy iVarner, Gent, buried. l660, collected 
 2s. '^d. lor the buiumg of I'akeuham in Norfolk. lG62, the burning
 
 418 HARPHAM. 
 
 of Beccles in Siifolk. 1682, Mrs. Catherine Warner paid for burial 
 of her husband la the chancel. 
 
 The plate belonging to this church is only a silver cup and cover. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1281, Sir Walter. Sir Henry de Herforth, patron. 
 
 1313, 9kal. Oct. Adam de Hcrfoid, accolite, was instituted to the 
 rectory o( Harpham, at the presentation of John de HeRFORD of 
 Sicanton-Mai shall and MABELLhis wife, true patrons. 
 
 13iO, 5 kal. Uct. Rulphde Mcndham, priest. Tho. de Lavenham, 
 and Mabell his wife. 
 
 1347, 23 Mai/, Pain de Sancio Claro,* chaplain. The Prioress 
 of Campesse. 
 
 1376, 25 July, John Kenjeg,' priest. The Abbess of the Blessed 
 Virgin Mart/ of Bunsytrd. 
 
 1418, 13 March, John Walk of Grundesbitrgk, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1450, 23 Oct. Sir Tho. Cropp, or Scroop, alias Bradley, on WaWs 
 death. Ditto. 
 
 1481, 30 Jaw. Will. Rycliardysson. Ditto. 
 
 1489, 19 May, Rob. Stele, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1498, 8 Mai/, John Dowe, on Stele's resignation. Margery 
 Calthorp, Abbess of Bnisyerd. 
 
 1505,29 j^pr. Sir John Browne, chaplain. The Abbess of Brusyerd. 
 
 1508, 10 Jan. Walter Grey, on Browne's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 151 1, 22 Oct. Richard Hilton, on Grey's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1522, 13 Jan. Tho. Nicholson, on Hilton's death. Ditto. 
 
 1539, 20 Sept. Robert Ferhande, chaplain, ou Nicholson's death. 
 John Green, Esq. 
 
 1542, 27 April, Sir Tho. Marshe, chaplain, on Farande's death. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1555, 15 Octob. Tho. Piersonne, on Marshe's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1556, 30 Sept. Gilbert Seaman, on Pierson's death. Tho. Green, 
 Gent. 
 
 1557, 23 Octob. Edward Jackson, priest, on Seawflw's resignation. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1580, 27 June, William Jones, Clerk. Paul Gooch, Gent, in 
 right of Rose his wife. 
 
 1583, 8 Jan. Roger Morris. Queen Elizabeth, by lapse. 
 
 1585, 2 Dec. John Gildensleve, on Morris's resignation. Paul 
 GoocH,Gent. 
 
 1587, 13 May, John Briggham, on Gildensleve's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1587, 9 Jttly, Tho. Bloode. Richard Marten, Gent. 
 
 1518, 9 Sept. Edward Rishigh, A.M. on Rhode's resignation. 
 Henry Gurney, E*q. ; he held it united to Thorp-Abbots. 
 
 l602, 5 July, Nic. llyselye, on Edw. Risley's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 I6l6, 30 Aug. Edward Smith, A.M. Sir Ralph Hare, Knt. 
 
 1647, 22 Dec. John Bcnn, A.M. on the promotion of Edward 
 Smith, Gregory Gawswell, Esq. 
 
 1652, Gerrard Harrison, rector. 
 
 1662, Samuel Leader. 
 
 ♦ He was buried here in 1375. Rcgr. ' In 1374, he was vicar of Rowdhanif 
 Hay don.
 
 SNETTERTON. 419 
 
 1666, 11 June, Henry Gill,'' A. B. on Leader's resignation. Ni- 
 cholas Hake, Esq. 
 
 1678, 2 July, Tho. BUford, A. B. on GilCs death. Ditto. 
 1681, 5 April, Henrif Prettie, A. B. ou Bliford's death. Ditto. 
 1689, 25 March, Henry Pitts, on Pretties resignation. Ditto; 
 
 he held Rowdham. rr. tt r tr 
 
 1729, 29 July, Francis Blomejield, cleric. Tho. Hare ot Hai-p- 
 ham, Esq. he held it united to Fersjield. 
 
 1730, The Rev. Mr. Jolni Hare, tlie present rector, on Blomefields 
 resignation. Tiio. Hare, of Harpham, Esq. his eldest brother. He 
 holds it united to IVilby. [1737.] 
 
 SNETTERTON. 
 
 Snetretuna, Snistertuna, Snisteeton, or Snetterton, 
 as it is now called, is a village lying between Harpham and Lerhng, 
 and had in it two parish churches, one dedicated to all the Saints, 
 and the other to St. Andrew the Apostle, which is now down, and the 
 ruins with difficulty found in the Hall-Yard, 
 
 The Church oi All-Saints, the present parish church, is a good 
 buildin"-, having its nave, north isle, north porch, south porch, and 
 chance? leaded, a square steeple, and four bells. In the nave, on a 
 small brass in a scat, 
 
 (©rate pro anima Cecilie 25oti5,inl;am, J^ilic 
 «0eorgti SSofipnljain, ct Itiargarjte 13l):oti^ s^uc. 
 
 Over the rood is a defaced painting of the last day, on the top is 
 cur Saviour sitting on the judgment-seat, saying to the blessed on 
 his rio-ht hand. Come ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom pre 
 pared for you; and to the cursed on his left, Dtpart pom me ye 
 cursed into everlasting f re. The windows contain the history ot the 
 Revelations, with the Apostles, each having a sentence ot the Creed 
 in a label from his mouth. 
 
 The east window of the north isle is filled with angels supportmg 
 
 these arms. , /■ ,, 
 
 MoRLF.v. GuL a saltire arg. impahng quarterly, hist, arg. a 
 
 lozenge gw/. second arg. a bend az. 
 
 MoRLEY, impaling quarterly De-la-pole and W yngfield. 
 
 Jrg. a lion rampant, or, crowned gul. impales Bokenham, t'JZ. 
 arg. a lion rampant gul. surmounted with a bendlet az. charged with 
 three bezants. 
 
 BoKENHAM single. 
 
 • He died at Wilby, ij F«br. 1636, and was buried in this chancel.
 
 420 SNETTERTON. 
 
 Qmrlerly, org;, and az. a bendletgobonneia6.and or, impaling arg, 
 a lion rampant or. 
 
 ^hg. a canton and two fosses giil. impales, I'air, sab. and o;-. 
 
 Other norlli isle windows have the iiistory of the creation, of 
 Christ's baptism, of St. Ckri&tnpher, &c. willi the legends in labels. 
 
 In the chancel, are many disrobed stones of the Bolunhams, on 
 George's stone these arms remain, viz, a lion rampant impaling Bo- 
 KENHAM, who quarters three roundels '2 and 1, on the first a croslct 
 nioline. 
 
 These two inscriptions are preserved in Mr. IVeaver, fol. 817. 
 
 Oratf pro {Inrnia Oeonjii i'^olicnljam ^rmigcri, Be .finiiitcrton, 
 f ilii £t I'^crcbi.si goljanni.s 23o(ifnf)am, qui obiit rn' Die ©ctobns, 
 anno 5?ni : JlH.ccccr.tnn. cmu^ ammc propricietur«««i 
 
 C>rntc pro anima '^obanni^ 2?Dhcnljam armigcn, nupcr Jrilti 
 i^ufloniti i'oliniijam Oc llclitrmfrilllarina, ncrnon ntpotiji ctl^cre- 
 Jii*i «r-DmiinDi 2?ohenljam Oc .^nister^ton, qui obtit iii. CiirJUcn 
 jiiia Octobri.^ anno 5^ni : jir€vC€>Jlirrrni" rt pro anmiabuj; annc 
 tt 5[ot)annc ^^-.j;; quorum anmiabusi -^^ >; 
 
 In the east chancel window, 
 ■'^»(>3.\a: miri: fiofaerti .tipnlman, tt amicor ^uor^^«*mccccU??# 
 
 In the north chancel window, the cup and wafer in a glory, with 
 Spilmans arms over it, and this underneath. 
 
 Biasistfr iiobcrtusi ^ftpjilman ronfitiit in Domino. 
 
 This llobert, in 1446, was instituted rector, at the presentation of 
 Edmund Boketdiam of Siietterton, Esq. ; and about 14o0, he new 
 glazed the chancel windows with beautiful painted glass, when the 
 church windows were glazed by the parishioners, and the north 
 isle windows by the lord. 
 
 This rectory is valued in the King's Books at 12/. 17s. If/, and pays 
 \1.5s. Qd. oh. yearly tenths. It hath a good rectory-house joining to 
 the south side of the churchyard, with a convenient glebe belonging 
 to it, of 60 acres.' 
 
 RECTORS OF ALL SAINTS. 
 
 1257, Mr. Tho. de Ingaldesthoi-p, rector.' Ralph de Bukenham, 
 patron. 
 
 1281, Mr. John, rector of J/l-Saints. 
 
 1311, 5 kal. Mar. The Bishop, in his manor of Gei/zcode, granted 
 the sequestration for six months to Robert de I'u/doitc, priest, who was 
 presented by Sir Hugh deBokknham, Knt. 
 
 1317, 3 non. Mar. John de Bokenham, accolite. Hugh de Bo- 
 ken ham, Knt. his brother. 
 
 • ' In 1267, Thomas de Ingaldesthorp, * He was afterwards Dean of St. Paul's 
 
 rector, purchased a messuage and 12 and Bishop of Rochester, died 1291. 
 
 acres of land, after the death of Ralph Godwin de Prss. 576. His hfe may 
 
 Corde, rector of St. Andrew's, and set- be seen in Mewcourt's Repertoriumf 
 
 tied it on his successours for ever. vol, i. fo. 38.
 
 SNETTERTON. 4Q1 
 
 1349, 4 July, John de Bokeiiham, shaveling. Alice, widow of Sir 
 Hugh Bokailiam, Knt. 
 
 1352, y Mui/, IValler de Elveden, professor of civil law, precento 
 of tlie churcli of Hereford, on the death oi' John de BoUeuham. Ditto. 
 
 I35i), (J 3Iai/, Nic'/w/as Bu/cciiham, c\crk. Ditto. 
 
 ]j(i2, 27 l^ov. Roger Dennay, or Diizemn/. Lapse. 
 
 1391, 20 June, Tho. de Bosevi/l, accoiitc. Julian, formerly wife 
 of Hugh de Bokenham. 
 
 1435, 4 June, the church of St. Andrew in Snetterton was conso- 
 lidated to the church of All-Saints there, at the request of Emund 
 Bukenham, tlien patron of both, and of Tho. de Bosvule, rector of 
 both. ^ 
 
 1446, 3 Octoh. Master Robert Spi/lman, priest, bachelor in the de- 
 crees, was instituted to Snetterton Olraque, at Bosvi/le's death, at the 
 presentation of Edmund de Bukenham, Esq. The 6th Sept. 
 1464, he was made master of St. Gregory's college in Sudburi/, on 
 the death of Hen. Sethyng, last master. 
 
 1467, 19 Jan. Master Jo/;« Newman, LL.D. on Sjyylman's death. 
 Edmund de Bukenham, Esq. 
 
 1492, 14 Oct. Thomas Dykys, priest. Lapse. 
 
 1449, 5 July, J falter Redmayne, priest, D. D. on Dykys' s resigna- 
 tiori. George Bukenham, Esq. 
 
 1504, 21 Dec. Jfilliam Throgmerton, LL.D. on Redman's resig- 
 nation. Ditto. 
 
 1530, Stephen Ga/le, clerk, buried here Dec. 3, 1556. Ditto. 
 
 1557, 5 March, Sir Edmund Bur rough, clerk, vicar of Runham, at 
 Galle's death, buried 27 Nov. 1578. Tho. Caeill, Esq. and Do- 
 rothy his wife. 
 
 1578, 9 Feb. John Weston, clerk. Nicholas Hare, Esq. of 
 Stow-Bardolph. 
 
 1582, 23 July, Edmund Riseley, clerk, on Westous death. Ditto. 
 
 1588, 8 Octob. Ralph Leaver, clerk, buried June 3, 1605. Ditto. 
 
 1605, 25 Octob. James Branthwayte, A. M. buried 10 Feb. 1632. 
 Sir Ralph Hare, Knt. 
 
 1633, 21 June, Edward Bcntky, clerk, buried 24 May, 1641. Sir 
 John Hare, Knt. 
 
 1641, Samuel Rogers. 
 
 1644, 1 May, Thomas Martin, clerk, buried IG59. Elizabeth, 
 relict of Sir John Hare. 
 
 1659, 10 Dec. Robert Scppens, clerk, resigned in I666, for Hing- 
 ham. John Hare, Esq. 
 
 1668, 12 Febr. JValpole Chamberleyn, A. B. on Seppen's resigna- 
 tion. John Hare of Sidestrond, second son of Sir John Hare. 
 
 1668, 2 Sept. Richard Neech, A. M, on Chambcrleyns cession. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1670, 15 Febr. Anthony Neech, A.B. on his brother's resignation; 
 he died Octob. 5, 1730, aged 84, as his graVe-stone in the altar rails 
 informs us." Ditto. 
 
 ' It also shews us that Thomasine, his wife, and died July 13, 1713 ; Eliza- 
 
 his fim wife, was daughter of John Os- beth, his second wife, was buried at 
 
 bourn of Norwich, Esq. and Thomasine Fersfield. Seep. no. 
 VOL, I. 3 H
 
 422 SNETTERTON. 
 
 1730, the Rev. Mr. Nichuk.iNfech, his son, is now [1737] rector, 
 and holds it united to .^hivp/tam vicarage. Tho. Hare of Ilarpkam, 
 Esq. 
 
 RECTORS OF ST. ANDREW'S. 
 
 1257, Sir WUUam Le Parker, rector. Ralph de Bukenham, 
 patron. 
 
 1281, Ralph Corde, rector. Sir Hugh Bukenham, Knt. 
 
 1308, 12 i<al. Apr. 'Nicholas de Freiigge, accolite. Ditto. 
 
 13 11, 4 id. Nov. Ralph de luildone, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1332, 4 non. January, Richard Gali/ou de Sandriiigham, acco- 
 lite. Hugh, son of Sir Hugh de Bukenham, Knt. 
 
 1349, 26 Oct. Edmund de Welholni, shaveling. Alice, relict of 
 Hugh de Bukenham.. 
 
 1358, 8 Nov. Henry de Etyndon, priest, on Welholni' s resignation. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1S82, 25 Sept. John Arteif!>, priest. Julian de Bokenham. 
 
 1394, 7 March, Henry Strok, priest. Joan, relict of Hugh Boken- 
 ham of Sneterton. 
 
 1398, 5 Aug. John Somerby, priest, on Strok's resignation. Joan 
 Bukenham, lady of Snetterton. 
 
 1399, ^^Apiil, Tho. Galle of Snetterton, accolite. Julian de 
 Bokenham. At his death in 1435, it was consolidated to All-Saints, 
 by Edmund Bukenham, Esq. patron of both, and Tho. Bosvile, rector 
 of both; and being thus joined, about the time of Henry VHI. the 
 church was pulled down. At the time of Norwich Domesday, Hugh 
 de Kywelsle, or Kinesle, was patron, and the rector had a house and 
 10 acres of land. This advowson was purchased by Sir Hugh de 
 Bokenham, father of Ralph, of Jeff'ery de Kinesle, son of Hugh de 
 Kynesly. 
 
 There were two Gilds in this town, the one called, the Fraternity 
 of the Holy Trinity, and the other of St. John; they had a gild hall 
 which stood on the other side of the road, against the end of the 
 chancel ; they were dissolved in the year 1548, and the hnll, and 4 
 acres of land thereto belonging, came to the Crown, and there con- 
 tinued till Queen Eliznbelh, by leiters patent dated 2G Jan. 15fi9, 
 granted it to Nicase Yetszcert, Esq. and Earth. Brokeshij, Gent, and 
 their heirs, to be held of her manor of East Greenuich, in free soc-. 
 cage, by fealty only, and not in capite, without any annual payment 
 whatever; and afterwards it was sold several times before the lord 
 purchased it, and pulled it down. 
 
 In 1528, the Prior of Bukenham was taxed at 5s. lOd. ob. for his 
 temporals in this town, which were divers small pieces of land given 
 Jlo their house by the Bokenh/ims. 
 
 It paid to the tenths 31. U)s. is now [1737] assessed to the King's 
 la.\- at 420/. and hath about 200 inhabitants. 
 
 Snetterton, in the Confessor's time, was two towns; the south 
 part of it, with All-Saint's church, was known by the proent name, 
 .but the north pait, with St. Andrew's chnrcii tlieieto belonging, was 
 Uien culled Esscbei, or Ashby, and contuiued tliat distiiicti^u al the
 
 SNETTERTON. 
 
 423 
 
 Conqueror's survey, and some time after.' Snetterton part was owned 
 hy Ailmin in the Confessor's time, and by Roger Bigot in llie Conque- 
 ror's, of whom Ralph, brother ot" Aikchi, then held it, the manor 
 being worth 20s.; the whole o{' Snetterton and Ashby was two miles 
 lone; and one broad, and paid Mid. \q. Danege/d. Ashby part wa? 
 hel^ by Earl Ralph in the Confessor's days, and by him forfeited to 
 the Crown, and the Conqueror committed it to Earl Goderic's care, 
 at which time it was of the same value as Snetterton, viz. 20s. a year.'' 
 These two parts afterwards became four manors. Old Hall, New 
 Hall, Can Hall, and Grimes, the Customs of all which are, that 
 the fines are at the lord's will, and the eldest son is heir; they have 
 no leet belonging to them, but it always did, as it now doth, belong 
 to the lord of the hundred, to whom they pay a leet fee of 25. 8d. 
 
 THE MANOR OF OLD HALL 
 
 Was prtrt o( Snetterton at the Conquest; A ilwin was lord of it in 
 the Confessor's time, and Ralph his brother held it at the survey, of 
 Roger Bigot, who infeoffed William de AlbauT/ in it, upon his marry- 
 ing his daughterilfai/f/,^of whom Richard de Snetterton, the descen- 
 dant of Ralph, held it;* he was succeeded by Hugh, (first sirnamed 
 Rufiis, or the Red,) and afterward de Bukenham,^ and sometimes 
 de Snitterton, his son, whose son William de Snitterton, alias de 
 Bnkt-nham, married one of the daughters and coheiresses of Sir Bene- 
 dict de Angerville, lord of IVest-Netcton^ West-Herling, and of Ker- 
 halle in Snetterton, all which came to the said William, and Nicholas 
 de Beaiifo, who married the other heiress; his son, Hugh de Boken- 
 ham, alias de Snitterton, and Will, de Beaufo, held half a fee here of 
 the Earl of A rundell, in the time of Henri/ III. He was succeeded 
 by Ralph de Bukenham,^ his son, who, in 1203, gave 14/. by his 
 guardian, Godfrey de Albany, to have his seventh part of the inheri- 
 tance of Goscelme de Lodnes,^ in right of his mother Alice, who was 
 
 ' Terra Rogeri Bigoti, Scerepham 
 Hund. (fol. ii6.) Snetretiina, tenuit 
 idem (sc. Ailiminiis) pro i. car. terre 
 et pro inanerio, et tenet Radulfiis frater 
 Herlvini, semper ii. vill. et iii. bord. et 
 i. serv. viii. acr. prati, semper i. car. in 
 diiio. et dim. car. Iiomin. tunc iii. acr, 
 111° vii. et ix. pore, tunc Ix. oves, iiiodo 
 clx. et xiiii. capr. et ii. vasa apiim, sem- 
 per val. XX. sol. et habet 1. leug. in 
 longo et dim. in lato, quicunqiie ibi 
 teneat, et w'u.d. et i. ferdingde Gelto. 
 
 (Fol. 301.) H.dcWanelunt, Rogerus 
 Bigot tenet in Snetretuna. lib. homo v. 
 acr. et iii. virg. et ii. bov. et val. xv'i.d. 
 de hoc, commend, tantum, soca in Bu- 
 cliam, Radultus tilius Herlvim tenet de 
 Rogero. 
 
 ^ Terre Regis quam Godricus scrvat. 
 (fol. 33.) Serpeliam hund, Essebei te- 
 nuit Radus. (Conies) T. R. E. i. car. 
 terre, semper ii. vill. et i. bor. tunc, 
 iiii. serv. post et m-" ii. ct iii. acr. prati 
 semper i. car. in diiio. ct ii. bov. lioiu. 
 
 semper vi. oves, semper valet xx. sol. 
 blancas. 
 
 2 See p. 370. 
 
 * It was always held at half a fee of 
 the Earl of Arundell. 
 
 5 Ho gave to All-Saints church heres 
 for the souls of his ancestors, self, and 
 successours, his liberty of faldage which 
 he had here, and in the adjacent towns, 
 to hold it freely in pure alms, of this 
 manor. 
 
 * He first assumed that name, because 
 it was the residence of the Albanys, of 
 wliom he held his estate. 
 
 * Newton juxta Bircham. 
 ' See p. 29S. 
 
 * It is said that he married Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Sir Peter Rosceline of Edg- 
 field, coheiress of Sir Thomas Rosceline, 
 her brother; in 1249, he was returned to 
 hold a knight's fee, and was not then 
 knighted, but was, soon after the certifi'- 
 cate.
 
 424 SNETTERTON. 
 
 daughter anil coheir o? Rnfph iJc Somoion, son of Ralph de Somer^ 
 ton, son of Hugh de Someiton and Susan his wife, sister and coi)eir of 
 Gosceline de Lodiies. This Ralph gave tlie tithe of the paiiiiage of 
 his wood in Bukeuham, and the advowson of IVest Iseicloii,'' to tlie 
 monks at Jfiinondham, and Hugh de Bcaufo released his right in it. 
 He left Hugh de Bukeuham, his eldest son and heir," who married 
 Margaret, daughter of JlLVfs Le-Parker, (Parcarius, or the Park- 
 keeper), brother of l\ illiam Le-Parker, rector of Eccles by the Sea, 
 who outlived iiim, and left Hugh de Bokenluim, alias Suitlerlon, his 
 son and heir, who, in the year IGyO, assigned to Margaret his mother 
 part of the mansion-houses at Siietlerton and Herfiug, the third turn 
 of Suettertuu J//-Saiuts, and the third parts oi' Suet teitoii and Her/iiig 
 manors. In I'J'l-i, upon his marriage, he settled his manors of Snel- 
 terton and II est-Her/iug, with the advowsons oi' AU-Saiuts, and St, 
 Andrew s, the advowsons of Stuston and Oek/e in SnJJ'u/k, and lands, 
 homages, Sec. in Stuston, Oekle, Hargham, Lerling, If hidenham, and 
 IVilbi/, on Sir John de Bokenham, parson of Snilterton, his- brother. 
 Sir lldmund de Buconsthorp, and Nicholas, son of Sir Gregory de 
 Castello, for the use of Alice his wife for life, and died in 1339, and 
 was buried here; she died before ]3(Jo, and the whole then came to 
 Hugh de Bukeuham, her eldest son, who married Julian, lieiress of Sir 
 John de Thelvetham, with whom he iiad the manor of Thelvelham, 
 I^ivermere , Sec. in Suffolk, and by will ordered to be buried by the 
 tombs of his ancestors in Snellcrton All-Saints, leaving Julian his 
 wife executri.x, and Sir John de Thelvetham supervisor, who, jointly 
 with Roger Dazcnei/, parson of All-Saints, II ill, de Rougham, and 
 others, trustees oi Hugh de Bokenham deceased, settled their manors 
 of Snittertoii, Carhall, and Ehhhall, with the advowsons, on the said 
 Julian for life. In 1385, she and her trustees settled them on Hugh 
 her son, on his marriage with Joan, daughter of Robert Aslijield, Lsq. 
 who died about 1S93 ; and in the year 1399, the trustees covenanted 
 to settle the manors on Hugh, and Joan daughter of Sir John Bruse, 
 and their heirs male, if they should be married on Thursdu)/ next 
 before the Purification of our Lad)', at Noruich, (as they were,) and 
 not otherwise, reserv ing. /«//aH's life in them, and that the said Hugh, 
 and John and John, his brothers," should release II est-Herling to 
 other uses, to the same trustees. 
 
 Thh Hugh was dead before 1425, for in that year Hugh,^ son of 
 this Sir Hugh, confirms to Joan, then wife oi'OliierGrosse, tlie manor 
 
 9 Rot. Pip. 5 Johis. son, conliniied ihesirnanicof Snitterton, 
 • William de Bukenham of Ketring- whose son, Sir Tho. dc Snyteiton, in 
 ham was his second son, and was lord 1307, impleaded Rob. de Keydon and 
 of tlingliam in 1285, and of Illington in others, for Denhani niajior in buff'uik ; 
 1304, and of Biikenham's manor in Old- and Peter de Bukenliani was the fifth, 
 Biikenham, which he tlien held at half whose son Rob. de Bokcniiam liad a nia- 
 afeeof the Abbot of Bury; (seep. 381;) nor in Cjarboldesham. bee p. 261. 
 he died in 1 31 1, at Old-hukenham, and ^ These two Johns were younger bro- 
 left Ralph, his eldest son, 24 years old thers to Hugh, and held Tottington and 
 and more, who paid ss, relief to the Wesl-Herling manors for their hves. 
 Abbot for his half fee, and 14^. every remainder to the said Hugh. 
 20 weeks to the guard of Norwich cas- ^ Said to be buried ai Great Liver- 
 tie. He did his homage to tlie Abbot ir.erc, undef an altar tonih, at the nortli 
 in 1315. John, the third son, wa^ lec- end of the coinnmiiion table, 
 tor here in 1317, and Miles, the fourtli
 
 SNETTERTON. 4-25 
 
 called Newhall in Snetterton, which he held in right of Joan during 
 her life, who had it settled on her by his fatiier at their marriage; this 
 Joan died before 14.'3.'j, and Kdntiiiid de Bukvnhaiii inherited; and in 
 that year settled his manors of OldhaUe, Neichalle, and Kcrhalle, 
 and the advovvsons of All-Saints and St. JndreK^s, See. to divers uses, 
 probably upon marrying Dioiiise his wife. He died at Norwich in 
 1479, without issue, and was buried in the chapel of our Lady in the 
 Fields there, and by will ordered, that his feoffees in Oldliall and 
 Kerhall manors should continue their estates till George, son of ,/o/m 
 Bokenliam, his cousin, was CI years old, who then was to be his heir, 
 he being son oi John Boicenham of Snilferlou and Livermere, Esq. 
 by Anne, daughter of Jo/in Jlopton of Yoxford, Esq. which John was 
 son of Hugh liokenhnm of Great Livrmeve, Esq by Emme, daughter 
 of Robert Scarke, which lliig/i was brother to Edniaml the testator, 
 and all along had Neicha/l manor of his father's gift; he died in 
 14G7, and was buried in St. Peter's church at Great Livermere, and 
 gave his manors of Li/iermere and Newton to Emma his wife, for 
 life, and the manor of Thelvetham to John his son, &c. who died, 
 seized of Thelvetham and Livermere in 1484, and was buried in All- 
 Saints c\\\\\c\\ here, by Anne Hopton his wife; he gave to Triniti/ 
 and St. John's Gilds in this church, 6s. 8d. each, and to Joan, his se- 
 cond wife, who survived him, all his household goods, leaving the 
 aforesaid George Bokcuham,* Esq. his son, who became lord of the 
 manors of Oldhall, Nezvhall, and Kerhalle,i\s heir to Edmund Boken- 
 liam, Esq. his kinsman, and Hugh his grandfiither; he first married 
 Christian, dinvj,hlev of William De-Grei/ of Merton in Norfolk, Esq. 
 who died in 1492, and lies buried in the middle isle of Merton church ; 
 and afterwards to ]\Lirgaret, daughter and heiress of Francis Heath 
 of IVorlington, by Mildenhall in Suffolk, Esq. by whom he had issue, 
 John Bokenhani, Esq. his second son, from whom the Thornhaiii 
 family descended, and Tho. Bokenliam of Great Livermere, Esq. his 
 eldest son and heir, who had Snetterton, Livermere, Sec. ; he mar- 
 ried Elizabeth, daughter of John Jenour of Great Danmow in Essex, 
 who had Livirmere, Snetterton, &,c. for her jointure; she remarried 
 to Richard Codi/uglon of Ixworth, who is buried in Great Livermere 
 church,^ and held these manors in her right, during her life. This 
 Thomas Bokenham died Dec. Q, 1535, seized of all these manors, 
 leaving John, his son and heir, then above one year old, and was 
 buried in the Temple church, with this mscription, 
 
 ♦ He died seized of these and Thel vet- Codington, now Nonesucli in Surrey, 
 ham, and BromhiU manors in Liver- and Eliz:ibetli liis wife, sometime wife 
 mere, 21 Sept. 1523, and Tho. his son of Thomas Bokenhani, of Great Liver- 
 and heir was then 13 yenrs old. mtre, Esq. which liad issue bv the said 
 
 5 Here lye buried the bodies of Rich. Thomas Bukcnham, Juhn and Morothy, 
 Codyngtoii, Esq. ntbt temporal lord of tlie said Kichird Codyngton died the 
 Ixworth,* wlio had it in exihangc tium 27th of May, 1^67, and the said Eliza- 
 King Henry Vlil. for the manor ol beth the 8tli of Sept. 1571. 
 
 • This means .Miice the Dis>"lii'ion, for the Blunds were temporal lords of. 
 Ixwunh before the luundatiou ui tlui luuiiastery.
 
 4S6 SNETTERTON. 
 
 l)ir iafct Sljoma.si •:?ohnnljam armigcr, filiu^ ct liarcs il?corcii 
 2?ohtinljam nuptr Dc .t)nit|)crton in t£mn: Borfolh armigcn, ct 
 .illnroarcttar Hi'ori.s" ciuji, irilia ct l^crcDi.^, jFranci.sci licatij ilrm: 
 qui quiocm Cljomae, obiit, if' £iic <5?cccmbri«i anno <Dni: i.33j, ct 
 3.° ftconi licgi.^ ii^cnrirt «jr»ctati, Siccsi.simo 4>fptimo, ruiu.s annua: 
 propinctut ©cu^ amen.* 
 
 John Bokenham of Sneliertoti, Esq. the last heir male of this fa- 
 mily, was born Aug. 29> 1534 ; he married Lucy, daughter of Clement 
 lieiohum of Barrow in SkJ'o/Ic, Knt. who, after his death, married again 
 to Irancis Stonard, Gent, and died Aug. 1, 1551, leaving the manors 
 of Oldliall, Neic/iall, and Carrhull in Sucflerfoii, and tiie advowson» 
 the manors of T/ielvetham and Livermere, and the advowsons, &c. to 
 
 Dorothy Bokenham, his only sister and heir, then 17 years old, 
 who married Tho. Carryll of Sussex, Esq. son of Hk John Carri/lf, 
 Knt. Attorney of the Duchy of Lancaster, and died June 7, 15tiO; 
 27(0. Caryll her husband died A'or. 21, 1563, leaving Sir John Car- 
 rill of fVaniham in Sussex, Knt. their son and heir, who, in 1577, had 
 livery of Oldhall, Newhall, Carrhall, and Livermere, Sec. to him and 
 his heirs; and in the year 1598, 20 NovJ he sold Suil/erlun to Ralph 
 Hare, Esq. brother and heir of that Nicholas who built Stoio manor- 
 house ; he settled it on liis ne])hew Ralph, afterwards Sir Ralph Hare, 
 Knt. who kept his first court 10 Jaii. 1604, and was father of Sir John 
 Hare of Sfozi.^ Bardolph, Knt. who, by his will dated 21 Dec. 1635, 
 gave the manors and estate here (after the death of Elizabeth his 
 wife, on whom it was settled for life) to John Hare, his second son, 
 who married .SW/«, daughter and coheir of John IVulpole of Broms- 
 thorp, Gent.* and enjoyed it to his death in 1 689,' and then left it to 
 John Hare, Gent, his son," who was afterwards Richmond Herald, 
 and a verj' ingenious antiquary: he died about 1720, without issue, 
 and left his estate to Mrs. Anne Hare, his sister, who kept her first 
 court in 1721, and died in 1724, leaving it to Catherine and Susan, 
 daughters of Philip, son of Edmund Bedingfield of Bromsthorp in 
 Norfolk, Gent, by Elizabeth Hare, her only sister; and they, in 
 1725, conveyed the manors, advowson, and estate, to Mr. Thomas 
 Goddard of Suetterton, the present [1737] lord, who held his first 
 comlFebr. 9, 1726. 
 
 PARISHES'S, OR GRYMES'S MANOR, 
 
 Was made up of several parts; one part was taken out of Kerhall 
 before 1195, when Robert Mortimer released it to John L' Estrange ; 
 another part was taken out of Netchall manor in Henri/ the Third's 
 time, the whole being then held by ILigh Doraunt of Suetterton, by 
 the twentieth part of a fee. In 1345, the heirs of Alan de Morlee 
 and his partners held it of Hugh Bokenham, v;ho held it of Jef^'crj/ 
 Kinewesdele, and he of John L' Estrange, and he of the King, and 
 Alan de Morlee formerly held it at 2s. relief; and now the heirs of 
 
 * Dug. Origin, fol. i8i. terset, alias Gatesend, where she died, 
 ' Coll. P. L.N. Marcli 6, 1683. 
 
 • Buried at Taterset 11 Dec. 1654. ' He sold Bromesthorp manor to his 
 ' He and his wife were buried at Ta- brotlier-in-law, Philip Bedingfield.
 
 SNETTERTON. 427 
 
 Hugh Durrani ; in 1350, Tho. Doraunt of Siiitterlon, chaplain, sold 
 it to Rklianl Paris of Hargham, and Margaret his wife, from whom it 
 took tiic name oi' Pnris/ies ; in 1401, 11 ill. Pari/s oi' Stiettcrlou was 
 lord ; it afterwards belonged to the Grimeses, and was sold by them 
 to the Dcbnii/s, wiio sold it to Mr. Robert Smith of Carleton-Rode, 
 wiio settled it on Tho. Smith, Gent, in lfJ21, and in 1(J22, Richard 
 Smith of Thetjhrd died,^ who held the manor ol' G n/nu's,ii[\as Parris, 
 alias Parishes, in Siiiltcrton, Rowdham, Eccles, llliugton, Hurling, 
 Larliiig, and Bridgham, of Sir Ralph. Hare, Knt. as of his manors 
 of 0/dhall, 'Sewhall, and Carhall in Siiiltvrlon, John Smith, his son 
 and heir, was 30 years old, whose son Robert succecfled him, and sold 
 the manor to Sir John Hare, who gave it by will to Thomas his 
 youngest son, in tail, w ho cut oft" the entail, and sold it to his brother 
 A'icAo/fls //«/•£ of //ar/j/ta/«, Esq. in whose family it still continues, 
 Hugh Hare, son of Thomas Hare of Harpham, Esq. being now [1737] 
 lord. 
 
 THE MANOR OF KERHALL 
 
 Was included in the Siietterfon part at the Conquest, and went with 
 Oldhall manor, till the feoffment of that in Richard dc Snctterton, 
 from which time it remained in the Albanys, who, in Henri/ the 
 First's time, infeoffed the Angerviles, with whose daughters and' heir- 
 esses it went equally to the Bolcenhams, lords of Oldhall, and the 
 lieaufoes,^ with whose heiress one moiety went to the Berdezcellcs, 
 and continued in that family till Sir IVill. Berdewelle, Knt. conveyed 
 his manor of Siielterton, which Margeri/, the wife of Sir John de 
 Tudcnliam, Knt. held for life, to Hugh Bokenham and his heirs, and 
 so it became joined to the manor of Oldhall,'^ with which it hath 
 passed ever since; and the said Hugh conveyed his manor of Wesl- 
 Jlerling to the said IVitliam, in exchange. 
 
 NEW HALL, OR ASHBY MANOR, 
 
 Belonged to the Crown till it was divided, and one part given to the 
 Bishop of Nortcich, who infeoffed it in the Rooses, to hold it of the 
 Bishop at a quarter of a fee, as parcel of his barony; and in 1345, 
 the heirs of Maud Roos held it ; the other part, with the advowson cf 
 St. Andritcs, belonged to the Bygods, who gave it to the Albanies, 
 wiio infeoffed Sir John Straunge, Knt. wiio infeoffed the Kersalls, 
 Ki/nesdeles, or Kinesles, and Jeffery de Kynewesdcle, son of Hugh 
 A /««■/<.', divided it into three or more parts ; the advowson and half 
 the manor he sold to Sir Hugh de BuLeuham, lather of Sir Ralf, 
 who joined it to Oldhall Another part became part of Paris's ma- 
 nor, and ;■. third part, called Ashby Closes, continued in the family 
 some time, but was after sold by Thomas le Hastelen of Ashby, and 
 Margaret his wife, in Idl*, to Ruberl de Stukes, clerk; this was pur- 
 chased by the Bokenhams in Henry the Eighth's time, and joined to 
 their manors; and he.ng held of the Bishop, was taken with the other 
 
 * He died seized of VVelholnie's ma- * The Bokeiiliams joined their moiety. 
 nor Ml Thraiidcstun. to Oldhall manor, a:> soun a it came to 
 
 ' bee p. 29;, 298. thero.
 
 428 
 
 LERLING. 
 
 revenues of his barony, and so became held of tlie Crown ; and in 
 1655, it paid a caslle-guaid rent of Is. <)d. a year to the King, that 
 being the old rent that the whole manor used to pay the Bishop, 
 towards the guard of Norwich castle, and was laid on this part at the 
 division of the manor. That part which always went by the name 
 of New Hall belonged lo the liooses, and was purchased by the 
 Bokenhams about 14'25, and joined to their other manors. 
 
 There was a family sir-named De Ashbt/, that lived and had a good 
 estate in Ashby in Snetteiton, in Edward the Third's time. 
 
 The Goiivile's had many lands, tenements, villeins, and services, 
 in this town, which belonged to their manor in Lerling. 
 
 There was also a part of Pakoihains manor in ^liropham, which 
 extended hither; and hath passed with that manor from the Con- 
 quest to this present time; it then contained 40 acres, and belonged 
 to Earl Hiigli,^ and now it is owned by the city oi' Norwich, as that 
 manor is, aad is ta.\ed at [)l. per annum. 
 
 LERLING, 
 
 J-iuRLiNC, LiRLiNG, and now Lerling, or Lerlingford, is so 
 called from its low situation on the river, upon the ford or biggest 
 passage that any where crosses it; it hath a well-known inn standing 
 by it; and the great post road from London to Norzcicli passing here. 
 Occasions this village to be more known by travellers than such 
 places usually are. At the time of the Confessor's survey, there were 
 two manors ; the least was then held by a freeman, and at the Con- 
 queror's time was given to JVi/liani Earl Warren, who infeoffed Hugh 
 in it, it being then of 30^. value :* the capital manor, both at the Con- 
 fessor's and Conqueror's survey, belonged to Ulketcll,^ and the soke 
 (or leet and supcrioiir jurisdiction) belonged at that time to Bukcnham 
 castle, to which this hundred was then appendant; it was always of 
 40s. value; the town was then a mile long, and a mile broad, and 
 the whole of every one's tenure paid 8f/. ob. geld; this was afterwards 
 called 
 
 ' Terra Hugonis Comitis, fol. 73. In 
 Snetretuna xl. acr. tre. teniiit idem 
 et i. bord. et dim. acr. prati tunc dim. 
 car. 
 
 ' Terre Willi, de Warenna, fol. 90. 
 Hand, de Scerepliam l.urlinga tenet 
 Hugo i. car. terre et dim. et fuit liberuta 
 pro una car. quani tcnuit lib. homo 
 T. R. E. semper ix. bord. et iii. lib. 
 holes, et xv. acr. terre et ii. bov. et i. 
 bord. semper ii. car. in dnio. et i. car. 
 hominuni et viii. acr. prati semper valet 
 XXX. sol. 
 
 ' Terre Ulchetelli, fol. 288. H. de 
 Scerphani, in Luringa ii. car. terre te. 
 nuit idem Ulclietell T.E.R. tunc et post 
 vi. vill. niodo iiii. semper i. bor. tunc 
 et ser. viii. acr. semper ii. car. in dnio. 
 tunc ii. car. horn, inodo i. modo i. mol. 
 et semper ii. liberi holes, xxvi. acr. 
 terre commend, tantum et soca in Bu- 
 cham Regis, semper i. car. et ii. acr. 
 prati semper val. xl. sol. totum habet 
 dim. leug. in longo, et dim. in lato, qui- 
 cunque ibi tcneat et vW.d, et i. ob. de 
 Gcltu.
 
 LERLING. 429 
 
 LERLING, OR GONVILE'S MANOR, 
 
 And went exactly as the capital manor of Rushworth, (which you may 
 see at p. 284,) from the time of IJlketdl, till 1470, and then it was 
 settled on Rushworth college, (as you may see at p. 287,) and from 
 that time it continued in the college to its dissolution, and was after 
 granted, as that was, to the Earl of Surra/, in 1541, and alienated in 
 1542, by the King's license, together with the advowson, to John 
 AUington of JVest/ei/ in Cnmhridgeshirc , I'-sq. second son of Sir Giles 
 Alyngton of Horseth in Cnmhridgeshirc, Knt. by Mary, daughter and 
 heiress of Richard Gardiner, Lord Mayor oi London, who settled it 
 on his viih Margaret , and their heirs. In } 563, Robert J Hi rig/ on, 
 his son and heir, was in possession, who, in 1570, sold it to Tho, 
 LoveU, Gent.* and his heirs, at which time it extended into Rozvd- 
 ham, Shropham, and lUiugton, and was held of the Crown by knight's 
 service, and formerly of the Lord Bardotph ; he was succeeded by 
 Sir Francis Lovell, Knt. who conveyed it to John Langworlh and 
 others, and they, to Robert Houghton of Shelton, Esq. who left it 
 mortgaged to William IVherezcood, Esq. who presented, with the 
 consent of Robert Houghton of Rnndrcorfh, Esq. his son and heir, 
 who was left a minor. In lf)82, Charles Houghton, Esq. was lord 
 and patron, who mortgaged it to Sir Edward Hungerford, and after 
 to Paul Jodrell; and, about 1723, it was conveyed to Richard Stur- 
 geon, Esq. and since that to Sir Edmund Bacon of Garboldesham, 
 Bart, who is the present [17.37] lord and patron. The leet belongs to 
 the hundred, to which this manor paid 2s. quitrent, and the town Is. 
 leet fee, per annum. The ancient site, or manor-house, stood in a 
 close by the church, the mote that surrounded it being still to be 
 seen. 
 
 The fines are at the lord's will, and the eldest son is heir, both in 
 this and Chalkhill manor. 
 
 THE MANOR OF WELHOLME'S, 
 
 Or Easthall, as it is sometimes called, was split out of Gonvile's 
 manor about the beginning of Henri/ the Third's time, in the 20th 
 year of whose reign, yldain de Methelond held it of JVilliam IVauncy, 
 who held it of the Bardolphs, and they of the Earl Warren, as of his 
 castle at Acre, by the foinlh part of a fee, it being part of those eight 
 fees that IVilliam de Wauncy and iiis tenants held of the said castle- 
 n\\3\5, Robert de Welholme was lord; in 1345, Lucia de Welholni 
 had it; in 1401, John Brusii/erd was lord ; and in 1439, Oliver Groos 
 of Slolei/, Esq. was possessed of two parts of it, which he gave to 
 John Groos of Irsted, his youngest son, who gave it his wife Marcraret 
 for life, aiid to tlie issue of her body, with remainder to S\v Henry 
 Heydon, Knt. In 1453, Oliver Groosc, Esq. gave a part to Cecily 
 his daughter; in 1491, Robert Grosse held the moiety of it, and John 
 was his son and heir. In 1532, .Inthony Gurnay, Esq. settled the 
 manor on John Tirrell, Esq. and others, and the same ^'car John 
 Heydon, Knt. and Catherine his wife, and Christopher Heydon, Knt. 
 settled it on Sir Tho. Jerniyn, Knt. and soon after it extinguished, the 
 
 ' See p. 323. 
 
 ▼ OL. I. 3 I
 
 4J0 LE II LING. 
 
 wliole being maiiuinisocl, am; tlic demeans ilividecl into many parcels, 
 most of wliicli still pay tlicir proportions to ti>c lord of the hundred, 
 for the suit fines wliieh were due from this manor to the hundred.' 
 
 DENEVERE, or CHALKIIILL iMANOR, 
 
 Was given by the Conqueror to the Earl Warren, who infeoffed Hii^h 
 in it, whose deseendants, the Bardolplis, held it at the third part ot a 
 tec ; they granted it to the Dciicicres, to be held of them ; (hbert de 
 DciiciL'rc is the first lord that I meet with of that nt\me, whose grand- 
 son Osbcrt had it, and after him, Richard owned it in 1218, who sold 
 the moiety of the advowson, which till then belonged to this manor, 
 to Sir Richard de Lcr/iiig; (see p. 285 ;) Halter de Deneterc was the 
 last of this family I find lord here ; from them it came to the Bnken- 
 hams, IVi/liain de liukenham of Kefcriiigliam was lord in 1304;' and 
 in 1313, John dcBukcnham, parson oi Itliugtou, settled it on Ralph 
 de Bukcnham and Elizabeth his wife, it being then held by Tho. 
 Suriggif oi Muuesle, in right of Julian his wife, widow of Ih(gh de 
 liukenham, who joined and conveyed it to Ralph; and in 1315, 
 Ralph de Bukenham was sole lord, and then it extended into Rowd- 
 ham, Illiiigton, &.c. ; and from this time it passed in the Bukenhams,^ 
 who sold off the demeans into divers hands,^ leaving the manor in 
 their heiress, who carried it to the Carrills, who sold it to the Hol- 
 lands ; and in 1598, John Holland of Worticell, Esq.* was seized of it, 
 lor in that year he bronght an action against Tho. Lovcll, Esq. and 
 other defendants,' in which he declared, that he was seized oi' Calk- 
 hill manor in Lerling, by virtue of which, he prescribed to have 
 common for 400 sheep, in a place caWcA the Plains of Larlingford, 
 and that they with their sheep did cat the grass there growing, so 
 that he could not enjoy his common in as ample a manner as before, 
 upon which he recovered ; and from this time the manor continued 
 in the Hollands, till Sir Jf illiam Holland sold it to Sir Edmund Bacon 
 of Garboldesham, Bart, the present [1737] lord. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1280, fVill. de Lerling, rector, and lord of Lerling and Elveden, (or 
 Elden^'m Suffolk,) had liberty of free-warren in his manors of Lir ling, 
 I'ouldon, Fagraie, ami Rushetcorth, in 1252, and in Nezeton in Cam- 
 briilgeshire, which was confirmed to IVilliam de Gonvile in 12SG, 
 
 1303, Edmund de Lerling, rector. 
 
 1318, 19 kal. Sept. Hugh de Resseicrth, or Rushzvorth, accolite. 
 Sir Nicholas de Gonvile, Knt. 
 
 1321, 4 id. 7«/y, Master John de Galo, clerk. Ditto. 
 
 1334, 4 non. Febr. John de Gonvile, junior, clerk. John DE 
 Gonvile, his brother. 
 
 ' Mr. Clark of Larling now owns tlie * See p. 344, for the Hollands pe- 
 
 inanor-house, called Easthall, and part digree. 
 
 of the demeans, as I am informed. * Co. 9. Rep. 695, Mary's case. 
 
 ' See p. 424, note '. '' He granted" Elveden to William, Ri- 
 
 ^ See p. 424. chard, and Robert, his sons, who con. 
 
 ^ The demeans were charged witli part veyed it to the Gonviles. This family 
 
 of the suit fines of the manor, which always sealed with a chief in a shield, 
 
 were paid to tlic hundred. but I know not the colours.
 
 LERLING. 431 
 
 1344, 14 July, John Gonvile, priest. John Le-Gonvile, priest, 
 patron. 
 
 1349, 18 Nov. William de Briston, priest. The master and fellows 
 of the college of St. John the fivaneelist at Rmliworth, by whom all 
 the following rectors were presentee! to their dissolution. 
 
 1374, 19 Febr. Peter Fiott do Jslie/c, priest. 
 
 1392, 1 Sept. Tho. Runhalv, priest. 
 
 1400, 3 Sept. Peter, son ol' li alter Ilorsheye of Bernham, priest. 
 
 1414, 5 Febr. Alexander Theli/k, jjriest, who was master of Rush- 
 worth, and obtained license that they might appropriate one rectory, 
 with cure of souls, to their college, with design to have this appro- 
 priated, it being of their own patronage ; but upon the Bishop's not 
 approving of it, it could not be done; however, he so far consented, 
 that the master might hold a cure with his mastership, upon which 
 he was instituted at the presentation of the fellows, as you may see 
 more at large, p. G88,'JSy. 
 
 1431, 26 Nov. Robert atle Fen, priest, on Thelyk'sAeaXh. 
 
 1433, 4 April, Robert Palmer, priest, on Fens resignation. 
 
 1436, 12 Oct. John Paj/n, priest, on Palmer's resignation. 
 
 1468, 24 Febr. Thomas Smule, priest. 
 
 1494, 28 2Vor. Richard Pun/, priest, on Smale's death. He held 
 it united to Shropham vicarage. 
 
 1501, 6 May, If illiam Pari/s.fch, on Pnrrys death. 
 
 1.H6, 8 May, Sir John Purpel, master of the college, on Parishe's 
 death, see p. 289. 
 
 1524, 10 Sept. JVilliam Ilcye, on Pi/;pe<'5 resignation, who had a 
 pension of 4/. per (/««/m«tluring life, settled upon him out of the rec- 
 tory, by the consent oi' Ilei/e,\vho was then instituted, and the Bishop. 
 lie was the last presented by th<; college. 
 
 1559,30 May, Richard Brumme/l, at Heyc's death. John Alyng- 
 TON, Esq. perpetual patron. 
 
 1580, 26 March, Richard Bromell. Queen Elizabeth, by l.ipse, 
 united to Illinglon. 
 
 1592, SO Deccw. Edmund Suckling, S. T. B. on Brotiiell's death. 
 Tho. Lovell, Esq. He held it with llcllesden rectory. 
 
 16O8, 4 March, Robert lyUlun, A.M. John Cotton, Knt. assig- 
 nee of Fea.n. Lovell, Knt. 
 
 1614, 16 July, Tho. Smith, A.M. Sir Francis Lovell, Knt. 
 Edmund Thompson, rector. 
 
 1673, 13 Sept. Tho. Morlci/, A.M. on Thompson's death. AVill. 
 Wherewood, Esq. on account of a mortgage made by Robert 
 Houghton of Shelton, Esq. deceased, and by the consent of the 
 guardians of Rob. Houghton of Randicorlh, his son and heir ; united 
 to Rockland All-Saints. 
 
 1679, i'2. May, BenJ. Culme, A.M. on Morley's death. Will. 
 Wherwood, Gent. 
 
 1682,7 June, Will. Warkehouse, A.M. on Culme's cession. Charles 
 Houghton, Esq. in full right; united to Shropham, A° 1684. 
 
 1722, 12 March, Tho. Sturgeon, at IVarkehousc's death. Paul 
 Jodrell, Esq. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. William Robinson, the present [1737] rector 
 was instituted on Sturgeon's de[)rivalion, at llie preseuLation of Sir 
 Edm. BAcoyi, of (iarboldcsh/tm, Bart, the present putrou.
 
 432 ROWDHAM. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Ethelbert, and is a rectory valued 
 at 10/. 2</. ob. in the King's Books, and pays l/. \q. yearly tenths, 
 and Vld. synodals; it hath a rectory-house and glebe belonging to it. 
 The Prior of Castle- Acre had two third garbs of the tithe corn of the 
 demean lands oi Denevere manor in this town, which were given to 
 that priory by Osbcrt de Dcnevere, lord thereof, who afterwards gave 
 them the land called Osberns Ihig/i, in Sipedeham (or Shipdam) in 
 exchange for the said tithes, and Osbeit dc Deuevere, liis grandson, 
 confirmed it, Jeffen/, the Dean of Fincham, IVilliam Tahbol, the 
 Dean's brother, Ralph, the chaplain of .-^cre, Gilbert de Denevere, 
 Eustace, the butler at Jcre, and others, beinij witnesses.' The Prior 
 of the Canons at Thetford had lands in this parish, which, in 1428, 
 were ta.xed at 10s. but of whose gift I do not find. In l(iO;5, there 
 were 92 communicants, and now tliere are about 22 dwelling-houses, 
 and 150 inhabitants. [1737.] It paid 58s. 4f/. to the tenths, and is 
 now assessed at 280/. 10s. to the land-tax. 
 
 The church and chancel are thatched, the tower is square, and 
 hath three bells, on which are these inscriptions, 
 
 1. .fiancta .Uliaria, ora pro nofaib", 
 
 2. iPac IRnrgarcta, nofai.si W muncra (tta. 
 
 3. €ocIcsti ilianna, tua prolciS no^ tibtt, anna. 
 
 There is a stone for THO. CATON, Gent, who died Nov. 28, 1712, 
 aged 37, on which are these arms. 
 
 Quarterly, and Fair on a bend, an annulet and crescent. 
 
 Another stone is laid over SARAH, wife of JOHN BRETT, 
 ■who died 25 Sept. l660. 
 
 And there are three stones in the chancel robbed of their brasses. 
 
 ROWDHAM. 
 
 Jrvt/DHAM, RuDEHAM, RooDHAM, or RowDHAM, takes its name 
 from a remarkable pooe or cross that stood in it, upon the great road 
 leading from Thetford to ISoncich ;" the remaining stones of it were 
 carried thence to Herliiig, about five or six years agone, by Mr. 
 fl right, who was then lord here. In the Confessor's survey it was 
 held by a freeman of He/old, at one carucate, but at the Conquest it 
 was divided into three parts ; besides 30 acres that belonged to the 
 manor of Bridghani ; the three first was in the Conqueror's hands,' 
 the second belonged to William Earl JVarren,' and these two consti- 
 
 ' Regr.Priorat. Castle-Acre, fol. 99.b. ' Terra Willi, de Warenna. (fol. 91.) 
 
 " See p. 213. In Rudham ii. liberi homines i. car. 
 
 5 TerraRegisinmanu Regis (fol. 33.) terre et iii. soc. et v. bord. et diniid. 
 
 Serpehani H. Rudham tenuit i. lib. hoin. acr. prati tunc. i. car. niodo ii. etval. x. 
 
 T.R.E. sub. Eroldo. i. car. terre etiiii. sol. soca tempore E. in Bucham Regis 
 
 viU. et ii. acr. prati semper i. car. in ct libcratum est tempore Rad. Comitis 
 
 dnio. semp. dim. car. homin. et xiiii. post, retiiuiit soca. 
 
 oves et tunc. val. xx. sol. post ct mode 
 
 X. sol. blanc.
 
 ROWDHAM. 433 
 
 uled the capital manor, called Rowdham JVestaker's. The third 
 was held by Ralph, o( Eiido the Server,'- and the whole soke or supe- 
 rioiir jurisdiction belonged to B«<7;e?///aOT castle, as part of the hundred, 
 Lisiiis, the old owner, (as I take him to be,) continuing his claim 
 at this time against Etido, who had got it from him by force, or by 
 the Conqueror's gift. This was afterwards called Trusbutt's or Nezc- 
 
 hall manor 
 
 ROWDHAM WESTAKER MANOR 
 
 Was all in the Earl Warren, the King having given him his part, but 
 was divided again ; and that part which was tne King's was held of 
 the Earl, by a family sirnanied from the town, till William, son of 
 Simon de Rozcdiwm, gave it to the Priory of West-Acre;^ the other 
 part, with theadvowson, came from the Earl Warren lo the Bardolphs, 
 and llien to the Ruseis or Rosets* and Lambert of Rosei gave his 
 whole land at Rudeham, which William his priest held of him there, 
 •with the consent of Wakheline, his son, and of William Earl Warren 
 and Surrey, the chief lord of the fee, of whom it was held by the 
 service of one knight's fee, to the priory of JVest-Acre; and the Earl 
 released to that house the service of that fee; and in 1345, the prior 
 had a quarter of a fee in Roudham, which formerly belonged to the 
 Munchemies after to Robert de Lyle, and was held of the King, as 
 Duke of Lancaster; and from this time the manor, impropriate rec- 
 tory, and the advowson of the vicarage belonged to the priory till its 
 dissolution, and fell to the Crown ; and in 1546 the King granted it 
 to Tko. Woodhouse,^ who the same year sold it to Francis Lovell, and 
 his heirs ; and from that time it hath passed with East-Herlin^, (see 
 p. 323,) with which it was sold to the Wrights, Mr. John Wright, 
 son of Thomas Wright, Esq. beingnow [1737] lord, impropriator, and 
 patron. 
 
 The Customs of both the manors are, that the eldest son is heir, 
 and the fines are at the lord's will. 
 
 The Leet belongs to the lord of the hundred, as it did at the time 
 of the Conquest. 
 
 TRUSBUTT'S, or NEWHALL MANOR, 
 
 Was in the family of the Crungethorps, Ciinghthorps, (or Crown- 
 thorps,) in the time of King Henri/ HI. when William de Cnnigethorp, 
 held it of Robert de Caston, of whose family it was purchased, and 
 Robert held it of Hugh Bardolph, of whose family the Castons had it ; 
 and Hugh held it at the third part of a fee of the Earl Warren, by 
 whom the Bardijlphs were infeoffed. This William divided it, and 
 William de Wirlingzcorth, and John de Roudham had one half, which 
 
 ^ Tcrre Eudonis Dapiferi. (fol. 236.) ^ Speed, 815. 
 
 InRudham ten. Radulphus viii. liberi * Regr. Custle-Acre. 
 
 hoies. i. car. tcrre et x. acr. ct i. acr. ^ Maneriiim, rcctoria, et advocatio 
 
 et i. virg. pr.iti semper ii. car. tunc. val. vicarie, tenentur de Rege per servicium 
 
 xl. sol. pobt et modo xxx. soc. in Bu- xx. partis teodi, et 26s. 4</. annual, red- 
 
 cham sed Lisius retinuit et Ealo simili- dit. nomine decime. 
 ter.
 
 434 llOWDHAM. 
 
 went to the TmshiUls, but was afterwards rejoined to Newhall. In 
 Eduard the Tliird's time, IVilliaw, son of Sir William de Crungc- 
 tliorp. Kill, and Katheritic his wife, daughter of Sir Edmund de 
 Sotcrlc, Knt. had ^ezc/ia/i manor setted on them, Edmund, parson 
 of Sottile, and Richard de Bein/iam being deforceanls in llie fine. 
 Tliis William was lord in 13K"); in lA^ljJoan, late wife oi' John 
 Essex, had a third part in dower, it belonging at that time to Richard 
 Essex; in 1439, William IJali/s iind Margeri/b'ts wife conve\'ed New- 
 hall and Trusbtitt's manors to John Windham, Esq.; in \5f>(), John 
 Hei/don, Knt. and Catherine his wife, and Christopher Jlei/dou, Knt. 
 conveyed it to Tho. Jermi/n, Knt.; it after belonged to the Earl of 
 Surrei/, who sold it to the Pains, whose daughter married Brian Hol- 
 land," and carried these manors to him ; and upon his attainder, the 
 manor was seized ; but it appearing to be settled on John Holland, 
 son of Brian, and heir of Catherine, he enjoyed it, and was lord in 
 1572, and so continued to 1583, and then sold it to Thomas Lovell 
 and his heirs, who joined it to the other manor, with wliich it now 
 remains; and that the title might be complete John Cotton, Esq. 
 and Philip Azcdeleif, Gent, the heirs of John Paine, Gent, brotlier 
 of the said Catherine, jomaA in the recovery. 
 
 In 141;), the master and brethren of Rushteorth college granted 
 to John, prior of the monks of the JIoli/ J irgin nlThelford, a yearly 
 rent of Gd. paid from the lands and tenements called Rothj/ng's in 
 Bretenham, and Bri/dgham's in RozcdhamJ 
 
 The Church here consisted of one isle only, and a chance], both 
 which were thatched, having a square tower standing on the south 
 side, which served both as a steeple and porch; it had two bells in 
 it till 1714, and then there was a faculty passed to sell one of them. 
 About two or three years since, as the workmen were repairing the 
 lead on the top of the tower, one of them blew the ashes carelessly 
 out of his pipe, which fell on the thatch, and not being seen in time, 
 burned the church and chancel, so tliat the walls only are standing, 
 in a ruinous condition, at this time. 
 
 There was only one inscription in the church, which was on a 
 brass plate, placed there in memory of John Bringloe, late of Rozcd- 
 ham, who died Aug. 14, l658. 
 
 I find in the registers at Norwich, that in 14G0, JVill. Pai/n of 
 Rowdham, Gentylman, vvas buried in the chancel ; Hen. Spelman, 
 Geat. Chiistiana his wife, and Will, his son were executors. In 1468, 
 Elizabeth, widow of Tho. Halle of RoKdham, was buried in the nave, 
 she gave her manor in South Lenn to John Shouldhani, Esq. and 
 Elizabeth his wife, daughter of the said Elizabeth, In 1.515, ^7//. 
 liammesburi/ of Rozcdham, Esq. was buried in the churcii, and gave 
 to Elizabeth his wife the wardship of John Pain her son, and Cathe- 
 rine Payne her daughter, which he lately bought of Thomas Clerk, 
 Prior of West-Acre, of whom' Netchall and Trusbutt's manor was then 
 held, Edmund Rookrcood, Esq. of East on was executor. 
 
 In l(il5, 26 persons were buried in this small parish, there were 
 five buried in one day. lGl7, Dec. [),. John Butler, clcik, and Elizabeth 
 daughter of Tho. Canham, (of this parish) Gent, were married. 
 
 This parish, in lOOJ, had 86 communicants, but the greatest part 
 
 * See p. 344, for Holland's pedigree. ' Regr. Thetford.
 
 R O W D H A M. 435 
 
 of it being purchased in, it is much wasted since that lime, though 
 there are now [1737] about 120 inhabitants. It paid ll. 14*. to the 
 tenths, and is vahied at 280/. \0s. to the hind ta.x. 
 
 The rectory of the parish cliurch of St. Atidrew in Rowdham was 
 appropriated to the priory at Wesl-Acre, and the priors of that mo- 
 nastery were patrons of the vicarage to the Dissolution. It was 
 valued at 4/. l(Js. 5d. ob. in the King's Books; but being sworn of 
 the clear yearly value of S.")/. 2s. ob. it is discharged of first fruits and 
 tenths, but still pays Is. synodals, besides the archdeacon's procura- 
 tions. The Prior of JVest-.lcre was ta.xed at 10 marks, for the im- 
 propriate rectory, and the portion belonging to the Abbot of Bury, 
 which was appropriated to the hospital of our Blessed Saviouu there, 
 was taxed at 9.0s. Here was a gild dedicated to St. Andrew. 
 
 VICARS. 
 
 1313, 10 kal. June, Henry de Szcaffliam, priest. 
 
 1323, Walter de Horstede, priest. 
 
 1328, non. Nov. Thomas de Rudham, priest. 
 
 1349, 27 July, John Saunsale de Roudham, priest. 
 
 1361, 8 Sept. Thomas Le-Smith, priest. 
 
 1402, 11 Sept. Reginald Quylter de Castle- Acre, priest. 
 
 1410, 5 Oct. John Northgate de Swanton, priest, on Quylter s 
 resignation. 
 
 1423, Walter Southbury, priest. 
 
 1430, 9 Jan. Peter Benne, priest. 
 
 1466, 13 Nov. John Munke, on Benne's resignation. 
 
 1475, 18 Nov. Tho. Wright, on Munke's resignation. 
 
 1482, 23 Dec. Tho. Sygar, on Wright's deprivation. 
 
 1490, 4 March, brother Rich. Rolstonne, a canon of West- Acre, on 
 Sygar's resignation. 
 
 1504, 19 March, Sir Rob. Nezcman, on i?o/«<f)«'4- resignation. 
 All the above were presented by the Prior of Uest-Acre. 
 
 Rich. More, sometime vicar of Rowdham, was buried here Aug. 5, 
 1561. 
 
 John Bulk, was buried here 6 May 1589. 
 
 1589, 23 July, Stephen Angolde, A.B. on Bulk's deatli. Tho. 
 LovELt, Esq, 
 
 1600, 1 1 Aug. Will. Hill, on Angolde's death. Tho. Lovell, Knt. 
 He was buried here Nor. 22, lG40. 
 
 1640, 29 Nov. Henry Moysc, A. M. on Hill's death. Anne 
 AIoYSE, widow. 
 
 Henry Gill held it with Harpham, (see p. 419-) 
 
 1677, 24 Sept. John Starkey, A. M. on Gill's death. John 
 Lovell. 
 
 1699, 23 June, Thomas Lone. The King, by lapse. 
 
 1701, 3 March, Henry Pitts, John Lovell, Esq. united to 
 Harpham. 
 
 1729, Samuel Birch, A. M. on Pitts's death. Thos. Wright, Esq. 
 united to Ecctes. 
 
 1732, The Rev. Mr. John Verdon, the present vicar on Birch's 
 death, who holds it united to Hockham, and was presented by Tho. 
 Wright, Esq. who is since dead, and Mr. John WRiGHT,his eldest 
 son, is now patron.
 
 [436] 
 
 B RI DG H A M 
 
 Was so called from the bridge, which was the passage to Rond- 
 ham Cross, and was a remarkable and much frequented way for all 
 pilgrims that travelled from Suffolk, and other parts, to our Lady of 
 H'ahingham.^ This town was given by Ethehcold Bishop of IVin- 
 chester, and confirmed by Edivard the Confessor, to the monks of 
 -E/y/ in whose hands it continued till the erection of the see there, 
 and then it became part of the demeans of the bishoprick. In the 
 Confessor's and Conqueror's surveys it appears that it belonged to St. 
 jJtidri/, and was then two miles long, and three quarters of a mile 
 broad, and paid \<2d. geld;' that the priest (or rector) belonging to 
 the manor held land of 2s. per annum value, as belonging to liis 
 church, but could not sell it; there was also a .socman, that held half 
 a carucate of land, whom Roger Bigod claimed as one of his free- 
 men, but the abbot disseized him, and then held it; there were 30 
 acres in Bretenham, and 30 more in Rowd/iam, that belonged to this 
 manor. In 1229, there was an extent of this manor, in which it is 
 said, upon the oaths of the tenants then upon the jury, that this town 
 is in Shropkamforde hundred,* of which Rob. de Tateshale was lord;' 
 notwithstanding which, the Bishop had a gallows, pillory, view of 
 frankpledge, conusance of bushels, gallons, and other measures, and 
 liberty to hold plea of all things, which the sheriff might, with writ or 
 without. The advowson belonged to the Bishop, and is in the arch- 
 deaconry of 'Norfolk, and deanery oi' Rockland, but the nuns of Pott- 
 teverard in Normandij had a yearly pension of 10 marks out of this 
 church, by the gilt of Bishop Eustace ; the demeans are all particu- 
 larly abutted, and amount to about 400 acres, the whole being to be 
 ploughed with two ploughs, four oxen, and three scots, two carts, and 
 one pair of harrows being allowed to do the work ; and every acre is 
 valued at 8(/.; there were 3 acres of meadow, and 1 acres of pasture ; 
 the several heaths called Longhill, Suthfrith, Mikelehtil, Stapelfrith, 
 Ringemeskele, Walerdelefrith, containing 260 acres, were to be ted by 
 
 * Sec p. 213. et non poterat vendere ferram suam, et 
 
 » Dug. Moil, vol.i. i. soc. dim. car. terre et dim. car. et 
 
 ' Terre See. Adeldrede. (fol. 187.) val. ii. sol. istc fuit de libis. hominibus 
 
 Scerpham hund. Bruga tenet semper Rogeri Bigot, sed Abbas eiim deration. 
 
 Sea. A. iiii. car. terre semper xii. vill. avit et tenet. 
 
 tune X. bor. modoxvii. semper iiii. ler. ^ Regr. Ely, Bib. Cott. Claudius c. 
 
 iii. car. in dnio. iii. car. horn. iiii. acr. ii. fol. 12. fol. 248. et Regr. Ely, sive 
 
 prati, silv. xv. pore. ii. mol. ii. rune. v. Extent. Terrar. &c. in Bib. Coll. Caij. 
 
 animal, tunccc. oves, modo clxxx. xv. Cant. fol. 267. b. 
 
 pore, huic manerio pertinent xxx. aer. ' The lord of the hundred is lord pa- 
 
 in dnio. que sunt in Brelham, et xxx. raniount of this town, it not being ex- 
 
 acr. in Rudham, tunc val. vi. lib. modo ceplcd in tlie grant, yet the leet belongs 
 
 viii. totum habet i. leug. in long, et iiii. to the manor, though all the other liber- 
 
 quar. in lat. et xii.(/. de Gelto. huiema- ties centered in the Crown, not being 
 
 jierio i. acr. i. prcsbiter et val. ii. sol. rcgranted with tlie manor.
 
 B R I D G H A M. 437 
 
 the whole town only, but none could dig, cut heath, &c. but the 
 Bishop; but in Biikes<h-lescole-Biiri/, Ifero/descofe, Perngate, (all 
 which contain 1.35 acres,) the whole town not only fed, but might 
 dig, cut turf, &,c. but not to sell. There was also a marsh between 
 liretenhdin and Biidghdin, and another marsh called Esl-Ett/ie, in 
 both which the whole town might teed dig, cut turf, fish, &c. except 
 in the lord's separate fishery, which is bclwecn tVest-Mii/ and Tune- 
 Mill, half a mile long. The tenants owe their suit to Tune [or town] 
 Mill, and none to Jl csl-Mill. The stock belonging to the manor 
 was 8 cows, a lice bull, '24 hogs, a free boar, .300 sheep, by the great 
 hundred, beside the customary sheep, which ought to be in the 
 lord's fold. At this time IValtcr (k liokcnliaiu held yo acres and 
 an half, iVechold, which was late Ralph the parson's, at 8s. Id. per 
 annum, and suit of court, and had a fold-course. And IVilliain 
 de llakefoid held above a 100 acres free, divers rents and services, 
 and a fold-course, and did suit to this court, [for this his manor 
 called I lake ford's.] With this manor also, the Bishop held the ad- 
 vowson of lirefenliam. The tenants paid elij/ldtcite, tallage, heriots, 
 and /f/zV/s, besides seven score and 15 hens, 2-t chickens, (i-17 eggs, 
 27--1 days works, ,')4 days work called stiideicurk, which is done hy 
 the molntvn, Q4j days and half ploughing, dining which time the 
 lord maintains them, and every day's work at (jlough is valued at 0(/.; 
 51'2 days work in autumn ; they were to thrash lOj combs of oats 
 and barley each year, or pay 2a. for every six combs if they did not 
 do it ; they were to do 997 perches of ditching and fencing, about 
 the stack-yards and woods, every year, and have no maintenance 
 from the lord during that time ; the motmen, in number "0, were 
 obliged to make up 15 carriages, and attend them, to carry in the 
 lord's corn ; and besides these and many other services, he received 
 yearly in money rents above 18/. 15.s. In 1285, the jury of the 
 Crown side for the hundred oi Shropham, present, that Hugh Bishop 
 of A'/j/ had in Bridgham, infangthef, a gallows, view of frankplege, 
 &c. assize of bread and beer, wet)f, return of all writs, free-zcarrcn, 
 and all other privileges as before,'' and from this time it continued in 
 the bishoprick till by act of parliament in the first year of Queen 
 Elizabeth it was .settled by way of exchange, among the rest of the 
 Bishop's manors in this county, on the Crown, at which time it was 
 under a lease, made in 154(), by Thomas Bishop of Eli/, for OO years, 
 at sol- per annnm,^ which was to commence from Michaelmai I5fJ2, 
 to If'ill. Druri) of Beslhorp ; \.\\\& was assigned by Dorothi/, late wife 
 of Jl i/l. Drurij, to JVilliam Brampton of Bridgeham, lisq. from whom 
 Tho. Brampton of Keutun in Suffolk had it, and was possessed in 
 1573, and lived in the hall, which he repaired, and glazed the win- 
 dows with his own arms, viz. Brampton, gul. a fess arg. in chief 
 three plates, impaling JVaxton, crm. on a fess gw/. three |)lates quar- 
 tering pally of eight, arg. and sab. Brampton impales Levenlhorp, 
 arg. a bend compone gul. and sab. cotised of the second ; these arms 
 were taken down by i\Ir. Robert Ilai/let, (as I suppose,) at whose 
 sale I bought them. Tiie remainder of this lease being bought in 
 by Bassingbourn Gatcdj/, Esq. the Queen, in 1594, let it to him for 
 
 ♦ Rot. Jur. et assis. ct plit. coronei4 ' The aUvowsons and wardships were 
 E. I. Boyland. Rot. 6. in dors. excepted. 
 
 VOL. I. 3 K.
 
 438 BR IDG HAM. 
 
 30 years, to commence at the end of the said term, at 29/. rent, the 
 advowsons of Bridgham and Bretenkam being excepted ;* and from 
 this time it continued in the Gcmdi/^ as lessees to the Crown, till the 
 6tli of J line, iGoy, and then the King granted it to Framlingliam 
 Gazcdy, Esq. and his heirs, in fee, in which family it continued till 
 Sir Bassingbourn Gawdy, sold it to Tho. U right, Esq. of Eaat-Jier- 
 ling, who is now dead, and Mr. John If right is his son and iicir. 
 Tlie fines are at the lord's will ; she eldest son is heir; the quitrents 
 are 13/. 14s. id. ob. a year. 
 
 HACKFORD'S MANOR 
 
 Was originally part of the manor of Harkford in JVest-Herling, that 
 extended hither, and passed with that, (as you may see at p. 300.) 
 till it was released to IJciiri/ de Etinham, and E/iztibefh his wife, who 
 was one of the daughters and heiresses of Sir William de llukeford, 
 who, jointly with Margeri/ his wife, settled it on Ralph de Hnkeford, 
 parson of Couteshale, in trust for his two daughters, in 1278 ; in 1485, 
 /(■///. Ti/mperki/ had the custody of this manor. Sec. for 2() years, 
 paying 43s. 4d. per nimtim, and maintaining the houses and fences. 
 In lolO, John llaretcell and others had it settled on them by Robert 
 Fuller; in 1550, Sir Tho. Lovell of East-IIerling had it, in which 
 family it continued, and was joined to the other manor after that was 
 purchased, and so remains. There were three other parcels of land 
 in Bridgham, added to this manor by ditlierent purchases; the first 
 was granted by Hugh Bishop of Ely, in 1229, to Roger the chaplain 
 of Bridgham, and contained 60 acres ; the second, in 12(:)7, was settled 
 by fine by Hugh Bishop of Ely, on (falter de Hemenhale, and con- 
 tained 24 acres of land, 40 acres of heath, 20 acres of marsh, 10 acres 
 of meadow, and Gs. Sd. rent ; the third was held by Ralph of Illington, 
 at a quarter of a fee, of Aduni de Cayly, who held it of the Earl 
 Warren, and William de Bokenham held one half of this quarter of 
 Ralph de Illington, in the time of Henry III. 
 
 THE RECTORY 
 
 Was appendant to the manor till it came to the Crown, and was ex- 
 cepted when the manor was granted from it, and the Bishop of Ely 
 always presented till the exchange, and the Crown ever since ; the 
 rectory of Bridgham alias Brigham, is valued in the King's Books at 
 1 1/. \s. ob. and pays 1/. 2s. Sq. yearly tenths. Is. synodals, and 7s. 7d. 
 ob. yearly procurations, though it paid none before the time of King 
 Henry VIII. At the time ol' Noricick Domesdai/, the rector had a 
 house and 50 acK.s of land, and now he hath a house by the north 
 corner of the chuichyarti ; but there remains but ,S<J acres and an 
 half of glebe. In KiOS, here were 128 communicants, and now 
 [1737] there are about 30 houses, and 180 inhabitants. It paid 
 S/. Gs. 8d. to the tenths, and is now assessed at 403/. 10s. to the land 
 tax. In 1411, Hugh Sloppiisly had license in mortmain to amortise 
 
 ' The advowson of Brettcnhain al - part or appendant on Bridgham manor, 
 ways belonged to llie Bishop, as well though it is mentioned in all extents 
 after as before the change, that being no with it, it being the next town.
 
 BRIDGHAM. 439 
 
 a messuage, 200 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, 265. rent, a 
 free fold, and separate fishery in Bretenkum, Brid^hum, Rushwoith, 
 Tketfvrd, &c. which were held of the King, as of his dutchy of Lan- 
 caster, to the Prior and convent of monks at Thetford, on condition 
 the King should have 50s. at every resignation, vacation, or death of 
 a prior. This was part of the Prior's manor in Bretenham that ex- 
 tended hither. 
 
 The Church hath its nave, north porch, and chancel, thatched; 
 it hath no steeple, but there are two bells, which hang in a house in the 
 churchyard. In the windows, and on the font, are the arms of the 
 Bishoprick of Ely; in the chancel there is a stone for Francis Gold- 
 tcell, clerk, who died 27 Aug. 1691. Another for Margaret Goldwell 
 single woman, who died 15 July, 169O. 
 
 3|0l)n ©atifion ani) 31p^ \)^i IDjif. were at jhe charge of seating the 
 church, as appears by their names carved in this manner on the seats,. 
 
 RECTORS OF BRIDGHAM ST. MARY. 
 
 1303, 5 kal. Julif, Robert de IVi/newi/k, chaplain. 
 
 1317, 5 non, March, Mr. Panucitts Bonoditi de Controne, professor 
 of physick and arts. 
 
 1320, 3 id. Nov. Mr. Peter de Brixia, on Controne's resignation, 
 in exchange for Chevenung, in Rochester diocese. 
 
 1322, 7 kal. June, Alexander oiSi. Alban's, on Urma's resignation, 
 in exchange for fVel/bourtie, in Li«co/« diocese. 
 John Norton, rector. 
 
 1429, 6 Dec. William Bayly, priest, on Norton's resignation. 
 
 1445, 21 Sept. Tho. Saureoi/, priest, on Bayly's resignation. 
 
 1448, 4 Octob. Tho. Alleyn, priest, A. M 
 
 1448, 6 March, John Ultyng, on Alleyn s resignation. 
 William Fuller. 
 
 1454, 17 Jan. Tho. Dust, on Fuller's death. 
 
 1461, 24 Sept. John Weysy, or Fesy, prior of the monks at Thet- 
 ford, was instituted rector. 
 
 1480, 12 Aug. John Larkc, LL.B. 
 
 1523, 21 Dec. Richard Rysley, S.T.B, on the rector's death; he 
 was the last presented by the Bishop. 
 
 1554, Id July, Elisha Annyson. Queen Mary, the see being void. 
 
 1566', 4 Octob. Martin Jlarrisonne, clerk. Queen Elizabeth, in 
 right of the Crown. 
 
 1484, 7 April, John Thackster, S.T.B. on Harrison's death. He 
 was buried 8 Sept. iGOl. 
 
 1601, \\ Jan. George Rogers, alias Thomas, A.B. He married 
 Elizabeth, leVict of Ralph Leaver, rector of Snetterton, April 28, I6O6,' 
 and was buried here 25 Feb. 1636. 
 
 1637, 22 Aug. Tho. Pell, rector, buried 19 Dec. 1603; united to 
 Bretenham. 
 
 1663, 23 Febr. Francis Goldwell, A. M. on Pell's death, buried in 
 the chancel, 1691, he bare az. a chief or over all a lion rampant 
 arg. gutte de poix. His son and heir, Henry Goldwell, married a 
 
 ' See Ecdes Register, 278.
 
 440 BRETENHAM. 
 
 daughter of Porter of Bur i/, who bare sab. a fess enii. between three 
 bells (irg. 
 
 \l)[)'l, G7 Ad'. Theopliilus Williams; he held it united to East- 
 Herling. 
 
 171(j, 7 July, Nicholas: Claggct, A.IM. on JVilliams's death. 
 
 1717, 9 Dec. Theopliilus Dcsaguliers, on Clugget's cession. 
 
 172C, 13 March, the llev. Mr. Moses Leak, on Desaguliers resig- 
 nation, who is the present incumbent, and holds it united to the rec- 
 tory of Hoplon in Suffolk. 
 
 From the register, which begins in 1558, it appears that many of 
 the Drurys, Goldwells, Bramploiis, Gri/gsous, Bu.itous, Luiells, lielk, 
 Chamberlains, Bedingjields, &c. were baptized and buried here. 1550, 
 Joseph Churchman married Agnes Jlouse. 1570, Thu. Lovell mar- 
 ried Margaret Fai/er. 1585, Tho. Drury married Ursula Brockley. 
 
 BRETENHAM. 
 
 1 HE manor and advowson was given to the monks of Ely, along 
 with Bridgliam, and the rest of the possessions of that abbey in Nor- 
 folk, all which were confirmed by King Edgar in the year of our 
 lord 970,' (see p. 436) but was divided before the Conqueror's time by 
 the Abbots, into divers parts, they reserving the advowson, part of 
 the demeans, and a few small rents only, to themselves, all which 
 they joined to their manor of Bridgham, with which it was assigned at 
 the erection of that see, to the bishops thereof, who always presented 
 to this church, as they do at this day; the advowson not being ap- 
 pendant to Bridgliam manor, did not pass to the Crown at the ex- 
 change of that manor. In 1277, it was found by an inquisition, that 
 the Bishop of Eli/ had the free gift and patronage of this church,' 
 that it was in the archdeaconry of Noifolk, and deanery of Sokelond, 
 but the Abbot of St. JIban's had two parts of both the small and 
 great tithes, of the demeans of Jlexauder de Royinges, (or Rothynges, 
 as the family was after called,) except 40 acres, which the rec- 
 tor was to have the whole tithes oi", and the Prior of Thetford had 
 two parts of the great and small tithes, of the demeans of William de 
 Carleton, and the lady Surah Le-Noreise, except 48 acres, which be- 
 longed solelv to the rector; and also two parts of the great and small 
 tithes of the demeans of Alexander Purri,' and God/ride de Snares- 
 bille, except 12 acres which the rector liad the whole tithe of, all 
 which were given by Roger Bigot at the foundation of the priory,* at 
 
 • Moil. An", vol. fol. 91, 3, 4, &c. and land, purchased from Carleton-hall 
 
 s Regr. Elytciaudiiis, C.i. Bib. Cott, manor, and Snareshelles lands was part 
 
 <ol. 348. and Regr. Ely, &c. in Bib. of Snare-llill that extended hither. 
 
 Coll. Caij. Cant. fol. 267. b. ^ Donavit eis Rogerus et uxor sua 
 
 ' Alexander Purry had a messuage Adeliia, duas partes deciinationum, de
 
 BRETENHAM. 441 
 
 which time he was lord of that whole part, which was now divided, 
 and Iield by the said William, Sarah, Alexander, and Godfride. This 
 portion was taxed at one mark, and so was the portion of the Prior 
 oi Si. Albart's. 
 
 The rectory was valued at 4/. lls.Od. in the King's Books, but 
 being sworn of the clear yearly value of 40/. ()s. 8d. a year, it is dis- 
 charged of first fruits and tenths, and consequently is capable of aug- 
 mentation. It is a small parish of near 100 inhabitants; in l603, 
 it liad 48 communicants ; it paid 554'. to the tenths, and is now 
 assessed at 1 19/. to the King's tax. 
 
 At this town there have been divers Roman coins ploughed up ;' 
 I have seen a very fair one of I'espasiau, thus circumscribed, imp. 
 CAES. VESPATIAN. AUG. COS. VIII. PP. ; the reverse was a Merf«;7/ 
 holding an urn, and S. C; there are also urns found here ; I have seen 
 a small one of red eartli, tiiat held about half a pint, all which make 
 me apt to think, that this town, and not Bieleuliam in Su/f'olk, might 
 be the C'ow/»re/o«i«/« of Antoninus, and I'je Conveiitronum et ad 
 Convecin. in the PeutegerianTsib\ei ;* and the rather, because I never 
 lieard of any Roman antiquities found at the other Bretenham ; but 
 whether the name in English implies a town on the Breton, or, in 
 Welsh, a great valle}' or low place upon the Breton, I confess I know 
 not; but the situation is in a great valley, or low place, upon that 
 river which runs from Quidenham-Mere to Thctford, the name of 
 which I have not met with. 
 
 The Church and parsonage-house were burnt down in l6i)3: the 
 nave was rebuilt, but the chancel was not ; there is a square tower 
 and one bell ; the nave and south porch are tiled. This is written on 
 the north wall. 
 
 By this Place lyeth the Body of Roger Beales, who died June 
 9.Q, 1711, and was Church-Warden alone for the Town of Bre- 
 tenham, and built this Church after the Fire, being the ISthDay 
 of May, in the Year I693, and laid out all the money, before he 
 made his Rate, to gather in any Money, and whose Wames, and 
 what every Man paid. 
 
 Charles Wright [lord] 29/. 6s. 6d. ; Mr. John Newcomb [rector] 
 2]/. Is. ,• Roger Beales 12/. 12s. ,■ John Sele 6/. ,• Roger Howes 3/. 18s. 
 Tho. Townsend 1/. 13s. ; Richard Lovick l/. 19s. &.c. 
 
 RECTORS OF BRETENHAM ST. ANDREW. 
 
 ISOS, 5 id. May, a sequestration was granted to Alfred dc Brok. 
 
 1303, 6 id. Aug. Roger de Orford. 
 
 1309, 6 id. Aug. Richard de Deneaford, accolile. 
 
 1309, 17 kal. Jan. Tho. de Uaytone, priest. 
 
 1328, 3 kal. Ftb. John de Derby, priest. 
 
 1335, prid. id. Feb. He had license, as chaplain to the Bishop^ of 
 Ely, to let his rectory, and not reside upon it. The above were pre- 
 sented by the Bishop of Ely. 
 
 Dominijs eorum, de omnibus, quedcci- ' Coll. T. M. 
 
 mari debent. E Cart. Confirmationis ♦ Sec Atlas Suffolk, fol, 107. 
 
 Herbcrti Epi. Norwic. penes Hen. Smith, 
 
 Gen. de Hautbo)'5-Magna.
 
 442 BRETENHAM. 
 
 1315, 22 Julii, Tlio. E/i/ot de Swaffham-Market , priest, on the re- 
 signation oi John Breidesilale de Dtrby. The King, by reason of the 
 vacancy of the See.' 
 
 1349.24 Octob. Tho. Bttrchard, priest. Brother ^/a« Prior of JS/y, 
 attorney of Tfio. Bishop of Eh/, who was beyond sea. 
 
 13a(i, 11 Fcbr. Peter de lierto)i,\)r\esi. The King, on account of 
 the temporalities of the Bislioprick, then in his hands. 
 
 1361. 25 ^htg. Will de Nessingziik, accohte on Btrlon's resignation. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1363, William de DerJcetcei/. 
 Thomas de Wilton. 
 
 1372, 30 Nov. Tho. de Clypesbif, priest, on Wilton's resignation. 
 John Bishop of £/y. 
 
 1373, 2fi Jnne, John de Conguiesbury,sh^se\m^.^ The King, the 
 see being void. 
 
 1376, Id June, Walter De-la-more, priest. The PopEj by pro- 
 vision or reservation. 
 
 1394, 30 Sept. Ralph Lemhurgh, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1401, 12 ^iug. William Alei/n, priest. The Bishop of Ely. 
 
 1403, 4 July, William Lylye, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1442, 7 Jan. Will. Dorant, priest, on Lylye's death. John, vicar- 
 general to the Bishop of Ely.'' 
 
 1449, 24 Febr. Will. Gilberd, bachelor in the decrees. Lapse. 
 
 1434, 30 Dec. Thomas Walle, on Gilberd's resignation, 
 
 1466, 7 Octob. John Fustour, on Walk's resignation. 
 
 1470, 8 June, John Kaa. 
 John Aleyn, 
 
 1502, 10 Jpril, Tho. Watson, on Aleyn's death, 
 
 1511,9 June, John Eldred, 
 
 1542, 10 Aug. Sir Tho. Home, chaplain, on Eldred's death, 
 
 1544, 23 July, Will. Collison, on Home's death, 
 
 1554, 14 May, John Thirkelby, 
 
 1559, 1 J all/, Robert Dixon, priest, 
 William Collinson, 
 
 1562, 1 1 Nov. Hugh JVeston, priest, on Collinson's resignation. 
 
 1566, 19 June, Sir Thomas Smith, on Weston's resignation. 
 
 1569, 5 May, Robert West ley, 
 
 1571, 13 Febr. Tho. Green, clerk, on Westley's resignation. The 
 above were presented by the Bishop of Ely. 
 
 1581, 30 Aiig. John Townsend. The Queen, lapse. 
 
 1600, Mr. John Wolf. 
 
 I6O8, 2 Aug. Richard Mucklestone, A.M. who held it united to 
 Thurston in Depzcade hundred. The Bishop. 
 
 1612, to Dec. Richard Pemberton, A.M. Ditto. 
 
 i6Q4, Q July, fVilliamyllcock, A.M. The King, lapse. 
 
 1627, Alexander Pistor,S.T. P. The Bishop. 
 
 5 Wharton's Anglia Sacra, vol. i. fol. " Reverendissimi, Patris Ludovici, titu- 
 
 649. " lo Sanctorum qiiatuor coronatonim 
 
 ' Combersbury (as he is also called " presbiteri, Cardinalis de I,iiceniburj;;o 
 
 exchanged Elme vicarage in Ely diocese " vulgaritcr nuncupat. Koihon)agen. 
 
 for this. " Archiep. Ectlesiicqiie et Epl^co^la'US 
 
 ' " Adpresentntionem JohannisFabri " Eliensis, in spintualibiis et teniporali- 
 
 " Formati, S.T. B.ic. succciitoris Ba- "bus perpetui admuilstraturis, vicarij 
 
 " jocensis, et canonici Rothomagensis, " in spirjtualibus." Institut. Lib. 10.
 
 13RETENHAM, 443 
 
 Edward Furnace, clerk. 
 
 1636,31 Mai/, T/io. Corde/l, A.M. hy the promotion of Edward 
 Furnace. Theliisiiop. 
 
 Thomas Pell, united to Bridaham. Ditln. 
 
 1663, 23 Dec. Will Monford, A.M^on Veil's dcalli. Ditto. 
 
 1666, 25 Nov. Tho. lietherset, A. M. on Moiiford's death. Ditto. 
 
 1675, 17 yhig. .John Chi nen/, on fVormlty Hcthersef's^ death. Ditto. 
 
 1686, 19 Jug. Edmund Newcomb, united to Knatishall in Snfl'ull:. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1701, 10 Oct. The Rev. Mr. Thomas Lone, the present [1737] in- 
 cumbent; and now holds it united to Kilverstone. Ditto. 
 
 The whole at first belonged to the Abbot of Eli/, as aforesaid, by 
 whom it was divided into several parts; tlie first two parts belonged 
 to John, tValerani's nephew, at the time of the Conquest,' and had 
 been held by two freemen under the abbot in the time of the Con- 
 fessor; the next was held by Eudo the Sewer in liie Conqueror's time,' 
 and by Turgis in the Confessor's; and Lm//« claimed it against Eudo, 
 who recovered it from him, and then held it." Anollier part belonged 
 to Roger Bigot, of whom (Villiam de Burneiille held it at the survey ;^ 
 the whole was tiien two miles long, and a mile and quarter broad, 
 and paid I4d. ob.geld, the lord of the hundred being then (as he is 
 now) lord paramount of this town, and after this there was no less 
 than si.\ manors here, i/i. the Bishop of Eli/' s, wliicii was joined to 
 Bridgham, and ever after passed with it; tlie manor of Cation, or 
 Carleton Hall, Burnvile's manor, the two manors called Rothijn", 
 or Rolhyng Hall, and the manor called Brethenham's. 
 
 CATTON, or CARLETON HALL, 
 
 Belonged to Edudo the Sewer, and in 1230 was settled by Richard de 
 Meisy, on Richard Fitz-Richard, and was after in a family sirnam«l 
 de Carleton ; IVill. de Carleton held it in 1277, but how long it 
 continued in that family I do not find ; the Bretenhams had it in 1314, 
 
 • There might be two Hethersets rec- ct v. vara apiim tunc. val. Ix. sol. 
 
 tors ; the institution says, Thomas. Chi- niodo xl. soca in Bucham. 
 nery's institution says, Wormley, who ' Terre Eudonis Dapiferi, (fol. 236.) 
 
 might perhaps be between them, thoujjh In Brctham ten. '1 urgis vii. liberi 
 
 I meet with no such institution. hoies. T.R.E. i. car. et dim. terre ii. 
 
 ' Terrejohis. Nepolis Walerami. (fol. acr. prati tunc et post i. et dim. car. 
 280.) H. Scrcpham, Brclham, tenet modo i. car. et dim. posset esse, 
 W. ii. car terre quam tenuit lib. homo tunc. val. xxx. sol. post, et modo xx. 
 T.R.E. semper iiii. vill. ct i. bor. ct i. soca horum vi. in Bucham Regis, dc 
 ser. xii. acr. prati tunc ii. car. in dnio. scptimo Sancta Adeldret soca cit com- 
 post et modo i. semper i. car. honiin. ct mend, scd Lesius totum retinuit, et 
 i. mol. semper Ix. ovcs e' ii. lib. xviiii. Eulo rctinet totum. habet i. leug. in 
 acr. terre quas habuit commendationem lon^. et v. quar. in lat. et yi'nn.d. et i. 
 lantum, soca in Bucham et i. lib. ho. obuTum de Gclto. 
 
 xxx. atr. terre sotainbca. Adel. totum * Terra Rogeri Bigoti, H. de Schcre- 
 
 val. Ix. sol. pham. (tol. ij8.) In Bretham iii. libe- 
 
 In eadcm i. lib. ho. ii. car. terre ri hoies i. car. terre quos tenet Will, de 
 
 T.R.E. time xii. vill. post ct modo iii. Burnevilla et iii. bor. et iiii. acr. prati 
 
 semper iii. bor. et »iii. acr. prati semper tunc ct post i. car. et dim. modo i. 
 
 ii. car. in dnio. tunc iii. car. homin. post ct val. xxxiii. sol. ct viii.</. soca in Bu- 
 
 et modo ii. semper i. mol. semper ii. clum. 
 animal, modo xiiii. pore, ct Ixx. ovcs,
 
 444 BRET EN HAM. 
 
 and IVin. de Brdenliam was then lord ; it seems as if the Prior of 
 Thetford was lord of it afterwards, till ihe Dissolution, but whether in 
 trust or in right of his monastery 1 cannot say ; but in 1343, the 
 King licensed 'Nicholas Rookuood, prothonotary of the Common 
 Pleas, to sell it to Sir Ralph U'arn'it, Knt. alderman of London, 
 whose son, Richard Warren oi London, Esq. settled it on Elizabeth 
 his wife, in jointure, who after his death married the Lord knevel ; 
 the reversion, after her death, came to Sir Oliver Crunnccll, in right 
 of Joan his mother, heiress oi' Richard Warren ; he sold the reversion 
 to Sir Bassingbourne Gaicdy, who purchased the Lady Kucvefs right, 
 and in 1()06, Framlingham (iazaly, Esq. sold it to Thomas Wright 
 of Kilverslone, Esq. in whose family it remained, till it was lately sold 
 by Thomas Wright of Kilvcrstoiic, Esq. to Mr. George Proctor, the 
 present [1737] lord. 
 
 BURNVILLE'S MANOR 
 
 Was held of Roger Bigot, by William de Burneville, as is aforesaid, 
 whose (laughter -Ivice gave it to the prior of the monks at Thetford, 
 and it was confirmed to them b^- King Henry IL^ The Prior joined 
 it to his manor of Rolhj/ng Hall, from which it never was separated. 
 
 BRETENHAM'S MANOR 
 
 Belonged to Eudo the Sewer, and in 1]98> to Richard de Brethenham , 
 after to John de Brcthenham, and after to Alexander de Bretenham, 
 and in 1218, Richard de Brcthenham held it, and had a carucate in 
 demean, held of Clare honour at half a fee. In 1297, fVill. de Bre- 
 tenham and John de Brockdish had it;* in 1299? the Lady Sarah Le- 
 Noreise held it, and half Bretenham's part was settled on Rushworth 
 college,' and John de Brockdisli's part was divided into several par- 
 cels;^ for in 1345, Tho. de Brockdi/ssch, Rob. de Welhoime, and Wil- 
 liam de Bretenham, held that quarter of a fee of the Earl ofGloucester, 
 wliich formerly belonged to John de Brokedi/sh: and after this it was 
 divided in many small parcels, all which were purchased, some by 
 the Master of Ruslncorth college, and some by thePrior of Thetford, 
 and added to their manors; the other part which was not settled on 
 Rushworth, was held by IVilliam de Bretenham, and passed to the 
 monks at Thetford, along with their manor oi Rothyng Hall, as you 
 may see, at p. 287, where there is an account also of the separate 
 fishery belonging to this manor. 
 
 ROTHYNG HALL, or RUTTEN HALL, 
 
 Was the capital manor, and was owned by John, Waleram's nephew, 
 at the Conquest, and in Richard the First's time by Alexander de 
 Rohinges, Roi/ngcs, or Rothi/ng, who, in Henri/ tho Third's time, is 
 said to hold it at half a fee of Margery de Riparijs, who held it of 
 the Earl of Arundell, .is of his hundred of Shropham, belonging to 
 
 ' Dug. Mon. vol. i. fol. 667. Thetford, sottled by fine a messuage and 
 
 *Seep. 287. lands here, on John de Biokdysh, and 
 
 ' See p. 292. Agnes his wife, and Ricliard tlieir son, 
 
 ' In 1 3 14, John, son of Benedict de and his heirs.
 
 BRET EN HAM. 445 
 
 his castle of Bukenham, and the Earl of the King in chief. In 1301, 
 Ileniy de Rothiiige held of the King, as of his honour of Albemarle, 
 at half a fee, one capital manor-house, 80 acres of land, one piece of 
 meadow, and six acres hntery, liberty of a free-fold, 20*. rents of 
 assize, and other rents and services in Brethenhain, the whole being 
 valued at 50s. Qd. and also 100 acres in the said town, of William de 
 Bretenham, by the service of \1d. a year, and Akxander was his 
 son and heir, who, in 1308, possessed it; in 1314,' Alexander de 
 Rothiiig, William de Bretenham, the Prior of Tlulford, and the 
 Master of Rushford, were lords of the manors in this town. This 
 Alexander it was that divided the manor into many parls, by selling 
 half a fee held of the honour of Clare, to Robert Baynard, Hugh 
 Stopusle, and others, who settled all their parts on Thomas Gardiner, 
 clerk, rector of Croxton, in trust for the Prior of Thetford. In 1345, 
 Henry de Rothing held the other part, which he divided into two 
 manors, and sold one to the Ilerlings, whose heiress gave it to Rush- 
 worth college ; and this was that Rothing Hall manor, that belonged 
 to the college, to which there was 6o acres, and a toft added by If ill. 
 Fullere, and others ;* and in 1374, he sold the other part to Rob. de 
 Bati.tforth, Robert Benbras, clerk, Richard Parei/$, James de Breten- 
 ham, John Purri, and Tho. Fullere, who, in 1385, settled it on Tho. 
 Gardiner, rector of Croxton, and he conveyed it, with Baidard's 
 part, to the Prior of Thetford, who was taxed for the first part at l6s. 
 and for this, at one mark ; and these constituted that manor called 
 Rothj/ngs, ahas Rothyng Hall, to which the Prior joined his manor 
 of Burnvilles; and in 1413, Akxander, master of Rushworth college, 
 Tho. Crotcc, John Matmi/ng, Will. Pari/s, and John Greene, clerks, 
 fellows there, released to the Prior of St. Ma7y at Thetford a yearly 
 rent of GrZ. paid them by the Prior, out of lands in Bretenham, and 
 thus there were two manors called Rothing Hall, to the Dissolution, 
 and then they both came to the Earl of Surrey in 1542, who reunited 
 them ; and in 1556, Thomas Duke of Norfolk held it in capite of the 
 Queen, and in 1572 it belonged to the Earl of Surrey; and in 1583, 
 Phillip Earl of Arundell sold it to Tho. Lovell, Esq. and in 1622, Sir 
 Francis Lovell, Knt. and William Lovell, Esq. sold it to Tho. Wright 
 of Kilverstone, Esq. in whose family it continued till Tho. JVright of 
 Kilverstone, Esq. lately sold it to Mr. George Proctor of Thetford, 
 who is the present lord [1737.] 
 
 ' Nomina Villarum. • See p. 191. 
 
 VOL. I. 3 L
 
 [ 446 ] 
 
 ILLINGTON. 
 
 JllinketunEjIlsingtunEj or as it is now called, Illincton, is a 
 small villagejoining to Roicdham and Lerliii^J'ord ; the church is dedi- 
 cated to St. .-Vwrfreri, and is a rectory in the archdeaconry ot" Norfolk, 
 and deanery ot" Rockland. It hath a rectory-house and glehc, and was 
 valued at 6/. \gs. 2d. in the King's Books; it was sworn of the clear 
 yearly value of 37/- -s. by which means it is discharged of first fruits 
 and tenths, though it pays ]s. synodals, besides the archdeacon's pro- 
 curations. In l603, there were 32 communicants in this village, 
 and now [1737] there are about (K) inhabitants; it paid 53s. to the 
 tenths, and is now assessed at 257^- to the land tax; the chief if not 
 the whole of this town, belongs to the Churchmans, whose seat stands 
 about two furlongs NW. of the church. 
 
 The Church and chancel are very small, having a square tower at 
 the west end. There is an altar tomb in the chancel for. 
 
 Sir JOHN CHURCHMAN, Knt. sometime patron of this 
 church, who suddenly departed this life, Feb. 24, 1688, Ag. 56. 
 Moriendo perpetuam I'itam Litcramiir. 
 
 At the foot of the tomb are two small stones, for, 
 
 GORE, son of IVILLIAM CHURCHMAN, Esq. and 
 SUSAN his wife, who died Jan. 12, 1()92, aged 9 months. 
 
 SUSAN Iheir daughter an infant, buried April 23, 1692. 
 
 As to what is said concerning the history of this parish in the 
 Atlas, p. 342, there is -not one word of it true, as to this town, but 
 part of it may be applied to hli/nglon in Mersldand. 
 
 The Prior ol' Bukeit/uim had lands here of the gift of the Bitken- 
 kams, ta.xcd at 2s. Qd. 
 
 The Abbot of Sibeton in Suffolk held the twenty-fifth part of a 
 knight's fee, which was either given or sold to that house by Henri/ 
 de Esthall, before 1291, for then the xVbbot was returned to hold it of 
 the said lleiiri/, who held it oi Adam de Cuyli/, he of the Earl fVarreii, 
 and he of the King, to whom the Abbot paid his part, to make his 
 eldest son a knight. It was ta.vcd at 1 Is. Ml. oh. 
 
 Here was a parcel of land given to the abbey oi Bury, for which 
 the sacrist of that monastery was ta.xed at Is. 
 
 KECTORS. 
 
 1313, John de Biikenham, rector. 
 
 1334, 17 kal. Apr, John dc Bukenham, priest. Elizabeth de 
 
 BUKENHA.M.
 
 ILLINGTON. 447 
 
 1349, 5 Aug. Will. Cark of Bukenham, priest. Will, de Bu- 
 
 KENHAM. 
 
 1375, 6 Octob, Giles de Welham, priest. James de Wrotham, 
 and John Chaa, of Tliefford. 
 
 1398, 18 Aug, John Rykedon oi Hockham, priest. Rob. Fle- 
 MYNG of Bonenell. 
 
 1421, 2 June, William, son of John Calkewell. Tiio. Flemyng, 
 
 Esq. 
 
 1426, 22 Octob. Robert Merstoii, who changctl his vicarace of St. 
 Peter, in the isle oiTlianet for this, with William, aon oiJohuLalkwell. 
 
 1434, Martin Bole, rector. 
 Thomas S/wrle, rector. 
 
 1450, l6 Dec. Thomas Ilansum, on S/)or/c's resignation. SirTno. 
 Flemyng, Knt. 
 
 1460, 10 Oct. Tho. Blythe, on llamum's death. Ditto. 
 
 1469, 30 May, Bartholomew Wykc, priest, on Bli/tke's death. 
 Margaret, late wife of Tho. Flemyng, Km. 
 
 1495, IG April, Tho. Parys, on W i/ke^s dealh. Henry Heydon, 
 for this turn. 
 
 1528, 18 ./«/(/, The Bishop collated Will. Hei/e, rector o( Ler ling, 
 by lapse, and united it to Lerliiig, at Pari/s's death. 
 
 1531 5 Jau. John Heydon oi' Bakonsthorp, Knt. patron of the 
 advowson, granted the next turn to Richard Clark of East-Wrolham, 
 and Robert Hi/chi/n of Gi/rston. 
 
 William Burbie, rector. 
 
 1555, 5 July, Robert Hulman, priest, on Barbie's death. Fulk 
 Gray, Gent. 
 
 1356, 24 February, Richard Mortoniie, priest, on Halmans death. 
 James Down es, Esq. 
 
 1566, 2 Octob. Richard Bromell, on Mortonne's death, united to 
 Lerling. Jerome Spring, and Eliz. his wife. 
 
 1591, 25 Sept. John Chatterys, on BromelCs death. Christ. 
 Gascoigne. 
 
 IOO9, 8 Juh/, John West, A. M John Gascoigne, Gent. In 
 1617, he held Thelford St. Peter united to this. 
 
 1626, 8 Dec. Henry Rose, A. M. on J Vest's' death. Cotton Gas- 
 coiGN, Gent. 
 
 1643, 6 April, John Palgrave, A. M. on Rose's death. Sir John 
 Palgrave, Bart. 
 
 George Fish, rector. 
 
 1664, 19 June, Peter Lock, clerk, A. M. on Fishers resignation. 
 John Churchman, Knt. united to Uockham in I667. 
 
 1672, 6 Jan. Henry Goodiick, A. M. on Lock's death. Ditto. 
 
 1712, \0 Dec. The Rev. Mr. James Holman, A. B. on Goodrick's 
 death, who holds it united to Croxton. Will. Churchman, Esq. 
 the present patron [173?.] 
 
 EAST HALL MANOR. 
 
 At the time of the Conquest the whole town belonged to William 
 Earl Warren,'' and was of 20s. value in the Confessor's time, and 30 
 
 9 TerraWilli.de Warenna, (fol.^i.) i. car. terre ct dim semper vii. vill. et 
 In llUnketuna ten. Willus. i. lib. horn. x. bord, ct iiii. acr. prati "-t vi. libcri
 
 448 ILLINGTON. 
 
 in the Coiiqucioi's; tlic whole was something belter than a mile 
 Jons, and a mile broad, and paid Id. geld, and was held ot'Uie casile 
 of Lewes, though at that time the superiour jiuistliction belonged to 
 the iumdred oi' Shrouha in, the lord of which is now lord paramount 
 of this town, keeps tlie lett, and receives 6J. forquilrent of the manor, 
 and \Sd. for Icet fee. In the Earl's time, Bemer his servant held it 
 at one fee, for life, and afterwards it went to Hubmt de Burgh, of 
 whom Gilbert de Moiley held it; and from him it came to the Crown, 
 and King tleniy gave it to Reginald de Warren, of whom Hilliani 
 de IllifigtuHe had the whole fee, and left it to Henry his son, who 
 built and settled in the east part of the town during his father's life, 
 and assumed the name oi' East hall ; he divided the manor into many 
 parts, reserving to himself the half of the town, which he held at half 
 a fee of Adam de Caili/, as of the castle of Uukenhan, and this he 
 called East Hall manor. 
 
 BUKENHAM'S, WEST HALL, or ILLINGTON HALL 
 
 MANOR. 
 
 The other half fee he divided into many parts, all which were held 
 of him, and became so many small manors. In Henry the Third's 
 lime H illiam de Easthall, his brother, held a fifteenth part of a foe, 
 John atte More held a twentieth part, John Dolon a fortieth part, 
 Ralph the merchant a thirtieth part, John de Roccdham a fortieth 
 part, Simon de Ropere a twentieth part, Adam Fain a twentieth part, 
 Robert, son oUAdam de Long, a fortieth part, and William de Buken- 
 ham a quarter of a fee, which was the original of Bukcnham's, J I est 
 Hall or lllington Hall manor. 
 
 This family had another quarter of a fee in this and the neighbour- 
 ing towns, which belonged to the Earl Itarren, and afterwards to 
 Adam Cuily, who infeoH'ed it in the Hukenhams, i\nA this they joined 
 to the other part, purchased of Henry de Easthall, together with the 
 advowson, so that Westhall or Biikenham's became now the capital 
 manor; and in 1253, Will, de Bukeiiham bad a charter for free-war- 
 ren here, in Ellingham and Bukenluim. In 13<)4, William de Buken- 
 ham purchased the part which was i\ ill. de EsLhuUe's ' of John de 
 lllington, uik\ added it to his manor. In 1313, Ralph de Bukenham 
 aiKl Elizubethh\s wife had it settled on them in reversion, by Thomas 
 Spriggi/ oi'Munesle, who held it in right of ./«//«« his wife, who held 
 it in dower, as widow of a Bukenham. In 13 iG, Hen. de Esihall 
 bought many lands of Ralph de Lerling, merchant, and Agnes his 
 wife, and added them to his mauor; and in the same year William 
 Albon of Old, Bokenluim ; (trustee, I suppose, oi' Ralph de Buken- 
 Itam,) settled Bukenham's manor here, by tine, on Lucia de La-Mai/ne- 
 zearin of Easf-Heriing ; it had then y messuages, !i29 acres of land, 
 6 of wood, and 20^. quilrent belonging to it, and extended into 
 Lerling, Hoekham, and R-ircdham In 132!), Adam de iVrotham 
 settled two messuages, &e. on Jeffry de Holbech of lllington, with 
 
 boies. xxii. acr. terre, semper i. car. in lafo, et vv.d. de Gelto, et hoc de Cas- 
 
 dnio ct iii. car. horn. tunc. val. xx. sol. tello de Laqtiis. 
 
 post ei modo xxx. suca in Bucham. to- ' See p. 381, 424, note i. 
 
 turn habet dim. in longo et iiii. quar. io
 
 1 L L I N G T O N. 449 
 
 remainder to Aveline, widow of Roger De-la-Mui/newarin, who was 
 
 heir ot" Jeffeiy. 
 
 In 1.343, JoiiN DE EsTUALL held half a fee of Jdam de Clifton, 
 he of the Earl IVarren, and he of the King, which half fee was held 
 of tiie said John by the Abbot of Siheton, H'i/liam Piiyne, Simon 
 Ropeie, Jo/ill attt More, IViUiam de Easlhalle, Robert, son oi Alan 
 Le-Loiig, John de Long, Ralph the merchant, John of Rozcdliam, 
 and Henri/ de Kslhnll ; and in the same year, Ralph of Illington and 
 his tenants held a ijiiarter of a fee of tlie said Adam, lialf of wliich 
 William de Bukenhani lield of him; and thus these small manors 
 continued in various hands, and were called by divers names, accord- 
 ing to their possessors, till 1373, and then James de IVrolham, and 
 John Chan of Thetford, were lords of most of them, and each having 
 a moiety, they presented jointly ; and in 1392, they became all united 
 in the two chief manors of ll'eslhall and Eaxtliall, together with all 
 the lands belonging to Ilelholme and Denvere Hall manors in Ler- 
 ling, which laid in Illiiigloii, the moiety of all which were then con- 
 veyed by Henry Pakenliain, Johitde Breccli/s, Tho. Fineh of Thetford, 
 and Eliz. his wife, to John Brusierd, from tlie heirs oi' Eliz IChaa]; 
 and the next year John Bokenham,jun\o{, IVilliam and John Rookzcood, 
 and John Breecles, settled the other moiety on John Rookwood and his 
 heirs, in trust for Robert Flemyng o( Boriewell, and ^//ce his wife, who 
 was daughter of the said John ; and soon after John Bokenham,jnn. 
 John Britsii/erd, and Joan his wife, settled the first moiety on John 
 Rookzcood, in trust for Robert Flemi/ng and his heirs, who now became 
 sole lord of the whole town. In 14<21, William Flemyng, Esq. was 
 lord and patron ; but before 1428, it was divided again into moieties, 
 the first of which (with the whole advowson) was held by Richard 
 Flemyng, Esq. and the second by Joh)i Groos oi' Irsted, who died 
 seized in 1428, as you may see under Welholme's manor in Lerling ; 
 (p. 429;) and from this time it went by the name of East //«// manor, 
 and extinguished with the said manor of JVelholmc's. 
 
 The m^nor of If est Hall or Biikenham's continued in the Fle- 
 myngs ; and in 1450, Sir Tho. Flemyng, Knt. was lord and patron ; 
 in 1469, Margaret his wife had it;' in 1503, the whole was joined, 
 and a fine levied between IVilliam Tye and Nieholas Bukenhani, que- 
 rents, and Lawrence Goner and Maud his wife, deforceants, of the 
 advowson and manors of Easthall, /I eslall, fl elhanis, Stratlon, and 
 Illington, in order to settle it on the Jermyns; and in 1530, Sir Tho. 
 Jerniyn, Knt. settled it on Sit John J ley don, Knt. and Katherine, 
 wife of Sir Christopher Heydon of Baconsthorp, Knt. and in 1539, a 
 fine was levied, confirming the same; it after belonged to Fulk 
 Gray, after that to James Downes, and in 155f), Jerome Spring, and 
 Elizabeth his wife, had it; but in \(i7 1, Christopher Gascoigne was 
 lord and patron, who held it till about iGOO, and was succeeded by 
 John Gascoign, Gent, his son and heir, whose son Cotton Gasroign, 
 Gent, had it; in lG2(J he married ^-i/(»t', daughter of Sir fVil/iani 
 De-Grei/ oi' Merton, Knt. who had it settled on her in Jointure; she 
 after married lo Sir John Faigrave, who was lord and patron during 
 her life, the reversion being sold by Cotton Gascoign, Esq. to 
 
 SuJoHN Chuecu.man, Knt. who presented iu 1664, and settled 
 here. This family is descended from John Churchmuu, citizen of 
 London, and Entme his wife, ia the time of King Richard 11. who iu
 
 450 SHROPHAM. 
 
 1387 were joint purchasers o( Skehiirgli manor and advowson, from 
 whom descended Ozias, or Oti// Churchman, merchant-tailor of St. 
 Ans^Kstiiics parish in London, in 1G32, in whicli year ho married 
 Mary, daughter of Call/ of Lolhbury, from whom descended Sir John 
 Churchman of lllington, Knt. who married Hester, daus^luer of Sir 
 John Gore of Geldeston, in Hertfordshire, Knt.* and had John 
 Churchman of lllington, Esq. who was buried here in 1688, wiio, by 
 Susan, daughter and heir of Fishe of Stiveky in Norfofk, who, after 
 his death, remarried to Maurice She/ton of Barninghum in Suffolk, 
 Esq. had fVilUam Churchman of lllington, the present [1737] lord and 
 patron,' who bears arg. two bars, in ciiief as many pallets sab. 
 
 In 134G, Peter de EsthaJlc held 42 acres in this town, of Seckford's 
 manor in IVest-Herling, (see p. 300,) and the several manors in Ler- 
 ling, Thorphall manor in JVrotham, East-Herling manor, 8ic. extended 
 hither. 
 
 SHROPHAM, 
 
 bcEREPHAMjSERPEHAM, ScROPHAM, or as it is now Called, Shrop- 
 H AM, was a town of more than common note, when the hundreds were 
 first appointed, as is evident from its giving name to the hundred ; at 
 present it is a common vilIage,not so large by agreat deal as many in 
 this hundred are, though it consists of three ancient villages, the two 
 last of which have been so far lost, that thej' are not so much as known 
 by their original names oi' Breccles-Pana, and Broadcar, or Bradcar. 
 
 BRECCLES-PARVA, or LITTLE BRECCLES, 
 
 At the lime of the Conquest, was a separate town, belonging to 
 Roger Bigot,* haying in it nine freemen under him, who held IJO 
 acres of land ; the manor was worth 10s. a year, and was then in 
 Wayland hundred; but being given to the Earl of yi/; H)/f/t7 by the 
 said Roger, with his daughter Maud,^ he added it to his hundred of 
 iShropham, which belonged to his castle of Bukenham, and afterwards 
 infeoft'ed ihe Breccleses; who always held it of the Earl of Arundel, 
 at a quarter of a fee, as of his hundred of Shropham. In Henry the 
 Third's time, John de Breccles was lord ; and in 1345, John de Brcc- 
 cles, his grandson, had it; in 1402, Benedict de Breccles held it, and 
 oon after it belonged to IVillium de iSiarburgh, whose daughter Ela 
 
 * Chauncy's Hertfordi.hire, fol. 189. 117.) Wenelunt Hund. In Breccles 
 ^ 1 he manor of lllington is now very viiii. liberi homines ex. acr. et i. villan. 
 
 small, the greatest part (if not the whole) et i. bord. et x. acr. prati, semper ii. 
 being purchased by the lord. car. et val. x.s. 
 
 * Terra Rogeri Bigoti, (Domsday fo. ' Sec p. 369, 370.
 
 SHROPHAM. 451 
 
 had it, she first married Thomas Shouldham, and afterwards Henry 
 Spilinan, who died seized in 1494, and Thomas Spilmau his son inhe- 
 rited, and hisson./oA« had it in 1563; in 1567, it belonged to jFr««cw 
 Woodhouse, Esq. who sold it to Thomas She/ton, Esq. at which time 
 the manor was extinct, the whole being purchased in ; it had then a 
 fold-course and free fishery, and extended into Shiopham, Breccles- 
 Magiia, and Ilockham; it afterwards came to the Barkers, John 
 Barker, Esq. tlie present owner, hath built a seat here, which is the 
 only house in this place. 
 
 I'lie cluirch was a rectory, given by Roger Bigot, lord here, to the 
 Priory of ThelJ'ord, when he founded it, and so it came wholly to that 
 house, to which it was contirmed by Ileitri/ U. f but it being a very 
 small place, the monks agreed to take a pension of 8s. a year, from 
 the rector oi Shropham, in lieu of all the tithes.' It was annexed to 
 Shropham, and the church was demolished before i,V/z^a;f/ the Third's 
 time, and the parishioners had the parochial chapel of St. Andrew in 
 Shrophum, which till that time belonged to Bradcar, assigned them 
 for their parish church, Bradcar being then entirely united to Shrop- 
 ham; and this continued single for some time, though not very long; 
 for before 1332 the rectory and chapel" was annexed to St. Peter 
 and Pa«/'s church of .S/(ro/)Aaw, so that I meet with no institutions 
 to either of them. At the first settling the vicarage, part of the land 
 in Little Breccles, which belonged to Thompson college, was to pay 
 all tithes to the college; but upon the last settlement in 1414, the 
 vicar was to receive all the great and small tithes oi' Lit tie Brecc/es, 
 so that the vicar oi Shropham is rector of Little Breccles at this time; 
 and in 1514, upon the complaint of the parishioners oi Little Breccles 
 in the parish oi' Shropham, setting forth that since the settlement the 
 vicar had neglected serving the chapel, contrary to the terms of the 
 consolidation, which, notwithstanding the appropriation, was still an 
 entire rectory to him, the Bishop swore Sir Robert Morley, at liis 
 institution in 1519, to perform service in it to the parishioners of 
 Little Breccles, as you may sec under his institution. This was de- 
 molished about Edward the Fourth's time. 
 
 BIIOADCAR, OR BRADCAR, 
 
 Was included in Shropham at the Conquest, but was independent of 
 it some time after,' and had the parochial chapel of St. Andrew for 
 their church,' till it was resigned to the parishioners oi Little Breccles, 
 when this was united to Shropham; it belonged to Roger Bicrot at 
 the Conquest,^ and to Andrew de Ilengham in 1235; it was afterwards 
 
 * Ecclesiara de Serepham, &c. Dug. "> E Caitis pen. nie. 
 
 Mon. Ang. torn. i. fol. 667. ' I find the name only of one parson 
 
 ' The Prior ot Westacre had a pen- before the union, viz. Peter the parson 
 
 sion of a mark a year out of Shropham of Bradcar. 
 
 rectory, which was a perpetual compo- * Terra Rogeri Bigoti. (Donis. fo. 
 
 sition for the tithes of the prior's lands 127.) Hiind. bcerephain. In H'lcham 
 
 belonging to his rectory of Great Brcc- iiii. libi. homines, et in bcrepeham v. et 
 
 cles, lying in Little Breccles. in Wileby i. et in Bescthorp, inter to- 
 
 ' It stood about a furlong south-west turn iii. car. tre. et ii. acr. et dim et vi. 
 
 of Shropham church; the site belongs bord. et xvii. acr. prati. silv. viii. pore, 
 
 to the vicar; it is still enclosed, and is semper v. car. Totum val. Ixvui. >ol. 
 
 now called the Old Churchyard. soca in Bucham Regis. In Scerpham i.
 
 452 
 
 S U R O P H A M. 
 
 added lo, and became a pari of, Pakenham's manor, and was always 
 held of the Earls of y^/M«c/f// at half a fee, as of their hundred of 
 Shropham, and is that pait of S/iropham which joins to the river by 
 Unetcrtoii. 
 
 The vicarage is valued in the King's Books at 8/. 13s. Qf/. and being 
 sworn of the clear yearly value of 30/. '2s. dd. it is discharged of first 
 fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation; it pays '2<. syno- 
 chds, being endowed with the rectory-house and all the glebe land, 
 except an acre and half, anil all the great and small tithes of Brecclcs- 
 Parva, and all other tithes in Bradcar and Slnoplunn, exce|)t the 
 tithes of corn and grain, which belong to the impropriation. It is in 
 Norfolk archdeaconry, and deanery of Rocklaiul, and in l(i03 had 
 120 communicants, and now [1737J there are about C.JO inhabitants. 
 It paid 7/. \3s. 4d. to the tenths, and is now assessed al(JlO/. 5s. 
 'J'here were three gilds kept in the church of St. Peter and Paul at 
 Shropham ;^ the first was the gild of St. Peter and Paul, the second 
 of St. John Baptist, and the third of our Lady, and there was another 
 gild in St. Jndrezc's church, held in honour of that Apostle.* 
 
 The Prior of the monks at Thetford had divers small pieces of land 
 here, which were taxed at Cs. 
 
 The Abbot oi' Bun/, at the Conquest, had a freeman, who held SO 
 acres of him ; this was afterwards appropriated to the use of the infir- 
 mary of that monastery, and the keeper of the infirmary received the 
 profits till the Dissolution, and was taxed at 5s. and so paid 6d. every 
 tenth. 
 
 The temporcdities of Bee abbe}', and Okebourne priory wrere taxed 
 8s. 9d. ob. 
 
 The Prior of Bukenham was taxed at fis. ob. for his temporalities, 
 which were small rents issuing out of divers lands in this town, paid 
 to the priory manor of Bukenham, of which they were held. 
 
 RECTORS AND VICARS. 
 
 1284,* Will, de Hengham, rector. 
 
 1332, 4 kal. Juli/, Ralph de Coggeshale, clerk, was instituted to the 
 rectory of the church of St. Peter at Shropham, with the chapel of 
 St. Andrew lately annexed to the same, at the presentation of John, 
 son of Sir John de Coggishalis, Knt. 
 
 1358, 10 Dec. Walter de Elveden, priest, at Ralph's resignation. 
 John de Cokefield, Knt.; he exchanged his precentorship in 
 Hereford cathedral, for this rectory. 
 
 1360, 7 Mai/, Walter Le-Pestour, priest. Sir John de Cogges- 
 HAI.ES, Knt. 
 
 1371, 29 Octob. Tho. de Berton, priest. Sir Henry de Cogges- 
 hale, Knt. 
 
 1396, 6 Jan. Sir Thomas, son of Lawrence of Horstede. John 
 
 liber homo xxx. acr. terre semper i. 
 bord. et iii.acr. prati et dim. car. etval. 
 iiii. sol. soca in eodem Biicham. In 
 Scerpham i. lib. ho. viii. acr. terre et i. 
 car. dim. prati et ii. bov. et val. xvi. 
 den. 
 ' Regr, Grundesburgh, fo. 1J5. 
 
 ♦ Regr. Geloiir. 
 
 ' Doms. fol. 298. In Scerepham, 
 Abbas Sci. Edmundi tenet i. lib. xxx. 
 acr. iii. acr. prati, i. bor. dim. car. val. 
 iiii. sol. 
 
 * In 1170, William de Selot gave land 
 to St. Peter's church at Shropham.
 
 SHROPIIAM. 453 
 
 Metiielwold. Tliis man was ihe last rector of this parish, for in 
 13<)8 the master and fellows of St. Marlins college at Tliomaton 
 (or Tomsoii) obtained a bull from Pope Boniface to appropriate the 
 church of St. Peter at Shropham, together with the chapel of St. 
 Andrew thereto annexed, to their college for ever, on condition there 
 should be a vicarage ordained by the Hishop of .Vora;V7(, which should 
 be settled by him and his snccessours, to their pleasure and liking, 
 provided that the patronage of the vicaiage should belong to the 
 master and brethren of the said college, and accordingly in 
 
 \398,G Jttfi/, Ifetin/ Stoket of Es^oh, priest, was instituted lo the 
 vicarage of the parish church of St. Peter at Shropham, with tlir 
 chapel of St. Aiidrac annexed, at the presentation of the master 
 and fellows of Thomestoii college, who presented all the following 
 vicars till their dissolution ; and in 
 
 1410, Alexander Bishop of Nonclch, by virtue of the power reserved 
 in Pope Boniface the Ninth's bull,' and because Bishop Henri/ Le- 
 Dispenser his predecessor, who consented to the appropriation, had 
 appointed no further about the vicarage, but that it should be worth 
 «20 marks a year, besides the vicars dwelling in the rectory-house, 
 further declared and settled the vicarage in this manner, that the 
 vicars should have the hall, its chambers, the kitchen, the bake-house, 
 stable, and the chamber called the guest-chamber, a long house with 
 ii chamber over it, called the priest's chamber, with all the houses 
 belonging thereto, and the garden of half an acre adjoining thereto, 
 the whole being the rectory-house and its site together with 24 acres 
 of arable land (part of the glebe) lying near the house, with the same 
 liberty of faldage, as the rectors had before the appropriation, and 
 all the alterage, oblations, mortuaries, and personal tithes, tithes of 
 calves, chickens, lambs, pigs, foals, geese, ducks, pigeons, wool, milk, 
 flax, hemp, cheese, apples, pears, curtilages, mills, turf, herbage, 
 pasturage, wood, fish, fowl, wax-candles offered, and all other offer- 
 ings to the altars, or images, in both church and chapel, ploughshote, 
 trees growing on the glebe and churchyards, together with the 
 churchyards, tithes of hay, conies, and all other tithes whatever, 
 except the tithes of corn and grain, all which were to belong to the 
 college; and it was then also settled, that the vicar should pay all 
 the procurations due for the said church, and all other pensions due 
 before the appropriation, viz. Is. id. a year to the archdeacon, and 85. 
 a year pension to the Vnox of Thelford ; and that the vicar should 
 liave nothing from the college-land, called Breccles-Hohn, and that 
 the master should pay an annual rent of 20s. a year to the Bishop for 
 the first fruits, which would cease upon the appropriation, and that he 
 should be taxed at 10/. for the great tithes, and the vicar at 7 marks 
 for his vicaratre ; and this being thus settled, the Bishop, in 
 
 1411,0 Jpiil, collated William Ilelget/e, priest, by lapse, who re- 
 signed in 
 
 1414, 8 Sept. to William Snell, nriest, in exchange for Shipton 
 Solars in fl'orcester diocese, to whicli Uelgeye was instituted, at the 
 presentation of John Soi.eks, lord there, as Snell was to this vicar- 
 age, at the presentation of the master and fellows ; he held it till 
 May J, 1422, and then resigned it; and at his resignation, with the 
 consent of the bishop and the master, voided by deed, the former 
 
 "> Lib. Instimt. N" 7, fo. 69. 
 VOL. I. 3 M
 
 454 SHROPIIAM. 
 
 assignation of the vicarage;' and the same day after the avoidance, the 
 bislio(> and master settled the vicarage for evermore to coiiliiuie, as 
 in the former assignation, except in this, that wiicreas the College 
 paid \6 marks in mone}' yearly to the vicar, besides the vicarage, out 
 of the great tithes, the vicars for the future should iiave, and receive 
 in kind, all the corn-tithes, and all other tithes whatsoever, arising 
 and coming from Bircc/fs-Pdrid,' together with all the glebe belong- 
 ing to the rectory," before the appropriation, except half an acre on 
 the east side of the rectory-house, and one acre in Bieccles Holm, 
 and in every thing else the first assignation was to be valid to all in- 
 tents and purposes, and soon after the master and fellows, viz. 
 
 142'2, 13 June, presented Rich. Blok of Helgei/e, priest, who was 
 then instituted vicar. 
 
 14C6, 30 ^ug. Gregory Dalle, priest, on Richard Ilelgeye's re- 
 signation. 
 
 1435, 19 May, John Lalle, priest, on Dalle's resignation. 
 
 1449, 24 May, John Chaumberleyii, priest, on Lane's resignation, 
 Mr. Will. Bettys, master of the college. 
 
 1457, IS May, Thomas Smale, on Chaumberleyn's resignation. He 
 resigned for Lerling. (see p. 431.) 
 
 1469, 2() March, John Barsham, on Smale's resignation. 
 
 1476, 5 Fehr. Sicholas Brytni, priest. 
 
 1494, 05 Sept. Tho. FairacH, on Bryan's resignation. Ambrose 
 Ede, master of St. Martin's college at Thomeston.^ 
 
 1514, 7 March, Robert Pitts. By lapse. 
 
 1519, 17 Febr. the Bishop presented Sir Robert Morley, by reason 
 of the vacancy of the college, and swore him to perform service twice 
 in a week, and upon the four principal offering-days in every year, in 
 the chapel of St. Andrero, (of Breccles-Parva,) which was annexed 
 to his church, the former vicars having neglected their duly, in serv- 
 ing the parish of Breccles-Parva since tlie consolidation, and the 
 parishioners would sufier it no longer, as being contrary to the terms 
 of the consolidation; and as their parish of Breccles-Pana, notwith- 
 standing the appropriation was in effect, an entire rectory to the 
 vicar. 
 
 1526, 24 June, Will. .Johnson, priest, on Morley' s death. 
 Nicholas Marshall, vicar. 
 
 1539, 9 Dec. Richard Ramnie, on MarshalTs death. Robert 
 AwDELEY, master of Tho?npson chantry. 
 
 1554, 16 Sept. George IJalsled, (or llaaghe,) priest, on Ramme's 
 death. Anthony Hevenynguam, Knt. and Mary his wife. 
 
 1574, 19 June, John Scott, A. M. at Jlaughe's deatii. The mayor 
 and commonalty of the city of A'^o/a'ii/f, who have presented ever 
 since, and are now patrons. 
 Thomas Stafford. 
 
 1587, 15 May, Alexander IVestall, A.B. on Stafford's lesigaation. 
 
 1661, 25 July, Henry Moyse, A. M. 
 
 » Lib. Inst. N° 7, fo. 151 h. The » All these were excepted from the 
 
 original instrument, witli the college vicar, in tlie first assignation, 
 
 seal hanging to it, and two seals (viz. ' It was only part of it before, 
 
 the Bishop's and Prior's) cut ofl", was in * He was doctor in the decrees, rec- 
 
 thc hands of Mr. Chapel), towii-clerk of tor of Oxburgh, and of Caston by Stow, 
 
 Norwich, Oct. 6, 1715. and principal official to the Bishop.
 
 SHROPIIAM. 455 
 
 lfi84, 19 June, Will. Warkhouse, A. M. at Moyse's death, uiiiled to 
 Lerling. 
 
 17'2'2, CO Oct. the Rev. Mr. Nicholas Neec/i, on Warkhouse s cession, 
 uho holds it united to Snetlerton. 
 
 This Church is a good building, iiaving a square tower and five 
 bells.' On a brass plate is this, 
 
 l^tc meet agne.si 23enii. 
 
 On an old seat you may read this, 
 
 J^ran for tlje ©jidfare of SljoniBiS 25tnri and ftatljerinc Ijis ©nfft 
 
 anno Dm: 
 l©il(imo: €>C£C€lt1iui. 
 
 They seated the church at this lime, and made the screens between 
 the church and chancel, and tiiose between the north isle and the 
 chapel of St. Catherine, at the cast end of it. In a north chancel 
 window is, ; - J €:. 2?. fiCttonsi ; - - For Thomas Berlou, who was the 
 last rector but one, in whose time the chancel was glazed. 
 
 Under the king's arms is this, 
 
 <©ob siabc tlje ftina. (J itn\i ijim long to raunt , 
 %n Jjcltl) ano peace tljc <6o6pel to maintain. 
 
 On three marbles in the chancel. 
 
 Hie positus est JACOBUS BARKER Armig: (Filius Uni- 
 cus et Hseres JOHANNIS BARKER de Thorndon in Com: 
 Suff. Gen:) obijt 15° die Febr. Anno Dni: 1718, .Sltatis suae 58. 
 
 MARY, late Wife of GEORGE LE-HUNT, of New- 
 Bukenham, Gent, died June 30, 1721, aged 51 Years. 
 A saltirc impaling per fess, a star of eight points, counterchanged. 
 
 JOHN HART, Gent, died March 2, 1711, -flEt. G7. 
 
 There remain in the windows the arms of CoGGESHALL,(see p. 24.) 
 Pakenham, quarterly, or and gul. in the first quarter an eagle 
 displayed vert. 
 
 Arg. a lion rampant murrey, with a forked tail, the arms of Tho- 
 mas DE Berton, sometime rector, as appears by his seal in my own 
 collection. 
 
 BRETON'S on PAKENHAM'S MANOR, 
 
 Belonged at the Confessor's survey to Anaut, and to Earl Hugh at 
 the Conqueror's, of whom Richard de Veniun then held it; it was 
 worth M. in Anaul's time, and afterwards 4/.;* the whole of Shropham 
 
 ' In 1410, Henry Pakenham, Esq. for which they paid to Rob. Burford of 
 
 Roger Caiiz, Thomas Lusher, Adam London 31/. i+s. 71/. Aiitog. pen. me. 
 
 Beny, and Henry Walman of Shropham, + Tcrre Hiigonis Comitis. Scerepham 
 
 gave a new bell with all its furniture, liundr. (fol. 73.) Sccrcphani, tenet
 
 436 
 
 SHROPHAM. 
 
 was then above two miles long and one broadband paid ISd.geld; 
 the siiperiour jurisdiction belonged then to the hundred, tiie lord of 
 which hath the leet (fee 3s.) ani it extended into Snetertoii, as it now 
 does.' 
 
 The first lord that I meet with, after the Conquest, was Richard de 
 Kanki/. In 1230, Half de Jernemuth conveyed it to Richard Le 
 Fresture. In 1308, John Le f eyle of Baminsham, granted it to 
 Peter Le Breton of Shropham ; it extended then into Uneterton, 
 Wileby, liarkham, Lerliiig, Brelenhaiii, Illington, Rokeland, and Stoio- 
 Bydon; afterwards, Stephen Uryttoun had it; after this it divided, 
 and in 1345, Richard de Cauz held half a fee of it, of John Gernnun, 
 and the same Richard, Richard Herberd, Walter GoodhaU, Henri/ 
 atte Green, and Robert of Bokcnham, held the other half fee of Ro- 
 bert de Morley, and he of the King, which Peter of Shrop/uim, Roger 
 Cauz, and others, formerly held. In 1367, Henry de Breton was lord, 
 ■who this year left it to his two sisters, his heiresses; Lettice and Jgnes, 
 whose son and heir, Henry de Pakeuham, inherited her moiety ; it was 
 then held as parcel of Taieshal/ barony : Lettice married John Heryng 
 of Thompson, whose son and heir, John Heryng, was lord of his part 
 in 1393, and in 1394, Henry Heryng, clerk, brother and heir of .7o/j», 
 held his part by the two hundredth part of Tateshall barony; Henry 
 Pakenham, Esq. at his death, left his part to Henry, his son and heir, 
 who lived at Shropham in his manor-house, called Pakenham Hall. 
 About 1408, he became heir to Henry Hering of Thompson, clerk, and 
 so the whole of this part was joined in him; the other parts of the 
 half fee which was divided in 1345, were held in 144<2, by the heirs of 
 Henry Breton, Roger Cans, Richard Cans, and the heirs of Richard 
 Herberd, IValter Goodale, Robert de Bokenham, and Henry atte 
 Green. 
 
 Henry PAKiiNHAAi died in 1445, and left Robert Pakenham of 
 Shropham, Esq. his son and heir, 30 years old, who held it till 1463,* 
 when he died, and was buried, according to his will,' in the chapel of St. 
 Catherine at the east end of the north isle of St. Peter's church in 
 Shropham ; he gave his horse to the priest for his mortuary ; to the 
 high altar Vis.4d.; to repair the church fis. 8^. ,' and to repair St. 
 Andrew's :>s. id.; the manor he bequeathed to Henry his son, and 
 gave Garboldesham manor (see p. 257) to his wife for life, with all his 
 manors in Staffordshire ; and ordered 200 marks to be paid out of 
 Palcenham manor, to his daughter Margery, and would have a trental^ 
 
 Richardiis de Vermin, quam tenuit 
 Anaut lib. homo T.R.E. ii. car. terre. 
 semper iiii. vill. et xiii. bord. ct ii. serv. 
 et XX. acr. prati semper ii. car. in dnio. 
 et i. car. hom. et ii. mol. ct de diiobus 
 molinis qiiartas paries, tunc i. acr. ni° 
 ii. tunc X. pore. m° vL tunc xxx. oves 
 m" xxviiii. ct ii. soc. i. acr. terre ct 
 qiiarta pars minus acre, tunc val. Ix. 
 sol. m' similiter sed red. Ixxx. Totiim 
 habet i. leiig. in longo, et dim. in Uto, 
 et xviii.rf. deGclto. Soca Regis in Bii- 
 cliam tempore R.E. et semper donee 
 Walterus de Dol habiiit de dono Radiilfi 
 ut Ggdricusdicit. Terra Hugonis Co- 
 mitis. (Doms. fo. 73.) In Snetrctuna 
 
 xl. acr. terre tenuit idem et i. bord. ct 
 dim. acr. prati tunc dim car. 
 
 s Seep. 428. 
 
 * He had Virley's manor in Snetesham. 
 
 ' Autog. pen. me. 
 
 " A trcntal is an obit for the dead, so 
 called, as Minsheu says, from the Coun- 
 cil of Trent; but I rather think, fronj 
 the number of masses, which every tren- 
 tal had, as it should seem from the Latin 
 name, Trigintalc, that is, an oflice of 30 
 masses ; if it was a yearly trental, then it 
 was called annualc ; if it was given for 
 once only, then it consisted of a mass 
 said for the departed, 30 days together, 
 and this in old wills is called trigintalc 
 or trentale.
 
 SHROPHAM. 457 
 
 celebrated for his soul soon after his death ; he desired Will. Warner, Esq. 
 and John Lalle, rector of Rokeland All-Saints, his feoffees, to perform 
 his will. Will. Berdewell, Esq. Hubert Spelman, William Mounteni/ of 
 Threxton, and Tho. Beiii/, senior, were executors; Hen. I'akenkam 
 died seized, in 1495, of this and Hont/ng manor, and of divers free 
 tenements and lands in Huni/ng, Nur'thwalsliam, Worsted, Crostweyth,. 
 and WittoH, axWed Brake's, Wales s, and Lombe's. He left two daugh- 
 ters his heiresses; Elizabeth married John Sturges, senior, and had 
 the moiety of this manor in her right, and purchased the other 
 moiety of Anne Dobbes, her sister, to whom she sold her moiety of 
 Garboldeshum ; and in 1529, John Sturges senior, of Cranworlh, and 
 Elizabeth his wife, levied a fine of the manor of Falcenliam's, other- 
 wise Breton's, to Humphrey Wyngfield, in trust; and in 1333, Sturges 
 had license to alien it to Nicholas Si/!c:hat and his heirs. In 1558, 
 Philip Applet/ard and Mary his wife had it, and not long after it was 
 united to Bradker, with which it still [1737] continues. 
 
 BRADEKER, or BRADCAR, 
 
 Was a distinct manor, belonging to Aluric in the Confessor's, and to 
 Gilbert the yJrcher in the Conqueror's time,' it being worth 30s. and 
 afterwards 40 ; and the soke belonged to the hundred. In 1235, An- 
 drezo de Hiiigham held Bradekore at half a fee, as part of the fees of 
 lioger Bigot, which he gave to the Earl of Arundell. In 1250, Henrij 
 de Hengham was lord, and obtained a charter of free warren in all 
 his lands in Bradeker and Bathele ; in 1284, William de Henglmm, 
 parson of Shropham, settled divers messuages and lands in Bnidkijr 
 and Shropham, on Roger Le-Veuze and Alice his wife; in 1285, An- 
 drew de Hengham was summoned to shew cause why he did not pay 
 the King 90 marks, which were behind, of a certain annual rent of 
 two marks a year, due to the King out of certain tenements that the 
 said Andrew held in Shropham. In 1286, Alexander de Hingham had 
 view of J rankpledge, assize of bread and ale, allowed him to this manor ; 
 in 1288, the heirs uf Andrew held Bradeker, at half a fee of the Earl 
 of Pembroke, and in 1295, Andrew de Hengham released to Ralph de 
 Coggeshale the manor of Bradker, consisting of 2 messuages, 296 acres 
 of land, 3 mills, 77s. 3d. rent in Bradker, Shropham, Snitterton, 
 }f ilby, -and Hocham, together with the advowson of Shropham church. 
 In 1319, Sir Johnde Coggeshalehad it, wbo, in 1327, settled it in tail 
 on himself and Margaret his wite, and their heirs; and in 1331, John,. 
 then- son and heir, had it, who, in 1348, settled the whole except one 
 acre and the advowson, on himself, Margaret his wife, and Thomas 
 tlieii- son, in tail; in 1360, the same John had it, and Henry was his 
 son and heir, 30 years old ; and in 1372, the said Sir Henry de Cot- 
 ges/tale, Knt. Thomas his brother, and Joan, wife of the said Hen°u, 
 daughter and heiress of IVilliam de Welle, sold the acre of land, and 
 the udvowsons of the church and chapel annexed, together with the 
 manor of Bradker in Shropham, to 
 
 c ' ^^I!"* *^i^'^''^7" Arbal. fo. 285. H. xxx. acr. iiii. ac. prati et i. bor. etsem- 
 
 wcercihaml .K.E.tenuitAluricusi.car. per dim, ca. modo i. rune, et ii. anim. 
 
 tcne pro. 1. man. semper iii bor. tiincet iii. pore, modo viii. tunc Ixxx. modo xl. 
 
 post u. ser. modo 1. et x. arc. prati tunc et iii. vasu apiim. totuni val. xxx. sol. 
 
 n. car post etmodoi. semper 1. mol . et Soca de libero hoc. in Biicham. 
 I. lib. no. additus est hie pro escang. de
 
 458 SIlROPllAM. 
 
 Sir Thomas SiunDELOw, Knt. ami his trustees, who sold liim the 
 manor ot" \etc/iaU in Boiefiam, Springjicld-Puna , Badew-Parca, 
 Jl'a/thtim, and llaljicld Pivcicll in Essex, by way of exchange, on 
 conehtion that Sir !/'/;o. Slioidcloic, Knt. and his trustees, pay an an- 
 iiiiitv of S/. per iiniium to the said Sir Jhiiii/ and 'riioiuas his biother, 
 during tiicir lives. In 13{)1, 
 
 IticHARD Earl of jiniiidcU and Suiirij, chief lord of the fee of 
 Bradcker manor, for CO/, grained license lo John Milhfno/d, Jo/in 
 Coke, rector of H est Tof'tes, Will. Cotiperc, clerk, and John Hulnei/s, 
 rector of Longford, trustees and feoftccs of Sir The. Shdrde/oue, Knt. 
 to settle the manor of Bradekar Ihill, with the advowsons anil ap- 
 purtenances, then held of him as of his manor of liochaiu, uj)ori 
 yllcxander, master of Thompson college, and the fellows there, and 
 their successonrs, for ever; on condition, that during the life of 
 Phi/lipa, the Earl's wife, the college should pay her QOs. at every 
 vacancy, as a relief, in lieu of all services: this is dated at Casf/e- 
 Aere,\n the Earl's castle there, the lOlh day of ./«Hf, in the year 
 aforesaid;' and in 1394, the trustees settled them on the college, 
 where they continued to its dissolution, and were granted in 14J0 to 
 Edmund kue-eet , Knt. together with Llie whole revenues of the col- 
 lege; and in 1.541 he had license to ioW Brudcar and the rectory, 
 and the advowson of the vicarage, to John FloKcrdeu- and his heirs, 
 who, in 1545, sold them to Edzcard BiUingham, and he, in 1546, to 
 Tho. Clere, and he, in 1547, to Sir Jnthonif IJevenyngham, who 
 aliened them to Sir Ralph Shcltone and his heirs, in trust for Sir An- 
 thuni/ and his wife during their lives; she outlived him, and held it to 
 157'j, and left Sir Arth. lleveningham, Knt. her son and heir, who sold 
 it to the mayor and commonalty of the city of Ao;a'/c7(, who are now 
 lords, impropriators, and patrons. 
 
 MUDIGWELL, or MUDINGWELL'S MANOR, 
 
 Was owned by Eudo the Seicer, of whom Rouland held it at the sur- 
 vey ;* it had been worth GOs. but was fallen to 37; it was held of the 
 hundred, and Lisius and Eitdo both claimed against Rouland; in 
 1 198, Julian and Emma, daughters of Richard [de Bradeker'\ sold it 
 to fVimar, son of Jlilliam [of 'Shropham] ; in 1218, Emma and Belisant, 
 daughters of Hervy de Sckropham, added many lands to it, which they 
 purchased of Thonuis de Snetterton, and Maud his wife, and of Simon 
 de Medeluolde, and j4m>/ his wife. In 1C79, Philip, son of Tho. de 
 Mudigzcell of Shropham, at the death of Thomas his father, renewed 
 the rental,' and after this it was much divided ; for in I'iy;), Roger, 
 son of J dam of Shropham, purchased a part of U alter, son of Andrew 
 Dc-la-JVade, and soon after we find in the Feodari/, that Peter [de 
 iludigzcelQ of Shropham, Roger he Cauz, Will, de lloeham, Rieh.de 
 Sneterton, and Peler I'itz-Usbert, held the whole at half a fee, of 
 JVill. Mareshall, and he of the King, notwithstanding which, the 
 
 ' The seal is very fair, the crest is a dim. fen. Rolandus et vi. ac. prati. silv. 
 
 griffin's head between two wings ; the vi. pore, tunc iii. car. post etm'^ ii. tunc 
 
 siipportei-i two griffins ; theanns, Aran- val. Ix. sol. ni° -xxxvii. soca in Bucham 
 
 del and Warren quartered. Rejjis, sed Lisius rctinuit ct Eulo simi- 
 
 ^Tcrre Eudonis Dapifcri. (fol. 236,) In liter. 
 
 Scerepham viii. lib. liuies. i. car. terrc et * From tlic rental in my own collection. 
 
 ;
 
 II O C H A M. 450 
 
 chief part continued to be a manor; and in 1S41, Henry de Mndi/ivj^- 
 tedl was lord; in I38J, lioh. de AUfslidtn and .llhc (lis wife con- 
 veyed it to Sir Miles Stapleton, and Sir Itogir de liuifs, Knts. and 
 their heirs; in 1j05, John Dade ol' IVittiiii in Norfolk died seized of 
 Madingwell manor, in Slimp/inm ; in Ijfil, Jo/m IVade, Gent, sold 
 Modi/iigicell manor in Shioplmm, to Sir 'I'lto. JVoodlioii'ie, and IVill. 
 IVoodhouse, Knls. since wliicii time it liath been divided into so many 
 parcels, that it is now extinguished. 
 
 The manors of Suetcrtoii, and divers other adjacent manors, ex- 
 tended into this town. Shropfiam manor is fine certain at 6(1. ati 
 acre. 
 
 H O C H A M. 
 
 rlocHAM, )50C-)3am, or, the (own in the dirt, as the name signifies, 
 was a rectory an|)cndant to the manor till the year 1(227, and then 
 Wanue dc Moiile Cnnisu, or Mnntcln-nsi/, released the advowson to 
 Ricluird I'rior of the monks at ThetJ'oid, to which house it was soon 
 after appropriated, and a vicarage instituted, to which the priors 
 presented till the Dissolution. 
 
 VICARS. 
 
 1349, 3 \ov. John dc Reding of Berningham, priest, Mary 
 Countess of 'Norfolk, for this turn. 
 
 \ol1,6 Jan. Thomas de Goldj/ngton, pv\ciit.. The King, for this 
 turn, on account of the priory alien at Thetford, wliich is now in his 
 hands. 
 
 1376, lO ./(///. Rob. Bert of Brandon, priest, on Goldyng's resig- 
 nation. The IMiioK of the monks at Thetford. 
 
 1377, 13 March, Robert Sliigg of Thtjjord, priest. Ditto. 
 140S, Q, Mai/, yiv. Robert liule^s of iSudbourne, priest. Ditto. 
 1411 J 50 Octob. fVill. Suarescho of lavorth, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1420, 27 Nov. Robert Fenn of Rushworth, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1421, 8 Oct. Robert Trapet, priest. Ditto. 
 
 143S, 10 Jnli/, Rob. Langwude, priest, Wlll, ElvedeN". Sub- 
 Prior of T/iel lord, the piiory being void. 
 
 1438, 15 L)ec. IVilliani Jointure. Ditto. 
 John Barges. 
 
 1483, 4 Dec. Ralph Beelc, on Burges's resignation The Prior. 
 
 1497, WJuiy, II ill. Jtelltfs, on JBeele's death. Uobbrt Prior of 
 T/ulford. 
 
 1527, 18 Not. Brother John Iiuorlh, Prior of the monks at Thet- 
 ford, was instituted into the vicarage at his own and his convent's 
 presentation, according to the Pope's dispensation, granted to the
 
 460 II O C H A M. 
 
 priors of the said monastery ; at the death of William JVeUi/s, the prior 
 paid 53-5. 4d. for first fruits, to the Bisiiop, at his institution. 
 
 152<), 1(J l-'fl>r. Robert lli/de was instituted on tiie prior's resigna- 
 tion, who reserved a pension of 4 marks /;<•/•«««(»«, lor I iie, before 
 he presented tli)de to the vicarage, who was the last presented by 
 that house. 
 
 1554, 25 Febr. George Halstede, priest. Thomas Duke of Norfolk. 
 
 IS?.", IS March, John Wolfeiideii. Henuy Coppinger, Gent. 
 
 \ 0^1,10 Sept. Will. Carter, A.M. on [(o//(-/(f/c«'4' resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1606, 21 Jan. John Benson. Robert J f.kmyn, Knt. 
 
 1634, 22 Dec. Robert French, A.M. on Benson's death. Bacoue- 
 viLL Bacon, Esq. 
 
 1636, French resigned, and .John Underwood, A.M. was instituted 
 at the presentation of Baco. Bacon, Esq. and held it united to Study, 
 with a certificate that it was not above 20 miles distant, and tliis is 
 one of the first unions that 1 have met with, that had any certificate 
 of distance, the Bishops ofNorxcich having always had power of 
 uniting any two benefices, so that both were within their own diocese. 
 
 l6Gl, Samuel Greene, A.^^. was instituted to the vicarage oi' Hocham- 
 Magna and Paiia annexed, on the death or John Underwood. Rob. 
 Kerington, Gent, patron. 
 
 ltiC7, 9 July, Peter Lock, A.M. on Greene's death, united to II- 
 iifigton. Philippa Kedington, widow. 
 
 1673, 25 March, Car. Sippins. A .M. on Lock's death. Ditto. 
 
 1679, 20 Oct. John Jialdock, A.M. on Sippins's cession. Ditto. 
 
 I68I, \ijlug. Daniel Bret, A.M. on J5aWoc/c's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1690, 21 July, Henry Goodrich, A.M. on Bret's deprivation. 
 Henry Kedington, Esq. united to Illington. 
 
 1712, 14 Oct. Tho. Sadler, on Goodrich's death. Philip Riley, 
 Esq. 
 
 1714, 16 Jan. IVill. Barcroft, A. B. on Sarf/er's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1717, 9 ^pril, John Abbot, A.B. on Ba?r/-q/i''s resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1724, 1 April, tlie Rev. Mr. John Verdon. A.B. on Abbot's cession, 
 who holds it united to Rozidham. Ditto. 
 
 The impropriation and advowson of the vicarage, at the Dissolution, 
 went with the abbey of Thetford, and all its revenues, to Thomas 
 Duke of Norfolk, who sold it to the Coppingers, and they, about I6OO, 
 to the .Jcrmyns, and so it was joined to the manor. 
 
 The vicarage is valued at 8/. Ms. \\d. in the King's Books, and 
 being sworn of the clear yearly value of 40/. 10s. only, it is discharged 
 of first fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and hath no tower; 
 the ruins of one that hath been dilapidated many years, lie at the 
 west end of the church, in which I find these memorials. 
 
 On a mural monument against the north chancel wall, 
 
 Memoria; Roiieuti Bai.dock, Filij Roberti Baldock, 
 Equitis Aurati, et Marine Uxoris Ejus, natu Minoris, Praelio 
 Navali contra Belgas, 28° die Maij, Anno Dom. 1673, .Sitatis 
 sua; 18, occisi. posuit Pater. 
 
 Coelum, Animam {Spero) annumerat Fa;licibus Umbris, 
 
 Nescius an Corpus lerra, vcl Unda Capit. 

 
 GREAT HOCHAM. 46l 
 
 On flat marbles in the chance), 
 
 Henricus Bacon Armiger, Bacquevilli Bacon Ar. (Dni. Nicholai 
 Bacon de Redgrave, Militis & Baronetti Filij Nalu Tertij) Filius 
 NatuTertius, Bacquevilli Bacon Ar. Frater et Haeres, obijt IS"* 
 die Martij Ano Salutis l6i7. 
 
 Depositum Mariae Filiae Bacquevilli Bacon Ar. Natu maximse, 
 Henrici Bacon Ar. Sororis 8c Cohasredis, Uxoris Roberti Bal- 
 dock Ar : Dote, Fide, Forma, Moribus, Caslitate, Pietate, Desi- 
 deratissimse, ex hac Vita migravit 11° die AugustiAn° Salutis 1662. 
 
 Here lyeth the body of Robert Kedington of Great Hockham, 
 in the County of Norff. Esq ; who took to Wife Philipa, the se- 
 cond Daughter of Bacquevill Bacon, Esq ; Sister and Coheir of 
 Henry Bacon, Esq; he departed this Life the 28 Day of March 
 Anno Dni: I667. 
 
 Phillipa Kedington, Uxor ejus obijt 9 Aug" I69O. 
 
 Henry Kedington,obijt 21 April 1690. Katharina Kedington 
 7 Febr : I69O. 
 
 Rob. Kedington 1 Nov: 1698. Liberi Henr: et Margaretae 
 Kedington. 
 
 Sir Robert Baldock,' one of the Judges of the Common Pleas 
 during the reign of King James II. was buried here ; he died Oct. 4, 
 1691, and had two wives, the first of which was Mary, sister and 
 coheir of Henry Bacon, and daughter of Bacqueville Bacon of Hoc- 
 ham, Esq. 
 
 Jn 1532, Robert Poky of Hoc/iam, was buried in the church, as I 
 find by his will, in which is this clause : " Item I wyll that my tene- 
 " ment sumtyme called Jankyiis lately John Taylour, alias Nehys, 
 " now Robert Foley's, shall fynde and kepe a light before our Lady of 
 " Petye, wyth five prekett candeiis of wa.ve, to burn in the church of 
 " Hocham in tyrae of divyne service in the said church, for ever."* 
 
 GREAT HOCHAM 
 
 Was always one manor, which belonged to Edric in the Confessor's 
 days, and to Roger Bigot at the survey, when it was worth 4/. and 
 was three miles long and one broad, and paid \5d. ge/d;^ it then ex- 
 tended into Wayland hundred, and a freeman that held 8 acres of 
 land in that hundred,' but the superiour lordship of it belonged to 
 Bukenham castle as the rest of the town did, the leet belonging to 
 
 * Regr. Alpe, fo!. 191. tice modo nulla tunc v. nine m° ii. tunc 
 
 'Terra Rogeri Bigoti, (fol. ti6.) See- xii. acr. modo ii. tunc xii. pore. mod» 
 
 repham Hund. Hockham tenuit Edricus viii. semper ecxx. oves, modo ii. vasa 
 
 tegn. T.R.E. v. car. terre tunc et post apum tunc et post val. iiii. lib. et m". 
 
 xiii. vill. modo vii. qn°" recep xi. bor. similiter totum habet i. leug. et dim. in 
 
 et modo similiter tunc et post vii. sol. long, ct dim. leug. in lato, quicunque 
 
 modo iii. xxxvii. acr. prati. Silva c. ibi teneat, et wd. de Gelto. 
 
 pore, tunc et post iii. car. in dnio. modo * Rogerus Bigot, tenet in (fol. 301.) 
 
 ii. tunc iii. car. homin. post et modo ii. H. dc Wanclunt. in Hockham i. lib. ho. 
 
 et ii. car. possent. restaurari ct iiii. soc. commend, tantum viii. acr. val. viii.rf. 
 
 iii. acr. et dim. tunc ccxx, eque silva- soca in Bucliam, 
 
 VOL. I. 3 N
 
 4&2 GREAT HOC HAM. 
 
 the liuiulrccl of S/tiopham, to which the town always paid a common 
 Jine or leet fee of 7s. a year, till the hundred was mortgaged and after 
 sold to the Kediiigtonsi' and then the Icet and leet fie, with all the 
 liberties belonging to the leet and the wiiole liberties which belonged 
 to the hundred were joined to the manor, before they sold the Inin- 
 dredj and excepted upon the sale of it, so that the lord of the hundred 
 hath no paramountship in this town. From the lVi<rots it went to 
 the Atbanys, who infeoned the Moiiteliensies; and in 1235, JVariiu de 
 Muncheiisij held it at one fee, of liukctiham castle, it being one of the 
 fees formerly Earl Bi/got's. King Henri/ III. granted Dioiii.'ie Mont- 
 chensi) a charter for a fair, and market, to be kept here every I'ruhiij ;^ 
 and in 1285, she had liberty of free-warren in all her demeans here; 
 but all the superiour jurisdictions were at the same time allowed to 
 Robert de Tateshale, lord of Bukenham castle, as superiour lord of 
 the leet, namely, view oi frankpledge, assize of bread and ale, and a 
 pillory, as well for his own tenants as others. And in this year it 
 was presented by the jury, sworn before the justices itinerant at Isior- 
 zeich, that an unknown man was taken at lloeham, in the manor of 
 Dionise de Montchensy oi llocham, with a line of 13c/. value, and was 
 cariied into the open court there, and without any one's |)rosccuting 
 him, was taken and hanged; upon which the sheriff was ordered to 
 summon the said Dionise, and the suiters of her court there, to give an 
 account of it. At her death it went to the Earl oi' Pembrook, and so 
 descended to the Hasti/ngs Earls of Pembrook; (as you may see 
 under ff'infirthing, p. 18(i;) and in \487, John de Hastings Earl of 
 Pembrook settled it on Anne his wife, daughter of il/«;'ga/e<, daughter 
 and heir of Thomas de Brolherton Earl of Norfolk. In 13yi, Regi- 
 nald Grey, Knt. was lord ; in the year 1400, Philippa, widow oi' John 
 de Hasfyngs, the last Earl oi' Pembrook of that name, was dead, and 
 held it to her death, in dower of the Lord Mozcbrai/, as of his manor 
 of Forncet, by the service of i)d. per annum castle-guard, and it was 
 found, tliat Sir Edward Hastyngs, (of Elsyiig,) Knt. was her husband's 
 next heir, but for all that it descended to the Grei/s oi' Rathyn, heirs 
 general of the family ; and this year Sir Reginald de Grey ot Rulliyn, 
 Knt. settled it on feoffees, but in 1401, he had released it, for thea 
 ft illiam Beaiirhamp had it; and in \4S5, Joan, widow of ll'illiam 
 Beauchamp of Bergavenny, died seized of it, as parcel of the inheri- 
 tance of the llaslyngses Earls of Pembrook ; and it descended to 
 Elizabeth, wife of Edzeard Nevil Lord Abergavenny, daughter and 
 heir of Richard Beauchamp Earl of fl'orcester, son and heir of William 
 and this Joan in 1475; Edward Ncvil, younger son of George Nevile 
 Lord Bergavenny, was possessed of tiie manor, by virtue of his fa- 
 ther's will in ]4<JI; and in 1535, Sir (Jeorge Nevile, Knt. and Sir 
 Edward Nevile, Knt. settled it on JVilliam Drury; in 153^, John 
 lleydon, Knt. and Catherine his wife, and Chris. Heydon, Knt. sold 
 it to Sir Thomas Jermyn, Knt.; in 1576, Sir Ambrose Jermyn of 
 Rushbrook was seized, and Sir Robert Jermi/n, his son, had it ia 
 1599, and then levied a fine to ft'illiam Killegieic, Esq. Hill. Jermyn, 
 Esq. and others. About lO'OO, Baeqiicvile^ Bacon of Hockham, third 
 
 ^ See p. 360. Baqiievile, and Banquevile, which wai 
 
 * Carta 56 H. 3. the name of a family, so called frortt 
 
 ' It is sometimes wrote Bacqucvile, Baiikerville in Normandy.
 
 GREAT HOC HA NT; 4(5.3 
 
 son of Sir Nicfiolas Bacon of Redgrave, Burt. l)y Anne, daughter and 
 heir oi' Edmund Butts, was lord, uud at iiisdealli left it to Bacqnevile. 
 Jiacoii, iiis eldest son, who died a minor in 1()41, aged 17 years, and 
 Henry his brother inherited, being then 15 years oTd. He died the 
 13th oi' March, iG-tl, and was buried here leaving his three sisters his 
 coheiresses; Man/, l\\c eldest, married Judge lia/dock; Philipa, the 
 second, married liohert Kcdington, who lived and died here; Anne, 
 the third, married Nic/io/as Roolcmood of Euston, Esq. and sold their 
 third part to Robert Kcdinr^lon, who afterwards purehased liahknk's 
 part, and so became sole lord, and at his deulh left it to Philipa his 
 wife, who kept her first court Oct. 15, lG(>7 ; and at her death, Henri/ 
 Kedin"ton oi' Ilochhaiii, I"lsq. became lord, and kept his first court 
 9 Oct. 1()85 ;' and in 170'2, Philip Rj/let/, Esq. serjeant at arms to 
 the lord treasurer, surveyor of the Queen's woods and forests on the 
 south side of Trent, and one of the commissioners of the excise, 
 who was afterwards knighted, purchased the manor, impropriation, 
 and advowson, of llenri/ Kcdington, Gent, nnd built a neat brick 
 house liere, which is now [1737] the seat of Philip Reginald Ri/lej/, 
 Esq. his grandson and heir. 
 
 The ancient Customs and privileges within the manor oi Great 
 Iloeliam, as appears by the examined evidences of the said manor. 
 
 The lord hath the goods of felons de se, within the manor. (Court 
 Roll 1 1 Jl. 1 .) No tenant can waste his copyhold ; women are dow- 
 able for a moiety of the copyhold, of which their husbands are seized, 
 during the coverture. 
 
 A man, by the custom of this manor, is tenant by the courtesy of 
 Enaland, of lands and tenements of this manor, of which his wives 
 are seized, and have issue between them. (Roll 12 E. 3.) 
 
 No tenants of the lord's, inhabiting in Great Ilocham, ought to be 
 cited to the consistory or spiritual courts, because it is against the 
 custom of that village or town, and to the prejudice of the lord, as 
 appears by the prior of the monks at Thefford, A° 1 If. 4. 
 
 Hocham Meare, alias Cranberry Fen, is a separate water of the lords 
 of this manor; (Rolls 7. 10 H. 7. 13. 22 //. 8. iG Eliz.) it contains 
 fourteen score acres, and is in circuit 708 perches, every perch con- 
 taining 18 feet, and the lord hath a fish-house there. 
 
 The lord of the manor is lord of the common of pasture in Great 
 Hockham, and of all waste in the bounds of the village. 
 
 The tenants give for a fine for their copyhold lands and tenements; 
 upon every alienation, whether by death or surrender, according to the 
 ancient custom of this manor, Vld. out of every mark of the value 
 and price of their lands and tenements by them taken up, and such 
 fine is called mark shilling. 
 
 One copyhold tenant can take a surrender, and another witness it. 
 
 The lands descend to the eldest son, and the manor extends into 
 Brecclcs, Illinglon, Tuttington, and Thomson.^ 
 
 In 1384, Sir Stephen de Hales, Knt. aliened divers lands here and in 
 other towns, to the Prior of JVahi/nglutm. In l65i, the township of 
 Hocham held divers lands of this manor. 
 
 • See Wilby, p. 367. * From the Court Book, marked c c c.
 
 464 
 
 LITTLE HOCHAM. 
 
 This town hath no market at this time, it contains about 200 soitls,' 
 and paid 4/. 7s. to the tenths, and is now assessed with Little Hocliam 
 at 6i8/. &. Qd. to the Kind's tax. 
 
 LITTLE HOCHAM 
 
 Was a small village between Great Hocham and lUington; in the 
 Confessor's time it belonged to Ailwin, and in the Conqueror's it was 
 held of Roger Bigot by Turold,^ for life, I imagine, because soon 
 after, it was in Roger's own hands, who gave the church and tithes 
 to the priory of ThetJ'oid at their foundation,* who received them se- 
 parately, till the church of Great Hocham was appropriated to them, 
 and then they joined them to Great Hocham, which is the reason we 
 meet with no institutions, though I suppose the church was not de- 
 molished till after Richard the Second's time, for then we meet with 
 the church of St. Mary at Hocham, mentioned in evidences, which 
 I believe must be this. Great Hocham being dedicated to the Holy 
 Trinity. The manor afterwards was held of the honour of Richmond 
 at a quarter of a fee, by Alan de Anestie ; and in 1252, by Ralph de 
 Neketon, who had free-warren allowed him in it. It soon after be- 
 longed to William de Hockham, who made it complete, by joining all 
 the lands and tenements that belonged to the manor of H'rotham (or 
 Wretham) to it, as well those that laid in Great Hocham as in this 
 town; for I find in an old register^ of Bee abbey in Normandy, to 
 which Jl'rotham manor belouged, that this William held all the lands 
 and tenements that the church of Bee had in Hocham, by the rent of 
 17s. '2d. a year, three days work in ])loughing, three in mowing, and 
 one hen ; and he and all his tenants under him were to pay reliefs, 
 do suit to the halmote-court at Wrolham, pay scot and lot, and could 
 not marry their daughters without license, and soon after this, in 
 1299, he levied a fine of the whole, when it contained 18 messuages, 
 275 acres of land, 1 1 acres of pasture, one acre of turf-land, 37 acres 
 of heath, and 14s. ob. rent in Great and Little Hocham. In 1315, 
 John de Hocham was lord, and in 132(), Ralph of Hocham ; in 1335,. 
 John Duke of Bedford aliened to the prior of Thetford the manor of 
 Little Hocham, but I take it to be only the superiority of the fee, the 
 manor being then held of him, and afterwards of the Prior, and after 
 that of the Bishop of ^^oriach, and after the revenues of the bishop- 
 rick were taken into the King's handj, it was held of ihe Crown, in 
 
 ' Terra Rogeri Bigoti, (fol. ii6.) In 
 Parvo Hockham ten. Ailwiniis dim. car. 
 terre semper iii. vill. et iii. bord. et ii. 
 ser. et iii. acr. prati semper i. car. in 
 dnio. et dim. car. honiinum et i. soc. 
 iii. acr. et dim. semper val. xiii. sol. et 
 im.d. et tenet Turoldiis. 
 
 ♦ In Bishop Herbert's confirmation 
 
 of Roger Bigot's foundation of Thetford 
 abbey, it is said, " Donavit itaqiie Ro- 
 
 " gems Bigoiiib qiiicqu d juris 
 
 " habehat in Ecclesijsde Dommicis ter-. 
 " ris <^uis, VIZ. de Hoicham, &c." Au- 
 tog. pen. Hen. Smith, dc Hauteboys^ 
 M.igna in com. Norf, 
 5 Pen. T. M.
 
 EAST, OR GREAT WROTHAM. 465 
 
 1558, Ambrose Jermi/ti was lord; it after belonged to the Bedincr. 
 fields;^ and in 1573, Edmund Jermi/n died seized; in l603. Will. 
 Jermyn had it, and released it to Robert Jerinyii, Knt. and Will. 
 Jermyti, senior, Esq.; in Ifilfi, there were five copyhold tenants, 
 which paid 3/. l'2s. rent, two tenements worth 8/. per annum, a sheeps* 
 wallt, &c. It now [1737] pays all dues to Great Hocham, there being 
 only two farms in the village, of which the manor-house is one, which 
 with the manor is now owned by William Jermi/ of Norwich, Esq. in 
 right of his wife, who was sister and sole heiress "of the Right Honour- 
 able the Lord Richardson, Baron oi' Cramond in Scolland. The fines 
 are at the lord's will, and the eldest son is heir. 
 
 EAST, OR GREAT WROTHAM, 
 
 Is so called because it lies most east of the three Wrothams,of M 
 which Herald was lord in King Edienrd's time, and Ralph de Tony in 
 the Conqueror's;' Wrelham (or Wrotham Thorp) had then two earu- 
 cates, Wertham, (or West Wrotham,)^ had three, und-IVeretham (or 
 JSast Wrotham)'' had four, and all of them were herewiles to Neketun, 
 (or NectoN,) and contained together four miles in length, and four 
 miles in breadth, and paid xxd. geld. 
 
 This manor was given to Bee abbey in Normnndi/,' by that Ralph 
 de Toni, who held it at the survey, from which lime it enjoyed all the 
 privileges belonging to that monastery. In the register of the abbey 
 (fol. 58, b) the customs of the manor are entered, among which it 
 appears, that the tenants were to pay scot and lot, by way of aid to 
 the abbots, when they came into England, or to their proctors, if the 
 necessities of the abbey were very urgent ; they could not sell a horse- 
 colt, nor an ox of their own bringing up, without their lord's leave, 
 nor marry their daughters, nor go to live out of the manor, nor re- 
 move their chattels out of it, without license; they paid at every 
 death the best beast for a heriot, or 32d. instead of it, and if any one 
 died intestate, all their chattels were at the lord's disposition. VVhen 
 
 * See p. 339, 340. ' In alio Werctham tcnuit idem iiii. 
 
 ' Terra Radiilfi de Toenio, (fol. 231.) car. teire tempore R. E. tunc et post. 
 
 Hund. de btrepham, Wrctliani tenuit viii. vill. post et modo iii. semper iiii. 
 
 Heroldiis, T.R.E. ii. car. terre semper por. et ii. scr. et ii. acr. prati semper ii. 
 
 xii. vill. viii. bord. et iii. ser. et viii. car. in dnio. tunc et post iii. car. Iiomin. 
 
 acr. prati semper li. car. in dnio. et iiii. et modo i. et iii. possiint esse et ii. soc. 
 
 car. homm. silv. xxx. pore, et i. rune, una car. terre et xii. acr. viii. acr. prati 
 
 et xii. pore. Ixxx. oves. et v. bor. et Ivi. acr. terre ct i. car. et 
 
 ^ In alio Wertham iii. car. terre te- dim. hec tna sunt bcrcwite in N keruna 
 
 nuit idem semper xi. vill. et ix. bor. et ct in pretio totum liabct ii. leug. in long, 
 
 iiii. ser. et vi. acr. prati tune iii. car. in ct li. in lai. et xx d. de Gelto. 
 dnio pust et m° ii. et tertia possei esse ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. fol. 463. 
 
 semper iiii. car. homin. el i. mol. et i. 
 runcet xxi. por. ct Ixxxi. ovcs.
 
 4(56 EAST, OR GREAT WROTIIAM. 
 
 the harvest work was finislied by tlie tenants, they were to have \r,\\( 
 an acre of barley, and a ram let loose in tlie uiiclst of them; and if 
 they catched him, he was their own to make merry with, but if he 
 escaped from them, he was the lord's, which custom is still kept at 
 J-]ton college, there being a ram every year let loose among the scho- 
 lars, on a certiiin day, to be run down by them, the original of w hich 
 might come from the custom of this manor; at this lime IVilliam dc 
 Hockam held GO acres of land of the old feofi'ment, by 5s. per a/tniim 
 rent, and also l6s. rent at RokeUind, and all that belonged to l\\o 
 church of Bee, and was part of this manor, as you may see at Ho- 
 cham-Pana. William Fmncolaniis, or Franlcliyn, held a carucate of 
 land at Serepham, or Shropliam, and paid scot and lof, gifts and aids, 
 and did suit to this court, and lleiiri/ de Biadekert held a tenement 
 there by the same service. Emma dc Kerhrook, or Carhrook, Adam 
 de Oekeham, or Hockham, JValter Bainard, and the heirs of IVilliam 
 Crongethorp, held a brueri/, called Saiidwadeseot, by suit of court, and 
 the service of going to London, or elsewhere at their own charge, on 
 the lord's errand, and by doing the lord's and the town's service, in 
 attending the sheriff's turns, and hundred courts, to hear the King's 
 orders; and IVilliam de Wrotham then held 60 acres of land and a 
 messuage, which, in 1240, was given by Reginald, son of Eiistaee de 
 Wrotham, to Bee abbey. In 1285, the abbot held it in free alms, as 
 parcel of Tony's barony, and had view oi frankpledge, assize oi bread 
 and ale, a pillory, gallows, and weyf, and thus it continued in the 
 abbey, (unless when it was in the King's hands by reason of the French 
 wars,) till 1414, the second of King iie«n/ V. when the Parhament 
 at Leicester dissolved the Prior's aliens, and then it continued in the 
 Crown till King Henry VI. settled it on his college of FAon, at the 
 foundation, and confirmed it by his charter in 1444; and in 1460 it 
 was reconfirmed by King Eduard IV. it being parcel of the posses- 
 sions of Okeburne prior}', which was an alien depending on Bee 
 abbey; and at this time the provost, fellows, and scholars of jE<o« 
 are lords. The leet belongs to the manor, and liberty of keeping 
 petit-sessiom along with it, by grant of ILigli. Earl oi' Sussex, viho re- 
 leased it to the church of Bee, on condition that they should treat his 
 bailitTs and suiters to the hundred court, every other year, in their 
 manor of East JVrotham C and afterwards, in 1237, the said Hugh, 
 for 12 marks paid him by Brother William de Gynevill, ihe'ir general 
 proctor in England, released to them the said treat, on condition they 
 paid to the bailiff of the hundred, yearly, 14c?. every Michaelmas day, 
 and the ancient leet fee of 3s. so that the lord of the hundred, though 
 he is paramount here, yet hath no leet.^ This manor hath liberty of 
 a coroner, whose jurisdiction extends over the Wrothams, by grantof 
 King Henri/Vl. when he founded his colleges of King's and Eton. 
 
 1 ne rectory is valued at 1 \L I'ls. 3d. ob. in the King's Books, and 
 pays 1/. 3s. 2rf. 3q. yearly tenths ; it is in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, 
 and deanery of Rockland. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Ethelberl, and the rector paid a 
 pension of 20s.* a year out of it to the Abbot of Bee, and 12rf. for 
 
 * In Eton mimiment room, drawer 48. rector to Roger Misterton, canon and 
 3 The Hundred Roll. steward of St. George's college in Wind- 
 
 '* In 1465 the pension was paid by the sor castle.
 
 EAST, OR, GREAT WROTHAM. 4«7 
 
 synotluls ihe Abhot of Couriches's tcnipornlilos hclongini^to liis manor 
 ot /( est IVrotkam, in tliis town, were taxed at <)/. in llir year U)03, 
 there were 80 comnuitiicanls, wliieli luiinber is niticli dccrettsed ; it 
 paid G/. I5.S. to the tenths, and is now [1737] assessed jxt .'340/. to Ihc 
 land tax, there being, as I am informed, about 130 inhabitants. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1321, 7 id. July, William de Dorso usto, [or Burnt-jirse,'] accolite 
 was presented by Urotlier William di: Ponti:, monk of the monas- 
 tery ot IWc-llalacijiu-, wlio was general proctor for the Abbot of lice 
 in Lii^/aii(/. 
 
 1..>'2I, prid. kal. Nov. Gilbert de Arundell, colet, (i. c. accohtt ) 
 Ditto. In 1325, he was deacon, and liad hccnse for non-residence 
 for two years. 
 
 1335, j)rid. kal. Sept. Muster J fill, de liraitmford, priest, on A run- 
 dell's resignation. Rich, de Beausevall, proctor for the Abbot 
 ot Bee. 
 
 1348, 30 Mmf, Roh. de A^h. The PRion of Olcef/ounie. 
 154i), 20 /•'<•/;/•. mil. de l\d;iji,to>i, shaveling, 'i'hc King. 
 130V, 30 March, liicliard Mercer, priest. J'kti: n de Falco, Prior 
 of Okebornc, proctor-general for the Abbot of lice, in the diocese of 
 Koan in France. 
 
 1394,27 Aug. Will. De-Lawe, priest. The King, as belonging 
 to the temporals of Okebourne priory, which arc now in his hancfs. 
 liobert Hwaulaiid. 
 1447, ly Sept. Mr. John Smith, bachelor in the decrees, on SuaiV' 
 land's fleatli. 
 
 1447, 17 I'ehr. .John Gardiner, on Smith's resignation. 
 
 1453, 23 .Ian. Will, lietti/s, priest. 
 
 14()5, Adam Wciii/s, priest, on Betti/s's death. 
 
 John Dunham. 
 1482, 30 Au^. Will. Pcnni/nglon, on Tiunhnm's death. 
 J494, Will, llurman, A. M. on Peniii/ngtun's death. 
 
 Richard Marlcu. 
 1503, 13 March, John Smith, on Marten's death. 
 1517, 9 Dec. Tho. Paun, on Smith's death, 
 1550, 25 Oct. Peter Latlon, priest, on Payn's death. 
 155G, 12 March, Stephen llopkjns, on Cotton's death, united to 
 West U rotham. 
 
 1559,21 Fcbr. William Edwards on //o/>Ay;w's resignation. 
 
 1579, 7 Sept. Robert Coni/e, S.T. B. who had It'cst Wrotham. 
 
 1013, 29 Mai/, Robert ll'aldesworth, A. M. 
 
 16 14, Hi Nov. Tho. Browne, A. M. 
 
 1640, 16 Jan. Richard )ounge,A. M. on Broa//f'j death. 
 
 Samuel Ifoalou, S. T. P. ; he had It est Wrotham. 
 1681, 25 April, John Poicell, A. M. united to West Wrotham. 
 171 1, 18 Oct. The Rev. Nathaniel Coddinglon, A. M. the present 
 [1737] rector, who holds it united to It est Wrotham. 
 
 All piesenled by liic Puovost of Eton college, who is now patron. 
 
 Upon the west end of the steeple was an old inscription, beginning, 
 OcatC pro, iJC. but so buttered, that it is illegible; a very large stout:
 
 468 WEST, OR NORTH AVROTIIAM. 
 
 coffin was ploughed up in a close in this town ahout 1715. There 
 are divers saints painted on the screens, as St. Augustine, St. Am- 
 brose, &c. In 161 J, John Doufj/td, Gent, gave 10/. by will to the 
 minister and church-wardens, to be employed for ever as town stock, 
 to set the poor on work. 
 
 WEST, OR NORTH WROTHAM, 
 
 Belonged to Ralph de Toni at the Conquest/ who was son of 
 Roger de Toni, Standard-bearer of Normandy, and founder of the 
 abbey of Conchis in that dukedom ; this Ralph was Standard-bearer 
 to the Conqueror in that memorable battle against King Harold, and 
 by his eminent service in it, became a sharer in those large posses- 
 sions which were after that signal conquest disposed of to his friends 
 and followers, and among others, had 19 lordships in Noifolk, these 
 three being part of them, the biggest of which he gave (as is before 
 observed) to Bee abbey, and left the other two to Ralph, his son and 
 heir, who left them at his death, to Roger his son and heir, who 
 gave this manor and advowson, with the mill and moors, and what- 
 ever he held else in the township, to the monks of Conchis,^ who held 
 them of his gift at his death, as belonging to their cell at Wotton- 
 Waicen in IVaruickshire, which was in 1162. In 126?, Robert It 
 Taylur and Aveline his wife, granted to Walter abbot of the church 
 of St. Peter ofCnnches,'' 70 acres of land here ; in 1279, Ralph, sou 
 of the said Roger, granted liberty of free-warren, and free fishing, to 
 the abbot of St. Peter of Conehes Castellon, in all his demeans and 
 waters in his manor of Wrotham,^ viz. in Wrotham-Thoip manor. In 
 1285, the abbot of Conches had view of frankpledge, assize of bread 
 and ale allowed him, and thus it continued in the abbot (except 
 •when the King held it on account of the French wars, when the tem- 
 poralities of the alien priories were generally seized, that the revenues 
 might not go to support the King's enemies) till 1414, the 2d of 
 King Henry V . and tlicn the parliament at Leicester dissolved all the 
 alien priories, and so it came to the Crown, and was granted for life 
 to Sir Roziland Lenthall, Knt, and at his death it went with the 
 Priory of fVotton JVawen, and all its revenues, to King Henry VI. 
 who gave them to the provost and scholars of his college of St. Alary 
 and St. Nicholas in Cambridge, commonly called King's college, who 
 
 ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. fol.469. chief, in the right hand proper, a rose 
 
 •Dug. Mon. Ang. torn. i. fol. of the second. Dug. Bar. page 6oj 
 
 559. ' Tliis is Wrotham Meer, which be- 
 
 ' The arms of Cunches-abbey are or, longs to the lord, and in 1267, several 
 
 an arm gul. issuing out of the sinister townsmen were indicted and fined for 
 
 fishing in it.
 
 WEST, OR NORTH WROTIIAM. 469 
 
 arc now lords and natrons. King Henrif II. granted the monks of 
 Wotlon license to choose their own abbot, and that all iheir tenants 
 in England &\\o\i\A be free from serving at sherifl"s turns, and hundred 
 courts, and accjuittcd them of all lax, Danegcid, hildiett, and liun- 
 dredfu, and also granted them all felons goods forfeited ; by virtue of 
 which, this manor pleaded an exemption from doing suit to the hun- 
 dred, but still paid their leetfet of '^s. a year to it, lor themselves and 
 Wrotham-Tliorp, of both which, the lord of the hundred is paramount, 
 but hath no power to compel the tenants to any service. 
 
 This rectory is valued in the King's Books at 12/. 1 Is. 3d. and pays 
 1/. 5s. Id. ob. yearly tenths; it is in Norfolk archdeaconry, and Rock- 
 laud deanery. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. Lawrence, was taxed in the hin- 
 coln taxation at 14 marks, and paid 12(/. synodals. In lC03, there 
 were 40 communicants, and there are now [1737] about 100 inhabi- 
 tants ; it paid 3/. 4s. to the tenths, and is assessed at 376/. to the 
 land tax, 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 130S, G non. May, TVilliam, called de Forda, (or Ford,) priest, was 
 presented by the Abbot of St. Peler of Ctinchts. 
 
 1328, 8 kal. Febr. Rich. JVoderone, priest, was presented to North 
 Wrotham, by John de LoTOVERis,proctorof the Ahhoi oi Clinches ; 
 and in 1331, he had license for non-residence, as chaplain to the Lady 
 Mortimer, at the request of the Bishop of Worcester. 
 
 1394, 2 Juhj, Barth. Pulleter, priest, was instituted to North alias 
 West Wrothani, on the King's presentation, the temporals of the 
 -Abbot of C««c//es being in his hands during the war between him and 
 France. 
 
 1398, 22 June, John Gylot, priest. The King, as before. 
 
 I4I7, 9 Nov. Tho. Doleyn, priest, on Gilbert's resignation. Tlie 
 King for this turn. 
 
 1433, 7 Jan. Tho. Gw/Ze, priest, on Do/fj///s death. Sir Rowland 
 Lenthall, Knt. in right of the manor called West Wrotham Hall, 
 which he hath for life, of the gift of King Henry N. to which manor 
 the advowson is appendant. 
 
 1435, Tho. Bennet, priest, on GalFs death. Ditto. 
 
 1436, 17 June, Tho. Sat/s, on BcnneVs resignation. Ditto. 
 1442, 3 March, Will. Been, priest, on Say's resignation. John 
 
 prior of Woffon IVazcen in Worcester diocese. 
 
 1451, 10 Febr. Rob. Wodemanston, nriest. 
 
 1500, 30 June, David Barker, A. M. 
 
 1509, 30 Oct. Rob. Harlsey, on Barker's death. 
 
 1551, 16 May, Stephen Hopki/ns, A.M. on ITarlseu's death, in^ 
 1556, he was instituted to Great Wrotham, and held both by union. 
 
 1559, 21 Febr. William Edwards, on Hopkyns's resignation. 
 
 1579, 7 Sept. Robert Conye, S. T. B. 
 
 1613, 3 June, Richard Lancaster, S.T. B. 
 
 1613, 17 Sept. Paul Kent, clerk. 
 
 9 Dug. Mon, vol. i. fol. 561, 
 
 VOL. I. 3 O
 
 470 WEST, OR NORTH WROTHAM. 
 
 1640, 29 April, Samuel JVootoii, S. T. P. he had Great Wrotham. 
 
 IfiSl, '2j April, John Powell, A.. M. on Wootons death, united to 
 Great Wrotham. 
 
 171 1, 18 Oct. The Rev. Nathaniel Coddington, A. M. the present 
 [1737] rector, liolds it united to East Wrotham. 
 
 These last presented by tlie Provost of St. Mari/'s and St. Nicho- 
 las's college at Cambridge, commonly called King's college, who is 
 now patron. 
 
 These inscriptions are in the cbancel, 
 
 IIODIE MIHI. CRAS TIBI. 
 Here lyelh the Body of Samuel Wotton, Doctor of Divi- 
 nity, and Minister of both the Wrethams, who departed this 
 Life the 4lh of Febr. and was buried the 6, 168O, aged 80 Years, 
 5 Mouths. 
 
 He learn'd to live, while he had Breath, 
 And so he lives even after Death. 
 
 Elizabeth, Wife of Dr. Wotton, died 1 Aug. 1679, aged 
 53, on the North Side of her Stone lie Samuel, William, and 
 Elizabeth their Children, 
 
 Their Time was short, the longer is their rest, 
 God calls them soonest, whom he loveth best. 
 
 Thomas Townshend, Gent, and Kath. Hoo his Wife, he died 
 JulySl, IG8I. 
 
 Frances, Wife of George Townshend, Gent, and Daughter of 
 Edmund Bacon of Hessel, Esq. died Sept. lG49. 
 
 William Powell, Gent, descended from the Powell's of Shrop- 
 shire, died Febr. 6, 1685. 
 
 John Powell his Son, Rector of the Wrethams, dyed March 
 6, 1710. 
 
 There is a brass plate fixed against the east end of the chancel wall, 
 with this inscription. 
 
 The Body of CATHERINE CODDINGTON, the beloved 
 Wife of NATHAN. CODDINGTON, rector of the two parishes, 
 dyed 11 Oct. 1716, aged 33. 
 
 Oh ! had the Number of her Days, 
 Been as compleat, as was her Praise, 
 Happy, and pleas'd with such a Store, 
 Her dearest Friend had ziish'd no more. 
 
 Upon a south chancel window may be seen a small emblematical 
 figure of an hare riding on a grayhound, with a bow and quiver 
 hanging at its back, and a bugle horn by its side. 
 
 / 
 f
 
 [ 471 J 
 
 WROTHAM-THORP, or LITTLE WROTHAM, 
 
 NOW 
 
 THORP-HOU S E. 
 
 JThe third was called anciently Little Wrotham, or IVrotham-Thorp, 
 and now Thorp-House, there being only one farm remaining at this 
 time ; it never had any church, but was an hamlet to West IVrotham, 
 which took the name of Little Wrotham after this was joined to it : 
 it was a separate village at ihc Conquest, and so continued to the 
 latter end of Edward 11. though the manor always was, and now is, 
 distinct from the other Wrothams, by the name of Thorp Hall. It 
 was held by the Tonys, who had all the three at first, and passed as 
 West Wrotham did, till that was given to the Abbot of Conches, by 
 Roger de Tojii/, who died seized of this, and left it to Ralph his son, 
 who, in 1279, held Wrotham-Thorp, as part of his barony, the manor 
 having then liberty of view oi frankpledge, assize of bread and ale, 
 and zeeyf; he left it to Robert, his son and heir, after the decease of 
 William Martin,and Lovedai/ his wife, who held it for life by Ralph's 
 grant ; but in 1309, he was in possession,' and died seized, leaving it 
 to Jlice, widow of Tho. La/bourne, his sister and heir, at that time 
 26 3'ears old, who married Guy de Beauchamp Earl of IVarwiclc, who, 
 soon after his marriage, sold the manor, with 30s. l\d. rent, a mes- 
 suage, and 100 acres of land in Stanford, held by (he tenth part of a 
 fee, to Thomas de Nethergate, chaplain of Stanford, to be held of the 
 Earl by the annual payment of a chaplet of roses ; and this Thomas 
 gave the manor to the Prior of Cokesford and his successours in 
 1315, reserving the Stanford parts to himself. In 1343, itwassettled 
 by Peter de Weston Taiilur, and Jlice his wife, on Sir John de Nor- 
 wieh, Knt. at which time it contained two carucates, for which John 
 gave them 100 marks ; how it came from Coiford, whether by ex- 
 change or no, I do not find. In 1350, John de Herlyng granted to 
 Sir John de Norwich, Knt. all the lands in the Wrothams and Illingion, 
 which he purchased of John de Wrotham, with the fold-courses, 
 homages, and services, thereto belonging; and in 1354, John de 
 Brusei/erd of Shadeiifield, his feoffee, released his right; in 1374, it 
 descended to Kntherine de Brezcse, cousin and heir of Sir John Nor- 
 zcich, junior, who settled it on John Daventre, parson of Broui, Walter 
 Barkty, vicar of Kymberle, John Cranhouse, Edmund Lakyngheth , 
 and Richard jSooth, for her life, and a year after her decease, re- 
 mainder to the King and his heirs. Sir John Plaiz,S\v Robert Howard 
 and others being feoffees; and in 1384, King Richard II. gave the 
 reversion to the prioress and nuns of Dartford in Kent; in 1405, 
 William Barret of Diclcburgh, and Joan his wife, settled divers lands 
 
 ' Dug. Bar. vol. i. 471.
 
 472 LITTLE WROTHAM, now THORP-HOUSE. 
 
 and a fold-course here on Joan, Prioress of Daitfurd, and lier siic- 
 cessours, in which liouse it continued to the Dissolution; and in 
 1339, was granted to Sir Tho. Jtnnyn, Knt. and his heirs, to be held 
 in capite. In IjGl, it was Edmund Jermyn's; in 157t), Sir Amb. 
 Jermi/n of Rushbrovk, Knt. died seized, and left Robert his son and 
 lieir, but gave this manor to i\ illiam Jermifii, Esq. iiis youngest son, 
 who in l603, settled it on himself and his heirs; it afterwards belonged 
 to George Toiciiseiid of Cranwort/i, second son of T/io. Tozi-nsena of 
 Testerton, he married Franees, daughter oi' Edmund Bucon of Elesset 
 in Suffo/lc, leaving two sons, Henri/ the younger, and Thomas the 
 elder, who livetl at U^est IVrotliam, where he was buried in 1681, leav- 
 ing by Ratherine Hoo his wife, one son, viz. George Tozcnsend of 
 ]\ rotliam, Gent, who first married a Green, but by her had no issue, 
 and afterwards a grand-daughter of Sir Robert Baldock of Tacol- 
 neston, whose mother was sister and heir of Robert Ha (dock of Ta- 
 cofneslon, Esq. his son and heir, by whom he had the Rev. JNIr. 
 Tozcnsend, rector of S/iipd/unn ;' which of them it was lliat sold the 
 estate, I cannot sa}', but am informed that it belongs to the heirs of 
 Sir Nieho/as Gerrard, Bart, who died in 1*27. 
 
 I meet with nothing more concerning these JVrotharns, but that 
 the great hundred court is to be annually kept at a place called Kettle- 
 Bridge, between Little Hoe/iam, lUington, and Great IVrotham, on 
 Tuesdai/ after Michaelmas day in the morning, where all the rents 
 due to the hundred are to be paid, and proper warrants issued for all 
 arrears. 
 
 In Fabian's Chronicle, (fol. Sfil,) is this," aboutC tljat ^fason, 
 
 " [1418,] tijc par.sonot JPortljam m J^orfolh, toljndj longe Simic IjaO 
 " bauntcD i>cto=jliarlict l^etlj, ano tljcrt robhcD aiiD ^"ponlcD manji o£ 
 " t\)t ftmg'si ^uhictt.ii, toasi notot toitij Ijiji Concubpnc brougljtc into 
 " Dctogatf, toljtrc lasthj Ije OjifO." And in a manuscript in the hands 
 of the Rev. Mr. Baldwin, it is thus related: " In 1418, the parsoa 
 " of Wrotham in Norfolk, which iiad haunted Neumarkct lieathe, 
 " and there robbed and spoiled many, was with his concubine to 
 " Netigat of London where he died." 
 
 It appears by the institutions, that it could not be the parson of 
 West (frotham, and (if any) must be the parson of East IVrotham, 
 and it looks something like it, there being no time of Swanlond's 
 institution mentioned, who was instituted at the death of this parson; 
 but whether it was De-Lane, or any other that had it after him, and 
 before Swanlond, I cannot pretend to determine. 
 
 * Dug. Mon. Ang. 359. ^ Pedigree int. Coll. P. L. N.
 
 [473 J 
 
 ROCKLAND-TOFT, 
 
 HoKELTJNT, Rochdunt, or noc-lan&, as it is now called, signifies the 
 hilli/ land, which answers very well to the situation of these parisiies, 
 as well as the other Rocldand in Hensted hundred, which is situate 
 on the declivity of a hill,joining to a large marsh, through which 
 the IVaveny passes, in its course lo Yarmouth. That this phice was 
 of special note in early times, is evident from its being the residence 
 of the deans of so large a deanery as this, having no less than three 
 parishes in its own bounds, besides thirty other rectors anci vicars 
 under its jurisdiction, it containing all the parishes in Gillcross and 
 S/irop/iaiu hundred ; the parishes here are called St. Jndretc's, All- 
 Sainls, and St. Peter's, the two first of which were lately consolidated, 
 the church of Si. Andrew falling into decay, and standing not above 
 a furlong eastward from All-Saints, was suffered to dilapidate; the 
 tower is square, and is still standing, its three bells being stolen out of 
 it some years since, were never heard of. This town is called, to dis- 
 tinguish it from the other Rockland, Rockland-Tofts, and St. Andrew's 
 parish, is often named in evidences, about Edzcard ihe Third's time. 
 Toft, without an}' other addition. Here is a meeting of people on Mid- 
 summer Day, in a nature of a small country fair, which they call the 
 Gild, the remains, without all doubt, of the gild of St. John Baptist, 
 which was held in St. Peter's church before the Reformation. U'he 
 parishes of All- Saints and St. Andrew's are assessed together at 518/. 
 15s. to the land tax, as in Shrophani hundred, and the parish of St. 
 Peter by itself at 230/. as in IVaylauA hundred, though I do not find 
 it ever said to be in that hundred, till about 90 years since, at which 
 time it was laid to IVai/land, and the constables and surveyors are the 
 same with Little Ellingham, their presentments running, Ellingham- 
 Parva, cum Rockland-Tofts St. Peter. The whole was taxed together 
 in Shropham hundred to the tenths, to which it paid 4/. Ss. 4d.; there 
 are now about 300 inhabitants. 
 
 This and all the other deaneries were in the Bishop's collation, and 
 had peculiar seals appropriated to them, several of which I have seen, 
 but never met with that of this deanery ; the deans here follow in their 
 order. 
 
 DEANS OF ROCKLAND. 
 
 Peter tliedean. 
 
 1315, 6 kal. April, Robert de Stokenet/land, accolile ; he was rector 
 of a mediety in Denevere. 
 
 1338, 24 Sept. John de North-Kellesey, accolite, he resigned io 
 
 1341, 15 March, and Peter de 'Sormandehi/, accolite, succeeded. 
 
 1345, 20 Febr. Adam de Sudburi/, priest. 
 
 1348, 22 Dec. Lazcrence de Litteiton, shaveling, who was afterwards 
 rector of Great Massingham. 
 
 1350, 19 Sept, John de Brei/deston, at jLj/fe/<OH's resignation.
 
 474 ROCKLAND-TOFTS. 
 
 1350, 7 Nov. Brei/deston resigned, and Anthony de Goldisburgli, 
 a sliaveline;, had it. 
 
 1410, 20 J«/j/, William Oxeiiford, clerk. 
 1456, 3 Aug. John Pi/ers. 
 147o, 8 June, John Ap Horcel. 
 1498, 10 Jan. Robert Gasele. 
 
 Toft, or Rockland St. Andrew's rectory, was valued in ihe King's 
 Books at 5/. 14s. 4d.* and is called Rockland Major in many evidences ; 
 it paid Is. synodals, and 6s. 8(/. procurations. I'he canons of The/ford 
 had temporal rents here, taxed at COs. ob. and the prior of Buken- 
 ham's temporals were taxed at 4s. 10. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1310, 15 kal. Febr. Robert Carbonel, priest. Henry Carbonel 
 ofRokelound, and Katherine his wife. 
 
 1.3)7, prid. non. Feb. John, son oi' John Bute of Brecles, accolile. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1324, kal. July Alan de Ilecham, priest. Ditto, 
 
 1342, 18 Dec. IVill. Dune, accoWie. Katherine, relict of Henry 
 Cakbonei. of Rockland Toffys. 
 
 1349, 29 Oct. John Le-Veyldc of Bodney, priest. Maud, daughter 
 of Henry Carbonel. 
 
 1365, Jeff cry Cantel, priest. Richard Holdych. 
 
 1375, 27 A'or. Richard Perpoynt of Sah am, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1392, 10 June, miliam Taillour of Northwold, priest, on Perpoynt's 
 death. Thomas Holdych. He had All-Saints. 
 
 1418, Q Aug. Robert Oldman of this parish, priest. Tho. son of 
 RoG. Elyngaam. 
 
 1432, 23 March, Nicholas Medeue, priest. Thomas HoLDYCH,Esq. 
 
 1435, 16 Dec. Walter Goose, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1441, 5 Oct. Will. Orlyons, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1462, 2 Oct. Robert Hill, on Orlyons death. Richard Holdych, 
 Esq. 
 
 1466, 6 Oct. John Ilyseham. Ditto. 
 Richard Hardfyshe. 
 
 1502, 21 June, John Marshall on Ilardefyshe's death. — South- 
 well, Esq. 
 
 1502, 12 Nov. Henry Stroder, united to All-Saints. 
 
 1512, 25 July, James Brereley. Lapse. 
 
 1540, 9 Aug. Richard Clegg, chaplain, on Brerely's death, united 
 to Brecles Fie. Edmund Chaumberleyn. 
 
 1554, 8 May, Will. /f^^We, priest, at Clegg's deprivation.' Robert 
 Holdych, of Ramcorth, Esq. 
 
 1557, 4 Jan. Edmund Bidsonne, or Bilsonne, on JVylde's resigna- 
 tion. Sir Ralph Chaumberleyn, Knt. united to All-Saints. 
 
 1559, 6 June, JVill. Tugney, on Bidsonne's death. Richard 
 Holdych, Esq. 
 
 1575, 15 June, Tho. Atkinson. John Holdich, Esq. united to 
 
 ♦There is a great mistake in Ecton's ' He was deprived in 1552, by Queen 
 Valor, p. 131, as to this and All-Saints. Mary, for being married.
 
 ROCKLAND-TOFTS. 475 
 
 Breccles, which Richard CUgg, who was deprived of this, held till 
 1573, at whose death Atkinson was instituted. 
 ' Saimul Harding. 
 
 lf)39, 14. Sept. Tho. Watts, A.M. on Harding's death. Sir Rich. 
 Beuney, Bart. 
 
 1661, 11 Nov. Tho. Esser. A.M. on fVatts's death. Ditto. It 
 was afterwards held by Mr. Gny, rector uf A/l-Snints, hy sequestra- 
 tion, to whieli it was consolidated by the present incumbent. 
 
 Rock/and All-Saints rectory was v.ilued in the King's Books at 
 5/. 6«. 8(/. and sworn, together with St. Andrew's, of the clear yearly 
 valueof44/. so thai it iscanable of augmentation ; it paid \ld. synodals, 
 and the Prior of Cast/i-Acri' had a portion of tithes, wliieh was taxed 
 at x.s. and was given witluheir portion in Rockland St. Peter. This 
 parish is sometimes called Rockland Miniir, or, the Lesser Rurklond, 
 m opposition to St. Andrew's parish, which is called Rockland Major, 
 or, the Greater Rockland. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 1305, John de Lenton, presented by Sir John Le Moyne, Knt. 
 
 1306, 5 kal. Jail/, Andrew Reiner, priest. Ditto. 
 
 Robert, son of John of Luttone, deacon. 
 
 1334, 5 id. Nov. Richard de Hastings, accolite, on Lw^ione's resig- 
 nation. Sir.IonNDE Brokksuoukne, Knt. 
 
 1341, 6 March, John Pach, accolite. Sir John de Brokes- 
 BOURNE, Knt. who recovered it against Jo//;; de Caslon, by the King's 
 writ. 
 
 1358, 0,6 Dec. Robert, son oi Adam de Totj/ngton, priest, on Pach'a 
 resignation. John de Sutton of If'j/venho, Knt. patron, in right 
 ol his wife. 
 
 1377, 26 Dec. Robert Geffrey, priest. Edmund, son of Edmund 
 DE Brokeshourn, Knt. 
 
 1392, WJnne, II ill. Taillour of Northwold, priest. Tho. Hol- 
 DYCH. He had St. Andrew's. 
 
 1393, CyDfr. John Rede. Sir Richard Sutton, Sir Peter de 
 BuKTON, Knts. Tiio. de Leghes, Ron. Kykedon, Rod. Houtot, 
 Tho. Okle, and John Sumpter, jiniior. 
 
 1394, 12 Ju)ic, John Alnian, priest. J)itto. 
 
 1398, 14 Nov. Ralph atle llci/ihe of Giinton, priest, on Alman's 
 resignation. Sir Wil. Burgate, Knt. Tiio. Coggeshale, Rob. 
 Hotost, Rob RvKEnoN, Ralph Chaumberlyn, John Sump- 
 ter, and John Esthorp. 
 
 1400, 23 Oct. Richard Uardeaele, priest. Ditto. 
 
 1439,27 Nov. fl'ill. Marlchurgh, priest, on 7/wrrffSf/f's resignation. 
 John Fitz-Rauf, Escj. in right of his manor called Le Moj/nes. 
 
 1448, 29 Jan. John Lallc, priest, on Murleburgh's resignation. 
 Sir Thomas Tuddenham, Knt. and Rob. Mortimer, Esq. 
 
 148.5,5 Oct. Dionise Shanyt, by lapse. 
 
 1.502, 12 Nov. llcnri/ St ruder, priest. Sir Roger Oumston, 
 united to St. Andren'. 
 
 1511, 11 April, Robert Cudworth. Ehzadeth, late wife of Ro- 
 bert CHAUMBiiRLEVN. Esq. 
 
 1512, 17 Jag. Robert Copp all, united to St. Peter.
 
 476 ROCKLAND-TOFTS. 
 
 1556,9 Fehr. Edmund Bilsove, [n'lcit, on Copies death. Ralph 
 Chauaiberleyn, Esq. 
 
 1563, '21 Jitfi/, John ffoldeii, by lapse, muted to Great VAIngham. 
 
 KiOl, 18 Dec. John Peclce. John ^V'^ELI)E of London, Esq. 
 
 1663, 26 Nov. Tho. Morley, A.B. Kiciiard Berney, Bart. 
 
 1679, Samuel Gret/, A.B. on Moi/ei/'s death. Richard Berney, 
 Esq. united to Caston by StoiC. 
 
 1710, 23 Jug. The Rev. Mr. John Watson, the present rector, on 
 the deprivation of Samuel Grci/, to the consolidated rectory of St. 
 Andrew and All-Saints. Anne Mart ell, widow. 
 
 This Church hath a square tower, and 3 bells; the nave, south 
 porch, and chancel are thatched ; there is no inscription in it, save 
 one on a modern stone, for one Mr. Salter. In 1506, Robert Moriel 
 of this town was buried here, who by will gave half an acre and half 
 a rood, at Weston (Market) in Suffolk, to that church, on condition 
 the rector paid 3s. 4d. to the rector of Hindercky, and 3s. 4r/. to the 
 rector of Counston, to pray for his soul, and four cows, the profits of 
 which were to be expended in keeping his anniversary.* 
 
 Rockland St. Peters rectory was valued at 4/. iGs. 5d. ob. in the 
 King's Books, and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 29/. 18s. 8f/. 
 is capable of augmentation; it pays 12f/. synodals. The Prior of 
 Castle-Acre had a portion of tithes taxed at two marks, and other 
 temporals, taxed at QOs. all which were given by John de liitestune's 
 or Caslou's father, and confirmed by himself, namely, two tithe 
 sheaves out of three, of all his demeans in Rockland, and the third 
 tithe sheaf, of his demeans in Sipedam, or Shipdam, and above 14 
 acres of land in Rockland.^ 
 
 RECTORS AND VICARS. 
 
 Oliver de Redham. 
 
 1326, 6 kal. Nov. Simon de Bosco, de Saham, (or Simon of Saham 
 wood) on Redham's resignation. Oliver de Redham, forthis turn. 
 
 1349,24 Nov. The church of St. Peter at Roke/und Toftes, be- 
 longing now to the Abbess of Marham, was appropriated to that 
 house by the consent and approbation of the Pope and the Bishop,* 
 on condition, that the Bishop or his successours, at the churclies 
 vacancy, should ordain a vicarage, for which the vicar should be 
 taxed at 6 marks, the vicars being always to be nominated by the 
 Bishop, to the Abbess, who was obliged to present them, and also to 
 pay a pension of half a mark a year to the Bishop, in lieu of the 
 portion of his first fruits, for the great tithes, which ceased upon the 
 appropriation ; the vicar was to have a house, and to be endowed to 
 the value of 12 marks per annum, ai least, and the Abbess was taxed 
 at eight marks for the rectory. 
 
 1307, 17 March, Henry Moyse oi Redgrave. 
 
 137.3, 22 Nov. John Cantel. 
 
 ' Regr. Rix, fol. 361. the appropriation, and parish church of 
 
 ' Reijr. Castle-Acie, lb). 99. b. St. Peter in Rockland, in the diocese of 
 
 ' William [Batcman] Bishop of Nor- Norwich, a" 1349, Atlas, p. 410. 
 wich gave to the nunnery [of Marham]
 
 ROCKLAND-TOFTS. 477 
 
 1414, 13 July, Richard Bangot oi Mileham, priest. 
 
 1417, 28 ./««. Tho. IVi/ck, priest, on Bangot's resignation. 
 Joint Fouldoii. 
 
 1453, John Osmund, priest. 
 
 14G0, 24 ylitg. Sir Jo/)« Bourne, cliaplain. 
 
 I486, 22 Dec. John Jannis, on Bournes resignation. 
 
 1501, 20 June, Sir Peter IViflkim, ciuiplain, on Jannyss death. 
 These were nominated by the Bishop, presented by tiie Abbess. 
 
 1516, 29 March, Robert Coppull, on IVi/lkinss death, united to 
 All-Saints, at whose institution it was disappropriated, for the Abbess 
 presented him as rector; and in 
 
 1523, 20 May, Barbara, Abbess of St. Mary at Marham, granted 
 the next turn of her rectory of St. Pe^t'/'s cliurch of Rokelond, to 
 John Tendatc, Esq.; and \.he \S Aug. in the same y cat, Robert 
 Coppul, rector ot St. Peter's and All-Saints, was domesliek chaplain 
 to Henry Bishop of St. Asaph. 
 
 1556, 13 Febr. Kill. Harrison. John H.\re of London,^ Gent, 
 united to Stozc-Bedon. 
 
 1581, 17 April. Leonard .Tames,' on Harrison's death. NiCH. 
 Hare, Esq. united to Stow-lledon. 
 
 l60S, 13 Jan. John Lowtliwat,A. M. Sarah Ja.mes, widow, this 
 turn, united to Stow-Bedou. 
 Robert Pooley,^ 
 
 1690, 5 Dec. Henry Pitts, clerk, on Robert Poolcy's death. Tno. 
 Hare, Bart, in full right, united to Hargham. 
 
 1694, Zachary Poolcy, on Pitt's resignation. Frances Pooley, 
 widow, in full right. 
 
 1703, 1 July, George Taylor, on Zachary Pooley s death^ united to 
 JVimondliam. Rob. Pooley and Sarah Potts. 
 
 1737, The Rev. Mr. Edxcard Heylio, on Taylor's death, who is 
 now rector and patron, having purchased the advowson of the Pooleys. 
 
 The Church of St. Pe/r;-, which is the deanery church, hath 
 nothing remarkable in it : the north porch was built about 16 19, as a 
 broken inscription informs us. Tho tower is octangular, and hath 
 three bells in it; the chancel is ruinated, a small part of which 
 was rebuilt by the late rector, to officiate in. 
 
 There is a pension of 2s. per annum paid by the rector of St, Peter's 
 to the Dukeof A'o;/b//v, it being a perpetual composition for a mea- 
 sure of wheat, which Robert de Roketund gave to the monks of Thct- 
 ford out of his lands here. (Dug. Mon. Ang. torn. i. fol. ti65.) 
 There is also a pension of 4s. //cr «««(//« paid to the Duke from the 
 rectory of All-Saints, and another of Cs. from the rectory of St. 
 
 s It was granted 38 H. 8, along with murder of Master James, minister at 
 
 Marham Abbey, to Nicholas and John Rokeland in Norfolk, committed by Mr. 
 
 Hare. Lowe his curate, and consented to by 
 
 ' He was ordained priest in 1580, was his wife, for which both were executed, 
 
 barbarously murdered by Mr. Lowe, See this book in Tho. Raw! nson, Esr. 
 
 his curate, with his wife's consent, on his sixilt catalogue. Hist. Britanic. et 
 
 Twelfth Night, a^ 1608, for which the Hibern. ^to. N". 6. 
 
 first was hanged, and the last burned. -He was unfortunately drowned, in a 
 
 There was a book printed at London for dark night, and was several days before 
 
 Rob. Bonian, A.D. 1609, of the bloody he was found. 
 
 VOL. I. 3 P
 
 478 ROCKLAND-TOFTS. 
 
 Atidretc, holh hc\u>^ perpetual compositions for the Prioi* o( Castle- 
 .^cre's portions of titlies in tlioso parishes. (See p. 475, 476.) There 
 is also a rent of Ids, a year paid to the Duke, from the manor of 
 Kirkiha//. 
 
 There are now only tiiree distinct manors in this town, called 
 CarbomPs, L(idie\ Kiihehall Moi/nts and Goiunai/'s ; though there 
 were foniicriy no less then seven, before tlicy were united. 
 
 CARBONEL'S MANOR, 
 
 With the advowson of St. Aiidrezc's, belonged to Brnde, in the Con- 
 fessor's time, and to William Earl Jf'anen in the Conqueror's, of 
 whom Simon held it, the whole town being then above two miles 
 long, and one broad, paid Wd.geld.^ In 1194, Jfalkelin de Rosei/ 
 gave 20s. to King Richard I. to have seizin of 12a\ 7d. rent, of 
 the service oi' HtrvyOoige, in such manner as Baldzvinde Jiostv/had, 
 when he began his journey to Jerusalem, where he died : this Bald- 
 win was lord here, and cotemporary, if not brother, to Roger de 
 Rossei, or deRosseto, lord of Rose's manor in Soiith-Creke In 1218, 
 another Baldivin de Rosseto held it of the Earl Warren at one fee ; in 
 1234, Robert Carbouel was lord; from about 1310 to about 1340 
 Henry Carbonel and Catherine his wife, had it, who held it after her 
 husband's death to her own, which was before ISQDj for then Maud, 
 their daughter presented ; it soon after divided, and one part, with 
 the advowson, came to the Holdiches, who presented till 1571, and 
 afterwards sold it to Sir Ralph Chaumher/ei/n, Knt. reserving two or 
 three turns to the family ; the other part went to Jl illiam de Narburgh, 
 wliosc daughter Ela married Tho. Shuldham, and had a son by him 
 of his father's name, but he did not inherit, the manor being given by 
 his mother to Henry Spelmaii, her second husband, and hislieirs, and 
 William Spelman, their son, inherited; in 1488, Henry Spelman died 
 seized, and left it to Edmund Paston, Esq. to perform his will, at 
 which time it was held of the Earl JVarren, at the fourth part of a fee, 
 in l606, Francis Spelman, Esq. was lord of Carbonell's in Rockland, 
 in which family it hath continued to this time, it being now owned 
 by Mrs. Elizabeth Spelman of London. The leet (fee 3s. 4d.) belongs 
 to the hundred ; the fine is at the lord's will, and the eldest son is heir 
 
 ^ Terre Willi, de Warenna, (fol. 90.) donee W. de Gar. habuit tunc et sem- 
 
 Hund. deScerepham, in Rokeliin tenet per iii. lib. et x. sol. Pretcr hoc ad. 
 
 Simon iii. car. tcire quam tenuit i. lib. diti sunt huic terre ix. liberi homines et 
 
 horn. Brode, 7'.R.E. semper ii. vill. dim. i. car. terre liiii. acr. hoc est dnio. 
 
 et xii. bord. tunc i. serv. modo i. et viii. semper ix. bord. et viii. acr. prati seni- 
 
 acr. prati -semper ii. car. in dnio. et i. per vi. car. et ii. dimidios molin. hoc. 
 
 car. horn, silva vi. pore. tunc. iii. rune, totumest pro uno man. de laquis et val. 
 
 modo null, tunc viii. anim. modo v. et iii. lib. et xi. sol. de iiii. et dimidio 
 
 time XXX. pore, modo xv. tunc c. oves ex ix. socaet commend, erat in Bucham 
 
 et modo similiter et in eadem ten. et idem Regis T.R.E. et post, donee W. liabuit, 
 
 Simon vi. liberos homines et dimid. et totum fuit liberatum tempore Ra- 
 
 quos habuit idem Brode commend, tan- dulfi Comitis. Totum habet i. leug, 
 
 lum Ixx. acr. terre er iiii. acr. prati, in longo, et dim. in lato et xv.d. de 
 
 semper i. car. et dim. et his vi. etdini. Gelto. 
 SOC4 inBuclieham Regis T.R.E.et post.
 
 IIOCKLAND-TOFTS. 479 
 
 KIRKEHALL MOYNES and GURNEY'S, 
 
 Were distinct manors at first, ihougii they have been long united- 
 the first was held by Eudo the Sewer, of whom Richard held it;* and 
 the second by liingu//, at the Confessor's, and by Roger Fitz-Renard 
 at the Conqueror's survey;' to Moyiies manor the advowson of All- 
 Saints was appendant, and belonged to John Le Moyne, who held 
 It at three quarters of a fee of Will. Blaumister, and he of the Eail 
 Warren m Henry the Third's time. In 1282, Sir John Le Moyne of 
 W eston in Cambridgeshire had the manors of Weston by West Wrat- 
 ^JH^, and this manor and advowson settled on him, by Tho. de Colvile, 
 for hte, remainder to Baldwin de Monerijs (or Manors) for life, re- 
 mainder to John, son of Henri/ de Cola^ield, remainder to the ri"ht 
 heirs of Sir John Le Moyne, who, in 1285, had view of frankp/ed're, 
 and assize ot bread and ale allowed him here. In 13 IG, it was settled 
 by another fine exactly according to the former in 1282, and in 1334, 
 John Le Maine's heir had it; I suppose Sir John de Brokesbourne 
 married her, for he presented then; after his death Sir John de Sutton 
 of Wivenho, Knt. held it in right of Margaret his wife, and levied 
 a fine of the manor and advowson in 1359, "in order to settle them in 
 trustees hands, to his own use, John de Caston having claimed a turn 
 in the advowson, as belonging to his manor of Kirkehall, but was 
 cast. In 1360, Andrew Mancer, parson of Little Shcllei/, granted to 
 John Bach (or Beche) and other feoffees, the manor aiid advowson, 
 and Moyne's manor in Weston Colvile, in Cambridgeshire. In 1377, 
 Edmund, son of Sir Edmund de Brokesbourne, Knt. had it; and in 
 1401, Richard Chamberlain and John Sampler held it of Tho. de Bar- 
 dolph, and he of the Earl Warren. In 14)5, John Filz-Ualph, Esq. 
 and Tho. Elyngham, settled it on William Ray n forth and Eleanor 
 his wile, for life; and before 1474, the manor cidled Moi/nes's, was 
 united to Kirkehall, for then Sir Robert Chaumberleyn levied a fine 
 of them and All-Saints advowson ; and in 154C), .)ohn Barneij set- 
 tled his manor, called Barris, alias Gurneys, on Ralph Chaumberlain, 
 Esq. who afterwards purchased one part of Carbonel's manor, and the 
 advowson of St. Andrew's, and levied a fine of them all in 1567 ; and 
 in 15B9, John Welde of London was lord; in 1590, Humphry Wcldc, 
 Gent. e.\ecutor of the said John, kept his first court; and in 16OI, 
 .Tohn Weld of London, Esq. was lord and patron; in 1623, William 
 Welde had them ; in 1639, Sir Robert Beniey, Bart, was owner, in 
 whose family they continued till Richard Barney, Esq. (who died in 
 1695, at Redham) mortgaged them, and Mrs. Anne Martell, widow, 
 presented under the mortgage; in I709, they were ordered, by de- 
 cree in chancery, to be sold to pay Mr. Barney's debts, and were sold 
 accordingly to Colonel Windham of Earsham, and now they are 
 
 ♦TerreEudonus Dapiferi, (fol. 236.) s Terre RoRcrij filij Rcnardi. (W 
 
 Scerepham Hiind. In Rokeluiit ten. 3S2.) H. de Scrcpliam. In Rokelund 
 
 Rikardiisx.lib. lioies. i.car. terre sem- j. car. tore ten Kingul. lib. !io. T.R.E. 
 
 per i. bor. et iii. acr. prali silva iiii. semper i. vill. et viii. bor. tunc ii. ser. 
 
 pore, tunc iiii. car. post ii. modo iii. iiiodo i. et viii. ;icr. prati silv. viii. pore, 
 
 viii. a parsmol. tunc. val. c. sol. post, tunc ii. car. in dnio. post et modo i. 
 
 et modo xl. soca jacuit T. R. E. in Bu- tunc et post i. car. liomin. modo dim, 
 
 cham Regis et post, donee Lisius liabuit et i. car. posset esse, modo i. acr. ct v. 
 
 tecram et hoc testat. liund. pore, ct xxiiii. ove.'i, semj'er val. xx. sol.
 
 480 KOCKLAN D-TOFTS. 
 
 owned hy Jo!:eph JViiidhaiii-.Jsfi, ]li(\. The /eet belongs to the hun- 
 dred, the line is at the lord's xvili, and the eldest son is heir. As to 
 KiiiKEiiALL before the union, that belonged to the family sirnamed 
 de Casllcloii, Cakcstnii, or Casluii, and was originally a part of the 
 manor of Cast on Hall that extended into this town, though it was 
 taken as a separate manor very early, it being hekl by Robert de 
 Cakestoii, or Caston, as sucli, about King John's tinie;* John de 
 Kitestitn, or Caston, granted, and with his father's seal confirmed, to 
 Castk-Jcre priory, his own and father's gift, of two garbs of the tithes 
 of their lands in ItockUtnd St. Peter; in \2o6,Johii de Caston was 
 lord; and in 1'29G, Robert de Caston lield it at a quarter of a fee, of 
 JH/liam de Mortimer; in 1315, it belonged to Jgnes de Caston, and 
 in 1319, John de Caston had a charier for free-warren here and in 
 Caston, Brei/deston, and Uur/ingham. In 1373, Catherine, widow of 
 Sir John de Caston, conveyed Kirhehall manor to Tho. Cans o{ Hoe- 
 ham, and his heirs, llenri/ de Pakenham oi' Shropham being his trus- 
 tee; and in 1387, lliiliam, son ui' JIngh Faslolf, released all his right 
 in the manor to Riehard Cans, in whose family it continued, though 
 sometimes in trustees hands, till it was united to Moines's. 
 
 BARRIE'S MANOR 
 
 Belonged to a family sirnamed de Rockland, and was split out of 
 Moines's manor, for Aland de Rockland and her feoffees held it in 
 Henri/ the Third's time, of John Le Moine, at a quarter of a fee; iu 
 Edic'ard the First's time it divided, and Rich. Barn/ had one part, 
 ■whose daughter Joan married to Sir Robert de Caston; and in ]'288, 
 Henry Beny and Christian his wife had it; after that it fell to John 
 de Caston, whose daughters, Elizabeth married Robert Carbonel, and 
 Alice, William I'aslolf, in Edzcard the Third's time, when this part 
 was joined to Carboncl's manor; the other part continued in the 
 Rocklands, and in 1230, William de Rockland held it at half a fee; 
 in 1234, Adam de Rockland was lord ; and in 1336, John de Rokeland; 
 in 1338, Will, de Redham and his feoffees had it, and it went with 
 the Redhams estate to the Bernci/s, John de Berncy being possessed, 
 in 1355, of this and part of Kirkehall. In 1440,' John Benny of 
 Redham, Esq. settled this manor by the name of Kirkehall only, on 
 Phillip his son for life, remainder to Thomas his brother, and his 
 heirs, instead of the manor of Castons in Shipdam; but yet the son 
 recites in his will, dated 1441, that he had given it by deed to his 
 brother Jo/(»/ Bernei/ for life, remainder to his own heirs ; and not 
 long after this, Kirkehall part was uniled to Kirkehall and Moines's, 
 with which it continues, but Barry's continued in the Barneys: and 
 in 1527, John Barney, Esq. died seized, after which, about 1540, it 
 united to Kirkehall. 
 
 MORTIMER'S MANOR 
 
 Was held by Constantine de Mortimer in Henry the Third's time, at 
 one fee, of the Earl Warren, who held it of the King in capite; it 
 continued in that family a long time, and passed as their manor of 
 
 ' Reg. Castle-Acre, fol. 99. ' Regr. Doke, fol. 126. b.
 
 ROCKLAND-TOFTS. 431 
 
 Althbitrgh did ; in 1337, Comtantine de Mortimer, Esq. had a char- 
 ter for frec-wanen ui his lordship; it descended uilli Hcoulton to Sir 
 John Itlz-hull KxM. „iio nuuried Marina, /, graiul-dau"hler and 
 coheir ot Sir hobert Mortimer, vvlio had issilc .lohn Fitz-Raiif I'sq 
 whose son John married Jlice Waleshurgh, by whom he had Elnabelh 
 his coheiress, who enjoyed it in fee simple after her grandfatlier's 
 death, wah A/,pig/iam, and Waldiiigjidd in Sulfolk, and Ki„<rston m 
 Lambndgeslnrc, they being settled by Iier graudfatiier on herflo per- 
 form his hist will; and from this time it was joined to KirMui/l and 
 Moiiit s. 
 
 LADIE'S MANOR, 
 
 At tlic survey, was held by Puiu or Pagan, of Rofer Bhot •' and ire 
 1218 by liuhard FUz-lioger, at half a fee; in "1-3 1, Mkhard Lc- 
 1 res re released to Ralph (.ernnn his right in that half fee, which 
 liilUam de Rokelund then held of him in exchan"e, for other estates 
 fx^T^'-u ,". ^^r^' •'"/"' Le-Sc/n'p/,j/rd, and Jcferi/ de Bencland 
 held the half fee, formerly Jo/(« G«;7/«//'^, of the honour of Pt7«/.,W.- 
 \vhieh Robert de bonelond and Isabel Codt) lately held, they had it 
 till UOl; It after belonged io Richard Hoeham oi Little 'llocham. 
 who sold it to Henri/ rakenham of Shropluim, Es(|. and his trustees 
 who, in 144o, settled it absolutely on Elizabeth Bigot, iiis wife, and 
 her heirs, H illiam IVarner and others being trustees In 14G3 Eli-a 
 beth Bi^ot, formerly wife of Sir Ralph Bigot, Knt. after \hat~of 
 Henri/ 1 akenham, made her will, which was proved 18 Au<t in that 
 year,' in which she desired to be buried in ih& Justin friai^tdiurch at 
 JSoruich, and gave this manor, and all her manors and lands in Great 
 Elingham, and Attleburgh, with the courts, reliefs, &c. to Tho Man- 
 ning, her husband, and his heirs. In 1472, Henri/ Bixle of Thetford 
 liept his first court, after he had purchased it oi'Tho. Pekke of Roke- 
 hmd, and John Salter. In 1479, Rob. Fuhnerston oi Utow, and Re<ri 
 naldParysoi Thetjord, at the request of Bi.ilei/'s executors, wliosc 
 leoflees they were, conveyed it to Tho. Brian, clerk, llHl. Cross, and 
 IhoSjjringold, who released it to Tho. Phtmmer of Szcaf hum, imd 
 Isubell, wife ot Tho. Summersham of Thetjord, senior, dier Robert 
 Wi/neyve, Robert Newman, and Tho. Blake, in trust for 'Eleanor 
 Muriel, who held her first court in 1480; in 1493, thcv conveyed it 
 to Robert Muriel, Rieh. Groom, Robert Fulmersto>i,'john Halter 
 a.i\d John Matherc, \\ho held their first court in 1494; and in 1498 
 they granted it to John Xe/e of Hucham, and ChrisUmhcr Purdeii of 
 Bury, who sold it to Helen Muriel, Peter Jl'ibster, John Purde,, 
 Ralph 'Scle, &c. in 1506; and in 1514, they conveyed it to Tho 
 Muriel and Henri/ Darbi/, who sold it to Uill. Nede of Elimrham- 
 Parra, who, in 1524, sold it to ieo6eW Sibbs of Coun^ton in slitfoU: 
 milium Cunge of Berniiigham, Robert Hawise of Itestou, HndJohn 
 Muriel of Rockland, Sitib's feoffees, to whom they released in I53(j 
 from which lime the courts were held in his name, till his death in 
 1572, and llien Robert Sibbs of Han: lei/ in HuJ/'olk, his son and heir, 
 
 ' Terra Roger! Bigot, fol. 128. H bor. et iii. acr. prati semper dim. car ct 
 Schereph-im. In Rocliclunt dim. car. val. v. sol. soca in Bucliam. 
 tcrre 1. lib. lio. queiii tenet Pagaiuis ii. •' Regr. Brosycrd, fol. 316
 
 482 GREAT ELINGHAM. 
 
 kept his first court, and in 1594, sold it to Edm. Sarjoit of Coneices' 
 ton, who, in 1593, sold it to IViUiam Musket of Haw/ey in Suffolk, 
 Gent, who, in l609, jointly with Robert his son, settled it on yJiiiie 
 Bedgewell, the intended wife of the said Robert, and they sold it to 
 John Duffield and Barbara his wife; hut in I619, Simon Musket, 
 Gent, and Jnne his wife, recovered it by an action brought against 
 John Duffie/d, senior, and John Dujfield, junior, to them and their 
 heirs, and at their death it fell to the share of Henrj/ Dloniefietd of 
 Fersfield, Gent, who married Anne Musket, their daughter and co- 
 heiress; he at his death left it to Henri/ Blomefield of Brisingham, 
 Gent, his only son by his second wife, at whose death it went to Sti//e 
 Blomejield of Blonorton, Gent, his eldest son, who died single, and it 
 descended to Mr. Henri/ Blomejield of Fersfield, his only brother, 
 who is now lord.* The manor-house is dilapidated, its site is still 
 called Ladie's, which name it assumed from the Lady Bigot, its for- 
 mer owner. 
 
 The manors of Castonhall, Attleburgh Mortimers cum Membris ex 
 parte Crowshall, Elingham-Pana, Thompson, and Scoulton ^ewla7ids, 
 extend into these parishes. 
 
 GREAT ELINGHAM. 
 
 Thi s town was in three parts at the Conquest, and hath continued 
 so to this time, there being now three manors; the capital manor was 
 always called, as it now is, 
 
 ELINGHAM, or ELINGHAM HALL. 
 
 It belonged to Turketel the Dane in the Confessor's days, and to Wari- 
 bold, or IVarbold in the Conqueror's, who held it of Hermer de Ferrers, 
 to whom the Conqueror had given it;' it was then worth 5/. and the 
 whole town was two miles long and one broad, and paid igd. geld. 
 
 • The manor was purchased of Henry pliain hundret. Helincliam ten. Wari- 
 
 Blomefield of Fersfield, Gent, with all boldus quam tenuit Turchetel lib. ho. 
 
 tlie demeans, rights and privileges, with T. R. E. iii. car. terre semper iii. vill. 
 
 other freehold lands, (the whole being ct ii. bord. et v. serv. silva de c. pore. 
 
 20/. a year,) by the Govcinours of the xxx. acr. prati. semper iii. car. in doni. 
 
 «' Bounty of Queen Anne, for the Aug- semper iii. rune, et viii. acr. et vi. equc 
 
 " mentation of the Maintenance of the cum pull, tunc xx. pore. m° xxvii. 
 
 " Poor Clergy," in 1738, and was by tunc cxx. oves, modo c. i. ecclesia xx. 
 
 them settled on the vicarage of Cherry- acr. el xxviii. soc. Ix. acr. et vi. acr. 
 
 Marham for ever, it being one of the prati. ieniper iii. car. tunc, et post val. 
 
 livings augmented by the donation of iiii. lib. m° c. sol. et totum habet i, 
 
 Mr. Brook, who left 1000/. to procure leug. in long, et dim. in late, et xix.</. 
 
 the bounty to five small livings. de Gelto quicunque ibi habeat. 
 ' Terre Hcrmeri, (fol. 173.) Sere-
 
 GREAT ELINGHAM. 
 
 483 
 
 The said Homer se.zed also ihrcc freemen/- and llO acres, besides 
 other lands and services in this town, and llarbo/d added them to 
 this manor, to which they afterwards belonged as to their services, 
 but the soke belonged lo J ukeuham castle, ft after came to the Earl 
 JVanen of ^vhom the IVirmegej/es held it, till irU/iam de Worme.re,,,> 
 infeoffed m///«;« son oUlalph dc Elingham,^ and in 1252, Rol/rt 
 deL/mgkam held it at two fees, of Sir 7//,^/, liardo/ph, and had a 
 charter tor tree-warrcn ; he was succeeded by J/c.v. dt Elhmham. 
 who had the ,;hartcr allowed in Eire in 12^5, Robert de Elingham 
 was lord after him, and settled it in 1313, on himself and Cassaudra 
 his wile, lor life remainder to his own heirs; in 1369, Alexander his 
 son was lord and patron, who conveyed the whole manor and advow- 
 son to Sir Robert Mortimer, Knt. and Dame Margcruhh wife: and 
 m 1372, according to the agreement on the sale, iheV reennted the 
 manor (except eight acres and the advowson) to the saicl .^//era/^^o- 
 and y//ny h.s wife, tor their lives, remainder to the said ^\v Robert 
 and Margcn/ his wile, who settled the reversion on William atte iVe»d, 
 parson o ^kuton, Iho Caus of IIocha,n, and Jol>», son of T/io. 
 nottes ot Atileburgh, their feoffees, who released to them in 1377- 
 and in \3S\^^n Robert was lord and patron; in 1388, Margeru his 
 widow settled both the manor and advowson on Sir Geonre Felbri<f^e 
 Knt. n ill de Sharneburn, Henry de Pakenlmm, JVilliam atte IVmd. 
 parson of Great Lh/iiglum, John, parson of the third part of Attle- 
 fmrg RiehardCaiis ofHoeham, Richard Gegge of Saham, and John 
 atte Cross ot Depham, by deed dated at Great Elingham, under her 
 seal, which IS remarkable for its having her own arms, viz. a chevron 
 between three lions rampant, impaled with, and placed before, those 
 of her husband. In ISyg, the feoffees released their rio-ht to her 
 again. In 1401, Constantine Mortimer was lord and patron : in 140« 
 the advowson was separated from the manor, as you may see in th^e 
 account of the incumbents, and the manor went to ^iv John Fit-- 
 Ralph of Scoidton, Knt. in right of Margery his wife, one of the 
 daughters and coheiresses of Sir Thomas Mortimer of Attlebimrh 
 from whom it descended to John Filz-Ralph, Esq. his son, who s1;tl 
 tied It with W;o« and Totyngton, on John Fitz-Ralph, his son. 
 and Alice lialesborough his wife, after the deaths of himself and 
 Julian his then wife, with remainder to the sons heirs male, and for 
 want of such, on Maud his daughter, and her heirs, Richard de Beau- 
 champ hnvl fj^^nvick S\v William Fhelep, Sir John Fastulff, Sir 
 John IIoward,hiv Richard fValdgrave, senior, and Sir Tho. Tudaiham, 
 Knts. Will Clopton, Henry Fakenham, Esqrs. and others, bein- 
 feoffees ; and, for want of issue male, they went to Maud Fitz-Ral„h 
 who married Sir Robert Confers, Knt. who died seized, arul jL'i 
 cA'r'n-' ^^"' inherited ; he married Eleanor, sister and coheir 
 
 of William, son of Sir William Yeherton, Knight of the Bath, at 
 Kxng Edward the Fourth's coronation, and one of the justices of the 
 Kings Uench; but having no issue, in 1472, he released it to Henry 
 
 ■^ Invasiones in Nordfulc. Invasio xii. por. val. x«. sol et in Iilscommend. 
 
 Hermeri de Ferranjs (fol. .96.) Sere- tantum soca. i., Bucham Rc^is 
 pham Hund. In Hclingham iii. liberi ^ i^ . ^Valter de ElTnc-ham, fa- 
 
 ho,es. ex. acr quod tenet Waribodus ,her of Ralpl,, purchased i„a°ny l^nds 
 
 et v, acr. prati. semper 11. car. silv. and tenements here.
 
 4Si GREAT ELINGIIAM. 
 
 Spelinini, in Inist for Thomds liis son, who liad marrietl Ainie, one 
 of tlic two daughters and coheirs of Tlw. Coiii/ers, Esq. his brother; 
 lie died in 14S3: "And in 1499» Thomas Spelmati, Gentylman, of 
 " Mf/;i/H E/i/iig/iam" held it of S/irop/iom hundred, who died seized, 
 and by his will dated this year, ordered to be buried in the church, 
 to which he gave 20/. for a suit of vestments, " and to the gild of 
 " our Lady, in honowr and worscliypp of iier v. joyes, os. to St. 
 " James's g'M 10s. anil to St. Peter's 6s. Sd."* to June his wife the 
 manor of C/une/ls in Jiie/uwnccit, till John his son was 21 years old, 
 to Henri/ his son, and Elizabeth his daughter 100 marks each, to yhiiie 
 his wife, the manor oi' Bcrn/ka// in Elytighum, and after her decease 
 to his son John in fee tale, who died under age, and Iloiri/ his bro- 
 ther inherited; he died without issue in 1525, and was buried here, 
 hy Anne his molber, upon which, this manor went to Anthony Gonr- 
 ney, Esq. of North Harsham, in right of Margaret his wife, one of the 
 daughters and coheirs of Sir Robert Lovell, by Ela Coni/ers his wife, 
 who was sister to Anne Coniers, mother to Henry Spelman ; but 
 Berry hall went to the heirs of IVilliam De-Grey of Merton, in right 
 of Christian his wife, the daughter and coheir of Thomas Manning, 
 as vou may see under Buryhall manor. Francis Giirney, son of 
 An'th. Gournei/ of Elipigham, Esq. married Helen, daughter of Robert 
 Holdiche of Rantcorth, Bsq. and died before his father, leaving '/fe7<?y 
 Gurnet/, Esq. his son and heir, who held Irsled manor of the Bishop 
 Tsoruich, Elingham manor of the Lord Bardol/'s heirs. West Barsham 
 of the manor of Castle-Acre, by one fee, Gurney's manor in Hingham, 
 of the heirs of Henry Lord Morley, as of his manor of Hingham, and 
 the advowson of the third pari of Attlcbiirgh ; he was lord in 1572, 
 and at his death it went to Edm. Gnrmy, Esq. his son and heir, who 
 died seized in 1641, and left Henry his son and heir, then nine years 
 old, who died without issue, and it went to Margaret Gurney, his aunt, 
 who married Mr. Henry Davy of Great Elingham, whose sole daugh- 
 ter and heiress, Man/, married Sir Roger Potts, Bart, of Great Eling- 
 ham and Manningtoii, who sold it to Mr. Francis Colman of Normch, 
 the present lord, who now dwells in the manor-house called Elling~ 
 ham Hall. 
 
 The Customs of this manor are, that the eldest son is heir; it is 
 set fine at 3s. an acre, and there are very considerable barley rents 
 paid in kind, if the lord does not choose to compound for them. The 
 leet belongs to the hundred, the leel fee being 3s. (id. 3q. as the hun- 
 dred-roll informs me. 
 
 BURGH HALL, or BERRY HALL MANOR, 
 
 At the conquest belonged to Robert deBeaufo;'' the soke of it was 
 then appendant to llie hundred, as it now is, there being no leet ; it 
 afterwards belonged to the lords of Bukenhani castle, and was part of 
 
 * Regr. Sayne. hoies. xlviii. acr. ii. bor. et ii. liberi 
 
 ' Cole's fifth volume of Inquisitions, hoies. xxii. acr. terreet vi. acr. et dim. 
 
 p. 312. prati. silv. viii. pore, semper dim. car. 
 
 ' Terra R. de Bellofago, (fol. iii.) et ii. bov. tunc val. x. sol. modo xx. 
 
 H. Sccrepham. In Elincliain ii. liberi Soca in Butham.
 
 GREAT ELINGHAM. 48i 
 
 those eleven fees whicli Hugh dc I'ere and Dioriise his wife held of 
 Robert de Tateshak ; and in 1304, Tlio. de Cdt/ly had it. In l.SOo, 
 it belonged to Baldwin de Maiierijs, or Manors', who held it of Roger 
 Bigot ,\La.x\ of Norfolk; in 1314, Simon, son of John Skil/nan of 
 Hedersete, granted to Margery, reVict oi' Roger Cosyn of Great Eling- 
 /lam, his mother, the manor and all its appurtenances, viz. 15 mes- 
 suages, 320 acres of land, lOOs. rent, 8cc. in Great and JJtt/e 
 Elingham, Jlingham, Attleburgli, Rockland, Depham, and MorUy ; 
 and in 13 15, the said Margery and Ralph I'imyant (whom siie had mar- 
 ried) owned it ; in 1345, Roger de Gatesendh'ad it; and in 1399, Jiald- 
 tain de Bosco, or Bois, held it at iiaif a fee, as of Forncet manor,' and 
 soon after it belonged to the Mortimers, and went with Elizabeth 
 Mortimer to Sir Ralph Bigot of Stockton, her husband, wlio held it 
 for life, and after his death she enjoyed to her own, in 14(J3,and then 
 by will gave it to John Manning, her last husband, and his heirs; 
 who, in 1428, was justice of peace, and of goal delivery in the 
 Bishop of Eli/'s liberty of Mitford hundred ; at his death it went with 
 Christian, one of iiis daughters and coheirs, to fVilUam De-Grey of 
 iHt'r/o«, Esq.* who died in 1474, as his inscription in Merton church 
 informs me, from which time it hath gone in a lineal descent to 
 Thomas De-Grey of Merton, Esq. the present lord, of whose family I 
 shall discourse under Merton, their ancient seat. 
 
 The Custom of the manor is, that the fines are at the lord's will, 
 and the eldest son is heir. 
 
 This Church was valued in the Kings Books at 61. 5s. lOd. and 
 being sworn of the clear yearly value of 31/. \6s. lOd. it hath been 
 augmented (as I am informed) by the Rev. Mr. John Cater, the pre- 
 sent viear and patron, w ho hath settled part of the great tithes, upon 
 tlie vicar. It stands in Mr. Ectnn's last edition of the f alor. &,c. as 
 a rectory, the reason of which is, that on its a[)propriation to the 
 college, the vicarage was never taxed but the college paid the whole 
 first fruits, not at the institution of each vjcar, but of each master, so 
 that as to first fruits and tenths, it always was a rectory, but being 
 under value, it is now discliarged of both. It pays Idd. synodals, 
 besides the Archdeacons procurations. 
 
 RECTORS AND VICARS. 
 
 1312, 15 kal. May, Henry de Brum, priest, was instituted to the 
 rectory of the church of St. James the Apostle, oi' Great Ellingliam, 
 at the presentation of Robert de Elyngham. 
 
 13(i2, Ralph of Elyiigtiam, rector. 
 
 1369, 5 yJpril, IViliiam, son of Tho. JVottes of Attleburgh, shave- 
 ling. Alexander, son oi Robert de Elyngham. 
 
 1381, 13 Dec. William, ^on of John alte ff'eiid oi Great Elingham, 
 priest. Sir Ron. de Mortimer, Knt. 
 
 1393, 25 Jan. JVilliam Ilkellcsliall, shaveling. Margerv, relict 
 of Sir Robert de Mortimer, Knt. 
 
 ' Liber fcod. milit. tent, de Maneiio ' It was settled on one or two of the 
 sive Honore de Forncet. Spclinans for life; but the fee was al- 
 
 ways in the Greys. 
 VOL. I. 3 Q
 
 486 GREAT ELINGHAM. 
 
 1399, 12 Nov. T/io. Hilton, priest, on Ulcfllesha/Px resignation, 
 
 CONSTANTINE ^loKTIMEK, HkNUY 1'aKENHAM, KuH. CaUS, 
 
 Rich. Gegg, John ate Cros, and John Wasbald, rector of 
 Reifnham. 
 
 1400, 14 March, Master John Warner, accolitej on Hilton s resig- 
 nation. CoNSTANTlNE MoUTlMER. 
 
 1402, The acivowson of this rectory was appendant to the manor, 
 till the division of the J/or^Z/Hcrs estate, and then the manor went to 
 Marzen/, wife of Sir John Filz-Kalph, knt. and the advowson to 
 Cecih/, widow of Sir Juhn de llerling, Knt. who gave it to the master 
 and fellows of Attleburgh college, or chantry, and they at their 
 foundation got it appropriated to their house, by bull from Pope John 
 XXIII. dated at Rome in June 141 1, which was obtained at the pe- 
 tition of >iiinon Jlotcisonc, rector of Seoul tone, and Robert Syred, 
 master of the college, which set forth, that Sir Robert Mortimer de- 
 signed to found (though he was hindered by sudden death) a college 
 oi'chantry for five chaplains, to pray for his own and his wife Mar- 
 geri/'s soul, &c. all which they, as his executors, in pursuance of his 
 wil'l, had fulfilled, and had also procured this advowson, and obtained 
 license of the King to settle it on the college, upon which the bull 
 granted the appropriation, on condition that on the ne.\t avoidance, 
 a vicarage was created by the Bishop, with institution to it. 
 
 141 J, 4 Jpril, Master John Rijhedon, priest, was instituted to tlie 
 then created vicarage of Elinghani-Magmi, at the presentation of the 
 master and fellows, or chaplains oi Attleburgh college or chantry, 
 who were to pay 1 1 marks to the Bishop, on every vacancy of the 
 college, in full for the tax of the first fruits of the rectory, and so the 
 vicarage was not taxed at all, and paid no tenths nor first fruits. 
 
 1418,14 Oet. Simon S'cherreve of Seulton, priest, fellow of Atllc- 
 burs.h college, was instituted at the resignation oi' John Rt/kedon, 
 master of the college, at his and the rest of the fellows presenta- 
 tion. 
 
 1453, 6 April, Walter Hotcard, on Shereve's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1470, 22 April, John Hasby. In 
 
 147 j, 12 Jan. He sued the master and fellows, because the vicarage 
 was worth no more than 9 marks a year, and made them auguient it 
 for ever with four marks per annum, payable at Easter and Michael- 
 mas, out of their great tithes. 
 
 14S2, 3 February, John Ptdmer, on Ilasbys resignation. Ditto. 
 William Cherlt/s. Ditto. 
 
 1494, 23 Jail/, Tho. Sherman, im C7/er/3r.s's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1504, 17 Jan. Thu. Holme, chaplain oi Attleburgh chantry, on 
 Sherman's resignation. Ditto. 
 
 1508, 6 Octob. John Hardy ng. Lapse. 
 
 1561, 1 Aug. John Holden, priest, by lapse. In 
 
 1590, 3 May, He was re-instituted for confirmation, at the Queen's 
 presentation, by lapse. 
 
 1601,20 Octob. Henri/ Womoek, A. M. on Holden's death. Kob. 
 Radcliff, Earl of Sussex, united to Fersjield. 
 
 1628, 7 Nov. Salhaniel Scot, A.M. on IVomock's death. 
 
 16j1, 24 Nov. Samuel Harding, on Scott's resignation. Edward 
 Earl of Sussex. 
 
 1639, 16 Se2)t. John Tireman,S,T, B. on Harding's death. Ditto.
 
 GREAT ELINGHAM. 487 
 
 1641, 21 Dec. John BattmaHf A.M. on Tireman's cession. James 
 Lloyd, Gent. 
 
 Abraham Turner. 
 
 1674, 29 Jan. Tho. Li/nford, A. M. on Turner's death. Tno. 
 Cockayne of Sunning in Berks, Gent. 
 
 1676, 5 March, Nic/iolas Clegat, A. M. on LynforiTs resignation. 
 Ditto. 
 
 1684, 15 July, Will. Kiinin, A. M. on Clegat's cession, united to 
 Besthorp. Ditto. 
 
 .Tames Bedingjield, alias Grey. 
 
 1717, 10 March, The Rev. Mr. John Cater, on Grey's resignation, 
 who is now[1737] vicar, patron, and impro|)riator, and holds it united 
 to the rectory of Little Elingham. lie was presented by Anthony 
 Catek, Gent. 
 
 THE RECTORY MANOR 
 
 Always belonged to the rectors, for in the Conqueror's survey it ap- 
 pears that there were then divers lands and services belonging to the 
 church ; but at the appropriation in 1402, it was taken from it, and 
 settled as part of the rectory on the college, and went with the rec- 
 tor}', and advowson of the vicarage, at the Dissolution, to the Earl of 
 Sussex, in whose family it continued till after 1639, as the institutions 
 shews us. In 1641, James IJoyd, Gent, and Ahrahnnt Turner, pre- 
 sented. It after belonged to Tho. Cockayne of Sunning, and is now 
 owned, with the impropriation and advowson, by the Rev. Mr. John 
 Cater, the present incumbent ; the customs being the same as Berry- 
 hall manor. 
 
 This town paid 4/. to the tenths, and is assessed at 733/. In l603, 
 it had 360 communicants, and now there are about 400 inhabitants. 
 It is a vicarage endowed and augmented, in Rockland deanery and 
 A'o/yb/i" archdeaconry. The Vr'xovoi IVymondham's temporalities in 
 this town were taxed at Qs. 8d. and the Prior oi' Bokenham's at 1 Is. ()d. 
 In 1382, Thomas de Flitcham and others aliened to the Prior of Tlit- 
 cham 1 messuage, 4 tofts, 133 acres of land, and 45s. rent in Flitcham, 
 Appilton, HillingloH, Dtpham, Morle, Atleburgh, ff icleicood, and 
 Great EUingham. The honour of Clare, extended hither, for in 
 1564, Thomas, son and heir of J?oger Greene, clothier, held the pas- 
 ture lands called IschalCs of the Queen, as of her honour of Clare, by 
 knight's service. 
 
 The Church is dedicated to St. James the Apostle,' who had a 
 Gild also kept to liis honour on the dedication day, and there was 
 another kept on St. Peters day, to his honour, in the south chai>el, 
 which is dedicated to him ; the north isle chapel is called Mortimer's 
 chapel, and was made at the expense of that family, as appears by 
 their arms scattered about it. 
 
 The nave, two isles, and the chapels at their east ends, with the 
 chancel, are leaded, the porch tiled, the lower is square, huth a spire 
 on it, and five bells in it. 
 
 « Rcgr. Gclour.
 
 488 GREAT ELI NG HAM. 
 
 In 1498, Thomas Spe/inan was biniecl in the chancel ; his mother 
 was buried at Stow-ncdoii, and his father at Nttrbtirgh, as his will 
 tells us. In 1505, his son and heir was buried here, over whom, at 
 the upper end of the church, lies a sloiie whicli had a brass plate 
 thus inscribed,' 
 
 ©rate pro Slnimfl l^enrici .^lyelmnn ilrmiocri, filii, tt \)txtb\^ djomc 
 ^pclman ilrmictcri, tiiii obiit primo Die .Jlkn^iiS J.Bartti anno SDomini, 
 JJl.ctcccpv^- cuiu.^ animc propicictur ©cuiS 3mcn.- 
 
 On the upper part of the stone were the arms of Spelman, im- 
 paling MoRTiMEU, and Spelman quartering Manning. 
 
 Jn 1509, Jdiim Coaper of Moc/ic E/iiigliam was buried here, in 
 ■whose will is this clause, " I gctf onto the church oi Elijiigham afore- 
 " seyd, iii. acres and a rode of fre lond, Ij'ing in a felde, called West 
 "fe/de, ill Hesi////7ierc-Biis/i."^ 
 
 ' Antlionif Giirnay of Great TLlingham, Esq. was buried in this 
 church in 1557.* 
 
 There are two black marbles in the chancel, thus inscribed, 
 
 MEMENTO MORI. 
 Here lyeth the Body of ELIZABETH, the Wife of CHARLES 
 POTTS, Citizen, and Merchant Tayler of London, who departed 
 this Life the '2d of Sept. A° Dni. ifoO, at Kensington, in Com: 
 Midd:aged 21 Years. 
 
 Not Youth, nor Beauty, Wealth, Descent, or Lands, 
 Can charm pale Death, or stay his cruel hands. 
 
 .Tacet PHILLIPUS POTTS, hoc sub Marmore 
 
 Domini ROGERI Baronetti e Filijs, 
 
 Amice Lector, parce (sis) Lachrymis tuis, 
 
 INlorique discas, quern legis. Quondam fuit, 
 
 Rarum beataj Exemplar Innocentiae, 
 
 Virtute prtestans, candidisque Moribus, 
 
 Facilis Amicus, et (quod Instar omnium) 
 
 Pietate clarus, in Parentes et Deuni, 
 
 Sed in Juventa languidus Morbo gravi, 
 
 Valedixit Orbi huic lubrico, et plenus Fide 
 
 Tenace, Isetus suaviterque obdormijt. 
 
 Anno TEtatis 27, 
 
 1698. 
 
 There is a stone in the chancel disrobed of the effigies of a woman, 
 and the arms of Willoughhy and Coniers, and Coiiiers quartering Fitz- 
 Ralph, and this inscription, 
 
 ©rate pro ^nima anne niiper tlfori^ iSidjartii ©ptlugfaji ' armigcri, 
 Vlniusi i?iliaruin $ l^ercDum Cljome vConncrijacmiueri, que obiit jrpP 
 Die ©ctobns a ©ni: 1499- 
 
 ■ Weaver, fol. 8io. ' He was her second husband, and 
 
 ■* Regr. Sayne. Thomas Spelman was lier first, whose 
 
 3 Regr. Spyltimer, fol. 170. heirs inherited. 
 * Regr. Jagges, fol. 58.
 
 GREAT ELINGHAM. 
 
 489 
 
 There are divers arms in the windows, and upon the seats and 
 screens, in the church and chancel. 
 
 , Fitz-Rauf, gul. three chevrons or, on each as many de-lises. sab. 
 
 Manning, az. and gul. quarterly, over all a cross patonce, be- 
 tween three trefoils slipped or. 
 
 WiLLOUGHBY, gul. a cross moline voided arg, 
 
 Mortimer of Atttebitrgli. 
 
 Spelman, Coniers, Keedeston, Montchensy, Swathyng, 
 Hetherset, Felbrigge, Plantaginet, Butler, and Bas- 
 
 SliNGIiOURN. 
 
 BuNDEviLE, or and az. quarterly, indented per fess, a bendletg«^. 
 
 Edward the Confessor, az. a cross patonce, betweea four 
 martlets or. 
 
 Sab. three lions rampant arg. langued or. 
 
 Chequy or and gul. a fess arg. 
 
 And the following arms, and emblem of St. James, viz. the pilgrim's 
 staff" and ring, his bag, pouch, and escalop shells, which were the 
 badges of the pilgrims, that frequently travelled to Compostella, 
 where St. James lies buried.'' 
 
 BROME. 
 
 ELYNGHAM.7 
 
 
 BARDOLPH. 
 
 VERDON. 
 
 * Aurea Legenda, London, 1503, fol. 
 
 ' Jolin de Elyngham was one of the 
 four bailiffs of Norwich in I3S4>
 
 490 BESTHORP. 
 
 ELY BISHOPRICK. EMBLEM OF ST. JAMES. 
 
 BESTHORP. 
 
 1 HIS village is called in Domesday, Beset horp, and Baconsthorp, 
 aad now Besthorp, or the Best Til/age, from tlie goodness of its soil, 
 and plenty of wood, as Spehnan in his Icenia observes ; it was a rec- 
 tory appendant to the two manors in this town, and each of them had 
 a turn in its advowson ; that which belonged to Flasset's manor was 
 given by Jl'illiant Earl of Arundel, the second of that name, to the 
 monks of JVinumdham,^ and the other, which belonged to Robert de 
 Baiitvent's manor,' was by him at that time released, to the same 
 monks ; ami afterwards Robert, son and heir of Robert de Tateshale, 
 and Hugh, son and heir of Sir Robert de Bavent of Besthorp, con- 
 firmed their ancestor's gifts, Simon de Jf cmton Bishop of Noruieh, 
 consented to the appropriation, and it was appropriated accordingly, 
 before the year 1'26G,' for then that Bishop died; but in or after 
 the year 1262, because John de Jheschirche, the Bishop's Official 
 was witness to it ; the prior and convent were to be patrons of 
 the vicarage ;* the vicars were to have the house and lands belong- 
 ing to the rectory, and all other profits, and the whole tithes, ex- 
 cept those of 638 acres, and one rood,' all which lands are specified 
 in the appropriation, and the tithes valued at lo marks per annum, 
 at least; but the vicars are to pay the synodals and procurations; 
 
 ' Regr/Wymondham, in Bib. Cot. 
 fo. 32. b. 40. 
 
 ' Robert Bavent's original deed, witli 
 the nssent of Picot, his first-born, lies in 
 the bag of divers dioceses in Nonvicli 
 box, in tl>e court of the receipt of tlie 
 Exclieqiier. 
 
 ' Tlie endowment of the vicarage is 
 to be found in a MSS. in llie library at 
 
 Canterbury, quoted by Mr. Batiey in 
 his collections. 
 
 ^ Regr.Wymondham, fol. 94, 95, 96. 
 
 ' The Prior of Wymondhani owned 
 95 acres and an half, of these lands, of 
 the gift of the Earls of Arundel and 
 others, and the nuns of Marham 3 acres. 
 Will. Plassys 30, and Rob. Mortimer 
 and others the rest.
 
 BESTHORP. 491 
 
 and akeYW!\rds,ia Edward the First's time, it is thus entered in Nor- 
 K'u7? Domesday, " the Prior of Wipnundlmm holds the ciiurch of 
 " Besthorp, appropriated to his convent, but tiie vicar hath the par- 
 " sonage-house, and 28 acres of glebe, and receives the moiety of the 
 " tithes, and tiic Prior tl)e other moiety ; f\iUium Earl oi Arundel, son. 
 " of William aiidJlice, gave it to the Prior in King Ihurif the Se- 
 " cond'stime,in order thai it might be appr()priiitcd,\md its advowson 
 " contmued in the convent, till Himon Bishop of \o/7r/( A appropriated 
 " It, reserving ihe patronage of the vicarage to the Prior, the iiistitu- 
 " tion to the Bishop, and the episcopal and archidiaconal dues to be 
 " paid by the vicar." At the Dissolution the impropriation and ad- 
 vowson came to the Crown, and there continued till Queen VJlzabelh, 
 in the 18th year of her reign, granted the portions of tithes to Richard 
 Brokelsbi/, to be held at '^Gs. Sd. yearly rent; and in the 2<ilh year 
 of her reign, she granted to Ednurd Hero,,, Esq. and Joliii \icli(jlas, 
 Gent, all tithes whatsoever in Besthorp, and lands which lately be- 
 longed to IVymondham convent, and were concealed and unjustly 
 detained from the Crown ; and in the 30th year of her reign, the 
 advowson of the vicarge and impropriation was granted to the C/tves, 
 and was joined to the manors before ](i02, by the Drurys, with which 
 they now continue. 
 
 VICARS. 
 
 1262, Roger de Cantehpe was rector, at whose death the first vicar 
 was instituted. 
 
 1303, 13 kal. May, Thomas, sirnamed Raicn, of Wymondham, 
 priest. The Prior and convent of fVymuitdham. 
 
 1332, 4 non. Jan. Tho. Ri/keward, oi Wymuiidham, priest. 
 
 134y, 20 ./(//y, Tho. Ri^ngedale, priest. 
 
 1375, 23 Dec. Mr. John ^Mote, deacon. 
 
 1384, il/o<e changed with Barth. de IVendover, for Shaherstone 
 rectory in Lincoln diocese. 
 
 1384, IVendover changed with Tho. Killingzcorlh. 
 
 1388, 15 Sept. JVill. IValkclyn, priest, on A///wgri077/("s resignation. 
 
 1394 23 Nor. John Pogge de Hedirsete, priest. 
 Richard Snowe. 
 
 1408, 12 Jug. John Smyth, priest on Snoice's resignation. 
 
 1410, 2 ^lay, John Peers, vicar; he resigned to Simon Mafreij of 
 Banham priest, in e.xchange for IVykhani in London diocese in the 
 patronage and jurisdiction of the Dean of St. Paul's. 
 
 1417, 17 May, If ill. Child, priest, on Mafreys resignation. 
 
 1421, 27 March, Richard, son of Fraricus Buiityng of Salle, 
 priest. 
 
 1424, 17 Oct. John Kuynyngton, otherwise called atle Halle of 
 Lutchurche, priest, on Bunting's resignation. 
 
 1426, 18 Dec. Tho. Clement, alias Z)fe///, alias Mortijmer. 
 
 1439, 3 Oct. Tho. Brozijster, priest, on Clement, alias Mortymer's, 
 resignation. 
 
 Tho. NeTiton. 
 
 1445,13 Sept. Oliver H'hetenhale, alias J\'(irner,on A'tuYo/i's death. 
 
 1469, 8 July, John Cralle, licenciate in the decrees. 
 
 + Rices Survey, pj 34.
 
 492 BESTHORP. 
 
 1 489, Richard Stokesci/. 
 
 1494, '20 ^"/wg. Jo/in Jiahhiiii. Lapse. 
 
 1496, 20 JuTij, John Foister, priest. 
 IVilliain Staniaey, 
 
 loll, 5 Oct. John King, chaplain, on Statwey's resignation. 
 
 1528, 13 March, Sir T/iomaa DoKnyn<r, chaplain, was instituted at 
 lloxiie, in the Bishop's palace there, on tne resignation of John King, 
 (who had a pension ot" iour marks ayear assigned liiui during life,') at 
 the Prior's presentation, and was the last presented by the monastery. 
 In loj.5, 4 June, he was instituted to the vicarage of Loicestoft, (or 
 Lai/stoft,) on the resignation of John Blomiylc, at the presentation 
 of Thomas Godsalve, senior, Esq. by grant of the turn from the 
 Bishop of Noncich, and it was the same day united to Besthorp, dur- 
 ing his life, because of the smallness of the livings. This is one of 
 the first unions that I meet with, that assign any reason for the 
 Bishop's uniting them. This Sir Thomas built the vicarage-house at 
 Beslhorp ; over the parlour chimney-piece is this. 
 
 Sill pou t^at iSitt bii tty)^ fire toarmrmg, 
 ^rap for tljc .^otole of M>n ^Ijon i©otonnnfl. 
 
 He died in 
 
 1559, and on Jitli/ 30, Christopher Smethe, priest, was instituted, 
 on the Queen's presentation ; buried 13 Dec. 1575. 
 
 1575, 26 Febr. George Copping. Ditto. He was buried here 
 13 Dec. 1G29. 
 
 1628, 24 Oct. John Burrell, clerk, on Dobson's death. Philip 
 Harbord ; united to Great Elingham. 
 
 1629, George Clerk, vicar. 
 160O, Daniel Donne. 
 
 1646, 22 Mat/, Elisha Agas,^ A.M. on Donne's death. Lady 
 Mary Drury. 
 
 1679, 11 March, Samuel Dobson, A. M. on jigass death. Philip 
 Harbord, Esq. 
 
 1683, 12 Oct. Will. Kimin, A. M. buried 12 Nor. 1715. Ditto. 
 
 1716, 2 June, Isaac Sai/er, on Kimin's death. Eliz. Shaw, widow, 
 united to Crownthorp. 
 
 1716, 14 Febr. The Rev. Mr. Philip Carver, on the resignation of 
 Isaac Sai/er, was presented by Eliz. Shaw, widow, and now [1737] 
 holds it united to Tibcnhum. 
 
 The temporalities of the Prior of Bukenham in this town were taxed 
 at 3s. Id. being lands given by the lords of Bukenham castle to the 
 priory. The lands belonging to the nuns at Marhani were granted at 
 the Dissolution to Sir Nicholas Hare, Knt. and Rob. Hare. 
 
 The Prior of Noruich had an annual rent of 12</. paid from a mea- 
 dow in Besthorp, which was given by Stephen Mengy of Besthorp. 
 The spirituals, or great tithes, belonging to the Prior of IVymondham, 
 were taxed at 10 marks, and the temporalities belonging to that mo- 
 nastery, at 14s. 4d. There was a manor belonging to the rectory 
 before tiie appropriation, after which it went witii it, and so came 
 
 5 He was born at Carlton-Rode, and Dec, 1642, by Bishop Hall, 
 was after of Caius Coll. ordained deacon
 
 BESTHORP. 4g3 
 
 joined to the other manors. In 128,5, the Prior had free-warren in 
 lus demeans .n Besl/rorp ; in 1288, it was returned, ilj heTii" 
 held the twentieth part of a fee in Bcslhorp, of 71/.„ke««V baro. v 
 
 Tas taSd'Tl,^; """' '" ''""■ ''^" ''^^ '"°'"^^ °*""^"'''^ ^"-S 
 The vicarage was valued in the King's Books, at 5l. 6s 8d ob -md 
 be.ng s.orn of the clear yearly value Sf 48/. ^L. 6./ it i d L hto d 
 RockLTil """• ''"'' V I^^OS return was made, that it was° „ 
 i^cln nnH '-''.''"'''^"f ^^ archdeaconry, and had iSO commu- 
 meant, and was late m the patronage of the Crown, bu' is now 
 
 to the tenths, and is now [1737] assessed at 108?/. Us. 8d. 
 
 toTfc 9''-'^"' i' dedicated to all the Saints, and the north chapel 
 to the Annunc.al.on of the i/o/y lirgh,, and had two .ihk kept'in 
 It, of the same ded.cat.ons.' Against the north wall of die chancel 
 scribeT'^ ''""''"' "'°'^"^°^'^^ o^' black and white marble, thus in- 
 
 Arms, Driiry and Cokain impaled. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body of Sir WILLIAM DRURY, KnigUt, 
 Eldest Son ot S.r Anthony Drury, Knt. late one of his Majesties 
 Just.ces of the Peace, and Quorum, and one of the Deputy Lieu- 
 tenants of this County, who after the Death of his Father suc- 
 ceeded hmi both in the Commission of the Lieutenancy, and of 
 ilr.r ''''^^?' t'^'^ County; he married Mary Eldest Daughter of 
 Vy. ham Cokani ol London, Esq. by whom he had Issue, Csonns 
 V\ ilha.n, arid Anthony, and 3 Daughters, Bridge tt, Jane, and 
 Anne; he departed this Life at London upon the 8th Day of 
 .Nov: in the Year of our Lo.d, I639, & in the 42d Year of his 
 Ase, and was shortly after solemnly intei-.'d in this chancell, to 
 whose dear and lasting Memory, the said Mary his sorrowing 
 and survivmg Lady, hath erected and dedicated this xMonument. 
 
 On the north side of the chancel, 
 
 Sculptura perennius esto. 
 CAROLUSHAIIBORD Eques Amatus, Caroli Primi ct Se- 
 euiidi, Regutn Anglisc, Supervisor Generalis, Pater (e.\- Maria 
 U.xore prudentissima) quatuor filiorum sc. Philippi et Willielmi 
 Harbord, Armigerorum Caroli IJarbord Equitis etiani aurati, 
 (qui cum pi-aedilecLo suo p.tcnobili Comitc dc Sandwich, in 
 Maval. Conflictu acerrimo contra Uatavos, Anno 1(J72, ma<'na- 
 n.miter occubuit) &, Johannis Harbord Aimig. & trium filifu-ura 
 sc. Anna;, Hestc.., Sc Catharinic. 
 
 6 
 
 Rcgr. Mctyngham, inter Coll. 1 Regr, Aleyn, fol. 10. 
 r. L.ss. fol. 106. 
 
 VOL. I. 3li
 
 49i BESTHORP. 
 
 ^tatis 84j An° l679, cxpiravit. 
 
 Haec ante obitum scripsit. 
 
 Favente Deo vivo, et mori spero. 
 
 Veins Ecclesiae Anglicanee Filius, 
 
 Subditus Regis fidelis, 
 
 et Servus Regni Veteianus, 
 
 Fidus Amicus, Pater liberalis, 
 
 ISuHi, nisi malis Adversarius, 
 
 Justilia;, Commiserr Jonis, et Humilitatis, 
 
 Studiosus Amator, 
 
 AHamen minutissimarum Miserecordiaium, 
 
 Dei iudignissimus. 
 
 Lay me in my Bed of Earth, 
 Whence my Body had it's Birth, 
 There to rest untill it rise. 
 To Hve again my Saviour's prii:e. 
 The least of all in Paradise. 
 
 } 
 
 Tlic following inscription is over the door of a vault, on the south 
 side of the chancel, which was built for the interment of Robert Ned- 
 ham, Viscount Kilmurrcy, in which the llarhords and Shares have 
 been since interred. Arms are, Nedham's achievement supported by 
 two roe-bucks, with this motto. Nunc aut Nunouam. On eacla 
 side, Driiri/ and Cokain impaled ; underneath are the arms oi'Har- 
 hord, whose hatchment impales, arg. on a pale gul. three saltiies of 
 the field. 
 
 Memoriae 
 
 Prasnobilis Domini 
 
 ROBERTI NEDHAM, 
 
 Vicecomitis de Kilmorrai, 
 
 Carolo Vicecomite (in utrumque Carolum Britanniarum Monarchas 
 
 Temporibus Monarchomachis, fidelissimo) ac Brigetla Vice- 
 
 comilissa siiperstite, Gulieimi Drury Equitis aurati 
 
 &, Dominaa Maria; filia 
 
 Prognati : 
 
 Eximia tarn Virlute, quam Eruditione, Nobilitatem 
 
 Geminantis : 
 
 Proceritate, Venustate, Pulchritudine, 
 
 Ostenti : 
 
 Amoris publice ferreo Sajculo, 
 
 Magnetis : 
 
 Ingenio praecoci maturse Vitae Spem 
 
 Frustrantis : 
 
 Anno DonT. MDCLXVIIl" iElatis xiii" Maij xxix" 
 
 Sole, Coniite, et exempio, ut alibi luceret, 
 
 Occidentis : 
 
 Anastasin Paschatis diem, qui Anno hujus 
 
 Obitus conscio defuit, seternitate pensaturam 
 
 Praestolantis : 
 
 Hoc Monumentum dicavit Avia 
 
 Quotidie Visitalura. 
 
 Dum jacet Hie Tuinulo; nianet Hwc^ tumulata Dolore.
 
 BESTHORP. 495 
 
 On a black marble, 
 
 A Wife, a Friend, a Mother's Dust, 
 Lj-es here, that was both wise and just; 
 Whose Soul to Heaven was flown before, 
 Wing'd with the Priiyers of the Poor. 
 Whose Sighs and Tears, do prove this Age, 
 Hath few such Ladys on her Stage. 
 
 Pronobilis Familiae Baronis Van Alst. in Com: 
 
 Flandnai D. Maria, Ux: Caroli Harbord, Equit: 
 
 Aurat: Optima Mater, & JNutrix 
 
 Phil: &, Guhcl. Harbord, Armig: 
 
 Caroli Harbord Equit: Aurat: 
 
 Johannis Harbord, Gen: 
 
 Annee 
 
 Hesteia; & 
 
 Catherine, 
 
 Pie vixit 8c Obijt apud Besthorp, 
 
 5 Sept: lCi66 : 
 
 Anno ^tatis sua: 64. 
 
 Samuel Dobson, A. M. Vicar of this Church died 26 Jpril, 16S1, 
 aged 33 years. 
 
 From the Register: 1589, JVill. Harboiirne, Esq. and Eliz. Dmri/, 
 married 16 Sept. I.596, Mr. John Buxton was buried Mai/ 15, and 
 taken up again the Sd of June, and buried at Tibenham. 1599, Mr. 
 Will. Plesauuce and Ami/ Druri/, 29 June. 1606, Henry Roketcode 
 o( fVeston in Norfolk, Gent, and Mrs. Susan Druri/, 5 Jan. I609, 
 .John Burman, doctor of the civil law, and Dorothy Druri/, 20 Dec. 
 1624, Mr. Humpkri/ Rant, and Mrs. Anne Druiy, 3 Aug. 1625, 
 Arthur Branthioaijl, Esq. and Mrs. Bridget Druii/, 20 Ft'b. 1626, 
 Henri/, son of Isaac Bentlci/, clerk, bapt. 7 J'eb. 1627, Aiith. Branth- 
 rcai/t, Gent, buried. 1632, Will. Rivet of Bikleston in Suffolk, Esq. 
 ■widower, and Eliz. Drury, 3 June. 1647, il/«/v/, daughter of Fianris 
 Vernon, Esq. and Eleanorhh wife, bapt. 7 March. 1679, Sir Charles 
 Harbord of Stanninghall, Knt. buried 11 June. liiSQ., Henry, son of 
 Colonel Philip Hailiord, buried 6 May. I697, Harbord, son of 
 Charles Siiaic, Esq. buried 16 Se/it. 1700, 10 Aug. Charles, son of 
 Charles Shaw, JLsc\.hiinl\zed. IJO^j, Aiiue Share their dauT;IUer bu- 
 ried. 170s, Charles riedliam, Esq. buried \(i Aug. and Susan his 
 daughter July 31. 
 
 The following arms were to be seen in the windows of this cliurcli, 
 but now some of them are lost. 
 
 BiTSH, arg. on a chevron az. three crescent's of the field. 
 PuATT, urg. on a chevron sab. three ma»eles or, between three 
 ogress"s, thereon two martlets, anrl a trefoil slipped arg. 
 Ormond, o;-, a chief iuden'ed az. 
 CliftOjN. Earl ol Arundel. 
 Mowbray, Fitz-Wai.tek, Clare.
 
 496 BESTHORP. 
 
 .4rg. three pallets g«/. Ely bishoprick, and MoRTiMiin, which 
 now remains in the chapel of the annunciation^ which belongs to 
 Plassim^-liall manor, and is on the north side, and Druiy's chapel is 
 on the south, in which Drukv impales Kemp. The steeple is^square 
 and hath five bolls. 
 
 This town was held by CV/c/e/ic ;h, of the castle of Biikoihayn'in the 
 Confessor's time, and was divided in the Conqueror's ; but the Soke 
 of the whole still belonged to that castle, as a member of Shropham 
 hundred, the lord of wliich is paramount, and hath the leet and all 
 supcriour jurisdiction at this time. Half of this town and part of 
 Atlebiirgh, belonged to Roger Bigot, ^ who held it of the castle, to 
 which it was afterwards rejoined, by the marriage of Maud, his 
 daughter, to Jlilliam dc Albany, lord of the castle ; and this part was 
 then called Plusscy's and afterwards Plassef, and Plassiiig Hall ma- 
 nor. The other part, in the Conqueror's days, was given to Alan 
 Earl of Richmond, of whom Thuistan held it,^ and afterwards Robert 
 de Baiitvent, or Bavent, from whom it took the name of Buvent's 
 Hall. 
 
 TLASSET, OR PLASSING HALL, MANOR, 
 
 Belonging to the castle as aforesaid, passed as that did, with the co- 
 heiress oi Albany, to S'n Robert de Tateshale,\'i\\o , in 128f), had a 
 charter of free-warren in his demean lands, at Plasset in Besthorp 
 imd Attleburgh; in 1283, he purchased three messuages, 185 acres 
 of laud, and 20s. }'early rent in Besthojp,' of Peter de Thelictkam, 
 and added it to his manor; but in 1286, Jo/ce, his widow, recovered 
 her dower in it, against Sir Robert; afterwards it descended to the 
 Bernaks; and in 1312, King Edward II. impleaded IViliam Bermike 
 for hindering him to present to two parts of the church of Attleburgh, 
 who set forth his title, that that advowson belonged to his manor of 
 Plasset's, &,c. (as at large in Attleburgh.) In 1345, John de Bernak 
 died seized of it, and it was found to be parcel of Tateslmle barony, 
 and was assigned to Joan his widow, as part of her dowry, whose 
 son, John de Bernak, died a minor, and William his brother inhe- 
 rited ; and at his death, Maud, his sister and sole heir, carried it to 
 Sir Ralph de Cromwell, lord of Tateshall, her husband, from whose 
 family it went to the Fitz-IVilliams, and Krievets by moieties, as heirs 
 to Cromwell; and in 15 IG,'' one moiety belonged to Sir William 
 Knevet, and tlie other to William Fitz-Williams of Sprotsburgli in 
 Yorkshire, Esq. as descendants from the aunts, and heirs of Ralph, 
 Lord Cromwell of Tateshale ; and what is remarkable, the manor was 
 returned to be held of Sir William Knevet himself, as heir of Albany, 
 by another deduction of his pedigree, by the yearly service of a pair 
 
 * Terra Rogeri Bigoti, (fol. 127.) tiniis dim.car. terre quam ten. Chetel- 
 
 H. Scerepham. In Bcsethorp i. lib. bcin lib. liom. T.R.E. seniperiii. bord. 
 
 horn. i. dim. car. terre, i. vill. et vii. et ii. acr. prati. silv. iiii. por. semper i. 
 
 bor. et vi. acr. prati. semper \. car. in car. et val. x. sol. soca T.R.E. in Bu- 
 
 dnio. tunc et post. i. car. horn, modoii. diam. 
 
 boves, silv. viii. time. val. x. sol. ra°- ' This was a part which had been se- 
 
 XX. soca in Bucham. parated from Bavent's manor. 
 
 » Terre Alani Comitis, (fol. 68.) H. * Cole's Coll. vol, iv. p. 75, et 9». 
 Scerepham. In Baconsthorp tenet Tors-
 
 BEST HO UP. 4g^ 
 
 of gilt spurs, to be paid every Muhummer day. In 1.517 nVHam. 
 Kncvct a younger son of the Vaniily, held the whole manor of Sir 
 Iho. K,>evc, and in 15G2, it helonged to Ifi/Iiam Cockct.hv puv- 
 chase horn Lics-sener, ixnd in lo^tj, to Jnt/ion» Druru, in whieh fa- 
 
 ^nPfu-n '"","/"' '" *''•' *°^'" '''''"' afterwards united.' In 1407. 
 Maud Htlloug/,/,J,^v■ash^dy,hut it was only a jointure: the manor 
 assumed its name Irom its situation, to whieh it exaetly answers; the 
 p/ashcs. or sp/as/n-s, (as we now eall them,) arc swampy places where 
 the water often stands, and according to this etymology, I find that 
 in the time of King l^,aml I. JVi/llam dd Bemak held 10/. rent at 
 i /«.«/. s and about that lime Will, dc P/«.sy, who assumed his name 
 from the nianor, of which he was head teiiant, lived as farmer on ihr 
 site of It, and gave it the name of P/,issj/ IJalt. 
 
 BAVENT'S MANOR 
 
 Belonged to Sir Robert de Bautvent ofBcset/iorp, in the time of Kin- 
 nemy III. who gave the moiety of the advowson of the rectory to 
 ni/mo>id/,am prior, as hath been observed: Picot dc Bavent was his 
 eldest son and heir. Sir T/io. de Bavent of Besthorp was lord after 
 liim, who divided It, by granting off that (.art, whieh Peter de Thd- 
 vetliam sold to liohcrt dc Tateshale, he was succeeded by Peter his 
 son, who died in I.'JG!), leaving it to be divided between Eleanor and 
 i^ccil,,, his daughters and heiresses;* and soon after it came VoJolm 
 IVarner oi Besthoip, Esq. who had no issue; for in the pedigree of 
 Henry Warner, Esq. of Womhill Hull in Mildenhatl, SuffoUl it is 
 thus recorded: «y;««o Domini, 1374, Tkonias Whe(enhalc,a youn-er 
 son of Sir James Wlietenlialc, (of Clmhire,) Knt. being of -i?at 
 acquaintance with one John Warner, Esq. (of Besthorn) m the 
 county of Norfolk, who had no issue of his own, nor any 'related to 
 " him of the name ; the said John Warner bequestcd his estate unto 
 ,c M'1 , ^/'^'""' '^ ^"''''"''"''■> conditionally, that the said Tliomas 
 n helenliale \you\d adopt himself, whereupon the said Thomas Whc- 
 ' tenhalc came into Norfolk, and called himself Warner, who did 
 bear for his coat armour, viz. Vert, a cross ingrailcd anr. as being 
 Hhetenhales paternal coat, and for the name ot Warner adds the 
 " other coat, 17^. quarterly, f^rst, party per bend, indented «;o-. and 
 5tf6.; secondly, a fleur-de-lis o;.; third as second, fourth as first, 
 which hath, together with the Whctenhales arms, been impaled 
 !c ""^ \ ^fua'tered many ages, by the Warners so adopted, and Sir 
 Robert Harncr, and Sir Edward Warner, two brothers, findino- 
 "■ npon record, that certainly their names were anciently /r//f/(WW°, 
 " and that the cross ingrailed. See. was their paternal coat, resolved 
 " to continue it according to their ancient bearing." This Thomas 
 left It to Henry If helenliale, alias Jlarner, oi Besthorp, who married 
 Cerz/y, daughter of William Spaney or Spain, of the same, after 
 whose death it came to Robert Warner of Besthorp, Esq. who married 
 Margaret Barton of Besthorp, and died seized in 1488, leavin"- two 
 sons; Oliver Whetenhale, idiixs Warner, their second son, was Insti- 
 tuted vicar m 1445, and J/enry IVarner, their eldest sou, married 
 
 3 The descent of the manor may be time, from p. 369 to p. 380. 
 seen at large, under Bukenham, to tliis ■♦ Dug, Bar. vol. ii. fol. 644.
 
 49S BESTHORP. 
 
 Mary, daughter of John Bleverhasset of Soiithi/l in Bedfordshire, 
 sister and coiieir ol'.Johii Dlevcrhasscl, lier brotlier; siie outlived him/ 
 and remanied to IVilUani Driiri/ of Bcst/iorp, who had the manor 
 during her life, and before her death it was released to him and his 
 lieirs, bv Robert IVarner oi' Noncich, (from whom the Womhill Hull 
 fainilv are descendeti, he being father of Sir Robert Warner of Mil- 
 denhall,) and Sir Edward Warner of Plumstede, brotlier of the said 
 Robert, and so it beeame united to Plasset's in the Drurj/s. 
 
 PAGE'S MANOR 
 
 Was part of Plasset's, granted oft' by Sir Robert de Tateshale, to Henry 
 Page of Bestliorp, who was t<> hold it of him at one fee; in 1338, he 
 settled it by line on John Page oi Bestliorp, liis son, and Margaret 
 his wife, wlio held it in 1345; and afterwards married to Thomas 
 Spayne, on whom it was settled, for he held it after her death; in Ed- 
 uard the the Foarth's lime it belonged to the Denlons, and went with 
 Felice, daughter and heir of Willium Denton of Besthorp, to Roger 
 Drury of Haitsted in Sujj'olk, who married her; and thus this manor 
 came to the Drurys. 
 
 BRETTENHAM'S, or BRIDGEHAM'S MANOR, 
 
 Was held by the Curzuns, or Citrsons, of East Carleton and Stanfeld,. 
 of Sir Robert de Tateshale, at half a fee; and in 129G, IVilliam de 
 Cursotin had it. In 1335, Margaret, wife of John, son of the said 
 J1 illiani, died seized, it being then lield of Shrophani hundred; and 
 Hill. Carson was her son and heir, who, before 1345, had parted with 
 it to Tho. de lledersete, who then held it, and sold it the same year 
 to Peter, vicar of llocham,^ and John de Bretlcnhain, from whom it 
 took its present name, which in time was corrupted into Bridghains. 
 In 1401, their heirs held it of the Lady Croiiiic^ell ; in 1408, Ralph 
 Campayne, or Chaampannc, and Beatrice his wife, sold it to John, son 
 of Reginald Maiindevile, hy the name of Carson's manor. In 1562, 
 fVilt. Cocket of Besthrorp, Esq. had it, and owned it to his death in 
 1579, in which year he was buried in this church, Oct. 28, and the 
 manor went to the Drurys, and became united to the rest. 
 
 There was a part granted off" very early from Bavent's manor, 
 which was held at half a fee, of the 'Thorps, as of Ashuell-Thorp 
 manor; in 1328, Halter de Norwich held it of Sir John de Thorp; 
 in 132y, Edmund de Baconsthorp held his manor in Besthorp at halt 
 a fee, of Rob. de Thorp, who had it as part of the fees of Roger Bi/god 
 Earl of Sorfolk. This after came to II illiam Cocket, Esq. and being 
 joined to Jiridgham's, went with that to the Drurys, who became pos- 
 sessed of all the manors, the impropriation, and advowson. 
 
 In 1267, Baldwin de Aftlncs, or Melles, had those lands which 
 Ebraud de Melhus his ancestor had, two parts of the tithes of which 
 he confirme ' to the monks of !i'//({/o7f/, accorcling to his ancestor's 
 gift, but It was no manor. 
 
 The whole being thus united in the Drurys, it will be proper to 
 
 ' His institution did not occur in tlic books, and so he is not among the Hoc. 
 
 liaia vicurs. 
 
 y
 
 BESTHORP. 479 
 
 trace tliat branch of the family that were lords here, having spoken 
 of the family in general under lUdhsworth, at p. 277.* J?Oi?cr Drun/ 
 of Ila listed in Suffolk, had by Fe/ire, or Pliillis, daughter and heir i>[' 
 IVillium Deiiston oi Btslhorp in Norfolk, IViUiam iJniiy, his second 
 son, to whom he gave Besl/wrp. He married Margaret, daughter 
 and sole heir of William Briggs, of Whitwtll in Norfolk, by whom 
 he had William Dniri/ of Besthorp, who married Ursula, daughter of 
 Rich. Coo, by whom he bad two sons ; Cliiirles, who died young, and 
 Francis, who succeeded his brother, but died without issue, leaving it 
 to his uephew, William Druri/ of Besthorp, son of Rob. Drury\\i 
 hrnlhcr, hy Eliz. Clijl'ord his wife; he married for his second wife, 
 jf Jo/0/ Ay, daughter of William Brampton of Let ton in Noi folic, who 
 after remarried to JFill. Coclcet of .7w/j/o«, Esq. and Mt Jnlhoiii/ 
 Drury of Besthorp, Esq. their son and heir, who was high sheriff of 
 Norfolk in iGiy, and married Jnne, daughter of John Garnish of 
 Kenton in Suffolk, for his second wife, ylnne Kemp, his first wife, 
 being buried liere in 1571 ; but Charles and Francis, her two sons, 
 dying without issue, it went, at his death in I6l4, to Anne, his second 
 wife, for life, who was buried here, March 31, 1G34, by her husband ; 
 and it went to Sir Anthony Drury of Besthorp, his son and heir, 
 who was knighted in 1603; he married /J/eV/ge/, daughter of John 
 Spelman of A'a/'^«rgA, Esq. by wliom he had a numerous issue; Sir 
 Anthony was buried Oct. IG, Ki.'lS, and Bridget, liis relict, the G8th of 
 the same month, leaving Sir William Drury of Besthorp liis son and 
 heir, who married Mary, daughter of William Cokayn of London, 
 skinner, and was buried here Nov. 15, \639, leaving one son, Anthoiuj, 
 who was baptized Feb. 17, 1638, and was buried Sept. 15, UHO, leav- 
 ing these and Chaunteclers manor to his two sisters, his coheiresses, 
 Bridget, born Jan. 21, 1635, and Anne, baptized ,Tuly 13, 1640, being 
 born after her father's decease; Bridget first married to Charlcx 
 Nedham Viscount Kilmurrey, by whom she had issue, Robert Lord 
 Viscount Kilmurrey, who was lord of a moiety, he died in 166S, aged 
 13 years, and was buried here. Dame Mary, relict of Sir IHliiam 
 Drury, his grandmollier, surviving him, till June l6S8, when she 
 died, and was interred by him : Anne, the other daughter, mar- 
 ried Philip Harbord of Slanninghall and Besthorp, Esq. by whom 
 he had a son named William, who died young, and was buried here 
 Sept. 7, 1678; and on the 12tii Jan. following, his mother was buried 
 by him ; and on the lOlh Sept. HJ87, the said Philip was buried here, 
 and his moiety descended lo his three daughters, of which Sarah, his 
 third daughter, died unmarried Jaw. 31, 1689, and was buried here, 
 leaving her part to her two sisters: Anne, married to Robert Paston, 
 second son to Robert, Earl of Yarmouth, who sold his moiety of the 
 moiety, to Charles Shaw, Esq. second son of Sir John Shaw of FJtham 
 in Kent, Bart, who had married Elizabeth, the other sister, so that he 
 became sole lord of \.hc Harbord's moiety, and of the other also, in 
 right of his mother, who, after the death of Viscount Kilmurrei/, mar- 
 ried Sir John Shaw aforesaid, for her second husband, so that he 
 
 * The pedigree of Drury of Besthorp, and find some small differences from 
 
 lib. ii. fol. 185, in tlip Office of Arms, is tlieni all, by the records, and the pariih 
 
 copied by Mr. Le Neve, and another register which I have followed in this 
 
 peiiigree is in the hands nf Mrs. thaw, account, 
 besides two others that I liave coinparcd,
 
 500 BESTHORP. 
 
 became sole lord. He died at Besthorp, Jpril 2S, 1 7 16^ and was buried 
 there, leaving two sons and one daugliter; Elizabel/i, married to 
 King Gould, Deputy Advocate of the Admiralty, who hath issue two 
 sons, Charles and I'aston : John Shan) of Besthorp, Esq. Captain in 
 the Guards, inherited, and died without issue in 1722, and it descended 
 to Charles Shaw, Esq. of Besthorp, his only brother, who married 
 Frames, daughter of Mr. Lighlfoot of Hampshire, and died lately, 
 aud is buried here, leaving Elizabeth, his only daughter, who is now a 
 minor, his sole heiress. 
 
 The Custom of all the manors are, that the fines are at the will 
 of the lord, and the eldest son is heir. 
 
 There are two halls, or manor-houses in this parish, now distin- 
 guished by the nanres of the Old Hall (or Plassiiig Hall) and the 
 New Hall, which is a good building, erected by the Druri/s, as their 
 arms on the outside shew us, and is now the seat of the Shows. In 
 the windows, &c. are the arms oi Drury, with 1593 under them, the 
 time, I suppose, the house was built, and 
 
 Dkury, impaling the following arms, 
 
 Bkiggs, gul. three bars gemelle or, a canton sab. 
 
 Hetiie, arg. three pellets. 
 
 Denston, «;. two lions passant guardant, or. 
 
 Kemp.Spelman, Brampton, Garneys, and 
 
 Sab. three cinquefoils arg. 
 
 On the chimney-piece, 
 
 I)rury impales Cokain, arg. three cocks gid. armed, and crested 
 mb. 
 
 Drury and Nedham, wrg. a bend engrailed az. between two 
 bucks heads caboshed sab. 
 
 Drury and Harbord, quarterly gul. and az. four lions rampant 
 arg. 
 
 Shaw and Harbord. 
 
 Sir John Shaw o( Eltham in KeJit married in 1675 to Bridget 
 Viscountess Kilmurrei/, daughter to Sir IVilliam Drury of Besthorp in 
 Norfolk, and was the 755th baronet by creation, and bare for his pa- 
 ternal coat, Jrg. a chevron between three lozenges erm. ; and for his 
 crest, seven arrows gul. headed, and one feathered, or, one perpendi- 
 cular, and three and three crossing saltire ways, all within the slit of 
 a girdle, e.xtended at length az. buckle and clasp or.' 
 
 ' From a MSS. book of achievements, fol. no, collected by the Rev. Mr. 
 
 Baldwin, rector of Bunwell.
 
 [501 ] 
 
 ATLEBURGH. 
 
 Th I s place without doubt hath been very famous in early times, as 
 all authors, that speak of it, unanimously agree. If we may believe 
 John Biame, a monk oi Thetford, whose history is extant in licnntt 
 College Library at Cambridge^ it was some time not only a city, but 
 the metropolis of all Norfolk, founded by Atlinge, then King of that 
 province, in order to oppose Rond, King of Tkeodford, and by him 
 fortified with a ditch, wail, four gates, and four towers ; and from this 
 Atlinge he would have it called Atlinge s Burgh, or Atleburgh ; but 
 as to that part, of its towers and gates, I cannot be persuaded to cre- 
 dit it, there being no appearance or remains of any such walls, gates, 
 or towers, as he speaks of, in this town, some parts of which, in all 
 likelihood, would have remained, as well as those of other buildings, 
 far older than these, it being unlikely that in the Danish incursions 
 they could have time or materials to rear them up. Mr. Le Neve 
 imagines that it was called Ethelingburgh , because it might belong 
 in the time of the Saxons to some eminent nobleman of that name, 
 who was nearly related to the Saxon kings, and had his residence 
 here, being induced to think thus, because this part belonged to the 
 Crown till the Conqueror's time. But neither of these etymologies 
 seem right, and therefore, if I may have liberty of conjecture, I think 
 the present name shews its signification, which, it will be proper to 
 observe, hath suffered but little change from the time of the Con- 
 fessor to this day, Atleburc, Burg, or Burgh, is the same, and it 
 being certain that the termination burgh, or borough (as we now pro- 
 nounce it) always signifies a castle, fort, or such like, as the learned 
 Spelman in his Icenia justly observes,' we may conclude that it was 
 called ^^-/e-B«//'g^, or the town at the burgh, or burgh-town, from 
 its being situated by an ancient burgh or fortification, and from its 
 being larger, and of more repute at that time, than its neighbours. 
 That this^ burgh was a fortification of hills only, is plain, because 
 there are no other remains, and therefore most likely was made at 
 the time when the Danes ravaged this part of the country, and so 
 far the old monk may be right; that when they got possession of 
 Thetford, it is not unlikely the inhabitants of the country might as- 
 semble and fortify themselves here in opposition to their enemies, 
 who had done the same there; and indeed I take it, that this burgh 
 was the head of the hundred, till the neighbouring castle of Buken- 
 ham was built, after the removal of the chief of the inhabitants from 
 it, to the present situation of the town, which is far better than its old 
 one at the Burgh. And as a further confirmation, the Burgh is not 
 only now called Burgh, or Burrough-Strett, but in Domesdai/, that 
 
 * Marked, I. x. is properly inserted in Gibson's addi- 
 
 9 Icenia, fol. i$%: tlie account in the tional notes to Cambden, fo. 597, from 
 
 Atlas, fo. 3jo, is taken from tliis, which whence lliey copied it. 
 
 YOL. I. 3 S
 
 50'2 
 
 ATLEBURGH. 
 
 is called AtteUmrc, and ihe present town is called the Other Jtleburc, 
 and llial ihe first ca>tic at Bukenham had its rise upon the dereliction 
 of ihis bmgli is likely, because the whole of this Atltbunjrh, at first, 
 was not a nianor held of the casUe, but an actual part of the Castle 
 manor, called the part at the Pfashcs, afterwards Plassels, and had 
 two parts, or the whole of the advowson, belonging to P/asset's part, 
 appendant to it, that is, one half to the part oi' P/asset's manor, which 
 conlaincd great part oi' Btsl/ioip, and the other part as belonging to 
 this, the other part, or third part, belonging to the manor of the other 
 Jtldmrah, where the church was built. It seems the removal at 
 first miglu be occasioned b\- the lowness and nioistness of the situ- 
 ation, and if so, the aforesaid monk, in his translation, might only 
 mistake the name of the place, for a person, j/r. At 4' big- Burgh, or 
 the burgh at the (inj) or uatert/ place, (or At Le Plats or Plashes, as 
 it was called by the Normans,) for Atliugs Burgh, or the Burgh of 
 Atliug; for he tells us, his history is only copied from two ancient 
 books^'of the same sort, one of which was in old French, and the oilier 
 in Eiiirlish, both of wliich he compared, and made his Latin transla- 
 tion by; and indeed to do him justice, though I am sensible the ac- 
 counts of things in it do seem at first entire fables, yet upon exami- 
 nation several ^af them, if not all, are in some measure true, and the 
 histories of the many battles in this part of the country, and espe- 
 cially in Giltcross, Grimshoe, this, and the adjacent hundreds, might 
 be the excursions of the Daues, from their great rendezvous at Thet- 
 ford, recorded by some body near ham! at that time, and so pre- 
 served in the neighbourhood, and afterwanls given to that monastery; 
 and indeed the many tumuli in these hundreds shew us, that there 
 were such excursions; and it is plain, that this history could not be 
 of such light esteem, as we think it, because then, the 'Normans, after 
 the Conciuest, would not have thought it worth their while to have 
 translated it into their language; and though we meet with the 
 names of many kings, as they are called, which were never heard of 
 but in this book, I look upoiiitthat there might be such persons, who 
 were heads and leaders of those bands, and as such called kings of 
 those places, where these burghs or chief rendezvouses were, and that, 
 because their names are pure Saxon or Danish ; and what induces me 
 to think that the monk was not the inventor of these accounts, (as 
 some would intimate,) is, because in the same book, where he de- 
 scends so low, as to treat of the afiairs of his own monastery, just 
 before, and in his own time, he is a faithful historian, and is so far 
 from "-ivin"- us any fables of his own invention, that he tells us, when- 
 ever l^e adds anything of the legend sort, where he had what he re- 
 cites, so that I must own I am apt to think he had two copies of the 
 history, as he asserts, and that there is more of reality in it, than at 
 first sight we may imagine ; for 1 find, agreeable to the assertion of its 
 being an ancient city,' that " in the year 841, Edmund, son o( Alk- 
 " mund. King of Saxony, was born at Soremburg in Saxoni/ of Queen 
 " Siic^ar a, and soon after it happened that OJa, King of the East- 
 " Angles, who had no heir, passed through Saxouij in his journey to 
 " the //o/y Land, where he went in pilgrimage, to beseech God to 
 " "ive him an heir, and calling upon his cousin Alkmund, he adopted 
 " '^■.dmund his son, his heir, and then hastened to Jerusalem, where 
 " having performed his vows, he returned, but in his return, at a
 
 ATLEBURGH. 50.) 
 
 " place called St. George's Arm, lie was taken violently ill, upon 
 " which, he immediately sent for his council, ii\^\m'mieCi. Edmiiml his 
 " successour, and sent him his ring, which he received from the 
 " Bishop, when he was made King of tiic Easl-Jiig/cs ; after he was 
 " dead, the Angles went to the King of Saxonif, and demanded 
 " Edmund his son, and received him, as Offa's successour, and 
 " hastening home, they landed at JluiistaiUoii, from whence they 
 " carried him to the ancient city called Atlchnrglt, where he lived a 
 " \yholc year, yielding himself up cliieHy to devotion, here he per- 
 " fected what he had hegun in Saiviii/, namely, to repeat all the 
 " Psalms without a book, and at llie yearls end, tie went to Siifo/l;, 
 " &c."' From whence it appears, that it was certainly then a phicc 
 of great repute, and might be afterwards refortilied, upon the Daitci 
 coming to these parts; it is plain, that the hills of tlie fortification or 
 burgh were very remarkable in Iltiiri/ the Second's time, for then the 
 family that dwelt within thcin look their sirname from them; 11 i/liam 
 de Fossato de Atkburc'^ lived at that lime, and in 1285, IVilliam, son 
 of IVilliamde Fossnto lived there, who with his descendants, are called 
 in old English, " attc the Jh/kc," (now Dihes, or Dix,) and all these 
 things, being duly vveiirlied and compared, 1 could not omit them, 
 knowing how much the account of Allcburgh hath invalidated the 
 rest of his history. And thus, having given you my thoughts of the 
 original of this place, I shall proceed to treat of the several manors, 
 &,c. which have been, or now are, in this town. 
 
 PLASSET, OR PLASSING HALL MANOR, 
 
 Belonged to Toradre, a Dane, in the Confessor's time,' and another 
 part to Turkill, one of that nation also; which shews us that the 
 Danes had got possession of this place, and that its decay was owing 
 to their seizing it. After Toradre's expulsion, or deatii, it belonged 
 to the castle, and continued in the Crown till the Conqueror gave it 
 to Roger Fitz-Renard, at whose death it was rejoined to the castle, 
 to which it had belonged, almost ever since its foundation, which in 
 all appearance was owing to the i)ft«cs forcing them hence; upon 
 wliieh, the castle was first erected, in order to oppose them, and ac- 
 cordingly, when they were forced to quit possession, the whole was 
 seized, and added to the castle, with wiiieh it was given to JTilliam de 
 Albany * unA descended with the coheiress of that family' to Sir 
 Robert de Tateshale, and from him to the Beniaks, iis Plasse/s'' in 
 Besthorp did, which was a part of tliis manor, to wliich one third 
 
 ' From the abbreviation of tlie life of m' i. semper i. vas. apum. tunc vi. 
 
 King Edmund, in Register Curteys, fo. pore, m" v. etviii. ovcsetxxi. soc. Ixxx. 
 
 302. ac. terre etxii. ac. prati. silva viii. pore. 
 
 *In 1198, RalfjSon of Peter, sold land tunc et post ii. car. modo iii, tunc et 
 
 in Atleburgh to William de Fossato de post valuit xl. sol. modo Ix. 
 
 Atleburgli. Fin. loR. i. N° 247. * See Old Bukcnham, p. 369. 
 
 ' Terre RogerijfilijRcnardi. (fo.281.) ' See Besthorp, p. 496. 
 
 H. de Scrcpham. Atlebiirc tenuit To- 'The part in Besthorp and the ad. 
 
 radre T.R.E. ii. car. et iii. acr. semper vowson was held by Maud, daughter of 
 
 vi. viU. et v. bor. tunc. i. ser. modo iii. Adam, wlio presented in Richard the 
 
 xxiii. acr. prati semper i. car. in driio. First's time, and by Isolda deArdernne, 
 
 ct ii. car. homin. silva. Ix. pore, et due wlio presented in King John's time j but 
 
 part. mol. dim, piscar. tunc ii. rune, they had it only for life.
 
 i04 ATLEBURGII. 
 
 part of the advowson belonged, and another third part to this, so that 
 there were two third parts belonging to Plrissets, this and Btstfioi-p 
 being reputed as one manor; for in \3\'2, King Edward II.' summoned 
 Sir liiUiam de Berniik, to shew cause why he hindered him presenting 
 to two parts of the church of Atleburgh, which was void, and to 
 which he ought to present, because the advowson was parcel of the 
 inlieritance of llugli dt Albanti Earl oi Arundel, aX whose death the 
 King seized his estate and advowsons, because he held of him in 
 chief, and died without issue/ and his inheritance was divided among 
 his four sisters, all wliioh, (except Ceii/i/,) had their several parts, in 
 manors, lands, and advowsons, assigned to them, as the custom was; 
 but as neither the said Ceci/i/, nor her heirs, had requested the King 
 to grant out of his hands her part of the advowsons, therefore the 
 advowson of two parts of this church, which was not assigned to any 
 of theother parceners, remained in the King's hands, as belonging to 
 the part of Robert de Montetilt, heir of the saidCVf/'/y: to which 
 II i//ia>ii answered, and proved that the advowson belonged, to the 
 manor of Plassef's, which was assigned to Robert de Tateshalc, who 
 infeofled him in the said manor; and that if it had not been so, it 
 could not belong to the King, because P/assct's manor is not held of 
 the King in chief; upon which Sir WiUiam recovered the advowson, 
 and presented accordingl}'. In 1285, Sir Robert de Tateshalc had 
 view of fruiikpl edge, assize of bread and ale, free-warren, gallows, and 
 a T/itirsdai/ market in Atlchurgh, as belonging to Plassingliall in 
 Atlebargh and Beat/iorp, all which were conveyed by hiui to Sir 
 William Bernak, and his heirs, who died seized in 13;i8, and Alice 
 his wife survived him ; she infeofled Hugh Bernak, clerk, in this and 
 other manors ; (as you may see al p. 374.) Hugh died in 1340, and 
 it went to John Bernak, and from him, (as you may see at p. 49^)) 
 till 1438, and then RalfLorA Cromueil, who had two turns in the 
 advowson, (Sir John Clifton, Knt. having the third, in right of Mar- 
 garet his mother,) granted his advowson to Sir John de Radclijf, Knt. 
 and Thomas his son, and his heirs, together with the mitnor of Plasset's 
 in Atteburgh, Cwhich was now separated from Plasset's in Beslhorp,) 
 and so it became joined to Mortimer's manor, with which it now re- 
 mains, the third turn in the advowson of the two parts being joined 
 before 1516. 
 
 BACONSTHORP, CROWSHALL, or COPSY MANOR, 
 
 Belonijed to Alfred, an Englishman, at the Conquest, who held it of 
 Bukcnham castle,* to whicli it was after joined, by King Henry the 
 First's giving it to Ji illiom de Albany, who added it to Plasset's manor, 
 with which it continued, till the said William, infeofled Alured de 
 Atkburc in it, who was to hold this and other estates of his gil't, by 
 
 ' Plita. de Banco. Trin. Ed. 2. Rot. beri holes, i. car. terre et dim. et iii. bor. 
 
 S8 J 19. et xii. acr. prati semper iii. car. silv. 
 
 " Seep. 371. viii. pore, semper il. lunc. ct tunc vi. 
 
 "Terra AltVedi, fo. 289. H. See re- animal, inodo viii. tunc .\x. pore, modo 
 
 phaminAlleburcii. car. terre pro man", xxviii. tunc xx. oves modo xxxviii. 
 
 semper viii. vill. et xvi. acr. prati et bcniper xxvi. cap. tunc val. Ix. sol. post 
 
 semper ii. car. in dnio. et i. car. homin. et modoiiii. lib. Soca de ill. quinque in 
 
 silv. xl. pore, et XX. soc. dim. car. terre Bucliani. 
 vi. acr. prati semper iiii. car. et v. U-
 
 ATLEBURGII. 505 
 
 the service of two knights fee; in 115\, Jeffrry Cmwe owned it. 
 from whose family it took its name; an.l i,", ir/23,it was settled on 
 John Uldiiwn tor hfc, by Richard de Banlnim, and Richard de Tii- 
 deiihum, with remainder to Waller, son oi Margaret oiJtleburirh ;' 
 '" *337, AV//«H«(/ dc BacoHslhorp,^ and Margaret his wife, settled this 
 and IVelboarne manor and advowson on lliemselves fur life, and their 
 Jieirs in tail ; and in 1347, tliis, and CaUer liy Nornich, was settled on 
 iAowas Moyne, and Murgarel liis wife, and their heirs; and in 136" 
 bir Ihwna^ Mot/ne, Knt. died seized of the manor of CV/s/re, the 
 manor and advowson of Mcrheshale, the m.mor of Crowsha/l in Al/e- 
 f)iirs;h, and ot Liitle-Tai/nton, in Gloucestershire, leaving them to 
 Ldmund, his son and heir; in 1393, the manor of Cww^«// called 
 Lopsi, was settled by RolfGedding, on tVcvVy his wife, Richard Caus, 
 Hichard de Gegk, and Ih/icdict oY Ilocham,\\ho in the fine is .'ailed 
 Jienedict Cost/u of J/ochaiiu being trustees; in 1397, ll-i/Ziam March, 
 Knt. had It, a.id in 1400, Thuinas and John March, sons of Sir 1111/. 
 March, knt. held Crmcshall, and a tenement called Kirigesha/e in 
 Allcburgh; in 14.57, Sir John C/iJhm, Knt. held the manor of «rtco//s- 
 Wor/», C:ipsi/, or Cromhull, and had lieensc to assign it in mortmain, 
 if he pleased, but it seems he did not, for it fell soon after into Mor- 
 timer's manor; it took its name of Hacoiisthorp from its ancient lord, 
 and IS now by corruption called Bausthorp, which is a hamlet with a 
 teet belonging to it, wliere the lord of the hundred who keeps it swears 
 a constable yearly, whose power extends to this hamlet only. 
 
 CIIAUISTICLER'S, commonly called CHANCELER'S, 
 
 In Jlkburgh, was part oi Mortimer s manor, granted by William de 
 Mortimer to William de Potii/aunt, who held it of him'in IG9O, at a 
 quarter of a fee, and it extended into Eli/ngham and Beslhorp ; in 
 1359, Thomas Chaunticlcr o( Jllel>iirgh,'iitn\ Katherine his wife, 
 owned it ; this Thomas built the north chapel or transept of the 
 churcli, for in his will dated 1379, in which year he died, he ordered 
 his body to be buried in his own chapel,' which he had built, adjoinino- 
 to the north side of the church of Jtlcburgh, leaving Katherine \ns 
 widow, Thomas de Brampton, and Alice his wife, (his daucchter and 
 heiress, I suppose,) executors, to whom this manor went after Kalhc- 
 rine's death ; for in 1481, Thomas dc Brampton, Escj. died, and was 
 buried in this chapel between his two wives, .llice and Joan, the 
 last of which died the year before him, leaving Robert Brampton of 
 Jtleburgh, Gent, his son and heir, who died in Oct. 1.500, his will 
 being proved Dec. the 2d in that year,* leaving his manors oi Wax- 
 ham nmi Flegghall \nWinterlon, to --i^wc his wife, whom he joined 
 in executorship with Henry Warner, Gent, of Bcsthorp; llilliam 
 Brampton, his brother, seems to be trusted with the care of his sons 
 and daughters; in lj47, William Brai.ipton, Esq. son, 1 suppose, of 
 the said Robert, was loid ; and in 1 jtil, William Brampton, Esq. and 
 Elizabeth his wife, owned the manor of Chanceler's, in Atlebargh and 
 
 " Jolin Attilburgh, chaplain, was owner Edni. Bacon, lord of Grcsham manor at 
 
 of .in estate in bt. Barllilonicvv's pans.h this time, 
 
 in Bestrcet in Nonvith. ^ Probat. Jul. i. 1379. 
 
 * L take it to be the same person witli •» Regr. Cage.
 
 506 ATLCBURGH. 
 
 Besthorp, lo the last of Hhich it was soon after joined, and, I suppose, 
 hath continued so ever since. 
 
 In 1619, Robert Earl of Sussex was lord of the manors of Bui og- 
 ham's and Corie's in Jtlebuiiih, wliich in 1.547, belonged to Peler 
 Moulde and Thomas Poole;/, and were now united to Mortimer's ; and 
 this is all I meet with, in relation to those manors. 
 
 ATLEBURGil MORTIMER'S 
 
 Contained the third part of Atkburgh, or all the Other Atleburc, or 
 the whole of that part where the present church and town stands; 
 and accordingly a tliird part of the advowson always belonged to it, 
 and continues to this day a separate institution. l\\ the time of the 
 Confessor, Turhill the Dane had possession of this Allcburc,^ which 
 was valued at 404'. but was risen to ol. in the Conqueror's time, who 
 gave it as a manor of that value, to Roger Fitz-Renard ; the whole of 
 both the Atlebmghs, or of the [)resent town, which includes both, was 
 then about 4 miles long and 12 miles broad, and paid lo the Duiiegeld, 
 Sid. ob. ; it came to the Mortimer's very early, if not in the time of 
 the Conqueror, with whom that family came into England ; there are 
 two towns in Franee of this name, one in Normandi/, the other in 
 Poictii, both written Mortimer, but neither of them being by the sea 
 side. Monsieur de Falois imagines them to be called Mortimars, and 
 so should be rendered in Latin, De Mortuo Marisco, and not De 
 Mortuo Mori ; and indeed it might be anciently written, by abbre- 
 viation, (which was usual in tliose times,) De Mortuo Mar. which 
 answers either to Mari or Marisco, though I think it is much the 
 came, for I suppose that tuare signifies not only the sea, but anj' large 
 stagnation of waters, and that hence is derived our English word mere, 
 meer, or mare for a large water, and thus the Mare Mortuum, which is 
 a lake in Judea, so called because it never moves, might give name to 
 these places, which tliough they were not situated by the sea, yet stood 
 near some such stagnated waters or fens. Mr. Dugdale^ thinks that 
 Robert de Mortimer who lived in King John's time, was the first of 
 the family that was concerned in Norfolk, and the Atlas (fo. 340) 
 tells us that they are descended of the Lords Mortimer of JVigmore, 
 both which are mistakes, for the arms of this family and those of 
 JVigmore being always quite difl'eient, is a plain argument to me, that 
 the}' are of a different extract, and might assume their names from 
 different places; that this family was oi' French rise is evident from the 
 ver^' arms, tiz. Or, semi dejieures-de-lis, sab. the very arms of France 
 at that time, only the colours varied ; and as to the other point, the 
 first of the family that 1 meet with here was Sir William de Mor- 
 TuoMAUi, or INloRTiMER, of Atk'burc, Knt. whose effigies, riding 
 full speed on horse bacl", with his sword drawn in one hand, and his 
 
 ' Terre Rogerij, filij Renardi. H. de silva xii. pore. semp. iii. car. tunc i. 
 
 Screpham. In alio Atleburc tenuit rune, semper ii. anim. tunc vi. pore. 
 
 Turchillus T. R. E. ii. earucat. terre m^ iiii. tunc et post val. xl. sol. modo 
 
 semp. vi. villan. ct v. bord. xxiiii. acr. Ix. Totum habet ii. leug. in longo et i. 
 
 prati silv. ix. pore, semper i. car. in leug. in lato. Quicunque ibi tencat, et 
 
 dnio. et ii. car. lioinin. ct i. car. potest xxxiiii.i/. et i. obulum <je Gelto. 
 
 esse, m" dim. mol. et dim. pise, et xvii. ' Dug. Bar. vol, i. fo. 144. 
 soc. xlviii. acr. terre viii. acr. prati
 
 ATLEBURGH. 507 
 
 shield of arms, as before, in liis other, is appendant, to an original 
 deed of his in tlie Cotton Library, vviihoul date, by which he granted 
 to John de Bernham, chaplain, son o\' Henry de Eslrgalc, a messuage 
 in Eslgate in Bern/mm, which is now c:il!ed Bernham Broom. 
 
 The next thai I find liere was Sir Robert Mortimer, Knt. who lived 
 in the time of King Henrij II. In Somner's Antiquities o's Canterbury 
 we read, that in 1181, in a procession at Christ's church in Canter- 
 bun/, Sir Robert Mortimer, who was inider exxommunication for his 
 contumacy, because he would not obey the law, being questioned for 
 aAvrong done to the church oi Canterbury, in taking from the manor 
 of Deepham in this county a certain parcel of land belonging to the 
 monks, intiuded hinisclr into the company, Prior y/A/« espying him 
 there, informed the Archbishop (who was then present) of it, and that 
 a second time, because the Archbishop would have connived at it; but 
 when the whole com[)any was come into the church, Sir J?o6tr/ with 
 them, and mass begun, the Prior requires the convent to cease, who 
 obeyed, and so the excommunicate, to his shame, was by a strong 
 hand thrown out of the church, and then they proceeded in their 
 devotions^ 
 
 He was succeeded by William, his son and heir, and he b}^ 
 
 ishRobert, his son and heir, who, in the year 1 194, was forced to find 
 sureties to King Riehard the First, because he had presumed to hold 
 a tournament^ without ro3-al license; but upon Roger Bigod Earl of 
 Nuifolk, Jeffry de Sai, and William Earl Warren, becoming sureties 
 for him, the King ordered the sheriff to give him seizin of his lands 
 again. In 1105, a fine was levied to the said '&\r Robert Mortimer of 
 At lehurgh iind John Le Strange of five knights fees, in Hunestanlun, 
 (or Hnnstantou,) Totington, Ringestede and Snitertun, all which Ro- 
 bert acknowledged to belong to John and his heirs, who gave to Sir 
 Robert all his land which he had in Tutinglun, with the appurtenances 
 to be held of him, by homage and the service of a whole knight's fee, 
 e.vcept a twentieth part, excepting also out of the appurtenances, the 
 church of Islington, which the said John gave in pure alms to the 
 church of St. Mary at Caumpes in Suffolk, with the consent of the 
 said Robert, who was to warrant to the said John and his heirs four 
 knights fees in Hunstanton, Ringstede, and Snitterton. This Sir 
 Robert, and William his son, were both against King John in his 
 baron's wars,' in the j'ear 1205 ;' and in 1215, Sir Robert being then 
 also in arms with the rebellious barons, forfeited his lauds in Lin- 
 colnshire.^ 
 
 In 1218,' Sir William de Mortimer held pnj l--';ight's fee here, and 
 in Bernham, (Broom,) Little Elingham, and lofts, and half a fee in 
 
 7 Somncr'sAntiq. &c. Batley's edition. » Claus. 17 Joli. M. 10. 
 p. 142. ' In 1 204, Roger <ic Mortimer had 60 
 
 ^ A tournament, otherwise called acres of land here, 
 justing, or tilting, wasa martial exercise ^ Dug. Bar. torn. i. fo. 154. 
 of arired knights, encountering one ^ Sir Robert de Mortimer was dead 
 
 another with spears or lances, a diver- sometime before 1230, (I suppose about 
 
 sion in ancient times much used, but i2i7,)for in that year his widov.-, who 
 
 now quite Inid aside ; no one could hoid liad been some time m.irried to William 
 
 any public tournament wltliout royal dc Stc.tcviL-, without the King's license, 
 
 license, at that time, for fear of any con- had pardon for so doing, 
 spiracles that might be raised against tiie 
 governmeat, under that pretence.
 
 50S ATLEBUIIGII. 
 
 Stanford and Bukenham, (Pann,) and another half fee in Scoultan, 
 of the Earl If'arreji ; in 1250, he had a charter for free-warren in his 
 manors o(.ltfeburgf), Bcrnhum, and Sconllon, in \orfo/k, and Kiiigsto/i 
 and FoxtOH, in Cumbridges/iire ; he was succeeded by Sir Robert dc 
 Mortimer, his son and iicir, who lived in the year l'if)3, when the 
 barons rose against King llcitn/ 111.* among whom Sir Henri/ 
 Ilaslj/iigs, who was very active against the King, came and besieged 
 the castle of Bukenham, because Sir Robert dc Tcilesha/c, the second 
 of tiiat name, who was owner of it, held it, and declared openly for 
 the King, and great part of llie neighbouring country sent men and 
 arms,and wliat assistance they could to hiin, in order to enable him to 
 endure the siege; but among others, our Sir Robert de Mortimer^ 
 sent a servant of his called Leonine, to the castle during the siege, 
 with some private information to the besieged, (as it should seem,) for 
 the siege being raised upon it, Sir Henri/ went to Sir Robert's manors 
 in this county, and burnt the houses, and wasted the stocks found 
 upon them ; whether Sir Robert himself was killed I do not know, but 
 he died this very year, for in the year following 
 
 IVilliam de Mortimer, his son and heir, was in the custody of the 
 Earl Warnn, who now was of the King's side,* so that he and his 
 goods were safe, and protected by the castle. Sir IViUiain being 
 always attached, as well as his father, to the King's side, was sum- 
 moned by the King to attend his service among his judges and 
 council. In 1282, he obtained a charter for a market at Stanford in 
 this county, upon Tuesdai/ in every week, and a fair on JVhitson-Eve, 
 IVhit-Sunduy, and the morrow following; in 1285, he demanded 
 against the Prior of Shouldham the advowson of Stanjord church,' 
 and set forth his pedigree, from Robert de Mortimer, who was seized 
 of that advowson in /ft'«/;y the Second's time, and presented Richard 
 de Grenetcesvill thereto, viz. Robert aforesaid had issue, IVilliam, his 
 son and heir, who had Robert, his son and heir, who had William, 
 his son and heir, who had issue Robert, who had issue this Sir Willium 
 the demandant ; by which record the truth of the pedigree is plainly 
 proved, when it would have been difficult otherwise, there being so 
 many collateral branches of this noble family, that had estates here, 
 and in diverse parts of this county. In 1285, he had the King's let- 
 ters of protection during his absence beyond sea, about the King's 
 business, and in the same year had liberty of free-warren, assize of 
 bread and ale, view oi frankpledge, and loeif, allowed him in this 
 manor. In 1293, King Edzcard going then into Gaseoign, he had 
 command to fit himself with horse and arms, (as the chief men in 
 England then did,) ana to attend the King at Portsmouth, on Sept. 1. 
 to assist him against the French," and in 129^', was summoned to 
 parliament, among the Barons of the realm, in which year, being 
 again in France with the Earl of Lincoln, to relieve Bellagard, at that 
 time besieged by the Earl of Arras, he was taken prisoner, and car- 
 ried to Paris, where he died, as it seems, being then called H illiani 
 de Mortimer of Kingstone. The book of JVoodbridge sailh, that this 
 
 ♦ Holinshcd, (o. 264. vol. ii. octab. Hilar. A° 14 E. i. Rot°. z°. I 
 
 ' Rot. de Rebellibus, 49 H. 3. In find that Sir Will, after the recovery 
 
 Turri. Lond. settled the advowson on the Prior of 
 
 ^ Holinshed, vol. ii. fo. 266. Shouldham. 
 
 ' Placita jurat, et assis. apud Norwic. * Dug. Bar. vol. i. fol, 144,
 
 AT LE BURGH. jo«) 
 
 Sir William, lord of tlie manor liere, founded a tliapcl of tlic Hulu 
 Cross, and tliat he died Tiusdai/, Novem/>er the IJih, rj<)7, and is 
 buried in iiis own chapel; all which is true, ihouj^ii Mr. Heaver 
 seems to misunderstand it ;» (or tlie college here, which was after- 
 wards founded by Sir linheit Mortimer, his grandson, being dedicated 
 to the Holy Cross, made him doubt which was the real founder, when 
 the truth is, they were different foundations; the chapel of the Holi/ 
 Cross founded by Sir Uilliam for his own interment is now standing, 
 and is called Mortimer's chapel, it being the south transept or chaiH.-}, 
 opposite to Chant iclere's, which is on the north side, and by reason of 
 the officiating priests that daily served in these cha|)els, before the 
 foundation of the college, this church was in the collegiate form, and 
 had service performed in it, according to the collegiale manner. Hy 
 his will, dated in 1'2<).5, it appears, that Robert dc llaiins rector of 
 ScoiUtoii, Jeffry Fitz-H alter, parson of the third part of AlUlmrt^h, 
 and Riehord de Helmiiijihum, parson of Hykerestoii, or liitton, were 
 his executors. He held the manors of Uernham, .Scoiitloii, and .Itle- 
 hurgh of the Earl Harreii at (i fees, and had a capital manor-house 
 and ^4,1 acres of land adjoining, a wood of 4(^9 acres, a windmill, 
 and 4.]/. yearly rents, besides another messuage and lands held of 
 Sir Robert de fatesliute, by the payment of two sparhawks a year. 
 He died seized oi Kiiigstone in Cambridgeshire, Ilerleveslon in Lin- 
 colnshire, Atlebitrgh, Scoulton, and Bernham in Norfolk,' leavin" 
 
 CoNST.VNTiNK, his SOU and heir, then Hi years old, whom the 
 King seized as his ward ; but in 1298, ^(^/(« Larl H'mren sued the 
 King for his wardship, which belonged to him, in right of the manor 
 of Atleburgli, which w as held of him, and was unjustly seized by the 
 escheator, while the liarl was in the King's service in Scotland, who 
 as unjustly assigned to [.//*><■] the relict of the said IVilliam, much 
 more than her just dower, upon which the Earl had his ward, and took 
 from Alice those lands which she enjoyed above her dower; and the 
 same year the said Constantinc [by tlic Earl his guardian] sued Joan, 
 late wife of Gilbert Pcche, for conunitting waste in his manor of 
 Ringstone,v!\\\\c she had the custody of it; in l;30j, he obtained a 
 charter for a market and fair to be kepi at Kingtion; in 1307, he was 
 one of the great men in the retinue ot John dc l\ arren Earl of -Surrey, 
 who was then with the King in France, a.1 his interview and marriage 
 with Isabel, daughter o^ Philip King of J'ranre ; in I'JOy, he held 
 liis manors and lands in Atteburgh, pjingham, and Bcrnhnm-Pana, 
 of the Earl H'arrcn, at one fee; and in 1;!1(), had a charter for a 
 yearly fair at his manor of Atlcbiirgh, and was in the Scolrh expedi- 
 tion ; and again in 1.')1,'3 and ljl4, in which years he had license to 
 found a chantry at his manor of Kingston, and to make a castle of 
 his house at Scoiilim: in Norfolk; in 13 Ij, he settled Atteburgh on 
 himself and Sibil his wife, for life, Henry de Spectishall, parson of 
 Kingston, vmA John dc Bctnham, parson ot lii/kercslon being trustees; 
 in 13'2!), upon the dealh of Thomas de Cuilly, the custody of Bnken- 
 ham castle was committed to him ; he had two wives, Katherine and 
 
 ' Wearer, fol. gog, go9. in i i^g ; but they were dead or had re- 
 
 ' He left the manor of Foxton to leased it before ijio, fur then Sir Con. 
 
 Maud and Cassandra, his djiighters, for stanline Munimer, lord of it, had a grant 
 
 life, who were sued by Alice, ihcir nio- for a fair to be held )carly at I'oxton. 
 iher-in-law, for her dow er in that manor, 
 
 VOL. I. -i T
 
 jiO ATLEBURGII. 
 
 Sibil, who died llie Qtli of Stpt. and he the ICth of Nov. following, in 
 the year 133i, and were buried in Mortiiiter'x ciiapei, leaving 
 
 Sir CoNSTANTiNii MoKTiMEii, Knt. his son and heir, wlio was of 
 full age; for tl)e year following, viz. \SS5, he was Steward of tlie 
 Household to Elitiiwr Countess oi' Cue I die a, [the King's sister,] and 
 had an allowance of '2'l/. for the charges of his men and horses in 
 that service ; and in 1337," ho had a charier for free-warren, in all 
 
 Foxloii in Cambridgeshire, and Ilerlevestoti in Lincolnshire. In 1341^ 
 he was summoned to parliament among the barous, but never after, 
 and was the same year in that expedition made by the King into 
 Fnnue, one of the retinue to Ralph Loid Stafford, and so he was also 
 in the expedition in the year 1344 ; in 1343, he released to Joan dc 
 }Villns.by Lady of Eresby, his right in the sixth part of the manors of 
 En^cf'eld, ll'alcote and Cltatg,rave, by deed dated at Noru>ich, to 
 
 OO 1.' ' I'l- ■ I'll*' •' 
 
 which the seal of his arms is appendant, with this circumsciiption, 
 
 SIGILLUrt) EONStANtlNI DG TOORrl-rceR. 
 
 In 1349, he had the King's license to travel to Uo/7ie,with one valet, 
 2 horses, and 2 servants; in 1351, an invasion being then threatened 
 by the French, he was joined in commission with John D'Engaine, 
 for arraying of all men that had able bodies, and sufficient estates, in 
 Cambridge and IJuniingdoushires, for the defence of the realm ; he 
 died in 1354, and leaving no issue by Agnes his wife, 
 
 Sir Rob. de Mohtimeu, his brother,^ became sole heir, both to 
 him, and Sir Constantine his father; he was lord of Great Elingham, 
 (see p. 483,) and had two wives; Margery Fastolf, his first wife, died 
 in 1341, but. Margery, his second wife, outlived him, and was alive in 
 13S8. This Sir Robert founded the college or chantry of the Holy 
 Cross in Atleburgh, and was buried here in 1387 ; he had two sons, 
 Constantine Mortimer, Esq. his youngest son, was possessed of the 
 manors of Great Elingham, Bernham, Bekerston, and Corston in 
 Norfolk, and had free-warren allowed him to ihem all in 1405 ; but 
 
 Sir Tho. Mortimer, his eldest son, died before him, beyond sea, 
 leaving issue by Mary his wife, who died May 2, 1406; she was 
 daughter of Nicholas Park, Esq. own mother to the great Sir John 
 Fastolf' of Caster by Yarmouth, in hiorfolk* for in his will dated- 
 Nov. 3d, 1439, he desired liis substance to be disposed of in the best 
 
 * In 1331, there was a John de Mor- a part of Atleburgh which is called a 
 
 timer of Atleburgh, Knt. and Eleanor manor: and in 1403, Agnes Lady Bar- 
 
 hiswifc,whosetlIed tliemaiior of Preston dolf, widow of bir Thomas Mortimer, 
 
 in Siift'olk, and Steleye, on Thomas of made her will ; from him, I suppose, 
 
 Ipswith, vicar of Preston, and Nicholas descended Robert Mortimer, who was 
 
 de Hoc, chaplain; but whether it was one of Sir John Carbonel's feoffees in 
 
 sold to Thomas, or settled only in trust, 1411, and made his will in 1465, which 
 
 1 know not. 1 his Sir Johi', I take it, was proved in 1469, in which year he 
 
 was Sir Constantine's uncle, being a died. 
 
 younger son ot Sir William Mortimer, * From Sir John Fastolf's will, by 
 
 and brother to Sir Constantine, senior. which 1 have corrected inanyerrours in 
 
 ^ 1 here was a third brother, viz. Sir tliis pedigree, for all the pedigrees I ever 
 
 Thomas Mortimer of Atleburgh, who meet withof this family contradicted one 
 
 was dead before j 400, and died seized of another.
 
 ATLEBURGH. 511 
 
 manner, for the pleasure of god and his soul's health, "and also for ilic 
 " releef, socour and heipe of the soules that I am most oblyged to 
 " prey and do preye fore, and for the soules oi John Fasto/f my f-MWr, 
 " dam Mari/ (the doghtir of Nicholas: Park, souyer) my modir," 8cc. 
 and it appears that she was buried in the chapel or quire belong- 
 ing to the chantry of the Ha/j/ Cross, by Sir Thomas Mortimer, her 
 last husband ; for in the same will I meet with these clauses; " Item, 
 " I wolle 8t ordeyne that be the avys ' of myn executors beforn 
 " named, that provision &, ordenaunce be mad, that the obyte and 
 " anniversarye may be yerly kept in perpetiiitc with placebo & dirige 
 " 8c 7nesse, be note for the sowleof dam Mary my modir & her aunce- 
 " terys* in the chirche of Attilbunrh, and than on of the monkes or 
 " prestys in the college be me ordenid, in the maiicyon of Casire 
 " forseid,' shal syng specyally in perpctuite for the soule of my 
 " modir &, of allc here auncetcres &, good doers ; Item, I wole that 
 " in sembelable-wise,* that a marbul ston of a convenient mesurc be 
 « ordeynid & layd [over] dam Mary my modir, in the chapell of the 
 " chauntry foundid in the parissch chirche oi Atitburgh, with an 
 " ymage of laton," accordyng to her degre, with a scripture there 
 " abowten, of the day & yeer of here obyte, with iiii skochonys,' 
 " wherof here iij husbondes, Mortymer, Fastolf, & Faruelle, & the 
 " ferthe of hir aunceterys armys," by which it appears thai she had 
 three husbands ; first hanvelle, then Fastolf, and lastly Mortimer, 
 and had issue by the two last, if not by the first; by Sir Thomas she 
 had three daughters, coheirs to Sir Robert, their grandfather, viz. 
 
 Elizabeth Mortimer, the eldest, who married, in her grand- 
 father's life-time, to Sir Ralph Bigot oi Stockton, and had her portion 
 assigned her on her marriage, viz. part of this manor, which was now 
 made a separate manor, Berryhall manor in Elingham,* Ladies 
 manor in Rockland,^ &c. for which reason, she had nothing more at 
 her grandfather's death; she had three husbands; first Sir Ralph 
 Bigot, Knt.* who died in 140G; secondly Henry Pakenham, and lastly 
 Tho. Manning, to whom she gave all her estate ;' he afterwards re- 
 married to a daughter of Sir Thomas Jenny. 
 
 Cecily, the next daughter, first married to Sir John de Ilerlin<r, 
 Knt.* and afterwards to John Ratcliff oi Atlehurgh, Esq. and 
 
 Marg ER Y, the third daughter, married Sir John Fitz-Ralfof Greai- 
 Elingham, Knt. 
 
 And between these two. Sir Robert Mortimer, their grandfather, 
 divided his estate ; for he ordered the parson of Scoulton, Henri/ de 
 Pakenham, senior, and his other feoffees, that they should pav 3J0 
 marks, to Sir John Hcrling, Knt. as the marriage portion of Cecili/, 
 his grand-daughter, whom he had married, and 300 uiarKs to Sir 
 
 ' Advice. * Ancestors. "> Brass. 
 
 ' Sir Jolin founded a college in one ■ Her death, with four scutcheons, &c. 
 
 court of his mansion-house at Castre, * Sec p. 485. 
 
 and one of the priests of that college was ' Seep. 481. 
 
 obliged to sin^ daily for his mother's ♦ She had a daughter Elizabeth, by 
 
 soul, and to keep her anjiiversary at him, who married Will. Garncys ot 
 
 Castre, tlie same day they did at Atlc- Kenton in Suffolk, whose son Ralph died 
 
 burgh. without issue in 1446. 
 
 ' That is, likewise, or in the same ' See p. 4X1. 
 
 manner, as he had before ordered his * See p. 310, 
 father's anniversary and grave-stortc.
 
 olii ATLEBURGH. 
 
 John Fitz-Ralf, Knt. as the portion of Ma;gc/y, his grand-daughter;^ 
 and by his wiil he further desired, that all his manors, lands, and ad- 
 vowsons, should be conveyed by his trustees to his two sons-in-law 
 aforesaid, on condition that each of them should pay 10(X) marks to 
 his (eoftees, for them to finish Atltburgh college with, and endow it 
 according to his desire ; and accordingly, after his death. Sir John 
 Hcrling and Sir John Fifz-Ralph, giving the feoffees security for the 
 money, had the inheritance divided between them in 1402, and settled 
 by fine ; Sir John de lleiling, Knt. and Ceci/i/ his wife, had the 
 manors oi Stanford and yJl/eliuigh, 4L rent in Hochain, the ad vow- 
 son of Great Elinghum^ the moiety of the advowson' of the chantry 
 at the altar of the lloli/ Cross in the church of Atleburgh,Xhe manors 
 of .V«ii«A(/« and Foxton in Cambridgeshire, ix\\\\\\ich were settled on 
 Cedti/ and her heirs : the manors of Scoulloii, Totington, and Great 
 Flinghum, with the advowson of the third part of Atleburgh, and the 
 moiety of the advowson, of the chantry at the altar of the Ho/j/ Cross, 
 in tlie church of Atleburgh, with 52 messuages^ 380 acres of land, 4 of 
 meadow, and 76s. rent, in Scoulton, Tomest on, Caston, Rokeland- 
 Tofts, and Little E/irighain, the manors of Kingston in Cambridge- 
 shire, and Mildcnhale in Suffolk, were settled on Sir John Fitz-Iialf 
 for life, and Margeri/ his wife, and her heirs ; and thus the estate of 
 the noble family of the Mortimers was divided ;' and 
 
 In 1403, the Lady Ceeili/ de Herling was found to hold this manor 
 at one fee of the Earl IVarren. In 1411, she was married to 
 
 John Ratcliff, Esq. her second husband, and at her death left 
 it to him and his heirs. This John was son of James Rate/iff, Esq. 
 and was the first that advanced that family to the dignity and honour 
 that it afterwards possessed, being a brave champion in war, even 
 i'rom his youth, for which he was so much in the favour of that vic- 
 torious prince. King Henry V.'' that in the first year of his reign he 
 granted an annuity of 40 marks a year to him and Cecily his wife, 
 and the longest liver of them, to be received by half yearly payments, 
 at Faster and Michaelmas, out of the manor of Tunstede in Noifolk, 
 which belonged to the King's honour or dutchy of Lancaster, upoa 
 special trust and condition that the said John should not be retained, 
 or serve any one in war, but himself only, during his life; and as a 
 further mark of favour, another grant passed the same day, to him 
 only, during his life, of another annuity of 25 marks a 3'ear, issuing 
 out of all the lands and demeans of thjit dutchy in No/folk, to enable 
 him the better to perform his service, both which annuities were con- 
 stantly paid him by the receiver of the dutchy ; and from this time 
 lie constantly attended the King in all his wars. He was a squire 
 only at the battle of Shrewsbury, and was knighted by K\n^ Henry N . 
 upon his landing at {Quies de Caax) commonly called Kidcuui,^ 
 where the Seine quietly runs into the sea; and the next day went 
 
 ^ Mr. Le Neve quotes an old paper » This was the moiety of the advow- 
 
 roll among the Evidences of Sir Ro^cr son of the college. 
 
 Potts, at Mannington, A° 1707, in which ' Fines H. 4, divers. Com. Lig. i. 
 
 yearhecxtraaed (whathe thoughtworth No. 64,65. 
 
 while) out of the Evidences of that fa- * E. Rotulo Compotus Ducatus Lan- 
 
 mily. castrie in Com. Norif. SufF. Cant. &c , 
 
 8 Which she gave to the college here, penes me. 
 
 see p. 484. ^ Holinshed, vol. ii. fol. J49.
 
 ATLEBURGH. 513 
 
 with his master to the town of Harfhw, which stands on that river, 
 and besieged it on all sides, and was at its surrender; after wliich 
 the King ordained the Duive oi Exeter, his uncle. Captain and Go- 
 vernour of that town, who establisiied Sir John Fastolf, his heutenant, 
 there, with 1500 men, (or as some say) 20o(j i<nigfits, of which the 
 Baron of Cnrew, and Sir Hugh Lutterell, were his two counsellors. 
 In 1415, he was in the battle of Jgiiicoitrt, in that part which was 
 commanded by the Duke of Exeter, where he behaved so gallantly, 
 that he was soon after made the King's Receiver in his city and do- 
 minion of Venievtl in Normandi/ ; and when the King returned into 
 England, he went with the Duke, and staid with him and Sir John 
 Fastolf at Harjiite, from whence they soon after made a great inroad 
 with 3000 Englishmen into Normandy, almost to the city of Roan, 
 and got abundance of riches and prisoners ; but a« they returned, the 
 new made Constable of France, hoping to win honour in his first en- 
 terprise, having with him about 5000 horsemen, encountered them, 
 and a sore conflict ensued, in which the Duke lost 300 of his footmen, 
 and was forced to retire into an orchard, which was strongly fenced 
 with thorns, so that the Englishmen kej>t them oflj and stayed there all 
 night, and went towards llaijiue in tlie morning, which the French 
 benig advertised of, followed and overtook them on the sands near 
 Chief'e de Caux (or Quies de Cauz) and there attacked them, but in 
 the end were quite discomfited, and many of them slain by the 
 English, who came safe to Harflue, to the Constable's disgrace ; this 
 was called by some the battle of Kidcau.v, and by others, the battle of 
 Vallemont. Soon after this, the Constable (to retrieve his lost ho- 
 nour) besieges them in Haijiae, but by the valiant behaviour of the 
 Duke, Sir John Fastolf, our Sir John Ratcliff, and others, the town 
 was manfully defended, till the King's navy, under the command of 
 the Duke of Bedford, came to their assistance, and meeting with the 
 French navy at the mouth of the Seine, engaged and vanquished it, 
 sunk 500 ships, went up the river and refreshed the town with vic- 
 tuals and money; the Constable hearing the navy was vanquished, 
 raised his siege and returned to Paris, with less glory than he 
 expected. In the year 1417, he was at the taking of the castle of 
 Tongue, the city of Caen, the castle of Cuursie, the city of Sees, the 
 town of Faleis, and at the great siege of the city of iioa/j,* being then 
 in the King's troop, which joined with my Lord of Gloucester's, laid 
 before St. Hillary s gate, the rest of the generals encompassing the 
 whole town, which had then (according to historians) 21,000 souls 
 in it, and such resolute commanders and governours among them, 
 as swore to each other never to yield the city, as long as they could 
 hold sword in hand, upon which ensued one of the greatest sieges that 
 the history of that age furnishes us with, which is largely recited in 
 Holinshtd's historj',' together with the miserable famine in the city 
 during the latter part of the siege, " %i (says he) 31 S^IjOUIi) u\)taxii 
 
 * From an old roll in my collections, of Fastolf's chaplain, as I take it) and ends 
 
 all the names of the towns, castles, cities, thus. " Uibis Rotoma^i Wulstano 
 
 and abbies, that King Henry V. got in " capfio claret, 
 
 his second voyage into France in one " Quam Rex Henricus Quintus sexto 
 
 year, (viZ. 1419, A° Reg. 6,) contain- "capitunno." 
 
 ing the account of the siege of Roan, 5 Vol. ii. fol. $66, 
 Sec. which was written (by Sir John
 
 4U ATLEBURGH. 
 
 " l)Oto Dctrlie bo0, ratsi, im.^c, anD fntji, tocrc solo toitljin tijc totoii, 
 •' an6 bouj orcfbilic tbrn totrc hn tljt poorc people eaten anb beViouret), 
 " ($c. tijc reaoer niiflijt lament tjjcir ertreme inisenejn," which passage 
 I cannot but observe, to shew among other examples, the great 
 fidelity of this historian, for in the old roll before-mentioned, is this 
 passage, " Furthyrmor, as towchyng to the dcrth of vytayles withyii 
 " thys forseyd cytee, one buschell of wliete was worth v. scutys, one 
 " lofe, j. frank, one dog, j. frank, one kat, ij.s. sterl.j. rat, vjd. sterl. 
 " and as towchyng all other vitailes, it was spendit er that we com 
 " in to the C3'tee." It is plain that ^'n John liatctiff m\A Sir Jolm 
 Fastulf had done eminent services in this siege, for immediately 
 after the latter was made Governour, or Captain of Co/ide iSioreaif 
 and the former of the castle of Fronsak in jltjuitaiii, and had 1000 
 marks per annum, allowed him for the guard thereof.* He was 
 elected Knight of the Garter, by his royal master, in 1420, and died 
 before St. George's feast in that year, (for then, his sword, helmet, 
 &c. were offered,) and was interred in the choir of this church,' 
 leavino; 
 
 Sir John Ratcliff, Knt. his son and heir, who inherited his father's 
 courage as well as estate, being well known to the King, and having 
 constantly attended the wars with his father, was upon his death made 
 Governour ofFrotisak castle, and of the castle of Bitrdeaux in Gascoign, 
 in which posts he behaved himself so well, that King Henry VI. in 
 the first year of his reign, retained him to serve him as seneschal or 
 steward of the dutchy of Acqitituin, and assigned him 4 marks a day 
 for his own salary, and 20 marks a piece per annum for his 200 
 archers. In 1425, he was nominated one of the knights companions 
 of the Order of the Garter at St. George's feast at IVindsor, in the 
 4th year of the King's reign, by John Duke of Bedford, Regent of 
 France, the Lieutenant, and the Companions, Sir John Fasto/J (whom 
 the Lieutenant had first nominated) and he, having equal votes. Sir 
 John Rate/iff was now chosen, as named by the Kegent, Sir John 
 l^rt.s/o//' being elected at St. George's feast the ne.xt year; soon after 
 this, he was again retained to serve the King in the French wars, with 
 100 men at arms, (of which number he himself was to be one,) four 
 other knights, the rest squires, besides his 200 archers. In 1432, 
 upon humble remonstrance, that there was due to him in arrear, for 
 those and other services, no less than 7029/. he had divers lands, rents, 
 &c. in Wales assigned him for payment of it ; in the 13th of Henrtf 
 VI. he was sent to Arras, to treat with the Dolphin of France, and 
 the year following was Lieutenant of Calais, when the Duke of Bur- 
 giotdi/ laid siege to that garrison for three weeks ; but he lived not 
 long after, for having exercised himself in arms 28 years, he died in 
 the l6th year of this King's reign, and was buried by his ancestors in 
 the choir of this church, leaving Thomas Itatclijf and Robert Lathum 
 his executors, who, ni the I'Jth of the King's reign, had a grant of all 
 the revenues of Bridgenater, and olhev ports, to discharge a debt of 
 701 j/. due from the King, for Sir John's services, as Seneschal of 
 Acquilain, and Constable of the castle of Fromak ; some say he died 
 
 * Hall's Cliron. H. 5, fol. 26. a fullowcd at fol. 10,) it seeming by him, 
 
 ' Mr. Le Neve (wliom 1 have fol- that '•'ir John, who was first Lord Fitz- 
 
 lowed )n this account) disagrees frcm VS alter, was grandson ot that Sir John 
 
 Mr. Dugdale and others, (whom I have that married Cecily Herling.
 
 ATLEBURGH. 515 
 
 in the IQlh of Henry Yl. but whether iw the l6th or 19th, all agree 
 that he died seized of Atleburgh-Morlinur's, Nezcm/iam, and Fo.itoii 
 in Cambridgeshire, &c. Jn 1462, Katherine his widow was buried 
 here ; she was daughter and coheir of Sir Edward liurtiell, Knt. and 
 wife of Sir John Ferrerf, Knt. and at'ler of Sir John Ratcliff; she 
 left Billingford manor and advowson, held of the King as of the 
 honour oillalJietd-PevereU, hy the rent of 6s. Qd. per annum, and not 
 in capite, to 
 
 John Ratclipf, Esq. their son and heir, who, according to Mr. 
 Le Neve, niariied Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Waller Lord 
 Fitz-fVal/er; in 1440, he obtained a pardon of intrusion, for entering 
 his lands without hcense; in 1444, Elizabeth, daughter and heir of 
 Walter Lord Fi/z- Walter, then married to John liatclif, Esq. proved 
 her age; he was killed at Ferrybridge, (as you may see at p. 10,) ia 
 14](i, being then Lord Fitz-Walter, and left 
 
 John Katci.iif, Esq. his son and heir, nine \'ears old, whose 
 wardship the King granted to E/izabeth his mother," who then dwelt 
 ixlJlleburgh; aiifi the same year an incjui'^ition was taken after his 
 death, upon the oaths of Robert Morley and Thomas Brampton, Esqrs. 
 who affirmed that John Ratcliff, the father of this John, at his death, 
 held SotiUimere, Jlicbuigh, Docktpig, Henienhale, Tliyming, and 
 Ryston manors, and that he died M/iich 28, 1416, having been 24 
 years married to Elizabeth Fitz-Walfer, whose son 
 
 John, in I4b5, the 1st of King Henry Vil. was summoned to 
 parliament as Lord Fitz-Walter, and was joined in commission with 
 Sir Reginald Bray, Km. for exercising the office of chief justice of 
 all the forests beyond Trent, being at that time Steward of the King's 
 household, and had this year a special livery of all his lands; in I486, 
 he was associated with Jasper Duke of Bedford, anc' others, to exer- 
 cise the office of High Steward of England, at the Queen's corona- 
 tion ; but in 1493, he. Sir 'Thomas Thazcyts, Sir Robert Ratcliff','' and 
 Sir Simon Mundcford, were attainted of treason, for which the two 
 last were belieaded, and the Loid Fitz-tcalter being pardoned as to 
 life, was sent, to Calais, there to be kept in hold," but endeavouring to 
 escaj)e from thence, he was beheaded, and so forfeited his estate to 
 the Crown ;'^ but yet 
 
 Robert, his son and heir, found much favour; for in 1505, Nov. 3, 
 he was restored to his honour, by letters patent of that date, and 
 soon after thcie were five several fines levied, by which the estate was 
 conveyed (o Richard Bishop of JVinchester, Sir Tho. Lovell, James 
 Hobart, Knt. and other trustees, who settled the whole on the said 
 liob'-rt, and his heirs, except the manors of Southmere, Dockifn<r, 
 BilUngJord, East Ryston, &.c. in Norfolk, which were settled on 
 Margaret his mother, for life, remainder to him and his heirs ; he was 
 made Kniglit ol' the Bath, at the coronation of King Henry VIII. 
 having, obtaini d an act of parliament to revoke his father's attainder, 
 after which he became one of the most remarkable men of that age ; 
 in 1512, he attended the King in his expedition to 'Therovene -Aad 
 
 ' She after married to Sir John Dyn- of the chapel of Hunstanton, &c. as at 
 
 ham. large in Hun»fanion. 
 
 9 I take it if was this Sir Robert Rat- ' llolinshed, fol. 777. 
 cliflfthat mafic his will in 1496, and or- ^ Seep. 10, 
 dered to be buried on the south (part)
 
 516 ATLEBURGH. 
 
 Toiirnatf; in Xo'll, he led the van of the King's army sent into 
 France, under the command of the Earl of Stirrci/, in which and 
 other emplovinents he merited so well, that he was made Viscount 
 Fitz-11 alter, and afterwards Earl of Sussex ; (as j-ou may see at p. 
 11.) He was one of the peers that presented the articles to the King, 
 against Cardinal li'oheij, one of those nohlcs that represented in their 
 declaration, sent to Pope Clement VII. that unless he complied and 
 permitted the King to be divorced from Queen Catherine, his supre- 
 macy would not be long acknowledged in England. This Earl ob- 
 tained a special patent to himself and his heirs, to exercise the office 
 of 6Vafr, at dinner time, at the coronation of all the future Kings 
 and Queens of this realm, with the fee of 20/. per annum for that ser- 
 vice, payable out of the Exchequer, and was afterwards made Lord 
 High Chamberlain of England for life. In lo41, he obtained a grant 
 of Ihe site of the abbey of C/ir<? in Somersetshire, with the revenues 
 belonging to it, and also of the college or chantry oi Atlcburgh in 
 Norfolk, with all its revenues, and the year following he died at 
 Chelsey, and was buried in St. Lanrence Poultnei) church in London, 
 but was some years after removed and buried at Boreham, by his son 
 and grandson. He was succeeded by 
 
 Henry Ratcliff Earl of Sussex, Viscount Fitz-lValter, Lord 
 Egremond and Burnell, his son and heir by his first wife,' who was 
 made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Queen Anne Bullen ; 
 and the first of Edward V I. had the command of l600 demi-launces, 
 m the expedition then made into Scotland, in which service being 
 unhorsed, he narrowly escaped with his life ; he was in so much fa- 
 vour at that time, that in the act for dissolving the chantries, colleges, 
 free chapels, &c. which was passed this year, he had this clause in- 
 serted therein, " J?co\)i6eb altoaicsi, fltiD bc It ctiflctcO bn tfjc autljontie 
 •' afort?ai&, tijat t\)\^ Set, nc anic tljing tljcrein containco, ^\)aH tvtenb 
 " to t^e College or C^anteric of attilbourgij), m tljc Countie o£ |ior« 
 " folti, tohitl) tljc .saiD late fting V?cnnc tlje «CigJ)t, gatoc to C?obcrt, late 
 •' «3rlc of ^UiS.sef, $ to W l?circ.ti, but ti)!it l?cnne, note «ecle of ^U!»* 
 " !5Ci-, .Sonne ano Wne to tljc ;:iaiD late <Cr[c, IjtiS IfricjS anft aiSiSignes?, 
 " ?hall anb maie hn aiutljontic of tijiii Hct, Ijatic anQ mjoii tlje ?aJl> 
 " College ano Cljahttrie, ana all jHanor.*', ILanDiS, Senemcntsi, aj)boto:= 
 " .^on.^, SLithe.si, gten.sionsfi, 5>ortion!S, ana otticr li^cnbitamcnt^ thereto 
 " belonging or appertaining, anii thing in tfy^ act to the Contrarie in 
 " anie tt)i|tie nottoitljjitanbing."* Upon the death of £rfa'aj</ VI. he 
 was the first that appeared on the behalf of Queen Mary, for which 
 reason she immediately made him warden and chief justice of all the 
 forests south of Trent ; he was also Kniu;ht of the most noble Order 
 of the Garter. By his testament, dated J«(y '27, A" 15.J3,' he be- 
 queathed his body to be buried in the parish church oi Atleburgh, 
 appointing a tomb to be there erected over his grave ; notwithstand- 
 ing which, 1 believe he was nut buried here, for dying at Sir Henry 
 Sidney's house in Chunon-How, f I est minster, in 1556, he was buried 
 by his father and mother, iu the nortii isle of the church of St. Law- 
 rence Poultnei/ in London, and with them removed and buried by 
 Thomas his son, at Boreham in Essex, the said Thomas desiring in his 
 will, that it might be so. 
 
 ' See p. II. ♦ Statutes at large, Lond. 1587, Edw. 
 
 5 Dug. Bar. vol. ii. fol. 286. 6, fol. 33.
 
 ATLEBURGH. 5,7 
 
 Thomas Earl of Sussex, his son and heir, by the Lady Hozmrd, 
 inherited; he was sent (during his father's lifetime) into (Jinna,,,/ 
 by Queen Mary, to the Emperor C/iarks V. to treat of a marria .e 
 between that Queen and Prince Philip, the Emperor's eldest son- 
 and afterwards into Spain, to Philip himself, for ratifying thereof- 
 and the next year, was by them made Lord Deputy of IrelanH, and 
 at his fathers death, Ciiief Justice of ail the forests south o( Treitl 
 afterwards Knight of the Garter, and Captain of the Band of Gentle- 
 men Pensioners ; and on that Queen's death, was made Deputy of 
 Ireland hy Queen Elizabeth ; after that, was sent to Ficniia to ihc 
 t^mperor Maximilian, with the Order of the Garter, and after tliaf, 
 to the said Emperor, to treat of a marriage between Queen Elizabeth 
 and Charles Duke of Austria ; after that, employed against the Scots 
 which service he performed with much bravery and success ; and at 
 his return was sworn one of the privy-council : he died in 1583 * 
 and ordered his executors to build a chapel of brick, on the south 
 side of Boreham chancel, in Essex, and to erect a tomb of white ala- 
 baster, and other stones, and to remove the bodies of his grandfather, 
 grandmother, father, and mother, and lay them by his own corpse : 
 he gave to the Lady Frances, his widow, all his jewels, habiliments] 
 chains, buttons, ornaments, with, or without precious stones, except 
 the five stones, two great table diamonds, one great table ruble, one 
 great pointed diamond, and a great buUose, which were given him on 
 a sword, hy Philip King oi' Spain, all which Sir Heniy Ratclilf, Knt. 
 his brother and heir, was to have for life, and afterwards were to o-q 
 from heir to heir, as the heir comes. He gave 4000 oz. gilt plate, 
 and 2000 oz. white plate, to his widow, and all the coaches, horses' 
 and furniture which she and her women used to ride in, besides their 
 riding-horses, and six geldings. It appears that he used to live 
 sometimes at his mansion-house of Bermondcsei/ in Soiithicarl:, some- 
 times at his noble seat of Neuhall, in Boreham parish in Essex, and 
 sometimes at IVodeham-lValter ; he divided his linen into three parts, 
 one to his lady, another to his heir, a third to his executors, and or- 
 dered them that, according to his feoffment, his lady should enjoy 
 the manors of Nezchall and Oldhall in Boreham, and many more 
 manors in E.ssex, with Jtlebiirgh, llempnal, and Diss in Notfollc, 
 during her life; and afterwards by a codicil dated 2 1st 3Iay follow- 
 ing, he confirmed several bargains made during his sickness, of divers 
 underwoods, wood, timber trees. Sec. sold in his manor of Jtktmr<rh 
 in Norfolk, and commanded they should keep house at Bermondeseu 
 twenty days after his burial, about which they should not expend 
 above 1500/. ; but yet I find that they exceeded that sum, as the fol- 
 lowing acount informs me. 
 
 " A brief declaration of the charges, as well of opening and em- 
 " balming the body of Thomas Earl of Sussex, and the whole funeral 
 " charges of the said late Earl, as of expenses of house-keepinn- at 
 " Bermundseif, the Qth of June 1583, in which day the said Earl ified, 
 " and ending the 29th of July following, in which day the said 
 " house-keeping was dissolved. 
 
 • His will is dated Apr. i, 1583. 
 VOL. I. SV
 
 518 ATLEBURGII. 
 
 /. 6-. d. 
 
 The funeral charges l629 05 00 ob. 
 
 The body buried at Borehatn, the bowels in 
 
 the clioir or chancel of Bermoudesey. 
 Expenses of house-keeping . _ . _ - 159 08 02 
 The inventories at Newkall and Woddiam- 
 
 JValhr 189T 05 08 
 
 The inventory at BennHw^/esfj/ . - - - 1580 00 00 
 Jewels given to Lady Frances the widow - - 3169 00 00 
 Inventory of the linen ------- 304 12 00 
 
 Jewels for the executors - - - - - - 67 117 00 
 
 Ready money - -------- 427 00 00 
 
 Inventory of the plate 19024 ounces. 
 And b}- this account it further appears, in relation to his "Norfolk 
 estates, that Sir Henri/ JVood/iuuse farmed his manors of Burtiel/s and 
 Thirning, that Sir Robert Jermijn farmed the rectory of Sfiirstoii, and 
 that Peter Elxcyn was his chief steward and bailiff', of the manors of 
 Thirning, Sidis(ro7id, Atleburgh, and Wood-Sales in Atleburgh, Tliirn- 
 wg, and Hemprial. Tiie tomb set up in Boreham church cost 292/. 
 12s. 8d. ; after his death 
 
 Frances, his widow, had this manor for life; she was a very re- 
 ligious, liberal, and charitable lady ; by her will, dated in 1588, she or- 
 dered her executors to purchase a perpetual annuity of 20/. and settle 
 it on a learned and godly preacher, to read two divinity lectures 
 every week in the collegiate church at Westminster, where she wa& 
 buried, in St. Paul's chapel, Jpril 15, 1589, as her inscription shews 
 us; she it was that established the last college that was ever founded 
 in the university of Cambridge, for she ordered her executors to be- 
 stow the sum of 5000/. over and besides all her goods unbequcathed, 
 for the erecting of a new college in that university, to be called the 
 Lady Frances- Sidney Sussex College, and purchasing lands to be an- 
 nexed to it, to maintain a master, ten fellows, and twenty scholars, 
 •which foundation is now called S/rfwcj/ College. It seems as if she 
 liad in her lifetime purchased the site of it, and fitted up some part, 
 for in the account of the charge of the performance of her will, de- 
 livered in Julif 1589, is this, " Item, the college to be erected or en- 
 ' " larged at Cambridge, v. m. /." in which account it appears, that 
 her funeral cost ISb'S/. her tomb 200/. her benevolence to the poor, 
 to preachers, and prisoners, 100/. her perpetual lecture 200/. the sur- 
 geon for searing her corpse 20/. and her executors were chargeable 
 ■with 10,990/. \As. Qd. to perform all her legacies, of which they re- 
 ceived in ready money by her, 3997/. by 4614 oz. of plate, 1220/. by 
 4868 oz. of white or ungilt plate, 1 16"4/. by jewels 2652/. Sic. At her 
 death the manor went to 
 
 Henry E-m-] oi Sussex, hrolher of Thomas Earl of Sussex, late hus- 
 band of the said Frances, who was Knight of the Garter, and Captain 
 or Governour of the town and isle of Portsmouth ; he died in 1593, 
 and was buried by the Lady llouora his wife, and his other ances- 
 tours at Boreham aforesaid, leaving 
 
 KoBERT, Earl of 6'«ssej', his son and heir, who, in the S7th of 
 Elizabeth, was sent into Scotland by the Queen, to stand in her stead 
 as a godfather at the christening of Prince Henri/; in the 39th of
 
 ATLEBURGH. 519 
 
 that Queen he was in the voyage with Robert Earl oi Sussex to Cadiz; 
 and in 1621, was installed Knight of the Garter, and often resided 
 here ; he had two sons and two daughters, which all died in his hfe- 
 time, without issue; Henry Rate fif Lord Fitz-Waller, his eldest son, 
 married Jane, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope, Knt. but died a 
 young man. In the register of this parish I find these odd verses 
 (composed by John Fo)-bie, then rector) upon his death, and upon 
 the resemblance of the star which he gave for his conusance, viz. 
 
 Where is the Starr, the hope of Simex name ? 
 
 Henry Fitz-Walteu's, that bright shining beame? 
 
 What men't you Fates, so sone his hfe t'assault i 
 
 Was there in him, such noted heinous fault ? 
 
 Death is the debt, that every one must pay. 
 
 To blame you are, that tooke him now away. 
 
 He was the hope to raise up noble blood. 
 
 Which long had been, and might yet long have stood. 
 
 In him is cut off all that noble fame. 
 
 Which hundred years hath houlden in that name. 
 
 This is our joy, that joys he doth possesse. 
 
 And is a Starr now fix'd in heav'nly blesse. 
 
 And these following, by Edward Barthlett, Gent. 
 
 In heaven new fixt, I lately saw a Starr 
 
 That shin'd in earth, but now excelleth farr. 
 
 All heavenly Sfarres, save them without compare 
 
 That in the heavens, amongst them, placed are. 
 
 This Starr in earth, did with such beauty shine. 
 
 Which was the cause that it so soon did clime 
 
 Up to the heavens to God, who for it sent. 
 
 To increase and beautify the firmament. 
 
 Death brought tlie news, with him, who can prevaile I 
 
 And vaine are tears, for whose great loss we waile; 
 
 His death our losse it is, our losse his gaine. 
 
 In winning heaven, through loosing mortal paine. 
 
 But by his death, dyes noble Sussex race. 
 
 Which none can helpe, but God by his good grace. 
 
 And in the said legister it is thus entered; Robert Ratclijf our 
 Lord, the Honourable Earl of Sussex, Knight of the Garter, died at 
 London in Sept, and his lady, the Countess, died not long before, in 
 the year 1629; he left 
 
 Sir Alexander Ratcliff, Knight of the noble Order of the 
 Bath, his adopted heir unto this manor, who was descended from Sir 
 Alexander Rateliff of Ordsalt, Knt. grandson to Robert Ratcliff, tlie 
 first Earl oi Sussex of that name, which Alexander died in 1548, leav- 
 ing by Alice, daughter of Sir John Booth, one son, viz. Sir William 
 Ratcliff of Ordsall, Knt. who married Margaret, daughter of Sir 
 Edmund Trafford, by whom he had Sir Jo/(h Ratcliff oi' Ordsall, Knt. 
 who was killed in the engagement against the French at the isle of 
 Rliee, Oct. 29, 1627, leaving by Anne, daughter of Thomas Ashow, 
 our Sir Alexander Ratcliff, who was made Knight of the Bath at the
 
 520 ATLEBURGH. 
 
 coronation of King Cliar/cs I. and married Jane, the natural daugh- 
 ter of Robert Earl of Sussex ; she outUvcd him, and after married 
 Dr. Leuis; he left it at his death to 
 
 John RATCLiri', Esq. his eldest son, who sold it to 
 
 Sir Francis Bicki.ey about l(i57, who was bnried in a vault of 
 his own making, in IMoitimcr's chapel in the year 167O, leaving 
 
 Sir Francis Bickley, Baronet, iiis son and heir, whose son. 
 
 Sir Francis, had three wives;' by Debora, daughter of Sir Cor- 
 nefiiis reniitii/clcii, Km. he had Sir Francis Bickley, Bart, now 
 living, who sold tlic estate to 
 
 Sir James Ash's mother, who left it in trust to Mrs. Mart/ JViiid- 
 ham, for the use of Sir James Ash's male issue, but that failing, it 
 came to 
 
 Joseph Windham Ash, Esq. who is now [17i>7] lord and sole 
 patron. The advowson of the third part being purchased by JNIrs. 
 iVindham, of Sir Algernoon Potts. 
 
 The style of the court is, Atkburgh Hall with its members. The 
 fines are at the lord's will, and the eldest son is heir. 
 
 The Warepouml, or Frowich court, is the superiour court, all the 
 other manors being held of it;^ it is always kept on II hitsiindai/, 
 very early in the morning, by a tree which was on a hill in the street, 
 (but is now cut down,) and is commonly called the iScoldiiig Court, 
 it being obliged to be over and done with before sunrise, according 
 to custom, or else the whole rents of the court are forfeited for that 
 year. In the 38th of Queen Elizabeth, Robert Earl of Sussex paid 
 l6d. for the manors in this town, held of this court, and Cr/. for the 
 college lands, which are held of it also, as are several of the capital 
 iiTcssuages, by the rents of pence and halfpence only, the whole being 
 freehold, and the rents amounting in all to 2*. Q.d. ob. This always 
 belonged to the hundred o\' Shropham, as it now does, together with 
 the /ec/s of the whole town, its hamlets, and whatever belong to the 
 manors of this town lying in Besthorp, for all which the annual leet 
 ■fees, joined together, are (h. 4d. ob. a year. The lord of the hundred 
 hath also a hundred court belonging to this town, to be kept every 
 three weeks, with full power to end and determine all suits, and pleas 
 of debt not exceeding 40s. in which any resident in this town is con- 
 cerned, and power to lev}-, in as ample a manner as the county court: 
 to him belongs also the market, which is held on Thursdaij, and was 
 formerly remarkable for the number of fat bullocks and sheep which 
 used to be exposed and sold here every other market day, but now 
 this is wliolly lost, and the market itself is very near it; there are 
 three fans kept every year, the first on Maumhj Thursdai/, but by 
 what authority, or to whom it belongs, I know not; the second on 
 Aseension-Dai/; this belongs to Mortimer's manor, being granted in 
 1310 to Sir Constantine Mortimer ; the third belongs to the lord of 
 
 ' His second wife was Mary, daughter ried, and hath issue; his third wife was 
 
 of Sir Humphry Winch, by whom he widow of Pointer, by whom he had ne 
 
 liad three sons now living, Capt. John issue. 
 
 Biclcley, the Rev. Mr. Humpliry Bick- " The Originals whence the following 
 
 ley, now rector of the two parts of Ailc- accounts arc extracted, are all in my 
 
 biii^li, both single, and Mr. Joseph own hands. 
 Bickley, w ho is iettled in Virginia, ;nar.
 
 ATLEBURGIL 521 
 
 the hundred, with which it was given to the Alhanys, and is kept, 
 according to itsinstilution, on the loth day o[' August, it being the day 
 of the dedication of the ciiuich, and of tiie iiolding tiieir great gild, 
 both which were dedicated to the iionoiir of liio Assumption of the 
 Blessed firgin Man/, which is commemoialed on tiialday. In UioG, 
 Robert mitun of />/%, E>q. (lord of the hundred) let unto//ff«m 
 hickley, (lord of the manor,) for 21 years, at the rent of lO.s. a year, 
 " a weekley, free and open markett in the towne oi Attkbuigh, on 
 " Thorsday in every weeke, and alsoe one faire yearly, gc'every 
 " yeare to be holden there, upon the l,3//< day of Aug: and also free 
 " liberty of picage and stallage, in and upon the wast grounds, in 
 " the street called the Tonn-street, in Attlchuigh, from the signe of 
 " the Angell, to the signe of the Slarie, on the one side of thellreet, 
 " and from the signe of the GriJ/iii, to the tumingof the wall of the 
 " chuichyard, over-agaiiist the signe of the Stane, on the other side 
 " of the street, and for the setting up of penns and stalls, 8c for the 
 " buyeing, selling, and vending of all manner of provision for food, 
 " and for sale of any other commodities whalsoever, &c. and also all 
 " benefitts, protitts, iJCc. coming or acrucing by the said markets and 
 " faires, and of the stalls, penns, standings, and places there; and also 
 " free liberty of using the pound, erected upon the wast ground in At- 
 " hbitrgh aforesaid." The lord of the hundred hath all felons goods for- 
 feited, assize of bread and ale, a tumbiell, or ducking-stool, (which is 
 but lately decayed,) weyf and strey, free-warren, liberty of the game, 
 fugitives goods, and all forfeitures, besides other privileges, all which 
 were confirmed in Queen Elizabeth's time, when the hundred was in 
 her own hands, as appears by an inquisition taken before He/iri/ 
 Blake, Gent, the Queen's steward of her liberty and hundred of 
 Shropham, in a general hundred court lieH at Kelelbrigge, upon the 
 Oaths of Ji/(7/«rr/ Coo/.-, and many others, who swore that the Queen 
 in right of her liberty and hundred of Slirof>liam, and also her farmers 
 and bailifTs of the same, have, and immemorially have had, the supe- 
 riour jurisdiction over all the commons, wastes," heaths, and marshes, 
 together with the liberty of driving them, and taking all strays found 
 tliereon, in the towns of Atkburgli, Beslhorp, llarpliam, lliibi/, Siiit- 
 terton, Illiiigton, Larling, S/trop/tam-Parva, Breckles, Rockland, 
 Ellinghavi-Magna, Rowdham, Brctlenham, Kilverslon, &c. and also 
 all outlaws, fugitives, and fielons goods, and other forfeitures; and 
 also a court leet in each town, with full power to compel all residents 
 to suit and service to it, once in a year, and to present and punish all 
 oflences punishable in a leet, as well touching the said commons, 
 ■wastes, heaths, and marshes, as other things, and to punish all false 
 commoners and surchargers of the commons; all which liberties re- 
 lating to these towns were returned by the Queen's mandate, upon 
 inquisition as aforesaid, because the lords of these manors began 
 within '20 j'ears last past, to claim and usurp witiiin their several 
 manors, the liberty of gaming, and punishing false commoners, and 
 surchargers, and other liberties, upon whieii the Queen brought actions 
 against the Earl of Sussex, then lord of Mnrtiintrs in Atlcburgli, Tlio. 
 Green, gent, lord of Harphum, Ralph Chaumberlei/n, Knt. lord of 
 Moyncs, and Kirkhallm Rockland, the heirs of Anthony Gurnuy, Esq. 
 lord of Elingham, the lord of Snitlcrton, Robert Allington, lord of
 
 52« ATLEBURGH. 
 
 Larling-Ford, the lord of Bretenham, &c. but they acknowledged her 
 liberties, and obtained their discharge. 
 
 THE GREAT RECTORY MANOR 
 
 Belongs to the rector of the greater part, or the two parts of Ath- 
 bur<rfi, and the rector thereof now is, and liis predecessors always were 
 lords of it ; the present rectory-house, wliiih joins to the south side of 
 the churchyard, is the site of it, and it hath 10 acres of glebe land, 
 the only remaining part of its ancient demeans, tlie rest being now 
 held by copy of court-roll. 
 
 The Customs are, that the eldest son is heir, the houses are at the 
 lord's will, but the land is a set fine of 2s. an acre. 
 
 THE LITTLE RECTORY MANOR 
 
 Belongs to the rector of the lesser or third part of Atkhurgh, and the 
 present rector now is, and his predecessors always were, lords of it; 
 the site of it is now down ; the close in which it stood contains three 
 acres, and is all that remains of its ancient demeans. The Customs 
 are the same as the great rectory manor. 
 
 And now having given my readers an account of the several manors, 
 I shall proceed to 
 
 The Church, which is dedicated in honour oi ih& Assumption 
 of the Blessed Virgin, though there is no part of that church which 
 was first built here now standing, but the tower only, and that not so 
 high as it was originally ; the antique Gothick arches, which are to be 
 seen in the bell-chamber shew us its antiquity, and that the bells were 
 never designed to be hung there ; it seems to me, that it was first re- 
 duced to the collegiate form, when the chapels were founded, and the 
 old chancel of the parish church taken down, and its nave converted 
 into a quire, Mortimer's chapel on the south- side, and Chunticleres 
 on the north, making two handsome transepts ; and at the foundation 
 of the college, it is apparent, that the present parish church, viz, the 
 nave, two isles and north porch, was begun to be built, and was not 
 finished till some time after. Who was the founder of the first church 
 we know not, but the first alteration that was made in it was by Sir 
 IVilliam de Mortimer, w ho founded the south chapel for his own in- 
 terment, and it is highly probable, made the nave of the old church 
 into a quire, and new topped the Steeple ; because after his foundation, 
 service w-as performed after the collegiate manner ; this was finished 
 before 1297, in which ycai' he died. The north chapel v/as founded 
 afterwards by Thomas Cliniiutidcr, who was buried in it in 1379; and 
 •when the college was founded, the parish were entirely excluded 
 from the old parish church, and that was appropriated for a quire, 
 ibr the use of the college only, and in recompense thereof the founders 
 of the college, their friends, and other pious benefactors, built the 
 nave and twx) iles, for the use of the parish only, and so the quire, 
 because it belonged to the college only, was given with it by King 
 Ihnry Vlll. to Robert Earl of 6'us.stjr, who was then lord, who being 
 of a covetous disposition, w as so far from sparing the building, that 
 
 L
 
 ATLEBURGII. 523 
 
 (as the Parish Register informs me) he not only pulled down, and 
 spoiled the chancel, but also pulled up many fair marble grave-stones 
 of his ancestors, with monuments of brass upon them, and other fair 
 good pavement, and carried them and laici them for floors in his 
 hall, kitchen, and larder-house, where they were lying, when the ac- 
 count was inserted in the Register; and besides this he got fourteen 
 crosses, and as much town plate as was then worth above 100/. from 
 the church, and by this means the chancel was reduced to ruins^ as 
 we now see it. 
 
 The rectories of this church are in Norfollc archdeaconry and 
 jRocA/awf/ deanery ; the two parts, or the greater part, is valued in the 
 King's Books at ly/. 8s. (jd, and pays first fruits; and 1/. 185 10^/. ob. 
 yearly tenths. The lesser part, or the third part, was valued at 
 8/. 2s. 6(1. but being sworn of the clear yearly value of 42/. 3s. only, 
 it is discharged of first fruits and tenths. 
 
 The greater part or the two parts annexed, otherwise called Hamo)i's 
 Portion, from Ilamon de JVairvii, who was rector of it at its taxation, 
 when Norwich Doinesdati Book was compiled, had Sir Robert de 
 Tateshale for its patron; the rector had a house and 27 acres of glebe, 
 and IVilliamde Mortimer was patron of the third part, and its rector 
 had a house also, and 27 acres glebe; the greater paid 18rf. synodals, 
 and the lesser Is. besides their procurations to the archdeacon. In 
 l603, there were4i0 communicants, and now [1737] there are about 
 600 inhabitants; it paid 7/. to the old tenths, and is now assessed at 
 199y/. 3s. 4f/. to the land tax. The gild of the Assumption, and that 
 of the Holij Cross, were the only gilds here. 
 
 RECTORS OF THE GREATER TART. 
 
 In King Richard the First's time. Walter Persiin, clerk. Maud, 
 daughter of Jidam. 
 
 In King John's time. Lawrence de Sco. jllbano ox (of St. Alban's). 
 
 ISOLDA DE ARDliRNE. 
 
 In King Henry the Third's time the four following persons were 
 rectors, viz. 
 
 Godfrey Giffard. Hugh de Albany. 
 
 Feter Giffard, clerk. Hugh de Albany, 
 
 Master William de Shirezcood. Isabel, widowof 7/(/g/( de Albany, 
 in right oi' Plasscl's manor, which she holds in dower. 
 
 Haman de Warren, on Shirewood's death. The same Isabell, 
 who holds it in dower, remainder to Siv Robert de Tateshale. 
 
 1314, 13 kal. Aug. The Bishop, by lapse, collated William, son of 
 Simon de Hedersete%cco]i\.e, to the two parts of Atlebiirgh, and dis- 
 pensed with his want of age. (This was during the contest between 
 the King and Sir William Bernak.) 
 
 1323, 13 kal. May, Gregory de Hedersele, clerk. Sir Will. 
 Bernak, Knt. 
 
 1324, iGkal. Dec. Will, dellcdcrsete, sub-deacon, was instituted at 
 the resignation of Gregory de Hedersete, who was instituted again, as 
 proxy for William, who being but 22 years old, was dispensed with 
 by the Bishop, who had license from the Pope to dispense with the 
 a<^e of any four clerks that he pleased, (of which this was the last,) 
 so that they were 22 turned ; the words in the dispensation to this 
 William are these, " Altendentes tue probilatis merita ac alia virtu-
 
 524 A T L E B U R G H. 
 
 " turn dona, quibus poUere dinosceris, in tantum quod fnictiim in cc- 
 " clesia. Dei afierre potoris in fnturum," &c. Sir Will. Bern ak, Knt. 
 
 1358, '25 February, Richard i/e Burton, [)iiest. Sir Ad a.m Clifton, 
 Knt. for this turn. 
 
 loGy, 29 May, John Sfampet, at the resignation of Jiichard 
 Gerland of Burton. The King, as guardian of the heirs of Sir 
 Comtantinc Clifton, Knt. deceased. 
 
 1404, 24 Juhj, Sir Peter Liverych of Gerboldesham, priest. Mar- 
 garet Clifton, for this turn. 
 
 143S, 10 April, Ralph Lord CrumweU, Knt. was patron of two 
 turns of tiie two united parts, and S\r John Clifton, Knt. in right of 
 Margaret his mother, (who presented Leverych,) hail i\\v third turn, 
 and now tlie Lord Crumicell granted his advowson in llie two turns, 
 to John de Ratdifff, Knt, and Thomas his son, and his heiis for ever. 
 
 1441, 12 Decent. Master JVilliam Russell, B. D. was instituted into 
 the two parts of the church oi Atleburgh, commonly called Hamon's 
 portion, at Leieri/ch's death. Tiio. de Ratclyf of Landzcade ia 
 Cambridgeshire, son of John Ratclif, Knt. deceased. 
 
 1456, 2 August, Master Tho. Fairclowe, S. T. P. on RusseTs death. 
 Lady Alice Ogaed. 
 
 1470, 30 April, John Ilykoo, on Faircloto's death Sir William 
 Hastyng, Knt. Lord Hasty ng. Sir John Save, Knt. and John 
 Grene. 
 
 Eduard Botke. 
 
 1516, 24 October, George Policy, or Pooley, on Boothe's death. 
 Lady Margaret Fitz-\\ alter. 
 
 1540, 15 December, Master John Williamson, clerk, on Pooley s 
 death. Robert Earl of Sussex. In 1554, it was united to the third 
 part, so that he was rector of both. He had been master of the 
 college. 
 
 1565, 28 April, William King, M. A. Thomas Earl of Sussex. 
 Henry Baide, or Barde, S.T. P. He had the other part. 
 
 1581, 8 March, John Rawlins, on Baide's resignation. The Earl 
 of Sussex, united the same day to the lesser part. 
 
 1614, 30 Nov. John Forbie, S.T. B. Richard Hunt, S.T. B. he 
 had the third part. 
 
 1638, 29 Decern. Henry Nerford, S. T. B. Tho. Pettus, Esq. he 
 had the third part. 
 
 1683, 31 Jan. Richard Bickley, A.M. Francis Bickley, Bart. 
 united to the third part. 
 
 1708, 22 Decern. The Rev. Mr. Humfrey Bicklet/, the present 
 [1737] rector, on Rich. Bickley's death. Sir Francis Bickley, Bart. 
 
 RECTORS OF THE LESSER, OR THIRD PART, 
 
 COMMONLY CALLED WESTKER. 
 
 1295, Jeffery, son of Walter de Hengham. 
 
 1306, prid. kal. June. John Le-Courzun of Carleton. Sir John de 
 Thorp and Alice his wife. 
 
 1320, 5 non. Mai/, Oliver de Mounpynson, priest, on Curzoun^s re- 
 signation, who changed this for Tatersel St. Andrew. Ditto. 
 
 1349, "'July, Robert Taylour of Atleburgh, priest. Sir Const. 
 Mortimer, Knt. 
 
 1374, 3 Jim. Simon Ilowissoiie of Skultoiij priest, to the rectory of
 
 ATLEBURGll. sij 
 
 the third pan of Athburgh, commonly called Westker. Sir Robert 
 
 BE MoRTIMKR. 
 
 1381, 30 iJf cm. Jo/i;» If'aiba/d of Scoit/loii, \mcst. Dillo. 
 
 }3(J3, r, Ff/j. John (ioudi-ich oi' yjifcfmra/,, priest. Margaret. 
 relict ot bir Kobeiit Mortimkh, Kiil. 
 
 1424, \(J Mau, Thomas Cove, on Coilerich's resignation. John 
 riTz-KAurr,Ls(]. ** 
 
 I44«, 30 Xov. Jleiir,/ ^ijlhytig, on Core's death, to IVcstkei. Wil- 
 liam Warnar, i:sq. 
 
 1451, W.lim. Thomas Aluar, on Si/thi/ng\i resignation. Dillo 
 
 1452, 30 Oct. ICaltcr l'am,/ii. John" Con ykrs, lisq. 
 1470, 17 Marr/i, John liadi/i/f, on I'ami/n's dcalli. Ditto. 
 'ii'2-i, 30 June, Richard C/<ii/(l,oi, on /v«r/<7y//'s dcalli. Liipsc, li.> 
 
 was brother to Jo UN Claypon, master of iht" college. 
 
 AlanU'hillarke. Mr. KonERT Tk.n. and John Sotheeto.v, 
 lor this turn, by grant of y/;////o/(j/ Guniai/, Esq. 
 
 1536, 2() Nov. .Stephen Preuel, [or Protect, } on JVhitlarkes death. 
 
 1544, 19 March, Master ./o/(w IVilliamson, on Prewet's resignation, 
 James Undekwode, for this turn, by grant of Anthony Gcrnay. 
 Esq. true patron. He had the other parts. 
 
 Giiher/ licrke/ei/, S. T. P. Uishop of Balh and If'el/s; whe- 
 ther he had the other parts I cannot lind, nor yet his institution to 
 this. He was born in Norfolk? consecrated at Lambeth, 24 March, 
 1559,' had the temporalities restored ./w/y 10, 156o,dicd Nov. 2. 1581, 
 and is buried at IVclls ; I sui)pose he helcl this till 05 in commendam. 
 
 15G3,2Q Aug. llilliam King, A.M. rector of the rectory of the 
 two parts, was instituted into the third part at the presentation of 
 Christopher Heydon, Knt. in right of yJnlhom/ Guniai/, Es<]. 
 the vacancy happening liy the last incumbent's promotion to the 
 bishoprick of /ia//( and lle/ls. 
 
 Henri/ liaide, [or Parde,'] S.T.P. 
 
 1581, 8 il/«ri7(, ./o//7j liauli/ns, on Baide's resignation. IIe.vry 
 Gurnay, Esq. united to llie other part. 
 
 1G14, 21 J)ec. Ilcnri/ iVoniack, A.^Sl. Ditto. United to (irc/it- 
 Elingham, where he died in 1()28; he was ordained 5 Dec. 1589, and 
 John I'orbie, rector of the two parts succeeded, who died in 
 1638. 
 
 1C39, 27 June, Henri/ Ncrford, rector of the greater part, on 
 Forbi/'s death . E d w . G u r .\ a y , Esq . 
 
 1083, 31 Jan. liic/uird Bicklci/, A. Si. on NcrforiFs death. Fra.vcis 
 Bickley, Bart, united at the same lime to the greater part. 
 
 1709, 29 April, Tho. Pond, on Pickhi/'s death. Roger Potts, 
 Bart, perpetual patron. United to Elin<^hinn-Parva. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. EvanPonen, the present [1737] rector, 
 was presented by Mrs. Wi.sdha.m, after the advowson was pur- 
 chased of the Pottscs, and now holds it unitcil to Tasebiirnh. 
 
 After the division of the Mortimers estate, this advowson waj 
 •Hotted to John Fitz-liulf, a-- part of the inheritance of Margeri/ 
 Mortimer, his wife; and from that lime it |>a^sed with the manor of 
 
 9 Godw. de Prxs. 444. ■ Le Neve's Fasti, fol. 34. 
 
 VOL.1. 3X
 
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 ATLEBURGII. 
 
 EUngham Hall, as you may see at p. 483, from Fitz-Rafph to Cun" 
 yers, t'tom them to the JVarnars, and so to the (iitniai/s and Davi/s, 
 and after to the Pvtscs, who sold it to Mrs. Windham, who holds it 
 with the other manors and advowson. 
 
 The tower, which stands in the midst of the church, according to 
 the collegiate form, is square, and hath in it a clock and six bells, 
 the first, second, and fifth, have no inscriptions, on the third is this, 
 
 3jt iopctf) mc mudj), to jjoc to <6oO!» Cljurcti. 1617. 
 
 Church, Stede, Beane, \ These were at the charge of 
 
 Sporle, Rainols, Gil, Greene. 3 casting it. 
 
 On the fourth, 
 ©n not tticrc ^lach tljc, to ficpcnt tlje. 1G17. 
 
 Havercroft. 
 Pilgrim. 
 Thaine. 
 
 NoBBES. 
 
 Stalman. 
 
 Burgh. 
 Chamberlaine. 
 Osborne. 
 Thaine. 
 Haw E. 
 
 These were contributors; the 
 first parcel lived in Ilavercroft- 
 I street, and the next in Biirgk- 
 . street. 
 
 On the sixth, 
 gj toi^i) to Die, to Wot ijcabcnlp. 
 
 iGi: 
 
 William Beale, 
 John Allen, ' 
 John Strang, [ 
 
 Church-Wardens 
 
 ic, 
 
 (el 
 
 N. B. They have three 
 lurch-wardens annually 
 hosen at this time. 
 
 liohert oZarle o£ ^u?6Cf, 
 I'^enru ItorD j»it?-lDaltcr, 
 }f>tiil'P IWElict 2?aronft. 
 antljonn 5?rurp, l^tnt. 
 goljn i?orbie, ficctor. 
 
 Baeonsthorp. 
 P ^ jBarthelot, 
 °^^ ■ 1 Anderson, 
 f Beale, 
 Alex. < Venturs, 
 
 (.BURMAN, 
 
 Tho. Green, 
 John Halman, 
 
 Weslhar. 
 
 DoWE, 
 
 Hill, 
 
 Hastinges, 
 Webster, 
 Laite. 
 
 These were all contributors ; the second parcel lived in Bansthorp 
 hamlet, and the last in H estcar-street. Tlie nave, two isles, north 
 porch, south and north chapels, are now standing, and are all covered 
 with lead, the chancel, or quire, and a south isle which joined to it, are 
 in ruins. 
 
 Persons of note buried in the quire were, Sir Robert de Mortimer, 
 Knt. the founder of the college, who was buried in the middle, before 
 the high altar, in the year ].'387, close by the grave of illt/rgery Fasto/f, 
 his first wife. Sir Thomas Mortimer, Knt. and dame Mari^ his wite, 
 (of whom see p. 510, 311,) obijt May 2, 1406. Sir Joh?i Rateliff, 
 Knt. elect of the Garter, in 14'20. Hit John Rateliff, Knight of the 
 Garter, his son and heir. Katherine his widow was buried by him in 
 1452. Roger Rateliff, brother of the last Sir JoA«, and Philippu his 
 wife, some time after him, for whom was this inscription on a brass 
 plate,
 
 ATLEBURGH. 527 
 
 H^ic tarct tioocrttsS ll^atcdff, Srmigcr, ct JDJjiKipfl Ivor ein^, qui qiiibem 
 fiogcrusS obiit rui^ Die ©cccmbci.si {Inno ©ni. ni° r ccc° IftiP quorum ani- 
 niabu.ti propicictur iDcuiS. 
 
 Jy//« IJi/huo lector, in 1478. John Forbi/ rector in lG38. 
 
 Mortimer's chapel, which is on the south side, belongs to Mor- 
 timer's manor, and was founded by Sir William de Mortimer of 
 Kingston, Knt. (as you may see at p. 509,) and by him dedicated to 
 the honour of the Ih/i/ Cross, and afterwards rededicated to St. 
 Mary, as several wills shew me; he died 'Nov. 12, 1297, and was 
 buried in the middle of it, before the altar there, at which he founded 
 a daily mass, for his own and aiiccstours souls, and settled a compe- 
 tent salary on the officiating priest. In this chapel are buried. 
 
 Sir Cuustantine Mortimer, Knt. in 1334, by Catherine his first, and 
 Sibil his last wife, who died in the same year. Sir Constantine Mor- 
 timer in 1354, and Agnes his wife ; and Henry Inglose,^e^. for whom 
 there was this inscription under his arms, 
 
 <©rate pro anima IC^cnrici -Jnglope armiflcri, qui ofaiit yW hit 
 .^eptcmbriiS anno 5Domini m" ccccc jrbii" cuiUjS animc propitictur ©eu.si. 
 
 Chanticler's or Chanceler's chapel, which is on the north side, be- 
 longs to Chanceler's manor, and was founded by Thomas Chauntieler, 
 who was buried before the altar in it, in 1379, •m^l had a priest daily 
 singing at that altar, for his own wife's, and their friends souls. 
 
 Burials in this chapel are, Kathtrine, wife of the said Thu. Chaun- 
 tieler, Alice, their daughter and heiress, with Thomas de Brampton, 
 her husband, and Joan, his second wife : there was a stone, having 
 his picture in costly armour, with this inscription, 
 
 f)K iacct Sljoma.si 2?ranipton arniigcr, qui obiit -. -. ^ -. f ft f 
 m"cccc°I).T),r ct 3;oljanna Mm cui^i : - - - : -/ m°cccCli-):jr° '^xta 
 
 William Brampton oi Alleburgh in 1503. Edmund Berncy of Atle- 
 burgh in 1495. Elizabeth wife of Tho. Garret, Esq. Alice Warner, 
 and Robert Whetnal, alias Warner, for whom there was a brass thus 
 inscribed, 
 
 «©rate pro aninima ttoberti IDarncr ©cncro^i, qui ofaiit ^f 
 i)ic men.s'i.si |ioVicmbri|S a° ©ni: m°cccc Iffif' cuiu.si animc propitictur 
 <^eu^. 
 
 And also these, 
 
 J^ic iacet lElatgartta ©arntr IHlror fiofacrti IDarncr ©cncro.sii, que 
 
 obiit ni° 
 Die mtn.sia ©cccmbri.s" a° ©ni: m'ccccc" b' cuius! animc propitictur ©cuj;. 
 
 <0ratc pro anima llcnrici ©arncr armigcri, nupcr Dcfuncti, qui ofaut 
 )L7iii° aprili.s" m^ccctc"fif cuiu^ animc propitictur ©cus'. 
 
 l^lofacrtu^ !©arncr armigcr, ofaut 7""«0ct: anno ©m: 1575°. 
 
 On this stone are Warner's arms, quartered with Whetnall ; (see p. 
 497 ;) the crest is a plume of feathers. 
 
 There was another grave-stone robbed of all its brasses, but one coat, 
 viz. on a chevron three annulets.
 
 p28 
 
 ATLEBURGH. 
 
 The present nave and isles were begun by Sir Robert Mortimer, 
 founder of the college, about 137S, and continued by his grand- 
 daugbtors, and their luisbaiuls, and a great number of other benciac- 
 tors, as their arms and effigies in the windows shew us, it being not 
 perfectly finished till after 1405. The chief of the contributors were. 
 Sir liobcrt Mortimer aforesaid, John Ardernt, who was buried in the 
 church in 1479; Tlio. Brampton, Esq. and several of that family, 
 many of the different branches of the Mortimer family ; the Bishop 
 of yiorzcich; William at the Broc, chaplain, and divers more, particu- 
 larly the Lady Cecili/ Jlerling, Sir Jolin Fitz-Iialph, and others. 
 
 The following arms were in the windows, several of which now 
 remain, the rest being lost, viz. 
 
 ALBANY. 
 
 CLirrON. 
 
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 FITZ-WALTER. 
 
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 IIATCLIFF.
 
 ATLliHUKG II. 
 
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 WINGFIELD. 
 
 IIF.ni.INO. 
 
 CALTMOUIV 
 
 >• >• >• >• 4 
 
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 And these, viz 
 
 IIf.tiierset, az. a lion rampant or. 
 
 Kekdesto.n, arg, u sullire ingrailcd ^'m/. 
 
 Dbnton. Brami'ton. 
 
 MouLTON, ihree barrulcts in a hordurv gul. 
 
 Bacon of Bacomthorp, az. three boars passant or. 
 
 NoilWMII. IJOUTF.TOHT. 
 
 Tlie Bishopriik ufNonnch. 
 
 BREwsUjgu/, across inoliiie mtl'. 
 
 MoKTiMKH, or, semi de lleur-<le-lis, .vjfc. Tl>e same with a bor- 
 diire gul. Tlie same witli a bordurc ingraile<l gu/. 'Hie same xtith 
 a bendlel gobonne, arg. and gu/. llie same wuh a labil gul. 
 
 Mortimer of RiairtTs eastic, l>;irry ul" six, or and irrl, iJeurj-de- 
 lis counler-elianged. The same with barry of four onljr. 
 
 Az. a cross voided or. 
 
 Az. a chevron between llirec boars heads or, impalen Dbbwib. 
 
 Earl of Sussex quartering Boiiln luirl of Sorthumplon. 
 
 Az. a bar gobonne gul. and lerl, bi-twecn iJiree owls arg. armed <>r. 
 
 Arg. a lion rampant utb. arn)cd or, ou his shoulder a martlet or. 
 
 Gul. a fess and three plates in chief urjf. 
 
 Or, a saltire ingrailed uib. 
 
 Over the porch dot)r arc the arms of 
 
 Katcliff quartering Mortimer, and 
 
 Ratcliff ioipulingj cbcquy a chief flcury-dc-Iis, cut id itoDc.
 
 530 AT LE BURGH. 
 
 In one of tlic windows was an eftlgies of one of the \orrcich family, 
 kneelini; in his coat armour, with liis wife, and under them his arms, 
 impaling s«6. a lion rampant enn. and another coat of Mortimer 
 impaling Norwich. 
 
 In a north isle window is the effigies of a priest in a blue vestment, 
 kneeling on a broken label, under liim lies a man in winding-clothes, 
 at full length, to intimate that IVilliam at the Brook, chaplain, whose 
 effigies it is, was a benefactor to the church, glazed that window, and 
 was there interred; under him is this broken inscription, 
 
 [Oru/e] PRO: ANICOA: WILLI: At: ¥6: BROC: DAPeLLAM: QUI: 
 pANC: Ifenes} cRACD: CONStllUXIc. 
 
 In 1508, Jolin Ah/sainidtr o^ Attilhurgh was buried in the church, 
 from whose will I copied these Items : " I bcquelhe to the makyng 
 " of a new roof of the abbey church in Old-Uokthhcm, iiii. mark. 
 " Also I wyll that vi. acres of land of myne, called Lamppisgate, with 
 " the profights thereof cumynge yerly, I will thato6y/e be kepte every 
 " yer yerly, in the church of Attilliurgh for me and my friends for 
 " evermore, and 1 wyll that myn executors make this sure with the 
 " best councell they can gett." ^ 
 
 The organ or old rood loft is standing, on which are painted the 
 anus of all the bishopricks. 
 
 In Mortimer's chapel, against the east wall, is a mural monument 
 much defaced, which was erected for JOHN RAWLYNS, rector 
 of all the parts, of this church, whose arms, with those of his wife, 
 are on it, viz. 
 
 Rawli/ns, arg. three leopard's faces sab. impaling three grayhounds 
 current regardant sab. 
 
 JFui gioljanne^ iKatoljiniS, J)ortljaniptonieniSisJ, 
 
 Htlla ibiDcm pa.^toniaE oriunDuii, ^palbaniac in Com: Itimcoln: 
 
 <!EtiucatU!i, .JBoultonia: propc ibiDcni ctioctu.si, Coll: 5Pitii "Jolji.si: 
 
 in Cantab, illumnuiS, l^uiUiS (Gcdesiac utriuiSquc ficctonae per 33 anno.S 
 
 ISector, Eiortusi, piusi, pacatusi, i)\c p'Epultujn .Uiaii ii an" ©ni: 1()14, 
 
 €tat: 67. 
 
 Coclum m\])\ iam 2?ominlium. 
 
 lanicam lavtircm Ijabuit, nomine .IBariani, djaram, pru&entcm, frugi, 
 
 fiDclcm, l)ic 
 
 3;urta eum jiepultani, rchquit .Pilios' 4. J?iliajn 2. bene etiuratojii. 
 
 ^i quacn.si lector, ILapiD: qiiff Cau.sia loquenOi, 
 
 'Jnoeni: gjngenteii tijc tuimilantur <©pci^, 
 iHatolpngi HatiDCjii tiilii, Mia ora It auoabant, 
 J,i5cc ?litam fiincti, ^aya taccrc queiint. 
 armori^ ergo inscrip^it, %o]): [annes] ifor: [bie] Elector jSucceOeniS. 
 
 1620. 
 
 On the screens, 
 '.'.'.',',', IRartpn ct pro g;siabella ^vore ciujS *;<***;= 
 
 On an oval mural monument, over the vault, of black and white 
 * Regr. Spyltymer, fol. X20.
 
 ATLEBURGH. 53i 
 
 marble; crest on a torcc aig. aiul sab. a grayhound's head proper, 
 
 collared arg. 
 
 Bickley, arg. a chevron imballlcd between three griffins heads 
 
 erased sab. each charged with a plate. 
 
 FltANCISCUS BICKLBY Haronettusj pcne Nonagenarius, 
 unici Filij, et triuin Filiannn Siiperslitum, Triginta Ncpotuin, 
 Neptum, et Pronepotuin, Pater, Avus I'roavus: Cum Mortem 
 Appropinquantcin prospiceret, Cryptani banc Sepuichralem, 
 vivuseffodi fecit, in qua Filius ejus Supcrstcs, FRANCISCUS 
 BICKLEY Baronetlus (prout Pater staluerat) Exuvias ejus in 
 Spem Uesurreclionisdeposiiit, et Pietatis ergo hoc Monumenlum 
 extruxit, obijl undecimo Die Augusli, Anno Domini 1070.^ 
 
 There are two flat stones in this chapel, with these inscriptions, 
 
 1. Church, erm. a bend voided, impaling Bkkley. 
 
 AMY A Uxor TlIOMyE 67/07^67/, FiliaFrancisciBickley 
 Baronetti, nata Annis24. obijt .lulij Secundo 1688. 
 
 Omnibus, arnica, amata, desiderata. 
 
 Quis Desiderio sit Pudor aut 
 
 Modus lam Charae f 
 
 Sub hoc Marmore, in Spem beataj liesurrectionis, reconduntur 
 TO. Au-\>aiix DeborjE Bickley Filia; Conie/ij I'ermuyden Militis, 
 Uxoris Francisci Bickley Junioris, Fruiuisci Bickley Baronetti, 
 ex Francisco Filio primogenito, Nepotis, Qusc cum tribus Libcris, 
 Mariti Domum adauxerat, Dolore Puerperij correpta, Animam 
 piam placid(i Deo reddidit, Martij 6to. l6Gy. 
 
 In Chancekr's chapel, are two mural monuments, with the following 
 arms and inscriptions, 
 
 Bickley impaling Bickley. 
 
 Maria Bickley, Francisci Bickley Baronetti Filia, Richardi 
 Bickley hujus Ecclesite Rectoris Uxor, Pietatis, Obsequij, Amoris, 
 Humanitatis, et Charitatis, erga Deum, Parentes, Maritum, 
 Vicinos, Pauperes, Insigne Exemplar, diuterni tandem Morbi 
 Dolore fracta, nee minus Christiana; Patientia;, quam F'ormaj et 
 Ingenij Decus obijt, 24" Martij A° D. 1/07. In Sacrum cujus 
 Memoriam, Hoc, quicquid est Monumenti, lugens posuit Maritus. 
 
 Bickley quartering sab. a chevron between three roses arg. seeded 
 or. 
 
 RICHARDI BICKLI:Y, Qui ex Agro Warwicensi, ortus, 
 Etonee Velalarum, in eodem Agro, Literis bonis et Religioni 
 Purae, prima Rudimenla posuit, easdem, Cantabrigise in Col- 
 legio Sanctae Magdalena;, auxit fculiciter, et confirniavil ; inde 
 ad publicam Ecclesiaj Utilitatem emissus, banc demum Paro- 
 chiam Provinciam sortitus, vigili Cura, indefessa Diligentia, 
 ii'P(;»)f*o»'J5 xa' xa-ra. Ta^it, per Annos viginti quinque, mulla cum 
 Laude administravit, obijt Nov. 25. A. D. 1708. iEtat. 71. Me- 
 morias Sacrum, posuit, Testamento Debitum, Testamenti Pro- 
 curator, ex Sorore Kepos, DUDIEM ii* RIDER. 
 
 3 Le Neve, vol. iii. p. 88. ♦ Dudley.
 
 J32 ATLEBURGH. 
 
 On another mural monument. 
 
 Nerford, giil. a lion rampant org. 
 
 Beneath this wall, Henry Nerford, Batchelor of Divinitj-, 
 Rcetor of this Church, where he was Minister XLV Years, a 
 Man learned and Pious, a most obedient Son and Servant, of 
 the Church of England, his Mother, and a most Faithfuil Sub- 
 ject of the King, the Father of his Country, in Expectation of a 
 blessed Resurrection lie and the rest ; to whose religious Me- 
 morie Margaret Nerford, the Relict of his Nephew James Nerford, 
 frankely erected this Monument of Respect aiid Gratitude, l684.' 
 
 An under the monument lies a stone over him, with his arms and this 
 inscription, of the same purport as the former, 
 
 Henricus Nerford Tlieologitc Baccalaureus, hujus Ecclesise 
 Rector, cui praefuit Annos XLV, vir doctus, et pius, Ecclesia; 
 Anglieanae Mater, ejusdemque et Patriae Patris Filius et Servus 
 obsequentissimus, Resurrectionis beatifica; Candidatus, hie Re- 
 quiescit, ob. Jun. 4'"' An: 1684. iEt. sua: LXXXV. 
 
 I find only two stones with inscriptions in the nave; one is for uinne 
 wife oi John Burton, 14 Oct. l650. Hodie Mi/ii, Cras tibi. 
 
 The other hath a crest, an arm cooped at the shoulder, holding a 
 battle-ax. And these arms, on a chevron between three lions erased, 
 three serpents. 
 
 Here lyeth interred the Body of Capt. JOHN GIBBS, of the 
 County of Norfolk, Gent, died the 22d of October \G\)o, in the 
 48 Yeare of his Age, he married Elizabeth Pride, the Daughter 
 of Tho. Pride, Esq. and Eliz. Monk, the Daughter of SirTho. 
 Monk, by whom he had two Sons, John, and Christopher, and 
 three Daughters, Mary, Eliz. and Anne, Jolin, Mary, and Anne, 
 now living. 
 
 This narrow Space confines his dear Remaines 
 Whose glorious better Part, Survives and reigns. 
 Immortal Virtues now embalm his Name, 
 And fix him, high, in the great List of Fame, 
 The gen'rous Friendship that adorn'd his Mind, 
 Was boundless, as the Needs of humane Kind, 
 But where Relation did the Band indeai-e. 
 The Rays contracted, did more warm appear. 
 So good a Husband, Father, Brother, Son, 
 As tew have equal'd, none has e'er outdone ; 
 Such Charity thro' his whole Life was shown. 
 As made the Wants of other, seem his own. 
 His Soul so truly Brave, he knew no fear, 
 Ev'n Death it's self, made no Impression there, 
 'Tis true he yielded, but Death lost the Prize, 
 For he but stoop't, that he might higher rise. 
 
 P. M. S.^ posuit, Vidua Merens. 
 
 5 Le Neve, vol. iv. p. 41. * Piae Memoriae suae.
 
 ATLEBURGII. 533 
 
 Mr. Le Neve calls him the famous Capt. GihfAs; he was a great 
 gamester and horse-racer, in King C/iar/es (he Second's time « He 
 ' laid a wager of 500/. that he drove his light chaise, and four horses, 
 .. "P «"^ do^vn the deepest place of the DeviPs-Ditch.on Newmarket- 
 lleak which he performed, by making a very light chaise, with a 
 jomted perch, and without any pole, to the surprise of all the 
 " spectators. ' 
 
 There is a stone under the steeple much obliterated, but supplied 
 from the Register, viz. 
 
 « 'f If^^' i^rfa^az-rf Henderson, Ba.i\\e longe to the Lords here, a Man 
 ot i-eace. Love, and Truth always in Word and Deed, buried Feb 
 " 13, .S:tat. 69. 
 
 " Vivus sine Dolo, Mortum sine Morbo, yEternus in Calo." 
 
 On his grave-stone in the bell-room of the church. 
 
 Let evert^ Bell, his 1' raise thus tell. 
 
 On an old wainscot which stood in the church, Ratcliff quarters 
 Fttz-fValter, and Ratclif impales Herling. ^ 
 
 There is an altar-tomb in the churchyard for William Cokkell 
 Oct.22, 1729,iEt. 60. ' 
 
 Death from this World hath set me free. 
 From all my Pain, and Misery. 
 Ralph his son died Nov. 30, 1729. 
 
 This life is like a fading Flower, 
 Alive and dead, all in an Hour. 
 
 The following accounts are taken from the old Reo-ister of this 
 parish, which is a very particular one, it begins in 1552 T^hey are not 
 digested into a series of time, but are just as they follow one another 
 in the original. 
 
 1559, The town oi Attleburgh, viz. Market-street and Town-street 
 burned. ' 
 
 1605, Edward Barthelet, Esq. buried 27 Nov. a worthy gentle- 
 man, and justice of the peace, councelior at lawe, dwelt at the Hall, 
 and kept a good house there. 
 
 1612, Master Glaspole, alias Hamlet, was buried 26 Oct. he was 
 the Earle of Sussex's bailie, and dwelt in the Parke-Hall, and was the 
 Earle's forester there, he kept a worthie-house, as if the park had been 
 his own. 
 
 1614, 11 Mai/, John Ratclyns, rector, as well of the rectory of the 
 two parts, as of the rectory of the third part, a learned, godly, and 
 peaceable man was buried; "Terras multas emit, quas filiuset h^res 
 " cito vendidit, si qnicquam in ecclesiae vel pauperum usus reliquisset, 
 " hoc sine dubio permansisset : uxor aulem ejus postea diu \ i.xit sua 
 " pura viduilate, usque octogessimum letatis annum, et ultra, toto 
 " autem vitse tempore, et filijs alijs suis beiiigiiissima, et annos per- 
 " paucos ante mortem, suo visu pcrempto, coecitatc permansit, manus 
 " autem suas in pauperes semper extensas habuit, ingcnio etiani et 
 " memoria acutissima, sicut longevam aetafein suam \n foclicitate, et 
 " charitate, tandem diem clausit, ob. 23 Jul. 1639, -^Etat91'." 
 VOL. I. 3 Y
 
 534 ATLEBURGH. 
 
 l6l5. The parsonage was repaired by John Forbie, to above 200 
 marks charge, who set up the Bishoprick's arms in the church, and 
 those of the colleges. 
 
 1615, 10 June, JVi/ndham was burned, being set on fire by ro-nies 
 coming on that purpose to the town, and were there (the man and 
 woman) executed. 
 
 1617, This year, on May 5, the first, second, third, and fifth bells 
 were finished by JVm. Brend, bell-founder in Norwich, and so out of 
 four, there were now five bells, cost I(30/. 
 
 IG30, Maria filia venerabilis dignissimique viri, Alexandri Ratclyft" 
 Militifs, et Jana3 dignissima; ejus domina; et Uxoris, bapt. 22 Feb. in 
 capella apud aulani Atlebitrgensem, per me J. Forbie; deditque niihi 
 de suo beneplacito inexpectatam niercedem ct premium. 
 
 1618, Edward Barthe/et, Gent, and Man/ Miinilfurd, Gentw. were 
 married by J. Forbie, at Hoe by East Dearham, 18 Nov. their marriage 
 feast after kept at Atleburgh hall. 
 
 1623, A perfect terrier was made and delivered into the Bisliop's 
 registry, of all the lands, and of all the free and copyhold, belonging 
 to the rectory manors, with the rents, and number of court-rolls, and 
 other remembrances of the church and college, some time belonging 
 to the church, and also what was belonging to the rectory of the tliird 
 part. 
 
 In this j'ear a school was erected in the south isle chapel, the timber 
 for the seats of it, was given by the Earl of Sussex, and Sir Will. 
 Knevcf, and that for the top of the font now made. 
 
 Mr. Edmund Toiiclife, parson o( 3Iorlie, gave the standing lec- 
 lunie there, for the dictionaries. One Mr. Hathe of Triniti/ College, 
 Cant, was the first schoolmaster, one Mr. Parlet the next ; the town 
 voluntarily allowed 4I. per annum, out of their town lands. 
 
 IG28, Against Easier, a communion cup was made. 
 
 1628, July 15, was a Gild new erected by four young bachelors 
 of the town, and kept at the college-house, of above twenty meases 
 of persons, and the poor then well relieved. 
 
 1626, It was continued by four widowers of the town, and held 
 where the old gild-house was, at the west end of the parsonage-close, 
 at Mr. Duffield's, the poor well relieved. 
 
 IG30, It was holden on Midsummer day, and one Mr. James of 
 Eccles, then the high-constable, and one Mr. Robert Allen of Great- 
 Elingham, were two of the four heymasters, who for their own good 
 credit, and our town's gild, procured guests, that there were thought 
 to be 2000 people then there, they could not half sit and dine there, 
 but were constrained to go into the town, and there could not be of 
 that sudden, meat enough provided for them ; it was said that they left 
 no bread in town by two o'clock, only bcare was plentiful : there was 
 no outrage or disorder of the companye. We began all these good 
 meetings with solemn prayers in our church, and a sermon, &c. 
 
 RECTOR ECCL^SIyE AUTHOR GUILD/E. 
 
 The town of Barnliam-Broome hath thus holden a gild with them, 
 with much good company and merry meeting, and tiieir sermon was 
 ever rewarded, and moreover in this year Mr. Legat, the minister 
 who preached there, hiid a gold ring given him by the heymaster, 
 worth above 20s. The motto was, Legatus Christi,Fatronus Festi.
 
 ATLEBURGH. SS5 
 
 1631, The church was well repaired, and decently batteled. In 
 lG32, the wooden top of the cross in tlie chiirch-yard, was made by 
 John Forbie, clerk, by the appointment of the Bishop of Noiwich, on 
 the top of the side towards the cliurcii. Crux Chrhli, Sa/iis Muiidi. 
 On the standing part^ Christuspro Nobis passiis. On the transverse, a 
 wounded hearl, and hands wounded with the nails, Ecce ! Quanta 
 pro Te pertulit. On the back side, towards the east. In Christo 
 Spero. On the standing part. Si compatimur, conregiiahimiis. Then 
 on the transverse, Reliijuit nobis Exemplum. The globe was set up 
 to signify the heavens, coloured with blue, with stars and clouds. On 
 the equator circle, Aspiremus pennansurii /Eterna. The lower part 
 coloured green, to signify the earth, with trees and flowers on it. 
 Quid tumultuamitr ? Peritura possidenms. 
 
 1633, The new organs were brought into tlie church from Squire 
 Buxton's oiTybbenham Cuunons, which cost lO/. there, and ]()/. more 
 to take them down and set them up here, purchased by the parishion- 
 ers' voluntary gifts; and 9/. a year was voluntarily subscribed, for 
 Mr. Lesingham the organist, of which Sir Alexander Ratcliff, lord 
 and patron, allowed 40.s. a year, and the rector 40.?. Sec. 
 
 1636, The communion table was placed, &.c. as it now stands. 
 
 1642, Tho. Downes, aeniov, gravi morbo loesi cerebri diu afflictus, 
 postquam Dei Opt. Max. beneficio integrum convaluit, pulvinar 
 panni viridis, fimbria holocerica et fibulis ad angulos appensis deco- 
 ratum, in grati pijque animi indicium Deo et Ecclesia: dono dedit. 
 
 1617, Divers mortuaries paid, (as they now are, according to the 
 statute.) 
 
 1619, Mr. John Littleproud, a young man, lately in priests orders, 
 for the help of his living, being but a grammar scholar, was buried 
 Nov. 1. 
 
 1623, April 14, Joan, wife of John Allen, was buried, and had so 
 great a number of people, that the church could not contain them, 
 very many treated at the Griffin, &c. 
 
 1623, One Porter a butcher, and an honest man of Windham, 
 being at church on Whitsunday, June 1, as he was kneeling at 
 prayers died suddenly, 
 
 " Quisjam non foelicem et beatum obitum fecisse eum dicat?" 
 
 Mr. John Chamberlune, a very loving and honest gent, of good 
 estate here, and elsewhere, and otherwise rich, dwelt sometime here, 
 removed to Bridgham, thence to liarue in Siijf'. died on IVhitsuuday, 
 and was buried at Bridgham, June fi, he seemed a little corrupted 
 and addicted to the world, and his gain, through an executorship he 
 had with one Mr. JVriglit of Larling, who might move and draw him 
 more in that manner, than otherwise it is like he would have been : 
 he was in his owne nature a very honest man. 
 
 Auri sacra fames, qucm non insatiabilcm reddas ? 
 Misere mortuus est Midas. Is'oli imitari. 
 
 1624, 13 April, Tho Thaine of Burgh-street, near 100 old, buried. 
 
 1625, King James, our gracious, peaceable, and ihe most learned 
 prince in all Europe, died at Theobald's, March 27, having then 
 reigned in England 22 years and three days, it was then Sundai/e, and 
 about 11 o'clock in the forenoon, a blessed time, when every cburcU
 
 336 ATLEBURGH. 
 
 was to be s\l their prayers, and at sucli time as his Majesty was ever 
 used to have a sennon in his presence at coiirtj he had a sermon ia 
 court every Sunday and Tiiesaai/, and so caused many an excellent 
 preacher; the preacher was always appointed by his cou;'se, out of 
 Cambridge, while he was at Newmarket or lioistoii, or near Cam- 
 bridge : his Majesties ^speeches were always admirable, it might be 
 truly said of him as in the Gospell, never man spake an llm man speak- 
 et/i ; he was the England's Solomon, and so was his funeral sermon 
 intituled. 
 
 I6i5, ^ug. 11. Then was buried M«/y wife of Gilbert Greene, 
 hoastess of the Cock, who knew how to gaine more by her trade than 
 any other, and a woman free and kind for any in sickness, or woman 
 in her travel! and child-bed, and for answering for any one's child, 
 and readie to give to any one's marriage. 
 
 Mr. John never died here, carried and buried in St. Gregorie's 
 church, Norzt'ich, which he had much adorned. 
 
 Phillip Coullier, yeoman, dwelt at Windham, died Dec. 24, 1625, 
 ■worth \O0l. per annum, he cloathed every Christ mass (long before his 
 death) twenty poor children, from head to foot, he rebuilt all the 
 houses for the use of the poor, that were burnt in the fire oi Windham, 
 and left a gift for ever to cloath and feast, so many poor children 
 every Christmas. God grant it be kept and done; ii. Cor. 9. 15. 
 Now thanks therefore be unto God, for his unspeakable gift ; so I 
 preached here of that. John I'orbi/. 
 
 1G27, John Jlleu a very good townsman, buried 22 -^ug. This 
 wished to be on his gravestone : 
 
 Hie in Ecclesia consepultus est Johannes Alien, una cum 
 Palre & Matre Suisque duabus Uxoribus, prudens, fidelis, pius, 
 pacatus, et Oppidanus benignissimus, Omnibus in vita amabilis, 
 in Morte desiderabilis, Corpore hie tumulatus, Anima Coronatus, 
 ad gloriam resurrecturus. Ml. 63, Aug 22, A. D. 1627- 
 
 Hie in Ecclesia Domino obdormit Will. Beale, Gravitate 
 Senex, Senectute prudens, Oppidanus providus. Vita plus et 
 pacatus, paium rigidus &. raorosus, sed Pauperibus benignus^ 
 coelestem Gloriam auspicaturus, TEt. 80, Jan. 1 1, 1620. 
 
 Upon old John Dozce, an unprofitable townsman, of great estate in 
 land, and yet not worth a mortuary at his death in goods. 
 
 John Dowe an antient townsman, was buried in divers Years past 
 
 before. 
 And lyeth buried within the Church South Door. 
 
 De quo hoc verum Epitaphium haberi posset. 
 
 Here lyelh the DOWE who ne'er in Life did good. 
 Not would have done, tho' longer he had stood, 
 A Wife he had, both Beautifuil & Wise 
 But he ne'er would, such goodness exercise. 
 Death was his Friend, to bring him to his Grave, 
 For he in Life, Commendam none could have. 
 
 Mr. John Hare, Richmond Herald, saith in a letter of his, that 
 this Johu DoiDe married Aime, daughter of Thomas Cockett, sister to
 
 ATLEBURCfH. 537 
 
 his great-grandfather Froxmere Cocketl, of Bromesthorp ; she outlived 
 him, and was very charitable to the poor, and a benefactress to the 
 church of Atilburgh, where she was buried in 1626, and her husband 
 in 1620. 
 
 The epitaph which I sent to Mr. Tho. Weaver, for Mr. John 
 Weaver's gravestone in St. Gregory's church Norwich, 
 
 Hie consepultusjacet Johannes Weavers, Norwicensis, Com- 
 merciorum hujus Civitatis Comportator Londinum versus, fide- 
 lissimus, eisdemq; Laboribus ditatus, Amicis amieissiinus, Servis 
 suis benignissimus, niiserritnis Misericors, hujus Ecclesiae Sti. 
 Gregorij, cum amicissimo turn suo Johanne treeman, per tres 
 annosUardianusexistens, banc ipsani Ecciesiam mirifice ornarat, 
 duosetiam hie constituithaberi annuosSermones in Dei Gloriam, 
 Suique meinoriam, Diebus nempe, Sti. Johannis Evangelistse, & 
 Johannis Baptistse, eisdemque, quibusdam terris dotavit, obijt 
 Atleburgh. pie & pacifice, Nov. 18, \Q'lo. Inter Coeiorum 
 Coelites inodo regnat. 
 
 1634, Aug. 7, Mr. Robert James of Eccks, High-Constable of 
 Shropham hundred, died, of whom there is a great character ; he 
 kept a good house, and always entertained the gentlemen that came 
 to the training in Eccks-Field: he died rich, and was buried in 
 Eccles church. 
 
 Seneca. Obijt viridis, et officia borii Civis, boni Anuci, boni Viri, 
 
 exercitatus estj ^c. 
 
 Johannes Forbye Clericus, Sacro SanctK Theologiae Bacc. cum 
 duarum, turn tertiae Partis Ecclesiaj Atleburgensis Rector, per 24 (vel 
 circiter) annos extitisset. Diem obijt novissimum in Sancto Festo 
 Innocentium, et consepultis jacet (prout antea statuisset)juxta Filiolas 
 ejus duas, in veteris Ka»x£>;ia Loco, quas ipsemet Superstes ibidem 
 inliumaverat ; sepultus erat 29 die Dec. hoc ipso Ao. Di. 1638. Anno 
 .£tatis suae Septuagessimae prope octavae. 
 
 1646, Gregorius Feltwell, Turmae Equestris Cap. Pell Miles. Sep. 
 Oct. 9- 
 
 Verses made by Edward Barthelet, on his Mother's Death. 
 
 My Mother now, doth in my Mother leye. 
 
 Death coucht her there, long longing for to dye. 
 
 Her Faith was firme, so fearles was her Death, 
 
 The Heaven* are Witness, which drew upp her Breath, 
 
 For while she lived, she lived a zealous Life, 
 
 And died, Turtell like Widow, matchless Wife. 
 
 1653, Sarah daughter of John RatcUff, Esq. and Sarah his wife 
 baptized. 
 
 1654, John their son baptized 15 July. 
 
 The religious concerned in this town were, the Prior of Bukenham,'' 
 to whose house Robert de Tateshale, the third of that n;une, gave a 
 fold-course for 200 sheep. In 1377, fVilliam Ketringham and others 
 
 ' Mon, Ang. vol. ii. fol. 275.
 
 538 ATLEBURGH. 
 
 conveyed laiuls here to the Priory, and tliere were many lands lield 
 of thel'riory manor wliicli laid in this town, both free and copyhold, 
 which in llie whole amounted to 2/. S»'. Sd. yearly rents, of which the 
 master of the college paid a free rent for land given to his house of 
 l6d. and there was the value of 45. lOrf. a year tithes, which belonged 
 to the Priorj' manor, for all which the Prior was taxed at 46s. 
 
 The Prior of fVi/mondliam was taxed for his temporals here \5s. 4d. 
 they were divers small pieces of land given to the monaster}' by the 
 Albantfs and Tateshales. The Prior of St. Faith's was taxed 15^. for 
 his temporals here. 
 
 The Terrier informs me that Mr. Neiford, late rector, founded a 
 free school, and endowed it with 61. jut annum in lands, and also 
 gave six two-penny loaves to the poor every Siitidai/, and tied the 
 Rev. Mr. Beaks's estate for it, that there are 30 pieces of town lands 
 besides College Close, all which are settled to repair the church, and 
 find its ornaments, for ever; and in the year 1()51, 1 learn from the 
 church-wardens account, it was then in the town's possession, though 
 they were forced to employ some of its produce to contrary uses, viz. 
 '' to Richard Laices for defacing the King's arms 6s." and it cost the 
 town a good deal to repair the seats heads which were defaced at that 
 time. 
 
 The College of the Holy Cross, otherwise called Atleburgh- 
 
 Chantry, 
 
 Was founded by Sir Rubert de Mortimer, who was buried in 1387; 
 he ordered Henri/ de Pakenham, senior, Simon, parson of Scoiilton, 
 and his other feoffees, to found and endow it," to the value of 2000 
 marks, which they received according to the will of Sir John de Mer- 
 lin^, Knt. and Sir John Fitz-Ralf, Knt. who had married the grand- 
 daiighleis and heiresses of the said Robert; and accordingly King 
 Henry IV. in the 7th year of his reign, [140.5,] for 100 marks paid by 
 the feoffees, granted them' license to build a chantry of the /yo/y 
 Cross in Atteburgh, for five chaplains,one of which was to be master, 
 who should daily officiate in the church of yl I It burgh, for the souls 
 of Sir Robert Mortimer, Knt. and Dame M argery his wife, 8cc. and to 
 amortise to the said chantry a messuage and 70 acres of land, 4 acres 
 of meadow, and C of pasture, in yJtleburgh, and the advowson of 
 Great Klingham, provided there be a vicar sufficiently endowed, and 
 a yearly sum of money given to the poor there ; upon which, the sur- 
 viving feoffie, by his deed, established it in the following manner, as 
 I find It entered in the parish register, fol. 74. 
 
 Simon, rector of Hcoulton, greeting. Know ye that Robert de 
 Mortimer, Knt. son of Sir Cunstanline de Mortimer, Knt. granted 
 and confirmed his manors of Scou/ton, Totinglou, and Stattjord in 
 'Noifolk, and liiirghlan, and Fojttone in Cambridgeshire, 1o Hugh 
 Di-ta-Souche, Tho. Shurdelotee, George Fetbii^, Knis. Tho. Cans, 
 Th>. Chaunteler, li ill. ut It'end, clerk, Henry de Pakenham, John 
 JV.jtts, and me, the a'brcsaid Simon, and our liens, on the following 
 conditions, viz. that we should hold them lo tl e use of him, the said 
 Robert, son of Constuntine de Mortimer, Knt and Dame Margery 
 his then wife, for term of their lives, and after their death, to me and 
 
 ' bee p. 512. ' Dug, Mun. torn. iii. ful, 142.
 
 ATLE BURGH. 5^9 
 
 the aforesaid feoffees, and the longest livers of them, till the sum of 
 2000 marks be raised out of tlie proKts of the said manors, which said 
 sum, after all reasonable expenses deducted, should go to found a 
 chapel in honour of tiie Holy Cross, in the church of Atlcburgh, and 
 a chantry of three priests to sing in the said chapel for ever, for the 
 souls of the said Robert and Margeri/, for which a license in mort- 
 main should be obtained, by virtue of which, there should be as many 
 lands, advowsons, tenements, or manors purchased, as would be suf- 
 ficient for the said priests, one of which was to be master of the chan- 
 try; ail the feoffees being dead but Simon, (who had obtained a 
 license in mortmain,) he the said Simon, according to the last will 
 and testament of Sir Robert Mortimer, Knt. founded the chantry 
 for five priests, of which one is to be citslos or master, who are all 
 bound by the said Sinioti, to pray for the souls of Sir Robert de Mor- 
 timer, Knt. and Daine Margeri/ his wife, and all their ancestors, and 
 to conform to the following rules, statutes, and ordinances, as they 
 are appointed by the said Simon, for ever to endure, r/r. 
 
 The four fellows are to obey all lawful commands of their custos or 
 m.aster. 
 
 The custos and chaplains to be perpetual, that is, not removed, un- 
 less for such causes as would deprive a rector. 
 
 All of them are obliged to reside in their college, or mansion-house, 
 and live together in commons, as in other colleges, and if any be so 
 old that they cannot serve, or be hindered by continual sickness, yet 
 they shall continue in their place, and be maintained by the college 
 during their life. 
 
 The master to have 60s. a year stipend, and every brother 40s. 
 
 With this proviso, that Simon S/iirrcve, now brother in the said 
 chantry, shall have 46s. 8(i. a year, for life ; the stipends to be paid, 
 half on St. John Baptist's day, and half on Christmas day. 
 
 The master and brethren to have every year a new cloth suit, or 
 10s. each. 
 
 The custos to be chosen by the fellows, and the major part of them 
 may choose any one, whether he be of the college or no ; and if they 
 elect two, the Bishop shall nominate which he will ; and after choice 
 is made, the college shall deliver him letters testimonial under their 
 common seal, which the first master elected shall carry to John Filz- 
 Rauff, son of Sir John Filz-Raiiff, Knt. son and heir of Margerif 
 Fitz-Rauff, late wife of the said John Fitz-Ranff, Knt. and their 
 heirs, (if tlicy be at Scoulton, and not else,) wlio thereupon shall 
 admit him master, and whoever shall be elected the second master, 
 shall go in like manner to the Lady Cecilif Harli/ng, and her heirs, 
 (if they be nl Jt/ebiirgh or East-Her/ing,nnd not else,) so that each 
 shall have turn in admitting the master, on condition that the said 
 Ceci/j/ will give all her part of Capek-Meadous in Atlcburgh, to the 
 college, otherwise she shall have no turn, but Fitz-Runff shall have 
 the whole; and after such admission, each master shall go to the 
 Bishop of the diocese, or his deputy, to be instituted, and ifi'7<r- 
 Rauff or Harh/ng, or their heirs, refuse to admit any master so 
 chosen, the Bishop may do it upon sight of the testimonial. 
 
 The master and fello'ws to find two wax tapers of e lb. each, to be 
 lighted yearly on the anniversaries of the said Rabcrt and Margery, 
 during the time oi Placebo, Dirige, and Mass oi Requiem, to be said
 
 j40 ATLEBURGII. 
 
 at the tombs ot the said Robert and Margery, and shall then give to 
 five poor people \3d. apiece, for the souls of the said Robert and 
 Marker I/. 
 
 The cusfos to have the sole management of all the revenues of the 
 college, boll) spirituals and temporals, giving an account to the fel- 
 lows every Michaelmas day, of all the feceipts and expenses of the 
 whole year. 
 
 And upon this, the college was built for their mansion-house; it 
 stood on the west side of the street, something lower than the N W. 
 corner of the churchyard ; there are no ruins, a new liouse being built 
 on its site, which is still called the College; at the Dissolution it was 
 diven to Robert Earl of Sussex, in 1341, and so became joined to the 
 manor; the advowson of it was in moieties, one belonged to the I'itz- 
 Raull's, and the other to Cecily lierlyng, her husbands, and her heirs; 
 (see p. 319.) King Henry Vlll. granted license to John Clei/don, 
 master of the Ho/i/ Cross chantry, and the fellows there, to appro- 
 priate the greater part of tlie church of Alleburgh to their college, 
 and also to purchase lands, tenements, or manors, of the value of 20/. 
 per annum, and settle them in mortmain ; and the Lord Filz-tValter 
 had license to settle the said advowson on the college ; but it was 
 never done, the Dissolution following not many years after. " In 
 " IJOG, Tho. Spencer, felowe of the colage of the Holj/ Cross in jlt- 
 " tilburgh, was buryed in the churchyard, afore the chapel door of 
 " the said colage.'" It was endowed with 21/. l6s. Sd. per annum, 
 at its dissolution, according to Mr. Dugdale; but among Mr. Le 
 AVre'* Collections, I find it valued at dOl.Os.id, ob. Iq. and that 
 the Lady Cressi was a benefactress to it.* 
 
 The wardens or MASTERS of the COLLEGE. 
 
 1417, 27 Sept. John Ri/kedon, priest, vicar of Elingham-Magna in 
 1415, was instituted master or custos of the chantry of the Exultution 
 of the IJoly Cross, newly founded in the church of Jtleburgh, being 
 elected by Sir Simon Schirreve, fellow, and sometime vicar of 
 Elinrrham-Magna, Sir Elyas SimoxNDS, and Sir Stephen Bacon, 
 brethren and "fellows of the said chantry, and by them presented to 
 the Bishop, according to the rules of the foundation of that chantry. 
 There went out no mandate for installation, but it was a common per- 
 fection or institution ; the said John paid xi. marks to the Bishop, 
 for the first fruits of the church of Great Elingham, which was ap- 
 propriated to them, as all the succeeding masters were obliged to do, 
 at their institutions. 
 
 1421, 10 March, Tho. Cove, bachelor in the decrees. Will. 
 MouNCY, and John Gildensleve, fellows. 
 
 1441, id. "Nov. The Bishop collated JoAw Spyrling, chaplain, to the 
 mastership of the chantry, by lapse. 
 
 1442, 17 June, Richard Fishere, chaplain, on Spyrling's resignation, 
 
 by lapse. 
 
 Robert Popy, on Fishere's resignation. 
 14G8, 20 Oct. John Cralle, or CraclJy, licenciate in the decrees, 
 on Popy's resignation. 
 
 • Regr. Rix. fol. 404. * Tanner's Notitia, p. 159.
 
 KILVERSTONE. 341 
 
 Thomas Draper. 
 1477, T/w. Draper chantred his mastership with John Fowlyn, for 
 the rector}' of Buxhall in iiiij)\)lk. 
 
 1485, 18 Aug. Powlyn resigned, and the Bishop collated John 
 Williamson, A.M. 
 
 1486, 21 Juli/, Williamson resigned, and 
 
 Peter Foslon, baclielor in llie decrees, was collated. 
 
 1519, 6 April, John Clai/don, on Foston's death. Lapse. He was 
 the last master, and subscribed to tlio supremacy anno ljJ4, with 
 William Brown and Robert Whyltel, chaplains here. He died ia 
 Febr. 1540. 
 
 In the year 1709, an act passed for continuing an act made in the 
 7th and 8th years of the reign of his late Majesty King Willium, en- 
 tituled An Act for the Repairing the Highwat/s between Wymondham 
 and Atleborough in the County of Norfolk, and for including therein, 
 the Road leading from Wymondham to lleliierset, over the Common 
 belonging to the said Town, by virtue of which, the tollgate on this 
 road was erected ; it was an exceeding bad road before the first Act. 
 There is a square stone pillar standing by the road side, thus inscribed, 
 
 " This pillar was erected by the order of the Sessions of the 
 " Peace for Noifo/k, as a grateful remembrance of the charity 
 " of Sir Edwin Rich, Knt. who freely gave the sum of 200/. 
 " towards the repair of the highway between Wymondham and 
 " Atleburgh, A. D. 1675." 
 
 And this is all that occurs to me concerning this town, unless the 
 fee farm rents which were paid to Mr. Parker, viz. for Atleburgh^ 
 Moor 13s. 4d. per annum, for Diteing-Hills \3s. 'id., for Horse-Drink- 
 Meadow 2s. (id., for Trim mill Is., but the mill being gone, the pay- 
 ment ceased. 
 
 KILVERSTONE. 
 
 CuLVERSTETUNA, CuLVERTESTHN A, Cu LVERCESTUN A, KyNAR- 
 
 DiSTON, KiLVERDESTON, and now KiLVERSTONE, isa small village 
 adjoining to Thetford, now wholly owned by Thomas pyrighl, Esq. the 
 present lord, to whoui I acknowledge myself much obliged for the 
 followin"- account of it, which 1 extracted from the evidences he was 
 pleased to lend me for that purpose. At this time there are no tenants 
 belonging to the manors, the whole being purchased in. 
 
 MONKS HALL MANOR 
 
 Was held in the Confessor's lime, by a freeman, under Sligand, and 
 contained a carucate and half in demean; it had a mill, tree fishery, 
 &,c. The whole being of 40$. value. The towa was then two leagues 
 VOL. I. 3 Z
 
 542 KILVER STONE. 
 
 long and two broad, and paid id. Danegeld? It belonjjed to the 
 Coiiqutror afterwards, and continued in tlic Crown till King Henri/ I. 
 gave it to 
 
 William de Albany, who married Maud, daugiiter of Rnfrer 
 Jiygot, who, upon her account, gave this manor to 
 
 The Prior of the monks of tiie Blessed Virgin Man/ in Thtlford, 
 ■which house was of Roger's own foundation; and accordingly 1 find 
 it relumed to the Exchequer, in Edtcard the First's time, tliat the 
 Prior of Thetford holds a carucate of land in Kiherstone , of the alms 
 of the Earl oi Arundel, as of his barony oi Bukenhum. I'he monks 
 had divers lands here, of other people's gift ; in ihnri/ the Second's 
 time, Eustace the priest held land of them as a tenant, which the 
 King confirmed among other things to the priory : and thus it con- 
 tinned till the Dissolution, and then was given, with the moiiiislery, 
 to T'lomas Duke of Noifolk and his heirs. In 1.3(i8, Thomas Duke of 
 'Norfolk settled on Sir Thomas Coriizcaleis, Knt Sir \icliolasL' Strange, 
 Knt. Chamberlain of the Duke's Household, Thomas Tipnptrleif, Esq. 
 Comptroller of the Household, JVilliam Barkir and Robert llickford, 
 Secretaries to the said Duke, and Edicard I'dicock, Clerk Comptroller 
 of the Household, the manor of Kciniiiighal/ ami hundred of Gilt-' 
 cross, the manors of Lopham, li'injarthiiig, and Hei/xoud, the site of the 
 dissolved monastery of rAe(/b;'rf and all its appurtenances, the manors 
 of llalwick, Nornick, Brt/es, or Brayes, Saiiton, Li/iiford, Croxton, 
 Munk's Hall in Kilvcrstoii, Rothenhall in Bretenham, and JVestwick, 
 with the appurtenances in Noifolk and .Suffolk, to the use of him the 
 said Duke for life, remainder to Philip Earl of Surrei/, son and heir 
 of the said Duke, begotten of the body of the Lady Mary late Dutchess 
 of Norjblk, one of the daughters and heirs of the Right Honouiable 
 Heiuy Earl of Aruudell, for life, remainder to the Lord Thomas 
 Hozcard, and the Lord Will. Howard, younger sons of the said Duke, 
 begotten of the body of the Lady Margaret late Dutchess of Norfolk, 
 sole daughter and "heir of the Right HouowMe Thomas yJzcdei'ey, 
 Knt. late Lord Awdeley of IValden, deceased, for their lives, to the 
 intent that the feoffees shall appoint proper persons of the Duke's 
 choosing, who shall pay the debts of the said Duke, with the profits 
 of all the premises, which they are to receive, during the lives afore- 
 said, till they are all contented and paid, and then the premises to 
 return to such persons as shall be then living, and entitled to them 
 by the intail, with remainder to the right heirs of the said Duke; and 
 soon after the feoffees, jointly with the Duke, by deed confirmed, 
 John Bltverhasset, H'illium Dix, l\ illium LantereU, and Laurence 
 Bannister, his trusty and well-beloved servants, and the survivor or 
 survivors of them, to take and receive the profits and pay the debts 
 and legacies of the said Duke, and fulfil his will. The Duke was 
 beheaded in the 14ih of Queen Elizabeth; and in the 26lh year of her 
 reis^n, the Earl of Surrei/, Lord Thomas, Lord William Howard, the 
 feoHecs and trustees, all joined, and sold it to 
 
 ' Terra Regis in manu Regis, (f. 33.) nihil, modo dim. semper i. mol. et i. 
 
 Serpehaiu Hand. Culverteituna, tenuit pise, semper »al. xl.sol. Totum liabct ii. 
 
 lib. horn. T.K.E. sub Stigando i. car. et leiig. in longo, ct in lat. qiiicunque ibi 
 
 dim. terre. semper v. vill. et i. ser. et leneat et vii.<^. de Gelto. totum liiind. 
 
 V. acr. prati. tunc in dnio. ii car. post reddit xl. et pertinct ad misterium God< 
 
 et modo i. bos tunc i. car. homin. post rici.
 
 KILVERSTONE. 543 
 
 Thomas Lovell of East-Herfhig, together with Rolhenhall in 
 tiretenhum, who. in 1585, sold it to 
 
 Sir Charles Cornh aleis, and YiamcAnne, his wife, and their 
 hens, wiio, in 1587, sold it to 
 
 Thomas Wright, Gent. oUVeeting, and his heirs. 
 
 In the year 1285, the Customs allowed to the manor belon-^inKto 
 the Trior otTketford in Kilverstone were these. ,ac, soc, loU, tliem, 
 infangentthef, view o^ frankpledge, and assize oH bread and ak; and, 
 till lately, the leet belongnig to it used to be l<e|)t. There is a fold- 
 course for 400 ewes, and 100 for the shepherd, and 250, which for- 
 merly belonged to the church, before the Prior of Batleu aliened if 
 Jt was fine certain, i7z. double the quitrent at every tenant's entry' 
 ll:e eldest son is heir, and they could not waste thei." cupyhold. The 
 lord of the hundred hath the superiour leet, which is held at the stone 
 cross every Wednesday -jihev Michaelmas day, to which all the resi- 
 dents do suit and service, and pay tlieir leel-fee of {Od. yearly; and 
 to it belong all weyfs, strays, felons goods, forfeitures, &c. " lliere 
 were above 200 acres of common and heath, on which the inhabitants 
 comnioned, but now every thing belongs to the lord. The Master 
 of Magde/en hospital in Tket/ord held above 26 acres near their 
 house, which laid in the bounds of this town, and the canons of 
 Ihetjord had lands here ; it used to pay 5s. 8d. per annum pro fine et 
 jeodo homagij. 
 
 COXFORD MANOR, 
 
 In the Confessor's days, belonged to Edric, and at the Conquest to 
 Robert Malet, lord of the honour oi Eye, and contained 2 carucates 
 of land, a free fishery, a mill, &c. but one part of it was then held of 
 the said Robert by Walter de Cadomo,* and continued divided till they 
 united in the Prior. The first part went to Ralfde Querceto, Cainelo, 
 or CAewe^^, who came in with the Conqueror; he gave it with Sibil, his 
 daughter, in marriage, to Robert Fitz-Walter, founder of St. Faitlis 
 at Horsham, to which monastery they gave two parts of the tithes of 
 their lands in this town, which were afterwards conveyed to Cokesjord 
 priory after they had the manor ; they were succee'ded by U itliam 
 de Cheney, their son, who left three daughters, two died without issue, 
 but Margaret married Hugh de Crescy, a Norman, and left Roger his 
 son and heir, who married Isabell de Rye, all whose sons diccf issue- 
 less, and the inheritance came to Robert Fitz-Roger, who married 
 Margaret, relict of Hugh de Crescy, and held this nfanor at a quarter 
 of a fee, and granted it for life to I it alls Enguijne, Jordan de Sitiike- 
 vile, and Clemence his wife, who, in 1217, released their rio-Jit to 
 
 ♦ Terre Robert! Malet, fo. 76. Seer- semper ii. rune, et iiii. anim. time ccc. 
 
 pham H. Ciilversietiina tenuit Edricus ovesmodocccxii. minus tunc, xviii. pore! 
 
 T.R.E. ii. car. terre semper iiii. vill. niodo iii. tunc et post. val. Ix. sol. niodo 
 
 ct I. bord. et iiii. ser. v. acr. prati et ii. Ixxx et i. car. posset esse. Gait, de 
 
 car. indnio. tunc et post iiii. car. niodo Cadoino tenet de K. 
 dim. semper i. mol. et i. piscatio. hic. (I' >!. 299.) bcerepham Hund. In 
 
 jacet 1. soc. Regis W. acr. icrre unde Calvereestuna i. lib. ho. cemmend. tan. 
 
 Sims antecess. hatiiiit commend, tarn um, turn xi. acr. val. vm.d. hoc. tenet 
 
 rt 'erra clamat de dono Regis tunc et Gait, de Cadomo de Roberto, (sc 
 
 post i. car. mode ii.bov.et ii. acr. prati Malet.)
 
 544 KILVERSTONE. 
 
 Maraery de Caiseneto, or Cressy, and her heirs ; and she, with the said 
 I'itaiis, scil]e(\ tliem on Coxford priory in the same year, the Prior of 
 which liouse was always returned to iiold them of the manor of Hors- 
 ford, and fiirtiicr of the manor of Ilockering. The other part or 
 moiety was ahvays held of the honour of Jw/f, at a quarter of a fee; 
 it belonged to the same Robert Filz-lf'alhr, after that to Giii/ de Fer- 
 rarijs, or Ferrers, who infeoffed tlie Brooms; and in 1249, Roger de 
 Broom settled it on Jolin Prior of Co.iford, and his successours, for 
 ever; and in 1302, IVilliam, son of Roger de Broom, for 200 marks 
 of silver, confirmed to the Prior and Canons of Coxford, his whole 
 manor in Kilverstoiie, with the mill, frt'efold, &,c. to be held in free 
 alms of him and his heirs by 10s. a year rent, and the service of a 
 quarter of a knight's fee; and afterwards Robert de Broom, son of the 
 said William, released the rent, all knight's service and homage what- 
 ever, paying to Thetford priory 10s. a year out of the mill, according 
 to the gift of IVilliam de Broom, his father; in 1293, the Prior of 
 Cokesford granted a rent of 12t/. a year to the Prior of Thetford, for 
 leave to dig'flag on ■Snareshill sich, to mend his mill bank at Kilvcrstone. 
 And in 1428, the Prior was taxed at 1 \l. 1 Is. 1 \d. for his temporalities 
 here, in 1230, there was a dispute between Richard Prior of Thet- 
 ford, and William Prior of Cokesford, concerning their separate fish- 
 eries belonging to their manors here ; " Concerning the use and pro- 
 « priety of atl the fishing lying between the territory of Simreshill, 
 " and the territory of Kilverstoiie , the Prior of Thetford claiming the 
 " whole of the water or river from his mill called Melford Mill, to 
 " the extent of his town of Siiareshill," viz. the whole of Siuireshill 
 side, as belonging to his free fishery there, and this side, as belonging 
 to his manor here; but the Prior of Coxford having a free fishery to 
 his manor here, claimed an equal share on this side; and it being 
 proved to be so, the Prior of Coxford let his right for ever, to the 
 Prior of Thetford, for 8s. a year. But the Prior of Coxford reserved 
 to himself his swan mark, belonging to his manor, throughout the 
 whole river, with liberty to gather reed and grass at all times in the 
 said river, with the consent of Richard Bishop of Norrcich. John 
 Matheue Prior of the monastery of our Blessed Lady in Coxford, and 
 the convent tliere, by indenture inrolled in Chancery, dated the last 
 day of Jpr. 1 528, sold their manor of Coxford in Kilveisfone to Thomas 
 Duke of 'Norfolk, and his heirs, for 400 marks, which the said Duke 
 paid to King /y<'"rj/ VIll. in full of a debt due from the Prior to the 
 King, the I'nor being collector of the King's subsidy in the archdea- 
 conry of ISiorviich, aiid not haviii^ repaid the money he had collected ; 
 and in 1329, Thomas Prior of Gw/iW, successonr to the said Jo//h, 
 settled it by fine on the said Duke, Sir Roger Tozemend, Knt. and 
 other feoffees, and immediately after sold it to Sk John Coiiiuakis, 
 who leased it to William Prior of the monastery of our Blessed Lady 
 at Thetford, for 99 years, at the yearly rent of a red rose, which mo- 
 nasterv being dissolved, it came to the King's hands, who granted the 
 monastery and ail th.it belonged to it to 'Thomas Duke of Noifolk, 
 after whise a'.tainder it came to the King again, and contiiiU(d in the 
 Crown till King Edward VI. sold the lease to Sir John Coinwaleis; 
 in the fourth year of his reign. Sir John dies, and it descended to Sir 
 Thomas Corii/oileis, his son and heir, who settled it on feofiecs, with 
 power of revocation, to the use of himself for life, and then to William,
 
 R tiT, a Angoa'i head, 
 cru<d tirg. pelletc. 
 
 {T<>/act fvgt Si 
 
 Thomai Wbiciit. temp. Henry VII. 
 
 i 
 
 John Wrighi died leiied of ihe manotj of Tindalli and Rowses in Eiit-Lcxbar 
 
 in Norfolk, 3)d Hcnrj' VIII. 
 
 I. NlcholM Wright Anne, dr and coheir ofEdm. i. Catherine, dr. 
 
 hjdfi.eeh.Idrtn. "Bejuprc of Btaupre Hall, by ofEdm-Beaupre 
 
 Ciihcnne, daughter of Fhitip Hall ia NotfoU 
 
 BedingliclJ. Anne. 
 
 _£dmund Wright of Sutton a. Jane, daughter and 
 
 of Tho. Rui-ell, bioihet to John, 
 
 Etrlof Bedford, by ihe dau^her jndtiencM of th:: Jcrvaceiu qJ 
 " - HalliaBrcot-Bradfielcl. 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
 1. Willta 
 
 m 
 
 t>I dr. of 
 
 1. E( 
 
 in W 
 
 riRht 
 
 Wright, 
 
 
 Lord Ever, re- 
 
 of Lxillc B 
 
 k(n- 
 
 
 
 lict of Sir John 
 
 ham. 
 
 Noil 
 
 and 
 
 
 
 Salyvan of 
 
 Thw 
 
 ayt in 
 
 SutT. 
 
 
 
 Yorkthire, i.p. 
 
 t,q- 
 
 
 
 dr. of Sir 
 JohnSpring 
 of Laven- 
 ham in Suf- 
 folk, Km. 
 
 Thomai Wright Agnei, dr. 3, Ceorgc Wright, Cent, lord Dorothy, dr. 
 
 of Weeting 
 Norf. 4lh 
 
 f Fiih. 
 Witching- 
 
 
 of Liiilc Bukc 
 
 married at St. Pancta 
 
 Lane, London, ao July, i^^t, 
 
 lord of Rote- King) nays in 
 
 Oxford ihi re. 
 
 pie, Eig. 
 
 Henty Chminj, of 
 
 f'lj. atirr toGeorge 
 Waller, £jq. ofi* 
 
 The cldeit married the snceiior of 
 
 of Twail, 
 t. Fcances Tlioma. Bell. 
 
 3. MilUcenE John Thurston of Hoxne, Suf- 
 
 folk, Gent, great-grandfather 
 (o that John Thurtlon who 
 wat alive about 1701. 
 
 4. Aone Sir John Heigham of Barrow 
 
 in Suffolk, Knt. 
 
 4. Bridget Robert Rolf of Hadley in Suf- 
 folk, Gent. 
 
 e. Miry Will. Downej, Gent, of Bod- 
 
 ncy, Norfolk. 
 
 Reeve a. RoberL Thomai Wright 1; 
 3, George, of Kilveritonc, * 
 .John, inNorfolk.Esq. 
 1. p. whi> built the 
 
 pieieni hill. 
 
 , dr. of John 
 lyn of Dcpc- 
 den in Suff, £iq. 
 by hit 3d wife, 
 Anne, dr. of Sir 
 Roheit Druryof 
 Kautird, Suffolk, 
 jnd Mary hii 
 «lfc. dr. of old 
 Sir Lionel Tal- 
 mach of Helm- 
 ■ngham, SulTolk, 
 Knt. 
 
 William, Geo. 
 and Dorothy. 
 
 a. Edmund 
 Wright of" 
 Kingihay. 
 
 Dorothy, dr. 
 ufRich.Btak 
 ol Hadcnbain 
 
 ricd Richard 
 CiuliWp of 
 Kingshay ' Cc- 
 cily, Robeit 
 Mjule of Suff. 
 
 Etq by 5a- 
 -. of Sir Ed- 
 
 Lewknor of 
 
 -Will. 
 -Jame. 
 
 Slebbing. 
 
 Ward of of Han 
 
 Iringhim Braugh 
 
 orf. £<q, in Her 
 
 roihy, dr.of_: 
 
 • Wr.ghl, Eiq. ol s. J.idith,dr. of 
 
 Kilvetilone and Weung, 
 wai high iherilT of Nor- 
 folk in 165:. and died m 
 that ofRce, and wat buried 
 
 Rob Houghlnn, 
 of Earlham in 
 Norfolk, Esq. 
 
 ermyn Wiighi Anne, dr. of Rich, 
 t Wam;foid in TUathdof of Bm- 
 .Suff. Eiq. both well .n Norfolk, 
 E-q ■Jicdi4july, 
 j68i, bulled at 
 Wcithorp. 
 
 Judith, married 
 John Craik, 
 M. D. and had 
 Tho. Ciaik, 
 M.D.fdIowol 
 Caj.Coll, Cant. 
 
 5, Charlet, Robert 
 
 dr. of Bra- Jermyn 
 
 ham, whose aicd 
 
 ton Charlec single, 
 died linglc 
 in (be army. 
 
 4- John Wright 
 woolen-draper 
 in London, bU' 
 ried at Wceting 
 
 Anna- 
 
 1 Thomi) Wright 
 
 Kath.dr. of SirChar Will. Croptcy. fc.q. 
 
 
 
 Harbo.d, Knt. Sui- A" 1667, J"rt li»d 
 
 Smith, 
 
 Etq. ton and heir, 
 
 veyor-general to King Hsrbord Cmplcy. 
 
 iv.ng 
 
 wai juuice of ihc 
 
 Charlet IL died 6th Esq now living, whi 
 
 '73'- 
 
 peace, and died 
 
 July, 1684, buried .snow called Harbord 
 here, remarried 10 Haibord. 
 
 
 April la, 1667. 
 
 Thomai died in the Eut-Indiei. Marmaduke i. p. Anna 
 Maria alive in 1703. EliEabetb, who married to John Cot 
 ion, tid iun itnd heir of John Couan of .\ihiU, &c. 
 
 Chai 
 
 E>q. 
 
 ied of Norfolk 
 
 the county, 
 of that troo| 
 
 Wright of Kilvcritone, 
 In 1696. Hcniy Duke 
 
 .ade bin 
 of hon 
 
 he had 
 
 Charlet Viscoiinl Townieod 
 uf Raynham, Sarun of Lyn- 
 Rr^ii. Loid Lieut. Set.-, he 
 wai born in 16G6, and buiicd 
 
 16 No' 
 
 '7»9 
 
 Ceorgc Violet, or Vilet, 
 of PinkncyHall.inTater- 
 tet, aiiaj Gateacnd, in 
 Norfolk, buried here. 
 
 I. Tho. Writhi of 
 Sjndy- Dnwiiliam 
 inSufT-Eii]. Juiiice 
 of Peace from 1664, 
 
 tohisdcathin 1669; 
 buried at Down. 
 
 Eli/. 
 
 of Ro- 
 bert Siy of 
 
 Norfolk. 
 Gent, died 
 in 1701. 
 
 I. Rob. Wright 
 of Holmr-Hile 
 
 Nor/. Gent. ob. 
 
 Elic 
 
 dr. at 3. George Uiiula, ^r. 
 
 Edw Chj 
 beilain, of 
 Barnham- 
 Broom.Etq. 
 
 Rob. Wrieht of Holme-Hale 
 Elicaletti and Jane. 
 
 'of John 
 
 of Maiiii- 
 liall, Nor. 
 folk, El.). 
 
 ■ Robert Anne, dr. of Sir 
 
 Geo. Wyneive, 
 
 Wright of' 
 Down- 
 ham, Eiq 
 
 bam in Suffolk, 
 by Chrittian, 
 dr. of Dudley, 
 Lord Notih, 
 
 3. Thomai 
 Wright, 
 Etq. of 
 Heibng, 
 
 1 J.ne. 
 
 
 1. Heit. 
 
 
 
 Stylet. 
 
 
 
 1. p. 
 
 Davy. 
 
 Stepney 
 
 1. Doto. 
 
 Gent. 
 
 
 thy 
 
 S.Sarah, 
 
 diciex. 
 
 Hiekton 
 
 to Will. 
 
 
 
 Davy, 
 hi* bro- 
 
 
 
 
 
 ther. 
 
 
 
 ricd to 
 . R.y. 
 > apoth. 
 
 sTrl.'now 
 
 Ur.ula, 
 Thomai, 
 John. 
 Robeit. 
 all young 
 ini7oa. 
 
 Hickion Wright, now living at 
 Brandon-Ferry, SulTolk, b. 
 John, reader at Stepney. 3. 
 Tho. ob. 1. p. 4. Rob. fellow 
 of Cai. Coll. rector of Laven- 
 bam m Suffolk, buried ihete, 
 1. p. 1. Dorothy, now Single. 
 3. Joanna, married 10 Cawdcll. 
 and after toMatthewGoodrick, 
 cicfk, now rector of Brandon. 
 
 1 . Thomai 
 
 t Anne, dr. 
 
 1. Dr. Rob. 
 
 Wright. ' 
 
 of Roger 
 
 Wright, rec- 
 
 
 North, Liq. 
 
 tor of He. U 
 
 
 
 ing. and 
 
 .nd York, 
 
 I.p. 
 
 
 now li*- 
 
 a. Francei, 
 
 ..o,.i;ii,. 
 
 i»g. 
 
 dr. of Tho. 
 Witght of 
 E.HerliOfi, 
 living. 
 
 
 Id 
 
 ue. 
 
 
 3. Gtorge johnWrigbt 
 Wrifihtof Eiq, 
 
 hit ley ... 
 Suff E>q 
 
 of Builey, 
 and halh 
 ill tie. 
 
 , - .- and by the 
 by the lint wife. 
 livine."*"" 
 
 Rob. Oath. dr. 3. Richard, Mai 
 
 "of Cinl 
 Wiche ( 
 Hock, 
 wold, 
 E.q. 
 
 the 
 
 
 I lath iuue 9 daughten. 
 
 and married to 
 
 c. Thomu 
 
 W„5l,i o[ 
 
 Oownham 
 
 and York, 
 
 E.q. 
 
 1. Caih. buried lu 1696, 3. Francci, buried 1696. 
 8- Anne, buried m St. Si«[-ben'i chuKh. Norwieb, 
 ■othSept. ijoi.aad removed isih Match following 
 to Kilveritone, by order of the BiihopVCouri 
 Dun., bulled I70J. Ctotf »i»d Robtrl buried 
 
 1. Sir Rob, Wright of 
 
 Su»ii, 
 
 An,/ ! 
 
 Wjn^ford, Kot. wa»" 
 
 "a 
 
 of 
 
 ,m\ 
 
 fitit one of the Juiticea 
 
 
 
 HuJ 
 
 of the Common Pleai. 
 
 Wren, 
 
 v<A 
 
 and after Lord Chief 
 luitiec of the King'. 
 
 L 
 
 B 
 
 (d 
 
 ihop 
 
 ^iT 
 
 Urnch, ui King lamei 
 
 ol 
 
 El^. 
 
 .679- i- 
 
 
 
 
 
 i.cd fiiit to Dorothy 
 
 
 
 
 MuorofWJgenhall.Sl. 
 
 
 
 torofLiv. 
 
 Gcrman'i, bulled there 
 
 
 
 nicrc-ParVh 
 
 in,66j, ..p. Hi. 3d 
 
 
 
 
 wife wsi Elut. dr. of 
 
 
 
 
 Sir Wm. ScoRg., Km. 
 
 
 
 
 Lord Chief Ju.ticr of 
 
 
 
 
 iheKing'. Bench. Wni. 
 
 
 
 
 their ion, wai an infant 
 
 
 
 
 iai70». 
 
 
 
 
 Robert Wright of 
 Srdgfield, m the 
 biihoprick of Du- 
 leime, Eiq.; gone 
 toSauih-Carolina, 
 
 of.-. Fitu'. 
 
 1. Suian. married to Ver. 
 lue Rudfoid of l^ray'i. 
 Inn, Eiq. s. Anne, to 
 Ftcvil Lampcin of Hard- 
 iek in Dure.ioe, Eiq. 3. 
 Eliz, lo John Bugdcn, 
 Cent, in Huntiogdonib. 
 
 Eli/aheth Wright, married 
 Mr. Robert Chad of Wellt, 
 who It dead, and left iuue, 
 Willuughby Wright, alive 
 and .ingle. C«ily Wnghr, 
 
 Thomat Wright. E.q. ion and 
 heir, halh a good leat here, « 
 which he rendet, being lord 
 of the maaori, and owner of 
 Ibc whole town, A* 1737. 
 
 1. John Wright, rector of 
 Ew.lon io Suffolk, matter 
 c( the botpilal. and preacb- 
 ei of St. Mary-, parith io 
 Tbciford. 
 
 Anne. dr. of W.ltiim Pear 
 "LL D. ChancelLjrof York 
 Miry ho wife, who wai bu: 
 here. 
 
 
 '.. Haiboid. 1. Thomat. Elir C»:h. Mary,' 
 Jane, buried here, A* 1735. ^^^
 
 KILVERSTONE. 545 
 
 his eldest son, and Lucy his wife, and the longest liver of them, with 
 remainder to divers nses; but after tiiis, in 1.576, he settled it on 
 Charles his son, and June his wife, and tlieir iieirs male, having re- 
 voked the former settlement; and in 1587, Sir Thomas the father, his 
 two sons, and tlieir two wives, sold it to 
 Thomas Wright oUVeeting, Gent, and his heirs. 
 
 There is a separate right of fishing belonging to this manor, with 
 liberty to hunt, hawk, fish and fowl, in the town and manors of Kil- 
 verstone, notwithstanding the superiour liberty of the hundred. 
 
 The fines were 2.s. an acre, and the eldest son was heir. 
 
 The site contained 6 acres, and joined to the river south, and Tunney- 
 Lane west, which leads down from the street, by the west end of the 
 church, to the river. The two fold-courses belonging to this manor 
 carried 6OO ewes and 400 hog-sheep, besides the shepherd's 200 ; there 
 is also a swan mark now belonging to it. 
 
 The advowson was given b}"^ Margaret de Caineto, {Cheyney, or 
 Cressy,) daughter and heiress of JVi/liam de Caineto, together with a 
 fold-course and free common of pasture, in the said town for the 
 sheep, in free alms to the Prior of Butty in Sujf'o/lc, who appropriated 
 it to his house, and got it confirmed by John of Oxford Bishop of 
 Norwich, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, reserving a vicarage to 
 be presented to by the Prior, with a pension of 26s. 8rf. payable out of 
 the great tithes, together with the rectory-house and an acre of land 
 adjoining to it. And thus the great tithes, the sheeps' walk, and 24 
 acres glebe, came to the prior}' ; and after this the Prior, desirous to 
 get the whole into his own hands, came to a perpetual composition 
 •with the Prior of Co];esford, for the moiety of the tithes of his manor, 
 one moiety of which belonged to Coiford Prior, and the other to 
 Butley, and also for the lO.s. a year, which the Prior of Coxford paid 
 to the Prior of Thetford, from his watermill in Kilverslone ; and in 
 1428, the Prior of Butley was taxed for his whole spirituals here, 8 
 marks ; and thus it remained till 1497, and then Hill/am Dissc, vicar 
 here, had an augmentation to his vicarage; but upon complaint that 
 it was not yet endowed according to the statute, it was disappro- 
 priated in his successour's time, and so became an absolute rectory 
 again, as it was before its appropriation, and hath remained such evur 
 since; in 1554, rra/Z/aw HsAe/-, then rector, pulled down and destroyed 
 the rectory-house, the site of which joined to the west side of the 
 churchyard, and from that time there hath been no parsonage- 
 house; there are about 24 acres glebe, but the sheep-walk of 250 
 sheep which belonged to the rectory, was granted off during the im- 
 propriation, for an annual pension of265. 8rf. a year. 
 
 The rectory is in Norfolk archdeaconry and J{oc/cland deanery, was 
 valued in the King's Books at 7l. 14.S. Qd. oh. and being sworn of the 
 clear yearly value of 33/. Is. 8d. it is discharged of first fruits and 
 tenths, though it pays 12f/. synodals, besides the archdeacon's procu- 
 rations ; in 1603, here were (JO communicants, and now [I7'J7] there 
 are 8 houses, and about .30 inhabitants ; it paid 3.? 4d. to the tenths, 
 and is now assessed at 202/. to the land ta.\. 'Jhe Prior of Bulky, 
 in 1383, purchased of Thomas de Pakcnham, chaplain, Adam de 
 Foxhalt of Thefford, chaplain, and Jotai Barbour of the same, a
 
 mg kilverstone. 
 
 messuage in Kilverstone, held of himself as of his church of Kiher- 
 xtoiie, at 6(1. a year, by virtue of a license in nwrtmain granted by King 
 EdwaidlW. to that monastery; and it seems the Prior assigned this 
 house and half an acre of land to the town ; it is the old house now 
 [1737] standing in decay over against the church. 
 
 John Huzise gave an acre and half in two pieces to the inhabitants. 
 
 John KiJeman gave 5 roods in two pieces. 
 
 In 1524," Jiimes Baldewijn ol' Kilverstone (buried in the chancel) 
 " gave to the Black Friars of 'i/ie//brrf iii.s. iiii.<^/. Also I give and 
 " bequethe to the said church halowyngc of Kt/lverstone, as much of 
 " my goods as the church halowyng wyll drawe with the three bells 
 " in the stepul. Item, I give ten pounds to be disposed by the dis- 
 " cretion of my executors in the said church, as I may have adirige 
 " and mcsse perpetually, if it may be performed."' 
 
 RECTORS AND VICARS. 
 
 Eustace, rector, in Henri/ the Second's time. 
 1316, 4 non. Marc. Thomas, son of Peter de Sf««fone, priest, vicar, 
 William Prior of Buttle. 
 
 1317, 4 kal. Dec. Edmund de Debenham, deacon. 
 1357, 18 June, John de Accede Thefford, priest. 
 1359, 3 Jpril, John de Wetyng, priest. 
 
 135y, 29 July, John de Acre, priest, by changing with Wetyng, who 
 took Fineberg vicarage. 
 
 1361, 23 hept. Richard Masonn of Drenkeston, priest. 
 1378, 3 Decern. William tVylde, junior, of Mildenhale, priest. 
 1420, 29 Jan. William Caunceler, priest. 
 
 1432, 10 April, Richard Wyston, priest. The vicarage was taxed 
 at 8 marks. 
 
 1436, 12 Oct. William Brigham, priest, at Wi/ston's resignation, 
 united to Carleton-Rode till 1442, and then Brigham resigned it. 
 1464, 27 July, John Ingman, at Brigham's death. 
 1468, 20 March, Thomas Bryan. 
 
 1497, William Disse, vicar. In his time there was a composition 
 made, with ihe consent of Sir Robert Beckles, Vr'ior of But Uy, his 
 patron, and of the Prior of Coxford, concerning the tithes of the 
 gardens and orchards in the town, all which were allotted to increase 
 the stipend of the vicar. 
 
 150f), 17 March, John Brozcne. In his time it was disappropriated, 
 and so became a rectory again. 
 
 1507, 12 Oct. John Goddard, chaplain. 
 
 1542, 20 Sept. William Fisher, chaplain. Alice Cotton, widow, 
 for this turn, which was granted her by Thomas Manning, Suffragan 
 Bishup of Ipszcich, and the conventof Butley, of which he was prior. 
 1559, 20 July, John Abadam, priest, The Queen. 
 1587, 31 March, John Poynton, oxPoyntcr. The Queen. Buried 
 here 18th June, 1641. 
 
 1641, Arthur Needham, he was ejected for his loyalty, in 1556, 
 and one John Planner, subscribes as rector; but Needham was restored 
 in 1660, and died re'ctor, and was buried here Aug. 12, l66L 
 
 sRegr. Briggs, fo. ii6. 
 
 J
 
 KILVER STONE. 5,7 
 
 1661, 30 Oct. John Burrell, priest, on Nted/iam's deatli. Tlie 
 King. 
 
 1692, 10 Sep. The Rev. Mr. Thomas Loaiie, the present [17371 
 rector, holds it united to Brelcnham. The Ki.ng. 
 
 The Church bath a low round tower and three bells; the nave 
 and north porch arc tiled, liie chancel ihatchcd, and north isle leaded • 
 the following inscriptions arc on marbles in the chancel; 
 
 Requiescunt Sub hoc 
 
 Marmore Reliquia* Tiiom« 
 
 Wright Armigeri, qui plcnior 
 
 Virtutum quain Uieruin 
 
 Mundum vidit et reliquit, 
 
 12"" Aprilis 1G67. 
 
 Thomas Wright .Tun. 10 Annos nalus, obijt Seplimo DicJunij 1G74. 
 Senilis Infans el PucUe. Cato. 
 
 Memoria; Sacrum. 
 Herelyeth thcBodyof Kathcrine daughter of Charles Wright 
 Esq; Here also lyelh the Body of Frances Daughter of Charles 
 Wright Esq; both by Anne his Wife, the Eldest Daughter of 
 George Vilett of Finkny in the County of Norfolk Esq; Kaiherine 
 departed this Life June the 8 Aged 3 Years 8 Monllis, l-'rances 
 departed this Life December the 7 aged d months, Anno Dom- 
 1696. 
 
 On a grave-stone. 
 
 Here lieth interred Charles Wright Esq; a Man remarkable for 
 many e.\-cellent Qualities a most aftel. Husband, an indnlgt. 
 Parent, a sincere Friend, his Cliarity was uncoulintd, Ins Li- 
 berality was universale, his Afflictions were great, his Pati( iice 
 greater, he was a conscientious Observer of ;ill religious Duties, 
 & remarkable zealous for the Honour of God, & Hcligion, he 
 departed this Life in the true Faith and Fear of God, in the 64 
 Year of his Age, on the \4th. Day of ISov. A.D. 17£y. 
 
 Here lyeth the Body Of Kaiherine Croplev, youngest Daugh- 
 ter of Sir Charles Ilarbord Knt. Surveyor to King Cliarks the 
 first, 8t second Reliquid of Tho. Wright Esq. late Wife of 
 William Croplev Gent, one of the Best of Women, Wifes, 8t 
 Mothers, dyed July the 6 1684. aged 40 Vearcs 1 1 Months. 
 
 Here lyelh iiiierr'd Anne the Eldest Daiig. of George Vilcit of 
 Pinckiiey in the County of Nortf. Esq. who was manii'd to 
 Charles Wright of Kilverstone in the said (.'ouniv Esq; the 
 Twenty ninth Day of May Anno Dom: Hiyi. W liicb Happy 
 Pair, were so equally Blest in each other, that their .Sublime and 
 shining Pattern, of true and undissembled Allectiun, is scarcely 
 to be paralell'd, but never out-done. She had bv her beloNed 
 Husband, four Sons, and eij.'hl Daiighti-is, and tlu-n depattid 
 this Life, the Twenty ninth Day of Se,»teniber. and was buried 
 the lirst of October, Anno Domini: 170i), aged 41 Years.
 
 548 KILVERSTONE. 
 
 1* 
 A Mother who vvitli every Grace was Blest, 
 "With all the Ornaments ofVertue Diest, 
 With whatso'erc Religion recommends. 
 The best of Wiles, of Mothers, and of Friends, 
 And iho' by l>eall), her Body's turn'd to Dust, 
 Tis fitt we still Commemorate thejust. 
 Twas here, she did adore the highest Lord, 
 Who to her Soul great Comfort did aflbrd, 
 'Twas here she did with great Joy and Content, 
 Receive Gods Holy Word and Sacrament, 
 Since then she loved, this Sacred Place so well, 
 'Tis very meet, that here her Name should Dwell. 
 
 On a grave-stone in the church, 
 Here lyeth buried the Body of il/rtry Pearson, Wid. Relict of 
 the Rev. IVill. Pearson LL. D. late Chancellour of the Diocess 
 of York, whose undissembl'd Goodness made her whilst living 
 beloved, when dead, lamented by all that knew her. She died 
 Apr. gt/i. 1736. Ml. 72. 
 
 By the bounds of this parish, is Riiigmere Pit, which I find Mr- 
 Salmon, in his Roman Stations in Britain, (pag. 9,) lakes notice of in 
 these words : 
 
 " On the side of this way from Hockham, in East-Wrettam parish, 
 " is a remarkable cavity called Ringmere Pit, it is in form of an 
 " amphitheatre, to the bigness of si.x or seven acres, with an uniform 
 " descent on every side to thea/e«a. So exact is its figure, even yet, 
 " one cannot help believing it was contrived for show. There was 
 " not in the latter end of Oetober, a drop of water in it, which the 
 " wet summer must have filled, if it ever had been a pond. More of 
 " this kind, I have heard ofhereabouts but not seen." 
 
 I must own, a stranger, who saw it in 1724, or 1725, (as I suppose 
 he did,)when it was entirely dry, might have been of the same opinion 
 with him. But there is nothing uncommon to those that have been 
 acquainted with it; it is a large cavity indeed, generally full of water, 
 and the ground being a sand, the water occasioned that uniform de- 
 scent; it is supplied with land springs from the adjacent hills, which 
 in the extreme dry year ceased running, and so the water shrank into 
 the sand ; it is a very old mere or large water, as the Saxon name 
 which it still bears tells us, Rinj-mepe being no more than, the 
 round mere or water. I have angled fine perch out of it when [ was 
 a schoolboy at Thetford ; and am apt to think there are good fish in 
 it now, it being stored, as I am informed, since it was last dry. But 
 this pit is not to compare with that, which lies nearer Croxton ; and 
 though it is three times as big, was then also dry; this is called 
 Foulmere Pit ; the greater part of its fishery belongs to the estate in 
 Croxton, settled on the school and hospital of Thetford, as 1 am in- 
 formed, and that of Ringmere, to the lord oi East- W rot ham; there are 
 other large pits on these heaths, (though not so big as either of the 
 former,) that have water in them in winter, but being mostly dried up 
 in summer time, they look very regular to the beholder's eye.
 
 INDEX 
 
 OF 
 
 HUNDREDS AND PARISHES 
 
 IN VOL. I. 
 
 HUNDREDS. 
 
 Diss, 
 
 Giltcross, 
 Shropham, 
 
 page 1 to 212. 
 
 - 213 to 359. 
 
 - S63 to 548. 
 
 Atleburgh, - 
 
 PARISH. 
 
 Brisingham, 
 Burston, 
 Banham, - 
 Bukenham (Old) 
 Bukenham (New) 
 Bridgham, - 
 Bretenham, 
 Besthorp, - 
 
 Diss - - - 
 
 Dickleburgh, 
 
 Eccles, 
 Elingham (Great) 
 
 Fersfield, - 
 Frense, 
 
 Gissing, 
 Gatesthorp, 
 Garboldesham, - 
 
 Herling (West) - 
 Herling (Middle) 
 
 VOL. I. 
 
 4A 
 
 HUNDRED. 
 
 Shropham, 
 
 - 
 
 PAGE 
 501 
 
 Diss 
 
 Diss 
 
 Giltcross 
 
 Shropham 
 
 Shropham 
 
 Shropham 
 
 Shropham 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 49 
 \'25 
 345 
 .169 
 395 
 436 
 440 
 490 
 
 Diss 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 n 
 
 Diss 
 
 
 - 
 
 191 
 
 Shropham 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 405 
 
 482 
 
 Diss 
 Diss 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 74 
 140 
 
 Diss 
 
 Giltcross 
 Giltcross 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 162 
 250 
 255 
 
 Giltcross 
 Giltcross 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 297 
 313
 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 
 
 PARISH. 
 
 
 HUNDRED. 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Herling (East) - 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Giltcross 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 3l6 
 
 Haipliam, - 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 411 
 
 Hocham, - 
 
 - 
 
 . 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 459 
 
 Hocham (Little) 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 464. 
 
 Illington, - 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 
 446 
 
 Kenninghall, 
 
 » _ 
 
 _ 
 
 Giltcross 
 
 « 
 
 . 
 
 215 
 
 KiKeistone, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 341 
 
 Lopham, - 
 
 _ . 
 
 _ 
 
 Giltcross 
 
 . 
 
 
 228 
 
 Lerling, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 428 
 
 Market-Herling, see 
 
 East-Herling. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Norton, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Giltcross 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 242 
 
 Osinundeston, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Diss 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 130 
 
 Quidenham, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Giltcross 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 333 
 
 Rockland-Tofts, 
 
 _ _ 
 
 _ 
 
 Shropham 
 
 • 
 
 _ 
 
 473 
 
 Rovvdham, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 432 
 
 Roydon, 
 
 . 
 
 
 Diss 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 39 
 
 Ridlesworlh, 
 
 _ 
 
 - 
 
 Giltcross 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 274 
 
 Rushworth, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Giltcross 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 284 
 
 Shropham, 
 
 . _ 
 
 • 
 
 Shropham 
 
 _ 
 
 . 
 
 450 
 
 Siietteiton, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 419 
 
 Shelthanger, 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Diss 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 114 
 
 Scole, see Osmundeston. 
 
 - 
 
 
 
 
 
 Shimpling, 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Diss 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 154 
 
 Sbarehill-House, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Giltcross 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 294 
 
 Thorpe House, - 
 
 • 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 _ 
 
 . 
 
 471 
 
 Thorp-Parva, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Diss 
 
 . 
 
 
 1,j6 
 
 Thelton, 
 
 _ 
 
 - 
 
 Diss 
 
 . 
 
 . 
 
 148 
 
 Tiishall, - 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Diss 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 205 
 
 Wrotham (Little) see 
 
 Thorp-House, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wiotham (West, or 
 
 North) - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 468 
 
 Wrothaii) (East, or Great) - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 465 
 
 Winfarthing, 
 
 . 
 
 - 
 
 Diss 
 
 - 
 
 • 
 
 181 
 
 Wilby, 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 Shropham 
 
 - 
 
 - 
 
 361 
 
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