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GENEALOGY COLLECTION

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AN

ESSAY

TOWARDS A

TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

OF THE

COUNTY OF~NORFOLK,

CONTAINING A

DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWNS, VILLAGES, AND HAMLETS,

WITH THE FOUNDATIONS OF

MONASTERIES, CHURCHES, CHAPELS, CHANTRIES, AND OTHER RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS:

ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF

The Ancient and Present State of all the Rectories, Vicarages, Donatives, and Impropriations, their Former and Present Patrons and Incumbents, with 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;

TOGETHER WITH THE

Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Arms in all the Parish Churches, and Chapels ; with

several Draughts of Churches, Monuments, Arms, Ancient Ruins, and other

RELICKS OF ANTIQUITY.

COLLECTED OUT OF

LEDGER-BOOKS.REGISTERS, RECORDS, EVIDENCES, DEEDS, COURT-ROLLS, AND OTHER AUTHENTICK MEMORIALS.

BY FRANCIS BLOMEFIELD,

RECTOR OF FERSFIELD IN NORFOLK. Nos patriae fines, et dulcia scripsimus arva. Vine.

VOLUME V. LONDON:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE-STREET, BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW, ST. JAMES'S,

180(5.

THE

HUNDRED OF HUMBLE-YARD.

Humiltart, Humilyerd, now Humble-yard hundred, takes its name from a valley in the parish pf Swerdesfon, where the hundred court was anciently kept, which in evidences still retains the name of Hvm- ble-yerd, the low yard or court: it makes up exactly the whole deanery called by the same name, and paid to the ancient task or tenths oil. Is. clear. It is bounded on the east with the hundred of Henstede, on the north with the county of the city of Norwich; on the west with the hundred of Forehoe, and on the south with the hundred ofDepwade: there is no town in it which holds a weekly market at this time, it being so near the city of Norwich, that hath totally swal- lowed up all profits that could accrue to any village in so small a dis- tance. The fee of this hundred was in the Crown, upon Earl Ralph's forfeiture in the Conqueror's time, before which it belonged to the manor of Hethersete. In Henry the Third's time it was worth 12/. per annum, when it was farmed by William de St. Omer. In Edward the First's time Nic. de Castello or Castle farmed it, and Edward III. conveyed it in exchange to John de Clavering and his heirs; but it afterwards reverted and continued in the Crown till James I. granted it to Sir Charles Cornzmleis, Knt. to be held at the rent of ll. 6s. id. ob. q. during the lives of Charles Cornwa/eis, Esq. eldest son of Sir William Cornwaleis, Knt. Tho. Cornwaleis, Esq. eldest son of the said Charles, and Thomas Cornwaleis, son. of the said Sir William.

HUMBLE-YARD DEANERY

Is in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and at the time of the 2Vo;;- zeich taxation had 23 parishes in it, and the annual profit to its rural dean was taxed at 26s. 8d. The following deans were all collated by the several Bishops of the see.

1256, John Ordermer. s r\ rrr»o * r>

1312, John de Chetestan. loOU^ii)

1320, Ric. Umfrey.

1333, Roger de Ayremine.

1337, John de North Ki/lesey ; he resigned ihe same year to

Rich. leGrage of Barew, who died in 1341, and was suc- ceeded by

Ric. de Normandeby, who resigned the next year to John Backworth. vol. v. B

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1349, Robert de Hardeshull, succeeded by

Tho. de Thorn/mm the same year, and lie in

1350, by Walter de Newhawe of Baketon, inceptor in arts. 1360, John de Methelwold, shaveling.

1388, Robert de Uedersete, clerk.

1389, John Brereleye.

1390, Walter Cntet of Brockford. 1395, Will. Estryk.

1419, Nic. Frenge, he resigned in 1421, for Waynford deanerv in Suffolk, to

Robert Lambe, who resigned this for Thingo deaneri/ in Suffolk; and in 1447, this deanery was perpetually united to that of Depwude, and

RalfSomerby was collated to both as one deanery, and ever after it attended that deanery.

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Lies at the northern extremity of this hundred; it was taxed at ]/. 12s. but had a deduction of 12s. a year, on account of the revenues of the religious here. The rectory is valued in the King's Books at 61. 13s. 4d. and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 41/. lis. 8rf. it is discharged of first fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmenta- tion. The situation answers its name, it being a hill-islaiid. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, to whose honour there was a gild held here, and another of the Holy Cross; the image of which Saint stood on the north side of the altar, and was new painted in 1502. In the Lincoln taxation, the rectory was valued at 5/. and the rector bad a house and 52 acres of glebe; but in the present Werner, there is a house and only 36 acres. It paid Is. 8d. synodals, 6s. 8d. procurations, Qd. Peter-pence, and 3d. carvage.

The chuech consists of a nave only, which is 17 yards long, and 7 broad ; the chancel is 10 yards long and 7 broad ; it hath a round steeple tiled at top, in which are two bells. On the south wall of the nave is a small memorial for Richard Browne, Gent, who died Oct. 20, 1674, aged 58, with the arms of

Brown e of Diss in Norfolk, per chevron O. and B. in chief three

estoils of the second, in base a wyvern arg.

On the north side is an altar tomb of wood, with Yaxley's arms, and this inscription,

Here lyeth buried the body of Henry Yaxlee Esq; who died in the Faith of God's true elect Catholick Church, not trust- jng in the Merits of any, but the alone Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, and his Death and Passion. He died March 0",

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1650. They that know thy Name will put their Trust in thee, for thou never forsakest them that seek thee, Psalm 9, 10. This is Life eternal to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent, Joh. 17,3.

Tota Sapientis est Meditatio Mortis.

The same monument also shows, that John Tomson, Gent, died March 17,1575. Will. Yaxlee of Boston, Gent. 1625, and Raphe Yaxlee, 6th son of Henry aforesaid, ] 636.

There is a brass for Robert Pitcher May 1, 1641,

RECTORS.

1302, Henry de Norwich.

1303, Hugh de Creyk.

1304, Henry de Norwich aforesaid, he was son of John de Norwich, all these were presented by Sir John de Malherbe, Knt.

1337, Witl.de Estou. Ric. de Melton.

1338, Francis de Wesenham. Ric. de Buadenham.

1351, Will. Pope of Witton, buried in the church in 1400, being succeeded by

Will, de Fomham, at the presentation of Ric. de Melton. 1418, Will. Norwich. John de Melton of Colney. 1436, John Norwich.

John Broun of Colney; he was succeeded by John Dreru, who resigned in 1441, and John Josse was presented by Tho. Blak, who had this turn in right of Brozen's manor in Colney.

1455, Sir Tho. Bettys was presented by John Melton of Colney ; he lies buried in the chancel, with this on a brass plate over him,

<©toan the 2?el(e p£ ^ofemplpe rotonne, anb the JEegge tojith ©euos'pon £onge, 3nb the JEtcte mcrptji fjcte, <§one £hatl &crc arijoma.fi 25cttn£ be forgete. €>n tohos'e .£>otofe <jBoo fiatoe jttcrcp, amen. <©ui ofaitt t)° Die apn(i£ 3°. ©ni. jEtcceclrjrjri.

1481, Henry Alycock. Robert Melton this turn. He was also buried in the chancel, with this on a brass plate,

<0ratcpro anima ^enrici attftofi, quondam tfcctort£ igtmg Cede £te, qui obnt tit' otc Sept. a. ©ni. M° ME. if. 1502, John A/eyn. John Yak esley, Serjeant at law. 1511, Aug. Thurkeld or Thyrkyll. Eliz. Yakesley, widow; he re- signed in 1533, and she presented

Rich. Whetelay, who held it united to Erlham. Christopher J oye succeeded him, at whose death in 1567, James Warcupp was presented, by the assignee of William Yaxley, Esq. on whose death in

1592, George Vowell was presented by the Queen, as guardian to Henry Ynxley.

1600, William Johnson, he returned 60 communicants here. Chris. Knolls, Gent, in rightof Henry Yaxley of Bowthorp, the true patron.

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Yaxley and Edward I'Valgrave ; he was deprived in lrjlG, and the King gave it to

Edw. Tiddeswell, at whose death in

1647, Alex. Burnet was presented by Mary Ward, widow; he lived till 1670, and then

Sam. Harding had it of the gift of Ric. Browne ofColneu.

1694, Rob. Harsnett. Jeremiah Norris, Esq.; but in lt>98, he was obliged to be re-presented by the King, as to a lapsed rectory.

1701,2 ho. Clayton, official to the Archdedcon of Norwich, and rector of St. Miles at Plea in that city, was presented by Teresa Norris, widow ; at whose death in

1743, The Rev. Mr. John Brooks, who holds it united to the rectory of St. Augustine in Norwich, (see vol. iv. p. 67, 76, 12b, 477, 570,) was presented by Francis Loggin, Gent.

The whole town belonged to Earl Rulf before his forfeiture, after which it was divided into two parts or manors, distinguished by the names of H est-hall and East-hall.

THE MANOR OF WEST-HALL

Was the capital one, and to that the advowson was many years ap- pendant ; it was given to Godric the sewer, of whom Walter held it at the time of the Conquest, who purchased and added to it, part of the other manor, which then belonged to Roger Bigot; at the Confessor's survey, this part was worth 30s. and at the Conqueror's 40s.,- the whole town was then a mile long, and as much broad, and paid to the geld or tax 8d. farthing.1 It after came to the Tateshales, and in 1201,

Sir Rob. de Tateshale had it conveyed to him by Gilbert son of Hervu, together with IVitton in Norfolk;1- and soon after it was sold to the Mathe rbes. In 1239,

William Malherbe was lord and patron;3 and this year he had a warm contest with Rulf de Cringleford, concerning liberty of com- monage for his tenants oiColney, with the tenants of the said Rulf, on a common called Sunchmoodhowe; and it went so far, that a duel was adjudged, and at the time, they both appeared armed in court; but then the judges decreed, that they should be inter-commoners, and that each should have the several services of their villeins and tenants, with prohibition that the lord of Cringleford should not plough, grub up, or any way alter the common from what it heretofore was. In 1302,

Sir Ralfde Malherbe, Knt. owned it, who in 1291, had sold a fourth part of it to

Elizabeth de Co/net/. This manor was held of Rob. de Tateshall, ■who had and held it of Rob. Filz. Roger, at one fee, for which reason it was ever after held of the honour of Horseford. In 1309,

•Sub tit. terre Godrici Dapiferi. turn, et tenet dim. acr. terre q. mercatus

hundr. de Humiliart. Donis. fo. 168. est, post quam Radulfus torisfecit, de

In Ccleneia tenuit Walterus xviii. li- terra Rogeri Bigoti tunc valuit xxx.

beri homines commendat. tantumet xxx. sol. modu xl. et habet via. quar. in

acr. i. car. terre et dim. et ii bord. longo, et viii. in lato, et viiid. et i.

tunc v. tar. modo iiii. et vii. acr. prati, feeding de Gelto.

et i mol. et i. lib. hom. sub anteces- * Fines divers, com. 3 Joh. N° 24.

sore Rogeri Bigot, commendation: tan- 3 Fines Norf. lig. a. Is9-. 1. 24 H. >

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Sir Ralf Malherbe and Eliz. his wife, settled it with the advow- son, on

He'ry son of John de Norwich, rector here, and Roger son of Gilbert Bourne, in trust for them for their lives, and then to

Gilbert Malherbe, remainder to Roger in tail: it had then, a manor-house, mill, 240 acres of land, 12 acres of meadow, and 14 of pasture in demean; the quitrents were 35s. and Q quarters of oats, and it extended into Hetherset, Melton, and Cringleford. In 1326,

Thu. de Brockdisii, and Robert de Welholme had it; and now it seems that the 4th part of it, which had been sold to Eliz. de Co/neye, was purchased by

Sir Rob de la Rokele, lord here, whose son Robert* in 1331, conveyed the 4th part and the advowson, to

Rich.de Melton, citizen ok' Norwich, and Maud his wife. In 1345,

Jeffry de Snoring had the remaining three parts; and in 1346,

John Braham, Esq. and Anne his wife, daughter and coheir of John Tendringoi' Brockdisii, and Ceci/ia wife of Rob. Ashjieldoi Stow- Langetot, another daughter and co-heiress, settled it on

William de Norwich, junior, and his heirs; and in 1370, WiU Ham Whet and other feoffees', sold it to Catherine widow of Sir PVilliam Capele, Knt. and Sir Edmund their son; and in 1401,

Will. Rees owned it, soon after which it was joined to

THE MANOR OF EAST-HALL,

Which was forfeited by Earl Ralph, and afterwards given to Roger Bigot, of who-e gift Waregerius held it in the Conqueror's time, when it was worth 30s. per annum.5 In the Confessor's time it was of 20s. value only, and Stigand was the then lord. The successour of this Waregerius assumed the name of Colney from this village, and

Sir Ralf de Colney, Knt. waslord herein 1260. In 1291,

Sir William de Colney, his son, had it, and held it at a quarter of a fee of the Earl-marshal, who held it in chief of the King, as did

Jeffery de Colney after him ; and in 1306,

Ric. de Colney; in 1310, Sir

William de Colney and Eliz. his wife settled it in trust on John de Whinbergh, who was to hold it for their use during their lives, re- mainder lo Jeffery, Ralf, John, and Roger, their sons, in tail : it con- tained then three messuages, one mill, 200 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, and 32s. annual rent in Colney, Carleton, Parva-Melton, Eriham, and Merkeshall, and was held of the honour of Forncet.

In 1346 Laurence, eldest son of Jeffery, eldest son of Sir William de Colney, owned it, and sold it the same year to Will. Blomvyle, Ri- chard Hakuu, Hugh, parson of Melton All-Saints, and Edmund de Lesingham, feoffees in trust for the said William, Hugh Curson, and John de Wtlholm; in 1377, William Pope, rector here, Richard Carter,

* He sealed with lozenge er. and gul. tenet Waregerius semper ii. vill. et ix.

inabordure eleven escalops. Crest a Iiberi homines sub eo commend, tantum

martlet. xxiiii. acr. tunc iii. car. post iii. car. et

s Terra Rogeri Bigoti. H. de Humi- dim. M°. i. car. et ii. boves, et vi. acr.

liart. Dums. fo. 138. prati. et i. mol, tunc valuit.xx. sol. m°

In Colenen i. liber homo Stigandi xxx. commend, tantum i. car. terre, quern

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Nic. atte Launch and Anne his wife, settled it on Rob. atte Laundc for life; remainder to Nic. and Anne, and their heirs ; which Nicholas enjoyed it in 1401; and in 1432, Anne Launde had it for life, rever- sion to JoJin Browne andhls heirs, it being purchased by him in 1401. In 1451, Nic. Browne died seized in fee tail of Browne's manor in Colney, with the moiety of the advowson, which by purchase had been added to it, and Nic. Dunston otNorwich was found his next heir; in 1480, Rob. Bumpstede of Willingham St. Mary in Suffolk was buried in the chancel of St. Marys church of Soterley in Suffolk at the en- trance of it, and made John his eldest son, and Rob. Bumpstede, chaplain, his son, executors ; and gave his manor in Willingham, to Marion his wife, and his manor of Colneye to his son Peter, if it could be recovered out of the King's hands, there being then a contest about it, between him and the heirs of Browne; about 1490, John Mellon had it, and in 1497, settled it by fine on

John Yaxley and his heirs; in which family it continued (as the presentations show) till the late troublesome times, when one of the Yax/eys being a papist, settled this and Bowthorp, (see Bowthorp, vol. ii. p. 387,) and a considerable estate in Yorkshire, on his kinsman, Rich. Browne of Colney, whose son, Henry Browne, sold it to Mr. Hunt of Loudon, who sold it to Mr. Jeremiah Norris, from which time it hath continued in that family. The Spelmans, Dethicks, and Hal- graves, were concerned as trustees for this manor, in many settlements of it, made by the Yaxleys.

Jeremiah Norris of Norwich, Gent, is the present lord.

THE MANOR OF MELTON'S

Took its rise from the 4th part of Westhall, which was sold as aforesaid in 1331, to Rich, de Melton, who presented in 1337, and Richard de Bradenham, his trustee, in 1338; it afterwards belonged to Thomas de Bumpstede, whose trustees, William, rector oi'Co/neye, Ric. de Bite- ting, John de Plumstede, and others, settled it on Rob. de Bumpstede? who presented in 1351 ; it having been settled in 1348, by Thomas the son, on Rob. de Bumpstede, the father, and Cici/y his wife, Philip son of Edmund Browne, and Margaret his wife, and their heirs. In 1399, Nic. son of John Corpsty, and John son of Philip Browne, released it to Ric. de Melton; and his trustees, Sir Miles and Sir Brian Stapleton, Knts. Thomas Bose, parson of Wramplingham, Rob. Serjeant of the same, and John Lingwood of Norwich, settled it on John, son and heir of Richard de Melton, who presented in 1418, and 1455, and Rob. Melton his son in 1481 ; and in 1497, John Me/ton sold it with the manor of East-hall to John Yaxley; from which lime it hath been joined to that manor.

There was a freeman and 30 acres of ground, &c. held by Rob. de Vals(l allibus or I aux,) of Will, de Sc holes, and after by Roger de Ebrois, at the Conqueror's survey ;7 part of which was afterwards set- tled in 1 190, by Roger Picot, on Dcodate, prior of St. Faith at Hors- ham, and the convent there, which in 1428, paid 2s. to the taske.

6 He sealed with arg. on a bend in. InCo lenei a tenet Robertas dc Vals. grailed gul. three mullets of the field. i. liber homo, xxx. acr. terre modo te-

7 Terra Willi, de bCHOiES, ('e Es- net Rog. de Ebrois iiii. acr. prati, tunc cois, or the Scot,) hund deHuMiLiAKT. i. car. modu dim. et tercia pars niol. et Doms. fo. 110. val. xv. sol.

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1 he church is dedicated to all the Saints, and hath a square tower and three bells joined to its west end ; the chancel and nave are thatched, the south porch tiled, and a south isle and north chapel leaded, which is dedicated to our Lady, and had a gild held in it ta her honour, and another in honour of the Baptist. In the chancel on a monument against the north wall,

Skottowe, per fess or and az. a mullet of six points counter- changed, impaling

Le Gros, quarterly ar. and az. on a bend sab. threee martlets or. To the Memory of Richard Skottowe Gent, (who died the 22May \6d6.) Bridget his Wife (one ofthe Daughters of Sir Char, le Gros of Crostwicke in the County of Norf. Knt.) erected this Monument; by whome he had twoe Daughters, Franc, whoe died the 5 of April 1655, and Eliz. the 5 of June 1656.

Scottowe impales Weli.s, or, a chevron gul. between three mullets az. Crest, a hand and arm erect, holding a mullet of eight points.

Augustine Scottowe Gent. Mar. 13, 1683, Susannah his beloved Wife, Heiress of Rob. Wells Esq; of Rougham in Suff. ' 28 Jan. l6'81, Augustine their Son Jan. 31, the same year.

Skottowe impales Coulson or Colston, or, two barbels hauriantsaZ). respecting each other.

Elizabeth Wife of Thomas Scottowe Gent, and Heiress of Chris. Coulson Esq; of Great Ayton in Yorkshire, Aug. 31, 1718. Jane their Daughter Oct. 20, 1 699. aged two Months. Christopher their Son July 23, 1702, aged 5 Months. This on a black marble.

Repositorium Francescae Skottowe, Richardi et Brigettse FilL- olae, A prilis 5,Q ^Etatis S"\ 1655.

Just thre Yeares old, & Aprill be her Date,

The Month bespeaks our Tares, her Yeares, her Fate.

Dormitorium Elisabethee Skottowe filiolae Richardi Skottowe Gener. et Brigettse Uxoris Unicae, obijt Junij 5'° JEt. 3°. A. D, 1656.

Stay ; shee'll awake e're long, then cease to weepe,

The Damosell is not dead, but shoe's asleepe,

She (like her Sister) did but take a taste

Of Moital Life, then breathed it out in haste ;

Soe twoe at three Yeares old interred be,

In Expectation of the One in Three.

Sic (a death's head is placed here) T&.

B LITTLE-MELTON.

RepositumThomae, Filioli Johannis Brandon hujus Eccle- siae Vicarij, ab Anna Uxore sua, qui Menses natus duos, objt28 die Decern. Anno Salutis 1710.

A mural monument on the south side of the chancel, hath the arms of Johnson, and this,

Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Johnson Gent. Son and Heir of Mr. Rob. Johnson, who died June 7, 1714. And also of Mrs. Mary Johnson, the eldest Daughter of Mr. Rob. Johnson, who died Aug. 29, 1716, both single persons, brought up in the sound Principles of the Church of England, and of true loyalty to their Sovereign. This Monument was erected at the Charge of Mrs. Mary Johnson their surviving Sister, A. D. 1718.

In the nave on a brass plate by the desk,

Here under lieth the Body of Dorothie the Wife of Edmund Anguish, and Daughter to Robert Marsham Gent. And also the Body of Rob. Anguish her Sonne, which said Robert An- guish deceased the2 Day of June 1664, and the said Dorothy the 19 of the same Month following.

Mors ultima Lima Rerum.

Anguish, gul, acinquefoil pierced or, with a label of five impal- ing Marsham.

Johnson, gul. on a saltier org. 5 fer-du-molins of the field. Crest, an eagle's head erased, parted per pale embattled A. G.

Robert Johnson Gent. Sept. 17, 1680. A steady Church- man, a Loyal Subject, a loving Husband, an indulgent Father, and a hearty Friend. Mrs. Mary Johnson his Wife June 13, 1704, the most obliging of Wives, the tenderest of Mothers Our Flesh shall rest in hope, Ps. 16, 9.

Rob. Buck Aug. 18, 1727, £et. 65. Tho. Rackham aged 45.

In 1501, Thomas Batchcroft, lord of this town, was buried in our Lady's chapel, and in 1558, Rob. Allen, Gent, was buried in the church. In the north window of this chapel is a shield, on which, S. a chevron er. between three lions rampant arg. and in the south isle window, arg. a chief gul. over all a bendlet az. Cromwell.

This advowson was given in 1 121, by Ralfde Monte Caniso or Mont- chemy, and was confirmed by f Valine de Montchensy, his nephew,8 to Gilbert, prior of Ixworth in Suffolk, and the convent there, to which it was appropriated by Pope Honorius II. The rectory-house, and 24 acres of glebe, and the great tithes were assigned to the convent, who presented the vicars till its dissolution; it was first taxed at 10, and afterwards at 12 marks; the vicar had a house and 12 acres of land, and all the small tithes; the vicarage was valued at 4 marks and an half, but was not taxed; afterwards, the rectory and all that belonged to it, was granted to the vicar and his successours, paying the prior a

8 See vol. i. p. 185.

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perpetual pension of 46s. 8d. a year.9 The present terrier of the par- sonage and vicarage, hath no house, but about S3 acres of land, in 1538, King Henry VIII granted it to Richard Codington of Codington in Surrey, (now Nonesuch,) in exchange for the manor of Codington. along with the manor of lxworth, &c. and he with other trustees in 1554, sold it to Francis Chamberlain of Great-Melton, who in I56l held it in capite with the glebes and tithes thereto belonging, till by deed dated May 8, 1577, he conveyed them to Emmanuel college in Cambridge,' which hath presented to the vicarage ever since.

It is valued at 5l. 6s. 8d. in the King's Books, pays no first fruits; synodals 2s.; procurations 6s. Sd. The Prior of Wimondhams tempo- rals here were valued at lis. per annum.

VICARS

PRESENTED BY THE CONVENT.

1275, r William. 1301, Will. deWlpet.

Will de lxworth. 1316, Walter deEwston, who in 1322, exchanged it for lxworth chantry with

Will, le Bailiff of Norton. 3323, A Ian, son of Stephen de Lavenham. In 1349, during the great plague, three vicars were instituted. Tho. Cosse, Walter Bate, and John Gilbert. 1371, Simon de Horningtoft. 1375, Gilbert de Helhersete.

1388, John Fowler, who in 1395, changed this for Netlested with Henry Stork, who resigned to John Arteys. 1401, Ric. Manger. . 1410, Sir Robert Bernak.

14 19, John Josse, who resigned in 1426, to Tho. Drawswerd, and he in

1430, to John de Aylesham, who was buried here in 1457, and Jossc succeeded again, and was buried here in 1501, and in 1502, Will. Godred succeeded, and after him

Thurstan Browne, who was the last presented by the convent. In 1554, he was deprived, and Richard Coddington, Esq. presented Tho. Hewe, who was also deprived in 1555, and Walter Sparry was instituted ; he died the same year, and Ric. Wheatly was collated by the Bishop. 1 562, Edw. Reed. Fran. Chamberlain, Esq. 1587, Rob. House; he held it with Baburgh, and in 1603, returned answer, that in his two vicarages there were 158 communicants, that the valuation of the rectory and vicarage of Melton together, is in the

9 Acta Consistorij Norw. io Sept. wood, herbage, calves, &c. due to the

I5J4. Depos. 1598, fo. 156, b. Depos. vicar. Personal Answers.

a. 60, 1555. Personal answers about « E cartis penes Magrm. et Scolares

tithe corn, &c. somepaid two sheaves to Coll. Eman. Cantbr.

Great Melton, and one to this Melton. * Sir Rowland the priest was rector

Depcsitiones 1507, fo. 157. Tithe here, sans date.

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last valuation 5l. 6s. Sd and that the first valuation of the vicarage alone, was f>3s. 4d.

The following vicars were all presented by the masters and scholars of Emmanuel college in Cambridge.

1608, Alex. Wixted.

\6\\,John Fawether.

16 12, Will. Merrick.

1613, Tho. Robinson. 1618, Ric. Youngs. 1640, Tho. Bulbek.

Gawen Nash, one of the minor canons, deprived for not taking the oaths to King William III.

1691, John Brandon, united to Wramplingham.

1743, The Rev. Mr. John Freeman, on Brandon's death, united to Rackhithe, the present vicar.

This town belonged to Edwin in the Conqueror's time, who settled it at his death on the abbey of St. Bennet at Holm in Ludham in Norfolk; it was then worth 40s. afterwards 60s. and at the Conqueror's survey 4l. and was then held by Godric the Sewer, after Earl Ralfs forfeiture. There was also another manor here, and in Great Melton, held by one of the Confessor's thanes, which Godric also had ; Little- Melton was one mile and an half long, and 1 mile and 1 furlong broad, and paid 8d. q. to the geld.* Ingreda, wife to Edwin, confirmed her husband's grant, but after their deaths, Half their son agreed with Richer the Abbot, Ralf the Prior, and the monks, that he should hold it for life, remainder to Letseliue, his wife, for life, and the heirs of Ralf for ever, if he had any, if not, it was to revert to the convent, of which it was to be always held, by a clear rent of 10s. a year. It was called in this deed Medeltun the Less, or the Middle-Town. King Henry II. sent a precept to the sheriff of Noifolk, that the Abbot of St. Bennet should hold quietly this manor, which Hubert de Mont- chensy had disseized him of, during the war, and which he had ac- knowleged before the Archbishop of Canterbury, to be of that con- vent's fee ; w hereupon it was agreed, that Hubert and his heirs should hold the town of the convent, paying a fee-farm rent to the Abbot, of 10s. which is now paid to Bishop's manor of Heigham, which belonged to that convent. In 1284, William, son of Sir Warine de Montchensy, had view of frankpledge, assize of bread and ale, free-warren, &c.

In 1272, Reginald de Argentein and Lora his wife purchased several lands here; and in 1318, John son of Reginald, held one part of the manor at the loth part of a fee, oiAymer de Faience Earl oi Pembroke,

3 T¥rre Godrici Dapiferi. H. de car. terre et. iii. acr. semper iii. car. et

Humiliart. Doms. fo. 168. iii. acr prati et val. xx. sol. In his

ParvamMeletunam Xena'ixEduuinus duabus Meletunis i. car, terre tenet

T. R. E. de Sancto Benedicto et ita quidam liber homo Teinnus etiam

quod earn abbati concesserat post mor- T R. E. pro manerio tunc iii. vil. et

tern suam. semper ii. car. terre et iii. i. car. in dnio. et dim. car. horn, hoc

bord. et i. serv. et ii. car. in dominio, tenet Godricus, et tenebat quando R.

iii. acr. prati semper i. rune. etv. anim. fecit, et est in pretio de duobus mane-

modo xv. pore, et lxxxx. oves, tunc rijs, et parva Maltuna habet x. quar.

valuit lxj. post xl. modo iiii. libr. huic in longo, etv. in lato, et viii<^. et i.

manerio adjacent semper xii. liber, ho- ferdinc. de Gelto. mines contend, tantumet soca falde.dim.

LITTLE-MELTON. n

valued at 3/. Is. and another part of Holm abbey, valued at 17/. Qs.Sd. and then Emmade Bek and others held a part of Hertford fee, valued at 20s. of all which he died siezed ; as also of Keteiinghamia Norfolk, Haleswovth in Suffolk, Wimondly Parva in Hertfordshire, and several manors in Cambridgeshire, &c. John his son and heir being one year old. In 1381, Sir John de Argentein, Knt. settled it on Sir William, his son, and Isabel his wife, daughter of Will, de K erdeston, Knt. after the death of himself and Margaret his wife, who had it in 1383, the quit- rents being 10/. per annum, as also the manor of Keteringham; and Joan, wife of Bartholomew deNaunton, Knt. andMargaret their daugh- ter, 40 years old, Alice wife of Baldwin St. George, Knt. and Baldwin their son, 21 years old, and Maud wife of Ivo Fitz Warine, Knt. were heirs. In 1445, Will. Wymer, undMaigaret his wife, who was daughter and heir of John Toll of South-Elmham, settled it on John Alyngton, junior, Esq. and Mary his wife, remainder to Will. Alyngton, junior, father ot the said John and Eliz. his late wife, remainder to Anne Alyng- ton, cousin of Elizabeth. In 1469, John Alyngton and Mart/ his wife owned it; and in 1534, Giles Alyngton and Mary his wife, sold it to Eliz. Marsham, widow, when itextended into a\\ the Meltons, Hether- set, Bawburgh, and Colney : she was widow of John Marsham, mayor of Norzeich, who was buried in the chancel of St. John Maddermarket inNorwich, A°1525, (see vol. iv. p. 290.) In 1557, Tho. Marsham, alder- man of Norwich, was buried in St. John'sMaddermarket, and ]eflEliza- bethhh wife, andRalph his brother, each a moiety of the manor; James Marsham, his kinsman, was executor, with Eliz. his mother, Eliz. his wife, andHamon Claxtou, Gent.; his sister, Eliz. Layer, had John, Tho- mas, and Christopher, his nephews. In 1567, Ralph Marsham ot Nor- wich, grocer, was sole lord ; he married a daughter of Ha mon Claxtou of Livermere in Suffolk, and left it to Robert Marsham, his son and heir, who married Eliz. daughter of Robert Downes of Bodney and Great Melton, who had first EdwardMursham of Little Melton, lord in 1612 ; who married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Edmund Grey of Bun- well in Norfolk; second, John Marsham ; third, Thomas Marsham, al- derman of London, from whom descended SlrRobert Marsham of Win- farthing, created Lord Rom ney in 1716, (seePeerage vol. iv. p. 298.) The manor was sold about 1620, for then it appears by a particular made for its sale, that it was let at 125/. per annum, and contained above 16 score acres; and the freehold rents belonging to it were Si. 12s. 2c?. per annum, most having been manumised by the Marshams. In 1623 Tho. Sayer and Will. Barker settled it on Laur. Sotherton, Gent, and his heirs. In 1636, Augustine Scottowe, Gent, died siezed of Melton Parva, and left two sons, Richard his son and heir, aged 10 years, and Augustine, aged two years. Richard Skottoiv died in 1656, Augustine Scottowe in 1683, and it continued in this family till Tho- mas Scottowe of Norzoich, Gent, sold it to

Sir Benjamin Wrench, Knt. M. D. of the said city, who is the present lord.

GREAT-MELTON.

MELTON-HALL, HERTFORD'S, or HEREFORD'S MANOR,

Belonged very early to Roger de Melton Parva, and Muriel ht3 wife, about 1 180, and after to Roger his son, and Roger his grandson, who sold to Master Vincent de Bek, all his lay fee and freehold, which he and his father held of Will, son of Jeffry of Great Me/ton, in order to enable him to go in pilgrimage to the Holy-Land, having settled on Emma his wife the land late Rob. de Me/ton's, his kinsman, near the land of William the parson of Little Melton. In 1228, Will, de Bek held it at half a quarter of a fee of the heirs of Montchensy, who held it of Sir Robert de Tateshall, who held it of the honour of Pevereil; in 1280, William de Hereford (from whom it took its name) owned it; in 1318, Emma de Bek had it; and in 1323, Will, de Hertford held it at the 8th part of a fee, of the Earl of Pembrook, and John Dameshad it soon after. In 1338, by the name of Burfield's manor, an 8th part of it was settled on John Ski/man and Margaret his wife, and John their son; and in 1345, it was found that the heirs of Will, de Bek held it. In 1371, the feoffees of Margaret widow of Ra/fde Booking, released it to John Dunnung and his heirs; in 1401, Thomas de Blickling, son of Thomas, son of William de Blickling, and Julian, daughter of William Spunk of Norwich, his wife, held it; but he being a minor, it was in the King's hands; in 1408, Rog. Blickling had it; in 1418, it was sold by John Swa)i and Ric. Mones/e, to John Briston, Esq. Henry Lesingham, and Robert Harrington and Eliz. his wife ; in 1459, Robert Allen, senior of Erlham, and Henry Spelman, mortgaged it to Simon Thornham, &c. for 1 10 marks; and in 1501, Tho. Batche- croft of Melton Parva gave it to Christian his wife, by will, for life, and then to be sold ; in" 1574, Rich. Ca/le of Melton, Gent, and Edith his wife, and Tho. Calk, Gent, and Catherine his wife, sold it to Nt- choals SoTHERTON,junr. of Norwich, Gent, and his heirs, in whose family it afterwards became joined to Melton-Parva manor,

G R E AT-ME LTON,

Or Middle-ton, had two churches standing very near one another in the same churchyard; that dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin is now standing, and in use; it belonged to the manor of Hacon's or Hakun's in this town, and when Norzcich Domesday was made, Ric. Hakun was patron of it ; the rector had a house and four acres of land; it was first valued at 9, and after at 12 marks; it paid \3d. synodals, 6s. Sd. procurations to the Archdeacon of Norfolk, \Sd. Peter-pence, and id. ob. carvage. The tower was built in 1440. and hath three bells in it; the church hath only one isle, which is thatched, as is the south porch; the chancel is tiled. The rectory remains undischarged, be- ing valued in the King's Books at 61. 13s. Ad. and so pays 13s. 4d. yearly tenths, but no first fruits. It paid to the ancient tenths 3/. 16s.

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clear. It is 27 yards long, and 6 yards and an half broad. In the chancel, on a marble, is this,

Here lieth interred the Body of William Younger, Master in Arts, and Rector oi both these Parishes, who deceased March the 6, 1661, .Etatis suae 57,

Younger he was by Name, but not in Grace, Elder than he, in this, must give him Place. His Faith, his Patience, Charity, and Love, Argue his Soul to be in Heaven above. Frances his Relict died Oct. 17, 1665. On another stone, Bacon impales Bedingfield,

Eliz. Infant Daughter of Francis Bacon of Norwich Esq; and

Dorothy his Wife, who died at Nurse with Rob. Titles of this

Town, was buried July CI, l66l. Life is even a Vapour that

appeareth for a little Time, then vanisheth away, Lam. 4, 14.

At the lower end of the nave, there is a stone for, Thomas Clarke,

21, May, 1689, 60, and Bridget his wife 28 Jan. 1672, 50.

In 1527, Rob. Boleyn, wax-chandler of Noricich, after the death of Alice his wife, gave a messuage and 8 acres and 3 roods of arabie land, and a piece of meadow containing two acres and an half, and two acres of arable land late Robert Barker's, lying in the town and field of Great- Melton, with the course of a faldage of 200 sheep, to the parish church of our Lady of the said town, to be in the hands of 10 or 12 persons (feoffees) dwelling in the said parish, to hold to them and their assignees for evermore. The church-wardens for their year to receive the profits, out of which 6s. 8d. to be yearly reserved towards discharging the parishioners of the King's taxes. His own and wife's obit to be kept in the church yearly on Whitsunday, with placebo, di- rige, and )>iass of requiem, and the rest to repair the church. (Regr. Pa/grave, fo. 17.)

The Prior of Wimondhams temporals were taxed at 9s. and the Prior of Walsinghams at 3s. Sd. this was given to that monastery by Master Vincent de Becco, or Bek, and issued out of the lauds which he held of Will. Fitz Jeffery, and of Richard son of Ribald, and that convent sold it to Ric. de Hethersete, rector of this church, paying 3s. to ihe convent; and Pandulph Bishp.p of Norwich licensed Master Vincent de Bek to purchase 15 acres of the free land of St. Mary's church at Melton, (with consent of the rector and patron,) to him and his heirs, paying 3s. to the rector for ever, in 1221. In 1484, henry lletjdon received 5/. of Thomas Batchcmft, Gent, in full payment for the lands late the Prior of Walsinghams in Melton-Magna

RECTORS OF MELTON ST. MARY.

William de Melton, rector and patron.

1221, Ric, de Hethersete. Will, sun of Jeff ry de Magna Melton, patron ; he gave to Herbert de Hetliersete 6 acres, and to Simon ton of Herbert, 1 acre, paying \Qd. per annum to St. Mary's altar.

1302, Walter de Winfarthing. Sir Hugh Vere, Knt.

1307, Walter de Magna Heniuy. Ditto.

13-0, the advowson belonged to the Montchensies, capital lords

14 GREAT-MELTON.

here, and in 1313, Aymer de Valence Earl of Pembroke, then patron, held it of the fee of the barony of Montchensy.

1347, Hugh, son of Hugh (iodwold, buried here in 1376. Sir Ric. Talbot, Knt. and E/iz. his wife.

1377, Griffin ap Johan. Sir Gilbert Talbot, Knt. lord of [rclienfield, Blakmerc, and Godric's castle in Hertfordshire: he changed the next year for Obcly in Wells diocese, with

Nic.Hadham, who in 1382 changed fovCaystro in Lincoln diocese, with

Will. Hasulbech. Sir Gilbert Talbot, &,c. and in 1396, he ex- changed for Ampthilt in Lincoln diocese, with

Ric. Snow, who was presented by Sir Gilbert Talbot, Knt. Lord Talbot.

1410, Ric. Manger, buried here in 1453. Ditto. Robert Hope was rector here, and resigned in

1471, to John Chapman, who was presented by John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Talbot, &c. he died inl506, and was buried in the chancel, and gave a legacy to our Lady's gild in this church, and another to that of the Baptist in All-Saints church.

1507, Robert Jermyn, by lapse, united to All-Saints; he died in 1523, and George Earl of Shrewsbury presented

Ric. B/onston, who resigned in 1526, and the Earl presented

John Johnson, who died in 1546, and Frances Countess of Shrews- bury presented

John Harrys; and the year following,

John IVaynhouse, who held it by union with Southwood rectory. In 1555, she gave it

Walter Sparry, who had it united to All-Saints, and was licensed to serve these churches alternately, and so held it as one living, with Nemy Tracy, alias Bower, in Devonshire, Thomas Downes being his curate here ; he died in 1557, and she gave it

Robert Wincop, who held it with All-Saints, at whose death in

1578, George Ma/by had it. In

1589, George Earl of Shrewsbury gave it to

Will. Strickland, A. B. who returned 72 communicants here; he had it united toCaldecote, and at his death in 1(515, the Earl gave it to

Robert Gobert, who held it united to Mar/ingford.

1649, Will. Younger, united to All-Saints, buried here in 1661.

1662, Tho. Ward, united to All-Saints. Sir John Talbot, Knt. At his death in 1680, Charles Earl of Shrewsbury gave it to

John Amyas, who held it united to All-Saints, and resigned this in 1703, when Edm. Keene, Esq. gave it to

Tho. Jephson, who was succeeded by

Joseph- Ben-Ellis, in whose time an act passed, (12 Anna, Session. 1,) by which, this parish and that of All- Saints, were consolidated and made one rectory, advowson, and parish; the church of All- Saints to be pulled down, and the materials to be laid out in repairing St. Miny's church ; the same officers to serve both parishes as one ; and with the consent of Edm. Keene, Esq. lord of the manors, and patron of the churches, and of Ami/as, rector of All-Saints, and Ellis, rector here ; at the next avoidance they were to be one rectory, with one presenta- tion, double institution tees, and all other fees due to the King, Bishop, Archdeacon, Sec. to be paid as usual heretofore, and all the

GREAT-MELTON. 13

parishioners to be liable to repair St. Mary's church ; and the act to be deemed a publick act. The advowson was afterwards sold to Go.\ vile and Caius college \\\ Cambridge: and Dr. Ellis having resigned, in

1723, William Selth, A. M. fellow of that house, was presented to it, as one rectory, and held it united to St. Michael in Coslany in Norwich; (see vol. iv.p. 493;) he died and was buried here in 1740, and in

1741, The Rev. Mr. Charles Tucke, A. M. late fellow of the college, the present rector, had it of the gift of the college, and now holds it united to St. Michael in Coslani/ in Norwich.

The advowson of St. Mary always attended that manor or moiety of the town, which, from the owner's name, was called

THE MANOR OF HAKUN'S or HACON'S,

Which Edwin, a thane of the Confessor's, held in his time, when there were two carucates of land in demean, ix. villeins, v. bordars, and iiii. servants; wood sufficient to keep lx. swine, Ix. sheep, iii. hives of bees, &c. the whole of the manor being then worth 6/. and at the Conquest 7 /. The King and the Earl of Norfolk, had the soc or superiour jurisdiction, and Godric the sewer then held it.4 It soon came into the hands of the Meltons of Great Melton, and Thomas de Melton Magna had it; his son Jeffry succeeded, and his son William was rector here, patron, and lord, in 1199; and ThomasFitz-Walter-, released it to him as 2 carucates of land in 1200; and in 1205 Rob. Hacun had bought it, and settled it on Ric. Hacun, it being- then held at half a fee; and in 1219, Hubert, son of Ric. Hacun had it, and was then under age, and in the custody of Hubert de Mont- chensy, of whose barony it was always held ; in 1229, Hubert granted to Robert son of Thomas Hacun, lands here, and to Simon son ot Her- bert de Hetherset, the homage of Anastatia, daughter of Bartholomew of Melton Magna, and her free tenement; in 1240, Will, de Munt- chensy, capital lord of the fee, and patron, resided here; in 1297, Hu- bert Hakun, then lord, hindered his tenants paying to the Earl's or sheriff's turn, or hundred court, for which he was impleaded by the Crown; but on paying the King 4s. Id. per annum he had a lete and view of frankpledge allowed to this manor, and free-warren, and so became exempt from the hundred court. This was allowed in Eire. in 1274, and 1284; at which time, Ric. Hacun, then lord, acknow- ledged that he held the whole fee, and all liberties thereto belonging, of William de Muntchensy, his capital lord : and now the lete of Melton was held in the name of the said William, and in 128,5, Simon, son of

4 Terre Godrici dapiferi H. de Hu- semper ii. car. et. iii. acr. prati. Rex;

miliart. Doms. fo. 167. Meltunam Comes; socam, et val. viii. sol. et mane-

tenuit Eduuinus, temuus, T. R. E. ii. rium valuit tunc vi. lib postc. sol.modo

car. terre, semper ix. villani, et v. bor- vii. lib. et iiii. liberi liom. commend,

darij, et iiii. servi. tunc ii. car. in dom- tantum xxx. acr. terre, semper i. car. et

nio, post i. modo ii. tunc iii. car. homin. i. acr. et i. acr. et dim. prati et val. v.

post et modo ii. silv. lx. pore. xx. acr, sol. IiiMeltuna ix. libr. homines

prati semper i. molin. tunc i. rune, modo commend, tantum, ex. acr. semper ii.

ii. semper x. anim. et xiii. pore. m° lx. bord. tunc iii. car. et dim. modo iiii. v. oves, iii. vasa apum etix. liberi homines, scca falde, et commend, tantum. 1. acr.

16 GREAT-MELTON.

Hubert Hacon, and Anne his wife, conveyed to William, son of Wa- rine de Moiilc/iensie, capital lord of the fee, the advowson of St. Mary, the hie, and the moiety of the churchyard, containing 1 acre; and the same year a fine was levied between John son of John de Bohun, and Ric. son of Hubert Hucon, and Anne his wife, by which the 4th part of Ofton manor in Suffolk was settled on John; and in 12y0, John Hacon of Shouldham and Anne his wife. Hubert son of John Ha- con and Katherine his wife, conveyed many lands here to Simon of Hetherset; and in 1302, Hubert son of Sir Richard Hacun, Knt. had the manor only, out of which he granted 6s. 8r/. per annum, to the said Simon ; for Hugh de Vert and Dionisc his wife had the letk and advowson, and held it as part of the fees of Rob. de Tateshall, which Thomas de Gaily then had. In 13 12, they settled them by fine on Gilbert Baliol, and Katherine his wife, who were found in 1315, to hold them, as Hubert Hacon did the manor. In 1318, Ric. Hacun of Great Melton married. Anne, second daughter of Roger, and sister and coheir of Ric. Lovedau of Great Brisete in Suffolk, and in 1320, Hu- bert his father settled this manor on him after his own death, which happened about 1323, for then Hubert's heirs had it. In 1345,s Ric. Hacun held it with BriseteMagna in Suffolk, which he had of his wife's inheritance, and in 1360 he was lord here. In 1342, Gilbert Baliol conveyed the advowson and hie, &c. to Sir Richard Talbot, who pre- sented in 1347, in which family it continued till lately, as the several presentations show, to which I refer vou. The manor continued in the Hacons; for in 1432, JVill. Hacon of Ipswich, and Margaret his wife conveyed it to John Hacon of IVyveton, whose son 1 hontas of City in Norfolk, in 1450, sold it to Robert Toppe, merchant and alderman of No?-wich, who died in 1467; and his son Robert of Great Melton in 1487, gave the manor and his whole estate, to Sir Gregory Lovell, Knt. his nephew, and to Anne Lovell, his sister, and to John Toppe, his bastard son, divers legacies ; and it continued in that family till 1534, (see vol. i. p. 323,) and then Thomas Lovell, Knt. and Eleanor his wife, settled it on Ambrose Jl'ol/eu, and in 1557, Roger IVoodhouse, Knt. settled it on Henry Dmry, as trustees only to the Lovells, from which family it went to Edward Downes of Melton, Esq. who mar- . ried Katherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Lovell of Herling, Knt. relict of Sir Thomas Knevet of Bukenham, and of Edzcard Spring, Esq. in which family it became joined to, and remained with,

THE MANOR OF PEVERELL'S

In this town, to which the advowson of the church of All-Saints, with the chapel of of A/gar's Thorp, always heionged. This church, since the act for that purpose, is ruinated ; the steeple is square, the nave is 20 yards long, and the chancel 9, it had a south porch, but no isles: on a stone in the altar are three coats impaled, 1st, 6 escalops 3, 2, 1. 2d, Anguish. 3d, a boar's head cooped :

5 1 333, loan Hacon died siczed of six by the law of courtesy of England, in

acres held of the lord, and Will, her ton 1323, John Hakon was steward of Am-

washer heir, and iK years old, but Nic. ringhall court, to the dean and chapter. Crostweyth her husband held it for life,

GREAT-MELTON. 17

Here lieth John Anguish of Great Melton Esq; who after a faith full Discharge of his Duty to King Charles the first of bles- sed Memory, in his Wars during the wicked Rebellion, died on the 12 of Febr. aged 79 Years.

On another adjoining stone, Anguish impales a lion rampant in a bordure indented.

Here lyeth the Body of Major Edm. Anguish Apr. 10, 1694, 80, and Anna his Wife, Oct. 8, 1702, 81.

Hie jacet spe futurae Resurrectionis Thomas Ward, hujus alte- riusque Ecclesiaj Rector, obijt 22° die Sept. Anno iEt. 59, Dni. 1680.

In the north-east corner of the chancel is an old arched monument, by which lies a stone, but the inscription was so covered with dirt, I could make out only the words, Dam Ludis, transit Vita, but it was laid over Edmund Anguish, Esq. lord and patron, who died Nov. 5, 1657, set. 84.

There is an inscription in the churchyard for the wife of Robert Davy.

The rector, when Norwich Domesday was made, had a house and 23 acres of land, valued without the portion, at 12 marks, and the por- tion of the Prioress of Redly ng field, being a portion of the tithes of the demeans, was valued at 1 mark, afterwards at 30s. the synodals 2s. procurations 6s. 8d. Peter-pence ]s. 4d. carvage id. The present terrier hath a house and 25 acres of glebe. There was a gild of St. John Baptist held in the church. The south porch was new built in 1455, and this parish paid to the old taske or tenths, 1/. 17s. out of which there was a deduction of 8s. on account of the lands and reve- nues of the religious here. It stands in the King's Books by the name of Melton Flolman. All-Saints rectory is valued at 61. \3s.4d and pays 13s. 4d. yearly tenths, but no first fruits. There is a good house, called Melton hall, north-west of the churchyard at a small distance, in which the Rev. Mr. Lombe now dwells, which is the site of this manor.

RECTORS OF MELTON ALL -SAINTS,

WITH ALGARTHORP CHAPEL.

1301, Remigius Skileman. John Peverel.

1312, Stephen, son of Bartholomew Winterton, resigned.

13 14, Julian Peverel, patroness.

1331, Thomas de Morley. Sir Hugh Peverel. Resigned;

1338, Hugh Wykeman. Ditto.

1366, John atte Cherche, lapse, resigned.

1368, William de Kelby. Sir Wjlliam de Burton, Knt. He changed in 1373, with

John atte Park, for Kellyng.

1395, John Cobbald. John Peverell of Mellon, and Ric. Fre- ton, clerk; and in 1402, he exchanged for Hevertond with

vol. v. D

18 GREAT-MELTON.

John Snow, who was presented by John Peverel, and Will. Curson.

1420, Henri/ Hall. Sir Edmund Bury, Knt.

1444, John Toftys. Ric. Elsy, 8tc. He died in 1475, and was buried in St. Giles's church at Norwich.

1476', Henri/ Bozun. Will. Paston, &c. buried in 1487 ; he was son of John Boznn of Great Breccles, and had a brother William, whose sonllenry and his brothers were his heirs. 1488, Rob. Jermyn, lord ofPeverel's manovJVill. Paston, and other feoffees ; united to St. Mary.

1523, Gilbert Wheeler. George Talbot, for this turn ; resigned.

1351, Will. Sparry united to St. Mary. Tho. Downes, Gent.

1557, Rob. Whincop, united to St. Mary, buried here March 18, 1578 Rob. Richers, Gent.

1579, Hugh Castleton, resigned.

1589, Tho Browne. Robert Browne, Esq. of Melton and Doro- thy his wife ; he returned 80 communicants in this parish, and died June 22, 1631, when

Will. Younger was presented by Edmund Anguish of Melton, Esq. and had it united to St. Mary.

1662, Tho. Ward, who is buried here, was presented by Frances Younger, and had it united to St. Mary, as

JohnAmyas also had ; he died 26 July, 1728, and was presented by John Anguish, Esq. and in his time it was annexed as before, by act of parliament, to St. Mary's church here.

PEVEREL'S MANOR

Was owned by Ketel, a Dane, in the Confessor's time, and con- tained two carucates; there was a wood to maintain 100 swine, two beehives, a faldage, and 60 sheep, and in the Conqueror's time 1 14, when it was held of Ralf Peverel, one of the Normans who came in with that prince, by Garinus or Marine, who had 7 freemen under him ; the church was valued with the manor, and had 3 acres of land worth 2s. the manor and church was in King Edward's time valued at 6/. and in King William's at ll. ; the whole of the town and both manors, paid l6d. ob. to the geld or tax.

It was a league and 3 furlongs long and half a league .broad, and was aways held of the Peverells ;6 for in 1204, Gerebert de Sancto C/o»oheld it for life, of the fee of Will. Peverell; but it was the ma- nor only, for the Peverells had the advowson, lete, and royalties as capital lords all the while. Mathew Peverel gave to the monks

6 Terre Rannulfi Peverelli. et val. ii. sol. et sunt in pretio de vii.

Hund. Humiliart. Donisd. fo. 260, 1. liberis tunc et post val. vi. lib. m° vii.

Mei.tuna tenet idem Garinus, q. et habet i. leug. in longo et iii. quar.

tenuit Ketel, T. R. E. ii. car. terre et dim. leug. in lato etde gelto xvid. et

sen. per ii. vitlani et xvii. bordarij et ii. obolum, quicunque ibi habeat.

servi etii. car. in dnio. tunc v. car. horn. In Mflltunana tenet idem Gari-

post et m» iiii. silv. c porci. semper i. nus i lib. homovi. acr. prati et val.

mol. et ii. rune, tunc iiii. anim. m" vi. vi.d. hoc invasit R. Peverel.

tunc xxx. pore, m" xlv. tunc lx. oves (fo. 306.) In Meletuna i. lib.

m'cxiiii. ii vara apum et vi. liberi homi- homo quern invasit Ranulfus Peve-

nes de xvii. acr. soca (aide. T. R. E. rellus, et habet vi. acr. et dim. acr.

etcommend. tantum, semper Ixxvii. acr. prati, val. vi.d. i. ecdesia, et iiii. acr, in pretio manerij,

GREAT-MELTON. ,g

of Norwich, lands and rents belonging to his manor here;' in 1 186 Will. Peverel, his son and heir, held five knights fees of the honour of Peverel, of which this manor at 3 fees, and Brakene manor, which at- tended this, at] fee; and Oliva his widow held it in jointure; and William de la More gave Ric. I. 40 marks to marry her, and have the custody of PeverelS children and lands till they cameof a^e • she af- ter married Hugh de Risings, and in 1204, William his son had seizin of this and Brakene, and paid the King 20 marks, and a palfrey for livery thereof; and the same year, Cecily de SaucloOmero, or Sent Umer, lady ot Brundale manor, promised King John 10 marks, if he would put her in seizen of the land of Will. Peverel, as freely as Kin- Kichard I. gave the custody thereof and of his heir, to William de 1% More and William's widow to be wife to the said William de la More which was granted; and the year following, Will. Peverel took it out of her hands; in 1218, Mat. Peverel held here, and in Brakene Kete- nngham, Carleton, and Riveshall, 4 fees, of the honour of Peverel and Jeffry Tregoz one in Billingford. In 1242, Hugh Peverel held Melton at three fees, and John his son and heir was 2a years old In 1246, Alice widow of Hugh Peverel held it till her dower should be assigned ; and the custody of the heir and estate of Hugh, was granted to Peter Braunch. In 1249, Alice his mother was married to J/evan- der de laux, or de Valiibus; and Oliva, grandmother to Hu«h, was alive, and married to Mat. Peverel.

In 1350, King Henry III. granted him a weekly market and fair to his manor of Melton and free warren to it and his manor of Bra- kene, and assise of bread and ale, which was allowed in eire in 1"84 -8 with liberty of a cucking-stool, paying l6d. ob. per annum to the Kings hundred court, for the exemption from its jurisdiction. In 12^1, Sir Bartholomew de Redham, Knt. gave the moiety of Scolow manor with his daughter Joan, in marriage to John son and heir of Sir Hugh Peverel, and Sir Hugh gave lands to Sir John Peverel, the parson of Scotfow ; Sir Thomas, son of John Peverel, his grandson and iona «■ '?/ 1S?5' a"d ™as buried in Bodmyn priory in Cornwall. In 1298, Sir Hugh, and Maud his wife, held it as of the honour of Hat ■ Jeld Severe I at 3 fees, and Braken manor at 1 fee ; and the same year conveyec \ Melton to Hugh Wykeman, parson there; bv which they settled this manor and advowson on themselves for their lives re- mainder to Sir Robert de Bajocis, Knt. and Maud his wife, daughter ot John Peverel, their grand daughter, in tail. This Sir Hu»h was buried also in Bodmyn priory, to which he was a benefactor. °

Sir Rob. de Bajocis, Baieux, or Bayhousc, was of the ancient family in Lincolnshire ot that name, owners of the honour of Baieux in that county. John de Bajocis was justice itinerant, and conservator of the .Kings royalties and wreck in Devonshire and Comical/ in 1218 In 1302, John son of Hugh Peverel had it. In 1308, John Peverel and

7 The prior of Norwich was taxed firmed tl.e donation, on condition thev tor his revenues here at 7j. 2d. namely, received his brother, Peter Peverel a 3-s. rent out of 8 acres held by Barnard monk among them. (Re^r v Red

the Driest. It. n„t nf K„A~ ,1* l\/l»l. ,..->.. <•> .1 r „° . v o wt1.

the pnesi, 25. out of Eudo de Mel

Cath. fo 48,75.)

ands, and tne land which Sir Godefnde " I„ I2Sl> Andrew Peverel was one

am T&j Vd' rVhJl Was bl0ther t0 of the barons summoned to attend

A'delaird, wife of Mat. Peverel and King Edward I. into Wales. Mat. Peverel, lus son and heir, con-

20 GREAT-MELTON.

Joan de Redham his wife settled this and Brakene in trn3t, on Remi- gius, rector here, to hold to their uses for their lives. In 1327, it was settled on Hugh Peverel and Margaret his wife, in tail. In 1338, Thomas Seymour, lord of Pulton by Cirencester, and John de Lyle, lord of Harwood in Yorkshire, released to Eliz. Peverel, Ric. de Bay- huse, and Will, de Burton, Knts. this manor, and Pishobnry in Hert- fordshire, the church of Wimpol, the manors of Coveney, Rampton, Cotonham, and IVestwyk, in Cambridgeshire, with many others; in all which, Alice his wife, daughter of Rob. de Lisle, and Eliz. Peverel, Sec. were infeoffed. In 1 342, Ric. de Bayhouse, Alice de Seintmor, Eliz. Peverel, Will, de Burton, Knt. Edrn. de Benhale, and Henry Ewenny, granted them to John de Lisle, lord of Harwood ; and in 1344, John de Bayhouse qnitted all his interest to Sir Hugh Peverel, Knt. lord here in 1346. In 1349, the jury found, that Jo/m son of Edmund Peverel died Nov. 1.5, but long before his death had conveyed his manors, in trust.lo John de Insula deRubeoMonte, Hugh Bray, and others, and Lho. de Verdon and Alice his wife had them for life; but the said Alice be- ing dead, Margaret, now the wife of William de la Pole, junior, sister and heir to the said John Peverel, was 20 years old, which said Wil- liam de la Pole, released all his right to John de Insula and his heirs, and that the said John Peverel died under age, and the King's ward. In 1351, Sir Hugh Peverel, Knt. and Maud his wife, settled the manor and advowson on themselves for their lives, remainder to Sir Robert de Bajocis, and Maud, daughter of John Peverel, in tail; and in 1360, they conveyed all their right to Robert de Bumpstede and Thomas his son, except 20s. rent, and two knights fees belonging to the manor. In 1372, Maud, daughter of Robert de Bajocis, Knt. and sister of Sir Richard de Bajocis, Knt. released all her right in this manor and ad- vowson, to William Burton, Knt. and Eleanor his wife; this Sir Wil- liam was one of thejustices of the King's Bench in Edward the Third's time, whose chief seat was at Talethorp in Rutlandshire; he died in 1374, leaving issue by his first wife, Sir Thomas Burton, Knt. 40 years old; and by Eleanor his 2d wife, Nicholas. {Wright's Rutlandshire, p. 128.)

In 1395, John Peverel of Melton was lord of a moiety, and patron. In 1401, the said John had settled a moiety on Will. Curson and Mar- garet his wife, and they three held it of the honour of Hatjield Peverel at half a fee. In 1435, John Peverel, Esq. died, and was buried in the church of the Austin-J'riars at Norwich, and left Eliz. his wife executrix, who was afterwards buried by him.9 In 1436, the said Elizabeth, then widow of John Peverel, settled the moiety on herself and William Paston, Ric. Elsy and Margaret his wife, who presented in 1444; and in 1467, Ehy and his wife conveyed their right to Rob. Skerne, and others, trustees for Will. Paston, who presented in 1476, and 14S8. In 1523, Sir Gilbert Talbot the younger, Knt. was lord and patron ; and in 1543, Tho. Ashley had it in right of Maty hiswife, one of the daughters and coheiresses of the lady Anne, late wife of Sir Gilbert Talbot, Knt.1 In 1545, Robert Newport and Margaret his wife settled the third part of the moiety of this manor and advow- son on Sir John Clere, Knt. In 1547. the King licensed Anthony Lit- tleton to alien a third part of the manor to Robert Richers, and his

? See vol. iv. p. S8. ' Obijt 12 Oct. 34 H. VII.

GREAT-MELTON. 21

heirs; in ]548, Tho. Asteley and Maiy his wife sold their third part to the said Robert ; in 1559, Rob. Richers held three parts of the moi- ety of this manor, and in 1575, had got the whole moiety, and sold it to Rob. Downes and his heirs, who had purchased the other moiety before 1531 ; for in that year he presented in its right, and died in 1547, Francis his son being 16' years old. It appears that Thomas Downes first purchased this moiety of Tho. AppleyardT Gent. and Avice his wife.2. In 1558, the said Francis Downes was lord also of Thorney manor; and in 156l, Robert Downes had livery of this, and was returned lord in 1570; in 1574, Edward his son was born, Apr. 8 ; he married Katherine daughter of Sir Tho. Lovell of Herling, Knt. relict of Sir Thomas Knevet of Bukenham, Knt. and of Edward Spring, Esq. In 1589, Rob. Dozvnes of Melton, Esq. 3 and Dorothy his wife, presented ; and in 1609, they sold the whole to Thomas Anguish Esq. and his heirs ; he bare gul. a cinquefoil or, a mullet for difference sab. ; crest, an adder sleeping in a fern bush proper ;+ and the same year it was settled on Edmund Anguish, Gent, and his heirs ; he was second son to John Anguish, twice mayor of Norwich; this Edmund presented in 1631, died in 1657, and was succeeded by John Anguish of Me/ton, Esq. his son, who presented in 1680. He gave it by will to John son of Edmund Woodhouse of Lexham, who married Anne his daughter;5 he was lord and patron in 1692, and John Woodhouse his son sold it to Edmund Keene; and by the particular then deli- vered, it appears that the quit and free-rents of the two manors were 9/. 10s. per annum; that the fines were at the lord's will, and each ma- nor had weyf, estray, ietes, and all other royalties, and that the whole demeans and estate were above 400/. per annum. In 1701, Edmund Keene was lord of the town, and afterwards one of the South Sea di- rectors, he died single at Bath, Jan. 21, 1723, but before his death, had sold Melton to Edward Lombe Esq. who settled in the hall here,6 and died Apr. 1738, being succeeded by his brother,

The Rev. Mr. John Lombe, late fellow of Cuius college, after that, rector and vicar of Seaming, then rector of Hei hill, and now of Sparham and Foxley, who is the present owner, and lives here.

1 Curia prima Barth. de Appleyard, * This was granted by Rob. Cook.

et sociorum A° 1376. 13S8, Ric. Jer- 5 See vol. ii. p. 558, in Wodehouse's

nemuth had a moiety. pedigree.

3 On a bedstead at Melton in Mr. b Over Melton-hall door, Anguish and

Rob. Downes's house, Downes, arg. Drake, by the staircase Anguish D. of

three pales wavy gul. quartering 1st, az. Norf. in the hall, the five Senses neatly

a stag at layer arg. who married the painted in glass ; in the great parlour,

daughter and heiress of Richers, who the arms of King James 1. and the Prince

married the daughter and heiress of of Wales. Slade.

MSS. penes 7. Anstis, Garter. E. 26, fo. 5, 4.

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ALG AR'S-THORP

Is a hamlet to Great-Melton ; it had a chapel, formerly parochial dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, but now long since demolished ; it stood in a close called Maudlin close; Norwich Domesday says, that then the rectors of Melton St. Mary and All-Saints took all the profits belonging to the chapel, for which they were obliged at their charge to find a chaplain to serve in it; it had baptism, burial, and all signs of a mother church, and seven parishioners and their families ; it is still called Thorp hamlet. In 1+76, it was perpetually united to Melton All-Saints, though the chapel continued in use till the Disso- lution, in the Conqueror's survey it is not named, being then part of Melton, which was given soon after to one Algar, from whom it took is name.

In 1 198, Rob. de Riflai settled on Maud Prioress of Karhoe, and that convent, 7s. rent here,7 to be received yearly of Alice Peverel, Humfry de Eiiham, and Gerebert de St. Clere, and their hens; and the Pevereh gave so much after, that the prioress in 1279 was returned, to hold in Melton and Algarthorp, of John Peverel, a quarter of a fee; and in 1428, that convent was taxed at 39s. 6d. for their tempoiahties here.

Jeffry son of Godfry de Algeresthorp gave two acres of land to the monks of Norwich,8 with the consent oi'S'ir Hubert Hacun of Great-Melton, his lord, Ric. Hacun his son, and Hubert Hacun his nephew; Will. Burch, parson of Homingtoft, being witness; and in 1491, the pitanciary of their monastery accounted for the profits of 2 acres in Algerysthorp by Bawburgh, which were given by Sir Gre- gory Lovel, Knt. for & pittance in the monastery on his obit day. The principal part or

MANOR OF ALG AR'S-THORP

Belonged to one Algar, of the gift of Math ew Peverel; in 1248, John te Breton, for siding with the French King, forfeited it; in 1249, Simon son of Will, de Melton, and Will, de Herejord had it, with Simon son of Herbert de Hetherset, and Maud de Melton ; and in 1267, Si- mon de Melton was sole lord ; in 1268, it was found before the justices itinerant then sitting at Diss in Norfolk,9 that Bartholomew deliedham had unjustly disseized Richard Ski/man of Hethersete, and in 1284, Barth. de Redham and Ric. Ski/man, had unjustly disseized John sou of the said Bartholomew, of 4 messuages, 60 acres of land, and 6s. rent here. In 1305, Simon de Hethersete and Cecily his wife had a release from Ric. Doche, or Doge, mercer, of London, who married Sibil, daughter of Nicholas de Hethersete. 1S23, John le Graunger of Great Melton granted lands in Graungcr's Croft, to Sir Simon de He- thersete, Knt. and Cecity his wife ; this was soon after divided into

7 See vol. iv. p. 528. 9 Placita apud Disse an. 53 H. 3.

8 Regr. Sacriste, fo. 68, 9.

HETHERSETE. 23

many parts ; Henry and Will. Lominour had some lands and rents, Jeffery Davy the younger of Marling ford, others, and James le Pal- mer, Thomas de Blickling, DavidMercator, or Chapman, were, and had been, concerned in the manor called Skilman's. In 1401, Henry Lorn nor, junior, had the biggest part, which joined to Hacon's ; and the other parts afterwards were in the Wootons, Flowerdews, Corbels, and Davies.

The revenues of the monastery of Wimondham here, were given by Mat.Peverel, and Alice his wife, Richard son of Ribald, Hugh Noble, Jeffery Clerk, and Roger de Hereford.

HETHERSETE,

1 he capital village of this hundred, is called in Domesday Book Hederseta. the seat at the place or most publick road entering the hundred ; it belonged in the Confessor's days to Olf, one of the thanes or barons, and after to Earl Ralf, on whose forfeiture it was given to Alan Earl of Richmond, who gave it in the Conqueror's time to Ribald, who held it of Alan.1

This was then the capital manor, and had 3 carucates of land, wood for 40 swine, 87 sheep, 7 hives of bees, one church with 60 acres of glebe worth 55. and one other church,1 with S acres of glebe worth 8^. and 77 socmen, who held 4 carucates, one mill, and 2 freemen that held 60 acres; and Earl Ralf had the soc or superiour jurisdiction, viz. the hundred which he forfeited. The manor was worth 8/. in the Confessor's time, and was risen to 10/. per annum at the Conquest. The town being a league long and half a league broad, and paid 26d. 3q. to the gelt or tax. And from this time it passed with the manors of Kenton in Suffolk, PikeAham and Barford-haU manors, as in vol. li. p. 483, till the death of Ralf 'Fitz-Ralf in 1269, when Piken- ham, &c. descended to Robert de Nevi/e, who married Mary, his eldest daughter and heiress ; and this went to Sir Robert de Tateshall, lord of Bukenham castle* in right of Joan* the second daughter and heiress

1 Sub. tit. Terre Alani Comitis, H. * Called afterwards Cantelose, and

de Humihart. Hederseeta tenuit Cantley.

Olfus 7"«'«ai T.R.E. m° tenet Ribal- 3 See vol. i. p. 372. At Sir Robert's

dus 111. car. terre semper vni. vill. et death there were 80 villeins, which paid

vn. bord. tunc 111. serv. post et m° ii. 13/. 35. 6d. rent, and 85 hens then worth

semp. 11. car. 1. dim. et dim. car. homin. -]s. 6d. and 89 quarters of oats worth

silva xl. pore. xii. acr. prati tunc. vii. 61. 13,5. 4af. and the manor was held of

rune. m° i. semp. vii. anim. et v. pore, the honour of Richmond by 38s. per

et lxxxvii. ov. et vii. vasa apum. i. ec- annum rent, paid to the manor of Cos-

clia. de lx. acr. et val. v. sol. eta/ia seye ; there was a manor-house, gar-

ecclesia viii. acr. et val. viiia'. et lxxx. dens, and orchard, and 80 acres arable

socman, in. minus, iiii. car. tre. tunc et land, wortlnia". peracre,i2o acr. pasture

car. post. etm« vii. x acr. prati, i. mol. worth 8a". per acre, 12 aciesof meadow

et ii. libi. homines commer.dat. tantum worth i8rf.peracr. shack in the summer

de lx. acr. tre. et R. Com. socam. semp. 20s. per annum a water-mill worth 6s. 2d.

1. vill. et v. bord. et ii. car. et v. acr. per annum, chevage 2s. 4d. per annum,

prati tunc et post. val. viii. lib. m" x. the courts and lete worth 3/. and 9 free-

et habet 1. leug. in long, et dim. in lato. men which pay 42s. 5d. rents.

etxxvirf.etm.ferdingdeGelto. Doms. + Rcgr. Honoris de Richmond, fo 46. fo. 70.

24 HETHERSETE.

of the said Ra/f, who as widow to Sir Robert, and then Lady Tates- hall, in 1305, settled the whole manor and advowsons of the medie- ties, and of Cantelose, on Sir William Bernak ofHetherset, Knt.s and Alice his wife, and their heirs; which A lice was daughter and sole heiress of Sir Robert Driby, Knt. by Joan, one of the three daughters and heiresses of the aforesaid Lady Joan de Tateshall. This Sir Will. Bernak died Apr. 6, 1339i and Alice his wife died April 12, 1341, and are both buried in the middle of the chancel here, and left it to John de Bernak, their son, who died in 1345, April 2, and lies buried here, leaving Joan his widow, and John his son and heir, who died a minor, as did William his brother and heir, Dec. 7, 1359, when the whole descended to Maud, his sister and sole heiress, then the wife of Sir Ralfde Cromwell, lord of Tat eshale, from whom it is called

CROMWELL'S MANOR

To this day; and from thence one moiety of it passed with Bukenham, through the Cliftons to the Knevets, till Sir Edm. Kneve t, Knt. about~l540, mortgaged it to John Flowredieu, or Flowerdew, who presented jointly with Sir Edmund in 1541, and so it continued till 1554; and in 1560, the said John purchased it to him and his heirs. The other moiety went with Maud Cromwell to John Fitz- Williams, her husband, and passed in that family, as you may see vol. i. p. 378; and it after came to Sir Rob. Drewry, or Drury, Knt. who in 1541 sold it to the aforesaid John Flowerdew, Esq. and so he became sole lord of the manor, and patron of the church ; Rob. Drury, Esq. his son and heir, releasing all his right; and soon after, he manumised many of the copyhold lands, as sole lord, and died Apr. 16, 1564 ; by Cat. daughter of Will Sheres of Ashwelthoip, who is buried in this chancel, he had seven sons; William his eldest son married Frances, daughter of Rog. Appteyard of Stanjield-Hall in Wi- mondham, and died before his father, leaving Anthony his eldest son, who married Martha, daughter of John Scottow, and inherited a moi- ety of this manor, at his grandfather's death ; Thomas, the third son, inheriting the other moiety ; the whole being intailed on John, Ed- zvard, Edmund, Christopher, and Mark, younger sons of the said John ; all which, at different times, sold and released their rights to Edward their brother, who also purchased the royalties : and so the whole was solely in the said Edward about 1584. In 1571, he was a lawyer of note, for then the dean and chapter oi'Norwich retained him their standing council, by grant of an annuity for life of 20*. out of their manor of Eaton. In 1572, he lived at Stanfield-Hall in Wimondham, and was retained by Roger Wodehouse, Esq. and had an annuity granted him of 40s. In 1575, he was retained by Will. He/men, with an annuity of 40s. out of his manor of Rackhithe. In 1580, he was serjeant at law, and treasurer of the Inner-Temple, in which he was succeeded by Tho. Rysden, Esq. In 1584, 3d Baron of the Exche- quer in the room of JohnClenche, with. an annuity of 20 marks, besides

5 He was lord of Woodthorp and Tho- granted to God and the canons of St.

resby in Lincolnshire in 1322, and by Peter at Markeby (or Mattersey in

deed without date, Hugh de Woodthorp, Lincolnshiie) a toft and a croft in his

otherwise called De Bernacc, tor his manor of Woodthorp. own soul, and that of Maud his wife,

HETHERSETE. 25

all the fees, profits, &c. ; and upon the removal of Robert Shute, 2d Baron of the Exchequer into the court of Common-Pleas, he was made 2d Baron, in 1585, and obtained a grant of 3/. 6s. 8d. to be yearly added to the fees of that office ; lie died March 5 1 , 1586/ seized of all the manors of this town, (except Woodliall,) and married E/iz. daughter of Will. Forster of Windham, but had no issue, and was in- terred in the chancel here, leaving his brothers Thomas and Christo- pher, his executors; and Anthony son of William, his eldest brother, was his heir;7 at his death he gave by will to the town ofL.YN,a silver cup gilt, and another to the town of Yarmouth, and to Mrs. Shelton a giltcup, which was given him by the city of Norwich. He was buried with much pomp, as appears by the fees paid the heranld for attendance, &c.8 It is plain this Serjeant was an oppressor, com- plaints being exhibited against him by numbers of people, for ploughing up boundaries, enclosing lands, &c.9 It seems that Anthony sold the whole to his brother John, who died seized 17 Nov. 1587, leaving Ed- ward his son and heir, then 7 years old, whose trustee, Henry llobart, Knt. presented in 1620, and then the manors were mortgaged to William Gostlin, who presented in 1639; and before 1670, the advowson was in John Gostlin, M. D. and his heirs forever, and the manors settled on Tho. I'lowerdew of London, merchant, and were after sold in 1678, to Captain John Aide of Horstead, who was sole lord of all the manors; and in 1739, Jane Pomfret; and they are now in

Edward Atkins of Keteringham, Esq. high-sheriff of Norfolk in 1743, by purchase.

The Jinc of the manor of Cromwclfs is certain, at 4s. an acre and 6s. 8d. for every messuage on alienation or descent; and 2s. an acre, and 3s. Ad. each messuage for ajine upon every mortgage title. The ancient blanchefarm to Humbleyard hundred was 5s. "per annum, and to Cosseye for the privilege of the lete 4s. It hath the correction of the assize of bread and ale, weyf, and free-warren.1 It paid 40s. per annum to the honour of Richmond; z the manor of Huningham-hall,1 and Baniards in Wramplinghamf are held of this manor.

HACON'S MANOR

Was part of the great manor granted off by the Fitz-Ralts ; it takes its name from the ancient lords of it, viz. Hubert Hakun of Great 'Melton 5 was lord in 1306, and afterwards Robert Hacun. In 1556, Henry Drury was lord, and being purchased of Rob. Drury by Serjeant Flowerdew ; it was joined to Cromwell's manor as it

6 See vol ij. p. 502, for a further ac- ' PlitaCoron. 15 E. I.

count. * In 155S it was paid to the Lord La-

7 See vol. ii. p. 518, where correct timer's manors of North Pikenham and the errour, and omit the words "and Houghton. In 1680 it was paid - to heir," for he was brother but not heir. Sir Tho. Cecill, Knt. and 1111584,10

8 His inventory shows he had a large Sir Edmund fiedingfield, Knt. as to his quantity of plate, among which a gold manor of North Pickenham.

chain valued at Sol. one doz. silver 3 Vol. ii. p. 449.

plates, &c. a fair diamond ring, given + Ibidem, p. 48S.

him by Sir John Vang, in his last circuit. 5 See Hacon's manor in Great Melton.

9 See vol. ii. p. 521.

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26 HETHERSETE.

remains at this day ; the customs being the same as those ofCromwelFs manor.

WOODHALL AND CANTELOSE,

Anciently called Hetherset's manor, belonged to Godeic the seicer at the Conquest; one part of its soc belonged to Earl Alan's capital manor, and the other to the King, and Earl of Norfolk, of whose descendants it was alway sheld ai a quarter of a fee. 6 John de Hetherset and Margery his wife were succeeded by Sir Simon and Cecily his wife, who with consent of Remigius his brother, parson of Hingham,7 settled it on Margaret their sister, and Sir Robert de Ufford, her husband, who was lord here ; this Sir Simon was a man of note, being one of the King's justices itinerant, was alive in 13.30; and was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir John, whose widow Elizabeth remar- ried in 1357, to John son of John de Reppes, and then conveyed the third part of this manor to Will, de Uethirsete, her eldest son, and Eve his wife, who left two daughters, their heiresses ; Elizabeth, second wife to John Winter of Town- Berningham, Esq. whose daughter Eliz. dying without issue, the whole of this manor came to Sibil/, their other daughter, married to John Palgrave, Esq. of Northwood Berning- ham, who kept court here in 1481. In 1517, Henry son of Margaret Pa/grave died, and left it to John his son, at his wife Margaret's death ; 1545, Clement Pa/grave, Esq. owned it: and in 1578, John Pa/grave, Esq. and from that time it went as Palgrave's manor in Windham, (for which see vol. ii. p. 505,) till it was purchased and joined to the other manor by Mr. John Aide.

The customs of this manor are as the former, except the fines, which are arbitrary ; the quitrents of all the manors in money and corn are above 50/. per annum. The manors extend into Bai ford, Wramp/ingham, Dunston, Taverham, Be/agh, and Hunningham, and have all royalties belonging to them. There remains only one small tenement in demean, with liberty of digging white and red brick earth on the commons, and right of commonage thereon.

The church is dedicated to St. Remigius, and had formerly two mcdieties, each having a rector instituted thereto; the one from Sir Robert de Tateshak, patron thereof, was called Tatesha/e's mediety; as the other from Sir Ralf Fitz-Ra/f, was called Fitz-Ra/f's mediety; and the rector of Tatesha/e's mediety had a house and an hundred acres of land,8 and was valued at 15 marks and an half.

RECTORS OF TATESHALES MEDIETY.

ie60, Ralf de Somerton.

1300, Rob. de Driby held it, united for life to the other mediety. Joan Lady Tateshale.

6 Terre Godrici Dapiferi, fo. 168, semp. i. car. et dim. et val. iii. sol. et

Domsd. \\\]d. Conies Ai.anus socam.

IiiHederseta tenuit idem (sc. Go- In Hederseta ix. libi. horn, xliij.

dricus) iiii. libi. horn, commend, tan- acr. com. tantum et soca falde semp. i.

turn lx. acr. semp. i. car. et dim. et v. car. et ii. acr. prati et val. v. sol.

acr. prati et val. x. sol. et v'n'id. Rex et 7 See vol. ii. p. 423.

Comes socam. In ead. tenet idem xvi. 8 The present terrier hath a house and

hbi. horn, commend, tantum xxiii. acr. about 90 acres of land.

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1349, Robert Bishop ; he resigned in

1350, to Will. deKeteringham, who had it united to the other mediety. In

1352, Will. Hille or Hulle of Keteringham was rector. He resigned this in

1384, and Lambert, son of Tho. de Frampton, had it of the gift of Sir Half Cromwell, Knt. Lord Tateshak, who in 1385 gave it to

Sir John Christ mass, his chaplain. In

1393, Will. Basset had it ; and in

1398, Rob. Bosage. Ralf Lord Cromwell. He was succeeded by John Rygges, at whose death in

1427, Thomas Ryby was presented by Sir John Tiptoft, Knt. Sir Will. Phelep, Knt. Will. Paston, and Oliver Groos, Esqrs. feoffees of the manor and advowson, to the use of Ralf Cromwell Lord Tateshale.

RECTORS OF FITZ-RALF'S MEDIETY.

1300, Rob. de Driby aforesaid. Joan Lady Tateshale.

1325, Sir John le Curson, rector.

1327, Gilbert de Scrobby. Sir Wil. de Bernak, Knt.

1334, Hugh de Bernak. Ditto.

1341, Roger, son of Edmund Smith ofHetherset, John de Bernak; he resigned in

1346, to Rob. Bishop; the King as guardian to John, son and heir- of John de Bernak; he had the other mediety.

1349, Will. Basset. Ditto. He was buried in the church, and gave books and corn to it in 1383, but resigned before his death to

Will deKeteringham aforesaid, 9 in exchange for Cranwich; he was buried in the chancel in 1386; and in 13S7 , Ralf de Cromwell Lord Tateshale, presented

John, son of Tho. Serjeant, who in 1393, changed for Wesenham with

Tho. Sawnders, who was presented by Ralf Lord Tateshale aforesaid.

1408, Rog. Wright. Maud Cromwell Lady Tateshale; at his death in

1429, John atte Dam was presented by Sir Jonn Tiptoft, &c. as be- fore, feoffees oi Ralf Cromwell Lord Tateshale ; and at his resigna- tion in 1433, at the desire of the said Ralf, these medieties were perpetually united; as the church ofCANTLOSE had been to them in 1397, and ever since they have continued as one rectory.

RECTORS

OF THE CONSOLIDATED MEDIETIES OF HETHERSETE, AND CHURCH OF CANTELOSE.

1433, Tho. Ryby aforesaid.

1452, Roger Brode. Ralf Lord Cromwell and Tateshale.

1454, John Dyconson. Lapse.

1484, Rob. Smetherst, on Dyconson's resignation. Rob. Ratclyff,

9 Vol. ii. p. 224 ; he is called, by errour of the press, Redingham.

28 HETHERSETE.

Esq. late of Tateshale in Lincoln diocese, in right of Joan his wife, one of the coheirs of Ralf Lord Cromwell.'

JohnSmetherst, yeoman of the Crown, brother to this Robert, was buried in the church before the rood.

1507, John Phillip, rector in 1515, exchanged for St. Mary Mag- dalen's hospital in Colchester, with John IVayn, who was presented by Sir Rob, Drury, Knt. guardian to V/ill. and Edmund Knevet, Esqrs. In 1532, Waijn exchanged this for East-Mersey in London diocese, with

Tho. Smith, A. M. who was presented by Sir Rob. Drury and Edm. Knevet, Esq. at whose death in

1541, John Barret, S. T. P. had it of the gift of Edmund Knevet, Knt. and John Floure-dieu, (or Flowerdew,) Esq. and the next year, he resigned to

Chris. Wilson, when Flowerdew presented, by grant from Sir Ed- mund Knevet; in 1549, May 20, this rector, by consent of the Bishop and patron, exchanged 18 pieces of glebe in lletherset ; he was deprived in 1554, and

Edward Jackson had it of Sir Edmund's gift, and died iu 1573, when Edward and Johk Flowerdew, Esqrs gave it to

Miles Hunne, who was deprived in 1596; the Queen by lapse, gave it to

Joshua Hutton ; but in

1603, Miles Hunne was restored ; for then, he returned answer to the general enquiry made, that there were 200 communicants in this parish,3 that he held it with Fomcet St. Mary and St. Peter, one be- nefice, though two distant churches, valued Ht 20/. that he was chaplain to Lettice Countess of Essex, and as such a licensed preacher, and had been ao 30 years, and that Tho. Flowerdew, Gent, was patron here.

lfOQ, Tho. limine, A. M. ; the King ; Erasmus Hunne, A. B. was his curate. 1615, the aforesaid

Thomas was forced to be reinstituted, at the presentation of Theo- phi/us-G i eenazcay, clerk, the King, when he presented him, having no legal title.

1617, Sept. 2, WW. Warren, A. M. the King ; but his title being found invalid, in the same year, Jan. 6, being then S. T. B. he was presented by Thomas Plumstede, John Gooch, and Ric. Glo- ver, with the consent of Sir Henry Hobart, Knt. and Bart, chief justice of the common pleas, and Edward Flowerdew, Esq.

1620, Will. Warren, A. M. Sir Henry Hobart, Knt. &c. atwhose death, in

1639, Edw. Michel/ had it, of the gift of William Gostlin of Norwich and William Trundel, Gent, patrons of the turn.

1647, Philip Tennison, S. T. P. Archdeacon of Norfolk,* and rec- tor of Fouhham* had it, but was ejected in the rebellion, to make way for one Jeremiah Coleman, who was buried here in 1658, and was suc- ceeded by Tho. Mbore,junior, who published, " Breach upon Breach, " or an acknowledgement of Judicial Breaches made upon Us, occa-

1 See vol. i. p. 375. His feoffees held 1603. MSS. penes P. L. N.

their first court in 1483. * See vol. iii. p. 646.

* See vol iv. p. 30. 5 See vol. ii. p. 391. 3 See the Answers ef the Parsons in

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" sioned by sin full Breaches made among Us, with Instruction, Admo- " nition, and Encouragement, yet to turn to Him that smites Us; being " the Sum of what was delivered at the Funeral ol 'Mr. JeremiahCoIeman, "late Preacher of the Gospel at Hetherset in Norff'. Febr. IS, 1685," published in quarto at London in 1659, by Tho. Mooke, junior, his successour there, who was outed at the Restoration; and in

1660, Tito. Jenny was presented by John Beare oflVestleton, at whose death in

1670, Tho. Church, S. T. P. had it of the gift of John Gostlin, M. D. of Caius College in Cambridge ; and in 1673, at Church's death, the doctor gave it to

Will. Lock, A. M. ; and in 1702, at Lock's death, to

John Amy as, who held it united to Melton All-Saints. In 1704, Dr. Gostlin, president of Caius college, by will dated Febr. 10, gave the patronage to that society, and in

\T2^,JohnMorrant, A. M. fellow there, was presented by the master and fellows, on Amyas's death, and held it united to St. Clement's in Norwich. He was buried here, and in

1736, The Rev. John Berney, A. M. the present rector, was insti- tuted at the presentation of the master and^t7/oas. He is now D. D. Archdeacon of Norwich,6 chaplain to the Bishop, rector of the two consolidated rectories of the Saxtinghams in Norfolk, and of the rec- tory of St. Clement at the Bridge in Norwich.

The whole living was valued first at 20, after at 26, and after that, at 31 marks, and the portion of tithes belonging to Coverham abbey was valued at 20s. and let to the rector by perpetual composition, who always paid Is. to each tenth for it. It lies at 8/. in the King's Books, pays first-fruits, and 16s. yearly tenths; synodals 5s. procu- rations 5s. Peter-pence 4s. and caivage Sd. ob. and the whole town paid to every tenth ol. 9s. and had 13s. 4d. deducted on account of the lands in it belonging to the religious, for which they were taxed. The master of St. John of Jerusalem's Commandry at Karbrook in Norfolk had small rents here paid by the lord of the manor, of the gift of the ancient lords.

There were the gilds of St. Remigius ; and of our Lady, held at her altar in our Lady's chapel ; and another of St. Thomas, held at his altar in St. Thomas's chapel.

In the 7th of Eliz. a messuage, 20 acres, and 3 roods, belonged to the inhabitants, of which one rood and an half formerly belonged to St. John at Carbrook, and 4 acres and 3 roods to the gilds here, and one acre and two roods to find a lamp in the church, on which ac- count they seized all the town lunch, as concealed from the Queen upon the statute.

In Edward the First's time, John and Roger Bijgod were owners, but I do not find them ever concerned in the manors; they and their family settled and continued along time here; and were descended from the By gods Earls oi Norfolk,

The church of Hetherset hath its north porch tiled, nave, two isles, and chapels leaded, with a square tower and 5 bells. The chancel is totally ruinated, and part of the nave used as a chancel.

6 See vol. iii. p. 641.

30 HETHERSETE.

In our Lady's chape], at the east end of the south isle, is an altar tomb, having the portraitures of a knight armed cap-a-pie, with a sword hanging from his head, which lies on a cusliion, his spurs on, and a lion at his feet ; he is in a surcoat of his arms, and hath his shield of them, viz. Bernak,ot». a fess g. By him is his lady with a dog at her feet, and on her mantle are the arms of Bern ak, impal- ing Driby, r/rg. three cinquefoils and a canton gul. (see vol i. p. 374.) The inscription is lost, but was this,

<0bttu£ ©omini JDiili be 25ernaftc lETcccTO'ir0. M° cIEten.siijS aprih>J. <®bitu£ !Domine .lltcie De 23crnafcc JlVccc0^ pti0 trie 3prtli£.

This Sir William Bernak, Knt. and Alice his wife, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Driby, Knt. were buried in the midst of the dilapidated chancel, from whence this monument was removed, through a covetous desire of the lead wherein they were buried, by John Flowerdew, father to the Baron. It seems the chancel was re- built by them and Robert de Driby, the then rector, for their arms were to be seen in the east window.

In St. Thomas's chapel, at the upper end of the north isle, is a fair raised tomb, wherein lyeth Catherine, mother to Baron Flowerdew, and wile to John Flowerdew, without inscription. In the same place lie John her husband, and Tho. Flowerdezo ; and in the chancel, lies bu- ried the Baron, and for want of a gravestone of his friends cost, is covered with one from another man's grave, as the MSS. from whence this account is taken, words it.

In the midst of the chancel.

Cock, with a martlet for difference, impaling Jay.7

Deposita Johannis Cock Generosi Filij Roberti Cock de Rushford Generosi, hie quiescunt, Qui duxit in Uxorem Ma- eiam Filiam Johannis Jay de Holveston, in Agio Noe- folciensi Armigeri, Ilia ob. 18 Aug. A. D. 1656. Hie. 31 Dec. 1668, iEtatisq; sua; 70.

On the south side of the altar rails, Bokenham and nineteen coats; and the same on an achievement hanging at the east end of the south isle:

1, Bokenham, arg. a. lion rampant G. with a martlet for difference. 2, Or, two bars <S'. 3, Sab. a chevron between three swans necks erased arg. 4, Arg. three ogresses, on the first a cross-croslet of the field. 5, Sab. a lion rampant or. 6, Sab. a chevron era. between three coronels of tilting spears arg. by the name of Wiseman. 7, Gul. a fess lozenge arg. between three martlets or. 8, Vert, a lion rampant arg. crowned or. 9, Paly of six, arg. and sab. a fess gul. 10, a cross hurnette chequy arg. and at. between twenty bezants, five in each quarter, 2, 1, 2. 1 1, as 5. 12, Eim. on a chief indented S. a trefoil slipped between two annulets arg. 13, Per fess nebule arg. and gul. gutte, counterchanged in a bordure of the first. 14, Gul. a chevron

' See vol. iv. p. 151, 316.

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between three garbs ar. and as many croslets fitche or. 15, Sab. a bend wavy between two cotises arg. 16, Bois, arg. two bars and a canton gul. over all a bend sab. 17, Ramsey, sab. a chevron between three rams heads erased arg. 18, Sab. three hands erect cooped in a bordure arg. l<J,Arg. on a cross gul. five lioncels rampant of the field. 20, as 1.

In the middle an escutcheon of pretence, party per chevron in- grailed A. S. three boars counterchanged. Crest, a buck couchant proper.

Here lyeth the Body of Elizabeth the Wife of Hugh Bu- kenham Gent, and Daughter of Christopher Flowerdew Gent, and Susan his Wife, who departed this Life 29 Dec. A. D. 1669.

Here lyeth the Body of Hugh Bokenham fourth son of Wise- man Bokenham of Weston in the County of Suffolk Esq; he was Sheriff, Alderman, and Mayor of Norwich, and being Bur- gess for the said City, dyed in that Service on the 26th. of April, in the 60 year of his Age, A. D. 1694.8

Under this Stone is laid the Body of Walsingham Boken- ham Esq; son of Hugh. Bokenham late of the City of Norwich Esq; he died 9 Aug. 1714, in the 45 Year of his Age.

In the north isle. Crest, a man's arm holding a club. Betts, sab. on a bend between two cotizes arg. three roses gul. impales az. two bars ar. in chief three leopards faces or.

Here lye the Bodies of Jeofry Betts Gent, deceased May 16, 1680, and Eliz. his Wife deceased June 24, 1663, he aged 74, she 57.

This gentleman came out of Wiltshire, and was steward to the Earl of Pembr 00k.

Tho. Staynes died March 13, 1726, aet. 46.

In the middle alley, Thomas Richmond 1638, at. G3. On a brass, C?ic iacct ©ominus Henricitf ©atontre quonOam Sector dc %ntc> toooo cuiug amine propictctuc !©eu$i2Unen. He died in 1493.

On a mural monument, Motham, S. a cross indented erm. impal- ing per fess nebule .S'. and az. three martlets or, a canton of the 3d. Crest, a talbot.

Here lyeth the Body of Isaac Motham late of this Place Esq; ob. 10 Mar: 1703, act. 62; And also Eltz. his Wife, by whom he had Issue .5 Sons, but all dead, and one Daughter yet living, ob. 28 Jan. 1699, aet 6l.

On a stone that lies in the chancel, which seems to have belonged to some tomb formerly, are three dogs heads cooped and collared, 2, and 1 .

The hospital of St. Giles in Norwich has lands here, now held by the corporation.

8 See vol. i'li. p. 426,

32 HETHERSETE.

In 1658, John Kofe, Gent, of Norwich, gave for the use of the poor, a messuage called Jerk's in Hethersete, copyhold on IVoodhall, and half an acre copyhold on Cromwell's manor, which is now the Queen's-head, and is rented at 10/. per annum, the clear income of which is annually applied by Jerrny Harcourt, Cent, and Claude Ro- berts, the present feoffees, in clothing the poor.

Walsingham Bokknham, Esq. gave a house and lands for the use of the poor, now let at 4/. 7*. 6d. per annum.

The part of the old town-lands, which remained after those taken away in Edward the Sixth's time, are now let at 2/. per unnum. Alice Kettle pays a rent charge of 2s. lid. per annum.

Mrs. Alice Goddard, who is buried in the churchyard, on the east side of the north porch, gave a crimson velvet cushion for the pulpit, in the year 1729-

In 173,5, Claude Roberts fitted up the vestry, gave 3 brass sconces for the pulpit and desk, a Bible, Common Prayer Book, and communion table-cloth.

THICKTHORN, or THICKHAM,

Is a hamlet to this town, which takes its name from Alan de Thike- thorn, its owner, who had it of Steph. le Noreys; in 1240, the said Alan, and Clarke his wife, settled it on Roger son of Robert deThike- thorn, Tikethorp, or Tykeham, who obtained of Henry III. A°. 41 reg. liberty of trying pleas in his court at Thikethorn ; and the same year he settled a messuage and 100 acres, on Will, de Hack- ford and Margaret his wife, and Tho. Rosceline. In 1275, Daniel de Thickthorn lived here, and held his court; and soon after, Ralf at the Thick-thorns. In Queen Elizabeth's time, Robert Balle of London, Esq. conveyed it to Roger Ramsey, Esq. of Norwich, who died 16 June, 17th Car. I. seized of the capital messuage called Thickthome, and 300 acres of land in Thickthome in Hethersete, held of the honour of Richmond, at three quarters of a fee, and John his son and heir was 45 years old. It belonged after to the Flowerdews, since that, to Isaac Motham, oiMortram, Esq. but it seems all the lands held of the manor were purchased in.

This hamlet is on the left hand of the London road from Norwich to Hethersete, and (he common belonging to it still retains the ancient name; it is owned by Miles Branthwait of Hethill, Esq.

CANTELOSE, CANTELOWE, or CANTLEY,

Was part of the manor of Hethersete, but a separate parish, with a parochial church, and 8 acres of glebe in the time of the Conqueror; it took its name of Cante/eese or Cantelose, about King Stephen's time, signifying the leas or lees9 that were cut off, or separated from the pa- rish, as being a village by itself, totally exempt from the jurisdiction of the Archdeacon of Norfolk, forit paid neither procuratioiis, synoduls, nor Peter-pence, and but 3d. carvage. When Norwich Domesday was made, Sir Rob. deTateshale was patron; and it was a rectory

9 Lee signifies lands unfilled, and sometimes new broken up ground.

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valued at 5 marks, and had a recto /-(/-house and 15 acres of glebe, but was not taxed ; the whole attended Hetherset manor. The church was dedicated to all the Saints.

RECTORS OF CANTELOSE.

Tho. de Brunne, rector.

Simon, rector. Tho. de Brekles, parson of Cantelos, granted to Simon, son to Herbert de Hetherset, the ancestor of Sir Simon de Hetherset, who lived in 1331, his wood in Tweitjield in Bekstede in Hethersete.

1321, Jeffry de Depham. Sir Wil. de Bernak, Knt.

pj5>.Rob. Scotard. The King ; by lapse. He changed this for Wikes vicarage in Worcester diocese in

1361, with Simon de Laxton, who was presented by Ralf Lord Cromwell, as was

Simon Muriel in 1365, and died in 1372, and was buried in Great Linsted church, being succeeded by

Will. Nome, the last rector here; for in 1397, this church was consolidated to Hethersete, by Henry Bishop of Norwich, at the pe- tition of Ralf Cromwell, Knt. and the parishioners ; itbeing certified that the revenues were so small, that it had laid void because nobody would accept it; and it was agreed that the profits should be divided between John Christmass and Tho. Saunders, and their successours, rectors of Hethersete, for ever; who served the church alternately as a free-chapel, till the reformation, when it was totally demolished. The place where it stood being called the Old Churchyard.

There was an ancient family sirnamed from this hamlet, for John, son of Peter de Cantelos, and Will. Bygod, were owners here in Henry the Third's time.

The capital messuage called Cantlowe-hall, is now owned by Arthur Jennet/, Gent.

CRINGLEFORD

.1 AKES its name from the shingle, or gravelly ford, over which there is built a noble bridge of stone, dividing the county of the city of Norwich from that of Norfolk. At the Confessor's survey the whole town belonged to Alured the priest, a freeman of Bishop Stigahd; but at the Conqueror's, Roger Bigot held one part of it, being the chief manor, of the Bishop of Baieux, which had one caru- cate in demean, three parts of a water-mill worth 20*. at the first sur- vey, and 40s. at the second ; the town was a mile and two furlongs long, and six furlongs broad, and paid 1 Id. gelt, and there then vol. v. F

34 CRINGLEFORD.

belonged to it two freemen and an half, which held 25 acres, and one acre of meadow worth 2s. lying in the parish of Flordon.1

The said Roger held the second part,* of Alan Earl of Richmond* and a third part in his own right, of the Conqueror's gift,* so that the whole town, and all that belonged to it, was wholly in him when the survey was made, but it was soon after divided, and the manor called afterwards

BERFORD 'S MANOR,

Was in a family which took their names from this place ; Rrc. DE Cringi.eford was lord here,5 and Roger his son; his brother Ralf was lord after him, and was succeeded about 14544, by his son William, who in the year 1271, sold 5 messuages, 120 acres of land and 12 of marsh, part of the demeans, to Henri/ de Heylesdon ; and Joan his wife released her right, and this part was joined to Heyles- dons manor; but Roger de Cringleford having entailed the manor after his own, wife's, and son William's death, on Adam de Berford and Pleasance his wife, they held it in lt'87. In 1315, Emma, relict of Will. Lek, Rob. de Poleye, 8tc. released their right to him, as feoffees to Adam his father. Hi/Ham son of Adam de Ber- ford had it, and died seized, leaving it to Sir Adam de Berford, clerk, late rector of Foston in Yorkshire, his son; who in !. '350. jointly \f\thAgatha his mother, conveyed it in trust to Will, de laPolc, senior, Knt. Sir John de Chest rejield, rector of Foston, John de Be/ford, citi- zen of Norwich, and Hugh Bandon, rector of Bunreetl ; and in 1357, they released it again to "the said Adam, 6 who, in I3C>7, settled it on trustees, viz. Sir Robert de IVylasham, Knt. Sir Bill, de Hen/eye, rec- tor of Cred/ington, Sir Hugh Bandon, rector of Bernham, John de Er/ham, Sir Hi/Ham, parson of Intwood, and Sir John Elys, chaplain ; and in 1368, Sir Jo// m de Wylasham and John de Er/ham released to the rest. In 13(>y, Hen/ye and Elys settled it on Catherine, widow of Sir Will, de la Pole, senior, knt. and Sir Edmund de la Pole, Knt. their son, /I illiam deThueng of Foston, and Tho. de Esteijield, their trustees ; in 1370, William B'ysete, rector of Intzcood, Hugh de Bandon, rector

* Terre Episcopi Baiocensis Hu- In Cringaforda tenet R. Bigot i.

mii.iakt. H. Domsd. to. 6o. liberum hominem StiganHi xv. acr. et ii.

In Kri'gelforda, i. car. terre te- bord. et ii liberi homines vii. acr. et

nuit Alurkpus, presbiter, liber homo dim. semper dim. car. et dim. prati, et

Stigandi semper iii. vill. et i. car. in octava pars molendini, et valet iii. sol.

dnio. et dim. car. horn. viii. acr. prati 3 Vide Append Kegr. Honoris de

semper i. mol. et xvii. soc. i. car. tre. Richemond. fo. 16,

semper iii. car. iiii. acr. prati et iii. * Teira Rogeki Bigot. H. de

liberi homines et dim. commendati tan- Humiliart. Domsd. fo. 138.

tHin T. R. K. Ii. acr. semper i. car. et In Iringaforda i. liber homo Sti~

ii. acr. prati et ties partes molendini et randi xv. acr. et ii. bord. et ii. liberi

iiii. soc. vii. acr. etdim sub. istis. tunc homines vii. acr. et dim. semper dim.

valuit xxj. modo x\.t. hcc tenet Roge- car. et i. acr et dim. prati et viii. pars

rus Bigot et habet dim. leng. etii. quar. molendini et valet iii. sol.

in longo, et vi. quar. in lato, et ix.d. de s This family always bare in their

Geito. Q^'cunque ibi tereal. In Flo- shield, and on their seals, a lion sal-ant.

renpuna ii. lib. etdim. Stigandi, xxv. 6 He held it at a quarter of a fee of

acr. tunc dim. car. et i. acr. prati, et val. Will, de Bukenham, and he ofthe leirs

ii, sol. hoc tenet Rog. Bigot. of Multon, and they of the Earl-Mar

1 Terre Alan 1 Comitis. H. de Hu- shal, and lie of the King, miliar!. Domsd. fo. 70.

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of Bernham, John, and Rich, de Berford,a\\A Emma and Ckily, sister and heirs of Sir Adam de Be i ford late rector of Foston, released all their right in this manor; by which means it was absolutely vested in the De la Poles, who settled it soon after on Edmund Gouruey, Will, de Boyton, Tho. Spyuk, and John le Latimer of Norwich, when it ex- tended into Hethersete, Eaton, Erlham, Little-Mellon,Colneye, and Cringteford watermill belonged to it; in 1381, John le Latimer was sole lord, and had view of frankpledge, weyf, and strev, belonging to his manor of Cringteford and Sur/ingham; and the same year, Gour- nai/ and the other feoffees of the Poles, released all right to hun. In 1391, Margaret, widow and executrix of John Latimer, and Mc. Blakeney, citizen of Norwich, co-executor, released their annuity of 10/. out of Beiford's manor, to John Otte/ey, Will. Berton, and John Bishop. In 1406, John Bishop, mercer, of Norwich, conveyed it to Simon Sampson, and Gilbert Debenham, Esqrs. liic. W hethermersh , John Jernegan, and Richard, son of Ric. Talmache, Esq. ; and in 1 408, they released it to Simon Sampson, Esq.; in 1409, Sampson sold it to William Westacre, archdeacon of Norwich,7 Will. Rees, Esq. John de Thornham, rector of Sparham, Edm. Perke, clerk, William Sedman, merchant, and Walter Eton, citizen, who in 141 1, by license from the King, settled it on St. Giles's hospital in mortmain, to rind a chaplain (being no brother of the hospital) to live as a brother in it, who was daily to say mass, and pray for the soul of Master John de Der/ington, late archdeacon of Norwich, and all his family, and for Roger Prat, clerk, late master, and Will, Paston of Paston, and all the deceased, allowing him a good stipend, chamber, and clothing; aud it conti- nued till the Dissolution in that hospital, and then passed with the hospital and its revenues, to the corporation of the city of Norwich, to whom the manor now belongs. . 0 ._

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HEYLESDON'S, or THE CAPITAL MANOR,

With the advowson, was given by Roger Bigot, along with Shimp- ling* to Rob. de Fallibus or Faux, in which family it continued a- good while. Sir John de Faux, Knt. Will, de faux, then Robert de Faux, and about 1£40, Sir Alexander de Faux, Knts. were lords ; Sir Alexander sold an acre of land and the advowson, to Bi.-hopSrjFFi£LD,9 who in 1249, settled it on St. Giles's hospital, which he then founded. In 1287, Sir John de Faux, Knt. his son, was lord ; and sold the ma- nor, with the fishery called Cringford Ee, and his pool, and right of fishing in the stream from Erlham to Cringlefoul-bridge, to Htnry de Heylesden, whose son Henry was lord in 1303; and then sealed with a lion rampant, as this family always did ; and held it of II ill, am de Bukenham, he of the heirs of Mult on, they of the [Lari.- Marshal, and he of the King, at 3 quarters of a fee ; and in 1315, John de Heyhsdon, after him Henry de Hey/esdo/i, who in 1 >45, held it of H ill. Leigh, Knt. as of his manor of Mult on' s in Sur/ingham. In 1381, Emma, widow of the said Henry, had it for life, and then Roger, t-heii son and heir, who held it in 1401, and in 14.13, conveyed it to Sir Jo/uide Norwich, lord of \ oxford, Edm. Barry, John Clifton, lord of 1 opciqfjt,

7 Seevol. iv. p. 387, 8. s See vol. i. p. 154. 9 See vol. iv. p. 381.

36 CRINGLEFORD.

Jlob. Alleyn, senior, Rob. Suffield, citizen of Norwich, John Bowkes and Jo/in Soterle of Intwood, and Thomas Ringstede, trustees, to the use of Tho. Wetherby of Norwich, Esq. and his heirs ; who at his death left it for life to Margaret his widow, who in 1454, leased it for 8 marks a year, to be paid her in Carrow abbey, where she boarded with the nuns, among which Alice Wetherby, her daughter, was one; at her death it was to go in trust to John Heydon, Tho. Welles, and Tho. Croftes, who conveyed their right in reversion, to John Jenney,1 and John Browne, and in 1460, Will, and J ohnJenney, and John Browne, sold it to the master and brethren of St. Giles's hospital aforesaid;* and so it becamejoined loBerford's manor, with which it now remains.

DUNSTON'S, or HETHERSET'S MANOR,

Was held by Alured of Roger Bigot, who left it to Eudo his son, and he to l\ alter his son, whose son Roger assumed the sirname of Norwich, and left it to Gilbert de Norwich his son, to whom it was confirmed by Robert de Faux, lord of Heylesdons manor. In 1284, Henry de Norwich, clerk, had it, and it was after in Hugh de Dunston: and about 1315, was conveyed to Sir Simon de Hetherset, Knt. one of the King's justices, and Cecily his wife, who in 1313 had pur- chased of Thomas Spriggij of Monesle, and Julian his wife, 6 marks rent in Cringleford. This judge was descended from Alexander de Hetherset and Maud his wife, who were both alive in 1249, and was son of John de Hetherset, and brother toRemigius, parson of Hingham? he had three sisters ; Margaret, married to Sir Rob. Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, Emma, to Sir John Leke, who was his trustee for this manor, and Katherine, to Sir Walter father of Sir John Norwich, who built Mettingham castle in Suffolk. This Sir Simon had six sons and two daughters; 1, Sir John, his eldest son; 2, Sir Edmund Hethersete, Knt. buried in the Charter-house in 1380, and left no issue ; his wife Isabell was buried in Buxhalc churchyard in Suffolk, A°. 1412; 3, William, rector of Attleburgh;* 4, Roger, rector of Billiugford; 5, George, parson of Sculthorp ; (i, Nic. rector of Berford;1 Joan married to Sir Rob. l\ achesham, Knt. and Margaret to Sir Hugh Peierel of Melton, Knt. and most of these brothers were concerned in this ma- nor, which seems to have been shared among them; but as all died without issue, William de Hethersete, eldest son of Sir John Hetherset, and only heir, (for all his brothers died young,) inherited the whole ; he was made guardian of the wool-customs in this county in 1357, and by Eve his wife had only two daughters, Eliz. second wife to John Whiter of Town-Bemingham, and Sibil, to John Palgrave ot'North- wood-Berningham, Esq. who was lord here in his wife's right, and at last, heir of the whole inheritance. After this it was divided, and the chief part purchased by Tho. Wetherby, Esq. who was buried in the Austin friars at Norwich,6 and so becamejoined to his manor called Heylcsdon's.

* He married Eliz. daughter and ♦ Pee vol. i. p. 523. heiress of Tho. Wetherby. In 1477. ! Vol. ii. p. 486. In 1268, Ralf son of

Tho. Jenney, Gent, released all right Ralf de Hethersete, vol. i. p. 523. Gre-

with wanantry, against the Abbot of gory was rector of Atlebugh. See

Westminster and his successours. Hetherset'.-, manor in Windham, vol...

1 bee vol. iv. p. 388. ii. p. 505.

3 See vol. ii. p. 422. • See vol. iv. p. Sy.

CRINGLEFORD. 37

B A RUN'S MANOR

Was granted to one Grim bald, from Bedford's manor, by Ralfde Cringleford, lord there, and was c-o.iveyed by Grimbald to Walter Barm, or Baron;7 Hugh Barun had it after him, and in 1304, Will. Barun of Cringleford conveyed it to Petronel his sister, and her heirs; in 1317, Tho. Spriggi.;* and Julian his wife granted it to Sir Simon de Hetkersete, Knt. 9 Cecily his wife, and William their son, and their heirs, and so it was joined to Hetherset's manor. In 1280, Sir Simon Peche, Knt. granted divers rents here, to Me. deCastello or Castle, and Cecily his wife, which in 1298 belonged to Will, de Bukenham and Julian his wife, and were after joined to this manor.

The church isdedicated to Sl.Peter, and was a rectory till S\rJlex. de Vaux sold it, with an acre of land, to Walter de Stiffield, Bishop of Norwich,' who appropriated it wholly to St. Giles's hospital in Nor- wich, which he founded in 1249, when it was worth 10 marks per an- num, and ever since it hath been aperpeturl curacy, as it now remains,* being in the gift of the city of Norwich, in right of that hospital. The steeple is square, and hath three bells, on the second of which is this,

&um ftos'a JMssata Jjlunbi foaterina bocata.

On the biggest, which is the soul-bell, is this,

Jesv Christe, Fili Dei miserere nobis.

It hath a nave 22 yards long and 7 broad, and a small chancel, all tiled, and a north porch leaded.

In the altar rails there was a stone (now gone) for Lucy wife of Mr. Robert Cook, Dec. 1668. A vertuous woman, and a loving wife. There are also interred John Pykarel Gent. June 19, 1707, 75.3 Robert hisyounger brother Aug. 26, 1677,41, with the arms and crest, viz. a swan proper. There is a plain monument against the north chancel wall, for William son of Charles Lore of Kirstead-hall, Gent. Jan. 11, 1714, 60. Will, his son Oct. 22, 1722, 18, with the arms of Love, vert, a tiger passant or. Crest, a tiger's head erased. Honor -wife of Will. Love, Feb. 20, 1731, 66.

In the church, on a stone.

Pykarel impales Cook, or, a chevron ingrailed gul. between three cinquefoils az. on a chief of the second, a lion passant guaidant of the third. John Pykarell Gent. Apr. the 6th, 1627, 75. Anne his wife, daughter of Chris. Layer Gent. Apr. 21, 1628, 61, John his eldest son,

7 See vol. iv. p. 384. erg. three castles triple tower gut.

8 He sealed with, quarterly, in 1st 9 This Sir Simon sealed with er. on a and last quarters a castle, in the 2d and chief demi-lion. But his descendants 3d a de-lis. Julian his wife sealed with bare az. a lion rampant gardant or. three castles, which makes me think she ■ See vol. iv. p. 381 .

was daughter to Nic. de Castello and Ce- 2 Bart/wlomezc was the first minister in

cily his wife, and might be first wife to 1253, after the appropriation.

Will.de Bukenham, and then to Tho. 3 See vol. i. p. 47. Spriggy. The arms of Castle being

f,S CRINGLEFOED.

Oct. 1 1, 1645, 50. Catherine his wife, daughter of Will. Cooke of Broome Esq. Aug. 19, 1663, 57. Will, son of John Pykarell Gent. June 15, 1683, 43. Sarah his wife, daughter of Charles Love of Kir- stead Gent. 20 July 1702, 58. John son of Will Pykarell Gent. 28 Jan. 1725, 52.

There is a good estate here, which hath been a long time in this family.

Another stone hath the arms of

Taylour, erm. on a chief dancette three escalops, for John Tay- lour A. M. sometime fellow of Corpus Christi college in Cambridge, afterwards pa3tor of this church and Heulesden, Dec. 13, 1662. Re- surgam. John son of Peter Turner Gent, and Eliz. his wife, died Nov. 7, 1710,43.

Pykaeell impales Cook. Henry Pykarell Gent. 20 Feb. 1647. Anne his wife 21 Jan. 1662, and four of their daughters, Mary Nov. 30, 1626. Anne 10 Jan. 1628. Kath. 24 Nov. 1633. Anne Aug, 8, 1659.

Exuviae Roberti Pykarell Generosi, Collegij Corp. Christi, apud Cantabrigienses per triennium alumni, cui sub ipso iEtatis flosculo, quippe vix annum vicesimum primtim, emenso, fatale Vitas Stamen ineidit.-^ro/HwKal. Nov.17, A. D.MDCLXXXXVI, Infans Layer Pykarell ob. 20 May 1722. Pykerell impales Vynn, or, on a fess az. three lioncels arg.

In the south windows are the four Evangelists, and in a north win- dow St. Catherine holding the wheel, and the Virgin Mary with our Saviour in her arms, and a star over his head, a broken effigies of a priest at her feet, and this in a label,

JJ&atcr. <©ci, jBetnento rati.

There is a mural monument in the churchyard against the north part of the east chancel wall, with the arms of Vynn, for Ric. Vynn Gent. Feb. 19, 1728, 65. Layer Vynn Gent. Feb. 27, 1736, 46. Deborah daughter of Layr Vynn and Honour his wife, June 11, 17'-J6, an infant Honour their daughter May 15, 1737, 14.

There is a small parsonage-house at the north-west part of the churchyard, called anciently the Priest's Chamber.

When this living was appropriated, it had a house and 2 carucates of land, valued at 5/ ; it paid 4a. synodals, \4d. Peter-pence, 3d. ob. carvage; and the lands of the sacrist of Norwich were taxed at as. In 1603, Edward Biewsttr had the profits and served the cure, there being then C>6 communicants; and Anthony Style, Gent had the hos- pital rev emxes by lease. I he several benefactions of which may be seen under the history ofthathospit.il, vol. iv. p. .S84, Sec. It is now leased for lite, to the Rev." Mr. John Arnam, rector <>i Possewick, with the house, tithes, &c at 3s. Ad. per air urn payable to the hospital; and being under value, and not at all in the Kind's Books, it is capable of augmentation. In 14'2S, the Prior of Si. Faith was taxed at 4s. for his temporals in this town ; and the Prior of St. Olave at llerlingpete, had 45 acres of land, 3 messages, 4 acres or meadow, 4 acies o1 marsh, and 2s. rent here, and in Thorp by lladezco; purchased of Adam

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89

Bacon in 1312. The Prior of Norwich was taxed forhis temporals at 6s. 8d. which were given by Half son of MIL de Cringleford, Roger anr) Alice, son and daughter of iiichard de Cringle ford, William son of Roger de Cringleford, Walter Baron, Gilbert' le Uphalder, Roger Bigot, and others. In \1Q\, Petronel, widow of Peter at Cringleford Cross, settled one acre and an half on Petronel her niece, to pay for ever 4d. per annum to have 4 masses said yearly for her soul, in this church, every Christmas day. This village was totally consumed by fire in Queen Elizabeth's time, for which reason, an act passed in the 23d year of her reign, for the re-edifying it. 4 It paid 30*. to the old tenths.

In the bounds of this parish there stood a free chapel, dedicated to St. Ethelberd, commonly called St. Albert's chapel; and in Queen Elizabeth's time, St. Ethe/berd's chapel was reckoned among the lands concealed from the Crown; it is now demolished, and was al- ways appendant to the parish church, with which it passed to the hos- pital; it had many rents paid to it, and the alder car, called St. liberal's Grove, in Cringleford, belonged to it. It appears by the hos- pital accounts, that it. was a thatched building, and that in 1.531 they almost rebuilt it; the profits of it in a good measure consisted in the offerings made by pilgrims that came in pilgrimage, for many came hither on that account; but what this image here was so famous for, as to be visited that way, I have not found. In Regr. Rix, fo. 309, in the Bishop's office, I find the will of Agnes Parker of Kesetoick, who was buried in Cringleford churchyard in 1505, in which are these woids, " Item, I owe a Pilgrimage to Canterburi/, also I owe to St. Teba/d of Ilobeis, Item to St. Albert's at Cringleford iij Tymes.

Between this and Erlham, on the same side of the river with this town, stands the farm-house called Newfound, from a remarkable sort of earth newly found there, which was lately transported to Hol- land for the potters use, but now totally disused.

INTWOOD

Belonged to Earl Half at the Conquest, and to Coleman, a free- man of Bishop Stigand's, in the Confessor's time, and after the Earl's forfeiture, the Conqueror gave it to Eudo the sewer, who held it at the survey ; it was worth 3/. per annum at the first survey, and 4/. at the Conqueror's; being a league long and half a one broad, and paid yd. q. to thegf/d.s Thorp, called afterwards Gloresthorp and Guzclhorp,

* 1580, an act passed to impower the 5 Domesday, fo. 237. H. de Humi- lity of Norwich, as lords of Cringleford, liart. Terrc Eudonts Dapiferi to grant what lands they pleased to be Intwf.ua tenuit Raduljus, quam te- heldbycopy of court roll of theirmunor, nuit Cohmauus liber homo Stigandi i car. and to make it as ancient copjhold, in semper iii. villani et iii. bord. tunc. ii. order to re-edify that tlieir villagejwhich serv. modo iii. semper ii. car. in domi- was totally burned down. nio.eti. car. et dim. hom. iii. acr. prati

in INTW0 0D.

which now is included in Swerdeston, belonged about half of it to this manor, which was so called, as being then situate in the Wood. The ancient family of the TrviLEs were settled here very early. In the time of King John and Henri/ III. Ralfde Tyvile of Inttcode held his manor here at two fees; one, of the ancient family simamed de Ri- parijs, and the other of Will, Marshal the younger. In 1285, .John de Tyvile was lord and patron, and had view of frankpledge, assise of bread and ale, and all power of the lete, paying \0d. to the King, as to his hundred of Humbleyara '■; so that this town was by that rent, ex- empt from the jurisdiction of the hundred court, and now the manor was held of the honour of Albemarle ; and the Prior of St. Faith held the 8th part of a fee of the said John, and Tho. de Tyvile of Weston, and. others, held a fifth part of a fee pf him. In 1305, the said John granted to Simon de Hethersete, liberty of commonage for 100 sheep, and all other cattle, in Intwood; this John sold the advowson and. lands here, to Nic. de Castel/o.

In Edward the Second's time, Hugh de Tivile was lord, and in 1313, Tho. Spriggi of Mones/c was lord and patron, and he and Julian his wife had Tt in 1325, and in 1349, Will, son of Ra/f de Bokcuham, was lord and patron, and had free-warren here. In 1356, Baith. Apple- yard and John de Erpingham, citizens of Norwich, owned it; Apple- yard having obtained a release from William de Bukenhaiu6 and Joan his wife, settling it on him and his heirs; and in 13t>7, it was held of Rob. son and heir of John de Insula, or L' isle, Knt. Will. Appieyard his son held it till 1401, and then Bartholomew E/lys was found to hold it at two fees, of the dutchy of Lancaster, of which Sir John Lisle held it, but it was in trust only, for Nicholas son of William, and. grandson to Bartholomew Appleyerd, sold it to Tho. Wetherby, the rich alderman of Norwich, who died in 1445, and left it to Margaret his wife for life, and then to John Jenney, Esq. and Eliz. his wife, daughter and heiress of the said Thomas : this John Jenney was third son of Sir John Jenney, Knt.; he died in 1497, when Will. Jenney, son of his son John Jenney, inherited; he died at Intwood in 1512, and was buried under a large si one in the chancel, now robbed of its brasses; Catherine his wife survived him. In 1537, Sir John Heydon, Knt. and others, conveyed the advowson and manor to Ric. Blyant, with Swer- deston manor and advowson ; but Sir John and the others, were only trustees of John Blyant and Anne his wife, who presented in 1517, and Ric. Blyant, Esq. their son and heir, sold it to Sir Ric. Gresham, Knt. of London, who died in 1548, seized of the manors of Intrcood, Keswick, Siccrinsthorp, Hardwick, Swerdeston, and Mulberton, leaving- John his son and heir, then 30 years old. In 1549, Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt. entertained John Dudley the great Earl of Warwick, in his journey against the rebel Ket the tanner, at his seat here,7 which

silv. viii. pore, et quarta pars mol. tunc dim. semper ii. car. et dim. et ii. serv. iii. rune, m" iii. semper iiii. anc. tunc et i. lib. horn, de dim. acr. tunc valuit

pore.

it, modo xvii. et et Intewida habet

clesiade xii.acr. terre et i. acr. et dim. leug. in long, et dim in lato, et ix.d. et

prati. et xv. soc. xl. acr. terre semper i. ferding de gelto. Et hoc maneriura

ii. car. et iv. acr. prati et v. liberi homi- valuit. T. R. E. lx. sol. modo Ixxx,

nes xx. acr. et i. car. ex his habuit suus 6 See vol i. p. 298,381.

et antecessor commend. T. R. E. et ii. 7 See vol iii. p. 246. He built the

liberi homines et dim. lxxv. acr. com- Royal Exchange in 1567. Stow, 667. mend. tantumT. R. E. et i. bord. et

INTWOOD. 41

he soon after endowed and finished, in the manner we now see it* it stands about half a furlong west of the church, and is now called Int- wood-ha/l. Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt. appears lord and patron in 1568, and in 1571, William Gresham of London, Esq. who sold it about 1596, to Henky Hobart, Esq. with the manor of Swerdeston, in which family it hath continued ever since, John Lord Hobart of Blick/i/ig, being now lord, and owner of the village, (which contains the hall, and two or three cottages only,) as also patron of

The church, which is dedicated to all the Saints, and hath a nave 11 yards Jong and 6 yards wide, with a chancel and south porch, all tiled ; a steeple, round at bottom and octangular at top, in which are two bells. On a brass plate in the chancel,

Here resteth the Body of Cecily Hirst, wife of William Hirst Gent. Dr. and Heir of Edward Shelton of Brome in the County of Norfolk Esq; who died 28 Jan. 1619. There is a large stone robbed of an effigies and inscription, but I find that William Jenney Esq. was buried under it in 1512. By the font there are two stones for, Robert Hammond Gent. 15 Aug. 1678, 8-1. Hammond, or, on chief sab. three martlets of the field. His pious Memory here shall lay, 'Till Letters cut in Stone decay. Rob. his son Aug. 14, 1687,44.

]\il nisi pulvis inest, perfectum Gloria Corpus, Reddet, disce citd vivere, cit6 mori. Tho. son of Tho. and Mary Rackham 17 Aug. 1728. Eliz. their daughter June 7, 1731, 8. James Charles of Intwood, Aug. 19, 1718 52. Hannah his wife Sept. 5, 1737, 52.

This rectory, when single, was first valued with the portions at 5, after at 9 marks. When Norwich Domesday was made, John de Tivil'e was patron, and there was a house and 30 acres of land ; the portion of tithes then belonging to the monks of Colchester, was valued at 4s. that of the cellerer of Norwich at 6s. 8d. being for two parts of the great tithes of the demeans, which were given by Ralf de Tivile lord here, and were confirmed by John de Grey, and Tho de Blumxyle, Bishops of Norwich* The portion of the Prior of St. Faith was then valued at Is. but in 1428, increased to 2/. 4s, 2rf. in land and common- age. The hospital of St. Giles in Norwich had lands here.9 The sy- nodals were ISrf. Peter-pence \Q,d. carvage 2d. and it paid 2/. to each tenth. Being consolidated to Keswick, it is above value, and pa\ sfirst frnits and yearly tenths, viz. for Intwood 10s. and 10s. for Kesewic. The Virgin formerly had her image in this church, with a light con- stantly burning before it.

Anthony Drury, Esq. second son of Sir Jnthony Drury of Bes- tho/p, Knt. by Bridget, daughter of John Spelman of Narburgh, and brother to Sir William Drury, who died in ]639, lived here; he mar- ried a sister of Sir Owen Smith, Knt. oi' Winston, and (as the book in- tituled The Grandeur of the Lao?, tells us, p. 229,) was descended from

8 Regr. Pr. Norw. i. fo. 37, 262. » See vol iv. p. 3S4. » See vol. i. p. 277, 8, 49;. vol. v G

42 INTWOOD.

Rob. Druru of Lincoln's Inn, Esq. a person of great learning, and Speaker of the House of Commons in Henry the Seventh's time.

RECTORS OF INTWOOD.

127 5, Robert de Tivile, rector.

1313, Nic. Spriggi. Tho. Spriggi of Monesle.

1325, John de Bukenham. Tho. Spriggi and Julian his wife.

1334, Rob. de Shadwell. Sir Simon de Hethersete, Knt. guar- dian to Will, son of Ralfde Bukenham.

1336, John (or Rob.) de Bingham.

1349, John Boule of Old-Bukenham; he died rector. Will, de Bukenham.

1354, Will. JYiscte, he died and was buried in the minor-friars church at Norzcich. Bartholomew Appleyard and John Erpingham, citizens of Norzcich.

1339, John liysete, buried in the chancel in 1392, and was suc- ceeded by

Walter Bulleman, and he in 1399, by

Tho. Cantele, these three being presented by William Apple- yard, citizen of Norwich, as was

Barth Belagh in 1401, when

The chapel of St. James the Apostle of Gawesthorp, or Gauthorp,

was annexed and consolidated to this church of Intzcood.

1424, Will. Bultell. Thomas Wetherby, Esq. citizen and al- derman of Norwich.

1425, Walter Martin, who in 1431, changed for Titshall with Rob. Clement,1 who in 1444, changed with

Tho. Brook for Pevensey in Chichester diocese ; he was deprived in 1452, and

Tho. Morrice was presented by John Jenney, Esq. and Eliz. his wife, heiress of Wetherby, who presented the four following rectors,

William Freeman.

1471, Ric. Roper; at his death in

1482, Ric. Dawntre, who is buried in Hethersete church and was succeeded in

1493, by John Ponsty. In

1501, James Styward had it by lapse, and in

1502, Tho. Howson, at whose death in

1517, Edmund Loge had it, of the gift of John Blyant and Anne his wife; he died in 1529, and

Chris. Lant had it, by gift from Ric. Bli ant, Esq. ; he was suc- ceeded by

Tho. Cayton, on whose deprivation in

1554, Henry Smith was presented by Tho. Gresh am, Esq. at vvhoss

1574, John Shinquen had it, and held it united to Keswick, Sir Tho. Gresham, Knt. being patron.

1597, July 2i,Edzi>. Munday was presented by Tuo. Tirkll, Esq.

1 Vol. i. p. 209.

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patron of this turn, and on Oct. 23d following by consent of Will. Gresham, Esq. patron, it was consolidated to the church of Keswick adjoining to Intwood.

RECTORS of Intwood and Keswick, and Gowthorp chapel annexed.

1602, Will. Welles, B. D. ; in 1603, he returned 46 communicants here. Sir John Hobart, Knt. patron. 1617, Will.- Warren. The King by lapse. 1639, John Ridley. Lady Dorothy Hobart.

Henry King; he resigned, and in 1662, John Shejield, A. M. was presented by Sir John Hobart of Blick/ing, Bart. In 16()3, he resigned, and Sir John gave it to Miles Smith, and in 1680, to Ric. Clerk, at whose death in

1708, Sam. Harris was presented by Sir John Hobart, Bart, and at his cession in 1720, he gave it to

Will. Herring, LL. B. on whose cession in 1743, The Rev. Will. Leech, the present rector, was instituted at the presentation of John Lord Hobart, now patron.

KESWICK,

Or Case-Wic, i. e. the cottages upon the wic or winding of the river, to which the situation, which is on the river's side, exactly an- swers. In the Confessor's time this manor was a berewic to Hethill manor, and was owned by Olf, a thane of that King, and by Roger Bigot 'in the Conqueror's time; it was then 6 furlongs long, and 5 broad, and paid 6d. ob. geld or tax, and Aitard de I ah or de Faux, held it of Bigod.3

Godric the sewer had a man that held 10 acres here, and the King and the Earl had the whole soc, lete, and superiour jurisdiction.4

It continued in the Vaux family for many ages ; Hubert de Fal/ibus or Vals, was lord, and had an exemption from paying toll in Norwich,

3 TervuRogeriBigotiH. Humiliart. prati in eadem iv. libi. homines, duo

Doras, fo. 121. Hethella tenuit commend, tantum et unus sub antecess.

Olf Teinus T. R. E. &c. semper i. be- G«^'a'similiteretquartusSr;£(2KaVsimiliter

ruuita Chesewic de i. car. terre tunc ii. et hab. i. car. terre de xxx. acr. istius

▼ill. post et modo i. semper i. ser. tunc terre saisitus erat Godricus quando R.

et posti. car. in dnio. m° ii. et iii. acr. foris fecit et due sue mulieres ibi mane,

prati semper i. mol. et Chesewic habet bant, m" earn tenet Aitardus de Rogero

vi. quar. in longo et v. in lato, et vi.d. ii. bord. semper ii. car. et vi- acr. prati

et ob. de g. et tenet Aitardus. In tunc val. in totumxv. sol. mudo. xxv.

Kesewic xiii. libi. homines, quos tenet Rex et Comes de omnibus istis hberis

Aitardus, iiii. sub antec. Godrici. com- hominibus socam. (Doms. fo. 138.) mend, tantum et de v. soca falde, et * Terre Godrici Dapiteri. In Kes-

commend. et v. sub antecess. Rogericom. wic i. homo x. acr. et val. xvi.d. Rex

mend, tantum, habent et lx. acr. tunc i. et Comes super omnes socaill. Ibid. fo.

ear. et dim. post modo i. et dim. acr. 169.

44 KESWICK.

for the produce of his demeans here, and of his manor of Surlingham ; and in 1220, Jollun de Faux was lord of both manors, and proved his exemption : there were great contests between him and the Prior and Convent of Norwich, concerning rights of commonage in Eaton; but things being agreed, he became a good benefactor to their monastery, by confirming all right he had in Eaton to the monks, and a water- mill in Kesewic called the Old Mill; and Emma, daughter of Bartho- lomew, son of Will, de Hethill, released all her right in the mill, which was first given to the convent by Albert de Novilla or Nevile, subject to pay 10s. a year to the monks alThetford, which Vincent Prior of Thetford released in 1289, and Robert Prior of Alvesborne, and the canons there, released to the monks of Norwich, a rent of 20s. in Kese- mc; and in 1286, Ralf de ■ Jmodesham and Alice his wife, conveyed to the Prior of Norwich 40s. rent here to be remembered daily in the bed-roll of the church of Norwich ; and accordingly the monks of Norwich were taxed for 40s. of temporal rents in this town. Sir John de Faux, Knt. was succeeded about 1234, by his son Sir Alex, de Waus, Knt.s who granted to the Norwich monks, joint fishery with him in his stream from Hereford-bridge, and an acre of land there, Roger de Fans being witness; he confirmed to the Prior and monks of St. Faith at Horsham, 18 acres of land in Casewic, which John Godchep gave them in free alms, and also a portion of tithes out of his demeans, for which that convent was taxed at 6s, 8d. spirituals, and lis. temporals. In 1265, John de Faux was lord of this and Boton, and Mary his wi- dow had an interest in it ; and in 1295, the manor was settled by a fine, then levied between William son of Herbert de Faux, and Burga his wife, on the said Mary, for life, remainder to them and their heirs ; and in ]<2[)6)Petro?iilla, daughter of Alexander de Faux, claimed a part of it; and in 1315, the said Burga, her husband William being dead, was lady here, and in 1318 obtained a charter of free-war- ren to the manor. In 1320, she and John de Fals, her son and heir, as executors of Will, de Faux, paid 102/. to the King, as the remainder of the account of the said Will, who was the King's receiver for the revenues of his castle and honour of Knaresburgh in Yorkshire. la 1347, John Sparrow of Norwich, was lord. In 1349, Sir John Ufford, Knt. and Hugh de Curson, by whom in 1365, this and Fciux's manor in Burgh St. Mary were settled on Will. Clere of Ormesby. In 1390, Dionise Clere had it. In 1415, Rob. Clere, Esq. gave it after the death of Eliz. his wife, to Robert Clere his son, when it was held of Forncet honour. In 1469, Eliz. Clere had it, and in 1523, Sir Robert Clere, Knt. her son. In 1549, Sir Ric. Gresham, Knt. died seized, and Eliz. his relict had it, and after her, Sir John Gresham, their son and heir. In 1563, Isabel Gresham, widow, and in 1577, Sir Tho. Gresham, Knt.; and in 1580, Will. Gresham, Esq. and from that time it hath passed along with the manor of Intwood, and remains with it at this day.

The church was dedicated to All the Saints,6 and the rector had a house and 26 acres of glebe ; it was valued at 5 marks, and is now

» Margery, widow of Sir John de the Third's time, Will, de Vaux held it

Vaux of Kesewic, Knt. granted to Alex- at one fee of the heirs of Hubert de Mul-

anderher son, lands in Trowse, which ton, and he of the Earl-Marshal. Alexander released to the chambertain 6 Will. fil. Ranulfi de Swerdestone

of the monks at Norwich, In Henry abjuravi redidisse hospitali See. Marie

KESWICK. 45

valued at 5l. in the King's Books, and pays first-fruits, as consolidated to Intwood, and JO*, yearly tenths ; synoduls are Mid. procurations, 6s. 8d. Peter-pence 12rf. carvage \d. ob. the portion of St. Faith at Horsham 5s. and that of the monks of Thetford 5s. There was an image of the Virgin in the church, and in 1505, Rob. Curson was bu- ried before it, and gave a good legacy to repair the church ; this village paid 1/. 7*. to every tenth.

RECTORS OF KESEWICK.

Guaidus the priest.

Ra/f. Alex, de Vaux, Knt.

1300, Jeffery de Coluey. Sir Will, de Vaux, Knt. who presented the three following rectors;

1301, Edmund ~de Merkeshall. 1303, John de Basijigham. 1310, Rie. deCatfield.

1347, Ric at Church of Swaynesthorp. John Sparwe or Spar- row, citizen of Norwich.

1349, Simon de Bintre. Sir John Ufford, Knt. ; he exchanged for St. Margaret Westwick in Norwich. (See vol. iv. p. 257.)

1355, Rob. de Kyngton. Sir Kob.de Ufford and Hugh Curson : buried in the chancel in 1383, when Will. Clere of Ormesby gave it to

Tho. Ward of Ridlington, who was buried by him in 1390, and

Rob. Vyn of Brunsted, was presented by Dionise Cleke; and in

1408, Nic. Hey/et had it; and, in 1422, exchanged it with

Roger atte Medewe for Ridlungton. Oliver Groos, Esq.

1426', Rob. Melton. Nic. Wichjngham, resigned.

1434, Himon Clerk. Eliz. Rothenhale; he resigned in 1439, and

Tho. Burgh was presented by Rob. Clere of Ormesby, Esq. in right of Casewick manor, which came to him by inheritance.

1458, Ric. IVymond, lapse.

1465, John Wode, lapse.

1469, Brother Alan Aylesham. Eliz. Clere, widow.

1493, Brother John Hevyngham. Rob. Clere, Esq. He died in 1523, and Sir Rob. Clere, Knt. presented his chaplain,

Sir Will. Hunt, who held it united to St. Edmund in Norzvich; at whose death in 1525, he presented

Sir Robert Fosdyke, alias Poynter, who was deprived in 1555, and

Tho. Warner had it of the gift of Eliz. relict of Sir Ric Gresh am, Knt, at whose death in 1563, Lady Isabell Gresham, widow, gave it to

John Shynkwyn, who had it united to Intwood, and at his death, July 21,

\597,Edw. Munday was presented to this church by Tho. Tirrel, Esq. patron of the turn, who had institution and union to Intwood with Gowthorp chapel ; and the 23d of Oct. following, they were con- Magdalene juxta Norwicum et fratribus Herteford, et terra liberi, et est ex dono et sororibus ejusdem, Deo servientibus, Dni. Alexandri de Vallibus Dni. de totum jusin una acra, in campo de Che- Chesewic. E Carta sans date. Vol.iv. sewic inter terram ecclesie omnium p. 441. Sanctorum de Chesewic et pontem de

46 MERKESHALL.

solidated by consent of Will. Gresham, Esq. patron of them all ; and this church was immediately pulled down. The steeple is round, and is still standing, being very small, as was the church, which had a nave, chancel, and south porch ; the churchyard is ploughed up to the walls; it stands on a hill between Hertford-bridges and Intrcood, on the south side of the river, and the ruins are seen at some distance. There are a very few houses besides the hall ; the whole village belong- ing with Intwood, to John Lord Hobart of Blickliug.

More east, on the same side of the river, on a promontory, bounded on the south-east by the river Talis, are seen the ruins of another church, properly enough called

MERKESHALL,

It being at that time, the mark out of the great lake at the division of the rivers, though by corruption it is now called Matteshail ; the whole village, as well as the church, is dilapidated, there being only one farm-house in its precinct, which was lately built by the Pettus family, called Matteshall-Hali, where the farmer lives that occupies the whole.

This village belonged in the Confessor's days to Godwin, a free- man of Bishop Stigand, who held it at two carucates in demean ; the whole was then 5/. per annum, besides the church, which had (j acres of glebe, worth \td. per annum. At the Conquest it belonged to Ralf Beaufoe, was worth 11/. a year, had a freeman that held 6 acres in Dunston, which belonged to this manor, of which the King and Earl had the soc or lete, and the town was then 6 furlongs long and 5 broad, and paid 6d. ob. geld or tax.1

Afterwards it belonged to Hubert de Ria, orRHYE, beingsettled on him by the Beaufoe family, when Henry son of Hubert married Agnes de Beaufoe;* this Hubert gave the tithes of his demeans in Merkeshall, to the monks of Norwich, and Henri/ de Eia and Agnes his wife, confirmed them. On the division ol the barony of Rhye, this went to Isabel, who married for her 2d husband, Roger son of Hugh de Cressi, who had a daughter named Isabel, married to Alex, de Po- ringland, and before that, to Will, de Merkeshall, whose son, Peter de Merkeshall, was lord here; and alter him Sit William de

7 Markeshalla tenuit Goduinus yi. acr. etval. xii.d. et habet vi. quar.

liber homo Stigandi ii. car. terre tunc in longo et v inlaioet vi.d. et obulum

xii. villan. post et modo xi. tunc viii. de gelto. Rex et Comes socum de liberis

bordar. post et m". vii. tunc et post ii. hominibus. In Ounestuna i. liber

serv. m° i. tunc ii. car. in dominio, post homo vi. acr.etest in pretio deMerkcskala.

i. modo ii. semper v. car. horn. xvi. Sub tit. terra R. de Bellofag' . Humi-

acr. prati etsemperii. mol. etdim. m° ii. iart H. Doms. fo.218.

runcin. et iv. anim. etxx.porc. tunciv. 8 Regr. i. Ecce. Norw. 54. Reg. v.

oves. m° xiiii. et i. lib. homo viii. acr. fo. 7. See also vol. i. p. 44, 149. Vol,

terre et dim. semper dim. car. tunc va- ii. p. 432, 490, 93. luit cs. post viii. Ii. nv9 xi.l. i. ecclesia

MERKESHALL. 47

Merkeshall, Knt.his son, whose widow Margery, daughterof Sir John de Vaux, was abenefactrix to Norwich priory ; Aliva, the other heiress, to Rhie barony, married John le Marsha/, and had in this town and Cas/re adjoining, rents of 1 tl. per annum which she conveyed to Ro- bert de Mautby and Alice his wife,9 who in 1267, sold part of them to Roger son of Hugh le Bigot; and in 1274, this part was esteemed as a manor, for the Earl-Marshal held a manor in Merkeshall, and had free-warren to it; and Stephen de Brokedish was his bailiff there. In 1382, Sir Will, de Merkeshall granted this advowson and 7 acres of land, to Norwich monks; but a law-suit ensued, and it was proved that Peter de Merkeshall, his father, had granted it to Roger, son and heir of Roger de Thirkelbij, and he, to Walter de Thirkelhi/, his brother, who sold it to Roger Bigot. ; and in 1284, the said Roger agreed for the whole of the manor with Sir William ; * and it was settled on him and his heirs, and he had view of frankpledge, assise of bread and ale, and all royalties allowed him to his village of Merkeshall, paying I2rf. a year to the King, to his hundred of Humble yard ; from the jurisdic- tion of which, this village was exempt by the said payment. In 1306, the manor and advowson was settled on Giles de Munpynzoun, and Lady Christian his wife, who presented in 1310. Inl343,Nic. Deveros had it too, and in 1349, it was settled oiiTho, Moyne, who died seized in 1362, leaving it to Edm. his son and heir. In 1384, it belonged to Simon and Roger Blicki.ing of Norwich ; and it was settled in 1386, on Henry Luminor and Margaret his wife, and Wil- liam their son, of London ; and in 13y5, to Henri/ Luminor, senior of Norzoich; in 1408, he, Margaret his wife, and Thomas Muigne orMonk, of Merkeshall, settled it on Edmund Warner of Norwich, in trust for "William Morley, Esq. whose daughter Margery had it in 1441, and in 1451, John Yelverton, Esq. was lord of the manor of Merkeshall, called Monk's manor, or Lumnour-hall: about 1520, I find it in James He/mes, Esq. and in 155 1, Amy his widow had it, and was suc- ceeded by their son William Hel/nes of Rackhithe, Gent, who about 1568, sold it to Thomas Pettus, alderman of Norwich, with Rackhithe, &c. In which family it hath continued ever since, Sir Horace Pettus, Bart, being now lord.

The church was dedicated to St. Edmund the King and Martyr, and stands on a point or promontory, like the chapel of that Martyr, which stood at the very north-west extremity of the county, from thence called St. Edmund's Point; it never had a steeple, but only a nave, and chancel, the first about 10 yards long and 8 broad, the latter about the same length, and about 6 yards broad ; the only house in the parish stands about 2 furlongs south of it; the ruins are still per- ceptible at some distance. The rector formerly had a house and 24 acres of glebe ; it was first valued at 2 marks, 7*.' 6d- after at 10 marks; it paid \8d. synodals, 3s. procurations, 6d. Peter-pence, and 3d. car- vage; and the rents of the monks of Norwich were valued at 4s. 2d.

9 In 1441, 5/. per annum rent out of this Mautby, their son. manor, was owned by Rob. Mautby of ' In 1362, John de Merkeshal was lord

Mautby, Esq. was settled on Margaret liis and patron of Merkeshall in Essex, and

grandaughter, married to John Paston, released them to SirWill. de Rushbroke,

Esq. and came to John Pabton, Esq. of and Sir Ralf de Foley, Knts.

48 MERKESHALL.

to the tenths, and the whole village at l/. 4s. 2d. but paid clear, only xi.s. to each tenth.

RECTORS OF MERKESHALE.

1277, Roger.

1300, James Dobell of Bungeye. Sir Roger Bigot Earl of Nor- folk and Earl-Marshall.

Athis death in 1310, the Lady Christian de MuNPYNzouNgave it to

John Cortone, and in 1317, SirGiLES de Munpynzoun presented

Will, de Brunsthorp. In

1343, Will. Downyng resigned, and Nic. Deveros ave it to John Downyng of Tatersete, and in

1349, to Will, de Isingham; and the same year, Thomas Moyne, or Monk, presented

John de Cadewold of Woodford. In

1395, John Brunthorp was instituted at the presentation of Henry Luminor, citizen of Norwich; and in 1410, Edmund Warner of the same, gave it to

Walter Wil/mund of Beeston. In 1439, at his death,

JohnMorley, shaveling, was presented by Will. Morley, Esq. and in 1441, he resigned, and then, as executor of Will. Morley aforesaid, he presented

Gregonj Smith, chaplain, jointly with Margery, daughter of Wil- liam Motley, Esq, deceased.

1451, Rob. Ryal. John Yelverton, Esq. at Henry Bagot's death in 1525, Will. Paston having obtained a grant of this turn, of James Helmes, Esq. he presented

William IVoodtcard, priest, not as formerly to a rectory, but to a free-chapel ; by means of which, at the Dissolution, it was demolished, the glebe and profits seized, which were then valued at 61. 6s. per annum. Woodzcard was returned not rector, but custos or master of it, and had a pension for life assigned him as custos, of 2/. 15s. 6d. which I find paid him in 1553, and then it was totally left out of the King's Books, and the whole lost for a time; but in 16C8, it being found that it was apresentative rectory, formerly valued in the King's Books at 3/. 6s. 8d. it was reinstated, and the King presented.

Tho.Twaits, A. M. to it by lapse of time, and he having some trouble in recovering the arrears, compounded it at last, with the patron; so that in 1609, Sir John Pettus, Knt. presented

William Leedes, a licensed preacher; after whom

Hen. Nerford had it, and on his resignation, in

1637, John Hozilet, A. M. was presented byTHO. Pettus, Esq. who in 1639 at Howlet's cession, gave it to

II ill. Seamier, A. M. In 1687, on John Scamler's death, Sir John Plttus, Bart, presented

Ric. Dix, A. M. at whose cession

JolmGoddaid had it; and in

1695, Mar. 16, Rob. Fawcet, junior, A. M. on the death ofGoddard, had it consolidated to the adjacent rectory of Castor St. Edmund, with the consent of Sir John Pettus, Bait, and then held it united to

SWERDESTON.

*9

Burlingham St. Peter, and now it remains, by virtue of the consolida- tion, part of Castor, though this is in this hundred, and Castor in that of Henstede, being divided only by the river Tails, which runs between them, separating those hundreds.

SWERDESTON.

This village, at the time of the Conqueror's survey, was in many parts, beino- then six furlongs long and 5 broad, and paid lSd. geld. And Thorp, or Gowtlwrp, then belonged to it, and Mangreen also, as they do at this day; the two last, and one part of Swerdeston, belonged to Roger Bigot/ but the manor of Swerdeston, called afterwards.

SWERDESTON, or COLBY'S MANOR,

Which was the principal one, belonged to Ordinc, a Dane, one of the Confessor's thanes or noblemen, and was then worth 66s. and the church, which had 15 acres of glebe, was appendant to it.3 It was <jiven by the Conqueror to Ralf de Beaufoe, being then worth 106s.per annum. Richard held the whole of Ralf, when the Con- queror's survey was made; Pagan or Pain, the son of Richard, succeeded, and Ralf his son after him, who, by the name of Ralf Fitz-Pain, <nive lands here to the monks of Nomich, for the almoner's

z Ten-dRogeri Bigoti, H. de Humiliart. of 136, 7, Domsday.

In Suerdestuna i. liber homo viii. acr. in Suerdestuna habet vi. quar. in longo, et v. in lato, et xin.d. de gelto. T. E. R.

In Manegreena i. liber homo et dim. de hoc habuit antecessor Rogcri dimid. commend, et antecessor Godrici [dapiferi] similiter et hab. xxxiii. acr.

In Suerdestuna viii. liberi, ex tribus et dimidio habet suus antecessor comd. tantum T. E. R. et de quatuor anteces- sor Godrici similiter, et de dimidio ante- cessor R. Piperelli similiter, inter totum habent xlv. acr. et ii. bord. semper i. car. et dim. ii. acr. prati.

In Torp i. liber homo comd. tantum xv. acr. et ii. liberi homines, de iiii. acr. prati, et dim. car.

Terra Godrici Dapiferi. H. de Hu- miliart. Doms. fo. 169. In Suerdest. vii. xl. ii. acr. ii. lib. homines et dim. commend, tantum et i. bord. semp. i. aci. et i. acr. et val. vi. sol.

VOL. V.

3 Terra R. de Beli.ofago. H. de Humiliart. lb. fo. 218. Molkeber- tuna tenet Rkardus, quara tenuit Ordinc Tegnus T. R. E. &c. Et in Su- erdestuna tenet idem vii. (sc. liberi ho- mines) inter totum lvi. acr. semper i. car. et dim. et ii. acr. pra;i tunc et post valuit lx. sol. m° c. et liberi homines valent vi. sol. i. ecclesia xv. (acr.) et val. ii. sol.

Terra Rogeri Bigoti. H. de Hu- miliart. Ibid. fo. 303. In Suerdes- tuna dim. lib. homo dequo antecessor Godrici habuit commend, tantum. T. R. E. et idem Godricus erat hide saisitus quando Radulfus Comes foris fecit m°.eum tenebat Rad. de Norun et hab. xv. acr. et dim. bor. et dim. car. et dim. acr.prati et reddebatGodrico x.sol. in' reddebat/W. xii. sol. et hunc homi- nemdetinuitadversusGodrk timet ahum dim. hominem similiter de v. acr. val, xii</.

50 SWERDESTON.

use, * on condition they received himself, his father, and mother, and Soloman his uncle, into their bedroll, and celebrated for their souls, as for the brothers of their house. In 1247, William Fitz-Ralpk, lord here, sold the advowson to the nuns at Carhoe ; and the year fol- lowing, Walter Bishop of Norwich appropriated the church to them, reserving a vicarage to be presented to by that convent; Bartholomezo son of Will, who assumed the name of Swerdeston, was lord in 1256, and in 1315, it belonged to Tho. de St. Omer of Bruiidale, who died seized about 1364, leaving it to his two daughters and heiresses, Alice, after married to Sir William de Hoe, Knt. and Eliz. to Tho. Waryne. In 1392, it belonged to John de Colcby,i in which family it continued so long, that it still bears that name. In 1440, Tho. Wetherby, lord of Bruiidale, had an interest here. In 1510, Will. Jenney. Esq. held it, who died in 1512, and was buried at Intwood: and from that time it passed with that manor, and John Lord Hobart is now lord, and pa- tron of the vicarage. (See p. 40, 41.) It was held of the King, as parcel of the dutchy of Lancaster.

THORP, GOWTHORP, or GALTHORP-HALL MANOR,

Belonged to Roger Bigot at the Conquest, and continued in that family some time; it came afterwards to the family sirnamed leMoigne, or Monk, and in 1286, William le Moigne lived here, and claimed view of frankpledge, assise of bread and ale, &c. of all his tenants here. It seems, the chapel of St. James, which belonged to this manor, was founded by some of this family, and endowed with the great tithes of the manor. It was consolidated to Intwood church in 1401, (see p. 42,) but was in use till about 1590; it is now totally demolished, but stood in the Brick-kiln Close south-east of the hall. This was always reckoned as a hamlet to Swerdeston. and is now included in the parish, though the lands belonging to it are often, on account of the consolidation, said to be in Galthorp in Intzcood, in the parish of Swerdeston. In 1306, Peter son of Will, le Moigne, or Monk, was lord. In 1320, Will, son of John le Monk of Gowthorp, and Isabel his wife, sold it to Ric. Cole of Norwich, who released it again to Peter le Monk in 1343 ; and in 1351, John de Gowthorp seems to have had an interest in it; but in 1S55, Nic. Blakeney and Emma his wife sold it to Bar- tholomew Appleyard, when it contained 1 1 messuages, 4/. quitrents, &c. and Will, de Blickling and Mariona his wife, released all their right in 1367. In 1405, Rob. Stalon of Norwich, and Margaret his wife, conveyed it to Ric. Purdamore of Norwich, and other trustees. In I486, Margaret widow of William Skipwith of Noiwich, Esq. gave this manor to William her son, with remainder to Edmund his brother,* and ordered JohnRatcliffe LoidFitz-Walter, and her other feoffees, to settle it accordingly, and in 1494, Will. Skipwith and his wife settled it on Ric. Haleys, John Jollys, Simon Damme, and Rob. Walsh, their

4 Regr. ii. Ecce. Norwic. fo.48. The here. 2 H. VIII. Swerdeston alias monks were always taxed at 51. id. for Colby's manor, tent, per Jenny de these lands, called Pilate' s-Hills. Thoma Bolleyne Mil. per fidel. et red.

5 Sir John Colby of Swarston, and 6s. per ann. ut de manerio suo de Rob. Colby's arms impaling Brewse, Mulbarton.

were formerly in the church windows * See vol. iv. p. no.

SWERDESTON. 51

trustees, with the advowson of Newton Flotman, and a fishery in the river of Hertford;1 all which, in 1525, were conveyed by Sir Edward Boteyn, Knt. and Anne his wife, to Leonard Spencer and William Knightly. In 1560, it belonged to Will. Steward, or Styward, who settled in the manor-house called Golthorp-hall ; his second wife was Grisse/d, daughter of Thomas Eden of Sudbury, and his first was Eliz. daughter of Sir Chris. Jennet/, Knt. of Great Cresingham;8 and in 1608, he and Grise/d his wife settled it after their deaths, on their son Thomas and Mary his wife, daughter of Henry Lord Grey of Groby, both which are buried in St. Stephens church in Norwich, with many of their family. 9 By them this manor was sold to Thomas Berney, 3d son of Sir Thomas Bemey of Park-hall in Redham, by Julian his wife, daughter to Sir Thomas Gawdy, who died in 1 673, and is buried here, by Dorothy his wife, who was daughter and coheir of John Smith of Ameringhall ; they left two daughters ; Julian, married to Will. Branthwait of Hethi 11, Esq. and Frances, to Sir Edward Bark- ham of Westac re, Bart, and two sons; William, the youngest, married Bridget, daughter to the Lord Chief Justice Coke. John, the eldest son, settled here, and died in 1678, and by Eliz. his wife, daughter of Sir Arthur Onslow of West Clandon in Surrey, Bart, he had Elizabeth, buried here in 1678 ; Anne, married to John Suckling of Wotton, Esq. and Thomas Barney, Esq. his son and heir, who by Anne, youngest daughter of Rob. Suckling of Wotton in Norfolk, Esq. who are both buried here, had John Berney of Szcerdeston, Esq. the present lord, who now dwells in Galthorp-hall, which stands about a quarter of a mile eastward of the church.

MANEGRENE MANOR,

Was a hamlet to Swerdeston, and at the survey belonged to Roger Bigot, from whose ancestors it was conveyed to Osbert of Mannegrene and after that, Will, de Haverhill had it conveyed to Will, de Man- negrene, his kinsman. In 1315, Emma de la Penne and Peter Plum- stede owned it, and it belonged about 1334, to John le Neve of Manne- grene, and in 1340, was settled on John his son, and Margaret his sister, who married Will. Dene; and in 1395, they released to John le Neve all their right; and from thence till 1559, I have met with no account of it, when Tho.Aldrich of Mangrene, Esq." was buried by the font in Swerdeston church, and left Mangrene-hall manor to Cecily his wife; about 1570, it was owned by Thomas Aldrich, Gent, by whom the most part of the lands held of the manor (if not all) were purcha- sed in, and with an heiress of that family, it went to the Davies; Mr. Henry Davy, married a daughter of Israel Long, Gent, whose daugh- ter and heiress Anne, married to William Churchman, Esq. who now owns it, and dwells at Mangrene-hall, which is about half a mile north-east of

The church, which was originally dedicated to St. Andrezv ; and about 1400, reded icated to St. Mary the Virgin. It is a vicarage

7 Fin. Mich. 10 H. 7, N°. 23. Neve's Monumenta Anglicana, under

8 See vol. ii. p. 454. the year 1662. Salmon's Hist, of Hert-

9 See vol. iv. p. 162. fordshire,p. 273. 1 See vol. iii. p. 227, 8. See Le

52 SWERDESTON.

valued in the King's Books at 6/. but being sworn of the clear yearly value of 21/. 14s. and Ad. it is discharged of hist fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation. It was anciently valued at 10 marks, was appropriated to the nuns of Carhoe as aforesaid; there was no house, but the vicar had 24 acres of land ; his vicarage was valued at 5 marks, but not taxed. It paid synodals 2s. Ad. procurations 6s. 8d. Peter-pence lAd. and carvage 3d. In the time olHe'hry VI. the whole impropriate rectory was let to the vicar at 3l. 10s. a year. The. Prioress of Carhoe was taxed at 10 marks for it, and 1 Id. for her tem- porals, and the Prior ofJlvcsbourue had temporals here, taxed atl8d. the whole village was taxed at 3/. to every tenth, and paid 50s. clear, the rest being deducted on account of the revenues of the religious. In 1307, Lettice, wife of William Payn, settled 40 acres of land, and dl. per annum rents here, on her chantry in St. Stephens in Norwich.7,

VICARS OF SWERDESTON,

PRESENTED BY THE PRIORESSES OF CaRROW.

1318, Nic. Jobbe. 1369,Witt. Bay house.

1375, Simon Bond.

1376, Hamond Jyleward. 1380, Rodelandde Kerbrook. 1383,WiU. Chapman, lapse. 1388, Will. Jurley.

1394, Ric. Osteler.

1398, Will. Lincock, resigned.

1405, Walkeline Percomb, who resigned to

John Witton in 1410, in exchange for Norton by Baldok, in the jurisdiction of St. Albans, and in 1417, he exchanged this, for Thime, with

John Greenhill.

1420, John Fox.

1422, John Deye, who exchanged for Wacton-Magna in 1429, with

John Long.

1437, Tho. Hacun.

1470, John Fyer, at whose death in

i479, John liayner had it. At the Dissolution, the impropriate rectory and advowson of the vicarage, and an annual pension of 2Ss. Ad. paid to the impropriator, were granted with Carozc, to Sir John Shelton, Knt. and were after sold by Sir Ra If Sheltun, to Sir Humphry May, Knt. and in 1565, belonged to Anthony Style, Esq. who this year agreed with Robert Beierle, vicar here, that as he was also pro- prietary of Dunston, if he the said Robert, and his successours, served the curacy of Dunston, and paid all dues to the Bishop and Archdea- con, then he the anAJnthony, for himself and heirs, settled all the great and small tithes whatever, and all dues belonging to the parish of Snerdeston, and in the bounds of the parish, on the vicar and his suc- cessours for ever, on condition he served both parishes, as appears in the 19th Institution Book, fo. 275; but on some consideration,

- See vol.iv. p. 227.

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when the two parishes were severed, this was dissolved, though in 1603, Brewster was returned both rector and vicar of Swerdeston, and curate of Dunston ; that he had 82 communicants, and that An- thony %on of Anthony Style, Esq. was proprietary and patron. In l6go, on the cession of Anthony Buxton, Daniel Scargy/l was presented by Dudley Scargyll, Gent, and held it united to Mulbarton ; and on the resignation of Samuel Canning in

1726, the Rev. Mr. John Swift, the present vicar, who holds it united to the rectory of Swainsthorp, was presented by Sir John Ho- baet, Bart. and Knight of the Bath^inovi Lord Hob art,) the present patron.

In 1474, John Gerard of Swerdeston was buried in the church, the nave of which is 52 feet long, and 17 broad, the chancel being 25 feet long and 15 broad ; it hath no isles, the whole is leaded but the south porch, which is tiled ; the tower is about 22 yards high, and hath five bells in it, on the biggest of which,

J?ctrti£ ao <£tcrna Ducat no£ jpa.sicua bite.

In the altar rails, crest a plume of feathers, on a coronet, Berney impales Green.

Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Berney, late of this Parish Esq. who deparled this Life Oct. 25, 1720, jet. 46, and Anne his Wife, who died Apr. 12, 1743, 63.

On a stone in the chancel. Berney, with a crescent, impales Smith, a bend erm. between 12 billets.

Hereresteth the Body of the vertuous and charitable Dorothy the Wife of Thomas Berney Esq; one of the Daughters and Co- heirs of John Smith of Ameringhale Esq; who departed this Life the IQth Day of Sept. A. D. 1672. Waiting for the glorious appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

On the next stone are the same arms, but Berney's crest there, is a garb; and Smith's on a cap of maintenance doubled erm. two wings expanded, on each of which, are Smith's arms.

Depositum Viri honorabilis Thomas Berney Armigeri, Filij tertij Thomae Berney de Recdham Mililis, qui secundo Die Mensis Aprilis, A. D. MDCLXXIH. Spiritual Deo redidit, et in Pace hie requiescit, Gloriosam Domini nostri Jesu Christi praestolans Epiphartiam.

On stones in the nave, crest, a plume of feathers, and Berney quartering Smith.

M. S. Depositum Johannis Berney Armigeri, Thomse Berney Armigeri et Uxoris ejus Dorotheas Filij, Qui Virlute, Probilate, Comitate bene notus, omnibus juxta ac Amicis charus, diuturni- ore vita nisi quod meliore dignus, naturae cessit Oct. ig, A. D. 1678. Quadraginta et quatuor, haud multo minus, annos natus, propvior Jubilaeo.

Perge Viator, et ut discas vivere, disce mori.

3 See vol. i. p. 411,

54 DUNSTON.

On the next stone the same arms in lozenge. Here lyeth interred the Body of Mrs. Eliz. Berney, the eldest Daughter of John Berney of Swerdeston in the County of Norfolk Esq; and of Eliz. his Wife, sha died on the 14 of Nov. 1678.

On a brass plate is this, $ere Ijithe Sjohn <j3oodtopn, on toho^e &ouIe 3je£u hate J&ercrj, the pv'ip august! M. ©. f.

In the windows there were the effigies of the 12 Apostles, some of which still remain ; and there are two broken portraitures of benefac- tors on their knees, in a north window, and in a south window, vert a chevron between three rams passant arg. armed or. In another shield, the arms of Berney with a crescent.

In a lozenge. 1, Rich, gul. a chevron between three croslets botony or. 2, Felton, g. two lions passant erm. crowned or. 3, Aldrich.

Here restetfi in Hopes of a happy Resurrection, the Remains of Eliz. Aldrich Widow, One of the Daughters of Sir Anthony Felton, late of Play ford in the County of Suffolk, of the honoura- ble Order of the Bath Knight deceased, she having been first the Wife of Rob. Rich of Mulbarton in the County of Norfolk Esq; and after his Decease, married to Thomas Aldrich of Swardeston in the same Countie Gent, and having attained to the Age of 80 Years, changed this Life for Immortality, upon the last Day of Sept. in the Year of our Lord MDCLXXVIlI.

DUNSTON,

Or the town by the dune or hill, was at the Conquest (though but a small village) in no less than five parts, the 1st belonged to Alan Earl of Richmond, and at the Confessor's survey was owned by Herold the Dane, and the King and the Earl had the lete, or superiour ju- risdiction of the whole village, which was half a mile long and three furlongs broad, and paid 6d. ob.geld or tax. The 2d, was Roger Bigot's. The 3d, Gomuc the sewer's the 4th belonged to Merkeshall manor, as at p. 4(i, and the 5th was a freeman of the King's who had then IS acresonly, valued at \1d.* But soon after, the whole became

♦Sub. tit. Terre Alani Comitis. et val. v. sol. (Append. Regr. Honoris

Humiliart H. Doms. fo. 70. Richm. fo. 15.)

In Dunestun i liber, homo. He- 2 Sub. tit. Terra Rogen Bigoti Hu-

raldi xxx. acr. etiv. bord. semper dim. miliart H. Ibd.fo. 137.

car. et. iii. acr. prati et tercia pars. i. InDunatuna iii. liberi homines et dim.

mol. et ii. liberi homines et dim. com- xlix. acr. commendatione tantum

mendatione tantum. Rex et Comes T. R. E. semper iii. bord. eti. car. et

socam. et habent xiv. acr. semper i. car. ii. acr. prati.

DUNSTON. 55

one manor, with the advowson of the rectory appendant thereto, and belonged to the Crown, till the beginning of Ric. I. when William Helgheton had it of that King's gift, whose son Herbert de Helgheton granted the advowson from the manor, to Alice de Fundenhale, wife of Robert Fitz-Ralf, who in 1 196 had a trial with Herbert for the ad- vowson, when the jury found, that it was not apparent, that the church had ever yet been presented to, but that the parsons held it, from par- son to parson, as from father to son, till the death of the last incum- bent, and that though the said Alice had no manor nor demean in Dunston, yet, it being founded in the fee of the said Herbert, her grant was good, and she had the advowson confirmed to her, and her par- son was instituted, s and so the advowson was separated from the manor.

In 1205, King John confirmed the manor to William son of Walkeline de Dunston, when Walkeline his father took upon him a religious habit, and entered a monastery. This William was falconer to King John, who settled this town on William de Dunston, son and heir of William his falconer? and Alice his sister, and their heirs ; he was succeeded by Bartholomew his son and heir, who in 1256, pleaded an exemption for his manor, from suit of the sheriffs turn. In 12S0, Rob. de Dunston, John de Dunston, and Jeffry de la Penne, were lords here ; and the same year, William son of Rich, de Dunston was sued, for pretending to appropriate to himself the fishing in the river between Shotesham and Dunston, when it appeared, that the fishery on Dunston side, was common to all the tenants of Dunston manor.7 In 1285, Emma, widow of John de la Penne, had one part of the manor, and in 1286, William son of Richard, and William son Nicholas de Dunston, were lords; in 1345, Robert and John de Dun- ston had it ; in 1385, Hugh de Dunston ; and in 1395, John de Dunston and Maud his wife settled it by fine on Sir Edmund de Thorp and his trustees. I find about this time, Robert de Ho/veston had an interest in the manor,8 which soon after belonged to John Howes of Dunston, who sold it to Joh>i de Bonyngton and Christian his wife, who all joined about \3\){), and conveyed the whole to Bartholomew de Apple- yerd, citizen of Norwich, for life ; and after his decease to Richard de

3 Sub tit. Terre Godrici Dapiferi. aliquam personam presentari ad eccle-

Humiliart H. ibid. fo. 169. siam de Duneston, sed sempertenuerunt,

In Duneston vii. liberi homines et dim. persona in personam, ut de patre in

commend, tantum cxi. acr. et i. bord. filium, usque ad ultimatn personam que

semper i. car. et dim. et i. molin. et ii. ultimo obijt, et dicunt quod ecclesia ilia-

acr. prati et val. xiii. sol. et habet dim. fundata est in feodo, quod Alicia tenet

leug. inlongo, et iii. quar. in lato et vid. de ipso Herberto et quod nichil habet in

et obulumde Gelto. dominio &c. Alicia teneat in pace, et

4 Sub. tit. Terra R. de Bellofago. episcopusrecipiat personam ad presenta- Humiliart H. Ibid. fo. 218, tionem illius.

In Dunestuna i. liber, homo. vi. acr. 6 Asturcarius. This Will, de Dun-

et est in pretiode Merkeshala. ston was falconer to King John, to

5 Sub. tit. Isti sunt homines liberi Re- whom that King confirmed this manor, gis. H. de Humiliart, Ibid. fo. 292. to be held by the service of finding the

In Dunestuna i. liber, homo xiii. acr. Kings of England a cast of hawks at

etval. xiid. their own charge.

Alicia de Fundenhale per Robertum » Rot. Inquis. in baga de quo war-

filium Radulfi, virum suum, versus ranto, sub tit. Norf. Hensted Hund.

Herbertum de Helgheton, de placito 8 Manerium tent, per servitium unius

advocacionis ecclesie de Duneston. Ju- cast, falconum, ad usum Domini Regis, ratores dicunt, quod nunquam viderunt

56 DUNSTON.

Dunston, chaplain, and his heirs, who after became seized of the whole town ; Agnes Custinoble, heiress of John de Bonyngton, releasing also all her right. In 1401, Henry Luminour held it at the 8th part of a fee, of Will, de Kerdeslon, and he of the heirs of Montchemy, who held it of Maud de Cromwell Lady Tateshall, and she of the King in chief ; and Roger de Blickling then held here the 5th part of a fee of John de L'isle, and he of the King, as of the honour of Lancaster. In 1419, it was settled in trust on Sir John de Heveningham, Km. Will. Paston, and others, to the sole use of the Appleyerd family ; and in 1481, Will. Appleyerd of East-Carleton, Gent, bequeathed his ma- nor of Dunston to Thomas his eldest son, and his heirs male, paying annuities to his brother John, and Elizabeth his mother; and for want of male issue, it was to remain to Thomas his brother, then to John his brother, and to Henry son of John, then to Henry his brother, then to Bartholomew, and then to John Appleyerd ; it went after to Bar- tholomew, who died in 1492, and Margaret his widow, and Sir Rob. Jermyn, administered. In 1534, Thomas Appleuerd settled it on John Taseburgh his trustee; and in 1548, he was found to hold it of Edmund Knevet, Knt. as of his manor of Hethersete, by knight's service, and Robert Appleyerd, was his son and heir; in 1572, John Appleyerd, Gent, had it. In 1632, John Hamond of Effingham by Bungeye, Gent, owned it, and dying this year, left it to John Hammond his son and heir. It afterwards came to the Longs, and is now owned by Israel Long, Esq. who is sole lord, impropriator and donor of the donative or perpetual curacy of

The church, which is dedicated to St. Remigius; its advowson was separated from the manor, as is above related; and in 1233, it belonged to Bartholomew de Creke, as part of the ancient inheritance of his family, for then he granted it to Richeld, widow of Rob. de Crcfce, his father's second wife ; and in 1264, it was given by Margery, relict of Bartholomew deCreke, foundress of the nuns at Flixton, to that house, to which it appropriated by Simon de Walton Bishop of Norwich,9 on condition the nuns should have the whole of the rectory, finding a priest to perform the duty, and paying him for so doing; and in 1288, a fine was levied, by which Roger Fitz Peter Fitz Osbert, and Sarah de Creke, his wife, the heiress of the Creke family, settled the advowson on the Prioress of Flixton, in pure alms : at the time of the appropriation, the rector had a house and 30 acres of land. The living was first valued at five, afterwards at 7 marks and an half, and paid 'Is. synodals, 6*. 8d. procurations, I2d. Peter-pence, and Id. ob. carvage. In 1349, when the general plague had depopulated great part of the realm, it was returned, that most of the parishioners here were dead, the land left untitled, so that the Prioress could not pay the King's taxes for it, nor the 10/. per annum to the Bishop, then usually paid. It was granted by Edward VI. in 1539, to William and 27(0. ll'oodhouse, ' and the whole belonged to Anthony Stiles, whose son Anthony had livery of this rectory, with Swerdeslou, Sec. to which he got it annexed, as at p. 52. In 1559, Ric. Nicholls, Esq. had it; and in 1603, Simon Lusher, curate here, returned answer, that there

s E Regro. VII. Ecce.Calh. Norwic. Ricum. Fulmerston, Arm. et Will. Ful- fo. -29, dated at Hoxne. merson, Milit.

8 1548, Manerkim et rector, tent, per

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were 40 communicants in the parish, that it was an impropriation, without a vicarage endowed, served by a. perpetual curate, appointed' and paid by the impropriator ; that the town paid clear to every tenth 18s.x The dean of the chapel in the Fields in Norwich had lands here, settled on that college in 1391, by Henri/ Lumnor and others. The Rev. Mr. William Berney, rector ot Newton Flotman and Freten- ham, is the present curate.

The church is about 19 yards long and 5 broad, hath no isles nor porch; the nave and chancel hath one continued roof, covered with tiles, as is the top of the tower, which is square, and hath in it only one bell.

On a stone in the chancel there are three effigies in brass, with a brass plate under them, but no inscription ; and lower down on the same stone, are cut three shields; on the first, a lion with its tail turned over his head.3 2d, Talbot, arg a chevron gul. between three talbots passant sab. 3d, Hauborne, gul. a lion passant or, between three bezants, a crescent for difference.

Here lyeth interred the Body of the late virtuous and pious Wife of Clere Talbot, Doctor of the Law, the eldest Daugh- ter of William Harbome of Mundham, Esq; who died 18th Day of Decern. 1649, leaving three Daughters and Coheiresses by William Sidnor of Blundeston, Esq; her former Husband.

On the other stone are the arms of

Long of Dunston. arg. three pales sab. on each three leopards heads or. Crest, on a hill vert, a greyhound passant sab. collared and chained arg.

Israel Long Esq; passed from death to life Nov. 13, MDCCIX. There needs no Monument of Brass or Stone, For one, whose Name is Monument alone.

Non Deest alii celebrans Poema

Integro vitae scelerisque puro :

Sufficit nomen maculis inane

Pro Monumento.

And also the Body ot Sarah Long, the Dr. and Heir of Mat- thew Long Gent, deceased, and Relict of the said Israel Lon«, who departed this Life Apr. 8, MDCCXX.

Par Nobile. Here lies a Noble Pair, who were in Name, In Heart, and Mind, and Sentiments the same, The Arithmaetick Rule then can't be true, Tor One and One, did never here make Two.

Here lyeth interred the Body of Mary Long Widow, and Relict of Matthew Long, Gent, who departed this Life the 19

a This is not in the King's Books, as designed for ; those of her first husband,

raying no first fruits or tenths, but the Sidnor, are, arg. a fess nebule az. be-

annual stipend being under 50/. per an- tween three crescents surmounted" of as

num. it is capable ot augmentation. many de-lises sab. in a bordure jts/. I know not whose arms these were

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Day of May 1668. Robert son of Israel Long Gen. and Sarah his Wife died Dec. 8, 1668. Matthew Long Gent, died Nov. 12, 1658. Mary Dr. of Israel Long Esq. died Dec. 21, 1718, 55. Long impales Potts, az. two bars surmounted by a bend or.

Mortale quod habuit, dum Christojubente, immortale resurgat, hoc sub marmore inter Majorum Cineres, deposuit Matthaeus Long Armiger, Vir moribus autiquis Vitaj integerrimus, Filius Israelis Long de Dunston in Agro Norfolciensi ; si quid amplius Viator, scire cupias, Roges Egenos, qui totres hujus Largitate Saturati, discessere, Eos roges Hospites, quos plena Mensa toties communicavit; Uxorem duxit Susannam, Domini Rogeri Potts de Mannington Baronetti Filiam pienlissimam. Obijt Aug. 28, Anno set. suae 6l, Salutis hurnanae 1724. (He was

high sheriff of Norfolk in 1699-)

On a brass plate, <©rate pro anima JEtargaretc applparo que obiit Stano ©omint M- 1>£. JL"t'ui. cuius anime propicictur ©eu£. In the nave, the arms of Davy in a lozenge. Sarah Davy died 11 July, 1720, aet. 22.

Sleep on in Silence, never more to wake, 'Till Christ doth raise thee, and to Glory take.

In the windows, arg. a cross gul. Gul. a cross arg. Ar. six mul- lets three and three gul. Sab. two bars, and in chief three annulets arg. impaling arg. in a bordure six mullets, 3, 2, and 1, G.

SWAINSTHORP,

At the Confessor's survey, was known by the name of Thorp only, and before the Conquest began to be called Szcains-TJwrjt, from the swains or country men, that inhabited there. RalfStalra, Bishop Sti- gand, and the antecessor ofGodric the sewer, had it at the first survey, and it belonged to Tovi at the second, all but Godric's part, which was then of 2s. 8d. annual value, and belonged to him.4 The whole was then a mile long, and as much broad, and paid 1 id. geld. The rents of the manor were 29s. per annum, and one of the churches had

* Sub tit. Terra Tout. Domsd. fo. sol. i. ecclesia xxiii. acr. et i. bord.et

279. Hund. Humiliart. InToRPxv. dim. et Torp habet dim. leug. in longo

liberi homines, civ. acr. et de xi. et di- et dim. leug. in lato, et x\J. de gelto, midioliabuitRadusStalra,comd.T.R.E. Sub tit. Terra Godrici Dapiteri. H.

et de iii. Stigandi, similiter et de dimidio Humiirart. Doms. fo. 169. In Suei-

antec. Godrici dapiteri similiter, tunc vi. nesthorp ii. soc. xxxv. acr. semp. dim.

car. modo vii. et dim. et xi. acr. prati, car. i. bord. et i. acr. prati, et val.ii.sol.

et dim. niol. et xii. bor. et val. xxix. et viiirf.

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23 acres of glebe. It afterwards came to the Bigots, by whom it was given to a family simamed de Sweynesthorp, of which Gilbert de Sweynesthorp, is the first I meet with, that assumed that name ; he left it to Walter his son, who by deed without date, granted lands here to be held of him and his heirs, to Ralfde Kynegham or Kiningham, son of William de Shotesham ; in 1 195, it was settled by Rob. son of Regi- nald and Ulfde Sweynesthorp and William his son, on William de Ful- bourne for life, from whom it took the name of

FULBOURNE-HALL MANOR,

And soon after, Robert son of Reginald de Sweynesthorp, and Bartho- lomew son of Jeffry de Sweynsthorp, were lords here; and in 1225, Ric. de Sweynesthorp, who that year obtained a market to the town of La.rfield in Suffolk.* In 1249, it appears, that there had formerly been a serjeantry belonging to this manor, the owner of which was obliged to find a cross-bow and archer in time of war, to guard Nor- wich castle for 30 days, at his own cost; but the lords here, granted divers lands to the then value of 3/. per annum to the Er/ham family, chargeable with the whole serjeantry, (see vol. iv. p. 510,) which after came to Robert de Worthsted, who parcelled it out to the Earl-Mar- shal and others ; and in 1362, John Berney had a part with his manor of Fish/ee, and after John de Hales had it ; and in 1345, Rob. de Hol- veston. In 1286, Isaac, chaplain to the Jezos at Norwich, and many others, both Jews and Christians, were tried for breaking the churches of Sweynsthorp and Newton. It after came to John de Sweynsthorp, and then to Walter de Bradenham ; and in 1315, Ric. de Bradenham was lord, who in 1352, settled the manor and advowson of St. Peters church here, which belonged to it; 6s. 8d. rent in Colney ; the 4th part of Malherbe's hall manor, and the 4th part of the advowson of Newton Flotman thereto belonging, on himself for life, remainder to Roger le Haukere of Redenhall, andMary his wife, in tail ; and Tho. de Swathyng and Robert, parson of Sweynesthorp, son of Walter and brother to Ric. de Bradenham, confirmed it; and in 1372, Roger le Haukere of Re- denhall, was lord, and held it of the Norfolk family at half a fee, and in 1386, Mary his relict had it, and soon after it was united to the other manor here, called

CURSON'S MANOR,

Which was that part that belonged to Godric the sewer, and afterwards came to the Cursons, who held it of Tale shall honour; Will, h Curson was lord here, and patron of the church of St. Mary, which was appendant to this manor when Norwich Domesday was made, and in 1315, Rob. le Curzon had it ; in 1338, he settled it on himself and heirs in tail. In 1316, Ric. Neel, held here and in Ho/kham, a fourth part of a fee of the honour of Lancaster ; and in 1323, he held it of the barony of Montchensy, \ate of Jymer de Faience, and the next year Peter le Bret's heir had it, and in 1348, John son of Rob. de Thorp, In 1381, Will, de Hockham and Christian his wife, settled it on John

5 Claus. io H. 3. M. 22. Liberat. io. H 3. M. 1. Suff,

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Stukele, vicar of Windham, in trust; and in 1399, John Carson had it, and the same year it belonged to Henry Luminour, who joined it to the other manor, and so was seized of both; in 1402, he was found to hold Fulbourne-hall manor, of the Duke of Norfolk, as of For nee t ma- nor, at half a fee, and this manor of Will, dt Kerdeston, and he of the heirs of Montehensie, and they of the heirs of Maud de Cromwell, and they of the King, at the 8th part of a fee ; and in 1406, the two united manors and their advowsons, were settled by John Mays and Robert parson of Swainsthorp, their trustees, on the said Henry Luminor and Margaret his wife; and in 1409, John Peverell owned them all, who presented jointly with Eliz. his wife in 1429; in 1440, Eliz. then widow of Nicolas Blomvile (who held them for life) and William Blomvile, settled them by fine, on William Paston of Paston, and his trustees, Rob. Clere, Esq. John Dam, &c. In 1447, Tho. Lucas of Holkham, Esq. gave the moiety of his manor of Swainsthorp, to F.theldred his wife for life, remainder to Stephen Lucas his brother, with the reversion of the other moiety in tail. In 1450, John Paston, Esq. was sole lord, and died seized in 1465, and his feoffees presented in 1467, and in 1505, Will. Paston and Bridget his wife had it, and the next year, settled it on Sir John Fineux, Knt. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and he on Sir Robert Rede, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Edward Poininges, Knt. John Moore, Serjeant at law, &c. to the use of A gnes Paston, widow, for life, remainder to Will. Paston, Esq. and his heirs, to perform the will of Sir William Paston, Knt.; and in 1516, the said William Paston infeoffed Sir John Hcxeningham, Knt. and others, and in 1536, Sir Will. Paston, Knt. and Bridget his wife, and Jeffry Paston, Esq. and Mary his wife, sold the manors and advowsons, to Sir flic, Gresham, Knt. who left it in 1548, to Sir John Gresham, Knt. his son and heir, who had the whole, and held Fulbourne-Hall of Forncet at half a fee, Curson's of the dutchy of Lancaster, and the serjeantry of the King in chief. In 1570, Sir Tho. Gresham, Knt. owned them, and his Lady after him ; and then Sir Will. Gresham his nephew had them, when the customs of the united manors (now called Swainsthorp-Hall) were found to be, that thejines are at the will of the lord, the copyhold descends to the eldest son, and the widow's dower is a third part. In 1580, Will. Gresham, Esq. owned them, and inl609,Sir Will. Gresham, Knt. held it of Forncet at half a fee. In ]6l6, Sir Will. Gresham and Elizabeth his daughter, sold it to Christopher Colby, &.c. in trust for Sir Henry Hobart, Knight and Baronet, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; and in 1617, they all joined and sold it to Tho. Stew- ard and John Pickerell, and their heirs; and in 1622, they conveyed it to John Mynguy, alderman of Norwich, who had a grant of the lete, during the lives of Sir Charles Cornwaleis, &c. (see p. 1,) it belonging to the hundred. In 1640, Mary, relict of Thomas Steward, Esq. and Hem >/ her son, released all right tp Jtihn Mingay afpresaUJ ; and in 1650, Rob. Rich, Esq. administrator to Sir Eduyn Rich, released all his right (which was a mortgage only) to John, son and heir of John Myngai), who settled it in trust on Roger Myngay, Gent, his brother. In 1662, Mary, relict of Alderman Roger Mingay, had it ; and John, Anthony, and Roger, her three sons, released it to her; and the next year, she, and John and Roger, conveyed the manors, advowson, and ■whole estate loAnthonyMiugay, her second son, who in 1666, married

SWAINSTHORP. gi

Anne, daughter and coheiress of Charles Cornzca/eis of Mileham, Esq.- he died 28-Dec. 17 13, and is buried in St. Stephen's church in Norwich, and left Frances his only daughter and heiress, who first married Mr.' Lane of Bristol, by whom she had no issue, after to

William Brooke, Esq. recorder of Norwich, who is the present lord and patron. She died Jug. 23, 1729, and is buried in St. Stephens, having no issue now surviving.

The church of St. Mary was demolished at the Reformation, it being in a decaying way ever since its consolidation to the present church of St. Peter; for in 1503, it was called the old church, and the principal image of the Virgin, was almost decayed. William Curson was patron of it at Domesday making, when the rector had a house and 20 acres ; it was valued at five marks, but not taxed in the last valuation; it paid id. synodals, 12c?. procurations, Id. carvage, and Id. Peter-pence ; and in 1435, an image of St. Anthony was given to the church.

THE RECTORS I have met with are,

1315, Peter le Moyne. Rob. le Curzon.

1333, John Duke,ot'Morle, John Hales, trustee.

1349, Roger de Southgate of Sweynesthorp. John Gosselyn of Sweynsthorp.

1361, Roger Ward.

1666, James Motte. Roger de Hales, Ric White, and Jef- fry Galt ; he exchanged the same year for the mediety ot'Ringstede- Parva, with Seman of Ipswich.

1373, John Syke/ing was buried in St. Mary's church at Stratton, before the great rood, and was formerly sacrist of Wingfield college.

1406, Robert, rector of Sweynsthorp St. Mary.

St. Peter's church is 39 feet long, and 22 broad, the north isle is 34 feet long and 12 broad, and the chancel is about 22 feet long, and as much broad ; the whole is tiled, except the nave, which is leaded; the steeple is about 50 feet high, is round at bottom and sexangular at top, including four bells.

In the chancel,

Mathew Stonham, clerk, deceased 17 Apr. 1659, 50. And this on a brass plate, having the arms of Havers, with a mullet for difference.

Here lielh the Body of Gilbert Havers, Esq; who served Queen Elizabeth, Captain in Bnrwick, then in Scotland, after in Ire/and, and last in the Netherlands 22 Years, he married Fran- ces Dr. and Heir ofTHo. Nashe, he lived 87 Years, and died the 5 of May, 1628.

6 1548, John Nesh or Nash, of daughters, Anne and Barbara; Edward

Swainsthorp, buried there, left Thomas and John Blomvyle, Esq. were brothers

his son and heir, and William his bro- to Amy his wife. Keg. Wymer, fo. 81.

ther, and Amy his wife, executors, two Frances, eldest daughter and coheir of

61 SWAINSTHORP.

In the north isle, James Long, Gent, died Aug. 17, 1679 Alice his first wife, Aug. 19, 1658.

Mors nuptos separat, separalos nubit utrosque

Hos se divulsit, junxit utrosque simul. Whom Death did Part, the kinder Grave of late

Hath joined, once again, in spite of Fate.

This James, by the name of James Long of Swainthorp, Gent, had a grant of arms from Sir Edward Bishe, Garter, dated Feb. 14, 1651, to him and Matthew Long, Gent, his brother, and their heirs, viz. arg. three pales sab. each charged with as many leopards heads or. Crest, on a hill vert, a greyhound passant sab. collared and chained arg. which now belongs to the family seated at Dunston. The following arms are on the chancel roof, and in the windows : 3, arg. a plain cross guL Bygod of Seterington. 2, Inglethorp, gul. a cross ingrailed arg. 3, Shelton. 4, ar. three crescents G. Butteveleyn. 5, Wingfield. 6, Wo lterton, quarterly or and az. a bendlet gul. 7, az. a bull's head caboshed or. 8, Hoe, quarterly A. B. over all a bend gul. 9, Ming ay, or, on a bend az. three leopards heads arg. impaling three cross croslets fitche arg. 10, Min- gay impales Pratt, sab. on a fess between three elephants heads erased arg. three mullets of the field. 11, Mingay impales Corn- waleis. 12, Gourn ay, arg. a cross ingrailed gul. 13, Fitz-Ralph. 14, Kerdeston. 15, sab. a cross or. 16, quarterly G. and Jr. 17, Thorp. 18, arg. a cross sab.

The rectors here had anciently an house and 30 acres of land, and the rector i/ was valued at 15 marks, paid 2s. bd. synodals, 6s. 8d. pro- curations, 5d. Peter-pence. And 3d. carvage, and 20s. to each subsidy. It now stands in the King's books by the name of Swayns- thorp, is valued at 12/. 13s. 4d. pays first fruits, and 1/. 5s. [4d. yearly tenths, and not being sworn under 50/. per annum it is not dis- charged, and so not capable of augmentation. This village paid 2/. 9s. to every tenth ; and the religious concerned here, were the Priors of Bromholm, whose temporals were taxed at 3c?. of Mendham 3d. of Ahesborne \Qd. and of St. Faith \6d.

RECTORS OF SWAINSTHORP.

1202, Walter.

1311, Bike.

1327, Bob. son of Walter de Bradenham. Ric. de Bradenham.

1372, Robert Cariol of Redenhale. Roger le Haukere of Redenhale.

1373, John de Bulmere. Mary, relict of Roger Haukere.

Thomas, son and heir of John Nashe, old, who had 120 acres of pasture, called

married John Wright, alias Haley, of Nethards, in Newton and Bedingham,

Shotesham, who died in 1586, and left held of Horseford manor, &c. Cole's

Frances his daughter and heir, four years Inquis. vol. iii. p. 99.

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1386, Robert Edwards. Mary, relict of R oger Haukere. 1429, Thomas G/yse. John Peverel and Elizabeth his wife. 1444, Wilt. Cotyng. Will. Paston of Pasiou, and John Dam. In 1460, he exchanged for Tichwell, with Richard White. John Paston. 1467, Robert Boys. Feoffees of John Paston.

1503, Sir Peter Petite, chaplain, on Boys's death. Sir John Pas- ton, Knt.

Sir Henry Halmanon Petite's death, res. William Paston, Esq. 1526, Hatman resigned for a pension assigned him for life, by the Bishop's consent, and

Sir Chris. Lante, chaplain, was presented by Will. Paston, on whose death in

1537, Sir Ric. Gresham, Knt. gave it to

Rozoland Rabye ; and in 1554, Lady Isabel Gresham, relict of Sir Richard, presented

Will. Fawcet, A. M.: and at his death in 1556, she gave it to Sir Richard Hudsone, who resigned in 1571, and Sir Thomas Gresham presented

John Fenton, and in 1598, Anthony Locke, A.M. was presented by Will. Gresham of Intzcood, Esq.; in 1603, he returned 67 communicants, that Sir William Gresham, Knt. was patron, and that he held it united to Tybenham vicarage.

1619, John Foorth, A. M.; he was ejected in the rebellion,7 and Mat. Stoneham got into his place, but died in KJ59, and Foorth was restored, who died about 167 1, and was succeeded by

Samuel Snowden, presented by Israel Long, who purchased the next turn of Mr. Anthony Mingay. He held it united to Newton Flotmau, and was succeeded by

The Rev. Mr. John Swift, the present rector, who holds it united to the vicarage of Swerdeston. Rob. Swift, by grant from Anthony Mingay, Gent, of Norwich.

NEWTON,

Or the New-tozcn, so called to distinguish it from other places of the same name, Newton-Stoneham, or Stony-Newton, but most com- monly Newton-Flotman, from the jflote ox ferry-boat, which used to convey possengers over the river Tads, which, though a considerable stream in ancient days, is now but a small river, dividing this town from that of Taseburgh, generally fordable, except in high waters, when it is passed over by a very good brick arched bridge, repaired at the expense of the county. At the time of the Conqueror, this was a

' Walker, Part II. fo. 245.

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very inconsiderable village, the old village of Ranthorp, now swal- lowed up in this, being by much the largest part of it ; Tovi then had it,8 and it bad 15 acres belonged to the manor of Hethil,9 which, with another small part, belonged to Roger Bigot,1 all which constituted

THE MANOR OF BLUNDEVILLE'S, or NEWTON-HALL,

Which had its name from its owners, and to which the mediety of the advowson of the church belonged ; the first that I find of this name owner here, was Will. DE Blundeville, Bhmevyle, or B/unne/,1 who had it of the gift of Henry de Rhye, with BloMevyle's manor in Depham, (vol. ii. p. 491,) he left it to Richard his son, who was lord in 1226, being nephew to Tho. de Blumville Bishop of Norwich, (vol. iii. p. 483,) he was succeeded by William Blumvyle, and he by Katherine his widow,-3 and William their son held it of the manor of Hingliam, as of the barony of Rhye; and it was after held of the barony of Montchemy at a quarter of a fee; in 1388, Rich. Blumvyh held it, and in 1420, Will. Blumvyle, Esq. who was succeeded by Ric. Blomevyle, Esq. and he by Catherine his wife,* and she by Richard their son, who died in 1503 ; Ralph his brother succeeded, and died in 1514, whose son Edward was lord, and died in 1568 ; and in 156g, Thomas his son held a court baron and lete, and had purchased and joined to it three parts of

The manor of Myles, alias RanthoBp, in this town; he held the manor at half a fee of the Lord D'acre's manor of Horsford.

The advowson of Blomevyle's mediety in Newton church, was a rectory valued at nine marks, and had 12 acres of glebe.

RECTORS.

1294, John Blumvyle, rector; he was escheator for the King in Norfolk, Suffolk, Camhridgshire, Huntingdonshire, Essex, and Hert- fordshire, in 1289. Will, de Blumville, patron.

1317,Masler Nic. Blumvyle. Katherine, widow of William de Blumville of Newton.

1334, Ric, Boghay. Eve, daughter of Sir John Clavering, guardian to Will, son and heir of Will. Blumvyle.

1338, Jeff'ry at Heme of Szcainsthotp. John Flynt, guardian to the said William.

8 TerraToui. H. Humiliart. Doms. semper i. car. et i. mol. et val. v.s.

fo. 279. (fo. 139.)

In Niwetuna ii. liberi homines, xxx. * In Niwetuna i. lib. homo, xv.

acr. de uno et dim. habuit antecessor acr. et. ii. bor. et val. xvi.d.

Rogcri Bigot comd. T. R. E. et de dimi- * He seems to be son of Robert de

dio antecessor Radulfi de Bellofago, sem- Blomevyle, who lived here about 1190.

per v. bor. et i. car. et iiii.acr. prati.et 3 1360, Bertram de Blunnel released

iiii. liberi homines de xii. acr. et dim tunc all his right to William, and Katherine

valuit x. sol. modo xiii. sol et iiii. d. his wife.

e Terra Rogeri Bigoti. H. Hu- * 1495, Katherine Blomevyle died a

miliart. Doms. fo. 122. In Niwetuna widow, and Lady Eleanor Jenny ad-

xv. acr. de de dominio de HethelLa ministered.

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1345, Richard Hudde. Will. Blumvyle, res.

1346, Roger B/umvile. Ditto.

1388, Alan Smith of Tasebnrgh. Ric. Blumvyle, Esq. who pre- sented the four following rectors : 1391, John Mersee. 1406, Stephen Drezee of Burston. 1414, Richard Oste/er. 1418, Seaman Ketleburgh.

1420, John Copuldi/ke. Will. Blomvyle, Esq. who presented the four following rectors :

1421, Robert Grubbe, who changed for Rougham vicarage in Nor- folk in

1427, with Benedict Bishop. 1437, Robert Edwards.

1447, John Thompson, united for life to the other mediety; he resigned both, and in

1448, Simon Blake was presented to this mediety by Will. Blom- vyle, Esq. Nic. Forking, John Intewood, and John Storour, his feoffees; and to the other mediety by Nic. Appleyard of Brakene-ash, Esq. and Margaret his wife, Edm. Wichingham ; and soon after they were consolidated in the said Simon, and have remained so ever since.

RAINTHORP-HALL,

Malherbe's, otherwise called Myles, or Mills manor,

Belonged to Ailwin in the Confessor's time,5 and was held by Wil- liam, of Roger de Ramis,6 in the Conqueror's, and another part belonged to Waregius who held it of Roger Bigot :7 It after came to the Crown, and continued there till King Hen. II. leased it out to Roger son of Rosceline, and King Ric. I. A0. 1 189, gave it to Oliver Malherbe, who then paid two marks to the King, for the imple- ments of husbandry and stock upon it:8 in 1256, William Malherbe had it, and after him Sir Ra/f Malherbe, who was lord in 1280, and in 1290, King Edward I. granted him free-warren to all his demeans here, by the name of William de Carliol. It now was divided into four parts: in 1321, a fourth part belonged to John de Ovedale, who held it of John de Clavering by the 4th part of a fee, and had the 4th part

5 Terra Rogeri de Ramis, H. Hu- ten. feodum unius militis. Lib. Nig. miliart. fo. 276. Raniltorp tenuit Scac. Essex, edit, per T. Hearne, A.M. Ailuuinus, i. lib. homo lx, acr. terre, Oxon. vol. i. p. 237. By which it should modo tenet Wills, semper i. car. et seem, that a part here came to the vii. acr. prati et ii. mol. et quinta pars Reinesthorp or Ranthorp family, very mol. et vi. lib. homines vii. acr. semper early.

dim. car. et i. liber homo comd. xxx. 7 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. H. Hu-

acr. tunc ii. villani modo i. semper dim. miliart. Domsd. fo. 139. In Ratnes-

car. et i. acr. prati, tunc valuit xxx. torp, dim. lib. homo T. R E. xxx.

sol. modo xliii. acr. modo tenei Waregius tunc ii. vil-

6 Carta Willi, filii Milonis de Has- Jani modo i. semper dim. car et i. acr. tinges, qui tenuit feod. duorum mili- prati, et val. v. sol.

turn de Rogero de Reines, &c. item in 8 Rot. Pip 1. R. I. Norf. Madox com. Norf. Galfridus de Reinesthorp Hist. Exchq. fo. 295. VOL. V. K

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of the advowson of the mediety of the church, belonging to it ; this continued as a separate manor a long time, and was called D'ove- dale's manor, of which Peter de Ovedale of Tacolneston was lord in 1322. In 1316, Sir Ralf Malherbe had another 4th part, and pre- sented here; and in 1319, Godfrey de la Iioke/e presented in right of another 4th part, which in 1331, was conveyed by Sir Robert son of Robert de la Rokele, Knt. and Reginald de Nerford and Margaret his wife, to Jeffiry de la Salle of Norwich ; and in 1346, Barth. de Salle9 conveyed it to Rich.de Bitering of Norwich, Nic. Kemp of Westwyk, and William Ode junior of Saxthorp ; and iu 1361, this part of the manor and advowson, was conveyed by Tho. Cole, Will. Asger, Nic. Whitefoot, and John Tilney, citizens of Norwich, to Barth. Appleyard, citizen of Norwich, and Emma his wife, and their heirs, they being feoffees to Barth. de Salle. Sir Ralf Malherbe's part was joined to the other 4lh part, which in 1306 was held by John de Reynsthorp, who dwelt here, and took his name from this place, and held it at half a fee of Forncet manor ; but he parted with his right in the two 4th turns of the advowson of the mediety of the church ; Ric. de Boy*- land had it after him, and V/ill. de Rees after him. in 1383, Ad<ua Humfry of Salle had it, and died in 1385, leaving Margaret his daughter and heiress, who was a ward of Barth. Appleyard's, who paid 10 marks to the manor of Forncet for her marriage ; and the said Bartholomew, the same year, purchased the right of Thomas de Bumpstede in the advowson, and had it settled in trust on Thomas Spynk, Will. Eaton, and others, and obtained the marriage also of the daughter and heiress of Thomas de Bumpstede ; and in 1389, the Countess of Norfolk, granted to Jcffry Massingham, the marriage of Maud, daughter and heiress of Thomas son and heir of Adam Humfry, and Maud his wife, of Refham. In 1432, John Szceynsthorp had it, and Loveney after him. In 1444, Tho. Bumpstede, senior, of Tase- burgh, Esq. Master Will. Ludham, chaplain, and Henry Rant, chap- lain, his trustees, conveyed his part of it then called Milys's manor, to Nicholas Appleyard, Esq. and Margaret his wife, Sir John Clifton, Knt. Edm. Wichingham, Esq. and Thomas Trute, clerk, their feoffees, which was conveyed to Bumpstede, &c. by John Hare, parson of Sax- lingham ; and in 1466, Margaret, relict of Nic. Appleyard, Esq. con- veyed Miles's manor to John Appleyard, Esq. in tail, remainder to Will, his brother,1 remainder to Henry, another brother, remainder to Barth. another brother, with an over remainder to E/iz. and Anne, their sisters, and their heirs; John Appleyard, Esq. inherited, and in 1498, settled it on Sir Rob. Clere? Sir Phil. Calthorp, Sir Hen. He./don, Sir John Windham, Knts. and John Grice, Gent, his trustees, to the use of Nicolas his son, who succeeded, and left it to John hisson and heir ; and in 1515, Thomas B/omevyle, Esq. had purchased three parts of it, and joined them to Blomevyle's manor, so that he had all but the 4th part, with the 4lh part of the advowson of Matherbe's mediety, which was sold by NicholasAppleyerd before 1557, to Edward Blomvyle, Esq. who then became sole patron. The 4th part ot the

9 In 1345, Ric. de Bradenham, Jef. • In 1481, he gave an annuity of six

de Snoryng, Barth. de Salle, Rob. son marks to Elizabeth his wife, out of this

of Ralf Bumpstede or Benstede, junior, manor, and Ric. Melton, were lords. * 1461, Eliz. Clere held it in trust.

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manor passed as a single manor in the Appleyerds, and in 1.528, Roger Appleyerd, Esq. died seized of it, and John his son and heir inherited after the death of E/iz. his mother. In 1538, Robert C/ere had it in trust, and afterwards Sir John Clere, Knt. for John Apple- yard. In 1555, John Appleyerd of Brakene-ash, Esq. and Thomas Chapman, Gent, son and heir of Alexander Chapman, Esq. deceased, sold to Will. Bigot of Stratton in Norfolk, Gent, and John Strote of Reepham, clerk, and their heirs, in fee simple, the manor of Myles or Mills. In 1609, Thomas Baxter, Gent, in right of his wife, who was late the wife of Alexander Chapman, and before that, of James Bigot, Gent.3 held his manor of Reynesthorp in Newton Flotman, Taseboro and Swainsthorp, at half a fee of the manor of Forncet. In 1676, John Lackford conveyed it to William Lackford, and both joined and settled it on Edmund Rolf; it after belonged to the Bedingfields, and was sold from that family, to Mr. Richard Carter of Norwich, and his widow sold it to Mr. Bateman, of whom it was purchased under a commission of bankruptcy, by Richard Wright of Norwich, whose son Mr. Rich. IVright is the present owner.

The mediety called Malherbe's, in Newton church, was valued at nine marks, and had 12 acres of glebe.

RECTORS.

1294, Gilbert Malherbe.

1316, Richard de Bourne of Long-Stratton. Sir Ralf de Mal- herbe, Knt.

1319, Will, de Estone. Godfrey de Rokele this 4th turn.

1337 , Roger Sonde. Rica, de Bradenham for this 4th turn.4

1362, Will, atte Hawe of Hardingham. Will, de Colney and John de Snoryng, for this 4th turn. He resigned in

1379, to John Clark of Gressenhall, in exchange for South Wal- sham St. Mary. Tho. Bcmpstede, citizen.

1390, Thomas Paynot. Mary Haukere of Redenhatt.

1401, Rich. Burgoyne. Will. Rees, esquire to the King's body, as guardian to Bumpstedt's heirs.

1416, Rich. Osteler, who held it united to the other mediety, and at his death in 1431, Will. Blomevyle gave it to

John Keer of Atleburgh ; and in 1447, when Keer resigned, John Thompson was presented by Nic. Appleyard of Bra- ken-ash, and Will. Blomevyle of Newton, Esqrs. and held it united to the other mediety ; and on his resignation,

Simon Blake succeeded, and the two raedieties were conso- lidated, as before.

The consolidated rectory stands by the name of Newton Flot- man, in the King's Books; it is valued at \0l. and \>ays first fruits, and ll. per annum tenths, and is not capable of augmentation. It paid I4d. Peter-pence, 3d. ob. carvage, \8d. synodals, and 6s. 8c?. pro- curations. The portion of the tithes out of the demeans, belonging to Thetford prior, was 5s. ; the portion of tithes belonging to the Prior of

3 James Bigot, Gent, married Anne, * See p. 59, sister to John Appleyard.

68 NEWTON.

St. Faith, was 13s. 4d.s and his temporals 2s. as were the temporals of the Prioress of Carhoe. Here was a gild of St. Peter, which in 1492 had an alderman and many brethren. The terrier hath 22 acres and an half of glebe, and the whole village paid 3/. clear, to each tenth.

RECTORS OF NEWTON, AFTER THE CONSOLIDATION.

1467, John Tolbye. Rich. Blomevyle, Esq.

1490, John Manfield, a friar-m'mor, commonly called Brother John Carr. Kat. relict of Richard Blomevyle, Esq.; he was deprived in 1504, and

Edward Pennant, a great acquaintance of Sir Edw. Howard, Knt. otherwise called Edward ap Res, clerk, was instituted by lapse.

1509, Thomas ll'arde. Nic. Appleyard, Esq.

1517, Henri/ IVoodhouse, on Warde's deprivation. John Brooke and Constance his wife. At his death in

1540, Richard Hudson. John Robsart, Esq. in right of the jointure of Elizabeth his wife ; at his dealh in

1557, Will. Knightbridge had it of the gift of Edw. Blomevyle, Esq. who at his death in 1559, gave it to John Beare, and at his death in

1566, to John Skeet. In 1567, Thomas Blundevi/e, Esq. settled Bltimvyte's manor, &c. on John B/umiy/e in trust for the said Thomas, who presented the three following rectors:

1570, John Fenton.

1576, George Reynolds ; and at his death in

15y6, William Reynolds, who returned answer, that he had 113 communicants in this parish. In l6l6, James Goodinge and Richard Deane, Gents, conveyed the manor to Lionel Seman, Gent. In 1626, at Reynolds's death,

Thomas Stokes, A.M. was presented by Rowland Mey- rick of Taseburgh, Esq. in right of Elizabeth his wife, and held it united to Carleton Rode.

Samuel Stalham, on whose death in

1672, Samuel Snowden, A. M. succeeded, and held it united to Stcainsthorp. John Borman of Brakenda/e for this turn.

1721, The Rev. William Berney, clerk, the present rector, holds it united to the rectory of Frettenham, and curacy of Du nston. He was presented by Mathew Long, Esq. who was succeeded in the advowson and lordship by

Israel Long, Esq. of Dunston, who is the present lord of New- ton-hall manor,0 with the three parts of Malherbe's, and sole patron of

The church, which is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was rebuilt in 1385, by the lords of the manors, and the parishioners. Thomas de Bumpstede, citizen of Norwich, gave 50/. towards it. This church is 28 yards long, and 7 broad, but hath no isles ; it is leaded,

5 Paid to the King in 16 12. Newton, about a half a mile north-east

6 Bkindevile's manor-house, com- of the church, and Ranthorp hall stands monly called Newton-hall, stands on the as much south-east, between Newton left hand of the road from Norwich to and Flordon.

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as is the chancel also, the south porch is tiled ; it hath a square tower and two bells ; there is an inscription on the battlements, which are so high I could not read it, nor make out all the arms carved there- but among them are, 1st, Blundeville impaling five de-hses. Ditto impaling Gurnay. Over the vault (in which many of the Blundeviles are interred) against the north wall is erected an inarched monument, having Noah's ark figured therein, with this, Cutra <£cclC<$iam noil est .§alus\ and on either side a square pillar vert, the whole supported with four marble pillars, dividing it into three partitions; in the first of which are three men in armour, in a praying posture, with each a reading-desk before them, and over them,

Uticharimg 2BIoni>etogU ofaitt 3hf ©tri. 1490, €tatt<5 s^uc 85 iSatmlphusS 2MonbeMe abut an* ©ni. 15 14, starts' ^uc 45 <£DtuarDii$S 23(onDc\)ile obtit an0 ©nt. 1568, <£tatig m 75 £ho. 2SlonDet>ple yios'iiit 1571.

S^ere Ipeg in <0ratie, nntoe tljre tpmejS Done, £he ©ranDsiirc, father, anD the &one, ffljtvz Barney trjeur age, anD toljen tbey DycD, abone their lijcaDDs is- sSpecpfpeD, Cheur .§>hcnlD o£ 3rms- Dotlj efce Declare, &heJ.§>tocfte tenth tehom they machcD tecrc, Shen InncD toell, anD OncD as" toelt, anD notoc totth €>od ini^caocn tljen Dtoell, 3nD thear Do nrange hnsS holn Bame» «5oD graunt that toe man Do the £ame.

1. Blundeville, quarterly per fess indented or and az. a bend G. impales Inglosse.

2. Ditto impales Gurnay. 3. Ditto impales Godsalve.

And on the stone work just under the brass plates, are painted two shields, in the first, •

Blundevile quarters Ardesley, arg. a fess fusille gul. in cniet three bulls heads cooped sab. in base Hemenhale. On the 2d, Blundevile quarters $ir .Rah/' Hemenkal or Hemnal's arms.

In the second partition is the effigies of a man in armour, kneeling at a faldstool, with a book, and his helmet lying thereon, he being bareheaded; over him,

^Thomas' SMimbetulc, films' Otoarbt.

And under him are two shields.

1. Blundevile impales Johnson, or, a water-budget, on a chiet sab. three bezants.

2. Blundevile impales Puttingham or Puttenham, sab. crusuly, a stork arg. quartering,

"VVarbleton, oiWarburton, lozenge or and B. In the third partition are four effigies in stone, viz. two wives and two daughters, and over them,

ftosta et Hiargareta "topsu* €hotne 2&fonocte'(e cum $\V f\x\$ €u?abetha et patientta. Under them, sab. a lion rampant between three croslets crossed arg^ impaled with Blundevile, and Blundevile single.

70 FLORDON.

On a small black marble monument,

Here lyeth Patience the wife of Robert King, and daughter of Tho. Blunderu/e, who lived vertuously, and died religiously, Jan. i, 1638.

Disce Mori. Mr. Robert Edwards late of this Parish, died Febr. 3, 1732, 68. There are stones in the church for Edward Youngs, Nov. 8, 1655, John Youngs 1625; and there was formerly a stone in the chancel for, Thomas Warden, Gent, son of Edward Warden, late alderman of Nor- wich, ob. 22 March, 1582. Arms, a cross frette.

In 1511, John Bremer, Gent, of Newton, was buried there, and gave Surlingham to Nic. his eldest son, and his house in Newton, &c. and Nether-hull in Saxlingham, to John his 2d son ; and his estate in Sax- lingham-Thorp, to Edward his youngest son ; Olive his wife, Lettice, Anne, and Elizabeth, his daughters, survived him.

In 1552, Cecily Fastolfoi' Newton gave a legacy to Ric. Blumvyle, Gent, and Edw.~Fastolphe, Gent, and Florence his sister, who were her nephews and neice.

The family of theNEWToNs take their name from this town, where they had a good estate, which was a capital messuage with divers rents belonging to it, that was owned in 130.Q, by John de Newton, in 1324, by Thomas Newton, in 1475, by Will, de Newton, who sold part of it, and released divers rents to Nic. Appleyard, Esq. and John Appleyard, senior, and their heirs. In 1477, Margaret, widow of John Newton, released Newton's Place here, to Will, of Newton her son, whose son William, in 1503, by the name of Will. Newton of Wreningkam, and his feoffees, John Manfield, late of Newton, clerk, and John, Wardeyn, rector of Wreningham, conveyed the greatest part of it to Nic. Jppleyard of Brakene, Esq. and John his son and heir, and Will. Neve of Betelee, his trustee, and so it was joined to Ranthorp manor.

FLORDON,

Or the Floure Downs, was in many parts at the Conquest, Roger Bigot held two freemen, Sec. of Odo Bishop ofBaieux, which Stigand held in the Confessor's time. 7 Gtjert a freeman, held 7 acres of Alan Earl of Richmond, which belonged to Cossey manor. 8 The

7 Terra Episcopi Bajocensis. Doms. Hurailiart H. fo. 7. In Florenduna fo. 60. Humiliart H. In Florenduna i. lib. homo Gert vii. acr, et i. vill. de ii. liberi homines, et dim. Stigandi xxv. v. acr. et ii. boves et est in pretio de acr. tunc dim. car. eti. acr. prati et val. Costeseia. (Vid. Append. Regr. ii. sol. hoc tenet Roger. Bigot. Honoris Richmond, fo. 15.)

8 Terra Alani Comitis. (Richmond)

F LOR DON. 71

third part belonged to Hethill manor, being 15 acres of the demeans, and was then owned by Roger Bigot,9 who had the cbief or* this town, which was held by Olf the Dane, of him ;* Earl Ralf had a part of it, which he forfeited, and Godric the sewer had it.2 The anteces- sor of Roger de Ramis had & freeman also ; but all centered at last in Roger Bigot, and Olf was the lord under him. It was a mile long, and five furlongs broad, and paid Qcl. 3q. to the geld or King's tax. And from that, to the present time, the manor was always held of the Norfolk family, and lately of their honour of Forncet, at one fee.

This manor came to theBuTTEVELYNS very early, and passed with Gissing, as you may see in vol. i. p. 177. In 1 139, Rob. de Buttevil- lane was pardoned by King Stephen, for 13s. due for Danege/d. Wil- liam son of Robert, succeeded, who founded Pipewell abbey in Northamptonshire in 1 143, 3 and married Joan, daughter of Sir Ralf Camois, Knt. ; and whea Henri/ II. went into Normandy, he had a writ directed to the Bishops of Lincoln and Norwich, and to all his liege people, English and Normans, of Northamptonshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk, granting to William Buttev/lan, the lands of his father Robert, in Cotesbroke and Pipewell in Northamptonshire, in Florenduna in Norfolk, and Flichestona or Flixlon in Sujfolk; with soc and sac, thol and theam, and infangenethef, and all other liberties which his father honourably enjoyed, both in woods and plains, waters, &c. In 1 154, Robert his son was lord, and in 1216, had a pardon from Henry III. for being one of those Barons that had levied war against King John, and notwithstanding such a favour, he was afterwards one of them that opposed Henri/ III. and was proved in 1255, to have been one of the rebellious Barons, and to have been against the King in the battles of Lewes and Evesham, for which he was fined, and his estate restored. In 1292, Sir William Butteveleun, Knt. had it; his wife Margaret was daughter and only heir, of Sir Thomas Mose, first husband of Christian, daughter of Sir William Latimer, Knt. ; (see vol. i. p. 77;) he released to Sir Robert son of John de Thorp, divers of his villeins, which lived in Thorp, but belonged to this manor, and consented that Sir Peter Roiceline, Knt. should convey to the said Sir John Thorp, Knt. a meadow held of him in Flordon : in 1305, he held this and Flixton at

9 Terra Rogeri Bigoti, H. Humiliart. riushabuit Stigandus, commend. T.E.R.

In Florenduna x. acr. de dominio de et de aliamedietate habuit antec. Rogeri

Hethella ex. Florenduna habet viii.quar. Bigot comend. tantum, T. E. R. et ha-

in longo, et v. in lato, et ixd. et iii. fer- bent xxx. acr. et ii. bor. et dim. car. et

ding de gelto. i. acr. prati et val. iv. sol. de dimidia

1 Terra Rogeri Bigoti, (Src. fo 136. hac terra erat Godricus saisitus ad suum

Florenduna xv. lib. homines sub feudum. quando Radus. forisfecit. (fo.

Olfa soca falde, et commendationem

tantum. In Florenduna v. lib. hoes, de In Florenduna i. lib. homo, xxx.

his habuit antecessor Rogeri, dim. com- acr. tunc dim. car. ex hoc habuit antec.

mendationem tantum et antecessor Go- Godrici commend, et val. iii. sol. (fo.

drici Dapiferi similiter et habent i. car. 139.)

terre xxx. acr. etii. bord. et ii. acr. prati ? Terra Godrici Dapiferi. Humiliart

semper ii. car. H. fo. 1C9. In Florenduna iii. lib.

In Florenduna v. liberi homines, homines xix. acr. terre T. R. E. semper

de quatuor habuit antec. Rogeri com- dim. car. et val. ii. sol. etviiid. duos ex

mend, tantum, et antecessor Rogeri de his tenuit antec. Ro. Bigot commend.

R.amis de quinto et habet xv. acr. et tantum de tercio antec. Godrici similiter

dim. car. et val. xvi.d. In eadem ii. modo totum tenet Godricus.

liberi hoes, de uno et de medietate alte- 3 Tanner's Notitia, fo. 380.

72 F L O R D O N.

two fees. In 1310, Robert Buttevyline, Knt. and Nicolea his wife, had Cotesbroke manor settled on John de Foxton, their trustee, except the third part, which Agnes widow of IV ill. de Buteveline held in dower. In 1314, Lady Nicolea was a widow, and had her dower assigned, and Sir William her son and heir inherited; and in 1316, had a charter for free-warren here, and in his manor of Cotesbroke in Northampton- shire, and Hynwycke in Bedfordshire; in 1363, Lady Nicolea was married to Sir Giles de Ardern, Knt. In 1337, Sir William was mar- ried to the Lady Julian, and in 1345, they held this and Flixton, of the Enr\-Murshall, at two fees. In 1344, Thomas son of William Botevelyn, Knt. sold the manor and advowson of Newton, and Bran- don and its advowson, in Essex and Suffolk, to William de Bv/iun Earl of Northampton, and Elizabeth his wife. In 1348, Sir William settled on Nicholas de Poininges, Knt. his manor of Cotesbroke in reversion, after Lady Nicolea's death; and in 1354, he settled this on Edmund de Caston in trust. In 1383, it belonged to Robert Bulevi/yn of Flordon, Esq. In 1369, Thomas Gardener of Gissing, Esq. (see vol. i. p. 170,) granted to Robert son of William Botevtlyn, Knt. an annuity of 20 marks, on his marrying Katherine his daughter. Their son Robert Buteve/yn inherited,4 whose son William Butevelyii, was an ideot, and was seized in 1447 ;s and at his death, his estate went to John Kemp of Weston, Esq. Stc. as at vol. i. p. 177 — 9, and hath continued in that family with the manor of Gissing, to this day.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael ; the rector had a house and 60 acres of glebe, now reduced to 24; it was valued without the portion at 17 marks, and the portion of the monks at Thetford at 13s. 4d.;6 it paid 2s. 4d. synodals, 12c/. Peter-pence, and bd. carvage, and stands in the King's Books at 61. 13s. 4d. and is discharged of first fruits and tenths, and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 42/. 19s. 6d. ob. it is capable of augmentation.

The Abbot of Creke had temporals here taxed at 6d. and the Prior of Norwich had rents taxed at 18s.lt/. issuing out of lands in this town, which belonged to Hapton manor, and were given them by Will. Pu- leis and Margaret his wife, and Roger de Puleis his son, and Jgnes his wife, Roger son of Gosee/ine de Flordon, Walter son of A Iveric de Flordon and/) ido deVerdon, principal lord of Puleis 's fee in Hapton, confirmed them. This village paid clear to each tenth 2/.

The steeple is round and hath three bells, the church is 24 yards long and 6 broad, and hath no isles ; the nave and chancel are tiled. There is no memorial of any kind, in the church; but there lies an old stone in the porch, broad at one end and narrow at the other, which shows it to have been laid over some priest by its shape, and accord- ingly, I find that Roger Northwold, rector here, who died in 1371, is buried under it. There is a very large stone in the churchyard, for Mary daughter of William and Mary Dade, Jan. 3, 1718, 16. Martha, another daughter, 23 March 1718, 4. And Mary their mother, died at Great-Melton June 5, 1721, 45. There are stones for John Hake- con 1722, 2. And Anne wife of Thomas Baxter, 1694.

* In 1403, he was married to Mar- mas Brewse, Esq. had a grant of his

garet daughter of Henry Lominuur. custody, which in 1450 they assigned to

5 Sir 1 nomas Tudenham, Knt. Will. mil. White, Esq. of Shotesham.

de la Pole Marquis of Suffolk, and Tho. 6 See vol. i. p. 87.

FLORDON. 75

RECTORS OF FLORDON.

1305, John de Foxton. Sir Will. Butevfleyn, Knt.

1323, John de Northwold. Sir Rob. de Aspale, Knt. Rob. de Canterbury, John de Framelingham, Jeffry de Castue, and Tho. de Oxford, clerks, executors to Lady Alice de Hanonia Countess of Noifalk, who was guardian to the son and heir of Sir William Bute"ileyn, Knt. deceased. He was dispensed with for non-residence, as being chaplain to Lady Benstede.

1329, Roger de Northwold.

1371, Ric. de Fouldeh. Thomas, rector of Heuksdon, and Tho. Blofield, rector of Tivetshatl.

138.5, Ratf Wymark. Hob. de Buttevelyn of Flordon, Esq.

1403, Peter Feld. Ditto

1415, Richard Cristemesse, changed for Stipeston vicarage. Ditto.

1428, John Thrower, O. Feoffees of Robert Butteveline, viz. Edw. Winter of Town-Bemingham, Esq. and Robert Edwards, rector of Sweynsthorp.

1448, Will. Bi/ckeky. Will. Buteveleyn of Gissing, Esq^

1457, Robert Spyre. Tho. Herteshorn, Esq.

1461, Jo/in Comb, A. M. lapse.

1477, Brother Will. Caster, a monk, obijt, lapse.

1507, Jeffry Paris. Rob. Kemp.

1517, Tho. IVarde, res. lapse.

1521, John Gotts. Margaret Kemp of Fundenhall, widow.

1546', James Booth, O. Bob. Kemp, Gent.

1552, Ric. Hobson, deprived. Ditto.

1555, Richard Merricocke, res. Ditto.

1557, James Forster, O. Ditto.

1559, Rowland Rabbye. Ditto.

1561, John Seman, united to Tibenham. Ditto. He returned 53 communicants here in 1603.

1607, Edward Rous, res. Bob. Kemp, Esq.

1646, Thomas Rowse, A.M. res. Sir Rob. Kemp, Knt.

1661, Richard Francis, A. M. ob. Rob. Kemp, Bart.

1676, George Raymond, A. M. Ditto.

1679> Thomas Jeffery, A. M. on Raymond's cession. Ditto.

1695, Will. Barber, O. Rob. Kemp, Esq.

1719, Thomas Holmes, A. M. Sir Rob. Kemp, Bart. ob.

1729, James Soley, junior. Rob. Kemp, Bart, united to Gissing; he resigned in

1731, to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Kemp, the present rector, who holds it united to Gissing, and was presented by Sir Rob. Kemp of Ubbeston, Bait, his father, and now Sir Rob. Kemp of Ubbeston, Bart, his eldest brother, is lord and patron.

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KENINGHAM,

W a s in the hands of Ancholf, and others, in the Confessor's days, and of Tovi 7 and Godric the Sewer, in the Conqueror;8 when it was half a mile long, and five furlongs broad, and paid xi.d. geld. It carne immediately to the Norfolk family, and attended it constantly till Queen Elizabeth's time, and then the manor was sold by Thomas Duke of Norfolk, to Sir Thomas Gresham, and became joined to Mulbarton, though the demeans were sold again by Sir Thomas in 1570, to Mr. Turner, in which family they still continue.

THE RECTORS OF KENINGHAM

Had a house and 5o acres of land ; the rectory was valued first at six, and after at nine marks; it paid SO/, synodals, 6s. 8d. procurations, 12d. Peter-pence, and 3d. carvage. The church was demolished totally long before the Reformation, and the churchyard became glebe to Mulbarton, and hath been since exchanged, and is now owned by Mr. Turner of Kenningham ; it stood south-east of Mulbarton-green about half a mile.

1309, R oger Baste of Hasketone ; the King; he changed for Bromeswell in .

1320, with John de Thorpmarket. Tho. de Beotherton Earl of Norfolk, and Earl-Marshal.

1349, Will, de Strixton. Sir John de Segrave, Knt.

1352, Rob. Drille, lapse.

1361, Adam Golle. Walter Lord Manny; he was succeeded by Thomas de Ickworth, who resigned in

1398, to Rich. Osteler of Taseburgh. Mary Dutchess and Countess of Norfolk.

1422, J. Glysse, lapse. He resigned in exchange for Gimmingham to Robert Stratton, the same year. John Earl Marshal.

1423, Richard Ji'ilby, lapse.

1426, Richard Howes of Tibenham, lapse.

1433, Thomas Bradjield. Ditto.

1446, Will. Steynware, or Steynour, lapse. He resigned, being old and lame, and in 1452, it was perpetually united to Mulbarton, with which it halh remained ever since, the parish being totally in Mulbaiton, there being not above two or three houses in the bounds of the the old parish of Kenningham.

7 Terra Tovi. Humiliart H. Doms. bov. et val. xv\.d. et habuit dim. leug.

fo. 279. In Kenincham iii. liberi, de in longo, et v. quar. in lato, et j\.d. de

duobus ex his habuit antecessor Roger: gelto. In Kenincham i. lib. homo ii.

Bigot, commend. T.R.E. de uno, an- acr. et val. xvi.a".

tecessor Rad. de Bcllofago et hat. lxxv. 8 Terre Godkici Dapiferi. H. Hu-

acr. et v. liberi homines sub illis de miliart. fo. 169. In Kenincham tenuit

xviii. acr. et dim. et ii. bord. et ii. car. Ancholfus i. soc. xxx. acr. semper dim.

tunc x. sol. m°. xiii. et \\\.d. In eadem car. et valet v. sol. dim. lib. horn. vii. acr. et dim. et ii.

MULBARTON. 75

In 1315, the Prior of Thetford had divers small rents taxed at 5s. Id. And there was a free-tenement owned by a family sirnamed from that place, purchased first from the manor by Will, de Shotesham, who gave it to Rn/f his son, who assumed the name of Kyningham, on his settling here in Henry the Third's time. In 1299, William de Kiniiigham and Alice his wife lived here, and he was returned as having a manor or free-tenement, in 1315; and in 1393, brother John Kiningham was the 21st provincial oi the Carmelites or White- friars in England.9 He is mentioned in Fox's Martyrology, fo. 437, 39, as one of those that sat at the trials or examinations of Nic. Her- ford, Phil. Repyndon, and John Ayshton, bachelors in divinity ; Bale, (p. 158,) indeed mistakes, and calls him a Suffolk man, which came from his first being educated among the Carmelites at Ipswich ; he was after that D. D. of Oxford, a modest, temperate, prudent, and learned divine, so much beloved by John Duke of Lancaster, that he made him his chaplain, and confessor to himself and lady; he was author of many books, an account of which may be seen in Pitts's English Writers, at page 565 : he died at York and was buried there in 1399, in the 6th year of his provinciulship.

MUL-BARTON,

Molke, Mykil, Muche, or Great-Barton, was owned by Ordinc, a thane of the Confessor's, and by Roger Bigot and Ralf de Beaufoe in the Conqueror's time, when it was six furlongs long, and five broad, and paid (id. geld, and had a church and 15 acres of glebe, then worth two shillings.1 Hubert de Rhye was lord here in the

' Fuller's Church History, lib. VI. horn, sub Stigando commend, tantum

fo. 272. xxx. acr. tunc ii. car. et i. acr. prati,

* Terra R. de Bellofago, Humiliart semper val. xx. sol. H. Domsd. fo. 218. Sub tit Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Humi-

Molkebertuna tenet Ricardus liart H. fo. 137. Domsd. quam tenuit Ordinc tegnus T.R.E. In Molkebertestuna i liber homo

ii. car. terre tunc et post x. villi. m°. xxx. acr. sub antec. Godrici commen-

vii. tunc vii. bor. modo xvi. tunc ii. datione tantum t. e. r. semper ii. bor.

serv. m°. i. semper ii. car. in dominio, tunc dim. car modo i. In eadem. i. li-

et ii. car. hominum x. acr. prati silv. bera iemina sub antec. Godrici com-

xvi. pore, semper i. mol. modo i. rune mend. t. e. r. xxx. acr. terre et ex hoc

tunc i. an. m°. vi. pore, et vi. soc. xl. erat Godricus saisitus quando Rad. fo-

acr. semper i. car. et dim. et in Carle, mi'ecit, et ex debito reddebat v.s. et qui

tuna tenet idem iiii. liberi homines et in homo Rog. commend, tantum, films

Swerdestuna tenet idem vii. inter totum ejusdem mulierismanebat in eadem terra

lvi. acr. semper i. car. et dim. et ii. acr. cum matre sua et ideo Rog. revocat

prati tunc et post val. lx. sol. modo c. dimidiam terramet pater ejusdem homi.

et liberi homines val. vi. sol. et habet nishabuit in alio loco aliam terram libe-

vi. quar. in longo et v. in lato, et v\.d. ramsubantecessore R. comend. tantum,

de Gelto. i. ecclia. xv. et val. ii. sol. et illam terram tenet Roger, totam. In

In Molkebertuna tenet idem i. liber, illis superioribus xxx. acr. tunc. ii. car,

76 MULBARTON.

latter end of the Conqueror's time, and about 1184, gave it to the monks of Christ church in Canterbury; and in King Stephen's time they exchanged it with Henry his son, for the advovvson and manor of Depham;7, and accordingly it was held of the barony of Khye, as of the manor of Hingham? it after came to Robert Fitz-Roger, and then to the St. Omers, who held it of him ; Will, de Sancto Audomarn, Omero, or St. Omer, was the first lord of that name,* and lived in the time of Henry III. and was succeeded by Thomas his son, who married Petronilla, daughter and coheir of Tho. Maintains, widow of Half de Tuny; and in 1267, he held the hundred of Grimeshoe and Saham manor, during her life;5 in 1275 lie was justice itinerant in Cambridgeshire, and had a charter of free-warren and a fair here, confirmed, which was first granted to William his father, with warren and a fair at Brundale, by King Henry III. in the 38th of his reign, 1253.6 In 1285, upon the quo-warranto bronghl For manor in the county, to set forth and prove their several libertit Thomas claimed view of frankpledge, assize of bread and ale, things belonging to a lete, and had it allowed ; he also claimed liberty of infangenthef, and accordingly erected a gallows here: and this year, one Walter Godwyne of Car/eton, taken in this manor, and convicted of felony by Nic. de Monuer of Carleton, in this court suf- ficiently proved, was condemned and hanged ; but it appearing that this Thomas de St. Omer was the first that erected a gallows here, and that without the King's grant, or the manor having the liberty; it was ordered that he should be disseized of such liberty, and the gallows pulled down. This Thomas, at his death, settled sufficient revenues out of his lands here, on the pittancer of Norwich cathedral, to keep his anniversary for ever, and to treat the convent on that day.9 He left two daughters his heiresses; Elizabeth,' married Thomas IVaryn, and they levied a fine, and thereby released all right in the manors of Mu/barton, Keteringham, and Brundale, in Norfolk, to Sir Will, de Hoo, Knt. and Alice his wife, half sister to the said Elizabeth; but the advowson of the town continued in Sir William de St. Omer, Knt. till his death, and after in Elizabeth his relict, till her death, and then the whole centered in the Hoo family, and Sir William de Hoo first presented here in 1367. He it was that built the present church and tower, in the chancel of which he and his lady were interred ;2 he adorned the windows with the portraits of himself and lady, and her family and their arms ; and till lately, one of the north windows had in it, the pictures of Sir Thomas de St. Omer on his knees in armour,

et dim. m°. i. et iiii. bor. et. ii. acr. 4 Sir Bartholomew de St. Omer had

prati, et sub se ii. liberi horn, et dim. lands here before William.

commend, tantum de xvii. acr. et dim. 5 See vol. ii. p. 149, 326.

semp. dim. car. — the said Roger had 6 Rot. Vasconiae 3S H. 3, Part I.

27 freemen in Carleton, 9 in Swerdeston, 7 Placita CoroneapudNonvic. A0 15,

20 in Flordon, 6 in Brakene-ash, 19 in E. Fil. H. Rot. 2, in dorso

Nelonde and Wreningham, 3 in Dun. 8 Placita Corone, aj ltd Norwic. A0 15,

ston, one in Mangrene, and one in E. Fil. H. Rot. 2, in dorso.

Thorp, and — Omnes isti liberi homines 9 Vol. iii. p. 613.

val. T. E. R. viii. lib. post x. modo xv. ' This daughter was by a second wife,

lib. et. v. sol. et v.d. et obulum. who after married to Tho. de la Riviere,

* See vol. ii. p. 490, 91. and held parcel of this manor in dower.

3 Ibid. p. 432. z She died in 1456. Chauncy's Anti-

- quilies of Hertfordshire, fo. 510.

MULBARTON. 77

with his sword by his side, and his arms on his surcoat, and his lady in the same posture behind him, with the arms of St. Omer and Mai- ntains; and his daughter Alice behind them ; and opposite was Sir Will. Hoo and the said Alice his wife, in the same posture ; over the former were the arms of Ma/mains, gul. three sinister hands3 cooped arg.; over the latter were St. Omer's arms, az. a fess between six croslets or ; and at the top of the window, were the arms of Hoe, quarterly arg. and sab.; and at the bottom this,

preij pour kj atmej JBon^teur Cljoma.si ^entomcrisS $ ©ame J>crinelle £a ircmme.

This Sir William was a great warriour and a man of figure in his time, serving in the French wars many years, being one of the favourites of John Earl of Somerset, governour of the garrison at Calice, under whom he served ; he died in the year 14KV aged 76, and was succeeded by Thomas, his son and heir, who in 1-1-17 levied a fine to settle the manor and advowson on himself and heirs ; in 1434, he presented by the name of I hornets Hoo, Esq. but he was soon atter knighted ; in 1436, he was sent to suppress the rebellion about Caux in Normandy, where he conquered the rebels and wasted their country; in 1445, he was elected knight of the garter ; employed again in the French wars, where he merited so well, that he was created a baron of the realm by the title of Lord Hoo and Hastings, and was sum- moned to parliament accordingly; he was also keeper of the seals in France, and afterwards chancel/or there; he had three wives, Eliza- beth, daughter and heir to Thomas Felton, Knt. by whom he had one son, Thomas, who died before him ; the second was Elizabeth, daughter and heir to Nic. Wiehingham, by whom he had only one daughter, Anne, the third was Eleanor, daughter to Leo Lord Hells, sister and coheir to Richard Lord Wells, her brother; by whom he had three daughters ; but upon this last match, this manor was settled on Tho. de Hoo, Esq.3 his brother and heir. This Lord's will is dated Feb. 12, 1454, by which he settled 20 marks per annum on Battle abbey, for two monks to sing perpetually for him and his ancestors, at St.Ben/iet's altar in their church: Thomas de Hoo, Esq.6 settled this manor and advowson on Anne, only daughter of the Lord Hoo, by Eliz. Wiehingham, on her marriage to Sir Jeffery Boleyn, Knt. sometime lord mayor of London, who died seized, as did Anne his widow.7 Sir William Boleyn, Knt. of Blickting succeeded, and by his will dated in 1505, he entailed it on Thomas his son, who enjoyed it after him ; he was Earl- of Wilts, Ormond, and liochford ; and in the year 1535 sold it to John Gresham, and it was inherited by Sir Richard, and then by Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt. who was lord in 1575 ; and in 1579> William Gresham of London, Esq. had it, who

3 Mal-mains signifies bad, or left 5 This Thomas was his half brother,

hands. The field is -sometimes az. being son to Sir William de Hoo, Knt.

* In 1386, being then captain of the by Eleanor Wingfield, after remarried castle of Oye, he had the King's license to Lewkner. for two years to visit the Holy 'land, and 6 He died in 1485. to appoint his brother his deputy there. 7 It seems as if she remarried after- See Chauncy's Antiquities of Hertford, wards to Sir Tho. Fennys, Knt. shire, fo, 510.

78 MULBARTON.

mortgaged it to Francis Cuddom, Gent.3 who came and dwelt here ; and in J 599, the said William and Francis joined, and sold it to Sir Edwin Rich, Knt. who was descended from Richard Rich of the Middle Temple,, Esq. chirographer of the court of Common Pleas, reader of that society, and lord high chancellor of England, in the time of .Henry VIII. and Edward VI.9 At the north-west part of the church, on the north wall, is a monument for this Sir Edwin, with the arms of Rich at the top, viz. gul. a chevron between three croslets botany or. Crest, on a wreath a mount vert, on which, a wyvern with his wings elevated arg.

Sir Edwin Rich was knighted at Cadiz voyage;1 he purchased this manor of Will. Gresham, Esq. in the 4 2d year of Queen Eliza- beth; was patron of the church, he died and was buried at Hartlepoole. Robert Rich, his eldest son,adied in the year 1651, and was buried in the church of Swerdeston, but his bones were since removed hither by Edwin Rich, his brother, who erected this monument for him, and caused a vault to be made, as a dormitory for the family ; and here resteth the bones of Sir Edwin Rich, Knt. son of Sir Edwin Rich, who died lGth of Nov. 1675,

For whom there is another mural monument near the former, against the west wall, with a very large hour-glass on the top, and this,

t Our Eyef is like an Hower Glasse, and our Riches are like Sand in it, which runs with us but the Time of our continuance her, and then must be turned up by another.

To speak to God, as if Men heard you talke, To live with Men, as if God saw you walke, When thou art young to live well, thou must strive, When thou art old, to dye well, then contryve. Thetfoord gave me Breath, &, Norwich breeding, Trinity College in Cambridge, Learning, Lincolne's Inne, did teach me Law and Equity, Reports I have made in the Courts of Chancery. And though I cannot Skill in Rhymes, yet know it, In my Life I was, my own Death's Poet,

8 In the house of Francis Cuddon, arg. abend wavy gul. MSS. Anstis. E.

Gent, at Mulbarton, in the tapestry 2. b. fo. 7.

hangings in the parlour, Cuddon, arg. a » English Baronetage, Vol. III. Part

chevron gul. on a chief az. three bezants, II. p. 588. Grandeur of the Law, p.

quartering Francis of Shainfield, arg. a 146.

fess indented gul. between three eagles * He was third son of Robert Lord

displayed sab. Cuddon and Duke. Ditto Richard of Leighs, and married Honora,

and Berney. Ditto and Barnard. Jenny daughter of Charles Worlick, Esq. by

and Cuddon. Brampton and ditto. Kemp whom he had four sons and three daugh-

and ditto. Cuddon and Hall, arg. a fess ters. English Baronetage, Vol. IV. page

between three griffins heads erased sab. 59Z. Lond. 1741.

Ditto and Wren, arg. on a bend wavy z He married Elizabeth, daughter of

az. three wrens proper, arg. a bear Sir Anthony Felton, of Playford in Suf-

saliant sab. muzzled and chained or, folk, Knight of the Bath, but left no

quarters Lucy, withabordure arg. Cud- issue. She remarried to Tho. Aldrich

don quarters Platers, bendy wavy of six, of Mangrene-hall, Gent, and is buried

A. and B. Cuddon and Goldingham, at Swerdeston, aged 80.

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For he who leaves his Work to other's Trust, May be deceiy'd when he lies in the Dust. And now I have travell'd thro' all these Ways, Here I conclude the Story of my Days ; And here my Rymes I end, then ask no more, Here lies Sir Edwyn Rich, who lov'd the Poor.

Qui moritur, antequam moritur, Won moritur, postquam moritur. Memoriae Sacrum, Anno sui Domini 1675, Elatisque suae 8 Non est mortale quod opto

This Sir Edwin, gave 200/. to repair the roads between Wimond- ham and Atleburgh,z and 100/. towards building a bridge, and to the poor of Thetford, where he was born.4

He married Jane, daughter of Esquire Reeve, relict of Sir John Suckling, Knt, comptroller of the household to James I, and Car. I. and left no issue, upon which, this manor, with that of Rosehall in Beccles in Suffolk, went to

Charles Rich, Esq. his brother, who was advanced to the dig- nity of a baronet 27 Car. II. with remainder, for want of issue male, to Rob. Rich of Stondon in Essex, Esq. 2d son of Colonel Nathaniel Rich of Stondon, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Edmund Hampden, Knt. ; Sir Charles married Eliz. Chotmondley, who survived him, and after remarried to Mr. Berners of St. Mary's ; he died in ]677, and is buried at Enfield in Middlesex, leaving only two daughters, Eliz. married to Peter Cevill, a French gentleman, who had this manor ; and Mary to Sir Robert Rich, who had Rose- hall in Beccles.s Peter Cevill, Esq. had issue by the said Eliz. Cevill Rich, alias Rich Cevill, Charles Rich Cevil, &c. by whom the manor and advowsonwas sold to

Mr. James Balls of Norwich, who is the present lord and patron.

The church is a rectory, and stands thus in the King's Books, Mi/barton, alias Mulbarton cum Kenningham, 14/. It paysjirstfruits, and 1/. 8s. yearly tenths. The si/nodals for Mulbarton were 3s. 4d.6 for Kenningham 2s. 4d. and the procurations 3s. 6d. at each primary visitation, and (js. 3d. archdeacon's procurations; originally, the rector had a house and 40 acres, but now, there is a good house, and 86 acres and two roods of land, thereto belonging, in right of this and Kening- ham: the first valuation of Mulbarton was 10 marks, and the 2d 14; it paid Is. Peter-pence, and 3d. ob. cartage, and 2/. to every tenth. The temporals of the Prior of Alvesborne, were taxed at 6s. 3d. ob. and the Prior of St. Faith had two pieces of land here, containing eight acres, called Little Free/and IVood, which he settled on the rector for ever, for an annual pension of 2s. and the convent confirmed it in 1441, and in 1581, this pension of 2s. was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Edm. Frost and John Walker.

3 Vol. i. p. 541. 5 See a large account of this family,

4 See vol. ii. p. 137. in Vol. IV. of the Baronetage, p. 594.

6 The old synodals are only 1$.

SO MULBARTON.

RECTORS

OF THE CHURCH OF St. MaEY MAGDALEN AT MULBARTON.

132Q, Ralfde St. Omer. Sir Will, de St. Omer, Knt. who pre- sented the three following rectors;

1330, Hugh de Wauncy.

1339, Will. Novell, resigned, and the same year Wauncy took it again, and in 1352, with consent of Lady Eliz de St. Omer, then patroness, changed it for Edgtjie/d, with

Adam deBi/okby. in 1353, she gave it Philip Martin, and he resigned to

Thomas dc B/oJield, who in 1307, with approbation of Sir Will, de Hoo, Knt. then patron, exchanged it for Titsha/l, with Tho. de Calkehille, (vol. i. p. 209.) In

1S93, Rich, de Dunston, was presented by Sir Robert Carbonel, Knt. and Robert Denney ol Mulbarton.

1419, Hill. Seijeaunt, resigned. John Everdon of Sussex, clerk,

1434, John Elyot. Tho. Hoo, Esq. he was succeeded by Stephen Kirkeby, at whose death in

1451, Robert Saundeis had it of the gift of SirTno. de Hoo, Knt. Lord Hoo and Hastings, and had it united to Keningham for life, and the year following, it was consolidated to it and hath remained so to this day.

RECTORS

OF MULBARTON7 COM KENINGHAM.

At Saunders s death in 1471, the Lady Anne Boleyn, widow, of £ lick ling, gave it to

Tho. Randolf, S. T. B. and in 1482, she presented

John Jul/ys, who resigned in 1494, and Sir Will. Boleyn, Knt. gave it to

Henry Falk, LL. D. and at his death in 1497, lo

Mr. Edmund Davy, and in

1500, to Chris. Prentice. In 1511, Sir Thomas Bolcyn presented

Sir Ric. I'orkinglon, who in 1517, began his pilgrimage to Jerusa- lem, March 20, which he performed, and took an exact account of his journey; his manuscript was lately in the possession of James f) right.'

152ti, Alan Percy, A. M. brother to the old Duke of Northumber- land, (see vol. iii. p. 208.) Thomas Earl of Rochford.

1575, William Richardson, Sir Tho. Gresham, Knt. He returned 88 communicants.

lo'lG, Anthony Frere, A.M. Ric. Frere, senior, and Ric. Frere, junior. He is interred in the chancel, under a stone having the arms of Frere and Hartstonge, per chevron ingiailed or and sab. in chief three pellets, in base a 9tag at gaze of the first.

Here resteth the Body of Mr. Anthony Freke, late Rector of this Parish; he was inducted into this benefice May 4, lbl6, and buried Dec. 27, A. D. Ifi60, on his left side lieih the Body of Elizabeth his VVife, the Daughter of Henry Hartstonge, Gent, she died Jan. 30, 16^3.

7 Taxatur 24 Marc. 8 Catal. MSS. Angliar, vol. ii.p. 182.

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And by it is another stone, on which Carr, gul on a chevron arc three estoils sab. impaling Frere.

Mary Dr. of Ant. Frere, Pastor of this Church, and the Relict of Nic. Carr Rector of Burcham-Tofts in this County, interred Aug. 31, A. D. 1680

1G60, Henry King. A. M.; he died March 24, 1671, Edwin Rich of Lincoln's Inn, Esq.

1672, Daniel Scargill, A. B. Sir Edwin Rich of Lincoln's Inn, Knt.

On the east pillar next the pulpit, is fastened a brass, representing an open book, on which,

Scargll, erm. a saltier gul. impales Le Neve.

Here lies the Body of the most religious Mrs. Sarah Scar- gill, the Wife of Mr. Daniel Scargill, Rector of thisPaiish, with whom she lived in all conjugal Vermes near 7 years, and then Death divorced them upon the 22d Day of Aug. 1680, in the 30th Year of her Age. She was the Pious Daughter of a Loyal Gent. Mr. Tho. le Neve of Aslacton, Cozen to Sir Will, le Neve, who was Herauld to King Charles the first, of Blessed Memory: She was a Person of unimitable Devotion, of a most nice and tender Conscience, of sweet Behaviour, and in all Things so faithfull a Servant of God, that I dare contest the Divine Goodness to have rewarded her. Happy Soul, whose Body rests Here ! and may it rest! by no profane Hand disturbed, 'till her Soul shall take it up again, at the Great Day of Restitution. {This on one leaf of the book.)

On the other at top, is engraven a hand, as out of a cloud, beckon- ing, and the person obscured by the cloud, is supposed to speak thus,

Come Pilgrim to thy Home,

Dear Love! one feather'd Minute, and I come,

To lye down in thy dark retiring Room,

And mingle Dust with thine, that we may have,

As when alive, one Bed, so dead, one Grave,

And may my Soule teare through the vaulted Sky,

To be with Thine, to all Eternity.

Oh ! how our Bloodless Forms will that Day greet,

With Love Divine, when we again shall meet,

Devest of all contagion of the Flesh,

Full fill'd with ever lasting Joys, and fresh,

In Heaven above, (and't may be) cast an Eye,

How far Elyzium doth beneath us lye.

Dear! I dis-body and away, More swift than Wind, Or flying Hind,

I come, I come, away. DAniel Scargill.

1721, George Gay, A. M. Edmund Salter for this turn.

There is a mural monument of white marble, against the north chan- cel wall, and two stones in the altar for him and his wife, the monu- ment is thus inscribed,

vol. v. M

82 MULBARTON.

Spe BeatSE Resurrectionis gratissima, infradormit GEORGIUS GAY A. M. Pastor hujus Ecclesiae Fidus, assiduus, pius, Quique ut jucunda captet Evangelij praemia, Gregi suo in Obedientiam naviter proposita, placidus Leti corripuit Gradum, at non prius morti succubuit, quam privatis suis Sumptibus, et magnis, Rectoris Domicilium de Fundarnentis aedificasset, Quicunque haec legas, ruentis Domicilij infelix Dominus, Fac, sis, in animo teneas lau- dabilem hanc Pietatem, et imiteris, obijt 17 Sept. A aet. 44°. JErae Xiane 172b°, Dextrum huie claudit Latus, Elizabetha Uxor charissima, Filia Bovilli Wimberly apud Lincolnhnses Generosi quae obijt Octavo Aug. Anno iErae Xianse 1729°, aet 46.

1728, John Phillips A. M. James Balls, Gent. There is a stone in the altar, on the south side, with this inscribed thereon,

In memoriam Johannis Phillips hujus parochia? per decern annos Rectoris pacifici, placidi, et Socialis, Ingenij Vir, omnibus Urbanus erat; nihil superbiae habuit, nihil Arogantiae; Pastor fidelis, cui serio curre fuit Benevolentiam Gregis sibi conciliari, et conciliavit; Vita: meridiem vix attingens, Febricitatus obijt A* Sal. 1737, set. 39, Amicis et nolis multum diuque Lugendus. In Honorem ejus, Horreum insigne in usum Rectoris proprijs sump- tibus aedificavit. Hoc monumentum memoriae dilecti Fratris Franciscus Phillips, D. D. D.

1737, JamesVerdon, clerk. James Balls, Gent. ; he held it with East hearham sinecure rectory, and so wanted no union. He died in 1741, was buried in his chancel at East-Dearkam, and was succeeded by

The Rev. Mr. Berg, Lany, the present rector, who holds it united to Wramplingham ; he was presented by John Hivet, Gent, patron of this turn. The perpetuity being in Mr. James Balls aforesaid.

Besides the inscriptions already mentioned in this church, I find these following ones :

On a stone in the chancel are the arms of Ceane, arg. a fess between three croslets fitchegw/. impaling Carr. Oct. 19, 1678. Annos sex denos Elisa Ego CARRTA Virgo, THOMiE nupta CRANO, tredecem Menses numeravj, Bisque dies denos gavisa, Fuerpera obivi Virginitatem Anni, Menses Consortia, Matrem Mensurare Dies (Heu ! Declinatio Vitas In bieviora fugax) immensurabili Restat.

Hodie ! mihi, Cras tibi. Noah Headly Oct. 12, 1670. Jane his wife, Nov. 24, 1665, buried in the altar. In the church there is a stone for, Martha wile of Christopher Jtkow, Apr. 3, 1655, and an acheivement of gul. a chevron betweeri thrt-e cross croslets or, impal- ing arg. on a fess sab. between three escallops az. as many eagles displayed or.

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The church hath no isles, the nave is 26 yards and an half long, and 7 broad, and is leaded, as is the chancel also ; the south porch is tiled, the tower is square and hath five bells.

BRACONASH,

Braccas, Braccles, Brakene, commonly called Braconash, signifies the Broad-teas, and was part of the possessions of Hog er Bioot at the Conquest;9 one part he gave to Olf the Dane, who joined it to F/ordon manor, and that contained 98 acres; all the rest either belonged to, or else was infeoffed by him, in the Peverells, in which family it continued, and passed with Pevere fs manor in Great Melton, as may be seen at large at p. 18, and was held of the honour ofPeverel, as that was, at one fee; and in 1250, Hugh Peverel had a charter for free-warren here; and in 1285, the assize of bread and ale of all his tenants in Brakene, allowed him in Eire, and lele also, paying 6c?. per annum to the hundred court ; and Robert de Tateshall and the Prior of Wimondhum, ' owned lands here, and had the same liberty allowed their tenants, and the manor was then valued at 6/. 2.s. 1 Id. rents. He claimed intercommonage on the green and commons of Mulbarton (which contained 63 acres) for all his tenants of Brakene ; but in 1291, was cast in his action, and the common allotted to Mul- barton tenants only. In 1362, it was severed from Me/ton, for then Sir Robert de Bayhouse, Knt. and Maud his wife, sold it to Bartho- lomew Appleyerd, and settled it on William Asger and John Page, senior, for the use of the said Bartholomew and his heirs; he was de- scended from Ric. son of Will, de App/egart of Dunham in Norfolk, who lived in King Stephen's time; this Bartholomew was a citizen of Norwich, who raised a good estate, and one of the bailiff's of the city in 1372, and one of their burgesses in parliament in 1374, and 1412. He was a benefactor to St. Andrew's church in Norwich,1 where he was buried, and was succeeded by William his eldest son, who was a man of principal figure and fortune in the city, long before his father's death, being nine times burgess in parliament ;3 bailiff of the city in 1386 and 1395; first mayor thereof in 1403, which office he served five times more, in the years 1404, 5, 1 1, 12, and 18. In 1402, he was

9 Sub tit. Terra Rogeri Bigoti. totam, et antecessor Ranulfi Piperelli

Humiliart H. Doras, fo. 136. (Peverell)de quatuor similiter, et habent

In Braccles i. liber homo eodem cl. acr. terre semper ii. car. et dim. et

modo (sc. sub Olfo) inter totum ha- vi acr. prati.

bent (sc. xv. lib. homines) c. acr. ii. ' In 1428, the rents and customs of

minus et v. bor. et i. ac. prati, semper the Prior of Windham in Brakene were

ii. car. taxed at 26s. i,d.

In Braccas v. liberi homines de 2 Vol. iii. p. 136, vol. iv. p.302, 318.

quatuor habuit antec. Roc. Bigot di- 3 Viz. in 1384, 87. 1090, 4, 5, 6,

midiam commendationem et de quinto 1403, 15, and 17.

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escheator of IN off oik, and died in 1419, leaving issue by Margaret his wife, Nicholas Appleyerd, Esq. his son and heir, then 25 years old, who married Margaret Thornbury of Loudon, who survived him ; he was succeeded byJoHNAppLEYERDofBraA-fHe,4 his son and heir, who settled here, and built Brakene-hall, (which is now demolished, and •was a very large building,) and at his death in 1473, left it to Nic. Appley ard of Brakene, Esq. his son and heir, who married Agnes, daughter and heiress of William Rookwood of Warham, and Alice his wife, with whom he had the manors of Hales-Hall in Warham, Hales manor in Holt and Testerton, and Netlestede in Suffolk, with a good estate in lands and money : the year after his father's death, he was summoned to take upon him the order of knighthood, and upon his refusal, was convened before the privy council, and upon his petition to be dismissed, he sets forth, " that he was not possessed of lands and " tenements to the yearly value of 40/. by the space of three years, " before the King's warrant with proclamation, was awarded against " him, " upon which he was excused till the three years expired, and then he was knighted ; he died July 11,1511: his son John died with- out issue, and Roger App/eyard of Brakene, Esq. inherited, as son and heir; he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Scott of Cambericell in Surrey, relict of Sir John Robesart of Sidisterne in Norfolk, Knt. and died July 8, 1528, leaving John Appleyard his son and heir, not then two years old ; and by his will, ordered to be buried in the Gray-fri- ars church in 'Norwich; he gave to this church, his vestment of blue sarcenet, and his gilt image that belonged to his chapel, and a legacy to build a church porch; and to Eliz. his wife for life, bis manors -of Staiffie/d in Windham, Newton-Flotman, Hethill and Keteringham ; and 200/. to each of his daughters, Frances and Brigit, to be raised out of his manors of Hales in Warham, Holt-Hales, and Testerton-Hules ; Bygrave manor and advowson in Hertfordshire, to raise money for marriage of his sister Mary ; and East-Carleton manor was settled for other uses. John Appleyerd of Brakene, Esq. his son, succeeded ; he was high-sheriff' of No/folk and Suffolk in 1558, and married Eli- zabeth, daughter of Robert Hogan of East-Bradenham in Norfolk, Gent, who, jointly with Thomas Hiigan, her brother and trustee, levied a fine in 15b9, in order to sell part of the estate; and soon alter, sold this manor and advowson, to Tho. Townesend, senior, Esq. son of Henry Townesend, the youngest son of Sir Robert Townesend of Reyn- ham, Knt. and in 1599, it was purchased by Sir Edwyn Rich, Knt. by whom it was sold in 1622., to Robert Woode of Brakene, Esq. and his heirs; he was son of Robert Wood, mayor of Norwich, who was knighted by Queen Eliz. in 1578; by Anne his wife, 3d daughter of Augustine Steward, Esq. and married Eliz. daughter and coheir of JohnlVoolmer of Thurston, Esq. on whom this manor was settled; Robert Wood, their son and heir, inherited, who lies buried by .his wife in the chancel here, under a stone having the arms of Wood and Richardson impaled, and this inscription,

Here lyeth the Body of Robert Woode of Braconash in the County of Norfolk Esq; eldest son of Robert H oode Esq; and Anne his Wife, one of the Daughters of John Wootmer of L'harston in the County of Noifolk Esq; he married a Daughter of Sir.

4 See p. 66 ; he was lord of Mily's manor in Newon.

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Thomas Richardson, Lord Chief Justice of both Benches, by whom he had five Sons and four Daughters, of whom three Sons and one Daughter survived him ; he was born^Mg. 4,l601,died Dec. 31,1680.

There is another stone for her, with the same arms impaled, and this,

Here lieth interred the Body of Eliz. the 3d. Daughter of Sir Thomas Richakdson Knt. Lord Cheif Justice of both Benches, Wife of Rob. Woode of Braconash Esq; she departed this Life the ]3th of July 1655, being aged 48 Years, and leaving him three Sons and two Daughters.

Their Son Thomas inherited, and is buried by his father and mother ; the arms of Woode impaling Peyton, sab. a cross ingrailcd or, are on his stone, and this inscription,

THOMAS WOODE, the eldest Son of ROBERT WOODE,

by Elizabeth the Daughter of Sir Thomas Richardson ; he had two Wives, Eliz. his first Wife was Daughter of Anthony Penning Esq; of Little-Badow in the County of Essex, by whom he had orre Son and one Daughter. His second Wife was Anne Daughter of Tho. Peyton Esq; of Rougham in the County of Norfolk, by whom he had one Son and six Daughters, of whom one Son and two Daughters were living when he died; he was born Aug. 24, l6'26, and departed this Life Dec. the Qd, 1699. Requiescant in Pace.

His first wife's stone hath the arms of Woode impaling Penning, az. three buck's heads cooped arg. a chief indented erm.

Eliz. late wife to Tho. Woode of Braconash , Gent, and daughter of Anthony Penning in the county of Essex, Esq. died Nov. 25, 1662.

Thomas Woode, Esq. of Braconash, son of the aforesaid Thomas, is now lord and patron; he married first, Ellen, daughter of Tho. Eyre, Esq. and lies buried in this chancel, with the arms of Woode impaling Eyre, arg. on a chevron sab. three caterfoils or. Crest, a martlet volant, with an olive branch in his mouth ; and this,

Here lyeth the Body of Ellen the Wife of Thomas Woode of Brucon Esq. and Daughter of Thomas Eyre of Harsop in Der- byshire Esquire, by a third Daughter of Sir Henry Bedingjield, who d'ied 20 Aug. 1712, aged 27 Years.

Worthy of a longer Life, more worthy of eternal; so adorned with bright Endowments of Nature, so graced with Vertues, that it may be a Question, whither those more embellished the Woman, or these the Christian, prudent beyond her Age, of so early and con- stant Piety, that it grew up with Reason, and survived it; so obliging, that she knew not how to disoblige; so far from Pride, that Humility seem'd not an acquir'd Vertue, but an innate Perfec- tion ; of so discreet, and yet of so engaging Behaviour, that she equally gain'd the Esteem and Love of All : So dutifull a Wife, that while she wanted no Pattern to coppy after, she might justly be an illustrious Pattern of conjugal Love and Behaviour. Thus ripe foe

86 BRACONASH.

Heaven, she dyed on Earth, that she may never cease to live above, where her ardent and swift Desires had already fixed her Heart.

Which may the King of Heaven's large Estate,

Into immortal Happiness compleat, That what on Earth her Vertues have begun,

May through Eternitie's Dimensions run.

Mr. Thomas Woode, their son, died July 8, 1746, and was buried here; he married Mary daughter of Hen. Bedingfield of Coukey Wood in Stoke Ash in Suffolk, Esq. by Mary daughter of William Havers of Thelton, Esq. but left no issue. (See vol. i. p. 151.)

His second wife was Eliz. daughter of Edward Heath, Esq. who is buried here also, with the arms of Woode impaling Heath, arg. a cross ingrailed between twelve billets gul. and this,

M. S. Elizabeths Wood Prudentis et morigerae Uxoris Thomje Wood de Braconash in Com. Norfolcice Armigeri, Filia- que Edwardi Heath de Hemlington in Com. Praedicto Generosi objit die Mar. V. A0. Domini MDCCXXIII, act. suas xxxi. Requiescat in Pace.

He hath the following children by his 3d wife, buried here,

Phillip, ob. 1733, aged one Year 9 Months. Eliz. 1735, aged 3 Years. John 1735 aet. 2.

The arms of Woode are, per pale A. S. on a chevron between three martlets, as many trefoils, all counterchanged. Crest, a mart- let sab. its wings expanded, the right or, the left arg.

There are other stones in the chancel for, Edmund, son of Robert Woode, Esq. Oct. 4, l6l6. Eliz. eldest daughter of Robert Woode, Esq. and Eliz. his wife, Dr. of Sir Thomas Richardson Knt. 1649, aet. 9 Years and 7 Months. There is an altartomb under the south chancel wall in the yard, for Philip 3d son of Robert Woode of Therston, Esq. July 8, 1668.

Peyton impales Yelverton. Here lieth the Body of Thomas Peyton, younger Son of Sir Edward Peyton Bart of Isleham in Cambridgeshire, by his second wife Jane, the Daughter of Sir James Calthorp of Basham in the County of Norfolk, widow of Edmund Thimblethorp ; he had two wives, his first wife was the Daughter of Sir Will. Yelverton of Rougham iu the county of Norfolk, who by the Death of Sir Will. Yelverton her Brother, without Issue, had Rougham for her Inheritance ; she left 4 Sons and one Daughter. His second wife was the widow Hacon, by whom he had no Children. He was born l6l6, and died Oct. 12, 1683. Requiescat in Pace.

On a small stone, I was Thomas Fletcher, 1631.

Weld impales Hall. M. S. Hie sita est Lectissima Faemina Anna Praesulis illius incomparabilis et per orbem Celebris Domini Josephi Hall Norvicensis olim Episcopi Filia Domini vero

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Georgij HALL,modo Cestriensis Episcopi soror,animi Corporisque Dotibus cumulatissima, qua; Gascoigno /FeMjunctaconnubio, annos- plus sex decim integerrimis suavissimisque moribus insigne praebuit viva solatium, defuncta Reliquit triste desiderium. ISataestJau. 2, 1622. Denata Febr. 19, l6t)0.

Gascoign Weld, Esq. died 25 Apr. 1701, 84. Judith and Anna Weld Infantes. A.M. P.

M. S. Depositum Matthei Weld Generosi, qui plenus Anno- rum obijt 6tJ. Jan. An° X'1 1650, cum vixisset annos 83, Mens. 6, Septiman. un: Gascoignus Weld, Filius unicus bene merenti gemens posuit.

Weld, arg. a fess nebule between three crescents er. impaling Gascoign, arg. on a pale sab. a luce's head erected and cooped or, being the arms of E/iz. his wife, daughter of Gascoign of Iliington. (See vol. i. p. 449-)

Joseph Weld, son and heir of Gascoign Weld, aet. 13, A0. 1664, was alive and lived here. Eliz. his sister lies buried here with the arms of RuTTER,g«/. three garbs in chief a lion passant arg. impaling Weld.

Here lieth the body of Eliz. Ruttcr widow, late the Wife of Richard Ratter Esq; of Kingsley in Cheshire, who was daughter of Gascoigne Weld late of Braconash Esq. who departed this Life the 4th of Dec. 1714, act. 69. The Remains of Phi/lip the wife of Gas- coign Weld Esq; Daughter oi Phillip Calthorp Esq; Aug. 4, 1704,. 72. Barbara Weld ob. set. 18, 1690.

There was a good estate here purchased by John Weld in 1618, and much added to it in 1620, by Mat Weld. All this family are interred in the south isle. Alderman Edward Weld, who died in 1746, and is buried at Causton in Norfolk, was of this family. (See vol. iii. p. 451.)

The church is 36 feet long, and 18 broad, and the chancel is 33 feet long and 16 broad; the south isle is 36 feet long and six wide ; there is no steeple, but one bell hanging in a shed at the south-east corner of the churchyard ; the nave, isle, chancel, and north porch, are all tiled. In the chancel windows are the arms of the East-Andes, and England; and in the yard at the east end of the south isle, is a memorial fixed for Thomas Corbou/d, who died in 1709, aged 78, and Eliz. his loving wife, 1713, 74.

Sir Hugh Peverel v/as patron here when Norwich Domsday was made, and then the rector had a house and 55 acres of land, and now there is a house and 64 acres and two roods of glebe; it was first valued at 15, after at 21 marks; it paid 2s. synodals, 6s. 8d. pro- curations, \8d. Peter-pence, and carvage 3d. and there was a gild held in the church, called our Ladifs gild. It now stands in the King's Books by the name of Barknash R. (alias Brakenash,) is valued at 10/. pays first fruits, and \l. yearly tenths, and being undis- charged, is not capable of augmentation.

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RECTORS OF BRAKENASH.

1322, Master Tlw. de Morle. Sir Hugh Peverel, Knt. 1335, Nic. de Lymburgh. Ditto.

1349, Roger Mondegome. Ditto. Buried in the chancel in 1372, succeeded by

Will. Cowper. Barth. Appleyard and John Page, citi- zens of Norwich.

1374, Sir John Pygot of Braketie, died.

1400, Robert Erpingham. William Appleyard. On whose death in

1445, Sir Rob. Blount succeeded, being presented by Nic. Apple- yard, Esq. William Yelverton, one of the King's justices, Sir John Curson, Knt. Oliver Groos, Esq. and Edm. Wiching- ham ; and at his death in 1466, Sir Will. Yelverton, Knt. John Selot, clerk, Edm. Clere, Will. Yelverton, junior, U ill. Tendale, Esq. and Henry Spelman, presented

Sir John Everard, who resigned in 1490, and John, son of Nic. Appleyard, Esq. gave it to the venerable

John Eluysch, priest, Abbot of St. Mary de Pre in Creyk in Notfo/h.

1515, John Marshal, on whose resignation in

1518, Hugh Swift was presented by Roger Appleyard, Esq. : he resigned in 1558, and John Appleyard, Esq. gave it to John Norton, who resigned in 1565, to John Daynes, who was presented by Tho. Townesend, Esq. who, on his resignation in 1581, gave it to

Rowland Browne ; and on his resignation in 1582, to Robert Maister, who in 1603, relumed 92 communicants in this parish. On Maister's resignation in 1606, Sir Ewin Rich, Knt. gave it to

John Morland, A.M. who was buried under a black marble in the chancel, Nov. 22, 1649, set. 72, being succeeded by

Richard Johnson, who was buried 13 Dec. 1659, and in 1660, Ric. Woode of Brakene, Esq. &c. presented

Richard IVaddelone, who held it united to Wilby; (see vol. i. p. 367 ;) he was succeeded by

Thomas Tennison, who in 1662, resigned it to John Tennison, S.T. B. on whose death in 1671, Roger Stanhau'e had it; both which, had it of the gift of Rob. Woode, Esq. (see vol. iv. p. 459.) In 1683, on Stanhaw's death, Tho. Woode, Esq. presented

Will. Bedingjield, A.M. who quitted Ashwelthorp, and had this united to Urenningham, with Nclonde ; he is buried in the chan- cel, on the north wall of which, a mural monument adorned with Bedingfield's arms, and Woode impaled, hath this inscribed thereon :

M.S. Hie jacet Gulielmus Beddingfield, Humfridi, de

Whighton in Agro Norfo/ciensi Generosi, Filius quarto genitus, hujus Eccles'iEe Rector perquam Gratus, apud Musas diu Vitam egit Collegij Amor, Academise Deliciae, ea enim lugenij vis, ea nioruai suavitas, ut qws habuit Familiares, sui avidos quos notos,

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sui cupidos, ignotos sui desiderio reliquit. Hie etiain exuvias posuit Elizabetha Uxor ejus dilectissima, Thomje Woode Armigeri Filia, Fcemina egregiae Indolis, eximiae pietatis, vix trimestris superstes marito qui obijt xi Apr. A°. Dni. 1694.

1694, Peter Coppin, held it united to Carleton St. Mary, and was presented by Tho. Coppin of Norwich, worsted weaver, patron of this turn only.

1728, Samuel Ganning, A. B. was presented by Timothy Gan- ning, Gent, patron of this turn only. The said Samuel died in 1746, and is buried in the chancel here.

KETERINGHAM

CjHURCh is dedicated to St. Peter the Apostle ; it hath a low square steeple and five bells, is 17 yards long and eight broad, and is tiled, as is the chancel also : it was re-dedicated and newly hallowed in 1535,5 and there was then an ancient gild of St. Peter held here. It was appropriated to the Prior oiPentneye, who as rector, had a house and 52 acres of glebe, and the vicarage had a house and 28 acres of glebe. It was given by Rob. de Vallibus, or Faux, the founder of Pentnej/e, (who came with the Conqueror into England,) and was confirmed by William his son and heir.6 The rectory was valued first at 10, after at 15 marks, and the vicarage at five marks, but was not taxed ; it now stands at 6/. in the King's Books, pays no first-fruits, and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 27/- 12s. 4d. it is discharged of tenths, and is capable of augmentation. It paid 3s. synodals, 6s. 8d. procurations, "}d. Peter-pence, and 3d. ob. cartage; and the portion of tithes belonging to the monks of Thetford was 4s. per annum, given them by Robert de Faux;7 and it paid 3l. 6s. clear to every tenth.

VICARS,

PRESENTED BY THE PRIORS OF PENTNEYE.

Hubert de Chedestane. 1326, John de Diss. 1349, Nic. JVesgate. 1424, John Caldwell. 1426, Jeffry Skinner, res. 14.55, John Elyot. 1438, Simon luller, ob. 1465, Brother John Lincoln.

5 John Borowe in 1533, was buried at 6 Monast. Ang. Vol. II. fo. 19.

Keteringham, " I give to halowing the ' Vol. ii. p. 109. said church aoj."Regr. Godsalve,fb.78.

VOL. V. N

90 KETERINGHAM.

William Ive, buried in the chancel, his effigies in brass, and this, remains;

©rate pro aniina ©omint JDilli: %'ot, Canonici, cuiu£ anime pros picietur ©eug. amen.

1490, Richard Boc/ier.

1490, John Cooke, he was outed, and Bocher had it again. 1501, Henry Smithson.

1515, Richard Wright ; he lies buried in the chancel, with this on a brass plate,

5jn the ^onourc of <2?oo that vi tnoost of JtVvighr, $raj> for the .#>otolc of ..§>ir iTtdjaro IPrpght. <©n tohosic Soule %t$\x hate iliercr;.

1520, Henri/ Hagger.

1530, Richard Hagger, who was the last presented by the convent.

After the Dissolution, King Henry VIII. in the year 1545, granted the impropriate rectory and the advowson of the vicarage to Robert Rum bold, alias Reynbald, and his heirs, to be held in capite by knight's service ; and in 1558, Anne, wife of Ben. Reynbald, daughter of the said Robert, and Elizabeth her sister, had livery of it, and in 1562, presented

John Dixy.

1568, Adam Each, lapse. 1576, Andrew Thetford, Gent, presented Henry Webb, on whose resignation in

1584, Rob, Grey had it of the gift of And. and Tho. Thetford, Esqrs.

1586, Will. Parry. The Queen by lapse.

1591, Robert Jackler, by Andrew and Thomas aforesaid; he re- signed in

1602, to Richard Parker, who returned 67 communicants, and was presented by Thomas Thetford, Esq. who in 1607, sold it to Sir Henry Hobart, Knt. Will. Paston, and other trustees, for the use of Sir John Heveningham, Knt. who in l6ll, presented

Richard Johnson, A. M. In 1623, Sir Arthur Heveningham was returned impropriator and patron. In

1652, Robert Pecket had it, of the gift of Will. Heveningham, Esq. ob.

1697, Richard Clark. Henry Heron, Esq. ob.

1707, Nath. Saltier. Ditto. He held it united to Olton, and re- signed in

1716, to Tho. Tumtall. Henry Heron, Esq. at whose death in

1728, the Rev. Mr. Samuel Clark, A. M. the present vicar, was presented by Edw. Atkyns, Esq. the present patron, and now holds it united to the vicarage of East-Dearham, with the chapel of Hoe, and sinecure rectory of East-Dearham aforesaid.

The chief manor of this town, belonged to Olf the Dane in the Confessor's time, and to Ralf Eitz-JValter at the Conquest, who then held it of Roger Bigot, and it had a church and 40 acres of glebe, was worth 3/. per annum, being a league long, and half a league broad, and paid 6d. ob. ge/dJ The other manor belonged to Ketel the

8 Terra Roceri Bigoti. H. Humi- Kitrincham tenuit idem Olfus liart, fo. 622, Domsd. T. R, E. ii. car. terre, modo tenet

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Dane, at the Confessor's survey, and was lield of Ralf Peverell by Warine, at the Conqueror's;9 had a faldcourse, and though it was included in the value or estimation of the chief manor, was of but 7s. per annum less value in yearly rents, to its lord. The chief manor, called afterwards

ARGENTELYS, or KETERINGHAM-HALL MANOR,

Came to Robert de Vallibus, or Vaux, from Raff Fitz-Walter, and he held it of Roger Bigot. This Robert came in with the Con- queror; he left it to William his son and heir; and in 1197, Aubrey de Vere Earl of Oxford died seized of a manor here, which was the head manor, though one third part of the town remained still in the Vauxes, and was after called Castelyn's manor ; in 1239, Hugh de Vere Earl of Oxford had it, and gave it Hugh de Cressi, in frank mar- riage with Margaret his daughter, and died seized in 1262, when, for want of issue of their bodies, it reverted to the Veres, and Robert de Vere Earl of Oxford gave it in frank marriage with Lora his sister, to Sir Reginald de Argentein, Knt. and they held it in 1265; in 1315, Sir John de Argenteyn, Knt. his son, was lord, and held in 1345, of the Earl of Oxford at one fee ; he was succeeded by Sir John his son, who in 1381 settled it on Sir Will, his son, and Isabel daughter of Sir Will, de Kerdeston, Knt. his wife, after the death of himself and Mar- garet his wife, who held it in 1383 ; and in 1390, it appears that their three daughters and their issue, were heirs; namely Maud, wife of Ivo Fitz-Wurine, Alice, wife of Baldwin St. George, and Baldwin their son, then 21 years of age; and Joan, wife of Batth. de Nuunton, and Margaret their daughter, 40 years old, which Margaret had this manor, and married to a Bukenliam, of whose trustees the manor was purchased by Sir Will. Appleyard of Keteringham, Knt. and with Emma his widow, passed to her husband Sir Henri/ Grey, Knt. who lived at Keteringham, and lies buried in the chancel there, with this inscription,

¥ferc loth .ftnrc i>cnrn >i3rcj>, the &onne of Mnnc aromas! ©rep ftnoght, of lectori, $ of 3one fjui flMe, that toa£ .future to the ©ufce of j3ortolft, that Dneo at HennsS, ano Cmma the D?iifc of the fore^aioe ,&jir tferru <J3reii, tfjc ©iDoto of ,t>tr !©illiam aprjlenara of tije £aio Countn of Dorfolfe <i2^qjiec, on toho£e .^otolcg ©00 Ijabc IDcrcy.

Ranulfus Alius Galteri semper iiii. vill. per i. bor. tunc et postii. car. m° i. car.

et xii. bord. tunciii. serv. m° i. semper et dim. et iiii. acr. prati et val. x. sol.

ii. car. in dominio et i. car. et dim. horn. Rex et Comes de omnibus istis liberis

viii. acr. prati semper ii. rune. i. ecclesia hominibus socam.

xl. acr. tunc i. mol. modo mil. sed est 9 Sub tit. Terra Rannulfi Peve-

in Hetella. tunc i. anim. m° iii. m° relli, fo. 261. H. Humiliart. xx. pore, et lxxx. ov. et viii. soc. xl. Ketekincham tenet idem Garinus

acr. semper i. car. et dim. tunc et post q° tenuit Ketel T. R. E. i. car. terre et

valuit 1. sol. modo lx. et habet i. leug. dim semper iii. bor. et i.ear. et dim. in

in longo et dimid. in lato, et xvi.<z\ et dominio et dim. car. horn. iiii. acr- prati

obulum de gelto. Quicunque ibi teneat. semper i. rune, et vii. pore. m° xl. oves,

Sub eodem titulo fo. 137. In Ket- et iiii. liberi homines soca falde. etcom-

rincham v. liberi homines dim. com- mend, tantum xv. acr. et dim. car. eti.

mend, tantum sub. antec. Rogeri et acr. prati tunc val. xxx. sol. post xl.

dinudia commendatione sub antec. God- modo lx. et liberi homines val. iii. sol.

rici et habent i. car. terre et xvi. acr. et sunt in eodem pretio. (sc. with the

modo tenet Radulfus filius Galteri sem- chief manor.)

92 KETERINGHAM.

Their effigies in brass, with their hands conjoined as praying, remain on the stone ; he is in complete armour, standing on a lion, and there are thearmsof Brotherton impaling Grey, gul. a lion rampant in a bordure ingrailed arg. and Grey impaling Appleyard, az. a chevron or between three owls arg.

The present chancel was rebuilt by these two,' and their arms remain in the east window the same as on their tombstone, and also thearmsof England, and Grey impaling or, a lion rampant double quevee gul. Grey impaling gul. a saltier arg. and these : arg. on a fess between three leopards faces gul. three bells of the field, quarterly, 1st, gul. a lozenge arg. 2d, 2 coats quartered, 1st, per bend A. G. 2d, arg. a bend gul. 3d as 2d. 4th arg. on a chevron ingrailed between three crescents er. two lions passant, their heads towards each other. There are also the arms of Fitz-lt 'alter, and a rebus of a tun, with an oaken branch with acorns fixed in the bunghole. In the middle pane is Sir Henri/ Grey on his knees in complete armour, with Greys arms single, and crest, on a wreath vert andgul. a lamb's head arg. and arg. on a cross gul. five escalops or. Crest a demi-lion, on which a mul- let of five sab. By his will dated in 1492, he gave his manor of Ke- teringham-hall after their deaths, to

Thomas Hevenyngham, Esq. son and heirof Sir John Hevening- ham, Knt. and to Anne his wife, daughter to Dame Jane Grey, wife to the said Sir Henry Grey, and their heirs, with remainder to William Grey of Merton, and his heirs ; and thus it became the residence of the ancient family of the

Heveninghams, who had their sirname from the town of that name in Suffolk, and hath been very honourably matched ; and if we may credit many accounts,1 Jejjery de Heveningham was lord there in Canute'sume, A°1020 ; but as the former part of their pedigree does not relate to this town, I shall not begin with the account of the family earlier than

Thomas Heventngham aforesaid, Esq. the great favourite of the Duke of Gloucester, who settled an annuity of 10/. on hirn for life, out of his manor of Rothing-Bemers in Essex. He died in 1499, and is buried in the chancel here, with this inscription,

(©rate pro anima £bome fceoeningham armigcri, jrihi et Iferebig

gohannijs y?ebeningf)am .JMiti^ et 23annerettt qui nbiit ultimo Die

3!anuaru, anno ©omini M. tccetyTO-tr. cuiu£ anime propicietux

<£eug amen.

The tomb is on the south side of the altar, built in part into the wall,

the brass plates are fixed over it, and the foregoing inscription over

his head, and the following over her's :

* N. B. There is anerrourin the print he was not a knight. of the foregoing inscription, for Emma * Weever, fo 854. Atlas of Norfolk,

wife of Sir Hen. Grey was not widow, p. 309. but daughter oiWill. Appleyard, Esq. and

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(©rate pro anima 3nnc nupcr Tirana £home ^etoenmgham, jfihe et ^ereoijS £home gerfce armiaen, 3 que obiit oie ■- - ---, armo ©0. mini JElcccce * * - * (totii) cutu.^ anime propicietur ©euiS amen.

They are both in praying postures; behind him are four sons, and behind her are four daughters. There are also the arms of

Heveningham, quarterly or and gut. in a bordure ingrailed sab. nine escalops arg.* quartering Redisham.

Courtney, or, three torteauxes, with a label of three az. for difference, impaling or, in a bordure ingrailed gul. three catherine- wheels sab.

John Heveningham, son of the said Thomas,* succeeded, and married Alice, daughter of Sir Raff She/ton the younger of She/ton in Norfolk, Knt. he died in 1530, and is buried in the chancel, with this on a brass plate,

$ic tacet ^ohanneiS ^etoeninmjam, JPiliuiS ghamt ^cbeningham armijjen, cuiu£ anime propicietur ©eu£ 3mcn.

Sir Anthony Heveningham, his son and heir, was made a ban- neret by King Henry VIII. and married first Katherine, daughter and heir of Sir Philip Caithorp, by whom he had Henri/, his son and heir, who died without male issue, by Anne his wife, daughter of Eden of Suffolk ; as did Amy their daughter, who married to Sir Edmund Wind- ham of Felbrigge, Knt. In 1546, he settled by fine on himself and Mary daughter of Sir John Shelton the elder, of She/ton, Knt. his then wife, the manors of Heveningham, Ubbeston, Cooke/ey, JValpole, and Sibeton in Suffolk, and on their heirs ; and in 1557, he held the manor

3 The inscription isthus in Weever, and " ham Esq. son and heir of John Heven- on the stone; but as Mr. ZeNroe observes, " ingham Knt. andtoAnne his Wife, there seems to be a contradiction between " Daughter to the said Dame Jane Grey, the will of SWHenry Grey and this inscrip- " wife to the said Sir Henry Grey, and tion, for in the former, this Anne is said " to the Heirs of their two Bodies law. to be daughter of Jane, wife of the said " fully begotten," with remainder, &c. Sir Henry Grey, (who is called Emma on By which it seems to me, that this Anne the monument, Jand here she is said to be was the daughter of Jane or Emma, daughter of Tho. Yerde, Esq. ; he would daughter of Will. Appleyard, Esq. by- have this a mistake, for Will Appleyerd, Tho. Yarde, a first husband. Esq.;but in the pedigree she is called so, * The arms of this family seem to be and the arms of Yerde, or Yard, arg. compounded of those of the Veres, as a chevron between three water-budgets Sir Henry Spelman in his Aspilogia, fo. gul. are placed as belonging to her ; the 49, takes notice, with a bordure sab. words of Sir Henry's will are, 28 Sept. bezante added, as holding their lands of 1 4.92," as touching my Man ers, Lands, that family ; and indeed it doth not ap- " and Tenements hereafter following, pear, that any of this family used these «« first I will that my Lord Edmund of arms before Sir John de Heveningham, " Suffolk, with all other the Feofees of Knt. son and heir of Philip, son and "my Maner of Keteringham alias Kete- heir of Roger, and he sealed with them " ringham-haUj.ihail stand seized thereof in 1358.

" to ihe Use of me Syr Harry Grey and s He is called a knight in most eviden-

" Jane my Wife, term of our two Lives, ces, but in reality was not so. In 1615,

" and the longest Liver, and after to the he was feoffee to Augustine Stratton, for

" Use of the Executor of the longest his manor of Weston in Norfolk; and

" Liver for Payment of Debts and Per. in 1513, he was feoffee for Kirby-Cane

" formance of our Wills, and after eight manor, and by the name of Sir John

" Years alter the Death of the longest Heveningham, Knt. infeoffed his sop.

" Liver, to remain to Tho. Hevening. Anthony.

04 KETERINGHAM.

oiWestbatrow-kall, of the honour of Ralegh, and Totham Parva, and Go/dhanger in Essex, and died the year following, and according to his will, is buried by his last wife, under a tomb on the north side of the chancel, which hath lost its inscription, but the arms of [leveiting- ham, with helmet, crest, and supporters, and those of She/ton, with a helmet and crest, and two talbots arg. collared and chained gul, for supporters; and the same two coats impaled, lately remained. She remarried to Philip Appleyard, Esq. but died soon after, leaving

Sir Arthur Heveningham, Knt. her son and heir, who about 1570, appears to have been lord of this, with the manors of Freteuham, Gissing, Shropham and South-Wakham in Norfolk, Heveningham, Ubesto/ie, Walpole, Cookeley and Sibton in Suffolk, and Goldhanger in Essex; he married Mary daughter of Hanchet of Hertfordshire, who lies buried in the chancel with this,

Here lyeth buried the Body of the Lady Mary Heveningham, Wife to Sir Arthur Heveningham Knt/ Nov. 9, 1633. On an adjoining stone is this: Here lyeth buried the body of Sir Arthur Heveningham Knt. who died Oct. 8, 1 630. Sir John Heven- ingham Knt.7 his son, inherited at his death; he married first, Kalhe- ritie, daughter of Lewes Lord Mor daunt, she died l60l2, and he married again to Bridget, daughter of Christopher son of Sir William Paslon oi'Paston inNorfolk, Knt.; she lies buried in the chancel, with the arms of Heveningham impaling Paston, and this

Here lies buried the Body of the Lady Bridget late wife to Sir John Heveningham Knt. deceased, and Grandchild to Sir Wil- liam Paston of Paston in the County of Noifolk Knt. ob. June 9, 1624. On another stone, Here lieth buried the Body of Sir John Heveningham Knt. Son and Heir of Sir Arthur, ob. 17 June 1633. Willi am Heveningham, Esq.8 his son and heir by his second wife, inherited; he was of this town and Hockwold in Norfolk; and mar- ried first, Ratherine daughter of Sir Henry JValop, of Farley in Ilant- shire, by whom he had no issue: this man was one of the judges of King Charles I. for which, at the Restoration, he was deservedly tried and convicted, and all his estate forfeited for that unparalleled villainy; but being one of those nineteen regicides that surrendered themselves upon the proclamation of the 6th of June 1660, he had his life saved; and the year following, Mary, daughter of John Earl of Dover, his second wife, obtained a patent from King Charles 11. for most, if not all, her husband's estate, particularly that of Heveningham and this manor, which she enjoyed during her life. On the north side of the altar is a handsome monument of black and white marble, with the effigies of a man and woman, each having a child by them,9 in a praying posture before a reading-desk, and to the table on which the

6 He was knighted by King James I. Keteringham in 1^48, made the planta- at Whitehall Jan. 2, 1617, high she- tion of trees there. High sheriff of riff of ;\urfolk in 158 1, and in 1603. Norfolk in 1635.

7 High sheriff uf Norfolk in 1615, 9 That by him is a boy, and that by member for the county 3d Car. I. her a girl.

8 He repaired the house and chapel at

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inscription is wrote, is fixed an angel with his wings expanded, holding an infant in swadling clothes ; at the lop are the arms of Heven Ing- ham impaling Cary, urg. on a bend sab. three roses of the field, with a crescent gul. for difference.

This Monument was erected by the Right Honourable the Lady Mary Heveningham, for her deceased Husband, her Self, and Children, the Daughter and Grandaughter of the Right Honour- able Henry and John Carey, Viscounts Rochford, Barons of Hunsdon, and Earls of Dover, and of Abigail Countess of Dover.

Under this Pyramid of Marble lies, Both Root and Branch of noble Progenies, His matchless Lady him secur'd, brought home, In Peace deceas'd, lies umbrag'd in this Tomb. Where undisturbed, may their sluuibering Dust, Rest 'till the Resurrection of the Just. Inclyta magnifici cernis Monumenta Sepulchri Forte Brevi Spatio, Fata futura Tua.

Reader consider what thou here dost see In a few Moments thine own Fate may be. Anno Domini 1678.

They are both buried in a vault under the altar; the coffin of this traitour and his bones are now wholly broken to pieces, which seems to have been done designedly, for his head or scull is laid upon his wife's coffin, * which is very entire; she died at her house in Jermyn-slreet, London, in Jan. 1696; in the same vault is a child's coffin.

Sir William Heveningham, their son and heir, was knighted at Whitehall in 1674; he married Barbara, daughter of George Filliers Viscount Grandison of Ireland, by whom he had Abigail, his only heiress, who married to Henry Heron, Esq. and they sold it to

Edward Atkyns, Esq. son and heir of Sir Edward Atkyns, Knt. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who is the present lord and patron, and resides at Kete.rivgham-ha.tl, which is a good seat in a pleasant country, about four miles distant from the city of Norwich.

There are monuments in the church for, Barbara the youngest daughter of Sir Arthur Heveningham, Knt. the wife ofTho. Bradley, 17 Sept. 1634. And a brass shows, that William son of Gere Talbot, LL. D. died in this parish Aug. Q.9, 1635. On the font were the arms of Redisham and Grey, with a label of five points. In the chancel is a brass plate with a small effigies, and this,

¥>\t iacct <Johannc£ tfofoilc ffrtiug fiichatui Cotoile armijjert

cutu£ anime ($c.

Th re are altar tombs in the churchyard for, Henry, fourth son of

Sir Aithur Heveningham, Knt. Aug. 17, l6o7, aged 71. Tho. 2d son

of Sir Arthur, 11 Sept. 1651, aged 67. Lady Gilbert eldest daughter

to SirArthur, April 1646.

1 The plate on the coffin hath this, Heveningham, Dr. and Heiress of John The RightHonourable the Lady Mary Earl of Dover, died Jan. 19, 1695, 6.

9ti KETERINGHAM.

Tho. Aid 26 July, 1665, 72. Anne his wife, 10 April, 1664, 63.

Here Trio in One at rest reposed be, In Expectation of the One in Three.

This man was a wholesale tailor in Norwich, and raised great fortunes there, and was father of John Ayde or Aid of Horsttd, Esq. lord of that manor.

On the north side is an altar tomb with the arms of a lion rampant only, and these two verses out of the Psalms :

What Man is he that liveth and shall not see Death'? shall he deliver his Soil from the Grave ? Selah.

But God will redeem my Sovl from the Power of the Grave, for he shall receive me? Selah.

CASTELYN'S MANOR

Belonged to Ketel the Dane, after to Warine, of whom it was held at the Conqueror's survey, by Ralf Peverel, (see p. 91,) and passed with PevereVs manor in Great Melton, as at p. 18; and in 1237, Oliver deVaux, lord of Keteringham, granted a third part of this town to Richard de Rupel/a, or Rokele, which was added to this manor. In 1385, Nicholas de Caste/lo, or Caste/yn, (from whom it took its name,) was lord of it, and had view of frankpledge, assise of bread and ale, and lete in his manor, allowed by the justices in Eire, on condition he paid yearly to the King's hundred of Humbleyard 14rf. ob. q. la 1306 it was held by Will, de Ros, Maud his wife, and Petronel de Vaux, of Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk. In 1345, Will de Bokenham held it at a fourth part and half a quarter of a fee, of Nic. de Castello, who held itof Will, de Rokele, he of the heirs of Roos, they of the Earl-Mar- shal, and he of the King. In 1364, Sir Thomas de St Omer of Brundale had it, and Alice, daughter of Petronel his wife, after married to Sir Will, de Hoo, Knt. and Eliz. their daughter then 12 years old, and after married to Tho. de IVarine, were coheirs, and in the King's custody; and in 1372, Warine and his wife released all his right to Sir Thomas and his wife; see p. 76. In 1402, he released all his right in this manor calle Caslelyn's, and all his lands thereto belonging, in Kete- ringham, Stanfield in Witidham, Cai/eton, Curson, Intwood, Cantelose, and Hethersete, to William Parker and Stephen Spelman, citizens and mercers of London ; and in 1404, Sir Thomas Hoe his son confirmed it. In 1495, Sir II enry Grey joined it to Keteringham-Hall manor, with which it now continues.

KANGHAM'S MANOR

Very anciently belonged to William de Keteringham, after to Sibil de Keteringham, and then to Peter their son, who granted part of it, by deed without date, to/17//, de Cuizon of Stanfield, and Robert his son, in the presence of Sir Richard de Curzon * of Stanfield iti Windham,

a He was William's brother, both sons of the Lady Catherine.

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and Sir John de Curzon3 of Keteringham ; and this William* gave in marriage with Alice his daughter, to Will, de Kangham, who released one part of it again to Oliver de Keteringham, on condition the said Oliver paid for tiie said William, to the church of Keteringham St. Peter, 2s. yearly for wax to be burnt before the cross and altar of St. Man/ there. This part was sold in 1342, by Tho. de Keteringham and Sciencia his wife, to John de I lout on and Ivetta his wife; but Kangham's part, which was much the largest, was held by Alice de Kangham in 1274, at three parts of a fee, of the Vauzes, which she divided into many parts, selling some to John son of Simon de Heder- sete,Nic. de Castello, Will. Carpenter, &c. with consent of William her son, and C/emence her daughter; another part she granted to Andrew her son, who conveyed it to Richard son of Ric. le Curzon, who had all the part that remained unconveyed, by deed from the said Alice de Kangham; and in 1256, this Richard held it with Stan- Jield-Hall manor in JVindham,as at p. 502, vol. ii.; it was then valued at -it. 13s. 2d. rents, and had 127 acres in demean, and it continued with Stanjield, till Henry Heveningham of Keteringham purchased a part of it, which was after joined to Keteringham manor, and the other part still remains with Stanjield.

The Prior of Pentneye had a manor here composed of divers parcels, given by the lords of the other manors, viz. Robert de Faux, Richard de la Rokele, and Alice de Kangham, who in 1249, granted to Simon Prior of Pentneu, 28 acres of land, 8 acres of woodland 5s. rent, and the whole was held at half a quarter of a fee of the honour of Forncet, and was taxed at 38s. \0d. and at the Dissolution it was granted from the Crown with the impropriate rectory, and with that became united to the other manors.

William Cukson (see vol. ii. p. 517) and others, gave lands here ioWindham monastery, which at the Dissolution were granted to Sir Edward C/et e : the Prior of Si. Faith's had 6s. rent here; and in 1314, the Prior of Haute y was found to hold the fourth part of a fee in Keteringham, of John Pevere/l, which was after released from that priory, and joined to Casteleyn's manor.

3 He gave to the Norwich monks which Alice, prioress there, and the J2d. a year out of this manor. convent, granted to Herbert Skilman of

* He gave 5 acres to Bungey priory, Hethersete, and his heirs.

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CARLETON,

Commonly called Carleton Curson, from its lords of that name, takes its denomination from the Eheordes, Eardes5 or countiymen, that anciently inhabited in it; Carleton signifying no more than the Charles Town, which is the reason we meet with so many places of that name; for distinction it is sometimes called Norwich Carleton, or Carleton by Norwich, and very often East-Car/elon : as there are two manors, so there were also two parochial churches, standing within about 50 yards of one another, with a highway only between their churchyards; that now standing, is dedicated to St. Mary, and was appropriated to the nuns of Makham from their foundation; and before 13£4, the Priory of d/vesboume held it appropriated to them, and served it by a stipendiary chaplain, and the prior had a house and two carucates of land ; it was first valued at five, and after at six marks,6 paid 4s. procurations, Id. synodals,r><f. Peter-pence, and 4d. carvage ; and there was a gild of St. John Baptist held here. Alves- bourne prior and his convent conveyed it to the master and brethren of St. Giles's hospital in Norwich,1 who were obliged by the Bishop, in the year 1498, to present a rector, it appearing that the appropriation, though it had continued so long, was never legally made;8 and ac- cordingly it hath been a rectory ever since, in the gift of the hospital, till the Dissolution, and now is in the mayor and commonalty of Norwich, as guardians to the hospital.

RECTORS

PRESENTED BY THE MASTER AND BRETHREN OF ST. GILES'S HOSPITAL.

1498, John Dalle, alias Hekker, who was then a brother, and after- wards master of the hospital ; he resigned in

1511, to John Bradnam, who died rector in 1531, and was suc- ceeded by

Will. Porter, on whose death in

1 541, Rob. Thakster was the last presented by the hospital, and held it to his death, united pepetually to Carleton St. Peter; for in

1565, John Bayldon, his successour, was presented by the Mayor and Commonalty of jSorwich, to Carleton Utraque ; he resigned in.

1566, to Mat. Robertson, who was deprived in 1577, and Will. Browne had it ; and in

' Carl, rusticus, whence carrolling is 8 During the appropriation, it was

country dancing on holidays; thencealso served by parish chaplains, for in 1591,

the word churl. John Smith of Gonthorp, parish chap-

6 Spiritualia Prioris de Alvesbourne, lain here, was buried in the collegiate Ecclesia Be. Me. vi. marc, temporalia in church of St. Mary in the Fields at Nor- terris 45s- id- wich. See vol. iv. p. 179.

7 See vol. iv. p. 388.

CARLETON. gy

1579, Henry Golding had it of the gift of the Queen, and Mayor and Commonalty. He died in

1628, and Tim P/omer had it, at whose death in

1639, Greg. Mower was presented, and in

1651, Miles Smith. In 1681, the Mayor and Commonalty gave it to Peter Coppin, and at his death in

1729, The Rev. Mr. John Smith, the present rector, was collated by lapse.

The church of St. Peter the Apostle, was wholly appro- priated to the priory of Shouldham,9 and no vicarage endowed, and had a carucate of land belonging to it ; it was first valued at 5l. after at nine marks, and paid Qd. synodals, 6s. 8d. procurations, 2d. ob. carvage, and 12s. for every tenth.* It was disappropriated for want of a legal appropriation, and became a rectory in the gift of Should- ham priory.

RECTORS

presented by shouldham convent.

1439, -R/c. Cross, to the rectory of Carleton C arson St. Peter. 1456, Will. Belle; he died in 1458, and

Will. Grimston succeeded, at whose death in 1464, 27(0. Thompson had it ; in

1498, John Clerk, who in 1506, had it united for life to North- bergh. In

1521, Rob. Longland held it, and is buried before the high-altar on the south side; and in

1530, Rob. Thaxter was the last presented by the convent, who in 1441, had it united to St. Mary as aforesaid, and it continued with it till 1679, and then

Tho. Lezcgar was presented, but did not enjoy it long, for Golding had it,1 and after him P/ummer; but in l6iO, the King presented Edw. Rogeis to it single, and in 1677, it was returned a sine- cure, as it is ; for the church, which is a small one, without any tower, was turned into a parsonage-house, now uninhabited and in ruins ; the close in which it stands is glebe, and is south-east of St. Mary's, with which it is held by

The Rev. Mr. Smith, the present rector. The church was suffered to be dilapidated about 1550.

St. Mary's church hath a square tower half fallen down, one bell, the nave and chancel are tiled, and the north isle leaded ; at the east end of which, is an old altar and chapel, dedicated also to St. Mary, before which lies a stone disrobed of its brasses, under which

9 Temporalia prions et monial. de * In 1603, in the Parsons Answers, it

Shouldham, in Carleton Sci. Petri, de was returned, that he held the said ber.e-

red. ter. et faet. animalium 195. A0 14.28. fice long since united, Carleton St. Peter

Temp, prioris de Wimondham in Carle- at 61. and St. Mary at 4/. that he had 90

ton bci. Petri de red. igd. communicants, and that the King and

1 Both parishes paid 20*. to each city of Norwich, as guardians of St.

tenth. Giles's hospital, were patrons.

100 CARLETON.

William Appleyard of this town, Gent, lies buried, as appeals by his will dated in August 1481.3

In the chancel on a brass plate by the altar, Here resteth the Body of Mr. Henry Golding, who was Minister of God's Word in this Place, near fifty Years, and lived a peaceable and godly Life, & died the 2d Day of June, 1028.

On a mural monument against the north wall, with a book at top,

M.S. Petri Coppin A.M. hujusce Ecclesiae per annos 48 Rectoris vigilantissimi obijt Nov. die 14° Anno Sal' Humanae 1728, JEt. suse 73. REBECc^'uti etiara Uxoris ejus dilectissimae obijt Nov. die 9"° Anno Sal. humanse 1727, iEt. suae 73.

Anice Wife of Dr. Suckling Dean of Norwich, died Aug. 4, 1732.

Peter Coppin Apr. 11, 1715, 86. Eliz. his Wife, Dr. of Math. Murkham sometime Mai/or of Norwich, Nov. 21, 1702, aged 70. Michael Son of Peter Coppin Rector, at whose charge this Stone is laid, in Honour to his Father and Mother Also Jane wife of Rob. Rudd Yeoman, youngest Dr. of Peter Coppin Clerk, Aug. 4, 1722, 30, and 2 Infants, both Johns, Sons of John &, Eliz. Coppin.

Anne wife of Robert Sue//, & Daughter of Martin Fountain- Clerk, 6 Jan. 1676.

Hodie mihi, Cras tibi.

In the church there are stones for, John Bensley Gent, 5 Jan. 1660, 77. Hen. Bensley May 4, 1593.

In the isle, Ric. Watson Sept. 20, 17 18, 74. Easter Richman Mar. 7, 1659-

This rectory stands as a consolidated rectory4 in the King's Books, thus,

4l. 0 0 Carlton St<£. Maria rect. \ /. s. d.

61. 0 0 Car/tun Sti. Petri - 3 44 II 1 1 ob. clear yearly value. So that it is discharged of first fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

CARLETON CURSON'S MANOR

Belonged to Olf the Dane,s and was held by Walter, of Roger Bigot, at the Conqueror's survey ; there were then two churches, which had 38 acres of glebe, belonging to this manor, and 27 freemen and an half, part of which belonged Kog. Bigot, and part to Half Peverel,

3 This William was second son to 5 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Humiliart H.

Nicholas, and brother to John Apple- Domsday, to. 122.

yard of Brakene, lord here, and was Karletvna tenet Gualterus quam

himself lord ot Dunston; see p. 56. tenuit Ollus i. car. tene pro n anerio

* See vol. iv. p. 570. semper ii. bord. et i. car. in dominio iiii.

CARLETON. 101

who had also a manor here, which belonged to Ketel the Dane,6 and after to Corbie the sewer, then to Half Peverel, of whom it was held at the last survey, by 11 urine ; and there were then ten freemen here, over which, the King and the Earl, had lete or jurisdiction ; at the first survey, this town was worth to the lords 3/.; at the last 5/. 10s. a year. The family that look their sirname of Carleton from their lordship here, were descendants of this Walter, in whom it continued till Alice, daughter and heiress of Philip de Carleton and Margaret his wife, carried it to John de Curson of Carle- ton, her husband ; and in 1203, William de Curson their son was lord, and held the manor, part of the Earl- Marshal at one knight's fee, and part of the honour of Peverel at one quarter of a fee. In 1301, Will. de Cursonn of Carleton, who was escheator, accounted with the King in the Exchequer, for the receipts of his office, and in 1308, Ric. son and heir of William, agreed before Sir Wilt, de Carleton and others, to settle divers lands here and in Stanjield, on Kalherine, widow of the said William. In 1315, Will. Curson was lord, and died in 1320, and John his son and heir succeeded, who in 1325, held it jointly with Margaret his wife, of Tho. de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk, and Will. his son and heir was then three years old. In 1371, Hugh Curson had it, who in 1387, had it settled on himself and Beatrix his wife; Rob. de Berne]/ and others being trustees ; and in 1392, they sold it to Sir Robert Be met/, Knt. Nicholas deBlakney, Thomas de B tickling, Hugh utte Fenn, and Tho. Hert, and their heirs; and the same year, they sold it to Will. Jppleyard and Margaret his 2d wife, and their heirs; and in 1406, it extended into Hethitl, and the rents and profits were about 15/. per annum. It had a lete, and paid to the bailiff' of Humble- yard hundred for lete fee 3d. and for hundred scot I5d. and for a rent of honey due to the hundred, \5d. and was obliged to find a wax taper yearly to burn before the image of St. Catherine in one of the churches. And from this time it continued in the Appleyaeds of Biakene, along with that manor, as you may see at p. 83,4. In 1551, John Appleyerd, Esq. had mortgaged it to Simo>i Morse of Great Yarmouth, merchant, and he entered upon it, and Appleyard held it by lease from him at 40/. per annum, and after sold the whole to Tho. Towneseud, Esq. along with Brakene, and by him it was sold to Ric. Rabye, Uent. who in l6l2 conveyed the manor of East Carleton Cur- suns to Sir Will. Heyricke, Knt. when it extended into Keteringham, Mulbarton, Swardeston, and Hethitl. It was soou after conveyed to

acr. prati silva ii. pore, tunc i. runcin. H. Doms. fo. 260. et val. x. sol. ii. ecclesie xxxviii. acr. In Carletvna tenet idem Garinus

(Ibid. fo. 136.) In Carletuna xxvii. q" tenuit Godricus liber homo Kitel

liberi homines et dim. sub Olfo, com- lxxv. acr. tunc i. car. post i. modo ni-

mendationetantum,et socata'de T.R.E. chil ii. bord. el dim. et ix. iiberi homi-

et habent i. car. terre, et de dim. et x. nes socafalde et commend, tantum Rex

acr. et nii. liberi homines et de duobus, et Comes socam. et habent xxxiu. acr.

antecessor Kanu!fi Piperelli commend, et post ii. car. m° i. et 11. acr. prati et i.

de tercio med.elatemhabuit et aniecessor liber homo commend, tantum xxiiii.

Eudonis Dapit'eri similiter de uno et de acr semper dim. car. et ii. acr. prati

medetate alterius de quibus suns ante- tunc et post val. Ix. sol. modo ex. et

cessor nichil habuit et habent 1. acr. Carletuna val. xx. sol. et liber homo

inter totum habent iiii. car. et v. acr. val. ii. sol. sed est in numero de ex.

prati-' sol. (et est in pretio manerij de Wal-

6 Terre Ranulfi Peverelli. Humiliart sincham.)

102 CARLETON.

the Hobarts, and in lf>22, Sir Henry llobart, Knt. and Bart, sold it to Sir Thomas Richardson, Knt. and his heirs, in whom it continued till it was mortaged by the Lord Richardson, and after sold ; and now belongs to James Arcourt of London, Esq.7 the present lord.

Carleton Manor, Peverel's, and the Grand Serjeanty,

Belonged to Ketel the Dane, afterwards to Godric the sewer, then to Half Peverel, of whom Warine held it at the Conqueror's survey, and the King had then a freeman here, and 32 acres of land, half a caru- cale and one acre of meadow, valued at 3s. a year,8 all which, he gave to be added to this manor for ever, on condition that the lords for the lime being should yearly carry to the King's house, wherever he is, so he be in England, 24 herring pies or pasties, being the uac\enl fee-farm rent of the city of Norwich, and place them on his Majesty's table, for which serjeanty and service, the person so carry- ing them shall always receive there, wherever they are delivered, six white loaves, six dishes of meat out of the King's kitchen ; one flaggon of wine, one flaggon of beer, one truss of hay, one bushel of oats, one pricket of wax, and six tallow candles ;9 which service is now an- nually performed by the sheriffs of the city of Norwich, or their deputies, the city being now lords of this manor by purchase.

William, son of Ralf de Carletun, son of Warine aforesaid, and William son of John de Carleton, brother of Half, held it by the sergeanty aforesaid, and the manor was then valued at two marks.1 In 1235, William son of Ralf de Carleton, and Will. Canon, had it; and in 1247, Eustace son of William de Curson; and in 1274, he, and Will, de Brokedish,'1 Robert de Welhom, jlgnes daughter of William de Carleton, and John de Hethersete, had the serjeanty ; the manor being then found to be held of Hugh Peverel, as of the honour of Peverel, at a quarter of a fee ; and in 1277, the citizens of Norwich paid 4d. to the bailiff of the manor, as a customary payment for carrying the King's pasties. In 1286, Tho. de Brokedish and the others owned it, after that Jejfry de Brokedish, and after him, William son of Jeffery, and the others, had it; and after him, Nigel de Brokedish and his parceners; and Will, de Curson, who died seized in 1319, when John de Curson, his son and heir, was 25 years old, and Robert de Welhotm had then the fourth part. In 1315, John Curson died seized of the other three parts, and Margaret his widow had one of the three parts assigned by John de Btomevile, escheator, as her dower, and William his son and heir was then three years old. In 1327, on Rob. de Welhobne's death, his fourth part went to Robert his son and heir, who in 1335, is said to have been married to one of the heiresses of Sir Ralf le Botiler. In 1343, Thomas Curson of East-Carleton, aud

7 James Arcourt, Esq. sheriffof Nor- " Testa de Nevil.

folk in 1712. a William son of Ralf de Carleton,

8 Isti sunt homines liberi Regis. Doms. who had half the manor and sergeanty, fo. 292. left four daughters his heiresses, Alice

H. de Humiliart. In Carletuna i. liber married 10 Will, de Brokedish, Isabel to

homo xxxii acr. semper dim. car. et i. Robert de Welholme, Agnes unmar-

acr. prati et val. iii. sol. ried, and Maud married to John de

9 See vol. iii. p. 375, 6, where there is Hetherset. a large account of it.

CARLETON. 103

Joke his wife, conveyed divers of the demeans by fine, to John Rolf of Norwich, and Alice his wife, anrl John Ashewell, free from any part of the sergeanty. In 1345, the heir of William de Colvile, Hugh Curson, and John de We/holm, owned it; and in 1330, he, and Edw. de Welholme, his brother, hud a King's pardon for purchasing lands held in capite, and adding them to this manor, without licen>e. In 1360, Ric. de Co/neye had the 4th part of it. In 1369, Nicholas de Welholme settled it (if he had no issue) on Richard de Welholme, his nephew, and Agnes his wife; and for want of their heirs, on Alice daughter of Thomas de Welholme; and in default of heirs from her, on Robert, son of Ric. de Nethergate. In 1399. Will. Curson held it. In 1401, the whole became vested in Will. Appleyerd of Brakene, the 3d part in right of Margaret his wife, who was widow of Will. Curson, and the 4th part by purchase from Nicholas at Launde, who held it at a quarter of a fee, of Forncet manor; the other parts being held of John Peverel, by a quarter of a fee, as of the honour of Hatfield Peverel ; and from this time it attended the Appteyerds along with Brakene, as may be seen at p. 83, 4. In 1530, it appeared that both Sir Nic. Appleyerd and Rog. his son held the lands called Trenches, now joined to this manor, by the service of summoning and distrain- ing all the suitors to the court of Forncet. It was sold by John Appleyerd with Brakene, to Thomas Townesend, Esq. who in 1576, acknowledged the receipt of the herring pies of the sheriffs of Nor- zeich, by indenture dated on Saturday Sept. 4, at the gild-hall, where the lore! of this manor was obliged to come, or send a deputy for them, once in a year only; about l60(), it was purchased by Sir Edwyn Rich, Knl.; it after belonged to the Hobarts, then to the Richardions/ and in Hi43, Sir Thomas son of Sir Thomas Richardson, Knt. Lord Chief Justice, held the manor by knight's- service of the Earl of Arundel's manor of Forncet, and a messuage and 24 acres of land in grand sergeanly. In 1673, Thomas Lord Richardson Baron of Cra- moud, had it; and in 1680, Peter Clayton, Gent, held the manor and sergeanty ; after which the whole was purchased by the city of Norwich, who are the present lords, and alternate patrons of the rectory.

The old revenues of the city in this town and Hethtid, or Hethitt, are tied for an annuity of 10/. to the master and fellows of Benuet college in Cambridge, for exhibitions and sermons, as appears at large vol. iii. p. 311.

The ancient revenues here that belonged to St. Giles's hospital, were given by the founder thereof, as may be seen at p. 383, vol. iv.

Brother Robert de Carletom, zcarden of the Gray friars ia Norwich, was a native of this town ; see vol. iv. p. 1 13.

3 See vol. ii. p. 449.

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H ET HI L L

Is the next village southward of Carletoii, and belonged to Olf, one of the Confessor's thanes, who had two carucates in demean. * The church had then .SO acres of glebe, and belonged to the manor; there was wood sufficient to keep 00 swine, and three breeding mares ran in it ; there were 8 socmen, and the manor extended into Ketaringham, s Nezvton,6 and Kesewic was a berewic to it; it was then worth 5l. 6s. 6d. a year, after that, was raised to 61. and at the Conquest to 8/.; it was a league long, and 6 furlongs broad, and paid 6d. 3q. to the geld or tax. but though the manor was now in one, it was after divided into the several manors called Hethill, Jeminghams, Penne's,Go/diiighain's, Ward's, Twait's, and Nevile's ; the five first of which now belong to Miles Bbanthwait, Esq. and the two last to the city of Norwich; and all of them have been always held of the Norfolk family, and now are, as of the manor of Forncet.

The whole continued in the Bigods till Hugh Bigod, the third Earl of Norfolk of that family, divided it into many parts, and gave the capital manor, called

HETHILL, and afterwards CURSON'S MANOR,

To William de Cu r son of Carleton, and it continually attended the manor of Carleton Cursom, as may be seen at p. 101, being held of the manor of Forncet at one fee ; and in 1300, it extended ialoCarleton, Mulbarton, and Szverdeston, and had a lete belonging to it; from the Cursons it passed to the Appleyards of Brakene, and continued with that manor, as you may see at p. 83,4, and was sold with \\.&nc\Carleton Cursons, to Tho. Townesend, Esq. who in lofty had license to alien it to Rowland Heyzcard, John Lang/ey, and Francis Bozcyer, and their heirs, as trustees; and about 1001, Tho. Townesend of Brakene, Esq. sold it to Miles Branthzcait, Esq. who came ai.d settled here.

tunc i. ov. modo 8o. tunc ii. vasa apum et viii. seem. 30 acr. tei re tunc et p^st. i. car. modu dim. et i acr. prati, et semper i. berewita Chesewic &c. ( ts at fo. 29,) tunc vahnt cvi. sol et wd. post vi. lib. niodo viii. et habet i. leug. in longo, et vi. quar. in lato, et vi.d. et iii. ferdin. deGelto.

5 Ketrinch.>m, &c. tunc i. mol. niodo nichil sed est in Hetilla. ht in

6 Niwetuha xv. acr de dominio de Hathella. (fo. 42-)

+ Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Humiliart H. Doms. fo. 121.

Hethi lla tenuit Olfus Teinus T. R. E. ii. car. terre et xxxv. acr. tunc xii. villan. po^tx. modo xii. tuncet post vii. bord. ni° xi. semper ii. serv tunc ii. car. in dominio post i. modu ii. eti. ecclesia xxx. acr. tunc v. car. bom. post et niodo iii. xii. acr. prati, silva Ix. pore, modo i mol. tunc ii. runctn. modo v. tunc v. animal. ni« viii. et iii. eque silvatice. tunc xviii. pore, modo xxv.

HETHILL. 105

JERNEGAN'S, or JERNINGHAM'S MANOR,

Was sold in 1297, by Ralf de IVedon and Alice his wife, to Will, de Hallon; Ralf de Creping held it of Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk, at the fourth part of a fee. It after belonged to Sir HughJerntgan, who settled it on Jo/in Leiston, who married Joan his daughter and heiress. In 1345, Henry Jernegan had it, and in 1355, John Jernegan ; and it had a lete belonging to it. It was purchased by the Apple- yards, and so became united to Hethil manor aforesaid, with which it now remains. In lo'09, Miles Branthwait, Esq. held it of Fom- cel manor at the 8th part of a fee.

PENNE'S MANOR,

Was granted by Hugh Bigod aforesaid, to Eustace Curson of Carleton, commonly called Eustace de Carleton, whose son William was knighted, and was commonly known by the name of Sir William de Hethil, whose son, Sir Bartholomew* de Hethil, left two daughters, Alice, the eldest, married to William de la Penne, and Emma the youngest to John de la Penne, the sons of Jefery de la Penne, who had his life in this manor by their gift; in 1274, they were found lords here, and had a lete belonging to it, and the assize of bread and ale of all their tenants. In 1285, Emma widow of John de la Penne, and Alice her sister, then wife of Ralf le Clerk of Aymondesham, held it at 3 quarters of a fee of the Earl of Norfolk, and it was then found to have liberty of free warren belonging to it; it contained a capital messuage, (now called Hethill-hall,) and 237 acres of land adjoining, 10 acres of meadow, 20 acres of wood, 3 Is. \d. ob. quitrents, and 4 capons; and extended into Swerdeston, Dunston, Mulbarton Carleton, Brakene, Wrenningham, Nelonde, and Swainsthorp. In 130(>, Jeffery de la Penne, had it, and John de Penne released to him that moiety which Emma wife of Bart holomeze, son of William, held in dower: Peter de la Penne had it after him ; and in 1338, Adam de la Penne conveyed a quarter of a fee of it to Richard de Bitering and Rich, de Bumpstede of Norwich. In 1379, Thomas de la Penne sold his 3d part to Barth. Appleyard, citizen of Norwich, and William his brother; and then Adam de la Penne, and Peter de la Penne, and Christian his wife,7 sold all their parts in this town only, to Appleyard, in whose family ft continued till Philip Appleyard, Esq.8 sold it to James A/tham,9 who kepthis first court inl563, and the next year sold it loThomas Townes- end of Brakene, Esq. who sold it to Miles Branthwait, Esq. who in l609, held it of Forncet manor at one fee.

7 She is called Christian de Bo. 8 Seep. 84, 5, under Brakene. NiNCTON, A°4R. II. 9 See vol. ii. p. 502.

106 HETHILL.

GOLDINGHAM'S MANOR

Was granted by Hugh Bigod to Alan de Goldingham, with view of frankpledge, and assize of bread and ale of all the tenants; and in 1285, Alan de Goldingham (his son, I suppose,) brought an action against Edmund de Wimundhah and Maud his wife, (Alan's mother, I imagine,) for waste committed in that part of this manor, which the said Maud held in dower, of his inheritance; and in 1315, John de Goldingham owned it, and held part of it of the honour of Eye, and the other part of the Earl of Norfolk. In 1400, Richard de Gold- ingham had it, who sold it to the Appleyards, and so it became joined to their other manors; in 1609, Miles Branthwait, Esq. held it at one fee of Forncet manor.

WARD'S MANOR,

Or free tenement, anciently belonged to the Raymonds; and in 1506, the heirs of Thomas Raymond had it ; and in 13y0, Johyi le Ward, who in 1401, conveyed it to Walter Orlage, who was lord in 1432, and in 1461, John Meke had it, whose son John owned it in 1509, and in 1514, his son John paid his relief for it, being IQd.; he sold it to Wil- liam Broicue, whose son Robert sold it to Miles Branthwait, Esq. who in 1609, held it of Forncet manor by thelOOth part of a fee.

TW AIT'S MANOR

Was granted by Hugh Bygod to Will, de Thweyt, and after belonged to John deTweyt and Eglantine his wife, who owned it in 1315; in 1318, John de 'Fweyt settled it on Andrezo le Curson and John de Bra- kene, who reconveyed it to the said John for life, and John his son, lawfully begotten on Katherine de Bukenham ; and for want of his issue, to William his brother, remaindar to Ernald brother of Wil- liam, and to Jerom brother of Ernald; it then contained 4 messuages, 1 1 1 acres of land, and l6s. yearly rents ; and extended into Wrenning- ham,Brakene, Mulbarton,Swerdeslon,Keteringham, and East-Carleton ; and in 1321, he purchased of Bertram le Moneye of Gouthorp, many lands and tenements in Hethill and added them to his manor. In 1345, John son of John de Tweyt was lord. In 146l, it belonged to Thomas Tweyt, from whom it came to the Pains, and in 151 \,John Chauntre/t 'farmed it of the Duke of Norfolk, during the minority of John Pain ; in 1526, Sir Will. Pennington, Knt. had it, and afterwards Robert Andrezcs ; and in 1556, it belonged to Thomas March and Eliz. his wife, and John March and Frances his wife, daughters and coheirs of Robert Andrezees; and after this, it came among their children, and Tho. Norton of Brakene, Rob. Bishop, and Ric. Sewal, sold one moiety, and Ric. Cattyn and John Worsley of Norzeich, butcher, the other, to John Applet/aid, of whom it was purchased by the mayor and com- monalty of Norwich, who in 1609 held it of Forncet manor at the 4th part of a fee.

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NEVILE'S MANOR.

Hugh Bygot infeoffed Albert de Novilla, or Nevile in it, who seems to have been concerned in the foundation of Alvesbourn priory in Wodebridse in Suffolk, to which he gave this manor, with the ad vow- son of Carleton St. Mary, as at p. 98; and in 1315, that prior was returned lord of it, and let it at six marks a year. In 1391, Robert Brethenham, prior of Ahesboume, held it of Fomcet manor at halt a fee, and paid 5/. for a relief, as his predecessors had done, and was taxed at St. 5s. 5d. for his temporalities; and this remained with Carleton in Ahesboume priory till 1424, and then John Duke of Nor- folk, Walter Bishop of Norwich, Ralf Shelton, Esq. and John Heydon, counsellor at law, purchased them of John Tumour, prior of St Mary at A Ivesbourne, and the convent there, for the use of John Selot, master of the hospital of St. Giles in Norwich, and his succes- sours, there being then one messuage, 133 acres and one rood ot land, one acre and an half of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, 30 acres of wood, and 7s. 6d. quitrents in Hethill, and two messuages, 1 ly acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, and 4/. quitrents in Carleton? belonging to this manor ofNevile's, which was by this means joined to the

MANOR OF BRITON'S,

AFTERWARDS CALLED

THE HOSPITAL MANOR IN HETHILL,

Which John le Bretun, or Briton, held of Roger Bigod Earl of Norfolk, at whose death the said Roger, in the presence ol his brothers Sir Hugh and Sir Ralf Bigod, Knts. about the year 1250, conveyed to Walter de Suthfield Bishop ol Norwich, the whole tenure late John le Bretun's in the towns of Hail, (or Hethil,) Carle- ton, and Ne/onde; all which, the Bishop, in 1253, settled on St. (nless hospital, which he founded :* and at this time also, Ric. de Hethill, and Ralf son of Roger de Hethill, and Ralf son of Reginald de Hethil, gave and confirmed to the hospital, a messuage and 47 acres, and three roods, which formerly belonged to John le Briton ;3 and in 1330, other lands here were added by purchase.* This manor was held ot the manor of Fomcet, by the 4th part of one fee, and the 20th part of another. . , . ._, ,

These manors, with all the revenues ol the city in Carleton, were tied by the mayor, sheriffs, &c. (who received 200/. as a consideration for so doing, of Archbishop Parker) to pay annually for ever, a clear rent of 10/. Ss. whereof, for three exhibitions to three scholars ot Ben- net college, to be named by the mayor and majority of aldermen, out of the schools in Norwich or Aylcsham, and the other 40s. to be retained yearly by the mayor, to pay to a preacher, yearly to be sent by the college, 6s. 8d. lor a sermon at Thetford. (is. 8d. lor another at Wimondham, 6s. Qd. for another at the cathedral, and 10s. lor a ser- mon in St. Clement's church in Norwich, and the other 10s. to be

' See vol. iv. p. 388. Mbid. p. 383. 3 Ibid. p. 3S4. * Ibid. p. 386-

108 HETHILL.

distributed there, as may be seen at p. 313, vol. iii. where there is an exact account of this donation.5

In 1577, I find an agreement between the city and Mr. Thomas Townsend, lord of the other manors, " for the apporcionyng owt " Hetheld Grene, betwene the cittie and Mr. Townesend, to be " done by Sir Thomas Cornwaleis, Knt. and Mr. Thomas Sotherton, " alderman."6

These manors belong now to the mayor, sheriffs, &c. as guardians of St. Giles's hospital; and in that hospital accounts in 1728, among the revenues, I find it entered thus, Manor o/*East-Carleton cum Hethill Ql. 10s. 2c?. ob. per ann. From East-Carleton cum Hethill and Wren's Close there, SOl.per aim. out of which paid Archbishop Parker's yearly annuity to Ben net College in Cam- bridge 8/. his sermon at St. Clement's in Ascension week, &c. Ql.7

The church of Hayele or Hethill, is dedicated to all the Saints, and had an image of all the saints, and a gild kept before it, of the same dedication. The rector had a house and 50 acres of glebe, when Norwich Domesday was made. The whole without the portion stood at 18 marks, in the most ancient Valor, but was then raised to 20 marks, and it stands in the King's Books thus: 10/. Hethell, alias Hethwold rectory, ]/. yearly tenths ; so that it pays first fruits, and is not capable of augmention. It paid lfjrf. Feter-pence, 4c?. ob. cartage, 18d. synoda/s, 6s. 8d. procurations; the monks of Thetford had a portion of tithes here, valued at 13s. 4c?. given them by Roger Bigod, their founder,8 out of his demeans ; Windham abbey had lands here of the gift of William de Albania valued at 40*. per annum; in 1528, Richard Amore of Norwich, priest, gave three acres of grove by the parsonage in Hethill, to be sold to find a light before the image of Alt-Saints in Hethill and our Lady at Brakene, and one acre in Forthbrigge,to the maintenance of the perke' light forever. It paid clear to every tenth, 2/. 4s.

The advowson was never aliened from the Norfolk family, but attended the inheritance of it, belonging to their manor of Forncet, till the Earl of Arundel sold it to Thomas Townsend, Esq. who joined it to his manors, with which it still continues.

Hugh Bigod Earl of Norfolk, granted to Hervy the land which Roger de Constantine held of the lay-fee, and the land which Helias his mace-bearer held in Hethill, by the service of being his wheel- wright ;z witnesses were Henry Bigot his brother, Roger his bastard son, and Hugh his son, William de Nevile his constable, Sulim his sewer, &c.

In 1277 it appears that the manor of Cursons was obliged to find a certain quantity of oil for the lamps in the church, and chapel of the manor-house, and a certain number' of loaves to distribute to the poor

! See vol. ii. p. 136, 523 ; vol. iii. p. » See vol. ii. p. 511.

310-16. * The perke was the rood loft, on

6 Cur. 18 Jan. 20 Eliz. which the principal crucifix or rood was

7 See vol. iv. p. 395, 6. placed, before which, there was a light

8 See vol, ii. p. log, where Haelia always burning in service time.

is by errour interpreted Hale, instead a " Faciendo servitium, de esse metis Hethill; Hahilla, Haelia, or Hethilia, sig- rotarius," are the very words of the nines the enclosed hill. deed.

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on the day of the obit of Will, de Cunon, which was always held on St. Catherine's clay ; and also the dole-bred given yearly on the anni- versary of Sir William de Carleton, viz. as much as a bushel and half of barley would make.

RECTORS. 1312, Arnold Lupi de Tilhjo, an Italian, was presented by the

1320 Will deSkothow. Tho. be Brotherton, the King's son, Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal. He changed in 1345, tor Estry in Cuntberury diocese, with

John Radulphi, or Fitz-Ralf, who was presented by Sir John Sege ave, Knt. and in 1347, changed for Roslronthrour in St. Dawd s diocese, with , _

TAojimm <fc Merston, who in 1357, changed for Great Reyns in London diocese, with

JoAn Jay, who was presented by Sir Walt, de Manny, Knt. 1383, Sir John de Trodesham. Margaret le Marshal Countess of Norfolk. In 1427, he resigned to

Robert Goumay. John Duke of Norfolk. 1439, the Duke, on Gourtieif's death, gave it to _

Richard Hadihy, and on his resignation in 1444, to John Gone; and in .

144fj to Wi//. Halyday, in exchange for Charlewode in Canterbury diocese; and he in 1457, changed for SotrfA Hanningfie/d in Londcm diocese, with . ,.,,,,„ j T ; r» i p

Erfwund Woodrove, who resigned in 1463, and JoAn Duke ot Norfolk gave it to , .

tfo&er/ Coppin, A.M. and on his death m 1469, to Je#«y //er<, a monk, who was licensed by the Pope to hold it, notwithstanding he was a monk ; in 1474, having thrown by his habit, on his being outed from this living by reason ot it, he ob- tained another Pope's dispensation from his habit and all monastick rules, and so becoming a secular, he was re-inslituted, and resigned in 148J, to Rob. Hawys, alias Wakerly, priest, a canon regular, who was presented by the "King ; and at his death in 1490, Ehz. Dutchess of Norfolk gave it to T „

John Rede, who died in 1544, and Thomas Duke of Norfolk, Treasurer of England, presented , '

Sir Nicholas Reyner, his chaplain, who in la54, was suc- ceeded by „,„,.!•

Henry Cumbreford, S.T.B. who resigned in 1558, to CW ff«3//>er, who resigned in 1659, and the Duke

Sir Eo6<;^ &«7iag, his chaplain, who in 1603, returned answer, that Mites Brantkwait, Esq. was patron ot his living, and that he had 46 communicants in his parish.

1618, £fc«r# ltowfc* on whose death in 1 6 19, the Earl ot J/Wei

J?o& Wither el, A. M. who was succeeded by £rf/nU»d Allen in 1658, »W*ere/ dying Jan. 30, in that year. Allen is buried in the nave with this inscription.:

ViO HETHILL.

M.S. Depositi Edmundi Allen, Viri, insigni probitate pariq; modestia, castis, Sanctisq; moribus, ornati, Ecclesiae Anghcanse Sacerdotis, non mediocriter Docti, non immerito laudati, Qui Na- ture cessit quinto die Maij A. D. 1683, iEt. suae 67. Abi Lector, et ut tu discas vivere, vive tanquam cito moriturus.

)683, Sam. Hancock, A.M.William Branthwait, Esq. On his death in

1697, Richard Branthwait was presented by Will. Branthwait, Esq. his father, in

1737, John Reddington, rector of Rackhythe, and master of Nor- wich grammar school, was instituted here, and held it by union with Rackhythe; he is buried under a black marble near the font, on which is this,

In hope of a joyfull Resurrection, here lieth the Body of John

Reddington A.M. late Rector of this Parish, & Mary his

Wife; he died 24 Sept.. 1739, aged 57, and she 18 Feb. 1742,

aged 63.

and was succeeded by

John Lombe, clerk, late rector and vicar of Seaming, on whose resignation in

1743, the Rev. Mr. Metyer Reynolds,1 the present rector, was pre- sented by Miles Branthwait^ Esq. the present patron,

Who hath a handsome seat called Hethill-hall, about two fur- longs south of the church ; and the parsonage, which is very conve- nient, and was much beautified by Mr. Reddington, stands about one furlong north-east of the church, which is very neat, as the chancel was also made, by Mr. Reddington. It is leaded, and hath a hand- some Venetian window at its east end, the windows in both chancel and church being sashes ; the church is 33 feet long, and 22 broad ; and the chancel 26 feet long and 13 broad ; the nave and north isle are leaded, and the north porch tiled; the steeple is square, about 56 feet high, and hath only one bell.

The arms of Thorp of Jshwellthorp quartering Banyard, and also those of Appleyard, and gul. a chevron arg. between three boars heads in a bordure ingrailed of the 2d, were in the windows, but are now lost. There is a stone by the font for Rob. Hammond Gent. Aug. 15, 1678, Rob. his Son, Oct. 14, 1687,44.

The Branthwaytes are descended from John Branthwayte of Sebber, or Sedber, in Yorkshire, who married a Clere of Stokesby in Notfolk ; and their son,

John Branthwayt, settled at Norwich;* he married Elizabeth Turner of Essex, by whom he had four sons,

1, Richard Branthwayte of Lincoln's Inn, serjeant at law, who married Margaret, daughter of John Bull of London ; he had a coat of arms granted him by Rob. Cooke, Clarendon, by patent dated July 21, 1582, viz. or, two bendlets ingrailed S. Crest, a falcon

3 1740, he was presented by Sir Edm. * James Branthwayte, rector of Snit- Bacon of Garboldesham, Bart, to the terton, seems to have been brother to vicarage of Riburgh Parva. this John. Vol. i. p .4-

HETHILL. HI

risino-fromarock proper;5 he was called to be a Serjeant by writ dated at Westminster 25 Nov, 1594, 36 Eiiz. and was buried in St. Marlins Lud<*ate, Oct. 7, 1595 ; lie bad one son, Richard, who owned land in Wigenhale 18 James I. and four daughters, the eldest married to Sir William Spencer; 2d, Man/, to Henry Gilling, Gent, of Yorkshire. 3d, Maroaret, to Robert Mursham of Norfolk. 4th, Elizabeth to Sir Will. JVebbe.6

2, Henry Branthwayt, who was feodary for Norfolk in \603, and died without issue about l6l? ; he married Mrs. Davy of E/ing- ham, grandmother to the old Lady Potts.

3, "Miles Branthwaite, who purchased Hethi/l, where he lies buried under an elegant marble monument on the north side of the altar, with the crest and aims of Branthwait at lop, with a martlet for difference ; and Branthwait impaling Southwell, and this inscription :

The inclosed is the Body of Miles Branthwait Esq. whose Place of Birth, was Peters parish in Norwich ; his wife Mary, one of the Daughters of John Southwell of Barham in the County Suffolk Esq; his Place of death, London; his Day of death the 5th of August 1612, his Age 55 Years; his surviving Issue, one Son 8c two Daughters.

If Death would take an Answer, he was free,

From all those sorts of Ills, that he did see ;

And gave no Measure, that he would not have

Given to him, as hardly, as he gave ; [Deathe,

Then thou Miles Branthwayte, migh'st have answer'd

And to be so moral, migh'st bayle Breathe ;

Thou wast not yet to dye, but be thou blest,

From weary Life, thou art gone to quiet rest.

Joy in thy Freedom, from a Prison thou

Wast by God's Hand pluckt out, and liest now,

Free from the Dust and Cobwebs of this Vaile,

And richer art thou, by thy Heavenly Baile,

Than he that shut the up ; This Heap of Stones,

To thy Remembrance, and to Chest thy Bones,

Thy Wife doth consecrate, so sleep 'till when

All Graves must open, and yield up their Men.

On the altar tomb lie two effigies at their full lengths ; he hath his robes on, and one hand under his head ; she hath her hands closed in a praying posture, being buried by him ; on the front of the tomb are the effigies of their son Arthur, and their two daughters; Margaret, who married to Sir Robert Leigh of Chigwell in Essex, and Elizabeth, who lies buried by them, with this on a brass plate :

Here resteth 'till her Redeemer cometh, the Body of Elizabeth Branthwayte, on of The Daughters of Miles Branthwayte Esq; who departed this Life the first Day of May, 1621, iEtatissuaj 20. Memorise Sacrum. A modest, humble, chaste, and vertuous Maide, Is by Death's ruder Hand untimely laide

> Shirley's Book of Cooke's Grants, p. 197. 6 See vol. ii. p. 176-

112 HETHILL.

In this cold Bed ; a Mother's Piety, Plac'd here this Marble, to her Memory. Many a sad Tear hath that Mother shed, Since her dear Fruit was here deposited. Only this Comfort doth those Griefs Controul, That Gracious Heaven received her spotless Soul.

4, Will. Branthwait, master of Caius college in Cambridge, died single, in his vice-chancellorship, Feb. 15, 1618; an account of him may be seen vol. iii. p. 302, and iu Fullers Church History, Cent. 17, fo. 46.

Arthur Branthwayte of Hethill, Esq. son of Miles Branth- wayte, by Maty6 daughter of John Southwell, was married at Besthorp Febr. 20, 1625, to Mrs. Bridget, daughter of Sir Anthony Drury, Knt. (vol. i. p. 500.) It seems as if lie died in 1645, for on the 10th of Feb. in that year, there was an inquisition taken at his death, by IV. Davy, Gent, feodary for Norfolk ; by which it was found, that he died seized of the aforesaid several manors of Hethill, with the royalties thereto belonging. He had three sons, Arthur Branthwait or London, who married Mrs. Pitt, Miles Branthwait, who died single, and

William Branthwait of Hethill, Esq. who is buried under a marble in the chancel, with the arms of Branthwait impaling Berney, and this,

Here lies the Body of William Branthwait Esq; who upon the first Day of Dec. in the Year of our Lord 1657, married Julian the Dr. of Thomas Berney of Swardeston Esq; by her he had 18 Children, viz. 8 Sons and 10 Daughters, 12 of which lived to be Men Sc Women, two of his Sons & three of his Daughters married in his Lifetime, & he left at his Death, five Sons and five Daughters,7 twenty three Grand-children, & two Great Grand-children; he departed this Life, the 28 Day of Febr. in the Year of our Lord 1710, aged 76 Years. Julian Branthwayte aforesaid, died 29 Nov. 1727, Ml. 88, left living at her Death, 7 Children, 19 Grand- children, Sc 20 Great Grand-children.

There are memorials here, for the following children of the said JJ'il/iam and Julian ;

Here lyeth the Body of Thomas Branthwayte Gent, eldest Son of William Branthwayte Esq; & Julian his wife, who was Dr of Thomas Berney of Swardeston Esq; he departed this Life, in the Life-time of his Father & Mother, the 6 Day of March, in the Year of our Lord 1676, aged 20 Years. This Stone was laid down in Memory of him, by the Will of \w, Father, under the Character of his Dear &, deservedly beloved Son.

6 1652, 14 July, died Mrs. Branth- Julian to Mundeford Spelman of Nar- waite of Heihhill. burgh, Esq.

7 Dorothy married to Sir Rich. Ber- Bridget married John Berney of West- neyofKirb -Bedon, Bart. (Baronetage, wich, Esq. (Ibid. p. 380.)

Vol. I. p. 381.)

HETHILL. US

John Branthwayte, doctor of physick, son of William Bran- thwayte, Esq. and Julian his wife, died at London Jan. 27, 17 14.

Sacred to the Memory of William Branthwait Esq; Serjeant at Law, eighth Child and 6fth son, of William Branthwayte. Esq; 8 of this Parish, and of Julian his wife; he took to wife, Jemima, only Daughter and Heiress of Augustine Brograve Esq; by whom he had one Daughter, who died an Infant ; this Gentleman, will be remembered for his Eminence in the Law, sweetness in Temper, and readiness in forgiving Injuries. He dep. Nov. i, 1729, and was here under buried the 8 of the same month. iEt. 62. (He was of Greys Inn.)

This on a mural monument in the chancel, having Branthwayte's crest and arms, and on a coat of pretence, Brograve, arg. three lions passant guardant in pale gul.

Under an altar tomb enclosed with iron palisades, in the churchyard at the east end of the chancel, lies buried Elizabeth Branthwayte, the 10th daughter and 17th child of William Branthwayte Esq. by Julian, his wife, daughter of Thomas Berney cf Swerdeston Esq. ob. 21 Febr. 1728, iEt. 48.

Arthur Branthwayte, Esq. of Hethill, second son and heir of William and Julian was of Grey's Inn, barrister at law, an eminent councellor, chosen steward of the city of Norwich in I691,9 which he resigned in 1703, died at his house at Norwich, on Sunday 29th Sept. 1717, and was buried at Hethill in the chancel ; there is a stone, with his own and wife's arms impaled, and in a very handsome north chancel isle, lately built over a vault, designed for the burial-place of this family, which is entered by a door on the north side out of the churchyard, as the isle is by two sash doors at the east, are the follow- ing achievements, hanging against the wall, viz.

BRANTH\vAYTE,andBAcoN,ar.on afessingrailed between three inescutcheonsgH/. three mullets or.

Branthwayte, and Berney. Ditto and Bacon, with an inescutcheon of pretence of Newton, * and this motto, Incipe. Ditto and Brograve. Jfo«o,MoRs jANVAViTiE.

This isle hath a seat in it for the family to sit in during service:

Sacred to the Memory of Arthur Branthwayte Esq; second Son of William Branthwayte Esq; and Julian his wife sometime Chief Justice of the Isle of Ely,2 he took to wife Anne, the only Daughter and Heir of Thomas Bacon, Esq;1 second son of Sir Francis Bacon, sometime one of the Judges of the King's Bench, by whom he had Six Sons and six Daughters, whereof

8 "William Branthwaite of Swarston * See voL iv. p. 483.

" in the county of Norfolk, is descended * Anna, &c. Arthuro Branthwaite,

" from Ric Branthwaite of Lincoln's Armigero, Ca, itale Justiciario nostra ad

" Inn Serjeant at law, one of the readers placita infra insulam Eliensem in Co-

" thereof in the reign of Queen Eliza- mitatii Cantabrigiensi tenead. assignat.

" beth." Grandeur of the Law, p. 263. ssiutem, &c. A" Reo'. 11.

9 See vol. iii. p. 426. 3 See vol. iv. p. 274. VOL. V. Q

114 WREN INGHAM.

Elizabeth, Arthur, Julian, Dorothy, Miles, John* Henri/, were living at his Death. Elizabeth his eldest Daughter, married to Tho. Sotherton oi'Taverham Esq; by whom she had Issue Elizabeth and 'Thomas, both likewise alive at the Time of his De- cease; he departed this Life on the 29th Day of Sept. in the Year of our Lord 1717, aged 58 Years; and will be remembered as a faithfull and able Councellour, ajust and mercifull Judge. The above mentioned Anne Branthwayte died Nov. 18, 1729, aged 68. Thomas son of Arthur Branthwayte and Elizabeth his wife, died at Norwich Apr. 1, 1714

Arthur Branthwayte, Esq. of Hethill, the eldest son and heir, succeeded, and lies buried in the altar rails, with the arms of Bran- thwayte quartering Bacon, and this,

Sacred to the Memory of Arthur Branthwayte, Esq; whose Body is deposited under this Stone, next to that of his most honoured and worthy Father Arthur Branthicai/te Esq; some Time Chief Justice of the Isle of Ely, whose Estate as well as eminent Vertues, he inherited, and was particularly distinguished for his Integrity, brotherly Love, extensive Charity, and constancy in Friendship; which Qualities, with great Zeal and readiness, he always exerted, whenever his Brothers, Friends, Relations, or the Poor, stood in need of them ; he died at Bristol the 17 of Oct. in the Year of our Lord 17'24, much lamented by all that knew him, and was here buried the 31st Day of the same Month, in the 38*/* Year of his Age.

Miles Branthwayte, Esq. of Hethill, the present lord and patron, his next brother, succeeded him. He is a barrister at law, high or capital steward to the Bishop of Norwich, steward of all the courts, general receiver of all the farm rents, Sec. and supervisor of all the manors belonging to the see.5 He married Rebecca, one of the two daughters and coheiressess of Thomas Newton, Esq. late mayor of Norwich,6 who is now deceased and buried here, by whom he hath

Mr. Arthur Branthwayte, fellow commoner of Cains college in Cambridge, and one daughter, Elizabeth, both single.

WRENINGHAM,

As it is now, contains three whole parishes, and three manors, all joined in one,viz. Great IVreningham, or All Saints, Little Wreningham, or St. Mary, and Nelonde.

* The Rev. Mr. John Branthwayte is 5 See vol. iv. p. 555. 6 Ibid. p. 483. now rector of Kettlestone in Norfolk.

WRENINGHAM. 115

LITTLE WRENINGHAM,

As it was afterwards called, lies in Domesday Book by the name of Wasincham and Walsincham, and was formerly in two parts; Ketel the Dane had the biggest part in the Confessor's time;* and at the Conqueror's survey, Warine held it of Ralf Peverell, and the church had 60 acres of glebe; and Roger Bigod s manor had six freemen who held 130 acres.7 Both these united early in the liioods, who infcoffed the whole in the Thorps of Ashwellthorp, with which it hath passed to this day, and therefore I shall refer you to my account of the manor of Ashwellthorp.

The church was dedicated to St. Mary, and in Norwich Domes- day Sir Robert de. Thorp, son of Sir John, was the patron ; it then belonged to the rectory of Ashwell-Thorp, and the rector had no house in this town, but one at Thorp only; but it having all the signs and properties of a mother church, it was separated from Thorp, and became a parochial chapel, and independent rectory, valued at 20 shillings, and paid V2d. procurations, Sd. synodals, Id. Peter-pence, and ad. ob. carvage.

RECTORS OF WRENINGHAM PARVA. 1312, Nicholas de Shropham. Sir John de Thorp, Knt. and Lady At ice liis wife.

1334, Alexander atte Mere of Little-Massingham chaplain. Bea- trix, relict of Sir Robert de Thorp, Knt. and John his son and heir. 1349, Henry Fithell of Schotesham. Sir Roger Straunge, Knt. 1477, Tho. Trych. Robert de Thirning, rector of Combes, Thomas de Bumpstede, citizen of Norwich, and Adam de Red- grave, rector of Bathele or Bale.

1402, Richard de Flory of Islington. Sir Thomas Erpingham,

1406, 7 April, it was perpetually united to the church of St. Peter at Nelonde, and ,

Nic. atte IVode, priest, was instituted to the parish church ot br. Peter at Nelonde, with the chapel of St. Mary of JFrenningham-Parva, annexed, at the presentation of Sir Thomas Erpingham, Knt. Will.Rees, Esq. John and Walter Daniel, citizens of Norwich,

• TerreRanulfiPeverelli, fo. 26S, H. ii. acr. prati i. ecclesia, lx. acr. in pretio

Humiliart. . manenj.

Et Walsincham habet vi. quar.

Walsincham tenet Garinusq°tenuit in longo, et v. inlato, et vi.d. et iii. fer-

Ketel. Teinus Stigandi T. R. E. pro ding, de Gelto.

i. car. terre, et dim! semper ii. villani et » Terra Roger. B.goh Domsd. fo.

iii serv. et ii. car. in dominio, et dim. 135. H. de Humiliart.

car. horn. iv. acr. prati, silva xii. pore. In Wasincham vi. liberi homines,

tunc iii. runcin. tunc iv. an. tunc xxxv. sub antecess. Rogen, soca fade et com-

porc. modo xx. tunc xxv. oves, m' lx. mendatione tantum inter totum habent

ii. vasa apum et xiii. liberi horn, soca exxx. acr. semper 111. car. et 1. mol. et

falde et commend, tantum T. R. E. i. bor. xxx. acr. tunc i. car. post modo dim.

m WREN INGHAM.

and John Aslack of Crostweyt, trustees to the Thorp family. And not Jong after, the chapel becoming ruinous, was pulled down.

NELONDE,

Called New/and, Nayland, and Nailyng, and in Domesday Eiland, or the land at the eye or island. Roger Bigod was lord of it at the Conquest,8 Earl Eustace had another part of it,9 and Earl Hugh a third, as a berezcic to his manor of Fundenhall.' They all united in the Bygods, who infeoffed the Britons, and John le Briton infeoffed the manor and advowson in John son oi Henry de Thorp, who reco- vered the advowson against John le Briton, on an action brought in 1256; and from that time to this, it passed with the Ashwel/thorp estate, and is now a member of Great fVreningham manor, to which town this village was annexed in 1414.

RECTORS OF NELONDE ST. PETER.

1285, William de Witton.

1317, John de Hakeford. Sir John de Thorp, Knt. and Lady Alice his wife.

1 322, John Fish, of Therston. Ditto:

1325, Will, de Hakeford. Lady Alice, relict of Sir John.

1328, Robert, son of Sir John de Thorp, Knt. patron.

1 330, John Perys of Faringby, on Hakeford's resignation. Sir John de Clavering, Knt. this turn. He changed for West hall in 1347, with

Robert Martin of Erpingham. Sir Roger le Straunge, Knt.

1349, Henry Fithel of Schotesham, united to Wreningham St. Mary. Ditto.

1358, William son of Andrew de Stivekele Magna. Sir Edmund de Thorp, Knt.

1378, John son of Robert Clerk of Holm. Robert de Thirning, rector of Combes, &c. trustees.

1391, Thomas Saunfyth. Sir Edmund de Thorp, Knt.

1399, Rob. Brown ot'Fomcet. Ditto.

1402, Richard Flory of Ilsington, united to Wreningham-Parva. Ditto.

1406, 7 April, Nic.Attewode of Sislond, to this and Wreningham- Parva, now perpetually united.

8 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. H. de Hu- 9 Terre Comitis Eustachij, Domsd.

miliart, fo. 136, 7. fo. 73.

InNeilanda et in Urnincham ix. liberi Humiliart H. In Neilamla ix. liberi

homines, ex horum viii. et dim, &c. hom. Stigandi 1. acr. semper i. car. et

(See in Wjeningham-Magna.) dim. et v. acr. prati et val. x. sol.

In Eilanda iv. liberi homines, i. l Terre Hugonis Comitis, fo. 75.

car. terre et iv. bord. semper ii. car. et DepwadeH. Fundenhala, Sec. ethic

iv. acr. prati de duobus liberis et dim. pertinet una berevvita Eilanda xxx. acr.

habuit antccess. Rogeri commend, tunc i. vill. semper iv. bord. et i. car.

T. R. E. et Stigandus de uno, et ante- in dom. et dim. car. hom, et i. acr. prati

cess. Hermeri de dimidio. silva xii. pore.

WRENINGHAM. \\T

1411, Rob. Edwards of Redenhall. Edmund Thorp.

1414, the perpetual united rectory of Nelonde and Wrening- ham-Parva, was annexed and perpetually united to the perpetual united rectory of the rnedieties of Great Wreningham, and so conti- nue as one consolidated rectory at this time.

When Norwich Domesday was made, Sir Robert son of Sir John de Thorp, was patron; the rector had a house and 19 acres of glebe, it was first valued at 4, after at 5 marks, but was not taxed ; it paid 4s, procurations, 2s. synodals, lL2d. Peter-pence, and Id. cartage. Bel- Aouse-hall stood in this parish, and there were 74 acres and an half of land in demean adjoining to it; two parts of the tithes of which, be- longed to Eye priory, for which that house was taxed at 10s. The temporals of the Prior of St. Faith were taxed at 2s. id. The church was demolished at the Reformation ; it lies between Wreningham and Ashwellthorp, and is called the Old Churchyard.

Reginald son of Hugh de Nelonde, and in 1259, Bartholomew son of lVill.de Nelonde, had a free-tenement here, with divers services and rents belonging to it; but it long since was purchased by the Thorps, and added to Belhouse manor.

In 1283, it was found that the lete of Nelonde belonged to the Prior of Windham and Robert de Tateshale? and in 1284, upon a suit commenced about it, the Prior proved that it belonged to his monas- tery, of the gift of William le Buteler, in the time of King Henry I. and that that King confirmed it to his monastery, with the assise of bread and ale, &c. of all their tenants here, and in Brakene.

W R E NI NG H A M- M A G N A

Had two manors in it, which included that, and the greatest part of Nelonde; the manors of Nerford's and Belhouse-hall; the site of the former was in Nelonde parish, where the ancient family of Bel- house resided, and the site of the latter was in this parish.

'Wtmondbim Dne.Regine ex parte Chief Justice of the King's Bench, and

Nelonde. Leta 10 Oct. 1638. lord of Stanfield in Windham, had

The heyward for the part aforesaid, an enclosure made upon the west end ol

doth not gather any rents, but in the Wreningham Green, which was pre-

town of Wreningham cum Nelonde. sently laid open by the lord of Wrening.

The commons in thesaid towns are the ham cum Nelonde, and so remains; and

upper and lower Greens, and certain it was found, that the inhabitants of

spots lying at the ends of their lands Windham and Ashwellthorp, who had

called Spongfield and Lodgefield, in ail been oftentimes wrongful commoners or

about 15c acres, on which the tenants in overchargers, were punished from time

Wreningham and Nelonde only, have to time, in the Lord's court of Wre-

the commonage or feeding the cattle, wiih ningham, for such offences committed, the privilege of digging clay and gravel, Ex. Autog. Indorsed, " the Verdict

and cutting furze, at all times, for their of the Tenants of Wreningham cum Ne-

necessary uses. And it was found, that londe, upon Sir Tho. Hatton's In-

Sir Thomas Richardson, then Lord quisition of our commons."

118 WREN INGHAM.

THE MANOR OF BELHOUSE-HALL

Belonged to Levolt, a thane of the Confessor's3 and at the Conquest was given to Hermee, of whom Vagan held it; it had a chinch and 10 acres of glebe ; the lete or superiour jurisdiction belonged to the King and the Earl of Norfolk ; it was worth at the first survey 60s-, and at the last 80s. per annum. Great Wreningham (including Ne- londe) was one league long, and half a league broad, and paid lOd. to the geld or tax. And Little Wreningham was six furlongs long, and five broad, and paid 6d. ob. q. to the geld.* This manor was in the Norfolk family, and was by one of them, given to the Creykes, and Sir Jefery de Crei/ke gave it with the moiety of the advowson, to Sir Tho. de Belhouse, Knt.s who came and settled in the manor-house of his own building, and was succeeded by Sir Richard his son and heir, who was lord in 1280, and held it at half a fee of the heirs of Crek e, who held it of the Enr\- Marshall. This Sir Richard sold the uiediety of the advowson, to Robert son of Sir John de Thorp, who gave it to Carrow abbey. In 1383, Sir Robert, son of John de Thorp, by the name of Sir Robert. Fitz-Johnot'dshwellthorp, obtained a charter of freewarren, in all his lands here. In 1384, the manor wasinfeoffed in Peter de Brompton or Brampton, and by him in Robert de Sa/leford, who released it to Sir Robert aforesaid, in trust for Sir Richard de Belhus, who died in 1300, and Sarah his wife had it for life; and Thomas his son and heir had the manors of West Bilney, Bodney, Tud- denham, Fatdegate, &c. Sir Richard de Belhus, his son, was lord after him, but dying without issue male, the manor came to the share of John Bosun or Bozun of JVissingsete in Noifolk, Esq. whose father William, married Maud second daughter and coheir of this Sir Richard Bclhuse, Knt. and in 1415, Edmund O/dhall and John Drew, parson of Harplcu, feoffees of Bozun, conveyed this manor to Sir Edmund de Thorp, Knt. and his heirs, and so it became part of the estate of that family, and hath continued with it ever since. The Jiiies are arbitra- ble, and the manor hath free-warren by the charter of Edward I.

3 Terre Hermeri. Doms. fo. 175. H. 1. i. ecclesia de x. acr. tunc et post. vat.

Humiliart. lx. sol. modo Ixxx. et habet i. leug. in

Vrnincham tenet Vaganus iii. car. longu, et dim. in lato, et xd. de gelto. terre et xii. acr. quas tenuit Leuolt Tei- Et huic (idem ten.) terre jacent viii. li- nns T. R. E. iii. car. terre et xii. acr. ben homines soca falde et commendati- tunc iv. villain post. ii. modo nullus. one tantumxxviii. acr semper i. car. et semper xiv. bord. tunc iii. serv. modo i. valet et iv. sol. Rex et Comes de hoc et semper iii. car. in dom. tunc. i. car. et demanerio socam. dim. horn, modo i. semper iii. car. in * Seep. 115.

dom. tunc. i. car. et dim. horn, modoi. s I find Sir Theobald de Belhouse,

xvi. acr. prati, silva vi. pore, semper Knt. mentioned in several deeds sans

ii. rune. tunc. ii. anim. modo ix. tunc date, and in 1260. ii. pore, modo xiii. tunc lx. oves modo

VVRENINGHAM. 119

NERFORD'S MANOR

Belonged to the Bigots,6 and was by them infeoffed with the moiety of the advovvson in the Crekes, who separated the manor into two parts, that which the mediety attended, was held at half a fee of the Earl Warren, by Sir Richard de Neefoed, who sealed with three fusils in fess erm.7 he left it to Christian his widow, and she to Sir Robert de Neiford their son, and Alice his wife, founders of the religious house called St. Man/ de Pre or de Pratisf from its situation in the meadows between Bumham-Thorp, and North-Creyk, to which house they gave the mediety of the advowson ; and the Bishop ap- propriated it without any vicarage reserved ; so that during the appro- priation, the rector of the other mediety served it as their chaplain; this was about 1206. She was succeeded by her son William, who sealed with a lion rampant er. and Alice his wife, daughter of John le Moigne, or Moneye, with a de-lis or, and they sold it to Sir John de Thorp, with their part of

THE MANOR OF iMOIGNE'S, or MONEY'S,

In this town, which was conveyed by Sir Jeffry de Creyke, and con- firmed by Sir Robert de Creke, to Sir Alexander9 son of Sir Peter le Moigne, who held it at half a fee of the honour of fVormegey, or Wrongeye; the Lady El a, widow of Sir Peter, and mother of Sir Alexander, had her dower in it; in 1261, Richard le Moigne, and after that William, son of Sir Alexander, owned it ; this William had three daughters and heiresses by Alice his wife, who after remarried to Sir Robert le Forester, who held her dower here in 1284. Emma married to Gregory de O/dhagh. Sarah to Alexander de Lenn, some- times called Alexander Lambert of Lynn; and Alice to William de Nerford of Wreningham ; who all joined and convened it to Sir John de Thorp of Ashwellthorp, Knt. and his heirs; and ever since it hath passed as the Ashzcellthorp estate did. It paid to the honour of Wormgeye 10s. lOd, per annum for waytefee, castleward, and respite of suit of courts, held for the honour.

The church is dedicated to all the Saints; the Abbot of Ckeyk had one mediety appropriated to his house, to which belonged a house and \Q acres of glebe, and a small manor;1 it had no vicarage en- dowed, the rector serving the whole cure, had a pension of 40s. per annum out of it, which was not taxed; the Prioress of Carrow was

6 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Domesday, fo. viz. gul. a fess arg. and gut. a lion ram- 136. H. de Humiliart. pant erm.

In Neilanda et in Vrnincham ix. 8 Mon. Ang. Vol. II. fo. 327.

liberi homines, ex horum viii. et dim. 9 He was a benefactor to Magdalen

habuit antecessor Rogeri commendatio- hospital; see vol. iv. p. 441.

nem tantum et socam falde, et anteces- * The spirituals of the Abbot of

sor Hermeri de uno medietatem, soca Creyke were valued at eight marks, his

falde et commend, tantum. temporals at jd.

7 I find two coats born by this name,

120 WRENINGHAM.

patroness of the other mediety? and that rector had a house and 16 acres. The whole rectory was valued together at six marks, paid \$d. synodals, 6s. 8d. procurations, lOd. Peter-pence, and Id. carvage. The portion of the Abbot of St. John at Colchester, was 20*'. the por- tion of Carrow prioress 10s. and the portion of the Abbot of Creke, two marks and an half; and in 1612, a pension of lis. Sd. was paid to the dissolved abbey of Creke, and a pension of 5s. to Carrow abbey; and the Prior of Wimondham had a messuage and 10 acres of land.3 This parish paid 3/. 10s. to every tenth. It stands by the name of Wreningham rectory in the King's Books, is valued at 10/. and pays Jirst fruits, and 1/. yearly tenths; and being undischarged, it is not capable ofaugmention.

RECTORS

OF CARROW* MEDIETY, PRESENTED BY THE PRIORESSES OF CARROW.

1306, Robert de Cokethorp.

1330, Richard Sekkesteyn of Herduyk.

1331, Richard de Quytewash.

1335, Robert King of Cnapeton, who in 1340, changed for Paston vicarage with Sir Clement, son of Sir Robert le Clerk of Cnapeton, or Cnapton; and in 1347, he exchanged for East Walton with Peter de Horsted.

1349, John Akewra, who changed for Framlingham-Pigot in 1382, with

John de Stevenache, who resigned in

1359, to John Baxter of West Lexham.

1371, Thomas Cowles.

1385, John Bale, lapse. He resigned in

1385, to William Giffard.

1393, Walter Aldou's of Wingfield, res.

1401, Nic. Walter.

1402, Thomas Catesby.

1405, John Felys ; he was the last presented by the Prioress.

RECTORS

OF THE CONSOLIDATED RECTORY OF THE MEDIETIES OF WREN- INGHAM ALL-SAINTS, LITTLE WRENINGHAM ST. MARY, AND OF

NELONDE ST. PETER.

In 1414, the mediety given by Sir Robert de Nerford to the Abbot of the monastery or regular church of St. Mary de Pratis or de Pre, sometimes called the Hospital of St. Mary of Lyngescroft, in the meadows between Burnham-Thorp and Creke, was this year, sold by Robert, abbot of that house,5 to Sir Edmund Thorp, Knt. and his heirs, and disappropriated, who at the same time bought the advovv- son of Carrow mediety, of that house ; and then he got them joined

1 The temporals of Carrow prioress * See vol. iv. p. 524, 7. valued at 6d. s And confirmed by Alice his widow,

3 The temporals of Windham prior daughter to John Pounchard. here and in Ne^nde, were valued at 3/. y. 4<f. q.

WRENINGHAM. 121

to Wreninghdm-Paroa and Nelonde, which were of his own patronage, and so they became one rectory, as they now remain.

1418, Thomas Arteys ofRefham, priest. Will. Westacre Arch- deacon of Norzeich, Sir Edmund Barry, Knt. John Lancaster, Esq. John Drewe, parson of Harpley, James Walsingham, and Charles Alleyn, trustees to Sir Edmund de Thorp, Knt. He resigned in 1429, and Sir John Clifton, Knt. presented Thomas Truyt, who was succeeded by

JohnWardy,&t whose death in 1504,Thomas Earl of Surrey, guardian to the heir of Berners, gave it to

Richard Cation, who resigned in favour of Richard Gibson, who voided it in 1524, and John Bour- chier, Knt. Lord Berners, gave it to

James at Calvarde, or Calver, who in 1584, joined with Jane Knevet, widow, his patroness, who was daughter and coheir of John Bourchier, Knt. Lord Berners, and with the Bishop's consent as ordinary, leased to John Stayner of Ashwellthorp for 99 years, at the rent of 6s. 8d. a year, 26 acres and three roods, parcel of Wren- ingham glebes, lying in 20 several pieces in Wreningham and Ashwell- thorp. In 1594, Sir Thomas Knevet, Knt. presented

Mr. John Harrison, who was chaplain to the Earl of Nor- thumberland; in 1603, he returned that there were 88 communicants, and that he held it united to Ashwellthorp, as did

Roger Ga/lard, who succeeded in 1627- In 1672, Richard Jacquis, A.M. held it with Ashwellthorp, of the gift of Sir John Knevet, Knt. at whose cession in 1676, Sir Thomas Knevet, Knt. gave them both to

William Bedingfield, A.M. at whose death in 1 693, Thomas Glemham, Esq. Kat. Harris (afterwards Lady Berners) Mary and Jenny Knevet, who held the advowson in fee simple, pre- sented

William Green, at whose cession in 1695, they gave it to John Eachard; and at his death in 1735, Dec. 6, John Goddard, clerk, A. B. the present rector, was instituted on the presentation of the honourable Katherine Lady Berners, patroness in fee simple.

The church is 24 yards long, and six broad, is leaded, and hath no isles ; the steeple is square and hath four bells, the chancel is tiled. In the windows are the arms of Appleyard, Thorp impaling Clifton, and arg. four bendlets gul. Clere, and arg. a chevron between three horse barnacles sad. Gul. fretty arg: on a chief of the 2d, three roses of the 1st, barbed and seeded proper. Arg. a plain cross gul. Thorp impaling erm. a cross ingrailed gul.

By the altar is a gravestone with Buxton's arms, for Rich. Buxton, who died 20 Feb. 1684. And another with this,

Rogerus Gallard A.M. hujtis Ecclesiee Pastor ndelis Corpus

humiie hie deposuit, ad similitudinem Gloiiosi Corporis Christi

die novissimo transformandum et obijt octavo die Mensis Augusti

A. D. 1672. iEt. suae 74.

Oportet operari donee Dies est, venit Nox quando nemo potest operari.

WRENINGHAM.

* The HUNDRED Of HuMBLE-	* The HUNDRED Of HUMBLE-
yard pays annually	to the land	YARTJ	pays	to the GENERAL RATE
tax, at 4s. in the pc	unci,	is lol-	for the county o	f Norfolk,6 for
lows, viz.				quarterage	bridge - money, va-
				grant	-money,	fee	as follows;
					To the 600/. levy.
	/.	s.	d.			/.	s.	d.
Braconash	119	8	0	-	_	0	19	9
Carleton-East	97	4	8	_	.	0	16	8
Cringleford	52	11	4	-	-	0	8	8
Colney	64	11	i	-	-	0	10	8
Dunston	51	8	0	.	-	0	7	8
Flordon	57	4	8	-	-	0	9	4
Hetherset	225	18	0	-	_	1	17	4
Hethill	93	4	8	-	_	0	15	4
Intvvood	go	5	4	-	_	0	3	4
Keswick	51	4	8	-	_	0	8	0
Keteringham	108	4	8	-	-	0	18	0
Markeshall or Mat-
tishal	32	1	4	-	.	0	4	0
Melton Magna	155	10	0	-	-	1	7	0
Melton Parva	48	1	4	-	-	0	8	0
Mulbarton	116	4	8	.	-	0	19	0
Newton Flotemaa	121	8	8	-	-	1	0	0
Swainsthorp	77	18	0	-	-	0	12	8
Swerdeston	69	8	8	-	-	0	11	4
Wreningham	140	11	4		"	1	3	4
Total of the yearly
payment	1704	9	4			13	19	0

The soil of the northern part of this hundred, is light and sandy, that of the southern more rich and heavy, the whole is enclosed, though the southern part hath more wood than the other, but there is no great quantity in any part of it.

N. B. The county raises yearly, either a 300/. quarterly levy, which is 1200/. each year; or a 450/. quarterly levy, which is 1800/. a year ; or a 600/. quarterly levy, which raises 2400/. a year. All which is in the disposition of the Justices of the peace, to be employed as the act directs. I have inserted only the 600/. quarterly levy on each parish, because the 300/, levy is always half as much, and the 450/. levy is three quarters of the 600/. levy.

6 7VO R FO T K \ ^ 8eneral RATE made and assessed by the justices of the i\Uiti'Ui,A, J"peace for the said county, (in pursuance of an act made 12 George II. intituled An act for tie more easy assessing, collecting and levying county rates) at the general quarter sessions held Jan. 11. 16 Geo. II. to answer the ends and purposes of the several acts recited in the act above-men- tioned, instead and in lieu of the several separate and distinct rates, directed by those several recited acts, to be made, levied, and collected, in every town, parish, and place, within the county.

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THE

HUNDRED OF DEPWADE.

1 h e hundred of Depzcade takes its name from the Depe-ford* over the river by Taseburgh, which though now of no great remark, in early days was otherwise ; the river Talis being then very broad, and fordable in no place in this hundred, but here only. The hun- dred is bounded on the north, by the hundreds of Humbleyard and Forehoe; on the east, by Hensted and Loddon ; on the west, by Shropham ; and on the south, by Diss and Earsham hundreds. The fee of it was in the Crown, till King Richard I. gave it to Gdndred the Countess; Roger son of Will, had it after; and in 1225, King Henry III. gave it for life to Roger de Hadisco ; and in 1249, it was valued at nine marks a year ; in 1274 it was in Edward the] First's hands, and was worth 6/. per annum clear ; and this King settled it on John de C/avering for a term of years ; and in 1315, Edward If. assigned it to Sir Walter de Norwich; but in 1327, Edward III. granted it to Sir John de Clavering, with Cosset/, &c. and his heirs ;r since which time, the inheritance of it attended Cossey, and was after- wards sold by divers of the lords there ; the several lords of the manors purchased the royalties and letes belonging to their manors; by which means the hundred court failed. This hundred paid 65l. 13s. Us. clear to every tenth, and now raises annually to the land tax at 4s. in the pound, 3057/. 14s. Qd. viz.

The annual payment of each town in this hundred to the land tax, at 4s. in the pound.

	I.	s.	d.
Ashwellthorp	83	12	0
Aslacton	114	0	0
Bunwell	234	4	0
Carleton-Rode	222	18	0
Forncet, St. Mary	77	4	0
Forncet, St. Peter	194	id	0
Fritton	92	15	0
Fundenhall	120	]()	0

The quarterly payment for each town to the justices of the sessions, &c. for quarterage, vagrant-mo- ney, bridge-money, &c.

/.	s.	d.
0	14	0
0	18	o
i	7	6
2	3	0
0	14	0
1	5	6
0 1	17	6 6

* Depe, Deep, and Waden, to i so that Depwade is the deep ford.

See vol, ii. p. 409.

124

Hapton Hard wick Hemenhall Moulton Magna and

Parva Mourning-Thorp She! ton

St ration, St. Mary Stratton, St. Michael 123 Tacolneston Taseburgh Tharston Tibenham W acton Magna and

Parva

DEPWADE.

67	4	9
78	12	0
329	9	6
148	17	1 1
S6	5	7
127	12	0
168	4	0
I 123	0	0
114	16	0
112	16	6
154	10	0
316	4	0
90	4	0
3057	14	9

0 110 0 16 0 2 3 0

1 0

0 14

1 3 1 3

0 14

1 1

0 18

1 3

2 3

0 18

23 11 6

These villages make up the deanery of Depnade, which con- tained 23 parishes, and was taxed at 16s.

DEANS OF DEPWADE,

COLLATED BY THE BISHOPS OF NORWICH.

1216, Laurence the dean.

1314, Ralfde Upgate of Tharston, priest.

1323, Master Robert de Stratton, subdeacon.

1334, Sir John de Hovedene, priest.

1350, John de Hej/gate of Trunch, fellow of Trinity Hall in Cam- bridge.

Thomas de Ravenser, resigned.

1359, William de Daventre, he changed for Anderby in Lincolnshire, with Ravenser.

1359, Roger de Haldenby, clerk.

1375, Robert de Topclitf, Shavelyng.

1380, John de Roseworth.

1392, John atte Brigge of Salle, clerk.

1393, John Ram. 1405, Alan Ram. 1422, Thomas Ash. 1431, Thomas Holdeyn.

1447, Sir Ralf Somerby, chaplain, who got this consolidated, to Humbleyard deanery, see p. 2. 1496, Mr. Will, Portland, A.M. 1498, Mr. Tho. JVolsey, A.M. the last rural dean of these deaneries.

This hundred being so near Norwich, it hath not any place where there is a market now kept. The soil is rich and well enclosed, and hath much wood and timber in it, but the roads (as a necessary con- sequence of good land) are dirty and bad.

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CARLETON-RODE.

1 h i s village, to distinguish it from many other of the same name in this county, hath the addition of rode fixed to it, from a remarkable eode or cross standing in Rode-lane, where the road from Wimond- hant to Diss laid.

The church is dedicated to all the Saints, and hath a square tower and five bells; there are two isles with chapels at their east ends, the chancel and nave are thatched. When Norwich Domes- day was wrote, Robert Fitz Osbert was patron; the rector had a house and 26 acres of glebe, which joins to the north side of the churchyard; the living, with the portion of the prior of sees, was valued at 26 marks,3 paid 3s. 9d. procurations, 4s. synodals, 13d. ob. Peter-pence, carvage <2.d. and now stands thus in the King's Books,

167. Carleton Rode Red. - - 48/. clear yearly value, As sworn ; so that it is discharged of first fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

Here were gilds of our Lady, St. Peter, and St. John the Bap- tist; and in 1502, the tower was finished, and the bells fixed.

There was a. free-chapel in this town, dedicated to the Virgin Man/, the way which leads to it is still called Chapel-gate-lane, but it hath been long since demolished.

On the steeple wall is this,

CARLETON-RODE.

Reparata et ornata fuerunt hsec Turns,

Ecclesia ejusque Cella, Anno Domini 1717.

JOHANNE OLIVER Clerico Parochia ejusdem

RECTORE,

Johanne Hoivse, Samuele Denny et alijs Generosis

Benefactoribus,

Gulielmo Pullyn et Jacobo Blazicr Ecclesite

Gardianis,

Et Henrico Kerrison de Carleton Orientali,

Architecto.

This Church was built, in it God to adore, And ought to have been repair'd long before ; By which neglect, we did great sums expend, Then lelt Successors look in Time to mend, For if Decays they early don't prevent, They will like us, when 'tis too late, repent.

3 In the old taxation the living was the monks of sees by Mcndkam, at 41. valued at 25 marks, and the portion of

126 CARLETON-RODE.

There is a stone for Tho. Howse of this parish, \6 Mar. 1671, and his six youngest children ; and another for Tho. Talbot, Gent. Jan. 2, 1657, with the arms of Talbot of Windham, impaling a chevron in- grailed between three goats heads erased. There was taken up some years since, a fine stone coffiin in the midst of the chancel, which stood level with the earth, the gravestone that covered it being jointed into the trough or coffin part. There is an altar tomb on the south side in the churchyard for Thomas le Hunt, Esq. son of Sir George le Hunt of little Bradley in Stiff. Jan. 2, 1703, 76. Margaret his Relict, Nov. 6, 1716, 80.

RECTORS.

1307, Henry de Clavering. Catherine, relict of Roger, son of Peter, son of Osbert.

1317, John Wa/ram. The said Cath. Fitz-Oubern.

1338, John, son of Roger Lither. Lady Catherine, relict of Sir Walt, de Norwich, Knt.

1352, William Ernald, buried in the middle of the chancel in 1375 ; his stone lies now at the entrance, his effigies in a priest's habit in his desk, with a book lying before him, and a cross standing before, re- mains in brass, but the inscription is lost. He was presented by Sir Roger, son of Sir Walter de Norwich, Knt. on whom this advowson was entailed by fine levied about 1320, when John Noyoti and Peter Jernegan, and Catherine, relict of Roger Fitz-Osbert, settled it on Sir JValter de Norwich and Catherine his wife, and Roger their son.

1375, E/ias de Byntre, son of Will. Fychet ; he was buried in this church till he could be carried to the new chantry at Metyngham. Margaret, relict of Sir Walter Norwich.

1385, William Browne. Ditto.

1392, King Richard II. gran-ted license to appropriate this rectory to the college of Norton Soitpecors, but for want of the Bishop's con- sent, it never took effect.

1411, Master William Bemham, afterwards vicar general, &c. see vol. iii. p. 632. The master and brethren of Metingham chantry or college, which was founded by Sir John de Norwich, Knt. Vice- Ad miral, and Lord of Metynham.

1425, Master Will. Shelton, LL. B. Ditto. At his death in

1436, William Brigham succeeded, and held it united to Ki/verston. (Vol. i. p. 546,) on whose resignation in

1442, Hen. Gardiner had it, who was buried in the chancel in 1464.

1464, Thomas Myndryn; he resigned it, but lived till 1473.

1467, Thomas Pecke ; he resigued in

1493, Thomas Rede, S.T. P.; he new roofed the chancel; the initial letters of his name, are often on the roof. Ric. Braunche, and the eight fellows of Metingham college.

1543, John Proctor, by grant from the college.

1560, William Bennet ; no graduate, and a man under excom- munication. John Denny, Esq. He had a long suit with Stokes, as coming in by simony.

1596, Richard Stokes. Ditto ; united to Bunwell. In 1603, he was chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and returned answer,

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that there were 340 communicants in this parish, and that Fyrmyn Denny was patron.

1619, Tho. Stokes, LL. B. united to Newton Flotman ; he was pre- sented by Sir Will. Doyly, assignee of Thomas Denny; and was afterwards rector of Heigham by Norwich, (see vol. iv. p. 506,) from which, as also from this, and a temporal estate of about 30/. per an- num, he was ejected by the Earl or Manchester, April 28, 1644, for absence, keeping an insufficient curate, observing the rules of the church, refusing to contribute to the rebellion, and being an ale-house haunter ; he had a wife and three children. {Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, Part II. fo. 367.)

1660, Edward Atkinson, united to B unwell. Robert Barton, Esq. He lies buried under an altar tomb on the south side of the churchyard, with the arms of Atkinson, and this,

M.S. Reverendi EDWARDI ATKINSON, hujusce Ecclesiae per triginta et septem Annos,

Rectoris, Honestis et Generosis Parentibus apud Lin- eolnienses nata, apudque Cantabrigiensis

Eruditi, Viri Pietate, Prudentia, Humilitate, et Di- vinarum humanarumque Literaruni Studijs

Praeclari. Decessit Ille Bonus, quarto die Maij Anno JErae Xianae l6y8g, iEtatisque sua? 770°. Bonis, Doctisque omnibus (quibuscurn Versatus erat) non indigne lugentibus.

1698, John Oliver. Thomas Hoogan, Gent. At his death he was was succeeded in

1719> by William Rant,* who held it united to B unwell, and died in 1730; and in

1731, The Rev. Mr. James Baldwin, sen. A.M. then rector of Ick- lingham St. James, and Quidenham, (see vol. i. p. 334,) was presented by John Buxton, Esq. of Chanons in Tibenham, then lord and patron, (see vol. i. p. 295,) father of Rob. Buxton, Esq. of Chanons and SJiadweli Lodge, the present lord and patron, to this and Bun- well, which he now holds by union.

In 1472, Edmund Cok was buried in this church, and gave a legacy to the chapel of the blessed Virgin Mary in this town.

This village paid 6/. to every tenth.

At the Conquest, this town was in five parts, the first and principal part belonged to Roger Bigot's manor of Forncet,* and was held of

* He was presented by George le car. et i. acr. pratj. In Carletuna xvi.

Hunt, by grant from Hannah Buxton, liberi homines et dim. et i. car. terre et

true patroness. vi. acr. et x. bord. tunc iv. car m°. ii.

s Terra Rogeri Bigoti. H. Depwade, et v. acr. prati, et ii. ecclesie xxx. acr.

fo. 139. In Carletuna ii. liberi homines, Oslac

In Fornesseta, &c. In Carle- commendati tantum, et habent vii, acr. tuna iii. liberi homines xii. acr. etdim.

128 CARLETON-RODE.

it by 21 freemen, two of which, with the two churches,6 and 30 acres of glebe belonging to them, he gave to Oslac ; the rest attended Forncet manor to this day ; in right of which, his Grace the Duke of Norfolk is lord paramount over all his own tenants, and still holds court lete here.

The second part belonged to Tibenham manor, which Alric a thane of the Confessor's held, and was given to Eudo son of Spiruwin, who held it at the Conqueror's survey, and Hainfrid under him.' Carle- ton was then two miles and an half long, and one mile and a quarter and four perches broad, and paid 22f/. to the geld or tax. This part was after aliened from Tibenham manor, and joined to Carleton; and accordingly in 1550, Thomas, son and heir of Edmund Knevet, held a parcel of the manor of Tibenham lying in Carteton-Rode. And hence it is, that as all the manors are united, and joined to Bun- nell and Carleton, with their members? that Tibenham is always mentioned. This part was very early joined to Bokenham castle, which it always attended till sold from it by the Knevets;9 and accordingly in Henri/ the Third's time, 1257, that King granted to Robert de Tateshak, Lord of Buhenham Castle, liberty o? free-warren in his demean lands in this town,1 and King Rich. II. in 1394, con- firmed it to Conslaiitine de Clifton his heir; and in 1275, King Edw. I. granted view of frankpledge or a lete, and assize of bread and ale of all his tenants in Tibenham and Carleton, for which he paid 3s. per annum to Depewade hundred.

The third part belonged to fl ' illiam de Warren, who had it of the king's gift, and Almar a freeman held it in the Confessor's time under Bishop Stigand? this aftewards became the manor called Bukenham's.

The fourth part belonged to Alan Earl of Richmond? as appen- dant to his manor of Cossey,4 and made part of the manor of Carleton.

The fifth part belonged to the manor of Howe, which Godric the sewer took care of for the King.5 And this was the state of the village at the Conqueror's survey. The capital manor called

6 St. Mary's chapel was one of them, 2 Terre Willi, de Warrenna Dep- and might then be parochial. wade H. to. 84. In Carletuna xxx.

7 Terre Eudokis filij Spiruwin. H. acr. terre tenuit Almarus hberhomo Depwada, fo. 247. Tibfnham tenuit T.R.E. sub Stigando et semper i. Alricus Teinnus T. R. E. &c. In bor. et dim. et i. serv. et i. acr. prati et Carletuna i. liber homo viii. acr. tunc i. car. et valuit 5 sol. hoc est de dono valuit viii. m° viii. (i. e. all Tibenham, Regis. Omnes ecelesie sunt appretiate with the part that belonged to it in cum manerijs.

Carleton.) Istos liberos horn, recepit 3 Terre Alani Comitis. DepuadeH.

Haikfridus pro terra tota. Carletuna fo. 70.- In Carletuna xiii. liberi homines

habet i. leus;. in longo et iiii. quar.etx. lxxxxv. acr. tunc i. car. et dim. m°ji.

quar. in lato, et hi. per. et xxiid. et et ii. acr. prati. hoc totum eit in pretio

obukim de Gelto. de ("osteseia. (Append. Honoris

8 The court for the manors is held at Richi: ond, fo. 16.) Bunuell, and the style is " Bunwell, * tee vol. ii. p. 407. Tybenham, Carleton cum Membris." 5 Terre Regis qusm Godricus servat.

9 See vol. i. p. 378, So, H. Depwade, fo. 46. In Carletuna iiii. 1 Ibid. p. 373. acr. et dim. et est in pretio de Howa.

CARLETON-RODE.

CARLETON MANOR,

Contained that part and advowsons, which Oslac had of the Bigots, and that part which belonged to Cosset/, the former of which was always held of the Norfolk family, and the latter, of the honour of Richmond,6 to which the King's part was afterwards added, when Maud, mother of King Henry II. gave it to Gundred the Countess, the whole being then worth 10l. per annum. That Countess infeoffed the whole in one Osbert, and Petronel or Pamel, his wife, the father and mother of Roger Fits Osbert, founder of St. Olave's in Herling- fleet, about 1216; and he, by Maud his wife, left Osbert his son, who gave 40 acres in Tibeuham, to the church of St. Olavc, with his body to be buried there, leaving Peter Fitz-Osbert his son and heir, who gave the advowson of IVit/ingham to the church of Saint Olave, and dying in 1275, was buried there, as was Beatrix his wife in 1278, leaving this manor and others, to their son Roger, who pass sometimes by the name of Fitz-Osbert, sometimes Le Fitz-Osbert, Oubem, and is often called Roger son of Peter, son of Osbert,7 he died in 1305; Catherine his widow survived him, and held it for life; she presented twice to this rectory. At her death it was to des- cend to the heirs of the two sisters and heiresses of Roger aforesaid, viz. Sir Peter Jernegan,* son of Sir Will. Jcrnegan, by Isabel, sister of the said Roger, and to John Nuin, or Noion, (now Nun,) of Salle in Norfolk, son and heir of Alice the other sister of the said Roger, and they about 1320, by fine, settled the manor and advow- son on ,

Sir Walter de Norwich, and Catherine his wife,8 and Roger their son and his heirs, together with the manor and advowson of Bunwell Perse-hall, all which, have passed together to this day.

RODE-HALL MANOR

In Carleton-Rode, took its name from the owners, who were sirnamed from the rode or cross they dwelt by. In 1237 Walter de Rode held it a quarter of a fee of Roger Fitz-Osbert, he of the Earl- Marshal, and he of the King. In 1271, Ralf father of Walter, re- leased all right to Walter : It after belonged to William de Rode, called also de Carleton ; and in 1338, to Benedict de Uvedale and Johr de Carleton-Rode, and then to Robert de Rode;9 and in 1402, Wilt. Woodherd had it, and after him Robert Morton, Esq.; and in 1470, I find it in Henry son and heir of John Heydon, Esq. who joined it to his other manor here, called

6 This honour extends now into this Agnes, daughter and heiress of Glan- town, and all that hold of the .honour, vile, his wife ; to which family the ma- are exempt from any superiour jurisdic- nor of Creke belonged.

tion of any other lords, and may claim * See vol. ii. p. 413.

the privileges of the honour by their s Register of iVIetingham College, fo.

tenure. 81, b. in the hands of Mr. Tho. Martin

7 Sarah his first wife died in 1285; of Palgrave.

she was daughter of Barth. de Creke » This family continued here long

and Margaret his wife, son of Sir Rob. after, for in 1543, Will. Rode sold a»

de Creke of North Creke, Knt. and estate here to John Clement.

TOL. V. S

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BOKENHAM'S IN CARLETON-RODE,

Which took its name also from its owners; in 1279, Robert de Bukenham died seized, leaving it to Isolda his wife, who claimed the guardianship of their son, against John de Hastyngs, Roger Bigot, William Ross, and Maud his wife, William de Nerford and Petronel his wife, and Robert de Caston, all claiming the same, on account of lands held of them by the heir. It appears that this manor had then two acres of meadow in demean, 100 acres of wood, four hens paid for rent, 64 days work in harvest, done by the tenants, pannage for 84 hogs, and liberty for 80 men, and two servants appointed by the lord to look after them, to gather nuts for six days together in the woods belonging to the manor of Lopham. In 1404,Jagnes wife of Tho. de Lye, had a third part of it, and conveyed it to John de Colby ; and after- wards all the parts were bought in by John Heydon, Esq. and in 1479, Henry Heydon his son, held these manors joined as aforesaid at the death of John, together with Bosevile's manor in Bunzeell, to which I refer you.

In 1544, I find a fine levied of the third part of the manor of Beauchamp's or Beacham's, which was settled by Rob. Newport, Esq. and Margaret his wife (in whose right he had it) on Sir John Clere, Knt. This belongs to Beacham's manor in Wimondham, which extended hither. (See vol. ii. p. 506.)

The lords of the honour of Clake, had lands here held of them. In 1488, John Duke of Bedford died seized of two courts called Turns, and one court called Lete, to be held yearly in the village of Carleton-Rode. (Esch. No. 36, 14 H. VI.) and the whole lands held of that honour were extended or valued at half a fee.

In 1570, return was made that Thomas Knyvet, junior, James Hub- hard, Gent. Anthony Denny, Gent. Robert Grey, Rob.Jexe, and John Raudolf were lords here, and that the honour of Richmond and the Earl of Arundel were chief lords of the commons.

In 1699, the manor of Richemond's, formerly the Talbot's, is men- tioned, and said to belong to Mr. William Jubbs, and then to Mr. Martin; but finding this never named elsewhere, am apt to think, that they only hired the property of Richmond honour.

The religious concerned here were, the prior of Norwich, whose temporals were taxed at 4s. those of the Prior of Bukenham at 2s. 9c?. and those of the Prior of Wangford, at 6d. ob. q.

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B U N W E L L.

i H I s town is not so much as once called by this name in Domesday Book, but that of Habej--ian, or the Holy Stone, from some remark- able stone cross erected there ; but it soon after became to be called by the name of BuiMell, which was a hamlet belonging to it ; Bun- well signifies Fons Rivuli, or the Rivulet's Head, and accordingly the situation of the place answers it, for that part of the town which is distinguished, by this name, from the other manors, hath the foun- tain or head of a small rivulet arising in it, which passing southwards, is called Bunzcell-Beck, running at the entrance into Tacolneston common, and thence by Stanhowe bridge," to Aslacton and Forncet. This town comprehends several villas, berewicks, or lesser hamlets, mentioned in the style of the court baron, and which now are the several manors, viz. Bunwell Haddeston, BoseviFs, Perishall, and Ban- yard's; all which are in the bounds of this parish, and besides these, the style of the court runs, Carleton, Tibenham, cum Membris; all which lie in the parishes of Tibenham and Carleton, which see.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael the archangel, and had SO acres of glebe belonging to it at the Conquest, when there were three manors, to each of which, a part of the advowson belonged, but Roger Fitz-Peter Filz-Osbert bought a part of Walkeline de Bose- vile; so that he had one moiety, and Sir Robert Banyard the other.

When Norwich Domesday was made, Rob. Fitz-Osborn was patron, and the rector had a house and 40 acres of glebe ; it was first valued at 20 marks, after at 30 without the portion ; and the portion of the prior of Lewes was first laid at six, after at ten marks, and consisted of two third parts of the great tithes, of all the demeans of Bosevile's manor, which were given to the monks of Castleacre, (a cell to Lewes in Susse.r, by Walkeline de Busevile, and Lady A gat/ia de Bosevile, and Pandulf Bishop of Norwich confirmed the agreement, made by the judges assigned by the Pope for this purpose, on a suit between the monks of Acre, and Alan de Beccles, rector here,1 that the rector and his successours, should for ever receive all the tithes of all the demeans and tenants of Bosevile's manor, paying to Castleacre con- vent 30d. every Easter, and 30d. every Michaelmas; which is paid at this day by the rector, to the Duke of Norfolk, in right of the dis- solved monastery of Castleacre, which was granted to his family at the Dissolution. The portion of Sees monastery was first taxed at 10s. after, at 1 3s. 4d. then by composition between the monastery and rector, reduced to 6s. Sd. pension, which is also paid by the rector at this time, to the aforesaid Duke. The procurations were 6s. 8d. synodals 2s. <2d. Peter-pence 10^/. carvage 6d. and the town paid clear to each tenth bl. 6s. 8d. It stands thus in the King's Books,

17/. Bunwell, alias Bullwell Rect. \l. Us. yearly tenths.

' That is, the bridge at the stonny hill. * Regr. Castleacre, fo. 57, a. 1 19, 21.

132 B UNWELL.

And not being discharged, is capable of augmentation. The spirituals of the Prior of St. Olave were one mark, his temporals 3s. and the temporals of the Prior of Bukenham were 4s. lid.

RECTORS OF BUN WELL.

1101, Alan de Beccles. Fulk Banyard, by grant of this turn from Roger Fitz-Peter Fitz-Osbert. In 1218, he was vicar-general to the Bishop of Norwich, and in 1224, Archdeacon of Sudbury; see vol. iii. p. 647-

1327, Will. Banyard. Sir Rob. Banyard, Knt.

1349, Hugh Bandon of Yoxford. Sir Roger de Norwich. He changed for Bernham-Broom with

1355, Master Will, de Baketon. Tho. de Grey this turn.

1357, Master Will, de Herwardestok. Sir Rog. de Norwich, Knt.

1373, Master John Branthwait, rector.

1 396, Master Elias de Bint re. The master and brethren of Me- tyngham chantry.

1410, Sir John To/eye, priest. Thomas Patesle, clerk, Simon Brunne, and William Fulbourne, Esq. this turn.

1418, Jeffry at Medzce, on 1'olye's resignation. The master and bre- thren of St. Mary's chantry or college at Metyngham.

1427, Thomas Ringstede, changed with Medzce for Farnham rec- tory,3 in London diocese. Will. Grey.

John Maiming. The college of Metyngham. On his death in

1442, Tho. Larke had it. William Grey of Merton, Esq. each other turn. He was succeeded by

1486, John Jullys, presented by the college. At his death in

1504, Walter Catesby, A. M. had it of the gift of Sir Humfry Catesbye, Knt.+ for this turn. At his death in

1506, Ric. Grisley was presented by Ric. Braunche, master of the college.

1541, Sir Robert Codde, chaplain to the Bishop of Norwich, and Master of St. Giles's hospital there, (see vol. iv. p. 399,) was presented by Thomas Codde, the famous mayor of Norwich in 1549, (see vol. iii. p 225, 30,) who had this turn of Edmund Grey, Esq. At Codde s death in

1547, Will. Rede had it, of Peter Rede, Gent, (see vol. iv. p. 200,) who had the turn of Anthony Denny, Esq. one of the privy coun- cil, in right of his manor of Persehall, late belonging to the dissolved college of Mctingham. He was succeeded by

1555, John Porye, D.D. fellow of Stoke-C tare and Bennet colleges,5 rector of Landbeach, and this year vicar of St. Stephen's, Norwich ; prebend of the 2d stall in Ely cathedral ; in Jan. 1559, being made

3 Newcourt, vol. ii. fo. 25G. tenths ; and the Bishop confirmed it.

♦ He married Grace, daughter of (Lib. Confirmat. i. fo. 314 ) And thus

Thomas Tye, Esq. second wife and re- when nothing was to be got, he resig' ed

lict of William de Grey of Merton, who it the next year. A bad example to

held it in jointure. See vol. ii. p. 303. posterity ! thaf a man thus laden with

5 Willis's Survey of the Cathedrals, preferment, should be permitted to

vol. ii. p. 376. In 1563, he leased out make such a lease instead of lepairing it

the parsonage for six years to William himselt; and as bad in relation to that

Tolp, in consideration of his repairing Bishop who confirmed such a proceed-

the house, and paying the arrears of ing.

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vector of Lambeth and prebendary of Westminster ; he quitted Ely, and in

156 i Ric- Hunt, a deacon, succeeded on his resignation, who had the turn bv grant from John Denney, Esq. •

157 I, Ric. Stokes, A. B. on Hunts resignation, afterwards united to Carleton. Sir Chris. Heydon, Knt. in right of Temperance his wife, relict ofTho. Grey of Merton. In

1G03, he returned answer, that there were 240 communicants in this parish, that he was chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, that Mr. Grey and Mr. Denney were patrons by turns.

lfilO, Nath. Wadesworth, A. M. Firmian Denney, Gent.

1638, William Locke, A. M. on JVadesworth's death. Rob. de Grey, Esq.

Edward Atkinson, united to Carleton, and died in 1698. (See p. 127.)

1698. William Rant, on Atkinson's death. Tho. de Grey of Merton, Esq. afterwards united to Carleton.

1731, The Rev. Mr. James Baldwin, the present rector, holds it united to Carleton. John Buxton, Esq. (see p. 127.)

The church is a neat lightsome building, having a nave only, which with the south porch is covered with lead ; the chancel is tiled, and hath a decayed vestry on the north side ; the tower is square, and a neat structure, and was finished about 1520. In 1503, William Taylor of Haddeston, a hamlet of Bunwell, was buried in the churchyard, and bequeathed " toward the makyng of the stepill of Bonewell every yere " whan the masons work upon it, 6s. 8d. till the sum of 33s. 4rf.be " paid." There was a brass plate fixed in a stone on the west side, but it is now lost; as is the following inscription preserved by Mr. Weever, fo. 814.

€>f pour Charttw prat? for the .§out of %aYw 4Saro.s'£e and JEtar* naret ht.si SMe.orftoho.^e .§>oul£ 3^'u haoc Jticrcn ilmcn.

1724, November 15, the widow Richards was buried here, aged one hundred and eleven years.

In the chancel on the north side, is a stone for Mr. John Blake, Aug. 21, lo8u, iEt, 64, and the arms of Blake with a de-lis for dif- ference on it, as in vol. i. p. 48.

Sir Sim. Soce/ye had a pension granted him out of the revenues of Metyngham college in this town, by Henry VIII. I suppose he was one of the last/e//oa« there; he was buried here in August 1555, and Mr. Andrezcs, the Prince's servant, had another pension ; but he was buried here soon after the grant.

B U N W E L L.

On a stone towards the east corner.

Carolvs

Jacobi Baldwin

Hujus Ecclesise Rectoris,

Ex Elizabetha

Filia Natu-Maxima

Thoma Cooper,

Mercatoris Jernemutensis,

Filivs

Inter Jacobum et Gulielmum

natu secundus,

Sara, Elizabetha, Maria,

FRATER.

Obijt VP Kal. Jun.

A". iEt. VIP.

Mr. Xpian'

CID PjCCXXXIIP.

Terrenas Oculis vix dum lustraverat Oras, Ocyus hinc inquit : Sedes super astra petamus.

In 1479, John Bukke purchased eight acres and one rood freehold in Springfield in Bunwell, and by will dated in 1497, gave it for ever to the parish of Bunwell, to help the poor in discharging the King's taske, and other charges when they fall ; he is buried at Bunwell, gave 35s. to adorn our Lady's tabernacle and the herse of the Sepulchre of our Lord in the church. These are town lands at this day.

In 1498, Idonea, wife of John Bukke, confirmed to John Heydon and other feoffees, her husband's gift, of 7 acres in one peice at Blome's Close by Does in Bunwell, and 1 acre 1 rood, in one peice in Bunwell at Nor th au gh.

1546, Will Bret, according to the will of Simon Rede of Bunwell infeoffed Henry Lincoln and others, in 3 acres of land lying in IVind- ham, by the land of the gild of St. John Baptist in Besthorp, &c. to the sole use of the inhabitants of Bunwell, towards paying the tenths andjifteenths of the said parish, to the King, and relief of the poor.

In 1581, William and John Ingram, brothers, settled one acre in Bunwell, to the use of the poor.

In 1629, Nat. Wadesvvorth, rector, and Will. Bret, settled two acres of pasture lying in Carleton, either towards paying the taske, repairing the church, relieving honest poor people, or any other charges needful to be defrayed by the parishioners of Bunwell,

There are two cottages with a rood of ground to each, which belong to the parish.

In 1546, among the town accounts 6 is this entered " Paid to John " Warde for beating down the altars one day and half ll<f. and "received of Will. Rysijng for the high altar \6d. (for the stone, I " suppose, that covered it) ; 1554, paid for the pix image 6d."

* From the old register. Nothvs. cujusdam viri vocati Will. Wrudhara

'553, Roberlus Olivere, filius populi, de North Tuddenham servi venerabilis

seu meretricis, sed pro-certo filius mu- Domine Dakers, bap. 19 Apr. lieris, vel potius meretricis cujusdam 1621, John Gallard, A. B. ofNorvv.

vocatse Agnetis Olivere etutfertur, filius son of Ric. Gallard of Bunwell, died.

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HADESTON, BAINARD'S, or BANIARD'S-IIALL

Was the principal manor in this town, and belonged to Torn a Dane in the Confessor's time, and at the Conqueror's survey, Gaoserid or Godefride held it under Ralf Bainard ; there belonged to it two villeins, two bordars or copyholders, 4-servants to manage the de- means, which then contained two carucates, besides 15 acres of mea- dow, and wood that would maintain 20 swine, 1 90 sheep, and one hive of bees; at the first survey it was worth 5/. a year, and at the second 10/. 12s. There were at the first survey, 18 freemen, reduced to 12 at the second, and they were worth 28s. in yearly rents paid to the manor; the whole town was four miles and one furlong long, and two miles and 15 perches broad, and paid Qd. to the geld.'

As this manor, for the most part, passed with the manor of Merton, till Tho. de Grey, Esq. the present lord of Merton, sold it with the moiety of the advowson,to the Buxtons, who joined it to theirother manors here, I need only refer you to the account of Merton at vol. ii. p. 298.

Robert Baynard gave two parts of the tithes of this manor, to the monks of Lewes ; Fulk Bainurd held it at one fee of Robert Fitz- Walter, as of his manor of Hemenhale, and confirmed his father's grant to the monks of Lewes. John Prior of Lewes, released 60 acres in Merton, and one messuage to Fulk, and he released to the prior, and confirmed the advowsons of Merton and East-Riston, and the two parts of the tithes of Hadeston demeans; he paid 28s. every 20 weeks, for castle-guard to Baynard castle, for Merton, and this manor, and had assise of bread and ale and weyf belonging to it.

In 1371, Sir Rogf.r Grey of Merton, Knt. ordered his feoffees (see vol. ii. p. S02) to sell this manor to raise portions for his two daugh- ters ; and accordingly, they, jointly with the consent of Sir Thomas Grey, parson of Wethersjield, in 1389, sold it for 200 marks, to Tho. Duke of Gloucester and his heirs, Thomas [Archbishop of York, Robert Bishop of London, Ric. Earl of A run del, Thomas Earl of Wan nek, and others, his feoffees ; and in 1303, the said Duke of Gloucester obtained a royal license, to settle an annuity of 10 marks a year, on the abbey ofWalden,* but the settlement was never completed. In 1398, Ric. II. granted it to Edmund de Langley Duke of York,9 as part of the possessions of the Duke of Gloucester, attainted ; it after- wards belonged to John Stuh/ey in right of his wife Phillippa, daughter and heiress of John Mohun Loud of Dunster, widow of Edmund

7 TerreRAD' Bainardi. Depwade vas' apum. tunc et post valuit c. sol.

Ilwnd. Doms. fo. 251. m° x. libr. et xii. sol. et liuic manerio

Hatestvna tenet Gaosfridus q° te- jacebunt xvii. libr' horn' commend' tan-

nuit Torn, T.R.E. iiii. car' terre, et i. turn, m° xii. i. car' tcrre, et xx ac'et v.

acr' tunc ii. villani m° i. tunc xxxiiii. acr. prati, tunc et post iiii. car' m° ii.

bordarij, vnodo xxvii. tunc iiii. serv' tunc vat' xx. sol. modo xxviii. Isti

modo i. tunc. ii. car' in dom' m* iiii. lib' horn' sunt escangio. Totum habet

tunc v. car' hominum m° ii. silv' xx. ii. Ieug' in longo et i. quar' et i. leug in

pore' xv. acr' prati, tunc iiii. rune' m° lato, et xv. pertic'. et ix. deGELTO,

1. tunc viii. anim' m°xi. tunc xl. porci, 8 Pat. 17 R. II.

in" xxxiii. tunc i. ov' modo cxc. et i. 5 See vol. ii. p. 410,

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Plain lagenet son and heir of Edmund of Langley Duke of York, but was after repurchased by Tho. Grey, clerk.

In 1536, the manor of Whitwell-llall in Skeyton, was held by Thomas Sterne, of Grace Catesbye, as of her manor of Bainard's Hall iri Bunwell, which she held in jointure. In 1543, Vaicce's manor in Easton,1 was held by Gilbert Talbot, of Edmund Grey, as of his manor of Bainard's Hall.

In 1566, Robert Grey held this manor of the Earl of Sussex, as of his manor of Atleburgh, by one fee. In 1611, Robert Kemp, Esq. of Giss/ng, held his manor of Burnet's of this manor ; and in 1742, the quitrents of the manor of Bainard's-Hu/l in Hadeston, were 22/. i4s. 4d. q. a year.

The ancient Baynards upon losing their barony of Bat/Hard's castle, for rebellion against Henri/ I. had it given from them to the ancestors of the Fitz-W alters, as at vol. ii. p. 299. But this manor being granted to a younger branch before the forfeiture, it was never forfeited, though these Baynards bare their arms differing only in colour from the Fitz-JValters, their chief lords ; as the Fitz-Walters did from the Clare family, whence they descended, from whose arms they only varied by a fess between two chevrons, instead of three chevrons born by the Earls of Clare, and in like manner the Corn- herds or Coriterths, in imitation of the Baynards, their capital and

FITZ-WALTER.

CORNERTH.

CORNERTH & BAYNARD.

See vol. ii. p. 39S,

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chief lords, bare the same arms, only varied in colour, and often quartered them with tb,e Baynards ; but when Sir Thomas de Grei/, Knt. married the heiress of Sir Richard de Cornherd, Knt. he laid aside the paternal coat of Grey, and he and all his descendants always used Comherd's as their own, except Tho. de Grey, clerk, who always bare the ancient family arms of Grey, with a mullet ; and when their son Tho. de Grey, Knt. married Isabel, daughter and coheiress of Fulk Baynard of Merton, the Greys ever since bare Bainard quartered with Cornerth, as follows:

THOMAS DE GREY, Esq. 174(1. ELIZ. WINDHAM, his wife.

THO. GREY, Clerk, 1403.

V_

HADESTON, FITZ-OSBERT'S, PETER'S-HALL,

Peree's, commonly called Perse-Hall manor in Bunwell, took its name from Peter Fitz-Osbert, its lord; Ailwin of The tj or d was lord of it in Edward the Confessor's time, and Rob. de Curcun held it of Roger Bigot at the Conqueror's survey, when it had a mil], 21 bordars, wood for 46 swine;1 the tenants could sell their lands,

1 Rogeri Bigoti. Depwade H. Hadestuna tenuit Ailwinus de Doms. fo. 124. Tedfortu. car' terre, modo tenet Ro-

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conditionally that they reserved the lords services; the church had 30 acres of glebe, two acres and an half of meadow, and half a caru- cate, the soc or superiour jurisdiction over the manor, belonged jointly to the King and Earl, and the manor in the first survey was valued at 40s. and afterwards at 70s.; but as it passed with Carleton manor to Walter de Norwich, as at p. 129, I need not repeat it, but refer you thither; it was held of the Earl-Marshal at 1 fee, and had free- warren allowed in eire, to Roger Fitz-Osbert, its lord; in 1287,

Sir Walter de Norwich being seized, left it to Sir John his son, who confirmed it for life to Catherine his mother, and after her decease, to the master and chaplains of the college of St. Mary at Raveningham, of his own foundation, to whom he gave his castle at Meti/ngham in Suffolk, to which he ordered them to translate their college or chantry, and his own and ancestors bones; he gave them partof his estate to increase the number of theiry*e//oa's from 8 to 13; he first founded them at Raveningham in 1342, translated them in 1350 to Norton Supecors, and in 1394, they removed and fixed their college at Metyngham ; Sir John Plays, Sir Robert Howard, Sir John Boys, Knts. John Wolterton and Elias Bintre, clerks, having obtained license for that purpose in 1382, though they could not settle it be- fore : they were executors to Sir John son of Sir Walter de Norwich,3 and grandson to Sir John the founder of Raveningham. But not- withstanding this, it being settled at the purchase on Sir Walter de Norwich and Catherine his wife, and Roger their son, for life; the said John had it and presented in 1349 and 1357, and held it in 1371 at one fee, by the name of Hadiston manor, alias Peryshall in Bunwell, Carleton, and Tibenham; with the advowson of Carleton, and the mediety of the advowson of Bunwell ; and John de Noricich, son of Walter, was his heir; and in 1374, Katherine de Breouse, or Brewse, cousin and heir of Sir John de Norwich, junior, Knt. viz. daughter and heiress of Thomas, brother to Sir John, father of Sir Walter, son of Sir John Norwich, junior, settled it with Ling, Meting- ham castle, and others, on Sir John Plays, &c. and Miles Stap/eton, executors of Sir John Noncich, junior, and feoffees to her; and in 1394, they settled on the chantry of Norton-Subcross, 3 messuages, 86 acres of land, 5 acres of marsh, 6 acres of aldercarr, 12 acres of reed-harth, and 4s. rent, in Raveningham, Norton-Subcross, and Met- ingham, and the moiety of the advowson, and the manor of Pereshall in Bunwell: and thus

John le Neve, the last master of Raveningham chantry at Norton- Subcross, became lord of this manor, and patron of the mediety of this church ; and in

bertus de Curcun, semper i. villan' et Comes socam. tuncval' xl.s. modo 70

et xxi. bord' et ii. serv' nine i. car' in sol. et v. lib' hom' de ducbus habuit et

dom' m°. ii. tunc et post iii. car' hom'. i. bord' Aluuinus commend' tantum,

modo i. vi. acr' prati, silva vi. pore' et de tercio, antecessor R. Mal:t, et

semper i. niol' et i. rune' et iii. anim' de quarto, antecessor R. Blang' et de

etxlvi. pore' et xi. hom' soca falde et quinto, antecessor Eudonis filij Spi-

commend' T. R. E. et possent vendere ruic, et habent 43 acr' semper i. car'

terrain, sed consuetudo remanebit in et iii. acr' prati, et val' vi. sol. Rex et

manerio, et habent xxvi. acr. terre, tunc Comes socam.

i. car' et dim' modo i. et i. ecclesia 30 3 Tanner's Notitia, &c. fo. 132. acr' et ii. acr' prati et dim' car'. Rex

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1403, John Wilby of Norwich, priest, was chosen by the fellows, and was inducted by John Barnard, priest/ conduct of the college, and one of the 13 fellows there; he was succeeded by,

1425, Master Thomas Whitehead, and he in 1442, by Master Thomas Bowbrigg, alias Shaer, on whose death in 1448, Willi am Fransham was elected, and died in 1480, and Robert Wright, priest, had it; and in 1493, Ric. Braunche, and in 1520, Ric. Shelton, who died in 1530, and Tho. Manning, suffragan bishop of Ipswich, succeeded ; he was the last master.

This college was granted, with the revenues thereto belonging, to the Denneys, and in 1547, Anthony Denmy, Esq. one of the privy council, had it; and in 1560, John Denney, Esq. in lol9, Thomas Denney; and in 1620, Firmian Denney, Gent. It was after pur- chased by theBuxTONS, with the moiety of the advowson, and joined to their manor of Carleton, See. The quitrentsin 1742, were 19/. 14s. per annum.

In the windows of Persehall are these arms :

Sab. a saltier arg. Crest, on a wreath O. G. a bunch of wheat ears.

Ditto, impaling arg. a fess lozenge gul. in chief three eagles heads erased sab.

HADESTON, BOSEVILE'S MANOR,

Belonged to Osbern at the Confessor's survey, and to Roger Fitz- Renard at the Conqueror's ; in Osbern's time it was worth GO?, and in Roger's 40s.5 Fitz-Renard's issue assumed the nameof Hadeston, and William de Hadeston, lord here, held it of the Earl Warren, as did William his son, who died young and without issue, leaving his sisters his heirs, viz. Alice, married to William Muleton, and Cathe- rine to Roger Talbot, who all released their rights in 1198, to Agatha de Hadeston, their sister, who the year following, mar- ried to Walkeline de Bosevile ; and Ric. Turburn and Marga- ret his wife, released also their part to their sister Agatha, by which means Walkeline became possessed of the whole manor. He was succeeded by his son William, and he in 1218, by Robert his brother, who held it at one fee of the Earl Warren; he confirmed to the monks of Castleacre, two parts of the tithes of his demean lands here, and of his lands in Tibenham and Westhache, which his ancestors gave to that monastery. In 1297, Will, de Bosevile had it, and held it of William de Mortimer, who held it of the Earl Warren. In 1314, Margery, widow of William, settled it on Robert de Bosevile and Joan his wife, who seems to have been a Boys ; John de Boys, junior, and Ralfde St. Omer, parson of Brundale, being concerned in the settle- ment. In 1345, Robert Bosevi/eheld it of Constanti?ie Mortimer; it was after that Adam Bosvile's in 1363. In 1403, Sir Robert Noon

* John Barnard, Esq. buried in St. nus T.R.E. i. car' terre, semper iii.vill*

Miles Coslany, Norwich, a great bene- et iii. bord' tunc i. car' in dom' modo

factor to Metingham. i. et dim' semper iii. car' horn' iii. acr'

5 Terre Rogeri filij Renakdi. prati, tunc 24 pore' modo 12. et 20

Depwade H. fo. 283. oves, tunc valuit ao sol. modo 40.

Hatestvna lenuit Osbernus tein-

140 BUN WELL.

had it,6 and in 1417, Sir Henri/ Noon, Knt. and after him Sir Jolt n Hey don, who died seized in 1479, when he held it of Mortimer's manor of Afleburgh; he was succeeded by Henry Heydon, Esq. his son, who held it with the manors of Bukenham's and Rodehall in Carleton-Rode. In 1570, they belonged to Sir Christopher Heydon, and were left by him to James Hubbert, Sir Christopher being bound thereto, by the grandfather of the said James. In 1588, it appears by a survey then made, that James Hubbert, junior, Esq. was lord of the several manors of Hadeston, Bosezcell's, Rodehall, Buken- ham's, Whitwell's, and Laund's ; all which were joined, their court heing kept at Bunwe 11, and the style of the court was, Bunwell, Carleton, and Tibenham cum membris ; the two first being in Bunwell, the two second in Carleton, and the two last in Tibenham ; the whole rents were about 44/. per annum. In 1597, Henry Ho- bart, Esq. conveyed them to John Hobart, Gent.; they belonged to John Buxton, Esq. of Chanons in Tibenham in 1623, and after him to Robert Buxton, whose widow Hannah owned them in 1678, and her son Robert Buxton, Esq. had them, who was succeeded bv John Buxton, Esq. father of Robert Buxton, Esq. the present lord of all the manors in this town, and sole patron of this church.

THORP'S MANOR IN BUNWELL

Was originally part of Fitz-Osbert's manor, which was separated by Roger Fitz-Peler Fitz-Osbert, who settled half a fee here, on Sarah his first wife, and her heirs; she was heiress of Sir Bartholomew de Creke, Knt. son of Sir Robert de Creke, lord of North-Creke in Nor- folk, and died in 1285, and Sir John de Thorp of Ashwellthorp, Knt. was one of her cousins and heirs, and had this allotted to his share, and obtained liberty of free-warren to it of Edw. I. and in 1314 he settled it on himself and Alice his wife, in tail ; and in 1324, they held it of Bainartfs manor by the service of 5s. a year, and the rents were then 3/. 10s. per annum, and Robert de Thorp, his son and heir, was 30 years old, and lady Beatrix, widow of the said Robert, held the third part in dower, and from this time it constantly attended Ashwellthorp.

It was settled by Sir Edmund de Thorp, senior, on Thomas de Thorp, his second son, with remainder to Sir Edmund Thorp, Knt. his eldest son. In 1406, Sir Thomas Jemegan had it, and had a charter of confirmation of free-warren ;7 in 1,14, Sir Thomas de Thorp ordered it to be sold or to go with Eliz. his daughter. In 1550, James Downes and Elizabeth his wife had it, when Roger lloodhnuse, Robert Richers, Thomas Asteley, and Mary his wife, conveyed divers parts of it to him ; in 1272, Robert Downes was lord, who joined it to his manor of Beacham's or Beauchamp's in Wimondham, with which it still remains.

There was an ancient family sirnamed De Bonewell, for in

e See vol. i. p. Go. In 1347 lie was of Shimpling, p. 154. Tho. de Bose-

patron of a mediety of Shelfhanger, vile, rector of Snitterton, p. 421.

ibid. p. 115. Lord of Hoe's mar.oi in 7 Vol. i:. p. 414. 1360, p. 118. Rob. de Bosevile, rector

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1268, William, son ofJejfery, son of Richer de Bonewell, gave to Miles, prior o( Lewes, a rent of 2s. 6c?. out of his lands in Bonezoell, by deed dated at Bukenham castle, in the presence of Richard de Purl, constable of (hat castle, and others. They continued a long time in the neighbourhood, for in 1482, William, son and heir of Richurd Bonewell of Carleton-Rode, conveyed to Thomas Chamber- lain, Gent, and others, divers lands in Carleton-Rode.

ASHWELL-THORP

Was anciently called Thorp only, and Ashewell was a hamlet in Thorp, but there being so many Thorps in the county about Kin" Stephens time, it began, for distinction sake, to be called Ashwell- Thorp; the name of Ashwell 8 does not once occur in Domesday Book, though it seems to have been a well inhabited place; for in 1131., SirJoHN de Thorp Knt. founded

The free-chapel of St. Mary the Virgin at Ashwell, and built a house for the residence of a chaplain or chantry priest, to perform daily service in it to the inhabitants of the hamlet, and to pray for his own and wife's souls, and those of his ancestors and succes- sours for ever. Having obtaiued a royal license of mortmain, he settled the house and five marks a year, for the chaplain's maintenance; but in 1315, thinking he had not fully endowed it, he confirmed to God, St. Mary, and all the Saints, the messuage and five marks annual rent, and another close of land, which he now added to the chantry aforesaid, with the consent of Sir Gregory de Thorp, Knt. his brother, the King, and Sir John de Clavering, Knt. his chief lord, con- firming it ; the revenues of this chapel were valued at 3l. and paid 6s. annual tenths; but at the dissolution of chantries in the time of Edw. VI. the whole was seized, aud granted away by that King; and in 1598, Sir Thomas Knevet purchased the chapel-house, and all that belonged to the dissolved chapel of Ashwell I: and ever since they have continued with the manor.

1315, Thomasde Cantia, or Kent, was presented to the chapel by the founder, all rights of the mother-church at Thorp being reserved.

1327, John lish oiTherston. Sir Robert de Thorp, Knt.; he held this united to the mediety of Fressingjield in Suffolk, which he changed 'm 1384, with John de Pagrave, for Thorp rectory, and in 1335 rechanoed again, but held this till

1344, when Jeffery Kemp of Little Massingham was presented by Beatrix, relict of Sir Rob. de Thorp, who gave him Thorp rectory in 1349 ; he resigned in 1852, and she gave it to

B It signifies the well or spring by the as/ies*

142 ASHWELL-THORP.

Adam de Redgrave ; and afterwards it was generally held by the rectors of Thorp, upon their giving security to perform daily service in the chapel, by themselves or deputy.

Ashwell was also a distinct manor from Thorp, in a family sirna- med from the hamlet. Ric. de Ashwell was lord of it in Henri/ the Third's time,9 and after him, Sir John Eswell or Ashwell, his son, whose brother was parson of Little-Massingham in 1286, and joined with him and sold it to the Thorps, who joined it to their manor of Thorp, with which it still continues; but the title was not completed till 1347, and then John de Ashwell-Thorp, son, I suppose, of Sir Johnf confirmed the whole, to Sir Edmund de Thorp, Knt. and his heirs.

THORP

vjontained one manor only; at the Confessor's survey it belonged to a thane of Bishop Stigand, and was worth bl.per annum. At the Conquest it belonged to Earl Eustace, and was worth 61.; it was a mile and an half long, and five furlongs broad, and paid 6d. ob. q. geld* It soon after this belonged to one William, sometimes distin- guished by the addition of Norwich, where he lived; and that Roger mentioned in the record called Testa de Nevil, seems to have been his son ; he was succeeded by Robert, called Fitz-Roger, and after by the name of Sir Robert de Massingham-Parva, who held 7 fees in Thorp, Massingham, Anemere, and many other towns, of the honour of Bononia or Bul/oigne. His wife Eda survived him, and held Thorp in 1209, when she was called Eda de Thorp :* Hugh son of Robert lived at the same time; he is also called sometimes Hugh de Massingham, and was succeeded by Sir John the Knight,3 son of Sir Hugh, often called John Fitz-Robert : he sealed with chequy or and G. a fess in a bordure arg. and was lord of Ashwe/lthorp, Fundenhall, IVreningham, Bonwell, &c. ; he married Margery daughter of Sir Rob. de Creke, lord of North-Creke and Hillington in Norfolk, and Combes

9 Alice his mother held it for life. * Besides this family, there were seve-

1 Terre Comitis Eustachii. Dep- ral of the same sirname in other parts,

wade H. Doms fo. 73. Torp tenuit there being so many towns of that name,

teinus Stigandi iii. car. terre, semper from which they took their own.

xii. villani, tunc x. bord. m°xv. tunc In 1 107, Will. deWormegeyeinfeoffed

iv. serv. m' iii. semper iii. car. in dom. Gilbert de Thorp in one fee, and he held

tunc vii. car. modo v. xxx. acr. prat, it in 11 65.

silv. xxx. pore, tunc i. rune, tunc xvi. 3 In 1249, John son of Hugh de Thorp

anim. tunc xl. pore, modo xvii. tunc and Rog. de Thorp, held a whole fee,

xxiii oves, tunc xxiii. capr. modo xl. et and were not knights, but were sum-

viii.vasa apum, tunc valuit cj. modo vi/. moned to take that honour, et habet i. leug. et dim. in longo, et v. quar. in lato, et vi.d. et iii. ferding de gelto.

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in Suffolk, and at length coheir to Sarah de Creke, daughter of Bar-' tholomew de Creke, and wife to Roger Fitz-Osbcrt, (see p. 126,) their son.

Robert Fitz-John de Thorp succeeded them, who in King Henry the Third's time, A° 1236, was one of the resident Barons of the Exchequer, his countryman, Master Hervy de Belet, being then Chief Baron, Ric. de Eye, rector of Fundenhale, released to him and Maud his wife, his niece, all his right after his death, to Sir Philip de Hue, his brother, in his manors and lands in Horham, Hoxne, Strad- brook, &c. in Suffolk; and Sarah de Hal mo, Richard son of James Suddimere,* and Philip de Braseworth, released all their rights in Hor- ham, Titshall, Fresingfield, Fundenhale, and the mediety of the advow- son of Fresingfield; and Robert de Hemenhale conveyed to them all his tenements in Norwich, whicli he purchased of the prioress and nuns of Haliwell, for a gold ring given to the said Robert; he was lord of Hapton, and bare chequy or and gul. a fess erm. In 1266, King Henry III. confirmed to Robert son of John de Thorp , free-war- ren in all his demeans here, and in Massingham and Fundenhale in Norfolk, in Cotton in Suffolk, and Sharpenhowe in Bedfordshire, by his charter dated at Cambridge Apr. 7, in the 5 1st year of his reign. This Robert, in 1264, had several manors, lands, &c. confirmed to him, by Robert son of Sir Richard Nerford, Knt. of Wreningham, in Wre- ningham,Thorp,Fundenhall,Hapton, Flordon, Ashwell, an&Tacolneston.. (Seep. 1 19.) Inl271, hewas impleaded forerecting a gallows atAshwell- Thorp, when the manor never had that liberty, which he took down again ; but had then free-warren , view of frankpledge, assize of bread and ale allowed to the manor in Eire. It seems Margery Creke his mother, was alive in 1274, and had an annuity out of the manor: in this year Rob.Fitz-John% was sheriff ot 'Norfolk nndSu folk. In 1282, he had ano- ther charter for freewarren in his manors of Horham, Hoxne, IVyttou, and Stradbrook in Suffolk, and in Wreningham, Bunwell, and Funden- hall'm Norfolk. In 1284, he was allowed the liberties of a gallows, pillory, and weyf, in this manor.

John de Thorp,6 son of Rob. aforesaid and Maud his wife, suc- ceeded, being lord here, and of Fundenhall, Bunwell, Hapton, and Wreningham; it appears that he had two wives, Agnes and Alice, the former of which died about 1299- In 1293, he was summoned among the great men to attend King Edward I. at Portsmouth, on the first of Sept. in order to recover Gascoign, then possessed by iheFrench King ; and this year he procured his lather's executors to advance by way of loan to the King, 167/. 2*. lOd. ob. on his going that journey. In his time, an extent was made of the several fees and manors held of him, as of this manor of Ashzcellthorp, among which his sister Alice held 20/. in Mawtby. Will, de Colneys held 100s. in Tiben-

* Ric. de Eye was his uncle. Ric. his son 30 years old. In 1293, Ro-

5 In 1249, tliis appears to have been bert de Thorp was made Justice of the

a numerous family. In 1274, it seems Common Pleas. Dugd. Orig. Jurid.

that a John Fitz-John was descended Chronic, fo. 30.

from the family of Luvell, "Johannes 6 Philip de Thorp, rector here, was

filius Johannis habuit libertates in Mas- his brother. In 1 298, William son of

singham Parva et nomen ejus fuit Lu- Richard, lord of Eyssewell, and Joan his

veil. Rot. Hund. Frithbridge 3 E. I." wife, confirmed their manor to Sir John

see vol. i. p. 207. In 1392, John Filz- Thorp and his heirs. John, lord of Massingham died, leaving

U4, ASHWELL-THORP.

ham, See. In 1303, Maud his mother held Sharpenhow manor in Bedfordshire for life, the reversion of which, was settled hy Sir John de Thorp, on his son George de Thorp and E/iz. his wife. In 1307, he was summoned as one of the King's council; and in 1309, had ano- ther summons to attend King Edward III. at Newcastle upon Tine, to march against the Scots, who had broken the truce,7 made with them, at the instance of Philip the French King. In 1314, he had been some time married to his second wife, Alice8 relict of Sir William de Mor- timer; on whom this manor, with thoseof Futidenhall,Tivetshall, Bunwell, IVreningham, and Horham, and the advowsons of Aslucelllhorp, and die mediety of the church of Fresingjield, were settled by Alexander de Repham, rector of Sculton, their trustee; it being then held of Sir John de C/avering at one fee : in 1315, being appointed high sher iff of the county, he got a letter sent to Sir William de Norwich, to get him excused by reason of his corporal infirmities, and another to Hervy de Stanton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, from the Prior of Norwich? by whose interest he got off serving the office at present. In 1321, a commission issued to Sir John de Thorp and others, to seize all persons in Norfolk and Suffolk, who should rise in arms against the King. In 1322, he and Thomas Bardolf, were appointed wardens to guard the coasts of Norfolk against any invasions from the Flemings or Scots ; and the same year, he and Alice his wife conveyed the manor of Ailes- zcesthoip hi Freebridge hundred, and the advowson of the moiety of that church, after their deaths, with lands in Get/ton, Walton, Wykes, and Bexzoe/l, to the Prior of Pentney and his successours. In 1323, he was joined with Walt, de Norwich, Simon de Ilethersete, and John de Redeuhall, Knts. who were all appointed the King's just ices to ex- amine into the frauds committed by the collectors of the taxes, several of them, having collected more than they returned into the Exchequer, but dying on the ]6th of May this year, ' John le Claver was made justice in his stead. It appears from the inquisition, that he and Alice his wife, held jointly at his death, Hi llington, Helmingham, Massingham-Parxa, Titshall, Thorp, Wreningham, Fundenhall, Hup- ion, Combes, Sac. manors, and that

Robert de Thorp, his eldest son, was above 30 years old ; he married Beatrix, daughter of Sir Edmund de Hengrave, and died possessed of these manors in 1329, leaving a wife, and

7 Rymer, vol. 3, p. 148. quia diversis coiporis infirmitatibus, ut

8 Bellemont in Essex came to the pro certo novimus, continue pregrava- Thorps by the match with the heiress of tur, propter quas ad dictum officium pro Belhouse, p. 118,) which family had it commedo Regis faciend. habilis non by the marriage with Isolda, daughter existit, &c. Roganms, quatinus diligen-

and coheir of Alice de Beliomont, mar- ciam vestram et solicitudinem operosam ried to John de Belhus. pro viribus, si placet, apponere digue- s' Pre-excellentis discretionis viro et mini cum effectu, ut ab officio memorato amico confidentissimo Domino Herveo valeat totahter liberari, Sec. (Regr. df Stanton cancellario de scaccario Eccle. Cath Norwic. ix fo. 188.) Domini Regis, suns ubi libtt fiater R. ' Just before his death, he was joined (sc. Rob. de Langley) Prior ecclesie with Sir Edmund Baco", K,,t. to treat See. Trinitatis de Norwico, salutein, of, and assent to, a match between Al- &c. qualiter amicus noster specialis p/icnsa, eldest son to the King a{Arragon, Dominus Johannes de Thorp, ad and Joan, daughter U Edward 11 King officium Vice-Comitis in Norff. ct of England, the day for the treaty being Sufe. exequend. per riominum Regem fixed by the patent, to be held at the sit assumptus, non ignoras, &c. verum Tower of London, Febr. 19, 1322.

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John de Thorp, his eldest son and heir, 15 years of age, and John de Clavering, his chief lord, was his guardian. Alice his grandmother was alive in 1325. In 1336, Lady Beatrix his mother, was patroness here and of Massingham-Parva, where she resided, and held North- Crekt manor in jointure. He married this year, and settled on Robert Brown, parson of Shipden, John son of Robert de Ingham, and other trustees, his manors of Ashwell-thorp, Fundenhall, and IVreningham, and all his advowsons except North-Creke, to the use of himself, and Joan his wife, and their heirs. In 1338, he paid rent to the Earl of Suffolk for the moiety of his manor of Combes. In 1339, he made Sir George de Thorp, Knt. and John Yemme of Nor- wich, his attorneys, to present to his livings, during his being out of England, in the King's service in France ; and this year, he settled on the chaplain of Ashwell chapel for ever, to pray for his soul, 100 shillings, and 100 pence annual rents, issuing out of lands here ; and the next year granted to the minoresses of St. Clare's order by Aldgate, 20 marks annuity out of his lands in Congham, Combes, and Helmingham, during the life of Catherine, the widow of Sir John, son of Sir Oliver de Ingham. In 1340, his feoffees released to him all right in the church of North-Creke, and all the lands in Helmingham in Suffolk, which Sir Ralfde Bocking held for life ; he died this year, and Joan his widow, who was heir to Lucy and Maud her sisters, daughters of Roger at te Eshe, was alive and married in 1345, to Sir Roger le Strange, who was lord here in her right, during her life ; but they having no issue,

Edmund de Thorp, his brother, inherited; and in 1348, there was a suit commenced to prove Joan, his (hen wife, a bastard ; but on trial, Bishop Bateman certified, that she was legitimate, and was sister of Thomas, son of Robert, son of Robert Baynard, who died seized of Colkirk and Gutely manors in 1329, and cousin and heir of Robert Baynard, who lived in 1257, and therefore Edmund had those manors of her inheritance. He was lord also of Combes and Finingham in Suffolk, a moiety of the former of which, he held in fee-farm of the King, at 11/. 4s. 4d. a year, and 15s. scutage; and Robert de Uffbrd Earl of Suffolk had the other. In 1349, he settled 100 marks annuity on William de Bergh, rector of Cantley, Robert de Thirning, rector of Combes, Thomas de Bumpstede, citizen of Norwich, arid Adam de Red- grave, rector of Bathele, out of A shzcellthorp, Fundeidiall, Hapton, Bunwetl, Nelonde, Wreningham, Horham, and fVotton in Stradbrook ; he sealed with chequy on a less three crescents. In 1351, Sir Miles Stapleton, Knt. and Joan his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Oliver de Ingham, released Fiesingfield advowson, and a messuage in Nether Conisford in Norwich, to Sir Edmund and his heirs. In 1358, he in- ieofted his manors, 8cc. to raise 100 marks per annum, for 21 years, to pay his debts, and 100/. to each of his daughters, Beatrix and Joan, by the advice of Joan his wife: John his second son, who married Mary daughter of John Argentein of Halesworth in Suffolk, was to have Horham and Wottnn in Stradbrook, and all his lands in Suffolk, to him and his heirs; Robert his third son to have Bunwell ; and Eliz. his daughter married Robert Corbet of Asington in Suffolk. In his time, the several tee* and manors held of the manor of Ash- well-thorp were extended, and by the extent renewed, it appeared, that

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Half a fee in Swei/nesthotp, Gouthorp, and Dunston, was held by the annual payment of a pair of boots to the lord of As/m>ell- thorp, and a pair of buskins lined with felt, to the lady there, which was then held by John de Hethersete ; and Nie. de Aldburgh held in Denton and Aldburgh, one fee by the payment of a pair of gilt spurs every Easter.

And this family had many fees held in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge- shire, and Essex, of their several manors, viz.

OF THEIR MANOR OF MaSSINGHAM-PaRV A,

John Barford and Walter Ca/thorp, held a fee in Anemere, and John le Wassand held Frenge manor and advowson at one fee, which. William de Colneye lately held ; and Wichinglmm manor was held by John de Hall and his parceners, at two fees; Warine de Bassingbourn held Chishil and Shipneye manors in Cambridgeshire at one fee, and all of them, though held of Massinghum, were held by the lord of Mas- singham, of Robert Fitz-Roger, lord of Horsford, as of the manor of Horsford.

The same Sir Edmund de Thorp, senior, being lord of North Creke, Helmingham, and Fundenhall, had the following fees held of him, viz.

AS OF HIS MANOR OF NoRTH-CREKE,

Three quarters of a fee in Burnham, held by the Prior of Walsingham, half a fee in North-Creke and Bumham-Thorp, held by Bartholomew de Ca/thorp ; a quarter of a fee in Depedale held by Roger de Tofts, another quarter there, by Thomas de Brancaster ; one fee there by Thomas Bacon ; a quarter of a fee in Burnham held by Will. Angre, half a fee in Stanhowe by Bartholomew de Calthorp, half a fee for- merly held by Robert de Quarles, in Quarks, but now by Edmund de Baconesthorp, the Prior of Peterston, the Abbot of Creke, and the heirs of Richard de Redham; half a fee in Dallyng held by Simon de Piatis, or Meadows, &c. the 8th part of a fee in Shipden by Cromere, held by Will, de Bradenham, Roger de Reymes,Rob. Theland, and Will. Hervy; half a fee in Burnham by Sir Gregory de Thorp, half a quarter of a fee there by Sir Tho. Sniterton ; the manor of Bei ningham in North-Er- pingham hundred, held by the heirs of Eustace de Berningham at one fee; three quarters of a fee in Northwood Berningham held by Ric. de Berningham ; half a fee in Basingham by Sir Rob. de Mawtby; the manor of Runton held by Will, de Valens at the 8th part of a fee ; a quarter of a fee in JVickmere held by Robert de Baconesthorp ; half a fee there by John de Irmingland, and two messuages and 4'J acres of land in Riburgh, held by John Burnham at a quarter of a fee ; all which, were held of North-Creke manor, as of Fitz-Osbert's fees, and by the lord of Nortli-Creke, of the Earl-Marshal, as of Forncet honour.

THE FEES HELD OF SlR EDMUND AS OF HIS MANOR OF FuNDEN- HALL, WERE THESE,

John de Norwich held Melles manor in Suffolk at one fee, as of Sir JohnThorp's manor of Fundenhall, he of the EsA-Marshal, and he

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of the King ; and the Thorps held Fundenhall and all the fees held of it, as of the Earl-Marshal's manor of Forncet ; but the manor of Melles belongs to Metingham chantry or college, by license from Sir Edmund de Thorp ; half a fee in Carleton, Brakene, and Mulkebarton, was held by Edmund de Baconesthorp, and John Pycot ; one fee in Carleton and Quarks, was held by Edmund de Baconesthorp, which fee Sir John de Thorp purchased of Sir Robert Hovel, and is now di- vided among Sir Thomas St. Omer, the Prior of Shuldham, the Prior of Alvesbourne, and many others. Besthorp manor was held at half a fee by Edmund de Baconesthorp ; one fee in Creke and Ne/onde, held by Ric. de Belhouse ; one fee in Besthorp by John de Curson, one fee in Hockham by Mary Countess of Pembrook, one fee in Wymton and Cratfield in Suffolk, held by Ric. de Bocking; half a fee in Crat- field by Rob. de Wayland, a quarter of a fee in Bunnell by Will, de Bosevi/e; one quarter of a fee in Carleton Rode, by Will, de Rode.

THE FEES OF SlR EDMUND'S MANOR OF HeLMINGHAM WERE,

One fee in Stikingland in Suffolk, by Rob. de Creke. One fee in Honyngton, as of the EaA-Marshal's manor of Chest erjbrd, by James de Creyk; one fee in Kenton, by Nigel de Kenton ; two fees in IVes- thorp and Finingham by Adam Conyers ; halt a fee in F/ixton, held by Flixton prioress ; a fee and an half in Middlelon and Yoxford, held by Rob. de Creyk; all which fees in 1305, were divided, and were the fees of Rug. Fitz-Peter Filz-Osbert, who had them of the inheri- tance of Sarah his wife, and were delivered to Sir John de Thorp, as cousin and heir to Margaret, one of the aunts and heirs of the said Sarah; besides which, the family of the Thorps inherited from her, the following estates and fees.

The south part of the moiety of the capital mansion-house of the Creke family at North Creke, and the moiety of that advowson, and the moiety of two fees and an half in Creke, and the rnoiety of the advowson of Hi/ingtone.

This Sir Edmund sometimes sealed with a chevron between three crescents : a cotemporary and relation to him, but how near I cannot find, was

Sir William de Thorp, who was made a King's Serjeant in the 16th of Edward III. and afterwards justice both of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, and 0.6 Nov. 1347, Chief Justice of the King's Bench ; in 1350, the record of judgment had against Sir Will. Thorp, late Chief Justice,1 was affirmed, considering that against his oath he had received bribes,' but he was soon after restored to the King's favour, and made a. Baron of the Exchequer ; in 1353/

Sir Robert de Thorp (as is supposed) brother to Sir William, was made the King's Serjeant, and summoned to parliament among the judges and King's council in 1346, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1357, and Lord Chancellor of England 26 March, 1372.

Sir Edmund de Thorp, junior, eldest son of Sir Edmund aforesaid,

1 Prinne's Abridgment of the Re- Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was

cords, fo. 74. adjudged heretofore to death and to for-

3 Dugd. Origines in the year 1353. feit his lands, for receiving 20/. of one

* 10 Ric. II. Sir Will. Thorp, late for a matter depending before him.

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was married by Sir Jeffery de Massingham, rector of Ashwellthorp, Oct. 6, 1368, to Margaret, daughter of Richard de la Rivere, in the presence of Sir Edmund his father, and dame Joane his mother, Sir Ra/fde Shelton, Knt. and others; after whose decease, he married again to Joan daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Northwood or Norwood of Northwood- Berningham, in Norfolk, and of North- wood in Kent, who was widow to Roger Lord Sca/es of Newcels ; for which match, not having obtained the King's license, he was par- doned in 1387, upon paying the King 20/. for a fine for that trans- gression ; the said lady holding divers lands in capite.

In 1370, Sir Edmund de Thorp, senior, was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, as appears by a discharge given him by Robert liucon, who succeeded him in that office. In 1380, Robert de Thirning, rector of Combes, and Tho. de Bumpstede, citizen of Norwich, were infeoffed by him in his manors, advowsons, and lands, in Ashwellthorp, North-Crekc, Massingham-Parva,Fundenhall, Hapton, Wreningham, Ne/onde, Hethi/l, Tacolneston, Bonwell, Horham, and Wotton mStrad- brook ; by which they were settled on his son and others, paying him an annuity of 100/. per annum.

In 1381, Sir Edmund de Thorp, junior, Knt. and Joan his wife, purchased divers messuages, &,c. and several villeins here, of Hugh son of Robert de Dunston, and Christiana de Bonington, which Peter de la Penne of Hethil, and the said Christiana purchased of Adam de la Penne of Hethil, and the said Peter sold them to Robert de Dun- ston, father of Hugh and William. In 1383, he, and Sir Richard de Waldegrave, Knt. Will. Winter and Tho. Wayte, had a grant of the temporalities of the Bishop of Norwich, during the forfeiture of Henry Spencer Bishop of the see, except the knights fees, and advowsons of churches, paying 50 marks yearly to the Exchequer; and in 1385, they had a writ directed to them to restore them to the Bishop.

In 1393, Sir Edmund de Thorp, senior died,5 and was buried by Beatrix his wife, in the chancel at Ashwellthorp, and gave five marks to any one that would take a pilgrimage for him to St. Janus the Apostle; and legacies to his tenants at Thorp, Fundenha/e, Hapton, Wreningham, Co/kirk, and Litt/e-Massing/iam, where he was lord ; many rings, jewels, &c. to Joane his wife, for life, and then to Sir Edmund, his eldest son and heir ; and particularly the murrey cup tipped with silver, which is the charter cup ofTHORP, was to go from heir to heir, to all that shall be lords of Thorp of his biood, and three gold rings set with Oriental saphires ; he gave Edmund his heir all his goods in his manor-houses at Colkirk, with Apkton-Hall, and Littte-Massinghatn ; he had Thomas, Robert, and George, his sons, and ordered to be buried under a plain tomb, without funeral pomp; Joane his widow died at Colkirk, Febr. 1399, and was buried by her husband, and then

Sir Edm. de Thorp, her son, held his first court here, and imme- diately after, put his estates into feottves hands, viz. Sir Thomas Petri/, Sir Robert Knowlles, Knt. John de Clu/e, clerk, and others; at which time it appears, he had manors, lands, rents, fees, or service:, here and in Hapten, Fundenhall, Wreningham, Neloncie, Brakene, Flo/don, Tacolneston, Wimondham, Hethil, and the reversions of North-Creke,

5 Proved 12 May, 1393. Regr. Harsyke, fo. 183. b.

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Horham cum Stradbrooke, and JVotton in Suffolk, which were held for life by his brother Robert ; his seal hath three crescents 2 and 1, and a plume for a crest : and now also, he assigned to his mother for life, Hapton and Fundenhall manors; she sealed with Thorp as before, impaling Bainard. Upon his going beyond sea, he made his will, and gave Ashwellthorp for life to his wife, and North-Creke, and if his infant children died, then North-Creyk to go to his brother Thomas, Horham to his brother Robert, and if Little Massinghant manor should fall into his hands, his wife to have it for life. His seal had always a label of three, during the life of his father. This Sir Edmund new roofed and glazed the church and chancel at Thorp, and founded Thorp's chapel for his own burial place and that of his successours, on the north side of the chancel ; and by the covenant made with John Faudy of Salle, carpenter, it was to be 27 feet long and 12 broad, within the walls. He was mayor of Burdeaux in Gas- coigne in 1399- In 1408, John Spencer and Kolherine his wife,6 re- leased to Sir Edmund and Joan his wife, the manor and advowson of Stonham-Aspall, alia; Antegain in Suffolk, and a moiety of Coulung, which she had in right of her mother Catherine, who was daughter and coheir of Sir John de Aspale of Stonham-Antegain, who had Sir Ralf Hemenhale for her other husband. In 1415, Joan Lady Scales, wife of Sir Edmund de Thorp, died and was buried by her order, in As/ncell-thorp churchyard, and gave 20/. to make her a tomb ; she gave her manor of Coulyng to be sold, and her manors oiSto'nham and Witlysford, to Robert de Scales and his heirs male, remainder to the Lady Catherine Savage, her daughter, remainder to her daughters Joane and Isabell.

Thomas de Thorp, Esq. second son of Sir Edmund de Thorp, senior, had Bunwell manor for life : in his will dated 1414 it appears, that by Elizabeth his wife, he had one daughter and heiress, named Eleanor. He ordered Cleydon manor in Suffolk to be sold, by Tho. Brewse, John Sprot, and John Snetyl, rector here, his feoffees ; and gave 10/. as a stock to be always lent out to some person in Ashzeell- thorp, the interest to be laid out in buying new altar clothes, and or- namems for the chancel, in which it seems he was buried ; his feoffees were to pay bl. to the chief lord of the manor of Bale, for the relief of Eleanor his daughter, if that manor should come to her hands, Bunwell manor to go to Elizabeth his wife for life, then to his daugh- ter and her heirs, remainder to his nephew John, son of Robert de Thorp,7 and his heirs, but Sir Edmund his brother was to have the preference, if he pleased to buy the manors.

In 1417, Sir Edmund de Thorp,8 John Nevi/e, and John Kemp, LL. D. were appointed by King Henry V. to treat of and compose all differences which arose from any violations of the truce between the Duke of Burgoin and that King. 9 This Sir Edmund, as 1 take it, is the same person whom Holinshed calls the Lord Thorp, who was

* She was daughter and coheiress cf the Commons to choose a new speaker.

Sir John de Aspale. Cotton, &c.

1 In 1452, Tho. Thorpe, Esq. » Rot. Norman, 6 H. V. Par. I.

Speaker of the Commons, was mipri- Mem. 104.

soned, the Commons petitioned for his 5 Holinshed, to. ^65. Godwin, H. V..

liberty accoiding to their privileges, the p. 176. 178. Lords would not consent, but ordered

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killed at the seige of Lovers castle in Normandy,1 with the Lords Scales and Darci/; but his body was brought over and buried in the new isle of his own foundation, under a fair tomb, on which he lies in complete armour, with his helmet under his head, and a crown and plume for his crest ; his wife lies by him, with a pillow under her head ; both the statues are of white alabaster, and lie under a wooden canopy. The arms of Thorp quartering Bainard are cut on his armour ; he hath a chaplet about his head, and a sword lying by his side, signifying, that though he lost his life in war, yet he obtained the victory ; at his head an angel holds an inescutcheon of St. George ; at her head the arms of France and England, At his feet a greyhound, and at her's a lap-dog ; on the south side are four angels holding four shields, 1, Thorp and Bainard quartered. 2, Northwood, erm. a cross ingrailed gul. on the first quarter, arg. a fess between two bars gul. 3, Clifton. 4, Barry, arg. a chevron between three bears heads cooped sab. muzzled or. And on the north side are shields with these arms : 1, or, a lion rampant gul. armed and langued az. 2, arg. two bars and a canton gul. 3, Kerdeston, gul. a saltier ingrailed arg. 4, Calthorp.

Sir Edmund left two daughters his coheiresses; Joan, who mar- ried Sir Robert Ec/tingham, Knt.1 and after to Sir John Clifton of Bukenham castle, Knt.3 but on failure of issue according to the en- tail,* the estate of the Thorps vested in her sister Isabel, who married Phillip Tilney of Boston in Lincolnshire, Esq. and they hept their first court in 1436, in which year she died, and lies interred under a marble with a brass circumscription in Thorps chapel, with the arms of Tilney, arg. a chevron between three griffins heads erased gul. impaling Thorp, quartering Bainard, and her effigies.

Jft'C iacct Isabella que fu.it #jcflr Phillippi Tilney,5 armigcn una plliarum Ct ^crcDum Edraundi Thorp Hfemtig Ct Nomine Johanne quondam Pennine oc Scales, ConsSorti^ ?ue, que olmt Dccirno die ifeettgfg .OolicmbrijS, iinno <Domini JftcttFj$jari°. ctrtug animc pro* picictur JDcusi amen.

After her death, her husband retired from the world, took on him a religious habit, and turned secular canon, and was admitted to St. Butolph's prebend in Lincoln cathedral, where he was buried in 1453; the arms of Tilney impaling Thorp, quartering Bainard, are on his grave-stone there, and this,

$ic iacet Philipus Tilney, <£anontcu<; ct $c£ibentiariu£ <£cclc£ie Cathcurali.^ 2?cate Marie Lincoln: nupcr 3rmtger ; tfiltug Fre- derici Tilney amiigcri, .filit Philippi Tilney H&iUti£, ac mantatu.S

• Stow, fo. 354. x See vol. i. p. 377. remainder toRob. Thorp, Esq. brother to 3 I find she had Rob. Caily for her Sir Edmund, (he died about 1436,) re- first husband. mainder to tiie Lady Jean Grey, sister of

* In 1428, Sir Henry Inclose, Sir Guy Corbet, Esq. son of Rob. Corbet, Edm. Berry or Barry, Knts. James who married Eliz. sister to Sir Edmund; Walsingham and Charles Alleyn clerks, remainder to Agnes late wife William the surviving feoffees of Sir Edmund Rookwood, daughter of Robert, son of de Thorp, according to his order, set- Guy Corbet, remainder to Sir Simon tied the estate on his daughter Joan, Fdbrigge, Knt. To this deed hangs a wife of Sir John Clifton, Knt. and fair seal of Barry's arms, and an oak for want of heirs, on his daughter tree for the crest.

Isabel, wife of Philip Tilney, Esq. 5 Weever, fo. S14.

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Isabelle uni Irtliarum Edmundi Tborp tic Ashwell-Thorp in Comi* tatu Norfolcie Jiiliti.3, et ©ommc Johanne ©omfne De Scales, nuper CongfirtisS eittgBerri Edmundi qui obut pcnultimo Die Hieing <DctobrijS anno ©ommi Jiccccliit '. cuius! anime propicictur Deu£ amen : #or Charitp.

At his feet is this,

pas^eD the pilgrimage of tfjig present ftpf,

ftetfteth &ir Phillip Tilney, clo^eD m nour .Sight,

3in hi£ youth hauler, anD £0 toeDDeD to hi£ 3©pf,

Cht daughter anD $eier of Edmund Thorp ftnight.

anD 3tont to Thomas JtorD Scales, Di^ccnDCD of ILr/ne rigjjt.

©i^po$itD Jim after to €>oD'£ <9rDinaunce,

€outf) none fino in hurt matter of iSMjSplea.ssaunce,

^ere fie hicth burieD Canon anD Residentiarie,

ii>umtjime of patrimonii Sufficient in DceD,

2But ©eatvj, that from ijer ilatute cannot toarie,

$ath ceaeeD him fap force, anD toe mujit all Succeed;

€on'$itrcc tjecr a ftarnon, iDormcjS to feeb,

3uD prap for his Soul, of pep to hatoe a tyggt,

3nD Doa^for hpm, as thou tooulDcst he Did, at thy nceD,

$oto Jesu for thp paSSton, bring hym to thn 2S^|^e.6

They had three daughters, Marion, Grace, and Maud, and three sons, Hugh, Robert, and

Frederick Tilney of Boston, Esq. the eldest son and heir, who inherited all the Thorps ; he married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Laurence Cheney of Cambridgeshire, Esq. and had only one daughter,

Elizabeth, who married Humphry Bourchier, Knt. eldest soil of John Lord Berners ; he was slain at Barnet Field,7 on the part of King Edward IV. upon Easter day 1471, in the lifetime of his father, and was buried in St. Edmund's chapel in Westminster abbey, under a tomb of gray marble raised, and on it is curiously engraven on brass plates, the effigies of Sir Humphry armed cap-a-pie, his head on his helm, with a crest, and his feet supported, the one by a leopard, the other by an eagle, with the arms of

Bourchier, arg. a cross ingriled gul. between four water-budgets sab. quartering billete, a fess and a file of three, impaling 1st, Til- ney. 2, Roos, arg. three bars gul. over all a canton sab. 3, Thorp, az. three crescents arg. 4, Baynard. 5, three chevronels. 6, in a bordure three de-lises. And this inscription,

Jgic pugil tea iaccnS Bernet, Sera 23clla cupiScenS, j <£ertat ut €aci0es, fit saucius unDique miles, m ceciDit ^ulnuS Mars porngit arma Cruore Spargun tincta rubent, Dolor en ladjrinnabilis hora, fLumine nempe caDit quo Christus morte resurgit, Bourchier Humfridus,8 clara propagme Dictum,

* Willis's Survey of Lincoln Cathc- s He was made Knight of the Bath at dral, p. 149. the coronation of Edw. IV,

7 Peerage, Vol. IV. p. 371.

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Edwardi ftegiti, qui tertiuS cjst taocitatu;?, John ©omtni Berners prole;*, ct £aroulu£ tjcrc.s!, <Suartu£ ct Edwardus 25elli tenet cat triumptjum, OSuo pent Humfridas, ut ficgi.si Slcrnula ticru.rf «£pronomon l&engae Sponge ftcoM fuit i£te, Elizabeth, g'ibi g'ic sua oirtu.si cresfcit (lonorc ; 9nni£ congpicuug quondam ctaru^quc Britannis *?ic fuit, ut Ccli.s bicat, Depojtate tootisi.9

Elizabeth his wife was a widow in 1470, and then made her first will, relating to all her manors except Stonham, J spall, Eestbergholt, and Cowling in Suffolk ; but before 14/2, she was married again to Thomas son and heir of John Lord Howard, Knt. afterwards Earl of Surrey, and Duke of Norfolk, and made another will ;' and in 1506, Nov. 6, by the name of Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk, she made her last will, which was proved at Lambeth in 1507, by which she ordered her body to be buried in the nuns quire, of the Minoresses without Jldgale, London, near the place where Anne Mougomery lieth. The Duke survived her, and held the manors by the courtesy of England, to his death in 1524, when he was buried in the priory church of Thetford* commonly called Thetford abbey.

Sir John Bourchier, Knt. son and heir of Sir Humphry, and grandson and heir of John Lord Berners, was summoned to par- liament as Lord Beuners in 11 and 12 of Henry VII. and in the 1st, 3d, 6th, and 21st of Henry VIII. and died deputy general of the town and marches of Calais, \'J March 1532, 23d Henry VIII. He ordered his body to be buried in the chancel of St. Mary's church at Calais, and after the decease of his lady, gave his manors of Houghton, Offley, and Doxley in Hertfordshire, to the King, to satisfy the 500/. sterling that was due to his Majesty, and the overplus of their value was to go to perform his will, Sec. He married Catherine, daughter ofJoHN Howard Duke of Norfolk, who survived him, and died 12th March, 27th of Henry VIII. 1535. This Lord Berners was only seven years old at his grandfather's death ; in 18 Edward IV. he was made Knight of the Bath, at the marriage of the Duke of York, second son of King Edw. IV. with the daughter and heir of the Duke of Norfolk. In 7 Henry VII. he was retained to serve that King, with two spear- men, himself of the number, each having his custrel3 and page, and nine demi-lances on horseback, in order to an expedition into France j and accordingly Oct. 1, the King took shipping at Sandwich, and the same day landed at Calais with a great army, and laid siege to Bologne, till Nov. 8, when a peace was made, to which all the peers consented, and among them this John Lord Berners. In 1495, he assented to a peace made with Fiance, on the sea, near Bologne. In

9 Antiq. of Westm. oct°. Lond. 1741. Stonham advowson, Lovedon manor in

Vol. II. p. Go. Weever, fo. 482. Antiq. Tyd, and the manor and advowson of

Westm. edit. 1715, p. 49. ^t John's chapel there ; Baton's manor

1 In 1474, she owned the manors of in Whaplode, Pynchbck ;"..mor in Lin-

Ashwellthurp, Wremngham, NeUmde, colnshire, and Ryngburgh manor in

Fundenhall, Colkirk, Massingham-Par- Yorkshire.

va, Creke North, and their advowsons, x ^ee vol. ii. p. 1 19. Vincent against

with those of Testerton ami Ashwell- Brook, fo. 3.55.

thorp chapel. The manors ot Stonham- 3 * servant to a man of arms, or a

Aspal, Cowling, and Estbergholt, and Prince's liie guard-man.

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1513, he had the King's letters of protection, being made captain of the pioneers at the siege of Therovene. In 6th Henri/ VIIL he was made Chancellor of the Exchequer for life ; and that year attended the Lady Mary, the King's sister, into France, to her marriage with Lenis XII. In 1Q Hairy VIII. lie obtained a grant from the King, of the inheritance of the manors and advowsons of Oakham, Effing- ham, Waldingham, Titsey in Surrey, Stratton, Audeley in Oxfordshire, Knoke in Wiltshire, and Up-Clatford in Southamptonshire, with all the knights fees belonging to them. It is also observable, that this John Lord Berners was a person so eminent for his learning, that by the command of King Henry VIIL he translated the Chronicle of Sir John Froisart, out of French into English: he likewise translated several other works, out of French, Spanish, and Italian, as, the Life of Sir Arthur, an Armoiican Knt. The famous Exploits of Hugh of Bourdeaux. Marcus Aure/ius, and the Castle of Love. Besides which, he composed a book, Of the Duties of the Inhabitants at Calais, and a comedy intituled, lte in Fineam. He had issue, only two daughters,

Mary, married to Alexander. Unton, Esq. son and heir of Sir Thomas Unton of Wadley in Berkshire, Knt. to whom she was first wife, but died without issue, and

Jane, her sister, by her death, became sole heir to her father ; she married Edm. Knevet, Esq.4 serjeant-porter to King Henry VIII, who became lord and patron ot'Ashwellt/wrp, and ovvnerof theTHORp's estate; he was second son of Edmund Knevet of Bukenham castle in Norfolk, Esq. and settled at Ashwell-Thorp-hall, and had in his wife's right, the manors of Barneholt, Horham, Thorp-hall, and Cowling in Suffolk, Thetford in the isle of Ely, Lovcden in Tyd St. Mary in Lincolnshire, Aslmell-Thorp, Co/kirk, North-Creke, Catchy, &c. in Norfolk ; Killingholm, Alysehy, Boston, Toft, Skyrbeck, Pynchbeck, Thorp-hall, and Bacons, in Quap/ode in Lincolnshire; Ri/ugburgh in Yorkshire,5 Fisherwick, Bacre, Bromicych, and Shefeld in Stafford- shire, and Stonham Aspal in Suffolk, &.C. of all which, except the six last manors, the said Edmund Knevet, Esq. and Jane his wife, had livery, 5th July, 25 Henry VIII. together with lYalpole manor in Lincolnshire. He was constituted receiver of the revenues of the King's domains in Denbigh in North-Wales ; and dying in 1546, was buried in the chapel adjoining to AshwcUthorp chancel ; and then Jane his widow surrendered the manor of Thetford in Ely isle, to her eldest son John, and Agnes his wife; and her manor of Gate/y in 1551, to William and Edmund Knevet, her younger sons, for life ; and in 1557, her manors of Quaplodc, Holbech, Pynchbek, Multon, Ski/r- bek, Boston, Killingholm, and Aylsby in Lincolnshire, to the use of her other executors, for 80 years, &c. and then %o her right heirs. In 1560, she made her last will, and ordered her body to be buried by her husband ; she gave Co/kirk to her '2d son William,6 and Gate/y and North Creke to her son Edmund, remainder to her right heirs, her daughters. Rose widow, of Oliver Reymes, Alice wife of Oliver

* See vol. i. p. 379. The Lord Berners sold also, Hunsdon

5 Note, that the following manors in Hertfordshire, Berners Rothing in

were sold by the Lord Berners, and the Essex, Esthegners in Oxfordshire, &c.

others were enjoyed by Sir Tho. Knevet, 6 From this William, the Knevets

his great grandson, till he sold them, of Fundenhall are descended.

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Shiers of Wreningkam, and Christian wife to Thomas Foster, Gent. bad legacies. In the said chape), k a gray marble with a brass plate, on which is this,

Jane Knyvet res'tcth here, the onin ^eir bv flight, <©f the 'lord Beuners that&ir JohWBourchier htght, €toent)i gears' and tljrce, a IDiddotos' EpR she ledd, Hftoans' keeping t?otos'e, toherc finch and poor vnere fedd, «5entpll, just, qunet, tooid of debate and ^trrift, «tct)er domng «3ood ; %o I trju;S she led her Hrft, €ben unto the 45ratoe, tohcrc <£rth on <£.it$ doth Ine, <j5n tobos'e .tioul God grant of his* aboundant JBerc?

£he run of februarn 3° ©nt. M®%$%7

John Knevet of Plumpstede, Esq. their eldest son and heir, was 22 years old at his father's death ; and died in his mother's lifetime; m 1537, he married Agnes, daughter of Sir John Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt in Oxfordshire, and E/nhale in Staffordshire, Knt. who re- married with U illiam Bouyer, Gent, of IVimblelon in Surrey. On this match, the manors of Horham, Thorp-hall, and Burneholt in Suffolk, and Thetford in Ely isle, were settled on them ; and in 1312, they sold to Robert Reynolds, Esq. all their part of the manor of Illaeys, alias New-hall, in Estbergholt, Stratford, Wenham- Magna, Cape/, Butley, Jlolton and Brant ham in Suffolk; she died in 1579, and

Sir Thomas Knevet of Ashwell-Thorp, her eldest son and heir, succeeded,8 and in the year l6l6, having petitioned the King for the barony of Beenees, descended to him from Jane his grandmother, he obtained a certificate (upon a reference of his petition by King James I. to the lords commissioners for the office of Earl-Marshal) of his right and title to the said barony, but died the 9th of Feb. follow- ing, before he could obtain the King's confirmation thereof. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in her progress into Norfolk; in 1579 he was high-sheriff of the county ; his will was proved in 1617; by which it appears, that Thomas Knevet, Esq. his grandchild, was his heir ; Abigail Mundefurd, Katherine Paston, and Muriel Bell, were his three daughters; Etiz. Ashfield w as his sister, and had a daughter named Abigail; he settled an annuity for life, on Edmund his son, out of Hapton manor, and was buried at Ashuellthorp Feb. 9, 1617. He married Mueiel, daughter of Sir Thomas Parry, Knt.9 master of the court of wards and liveries, and treasurer of the household tr> Queen Elizabeth, sister and coheir of Sir Thomas Parry of Welford in Berkshire, Knt. chancellor of the dutchy of Lancaster, and ambas- sour-leidger in France, in the time of Queen Elizabeth; she was buried here.

i Weever, fo. 815. estate, viz. the manors and advowsons

8 He had the whole estate at the death of Welford, Boxworth, Holbenham,

of his grandmother, except the manors Eyston, Uffington in Berkshire, &c.

settled on his father and mother, which Ham|>sted Marshal, Benham Lovel,

did not come to him till his mother's Westbroke, and Chevele : the other

death. moiety went with her sister Frances

» This Muriel brought to the Kne- to John Abrahall her husband, and John

yets the moiety of Sir Thomas Parry's their son had it.

ASHWELL-THORP. l55

An elegy to the never dying fame, of that ever-living lover of vertue, the right worshipful the Lady Muriel Knyvet, late wife of the right worshipful Sir Thomas Knevet, Kut. who ceased to live among mortals 26 Apr. Anno Incarn. Dni. 16.1 6.

Here Norfolk's Wonder lies, a Phenix right, Who might be term'd for her good Deeds so many ; In doing Good who took her chief delight, Not caring for vain Pleasure momentary, 8tc.

Per Oliver Johnso/ium Tyronem Nordowicensem.

This Sir Thomas, was a man of great repute, and much beloved for his hospitality and good nature, for which he was eminent, as the following ballad containing an incredible story (the tradition of which still remains) fully declares :

The Ballad of Ashwell-Thorp, made in Sir Thomas Knevet's time.

Once there liv'd a Man, Deny it they that can,

Who liberal was to the Poore; I dare boldly say, They ne're were sent away,

Empty Handed from his Doore.

When Misers in Holes crept, Then open House he kept,

Where many then, did resort, Some for Love of good Beere, And others for good Cheere,

And others for to make Sport.

There was a Gentleman, From London Citty came,

The Countrey for to see, And all in the Pryme, Of jovial Chistmass Time,

There merry for to be.

This Londoner did say,

If the Gentry would give way,

A Trick to them he w'd show, That an Acorn he would sett, If they would please to ha'te,

Which to a great Tree should grow.

The Acorn lie pull'd ou,t, And shewed it all about,

In his Hand then he took it agayne, In the presence of them all, In the middle of the Hall,

He sat down the Acorne playne.

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While one could drink a Cup, There did an Oak spring up,

Which was so huge and tall, With Arms it so put out, And Branches all about,

That it almost fill'd the Hall.

This Oak then did beare, Which was a Thing most rare,

Acorns both black and brown, For which the Swine did busk, And they did loose their Husk,

As they came tumbling down.

This great Oake there did stand, To the View of every Man,

Who saw, it was so playne, But Roome then to afford, To bring Supper unto Bord,

They wish't it gone agayne.

Then lowdly he did call, And two came into the Hall,

Who were both stout and strong, And with the Tools they had, To work they went like mad,

And laid this Oake along.

I'le tell you here no Lye, The Chips there then did flye,

Buzzing about like Flyes, That Men were forced to ward, Their Faces well to guard,

For Fear they sh'd loose their Eyes, He bid them then be bold, And e'ry one take hold,

This Oake for to carry away, And they all hold did get, But c'd not stirr't a whit,

But still along it lay.

He said they had no Strength, Which he would prove at length.

For it sh'd not lye long on the floor, Two Goslings young and green, They then came whewting in,

And carried it out of the Door. Then gone was the Oake, That had so many a stroke,

Before that it fell downe, Thus as it grew in haste, So quickly did it waste,

.Not a Chip then could be found.

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This Story is very true, Which I have told to you,

Tis a Wonder you did'ntheare it, I'le la}r a Pint of Wine, If Parker and old Hinde,

Were alyve, that they vv'd swear it.

Sir Thomas Knevet of Ashwellthorp and Thornage, Knt. eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Knevet the elder, and Muriel Parry his wife, died in Sept. 160.5, in the lifetime of his father, and was buried in St. Mary's church at Feltwell, Sept. 3D; he was knighted at the Charter-house, May 11, 1603, by King James I. In 1592, he married Elizabeth second daughter and coheir of Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiveku or Stucay in Norfolk, Knight of iheBath, who survived him.

Thomas Knevet of Ashwellthorp, Esq. their son, was baptized June 10, 1596, and inherited at the death of his grandfather ; in 1625, he was summoned to receive the honour of Knight of the Bath, at the coronation of King Charles I. ; he died at Henham-hall in Suffolk, the seat of his son-in-law, Sir John Rous, Knight and Baronet, and was buried at Ashwellthop, July 2, 1058, with this on a black marble gravestone in Thorp's chapel :

Hicjacet insignis Heros THOMAS. KNYVET, Armiger, Baro hereditarius de BERBERS, Titulo, a J ANA Filia JOHANNIS BOURCHIER Baronis de BEliNERS, traducto. Virtutibus Publicis, Privatis, sincero Numinis Cultu, Moribus antiquis, prisca animi Indole, Ac veteri Prosapia. illustris, leniori Seculo, et fcelici Caeoli secundi Post liminio dignus. Sed exhalanti Monarchiae vix superstes, Distichon Hocce, generosi animi specimen, proprio Calamo Exaratum, Posteris legavit.

Here lies loyal Knv vet who hated Anarchy, Liv'd a true Protestant, and died with Monarchy. Obijt J unij 30, 1658.

On this stone are the arms of Knevet quartering Bourchier, and Bouuchier quartering Berners and Kne vet's crest,1 a demi- dragon, his wings erect, az. langued gut. He married Catherine, fourth and youngest daughter of lho?nas Lord Burgh of Gaines- borough, sister and coheir of Thomas Lord Burgh, her" brother, who died under age; she was buried at Ashwell-thorp, May 1, 1646, leav- ing two sons, John and Thomas.

Sir John Knevet of Ashwell-thorp, their eldest son, was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King Charles 11. he married Mary, daughter of Sir Thomas Bedingjield of Darsham in Suffolk, Knt. in 1655; and settled on her, the manors and advowsons of Ashwell-thorp, Wreningham, and the manors of Nelonde, Fundenhatl, and Hapton, and 96 acres of Thorp wood next the park {Fundenhall wood containing 180 acres, the upper end of Thorp wood containing

* Guillim abridged, Vol. I, p. 167.

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G4 acres were excepted out of the settlement.) In 1662, he was ap- pointed by Horace Lord Towneshend, one of the deputy lieutenants for the county: by his will proved in the prerogative court Feb. 13, 1673, he ordered his body to be interred without any solemnity in the east end of that chapel, in the church of Ashwell-thorp, belonging to his family, where there is a stone with his crest and arms, thus inscribed,

JOHANNES KNYVET

Baro Haereditarius de BERNERS,

A CAROLI postliininio Eques Balnei,

Antiquum Genus virtute insignivit,

Ad exteras peregrinando,

Selectissimos condivit mores,

Doctrinam coluit et occuluit,

Ritti solemni adoravit Numen,

Regi Fidelitatem late testatus,

Altare ditavit DEI Elemosinarius,*

Optimis auspicijs Uxorem duxit

MARIAM Filiam THOM^ BEDINGFIELD Equitis.

Conjugalis Amoris nobile exemplar,

Sic Phoenix in Cineres redactus

iEternam manens renovationem. Bicjacet Obijt July 28 1673.

Mahy his wife survived him, and by will ordered to be interred in the vault of Ashwellthorp chancel, as near her husband's body as pos- sible ; and in that chapel there is a stone thus inscribed,

Here lyeth the Body of Dame Mary Knyvet, Wife of Sir John Knyvet Knt. of the Bath, departed this Life the 18th Day of April 1713, being in the 80th Year of her Age; they left two Sons and five Daughters.

1. Thomas Knevet, Esq. of Ashxcell-thorp, eldest son and heir, was colonel of a regiment of the militia of the county of No/folk, died unmarried, and was buried by his father under a marble thus inscribed,

Hie situs est,

THOMAS KNYVET Armiger,

Johannis de Balneo Equitis

Filius natu maximus,

Qui nobilem a qua oriundus est stirpem

Non minus generosa indole Fide antiqua,

Spectata omnibus humanitate,

Quam ingenij acumine, acri Judicio,

Et exquisita politiorum Literaium Scientia,

Expressit, illustravit,

Spem vero quern Boni omnes,

* He gave a handsome set of commu- sheriff of Norfolk ia 1682. nion plate to the altar, and was high

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De illo conceperant amplissimain

Praecox Fatuin eripuit.

Diuturni enim moibi dolore fractus,

Vigente adhuc iEtate,

Ca3lebs animam DEO reddidit.

4t0 Kalend Octobris 1G93, iEtatis suae 37.

2. John Knevet, Esq. wa9 captain of a foot company in the ser- vice of King IVilliam III. and died at Lisbum in Ireland, unmarried, Feb. 15, 1659, and was buried in the church there.

1. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, married to Thomas Glemham of Glemham-Parva in Suffolk, Esq. where they were buried. They had only one child, Thomas, who survived his parents, and was cap- tain of a company of dragoons under Brigadier Pepper, in Spain, in the service of the late Queen Anne, and died unmarried about 1711, at Valladolid, and was buried there.

2. Catherine, who by the death of all her brothers and sisters withoutissue, became sole heiress: she married first, to John Harris of London, Gent, by whom she had no issue, secondly, to Rich. Bokenham of Weston-Mereate, Esq. high-sheriff of Suffolk, by whom she had no issue ; he is buried in IVeston-Mercate chancel. In 1720, she being wife to the said Richard, claimed the barony of Berners, and after a hearing in the House of Lords, their lordships were of opinion,

That she had fully proved her claim to the said barony of Ber- ners \nfee, and had aright to the said barony \n fee ; and accord- ingly by his Majesty's command, she was allowed to be Catherine Baroness Berners by descent from John Bourchier Lord Ber- ners, who was first summoned to parliament by writ dated 26 May 33 HemyVl. Her arms were, quarterly 1 and 4, Knevet. 2 and 3 quarterly or and vert.3 She died in December 1743, and was buried at IVestan by her husband, aged 89-

3. Mary died unmarried, 29 Oct. 1710, and is buried at Jshzcell- thorp under a marble grave-stone, with Knevet's arms in a lozenger and this,

Here lyeth the Body of Mrs. Mary Knevet, the third daughter of Sir John Knevet Knight of the Bath, departed this Life the 29th of Oct. 1710, being of the age of 47 Years.

4. Jane, married to Oliver le Neve of Great Wichingham in Norfolk, Esq. but died before her husband, without issue 19 June, 1704, and is buried under a black marble in the chancel of Great Wichingham, with this,

M.S. Mortalibus exuvijs hie depositis, Dormit, beatam praestolans Anastasin, (cum Surgite, novicissimum resonabitur). Faemina e pluribus Lectissima, JANA Johannis Knyvet Equitis de Balneo,

3 Peerage, vol. iv. p. 376.-

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Filia,

Natu, piaster unam, minima; Virtutibus tamen Magna, Oliveri le Neve Armigeri, Uxor alteia, Sed nulli secunda. Ulpote, quae viro, suisque omnibus Non unquam erat, nisi moriendo, Gravis. Obijt 19 Junij Anno Salutis nostra? 1704.

5. Muriel died unmarried, and is buried with this on her grave- stone, in the chapel here,

Here lyethwhat was mortal of Muriel! the youngest Daughter of Sir John Knyvet, Knt. of the Bath, and Dame Mary his Wife, she died Sept. 8, 1688.

This branch being thus extinguished, the barony and estate des- cended to the heirs of

Thomas Knyvet of Mutford in the county of Suffolk, Esq. second surviving son, but third son bom, of Thomas Knyvet, Esq. eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas Knyvet, of Ashwettthorp,* who died in the life- time of his father, Sir Thomas Knyvet, son and heir of John Knyvet, Esq. son and heir of Edmund Knyvet, Esq. by Jane his wife, daughter and sole heir of John Bourciiier Lord Berners.

This Thomas was baptised at AshweU-thorp, 22d Feb. 1624, and married Em me daughter of Thomas Hayward of Cranwyse in Norfolk, Gent, who survived him, and died in 1658, leaving

John Knyvet of Norrcich, Esq. their only son and heir, who mar- ried Lucy, daughter and coheir of Charles Suckling of Brakendate in Norfolk, Esq. who are both dead, and lie buried at Trouse in Noifo/k; they had five sons and three daughters.

1, Paston Knyvet, Esq. died without issue. 2, Thomas, who died unmarried. 3, John died young. 4, John Knyvet, Esq. cap- tain of a company of invalids, died single, in May 1742, and was buried at Trozcse, but hath been since removed to AshweU-thorp. 5, Charles died unmarried.

1, Eliz. Knyvet, married Hen. Wilson, Gent, of Did/ington in Norfolk, who was buried first at Trowse, but is since removed to AshweU-thorp ; she is still living his widow, and in possession of the manors of AshweU-thorp? Wreningham, Fundenhall, and Hapton, by the will of the late Lady Berners, with the advowsons of AshweU- thorp and Wreningham, and hath two sons and one daughter living. 1, Henry. 2, Knyvet. 3, Harriot, married to Mr. John Layton of London.

2, Lucy Knevet, now dead, married 1st to Mr. Thomas Holt, by whom a daughter named Elizabeth-Ann. 2dly, to John Field, car- penter, of Reading in Berkshire, by whom she hath two daughters, Lucy and Catherine.

3, Catherine Knevet died young.

* By Catherine Burgh his wife, 5 The fines of this manor are at will,

and the lete belongs to it.

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So that now the harony of Berners is in abeyance/ both the sis- ters having surviving issue.

The church hath a square tower and four bells, a nave, chancel, and north chapel. There is a handsome stone font, erected by Thomas Knevet, Esq. and Katherine Burgh his wife : it is an octogon, and hath eight shields: 1, Thorp. 2, Tilmy impaling VBorp. 3, Bourchier im- paling Tilney. 4, Knyvet impales Bourchier. 5, Knyvet impaling Harcourt, or, two bars G. 6, Knyvet impales Parry, alias Vaughan, sub. a chevron ar. between three boys heads proper, intwined with snakes noued proper' 7, Knyvet and Bacon, gul. on a chief arg. two mullets sab. 8, Knyvet and Burgh, az. five de-lises erm. In the east window of the chapel, quarterly Fiance and England. Scales \m- pzYmgNorthwood. Burgh in the garler. Thorp and Bainard quartered gul. a falcon rising arg. In the east chancel window, Thorp siding Bauiard, and A. a cross gul. In the belfry window, Baniard im- paled with lozenge erm. and gul. In the other windows, Lord Motley. Northzeood with the crest, and two bars gul. in the first quarter. Aslack, sab. a chevron between three catherine-wheels or

On a black marble, Knyvet with a crescent. Deposita Natha- Nielis Knyvet Armigeri qui obijt 15° Die Nov. A. D. 1(Jj9. He was son of Sir Thomas Knyvet, Knt.

In the east window are the remains of a knight in armour, kneeling at an altar tomb, and Knyvet and Clifton quartered by him, with a crescent ; against him is a woman kneeling, in the dress of that age, with the said quarters in a lozenge, impaling or, a fess sab, surmounted by a saltier gul. and there was a picture of it atAslmell-thorp, which I take to have been erected either to the memory of that Sir John Knevet who married Joane, daughter and heir of Sir John Boufetort of Mend/e sham in Suffolk, Knt. or rather of Sir John his son, and his> wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Comtantine Clifton of Buheultam- castle, Knt. who was buried in (Vimondham abbey church,7 with this inscription,

Kiftc iacct Nomina »£(i?abctb.a qumiuam tfrotr 5Fohannis' ftnefoct lEliiiris' ©omini be jBenoles'ham, fiiia Constantmt Clifton, ©omim oe 2?uiicnham Cartel, s'oror ^ohannt^ Chiton USStiHg, ct Matci 3Eohanni.*J ftntmet armigeri, per quam Cnstrum dc ^ufitnljam, et multa alia Jlianena oicto Johanni ftnrmct 3nmgcro, ture $crcut- tario oestcnocbant, que quiuem Clnauerha obtit apuD $icnole* •Sham, in 4ftcn.se .tieptcmbria- 3Q ©ni. 4Etccccrli°.

The rectory is valued in the King's Books at 61. 13s. Ad. and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 30/. it is discharged of jirst- fruils and tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

6 Journal of the House of Lords, die writ, and sitting die, leaving issue, two

Martis, io die Martij 1694. or more daughters, who all die, one of

The heraulds being this day heard at them only leaving issue, such issue has

the bar, pursuant to an oraer of the ii.th a right to demand a summons to Parlia-

instant, in relation to descents of Baro- ment.

nies by writ; and debate thereupon, It was resolved in the affirmative.

&c. 1 his question was put ; whether, 7 See vol. i. p. 377; vol. iii. p. 525. if a person summoned to parliament by

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The church is dedicated to all the Saints, and when Norwich Domes- day was made, Sir Rob. Fitz-John was patron ; the rector had ;i house and 10 acres of glebe, it was valued at nine marks, paid 6s. 8c?. procurations, 3s. synodals, 2s. 6d. Peter-pence, and 3d. carvage. The terrier hath a house and about eight acres of glebe. The church of Ashwell is down, and immemorially annexed to Thorp. There is weekly service here. The village hath about 20 families, and it paid to each tenth 26s. clear. The etymology of its name is, the Thorp by the Well or Fountain at the Asshrs. Here was a gild of the

oly Trinity, and in 1504, the tenor bell was made by the con-

bution of Sarah Sawer and others.

%

RECTORS.

William le Devees, rector.

1298, Philip de Thorp, brother to Sir John de Thorp, patron : he is buried under a stone with a cross only on it, on the north side of the altar.

1317, John dePagrave. Sir John de Thorp and Alice his wife.

1334, John Fish, changed Fressingjield mediety for this, with Pa- grave. Beatrix, widow of Sir Robert de Thorp, Knt. He had Ash- well chapel . 1335, he rechanged with Pagrave. Ditto.

1337, Alex. Attemere of Massingham-Parva. Beatrix, &c.

1349, Jeffry Kemp of Massingham-Parva. Ditto. He had the chapel.

1387, John Snetel of Wimondham. Sir Edmund deThorp, senior, Knt. He was buried in the church porch in 1420, and was suc- ceeded by

Thomas Truyt, who was presented by Sir Edm. Berry, Knt. Charles Alleyn, clerk, and John Lancastre, Esq. patrons of this turn.

1432, on Truyt's resignation, Sir John Clifton, Knt. gave it to Richard Talpe, and in

1434, to Master Tho. Dalingho, and on his resignation in

1444, to Tho. Robyns, who resigned in

1456, to George Barker, who had it of the gift of John Bour- ciiiER, Knt. Lord Berners, guardian to Elizabeth daughter and heir of Frederick Tilney, at whose death in

1480, Master Tho. Ashjield was presented by Sir Tho. Howard, Knt. and Lady Elizabeth his wife, and resigned in

1488, to Tho. Greene, and Thomas Earl of Surrey, guardian of the

West and Middle Marches of England towards Scotland, and Justice

of all the King's forests beyond the Trent, and Lady Elizabeth his-

wife, presented him ; and on his resignation in 1498, they gave it to

Richard Eaton. In

1511, Will. Smith was instituted, and at his death in

1533, Sir Stephen Thompson succeeded, by the gift of Sir Edmund Knevet, and Joan, daughter and heir of Bourchier Lord Berners. He died in 1544, and Joan Knyvet, widow, relict of Edmund Knyvet, Esq. presented

Robert Barrey, who died in 1553, and she gave it to Hugh Shclmerdon, on whose death in 1555, she presented

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Thomas Longbottom, and in 1557, he was either veinstituted, or another of the same name had it of her gift, who died in 1560, and she presented .

John Browne, who held it united to Wremngham; and dying 27 Dec. 1593, was buried here, and Sir Tho. Knyvet, Knt. gave it to

Jo/;h Harrison, A.M. who held it united to Wremngham, and in 1603, he returned answer that he had 91 communicants in this

1627, Roger G a Hard had it united to Wremngham, at Harrison's death, of the gift of Thomas Knyvet, Esq. and in

1672, Richard Jacquis, A.M. had it with Wremngham, at the pre- sentation of John Knyvet, Knight of the Bath, at whose cession in 1676, Sir Thomas Knevet gave them both to

WW. Bedingfield, A.M. at whose cession in 1684, isomers Knevet, Esq. presented ,

ffittiam Bar/ow, A.M. who held it united to Tasehurgh ; and at his death in 1693, Thomas Knevet, Esq. of Darsham in Suffolk presented

Benjamin Gooch, at who death in ,,-<-,

1728, the Rev. Mr. John Browne, the present rector, had it of the gift of Catherine Baroness Bekners, and now holds it united to the rectory of Berningham-Parva in Norfolk.

From the Register. 1600, Edmund Mundeford, Esq. and Mrs. Abigail Knevet, married

1601*. Mr Tho. Holland (afterwards Sir Thomas) and Mary Knevet married 19 Oct. Thomas their first son, born and died in lfiM.

1603, John, 2d son of Thomas Holland born. This was old Sir John ofQuidenham. (See Holland's Pedigree, Vol I. p. 344.) Mary wife of Mr. Tho. Holland, buried at Kenninghull, Jan. 2, I0O0.

1603, Edmund Parfoa (afterwards Sir Edmund, lather ot Sir WW. Parfo», Bart.) and Cath. Knyvet, married 28 April; she was daughter of Tho. Km/vet, Esq. „, . ;

1605, Sir Edmund Bftf, Knt. married to his second wife, Muriel Knyvet, daughter of Sir Tho. Knyvet, Oct. 30.

1627, Tho. Pettus, Esq. and Eliz. Knyvet, married.

1655, E06. It Card, Gent, and Mwn'e/ daughter of Iho. Knyvet, Esq. married June 1. , . ...

1693, r«o/««s K«yi'ef,Armiger, Johann.sde Balneo, Equitis films et hseres, florente ajtate calebs obijt 4 to kalendarum Octobns aetat. 37.

1485, Tho. Longe went to the King's hoste at Notingham. (Regr. Caston, fo. 252.) By which it seems he was a person ot distinction here.

8 He is omitted among Wreningham rectors at p. 121.

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TACOLNESTON,

Commonly called Tackelston,9 belonged to Stigand the Bishop, in the Confessor's time, who held it as a bereztic to Wimondham ; it was then worth 10/. per annum, when the Conqueror's survey was made 20/. and it belonged to that Prince, and was under the custody or care of Godkic his seicer ; it was about three miles in length, and one in breadth, and paid Wd. ob. to the geld or tax.' There was then a part of it which belonged to Roger Bigot's manor of Fonicet* and went as Fonicet manor did, and continues with it to this day.

The whole town, except Bigot's part, was in the Crown, till lien. I. gave it to Richard de Lucy, who held it at three fees, and paid castle- ward for them to Dover castle, and he gave two of them to Sir Rob. de Munteney or Mounteney, who held them in ll6l ; and the other fee to Hugh son of Hamel, or Hameline,' who then held it of Dover castle, and they were always held after of the honour of Dover, of the Fitz-lVultcrs, as of their manor of Hemeuhale.

Hugh son of Hamel was succeeded by Reginald Ovedale de Vvedale, or D'ovedale, and John de Uvedale his brother : the first held his part at half a fee of Walter Fitz-Robert, and the last held his of him, at the fourth part of a fee; and this constituted the manor called afterwards from its owners DovEDALE's,or Tacolneston manor. Simon Fitz-Richard held a fourth part of a fee, which made up the manor called afterwards the Earl's manor, Hugh son of Eustace of Tacolneston held one fee of Walter Fitz-Robert, which was after called William's manor; and Bartholomew son of Philip Ma l- kerbe held one fee of Walter Fitz-Robert, which was after joined to Takeleston manor ; and the aforesaid manors had their several shares in the advowson, all which were purchased by Hugh de D'Ovedule, and so the advowson attended Dovedale's manor.

9 Villa Tacolvi. From some an- acr. semper dim. car. et viii. liberi ho-

cient owner. mines i. car. terre et ii. villani. et viii.

1 Sub tit. Terre Regis quam God- bord. tunc iii. car. post et modo ii. viii.

ricus servat. Depvvade Hund. Domsd. acr. prati. Tunc valuit x. libr. modo

fo. 56. xx. blancas, et habet i. leug. et dim. in

Tacolnestuna tenuit Stigandus pro longo et dim. in lato, et x. den. et obu-

berewita in Wimundham, v. car. terre, lum de Gelto.

semper xvi. villani et xxi. bor. et sex * Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Domsd. fo.

servi et iiii. car. in dominio, tunc xiiii. 140. Depvvade H.

car. horn, post et modo v. xii. acr. prati, In Fornesstta, &c. In Tacolnestuna

silva xx. pore, et semper i. mol. et iiii. i. lib. homo Stigandi xv. acr. et iii.

runcin. et xvi. anim. et. 1. pore, et bord. i. car. et ii. acr. prati.

lxxx. oves, et xv. capr. et v. soc. xii. 3 See vol. i. p. 13.

TACOLNESTON.

TACOLNESTON, or DOVEDALE'S MANOR,

Descended from Reginald de Uvedale to Benedict his son after whom Hugh de Uvedale had it;* this Hugh, in 1214, purchased a part of the advowson of Rob. Mortimer, and became lord and sole patron ; he was son of John de Uveduk, brother to Reginald, by Amicia daughter and heir of Roger Malherbe of Tacolneston, by which match, Mal- herbe's$ part was united to this. In 1274, he had liberty of free-warren allowed to the manor, and view of frankpledge, and assize of bread and ale over all his tenants ; and in 1285, the King's charter for liberty of warren was allowed an eire, but the other liberties belonged to the King's hundred, whose bailiff was to be present at every lete, and receive three shillings a year of the lord for liberty of holding a lete. He was succeeded by Sir John Dovedale, bis son and heir, about 130G, when he held here one fee of Roger Bigod of Norfolk. In 1318, this John gave his manor of Bedingham to the canons of Walsingham, upon which an inquisition being brought, the jury presented, " That besides the manor of Bedingham which John de Uvedale gave the canons of Walsingham, at that lime John had his manor of Tacol- neston, and several lands and tenements in "Newton Flotman, to the value of 40/. which would fully satisfy all customs and services, as well of the manor so given, as of the lands remaining; in scutages, ■view of frankpledge, aids, tallages, wards, fines, redemptions, amer- ciaments, contributions, and all emergencies; and that the said John might still be put on all assizes, juries, and recognisances, as before the said gift, so that the country would not be more charged than before the said John gave that manor."6 This I have transcribed at length, as showing in a good measure, the reason for making the statute of mortmain. In 1332, Isabell widow of John de Dovedale, daughter of Gilbert de Eton and Alice his wife, (which Alice was one of the three sisters and heirs of Thomas de Ticheseij,) paid a relief to the King for Tichesey manor, which the said Thomas held at two fees of the King. In 1321, Sir Peter, son and heir of Sir John de Uvedale, had the manor at the death of his father ; and the inquisition says, that it was held of the Earl of Norfolk, who held it of the Filz- Walters manor of Hemenhale ; that the manor-house had go acres of land adjoining, woods, groves, a windmill, and 3/. 10s. yearly quit- rents ; that he held also manors in Cambridgeshire and Surrey, and that Peter his son was 28 years old. This Sir Peter married Mar- garet, daughter and coheiress of William de Rusteing of Congham, with whom he had Rusteyn's manor in Wimondham, in 1333, and the two manors were then settled on Sir Peter and Margaret his wife, remainder to Sir Thomas de Uvedale, Knt. remainder to Hugh son of John de Uvedak 7 in tail. Sir Peter died about 1345, for the then Lady Margaret his widow held it of the Earl, and presented in 1349. After her, Sir Thomas de Uvedale had it, and paid 3d. ob. a year out of the

* 1305, Stephen son of Benedict de 6 Regr. Walsingham, fo. 142, 12 E. Uvedale of Tacolneston, confirmed lands II.

to Sir John de Thorp of Fundenhall, 7 Seevol. ii. p. 501. Thiswasavery but had" no concern in the manor. numerous family, many of them being

5 See vol. ii. p. 516. considerable owners in this county, see

vol. i. p. 516.

IW TACOLNESTON.

manor, to St. John's command ry at Carbrook ; he presented in 1361, but was dead before 1374, for in that year John de Uredafe presented ; he was, as I take it, son of Hugh, on whom the manor was intailed : in 1288, lie obtained a charter from King Ric. II. confirming the char- ter of King Edward I. dated 16 May, in the 32d year of his reign, (1303,) by which that King granted to Sir John de Uvcda/e and his heirs, a weekly market on Wednesday, to be held at his manor of Taco/neston ;* and two fairs yearly, to be held at the said manor, the one on the vigil, day, and morrow, of the 'Nativity of St. John the Bap- tist ; and the other on the vigil, day, and morrow, of A 1 1- Saints : and also liberty of free-warren in the said manor. In 1401, the said John held one fee of it of Thomas Mowbray, as of the manor of Forncet; one fee of Robert Mounteney, who held it of Mowbray ; he presented in. 1410, and it appears that he married Margaret Rees, and died about 1434, for in that year, Robert Clere, Esq. ofOrmesby , held his first court for the manor of Tacolneston, D'Oveda/e's, jointly with Eliz. his wife, only daughter and heiress of Tho. Uvedale, Esq. ; she outlived him, and died in 1492, and was buried by her husband in Norzvich cathedral, (see vol. iv. p. 35,) and settled a rent charge out of her manors of C/ei/don and Threston or Thurston, for one of the monks to pray for their souls, and founded two priests to sing before Rees's altar in the collegiate church of St. Mary in the Fields in Norwich, for her own and husband's soul, and those of Will. Rees, Esq. and Margery his wife, her father and mother, who were buried there, (see vol. iv. p. 176,) she gave 4 bushels of malt to every tenant and householder in Ormesby ; and legacies to Robert Clere her son ; and to Audry and Dorothy his daughters, 200/. each, their sister Anne being a nun at Denary ; she gave legacies also to John and Ralph sons of Sir Ralf She/ton; and to her daughter dame Margaret Shelton, a pair of gold beads for lite, and then to Alice Heveningham, daughter of Sir Ralf Shelton; to Eliz. Beding field, daughter to her son Robert, her god- daughter, 500 marks, of such money as she and her son Robert ought .to have of Sir Edmund Bedingjield, Kut. for the marriage of John his son and heir, to her god-daughter. In 1493, Philip Calthorp, Esq. and others, held their first court to the use of Robert Clere, Esq. and in 1506, a court was held in his own name, and that of Alice his wife, daughter of Sir Will. Boleyn of Blickling, Knt. and he was suc- ceeded by Sir John Clere, Knt. his heir, who married Anne, daughter of Sir 27(o. Tirrel, Knt. and in 1550, Edward Clere, Esq. his son, held his first court ; he married Frances, daughter and heiress of Sir Ric. Fulmerston of Thetjbrd, Knt.9 and settled this andTJiarslon manors on Anne his mother for life, S'uJoh/t Tirrel, Knt. his uncle, being trustee; at his death, Sir Edward Clere of Ormesby, his son, had it; he mar- Tied Margaret, daughter of Will. Yaxley of Yaxley in Suffolk, Esq. whose son Sir Henky Clere of Ormesby, Baronet, mortgaged it to Mr. John Browne of Sparkes in Tacolneston, who afterwards joined with Sir Henry, and sold it to Richard Biockden or Brogden, alderman of Norwich, son of James Biockden, sheriff of Norwich in U>79> and Rebecca Guscoign his wife; he married Mary Doag/as of Norwich, their son James Brocden was killed before Namur about 1 690 ; he had three wives; \,Mary, daughter of Hugh Bokcnham, alderman of

8 The market and/air have been long since disused. 9 See vol. ii. p. 66.

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Norwich; 1, a daughter of Martin Skypp of North-Tudenham ; S, a daughter of Tho. Woode of Brakene, Esq. but had no issue; his mo- ther Mary held this manor for life; and afterwards remarried to Joint Ladd, surgeon of Norwich; and it after belonged to Benjamin An- drewes, who sold it to Edmund Knipe of Tacolneston, Esq. the present lord, who hath a good house here, about two furlongs west of the church, anciently the seat of the Brownes, called Sparkes ; William Knipe, Esq, is his son and heir.

WILLIAM'S MANOR

Was granted to William sirnamed of Tacolneston, the place of his birth and habitation, from whose christian name the manor took its name; he was succeeded by Eustace, and he by Hugh his son, who owned it in 11 yd; and in 1249, it was found, that he held it at a whole knight's fee, but was not yet knighted. In 1256, Adam de Tacolneston had it ; and in 1284, William de Tacolneston was returned of full age, and fit to be knighted; and in 1285, by the name of Sir William de Tacolneston (though he is often called Sir William Filz-Eustace) he had view of frankpledge of all his tenants, and assise of bread and ale; the King's bailiff of the hundred attending at the lete, and receiving I8d. per annum; he was lord in 1297. In 1305, Richard de Tacolneston had it; in 1308, R. de Tacolneston settled on Anastaia, daughter of Robert de la More of Brakene, divers lands, &c. here and in Forncet, for life, remainder to himself; and in 13 1 6, the said Richard was lord. In 1381, John de Tacolneston was lord ; the famous John Tacesphalus (I believe) who was born here, and was elected prior of the Carmelites or White-friars in Norwich in 1404, of whom Pits speaks, p. (J07. He was 1). D. a man of great learning, remarkable piety, and a good orator; a great preacher against the disciples of Wicklijf, Hits, and the Lollards; he published two books by way of comment on the Revelations ; a collection of sermons for the Saints days, and many others; and to make them of the greater authority and esteem, he went to Pope Martin V. to Rome, to obtain his appro- bation and publick recommendation, which he had just obtained when he died, and was buried there; and it is probable, the manor fell by escheat, to the lord of Forncet manor, of which it was held, and con- tinued with it till about 1570, when the Earl of Arundel was returned lord of William's manor in Tacolneston, and chief lord of the commons there, in right of the Earl's manor, which belonged to Forncet manor; but it was sold by the Earl to the Cleres, and by them to the Brownes; and in 1623, Edm. and Rob. Browne, son and heir apparent of Edm. articled with Tho. Knevet, Esq. and for 1900/. sold him Ta- colneston manor, and the manor of William's, with the advowson and the rents of assise there above 11/. per annum, 6 capons, 2 hens, and .5 eggs; but it did not take place, for William's manor des- cended to John Browne, who joined and sold Tacolneston manor as aforesaid, to James Brockden, but kept this to himself; in 1657, the said John Browne the elder, Gent, was lord, and in 1664, John Browne, his eldest son and heir, kept his first court, in which it was found, that the custom of the manor is to the eldest son : and it hath continued ever since in the Brownes, and at the death of Richard

^6S TACOLNESTON.

Browne, it descended to his son, the Rev. Mr. John Browne, rector of Ashwelthorp, who is the present lord.

EARL'S MANOR

Was held as aforesaid by Simon Fitz-Richard, and in 1 199, by Richard Fitz-lValter; in 1277, Robert Fit z- John and Maud his wife settled it on Richard de Eye, and it bad three messuages, seven score and three acres of ground, 50 acres of wood, a mill, Sec. In 1306, Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk and Marshal of England held it jointly with Alice his wife, of Robert Fitz-lValter, by the service of two parts of a fee; aud from that time to this, it hath passed as Forncet manor.

The church is dedicated to all the Saints ; when Norwich Domes- day was wrote, Hugh de Dovedale was patron ; the rector then had no house, but two barns, and 23 acres of glebe, though now there is a house, barn, and outhouses, adjoining to the north side of the churchyard, and about 30 acres of glebe. It was first valued at 10, after at 12 marks, and paid 6s. 8d. procurations, 3s. synodals, 2s. 6d. Peter-pence, and 8rf. carvage; and the town paid 2/. 10s. clear to every tenth. The Prior of Bokenham's temporals were taxed at 6d. and those of the monks ofThetford at 2s. ob. The rectory stands undischarged in the King's Books at 12/. pays first fruits, and 1/. 4s. yearly tenths. There were two gilds here, the one of All-Saints, and the other of St. Nicholas. The church was rebuilt about 1503, for there were about that time, many legacies given to the foundation of the church of Tacolneston. The tower is square and hath five bells in it; the nave and chancel are thatched, the south isle is leaded, and the south porch tiled. In 1520, John Bannister was buried in the churchyard by Cici/y and Beatrix his wives, and gave his manor of Aldham-hall in Lancashire, to his eldest child. In 1543, Will. Bexwell af Tacolneston, was buried in the church.

Browne of Tacolneston, or, abend vert. Crest, a buck passant proper Guillim abridged, vol i. p. 55.

Ricardus Browne de Sparkes in hac Parochia Gen. hie jacet Sepultus, qui mortem obijt 21 Die Augusti A. D. 1678, aet. suae 45. Browne impaling Knevet. Pietate et Charitate.

Hie jacet Corpus Murielis nuper Uxoris Johannis Browne, apud Sparkes Generosi, quae fuit una Filiarum Johannis Knevet Generosi, et Vitam banc cum morte commutavit 16° Die Marcij 1G71.

Hie jacet Corpus Johannis Browne, apud Sparkes Generosi, qui Vitam banc migravit 2y° Die Stpt. A. D. 1666.

Hodie mihi, Cras tibi. Margaret Wife of Thomas Browne, one of the Daughters of Mr. John Fiamingham of Stucay, 19 Jan. 1682. Death was thy Gain, tho' Lass to me, Who lost my better Half in Thee.

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John son of Thomas Browne of Tacolneston, died in 1587. Thomas son of Ric. Browne late of Brandish, Sept. 18, lt>79- Tho. son of Tho. Browne, April 30, 1696. ilfrt?y lale wife of Tho. Browne 1696.

Mary Knipe, March 30,1705. .Henry son of Edm. Knipe Gent. 30 Dec. 1713. All these in the nave.

In the south isle is a stone for, Mary Catherine Browne Dr. to Mr. Robert Browne, and Mary his Wife, Jan. 14, 1675.

There is a stone in the churchyard, for Thomas Browne of Saxling- ham-Thorp, 24 Oct. 1720, 51. The Brown es are an ancient family, having been in this parish ever since Henry the Sixth's time.

In the chancel, Anne the dear Wife of John Baldocke, Rector of Redgrave cum Botesdale in Suffolk, was buried here Oct. 11, 1692. Phillippa their daughter lies on the north side, 1676.

Mary daughter of Robert Kedington of Hockham, Esq. in Norfolk, and of Philippa his wife, Nov. 19, 1691.

William Lynne of Bintre in Norfolk, Gent. 27 Dec. 1678.

In the east window, quarterly, 1, Barry, or Berry, arg. a chevron between three bears heads sab. muzzled or. 2, lost. 3, Paston. 4, Mawtby. In a north window Bohun.

RECTORS.

1310, Hugh de Dovedale, accolite. Sir John son of Sir Hugh dt Dovedale, Knt.

1311, George de Uvedale, accolite. Ditto.

1311, Hugh de Dovedale again, being now sub-deacon; he was insti- tuted by George de Uvedale, his proctor, who resigned to him. Ditto.

1349, Nic. de hide. Lady Margaret de Dovedale. 1361, Sir Thomas de Uvedale, Knt. gave it to

John Broun, or Browne, vicar-general to the Bishop,1 and dean of Chapel-Field college, where he was buried,* who changed this for that deanery in

1374, with John de Henneye, late dean. 1400, John Fremingham and other trustees, presented

Stephen Praty; and in

1410, Roger Haghe had it, of the gift of Tho. Uvedale, Esq. In

1443, Sir Robert Stevenson succeeded, on the presentation of Eliz. Clere of Tacolneston, widow,3 late wife of Robert Clere of Ormesby ; on whose death, Robert Clere, Esq. her son, gave it to

John Pyndtr, who in 1494, resigned, and Richard and Robert Southwell, Esqrs. as guardians to the heirs of Richard Hotdich, late of Didtinglon, Esq. presented Thomas Castleford, who resigned in

1498, to William Isbellys, who upon his institution, gave security to the Bishop, that he would pay a pension of 5 marks per annum to Thomas Castleford, that now resigned to him, as not being able to serve the cure. In 1540, at hbell's death,

1 Vol. iii. p. 632. 3 Regr. Wolmer, fo. 161.

2 See vol. iv. p. 170.

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170 TACOLNESTON.

Robert Frosdit or Frosdike was presented by Robert Eusing, Gent, and John Siyond, chaplain, by grant from Sir Tho.Clere, Knt. About

1556, Sir Robert Poynter had it; at his death in 156-2, Edxv. Clere, Esq. gave it to

Thomas Bunting; at his death in 1574, Tho. Paris, Gent, presented

Will. Mellinge, on whose resignation in 1577, Sir Edward Clere gave it to

George Gurnay, who in 1603 returned answer, that here were ICO communicants. In

1618, John Taylor; he held it united to Thugarton, and was pre- sented by Thomas Palgrave of Pulliam, who had it of the gift of Sir Thomas Knevet of Ashzcell-thorp, Knt. and he in 1589, had the turn of E/iz. Trevor, who had it of Sir Edzc. Clere. In 1643, John Taylor, senior, clerk, gave it to

Daniel Colby ,who resigned the same year, and Taylor, senior, gave it to

John Taylor, junior. In 1660, Bobert Baldock, Esq. presented

Will. Smithies, who resigned in 1671, and then the said Robert, by the name of Sir Robert Baldock, Knt. gave it to

John Baldock, who resigned and took Redgrave in 1681, and Richard Kenington had it of the gift of Robert Baldock. Knt. Serjeant at law, who was deprived for not taking the oath to Will. III. and in 1690, Sir Robert gave it to

Charles Ward, afterwards rector of Mileham, who held it united to Hockering ; he resigned in 1705, and

Horace To&neshend had it, of the gift of George and Mary Toaneshend ; at whose death in

1706, the Rev. Mr. Thomas Tozvnshend, the present rector, who holds it with Shipdham, was collated by lapse.

The advowson was sold from the manor by Sir Henry Clere, and was after purchased by Sir Robert Baldock, who descended from an ancient family of that name in this county, for Richard Bal- dock ot'\eketon owned a good estate there in 1263; in 1683, the said Robert was appointed King's serjeant by patent, and being an active man in King James the Second's time, he was one of the King's council at the trial of the seven Bishops in l688,+ in which cause, showing much zeal, he was the same year made one of the justices of the King's Bench, in the room of Sir John Powell, Knt. who was turned out for maintaining, that the Bishops petition to the King could not be a libel ; because it was founded upon the King's inca- pacity to dispense laws ; which was very true : he had two wives, first Mary Bacon ; 2d, the relict of Sir H ittiam Hezcet of Breccles ;■ by the first he had two children, Henry his only son, who died without issue> soon after his father, and left his only sister Mary, then wife of George Toaneshend of Little-Wrvtham, Esq. his sole heiress, whose only surviving son is the present rector. Sir Rob. Baldock afore- said built a house opposite to the south part of the churchyard, which-.

+ Rapin, vol. xv. p. 143, 4.

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is commonly called Tacolneston-Hall, in which he dwelt, but now be- ing decayed, great part of it is pulled down. This estate with the advowson, was sold some years since to Mr. Ferrer, who left it to his son William Ferrer, Gent, and his sister, carried it to her husband, Bernard Hyde, Gent, of Seven-Oak in Kent, the present patron.

FUNDENHALE,

At the Confessor's survey, belonged to one of his thanes named Bcr- k art, who owned the chief part, and was patron of the church, which had then 24 acres of glebe ;s Albric, a freeman of Bishop Stigund, had another part; and there was a berewic in \elonde (*), which be- longed to it: Walter de Dol, lord of Habetuna or Hapten, became lord here, and made these two villages one manor; he had them both of Roger Bigot, who held them of Earl Hugh, except two parcels, which the said Roger kept as belonging to his manor of Jbr«cer(:),with which they always passed to this time. This town was a league in length, and half a league in breadth, and paid \Sd. ob. to the tax.

The MiKOE was very earh- in a family, which took their name from the town of N orth-Creke, where they were lords, and alwavs resided. Sir Robert de Creke much augmented his estate, bv marrying one of the heiresses of the G/anvilles family; after whose death, he married again ; for in 1233, Richemeia his widow, was lady of the manor, which she then resigned to Sir Bartholomew de Creke, her son, who married Margery daughter of Jeffery Haines,

5 Terre Hugonis Comitis. Hund. lib. horn, qui sunt in Habetuna, unus

Depwade Doms. fo. 74, 5. Stigandi, et alter Guerta et habent xc.

Fundehala tenet Rogerus Bigo- acr. semper v. vill. et vii. bord. tunc

Tus quam tenuit Burkart teinnus. iii. serv. tunc iii. car. et dim. m° ii.

T. R. E. ii. car. terre, semper xi. vill. et xvii. acr. prati. Add;dit etiam iii.

et xi. bor. tunc iiii. serv. modo iii. lib. hom. viii. acr. tunc valuerunt xii.

semper ii. car. in dom. et iiii. car. sol. In Habetuna i. ecclesia xv. acr.

hom. xx. acr. prati, ecclesie xxiiii. acr. Ex hoc toto fecit Gualterus de Dol unum

libere terre, silv. xiii. pore, m* i. nine, manerium, et totum simul val. ix. l.b.

et ix. anim. et xxx. pore, et xlviij. oves, et habet i. leug. et dim. in longo et

et xlviij. capr. et i. soc. i. acr. tunc dim. in lato et xiii. den. et ob. de gelto.

valuit xl. sol. In eadem ii. car. terre Rogerus Bigot tenet de Comite et Habe-

tenuit Aluricus liber homo Stigandi, tuna i. leug. in longo et 5 quar. in lato

semper v. vill. et xvi. bord. tunc vi. et vi. den. et iii. ferding. de gelto. (')

serv. rn° iii. semper ii. car. in dom. Terra Rogeri Eigoti. H. Depwade,

tunc iiii. car. hom. post et ra*. iii. et fo. 140, 1. Fornesseta, &c. In Fdk-

xx. acr. prati, silv. xxx. pore, semper dahala i. lib. homo viii. acr. et dim.

i. mol. et iii. sochemani xii. acr. tunc car. In Fundehaia ii. lib. hom. Ix. acr.

valuit lx. sol. et hie pertinet una bere- quos tenet OsUrtus et ii. bor. tunc ii.

wita Lilanda, &c. (6) as at p. 116. Huic car. m° i. et dim. manerio addidit Galterus de Dol ii.

172 FUNDENHALE.

widow ofLe Clerk, who survived him, and was lady in 1251, and in that year, resigned all her right in this manor and those of North- Crehe, Combes, and Flixton in Suffolk, to Robert de Creke, her eldest son and heir ; but on his death without issue, she had it again ; and in 1274, had view of frankplege and assise of bread and ale allowed her here; about 1258, she founded Flixton nunnery in Suffolk, and at her death, John de Creke, her son, inherited, who in 1285, obtained a charter of free-warren from King Edward I. for this manor, and that of Creke, when it was found that it extended into Hapton and JVimondham, and that one fee of it was held of Chester honour, and another of the Earl-ilfarsAa/, as of Forncet manor; but he dying without issue, his inheritance went to Sir John de Thorp, Knt. (called John Fitz-Robertf in right of Margaret (or Margery) his wife, daughter of Sir Robert de Creke, and at length coheir of Sarah de Creke, sister to Sir John de Creke, and wife to Roger Fitz-Osbert,9 and from him it descended to Robert Fit Z- John de Thorp, his son, who obtained general releases from Roger son of Peter Fitz-Osbert, and from Agnes daughter and heiress of JefferyGiltspur of Beccles, who married Agnes de Creke, his mother's sister ; Joan de Creke, his other aunt, being dead issueless. And from this time it always passed as the manor of As/mell-thorp, with which it still remains at this day, as you may see from p. 142, to p. 162.

The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and was a rectory ap- pendant to the manor, till Margery, widow of Sir Barth. de Creke, foundress of Flixton nunnery in Suffolk, gave it with a messuage and 12 acres of land,1 and many rents and services here,1 to Beatrix, prioress of Flixton, and her successours for ever;3 and that convent presented till it was impropriated to their house, by William Bate?nan Bishop of Norwich in 1547 ,* an annual pension of two marks5 being reserved to the Bishop, in lieu of jirst-fruits ; and 2s. a year to the sacrist, as to the high-altar at the cathedral, and the Prioress was to nominate and jind, a stipendiary chaplain, to be approved by the Bishop, and pay him for serving the cure ; and from that time it hath been a donative, in the gift of the impropriator, who names a chaplain or clerk, and pays him for serving the cure, to which when licensed by the Bishop of the diocese, he is a perpetual curate. John de Creke was rector sometime before Norwich Domesday was made, and had a house and 40 acres of glebe, and it was valued at 15 marks with all the tithes; it paid 2s. 8d. synodals and procurations, l6d. Peter-pence, and 3d. carvage. In 1273, the day after St. Luke's day,

8 See p. 142. Osbert, and Sarah his wife, released all

9 Ibid. 129. right in the advowson, to the nuns, they ■* This was formerly Reginald Clerk's, releasing to him in exchange, all their

the first husband (as I take it) of Mar- right in the churches of North-Creke iu

gery de Creke ; it continued in the con- Norfolk, and Combes in Sufivlk. vent till 1392, and then Margery Howel, 4 The appropriation is extant in the

prioress there, sold it to Sir Edm.de fourth Institution Book, fo. 5; see also

Thorp, .enior, Knt. and Sir Edm. de the eighth Institution Book, fo. 125. Thorp, junior, Knt. his son. 5 1 o be paid by equal portions at the

* This constiuited the rectory ma- two synods or generals, (as we now

nor, which always attended the impro- call them,) and for want ot such pay-

priation. ments, the Bishop hath power to reserve

3 In 1288, Roger Fitz-Peter Fitz- and sequester the profits.

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there was an inquisition taken in the consistory court at Norwich, on the oaths of John, vicar of Thorp, Roger, vicar of Tharstoii, Gilbert, chaplain of Hapeton, and others,6 who presented that the rector for the time being, ought to repair the church of Fit ndeuhale, and if it should happen, to rebuild it; and that a certain lady called Bertha de Fundenhale,7 gave to the said church and rectors thereof for ever, 15 acres of land in Fundenhale field, and a mark yearly rent. in the town of Harpot ' ; on condition, the rector and his successours for ever, should repair and rebuild it, as often as it should happen to want ; which lands and rent, the rector then enjoyed ; and that in a former controversy between the parishioners and Robert du Boys then rector, it was adjudged by the Bishop's official, that the rector should repair it, and not the parishioners : at the Dissolution in 1536, the King granted to Rich. Stephens and George Buck, "all the rectory and church of Funhall in the county of Noifo/k, and the advovvson of the vicarage of the parish church of Funhall, to be held by the rent of 6s. 8d. per annum, and the yearly stipend of one chaplain performing divine offices, and taking the cure of the souls of the said parish ;"and in 1547, Stephens had license to sell it to Sir John C/ere, Knt. and his heirs. Afterwards, Thomas Rnevet of Ashwell-thorp, Esq. lord here, and the inhabitants, petitioned the House of Com- mons, that the Lady C/ere of Cotton, late wife of Sit Francis Clere, and John Smith, Esq. who purchased the reversion of the impropri- ation of Sir Edward Clere, brother to the said Sir Francis, who died without issue, might be called to show, why they should not pay a competent stipend out of the profits, sufficient to find a serving mi- nister, that might serve it regularly, and continue with them, instead of such poor stipends as 12 "or 16 pounds a year at most, by reason of which, no minister would stay any time on the cure, there having been 40 returns of curates in the memory of one man ; but it appear- ing that one Mr. Symouds, who obtained a presentation from the King in 1608, could not enjoy it, as not being presentative ; but that the impropriator was to nominate a chaplain or curate, and pay him out of the profits, a competent stipend, they were dismissed. However, Mr. Edward Voice, the then curate, being returned to the house as a " godly, conscionable, and painful preacher of God's word," was appointed minister, and had a competent stipend8 assigned him out of the profits, by virtue of the order of the House, made Dec. 19, 1640. The impropriation now belongs to John Berney, Esq. of Swer- deston.

RECTORS.

Ric. de Eye.

Will, de Giffard, rector in Bishop Turb's time. 1270, Rob. du Boys, rector.

John de Creke, rector. Walter Blench. 1315, Will, de Clare, presented by the prioress and nuns of Flixton ; he resigned in

6 Coll. P. L. N. ex autog. inter cartas 8 They petitioned for 30/. per annum Manerij de Fundenhale, apud Ashwell- and an apartment in the parsonage- thorp, house, which was not allowed, but only

7 Bertha de Glanville of Fundenhale. 20/, per annum.

174 FUNDENHALE.

1321, to Ric. de Geyst, in exchange for Helmingham.

1341, Henry Becke of Beccles, the last rector. In

1603, Mr. John Peat/, curate, returned answer, that he was perpe- tual curate, it being a donative, and there were 93 communicants in the palish, which paid 46s. to each tenth, and in 1627, Richard P un- der, A. B perpetual curate here, returned much the same account.

The Prior of Witnondham's temporals were taxed at 12rf. and the spirituals of the Prioress of Flixton at 15 marks,9 and were to pay c20s. to each tenth ; but in 1347, the nuns being returned to be very poor, they were excused the tax. Here was a gild of St. Nicho/as, and lights before his image, and that of the Virgin in the church, which is built in the collegiate form, with a square tower, under which William Petifer, parish chaplain, was buried in 1374 ; and in 1460, William Norman, parish chaplain here, was interred in the chancel, and Master Fergeant, D. D. a friar-minor, was to pray for him in his con- vent at Norwich ; he was a benefactor, as was John Daniel,1 who was buried in 1418 in Magdalen-chapel in St. Stephen* church in Norwich, and gave 20 marks to repair this steeple, and ordered a priest to celebrate a whole year in the church, for the souls of Roger and Christian his father and mother, &c. There are three bells, on the first,

l. .fionttu Sum s'anu.s', mc fecit Baxter Ricardus. £. 4Wuncre Baptiste, Scncbtctu^ £it Chorug tjStt.

The rood-loft is whole and painted ; in the middle of it is a shield with the East-Angles arms, and round it,

Hoe ftcr 45cnti£ anglorum, ftu ffifejc i3cgi.£ 3ng(orum,

O Eadmunde!

5rioji jjiartnrum, tocfuu tfosa toct lUIium, &c.

Next is a J3. with the cross keys, for St. Peter, and the arms of Flixton nunnery, gul. a Catherine wheel, with a cross arg. that house being founded in honour of St. Catherine ; next is a crown and mitre, and .§. $. for St. Nicholas, the patron of the church ; there are two or three stones disrobed of their brass plates, under one of which, lies buried John Kemp of Fundenhale, by his mother: Margaret his wife, and John his son survived him, and inherited his estate here.

There was anciently a manor or free tenement called Sundays, which was joined to the other manor early, and now continues with it.

William Knyvet, Gent, second son to Edmund Knyvet, Esq. Serjeant porter to King Henry V11I.3 married Dorothy, daughter of Mr. Themilthorp, and by will dated Nov. 26, 1594, ordered his body to be buried in the church of Fundenhale, where he lived, leaving two sons and two daughters ; 1, Muriel, married to Jeffry Abbs, and had issue, id, Amphillis, married to Mr. Johnson, and left issue, Anne.

9 In 1433, Kat. Pilly, Prioress of to wait on her, and an honourable pen-

Flixton, resigned, being old and blind, sion for life, out of this impropriation.

but as she had governed well and lauda- » See vol. iv. p. 132,

bly, the Bishop, as patron of the nun- * See p. 153. nery, assigned her a chamber, and maid

HAPTON. 175

Thomas, the second son died without issue. And John Knyvet of Fuiidenhale, his eldest son, married Joan daughter of Robert Browne of Tacolneston, and had John Knyvet of fuiidenhale, who married Joanna Sutton, from whom descended William Knyvet, Esq. of Fundenhale, the present coroner for the county of Norfolk.

HAPTON,

.H.APETON, Habeton, or Harpton advowson, 3 was given by Sir Robert Je Nerford, founder of Lingerescroft hospital by North-Creke, afterwards called the monastery of St. Mary de Pralis, or Creke abbey, to that house, to which it was appropriated, and was to be served by ^chaplain or parish curate, to be nominated by the convent, and paid a competent annual stipend for the service, out of the profits; and Alice daughter of John Pounchard, formerly wife of Sir Robert deNerford, confirmed it, with ihe moiety of the church of IVrenning- ham (as at p. 1 19,) as did King Edward I. in 1273.*

The church is dedicated to St.Margaret, was first valued at 7, and after at 8 marks, and had 23 acres of glebe ; it paid 5s-. procura- tions, 22<1 synodals, 8(/. Peter-pence ; and Ad. carvage ; and the Abbot paid for his spirituals, 10s. 8d. to each tenth, and for his tem- porals 25s. id. In 1314, John Ashwell, by royal license, aliened to the Abbot of Creke, three roods of land in Hapton, to enlarge the site of the rectory-house there. In 1426, Brother Robert felbrigge, abbot of Creke, sold to John flete and his heirs, a messuage called Da/yots in Hapton, and 4 acres of land, paying 2s. and an hen yearlv to that house. In 146 1, John Shetton, Esq. lessee to John, abbot of Creke, sealed to John Wode, then parish chaplain of Hapton, all the lands, houses, great and small tithes, for 10 years. About 1506, this monas- tery was looked upon as dissolved, because the abbot died without a convent, to elect another; whereupon, all the lands and revenues, bv the procurement of the Lady Margaret Countess of Richmond, mother to King Henry VII. were settled on her college in Cambridge called Christ's college; and ever since, the impropriation hath remained in the master and fellows there, who nominate a perpetual curate to serve the parish, and pay him out of the profits, it having been es- teemed a donative in their gift, ever since the foundation, and as such it now remains.

In 1603, Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, perpetual curate, returned answer, that there were 43 communicants, that the whole parish paid 50s. to each tenth, and that Christ's college had 23 acres of glebe. The

3 It is to be observed, that the advow. from which family it went to the

son did not attend the manor, but be- Nerfords. longed to the Bigot's manor of Forncet, + Tanner's Notitia, fo. 357, and was by them infeofl'ed in the Crek.es,.

176 HAPTON.

Prior of Thetford was taxed at 22i. ob. for temporals here; the Prior of JVahingham 6d. the Abbot of Sibeton 10s. and the Prior of Buken- ham Zs. 9 J. ob.

The church hath no steeple, the nave is leaded, and the chancel thatched; in the east window are the arms of Thorp, Clifton, and Caily, and at. three croslets arg. but there are no other memorials. There is a bell hanging in a wooden frame in the churchyard.

On the stocks ;

Those that fear God, and keep an honest Name, Shall not come here, to undergoe the Shame, Then you that suffer, don't true Justice blame.

There was an ancient family sirnamed from the town; in a deed without date, Stephen son of Eustace de Habeton, was an owner here, and in 1348, Will, de Habetun, and in 14)2, John Hapton of Wimondham.

By a deed without date, William jipu/iensis gave to God and the church of St. Michael at Florendona or Flordon, 3 acres in Habbetona or Hapton, between the land of Roger son of William the priest, and the glebe of St. Margaret's church at Hapeton, for the benefit of his own soul, and those of his father and mother, of Margaret his wife, and of Roger Glanvile, and all his ancestors; Safrid, the priest of Habbeton, and Michael the parish chaplain of Flordon, and many others, being witnesses.

The manor was joined to that of Fundenhale at the Conquest, by Walter de Dol ; the church had then 15 acres of glebe. The town was a mile long, and a mile and a quarter broad, and paid 6d. 3q. to the geld. s It was always held of the Norfolk family, as of Fomcet manor, at one quarter of a fee, and always attended the manor of Aslmell-thorp, as at p. 142, to p. 162, to which I refer you. The manor-house is called Hapton-hall, and was always the jointure-house of the Knevet family. The style of the manors now runs, Ashwell- thorp with Wreningham, and Fundenhale with Hapton.

The manor of Fomcet extended into this town, and hath done so ever since the Conquest, for then Herbert, chamberlain to Roger Bigot,6 had a freeman and 15 acres; and another freeman late of Bishop Stigand, 7 held 30 acres, &c. and there were 4 freemen 8 that always belonged to Fomcet, that held 36 acres, &c.

There was another part in this village of about 90 acres, and some small rents held by knight's service of 'William de Vallibus, or Vaus, and in 1221, was settled by William de Langham, on Robert de Nerford, and was held in 1341, by Robert son of William Dun, of Roger h Strange, lord of Knokyn, and Dame Joan his wife. In 1421, Sir

5 See at p. 171. 7 Terra Rogeri Bigoti, H. Depwade

6 Depwade Hund. In Appetuna i. Doms. fo. 140.

lib. xv. acr. val. xxxiid. hunc tenebat In Fornesseta, &c. InHABiTUNA

Herbertus CamenuusRogeriBigot e\ horn, i.lib. homo Stigandi T. R. E. xxx.

ComitisEusTACHij eum calumpunian- acr. tunc i. villan. semper ii. bar. eti.

turad suum ieuduni et est de suo feudo, car. in dominio tunc dim. car. modo est in manu Regis, de hoc dedit 8 In eadem iv. lib. horn, xxxvi. acr.

Herbertus vadem de xvid. quos habuit. et dim. car. et iv. acr. prati. Doms. lb. 303.

ASLACTON. 177

Robert Carbonel, Knt. owned them, and after him, Sir John Carbonel and Margery his wife; which Sir John hy his will proved in 1425, gave 10 marks to each of his executors, out of his manors of Brey- deston, Caston, Shipdham, and of his lands and tenements in Brising- ham, Hapten, &c; and in 1426, they were held as parcel of Wormegey honour.

In 1345, Wido de Verdon, held a knight's fee in Brisingham and JIapton,9 of the Abbot of Bury, and the Abbot of the King, in chief, or in capite.

ASLACTON,

Or Oslac's town, and Estington, commonly called Aslington, was a berewic to the manor of Fomcet, and was a league long, and half as much broad, and paid Qd. to the geld.1 Here was a. socman who held 6 acres, belonging to Alan Earl of Richmond* and passed afterwards with the manor, which was granted from Fomcet, when Roger Bygot infeoffed William de Verdon in William Rufus's time, as may be seen in my account of Brisingham, vol. i. p. 49; and it remained in the Verdons, till Wido de Verdun gave it in marriage with his eldest daughter Alice, to Nic. de Bruneste, who was to hold it of Verdon at one fee, and Nicholas gave it with Oriel or Muriel, his daughter, in marriage to Walter Malet and their heirs, together with SaxUngham. In 1263, John son of Alexander de Vaux, had a grant for a weekly market and yearly fair here,3 and fur free-warren in Cruche- stoke, Boston, and As/acton, by patent from Henry III. In 1 288, V/alter de Kerdeston held two fees, one here, and the other in Bulcamp in Suffolk, which were assigned to Will, de Roos of Hamlak, and Maud his wife, on the partition then made of the estate of her father John de Vaux of Holt and C/ey. In I2Q6, it belonged to William de la Chambre, and was settled on Thomas de la Chambre. In 1306, it was settled by Reginald le Gros, on Oliver de Redham and Joan his wife, and was then held ofTho. de Verdon, who held it of Fomcet. In 1309, Will, del Park of Ilketishale in Suffolk, (from whom the manor took the name of Parks,) and his partners, held the manor late Tho- mas del Chambre 's, and the tenements late Ric. de Sething's, of Sir

9 See vol. i. p. 50. horn, Hiii. acr. terre tunc ii. car. modo i.

1 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Depewade H. iv. acr. prati de iii b; ex his xicim (un-

Fornesseta, &c. et i. bereuita Oslac- decim) habuit antecessor Roberti Malct

tuna lxxx. acr. semper vi. bord. tunc ii. com. T. R. E. et die qua Wills. Malet

car. in dom. et m" similiter tunc i. car. mortuus est fuit saisitusde duobus, hoc

horn. vi. acr. prati, silv. iv. pore, tunc tenet Hugo. (to. 140.) In Aslactuna i.

i. rune, tunc v. anim. m° i. et i. pore. lib. homo (Ojlac) i. car.

et iii. soc. vi. acr. tunc dim. car. et Os- * Terre Alani Comitis. Doms. fo.

lactuna i. leug in longo. et dim. in lato, 71. Depwade 11. In Oslactuna i. soc.

ctix. degelto. In Aslaketunai. soc.xxx. vi. acr. Vide Append. Kegr. Honoris

acr. semper i.car.et ii.bor.et iii.acr. prati. Richmond, fo. 16.

(Dons, to. 139.) In Oslactuna xi. lib. 3 Seep. 44; they are now disused. VOL. v. A a

178 ASLACTON.

John Verdon, and he of the Ea\\- Marsha I, in right of Elizabeth his wife, one of the daughters and coheirs of John son of James de Ilkets- hale ;* Edm. de Specteshale and Margaret his wife, and Roger sun of John de Specteshale having released their right, and all joined and settled the whole for life, on Amabilia wife of Richard de Shimpling, in whose right the said Richard was lord in 1315 ; but at her death it came to the Parks again, and Will, del Park* was lord in 1345, and in this family it continued, till Joan Park, the sole heiress of the fa- mily, inherited it ; she first married John Duke of Brampton in Suf- folk, by whom she had issue Thomas; secondly to John, Strange, Esq. of Norwich, 6 who made his will in 1479, and ordered all right in this manor, and in Wackton and Hedenham Park's manor, to be released by his executors, to Tho. Duke and his heirs, he being the son of his first wife Joan, if he would grant Eliz. his second wife and widow, an annuity for life, of ten marks a year, which being done, it was vested absolutely in the said Tho. Duke and his heirs; he married Margaret, daughter and heir of Henry Banyard of Spectishall, and they had this manor with Park's manor in Wacton and Hedenham, and Brampton manor in Suffolk, which they left to William Duke of Brampton, who married Thomasine, daughter of Sir Edw. Jenny, Knt. and were suc- ceeded by their son George Duke of Brampton, Esq. who married Anne, daughter of Sir Tho. Bievcrhasset of Frenze1 in Norfolk, their son, Edward Duke of Shading field in Suffolk, succeeded, who married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Ambrose Jermyn of Rush brook in the said county, and left it to their son Ambrose Duke of Brampton in 1597, who died in lfi09, seized of the aforesaid manors, leaving them to his son Edward, then six years old, who after he had attained to man- hood, married Catherine daughter of Sir Thomas Holland of Wortwell- hall, Knt. who in 1 631, by the name of Edward Duke of Benhale, Esq. sold the manor to Sir William Platers of Prileston or Billingford, Francis le Neve of Wiehingham, and Tho. Jacob, alias Bradlehaugh of Laxfield, in trust, for Sir William le Neve, Knt. This branch of the le Neves descended from Jeffry le Neve of Tivetshall? and Alice his wife, whose son Laurence settled at Aslacton, where he was buiied May 17, 1587, and by Ave/ine Martin his wife, left two sons, William and Jeffry: William, the eldest, married Frances daughter of John Aldham,~Genl. of Shimpling9 in Norfolk, who died in 15yy, and he in 1609, leaving William le Neve their only son and heir, who was bap- tised the 1st of July 159'2; he was educated at Caius college in Cam- bridge,1 created herald by the title of Mowbray, June '29, 1624, soon after made York herald, afterwards Noerov, and at last Clarkn- cieux, and knighted; in lr>43, he was sent by King Charles 1. the day before the battle of Edgchill, to the parliament army under the Earl of Essex, with a proclamation of pardon, to such as would lay dowu their arms; but when he offered to read it aloud in the Eaii's presence, and to deliver the effect of it, that he might be heard of those that were pres?nt, the Earl rebuked him with some roughness, and charged him as he loved his life, not to presume to speak a word

* Ilkftmhali;, G. a fess between 8 See vol. i. p. 207.

two chevrons or, acanton erm. 9 Ibid. p. 159.

' Park, az. an eagle displayed arg, * Wood's Fasti Ox. vol. ii, fo. 707,

6 See vol. iv. p. 179. where there is a large account of him.

7 See vol. ii. p. i42> 3-

ASLACTON. 17g

to the soldiers ; for obeying which command, he was very uneasy ever after. He died unmarried at 1 loxton new London, Aug. 15,l66l, and John h Neve, his brother, being dead before him, without issue in 1630, the manor and his estate, went to the heirs of his uncle Jeff'ru le Neve of Astaeton, who was born in 1578, and married Margaret daughter of Robert Burcham of Aslacton, by whom he had four sons; lyJeffry, the eldest,1 who released to his '2d brother, Wilt, le Neve, clerk, of Aslacton ;3 he had two wives,4 first, Jane daughter of Andrew Spring of Sidlesham-hall in Suffolk, by whom he had an only son John, who died without issue in 1666, and by Jane daughter of Richard Ailmer of Birdham in Sussex, his second wife, he had Mary, Jane, and William, who all died issueless, and Laurence le Neve, his eldest son and heir, who was lord here in 1697 ; he was then married, but had no issue, and his brother Richard le Neve, who was born in 1655, was unmarried in 1699; and after this, the manor was purchased by the Buxtons, by the name of Aslacton, Park's, or le Neve's manor in As/acton, the free-rents being l/. Is. bd. per annum, and the copy- hold rents 8/. 6s. lOd. q. and Robert Buxton, Esq. of Chanons in. Tibenham, 5 is the present lord, as also of William's manor in As- lacton6 and Forncet, the quitrents of which are only As. Td. a year.

THE PRIORY MANOR

Was given to the Prior of Thetford by Roger Bigot, their founder,7 together with the advowson of the church, and remained in that monastery till its dissolution in 1540,8 when it was given with that house to the Duke of Norfolk, and continued in that family till 1561, and then was sold to Charles le Grice of Brockdisli, and John Tiler, who in 1564 settled it on John Rivet and Christopher Thetford, and in 1572, Andrew Thetford had it; in 1574, after Charles le Grice's death, it was granted to Andreiv Mansfield of Norwich, Gent, and Jane his wife, whose daughter Susan was married to the said Charles, who died seized, and devised it to pay his debts; and it was sold to Thet- ford, and by him in 1598, to the Buxtons, in which family it now remains, Robert Buxton, Esq. being lord. The quitrents are 4l. 1 3s. per annum, and the fines of this and Park's manor are at the will of the lord.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael the archangel, and was given by Roger Bigot to the priory of 'Thetford, of his foundation, to

" Jeffry, eldest son of Jeffry, died Nov. Windham, A0 1670. 3, Joseph, who

1, 1 668, and left issue by Mary Brewster died young, and a daughter named Sarah,

his wife, 1, Christopher married Anne married to Daniel bcargil, rector of

Fuller of Pulham, 2, Jeffry, 3, Robert. Mulbarton ; see p. 81.

3 Buried at Aslacton 30 June, 1679. s See vol. i. p. 287, 293.

4 Robert le Neve, 3d son of Jeffry, 6 This was part of William's manor was bapt. 9 Dec. 1610, and had issue in Tacolueston, which was not granted Robert Neve of London, and Thomas, by the Earl of Arundel (as at p. 167) to who married Jane daughter of Will, le the Clere's with it, but to the Buxtons Neve, Thomas Neve, Jeffry's 4th son, soon after.

born in 1614, was married to Alice 7 It belonged before to Forncet,

Greenwood 8 Aug. 1639, and had three and was always held of it at half a fee.

sons; 1, Thomas, ofGissing, who mar- s See vol. ii. p. 108, 116. ried Sarah Duke. 2, Will, a brewer at

180 ASLACTON.

which it was appropriated, and no vicarage endowed, but was served, as it is now, by a parish chaplain or curate, it being a donative in the gift and nomination of the impropriator : there was a rectory-house and two carucates ot'g/ebe ; it was valued first at 10, after at l'£ marks, and paid 2s\ synodals, Gs. 8d. procurations, lOrf. Peter-pence, and 2d. ob. carvage. The Prior was taxed for his spirituals at 12 marks, and paid lGs. to every tenth, and for his temporals "il. Is. 3d. In 1G03,9 Mr. Thomas Chandler, perpetual curate here, returned answer, that there then were, 129 communicants, and that this town paid \Gs. to every tenth. There are now about 50 families, and weekly service, the salary being 20/. per annum.

The impropriation always attended the Priory manor, and was left by Laurence I e Neve, Gent, to Reuben Oilman of Loddon, and his heirs, and he at his death gave it to his younger brother, Mr. John Oilman, the present owner.

The nave, south isle, and south porch, are leaded, the chancel tiled, the steeple is round, and hath five bells. In the south isle,

Le Neve impaling Aldham.

Hie jacet humatus Willus: le Neve Generosus, Films et Heres Oalfridi le Neve et Avelince Martin Uxoris suoe qui JVillus: in primis nuptijs, Francescqm Filiam Johannis Aldham de Skimp- ting Armigeri Uxorem habuit ex qua Will, primogenitum, secun-

dis jSuptijs Annum. Generosi, despqnsavit, ex

filias, obijt 14° A° Dni. lfioy.

Mathew Cocke, 4 June 1672, Anne his Wife, 25 Aug. 1642.

John Wright buried in 1505, Will. Wright parish chaplain. By the altar:

Sub hoc tumulb Johannis Neveus primogenit' Oalfridi Nerei Generosi, et Alicia Bret Uxoris ejus, dum vixerunt Johan- nis Generosi Uxore sua prolem habuit, Outielmttm, Thomam, Jo- hannam, et Emmam, ob. 24° Die Nov. An° Dom. 1559.

Laurence le Neve departed this life June 29, 1724, iEt. 74, he tied 10 acres of land in Aslucton, to pay to the parish officers 20s. per annum to be given to the poor; here are only two small cottages belonging to the parish.

On a seat in the chancel, A0 1613, J. W. W. K. i - bis dat, qui cito dat.

In the chancel window is the picture of an infant in svvadling clothes,1 ■lying in a cradle, which, according to tradition, represents an orphan so left at the church style; this orphan was brought up by the parish, and from the town was called Aslac, and became a man of renown,

' The Prior of Bukenham had lands dition of paying Ss. t,d. every Lammas

here, see vol. ii. p. 361. In 1617, Will, day, viz. s-s- for the 30 acres, and 3s. $d.

le Neve had a faculty for a seat in the for the 12 acres, &c. Reyr. xix. fo. 279. church. In 1467, the impropriator sold Tho.Blorield, curate here, was seques-

the tithes for ever, of two enclosures in tered in the late rebellion. Walker, fo.

Aslacton, one close contains 30 acres, 505, part ii.

and lies near Chanons wood, the other * MSS. penes J. Anstis, Garter. E.

contains 12 acres and half a rood, called 26, fo. 24, b. Overhage or Over-house Wong, on con-

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being standard-bearer to King Edw. III.; lie is said to have married the daughter of Sir Oliver Calthorp, Knt. of Bumham in Norfolk; and this window is adorned with these arms.

I, Calthorp and Strange. 2, Warren and Ditto. 3, Bovile and Ditto. 4, Mawtby and Ditto. 5. Mawtby and Clifton. 6, Lord Grey of liuthyn, and Calthorp. 7, Calthorp and ftftAe. 8, £ms«e and CW- </;o>p. 9, Brefow and Ditto. 10, Pierpound and D«V/o. 1 1, Pierpound and Uffbrd. 1_, Stapleton and Uff'ord. 13, Aslac and Calthorp. 14, Argente'm and Calthorp. 15, Calthorp and Bacon. It), Burgulion and Calthorp. 17, Burgulion and Kerdeston. 18, Burgulion and Mawtby.

HEMENHALE.

The rectory here, was given by JValter Fitz-Robert, patron of Dun- 7/wwe priory in Essex, to that house, to which it was impropriated and a vicarage endowed, which was presented to, by the priors there, till the Dissolution, and then King Henry VIII. granted the impropriation and advowson of the vicarage, to Robert Earl of Sussex, and his heirs, to be held of him in capite, by knight's service ; and ever since they have attended the manor here, with which they no'w remain.

Before the appropriation, the rectory had a house and 20 acres of glebe ; it was taxed at 26 marks, and consequently the prior paid 34s, 8d. to each tenth. The vicarage was taxed at 10 marks, or 61. 13s. 4d. as it now stands in the King's Books, and being not dis- charged, it pays 13s. 4d. yearly tenths, and is not capable of aug- mentation. It paid 4s. synodals, 3s. Peter-pence, and Sd. carvage.

VICARS

PRESENTED BY THE PRIORS OF DUNMOWE.

1303, Robert de Nut tele.

1328, Thomas Seward of Melford.

1331, Thomas de Saxham.

1342, Thomas at Thorite of Couling. He was succeeded by

John, who in 1350, resigned to

Edmund Cristmesse. 1 3fi0, William de Rethil. 1368, Robert Larke.

1397, John Spencer of Bury, who in 1402, resigned in exchange for Moiing-thorp, with

Richard Par/ben. 1408, If ill. Mulct, resigned, and in

1444, Jcffnj Puller had it, beiDg presented by John, prior of Dun- mowe ,• at his death in

182 HEMENHALE.

1440, Nic. Denton had it ; he died in 1503, and

John Sage, succeeded, who was the last presented by the convent.

1560, John Collison, united to Fritton, lapse. On his resignation in 1564, Tho. Fit z- Walter Earl of Sussex gave it to Thomas Fain/tan, deacon,1 at whose death in 1591, Henry Earl of Sussex; presented Richard Cox, A. M. : he died in 1605, and Robert Earl of Sussex gave it to

George Shunter, who returned answer, that he had 400 com- municants in the parish.

1605, Thomas Porter. Ditto. He died in 1636, and the aforesaid Earl presented

Will. Barzoick, A. M. who was sequestered, April 28, 1644, by the Earl of Manchester, for observing the orders of the church, de- claring against the parliament and rebellion, opposing the lectures of godly ministers in the town, and swearing by his faith and troth.5 And from this time several of the intruders kept possession till 1649, and then

John Potter had it, who was buried here Aug. 4, 1692, and John Smith was presented by Sir Capel Luckyn; he held it united to Freton, and died in 1697, and

Will. Aggas was instituted. Ditto; at whose death in 1723, the Rev. Mr. John Parsons, A.M. the present vicar, was pre- sented by Lady Mary Luckyn, widow, the present patroness, and holds it united to the rectory of Bedinghum.

The church is 20 yards long, the breadth of the nave and two isles is 12 yards, being all covered with lead ; it hath a square tower about 16 yards high, and only one bell and a clock; part of the chancel is ruinated, and the remaining part is tiled ; I find no inscription, save one, On a stone in the north isle, which lies over Robert French Gent. Aiig.3\, 171 1, ^Et. 57.

The town lands were given by Mr. Sewell, and are now let at 22/. 10s. a year.

This town paid 61. 105. clear to every tenth.

In 1615, 13 Oct. Eliz. Gray, aged above 100 years, was buried here ; she was a descendent from Robert son and heir of John Grey, Esq. lord of the manor of Little-hall in Topcroft,m 1408, which manor extended into Hemenhal, IVooton, and Bedingham.

The prior of Dunmowe had anciently divers lands here, but in 1234, Thomas, prior there, sold four acres to Roger son of Will, de Hemen- hale, and in 1204, Rolf, prior there, hud sold others to Hugh son of Odo, and 20 acres in 1208, to Roger son of Henry, so that the Prior was taxed 6d. only for his temporals, and the Prioress of Bungei/ at 12d. for hers. The Abbot of Bury had a watermill and divers suits and rents belonging to it here, for which he was taxed at 34s. 4d. ; it was named Twa-grind, and was confirmed to that monastery by Walter Filz-Robert, being situate on hong Bridge, and anciently was

1 Buriedhere Jan. i, 1590. Hiscurate who was minister of God's word, was was Robert Noweli, for the register in buried June 5.

this year says, that one of that name, 3 Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, Part II. fo. 204.

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called Piper-mill on Ruc/iam river in Hemenhale, and was given bv Roger de Bukenkam, and Will, de Ruc/iam confirmed it.*

THE MANOR OF HEMENHALE

Belonged to Torn, a Dane at the Confessor's survey, had then three freemen, 41 bordars, (or copyholders,) and 54 villeins; it had one priest (or rector) and two churches, endowed with a carucate of land, and four villeins and four bordars that held two carucates more of them, valued at 15s. ; there was a wood called Schieteshagh, which maintained 200 swine, and the Abbot of St. Rennet at Holm claimed part of it ; the manor was then worth 15l.s

At the Conqueror's survey it belonged wholly with its soc, sac, and jurisdiction, to Ralf Bainard, when it had four carucates of land in demean, .38 bordars, 34 villeins, two mills, five working-horses 100' swine, and 186 sheep, it being worth 24/. 5s. a year, besides six cows, 20 swine, and two rams; it was four miles long and three broad, and paid \Sd. to the geld or tax. It had 10 acres held by a freeman, which laid in Freton and Hardwick, and Forncet manor extended hither.6 A freeman of Alwius, or Alwine, of Thetford, had 30 acres, &,c. worth ten shillings at the first survey, all which was held by Turold at the last.

This Ralph Lord Bainard was a powerful baron, one of those that came in with the Conqueror, Lord of Castle- Bainard in London, and of the barony of that castle ; all which William Bainard, his descendant,7 forfeited by his rebellion to Henry I.; and he gave the whole to Robert Fitz-Richard-Fitz-Gilbert, the first Earl of Clare, and his heirs ; and he gave it to Robert de Tonebridge, his 5th son, and he to Sir Walter Fitz-Robert, his son, who was to hold it of the barony of Buinard's castle ; this Robert was lord of the manor of Diss, with which this passed to the Fitz-Walters and Ratcliffs Earls of Sussex, as may be seen in volume i. from p. 5 to p. ] 1, being always held of the Fitz-Walter's barony.

In 1545, Henry Earl of Sussex, on his son's match with Elizabeth

* Regr. Alb. Mon. de Bury, fo. 26, valuit xv. lib. modo xxiv. lib. et v. sol.

I. the rent of it was settled on the cele. et iii. lib. horn, at quarta pars uniusliii.

rer and sacrist of Bury, and the rent of acr. et ii. acr. prati et viii. bord. tunc i.

a windmill here. car et dim. m°. i. et val. xv. sol. preter

s Terre Radulfi Bainardi Dep- hoc totum reddit hoc manerium vi. vac- wade H. fo. 251. cas et xx. pore, et xx. anetes et habet

Hamehala tenuit Torn T. R. E. ii. leug. in lungo et i. leug. et dim. in

pro manerio viii. car. terre et xvi. acr. lato, et xviii.^. de gelto. Bainard.

tunc liii. vill. modo xxxiii. tunc xli. Socam et :

bord. m°. lviii. et presbiter due ecclesie In Frietuna et in Herduic x. acr.'

i. car terre et iiii. vill. et iiii. bord. et tenuit liber homo T. R. E. et valuit

ii. car. et valent xv. sol. tunc et post xx.d. hoc est additum huic manerio.

viii. m°. nullus. tunc et post iii. car. in hoc est in Hamehala. (fo. 252.)

dom. modo iiii. tunc et post xxxv. car. 6 Terra Rogeiu Bigoti. Depwade

horn. m°. xxiii. xii. acr. prati silv. cc. Hund. Doms. fo. 251.

porci. partem istius silve calumpiiiatur Fornesseta: &c etin Hfmenhala

Sanctus Benedictus quam tenuit T.R.E. i. lib. homo Alum (sc. de Tedfcrt) com.

et vocatur Schietesliaga. tunc i. mol. mo- ta'ntum xxx. acr. et i. tar. et i. acr.

do ii. semper v. rune, tunc ix. anim. prati. silva viii. porci et valuit x. sol. et.

modo xii tunc c. porci modo. Ix. tunc tenet Turoldus.

v. oves, modo clxxxvi. tunc post et 7 Dug. Mon. Ang. Vol. II. fo. 75.

184 HEMENHALE.

daughter of Thomas Wriothesley, settled it on them and their heirs, and it remained in the family till Robert Ratcliffe sold it to Sir William Luckyn, alias Capel, son of William Luckyn by Mar- garet daughter of ThomasJeuney of Bury ;8 he was the first baronet of the family, so created 13 Car. I. and married Mildred 3d daughter of Sir Gamaliel Cape/l of Riiokzoood-ha/l in Essex, Knt. by whom he had Sir Capell Luckyn, Bart, who married Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Harbottlc Grimston of Bridficld in Essex, Bart. Master of the Rolls ; she died March 1718, aged 86.

Sir William Luckyn of Messinghall, alias Bainard's castle, in Essex, Bart, second, but eldest surviving son, succeeded ; and Lady Maky Luckyn, his widow, daughter of William Sherington, alder- man of London, is now lady and patroness ; this manor having been usually the jointure of the ladies of all its owners.

SirBARBOTTLE Luckyn, the eldest son, is dead, and the title absorbed in William Luckyn, the second son, who being adopted heir to Sir Samuel Grimston, Bart, changed his name to Grimston, and was created Viscount Grimston of the kingdom of Ireland, May 4, 17 19.

Luckyn, sab. a fess dancette between two leopards faces or. Crest, on a wreath, out of a castle triple-towered, port displayed or, garnished sab. a demi-griffin seiant of the 2d, langued and armed gut.

This manor had liberty of free-zcarren, view of lete and frankpledge in the presence of the bailiff of the King'i ; hundred of Depwade. : a weekly market on Monday, granted by Henry III. in 1225,9 and a fair on the vigil, day, and morroze, of Si. Margaret,' granted by King Edzo. I. -a pillory, ducking-stool, gallows, and assize of bread and ale, allowed in 1286. In 1327, the manor-house had a park of 260 acres, and 579 acres in demean, 96 acres of underwood, and 10/. 2s. 3d. q. rents of assize, here and in Pulham, Hardzcick, and Shelton ; and there was 61. 19s. paid yearly to the manor for castle-zcard, from. Whetacre, Chatgrave, Lang/ey, hales, Kirkby, Brom, Boketon, or Bowton, Berton, Slradset, Titteshall, Haleho/m, and Hiclewood ; viz. for every fee, every 24 weeks 3s. 4d. the whole value of the manor being estimated at 48/. per annum. In 1315, the Lord Fitz-Walter was returned entire lord of the town. In 1379, -John Fitz-Walter pro- cured a charter of King Richard III. to hold their market every Friday, and so the Monday market was laid aside; and now the Fri- day maiket is disused ; and to hold another fair on St. Andrew's day, which is sill annually kept on that day ; and the ancient chapel of St. Andrew, which at the Conquest was parochial though depen- dent on the mother-church, is now used (as I am informed) for a repository for the stalls.

8 Baronetage Lond. 1727, Vol. I. p. garet the Virgin, whose day was kept on

346. July 20, but this fair is kept now on

» Rot. Clans. 10 H. III. Mem. 19. Whitsun monday, &c. f The church is dedicated to St, Mar-

HEMENHALE.

SIR RALFS, or CURPLE'S MANOR IN HEMENHALE,

Took its name from Roger Curpeil,1 who had one fee in Hemenhale of the gift of Walter Fitz-Robert, and it was always held of the Fitz- Walters barony of Bainard's castle, as of their manor of Hemenhale ; this Roger Curpeil or Capell (as he is also called) divided the fee, one 4th part of it he kept himself, another 4th he gave to Robert Curpeil his son, and Maud his wife ; another to Richard his son, and the other to Walter de Valoines, which descended to his heirs ; and Robert de. Capell aforesaid had the 20th part3 of a fee of the gift of the said Walter Fitz-Robert ; and in 1235, Robert and Richard Capell or Cur- peil, were lords of their parts. In 1256, Alice Curpeil, Katerine, Agnes, and Isabel her sisters, granted their 4th part, viz. one mes- suage, five acres of land, and \6s. rent in Hemenhale and Taseburgh, to William de Bumpstede. In 1305, another part was settled by John de Brisingham and Joan his wife, on Roger de Wingjield ; this con- tained two messuages, 100 acres of land, three of meadow, five of pasture, and 8s. id. quitrents, here and in Flixton. The part in the Faloines family came to the family sirnamed De Hemenhale, and

Sir Ralf de Hemenhale, who was knighted by King Edw. I. (probably son of David de Hemenhale, and brother to Hervy de Hemenhale, clerk) was the first lord of that family, from whom it was styled Sir Ralf's manor ; he was succeeded by

Ralf his son, who was lord of this part in 1227, and added to it, by purchasing many lands of Roger, son of William de Hemenhale in 1234;4 he had Walter and Ralf.

Walter was lord in 1256, and was succeeded by his brother

Ralf; in 1307, Ralf de London and Margaret his wife settled a 4th part, which belonged to them, on Sir Ralf de Hemenhale and Alice his wife, who had now the whole, except one 4th part. In 1308, at an inquisition, John de Hemenhale was found to be son and heir of Ralf, and in 1327, this Sir Ralf de Hemenhale s held a mes- suage, 30 acres of land, and 30s. quitrents in Pulham, Hardwick, Starston, and Redenhale, of the Bishop of Ely at Qd. per annum.6

In 1331, John de Hemenhale7 purchased many lands, tene- ments, &c. of Ralf de Burtoft and Margaret his wife, here, and in Freton, Shelton, Long - Stratton, Waketon, Moringthorp, and Hardwick. He bare, as the Hemenhales always did, the very arms of

a Testa de Nevil. shop of Worcester, was younger brother

3 This 20th part went single a long to this Ralf; an account of him may be time ; in 1327, Will. Bainard held it of seen in vol. iii. p. 504.

Robert Fitz-Walter, and in 1349, Edm. 6 In 1335, Robert, brother of Sir

Hegge of Hemenhale owned it, but in Ralf de Hemenhale, and Agnes his wife,

1401, it was joined again to the capital had Threxton. (vol. ii. p. 365.) In

manor. 1312, John Butts of Norwich settled

4 In 1288, Ralf de Hemenhale, bro- many lands here and in Topcroft and ther of Roger, was parson of the 4th Freton, on this Robert and Margaret part of Dicleburgh. (Vol. i. p. 192, 3, his wife.

327,9,) and in 1 291, resigned it to his ' William de Hemenhale Dean of

brother John, who resigned also, but Norwich city, (vol. iv. p. 64,) in 1331,

took it again in 1322. was brother to this John ; he exchanged

s Thomas de Hemenhale elected for the deanery of the college in the

Bishop of Norwich, and consecrated Bi- Fields in Norwich. (Seevol. iv. p. 170.)

vol. v, B b

186 HEM EN HALE.

Fitz-W alter, their chief lord, viz. or, a fess between two chevrons gul. with the addition of three escalops org. upon the fess.

In 136o, Sir Ralf de Hemenh ale was lord ;8 and this year Will. Phelip and Catherine his wife, John Loveyn and Ellen his wife, settled (in case they had no issue) the manors of Radwinter and Rougho in Essex, Codrede in Hertfordshire, Wilburgham-Parva, and the ad vow- son, and Wachedon in Cambridgeshire, on Sir Ralf and his heirs ; all which his son inherited ; Sir Ralf died about 1366,9 leaving.

Robert his son, then three years old; in 1388,' this Robert in- herited Wilbur gham, and the rest of the entailed manors. In 1389, Sir Robert Hemenhale, Knt. of Hemenhale, (where this family always resided,) released to Sir George Fe/brigge, Knt. and other trustees, his manors in Hemenhale and PiJham in Norfolk, Cotton and JVickham- Skeyth, Boleshall and Yaxley in Suffolk, and all the possessions of his father Sir Ralf ; he was first husband to Joan, daughter and heiress of John de la Pole, Knt. son of Sir William de la Pole, Knt. and Joan his wife, by whom he had only one son,

William ; it appears that Sir Robert died before 1406, for in that year, William being a natural, this manor and 40s. rents in Freton, Moringlhorp and Long-Stratton, were committed to the custody of John Beaver ; but this William was dead some time before 1419, for in that year, his father's arms were fixed up in the window of the Austin-friars church at Norwich, among the rest of the knights that had no surviving issue,1 and 3

John son of Robert de Hemenhale, his uncle, inherited, and died without issue.

In 1407, David Hemenhale, Esq. lived here, and had so done for 25 years past, being then 45 years of age; he was a witness in the cause between Sir Reginald Grey and Sir Edward Hastings of Elsing, for their arms, in which he deposed, that Walter Ubbeston of Ubbeston in Suffolk was his father-in-law, and tutor to the Earl-'Marshal, who died at Venice; it seems he had no issue, for the manor went to

Sir Thomas Bbooke of Somersetshire, in right of Joan his wife, daughter and heiress of John de la Pole, by Reginald Bray brook son of Sir Gerard, her second husband, according to a settlement made on her and her heirs, by Sir Robert de Hemenhale, her first husband,4 in case of failure of the issue of his own family; and in 1468,

Sir Edw. Brooke of Cobham, son of Sir Thomas, died seized.

In 1490, Richard Blomvyle, or Blundevile, Esq.5 had his manor

s Edmund de Hemenhale, citizen and a See vol. iv. p. 87.

mercer of London, was sheriff of London 3 Richard de Hemenhale died seized

in 1345; he founded a chantry in the of Polsted-hall and Belagh manors in

church of St. Martin le Grand. Stow, Suffolk in Richard the Second's time,

p. 551. Edit. 1633. and William his son and heir came of

9 In 1379, died ^'r Will, de Hemen- age in 1403.

hale, Knt. at Gislingham in Suffolk, and + She had four husbands, her third

left Ralf de Hemenhale his nephew 20/. was Sir Nic. Hawbeck, Knt. and her

1 i375,Thomas son ufSirTho.de He- fourth Sir John Oldcastle, Knt. Lord

menhale, Knt. buried in the Austin-friars Cobham.

in Norwich, to which house this family s Sir Ralf's manor in Hemenhale was

were great benefactors. I takeit, he was held 2d H. 8, by Richard Blomevyle,of

eldest brother to Sir Will. Hemenhale John Lord Fitz-Walter, as of his manor

of Gislingham, Knt. and died before his of Hemenhale, by the rent of id. a year,

father Sir Thomas, who was buried by (Lib. Ward.) him in 1378. (Vol. iv. p. 88.)

STRATTON. tfg

and Heverlond, and died seized of them in 1603, and it continued in that family, as in Newton, at p. 64, till after 1580, and then it was sold by

Thomas Blundevyle, Esq. and in

1612, Sir William Bowyer, Knt. and Thomas Awdeley, Esq. conveyed it to Thomas Richardson and George Alyngton, Esqrs. and their heirs : and since it is nianumised and divided, so that I do not find it subsisting as a manor at present.

STRATTON,

fROPEELY called Straton, Stratum, the paved high-way, or street, it being the direct road that led to the neighbouring Roman burgh or fortification ad Taum, now called Taseburgh, and thence to their station, castrum, or camp, called Castre. In those early times, the whole of the three villages or parishes, that pass now by this name, was one only, and afterwards was often called Est rat una, the street at the e£ or water, which now parts this from Taseburgh ; it is commonly called Long-Stratton, the bounds being so large, and the stratum aforesaid running in a straight line such a long way through it.

It originally belonged to the East-Anglian kings, and the superiour jurisdiction over the whole remained in the Crown, till the Conqueror gave it to Alan Earl of Richmond, who held it at the survey, and it hath ever since attended the honour of Richmond, and belongs to it at this day.6

The whole was then 4 miles and three furlongs in length, and 2 miles and 4 furlongs in breadth, and paid 25<f. to the geld or tax. The Earl had 8 freemen that held 100 acres of land or pasture, one carucate or plough tilth, and one acre of meadow, which were valued with, and jsteemed part of his manor of Cosset/; and 17 freemen, 3 villeins, 5 bordars, 7 socmen, and the fifth part of a mill, that be- longed and were subject to his jurisdiction here; the honour held two turns or superiour letes in every year, to which all the tenants of the

6 Terre Alani Comitis. Depwade xvii. acr. etdim. car. et val. viii.sol. et

H. Doms. fo. 71. vita pars molendir.i.

In Estratuna viii. liberi horn. c. Tota Stratuna habet ii. leug. et

acr. eti. car. eti. acr. prati. hoc totum vi. quar. in longo, i. leug. et iiii. quar.

est in pretio de Costeseia in lato, et xxv. den. de gelto. (Append.

In Stratuna i. lib. homo xxv. acr. Regr. Honoris Richmond, fo. 16.)

et dim. car. et i. acr. prati et val. ii. Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Depwade

sol. H. Fornesseta, &c. Doms. fo. 123. In

In eadem i. lib. homo lxxxxi. acr. et Stratuna i. soc. xii. acr. (ibni. fo. 140.)

iii. vill. et v. bord. tunc i. car. et dim. In Stratuna vii. lib. horn. lx. acr. terre

modo i. et iiii. acr. prati. In eadem vii. time et post iii. car. m° i. et ii. acr.

soc. xxvii. acr. In eadem xv. lib. horn, prati et dimidium molendini. In Stra- tuna i. lib. iiii. acr.

188 STRATTON.

other manors, were obliged to do suit and service, as well as to the three several letes belonging to tbe three capital manors, of the three different parishes. And very anciently there was a weekly market held here, belonging to Richmond honour, but upon some disputes between the lord of Stratton-Hall, and the lessee of the honour, just before the Reformation, the market, as having no pe- culiar justification for holding it, was totally disused, and hath been so to this day. In 1435, John Duke of Bedford, lord of Swaffham and of the honour of Richmond, died seized of the superiour court here, called the Honour's turn, and the style of it was thus, the Turn and general Court of the King's Honour of Richmond, held at Stratton 30 of April 1644, when a church-warden and four men out of each parish, appeared to do the suit and service for the several parishes of Stratton, Moringthorp, Carleton, Tibenham, Moulton,Waketon, Taseburgh, Freton, Kcckletonm Fomcet, and Bun- well; in all which places it appears, that the honour had letes and royalties over the commons, and superiour jurisdiction over the several lords.

Sigebert King of the East-Angles, on his erection of the bishop- rick, gave the southern part of the town to Felix, the first Bishop of the East-Angles, and so it became part of the bis/ioprick; and in the Confessor's time, Bishop Ailmer held it as such,7 when there were 2carucates in demean, 7 villeins, 6 bordars and an half, (that is, half the services of one bordar,) 26 socmen, and 12 freemen, whose rents and services were valued at 20s. per annum ; and at the Conquest, Walter the Deacon, and one Ralf, held it of the bishoprick, in right of which they had a lete, the half of which belonged to them, and the other half, to the King and the Earl ; and the whole of the profits of this manor, was then worth 6/. per annum. The mother- church of St. Mary the Virgin, always belonged to it, which was pro- bably founded by one of the Bishops that owned it, and that before Ailmars time; and the successours of this Ralf owned the part which afterwards was called Stratton-Hall manor, and was held of the barony of the bishoprick of Norwich, till that was taken from the see by Henry VIII. and annexed to the Crown, and since it is held of the Crown in right of that ancient barony.

That part called Stratton St. Miles, or St. Michael's, was held by the Confessor till he gave it one of his thanes or noblemen, who had 2 carucates in demean ;8 this manor had 17 bordars and 7 freemen, and

7 Terra Episcopi Tedfordcmis ad epis- dulfus enm tenuit priusquam forisface-

copatum pertinens. T. R. E. Doms. to. rit ex hoc offert judicium. 147. H. Depwade. (Ibid. fo. 154.) In Stratuna xii. lib.

Stratuna tenet Walterus Diaco- horn, de quibus Almams Episcopus

jim ii. car. terre, xxx. acr. quas tenuit liabuit commendationem tantum T.R.E.

Almarus Episcopus T. R. E semper vi. cciii. acr. et x. bord. et dim. et iii. car.

vill.et vi. bor. et dim. tunc ii. car. in et vi. acr. prati, tunc valuit xx. sol.

dom. modo i. tunc ii. car. horn. m° i. modo xl.

vi. acr. prati, silva de vi. pore, et sern- 8 Terre Roberti Filij Corbutionis.

per i. molin. et i. anim. et xi. pore, et H. Depwade. Doms. to. 270. xxvi. soc. tenent Ranulfus et Galterus Stratuna tenet quam tenuit i.Teinnus

Diaconus. Rex et Comes dim. socam. T.R.E. ii. car. terre semp. xvii. bor. et

et habent lxxxiii. acr. semper ii. car. ii. car. in dom. et iii. car. hom. post ii.

semper val. iiii. lib. et ii. sol. Dimi- m° i. vi. acr. prati. silva vi. pore, sem-

dium unum ex his calumpniatur quidam peri rune, et tunc v. poic. m° xi. tuni

homo Comitis Alani, et dicit quod Ra- x. oves, m° xxvi. et vi. capr. et vii.

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was worth SO*, per annum. It was risen to 40s. value at the Conquest, and a lete belonged to it; when Robert son of Corbutio, or Fitz- Corbun, held it, and infeoffed it in one Hunfrid or Humfry, the ancestor of the family afterwards sirnamed DeStraton, lords of the manors here afterwards called Ree's and Welholme's, which last was a part of the former, granted off by iheSiRATTONS ; and though they extended into the other parts, laid chiefly in Stratton St. Michael's; the church of which, in all probability, was first founded by Hunfrid aforesaid, and the advowson attended the manor.

The third part belonged to the Crown, till the Conqueror gave it to Roger Bigot, who added one small part of it to his manor of Forucet, to which the advowson of Stratton St. Peter always belonged ; so that it is likely, this Earl was founder of that church : but the chief part he granted off, and that had the lete of all its tenants, and was afterwards called Saye's, or the manor of Stratton St. Peter.

There wasa small part that belonged to the Abbot of Buri/'s manorof Moringthorp,9 and another to St, Ethe/dred's manor of Pul/iam,1 which belonged to Ely monastery and see.

The manors called Sturmyn's and Snapehall, were firstsevered from Stralton-Hall, into which they fell again, and there continue.

And thus having fixed the origin of the several manors and parishes, I shall treat of them in their order; and first of

STRATTON-HALL, or STRATTON ST. MARY'S MANOR,

Belonged to Philip Malherbe, who was succeeded by Bartho- lomew his son, one of the lords of Tacolneston ;* and in Richard the First's time, was held by Richard Malherbe atone knight's fee, of the Bishop of Norwich, as of the barony of the see. Rog. Malherbe, who lived at Tacolneston,3 and was a benefactor to Windham abbey,4 died seized of it, and it went with one of his daughters and heiresses, to

Gilbert de Bourne, who occurs lord and patron about 1273, and came and settled here; and in 1285, was returned as a gentleman of estate, that was much above age, and ought to have been knighted, but had not yet taken up that honour, for which he was fined ; in J 286, this Gilbert had free-warren allowed him, wei/f and view of frank- pledge,1 over all his tenants, with the assise of bread and ale, on condi- tion, that the King's bailiff was always present at the lete, to see that none but the tenants of the manor did suit there ; he had also a fair allowed him to be kept once a year on the day of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary, viz. Jug. 15. This fair was first granted by King John,6 in the year 1207, to Roger de Stratton, who gave that

lib. hom. xvii. acr. de quibus suns an- In Stratuna tenuit i. soc. 12 acr.

tecessor com. T.R.E. et habet eos pro T. R. E. valuit nd. Rex et Comes

terra, tunc i. car. i. acr. prati, tunc va- socam.

luit 30 sol. m° 40. 2 See p. 164.

' TerraAbbatis de Sancto Eadmundo. 3 Ibid. p. 165.

Depwade H. Doras, fo. 184. + Vol. i. p. 516.

Torp tenet Rob. de Vals, &c. In s Placita Corone apud Norwic. in

Stratuna i. lib. homo 15 acr. et dim. Crast. Sci. Hillaiij 15 E I. Rot. 16 in

car. dorso.

1 Terra Sancte Adeldreda. Depwade 6 Rot. Pip. 9 Johannis. Hund. Doms. fo. 190.

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King one good palfrey to have his charter for liberty to hold a. fair yearly for two days, viz. on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, and the day after, at his manor of Stratton ; but it is to be observed, that he was lord of Saye's manor here, and that Bourne purchased the liberty from it, and added it to this manor; it was kept in a close opposite to the west part of the churchyard, which is still called the fuir-lond, or land, but it hath been disused many years. In 1291, there was a suit between Robert Sturmy and John Say, and Gilbert de Bourne and Elizabeth his wife, and others, about the liberties of their manors, and of a way leading to the market and mill. In 1315, Roger de Bourne was lord; and in 1325, Ralf Malherbe and Eliza- beth his wife claimed the manor against Roger son of Gilbert de Bourne, and made out their title under their claim, so well, that Roger settled an annuity of 40/. on them during their lives, for their release. In 1331, he was a knight, and was succeeded by Sir Nic.de Bourne, Knt. who in 1348, having no sons, settled all his estate on his trustees, Sir 77(0. Jenney, Sir Tho. Savage, Robert de Welholm, Robert and Thomas de Bumpstede, John Snoring, and Roger de Dersingham ; it seems that Margery, one of the daughters and heiresses of SirMc. Bourne, was first wife to

John de Herling,7 and that when the said John married Mar- garet, daughter of Sir Thomas Jenney, this settlement was made; for in 1366, Elizabeth daughter of Sir Nicholas Bourne released to John de Herling all her right in this manor and advowson, and in the ad- vowson of fVaketon St. Mary, and in all the Bournes estates in Wake- ton, Taseburgh, Moringthorp, Moulton, &c. reserving an annuity of 20 marks lo~Robert Mortimer and Margaret his wife, who seems to have been widow of Sir Nicholas de Bourne, remarried to Mortimer. He died seized of this and Sturmin's" and Snape-hall manors here; and from this time, it passed with the manor of East-Herling, as you may see in vol. i. p. 320,21, till it came to the Bedingjields of Oxburgh, by the marriage of

Sir Edmund9 Bedingfield, with Margaret daughter of Sir Robert de Tudenham, and it continued in that family,1 till Six Henry Bedingfield? sold it to

Sir Edmund Reeve, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who was preferred to that high station March 14, 1638, and died March. 27, 1647, and having no issue, left his estate to Augustine Reeve, his brother, and he to his son, Mr. Henry Reeve of Brakendale, who sold the manors, &c. to

John son of John Mallom of Booton in Norfolk, clerk, at whose death they descended to John Mallom of Wackton-Magna, who left them to John Mallom of Wackton, Esq. the present lord.

But the patronage of Stratton St. Mary, which was appendant to

7 See vol. i. p. 319, 20. ' 157°. Henry Jernegan, Esq. was

8 Sturmyn's, Snape-hall, Welholm' s, and lord in right of his wife, and the manor Ree's manors, were all in the Herling fa- was held of Hoxne manor, as parcel of mily, and have had the same owners as the barony of the see.

Bourne 's or Stratton-hzW, ever since. * See the names of the Beding-

9 Note, in vol. i. p. 322, there is an fields lords here, among the patrons, errour of the press, it being printed The pedigree and account of this ancient there, Sir Henry instead of Sir' Edmund. family is under Oxburgh.

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this manor, was sold by the present lord and his father, to Caius college in Cambridge, who are now patrons.

The lete is held annually, at which the constables for Stratton St. Mary are always chosen, and the lete-fee paid to the lord is 8(7. The customs of this manor, as well as those of the manors of Stunner's, or Sturmin's, Snape-hall, We/ham's or Welholme's, and Reese's, all which are now held with this manor, are the same, viz. all lands and tenements descend to the eldest son, the Juries are arbitrary, and they give now dower.

The manor-house called Stralton-hall ', and the demeans, were not sold with the manors but are now the estate of John Houghton of Bramerton, Esq.

The church of St. Mary, commonly in old evidences called Stratton cum Turri, viz. Stratton with the Steeple, (by which it should seem, that anciently the other two churches had none,) was in the patronage of Gilbert de Bourne, when Norwich Domesday was wrote, the rector had a house and 40 acres of glebe, now increased to 50, and paid then as it doth now, 2s. 3d. synodals, and 7*. id. ob. procurations; besides lid. Peter-pence, and 6d. carvage. In 1612, return was made, that a yearly pension of 5Qs. was paid on Michael- mas day by the rector here, to the rector of Stratton St. Michael, which is now duly paid. The rectory was valued first at 14, and after at 20 marks, and stands now thus in the King's Books :

10/. Stratton Longa Maria; R. ]/. tenths.

and being undischarged, it pays first-fruits and yearly tenths, and is not capable of augmentation.

RECTORS.

1293, Master Thomas de Boume. Gilbert de Bourne.

1319, Ric- de Bourne. Roger de Bourne.

13S2, Rob. Balle. Sir Roger de Bourne, Knt.

1349, Tho. Carotin. Sir Tho. Jenney, Knt. Rob. de Welham, Rob. de Bumpstede, and Rog. de Dersingham.

1361, Will. Armory; he was buried in the choir of the collegiate church of St. Mary in the Fields in Norwich, as in vol. iv. p. b'13. Tho. Savage, Knt. Tho. Bumpstede, and John Snoring.

1381, Robert de Straff ham Bulbek ; he was buried under an altar tomb on the north side of the chancel in 1401, which hath now lost all its brasses. John Herling.

1401, John Bakere. Cecily, relict of Sir John de Herling, Knt.

1420, Ric. Woodward, resigned. Sir Rob. de Herling, Knt.

1427, Tho. Cove, res. John Kirtling, clerk, Robert Pale- gra^'e, and John Intwood, feoffees of Sir Robert.

1434, John Bulman. John Fitz-Rauf, and other the feoffees of Sir Robert. He was succeeded by

John Clerk, on whose resignation in

1449, Will. Fur nival was presented by Sir Robert Chamber- lain, Knt. and when he resigned in 1450, that knightgave it to

Edmund Cross, who died in 1471, and was buried in the church before St, Mary's image, and gave a good missal, 3l. JOs. to

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buy a cress, and his tenement late Shot's in this town to the profit of the town. In

1469, Edmund Savage, priest, who was parish chaplain under rector Crosse, and served at the altar of St. John the Baptist in his chapel, at the east end of the north isle, and at St. Thomas's altar at the east end of the south isle, where he was buried, gave two altar cloths to lie over those altars, and a legacy to find a light to be set on his grave at high-mass, and three cruets to the three altars in the church.

1472, Will. Petj/clerk. Sir Robert Wingfield, Knt. and Anne his wife. At his death

John Pike had it, and in 1498, Sir John Person. Margaret, relict of Sir Edmund Beding- jield, Knt. at his death in 1529, Sir Thomas Bedingjield, Knt. gave 'it to

Hie. Milgate, on whose death in 1547, Sir Edmund Beding- field, Knt. presented

John Putter, who was deprived by Queen Mary for being married in 1554, and Sir Henry Bedingjield, Knt. presented

Tho. Helperhy, and in 1555, George Leedes; at whose resignation

John Rutter had it again, and died in June 1659, and was buried here, and

Ric. Gawton succeeded ; he was presented by Ralf Shel- ton, Esq. assignee of Sir Henry Bedingjield. At his resignation in 1576, Sir Henry gave it to

John Taylor, A. B. who in 1603, returned answer, that he had in the parish 180 communicants. He died in 1636, and

Tho. Carter had it, of Tho. Carver, who had a grant of the turn from Sir Henry Bedingjield, Knt. at his death in 1638, Edmund Reeve, seijeant at law, presented

John Reeve ; he took the covenant, and died Jime 24, 1657, and in

1G60, Christopher Reeve, his son, was presented by Justin Reve of Bracondale, and held it afterwards united to St. Miles, and O/ton in Suffolk, of which the Judge was patron, as well as of Stratton, and died rector there as well as of Stratton, Aug. the 14th, 1701, in which year

The Rev. Mr. John Soley, the present rector, who holds it united to Wackton- Magna, was presented by Mary Bkame, widow, patroness of the turn only.

The Prior of Thetford monks, was taxed at 12s. to each tenth, for his temporals here. The Abbot of Langley for his at 6d. The Prior of Norwich at \6d. ob. and the whole parish paid clear to each tenth, without the taxation of the religious aforesaid, 61. 10s.

There were two gilds here, the most ancient one was held in ho- nour of St. John the Baptist, and their priest officiated in his chapel at the east end of the north isle, by the grave of Sir Roger de Bourne, the founder; he was daily to pray for the souls of Sir Roger de Bourne, Knt. and all his family, and for the souls of all the deceased brethren and sisters of St. John's gild, and for the welfare of all the living members of that gild; this was endowed with a house called

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tlie Gild-hall,1 and half an acre of ground thereto belonging in Stratton, (upon which a little house is built; it was gild-land, and lately purchased for a dwelling-house for a dissenting teacher,) which being copyhold of Forncet manor, was seized by the lord at the Dis- solution, and granted to be held by copy of court-roll ; it was given in Henry the Seventh's time by Robert Barnard.

The other was dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin and St. Thomas ; the office for the members of this gild was performed at St. Thomas's altar, at the east end of the south isle,

And both held their merry-meetings and feasts, in the same gild- house or hall.

In this parish also, was an anchorage of ancient foundation, with a small chapel or oratory adjoining;4 in 1256, William de Suffield, alias Calthorp, Bishop of Norwich, gave a legacy to the anchorite here, as in vol. iii. p. 489; and at the Dissolution the chapel was granted from the Crown into private hands.

Here is an estate of 20/. per annum settled on the rector of St. Edmund in Norwich, as at vol. iv. p. 405.

STURMYN'S, or STURMER'S MANOR,

Was so called from Robert le Sturmy of Stratton, who had a grant of it from the Malherbes; and William le Sturmy, Knt. his son,* was lord of it in 1262, and held it at one fee of the Bishop of Nor- wich ; and in 1285, he had a lete, and assize of bread and ale of all tenants, allowed in eire. In 1291, Will, le Sturmy had it ; and after him Sir John de Sturmyn, who in 1327, obtained of King Edw. II. a charter for free-warren, for all his lands here, and in Moringthorp, Freton, and Tharston. Lady Mary Stounnyn, his mother, held it some time. In 1342, John Sturmy held it by 6d. a year paid to the Bishop ; and in 1345, Robert his son had it, by whom it was sold to the lord of Stratton-h.aU manor, and hath passed with it ever since ; the manor- house is down, the site is enclosed with a moat, and is now called Sturmin's Yards.

SNAPE-HALL MANOR

Was another part of the capital manor, granted to the family of the Snapes,6 and was in 1307, in the hands of Stephen de Brockdish ; it had then a house and (iO acres of demean land, quitrents to the value of 3/. 8s. Sd. and was held of the honour of Richmond, at iyd. per

3 The barn owned by Mr. Solr-y is fine, by which four virpires of land, and

the very gild-hall, and is freehold held the advowson of Bucksale, and many

of Straiton manor at is. per annum free quitrems, Sec. in Soiuhborne, Butle,

rent. Orford, Wanesdene, Tunstall, Blakes-

♦ In Stratton, libera capella niinosa, hall, Helmele, Fynesbrigg, Lilleseye,

tent, per Will. Gnce .-»rm. et Hercd ut Dunwich, and Cassen-hall, were settled

de manerio de Estgreenwich in socca^io on William soiiot Roger.

g Kliz c In 1420, Sir John Snape, rector of

5 In 1267, Will, son of Roger Sturmy St. Michael in Stratton, was a descen-

ofBucktale in Suffolk, art . I1..1 v,n dam from this family.

0! Hubert Suirury of Stratton, levied a VOL.

Cc

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annum rent: he left it to Reginald de Brokedish, his son and heir, and in 1339, it was conveyed by John Hardele and Alice his wife, and Rob.Bokenham, parson or' Hardzcick, to Sir John It Sturmyn and Maud his wife, and their heirs; and so it was joined to Stunner's manor, and with that fell into Stratton-hall manor, and there continues.

The town is a small, but compact village, and hath a good publick- house or two, for the reception of travellers ; its standing on the road from Ipswich to Norzcich makes it pretty much frequented ; the justices of the peace for this division generally meet here, and have done so very anciently, for in 1380, the justices and country gentlemen, in the time of the insurrection, met here to consult what was best to be done for the King's service and country's safety, as at p. 108, vol. iii.

St. Mary's church, hath a round steeple 54 feet high, with a small spire on its top, against which the clock-bell hangs, on the out- side ; there are now five bells, on one of which I read this,

$o£ ^ocict &anctijti temper Jiicolflug in altijS.

The steeple is a much older building than the church, the present fabrick 7 of which, was built chief by Sir Rog. de Bourne, Km. lord and patron, about 1330, and the chancel by Rich, de Bourne his brother, then rector here ; and it seems as if one John or James de Bourne, glazed the clerestories or lights in the nave, for J. B. in old capitals, remains still in several windows there, as do the arms of Bourne in the east chancel window, viz.

Arg. a chevron gul. between three lions rampant sab.

And in the north window of the Baptist's chapel, at the upper end of the north isle, which Sir Roger built for his own burial-place, is this now broken inscription,

0RAT6. PRO AIA'. ROD. ORN6. TIS.

(Orate pro anima Rogeri de Borne, militis, &ic.J

His stone is robbed of its inscription, circumscription, arms, and effigies, and nothing remains thereon, save two brass effigies of corses looking out of their winding sheets ; at the altar here, the gild-chaplain of St. John celebrated mass for his soul, and the souls of his family ; many of whom are interred in this chapel and chancel.

1 he south porch, two isles, nave, and north vestry, which is now used as a school-house, are all leaded, as is the east part of the chan- cel, the western part of which is thatched.

In the south isle. I find nothing, save these words on the poors' box, which stands at the south door, She «3)it Of %ti\)n JRacfott,

In the north isle is a stone for Hannah Wife of Thomas Park Gent, April 29, 1709.

Anne Dr. of John & Ann Browne, March 22, 17 16.

7 The nave and two isles are 56 feet yard is very large, containing about an long, and -14 broad, and the chancel is acre and a quarter. 36 feet long and 10 broad ; the church-

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On a brass plate at the east end of the nave,

©rare pro animabu^ <3johanni£ .Smith, ct Jtlargeric flirari.s' cius; mn 5,ohanries» ©btit vuiii° Die IjpripyS pcbm' E9 ©ni : |U°cccc° ■ [jcjrijr. quorum animabus propteictnr ©eu£ 3mcn.

iVeever, £o. S14, gives us these two, which are now lost: ©rate pro antmabu.S gjohanni;* 25ochec et H&argarete mjCorijS eiu^

quorum ammabug ($c. ©rate pro antma 5Thome ©rafcc qui omit 3" ©ni. It*,cecc0tjTO\

At the east end of the chancel against the north wall, is erected a very sumptuous monument, on the altar part of which are the curabent effigies of Judge Reve and his lady, in their proper proportions and habits; he in his judge's robes, with a roll in one hand, and the other under his head ; she, with a book in her left hand, and her head sup- ported by two cushions.

Crest, on a wreath O. B. two wings conjoined of the 1st.

Reve, az. a chevron between three pair of wings conjoined and elevated or, impaling sab. on a chevron between three griffins heads erased or, three stars of six points gul.

D. EDMVNDUS REVE,

Non Ordinis Equestris,Trabeaeque Judicis, auctus est Honoribus, quos, eminente Dignitate, ac eruditione Syncera, fecerit ad altiores Gradus ascendere Virtutis, ad istos ipse non ascenderat.

Quippe in it, In Templo Pietati devotissimus, in Aula conspicuus, et Officiose Prudens ; In Foro, Gravitate perspicax, Palam in obvios huinanus et humilis, in Familia placide liberalis, apud Mensani hopitio muni- ficus, in Conclavi, studio deditus & Theologian, in Republica tm- bulenta tranquille pacificus, in Concubitu Castitate Revereudus, Sanctitate venerandus in Occubitii.

Quit fuit, Unite Regi dilectus, obFidem exploratissimae probitatis Palamento compertus, heroica. magnanimitate colendus, a Proceribus, a Plebe, celebrandus JEquitate judicandi, Sanctimonia, Clero suspieiendus ad Exemplar, Integritate summa Populo coinmendandus, a Locu- pletibus habitus in Pretio, quod Res eorum partas assererat, ab Egeuis, in precibus, quod siias erogaret.

Quem, Perterrefacere non potuit Insolently Vulgi, nee allicere valuerunt Aulas Lenocinia, quo coriimunia placita desereret, (uti alij) neque furiarum tot millia en ilium Gladijs slrictis Efficere, Justitiae Gla- dium txuere, sed ejus opera (pennis Hastas dum frustra rriinantur) inter anna, non siluere leges.

Unus Ille, Pauperibus seque ac Divitibus, eadem manu nnnquam fatigata, Biiancem ostendit in Equilibrio, Pondera deiriceps irhposuil, repo- suitque ad bacoma dextra candidissima, in Examen oculum inteudit

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irretortum, utsi vel tantillum alterutrinque declinaret, aspiceret, Expertoq; Disfilo, si Funiculorum Nodis, quid implicaretur, expli- caret, Jocantis Oris ac innocui, spiritu penetrante pulvisculum, e Lancibus excussit in iEqualem ; ut nemo de summo Jure conqueri potuerit unquam aut remissius iniquo ; Vnusitidem, Ex Itineraatibus optatissimis Me, Qui Jus e postliminio receptum, inter Ruricolas instauravit, et Diutino Justitio pridem exulantes redintegiavit Assisas ; Curiam Astraea Westuionasterij solum ha- buit, per estiva Solennia peret>re non est profecta, Caeterum prius- quam Surrise Circuitum absolvisset, iEgrotus ad Londinum reversus, ad nltimum inde Judicium avocatus est, eodemque Die, Qui vice- simi iertij Caroli reclusit inilium (Martij 27° A0 16-17 ) Diem clausit extiemum, somno consopilus immortali ; Cui superstes Uxor Dna' MARIA REVE, Cubile meditabunda securn (uti voluent) adornavit, ubi conquiesceret ipsa, cum advenerit Hora (Capite nutante) simul obdormiendi.

She died March 12, 1657, and was interred in the same vault with her husband under this monument.

On the opposite south wall, is a monument with Reves arms, erected to the memory of

Thomas Reve Esq; Oct. 1, 1663, aet. 6g. Thomas his eldest son, 26 Nov. 1656, ajt. 20. John Reve his youngest son Apr. 13, 1660, aet. 18.

On a black marble in the altar,

Hie jacet Johannes Reve Norf. A. M. Canonice Ordinatus Presbyter, vir omnigena Eruditione apprime instructus, Exemplari pietate perquam ornatus, suramisque Virtutibus eminenter praecla- rus, hujus Ecclesiae Pastor Fidelissimus, ubi cum novemdecim Annis munere ministrali indefesse functus esset, terrenam hanc vitam Anno iEiatis suae quadragesimo nono Febr. Die decimo, et Anno Domini Mill: sexcent: quinquag: Octavo, pro Ccelesti Gloria com- mutavit.

The following persons are buried under divers marbles in the chancel :

Mrs. Eliz. Keene Widow, Dr. of Augustine Reve of Bracondak near Norwich Esq; Jan: 21, 1710, aet. 79-

Anne Houghton, sole Dr. and Heir of Henry Reve of Bracon- dale, who married the eldest son of John Houghton of Bra- inerton Esq; and left issue only one Son John, ob. 6 May 1705. Rob. Houghton Esq; ob: 1 Dec. 1715, aet. 36.

Houghton, arg. on a bend sab. three eagles displayed or, im- paling Reve.

Ric. Reve 1727. John Reve Father of Rector Reve, 1658.

1611, 28 J<:&. William, second son of Robert Dazces of Long- Stratton, had a grant of arms from Cambde/i, of arg. on a bend wavy

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uz. three swans of the field. Crest, a serpent vert, stuck on a halberd's point embrued arg.s

Alexander Blithe of this parish, descended from a family in Devonshire of that name, bare, Or, a chief indented sab.

He married Isabel, daughter and coheir of John Jermyn, by whom he had John, William, and Ralf, who all died without issue; and Alice, their sister and heiress, married to John Gresham of Holt, father of Sir Richard Gresham, &c.

The Hev. Mr. John Soley, rector here, bears

GuL a bend ingrailed or, and three salmons naiant in bend

sinister counterchanged.

Eliz Baspool gave ]/. 6s. to be given weekly in bread at the church, to the poor, for ever, and tied all her lands in Stratton for payment thereof, now the estate of Mr. Joseph Cot/nan of Great Yarmouth.

John Roope gave 1/. 6s. to be paid yearly out of the ale-house called the Swan in Stratton St. Mary, which he tied for payment thereof, on condition the said premises be not rated to any tax above 13/. per annum, otherwise the gift to cease ; it is given in bread at church, as the other.

Thomas Pudding gave 12s. yearly to the poor, till 10/. be paid to the church-wardens, and tied his estate, now in possession of William Booty tor it, lying in Stratton St. Michael.

William Pudding gave 12s. yearly, issuing out of Will. Booty's estate, till 10/ be paid to the church-wardens for the use of the poor.

Half an acre of ground with four cottages thereon built, now in- habited by the poor, were given by Nic. Porter and Tho. Stan- ton, in James the First's time.

Eliz. Keene, widow, daughter of Augustine Reve, and neice to the Judge, by will gave 1l. 10s. yearly to be laid out in blue gowns for the poor of Stratton Si. Mary, during the life of her nephew, John Houghton of Bramaton, Esq.

The church of Stratton St. Peter, always belonged to Forncet manor, and was founded by Roger Bigot, about the Conquest, in all appearance. In 1195, by fine then levied, Will, de Stratton, as trustee settled it on Gundred the Countess for life, remainder to Rog. le Bygod and his heirs for ever. It was valued at rive, afterwards at six marks, and paid, as it doth now, 5s. procurations, 18f/. synodals, 3d. ob. Peter- pence, and bd. curvage.

RECTORS.

1302, John de Spanneby. Roger le Bygod Earl of Norfolk and Marshal.

1317, Rob. de Davintre. Thomas Earl of Norfolk and Marshal.

1S£C2, Philip Bland, front, who resigned in

1325, to Philip Myth. Ditto.

1320, Master Robert de Cantuaria ;9 he held it with Lopham, and resigned in

8 Morgan's Heraldry, L. z, fo. 117. 9 See vol. i. p. 2S5.

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1327, to Thomas Ferthing. Tho. Brotherton, the King's son, Earl of No/folk, and Marshal, as before.

1322, Master Tho. de Abingdon. Ditto.

1337, Roger dt Leicester. Ditto.

1347, John dt Raaeclyve. Sir John Segrave, Knt.

1349, IV ill. de London. Ditto.

1351, Henri/ White; he was buried here in 1378, and

William at Hille succeeded. Margaret Countess-Marshal, and Lady Segrave.

Goafry, son of Walter Mayster, resigned in

1416, to John Wetherpen, in exchange with Langham-Parva. Sir Gerard Usflet, Knt. this turn in right of Forncet manor, which he hath as the dower of Eliz. Dutchess of Norfolk, his wife. -He changed for Threkehi/ in

1419, with Will. Hernald of Corpusty. John Lancaster and Robert Southwell, Esqrs. attorneys - general to John Earl- Marshal, Notingham, &.c. he being in foreign parts.

JohnGour/e resigned in 1439, and Jo/m Duke of Norfolk gave it to

Ric. Feket, and in

1444, to Thomas Martin, who was the last rector here, for at his death, it was consolidated Sept. 10, 1449, to the church of Stratton St. Michael, which stands not above a bow-shot distant from it ; and it was agreed, that as a recompense for this patronage, St. Mary's alias Winchester college in Oxford, should present two turns, and the Duke of Noifolk every third turn, and that St. Peter's should exist as a separate parish still, and the rector should serve in each church every Sunday; and it continued so till the Dissolution, when being returned as a chapel only, it was totally demolished, and was laid to St. Michael's parish, and hath continued as part of it ever since; and nothing is to be seen of the church, but the foundations level with the ground, which show that it was a small building. The site is still called St. Peter's Churchyard.

SAYE'S MANOR

Belonged to, and laid chiefly in, this parish, and was granted from the other part of the parish, and the advowson, by the By gods, lords of Forncet, to William de Say, whose second son Jejfery had it, and held it at a quarter of a fee; he died in 1214, and left it to Jeffery de Say, called the younger, who married Alice daughter and coheiress of John de Cheuney, one of the founders pfCojford monastery ; and by her had II illiam de Say the elder, who died seized in 127 1, and it went to Sibi/l his widow, who married Robert de Ufford, who in 1274, was in her right lord here; William de Say, junior, was the son and heir, but the younger son John de Say, had this manor, and in 1285, had a lete, view of frankpledge, and the assise of bread and ate overall his tenants in Stratton, and was returned to hold it at a quarter of a fee of the lord of Forncet •, who held it of the Earl of Glou- cester as ofCA/rt'hjnoui ; I find him lord in 1291, but in 129(3, Jiffery son and heir of// ill. de Si;/, junior, owned it, and was a minor in the custody of Henry de Ltybourne, who married him to Idonea, daughter

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of William de Leubourne, his brother. The rents of this manor were 46s. 6d. per annum, and Mary de Say, relict of his uncle John, who died without issue, had her dower in it. Jeffery died in 1321, but before his death in 1317, he confirmed an agreement made by John de Say, his uncle, as to this manor, and conveyed it by fine to

John de Holveston and Joan his wife, who afterwards held it of the Lord Say, &c. In 1342, Joan widow of John de Holveston settled it on James de Holveston and Alice his wife, remainder to Gilbert de Fiaunsham and Agnes daughter of James de Holvesto?i ; and in 1401, Geffry de Fraunsham held it of the Lord Say, he of the Earl of March, &c. In 1414, William son of Ba/deric of Taverham, conveyed to

Richard Pygot and his feoffees, all his purparty of Saye's manor in Lotig-Stratton, and it continued in the Pygots till it passed with Anne daughter and coheir of Thomas Pygot of Stirston, to

Robert Barnard of Norwich, Esq. her husband ; she settled it by will, on Sir Robert Southwell, and other feoffees, to find a priest to sing for their souls in the Black-friars church in Norzoich, where they are buried, at their tomb, which is now standing, and was lately used for St. George's company to meet at ; see vol. iv. p. 339. They left two daughters coheirs; Eleanor, married to Christopher Calthorp of Cockthoip, Esq. and Elizabeth, to John Legge, and this was as- signed to Legge in 1511, and Calthorp had Stirston manor, and a rent charge of ]/. 6s. out of this, which Sir James Calthorp and his son Christopher sold to Will. Machet of Moult on, clerk, who had pur- chased this manor of John Legge and E/iz. his wife; and in 1539, Sir John Shelton, Knt. was lord, and settled it on Anne his wife for life, and then to John Shelton, Esq. his son, for 60 years, and after that on Ra If Shelton his cousin, who was lord in 1570 ; he it was that ma- numised the whole, sold the rents to the several tenants, and the de- means to Nicholas Porter; and so the manor and lete also, extinguished for want of tenants. The site came after to the Cu/lyers, and Abigail JSlorris, widow of Bertoir Tuft, sold it to the Rev. Mr. Tho. Howes,, rector of Moriugthorp, who now owns it, and the demeans called Saye's.

STRATTON ST. MICHAEL.

This rectory was given by Walter Giffard to the priory ofLonge- vi/e in Normandy, with Weston and Wichingham in Eynsford hun- dred ; the rector had then a house and 10 acres of giebe, and now there are 28 acres and an half in 31 pieces, lying about the town. The parsonage-house joins to the south-east part of the churchyard, and the east part of it (as I am informed) is copyhold of Ree's manor, and belongs to a farm adjoining to the east part of the parsonage- house, now owned by Thomas Hoices, clerk. It was valued without the portion, at 8 marks, and paid 10s. 8d. tenths, and the rector paid a portion of 13s. id. per annum to the prior of Lougavilte, which is now paid to New College in Oxford, who had the patronage from William of Wickham, their founder, by grunt from iheKing, it being

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vested in the Crown, as belonging to a dissolved alien priory. It stands in the present Valor by a false name, thus, .

6/. 12s. 8d. ob. Stratton Omnium Sanctorum R. 13s. 3d. q. tenth,

and I suppose came to be fixed so, because anciently the church is called St. Michael and All-Saints; but strange it is, that the names both of St. Peter and St. Michael (by which only, this rectory is known) should be omitted: as it is not discharged, it is incapable of augmentation. It paid 4d. carvage and Id. Peter-pence ; and as it now doth, Is. lOrf. synodals, and (is. 8d. procurations; and for St. Peter, 5s. procurations, and Is. 6d. synodals; in all 15s. .

The church is 25 yards long and 7 broad, it hath a square tower and two bells,1 the south porch is tiled, the nave and chancel thatched, the last of which was built by John Cowall, rector here in 1487 ; he lies buried in the middle of the chancel, with this on a brass plate now loose,

<0rate pro anitna Soljannij* Cotoatt quonoam ficctori^ igtiug •Jccdc^ie qui i£tam Onccllam tie #)euio fieri fecit 3° ©omini M° WCCljcjtjtfrii0 ft P^o quibu^ tcnetur. (.s'c. orare.)-

But though he built the chancel in 1487, he continued rector till 1509; his will is in Register Spyltimer, fo. 225, in which is this; " Also my house in the street called Pepyrs, I wol the state ther of, " with all the Lands ther of, shall remayne in the handys of feoffeys, " and in the Attorneys of them, to my Parish iners beholfe, in excusing " of tenths and tallage, when it fallyth, and the overplus to the re- " paration of the churchys of St. Michael and St. Peter in the sayd " town, evermore; seen, that the cunstabyll and the church-wardynnys, " shall let it, and repare it, with the ferme of it ; and the residewe of " the ferme, I wol yt remayne in the handys of the said constabyll " and zcardeyns, and yerly they make acounte before all the parishe, " and they to excuse the rent of it to the lordys of the fee." This house, with about 12 acres of land, part copy and part free, is now in feoffees hands; and is worth about 10/. per annum, and the church- wardens receive the rent, and apply it as it ought to be, to repair the church, since the taxes of tenths and tallages are ceased. He was also a benefactor to the gild of St. Anne, which was kept in this church.

The nave was finished in 1440, for then RicHavcll's legacy towards finishing the new church roof, was paid.

There was anothei brass plate in the chancel.. Dow lost for Ric. Vynne, Jan. 26, 1626, aged 7<j. 1 find that Mr. Layer I ynne was curate here some time.

There is an altar tomb in the churchyard on the south side, for Will Weddall, Gent. 1730, and Mary his wile, who was daughter of 2'/;o. Dixon.

1 There were three, for in i ''tq, a li- sufficient for its reparation. cense passed to sell a bell, underpretence 2 Weever, fo. 814. to repair the church, whii.li had Lads

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The rector of Mori ngthorp, pays a yearly pension of 18s. to the rector here, on Lammas day, for exchange of tithes, as mentioned in the terrier.

RECTORS OF ST. MICHAEL.

1278, Rob. h Blake.

IS 14, Gilbert de Chelmeresford. Prior and Convent of Longa- vill, Giffard of the order ot'Cluny in Roan diocese in Normandy in France, by brother Will, de Talaya, their proctor-general, legally deputed to present to all their benefices in England.

1333, Will. Power, sub-deacon. Brother William de Tonolio, their proctor.

1334, Humfry de Wakefield, who in 1339, exchanged it for King- ston in Winchester diocese with

Robert de Monte of Litchfield, who in 1347, changed it for Chickney in London diocese, with

Ric. Merkaunt, who was presented by the King, the Prior of Newenton Longaville's lands being seized into his hands, on account of the war with France. In 1449, Merkaunt changed it for Hertlegh in Rochester diocese, with

John Wrotham, shaveling, on whose resignation in 1352, Ric. Reyner had it, and both were presented by the King. In 1361, the Proctor of the priory, presented

John de Donyngton, who changed for Culford in Suffolk in 1368, with

Will, de Lovetoft, and had it of the gift of Sir Nic. de Tarn- worth, Knt. lord of Clifford, who had the turn of the King; but the next year they rechanged, and the King gave it to Donyngton. The eight following rectors were all presented by the Crown:

1376, John Dynne.

1377, John Browne.

1384, Thomas Verdon, in exchange for Wichhampton.

1385, Will. Bekford.

1386, Mat. Salle

1391, John Snape, buried here in 1420, and

Rob. Mere succeeded, and died in 1438, in which year Will. Stele was instituted, and died also. In

1439, John Rote had it of the gift of Sir Half Rochford, Knt. and being granted from the Crown, it was settled on the custos and scholars of St. Mary alias Winchester college in Oxford, al the re- quest of the founder, and in 1449, was consolidated to St. Peter s as before; and ever since New College hath two turns, and the Duke of Norfolk the third ; but the perpetual advovvson of that third turn is now sold to John Soley, clerk, rector of Stratton St. Mary.

RECTORS of STRATTON ST. MICHAEL and ST. PETER.

At Rote's death in 1479, the college presented John Byrkys, and at his death the same year, John Coioall; and at his death in 1509, Thomas Earl of Surrey, gave it to

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202 STRATTON.

Sir Rob. Browning, his chaplain, who was succeeded by Will. Rownam, by lapse, who died in 1537, and John Loudon, LL. D. master of the college, gave it to Henry Kele, and at his death in ]541, to Robert Stevens. In

1562, Sir John Stevens was presented by Thomas Duke of Norfolk. 1596, William Thorn, S. T. B. Martin Culpepper, M. D. cnstos, 8cc. he resigned, and in

1600, George Ryves, cnstos, Sec. gave it to

Anthony Combe, fellow of the college, who returned answer, that here were 91 communicants. On whose resignation in

1610, John Cole, assignee of the Earl of Northampton, gave it to Peter Raye, who had it united to Starston ; he was suc- ceeded in

1629, by John Mertwtth.tr, who held it united to Taseburgh, from both which he was ejected by the Earl of Manchester's scandalous committee, and one

Cooke was put in, " being a godly man," to preach, and had 5s. a Sunday allowed him by the sequestrators, out of the tithes, and Mrs. Mere-aether had a fifth part of the profits to maintain herself and six children ; he being also deprived of his temporal estate of 50/. ■per annum, the rest was ordered to go towards maintaining the par- liament forces, Sec. but it seems Cooke was not " godly" enough for those rebels, for in 1654, they put in one

Ric. Laurence,' vho held it by intrusion till Merezeether's death, which happened before the Restoration, when Nic. Woodward, S. T. P. custos, &c. in 1660, presented

James Oldjield, at whose death in 1681, Charles Reve was presented by Henry Reve, Esq. who had the turn by grant from the Duke of Norfolk, at whose death

John Cox was instituted at the presentation of the College, and resigned it in about a year's time, and the college presented

The Rev. Mr. Rice Price, who is fellow of the college, and the present rector.

WELHOLME'S, or WELHAM'S MANOR,

Was granted by the Strattons, from their manor to the Welholmes, and it belonged in 1271 to Robeit de Welhotme, and in 1285, to Alex, de Welholme, who had a lete or view offraukptedge, and assize of bread and ale, allowed him in eire ; on condition he paid 8d. a year to the King's bailiff of Depzvadt hundred, for that liberty. In 1315, John and Richard de Welholm had it ; in 1345, Rob. de Welholm and Stephen his son, held it at half a fee, and half a quarter of a fee of Sir John Inglose, he of Isabel Queen of England, and she of the King, as heir to Monteult, lord of Rising-Castle. In 1401, John Brusya/d had it, and it was purchased by Sir J 'ohn Herling, Knt. and ever since hath passed as Stratton-IIa/l manor, the customs being the same, and the court is always held at the same time.

3 Walker, Part II. fo. 3:0.

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The demeans and site severed from the manor, were late Booty's, and are now owned by John Howse, Esq. who also hath the demeans of

KEES'S MANOR

Here, severed anciently from that manor, which is now (and for a long time hath been) joined to IVefholme's, the style being, Welholme's or We/ham's and Reese's in Stratton.

This manor was infeoffed by Fitz-Corbun, as is already observed, in oneHuNFRiD or Humfry, whose descendants assumed the name of Stratton ; and it was in Robert de Stratton ;* and in 1 195 Wil- liam de Stratton had it.5 In 1207, Roger de Stratton,6 in 1239, Henry de Stratton.

In 1249, Ra/fde Stratton, called also de Bosco or Bois, held it at one fee,7 and was fined for not being a knight. In 1285, John de Stratton was killed by William son of Nic. de Dunston; but it being found, that he did it in his own defence, and not feloniously or mali- ciously, he had the King's pardon,8 which he pleaded before the itinerant justices at Norwich.

In 1270, Robert son of Nicolas de Stratton, sold part of the de- means to Richard de Boyland, who joined them to his manor of Boy- land-Hall in Moringthorp. In 1274, Roger de Stratton was lord. In 1315, Thomas de Staunton owned it; about 1318, Thomas Picot ; and in 1323, Nicolas and Jeffry de Stratton released it to Nicholas Pi/cot ; in 1341, Sir John Walweyn, Kiit. infeoffed it in fee in John Dengayne ; and in 1358, Tho. son of Rob. de Bumpstede of Norwich, and Alice his wife, conveyed it to Roger de Herdegrey of Norwich, and his heirs, and he infeoffed William de Wreningham, John de Berney, John de Bo- nyngham, and others. In 1362, Margaret daughter of Tho. Pygot of Long- Stratton, released all her right to Edmund son of Isabel Berry.

In 1404, it belonged to John Rees and Margaret his wife, William Rees,9 Esq. and Margery his wife, who sold the manor in 1407, to John Kirtling, clerk, and Rob, Park, and the heirs of John, but reserved the site and demeans; the manor was soon after conveyed to Sir Robert Herling, and ever since hath attended the manor of Stratton-Hall.

The site and demeans called Ree's messuage in 1449, were con- veyed by Rich. Baxter of Stratton, Will. Norwich, Gent, and Thomas

4 It seems he sold the advowson from captus et detentus est in piisona nostra the manor. de Norwico pro morte Johannis de

5 Thomas, Robert, and Ralfde Strat- Stratton wide retornatum est, quod ton, lived in Bishop Eborard's time. interfecil ipiumjo/iannem, se defenriendo,

6 In i ^27, Robert and Henry de Strat- ita quod mortem propnam aliter eva- ton owned lands here. dere non poluit, et non per feloniam,

7 1249, Kalf son uf William, and Ralf neque per malitiam excogitatani : nos son of Robert de iftiatton, are mention- pietate moti condonavimus cider: Wil- ed, for which reason he thar had the lelmo, sectam pads nostie que ai nos manor, took the additional i ame of de pertinet, pro morte predicta, et firmam Boko, from the wood he dwell by pacem nostram eidem inde concedimus,

8 Edwardus, Dei gratia, &c. Qu^a Sec.

per inquisitionem, quam per Vicecouii- 9 See for the Reeses in vol. iv. at p. tern fieri fecimus, accepimus, quod Wn- 175, 6, Si. LEI.MUS fillUS NltHOLAI DE DUNSTON

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Swayn, lo William Alnwyk Bishop of Norwich, Sir John Fastolf, and Sir Henri/ Inglosc, Knts. as trustees to I humus Ludham, clerk, and Tuo. Howes, chaplain to Sir John Fastolf, and their heirs; and in 1464, Howes and Ludham having conveyed it to Sir John, John Paston, heir to Sir John Fasto/f, died seized, and since, it hath passed through many conveyances, to John Howes, Esq. the present owner.

In 1285, it was returned before the justices in eire, that the King was defrauded of the service of a serjeanty, due for lands here; and on the inquisition it was found, that in the time of King John, Wil- liam Rosceluue held one serjeanty in Carleton, Tibenharn, Fomcet, Waketon, Strattxm, Me/ton, and Taseburgh, worth bl. per annum, by the serjeanty of finding one horseman in the King's war, whenever there happens to be war in England, and that Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk, then held it substracted from the King; to which the Earl by his attorney, answered, that he held it of Richmond honour in capite, and that it was in King Henry the Third's hands, who gave that honour, with all belonging to it, except Cossey manor, to Peter de Subuudia, or of Savoy ; and after that Roger Bygot, ancestor of the present Earl, purchased it of Ric. de Hadesco, as* held of the said ho- nour, and that it was now held of John de Britain, lord of the honour, by the service aforesaid, but not by any serjeanty ; upon which he was dismissed ; and it hath ever since passed with Fomcet manor.

MOULTON-MAGNA

Manor was held of Roger Bigod, as of his manor of Fomcet, by Alger/ at the time of Conquest, and another part of it belonged to Alan Earl of Richmond? and was valued with his manor of Cossey. Little Moulton belonged also to the said Roger, and Algeu held that also, of him ;3 it had then a church and 15 acres of glebe, and

* Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Depwade acr. et dim. car. et iii. acr. prati. hoc

Hund. (fo. 123.) Fornesseta tenuit, est in pretio de Costeseia.

&c. In Muletuna i. soc x. acr. 3 In Muletuna (s.c. Parva) i. lib.

(fo. 139.) In Muletuna ix. liberi homo xl. acr. idem tenet (sc. Algerus

horn, et dim. cxl. acr. m° tenet Alge- sub Rogero Bigot ut de manerio suo de

rus et xv. bor. tunc, et post iiii. car. Forncet.) et vii. bor. et ii. car. et vi.

modo iii. et ii. lib. horn, et dim. sub acr. prati et i. ecclesia de xv. acr. silva

illis xv. acr. et viii. acr. prati, silva v. viii pore, tunc i. molend.* et sub isto

pore. xiiii. lib. horn. xx. acr. semper i. car.

1 Terre Alani Comitis, Depwade et ii. acr. prati, in eadem iiii. lib. horn.

H. Donis. fo. 71. vi. acr.

In Muletuna vi. lib. horn. lvii. Iota; Muletuna habenti. leug, et

* Muleton or Moleton, seems to signify the town at the molendinum or mill ; and the suit to this mill seems remarkable, 14 freemen being forced to grind

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the King had two freemen here, named Gouta and Osketel, who had the inheritance that Ascitis their father held of the abbey of Holm, to which the advowson belonged.

Both the parishes were three miles long and a mile broad, and paid 13d. ob. geld.

In William RuJ us '$ time, the Earl of Norfolk infeoffed William de Verdon in it, along with Brisingham, as appears in vol. i. p. 49 ; and it attended that manor for many ages, being held by the Verdons; one half fee of it of the Norfolk family, and one 5th part of a fee of the honour of Bainard's castle, which was purchased ofRalfde Camois, and added to the manor. It after went with Brisingham, till Isabel/, daughter and heiress of Sir John Verdon, by habell his second wife, married

Sir Imbert Noon of Shelf hanger, and carried it into that family, as in vol. i. p. 119, and it passed with it till 1512, and then Henry Noon of Shelf hanger, Esq. sold it to

Thomas Spring of Lauham, clothman, and Thomas Jermun his feoffee, together with the advowson; at which time it extended into Waketon and Forncet ; by him it was soon after conveyed to

Leonard Spencer of Btofield. It after belonged to

Sir Thomas Jermyn, Knt. then to

Sir William Drury, Knt. after to

Robert Wetherby and Eliz. his wife; and in 1562, to

Andrew, John, and Anthony Rivet, and in 1570, to

John Rivet of Brandeston, Esq. in which year it was found, that the superiour lordship over the commons, &c. belonged to the manor of Forncet. It continued in this family (as appears by the institutions) till after 1689; and in 1717,

Mrs. Eliz. widow of Tho. Chute, Esq. had it, and now it belongs to

Mrs. Anne Elwin of Norwich, widow, and Tho. Lobb Chute, Esq. in joint tenancy, and a third turn of the sinecure rectory of l\ ac~ ton-Parva is appendant to it, as also this patronage.

RECTORS OF MOULTON-MAGNA.

1303, Jeffnj de Halcote. Sir Thomas i.e Verdon, Knt.. 1317, William de Brisingham. Sir John Verdon, Knt.

1349, John Malyer, resigned. Ditto.

1350, John le Smith. Ditto.

1391, Nic. de Rockynghum. Ditto.

1392, Ralf. Suathj/ng, ob. Sir Edm. Noon, Knt. 1438, John Goorle. Hen. Noon, Esq.

1445, Roger Hese, deprived. Ditto. 1453, John Domh/n. Ditto. ' 1460, Will, Smith, resigned. Ditto. 1488, John Stanton, resigned. Eleanor Noon. 1495, John Rudliam.

dim. in longo et dim. in lato, et x'nid. et In Muletuna, Gouta et Osketel duo

obulum de gelto. lib. hum. ii. acr. et dim. et valent wd.

Sub titulo, Isti sunt homines liberi et obulum, Ascius pater eos tenuif,

Regis. Doms. fo. 292, Depwade H. homoabbutisdeHuLMO et dedit vadem.

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1497 , Henry Wytham,xes\gnec]. Rob. Wingfield and Eleanor Noon.

1507, John Oxchpff, resigned. John Noon, Esq.

1 509, 1 ho . Taylor, ob. Hen. Noon, Esq.

1516, Ric. Drake, LL. B. ob. * united to Gryston. Leonard Spencer of Bl afield.

1526, Sir Thomas Clark, prior of Montjoy, ob. Ditto.

1540, Peter Brinkeley, S. T. P. resigned. Sir Tho. Jermyn, Knt.

1543, Tho. Wells, alias Martin, ob. united to Moulton-Paira, de- prived of both by Queen Mary. Sir William Drury, Knt.

1555, Henn/ Bradshaw, resigned.

1556, Richard C/egge, united to All-Saints. Rob. Wetherby, and Eliz. his wife.

1560, John Dodd, ob. Elizabeth Wetherby, widow.

1565, John Hill, ob. united to All-Saints. Andrew, John, and Anthony Rivet.

1531, Will. Matchet, A. M. united to All-Saints. John Rivet of Ipswich, Esq. buried here.

1620, William Roy, A. M. Nicholas Rivet of Brandeston, Esq. united to All-Saints.

1640, Richard Lancaster, ob. Ditto.

l66l, Philip Goodwin, resigned. John Rivet, Esq.

1673, Samuel Williams, k.M, united to All-Saints. Thomas Rivet of Rendlesham, Gent.

1689, Ric. Wilson. Tho. Rivet, Esq,

1717, Thomas Browne on Wilson's death. Eliz. Chute, widow.

1726, Will. Nedham; he was succeeded by the present rector.

The Rev. Mr. Jonathan Wrench, vicar of Aylesham.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, was first valued at 10, after at 12 marks; the rector had a house and 20 acres of glebe; it paid 6s. 8d. procurations, Is. 10r/. synodals, ]0d. Peter-pence, and 3d. ob. carvage. The portion of the monks of Thetford was valued at 6s. 8d. and in 1612, was paid to Astacton manor in right of Thetford priory.

There was a chapel of our Lady in this church, and an altar dedi- cated to her also in it, by which stood her image, with a light burning before it. In 1504, Walter lay/or gave a legacy for a new bell, and in 1674, a license passed to lessen the great bell. It stands in the King's Books at 6/. 13s. 4d. and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 30/. it i= discharged of first fruits and tenths, and is capable of aug- mentation ; and the whole parish paid 5/. clear to every tenth. In 1239, lands here and in Herdwick were settled on William prior of the Holy Trinity at Ipswich, by Richard de Mundham and Eve his wife, Hilliam Weybrtd and Beatrix his wife, Walter de Thorp and Eda Ins wile, and R. Fuger and Christian his wife; and the Prior of the monks of Thetford was taxed for divers temporal rents here, be- longing to their estate in Astacton, at 13s. 5d.

* Buried by the cliurchyar ' gate by Moulton and Griston ; Moulton hath his house, and gave all he had to be di- now lown lands of his gift. 1526. vided among his poor parishioners of

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The steeple is round at bottom and octangular at top, and hath five bells; the south porch, south and north isles, and nave, are leaded, and the chancel, is tiled ; the arms of Verdon, Vice de Lou, and Moon, were very often in the windows, and az. a bend arg. and arg. a less gut.

In the nave,

Hisjacet Corpus Johannis Roope Gen. qui obijt 30 die Julij 1667.

In the south isle, Hicjacet Corpus Roberti Roope Gen. qui obijt 27 die Oct. 166G, Dorothy Roope 23 Oct. 1673.

In the chancel, Ric. Wilson, Rector 27 Years, 28 Nov. 17 16, set. 60. Will. Nedham Rector, is buried north and south under the altar.

On a brass,

Hicjacet Willelmus Machett, quondam Rector istius Ecclesie qui obijt xi° die Sept. A. D. 1620.

Vivo tibi, moriorque tibi, mi Christe Redemptor, Tu mihi sola salus, tu mihi Vita manes, Expectata diu, tandem venit hora saliitis, Quaj michi suinma dedit Gaudia fixa puli.

On an altar tomb by the south chancel door.

Wickham, arg. a chevron sab. between three roses gul.

Thomas son of Tho. Wickham5 Gent. Apr. 5, 1661. Tho. Wickham Gent, the Elder, Dec. 16, 1688, 66. Mary wife of Tho. Wickham 23 May, 1706, 80. Will, their son, Aug. 5, 1706, 45.

At the south-west corner of the churchyard is a very antique altar tomb, but no arms or inscription.

John Moultoti born here, a White-friar or Carmelite in Norwich monastery, flourished about the year 1400; Pits, page 568, tells us, that he was a pious, learned, and eloquent man, and an excellent preacher: he published a book of yo sermons.

5 This family descended fromWilliam and as such, their descendants are the of Wickham, founder ot New College founder's hinsmm, in Oxford, as the arms plainly show,

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LITTLE MOULTON,

At the survey, was in two parts, that held of Forncet by Alger, belonged first to Ralf, and then to Rob. de Jgnel/is, and the whole was held of Forncet at a fee, but part of it the lord of Forncet held of the honour of Gloucester ; and in 1212, Lambert Teutonicus, called also le Almoin,6 who afterwards took the sirname of Moid 'ton, agreed with Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk, the capital lord of the town, and purchased divers rents and lands from the manor of Great Moulton, of Bertram de Verdon, of whom it was settled, this manor should henceforward be held ; so that by this purchase the quitrents of this manor became ol. per annum.

In 1235, Richard de Brezcse and Oliver de Redham, were concerned in it, and in 1 246, the said Richard, jointly with Eleanor his wife, held a court-baron ; in 1306, Reginald le G70S, settled it on Oliver de Red- ham and Joan his wife; it had then three messuages, 113 acres of land, five acres of meadow, and 20s. lit?, quitrents. In 1309, William son of William de Walcote, settled it on Thomas de Multon and Mar- garet his wife, who held it in 1315, of Richard de Brewse, and in 1345, it was purchased by William del Park, and joined to his manor called Parks in Wacton, and from that time, there hath been no court kept in this parish.

The advowson, from the Conqueror's time, belonged to the Abbot of St. Btnnet at the Holm,7 who was taxed at 28s. 6d. for temporals here, but had no manor, only free-rents or pensions paid out of such lands as belonged to him, which were granted to be held free.

RECTORS

PRESENTED BY THE ABBOTS OF HOLM

1322, JVal/er Duce. Henry, Abbot there.

1330, William Lessi.

1350, j JYilliam Bercher of Mendham, res.

1360, X Richard L jjtoft, change with Ca/thorp. )

1372, ( Richard ligmau, change with Rockland Minor, j"

1373, { John de Iselford, change Beiings Parva. 1404, ] Roger Turner oiWilby.

1408, \ Rob. Deieuysh, change with Leighs in London diocese. }

1409, (, Thomas York, change with E. Dene, Chichester diocese. 3 1412, I WUiiam Bale, change with East Basham.

6 Whether he was so called because 7 It was given to Sibricht, who gave

of travelling to Almain, I cannot say, it to Holm abbey, by Ailfric Bishop of

but find that he was son of Thomas, and Elmham, as you may see in vol. iii. p.

grandson of Tho. de Muhune, lutds and 461. patrons of Skirbek and Kuketon in Lin- colnshire.

GREAT MOULTON. 209

1425, Richard Wilby. Lapse. 1434, Clement Chevyr, deacon. 1436, William Stele, A.M. Lapse. 1438, Jown Howard. 1452, John Leghton. 1484, William Mene. Lapse. 1494, Reginald Cooper. Ditto. 1504, William Mene? Lapse. 1512, John Thirewall. 1520, John Dawson, ob. 1525, Thomas Percivale.9 1533, Francis Woode, ob.

1535, Sir Robert RIathew,* chaplain, was the last presented by the convent.

RECTORS

PRESENTED BY THE BISHOPS OF NORWICH,* AS ABBOTS OF HOLM.

1550, Tho. Welles, alias Martin, united to St. Michael. Robert Rugge, alderman of Norwich) by grant of Will. Rugge Bishop of Norwich.

1555, Rich. Clegge. Ditto, as to union, presented by the Bishop.

1566, John Seman.

1570, John Hill, ob.

158 1 , William Matchet, A.M. united to St. Michael.

1620, Will. Roy. Ditto, ob.

1640, Thomas Stevenson. Ditto.

1663, John Worthington, S. T. P.1

1671, John Beak, united to Drayton.

1674, Sam. Williams, held it with St. Michael.

1689, John Richardson, A.M.

1720, John Paul, A.M.

1725, John Gardiner, now LL. D. and rector of Massingham- Magna. He resigned, and was succeeded by

The Rev. Mr. George Kenrick, vicar of Homing, who is the present rector.

The church was dedicated to all the Saints, and when Norwich Domesday was wrote, the rector had no house but 13 acres of glebe; it was valued at three, and after at four marks ; the Abbot of Holm's portion was 4s.; it paid 12c?. procurations, Is. lOd. synodals,18ct. Peter-

s The rectory paid to the Bishop 33s. and let the whole profits in 1664, both

4</. first fruits, but the Bishop remitted of tithes and glebes, at 10/. per annum,

205. by reason of its meanness. though in Henry the Eighth's time, it

9 Buried in the chancel in 1533. was returned to be then worth 20/. per

* He leased 12 pieces of glebe of this annum, and now stands at 30/. clear

rectory tor 99 years, to John Sherman, yearly value in the King's Books ; but

Gent, at 3*. a,d. a year, they contained in 1670, I find by the Doctor's book, he

eight acres, one rood and an half, and let it at 8/. per annum only. It was held

it was confirmed by the bishop and the by so many witli Great Moulton, that

dean and chapter. the lands titheable to this rectory, are

a See vol. iv.p. 541. scarce known, though they were about

3 He was presented to it as a sinecure, one third of the parishes.

vol. v. E e

210 TASEBURGH.

pence, and 2</. ob. carvage. The church was in use till 1570, and then was totally demolished ; the site of it is still called All-Saints churchyard. It is capable of augmentation, being returned of 30/. value, is discharged of first-fruits and tenths, and now stands thus in the King's Books:

4/. 3s. id. ob. Moulton Omnium Sanctorum, alias Parva Rect. 30/. clear yearly value.

TASEBURGH.

Th e name of this town shows its original to have been the burgh or fortification on the river Taus ox Ties;* and according to Dr. Gale in his Commentary on Antoninus his Itinerary? tells us, this liver was called Tail, and that (he station ad Taiim, mentioned in the Pentingerian Tables, was here; and indeed the parish church stands in the fortification, the dimensions of which are still very \isible; and an advantageous situation it was, to guard the pass of the river, leading to Cast re : being on the very summit of a high hill, which surveys the adjacent country, and hangs over the river, which turned, eastward by it, and made a commodious sinus or bay for such vessels as came up hither ; and though for many years this stream hath declined through neglect, it would be an easy matter to make it navigable for lighters and such sort of vessels,up to this village, which would bean advantageous thing to all the neighbouring country ; this good project hath been twice attempted, and as often miscarried, rather through want of conduct and a proper application, than ability of the undertakers.

The entrenchment or burgh here is square, and contains about 24 acres; it seems to be that encampment of the Romans, which by the Chorographical Table published by Mark f'elser, is called AuTaum. This place hath given name to the ancient family of the Tase- burghs, who being lords of the town, had anciently their seat there; but after their removal hence, had their chief seat (and that a very pleasant one) just out of the county, on the bank of the river Waveney, which parts this county from Suffolk, not far from the abbey ot'Falix- toten, commonly called Flixton, in Suffolk : The house is a grand ancient building, and fronts the road from Bungeye or Harleston. (Atlas Norf. p. 333.)

The church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, who had her gild here ; the steeple is round and hath four bells in it ;6 there is a north porch ; the nave is leaded, and the chancel tiled.7

* See vol. iii. p. 3, 4. 6 The steeple was rebuilt in 1385.

s Gale's Comnuntary on Antoninus, 7 In 1694, the rector had license to

&c. p. 109. He tells us of coins found, sell the lead otf the chancel, and cover

here with 1C. DVRO. T. it with tiles.

TASEBURGH. 211

On an altar tomb on the south side of the church, Bludworth, chequy arg. and sab. on a bend of the 1st, three

eagles displayed of the 2d, impaling Baxter, arg. on a pale within a bordure sab. three bezants.

And this on a brass plate on the top, Elizabetha Filia et Heres Georgij Bludworth Gen. et Uxor Thome Baxter Gen. per quern habuit duos Filios el ties Filias, obijt 8° Die Octobris A° Dni. 1587, et. iEtatis sue xxxviij0. On the side of the stone, Elizabetha Uxor Thom^e Baxter.

On a brass in the middle of the church, Bdeman, barry of six, a chief wavy, quartering two talbots between two flaunches, impaling Drury. Crest a greyhound.

Here under lieth the Body of Dorothy late wife of John Bur- man Doctor of Law, and Daughter of Anthony Drury of Besthorp Esq; by Anne his Wife, she died 14 July 1642, leav- ing issue, John, June, and Dorothy, whose pious Example, God give them Grace to follow.

Under the screen between the church and chancel on a flat stone, Tirrel impales Burman.

Here lieth Elizabeth late wife of James Tirrel of the Inner Temple, Esq; one of the Daughters of John Burman Doctor of the Civil Law, by Dorothy his wife, the Daughter of Anthony Drury of Besthorp Esq; she died in Child-Bed April 4, 1638, leaving no issue behind her, aet. 21.

Henry Dod 27 April 1693. Susanna wife of Francis Bransby Gent. Aug. 3 1729-

On a brass plate in the chancel,

Under this Stone lieth the Body of Robert Meeke, who in his Life-time and after his Death for ever, gave liberally to the Poor of this Parish ; he was buried the 26 of Aug. 1598.

On a brass nailed to a seat in the chancel, are Baxter's and Blttd- worth's arms, and this,

Hie jacet Elizabetha prima Filia Thosle Baxter Generosi qui obijt innupta 3" Die Junij A0 D. 1586, set. 16.

On a tomb against the south chancel wall,8 Thomas Baxter Patronus hujus Ecclesie obijt 3 Dec. A° Dni. l6l 1, aet. suae 75.

s In the chancel window, the lower I find by the register, that Nic. Bohun

part of the arms of Tateshale remain, of Fresi.igfield, Esq. was buried here in

az. chequy or and gill, the chief erm. 1572. That George Benedick, Gent,

being lost. and Thomasine Gooche, were married

212 TASEBURGH.

He built Ranthorp-hcll.) It hath three shields,

1st, Baxter as before. Crest, a pelican vulning herself proper. 2d, Baxter and Talmach, gul, a fret or. 3d, Drake, az. a wiverne or.

On the north side is a monument for Newce of Ranthorp-hall.

Newce, sab. three pallets wavy arg. on a canton erm. a mascle

gul. impaling SEABRiGHT.rt/g-. two cinquefoilsg!//. a crescent for difference sab. Newce impales Leventhorp.

Vir quo nee probitas Probior, nee Justior Ipsa

Justitia, Antiquae et Archetypus Fidei,

Thomas Newce jacet hie, Titulus Generosus avitis,

Delicitun Populi, dulce Decus Patriae;

Conditur hoc eliam Tumulo lectissima conjux,

Maugareta,9 Viro, par Genere, et Genio,

Fcelices am bo pai iter vixere, et utrumque

Et Charum, et clarmn Vita beata dedit,

Mortis iniqua Manus sejunxit Corpore Costam,

(4t0, Feb. Anno. Dom. 1629, JEtidis (38.) Adjunctum Costas Latus est, Urnaque in eadem ;

(24 Novembris A° Dni. 1632, Altatis 69.) Hie subito expectant, Tubas se Voce sonantis Conjunctos Cceli scandere ad astra poli, Lnicus est natus, soboles Generosa Parentum Icon ; Qui Patris Nomen et Omen habet.

RECTORS.

1274, Rog. de Taseburgh, Lord of Uphall manor, sold the ad- vowson from the manor, to Sir Rob. de Tateshale, Lord of Buketiham- castle, who in 1299, presented Eustace le Brett.

1326, Sir William Bacoun. Sir John de Cove, in right of Eve de Tateshale, his wife.

1333, Will. Ytige. Lady Eve le Tateshale, in 1339, Adam de Clifton, John de Orreby, and Robert son of William de Bernak, were her heirs.

1361, John Grene of Atleburgh. Sir Adam de Clifton, Knt.

1416, Nip. Noth, res. Maud Cromwel, Lady Tateshale.

1451, John Davy. Sir Andrew Ogard, Knt.

1452, Jonn Davy, ob. Ralf Lord Cromwell.

in 1475, and that he died the same year. Nic. Deye buried here, gave a vest- In 1559 Robert Flint, Gent, and Mary ment to the church, and legacies to the Baxter were married. In 1617, Anne, gild of our Lady here, and to her gild daughter of Henry Reppes, Esq. and at Tharston ; Margaret his wife and Anne his wife, was buried. 1628, Mrs. Robert his son, were executors, and Margaret Newce of Hedenham, wife of Thomas Deye of Ashwellthorp super- Mr. Tho Newce, buried 1628, Susan, visor. 1505, Henry Spawnton gave a daughter of Thomas Newce, Gent, and new covering to the font. Mary his wife, baptized 1657. Mrs. 9 She was daughter of John Shaw- Adriana Knevet, daughter of Mr. Na- berry of St. Edmund's Bury. thaniel Knevet, buried 1638. In 1,511,

TASEBURGH. 213

1491, Rich. Hanworth. Sir Will. Knevet, Knt. Henri/ Hanworth, res. ~i

1503, John Mannyng, A.M. res. > Ditto.

1503, Nic. Craven. )

154.3, Sir Will. Burgess, chaplain. Sir Edm. Knevet, Knt.

1561, John Skeet, res. Lapse.

1563, John Beare, ob. Thomas Chapman, this turn.

1566, John B/omevill. James Bigot, Gent, lord of Rainthorp- hall.

1586, Will. Temple. John ' and William Matchet this turn, by grant from James Bigot. In 1603, he returned answer, that he had 120 communicants, and that Tho. Baxter, Esq. was patron.

1629, Henry King. Tho. Newce, Esq. He was sequestered.

I6i4, Richard Laurence. By the Usurpers.

l66l, Edw. Bainard, A.M. ob. on King's cession. Tho. Nuce, Esq.

1679, Edw. Bosworth, res.a Edmund Bedingfield, Esq.

1682, William Barlow. Ditto : buried under a marble in the chan- cel, July 1, 1693.

1693, Will. Smith, res. Tho. Seaman, junior, this turn.

1709, William Stevenson, united to Moringthorp. Israel Fold- ing, Esq. this turn ; at his cession in

\T2.6,John Bourne was presented by Walter Bateman, lord of Rainthorp hall, who sold the advowson to Miles Branthwayt, Esq.

1735, William Bentham? ThomasWarkehoiise, Esq. this turn. At his death,

Mr. Evan Bowen, the present rector, was presented by Miles Branthwayt, Esq. the present patron, and now holds it united to the third part of Atleburgh, as at p. 525, vol. i.

When Norwich Domesday was wrote, iheprior of Bromholm was patron, and the rector had a house and 10 acres of glebe ; it was valued at 12, after at 14 marks, and paid 2s. synodals, lOd. Peter- pence,* and 4d. carvage. The Prior of Thetford monks had revenues here of the gift of William Bigod, (as at vol. ii. p. 109,) viz. temporals taxed at 40s. Id. a year, and spirituals, viz. the tithes of his demeans and divers other lands held of him, valued to the tenths at 40s. a year, and afterwards compounded for at 16s. 8^. a year, reduced after to 13s. a year, which in 1612, was paid to the lord of Asiacton priory manor, in right of Thetford priory.

It now stands in the King's Books undischarged, and therefore is not capable of augmentation.

8/. Taseburgh red. 16s. yearly tenth.

1 1G26, Sir Will. Segar, Knt. Garter langued and armed G. which he con- King at Arms, certified under seal of firmed to his posterity, office, that he found by authentick books 2 See vol. i. p. ig. and collections of worthy antiquaries, 3 See vol. iv. p. 25. thai John Matchet, Gvnt. deceased, * No procurations appear in Domes- some time rector of Lambhithe in 5ur- day. In 1459, the mortuary of this pa- rey, did bear party pei s.tltier az. and rish, by custom was $s. Regr. Brusyard, cr, on a fess gul. three de-lises of the fo. 202. In 16S0, a license passed to the first; and for his crest, a derm-lion or, rector, to pull down a malt-house be- longing to the rectory.

214 TASEBURGH.

This town paid 3l. to every tenth, when the taxes were raised by tenths and fifteenths.

THE MANOR OF UPHALL, or BOYLAND'S

In Taseburgh, was the capital manor, and belonged to Bishop Osbern in the time of the Confessor, and was held by Tarolfi a freeman of Bishop Stiganil, at the Conqueror 's survey, and then it extended into Forncet ; at the first survey it was worth 20s. per annum, and 30s. at the last. All Taseburgh was a mile and quarter long, and 7 furlongs broad, and paid 9^- geld.s The successours of this Taro/f, were Richard and Mathew his son, and Ra/f, who lived in 1199, and after- wards assumed the name of Taseburgh about 1239-

In VlAl.Ralf son of Ra/f de Taseburgh, was lord, and had in- fangeutbef or liberty to try all theft committed by his tenants, in his own court baron and lete here, and to execute them and take their forfeited goods. In 1256, he was dead, for then Robert de Gissing granted to William Esturmi, the custody and marriage of Roger son and heir of Ra/f de Taseburgh, and William assigned them to O/ha widow of the said Ra/f and if Roger died before he came of age, then she was to have the custody of Christian and Richolda his sisters; and in 1280, this Roger had sold it to

Ric. de Boyland and Maud his wife, who in 1284 had the lete, paying bd. yearly to the King, by the bailiff of the hundred ; assise of bread and ale, a ducking-stool, pillory, and common gallows; and in 1289, William de Neiford and Petronel his wife, and their heirs, had their free way and passage, under Sir Richard de Borland's court-yard in Taseburgh, between his said court-yard and his chapel of St. Michael,6 to the aldercar of the said William and Petronel; in 1295, it belonged to Sir Ric. de Boyland, and Elen his second wife,7 and was then sold to

Ric. de Uphall of Taseburgh, from whom it was called Uphall manor; in 1298, he sold it to

Henry son of Henry de la Sale and Sibil his wife, when it con- tained 10 messuages, 140 acres of land, 24 of meadow, 10 of pasture, 8 of wood, 2 of marsh, and 61. 2s. 3d. ob. rent, in Taseburgh, Newton-F/otman, Saxlingham, Wackton, and Hemenhale. It after came to

Ralf de Bumpsted, citizen of Norwich, and then to Thomas his son,8 who in 1385 conveyed it to Bartholomew de Jppleyerd, Tho.

s Terre Osberni Episcopi. Hund. use of the family ; I do not find it was

Depvvade, Doms. fo. 163. ever endowed, but the serving priest

Tasfburc tenuit TaRolf liber was supported by the lords, to pray for

homo Stigandi xiix. acr. semper i. bord. them, their family, and ancestors ; this

et i. car. in dom. et iiii. acr. prati viii. continued to the Dissolution, but being

va. pars molendini et vi. lib. hom. x. the sole property of the lord, the statute

acr. com. tantum T. R. E. et semper had nothing to do with it.

dim. car. 7 For the Bovlands see vol. i. p.

In Fornesseta i. liber homo Sti- 59.

gandi xxx. acr. &c. as under Forncet. s See vol. iv. p. 212, he sealed with

Tunc valuit xx.j. post et modo xxx. the arms of Bumpstede, arg. a bend

Tota Taseburc habet x. qnar. in between three croslets fitche gul. three

longo, etvii. in lato, et \xd. de gelto. mullets of the field. He was a benefac-

6 This was a free-chapel belonging to tor here, the manor-house, and was for the sole

TASEBURGH. 215

Spynk, and Will, de Eton, citizens of Norwich ; and in 1400, Nichola son of William Brooke, late citizen of Norwich, released it to William Rees, Esq. and Tho. Spynk of Norwich. In 1444, it was settled on Thomas Bumpslede, senior, and Ivetta his wife, with remainder to Wil- liam Bumpstede ; in 1445, by the name of Thomas Bumpstede, senior, Esq. he made his will, and was buried in the collegiate church of St. Mary in the Fields in Norwich, by the tomb of Margaret his mother;9 Ivetta his wife, and Thomas Crofts, Esq. were executors; he gave Taseburgh manor, with the walermill thereto belonging, to his wife for life; which manor and mill lately belonged to Richard Bodendale, citizen and merchant of Coventry, and Nic. son of William Brooke, late citizen of Norwich, and after her death Thomas his son was to have it. In 1507, a fine was levied between John Jenour and Robert Bray, querents, and John Wiseman and Isabt I his wife, deforciants, of the moiety of this manor, which in 1539 was sold by Thomas Wiseman, to

Charles Duke of Suffolk, who in 1542, sold it to

Sir Kic. Gresham, who the year before had purchased the other moiety of John Branch and others, who bought it of Edward Taseburgh and Rose his wife. In 1547, Paul Gresham, Gent, settled it by tine on Thomas Gresham, Gent, and before 1570, it was sold to fVilliam Fern- ley or Farlowe ofCretyng in Suffolk, and by him to Sir Thomay Gawdy of C/axtou,' who died seized, and left it to Henry Gawdy, Esq. his son, who sold it according to an agreement made befoie his father's death, witii the manor of Hunts in Taseburgh,1 to Gascoi on J Veld, who left it to Joseph Weld his son,3 serjeant at law, whose two daugh- ters, Elizabeth and Alary, inherited ; Elizabeth married to Richard Rutter* of Kings/ey in Cheshire; and Mary to William Starkey, clerk, whose daughter Mary inherited the whole, and carried it to her husband,

John Jermy of Bayfit/d in Norfolk, Esq. whose only son and heir,

William Jermy, Esq. is the present lord.

HUNT'S MANOR

Belonged at the Confessor's survey to Almar, who held it of Bis-hop Stigand, and at the Conqueror's, Roger de Ebrois held it William de Schoies, and Richard de Hadesco held it about King

9 Thomas de Bumpstede, husband of cutting down trees on the common of

Margaret, and Tho. de Bumpstede his Taseburgh; it went for the plaintiff, it

grandson, son of this Thomas, were now being proved by the evidences and court

living, rolls, that in Queen Elizabeth's lime the

1 He was Serjeant at law, and after- lord of Taseburgh granted license to the wards judge of the King's Bench. lord of Ranthorp-hall, to plant trees, and

2 The style of.the court now is, Tase- to make a causeway through the com. burgh Uphall, Boyland's, and Hunt's. mon to go to church, and that all the

3 About 1700, Joseph Weld, Esq. drifts, fishing, and oth?r royalties bc- serjeant at law, brought his action longed to the lord of Taseburgh. against Mr. Carter, an attorney at Nor- * See p. S7, and Richardson's pedi- wicli, then lord of Raathorp-hall, for gree at vol. ii. p. 449.

Slr6 TASEBURGH.

John's lime, of the honour of Clare, at the 8th part of a fee;s and in 1235, John Wythe and Roger de Brom had it; in 1266, King Henri/ III. granted liberty of free-warren to Thomas Rosceline, then lord, by purchase from Ric. Ic Chamberlain of Hadesco ; and in 1270, the said Thomas sold it to Roger son of Walter de Hales; in 1289, fVill.de Nerford and Lady Pet roue I his wife, had it; and in 1315,1 find it belonged to Dunmoue priory in .Essex, at the dissolution of which, it came to the Crown, and being granted from it, in the 12th of Queen Elizabeth it belonged to Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt. lord mayor of London, and by him was joined to the manor of Uphall, with which it now remains.

The honour of Richmond extends hither, two parcels belonged to Alan, lord of that honour, the one was valued with his manor of Costesey,6 and the other belonged to the manor of Swaffham, and in 1632, Mat hew Weld, Gent, was obliged by process, to pay 2/. 10s. to the King as his forfeiture, for not paying his Majesty an annual rent of 2d. ob. called war-pound 7 rent, due to his honour of Rich- mond.

There was a serjeanty held under Roger Bigot at the survey, by Berard and Asceline* and afterwards by the Enrl-Marshal, who was found to hold it of Richmond honour; an account of which you have before at p. 204.

RANTHORP-HALL MANOR

Was held of Roger de Ramis by William, at the survey, and and after him by Jeff', de Rainesthorp, at one fee in 1156; and it is now divided, and in that part in Taseburgh,he was succeeded by John dc Rainesthorp, and he by William de Raines, or Reymes ; in 1200, Robert de Reymesthorp and Sibil his wife,9 had it ; she was his widow in 1229; in J 244, Richard de Rej/mes was lord, and it continued in this family a long time ; in 1307, John de Reynesthorp had it, and in

s Terra Willi, de Schoies. H. 8 Terre Rogeri Bigoti Hund. Dep-

Depwada. Doms. fo. 210. wade. Doms. fo. 140, 1.

In Taseburch ten. Almarus de In Taseburc vii. lib. liom. xc. acr.

Stigando xxx. acr. terre modo tenet Ro- modo tenent Berardus et Ascelinus sem-

gerus de Ebrois iiii. acr. prati tunc i. per ii. car. et vii. acr. prati et val.xxiiii.

car. m° dim. et tercia pars molendini et sol. unus ex illis septem de Taseburc

valuit xv. sol. calumpniatur Hermer, et quidem Angli.

6 Terre Alani Comitis. Depwade cus suus homo ex hoc often judicium, H. fo. 71. quod suus antecessor erat eo saisitus

In Taseburc vi. soc. xxi. acr. et i. die quo Rex Edwardusv'wus fuit et mor-

acr. prati et dim. car. unus ex his fuit tuus, et hoc contradicit tot. hund. vel

homo antecessoris Rogeri Bigoti et Co. bello, vel judicio, ex hoc dedit ille An.

mes Radulfus tenebat eum, quando fo- glicus vadem. risfecit, hoc est in pretio de Costeseia. 9 Gilbert, sc. de Reynesthorp, was

In Taseburc i. lib. homo xxx. acr. lord, for he gave his chapel here to

et dim. car. et ii. acr. prati val. ii. sol. Thetford monks, as at vol. ii. p. 112,

7 War-pound, beware of your pound rent, where there is an errour in the note3, it the forfeiture being one pound for every being printed Swenesthorp or Swaines- penny left unpaid. E Rot. pen. P. L. N. thorp, instead of Renesthorp or Rain- inter Rot. Honoris Richmond, in Norff. thorp.

ex parte Stratton-Lcnga in Depwade Hund. Curia ibm. 1632.

TASEBURGH. 217

1342, he and Agnes his wife, were living ; it after belonged to Will, de Rees, and from that time passed as at p. 66.

In 1530, Anne Chapman held it of Forncet at half a fee; and Thomas was herson and heir, and inl570, Dudley Chapman his brother had it, and in 1579, sold it to Sir Tko. Cornwaleis, Knt. and William his son and heir; Tho. Baxter had it about l600; he built the house called Ranthorp-hall, in the windows of which are the following arms :

Howard Duke of Norfolk, quartering Brotherton, Warren, and Mowbray.

Robsert, vert,1 a lion rampant or, vulned in the shoulder, im- paling Kerdeston.

Ditto impaled with arg. on a fess az. three boars heads cooped or,

Az. on a fess arg. three martlets gul.

Appleyard and Thorn bury, arg. on abend or, a lion rampant between two cotizes az.

Baxter impaling Drake, quarterly, 1, az. a wyvern or. 2, Stock Eit.girony of s\xA. B. on the first three martlets vert, ?>, party per pale A. G. a chevron between three trefoils counterchanged.

Baxter and Bludworth.

Bludworth and Crosse, quarterly gul. and or, in the first quarter a cross pate ar.

Baxter and Bludworth quartered, impaled with Bowyee, 1. arg. a lion rampant between three cross croslets fitehe gul. L2, az. three shovels arg. shod or. 3, az. two bars and two plates in chief arg. 4th as 1st.

Baxter and Sherman, az. a pelican or.

Ditto and Flynt, sab. on a chevron arg. between three crescents erm. two lions combatant gul. quartering, party per pale sab. and az. a chevron party per pale sab. and gul.

Tho. Baxter, Esq. sold it to Tho. Newce, Esq. of Hodsdon in, Hertfordshire, Stephen Bowyer and Thomas Heyward, Esqrs. being trustees; at his death it went to his only daughter, married to Morgan Jenkyn, whose only son, Newce Jenkyn, sold it to Mr. Ric, Carter, senior, attorney at law in Norwich, and his son Richard had it, whose widow sold it as at p. 67.z

1 1586, Sir Edw. Stafford of Grafton, las, daughter of William Lord Howard

ambassadour in France in 1586, married of Effingham, relict of John Lord Shef-

Mrs. Chapman of Ranlhorp-hall, by field, mother of Sir Robert Dudley,

whom he had a son William ; and she Knt.

was relict of Robsert when he married a It seems the Lackfords and Be-

her ; Sir William married, zdly, Doug- dingfields were only mortgagees.

Ff

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HARD WICK,

Or Herdeicic, signifies the place at the wic, or winding of the river, where the herde was usually fed; it was in many parts at the Con- quest, the whole being two miles long and one broad, and paid Qd. to the geld. The honour of Eye extended hither,3 and there was one part which belonged to the abbey of Ely,* as to the manor of Pul- ham ; and another to Bainard Castle, as belonging to the manor of Hemenhale* which was held of that honour.

THE CAPITAL MANOR, called afterwards BARRET'S,

Belonged to Roger Bigot at the Conquest, and was always held of the Norfolk family at one fee, as of their manor oi'Forncet. This manor, in Henry the Third's time, belonged to the Barrets, and was sold by Ivo Baret to Robert Baciin ; and in 1308, Bartholomew de Evereux had it; William le Waleys of She/ton was lord and patron here; and in 1308, Margaret relict of Walter le Waleys ; and it then passed along with the advowson in the Barrets and their feoffees, till Katherine, daughter and heir of Symon Barret, carried it to Will. Shelton of She/ton, Esq. her husband, in Henry the Fourth's time, and it continued in the Sheltons, till sold to

Thomas father of Peter Gleane1 of Norwich* who was knighted by King James I.; he married Maud9 daughter ol Robert Suckling of Norwich, Esq. and was succeeded by his eldest son, Thomas Gleane of Hardwick-ha/l, Esq. who married Elizabeth1 daughter and heir of Thomas Breuse, Esq. (descended from Sir Ric. Brewse of Topcrojt,

3 Terre Roberti Malet. Dep- makes tlie arms of Gleane to be erm.

wade Hund. Doms. fo. go. on a chief sab. three lioncels rampant

In Herduuic i. villan. de v. acr. et arg. and so they are born ; but by Sir

est in pretio de Eia. Edward Byshes's MSS.p. 43, itappears

♦ Terra See. AdeLDREDE, Depwade that they were granted to be born erm.

H. f. 190. on a chief az. three lioncels rampant gul.

In Herduuic i. soc. xv. acr. et dim. and the crest is, on a ducal coronet or,

car. val. ii. sol. et Rexet Comes socam. an otter vert, though they have lately

5 Terre Rad. Bainardi. Depwade H. born for a crest the bust of a man full fo. 250. faced proper, wrea'hed about the tem-

In Frietuna et in Herduuic x. acr. pies. Or rather a Saracen's head proper,

tenuit lib. homo T.R.E. et valuit xxd. 8 He served as member of parliament

hoc est additum huic manerio; hoc est for the city 1 Car. I. 1627.

in Hamehala. 9 He had by her three sons; 1, Tho-

6 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Depwade H. mas. 2, Leonard. 3, John who left issue, fo. 123, 4. and two daughters; Mary, married to

In Fornesseta, &c. In Herduic ii. William Peuus of Norwich, and Eliza-

soc. xxxv. acr. et v. bord. semper ii. beth to Henry Lane,

car. et ii. acr. prati silva ii. pore. Rex * He had Peter, and Leonard, of Sax-

ct Conies socam. lingham, who left three daughters.

7 The Baronetage, vol. ii. p. 495,

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Knt.) for whom is this inscription on a tomb against the north chancel wall :

In Memory of Thomas Gleane, Esq. eldest Son of Peter Gleane Knt. and Dame Maud his wife; and likewise Elizabeth the wife of the said Thomas, Daughter and Heir of Thomas Brewse Esq. and Elizabeth his wife, interred together in the sa- cred Ccemeterye of this Church, who together had seven Sons, two only surviving both their Parents, Peter and John ; Peter Gleane Esq. eldest son of the deceased, caused this Altar Table heere to be erected. He died 27 Jan. A. D. I6ti0, aged about 74, she died the 22</ of July, A. D. 16.34, aged about 45.

r\o Person upon Earth, can happye bee.,

Beatitude comes after Exequie.

Gleane impales Suckling. Ditto impaling Beewse, «r.' crusuly, a lion rampant, G. crowned or. Brewse impaling Brew- ster, sab. a chevron erm. between three estoils arg.

The two crests of Gleane, a Saracen's head proper, and an otter, as before.

Peter Gleane, their eldest son, succeeded, who was created a baronet 17 Car. II. He served member for Norfolk, in the parliament called 31 Car. II. at Westminster, A° 1678, and was rechosen to serve in the succeeding parliament A° 1681 ; he married Penelope, daughter and coheir of Sir Edward Rodney, of Rodney-Stoke in Somersetshire, Knt. Siv Peter ' died about 1&94, and his lady Feb. 17, 1689, and are buried within the altar rails of the chancel, under an altar tomb, by which hang two achievements; the first hath Gleane's crest of the Saracen's head, and Gleane quartering Brewse, with the Ulster arms or baronet's badge in the fess point, and this,

Motto, J'ay servy mon Roy.

Rodney's crest, an eagle displayed purpure, on a crown or, and the arms are

Or, three eagles displayed purpure.

Motto, Non Generant Aquila Columbus.

Under this Stone is the burying Place of Sir Peter Gleane Ba- ronet, and his Lady Dame Penelope , Daughter to Sir Edward Rodeney, Knt. he served Charles the 1st, in all the Civill Wars, raised and armed two Foot Companys at his own Charge : he served the Crown faithfully above 40 Years, in military Offices, from a Lieutenant to a Colonel of Foot, and in this County of Norfolk, Lieutenant Colonel of the Militia, and was Deputy Lieutenant, and likewise Colonell and Deputy Lieutenant for the City of Norwich. In his Civil Station, he bore the Character of Justice of the Peace, within this County above 20 Years, and had the Honour twice to be chosen one of the Representatives of the same, to serve in Parliament; in which several Services for his

z He had, i, Thomas, i Rodney, who Frances married to Mr. Pooley, or died unmarried and is buried here, and Polley.

50 HARDWICK.

King and Country, he spent his Strength and Fortunes, and the Wounds which that received were not healed in this Year 1683.

This Sir Peter was lord also of

BOUTON'S, or BOLTON'S MANOR

Here, which was held by Wistret, a freeman, of the Conqueror, at the survey;3 and it seems to have been in the Crown sometime afterwards. In 1315, Sir John Sturmyn, Knt. had it, and in 1332, Roger dt Herd- wick ; when it was held of Forncet as of the manor of Hemenhale at one fee; it after came to the Boxes;* Catherine daughter and heir of Roger Boys, carried it to her husband Jenney, and so it passed along with Intwood, as you may see at p. 40, till it was sold to the Gleanes, by William Gresham of London, Esq. and ever since, these two manors and the advowson have continued together ; the style of the court being, The Manor of Boughton's and Barret's in Hardwick.

The lord hath zceyf and strey, only upon his own demeans; the eldest son is heir, and the Jines are at the lord's will.

Hardwick was sold by Sir Peter Gleane% to Sir John Holland of Quidenham, and given by him to his 2d son Brian for life; and in 1713, I find Walter Bacon, Esq. of Erlham, lord and patron ; whose relict Mrs. Frances Bacon, now enjoys it; Edward Bacon, Esq. of Erlham, now member of parliament for Kings-Lynn, being her eldest son and heir.

Shelton manor always did, and now doth, extend into this town, and therefore that manor is styled Shelton cum Hardwick.

The church hath a steeple round at bottom and octangular at top, with one bell in it, the nave is leaded, the south porch tiled, the chan- cel, part leaded, and part tiled; in the windows of which, are the arms of She Iton single, and again impaling Morley ; and Fitz-Wal- ter's arms single, and this on a flat stone :

Bacon oiBaconesthorp, az. three bars arg. an annulet for difference sab. impaling er. on a bend cotized, an annulet sab. for dif- ference.

<©rate pro anima <8eorgu 23afton #itii <Chome 25afcon 2rmigcri tutu£ anime propictetur ©eu£.

3 Isti sunt homines liberi Regis. Hund. his father William by King Edward IV.

Depwade Doms. fo. 292. because he married Anne, one of the

In Herduwic i. lib. homo nomine daughters of Richard Wodvile Earl of

Wistret xxx. acr. semper iiii. vill. et Rivers, sister to his Queen,

ii. bord. et ii. acr. prati et val. x.j. s The first of this tamily who had any

Tota Herduwic habet i. leug. in estate in Norfolk, was Walter Gleane or

longo, et dim. in lato, et ix.rf. de gelto. Glene of London, scrivener, and Alice

* The Atlas, p. 334, says that Henry his wife, who owned estates in Pulham

Bourchier Earl of Essex had Bolton's and Dicleburg in 1423. manor here, which was bestowed upon

HARDWICK. 221

In a north window, Shelton impales arg. a fess sab. between three mullets gul.

Thomas Crabbe, hujus Ecclesiae Rector, ob. 3 Febr. A. D. 1680. Veni Domine Jesu.

Rand, per chevron, or and ar. a lion rampant gul. impaling Brock, on a bend, a rope, tassal and ring,

Hie jacet Samuel Rand Clericus A.M. natus apud Ilarhston in Com. Norff. 15° Die Decembris A. D. 1649, qui per 33 An- nos Rectoris hujus Parochiag, & per 31 Annos Parochiae de Shelton, proxime adjacentis, munus h'deliter adiniplevit, obijt apud Hardwick 7° die Junij A. D. 1714, annoq; astatis suaj sexagesimo quinto. Hie etiam sita est, in eodem tumulo, Maria Uxor piaedicti Samuelis, Filia et haeres unica Thomje Brock de Darsham, nata 1° die Augusti A.D. 1661, denata 5° Aug. 1724, annum etiam agens aetatis sexagesimum quin- tum ; ex Liberis juxta siti sunt infra Cancellos hujus Ecclesia3.

Simony f 15 Febr. 1685. } / 28 Aug. 1707.

Thomas ( .. Vs Mar- IG89./ mn. . \l4 Julij lGQI. Lidia lnalli 5 Julij l69l>m0rtU1 ) 13 Jan. l6y2. Noah J (l9 Maij 1694.3 ' 7 Sept. 1 695.

Ex septena. prole tres tantum, Samuel, Brock, et Maria, supersunt, foelices, si memores humanaj sortis, ita Vitam ege- rant, uti brevi murituros deceat.

The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. William le Walerjs was patron when Norwich Domesday was wrote; the rector had a house and three acres of glebe, though since the terriers have six ; it was valued at eight marks and a half, paid 4s. procurations, 7d. synodals, \<2d. Peter-pence, 4d.\ob. carvage, and ll. 8s. clear to each tenth. The monks of Thetford had temporals here valued at 10s. and in the register of the sacrist of Bury abbey it is said, that Robert leGros released his right in the advowson to the Abbot of Bun/, but I do not find the abbot ever presented, or had any thing to do here. Jt stands discharged of first-fruits and tenths in the King's Books, and is capable of augmentation.

5l. Hardwick rect. 40/. clear yearly value.

RECTORS.

1308, John le Waleys Margery, relict of Walter le Waleys of Shelton.

1324, Rich, de Berg, res. Simon de Hethersete, Knt. Cecily his wife, and Edmund their sun.

1339, Mr. Stephen de Rughton. Ditto, res. } changed with the

1340, Rob. Trot, ob. WIll. de M.ddleton, | ^-Ul

1344, Rich, de Norwich, res. Roger de Herdegray, citizen of Norwich.

1 345, Ralf de Southwell. Ditto.

1348, William de Barneby. Ditto.

1349, Simon de Walpole. Ditto. (See in Pulham St. Mary.)

222 HARD WICK.

1387, Robert Scherwynd. Tho. de Hoxne, rector of Huntingfield, Jeffry Hekdegray of Moringtkorp, Will. Rous of Dini/ngton, and Jeffry Randolf of Camion.

1409, Henry Tumour changed Moringthorp with Scherwind for this. Ralf Shelton, Knt. and John de Honyng, rector of Great Snoryng. He resigned in

1410, to John C/avesberd, (Ditto :) and he the same year exchanged this with

John Spendlove (Ditto) for Kirton vicarage in Ho/and in Lin- colnshire ; and in 141 1, they re-changed again, and Clavesberd, in 1412, resigned to

Richard Papy. James Child and other feoffees of Sir Ralf Shelton, Knt. in right of his manor called Barret's.

1420, John Hakenshaw, res. in exchange for Carleby in Lincoln diocese, with

Robert Rede of Ilohcell. Will. Shelton, Esq. by right of inheritance.

1426, Robert Barker of Baketon. Katherine, lady of Shelton, relict of William Shelton, Esq. she presented the eight following rectors :

1426, John Lamtnot, res.

1430, William Hammond, res.

1440, John White.

1444, John Wright, res.

1445, John Baron. 1447, John Wyl/ys, res. 1450, Richard Reyner, res. 1452, John Mapes.

1456, John White, again. Lapse.

1460, Master Tho. Mark. Ralf Shelton, Esq. he exchanged in 1460, with Master John Selot, doctor in the decrees, for Cornwall archdeaconry. Ditto. (See p. 399, vol. iv.) Sir William Conpyl, res. 1466, John Dalyson, res. VRalf SheltoNi Esq.

1470, John Custaunce.

1475, John Petyte, ob.

1504, Sir Robert Bunnynge, res. John Shelton, Esq.

1518, William Belconger, ob. Ditto.

1536, James Bothe, res. John Shelton, Knt.

1546, Will. Jkers, ob. John Shelton, Esq.

1559, Will. Ward. Lady Margaret Shelton, widow. United to She It on.

1568, Robert Gaulon, res. Lapse.

1573, Will. Mann, ob. Ralf Shelton, Esq.

1576, Reginald Nutha/l. Sir Ralf Shelton of Shelton, Knt.

1603, Will. Woodcock, A. B. Ditto.

1614, Thomas Banks, res. Ditto.

1620, Thomas Cronshay. Will. Boswell, this turn. He was turned out Apr. 28, l644~ by the Earl of Manchester, for observing the orders of the church dissuading his parishioners from assisting in the Rebel/ion, and saying, the parliament are laumen, and have no pouer to order religion or church government. He had at that time a wife and 10 children, the youngest of which was not above three years old;

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he was also very poor, and by consequence, when sequestered, was with his numerous family, turned a begging. JVatker, Part II. fo. 223.

1658, Rich. Leuthzoaite, res. Tho. Gleane, Esq.

1665, James de Franc, S.T. P. res. Peter Gleane, Esq.

I669, Thomas Crnbbc on Franc's cession; buried here. Sir Peter Gleane of Hardwick, Baronet.

1681, Samuel Rand, buried here. Ditto.

1714, John Smith. Waller Bacon, Esq. united to Fritton.

1714, Will. Harmer, A.B. on Smith's death. Ditto. 1718, at Ilar- mer's death,

Samuel Shuckforth. Waller Bacon, Esq. united to Shel- ton. He was also minister of Sethiiig and the two Mundhams, all which he resigned in 1746, being then D.D. and prebend of Canter- bury. He hath published, The sacred and prophane History of the World, connected from the Creation of the World, to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire, at the Death of Sardanapalus, and to the Declension of the Kingdom of Judah and Israel, under the Reigns of Ahaz and Pekah.

The first volume, octavo, was published at London 1728. He was succeeded in

1746, by the Rev. Mr. Thomas Bott, the present rector, who holds it with the rectories of Spixworth and Crostzcick by Norwich, being- presented by Mrs. Frances Bacon of Erlham, widow, the present patroness.

FORNCET

Includes at this time several ancient berwics or hamlets,6 accord- ing to which, it is in some measure divided at this day; one part is called Kettleton End, anciently Keke/ixg's town or Kekelington ;* this with Tu an atu N A.tor Tanaton End, made up the parish of Forn- cet St. Peter, which though not known by that name, in the Con- fessor's time was only a hemic to Fomcet, and had then only one church, now called Forncet St. Mary, to which St. Peter is, and

6 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Depwade anatuna xl. acr. semper iii. bord.

Hund. semper i. car. in dom. et dim. car. horn.

Fornesseta tenuit Colemanus li- et viii. acr. prati, et iii. anim. et i. soc.

berhomo sub Stigandoi. car. terre tunc iii. acr. *ln Kekelincetuna ii. soc.

i. vill. post et m°. ii. et i. ecclesia xy. vii. acr. tunc dim. car. modo ii. bor. In

acr. tunc viii. bord. post x. modoxiii. Halas, &c. (as in Loddon Hundred,)

semper ii. car. in dom. et ii. car. hom. Fornesseta habet i. leug. in long, et

xii.acr. prati, tunc ii. rune. m° v. tunc dim. in lato et v\.d. et obol. de gelto.

x. anim. m°. xii. tunc i. ov. m°. Ixxx. Et Oslactuna, &c. (see as before.) Et

tunci. pore. m°xviii. et iii. socm. xxvii. f Tuanatuna xj. quar. in longo et vi. in

acr. tunc i. car. et dim. et i. \btrtwita lato, et x. pert, et xi. den. et obol. de

Oslactuna, &c. (which see fo. 177. et Gelto. In Fornesseta xxx. acr. ten.

alia berewita tenet WiLLELMUsfTu- OlfusT. R.E. semper i. vill. et. iii.

t Tuanaton, Thwanaton, and now Svvanton hamlet in Forncet.

234 FORNCET.

always was, a chapel of ease ; though it hath all the privileges of baptism, burial, and administration of the sacrament, as well as the mother-church. It was founded just before the Conqueror's time in Tuanatun berxeic, probably by Oslac| and his tenants, who then held this part; for Domesday says, it had GO acres of the alms§ of many.

Forncet, called sometimes to distinguish it from the several berewicks or ends, Mideltoun,\\ or the middle part of the town, in the time of the Confessor belonged to Bishop Stigand, of whom Coleman held it; it had then only St. Mary's church and 15 acres of glebe belonging to it, but the appendant berewicks or manors held of it, madelt a grand manor, for besides Kekelington, Tuanaton, Galgryme,7 tittgat* which now are all included in the bounds of the two parishes, it had lands or manors in the undernamed towns mentioned in Domesday, no less than 16 in number, held of it, which constituted the honour of Forncet, of which

Roger Bigod was lord at the Conquest, when the Forncet part

bor. et i. serv. tunc et post i. car. in dom. modo nul. semper dim. car. hom. vi. acr. prati, silva viii. pore, tunc i. Tunc, tunc i. anim. In Kekelingetuna ii. soc. vi. acr. et in Tuanatuna ii. soc. vi. acr. In Waketuna i. soc. iiii. acr. In Muletuna i. soc. x. acr. In As- lakeuna, &c. (as before.) tnTiBHAM ii. soc. lxvi. acr. et viii. bord. tunc ii. car. m° i. car. et dim. ii. acr. prati. In Thekstuna i. soc. xlv. acr. tunc i. car. m° dim. et i. acr. prati. In Stre- tuna i. soc. xii. acr. In Sceltuna i. soc. lx. acr. et xiv. bord. et vi. vill. et i. serv. et i. car. et dim. in dom. et ii. car. hom. et iii. acr. prati silva viii. pore. In Hierduic ii. soc. xxxv. acr. et v. bord. semper ii. car. et ii. acr. prati. silva ii. pore. In Fredetuna i. soc. viii. acr. et ii. bov. tunc valuit to- tum lxxx. sol. modo c. et xd. Rex et Comes sooam.

(Doras, fo. i2i, 3.)

In Tuanatuna xxx. acr. tenuit Harde- kine liber homo T. R. E. semper iiii. bord. tunc iii. serv. m° ii. semper i. car. in dom. et dim. car. hom. et i. mol. et iii. acr. prati, et xi. lib. hom. sub se T.R.E. commend, xx. acr. tunc i. car. et dim. m° i. tunc val. xv. sol. m" 23 et id. hoc reclamat de dono Re- gis. Hoc tenet Walterus.

Domesday, fo. 124.

Hund. Depwade. In Fornesseta vi. lib. hom. comen. 85 acr. tunc iii. car. m° ii. v. acr. prati. In Halsa, &c. in Carletuna, &c. (see p. 12S.) In Keke- lingetuna iii. lib. hom. 48 acr. et i. car. et iii. acr. prati. In Oslactuna et (as under that town) In Muletuna 9 lib. hom. &c. (as under Moulton, p. 204.) In Muletuia i. lib. homo, &c. In Tu- anestuna xii. lib. hom. 140 acr. et iii.

bord. modo tenet Wills, tunc v. car. post iiii. m» iii. et viii. acr. prati. In eadem sub istis iiii. lib. hom. et dim. vi. acr. et dim. car. In Waketuna vi. lib. hom. et 86 acr. et v. bord. tunc iii. car. et post, modo ii. et iii. acr. prati. In eadem sub istis iiii. lib. hom. 15 acr. In Stratuna vii. liberi hom. 60 acr. tunc et post iii. car m°. i. et ii. acr. prati et dim mol. In Sceltuna, &c. hoc tenet Durandus (sc. Shelton) et Waketuna similiter. In Tibham iii. liberi hom. 69 acr. et vii. bord. tunc et post ii. car. m° i. et dim. et ii. acr. In Habitvna, &c. (as underHapton.p. 176.) InTaseburc vii. liberi homines, &c. (as at Tase- bugh, y. 214.) In Fundenhala, &c. (as under Fundenhale, p. 171.) In Tuana- tuna i. liber homo J Oslac 30 acr. tunc v. bor. m° 10. tunc iii. soc. m° i. sem- per i. car. in dom. et i. car. hom. iiii. acr. prati, et iiii. soc. vi. acr. et dim. car. et i. ecclesia 60 acr. de libera terra ^ Elemosina plurimorum. In Carletuna, &c. (as at p. 127,) In Kikelingtuna ii. lib. hom. ii. acr. In Fornesseta i. lib. homo, ii. acr. In Tanatuna iii. lib. hom. iiii. acr. In Wachetuna ii. lib. i. acr. et dim. In Stratuna 1. liber iv. acr. In Muletuna iii. lib. hom. v. acr. In Tib- ham ii. lib. hom. vii. acr. In Aslactuna, &c. (as at p. 177.) Inter totum ii. car. et ii. acr. prati. In Tacolve^tuna, &e. (as at p. 164.) In Fundenhala, &c. (as at p. 171.) In Tibham 3 lib. hom. 28 acr. eti. car. et i. acr. prati. (^) Totum simul valuit T.R.E. 10 lib. m° 22 libr. et 2 sol. et 9 den. unuin ex iilis septem de Taseburc, &c. as in Taseburgh. (Domesday, fo. 139,40, 1.)

^ Galley-Green, a hamlet to Forncet.

8 That as, South-gate hamlet.

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was two miles long, and one broad, and paid Gd. ob. to the geld; and Tanaton was then 1 1 furlongs long and six furlongs and 10 perches broad, and paid l\d. ob. to the geld. Kekelington being included in the measure of Tanaton.

The whole without the freemen, was worth 4/. per annum at the first survey, and dl. \0d. at the last, and the King and the Earl had the soe, or chief jurisdiction. The freemen at the first survey ,(9) were worth 10/. per annum to the manor, and at the last, 22/. 2s. gd. ; a part of it was held of Coleman by Olf a Dane, in the Confessor's time, and Tanaton was then in two parts; ObLAC held one, as also at the Con- quest ; and Hakdekinc the other, and reclaimed it as given him by the King; but yet Walter held it of .Koger Bigot.

There was a part of it which belonged to Taseburgh' manor;1 one freeman named Scu/a3 that belonged to the King; and three parts, one of which laid in three several ends or divisions of the town, belonging to Alan Earl of Richmond's manor of Cosleseye, viz. in Kekelington three freemen, &c. in Tuanaton two socmen, Sic. and in Mideltun, one freeman and half the services of another;4 and this was the slate of the town at the Conqueror's survey, when

Roger Bigot was lord of it, by that Prince's gift, being one of those great men that attended hnn when he first came into England, and for his signal ser- vices, was well rewarded. This was that Roger who founded Thetford priory, to which he gave this advowson.5 He left it to

William Bygod, his son and heir, steward of the household to King Hen. I. who was drowned with the King's children as they came from Normandy;6 and was succeeded by

Hugh Bigod his brother, steward also of the household to the same King;7 but at his death, which happened to be in Normandy, this Hugh became the principal instrument, for advancing Stephen Earl of Boloign to the crown of England ; for being steward as aforesaid, (an office in those times of the highest reputation,) he hasted to England, and in the

1 William's manor extended hither, for which see p. 167, and under Aslac- ton at p. j 77.

1 Terre Osberni Episcopi. Hund. Depwade. (Domesday, fo. 163.)

In Forneaseia 1 liber homo Stigandi 30 acr. Sec. This was part of Tase- burgh manor that extended into Forncet.)

3 In Fornessota tenuit Scula libr. homo 13 acr. de quo habnit antecessor Hermhu commend. T.R.E. modo est in manu Regis, valet lod. In hac terre erat domus T. R. E. qtiam Oschetel, propositus Regis trar.stulit, et ex hoc dedit vadam. Doms. fo. 306.

+ Terre Alani Cumitis (sc. Rich- mondiac) Doms. fo. 71, Depwade H. In Kekelinctuna 3, liberi hom. 73 acr. VOL. V.

et 4bord. tunc 2 car. post et m° 1 car. et dim. et 4 acr. prati.

In Tanetuna 2 soc. 7 acr. et dim. car.

|| In Mideltuna i liber homo et dim. 1 2 acr. et dim. et dim. car. et 2 acr. prati.

Hoc totum est in pretio de Costeseia- (Domesday, fo. 71, J Append. Regr. Honoris Richmond., fo. 16.

In 1624, &x. Kickleton hamlet was ob- liged to appear once in the year at the turn held for the honour of Richmond at Stratton, the lords of Richmond honour being superiour lords of this hamlet.

5 See vol. ii. p. 108 ; vol. iii. p. zi, 2, 3; vol. iv. p. 43.

6 See vol. ii. p. 109 ; vol. iii. p. 21.

7 See vol. ii. p. no; vol. iii. p. 22,3.

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Eresence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, averred upon oath, that ang Henry upon his death-bed disinherited his daughter Maud the Empress, and appointed Stephen his heir; for which services (as some say) he was advanced by him to the earldom of the East- Angles, for in the 6th of King Stephen, he was so styled ; and in the 12th year of King Henry II. he advanced him anew to the dignity and title of Earl of Norfolk, and to the office of steward, to hold it as amply as Roger his father did in the time of Henry I. notwithstanding all which honours and great favours, conferred on him, he took part with Robert Earl of Leicester, adhering to young King Henry in his rebellious insurrection ; for which disloyal practices, he was forced to make his peace with a fine of 1000 marks, a prodigious sum in those days ! aud going soon after with the Earl of Flanders to the Holy Land, he died in 1177, and the King seized on his treasure; but it was afterwards restored, or at least great part of it, to

Roger Bigod his son and heir, who upon payment of 1000 marks more to King Richard I. in the first year of his reign, viz. 118y, was restored by special grant, both to the earldom and stewardship, and the whole inheritance of his father, to hold them as freely and honour- ably as his father and grandfather did; and was not only a favourite of the King's, but was entrusted by him, and much employed in pub- lick affairs; for in 1 190, he was ambassadour to Philip King of France, to solicit an aid towards the recovery of the Holy-Land ; he attended William de Longcamp Bishop of Ely, when he went to King Richard, then made captive in Almaigne; he was one of the four knights which carried the canopy of state over that King's head at his second coronation. He was sent to require William King of Scot- land to come to Lincoln and do his homage to King John, whom he attended into Poictou in 1213; but in 1215, he deserted that Prince, being one of those rebellious barons that met in a hostile manner at Stamford, and afterwards at Brackley, and by their power exacted from the King those strict covenants, whereby he insolently wrested the government out of his hands, and put it into the management of himself and his accomplices; for which violent proceedings, he and his twenty-four comrades, who had thus obtained the real government, were excommunicated by Pope Innocent III. He died in 1220, leaving

Hugh Bigot his son and heir, who married Maud, eldest daugh- ter of Will. Marshal Earl of Pembrook and Marshal of England, ■who outlived him; in 1222, he was with the King's army in Wales, but dying in 1224, this manor and all his inheritance descended to

Roger Bigod their son and heir, who was knighted in 1232; and at a tournament between the southern and northern lords in 1236, was taken much notice of for his singular skill in those warlike exer- cises. Upon levying the aid to marry the King's eldest daughter, he paid 162/. lis. for 125 knights fees of the o\dfeofment, and 37 and an half of the new. In 1241, he was with the King in France, and be- haved gallantly at the famous skirmish betwixt the French and Eng- lish near Xantoigne. In 1245, he was one of those that were sent to the council of Lyons, to complain of the burthen the kingdom laid under trom the see of Rome, and finding no redress, wras one of those lords who subscribed a letter to the Pope, requiring a remedy from such future exactions, and unjust oppressions; and the same year

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obtained the office and honour of Marshal, in right of his mother, which that King thus conferred on him ; the King gave the Marshal's rod or staff into Maud's hands, and she having delivered it to her son and heir Roger, the King accepted his homage for it, and ordered the Treasurer and Barons of the Exchequer, to let him enjoy all the privi- leges of that office, and admit his sufficient deputy (if occasion requi- red) to sit in that court. In 1247, he seized the Earl of Ghisnes, on his arrival in England, and excused that fact to the King, by acquaint- ing him, it was only a retaliation of former indignities; the said Earl having served him so, when he went ambassadour into France, having detained him prisoner till he had satisfied him for his passage through his lands. In 1252, he was present when the King confirmed the two charters called, The Great Charter or Magna Carta, and Carta de Fo- resta; and the next year he attended his Majesty into Gascoigne. In 1254, Robert de Ross, one of the Barons, being charged with some crime committed against the King, this Earl apologized for him, till the King gave him harsh language, and called him traitour ; upon which, with a stern aspect, he told him, he lied, and that he never was, nor would be so; adding, If you do nothing but what the law warranteth, you can do no harm: Yes, quoth the King, I can thrash your corn and sell it, and so humble you : to which he replied, if you do it, I will send you the heads of the thrashers. But this breach was soon made up, for in 1259, he was sent ambassadour to the Kins; of France. In 12f>3, he was one of those who undertook, that the King should submit to the determination of Lewis the French King, concern- ing the provisions of Oxford; and the King being made prisoner at the battle of Lewes, he was constituted by the Barons, governour of Oifnrd castle in Suffolk. In 1269, he was found to hold this manor and advowson, (the Prior of Thetford having released all right in the latter) as head and chief parcel of the barony ofByGOD, and dying soon after, he was buried at Thetford, leaving his honours and estate to his nephew,

Roger Bigoo, son of his brother Hugh, who was under age when he inherited ; for in 1272, John de Thorp, as guardian, had the custody of the manors of Forncet and Hanworth. In 1281, he was in the Welsh expedition, In 1288, he had a charter offree-warren to this manor. In 1293, he was licensed to embattle his castle or mansion- house at Bungci/e in Suffolk; and it is plain he did not degenerate from his ancestors, for he stood up for the people's liberty, being the chief of those lords, who openly opposed Edward I. in his arbitrary impositions upon lands and wool; and not only opposed the levy de- manded by the King for his expedition into Flanders, but actually refused his personal attendance thither; and he and the Earl of Hereford, with others, inhibited the payment of the assessment, and incited the Londoners so, that he obtained a confirmation of the two great charters, and the Articuli super Chartas, which explain them, together with a pardon for all offences ; thus all discontents being settled, in 1299 he went in the expedition into Scotland, and having no issue, he constituted King Edzcard his heir, delivering to him his Marshal's rod, on condition it should be returned to his children if he had any, he to have 1000/. down, and 1000/. per annum during life. Historians aver all this to be done out of fear, because the Earl of Hereford, his old friend and ally, being dead, he thought the King

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would now mal<e him suffer for conspiring against him. But soon after, he had a re-grant of the earldom, marshalship, and constable- ship of Norwich castle, and all his estate in tail special, to himself for life, and to his heirs, if he had any, by Alice his second wife, with remainder to the King, who inherited the whole at his death in 1JOJ ; John Bigot, his brother and heir, inheriting only the manors ofStock- ton in Norfolk, and Seterington in Yorkshire, and a few more estates not contained in the settlement. The King being thus possessed, enjoyed it till

Thomas de Brotherton, his fifth son, had the earldom of Norfolk, and marshalship of England, and great part of the estate of the By gods, and among others, this manor and advowson, granted to him and his heirs by Edwardll. his half brother, in 1 3 12, he was constable of Nor- wich castle.8 In 1315, was returned lord of the honour of Forncet, and of the manors of Forncet, Ditcliiugluim, Ersham, Framling- ham-Earl. Halvergate, Southfield, South- Wahham, Hanworth, &c. with the half hundred of Earsham. In 1320, having beha- ved well in the Scotch wars,he had a grant of

confirmation of the honours, lands, and es- tates of the Bygods. In 1332, he was a third time in the Scotch wars, and dying in 1338, was buried in the abbey at St. Edmund's Bun/; he had two wives, but left no male issue; by his first wife Alice,9 daughter of Sir Roger Hales of Harwich, Knt. ; he had a son named Edward, who died "before him, and two daughters, named Alice,1 and

Margaret, who was firstmarried to John Lord SEGEAVEofFo/te- tone in Kent, who in her right was lord here; by him she had issue Eliz. and Anne, who was lady abbess at Berking; her 2d husband was Sir Walt. Manney, Knt.1 by whom she had issue Thomas, who was in his youth, unfortunately drowned in a well at Deptford in Kent, and Margaret married to John Hastyngs Earl of Pembrook. This Sir Walter was lord and patron here in 13<il and 1368, hut dying before his lady, she had the whole of the estate in her own right, and in 1397, was created Dutchess of Norfolk for life, by King Richard II. she died in 1399, and was buried at the Friars-Minors in London, and by inquisition taken at her death, it was found that her daughter and heiress,

Elizabeth, married to John Lord Mowbray, had issue John, created Earl of Notingham, who dying under age issueless, was succeeded by

s Vol. iii. p. 76.

" Her sister Joan married with Jermyn of NorfolL.

1 Alice, sister and coheir with Mar- garet, married Sir Edmund de Montea- cute or Montague, whose daughter and heiress Joan was born at Bungeye on Candltras day 1348, and was wife to Will, de Ufford Earl of iiffolk.

1 Mr Walter Manney, Knt. in right of Margaret his w.i'e, iat- the wife of Sir John begrave, held Forncet manors

and honour in chief, as parcel or head of the ban ny of the Earl of Norfolk, by knight's service, and 255. pei annum paid for castie-v. aid to Norwich castle; and he had free-warren belonging to the manor, which was worth 20 marks a year. It had then a capital mansion- house, 178 -icies of land, 23 of meadow, divers woods and aide. cars, two wind- mills, 'he 4th part of the lolisand profits of Stratton market, let at zs. per an- num, &c.

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Thomas Mowbray, bis brother, wbo was Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham, Baron Mowbray, Segrave, JBraose, and Gower; Knight of the Gaiter, and as Coke upon Littleton saith, the first Earl-Marshal that siyled himself Earl-Mur- shut of England; 3 his christian name was Thomas, in respect to Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury. He was so much in the King's favour, as to be created with his title of Earl of Notingham, to which honour he was ad- vanced the very day bis grandmother Marga- ret (the heiress of Brothertou) was created Dutchess; but as his greatness was founded in blood, so he soon after irrecoverably fell; for being accused by Henry of Botinbroke, for words spoken indecently of the King, whom he said, notwithstanding his fair pretences and oaths, meant to oppress the Duke of Lancaster and others : that Prince, though he had so great a favour for him, for being active in the de- struction oi \ Richard Earl of Arundel, his father-in-law,4 and Thomas of Wodstock Duke of G/ocester, as to create him Duke of Norfolk, and give him his father-in-law's forfeited estate, yet he committed him prisoner to Windsor castle, and ^challenge or camp-ordeal ensued be- tween them, when the Duke came to the place appointed for the com- bat, wiith his horse caparisoned with crimson velvet, embroidered with silver tionsand mulberry-trees: but the King then prohibited the combat, ban i shed Henry called Earl qi 'Hereford forlOyears, and IheDuke for life; and this happened on the very day twelvemonth, that he had been accessory to the murder of the Duke of Gloucester ; Germany, Bohe- mia, and Hungary were allotted for his exile; pursuant to which sentence he departed, but never returned, for as he came from Jeru- salem, he died of the plague at Venice, in the year 1400, 1st Henry IV. seized of this manor, with the court called the Knyghten court, thereto belonging, and Elizabeth his widow inherited them, and after- wards remarried to Sir Gerard de Ufflete, Knt. who held them till her death in 1424.

The Knyghten Court Belonging to this manor was the ancient court, to which all those great men, that held their several manors, lands, and tenements, of the Bygods honour, were obliged to do suit and service, and pay castle-ward for the guard of the Earl's castle at Norwich, every three

3 He was constituted Earl-Marshal (of Eng/andjfor life, but afterwards obtained it in remainder to the heirs of his body, with an union of the office of Marshal in the courts of King's Bench and Ex- chequer, and Marshal Crier before the steward, and Marshal of the King's household, and f." 'hat account, he and his heirs should bear a golden '.run heon, enamelled with black at each end having the King's arms engraven at the uj _ r, and his own at the lower end.

* Hehadtwowivcr, ist Eliz. daughter

of the Lord Strange, by whom no issue. 2d, Eliz, sister and oneofihe heirs of Tho. Fitz-Alan Farl of Arundel, by whom she had issue,Thomas I orH Mow- bray, beheaded atYork, withRic. Scroop Archbishop of Canterbury, in the year 1405. John his second son, who suc- ceeded him. Margaret his eldest daugh- ter, married Sir Robert Howard, Knt. Isabel the second daughter, married first to Hen. Ferrers of Groby, and after to Sir James Berkeley, Knt. father of William Marquis Berkeley.

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weeks; and to do their homages, pay their reliefs and aids for the several knights fees they held of the honour, at every death, aliena- tion, or aid granted to the Earl. It appears that there were many fees held both of the old and new feofment in the Bi/gods times ; but it was greatly augmented in 1337, when the division of all the fees belonging to Tho. de Brotherton late Earl of Norfolk, was made by the King's writ, between his two daughters and heiresses, Alice married as aforesaid, to Sir Edw. de Montague, and Margaret to Sir John de Se- grave, who had Fomcet for his share, and above 50 knights fees, many of which he transferred from Rising castle, and other places, and added them to the Knighten Court here.

This court was held constantly every three weeks, and had the following officers belonging to it:

1. An auditor, whose business was once in a year to audit and pass the year's accounts, receive the money, and return it to the lord ; he was generally a man of some principal family in the county, and had a handsome salary for life, it being held by patent. Sir Ric. Ful- merston, Knt. and several of the Kempes, 8cc. were auditors.

Q. The feodary, an office of honour and great profit; his business was to take inquisitions at the death of each tenant, that held any fees or parts of fees, by knight's service, inroll all deeds of alienations of any fees or parts thereof.

3, The collector, whose office was to attend at the doing of all homages, and to receive all reliefs,1 aids,6 castle-guard1 money, wards,* marriage money,9 &c.

5 On the death of every knight, or done, sometimes at Bungeye, or at Fram- tenant by knight's service, a reasonable lingham castle in Suffolk, and after that, relief was paid to the chief lord of the at the palace at Kenninghall in Norfolk, as fee, which was originally at his will ; but appears from the rolls, &c. that growing exorbitant (as in the case 6 And aid could never be levied, of copyholds) the lords often oppressing without the consent of the majority of their tenants to a great degree, it was the tenants by knight's service, unless in determined that a reasonable relief should three cases, ist, when the King made be for each fee, five pounds certain, (as his eldest son knight, or married his eld- in copyholds, the reasonable fine, hath est daughter; he could then demand an been fixed, at the unreasonable sum of aid of 205. for every fee; which was to two years rent,) which was always paid, be answered to him by the chief lords of Besides this, the new tenant was obli- the fees, to whom each tenant paid their ged to come and do homage to the lord, proportion for the several fees or parts or else pay a fine at the lord's will, for of fees lieid of them. 2d, when the lord not doing it; and it often happened, that of any honour, or chief lord of any fees, the lord being at a distance, they could made his eldest son a knight, or married not conveniently go to him to do their his eldest daughter, he .%iao, could levy homage, and then they fii.ed for respite of an aid of 205. from each fee held of him. homage, some for a year others for 3d. when the King went to the wars, longer time. And this was another every fee being obliged to find a knight or hardship brought in by innovation ; for horseman, well armed, to do personal originally, the tenant (though bound to service. for the fee; hi* Majesty sum- do his homage) was not obliged to do it moned the chief lords of the fees to come any where, but at some court held in person, with as many knights or horse. for the honour, or at the capital mansion- men, as they held fee.-;, or to fine with house or castle belonging :o it. The chief him in lieu of such services; and then seat oi the old Earis being the castle at the chief lords summoned their several Norwich, where the homages were chiefly tenants that held fees under them, to

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4. The SERJEANT, who was the feodarys officer, to serve all pro- cesses, make enquiries, serve all summonses, return the jurors, and certify the deaths.

5, The bailiff, who was to summon the under tenants, give notice of the courts, make seizures, return copies of the rolls, &C. to the evidence room.

Thefeodary book of this honour, was last of all renewed in 1609, when the noble Henry Earl of Northampton, Baron of Murnehill, lord guardian of the Cinque-Ports, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, Knight of the Garter, was lord. It had then above Jiftu fees held of it in the county of Norfolk only, as may be seen under the several towns and manors, to which I refer you.

At the death of Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk in 1424,

John Mowbray, her second son, and heir, by the death of his eldest brother, succeeded to the honour and manor: he was one of those valiant noblemen that served King Hen. V. and King Hen. VI. in their wars with France; in which, having behaved with the greatest courage and fidelity, he was by parliament restored to the title and dignity of Duke of Norfolk, (being before styled Earl-Marshal and Earl of Notingham only,) in 1424. In 1414, he was at the siege of Harfleu with King Henry v. where he gat the flux by eating too much fruit, and so was forced to return before the famous battle of Agincourt; in 1416, he was at the siege of Caen in Normandy, and continued in those parts till that King's death, and was soon after retained to serve Henry VI. in his wars, by whom he was made Knight of the Garter; he died Oct. 19, 14S3, at his manor of Epleworth in the isle of Axeholme, and was buried in the charter-house of the Car- thusians there ; by Katherine1 daughter of Ralph Nevile, first Earl of Westmorland, and of Joan his wife, daughter of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster ; he had

John Lord Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, Earl- Marshal and Notingham, Lord Segrave, Gozcer, 8tc. Knight of the Garter, and lord of this honour and manor, who in 1438 went ambassadour into

appear in person, with as many horse- purchasers of wardships and marriages,

men as they held fees, or to fine with would not have given such vast sums as

them in lieu of such their service. was usually done, for their purchase.

7 Every fee held of this honour paid 9 If the tenant left a widow, her mar- castle-guard money or wayte-fecs, to some riage belonged to the lord of the honour, castle or other, belonging to the lords of and was sold according to her estate for the honour, for the watch and guard of life, which if not submitted to, shefor- such castles, many paid to Norwich feited her dower in all things that be- castle, several to Rising, others to longed to the honour, and in like manner, Framlingham and Bongeye, all the woman (notwithstanding any prior which, at several times, belonged to the or contrary agreement) had her dower ancient lords. always allotted, in all lar.ds, &c. held by

8 Whenever any tenants of any fees knight's service of the honour.

died, and left their heirs minors, the ■ She after married to Tho. Strange,

chief lord of the fee, sold their wardships ways, Esq. to John Viscount Beaumont,

and marriage to whom he pleased, often and to Sir John Widevile, brother to

to the great detriment of the family, else Anthony Earl Rivers. P.L.N.

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Picardy, to make a peace between the Kings of England and France, and had then a grant of place and seat in parliament, next to the Duke of Exeter. In 1446 he went in pilgrimage to Rome, and in 1456, he had license to visit other holy places, 111 Ireland, Scotland, Brittanmj, Piccardy, and Cologn ; and to the blood of our Saviour at Wiudismark ; as also to go a second time to Rome and Jerusalem, having vowed to do it for recovery of the King's health. In 1400, he was constituted by Edzv. IV. justice itinerant of all the forests south of Trent, but died in 146), and was buried in the abbey of Thetford* as was Eleanor his wife, daughter of William Lord Bourchier, and sister of Henri/ Bourchier Earl of Essex; and was succeeded by his son,

John Lord Mowbray, who during his father's lifetime, was created Earl Warren and Surrey, by King Hen. VI. and by Edw. IV. was made Knight of the Garter; in 1473, that King retained him to serve in the French wars; he married Elizabeth, daughter of John Talbot, first Earl of Shrewsbury, and had issue only our daughter ; lie died in 1475, and was buried by his ancestors in Thetford priory church, and this manor was assigned to Eliz. Dutchess of Nokfolk his widow, who presented here in 1196; but the honour of Fomcet went to

Anne, their only daughter, who married Richard Plantaginet of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, second sou to King Edward IV. who, because the title of Duke of 'Norfolk was by the creation limited to the heirs male of the Mowbrays, he obtained a patent from his lather, creating him Duke of Norfolk, and Earl Warren.; with annuities of 40/. a year, out of the revenues of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and '20/. per annum out of the profits of the counties of Surrey and Sussex, to be paid by the sheriffs of those counties. In right of his wife, he was Earl- Marshal, and had the baronies of Mowbray, Segrave, and Gower, together with the vast inheritance of her family. Ihis Richard,1 with his brother King Edw. V. was by the unnatural and cruel command of that monster Richard Duke of Gloucester, their uncle, afterwards King Rich. III. barbarously murdered in the tower of London, in 148.1, and leaving no issue, the inheritance of this great house fell to two female heiresses, Isabel and Margaret, daugh- ters of Thomas d°, Mowbray first Duke of Norfolk, the first of which married Sir James Berkley, and the other Sir Robeil tloicard, Knt. to whose family this honour, manor, and advowson, passed, and hath continued in it to this day.

I shall therefore conclude my account of the Bvgods and Mow- brays, with the following extract taken from an old mamiscript called the Book of Pleas, now remaining in the gild-hall of the city of Norwich, at lb. 1, viz.

" SERE Roger Bygott Erie of Norfolke, hadd a Sonne hyte "Roger, and after him was Erie of Northfolke, and that second " Roger, hadd a Sonne bite Roger, and was after hym Erie of Nor- "Jolke, and that last

* See vol. ii. p. 119. 3 Prinne's Abridgement of the Records, fo. 400.

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Roger [Bygot] Erie of Noifolke in the Tyme of Kyng Edward " the first, had non Heirs of his Body, and " the seid Edward had iij Sonnes, whereof " oon was Edward, which was sethen King " Edw. the second with the long Shanks"; " the second Sonne was Thomas of Bito- " thirton ; the 3d. Sonne was Edmond, the " which Edward the Fader, thought that his " Son Edward schuld be his Heir, and Kyng " after hym, and so he was, and Thomas of " Brodirton, and Edmond his other Sones, " schuld no Lyfelod have, but he get to " hem ; and in that Tyme, the Erie, Sire " Roger Bigott Erie of Noifolke, and his " Wif, come to London to the Parliament, in gay and gret Aray, and " with gret Peple that passid his Estate, and the Kyng and the Lordis " of this Lond, in that Tyme hadden gret Envye therof, and the " Kyng cast a Wrath to the seid Sere Roger, and arested hym, and " put hym in strong Hold, sayng he was a Traitor, to that Entent, " for to do hym yelden up his Londes into the Kyngs Hond, that he " schuld thereof don his Will; and the seid Ser Roger was in gret " Distres, many Day and long, and at the last, to be in Ese and in " Rest, he gaf up all his Londes into the Ki/nges Hond, that he schuld "thereof don his Will ; and thenne the Kyng havyng thereof seson, " of his speciall Grace grauntid agen, all the seid Londes to the seid " Sire Roger Bigott, and to his Wif, to holden Terme of their " Lifes, and after their Disses to remeyndre to Thomas of Brodir- " ton, the second Son of the seid Kyng Edward the first, and to the " Heirs of his Body ; the which Thomas Brodirton, after the Deth of " the seid Sir RogerBigott, and of his Wife, possessed thes Londs, and " was Erie of Noifolke. And the Kyng gaf to Edmond his thirde son, " the Erldom of Kent, with the Londes ; and the seid Thomas Bro- " dirton Erie of Norfolke, cam doun into Noifolke, and ther he wedded " a Knygthis Doughter, fast be * Bitngey, and thei hadden togedir ij " Dowters, of the which, oon hight Margeret, and the toder night " [Alice, who had a Daughter] which was married to oon Ser Wil. " Ufford Erie of Suffolk; the forseid Margaret and [Alice] Dowters " of Thomas Brothirton Erie of Norf after the Decesse of the seid " Thomas, possessed and hadden all his Londes, and it wern partid " between them to ; and after the seid [Alice] Wif of (Edward) Mon- " tagew deid ; and hire (Part) fell to here Dowter {Joan) Wif of " Ufford Erie of Suthfolk ; aud after that, the seid Lady Ufford " Countes of Suff. deied without Heirs, and all here Part thanne fell " unto the forseid Margaret Dowter of the seid Thomas Brothirton, " and sche was thenueCWre.se mad of Norff. and dwellid at the Castell " of Framelingham, and sche was married to the Lorde Segrave, and " the seid Lorde Segrave gaf to hire, whenn he schuld wedden here, " all his Londis, to hir and to hire Heirs; and thei hadden togeder " ij Dowters, wherof oon (Anne) was Abbesse of Berkyng, and " (Elizabeth) the todir, was married to the Lord Mowbrey and " Gower ; and after that, the Lord Segrave deied, and thenn Dame

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" Margaret his Wif, the Countes of Norff. was both Countes of " Norff. and Lady Segrave, and after that, sche was married to Sere " Water Maughney Knyght, and thei had togedir (Thomas) a Son, and " (Anne) a Dowter, the which Son whenne he was of the age of x " Yeres, he drauthe att C/itslirforthe, and he schuld a ben Erie of " Northfolke and Lord Segrave, if he had levid; and the forseid " Dowter of the Countese of Norff. and of Sir Water Maughney, was " mailed to (John Hastings) the Erie of Penbroke, and ther Son "dwellid with the seid Lady of Norff. and was Warde after his " Fader's discesse, and the seid Countes of Norff. had his Londes " til his full Age, and he wedded (Phillipa) the Dowter of \Edm. Mor- " timer, the 3d Earl of March) the which yong Erie of Penbroke, was " slayne with Juslyng with Sir John Sent-Jon att Plaishe, (in 1389) " and thenn his Wif, was maried to Sir John Holond, and thenne he " deied, and sche was maried agen to Grene Cornewall ; and whenne " the yong Brie of Penbroke was ded, all the Part of the forseid " Londes, that schuld alonged to hym, after the Decesse of the seid " Countes of Norff. remeyndered agen with the todir Parte, to the "Wif of the seid Lord M.nvbrey and Gower, Dowter and Eire of " the seid Countes, and of the Lord Segrave'; the which Lord Mow- " brey and Gower, and his Wif, hadden togedir ij Sonnys, that " werne Thomas and John, the which Thomas theeldere Son, schuld " be Eire to his Fader, of the Mowbray Londes and Gower, and Eiie " to his Moder, of the Erledom of Norff. and of the Lordschip of "Segrave; and the forseid John was with the Deuke of Lancastre, " and schuld non Heritage have, lyfyng his Brother and his Brother's " Eire; and the seid Deuke of Lancastre, get hym of the King the " Erldom of Notyngham, and xl Marcs be Yer therwith, and the " Office of Marshall of Yngland, with certen Fee therwith, to hym " and to his Heirs; and after that, hedeied witbouten eny Heirs of his " Body, and ihenne the Kyng gate the seid Erledom of Notyngham, " and the seid Office of Marshall of Yngland, to the forseid Thomas', " son of Lord Mowbray and Gower, to him and to his Heirs of his " Body; and thenne deied the seid Lord Mowbray and his Wif and " thenne the seid Thomas was Erie of Notyngham, and Marschali of " Ingland, and Lord Mowbray, and Lord Gower; and he weddid " Elisabeth the Erles Dowter oft Arundell, and the Kyng lovyd hym " well, and be cause that the [riheritaunce of the Erledome of Norff. " and the Lordshipp of Segrave, shuld afall to hym atter the Decesse " of Dame Margaret Countes of Norff. and Lady Segrave, his " Grauntdame, thenne levyng, the Kyng made hym Duke of Norff. " and where he schuld a ben mad Erle of Noithr. he was made Erie " Marschali, thenne he was Duke of Norff. Erie Marschali, Erie of " Notyngham, Marschali of Yngland, Lord Mowbray, Lord Segrave, " and Lord Gower; and thenne he deied, levying the forseid Dame " Margaret, Countes of Norff. and Lady Segrave, and so the Londes " of the Dochie of Norff. and the Lordshipp of Segrave, were never " in his Hond."

+ Eliz. daughter of Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel, sister and one of the heirs of Thomas Fitz-Alan her brother.

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THE HONOURABLE FAMILY OF THE

HOWARDS,

Being not only the first of this county, but of all England, next to the royal family (1), [ shall treat of them at large in this place; this town being the chief or head of the honour ; beginning as far back as I can trace them, from the many ancient pedigrees, rolls, evidences, printed accounts, and other memorials, that I have met with concern- ing them; chiefly following that fedighee which is in Caius col- lege library in Cambridge ; (2) the greatest part of it being proved by extracts out of authentick evidences and deeds, which are entered upon it.

1. FVLCHO, or Fulk ; he is exhibited on his knees in armour, with a plume of feathers for his crest, on the top of his helmet; the sash, on which the scabbard of his sword hangs, goes in the form of a bend, and is tied with a knot on his shoulder ; he hath his drawn sword erected in his right hand ; from the oval that he is drawn in, hangs his shield, made in the shape of a heart, and on it, gul. a bend between six cross-croslets fitche arg. which arms have been constantly born by the Howards to this day.

2. G ALFRED or Jeffery, son of Fulk, (3) succeeded who had two sons, liumfry the younger, and

3. ALAN Fitz Jeffery, the elder, whose son

4. WILLIAM took the sirname of Wiggeniiall, from the town of that name in Freebridge hundred in Norfolk, where he was born,

(1) The Duke of Norfolk hath precedence of all other Dukes, not only by his creation, but likewise in respect of his office : for as Earl- Marshal of England, he is to take place with the Lord Great Chamberlain, Lord Great Constable (but after them) and Lord Hiak Admiral of England, Lord Steward, and Lord Chamberlain of the King's household, next after the Lord Privy Seal, above all other personages, being of the same estate and degree. Peerage of Eng- land, Vol. I. p. 51. Edit. Lond. 1715.

(2. The title of that pedigree is, Stemma et accurata Deductio, praeclarse Families. Howardorum usque ad annum 1605.

(3) Carta Godfridi filij (Jrdonis de Ridune facta Roberto filio Wlfrici de Norwico et heredibus suis, de toto prato suo vocato Rubro Prato in Ridune, (juxta Rising in Com. Norf.) teslibus, Hugone de Milliers, Hervico Cappel/ano, Galfrido filio Fvlchonis, Alano filio Galfridi, Humfredo fratre ejus, 6cc. (sans date.)

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and had lands, confirmed to him by the Abbot and convent of St. Edmund's Burt/ in Suffolk. (4) He had three sons, Jskill his second, and Wlfric his third son, (5) both continued the sirname oi'fViggen- hall, but

5. JOHN his eldest son, (o) look the sirname of Heyward, Hauuard, or Howard and was the first of this family, of that sirname; (7) which as I take it, he took from the office of heyward there; he married Lucy Germund, (8) by whom he had

6. WILLIAM HOWARD of Wigenhall,(9) with whom Sir WiU. Dugdale begins the pedigree of this noble family. (10) This William being bred to the law, made so great proficiency therein, and raised such fortunes,(ll) that he was knighted about the 6th year of Edw. I.

(4) Carta Abbalis et Conventus Sancti Edmundi facta Willelmo filio Alan i, de terrS. sua apud JVigenha/l, sc. tuft a et crufta, quas Seman et uxor ejus Lewet, tenuerunt apud Wigenhall, &c. Testibus Roberto Priore Sci. Edmundi, &c. (sans date, sub sigillo Abbatis.)

(5) Relaxatio Askelli et Wlerici filiorum Willielmi de Wi- senhall, de totis terris quae fuerunt Lesswot, filie Landrici, sacer- dotis, &c. (sans date.)

(6) Carta Rie. filij Willielmi de Reynham facta Alkie filie sue, &c. de quinque acris terre in Tilney, testibus Johanne filio Willielmi de Wigenhall.

(7) I am sensible of the the many originals this name is said, by different people, to be derived from, as hot-zcard, the warden of an hull. (Spelman.) Hold-zeard, the warden or keeper of any strong hold. (Verstegan.) Of hoch, high. (Teuton.) and wapo, a warden, (Cambden,) or noLT>,favour, and word, worthy. Teut. (Kilian) or of hold, hospitality, and ward, (Skinner.) But all these, I believe, are little to our purpose, otherwise than the natural origin of it, the Hey- ward or Howard being the high or chief warden or keeper of any place or thing; and indeed I believe that this John was the hey- ward here.

(8) Lucia, (ilia Johannis Germund. Her arms in the pedigree are, quarterly G. and V. an escarbuncle or.

(9) Carta Johis. filij Willielmi de Hakebech facta Willo. filio Johis. Howard de Wigenhale, de septem acris terre in campis de Gildengore, &c. Testibus Johanne Fitlon, Johanne Howard, An- drea fratre ejus, &c. (sans date.)

(10) The Peerage published at London in 1715, begins with this William ; but the edition in 1741, withHAR'»EY, Clarencieux's, ac- count of the family (of which I shall take no notice, believing it to be of no authority, as to what is said of it) before this William.

(11) Carta Willi, filij Constautini de Clenchewai tun , facta Willo fil. Johannis Howakd de term in Wigenhale abuttante ex parte

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and had his seat at Wigenhale, (12) where by various purchases, he ac- quired a considerable estate. It seems he had a brother named Thomas, who was called sometimes Thomas de Wigenhale, and some- times Thomas Howard of Wigenhale ; whose son Andrew also, did the same ; for in a deed of exchange, made between him and this William, he is called Andrew{\3) son of Thomas Howard ; in the deed, which hath on its seal an eagle volant with a bird in its claws, the circum- scription being Sigillum An'Dree de Wigenhale; and by this deed it is clear, that his mother Lucy survived her husband. (14) It seems as if he had also another brother, culled Hugh Howard, who was instituted to the vicarage of Wigenhale St. Germans, 7 Cal. May, 1304, being in deacon's orders only, when the Prior of Norwich pre- sented him; which was void again in 1307; (15) but whether by Hugh's death, or promotion to other preferment, I do not find. This William was first appointed one of the judges in the Court of Common Pleas by K'mgEdwardl. aboutl280 ; and on thellth of'OcM296, (16) 25 E. I. he was sworn chief justice of the King's Bench; was con- stantly summoned to parliament till 1 Edw. II. in which year he was sent into Scotland with Rob. de Wateville, on the King's affairs; (17) and on the 12th of Dec. 1307, had letters of protection from his Ma- jesty, to answer no sulfa, and not to plead to any thing till his return ; which patent was produced in the first, second, and third years of Edzv. II. so that he did not return to settle till after that time. By various deeds I find, that he purchassed estates in Walpole, Tilney, Norlk-Wotton, and many towns in that neighbourhood. He had two

australi, super tenementum Thome Howard, &c. Testibus, Thoma Howard, Johanne de Fitton - Willo. de Reynham, 8cc.

Memorandum, Quod die Sancti Georgij An° 1303, domus sive prioratus de Wymondham, tenebatur solvere Domini Willmo. How asd vi./. xiij.s. iiij.d. E Kegistro Monastery Sancti Albani, fo. 293.

(12) Carta Sv/horm proris de Bemewell de quadam pecia. terre de Wigenhale, facta Willo. Howard, ad ampliendurn messuagium suum. Sub sigillo Capituli 5 E. I. 1276.

Carta excambij inter Dominum Willum. Howard de Wigenhale, militem, et Alanum til'ium Thome F/oa'f , de diversis terris in Wigenhale, &c. Testibus Johe. Fitton, &,c. (sans date.)

(13) In Edward the Second's time, I find that a Will. Howard was son of this Andrew, by Alice his wife ; so that the Howards that remained in these parts many generations after the chief branch removed, descended from him.

(14) Carta excambij in Willum. Howard de Wigenhale, et An- Bseam filium Thome Howard de uno messuagio tribus acris terre in Wigenhale. Habenxi. eidem Andree et heredibus sitis in perpetuum, salva semper Lucie GERMUND,rehcte Johannis Howard, rationa- bili dote sua de predicto messuagio, &c. Testibus Johanne Fitton,. Johanne Germund, Galfrido de Kerville, &c.

(15) Liber Institut. in Regro. Epi. Norwic. No. I. A° 1304.

(16) Madox. Hist. Excbeq. fo. 606.

(17) Rot. Soccie 1, 2, 3 Edw. II.

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wives ; Alice, daughter of Sir Rob. Ufford, Knt. by whom he had no issue; (18) and Alice daughter of Sir ■Edmund Fitton of Wigtn- hale, Knt. by whom he had issue John and William ; he is said to have died about 1308, (19) but where buried I dont rind ; the Peerage, Vol. I. p. 7, saith, he is pourtrayed in glass, in judge's robes, in a window in Long- Ale/ford church in Suffolk, with two other judges, and this inscription under them :

$rag foe the gooo .§>tate of William Haward, Chief %\xit\$ of Yngland, anQ for > * > * Pycot anb John Haugh 3justli» of the %tto. (20)

7. JOHN HOWARD, Knt. his eldest son, succeeded him, who in 1305, was gentleman of the bed-chamber to King Edward I. after- wards sheriff' of Norfolk and Suffolk, ('21) custos or governour of Nor- wich castle; went into the Scottish wars, and to Gascoigne, to serve

(18) Memorandum, quod Willus. Howard, miles, Justiciaries, in primis nuptijs desponsavit filiam Offord, antecessoris Offord, postea Comitis Suffolcie, per quam non habuit exitum, post cujus mortem duxit in uxorem, Aliciam filiam Edmundi [the last edition of the Peerage calls him Edward] Fitton, militis, de quibus exivit

Johaitne Howard qui sumpsit sibi in uxorem, filiam per quam,

habuit filium nomine Johannem, postea militem, qui in matrimonio fuit copulatus, filie et heredi de Bois in cujus jure, habuit maneria de Brakes, Fersfield, et Gerbo/disham, et de ipsa s^enuit filium nomine Robertum; qui Robertus, miles, nupsit filiam Domine Scales, que peperit (ilium vocatum Johannem. E Fragmento Antiqui Scripti niter Evidencias Willi. Greene defuncti A° lu'OO.

(19) In 1306, he was a witness to the composition between the church of Norwich and the citizens. See vol. iii. p. 73.

(20) His wives arms are, Ufford, S. a cross ingrailed or. Fitton az. three cinquefoils pierced arg. She outlived him, for in 1310, Alicia, que fuit uxor Willi. Hozcard, habuit literas de inquirend. de transgressionibus factis apud Southlen et Bi/ney in com. Norjf. Prima pars Paten. 4 E. II. mem. 25 in dorso.

(21) Johannes Howard et Johanna uxor ejus. Fin. Norff A°. 2 E. 11. Membr. 2.

Johes. Howard Vicecomes Norff. et Stiff. Rot. Pip. 12, 13, 14, 15 E. II. Rot. Claus. 15 E. II.

He sealed with a lion rampant circumscribed Stovt. Leo. Fortis. as on a seal to a deed of his, made in 1308, by the name of John, son and heir oi William Howard, Knt. to Jeff ery son of Stephen, son of Walter de Tilney, to whom he conveyed land in Ti/ncy called Antioche,

faying ^Os. per annum to the said John Howard and Joan his wife. n 13 Hi, he sealed with the Howards arms, circumscribed Sigill. Johannis. Howard. Carta Johannis Howard, militis, facta Alex° Neckton, capellano, de uno messuagio et quinquaginta acris prati, uno salso marisco et uno molendino ventritico, &c. in JVigenhate, que quidem quondam fuere, Rici fijij Ade de Wigenhale, et que sibi

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the Kin* there : his brother, William Howard, (22) purchased East- Walton manor, and many other estates in Norfolk; but dying without issue he became his sole heir. He married Joan sister ot Richard de Cornwall, (13) who survived him, (24) as appears horn the inquisi-

descendebant jure hereditario, post mortem Willi . fratris sol. Data apud Wigenhal in festo Sci. Laurentij Martns A°. 10 E. fil. L. 1316.

m) This Will. Howard was dead before 1316, for then Sir John Howard his brother was in possession ot all his estates. Lon- ventio inter Will Howard ex. Alex. Butterwick, pro manerio de Jut- walton, quod idem Will, perquisivit de eodem Alexandra per finem in Curia Regis A°. 22 E. fil. H.

(03) Kichardus de Cornubia, 8cc. Willo. de Uudham, attor- nato suo in com. Nor/, salutem. Sciatis quod ego concessi Domina Johanni Howard, et Johanne uxori ejus, sorori mee, quod possint inlmbitare et manere in manerijs que habeo, ex dono dicti Johannis in com. Norf. quanducnnque eis placue.it. Inquis. capt. oh 111.

This was because Sir John Howard, senior, Knt. so called to dis- tinguish him from his son, had infeoffed his brother-in-law Ric. de Cornwall, in all his manors and estates m Norfolk, ever since 15 E. If. 1321, as by inquisition taken at Norwich 5 E. III. appears. ;< Johan- nes How abb, miles, senior, feofavit Rkardum de Cornubia, in ma- neriis de Est-H inch. Est-Walton, Wigenhale, et Terrmgton, p Cart. 15 F II que postea seisita fuere per dictum Regem, et idem Johan- nes di'ti in carcere detentus occasione cujusdam excesses (et non pro alia causa) pro eo, quod idem Johannes nianucepit ad mstantiam Huovnis le Dcspencers, militis, junioris, quandam inquisicwnem trans- itu* coram Rege, de coir.it. Norfo/cie, de quadam transgress.one facta cuidam servienti ad arma die. i Domini Regis in d.cto comilatu que quidem inquislcio transivit contra dictum serv.entem ; tandem ad instantiam dicti Hugords le Despenser jiberatus fu.t, sub spe habendi manerium dicti Johannis de Est-Wmch;et super <hoc idem Jo- hannes a prisona liberatus, precip.ens cup.d.tatem , diet. Hugoms le Despenser , ad evitandum exheredacionem suafn ded.t pred.ctum ma- nerium predicto Rieardo de Cornubia bona hde, et absque traude vel cotluslone aliqua, Sec. Inquis cap. Nonvic. 5 E. III. post mort. Johis. Howard, &c. int. Rot. in Turn Lond. tic. .

Cornwall's arms are, arg. a lion rampant gul. in a bordure .,1- grailed S.'bezante. See vol. i. p. 106, 7-

(24) Relaxacio Margaret*, que fait uxor Petri Spaldyng, facta Johanne, queiuit uxor Johannis Howard, miht»,de ominous term et tenementis, que predicta Johanna tenet in VeiringtoneX Walpole u de libero 'Memento suo Data apud ^-^-D.e Veneris prox. ante festum Sci. Marei Evangel.ste 14 B. III. 1339 By this it Teems she lived at Est-Winch, to which place the eldest branch of Z Howards removed from Wigenhall, and it is most likely hat she and her husband were interred there. R>c de Cornwall probably died without issue, for Est-Walton manor, and much, .1 not all ot hi, estate, came to the Howards.

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tion taken at his death in 5 Edw. III. A0. 1330, when he was lord of several manors in Wigenhale, East-Walton, Turlington, South-JVottan, &c; and though it hath been said, that one Edmund Howard was brother to this Sir John, I cannot find any thing like it; but take it to be a mistake for that Edmund Howard, who was presented in 1309, by King Edw. II. to the rectory of Wetyng St. Mary, as at vol. ii. p. 172: now this Edmund, I take to have been son to William, (25) son of Andrew Howard before mentioned.

8. JOHN HOWARD, junior, Knt. son and heir of Sir John Howard, senior, Knt. and Joan Cornwall his wife, married Alice du Bois, daughter of Sir Robert de Bosco or Bois of Fersfield, Knt. by Christian daughter of Sir William Latimer, Knt. who in 1333, became sole heiress to Sir Robert du Bois her only brother, and inhe- rited the large estate of that family, (see vol. i. p. 77, 8, 92, 104, 5,) where there is an account of this Sir John, who in 1335, was consti- tuted by Edward III. admiral of the King's whole fleet, from the mouth of the Thames northward ; and in 1344, he was sheriff of Nan* folk, (see vol. ii. p. 89,) and in 1346, obtained a grant for a market every Friday, and a fair yearly, at his manor of Wigenhale, and had a new patent to constitute him admiral again ; (26) he was esquire of the body to King Edw. III. behaved well in the siege of Calice in the first year of that King; he had issue,

9. Sir ROBERT HOWARD, Knt. who married Margaret, daugh- ter, and at length one of the heirs, of Robert Lord Scales, Knt. Lord

(25) Carta Willelmi filij Andree Howard de Wigenhale juni- oris,et JoluatiusHWj Benedicti de Garbicsthorp, facta Wil. Howard, militi, seniori, de tenementis in Wigenhale, data est apud Wigenhale, die Sabbati prox. post festum decollacionis Sancti Joins. Bapt. 8 AMI. To it hangs a fair seal, circumscribed Sigill. Willelmi Howard, with Howard's aims, and the bend charged with three mullets. So that this deed proves, this branch to be settled at Wigenhale, and shows the difference they used in their shields, to distinguish themselves from the elder branch seated at Winch.

(26) Johannes Howard constituitur admira/lus ab ore aque Thamesis versus partes boreales quamdiii Regi placuerit, &c. Teste Leon, filio nostro carissimo, dat. Redyng. 8 Martij. Prima pars Paten. 21 E. III. 1346.

Johannes Howard tenet matierium de Fersfield, pro uno feodo militis, de Comite Marescallo et idem de Rege, quod quondam fuit Roberti de Bosco (Huud. de Disce Feodr. Noif.) and it continues in the family to this day. Arms of Bois, erm. a cross sab.

Johannes Howard tenet 1 tenementum in Denton pro tercia parte unius feodi militis, et decima parte feodi de heredibus de Tateshall, et illi de Rege, quod quondam fuit Isolde de Bosco. Hund. de Eresham.

Relaxacio Willi, filij Galfridi Dix de Islington facta Johanni Howard, militi, et Alkie uxoris ejus, de quodam annuali redditii pro 16 acris terre in campis de Tilney. Data 16 E. III.

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Newcels, being near of age when his mother died inl371;(27) inl378, he was committed to the Tower, for detaining Margery de Nerford, from Alice Lady Nevi/e, her grand-mother ; (28) Sir Robert died July 3, 1388, (29) at Est-Winch, where he lies buried ; his tomb may- be seen in Weever, fo. 841, 2. His will is dated at Est-Winch; (30) by which he ordered his body to be buried in St. Mary's chapel, in the church of All-Saints there, and gave several sums to the high altar, and to the high altars in the churches oHVigenhale St. German, Terrington St. Clement, Fersfield St. Andrew, and Gerboldisham St. John Baptist; with legacies to the Carmelites and Austin-friars at Lyn. Margaret his wife, and Sir John Tuddenham, Knt. were his executors. According to the settlement made by him in 138t>, (31) Margaret his widow enjoyed the greatest part of the Boises estate, during her life ; (32) and at her death she was buried by her husband, who died before his father, leaving issue,

(27) Alicia, que fuit uxor J ohannis Howard, militis, obijt die Lune prox. ante festum Nativitatis Beate Marie A0, xlvj Edri. III. et Ro- bertas Howard, filius et heres, est etatis viginti annorum et amplius. Esc. A". 48 Ed. III. so that the estate of the Boises, at his mother's death, came to him.

(28) Peerage, Vol. I. p. 40. Edit. Lond. 1715. Scales, gul. six escalops arg. 3, 2, 1.

(29) Robektus Howard, chevaler, obijt 3" die Julij 12 R. II. et Johannes Howard, filius et heres, est etatis xxiij annoiuin et amplius. Esch 12 R. II. No. 2fi.

(30) E Registro Harsyke, fo. 3, inter Archiv. Epi. Norwic. proved July 1389.

(31) Feofamentum Roberti Howard, militis, factum Johanni Lovell, Johanni Todenham, militibus, et alijs, de manerijs, terris, et tenemeniis suis in Wigenhale, Est-Winch, Fersfield, Gerboldesham, Uphall et Bo- kenham's in Gerboldesham, Terrington, Tilney, Walpole, West-Walton? Brisingham, Lopham, Kenninghall, Reidon, Wrotham, Spaldyng, South and North Clenchzcarton, East Walton, South-Woitoii, Upwell, Outwell, Islingtori, Sadelbow, and Sechithe in Norfo/cia, et manerio de Brokes in comitatu Suffolcie, &c. ad implendum ejusultimam volun- tatem et testimentum, sc. tain pro dote Margareta, uxoiis ejus, quam pro sustentacione filiorum, et maritagijs filiarum. It is dated at Est- Winch, and hath his seal of arms fixed to it, circumscribed Sigill. Roberti Howard.

N. B. He had only the reversion of several of these manors.

(32) Carta Johs. Howard, mil. facta Margarete, que fuit uxor Roberti Howard, militis, Simoni de Felebrige, militi, et alijs de ma- nerijs de South-Wotton et Reynham's in South-Clenchwarton cum. pertinentijs, et cum omnibus terris et pertinentijs et tenrmentis que Robertus Howard, miles, perquisivit de Johanne de Wessingham, seu quocunque alio in villis predictis testibus Laurencio Trusbut, Edm. Kervile, Thoma Howard, &c. Data apud Est-Winch, 22 R. II. 1393. The seal to this deed hath Howard's arms quartered with P/ais, and a man's head erased, with long hair, beard, and a hat on, for a crest.

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10. Sir JOHN HOWARD, Knt. his eldest son and heir, who at his grand father's death became heir to the whole estate, except the manors of Brakes in Suffolk, and Est- Walton in Norfolk ; ihe former of which was settled by Sir Robert. Howard, (.33) on Edmund Howard, his second son; and the latter, on Robert Howard his third son; hut both dying without issue, they reverted to Sir John, their elder bro- ther, (34) who was retained to serve King Ric II. for life, and had two wives; by Maigaret, (351 his fir«t wife, daughter and heiress of Sir John Plais of fleeting, Knt. (36) he had issue,

John Howard, junior, Knt. (37) who married Joan, (38) daughter

(33) Sir Rob. Howard had also three daughters, Lady Alice Hozcard, a nun at Thetford, (vol. ii. p. 92,) Margaret, and Catherine, the for- mer of which is said to have married Robert Lord Scales, whose daughter Catherine, is m ide the wife of Sir Constantine Clifton, (Dug. liar. Vol. II. His,) but it appears, that Margaret herself was Clifton's wife ; for after her death in 1432, the Escheat Roll of the next year hath this ; Inqnisicio capta 10 Apr. A°12 H. Vl. Murgareta que fuit uxor Constantiui Clifton, militis, obijt 25 Mar. ult, preterit. et Johannes de Clifton, miles, filius et heres dicte Margniete, est etatis 35 annorum etamplius. Which will correct the mistakes in vol. i. p. 106, and 378, 9, as also the place of this Margaret in the pedigree, where she is made daughter of Sir Joint Howard, by Plais, his first wife; and to be married to GilbertJTalbot of Cast/e-Ricard, after Clifton s death, which probably was so; for I find, he held part of Bukenham castle. (See vol. i. p. 375.) Clifton, chequy O. G. a bend erin. Talbot, gul. a lion rampant in a bordure ingrailed or, over all, a bendlet az.

(34) See vol. i. p. 79,81.

(35) Pateat universis quod ego Johes. Plais, miles, recipi die Con- fectionis presencium de Roberto Howard, milite, per manum Willi. Cooke, pro termino Pasche ultim. preterit. 50 marc, in parte solucionis 300 niaic. in quibus idem Robeilus michi tenetur solvend. in vita mea, pro maritagio Margarete filie mee cum Johanne filio ejusdem Roberti, prout in quibusdam indenture continetur. Dat (Jclee in Essexia die Jovis in seplimana Pasche 4 Ric. II. 1360.

(36) Johns. Plais, chevaleir, obijt 2do die Junij 12 R. II. 1388, et Maigareta filia et heres, nupta Johanni Howard, chevaleir, est etatis xxiij annorum et amplius. Esch. 12 ft. II. JN. 44. Rot. Pip. (>ee vol.ii. p. 161, 2.)

Margareta, que fuit uxor Johannis Howard, militis, adhuc super- stitis, obijt anno 15 ft. II. et Johannes Howard, filius et heres dicte Margarete, est etatis sex annorum et amplius 13y I. Plais, pt c pale or and gul. a lion passant arg. (See vol. i. p. 106, 7 ; vol. ii. p. 16 1, 9,71.)

(37) See his effigies in coat armour, vol. i. p. 106

(88) This Joan married afterwards to Sir Thomas Erpingham, Knt. ; Johanna, que fuit uxor Thome Erpingham, militis, primo uxor Johannis Howard, junioiis, militis, rilij Johannis Howard, senioris, militis, obijt 13° Decern, (sc. 3° Hen. VI. anno 1424,) ult. preterit, et

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and heiressofSir Ric. Walton, Knt.and by her had Elizabeth How- ard, their sole daughter and heiress, (39) who married John de Veer, 12th Earl of Oxford of the Vere family, for whom see vol. i. p. 81.

Margaret Plais, his first wife, died on 1391, (see vol. i. p. 79,) and he married again to Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir William Tendring, Knt. and Catherine Clopton his wife, who died in 1426, and was buried at Stoke Neyland in Suffolk, (40) by her father, Sir William Tendryng ; and in 1437, when Sir John her husband died, (41) he was buried by her. (More of these persons may be seen in the first volume, p. 78, .)

Elizabetha filia et heres dictorum Johannis Howard et Johanne, fuit etatis 14 annorum et amplius in festo Sci. Barnahe Apostoli ultimo preterito. Her first husband, Sir John Howard, died in 1410, 27 years before his father. Esch. A0 3 H. VI. No. 1 9.

(39) Johannes Howard, miles, obyt. 17 die Novcmbris A° 16H.VI. (1437) et Elizabetha uxor Johannis Fere Comitis Oxonie, est consan- guinea et heres propinquior, viz. filia Johannis filij predict! Joins. Howard, militis, et Margarete de Plais, uxoris sue, et est etatis 27 an- norum et amplius. Esch. A° ]G H. VI.

(40) SeefVeever's account of the Howards andTENDRiNGs monu- ments at Stoke Neyland:

H|tc latent Cumulati ©ominug Willus Tendryn lEtilc.s*, et©omina Ka- therina Clopton Bjror eiusSDem obtcruut 3° 1408.

Alicia Tendring conbtOit Ccs'tamentum £uum 13, et obiit 18 Oct. 1428, sScputta e£t in ecclc.s'ia OtStoke-Neyland 3jiu;ta Jpatrcm.

(41) In 1402, 3d Henry IV. Johannes Howard, vicecomes comit. Cantabr. et Huntind. Johannes Howard, vicecomes Essex et Hertford. (Rot. Pip.) I take the first to be the father, and the second the son.

In 1399. Sir John the father was steward of the liberty of St. Ed- mund's Bury. Placita coram Rege 1 H. IV.

Inter Willum. Tendryng, chevaleir, querentem, et Thomam Hamun et alios, defendentes, pro duobus cignis, &c. et vicecomes retoniavit, quod fecit retornari brevem Domini Regis Johanni Howard, senes- challo libertatis Sancti Edmundi.

In 1418, William Howard of JVisbitch, Esq. who was of the JVigen- hale branch, and Tho. Howard of Wigenhale, A° 1410, sealed with Howards arms, without any difference.

1418, John Howard, chevalier, vicecomes Essex et Hertford. Rot. Pip. 7 H. V.

1422, 1 H. Vl.preceptumest vicecomiti Norf distrintzere Johannem Howard, militem, pro homagio, fidelitate et relevio Domino faciend. et persolvend. pro terris in Tilney, Terrington, et We&t-walton, 20 Febr.

Inquisicio capta post mortem Johannis Mowbray D.achNorfolcie A" 11 H. VI. de feodis militum pertinentibus dicto Duci et manerio suo de Framelingham in comitatu Suffolcie.

Johannis Howard, chevalier, tenet decimam partem uniusfeodi in Brokes quam Alicia de Holbrook quondam tenuit.

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He had issue byhislast wife, two sons, (42)Henry his youngest, (43) whoseonly daughter Eliz. married to Henry Wentworth of Cobham,{44t) and

Robert Howard, his eldest, lord of Forncet manor and honour, in his wife's right, who died in his father's lifetime, leaving issue by

Marg-aret, daughter and coheir to Thomas de Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, by Eliz. his wife, (45) daughter and coheir of Richard Earl of Arundel.

11, Sir JOHN. HOWARD, Knt. who began very early to distin-

fuish himself in the wars. In the latter part of the reign of Henry I. he accompanied John Viscount Lisle to Blay with 22000 men, and soon after marched to the relief of Chalillon, with John Earl of Shrewsbury, where that valiant Earl was slain. In 1442, he was sent by King Henry VI. to appease the great riot at Norwich. (46) In 1460, the first of King Edward IV. he was sheriff of Norfolk and Suf- folk, and consequently had the custody of Norwich castle, (47) then the King's prison ; and was appointed one of the King's carvers, and

Idem Johannes et Robertas Wing f eld tenent unum feodum militis in Baileham et Colneys, quod Johannes de Rothing quondam tenuit.

(42) He had also by her, two daughters, Margaret, married to Sir William Daniel, Knt, and Catherine to Edward Nevile Lord Abergavenny.

Daniel, arg. a pale fusile sab.

Nevile, gul. on a saltier arg. a rose of the field.

(43) Henrico filio 2d0 pater suus Johannes, rr.aneria de Terrington, Est-Walton, Bokenham's, et Wigenhale in Garbotdisham cum multis alijs sibi, et heredibus masculis de corpore talliavit A0 1435.

(44) Henricus Wentworth vixit A0 1481. Rot. Turr. &c. 22 E. IV. M. 11.

Wentworth, sab. a chevron between three leopards faces or.

(45) Thus it appears, that this Sir John Howard, the first Duke of Norfolk, by his mother was descended from King Edward I. Thomas de Mowbray Duke of Norfolk being son of John Lord Mowbray and Eliz. his wife, daughter and coheir of John Lord Segrave, by Mar- gai et his wife, eldest of the two daughters and coheirs of T/io. de Bro- therton Earl of Norfolk, fifth son of King Edward I but eldest, by his second wife, Margaret daughter to Philip the Hardy King of France.

This Sir John Howard being the first Duke of Norfolk of the family, an account of him and his successours is very judiciously drawn up by Mr. Collins, in the Peerage published at London 1741, vol. i. p. 8, so that I shall transcribe it here, inserting such additions as I have met with.

(46) See vol. iii. p. 150, 72. See more of him in the Atlas of Norfolk, p. S55.

(47) Rot. Pip. I find no constables of the castle of Norwich, after it was once committed to the custody of the s/uritfs of the county for a common prison.

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in consideration of his great services, obtained a grant of several ma- nors, which were then in the Crown, by the attainder of John Earl of Wiltshire. In the second of Edward IV. he had the joint command (with the Lords Falconberg and Clinton) of the King's fleet, and did considerable service against France; being also at that time Trea- surer of the King's household. In 1467, he was sheriff ot Oxfordshire and Berkshire. (48) In 14fiy, bearing the title of Lord Howard,(49) (by which title in 1471, he was summoned to parliament as a baron of the realm) he was made captain general of the King's forces at sea, for baffling the attempts of the Lancastrians, then making a powertul head under the stout Earl of Warwick. In 1470, was made deputy govertwur of Calais and the Marches, with the Lord Hastings; and having behaved with singular prudence and fidelity, he obtained a grant in tail special, of divers lands and manors. In 1473, he ob- tained of the Kinar, (50) the wardship and marriage ot John Bourg- chier, Knt. Lord Berners, then a minor, whom he afterwards married to Catherine Howard, his only issue by his second wife. In 1477, he had a giant of the office of constable of the Tower of London: and thenextyear was again made captain general of the King's fleet against the Scots, and was also installed Knight of the Garter in Edward the Fourth's reign, to whom he adhered faithfully during the whole course of it; (51) as he did to King Richard III. after he had got the Crown, (though without having any evil hand in the barbarous actions which were exercised thereto,) so that to oblige him the more, he was upon June 28, in the first year of that King's reign, made Earl-Marshal ot England, (52) and advanced to the dignity of Duke of Norfolk, (Thomas his son being then also created Earl of Surrey) and the day preceding the King's coronation, was constituted High Admiral ot England for that day, also Lord Admiral of England, Ireland, and Acqmtuin for life; and at the same time obtained a special grant of divers manors and lordships,(53) and confirmation of his mother's inhe-

(48) Rot. Pip.

(49) Rot. Parliament. 12Edw. IV.

(50) Rex Edwardus, &c. Sciatis quod pro 500 marcis solutis nobis concessimus Johanni Howard, militi.et Thome Howard, armigero, (filio suo,) custodiam et mantagium Johannis Bourgchier, mihtis, Domini Berners, qui de nobis tenet in capite diversa manena, Stc. habend. prajfatis Johanni et Thome custodiam et maritagium predict, absque dispar.ngacione, Sic. Teste meipso apud West. 6 Aug, A0 reg. 14°.

(51) E Stemmate.

Johannes Howard unus quatuor militum fuit, qui Regem Edicardum Quartum e castello AeMidelham in comvlatuEborancensi, in arcta cus- todia. Ricardi Nevile comitis Warwicensis, eduxerunt ;ut in Chronica Raduiji Holingshed.

(52) Tenuit officium Comitis Marescalli Anglie sibi et heredibus de corpore exeuuiibu=, Sic. creatus fuit Dux Noifolcie, Sic. 1483. Rot. Caucellar. 1 R. III.

(53) Manerium de Strange's in Est-Walton, Howard's manor in Terrington, tenentur de honore de Wormegeije, manerium sive, roes-

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ritance, and among others, this manor, advowson, and honour ; and of all the liberties, since, and now called the Duke of Norfolk's liberties, which were first granted to Joint Lord Mowbray and Eliz. Talbot his wife, an account of which may be seen at large in vol. i. p. 238,9. But these great honours and vast possessions were not long enjoyed, for inl485, heing placed in the front of the army at Bosworth field, (54) he was there slain, with the King, Aug. 22, and being afterwards attainted, great part of his estate was seized by Henry V 11. His body was brought back and interred in the abbey church at Thetford. Ca- therine, daughter to William Lord Molins, was his first wife, (55) by whom lie had one son and four daughters, Anne, married to Sir Edmund Gorge, Knt. (56) Isabel, to Sir Robert Mortimer of Essex, Knt. (57) Jane to Sir John Timperley, (58) and Margaret to Sir JohnWindham, Knt. (59) By his second wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Cheticorth, Knt. (60) he had only Catherine, married to Sir John Bourgchier Lord Bemers. (6l)

12. THOMAS HOWARD, his son and heir, being esquire of the body to King Edward IV. was retained to serve him in his wars. In 15 Edieard IV. 1474, he was sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and in the first of King Richard III. 1483, was created Earl of Surrey ; and though he took part with the slain King, being taken prisoner at Bos- zvorth-field fighting in his own defence, yet did the conquering Prince, King Henry VII. receive him into his favour, and made choice of him for one of his Privy Council; and in 1488, restored him to his title of Earl of Surrey ; and employed him to restrain the Scots incur-

suagium vocatum Howard's manor in Est-JValton et Boteler's alia* Howard's manor, tenentur de Saham-Tony, &c.

(54) See vol. iii. p. 173.

(55) See TVeever's Funeral Monuments.

Molins, paly wavy of six or and sab. sometimes or and gul. Buried at Stoke-Neyland in Suffolk.

(56) Gorge, masculy or and azure, a chevron sab.

(57) Mortimer, barry of six or and az. an inescutcheon org. on a chief of the 2d two pallets between two esquires dexter and sinister, of the first.

(58) Timperley, gul. a lion party per bend ermine and ermines.

(59) Windham, az. a chevron between three lions heads erased or. For this Margaret see vol ii. p. 360, 401, 66.

(60) Chetworth, az. a chevron between three nags heads erased or.

Johannes Howard, Dominus Howard miles, et Margareta uxor ejus, injure ipsius Margartte tenent certa tenementa vocata Souinghills in com. Berk, pro termino vite ipsius Margurete, reversion, inde IVillo. Norriset heredibus ejus. Claus. A*. 12 E. IV.

(61) BouRCHiER,flrg.across ingrailed g«/. between four water-bud gets sab.

See more of her at p. 152, and in vol. iii. p. 172.

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sions, and the northern insurrections: about this time, he shared with Maurice, brother of William Marquis of Berkley, the lands which came to them by inheritance, by reason of his descent from the coheirs to Mowbray Duke of Norfolk. In 14gy, he attended the King and Queen to Calais; and the next year, was advanced to the high office of Lord Treasurer of England, and so much was he in his master's fa- vour that he constituted him one of his executors; and immediately after Henry the Eighth's accession, that Prince nominated nun one of his privy council, renewed his patent of Lord Treasurer, and the 3'ear following made him Earl-Marshal of England for life. In 1,512, being sent general of the English forces against the Scots, he slew James IV. King of Scotland, and routed their army at Flodden- Field; for which great service a special giant passed by the King'sorder, that he and the heirs male of his body, should forever bear, as an honourable augmenta- tion to his arms, on the bend of the Howard's arms, the upper half of a red lion (depicted as die armsof Scot/and are) pierced through the mouth with an arrow. And in Ij13, Feb. 1, the King advanced him to the dignity of Duke of Norfolk, which title, John his father (deriving his descent through the heirs female of Mowbray and Segrave, from Thomas of Brotherton, son to King Edward I.) did enjoy. At the same time, he had a new patent for the office of Lord Treasurer; and a grant of divers lordships and manors from the Crown, and confirma- tion of many others; among which, the honour and manor of Forn- cet, then valued at 44/. per annum, and its appendages of Swanton, Sugate,an<i Galgrime, -were included; and in lo Id, he issued his letters to Sir Nicholas Appleyard, Knt. chief steward of his honour, and to other the learned council of the law, who were constantly retained by him, and to John Crane, his high bailiff, to renew the extents, rentals, and evidences of the honour and manors belonging thereto, which was done very exactly. In 15'21, he performed the office of Lord High Steward, at the trial of Edward Duke of Buckingham, and gave sen- tence of death upon him, but not without tears; and in 15c2'2, obtained a grant to his son Thomas Earl of Surrey of part of the said Duke's lands; and resigning to him his office of Lord Treasurer oi England, he retired with the King's leave, to his castle at Framlingham in Suf- folk, where he kept an honourable house to his death, and being above 80 years of age, died there on the 1st of May, 1524 ; (62) and when he was carried out of that castle, towards his burial in the abbev church at Thetford, " he cude nat be asked one grote for h>sdebte,"as appears from an exact accountof his life, which was fixed on a table by his monument, and is printed at large vol. ii. p. 120, &e. to which I refer you.

He married two wives; first, Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir to Sir Frederick Tilney, Knt. and widow of Humphry Bourchier,

(jri) J homas, Dux Norfolcie, ea intentione quod in ecclesia. Beate Marie de But ley in Suff-olcia unum obitum, tain pro salubri statu dicti Ducis, quam pro salute anitne ejus, cum ab hac luce migra- verit, nee non pro anima patris sui, ac eliam animabus omnium antecessorum suorum, et omnium tidehum defunctorum, in die xxv° Septembr. aunuatim servatuium, omnia iila tenemeuta sua, prata et pa^cua vocata Staverton Park, in villa de Eike in Suffolcia, dedit et concessit, tenend. dicto priori et conventui et successoiibus suis in per- petuum. E Stem.

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Knt. Lord Berners, by whom he had eight sons, of which Henri/* Jokn,1 Charles* Henry* and Richard* all died young ; the other three survived him.

1, Thomas, his eldest son, was created Earl of Surrey in his father's lifetime.

2, Sir Edw. Howakd, Knight of the Garter, and Lord Admiral, was a man of as great account as any of his cotemporaries. In 1491, he was in an expedition then made into Flanders, in favour of the Emperor Maximilian. In 1509, he was made standard-bearer to Hen. VIII. who in 1512 constituted him Lord High Admiral of England, when he convoyed the Marquis of Dorset into Spain, to aid Ferdinand the Emperor against the French; and having scoured the seas, he landed in Britanni/, did great execution in that country, and returned home laden with honour and spoils. This put the French to reinforce their navy, and that encouraged the King to do the same ; upon which, to the honour of this Lord Admiral, he searched for the French, and met them coming out of Brest, and after a sharp encounter, obtained a signal victory. He was aho sent after Sir Andrew Barton, the fa- mous Scotch pirate, whom he fought and took. Afterwards the French could never dare to look out of Brest, so that resolving to attempt them in their harbour, he entered a galley, and boarding the admiral of the French gallies, the grapplings giving way, the gallies parted, and he was left in his enemies hands, where fighting courageously, in the heat of the action, he was born over board, and lost his life.5 He married Alice, sister and heiress to Hen. Lovel Lord Morleu, and widow of Sir William Parker, Knt.; she died Apr. 1513. His brother,

3, The Lord Edmund Howard, was at Flodden-Field, and with his ■elder brother, the Lord Thomas, led the vanguard of the army, and behaved very gallantly : he was then a knight, and marshal of the host. He married first, Joice daughter to Sir Richard Culpepper 6 of Holing- borne in Kent, by whom he had three sons, Henry,7 who died an infant; Sir George Howard, knighted in Scotland by Edward Duke of Somer- set in 1546; and Sir Charles slain in France, all dying without issue; and five daughters; 1, Margaret, married to Sir Thomas Arundel, Knt.8 grandfather to Thomas, the first Lord Arundelof IVardour. 2, Cathe- rine Queen of England, fifth wife to King Henry VIII.9 3, Mary, married to Edmund Trafford, Esq.1 4, Joice, to John Stanney, Esq.1

5, Isabel, to Bainton, Esq.3 His second wife was Dorothy,

daughter of Tho. Troys, Esq.* by whom he had no issue.

The said Duke by his first wife had also three daughters ;

» Obijt A0 ijoo. 7 The pedigree says Edmund.

* Obijt 1503. 3 Arundel, sab. six swallows 3, 2, z Obijt 1512. and 1.

3 Obijt 1513. 9 The royal arms impaling Howard.

* Obijt 1 517. * Trafford, arg a griffin rampant with

5 Edwardus Howard, miles, ordinis wings expanded gul. Garterij, sed ante diem inatallacionis * Stanney. occisus fuit apud Brest in Britania sine 3 Bainton. prole. E Stemmate. + Troys.

6 Culpepper, arg. a bend ingrailed eul.

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1, Eliz. married to Sir Thomas Bullen,5 afterwards Viscount Roch- ford, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, by whom she was mother of Queen Anne Bullen, who had by Hen. VIII. her husband, Elizabeth Queen of England.

2, Muriel, who first married JohnGreyf Viscount Lisle, by whom she had Eliz. wife of Henry Courtney, 7 and secondly, to Sir Thomas Knevet, Knt.8 and had issue Sir Hen. Knevet.

The aforesaid Duke's second wife was Agnes, daughter of Hugh Tilney Esq.9 sister and heiress to Sir Philip Tilney of Boston in Lin- colnshire, Knt. and had issue by her,

1. William, afterwards created Baron Howard of Effingham, of whose descendants more will occur hereafter.1

2. Sir Thomas, who marrying the Lady Margaret Douglass,1 daughter to Margaret Queen of Scots, niece to King Henry, was at- tainted of treason, on some suspicion of his aspiring to the crown, and died in the Tower of London.

3. Ric. who died Mar. 27, 1517, and was buried at Lambeth, with two other of his brothers who died infants, and four daughters.

1, Anne, the eldest, married to John Vere Earl of Oxford? but left ho issue by him.

2, Dorothy, to Edw. Stanley Earl of Derby.*

3, Eliz. to Hen. Ratcliff Earl of Sussex.*

4, Katherine, married first to Sir Rhese ap Thomas? and after, to Hen. Daubeny Earl of Biidgewater.7

13. THOMAS Earl of Surrey,8 eldest son to the last mentioned Duke, succeeded him in his honours; in his father's lifetime, he com- manded a ship under his brother Edward, who was then lord admiral, when the famous pirate Sir Andrew Barton was taken in 15 12.9 He accompanied the Marquis of Dorset into Spain, in aid of King Ferdi- nand, against the French; and the said Marquis falling sick, he had the command of the English army. In 1513, upon the death of the Lord Edward his brother, being then Knight of the Gaiter, he was constituted lord admiral in his stead, and so scoured the seas, that not a French fisher-boat durst be seen; and landing in Whitsand bay, he

5 Bullen, arg. a chevron gul. between s RadclifF, arg. a bend ingrailed sab. three bulls heads cooped or. s Grey. 6 Ap Thomas, or, on a cross S. 5

7 Courtney, or, three torteauxes. crescents ar.

8 Knevet, arg. a bend in a bordure 7 Daubeny, gul. a fess lozenge arg. ingrailed sab. s See a large account of Thomas

9 The pedigree says thus, but the third Duke of Norfolk, in Goodwin's Peerage makes her the daughter of Sir Annals of H. VIII. fo. 10, where there Philip Tilney, Knt. which seems to be are many observations and accounts of wrong according to the time. several of the family.

Tilney, arg. a chevron between three 9 Dominus Edwardus Howard, Ordi-

griffins heads erazed gul. nis Garterij Eques Auratus, An^l. Tha-

1 Vincent against Brooke, fo. 356. lassiarcha, ope fratris sin majons, Do-

1 Douglass, az. a lion rampant arg. mini Thome Howard A°. 4 H. VIII.

crowned O. 1512, Andream Barton, Scotum, infa-

3 Vere, quarterly sab. and or, in the mem p'ratum projecie audacie virum na-

firsr quarter a mullet arg. vali pugna irucidavit, et ipse po-tea ad

oppugnationem Breste in Britannia,

hasta transibssus, s:ne libens interjit.

Kk

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ravaged the country thereabouts. Upon the invasion of James IV. in Scot/ami, he landed 5000 veterans, and joined his father the Earl of Surrey, then general of the English army, sending a message to that King to justify Sir Andrew Barton's death ; at the battle of Flod- donjield he behaved gallantly, when he commanded the vanguard with his younger brother Edmund, who being in great distress, was suc- coured by him and Sir Edw. Stanley; and in recompense of these signal services, he was soon after created Earl of Surrey, the same day that his father was made Duke of Norfolk, 5 Hen. VIII. and on a dispute in parliament concerning his place there, it was declared, that he should sit according to his creation, and not as a duke's eldest son. In 1520, being appointed lord deputy of Ire/and, he suppressed the O-Neals and O-Carols, and governed so acceptably, that he gained the love of that country. Afterwards, having performed many signal services in France, he was constituted lord treasurer, and made general of the King's whole army, designed to march against the Scots, and all this in his father's lifetime; after whose death, he was again made general of the army, at that time raised to advance into Scotland, to set the young King free, whom the Duke of Albany kept then in custody at Sterling castle. He afterwards attended the King into France, and was sent chief ambassadour to the French. King, to attend him to Nice, and commune with the Pope, as to his delaying King Henry's divorce. In 1536, he marched to the assist- ance of the Earl of Shrewsbury, when he suppressed the insurrection in Yorkshire, called the Pilgrimage of Grace, raised on account of the dissolution of the lesser monasteries, and was soon after made lieute- nant-general of all the King's forces beyond the Trent. But after all these signal services, (so little gratitude reigns among the great,) by the insinuating persuasions of some of the nobility, (because on some occasion he had called them the new raised men, which they counted a dishonour to them,) the King was so far misled and incensed against him, that he not only sent him prisoner to the Tower, but gave order for seizing his goods, and gave notice to his ambassadours abroad, that he and his son had conspired to take upon them the government during his life; and after his death, to get the prince into his hands. All which jealousies (the King being in a decaying and weak condition) so far prevailed, that the Duke, and his son Henry Earl of Surrey, were both attainted in parliament; the Earl lost his head,' and the Duke had fared no better, had not the death of that inexorable prince hastened him to give an account of his own actions at that bar to which he had so lately sent the son, and de- signed to have hurried the father also : however, though his life was spared, yet his enemies so far prevailed over him in Edward the Sixth's reign, that though a pardon was given by proclamation to all persons for what crimes soever, yet was he with five others, excepted by name ; as to the particulars laid to his charge, though the act of attainder itself be not on record, the act of repeal in the 1st of Queen Mary reciteth, that there was no special matter in the act of at- tainder, but only general words of treason and conspiracy, and that out of their care for the preservation of the King and the prince, they passed it. And this act of repeal further sets forth, That the only thing with which he stood charged, was for bearing of arms-,

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which he and his ancestors had born both within and without the kingdom, in the King's presence, and in sight of his progenitors, which they might lawfully bear and give, as by good and substantial matter of record it did appear. It also addeth, That the King died after the ■date of the commission : likewise, that he only empowered them to give his consent, but did not give it himself; and that it did not ap- pear by any record, that they gave it: moreover, that the King did not sign the commission with his own hand ; his stamp being only set to it, and that not at the upper part, but to the nether part of it, con- trary to the King's custom. At the attainder, all the manors and estates of the duke were seized, and among others, the manor and honour of Fonicet, of which a curious survey was then made. He afterwards retreated to his palace at Kenninghall in Norfolk, where he died in 1554,x and was buried at Framlingham in Suffolk.

He had two wives; the first was Anne, 3d daughter to King Ed- xcard IV. by whom he had a son named Thomas, who died young on the 3d of Aug. 23d Hen. VII. and was buried at Lambhithe, though she lies buried at Framlingham in Suffolk. His second wife was Eliz. Stafford, eldest daughter to Edward Duke of Buckingham, by whom he had two sons,3 Henry Earl of Surrey* beheaded in his lifetime, and

Thomas, who married Elizabeth, one of the daughters and coheirs to John Lord Marney and Christian his wife, daughter and heir of Sir Roger Newburgh, Knt. He had livery of the lands of her inheri- tance, was restored in blood the 1st of Queen Mary, and in the 1st of Eliz. was advanced to the title of Viscount Howard of Bindon in Dorsetshire, and soon after summoned to parliament, and died in 1582, Febr. 14, leaving four sons, Henry* who succeeded him in his honour, but dying without issue male, Thomas, his next brother, en- joyed the title of Viscount Howard of Bindon, and was installed Knight of the Garter 4 Jac. I. but died without issue.

14. THOMAS, the eldest son of Henry Earl of Surrey, on the death of his grandfather, became the fourth Duke of Norfolk of this family, being then upwards of 18 years of age; he was fully restored in blood, and the act of his grandfather's" attainder made void 1st Mary. In the second year of that Queen, he commanded the forces

* See vol. i. p. 226. Jac. 1. he was made privy councellor, 3 He had four daughters, Jane wife of warden of the Cinqueports, and con- Charles Nevile Earl of Westmorland stable of Dover castle, and the 13 of (Vincent, fo. 357,) who at p. 592, is March following, he was advanced to i'alsly called Anne. Margaret, married the title and honour of Baron of Marn- to Henry Lord Scroop of Bolton. Ka- hill in Dorsetshire, and dignity of Earl therine, to Hen. Lord Berkley; but of Northampton, and one ot the commis- though Vincent observes, that Mr. sioners for the office of Earl-Marshal of York would not acknowledge these two England, and April 2+, 1605, made daughters, Margaret and Catherine, yet Knight of the Garter ; and in 1608, it was certainly so, for these three sisters lord privy seal ; he died 2s June, 1614, were restored in blood, with their bro- and lies buried under a goodly raonu. ther Henry, 1 Eliz, ment in the church of Dover castle. He

* This Henry Earl of Surrey married was a man of reddy wit, surprising elo- Frances, daughter to John Vere Earl of quence, and excellent learning; dying Oxford. Thomas the 4th Duke of Nor- single at his house Charin J-Cross. (Vm. folk, and Henry, were restored in blood cent against Brook, fo. 365.)

in parliament 1 Eliz. and in May 1 5 Ibid. fo. 641. 3d Francis, 4 Giles.

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against the Kentish men, and continued in esteem all her reign, and was installed Knight of the Garter 1 Eliz. and in the 3d year of that Queen, was constituted lieutenant-general for the northern parts of the realm. In 1565, he, with Robert Earl of Leicester, was solemnly invested with the habit and ensigns of the order of St. Michael, in the chapel of the Queen's palace at Westminster, by an embassy sent from the French King : but in the 1 1 th of Queen Eliz. being suspected to be not onty a favourer, but great admirer of Mary Queen of Scots, he was cast into prison, accused of designing to marry her, tried, condemned, and beheaded June 2, 1572, 15 Eliz. on Tower Hill, to the grief of many, for he was a good man, and much beloved by his country.6 He married three wives; first, Mary, daughter and co- heir to Henry Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel;1 by whom he had Philip Earl of Arundel, his son and heir; she died at Arundel House in the Strand, Aug. 25, 1557, and was buried in St. Clement's church near Temple Bar.

His second wife was Margaret, daughter and sole heiress to Thomas Lord Audley5 of Wa/den, Chancellor of England, widow of Henry Dudley, a younger son to John Duke of Northumberland, who was slain at St. Quintins in Picardy A" 1557, by whom he had 'Thomas, afterwards Lord Hozcard of Walden, and Duke of Suffolk, (of whose descent more hereafter;) 2dly, William Lord Howard of Nauorth castle, born Dec. 19, 1563, and two daughters, Elizabeth, who died an infant, and is buried at Framlingham in Suffolk, and Margaret, born Aug. 1, 1562, afterwards married to Robert Sackvile Earl of Dorset. This dutchess died atNoruich in 1563, and is buried in the church of St. John Maddermarket, as at vol. iv. p. 289. His third wife was Elizabeth daughter of Sir Francis Leiboum, Knt.9 widow of Thomas Lord Dacres of Gillesland, by whom he had no issue; she died in 1567, and was buried at Kenninghall, as in vol. i. p. 226.

15. PHILIP HOWARD, son and heir to the last mentioned Duke, was Earl o/'Surrey, Lord Howard, Mowbray, Segrave, and Bruse o/'Gower, and Earl-Marshal of England; also, in right of his mother, he assumed the title and honour of Earl of the earldom of Arundel, with the appurtenances thereof, it having an- ciently been adjudged in parliament, to be a local dignity, so that the possessors thereof should enjoy that title of honour; whereupon, he sat in parliament by the title of Philip Earl of Arundel, 23d Eliza- beth, in which parliament he was restored in blood from the attainder of his father, Thomas Duke of Norfolk, beheaded A° 1572. This noble peer being a most zealous papist, was much maligned, and being accused to Queen Elizabeth, by some of his potent adversaries, for holding conespondence with Cardinal Allen, Parsons the Jesuit, and

6 See vol. i. p. 86, 7. He was a great tween two bars gemels gul. 2d, aro-. a friend and benetactor to the Office of fess and canton gul. 3, a chief, quarter- Arms. Was Earl of Surrey, Earl-Mar- ing or, a frette sab. shal of England, Lord Mowbray, Se- 8 Awdley, quarterly, per pale indent- grave, and Biuse ot Gower, and Privy ed, and per fass plain, O. B. in each of Counsellor. He is buried in the chapel the 2d and 3d quarters, an eagle dis- of the Tower, and she at Kenninghall. played G. over all, on a bend S. a frette See vol. i. p. 223, 6. between two martlets or.

1 Arundel, gul. a lion rampant or, 9 Liibourn, az. six lioncels rampant

quartering Badelesmere, arg. a fess be- arg. 3, 2, 1.

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others, she took a great dislike towards him ; for which reason, after the strict laws made against the papists, he endeavoured to go beyond the seas without leave, but bting discovered, was apprehended and committed to the Tower, A° 1 38 4, and his estates seized ; and among others, this honour and manor of Forncet, of which the Queen took immediate possession, and demised part of it to William Pennant for 21 years, namely, all that part, which, after the attainder of Thomas late Duke of Norfolk had been granted to the Lady Mary, the then King's sister, and by her, had been leased to the said William. In 1586, he was fined 10,000 pounds in the Star Chamber for his misde- meanors, and attempt to go beyond the seas,- and three years after, was arraigned and condemned by his peers in IVestminster-haW, for divers practices in relation to his religion, and favouring of the Spa- niards: nevertheless, by the Queen's grace, he obtained her pardon for his life, but continued prisoner in the Tower; and at length died in custody there, Nov. 19, 15Q5, being not full 40 years of age; hav- ing, during his imprisonment, lived in the severity of his religion, a most strict and austere life. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas, and sister and coheir to George Lord Dacres1 of Giltesland, by whom he had his only son,

16. THOMAS Earl of Arundel, who was born during his father's imprisonment, and was restored in blood by James I. A0 1602, in the parliament met at Westminster in the 1st year of his reign, and had livery of all estates from that Prince, and among others, of his honour and manor of Forncet. He was Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Earl- Marshal, and premier Earl of all England, Knight of the most noble order of the Garter, and one of his Majesty's most honourable privy council, and lord steward of the household ; and by King Charles 1. was constituted chief justice of the forests north of Trent, and general of the army, in the first expedition to Scotland, A° 1638. He sat as lord high steu-ard of England in IVestminsler-haU, at the remarkable trial of Thomas Wentworth Earl of Strafford; shortly after which, foreseeing the civil wars then beginning in England, he willingly resigned his staff' of lord steward of the household, resolving to travel : his lady also took the same resolution, and a fair and honourable op- portunity presently offered; for the Queen-mother of France having been in England about two years, was at this time necessitated to re- turn; and the care of conducting her to the sea-side, and waiting on her over, was committed to this Earl; who afterwards spent some time at Utrecht, but in the winter returned to England; and by reason of his special services and great merits, as also in respect of his lineal descent from Thomas de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk, (a younger son to King Edw. I.) was by letters patent dated June 6, 20 Car. 1. advanced to the title of Earl of Norfolk : shortly after which, discerning the flames of war to encrease daily, his age and infirmities also rendering him unfit for any further employment, he obtained leave of the King to travel; whereupon, retiring to Padua in Italy, he died there, Sept. 14, 1646, in the 6 1st year of his age, and his corpse being brought over, was buried at Arundel in Sussex. He married the lady Alathea, one of the daughters and coheirs of Gilbert

' D'acres, gul. three escallops arg. i, i.

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Talbot1, Earl of Shrewsbury, by whom he had issue, 1, James Lord Mowbray and Lord Ma It ravers, who was one of the Knights of the Bath at the coronation of Car. I. and after making the tour of France and Italy, died in his return, at Gaunt hi Flanders, unmarried. 2, Henry Lord Mowbray, who succeeded him. 3, Thomas. 4, Gil- beet. 6, Charles, who all died infants in their father's lifetime. William, the fifth son, married Mary, sister and sole heir to Henry Lord Stafford/ and 16 Car. I. was created Baron of Stafford, and she at the same time Baroness of Stafford, from whom the present Earl of Stafford is descended. During this time, the manor and honour passed in the trustees of the family, along with Fersjield manor, as in vol. i. p. 89, 90.

This most noble Earl was the greatest favourer of arts, and pro- moter of sciences, that we have met with. He had an excellent knowledge in painting, sculpture, carving, building, and designing; his collections of designs exceeding that of any person then living; and his statues were equal in number, value, and antiquity, to those in the houses of most princes; to gain which, he had persons many years employed, both in Italy, Greece, and many parts of Europe, where rarities were to be had; all which, were by him placed in the garden, and certain rooms belonging to Arundel House in the Strand, and are accurately described in that tract of his, intituled Marmora Arundeliana; and will remain a lasting monument of his highly de- served fame to future ages; Henry Duke of Norfolk, his grandson, bestowing them on the University of Oxford, they were orderly placed in the walls, enclosing the stately Theatre, but are since removed to a room over the Bodleian Library.

His paintings likewise were numerous, and of the most excellent masters, having more of that exquisite painter Hans Ho/ben than were in the world besides. He had the honour to be the first person of quality that set a value on them in our nation ; being also the per- son that brought in uniformity in building, and was chief commis- sioner to see it performed in London; he was likewise sumptuous in his household stuff; full of state and magnificence in his entertain- ments, especially of strangers; at his table very free and pleasant. He was more learned in men and manners, than in books, yet under- stood the Latin tongue very well, and was master of the Italian: he ■was a great favourer and admirer of learned men, as appeared by his intimacy with Mr. Cambden, Mr. Seldon, Sir Robert Cotton, and Sir Henry Spelman, the lights of their age. He was a promoter of order and ceremony, and kept greater distance toward his Sovereign, than any person at court; often complaining, that the too great affa- bility of the King, and the French garb of the court, would bring Majesty into contempt. In council he was grave and succinct, rather discharging his conscience and honour, than complying with parti- cular interests; and so was never at the head of business or principal in favour. He was free from covetousness, and so much above a bribe of gratuity (for favours done) as no person ever durst tempt him with one. He was in his religion no bigot or Puritan, and professed more to affect moral virtues, than nice questions and foolish

1 Talbot, gul. a lion in a bordure in- the title of Baron Strange of Blackmere grailed or. aee Vincent's Discovery of to her husband, says the Pedigree. Brooks's Errors, fo. 470. She brought 3 Stafford, or, a chevron gul.

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controversies: if he was defective in any thing, it was that he could not bring his mind to his fortune, which though very great, was far too little for the vastness of his noble designs, which were only for the glory and ornament of his country, and may well be excused. When he was constituted Earl-Marshal of Engtand^he revived that honourable court, which had anciently been held by the Con- stable and Marshal jointly; wherein remedy was given for such abusive provocations as might occasion no little bloodshed by duels, or other mischievous ways of revenge; and some scruple being made as to the jurisdiction of Earl-Marshal alone, he the year after obtained other letters patent, bearing date Jag. 1, 20 Jac. I. 1621, whereby the King, after mature advice had with the lords of his council, did declare, that in the vacancy of the Constable of England, the Earl- Marshal had the like jurisdiction in the court, as both Constable and Marshal jointly, ever exercised ; commanding him to proceed accord- ingly ; which he thereupon did, with much honour to himself and his authority, and to the great satisfaction of the nobility and gentry of the realm, in cases where they received such affronts antl injuries ; for which (by the rule of the common law) no redress could be had ; until, by the votes of a predominant party, in that parliament (which de- stroyed monarchy and episcopacy, and brought all things into confusion) his jurisdiction in the court was questioned.

17. HENRY HOWARD Lord Mowbray and Maltravers, (as he was called in his father's lifetime, and as such, sat in parliament,) suc- ceeded him in his honours. In 1626, he married the Lady Elizabeth Stewart, eldest daughter of Esme Stewart Lord of Aubigny, Earl of March, and afterwards Duke of Lenox ; but it being without the King's consent, he and his lady were confined some time to Lambeth, with Archbishop Abbot ; but after that, he was called up by writ to the house of peers, as Lord Mozcbray and Maltravers. When the rebellion brake out in 1641, he faithfully adhered to the King, and served in his army till about the end of the year 1645, when he visited his father in Italy, and was with him when he died, and returned with his corpse into England. During the tyrannick government of his native country under Cromzoell, he lived retired till his death, which hap- pened Apr. 17, 1652, when he was buried at Arundel.

He had by his lady, nine sons, and three daughters, whereof Anne died young, Catherine was married to John Digby of Gothurst in Buckinghamshire, Esq. and Elizabeth to Alexander Macdonnel, grand- son to the Earl ox' Antrim in Ireland; his sons were, Thomas, Henry, Philip* Charles, Talbot, Edward, Francis, Bernard, and Esme.

18. THOMAS HOWARD succeeded him in his titles of Earl of Arundel, Surrey, and 'Norfolk; and after the restoration of Charles II. in the year 166 1, at the humble petition of James Howard Ead of

4 Philip Howard, the third son, in her service several years; but retir- travellingwith his grandfather Thomas ing to Bornheim in Flanders, to an En- Earl of Arundel into Italy, took up the glish convent of his own order, he had a habit of a Dominican or black friar at Cardinal's cap sent to him there, by Cremona, at 15 years of age; and on Pope Clement X. in May 1675, and the marriage of King Charles II. with made his public entry into Rome, with Catherine the Infanta of Portugal, be- great magnificence, came lord almoner to her, and continued

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Suffolk, Thomas Howard Earl of Berkshire, JF////a»z HozvardVh- count Stafford, Charles Lord Howard of Charlton, Edzcard Lord Howard of Esrick, Charles Lord Howard of Naworth, all lineally descended from Thomas the last Duke of Norfolk, and above eighty others of the nobility, he was restored by Act of parliament, to the title of Duke of Norfolk, to remain to him, and the heirs male of his body,5 with all the privileges, precedences, and pre-eminences, thereunto belonging ; by which he became the fifth Duke of Norfolk ; but dying at Padua in Italy in 1678, unmarried, the title and estate descended to his next brother,

19- HENRY HOWARD, the sixth Duke of Norfolk, who on March 26, 1669, 21 Car. II. was created Lord Howard of Castle- Rising in the county of Norfolk? and on the 29th of Dec. 1672, in consideration of the eminent services done by his noble father and grand-father, to King Charles I. and the crown of England, at home and abroad, as also for many personal services performed to King Charles II. in his exile, was created Earl of Norwich, which honour was limited to him and to the heirs male of his body ; and also by the same patent,had the office and dignity, of Earl-M arshal of Eng- land granted, with all rights, powers, jurisdictions, precedencies, and authorities, thereto belonging, Sic. to him, and the heirs male of his body; and for default of such issue, to the heirs male of the body of the Lord William Howard of Naworth in the county of Cumberland, younge t son of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, (who was beheaded 15 Eliz.) and for default of such issue, to Charles Howard Earl of Notyngham, and the heirs male of his body. He was born July 12, 1628, and died at his house in Arundel-street, Jan. 11, 1683. He married to his first wife, the Lady Anne Somerset,7 eldest daughter to Edward Marquis of Worcester, by Eliz. Dormer his first wife, and by her he had two sons and three daughters; and by his second wife, Jane, daughter of Robert Bickerton, Esq.s gentleman of the wine- cellar to King Car. II. (a lady famed for her beauty and accomplishment) he had first, Lord George Howard, who married Arrabella, daughter and sole heiress to Sit Edmund Allen of Hatfield Pevercl in the county of Essex, Bart, widow of Francis Thompson of Ilumbleton in the county of York, Esq. and died March 6, 1720, without issue. The second son was Lord James Howard, who died a bachelor, being drowned Aug. 1702, at- tempting to ride over Sutton-Wash in Lincolnshire. The 3d son was Lord Frederick-Henry Howard, who married Catherine daughter to Sir Francis Blake ot Oxfordshire, relict of Sir Richard Kenned// of Mount- Kennedy in Ire/and, Bart, and died March 16, 1726, his lady surviving, who died Jan. 23, 1731. Lady Catherine, and Lady Anne, both nuns in Flanders ; and Lady Phillippa married to William Standish of Stundish-hall in the county of Lancaster, Esq. and died in Jan. 1683.

The Duke's daughters by his first wife were, the Ladies Anne- Alathea, Elizabeth, and Fiances ; whereof the latter was married to

5 It was also limited to the heirs male 7 Somersft, France and England in of Henry late liarl of Arundel, Surrey, a bordure gobone arg. and az.

and Norfolk; with divers other re- 8 Bukerton, arg. an eagle displayed mainders. gul.

6 See vol. iii. p. 404, 5, 13, 14.

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the Marquis Falparesa, a Spa?iish nobleman in Flanders; the second, to Alexander Gordon Marquis of Huntley in Scot/and, who was created Duke of Gordon in that kingdom ; and the eldest died in her infancy. His sons were, Henry and Thomas.9

20. HENRY HOWARD, 7th Duke of Norfolk, was born Jan. II, l6o4 and on Jan. 27, 1(377, was summoned to parliament by writ, by the title of Lord Mowbray; and upon the death of PrinceRupert, was made constable of Windsor castle, warden of Windsor forest, and lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum, for the counties of Norfolk, Surrey, and Berks; and on May 6, Ii>85, 1 James H. being elected Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, he was installed the 22d of July following. This Duke obtained a commission under the great seal, dated Jug 13, lu'87, 3 James 11. whereby his Grace, as Earl Marshal of England, should revive and hold a court of chivalry, &c. and setting out for France the 24th of March following, constituted his brother, the Lord Thomas Howard, his lieutenant in the court of chivalry, and Sir Thomas Exton and Sir Richard Raines, surrogates. His Grace returned from Flanders July 30, 1688 ; and on the landing of the Prince of Orange in England, being then in Norfolk, he imme- diately declared for him,1 and brought over this, and some of the adjacent counties to his interest, for which service, he was soon after sworn of his privy council, and so continued to his death ; afterwards, he was made constable and governour of his Majesty's royal castle at JVindsor, lord warden of Windsor forest, lord lieutenant of the counties of Norfolk, Surrey, and Berks, and of the city of Norwich, and county of the same ; as also custos rotulorum for the counties of Norfolk and Berks, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He died at his house in St. James's-square, April 2, 1701 ; having married the Lady Mary Mor- daunt, daughter and sole heiress to Henry Earl of Pettrburgh, from whom he procured a divorce in parliament for incontinency, which in the yearl700, passed both Houses; and having no children by her, he was enabled to marry again, but leaving no issue, his honour and estate descended to the eldest son of his brother Lord Thomas, viz.

21. THOMAS HOWARD, the 8th Duke of Norfolk, who was born Dec. 1 1, 1683, and in 1709, his Grace was married to Alary, sole daughter and heiress to Sir Nic. Sher bourn of Stony-Hurst in the county of Lancaster, Bart, but dying without issue, Dec. 23, 173'i,1 {Henry his next brother being dead without issue,) his honour and

> This Lord Thomas Howard, at 1689. His Lordship,in6V<.i68i, married,

the coronation of King James II. as lord Mary -Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir.

of the manor of Workwp \n Nottingham- ess to Sir John Savile of Copley in the

shire, claimed to find the King a right- county of York, ban. who died in AW.

hand glove, and to support the King's 1733, and by her left a daughter Mary,

right arm, while he held the scepter: married to Walter Lord Aston of Forfar

and it being allowed, he performed t/iat in Scotland, and seated at btandon in

service. In 1685, he was made master Hertfordshire, and died in 1723 ; hehad

of therobes to King James II. and being five sons, Thomas the 8th Duke of iNor-

of the Romish religion, was in great folk, &c. &c.

esteem at court : so th.it in 168S, when * Vol. iii p. 424, &c.

King James withdrew himself into z He died at his house in St. James's-

Fiance, this lord soon after attended him square, and was buried at Arundel custie

into Ireland; but in his return to Brest, in Sussex, was unhappily cast away at sea, in Nov.

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estate went to his third brother, the present lord of this honour and

22. The high, puissant, and most noble Prince, EDWARD HOW- ARD, the present Duke of Norfolk, Earl-Marshal, and Hereditary Earl-Marshal of England, Earl of Arundel, Surrey, Norfolk, and Norwich, Baron of Mowbray, Howard, Segrave, Brewse o/Gower in Carmarthenshire, Fitz-Alan, Warren, Clun, Oswaldestre, Maltra- vers, Greystock, Furnival, Verdon, Lovetot, Strange (o/' Black mere) and Howard I of Castle-Rising; Premier Duke, Earl, and Baron of England, next the Blood Royal, and chief of the truly illustrious family of the Howards.*

He married, A0 1727, Mary daughter to Edward Blount of B/agden near Torbay in the county of Devon, Esq a younger son of Sir George Blount of Sodington in IVorcestershire, Bait, but at present hath no issue, and Richard Howard, his next brother, being dead without issue,

The honourable Philip Howard, Esq. of Bukenham-house in Norfolk, his youngest brother, is his heir; who on the 7th oi \ Jan. 1723, married (Vinifrede, daughter of Tho. Stoner of Watlington Path in the county of Oxford, Esq. by whom he hath a son named 1 ho mas, born Febr. 3, 1727, and a daughter IVinifrede. Since the death of this lady, he remarried to a sister to the present Dutchess of Norfolk,* by whom also he hath issue.

* [Creations.] Baron Howard, by writ of summons to parlia- ment by Henry VI. 15 Oct. 1470, 10 Edward IV. and also 19 Jug. 1472, 12 Edward IV. — Earl-MARSHAL, and Duke of Norfolk and Earl of Surrey, 28 June 1483, 1 Ric. III. confirmed Earl of Sur- rey 3 Nov. 1492, 8 Henry VII. and again 13 May 1509, 1 Henry VIII. again Earl of Surrey and Duke of Norfolk.— \ Feb. 1513, 5 Henry VIII. Earl of Arundel in the county of Sussex, (a feudal honour or local dignity, as adjudged in parliament 8 July 1433, 11 Henry VI.) by inheritance and possession of that castle only, without any other creation; also by summons to parliament 16 Jan. 1580, 23 Eliz.; by descent originally, as well before as after the Conquest, by King William I. and by Maud the Empress in the time of King Ste- phen; confirmed by King Henry II. and also 27 June 1 189, 1 Ric. 1. — Earl of Norfolk, 6 June, 1644, 20 Car. I. — Duke of Norfolk by act of purliament, with an entail on the heirs male, and divers limita- tions, 8 May 1661, 13 Car. II. — Baron Howard of Rising-Castle in Norfolk, 27 March 1669, 21 Car. II. — Earl of Norwich, and hereditary Earl-Marshal,19 OcMfi72, 24 Car. II.— Baron Mow- bray, by writ of summons to parliament, t> Mar. 1678, 31 Car. II. and likewise 21 Mar. 1039, 15 Car. 1, ; by desceut, originally 8 June 1294, 22 Edward I.

* Nov. 1739, the honourable Philip in Sussex, to Mrs. Proley, a widow lady, Howard, brother to his Grace the Duke and sister to her Grace the Dutchess of of Not folk, was married at Arundd castle Norfolk.

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The arms, crest, supporters, and motto of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, are,

Arms, gul. on a bend between six cross croslets fitchee arg. a shield or, therein a derni-lion rampant, (pierced through the mouth with an arrow,) within a double tressnre counterflory of the first.

Crest, on a chapeau gul. turned up erm. a lion (or leopard)5 passant guardant, (his tail extended,) gorged with a ducal coronet arg.

Supporters, on the dexter side a lion, and on the sinister a horse, both arg. the latter holding a slip of oak fructed proper. Motto,

SOLA V1RTVS INVICTA.6

CLAVER'S or CLAVERING'S MANOR,

Was originally part of the capital manor granted by the Bi/gods to John de C/avering, from whom it took its name, and was held of it at a quarter of a fee. In 1283, William le Claver or Clavering of Stirston, and Katherine his wife, and Miles le Parker of Stirton, and Christian his wife, settled it on Ralfde Oreping ; and in 1286, John de Faux was lord, and h ad free-warren allowed to it in eire. It after belonged to John le Graunt, in 1306, to John Jermu, and in 1308, to Henry Page ; in whose time an extent of it was made, and the customary perch or pole was then found to be sixteen feet and an half. It had a manor- house, and above 86 acres in demean, and 12 acres of wood, and 9 copy or customary tenants, and 65 freemen. In 1329, Jo hn Rudokin died seized, and in 1333, John Claver and Agnes his wife settled it on them- selves and their heirs in tail ; Walter Claver, parson of Litt/e-P/ump- stede, being deforciant in the fine; it then contained 8 messuages, and many large parcels of land in Forncet, Mutton, Aslacton, IVacton, Thanton, and Tacolneston. In 1385, Christian Snort/ng was lady, and in 1391, 'Ihomas Brampton was lord, and held it in 1432, of John Mowbray Duke of Norfolk, as of his honour here. In 1480, a Tho. Brampton died seized ; in which family it continued till 1536, and then

5 This crest belongs to the Duke, as Ric. II. part i. mem. 2.) Per breve de

being descended from Margaret, privato sigillo.

daughterand heiress of Tho de Brotherton In SylvanusMorgan's Sphere of Gentry,

Earl of Norfolk, fifth son oi King Ldw. lib. 4, cap. 6, there is a neat copper-plate

I. Rex omnibus, &c. sciatis quod cum pedigree of The top Branches of the noble

dilectus et fidelis consangumeus noster, Stock of the Howards. And much of the

Thomas Comes Marescallus, et Not- family may be seen in Sir William Se-

tinghamie, habet jusium litulum heredi- gar's Honour Military and Civil, Lond.

tarium ad portandum pro cresta sua fo. 1602, more may be read of the Hovv-

unum leopardum de auro cum uno ards, and at fo. 63 there is an excellent

labello albo, qui de jure essei cresta filij copper-plate of Charles Lord Howard,

nostri primogeniti, si quern prucreasse- Earl of Nottingham, and Lord Admiral

mus ; nos ea consideratione concessmius ofKngland,in his robes of Knight of

pro nobis et heredibus nostns, eidem the Carter.

Thome et heredibus suis, quod ipsi pro 6 The chief seats of the family are, at

differentia in ea parte, deferri possint, et Arundel castle in the county of Sussex,

deferant, tinum Leopardum et in loco la- 8 miles from Chichester, and 56 from

bslli, Uiiam coroi.amde aigento, absque London; and at Worksop Manor in the

impedimento nostro vel heredum nostra- county of Notingham, 116 miles from

ruin, &c. Teste meipso apud Westm. London. 12 Ian. 11 Ric. II. (1393.) (Pat. 57

$60 FORNCET.

William Brampton and Elizabeth his wife sold it to Thomas Reeve; and in 1559, Thomas son of Thomas Reeve was lord, and in 1570, it was sold to Edward Clere, Esq. who in 1571, sold it to William Moore, Gent.; in 1605, Thomas Lingwood died seized of a moiety of it; it after passed through the Cocks and Edwards, and now belongs to Mr. Matthew Goss, a dyer in Norwich.

Here are two churches now in use, which were given by Roger Bigot to the monks of Thetford,7 who released that gift very early; these churches were annexed very soon, for I never find thetn pre- sented to separately : though Domesday makes them both parisb churches, governed by one rector, who then had in their right, a house and 40 acres of glebe. They were valued as one benefice at 30 marks, and paid 4s. 9d. synodals, and procurations, besides 3s. Peter-pence, and Ad. ob. carvage ; all the institutions run to Forncet only, till 1465, and then to Forncet utraque; the rectory always paying double insti- tution fees, shows it to have been an ancient consolidation ; though for many ages St. Peter's church hath been esteemed as a chapel of ease to St. Mary, the mother-church ; there were anciently three gilds here, those of St. Mary the Virgin, and St. John the Baptist held ia St. Mary's church, and one of St. Peter held in his church.8 The terriers have 85 acres of glebe, and a good parsonage-house, and it pays /fYsf:/)u/7s and yearly tenths, it being valued at 20/. in the King's Books. The Prior of Bukenham's temporals were taxed at 4</. those of the monks of Thetford 17 s. 6d. The whule town of Forncet St. Mary, or Forncet Magna, with Forncet St. Peter, or Parva Forncet, paid 3/. 10s. clear to every tenth. There is a farm belonging to the Girls Hospital atNorwich. (See vol. iv. p. 451, 2.)

RECTORS OF FORNCET.

1256, Master Guy deTomello; (see vol. ii. p. 151;) he was pre- sented by the Prior ofThetford.

1305, Sir Robert Boutetorte. The Earl of Norfolk,

1316, Mr. John de C/axton. Tho. se Brotherton Earl of Norfolk.

1321, Walter Flemming. Ditto.

1 324, 71 illiam de Lang ford. Ditto.

John Devennys resigned in 1348, in exchange for Haverhill, with

Tho.Guyan, who was presented by Sir John Segrave, Knt.

1349, Hugh de Elnestow, senior, shaveling. John Lord Segrave.

1351, Rob. de Wyngrmorth. The King, in right of Sir John Se- grave's lands; who at his death, in 1353, gave it to John WeUewyk.

1361, Rob. de Arneburgh. Sir Walter Manney, Knt. Lord Manneu, who in 1368, presented

i Mon. Ang. fo. 664. were then several town-lands for to

8 In 1423, the brethren of St. Peter's repair the churches. 1699, Oct. io, a

gild had divers lands here, as well as faculty for a seat in St. Peter's, passed

those of St. Mary's gild; besides a com- to Mrs. Sarah Nightingale, mon gild-hall for all the gilds; and there

FOR N GET. 261

John de Lavenham, accolite. In 1388, Margaret Countess of Norfolk preferred

John Fordham to it, at whose death in 1391, she gave it to

Will. Stokere. 1408, Robert Rqlleston had it of Gerard Ufflete and Eliz. his wife, who was Dutchess of Norfolk, being relict of Thomas Mowbray Duke of Norfolk. In

1413, Rub. Bond, rector here, exchanged for Cottesmere in Lincoln diocese, with

Tho. Wilcotes. Ditto: and he in 1419, changed for New- (hurch in Canterbury diocese, with

John Sout'ho, S. T. P. In 1444, John Duke of Norfolk presented

Ric. Haddesley, who in 1447 changed for Depeden in London diocese, with

Sir Thomas Patteshull, ditto. In 1457, the Duke gave it to

Henri/ Fraunceys, who exchanged it in 1465, with

Thomas Frysby, and he in 1470, with

JohnSavage, who was presented by John Selot, doctor in the decrees, and Robert Bernard, Esq. patrons of this turn. In 1496, on Savage's death, Eliz. Dutchess of Norfolk gave it to

John Manning, as did the Duke of Norfolk in 1522, to William Hodgeson. In 1541, Thomas Duke of Norfolk, presented

JohnRichards, his domestick chaplain, and prebend of Norwich, for whoin see vol. iii. p. 66g. In 1560, the Duke's trustees gave it to

JohnKillet, who died in 1578, and the Queen by lapse gave it to

Robert Norgale, who was B. D. second prebendary of Ely, and master of Bennet college in Cambridge. In

1581, Alexander Brozcne had it, of Philip Earl of Arundel, and in

1582, John Rawlyns. In

1584, William Dixe and William Cautrell feoffees to the Duke of Norfolk, gave it to

George Gardiner, Dean of Norwich, for whom see vol. iii. p. 620. In 1588, the King presented

Miles Hunne, chaplain to Lettice Countess of Essex, and Jicensed preacher ; he held it with Hetherset. (See p. 28.) 1615, Thomas Hunne, A. M.

Edward Hunne. (Ibid.) 1617, John Gould, A. B. Will. Browne for this turn. 1630, Hugh Williams, A. M. lapse; he was sequestered, and after- wards kept school at Low-Layton in Essex. {Walkers Sufferings, &c. Part II. to. 402;) at his death in 1 66 ] , Algemoon Earl of Northumber- land, and Richard Onslow, guardians to the Duke of Norfolk, presented William Lock, A. M. at whose death on June 6, 1702, William Aggas was presented by Thomas Aggas, who had purchased the turn. At his death in

1725, Rozeland Hill, A. M. was presented by the Honourable Ric. Hill. The advowson having been purchased of the Duke of Norfolk, by Dr. Hill, who hath obliged his heirs for ever, to present a fellow of St. John's college in Cambridge,9 and accordingly at Mr Hill's death,

9 See vol. i. p. 237.

262 FORNCET.

The Rev. Mr. Lloyd, fellow there was presented, and is now rector.

The church of St. Mary hath only a nave and chancel, both thatched; a north porch, which is leaded; and a square tower, and three bells, on the biggest of which is this,

3!n multig anni£ fte^onct Campana gohannig.

And there are no other memorials of any kind in it.

The church of St Peter, hath its steeple round at bottom, and octangular at top, with five bells ; the north porch, nave, and two isles, are leaded, and the chancel is tiled.

In the communion rails, on the north side, on a black marble,

Aggas, az. a fess erm. cotized or, in chief, three bucks heads caboshed of the last.

William Aggas, A. M. who was 27 Years Vicar of Hempnall, and 23 Years Rector of both the Forncets, Sept 4, 1724, 5 1 .

There is a hlack marble in the church, for Edmund Marcon, Sept. 16, 1709. Grace Marcon Aug. 22, 17 10. Edmund Marcon his son, JNov. 8, 1727, John Marcon May 20, 1728, 39.

*|ic iacet $icar0u£ 2?arrer, qui per g.s'ahcllam Iftrorem tiu.sf, habuit DuojS filter ft Dua£ ^filiajS, et po^tea itmarie fculneratujS, moc obnt ultimo Die JEtan anno ©ni. M" cccc-" Irrvb. euiu£ anime propicietur ©eu.£.

There is a curious altar tomb, with the figures of a gentleman and his wife engraved to their middle, erected (as I take it) to the memory of Thomas Drake and Elizabeth his wife; the inscription is now gone, but part of it remains in IVeevers Funeral Monuments, fo. 823.

©rate pro antmabu.£ £home ©rafce, ct <£li?abcthe ^roriiS

C1U£ ft ft

211 Christian pepfe, that toalfc bv thn£ 2Tomb erln or late,

<©f pour £hentj> gap a pater nogter for tfje &oul of £ho. ©raftc.

Near it, on the ground, on a stone inlaid with brass plates, is this,

arhomasS 2?after 1535. Orate pro anima Choinc Starter, qui ©urit jftargaretam pu ham HDillclmi ©raise 43encro.s'i, et habuit cittum, quatuor jriiiosS, ct unam p Uiam et obijt jri)° Die 2prili£ 3. ©. M. ccccc. rrjrb.

Three shields, two of Baxter, arg, on a pale in a bordure az. three estoils of the field. The third having a wivern, the paternal arms of Drake.

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S H E L T O N.

This town in the Confessor's time, belonged to Bishop Stigand,nnd was held of him by Aldwin or Ailwin; but at the Conqueror's sur- vey, it was in three parts ; ' the head or principal manor, called after- wards Overhall, belonged to Roger Bigot, who infeoffed Dur and in it,1 for which reason it was always held of the Earl of Norfolk's honour of Forncet, at one fee. It was then a league long, and half a league broad, paid gd. geld or tax, and had a church and \6 acres of glebe; the advowson of which, then solely belonged to this manor; but when the tithes of the manor called afterwards Nether-hall, were joined to it; the lords of that manor presented to one turn, and those of this to another; but when the moieties were separated, and one of them given by the She/tons to Langley abbey, and the other remained with Netherha/l manor, till that fell into the Shellons, then the turn that belonged to the convent, being sold to John Jennet/, senior, Esq. it passed as at p. 40, and 220, till it was sold to the G/eanes, and they joined the alternate presentation to their manor at Hardtack, with which it now remains.

THE MANOR OF NETHER-HALL,

At the Conquest, was held by Nigel of Robert Fiiz-Corbun, and was then worth 20s. per annum ,-3 it passed afterwards with Borland's ma- nor in Scole, as at p. J 32, vol. i. till 1322, when it belonged to Sir Ralf flemenhale, Knt. and after to John de Hemenhale, (for which family see p. 185, fi,) and before the extinction of that family, was vested in the She/tons' trustees, and ever since, hath been joined to their

MANOR OF OVER-HALL,

Which went as the capital manor of Scole, to the Scheltons, very early; which family, though they took their name from this village, were anciently seated at Stradbrooke in Suffolk. John de She/ton, by deed without date, tied his manor in Slradbrook,* to the Prior of

1 There was a third part which be- Doras, fo. 269. H. Depwade.

longed to Forncet manor, as at p. 223,4. Scelt una tenet Nigellusquam tenuit

1 Terra Rogeiu Bigoti. H. Dep- Alduinus liber homo Stigandi xxx. acr.

wade, fo. 140. Domsd. semper i. viil. et ix. bor. et dim. et i.

In Sceltuna viii. lib. horn, et dim. car. in dom. et i. car. horn, et ii. acr. et

et iii. bor. et i. ecclesia 16 acr. et sub dim prati, tunc valuitxj. modo xx.

istisiv. lib. horn, inter omnes lix. acr. + There was an ancient free chapel

semper ii. car. et ii. acr. prati, et tota founded in the Shelton' manor at Strad-

Scehuna habet i. leug. in longo et dim. brook, endowed with many lands. Lib.

in lato, et 91/. de gelto. Inst. vi. fo. 320. 1405, pen. Nov. Johes.

Hoc tenet Durandus et Waketuna Kene institutus fuit in libera cupella in

similiter. manerio de Schelton, (in Stradbrook) ad

3 Terre Roberti filij Corbutionis. presentationem Roberti de Wyngfield,.

264 S HELTON.

Butle, to excuse that house from all suit and service to the county courts or hundred courts; and John his son and heir confirmed it. Nicholas deShelton, in 1215, had purchased all the estate of Robert Maloysel and Alexander his son, in IVeybred, and was then, one of the rebelling Barons against King John, and upon the surrender of Fram- lingham castle in Suffolk, he submitted, and gave his son Robert as a pledge for his future allegiance.

In 1222, the King seized Henri/ de Shelton's lands, because he was not in the IVelsh army, and he was forced to pay 4 marks to have them restored.

In 1225, Ralf de Shelton was married to Catherine daughter and heiress of Henry de Hlegh, with whom the manor of Burnt-lllegh in Suffolk came to this family, and attended it many generations; her inheritance was large, for he gave 18 murks to King Henry III. and did homage to that King for three whole fees, held of the honour of JVitl.de He/yun ; this Ralf owned an estate, and the advowson of Mundham.

In 1235, Robert de Shelton held one fee of Robert de Tateshal, and he of the Earl-Marshal, and a quarter of a fee of John de Shelton, and he of the Ear\-Marshal.

In 1239, Robert son of Henry de Shelton, conveyed an estate here to Jordan de She/ton; and in 1424, Henry de Shelton held 3 fees; and in 1244, Ralf de Shelton, father of Henry, was dead. In 1257, Nic. de Schelton v, as lord here and of Burnt-Illegh, and in that year gave ands there to the Abbot of St. Osith in Essex. In 1270, Henry de Shel- ton held this manor of the fee of Arundel, and divers lands of Nic. Shelton, with the manors of Arsa sive lllei/e Combusta, Brent, or Burnt- Illeye, in Suffolk, the manors of Scole and of Bedingham in Norfolk ; and

Robert his son and heir was above 25 years old, who had livery of them all at his father's death, and in 1286, had liberty of free-zear- ren allowed to them in eire. This Sir Robert settled lands in llleye, to maintain divers lights in that church. In 1302, he had fees in Mundham, Shelton, Bedingham, and Scote ; in 1305, he and Isabel his wife held them with Biirnt-Il/eye manor for life, Juhn de She/ton being their son and heir, and of full age ; with remainder to Tho. and Henry, their other sons ; Sir Robert died this year, and in

1306, John deShelton, held Shelton and the lands in Hardwick, at one fee of Forncet manors. By his wife Maud, he had John Shelton, on whom this manor was settled for life, and on Agatha his wife, by his father, in 1308. In 1313, John Shelton settled it on himself and Joan his wife, and their heirs.

In 1315, Ralf son of John SheltonheM three fees in Bedingham, Shelton, and Scole. In 1316, John son of John de She/ton, Knt. and Robert his son, sold their manor of Heverlond, toNicholasShelton son of the said John and Alicebis wife, and Thomas their son, and others, for their lives; and this John, as appears by his seal, bare afess between three mullets; he was lord also of Hlegh.

In 1323, Robert de Shelton and Maud his wife settled this ma- nor on themselves and their heirs. In 1330, it was found that Sir Ra/j She/ton, senior, Knt. held Buriit-l/leyejo\nl\y with Joan his wife, then living, and that he died Off. 16, in that year, leaving only 3 daughters; Joan, aged 12 years, Margaret, 5 years, aud Isabel, half a

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year old. In 1332, Margaret wife of John de Shelton deceased, having long before his deatli separated herself from him, of her own accord, and lived with her gallant, lost her dower in ltleye manor for so doing; so that Sir Ralf, who died, had it wholly from his father Johns death. In 1333, Alice wife of John de She/ton died seized of Shelton manor, and Ra //'their son was 18 years old ; and Robert de Shelton, clerk, had lands here.

In 1345, Sir Ralph Shelton was lord; in 1346, King Edward III. granted him his letters patent, signifying that he was in the King's own company in the battle of Cressy, and there received the order of knight- hood, the King pardoning him the contempt and penalty which he had incurred for not taking that order upon him before, when his Majesty issued his proclamation, that all those who had 40 pounds a year in land, should take that order upon them.5 And the same year, on his marriage with Joan daughter of Sir John de Plais of Wetyng, he settled this and Eedingham manors on himself, wife, and their issue ; in 1355, on going beyond sea with King Edward III. he had his letters of pro- tection, and being in the battle ofPoicters, he took John Rocourt pri- soner; for whom he obtained a safe conduct in 1350. This Sir Ralf' was cousin and heir of Sir Ralf Burgulion of Kerdeston and Thirsford; by his will proved in 1375, by the name of Sir Ralf Shelton, senior, Knt. he ordered his body to be buried in the chancel of St. Mary's church at Shelton; and accordingly he was interred there, and his gravestone lielh in the midst of it, with his effigies in complete armour, and a Saracen's head cooped for his crest ; over his head,

prj>c? pour 1'amc Dti Ittontftcut $aulf DC .§ljctton le pcre taDtsS UiaijStrc De Ce^te lille. qui moru.s'tie ytin tour De $oDcmbre fan De ©race JJicccleriu. et pout Ic femme pile Du IUounj>etur pan<i. %i Corpsi Du quel gigt tct, ©icu De .f>on ame ctt Jllerci. He left

Sir Ralf Shelton, junior, Knt. his son and heir, who was then married to Alice, daughter of Sir Tho. Uvedale of Tacolneston, Knt.; in 1385, he attended John Duke of Lancaster in his great expedition into Spain, and was at the famous battle of Nazaret. In 1398, John son of Ralf de She/ton released the manor of Gedney in Lincolnshire to the Abbot of Ramsey. In 1405, the ju/;y present, that Joan widow of Sir Ralf de Shelton, senior, died seized of Burnt-Illeye manor, and was buried by her husband, with this on a brass plate,

Jftc facet "Joanna ^ijclton nuper tflror ftaDuInhi Shelton, que cbut it Die gjanuani 3. ©ni. H&. ccccro cuius* anime propicietur Deus 3men.

She having no heirs by Sir Ralf, the manor reverted to Sir Ralph, son of S'w'Ra/f, who was 58 years old. He was in the voyage of St. Maloes de L'is/e, and in that into Scotland with King Ric. II. and in that into Spain, where Sir Hugh Hastyngs died; this Sir Ralf died 25 April 1424, as the inscription on his tomb in Great Snoryng church saith.

He had two brothers, William and Robert, who died in 1423, and

5 Rymer, vol. v. fo. 561. vol. v. M m

Z66 S HELTON.

was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary at Snoryng-Magna, leaving his brother

William, executor; who in 1420, had been executor to John Tolle, rector of Snoryng. This William Shelton, Esq. died seized this year, of the manors otOver-hall and Nether-hall; by his wife Catherine, daughter of Simon Barret, who lies buried in Shelton chancel, with this,

H>fic iacet Nomina ftatcrina .£>htlton, quondam Hror H?i((i: Sijel' ton 3rnitgen,qui- obut m0 Die I&engig ilua.u£tt j» ©ni. jlVcr-ccntoi0. cuiu£ amine propinetuc Deu^ 3mcn. There are arms of Shelton and Burgullion quartered, and Shelton and Barrett impaled.

He had the manor of Barrett's in Hardwick, (seep. 218,) and was also possessed at his death, of the manors of Snori/ng- Magna, Thursford, and Biirgu/lion's in Kerdeston, as heir of the Burgullion family, and of Burnt-I/leye in Snjfo/k; all which he left to

John, his son and heir, 17 years old, who had livery of his lands in 1427, and died in 1430, leaving

Ralf his son and heir, one quarter of a year old, by Margaret his wife, who had Burnt-Illey for life, and remarried to Robert Alynglon; and her son Ralf was 40' years old at her death. In (487, he had a grant from Henry VII. of the custody and marriage of the body and lands of Ralf j brother and heir of Robert Berney, Esq. of Gunton ; he married Margaret daughter of Rob. C/ere of Ormesby," and E/iz. his wife, daughter of Sir l7iomas Uveda/e, by whom he had Jo/in, his son and heir, Ralf, Richard, Elizabeth, and Alice1 married to John Heven- ingham :8 he was living in 1492, but dead before 1500, for then, Mar- garet Shelton of She/ton, late the wife of Sir Rafe Shelton, Knt. willed to be buried in Shelton chancel by her husband, in " a tumbe which is " ordeyned to that intent;"9 she gave the tenements in Moringthorp called Roper's, with the appurtenances, to pay the Jijteenths, for the towns of Shelton and Freton.

Sir John Shelton, their son and heir, was high-sheriff of Norfolk in 1504, and was made Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Henri/ VIII, when he bare tor his Arms az. a plain cross or.

And for his crest a tawny Moor's (or Saracen's) head proper.

In 1512, a pardon was granted to this Sir John She/ton, who mar- ried Anne, daughter of Sir William Bolleyn of Blick/ing in Norfolk, Knt. and died Dec. 21, 1539, in the 62d year of his age,' and is buried in Shelton chancel with this over his head,1

* See p. 166. In the east window of Norwich, widow, buried in St. Peter's

the nortli isle, aie the effij'es of Ralf church there, had two sons, Nic. and

Shelton and Margaret his wire, in sur- Augustine a monk, at Eye, and Margaret

coats of their arms. This Ralf, was and Isabel her daughters,

high-sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 8 Seep. 93 Fliz. married Sir Ric.

1487. Fitz-Lewes, Knt. and Alice, John He-

7 This family was so numerous from veningham, Esq.

their original, that an exact account of » E Regr. Cage, int. Archiv. Epi.

them in a regular pedigree, cannot be Norw. probat 3 Dec. 1500.

fixed. 1484, Cecily shelton, widow of ' Weever, p. S64..

Thomas Shelton, Gent, was buried by z Anne late wife of Sir John Shelton

her hus'iand in the Minors church at Knt. deceased, marie her will Dec. 19

Norwich. In 1479, Joun Shelton of which was proved 8 Jan. 1556, in which

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$tc gum jscpultujs gobanncis dc jetton mailed

The circumscription about the tomb in brass is,

3jrj;hanneg Shelton $atleg quonDami£tiu£ pagi ^ominuij,

Si J:ortunam, £i laitam, *Jt £elicitatem, .Scire cupi.sf,

$ec Carmma tibi oicent.

Hcge, mtie, et male.

Hlorborum toicia, ct tflttc JUala marima fugit,

$unc careo pacts, pace fruor placioa.

licit 3nnoS 62, 3° 1539.

23ene mercntt ®jcnr posuit.

On the south side of the tomb are these arms :

1, Shelton. 2, Illegh.3 3, Burgullion. 4, Shelton quartered in the notnbreil. Cockfield, Shelton, and Bullen impaled.

On a north side, Shelton and Bullen impaled. Bullen and Butler Earl of Ormond quartered, and Shelton and Bullen impaled again.

The east window or' this chancel was glazed at his charge, and in it is his own effigies, in a praying posture, with his arms on his surcoat; and that of his wife with Bullen s arms Over his head, Shelton and Bullen impaled ; over her's, Shelton and Burgullion, quarterly or and gul. on the 2d and 3d quarters, three annuletsO. over all a bend sab.

On an inescutcheon of pretence,

Cockfield, az. a cross countercornpony ar. and gul.

All impaled witli Bullen.

Sir John, son and heir of Sir John Shelton, Knt. called Sir John Shelton the younger, was high-sheriff of Norfolk in 1522, and again in 1525, and had' livery of the manors of Shelton, Stratton-Saies, Ref- ham-Biirgii/ions, Scote, Bediiigham,Suoryng,Gallowes, &c. in Norfolk, and of Burnt-Illegh and Meldyng in Suffolk. He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Hen. Parker, Knt. son and heir oi' Henry Lord Morley ; and was one of those gentlemen that joined Queen Mary at Kenning- hall, in order to advance her to the crown.

He is buried under an altar monument in the chancel, on the north side, with this:

Sir John Shelton marryed Margaret the Doughter of the Lord Morley, and had issue, Raphe, Anne, J/ys, and Marie, and died the - - Day of Novembre Anno Dni. 1558.

thereare legacies to To her daughters Gabriela, Emma,

Sir John Shelton, her son. and Elizabeth, all which, died without

To Ralf Sheln n of Depeham, her issue,

second so;., and Amy his wife, daughter Sir [ames Bullen, Knt her brother,

of Sir Roger W.dehouse ot Knvberley was supervisor. N. B. this lady was

in Norfolk, Knt. and sister to Thomas sister and coheir to Tho. Boleyn Kail ot

Wodehouse, who married her sister Wilts and Ormond, son of Sir A illiam

Margaret Shelton, (see Wodehouse's liolevn, Knt. of Blickling, by Margaret,

Pedigree vol. ii. p 558 ) daughter and coheir of Tho. Bonier or

To her daughter Mary Shelton, who Builcr, Duke of Ormond, who was son

married Sir Anthony Heven.ngham, of S.r Jeffry Boleyn, Knt. Lord Mayor

Knt. (see p. 93,) and remarried to Phi- of 1 ( ndon, by Anne daughter and coheir

lip Appleyard, Esq. of '1 homas Lord Hoo.

To her thud son, Thomas Shelton. 3 bee vol. iv. p. 329.

268 SH ELTON.

Raphe married the Daughter of Sir William Woodhouse* Anne, married the Son and Heir of Sir John Godsalve.'* Alys, married the sonn and Heir of Sir Tho. Josselyn.6 Marye, now Ladye Scudamore.7

Arms of Sh elton and his quarterings : Shelton impaling Morley ; She/lou and JVoodhouse, &c.

Sir Ralph Shelton, Knt. high-sheriff of Norfolkin 1570, had livery of his father's inheritance, viz. the manors of Shelton, Snoryng, Carrow, &c. he married two wives; 1st, Mary, daughter of Sir William Woodhouse of Waxham, Knt. 2dly, to Anne, daughter to Thomas Barrow, Esq. of Baminghum in Suffolk, who after- wards married to Sir Charles Cornwaleis. He lies buried on the north side of the altar.

Raphe Shelton maryed MAry the Doughter of Sir William Woodhowse, the 13 Daye of Septembre, Anno Dom. 1551, by whom he had Issue, Tho. John, Raphe, Edward, Margaret, and Audrey, and dyed 15 June, 1568.

On the side of the tomb the children's births.

Thomas Shelton was borne the 19 Daye of Maye, 1558. John Shelton3 was borne 20 Dec. 1559. Raphe Shelton was born 1 Febr. 1560.

Edward Shelton was borne 1 Dec. 1564, and died 10 March followinge.

Margaret Shelton9 was borne 24 Dec. A. D. 1556. Audrey Shelton1 was borne 10 June 1568.

Arms, Shelton, Illeye, Burgu/ion and Cockjield, quartered, impaling Woodhouse of Waxham.

By Anne Barrow, his second wife, he had issue, William, who died 12 Dec. 1583, leaving Henry Shelton his brother and heir, then 7 years old, and two daughters.1

Thomas Shelton, Esq. his son and heir, married Eliz. daughter of Edw. Floicerdew, Baron of the Exchequer;3 and was lord of Shelton, Snoiyng-Magna, Hardwick- Barrets, Thursford, &c. and

gentleman porter of the Tower;4 he died 15 and was succeeded

by his brother,

* Amy, daughter of Sir Will. Wood- grandfather of Sir Rob. Southwell, Knt. house of Kimberley, had Anne, married alive in 1694.

to Martin Sidley of Morley. * Married to Sir Thomas Walsingham

5 Sir John Godsalve of Bukenham- ofScudbury in Kent.

Ferry. 2 Barbara, married to Sir George le

6 she married Sir Tho. Josseline of Hunt, of Little Bradley in Suffolk, Knt. Hidehall in Hertfordshire. and Mary, married to Edmund Daney

7 She married Sir James Scudamore of of Cretinghara and Combs in the said Hertfordshire. Gul. three stirrups lea- county; and had one son and daughter, thered or. She is buried in Westhorp chancel in

8 He was at the sacking of Cadiz in Suffolk. Queen Elizabeth's time ; was afterwards 3 See p. 24.

knighted, and married Eliz. daughter of * He died 2^ Dec. 1595, and is buried Edward Lord Cromwell. in St. Peter's church in the Tower, with

* She married to Anthony Southwell, an epitaph and arms. See in Stow '3

Survey of London.

SH ELTON. 269

Sir Ralph Shelton, Knt. born as above in 1560, wbo married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Rob. .Iermvn of Rushbrook in Suffolk, Knt. He was killed at the isle of RhZ in France,5 and dying without issue,

Henry Shelton, only surviving son of Sir Raphe Shelton, by Anne Barrow his second wife, inherited, who was a captain in the Low-Countries 60 years; he married Eliz. daughter of Thomas Jer- myn of Depeden in Suffolk, Esq. and dying IS Oct. 1634, at Barn- iugham, was buried here, and was succeeded by his son^

Maurice Shelton of Shelton, Esq.6 and of Barningham in Suffolk, which he had as heir to Maurice Barrow, son of William Burrow of Westhorp in Suffolk, brother of June Barrow aforesaid, his grand- mother; he married Eliz. daughter of Sir Robert and sister of Sir Robert Kemp of Gissing, Bart.7 and is buried at Shelton, leaving four sons, and four daughters,

1, Eliz. married to Richard Bokenham of Weston in Suffolk, Esq.

2, Sarah, married to Robert Suckling of fVotto?i in Norfolk, Esq.

3, Mary, married to Tho. Greene, D. D. rector of St. Olave in the Old Jury, London.

4, June, married to Waldegrave Alexander of Badingham in Suffolk, Esq.

Ralfd'iec] an infant.

Charles Shelton, the 4th son, died single.

As did Robert, the 3d son.

Maurice Shelton, the eldest brother, married Martha, daughter of Robert Appleton of Great Waldingjield'm Suffolk, Esq. and Martha his wife,8 daughter of Thomas More of St. German's Wigenhall, and Martha his wife, daughter of Mr. William Jackson, whose daughter and heiress, Martha,9 married to Lile Hacket, son and heir of Sir Andrew Hacket, son and heir of Bishop Hacket of Moxhu/l in War- wickshire, and had a son, John; this Maurice dying without issue male, was buried at Shelton, and the estate went to his second brother,

Henry Shelton of Barningham in Suffolk, Esq. who lies buried under a black marble in Shelton chancel, with the arms of Shelton impaling Churchman, and this,

Here lieth interred the Body of HENRY SHELTON of Bar- ningham in the County of Suffolk Esq. who married Hester Daughter of Sir John Churchman of Illington in the County of Norfolk Knt. (by whom he had two Sons, Maurice and Henry) who departed this Life the 24th Day of May 1690, iEt. suae 3(i\

And was succeeded by his eldest son,

Maurice Shelton of Barningham in Suffolk, Esq. and now of Bury St. Edmund's, who sold the manors of' Over-hall and Nether-

5 In 1G02, he sealed with az. on a Elizabeth, married to Fernley of Cre- chief indented or, 2 mullets of the field ; tyng in Suffolk.

and P. L. N. observes that they are said Sarah, married to Captain Hooper.

to have been the ancient arms of Shel- 7 See vol. i. p. 178, 9.

ton, reassumed by Sir Ralph. 8 She was buried at Shelton, A0 1689.

6 He had three sisters; Dorothy. 9 Died 1688, was buried at Barning-

ham, and her husband married again.

270 SHELTON.

hall in this parish, with the alternate right of presentation to the rectory of Shelton, to

John Howse of Norwich, Esq. the present lord.

To these manors belong letes and all royalties, with weyf and est ray. The Jines are at the will of the Lord, the eldest son is heir, and they give no doner.

The Church is dedicated to St. Mary, was first valued at 14, and after at 15 marks; it paid \ld. synodals and procurations, \0d. Peter- pence, and 3d. carvage, and was in medieties; the Abbot of Langley was patron of one, and that rector had lti acres of land, but no house; and Sir Richard de Boy/and was patron of the other, having purchased it in 1277, of Roger de Taseburgh, and the Rector of that had a house and 18 acres of land. The whole now lies as one rectory in the King's Books, valued at 8/. and the village used to pay 2/. 17s. to every tenth. The present fabrick was built by Sir Rolf Shelton, Knt." and is a fine uniform brick building, having a nave, two isles, and chancel leaded, a square tower, and one bell. His name is ex- pressed often in the windows, viz. fiaf, with au escalop shel and a tun, which cannot fail of making She/tun. There is now a handsome new built parsonage-house, and above 30 acres of glebe.

RECTORS

OF THE SOUTH PART, OR SCHELTON's MEDIETY.

1303, Gilbert de Be/awe, instituted by Will. Freeman, rector of Prillestone, his pioctor. Sir John de Boyland Knt.-

1306, Alan le Man. Ditto.

1322, Will, de Stirston. ShRalf Hemenhale, Knt.

1823, Alan leMan. Ditto?

1328, Sir William de Wortham. John de Hemenhale.

1349, RalfGodelard. Sir Half Hemenhale, Knt.

1 35 1 , Henry White. Lapse.

1387, John Heppe, ob. John Muriel, rector of Dennington, and Robert Asiifield, this turn.

1421, John Cummerton. Lapse.

1428, John U iltoneshurst, change with Cummerton for Castor St. Edmund. Sir Simon Felbrigge, Knt. hie. Carew, and John Cornwaleis, Esq. res.

1431, Robert Mingay oiPulham. Ditto.

RECTORS

of the north part, or Langley mediety.

1301, A sequestration to Master P 'hit ip de Erpingham.

1302, Henry de Wendiing. 1311, J uhn Barrett. 1320, John de Rickingale.

1 By that Sir Ralph who married Mar- * Tn 1304, Sir John de Boyland reco- garet Ciere, and built the HA LL. veied it against John de Taseburgh.

SHELTON. 271

Robert le Spencer changed in

1343, with Thomas de Greneford, for Willingham All-Saints, and he in

1344, with John de Reppes of Mattishall-Bergh, and he in 1347, with John de Kentford, for the vicarage of Mendham, 1361, Rie. de Bajocis, or Baieux,

1353, Nic. le Mi tier of Honyng.

13(3 1, John Granew of Honyng, afterwards rector of Great Snoryng. 13?5, Will. Chapman ot'Topcroft. 141 1, Sir Tho. Richer.

1431, Henri/ Brammerton. All which were presented by the Abbot and convent of Langley.

In 1445, 'he two medieties being void, and the convent having sold their mediety to the Sheltons, they were perpetually united by consent of the patrons ; the Bishop reserving double fees on all institutions. (Reg. Inst. 10, lb. 97.)

RECTORS OF THE WHOLE RECTORY.

1445, James Herbert. John Jenney, senior, Esq. this turn. Resigned.

1456, Thomas Renneaway, ob. Ralf Shelton, this turn. 1458, William King, ob. John Jenney of Knodishale. 1470, 27;o. Fydyan, or Fydymont, res. Ralf Shelton, Esq. 1481, Master Archibald Davy. John Jenney of Intwood in Nor- folk, Esq. and Eliz. his wife. This rector was iicensed to solemnize matrimony between Sir Richard Fitz- Lewes, Knt. and Eliz. Shelton, and between John son and heir of Thomas Heveningham, Esq. and Alice Shelton, in the oratory or chapel, in the manor-house of Sir Ralf Shelton, Knt. father of the said Eliz. and Alice, at his manor of Shelton.

1497, John Bloys, or Blowes, ob. Sir Ralf Shelton, Knt. 1508, Sir John Shelton, priest, whom I should have taken to have been the poet laureat of that name, mentioned at vol. i. p. 30, had it not been, that this man died in 1523, and the laureat lived to 1529. John Bliant, Gent, in right of Anne his wife, this turn. 1523, George Rust, ob. Sir John Shelton, Knt. 1554, It iltiam Acres, or Akers, united to Hardwick. Lady Isabel Geesham, widow.

1558, Will. Ward, on Aker's death; united to Hardzvick. Lady Mabgaeet Shelton, widow.

15<)2, Thomas Wa/ney, or Waive. Lady Eliz, Gresham, widow ; he returned 10i communicants.

l60o, Will. Touueson.A. M.on Wake's death. Sir Ralf Shelton, Knt. res.

1626, John Greene, A. M. ob. Sir Peter Gleane, Knt. of Norwich.

lf)33, John Jermyn, ob. Henry Shelton, Esq. lf)83, Samuel Rand, A. M. united to Hardwick. Sir Peter Gleane, Bait. (See p. 221, 3.) On whose death in

1714. John, Randall, A. M. was presented by Maurice Shelton, Esq. and held it united to Thelton ; and at his death in

272 S II ELTON.

1722, Samuel Shuckford, D. D. now prebend of Canterbury, had it of the gift of Waller Bacon, Esq. lord of Barret's manor in jSardwick, (see p. 223,) and on his resignation in

1746, The Rev. Mr. John Salmon, the present rector, had it of his father's gift, who purchased this turn of John Howse, Esq. lord of Sfielton; and the next turn belongs to Barret's manor mHardwick, which Mrs. Frances Bacon of Earlham, widow, now enjoys.

There was a grand antique mansion or MANOR-house here, built by Sir Half Shellon, in a square form, with an outside wall iinbattled, and a turret at each corner, moated in, with a grand gate space at the entrance, and a turret at each corner of it. In the windows and ceilings were many coats of the matches of the She/tons, &c. but the whole is now ruinated. The demeans and thepark, 8tc. were sold by the Sheltons from the manors, as I am informed, to Sir Rob. Houghton, Knt. serjeat at law, and one of the justices of the King's Bench ; who died seized of the manors of Leffley, Buxhall, Bretenham, and Hecham, in Suffolk, and their letes ; leaving Francis his son and heir, 30 years old ; who died in 1629, leaving Robert his son and heir 6 years old, who inherited the said manors.3

This judge was born at Gunthorp in Norfolk, Aug. 3, 1548, and was buried 0 Feb. 1623, in the church of St. Dunstan in the West, London, for whom there is a noble cccnotaph in this chancel, with his effigies in his judge's robes, and those of his wife, and son and his wife, kneel- ing on the top of it, and this inscription,

Debito Honori

Optimi Mariti Robekti Houghton Equitis, Judicisque de Regis

Banco, cujus Cineris Divi Dunstani Templum infra Lond-

inum Custos est, Hie quoque Locus, cum Filij sit, Palris etiam

Monumentum esse Optimo Jure videtur vendicare.

Memoriae piae,

Charissimi Filij nostri Francisci Houghton Armigeri, necnon

Helena Uxoris ejus (ut quorum Corda conjugalis Amor, Animas,

Una Fides (uti spes nostra) in iEtemum univit, eorum ossa

Unum hoc Sepulchrum condat, conjungat.

Ego Maria Roberti Richees de Rootham in Comitatu Cantij

Armigeri Filiae, bene Merito inarito, duobus Filijs, Filiabus tribus,

Oh Dolor ! orbata, toliesq; partim Mortua Johanne Houghton,

Unico minimoque Nalu superstite, Reliquorum Consortij Avida,

Potissimum vero Coronam Beatitudinis Anhelans, utq; cum i>a]vatore

Vivam, Dissolutions cupientissima,hoc Poni Sacrum, rueas Reliquias

Hie condier Jussi.

Per mortem itur ad Vitam.

1623.

Houghton's arms as at p. 196, quartering,

1. Richers, org. three annulets az. 2. Hotighton. 3.Az.l\vo barrulets arg. between three helmets or.

3 See vol. ii. p. 365. In 1683, a fa- Hungerford, Knt. culty passed for a seat for Sir Edward

SHELTON. «73

On a black marble in the church, A bend between two cotises, impales a chevron between two birds. Spe BeatEe Resurrectionis. Here lieth the Body of William Pearse Gent. Aug. 3, 17 1 1, 80. Eliz. Wife of Charles Pearse Gent. Aug. 10 1714, 34.

Hie jacet Uxor Gulielmi Pearsei Charissima, spei beatifical Resurrectionis Pulvino Sufl'ulta.

In the windows of this church and chancel were all the matches of the Shelton family put up, many of which still remain ; and the same were in the windows, and on the ceilings in Shelton-Hall, and are the same exactly, as those in Carrow abbey, which see at p. 529, ■vol. iv. only the impalement oiBurgu/ion is there omitted, it being lost.

There are in the church also, the following arms besides : Sab. a chevron between three trefoils arg. Wytchyngham, Howe, Scutmnbre, Heydon, and Boleyn. Calthorp quartering Burgulhon. Dovedale impaling gul. a chevron erm. between three de-lises or. Fitz-walter and Shelton. Stapleton and Hingham. Clere and Dove- dale. Clere and Haukforth, Howard, Bedingfield, and Shelton. Boleyn, Butler, and Ormond. Boleyn, Howe, and Wichingham, and az. a fess between six cross croslets or. Vere quartering Howard and Plays. Shelton and P/ais. Shelton quartering Clere and Dovedale. Ye/verton and Brewse. Biaunch and Bardolf. Lowdham and Shel- ton. Brewse and Shardelowe. Mundeford and Barrett. Knevet and Shelton.

And many of the arms were in the chapel in shelton-hall, where the several lodging rooms were called after the names of those families whose arms were placed in them, as Morley's chamber, Howard's chamber, &c. .

And formerly, there was a MSS. kept at the hall, which had a drawing of the house in it, a copy of which I have by me, and the arms oP such families as the Sheltons married into, and many of the quarterings of those families. The grand coat of Shelton there, was,

Shelton, az. a cross or, the present arms of the family, quar- tering the old coat of

Shelton, sab. three escallops arg. \

Crest, a Moor's (or Saracen's) head, cooped at the shoulders proper.

Supporters, two talbot's arg. collared or, their strings on

their backs gul.

Motto, Ghenre Ant Thol. Quartering Weigh, Burgullion, Cockfield, and Barret, quartered.

The impalements are 47:

], Shelton and Fitz-hammond. 2, Ditto and Gedding. 3, Cretyng.

4 Faux. 5, Herling. 6, Martin. 7, I/legh 8, Plais. 9, Bures.

10 Tendring. U, Winter. hZ, Metiers. \S,Uford. 14, Thoring-

ton. 15, Burgidlion. 16, Cockfield. 17, Lowdham. 18, Dovedale.

vol. v. Jin

274 SHE LTD N.

19, Heveningham. 20, a fess between three de-lises or. 21, Mohun. 22, Peyton. 23, Stapleton. 24, Calthorp. 25, Poyn- ings. 26, Gilbert. 27, Barre*. 28, Lea'es. 29, Bmose. 30, Thorp of Ashwellthorp. 31, St. Phi/ebert. 32, Delabere. 33, Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury. 34, C/fre. 35, Notingham* 36, Marke. 37, Brome. 38, Bedingjield. 39, Boleyn. 40, Wodehouse of Kim- berley. 41, Notingham.* 40, Parker Lord Morley. 43, JFocfe- /(owse of IVaxham. 44, Cromwell. 45, Barrow. 46, Appleyard. 47, Jermyn.

Other matches of Shelton in the same book, are,

1, Bemardiston impaling Shelton. 2, Lowdham impales Shelton, as do the following names, wz. IVentworth, Fitz-walter, Ufford, He- veningham, Bedingjield, Bullen, Knyvet, Danny,6 Godsalve, Scuda- more, JValsingham, Hunt, Lewes, Josceline, Aske,7 ll'oodhuuseof Kim- berley, Stanton, Nappier, Bacon* Southwell, and Ferntey.9.

So that hence it appears, that gentlemen of all these families have married into this family.

There are also the arms of Shelton, with a crescent, and other differences for younger brothers, impaling 24 coats, which show that the younger brothers of the family matched into those families.

Shelton impaling; 1, Dusing, sab. three swords arg. hiked and pomelled or, their points downwards. 2, Batteld, gul. a griffin sejant or. 3, Feme, per bend arg. and gul. indented. 4, gul. a leopard saliant in a bordure indented arg. 5, Walden, sab, two bars and three cinquefoils in chief arg. 6, arg. three hurts between two bendlets gul. 7, St. John. S, Le Port, barry of six A.B. a saltier gul. 9, Cornwaleis. 10, Mac Williams. 11, Brum ng, sab. two bend- lets wavy arg. 12, Kal/ey, sab. two falchions saltier-ways arg. hiked and pomelled or. 13, Ptott, vert, on three caterfoils arg. as many lions heads erased sab. \A,Morgan, arg. a griffin sejant sab. 15, Husey arg, a cross vert. 16, Feme, or, a bend between two lions heads erased sab. 17, Star/ey, pally ofjsix arg. and sab. 18, Daniel of Suff. 19, Rush, gul. on a fess or, between three horses current sab. as many hurts. 20, Arnold of Cromere. 21, Barrow, 22, Jermyn. 23, Kemp.

I find two small manors in this and the adjoining towns of Hemen- hale, Fritton, &c. called Blomefield's and Seaman's, as the abut- tals of the lands in Shelton Court Books mention ; and the estate late the Houghtons being the Park, &c. which Charles Houghton owned in 1665, belongs now (as I am informed) to Sir Edmund Bacon of Garboldesham, Bart.

4 Notingham, gul. a bend or. 7 Or, three bars sab. in a bordure

5 Notingham, or, a chevron coupe' ingrailed gul.

parted per pale B. G. between three 8 Sab. three boars in pale passant or.

mullets sab. 9 Arg. on a bend vert, three bucks

c Gul. a saltier arg. between twelve heads caboshed or, a crescent sab. croslets or.

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T I B E N H A M.

The church here is dedicated to all the Saints, and hath a squara tower and five large bells; the south porch, south isle, nave, and chancel are all leaded ; the vicarage-house joins to the west part of the churchyard : there are the emblems of the four Evangelists at each corner of the tower, carved in stone, and four marbles in the chancel

1. Robertus Herne, Generosus, ob. Mar. 2. A. D. 1685. Anna Heme, ob. 20 Mar. A. D. 1729, set. 81.

2. Richard Herne, Gent. 1668.

3. Herne's arms and crest, a heme's head erased proper, collared with a crown or. Robertus Herne Armiger, Films Roberti Heme Generosi, ob. 12 die Aug. A. D. 1720, ast. 66.

4. Goocn impaling Herne.

Here lieth Sarah Gooch, the Wife of Clement Gooch, late ot Earsham in the County of Norfolk Esq ; and Daughter of Robert Herne of this Parish Gent. Dec. 1, 1729. aet. 76. To the Me- mory of so good a Parent, Ann theWife of John Buxton otChan- nonz-Hall Esq ; her only surviving Child by the said Clement Gooch, consecrates this Monument. Clement the 1th Son of the said John and Ann Buxton, died in Infancy, and was buried near this Place May 19, 1741. There are several brasses lost in the nave and south isle. At the west end of the nave is a stone for Sam. Ferdon,Gent. March 2, 1686, set. 49, who left one son and one daughter, by Sara his wife, who is buried by him.

On an old brass in St. Nicholas's chapel, at the east end of the south isle,

©rate pro animabu.S Roberti 2r?uc.£ton, tfri^tianc, et 3gneti^, -Qvorum ciu.si, qui qutDem ftobcrtu£ ofaut 2nno ®ni. M° ccccc0 jCjL-ntif. quorum animate yropicictur ©eu£, (Weever, fo. 814.) Buxton quartering two bucks couchant, impaling or, a bend ingrailed between six roses Gul. seeded and barbed proper.

Hie requiescit Johannes Buxton Generosus Films et Heres Roberti Buxton qui quidem Johannes Thalamo sibi conjunxit Margaretam Warner, et ex ea habuit prolem, Robertum, Franciscum, Elizabethum, et Annum, annos spiravit Octoginta et Quatuor pie vixit, patienter obijt, 5' die Aprilii in Vigilia Pasche. Anno Dom. 1572.

276 T I B E N H A M.

There is cut on the Burtons' seat in the church, which was built by these two, the paternal coat of

BUXTON,

Quartering or, two bucks lodged gul. and is the rebus for the name of Buxton, as I have seen for the name of the town of Buxton in Norfolk, whence this family took their sirname ; and indeed, Bux- ton signifies the bucks town, lodgement, or habitation,

Impaled with Warner as before.

Buxton impaled with Herne, az. three herns or. Buxton and

Kemp impaled. Buxton impaling gul. three bucks heads ca-

boshed arg.

Buxton impaling Pert, arg. abend gul. between two mascles

or. On a coat of pretence az. a maunch gul.

On another brass plate,

"Johannes be 2?iirton, cr huiu.tf^mbra ^ccuti, annfggiK Status octaginta ct quatuor., pit, bcatcque transact^, per ron.stanrem in ChriiSto £ioem, in Olon^ortium Clectorum migrator 5° ©ic flpnlig in Bttgiiia $agcbe 3nno ©ni. 157^. <!?t 3° 14 €fi?. tfeginc, <]\ii in^tante noto^'imo ^ut tran^itugi puncto, n^irabili JDatientia in iarulum |Korti£ proneOitujS, flli.s'u, auc'tu, jjictnorta, ^ntcltettu tt &ermone gauoiTijS, inga ab bencrem ucrumque iTci Cultum saint eriter apphcuir. £m <©mmporcnti 1 to patri, £iho, ct &pintut ^ancr?, nb banc ^uam ingentem in lp.s'um ct s'ibi rons'irnilc? niipe* recorD'arum <Ct'pan^am, £it potior, «5Ioria, ct %au$, nunc ct in ^cctila &ernIorum. amen. Buxton with his crest of a buck's head cooped, impaling Pert.

Joaannes Buxton de Channonz apud Tubenham Armiger, Charitate plenus, Claritate refulgens, obijt 29° Die Mensis Aprilis, A0 Dni. ldOO, .rEtatis sua; 51, cujus Reliquias sub hoc marmore requiescunt. Exemplar Virtutis, et Pietatis insigne ; M/.rga- reta Uxor, Filia Gulielmi Pert de Montnessiny Comitatu

* Note, thi? and the preceding inscrip. yet are for the same man. tion, though they are on two brass plates,

TIBENHAM. o77

Essex' Armigeri, una ex Heredibus Thome Conyers de East Bar- nett Comitatu Hartford?. Armigeri, Filios Robtrtum, Johannem, Conyers, (improvise* ereptum) GuUelmum, Henrkum ,• Filiasq ; tres, Isabellam, Margaretam, (in Infantia Mortuam enixa) Hie juxta posita, obijt li9 Die Mensis Maij A° Dni. 1 687, aet. suae curren' 76. In Pietatis Memoriam debitaeque observantias Tes- timonium, Johannes Filius, Flens, Majrensque, posuit. Dec* Gloria.

There is a stone for Benjamin, third son of William Buxton, who died 16 April 1681. And another headstone by the chancel door, for Mary wife of Francis Buxton Gent, and Mary his wife, who died Jan. 29 1723, set. 22. And Hannah their daughter.

Thomas Talbot Armiger,* Juris consultus,3 Justiciarius, Vir Deo Devotus, omnibus bonis charus, Amicus fulissimus, na- talibus virtutibus, Dignitatibus inclytus, Mortem patiendo Cor- poralem Victor abibat in Vitam eternam, per Domitium nostrum Jesum Christum, cui omnis Laus, Gloria, Honor, &c. in secula seculorum. Amen.

Here was a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Ma/^. standing by itself in the churchyard, at the east end of the chancel, the ruins of which may still be seen. William Lynster, alias Bocher, by his will proved May 7, 1493, ordered his body to be buried in the chapel of the blessed Virgin Mary at Tibenham ; he gave a messuage and lands to the parish church of All-Saints here, ordering the church-wardens to apply the neat profit to repair and adorn the church for ever : he gave also, nine acres of freehold, lying at Mil-hill and Rozce-Bushes, for the constables to receive the rent, and with the neat yearly profit thereof, to pay the King'sjifttenths for the poorer sort of people ; and when there are no fifteenths, then the church-wardens are to receive it, and repair and beautify the church with it. His house and land, which he bought of IVillium IVothorpe, if the brothers and sisters of the gilds of St. Thomas and St. Mary will buy them, they to have them 10/. cheaper than any one else, and their own time of payment; if they settle it on a priest to pray for the brethren and sisters of the gilds. (Reg. Hurning, fo. 136.)

There were three gilds here, the brethren and sisters of which, had one common gild-hall,4 since turned into a school-house ; viz. the gild of All-Saints,he\d in the nave of the church ; that of St. Thomas the Martyr, held in St. Nicholas's chapel at the east e.id of the south isle; and that of the Virgin Mary, held in her chapel in the church- yard. These gilds had divers lands here, which at their dissolution were seized by the Crown, where they continued till 1609, and then King James i. granted them to John Eldred, Esq ; and Joan Verdon, gentlewoman, and their heirs. The furniture of the gild-hall re-

1 See vol. ii. p. 503. carius Wymonilhamiensis.

3 E Registro Wymondhamiensi. Se- * 1584, Queen Khz. at the humble pe-

pulturas auteni, quod terrenum in illo tition of Henry Lord vVentworth.grant-

fuit, traditur, in ecclesia parochiali de ed to Theophilus ^\dams and Thomas

Tibenham, in certam spem futurae re- Butler ot London, Gent, two acres of

surrect 0111s, huius memoriae nunquam land late belonging to St. Faith's, and a

moriturx pauculas hasce lineas crassiore house called the gili-kall in Tibenham.. filo contextas. D. D. Josua Meen vi.

278 T I B E N H A M.

mained till 1650, when the hall was ruined ; for then the officers sold 30/6. of pewter, 92/6. of lead, four spits that weighed 1 69/6. a metal pot that weighed 44/6. two pots of brass of 89/6. and a brass pan of 9/6. A plain proof of the jolly doings at these gilds! But, as the poor of the parish always were partakers with them, I much question whether their revenues were not better spent then, than they have been, since they were rapaciously seized from the parishes, to which they of right be- longed.

In 1652, the town lands to beautify and repair the church, were let at above 28/. per annum.

In 1506, John Blomejield of Norwich, Gent, bequeathed to the paving of St. Nicholas's chapel in Tibenham church, a thousand paving tiles, or money to the value. (Regr. Rix, fo. 449.)

VICARS OF TIBENHAM,

PRESENTED BY THE PRIORS OF HORSHAM ST. FAITH ; OR THE KING, WHEN HE SEIZED THAT PRIORY INTO HIS HANDS, AS BEING AN ALIEN.

1310, Robert de Hegham, res.

1345, John Gerard of Bukenham-Castle.'

1351, Ralf Randes,

1380, Robert de Kirkeby,

1386, John Hervy ; in 1389, he changed for Bradfield mediety, TV'ith

Ralfat Heythe of Gimton, who in 1393, changed for Atdham? with

John atte Stretesende of Pakenham, who the same year, changed for Mi/end by Colchester, with

Simon de Lakenham of Berton.

1395, Will. Joye of Car/eton Rode, who in 1408, changed for Shadenjield with

Robert Samborn, who was succeeded by

John C/ia/oner, who resigned in

1431 to Thomas Tasman.

1476, Thomas Cowell, who was succeeded by

Simon Driver, licenciate in the decrees, on whose resignation in

1484, Nic. Williams had it; at whose death in

1503, John Avelyn was instituted : he lies buried here, with this on a brass plate preserved by Mr. Weever, fo. 814 :

<©ratc pro annua ^.ohannis illiclun quonoam ^Uic< am i?tiu£ <i3cclc?'ic qui obut rrrjiu Die ©cccmbn.3 3°. 3Jlccccc M° cuius* amine propicictur oeus' amen.

In 1505, Jacob Glover succeeded him, and is buried here; the afore- said author hath preserved his inscription also :

<©rate pro anima gjacobi «Otorjcr, quondam laicarii l.s'tiujS €u cics'ie, cuiu£ anum propicictur Deu£. amen. He died in 1525, for then

5 This and the former vicar are sup- others, to Norton-Subcross chantry ; but posed to be buried in the churchyard they having no other right in it, only a under the two old atones with crosses on grant from the King, as part of the pos- them, which remain at this day. sessions of an alien priory ; when that

6 In 1393, the advowson of Tibenham was made a denizon, the grant ceased, was aliened by Miles Stapleton and

TIBENHAM. 279

Peter Paine succeeded him, at whose deatli in 153.5, George Plate was the last presented by the Prior of Horsham. In 1554, Plate being deprived, and a pension assigned him, Sir Ric. Southwell, Knt. by lease from the Crown, of the impropriation and advowson of the vicarage, gave it to Peter Walker; and in 1558, to John Seaman, who held it with Flordon. (See p. 73.) 1590, Anthony Loeke, A. M. the Queen.7 He was buried Oct. 1641, and Elizabeth his wife, remarried to Robert Green, Gent, and died in 1673. ,

On his stone are Lock s arms, and crest of an eagle volant or. 1641, Abel Hodges, who held it united to Thaiston. 1720, Will. Herring, LL. B. united to Intwood, at whose resigna-

The Rev. Mr. PAiZip Carver, the present vicar, had it of the gift of the Bishop of Ely, and holds it united to Besthorp, as at vol. i. p. 492.

In 1227, it was a rectory, for Ric. le Chaum then granted two parts of the advowson, to Augustine, Prior of St. Faith at Horsham, who had the other third part before, in right of their lands here;8 and the church was appropriated and confirmed to them by John of Oxford Bishop of Norwich, according to an agreement made in the time of William his predecessor, saving a sufficient maintenance to the vicar: And in 14G8, the prior was taxed for his spiritualities at 23 marks, and his temporals paid l°d. to each tenth. At the Dissolution, their tem- porals as well as spirituals, vested in the Crown, and in 1610, were granted by James 1. to George Salter and John Williams, by the name of the revenues and lands late of St. Faith's Priori/; viz. the tenement called the Priory-house, and yard, and 32 acres of land; and a tene- ment and 11 acres of land called Annables ; and the tithe wood and hay,9 of the rectory of Tibenham aforesaid, late in the tenure of Tho- mas Baker, and now in the tenure of Nie. Heme, Esq. of the yearly value of 44*. .

As the impropriation consists of all the great, so doth the vicarage or all the small, tithes, except the tithe wood and hay aforesaid.' It now stands in the King's Books at ll. 6s. Sd. When Domesday was made,

7 Dna Regina habet presentationem s I find id. an acre is now paid to

vicarie de Tibenham, rectoria est in Francis Heme, Esq ; for every acre

manu Rici Southwell, militis pro ter- mowed in the parish, as a modus for the

mino annorum futurorum, pro redditu tithe hay.

8/ i« 6^ They were after granted by ' In the Deposition Book, marked

Queen Eliz. in exchange to the bishop- A', fo. 120, .63, there are depositions

rick of Ely ; and ever since, the Bishop concerning the tithe wool and lamb of

of Ely hath been patron of the vicarage, 15 hears, every one ot which, havejo,

and leases out the impropriation. In some 100 sheep goin? upon Tibenham

1605 he returned 210 communicants and Banham common, winch they hire

here.'that he was also rector of Swaines- of the lord of Banham. Some depose,

thoro, (seep. 63.) that the Bishop of that heretofore the vicar had two parts,

Ely was patron of the vicarage, and had and the rector of Banham the third, of

the impropriate rectory, which had for- the tithe wool ; afterwards the vicar of

merly been endowed with part of the Tibenham took the whole tithe, and

vicarage, viz. the tithe hay. paid by composition, izd. to the rector

8 In 12S5, Rouland Targ sold a mes- of Banham.

suage, two acres, and a mill here, to the (Tanner, vol. 1. to. 550. mss.; convent.

280 TIBENHAM.

the vicar had a house and half an acre of land, and the vicarage was valued at rive, and after at six marks, but was not taxed ; it paid 3s. 8d. synodals and procurations, 1'id. Peter-pence, and Id. ob. carvage ; and the village paid 4t. 1.5s. 1 Id. clear to every tenth. The Prior of I Vest- acre was taxed at bl. 13s. 5d. for his ttmporah here. The Prior of Castle- Acre at half a mark for his spirituals, which were two parts out of three, of the tithes of the demean lands of the manors of Robert de Jiusevile here, which the said Robert confirmed to the monastery, as his ancestors had formerly granted them.1 The portion of the mo- nastery of Sees (in Mend ham) was 6s. The portion of the Prior of St. O/ave in spirituals (being taxed at half a mark) was for two parts of the tithes of their demeans here, valued at two marks: and the por- tion of the Abbot of St. Bennet in the Holm was one mark, and was for two parts of the tithes of his demeans here. The Prior of Buken- ham had temporals also in this parish taxed at 15s. And it is said, there was a chapel at Tibenham Old-hall, which belonged to, and was served by, the canons of that house ; but I have not met with any cer- tain account of it.

TIBENHAM-HALL,

alias Orrebys, Tatersales, 8cc. cum Carleton, &c.

(For it hath gone by the several names of its owners,) is the capital manor, and belonged to Aleic, a thane of King Edward the Confes- sor, and had then three carucates of land belonging to it, two in de- mean, and one in the tenants hands; who had liberty to sell their lands, if they first offered them to sale to their lord, and he refused them. The King and Earl had then the lete, and all superiour jurisdic- tion:3 and at the Conqueror's survey, it was owned by Eudo son of Spiruivin* the founder of the Tateshale family; in which it continued, till it was joined to Bukenham-cast/e, and passed exactly as that castle did,5 through the Tateshales, Orrebys, Cliftons, Knevets, &c. till it was sold by the Harveys, to Mr. Shaw of Besthorp,6 whose daughter and heiress married to the Lord Biron, who now owns it.

In 1257, Sir Rob. de Tateshale had a charter for free-zcarren in this manor, from K Hen. III. which was afterwards confirmed to Con- stantiue de Clifton, his heir, by King Ric. II. in 1274, assise of bread and ale over ail his tenants in Tibenham and Carleton, was allowed him by Edw. I. In 1285, all these privileges were allowed in eire, with zceyf, and a timberel.

In 1272, it was found that this manor was held in capite of the King by barony, of which John de Ingham held a fee in Ingham and Wor- sted, and Margery de Creik half a fee in Westhorp, and another half fee in Hillington. He also held Shelly manor in Suffolk, of this ba- rony of Tibenham.

1 Regr. Castle-Acre, fo. 57. et ix. capr. et xxvi. hom. soca falde et

3 Terra Eudonis filij Spiruzoin. commendat. et possent vendere terram,

Doms. fo. 247. Depwada. H. Tiben- si prius eani obtulissent domino suo. Rex

ham tcnuit Aluricui teinnus. T. R. E. et Comes socam, et habent I. acr. tunc

iii. car. lerre, semper ii. villani, et xxi. iv. car. modo ii. et i. acr. prati.

bordarij, tunc iv berv. modo ii. semper + See p. 118. This manor extends

ii car. in dom. tunc vi car. Hominum into Carleton Rode.

m° i et xii. acr. prati, silva xii. pure. 5 For which see vol. i. p. 372 to 385.

tunc i. mol. modo xl. pore, et xvii. ov. ° Ibid. p. 499, 300.

TIB EN HAM. 281

In l649> Philip Knevet, Baronet, had it valued, and the free quit- rents, &c. were 20/. site of the hall, Sec. 93/. 15s. per annum. The hall stands a quarter of a mile north-west of the church.

ABBOT'S MANOR,

Was given before the Conquest by Lefwald, a Saxon, to the abbey of St. Bennet at the Holm in Norfolk ; and at the Conquest was worth 25s. a year.7 In 1218, the abbot, by fine in the King's court, conveyed to Osbert de Dagworth, a messuage and 140 acres of land, and divers rents in Tibenham; and in 1249, Adam Fitzwalter released to the Abbot of Holm, a messuage and carucate of land in Tibenham for ever ; and in 1326, Roland, then parson of East-Bradenham, gave to the abbot 13 acres of land and 20 acres of wood, parcel of the manor of Tiben- ham, and then the rents of assise were 22s. 4rf. ob. a year ; and there was a manor-house, and 136 acres of arable land worth 3d, an acre; two acres of meadow worth 2s. and 20 acres of wood ; for all which temporals, the abbot was taxed in 1428, at 4/. 7s. 4rf. ob. The whole revenues went with the abbey of Holm, to the Bishop of Norwich, whose lessee now hath it, and is valued as at p. 540, vol. iv.

DAG WORTH'S MANOR

Was part of the Abbot's manor granted as above, to Osbert de Dag- tcorth, who recovered it in the King's court against the abbot, by proving that his father, and Osbert son of Herri de Dagworth, his grand-father, was seized thereof by grant of Abbot Thomas; and then the said Osbert gave it to the monastery of St. O/ave's at Herringfleet in Suffolk; and the prior of that house paid 7s. Id. tax for it in 1428. In 1392, Ric. II. licensed Rog. Rogers to grant 50 acres of land here, to Herringfleet convent. At the Dissolution, this manor of Tibenham was given by King Hen. VIII. to Henry Jerningham, and it after came to the Lord Burgavenny.

THE MANOR OF TIBENHAM, HASTYNGS, or LONGROWE,

Belonged to the Abbot of St. Edmund's Bury, and was held of him by Ricuardf being raised from 40, to 60s. value. At the Conqueror's survey, the village was a league and an half long, and one league broad, and paid 18d. geld or tax ;9 and it passed as Hastyngs's manor in

7 Terra Sci. Benedicti de Holmo the time of Edward the Confessor, and ad victum monacorum. Doms. fo. 202. William the Conqueror

Depwade H. Tibham tenet Scs. Be- 9 Terra Abbatis de Sancto Eadmundo.

nedictus i car. terre, et dim. et xv acr. Doms. fo. 183, Depwade H. semper iv villan. v bord. et i car. in do- Tibham tenuit Sanctus Edmundus

minv, tunc i car. et dim, hominum ni° i T.R.E. pro ii car. terre, et Ix acr. mo-

et iii acr. prati, silva x pore, vi porr. do tenet Ricuardus semper v villani et

val. xxv sol. ix boidar. et i serv. et ii car. in dom.

8 Regr. Pinchbek, fo. 160, savs, one et i car. hominum v acr. prati vi anim. Richard, who likewise held Midleton, xl. capr. tunc valuit xl s. modo Ix. et held two carucates of land here, and six habet i leug. et dim. in longo, et i leug. villeins and nine bordars, and was in- in lato, et xviii d. de gelto.

feoftid by Abbot Baldwyn, who lived in

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Gissing, which see at vol. i. p. 168, Sec." In 1272, John de Hastings, senior, held it of the Abbot of Bury, by the service of half a fee, and 2s. Id. per annum rent, for castle-guard to Norwich castle. In 1374, Jo/in Hastings Earl of Pembrook died seized of Tibenham-Rowes and B'infarthing, of which manor it was held, and constantly attended it, as at p. 187,8, vol. i. &c. for some time. In 1401, Will. Beauchamp had it; and in 1445, Joan, widow of Will. Beauchamp, Knt. Lord of Bergavenny, died seized thereof, having held it in dower of the inheri- tance of Elizabeth her grandaughter; wife of Sir Edward Nevi/e, Knt. Lord Abergavenny, as parcel of the inheritance of Hastyngs Earl of Pembrook. In 1475, Edward Nevi/e Lord Bergavenny died seized; and in 1570, it was in the hands of the Lord Bergavenny.

CHANNONS,orCHANEUX'S manor,

Was so called from the Chauns or Chains, the ancient lords thereof. In the Conqueror's time it was parcel of Fomcet manor, and belonged to Roger Bigot, as at p. 187, 214, &c. and in 1198, it was Adam Fitz-Robert's afterwards the Fitz-B alters,1 of whom Henry de Crostweijt held it at one fee. In 1200, Ralfde Chaum, Cham, or Caam, held it at one fee ; in 1227, Ric.le Cham, who sold two parts of the ad vow- son, as before mentioned. In 130.", it was found that William de Mor- bun and John le fVa/es or JVa/tis, had the manor late Tho. de C/iauu's, which then contained 30 messuages, four carucates of land, two acres of meadow, 20 acres of pasture, 80 acres of wood, a windmill, and 60s. per annum rent, in Tibenham, Aslacton, Million, and the towns adja- cent. In 1312, the heirs of Robert de Chaum had it, and William de Morburne, parson of Suffield, settled it on Tho. Bacun of Baconesthorp, and Elizabeth his wife, it being then held by Elizabeth, widow of Wil- liam de Colney, for life, remainder to Eliz. wife of Tho, Bacun, and her heirs. In 1319 Roger son of Tho. Bacon of Baconesthorp, settled it on Godfry de Rokele and Eliz. his wile for their lives, with remainder to his right heirs ; and in 1334, it was settled after the death of Eliz. widow of Will, de Coiner/, by Roger de Bacon, on Thomas Bacon, his son, and Joan his wife, in tail; in 1401, John Bacon had it, who died at Baconesthorp in 14t)'0, being son of Sir Roger Bacon, Knt. In 1426, John Bacon of Lodne, Esq. son of the said John Bacon, on his mar- riage with Margaret daughter of Robert Banyard of Spectisha/e in Suffolk, if he survived his father, had the united manors of Hack- foi;d, Chaun's oiChaneux, and V\ esthall in Tibenham, settled on them and their heirs; and he inherited them; and dying in 140'2, gave them to his wife Margaret for life, with view of frankpledge, &c. belonging to them. In 1477, John Bacon of Baconesthorp, Esq ; •was lord of Chaneur, Westhall, and Hackford, alias Tibenham- Bacons : It descended to the coheirs of Thomas Bacon, and the last of that fa- mily, Anne, married to Robert Garnish of Kenton in Suffolk; and Elizabeth, to Sir John Glemham, Knt. who inherited the whole, by re- lease from Anne and Rob. Garnish; and in 1513, John Glemham, Esq. and Eliz. his wife, settled them in tru>t, on Charles Brandon Viscount L'isle, Sir Rob. Brandon, Knt. Chris. W'illoughbtj, Esq. Ilumfry Wingfield, Esq. and Chris. Jeuney, Esq. with the manors of

* Note, it went with Gissing-Hastings Winfarthing manor. See vol. ii. p. 352. till zsi> and from that time attended 1 See vol. Up, 4, 5.

T I B E N H A M. 283

Vver-Petistre, Chesteyn, Ketleburgh, Fornham, and TwutaU, in Suf- folk; with 20 messuages, &c. in Great and Little-Glemliam, &c. 30 messuages, 1800 acres of land, and 12/. rent in Tibenham and Old-Bu- ktnham. In 1537, Sir John Glemham, Knt. died seized, and left Christopher his son and heir 26 years old ; he died 18 Oct. 1549, and left them all to Tito. Glemham, Esq. his son and heir, who was also cousin and heir to Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk. After this I find, Christiana Glemham had these manors of Citations, Westhnll, Hackford, and Seckford in Tibenham, and paid for Ward to Norwich castle every 30 weeks, 2s. Ad. and before the year 15G7, 1 find them in the hands of

Robert Buxton, Gent, who died seized of them, and North or Great Glemham manor in Suffolk, June 5, 1621, leaving, Robert his son and heir, 19 years old : this Robert, was grandson lo~Robert Bux- ton who was buried in the church of Tibenham in 1528, being son of John, Buxton, Gent, by Margaret Warner his wife, who was buried here in 1572. In 1655, John Buxton of Citations was lord, and was buried here in 1660, leaving by Margaret Pert his wife, one of the heiresses of Thomas Confers of East-Bamet in Hertfordshire, Esq. four sons, Robert, John, William, and Henry, and Isabell, who married to Mr. Acton of Br am ford in Suffolk; and E/iz. to Mr. Thruston of Hoxne ; John Buxton, the second son, lived at St. Mar- garet's in Suffolk, and by his wife, who was heiress to Mr. Proctor of Burston, he had three sons, Robert, John, and Thomas, who was educated at Cambridge. (See vol. i. p. 158.)

William, the third son, married Bridget, daughter of Robert Jer- my of Buy field, Esq. and had John Buxton, who died at Dereham, in 1699; and Hill. Buxton.

Henry Buxton, the fourth son, was unmarried in 1699.

Robert Buxton of Citations, the eldest son, married Hannah daughter of Robert Wilton, Esq. of Topcroft and Wilby, (see p. 364, 5, vol. i.) and was buried at Tibenham; John Buxton, his eldest son, dying unmarried at Orleans in France, where he was buried,

Robert Buxton, his second son, succeeded him, and married E/iz.' daughter of Leonard Gooch of Ears/tarn in Norfolk ; he was buried at Rushford in I69I, and E/iz. Buxton was buried by him in 1730. (See vol i. p. 295.) His brother Charles was A. B. and fellow of Clare-hall in Cambridge, and died in 1682, and was buried in St. Edward's church there, being 22 years old. Margaret his sister married to Henry Kid- ditigton of Hockham, as at p. 367, vol. i. and Hannah her sister was then unmarried.

John Buxton, son of Robert Buxton and Eliz. Gooch, succeeded, and was buried at Rushworth in 1731, as at p. 295, vol. i. leaving these manors to Anne his wife, who is now owner of them for life, and

Robert Buxton, Esq. his son, who is now unmarried, is heir.

In 1570, Knevet and Buxton, in right of their manors here, were chief lords of the commons. In 1 742, the total of the quitrents of the manors of Citations, I Vest/tall, Hackford, and Seckford, were 7 1. 6s. 1 Id. ob. per annum. The site of the manor of Chanons is now called Chanons Hall, and is the seat of the Buxtons ; it stands about a mile south-east of the church, and is a good old regular building, moated in.

TIBENHAM.

THE MANORS OF WEST-HALL, HACKFORD, AND SECKFORD,

Called afterwards Bacon's manor, belonged to Roger Bigod's manor of Fomcet at the Conquest, as may be seen under Forncet at p. 223,4 ; and the several parts before their union belonged to different families; West-hall was held by Ric. de Hadesco, by the 4th part of a fee, in Ric. the First's time; and after that, was joined to Hack- ford's manor, which passed as Hackford's manor in West- Her ling, as you may see in vol. i. p. 300, and from thence to the Seckfurds, as at p. 301, and was by one of them sold to the Bacons, and joined to Chanons manor as before mentioned.

THE MANORS OF SKEYTON-HALL, alias WHITWELL'S and LAUNDE'S,

Are now joined to the manors of Bunwell, Carleton, and Tibenham cum membris, the members of it being these two manors, as at p. 128 and 140.

Skeyton-Hall manor, alias WhitweWs, took its name from Sir John de Skegeton, lord of it in Edward the First's time, as also of Skey- ton-hall in Skeyton, from which village he took his name In 1 J03, Ra/fde Skeyton was under age, and a ward of Sir Fulk Baynard, Knt. of whom this manor was held, and Richer de Whitwtll had it in Lgrjl:.

Launde's manor, in 1204, belonged to Richard Lemming of Tiben- ham, who forfeited it for rebelling against Hen. III. In 1278, Robert de Bukenham had it, and in 1283, Hill, de Cruce, de la Croyz, or at Cross, owned it. In 1287, -lohn de Tibenliam had assise of head and ale, and weyf, allowed him here. In 1478, John Heydon of Bac >ics- thorp, died seized, and from that time to this, they have passed as at p. 140, Hobert Buxton, Esq ; being now lord.

Alan Earl of Richmond's manor of Carleton3 extended hither; see p. 128.

For Tibenham commons see vol. i. p. 350, 51. Fox's Martyrs, fo. 2073, and Cole's Collections, vol. i p. 192, 4.

Tibenham vicarage is valued in the King's Books at 6l. I (is. 8d. and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 4b7. it pays no first-fruits nor tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

3 TerraALANi Comitis Doms. fo. 71. In 1632, Robert Heme was sued for

Depwade H. In Tibh am i liber homo not attending the suit of the court uf the

xxx acr. et i acr. prati. honour, and paying \d. per annum for

Vide Append. Regist, Honoris Rich* castle.ward, as usual, mond, fo. 16.

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MORINGTHORP,

Commonly called Mourning-Thorp, was known by the name of Thorp only in the Confessor's time; and to distinguish it from the many villages of that name, it began to be called Moring-thorp about the Conqueror's time, from the mere, mare, or more, it was situated by. It was given before the Confessor's survey, to the abbey of St. Ed- mund at Bury in Suffolk, by Thurketel, a Danish th ane or noble- man, along with the town of Castre by Nonoich;* and the abbot held it as a manor, having one carucate in demean, of 20s. a year value, to which belonged a church and 20 acres of glebe; but before the Con- queror's survey, the whole, (except the advowson, lete, and some small parcels which always attended the abbey to its dissolution) was infeoffed by Abbot Baldwin, in Robert de Vals5 or Faux, who held it of the abbey by knight's service; it was then risen to 30s. value, and the town was a mile long, and three furlongs broad, and paid Id. ob. q. to the geld or tax.

RECTORS OF MOURNING-THORP,

presented by the abbots or bury.

Richard. 1285, Peter de Shotesham. 1809, John of St. A /bans, res.

1320, John Bastard, priest, changed for Chigwell in London dio- cese. (See Newcourt.) 1331, Luke IValrod. 1349, Roger de Fla/esworth ; he resigned to

John Martyn, who in 1370, changed for Hoxne, with

Sir John Doget ; in J 370, he was succeeded by

Ric. Parlben; he resigned in 1402, to John Spenser of Bury, in exchange with Hemenhale, who in 1404, changed with Robert Bailly for Ileuham in London diocese; he resigned in

1408, to John Bette, who exchanged the same year with

Henry Turner for Beauchamp vicarage in the patronage and

* Regr. Alb. fo. 19. Thurketel manni xxx acr. semper i car. Ecclesie.

Theying, dedit Deo. Sco. Edo. et Bene- xii. acr. tunc valuit xx sol. modo xxx.

dicto de Hulmo in communi, Castre et et i liber homo de quo habuit abbas di-

Torp. Holm abbey released that part mid. commendat. T.R.E. de i car. terre

to the Abbot of Bury. quod tenet idem, et ix lib. horn, et dim.

5 Terra Abbatisde Sco. Eadmundo. sub se commend, tantum xxx acr. et i

i. Doms. fo. 183. vill. et i burd. tunc inter eos iii car. et

)RP, tenet Robertus de Vals, dim. m° iii. ii acr. prati. In Torf ii

quod tenuit S. Edmundus pro manerio lib. horn, et ii acr. et dim. car. tunc

et pro i car. terre, semper vii vill. et iii valuit xxx sol. m°. Hoc tenet idem Ro-

bord. et i serv. et i car. in dom. bertus. Torp liabet i leug. in longo,

et i car. hom.ii acr. prati et i rriol. et et iii quar. in lato. et i den. et iii ter-

ii anim. et iv pore, xvi oves, et iii soc- ding, de Gelto.

)<■;>■.'., To i

«86 MORING-THORP.

jurisdiction of the Dean of St. Paul's London, and he in 1409, changed for Hardwick, with

Robert Scherwynd, who resigned in 1431, to Will. Herdegrey.

1437, Will. Deye, ob.

1438, John Scherwynd, res. 1445, Will. Harriot, res.

1451, Edw. Woodrowe, res.

1452, Tho. Turner, res. 1454, Robert Steward, res. 1400, Robert Drayton, ob.

1465, Sir Giles Tilney, chaplain, res.

1470, Nic. Denton.

1482, Master James' Manners, lapse.

I486, Mr. Will. Pooley, bachelor in the decrees, res.

1492, Will. Lister, alias Haule, priest, canon, ob.

1524, John Peuwyn, or Pennenn, A. B. ob. ; he was succeeded in

1530, by Sir John Blomefield, chaplain, who was presented by Sir John Shelton, Knt. John Garnish, and John Dade, Gents, by grant of the turn from the Abbot.

At the Dissolution the advowson vested in the Crown, and still remains there.

RECTORS

PRESENTED BY THE CROWN.

1543, Sir Robert Gainsborow, chaplain, on Blomefield's resignation.

1551, Henry Glyre.

1554, John Lougworth, united to Brasworth in Suffolk.

1574, Herbert Alman.

1585, John Bennet ; he returned 58 communicants in this parish.

1619, Will. Bennet, A. M. who was succeeded by

Chris. Hat ley, A. M. for whom see Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, Part II. fo. 271 ; at his cession in

1679, Andrew Hatleu, A. M. succeeded.

168 1, John Starkey, A. M.

1692, Will. Smith, on whose resignation in

1708,6 William Stevenson, A. M. had it, and held it united to Tase- burgh, and at his resignation in

1723, The Rev. Mr. Thomas Hoicse, the present rector, had it, and now holds it with the rectory oi'Thorndou in Suffolk.

The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, who had a gild kept in it to his honour. The rector had a house and 9 acres of glebe, when Norwich Domesday was made; it was valued at 1 1 marks, and the Prior of the Holy Trinity at Ipswich had a portion of tithes valued at 32s. per annum ; it paid 6s. 8d. archdeacon's procurations, Qd. syno- dals, 7d. ob. Peter-pence, and 3d. carvage; and the village paid clear to every tenth, \l. 13s. It now stands in the King's Books by the name of Morningthorp red. valued at ll. but being sworn of the

6 In 1722, he published a translation cerning Eloquence, by the late Arch- from the French, of the Dialogues con- bishop of Cambray.

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clear yearly value of 45/. it is discharged ofjirst-fruits an&tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

The temporals belonging to Bury abbey here, were assigned to the use of the sacrist of that monastery, and were taxed at 4s. 6d. The Prior of Dunmowe in Essex, had a mill, lands, and rents, of 35s. Q.d. per annum. The temporals of the Prior of Norwich, were taxed at 5s. 1 Id.7 and those of the Prior of tVimondhum abbey, at Id.

There is a pension of 18s. a year, paid by the rector, to the rector of Stratton St.Michael;* and in 1612, I find another pension of6s. 8d. per annum was paid out of this rectory, to the rectory of Stratton St. Miles.

The steeple is round, the church is leaded, and the chancel tiled. There is an altar monument in the south part of the churchyard, for John Roope, Gent, of this parish, who died Febr. 1 1, 16S6, aged 77, Roope, gul. a lion rampant within an orle of eight pheons arg.

In the church, there are memorials for the following persons,

Hammond, or, on a chevron sab. three martlets of the field," impaling quarterly.

Hie infra jacet depositum mortale Francisci Hajiond Gene- rosi, Viri qui ob pietatem Deo chains, ob Prudentiam Reipublica; utilis, ob gravitatem morum, omnibus venerabilis, maximum vixit hujus Comitatus Ornamentum, et maximum est ejusdem jam de- functum desiclerium, nascebatnr 7"p die Decemb. 1687,

In the steeple window are two shields,

Arg. three bars sab. in chief three annulets or. Gul. three bugle horns sab. stringed or.

On a black marble in the chancel, Roope impaling harry often on a canton a helmet. It being in memory of John Roope, junior, Gent. June 30, 1685. Eliz. Roope, wife of John Roope, Gent, died Nov. 15, 1680.

Hodie mihi, Cras tibi.

Martha Daughter of Will. Smith A. M. Rector of this Parish, and Mary his Wife, died Aug. 8, 1699, aged 7 Months:

There is a brass for John Garnish 19 March, 1626.

A black marble hath this inscription, and two shields:

1, Garnish impaling Rudge or Rugge, a saltier erm. between four eagles.

2, Ditto impaling So AME,g«/, a chevron between three mallets or.

Here resteth the Body of John Garneys of Borland- Hall Esq; who departed this Life Dec. 15, l66l, in Expectation of a joyfull Resurrection, as also the Body of Charles Garneys of

7 In i437> John Stourton and others suage and 20 acres of land in Moring- were pardoned for purchasing without thorp, license, of the Dean of Welles, a mes- 8 See p. 201.

2S8 MORING-THORP.

Boyland-Hall Esq; (Father of the said John Garneys) and some Time High-Sheriff' of this County, who departed this Life Jan. 30, 1657, in the 8yth year of his Age.

Mrs. June Garneys eldest Dr. of John Garneys Esq; died 29 March l6b"8.

Eliz. eldest Dr. of John Garneys Esq; by the last Wife, died March 13, 1675.

Charles Garneys Son of Clere Garneys of Kenton in Suffolk, died June 25, 1678.

He learn'd to die, while he had Breath, And so he lives ev'n after Death. Garneys. impales Richmond.

P. M. S.

Heicjuxta situm est pium Depositum Anns: Garneys Uxoris Wentworthi Garneys de Boyland-Hall in hac Parochia Filiaeq; Dni: Caroli Gawdij Equitis Aurati de CrowshaU in Coini- talu Suffolciie, denata est Mensis 7bris die Septiino, A. D. 1681.

Garneys and Gawdy impaled.

Ma ry only Dr. of Charles Garneys Gent, and Ma ry his Wife, buried June 12, 1684.

Susan Dr. of Charles Garneys Gent. Jul. 1, 1685.

On an altar monument in the chancel,

Hie conditur mitis et bcatae Animse Domicilium Marthje Raworth Johannis Garneys de Boyland-Hall in Comitatu Norfolcia Armigeri, Filia;; Roberti Raworth, Mercatoris Londiiiensis conjugis dilectissimae; quae cum Deo unice servierat Parentibus morigera, et maiito (Quern tribus Filijs Henrico, Ro- berto, et Johanne, Filiaque Elizabetha beavit, prater Annum, in ipsa fnfantia ereptam, Totterigia in Agio Hertfordienm Sepultam) rarum Pudicitia?, morumq; suavitatis Exemplar, omnibus Bonis benigna, et amabilis mariti dum vixit delieia;, nunc Dolor, seculi immortalis cupida, et Ccelo matura, diutino Languore detrita, Animam Deo Authori, et quicquid hie charum tuit illius Tutelaj commendavit et plaeide in Christo obdormivit, 22° die Augu&ti 1694. Annoq; aet. 36° B a worth, on a fess dancette between six cross croslets fitche'

three anchors, impaling Garnish.

Nine coats quartered: 1, Garnish. 2, Ramsey. 3, Wellyt-

ham. 4, Kenton. 5, Fraunce. 6, Denston. 7, Waunton.

8, Toppesfied. 9, Churciie.

Garnish with a crescent impales Berney. Ditto impaling

Tirrel. Ditto impaling on a chevron rive martlets.

On a white mural marble monument, with the arms of Gostlin and Garnish, on a coat of pretence;

To the Memory of Dame Mary Gostlin, Dr. of John Garnish of Boyland-Hall in the County of Norfolk Esq; Sister and

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Coheir of Wentworth Garneys Esq; who died Jan. 23,1 723, in the 6{/h Year of her Age ; she left Issue, one Son Charles, and one Dr. who married Sir Hew. Bendish of Steeple-Bumpstede in the County of Essex. Also near this Place, licth the Body of her Husband Sir William Gostlin Knt. who was Alderman and Sheriff of the City of London.

Against the north chancel wall is a mural monument with this

John Howse Esq; died 1737. He was a pious Man, and the World the better for him. Howse, arg. a chevron between three griffins heads cooped sab. quartering, arg. a lion rampant gul. in an orle of pheons sab. im- paling Keddington.

Howse's crest is a demi-griffin issuing from a crown proper.

John Howse, Esq. hath a seat in this town; he married Barbara Sidnor, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Sidnor, rector of Hempstede cum Eccles, and vicar of Hunningham, who was descended from a bro- ther of Richard Scdenore's alias Sydnore, Archdeacon of Totnes in Devonshire, who in 1519, had a grant of the following arms from Thomas Wriotsley, Garter, and Thomas Bevo/t, Clarencieux, viz.

Arg. a fess unde az. between three de-lises placed upon three

crescents sab. in a bordure ingrailed gul.

In 1429, John Howes, Esq. did homage to Bury abbot, for hi* estates in Ashfield in Suffolk. (Regr. Curteys, fo. 51.)

There is a mural monument against the south chancel wall, for

John Warmoll Gent, of this Parish, Jan. 4, 1 729, 45. He was an excellent Husband, Father, Neighbour, Friend; he lived be- loved and esteemed, and died lamented by all who knew him. Eliz. Warmoll Senior, Dec. 22, 1721, 63. Eliz. Warmoll Junior, Nov. 20, 1723, 14. Mary Warmoll May 24, 1728, 21.

An altar tomb on the same side of the chancel, hath the arms of John lioope, Gent, who died Febr. 1 1, 1686, 77.

There is a town-house, and 20 yards of land in length, and 14 yards in breadth held of Moringthorp, or Thorp-hall manor; and a messuage and 13 acres and an half of lar/d, of which, three acres and an half lie in Shelton-Field, and the rest in this parish, the clear yearly profits of which are to be laid out about the repairs and ornaments of Moringthorp church.

The honour of Richmond extends hither, and did so at the Con- quest, for Alan Earl of Richmond had a freeman, and other services here, valued at 4s. per annum.9

9 Terre Alani Comitis. Depwade xxxiii. acr. et vii. bord. et i. car. et ii. Hund. fo. 71. Doms. acr. prati, et val. iv. sol.

In MoRiNGA-Thorp, i. liber homo

Pp

290 MORING-THORP.

MORINGTHORP, or THORP-HALL MANOR,

Passed in the Vauxes, who held it of the Abbot of Bury at one fee ; the Abbot always being superiour lord, held a lete, which at the Disso- lution vested in the Crown, and was granted to the Sheltons, and added to the manor, which, as I read in the Register of the Sacrist of Bury abbey (fo. 49,) was settled by fine levied in 1 186, on Henry son of Joceline, who had it of the Vauxes by the Abbot's consent ; and in 1198, Henry settled it on Wido son of Roger, and nephew of Robert de Shimpling, in which family it continued long, all of them releasing to the Abbots all right in the advowson ; Soman the priest being then rector; in 1202, this Wido, Guido, or Guy, had assumed the sirname of Thorp,1 from this his manor. In 1274, the heir of Roger de Shimp- ling had it, and was in the custody of Richard de Boyland, and had assise of bread and ale, and free-warren allowed to the manor. In 1286, William de Schimpling had view of frankpledge of all his tenants in Moringthorp, to be held in the presence of the bailiff of the hundred, paying the King by him 12d. a year, and also assise of bread and ale, and zceyf; and in 1287, he held it at one fee, of John de Vallibus or Vaux of Thar st on, which, at his death was assigned to Petronel his daughter and coheir, wife of William de Ros, and they held it of the Abbot of Bury. In 1363, Isabel Shimpling held the third part in dower, and conveyed it to John de Esthall, on condition to many her,1 but he not performing his promise, she was forced to sue for her lands again; and in an action brought in 1401, it appeared, that Roger Shimpling died seized of this, and Shimpling and left three daughters and heiresses; Isabel, married to John Kittling, Katerine, to Will. Elingham;1 and Joan, to whom this manor was alloted inl412.

And soon after, it was purchased by the Sheltons,4 and continued in that family, till SuRalf Shelton, Knt. sold it to the Gameyses of

* This family, though the manor went tas, scilicet, in recusando ipsam maritare, to the Shimplings, continued here, and ac in feofandum alios, de diversis par- had a good estate. In 1274, Walter de cellis terrarum, ac eciain in retinendo Meringthorp and his father had free- reliquas penes se renuendo ipsam de warren to their estate here. In 1285. premisMS refeoffare, ad dampmim pre- John son of Warine of Meringthorp, chctr lsabelle, si ipsa terras et tenementa and Ralf his brother, and Agnes his predicta vehabere potent triginta libra- sister, had estates here and in Stratton. rum. Et si eadem Isabella terras et

% Placita Termino Trinitatis Anno tenementa predicta rehabere non potent,

xxxviij. Edr. III. coram Rege in Banco, tunc assidentur dampna ipsius Isabella;

Juratores dicunt in placito falsitatis et ad septuaginta libras; etquia eadem Isa-

deceptionis, per billam; quod Isabella bella jus habet in posterum et accionem

Shimpling dedit Johanni de Est/ialt terciam petendi tenementa predicta vel ea intran-

partem manerij de Moring-Thorp, di,ad voluntatem suam.consideratum est,

centum et quadraginta acras terre, prati quod prefata Isabella recuperabit versus

et pasture, in villa de Thelveton; mes- prefatum Johannem triginta libras tan-

suagium, centum etviginti acras terre in turn, et idem Johannes capietur, quos-

Hales juxta Lodne sub condicione ad que, &c.

ducendum ipsam in uxorem vel ad refeo- 3 His son, Roger Elingham, held it in-

fandum ipsam de terris predictis; et 1401. See tor the Shimplings and

quod predictus Johannes fecit prefate Elinghams, at vol. i. p. 257, 8.

Isabelle decepciones et falsitates predic- * See p. 164.

MORING-THORP. 291

BOYLAND-HALL

In this parish, and ever since, it hath been united to Boyland-Hall m Mourning-thorp, for at the Conqueror's survey,

Boielun d,5 was a separate w7/,and afterwards was united, part of it XoFreton," and the greater part to this town; Torn the Da/ie owned it in the time ot Edward the Confessor, when the demeans and manor were worth 2Us. and Ralf Bainard had it at the Conquerors survey, when it was worth 40s. a year, and had the soc and sac belonging to it, with fee, 'and all other jurisdictions; and it passed in this family as Merton and Bunnell* till they sold it about 1 1Q0, to RalJ, who . se tied here, and took the name of Boyland from this place : in 12 18, Richard son of Ralfdc Boyland owned it; and in 1250, Roger de Boyland and Alice his wife had it, and Sir Richard de Boyland their son, suc- ceeded them; he built Boyland-hall in Bresingham, and settled there, as at p. 51, vol. i. and from his time it passed in that family, and continued with Boyland-Hall in Bresingham, till about 1534," and then it was purchased by . . ,

John Garnish, late of Mendlesham in S«//ott, and joined to Mourning-thorp manor, which he purchased as before.

The femifa of the Garneys or Garnishes, is and hath been many ages, esteemed one of the principal families of the county

In 1384, Robert Garneys was one of the lords of Soham-Hall manor in Bereford,1 whose son .

Robert gIrneys of Heveningham in &0btt, in the year 1400 married to Catherine, daughter and heir of JohnBlanchard of

was

the same town, by whom he had two sons ; Will, his second son, married Eliz. daughter of Sir E«/f B^ of Stockton, Knt.* by whom he had Ralf Garneys, Esq. who died without issue in 1440, and

Sir Peter Garneys, his uncle, was found to be his hen; he mar- ried Eliz. daughter and heir of Ralf Ramsey of Kenton-HalU in Suf- folk, Esq. by Alice his wife, who was only daughter and heir ot Roger

.Lour* Wtf-4 or the woody- ^^^SSfi^jSK

'The style of Fr.tton court runs; and Freton, thereto belonging.

socam et sacam.

S^rt'dta.™ ^'etdmT ^ge'the Abbot granted to hisuncle Sir

SnTvaKx. sol. modo xl. Bainardus PeterGa^sh, Knt.^

rn et sacam. , of Bigot of Stockton, or. a lion rampant

See vol. u. p. 298, and p. 13s verti"the colours only being altered to

» Tho. Man, Gent, and John Ive, distinguish that branch of the Bigods. sold Boyland manor to John Garneys,

292 M O R I N G - T H O R P.

Wettiskam, Esq. and by this match, Kenton came to the family;5 thev had two sons; Edmund their second son, had T/io. Garneys, who lies buried at Blonorton, with Alice his wife, as at p. 248. vol. i.

Thomas Garneys of Kenton- Hal/, eldest son of Sir Peter Garneys, Knt. married Margaret, daughter and coheir of Hugh Fraunceys of Giffard's-Ha/l in Suffolk, who outlived him, and remarried to Thomas Peyton of Iselham, Esq. and of Peyton-Hull in Boxford in Suffolk ;6 they had two sons,

Richard, his second son, settled at Mendlesham, and married Elizabeth daughter of Will. Toppesfield1 and Eleanor his wife, who who was daughter and heir of Richard Churche, Esq.8 of Gislingham, by whom he had

John Garneys, who having purchased the manors of Moring- thorp and Boyland-Hall, as before, removed from Mendlesham and settled here, and by Ursula his wife, daughter of Thomas Berney, Esq. of Redham, had four sons,9 of which the eldest was

Ric. Garneys, Esq. of Boyland and Mendlesham, who built the present fabrick called Boyland-Hall,' which he finished in 1571, as the date on the portal shows, on which is the full coat of Garnish, sup- ported by two mermaids; and in the windows is his motto, in which, every word begins with a 45. the initial letter of his name, viz.

oSoDDcti «5race «?ooerne <*3arnep£.

The full coat hath a crescent, to show he was of the second branch of the family; the arms are,

], Garneys. 2, Ramsey. 3, JVellisham. 4, Kenton. 5, Fraun- ceys. (J, Denston. 7, Wanton. 8, Toppesfield. Q, Churche.

And in the ball windows, Garnish with a crescent, is impaled with Ramsey, Fraunceys, Toppesfield, Berney, and Tirrell.

5 Ramsey, gul. three rams heads ca- 7 Toppesfield, gul. a chevron erm.

boshed arg. between three martlets sab.

Wellisham, sab. two bars, in chief 8 Churche, sab. a fess between three

three cinquefoils or. Kenton, sab. a de-liscs arg.

chevron between three cinquefoils or. 9 2d. son was Sir Francis Garneys,

* Fraunceys, gul. a chevron erm. be- Knt. of the Rhodes. 3, Sir Thomas, a

tween three doves volant proper. priest. 4, John Garneys.

Pewon, sab. a cross ingrailed or, in * In 1352, there u is \ chapel belong.

the first quarter a mullet arg. for dif- ing to Boyland-hall, called Moring-tAorjp

ference. chapel. The present bunuing is moated

Denston, az. two lions passant gar- in, and hath been a grand house. I was

dant or. shewn a painting here of Hen. VIII. with

Wanton of Yorkshire, arg. on a chev- Edw. VI. at his right hand, and Queen

'' tab. a cross croslet of the field. Mary at his left, with these verses on it:

Venite Benedicti Patris mei, poasidete Regnum.

1. The Kyngdom of Heven be Christ, 'teys resembled to this noble Kyng With Riches inrobed Mercy for to lern, and to have Compassion One of another, after Goddes Fassyon.

. The Kyng here hys Serwantes before hym dothe call, Accountes for to make, of hys Goodes grete and smalle; Among them ys one, that ten tliowsand Talants owght, But wherewyth for to pay, the Man had right nowght.

3. Wherfor the Kyng commawnded that he shuld be solde, His Wyfee, Children, and Goodes, Payment to be tolde, On Knees he asked respight, and Payment promysythe, The Lorde do releasse hym, and all hys Dett forgyvythe.

M O R I N G - T H O R P. 29s

Ramsey, JVeUhham, Kenton, and Garnish quartered. Garnish and Tirrell quartered. Barney impaling Southwell, arg. three cinquefoils gul. on each five annulets or.

Garneys, Fraunceys, Denston, and Wanton quartered.

Garneys quartering Churche, impaling Tirrel.

Caeew, or, three lions passant in pale sab. langued and armed gul. impaling

Kelley, arg. a chevron between three billets gul.

Tirrel and Kelly quartered, impale

FiTz-PAiN,fl/'g. two wings conjoined gul.; besides others defaced and lost.

He married Margery daughter of James Tirrell, Esq. of Columbine- hall in Suffolk, but dying without issue, all his inheritable lands went to Nic. Garneys of Kenton, who descended from

John Garneys of Kenton, Esq. eldest son of Tho. Garneys and Margaret Fraunceys aforesaid : he married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Sylyard, Knt.^one of the King's judges, and sister and next heir of Sir William Syllyard, Knt. and died about 1524, and she about 1527, and are buried at Kenton, and had two sons; Thomas, their second son, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Hen. Bedingjield of Oxbargh, Knt. who after his death, remarried to Brice Rookwood ; they had John Garneys of Metinghum in Suffolk, who married Mrs. Chiselden, and by her had Nicholas Garnish, their only son and heir, who married a daughter of Mr. Dude, of Tannington in Suffolk.

Robert Garne\ s of Kenton, eldest son and heir, married Anne, daughter and coheir of Tho. Bacon, Esq.3 of Specthhull and Bacones- thorp, and had

John Garneys of Kenton, who married Anne daughter of Ed- mund Rooktcood, of Ewston in Suffolk, Esq. by whom he had Anne, married to Anth. Drury of Besthorp, Esq.* and four sons, of which, Robert, the third son, and John, the second son, who was lord of the manor of Hammond's in Micklejield in Suffolk, died without issue.

Thomas Garnish of Kenton, the eldest son, married Frances daughter of Sir John Sylyard of Wethersden, Knt. who afterwards re- married to Mr. John Lentall,$ and

Elizabeth, their only daughter and heiress, married first to Mr. Jernegan, and secondly to Nic. Strelley of Strelley in Noting/iam- shire,6 and had one only son and heir,

Nicholas Strelley, who died without issue, and his inheritance went to his great uncle,

Nicholas Garnish of Kenton, who was fourth son to John Gar- nish and Anne Rookwood, and now sole heir of the family; In 1592, he was high-sheriff for Suffolk, and his estate in Kenton, Moringthorp, Ringsfield, Redesham, &c. was above 1200/. per annum ; he married Anne, daughter of Charles Clere of Stokesby in Norfolk, Esq.7 and died about 1599, left six sons, and five daughters.8

a Sylyard, arg. a chevron gul. between s Ibid. p. 337. Lental, sab. abend

three pheons reversed sab. Bedingfield, lozenge arg.

erm. an eagle displayed gul. Rookwood, 6 Strelly, pally of six arg. and az.

arg. three chess rooks sab. Dade, gul. 7 Clere, arg. on a fess az. three eagles

a chevron between three garbs or. displayed O.

3 Bacon of Baconesthorp, az, three s 1, Margery. 2, Anne. 3, Marga-

boars arg. ret. 4, Catherine. 5, Elizabeth.

* See vol. i. p. 499.

2f)4 MORI NG -THORP.

1. Charles Garnish of Kenton, Esq. the eldest, removed to Boy- land-hall, and settled there; he was high-sheriff of Norfolk in 1652, and married Elizabeth, daughter of John Wentworth, Esq. sister of Sir John IVentwoith of Somerly-town in Suffolk, Knt.9 the great lawyer, who bought it of Jernegan ; and on her brother's death without issue, the said Charles had it in her right, as one of the coheirs to Sir John; he was buried at Moringthorp in \6o7. Thomas, the second son, mar- ried the relict of Ford, Esq. of Ravcningham. 3, John Gar-

■neys married Margaret Jackson. 4, Edward. 5, Nicholas of Itedi- sham in Suffolk, Gent. 6, Clere Garnish, who married Anne daughter of John Jolly of Southwold, merchant,1 and had several daughters, and three sons; John, the youngest, Clere, the second, and Charles Garnish, the eldest, who married Mary daughter of John Richmond of Hedenham in Norfolk, Gent.' and was buried at Moring- thorp in 1678, (of whose issue more will occur under Hedenham.)

John Garneys of Boyland-hall and Somerley-Town, only son of Charles Garnish, and Eliz. Wentworth; had two wives, first, June daughter of Will. Rugge of Felmingham, Gent, by whom he had June, who died unmarried, and was buried here in 1688; and Thomas Gar- nish of Redisham, who died without issue. His second wife was Eliz. daughter of Sir Stephen Soame, alderman of London, by whom he had three sons3 and five daughters;4 he died in 1661, aged 54, and was buried here, and

Wentworth Garnish, Esq. his eldest son, succeeded him,s and married for his first wife, Anne daughter of Sir Charles Gawdy of Crowshall in Debenham, Knt. who died in 1681, and is buried here, but left no child ; and for his second wife, Mary daughter of Sir Tho. Abdif of Felix-hall in Kehedon in Essex, but had no issue; he died in 1685, and is buried here, leaving Boyland-hall and this estate, to his sisters, and it is now in the heiress of his fourth sister,

Martha, then married to Robert Raworth of London, merchant; she died in 1694, and is buried here, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth, and three sons, liemy, Robert, and John; and it is now in

William Drake, Esq. of Sharde/oes in Bucks, member in the last parliament for Agmondesham in that county, who in 17^6, married the heiress of the Raworths, a young lady of a large fortune.

The manor called

HOO HALL, BLOMEFIELD'S, and SEAMAN'S,

From the names of the several owners, belonged to Sir Will.de Hoe, Knt. and Alice his wife in 1372 ; and in 147y, to Thomas Hoe, Esq. who infeoffed Sir Thomas Arundel, Knt. and others, in it and Worthing manor, and also in the manors of Frenchcourt, Farlegh, Pittehoseland,

' Wentworth, sab. a chevron between man, merchant, secondly to Sir William

three leopards heads or. Dutton Colt, Knt. 3d, Mary, who died

1 Jolly, az. three bucks lodged gul. in 1723, and is buried here, by Sir Will.

a Richmond, er. on a chief sab. a grif- Gostlin, alderman and sheriff of Lon-

fin passant or. don, her husband. 5, Susanna died

3 2d, Stephen. 3d, John, from whom single, buried here in 1685.

no issue. s gee vol. i. p. 259,

* 1, Eliz. buried here in 1675. 2, 6 Abdy, or, two chevronela betwee»

Margaret, first married to William Ship- three trefoils slipped sab.

WACTON. 295

Slovene, and Catfield, in Sussex: and in 1565, John Blomefield conveyed it to Philip Tirrel, Esq; and he to Ric. Garneys, Esq. and it hath been ever since joined to Boyland-haU manor, in Moruig- thorp and Freton ; the site of it is between Moringthorp and Hemenkale, into which it extended ; as also into Stratton,Taseburgh, and Saxhng- ham. (See p. 274).

WACTON,

Or watch town, might probably take its name from the watch that used constantly to be kept upon the Roman highway, at the entrance of Stratton, in order to guard the passage to their fortification at Taseboro. , , , -

At the Confessor's and Conquerors surveys, the whole belonged to, and was included in, the manor of Forncet,7 except one part, which belonged to the honour of Richmond, and afterwards became Park s

manor here.8 „.■.,•.»» . , ^ »

There was a fourth part of a fee held by Durand at the Conqueror s survey, and this was the manor of

WACTON-PARVA, or LITTLE-WACTON,

Which always attended the manor of Great-Maulton from that timt to this (as at p. 205,) in right of which, the third turn of the sinecure rectory here is still appendant to it. The other 3d part of the vil- lage of Wacton-Parva always belonged to Fomcet, and a 3d part of the advowson, till it was lately purchased of the Duke : of Norfolk, bv the Rev. Mr. John Soley, rector of Stratton St. Maty, who hath also the other 3d part of the gift of Thomas- Bokenham Tirrel, lord of the manor of Park's in Great Wacton, to which it lately belonged, though formerly it was appendant to the manor of Strattofr-hall, .ac- cording to an agreement made in 1288, between Roger le Bigot harl of Norfolk, and Gilbert de Borne and Eliz. his wife, owners ot Strat- ton-hall, by which this turn was settled on them and their heirs.

RECTORS OF WACTON-PARVA. Ralfde Aylesham. Thomas de Brotherton Earl of Nor- folk, in right of Fomcet manor. . . ,

1349 John at Ash of Bintre,ob. Sir John Verdon, Rnt. in right of Wacton-Parva manor, now united to the manor of Great-Moulton. ? <^ee p 22 t 4 xxviii. acr. terre tunc dim. car. etii. lib.

» Terre Alani Comitis Depwade H. horn. xx. acr. et dim. car. et ii. acr. Doms.fo. 71. . u dim.prati.

In Waketuna ii. libcri homines,

»96 WACTON.

1353, William Stannard, resigned. Sir Ralf de Shelton, Sir Thomas de Shardelow, Sir Richard de Boyland, Knts. Will. de Midelton, Hugh Curson, and Thomas Caroun, rector of Stratton St. Mary, feoffees of the manor of Bourne's or Stratton- Hall, to which this 3d turn belongs.

1354, 77(0. Trendel, res. The King.

1356, Reginald Martin, in exchange with Paston. Sir John Ver- don, Knt.

1404, Will. Smith. Cecily, late wifeof Sir John Herling, Knt.

1423, Rob. Balle, res. Lapse.

1432, John Prat. Thomas Tirrel of Wilinghale, Esq.

1435, Clement Chevyr. Feoffees of Sir Robert Herling.

1440, Edmund Norman, alias Waketon. John Duke of Norfolk.

1443, Roger Hesse, res. Hen. Noon, Esq.

1446, John Bartram, resigned. Lapse.

1448, John Elyot, res. John Duke of Norfolk.

1452, Miles R'oche, A. M. Hen. Noon, Esq. united to Waketon- Magna.

1403, John Hauteyu. Ditto.

1470, Rob. Thayter, ob. Sir Robert Wingfield, Knt. and Anne his wife.

1474, Will. Pulvertoft. John Duke of Norfolk.

1485, Will, la Vile, alias Norman, res. Hen Noon, Esq.

1492, John Savage, ob. John Lord Scroop, in right of Anne his wife, who was relict of Sir Robert Wingfield, and heiress of Herling.

1497, Will. Brett, res. Thomas Duke, Esq. this turn ; united to Waketon-Magna .

1505, John Hclrede, Helvede, or Chede, res. Thomas Beding- field, Esq.

1511, John Wade, ob. Thomas Earl of Surrey.

1.524, Robert Peryn. Lapse; united to Wuketon-Magna.

1526, Richard Grey, res. Leonard Spencer, in right of Multo* manor.

1533, Robert Stringfellozc. William Duke of Brampton.

1543, Sir John Cooke, chaplain. Sir Edmund Bedingfield, Knt.

1555, Robert T'aser, lapse.

1563, Edward Bowling, lapse; united to Waketon-Magna.

1567, Tho. Watson. Tho. Duke of Norfolk; united to Waketon- Magna.

1613, Will. Pudding, A.M. John Rivet, Esq.

1613, Abacuc Cadywo/d. Tho. Duke and Tho. Goodwin, guar- dians to Edward, son of Ambrose Duke of Benhale. He was suc- ceeded by

Brian Smith, D. D. ob. Thomas Rivet, Gent, united to Stoke- Ash.

1672, Philip Goodwin, A. M. Tho. Rivet.

1700, Tho. Colman on Goodzcin's death. Sir John Duke, Bart. ob.

1719, Joseph Charles. Eliz. Chute On his going to Swaffham in 1721, he voided it, and John Soley, clerk, presented

Abel Hodges, A. B. and in 1725, when he went to Brockdish, Sir Edw. Duke, Bart, presented

The Rev. Mr. William Baker, A, M. the present rector, who holds it with Hedenham.

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The church was dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, and when Norwich Domesday was made, the rector had a house and ]fl acres of glebe; the revenues were so small, that it was not valued in the first taxation, but at the second it was valued at 40s. though not taxed. It then paid ]Q.d. procurations, gd. synodals, 5d. ob. Peter- pence, and Id. ob. carvage ; it now stands in the King's Books thus :

2/. 13s. 4c?. WACTON-Parva Rectory 30/. clear yearly value.9 so that being discharged, it pays no first fruits nor tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

In 1606, this parish was valued by itself, at 233/. 13s Sd. per annum to the taske or tax. The church was in constant use till about 1500, and then it began to be called a chapel, and in 1510, was re- turned to be in decay, and in 1520, it was so bad that service began to be omitted; and then there was a design of rebuilding it, though it never took place, for in 1522, William Cullung of W acton St. Mary, was buried there, and willed, " That when it shall please the " Parissheners af the seid Wakton, to go about the halovvynge of their " churche, yf that they will doo geve the Bishop his Dener that Day, " then 1 will that mine Executors shall soo geve the Bishop his sty- " pende, as he and they may agree."" But notwithstanding this, it fell down and was never repaired. It stood on the piece of glebe now called Dove-house-Acre or Chappel-yard ; but the foundations are ploughed over, though the rector, upon every institution, reads prayers there forenoon and afternoon, as in other rectories; the silver cup which belonged here is now the only cup in Great-Wacton church, as the inscription on it shows.

The parish is now so far swallowed up in Great-W acton, that the bounds are not commonly known,'1 so that all the tithes are received by the rector of Great-Waclon* there being no house, church, or parishioner, it is an absolute sinecure. The rector at this day being possessed of nothing but about 16 acres ot glebe, and even that, pays all taxes, tithes, and rates, to Wacton-Magna, being rated at 5/. 10s. per annum, besides Ad. ob. synodals to the Bishop, and Is. procura- tions to the archdeacon.

Twelve small pieces of this glebe laid intermixed in 10 or 12 enclo- sures of land belonging to Mrs. Martina Robe, widow, but are newly exchanged for the like quantity of land in two enclosures, containing about 8 or Q acres, by consent of the Bishop, rector, and patrons.

9 Ecton's Valor, &c. p. 224, edit, called Haptens, were equally divided be-

Lond. 1723. tween the two rectors, and all tithe pigs,

1 E Regr. Alablaster inter Archiv. were paid to that rector in whose parish

Epi. Norwic. fo. 13S. the owner dwelt.

z In the first book (N° I.) of depo- 3 About tithe herbage, cow, calf,

sitions in the Bishop's office, under the wood, &c. see Depos. 1. 121, and for-

year 1532, there is much concerning the merly there were tithing books kept, to

division of both these parishes. After separate the church and chapel tithes

the battle of Bosworth, the tithes of the one from the other, meadow in the tenure of John Seaman,

Qq

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WACTON-MAGNA.

J. he church is dedicated to All the Saints; the ad vowson belonged to Fomcet manor, till sold from it lately. When Norwich Domesday %vas made, the rector had a house and 16 acres of glebe;* the house is situate against the churchyard, and much the same quantity of glebe now remains. It was first valued at five, after at eight marks, and the monks of Thetford had a portion of tithes valued at 6s. 8d. It pays 4d. ob. synodals, and Is. procurations, the old carnage was 3d. and Peter-pence 5d. ob. and the whole village paid 2/. 6s. 8d. clear to every tenth.

Eliz. Baspoole, widow, tied her estate in JVacton, now Mr. Joseph Cotman's of Great Yarmouth, for ever to pay 2l. 12s. yearly, to be given weekly at church, by Is. a week in bread, to such poor people of the parish as constantly attend there.

RECTORS OF GREAT-WACTON.

1310, John Tayt. Alice de Hanonia Countess of Norfolk, in right of Fomcet manor, which she held in dower.

1327, Edmund de hetilburgh. By the Pope's provision.

1330, Will, de Berdefeld. Thomas Brotherton Earl uf Noifolk.

1335, Roger de Dyngeley. Ditto.

1349, Roger Parleman, res. John Lord Segra ve, Knt.

1352, John de Donyngton, shaveling, res. The King, in right of the Lord Segrave's manor of Fomcet, then in his hands.

1361, John Bertram. Walter Lord Manney.

1403, Michael de Barsham lapse: he changed in 1404, for F/ix- ton in Lothingland, with

Peter Cuttyng. Eliz. Dutchess of Noifolk.

1428, John Long. John Duke of Norfolk, who in 1429, changed for Swerdeston with John Dey.

1434, Thomas in le Fen of Wickmere. The King, as guardian to the Duke of Norfolk.

1440, David Hechinson. John Duke of Norfolk.

1447, Thomas Eckerislay. Ditto.

1451, Miles Roche, A. M. united to Waketon-Parva. Ditto.

1457, John Bole, lapse.

1484, Will. Brett. Ditto, united to Waketon-Parva.

1524, Robert Peryn, lapse.

1561, Edward Boielynge. Tho, Duke of Norfolk: united to Waketon-Parva.

* Five acres and three roods of glebe, exchanged for one piece of the like lying in six pieces, within the lands of quantitv called Stoney-lulls, by consent Martina Robe, widow, are now lately of the Bishop, patron, and rector.

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1567, Tho Watson. Ditto. He returned 67 communicants here, and held it united to hittle-Wacton to his death, when he was buried here.

1613, Abacuc Cadiwould, A. M. The Earl of Northampton. He was sequestered in 1644, and died before the Restoration, when

Edm. Pooler/, A. M. who had intruded during the rebellion, took institution, at the presentation of Sir William Platers and Sir Richard Onslow, Knts. trustees to the Norfolk family; at Pooley's death in 1697,

Layer Finite succeeded; Ric. Vinne, Gent, patron of this turn ; at his death in

1702, William Rant was presented by Claudius Grey, Gent, patron in full right, and held it united to Bunwell, and when he took Carleton-Rode he resigned it, and in

1715, The Rev. John Soley, senior, A. M. the present rector, and patron in full right, was presented by Will. Staffe of Willing- ham in Suffolk, and now holds it united to Stratton St. Mary.

WACTON-PARK'S,

Is the only manor in this parish, except the parts belonging t» Fomcet, and to the honour of Richmond? (of which this manor is held,) and to the honour of Eye,6 both which extended hither; and the Duke of Norfolk, as lord of Fomcet, and the lord of the honour of Richmond, are superiour lords of the commons and zcastes, and had their letes here, though there is a lete belonging to this manor, the jurisdiction of which, extends to the tenants of the manor only, as the other letes do over the several tenants of the honours.

It was first held by the family of the Wactons, and Stephen de Wacton, who had it in 1230, was the last lord of that name here.

In 1235, Walter de Wa/ys owned it, who was succeeded by Thomas de Camera or Chambers of Buketon, who in 1285, had lete or view of frankpledge, and assize of bread and ate of all his tenants here, bj' the King's grant;7 this lete belonged to the King's hundred, and therefore the lord was obliged to pay 6d. per annum fee-farm for it, to the bailiff of the hundred. In 1298, Thomas son of Will, de la Chambre settled it on William Carleton, who resettled it on the said Thomas and Isabell his wife, in tail: it had then 130 acres, one mill, and 16 messuages belonging to it, and extended into Aslacton, Stratton, and Fomcet. In 1315 the said 'Thomas was lord, and after him it came to the Parks, and passed with the manor of Park's in As/acton, as at p. 177, 8, and so to the Dukes of Benhale in Suffolk, and after the death of that Sir Edward Duke who sold Aslacton, it went to

Sir John Duke, his son, who served as member of parliament for Orford in Suffolk. He married Eliz. daughter and coheir of Edward

5 Append. Regr. Honoris">Richmond. 6 In 1299, Edmund Earl of Cornwall,

fo. 16. held lands by knight's service in Wake-

1696, Constance, widow of Timothy ton, belonging to the honour of Eye.

Sherman, and others, held lands in Esc. N° 28. A0 2S E. I.

Waketon of this honour in soccage, by 7 Placita Corone apud Norwic. in

id. q. per annum, and was amerced 25s. crast Sci. Hilarij A° regni Edri. fili;

for non-payment. Rot. Honoris de Rich- Regis Henrici, 1500 rot. 16 in dorso.

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Duke, M. D. by whom he had four daughters: 1, Eliz. who died young ; 2, Jane, married to John Brame of Campsey-Ash ; 3, Anne, to Thomas Tirrel, Esq. of Gipping; and 4, Arabella, to Maurice Shelton of Bamingham, Esq. and one son,

Sir Edward Duke, Bart.8 who married Mary, daughter of Tho- mas Rudge of Staffordshire, but dying without issue, he gave it to his sister's son,

Edm. Tirrel of Gipping, Esq. who sold it to his brother,

Thomas-Bokenham Tirrel of Belsted near Ipsnich, Esq. the present lord.

The Jines are arbitrary, the eldest son inherits, and it gives no dower.

There was a fourth part of a fee of the Fomcet part, granted from it, and was to be held of it ; this was called

GRESHAUGH, LA VILE'S, or BACON'S MANOR,

And anciently belonged to RicharS la Vile; and in 1306, to Margery, widow of Walter le Waleys, and soon after to John de Dunhodde and Isabel de Haggele ; in 134.5, Thomas Grey, chaplain, and his parceners, had it; in 1370, Robert Bacon of Dickleburgh, lord of it, was outlawed for felony, and it was seized by the King, but Joan his wife recovered it, and held it in 1391, and at her death it went to the Crown, and was purchased by the lord of Park's manor, and joined to it, and so continues.

The church and chancel are both of a height, and thatched; there is no porch, the tower is round, and hath three bells.

On a brass in the nave, are the arms of Knevet, with a crescent in a lozenge.

Hie jacet Abigail Sedley Vid: Filia Johannes Knyvet de Ash- would-thotp Armigeri, et nuper Uxor Martini Sedley de Motley Artnigeri,9 quas diem obijt 15 Decern. A0 D. Ifi23.

At the entrance of the chancel, are two black marbles thus in- scribed,

Hie jacet Corpus Katharine Uxoris Johannis Mallom Cierici, et Fihae Timothei Maun Generosi, et Elizabethce Uxoris ejus, qua; obijt 5 Die Maij A. D. 1685, set. 66.

Mallom, John1 of Wacton, Gent, had a grant of arms anno 1685, viz.

Gal. on a chief or, a lion passant of the field, between two mul- lets az. in base three chevronels braced arg. and this coat is impaled with Mann. (See p. I go,)

8 Duke, the 291st Bart. SirEdw. Knt. the arms, see vol. ii. of English Baro-

created Bart. 1661. nets, p 282. Edit. Lond. 1727.

Az. a chevron betwe.n three sterns 9 See vol. ii. p. 479.

arg. beaked and niembered gui. " John Mallom, Esq. hath a seat

For the family, and augmentation to here.

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Hie jacet Corpus Eliza. Uxoris Johannis Mallom Generosi, et

Filiae Thomee Stone Generosi. et Elheldredce Uxoris

ejus quae

obijt 12mo Die Sept. A. D. 1684. Etiam preclictus Johannes Mallom obijt Aug. A. D. 1687.

Mallom impales Stone, per pale era. and gnl. an eagle dis- played aZi

On two other black marbles in the chancel as soon as you enter it,

Sub hoc marmore Corpus Johannis Mallom Armigeri jacet qui vicesimo quarto Die Mensis Julij A Salutis 1728, ast. 58 diem clausit extremum.

Mallom impaling Suckling, and Mallom's crest, viz. an arm in pale cooped at the shoulder, sleeved proper, holding a cord with a tassel at each end, bent in form of a bow.

Depositmii Elizabeths Uxoris Johannis Mallom, Filiseq; Ro- berti Suckling de Woodton Armigeri natu maximae ; 14° Die Nov. Au Salutis 1728, a£t. 53 obijt.

Here is a vault on the north side of the chancel, in which are bu- ried, Guliel. Soley 1725. He was of Pembroke-Hall, Cant. Susanna Soley, 1741. M. B. Soley, 1741, and Mary Baker, for whom there is a mural monument with the arms of Soley impaling

Baker, gul. a goat passant arg.

Mary wife of William Baker Clerk, Rector of Hedenham* and elder Daughter of John Soley Clerk, Rector of this Parish, was buried on the \lth Day of April 1741. aged 41.

Wisest, Virtuousest, Discreetest, Best.

In the rails are buried John F/ey, Gent. 2 Sept. 1647, 26. Walter Reyner, Dec. 10, 1655. Thomas Reyner, June 4, 1680.

On a black marble in the nave,

Samuel Cock died Oct. 17, 1727, aged 77.

Stay hasty Traveller who 'ere you be, Tell if you can, what is become of me; Conscious of Guilt, my Soul, as one afraid, Fled from that Body, which now here is laid ; Thoughtfull in Life, make it your chiefest Care, What you must be, as well as what you are; Death makes the stoutest hearts and hands to yield, Cease to dispute, and tamely quit the Field; And when approaching, makes all Living fear, To be they know not what, they know not where.

Margaret his wife died Jug. 20, 1736, aet 81.

There are three stones by the font for John Gilbert and his two wives, he died in 1680, Susan in 1659, and Eliz. in 1675. By the north door lies Stephen Hartley, 1664, and Joan his wife, 1671.

Over this door (the usual place for St. Christopher) is an ancient

302 WACTON-MAGNA.

picture of that Saint, painted on the wall with " a terryble and fereful countenaunce," according to the description of him in the Legend,7- and of as prodigious size, as the height of the wall would permit, though not so monstrous as the Legend makes him, for that says, " he teas xii cubytes of length." At the uppermost corner towards the west, are the two tables of the Commandments, on the upper part of the one is Moses, and on the other Aaron, and by them Solomons temple at Jerusalem; at the lower corner, on the same side, is a shield, and on it, the golden pot that had manna,3 and Aaron's rod that budded,* types (I suppose) of the Aaronieul priesthood ; in the midst is a river, and the huge saint with " a grete pole in his hand in stede of a staffe, by which he susteyned hym in the water;" and on his shoulders is our Saviour represented as a child, " which prayed hym goodly to bere him over the water;" and when Christopher " lyfte the Chyld on his Sholdres, and toke his Staffe, and entree! the " Ryver for to passe, the Water of the Ryuer arose, and swelled more " and more, and the Chylde was heuy as Leed, and alway as he went " ferder the Water incresed, and grewe more, and the Chylde more " Sc more wexed heuy, in so moche that Christofer had grete An- " guysshe, 8t was aferde to be drowned, and when he was escaped " with grete Payne, and passed the Water, & set the Chylde a " Grounde, he sayd to the Chylde; Chylde, you hast put me in grete " Peryll, you weyst almost as 1 had had all the World upon me, I " myght bere no greter Burden. And the Chylde answered ; Christ " tofer, marvayle the nothynge, for you hast not only b..rne all the " Worlde upon the, but you hast borne hym that created & made all " the Worlde, upon thy Shouldres: I am Jesu Chryst the Kyng " to whome you servest in this Werke, and bycause that you know, " that I saye to the Trouth, set thy Staffe in the Erth by thy Hows, " & thou shalt se to Morrowe that it shall bere Floures and Fruyte. " And anon he vanyshed from his eyen. And than Christofer set his " Staffe in the Erth, & whan he arose on the Morowe, he found his " Staffe like a Palmyr,beryng Floures Leues, and Dates."3 And after this he was baptized, for when the King enquired his name and country, he answered thus, " tofore I was baptysed, I was named " Reprobus, and now am named Christofer, tofore Baptysm a Ca- " nanee, now a Chrysten Man." And at the upper corner towards the east, is Noah's ark, the figure of Christian baptism,6 by which we enter into the church, which is represented at the lower corner of the same painting, to which the Saint directs his steps: all this confirms my former observation at p. 2S9, vol. iv. that this Saint is always placed here (opposite to the font, which anciently stood always be- tween the two doors) " in allusion to the water in baptism," notwith- standing what is said in the Polygraphia Britannica, #c. Number II. page 65, against the truth of it.7

1 The Golden Legend, fo. 176.

3 Exod. xvi. ver. 15, 33, 4, 5.

4 Numb. xvii. 8, 10. Hebr. ix 4. " At the bottom of p. 63, he adds a s Golden Legend, 177. « learned note from his fellow-labourer

6 l P«r. ni- 20, 21. « Blomejield, telling us, St. Christopher is

7 Palaographm Britannica, Number II. "placed over the north door, because p. 65, published by Will. Stukeliy, " children to be bapfzed, were usually

" brought in at it ; in allusion to zaater in

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This rector)/ is valued in the King's Books at 5l. stands there by the name of Wacton-Magna Rectory, and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 45/. is discharged of first-fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

The common called IVacton-Great-Green, is rated, and the going of each beast is usually let off at 12s. per annum.

THARSTON.

1 his village is called by various names in old evidence, as Sters- tun a, or Steres-Tozin? Therstim, Testun,9 Thurston, and Tharston; and was in divers parts at the Conquest, several of them belonging to the manor of Forncet,1 of which the capital manor was always held at one fee. Ulukic held it of Bishop Stigand at the Confessor's survey, and Robert de uallibus, Vols, or Vauz, of Roger Bigot at the Con- queror's.1 The church had 40 acres of glebe valued at 3s. per annum, the manor was worth 5l. 6s, and the town was a league and a half

" baptism; 'tis false, that children to " be baptized were usually brought in " by that dour, and nothing at all to the " purpose, was it true."

Now as the author seems to have such an excellent knuwledge in antique ima- gery as to fix exactly the time of a carv- ing by the look of its phyz,* and such sagacity in explaining figutes of many centuries duration, " os easily as if their names were wrote over their heads,"f as is evident from his own words in the account he has given of his Roisian fa- mily ;% I should be very glad to know the age of these figures, or what other interpretation the learned Doctor would please to put upon such an old painting as this ; for as what I have formerly mentioned in relation to this saint, he says is false, (being no advocate tor infallibility, though 1 have quoted the Golden Legend,) if any other explica- tion of his, would come as near the point, as the relation he hath made out between his Liuy Roisia and Robin Hood; I could not but acknowledge Ins great judgment, and re urn him the thanks due tor such information.

8 From the steers or young bullocks,

it being probably appropriated for a place to breed and bring up young cattle in, in the Saxon times. 9 See vol. ii. p. no.

1 Therstuna, Doras, fo. 123 ; see it under Forncet at p. 223, 4.

2 Terra Rogeri Bicoti. Doms. fo. 123. Depwade hund.

Sterestuna tenet Robertus de Vals, quam tenuit Uluricus sub Sti- gando ii. car. in dom. i. ecclesia xl. acr. et val. iii. sol. tunc ii. car. horn. modu i. et i. car. posset restaurari xii. atr. prati, silva x. poic. et i. mol. tunc iiii. runcin. modo iiii. anim. tunc xl. pore, modo xx. tunc xl. oves, modo Ixxx. et i. vas apum et xxxiii. soc. i. car. terre tunc viii. car. post et modo iiii. et ii. acr. prati tunc valuit v. lib. et vi. sol. et modo similiter et habet i. leug. et dim. in longo, et dim. in lato, et vi. den. et obol. de Gelto.

Huic maneno addidit Robertus de Vals vii. lib. hom. et dim. de omnibus habuit suns antecessor commendationem tantum, preter ex uno qui fuit socman- nus Stigandi, et habent lxxxii. acr. tunc et post iii. car. modo ii. et iii. acr. prati, et valent xiii. sol.

* A group made Aug. 10, 1 173. A group cut Feb. 2, 1 176, &c. Palaog. &c. 82. " These figures were made in the year 11S8, &c." Ibid. p. uc. t Ibid. p. 113. % Ibid. p. 115.

S04 THARSTON.

long, and Haifa league broad, and paid \5d. ob. to the geld. This was after called Nerford's or Tharston-Hall manor.

Another part belonged to Robert Fitz Corbun, 3 which was worth 10s. per annum in rents at the first, and 20s. at the last survey ; this constituted the

MANOR OF THARSTON'S, or ST. OMER'S,

Taking both its names from the lords of it ; in 1236, Richard de Thars- ton was lord, and held it at a quarter of a fee of Robert de She/ton, of whom he purchased it; and Shelton held it of Robert deTateshale, lord of Bukenkam-Castle, from which it had been formerly sold by the Albany*.

In 1317, Richard de Therston and Cecily his wife, settled it on them- selves for life, and then on Ralfde St. Omer ; and it soon after divi- ded into two parts, for in 1329, Richard and Cecily held one part of Bukenham-Castle at a quarter of a fee, and lVil/iam Jenny and Ellen his wife, held the other of the said castle, at the other quarter of a fee;* but before 1401, St. Omcr's part was joined in Will. Rees, Esq. who was lord of this, and

NERFORD'S, LOVENEY'S, or THARSTON-HALL MANOR,

As it is now called, which continued in the Vauxes a long time;5 in 1275, John de Faux had a charter for free-warren here, and in 1285, he had a lete held once a year, but the King's bailiff of the hundred was to be present, or the lord could not hold it, unless he agreed with him yearly; which was afterwards done constantly, till it was bought in perpetuity ; and then the lord had view of frankpledge, assise of bread and ale, and weyf.6

In 1288, upon the partition made between the two daughters and coheirs of John de Faux, Maud married to William de Roos, and Petronel to Will, de Nerford, who had this manor, and that of Shotcsham in Noifolkjlisete in Suffolk, and the moieties of Holt and Cley ; the whole advowson of Holt, with divers knights fees in Thorp, Winch, Bichamwell, Thurneton, Moringthorp, &c. and it continued in

3 TerreRonERTifilijCoRBUTloNis. that family, and in 1514, Sir Robert Depwade H. Doms. fo. 270. Clcre, John Shelton, and Sir Philip

In STERSTUNAtenet idem i. car. terre, Boothe, Knt. purchased the wardship

tenet i. lib. hom. semper i. vill. et v. and marriage of John Jermy, of Thomas

bord. i. car. in dom. et dim. car. hom. Duke of Norfolk, for ico/. which John,

iii. acr. prati, silva iv. pore, et i. mol. in 1526, was a knight, and lord here ; in

et i. lib. homo ii. acr. et i. runcin.etiv. 1561, Francis Jermy had livery ofit, and

anim. tunc valuitx. sol. modo xx. in 1609, Robert Cock, junior, had it,

4 In 1303, John Jermy and Isabell his and held it of Forncet manor, and soon wife purchased of Roger de Hales, 3 after it seems to be purchased of George messuages, 120 acres of land, 4 of mea- and Francis Cocke, Gents, by Sir Edw. dow, 8 of pasture, 15 of wood, and 20s. Clere, Knt. and joined to the other rent, in Tharston, Waketon, and Font- manor.

cet, this was held in Henry the Third's = Seeformany of this family atp. 43,4.

time, by Roger de Wynthsted, by the 6 PlacitaCoroneapudNorr.ic. in crast.

serjeanty of finding one slinger, with Sci. Hillarij A0 15 E. I. Rot. 16 ia

a sling to cast stones with, in the King's dorso. army. Jermy's manor continued in

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the Nerfords ; for after the death of William and Petronel, John de Nerford and Agnes his wife, in 1328, settled this, Shotesham Nerford's, the advowson of Pentney priory, the church of Holt, &c. in Norfolk, the advowson of Hamburgh priory, Wisete manor, Sic. in Suffolk, on themselves and their heirs, in tail. This Agnes was daughter of William de Hereford, sister and heir of Edm. de Bereford, widow to John Argenteyn, and married after Nerford's death, to John Mautra- vers, senior; she died seized in 1375, of this and Shotisham,1 and they went to John de Bit rose son of Peter de Brewse, Knt. and Margery hia wife, who was a Nerford ; and Kat. de Brewse, his sister, a nun at Dertford, released her right in it. In 1383, Sir John settled it on William deCobham and William de Bergh, his trustees.

Sir Thomas Roos of llamlake, Knt. and Beatrix his wife, who de- scended from Maud, the other daughter and coheir of Faux, had it; and in 1 39-1, Margery de Nerford released and conveyed ali right in it, to

William Roos or Rees, Esq. and his heirs, who held it in 1403, of Thomas Mowbray's manor of Forncet, at one fee. In 1410, this William Rees, Esq. by will gave his two manors in Therston, the one called Neiford's, and the other St. Outer's, to be sold by his executors, with his manors of Caxton and Wrotung in Cambridgeshire, to found a chantry in the college of St. Mary in the Fields in Norwich, and. to pay Sir Thomas the anchorite near that college,8 2s. a week for life ;9 and soon after it was sold to William Loveney, and after purchased by

Sir Robert Clere, Knt. who held it in 1.432, and it passed in that family as Keswick, at p. 44. In 1549, Sir John Clere was lord, and the manors were valued at 30/. but he manumised much, and died ■Aug. 21,1557, leaving Sir Edward his son and heir, then 25 years old, who was to permit Sir Richard Fulmerstone, and his other execu- tors, to take the profits for 5 years, to pay a legacy to Walter Haddon his son. He made a long lease of the demeans, to John W'oolmcr,' and settled the manor as at p. 166. He left it to Sir Edward Clere of Ormesby his son and heir, who sold it to John Smith, Esq. 1 of Ame- ringhall, and he in 1617, to Sir Thomas Knyiet of Ashwelthorp, Knt. when there were 319 acres 3 roods and an half of copy-hold, which paid 10/. 2s. 3d. quitrents, besides 6 capons, 2 hens, 3 geese, 10 eggs, 2 bushels of oats, 7 days work and an half in harvest, 7 days work in. winter, half a day's work in hay-seele, and half a day's work in weed- ing; which were even now paid in kind. The freehold rents of

7 Esch. 49 E. III. N° 17. Eleanor ' Scitum manerij i. mes. 60 acr. terre ' her daughter and heiress by Mautravers, 31 acr. prati, 120 acr. pasture, 80 acr. married John son of Richard Earl of bosci nuper parcel, manerij post mortem Arundel. Sir John her son and heir, by Johannis Woolmer descendebant Anne John Argenteyn, was 50 years old at his uxori Roberti Wood, Elize. uxori Hen- mother's de..th. Sir John Nertord, Knt. rici Bastard, et Francisce Woolmer her husband, died3 E. III. 1329, and Sir filiabus et co-heredibus ejus.

Thomas Nerford his brother and heir, Wood purchased all the parts.

died 18 E. 3,1344, leaving Sir John Ner- * In 1616, John Smith covenanted to

ford, Knt. his son and heir. convey to Francis Jones, alderman of

8 Vol. iv.'p. 175, 6. London, and Will. Webb ofEwston,

9 It seems as if his wife Margery was this manor, which the said John Smith, a Brews, for he gives legacies to SirRob. together with Dame Agues Clere, widow, Brewes, Knt. Will. Appleyard his bro- his mother, purchased of Sir Edward ther, and to Thomas Uvedale, and Clere, Knt. but it did not take place. Margaret his wife.

vol. v. Rr

306 T H A R S T O N.

ancient tenure, were6/. 2s. 4d.per annum, 12 capons, 5 hens, 1 comb of wheat, half a pound of pepper, and one July-flower. The freehold rents of the new purchases or manumissions, were 9.1. 7s. 5d.one capon and one red rose. The rents of 159 acres of demeans granted off free, 61. 17*. ob. and one capon. The profits of the court one year with another, 8/. 10s. The lord hath hadaoiarrot of coney &&t Holme- hill, and hath letten Holme chapel to farm. It then paid 3d. per annum to Forncet, and Is. to Stratton manors. In 1626, Thomas Knevet of Ashwellthorp, Esq. sold it to

Robert Wood of Bracon-Ash, Esq. and it hath passed ever since, as at p. 84, and Thomas Wood, Esq. of Bracon-Ash, is now lord.

WELHOLME'S or WELHAM'S MANOR

Laid in Stratto?i St. Michael, and this town, for which see p. 202. Before the Welholmes removed to their new made manor-house at Stratton, they dwelt in the old site of their manor by Holm-hill in this parish, to which belonged an ancient free-chapel dedicated to St. Giles, called Holme or IVelholme's chapel ; the site of which now be- longs to the manor of Tharston : and on account of this it is, that we often meet with the churches of Tharston mentioned, but the manor united to Stratton-Hall.

The advowson of the rectory of the church of St. Mary the Virgin at Tharston was given in King Stephen's time, to the priory of Pent- NEY in Norfolk, by Rob. de Vaux, founder of that house, to which it was appropriated before 1273 ;3 it was first valued at 15, after at 18 marks, and had a house and 40 acres of glebe. The vicarage is valued in the King's Books, by the name of Thurston, at bl. Is. 8d. and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 45/. it is discharged ot'Jirst- fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation. It paid 7s. 8d. procurations, l6d. synodals, \6d. Peter-pence, and id. carvage; and in 1571, the Queen's receiver general paid to the vicar outof the impropri- ate tithes, a yearly pension of 3l. 6s. 8d. There was a gild held in honour of the Blessed Virgin, and the following religious persons had temporalities valued as follow ; the Prior ofThetford monks at 2s. ; the Abbot of Creke6d.; the Prior of Bukenham 2s.; the Prior of Norwich 4i 6d. ; and it paid clear to every tenth 4l. 12s.

The church hath a square steeple and four bells, the nave is leaded, the chancel and north porch are tiled.

There are two monuments of black marble thus inscribed,

Here resteth the Body of Robert Wood Esq; Sonn and Heire to Sir Robert Wood, of Ay/esham in the County of Norfolk Knt. who departed this Life in this Parish the 23 Da}' of May 1623. Here also resteth the Body of Anne Wood,5 Wife to

3 Thomas son of Alexander de Wei- granted land to John son of Henry de

holm, mentioned in a deed without date. Welholme or Welham, at Welholme's

1 280, Robert son of Rob. de Wei- Field near UUotine's-Street'm Tharston. holme and Lucy his wife, had it ; in * See vol- ii. p. no, 12. j 296, Tho de Welholme of Tharston 5 See p. 84.

THARSTON. ^07

the said Robert, Daughter and one of the Co-heirs of Robert Woolmer Esq; sometimes Clark of the Assizes for this Circuit; the said Anne departed this Life at her House at Brakene-Ash in this County, the 7th Day oi'Jan. 1646. The said Robert and Anne had Issue 3 Sons and 2 Daughters, Sir Robert their eldest Son, married Elizabeth the 3d Daughter of Sir Thomas Richard- son Knt. late Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Edmond their Q,d Son, married the Daughter of William Adams of Patterchurcft in the County of Pembrokeshire Esq; Phillip 3d Sonn un-mar- ried. Frances their eldest Daughter married Thomas Fletcher of St. Edmonds-Bury in the County of Suffolk Esq; Alice the young- est Daughter married Anthony Penning of Little-Baddo in the County of Essex Esq.

Here lieth the Body of John Woolmer Esq; sometimes Clark of the Assizes for this Circuit; a Man of excellent Learn- ing, ingenuous Conversation, and of singular Piety and Integrity of Life; and the Body of Alice his Wife, a modest, discreet, industrious and religious Gentlewoman, both which have left behind them a perpetual good Name, answerable to such everliv- ing Vertues. The said John Woolmer died in this Towne, the 2 Dec. 1598, and Alice his Wife died at Croxton in this County6 the 9th of Dec. 1610, after they had enjoyed each other the space of 32 Years ; they left Issue 3 Daughters, Anne the eldest, mar- ried to Robert Wood of this Town Esq; who had Issue 3 Sonns, Robert, Edmund, and Phi/lip ; and two Daughters, Frances and Alice; Alice the Id Daughter married to Henry Bastard of Great-Dunham in this County Gent, who had Issue G Sonns, Richard, Henry, Robert, Thomas, Leonard, and John; and 5 Daughters, Elizabeth, Anne, Margaret, Alice, and Frances; Fran- ces the youngest, married to Mathew Goad of Croxton aforesaid Gent, and had Issue 4 Sonns, WToolmer, Mathew, Thomas, and Francis ; and one Daughter Catherine.

Hoc pietatis Monumentum posuit.

Matheus Goad, 28 Junij 1617.

VICARS

PRESENTED by the priors of pentneye,

1273, Roger.

1306, Stephen de Shotesham.

1319, Roger deBeccles.

1349, Stephen de Bowthorp.

1412, John Redgrave, resigned.

1414, Tho. Edzcards, resigned.

1416, John Ala rye, resigned.

1420, Edm. Ovisson, or Quysson, resigned.

1427, Simon Towe, resigned.

1436, Tho. Umfrey, ob."

1439, Rob. Caley.

1455, Henry Stevenson.

6 See vol. ii. p. 154.

303 THARSTON.

1461, Robert Waltham, resigned.

1475, John Glovere, who was succeeded by

John Borell, at whose death in 1496, John Shaw had it.

1500, Thomas Dawson, ob. He was the last presented by the Prior, who granted the next turn to Thomas Codde, alderman of Norwich, by virtue of which in 1540, he presented Sir Walter Done, chaplain. The impropriate rectory and advowson of the vicarage, vested in the Crown at the Dissolution, and the King let the impropriation to farm, at 61. 6s. 8d. reserved rent, and presented to the vicarage one

Robert Ringer, who in 1554, was deprived by Queen Mary, for not complying with the Romish religion, which she endeavoured to establish, and she gave it to

Robert Vassour ; and in 1557, he being outed, Thomas Undencood alias Babington, took it by lapse, who wa« succeeded by

George Heynszcorth, who resigned. In 1565,(1 (ill. Burton had it of the gift of Robert GosnoJd and Anne his wife, by grant from the Crown, and in 1585, the Queen gave it to

Rob. Robinson : and in 1589, when he resigned, Leonard Greaves had it by gift of John Bacon, by grant of the turn from the Crown. In 1591, the Queen presented Henry Goodram, and in 1595, James Wadesworth, and after this,

The impropriation and advowson of the vicarage was settled by the Crown, on the Bishoprick of Ely, the Bishops of which see have all along, and now do, enjoy them.

VICARS,

PKESENTED BY THE BISHOPS OF ELY.

1601, Ric. Muckleston, A. B. he returned 136 communicants in this parish in 1603.

1609, Thomas Cross. « 1613, Miles Willan, A. M.

1641, Tho. Trunch intruded into the rectory and vicarage, and held the whole till the Restoration; and in 166 1, at Willaris death,

Abel Hodgts, A. M. had it, and held it united to Tibenham and in

1678, Abel Hodges, A. M. had it at his father's death, and at his death in

\T2.0,Abcl Hodgeshis son, had it, and held it first united to fVac- ton-Parva, and after to Brockdkh; at whose death,

The Rev. Mr. Thurlow, the present vicar, succeeded.

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FRITTON.

The chief part of Fritton, or Free Town, to which the advowson belonged, was part of the honour and manor ot'Forncet,7 and from its enjoying the liberties of the honours that extended hither, it might take its name, as being free from many things that other villages were subject to.

There was another small part held of the manor of Hemenhale* by Thomas Trot and Alice his wife, in 1384. (See p. 183.)

Robert Malet, lord of the honour of Eye, which extends hither,' had two freemen here and their services.

And the honour ofRicHMOND also extends into this village; for in 1636, it appears by the rolls of that honour, that Roger JVarde, Gent, was amerced 20s. for detaining from the King, as lord of the honour, Id. a year of ware-pound rent for his lands in Freton.

The Abbot of St. Edmund had lands here belonging to his manor of Moringthorp,1 which he assigned with that manor to Robert de Vals, and it hath passed to this day with Moringthorp, or Thorp-hall manor, to which I refer you. To this also was joined one freeman and two lordars under him, and their services, which belonged till then to the King's hundred of Depwade

Besides these parts, there was a considerable share of the parish, which in the Confessor's time was held by Olketel a Dane, and freeman of Ederic de Lax field's, the antecessor of Robert Malet, lord of Eye; and by G if art, under Robert Fitz-Corbun at the Conquest :"

7 For the Forncet part see Doms. fo. Herduuic i. vill. et v. acr. et est in 123. (as at p. 223, 4, under Forncet,) pretio de Eia.

and at fo. 139 Doms. under Forncet also, * Terra Abbatis de Sco. Eadmundo.

is this : Depwade H. Doms. fo. 184.

In Fredetuna iii. liberi homines In Fritletuna tenet idem sc. Rob.

(belonging to Forncet manor.} et dim. de Vals) as belonging to Moringthorp

lxxx. acr. et xiii. bord. semp. ii. car. et manor, ii. liberi homines, de xxiii. acr.

dim. car. hominum et iii. acr. prati, et et i. vill. et iii. bord. et i. car.

i. ecclesia xl. acr. et i. soc. et dim. sub. In Frietuna i. lib. homo Regis de

illis v. acr. xv. acr. et ii. bord. et val. iii. sol. hoc

8 Terre Radi. Bainardi Depwade tenet idem Robs.

H. Doms. fo. 252. 2 Terre Roberti Corbutionis. H.

In Fretuna et in Herduic x. acr. Depwade Doms. fo. 270.

tenet lib. homo T. R. E. et val. xxd. Fridetuna tenet Gifart qnam tenuit

hoc est additum huic manerio, hoc est Olketel liber homo Edrici dt Laxcfdda,

in Hamehala. antecessoris Roberti Malet xxx. acr. et

9 Terre Roberti Malet. Doms. iii. bord. tunc et post. ii. car. tunc xvi. fo. 80. Depwade H. pore, m" viii. tunc vi. anim. etlx. oves,

In Fretuna i. liber homo de quo m" nichil semper dim. car. hominum i.

habuit suis antecessor commendationem acr. et dim. prati, soca falde et vii. ho-

tantum T. R. E. et habet xv. acr. et ii. mines qui possent vendere terram suam

bordarioset dimidium carucate, etvaluit sieamprins obtulissent domino suo et

iv. sol. et iii^. habent xiv. acr. eti. liber homo iv. acr.

Fretuna i. lib. homo de quo suis semper dim. car. semper valuit xxv.

antecessor habuit commendationem sol. et habet i. leug. in longo, et dim. in

T. R. E. xxx. acr. et ii. bord. modo Iato et \xd. de gelto. Ex hac terra erat

dimid. car. et dim. acr. prati et val. vii. saisitesW. Malet, quando ivitinMaresc. sol. et tenet Garinus cocus. Et in

310 FRITTON.

and there were then 7 tenants of this manor that had power to sell their land, if their lord refused to purchase it of them ; it was always worth 25s. and had the liberty of faldage; and the town was a mile Ions* and half a mile broad, and paid gd. to the geld. This was after- wards called Bouland manor, and hath passed ever since, as Boyland- Hall in Moringthorp, to which I refer you.

Another part of this village extended into Heustede hundred,3 and was held of Roger Bigot's manor, at the 20th part of a fee, by liainulf or Ralf, and belonged to Ulf the Dane in the Confessor's time. In 1264, Roger le Hayre, Eyre, or Ayer, was found to be a rebel against King Henry III. and to hold a manor in Fret on of 100s. value, which the King seized; but in 1276, it was restored to William le Ayer; in 1306, Roger Ri/vet had it, and in 1432, John Storer, and after Roger Be/met, by whom it was sold to the lord of Boy land, and so became joined to it.

THE MANOR OF BAVENT'S BURTOFT'S and HEMEN HALE'S,

Was infeoffed by the lord of Forncet, in Peter Fitz-Nicholas, to be held of Forncet at the 4th part of a fee ; and in 1 198, he settled it by fine on Eustace de Bavent and his heirs; and about 1210, Ra/fde Fre- ton and John his son, were lords; and in 1245, John de Bui toft, who in 1264 was found to be one of the rebels against Henry III. but ha- ving obtained his pardon in 12,85, Ra/fde Burtoft and Margaret his wife possessed it. In 1307, a Ra/fde Burtofts was lord, and in 1315, Sit John de Stunnyu, Knt. who in 1327, had a charter for a weekly market and yearly fair here, and for free-warren, in this town, Stratton, and Moringthorp.* In 1329, Ralf de Burtoft, and Margaret his wife sold it to John de Hemenhale, and in 1331, the rest of their lands here;5 in 1.^45, Sir Thomas de Hemenhale had it, and it continued in that family till aboutl400, and then James Rees and Edmund Younghusband, held the lands and site of Hemenhale's alias Burtoft's manor in Freton ; but the manor continued with Hemenhale, and Lady Luliyit now hath it.6

The church is dedicated to St. Catherine, was valued in the old taxation at 16 marks, and had a house and 1 1 acres of glebe; it paid 2s. Qd. synodals, Gs. 8d. archdeacon's procurations, lOd. Peter-pence, and Id. carvage. And the whole village paid 3/. 10s. clear to every tenth.

It stands thus in the King's Books,

9l. Fritton Rectory. 40/. clear yearly value. It is discharged of first-fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

There is a messuage and 10 acres of town-land, and the following religious houses had temporals here taxed as follow ;

3 Doms. fo. 132. Sub tit. Terra Ro. 6 Ibid. p. 184. And on account of

geri Bigot 1. H. Heineste. exchanges made between the lords of

In Freistuna i. liber homo ULFt Boyland and Burtoft's, it hath passed by

«ommend. hoc tenet Ranulfus. the name of Fritton cum Boyland for

+ Cart. 2 E. 111. n. 69. See fo. 127. some time.

5 See p. 185.

FRITTON. 3||

The Prior of the monks at Thetford 30s.7 The Abbot of Windham \0d. the Prior of Duntnow 2s. and the sacrist of St. Edmund &tBuru 4s. 4d* *

RECTORS OF FRITTON.

1293, Master Hamon de Gatele, who held it with East-Tuddenham ; resigned.

1300, Robert de Bosco, or Boys of Great-Thornham; he pu rchsed the parsonage-house and a 2d rent in 1319. of William le Eyre, and settled it on the church by license of mortmain from King Edward II. who presented him.

1349, Thomas Revet of Freton. Sir John de Segrave, Knt. lord of Fomcet. He was deprived, because the King, as guardian to Sir John, recovered the next turn in his own court in 1352, and then he presented

Robert Colston.

1375, John Beneyt. Margaret Lady Segrave, and Marshal. Resigned.

1376, Henry Godchilde. Ditto. He changed with Beneyt for this, and Will. Mu/sho, dean of the royal chapel of St. Martin le Grand in London, presented him to St. Catherine's in Col/nan-street, London, which was in his patronage.

1380, Robert son of Ralf in the Willows.

1387, Hen. Gille. Ditto. Afterwards rector of Holesle.

1394, John Wilby. Ditto. Deprived in 1434, and

William Home had it of the King, as guardian to the Duke of Norfolk. He was deprived the same year, and John Gybelot had it and resigned in

1441, to Thomas Joye. John Duke of Norf. Resigned.

1447, John Machou. Ditto.

1458, John Tumor, ob. Ditto.

1489, Thomas Clerk. Eliz. Dutchess of Norf. Resigned.

1496, Nic. Saunders. Ditto.

1528, Sir Lancelton Wharton, resigned. Tho. Duke of Norfolk.

1536, Will. Hughson, ob. Ditto.

1559, John Collison. Ditto.

1565, John Midleton, resigned. Ditto.

1557, Reginald Nuthall, resigned. Will. Dix and Will. Cau- trell, assignees of Thomas Duke of Norfolk. In 1603, he returned 88 communicants.

1616, Thomas Cronshay, or Crausley, resigned. Henry Jermyn this turn. In

1627, Ralf Smith of Fritton, Gent, having purchased the advowson of the Norfolk family, presented

George Cooke, who in 1636, was suspended by Bishop Wren, for not complying with the Rubrick; but after his submission, he was restored, and died rector; and in

7 In 1342, John Sturmy and Rob. his 8 These were small rents given by

son held a messuage and 30 acres of land, Walter and Rob. le Goz, and Botild,

in Freton, of the Prior of Thetford daughter of John le Noreis, as the

monks, by the annual rent of 30*. Esch. Sacrist's Register informs me at fo. 128. 17 E. III.

S12 FRITTON.

1 661, Samuel Snowden, A. M. was presented by Mr. Smith, and at his resignation in 166S, he presented

John Smith, A. B. who held it united to Hemenhale. In

1697, John Smith was presented by Anne Smith, widow, and held it united to Hardimck; and at his death in

1714, Tho. Holmes, A. M. had it, united to Flordon ; he was pre- sented by John Howse, senior Esq. who purchased theadvowson ; at his death John Howse, Esq. son of the said John, who is now patron, presented

The Rev. Mr. Martin Baily, the present rector, who holds it with the rectory of Wrentham in Suffolk.

In 1536, Margaret Sporle widow, gave five marks to make the covering for the font.

The church and chancel are leaded, the south porch is tiled, the steeple is round at bottom, and octangular at top, and hath three bells. There is no memorial of any kind in this fabrick, except the arms of Bigot, Thetford abbey, and Brotherton, in the chancel windows.

In the yard, against the south chancel wall, under an altar tomb lies buried,

Thomas Holmes A. M. Rector here 14 Years, he died in Aug. 1729, aged 44. He left the World with a great Assurance to be made Pertaker of a glorious Resurrection.

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THE

HUNDRED OF EARSHAM.

1 hi s hundred or rather half hundred, is wholly in the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk, and joins to Diss hundred on the west, Depwade and Lodne on the north, and Waveney liver (whicli divides Norfolk and Suffolk) on the south ; the east end of it terminating upon the town of Bongeye in Suffolk, which island,1 by the winding of the river northward, juts out as it were into No/folk.

The fee of it is appendant to the manor of Ear sham, and was first granted with it, to Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk, by King Ric. I. and was confirmed to Hugh Bigot by Henry II. when he made him Earl of Norfolk,2- In l'itiy, Roger Bigot, then Earl, held it as parcel of his barony. In 1285, Robert de Tateshale, lord of Bukenhum-castle, sued Roger le Bigod Earl of Norfolk, and John Grenecurtel, his war- rener, or game-keeper? for this half hundred, for taking away his dogs, and two hares, from the game-keeper of his manor of Denton, in the half hundred ; upon which, the Earl sets forth his liberties, and shows, that in the Confessor's time, Bishop Stigand had the soc and sac of all the half hundred, except Thorp, which belonged to St. Edmund's at Bury, Pu/hams, to St. Et/u/dred of Ely, and such parts of Redenhall and Denton, as belonged to Earl Ralf who had the soc, sac, and all jurisdiction of his own men or tenants there, when he forfeited; and when the grant of the hundred passed to his ancestors, they then had, as he now hath, free-warren through the whole hundred ; and the letes, or superiour jurisdiction and paramountship, in his own, and all other persons fees, except those before mentioned ; with view of frank- pledge, assise of bread and ale, a common gallows, infangthef, weyf,* and all other liberties belonging to a hundred? The whole, with

1 Bongeye, or the Good Island. per juratores, et totum comitatum, per-

a Roc. Bigot Earl of Norfok, gave tinere Comiti Marescallo, ratione hundr.

Ric. I. iooo marks, to have seizen of his de Eres/iatn ; consnetudo regni, custodi-

county of Norfolk, this town, and half endi weyf per anuum, et diem adjudi-

hundred, with that of Pirnho, Sec. Rot. catur bonam esse, post proclamacionem

Pip. i R. I. Norf. factam apud Harleston in plenocomitatu.

3 Warener, the keeper of the liberty Placita Corone 34 H. III. Rot. 14 Norf.

of free-warren, or game-keeper of a ma- s A hundred court, to be held at Har-

nor; for the liberty of free-warren or leston on the market day, every three

gaming, every where belonged to the weeks, &c. with the tolls of the market

Crown, till granted thence, by the several and fairs at Harleston, paying 3s. d,d. to

charters offrcc-warren. the King, as to the castle of Norwich,

+ Catalla vocata we yfs, adjudicantur felon's goods, &c.

VOL. V. S s

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EARSHAM.

Ear-sham manor, being valued at 30/. and held of the Crown by a fee- farm of 40d.6 to which Robert answered, that he had free-warren also to his manor of Denton, and it appearing that it was that part which belonged to Earl Half, it was agreed between the parties, at the instance of R. de Ingham, and his fellow justices itinerants at Norwich, that both should have free-warren in Denton. In 1352, the jury for lite hundred presented, that the inhabitants of Bongeye used, time out of mind, to repair the bridges between Bongeye, and Suffolk, and those between Bongeye, Ditchingham, and Earsham in Norfolk.1

In 1374, there were free-rents paid to the hundred from Brockdish, Lyncroft, Prilleston, Reveshale, Sterston, Redenha/e, Aldebergh, and Denton. The perquisites of eleven hundred-courts held at Har/eston, were bl. 9s. 6d. The profits of the nine letes belonging to the hundred 5l. 8s. id. and of the eight views of frankpledge 3l. 17s. The profit of Harleston market and fairs, 3/. 10s. &c. The whole received this year from the hundred anA accounted for to the head manor of Forncet, was 46/. 15s. 5d. 3q. and in 1537, Rob. Applevard, steward, accounted for the profits received of the bailiff of the hundred, to John Rob- sart, receiver-general, much the same as before.

This is often written anciently Erlesham, and was thought to take its name from the Earls of Norfolk, the lords of it ; but it is not so, for it was called by this name long before it belonged to the Earls: Hersam, as spelt in Domesday, seems to signify the station of the army; and accordingly there is an encampment by the church; this hundred (with that of Diss) makes up the deanery of Redenhall in the archdeaconry of Norwich, and paid clear to every tenth, 4Ql.lSs4d.

The quarterly payment for each town to the justices of the sessions, &e. for quarterage vagrant-money, bridge money, 8tc. for a 600/. levy each quarter.

/. s. d. 1 8 8 1 3 2 1 5 8

The annual payment of each I town in this hundred toiheland ' tax, at 4s. iu the pound.

Alburgh

Billingford

Brockdish

Denton

Earsham

Langmere in Dickie- burgh

Mendham

Needham

Pulham-Market

Pulham St. Mary

Redenhall cum Harleston

Rushall

6 In 12S6, it was found, that Stephen Fitzwalter held a part of Earsham half hundred, worth five marks ; Ernald de Mountenay another part worth 60s. and Ric. de Boyland another part worth zSj. and Stephen paid for the whole of this half hundred, a fee-farm of +od. and had

/.	s.	/.
127	16	0
74	8	0
99	10	0
231	12	0
233	16 O
67	0	0
76	12	0
95	0	0
249	1 1	(1
203	16	0
425	14	0
65	8	0

valued with Rushall.

0 13 10

0 15

1 14 1 13

1 6 2

all liberties, as the Earl of Norfolk had, to his half hundred of Earsham ; this bung that part of Earsham hundred, then and now joined to Diss hundred. See vol. i. p. i, 6. 7 Placita Term. Hillarij 27 E. III.

Stars ton Thorp-Abbots Wortwell in Redenha

EARSHAM.

85	2	0
20	8	0
87	10	n

2303 19 0

19 19

315

THE MANOR OF EARSHAM

Was the chief manor of the hundred, and belonged to Stigand the Archbishop at the Confessor's survey,8 when there were 3 carucates in demean, 2 mills, wood sufficient to maintain 300 swine, 3 saddle horses, 30 goats, &c. and was worth 11/. being then a mile and an half long, and a mile broad, and paid Qd. to the geld or tax. At the Conquest it belonged to the Conqueror, who committed the manage- ment of it to William de Noiers. The soc and sac belonged to it, and the whole was risen to 40/. value. There were then belonging to this manor, 12 socmen in Denton; Stigand had the soc of nine of them in Ersham, and the Abbot of St. Edmund had the soc of three of them, who held 40 acres, which they could neither give nor sell, without license from that church.

From the time it was granted to the No/folk family along with the half hundred from the Crown, it passed with Forncet manor, to which I refer you; the Duke of Norfolk being lord of the manor and hundred, and owner of the park here, which is now disparked, though in 35 Edw. I. it was well stocked, and belonged to the lodge or manor house, which had 286 acres in demean, 16 acres of meadow, and the hall dt/kes or fishery, a watennill, and many woods and feus;9 all which were kept for the use of the family of lioger Bigot, then lord, who chiefly resided at his adjacent castle of Bongeue.

There was a manor here, which formerly belonged to William de Fraxineto, or Freney, who gave the tithes of the demeans of it to the monks at Castleacre ;' it after came to Rog. de Glanvile, who con- firmed that donation, as did Simon Bishop of Norzvich in 1265; but it

8 Terre Stigandi Epi. quas custodit Will, de Noiers in maim Regis. Hersam dimid. hund. (Doms. fo. 52.)

Hersam tenuit Stigandus T. R. E. proiii. car. terre, tunc et postxxi. vill. modo xxv. semper xxiv. bord. et semper v. serv. tunc iii. car. in dom. post et modo ii. tunc xvi. car. horn, pest et modo xii. tunc silva ccc. pore, post et modocc. xx. acr. prati semper ii. mol. et semper iii. equi in aula, et i. rune, tunc xl. pore, et m° similiter semper xxx. capr. et xi. soc. de i. car. terre et iv. bord. Tunc iv. car. post et modo iii. silv. xl. porci etxii. acr. prati. Tunc valuit ii. libr. post et modo 40 libr. blancas, cum omnibus que adjacent. Habet i. leug. etdim. in longo, eti. leug. in lato, et de Gclto s\d.

In Dentuna 12soc.de his ix. habe- bat Stigandus socam in Ersam et habe- bant 60 acr. et de iii. Sanctus Edmundus liabebat socam et habebant 40 acr. quod nee dare, nee vendere poterant terram suam extra ecclesiam, sed Rogerus Bi- got addidit in Ersam propter consuetudi- nem quia soca erat in hundredo, semper v. car. inter omnes.

9 In 1652, the commission of sewers found 418 acres of low ground subject to be damaged by inundations, valued at above 330/. and so paid 13/. 10s. -jd. towards the repair of the sea breach between Lowestoft and Kirkly in Suf- folk; and anciently 1 find many legacie* left to repair Earsham dam.

1 Regr. Castleacre, fo. 61, a. 129 b.

316 EARS HAM.

extinguished or wasjoined to the other manor, for I meet with nothing of it since.

The church is dedicated to All the Saints; Norwich Domesday tells us, the rector had then a house and 40 acres of land, and now hath about 37 acres; it was first valued at 24, and after at SO marks, and paid 2s. synodals, 7d. Peter-pence, and the village 4/. 8s. clear to every tenth. It is incapable of augmentation, and so consequently pays first-fruits and yearly tenths, and stands thus in the King's Books :

15/. Eaesham Rectory. \l. 10s. Tenths.

RECTORS.

1305, Walter de Bonyngton. Hugh Bigot Earl of Norfolk, and Maieschal.

1321, Giles de Wingfield. Tho. de Brotherton.

1349, Rob. Swan. Sir Edw. Montague, Knt.

136), John de Methelwold. The King, as guardian to Sir Edward's heir.

1390, Will. Fitz-Piers. Margaret Countess of Norfolk.

1394, Tho. de Orton; he changed for Thaxted in London diocese, with

Rob. JVitton, doctor in the decrees, in 1407. Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk.

1412, Rob. Gouerton, ob. John Duke of Noifolk.

1437, Henry Bradfield, res. Ditto.

1444, Rob. Stafford, res. Ditto.

1466, John Wace; he was buried in 1502, and gave a piece of alder-carr to repair the church, and a piece in North-Meadow to- wards paying the town charges for evermore.1

1502, Will. Fynchebek, united to Alburgh. ob. Eliz. Dutchess of Norfolk.

1504, Will. Holme, res. Ditto.

1510, Rob. Legge, ob. Thomas Earl of Surrey.

1524, Tho. Seman; he and the five following were presented by Tho. Duke of Norfolk.

1526, Reginald Maynerd, priest, buried in the church.

1543, Henry Simonds, deprived in 1553, by Queen Mary, as a married priest, and

Henry Cumbreford, S. T. B. was instituted, who resigned in

1558, to Alan Persey,3 brother to Anne Countess of Arundell.

1500, Will. Dyer, ob.

15S5, Edward Key, A. M. Will. Mayster, LL. D. this turn;* in 1603, he returned answer that there were 260 communicants in this parish.

1612, John Blague, A.M. ob. Earl of Northampton.

1618, Nic. Sherztood, A. B. he was ejected in 1643, by the Ear] of Manchester, but lived to be restored, and died Apr. 19, aud his wife Apr. 22, 167 1.5

1 Regr. Popy, fo. 154. ♦ See vol. iv. p. 346.

3 See vol. iii. p. 208; vol. iv. p, ' Walker, part ii. fo. 367. 331, 98.

EARSHAM.

317

1671, John Doughty, A. M. Will. Doughty, this turn. He is buried by the altar rails.

1702, Edw. Chebsey, buried by Doughty. Will. Longevile, Esq. assignee to the Duke of Norfolk.

1717, Charles Buchanan. John Anstis, Esq. Garter Principal King at Arms, united to Ditchingham.

17 18, Samuel 'Canning.6 Ditto. At his death in

1740, The Rev. Mr. John Burcham, the present rector,1 was pre- sented by his father, who purchased this turn of Mr. Gunning, who is said to have purchased the advowson of the assignee of the late Duke of Norfolk.

The church stands on an old encampment, which, by its oval form, seems to have been a work of the Danes or Saxons. The tower is square, and hath three bells, the nave, the chancel, and south porch, are tiled, and the north porch is leaded; at the door of which, lies a stone over Thomas Berry, Apr. 17, 1653.

On a mural monument in the chancel, on the south side, by the altar,

Juxta depositae sunt Reliquiae, Gulielmi Lamb Generosi, Vitfe integri, Scelerisque Puri, Dun servi, veri Ecclesiaa Angli- cana Filij, Pads aeque ac Charitatis Alumni, omnibusque Amici, obijt 20 Aug. 1724, A° set. suae 54°. Cujus Memoriae hoc sacravit in Lachrymis Filia ejus unica Martina.

Lamb, sab. on a fess or, between three cinquefoils arg. a lion passant gul. between two mullets of the first, impaling.

Arg. in a bordure ingrailed, a lion rampant sab.

Under this monument lies a flat black marble for Sir Thomas Barker, Knt. who died Aug. 22, 1658,

Barker, per fess nebule az. and or, three martlets counter- changed, a canton er. Crest, a lion saliant,

In the altar rails, on black marbles,

M. S. Johannes Filius secundus, Johannes Filius tertius Jo- hannis Buxton de Chanonz in prima, aetate obierunt, ethic sepeli- untur; Fato cessit alter Mense Junij 1710, alter Maij 1712.

Robert Goocii of Ea.rsh.am Esq; ob. 2 Apr. 1655, aet. 53- Anne Dr. of Leonard and Dorothy Gooch, ob. 29 Dec. 1692. Leonard Gooch Gent. ob. 10 Jan. 1686.

Gooche's arms and crest, an arm in pale cooped at the elbow, the sleeve parted per pale embattled A. S. the hand proper; to this is sometimes added a wolf's head erased proper, held in the hand.

Dorothy Wife of Leonard Gooch, Gent, one of the Daughters of Richard Cat/yn of Kirbu Esq; ob. 19 June, 1085, aet. 48. Gooch impales Catlyn.

6 See vol. iv. p. 190. 7 Ibid. p. 355.

318 BILLINGFORD.

On a monument against the north wall,

In Memoria Eterna eruntjusti.

Near this Place lies interred the Body of Robert Gooch late of this Town Esq; who departed this Life upon the cZgth Day of Sept. A. D. 1704, and in the 76 Year of his Age. To whose (never to be forgotten) Memory, his Niece Dame Barbara iVurd, Wife of Sir Edw. Ward Bart, of Bixley in this County, has caused this Monument to be erected, as a small, but lasting Token of her Gratitude, to so good a Friend, and just a Guardian.

On brasses by the chancel door,

<©rate pro anima lEargatete grhcocftmerton Jfilia <3Johannis» ^rhrofcmerton.

$ic iactt £imon Chrofimcrton, rSccunDuj* jfiliu.S gjohanni.^ Chrohmcrton, nupcr &outh*£lmham, in Comitatu ^ufWcie, qui fuit s-iecunOu.si Jriliu^ Ctome Chrofcmerton, nupcr ue £hrohmerton in Comitatu ©pprnie, obut Dccimo <©te 3]ulii, 3° ©nt. M" ccccc j,-jcijii°.

There is a silver cup with this on it,

For the Tovne o/"Ersam Al Sayntes. And a flaggon with this,

Sarah Gooch D. D. Ecclesiae de Earsham.

The estate formerly the Throkmertons, was afterwards the Gooches* and then the Buxtons, on which John Buxton, Esq. built the present house called Earsham Lodge or Hall; and afterwards sold it to Co- lonel William Windham, who is interred under the altar; and it is now the seat of the Windhams.

For Ric. Belward, and others of this town, see Fox's Martyrs, fo. 660, 1 .

I do not find that the Abbot of Sibton had any thing to do here, though it is said that he had, in the Atlas, p. 332.

BILLINGFORD.

1 h e original name of this place, is Preleston, or the Town of the Battle, in all probability so called from some remarkable battle fought here, when the Romans possessed the land : and by this name only it is mentioned in Domesday : its present name first occurring in Henry the Third's time, when the inhabitants began to fix themselves by the ford, or pass over the river into Suffolk, for Billingford, signifies the dwelling at the ford by the low meaaows;* and such is the situation of the village at present.

» Lambert, page 417.

BILLINGFORD. sig

Stigand the Bishop was superiour lord here at the Confessor's time, and Roger de Ramis at the Conquest.9 One part of the of the town formerly belonged to the Abbot of Bui y, and another to the Abbot of Ely;' all which Warenger held under the said Roger, and retained the superiour jurisdiction to himself, in those lands which formerly belonged to Bury; the one part was given to Bury along with Thorp, and the other to Ely with Pulham, to which manors they then belonged.

Soon after, they were divided, and one moiety continued in Roger's family, till 1249, and then Richer de Remes sold it to Roger de ller- debaiow, or llerleburgh, who by this purchase became lord of the whole; for the other moiety went to the Bigots, and in 1211, was sold by William Bigot to Hugh de Hurleburgh ; the whole was held always of Forncet manor at one fee, and Id. ob.per annum castleward ; Isabel/ de Bosco, widow of Hugh, held it, at whose death it went to their son Roger, and in 1238, it was settled on Ida, widow of Roger, for life, with remainder to Ela and Isabel their daughters, in tail; but, in 1285, Isabel was alive; for then she impleaded Ida, widow of Roger, and her daughter's guardians, for her dower here and in Great Harborow manor in Warwickshire;2, and this year, Roger Bigot claimed liberty of free-warren, as superiour lord or the fee ; after this, it divided again into moieties : Ela, one of Herleburgh's heiresses, married Walter de Hopton, and presented here in 1300, and John de Peyto married the other; whose son, by the name of John de Petto, junior, presented in 1337, it having been settled on him and Alice his wife in 1326, by John de Watevile, who was to have an annuity of 20 marks for life, but in 1338, they all joined and sold the whole to Sir Walter de Hopton, Knt. who in 1345, settled it on Joan his wife. In 1360, John de Clinton was lord for life, jointly with Sir Walter de Hopton; and in 1375, Agnes, relict of John Brown, and Ric. Brown, clerk, their son, sold it to

Sir Simon Burley, Knight Banneret,3 the great favourite of Ed- ward the Black Prince, and tutor to Ric. his son, afterwards King Ric. II. who advanced him to many honours, and places of trust and

9 TerreRoGERi de Ramis. H. dim. terre modo tenet Rogerus de Ramis de

Hersam. Doms. fo. 275. Abbate, semperv. bord. et i. serv. tunc

In Prelestuna tenet Idem (sc. Rog. de et post ii. car. in dom. m°i. semp. dim.

Ramis) xxiv. acr. terre,sed fuere in aula car. horn, silva xvi. pore, viii acr. prati

Sci. Eadmundi xii. liberi homines Sci, tunc et post valuit xx. sol. modox. ha-

Eadmundi, qui nee dare nee vendere bet v. quarant. in longo et v. in lato, et

poterant terram suam sine licencia Sancti, de Gelto ivd. plures ibi tenent.

et Stigandi qui habuit socam et sacam in " De terra vero quam Sanctus Ead.

Hersam, habent homines lx. acr. et ii. " mundus habuit in hoc dimidio hun-

bor. tunc et post ii. car. nv» i. et dim. " dredo, tenuit socam, in Prelestuna,

tunc et post val. xs. modo v. " detinuit Warengerus, ad feudum Ro-

In eadem, tenet idem, adhuc xl. acr. «' geri de Ramis." Doms. fo. 53.

terre quas tenet Scs. Eadmund.T. R. E. 2 Dugd. Bar. p. 49, 62. Waiwicksh.

teste hundredo. Modo Warengerus p. 62.

(sub Rogen de Ramis) sed liund. nescit 3 Burley manor in Herefordshire, set-

quomodo. tied by John deBurley, on his son Roger

1 Heinesteda (by mistake of the ini3i5. In 1316, Sir Ric. Burley, Knt.

scribe for Hersam) hund. dim. Doms. fo. died, and Simon Burley his brother, was

198. his heir, and 33 years old, being son to

In Prelestuna tenuit liber homo Sir John Burley, Knt. afamous warriour

sub Sancta Adeldreda T. R. E. i. car. under Edw. III.

520 BILLINGFORD.

profit;* he being Knight of the Garter, one of his privy council, chamberlain of the household, governour of Windsor castle, constable of Dover castle, and lord warden of the Cinqueports : in 1378, he ob- tained a grant from the King, of the castle and lordship of Llan Stephan in Pembrokeshire, late Rob. de Femes; and in 1382, ano- ther, to be master of the King's falcons and game kept at Charing, with the manor of Burrock by Graveseud; and many other lands, &.C. in consideration of his great services done to him from his in- fancy, before he was made a knight, and at that time, and after, when prince of Wales, and since, when King of England;'' but being so great in his master's favour, it raised him to such an intolerable degree of pride, and its consequence, oppression, that he incurred the displeasure of the whole nation, and being attainted in parliament, was beheaded on Toicer-hill in 1388 ; but this manor was not forfeited thereby; for in 1375, Sir Simon conveyed it, after his decease, to Sir John Bui leu, his brother, and he settled it (or rather a moiety of it) on Sir John Hopton of Shropshire, Knt. who married Isabel Barley, his daughter, and their heirs; and the other moiety, afterwards called

CORBET'S MANOR,

Belonged to Sir Nic. Dagworth, Knt. and in 1401, to Tho. Yomig, Esq. of Sibton, and after to John Corbet, Esq. in whom the whole united again.

Sir John de Hopton left Sir John his son and heir, whose son Walter, was dead before 1423, for then Joan his widow presented. Their son Tho. de Hopton, in 1444, was found heir to Wilt. Barley, who then died without issue, being son of John Barley, lord of Elmyn castle in Caermarthenshire, son to Sir Roger Bur/ey, Knt. brother to Isabel Barley, great grandmother to Thomas de Hopton, by his first wife, Lucy, daughter of William Guildford, relict of Sir Ayuier Browne, Knt.; and at the death of Walter Hopton in 1460, John Corbet, Esq. was found his heir, in ris^ht of his wile Kathektne, only daughter and heiress of the said Walter; Sir Roger Corbet, Knt. his father, being now infeoffed in trust; and it continued in the Corbets a long time; Roger Corbet, Esq. was lord in 1531, and died in 1539, leaving

Andrew his son and heir, who sold it, jointly with Joan his wife, in 1544, to

Sir Robert Southwell, of whom it was purchased by

Christopher Grice, Gent, who died in lo5S, and was buried in this church, leaving the manor and ..dvowson to Anne his wife for life, and then to Robert their son and heir, who married Susanna, daugh- ter and coheir to Thomas Ayre of Bury, Esq.; he died in 1583, and Christopher le Grice, their only child, inherited; he married Margaret, daughter and heir to Thomas Whipple of Dick/eburgh, Gent, and dying in 1601, lies buried here, leaving only one daughter,

* He could dispend but jo marks a 5 Reymer, vol. vii. p. 34S. Weever,

year of his own inheritance, but by his 367. Stow, 15S, and Sir Will. Dugdale's

Prince's favour attained to 3000 marks Hist, of St. Paul's, p. 47, 103. Edit.

of yearly revenue; he gave sometimes 2d, p. 50. His tomb, p. 104, epitaph

220 liveries in a year, of scarlet, &c. p. J05. (Erdswick, fo. 136.)

BILLING FORD. 321

Frances le Grice,6 who married to Sir William Platers of Sat- ter/ey, Knight and Baronet, deputy-lieutenant and vice-admiral of die county of Suffolk, and member in parliament; they left

Sir Tho. Platers, Bart, their only son and heir, who was high- sheriff of Suffolk, and a colonel of a regiment of horse to King Chat les I. and afterwards had a command at sea under the King of Spain. He married Rebecca, daughter and coheir of Thomas Chapman of Wormley in Hertfordshire, and died at Messina in Sicily, A° 1031, without legitimate issue, but settled this manor and estate on

Elizabeth, his natural daughter, who married to Sir Edward Chi- senhall, Knt. of an ancient family in Lancashire, and had issue Wil- liam Chisenhall, of whom it was purchased by the Carters, and in 1704, Edward Carter, senior, was lord and patron; and afterwards by the Holts, and

Rowland Holt, Esq. of Redgrave in Suffolk, is now lord and patron.

9?. Billingford rectory. 45/. clear yearly value.

This rectory being discharged, pays neither Jirst-fruits nor tenths, and is capable of augmentation. When Norwich Domesday was made, the rector had a house and 10 acres of land; the house stood near the summer-house at the hall, and was long since burnt down, and never rebuilt; the terrier hath 37 pieces of glebe ; it was valued at 16 marks, and paid 22d. synodals, and \0d. Peter-pence; and the village paid 46s. clear to every tenth. It is in the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk, who in right of his hundred of Earsham, is lord paramount here. There was a family sirnamed of the town ; in J260, Mat. ofPreleston, and in 1316, John of Prilleston and Margaret his wife lived here.

The church is dedicated to St. Leonard; the nave and south porch are tiled, the chancel is thatched ; there was a large square tower, which is fallen down, so that it is no higher than the church, is covered in, and hath one bell in it.

On a brass plate,

Here lyeth buryed the Corps of Christopher le Grys Esq; sometimes Lord and Patron of this Church, only Child to Robart le Grys Esq; and Susan his Wife, Dr. and Co-heire to Thomas Ayre of Bury in Suffolk Esq ; lineally descended from Sir Robert le Grys of Lcmgley in Norfolk Knt. one of th' Equerris. to King Richard the 1st. he married Margaret Daughter and Heir to Thomas Whipple of Dickteborough in Norfotk Gent, and Eliza- beth his Wife, Daughter and Cu-heire to John Garningham of Belton in Suffolk Esq; and had Issue by her, only Frances, who married with Sir William Playters of Sailer lei/ in Suffolk Knt. and Bart. He ended this Life the 19 of Oct. A0. 1601, and ia the Q3d. Year of his Age. Resurgam.

1, Le Grice, as at vol. i. p. 199. Q, Whipple, gul. a fess erm. between two chevron^, arg. 3, Jarnegan. 4, as 1.

6 See vol. i. p. 198, 9, for her inscription, and an account of the family.

VOL. V. T t

322 BILLINGFORD.

On another brass,

Here lyeth bury I'd the Corps of Christopher le GRicE,Esq; sometimes Lord and Patron of this Church, Sonn to William le Grys of Brockdish, and Sybell his Wife, Dr. and Heire to Edmund Syngleton Esq ; he married Ann eldest Daughter to Roburt How- ard of Brockdish Gent, by whom he had 3 Sonus and two Daugh- ters ; he died 19 Jan. 1558.

Grice impales quarterly, Singleton and Howard of Brockdish.

Here lyeth buried the Corps of Charles le Grys Gent, the only Sonne of Henry le Grys and Ann his Wife, Daughter to Anthony Yaxley of Yaxley in Suffolk Esq. He dyed 4 Sept. 1634.

In the chancel windows are the arms of De la Pole, Hastyngs, and Valence, of Anthony Grys with three martlets on the top, and of Hen. Grys with a crescent. And on a tree, hangs a shield with the arms of Brewse on it.

The font hath the arms of St. Edmund, St. George, and a chev- ron and chief in one shield, all carved in stone.

RECTORS OF PRELESTON, OR BILLINGFORD.

In 1267, there was a vicar here, one Walter, at whose death the vicarage was reunited to the rectory, and so it continued a rectory ever since.

1300, Geffery de Halton, rector, Walt, de Hupton, Knt. and Ela his wife.

1316, Alice de Hannonia Countess of Norfolk, as guardian, presented

Will. Freeman of Dickleburgh, who in 1337 exchanged for Kedeley in Rochester diocese, with

Tho. de Bilney, who had it of the gift of John de Petto, junior ; he changed in 1339, for Dunchurch in Litchfield diocese, with Will, de Chulton, who (as also the three following rectors) was presented by Sir Walt, de Hopton, Knt. ; which William, the same year, changed this, for Cotton in Litchfield diocese, with James de Runham. 1349, John Fittes.

1361, Will, de Easthawe of Wingfield; he was buried in the chan- cel in 1385, and made the lattices between the church and chancel. 1385, Rob. Daventre. Sir Nic. Dagworth, Knt. 1394, John Fornham, Thomas le Younge of Sibton. 1403, Thomas Smith ; he was buried here. Thomas Younge, Esq. 1423, Robert Drake. Joan, late wife of Walter de Hopton. 1465, Thomas Dekyn. Sir Roger Corbet, Knt. 1471, Robert Clifton. Sir Will. Stanley, Knt. I486, John Hunger, lapse. 1502, Ric. Greneleft, ob. 1506, JohnBatson, lapse, resigned. 1517, Roger Morley, ob. Anthony Ma/ery.

BILLINGFORD. S2.<5

1530, Henry Lockwood, resigned. Roger Corbet, Esq. 1532, Elisha Lache, resigned. Ditto. 1536, Will. Triste. Ditto.

Will. Stowe, ob. 1552. Henry Watson, deprived in 1555. Chris. Grice, Gent. 1556, Nic. Calverd. Ditto. 1560, Anne Grice, widow, gave it to

William Hudson ; united to Thorp-Abbots. He was buried here Dec. 7, 1560, and was succeeded by

William W alley ns, who was buried March 7, 1566, being •ucceeded by

John Inman, on the presentation of Robert le Grice. He resigned in

1582, to John Richards, and he in

1585, to Thomas Buskard, and both of them were presented by the aforesaid Robert.

1587, Nic. Grice, clerk, as patron of this turn, gave it to

Edw.Calky, who returned 80 communicants here inl603; he was buried Nov. 23, 1617, and John le Grice, Gent, gave it

William Owles, who held it united to Brockdish, and resigned in 1642, and Sir William Platers, Bart, presented

Edward Cartwright, A. M. who held it united to Thelton; he was buried here Sept. 13, 1679, when

Thomas Searank had it, and held it united to Ashley in Cam- bridgeshire; being presented by Sir Edward Chisenhull, Knt. and upon his taking Cheveley in Cambridgeshire, he resigned this, and Edward Carter, senior, Esq. gave it to

John Bryars, A. M. in 1704,7 who held it united to Diss, (for whom see vol. i. p. 18, 32,) at his death in

1728, Samuel Birch was presented by Rowland Holt, Esq.; see vol. ii. p. 138. He held it united to Little-Thorp, which at his death in 1739, was consolidated to Billing ford, when Mr. Holt presented The Rev. Mr. John Gibbs, at whose resignation in 1742, the Rev. Mr. John Barker, the present rector, was presented by Elizabeth Holt, widow, mother, and then sole guardian, to Itozo- land Holt of Redgrave, Esq. the present patron.

There were formerly many arms of the Grices, with their impale- ments and quarterings, both in the hall and church windows, but are now some of them removed, and the rest so broken and defaced, that there is no depending on them for the exactness of the several coats.

East of this town, on the great road from Yarmouth to LondonP which passes here, is the village of

7 1713, he was appointed perpetual whose chaplain he was. •urate of Wingfield by Bishop Trimnel,

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THORP-ABBOTS,

So called to distinguish it from other villages of this name/ it being for many ages, part of the possessions of the Abbot of Bury, and of those manors that were appropriated to the /Ibbot's own use ; and from its being much larger than the other neighbouring till called Thorp- Parva in Diss hundred, it is often named Thorp-Magua ; and of late ■years, Thorp-Cor nzcaleis, from its lords.

This town belonged to Ailfric Bishop of Elm ham in King Edgar's time, (for whom see vol. iii. p. 460,) who gave it to Bury abbey,9 to which it belonged ever since, to its dissolution ; the abbots of that house being always lords and patrons. At the survey, the manor had two carucates in demean, and was seven furlongs long, and six broad, and paid Ad. geld or tax.1 The church had 12 acres of glebe, then worth Qs. a year; and the Abbot had the soke or superiour jurisdiction here exempt from the hundred, except the services of two freemen which belonged to Hersam ; and in all returns made to the King, the Abbot is said to hold this town as part of his barony.

In 1285, Roger Bigod Earl of Noifo/k, as Lord of Ersham hundred, claimed freewarrtn here, but it was not allowed him, the Abbot re- covering it against him, proving by Domesday, that he was sole lord, and had the paramountship of Thorp in right of his church, exempt from the hundred: about this time, Robert of Thorp held it by lease for life from the Abbot; and it appears, that he had a good estate in the town, for in 1271, he purchased of Arnold de Bedingjield and Or- framnia his wife, two messuages, a mill, liiO acres of land, 4 acres of meadow, 10 acres of wood, here and in Preleston.

In 1425, Will. Curteys, then abbot, leased it to Will. Grice of Brockdish for 10 years, at 22 marks a year. At the Dissolution, it was

8 N. B. The account in the Atlas, p. lani et ii.bordarij. Tuncvaluit iv. hbr. 332, is every word false, as to this town, modo c. sol. habet vii. quar. in longo et most of it belonging to Thorp by Nor- vi. in lato, et de Gelto iv. d. Ecclesie xii. wich. acr. val. ii. sol.

9 Ex Albo Registro Ccenobij Sci. Ed- Terre Stigandi Epi. quas custodit mundi penes Honorab. Edm, Bacon de Will, de Noiers in manu Regis. Donis. Garboldesham, Bar. fo. 24. b. Alfri- fo. 53. Hersam dim. hundr.

cus Episcopus dedit Sco. Edmundo Hersam tenuit Stigandus, Sec. In

Torp. Torp 20 liberi homines, ii. Stigandi fuer

* Terra Abbatisde Sancto Eadmun- commend, et habebant - - acr, terre

DO. Doms.fo.179. Hersam dim. Hund. T. R. E. et 18 Sancti EHmundi com-

Thorp tenuit Sanctus Eadmundus mend, et non poterant reddere sine li-

T.R. E. pro maneriuet proii. car. terre cencia Sancti, sed soca et saca in Hersam.

tunc viii. villani, modo 9 et viii. bordanj ilabuit Stigandus socamet sacamT.R.E.

semper ii. car. in domimo et vi. car. hum. de hucdim. hundreto prefer Torp Sancti

tunc silva lx. pore, modo 40. 12 acr. Edmnndi et prefer Pulham S. Aldredre

prati. tunc i. mot. modo non. semper iv. in Hersam, de terra vero quam Sanctus

runcin. 10 animal, xi. pore. 10 oves. 20 Edmundus habet. in hoc dim. hund.

capr. Et in Brodise ii. soc. pertinen- tenuit socam. tes. isti manerio, de i, car. terre et ii. vil-

THORP-ABBOTS. 325

bought of King Henry VIII. by Giles Biidges, Esq. citizen and dra- per of London, son of Sir John Bridges, Knt.2 Lord Mayor of London, who died in 1521, and is buried in St. Nic. Aeon, church in Lumbard- street; his wife was daughter of Tho. Ayhffe of Braxted in Essex; This G«7fs married Eleanor daughter of John Robins, Gent, of Wor- cestershire, and they conveyed it to Robert Southwell Esq. who in 1546, sold it to

Thomas Cornwaleis, Esq. and his heirs: he was afterwards knighted, and became a man of great figure and reputation; an ac- count of him and his descendants (who have been lords here) may be seen in the 4th volume of the Peerage, edit. London 1741, p. 175, to which I refer you.

The Right Hon. Charles Cornwaleis, Lord Cornwaleis of Eye, and Baronet, constable of the Tower of London, lord lieutenant of the Tower hamlets, and one of the loids of his Majesty's most honourable privy council, is now lord and patron, and hath the lete here.

His arms are quarterly, 1 and 4, sable, gutte d'eau, on a fess arg. three cornish choughs proper.

Crest, on a wreath a mount vert, thereon a stag lodged arg. attired. or, with a garland of laurel proper, about his neck.

Supporters, two stags, attired and gorged arg.

Motto, Virtus vincit Invidiam.

This rectory stands thus in the King's Books :

61. Thorp-Abbots rectory. 49/. clear yearly value.

And being discharged of first-j 'rials and tenths, it is capable of aug- mentation.

In Domesday we find, that the church is dedicated to All the Saints, and the rector had a house and nine acres of land, that it was valued at 15 marks,3 paid 2s. synodals, 7s. 7d. ob. procurations, and Id. ob. Peter-pence. The vicarage was dissolved and fallen into the rectory. The Abbot of Bury was taxed for his temporals here, viz. the manor, demeans, mill, silva cedua, Sec. at 20/. 4s. Id. and the village paid 36s, clear to every tenth.

RECTORS

PRESENTED by the abbots of bury.

1303, Peter de Tatington, who changed for Hoxne in 1324, with Richard Freberu of Fulbourne, who resigned in 1331, ita exchange for Botesham in Ely diocese, with

Barth. Peryn, who changed for Frekenham in 1340, with Robert de Overee, and he in 1348, for Bradjield, with Simon son of John de Fhurlow of Lopham, who died in 1381, and was succeeded by

1 There was a fee-farm rent reserved In 1507, these following out-rents

to the Crown, of 11/. 12s. &d. per ann. were paid : for the Queen's rent : 4*. to

which was granted among other fee-farm the Lord of the hundred 6s. id. to the

rents by King William, to the Lord Os- free-suiters court at Harleston 1 2d. rent

sulston, afterwards Karl of Tankervile, for Thorp Close A,d. to the Serjeant of

and is now paid to Horatio Walpole, Langmere zid. Mr. Tebould's rent 2s.

Esq. 3 1694, a house and 12 acres glebe.

326 THORP-ABBOTS.

John de Rekynghale, S. T. B.4 who exchanged for Fresing- field mediety with

George Palmer in 1399, and he in 1408, with Tho. Springthorp, for Besby in Lincoln diocese. 1414, Will. Ward ob.

1449, John Brackle, D.D. a. gray friar at Norwich, for whom see vol. iv. p. 1 10, 15.

1461, Brother John Norwich, a Premonstatensian canon. Lapse.

John London, ob. 1472, Philip London, ob. 1475, Andrew Daldy. 1484, Robert Cross. 1527, Robert Draicot, resigned. 1530, Robert Norwich, or Norrys, ob.

1538, John Manser, ob. ; he was the last presented by the Abbot. The six following rectors were all presented by Sir Thom as Corn- waleis, Knt. :

1 558, Will. Hudson, who held it united to Billingford.

1560, Rob. Crabbe, resigned.

1561, William Towsell, ob. 1566, George Webbe, resigned. 1577, Ric Peacock.

1588, Edm. Risley ; he returned 63 communicants.

1607, John Woolward, A. M. resigned. Mary Countess of Bath, younger daughter of Sir Thomas Cornwaleis, Knt. on whom he had settled this town for life.

1642, Thomas Woods, A. M. ordained priest this year, born at Pul- ham St. Mary, ob. Frederick Cornwaleis, Bart.

1661, John Jermy, resigned. Ditto, Baron of Eye.

1667, Thomas Page, ob. Charles Lord Cornwaleis Baron of Eye.

1673, Charles Robins, A. B. resigned. Ditto,

1683, Sam. Bayes, ob. Ditto,

1694, The Rev. Mr. Abraham Cooper, the present rector, was pre- sented by Charles Ld. Cornwaleis, and now holds it united to Scole.

The steeple is round at bottom and octangular attop,having a clock and two bells ; the chancel, church, and south porch are tiled. There was a brass by the pulpit, with this on it :

•©rate pro annua ftogeri ^arocp, cuiujS animc pcopicietur 5B>cujff.

The arms of the East-Angles and Bury-Abbey are in the windows, but no other memorials, save a piece of black marble fixed into the south side of the wall in the churchyard, with this :

Near this Place lyeth the Body of Susan late wife of Henry Chamberlain late of Flordon-hall, who died March 1, 1707, aged 71 years.

* See for him, vol. iv. p. iji.

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BROCKDISH

Is the next adjoining town eastward, through which the great road passes to Yarmouth; on the left hand of which, stands the church, on a hill by itself, there being no house near it but the parsonage, which joins to the east side of the churchyard. The advowson always belonged to the Earl's manor here, with which it now continues.

In Norwich Domesday we read, that the rector had a house and 30 acres of land, that it was then valued at 15 marks, and paid as it now doth for sunodals Is. 9^- procurations 6s. &d. and l<2d. Peter-pence. It stands in the King's Books thus;

10/. Brokedish rectory. \l yearly tenths. And consequently pays first-fruits, and is incapable of augmentation. The church stands included in the glebe, which is much the same in quantity as it was when the aforesaid survey was taken. It is in Nor- folk archdeaconry, Redenhall deamry, and Duke of Norfolk's liberty, though he' hath no lete, warren, paramountship, or supenour jurisdiction at all in this town, the whole being sold by the family along with the manors of the town.

In 1603, there were 103 communicants here, and now there are 50 families, and about 300 inhabitants ; it was laid to the ancient tenths at 4/. but had a constant deduction of 14s. on account of lands be- longing to the religious, so that the certain payment to each tenth, was 3/. 6s.

The Prior of St. Faith at Horsham owned lands here, which were taxed at »s.6d. in 1428. .

The Prior of Thetford monks had lands here of the gift of Richard de Cadomo or Caam,5 who gave them his land in Brokedis, and a wood sufficient to maintain 20 swine, in the time of King Henry I when William Bigot, sewer to that King, gave to this priory all the land of Sileham, which from those monks is now called Monks-hall manor, and the water-mill there ; all which Herbert Bishop of Norwich con- veyed to his father, in exchange for other lands, he being to hold it in as ample a manner as ever Herbert the chaplain did ; and in Ric. the Second's time, the monks bought a piece of marsh ground in Brokedis, to make a way to their mill, which being not contained in the grant of Monks-hall manor from Hen. VIII. to the Duke of Norjolk, William Grice, Esq. and Charles Newcomen, who had a grant of such lands as they could find concealed from the Crown, seized on this as such ; and upon their so doing, the owner of the mill was obliged to purchase it of them, by the name of Thet ford-Mill-Way, and it hath ever since belonged to, and is constantly repaired by the owner thereof.

RECTORS OF BROCKDISH.

12-- Robert

12 - - Sir Ralf de Creping, rector.

i Mon. Ang. torn. i. fo. 663.

528 BROCKDISH.

1313, Sir Stephen Bygod. The King, for this turn. 1324, Nic. h Mareschal. Tho. Earl of Norfolk and Marshal. 1 326, Mathew Pawner, or Palmer. Ditto. He changed for Cane- field-Parva in London diocese with

Master Robert de Hales. Ditto. 1333, John de Melbum. Ditto.

1355, Roger de Wombwell. Lady Eleanor and Thomas de Wing- field, attorneys to Sir John Wingfield, Knt.

1356, John Knyght of Exeter. Mary Countess-Marshal, widow of Tho. de Brotherton, who recovered the advowson by the King's writ, against Sir J. Wingfield, Knt. and Thomas his brother, William de Lampet and Alice his wife, and Catherine her sister, and so Womb- taell was ejected.

1357 , John de Esterford. Mary Countess-Marshal. He resigned in 1367, to John son of Catherine de Frenge, and he in

1308, to John Syward. Sir Walter Lord Manney.

1382, John de Balsham, who changed for Stowe St. Michael in Exeter diocese, with

Bartholomew Porter. Margaret Marshal, Countess of Norfolk.

1405, Sir John Da/yngho of Redenhall. Eliz. Dutchess of Norf. in right of her dower.

1417, he exchanged with Thomes Barry, priest, for the vicarage of Berkyng church in London. John Lancaster, Ric. Sterisacre, and Rob. Southwell, attorneys to John Duke of Norfolk, Earl- Marshal and Notyngham, who was beyond the seas. Barry resigned in

1422, to Sir Thomas Briggs, priest, who died rector. Ditto.

1454, Sir Hen. White, priest. John Duke of No>f. Earl-Marshal and Notingham, Marshal of England, Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Gower. He resigned in

1455, to Sir Thomas Holm, priest. Ditto. And he in

147S, to John Nun. The King, as guardian to Richard Duke of York and Norfolk, and Lady Ann his wife, daughter and heir of John lale Duke of Norfolk.

1491, John Mene ; he had a union to hold another benefice.

1497, John Rogers, A.M. Eliz. Dutchess of Norfolk. He re- signed in

1498, to Sir John Fisk, priest, chaplain to the Dutchess. Ditto. At whose death in

151 1, Sir Robert Gyr/yug, chaplain toTnoMAS Earl of Surrey, had it of that Earl's gift : he was succeeded by

Sir William Flutberry, chaplain to Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who presented him ; he resigned in

1540, to Sir Nic. Stanton, chaplain to his patron, Tho. Duke of Norf. Lord Treasurer and Earl- Marshal, and was succeeded by

William Hide, priest. Ditto. He resigned, and the Duke presented it in

1561, to Sir John Inman, priest, who was buried here Aug. 1, 1586.

1586, Aug. 4, Master Richaid Gibson was instituted, who was buried Oct. 1, 1625 ; he was presented by Robert Nichols of Cam- bridge, by purchase of the turn from William le Grice, Gent, and Hester le Grice, wife of Charles le Grice, Gent, true patrons.

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l6°5 William Owles, who held it united to Billingford. John KNAPp'of Brockdhh, by grant of this turn. He was succeeded in

1645, by Brian Witherel, and he by

Mr. Jawws Aldrich, who died rector Nor. 10, 1657, from which time somebody held it without institution, till the Restoration, and then receded, for in

1663 May 14, Sir Augustine Palgrave, patron ot this turn, in right of Catherine his wife, presented George Fish, on the cession of the last incumbent ; he was buried here Oct. 29, 1686.

1686, Thomas Palgrave, A. M. buried here March 24, 1724. *RAN. Laurence, Gent. , ,. , .

1724, ^6e/ //orfgM, A. B. he held it united to Tharston, and died in 1729. Richard Meen, apothecary, for this turn.

1729, Efc//arrf CVfl/fc, LL. B. was instituted Dec. 3, and died about six weeks after. Mrs. Ellen Laurence of Castleacre, widow.

1730, Man Fisher. Ditto. He resigned in

1738, and was succeeded by Robert Laurence, A. B. of Lotus col- lege, who lies buried at the south-east corner of the chancel, and was succeeded in , , -,, ..

1739, by Francis Blomejield, clerk, the present rector, who holds it united to Fersjield rectory, being presented by Mrs. Ellen Lau- rence aforesaid.

The church is dedicated to the honour of the apostles St. Peter

and Paul, and hath a square tower about 1 6 yards high, part ot which

was rebuilt with brick in 17 14 ; there are five bells ; the third, which is

said to have been brought from Pulham in exchange, hath this on it ;

&ancta Uiana ora pro nobi£.

and on the fourth is this,

^Iirgo Coronata out no£ ab ftegna beata. The nave, chancel, and south isle are leaded, the south porch tiled, and the north porch is ruinated. The roof of this chancel is remark- able for its principals, which are whole trees without any joint, from side to side, and bent in such a rising manner, as to be agreeable to the roof. The chancel is 30 feet long and 20 broad, the nave is 54 feet long and 32 broad, and the south isle is ot the same length, and 10 feet broad.

At the west end of the nave is a black marble thus inscribed,

Here lyeth buried the Body of Richard Wythe Gent, who de- parted this Life the 6 of Sept. 1671, who lived 64 Years and 4 Months and 9 Days. „, ,, „,. . ,,

This family have resided here till lately, ever since Edw. the Third s time, and had a considerable estate here, and the adjacent villages. See their arms, vol. iv. p. 135.

Another marble near the desk hath this, Near this Place lays Elizabeth Wife of John Moulton Gent. whodied Oct. 31, 1716, aged 32 Years. And here heth Man/ the late Wife of John Moulton, who died March 20, 1717, aged 27 Years. And also here lyeth the Body of John Moulton Gent, who died June 12, 1718, aged 38 Years.

Moulton's arms and crest as at vol. iv. p. 501. vnr.. v. L) U-

330 BROCKDISH.

In a north window are the arms of De la Pole quartering WingfiM.

In 1465, Jeffry Wurlkhe of Brockdish was buried here, and in 1469 John Wurlkhe was interred in the nave, and left a legacy to pave the bottom of the steeple. In 1518, Henri/ Bokenham of Brockdish was buried in the church, as were many of the Spaldings,6 Withes, How- ards, Grices, Tendrings, and Laurences; who were all considerable owners and families of distinction in this town.

The chapel at the east end of the south isle was made by Sir Half Tendring of Brockdish, Knt. whose arms remain in its east window at this day, once with, and once without, a crescent az. on the fess, viz. az. a fess between two chevrons arg.

His altar monument stands against the east wall, north and south, and hath a sort of cupola over it, with a holy-water stope by it, and a pedestal for the image of the saint to which it was dedicated, to stand on, so that it served both for a tomb and an altar; the brass plates of arms and circumscription are lost.

On the north side, between the chapel and nave, stands another altar tomb, covered with a most curious marble disrobed of many brass plates of arms and its circumscription, as are several other stones in the nave, isle, and chancel. This is the tomb of John Tendring of Brockdish-haU, Esq. who lived there in 1403, and died in 1436, leaving five daughters his heirs, so that he was the last male of this branch of the Tendrings. Cecily his wife is buried by him.

On the east chancel wall, on the south side of the altar, is a white marble monument with this,

Obdormil

hie in Domino, laetam

in Christo expectans Resur-

rectionem, Robertus, Roberti

Laurence, ac AnnjE Uxoris ejus,

Filius, hujusce Ecclesiae

de Brockdish in Comitatu Noifo/ciensi Rector,

ejusdem Villaa Dominus, ac Ecclesiae

Patronus, jure hereditario (si vixisset) Futurus ;

Sed ah ! Fato nimium immatuio abreptus ;

Ccelestia per Salvatoris merita speraus,

Terrestria omnia, Juvenis reliquit.

Dec. 31°. Anno aerae Christianas mdccxxxix'.

iEtatis xxv°.

Maria, unica Soror et Haeres,

Roberti Frankling Generosi Uxor,

Fraterni Amoris

hoc Testimonium animo grato,

Memoriae Sacrum posuit.

• Spalding, per fess az. and or, a arms, arg. an eagle displayed gul. An.

pale counterchanged, and three square other of Frances their daughter in her

buckles of the second. winding sheet : this child being young,

This family was originally of Spalding went into a garret in a remote part of

in Lincolnshire. In the house belong the house, and the door shutting upon

ing to the family, I saw a picture of it, it was there starved to death, not-

Samuel Spalding, town-cleik of Cam- withstanding strict enquiry had been

bridge, in his aldernun's gown, with a made after it ; this Samuel was father of

book in his hand, A0. 1664, aet. 74. An- Samuel, father of Dan. Spalding, Gent,

other of his wife A°. 1664, set. 63, her deceased.

BROCK DISH. 331

1. Laurence, arg. a cross raguled gul. on a chief gul. a lion pas- sant guardant or.

2. Aslack, sab. a chevron erm. between three catlierine-wheels arg.

3. Lany, arg. on a bend between two de-lises g^/. a mullet of the field for difference.

4. Cooke, or, on a chevron ingrailed gul. a crescent of the field for difference, between three cinquefoils az. on a chief of the second, a lion passant guardant of the first.

5. Bohun, gul. a crescent erm. in an orle of martlets or.

6. Bardolf, az. three cinquefoils or.

7. Ramsey, gul. a chevron between three rams heads caboshed arg.

8. as 1.

Crest, a griffin seiant proper. Motto, Floreat ut Laurus.

On a flat stone under this monument, is a brass plate thus inscribed,

Sacrum hoc Memorias Robert i Laurence Armigeri, qui obijt xxviij" die Julij 1637, Elizabeth Uxor ejus, Filia Aslak Lany Armigeri posuit.

Arms on a brass plate are,

Lawrence impaling Lany and his quarterings, viz. \,Lany. 2, Aslack. 3, Cooke. 4, Bohun. 5, nine de-lises, 3, 3, and 3. 6, Bar- dolf. 7, Charles. 8, on a chevron three de-lises. 9, Ramsey. 10, Tendriug. 11, on a less two coronets. 12, Wachesam, arg. a less, in chief two crescents gul. 13, a lion rampant. 14, Lany.

There is a picture of this Robert drawn in 1629, set. 36. He built the hall in 1634; it stands near half a mile north-east of the church, and was placed near the old site of Brockdishe's-hall ; the seat of the Tendrings, whose arms, taken out of the old hall when this was built, were fixed in the windows. The arms of this man and his wife, and several of their quarterings, are carved on the wainscot in the rooms.

On the south side of the churchyard is an altar tomb covered with a black marble, with the crest and arms of

Sayer, or Sawyer, gul. a chief erm. and a chevron between three seamevvs proper.

Crest, a hand hotding a dragon's head erased proper.

To the Memory of Frances late the wife of Richard Tubby Esq. who departed this Life Dec. 22, 1728, in the 60th Year of her Age.

And adjoining is another altar tomb,

In Memory of Richard Tubby Esq.7 who died Dec. 10th. 1741, in the 80lh Year of his Age.

7 He was high-sheriff of Norfolk in Fritton, whose widow she now is, and

1729, and his wife was neice and coheir- hath issue, Eliz. married the Rev. Mr.

ess to Thomas Tennison Archbishop of Pepin, who are both dead, but left issue ;

Canterbury, whodied Dec. 14, 17 15, and Mary, married in 1723, to Mr. Joshua

is buried at Lambeth. They had many Grigby, attorney at law in Bury, who ?re

children, who all died single, and are in- both living, and have iSbue. Frances

terred by them, except Anne, who mar- married Mr. John Simpson of Pulham,

ried the Rer. Mr. Holmes, rector of and is since dead, but left issue. Sarah

332 B R O C K D I S H.

There are two other altar tombs in the churchyard, one for Mr. Rich. Chatton, and another for Eliz. daughter of Robert and Eliz. Harper, who died in 1719> aged 8 years.

The town takes its name from its situation on the fVaveney or Wag- heneye, which divides this county from that of Suffolk ; the channel of which is now deep and broad, though nothing to what it was at that time, as is evident from the names of places upon this river, as the op- posite vi/l, now called Si/eham, (oftentimes wrote Sayl-holm, even to Edw. the Third's time) shows; for I make no doubt, but it was then navigable for large boats and barges to sail up hither, and continued so, till the sea by retiring at Yarmouth, and its course being stopt near Lowestoft, had not that influence on the river so far up, as it had be- fore; which occasioned the water to retire, and leave much land dry on either side of the channel ; though it is so good a stream, that it might with ease, even now, be made navigable hither ; and it would be a good work, and very advantageous to all the adjacent country. That Briob-bic signifies no more than the broad-ditch, is very plain, and that the termination of o, eau, or water, added to it, makes it the broad ditch of water, is as evident.

Before the Confessor's time, this town was in two parts; Bishop Sti- gaud owned one, and the Abbot of Bury the other; the former after- wards was called iheEarl's Manor, from the Earls of Norfolk; and the other Brockdishe's-ha\\, from its ancient lords, who were sirnamed from the town.

The superiour jurisdiction, lete, and all royalties, belonged to the Earl's manor, which was always held of the hundred of Ears/turn, ex- cept that part of it which belonged to Bury abbey, and that belonged to the lords of Brockdishe's-haft ; but when the Earl's manor was sold by the Duke of Noifo/k, with all royalties of gaming, fishing, &c. to- gether with the letes, view of frankpledge, 8tc. free and exempt from his hundred of Eursham, and the two manors became joined as they now are, the whole centered in the lord of the town, who hath now the so/e jurisdiction with the le te, belonging to it; and the whole parish being freehold, on every death or alienation, the new tenant pays a relief of a year's freehold rent, added to the current year : The annual free-rent, without such reliefs, amounting to above 3l. per annum. At the Conqueror's survey the town was seven furlongs long, and five furlongs and four perches broad, and paid 6d. to the geld or tax. At the Confessor's survey, there were 08 freemen here, six of which held half a carucate of land of Bishop Stigand, and the others held 143 acres under the Abbot of Bury, and the Abbot held the whole of Sti- gand, without whose consent the freemen could neither give away, nor sell their land, but were obliged to pay him 40s. a year free-rent ;8 and

married in 1730, to Thomas Seaman of T. R. E. et xxiii. Sancti Edmundi de c.

Brook, Esq. who are both dead, but left et xl. acris, sed nee dare, nee vendere

issue. Hannah married in 1739 to Den- poterant sine licencia Stigandi, qui socam

nison Suckling of Woodton, Esq. who habebat. Tunc inter omnes viii. caru-

is dead, but she survives and hath issue, cate modo vii. silva xii. pore. vi. acr.

8 Terre Stigandi Episcopimias cus- prati. habet vii. quar. in longo et v.

todit W. de Noiers in manu Regis, quar. in lato, et iv. perticas, et de Gelto

Hersam dim. hund. Doms. fo. 53. vi. d. Soca et saca de omnibus istis

In Brodiso xxviii. liberi homines v. fuit Stigandi T.R. E. Isti omnes beri

Stigandi cum dmiidio carucate terre reddebant Stigando T. R. E. xl. sol. si

BROCKDISH. 333

if they omitted paying at the year's end, they forfeited their lands, or paid their rent double; but in the Conqueror's time they paid 16/. per annum by tale. There were two socmen with a carucate of land, two villeins and two bordars here, which were given to Bury abbey along with the adjacent manor of Thorp-Abbots, but were after severed from that manor, and infeoffed by the Abbot of Bury in the lord of Brockdishe's-ha\\ manor, with which it passed ever after.9

BROCKDISH-EARL'S MANOR, or BROCKDISH COMITIS.

This manor always attended the manor of Forme t after it was granted from the Crown to the Bygods, along with the half hundred of Ears- ham, for which reason I shall refer you to my account of that manor at p. 223, 4. It was mostly part of the dower of the ladies of the se- veral noble families that it passed through, and the living was gene- rally given to their domestick chaplains. In 3 Edward 1. the Abbot of Bury tried an action with Roger Bigod, then lord and patron, for the patronage ;' pleading that a part of the town belonged to his house, and though they had infeoffed their manor here in the family of the Brockdishes, yet the right in the advowson remained in him ; but it appearing that the advowson never belonged to the Abbot's manor, before the feofment was made, but that it wholly was appendant ever since the Confessor's time, to the Ear/'s manor, the Abbot was cast : notwithstanding which in 1335, Sir John Wingjield, Knt. and 1 ho mas his brother, William de Lampet and Alice his wife, and Catherine her sister, owners of Brockdishe's manor, revived the claim to the advow- son ; and Thomas de Wingjield, and lady Eleanor wife of Sir John Wing field, presented here, and put up their arms in the church win- dows, as patrons, which still remain; but Ma ry Countess Marshal, who then held this manor in dower, brought her quare impedit, and ejected their clerk; since which time, it constantly attended this ma- nor, being always appendant thereto. In 15 Edw. I. Roger Bigot, then lord, had free-warren in all this town, as belonging to this manor, having not only all the royalties of the town, but also the assise of bread and ale, and amerciaments of all the tenants of his own manor, and of the tenants of Reginald de Brockdish, who were all obliged to do suit once a year at the Ear/'s view of frankpledge and lete in Brock- dish; and it continued in the Noifo/k family till 1570, and then Tho- mas Howard Duke of No/folk, obtained license from Queen Elizabeth to sell it; it being held in capite or in chief of the Crown, as part of the barony and honour of the said Duke, who accordingly sold the

non redderent, essent forefacti de iv. cessor ejus : de terra vero quas Scs. Ed-

libr. modo reddunt xvi. libr. ad nume- mundus habet in hoc dim. hund. tenuit

rum inHersam, ubi Richardus Pugnator socam.

eos adcensavit. T.R.E. Habuit Stigan- 9 Terra Abbatis de San ctoEadmundo.

dus socam et sacam de hoc dimidio hun- Hersam dim. hund. Doms. fo. 178, 80.

dreto, preter Torp Sancti Edmundi et Thorp tenuit SanctusEdmundus pro

preter Pulham Sancte Aldrede in Her- manerio T.R.E. &c.

sam. Quando Radulfus se forefecit, Et in Brodiso ii. socmanni pertinentes

habuit socam et sacam de Radahalla isti manerio de una carucata terra et ii.

et de commendatis suis, quando Reimun- villani et ii. bordarij.

dus Geraldus discessit, habuit socam de * Pat. 3 Edw. I. M. 36 dors.

sua terra, post Rogerus Pictavensis sue-

334 BROCKDISH.

manor, advowson, free-fishery, and all the place or manor-house, and demean lands; together with the lete, view of frankpledge, liberty of free-warren, and all other royalties whatsoever, tree and exempt from any jurisdiction or payment to his half hundred of Ear sham, to

Charles le Grice, Esq. of Brockdish, and his heirs, who was descended from Sir Rorert le Grys of Langley in Norfolk, Knt. equeriy io Ric. I. and Oliva his wife, whose son, Sir Simon leGrus, Knt. of Thurveton, was alive in 1238, and married Agnes daughter and coheir to Augustine son of Richard de If'axtenesham or IVaxham, of Waxham in Norfolk, by whom he had Roger le Grys of Thurton, Esq. who lived in the time of Edward I. whose son Thomas le Grice of Thur- ton, had Roger le Grice of Brockdish, who lived here in 1392,- whose son Thomas left John le Grice his eldest son and heir, who married a Bateman. and lies buried in St. John Baptist's church in ISioncic.h ; (see vol. iv. p. 127;) but having no male issue, William le Grice of Brock- dish, Esq. son of Robert le Grice of Brockdish, his uncle, inherited: he married Sibil/, daughter and sole heir of Edmund Singleton of tVingJield in Suffolk, and had

Anthony le Grice of Brockdish, Esq.* who married Margaret, daughter of John U ingjidd, Esq. of Dunham, who lived in the place, and died there in 1553, and lies buried in the church, by whom his wife also was interred in 1562. His brother Gilbert Grice of Yar- mouth, Gent.3 first agreed with the Duke for Brockdish, but died be- fore it was completed; so that Anthony, who was bound with him for performance of the covenants, went on with the purchase for his son,

Charles le Grice aforesaid,4 to whom it was conveyed: he married two wives; the first was Susan, daughter and heir of Andrew Manfield, Gent, and Jane his wife, who was buried here in 1564 ; the second was Hester, daughter of Sir George B/agge, Knt. who held the manor for life; and from these two wives descended the numerous branches of the Grices of Brockdish, Norwich, Wakejield'm Yorkshire, &.c. He was buried in this church April 12, 1575, and was found to hold his manor of the hundred of Earsham, in free soccage, without any rent or service, and not in capite ; and Brockdishe's-hall manor of the King, as of his barony of Bury St, Edmund in Suffolk, which lately

a Christopher le Grice of Billingford Quarterly O. B. 7, Az. three swans or.

was a younger son to this William, and 8, Erm. a cross compone gul. and or. 9,

brother to Anthony, for whom see Sab. a chevron between three rosesArg.

Billingford. 10, arg. three mullets between two

3 From him and Margaret his wife, bendlets invecked sab. descended the Grices of Yarmouth. Quartering quarterly,

4 This Charles rebuilt the house 1, Howard of Brockdish, gul. a bend called the Place in 1567, and fixed his cotized between six cross croslets fitche own and wife's arms and quarterings in arg. This family being descended from the windows there, viz. a younger branch of the Norfolk family,

Le Grice, as at vol. i. p. 199, his always bare the bend cotized as a dis- crest on many single quarrels of gla-s, tinction. 2, Jernegan. 3 as 2, 4 as 1. and CLE GRYS andMANFYLDE, 1567.

1, Gul. three crescents or, a fess arg. In another shield the first ten quarter. 2, Sab. on a chevron arg. three holly ings, quartering, 1, Wingfield. 2, Bo- leaves vert. 3, Barry of ten arg. and az. vile. 3, Warren. 4, Arg. three bars on a canton gul. a lion passant or. 4,Sab. gul. a canton erm. 5, Erm. on achev- on a chevron arg. thu e escalops of the ron sab. three lozenges or, a chief in. field. 5, Sab. three lions passant arg. 6, dented of the 2d. 6 as 1.

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belonged to the abbey there, in free soccage, without any rent or ser- vice, and not in capite, and

William le Grice, Esq. was his eldest son and heir, who at the death of his mother-in-law, was possessed of the whole estate ; for in J 585, William Howard, then lord of Brockdishe's-hall manor, agreed and sold it to this William, and Henry le Grice his brother, and their heirs; but Howard dying the next year, the purchase was not com- pleted till 1598, when Edio. Coppledick, Gent, and other trustees, brought a writ of entry against John son of the said William Howard, Gent, and had it settled absolutely in the Gkices, from which time the two manors have continued joined as they are at this day; by Alice, daughter and heiress of Mr. Eyre of Yarmouth ; he left

Francis le Grice, Esq. his son and heir, who sold the whole estate, manors, and advowson, to

Robert Laurence of Brockdish, Esq. » who married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard, son of Edmund Anguish of Great-Melton, by whom he had

Robert Laurence, Esq. his son and heir, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Aslack Lany, who survived him, and remarried in 1640, to Richard Smith, Gent, by whom she had one child, Eliz. buried here in 3641 : he died July 24, 1637, and lies buried by the altar as afore- said : he built the present hall, and had divers children, as Aslak Laurence, Robert, born in 1633, buried in 1635, Samuel Laurence, born in 1635, Ellen, born in 1635, Elizabeth, who married William Reynolds of Great-Massingham, Gent, and

Francis Laurence of Brockdish, Esq. his eldest son and heir, who married Ellen, daughter of Thomas Patrick of Castle-acre, Gent, widow of Mathew Ha/cote of J.itcham, Gent, who survived him, and held Brockdish in jointure to her death, which happened Jan. 6, 1741, when she was buried in the nave of Litcham church : they had Fran- ces, and Elizabeth, who died infants; Mary, who died single about 1736, and was buried in the vestry belonging to Castleacre church; Jane, married to Mr. Thomas Shin of Great Dunham, by whom a Thomas, a son, &c. she being dead ; Ellen, now widow of Thomas Young of Oxboro, Gent, who died Oct. 1743, leaving issue, the Rev. Mr. Thomas-Patrick Young of Caius college in Cambridge, Benjamin and Mary, and

Samuel Lawrence, Gent, their second son, is now alive and single; and

Robert Lawrence, Esq. their eldest son and heir, is long since dead, but by Anne daughter of John Meriton, lale rector of Oxburgh, his wife, he left one son,

Robert Laurence, late rector of Brockdish, who died single, and

Mrs. Mary Laurence, his only sister, who is now living, and mar- ried to Robert Frankling, Gent, of Lynn in Norfolk, is the present lord in her right, but they have no issue.

5 Oliver Laurence created baneret by rough in 1547, was of this family, which the Duke of Somerset before Roxbo- was originally of Buckinghamshire.

M6 BROCKDISH.

BROCKDISHE'S-HALL MANOR,

Belonged to Bury abbey as aforesaid, till the time of Henry I. and then the Abbot infeoffed

Sir Stephen de Brockdish in it, from whom it took its present name ; he was to hold it at the 4th part of a knight's fee of that abbey : it contained a capital messuage or manor-house, called now Brock- dishe's-hall ; 105 acres of land in demean, 12 acres of wood, 8 of mea- dow, and 4/. 13s. 10rf. rents of assise; he left it to

Jeffery de Brockdish his son, and he to

William, his son and heir, who in 1267, by the name of William de Ha/lehede Brokedis, or Will, of Brockdish-hull, was found to owe suit and service once in a year with all his tenants, to the lete of the Earl of Norfolk, held here. He left this manor, and the greatest part of his estate inNorwich-Carle/on (which he had with Alice Curson his wife) to

Thomas, his son and heir, and the rest of it to Nigel de Brockdish, his younger son; (see p. 102;) Thomas left it to

Reginald, his eldest son and heir, and he to

Sir Stephen de Brockdish, Knt. his son and heir, who was capi- tal bailiff of all the Earl of Norfolk's manors in this county; he was lord about 1329, being succeeded by his son,

Stephen, who by Mary Wingfield his wife, had

Reginald de Brockdish, his son and heir,6 to whom he gave Brockdhh-hall manor in Burston, (see vol. i. p. 127, vol. ii. p. 506,) but he dying before his father, was never lord here ; his two daughters and heiresses inheriting at his father's death, viz.

Alice, married bo William de Lampet about 1355, and Catherine some time after, to William son of John de Herdeshull, lord of North Kellesey and Saleby in Lincolnshire, who inherited each a moiety, ac- cording to the settlement made by their grandfather, who infeoffed Sir John de Wingfield, Knt. and Eleanor his wife, and Thomas his brother, in trust for them;7 soon after, one moiety was settled on Ro- bert Mortimer and Catherine his wife, by John Hemenhale, clerk, and John de Lantony, their trustees ; and not long after the whole was united, and belonged to

Sir William Tendring of Stokeneyland, Knt. and Margaret his wife, daughter and coheir of Sir Will. Kerdeston of Claxton in No/folk, Knt. who were succeeded by their son and heir

Sir John Tendring of Stokeneyland, Knt. who jointly with Agnes his wife, settled it on

Sir Ralf Tendring of Brockdish, Knt. one of their younger sons, who built the old hall (which was pulled down by Robert Lawrence, Esq. when he erected the present house) and the south isle chapel, in which he and Alice his wife are interred; his son,

John Tendring of Brockdish, Esq. who was lord here and of West- hall in Colney, (see p. 5,) and was buried in the said chapel, with Cecilu his wife, died in 1436, and left five daughrers, coheiresses, viz.

6 The family of this name were very cutors, mentioned by Mr. Fox, vol. ii.

numerous and many collateral branches fo. 1913.

continued a long time in this county ; 7 The account in the Atlas, p. 332,

Sir John Broadish, priest of Mendlesham is erroneous, in Suffolk, was one of the Marian perse-

BROCKDISH. 337

Cecily, married toRobert Ashfield of Stowlangetot in Suffolk, Esq.

Elizabeth, to Simeon Fincham of Fincham in Norfolk, Esq.

Alice, to Robert Morton.

Joan, to Henry Hall of Helwinton.

Anne, to John Braham of Colney. Whojoined and levied a fine and sold it to

Thomas Fastolff, Esq. and his heirs; and the year following, they conveyed all their lands, &c. in Wigenhall, Tilney, and Isling- ton, to

Sir John Howard, Knt. and his heirs; and vested them in his trustees, who, the year following, purchased the manor of Fastolff to himself and heirs; this Sir John left Brockdish to a younger son,

Robert Howard, Esq. who settled here, and by Isabel his wife had

William Howard of Brockdish, Esq. who was lord in 1469; he had two wives, Alice and Margaret, from whom came a very numerous issue, but

Robert, his son and heir, had this manor, who by Joan his wife had

William Howard, his eldest son and heir, who died in 1566, seized of many lands in Cratfield, Huntingfield, Ubbeston, and Brad- jield in Suffolk; and of many lands and tenements here, and in Sile- ham, &c. having sold this manor the year before his death, to the Grices as aforesaid ; but upon the sale, he reserved, all other his estate mBrockdish, in which he dwelt, called Howard's Place, situate on the south side of the entrance of Brockdish-sireet; which house and farm went to

John Howard, his son and heir, the issue of whose three daugh- ters, Grace, Margaret, and Elizabeth, failing, it reverted to

Mathew, son of William Hoieard, second brother to the said John Howard their father, whose second son,

Mathew Howard, afterwards owned it; and in 1711, it was owned by a Mathezo Howard, and now by

Mr. Buck n all Howard of London, his kinsman (as I am informed.)

The site and demeans of the Earl's manor, now called the place, was sold from the manor by the Grices some time since, and after be- longed to Sir Isaac Pennington, alderman of London, (see vol. i. p. 159,) atJd one of those who sat in judgment on the royal martyr, for which his estate was forfeited at the Restoration, and was given by Car. II. to the Duke of Grafton; and his Grace the present Duke of Grafton, now owns it.

THE BENEFACTIONS TO THIS PARISH ARE,

One close called Algorshegge, containing three acres, 8 and a grove and dove-house formerly built thereon containing about one acre, at the east end thereof; the whole abutting on the King's highway north, and the glebe of Brockdish rectory west: and one tenement abutting on Brockdish-street south, called Seriches,9 with a yard on the north side thereof, were given by John Bakon the younger, of Brockdish,

* It pays a free-rent of \d. ob. time of Richard Gibson, rector, who

9 This tenement with a town-clock contributed thereto, with many of his fixed therein, was rebuilt in 1583, in the parishioners. VOL. V. X X

338 BROCKDISH.

son of John Bakonthe elder, of Thorp- Abbots; the clear profits to go yearly to pay the tenths and fifteenths for the parish of Brockdish when laid, and when they are not laid, to repair and adorn the parish church there for ever : his will is proved in 1433. There are always to be 12 feoffees, of such as dwell, or are owners in the parish, and when the majority of them are dead, the survivors are to fill up the vacancies.

In 1590, 1 Jan. John Howard, Gent. John Wythe, Gent. William Crickmere and Daniel Spalding, yeomen, officers of Brockdish, with a legacy left to their parish in 1572, by John Sherwood, late of Brokdish, deceased, purchased of John Thrust on ofHoxne, Gent. John Thruston bis nephew, Thomas Barker, and the inhabitants of Hoxne in Suffolk, one annuity or clear yearly rent-charge of 6s. 8d. issuing out of six acres of land and pasture in Hoxne, in a close called Calston's-close, one head abutting on a way leading from Heckfield-Green to Moles-Cross, to- wards the east; to the only use and behoof of the poor of Brockdish, to be paid on the first of November in Hoxne church-porch, between 12 and 4 in the afternoon of the same day, with power to distrain and enter immediately for non-payment; the said six acres are warranted to be freehold, and clear of all incumbrances, except another rent- charge of 13s. 4d. granted to Hoxne poor, to be paid at the same day and place

In 1 592, John Howard of Brockdish sold to the inhabitants there, a cottage called Laune's, lying between the glebes on all parts; this hath been dilapidated many years, but the site still belongs to the parish.

From the old Town Book.

1553, 1st Queen Mary, paid for a book called a manuel 2s. 6d. ; for two days making the altar and the holy-water stope, and for a lock for the font. 1554, paid lor the rood 9c?. 1555, paid for painting the rood-loft 14c?. At the visitation of my Lord Legate \6d. To the organs maker 4d. and for the chalice 26s. 1557, paid for carriage of the Bible to Bocnam 12c?. for deliverance of the small books at Harl- stone\5d.; the English Bibles and all religious Protestant tracts usually at this time left in the churches for the information and instruction of the common people, being now called in by the Papist Queen. Paid for two images making 5s.; for painting them 1 6d. for irons for them 8d. But in 1558, as soon as Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne, all these Popish images, &c. were removed out of the church. Paid for sink- ing the altai 4c?.; carrying out the altar 5d.; mending the commu- niontable 3d.; 1561, paid for the X. Commandments \8d. ; forpulling down the rood-loft 14c?. ,- paid Roger Colby repairing the ckosse in the street 26s. 8c?. ; for a lock to the crosse-house, &c. ; 1565, for digging the ground and levelling the low altar, (viz. in the south chapel,) and mending the pavement. For makyng the communion cup at Harl- ston 5s. Ad. besides 6s. Qd. worth of silver more than the old chalice weyed. 1569, paid to Belward the Dean for certifying there is no cover to the cup, 8d. 1657, layd out 19s. 4c?. for the relief of Attle- burgh, visited with the plague. Laid out 17s. for the repair of the Brockdish part of Sileham bridge, leading over the river to Siteham church. This bridge is now down, through the negligence of both the parishes, though it was of equal service to both, and half of it re- paired by each of them. In 1618, the church was wholly new paved and repaired ; and in 1619, the pulpit and desk new made, new books, pulpii-cioih, altar-cloth, Sec. bought.

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From the Register :

\593,Daniel son of Robert Pennington, Gent. bapt. 13 July. 1626, John Brame, Gent, and Anne Shardelowe, widow, married Sept. 2. 1631, John Blomefield and Elizabeth Briges married May 30. 1666, Roger Rosier, Gent, buried. 1735, Henry Blomefield of Fers- field, Gent, single man, and Elizabeth Bateman of Mendham, single woman, married Feb. 27.

RUSHALL,

\Jr Reeve's-hall, was in three parts ;* the first (which belonged to Bishop Stigand)1 was seized by the Conqueror, and was afterwards granted to the Bigods, and hath attended the manor and hundred of Earsham to this time : his Grace the Duke of Noifolk keeping lete here, is lord paramount in right of the hundred. In 1285, Roger Bigot Earl of Noifolk had free-warren allowed him here. The second was

RUSHALL MANOR,

Which before the Confessor's time belonged to Bury abbey, who in- feoffed Henry in it; but at the Conquest it was given to Ralf Peverel, of whom Warincus held it, it being then of 3/. per annum value. The town was then half a mile long and five furlongs broad, and paid Hd.

feld.3 The third part belonged to Stigand, of whom Brictric a ~)ane held it: the Conqueror gave it to Robert Fitz-Corbun, of whom Gunfrid held it at the survey;* this was afterwards divided into many parts, and constituted the manors called Vauce's, Stunner's, Branche's, St. Faith's, and Langley, or the Rectory manor.

1 So called from the Prepositus or xvii. tunc xix. oves, modo xviii. modo

Reeve of the hundred, that anciently xii. capr. tunc iii. vasa apum modo i.

dwelt here. tunc et post valuit xl. sol. modo Ix. ha-

1 Terre Stic andi Episcopi quas cus- bet dim. leug. in longo, et v. (quar.) in

todit Will, de Noiers in manu Regis, lato, et de Gelto viii. d. sed plures ibi

Hersam dim. H. Doms. fo. 53. tenent. modo tenet hanc terramRanulfus

In Rivessalla x. lib. hom.Stigandi ad feudum Regis.

T.R.E. de xl. et iii. bord. semper iii. ♦ Terre Roberti filij Corbutio.

silva vi. pore, et ii. acr. prati. soca et nis. H. dim. Hersam. Doms. fo. 268.

saca in Hersam. In Rivessalla tenet Gunfridus quam

3 Terre Rainulfi Peverelli. H. tenuit Brictricus i. lib. hom. Stigandi

Hersam dim. Doms fo. 261. commendat. sed nee dare nee vendere

Rivessalla tenet Warincus quod poterat terram suam sine licencia ejus

tenuit Htnricus a Sancto Edmundo oni. i. car. et dim. terre tunc yi. villani post

nino inter ecclesiam T.R.E. pro i. car. et modo iii. tunc i. car. et dim. mod.

et dim. terre semper vii. vill.et iii. bord. dim. semp. dimid. car. hom. silv- xl.

semper ii. car. in dom. et i. car. hom. pore, et vi. acr. prati. tunc et post valuit

silva xl. pore, et v. acr. prati modo xx. sol. modo x. equus et iii. anim. tunc 1. pore, modo

340 R U S H A L L.

RUSHALL-HALL, or THE CAPITAL MANOR,

Was held of the honour of Pererel* at one fee, by Warincus, whose successour, Alan, assumed the name of Riveshale, or Rushale, from this his lordship; his sod, Miles de Riveshale, lord here, gave in free alms to the monks at Norwich,6 10 acres of land,7 and a ploughed field, which were appropriated to the office of sacrist in that church: he was succeeded by Sir Hen. de Riveshale, Knt. and he by a son of his own name, a knight also, who had two wives, the first was Helen, daughter and coheir of William son of Walter de Hepworth, with whom he had a part of Hepworth manor in Suffolk; and after her death, he married Amy, who in 1284 was his widow, and had her dower, viz. the third part of the manor. In 1263, he obtained a char- ter of free-warren for this manor, and that of Semere in Suffolk, of King Henry III. John de Riveshale, Knt. his son and heir, about 1285, married Winesia, daughter of Ralf son of William de Pevense, who was a widow, and lady here and at Hepworth. In 1290, their son and heir, John de Riveshale, was in custody of the Abbot of Bury, of whom this manor was said to be originally held, the Peverels holding it of the Abbot. He was lord here in 1315, and sealed with his arms on a shield, and his name round it, viz. a cross and label of five.8 He left Winesia his daughter his sole heiress, who held it at one fee in 1345; and by her marriage with Sir Oliver Withe, carried it out of the Rives- hall family, which continued here some time after this, for Ric. de Rives/tall, her uncle, in 1338, married Maud, daughter and heiress of Ric.Buishe, and left issue; and William de Rivesha.ll, her other uncle, left issue also,^'ce, a daughter and heiress, to whom Henry de Rives- hall was guardian and heir.

Sir Oliver Withe being thus possessed of this, purchased the other manors of Vauce's, Brauche's, and Sturmyn's,9 in this town and Pul- ham, and joined them to Rushall-halt ; the demeans of them being ex- cepted, having passed separate to this day : the demeans of Branche's in Rushall making one farm, and those in Pulham another; both which are now known by their ancient names.

From the Wythes they came to the Carbonels; Sir Robert Car- bonel being the first lord of that family, whose son Sir John Carbonel, Knt. and Margery his wife, possessed them in 1421 ; and in 1425, Sir John Heveningham, senior, Knt. owned them, and settled them on Sir John Heveningham, Knt. his son and heir. It after passed through the Grooses, and Calthorps ; and in 1565, Thomas Beaumond and Thomas Gooch, sold the manors of Rushall-hull, I ounce's or Vance's, Sturmyn's and Branche's, in Rusatl, Pulham, Dickleburgh, Harleston, Redenhall, and Diss, to Thomas Crane and his heirs. In 1571,

5 See p. 18. their owners. In 1272, Will. deVAux

6 Register Sacrist. Norwic. fo. 59. held a quartergof a fee here, of Robert

7 This land,for a certain annual rent, de Tateahale ; this was Vauce's manor, was assigned to the Prior of Bukerham, In 1364, William Bernak had it. In and joined to the priory lands here. 1398, Gilbert Talbot. In 1401, John

8 He bare his coat different from that Brtisyerd. In 1470, John Branche was of the rest of the family, which was lord of Branche's manor, and that fa-

Gul. three lozenges in chief arg. mily continued long here, after they

9 They took their several names from parted from the manor.

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Anthony Tebold had it: it afterwards was purchased by the Pettus family, and hath continued in it some time, Sir Horace Pettus, Bart, of Rackhithe being the present owner, but holds no court, the whole being either purchased in, or manumised, and the demeans are about 50/. per annum.

THE PRIORY

Is a, farm-house, owned by the Bat lards of Metingham ; it is so called as belonging anciently to the priori/ of Bukenham, to which it was given by Richard son of Robert de Sengles, with his whole tenement in Rusa/l, and Lincroft a hamlet thereto; as may be seen in vol. i. p. 385, 9; Sir Henry de Riveshale and Sir John his son, Knts. being wit- nesses to the gift. In 1401, the Prior of Bukenham held it at the 4th part of a fee, of the heirs of Robert Fitz-Roger, and he of the King ; and was taxed for his temporals at St. 2s. In 1402, he held it of the manor of Horsford, then belonging to Henry Lord Dacres ;' at the Dissolution it went to the Crown, and was granted by Philip and Mary, to Thomas, son and heir of Thomas Gawdye, and was held by Anthony Gawdye and Anne his wife, who conveyed it to Sir Bassing- bourn Gawdye, Knt.

THE RECTORY, or LANGLEY MANOR,

Consisted of two parts, the first was the manor originally belonging to the rectory, before its appropriation ; the other was a manor owned by Wulnard Betekarl, and after by Warner, and then by Eusta ce de Ho his heir, whose daughter Imbria, before 1195, was married to Baldwin de Bures, the then lord : this was after given to the Abbot of Langley, and joined to the impropriation ; but now, the whole hath been long since manumised, and no court kept for these manors. The Abbot held it at half a fee of Robert Fitz-Roger, as of Horseford, and so of Eye honour, and was taxed for his temporals at St. 6s. This was given in divers parcels to this abbey. In 1202, Roesia, daughter of Regi- nald de Riveshale, gave to Gilbert Abbot of Langley, many lands and rents in this parish. In 1223, Agatha, widow of Miles de Riveshale, settled 40 acres and rents, on Hugh Abbot of Langley. In 1246, Stephen de Brokedish settled lands here, on Abbot Hugh; and in 1427, the Abbot of Langley was prosecuted for purchasing and holding 200 acres of land in Rushalt of lay-fee; but upon proving that all his lay- fees here, were joined to his spiritual impropriate rectory, and taxed with it as spirituals, and that he was cessed for it with the clergy, he was acquitted.

The Prior of St. Faith at Horsham had a quarter of a fee of the founder's gift in this parish : in 1272, it was returned as held of that house by Robot Fitz-Roger, as of Eye honour; it was afterwards found to be held of the Lord Dacres, as of his manor of Horseford; was first taxed at 30s. after as spirituals at 40s. and so paid 4s. tenths; all the tithes belonging to it being paid to St. Faith's, and not to the

1 E Feodario Honoris de Horseford, penes P. L. N. Norroy.

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rector or vicar. This house was taxed at 25s. 5d. for their temporals in Rushall; being vested in the Crown, King Henry VIII. in the S6th year of his reign, granted all the lands, rents, and possessions, belong- ing to the priory of Horsham, late in the tenure of Catherine Branche, to John Carryll and his heirs.

The rectory was given to the abbey of Langley in Norfolk, and was appropriated to that house ; Will, the priest being the only rector of it that I have found mentioned. In the old taxation, the Abbot of Langley was taxed for his manor and lands at 6 marks ; the rectory was valued at 15, and in the new valuation at 26 marks : there was a house, manor, and carucate of land before the impropriation; the vicarage endowed was valued at five marks, but was not taxed ; it paid Q.s. synodals, and 12d. Peter-pence, and the vill paid 40s. ;i year clear to each tenth. The vicarage is discharged of Jirst-fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation ; it stands thus in the King's Books,

4/. Rushall vicarage. — - - 30/. clear yearly value.

In 1548, King Edw. VI. granted to John Pykarel and John Bar- nard, the tithes, glebes, &c. with the appurtenances of Rushall rec- tory, late parcel of Langley monastery, paying 20s. per annum to the vicar, and 7s. per annum for procurations to the Archdeacon of Nor- folk: in Queen Elizabeth's time, a confirmation of it passed to the Cleres, and in 1603, Sir Eduard presented to the vicarage, as an ap- purtenant to the rectory : it was afterwards conveyed to Tho. Sher- wood, who in James the First's time sold about 70 acres with the par- sonage-house, to one Ket, but excepted the tithes, &c. and fixed 6s. 8d.per annum to the vicar for his dividend of the 20s. a year; it be- longed after that, to the Redes, and then to William Long, in right of his wife ; and he sold it to the Bransbys, and being sold by Mr. James Bransby of Shot.es/iam, to Immanuel college in Cambridge, they are now rented of that society at 85/. 10s. per annum. The small tithes belong to the vicar.

VICARS

PRESENTED BY THE ABBOTS OF LANGLEY.

1316, Ric.de Brom.

1349, John Pecock, res.

1354, John atte Frithe of Gissing.

John Mason, who changed for Burnham-Westgate in 1397, with

Ric. Wapound. 1398, Brother Will, de Hoo, a canon of Langley. 1402, Will. Tyffeyn. \407, Tho. Davy, res. 1409, Andrew Gele. 1412, Adam Sharnburn. 1415, Ric.Joos,

1470, Brother John Myntelyng, S. T. D. a friar-preacher 1482, Brother Thomas Tudenham. 1513, William Whyk, a canon of Laugleu, lapse

RUSHALL.

VICARS SINCE THE DISSOLUTION.

1544, Will. Hudson.

1567, Brian Jackson.

1581, Jerom Emery.

1594, James Wilson ; all presented by the Crown.

1603 iienru Aldred, presented by Sir Edward Clere, Knt. there being 92 communicants in the parish. In 1608, it was united to Thorv-Parva, during the incumbancy of

Hugh Hatton* who had it by lapse to the Bishop.

1620, John Thirteby, presented by the Crown ; he held it with Way- brede vicarage by union, and was the last vicar, it being served by sequestration till the year 1733, when

The Rev. Mr. John Traceu, B. A. the present vicar, was instituted, being presented in right of the Crown, by virtue ot the lapse.

The advowson of the vicarage now belongs to Immanuel college, as appendant to the impropriate rectory.

The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, hath a steeple round at bottom and octangular at top, and only one bell, two being lately sold, with the lead tl^xt covered the church, towards repa.r.ng it; so that the nave, chancel, and south porch, are tiled. There was a small chapel on the north side of the nave which is now demolished ; in which there was an altar, image, andg.W, held ; all in the honour of the Holy Trinity ; to sustain which, there was a close given at Bon- well-Croft.1 Grimes Meadow was given in 1473, by John Braunch, To find alight always burning before the image ot the V,rgin in the chancel, where he is buried ; his stone lies ,n the middle of it, but hath lost an effigies in armour standing on a lion, and four shields ; Marion his wife, and Richard and John his sons, had good estates ... the

^There are no copyholds but such as are held of the manors that are in other places and extend hither, as Semere's in Mendham, Gunshaws in Starston, Manclerk's in Dickleburgh, &c.

From the Register. 1561, Thomas son of Thomas and Margaret Blomefield, baptised. X>m,John their son. 1563, Kat. their daughter. 1564, Alice their daughter. 1565, Faith, daughter ot Tho. and Jgnes Blomefield 1568 Rachel, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Blomefield. 1571, a«n7v daughter of Tho. Blomefield' baptized. 1589, Tho and Mar- ZZnUmJLu buried. 1584, Charles, son of Anne and Henry k tnce, baptized. John Sayer, Gent, and Ehz. Sayer, married, l670. There is also a town-house for the poor. 3 Thele lan'/s'conwin six acres, lying There are two pieces of land belonging feoffees hands to Nedham, that he in this town.

in three puces, am'

the church with the profits.

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STARSTON,

Uk Steees-town, was anciently in many parts; the head manor belonged toBury abbey? and was infeofted by Baldwyne, abbot there,5 in Roger Bigot ; who obtained of the King, a freeman and his ser- vices here, which belonged to St. Audrys monastery at Ely ;6 and another part which was Stigeind's,be had, as belonging to his manor of Earsham : all which he left to his successours, and they continued in his family, till one of them granted off 2 fees, which made 2 manors, to be held of the manor of Forncet, and reserved the superiour juris- diction, lete, and advowson, with liberty of warren, &c. to his hens; all which have passed, and now continue (except the advowson) with the manor and hundred of Earsham, in the Duke of Norfolk, lord thereof; the chief part of the town being free suitors to the hundred-court at Harleston.1 The town at the Conqueror's survey was a mile and five furlongs long, and five furlongs broad, and paid 13d. geld.

* Terra Abbatis de Sancto Eadmun- do. F0.180. Doms. Hersam dim. H.

Sterestunam tenet Rogerus Bigot de Abbate quod tenuit Brictflit, li- bera fcmina Sancti Edmundi commerd. pro ii. car. terre, tunc iii. villani modo ii. semper iii. serv. tunc ii. car. in do- minio modo null vi. acr. prati tunc et post xl. sol. modo xx. habet i. leug. et v. quar. in longo, et v. quar. in lato, et xiii. d. de Gelto. quicunque ibi teneat.

In Sterestuna i. liber homo Sci. Ed- mundi commend, sed soca Stigandi in Hersam v. acr. terre val. x.d. hoc est in dominio.

5 Willelmus siquidem Rex Anglo- rum, qui Wngfozw manu adquisivit bellica, licenciam dedit et facultatem BalcUwyno Abbati Sancti Eadmundi, ut quocunque modo posset, terras ecclesie sue adijceret, vel pecunia easavicinis suis, redimendo, vel dono ipsorum proprio, et spontanea voluntate eorum adquirendo ; unde fac- tum est, ut plures liberos homines, quos sokemannos vocamus, et eorum homagia adquireret, et eorum adquisitione mo. nasterium suum locupletaret.

6 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Doms. fo. 133. Hund. dim. Hersam.

In Sterestuna tenuit i. liber homo Sancte Aldrede T. R. E. et Stigandi erat soca et saca in Hersam : sed nee dare

nee vendere poterat terram suam sine li- cencia Sancte Aldrede et Stigandi, dim. car. terre modo tenet Godvinus et sub eo iii. bord. semper i. car. in dominio et viii. liberi homines sub eo de xx. acr. semper iii. car. semper val.x. sol. modo R. Bigot revocat ad t'eudum liberorum suoruni ex dono Regis. Sed hundred, testatur quod quando Ricardus Punnant erat prepositus in Hersam, pertinebat in Hersam, sed ille qui modo tenet tunc subprepositus Ricardi in Ersam, abstu- ht, et teste hundredo, et dedit censum in Ersam xx. sol. et vi. d. unoquoque anno de hac terra nominatim, et de aha, sed hoc anno nichil reddidit, et Will, de Noiers habuit hucusque censum.

7 Terre Stigandi Episcopi, quas cus- todit Will, de Noiers, in manu Regis. Doms. fo. 52. Hersam dim Hund.

In Sterestuna xv. soc. atigandi pertinentes ad Ersam cum soca tenent lxxx. acr. prati. et vi. bord. semper viii. car. inter omnes. In eadem xv. socm. de quibus Scs. Edmundus T. R. E. ha- buit commendat. sed terra eorum om. nino erat in ecclesia sed soca et saca in Hersam, et R. Bigot ideo addidit, quando tenuit manerium Hersam tempore Sti- gandi, inter omnes lx. acr. terre et i. acr. prati. semper iii car.

STARSTON.

STARSTON-HALL MANOR,

Bein"- granted from the Bigods to be held of Forncet at one fee, was owned by Bartholomew Evereus, or Devereux, lord also of Hardwick ? and after by Roger Devereux, and in 1308, by Ra/f Devereux and Dionise bis wife; and was soon after sold to James Herwardstoke, and Jefery de Waterbeche, son of Sir Jeffery de Stoke, Knt. in 1352, re- leased it to Sir John de Herwardestok, rector of Pulham, who in 1341 confirmed it to John de Herwardestoke, his brother, citizen of London, who sealed withgw/. an eagle displayed or, on his shield, and his name round it; he sold it to Robert de Bumpstede, citizen of Norwich, and Robert and Thomas his sons; and they to William and Roger Pycot, Stephen Horn, vicar of Ilketshall St. Andrew, and Richard Dautns, feoffees to Roger Pi/cot, whose son, Sir Earth. Pycot, Knt. was lord in 1373 ; in 1387, Richard Picot sold it to Ric. le Haukere and John Can/o/f of Redenha/I, who reconveyed it, in 1395, to the said Ric. Picot of Stanton, John Caltoft, and Robert Rous or Dymngton, his feoffees; and in 1406, it was vested in Sir Rob, Berney, knt. and others, conditionally, that if Anne wife of Richard Picot should claim any dower out of Blickling manor, that then the feoffees should enter upon this. In 1411, this Richard was returned lord, and in 1428, Thomas Picot, Esq. who in 1432, is said to hold Bovile's tee ; he left the manor at his death, vested in trustees for the use ot his daughters and heiresses, after the death of Alice his wife, daughter of Sir John Tirrel, Knt. and widow of William Skrene ; and in 1460, Robert hay nard of Specteshall, Esq. and Tho. Crofts of West-Hall, Esq. by d.rec- tion of the will of Thomas Pi/cot of Starston, Esq. at the request ot Katerine daughter of Thomas Pykot, confirmed to Hugh Austyn of FramlinghamCastle, Gent, and to the said Catherine his wife, Stars- ton, alias Pykot's manor, to hold to their heirs, with remainder to Anne sister of Catherine aforesaid; and the same year, Hamon le Stian«e, Esquire of the King's household, released to Hugh and Ca- therine, all his right in it: Kat. Austyn died before 1500, tor then her executor released the manor to Robert Bernard, Esq. and Anne his wife her sister; and in 1515, Christopher Calthorp, Esq. held his first court in right of Eleanor his wife, one of the daughters and heiresses of Rob. Baynard and Anne Bigot his wife : their son, James Calthorp of Cockthorp, in Norfolk, succeeded, and was lord in 1560; in 1570, Christopher, his son and heir, was dead, and .t was held in jointure by Jane daughter of Roger Rookwood, Esq. of Fish/ey in Norfolk, his relict, then remarried to Sir Jerome Bowes of London, Knt. who in 158l' for G0l. per annum during his wife's life, released all right to Sir James Calthorp of Cockthorp in Norfolk, Knt. who was lord in 1610, and was succeeded by C/uistopher Calthorp, Esq. his son and heir; it was then the chief manor in the town, and had a convenient house belonging to it; it afterwards belonged to the II il tons oi II i/ by in Norfolk, was mortgaged to John Strange ot Red- Lion. Square, and is now owned by Mr. Mills oi London.

8 Payone's manor in Denton, Anne ton, Catherine had, see p. 199. had for her part, this and Saies inStrat- vol. v. Y y

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BRESINGHAM'S MANOR

Takes its name from its ancientlords ; Halter de Bresingham was lord about 1235 ;9 after him, William his son; in 1362, Richard de Bre- singham; and it continued in the family till 1462, when John Bre- singham, Esq. died, and was buried in Brockdish church, and left the manor to Elizabeth daughter of William Grice of Brockdish, his wife, and her heirs; and it continued in the Grices till they sold it to the Pi/cots, or Pygots; and in 1578, William Pi/cot was lord, who sold it to Bratholomew Cotton, Esq. son and heir of Rog. Cotton by Audry, daughter and heiress of John Cotton, second brother to Sir Rob.Cotton of Lauwade in Cambridgeshire, Km. In his time it was returned to have a house, demeans, and royalties, but no copyhold tenants nor court ba- ron, the whole being manumised ; and the freeholders belonging to it, paid about ]Qs. per annum freerents. He lies buried undei a sumptu- ous monument on the north side of the chancel ; his effigies, with a ruff about his neck, is kneeling at a desk ; his crest, on a torce A. S. a griffin's head erased arg. Motto, Mors Quies, Vita Labor. 12 coats marshalled, with a crescent gul. in the fess point for difference. 1, Cotton, S. a chevron between three griffins heads erased arg. 2, Ar. a fess invecked gul. in chief a rose of the second. 3, Erm. on a chief sab. two mullets or. 4, Erm. on a bend sab. three eagles heads erased arg. 5 as 1. 6 as 2. 7 as 3. 8, Gul. a chevron between three drops or. Q, Arg. three birds heads gul. in a bordure ingrailed sub. 10, Sab. a cinquetoil in an orle of martlets arg. 1 1, Vert, three eagles displayed or, a canton erm. 12, Erm. on abend gul. three eagles displayed or.

Hie in Christo obdormit Baetholomeus Cotton Armiger, Filius et Haeres Rogeri Cotton ex antiqua Familia. Cottono- rum de Lanzcude in Comitatu Cantab) igice, per Etheldrtdam Fliam et Hasredem Johannis Cotton Fratris secundi Roberti Cotton de Lanzeude Militis, Qui verae Religionis verus Cultor, Beniricus egenis, et omnibus eharus, muneie Eirenarchse complures annos, et Clerici Brevium atque Processuum in Camera Stellata xxxmi Annos, cum summa Integritates Laude perfunctus; ties duxit Uxores, Ceciliam Borrough,\ irginem et Haeredem, A/iciam Gas- coigne, et Annum Sler/inge Viduas, Animam Deo pie et placide reddidit, die Luna? viz. xxi Junij AQ Salutis MDCXII1. iEtatis sua? LXXVl0.

Patri Optimo Thomas Filius et Haeres, in Officio Successor, observantiae ergo posuit.

Thomas Calthorp Gent, his son and heir, married Eleanor, daughter of James Calthorp, whose son, Bartholomew Cotton of this town, mar- ried Jane daughter of Ric. Lucliinof Diveshal in Essex, and had Luckiii Cotton, Gent, who by Anne h^wife,1 he left issue; he is buried here with this, &■

9 For this family see vol. i. p. 57. with a crescent, impaling on a fess three

* She is interred in the altar under;a lions faces. Anne, late wife of Luckyn black marble with the arms of Cotton Cotton, Esq. died Aug. 8, 16,58.

STARSTON. 347

In Memory of Luckin Cotton Gent, interred Jan. the 17, 1G54. He left C Sons, Luckin and Bartholomew; and 2 Daughters, Lydia and Mary;2, Bartholomew and Luckin died synce, and were buried by their Father; Bartholomew Apr. 14, and Luckin Oct. 3,1655.

Cotton with a crescent, impales az. on a fess or, three lions faces gul.

Crest, on a toice or, and sab. a gray-hound arg. collared or.

On an altar tomb with Cotton's arms,

Here lie the Bodies together ofJohn-Luckin Cotton, Gent, who (being about 25 Years of Age) was interred Jan. 17, 1654, and of his 2 [nfants Sons, Luckin and Bartholomew, who (like un-timely Fruit) fell all at a Blast, and in the space of ten Monthes, wi- thered away in the Immaturity of their Years; Bartholomew (being about a Year old) was buried Apr. 13, 1655 ; and Luckin the eldest (not being 3 Years old) periodized the Males of his Family here by his deplored Death, and was buried Oct. 3, 1 655.

Our happiest Dayes do passe From us poor mortall Men ; First and before the rest !

Seneca.

In I6S9, Robert King of Great Thurlow in Suffolk, in right of his wife, Eliz. daughter of Thomas Steward of Barton-Mills in Suffolk, and relict of Sir Robert Kemp of Finchingjie/d in Essex, was lord here, and lived in 1705 ; his son Thomas, about 1698, was killed by Sir Sewster Peyton, Bart, but by a daughter of Cordel, and sister and heir of Sir John, left one son ; she died his widow in 1706.

Starston-Place is now owned by Waldegrave Pelham, Esq. and is a good house near the church.

BECKHALL MANOR

Is so called from the site of it, (long since demolished,) being near the bek or rivulet that runs through this village. It was very anciently in William de Bovile's hands, who held it at one fee of Forncet manor. In 1296, William de Ingham had it; in 1306, Eliz. de Ingham; in 1309, John de Ingham died lord, and Oliver de Ingham, his son, suc- ceeded ; in 1330, being then a knight, he settled it on John de Ingham, his son, and Katherine his wife, and their heirs, reserving five marks per annum for life ; in 1342, Sir Oliver was returned lord, and in 1358, Isabel de Ingham was lady; and it passed with Ingham in Norfolk to the Stapletons, and was settled by Sir Miles Stapleton, Knt. and Dame Joan his wife, on John his son, and Isolda his wife, and their heirs; in 1418, Sir Miles Stapleton, Knt. was lord, and Sir Brian his son and heir was 40 years old ; he died seized in 1438, leaving it to Sir Mites

* One of these coheiresses, married to issue; andthe otherto Thomas Steward. John Heme of A meringhall, but left no

.048 STAR ST ON.

his son and heir, then 30 years old; in 1441, he settled it on Cathe- rine his wife, and died seized in 1465, and it continued in the family till 1501, when Dame Elizabeth Fortescue, daughter and heiress of Sir Miles Stapkton, first the wife of Sir Will. Calthorp, and after of Sir John Fortescue, Lord Chief Justice, and lastly of Sir Edward Howard, (while Fortescue'* widow,) settled it on the heirs of her hody, and so it came to the Calthorps, and afterwards to the Gawdies, and was joined by the Cottons to Bresingham's manor.

BOUTON'S, or BOLTON'S MANOR,

Passed in a great measure like the manor of the same name in Hard- wick, which see at p. 220. In 128.5, William te Claver and Katherine* his wife had it; in 1318, William his son and heir, whose daughter and heiress, Maud, married to Walter de Burwood, whose widow she was in 1362. It was sold by Will. Gresham, Esq. to Peter Gleane of Norwich, at which time it had no house, but several copyhold tenants belonging to it.

GUNSHAW'S MANOR IN STARSTON, NEDHAM, &c.

Was anciently held by William de Arches of John de Mendham, at half a fee; it formerly belonged to the Hey locks, and was purchased of the Wisemans about Charles the First's time, by one Mr. Stiles of Coden- ham, whose wife married a second husband, and held it for life.

It hath a farm-house and about 50/. per annum besides the royalty and many copyhold tenants. It is now owned by Mr. Nun of South- wold in Suffolk.

The several manors of Seymer's and Huntingji eld's in Mendham, Gunshaw's and Burt's in Nedham, Pulham, &c. awiPayoiie's in Denton, extend hither.

The church is dedicated to St. Margaret; the rector hath a good house and about 43 acres of glebe; there are no customs, all tithes being due in their'proper kind. It is undischarged of tenths andfirst-firuits, and stands thus in the King's Books,

15/. Sterston rectory, ll. 10s. yearls tenths.

In the old Valor it was valued at 30 marks, and paid 2s. synodals, 7s. "d. ob. Archdeacon's procurations, 14rf. ob Peter-pence, and the town paid clear to every tenth 3/. 15s. The monks oiThetford had lands here, aud the tithes arising from them, were anciently valued at 20s. but was afterwards compounded for perpetually at 6s. per annum, and in 1612, was paid by the rector to the lord of Aslacton manor, in right of Thetjord priory ; at the same time also, the rector paid a pen- sion of 3s. -id. to Mendham priory, as a perpetual composition for the tithes of that part of their manor of Hunting field's, which extended hither ; for which lands, that house was taxed at 24s. 2d. ob. The

3 See p. 259.

STARSTON. 349

Prior of Norwich had temporals in the parish taxed at 5s. Wd. and the Prioress of Carrow at 14r/.

RECTORS.

1306, Robert de Beverley. Sir Roger le Bigot Earl-Marshal and 'Norfolk. He exchanged for Iladstock in London diocese in 1319, with

John Pikard of Herwardestok. Tho. Brotherton Earl Norfolk.

1348, John Woodward.

136i, Will. Danyel Sir Walter de Manny, by Nic. de Horton. rector of Lopham, his attorney general, he being out of England.

1372, Tho. de Trowel. Margaret, Marshal, Lady Manny. In 1379.. he changed for Boyton in Salisbury diocese, with John Haselore, who was succeeded in 1383, by Tho. Alborn, who changed for Boreham in London diocese in 1386, with

John Gelle, and he for Castor by Norwich in 1393, with John Lefe, and all of them were presented by the said Margaret

1408, Will. Newton. Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk. He was succeeded by Will. Baker, who exchanged for Southrey in 1420, with

Alex. Co/loo, who had it of the gift of Sir Gerard Usflete, Knt. and Eliz. Dutchess of Norfolk, his wife. He died rector the next year, and was interred in the churchyard.

142 1 , John Welt. Ditto. He resigned in 1 437, and John Duke of Norfolk gave it to

John Swan, who was buried in the chancel in 1478, being succeeded by

Peter Wodecock. Eliz. Dutchess of Norfolk. In 151.5, Nic. Carr had it by lapse, and at his death in 1531, the Duke gave it to

Nic. Cotney, at whose death in 1558, Will. Clark had it, and resigned the same year to

Tho. Palmer, who died in 1576, and Will. Dix and Will. Cantrell, feoffees to the No/folk family, presented George Grume, who resigned in 1586, to Peter Raye. The Queen. In

1603, Peter Rix, then rector, returned 120 communicants in the parish. In 1629, Will, le Neve, patron of the turn, presented Will. Sennet, who died in 1638, and was succeeded by Richard Anguish, who was one of the sequestered clergy, (Walker, fo. 184, part ii,) and was of the family of Anguish of Melton, (p. 17, 18, 21,) where his children were baptized. Thomas Earl of Arundel.

1669, Ric.Lewthwaite. Henry Lord Howard. 1672, Will. Hyatt, A. M Richard Richmund, this turn. He is buried in the churchyard on the south side, with this on a head stone :

Gulielmus Wiat A. M. Rector hujus Ecclesie ob. 29 Sept, 1699.

350 STARSTON.

Henry Duke of Norfolk in 1699, presented

T/10. Arrowsmith, who lies buried in the chancel at the south- east coiner, 1'or whom there is a neat monument with the crest and arms of Arrowsmith, impaling Smith of Cratjield.

Ckest, an arm erect sab. holding a wreath vert. Arrowsmith, erm. on a chevron between three arrows sab. five

pheons O.

Smith, barry wavy of eight A. and az. on a chief G. three

barnacles O.

Underneath lieth the body of Thomas Arrowsmith M. A. rector of this parish and Aldburgh 30 Years; he was the eldest son of the Rev. Mr. Airowsmith vicar of North Weald Essex, and Grandson of the eminent Dr. Arrowsmith some time master of Trinity college in Cambridge. He was a truly zealous and conscientious Son of the Church of England, whose Discipline he strictly observed, and whose Rights he was always ready to de- fend ; He was a generous Benefactor to his Relations, an hos- pitable Neighbour, and a never failing friend to the poor: He married the Daughter of John Smith of Cratjield, Esq; and Relict of Anthony Freestone late of Mendham Gent to whom he was a kind and indulgent Husband 25 Years, he died March 28, 1729, aged 55.

His mournful Widow, in Testimony of her inviolable Affection to him, has caused this Monument to be sacred to his Memory.

1725, 15 Aug. Philip Williams, S. T. B. fellow, and some time president of St. John's college in Cambridge. Rowland Hill, Bart, by purchase from the Duke of Norfolk, he being obliged to present a fellow St. John's college in Cambridge. He is now D. D. and held it some time with Barrow in Suffolk, and at his resignation in

1746, The Rev. Mr. George' Davies, late fellow of St. John s col- lege, had it, and is the present rector. Ditto.

The tower is square and hath five bells ; on the 5th,

per £fiome Kfcerittg, mcrcamur 43auDia 3luci£. The nave is leaded, and the south porch and chancel are tiled.

On a brass by the church door.

William Bugott Gentleman, died Nov. 1580. Blessed is he, that dieth in the Lord.

Bacon, arg. on a fess ingrailed between three escutcheons gul. as many mullets or, impaling Bedingfield.

Philip the Son of Francis Bacon Esq; and Dorothy his wife, died un-weaned at Nurse, Nov. 1657-

Death is the Sentence of the Lord over all Flesh. 1740, Thomas Aldous a Poor Man buried, aged 106 Years. Twenty shillings a year is paid to the use of the poor, out of the

ALDEBURGH. 351

estate of John Smith, late of Harkston, butcher, after owned by Francis Botterit of St. James's Suffolk.

There is a town-house for four families, and some inconsiderable quantity of town-land.

ALDEBURGH,

Commonly called Arborough ;* its name signifies the old burgh, it is often written in evidences Akenberwe, or the Burgh of Oaks.

There are three manors; the superiour manor and jurisdiction, with the lete and advowson, belonged to Bishop Stigand, after to Raff Earl of Norfolk, who forfeited it by his rebellion to the Conqueror, and he assigned it to the care of Will, de Noiers. The town was then a mile long, and five furlongs broad, and paid 10d. to the geldJ It was after granted to the Bigods Earls of Norfolk, with Earsham, and hath passed always with it to this day ; his Grace the Duke of Norfolk being now lord.

In 1 '285, Roger Bigod claimed free-warren here, and a prison for his tenants.

The second is

HOLEBROOK, or ALBURGH-HALL,

Which was in two parts ; Alfric held one as a berewic to Tibenham, in the Confessor's time; and Morvan after him ;6 and a freeman of St. Audry of Ely held the other, which Herfrind had afterwards, and his successour E«do son of Spirzain had the whole of the Conque- ror's gift.7 It came afterwards to Nicholas de Latham, who occurs

* Mr. Fuller, among other county quar. in lato, et de Gelto xd. Sed

proverbs hath this, (such as it is) plures ibi tenent.

Denton in theDa/t,and Arborough „ (Most °\ ' lll£ ltown ™e free suitors to

in the Dirt Harlestone hundred-court, tu which this

And if you go to Homersfield, your

is now joined.)

purse will get the squirt. 6 Terre Eudonis filij Spiruwin. Her- sam dim. H. Doras, to. 246.

Homersfield lies in Suffolk, just by, and In Aldeberga tenet Morvan quod

is a small village abounding with ale- tenuit Alfric T. R. E. i. bervitam in

houses. Tybenham pertir.entem de i. car. terre

5 Terre Stigandi Episcopi quas tunc dim. car. m°, nichil appretiata est

custodit Will, de Noiers, in manu Regis. 7 In eadem tenuit idem i. liber homo

Doms. fo. 53. Hersam dim- Hund. See. Aldrede commend, qui nee dare

Hersam tenuit Stigandus, &c. In At- nee vendere poterat terram extra eccle-

DEBikGA xv. hberi homines, de trede- siam. Hfrfrindus habuit ex libera-

cim, habebat anteces. Eudonis filij tione ad perficienda maneria sua, modo

Spiruwic commend, de ii. Sanctus tenet Euuo successor ejus, habet dim.

Edmundtis, inter omnes Ixxx. acr. tene car. terre semper i. bord. et i. serv.

et iiii. acr. prati semper inter omnes v. semper dim. car. et ii. acr. prati semper

car. et habet i. leug. in longo, et v. valuit x. sol.

352 A L D E B U R G H.

lord in 1256, and in 1274, was purchased of John Dagworth and others, by John de Holebrook, who added lands to it by purchase from William de Alburgh and Alice his wife. In 1342, John de St. Maur, or Seymor, (lord of Semere's manor, which extended also into this town,) son and heir of Edmund St. Maur and Joan his wife, was lord; and in 1350, William son of Sir John Seymour, Knt. son of Sir Half Seymour, Knt. conveyed it to Sir John Wingfield, Knt. Eleanor his wife, and Thomas brother of Sir John; and soon after, they all joined and sold it to Gilbert de Debenham, Esq. and Mary his wife, who was in possession in 1360, when it was worth 10 marks a year, and was held of Ear sham hundred. It continued in the Deben- hams a long time, though in 1456, Hamond le Strange and Alice his wife had an interest in it. In 1480, Gilbert Debenham, Esq. died seized, who by Margaret, daughter of Sir Edward Ilastyugs of Gres- senhall, Knt. left Sir Gilbert Debenham his son and heir, of full age. Mr. Rice, in his Survey, says, that the manor-house or hall was then down, that it belonged to the heirs general of the Brewses, two ladies; one married to Sir Edward Thimblethorp, Knt. The demeans and quitrents were 30/. per annum, the fines were at will, and there were about 20 tenants.

The third is the rectory manor, which hath about 40s. per annum, rents, and the copyholds are at the will of the lord.

Tiiere was also a small part belonging to the honour of Richmond* but that belonged to Redenhall manor.

The church is dedicated to all the Saints, was first valued at 12 marks, and after that, at 17, and paid Qd. Peter-pente. The rector had a house and 40 acres of land, when Norzcich Domesday was made, now reduced (by the rectors granting them to be held as copyhold of their rectory manor) to about 8 acres. The town paid 5/. clear to each tenth. It paysjiist-fruits and tenths, and is not capable of aug- mentation, standing thus in the King's Books,

12/. Albergh rectory. \l. 4s. yearly tenths.

The Abbot of Langley's temporals in this town were taxed at 6a. The Prior of Mendham's at 5s. \d. ob. The Prior of Weybrige's at 2s. 5d. So that the religious were little concerned here.

RECTORS.

1303, John de Honyng. Sir Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk.

1307, Rob. de Whetelay. The King.

1308, Jeffry de Castre. Alice de Hanonia, Countess, Marshal, and Norfolk.

1313, John de Framlingham. Ditto.

The three following were presented by Thomas de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk, the King's sou. 1318, Will. deBath. 1321, Tho.de Weyland. 1328, John de Reding.

s Terre Alani Comitis. Dim. H. de In Aldeberga xii. acr. terreet dim. Hersam. Doms. fo. 69. acr. prati et pertinet in Romborc.

ALDEBURGH. S5S

And the three following by Sir John Segeave, Knt. 1545, Hugh de Elustow. 1349, Adam de Newton, and

Hugh Cane. 1371, Tho. Fox. Sir Walter de Manny Lord Manny. He resigned in 1376, to

Will. West, who was presented by Margaret, Mareschal and Countess of Norfolk. In 1378, he exchanged for Swalclywe in Canterbury diocese, with

Rob. Falbek, who in 1387 changed for Berking All-Saints in London diocese, with

John Hydeky, who in 1400, changed with John Blunt sham for Suaburn. Thomas Mowbray, son and heir of Thomas Duke of Norfolk, by the King, his guardian.

1407, John Yarmouth. Eliz. Dutchess of Norfolk. He was suc- ceeded by

Will. Preston, who resigned in 1416, and Sir Robert Payn had it of Gerard Usflete, husband to Eliz. Dutchess of Norfolk.

1424, Jeffry Burger. Elizabeth Dutchess of Norfolk. He ex- changed for Rawrehith in London diocese in

1428, with John Dalle, who was presented by John Duke of Norfolk, as were the two following, viz,

Ric, Thompson in 1450, who resigned in 1464, to Henry Baldreston. In 1491, Eliz. Dutchess of Norfolk gave it to

Robert Ardem, and at his death in 1502, to Will. Pinchbek, who held it united to Earsham, but dying in 1504, she gave it to

Will. Taylor, and after him to

Robert Bredlaugh, who died rector. In 1517, the Duke gave it to

Sir Nic. Hanson, his chaplain,9 and in 1540, at his death, to James Halman, whose successour, Ric. Whetley, was de- prived by Queen Mary, among others of the clergy, whose sole offence in those days, was matrimony. In 1554, Thomas Duke of Norfolk, presented

Rob. Thirkettle, and at his death in 1569, Robert Archer. In

1572, John More had it by lapse, who returned 156 communicants in his parish. In 1611, the assignee of the Earl ol Northampton, gave it to

Ric. More, who held it united to Redenhall. 1629, Mat. Good, Esq. gave it to

Steph. Hurry, A. M. who was sequestered in 16-14, (see Walker.) In 1662, Sir Will. Platers, Bart, in right of the Norfolk famy, gave it to

George Fenn, at whose death in

' 1519, Mar. 1. He 1. ad secretly re- voided this day, and lie held it not-

signed it for some time to the Bishop of withstanding, to his death. London, vhich iei« nation the Bishop

VOL. v. Z z

3o4 ALDEBURGH.

1679, James Heylock had it, of the gift of John and Anne Hey- lock ; he was succeeded the next year by

Giles Wilcox, A. M. who was presented by Henry Duke of Norfolk. He resigned in 1682, and Fe. Effingham, PaulRicaut, and Cuthbert Brown, gave it to

Will. Wyat, A. M. at whose death

Thomas Arrowsmith had it in 1699, of the gift of Henry Duke of Norfolk. He held it united to Starston, till his death in

1729, when the Rev. Mr. Fairfax Stillingjleet, A. M. late fellow of St. John's college in Cambridge, the present rector, was presented by Sir Rowland Hill of Has.-kston in Shropshire, Bart, it being one of the livings purchased of the Duke of No/folk ; to which the family must always present a fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge. Synodals 2s. procurations to the archdeacon 7s. Id. ob.

The tower is square, had originally three, but now there are six bells ; on two of which,

Vat m Conclave Oabricl nunc pangc s'uatic. ©ona rtpcnot pia rop JEUtjOalcna jjiarta.

The chancel is thatched, the church and south porch leaded; the north vestry is down.

On marbles in the chancel.

Thomas Green Generosus de Pulham Sta. Maria coelebs, mortuus est quarto die Mart: Anno X"- Mdccvi. JEl. lxix.

Crest, a buck's head erased on a torce, and Green's arms with a crescent for difference, as in vol i. p. 411.

Mr. Ric. Cooper, June 16, 1669, 86. Anne his Wife 26 Oct. 1669, 65.

Over the north door remains a painting of St. Christopher, as usual very large ; and there was an image of our Lady in the chancel; a chapel dedicated to St. Laurence in the church, and an ima^e of St. Catherine, by which the Wrights (a very ancient family in this parish) are interred, and were benefactors towards building the porch in 1463.

On a grave post south side of the churchyard,

Hie jacent reliquie Roberti Bayes Clerici qui obijt 8, et sepultus fuit undecimo Die Dec. A° Dni. 1702, iEt. suae 78.

Mortalis PlacidS. jam pars reqniescit in Urna,

Sed petnt superas altera leta Domos,

Vita Gravis nulii, mors flenda suis, sibi Foelix,

Sic vixisse placet, sic cecidisse juvat,

Mens Equa, antiqui Mortis, facilisque senectus

Solis displicuit, queis placuisse Pudor.

Depositum Sam. Bayes Art. Magistri, quern summa in Rebus Sacris et Humanis eruditio, pietas, et suavissimi mores insignem reddideruut ob. 24 Aug. A* set. 29. Dni: nostri 1689.

HARLESTON. 355

Memoria Justorum in Benedictionibus.

A.M. Jones, aet. 6 1 . An. Dom. 1689,

Memoria Justorum in Benediclionibus.

Scandens alma novas Fcelix Consortia vitae,

Civibus Angelicis junctus in arce Poli, Vive Deo ! tibi mors requies, tibi Vita, labori,

Vive Deo ! mors est vivere, Vita Mori.

An altar tomb at the west end of the steeple for Robert Jay, Gent. Jan. 12, 1723, 84, and 2 of his Wives and 14 Children.

A grave post for John Hambling, 29 Mar. 1712. 63.

Friend ! I am gone, and you must follow Perhaps, to Day, perhaps, to Morrow, Your Time is short, improve it well, Prepare for Heaven, and think on Hell.

Here is an estate belonging to the Boys-Hospital in Norwich, (see vol. iv. p. 412.)

There are four town-houses, two commons, containing about 100 acres, on which, Wortwell and Alburgh intercommon.

There is also an estate of 5ll. per annum given by Richard Wright of this parish, appropriated to the church and poor, by a decree in chancery made A° 14 Jac. I.

The description of the penance of Thomas Rye, and John Mendham, in 1428, may be read in Master Fox's Acts and Monuments, at fo. 663.

HARLESTON,

Anciently called Herolf'ston and Herolveston, from Herolf, one of the Danish leaders that came with Swain King of Denmark, into these parts, about the year 1010, in order to subdue the Ead- Anales, and bring them under their power ; which they did so effec- tually, as to seize their possessions : and most likely it is, that Herolf settled here, and gave name to the place," which is, and always was, of small extent ; for it never contained more than 25 acres of land in its bounds, which at the Conqueror's survey, was divided (as it now continues) into two parts ; 13 acres of it held by Fro do/ being added

i vol. i. p. 189. 'n Hersam xii. acr. terre val. semper

* Terra Abbatis de Sco. Eadmundo. xxd. Hersam dim. hund. doms. fo. 180. In Herolvestnna tenet Frodo i.yill.

In Heroluestuna i. liber homo et dim. de xm. acr. et pertinet in Men-

Sci. Edmundi commend, et soca Stigandi ham.

356 HARLESTON.

to Mendham, to which it now belongs, as the other 12 acres do to the hundred of Eausham, on which the chapel and the town now stand, being the middle-row only : the rest, (though commonly called Haeleston) being in the parish of Redenhall, to which parish this is a chapel of ease,3 and hamlet.

The manor always attended the hundred of Earsham, and still con- tinues with it, in the Norfolk family ; and ihe houses are all copyhold, except those called the Stone-Houses, which are free. On this spot of ground formerly stood Hkrolf's stone, or cross, (as I take it,) where Richard de Herolves ton, about 1 109, settled, and look his sirname from hence; from whom descended the famous Sir John Herclveston, so often mentioned in our English chronicles for his valiant prowess in martial exploits, and particularly for being a great instrument in quelling the grand rebellion in these counties in Richard the Second's time;4 of whom much may be seen in Froissart? Ho- Ungshed,6 and Stow's Chronicles ;7 from him descended the family of the Harlestons, of good account in both counties:8 they had estates in Shimpling in Suffolk, settled at Norwich, and afterwards at Mateshall in Norfolk; and Archbishop Parker married one of them, as at vol. iii. p. 306, 13, 14.

This town hath a weekly market on Wednesday ;a and two fairs in a year; one is held on Midsummer day, being the nativity of St. John the Baptist, to whom the chapel is dedicated ; so that this is the feast, wake, or dedication day; and the other was granted by King Henri/ III. in the year 125y, to Roger le Bigod Earl of Norfolk, and Marshal of England, to last eight days, namely, the vigil, and day of the decollation of St. John the Baptist,1 and sir days after :* and the said Earl had a hundred court held here every three weeks, and the toll of the market and fairs, assise of bread and ale, free-warren and ■weyf. In 1570, there was a rebellion intended to have begun here, as you may see in vol. i. p. 344, pedigree; and vol. iii. p. 281.

The chapel of St. John the Baptist, was a free chapel, founded in all probability by Sir John de Heroifston, for his own use; it never had any institution, but was always dependent upon its mother- church at Redenhall; the rector of which, serves here one part of the day every Sunday; it hath administration oi both sacraments be- longing to it, but not burial ; the street surrounds it, so that there is no convenience for that purpose : at the east end is the market-cross,

3 Vol. iii. p. 557- * Aug. 29.

* See vol. iii. p. ill. * Ex Rot. Cart, de A° 44 H. III.

5 Fo. 136. i b. 9 a. 213 b. 246 a. No. 30.

247 b Rex, &c. Sciatis nos concessisse di-

6 Fo. 413, 21, 2, 4, 36, 1136. lecto et fideli nostro R. gero le Bygod

7 p0- 293, 666. Comiti Norfolcie et Marescallo Anglie,

8 Harleston of Norfolk, arg. on a quod ipse et heredes sui in perpetiuim chevron S. an annulet or. habeant unam feriam apud Herolvist in

Harleston of Suffolk and Cam. dimidio hundredo suo de Ersliam nn.

bridgeshire, or, a fess erm. double co- gulis annis per octo dies duratui uni, vi-

rised sab. delicet, in vigilia in die Decollations

9 Pari distantia Waveneiam occapit Sci. Jchannis Baptiste et pei sex dies se- mercatorium Harleston, inde in septen. quentes.-cum omnibus libeitatibus et trionem rediens per Shelton, quod anti- liberis consuetudinibus ad hujusmodi fe- quos suae, appellationis dominos nuper riani pertinentibus &c. — Dat per ma- cxuit, ad Tasburgk itur. Spelman Norff. num nostramapud Westm. xii die Julij.

HARLESTON. 557

which with the chapel, was rebuilt about 1726 :3 it is tiled, hath one beil, and a good clock in a sort of a cupola, for there is no tower. In Ki88, being almost useless and deserted for want of fit endowment, that pious and charitable prelate, William Sandcroft Archbishop of Canterbury settled on the master, fellozos, and scholars of Emanuel College in Cambridge, 54/. per annum, payable quarterly out of the hereditary revenues of the excise; in trust and special confidence, that they will receive it, and constantly nominate a chaplain and schoolmaster, and pay it so received to him ;

" Upon condition, and so long as he the said chaplain and chaplains, << or schoolmaster and schoolmasters, for the time being, shall perform «' and celebrate publickly in the said chapel at Harleston aforesaid, « the daily office of divine service, morning and evening, on every « day of the week throughout the year, (except only the Lord's «' days, when the inhabitants of Harleston are bound to repair to the «< mother-church of Redenhall aforesaid,) according to the Liturgy of «« the Church of England by law established; and also, to hold and " keep a pnblick school there, for the education of youth, in some «« convenient place near the said chapel, which the inhabitants of *< Harleston aforesaid, in consideration of the great benefit which by <« this donation may accrue to them and their children, are desired «' from time to time to provide:4 and particularly besides the common " grounds of learning, shall teach and instruct all his scholars in that " excellent Catechism of the church of England, and cause them to *' get the same perfectly by heart, together with the Nicene and «« Athanasian Creeds; the Te Deum, and such other prayers, psalms, «< and hymns, as are contained in the Primmer and Common-Prayer " Book, and are fit for every good Christian to learn and use ; and " also to take care, that all the scholars whom he shall undertake to *' teach, be constantly present with himself, at the prayers of the " church, whenever they shall be publickly performed in the said " chapel, and behave themselves soberly and piously there, and be " taught to use such gestures, and make such answers as the church " prescribes,"5 The master and fellotes under their college seal, are for ever to nominate some able and competent person in holy orders, to be licensed by the Bishop to read prayers and teach school here.

The Rev. Mr. Smith, rector of Homersfield, the present chaplain and schoolmaster, was nominated by the master and fellows, receives the annual salary, and keeps school in a house provided for that pur- pose by the inhabitants.

Other Benefactions here are,

A rent charge of 40s. per annum, payable out of the profits of the bullock-fair held here, and the annual interest of 200/. given by Mr.

3 Being a free-chapel, it was dissolved merly made a market-cross and cham-

by the statute of Edw. VI. and beeame bers over it, but the whole is now laid

afterwards vested in the inhabitants, and into the chapel as at first, and a cross

was by them settled on feoffees to their built at its east end.

use : in 1726, it was repaired at the ex- 4 1433, the Bishop collated Mr. Wil-

pense of 1 100/. as I am informed, 700 of liam Kyng, priest, to the grammar,

which were raised in the parish by con- school in this place,

tribution only, and the rest by the neigh- * From the deed of settlement, bouring gentlemen ; part of it was for-

358 REDENHALL.

Dove, for a schoolmaster to teach poor boys to read and write. With which an estate is purchased in Rushall, and the profits are enjoyed by the schoolmaster.

This hamlet is in the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk, as well as the town of

REDENHALL

Itself, which gave name to, and is still the head town of, the deanery, which contains 25 parishes, and was taxed at 2 marks.

DEANS OF REDENHALE,

COLLATED BY THE BISHOP.

Jeffery de Stoctone, resigned in 1326J

William King of Repham, priest; he resigned to

John de IVultertone, and he in

1337, to Waster Tho. Hiltoft, who resigned in

1338, to William de Hiltojt, and he in

1 339, to John Tamworth.

1392, John Budham, clerk, and from this time to 1501, 1 have not their succession, but then

John Hole had it, who was succeeded by

Robert Hendry, who married, and was for that reason de- prived in 1524, and

Edward Calthorp had it; in 1534, the Bishop collated

Francis Pandyn, his servant, to hold it, and exercise his office, by his sufficient deputy.

RECTORS OF REDENHALE.

1264, Sir Ric. de Argentein.

1300, William de laDoune. Margaret, relict of Sir Hugh de Branteston, Knt.

1309, Robert de Ponterell. William de Bergis, Knt. lord of Redenhale.

1311, Will.de Dyntynsha.ll, priest, Ditto.

1311, William de Neuport, priest, was presented by Thomas de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk. He lies buried in the chancel under a stone robbed of an effigies in brass in his proper habit; the brasses of the circumscription are picked out, but the remaining impression shows that they were ancient capitals; much may be read now, from which, and a copy taken long since, 1 have made out this:

IEi : LmSt . SirG will : dG : n£uport : jadiS : pGpSonG : oG: EGSrG: GEliSG : prGbGnd: dG : ErGdinDton : 6t :

dG: wGllGS : Qui : --COil : EEE priGi' ; pur ; l'alCOG :

qu€ : diGux ; Gn : Git : COGrEi : aCDGn :

REDENHALL. 359

In 1326, he resigned this rectory in exchange for Framlingham- Costlc w i tli

John de Wy (Ditto ;) who in 1 328, changed it for Rotherfield in Chichester diocese, with

Will de Shotesham. Thomas de Brotherton, 8tc. 1338, Reginald de Donyngton, priest. The King, in right of the lands of Tho. de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk, now in his hands, by his death, they being held in capile of the Crown.

This advovvson fell to the share of Margaret, one of the daughters and heiresses of Thomas de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk, and was settled by the King's license and the Popes bull, on the prioress and nuns at Hungeye, and was afterwards confirmed by Alice her sister, and Sir Edw. de Montacute, or Montague, her husband;6 and in J349, it was appropriated by the Bishop, to pay 10s. to each nun, towards finding her clothes.7 The Bishop had a pension of 3 marks and a half, and the new erected vicarage was taxed at 13 marks. The Bishop of Noiwich and his successours for ever, were to nominate a vicar every vacancy and the prioress was obliged to present him. The rectory-house, which was very large, and moated in, with a great portal at the entrance, was then parted, and the south half assigned to the vicar, who was to have the manor and rents of assise, 4 acres by the house, and 30 acres of the demeans of the church ; being all that, on the south side of the bek ; and also to have right of com- monage on all the commons in Redenhall, with the alterage, &c. and a vicar was nominated by the Bishop.

VICARS,

NOMINATED BY THE BISHOPS, AND PRESENTED BY THE PRIORESSES.

1375, John de Sloleye.

1378, Adam Make/.

1389, John Clerk of Gressenhall.

1402, Sir Oliver Shelton, deacon.

1408, Tho. Bolton. In 1409, he changed for Hardtack in Ca»J- bridgeshire, with

Mr. Edm. Beylham.

1410, Mr. John de Aylesham, A.M.; he changed for Couteshall in 1420, with

John de Frydecock ; he was succeeded by John Swarby, who resigned in

1409 to Mr. Ro°er Blakenham, alias Brightmey, S. I . P.

1430' Master Tho. Ingham, S. T. B. In 1441, at the complaint ot this war the church was disappropriated, and became a rectory arain on condition, that the rector should pay a yearly pension ot 40s to the Prioress;* which is still paid to the Duke ot Norfolk, m rio-lit of Bnnoeye priory, by the rector;9 and that the Bishop should for ever nominate to the Prioress, and if she did not immediately pre-

6 Fines Norf. No. 13- P- '• M- 6- I Lib- Instiu IV< fo" lS

20 Edw. III. The prioress licensed to Ibid,

rece.ve the advowson. 21 Edw. III. h- 9 Lib. Inst. x. fo. 89, cense to appropriate it.

360 REDENHALL.

sent the person so nominated, the Bishop might then collate him in his own right.1

RECTORS OF REDENHALL,

NOMINATED BY THE BISHOPS, AND PRESENTED BY THE PRIORESSES AND THE NORFOLK FAMILY, WHO HAD THAT PRIORY AND ITS REVENUES, BY GRANT FROM THE KING AT ITS DISSOLUTION.

1441, Thomas de Ingham, S.T. B. changed it for Toft's rectory in Cambridgeshire, with

Nicholas Stanton, LL. B. ; he exchanged this for Bliekling in 1462, with

Tho. Beccles, A. M. In 1500, Ric. Stokes,* bachelor in decrees, had it; he resigned in 1518, to Mr. Ric. She/ton, who was the last presented by the Prioress ; he was succeeded by

Miles Spencer, LL.D. (see vol. i, p. 366, and vol. iii. p. 633,) who resigned in

1548, to Sir Ric. Wheatly chaplain to the Bishop, who was nomi- minated by Sir John Godsalve, Knt. to whom the Bishop had granted the nomination of this turn ; he was deprived of this and Alburgh, by Queen Mary, for being a married man, and no favourer of the mass; and the Duke of No/folk presented

John Whitby, S.T. B. but he not being nominated to the Duke by the Bishop, his presentation was void, and the Bishop nominated

John Salisbury, deau of Norwich, &c. (for whom see vol. iii. p. 617,) he resigned in 1555, and the Duke, at the Bishop's nomina- tion, presented his suffragan bishop, Thomas,3 who resigned in 1557, to Ric. Blaunch, A. M. 1563, Thomas Lancaster, A. M.; he died, and in 15S4, Arthur Purefaue, Gent, assignee of Edmund Freke, late Bishop of Norwich, who granted off the turn to

Will. Maplizden, S.T. B. Archdeacon of Suffolk; nominated John Hutchinson, S.T. B. to Philip Earl of Arundel, who presented him.

1594, Edward Yardley.

1597, Ric Moorre, M. B. and S. T. B. was nominated by the Bishop to the Queen; he held it united to Alburgh, and returned answer that there were 600 communicants in this parish. In 1628, upon the consecration of Bishop White, Archbishop Abbot chose the next nomination for his option; and in

1629, Peter de Lawne, S.T. P.+ was nominated in that right. 1636, Henry Bridon, succeeded by

William Smith, S. T. P. (for whom see vol. iii. p. 667.) 1642, Henry Mingay, A. M.; he died rector.

* Vol. i. p. 537. cros diaccnatiis et presbyteratus ordines 1 Vol. iii. p. 645. juxta morem et ritum ecclesie Angli- 3 Thomas Episcopus Synodensis sive canas coopta'us est, ac predicare liccn-

Sindoniensis, suft'raganeus. ciatus autnorirate ordinaria gradumqvie

* Natione Gallus, ecclesieque Gal'.ice magistn in ait.bus suscepit. Revjsio intra civitatem Norwic. autistes in sa- Archid. Nortt. A0 1630.

RED EN HALL. SGi

l6gi, Charles Robins, held it united to Broome} The Crown by lapse.6 He died in 1724, and

Ric. Fiddes, D. D. was presented by Lord Frederick Howaed, younger son of Henry late Duke of Norfolk; but the Bishop voided it, as not being at his nomination) and then he nomi- nated

William Tanner, A. M.7 to the said Lord, and he held it with. Toperoft to his death, when

Matthew Postlethwait succeeded him. (See vol. iii. p. 641.) At whose death, in

1745, Dec. 2fi, the Rev. Mr. John Nicolls, the present rector, was nominated by the Bishop to Francis Loggan, Gent, who presented him. He is resident chaplain to the merchants at Oporto in Portugal.

CO/. Redenhall rectory. Yearly tenths 9,1.

So that being not discharged of first fruits and tenths, it is incapable of augmentation. It was valued in the old taxation at 35 marks; Norwich Domesday says, that the Archdeacon ( Jakendensis) was patron ; that the rector had a house and carucate of land, that it was after valued at 40 marks, and paid \lld. ob. Peter-pence, 2s. synodals, 5s. Bishop's procurations, and ~s. Id. ob. Archdeacon's procurations. The religious concerned here, were, the Prioress of Carrowe, whose temporals were taxed at Gs. 8d. the Prior of Mendham at 365. gd. ob. the Prior of JVeybrede for meadows at 23s. 6d. the Abbot of Lang- ley at 8s. 6d. In 1390, Roger de Bois, Knt. and others, aliened divers tenements in Harleston, to the Abbess of Brusyerd. Hamon de Peccatum, or Pecche,* gave 10s. yearly in rents in Herolfstone to Bury abbey; Gefj'ry PecchelOs. and Gilbert Pecche other rents. In 1307, Stephen de Brockdish and Reginald his son, held 8 acres of the Prior of the Holy Trinity at Ipswich, by 6d. per annum rent. In 1236, the rector took toll of all that passed through part of his church- yard.9 This town paid clear to every tenth, 11/. 13s. Ad.

The church is dedicated in houour of the Assumption of the blessed Virgin Mary, and is a good regular building; having its north porch, nave, and two isles, leaded, and chancel tiled. It was rebuilt of freestone, by Thomas of Brothertou Earl of Notfolk; and the chancel b}' Will. Neuport, rector: but the noble square tower which is very large and lofty, is of a much later foundation, it being a long time from its beginning to its finishing; it hath neat battlements, and four freestone spires on its top, and is the finest tower of any country parish church in the whole county. It was begun about 1400, and was carried on as the legacies and benefactions came in. John de la Pole, lord of JVingfe/d Castle, who was buried at Wingficld in 1491, was a principal benefactor. Joan Banning gave 3l. 6s. 8d. in 14(jy.

5 See vol. iv. p. 552. same year to Francis Jessop, who 22

6 Henry late Duke of Norfolk, by the Nov. 1690, presented toward Mansell, name of Henry Lord Howard, Earon of who being not nominated by the Bishop, Castle-Ri>ing, by deed dated 4 Sept. the presentation was voided, and this 1672, granted to Ric. Slowe, Gent, the Bishop collated by lapse.

next turn of this rectory; and in 1685, 7 See vol. ii. p. 256,92. Margaret his widow assigned it to s Alb. Regr. fo. 26. Charles Mawson, Gent, and he the 9 Plita Corone 41 H. III. rot. 9. vol. v. 3 A

362 REDENHALL.

In 1492, Thomas Bacon gave a legacy ; in 1511, John Bacon; and it was finished about 1520, by Master Ric. Shelton, then rector; and on the south-east spire, there is an escallop shel and a tun, carved on the stone, as a rebus or device for his name; Sir John Shelton, Knt. was also a contributor to the work. In l6l6, it was split from top to bot- tom by a tempest,1 so as to be obliged to be anchored up as it now remains; though it was done so effectually, that it is scarce any damage to its beauty or strength : there was this carved on the north- west spire,

This Spire was demolished in the Year 1680, and rebuilt in the Year 1681, by Hen. Fenn and John Dove, Church-Wardens, John Teuton and Edmund Knights, Masons.

The arms of Brotherton and Mowbray, and the rose, the badge of Brotheiton, and the leopard's face, the badge of De la Pole, are often on the stones. On the west doors are carved a hammer and horseshoe, and a shoe and pincers, as rebusses for the names of Smith and Ham- mersmith, probably the donors of them. Here are 8 melodious bells, on three of which, are these verses :

2d bell. j>erru$ a& £tcrne Ducat no£ pas'cua $ttc. 4. €th &ola men nobig uet©cu£. ilmen. 15S8.

6. Stella IHana lEUrig ?'uccurre piis^ima nobi.£.

The church is new seated throughout, and kept as neat and decent, as I have any where seen. In the east chancel window, De la Pole quarters IVingJield in the garter. Erpingham in a garter. Brandon quartering Bourchier in a garter. In the south window gul. an eagle displayed or ; and Brewse.

In 1504, Thomas Pyers of Harleston gave 20 marks to make the funte new. The roode or principal image of our Saviour on the cross, which stood on the rood-loft between the chancel, was a remarkable one in those days; in 1506, Agnes Stanforth of IVortwa/e, hath this in her will, "Item, my marrying Ring to the Goode Roode of Redenhale."

In 1464, Sic. Totyl or Tuthill was buried in the church; and in 1469, John Baker in the nave; and Joan widow of Robert Banning, by the north door, and was a benefactrix to the steeple, church, and Harleston chapel ; to all which she left legacies.

On biases, now lost,

©rate pro anima ^obannt^ 2?orct qui obiit prima Die men£i£ Hiau 3° ©ni. jJVcccclrrri. cuiu£ anime propicietur Deu£.

<©ratc pro animc fio^'e 3Urfce.

©rate pro animabu.s 3frjhanru£ iBooe ct JJiartjaretc urori.si

siu£.

Orate pro animabusS 3Johanni.si 2?acon <$ 3gncti£ Wrort.si £ue.

This John Bacon of Har/estone, made his will in 1511, and ordered a priest to sing in the chapel of St. John in Harleston, for him and his wife; and made Richard his son, his heir to his estate here; and 1 The sessions gave 13/. 13s. 6d. to.vards it.

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John his son had his estate in Lopham, paying legacies to Catherine, Margaret, Rose, and Jone, his daughters. His son Richard died ahout 1540, leaving Thomas, Robert, and John his sons, and two daughters, Anne, and Elizabeth.

©rate pro animabu<; fiicaroi 2?acon ct Catherine WjroriS £ue, qui ofant ii° Die gjulii a, ©tit. M. cccctjcjcjrjrm0.

At the upper end of the south isle where the Bacons are interred,

©rate pro anima JUargarete Sacon.

*tic jacet COmunouji ^piccris be ^arlcjSton, qui obiit bin0 bit Dob. a° JEtccccb. et ^Johanna uror eing.

In the north chapel, which belongs to Gazcdy-hall, are buried several of the families to which that manor belonged ; it seems to have been founded by the Brewses, for anciently the Gawdies buried in the middle alley, where on a stone under the portraitures of a man and a woman, \vas this,

©rate pro animabtt?" ^oljanntiS 45atoDyc $ Slice BrorijS £ue, qui ofaiit im0 Die JEtaii an" ©ni : M. b€. jr. quorum aniraabusi propt- cietur beug amen.

On another, pran for the <£>ouie of Mt$> 3nne ©atobgc in the Jfcare of 43ob

1530.

©rate pro anima 3gneti£ ©atoOjie que obiit pb° die &cpt. a5 ©ni. JOtcccccr cuiujS anime propicictur bcujS amen.

In 1573, John Witham buried here, gave a good legacy to the steeple.1

On a black marble in the altar rails,

Herelieth the Body of Mrs. Penelope D'oyly, Wife of the Rev. Mr. James Doyly, who died the 8th. of Oct. 1721. Reader ! if thou hast any Curiosity to enquire after her Character, know, that she once possessed a Nature, Friendly, Liberal, and Gene- rous : She was Religious without Superstition, &, Virtuous without the Formalities of it : Her Mind was easie in it's Self, and form'd to make others happy: She had all the Family Vertues in Per- fection, not a Sentiment of her Soul, but what was turn'd for the

z I find in the old church-wardens 1693, a feofment made of the chapel

book, that in 1577, a bell was bought and chambers, and town-close, which

for the chapel. Mr. Bacon paid for contained about three acres, and was let

burying his two children in the church at 4I. per annum, said to be given by

and John Cook for burying his brother the Gawdies, the profits to be given to

Thomas Cook 6s. id. each, to the the poor every Christmas. The hamlet

church-wardens. of Wortwale was answerable for a fourth

1588, received for Sir Thomas Gaw- part of all charges, and it inter-cemmons

dy's grave 6s. %d. ; the farm of the with Alburgh, and hath each a drift,

town- house of Redenhale 16s. 1594, two But there are no commons to Redenhall.

deeds of the house called the chape], to In 1641, the chancel was levelled, and

be kept to the use of the town; the late the organ case pulled down. In 164.4,

chapel and cross-chambers. 1612, Mr. the crosses at the end of the chapels were

Holland buried in the church. 163s, taken down, aud the pictures in the

Nic. Cooke and his wife, and James chancel defaced. 167 1, paid the ringers

Spalding buried in the church. for ringing when the King passed by.

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Pleasure or Advantage of her Husband, the tenderest of Mothers, and the best of Mistresses; In a Word, she filled up every Part of Life, with Decency and good Manners, and when God who gave it her, commanded her to resign, she did it tho' upon the shortest Warning, with such a Firmness of Mind, as shew'd, she was neither ashamed to live, nor afraid to die : This Testimony of his own Love and her Merit, He thought fit to give, who knew her best, & would in every Action of her Life, do Justice to her Memory.

Rand, per chevron or and ar. a lion rampant gul. Crest, a boar's head cooped.

The Bodyes of John Rand M. A. a late painful Preacher of the Gospel at Rednall cum Harleston, & of Anne his Wife, & Eliz their Dr. Sept. 27, lOoQ. Here expect the Resurrection.

Three Temples of the Holy Ghost,

Ruin'd by Death, ly here as lost,

St. Johns fell first, St. Anne's next Year,

Then St. Elizabeth fell here ;

Yet a few Dayes, and thes againe

Christ will re-build and in them reigne.

Ruth Relict of Bruce Randall Oct. 23, 1666.

The north vestry is leaded, and the north chapel tiled, in which is an altar tomb for Sir Tho. Gawdie, buried here in 1588. The roof is adorned with spread eagles.

There is a hatchment with the crest and arms of Wogan, viz. or, on a chief sab. three martlets org.

(And was first granted to IVogan of Pembrokeshire.) Crest, on a torce (). S. a lion's head erased sab impaling Sandcroft, arg. on a less between three crosses patee gnl. as

many martlets of the field.

The following memorials are in the nave, in which stands a fine large brass eagle ; the roof over the rood loft is painted, and the twelve Apostles are on the screens; and there is a gallery at the west end.

Henry the 1st. & Henry the 2d. Sons of Henry Fenn of fied- nall, Gent. 8c Eliz. his Wife, the Is;, died March 15, l66l, aged 5 Years & 6 Weeks, the Id. Dec. 17, 1675, aged ten Years & six Weeks.

When Time hath marr'd this Marble, St defac'd The kind Memoriall, by Sister Mary trac'd, Twill loose the Virtve of her first Intent, No longer Overs, but it's own Monument.

Frere, as at vol. i. p. 68, impaling a saltier ingrailed, on a chief three croslets.

Tobias Son of Tobias Frere, Gent. & Sarah his Wife, ob. 18 May 1660, ajt. 2. Eliz, his Sister, Aug 4, 1658, at. 1 Year 9 Months.

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Tobias Frere Esq; Febr. 6, 1655.

His Corps lye here, his Soule like to the Dove, Finding small Rest Below, now rests Above.

Rich. Frere. Alice Frere Wid. 13 Mar. 1639, et hie ad Dex- tram Ricardi Frere Senioris, Generosi, Quondam viri sui Sepulta.

On a neat mural monument against the south wall, at the west end of the nave,

In piam Memoriam Tobi.e Frere Armigeri, vidua Ipsi su- perstes, Domina Susanna Frere, una cum Filio Tobia, Monu- mentum hoc Amoris et Officij insigne Statui curaverunt, obijt autem 66™ annum agens. Febr. 6°. Anno Dni. 1655.

Ne quis Succumbat Fato, cedatve Sepulchro, Non Pietas, Virtus, non Medicina Valet ; Cuique est dicta Dies, Fcelix qui Tern poraVitae Sic Agit, ut sit ei, grata suprema Dies.

There is a scull fixed in the wall on the south side of the screens, under which is this,

Death. Behold thy Selfe by me, Such Once was I, as thou, And thou in Time shall be, Even Dust, as I am now.

On altar tombs on the south side in the churchyard,

In piam Memoriam Johannis Dove Synceri Ecclesias Angli- canaz Filij, Mariti optimi, Parentis indulgentissimi, Bonorum om- nium Amoris et de Charitate in Pauperes optime Meriti, obijt Martij 26, A. D. 1690, a;t. 46.

Edw. Hart Sept. 22, 1731. Edward Hart his Nephew erected the Tomb in Gratitude to his Memory.

Hie jacet sub Marmore Corpus Stephani Freeman de Harle- stone Generosi, obijt A° set. suae 42, A. D. 1684.

The following inscriptions are on head-stones,

Hie deposita sunt ossa Hannre Wotton Uxoris, Fleetwood Wotton,qu33 ad pluies abijt Martij die decimo nono 1715, act.4S. Fleetwood Wotton Gen. ad plures abijt Jan. 17, 1720, ast. 68.

Elizabetha Sara Kerrick, Filia Gualteri et Anna ob. 22° Die Apr. 1726, set. sua2 25.

Sub hoc marmore reconduntur Cineres Gualteri Kerrich qui mortem obijt Jan. 8, 1703, iEtatis vero sua? 38° (See vol. i. fo. 229, and also under Mendham.)

Thomas Bayfie Gent. Nov. 20, 1717. aet. 72. Mary his Wife 1701, 33t. 61. June 21.

3GG R E D E N H A L L.

(This on the north side.)

John Brown, Sadler, Sept. 21, 1720, 2fj. All you that my Grave do see, As I am so must you be, I in my Youth was snatcht away, Repent in Time, make no delay.

Thomas Freeman, Sept. 20, 1727, set. 57. Adieu ! Life Adieu! hoping for a better Hereafter, thro' the Merits of Jesus Christ. Amen.

The church is situate near the midst of the parish, so that it might be equal to the tenants of the several manors, being equidistant also from its two principal hamlets of Harleston aud iVortwale, near a mile from each.

Redenhal takes its name from Rada the Dane, who was lord in the time of Edward the Confessor, and held it of Edric, the ante- cessor of Robert Malet, lord of the honour of Eye. It was then 3/. per annum, but rose to 8/. value, and was a mile and half long, and half a mile and three perches broad, and paid \0d. to the Dane geld. It ex- tended into Alburgh and Starston; in the former, there were 15 free- men, and 9 in the latter, and 20 in this town ; whose rents were 4l. per annum, but they were after separated from this manor, and added to Earl Ralf's hundred of Earsham : Ivo Tallebois, after the Earl's for- feiture, got them for some time ; but being restored, they have con- tinued ever since with the hundred.3 Bishop William claimed 20 acres as held of him by a freeman ; and Jgneli held 80 acres : a free- man of Edric 's had a part of the town, which {he falconer to the Earl afterwards held, and his manor called Hawker's,* was free from all services to the capital hall or manor, and afterwards held of the King under Godric : as for the freemen and superiou r jurisdiction of the

3 Terre Regis quam Godricus servat. omneslx. acr. terre semper iii. car. xiii.

Doms. f. 30. Dim. Hund. Hersam. acr. prati.

Radanahalla tenuit Rada i. liber In Redanahalla xx. liberi homines

homo Edrici commend. T. R. E. ii. car. Rade commend, de lxyx. acr. terre. Isti

terre tunc xxx. vill. post et modo x. homines tHnc valuere iv. libr. m° viii.

semper vi. bord. tunc iv. serv. post ii. RadulfusCoihcs adcensavit, post Ivo

m°i semper ii. car. in dominio. tunc vi. Tallebosc. semper v. car. et iv. acr.

car. horn, post 111° ii. et dim. tunc silva prati.

lx. pore. m° xx. et viii. acr. prati, sem- + In eadem i. liber homo Edric com-

per i. mol. semper v. an. et xxx. pore. mend. i. car. terre, semper ii. vill. et

vii. capr. tunc valuit lx. sol. post et viii. bord. tunc et post ii. car. in dom.

modo viii. blanc. et habet i. leug. et ni° i. semper ii. car. hom. silva xx.

dim. in longo, et dim. et iii. percas in pore, et iii. acr. prati et sub eo v. liberi

lato, et de geho x. d. homines et dim. de xx. acr. terre sem-

In Radanahalla ii. liber hom. de per ii. car. tunc valuit xx. sol. Sed

c. acr. semper i. car. Episcopus Wilel- ipsa erat quietus de aula quia erat and-

Muscalumpniatur xx. acr. de istis x. et pitrarius Comitis, postquam Radul-

hundr. testatur etjigneli tenet lxxx. acr. fus se forisfecit et fun in manu Regis

In Aldeberga xv. liberi homines sub Godrico, sed nichil reddidit et recla-

Rade et Ulmari T. R. E. commend, mat Regem defensorem.

de lx. acr. terre semp. iii. car. et iii. acr. Tene Stiganui Episcopi qua; cus-

prati. In Sterestuna xii. lib. ho- todit Will, de Noiers in manu Regis,

mines ix. Rade commend. T. R. E. et i. Doms. fo. 52. Hersam dun. Hur.d.

Waitrct, et. i. Ulmari. et i. communis In Redanaha. vii. liberi hum. Sti-

Abbati de Sco. Edo. et de Eli. Jnter gandi, comd. T. R.E. de lx. acr. terre

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whole town, they all belonged to Bishop Stigand, by him were for- feited to the King, who committed the care of them to William de Noiers, and they have ever since passed with the hundred.

There are now only two lords here; Redenhall cum Harkston, the lete, hundred court, market, fairs, tolls, free-warren, and all superiour jurisdiction of the whole town, belong to his Grace the Duke of Nor- folk, and have passed with the Earls and Dukes of Norfolk, along with Forncet manor; to which I refer you.

The other manors are now joined and belong to John Wogan of Gawdy-hall, Esq. viz. the manors of Redenhall, Coldham-hall, Hol- brook-hall, Merks, and Hawkers.

Thev were all in the Bygods as one manor, and by them parted and sold to different persons.

REDENHALL MANOR,

And half the advowson, was owned by Henry de Agneux, or Anew; and half by Richard de Argentine in Henry the Second's time.

This Henry was son of Walter, son of that Agneli, who held 80 acres here at the Conqueror's survey; in II96, being a rebel to King Richard I. that King seized all his lands, and granted them for 200 marks, to Ra/fde Lenham, saving to Mabel de Agnis, her dower, and to Peter de Leonibus his goods, and corn sown on the land ; and in 1199, Walter himself confirmed the grant. In 1200, Roger de Len- ham owned one moiety, and Henry de Agnells, son of Walter, seltled it on him by fine ; in 121 1, Petronel his widow, settled it for her life, on Roger Butvant ; at her death, Roger de Lenham her son had it, whose widow Joan, in 1225, had her dower assigned, and remarried to Reginald de Argentein. In 1247, Sir Nic. de Lenham was lord, and in 1236, had a charter (or free-warren here, and at Terling in Essex ; upon which, Roger le Bigot Earl of Noifo/k, lord of the hundred, and superiour lord of the fee of the whole town, sued him, and seized on this manor, because he had leased it for 1 6 years to the Queen, whose attorneys the Earl ejected. The manor being held of him by ol. yearly- rent, and other services ; and though the lease was made to the Queen, it was in effect the same, as if it had been to the King ; so that no dis- tress could be taken, but upon the King's granting him letters patent, that the lease should not be to the disherison of him or his heirs, but that he might distrain for the rents and services, the Earl confirmed it. In 1257, this Nicholas, and Isolda de Lenham his wife, sold all his possessions here to Peter de Subaudia or Savoy, who the same year settled them on Ingeram de Feynes and Isabel his wife, with nine score pounds per annum in Netlested, Ket/eburgh,Si,c. and in 1258, they re- conveyed them to Peter, with 250 marks, land, and the advowson of Geyton, Thorp, &c.

In 1261, Henry III. says, that his beloved uncle, Master Peter de Savoy, surrendered into his hands, to the use of Prince Edxcard his

et ii. bord. tunc iii. car. et modo ii. silva prati appretiatum est cum alijs.

iv. pore, et ii. acr. prati. Quando Radulfus se forisfecit ha-

In Radanakalla et in Dentuna buit socam et sacam de Radahalla et

ii. lib. homines Stigandi cum soca xiii. de commendatis suis. acr. terre semper dim. car. et dim. acr.

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eldest son, the manors of Redenhall, Wisete, Ketleburgh, Nettkstede, and Wyke, by Ipswich in Suffolk; with the fees of 4/. 13s. Ad. rent in Ipswich, and the King confirmed them to the Prince and his heirs, and so to the Kings of England for ever; but the Prince granted it with his father's consent, to Nic. de Yatingdon, and Alice dc Bathonia his wife, and their heirs, to be held by the service of two fees. Bar- tholomew de Yatingdon, his brother, inherited, who in 1280, settled his moiety on Master Henri/ de Branteston and Beatrice his wife, with re- mainder to Hugh de Branteston and Margaret his wife, and their heirs ; and in 1284, John de Agneus sued them as heir of that family, but did not recover it.

The other moiety continued in the Argentein family, though in 1206, William de Curcun gave 20 marks to King John to have it: in 1281, Giles de Argentein held here and in Thimmg, four fees of Rich- mond honour; his grandfather Richard having married Joan, widow of Roger de Lenham ; and this Giles conveyed it to Master Henry de Branteston, who had the whole manor and moiety of the advowson, and this part was held of the honour of Richmond? In 1298, Hugh de Branteston, brother of Henry, died seized, and left it to Margaret, daughter and heiress of Bartholomew de Yatingdon, his widow, who held one moiety of the Earl of NorJ'o/k, and the other of the Earl of Richmond; and in 1300, Henry de Branteston and Margery his wife had it, who was a widpw this year. Osbert de Clinton, lord here in 1317, and Joan his wife, conveyed it from Joan and her heirs, (who 1 suppose was a Branteston,) to Thomas de Brotherton Earl of AW- folk, Marshal of England, and his heirs; who in 1325, jointly with Alice his wife, settled it on Will, de Neuport, rector here, and Richard de Bunted, rector of Stonham, as trustees for the heirs of Alice ; and Alice, one of her daughters and coheirs, married to Sir Edw. de Mon- teacute, or Montague, who owned it in 1344, and mortgaged it to John de Co/oigue and Thomas de Holbech, merchants of London, by the King's patent and license; and in 1360, Edward 'son of Edward Mon- tague, and Alice his wife, one of the daughters and heiresses of Tho- mas de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk, held it; and Ethe/dred his sister was found his heir by one inquisition, and Joan the wife of William de Uff'ord Earl of Suffolk, daughter and one of the heiresses of the said Edward and Alice, by another ; but she did not inherit it ; for in 1365, at the death of Edward, son and heir of Edward Montague, Etheldred his sister had it; and in 1390, she was married to Hugh de Strautey, Knt. and John was their son and heir : the capital messuage or hall, had 384 acres of land, 8 acres of meadow, 8 of pasture, 62 acres of wood and a water-mill belonging to it; and in 1414, Sir John son of Sir Hugh was, lord; it after belonged to William de la Pole Earl of Suffolk, and lord of Wingjield castle, and in 1485, Will, Catesbie owned it, who was attainted in 1 H. VII. and that King granted it to Sir William Norreys, Knt. and his heirs male. In 1558, it was granted to Tipper and Dawe, and soon after belonged to the Gawdies, and so it came joined to

5 Mr. Henr. de Branteston tenet 2 Hon. Richmond, fo. 45. The Bran-

feod. in Redenhale, Alberg, et Starston, testons had manors in Warwickshire

et red. ad ward, castel. Richmond. 26*. Leicestershire, and Berkshire. Manerium valet per ann. sol. Regr.

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THE MANOR OF HOLEBROOK, or GAWDY-HALL,

Which was held of the honour of Richmond at half a fee; this an- ciently belonged to the Turbeviles of Devonshire, and Henry de Turbe- vile was lord in 1223; it took its name from the situation of the manor-house, being in a hole, by the brook side; the hi lis adjoining still retain the name of Holebrook-IIilts, and are on the left hand of the road leading from Harlestou to Yarmouth, near to Wortwale dove, but this was pulled down by the Gawdies, when the house called Gawdy-hall was built, in which John Wogan, Esq. the present lord, now dwells.

In 1226, Ralf, and in 1230, Walter de Turbevile were lords; this Walter served 'King Henry III. with three knights, for one whole year, to Poictou, to be released of 150 marks due to that King. In 1259, Roger de Thirke /by, one of the justices itinerants, lords here, wasdeadfand leh Simon Abbot of Langleu, and Hugh Bigod, his exe- cutors ; and this manor, and houses in Cadre in Norfolk, to Walter de Thirkelby, his brother and heir. In 1313, Robert Tendevile of Harlestou, and Julian his wife, seem to have it ; and probably it con- tinued in this family a whole century, for in 1414, Richard Tyndale of Dean in Northamptonshire, son and heir of John Tyndale, owned it;6 and William was his brother and heir; which Will, in 1420, settled it in trust on Henry Bishop of Winchester, Sir Lewes Robesart, and others; and it continued in the family till 1542, and then Tho. Tyndale and Osbert Muudeford, Esqrs. conveyed it to Robert Bacon ofSpecteshall, Esq.7 and in 1551, the title was completed: in 1570, his son and heir, Edward Bacon, Esq. had it, and sold it to 'Ihomas Gawdy, Esq. and so it became joined to

THE MANOR OF COLDHAM-HALL,

Which was held of the Earls of Norfolk, and to which the moiety of the advowson belonged, till sold from it. In 1239, Wanne de Re- denhall, lord of it, impleaded Roger Bigot Earl ot Norfolk, to permit him to enjoy certain liberties belonging to this manor, which he held of him. In 1303, Simon de Cotdham of RedeuAall, and Emma his wife, (from whom it took its present name,) sold the moiety of the advowson which belonged to it, and the manor (except an hundred .hillings, land, and some rents, afterwards called Merits manor,) to Sir William de Burgh, Knt. and his heirs; and in 1309, the said William, and Master Thomas de Burgis, sold the moiety of the advowson to Thomas de Brotheiton Earl of Norfolk, (patron ot the other moiety,) and the manor to John deRiveshale.or Rushall, and his heirs. It afterwards belonged to the De la Poles and conti- nued in the Earls of Suffolk, till the attainder of Charles Duke of

6 See vol. ii. p. i So for the Tindales. Anne, his other children ; to whom Ro-

i Richard Bacon ot" Harlestou, buried bert, father of Bartholomew Kemp of

at Redenhall, by will dated 1526, gave Gissing, gave legacies also : the said

his estate to Robert his eldest son, and Richard having married his daughter

legacies to William, Thomas, John, and Anne. See vol. 1. p. 177-

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Suffolk; and in 1551, was granted by Philip and Mary, to Edward Lord North; and afterwards it was purchased by the Gazvdies.

In 1510, John Gazcdie of Harleston was buried in Redenhall church, and gave his estate to Thomas Gawdye the younger. In 1523, Tho. Gawdy of Wortwell, Gent, obtained a manumission of all his lands in Mendham, Metfield, and Withe rsdale, held of the manors of Met- Jield priory and Kingshall, of Simon Prior of Mendham. In 1545, Thomas Gawdy of Redenhall, senior, was buried, leaving Agnes his wife, James Marsham of Norwich, merchant, and John Calle of Bale, his executors. In 1556, Thomas Gawdy, junior, Esq. of Harleston, was buried in Redenhall church by his first wife, and Elizabeth his relict was buried by him in 1563; he left Thomas and Francis, and three daughters, Eliz. Southall, Margaret Jldrich, and Catherine. In 1570, Thomas their eldest son purchased Weybrede manor of William Calthorp, Esq. and in 1582, he sold this manor to Sir Tho. Gawdye, Knt. and he settled it on William Brend, trustee to Eliz. daughter of Helwise his first wife, and her heirs : he married Frances, his second wife, and was one of the King's judges, but dying in 158S, was buried here, being seized of Claxton, Hillington, Rockland, Po- ringland, &c. leaving

Henry Gawdy, Esq. his son and heir, then 26 years of age ; and in 1615, Sir Henry and Clipesby Gaudy, Knts. were lords. In 1633, Sir Tho. Gawdie, Knt.; and it was mortgaged by Charles Gawdie, Esq. to Tobias Frere, who afterwards purchased it ; in 1654, he was one of the justices of peace for Norfolk, a sequestrator, and member in par- liament, and was buried here in 1655, leaving Susanna his widow, and Tobias his son and heir; his widow (as I am informed) married John Wogan, Esq. who was lord here in 1688, and now John Wogan, Esq.8 is lord of all the aforesaid manors, which are now joined with

THE MANOR OF MERKS,

Which was part of Coldham-hall manor, that continued in the Re- denhall family as aforesaid, and was sold to John de Mar/eburgh, of whom John de Redenhall purchased it in 1313, and held it of the Earl of Norfolk at the 8th part of a fee ; in 1344, Henry de Reden- hall and Margaret his wife conveyed great part of it to Thomas son of Peter del Brok, and others, with remainder to their heirs ; and in 1358, Robert de Redenhall, rector of Eike in Suffolk had it; it came after that, to James Ormond Earl of Wilts, and at his attainder, to the Crown ; and was granted by Edward IV. with the manors of Moreffes in Waldingjield, and those of Overhall and Silvesters in Bures in Suffolk, to Sir Tho. Waldegrave ; and passing through divers hands, in the year 1551, it was purchased by Rob. Bacon, and joined as aforesaid.

HAWKER'S MANOR

First belonged to Edric, of whom it was held in the Confessor's time by one of his freemen, when it was worth 20s. per annum. After the Conquest, RalfGwader or Wayet Earl of Norfolk, had it, and * Dugdale's Troubles, fo. 638.

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gave it to be held free of his capital manor, to Roger his hawker or falconer; who held it free from all service but that of falconer, when the King had the capital manor by Earl Rolf's forfeiture, and when Godric, to whom he had intrusted the care of it, claimed services of him, he appealed to the King (of whom he held it freely) as his protector, and was discharged accordingly; and from this tenure, the manor and lords also, took their names. The record called Testa de Nevil tells us, that Warine le Ostricer, or hawker, son of the said Roger, held it by the grand serjeanty of keeping agoshawk for the King's use, and carrying it every year to the King at his Ma- jesty's cost.9 This Warine added much to the manor, by purchase from Maud de Beauchamp in 1289, and was succeeded by Robert his son ;* and he in 1285, by Peter le Ostricer or Hawkere, his son and heir; whose tenure was found to be grand serjeanty, being obliged to keep a goshawk from Michaelmas to lent, and to mute it, and carry it to the King, of whom he was to receive 10/. per annum for so doing: he died seized in 1337, leaving it to Robert le Hazcker, his son, and Alice his wife; he died in 1373, leaving Richard his son under age, who had livery of his estate in 1380, when the manor-house had 144 acres of demean, and the manor was found to extend into Alburgh, and other adjacent towns; he was succeeded by John his son and heir, and he by Richard, whose son Rog. died about 1436; and soon after it passed to Robert Clifton, cousin to Sir John Clifton of Bu- kenham castle; for in 1447, Sir John willed, that Robert his cousin should have his manors of Topcrqft and Denton, on condition he made an estate to Sir John's executors, of his manors of Hawkere's and Shelly, which the said Robert had, in exchange for the manors of Topcroft and Denton ;z and from that time it passed with Topcroft and Denton, all which, in 1481, Thomas Brewse, in right of Elizabeth his wife, had assigned to him as parcel of the lands of Robert de Clifton; and it continued with the said manors (to which I refer you) till 1021, and in that year, John Brewse, Gent, sold his manor of Hawker's cum Shacklock's, to Tobias Frere, Esq. and his heir ; and in 1627, John Brewse and Tobias Frere, conveyed it to Sir Clipesby Gawdy, Knt. and Mary his wife, and their heirs; and so it became joined to the other manors.

WORTWELL MANOR

Was, soon after the Conquest, in a family called Peccatum ovPecche: in 1 196, Gilbert Pecche, a benefactor to Bury abbey, held two fees of that house in Wortwell, Harleston, and Drenkeston in Suffolk. The next owner that I find, was in 1298, when it belonged to William

9 Warinus le Ostricer, filius ■ This family of the Hawkers were

Rogeri Ostricarij de Radanhalla tenet very numerous, and many of them had

unam carucatam terre per Ostuceriam, good estates here, and elsewhere ; they

in capite de Rege, per magnam serjean. sealed with a lion rampant in an orle of

ceam custodier.di unum austurcum (or billets. See vol. i. p. 177. See Fox,

goshawk) Domini Regis, et mutandi, fo. 661, 3. Baker's Cron. 287.

et annuatim in Yeme deferendi et por- * See vol. i. p. 373, 4, 5. tandi dictum asturcum Regi, ad sumptus Regis.

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Carliol and Agnes his wife; and in 1299, to Richard Carliol ; in 1345, Richard Carliol, Henry, and John his brothers, were returned lords, and the manor then extended into Alburgh: this family lived in the manor-house for several descents. In 1401, Richard Carliol held it at the fourth part of a fee, as parcel of the barony of Tateshale. In 1428, Robert Warner was lord; in which family it continued till 1546, when John, third son to Brian Holland of Wortwell, married Anne, daughter and heiress of Robert IVarner of Wingjield, with whom. he had this manor ; this John came and settled at II ortzcell-hall, and purchased the greatest part (if not the whole) of the copyhold ; and it hath continued in his family to this day, it being now owned by Isabella-Diana and Charlotte Holland, sole heiresses of Sir William Holland, Bart, deceased ; the account and pedigree of which family may be seen at large in vol. i. p. 344.

MENDHAM.

NED HAM IN MENDHAM.

JNedham, adjoins east to Brockdish, on the great road ; and is ori- ginally a hamlet and chapelry to Mendham, which is a very ex- tensive place; the parish church stands just over the river, and so is in Suffolk ; but this hamlet and the adjacent part between it and the parish church, on the Norfolk side, were no less than two miles and five furlongs long, and seven furlongs broad, at the Conqueior's sur- vey, and paid "id. to the geld or tax ; and the part on the iSorfu/k side (exclusive of the bounds of this ancient hamlet) was called Scotford, or the part at the ford, (over which there is a good biick bridge built, called Shotford bridge at this day,) and for many ages had a rector presented to it, who served in the church of Mendham, by the name of the rector of Shotford portion in Mendham.

Part of Hero/veston or Harleston then belonged to Mendham also ; and now, that part of the town opposite to the south side of the chapel, on which the publick-house called thePye stands, is in Mendham.

Mendham parish church is dedicated to All the Saints, and was originally a rectory, one turn of which, was in Sir William delluuting- Jield, founder of the priory here, to which he gave it, and the other in Sir Thomas de Nedham, who gave it to William Prior of the Holy 'Trinity at Ipszcich, and the convent there, to which it was appropriated by Thomas de Btundeville Bishop of Noncich, in 122?, when thevicar- age was settled to consist of a messuage and 24 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow and marsh, with all the allerage belonging to the church, and the tithes of the mills, hay, turf, and jish, and all sorts of pulse,

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and 10s. per annum rent; viz. from the Lady Eve de Arches half a mark, &c.} and the said Prior was to pay all dues to the bishop and arch- deacon, except synodals ;* and Henry de Diss, chaplain, the first vicar here, was presented by the Prior of Ipswich. The account of this church in Norzcich Domesday is thus; the Prior of the Holy Trinity of Ipswich hath the moiety of the church of Mendham, appropriated to his convent, and hath a house and two carucates of land, and re- ceives the tithes of the demeans of Sir Thomas de Nedham; this was valued formerly at 15 marks. The Prior of Mendham hath the other moiety, and receives the tithes of Sir IVillium de llantingjield, and his moiety is valued at ten marks. Sir Thomas de Clare is patron of the third part, which the vicar holds of the fee of Cockjietd, and is valued at five marks.

The chapel of St. Peter at Nedham was in all probability founded by the Nedham family, and most likety, by Sir Thomas de Nedham himself, for his own tenants ; and being so far from the mother-church of Mendham, was made parochial, and hath separate bounds, officers, administration of sacraments, and burial ; it is under the episcopal, but exempt from the archidiacoual jurisdiction ; for it pays neither suno- da/s, procurations, nor Peter-pence : and in 1329, a perpetual compo- sition and agreement was made between the parishioners of the mother-church of Mendham, anil those of the chapel of Nedham ; by which, in lieu of all reparations and dues to the parish of Mendham, they agreed to pay ISd. every Easter-day, towards the repairs of Mendham church, as an acknowledgment that they were members of it. In 1411, the parishioners of Nedham, complained to Pope John XXIII. that their chapel was not well served, though the Prior of Mendham was well paid his tithes; upon which, a hull, directed to Alexander de Totington Bishop of Norwich, issued ;s commanding him to oblige the Prior of Mendham to find, and give security to him, that that convent would always find a parochial chaplain resident in Ned- ham, well and duly to serve the chapel there : and ever since, the im- propriator of Mendham nominates the parish chaplain. In 1G03, it was returned that

Mr. Andrew Wily, clerk, was curate, that there were 220 communi- cants, and that it was an impropriation ; the herbages being reserved for the maintenance of the minister, who hath now the vicarial tithes, amounting to about 14/. per annum, for which it is served once every fortnight;

The Rev. Mr. John Tracey being the present curate.

The steeple is round at bottom and octangular at top, and hath four bells in it; the south porch and nave are tiled; there are several

3 This house and land was settled in curatus hnjus ecclesie, in qnam multis 1226, on the priory of Ipswich, by Wil- transactis annis fuerunt due medietates liam de Arches and Eve his wife, with sive portiones, quarum una appropriata half a carucate of land, and a. manor prioratui See. Trinitatis in Gyppuwko, thereto belonging in Mendham, called altera prioratui de Mendham, nulla vica- Whitendon. ria est fundata, nee taxatur, nee solvit

4 The deed of endowment A0 1723, sinodalia, nee procurationes. So that was among the evidences of the Fres- it is totally exempt from the archdeacon, tons. but the two medieties were in Mendham

5 Dat. Bonon. xv. cal. Jim. A° Cons, church, and not in this chapel. Primo. Andreas Wm Scotus, sacel- Kevisio Archid. Norfolk, A0 1630. lanus (ut ait) Lcvink [Lenox] Ducis, est

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stones, but none with inscriptions on them, all their brasses being reaved: the chancel was wholly rebuilt in 1735, of brick, and tiled (though less than the old one was) by William Freston, Esq. who is interred in it ; for whom there is a mural monument on the south side, with the

Crest of Freston, viz. a demi-greyhound arg. collared sab. and his arms,

Az. on a fess or, three leopards heads gul. which were first granted to the Frestons of Yorkshire,6 impaling

Kedington, and this inscription,

Memoriae sacrum, Gulielmi Freston de Mendham in Agro Norfolciensi, Armigeri, qui ex hac Vita demigravit 26° Die Oct. A. I). MDCCXXXIX". iEtatis LV°. Et Margaret™ Uxoris Charissimae, Filise et Herasdis Henrici Kedington, Armigeri, quae nimio ob Mariti obitum indulgens Dolori, Die 2do. Julij animam efBavit Anno Dni. DCCXLl". iEtatis Ll°. Vincula Amoris inter eos arctissima ut ad Amorem mutuum nihil posset accedere. Ex his nati sunt octo Liberi, Quorum sex jam Superslites,- Maria Filia natu maxima, 20° Die Mensis Junij mortem obijt A. D. MDCCXL. iEt. XVII. Et in hoc Adesto (cum Johanne Fratre Infantulo) humata jacet. Hoc Monumentum Pietatis Ergo Coke Freston Filius natu maximus posuit. Anno Domini MDCCXLVI.

This chapelry hath a fete held in it by the Duke of Norfolk's steward, it being in his Grace's liberty, who is lord paramount in right of his hundred of Earsham, over all the Norfolk part ot Mendham; and in 1285, Roger Bigot, then lord of the hundi ed, had free-warren allowed him here.

The abbot and convent of Sibton in Suffolk had ^fishery, and water-mill called Fryer's Mill, in this place ;' which was let with their grange and manor of IVeybrede in Suffolk; which in l6l 1, belonged to George Hering of Norwich.

This hamlet originally belonged to the Abbot of Bury, 8 and was infeofled by one Frodo at the Conquest, whose descendants took the sirname of Nedham, and contrary to the common rule, gave their name to this place; it should seem that the family extinguished in several heiresses, by the many parts or manors it was divided into; and now there are four manors still subsisting here.

The first is a very small one, called Sileham Comitis, ex Parte Noifolk ; and was originally part of the Earl's manor of Sileham, from

6 Freston of Suffolk, arg. on a chev- car. terre et 30 acr. quod teimit ii. soc- ron sab. three cinquefoils of the field. man. et sub eis xi. villan. et vii. bord.

7 The convent of Redlingfield in tunc inter omnes v. car. m° vii. silv. lii. Suffolk had lands here, taxed at 21. 6d. pore. xii. acr. prati, appretiatum est in and the monastery of St. Faith at Hors- Mekham, tunc i niol. m° nullus, habet ham's land was taxed at 43. (sc. Menhain) ii. leug. et v. quar. in

8 Terra Abbatis de Sancto Ead- longo, et vii. in !ato, et de Gelto v\\d. mundo. Hersam dim. Hund. Doms. In Herolvestuna tenet Frodo i. to. 1SS0. villan. et dim. de viii. acr. et pertinetin

InMenham tenet Frodo de Abbate i. Menham.

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which it was separated, and now belongs to Mr. James Bransby of Shotesham.

The second is called Denison's, or Denston's manor: this was

fiven to the priory of Mendham, to which it belonged till its dissolution.

This monastery was founded in King Stephen's time, by Will, son of Rog. de Huntingjield, with the approbation of Roger his son and heir, who gave the whole isle of Mendham, called Medenham, or the village of meadows, to the monks of Castleacre, on condition they should erect a church of stone, and build a convent by it, and place at least eight of their monks there: in the place called Hurst, or Bruningsherst, being then a wooily isle on the Suffolk side of the river; accordingly, monks being placed there, the founder ordered that they should be subject to Castleacre monks, as a cell to that house, in the same manner as Castleacre itself was, to the monastery of St. Pancras at Lewes in Suffolk ; and that to the church of Cluni or Clugny in France; but after the death of the founder, the Prior of Castleacre covenanted with Roger de Huntingjield his son, (who was also a great benefactor,) to maintain at least eight monks at Mendham, and not to depose the Prior there, unless for disobedience, incontinence, or dilapidations of the house.

Their founder gave the who]e island of St. Mary of Mendham, with Vlveshage and the Granges there; and many other lands, rents, and homages ; and all his lands in Crochestune, and his homagers there, which were all to be employed by the Prior, to the maintenance of Mendham monks, except half a mark of silver to be paid yearly to the priory of Castleacre, as an acknowledgment of their depending as a cell to that monastery : 9 he gave them also, St. Margaret's church at Linstede, and St. Peter's there; the moiety of the church of Trideling; an aldercarr and 1 1 acres by the mill, of Thomas de Mendham ; and the third part of the tithes of his demeans in Suttorp ; and 5s. rent in Bra- denham; together with all his right in the church of Mendham : to all which, Willi am the Dean of Re denh all, and others, were witnesses. And Stephen de Saukeville released all his right in Hurst. In 1239, Richard son of Benedict, after his decease, settled a messuage and 6'0 acres of land on this priory. In 1386, Sir Robert de Swillington, Knt. Sir Roger Bois, Knt. John Pyeshale, clerk, and Robert de Ashjield, settled the patronage of this monastery, on Isabel Countess of Suffolk. This house and all its revenues, were given by King Henry VIII. to- gether with the lands of the dissolved priories of Jnkemick in Lincoln- shire, and Little Marlow in Buckinghamshire, to the then newly restored monastery at Bisham or Butlesham in Berkshire, in 1537/ by way of augmentation to the value of66l/. 14s. 9^. per annum for the main- tenance of an abbot and 13 monks of the Benedictine order. But that monastery was short-lived and soon fell ; and this house, &c. in 1539, was granted to Charles Duke of Suffolk, and with it, this manor of Deri- sion's, which,2d 3d Philip and Mary, was conveyed to Richard Preston Esq. and Anne his wife, and he was lord of it in 1567 ; and it continued

9 Regr. Castleacre, fo. 62,3, 135. ner's Notitia Monastica, fo. 508. Hist. See Monast. Angl. torn. i. fo. 631. Nort". vol. iv. . 454? &c.

1 MSS. Ashmole, p. 463. See Tan-

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in his family some time : it now belongs to Mrs. Frances Bacon of Earlham, widow.

The prior was taxed for all his temporals in Mendham on the Norfolk side, at 4/. 12s. Ud.

From the rolls of this manor, I find the following Priors of Mend- ham, to have kept courts here.

1239, John. 1250, Simon. 1336, Nic. Cressi ; he died this year, and Sir Rog. de Huntingjield, patron of the priory, kept a court during the vacancy.

1340, John deWaltun; succeeded in 1342, by Henry de Berlegh. 1353, William. 1382, John deTomston. 1400, Robert. 1420, John Betelee succeeded. 1449, Sir Tho. Rede. 1487, Sir Tho. Pytte. 1501, Sir Tho. Bullock. 1523, Simon. Robert Howton, sub-prior, and Sir Ric. Pain, monk.

The third manor is called Bourt's and was owned by Daniel Bourt in 1345, and after by John le Straunge and Thomas de Hales, who held it at half a fee of the heirs of Roger de Huntingjield ; it after belonged to the Grices of Brockdish, for which family I refer you thither. In 1600, Thomas Paw/et, Esq. conveyed it to Thomus Leigh and John Godfrey; and it now belongs to Sir Edmund Bacon of Gillingham, Bart.

The fourth manor is called Gunshaw's, which see at p. 348. To this hamlet, joins the aforesaid portion of Mendham, called

SHOT FORD IN MENDHAM,

Which contains two manors, called Whitendons, or the White- hills, and Seameares, each of which originally presented alternately to the portion of Shotford in Mendham church.

RECTORS OF SHOTFORD PORTION.

1317, Ralf son of Sir William de Ingham, accolite. Lady Maroya, relict of Sir John de Ingham, Knt. for this turn

1318, Walter of Ipswich, priest. 1328, Jeffry de Swanton.

1 332, Roger Nicole, priest. John son of Robert de Ingham, attor- ney to Sir Oliver Ingham, Knt.

1339, Roger de Hempstede.

1347, Robert at Wode. Lady Isabel Queen of England.

13^9, Giles Arches of Mendham, to the rectory of the third part of the church of Mendham, called Shotfuxl portion in Norfolk. Sir Roger Loid Strange of Knoiyn, Knt. He resigned in 1350, and the Lady Joan le Strange gave it to

Robert de Harwoode; afterwards the noble Sir Miles Staph ton, Knt. having the whole advowson, gave it to Mendham pi ioiy ; and on

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the 3d of July, 1385, it was appropriated to the monastery of the blessed Virgin Mary at Mendham, and no vicarage ordained, so that the Prior received all tithes whatever of the whole portion, paying a pension of 6s. 8d. yearly to the Bishop, and finding a chaplain to per- form a third part of the service in Mendham church: which service was after turned into that of a chanty priest, who was to officiate in St. Marys chapel on the east side of Mendham churchyard ; and that service ceased in Edward the Sixth's time, and the chape/ was granted by the Crown into lay hands, and is now used as a malt-house.

THE MANOR OF SEMERE'S,

At the Conqueror's survey, belonged to Roger of Poictou, third son of Roger de Montgomery Earl of Arundel, and was held in the Confes- sor's time by a freeman named Ulfriz:* it was then valued at 10*. and after at 20. It divided into two parts, one belonged in 1311, to Alice and Edmund de Sancto Mauro or Seymor, Knt. and Joan his wife, from which family it took its name: this Sir Edmund, inl335, infeoffed it with the manors of Sileham and Esham, and their advowsons, in Sir John Wingjield, Knt. as trustee ; and Laurence Seymour, parson of the united churches of Sileham and Esham, and Ra/f his brother, released all their right; and the next year, Sir John released them to John- son and heir of Sir Edward Seymour, Knt. It appears, that in 1291, John de Brampton held the other part of Elizabeth de Ingham at half a fee, and that it then divided, the one half continuing in the Inghams, of which Sir John Ingham, Knt. was lord, and Maroya or Mariona, liis widow, in 1217. In 1331, Sir Oliver Ingham, Knt. and it passed with that family, till Sir Miles Stapleton gave it to Mendham priory, when it became joined to Den ston's in Nedham. The other part, now Semere's manor, was sold to Sir John Wingjield by Laurence de Seymor; and in 1349, John Garlek and Sa?-a his wife conveyed their third parts of Sileham, Esham, and this manor, and their advowson, to him. In 1401, Effe. Hales was lord; in 1551, it was sold to Henry Floteman, and it is now owned by John Kerrich of Bury M. D.

WHITENDONS, or WICHENDONS MANOR,

Belonged to Humfey, a freeman of Edric's in the Confessor's time ; and to RobertMalet, lord of the honour of Eye, in the Conqueror's ; 3 it after belonged to a family sirnamed De Arcubus ; and in 1226, William de Arches and Eve his wife gave it to the Priory of the Holy

* Terre que fuere Rogeri Pictavkn- 3 Terre Roberti Malet, dimid. sis,* Hersani dim. Hund. Doms fo 243. Hundret. Hersam. Donis. fo. 77.

In Scotoford tenuit Ulfriz i. In --covoford tenet Humfridus

liber homo T. R. E. i. car. terie et quam tenuit i. liber homo Edrici com-

xv. acr. semper x. villani et iii. bold. mend, de xliii. acr, terre et semper ii.

semper i. car. in dom. et ii. car. horn, villan. et ii. bordarij semper inter homi-

silva xl. pore, et vii. acr. prati tunc x. nes i. car. silvaxv. pore, et iii. acr. prati,

sol. modo xx. semper val. x. sol.

* Fuit hie Rogerus filius tertius Rogeri de Monrgomeri Comitis Arundel et Salopesbur. vide Dugd. Bar. vol. i. fo. 27. vol. ii. fo. 32.

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Trinity at Ipswich; in which house it continued till its dissolution, when it came to the Crown, and the first year of Edward VI. 1546, he granted the advowson of Sileham and its appurtenances, this manor of IVichendon, and all the tithes and glebes, in Mendham, Nedham, and Metjield, late in the tenure of Richard Freston, Esq. to the said Richard and his heirs;* who upon this grant, came and settled in the manor-house here ; and his descendants have continued in it to this time.

This Richard, in 1534,5 appears to be treasurer, and a great fa- vourite of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk; and an intimate ac- quaintance of Sir Rob. Bndde, who was master of JVingjield college, and chaplain to his grace ; and by his interest it was, that he obtained several great grants from the Crown ;6 among which, he had Denston's manor in Nedham, and many lands belonging to Mendham priory : he was afterwards knighted, and lies buried with Dame Anne Coke his wife, in Mendham chancel, for whom there is a monument against the east part of the north wall, with the arms of Freston impaling Coke, which shows that he outlived his wife, and died in 1557 ; and was suc- ceeded by

Richard, his son and heir, who married Cecily, daughter of Tho- mas Felton, Esq. ;7 she lies buried in the chancel, under a stone, on which is her effigies, and the following inscriptions in Roman capitals on brass plates :

Cecilia Freston,8 Filia Thomje Felton Arm. Uxor dicti Ricardi, viro Amore Charissiina, habuerunt sex Filios et 2 Filias et obdormivit in Domino 6 Sep. 1015. Christus mihi Vita.

An adjoining stone hath the arms of Freston with a mullet, impaling Felton, and his image in brass, and this,

Ricardus Freestone Armiger,9 vir singulari Pietate, Eru- ditione, et Integritate, qui obdormivit in Domino 27 Nov. I6l6. mors miiii lucrum.

William Freston, Esq. their eldest son, inherited; and in 1620, settled the manor on Alban Pigot, Esq. with the patronage of Nedham chapel ; and the same year, Sir Robert Heath, Knt. recovered it against Pigot, and conveyed it to Freston again ; he died soon after, and

Richard his brother inherited, and died seized of this and Den- ston's manor in 1634 ;' he is buried under a stone in the chancel, with his crest and arms, impaling in fess, an inescutcheon, on which a plain

* 1562, John Freston Esq. is men- s These are the children of Richard

tioned. Freston and Cecily Shelton buried here.

5 In 1534, he had a lease for 99 years Mary Freston, first daughter, buried of Bliburgh benefice, and Walderswick 1661. Cecily, second daughter, 1602. chapel, from John Righton Prior of Bli- John, their 3d son, 1661. Thomas, their burgh, and the convent there. 4th son, 1635. Mary his wife, daugh-

6 28 H. VIII. The King leased for ter of Mr. Duke of Suffolk, buried 31 years, to Ric. Freston of Mendham 1G43. Edward, their 5th son, buried in Suffolk, Esq. the site of Thorne- 1661.

holm monastery in Lincolnshire, with 6 He was lord and patron of Wick-

276 acres of land, and 145 acres of ham-Skeith in Suffolk,

pasture, belonging to that priory. * Susanna his wife was buried March

1 In 1568, this manor was settled in 30, 1644, their daughter Cecily in 1631,

trust, on Martin Calthorp, Esq. and and their daughter Susanna 1632. others.

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cross between three crosslets formy ntche,the sharpened parts point- ing towards the inescutcheon ; and on a brass plate this,

Animam Creator!, Marmoreo present! Monumento.Ric aedus Feeston (dum vixit, in Agro 2STor/ofa«wi Armiger) Corporis Rehquias, amicis omnibus sui desiderium 20 Dec. A. D. 1634, re- liquit no. procul a cujusdext.a,PaterMaterque ejusrequ.escunt. vSvixiLmmacumPietate.tuminoramprob.tate.laudabile.a Amicitiam magna cum Sincentate colmt.

By this lies a stone with Freston's arms single.

Hie iacet Corpus Richaedi Feeston Armigeri, Filij Rkhardi

FnstnZiddham in Agro Norfokienn Arm.ger, , qu, ^hmc

translate est ad supera, Flore Juventutis sua, ™ sumrms doUb«

Animi et Corporis, recumbens in Chnsti menla, obijt 14 Augusti

1648.

Anthom, Freston, brother of the said Richard*™* buried Oct. IS,

1655 -Sic n is wife lies buried in the chancel under a stone, with the

IT* ott Iston impaling on a chief indented, two hands cooped at

thC WriLe&*Wife of Anthony Freston, younger son of Richard Fres- ton Esq ; ob. 22 Mar. 1-651. Jnthnnu son of the said Anthony, married Bridget? daughter of

qLrt^g S"°° "'S'"*3 beU,ee" th'ee S"bS' '°d " P'

ant impaling Freston.

Eliz. Daughter of ^oh*, fe(o» Esq; and Bridget his Wife,

was buried jtfay 4, 17 16, set. 62.

Ifepfttfa their youngest daughter, married James Rant, Esq. and

is buried here with this, _

Hie iacet Sepulta Theophila Uxor Jacobi Rant Arm.gen,

SS i7"l A?^> S. Duis Filics .upastto reliqi.it, m.

Frettonnm et Gulielmum. .

Tquams, Lector, qualis sub marmore dormit Fcemina! Scito brevi, casta, ben.gna, p.a. Rant's arms as in vol. L p. 204, impaling Freston.

* Wi»iara his first son was buried jK^'gS

Mar. 26, i6«. Felton, the 4th son, ter, t «<1A^ 5 fl656/ Bridget,

l656. Elizabeth his daughter wife of ^*g£*SSX Aug. „. and Ce-

Stephen Baxter, Gent, was buried in max m. | hter> 0ct. „, 1692.

the church in 165+. "

380 MENDHAM.

Over the south chancel doors a mural monument thus inscribed,

Beneath this Monument lyeth interred the Body of Edward Freston, Gent, youngest Son of Anthony Freston of Mendham in the County of Norfolk, Esq ; and Bridget his Wife, Daughter of Henry Coke of Thorington in the County of Suffolk, Esq ; he died 28 Day of Dec. 1 708, A°, Mt. 43. As also the Body of Elizabeth the Wife of Edward Freston, and Daughter of John Sayer of Pulham St. Mary the Virgin, in the County of Norfolk, Gent, she died the 25 Day of Sept. 1727, A° iEt. 55. FRESTON's'cmf and arms, impalingSAYER,as at p. 31, vol. iv. and crest on a cap of maintenance, a dragon's head erased vert.

Another monument more west, against the south wall, hath the arms of Freston impaling,

Cooke, or, a chevron ingrailed between three cinquefoils az. on a chief of the 2d, a lion passant guardant az.

M.S. Sub hoc marmore conditae sunt reliquiae Richardi Freston, Arm. hominis adprime pij ; maritiUxoris amantissimi, Parentis, propitij, et dementis Domini : Vis plura Lector? Scies, hoc MonHtnentum a Maria Uxore ejus, Filia viri colendissiuii, Domini Gulielmi Cooke, in Agro Norfolciensi, quondam Ba- ronetti ; Amoris et Pietatis Ergo extructum, ut omnes qui hue venient et intuentur, tam clari exempli memores sint et aeiuuli, etVita cum eo fruantur aeterna, obijt22 Junij 1721, aet. 68.

William Freston and Margaret Kedington his wife, who are buried in Nedham chapel as before, left this manor, impropriation, and a good estate, to

Coke Freston, Esq. their eldest son, who now owns them, and dwells in the site of the manor, called Wichingdon-hall.

In the Suffolk part of Mendham, there are four manors ; the first is called

MENDHAM'S-HALL, or MENDHAM-HALL,

From the ancient lords of it, who took their sirname from the town : it originally belonged to the Abbot of Bury, and was infeoffed by Baldwin Abbot there, in Hugh de Vere, of whom Nicholas de Men- ham had it; in K'05, William de Mendham, and in 1239, Benedict son of Serlo de Mendham conveyed a messuage and 10 acres to the prior of Ipswich, who had obtained in 1230 a release from Robert Byhurt, of all his right in Mendham advowson. In 1285 Thomas de Mendham, who was lord also in 1S06; in 1312, John de Mendham had it; in 1318, John son of John de Mendham, and Christian his wife, sold it to the lord of

KINGSHALL in MENDHAM,*

To which it hath been joined ever since. This manor belonged to the King, according as its name intimates, and was settled by Edw. I. on Queen Eleanor his first wife, after whose death it came to the Veres Earls of Oxford; and Sir Robert Vere, in 1314, sold it to Sir John de

* Called in 1328, Kenynghale in parochia de Mekdham.

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Fresingfield, Knt. son of Sernan de Fresing field ; at which time, Robert son of John de Mendham, released to him all right in Mend- hams-Hall manor; and in 1317, Sir John sold them to Sir Walter de Norzeich, Knt. and his heirs, the Earl of Oxford releasing all right ; Sir John de Insula, or L'isle, Sir John de Foxe/e, and Sir John Abel, Knts. Barons of the King's Exchequer, Sir John Muteford, justice of the King's Bench, and others, being witnesses. In 1353, Sir John de Huntingfield held those manors late of Thomas Earl of Oxford, at half a fee. In 1363, it was presented that William de Huntingfield held the river Waghene as a separate fishing, from Mendham bridge to King's-hall mill, and that he had the fishery there, as belonging to his manor of King's-hall. In 1369, Will, de Huntingjield held it for life ; and in 1370, John Deyns, rector of Toft in Lincolnshire, and Richard Wright of Holbech, chaplain, his trustees, released to Roger de Hunt- ingjield, who, with his trustees, John de Seckford, parson of Somercotes, John de Linstede, parson of Cazeston, Tho. Home, rector of Hunting- field, and others, soon after, settled them on Mendham priory: in which they continued to its dissolution, and then were granted to Charles Brandon Duke of Sujfolk, and his heirs, by King Henry VIII, in 1540, along with the lete of Metfield, and

THE MANOR OF MENDHAM PRIORY,

Which was given to it by its founder. They after belonged to the Frestons, and in 1551, Richard Freston was lord; in 1619, Sir Thomas Holland of Quidenham, Knt. sold to Edw. Ward of Mendham in Suf- folk, Esq. the site of Mendham priory manor, now called Mendhum's- *hall, &c. Kings-hall meadow, &c. the park, the manor of Mendham- hall, &c. with the letes thereto belonging, situate in Mendham, Withers- dale, and Waybrede; all which, he purchased of Anthony Gosnold of Clapton, Esq. Anthony Gosnold of Swillington, Gent. Robert Gosnold of Ottley in Suffolk, Esq. Thomas Laurence of St. James's in S. Elm- ham, Gent. Michael Wentworth of Rogersthorpe in Yorkshire, Esq. Thomas Wales of Thorp in Norfolk, yeoman, and Loye Browne of Nor- wich : and the said Thomas, and Dame Mary his wife, sued a fine, and passed a recovery to the use of the said Edward Ward the elder, and his heirs; together with the fishery in the river Wayveneth. It came afterwards to the Baxters, and thence to the Gardiners of Nor- wich ; and was sold by Richard Bemey, Esq. recorder of Norwich, executor to Stephen Gardiner, Esq. late recorder there, to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Whitakee, late rector of Fresingfield, whose widow now owns them. They have a lete here, and another in Metfield, be- longing to them ; they give dower, and the eldest son is heir.

I find the following memorials relating to the Baxters in this church :

Depositum Stephani Baxter Generosi, qui decessit 12 Die Sept. 1696, set. 79,

On a neat mural monument are the arms of Godbold, az. two long bows in saltier or. Crest, an arm cooped at the shoulder az.

382 M E N D H A M.

M.S. V. O1. D. Gulielmi Godbold Militis, ex illustri et perantiqua. Prosapia oriundi, qui post septeunem peregrinatio- nem, animi excolendi Gratia, per Italiam, Greciam, Palastinam, #c. in solo natali in bonarum Literarum Studijs consenescens, morte repentina obijt Londini, Mense Aprilis A° MDCXIIIC. iEtatis LXIX°. Hoc Monumentum designavit vir integerrimus, et sincerse Probitatis Exemplar, Thomas Baxter Generosus, quem Testamenti sui Curatorem instituit; ipso autem Thomd, morte subitanea. perempto, collapso super eum Equo, nocte in- ternpestivS. et tenebrosa. IIII Calendas Septemb. MDCXC. Franciscus Gardiner de Civitate Norwicensi Armiger, ejus- dem Thonue Baxter sororis maritus,et Testamenti Curator, posuit. Baxter with a label of three, (see p. 212,) impaling D'eye, as in vol. ii. p. 345.

Hie reposita, beatam prasstolatur Resurrectionem Faemina, Pietate et Virtute insignis, Elizabetha Filia Thomte Dey, de In- sula, sive Eay in Agro Suffolciemi Armigeri, Uxor Thoma Baxter de Mendham in eodem Agio Generosi, ciii prolern edidit Mascu- lam unam, alteramque f'oeminam, Quarum utramque ipso die lus- trico et renata simul et denata est, annos nata triginta sex, nupta plus minus septendecem ; obijt 27 Dec. 1681.

The next manor here, is called

WALSHAM-HALL,

From Gilbert de Wahham, who held it of the Abbot of Bury in the time of King Ric. I. at one fee; and lately it belonged to the Ho- barts, who lived in the site of it, till Anthony Hobart, Gent, sold it to Mr. Robert Bransby, senior, of Shotesham, who sold it to Mrs. Sarah Woogan, wife of the Rev. Mr. Holmes, rector of Fresingjield, who now owns it.

I find the following account of the Hobarts buried here :

In the chancel on brass plates, Hobart's arms with a label of three.

William Son of James Hobart of Mendham Esq ; died 9 March 1641. aged 3 Months.

Hobart with a crescent, on a stone at the east end of the nave, part of which is covered by a seat.

Hie expectant Clnisti adventum relliquiae Jacobi Hobart Arm. (Filij unici Edwardi Hobart, dum vixit de Langley in Agro Nor- folciensi Armigeri) qui Vita, per 57 annos, pie juste, et sobri6 peracta, Patriam repetijt 20 Aug. A0 1669: Cujus foelici me- morise, castissima illius Uxor, Biigetta (Gulielmi Spring, nuper de Pakenham Suffolcia Militis Filia,) hoc &c.

An adjoining stone hath the arms of Hobart impaling Spring, as at vol. ii. p, 485.

MEND HAM. S83

Resurrectionem in Christo hie expectat Brigetta, Jacobi Ho- bart Arm. Relicta, Filiaque Gulielmi Spring nuper de Pukenliani in Agro Suffolciensi Militis, quae dum vixit Pietatem coluit et 26° Die Jan. placide in Domino obdormivit A0 Sal. 1671. Vivit post Funera Virlus.

On a black marble in the south isle,

Hie jacet Jacobus Filius et Haeres, Jacobi Hobart nuper de Mendham, Armigeri, ultimo Die Martij ad Coelestem Patriam emigravit A0 X". 1673, aet. 23.

Animam Ccelo, Corpus humo reddidit.

Miles another Son, buried Jun. 8, 1686.

Edward Hobart, Esq ; Son of James Hobart of Mendham, Esq ; did 4 Nov. 1711, aet. 60. James his eldest son died 7 Aug. 1676, aet. 1 Mens. Sarah a Daughter 1689. Thomas a Son 1698, aet. 1 An. And John, Anthony, and Elizabeth, other Children buried here, and Lydia a Daughter in 1691.

Lydia Daughter of Edward Hobart Esq; and Penelope his Wife, died 31 Oct. 1680, aet. 1 An. 7 Mens.

Her Time was short, the longer is her Rest, God calls them soonest, whom he loves best.

There is an under manor or free-tenement, called Midleton- HALL, in this town, which belongs to Mrs. Whitaker, and is a good old seat; here Richard de Midleton lived in 1373, and William his son in 1390, who was succeeded by William his son; on whose marriage in 1392, it was settled on Margaret his wife, with estates in South-Elm- ham and Redenhale : this family always sealed with a fess ertn. be- tween three croslets; and it continued in it a long time. In 1457, William Midleton owned it, and Robert Midleton in 1467, who lived here in 1491. In 1553, Henry Reppes of Mendham died seized of it, and of Thomey manor in Stow in Suffolk, and gave them to Anne Wodehottse, alias Reppes, for life, with remainder to John Reppes, son of his brother Francis, remainder to John Reppes his brother, &c. In 1562, Ric. Whet ley, rector of Homersjield, leased his rectory to Bas- singbournGaicdy of Midleton-hall in Mendham, Esq. by whom it was sold, and so became joined to the other manors.

There is an ancient seat here called Oaken-htll, (but no manor,) in which the family of the Bateman s have resided ever since the time of William Bateman Bishop of Norwich ; and William Bateman, only son of William Bateman, Gent, of Mendham, lately deceased, now dwells there ; (see vol. iii. p. 506;) most of this family have had the christian name of William, ever since the Bishop's time.

Mendham church is a good building, with a square tower and five bells; having its nave, two isles, and south porch leaded, and chancel tiled, in which are the following memorials, besides those already taken notice of:

In the north isle window, France and England in a bordure gul. im- paling or, an eagle displayed sab. quartering Morley.

384 MENDHAM.

And this on a stone,

M. S. Alicije Filiae Henrici Borret de Stradbrook in Agro Suffolciensi Generosi, ob. 4 Oct. 1690, aet. 49. Expectans ultimum Sonuni Tubae.

On a mural monument against the north chancel wall,

In medio hujus-ce Templi Tramite, juxta Cineres matris suae Pientissimae, Theop. Rant, suos etiam voluit deponi Fresto- nus Rant Armiger, cum quo una sepeliuntur Urbanitas, et sua- vissima Facetiarum copia, cum quo una abripiunlur ditissitna placendi vena, animusque arctioris Amicitiae necessitudini ac- comodatus, Hoc Juvene adempto, vix alterum reperies, aut lite— rarum Scientia praecellentiorem aut humanitate Parem, cum dif- ficilem Legis Anglite Doctrinam, universum fere Quinquennium apud Hospitium Grayense Studio sane Laudabili prosecutus est, acerba suis, luctuosa sodalibus, gravis omnibus, labori vitaeque morsFinem imposuit 23° Sept. A0 1728, aet. suae 27". Et Lucius et Pietatis Monumentum, Pater suus ainantissimus, Jacobus Rant Armiger, hoc marmor posuit.

James Rant, Esq. his father, is since dead, and buried by him, and Will. Rant, Esq. his only surviving son, now lives in Mendham- Priory, which is situated just by the river Waveney, about five fur- longs south-west of the church, where there is a good old chapel still left, which is kept clean and neat; but there is no manor remaining with the site.

In the chancel,

Tirrel impales a chevron between three stags passant. James Tirrel Esq ; May 22, 1656, 48. and left behind him his dear Consort his 2d Wife, and two Daughters by her, Eliz. and Jane. Eliz. his Widow died 1697. James his Son 1640.

In the churchyard are memorials for William Bateman, Gent. Jan. 9, 1659, set. 70.

Hie spe plena resurgendi, situm est depositum mortale Johan- nis Kerrich Clerici Rectoris de Sternefie/d in Comitatii Suf- folcice, Qui,dum vixit, Dei Gloriam et animarum Salutem sedulo Studuit ob. 14 Maij. A. D. 1691, aet. 28°. Hie juxta jacet etiam Henricus Kerrich Fraler supradicti Johannis qui obijt Apr. 17°, A.D. 1687, aet. 18. John Kerrich ob. June 24 1704, aet. 72. Mary his Wife, ob. 18 March 1708, aet. 76. James their Son 29 Apr. 1715, aet. 44.

In 1469, Walter Nyche or Neech of Mendham, was buried in All- Saints church there, before St. Nicholas's altar, and gave \2d. to every monk of Mendham, and five marks for a new tabernacle at St. Ni- cholas's altar; he owned an estate here, which had continued many fenerations in his family. In 1 6 10, 21 Jan. Anne Neech married to Vil/iam Bateman, Gent, to whose family the estate now belongs. He left Katerine his wife, Alice and Margaret, his daughters; and three sons, Robert, John le Senior, priest, and John le Junior; from whom descended the Rev. Mr. Anthony Neech, late rector of Snitterlon, of whom in vol. i. p. 1 10,421.

MENDHAM. 385

Thevicarage stands in the King's Books at 51. 5s. Id. ob. and being sworn of the clear yearly value of 23/. 4s. id. is capable of augmen- tation, and was augmented accordingly by the Rev. Mr. Whitaker, late rector of Fresingfield, the patron, who presented his nephew, the Rev. Mr. Thomas IVhitaker, the present vicar.

VICARS HERE.

1228, Henry de Diss, the first vicar, presented by the Prior of Ipswich, as were all the succeeding vicars to the Dissolution. 1305, Walter le Shepherd. 1318, Benedict.

1320, Hervy del Welle of Mendham.

1329, William son of John Gibbs of Kenford, who resigned in 1347, to John de Reppes, priest, in exchange for Shellon mediety. 1364, Edward de Flete. 1394, John de Hunstanton. 1505, Sir Jeffery Lowen. 1534, Will. Grave.

1631, Thomas Trendle, buried here 18 June the same year.

1632, George Fen.

1653, Mr. John Harward, minister.

1671, John May/tew, sequestrator.

1677, Mr. Ric. Jennings, sequestrator, succeeded by

Mr. Child, sequestrator; who was succeeded by the present vicar's predecessor,

Mr. Seth Turner, who was presented by Mr. Stephen BAXTER,-and was vicar above 50 years; he is buried here.

MEDEFIELD, or METFIELD,8

Is also another hamlet and parochial chapel of Mendham, the great tithes of which, belong to the impropriator there, who nominates and pays the stipendiary chaplain. The Rev. Mr. John Mendham, vicar of Weybrede, hath it now ; and I am informed, there is a good house and glebe given to the serving minister since the Reformation.

The chapel is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and hath a square tower, clock, and three bells; on the biggest is this,

lEtuncre 33arjtt£te, 23cnetiictu£ #t choru£ tgte,

The south porch, nave, and chancel, are leaded. There are stones for John Norton 1609. Anne wife of John Francklin, Gent, daughter of William and Elizabeth B/obold,Gent. l636,and left John, William, Elizabeth, and Anne. Will. Browne 1660, 70.

Francis Smallpeece Esq; Son and Heir of Tho. Smallpeece Esq; and Anne his Wife. 1652.

* Or the field by the meadows. vol. v. 3D

386 MENDHAM.

Smallpeece, S. a chevron ingrailed between three cinquefoiU ar. Crest, a bird rising.

But this hamlet is of chief remark, as being the ancient seat of the Jermys.

It seems this manor, called

METEFIELD IN MENDHAM,

Was anciently of the fee of the abbot of Holm, of whom it was held in the time of Richard I. at half a fee, by Hugh Burd; after which, it was escheated to the Crown, and was granted to Thomas de Brotherton, son to King Edward I. who married Alice, daughter of Sir Roger Hales of Harwich, Knt. whose sister Joan,6 married to Sir John Germyn or Jermy, Knt.; and in 1325, the said Thomas conveyed to his brother-in-law, Sir John Jermy, Knt. two parts of this manor, and the third part to his wife, for the assignment of her dower. In 1353, Sir John Germy, Knt. held it at a quarter of a fee of the manor of Kings-hall in Mendham. In 1385, Sir Will. Jermy, Knt. was buried here; Elizabeth his wife survived him. In 1428, Sir John Jermy, Knt. and Margaret Mounteney his wife, owned this and Withersdate manors; and he it was, that rebuilt this church and manor-house, where he placed the matches of his family in the win- dows; and his own arms are carved several times on the timber of the roof, and are still in several windows, and in stone on the font; he died in 1487, and was buried at the north-east coiner of the chancel ; his inscription was cut in old text letters on his stone, but it is so worn and broken, that this only remains,

gohanne;* ^mp JJWe£ quondam ©ominus ****** et -- -, < qui ofatit * * * *

By his will in Register Aleyn, fo. 330, which is dated at Bukenham- Ferry, Oct. 24, 1487, he appointed to be buried here, and gave a legacy to this church, and those of Bukenham-Ferry and Hasingham, ofwhichhewas patron; he ordered 100 marks to be distributed to the poor on his burial da}', and gave the manor and advowsons of Bukenham and Hasingham, to be sold, after his wife Margaret's death : he gave 200 marks to the Abbo^ of St. Bennet at the Holm in Ludham, to found a chantry priest to sing mass daily there, for him and his family for ever; he is called Sir John Jermy, senior, Knt.

Sir John Jermy, junior, Knt. his son and heir, married Elizabeth, daughter of Will.. Wroth of Enfield, Esq. and had two sons; from Thomas, the younger son, descended the Jermys of Bayfield in Norfolk, under which place I design an ample account of the family. And

John Jermy, Esq. the eldest son, continued the family at Metfie/d; he married Isabel, daughter of John Hopton, Esq. and lies buried in the chancel by his grandfather, with this on a brass plate on his stone :

' See Vincent's Discovery of Brook's Errors, fo. 343, and Pat. 19 Edvv. II.. pt. ii. mem. ic.

PULHAM. 387

<&ratc pro animabujf ^ohanni.s; giermjj tt g^abetle X^l rori-S guc, uniu£ jriliarum <3joharmi£ ^opton armigen, qui quiuem 3uhanni£ obnt rin° ©ic gjanuaru ilnno ©omini M° ta€ iiit. ©uorura anima* bu.si propicictui; eDcu.si amen.7

Jermy, arg. a lion rampant guardant gul. impaling Hopton, as at vol. iii. p. 553.

Edmund Jermy, Esq. his son and heir, married a daughter of William Booth, Esq. and left Sir John Jermy of Metfield and Bright- well, Knight of the Bath ;8 who by Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Teye, Knt. had Francis Jermy of Brightwell, Esq. who by E/iz. daughter and coheir of Sir William Fitz-WiUiams of Ireland, Knt. had Sir Thomas Jermy, Knight of the Bath; who by Jane, daughter and heiress of Edward Stuart or Stuward, of Teversham in Cambridgeshire, had four sons, Thomas, Edmund, John, and William, of which,

Thomas, his eldest son, settled here, for whom there is an altar tomb at the north-east corner of this chancel, with the arms of Jermy, and a griffin proper for the crest, and thisj

Thomas Jarmy Esq; Sonne and Heire of Sir Thomas J army Knight of the noble Order of the Bath. 21 Dec. 1652.

Since which time, the manor hath been sold from the family, and now belongs to Walter Plommer, Esq.

I have an account, which says, that more gentlemen kept coaches in Mendham, than in any place in Suffolk, and that in l6'42, many cavileers in these parts, raised a sum for the King; among which in this town, Richard Baxter, Gent, lord, 30/. Rob. Harper 30/. William Bateman, senior, 10/. James Terrold. Gent. 10/. William Jacob 20/. Will. Herring 3l. Sic. Thomas Jermy, Esq. 20/. Anthony Freston, Gent. 5/.

In Charles the Second's time, Sir William Godbould lived here, and Colonel John Hobard; and Edward Ward, Esq. justice of the peace, in K. James the Second's time.

PULHAM;

1 his rectory, with the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, was taxed in the old Valor at 70 marks, and in the year 1559,9 was returned by the name of Pulham Utraque, among the benefices that pay double insti- tution fees, but without reason, for there never was a double institution,

7 See Weever, fo. 783. Codenham, Creting, and Stonh.im,which

8 This Sir John purchased of Sir late belonged to the priory at Ipswich. Thomas Pope, the manors of Foxhall, ' Lib. 18.

3SS P U L H A M.

it being only a chapel of ease to Pulham St. Mary the Virgin j1 founded on account of the market anciently held there, which occa- sioned a great many people to fix near it, and for their convenience it was first erected ; Norwich Domesday says, that the rector had a noble house, and about 44 acres of glebe ; that the church with its chapel, was then valued at 80 marks ; that the procurations were 7s. Id. ob. the Peter-pence 3s. and that the parish paid clear to each tenth 11/. 4s. It is an undischarged living, and as such, pays first-fruits, and yearly tenths, and is capable of augmentation : it stands thus in the King's Books,

361. 6s. 8d. Pulham rectory. 3l. 6s. 8d. tenths.

The Chorography of Norfolk' hath this: "to the rectory be- longs antient and large built inset house, and all other houses of office necessary and convenient, with 44 acres of glebe ; all tithes are paid in kind, save for lactage Id.3 for every acre of meadow 2d. for port and harthsilver is paid a hal/otcmass penny ; and the rector hath mortuaries of all his parishioners, according to the statute.4 The temporals of the Prior of Ely were taxed at 3/.

RECTORS OF PULHAM.

1253, Henry de W engham, Dean of St. Martin le Grand in London, presented by the King, on account of the vacancy of the see of Ely, to which the advowson belongs. s Henry III. at the death of William de Kilkenny Bishop of Ely, would have prevailed upon Ely monks to have chosen this Henry de Wengham, then his chancellor, to that see; but could not persuade them : upon which, the King spoiled the woods and parks of the bishoprick, and applied to the Pope; but Wengham never stirred at all in the matter, but confessed Hugh de Balsham, whom the monks had elected, more worthy than himself: it is also said, that the suit on his behalf was commenced by the King, without his knowledge ; and that when he saw his Majesty so earnest, and deal so violently in it, he went to him, and humbly besought him to let the monks alone, and cease further soliciting them by his armed and im- perious requests ; for (saith he) after invocation of the name of God, the grace and direction of his holy Spirit, they have chosen a man more worthy than myself, and God forbid, that I should, as it were by force, invade that noble bishoprick, and usurp the ministry of the same, with a seared or cauterised conscience : upon which, the King acquiesced in his request, and in 12 J9, he was made Bishop of London ; being then Chancellor of England, Chamberlain of Gascoigne, Dean of Tottenhall and St. Martin's, and rector here: in 12o8, he refused the bishoprick of Winchester; he was twice embassadour into France, and dying July 13, 1261, was buried in his cathedral. (Godwin's Catal. p. 195, 229, 65.)

1301, Sir Simon de W'alpole, chaplain to Ralph de JValpole his

1 See vol. iii. p. 557, + 1639, 10s. paid to Mr. Sayer then

1 MSS. penes P. L. N. rector, for the mortuary of Robert

3 Lib. Depos. 211, 1547, about tithe Prentice, Gent,

calves, pigs, &c. due in kind. 5 See Newcourt's Repert.

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brother, who was Bishop of Norwich and Ely; he resigned Chevele in Cambridgeshire, to William de IValpoh his brother, when he took this, and died rector here, and lies interred in the chance], under a stone which hath the following inscription in antique capitals, with a cross on a lion passant, and Jesus Salvator in a cipher.

hiE. jaE€t. doOOinvS. SiCOon. i)6. walpol. QvondaCO* rSEtor. iStivS; eEEL6Si6. EvivS. ani006. propiEi€tvr* d6vS. a006n.

1331, John de Colby, presented by William de Colby, rector of Witty in Suffolk, who had a grant of it from Bishop Hotham, on condition he settled divers lands here on the see; and accordingly, as soon as his brother John had possession, he levied a fine with Will, de Colby, and released all right in the advowson, and in all their lands in Pulham, to the Bishop and his successours. He changed this for Thingden in Lincoln diocese, in

1339, with Master John de Hindesley, prebend of the church of Karentoc in Exeter diocese; who was succeeded by John de Herwardstok, and he in

1341, by Master Michael de Northburgh, or Northbrook, archdeacon of Suffolk, prebend of Sutton, LL. D. He was confirmed Bishop of Loadjn, July 7, 1355/ and died of the plague Sept, 9, 1361, having resigned this, in exchange for Ledbury in Hereford diocese, in

1351, with William de Kcllesey, who was presented by Thomas Lisle or Lylde Bishop of Ely. This Bishop disobliging the King, in 1354, had a writ of ne exeas regnum1 sent him, commanding him, on for- feiture of all that he could forfeit to the King, to stay in England, and come in person to the parliament, which he had refused to do; and therefore the King seized this advowson, and on the vacancy of this rectory, about

1357. gave it to William de Wykham, son of John Perot and Sibill his wife, of Tichford, near JVickham in Hampshire, from which place he assumed his name. Godwin in his Catalogue of Bishops, p. '236, gives us a large account of the birth, parts, fortune, and great rise of this nan; who was parson of St. Martin's in London, then dean of St. Martin le Grand, successively archdeacon of Lincoln, ISorthampton, and Buckingham : besides these ecclesiastical preferments, the pro- vostship of Wells, a number of benefices, and 12 prebends, in several churches, he held many temporal offices, as the secretaryship, the keep- ing of the privy seal, the mastership of zcards, the treasurers/tip of the King's revenues in France, and clivers others; but the yearly revenues of his spiritual promotions only, as they were then rated in the King's Books, amounted unto 8/6/. 13s. Ad. In 1356, he was prosecuted in the Pope's consistory at Rome, for illegally holding this benefice,with so many, that had cure of souls ; but to no purpose, for King Edw. III. who gave it him, and did every thing for him he desired, immediately con- firmed it by patent under the great seal, to be held in commendam for life, with all his other preferments; and though he was attached again, it availed nothing, for he had another patent of co/ifirmation passed in 1360 ; but the next year he resigned it voluntarily to his friend, for

* Godw. Catal. p. 19S. 7 Clans 29 E. III. M. 9. Rymer,

vol. v. fo. 827. Godwin Cat. 169.

390 PULIIAM.

whom he had procured a presentation from the King : this man was consecrated Bishop of Winchester in 1367, and was Chancellor of England; lie was founder of New College in Oxford, and died in 1404.

1561, Andrew de Stratford, a relation of John Stratford Archbishop of Canterbury, and an acquaintance of Bishop Wickhams, was insti- tuted on the King's presentation, on account of the temporals of Ely bishoprick in his hands ; he was succeeded in

1384, By Thomas Haxey, who the same year changed it for St. Ni- cholas Cold Abbey in London diocese, with

John Jlhiteman, who changed it for a canonry in St. Mar- tin's le Grand, London, and the prebend of Godestre, in

1385, with Peter Mighell, who the same year, exchanged it for the church of the Holy Trinity in Dorchester, with

William Holym, and he the same year resigned it for the office of sub-dean of York, to

Roger Bacon, who was succeeded at his death, in 1390, by Master John Metfield, LL. D. Archdeacon of Ely, where he was buried in 141 1.8

1407, John Ixzcorth, LL. D.

1412, Master Richard Woodward, who is buried here; his brass is loose in the porch chamber, and is thus inscribed,

Here Ipthc .Jttauster ttncharti J3ouctoart> that gumrnme of thig Ctiirdje jparjSnn teas, oSob gratont y>$ &oul Mcxco anb *3race,anb for Charite, pater Boater, anb ate, 2men.

1446, Master Walter Blaket, A. M. he resigned in 1460, to Henry Sharp, LL. D. who resigned also in 1463, to Will. Egmerton, who died and was buried here ; and in 1465, Sir Thomas Howes, sometime rector of Cast lecombe in Wilt- shire, and of Blojield in Norfolk, chaplain to Sir John Fastolf, Knight of the Garter, was presented by William Grey Bishop of Ely. This man was one of Sir Johns executors, and had much money to be laid out about the repairs and ornaments of churches, and other religious places, in all, about 4000 marks ; with part of it he repaired this church and chancel, and in a south window there, he put up the effigies of Sir John Fastolf, in his coat armour, gilt very fair, with his

Crest, on a wreath at. and or, a plume of feathers arg. and two escutcheons, with the cross of St. George, and his own arms and Supporters, being two angels, viz.

Fastolf, quarterly or and az. on a bend gul. three croslets treffle arg? impaling

Tiptoft, arg. a saltier ingrailed gul. and the same is over Alil/e- cent daughter of Sir Robert Tiptoft, Knt. his wife, whose effigies in a mantle of her coal armour, was in the same window, kneeling in the opposite pane, and underneath them was this, but these words only now remain,

3 Willis's Hist, of the Cathedrals, cept S|r John, bare three escallops arg. vol. ii. f. 373. on the bend.

» All the family of the Fastolfs, ex-

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, , t # a^totff et * *>• * <£cclcs>ic pectoris! * -- * omnium * < * ©rate pro animabitf ©omtm ^otjanni^ 3-a?tolf jUMlittsj, qui multa bona fecit in tempore Bite, et JftOetenete «*«# em? et ©omim OThome t?otoc£ f*tinj €ccle?te Secton*, et omnium fine* Hum Dcfunctorum.

1463, Nicholas Gay, S.T. P. his brass his loose in the church porch chamber, and hath this on it,

Bic iacct Bagger j}ico(au$S ©ap, in 2heolonia doctor, quotv Dam Sector 'i'tttu* €ccle?ic qui obnt anno Domini ,itt0cccc0lyriiu->. quarto ©ic MwM Sniff* cuiu^ antmc uroyictetut ©eu$ amen.

1474, Jo/<« Yotton, S. T. P.

1512, Master Ric. Harrison.

1542, jR/c. IVilks, S. T. P.; he resigned in

1550 to Mr Andrea; Perae, S.T. B.; he was afterwards doctor in divinity, the 2d dean of E/y, master of Peter-house in Cambridge, to which he was a great benefactor;1 was instituted to flPafoo/e in 1549; rector of BaMam in 1565; chaplain to Archbishop Parker and per- haps to his two successors, for he died at Lambeth 26 Apr. 1589, and is buried in the chancel of the parish church there ; he was sometime rector of Somersham, and resigned this rectory m

1551, to John Goodrich, A.M. a relation to 1 homos Goodrich Bishop of Ely, who gave him this living, which he resigned in

1557, to William May, LL. D. who was chancellor of Ely, first orehend of the 3d stall there,1 afterwards dean of St. Pauls, hut was deprived of that deanery in 1554 ; he was the last presented by the

X\!!&° John Crane was the first presented in right of the Crown/ where the patronage remains at this time; at his death in

1583, lLghCaftleton, S.T. B. succeeded, and held it united to Thomdon in Sii/fa/ft ; he was was prebend of Lyn, in the church in NonncMsee vol. iv. p. 668.) In 1 603, he returned answer that though Pulham Magdalen was only a chapel of rase to Pulham bt. Man/ tfc Virgin,?* they were Vm(e parishes; and that there were 286 communicants in St. Afci^, and 282 m St. Mary Magdalen s parish ; he died in

• Willis's Cath. vol. ii. fo. 268. more, and dyed the 3d Day of May A0

* ihff„ ,8 1583, to the great Grief ot diverse, and 3ToHNCRANE)anaunceantBachellerof to the extreme Loss among .the Poore of

Divii.itie an erneste Professor ofCHMST his Countrey, unto whose VV ants lit did £ the Tv me 0 Queene Marie, a trew, a plentifully by Gytts, and abundant y by constaunt and a devout Follower of lending Supply and Minister, without Christ 'unto his Deathe, sometyme Reeeit of any Commodity ' therefore ; Parson of Feltwell, Tittishall, and Pul- was very solemnly and w^, much La- ham Utraque, at once ; a Man of greate mentation, buried <4 May, aged 69 %%%&£"& EnU-cid tZl Y££iP, per me U*. Sty*, sometyme SSiaSS^fiSS'S > «S * Pu,ham See. Marie Sia?fiSS!?i^r«SJ ^WiUUtnRobki., lister and

39$ PULHAM.

1615, And Daniel Saver, A.M. a native of this town/ was presented by Edw. Sayer, who had obtained a grant of the turn from the Crown. At his death in

1660, William Starkey, A. M. had it, he was afterwards doctor in divinity, and died in

1684, And was succeeded by William Starkey, A. M. his son ; and is buried here with this inscription,

Here lieth the Body of WilliamStarkey, the son of Dr. Starkey, both rectors of this church, whose first wife was Mary the daughter of Gascoigne Welde of Braken-Ash, Esq.s His 2d wife, the daugh- ter of John Amy as of Hinghum, Gent.6 who in pious memory, caused this stone to be laid. He died Oct. 13, 1717, aged 66.

Crest, a stork's head erased proper.

Starkey, arg. a stork sab. impaling Welde, as at p. 87.; and Amyas, as at p. 429> vol. ii.

C Mrs. Margaret 3d Daughter of Doctor Starkey, died May 8,

J 1712,56.

] Anne Daughter of William Starkeu and Anne his Wife, bu-

t ried Jan. 17, 1661, aet. 13.

1717, Nicholas Clagett : he was chaplain to the Earl of Sunderland, and left this for the living of Brighton in Oxfordshire, and afterwards died Bishop of Exeter, and was formerly minister at Bury in Suffolk.

1721, Michael Claget, A. M. who died rector here, and was suc- ceeded in

1728, by William Broome, LL. D. who resigned the rectory of Stirston in Suffolk, and held this united to Oakly in that county till he took the vicarage of Eye, and held it united to this, till his death : he was a learned man, especially in the Greek language, being chiefly concerned in translating the notes for Mr. Pope's Homer; and was also, no mean poet himself, as his poems published show ; he was chaplain to Charles Lord Cornwaleis, and was sprung from mean parents InCheshire, died at Bath, and lies interred in the abbey church there, by Dr. Baker Bishop oiNomich ; leaving only one son, Charles John Broome, of St. John's college in Cambridge, who died unmarried iu 1747.

The honourable Eduard Towneshend, brother to Lord Tozcnesheud, is the present rector.

About a furlong distant from the church, south-west thereof, on the other side of the road, stands a small chapel, now used for a school-

* Pulham Beate Marie Virginis, et son and two daughters, (see p. S7) of

See. Marie Magdalene rectoria. Donii- which, Mary the eldest married to Will,

nus Rtx patronus ejusdem. Daniel Starkey, as above; and they had only

Sayer, A. M. licenciatus predicator, one daughter, Mary, married to John

estimatio 33Z.6j.8rf. inde decima 3l.6s.Sd. Jermy of Bayfield, Esq. whose 1 nly son

primitie 30/. procurations episcopi William Jermy, Esq. married to

is. ^d. sinodalia 41. id. procurationes Eliz. only sister and heiress to William

archidiaconi -]s. ~jd. ob. Revis. Archi- Lord Richardson, and is now (174S)

diac. Norff. A° 1630. high sheriff of Norfolk, (see the pedigree

5 Gascoigne Welde, Esq. by Anne, at vol. ii. p. 449 ) eldest daughter of Joseph Hall (see vol. b See for her at vol. ii. p. 429. iii. p. 581) Bishop of Norwich, had one

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room, which seems to have been founded very early, by the brethren and sisters of St. James's gild, to which apostle this chapel was de- dicated ; and in which St. James's gild was held, till Edw. the Sixth's time, when all such fraternities were suppressed: here was a hermi- tage close by it, in which a hermit dwelt, who daily officiated in it, and prayed for the living members of the gild, and for the souls of the deceased that belonged to it. The present fabrick was built about 1401, when John Fordham Bishop of Ely granted an indulgence of 40 days pardon, to last for three years, to all that would contribute to rebuild it, and to maintain Walter Colman, the poor hermit, there ; as I find in Register Fordham, fo. 193.

This town was heretofore famous for hats, dornecks, and coverlets, which were made in great quantities here; and indeed, in the act passed in 1551, for the advantage of the citizens of Norwich, forbid- ding any out of the city, unless in some corporate and market town, to make any of those commodities, all of these businesses living in Pulham, were excepted, as those trades had been there followed for some time past. See vol. iii. p. 262.

The church of St. Mary the Virgin is the principal or mother- church, and hath a square tower, with a spire on its top, and six bells; on the fifth is this,

Janets l&aria oca pro Jftobis-;.

The nave, south isle, and its porch, as also the chancel, are covered with lead; the north vestry being down

On an old wooden stand or eagle, is this, * * * * 25ocher lEtargrct SBocher, * = * >

In the porch chamber lie abundance of court rolls, and evidences of the manor, with armour, a broken organ, and several brass plates reaved off the stones in the church, which are thus inscribed :

<©rate pro anima £h.ome BMnal, qui obiiti r° oie Spring a° ©. $i\° toC Fjcfiiii. cuius* amine propicictur Deu.£.

©rate pro anima jRicbarDi Hipngevi qui obiit ppif Die augu^ti 2° 5?nt: IB0. Mrrrtii: cuiu.3 anime propicictur ocu.sf.

<©rate pro anima gjohannig Cobbc, qui obiit ppj: oic augu>;'ti anno Chn.sti J4° to£ vrj. cuius* anime propicictur oeu£.

pap for the &oule of arhoma^ 23erne late <£>ecton of thi.S €hcrc£)C, ano aipcc hpg IDpfe, 3° ©. M°. t>£ JrtWt0.

t * * * t Urort£ JOalteri .Wapn, que * - * ** mini, M" tat°. IV. cuiu.s anime propicictur duisS.

<©rate pro animabusS SJohannig Cobbe et TRargarcte tayori* eiug, qui obiit r^i" t>;e €>ct. a° 3?ni. M" ccccc »°. quorum anuuabu.s propicictur oeu.sj, amen.

<©rate pro annna gjuliane ©olnatoe, cuiu£ anime propicictur oeusS. vol. v. 3 E

594 P U L H A M.

There is a stone in the chancel having its brass plate, on which the inscription was, lost ; but on another plate, the arms of Lany and his quarterings,7 quartered, impaling

Aslack and her eight quarterings, marshalled, remain; which show, that that Lany who married the heiress of Aslack, is here interred.

On a black marble within the communion rails, their son, Aslack Lany, and his wife, with 12 coats marshalled, viz. 1, Aslack, 2, Lany, and their quarterings, impaling Jermy, and this,

Here lyeth buried the Body of Aslack Lany, Esq. who being of the Age of 71 Years, died in Jan. 1639. And also the Body of Eliz. Lany his Wife, who being 68 Years old in Sept. 1646, died after that Tyrne, and was one of the Daughters of John Jermy, Esq.

Between the two former stones, is another thus inscribed,

Sacrum hoc Memoriae Margarets. Smyth, (Vitas Sanctificatae) nuper Uxoris Samuelis Smyth, Armigeri, ac unius Filiarum Aslack Laney dictus Aslack posuit, obijt 13 Apr. A. D.

But short was her Life, yet lives she ever, And Death has his Due, yet dyes she never.

In the middle isle are two black marbles.

Hodie Mihi, Cras tibi. Elizabeth Sayer, the Wife oiJohn Sayer, departed this Life the 29th Day of April, 1653.

Hodie Mihi, Cras tibi. Here under lyeth the Body of John Sayer Gent, who de- parted this Life the 21st Day of April, Anno Domini 1677.

There are four altar tombs at the east end of the chancel in the churchyard.

Arms of Stebbing and Wood.

1. Anne, daughter of Augustine Wood, Gent, died 6 Aug. 1685.

2. Man/, daughter of George Stebbing of Norwich, Gent, and Martha his wife, Dr. of Robert Wood, late of Brook in Norfolk, Esq. died Oct. 24, 1694, act. 21.

3. Mary, daughter of Augustine Wood, 11 Apr. 1706.

4. Margaret, wife of Peter Watts, heiress of Will. Dowsing of Laxjield in Suffolk, ob. 14 Febr. 1707-

A lion rampant and mullet impales a fess between two lions passant. Michael IValne, Gent, died Aug. 26, 1682, act. 59.

In the time of John Morton Bishop of Ely,8 who was consecrated

' See Brockdish. man, in Godwin's Catalogue, p. 161,

8 See the just character of this good 277.

PULHAM. 395

in 1478, and was translated into Canterbury in I486, and died in 1500; the windows of this church were new glazed, and adorned with the arms of the East Angles, of the see of Ely single, and impaled with

Morton, quarterly gul. and erm. in the first and fourth quarters, goat's head erased arg.

And this he did in respect to Robert Morton, Esq. his uncle, who lived here in 1460, and was buried in this church in 1467 : as I learn from his will, 9 in which he made Alice his wife, (who I suppose was a Tendrhig, by the arms of Morton impaled with Tendring in one of the windows,) and John Ashjield, junior, executors; and gave his manors of Lympol and Hesse in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire, to Nicholas his son ; and legacies to Margaret and Osca, his two daughters.

It seems that the tower and porch were built about this time, by the assistance of the Bishop and other benefactors ; on the porch there is a great quantity of imagery in stone; on one side of the entrance, an angel holds a scroll with 3i>C IBaria on it ; opposite is a Bishop sitting on his throne, a goat's face under him as the conusance of Morton, the book of the Holy Gospel on a stand by him, on which sits a dove with its beak close to the Bisop's ear, to intimate that book to be dic- tated by the Holy Spirit; by the stand is a helmet, on which, for a crest, is the trunk of a tree raguled, with three arms cut off, repre- senting the Holy Trinity; there are eight angels, four with trumpets in their mouths, two playing on lutes, and two on violins; all the building is adorned with angels faces, he. There are four large shields under the image of the Virgin Mary, that was placed in a niche, but is now pulled out of it, which are, the instruments of the Passion, the emblem of the Trinity and the arms of the East Angles and Ely see. Five images carved in stone, are fixed on the top of the battlements, 1, A wolf sitting, holding St. Edmund's head in its paws. 2, A lion. 5, A woodman, sitting with one leg on his knee. 4, A greyhound seiant. 5, Defaced. And there are the arms of Morton Archbishop of Can- terbury; and on a shield three cardinals caps; and faces, by their habits, of the four degrees, viz. a monk or regular, a parish-priest, or secular, a gentleman, and a peasant.

1. Three cinquefoils remain, a de-lis for difference.

2. Kemp, three garbs, lost.

3. Chequy a chevron er. remain.

4. A garb between three croslets trefle.

Crusuly, in the midst a covered cup. Three covered cups. A crosi moline. Many cinquefoils about the building.

In the east window in the chancel, are represented the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and underneath is the blessed Virgin with our Saviour in her arms, and a lily by her, as patroness of this church in particular; and St. Peter, as patron of the church universal; with persons playing upon violins and other musical instruments on either side ; and at their feet the wise men offering their censers, &c. with the arms of the East-Angles, of Ely church, and St. George; and

England alone, az. three lions passant guardant or.

9 Regr. Betynsin Archiv. Epi. Norw. fo. 131.

596 P U L H A M.

Lozenge, az. and arg. on each other lozenge a de-lis sab. Gul. a lion saliant in a bordure invecked arg. lansrued and armed of the field.

Tiptoft, or Tibetot, arg- a satier ingrailed sab.

The chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, commonly called Pulham- market church, is a good fabrick, with a large square tower, a clock, and six bells ; a handsome north porch, two isles, and nave, all leaded; the chancel being tiled ; it is an exceeding lightsome building, kept very neat and clean.

It stands at the south end of the late market-place, and is a mile at least from its mother-church.

In 151 8, John Baker, parish chaplain here, was buried in the church, and left 20s. to repair Alderford church.

In 1536, Robert Edwards, priest, parish chaplain, was buried here, and gave legacies to the gild of St. Mary Magdalen, held in this church ; to the chapel at JVacton, to the chapel of St. James at Pul- ham Mary, and to the chapel of our Lady at Mendham.

In the chancel,

Claxton's crest, a side-long helmet, over it, on a torce, a por- cupine or hedge-hog proper.

Claxton, gul. a fess between three porcupines arg. A coat of pretence on a canton. Barry of 10. On a canton three martlets.

Mr. Thomas Claxton, Merchant of London, died 21 July, 1681, 40.

Mrs. Mary, 2d Daughter of Mr. Ralph Claxton and Elizabeth his Wife, of Pii/ham St. Mary, 30 Jan. 1680, 18. Surah their 3d Daughter, 22 June, 1681, 15.

In the nave,

©rate pro anuria ^abelie ®ta&r.» cuiu£ anitne proptctetur Dcujf, Htmn.

On a north window, gul. three birds or.

On an old seat in the chancel, two shields, on one a cross, on the other three roses.

In the nave towards the chancel.

John Rede, Gent. ob. 5 Nov. 1721, 52.

Samuel Son of John Rede, Gent. 7 Aug. 1712, 15. Rede's arms and crest, a buck's head erased. Eliz. Wife of John Reed, Gent. 20 Jan. 1719, 47. Simon their son 1712, 15.

Rob. Prentice, Gent, died in 1639, and gave 5/. to each of the Pulhams. 20/. to Mr. Sayer rector there, and \l. to Starstou poor. He bare

Party per chevron or and sab. three greyhounds current counter- changed.

Susan Wife of Sam. Prentice Gent. 16 July 1710. 73.

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On a mural monument on the south side of the church, towards the east end,

In a Vault near this Place, lie interred, Peter Rosier, Esq; who was High-Sheriff of the County of Norfolk in 1737, and died at Pulham St. Mary Magdalen, Oct. 18, 1743, in the 81st Year of his Age. And also Esther Rosier and Philip Rosier Gent, (his Brother and Sister). Esther died July 26, 1721, £et. 54. Philip July 11, 1732, set. 68, To whose Memory this Monument was erected, by the Direction of the said Peter Rosier.

Palgrave, az. a lion rampant arg. a crescent for difference, as a second branch of the Palgrave family. Crest, a loin's head erased guardant arg.

Mr. Thomas Palgrave, obijt sexto Die Martij A. D. 1638; Cujus ossa et Cineres sub hoc Lapide Requiescunt.

He was son of Thomas Palgrave, Esq. and Eliz. his wife, which Thomas was buried here in 1545.

Mr. John Palgrave, ob. 27 Sept. 1687. Mrs. Christian Pal- grave his Wife, Nov. 28, 1693.

Mrs. Jone, Wife of Mr. Thomas Palgrave, Sep. 18, 1678.

Mary Wife of Thomas Palgrave, and Daughter of Robert Howard of Noneich, Apr. 27, I690, 35. And by her lies Thomas Pa/grave her Husband.

S Thomas Son of Tho. Palgrave of Norwich, Jan. 20, 1700, 14. X John his Brother, 1700, 16.

For the fVhipples of Pulham, see vol. i. p. 193.

On a neat mural monument against the east end of the north isle„ with Palgrave's arms,

H. S. E. Gulielmus Palgrave M.D. de Gippovico in Comitatu. Suffolciensi. Gulielmi Palgrave, de hoc Pago Generosi Filius, ob. Sept. 14°, A. D. MDCCXLII. iEt.49- Liberi ejus Johannes et Dorothea Infantes, Morte abrepti hie sepeliuntur.

On a marble in the south isle, are the arms and crest of Palgrave.

Thomas Palgrave, Esq; sometime Sheriff and Member of Par- liament for the City of Norwich, in the Reign of the late Queen Anne of ever Blessed Memory: He gave an hundred Pounds to a Charity School in the Parish of St. Peter Mancroft in Norwich (wherein he was born) towards the Education of poor Children, according to the Liturgie of the Church of England, ob. Aug. 7. 1726, aet. 84, six Months.

In the same isle against the south Wall, towards the east end, by Rosier's monument, is another, with an eagle rising arg. for a crest, and the arms of Corinoaleis impaling, Barry of eight or and az. over all a bend arg, quartering arg. a pelican in her nest or, vulning her- self, proper.

398 PULHAM.

In Memory of John Stanhawe late of this Parish, Gent, who was buried near to this Place Sept. 19, 1729, aged .54. His first Wife was Margaret the Daughter of John Cornwaleis, Esq; of Wingfield in the County of Suffolk, by whom he had no issue. His 2d Wife was Mary the Dr. of Robert Futter Gent. late of Selton in this County, who was interred near this Place, May 24, 1729, aged 45, by whom he had 3 Drs.Tabitha, Mary, and Susan, who are still surviving.

There are three hatchments in the church, 1, Palgrave ; crest, a lion's head erased arg. 2, Howman impales Palgrave. Motto, Labile quod opportunum.

3, Palgrave impales Burton, Memento mori.

On an altar tomb on the south side of the churchyard. Party per saltier, on a fess three de-lises.

Sam. Matchet Gent. 1732, 81. Mary his Wife, 1740, 80."

Pulham signifies the village of pooh,'1 or standing waters: the earliest account we meet with of this town, is, that it belonged to AValdchist, a Saxon, who forfeited all that he had to King Edmund, who was lord of it, and left it to King Etheldred or Edred his brother,3 who gave it to Eadgive his mother ; at whose death it reverted to him, and at his death went to King Edwi/, and after him to King Edgar his brother, who sold it to IVlstan, and at his death to Ethelwold Bishop of Winchester,* for 40/. and he gave it to the abbey of St. Etheldred, or Audry, at Ely, from which, Thurwerth seized it;' but that abbey recovered it, and was in full possession at the Norman conquest: the survey then taken tells us, that in the Confessor's lime it belonged to St. Audry, and had 15 carucates of land, 60 villeins, 25 bordars, and 7 servants, who were to manage the three carucates that were in demean, or belonging to the manor-house; the wood then maintained 600 swine; and there belonged to the manor-house, a mill, 0 working horses, 1 1 young cattle, 40 hogs, 50 sheep, 40 goats, 4 hives of bees; and the whole manor was worth 8 pounds, and at the Conquest was risen to 15 pounds a year: the town was then 2 miles long, and a mile broad, and paid 30d. to the geld or tax, and was exempt from the jurisdiction of the half hundred of Eat sham, as be-

1 Robert Masters, clerk, and Eliz. omnia qua; habebat, tempore Edmund

Matchet, married 1381. Regis, et fuerant in manu Regis Ed-

1 Pulla, a pool or lake of standing mundi et /Ethelredi, quousque ipse

water, whence a pulk is a small pond or j?Ethelredus, dedit easdem terras Ead-

hole of standing water. givae matri suas, post ejus mortem ad-

3 see vol. ii. p. 31. quisivit easdem terras Whtanus a Rege

♦ ^theiwaldus fuit Episcopus /Edgaro, sed et Edgiva et Wlstanus ac-

Saxonum occidentaliumab anno 963, ad quisierunt et emerunt plures terras et

annum 984. plura bona, quam unquam Waldchist ha.

5 Diripuitetiam idem [Thurwerthus] buisset, et his duobus manenjs addide-

Deo Sanctaetj'Etheldryda.Pulnam, quam runt, ha:c igitur duo maneria prxdictus

j^thelwoldus Episcopus emerat a Rege Thurwerthus obtinuit. Hist. Ehens. R.

Edgaro pro xl. hbris, quas terras, viz. Li. cap. .54. p. 486. Gale. vol. i. Script.

Nordwalde [Northwold] etPulnam, per Britt. Sax. Anglo-Dan. transgressionem amisit Waldchist, et

PULHAM. 399

longing to the church of St. Audrxj? though now it is reckoned among the towns in the Duke of Norfolk's liberty,7 as being in Earsham half hundred. In J 249, it appears from the Plea Rolls,8 that there was a weekly Wednesday market here; and in 1250, the Bishop of Ely, on which this see was settled at its first erection, had a charter of free- warren throughout the manor: in 127", there was a general extent made, of all the lands, manors, and revenues, belonging to Ely see;9 when the jury sworn for this manor,' returned upon oath, that the town was in ihe free hundred of Earl Hog. Bigod, called Eresham half hundred, to which the Bishop's bailiff ought to do suit from hundred court to hundred court, or pay two shillings every Michaelmas day, al the will of the Earl or his bailiffs, who might choose either the suit or the money; that the advowson of the church of St. Mary the Virgin at Pulham, with the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen there, be- longed to the Bishop of Ely, with the market held by the said chapel ; the profits of which, were then worth 3 marks and an half per annum, the profits of Ihe fairs held there being included ;a the two windmills with the suit of the tenants thereto, worth ol. a year; there were 685 acres and an half, by the lesser hundred, in demean, and every acre was worth \5d. a year; half of it was to be ploughed yearly by 4 ploughs of six oxen and two scotts; there were also 36 acres and an half of meadow land, worth 4s. an acre; 33 acres of several pasture (or Lammas land) worth 18c?. an acre; every acre of this manor, ac- cording to its custom, being measured by the perch of 18 feet and an half. There was a park of 60 acres, a wood called Grishazo of 100 acres, the manor-house stock was 14 cows, a free bull, 40 hogs, and a free boar, and 200 sheep ; all the lands but the several, and commons, were whole year land. The commons of Nortwood Green and JVest- wood, were common to the whole town only;3 but notwithstanding, nobody could cut wood on them but the lord, who had 27^. 12s. 3d. 3q. yearly rents in money ; 20s. 8d. q. for hedernwich, the schervesilver uncertain, because it is more or less yearly ; 3G quarters 6 bushels and 2 pecks of foddercorn, six score and eight hens, 597 eggs by the great hundred, 267 acres to be ploughed in winter, the ploughing of each

6 PuLLAHAMtenuitSancta Aldreda 222. Incipit Liber de Inquisicionibus. T. R. E. pro xv. car. terre semper lx. &c. tempore Hugonis de Balsam Epis- villani, xxv. bord. vii. serv. iii. car. in copi Eliensis, fo. 19.

dom. tunc xx. car. hominum m° xvi. This manor, before the erection of the

xvi. acr. prati, tunc silva DC. pore. m° bishoprick, was fixed to find two weeks

ccc. et i. mol. iii. runcin. xi. anim. xl. provisions for Ely convent. (Godwin's

pore. 1. oves, xl. capr. iiii. vasa apum, Catalogue of Bishops, page 253, printed

tunc valuitviii. libr.m0 xv.habet ii. leug. in English at London 1615.)

in longo, et i. leug. in lato, et de gelto * Robert de Boisand 27 other tenants

xxx. d. (Doms. fo. 189.) were sworn on the jury.

T. R. E. habuit Stigandus socam et sa- * Besides the wakes and fairs liereto-

cam de hoc dimidio hundreto (sc. de fore held on the days of the dedication

Hersam) preterToRP, Sancti Edmundi, of the church and chapel, there was one

et preter Pulham Sancte Aldredre. held on Wednesday in Ascension week :

(Doms. fo. 53.) this only now remains, and is lately al-

7 See vol. i. p. 237, 8. tered, being now always kept on the

8 PlacitaCorone 34H. III. Rot. 13 D. Monday in Ascension week.

8 Regr. Ely. Bib. Cot. Claudius C. ii. 3 This manor extended into Titshall.

fo. 209, 221. Dug. Mon. vol. i. fo. 94. See vol. i. p. 204, 5, and Uphall manor

The extent of Ely bishoprick, MSS. in in Titshall extended hither; ibid. p. 207. Caius College library in Cambridge, fo.

400 P U L H A M.

acre being worth 4d. and 420 acres to be ploughed between Candle- mas and Whitsuntide, worth 8/. 15s. and from the several tenants every year, 13335 days works and an half, and the fourth part of a day's work ; there was also 30 acres purchased by the Bishop of Maud de Pit/hum.*.

Among the freemen of the manor, Sir Adam de Tifteshale or Tit- sliale, Knt. held 36 acres; Sir Roger de Thirkelby 20 acres and two men ; the parson of Pulham one meadow, and the prior of Ely 30 acres, late Osbert de Stradesete's ; Richard de Kittleshaw two caru- cates ; Will. Howard divers lands, 8cc. and the whole was divided into four letes or divisions, at each of which, the tenants inhabiting the several divisions appeared ; East or Up-lete, West-lete, Suth-lete, and Gid/ardes, or North-lete.

In 1286, the Bishop of Ely claimed the following privileges to this manor, and they were allowed in Eire, viz. infangenthef, outfangentkef, view of frankpledge, assise of bread and ale, pleas de namio velito, and to have a prison, and carry and re-carry his prisoners any where be- fore the King's justices; and to have ihe fries and amerciaments of all his tenants, and all the goods and chattels ofje/ons and fugitives, with the return of writs, and all other liberties belonging to his we of Ely, together with free-warren, according to Henry the Third's charter.

In 14S), Pulham was returned to be within the liberty of the Bishop of Ely, and underlhejurisdiction of his bailiff, Henry Sharyngton ; it being held in demean of the King, as parcel of the Bishop's barony, and so con- tinued till the first of Queen Elizabeth, and then it came to the Crown, by virtue of an exchange made with that see; and it continued there some time; it being above 102/. per annum, besides the woods, in 1558, but was soon leased out at 13/. 6s. per annum, and many of the woods and demeans granted to divers persons ; but in l6oy, the citi- zens of London held it in fee-farm, when the free and copyhold rents were 71/. 8s. yd. per annum, and the farm of the lands 37/. 10s. id, but that lease being out in 1622, Richard Jsh^orth, senior, Esq. accounted with Charles Prince of Wales, on whom King James I. had settled it, for 107/. 2s. 4d. in rents, and 18/. 3s. for fines of lands, and perquisites of courts:5 and about 1631, it was sold by King

* 1304, Alice, daughter of Nic. de assigned to Anne his wife as part of Iier

Pulham, had a good estate here. In jointure, with all the letes, rents, free

1481, died brother John Pulham, a and copy ; franchises, courts, fines, n.ir-

learned Austin-friar, of Yarmouth con- ket, fairs, tolls, customs, amerciaments,

vent. piepowder-courts, the chapel (now the

5 King Car. I. in recompense for school-house) together with all piccage,

329,897/. is. already advanced to King stallage, chattels of felons, outlaws and

James I. and himself, and for 12,000/. fugitives, except the advowson, mines,

to be advanced by the chamber of Lon- knights fees, wards, marriages, forests,

don, fur which he was to assure lands of chaces, and parks stocked with deer ; to

the clear yearly value of 1249/. 6s. 6d. be held of the Crown, as of the manor of

amono- other alienations of crown lands, East-Greenwich, by fealty, in free soc-

did grant to the mayor and corporation cage, and not by knight's service,

of the city of London, the manor of Pul- In 6ta. parte originalium de A" iv°

ham, which was leased by James I. A" Reg. Car. I. Rotulo pnmo in Sccario

Reg. 17, to Sir Henry Hobart, Knight ex parte Rememb. Thesaur. remanen.

and Baronet, Chief Justice of the Com- Examined by John Brampton 1656.

mon Pleas, and other feoffees, together N. B. There are above 6000 acres of

with 1 he royalty, and all that lately be- land in the parishes of Pulham St. Mary

longed to the see of Ely; and it was and St. Mary Magdalen.

PULHAM. 401

Charles I. and the chamber of London (the advowson being excepted) to divers tenants; and in the year l679> was divided into 30 parts, one part in 1633, belonged to John Bradshazo, Esq. Windsor herald, who lived in Southolt in Suffolk, and died there the same year, and gave his part to John his eldest son, paying an annuity of 10/. to William, his second son : this part came afterwards to Thomas Fau- conber«c, who married Margaret, daughter of the said John Bradshazo, and Margaret his wife: his will is proved in 1655, and left his part of Pulham manor, to Dorothy his wife for life, then to his children, Tho- mas, Robert, Laurence, Charles, and Henry.

About 1681, Thomas Sayer, justice of the peace, John Sayer,Gent. Charles Daveney, William Pa/grave, Maurice Kendal of Grey's Inn and Bukenham Nova, Gents, and others, were returned as lords. But now the whole is vested in .

John Sayer of Eye, Esq. the profits of one-fifteenth part being employed as an endowment to the schoolmaster, who keeps school in St. James's chapel here.

This John is descended from an ancient family resident at Pulham for several hundred years; and the old register, which begins in 1539, shows us, that it was as numerous as any I have met with, there being great number of their births, marriages, and burials, entered there : and it appears, that the several branches have been all of them considerable owners in this parish : 1 find, they have spelt their names differently in different ages, as Sawyer, Sayer, and Saer, which last I take to be their proper name, for Saer or Saier, was anciently a common christian name; but I shall only trace here, that branch from which the present lord of the town is descended.

John Sayer, senior, of Pulham St. Mary, was born in 1493, and was buried in 1583, in the 90th year of his age; by his first wife he

' Thomas Sayer,6 who married Christian Palgrave of Pulham- Market in 1557, and John Sayer, who married Margaret Thurketel; and by Rose Skete, widow, his second wife, he had

John Sayer, Gent, who in 1607, married Mrs. Anne Pulhn ; their son, „ _ . . ,

John Sayer of Pulham, Gent, was born in 1617, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Dunston of W or lingworth in Suffolk, Gent, who was buried at Pulham St. Mary in 1653. Their son,

Thomas Sayer, Gent, of Pulham, married Muriel, daughter or Richard Browne of Sparkes in Tacolneston, by Muriel Knevet his wife, and had Mr. Edward Sayer, apothecary in Norwich, Mr. Daniel Sayer, attorney at law in Harleston, younger sons; besides their eldest son

« In i6oo,Tho. Sayer, Gent, of Pul- tended into Pulham, Rushall, and ham, purchased an estate here of John Dickleburgh. Prettiman, Gent, and others, which ex-

3F

PULHAM.

John Sayer of Eye, Esq. one of— Dorothy his wife, who was sister to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Bur- ton,vicar of Halifax iu York- shire, and is still living.

his Majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Norfolk, who is now lord of this manor ; but hath no issue by

SAYER.7

BURTON.

The ancient survey of this county, hath this,

In this town, (for both Pulhams make but one town,) is only the manor of Pit lham, commonly called Pulham manour, which hereto- fore belonged to the Bishopeick [or church] of Ely, even from the time of the Saxons, about 800 years since, until the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who took it into her own hands with divers other manors, and is now in possession of the King [Jac. I.] as her next and immediate heir : the King keepeth court and leel, and hath in it, weyf, felons goods, 8cc. hauking, hunting, fishing, &c. The extraor- dinary service of the tenants is reveship, hey wardship, and cullyer-ship ; whoever are cully ers or collectors, gather the rents of the other tenants, and pay them to the reeves, and they at the audit to the receiver ; whoever is heyward calleth the court ; there is one that holds his lands by coinage," that is, blowing a horn in the morning at the be- ginning of the court : the fines are certain of the copyhold lands, at

7 For the crest see p. 331.

8 The estate held by cornage is about 30/. per annum all in a hedge, now owned by Dorothy, late widow Baker, now the wife of Robert Jermy of Pul- ham, there belongs to it liberty to keep hounds, and follow the game any where in the manor ; the service is performed at this time, by one attending constantly to blow the horn before the court begins,

for which the lord pays 4^. and gives him his dinner ; this was the service as the lord's huntsman : and there are 7 acres held by being my lord's hangman, William son of Adam Akeman held 7 acres by divers services, all which were to be remitted, whenever a thief was hanged in the manor, he being obliged by his tenure to hang him in lieu of all service for that year.

PULHAM. 403

six pence an acre.9 This town hath the privileges of Ely, as all other manors, holden by the same bishoprick ; none may arrest within their limits, besides their own bailiff, &c. There was -a. market kept for a long t'me in Pulham- Magdalen, (the cross yet remaineth,) pur- chased by the church of Ely in the time of the Saxons, but now alto- gether decayed, by reason of the vicinity of Harleston, a hamlet to Redenhall, whose market is on the same clay. There was formerly a manor here, called

HEMENHALE'S,

Which had its rise in 1258, when Walter de Hemenhale confirmed all right to Hugh Bishop of Ely ; the said Bishop conveying to him 200 acres of land, 5 marks rent, 40 acres of wood, and 20 acres of mea- dow; and in 1308, it extended into Redenhall.

In 1321, Sir Ralfde Hemenhale was lord, and John de Hemenhale was his son and heir; but in 1389, Sir Robert de Hemenhale, son of Ralf owned it, and settled it on Sir George Felbrigge, Knt. and others, his trustees.

In 1258, Ric de Ketleshawe, held of the Bishop many lands and rents ; and Sir Roger de Thirke/by, in 1248, had a messuage, 1 10 acres of land, and divers rents, which he granted to Robert of St. Ives. In 1342, John Sturmy had a capital messuage and 40 acres, and divers rents, which he held of the Bishop of Ely, and Robert was his son and heir ; and in 1351, John Cooper and Alice his wife had & free tenement, 120 acres of land, 20 acres of meadow, 10 acres of wood, and 15s. rent in Pulham; all which he recovered against John Cur- soun and Catherine his daughter; and in 1370, Alice his wife, who was daughter of Ric. de Ketleshawe or Ketelesha/e, in Norfolk, inhe- rited his estate here, and in the year 1425, Sir John de Heveningham, senior, Knt. died seized of all these manors, free tenements, and capital messuages and rents, called then, the manor of

9 In the 9th year of King Car. I. there 30 acres; HadesAage-Green about 36

passed a decree in Chancery, by which acres ; IVestwood Common, &c. On all

the Jines of all the complainants lands which, the tenants common with great

(and of no other tenants of the manor) and small beasts. And the lete fee or

all which are specified at large in the de- common fine of each parish, is 20s. Among

cree, were fixed at 6d. an acre, 2s. each the ancient customs of the manor I find,

messuage, and is. each cottage, built or that the copyholders were forced to

to be built, and these lands and houses grind at one of the lord's mills, which

on request made in court, are demisable occasioned the two mills to be let at $1.

for 2i years, or any term under, on pay- per annum in those days, the tithe being

ing half a fine as before stated ; these allowed out of it. They were obliged

tenants are not to forfeit for waste, and to pay a fine to the lord for license or

may fell timber, &c. without license, leave to marry their sons and daughters :

and use the soil at their own will and and to pay childwite if they had any

pleasure; but the rest of the tenants of bastards; and could not sell an ox or

the manor hold their lands at the lord's male colt of their own breed, without

will. The lands descend to the eldest leave of their lord ; the market and fairs

son, and it gives no dower. then let at 3 marks and an half a year ;

The commons belonging to the manor and divers of the tenants paid plough- are Northwood-Green, containing about shares for ths fines of their lands,

404 PULHAM.

PULHAM, HEMENHALE'S, VAUXES'S, STURMIN'S, and STURMER'S,

In Pulham, Riveshale, Dickleburgh, and Titeshale, in Norfolk.

But being all purchased in, long since, there is no such manor now existing. The demeans or manor-house, called Vance's or Vance's in Pulham, with a farm at Rushall, formerly part of the said manors, is settled for the propagation of the Gospel in New- England.

The dean and chapter of Ely, have a small manor in this town, called

WINSTON'S cum PULHAM,

The quit rents of which are only 17s. iOd. per annum; it formerly belonged to the Prior of Ely, who held part of it, of the gift oiOsbert de Stradsete.

For Ric. de Boyland's lands here, see vol. i. p. 57.

Pulham-makket hall is a good old house, enclosed with a high wall of brick embattled, and was formerly the mansion-house, of the Percies, a younger branch of the Northumberland family; in 1543, Mary, daughter of Henry Persy, Gent, was buried in St. Mary's church at Pulham: in 1564, Cilice Percy was married to John Bu- kenham, and it seems, as if another daughter was married to a Bramp- ton, for this estate was owned by William Brampton, a strenuous man on the King's side in Rett's rebellion, by whom a great part of the

? resent building was erected, and it continued in that family, till a Villiam Brampton sold it to Philip Rosier, who left it to Peter Rosier his brother, late high-sheriff of Norfolk, who died here in 1743. (See p. 397.)

The arms of the Earl of Northumberland, and those of Brampton impaling Leventhorp, are in the windows.

From the old Register of Pulham St. Mary.

1559, John Blomefield single-man, and Eleanor Holland single- woman, married.

1626, John Blomefield of Starston, and Christian Spendlowe, married.

1550, Paul son of Peter Bedingfield born. Sir Will. Baldwin and Audry Estowe, married.

1585, Thomas Crane, Gent, aged 70. 1587, Alice his widow aged 70, both buried in the church. 1594, Ric. son of Ric. Crane, Gent. buried. 1606, Will, son of Ric. Crane and Margery his Wife, buried.

154S, Tho. son of John Preston, Gent. born. 1551, Roland another son.

1572, Mr. Robert Morland, a proctor for the house of Bury, buried.

1574, Will. Sparham, an old man and zealous Protestant, buried.

DENTON. 405

1616, Tho. le Grey, buried.

1607, Margaret daughter of Aslack Lany, Esq. and Eliz. his wife, baptized.

1607, Eliz. Lanye vidua Generosa nuper Uxor Johannis Lany de Cratfield in com. Suff. Generosi, Filia Willi. Aslack, ac ultima antiqui cognominis de Aslak, sepulta fuit die xvij° Junij.

1618, Eliz. daughter of Robert Laurence, Gent, and Eliz. his wife, bapt. 2 Dec. buried in 1618. 1619, Will, their son, born. 1622' Eliz. their daughter.

DENTON,

1 akes its name from the Saxon word ben, a cave, or hollow place between two hills, which exactly answers to its situation :' the pre- sent church stands on a high hill, and the parsonage-house on the north side of the churchyard, in the very den or hollow, from which the village is named. The superiour jurisdiction over towers freemen of this town, from the time of the Conquest to this day, hath passed with the hundred of Ear sham ? but the chief manor of Denton, was held of Bishop Stigand by Alfriz, in the Confessor's time,3 and by Eudo son of Spiruwin at the Conqueror's survey; when it was worth 4l. per annum the town being then a mile long, and four furlongs broad, and paid \Sd. geld. This came to William de Albany, who joined it to Bukenham castle, with which it passed many ages, as you may see at vol. i. p. 369, &c. Another part which formerly belonged to Bury abbey, was held by Tarmoht, and after by the saidLWo;* this constituted that manor called Payone's in Denton.

1 Thus Den and Strand, in the old 3 In eadem tenuit Alfriz i. liber

law terms, signifies liberty for a ship to homo Stigandi T.R.E. ii. car. terretunc

run aground or come ashore, which they x. villani modo viii. tunc viii. bordarij

usually did in such places for their modo vi. semper iii. serv, tunc ii. car.

safety. in dominio modo dim. tunc vi. car. ho-

1 Terre Stigandi Epi.scopi quas minum modo iiii. modo silva xxx. pore,

custodit Wil. de Noiers, in manu Regis, vi. acr. prati et dim. rnol. et iiii. soc.

Hersam dim. hund. Doms. fo. 52, 3. de xx. acr. terre tunc valuit lx. sol. m°

In Dentuna xii. liberi homines de iiii. libr. habet i. leug. in longo et iiii.

his habebat Stigandus socam in Ersam, et quar. in lato, et de Gelto xviii.rf. qui-

habebant xl. acr. et de iiii. Sanctus Ed- cunque ibi teneat, soca in Hersam. MUNDUS habebat socam et habebant xl. 4 Terre Eudonis fillj Spiruwin.

acr. quod nee dare nee vendere poterant Hersam dim. Hund. Doms. fo. 246. terram suam extra ecclesiam. Sed Ro- In Dentuna tenuit Tarmoht i. liber

gerus Bigot addidit in Ersam propter con- homo Regis Edmundi ii. car. terre tunc

suetudinem, quia soca erat in Hund0. x. villani et v. bord. tunc viii. modo,

semper v. car. inter omnes. semper ii. serv. tunc ii. car. in dominio

In Redanahalla et in Dentuna ii. m° dim. tunc vi. car. hominum, modo

liberi homin. Stigandi cum soca xxiii. iv. modo silva xxx. pore, v- acr prati,

acr. terre semper dim. car. et dim. acr. et dim. mol. et iiii. de xx. acr. terre

prati, appretiatum est cum alijs. tunc valuit lx. sol. modo iii. libr.

406 DENTON.

DENTON cum TOPCROFT MANOR

Passed with the Albanys, and at the division of the estate of that family among female 'heiresses (as at vol. i. p. 372,) was allotted, among others, to Sir Rob. de Tateshall, Knt. in whose family it conti- nued till the failure of issue male. In 1227, King Henry III. granted to Sir Robert deTateshale, Knt. a charter fox free-warren here, which was confirmed to Constantine Clifton, his heir; and in 1285, Rog. Bigot was found, as lord of the hundred, to have joint free-warren with him : it went from the Tateshales through the Bernaks, Orrebys, &c. as at vol. i. p. 374, &c. to the Cliftons, and continued in that family with Bukenham castle, till 1447, and then Sir John Clifton, Knt. gave this manor (as at p. 377, vol. i.) to Robert Clifton his cousin,s and his heirs; who, jointly with Elizabethhh wife, conveyed the united manors of Denton cum Topcroft, the manors of Hoes and Littlehall in Denton, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Gilbert Debenham, Knt. son of Sir Giles de Debenham, Knt. together with a manor in Denier, and the advowson of St. Giles's chapel in Topcroft ; the manors then extending into Denton,Topcroft, Alburgh, Bedingham, IVotton, Hemenhale, Hadesco-thorp, and DicUburgh ; and by a fine passed soon after, they were settled on Tho. Gardyner, as trustee, for the use of Robert and E/iz. Clifton his wife, for life, remainder to Sir Tho. Breicse, of Salle in Norfolk,6 andlVenham'mSu folk, and Eliz. his second wife, sister and heiress to Sir Gilbert Debenham, and their heirs :7 Sir Thomas's will is dated in 1479, by which he ordered himself and wife to be buried in JVodebridge priory church, of which he was patron, and where many of his ancestors lie; he had four sons, William, Ro- bert, John, and Edward, and a brother named Robert, whose daughter Av.ne, was a nun at Redlingfeld ; he gave his manor of Stinton's in Salle, to William his eldest son, after the death of Eliz. his wife, to whom he gave the manors of Hawker's, Denton, Topcroft, Hoo, and Littlehall, with the advowsons of Denton and St. Giles's chapel in Topcroft, for life; and his feoffees settled them accordingly, with re- mainder to Robert Breicse, Esq. his second son, and his heirs"; he mar- ried Katherine, daughter of Sir John Wing field of Let/ieringham in Suffolk, Knt. and was succeeded by Thomas Brewse of Topcroft- Hall and JVenham in Suffolk, Esq. who in 1514 was lord; he married Jane, daughter of Scroop of Bent ley in Stiff.; their son, Sir John Brewse of JVenham, was lord in 1533 and 1582; and in 15t)0, Thomas Brewse, Esq. whose son John Brewse, in 1602, was lord, being then six years old; he was afterwards knighted, and married Cecily, only daughter to John Wilton of Topcroft, Gent, (see vol i. p. 364.) and soon after the Wiltons were lords. In 1650, I find that Rob. Wilton, son of Ric. Wilton, brother to the said Cecily Brewse, held a court baron for

5 This Robert was son of Thomas, called Tcpcroft-Hall, and had free hunt- brother of Sir John, and ancestor to the ing, hawking, fishing, and fouling foe Cliftons of Toftrees in Norfolk. their lives, in the united manors of Den-

6 See p. 371, and vol. i. p. 3C4. ton cum Topcroft, Hoes, and Lutkhall, in.

7 In 1464, Robert and Elizabeth Clif. Topcroft. ton lived in the principal manor-house

DENTON. 407

Denton cum Topcroft, and a lete for Topcroft; that for Denton belonging to the Duke's hundred of Earsham ; and it passed with the Wiltons as Wilby did, till Nic. Wilton, Esq. who held court here in 1679, sold it in ]680, to

George Smith, doctor of physick, second son of John Smith of North Nibley, sheriff of Gloucestershire, son of John Smith, sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1569, son of Thomas Smith of the same, sheriff of the said county in 1550, who descended from the Smiths of Elking- ton in Lincolnshire, who flourished in Henry the Sixth's time, and were returned among the gentlemen of that county, and afterwards of Tremblethorp ; and thence about 1527, Thomas aforesaid settled at Nibley, where the elder branch have resided to this day from father to son.8 This George took his master of arts decree at Oxford, and afterwards travelled heyond sea 25 years, and on the 24 of Dec. 1038, was admitted doctor of physick at Padua, as a fine diploma now in the family testifies;9 in which he is called Nobilis Ang/us; he married Mary, daughter and heiress of David Offley of Cheshire, Esq. by whom he had one son, Offley ; his second wife was Anne, daughter of William Chilcot of Isltworth in Middlesex, Esq. who survived him, but had no issue;1 he is buried in Topcroft chancel, with this on his stone, and the arms of Smith between those of Offley and Chilcott.

Here lies buried Dr. George Smith, Dr. of Physick, he was Son of John Smyth Esq; of North Nibley in Gloucestershire, he died in Topcroft- Hall the 15 of Aug. 170- he had 2 Wives, Mary Dr. of David Offley of London Esq ; by whom he had one Son Offley Smith; and Anne the Daughter of William Chilcott of lsleiiorth in Middlesex Esq ; by whom he left no Issue.

Offley his son inherited at his death ; who was likewise a great traveller, and never resided at Topcroft, but died at London in 1708, and lies buried in St. Bride's church there, leaving this manor and estate to

George Smith, his eldest son/ by Mary daughter of Thomas

8 The Smiths of Nibley have a very ' She is buried in Topcroft chancel, good estate, now owned by George Smith, on the north side of the altar rails, with Esq. who is married, and hath issue ; he Smith's arms impaling CHiLCOTT,two was son of George Smith who was sheriff lions rampant in fess, on a pile in point, of Gloucestershire, son of Edward three garbs of reeds in a lozenge. Smith, a Welsh judge, son of John, who Here lieth the Body of Mrs. Anne was also sheriff, and in the list for one Smyth, the Widow of George of the Knights of the Royal Oak, Smyth Doctor of Phisick, and only eldest brother to Dr. George. Most of sister of William Chilcott, Esq; this family were in the commission of who departed this Life May the the peace for Gloucestershire. iolh 170S, aged 64 yeats.

Will. Smith of Redcliff in Buck- And in the chancel is a stone with Chil-

nghamshire, the great royalist, created cott's arms and crest of two reed garbs

baronet 10 May 1661, was of this family, in saltier.

brother to the Doctor's father, who had William Chilcott Esq ; of Isle,

two other brothers killed in the King's worth in Midlesex. ob. Aug. 31,

service, and was himself a great sufferer. 1705, set. 67.

9 1661, May 21, George Smith, There are also stones for John Smyth, M. D. of Padua, was incorporated at ob. 29 June, 1652, and Richard his son, Oxfo'd, M. D. there, he was lately of 3 Nov. 1654.

Queen's College in Oxford, and was at- a Against the north chancel wall at terwards of the college of physicians. Topcroft, there is a neat mural monu- Wood's Ath. Oxon. pag. 81S. ment of white marble, with the crest and

403

DENTON.

Archer of Gloucestershire, Esq; who settled at the manor-house of Toper of i-hall, the present seat of the family; he married Mary, 3d daughter of William Churchman, Esq. of IUington, now living, and his widow: in 1735, he was sheriff of Norfolk, and died in Dec. 1745, leaving a numerous family.

William Smith of Topcroft Esq. his eldest son, a minor, is now lord of these united manors.

The said George Smith left also a second son, Offley Smith, Gent, of Harleston in Norfolk, who by Bransby Bransby his wife, hath issue. And also

Anne a daughter, married in Gloucestershire.

Crest, on a wreath a heron's head erased, with a fish in his beak proper.3

SMITH.

HOE'S MANOR IN TOPCROFT,

Being joined to Denton cum Topcroft, I choose to treat of it here : it belonged at the Conquest to Bury abbey, and at the survey Berenga- rius held it of the Abbot/ and the lete then belonged to it, and it was

arms of Smyth quartering Churchman (see vol. i. p. 449) and this.

In Memoriam Georgij Smyth Ar-

migeri, qui juxta hoc marmor se-

pultus jacet, Uxorem reliquit Ma-

riam, Filiam natu tertiam Gulielmi

Churchman Armigeri, de IUington

in Norfolciae Comitatu, E qua nu-

merosam susceperat prolem ; Ge-

nus, et noraen duxit a Generosa

Familia Glocestria; Provinciam in-

colente ; nempe' huic Georgio,Pater

erat Offley, illi Georgius M.D. (qui

primus apud Topcroft, sedem fixit

A0 Dom. MDCLXXX) Filius se-

cundus Johannis Smyth Armig.

de North-Nibley in Agro Gloces- trensi: obijt decimo Die Decembris MDCXUII, Quadragenarius.

3 See Guillim, fo. 361, Edit. London, 1724.

* Terra Abbatis de Sco. Eadmundo, H. Lodir.ga Doms. fo. 183.

In Topecroft tenet Berengarius de Abbate ti. car. terre, quod tenuere ii. pis. T. R. E. semper iv. villani. et x. bordar. tunc ii. serv. m° i. semper ii. car. in dom. et iii. car. hominum silv. iii. pore. iii. acr. prati et i. soc. de ii. acr. tunc valuit xxx. sol. modo xl. Sane- tus Edmundus socam.

DENTON. 409

Worth 40s. per annum : this man was infeoffed in it hy Abbot Bdldwyn, and in 1196, Roger de Hoo owned it; in the year 1300, he was re- turned as holding it by inheritance from John de Hoo his father; in this record he is called Howe ; he divided it into two parts, that in Top- croft, Roger de Coggeshale, and the other, Nic. de Fahham had ; and being soon after united, it passed through many hands, and was pur- chased by Andrew de Bixton, citizen of Norwich, whose feoffees, in 1348, conveyed it to Catherine his widow for life, and then to Jeffery his son and heir, who sold it to the Cliftons, and in 1378, Sir John Clifton was lord, and in 1458, Robert Clifton, Esq. who had it by in- heritance from his father, joined it to i'opcroft cum Denton manor, with which it still remains.

LITTLE-HALL MANOR IN TOPCROFT

Is also joined to the aforesaid manor: this had its original in 1302, when Robert de Tateshall, the fourth of that name, then lord of Top- croft and Denton, granted to William de Bernak and Alice his wife, daughter of Robert de. Driby, sister and heir of John de Driby, and their heirs, about the third paVtof the manor, to be held of his capital manor at Qd. a year, (see vol. i. p. 374) John Bernak, their son and heir, had it, and after him Hugh his brother; in 1352, Richard Ber- nak, and Alice daughter of Ric. de JVatervil, his wife, had it; and with Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir John Bernak, it went to her husband John Stonham, Esq. and so to the Greys; John Grey, Esq. of Topcroft, was the first that owned it of that family ; he left it to Robert Grey his son and heir, who sold it to John Stanhawe of Bedingham, whose son Ra/f Stanhawe was lord in 1409, and before 1447, sold it to Robert Clifton, Esq. and Elizabeth his wife, who joined it to his other manors, with which it still remains.

The customs of these manors are,

The eldest son is heir, they give no dower, every messuage pays 6s. Sd.fine certain, every acre of land of the old grant or feoffment, pays 2s. each acre fine certain, and every acre of the new grant As. Jim certain.

„,. t C Ex parte Denton are 18/. 19s. Qd. \

The quit-rents,^ R/parte TopcKOFT lg/. 18s. \ a yea,.

A decree in Chancery passed 5 Nov. 1590, between Thomas Brewse, Esq. lord, and the tenants, settling the customs, and decreeing the measure of land according to custom, to be 21 feet and an half, to the perch or pole ; the tenant's to cut timber as they please, to repair their copyholds ,• and also, for plough boot, gate boot, stile boot, cart boot, paling, and all other necessary uses, free of all demand from the lord, and no distinction to be made ; but may take off Denton to use at Top- croft, and off Topcroft to use at Denton : but in the decree is this, " The Lords without Lett or Denial of the Coppihold Tenants, in a « convenient Time, and without any unnecessary Damage to the said " Coppiholders, or their said Lands, may Uike, have, and perceive, " convenient and sufficient Timber of the Trees now being, or here- " after growing upon the Coppihold Premises, or any Part thereof, for,

vol. v. 3G

10 DENTON

and towards the building, transposing, repairing, bettering, or amending or" the Manor House of Topcroft-Hall in Topcroft aforesaid, or any of the Houses, Buildings, or Edilices thereof; or of any Water-Mills of the Lord's, within the said Manors, or any of them, and not otherwise, without the Assent or Consent, of the said Coppiholderor Customary Tenant, that then shall have the present Estate or Inheritance, upon whose Coppihold Lands and Tenements the same Trees been, or shall he standing and growing; Provided that He orThey shall not take so, but that there shall be always left by Him or Them, to every several Coppiholder, of whom Timber shall be so taken, sufficient Timber upon his several Coppihold for his necessary Uses aforementioned, from Time to Time."

WESTHALL, or PAYONE'S MANOR IN DENTON,

Was formerly a considerable one, extending into divers towns. It was in two parts, in 1239, Stephen de Brokedish granted his part (which contained a carucate of land) to John son of Hamun, and Maud his wife, who in 1249 was called John de Denton ; in 1256, he claimed to be superiour lord of his own fee, excluding the Earl Marsha/, who had only the weyfs of it in right of the hundred. Roger de Denton succeeded, and in 1397, Will, de Wotton had it; and in 1345, Rob. de Occult, and then it became joined to the principal part of the manor, which was infeoffed by Bury abbot in the Bygods, and by them in the Boises of Fersfie/d, and passed with that manor, as you see in vol. i. p 74, &c. In 1345, Sir John Howard had it; in 1401, Gilbert Fraunsham was lord ; and it was soon after purchased by Stephen Pat/on of Denton, and left to William Pay one, from whom it took its name: the next owner I meet with, was John Bengys, parson of Seaming, who released it to Robert Rous of Dennington, Sir Will. Phclip, Knt. Sir John Carbonel, Ric. Pykot, and Robert Park, to the use of Ric. Pykot ; and so it became joined to Starston-hall manor, to which I refer you.

This church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who had her image in the chancel, with a light burning before it. Domesday of Norwich tells us, that it was valued at 36 marks, that the rector had a house and carucate of land, and paid 2s. synodals, 7s. Id. ob. archdeacon's pro- curations, and 14rf. ob. Peter-pence. The Corography says, there are SO acres of glebe inclosed, and wooded, lying ruund the house within itself, and hath a pretty manor, having about 20 copyholders, and six: marks a year quitrents, the Jines being at the will of the lord. This town paid 4/. 10s. clear to every tenth. It stands thus in the King's Books;

24/. Denton rectory, 2/. 8s. yearly tenths.

And consequently pays Jirst-fruits, and is incapable of augmentation.

RECTORS.

Will, de Brehull, chaplain to King Edw. I. who granted a pro- hibition in the 31st year of his reign, that no one should molest him for non-residence.

DENTON. 411

1317, Will, de Diss. Sir John de Cove Knt. and Eve his wife, this turn, in right of Denton manor.

1334, Peter de Bledneworth. Tho. de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk, this turn, as belonging to Earsham hundred.

1346, Richard de Boghay or Bowgheyn,ob. Lady Eve de Tate- shale, by settlement of Sir Rob. dt Tattshale, her former husband, for life.

1353, William de Panham, shaveling. Sir Adam de Clifton, Knt. this turn. He was deprived, because the King recovered the turn against Sir Adam, and presented

Will, de Gyppewico, or Ipswich, who died rector.

1357, Ric. de Burtone. Sir Adam Clifton, Knt.

1357, Ric. de Skidby. The King, as guardian of the estate of John de Orreby deceased, having recovered it against Adam de Clifton, one of the cousins and heirs of Rob. de Tateshale.

1361, Will, de Stoke, priest. Sir Adam Clifton, who recovered it against the King. He changed in

1365, For the mediety of Westburgh in Lincoln diocese, with John de Horsham. Sir Ror. Bernake.

1380, Robert Ethom. Lady Margaret Countess of Norfolk.

1407, John Holm. Ric.Gegh, Jam es Biimngford, and John Rawlyn, this turn.

1432, Ra/f Wolman. Sir Ralf Lord Cromwell and Tate- shall, who had two turns, one by right of inheritance, another on account of the purparty allowed hi in at the death of Mary Rous, and the third turn belongs to Sir John Clifton, Knt.

1460, Rob. Hope, LL. B. John Duke of Norfolk, ob.

1468, Tho. Cosyn, S.T. B. Lapse. He resigned for a pension of 10 marks per annum, out of it, with the Bishop's consent.

1511, Edw. Aimer, bachelor in the decrees. Tho. Earl of Surrey.

1532, Ric. Cornwaleis, who was not eleven years old, was al- lowed by the Pope to hold it in commendam till he was 18 years old, and then was to become rector and be instituted. Tho. Duke of No/folk, who presented the following rectors:

1545, Henry Simonds, at whose deprivation in

1554, Henry Carter succeeded. He was buried here Dec. Q,

1562, and John Porter had it,s who resigned in

1574, to John Porter, who in 1603, returned 136 communicants in this parish; he was presented by Will. Dix. and Will. Can- trell, feoffees to the Duke. At his resignation in

1612, John Blague, A. M. had it. The Earl of Northampton. Ob. *

1638, Will. Goad, or Good, S. T. B. John Woodward, Gent.6 this turn.

s Comes Arundellie Patronus, Jo- chidiaconi vij.s. vij.d. ob. Revis.

harmes Porter, A.M. predicator licen- Archid. Norf. A0 1630. ciatus, rector, estimatioejiisuem, xxiv.l. 6 Charles Woodward, A. M. of Sid-

jnde decinia xlviij.s. Hi iuiitie xxi.l. ney Coll. Cant. aet. 25, born at Denton,

xii.s. Procurations episcopi vj.s. Si- ordained deacon in 1642. nodalia ij.s, iij.d. Procurationes Ar- 1562, John Green and Alice Garnish married.

412 DENTON.

1662, Robert Rogerson, A. M. Henry Howard, second son of Henry late Earl of Arundel. He was succeeded in

1714, by Mathew Postlethwayt, A. M. who was presented by Ro- bert Herne of Denton, patron of this turn; he was afterwards rector of Redenhall, and archdeacon of Norwich;7 in 1719, he pub- lished a sermon in quarto, on Acts xxvi. 9, entituled, " The moral Impossibility of Protestant Subjects, preserving their Religious or civil Liberties, under Popish Princes, &c. Preached at Norwich Cathedral, Nov. 5, 17 18." He was succeeded by his son,

The Rev. Mr. John Postlethwayt, the present rector who holds it united to Thelton. The Archbishop of Canterbury is per- petual patron, but must present one that is, or hath formerly been, fellozo of Merton college in Oxford?

The Church, chancel, two isles, and north porch, are leaded ; the north vestry is down. At the west end stands a low square brick tower, in which there are three bells ; in the churchyard, on the south side, there are memorials for Rob. Tip/and 1635. John Jay 1659, ast. 77. Henry Jay his son lfi80, aet. 70. Rachel Stone formerly wife of Henry Jay Gent. 1706, S4.

Jay's arms, as in vol. iv. p 316.

Crest, a pair of wings conjoined with a mullet over them. Smith of Suffolk, or a chevron, and on a chief gul. three martlets arg.

Under this Stone lieth the Mortal Part of Ames Smith Gent, ob. 8 March 1738, aet. 36. whose beloved Wife, was Sarah, the only surviving Child of Robert Tite Gent, by whom he had 6 Children, 4 survived their Father, viz. Tite, Eliz. Sarah, and Ames. Also Robert Tite Gent, who died 23 Febr. 1737, at. 75. In whom was extinct the male line of the family of the Tiies, who have flourished in the parish of Denton, from the SO Hen. VIII. 1538, as appears by the Register Books of the said Parish, who have also been possessed of Lands in the same, ever since 4 Edw. VI. as appears by the Survey Book of Top- croft cum Denton. Also Ames Son of Ames and Sarah Smith aforesaid, who died 23 Nov. 1742.

7 See vol. iii. p. 641. Denton. The life of this gentleman

5 John Postlethwayte, A. M. may be seen at large in the life of Dean

high or chief master of St. Paul's School, Co let, written by Samuel Knight,

of Merton college in Oxford, by will D. D. and published at London 1724,

dated Sept. 5, 1713, gave to the Arch- Miscel. N° VI. p. 384, &c. where the

bishops of Canterbury for ever, the per- inscription designed for his monument

pettul advowson of the rectory of Den- in St. Austin's church, London, where

TON in Norfolk, which he purchased of he was buried in 1713, with that in this

the Duke of Norfolk, on condition that chancel window, is printed. His cha-

the Archbishops should every vacancy, racter by John Hancock, D. D. rector

collate " such persons as shall be at of St. Martin's Lothbury, London, is in

" those times respectively, fellows of the memorials and characters, with the

" Merton college mOxford, or such as lives of eminent and worthy persons,

"have been (formerly fellows of the published in folio at London, 1741,

" saidcollege) as theirGraces shall judge price \l. 6s. 6d. in sheets. He was uncle

" fittest and most worth." He gave to the late Archdeacon Postlethwayte,

also 200/. for adorning the chancel at rector here.

DENTON. 413

On a decayed stone against the south chancel wall in the church- yard.

Rob. Tj/fe and Helen his sister, the one died in Maye the other in June, A. D.1635.

The east chancel window is all of painted glass, the most perfect and curious I have seen in any country village; it contains the arras of Howard, Brotherton, Warren, and Mowbray, quartered.

France and England in a garter.

Norwich city, gal. a castle arg. and a lion of England.

Branch and Rede impaled.

Canterbury see impaled with the arms of the Archhishops Morton, Kemp, Sheldon, 8tc

Az. a cup between two annulets or, quartered with gal. a leopard's face or. Gal. a cross buttony arg. impales az. and or, a fess between, three owls c<>unterchanged. Vert, frette or, an annulet sab. Barry of 8 arg. and gal. a lion rampant or, quartering quarterly, 1, Az. a cross moliue or. 2, Lozenge or and gul. Erm. a cross ingrailedgw/. Arg. a chevron between three eagles heads erased sab. armed or. Arg. a cross ingrailed gul. between three sinister hands cooped at the wrist arg. Arg. a lion rampant gul. on a bendlet az. three bezants. Crest, a griffin passant or, and six coats in a shield: 3, Gul. on a saltier arg. an annulet in fess sab. 2, Or, a frette gul. a canton. 3, Az. a chief indented or. 4, Quarterly or and gul. a bend $ab. 5, Gul. a fess between six croslets or. 6, Arg. a fess between three martlets in chief, and a chevron in base az.

Will. Bannister de Com. Somerset Armig. Vert, a maunch arg. impaling gul. a cross between 4 plates arg. Elizabetha Filia it Heres Phillippi de Wellesleigh, Com. Somerset.

Johannes Sturton de Preston P/uchnet Com. Dorset. 3s Villus Johannis Domini Sturton. Sab. a bend or between six plates^ impaling gul. three lions passant arg. surmounted by a bend gobone or and az. Cathtrina

Gul. a chevron erm. between three garbs or, impaling, arg. a bend between two water-budgets sab.

Motto, Pace, Plenitudo.

Crest, a dove with an olive branch in its beak proper, and this Motto, Tons Jours Verd.

And in the middle pane is this inscription :

JOANNES POSTLETHWAYTE A. M.

Hujus Ecclesise nuper Patronus,

Testamenta legavit 200/.

Quibus

Tota ha3c Fenestra

Multicolor conficeretur.

Cancelli hi ornarentur

Mensa Dominica Instruerentur,

Plumboq; cooperirentur,

414 DENTON.

Quae

Omnia perfecit

Matth^us Postlethwaytb

Patroni nepos

Et

Ecclesiaa Rector,

A. D. MDCCXVII.

In a south chancel window over the rectory pew, are the arms and quarterings of C. le Grys and Manfylde.

Over the altar is a new painting of the Lord's Supper, in which our Saviour and his apostles are represented.

In the chancel there are stones for Mart/ wife of John Jacob 1662. John Tindal 166S. Robert Randall 1649. Robert Randall Gent. I69O. Jane Randall. Bruce Randall 1608. Robert son of Robert Randall 1681. with this;

Tis Sinne that slates Man in Mortality, Altho so young, yet old enough to dye.

On a brass against the north chancel wall,

In this church-yard over against the chancel door, lyeth bu- ried the body of Anne the Wife of William Goode, Minister of Denton, who was the Daughter of Edward Foster of Thome in Yorkshire, ob. Oct. 4, 1645.

There is a mural monument of white marble against the north chancel wall, with the following crest, arms, and inscription.

Crest, a hand proper, holding a de-lis or.

Rogerson, arg. a fess between a de-lis in chief, and an annu- let in base or, impaling Gooch.

M.S. Robertus Rogerson A.M. nat. xviii Cal. Jul. Ifi27, hujus Ecclesiae Curam A. D. 1660, suscepit, quam plus Annos liv Pastor sustinuit, nee nisi cum Vila senex deposuit. Dex- tramque versus hujus ad Muri pedem pulvis futurus pulveri im- mistus jacet, ubi longa post Divortia rejungitur Barbara suae benevolenlissimae Gul. Gooch de Metingham St{ff. Annig. Filiae, Denatae Anno Partus virgiuei 1637, Materni 1684. Hie etiam, et parentibus e prole sua duodena bis quatuor condormi- entes accubant; Thomas el Robertus Filij, Anna et Elizabetha Filiae, soli e tot suis superstites,

H. M. P. P. P.'

Abi Lector et resipisce.

On a black marble in the chancel, are the crest and arms of Ro- gerson, impaling a lion rampant between three holly leaves.

9 Hoc Monumentum Posuere Plures.

DENTON. 415

Sub hoc marmore ad caput charissimas matris sure sj>e beatas Resurrectionis requiescunt Cineves Filij obsequentissimi Thom/e Rogerson A. M. de Ampton in Agio Suffolciensi, aliquandiu Rectoris vigilantissimi, Viri Pielatis 8c Probitatis eximise, judicij perspicacis & limati, Fortitudinis, et tamen Modestiae suinmae, Prudeutise et Sagacitatis egregise, mansuetudinis et Lenitatis laudabilis, Candoris et Cumitatis singulars. Charitatiset Bene- ficeutiae Memorabilis : Qui peracta Vita vert- Christiana, vere Sacerdotali, tandem in Domino obdormivit, Martij xiv. Anno set. sua; LX1I. In carnation is autem Dominicae. MDCCXXIII. Hui'c etiam a Latere accumbit Susanna Uxor ejus, Quam (a nuptijs usque ad mortem) habuit chariorem seipso : Quaeque hoc Monumentum marito et sibi condendum voluit : obijt ii Die Nov. Anno Dni. MDCCXL. iEtatis suae LXXVIll.

This gentleman being a nonjuror, resigned his living of Ampton, and afterwards lived a peaceable, retired life, and died with a fair character ; he gave by will, the moiety of the clear yearly rent of six acres, let at bl. per annum, towards supporting a charity school in Denton,1 and if there be no such, to furnish every poor family with a Bible, a Whole Duty of Man, and Christian Monitor ; and every poor person with a Common-Prayer-Book ; and the rest to be distri- buted in bread every first Sunday in the month after divine service, among sucn poor housekeepers only, as constantly keep their church, and frequently receive the Sacrament; the profits to be received and applied by the rector of Denton for the time being, for ever.

In the nave, on a brass,

Here resteth expectinge the second Cominge of our Saviour Jesus Christ, the Body of Margaret Gedge, Wife of Robert Gedge, who ended this Life beinge at the Age of 50, and was buried the 24 of July 1619. Also John Gedge Lather of the said Robt. was buried 24 Nov. 1621, aged 87-

There are stones for Katherine, relict of Robert Randall, 1672, and Mail/ their daughter, 1680. At the west end, Hester wife of Jeremy Thompson, 1712, 45. Sarah wife of Sam. Harmer, 1729, 56. Will. son of John Harvey, Gent. 1689, 3. Eliz. daughter of John and Eliz. Harvey, 1698, 5. Grace wife of Will. Hervey of Bedingjield- hall in Sujjolk, daughter of John Cullum of Thorndon, Gent. I6y4,75. Eliz. wife of John Hervy of St Cioss in Sutfb/k, Gent, and eldest daughter of William Love, Esq. 1718, 55. John Hervey, her hus- band, eldest son of the said Will. Hervey and Grace his wife, 1732,84.

By the north isle door, lie Mary Wife of James Tompson, 1713,25, and two children.

The north porch hath a stone arch, and a chamber over it, with several carvings in stone, of the Resurrection, the Salutation, the Last Judgment, and our Saviour walking on the water.

I find by the terrier, that the rector receives divers portions of tithes from Earsham, Bedingham, and Alburgh, in which last village » N. B. there is a school now kept here.

416 DENTON.

there is a meadow belonging to Denton parish : there are 7 acres and an half of town-lands to repair the church ; a pightle called Charitable Use Pightle, of 20s. a year, for the use of the poor, which was given by Mr. Jo/in Porter, formerly rector ; Robert Rogersoit, rector, by his will dated 1713, gave a piece of land intermixed with the glebe, for the augmentation of the rectory for ever.

In 1693, Sarah Bidbank gave 8s. per annum, to buy Bibles, to be given away at Easter by the church-wardens. Mr. PVarues gave 20s. per annum to the poor labourers of Denton, which is now paid by the treasurer of the Boys Hospital, in Norwich, for which, see vol. iv. p. 413.

This hundred is all enclosed, and as good fertile soil as any part of Not folk.

[417 ]

THE

HUNDRED OF HENSTEDE.

The hundred of Henstede, anciently called Henesteda, or HEiNESTEDE,inDo/wesday Book, takes its name from ihe Saxon words J)ine, a husbandman, and j-TeSa a place or mansion ; and so signifies the place or dwelling for the husbandmen, which shows as if this part was cultivated before the adjacent part of the country, which is no wonder, if we consider that the old Roman Castrum or Castre is in it, which was a defence for them against all invaders.

Iu the Confessor's time, the Abbot of St. Bennet at the Holm had a freeman, who held 5 acres, &c.' the rest of the hundred being the King's, at both the Confessor's and Conqueror's Surveys, all the churches were valued in their several manors. The fee of the hundred is, and always was in the Crown, and have in different ages been leased out to divers persons, as in 1327, John to de Clavering, lord of Horseford, and it continued with that honour some time ; it was then worth Ql.per annum, " without oppressing the count?//," (as the words of the records say) and the Earl-Marshal, by his bailiff, held pleas De vetito Namio (withernam) and had free-warren in all his demeans in the hundred : the town of Amringhale was exempt from the hun- dred, as belonging to the Prior of Norwich; as also, the towns of Trous and Newton, on the same account: King James I. demised it to Sir Charles Cornzcaleis, Knt. Charles, eldest son of Sir Will a/ii Comwaleis, Knt. and Thomas Cornwakis, second son of Sir Charles, for their lives, and the longest liver of them, with all its rights, court letes, felons goods, &c. at the yearly rent of six pounds and nine pence halfpenny farthing, or 10/. increased rent for the whole hundred, which paid yearly, clear of ail deductions, 56/. Os. 2d. to every tenth, and is all in the deanery of Brook, and archdeaconry of Norfolk.

The annual payment of each town in this hundred to the land tax, at 4s. in the pound.

/. s. d. Ameringhall - S3 1 4

Bixley - 45 1 4

Bramerton - - 74 4 0

The quarterly payment for each town, for quarterage, vagrant-mo- ney, &c. for a 600/. levy each quarter. /. s. d.

Oil 0

- - O 1.; 6

- - 0 IS 0

1 Hund. de Henesteda, Sancti tienedicti T. R. E. ' VOL. V.

liber homo bord. et dim. car. et val. sol. omnes ec- acr. et ii. clesie sunt in pretio cum mauerijs. 3 H

418

Castor St. Edmund

Framlingham-.Ear/

Framlingham-Pz'cctf

Holveston

Khby-Bedon

Great and Little Por-

ingland Rocklands Saxlingham- Nether-

gate Saxlingham-T^orp Shottishain All-Saints Shottisham St. Mary,

St. Martin, and St.

Buttolph Sioke-Holy-Cross - Surliiighams Trowse with Newton Wicklingham Yelvertoa

AMERINGHALL.

80 0	0
53 14	8
68 0	6
32 13	4
144 13	4
85 6	8
110 5	4
136 13	4
44 13	4
116 9	4
142 13	4
110 18	8
144 13	4
112 0	0
55 4	0
50 13	4
1670 17	2

0 13	0
0 7	0
0 8	0
0 6	0
1 1	0
0 18	3
0 13	0
0 13	6
0 7	0
0 12	6
0 14	r,
0 13	6
0 19	0
0 19	0
0 10	a
0 7	o
11 18	9

AMERINGHALL,

Oo called from Almaric, its Saxon owner : this manor was a berewie to Thorp by Norwich; at the survey it belonged to the Conqueror, and was under Godrics management; the village was rive furlongs Jong, and three broad, and paid 8d. to the geld or tax.1 It continued in the Crown till given to one Flahatd, \\ itii the manor of Lahtnham, and his son Alan gave it to the church of Norwich; and it was settled by Bishop Herbert, with the King's consent, on the prior and monks there. In 1206, 8th of King John, Robert, the chaplain of Ameringhale, settled 70 acres of land here, and seven acres in Tronse- Newton, on the prior and convent, after his own, and his wife Estritd's. death, and the death of their son John. In 1281, Edward I. licensed Richard de Swerdeston and Isabell his wife to convey and settle

* Heinestede Hund. Doms. fo. 51. Sub. tit. tene Regis quam Godricus servat.

Hameringfhala i. hrewita de i. car. terre pertinens in Torp., tunc xvi. vill. post modo viii. luiic ii. servi m° null, semper iii. bord. tunc 1. car. et di- niid. in duminio, post et modo i. tunc iiii. car. hom. post et modo i. tunc iiii.

car hom. post et modo ii. silva viii. porci et xii. acr. prati, tunc i. mol. post et modo nullus qui Eudo Clama hunc ab- stulit T. R.W. modo tenet R. de Bel/ago successor suus, teste hundreto et reddit xxui. so). In berwita sunt iiii. socmanni de xx. acris terre semj er i. car. habet v. quar. in longo et iii. in lato. et de gelte viii. d.

AMERINGHALL. 419

man}' lands in this village, on the prior and convent of Norwich. In 1285, the prior had view of frankpledge, and assise of bread and ale belonging to this manor, which continued till the convent's dissolu- tion in the monaster}', and was regranted to the dean and chapter, who are now lords; it hath been leased out by them, to the families of the Mingays and Hemes, and Sir Horace Pettus of Rackhithe, Bart, hath the present lease.

The Prior was anciently taxed for the manor, rents, and lands, at 11/. 13s.

And for his impropriate tithes and spiritualities, six marks, and 8d,

The church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, and was appro- priated by John de Grey Bishop of Norwich, to the chamberlain of that monastery ;3 the rectory was valued at six marks, and the vicarage at 40s. and was not taxed ; it paid 3d. carvage, but no synodals, pro- curations, nor Peter-pence; it being exempt from the archdeacon's jurisdiction : the Dean and Chapter hath probate of wills, and all archidiaconal power,4 but at the appropriation the Bishop reserved to himself and successours, all pontifical and parochial jurisdiction, and gave them liberty to serve the church by their chaplains, re- moveable at pleasure ; but yet they were forced to endow a vicarage, to which the Prion of Noi-wich presented the following

VICARS.

1313, Sir Ralf, the first vicar.

1314, John de Mendlesham.

1347, Hugh Gruhbe, res.

1348, Roger Lcfstau, res.

1348, Tho. Ethelyn.

1349, Ric Benetin.

1S55, Rob. Hey of Castor, res. 1360, Hugh Magges of Shropham. 1378, Will at Church of Couteshale.

1381, Roger Calf, res.

1382, Peter de ll'iuch, who exchanged for Hales vicarage. And he was the last that 1 find instituted till

1579, and then Thomas Ser/eby was presented by the dean and chapter, and held it united to Trowse, and since there have been no vicars, but the church hath been served (as it now is) once every fortnight, by a perpetual curate, nominated by the dean and chapter, ■who pay him an annual stipend: it is now served by the Rev. Mr. John Brand, vicar of Easton.5 See vol. ii. p. 395.

3 In 1205, Norwich prior held it of raciones, nee visitatur ab Archid'acano

the monks of St. Catherine de Monte, Norf. Revis. Archid. Norf. A0 1630.

(see vol. iv. p. 425) a cell of Norwich s 1593, Martin Stebbin, curate. 1710,

monks at St. William in the Wood on Mr. Tho. Havers of Stoke- Holy-Cross,

Mushold, who were maintained out of curate, pension zol. per ann. In 1+45, the

the profits of Lakenham, and this. chamberlain repaired the vicarage-house.

* See vol. iv. p. 558, 63. Appropria- 1330, John Dodelington, rector of St.

tur camerario Prioratus Norwici, nume- Mary at Marsh in Norwich, gave half

ratur inter peculiares Decani ac Capituli an acre here to Norwich sacrist. Norvici, non solvit sinodalia, nee procu.

420 AMERINGHALL.

Here was a small chapel dedicated to St. Andrew, now demolished ; it stood at a place called Belhawe.

The church is eleven yards long, and five and an halt' hroad, the chancel is seven yards long, and the same breadth as the church, and are both thatched ; there is a square tower about 35 feet high, and three bells, but no isles or porch.

On a brass plate in the altar rails, Johannes Stanhowe et Anna Uxor ejus. (I find that John Stanhowe, Gent, lived here in 15S3.)

On a stone in the chancel,

Here lieth interred the Body of that Religious and Charitable Gentlewoman Mrs. Jane Stannowe, first the Wife6 and Widow of Nic. Heme, Esq; and lastly of John Smith, Esq;7 who ex- changed this Life the 27 of Mar. A. D. 1649, aged 62 Years and upwards,

Vivit in iEternum quae Christo vivere novit, Mortua, non inoritur, pulvere, non perijt.

Arms of Brereton. John Brereton Apothecary of Norwich, ob. Aug. 26, 1710, 30. William Brereton, Gent. 5 Apr. 1700, 71. Ric. Brereton 17 Aug. 1708, 39. Susanna Wife of William Aug. 17, 1714,66.

Johnson, a fess, over all on a saltier five crosses moline. Will. Johnson 9 Aug. 1703, 74.

On the south side of the altar is a mural monument with the arms of

Heron, or Herne, sab. a chevron er. between three herons, or hemes, arg.

Crest, a heme's head and neck erased arg. gorged with a ducal coronet or.

Pitt, az. three bars, in chief three stars or.

Siste Gradum, Viator, dum prseconis vices hoc marmor supplet, et quisquis es, velim ut Scias : Hoc non indignum scitu, Lapis noster in humum vergens, ac de humo loquens humilis est, et ideo non quid intus latitat, sed quid extra jacet, narratiEvo prae- senti et f'uturo, Johannis Hernij Armigeri, depositum in tumba propinqua dormit, totuiu scilicet Hkrmj quod dormire poluit: iSi quaeiis Quis, et qualisfuit ? Gentem et iVIentem indi- cabo. Joannis Utmij de Hendon in Agio Middkexia, Juris cousulti Celebris, Regis et Ecclesias in nuperis nostroium Moti- bus Hyperaspistis strenui et inmoti, Films vere primarius et primogenitus C'ollegij Sancti Johannis apud Oxonienses, necnon Hospitij Lincoltiiens'is Alumnus meritissimus, ingenio subtilis et placidus, Concilio Cautus, et Nervosus, Eloquio promptus, di- sertus, ordinatus. Ast ! quum Annos nondum 46 numeia-sset,

* She was second wife, 7 He lived here in 1631.

AMERINGHALL. 421

proli Dolor ! Dolorum Catervis, Febii, Scrofula, Podagra, Scor- buto, Calculo, Dvssenteria, exhaustus, e.xustus, obrutus, abreptus ; sexto Martij Anno Salutis Reparatae 1 t>G4 . Unicse et Lectissimas Conjugi, sex Filijs el tribus Filiabus valedixit, animain Christum spirantem, Christb reddens.

Meestissima Vidua hoc Mausoleum erexit in Memoriam Mariti intenti, seu potius avolati, tanquam pignus amoris non interituri, alteram Folij paginam, cum Deus, Vitas et necis arbiter evoca- verit, ipsa cum ipso lubenter divisura.

In the other column.

M. S. Marie Herne Filise Georgij Pitt de Harrow super Montem, in Agro Middlesexiensi, Armig. Conjugis clilec- tissimse Johannis Herne de Ameringale Norf. Arm. quag 33 Paulo minus annos viduata viro cursum hunc peregit fceliciter, nempe Deo, Devoia, Virtuti, Pietati, Fidei, Arnica, Panperibus. tan turn nou prodiga, nee tamen suis Parca, spe certa annisque tandem plena, exoptata. requievit Morte. Jan. 31, A° iEtatis suae 74. Dom. l(i<}7

Vive quasi quotidie moriturus, Moreie, ut vivas perpetuo.

Hec te scire volo, nil te moror amplius, hujus et memor humanae Conditionis, Abi.

I find that Nicholas Herne of Tibenham in "Norfolk, had Ni- cholas, his eldest son, who came and built a good seat at Amring- hale (which is the house now standing) and settled there: he was clerk of the Crown, and raised large fortunes, and had two wives, but leaving no issue, his estate descended to his brother, Richard Heron, or Heme, Esq. alderman of London, who married Alice, daughter of

Pascke, D. D. of Cambridge, by whom he had two sons,

Nicholas, his eldest, and John Herne of Lincoln's Inn, his second son, to whom he gave Ameringale ; he married Susan, daughter of John Woodward, Esq. grocer, and alderman of London, by whom he bad John Heme aforesaid, who was buried under this monument, and by Mini/, daughter of George Pitt, his wife had six sons and three daughters: 1, Susan, married to Luke Clapham of Ludlow in Shrop- shire. 2, Mary, to Beuj. Stone of London, merchant, but died without issue. 3, Catherine, unmarried in 1/08. The 6th son, Lionel, was a merchant in London, had a deputy teller's place in the Exchequer, and died a widower without issue in 1714, and was buried in St. Andrew's Holboum, London. Robert, the 5th son, was fel- low of Clare-hall in Cambridge, and died without issue ; as did Thomas, the 4th son, and George, the 2d son.

John Herne, the eldest son, married first, Mary Cotton, and is buried in the altar rails under a marble, with the arms of Herne and Cotton impaled, and this,

Here lieth interred together, the Bodies of Mary the Wife of John Heme, Gent, (and one of the Co-heirs of Lucking Co/ton, of St a rsl on in the County of Norfolk, Gent. 29 Apr. 1674, 24. And of John their only Son, who died two Days before his Mother, being 21 days old.

422 CASTOR.

His second wife was Dorothy, daughter of William Cooke of Broom, Esq. who is also buried by her, under a black marble with the arms of

Herne impaling Cooke, or, a chevron ingrailed gul. between three cinquefoils az. on a chief of the 2d, a lion pussant guardant arg.

Mortales exuviae Dorothea Heme, Filiae natu maximae Gulielmi Cook de Brome, Armigeri, Uxoris charissimae Johannis Htrne de Amringhall Armigeri, et Filia, Uxor, optima. Ecclesiae Angli- canae devotissima alumna, omnimodis Virtutibus Christianis, morumq; Elegantia. ornata, aetate Florente, pietate Integra, puerperio discessit. A0. JEtatis suae 23, Dom. 1679.

Leaving no issue by his wives, his estate at his death, about l6l6, went to

Francis Herne, his third brother, who was a Spanish merchant, and married a Flatman, by whom he had Eliz. Anne, and Frances; and a son, Francis Herne, Esq. who sold Ameringale to Dame Eliz. Pettus, mother of Sir Horace Pettus, Bart, the present owner.

Here is an acheivement of

1, Herne. 2, Pitt. 3, Barry of six or and sab. a canton gnl. 4, On a pale ingrailed gul. three de-lises or. 5, Arg. a bend between three bees sab. on an inescutcheon of pretence, sab. a chevron between three wiverns heads arg. 6, Cooke. 7, Or, a cross between three cocks gul. 8, Gul. a crescent erm. between 8 martlets or. 9, Vert, nine de-lises arg. 10, Arg. a fess between three crescents sab. 11, Shelton. 12, Brome. 13, Or, a fess chequy arg. and az. 14 as 1.

To the southern part of this town, joins

CASTOR,

The ancient Castrum, or one of the chief camps of defence when the Romans possessed this country. I take it, that after Claudius Cesar entered ibis land, which was about the 46th year after Christ, and Ostorius, his Proprcctvr, or lieutenant, had vanquished the Iceni, the old inhabitants ot ihese parts, who openly opposed them, and de- fended their country to the very utmos-t of their power, that then they first settled here, raised camps, appointed colonies, and fixed stations, in order to keep the new conquered country in subjection, and to

3 Ostorius Scapula prefuit. A0 15 Claudij.

CASTOR. 423

fortify themselves against any future attempts of the natives; that in case of any turn of adverse fortune, they might not be destitute of strong camps, and large fortifications to retire to, till they could either turn the scale themselves, or gain time to send to their allies to come to their assistance; and that in case of necessity, such help might not be hindered (like a wise and warlike people) they always took care so to fix their camps and stations, in all places where the situation and course of rivers would permit, that they might have a free passage by them to the ocean, either to have assistance by men or provisions, whenever they wanted them ; or if they could not keep their ground, a safe retreat at least, for their persons and effects ; thus landing at the Garienis Ostium, or mouth of the Yare, where Yare-mouth now is, they fixed a strong castle on the south side, placed a garrison of the Stablesian horse the e, named it Gariononum (from its situation, on the Garienis, or Yare)9 and so made it a guard as well as an entry, into that part of the country which is now called Suffolk, the remains of which still are very perfect ; the town that belonged to it assuming the Saxon name buigh from this fortification, at this day called Burgh Castle ; where abundance of coins, jibulas, and other Roman antiqui- ties are now found : opposite to this, on the northern side of the water, as an inlet into, and guard of, that country which is now called Norfolk, they made another camp, and called it Castrum, and the village in which it was, is now called Castor or Castre. And fol- lowing the river up into the country till the course of it divided into two streams, they turned with that on the southern side, and at the first streight where it was easy to command the passage over, fixed this camp, which for its dimensions and strength was named Cas- trum, or the camp, by way of eminence; and is still called Castor ; it was certainly their most considerable fortification in these parts, as appears from its dimensions, which remain very conspicuous to this day : it is a square single vallum and rampart, and hath been en- closed with a strong wall of flints and Roman bricks, still evident in many places ; the grand entrance was in the middle of the east part, at each corner of which, there were mounts, or watch-towers; and below on the west part, which was washed by the Tails, or Tese, was a water-gate with a round tower by it, where the vessels used to un- load : the whole site contains about 30 acres, at the south-east corner within the rampart, stands the parish church, placed there, on ac- count of the convenience for the materials of which it is built; for the whole is of flints, and pieces of Roman bricks, taken from the old walls of the camp ;' and indeed, most of the houses in the parish, are built of the like materials; at the south-east end of the chancel, in the bottom of the trench, is a small spring or zvell of water, about five

9 Mr. Cambden says, the Garienis or it ; but this is an errour, and so is the

Yarienis was called by the Britains whole, as to Norwich standing on Bara-

GuERNt, by the English Gerne or Jere, den, &c.

from the alder-trees (so named in * The Roman bricks are 16 inches

British)with whichit was overshadowed; and an half long, a foot broad, and an

and that it rises at Gerveston or Je- inch and half thick; there are some at

reston, near the middle of the county, the south-west corner of the church, and

and so comes by Berfurd to Erlham, at the two corners of the chancel. Eaton, &c. making Castor to stand on

424 CASTOR.

feet deep, which is always full and very cold. I never heard of any urns found, which makes me think, there was no burial-place ap- pointed here, but at the Venta Icenorum; which, though Mr. Cambden and others have thought fit to fix here, I can by no means join with them, for reasons already given in my 2d volume, at the 2d and 3d pages; [see vol. iii. p. 2,3;] but imagine that place to have been at what we now call North-I^.nham, where there is by far a greater number of urns found, than at any place in the counties of Norfolk or Suffolk;1 all the several known Roman burial-places, being far less than that : the country people now call it Castor-castle? and the part of the tower by the water, when it stood higher than it does now, might give rise to its being so called. 1 take it, when the Ro- mans in general quitted this land, which was about the year 418 alter Christ, that this camp, being deserted in a good measure, the re- maining Romans and natives joining together, became one people, and the situation where Norwich now is, being much better than that at Castor, as standing on rising and high ground, and on a far better stream, this at Castor declining, as the sand at Yare's-mouth increased, most of them left this place and settled there, as well for the better convenience of fishing, as for carrying their goods higher up into the inland parts of the country, even to Venta, which though then in the decline, yet remained a place of more note than this; till by the fixing of the sand on which Yarmouth now stands, the water so far retired, as to cut off all commerce to it by that element, and then Venta wasted very speedily as Castor had done ; out of the ruins of which, the new-founded city of Norwich suddenly sprang up to great maturity ; but yet, Castor was a place still regarded, as as fit for defence, and as such always belonged to, and was in the hands of the Saxon, English, and Danish kings, both before, in, and after the Heptarchy ; tiil King Eduard the Confessor gave it to the monastery of St. Edmund his kinsman,4 with Mi/deuha/e, and the eight hundreds and an half, in Suffolk ; and Thcrkltel, a noble Dune, who had obtained the keeping of this place, with a grant of part of it, gave his part with Thorp, in common, to the monasteries of St. Edmund and St. Bennet at the Holm,1 and upon the Abbot of

a I am told of two urns found at Dun- dimid. hundreda illi appendencia et

ston-hill some time since, which is on Castre, &c. Consuetud. Abb. Sci. Ed-

the other side of the river, but not a mundi, penes Car. Baronem Cornwaleis

mile from the camp. 1726 fo. 73. And in Register Pinch-

3 In 1575, a survey of this town was bek, fo. 181, there are entered 3 cam- made upon oath, and the lands belong- cates of land. 10 villeins, 7 bordars, 4 ing to the several manors of Over-hall socmen of 25 acres, given to that abbey and Nether-hall in Castor, and of Black by King Edward the Confessor, &'c. worth-hall, Ameringhall, and Framling- which is also recited in> the Black Re- ham Pigot, which extended hither, were gisterofthat abbey at fo. 167. Mon. all described, and among other lands, Ang. vol. i. fo. 292. some are abutud, Ad pedem rr.ontis 5 Thvrketel, Thane, ded t Deo et Muri Castelli. And the land within Sancto Benedicto de Hulmo, in com- the rampart is thus described, terrainfra muni, Castre etTorp. Regr. Alb. fo. peetcm Montis Muri Castelli ctmtinet cum 19. Piixhbek, fo. 223. His will is fossata. Sec. recited at large in the Sacrist's Regr. fo.

* Hex Edwardus dedit cognato suo 43. Mon. Ang. torn. i. fo. 294. Sancto Edmundo. Mildenhale et Octo et

CASTOR. 425

Burg's releasing Thorp wholly to St. Bennet, the Abbot of St Bennet released their part in Castor to St. Edmund and so the whole be- came vested in Bury abbey, and continued so till the Conquest.

The great number of Roman coins daily found here,6 convince us of its having been a place of great repute during the most part of the time, when that great people were concerned in Britain ; I have seen above an hundred, found by Mrs. Susanna Long of Dunston, who hath many more found by other people ; I have a great number my- self, besides several which I gave to the cabinet of coins id the publick library of the city of Norwich, among which, the following inscrip- tions may be read on the several obverses and reverses. DIVA . FAVSTIN A. Reverse, AVGVSTA. Silver, a Venus holding

a torch. , . , .„ , .

DIVVS. ANTONINVS. Reverse, an altar with a sacrifice burning

IMR CAEsToMrr°Avf^ERM.COS. XIII. CENSOR. The

Reverse is Fortune holding a cornucopia, standing on the rostrum of

a ship. S. C. FORTVNAE. AVGVSTI. NERO. CLAVD. CAESAR. AVGG. CENSOR. Reverse, GENIO.

POP. ROM. S. C. sept, avg.caes font. Silver. _t

d. n. constant. Reverse, a. Roman receiving & British youth.

FEL. TEMP. 11EPARATIO.

imp. c. allectvs. p. avg. Reverse, a ship under sail, laetitiae.

AVG. _

imp sept. geta. caesar. pont. Reverse, NOBILITAS.

imp. constantivs. nob. caes. Reverse, gloria, exercitvs.

galienvs avg. Rev. virtvs avg.

D. N. GRATIANVS. P. F. AVG.

antoninvs pivs avg. Rev. the Emperour represented as Jupiter, 'with a spear in one hand, and a globe in the other, rector

ORBIS. IMP. LICINIVS AVG. Rev. GENIO POP. ROM. IMP. C VICTORINVS. P. F. AVG. IMP. AVG. ANTONINVS. F. Rev. P. M. T. K. P. Mil. COS. IMP. A

imp/constA" pont. max. A woman giving suck to a man. pietas coTstIntinvs. avg. Rev. beata.tranouilitas. On an altar,

VOT. XX. S. T. R.

All these in Mrs. Long's collection, besides several others of Corn- modus, Julia, Claudius, Constantine the Great, Tetricus, Carausius, Faustina, junior, Constantine, junior, &c.

These that follow, are some of my own collection, and others in the cabinet of the publick library. severvs. pivs. avg. Rev. a Minerva, vict. part. max.

IMP. LICINIVS. P. F. AVG. ReV. GENIO. POP. ROM. At bottom P. T. R.

Browne's Hydriotaphia, f Lond. .659, p. 6, 7. Hist. Norf. vol. ii. p. 7, 8, 9, VOL. v. 3 I

4<>6 CASTOR.

constantinvs. p. f. avg. Rev. an Apollo. SOLI INVtCTO

COMITI. IMP. M. IUL. PHILLIPPVS. AVG. ReV. FIDES. MILITVM. S. C. M. IVL. PHILLIPVS. CAESAR. Rev. PK1NCIPI. IVVENT. CONSTANTINVS. AVG. Rev. GLORIA EXERC1TVS. IMP. C. MAVR. SEV. ALEXAND. AVG. Rev. P. M. TR. POT. VI. COS.

II. P. P. MAXIMIANVS. NOB. CAES. ReV. SACRA. MONET. AVGG. ET. CAESS.

NOSTR. S. T. T. CAES. IMP AVG. I. TR. POT. COS. VI. CENSOR. S. C. IVLIA. MAESA.

diva, favstina pia. Rev. an altar, consecratio. s. c. the

largest size. M. D. c victorinvs. Rev. PROVIDENTIA. AVG. ESV. TETRICVS. AVG.

There are great numbers of the denarij, with Ro>?iu!us and Remus sucking the wolf; and those, with Constantinopolis and the Genius of that city on the reverse; the most common are Constan- tines, with the reverses of Gloria Exercitvs, and Militum Reparatio, with a Roman taking a Briton captive ; made probably when Con- stantine appeased the British insurrection, and his soldiers had reco- vered the credit they had before lost in a battle with them.

OVERHALL MANOR

Belonged to the Abbot of Bury,7 was worth 40s. a year at the Con- fessor's survey, and 5l. at the Conqueror's, when this town was three quarters of a mile long, and half a mile broad, and paid \6d. to the geld.s The church had eleven acres of glebe, and its advowson be- longed to this manor; the abbots always presented to it till the Dis- solution, and had lete and free-warren allowed them in Eire ; the manor and a carucate of land belonging to it, was appropriated to the chamberlains, to find shoes and clothes for the Bury monks ; and the chamberlain, was taxed for his temporals at 1 ]/. -is. yd. q. At the Disso- lution it vested in the Crown, and continued there till 1558, and then Queen Mary, in the first year of her reign, granted it to Sir John Godsa/ve, Knt. for life, and then to her son Thomas Godsa/ve, Esq. and his heirs male; with the advowson of the church, and court baron, lete, and all other liberties, in Castor, Howe, ,Poriugland, and Ameriiighall : this Sir John was second son and heir of Thomas Godsa/ve, Esq.9 register of the consistory court at Norwich, who was

7 Thomas, son of John de Tifteshale, anim. xxx. pore. xl. oves et iiii. soc. gave a tenement in Castre to Bury abbey, de xxv. acr. terre. Concessu Regis Regr. Alb. fo. 29. cum omni consuetudine, et pertinent^

Hejnesteda H. Domesday fo. manerio isto teste hundredo. Tunc

178, 9. Sub tit. Terra Abbatis de Sco. valuit xl.*. m° c.s. habet vi. quar. in

Eadmundo. longo, et iiii. in lato, et xvi.d. de Gelto,

Castrum tenet semper Sanctus Ed- et plures ibi tenent. Kcclesie xi. acr.

mundin pio manerio et pro iii. car. terre val. xvi.d.

semper x. villani et septem bordarij et 9 He and Joan his wife were buried in

ii. car. in dom. et iiii. car. hominum vi. St. Stephen's church in Norwich. See

acr. prati dim. raol. ni°. iiii. rune. v. vol. iv. p. 155, 61.

CASTOR. 427

the first raiser of the family, and died in 1542, leaving Sir John his eldest son and heir, * who was one of the clerks of the privy seal to King Henry VIII. and was succeeded by Thomas Godsalve, Esq. aforesaid, his son and heir,1 who died seized of this manor and ad- vowson in 1587, when he held it by the 40th part of a knight's fee; leaving Roger Godsalve, Esq. his son and heir, then GO years old ; J who in 1606, sold the manor, advowson, and state, to

John Pettus ofRachithe and Norwich, Esq. and his heirs ; and it hath continued ever since in that family, an account of which will oc- cur under Rackhithe ; Sir Horace Pettus, Bart, is now lord and patron.

NETHERHALL MANOR

Was a part of this and the adjacent village of Merkeshall, (for which see p. 46,) which was given by the Conqueror to Ralfde Beaufo,* as was the Merkeshall part, which belonged to Godzcin, and soon after to the Bigods Earls of Norfolk, in which family thev continued; and when the settlement was made by Roger Bigod on King Edward I. this manor, with the lete and assise of bread and ale, of all the tenants was excepted, and in 1303, was sold by Roger le Bigod and Alice his wife, with Merkeshall advowson, to Halter de Langton Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, and his heirs; and in 1306, "the Bishop sold it to Giles de Munpynzon, and lady Christian his wife, with the ad- vowson of Merskeshall, which belonged to it, and joined it to Merkes- hall manor, as you may see at p. 47, and continued with it till it was purchased by Tho. 'Pettus, and was joined to Castor-Over-hall, with which it still remains. This town is now in the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk. (See vol. i. p. 237.)

The Chorography of Norfolk says, that the lord of Over-hall hath court baron and lete, weyf, stray, 8tc. and that the fine is 4s. an acre.

The lord of Nether-hall holdeth court, and the fine is 45. an acre, but anciently the fine of both these manors was but 2s. an acre.

This church is in Brook deanery and Norfolk archdeaconry ; it was valued in the first taxation at 15, and in the second at It) marks, and pays 2s. 3d. Bishop's procurations, 2s. synodals, and 6s. 8d. arch- deacon's procurations; it is laid at 9/. in the King's Books, pays

1 He had two sons, John and Thomas, vite dicforum Thome et Johis: et diutius

and left a second wife alive, named Eli. vientis, &c. 28 H. VIII. Regr. But-

zabeth. Dr. Spencer, last dean of Cha- ley penes P. L. N. Regem Armorum A0

pelfield college, and Robert Holditch, 1712, fo. 70, 1.

were his supervisors. Thomas Blume- 3 Edmund, son of Mr. Roger God- vile, son of Edw. Blumvile, Esq. and salve and Baibara his wife, bapt. Feb. Francis Jenney, were his sons-in-law- 12, 1599. Anne their daughter 1609. Regr. Mingay in Arcliiv. Norwic. Epi. Ric. their soni6o2. Bridget wife ofTho. fo. 41. Godsalve, Esq. buried 20 Aug. 1647.

* Omnibus, Sec. Thomas Prior * Terra Radulfi de Bello/ago. H.

Beate Marie de But ley ordinis Sancti Heinestede. Doms fo. 215. Augustini, &c. Thome Godsalve seniori In Castra v. lib. horn, et dim. Go-

de Norwico armigero, et Johanni God- duuini de xlii. acris terreet dim. et ii.

salve filio ejusdem, uni clericorum de acr. prati semper dim. car. et pertinet in

signeto Domini Regis.. Annuitatem 20 Merkeshalle. In Castra ad hue est i.

solidorum exeuntem de maneno ncstro car. terre in dominio dim. mol. et est

de West-Sornerton in Norf. pro termino in pretio Merkesale.

428 CASTOR.

first-fruits, andlSs.yearly tenths, and so is incapable of augmentation; it paid I8d. Peter-pence, and Sd. carvage ; and the chamberer of St. Edmund's monastery received ten marks temporals every year, from this town, which paid clear to every tenth 2/. The arms of Bury abbey are in the windows, and the arms of England and France in a bordure bottone az. and or. The rector hath a house and above 20 acres of glebe.

RECTORS

PRESENTED BY THE ABBOTS OF BuRY.

1305, John de Elmhatn. 1334, Robert Arthur.

1349, Edmund de Brandish, buried at Brundish in Sufolk. Thomas Dampusday ; he resigned in

1383, to William Fesaunt, who changed for Heveningham in

1384, with John Leef, who in 1393, changed for Sterston with John Gelle, who was succeeded by

Alexander de Westwalton, who changed in 1426 for Southwyk in Chichester diocese, with

John de Wilton, who in 1428, changed for Shelton mediety with

John Cummcrton, who in 1450, was succeeded by John Smith, who resigned in 1454, to Master Thomas Fuller, who changed for Ivenho in Lincoln diocese in

1458, with John Maundevyle.

1465, John Usburne, resigned.

1466, John Crosby, resigned.

1466, Brother Thomas Hervy, he died rector. 1477, Thomas Weston, whose successour,

John Lawnd, resigned in 1531, to Edward Spirling, who died in 1537, and Nic. Lincoln was the last presented by the Abbot. He resigned in 1557, and Thomas Godsalve, Gent, presented

Thomas Palmer, at whose death in 155y, he gave it to

Nic. Parker, who was buried in 156S, being succeeded by

George King, on the presentation oI'Thomas Godsalve, Esq.; he was buried in 1592, and one

Richard Tolwyn, Gent, presented

Timothy Careon; but the grant of that turn being voided,

Thomas Greenwood was instituted at the presentation of Roger Godsalve, Esq. as was

John Weld, A. M. in 1600; he married Anne Toft in 1603, and was buried in 1636. And Thomas Pettus of Rackhithe, Esq, gave it to

Henry Nerford (vol. i. p. 524, 32,) at whose resignation in 1639, he gave it to George Lockwood who was buried in 1655, and Lady Anne Pettus, widow, presented

John Goddard, who was buried inl695,and Sir John Pettus, Bart, gave it to

Robert Fawcet, at whose institution, the church of Merkes- hall (long since in ruius) was consolidated to Castor, as at p. 48; he was buried here, being succeeded by

CASTOR. 420

Thomas Manlove, (see vol. iv. p. 150, 190,) and he by the

PrThetRevtoMr. John Freeman, who was presented by Lady Pettus, mother to Sir Horace Pettus, Bart the present patron ; and holds it united to the consolidated rectory of Rack/ulh- Magna and Parva, m Norfolk.

The church is dedicated to St. Edmund the King and Martyr; its north porch and chancel are tiled ; there is a square steeple and three bells; the nave is 28 yards long and 7 broad. In the chancel there are inscriptions for William Brereton of Norwich. Gent. Apr. 25,1691,83.

E H D s Petrus Brereton de Trowse, Gidielmi, de Caston, F. Gen. «n- Die Nov. A. D. M. D. C. L. X. V. Crest, a nag's head Brereton impales Clerk, gut. two barb vert, on the uppermost two plates, on the lowermost one

' William Brereton late of Caster St. Edmund's Gent. Dec. 17 1657 Eliz. his Wife, one of the Daughters of Andrew Clerk late of Wroxham, Gent, deceased, she died Sept. 2, 1660.

William Brereton Gent. April 6, 1708, 52, He was a Person ofPietv, Justice, Charity, and Sincerity, which made him de- servedly esteemed by all that knew him ; His loving and sorrow- full Widow have placed this Stone to his Memory. Catherine his Wife died Aug. 8, 1708, 63. _

Brereton impales an inescutcheon in an orle of mullets.

Memorise Johannis Brereton cleCa«o^Gulielmi quondam de Caster Gen. Filij, qui ob.j t m'D.e Dec. A. D. M DCLXXXVP nee non Rose Uxoris Johannis Lynes de Caster Gen. Filiae, qua3

obijtj et Johannis eorum Fihj, qui obijt

Frances Wife of Robert Fawcet Rector, eldest Daughter of Sir John Pettus of Rackheath, Bart, died in Childbed Aug. 17, 1700, 29°. Mary their Daughter died Aug. 14, 1700.

Susan Wife of John Inman, Dr. of Peter Brereton late of Trowse, Gent. 1686, 22.

Thomas Fawcet LL. B. eldest son of Robert Fawcet Rector, Aug. 23, 1726, 28.

Hie sepelitur Jacobus Ravenscroft, Filius primogenitus Thomas Ravenscioft Armigeri, et Magdalense Uxoris ejus, qui natus 17 Feb. ob. 27, 1660.

Dormitorium Johannis Lynes qui ob. 1™ Aug. 1650. Super- stitem rehnquens unicam prolem Rosam Uxorem Johannis Brereton. ' Ursula Daughter of Thomas Marshall Gent. 1644.

John Finch 1705. Dorothy his Wife 1700. Thomas their Son 1705.

5 Expectans lioram Domini.

430 CASTOR.

In the nave lies a stone, now spoiled of its arms and inscription, which was,

£ere taneth <£li?abcth. late the HMe ot giohnPASTON, on inhere £>oulc %t$Q }}ate Jllercn.

On an altar tomb in the churchyard at the east end,

Debemus Morti, nos, nostraque:

S. H. M.6

Reconduntur exuviae Roberti Ward

Generosi, qui placide obdormivit in Domino,

Jan. 16, A° a-t. lix°. iErae Xianas m. dccxx".

On a table at the upper end of the north isle, Benefactors to the tow in of Caistek St. Edmund's.

Thomas Neale of this town, by will dated Sept. 21, 1597, and proved in the Archdeacon's Office at Norwich, gave 3s. Ad. a year to the poor, to be distributed every Christmas day; and tied two pieces of land in this town, called Shortlands, of about an acre, for payment thereof.

Thomas Pettus, Esq.7 by will dated Oct. 14, 1618, proved in the prerogative court of the Archbishop of Canterbury at London, gave 5l. 10s. a year, forever, to be distributed by the overseers for the time being, in this church, every Sunday, as equally as may be, to six poor people inhabiting in this town,8 and tied all his lands in Shimpliug in this county, being about 30/. per annum for payment thereof.

William MinDiLTON of this town, blacksmith, by will dated Jan. GO, 1647, proved in the Archdeacon's Office, gave to the poor 3s. Ad. a year, to be distributed every Christmas day; and tied all his house and ground in this town for payment thereof, which are now in the possession of Benjamin Cogman.

This Table was erected by ThomasBlondel, who at his own expense, recovered the said donations, after they had been buried in oblivion for a time; and do here set them in publick view, to prevent the like for the future.

The font here seems to be made by that good man, Richard de Castor,9 whose life you may see at vol. iv. p. 147. On it is carved in stone, the emblems of the Holy Trinity, the four Evangelists, with the instruments of the Passion; the arms of the East- Jingles, West- Saxons, and Bury abbey ; and round it at bottom is,

6 Sub hoc monumento. to the reparations of the church -ofCais.

7 Buried Oct. 20, 161S. tie." Prubat. 3 Nov. 1618, per Annam

8 "Unto six poor people dwelling Pettus relictam daaVTkome. She remarried within the said town of Caistre, weekly to Sir Henry Hungate, Knt. and. tied in upon every Sunday, after divine service, 1627, for then he administered to her.

2 pence apeice in money, and 2 pence 9 See Pitts de Script. Angl. p. 537, apiece in bread, and the yearly overplus where he is called Castertonus.

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From the Register :

1588, The 19th of Nor, was a day of thanksgiving to God, for the great and wonderfull overthrow of the Spanish navy, which came to fight the Popes battle against this island, for their gospel; at which overthrow, the very enemies were so astonished, that some of them said, Chkist was become a Lutheran; and all that saw it did say, that it was the Lord's work: so this day was appointed by our church, to be spente throughout the realme, in preaching, praying, singing of psalms, and giving thanks, for a thankfull memorial of the Lord's merciful! mercies yerelie.

1585, Agnes Wells brought the plague to Ryx his house, and was buried 25 Sept. .

1613, Mr. John Smith and Mrs. Jane Heme, married Apr. 14. And the same day Mr. Rob. Demies and Mrs. Anne Fountain. 1666", Rob. son of Rob. Bendish, alderman of Noncich, and Sarah, daughter of Mr. 1'ho. Johnson, late alderman, married 22 J uly. l6t>7, Rob. Con- nold, clerk, minister of IVashbrook in Suffolk, married Mrs. A/ice, daughter of Mr. Samuel Stead of Berghapeton, 3 Febr. 1682, Sam. Hancock clerk, of Framlingham-Picot, married Mrs. Anne Bemeij ot Swerdeston, Aug. 15. 1690, Mr. Thomas Havers of Framhngham- Earl, widower, and Mrs. Honour Hammond of Keswick, married 22 Apr. 1692, Charles Rett of Dm, Gent, and Eliz. Beaumont, married. Oct. 24. 1626, Anne wife of Mr. John A/drich buried.

FRAMLINGHAM- EARL.

There are two small villages of this name in Henstede hundred, in the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk; they were both but one at the time of the Conquest, and, was early called Framlingham-Parva, or Little- Framliw>ham, to distinguish it from Framlingham-Magna, or Great-Framlingham, in Suffolk which also belonged to the same family ; but when the part which belonged to Ulketel was granted off by the Bigots to be held of them, that took the name ot Fram- lingham-Picot or Pi"ot ; and the other, of Framlingham-Earl, both from their lords, by which name they are known. Mr. Le Neve says, that the name of Framtlingham signifies the seat or abode of the son of Frame, who was a Saxon of great note in these parts. It had before the Conquest been in many parts, one belonged to Godwin, who held it of Stigand;* another belonged to Edwin, and

* Terre Episcopi Bajocensis.t In Framing aham ten. Rog. Bigotus Doras, fo. 59. Heinestede. H. 1*. acr. terre quam tenuit Godvinus sub

-f Odo Bishop of 'Baieux, who abjured the realm.

432

FRAMLINGHAM-EARL.

after that to Godric the Sczcer, who held it of Earl .Raff,' and after his forfeiture, of Bishop Almar ; Tin old had another part, and Ulj j1 Ulke- tel,3 and two Norwich burgesses,4 others: it was then, as now, an extensive manor, having lands, Sec. belonging to it, in Trozcse, Yelver- ton, Holveston, Kirkbi/, Poringlands, Shoteshams, Stoke, Surlingham, and Rokc land ; with the advowsons of Ye/verton, and Por/ands ; and the whole was half a mile long, and as much broad, and paid 1 3d ob. geld. It passed with the possessions of the Bigods Earls of No/folk? and have attended the Norfolk families, as in Forncet at large, and is now in his Grace the Duke of Norfolk: but the advowson was separated from the manor very early, being given by Gunnora, wife

Stigando T. R. E. tunc iii. bord. et m° vii. tunc ii. car. post i. et m° dim. m° ii. in dom. semper iii. bov. horn, et iv. soc. et dim. de xvi. acr. terre et iv. acr. prati, semper arant cum tribus bovibus, et in Alvertuna i. soc. et dim. de xvi. acr. semper arat cum tribus bovibus, et in Holvestima iii. soc. et ii. dim. de xvi. acr. terre semper dim. car. et in Kerkebei ii. soc. et dim. de xii. acr. semper arant cum tribus bovibus, sem- per i.equus in aula, tunc viii. pore. m° xxviij. etvi.vasa apum, tunc et past va- luit xx. sol. modo xl.

1 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Heinstede H. de escangio terra Isaac. Doras, to. no, I I.

In Framingaham i. lib. homo Edui- 7ii commendat. et postea Godrici Dapiferi successoris sui sub comite R. quando R. Comes se forisfecit .tenuit Almarus Epis. m" R. Bigot. Turoldus xx. acr. terre in quibus manent ii. bordarij sem- per dim. car. et dim. acr. prati semper, valuit ii. sol. i. ecclesia xxx. acr. valet iii. sol.

* F0.133. In Framingaham i. liber, homo Ulfi commend. (sub Rog. Bigot.)

Terre Godrici Dapiferi Heinestede Hund. Doms. fo. 165.

In Framingaham i. liber homo Eduini commend, de 20 acr. terre et ii. bord. semper et i. acr. et dim. prati semper dim. car. et sub eo integri iii. liberi ho- mines, et iii. dim. inter omnes 10 acr. terre semp. inter omnes dim. car.

3 In Framingaham tenuit Ulche- tel i. liber, homo Algar Comitis, commend, i. car. terre modo tenet Ulchetel semper xxiii. bord. semper i. car. in dom. et iii. car, horn, et iii. acr. prati, semper, ii. equi, tunc ii. anim. .modo iii. tunc xii. pore. m° xvi. et iv. vasa apum, et in eadem x. liberi horn, sub eo xl. acr. terre, et ii. acr. prati, semp. ii.car. tunc et post valuit xx. sol. modolx. sol. et dim. leug,habet in longo, et dim. in lato, et de gelto i^d. et obu-

lum, et tenetUlchetel. In Kerkebei iv. liberi homines Ulketel, 10 acr. terre et dim. acr. prati semper dim. car. InHol- vestuna iii. liberi homines ejusdem 10 acr. terre, semper arant cum duobus bo- vibus. In Ailvertuna iii. liberi homi- nes ejusdem 20 acr. terre semper dim. car. i. ecclesia 20 acr. val. 20^. et tenet idem. In Porrinkelanda vii. integri liberi homines ejusdem, 30 acr. semper dim. car. i. ecclesia 12 acr. val. 17^. idem (tenet.) In Scotessam iii. liberi ho- mines ejusdem, 16 acr. terre, i. car. et dim. prati semper arant cum duobus bovibus, idem (tenet.) In Stokes i. liber homo ejusdem, dim. 23 acr. terre semper dim. car. idem (tenet.) In Sutherlingaham ii. liberi homines ejusdem, 12 acr. terre sem. arant cum duobus bovibus, idem tenet. In Roke- lunda i. liber homo Ulketelli de vi. acris terre, appre-tiati sunt omnes isti in Framingaham tenet idem.

4 Sub. tit. Terre Regis. Heinesteda H. Doms to. 9.

In Framingaham, et in Tieussa te- nent duo burgenses Norwici 12 acr. terre, semper val. ii. sol.

5 In 1285, Roger Bigod, lord, had lete, assise of bread and ale, weyf, turn. berel, infangenthef, and view of frank- pledge over all Framlingham-Earl, and over Ralf Picot's tenants of his manor of Franilingham-Picot. In King James the First's time, Nicholas Gooche, Gent, was steward of Framlingham cum Mem. iris, and it then extended into Fram- lingham-Picot, Yelverton, Holveston Witlingham, Shoteshams, Brook, Bra- mexton, Surlingham, Castor, Stoke, Rockland, Kirby, Trowse, Bixley, and Claxton; the quitrent being above 30/. per annum, ana the free-rents above 8/. per annum besides barley rents, capons, warren, woods, and the third part of the profits ot Bukenham terry. It paid 6s. per annum to the hundred of Henstede, and 2s. &d. to Forncet manor for castle- guard.

FR AM LING HAM-EARL. 433

of Sweyne de Essex, and mother of Henri/ de Essex, to the monks at Thetford, with the consent of Roger Bigot; and it remained in that house, and passed with it at its dissolution, to the Duke of Norfolk, in which family it hath always remained.

RECTORS

PRESENTED BY THE PRIORS OF THETFORD.

1300, Richard de B indwell . 1306, Walter de Fakenham.

1315, Henry de Mundham, lapse.

1316, Ric. de Rickinghall.

1338, Ric. de Bretforton, resigned. The King, in right of the temporals of Thetford priory.

1339, Roger de Naffreton, resigned. Ditto.

1345, John de Bromholm. Mary Countess of Norfolk and Mar- shal, by the King's grant, in right of the temporals aforesaid. 1353, Alex. Rymen. 1362, John Thomason. The Prior. 1374, Sir John de Ditton. 1377, Thomas de la More. 1409, Reginald Pakenham. 1411, Rob. Merton. 141 1, Simon de Bury, resigned. 1417, Tho. Stour. 1422, Will. Mathews. 1424, John Navesy. 1433, John Bertram. 1443, John Filip, lapse.

1447, John Baxter, lapse.

1448, Robert Cunningham, apse. 1455, Hugh Bonet, lapse. 145S, John Olerton.

1471, Will. Upgate.

1473, Rob. Smith, succeeded by _ Rob. Hawe, who resigned in

1481, to Thomas Appelton.

1485, Tho. Wymer, lapse.

1504, Sir John Moor.

In 1505, the churches of FramlinghAM-E«?7 and Framlingham Picot, were really united, and continued so a long time, but each patron joined in the presentations, and

John Sheriff was rector, presented to this by Thetford prior.

1518, Tho. Cokkys, was the last presented by the Prior.

1541, John Sheriff had it again, and died rector, and was presented by the Duke of Norfolk.

1563, Tho. Johnes.6 Ditto. At his death in

1610, Theophilus Greenaway had it by lapse, and at his death

Samuel Hancock, who died in 1661, and the rectories were then disunited.

6 i6o3,Thomas Ives, rector (quaere if it was long since perpetually united to not Jones) returned answer, that he had Framlingham-Picot. 26 communicants in this parish, and that VOL. V. 3 K

431 FRAMLINGH AM-EARL.

l66l, Christopher Athow, who held it with Framlingham-Picot by a personal union, being presented by the assignee of Lord Henry Howard: at his deatli in

1669, Char. Brian, who died in 1677, and Henky Duke of Nor- folk presented

Samuel Hancock, who held it with Framlingham-Picot by union ; and at his resignation in 1683, the Duke gave it to Tho. Havers, who was succeeded by David Fleming, and he by

The Rev. Mr. Henry Goodall, archdeacon of Suffolk, who hath it with Biiley, to which it was some time since consolidated, and holds it with the united vicarage of Matashall, and rectory of Pateslee in Norfolk.

The church is dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, hath only a nave 31 feet long and 18 broad; and a chancel 25 long and 11 broad, both being covered with thatch; the steeple is round, tiled at top, and hath two bells : there are stones in the chancel for Chris- topher At how, rector, ob. 8 Aug. 1669. And for Charles son of John Keene, Gent, and E/iz. his wife, 1660. In the church is a stone with the arms of Corbet/ for Jane wife of William Morse, daughter of John Corbett, Gent, by whom she had ten sons and three daughters, ob. March 1], 1684, aged 37. On a brass plate, i$ic lacct ^enrieiljS Suntpng. and on a south window is the name of UMitam 23rag. 1505 John Goselyn buried in the church, gave four cows for a stock for the poor.

3l.6s. 8d. Feamlingham Comitis Rectoria. 35l. clear yearly value. Consolidated to Bixley as aforesaid.

It is capable of augmentation, and is discharged of first-fruits and tenths. At Domesday making, the Prior of Thetford was patron ; the rector had a house and 30 acres of glebe; it was valued first at 20s. after at 4 marks, but was not taxed ; the portion of the monks of Thetford was 7 marks, and paid Is. synodals, 3s. archdeacon's pro- curations, ]d. carvage, and Vld. Peter-pence. The present terrier hath a house and 27 acres ; it paid Ms. to each tenth, when the taxes were raised that way. The temporals of the Abbot of Langley were taxed at 6s. 3d. and those of the Prior of Penlney at Qd. ob.

This village is omitted in Saxtons map of the county.3

7 1481, the will of John Corbet, Gent, left Elizabeth his wife, George his son, of Framlingham, was proved, when he and Eliz. Langdon his daughter.

8 It is mentioned in the Atlas, p. 328.

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FRAMLINGHAM-PICOT

Was separated from Framlingham-Earl very early, when Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk gave to his beloved cousin Reiner Picot, Knt. and his heirs male, for the acceptable services that he did him in feats of arms, and other honourable deeds, to his great credit and praise, with the King's special leave, all Framlingham-Picot, with the advovvson of the church there; also his whole manor, and services of all the tenants belonging to it; and all liberties whatever, with a fald for 500 sheep, going in Framlingham, Bramerton, Kirby, and Rock- land; with view of frankpledge over all the tenants, free bull and free boar; hunting, hawking, and fishing, as well in Framlingham, as in all the Earl's adjacent manors; to hold them as freely as the Earl re- ceived them of the King, when he knighted him : and at the same time, he constituted the said Reiner and his heirs male, marshal of his household and castle of Framlingham in Suffolk, with all perqui- sites, customs, and profits, thereto belonging; with liberty to take two bucks every summer, and one doe every winter, at what time they please : witnesses to this deed were, Clerewald his son, and Baldwin his brother; Robert and Will, de Sa/iam, Will. Blomevi/e, Roger de Poryngland, JYill.de Kirbu, and others; (the seal is the same as in vol. ii. p. 113.) I find Will. Picot and Rob. Malherbe lords soon after; and Rob. Picot, who held in Suffolk two fees of the new feofment of Roger Bigod ; in 1235, Ralf Picot was lord and patron. In 1249, John Picot was fined for not having taken the honour of knight hood ; he was succeeded by Ralf Picot, who held one fee in Suffolk of the old feoffment, of Nigel Bishop of Ely ; in 1306, he and Maud his wife presented to this church; and in 1312, settled the manor on themselves, with remainder to George and William then- sons, and Emma and Christian their daughters ; and then on Richolda, wife of Nic. de Ingham. In 1317, Maud Picot had it, who remarried to Nic. de Castello, or Castle, of Stanjield; for in 1333, they presented Geo. Pycot her son ; and in 1352, it seems they were both living; her grandson, Ralf Picot, son (as 1 take it) of Will. Picot, succeeded; and in 1361, his son Gregory Picot: in \3'j6, Barth. Picot, Esq. lived here, as did his son Tho. Pygot, or Picot, Esq. in 1434, but was removed to Stradsete in Suffolk in 1437; his son Thomas was lord here and of Stradsete, and left them to John Picot, Esq. his son, who married Joan daughter of Peter Bedingfield, Esq. and died in 1546, leaving one daughter Alice, and one son and heir named John, then one year old only ; he was succeeded by Francis Pigot, Esq. who sold it to Rob. Gawsell of Shotesham, Esq. and afterwards Francis Lane sold it to Jane daughter of Anthony Sparrow, late Bishop of Norwich, who married Richard Webster, clerk, and they sold it to Sam. Nedham, rector of Dicleburgh in Norfolk; it was afterwards purchased by the father of

John Pell, Esq. alderman of Norwich, who is the present lord and patron.

436 FRAMLINGHAM-PICOT.

RECTORS.

1244, T/io. le By god.

1306, Ric. Pykot. Ralf Pykot of Framelingham and Maud his wife. He resigned in

1317, to John de Pounches. Maud de Pykot. He changed for Fomham St. Martin in

1318, with Tho. de Stockton. 1321, Ralfde Barsham.

1333, George Pycot. Nic. de Castello or Castle, of Stane- Jield, and Maud his wife, who in 1338, presented Gregory Pycot; and in 1339, Rob. son of Adam de Morley, who resigned the same year and they gave it to

John Tassel, on whose resignation in 1348, in exchange fo Cavenham, they presented

John son of Ralf Mall, and in 1349, John son of Richard de Hemplond, and in 1352, John Akrera, or Aquora, whose will was proved in 136l, when Gregory Picot presented

John de Bresele. In 13g6, Barth. Picot of Framlingham, Esq. gave it to

John Ma/pas, who was buried here in 1404, and in 1405, Jeff, son of Rob. Cock of Howton; and in 1407, John Fyke had it of the same patrons gift, who in 1416, presented

Simon Aleyn, who exchanged it in 1428, for Stanningha.il, with Stephen Paly. In

1431, Simon Dykon of Biteryng, and John Barnard, gave it to Tho. Harleston, who resigned in 1434, and Tho. Pigot, or Picot, Esq. gave it to

Nic. Trowth, on whose resignation in 1437, Rob. Ker had it, by the gift of Tho. Pigot of Slradsete, Esq. who in 1443, presented

Peter Cautele, and in 1448, Ralf Rey nor (who was deprived) had it of the donation of John Raw lee, &c.

1453, Rob. Bennet. Thomas Pycot of Framlingham ; in 1462, he gave it to

Tho. Eytop, who was deprived in 1464, and Tho. Picot of Stradsete, gave it to brother

John Winter; and in 1504, John Sheriff had it by lapse, and the next year it was really united to Framliugham-Earl, and so continued till lb'b'l,9 as you may see at p. 433, to which I refer you.

5 Rocfrus Pygott, armiger, pa- Episcopi remanentem. Revis. Archid.

tronus,TheophilusGrenawaye, clericus, Norf. 1630.

rector. Estimatio ejusdem, 3/. 13^ 4a!. In 1603, both the Framlinghams had

Proc. Episcopi zed. Sinod. is. 6d. Pro- 60 communicants. In 1362, Thomas

curac. Dni. Archidiaconi 6s. %d. retinet Witherel of this town purchased the next

etiam ecclesiam de Framelingham Comi- turn of Francis Pigot, and conveyed it

tis per quandam realem unionem tritam to Hen. Witherel, A.B. of Harleston. et clare ratam, penes Registrarium Dni.

FRAMLINGHAM-PICOT. 437

l66l, Christopher- Athow was presented by Rob. Gawsell of Shotesham, Esq. and held it with Framlingham-Earl by personal union ; at his death in 16G9, the said patron gave it to

Samuel Snowden, at whose resignation in K)?3, he presented Samuel Hancock, who held it by union with the other Fram- lingham. In

]()|)8, T/io. Cooper, clerk, was presented by Samuel Needham, rector of Dickleburgh, and Peter Parham, M. D.

Mr. Richard French, the present rector, holds it united to the consolidated rectory of Burgh cum Apetoit, with the mediety of Holvcston.

At the time of making Norwich Domesday, the heir of Sir William Picot was lord and patron ; the rector had a house and 30 acres, now no house, but 25 acres two roods of glebe: it was valued at 8 marks, and pays Is. Qd. synodals, Gs. 8d. procurations, 10<7. Peter-pence, and 5d. carvage ; and the whole town (which is left out of Saxton's map) paid 50s. to each tenth.

3l.6s.8d. Framlingham Picot Rectoria. 31 1. Sworn clear yearly value.

So that it is discharged of jirst-fraits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

The church is very small, and never had a steeple, but a bell hanging on the outside, in an arch at the west end. The nave is only eleven yards long and seven broad ; the chancel six yards square ; both, as the south porch, are tiled : this is also dedicated to St. Andrew. In the nave on the south side, is a low altar-tomb, but no> inscription ; on a brass plate is this,

3l(c Men that 00 rug Sepulture behoto <$ <itt, <0n me SJtrhn 2Buntyng ghcto pour: Charttf. 23unc0 3ug. £. M- ccccc°.

In the porch, Edward JVatson, an humble admirer of free-grace, 1722, 68. Amy his wife, 1725, 70.

Strict is the way to heaven, and strait the Gate, Few enter in, because they strive too late, Be therefore ready now, as you would dye, Our Works are Seeds, sown for eternity.

In 1501, Stephen Stamford was buried between the font and tiie church-door.

t 438]

PORINGLAND.

J. here are two villages of this name, one called East, or Great- Poringland, and the other, West, or Little-Poringland ; both of them are in the Liberty of the Duke of Norfolk, and formerly were but one village, the whole of which (except the parts of other manors •which extended hither) came into the hands of Rog. Bigot,1 and have continued in the Norfolk families ever since, descending in the same manner as Forncet manor, to which I refer you.

But the advowsons and other parts which were granted off by the Bigots, constituted other manors lying in both parishes, of which I shall treat separately. It is plain, that the church of Great Porland (as it is commonly called) was founded before the Confessor's time, for in his survey we find it mentioned, as having then 12 acres of glebe worth one shilling an acre, of which Ulketel, a Dane, was then patron, as belonging to the manor of Framlingham ; to which, the chief part of this town always was, and now is, appendant: the style of the court anciently being Framlingham ex parte Poring-

LAND.

At the Conqueror's survey the towns were a mile and a quarter long, and a mile broad, and paid VZd. to the geld or tax. In 1285, lioger le Bigot, superiour lord of both the Porlands, claimed view of frankpledge, assise of bread and ale, and free-warren over all his tenants; and afterwards the Earl-Marshal, lord here, was sued for ex- ceeding the bounds of h\s free-zcarren in Porland-Parva, by extend- ing it above half a mile towards Sholesham, when it did not really

' Terre Regis quam Godricus servat. Doms. fo. 28. Heinestede H.

In Porringelanda ii. liberi horn. Alnoth commendatus de xiii. acris terre semper i. car. i. acr. prati. (This belonged to Alnoth's manor of Howe, in the Confessor's time.)

Terre Episcopi Bajocensis. Doms. fo. 60.

In Porrig alanda i. lib. homo, et i. soc. de xxi. acr. semper dim. car. (This belonged to Framlingham manor.)

Terra Rcgni Bigoti, de escangio terre Isaac. Fo. 112. Heinestede H.

In Porrinkelanda vii. integri lib. honi. ejusdem. (sc. Ulketel's) xxx. acr. semper dim. car. i. ecclesiexii. acr. val. xii.d. Idem (tenet Ulketel.) appretiati sunt omnes isti in Framingaham.

In Porrinkelanda i. lib. homo, Edrici de xii. acr. terre et dim. acr. prati, semper arat cum tribus bovibus tunc et semper val. xii.d. hoc tenet idem, (sc. Aitardus de Vals alias Ethard de Vaux) Porringalanda habetv. quar. in longo et jiii. in lato, et de gelto xii.d. fo. 133.

Terra Godrici Dapiferi, fo. 16,5.

In Porrinkelanda i. liber homo Edwini, T. R.E. de xii. acr. et i. bord. et dim. acr. prati. semper dim. car. Et iste Edwinus fuit Teinus dominicus Regis Edwardi. Soca in Hundredo. [Heinestede H.] (This part belonged to the hundred.)

Terra Abbatis de Sancto Eadmundo fo. 179. H. Heinestede.

In Porringelant i. liber homoCu- ert commend, pertinens in Brocxxx. acr. et i. bord. de dim. car. ac. semper i. car. (This belonged to the abbot's manor of Brook.)

Sub. tit. Invasiones in Nordfulc. fo. 302. H. Heinesteda.

In Porringhelanda i. liber homo Edwini, commend. T. R. E. post Godri- cus et post propter forisfacturum Alu- redus, et de ilia foresfaclura quietnm se fecerat, teste hundredo. Sed perprecep- tum Episcopi Bajocencis seivavit Ro. gerus Bigot in manu Regis et adhuc servat. tenet xv. acr. tunc dim. car. m° ii. bov. semper val. xvi.d. (This was afterwards called Little Poringland.)

P O R I N G L A N D. 439

extend over the way leading from Norwich to Bungeye, beyond which Sir John de Norwich claimed free-warren, and in all his demean lands Cruche-Stoke, Howe, and Porland, which liberty he had of the grant of KingErfw. III.

The advowson of the church of Great-Porland, which belonged to the Earl's manor of Porland-Magna, as a member of kis manor of Framlingham -Earl, was given with divers lands by the liygod family, to Clement de Porland, whose son Roger de Porland and Joan his wife, gave it in Henri/ the Third's time, to the monks of St. Mary at Thetford;* in which house it continued till its dissolution, and then was granted with it to the Duke of Norfolk.3

This family sirnamed of the town, continued here many genera- tions; John de Poring/and and Katherine his wife owned the estate of that family in 1268, and in 1313, Roger de Porringland and Mar- garet his wife had it; and after them, Alexander their son; from whom descended Robert de Porland, a monk of Norwich,* and brother Ric. de Porland a gray friar there ;s as also, another of the same name, vicar of St. Stephen's :s this estate came to the Fastolfs, and was sold by Thomas Fasto/f, Gent, in 1594, to Thomas Bransbye, Gent.7 which family continued some time here.

RECTORS OF PORINGLAND-MAGNA,3

alias Porland, alias Polland, alias Palling, alias Poor- England; FOR BY ALL THESE NAMES IT IS CALLED IN VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS.

John Pounches, resigned in 1317, to Ric. Pycot, who the same year, with the consent of the monks of Thetford, the patrons, exchanged it for Trimingham with Nic. de Cast/eacre, and he in

1323, with Roger de Guidon, for Gunton rectory. In

1324, John de^Foxton had it, who changed it for Hedenham in 1334, with Rob. de Swathyng. In

1349, Tho. de Mor of Saham, deacon, was presented by Mary Countess of Noifolk, by the King's grant, who had the temporals of The/ford priory in his hands, as an alien ; he was one of the 60 clerks that the Pope dispensed with, being when instituted about 20 years old, on account of the great pestilence that had swept away most of the clergy in the diocese.

Abraham Barri, in whose time the church and chancel was rebuilt, and the chancel windows glazed ; in the north window next the altar, part of an inscription still remains in remembrance of him,.

4 Sir Wil. de Castre, and Sir Wil. de bye, Gent, buried. 1637, Marmaduke Calthorp, Knts. Wil. Howard, Peter Ladlo, practicioner in physick, buried. Branche, Wil. Reymund of Thetford, 1638, John Corbet, Gent, and Ehz. and others, were witnesses to the deed. Turner, married. 1640, Sam. Rook-

3 See vol. ii. p. 116. wood and Eliz. Curzon, married.

* See vol. iv. p. 40. " Por-inge-land, I take to signify

5 Ibid. p. 112. poor -wet-land; and such is great part of

6 Ibid. p. 147. the land, of that tract called Porland

7 ERegistro. Bertram Doylye, Gent. Heath, though the hill on which the and Jane Bransbye married, 1632, and windmill stands is the highest ground in was ordained 1633. 1638, Tho. Brans- the whole county of Nortolk.

440 P O R I N G L A N D.

tinder his effiges in his priest's habit, holding the church in one hand, and the crosier and keys in another,

* * * aham 23arrt * t * fee. ftcctoris' is'tiits1 €ccles'ie '.<-.'.*',

1410, Robert Spenser of Shadingfield ; it seems he arched the inside of the chancel roof, for his arms still remain thereon, with those of the benefactors to the rebuilding of the church, which was finished in the year 1432, as the date on an upper south window shows : besides his own, there are the arms of Brotherton, Bateman, France, and England, with a label of three ar. and V. a cross in- grailed, ar. counterchanged.

1423, Tho. Lambert of Westley, who resigned in

1451, to Rob. Curtyour, and he to John Morgan, and he in

1459, to John Derham, whose successour Tho. Weston, resigned in

1473, to Robert Draper, alias Peresson, alias Parsons, who lies buried under a stone in the chancel, with the cup and water on it, and this inscribed,

<©rate pro anima tfobcrti pcrcs's"on nurtec Pectoris' is'tius' €t* tlcsic, emus' antme propinctur Uncus'.

This rector built the seats in the chancel, and the screens, and painted them neatly with the twelve Apostles, each having a sentence of the Creed in labels from their mouths ; there are twelve other effigies of prophets, kings, and confessors, with labels also.

1, Moses, with yellow horns holding the laze,

%r\ pnncipio crcauit ©eus" Celiun ct Ccrtam.

2, St. Peter with thejirst Article of the Creed.

3, A person crowned, and this, ©ominus' blfit aO mc, Jrllius' meus'.

4, An Angel, <£ttt Birgo concipict ft panet Milium.

5, poet Iff hebbomabas' cenbe tur Christus' ©omini.

6, <£ro mors' tua €> roofs' mortus tutts' fro interne.

7, (Spititug meus" cnt in mebio tac^trt, nolttc timerc.

8, %n <£cc[cs'tam gopuli ©ci, contiencrunt popult gubci.

9, Cum obio habums biruitur Nomine ©cui* ^stael.

10, ^us'ritabo Jftliog tuojS .f>iion.

n, <£go Do bolus mam et lite ct jftortis'. 12, -- * -< * * -- > t * > * *

On the screens are Adam and Eve plucking the forbidden fruit, and an angel driving them out of Paradise.

On the north end of the seat, directly over his grave, is Pei-esson's own effigies in his priest's habit, on his knees, saying,

Uiatec ©ei, migewre mci.

PORINGLAND. 441

On the south end, he is in a red cope, with this, 5jegu Jfih ©£' Rw'jJeme met.

He was succeeded in 1490, by John Drake, at whose death, in

1527, Tho. Greene had it, being the last presented by the Prior; and in 1529, he had it united to Porland Parva; at his death in 1546, the King gave it to

Will. Robinson ; and in 1559, the Duke of Norfolk presented Hugh Duddcsbury, who held this and Porland-Parva as really united, and had a personal union with Home; he died in 1570, and Thomas Duke of No/folk presented

John Gascoigne, who held Little-Porland, and in lfl03, returned answer that he had 94 communicants in his parish of Por- lands, which were really united about 67 years since, and valued together at 61. but at his death they were disunited again; and in 1612, the Duke gave it to

William Coppin, who the next year had Little Porland by personal union; he was buried here Jan. \\ 1624, and Thomas Earl of Arundel gave it to

Sam. White, A. M.» who was succeeded by Nic. Sheppherd, at whose death, in 1672, Henry Lord Howard, of Castle-Rising, presented

Thomas Frost, L. DD. who died in 1674, and then by the name of Henry Howard Earl of Norwich, he gave it to Richard Webster, on whose resignation in 1681, Henry Earl of Aurutidel gave it to _

John Paris, who held it united to Porland-Parva; he was succeeded in

1696, by Rob. Fawcet, who was presented by Hen. Duke of Nor- folk, and held it with the adjoining rectory of Castor, by union, till his death ; and in ,

1736, Arthur Woniack, eldest son of Laurence Womack,laie vicar of Button, and rector of Castor by Yarmouth, was instituted, on the pre- sentation of Francis Taylor, Esq. and Francis Loggin, Gent ; he held it united to Hillington rectory, till Aug. 9. 1738, when he died, and was buried in the rails on the north side of the altar, being succeeded in Oct. 25, following, by

The Rev. Mr. Vincent Hotchkiss, A. B. the present rector, who was presented by the said Francis Taylor, Esq. and Francis Loggin, Gent, patrons in full right.

The church is dedicated to All the Saints, hath a steeple round at bottom and sexangular at top, with three bells in it, on one of which is this,

$o£ ssociat Sanctis temper Dicolau^ m altis.

There are two porches both tiled, a leaded nave, and thatched chancel.1

« Catherine, wife of Sam White, rec- long, and eight broad ; the chancel is as tor, buried 25 Febr. 1651. long as the nave, but only s.x yards

■ The nave is ten yards and an half broad. The steeple is 49 &?<■ hi&h-

442 PORINGLAND.

In the nave, on a brass at the west end,

<0rate pro anima tJebmunbt Cantootb, qui ofaiit ni° Die IRartti M". recce0 primo, et pro anima *£ectlte nupec Uyou4 prebictt <£bmunbi £amnolb que obut ultimo Die 5?fcembri^ 2L" ©. M°. t€. lit0.

<®rate pro anima J©illi- 25oop, cuiu^antme propicietur 3Bcu<» 3 men

Thomas Beverley died Feb. 11, 1723, aged 41.

Thomas Harod Clarke, rector of Bungeye, 2 May 1686, aet. 68.

Thomas Badleye, deceased 27 May 1607.

Mrs. Mary Difke widow, daughter to the Rev. Mr. William Cecil, late rector or St. Michael Cos/any in Norwich, died Aug. 20, 1736, 57. This in the altar rails on the south side.

In the south chancel window is the Salutation very perfect ; in one pane the Blessed Virgin, ia the other an Angel meeting her, with

ate, 4$racia plena 55ominu.fi tceum.

In another window St. Catherine with the wheel ; and in a north window, St. Christopher carrying our Saviour over the water.

The present fabrick (except the steeple, which is much older) was begun about 1400, and finished about 1432 ; the windows were glazed at the expense of divers benefactors, whose effigies and nai i< s, with their arms, were originally fixed in them, though now much defaced. There was a tabernacle of All the Saints, and two gilds, one of St. Anne, and the other of St. Andrew, held at the two altars, which stood in the nave, on either side of the entrance of the chancel. In the north windows are the following arms, &c. viz. of

Hare single, and Hare impaled with Bassingbourne. Parts of a man and woman praying, and over them, ,§>ancta Crinitaji unug 3DCU|S, miserere $0bf#. And the shield of the Holy Wounds, viz. Arg. a cross az. on which a wounded heart gul. in chief two hands, in base two feet, all cooped and wounded gul. and under it 'Jc.s'U t£hri£te. St. Sebastian holding an arrow. Our Saviour standing with the crown of thorns on, and the purple robe; his hands erected, and under him a woman on her knees praying, with this over her in a label,

«lt intcnbajS et bcfenba£ IGorte tr^ti.

In the south windows, St. Laurence. Brotherton's arms. A man and woman kneeling, but their subscriptions lost, all but tiVOri.S eiu.s". There is a fine bust of the Holy Virgin crowned ; and in the upper part of the east chancel gable in the churchyard, are three niches, in one of them, part of an effigies of the Trinity still remains.

The rectory is in Norfolk archdeaconry, and Brook deanery, and stands thus in the King's Books,

6/. Poringland vulgo Porland Rectoria. AOl. sworn real value.

PORIN GLAND. 443

And being discharged of first fruits and tenths, it is capable of aug- mentation. It pays 2s. syndols, 5s. procurations to the Archdeacon? The Prior of Thetford had a pension paid by the rector of 13s. 4d. per annum, which is now paid to the Duke of Norfolk in right of that house. It paid IZd. Peter-pence, and 8d. carvage ; and the town paid 1/. 8s. clear to each tenth, besides 5s. paid by the Prioress of Carrozo for her temporals here, and 7s. by the chamberlain of the monastery of St. Edmund's Bury for his temporals, which were part of Brook manor, that extended hither. When Norwich Domesday was made, the rector had 10 acres of glebe, but no house, though now there is a very mean cottage, 10 acres and an half of glebe, and two pieces without contents ; there is a piece of glebe about half a mile southward of the church, towards Howe, called the Old Churchyard, where the parish church originally stood, before it was removed for convenience to the site of the present church, which seems to have been done about William Rufus's time.

The family of the Hares fixed here, and owned a good estate in 1344, which John, son of Ralf Hare and Catherine his wife, purchased of Rob. Toke and Catherine his wife.

In 1502, Thomas Hare, by his will, tied his close under the south side of the Park, to find a mass with dirige and requiem without end; In 1503, John Prat of this town gave two acres of land in Poring- land Field, at Car-mere, to keep a light burning before the image of our Lady of Pete, in the church, and 12 acres more (now the town- lands) lying in eleven pieces (all of which are plainly described) to the church-wardens and parishioners for ever, on condition they pay the rector yearly for ever Ad. on Advent Sunday to say mass for the dead, and for his soul in particular; and also cause the bells to be rung that day; and the rest of the profits to be disposed of by the church-wardens, " Pro taxis Domini Regis, et a/ijs oneribus, predictis parochianis et villains, in perpetuum Venturis."3

Ever since the first union, the parishes joined in choosing officers, (as they do now as to overseers), but since the consolidation of it to Howe, they pay their church rate to Howe, as well as all their tithes, and choose one constable and one surveyor for themselves; Great Porlund is valued to the tax at 421/. and Little Porland at 250/.

PORINGLAND MANOR

Was part of both the towns, which Rog. Bigot gave to Rob. Fitz.- Roger Helke, or de Clavering, who in 1 198 founded Langtey abbey, to which he gave it;+ and the abbots, always held it of Forncet manor till the Dissolution; and in 1543, King Henry VIII. granted the

1 Dominus Johannes Holland miles, penes Rev. virum Jacobum Baldwin rec-

patronus (as trustee to the Duke of Nor- torem de Bunwell in Norf.

folk.) Sam White, A. M. rector. Aula de Schoteshill in Poringland

Valor 61. Decim. 12s. Procurationes mentionatur.

Episcopi. lid. Sinod. 2s. Prcc. Archid. Rector de Poringland tenet unam

$s. Revis.Arclui'. Norf. 1630. peciam quondam Emme Wype de Yel-

3 Regr. Popy, fo. 317. veiton, pro una pecia vocata Godes-Aker.

4 E Cartaceo Libro MSS. olim perti- John Hard of Porland, settled lands nen. abbathie de Langley, remanente on John his son, and Margaret his wife,

444 LITTLE PORINGLAND

manors of Porland, Rockland, &c. to John Corbet, Esq. who sold it immediately to Roger and John Gostli/n, and their heirs; and in 1548, at Roger's death, Agnes his only child, then married to John Poynet, had livery of them; and in 1588, Sir Thomas Gaudy, Knt one of thejustices of the common pleas, died seized, and left them to Henry his son : in 1 623, Sir Rob. Gawdy of Claxton, Knt. had them ; and they continued in that family, till sold by Tho. Gawdy, Esq. and divers mortgages, to Mr. Crowe ; and in 1723, Roger Crowe, Gent, was lord, who left it at his death to John Bedingjield of Beeston, Esq. the present owner.

The abbot was taxed for his temporals in both the Porlands, at 7/. 6s. lOd. ob.

Another part was granted by Rog. Bigot, to Robert Fitz-Roger aforesaid, which he did not give to his monastery at Lang/ey, but was always held at half a fee of Forncet manor, by the Roscelines, to whom the Claverings had granted it ; from whom it took the name of

ROSCELINES, or RUSTELINES in PORINGLAND.

In 1235, Peter de Roscelyne held it of Rob. Fiz.-Roger; in 1317, Thomas, son of Sir Peter Roscelyne, Knt let it to farm to Sir Walter de Noncich, at 61. lis. 8d. a year, when it extended into both Por- lands, Crtichestolce, Shotesham, both Framlinghams, Ye/verton, Trous, Brakendale, Surlingham, Kirkeby, Ho/veston, Bramerton, Roke/and, Lodne, and Lang/ey. In 1327, William de Shotesham, Clerk, settled it on John de Shotesham and Margaret his wife ; and in lfiSS, Edmund Doyley, E<q. died seized, and was found to hold it of the King's hun- dred of Henstede, in free soccage ; Susanna his daughter being then only three years and nine months old. But whether the whole of this manor was manumised, or into what hands it afterwards came, 1 have not found.

LITTLE PORINGLAND.

Little Poringland manor belonged also to the Norfolk families? as a member of their manor of Framlingham, and continues so now; there is lete, free-warren, and assize of bread and ale, belonging to it; as did the advowson, till granted off, with divers lauds, by the Bigots : the church was demolished before the year 1540; there are few ruins of it now to be seen, the highest piece of wail being about

for life; and then to Thomas, William, Alice their daughter; and after their Nicholas, and John, their sons ; and deaths, to Langley abbey.

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7 feet high only : it was dedicated to St. Michael, whose image stood in the chancel, in the usual place of the imago principalis, or patron's image, which was always on the north side of the altar, mostly against the east wall, or at the very corner. When Nonoich Domesday was taken, the patronage was in seven parts, William le Monneu de Gow- t/iorp, Wil. Lerer de Dunstone, Wit. son of Nic. de Dunstone, Edm. de Carleton, Tho. de Framtingham, and others ; the rector had a house and 4 acres of land; it was valued at 40s. hut being not taxed, is not in the King's Books; it paid Qd. Peter-pence, 3d. carvage, 12 r/.syno- dals, and 7*. id. ob. archdeacon's procurations.

RECTORS,

In Edw. the First's time Ralfwas rector.

1307, Edm. de Carleton settled a fifth part of the advowson on his son Alexander. In

1312, Peter le Money of Gowthorp. for his turn, gave it to

Will, de Dunston. In 1314, John de Dunston gave his turn to Oliver de Witton. 1322, Ric. Weston of Norwich was presented by Eustace le Moyne of Cruchestoke. In 1323, Rob. de Dunston gave it to

Will, de Dunston, subdeacon. In 1332, Will, de Bttrgo, or Burgh, chaplain, and Jo/in de Burgh and Joan his wife, settled it on themselves, and the heirs of John, against the heirs of Alice de Burgh. In

1349, Edm. de Carleton was presented by Sir Peter Spirhard or Fakenham, who granted to this rector, and his heirs, a small piece ot land joining to the churchyard, and the fifth part ot the advowson appendant to it; he was succeeded by

John de Kimber/ee, who resigned in 1S72, and Simon Buck- ling, citizen of Norwich, gave it to

Ric. Lystere, on whose quitting it the next year, John Left presented

John Kirkehouse of Shouldham, succeeded in 1388, by John de Bruuthorp. In 1395, John de Dunston and Maud his wife settled a fourth part of the advowson on Sir Edmund de Thorp, Knt. John Reymes, and others. In

1406, John atte Dam in Oxburgh had it, and the same year, Kog. Blickling, citizen of Norwich, gave it to

Rob. Leghun, who soon resigned, for the next year John Witton had it by lapse, who changed for Szcerdeston with Walkeline Percomb, and he in 1412, for Rede, with

Simon Aleyn, who was presented by Sir Thomas Erping- ham, Knt. In 14 J 6, Clement Howard, Rog. Blickling s teoftee in the manor of Gowthorp in Swerdeston (to which this patronage was said to be appendant) presented

John Rede of Peterburgh, who was buried in the chancel in 1422. 1 find no presentation at his death, till 1432, when

Wilt. W'irmod had it by lapse, who changed for Berg- hapeton, in

1434, with Ron. Philpot, who was presented by Rob. Blickling -, his successour,

Walter Windeshore, resigned in 1463, and

446 LITTLE-PORINGLAND.

John Winter had it of the gift of John Gosselyn, then patron; he lived at Little-Poringland, and by his will dated 1505,s ordered his body to be buried in the " Grave redy made withynne " the chaunsell of Lityl Poryngland, Ilem, I wyll and bequethe to " the fyndyng of v Lights callid halff quarter Candells to brenne in " the honour of the v Wounds of our Lord God, and the v Joies of " our Ladi/ St. Mary, to brenne upon my Grave every Holyday in " Tyme of Dyvyne Service, coming of the Profights of suche Londes " as hereafter shall appear remayning in my feofees Hands to that " Use and Intent, to be found perpetuall. Item, I wyll and bequethe " that my place in Caster called Hawes, with all the appurtenances, " viz. Lands, Medues, Woods, Rents, and Services thereto belonging, " withy ne the Hundred of Hensted ; and also all my Lands, Medues, " woods, with appurtenances in the town of Intwood, Swerdeston, et " Carleton, or withynne the Hundred of Humi/yerd, shall remayne " and goo to the fynding of a good and honest Secular Prest, that " shall be Parson of the said Church of Lytyl Poryngland, with the " Profights and Revenues that shall come of the said benefice,6 shall " be downlieng and uprising ther, to pray for me, and for my Frends, " thatl had the good of, withynne the Town of Litil Poring/ond : This " to be done and performed by the Advice of my Lord Bishop of " Norzcich, Master James Hubberd the King's Attorney, and Master " Dr. Hare, Chauncelor of my said Lord of Norwich, after the Ordur " and Form of Law and good consciens. I wull that the said Mes- " suage, Lands, &c. shall remayne ever in Feofees Hands, of 12 of the " best of the Hundred. The King and chieff Lords of the Fee to be " served of due Right and Custom ; the which I wull myn Executors " and myn Feofees namyd shall pay them ; that is to say, John Hall " Gentylman, Thomas Sparrowe, Will. Sire, Rob. Iiotte, Herry " Baker, John Dussing Junior, John Osberne, John Hare, Tho. " Gooche, Rob. Leman, Rob. Rede, and Barth. Meeke ; and ever whan " it so happeth, that it shall come to the number of 4 Persons, than " I wull it shall ever be renued and taken a new State thereof ageyn " to that Use and Intent aforenamyd, and fynding of the Lights afore " wretyn, provided the same Land, &c. to remayn in the Hands of " my Executors and Supervisors, (Executors, Tho. Wright, John Ua/le "Gent. Andrew Sire, and Ric. Matchet ; James Hubberd and Dr. " Hare, Supervisors,) during the Nonage of my Sone Leonard's Chil- " dren, and to him that is eldest alive at 24 Years, the Lands &c. to *' remayn in his Hand, to the Use aforesaid ; and if any of the Chil- " dren of my Brother Leonard break any of the abovesaid Points of "my Will, then my Feftes alyve, shall turn him out and take the •" said Profitts, and pay the said Prest. Provided that if the King's " Laws will not suffer it, but will annex the Church of Littil Poryng- " land to any other Church thereby, then the said Messuage and " Lands, &c. to remayn to the next of my blood."7 So that upon

s Regr. Spyltymer, fo. %i. married to Ric. Matchet, and Eliz. to

6 Depositions for the rector for tithe Thomas Wright. His son Leonard had wood in a close by Hotts-lane, and that by Margaret his wife, Martin, who had that land lies in Porland-Parva, and not Gosselyn's or Carleton's messuage and in Stoke. A0 1555, A. 45, 56, 57, &c. estate in Little Porland ; John, to whom

7 He had two daughters; Margaret, he gave an estate at Huwe j James, who

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the union of the church to Great Portland, the estate went to the heir at law.

1527, Tho. Tudenham, alias Mileham, a canon of Hempton, had it by lapse, and in 1329, Martin Gostlyn presented

Tho. Green, who held by a personal union with Porland- Magna. In

1546, Hugh Duddesbury was presented by Hen. Doyly, Esq. in right of Margaret his wife, (who, I suppose, was a Gostlyn,) and held it really united to Porland-Magna, and personally united to Howe ; and in 1507, Hen. Doyly presented

John Gascoign, at whose death they were disunited again; and in lGll, Edm. Doyly, Esq. gave it to

John Bury, who held it united to Stoke-Holy-Cross ; he was succeeded by

Will. Coppin, who died rector of this, and Great Porland, in 1624, and Roger Castell, guardian to Edmund Doyly, Gent, gave it to

John Nash, A. B.8 1635, Edm. Doyly, Esq. presented

Robert Legge, at whose death, Sir Will. Doyly, Knt. in 1662, gave it

Oliver Harrison, and soon after to

John Goddard ; his successour,

John Paris, died rector of this and Great Porland. In 1696, Tho. Haconvf&s collated by lapse, and held it with Yelverton; and in 1734, 22 Jm/.

The Rev. Mr. Charles Wadesworth had it by lapse ; and the advowson being purchased by him of the Doylies, it was consolidated upon the statute to the rectory of Howe.

BIXLEY.

This village is now in the liberty of the Duke o/"Norfolk, who is lord of it, as a member to his manor of Framlingham Earl; and it hath passed with that from early times. In 128j, Rog. le Bigot. Earl of Norfolk, claimed to his manor of Biskele, a member of Framling- ham Parva, view of frankpledge, assise of bread and ale of all his own tenants in Biskele, and it was allowed him in eire : the advowson al- ways attended the manor, which wholly at first belonged to Roger Bigot, who granted off divers parts to be held of his barony. Bishop Stigand owned it in the Confessor's time, and gave it to his freeman

had his estates in Framlingham's, and nus, Joh. Nash incumbens, rectorianon.

Jone their sister had his estate in Apeton taxatur. Sinod. nd. procur. archid.

and Yelverton. 7*. id. ob. Ecclesia penitus demolita.

8 Edraundus Doylie Armiger patro- Revisio Archidiaconat. Norf. 163*.

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named Genret, who held it under him;9 Ralf Fitz-W alter had it; it was then worth 20, and was after raised to 50s., the village was half mile long and 4 furlongs broad, and paid \0d. ob. sell. It had a church and 24 acres of glebe, valued at 2s. a year. Ulketel the Dane had then another part," and Anslec a freeman another;1 all which, after a long contest in the hundred court with Godric the sewer, Roger Bigot recovered, and had his manor completed by divers parts, in Surlivgham, Rokelttnd, and Brameiton, being added to it.

The first part that he granted off, was to Saier or Saek de Bis- kele and Ada his wife, who survived him, and William de Biskele inherited, who was dead before 1233, for tUen Huge line his widow, released all her right to the Prioress of Carroiv, which house held it to the Dissolution ; and now it belongs to Carrow abbey manor, and was always held of Fomcet manor at half a fee; the Prioress being taxed for it at 52s. and 8d. temporal rents here ; but in 1609, Charles Cornicaleis, Knt. in right of the wife of Sir Ralf Shelton, Knt. son and heir of Sir John Shelton, Knt, owners of Carrow, sold part of them to Ric. Osborn, Gent. The Prioress had a J aid-course here.

Another part was granted by Bigot, the founder, to Langley abbey, who gave it at the foundation to that house, which was always taxed at 10s. for their lands here ; and after the Dissolution it came to the wards.3 It was held at a quarter of a fee of the Earl-Marshal, as of Framlingham-Farva manor.

In 12ti8, another part belonged to Tho. Rock, de Rupibus, or Rokele, and in 1286, Hen. de la Rokele, conveyed to Ric. de la Rokele,

integri ii. liberi et dim. homines God- wini sub Stigando xx. acris terre. Idem (Ulketel) tenuit. Ir. Rokelundai. inte- ger liber et ii. dim homines Godwini sub Stigando de xx. acris. idem tenuit. In Brambretuna tenuit Ranulfus Alius Gal- teri iii. liberi homines ejusdem de xx. acris. Inter omnes v. acr. et dim. acr. prati. semp. ii. car. tunc valuit viii. sol. modo x. Isti fuere liberati ad perfici- endum manerium Biskele.

* Invasiones in Nordfulc Hein- esteda H. fo. 302.

In Bichesle i. liber homo Anslec commend, cum dimidio libera T. R. E. de xvii. acr. semper dim. car. i. villan. i. bord. Istum servavit Rogerus Bigot in manu Regis sicut dicit et reddit cen- sum in hundredo sed hundredum testa- tur, quod Godricus dapifer tenuit sub Rege ad feudum R. Comitis antequam forisf.iceret i. anno, et post per duos annos ex dono Regis, et contra. Homo Rogeri Bigot contradicit judicio vel bello. Godricus reclamat istam cum medietate terre que est in breve Rogeri Bigot. Hanc recepit Godricus Dapifer pro dim. carucat. terre.

3 1609, Tho. Ward Arm. tenet terras nuper Abbatis de Langley, postea Dni. Nici Hare militis, postea MichaelisHare, armig. filij sui, &c.

5 Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Heinstede H. de escangio terre Isaac Doms. fo. in, 12.

Biskele tenuit Genret liber homo sub Stigando, T. R. E. pro i. car. et dim terre, et tenet Ranulfus filius Gal- teri. Semper ii. vill. semper iii. bord. tunc et post i. car in dom. modo ii. semper i. car. horn, et v. acr. prati. semper i. equus in dominio. tunc ii. anim. modo x. pore, et xiii. socm. manent in dim. car. predicte terre. et i. liber homo de ii. acr. lib. terre. Inter omnes semper iiii. car. tunc et post valuit xx. modo 1. sol. habet dim. leug. in longo, et iiii. quar. in lato, et de Gelto x. den. obol. i. ecclesie xxiiii. acr. val. ii. sol. hoc recepit pro i. car. et dim. terre.

"InBisKELEi. liber homo Ulketel commend, et dim. lib. sub eo, de xvii. acr. terre, et i. vill. et i bord. et i. acr. prati semper dim. car. tunc valuit xxxd. modo iiii sol. idem (sc. Ulketel) tenuit. hanc terram calumpniatur Godricus da- pifer per hominem suum juditio vel bello, Radulftim scilicet, quod tenuit ad feudum Comitis R. et Hundred, testatur ad feudum R. Bigot. Sed Godricus reclamat istam cum medietate, que est in breve Regis. Hanc recepit Godricus pro dim. car. terre. In Sutherlingaham

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his manor in Trous, Biskele, &c. of which under Rokele's manor in Trows.

In 1303, Sir John de Biskele had a manor or free tenement, which in 1396, John, son of Adam de Norwico or Norwich, held it at half a fee of Rog. Bigod Earl of Norfolk; and in 1309, he levied a fine and settled it on himself for life, remainder to Nicholas his son ; it then contained a messuage, 106 acres of land, 10 acres of meadow, and 40*. rent, in Biskele, Kirby, &c. In 1427, John de Norwich had it, and gave it to the master of Metingham college, who held it in 1432, and after the dissolution of that college, it came to the Wards.*

The manor of Surlingham extends hither; and overall the tenants, except those of the Earl ; the King hath the lete, as belonging to his hundred of Henstede ; and the Prior of Norwich had commonage on the heath or common pasture between Bixley and Framlingham*

5l. Bixley rectory, 45/. sworn clear yearly value.

Now consolidated to Framlingham-Earl.

So that it is discharged of first fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation.

In Norwich Domesday, the rector is said to have an acre of land, but no house ; it was first valued at 9, and after at 16 marks ; it pays 3s. synodals, 7s. Id. oh. procurations, 18i. Peter pence, and 3d. car- vage ; and the vill paid S2s. 2d. to each tenth. The Prior of St. Faith was taxed at 4s. for his temporals, and the chamberer of St. Edmund's Bury for his at lis.

RECTORS.

1303, Roger de Bykerwyke.

1304, Johu de Brigham. Roger Bigot Earl of Norfolk and Marshal.

1316, Ric. de Lumbaudeshay. Thomas de Brotherton, the King's son, Earl of Norfolk, &c. 1318, Will, de Overton. Ditto.

1349, John de Hardleston. Mary Countess of Norfolk and Mar- shal, who soon after gave it to

Gilbert Arches, who was succeeded by Hen. Page. 1361, John de Thomham. Lady Mary de Brewse Countess of Norfolk and Marshal.

John de Frenge, changed in 1367, with John de Esterford, for Brockdish. Sir Walter Manny. 1419, Tho. Benny, John Lancasvre, &c. attorneys general of John Earl-Marshal, who gave it to

* 1609, Tho. Ward Arm. tenet terr. suam que est inter Biskeleyam et Fra-

et tenementa in Bixley nuper Magistri mingham sicut melius, Sec. tempore

de Metyngham de manerio de Forncet. Regis Henrici avi mei et sicut disracio-

s Henricus (III; Dei gratia Rex natum est per homines hundredi. Teste

Anglie Dux Normannie, &c. Viceco- Thoma Cancellario, apud Sanctum Ed-

miti suo de Norfolcia. Precipio quod mundum.

ecclesia See. Trinitatis Norvici teneat E Regro im° Ecce. Cath. Norwic.

bene et in pace comnmnem pasturam fo. 56.

vol. v. 3 M

450 BIX LEY.

John Sampson in 1421, at Benny s death. In 1426, John Duke of Norfolk presented

Will. Wyverton ; and in 1467, Tho. Mastyr had it. In 1482, the Bishop by lapse collated. Rob. Murcoth. In 1415, Enz. Dutchess of Norfolk gave it to

Henry Bele. In 1490, John Cnstfince had it by lapse, and resigned it in 1497, to John Dalle. In 1513, Robert Hubbard was rector, and after him

George Troghley, at whose death in 1528, Thomas Duke of Norfolk presented

Routand Johnson, and in 1540, John Allen ; whose successour

Ru/f Hayton, died in 1570, and was succeeded by Will. Bainbrigge, and he by Henry Lynney, at whose death in 1601, John Hotden had it of John Holland, feoffee ofThomat Duke of Norfolk.

1610, Nic. Ruste was rector, and in 1630, Rob. Cowel.6

Giles Wilcox, rector. 1690, The Duke of Norfolk gave it to Will. Dilke. And at the death of David Fleming, who held it with Framlingham-Earl,

The Rev. Mr. Henry Goodalt, the present rector, succeeded, and holds it consolidated to Framlingham-Earl , (which see at p. 434

The church here is an antique small building, of one isle onty, which, with the chancel, is 18 yards long and 5 broad;, and is tiled, as is the south porch, and tower, which is low and square, and hath in it two small bells ; on the biggest is,

^ancte giohartn^ ^aptis'te ora pro nohi£.

It is dedicated to St. Wandragesilius the Abbot, to whose image pilgrimages were made in those days:8 the present fabnck was built by William de Dunwich, who was one of the bailiffs of Norwich in 1272, for on a stone at the south-east corner of the chancel, are these words,

ANiCOe wil€lC0i d6 donGwiEo fvndatoriS JpvivS

EEEL6S16 PROPlElATVR rj€vS.

In the nave,

E. T. ob. 28 Nov. 1718. set. 85. G. T. ob. 7 May, 1721, set. 85.

6 Comes Arundel, patronus. Rob. 8 1478, Alice Cooke of Horsted, wife Cowel, A. M. predicatorlicenciatus Rr. of R. Cooke of Crostwheyt, by will in &c. retinet eciam ecclesiam de Wickle- Regr. Castone, fo. 71, oiders thus, wood per unionem personalem. 1630, " Item, I wyll have a man to go a ,il- Revis. Archid. Norf. grimage to St. Wandnde of biskeley,"

7 Deprived for not taking the oaths to &c. Will, III.

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On an old brass at the altar step,

$ic iflcct &tephanus5 jtiathu qui obtit rtoii Die gjulii 3. 35. $J. ccct. Iriii0. cutu£ anime propinetut ©tu.S amen.

Bixley-Hall, the seat of the family of the Wards, is a well ouilt handsome house, erected by the late Sir Edw. Ward, Bart, grandfather of Sir Randall Ward, Bart, the present owner: it is situ- ate near the high road from Norwich to Bungeye, and fronts three ways ; looking north towards Norzeich, west against the road, and south through divers enclosures, towards the east part of Porland Heath. The Baronetage, vol. iii. p. 195, mentions

A Ward, married to Margaret Mortimer,9 as father and mother of

John Ward, who by the marriage of the daughter and heiress of Jokn,' son and heir of Thomas 3 de Bosco or Bois,5 of Kirbybedon, be- came lord of that manor in 1563, and was succeeded by

John Ward, Gent, his son and heir, who married Katherine daughter of Will, Appkyard* lord of Bracon-Ash and Dunston ;' his will was proved Oct. 27, 1445,6 by which he ordered his body to be buried in the church of St. Mary at Kirby ; and it appears that he was lord of the manors of W ode house, Bedons, alias Seams; and patron of two parts of the advowson of Kirby St. Andrew; having estates in Bixley, Surlingham, Bramerton, Rocklands, Fram/inghant, Trowse, and Witlingham ; leaving

Robert Ward, Gent, his eldest son and heir,7 who married Alice Kemp of Gissingf by whom he left

Robert Ward, Esq. who married the daughter of John Copple- deck, Esq.9 and had

Robert Ward of Kirby, Esq. who by a daughter of Sit Giles Capel' of London, Knt. (ancestor of the Earl of Essex) had

Henry Ward of Postwick or Posswick, Esq. z who in 1553, was one of the representatives in the parliament held at Oxford, for the city of Norwich;3 in 1562, he died seized of Kirbybedon manors, &c. of the manor and advowson of Postwick, of Plumstede-Magna manor, and other estates in many of the adjacent towns ; of the manor, rectory, site of the monastery, Sec. of Flitcham; and of the rectory of Barkway'm Hertfordshire : he married Margaret, daughter of William Ugges of Poke thorp by Norwich, by whom he had several children, the eldest was

9 Or, semi de-lises sab. 9 Warde impaled with Coppeldyk,

* John de Bosco, lord of Meldinghall arg. a chevron between three croslets

in Burston, vol. i. p. 129. fitche gul. and also

1 See vol. iv. p. 109. Pallet, sab. a chevron gul. be-

3 Erm. a cross sab. tween three covered cups or; and

4 Appleyard's arms, vol. i. p. 180. Warde.

5 See p. 56, S3. * Capel, gul. a lion rampant arg. be.

6 Regr. Wylby, fo. 37. a. tween three cioslets fitche or.

7 For -irTho. IVard, his second son, * He had divers brothers, as JefFery see vol. ii. p. 477. And for John Ward, Ward, alderman of Norwich, (see his third son, see vol. ii. p. 4S0. vol. iii. p. 278,) and others, from whom

3 In a farm-house in this parish, I saw the wards of Castor, and other families

a coat of Ward impaling Kemp, quar- of this name, are descended,

tering Buttevelyn in the windows, and 3 See vol. iii. p. 27-

452 B I X L E Y.

Edward Ward, Esq. of Postwick, who was the first of the family that settled at Bixley, and built the old hall there ; in 1565, he was lord of Kirby-Bedon, and held it of JohnLeigh, as of his manor of SurUngham ; by his will, he devised the manor of Barkway rectory, to his son Edward, with remainder to Joseph Ward, a younger son, brother to the said Edward ; and soon after his decease, the two brothers joined, and sold it to Dame Susan Saltonstall ■* he married June, daughter of John Havers ot'Winfarthing, Gent.5 by whom he had 12 children ; and dying in 1563, lies buried under an altar tomb in Bixley chancel, at the north-east part of it, with the crest and arms of Ward, impaling

Havers. The effigies of himself and wife with a faldstool between them, in a praying posture, with nine sons behind him, and three daughters behind her, still remain, and this inscription,

<3n fatal! £ombe a Squire \>in h>e£. m.s'hrurtue bn ©eathe, €>ne Edwarde Warde, toho lefte of ttaclue, ten Children oeare, DDpth Anne his" lopinge ©ife, on Mayz ©an past his" breathe, 2nt> &ou(e to <£>ot> bn Chnste, though! s'cnceles's" Corpes' Ipe heare, <0bnt 1583, actatis' s"us 41.

Of all his numerous issue

William Warde, the sixth son, was the most remarkable ; who being put apprentice, became a wealthy goldsmith in London, and jeweller to Henriette-Marie, King Charles the First's Queen, and was knighted by that King: the great fortunes which this gentleman raised, was owing to a lucky accident, soon after his setting out in trade, which I find thus related : Mr. Ward standing by his shop door in Lombard-slieet, a man in a sailor's habit passed by, whom he asked the usual question, whether he wanted any thing in his way ? whose answer was, He could not tell! till he knew whether he had oc- casion for something he had to dispose of, which he would show him, if he pleased to go into the back shop ; where Mr. Ward was sur- prised with a great number of rough diamonds, poured out of a bag upon the compter by the sailor, who at the same time asked him, if he had occasion for, or would buy any such things? and if so, what he would give for them ? Mr. Ward answered he had, and would buy, if they could agree; which was soon done, so much to Mr. Ward's liking, that he invited the sailor, and all the ship's crew, to supper at a neighbouring tavern ; where he treated them so generously, that the sailor whispered to him at parting, that he had such another parcel for him in the morning, if he pleased to buy ; which Mr. Ward gladly accepted of, and bought them, gave the like treat, and parted merrily with mutual joy ; the sailor for his ready cash, and the jew- eller for the great advantage that he saw in his purchase. He soon fell to work upon the stones, which fully answered his expectation, and so much added to his fortunes, that he soon raised his reputation, and became one of the most eminent bankers in London. It after chanced, that Edward Lord Dudley having much impaired his for- tune by irregular living, was advised by his friends, to apply to Mr. Ward, as an honest and substantial banker, for 20,000/. who told his

* Chauncy's Hist. Hertf. fo. ioz. 5 See vol. i. p. 150.

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Lordship at once, that the money was ready, upon producing satis- factory security; which his Lordship soon did ; upon which, M r. Ward told his Lordship, he thought he might be supplied better and more honourably, than by borrowing : and being asked, how ? M.T.Ward said, he had an only son, and his lordship a grandaughter (named Frances) the only issue of his son and heir, Sir Ferdinando, deceased ; and if they might be married together he would supply more than the present want: my Lord listened to it, the match was soon concluded, and so the two familes and estates became united. When Sutton Lord Dudley died, the married couple were not equal in honour; she, Lady Ba- roness Dudley, (the honour descending to females, on failure of heirs male,) her husband, only Mr. Humble Ward; but he, meriting much for seasonable supplies brought to his Majesty, was in conside- ration thereof, first knighted at Oxford in 1643;6 and shortly after, advanced to the dignity of a Baron, by the title of Lord Ward, of Birmingham in Warwickshire,1 from whom the present John Lord Ward is descended.

But to return to the eldest branch of the family.

Thomas, eldest son of the said Thomas and Anne, settled at Bixley, and married Eleanor;* daughter of Thomas Godsalve of Bukenham- Ferry, Esq. by whom he had

Thomas, who married Anne, daughter of William Peart of Essex, Esq.9 and died in 1632, seized of the manor and advowson of Postwick, the manor of Great Plumstede, &c. leaving

Edward Ward of Bixley, Esq. his son and heir ; who was knighted by Oliver Lord Protector, Nov. 2, 1657 ; he having been high sheriff of Norfolk in the preceading year, was continued in that otfice this year also: his first wife was a Catlyne,' by whom he had no issue; tut he had several children by his second wife,1 Eliz. daughter and sole heir of John Harbourne of Mundham, Esq. 3 grandaughter of William Harbourne of Mundham, Esq. who was sent ambassadour by Queen Elizabeth, to the Grand Segnior, as appears by her Majesty's letters patent dated Nov. 29, 1582. In the year 1660, 12 Car. II. Sir Edwatd was created a Baronet; which patent, it is said, was procu- red by Lord Ward, that the eldest branch of his family might not want a title of genuine honour. He died about 1664, seized of Post- wick manor and advowson, lands and estates in Bixley, Framlinghams, Kirby, Trouse, Amringhall, Poringlaud, 8tc. held in soccage of the Duke of Norfolk, which he left to

Sir Edw. Ward, Bart, his eldest son, who died about 1684, and married Jane* daughter of William Rant, M. D. of Thorpmarket and

6 Peerage, edit. Lond. vol. i. A" buried in Bixley chancel 23 Aug. 1710, 1710, p. 21, among the Barons. Peer- at. 53.

age, edit. Lond. 1741, vol. iv. p. 120, Hie jacet quod Mortale fuit Caro-

and Baronetage, vol. iii p. 196. line Ward de Bixley in Com. Nor-

7 Created a Baron 23 March, 1643. folciae, ob. iS° Die Febr. A. D.

8 Le Neve says Mary ; see vol. iv. p. i6qi.

161. 3 Harbourn of Mundham, az. three

9 Peart, or, on a bend gul. three mas- lions passant or quartering Harbourn, cles of the field. gul. on a fess or between three bezants,

1 See vol. ii. p. 447.. a lion passant sab. linguedgul.

1 Henry Ward, Anne daughter of * See vol. iv. p. 160. Hen. Ward, Gent, and Cath. his wife,

454 BIX LEY.

London ; she died in 167 1, leaving many children, the eldest of which was

Sir Thomas Ward, Bart, who died single in 1692, leaving his estate to his brother,

Sir Edward Ward, Bart, who married Barbara, daughter and coheiress of Leonard Gooch of Earskam in Norfolk, Esq. who is now living, and had issue,

Sir Edward Ward, Bart, who married Susan,$ daughter and sole heiress of Mr. William Randall of Yarmouth,'' merchant; she is still living, but Sir Edward died in March 1736, and was buried at Bixley; they had issue three sons, and two daughters, of which Thomas and E/iz. died young, Susan is now (1748) living and single, and

Sir Edward Ward, Bart, succeeded his father in the honour and estate; he was fellow commoner of Caius college in Cambridge, and dying single in 1742, was interred in the chancel; for whom there is a neat mural monument over the south door, with the arms of Ward, and this inscription,

Ostendunt Terris hunc tantum Fata. Sacred to the Memory of Sir EDWARD WARD of Bixley, Bart. (Son of Sir Edzvard and Dame Susan his Wife) who at an Age exposed to Temptation, and prone to Vice, in Spight of the Contagion of Corrupt Examples, blush 'd at every Vice, and prac- tis'd every Vertue : Every humane and generous Principle, was implanted in his Soul by Nature, improved by Education, matu- red by practice ; a large and diffusive Benevolence distinguished him to the World; to his Friends, Faith and Constancy invio- lable, to his Relations, the purest Affection ; and to his Mother, Piety and Tenderness beyond Example: At the University of Cambridge for the space of three Years, he pursued his Studies, with Diligence and Success, and being ready to enter into the publick and busy Scene of Life, fully prepared to satisfy the Expectation of his Country, the Hopes of his Friends, and the fond Wishes of a Parent, a malignant Fever put an end to his Life, in the 21st Year of his Age.

He died Apr. 7th, 1742.

Sir Randall Ward of Bixley, brother to Sir Edward, is the pre- sent Baronet.

The arms of Ward are,chequy or and az. a bend erm. Motto, Pense bien.

Crest, on a torce or and az. an outlandish deer trippant proper, collared and chained reflecting over the back or; which arms and crest were confirmed by Sir Gilbert Dethick, 22 Nov. 1575.

Some of the family have since used an ante/ope for their crest ; and others, on a cap of maintenance, an eagle displayed or; but without any reason for so doing.

5 Buried at Bixley in July 17 19. arg. five mullets sab.

* Randall of Kent, gul. on a cross

W I T L I N G H A M. 455

There are several achievements of the family in the chancel; one hath the motto, and crest of an antelope.

Warde, quartering 9 coats; 1, Mortimer. 2 Appleyard. 3, Kemp. 4, Coppledick. 5, Capet. 6, Hemes. 7, Godsalve. 8, Pert. 9, Harboum of Mundham. All these impaled with Harboum.

That for the last Sir Edward, hath for a crest, on a cap of main- tenance gul. turned up erm. an eagle displayed or.

Another hath Ward quartering Harbourn, and a coat of pretence of Gooch.

Another hath the crest of an eagle, Ward single, and a coat of pretence of Randal

Another hath Ward with the Ulster arms, quartering arg. a chevron gul. between three trees serf, impaling Harbourne of Mundham, and a coat of pretence of Harboum.

WITLINGHAM.

This village was in two parts at the Confessor's survey ; one belonged to Edric de Laxfield, and was a berewic to Eaton, as may be seen at p. 516, vol. iv.7 and after passing a long timewith the manor of Rokele's in Trowse, became joined to a manor in Kirby-bedon, 8 and after to Wadkers in Windham, as you may see at p. 506, vol. ii.

The principal manor of this village belonged to Bishop Stigand, and was held by Ulflet, a free-woman, in the Confessor's time, being

7 Terre Regis quam Godricus servat. post ii. modo i. et dim. hoc pertinet ad

H. Heinestede. Doms fo. 28. Aietunam.

In Aietuna i. berevitaWislingeham, Terra Rogeri Bigoti. Heinestede H.

tenuit Edricus T. R. E. de lxxx. acr. Doms fo. iii.

jerre, sender ii. bord. tunc i. car in do- In Wising lingaham tenuit i. liberi

minio post et modo iv. acr. prati. femina Ulflet T. R. E. sub Stigando

In Wislingaham i. liber homo Episcopo clx. acr. terre, semper ix.

Edrici commend, et in Brambertuna iii. et bord. tunc i. car. et dim. in dominio

in Rokelunda i. de iv. et dim. habuit post et modo i. et dim. hominum viii.

Edricus commendationem T. R. E. et acr. prati, et xiii. soc integri et iii dim.

Ulketel de una et dim. et Aluredus tan- xlii. acr. terre et iii acr. prati, semp. i.

turn commendat. de dim. postquam car. et dim. tunc valuit xx. sol. post et

Wills. Rex conquisivit Angliam,et R. modo xxx. habet dim. leug. in longo et

tenuit omnes quando se forisfecit et post iv. quar. in lato, et de gelto vud. qui-

Godricus in ministerium Kegis, hoc tes- cunque ibi teneat et ecclesiax. acr. val.

tatur hundret, modo Aitardusde Vals,eX xiii. hec tota terra est defeudo Almari

revocat ad feudum Episcupi Baiocensis Episcopi et tenet idem Robertus, (sc.

de tenetura Aluredi antecessoris sui, et Rob. de Curcun.)

hundred dene, ei quod non pertin. ad 8 Witlingham cum Walkeline's manor

antecessorem suum; tenent isti omnes extends into Homersfhld in Suffolk. xl. acr. terre et iii. acr. prati ii. car. et

456 WITLINGHAM.

then worth 20s. there was a church and 10 acres of glebe, valued at 12d. a year, and the whole was of Bishop Jlmar's fee; at the Con- quest it was risen to 30s. a year, and the town was then half a mile long, and as much broad, and paid 7^. to the geld, towards every 20s. raised in the hundred. The Conqueror gave it to Roger Bigot, of whom it was held by Rob. de Curcun or Curson at the survey,9 and after by William de Curcun his son, who sold it to Osbert and Pamel his wife, and they were infeoffed as at p. 129; and it continued with Carleton till 1320, and from that time with Cosley, in the Jernegans, as at p. 413, vol. ii. till the year 1342, and then Sir Peter Jernegan, Knt. conveyed it to Will. Berte. In 1371, Ric. le Spencer was lord; in 1393, George de Felbrigge and Amy his wife sold it to Will, de Ermyn, clerk, in trust for Edzcard Gerbridge and Cecily his wife, and their heirs. In 1432, John Coppuldike was lord, and afterwards Mar- garet daughter of John Coppledick, wife of Tho. Zouch, Esq. settled it with other manors, on Peter Ardenie their trustee ; for in 1478, Sir John Coppledick paid his relief for two fees; and in 1435, Sir John Coppledick, Knt. and Elizabeth his wife, sold it to Nicholas Hare and others, when it extended into Kirby-bedon, Trouse, Lakenham, Bixley, Framlinghum, Yelverton, Norton Soupe-Cors, Newton- Flotman, Rock- land, Bramerton and Surlingham ; and in 1546, by the name of Sir Nic. Hare, Knt. he and Robert Hare had a grant of Sa ham's in Kir- by-bedon, and of the impropriate rectory and advowson of Witlingham, and so it came joined to the manor; and in 1549, Robert Hare set- tled on Sir Nicholas Hare, Knt. and Miles Hare, his son and heir, this manor, impropriation, and advowson, with the manor and third part of the advowson of Kirby-bedon: this Miles was lord in 1559, when he paid his relief for two fees, which this manor was held bv, to Rob. Kempe, Esq. feodary to the Duke of Norfolk, of whom it was held; and in 1609, Michael, son of Michael Hare, Esq. held it at two fees of Forncet manor, and in 1610, sold them to Owen Sheppherd, Esq. general receiver to Henry Howard Earl of Northampton, by which office he much advanced his fortunes ; and it continued in the family till Rob. Sheppherd, Esq. barrister at law, sold it to Mr. Cock of Norwich, by whom it was sold to Edw. Pearce, Gent. * of Parsons Green in Fulham parish in Middlesex, son of Edw. Pearce of London, Esq. by Mary, daughter of Thomas Bishop of London, Gent, and grandson of John Pearce of Glyn, by Alice White of Lewes in Sussex, and by Mary daughter and coheir of Sir Dudley Carleton (by his second wife, Lucy Crofts of Crofts Castle in Herefordshire, ) he had Edward Peirce, Lieutenant General, Colonel Thomas Peirce, Major General in 1693, and Alary, Lucy, Bridget, &c. Edward son of Lieutenant General Peirce, married a daughter of Major General Peirce, who now is his widow, and owns it.

The church was dedicated to St. Andrezo the Apostle, and its advowson belonged to the manor: it was founded before the Con- fessor's survey, for it is entered there. In 1249, Richard de Roke/e, lord of that part of the town which beonged to Roke/e's manor in Trowse, claimed a right of presentation, against Agnes widow of

9 Seep. 12S, 137. It was held of the Crest, a demi-pelican or, vulningher- Bigots, containing 4 carucates. self proper. Middlesex Visitation A"

* Pear.ce, vert, a bend cotized or. 1668.

W I T L I N G H A M. 457

Roger Fitz-Osbert, who then held the manor in dower; hut upon proof that Will, de Curson, Fitz-Osbert's predecessor, always presented single, it was confirmed absolutely to the manor; and was after given by Peter Fitz-Osbert / lord here, to the canons of St. Olave at Hering- Jieet in Suffolk of his father's foundation, and was immediately appro- priated to their house, and having no vicarage endowed, they took the annual profits, and paid a chaplain or curate for serving the church, till the Dissolution, when it was granted to Sir Nicholas Hare, Knt. and from that time to this, hath passed with the manor, with which it now remains.

Norwich Domesday tells us, that it had a house and 12 acres of glebe was valued at five marks and an half, and was appropriated to the Prior of St. Olave, the synodals being l6d. the procurations 6s. 8d. the Peter-pence 5d. and carvage 4d. ob. and the vill paid 50s. to each tenth. The Prior of Norwich had a portion of tithes here, out of the demeans of Roger Fitz-Osbert, which was confirmed by Bishop B/un- devy/e, and settled on the ce/erer of the monastery; they were first valued at 40s. alter reduced to 5s. only; and in 1513, the Prior ofSt. Olave compounded for them, with the Prior of Norwich, at \c2s. per annum. The Prioress of Carrow had temporals here taxed at 3s. ]0d.

In 1593, Mr. Stebbing was curate, and it was returned as aperpe- tual curacy. In l6()3, in the Answers of the Parsons, among others is this entered, Tho. Cranforth is curate, it is an impropriation, of which Mr. Hare is proprietary, and pays to the curate a stipend of 4/. per annum, there are 40 communicants in this parish, which is in Brook deanery. In lt)09, James Smith was curate. In the Revision of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, made in 1630, it paid the aforesaid synodals and procurations, and Laurence Townley, curate, received a clear stipend of 4l. per annum.

But soon after, the church being dilapidated (for now the walls only, and a square tower remain) it was joined to Kirby-bedon (the manor of which, belonged at that time, to the same owner) and continued with it many years ; and the rector of that church received the sti- pend and other ecclesiastical dues, and then performed the duty, by- burying the parishioners at Kirby, &c. 3 but 1 am informed, that it is lately joined to Trowse, though by what authority I know not.

* See p. 129. Wicklingham St. Andrew, was at the

3 1653, a register of all births, marri- general sessions of the publick peace,

ages, and burials, within the parishes of holden at the castle of Norwich in the

Kirby-bedon St. Andrew, and Wick- shire-house there, Oct. 4, last according

lingham St. Andrew, begun in 1653. to the said act, united, <i'c.

According to an act of parliament The act of union is dated Oct. 4, 1653,

dated 24 Aug. 1653, Ambrose Shepherd, and entered in the county records. 12

Gent, was chosen 24 day of Sept. 1653, Car. II. cap. 12, confirms such judicial

to be register of the parish of Kirby St. proceedings done in the rebellion. Andrew, unto which the parish of

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TROWSE and NEWTON,

JNow called Trowse with Newton, the latter being a hamlet to the former, though originally it was the contrary; Netcton being the principal part or manor, and Trowse an appendage to it;* Bishop Stigand owned all Nezeton, and about half Trowse, and a. free-woman held them of him; at the Conquest, Godric seized it, but could not keep it, for upon her appeal to the Conqueror himself, she had it re- stored for life ; it contained three furlongs in length, and four in breadth, and paid Sd. gelt, towards every 20s. raised upon the hun- dred. There never was a parish church at Newton, but the inhabi- tants always went to Trowse ; after her death, Godric had it, and Raff Fitz-Godric gave it with the advowson of Trowse, to the monks of Norwich, which gift King Henry II. confirmed. In 1285, the jury presented, that the bailiff of the King's hundred of Henstede al- ways held his hundred court at Troicse, till within these 13 years past, when he was inhibited so doing by the Prior of Norwich, lord there, under pain of excommunication ; and it being found to be one of the Prior's manors, enjoying the privileges of the church, and that this was no damage to the Crown nor country, the inhibition was confirmed. In 1428, the Prior was taxed for his temporals here at 30/. 8s. \0d. ob. At the Dissolution, Trowse and Troicse-Newton manor, with the impropriate rectory and advowson of the vicarage, were conveyed to the dean and chapter of Norzcichf who are now lords, impropriators, and patrons of the vicarage.6

Trowse-Newton-Hall is an ancient building, erected by the Priors of Norwich, whose country seat it was; it had a chapel and all offices convenient: in in 1335, King Edward III. and Phillipa his Queen, lodged there, as at p. 540, 612, vol. iii. It continued as a retirement for the deans, long after the Dissolution, but being now leased out, is inhabited by a farmer only.

* Newotona tenuit i. libera femina 5 1601, John Suckling, Esq. sued

sub Stigando pro i. car. terre semper Joan Suckling, widow, and Thomas and

viii. villan. et viij. bord. semper i. car. Christopher Suckling, touching the lease

in dom. tunc iiii. car. horn, post i. et of this manor, now in possession of Peter

dim. modo ii. car. horn, et xl. acr. prati Gleane, Gent, by virtue of another

modo x. anim. tunc ii. pore, modo iii. lease, it was in jointure to Colonel Suck-

et v. ov. hng's widow, of Wotton, in 1693.

In Trus vi. soc. pertinentes isti ma- 6 There were divers lands, rents, and

ner'u> de lvi. acr. terre et ii. bord. et v. services, added to this manor, of divers

acr. prati, et i. mol. semper i. car. et gifts, as by John son of John de Hemen-

dim. tunc valuit totum xx. sol. post et hale, Robert de Hemenhale and Kat.

modo xxx. Ikc manerium fuit ad cen- his wife, Thomas Vincent, Amabil,

sum in ministerium Godrici pro xxx. widow of Andrew le Porter, all before

sol. Sed Godricus non habuit eos, 1280, Will. Butt of Norwich in 1305,

quia revocat ipsa Regem ad defensorem, Henry Trewboy in 1339, and in 1392,

habet iii. quar. in longo et iiii. quar. in by Rob. Thugarton. lato, et viiid. de gelto.

TROWSE. 45Q

That part of Trowse on the Norwich side of the river is called Trozese-Milgate, of which you may see a full account, in vol. iii. p. 168, 197, 380 ; vol. iv. p. 524.

ROKELE'S MANOR

In Trowse, extended into a great number of the adjacent vills, but though it was so very considerable at that time, the several parts have been sold off or manumised, so that Sir Randall Ward, Bart, is the only remaining copyhold tenant of the manor; which Anscot had at the Confessor's, and Ranulf or Ralf at the Conqueror's survey, who held it of Roger Bigot,7 and it hath been held always of the Nor- folk family, as ofForncet manor. William Curcun was lord here, and gave it with his daughter Alice, to Ric. de Rupibus, Rupella, Rock, or Rokele, who had Richard and Reginald;3 but they dying without issue, Will. Rokele their brother succeeded ; in 1268, Thomas Rokele was lord, and in 1286, Henry Rokele, who the next year conveyed it to Ric. de la Rokele, who was lord in 1306 ; in 1390, it was owned by John Rokele or at Hal, citizen of Norwich, who then conveyed to Sir Miles Stapleton, Knt. Sir Roger de Boys, Knt. Richard de Cralefield, master of Norton-Soupecorse college, and William de C/axton, this manor ; with 20 acres of demeans called Trowse- Hilles, 55s. quitrents, one capon, and one pound of cinamon, with liberty of holding a court every three weeks in Trowse, with the suit of all the tenants be- longing to this manor, in Witlingham, Trowse cum Newton, Bixley, Kirkebydon, Bramerton, Taseburgh, Brakendale, Rokelond, Carleton Jurta, Langley, Surlingham, and Amringha.il. In 1357, Will, at Hyl and JefferyFemon,9 granted other lands, 8tc. which were joined to these manors, to William de Btickling, Earth, del Appefyard, and John de Causton. It after belonged to John Potter, then to John de Witton; and about 1403, John de Barney and Will, de Catton had it ; and after that, Edmund Cai/y of Trowse, Gent, who infeoffed Sir John Clifton, Knt. John at Chirche, Esq. Andrew Syre of Surlingham, Richard Rede of Oxburgh, Edmund Fairbed of Trowse, and William Narford of Bixley ; it had been then in trustees hands, for they had it of the feoffment of John Hempstedc, citizen of Norwich, Roger Prat, clerk, Will. Ymmis, and Thomas Wild. In 1438, Robert Howlyn, clerk, convej'ed it to Sir John Clifton, Knt. John Windham, Esq. and Will. Gladine of Norwich, notary publick, with all the fisheries, szcan- marks, &c; ' and in 1445, they released it to Clifton. In 1491, it belonged to John Blake, who lies buried in the chancel, with this on a brass plate,

<@rate pro anima gof)arini£ 2?fafce, qui nbiit viii0 ore men£ig .Iftarru £. ©. M. crcclrtTjn. cuiusS amine rironinetur ©eu£.

7 Terra Rooeri Bigoti, Doms. fo. ses Norwici xii. acr. terre, semper val.

132. Heinestede H. ii- sol.

In Treus i. liber homo Anscot 8 See Bixley, p. 44.S, 9. Witlingham,

commendat. T. R. E. xl. acr. terre et p. 456.

iii. bord. hoc tenet idem (sc. Ranul- 9 demon's seal hath a shield of barry

fus) et i. lib. homo dim. sub eo iiii. of eight, a bend : crest, a man's head

acr. prati. between two wings. S. Galfrid?

Terra Regis, fo. 9. In Framinga- Vernoni. HAM et in Treussa teneat duo Burgen- ' See vol. iv. p. 3S9.

460 TROWSE.

Under it was a shield parted per chevron in chief two cinquefoils pierced, in base a batt.

It was, after this, settled on the ?nasler and brethren of St. Giles's hospital in Norwich, and by them tied to find Bishop Goldwell's chap- lains, as at p. 178, vol. iv.; and in 1582, was leased out, as at p. .i89, vol. iv.; for its value, &c. see vol. iv. p. 395. It now belongs to St. Giles's hospital, to which the mayor and aldermen of the city of Norwich, are perpetual trustees.

The church is 27 yards long, and 8 broad ; it hath a square tower about 16 yards high, in which are three bells; the church and chancel are both leaded ; there is also a south porch ; and the vicarage-house and yards join to the south side of the churchyard.

At the outside of the east gable of the chancel, on a stone under a niche, in which an image formerly stood, is this,

wilGlOOvS : dG kirkGbi : prior ; norwiE :* CCG : poSvit : EvivS : ANiODG : propiEiGtvr: nGvS.

It seems he built the chancel, and placed the image of St. Andrew the Apostle (to whom the church is dedicated) in it, in view of all the passengers in the high-way, which goes under the churchyard wall ; in 1280, he leaded it and glazed it at a great expense.

In the chancel, Prudence Wife of Ria]± Brooke, Daughter of Da- niel Palmer and Mary his Wife, died Wet. 1658. Prudence their Daughter, 1648.

Hunton, sab. a chevron, erm. between three talbots passant org.

Hannah the dearly beloved Wife of John Hunton, 9 Dec. 1707.

Hie jacet Johannes Hunton Generosus, ob. 28 May, A. D. 1714, set. 57.

Da llison, arg. on a pile ingrailed az. three crescents of the

field, impaling

Tuthill, or, on a chevron az. three crescents arg. granted to

one of that name atSaxlingham.

Here lyeth the loving Wyef of Bog. Da/uson, Sonne and Heire apparant to William Dahjmn of Latcghton in the County of Lin- coln, Esquier, and Daughlpr and Heir to William Tuthill of Newton, Gentleman, and Elizabeth his VVief, who ending her Lief in the Yeare of our Lorde Qod 1585, the 27 Day of Sept. and in the lQih Year of her Age, hath left here her body in the Earth, the Memory of her JName upon the Earth, and her blessed Spirit above the Earth, and earthly Power,

Suckling impales two bars. Margaret Relict of Rob. Suckling of Woodton, Esq. Jan. 22, 1700. Suckling quarters Aldrich.

Carolus Svckling de Bracondale Generosus, Caroli Suck- linge de Woodton, Filius natu Minor, Communi peste obijt

2 See vol. iii. p. 602.

TROWSE. 461

15 Julij fatali Anno 1666. Maria Uxor ejus e Generosa. Aldri- chiorum de Mangreen Familia, Haeres unica Relicta, per Annos ferine quinque lenta Tabe languida, charum secutaest virum 18° AprilisA 1671.

Utriusque optime mereutium Memorise, Quatuor Filiaj Super- stites pie posuere,

Eliz. Wife of 2'Ao. Clypwell of Trowse Newton, 20 Jug. 1708, set. 76.

Francis Barber, June 25, 1701, a3t. 85.

John, third Son of John Knyvet Esq. and Lucy his Wife, ob. 15 Jan. 1685. (See p. 100.)

Thomason,oo a bend three birds, eacli with a trefoil in their mouths.

Henricus Thomason Generosus, Filius Georgij Thomason Mer- catoris Londinensis fraterque Charissimus, Georgij Thomason hujus Ecclesie Vicarij, hanc mortalem deposuit vitam 12 Die Mensis Maij A° iEt. 34, annoque Dni. 1677.

The following inscriptions on brass plates are now lost :

Orate pro anima aticie parm, quonoam tarortsi Mti. Hi'n.s'teo que abut r Die augu^ti, 3. ©. JBcccccu0 cuuijS amine propictetnt 5>eu£.

Here lyeth the Body of William Tuthill Gent, who ended this Life the 28 Day of March, in the Year of our Lord 1591 ; he was born in Saxlingham, and married the Daughter of Mr. Woohey of Norwich, by whom he had Issue only one Daughter, ■who married to Roger Dallyson of Laughton in the County of Lincoln, Esq. Arms of Tuthill and Woolsey, or, on a chevron between three wool- packs az. three garbs of the field.

©rate pro anima fitcaroi Honoc, quoiioam ^iltcaru i.tftius <£ccle; ■sie qui obut ff oie 3ugu£ti &. <©. JElccrcctitg emu.*0 anime propu eietue ©eu£ amen.

There is a tomb in the yard for John Youngs, 9 Jan. 1721, 84. And June and Hester his two Wives, Hester died July 1676, and June Feb. 1703, Sarah their Daughter 1705.

For Trowse river and bridge, see vol. iii. p. 3, 143, 7, 53,71, 426, 42.

Concerning an insurrection here in 1569, see vol. i. p. 334, pe- digree.

In 1239, Walter Fitz-Bernard settled on Carrow prioress, Si. per annum rents in Trowse and Newton.

The church was appropriated to Norwich Prior and monks in 1205, by John de Grey Bishop of Norwich, at the death of Master Simon de Plumpstede, the last rector, to the office of the sacrist, a pension of two

462 SURLINGHAM.

pieces of gold (duorum aureorum) being reserved to the celerer; and the Prior was taxed for his spirituals at 12 marks. There was a vi- carage endowed, which was always presented to by the priors;* and its advowson belongs now to the dean and chapter and is one of their peculiars* pays no synodals nor procurations to the Archdeacon of Norfolk, not first-fruits ; it stands thus in the King's Books,

5l. Teowse vicaria. 10s. yearly tenths.

So that being undischarged, it is not capable of augmentation ; it pays \od. procurations to the Bishop at his visitation, and the town paid 40s. clear to each tenth.

Here was a gild of St. Andrew, to which John Stone, who was bu- ried at the porch door in 1507, was a benefactor; as also to our Lady's image in the church, and to the light burning in the bason before the rood-loft. In 1553, John Debney was buried here.

In 1323, Thomas Edit/iorp was vicar. In 1412, John Gorleston. In 1(169, 26 Aug. died Mr. Drtiry, vicar bf Trowse. In 1603, Tho. Cau- forth, vicar, returned answer, that there were 170 communicants here. Dean Prideaux had it, see vol. iii. p. 628.

The Rev. Mr. John Kirby is the present vicar, who hath Stoke-holy- Cross also.

SURLINGHAM,

Suth erling ah am, or the t'iV/age of low meadozcs on the south side of the water, was in several parts at the Confessor's survey ; the chief manor belonged to Ulketel the Dane, and was after given by the Conqueror to Roger Bigot of whom Ethard de Vaux held it at the survey,5 when the town was a mile long, and half a mile broad,

3 See vol. iv. p. 75,558. 5 Terra Roceri Bigoti, fo. 109.

♦ Trous. Appropriata est ecclesia De escangio terra Isaac. sive rectoria Priori et conventui Sancte In Sutherlingaham tenuit Ansger

Trinilatis in ecclesia cathedrali Norwic. i. lib. homo Godvini T. R. E. viii. acr.

Decanus et capitulum dicte ecclesie ca- terre et ii. acr. prati Aitakdus tenet, thedralis patroni vicarie. Fu/co Roberts, Adhuc in eadem xxx. liberi homines

clicus: S. T. B. vicarius ibidem, retinet Ulketel, c. acr. terre et x. liberi homines

etiam prebend, in ecclesia cathedrali Stigandi, 1. acr. terre sub. xxx. istis i.

predicta et lectoriam Sancte Clementis bord. et sub. x. liberis ii. bord. inter

in Norwico. Estimatur 5I. decima 10s. omnes xxxii. acr. prati, tunc liii. car.

procuratio epi. i^d. non solvit synodalia habebant xxx. post ii. et dim. modo iiii.

nee procuraciones archidiacono Norfol- tunc habebant inter x. i. cat. et dim.

cis, non visitatur ab Archidiacono Nor- post et m° i. tunc lii. xxx. val. xv. sol.

folcie, neque subdita est ilia ecclesia aut post et modo 22 sol. et vid. tunc li. x.

parochiani ejusdem eidem, sed peculiaris val v. sol. post et m* viii. sol. et vid.

est jurisdictio dicte ecclesie cathedralis. et habet i. leug. in longo, et dim. et

Revisio Archidiac. JNorf. A0 1C30. lato, et de Gelto ijd. sed plures ibi

SURLINGHAM. 463.

and paid IQd. to the geld, towards raising every 10s. tax, laid on the hundred: this constituted the manor of Surlingham, which had the advowson of St. Marys church in Surlingham belonging to it ; and it contained also, the greatest part of the adjacent village of Bramerton, the advowson of which church also belonged to it, as also the advow- son of the parochial church of

St. Saviour in Surlingham, which was given with the church of St. Mart/ there, to the abbess and nuns at Carroio, by Norwich, by Maud de Mutton, lady of the manor, and patroness of them both ; and immediately after the gift, the rectory of St. Saviour, was appro- priated to that house, which to its dissolution received all the great and small tithes belonging to it, paying a yearly stipend out of them to a serving chaplain here : and it continued a distinct perpetual curacy till lately: in 1630, in the Revision of the Archdeaconry of Norfolk it is returned, that James Culley, clerk, was then curate and proprietor,6 that it paid I8d. synodals, aud 5s. archdeacon's procura- tions, and was appropriated to Carrow, and there being no vicarage endowed, it was never entered in the King's Books: the Abbess in order to get it appropriated, pretended that it was only a chapel be- longing to the church of St, Mary; but that was contradicted by the return then made, and entered in Norwich Domesday Book; where it is said, that Surlingham St. Saviour had the same patroness with St. Mary, and that though they had now valued it with it, yet here- tofore it was a mother-church, distinct from the other church, and had baptism and burial; for the Lady Maud de Multon, formerly patroness of the same, declared that all infants born in that parish, were baptised there, and that her own brother, and many others, lie buried in that church, and that the parishioners have been buried there immemorially.

In the Cho/vgraphy of Norfolk, St. Saviour's church at Sur- lingham was returned to be a donative, sometime belonging to the priory of Carrozce, and purchased of the King after the Dissolution, whereto belongeth one bain, and no other houses, and 30 acres of glebe; about 1705, it was settled by consent of all parties, that the impropriator, should pay for ever a clear rent charge of \6l. a year, by quarterly payments, and so should enjoy all the great and small tithes and glebes, belonging to this parish ; and soon after, the service was removed to St. Marys, and the church dilapidated ; it never had any steeple, the bell hanging in a niche at the west end ; the nave and chancel were of an equal height and bigness, each be- ing 15 yards long and six broad ; and had a south porch.

In the yard lies an old coffin-stone, with a cross flore on three grieces ; and on a grave-post is this,

tenent. Idem tenet (sc. Aitardus de 20 acr. terre, idem tenet sc. Ulketel.

Vals.) (Part of Bixley manor.)

(Fo. 112.) InSuTHERHNGAHAM ii. In Sutheki.ingaham ii. dim. lib.

lib. horn, ejusdem xii. acr. terre semper horn. Ulfi, hoc tenet idem. (Part of

arant cum ii. bovibus! idem tenet, sc. Framlingham manor.)

Ulchetel or Ulketel. (Part of Fram- 6 Presbiter parochialis ecclesie Sci.

ingham manor.) Salvatoris, A° 1449, fuit capellanus

In Suthehlingaham integii ii. lib. gilde sive fraternitatis Sci. Salvatoris in

et dim. hom. Godwini sub Stigando, de ecclesia Sancti Salvatoris de Surlingham.

464 S U R L I N G H A M.

Here lieth the Body of Mary the Daughter of Francis Field, and Margaret his wife, who departed this Life Dec. 124, 1685.

It stands on the side of a hill, about two furlongs north-east of

The church of St. Mary the Virgin, which was given also by Maud de Mutton, lady of the manor, to which the advowson was till that time appendant.

RECTORS OF SURLINGHAM ST. MARY,

PRESENTED BY THE PRIORESS OF CARROW.

1303, Sir Will.de Carlton.

1304, Master Will, de Dallyng, LL. D. 1324, he changed for liecham with

John de Thirstone, who was the last rector. For in 1349, they got it appropriated to their house on the 10th of July, for to find clothing for the nuns;'' the original appropriation is extant in the 4th Institution Book, fo. 24, 26, by which it appears, that the Bishop was to nominate the vicars on every vacancy to the prioresses, who were obliged to present the persons so nominated : the vicar had a vicarage-house assigned him, with the tithes of hay, wool, and all other small tithes and offerings whatever, belonging to the parish ; with 33 acres of glebe land, and an annual pension of 10 marks out of the great tithes.8

VICARS

NOMINATED BY THE BISHOPS OF NORWICH, AND PRESENTED BY THE SEVERAL PRIORESSES OF CARROW.

1349, 2 Sept. Roger de Geyst, priest, the first vicar; he died in 1381 ; his will is in Regr. Haydon, fo. 157-

1382, Barth. Broun, subdeacon, who changed in 1384, for S. Wals- ham St. Laurence with

Bartholomew Pocock, who lies buried in the choir of the hospital church of St. Giles in Norwich.

1385, Will, de Boton.9 In

1412, Edm. Coupere, resigned to

Nicholas Hales, for St. Julian's in Norwich; he was buried in this churchyard in 1432, being succeeded by

7 In 1347, the King licensed them to that St. Saviour had formerly a barn, appropriate this church j see vol. iv. and no other houses; and (as it is sup- p. 527, 8, 557, 8. posed) 30 acres of glebe.

8 26 H.VTII. Compot. Prioresse Car- 9 In 1428, Priorissa de Carrovve tax- row, &c. solut. vicario de Surlyngham atur ad 32 marc, pro ecclesia de Surling- pro pensione sua 1 7/. 7i. Item pro pro- ham, in qua est vicaria dotata ad 11 curationibus ecclesie de Surhngham 10s. marc, et vicariussolvet procuracione sua 1612, a pension of 331. \d. was paid 14s. %d. et sic Priorissa solvet i%s. 3d. yearly to the Bishop of Norwich, after- pro integra decima. The Prioress was wards remitted, it not being paid now as discharged from paying it, on account of I am informed. the parish being much damaged by in-

The Chorography of Norfolk says, undations.

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Master John Alnwyk, a relation to William Alnwyk Bishop of Norwiih, who nominated him to this vicarage; he gave the present town-lands to this parish, to repair the church, and lies buried in the chancel, with this inscription under his effigies in brass,

H4agi£tcr Siohn iacet hie, Dictum prcnobilijS SUntorife, <©ui debit «2cc[e£ie plunma tiona £ue, fljt JtlunDum renuit, celica ficgna J>etit, anno Jtlillcno € quatcc % quoque oeno.

He resigned this in 1449, and

Robert Cotyller succeeded, and in

1475, John Chaumber/eyn had it, and in

1487, Rob. Scott; in

1496, William Gore, who died next year, and lies buried in the chancel, with this on a brass plate,

<&zatt pro anima iBiKt. <©ore quondam Wicarii i^ttujS <£cc[c.sic qui obut anno ©omini .JlicccclOTrtM0.

Ric. Lumhalx succeeded him, and lies buried by him with this,

<©rate pro anima ©omini fticaroi Eunhatoftrisi quondam ftecrorte j<ittu£ oEcctcjSie qui obut jeje0 ©te ©ecembr : au ©ni. M. toe, jeiii. euiu£ anime propicictuc ©cus!.

Thomas Langworlh succeeded him, and resigned in 1517, to Stephen Logon, who was deprived, and in 1525, Alexander Duckworth was nominated by the Bishop, and was the last presented by the Prioress ; he died vicar.

1552, Reginald Witten, A. M. the Bishop nominated to Anne Shelton, owner of Carrow, he died vicar, and in

1557, James Greene was presented by Sir John Shelton, Knt. at the Bishop's nomination.

1584, Robert Peachye, A. M. who in 1 603, returned answer, that there were 154 communicants here;1 he died vicar, and in

1639, Samuel IVi/lan was collated by the Bishop, and after him it was served by licensed curates, and in 1677, Wil. Brooke was licensed to it; in 1683, James Bowgin was instituted by lapse; and in 1706, Francis Brooke was instituted to the vicarage of Surlingham St. Mary, at the nomination of the Bishop, and presentation of Na- thaniel Axtell, owner of Carrow, on the death of

James Bowgin, clerk. Hitherto the impropriation had gone with Carroio, but soon after this, Mr. Axtell sold the impropriations of both churches, and the presentation to the vicarage ; and on tire

* Surlingham See. Marie Vicar, that Sir Charles Cornwaleis was patron

Dns. Episcopus habet jus nominandi ad of St. Mary, in right of the heir of Shel-

ecclesiam &c. proc. episcopi lod. Sinod. ton, and that to it belongeth a mansion-

lid. Proc. Achidiaconi 7s. -]d. ob. It house, back-house, barn, and a stable

stands in the King's Books thus, new builded, and 4 acres of glebe, be-

61. 13$. i,d. Surlingham alias Slingham sides the site of the houses which joins

vicaria, 22/. clear yearly value. to the east side of the churchyard. Re-

So that it is capable of augmentation. vis. Archid- Norf. A0 1630.

The Chorography of Norfolk says,

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466 S U R L I N G H A M.

sale, settled a clear annuity of 16/. to be paid quarterly out of the great and small tithes of St. Saviour, and the parsonage-house and glebe lands of St. Mary ; besides which, all the small tithes whatever of St. Mary's parish belong to the vicar, which are now let to the impropriator. In

1725, Thomas Manlove, A. B. was instituted by Thomas Tanner, S. T. P. on the resignation of

John Fox, and presentation of Rich. Gent, at the nomina- tion of the Bishop of Norwich, to the vicarage of the parish of St. Saviour and St. Mary of Surlingham, and was inducted by the Arch- deacon of Norfolk. In

1731, Gilbert Bennet, A.B. on the cession of

William Evans. Ditto. In 1736, on Bennetts cession, Roger Giddings had it, and held it with Moulton rectory by union; he was nominated by the Bishop, and presented by Ric. Gent the elder, patron and impropriator, whose son, Mr. Richard Gent of Surlingham is the present impropiator and patron, at the Bishop's nomination.

The Prioress of Carrow had temporals here, taxed at 9s. 4d. The marsh belonging to the Prior of Norzvich, was taxed at 4s. 4d. The temporals of the Abbot of Lang/ey at lis. 9d. And the whole rill paid clear to each tenth, without the religious, (who were taxed by themselves) lis. Qd.

The church of St. Mary, hath a steeple about 50 feet high, round at bottom, and octangular at top, and four bells in it; on the

2d, 5P>a 45(onam ©eo. 1505.

3d, WtrrjintS <£grcgie toocor Catnpana Uilarie.

4th, g;ohannt!> Jlri^ti care, otgnare pro nobis orare.

The nave and north isle, are both twelve paces long, the church nine broad, and the isle three; the chancel is ten paces long and six broad ; there is a south porch, all leaded.

In the nave there are stones for, Mary Newman l66l. Anne, Daughter of John and Florence Newman, 1667. Ursula Wife of John Newman 1663.

On the font are the emblems of the 4 Evangelists, the shield of the instruments of the Passion, the emblem of the Trinity, that of the sacrament, viz. three cups, with a wafer on each of them, and the arms of the East Angles.

In the north isle,

<©rate pro animabu^ HiiDrie .§nr (&trt) ft 3(icte ©attach (JPcljtih) * t* » * auDrtc, quorum animabuS propinetur ©cu£ amen.

<©ratc pro antma "Scrmpn Jle^pnjrham, 3°. ©ni. M. t>£ w&°-

S U R L I N G H A M. 4G7

In the east window,

<©ratc pro animabu.fi fratrum ct s'ororum ©iltie, .f>t. .Saltiatori^.*

In a south window are two broken effigies, one of a false witness, and under him, Cegtt'g iniquu.fi. In a label this, |)e 3jUrc.fi tiana per ipguttt. The other hath the word jjjcrhufj under him, and this in a

label, STuo.si tienerare ^arentcfi.

THE CAPITAL MANOR OF SURLINGHAM, with BAST- WICK'S PANCLOSE, and VERDOiN'S, annexed.

Surlingham manor belonged to Jitard or Ethard de Faun,3 who held it of Rog. Bigot in the time of the Conqueror, and it continued a long time in his family, and passed with the manor of Keswick, as you may see at p. 434. It remained in the Vaux's family till about 1250, and then John de Vaux gave it, with his daughter Maud, in free marriage, to Thomas de Mutton or Moulton, of Gillesland in Cumber- land, and they in 1252, had a charter for free-warren in all their demeans, by the grant of King Henry III.; but notwithstanding this, and other favours conferred on him by that King, he deserted him, and joined with the rebellious barons against their Prince; upon which, the King seized upon this manor, and gave it to William de Saint Omer, and directed his writ to the sheriff of the county, to deliver him seizin ; but the sheriff favouring the batons, would not do it, but for his refusal, he was next year fined 10/. and after that 20/. and the treasurer of the Exchequer was ordered by the court to levy it;4 but after this, making his peace with the King, he died seized, and in 1275, Maud his wife settled it by fine on herself for life, and then on Hubert de Multon her son : she was found to have free- warren, assise of bread and ale, and view of frankpledge, in the towns of Surlinghum, Bramerton, and Rockland, but that the lete or view of frankpledge, belonged to this manor only for 30 years past, when Andrew IValceline, bailiff of the King's hundred of Hemtcde, to which these letes belonged, took of the then lord of Surlingham, 20s. and a robe, to say nothing of it. In 1295, it was found that Maud de Vaux, widow of Thomas de Multon, died seized,5 and left it to Hubert her son, as guardian to Thomas her grandson, son of her eldest son, Thomas de Multon, who died before his father; but when the

- 1449, John Sprott de Surlyngham, Thorp, Walton, and Winch, held of

legavit vicario de Surlyngham omnes Petronilla de Nerford, and of Denham

denarios fratrum et sororum de consue- manor in Suffolk.

tudine consuetos, de gilda Sancti Salva- In 1315, John de Multon was re-

torisde Surlyngham: idem etiam legavit turned lord ; in 1331, Margaret widow

presbitero parochiali ecclesie Sancti Sal- of Sir Hubert de Multon was lady, see

vatoris de Sulyngham. vol. iv. p. 79. In 13+5, William de

3 Aitardus de Vallibus habuit mane- Legh was lord. The Multon family, con-

rium de Surlingham, et Robertus, et tinued in Lincolnshire, after they had

Hubertus, post eum, et A° 1239, Jol- nothing to do here. In 1367, John de

landus de Vaux. Placita 24 H. III. Multon of Holbech, son of Sir John de

+ Placita Corone, Term. Mich. 51 et Multon, Knt. died, and left Maud his

52 H. III. coram Kege. Roi°2d. daughter and heiress, married to Wil-

5 bhe is said to die seized of one fee in liam de Spain of Boston.

468 SUR LING HAM.

said Thomas the grandson came of age, he released it to his uncle Hubert, who held it of the said Thomas de Mult on, who was found to hold five fees in Surlingham, Denham, Kirby, Keswic, and Cringle- ford, of Forncet : at Hubert's death, John de Multon his son inhe- rited, who held it of that Thomas de Multon of Gillesland, who had released it to his father Hubert ; and it seems that John died a minor, and was succeeded by Margaret du Bois his sister, then the wife of Sir William, Legh, Knt. for Will, de Legh, Knt. and Margaret his wife, settled it in trust, on Adam de Brampton and Will, de Tofts, it heing then worth 32/. 14s. per annum. In 1S78, Sir William Legh, Knt. was sole lord, and granted off a 40lh part of a fee here and ia Rockland, to the Abbot of Langley ; that part here, constituted the Abbot's manor; he died seized this year, and Will, de Legh, Knt. his son, succeeded him; in 1415, he settled this manor and Bramerton advowson, on himself and Agnes his wife, in tail; Henry Preston and others being trustees; he gave lands in Cringleford to St. Giles's Hospital in Norwich; to the deed is his seal affixed, circumscribed, &i8illum 4>omini ©till : Oe Itegf) !Etilttt£. The crest is a falcon rising from a torce; the arms are, two bars surmounted by a bend chequy; he died in 1427, and Agnes his wife survived him, and Sir Will. Legh, Knt.6 his son and heir, had livery of his lands; he died about 1492, and Thomas Legh. or Lye, his son, inherited, who died in 1494, seized of this manor and Bramerton advowson, which extended into Bramerton, Kirbybedon, Yelverton, Bixley, Poring/and, and Framlingham : it being held of the Lord Dacrcs, who held it of the Norfolk family, as of Forncet manor. Rob. Legh, his son and heir, succeeded. In 1527, John Legh, Esq. paid to Richard Bainard, Gent, feodary to the Duke of Norfolk, 4/. for an aid to marry Ca- therine, daughter of Thomas Duke of Norfolk ; he holding Surlingham manor at four fees, of his honour of Forncet. After him, Tho. Legh, Esq. and Maud his wife, owned it, who seems to have been a Redman, it being settled at their marriage on Mathezc Redman, in trust. In 1556, Thomas Samson, a trustee, released to 'Thomas Legh, the manor, with a warren of conies, free-warren, &c. in Surlingham and Bra- merton ; in 15()8, Tho. Legh, Esq. conveyed it to Ric. Lowther; and in 1570, Sir Tho. Gatcdy, Knt. of C/axton, was lord, and had free fishery in the river, belonging to it; in 1587, at the death of Sir Thomas Gawdy, Knt. one of the justices of the Common Pleas, who died the 5th of Nov.; it was found that Henry, his son and heir, was then 36 years old, and that the manors of Bastwick's in Surlingham,7 and Panclose there,8 were held in capite of the King, that I erdon's manor9 in Surlingham was held of Forncet, as was also the capital

6 This Sir William, purchased of Ric. 1189, settled it on Vincent Clerk ofSur. Gatefaweld and Joan his wife, John lingham ; it had 42 acres in demean. In Lowecowe and Agnes his wife, &c. the 1240, Will, de Burgh conveyed it to manor of Trissington in Cumberland; Jeffry de Say and Alice his wife, the and Agnes his wife was the heiress to, rents being two marks a year; it after and brought him the manor in Cumber- belonged to Thomas Levebaud, and land. then about 1285, to Master Ric. Leve-

7 So called from the name of the baud, and in 1345, to John Sparrow, lords; in 1373, the heirs of Peter le 9 This manor was in the family of the Brett held the 4th part of a fee, of the Verdons, and passed with Brisingham> Earl of Pembrook. as at vol. i. p. 49, &c.

1 Peter son of Jeffery de Holkhamin

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manor of Surlingham. In lG03, Sir Henry Gawdy, Knt. was found lord, as heir to his father Sir Thomas, who purchased it of Mr. Legh ; the fines are certain at 2s. an acre.

It was sold by Gawdy to Mr. Corbet, and belonged afterwards to Mr. Corey,1 and after that, to old Major Hauteyn, who sold it, the advowson of Bramer ton, and the warren excepted, to Colonel Thomas Sidney of Randworth, whose two daughters and heiresses had it; Mary married to Sir Brownlow Sherraud, Bart, who released their right to William Perry, Esq. of Turvile Park in Bucking- hamshire, the present lord, who married Eliz. Sidney, sister to the said Mary.

The court is usually kept at CoLDHA.M-HAi.L,co:nmonly called the Wood's End, which formerly belonged to one of the united manors, but is now a public k-house belonging to a private owner.

EARLHAM'S MANOR IN SURLINGHAM, with LITTLE- BREECHE in ROCKLAND.

This manor belonged to Godric the sewer, and Alnot the Saxon, when the survey was taken;1 in 1215, Roger de Veteri Ponte or Vipond, had it; it was sometime owned by John de Eurlham, from whom it took its present name. In 1272, it had assise of bread and ale, and Will, de Carleol, a minor, in the custody of Sir Ric. de Boy- land, had it; in 1285, Sir Tho, de Helgeton or Hellington, owned it, and joined his manor of Little Breche in Rock/and, to it, which hath passed with it ever since.

In 1315, Tho. de Helgeton was lord ; and in 1381, John Latimer of Norwich: in 1401, Nic. Briant, or Brian, held half a fee here; in 1404 Ra/f Dacre, and in 1409 Tho. Dacre held it. In 1429, Thomas Baxter, alderman of Norwich, willed it to be sold; and in 1446 Tho. Lucas of Holkham, Esq. gave it to Ethe/dred his wife, and after her death to Elizabeth his daughter. In 1520, Kat. Bosard, widow, died, and left it to Margery her daughter, then the wife of Thomas Naunton, Esq. and Will. Naunton their son, had it after them.

Earlham's manor, had then 26s. 8d. quitrents, &c. and the lands belonging lately to Metyngham College were joined to it.3 How it passed from the Nauntons, I do not find, but Sir Tho. Gawdy pur- chased it of Mr. Holdich ok'Ranzcorth, and left it to Hen. Gawdy, Esq.

1 Mr. Corey of Bramerton owned it, held a quarter of a fee here, of Roger

it being bought by Sir Robert Reeve, Sturmyn, Edw. Syre, and Sara Picot, of

whose two daughters had it. P.L.N. Arundel's fee, formerly of Ralf de

1 Terre Regis quain Godricus servat. How's; and now John Neve, clerk,

Heinestede H. Donis. fo. 27. master of Metyngham college, holds it.

In Suterlingeham iii. lib. horn, et In 1266, Will. Esturmy or Sturmyn,

dim. Alnot commend, de xlv. acr. settled it on Laurence Clarice, and Ni-

terre semper i. car. et v. acr. prati, et colas Sturmy, after the death of Muriel

sub eis v. bord. his mother. In 1312, Rait Syre of Sur-

Terra Godrici Dapiferi Heinestede H. lingham settled his estate here on Vin-

fo. 165. cent Syre.

In Sutherlingaham ii. integri li- The Sturmys Syres, and Surlinghams,

beri horn. Edwiniet iii. de xl. acr. terre are three old families, owners here; of

et iii. acr. prati, et iiii. bord. semper i. the last, Will, was rector of Colveston ;

car. see vol. ii. p. 231. And John de Sur-

3 In 1401, Sir John Norwich, Knt. lingham was rector of Barsham.

470 BRAMERTON.

his son, and it was sold by the Gawdies; and in 1720, Tho. Rant, Esq. of Yelverton, was lord, at whose death, James Rant, Esq. of Mend- ham, his brother had it, whose son, William Rant of Mendham, Esq. sold it to James Bransby of Shotesham, Gent, the present lord.

The eldest son is heir, and it gives no dower.

The court is usually kept at the publick-house called the Ferry,* which is owned by Lady Ward of Bixley.

ABBOT'S, or LANGLEY MANOR

In Surlingham, was granted (part by Sir Will. Leigh, part by Ric de Hoe or Howe, and part by others) to that house.5 In 1285, the Abbot was summoned to show why his villeins of Surlingham did not do suit to the King's hundred court? but the Abbot was discharged, on proving no such suit was ever done. In 1401, the Abbot held a 40th part of a fee here, and in Rockland, of Sir Will, de Leigh, and Nic de Castello or Castle, and another part of the heirs of Hubert de Mult on : this continued in the abbey to its dissolution, and it seems afterwards to have been joined to the capital manor.

BRAMERTON.

The name of this village is said to signify Brab-mep-run, or Broad- mere-town ;6 to which Broad-mere belongs a swan-mark to this day. It was in the hands of Roger Bigot at the Conquest,7 and is now in the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk, as a member of his manor of Framlingham, which extends hither; and indeed, this town is very particular for not having a manor belonging to it ; the principal part

+ The ferry, called Surlingham ferry, 6 Brade, lata ; ea, aqua ; tun,

is a very great passage over the river, villa. The town by the brozA-wattr.

and the ferry-boat is both large, safe, 7 (Doms. fo. 302.) In Brambre-

and convenient. tvna tenet Aitardus (deVals)de Rogero

5 Terra Willi. Epi. Tedfordensis, de Bigot) xvi. acr. quod tenmt libera te-

feudo. f. isi. Heinestede. H. mina commend. Edrici et R. Comes te-

In Rokelunda Wills, de Noers, et nebat quando torisfecit, teste hnndredo,

Sutherlingaham ii. vill. de xvi. acr. et et Rob. Blundus, postea in manu Regis

ii acr. prati, semper tunc dim. car. et modo tenet Aitardus homo Rogeri

ar'ant cum duobus bovibus, pertinet in Bigot commend, postquam R. fonsfecir,

Langale.

ita hundred, esse testatur, et ilia femina

(Fo. 162.) In Sutherlingaham i. offert judicium quod verum est teste

liber homo Elmari commend. T. R. E. hnndredo, et Aitardus contradicit, sub.

de x. acr. terre et ii. acr. prati, et ii. ea sunt ii. integn libtn homines et dim.

bord. semper arant cum duobus bovibus de vi. acr. et i. acr. et dim prati, inter,

semper val. xvi. d. modo tenet Wil. omnes semper dim, car. tunc ii. sol.

Episcopus. m°do iiii.

BRAMERTON. 471

and advowson belonging to Surlingham manor ;8 the next consider- able part to Framlingham; another to Bixley,9 another part to Trowse Rokeles, another to Kirby-bedon, another to Cringleford,1 another to Fiamlingham-Picot? besides others that extended hither: the whole at the Conquest was four furlongs long, and two and an half broad, paid lOd. ob. geld, and had a church and 24 acres of glebe, worth 2s. per annum.

The church of St. Peter is a rectory capable of augmentation, for it stands thus in the King's Books :

6/. Bramerton rectoria. 48l. clear yearly value.

To this rectory belongs a parsonage-house, and convenient out- houses, joining to the south side of the churchyard, and about 22 acres of glebe ; when Norwich Domesday was made, Lady Maudde Multon,3 in right of Surlingham manor, to which this advowson and above half the town belonged, was patroness : it was first valued at eight, then at ten marks, and paid as it doth now, 6s. 8d. procurations, and 2s. synodals ; and then also 12J. Peter-pence, and 6d. carvage. The town paid 3/. 8s. to each tenth. The temporals of Langley abbey were valued at 20s. and those of Carrow at 6s. lOd.

RECTORS.

Ric de Overton, resigned in 1305, to Will, de Averinges. The King, as guardian to the heir of Hubert de Multon, lord of Surlingham.

1349, Adamde Knetsford. Sir Will.de Legh, lord of Surlingham.

1350, Rob. de Condrei/e. Ditto.

1355, Andrew le Smith. Margaret, relict of Sir Will. Leye,oi Legh, Knt.

1397, Will. Louse-water, ob. Clement de Skelton, Knt. 1428, Edm. Legh, Sir Will. Legh, Knt. 1432, Rob. Spencer. Ditto.

8 Terra Rogeri Bigoti, fo. no. In (Fo. 132.) In Brambertuna i. liber

Brambretvna xii. liberi homines ix. homo Ulfi commend, hoc tenet idem

Ulketelli commend i. Sancti Edmundi. (sc. Ranulfns.)

alt. ii. de feudo Stigandi. sunt x. te- * Terre Regis quam Godncus servat.

nentes xl. acr. terre sunt ii. de feudo Doms. fo. 28. H. Heinestede.

Stigandi T. R. E. xxxii. acr. terre, In Brambretuna iii. liberi homines

modo xv. acr. inter x. i. car. et dim. Edrici.

semper, inter ii. tunc dim. car. post Terre Episcopi Baiocensis, fo. 60. In

nichil modo i. bos. tunc et post val. Brambretuna ii. acr. et dim. terre ap-

omnes v. sol. modo vi. sol. et iiii. d. pretiati sunt in Kiningaford.

habet iiii. quar. in longo et ii. quar. et a Terre Godrici Dapiferi. Heinestede

dim. in lato, et de Gelto x. d. et ob. H. Doms. fo. 165.

i. ecclesia xxiiii. acr. val. xxiiii. d. In Brambretuna 11. liberi homines

Idem tenet, (sc. Aitardus de Vals. de Edwini, de xi. acr. semper dim. car. et

Rogero Bigot.) i. acr. et dim. prati.

9 (Fo. 112.) In Brambretuna tenuit 3 In 1285, Maud de Multon had a lete

Ranulius Alius Gualteri iii. liberi et ii. over all her tenants, here, in Surling-

dim. homines ejusdem de xx acris, inter ham, and Rockland, and the other lords

omnes v. acr. et dim. acr. prati semper had their several liberties over their

ii. car. tunc val. viii. sol. modo. x. isti own tenants ; so that I do not find the

fuerunt liberati ad perficiendum ma. hundred had any lete here, nerium Biskele (Bixley.)

472 BRAMERTON.

1458, John Shave, res. Lady Isabel Legh of Carlisle diocese.

1459, Rob. Hammond. Ditto. 1494, John Candeler, ob. Lapse.

1503, Ric. Atkinson, ob. Rob. Lock, Esq.

1518, Rob. Chaumber, abbot of Ho/mecu/trum. John Legh, Esq. He resigned in

1521, to Tho. Railton. Ditto. At his death in 1558, John Legh, Esq. gave it to

Ric. Pullyn; and about 1571, sold the advowson with Sur- lingham manor, to Sir Tho. Gawdy, Knt. of Claxton, who in 1583, presented

Hugh Robinson, A. B. who held it united to Rockland, and returned 6 1 communicants here. In

1629, Sam. Bootie, S. T. B. had it of the gift of Sir Robert Gawdie, Knt. and in 1639, George Gawdie of Stepney, Esq. gave it to

Richard Webster, at whose death in 1683, it was given to William Brooke, who held it by union with Kirby. The Rev. Samuel Salter, D D. Archdeacon of 'Norfolk,* is the present rector; and John Houghton of Bramerton-Hall, Esq. is the present patron.

The church and steeple were totally rebuilt in 1462.s It is 31 feet long, and 18 broad ; the chancel is 26 feet long and 15 broad ; it hath no isles; the square tower joining to the west end, is 45 feet high; and contains three bells; the whole, with the south porch, being well covered with lead. In the chancel,

Here lieth Thomas Corie, Esq. the only son of Francis Corie, Esq; by Anne the daughter of Sir John Corbet of Sprows- ton, Bart, who died Feb, 5, 1682, aged 27 years. And also Eliz. his only sister, who died at the age of five years.

Corie's arms and crest, a derai-grirnn or, issuant from a ducal coronet proper, quartering Corbet.

Arms of Corie and Corbet impaled.

In Memorie of Francis Corie, Esq. Recorder of Noiuich, and Anne his Wife, Daughter of Sir John Corbet, he died in the year 1678, aged 82.

Bridget Wife of Francis Corie, Esq. ob. 10 Mar. 1652.

John Houghton died 28 Sept. 1723, aged 75.

Mary the loving Wife of John Houghton Esq; ob. 30 Aug. 1727, aged 6S.

Corbet Houghton, Sept. 12, 1710, aged 28.

In the nave, John Goodwin Apr. 9, 1701, 65.

* See vol. iii. p. 646. ingin pieces the windows of this church,

5 3 Edw. VI. Nicholas Cooke and and for pulling down Bramerton-cross thre others, were prosecuted for break, and Rockland-cross.

BRAMERTON. 473

In the cliancel window,

Arg. a cross sab. which I take to have been Bois's arms, only the ermine is worn out; but as it appears now, it is Norwich deanery arms.

At the east end of the churchyard, on altar tombs, John Daudy Nov. 5, 1700, 47. Rob. Daudy 26 Nov. 1700, 50'

There was a brass by the altar rails with this,

Here lyeth interred the Body of Robert Cory, who after- long and tedious sickness of above 4 years continuance, which he endured with Patience, died the 17 of August A. D. 1629, and in the 56th Year of his Age, leaving behind him a second Wife, and 6 sons and two daughters, which he had by his first Wife.

Bramerton Hall is a good house, situated pleasantly enough, against the east side of Bramerton heath; it was built by theCoRiEs, which have been owners of estates here, ever since 1403, when Robert Corie first settled here, having purchased an estate of William Langton of Bramerton, and Maud his wife: the next I meet with was William, whose second son Francis Corie of Bramerton, married Grace, daughter of Mr. Bronne of Tacotneston, and had Thomas Corie of Bramerton, who by Barbara, daughter of Ric. Fer- rers of Norwich, had five sons and one daughter;6 of which, William Corie of Norwich, the 5th son, married Joan, daughter of Christopher Soame of Norwich, Esq. and had Thomas Corie of Norwich, and two daughters; Mary, married to Fyrmyne Le Neve of Ringland in Norfolk, grandfather to Peter le Neve, Norroy ; and Anne, the other daughter, married to George Grundie, goldsmith, of Norwich, and had issue : their brother Thomas aforesaid, married Rose, daughter of William Tudenham, of Hale in Norfolk, and had Thomas Corie of Norwich, Gent, who married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Chris- topher Layer of Norwich, Esq. (see vol. iv. p. 231,) and Anne and Rose, who both died unmarried ; they had two sons and one daughter, of which Francis and Bridget died single, and William, their eldest son, a barrister at law, married Judith, daughter of William Coppin, of Wotton in Norfolk, who remarried to Theophilus Williams, rector of East-Herling, but having no issue, this branch of the Cories ex- tinguished.

Robert Corie of Bramerton, second son of Thomas Corie and Barbara Ferrers, was buried here in 1629, and by his first wife, left Francis Corie, recorder of Norwich,7 who was buried here in 1673 ; his eldest son and heir married Anne daughter of Sir John, and sister and coheir of Sir Thomas Corbet of Sprowslon, Bart, by whom he had a son Thomas, who died single in 1682, and was buried here, and Eliz. his sister by him, so that for want of heirs, he gave lusBramerton

6 i, Francis; 2, Robert; 3, Thomas; From some of them, several branches 4, Richard; 5, William ; and Grace, may be descended. 7 Vol. ii. p. 420. VOL. v. 3P

474 KIRBY-BEDON.

house and estate, to John Houghton of Randworth, bis wife's sister's son.

The family of the Hauteyns, Haughtons, or Houghtons (for I find the name often spelt these three ways) is of very old standing in this county, their ancient capital seat for many ages, being at Oxnead, under which place I intend to treat of them at large; so that 1 shall go no farther back new, than to

Sir Robert Houghton, Knt. serjeant at law, and one of the readers at Lincoln's-Inn, whose son, John Houghton of Randzcorth, had by Mrs. Doughty, Robert his son and heir, who married Eliza- beth, sister to Anne Corbet aforesaid, by whom he had four sons and three daughters, Eliz. married to Sir Nevi/e Catlyne, Knt. of Kirby Caam in Norfolk, died without issue; Lydia to John Jay of Hol- vestoti, Gent, son of Suckling Jay; and Mary died unmarried. Richard, Charles, and Thomas, the three younger sons, died single, and John Houghton of Randworth, Esq, the eldest son, to whom the estate was given, came and settled here; he was major of a com- pany of foot belonging to the militia, and clerk of the peace, died in 1723, and is buried here, as was Mary his wife in 1727, who was daughter of Richard Chamberlaine of Astley-Castle in Warwickshire; their eldest son,

John Houghton, Esq. one of the justices of peace for the county, now dwells here, and by his deceased wife, who was one of the daughters and coheiresses of the late dean baron, hath issue.

KIRBY-BEDON,

Kirby, or Kiukeby, signifies the dwelling at the kirken or churches; and Bidon or Bedon was added, to distinguish it from another village of the same name in this. county ; it being the name of the ancient lords of the capital manor; that it should take its name from its churches, is no wonder, there being two here, long before the Confes- sor's time ; for in his survey, they were found to have each of them 10 acres of glebe, then valued at \1d. a year, and both belonged to Robert de Curson, who held them and the manor, of Roger Bigot, the town being half a mile long and as much broad, paid 20rf. to the geld.s The part which Godric the sezcer managed for the King,

8 Terra Rogeri Bigoti, fo. no. In eadem iii. lib. hom. i. integer, ii.

De escangio terre Isaac. dim. Stigandi commend, xlvi. acr. terre,

In Kirkebei vi. integri liberi ho- et sub eis i. bord. et iiii. acr. prati semp.

mines, iii. Ulketel. tercius, Alwi de Ted- i. car tunc et semper valet v. s. habet.

fordo, quartus Genred, quintus Aluredus, dim. leug. in longu, et dim in lato, et de

commend T. R. E. de xli. acris terre, Gelto xx. d. quicunque ibi teneat,

et ii. acris prati, semper i. car. tunc et r. ecclesia x. acr. val. xii. d. Rob de

post val. v. s. modo iii. sol. et iiii.d. Curcun tenet, i. ecclesia x. acr. val. xii. d. et tenet Robertus de Curcun (Curson.)

KIRBY-BEDON. 475

which formerly was Edric's,9 and his own part, which formerly was Edwin's,1 and the part which was the Bishop of Baieux's? with the

?art of Bigot formerly U/kctel's,3 constituted the manor belonging to \angley abbey, afterwards called Osberris, which now is, and hath for some years past, been joined to the manor of Saham's and Wodehodse in Kirby-Bedon, into which town the several manors following extend, viz. Eaton,* Sur/ingham,5 Framlingham, Trowse Roke/es, JVitlingham,6 and the Dutchy of Lancaster, of which several small parcels of land here, were held in 1447.

KIRBY-BIDON MANOR.

This manor continued in the Bigods after Curson's death, who held it of Roger Bigot at the survey, till Hugh Bigod Earl of Norfolk infeoffed it, with many others, no less than seven whole knights fees, in Helenald de Bidun,7 who held also one fee in Wadley in Berkshire, of the honour of Warengeford. This Ha lenod gave the church of Hockham, with the consent of Agnes daughter of Pain Fitz-John, his wife,8 to the abbey of Osneij ; in 1168, he and his wife granted a mark a year rent in Sutton, to Missenden abbey ; and that they were persons of the first rank in those times, appears from the ■ witnesses to this deed of <f\\\,Adam son of Will, de Sutton, his princi- pal clerk or chaplain: Benedict his chaplain, Nic.de Brunsted his sewer, See. William Bishop of Norwich confirmed it; llumfry de Bidun was lord; and in 1170, John de Bidun held an honour con- taining five knights fees and an half, in the county of Northampton, as we learn from the Red Book of the Exchequer; but I do not find he was lord here, but John de Bidun, junior, his son, was, and died so, leaving Maud, daughter of Thomas Fitz- Bernard,9 his widow, lady here ; who re-married to John de Bokesford, and died seized in

9 Terre Regis quara Godricus servat. assize of bread and ale, &c. over all her

Heinestede H. Doms. fo. 28. tenants in Kirby.

In Kirkebei xii. homines sequentes 1285, Roger Bigod Comes NorrF.

faldam Edrici, Ixxx. acr. terre et iii. clamat habere vis. franc, pleg. emend,

acr. prati, semper i. car. et dim. assisse panis et cervisie de tenentibus

In Kirkebei i. liber homo Edrici, suis in Kirkeby.

T. R. E. xxx. acr. terre et ii. bor. et 6 See vol. ii. p. 506.

iiii. acr. prati, semper dim. car. In 7 Halenaldus de Bidun tenuit de

Kirkebei i. liber homo Edrici. T. R. E. Comite Hugone Bygodseptem feoda mi-

de vi. acr. et semper ii. bov. litum in Norfolcia de veteri feofamento.

1 Terre Gudiici Dapiferi. fo. 165. Lib. Nig. Scaccarij Edit, per Tho.

In Kirkebei i. liber homo Edwini de Hearne, A. M. Oxon. 1728, vol. i.

vi. acr. terre et sub eo iii. liberi de xi. p. 284.

acr. terre inter omnes dim. car. At this time one John de Bidun held

a Terre Episcopi Baiocensis. fo. 60. half a fee of Ralf de Nuers, his brother,

In Kirkebei ii. soc. et dim. dim. de I suppose,

xii.acr.semperarant cum tribus bovibus, 8 I imagine he had no issue by her,

semper i. equus in aula tunc viii. pore, because Ralf de Muntchensy her son

modo xxviii. et vi. vasa apum tunc, et confirmed it.

post vai. xx. sol. modo xl. 9 She was his daughter, by Eugenia,

3 Fo. 112. In Kirkebei iiii. liberi daughter of Ralf Picot of Cambridge- homines Ulketel x. acr. terre et dim. shire, and had three sons by Thomas acr. prati semper dim. car. Fitz-Bernard, and only one daughter,

+ See vol. iv. p. 316. Maud, whom the King married to John

5 1285, Maud de Mutton, lady of Sur- son of John de Bidun. lingham, claimed view of frankpledge,

476 KIRBY-BEDON.

1254,1 when it was found, that John de Bidon died without issue of his body, and so his whole barony and estate descended to his five sisters, viz.

\t Amicia or Amy, who had three daughters, Amabilia who died single; Isabella, who had Henry Fitz-Ralf, her son and heir, then living; and Agnes, wife of Warine de Bragenham, then living.

2, Amabilia,2 whose son and heir, Miles de Beauchamp, held his part.

3, Sarah, whose three daughters inherited her part; Isabel, alive and held her part; Maud, who was dead, but Sarah her daughter then married to Rob. de Walton or Wanton, was living, and held her part ; Phi/ippa was dead, but John de Croxton (or Oxinton, as some- times called) held his part.

4, Maud, whose son Robert Fitz-Jeffry was dead, but Thomas Fitz-Robert, his son, enjoyed his part.

5, Ermengafd, whose two sons, first John, sirnamed de Gatesend, was dead, but had issue, John de Gatesend, junior, his son, whose son, Ric. de Gatesend, held his share. 2d, Richard, whose son John was living, and enjoyed his part.

But several of these parts were united again very soon; for in. 1256, John, son of John de Gatesend, had purchased so, that he was lord of one moiety. Before 1277, Hugh de Polsted had one part of Gatesdetis moiety or manor, and James de Creike another, but about

1302, John de Saham had this moiety or manor, and the whole advowson ; from whom it took the name of Saham's, which it still retains. John was succeeded by Hervy de Saham, who occurs lord and patron in 1320; and in 1332, Rob de Elmham, Christian, daughter of John de Saham, Ric. Merkaunt of Saham, Agnes, widow of William de Horpling, and Tho. de Hillington, were joint lords and patrons.

It after belonged to John St army, and then to Hervy Rockhow, whose trustee, Tho. Panton, was lord in 1394; this Hervy was citizen and goldsmith of London, and presented here in 1412, and in 1423, Rob. Wikmegeye had it. In 1437, John Bacon of Baconesthorp, and Maud his wife, presented, and in 1482, John Barges and Mar- garet Wyrmegay had some lime before infeoffed John Blake, Esq. and about 1503, it was purchased by James Hobart, Knt.3 In 1506, Will. Lincoln of Norwich, Gent, was buried in the Black Friars there, and it appears by his will, that Rob. Wyrmegay had married his sister, for in it is this clause : ' I will that my executors endeavour to recover the third part of the manor of Saham's in Kirby, which was my sister Wormegat/'s right.' In 1553, Sir James settled it on his son, Miles Hobart, who had livery in 1571, but only of two thirds, for in 1546, Sir Nic. Hare, Knt. and Rob Hare his son, had a third part; in 1550, Michael, son and heir of Sir Nicholas, had it, and in 1557,

1 Esch. 39 H. III. No. X. drew Syre of Surlingham and Maud his

1 I find her often called Isabella. wife, John Wirmegeye of Yelverton, and

3 1440, a fine of divers lands here, and Agnes his wife, daughters and coheirs of

in Surlingham and Kirby, was levied be- Jeffery Mahew of Bramerton, senior,

tween Robert Spencer, clerk, rector of son and heirof Will. Mayhew of Kirby-

Braaierton, and other querents, and An- Bydun.

KIRBY-BEDON. 477

Sir Nic. Hare, Knt. master of the rolls, ordered that this manor, if his sons died without heirs male, and the third part of St. Andrew's advowson, which he had before settled with other estates in this hundred, on his son Michal, and Elizabeth his wife, in jointure, should go to his brother, John Hare, mercer, of London, and his heirs; who afterwards inherited it. In 1603, Sir Tho. Hobart, Knt. and Michael Hare, Esq. were lords and patrons; but in 1604, Owen Shepherd, Esq. was lord and patron. In 1610, the manor was settled in trust on Will. Spencer, and Will. Palmer, Gents, by the said Owen, who left it to Rob. Shepherd of JVick/ingham, Esq. who was lord in 1660, as was Ambrose Shepherd, Esq. in l6y3, when the three manors, of Saham's, Usberne's, and Wodehouse, were all united, and in 171'-, belonged to

William Brooke, clerk, rector here, who was succeeded by his eldest son,

William Brooke, Esq. recorder of Norwich, the present lord, as also patron of the church of St. Andrew.

The capital manor-house, and the demeans, were sold by Robert Shephtrd, Esq. to Mr. Cock of Norwich, who sold them to Capt. Nic. Rockwood, who conveyed them to the

Berneys, who have resided here ever since ; it being now the seat of Sir Hanson Berney, Bart, of which ancient family 1 shall treat at large, under Berton-Bendish in Claclose hundred.

WODEHOUSE MANOR IN KIRKEBY

Was originally a moiety of Bidon's or Saham's manor; Thomas Fitz-Robert, son of Maud de Bidun, having purchased several parts, obtained at last a division, and made it a separate manor; he came and dwell by the wood here, and so called it Wodehouse manor, and assumed the sirname of De Bosco or Du Bois of Kirby, on that account; by which name, in 1280, he had the lete here, and all liberties of a lete: but in 1285, the King recovered it, and let it to him in fee-farm for ever at 6d. a year, payable to his hundred of Henstede : he was returned by the name of Tho. Fitz-Robert, to hold this manor, and that of Stowbidon, and lands in Thompson, of Bald- win H'ake, as of his manor of Brunne in Cambridgesnire, at one fee. In 1301, Thomas de Bosco of Kirby-bedon, and Maud his wife, settled it on Robett de Hales their trustee, to the use of themselves for life, remainder to their heirs; and John de Bosco, who is often called John Atwood, their son, inherited it; whose daughter and heiress married to Ward, as you may see under Bixley. The manor had 10 acres in demean, 3 acres of meadow, 5/. quitrents, and 9 messuages held of it: and it extended in Apeton, Bramerton, Rock/and, Yelverton, Wicklmgham, Fram/ingham, Trowse, Bixley, Ameringhale, Laken- ham, Caster, and Borland. In 1401, John Warde held it of Thomas Mowbray at half a fee; in 1572, Edw. Ward. In 1586, the manor of Kirhy Wodehouse, alias Ward's, was conveyed by Stephen Cuppiu, Gent, and John Hcwke, to Thomas Godsulve, Esq. and John Holland, Gent, and afterwards was purchased by the lord of Saham's manor, and joined to it, and so continues.

473 KIRBY-BEDON.

LANGLEY ABBOTS, alias OSBORNE'S MANOR.

Roger Filz-Ozbert held a fee here, which came to the abbey of Langley soon after, if not at its first foundation. The Abbot was always taxed at 36s. 9^- ob. for his manor of Kirby, which at the Dissolution came to the Crown, and was granted in 1543, by Henri/ VIII. to John Corbet, Esq. to be held by the rent of 3s. Sd. ob. a year; and immediately after, the King licensed Corbel to sell it to Robert and Thomas Osborne;* and Thomas was lord in 1572. In 1587, it was settled on Fiske, as trustee to the Osbornes; and in 1589, Tho. Osborne, Gent, settled it in trust on Will. Temper/ey, Esq. and Will. Money, junior, who in 1594, released it to Osborn again; and in 1605, Tho. Osborne, Gent, obtained license to alien it, and in 1672, John Coppledicke, Esq. was lord; and sometime after, it became joined to Saha.m's manor, with which it now remains.

The church of St. Mary at Kirby-Bedon, was appropriated to the abbey of Lang/eye, and the rectory was valued at 8 marks, and the vicarage at 5, but was not taxed ; and so occurs not in the King's Books; it paid 2s. synodals; but in 1550, Bishop Thirlby released Q.0d. out of the synodals ; the archdeacon's procurations are 6s. 8d. Peter-pence 12d. carvage bd. and the vicar had a house in the churchyard.

VICARS OF ST. MARY,

PRESENTED by the convent of langley.

1308, William old Bar/ick of Saxlingham.

1328, John de BiUingford.

1349, Tho. Bee of Hurple.

1395, Walter Turner of Shotesham.

1441, John Dalton.

1490, Henry Hart; he died, and in

1505, John Warmull had it by lapse, who was the last instituted to this church; it having been held as a curacy ever since the Dissolu- tion, when the impropriation vested in the Crown, and was after- wards granted off; and in 1575, belonged to Rog. Manners, Esq. and afterwards to Sir Nicholas Hare, who sold it to Stephen Moss, and he to Mr. Fellow, who conveyed it to Henry Kimbold, and he to Tho- mas Dethyck in 1578; and afterwards

William Brooke, who had the manors, and was patron, rector, and impropriator, gave the impropriation to Edward Brooke his son, whose widow, Mrs. Eliz. Brooke, now owns it, and pays a stipend of 8/. per annum to the rector of St. Andrew's, for serving the cure;

+ The Osbernes are an old family in the nave ef St. Andrew's church.with here; John Osborne, senior, was buried tins on a brass plate now remaining ;

Orate pro anima goljanni.^ «©.sbornc qui ofaiit jrrn Die #oto. 3. «?.$!. toc.rtT". cuius anitne propinetur ©eu£.

John Osborne junior, Edm. Osborne alive in 1522.

KIRBY-BEDON. 479

the rector of that parish, having been constantly curate here, ever since the Dissolution. In

1603, Hammet Hyde, curate, and rector of St. Andrew, returned answer, that there were then 40 communicants in this parish, that it was an impropriation, and that the impropriator constantly paid him his stipend out of the tithes.

The church stood east of St. Andrew's, their churchyards being parted by the road only ; it is now in ruins ; it had a south porch, nave, and chancel, the steeple is standing, and is round, and had two large bells, which were lately taken down, and placed in St. Andrew's church.

RECTORS.

John de Cressingham, resigned in 1318, to Roger de Bargo, who was presented by John deSaham; he changed this for Bukere in Lincolnshire, in

1320, with Rob. de Wetheriugsete, who had it of Heevy de Saham's gift. In

1333, Hervu de North- El 'mham was presented by Kob. de Hlm- ham, Christian, daughter of John de Saham, Ric. Merkaunt oi Saham, Agnes, widow of Wil. de Horpting, and John Hilling- ton, joint patrons. „

1387, John Gozce of Aslacby. John Sturmy, patron. 1393, Iho, Pan ton and Heevy Rokhaw, gave it to

John de Kirby;5 and in 1412, the said Hervy presented Will. Lightfoot, who resigned in 1424, and John Biskelee, or Bixlcy succeeded, on the presentation of Robert Wikmegeye; he resigned in 1437, and John Bacon ot Baconesthorp, and Maud his wife, gave it to

Tho. Messenger of Fakenham, who was succeeded by Rob. Howlyn, at whose death, in 1480, William, son of Robert Wirmegey, was instituted at the pre- sentation of John Blake, Esq. feoffee of the manor, iron John Barges and Margaret Wirmegey; he died, and in 1481, John Ward, Gent, presented

Henry Hert, on whose death Sir James Hobart, Knt. gave it to

John Warmull, vicar of St. Mary s. In 1582, Oct. 4, Tho. Cuthbert, rector, was buried here ; and the assignee of Michael Hare, Esq. gave it to

Hammet Hide, buried here 7 Sept. 1610. In 1604, Owen Shepherd, Esq. presented

Daniel Thaxter, buried here Oct. 7, 1625, and in less than two months, his wife and seven children were buried by him. In 1625, Owen Shepherd gave it to

Henry Mouse, A. M. who died rector, and in 1634, Edward Hobart, Esq. presented

Eda;. .Bowra, A. M. who held it united to the mediety ot Pakefield; he was succeeded by

5 Alexander de Kirby lived here in Richard the First's time.

480 KIR BY-BE DON.

Nic. Shepherd, who (as Walker says6) was plundered and often imprisoned, and during his troubles, contracted so many debts for the support of himself and family, that at his death, his goods were seized, his widow utterly deprived of all maintenance, and reduced to great necessity; and was at last relieved by the charity of the corporation for ministers widows: whether he was any thing more than presented in the rebellion, I do not find; for in 1661, Robert Shepherd of Wicklingham, Esq. presented

Nic. Shepherd, who was buried Feb. 1, 1671; and in 1672, John Bendish of London, and Martha his wife, presented

William Brooke, who was lord, patron, rector, curate, and impropriator, and so died ;7 and in 1714, Will. Brooke, Esq.8 his eldest son, on the 2d of April, presented

Gilbert Pickering, who resigned the 8th of the same month, and then he gave it to

Francis Brooke, his brother, who held it sometime united to Surlingham, and after that, to Carleton and Ashby ; and at his death, the said William (who is now patron) gave it to

The Rev. Mr. Ric. Brooke, son of the said Francis, who is the present rector, and holds it united to the consolidated rectory of All-Saints, St. Julian's, &c. in Norwich city.9

When Norwich Domesday was made, John de Gatesden was patron ; the rector had then, as now, a house joining to the south side of the churchyard, and a grange or barn in the churchyard, and 2 acres of glebe; it was first valued at 1 1, and after, at 10 marks, and pays 2s. synodals, 6s. 8d. procurations, \Qd. Peter-pence, and 6d. carvage. It stands thus in rhe King's Books,

CV. 4s. 9(7. ob. KmKBY-Beadon (or Bedon) Sancti Andree Rectoria. 36/. clear yearly value.

So that it is capable of augmentation. The temporals of the Prioress of Carroic were valued at 37s. 8d. and the town paid to each tenth clear (without one pound paid by the religious for their revenues here) bl. 13s. Ad. Here was a gild of St. John, for in 1558, Will. Necton of Norwich, sold half an acre belonging to this gild, which he had of the grant of Edw. VI.

In 1668, 31 Oct. Rob. Harris, clerk, was buried here. In 169O, two faculties were passed for seats in the church, one to Sir Ric. Berney's house, and the other to Mrs. Sheldrake's.

The tower which stood at the west end of the church is down, but now there is fixed up in the lower part of it, a convenience to hang three bells in; the nave, chancel, and south porch, are all thatched ; but the dormitory on the north side of the chancel, built by the Rock- woods, is leaded ; and there are no isles; the porch was built iii 1479, by the executors of Robert Osborne, who ordered his bodv to be buried in the churchyard, by Robert Connald and Joan his wife; and that over their three graves, they should build a church, parch, which they did accordingly: at the east end of the chancel in the yard, there is an altar tomb for Thomas son of Robert Harris, Gent, and Grace his Wife, Jan. 9, 1680, aged 74.

* Partii. fo. 367. 8 See vol. iii. p. 450.

7 Heheldit with Bramerton by union. 9 See vol. iv. p. 131.

KIRBY-BEDON. 481

In the east chancel window, Rookwood impales or, on a chevron sab. three martlets arg.

Rookwood quarters gul. impaling pally of eight or and sab. on

a chief gul. three martlets of the first.

In a south window. Arg. a chevron sab. between three hammers gul.

The inscription is reaved from a stone, but there remains a heart, and this,

Crebo quob fctbcmptor mui titbit, $ be terra gurretturus £um (j in carne mea nibebo beum &alnatorcm mcum.

Another stone hath lost its effigies and inscription, but this is cut on it.

Here lyeth Dussing.

This ancient family was fixed a long time here, and Dussing's Dale on Mushold-heath,1 took its name from one of them.

In the church on a stone; Sara Wife of Owen Dussing, Daughter of Robert Stileman of Fitld-Dawling in Norff. Gent, died Nov. 2,

1659. r „

tyit iacet gohannts* ©tiding1 $ ^Iror ciu£, quorum animabu£ proptcietur beu£.

<©ratt pro animabu* ©tilt, ©u^ing, et Catherine ^Ifori^ £ue

qui obicrunt bectmo bic JEcniStjS februarii £1. ©. Jlicccccn quorum

animabuji proptetetur beu£. [Their two effigies in their winding

sheets.]

On a mural monument on the north side of the chancel, are the

enVies of a man and woman in praying postures, before a faldstool,

witti the arms of

Shepherd, arg. On a chief indented gul. three battle-axes or. Crest, a demi-buck reguardant proper, .,—«,»

(The arms and crest were granted by William Camden in 1598,)

1IDpaJaf. on a fess em. between three annulets or, a lion passant sab. The Memorial of Robert Shepherd Esq. and Anne his Wife, Ann. Dom. 1600.

Christ is to me as Life on Earth, and Death to me is Gain, Berause 1 Trust through hiin alone, Salvation to obtain. St. brittle is the State of Man, so soone it cloth decay, So all the Glory of the World, Must fade and passe away. Disce, quid Es, quid Ei is, Memor e^to, quod moneris.

Near this, on a square marble fixed in the wall, This monument was repaired A. D. 1664, at the Charge of a

• <;PPvol iii p 2«. * Hevvas buried 'V465' andSavea

See vol. in. p. 2Sz. ^^ to ^ ^ ^^

VOL. V. 3 Q

182 KIRBY-BEDON.

Grandson of the entombed, viz. Nicolas Sheppard Rector of this Church, on whose Soul Jesus have Mercy.

Brooke, gul. on a chevron, arg. a lion rampant, sab. crowned or.

Exuviae Rebecc.e Brooke ccelibis Fi'iae WUlielmi Brooke, Armigeri, et Francisco Uxoris ejus, ob. 3 Jan. 1739, aet. 29°.

Arms and crest of Brooke.

Edward Brooke of Bramerton, Gent. ob. 12Febr. 1718, ret. 63. He was youngest son of William Brooke, Clerk, formerly rector here.

Eliz. Bedingfield, Wife of Edward Bedingfield. Gent, of Kirbij, and daughter of John Taseburgh of Flyrton, ob. 11 Febr. 1640.

Richard Stevenson Gent. Aug. 9, 1666.

In the nave,

Mary Wife of Will. Denny Gent. Nov. 9, 1679- Denny, gul. a saltier between twelve croslets pate or. Crest, a hand holding ears of corn.

In a window,

3oe lEtaria 45catia plena, ©ommusi tecum.

In the dormitory, Rook wood, arg. three chess rooks and a chief sab. impaling on a chevron, three choughs. Crest, a lion sedant holding a spear. Edw Rookwood of Kirby, Gent. 10 June 1677, set. 15.

RooKWood impales paly of six or and sab. on a chief gul. three martlets of the first.

Rookxood's arms, and a crest of a nag's head oope 1.

Dorothy Relict of Edward Rookwood, late of Euston in Suffolk, Esq; 2 Nov. 1683, aet. 78.

Nicholas son of Edward Rookwood and Eliz. his Wife, died Jpril 18, 1678, set. 2 Years.

Sir Thomas Berney Bart, died Jpril 12, 1742, aet, 53.

Crest, a coronet, in which three feathers argent.

Berney, per pale az. and gut. a cross ingrailed erm. quartering,

1, Redham, g'ul. a chevron erm. between three reed sheaves or.

2, Caston. 3, On a canton gul. a croslet or; a coat of pretence of

Folkes, per pale gul. and vert, a de-lis erm. quartering aig. on a chief az. three lioncels rampant of the field. Three mascles az.

Motto of Berney; NIL TEMERE, NEQUE TIMURE.

Francis Cremer, Gent, was buried in the nave in 1730, for whom there is a mural monument erected against the north wall.

Cremer, per fess arg. and sab. a cross flore between four mul- lets counterchanged, impaling

ROCKLAND. 433

Quarterly, 1, arg. on a chief gul. three cinquefoils or, between three na°-'s heads sab. 2 and 1. 2d. gul. on a cross arg. live mul- lets sab. 4, as 1 .

M. S. Francisci Cremer, de hac Parochia. Generosi. Filij primogeniti Francisci Cremer de Ingolsthorp in Comitatu Nor- folcia Armigeri, Qui in Academia Lugduni sex Annos coinmo- ravit alumnus, et post Laborem multum in Studijs Mathematicis feliciler impensum, plurimis ingenij Dotibus indutus, animam suam, sub Iseta spe, Deo grate reddidit, die 24° Feb. A. D. 1730. annoque 83t. suae S9°.

Juxta hoc Monumentum quoque sepulta jacet, sub spe iiltimi judicij, Magdalena conjux prima supradicti Francisci Cremer Generosi, tilia unigenita Edwardi Coleman de Civitate Loiidini Generosi, una cum quatuor Filijs, quos ille suscepit de Susanna. conjuge sua. secunda, et Relicta, Filia Johannis Randal de C/ied- grave, in Comitatu Norfolcm Generosi.

ROCKLAND,

Called anciently Rockland- Abbots, to distinguish it from Rock- land in Shropham hundred,3 from the Abbot of Laugley having the manor here,* which consisted of several parts: belonging to Aluoth, Godric, Ulketel, Ulf, and Will, de Noers, at the Confessor's survey; and the King, Roger Bigot, and William Bishop of Thetford, at the Conqueror's. In 1235, Ros,er Picot held it; and in 1238, the Abbot of Langley held it of Pick's fee, which extended into Surlingham, Bramerton, &c. In 1249, Will. Sumersweyne and Eda his wife, gave n>any lands to the abbey, which Simon, abbot there, added to this manor; and Robert Bryan and Alexander his son gave part of a fee here, and the lesser part of the advowson of St. Mary's, which they had of the Bigots, to this house.

After this, there was a grange purchased by that house of Sir Ralf de Ilegge.

3 See vol. i. p. 473. Rokklunda i. (liber homo) iiii. acr. et

* Terre Regis quam Godricus servat. dim. habuitEdricus commendat.T.R.E.

Doms. fo. 27, 28. Hemstede H. In Rukelunda iii. liben homines Ulfi

In Rouiunda ii. liberi homines hoc tenet idem (sc. R. Bigot), fo.

Alnoth commend, xxiiii. acr. terre et Terra Willi. Episcopi Tedforden-

semper ii. bov. et ii. acr. prati. sis* ue t'endo. Heinestede H. to. 157.

In Kokelunda i. liber homo Edrici, In Rokelunda Will, de Noers, et

T. R. E. c^mmendatusdexv.acr. terre Sutherlingham ii. villan. dexvi. acns et

et sub. eo v. lib. homin. de xxiii. acr. ii. acr. prati semper tunc dim car. modo

iii. acr. prati, et semper dim. car. In arant cum duobus bovibus pertinet in

Langale.

See vol. iv. p. 532.

484 ROCKLAND.

In 1285, the Abbot vva9 allowed to have a lete over all his tenants. In 1401, he held it of Sir Thomas Mowbray, Knt. and in 1428, was taxed for his temporals, at 5l. 14s. (id. ob. q.

At the Dissolution it was granted by king Henry VIII. with Bor- land manor, to John Corbet, Esq. who in 1543, sold off the barley rents in Rockland and Bramerton} and the manors of Rockland and Poring/and, to Roger and John Gotiliu, and their heirs, both the manors having continued together as they now do, ever since, I shall refer you to Porland, at p. 438, 44.

John Bedingfield of Beeston by Norwich, Esq. is the present lord.

LITTLE-BREECH E MANOR

Belonged to Edwin and Haslec, one of the Confessor's thanes;* and at the Conquest to Godric the sewer, and after to Thurston, whose son Walter, in 1202, sold it to William de Badient, to be held at the 4th part of a fee: in 1249, William Summersweyn and Eda his wife sold it to Herbert de Helgeton or Hillington ; and it seems Eda was heiress to Badient, for she warranted it to Herbert and John de Helgeton. In 1285, Sir Thomas de Helgeton had the lete or view of frankpledge over all his tenants here : he joined it to Earlham's manor in Surling- ham,7 with which it now remains.

Great part of this town belonged to Roger Bigod's manor of Sur- lingham/ and was held of him by Aitard de Faux, and hath passed Willi the capital manor of Surlingham ever since, which see at p. 467.

Another part belonged then and now to Framlingham Picot? See p. 432.

Another to Bixley. See p. 448.1

In this churchyard there were two churches; the church of St. Margaret is in ruins, and stands a few yards east of St. Mary's ; it never had a steeple, but consisted of a chancel and nave only, and was much of the same bigness with St. Mary's ; it was given early to the nuns of St. Margaret of Bromehale in Berkshire, and the advowson

5 Rockland-Broad belongs to this manor, Ulketel commendat. T. R. E. et vi. in which all ihe tenants of the manor dimidij, inter homines lxxxx. acr. terre, have a joint right of fishing in common, et x. acr. prati, semper ii. car et dim. as well as the lord, for their own use, tunc et post valuit x. s. modo reddunt but can sell none. This manor hath xx. sol. Rokelunda habet i. leug. in lete, weyf, and stray. The fine of the longo, et dim in lato, et de gelto xvi. d. ancient copyhold is certain at 2S. per i. ecclesia xii. acr. et vat. $d. et tenet acre. idem. (sc. Aitardus de Vals.)

6 Terra Godrici dapiferi, fo. 165. In It belonged then to Surlingham. RoKELUNDvi. integri horn. Edwini et Maud de Multon, lady of Surlingham, dim. lx. acr. semp. i. car. et. dim. had a lete over all her tenants in Rock-

In Rokelund iiii. lib. horn. Haslec land.

viii. acr. terre et dim. acr. prat, et iii. » rn Rokelunda i. liber homo Vlke-

bord. et iste Edwinus fuit teinus Domi. telli de vi. ac. terre, appretiat. in Fra-

nicus Regis Edwardi. et de omnibus his mingaham. Fo. 112.

liberis, soca in hundredo. ■ In Rokelunda i. integer liber et

7 See p. 469. ii. dim. homines Godwini sub. Sti- * Terre Rogeri Bigoti. fo. no. De gando, xx. acr. idem tenet, (sc. Ulketel)

escangio terre Isaac. pertinet ad nunerium Biikek.

In Rokelunda xiiii. liberi homines

ROCKLAND. 485

belonged to Little Breche manor, and was called Rockland Major ; it was appropriated to that house, and had a vicarage endowed, the nomination of which belonged to the Bishop of Norwich, and the presentation to Bromhate prioress; but afterwards, the whole was con- solidated to Rockland Major, as in vol. iv. p. 534.

The church of St. Mary is now in use, a moiety of it, called the pars major, or greater part, was always a rectory belonging to Roger Bigod's part of the town, which belonged to Surlingham, and had ten acres of glebe, for though he infeoffed Aitard de Faux in the manor, yet the advowson was excepted, and attended the manor of Forncet, till it was lately sold by the Duke of Norfolk, along with the rectory of St. Laurence at South Walsham, to Queens college in Cambridge, the master and fellows of which, are now patrons. Her& was a gild of St. John. In 1239, Ric. de Nugun, rector of the greater part, purchased a messuage here, and settled it for a par- sonage-house for ever, of Nic. de Surlingham, and Nicholas his son.1

The other moiety, called pars minor, or the lesser part, was given to Langley abbey, by Robert Bryen, the patron, and confirmed by Alex~ ander his son, and was soon after appropriated to that monastery, and it was confirmed by the pope and diocesan, and for this, the abbot paid 12s. 6d. spiritualities, and he paid \2d. synodals, and QOd. procu- rations, for his part ; this was afterwards consolidated to the other moiety, and in 1360, Sr. Walter de Manneu, patron of the mediety of Rockland St. Mary, and of the mediety of Holveston, got them con- solidated by a perpetual union, as they now remain, by Tho. Percy Bishop of Norwich, so that now it is an entire rectory, incapable of augmentation, for it stands thus in the King'sBooks :

6/. 13s. Ad. Rockland 'rectoria. 13s. Ad. yearly tenths,

NorwichDomesday saith thus: Rockland Minor. The Earl- Marshal is patron of one mediety, (pars major) the Abbot of Langley hath the other (pars minor) appropriated. The rector hath a house and 8 acres of land untaxed, and paid 2s. synodals and 6s. procurations. The Chorography of Norfolk saith, It hath a convenient mansion- house, and necessary out-houses, with 40 acres of glebe, it pays no Jirst-j'ruils, synodals for Rockland Utraque5s. for Holveston mediety, Qd. The Revision of the Archdeaconry oi'Noifolk made in 1630, saith, that the synodals were 4s. Ad. the archdeacon's procurations, 13s. 4c?. including the 2s. Qd. procurations for Holveston mediety. The whole town paid clear to each tenth, St. 10s. and the religious for their re- venues \l. 14s.

William Peper of Rockland gave to Simon, prior of Norzcich, his 10 acres of salt marsh here, which shows that the tide came up hither at that time, for which and his other revenues here, he was taxed at 21s. Ad. In 1435, the honour of Richmond extended hither, for John Duke of Bedford died seized of the third part of a fee here, and in Bawburgh, held by the Prior of Norwich, as belonging to the

1 The parson ag E-house was burned Rob. de Somerton. 1311, Adam de down about 80 years since. Darham, Ralf Ive, &c.

Vicars of Rockland-major : 1310,

486 ROCKLAND.

manor of Swqffham, parcel of Richmond honour. The Prioress of Canon) had temporals here taxed at 38*. Qd. ob.

The church is 13 paces long and 6 yards broad, the chancel is 7 yards long and 5 broad, the steeple is square, about 50 feet high, and hath 3 bells, the nave is thatched, the chancel and south porch are tiled. There are stones in the chancel for Rob. Cocke, jun. Gent. 1638. 22, and John his son, 1638. Roger Gidding, rector of Moulton by Acle. 1737. A0 JEt. 32. John Smith, A. M. rector here, 1676. 59. Edw. Grensmitk, rector here, 1684. 32.

D. M. S. Henrici Mazey Cuntabrigiensis Collegii Caio-Gonvi- liensis A. M. et quondam e Sociis, Scholaj Norvicensis Moderatoris, et hujus Ecclesias Rectoris, qui Annos 36 plus minus natus. ob. Maij 17, 1677. Exuviis hie depositis.

On a brass plate in the nave,

•©rate pro amma Jiargarete .Senocll, cuiu£ anime propicillin 3Mt!* : amen.

The Sendelsbad an estate here owned by Robert Sendel in 1505.

1489, Alice Pares Wid. buried here. 1661. died Mr. Thomas Watts rector

Mr. Hugh Robinson, rector here and of Bramerton, returned an swer, that there were seventy-two communicants here, in 1603.

RECTORS

OF THE MAJOR PARS, OR MF.DIETY of ROCKLAND MINOR.

1305, Rob. de Benacre, accolite. Roc le Bigod Earl of Noif.

1308, Rob. de Wirlingham. Alice de Hanonia Countess of Norfolk, in right o dower.

1326, Adam de Berham. Tho. Earl, of Norf. Henry Albot, res.

1352, Roger Godewine, priest. Sir John de Segrave. He changed with Albot, for the vicarage of the churches, of the Trinity and St. Andrew's in Masham.

1376, Sir William Debbe, lapse, to this mediety and that of Holves ton annexed.

1381, 10. Marc. Rob. Suthfield, priest. Margaret, Marshal- Countess of Norfolk and Lady Segrave.

VICARS

OF THE MINOR PARS, NOMINATED BY THE BISHOP, PRESENTE* BY THE ABBOTS OF LANGLEYE.

Adam de Bernham, res. 1326, Rob. de Wirlingham, priest, &c.

RECTORS

ICCKliTB MAJOR, MINOR, AND HOLVESTON MEDIETT.

1603, Hugh Robinson. 1630, Nichols, rector.

HOLVESTON. 487

1661, Thomas Watts.

1676, John Smith.

1684, Edward Greensmith,

Benjamin Lyng, late rector here, and of Wahham St. Law- rence, the last presented by the Norfolk family, was succeeded by

The Rev. Mr. Crownjield, the present rector, who holds it united to Walsham Saint Lawrence, being presented to both, by the Master and Fellows of Queen's College in Cambridge, where he was then a fellow.

HOLVESTON,

Commonly called Holston, is in the liberty of the Duke o/*Nor- folk, as a member of Framingham, and takes its name from its situation in a great hollozo or hole : at the survey the village was half a mile long and 3 furlongs broad, and paid Sd. geld. The moiety of the town, and the advowson of the church, belonged to Roger Bigot's manor of Framingham ;3 and the other moiety of the church and town, constituted Holveston, alias Vabx's manor, so called from Ethard de Faux, lord of it at the Conquest, who held it under Godric, who managed it for the King.4 The mediety of Holveston that be- longed to Vaux's manor, was consolidated before Norwich Domes- day was made, to Burgh- Apeton, and theEarl's mediety was consolidated to Rockland mediety, and the church hath been so totally demolished, that it is now ploughed over: it was about 24 yards long, and stood on the west side of the road leading from Holveston-hall to Yetverton- heath, right between them, on the very pitch of the hill, from which place, the road to the heath is mended with its ruins, which were pulled down in memory of many now living, for that purpose, the road formerly joined to the south-east part of the churchyard, which it doth not now touch by about 50 yards.

3 Terre Episcopi Bajocensis. Heine- In Holvestuna, Aitardus (de Vals

stede Hundr. Domesday. Fo. 60. or Vaux) similiter habet i. dim. liberum

In Holvestuna, iii. soc. et ii. dim. hominem viii. acr. ter.et dim. acr prati,

de xvi. acris terre semper dim. car. (per- et de vi. homimbus integris, et de sex

tinet manerio Rogeri Bigot de Fra- dimidijs quos Aitardus reclamat ad feu-

mingham.) dum Epi. Bajocensis, val. T. R. E. x.

Holvestuna, hab at iiii. quar. in longo, sol. quando Godricus recepit ministe-

iii. in lato, et de gelto 8 den. terra Ko- riumxxxvi.s. modo Aitardus habet xiii.

geri Bigoti, de escangio terre Isaac, fo. sol et viii. den.

112. In Holvcstitnam. lib. horn ejusdem Terre Gourici Dapiferi. fo. 165.

(sc. Ulketel) x. acr, ter. semper arant In Holvestuna. iiii. integri liberi

cum duobus bovibus, appretiati in homines, et iiii. et dim. Edwini de xl.

Framingham. ac. terre, et iii. acr. prat. eti. bord.

* TerreREGis quamGodricus servat. semper i. car. et dim. In eadem u.

Heinestede, hund. Domesd. fo. 29. soc. i. acr. terre.

HOLVESTON.

RECTORS.

OF THE EAEL's MEDIETY OF HOLVESTON.

1310, Robtrt de Ayhsham. Sir Robert de Rydon, Knt. and Lettice de Wingefield, by g ran t from Lady Alice de Hannonia Countess of Norfolk in right of her dower, she being beyond sea.

1314, Stephen de Reden/iall. Ditto.

1329, Robert de Hardeshull, who resigned in

13S0, to John de Cutefield, in exchange for Belagh. Thomas de Brotherton Earl of Norfolk.

133 1, John de Essex. Ditto.

1352, William Debbe, lapse.

135(3, William de Ormesby. Sir Walter Manney, Knt.

In 1358, Thomas Percy Bishop of Norwich, on Ormesby's death, at the request of Sir Walter, perpetually united this mediety to that of Rockland; and Roger Godwine, then rector there, had possession of it Oct. 6, and it was certified that this mediety was valued at two marks only.

In 128 5, Roger le Bygod Earl of Norfolk had view of frank- pledge and assize of bread and ale of all his tenants here. But that part of the vill not held by the Norfolk family, as a member of Fram- lingham, belonging to the ancient family of the Holvestons or Uul- vestons, who took their name from the town, of which Sir John de Holvtston, Knt. of Norwich, in 1349, was patron of Hardingham, and in 1390, feoffee for the manor and advowson of Flixton in Lo- thingland, for Sir John Fastoljf, Knt. his son JVilliam de Uueston of Heverland, Esq. had a daughter Catherine, married in 1420 to Henry Cat, Esq. About 1549, William Halse of Heveiland died seized, and left this manor to Margt. Eliz. and Cath. his daughters and heiresses, with those of Heverland, Montjoy, &c. And afterwards Sir Thomas Gazcdy of Claxton purchased it, and was lord in 1570, and it conti- nued in that family till it was sold to the

Jays ; Suckling Jay was lord in 1663, and died in 1677 : his son, John Jay, Esq. was lord in 1669,6 and at his death made Sir Cha. Tirrell of Heron in Essex, his executor, who sold it to Mr. Marcon. John Marcon, Esq. of Holveston, barrister at law, lord and patron of Edgefield, died in 1723, and Rebecca his relict, daughter of Sir Ben- jamin Wrench, Knt. and now widow of Colonel Haibord, holds it for life, and Mr. John Marcon, attorney at law in Swaffham, son of Edmund Marcon, late ofForncet, cousin to the said John, is heir in reversion.

In 1323, the Earl of Pembrook, Aymer de Valence, held the mediety of this advowson, as belonging to the fees of the barony of Montchensy, together w ith his manor of Burgh-Apeton, which this mediety hath always attended, being annexed to that advowson.

s Lib. Institutionum, V. fo. 1. wife, in St. Andrew's at Norwich in

6 For the Jays, see vol. iv. 315, and 1647. Jane, youngest daughter of Hen.

in several places mentioned in the in- Jay of Holveston, Esq. married to Sir

dexes. John Jay. Esq. buried in Hilling- Edward Nicholas of West-Hoi siey in

ton church 1619, and Lucy Johnston his Surrey, Knt. in 1669.

YELVERTON.

489

The whole village is quite demolished, except the hall, and four or five cottages. It hath a constable by itself, but pays all rates to>

HlLLINGTON.

YELVERTON.

I his parish is in the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk, as a mem- ber to Framlingham manor, which hath the superiour jurisdiction over the town.7 It belonged to Ralf Earl of Norfolk when he ab- jured the realm, and after to Roger Bigot. In the Confessor's time ALTNOTH,a Saxon, and Alured, had it under Bishop Stigand. Yel- verton was then half a mile long, and four furlongs broad, and paid lOd. ob. to the geld ; but it is now much larger, for the vill of Apple- ton, now called Alpington,8 is joined to this town, though it was then a separate village belonging to Edwin in the Confessor's, and to Roger Bigot in the Conqueror's time, and was of more annual value than all Yelverton. Alpington, is that part lying against Yel- verton-heath, and hath a constable chosen by itself, who answers its

7 Terre Regis quam Godricus servat. Heinestede Hundr. Domsd. fo. 27.

In Ailuertuna, ii. liberi homines T. R. E. i. et dim. Alnoth, et dim. Aluredi commend, hostenuit Radulfus, quando se forisfecit, post Godricus in ma 1111 Regis, modo tenet Aitardus (sc. de Vals or Vaux) homo Rogeri Bigot, medietatem unius et xv. acr. et recla. mat ad feudum Episcopi Bajocensis, inter homines xxxiii. acr. terre et semper ii. bord. semper i. car. et iii. acr. prati.

Terre Episcopi Bajocensis. fo. 60.

In Ailvertuna i. socmannus et dim. de xvi. acr. semper arat cum duobus bovibus.

This belonged to Framlingham ma. nor.

Terra Rogeri Bigoti, fo. 112. De escangio terre Isaac.

In Ailvertuna iii. liberi homines eiusdem (sc. Ulketcl) xx. acr. terre, semperdim. car. i. ceclesia xx. acr. val. xx. den. et tenet idem. (sc. Roger Bigot as belonging to Framuigham ma- nor )

Fo. 132. In Ailvertuna, i. liber homo Sligandi hoc tenet idem. (sc. Ro- gerus.)

Fo. 133, In Ailvertuna, i. liber

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homo Stigandi cum soca commend. T. R. E. de xx. acris terre m° tenet Aitardus iii. bord. i. acr. et dim. prati semper i. car. et dim. et sub eo iii. socm. et dim. de x. acr. terre tunc et post valuit v. sol. m° xx.

Ailvintuna habetiiii.quar.inlongo, et iii. quar. in lato, et de gelto x. den. et obulum. hoc tenet idem.

Terra Godrici dapiferi, fo. 165.

In Ailvertuna ii. liberi homines Ed- wini de xiii. acr. et dim. tunc dim. car. m° nichil. This belonged to Fra- mingham.

8 Alpington, infraYELVERTON in the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk.

The part in Heinstede hundred.

Appletuna tenuit Edwinus T. R. E. pro ii. car. terre, semper viii. bord. eti.ser. semper in dominio i. car. et dim. car. hominum et vi. acr. prat', silva ad xvii. pore, et iiii. vasa apum, semper i. equus et v. animal, et lx. oves et viii. pore, et viii. soc. et dim. de xl. acr. terre et i. acr. prati, semper i. car. tunc val. xl. sol. 111° iii. hb. et x. sol. The part of Alpington in Lodne hun- dred, fo. 115. Terra Rogeri Bigoti.

In Atpletona, xxx. acr. terre in, dominio et i. bordar.

R

*90 YELVERTON.

vagrant and bridge money, in the hundred of Lodne, but all other dues to Yeherton.

Loddon H. Alpington, for a six hundred pounds levy pays 5s.

It paid to each tenth, \l. ]6s. but had a deduction of 10s. for the lands of the religious in this place. It had a separate lete for it, at Framlingham court.

In 1285, Roger le Bigot Earl of Norfolk had the lete view of frank- pledge, and assize of bread and ale, and freewarren in Yeherton, as a member of his manor of Framlingham, with which it hath passed ta this day.

At the Conquest there was a church, and 20 acres of glebe, valued at20oL the advowson of which, belonged to Framingham manor, but was granted off with a quarter of a fee, by the Bigods, and consti- tuted the manor, called afterwards

YELVERTON* or YELVERTON'S MANOR,

In 1198, RalJ Fitz Robert, to whom it was first granted, conveyed it to RalfFitz Ratf and William son of Adam de Hengham, with the advowson, lands, and 8s. per annum rents. It afterwards belonged to William de Baconsthorp, and in 1235, to Will. Grimbalde; in 1328, Rob. de Baconsthorpe held it, and about 1308, Peter Bozun and Sarah his wife sold it, and in 1325, sold it with the advowson tor Sir Geffry Wyth; and in 1326, Simon, son of Adam Athyl of Narburgh, rector of Rock/and Tofts, confirmed to Sir Geffry Wyth, Knt. all the ser- vices which he could have in this town, of Robert deYelverton and his parceners, from the lands they held here, all which services he had purchased of Maud his mother, Rob. son of Richard de Corston, Henri/ Wimer and Eleanor his wife, and Rob. son of Jeffry de E/liug- ham, who were the heirs of Sir Ralf at Wode ot'Saham ; in 1349, Sir Oliver Wythe was lord and patron, and it came afterwards to

The Yelvertons. The first I find of this family, that began to pur- chase and raise an estate here, was Wil.Ytlverton and Mabel his wife, who in 1308, purchased many lands of Rich, de la Roke/e, which till then, belonged to Rokele's manor in Trowse.' In 1317> he purchased more lands of Roger de Wa/sham and Thomas de Langhale ; about 1322, Johnde Yeherton of Rackhy the, purchased this manor and ad- vowson of Sir Oliver Wythe; in 1445, Rob. de Yeherton his son held it of the said Oliver, and he of the Norfolk family. In 1391, John de Yeherton and Margaret his wife, had all the Yelvertons estate here, and in 1444, W illiamielverton , justice of the King's Bench, owned it; and in 1462, his commission was renewed, and again in 1471. In 1499, William Yeherton, junr. Esq. son of Sir William Yeherton, Knt. the judge, had the estate, at his father's death ; this li'i/liam

9 gtlticrton, Nomen Gent. fort, prium pagi in agro Norf. Skinner,

ab AS. Eulpne, columba, et tun. Etymolog.

oppidum, sic dictum a copia co- ' Framlingham Picot's manor.Trowse

lumbarum in vicinia nidulantium. *°^h Witlingham, &c. extended

Est enim primario nomen pro-

hither.

YELVERTON. 401

Yeherton of Rackhithe, Esq. died seized in 1518, May 3, intestate, and James Holmes administered, in right of Anne his wife, sister and heir of the deceased, and in 1551, Anne Holmes their daughter held the messuage called Yeherton manor, or Yeherton hall, and left it to William Holmes, her son and heir, and it was afterwards sold to

The Rants. The first of which family that I find mentioned, as having estates in this county was Henry Rant, who lived in 1444, from whom descended, Robert Rant of Norwich, buried in St. Ste- phen's church there, as in vol. iv. p. 15'2, as was Humfry Rant,1 notary-pub/ick, and Katerine his wife, who first settled at Yeherton, and died in 1609, being succeeded by William Rant, M. D. his son who married Mary, daughter of Thomas Ward of Bix/ey, and dying in 1627, was buried in St. Stephen's church aforesaid, leaving Humfry Rant, barrister at law, his eldest son, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Anthony Drury of Btsthorp, Knt. for whom there is a handsome mural monument of white marble, with the arms of Rant, and crest of a lion sejant, and Rant and Drury impaled ; the representation of a curtain drawn back, discovers this inscription.

Here under lieth interred the Bodies of Humphrey Rant, Esq. Barrister at Law, and also of Anne his Wife, he was the Eldest Son of William Rant of this Town, Dr. of Physick, and the Eldest Daughter of Sir Anthony Drury of Besthorp in the County of Nojfolk, Knt. who lived together in Marriage lovingly and comfortably, for about 35 Years, in which Time were "born to them, 5 Sons, and % Daughters, viz. IVilliam, Hum- frey, who died in the sixth Year of his Age, and was here buried, Bridget, Anne, Humfrey, Anthony, and Thomas, when after- wards, having finished their Days here upon Earth, they Both departed this Life, in the Year of our Lord l66l, He Aged 64, and She 63 Years, and were here laid to rest.

On a black marble, with Rant's arms in a lozenge at each corner,

To the Memory of Anne Rant, the 2d. Daughter of Hum- phrey Rant Esq. and Anne his Wife, who in pious Gratitude to her said Parents, did at her own Cost and Charge, cause to be erected this adjacent Monument, and in her last Will did give 200/. to buy Lands,3 the Profits of which, every half Year, for ever, to be equally divided, between the Minister of this Town, and the Poor of both Parishes ; not only Such as take Collection, but All others who are in Want ; to each person, such part and portion thereof, as in the Discretion of the said Minister, Church-wardens, and Owner of the chief House, of Her Family (being here in Town) shall seem meet and conveni- ent ; and that no poor person, who shall receive any part of this

* For Rant's arms, and crest, see they are all originally of the same stock,

vol. iv. p. i$&, 9. 3 An estate in Kirby-Caam, of 10/. a

There are several branches of the year, was purchased and settled accord.

Rants, in Norfolk, and Suffolk, but ingly.

492 YELVERTON.

Profit, shall hereupon be abated, his or her Collection, upon pain of Forfeiture of the said Land : she died in the 66th Year of her Age, upon the 3Ut. of October, A° Dom. I6y8.

On another stone is this,

Here lyeth the Body of Humfrev Rant, (the eldest Son of Humfrey, and Anne his mother, she lying buried under the next adjacent stone,) he was trained up a Scholar, and took his Degree of Batchelor of Physiek in Cambridge, and within a few Years after, died single and was here Interred, in the beginning of April, 1708.

Rant impales Gooch.

To the Blessed memory of Anne Rant, the second Daughter of Robert Gooch Esq; and Wife of Humfrey Rant of this Town Esq; with whom she lived 15 Years, and had Issue 4 Chil- dren, viz. Humfrey, Anne, William, and Anne, of which Anne the eldest died before her Mother. Herself was here interred March 3. 1678.

Rant impales Tirrel.

William Rant Esq.4 died March 30. 1687. aged 51. Eli- zabeth his Wife, eldest Daughter of James Tirrel of Mend- ham in Suffolk Esq. died Feb. 20. 1711. aged 70. Humphry their eldest Son died 1681. aged 23.

Letitia, Daughter of Thomas Rant Esq; and Felicia his Wife, died Apr. 9. 1714. aged 14 Years, and 9 Months.

In 1720, Thomas Rant, Esq. lived here, at whose death,

James Rant Esq. of Mendham (see p. 384,) had it, whose son, Wil.

Rant of Mendham, Esq. sold it lo John Platers, Esq. son of Sir John

Platers of Sotterly, Bart, who now owns it, and dwells at Yelverton-

hall.

The church is dedicated to St. Mary theFirgin ; it stands thus in

the King's Books,

10/. Yelverton rectoria. 48/. clear yearly value.

So that it is capable of augmentation, and pays no fint-fmits nor tenths, but 2s. synodals, and 7*. Id. ob. procurations to the archdeacon. When Norwich Domesday was made the rector had a house and two granges in the churchyard.

RECTORS.

1314, William Bozoun, priest. Peter Bozoun. 1362, John, son of Agnes de Weston. In 1372, Alan de Lexham changed this with

John Cursoun, priest, for Brunstede. Earth, rector of Soulh- Wahham, and Ric. Doget, late vicar of Hardele, patrons.

♦ See vol. i. p. 204. 5 Sc. of Yelverton, and Alpington.

YELVERTON. 4Q3

Roger de Eton, rector of Yelverton, by his will, proved before the official of the Bishop of Norwich in 1-105, ordered his body to be buried in the hospital church of St. Giles in Norwich, to which church, and that of Yelverton, he was a benefactor, and gave 20s. yearly rent to keep his anniversary in the hospital, and feed the clerks, brethren, sistern, and and sick poor, that day, and tied houses in St. Peter Mancroft for it.

In 1479, Tho. Wyoth, rector, was buried in the chancel, before the principal image of the Blessed Virgin there, which stood against the east wall, at the north side of the altar, he gave a legacy to the gild of St. John Baptist held in this church, and 20s. towards the new roof of the church.

This advowson being forfeited to the Crown, was granted by King Henry VII. to John Earl of Oxford, and his heirs male of his body, and upon failure thereof, it came to the Crown, where the patronage hath continued ever since.

1505, Henry Curie, rector. In

1560, Rob. Howse was collated by lapse. In 1583, the Queen presented

Thomas Thome, in full right. In 1584, Edw. Earl of Oxford, presented

Edmund Druru, 4th son of Rob. Drury of Besthorp, by Eliz. Clifford, his wife ; he was D. D. and brother iolienry Drury, rector of Tendring; in 1603 he returned 124 communicants here, and 43 in Beeston St. Laurence, which rectory he held with this. In ]6o6, it was returned, that the advowson being granted under limitation, the reversion was now in the Crown, and on a quare impedit, it was de- termined to be so, and in 1591, the Queen presented Joseph Dawes. In 160S, the King presented Daniel House, who was succeeded in

1638, by Tho. Ba/dwyn, and he in

1654, by Christopher Blanks, who in l66l was instituted on the King's presentation. In

1693, Tho. Hacon had it, and was succeeded in

1733, by the Rev. Mr. Charles Wadsworth, the present rector, who holds it united to the consolidated rectory of the medielies of Howe with Poringland-Parva.

There is one acre of land given to repair the church; this town is left out of Saxton's map of the county ; it paid 2/ 10*. clear to each tenth, besides 6s. from the lands of the religious here. The Abbot of Langele's temporals being valued at 26s. 4d. ob. and the chamberers of St. Edmund's Bury at 2s. 3d. ob. qr. In 1557, John Fellowe of Norwich, Gent, gave 2 acres of ground called Thirse Meadow, with the consent of Cecily his wife aiid John his son, to the Dean and chapter of N o 11 w 1 c h .

The church is 33 feet long, and 22 broad. The south isle and chapel at its east end, are 46 feet long, and 13 broad, and are both leaded; the chancel is 31 feet long, and 16 broad, and is thatched. The steeple was rebuilt in 1674, by Thomas Thetford: it is 50 feet high, and contains three bells.

494 Y EL VERT ON.

On brass plates in the chancel,

J3rafl for the Sotole of Sohn <f>parrototr , the son of ^Thomas? ^parrotoc, on tohoSe Morale, gjejSug to»e Mmy.

£>rar< for the Morales* of &ir Jtafc &cggcfielD, ano &ir J©i[(tam ©urge?.

On brass plates in the church,

©rate pro 2nima 3nne £>parrotoe, cuius anime propictetur, ©euS. <©rate pro Stoma auDne £>parrotoe, que abut i° «£ie 3januarii a ©m mi M° VC.iii0 cuius anime proptcictur «?cuS.

On plates in the south isle,

$rep for the &oto!c of .JEtargarete 0(Drichc ©oughter of atto* mas aiortchc, surname .Iliaire of liortoiche, tohiche Dica in to flourishing gouthe, tto iSt oan of Jliapc, m tijc get of oure JtoriJ <©o0, JU° V€. xxv.

Orate pro antma Soto £>parrotoc, cuius anime propicietuc 3£euS.

$erc Iyctlj buries the 2?o&r; of ChomaS SMcrjerhapSet <0ent. tJje fourtije <t>on of £homaS 2?lrtcrijansict of 23arsham in the Countte of Sufi. <t:Sq; toljirhc Sato Chotna.^ Departed from this UDorloei the rrb Dap of Jfebr! 1590.

On a south window,

Here lyeth the Body of Mr. Gawen Corbin, merchant and Citizen of London, younger Brother of Thomas Corbin of Hall- End in the County of Warwick Esq; died 25 of February, A9 Domini, 1708, JEtatis 77. CoiiBiN, arg. on a chief or, three crows sab.

Nicolas Dammocke Gent, died 8 May 1617.

John Wrongrey, Oct. 9, 1704, 29. Moriendo, vive. James Wrongrey, 1616.

Elizabeth, Wife of John Wrongrey, \5Nov. 1660. Robert Wrongrey, 23 May, 1663.

Robert Wrongrey, 13 June, 167 1, 63. Margaret, his Wife, 2 March, 1668, 70.

Ro^er Wrongrey, 21 Dec. 1680. Anne, his Wife, 31 Dec. 1671° In 1505, Thomas Hoott, of Yekerton, Gent, was buried in the chapel of St. John the Baptist, which he had built and founded, and in which the gild, held to the honour of that Saint, was then kept; he left a good estate to Beatrice his wife for life, called Fullers and Joys, and then to Robert his son, with remainders to his daughters, Christian, Margaret, and Anne . His brass plate is thus inscribed,

SAXLINGHAM. 495

prari for the £otoIe of .H^n.sstcc ChomaiS $ott, ana Beatrice fjjg 59pfe, anD foe the bottle of JUasitcc ^Thomas* ©oltoerton €.squjier, rate jfatiher. to the £aio S&eatnce.

On a stone on the outside, against the south wall,

Eliz. Wife of Edward Hood, left this Life for a better, Oct. 21, 1711. JEtat. 30.

He's gone before, His Breath is fled ,

To ope, the Door, And Body's Dead,

Of vast Eternity, And yet shall rise again,

To let you in, And live above,

Then Free from Sin, Where Angels love,

Oh ! Strive to live and dye. Free from Disease or Pain

SAXLINGHAM.

1 his and most other towns, begining with the words, Saij-e, Seaxe, or Sax, such as Saxham, Saxmundham, &c. had their names, in all probability, from one or more persons of the name of Sax, among the Saxons, which name continued till after the Conquest, as appears from the Consuetudinary of Bury Abbey,6 where Richard, son of Sax, is mentioned after that time.

The town is commonly divided into two parts, called Nethergate, and Overgate, or Thorp; the manors were called Netherhall-Verdons, and Overhall or Thorphall, and have been united for some time past; to the former the advowson of Saxlingham-Nethergate belonged, and to the latter that of Saxlingham-Thorp.

SAXLINGHAM OVERHALL, or VERDON'S MANOR,

Was in several parts in the Confessor's time, held by Edric, He- rald, Ulf, Ailward, Ulnoht, Lefolt, and Stegar, and at the

6 MSS. penes Carokim Dom. Corn- terre. Hanc terram servavit Godricus waleis, fo. 88. Richardus filius Saxi. Dapifer, in manu Regis, sed terra noil

7 Terre Regis cjuam Godricus servat. reddidit ei censum. Heinestede Hund. Domsd. fo. 28. Terre Roberti Malet. fo. 76.

In Saiselingeham, i. socm. Edrici com- In Sasilingaham tenuit Edricus, ante- mend, dexxx. acr. terre, et i. acr. prati cessor Roberti Malet, ii. socm. et dim. et semper dim. car. de lxvi. acr. terre, modo tenet Walterus, In Sasilingaham, i. liber homo He- (filius Walteri) tunc ix. bord. m° xiii. raldi commend. T. R. E. de xxx. acr. semper iv. car. et dim. inter omnes, et terre semp. iii. bordarij, tunc i. car. in iii. acr. prati, et octava pars molendini dominio, m° dim. et i. socm. et i. acr. et sub eis i. socm. de vi. acris terre,

496

SAXLINGH AM.

Conqueror's survey, by that King, who managed his part by Godric; Robert Malet, who gave his part to IValter Fitz-Walter ; Roger Bi~ got, Drue de Bevraria, Robert Fitzcorbun, whose part Guiifrid held, and John JVa/eranis nephew, to whose part the advowson of Nether- gate church, and 10 acres of glebe, valued at ]Gd.per annum, then belonged, the whole town being two miles long and half a mile broad, paid ]6d. to the geld. The parts were afterwards vested in the Bigods and were infeoffed by Roger Bigod in

William de Verdon, in Rufus's time, along with Brisingham, &c. as you may see, vol. i. p. 49, and it continued in the Verdons, till Wido de Verdon gave it with his eldest daughter, Alice, to Nicholas de Bruncester,3 and the said Nicholas, gave it with Oriel, or Muriel, his eldest daughter, to Walter Malet, and their heirs male ; for want of which, it returned to the Verdons, and passed a long time in that family, with the manor of Brisingham, to which I refer you. In 1285, John de Verdon, knight, had liberty ol'free-zvarren allowed him here, and held the manor of the Earl of Norfolk, at one fee, as of his manor of Forncet. Inl36o, Sir John Verdon settled it, &c. as in vol. i. p. 53, on Simon Simeon, in fee, on default of issue male; and in

Terra Rogcri Bigoti, fo. 132.

In Sasiliiifiaham i. lib. homo Ulfi

semp. dim. car. tunc vahiitxxx. sol. m° reddil i. sol.

Terre Drogonis de Bevraria, fo. 248.

In Sasilingaham tenuit Ailward, i. liber homo Regis Edwardi, ii. car. terre tunc xii. bord. post xii. m° ix. tunc et post ii. car. in dominio modo nulla, sem- per: i.car. hominum, et i. acr. et dim. prati et v. soc.de xvii. acris terre semper j. car. tunc val. xx. sol. post et modo similiter.

In eadem ten. Ulnoht i. liber homo Stigandi commend, de xxx. acris terre, semper v. bord. tunc i. car. in dominio, modo nulla, tunc et post i. car. homi- num, modo i. et dimid. et iii. acr. prati etv. soc. de xvii. acr. terre, tunc i. car. post similiter, modo dim. et i. liber de vi. acns terre, tunc val. xx.sol. post, et m° xx. sol.

Terre Roberti filii Corbutionis, fo. 267.

In Sasilingaham tenet Gunfridus quam tenuit Le 1- olt, i. liber homo Heroldi commend, de xxx. acris terre, semper v. bord. tunc ii. serv. tunc et post i. car. in dominio et i. car. hominum, et ii. liberi homines de iii acris terre et ii. acris prati, tunc val. xvi. sol modo xxii. sol.

Terre Johannis Nepotis Walerami, fo. 281.

In Sasilingaham tenuit Stecar Huscarla* Regis Edmundi, xxx. acr. terre, semper dimid. bord. tunc ii. serv. modo 1. et dim mol. i. acr. et dim. prati, tunc i. car. modo nulla, tunc et post val. xx. sol. modo xiii. i. ecclesia x.acr. et val. xvi. den.

commend. T. R. E. xxiv. acr. terre, et i. acr. prati, semper dim. car. semper val. iii. sol. hoc tenet idem. (Sc. Rogerus.)

Terra Sancti Benedicti de Holmo, ad victum monachorum, fo. 165.

In Saisselingham tenuit Edkic liber homo Stigandi, i. car. terre et dim. sub eoT. R. E. cum soca et saca, postquam Rex venit in Angliam, ut autem se redimeret a captione Walerami, inva- davit earn, idem Edricus pro una marca auri et pro vii. libris, in Sancto Bene- dicto, modo tenet Johannes nepos pre- dion Walerami, de Sancto Benedicto in feudo, tunc xi. bord. m° ix. et dim. semper i. serv. tunc ii. car. in dominio, post null, modo i. tunc ii. car. horn, modo i. m° i. runcin. in dominio, et T. R. E. Ix. soc modo v. de xxx. acr. etiv. acr. prati. tunc ii. car. modo dim. et i. mol. tunc val. xl. sol. post et modo xxx. habet ii. leug. in longo, et dim. in Iato,et xvi. den. de Gelto, sed pluresibi tenent.

In eadem, iacent x. acr. terre in do. minio Sancti Benedicti, et prestavit Edrico, teste hundredo.

Tene Walteri Giffardi, fo. 241.

In Sasilingaham ii. liberi homines sancti Benedicti de Holmo, commendat. de 1. acris terre, et ii. acr. prati, et ii. bord. semper i. car. tunc val. v. sol. modo reddit x.

8 See p. 177.

* ();ouj-e E]}eo)i!e.)

SAXLINGHAM. 497

1380 the said Simeon had it, and presented in full right. In 1401 John Bertiak, Knt. held it. In 1478, John Broughton, Esq. died seized of this, Stonham Aspale in Suffolk, and Colne Eugayne in .Essex, and left John his son and heir, who died in 1528, leaving Anne and Catherine his coheiresses, (his only son John dying under age ) who had livery of their several moieties of (his, Tilney, and manv oilier manors in No/folk, Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Devonshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, Leices- tershire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Essex, and Northamptonshire ; so great was the estate of this family; these two coheiresses married,

Anne, to William Howard, Knt. lord Hozeard of Nawor'th • and Catherine, to Sir Thomas Cheine, Knt. lord warden of the Cinque Ports, by whom several large parts were severed from the ma- nor, which went to Sir William Paulet, Knt.9 in right of Anne his wife, one of the coheiresses of William Lord Howard; and in 1603, the Marquis of Winchester was found lord and patron; and in 1609, Sir Henry Gawdie, Knt. of C/axton, and other inhabitants of Saxlingham, (who had purchased several parcels of its demeans') were found to hold Verdon's manor at 1 fee, of Forncet manor. In l6S(), Sir William Pawlet and Sir Henry Gawdie had it: and after- wards it belonged to Judge Gazvdie, in whom all the manors and advowsons were joined. After him it was Charles Suckling's, and then John Tattle's, Esq. who died in 1684, and Elizabeth his daugh- ter and heiress inherited; she married John Mingai/, Esq. and died in 1716, leaving her three daughters her heiresses; 1, Elizabeth, mar- ried to John Burkin, Esq. ; 2, Mary, to John Fowle, Esq. ; 3, Susan, to John Baron, D. D. Dean of Norwich, who all joined and sold it (except the advowson) to Robert Atwood, Esq. father of John Atwood, Esq. whose daughter, and heiress, Anne, by Joanna his wife, is now married to the present lord, Thomas Gooch, Esq. of Benacre in Suffolk, eldest son to Thomas Lord Bishop of Ely.

THE MANOR OF THORPHALL

Belonged at the Conquest to the Abbot of Holm, and was given by Hugh, Abbot there, to John son of Robert, commmonly called Fitz- Robert, and his heirs in fee; to be held by the service of half a knight's fee, on condition, that if John son of Pagan or Fifz-Pain should recover it from the Abbot, then he was to hold it of Fitz-Pain. Eustace de Vesci gave to Adnm de Carleolo, or Carlisle, in the time of King Stephen, in exchange for the manor of Culdebec, &c. which his father gave to Adam with Maud his daughter, all his land in Sax- lingham, being half a fee, held of the Abbot of St. Benedict, and 19 bovates of land in Knapton, &c.

Stephen Blund, and Agnes his mother, in 1 198, held half acarucate, and in 1235, Ellen le Blund held it of William Cardville and John de Gosford half a fee; and the same year the heirs of Stephen le Blund, held here a quarter of a fee of the Earl of Arundel. 1306, Will, son

9 1573. Sir William Paulet, Knt. called Skippers and Wyetts, in Saxiing. Lord St. John, lord of Verdon's. liam, of Forncet, late parcel of Verdon's

1 15S7, Will. Warde held the lands manor. VOL. V. 3 S

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of Ralfle Blund sold it to Peter son of Will, de Nerford. In 1317, the King seized John son and heir of Simon de Gosford, because the said Simon held his manor of Berewell in Saxlingham of William de Carlio/o and his wife, who were now rebels, by adhering to his ene- mies of Scotland, it being held at half a fee of Saxlingham manor. 1323, William Blund had it. In 1343, Roger, parson of Heydon, and Tho. de Brewse, held it; and John de Gosford and Roger Herdegrey held half a fee, late John deGosford's, which soon after fell again into this manor.

Tifordiua de Kardville held it at half a fee after him. In 1225, Wil- liam Cardville held it of the heirs of Vesci ; they of Rob. Fitz-Roger, he of the Abbot of St. Bennet, and he of the King in capite, as part of his barony. In 1272, Jscelina widow of William le Blund or Blunt, brought a writ against William son of JVarine de Muntchensy and Sa- pientia widow of Will, de Cardville for her dower in Saxlingham. In 12S5, Will, de Karliolo or Cardeyl, son of William and Sapientia, lord here, had weyf assize of bread and ale, and view of frankpledge ; and in 1290, King Edzc. I. granted him a charter of free-warren in all his demeans here, and in Utredely and Crossely in Cumberland. In 1297, John de Goseford owned that he held by half a fee of this William, a messuage and 60 acres in Saxlitigham, which John his father had of the grant of Will, father of this Will? who being a rebel to Edw. I. that King seized all his lands and gave them to

Sir William de Monteacute, Knt. and Eliz. his wife, with Knoll in Somersetshire, and Woneford in Devonshire, and Will, de Scottow, clerk, took possession of this manor, as his attorney; this William died seized about 1319, and of the advowson of Saxlingham-Thorp, leaving Eliz. his widow, and William his son 18 years old, who had his manors here, and in Somersetshire, Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, De- vonshire, Dorsetshire, Bucks, and Hertfordshire; in 1316, this Will. de Monteacute had a charter for free-warren here, and in Drayton, Knoll, and JVoneford, and died seized; in 1320, Will, de Monteacute and Eliz. his wife held it with the manors of Ughtreby, Bampton, Cross/ey, and 10 bovates in Brunesly in Gillesland in Cumberland.

In 1350, John de Stoke-ferry, and Alice his wife, settled it on Geffery Boti/er and Joan his wife, and Tho. de Bumpstede, and John de Plumstede, to the use of Gejfry, who jointly with his wife, in 1357, conveyed it to Sir John Wingjield, Knt. and Eleanor his wife, and their heirs; and this year John de Verdon and Maud his wife settled their manor here on Sir John Wing field and his wife (except Over- kail advowson) for life; in 1358, Sir John and Eleanor3 his wife settled jSetherhall on themselves in tail, remainder to Catharine wife of Sir Michael de la Poole, Knt. remainder to Thomas and William Wingfield, his brothers, Ric. de Amundevile being trustee. Michael de la Poole and Catharine his wife, in 1389, held this manor, and the advowson of Saxlingham Thorp; in 1401, Mich, de la Poole Earl of Suffolk held it of the Abbot of St. Bennet; in 1433 William Earl of

* In i322,Will. son of Ivo de Car- of Gilbert Glanvile, Knt. and wife

LIOL, died, and leftJoAN his sonand heir, of Sir John Wingfielp, held Saxling-

21 years old, seized of lands in Cumber, ham, and Catharine their daughter

land, but never got this manor again. and heir married to MlCH. de la Pools

1 1374, Eleanor, daughter and heir Earl of Suffolk,

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Suffolk and Alice his wife had it, and died seized, and left it to his son John, and it remained in the Suffolk family till the attainder of Edmund de la Poole, and then the King seized it, and granted it in moieties, to Edward Wadham and Thomas Fogg, and their heirs males, in 1509; and in 1512 the King granted Fogg's moiety to Christopher Gameys, and his heirs males, hut Margaret, wife of Edmund de la Poole, enjoyed the whole manor for life, but survived her husband only two years; in 1511, John Bremer, of Newton. Flol- man, Gent, gave his moiety to John his son ; one moiety, now in the Crown, was'granted to the Lady June de Cleve for life ; and in 1558, Thomas Chapman had livery of it at the death of Alexander his father, and held it in 1561, and in 1560 sold it to Thomas Gawd// of Claxton, and Frances his wife, and his heirs, and Henry Gaicdy his son joined it to I erdon's manor:

The other moiety, which was Bremer's, came to John Dimock, who in 1567, with the Queen's license, sold it to William Tuttill, of whom Candy bought it, and joined it to Verdon's about 1567.

The church of St. Mary of Saxlingham Nethergate. In the east chancel window are these arms.

EAST-ANGLES.

On the south side of the altar is a neat mural marble monument, ith the arms of Norwich deanery, impaling

Baron, gul. a chevron arg. corded lozenge az. between three

500 SAXLINGHAM.

garbs or, and a coat of pretence of Mingay, and this inscription of the Dean's own composing:

Cujus ossa hie Sita Sunt,

Si Rerum novarum curiosus, Scire desideras,

Quisquis ades Spectator,

Saxo nihil, Vicinis Dubia respondentibus,

Me forte mei certiorem habes Indicem;

Fui JOHANNES BARON Clericus,

Hujus Ecclesiag quondam Rector,

Ecclesias Cathedralis Norvici tandem Decanus,

Qui

Exuvijs hie depositis, ne Vermibus deficerent pabula,

Animum in Creatoris manus transmisi; Reducem,

Ssecula Expectantem meliora.

Si Fortunes Dotes in primis quaesitas, Qusras; eas vix esse nostras

Existima,

Deo tamen dante, me fuisse intelligas,

Quosque per Ingenium, per malevolis licuit,

Doctrina, opibus, Fama, Loco, Sic Satis,

Cum hoc milii potissimum in votis fuerit,

Ut declinata Invidia, otio fruerer honesto,

primorum Extremus,

Si Vitae jam Exacts Rationem QuEeras; frustra quaeris in praesentia

Cum neque respondere probe Sciam Ipse,

Nee Curat populus omnino, aut curat nimium,

In alium Diem difrerenda est Cognitio,

Quando omnium Judici Deo Rationem Sum redditurus;

Tu quoque,

Interea, Tu candide Spectator,

Hunc Hominem considerans, Teipsum respice,

• Tu Judex aequissime, pater optime,

Servum de multis male admissis dolenlem, Absolve,

Filijque immerentis, 8c Supplicis;

Miserere mei.

Natus 31 Octobris, 1 A 0 , .. CMdclxxvii™.

Obijt undecimo JulijS AnnoSalutls { Mdccxxxix-.

Wiseman, gul. three coronels of tilt spears erm.

There are stones in the nave for, Anne, relict of Leonard Cleane, Gent, and Elizabeth their daughter. Amy Copping, 1720. 20.

Our Time is short, the longer is our Rest, God calls them soonest, whom he loveth best.

In the chancel, Mingay impales three crescents.

John Mingay, of Ranthrophall, Esq; 1684. John Tnthill, Gent. 1684. E/iz. Wife of John Mingay and Daughter of John Tnthill, 1716. Will, their Son, 1716. Eliz. Wife of John Burkin, Esq; Daughter of John Mingay, Esq; and Eliz. his Wife, 1697. Eliz. Burkin their Daughter, 1683. Jane their Daughter, 1686. Eulesia their Daughter, 1689. John their Son,l6o,2. Jane their Daughter,

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1700. Mary, Daughter of John Baron Clerk, and Susan his Wife, Daughter of John Mingay, Esq; 1707. Anne Baron their Daughter, 1712.

Glean E impales three garbs 2 and I. Leonard Gleane, Gent- died Oct. 0,6, 1654. 60. Six verses in his commendation, but illegible.

The church of St. Mary of Saxiingliam Thorp is now ruinated, the steeple and walls only standing; it stands thus in the Revision of the Archdeaconry of No/folk, made in 1630 :

Saxlingham-Thorp is a rectory, of which Sir Robert Gazody, Knt. is patron, and William Pudding, A.M. licensed preacher, is rector; it is valued in the King's Books at 6/. 13s. 4d. and pays l6d. syuodals, and 7s. 6d. ob. archdeacon's procurations. He holds Nethergate also by a personal union.

In 1608, Robert Robinson, rector, certified that there were 140 communicants in this parish, and that Sir Henry Gawdy was then patron.

Being sworn of the clear yearly value of 25/. it is discharged of first fruits, and tenths, and in 1740, was consolidated to Nethergate. There was a gild in honour of the Virgin Mary anciently held in this church.

RECTORS OF SAXLINGHAM-THORP.

J 307, Richard.

1328, Ric. le Sekesteyn, accolite, res. Sir John de Boy land, Knt.

1330, Henry de Northwold, accolite. Sir Tho. de Furnival, senior, Knt. and Eliz. his wife.

1349, Simon de Bertington. Eliz. widow of Will, de Monte- acute, Knt.

13o"l, Peter, son of Alan of Thejford, priest. Lady Eleanor de

WlNGFIELD.

1362, William Hervy, priest. Ditto. Afterwards it was generally held by union, with

The church of St. Mary of Saxlingham Nethergate, which stands thus in the Revision : it hath the same patron and rector with Thorp; the Bishop's visitatorial procurations are 3s. 4d. ob. qr. Syuodals, 18c?. Archdeacon's procurations Is. id. ob. The prior of St. Faith at Horsham had a portion of tithes out of this church, valued at 9.0s. per annum, and so paid 2s. to each tenth, as the village did 61. clear, besides 28s, paid by the religious, for their lands here, viz. the Abbot of Holm, os. The" Abbot of Lang/ey 2s. The Prior of Dunmowe 40d. The Prioress of Campsey 4s.; and the Prioress of Carow 2s. The Marquis of Winchester, late Lord St. John, being patron. Both the parishes being in Brook deanery and Norfolk archdeaconry. Here were two gilds, one of St. Margaret, the other of St. Mary.

RECTORS OF SAXLINGHAM-NETHERGATE.

1200, Thomas de Brook. 1307, Adam.

502, S A X L I N G H A M.

1325, Richard de Stradebrook, priest. Ric. DE Brewse, Knt. in right of the dower of Eleanor his wife.

1350, Richard Skyn, resigned in exchange with

Robert de Ashele, priest for St. Mary in the Marsh in Nor- wich. Sir John Verdon, Knt. (See vol. iv. p. 51.)

1380, Richard Daneys changed with

Hugh Forester for Thingden vicarage in Lincoln diocese, of ■which the Abbot of Croxton was patron, and of this, Simon Simeon.

1401, Sir Thomas Hare, priest. Sir Hugh Bernak, Knt.

1474, William Aggys, rector.

1494, William Christian, rector.

1603, Robert Robinson and of Thorp. He returned 140 communi- cants in this parish.

1617, William Puding.

1621, Francis Comes.

1636, John Harmer, (see vol. iii. p. 401.)

John Baron, dean of 'Norwich, for whom see vol. iii. p. f>30. At his death, in 1739, both these rectories, which he held by personal union, became void, and in 1740 were really annexed and consolidated, and on

June 7, 1740, John Berney, A.M. the present rector, (now D. D. and archdeacon of Norwich,) was instituted to the rectory of Sax- lingham ISethergate with Saxlingham Thorp annexed, being collated by Thomas Gooch Bishop of Norwich (to whom he was chaplain) by lapse of time, and had a union to the consolidated rectories of the two niedieties of Hetherset, and Cantlose, which he now holds with the rectory of St. Clement in Norwich. (See vol. iv. p. 459.)

It stands thus in the King's Books: 13/. lis. 8d. Saxlingham Nethergate rectory, 45/. clear yearly value, and so is discharged of first-fruits and tenths.

This town produced Adam de Saxlingham (a white friar of Norwich convent; see vol. iv. p. 418,) a man of good learning, and great ingenuity in preaching and disputing : he wrote divers treatises, and flourished under Edward III. A0 1350.

The church is 25 yards long, and 6 and an half broad, and hath 110 isles; the nave and chancel are leaded, and the south porch is tiled, it hath a square tower, and six bells ; the parsonage, which is a good and convenient house, joins to the west part of the churchyard.

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SHOTESHAM.

Scotessa, Scotessam, or Shotesham, signifies the village of Scots, ox portions ; and was very properly so called, tor it was in ;>bove twelve parts, at the Confessor's and Conqueror's surveys; it had four capital manors, four parish churches, two hamlets, and the manors extended, into Framingham,* Bedingham,* Brook,6 and Stokeholy- Cross.

THE MANOR OF VAUX'S, NERFORD'S, or SHOTESHAM- HALL,

Contained the parish of Shotesham All-Saints, commonly called High Shotesham, from the situation of the church on a great emi- nence, the advowson of which belonged to this manor, till it was given to Penttieye priory. Alnot held it at one carucate at the Confessor's survey,7 and it afterwards belonged to Ralf Earl of No/folk; and on his abjuring the realm fell to the Conqueror, and Godric his sewer took care of it ; the Bp. of Ba'ieux had it of that King in fee, and Roger Bigod held it of him, and gave it afterwards to Aitard de Vallibus or Vaux, in whose family it continued many generations; it was first valued at 305. per annum, and after at 3/.

Elias de Vallibus, or Vaux, one of the itinerant justices, was lord here, and obtained the lete by grant from the Crown, so that it was severed from the hundred; Oliver d£ Vaux was lord, and after him, John his son. In 1202, Robert de Faux settled on Ralf Abbot of Hulme 2 carucates of land in Shotesham, which Robert his father gave to that monastery, by which he much lessened the manor,

+ Terra Rogeri Bicoti. De escan- boves. Et ineadem, tenuit idem Alnohf,

gio terre Isaac, fo. 112. In Scotessa ii. liberos homines, et medietatem alio.

iii. liberi homines ejusdem, (sc. Ulketel) rum iiii. commendation, et ten. inter se

xvi. acr. terre. i. acr. et dim. prati sem- xxxii. acr. terre et i. car. Ex his tenuit

per arant cum duobus bovibus. appre- Radulfus Comes iii. integros cum terra

tiati sunt in Framingaham. xii. acr. et dim. quando se forisfecit,

* In Scotessa, x. acr. et jacet in Bed. modo tenet Aitardus (de Vats) homo

ingham. Rogeri Bigot, et reclamat ex feudo Epis-

6 Terra Abbatis de Sancto Eadmundo. copi Bajacensis, sed iste Aitardus non ha- fo. 179. bet ab antecessore suo nisi in uno dim.

In Scotessa.xvi. liberi hominesGuERT commendat. teste himd°.

commend, de i. car. terre pertinent in In altera Scotessa i. liber homo et

Broc, (belonging to the Abbot's manor duo dim. Alnoth. commend, de xl. acris,

of Brook) et sub e;s vii. bord. et iiii. acr. et ii. bord. et iiii. acr. prati, inter omnes

prati, et iii. car. et quarta pars ecclesie. i. car. In Scotessa i. lib. homo de x.

Ex hoc tenet Bcrengarius xx. acr. acris tunc dim. car. post et modo nichil.

7 Terre Regis quam Godricus servat. Scotessa valuit T. R. E. xxx. sol. Hundr. Hinestede. Domsd. to. 27, 28. post et m° xx.s. et omnes isti liberi ho-

Scotessam tenuit Alnoht T.R.E. homines valent xl. sol. sed T. R.E. non pro i. car. terre, post ii. bord. m° iii. erant in censii, Scotessam Rob. Blundus

tunc i. car. in dominio. post et m° ii. adcensavit.

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in 1'248. The manor being held of the Norfolk family, Earl Roger was guardian to William de Faux, lord here, who in 1250, added divers rents and services to it, which he purchased of William de Hemenhale and Maud his wife, and of Jeffry de Caam and Agnes his wife. In 1263, John de Vaux of Therston obtained a charter tor free warren here,8 of King Henry III.; this John was sued for appro- priating the fishing to himself on each side of his mill, it being proved that all the fishery in the manor was common to the tenants except the mill pool only, and at the same time the Abbot of Holme was fined, for hindering the common fishing at Liuewesse in Shotesham. In 12S5, John de Faux was allowed to have a lete, and view of frankpledge as well over all his freemen of Shotesham as other tenants there,9 and in 12S8, one moiety was assigned to Will, de Nerford, in right of Petronel his wife, eldest daughter, and coheir of John de Faux, who held it jointly in 1291, of the Earl-Marshal at one fee, and in 1300, Bland sister of Petronel was seized of the other moiety of it; and in 1306, Will, de Ros her husband had it: after the death of William de Nerford about the year 1300, who had the whole manor allotted him, Petronel his widow, in 1303, settled it on Oliver de Redham for life, paying her 40//. per annum clear out of it; in 1327, Sir John de Nerford, Knt. and Agnes his wife, settled it with Wisete'm Sujfo/k and the advowsons ot'Pentuey priory in Noifolk, and Rumburgh priory in Suffolk, &c. on themselves and the heirs of John; there was an exact extent and survey of this manor made in his time and there were 1136, acres belonging to it. In 1374 Agnes, then wife of John Matrarers, senior, held the manor for life; this Agnes, first married Sir John Argentine, Knt. by whom Sir John Argentine, her son and heir; and secondly, to Sir John de Nerford, Knt. who died Sd Edw. III. and left Thomas Nerford his brother and heir, who died in 1343, and Sir John Nerford, Knt. his son, was his heir, who daugh- ter and heiress Margaret '(or Margery) de Nerford died without issue; but before her death in 1390 sold it to

Sir John White, Knt. and his trustees, Sir Miles Stapleton, Knt. Oliver Groos, and others.

This family were originally of Suffolk, and in 1272, Bartholo- mew le Wite and Alice his wife had an estate at Stoke Neyland in that county; and soon after William, son and heir of Ralfle White of Saxlingham in Norfolk, and Ellen his wife, had lands in Shotes- ham; and in 1388, Ralf White had it, whose son Robert White, Esq. of Shotesham, was father to the aforesaid Sir John White, Knt. who was the raiser of this family, by his martial exploits : in 1401, he was the very first person named in the commission, by Hen. IV. to raise the aid to marry the King's eldest daughter; in 1403, he and Margaret (or Margery) his first wife lived in Tunstall in Suffolk, and owned a manor in Oxford; he was a commander under the Earl of Dorset at the siege oiHa>jieu, and inl 3 17, at the siege of Roan in Nor- mandy, he rode up to the gate of that city, and challenged the bastard Daily, a French officer, to break a lance, who accepting his challenge, at the first course ran Sir John through, who by his falling from his horse was presently dragged into the town, and in a few hours died there. By Joan or Julian, his second wife, who was daughter of

8 Cart. 48 Hen. III. No. 3. 9 For the I'auxes, see p. 43, 4, 467.

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Peter Hovel of Swannington, and relict of John But of Norwich; he had John White of Fretenkam, lord of Maidenton or Mayton manor there, which his father gave him, who with Alice his wife, daughter and heiress of Robert Burnham of Lyn, are interred in Fretenkam church, leaving Mayton to Margaret their daughter and heiress, who was buried by them in 143 1, leaving issue by Giles St. Lowe, Esq. her husband ; one daughter, ELizABETH,married to Henry Statham, Esq. who died in 1481, and left Joan their daughter and sole heir, married to John Sacheverell.

But this manor went to the eldest son by Sir Johns first wife, viz. Robert White, Esq. who by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Wil- liam Appleyard and Margaret his wife, daughter of Robert Clerc of Ormesby, Esq. left Bartholomew White, Esq. of Shotesham his eldest son and heir; this Elizabeth was buried in Shoteskam St. Mary, in the chancel there, in 1442, and left Margaret Appleyard her sister, Emma Bray her sister, Mr. Appleyard her brother, and Bartholomew White her son, her executors, and gave legacies to Elizabeth her daughter, Henry White her second son, and William White, lord of Thorp Parva, her third son, for whose descendants, see vol. i. p. 139-

In 1440, Sir Simon Felbrigg, Knt. released to Bartholomew and his heirs, this manor, with the several knights fees held of it, with the advowson of Filby, all which he had settled on him in trust, jointly with William Appleyard, John Lancaster, William and Robert C/ere, Bartholomew Appleyard, John Upton and John Alderford deceased. This Bartholomew, in I486, founded the chapel on the north side of the church of Shotesham St. Mary, and placed his own effigies, and those of Joan Dalton, his first wife, by whom he had no issue, and of Alice Shuldham his second wife, (who all lie interred in it, under stones now robbed of their brass plates) and under them, placed this inscription,

Orate pro Bartholomeo White, Joanna et Alicia uxoribus ejus, qui istam Capellam fieri fecit Anno domini M. CCCC. LXXXYT°, quorum animabus propicietur Deus.

He had his own arms single on his surcoat, and each of his wives had theirs. He died in 1495, and then held this manor, of the manor of Forncet at one fee, sc. half a fee in Shoteshams, and half a fee in Crouch-Stoke, or Stoke- Holy-Cross.

Simon While, Esq. his son and heir, succeeded, and died about 1505, leaving by his wife, daughter of Holdich of Didlington, Esq.

Edward White of Filby, Esq. his son and heir, after of Shotesham, and London, councellor at law, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Tho. Foxmere of Bromesthorp ; by his will, dated June 17, 152 1, he be- queathed a legacy to the poor, for undeserved fees, and dying theSth. of July following, was buried in St. Mary's chancel, under a stoue which hath a brass plate on it, thus inscribed,

X.Mt iacct <£utoa:5usi jBhutc Srmigcr, ct Cfijabetha livot eiusS, qui hoc gecutum rcliqurrunt viii° Die mens'i^ guilt ilnno ©omini M° 1c. xxviii. quorum animating propicietur ©cu£.

They both died of the sweating sickness. Their effigies, were on the stone, and the following arms,

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505 SHOTESHAM.

1. White , see volume i. p. 180.

l2. Sab. a griffin sejeanl in an orle of croslets arg. 3. Arg. a fess between six oaken leaves gul. 3. Sab. a le-s between three hounds passant a/g. 4. Arg. a serpent in beud between two lioncels rampant sab.

By the inquisition taken after his death it appears, that he married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Fro.rmere of Bromesthorp, and died seized of the manors of Shoteshamhall, Swans, and Tofthall in Shoteshams, held of the Duke of No?j'u/k as of his manor of Forncet ; IVramplingham manor and advowson, Mayton or Maydenton manor, held of the Lord Morley, Little Thorp, of the Bishop of "Norwich, Bilockby manor of the heirs of John Berney of Redham, Esq. and the advowson of the church of All-Saints in Filby, held in gross, leaving

George White, his son and heir, 12 years old, who was an ideot, and died without issue in lo46; Thomas Duke of Norfolk was his guardian, who in 1535 settled the manors after George's death, on his heir at law,

Edmund White of Shotesham, Esq. his uncle, whose will was proved in 1538, when he was buried in Shotesham church, in the north chapel there, and Margaret, relict of William, son of Sir John Tim- perley, Knt. whom he had married, survived him, leaving

Edward White his son, then seven years old, who inherited the whole at George IV lute's death ; he died in 1558 single, and

Anne White, his only sister, inherited, who was then married to Henry T)ouly of Pondha/l in Suffolk, Esq. who became lord of all these manors in her right, except a messuage called Kitts, and 88 acres of land which were severed from the manor, and belonged to John White, alias Ho/Is,' who held it at the l'ith part of a fee of Shotesham manor, which paid for it to Forncet manor. This part at his death descended to .Frances his daughter and heir; and at her death in 1597 it went to her sister Helen, who died single, Mary, married to John Sprat, and Martha then single, and so this ancient family of the Whites centered in females, and the whole inheri- tance, viz. the manors of Shotesham-hall, Toft-hall, and Swans, the advowson of the church of St. Michael at Poringland Parva, &c. came to

The Doylys, a family of great antiquity, sirnamed from the lord- ship of Oil/eia or Oyly in Normandy,2- which they enjoyed long be- fore the Norman Conquest ; and at that time

Robert, eldest son of the lord of Oyly, for his great services in that expedition, was amply rewarded by the Conqueror with two baronies, containing many goodly lordships, and manors in England, lying chiefly in Oxfordshire3 This family were great benefactors to the abbies* of Abington,s, Ei/ncsham, Godstoic, Tame, and others, [n 1071 they built the castle and bridge of Oxford, which was their

* This John seems to be younger * Baronetage, vol. iv. p. 499. brother to Bartholomew White afore- 5 He and his lady Aigitha .ire buried said, who first granted this part to him in Abingdon abbey, to which as well as to and his heirs in 1488. St. Mary's church there, they were be-

* Madox Hist, of Exchequer, p. 106. nefaclors. 3 Domsday.

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ancient seat, and new walled that city. This Robert being the King's constable, was made Baron of Hokenorton in Oxfordshire, by the Conqueror, and married Algitha, daughter and heiress of Wigotus or Wigot, a Saxon thane or nobleman, who was lord oiWaling- ford, by whom he had the lady

Mau d, his daughter and heir, who inheriting her ancestor's valour, valiantly defended the Empress her namesake, in her castle at Wuling- ford; she first married Miles Crispin, and afterwards Brian Fitz- Courit, lord of Burgavennu, but leaving no issue, was succeeded by

Nigel, or Nigellus D'Oyly,6 her uncle, who was constable to William Rufus and Baron ot'Hocknorton; he married Agnes, and left two sons, Fulk, buried &lEynesham in 1126, and

Robert, the eldest son, succeeded, as Lord High Constable, and Baron of Hocknorton : he married Edith, daughter of the Lord Grey- stock, and built the abbey of Missenden in Buckinghamshire, and amply endowed it; and in ] 129, at t'le earnest request of his wife, founded the famous abbey ofOsney, by Oxford, and settled large revenues on it; and at his death left his honours and fortunes to his eldest son,

Lord Henry D'Oyly, Baron of Hocknorton, and the King's Con- stable, who married Margery, daughter of Humphry Bohun Earl of Hereford, and had five children by her, Henry, and Robert; Margery, who at last was heir to her brothers; another daughter married to Maurice de Gaunt (from whom descended the Gaunts Earls of Lin- coln,) and a third daughter married to Thomas Lord Daventry. At his death his estate and honours fell to his eldest son,

Henry who had two wives, Sibil and Maud, who remarried to William de Cantalupe ; he had only one daughter, Maud, who died young. He attended King Ric. I. to Jerusalem, and as he returned, died and was buried in Austria, and was succeeded by his only brother,

Robert, who was Baron of Hocknorton, and the King's Constable, but dying without issue, his eldest sister,

Margery, by the King's favour, was declared his heir; she mar- ried Henry de Neisburgh, a great courtier, and Earl of Warwick, by whom she had Margaret Countess of Warwick, who married two hus- bands ; first, John Marshal, in her right Earl oflVarwick, &c. 2dly, John de Plesset, a great courtier, likewise Earl ofWarwick in her right. She had issue, Tho. Earlof Warwick, who married Ela, daugh- ter of William Longspee Earl of Sarum. But though the honours se- parated thus from the family, yet several manors, and a good part of the estate, descended to

Robert D'Oyly, who was the eldest son of Gilbert the younger, and only brother to the first Lord Henry ;

John, son of this Robert, was the first of the family concerned in Suffolk, where he had a seat at Wrenlham, and was succeeded by his son,

Roger, who had

Roger Doyly, his eldest son and heir, who inherited all the Ox- fordshire estate; from whom Sir John Doyly of Chislehampton ia

6 Gilbf.et D'Oyly, his younger ror, who gave liira lands in Oxford- brother, came in also with the Conque- shire.

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Oxfordshire, Baronet, is descended, as maybe seen in the. vol. iv. p. 500, 1, a, 3. But

John Doyly, 2d son of Roger, and younger brother to the last mentioned .Roger, had the estate in Suffolk, and married Rose, daugh- ter and coheir of Sir William Duuslon, Knt. their son, Edward D'Oyly had issue,

Sir Edmund Doyly, Knt. who married the daughter and heir of John de Bouden of Northamptonshire, by Alice, sister to Sir John Sminford, and by her had Thomas, father to

Edward D'Oyly, who married Anne, sister and sole heir of Tho. Legate, son of Helmin Legate of Pondhall near Iladlet/ in Suffolk by whom he had that manor, and seat, where he fixed, and his posterity remained, till they removed hither. He died about J447, and was bu- ried in St. Mary IVoo/ehurch in Lombard-street, London.

John D'Oyly, their son and heir, in 1466, had license granted him by Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, to have a chapi l fur his family at Poudha/l ; he died in 1483, and was buried with Elizabeth his wife in St. Johns chapel in Hadteigh church, to which town the family were great benefactors.

Edward Doyly, their son and heir, married Anne, daughter of Thomas Cotton of Landwade in Cambridgeshire, Esq. and died in 1534.

Henry Doyly, Esq. his son and heir, was knighted by King Henri/ the Eighth, at Boleuue in France ; he had three wives ; 1st, Joan, daughter and heir of William Stede of Mershland, by whom he had no issue; 2d, Jane, daughter and sole heir of John Eta-yn of TVigeuhall in Noifo/k, Esq.; 3d, Margaret, natural daughter ol John Duke of Norfolk, relict of Sir John Timperley of Hint lesham in Suf- folk; he died in 1563, seized of Pondhall, and Topsfieldhall in Had- leigh, Cossford manor in If' half eld, and many other estates in Suffolk; leaving

Henry, his son and heir, who marrying Anne, sister and sole heir of Edmund White of Shotesham, came here and settled in the old seat of the Whites; he was knight of the shire for Bucks, in Queen FJiza- beth's time, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1573, and again sheriff of No/folk in I5g0; his wife was buried in the church or St. Mary at Shotesham, Dec. 6, 1592, and he was interred by her in May l.i[)7, dying seized of the manors of Shotcshamhall, Swans, and Toftha/l, in Shoteshams, of Blackfordhall, Rokeles, and Grangeviles, in Shotes- hams, Stokeholy-cross, and other adjacent towns, holding the manor of St. Benet's in Shotesham, by lease, of the manors of Mayton in Fretenham, Warham manor, which he bought of John Appleyard, Esq. Thorp Parva, and of several churches and appropriations in Norfolk, besides his ancient estate and manors in Suffolk; they left sexeral children, of which Anne, married Thomas Townshend of Beacon- Ash, Esq. son and heir of Sir Robert Ton. nshend, Knt. Chief Justice of Chester.

Edmund Doyly of Shotesham and Pondhall, Esq. their son and heir, was high sheriff of No/folk in 1604: he first married Anne, daughter of Sir John Goodwin of Winchindon in Bucks, by whom he had Henry, who died young, aud Elizabeth married to Charles Vesty

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of Hintlesham in Suffolk, Esq.; his second wife was Catherine, daugh- ter of Sir Henri/ Nevil of Billiiighere in Berkshire, Knt. (by Elizabeth his wife, sole daughter and heir of Sir JoAh Gresham of London, Knt. by Frances his wife, daughter and sole heir of Sir i/<w-y Thwuites of Lound, on the Woldes in Yorkshire, Knt.) This Sir flewry Xra7 was one of the privy council to Henry VIII. and Edward VI. brother to Edward Lord Abergavenny, and father to Sir Henry Nevil, ambassa- dour in France from Queen Elizabeth to King Henri/ IV.; on his mar- riage he settled the manors of Pondhall, fopsfie/dha/l and Cosford- hall in jointure, and an annuity of two hundred marks a year out of his manors of Thorp Parva, Shoteshamhall, Swans, Toft hall, and fVarham, the whole jointure being estimated at one thousand marks a year; he was buried in Shotesham St. Mary, October, 12, 1612, and had issue, 1, Sir Henry; 2, Williwm ; 3, John ; 4, Charles; 5, Ro- bert; ('), Edmund; but the four last of them died without issue, and two daughters, Elizabeth married to Mr. Buxton ot'Tibenham, and after to William Perte of Mounteneys Inge in Essex, and Alice to Wil. Clapton of Caste/eyns and of Grey's Inn, London.

Sir Henry Doyly, Knt. eldest son and heir, married Susan daughter7 of Lionel Talmach of Helmingham in Suffolk, Esq. and sister to Sir Lionel Talmach of the same place, the first baronet of that family, he was buried in St. Mam's chancel March 6, HJ16, and had issue, Anne and Susan, who died young, and one only son and heir, Edmund; he died seized of the several manors aforementioned;

Edmund Doyly, Esq. married Bridget, eldest daughter of John Coke, Esq. fourth son to Sir Edward Coke, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, by whom he had Susan, who died young;8 she remarried to Sir Isaac Astley of Melton Constable in Ngifolk, Bart.; he was buried in St. Mary's chancel with this,

Here lieth buried the Body of Edmund Doyly Esq. Son and Heir of Sir Henry Doyly, Knt who was married unto Bridget Daughter of John Coke of Holkham in the County of Norfolk Esq. he departed this life in September 1638.

William Doyly, Esq. brother to Sir Henry, and uncle to Ed- mund, married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Stokes, Archdeacon of Norfolk, and by her had two daughters, Catherine and Margaret, and one son,

Sir William Doyly, the elder, who inherited the manors of Shoteshams, Gostelyn's, three manors in fVarham/ Sec.1 in Norfolk, Pondhall, Co ford, and Topsfieldhall in Suffolk, at Edmund's death ; in 1642, he was knighted by King Charles I. for his gallant behaviour abroad, in the service of the great Gustavus Adolphus, at whose death he remained in foreign parts sometime; he was a very accomplished person, and much valued in his country, being one of the gentlemen returned for members for Yarmouth, at the Restoration, for which he

7 She married to Thomas Talbot, 9 Sc. Northall, Hales and Warham L. L. D. April 2, 1627. Register of nnper Ducis Staffordie. Stokeholy-cross. * Sc. Blackfordhall, alias Blackworth,

8 She 'died Feb. 10, 1639, aged five alias Stoke Holy Cross manor, with years. Roscelines and Gostelyns in Great atid

Little Porland and Stoke.

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was very zealous; * lie was one of the commissioners appointed by the House of Commons, out of their own members, to see the army dis- banded in 1661, and was one of those chosen by the city of Norwich, to wait on the King with the resignation of their charter, soon after his return ;3 in 1663, July 29, he was created a Baronet, and dying in. 1677, left issue by Margaret Randall of Pulham, his wife, six daughters, and three sons:

1. Catherine, who married Edward Stafford of Marlwood 'near Thornbury in Gloucestershire, Esq the lineal descendant of Sir Edward Stafford, ambassadour from Queen Elizabeth to the French King ; of the family of the Staffords Dukes of Buckingham.

2. Margaret, married to Colonel Robert Suckling of Wotton in No rfolk.

3. Mary, to Mr. Lane of Wallington in Northamptonshire.

4. Elizabeth, to Adam Banks, citizen and woollen-draper of London.

5. Anne died single in Ireland.

6. Philippa, a very accomplished lady, married to Dr. Edward JVhetenhall Bishop of Cork, and Ross, in Ireland, translated afterwards to the united sees of Kilmore and Ardagh.

His sons were: Charles, the youngest, Edmund the second, for whom there is this inscription on a black marble in the abbey chuch at Bath,

Here lieth the Body of Capt. Edmund D'Oyly, Grandson of Sir William D'Oyly the elder, of Skotesham, in the County of Norfolk Bart. Page of Honour to his Royal Highness, Prince George of Denmark, and Capt. of a Man of War; who in Her Majesty's Service in the West Indies got the Distemper of the Country, of which he died here, in the 29th Year of his Age, and 10th 01 May, A. D. 1703.

Sir William D'Oyly, eldest son and heir, was knighted in 1664, in the lifetime of his father; and in 1666, was admitted to the office of one of the four tellers in the Exchequer in the room of William Pynkeney ; he was commonly called Sir William the younger, and at his father's death succeeded to the honour and estate, which he very much impaired, by disposing of the manors of Shoteshamhall, Swans, Toftha/l, with the lease of St. Benet's manor in Shotesham's, Black- fordhall, alias Stoke Holy Cross manor, with Roscelinc's and Gostelyns, in Poringland-Magna and Parva, and Stoke ; to Samuel Verdon, sometime undersheriff of Norfolk. He married Mary, daughter of Mr. Hadley, a grocer of London, sister to the first lady ol i Arthur Earl of Torringlon, by' whom he had five sons, Edmund, Henry, Had- ley, Robert, and Philip, besides daughters.

Sir Edmund D'Oyly, Bart, eldest son and successour to his father, married Dorothy, daughter of Philip Bedingfield, Esq. of Ditching- ham in Norfolk, and by her had two sons and one daughter.

a Sir Horace Townshend and Sir VVil. Hardware, rector of Kirby Caarn-. liamDoyly,chosen knights for the county, 3 Vol. iii. p. 405. at Norwich 10 Jan. 16,58. MSS. Mr.

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Sir Edmund D'Oyly, the eldest, is the present Ba>-o/?er, beinir the 730th in order of creation; he is unmarried and dwells at Cossew in Norfolk.

The arms of this family are,

Gul. three buck's heads caboshed arg. attired or.

Though some of them have sometimes borne the arms of the Ox- fordshire family, or, two bendlets az.

Crest, out of a crown proper two eagles wings endorsed per- pendicularly sab. besante.

Motto, Do no yll, ouoth D'Oyle. The achievement usually born, hath, 1. Doyle, 2. Leg at, ar*. a saltier ingrailed az. 3. Moswell arg. a chevron az. between three boars heads cooped sab. muzzled or. 4. Ar. a lion rampant az. armed gul. 5. White 6. Quarterly a?g. and sab. on a bend gul. three mullets.

In 1689, the widow of Mr. Verdon had these manors in mortgage, and soon after Mr. Scrimshire and M r. Had/ey ; and in Kiyc), Ro- bert Davy, Esq. trustee to Sir Edmund Doyly, sold the manors4 of Shotesham-Hall, Tofthall, and Swans in Shoteshams, Blaclacorth-Hall, otherwise Blackford-Hall, alias Stoke Holy Cross manor, with the manors of liostlings and Gostlings, in Porlands and Stoke, to Chris- topher Gibbs of Norwich, worsted weaver, and his heirs; but the lands and estate continued in Sir Edmund. In 1739 Christopher Bar- nard of Yarmouth was lord, and his widow now holds it for life, and at her decease it goes to her husband's two sisters, who are both married.

The fines of Shoteshamhall, &c. are at the lord's will; there are bond days in harvest/ and plough beves in wheat and barley seal/ and the tenants pay cocks, hens, and eggs for their commonages.

TOFTHALL MANOR,

Belonged to Bishop Stigand, and at the Conquest to Roger Bi<rot, and Half Fitz Walter held it of him, as a manor containing 2 carucates of land, worth at the first survey 40s. and at the second 41. per annum. Upper Shotesham was then a mile and half long, and half a mile bioad, and paid \Gd. to the geld; there was the moiety of a mill, and the advowson of a church belonging then to the manor, and the moiety of the advowson had 15 acres of glebe, then valued at one penny an acre per annum.1

* Then valued at 40/. per annum. Sticandi commend T. R. E. ii. car

5 These days the tenants were bound tene pro manerio, modo tenet Radrul-

to work tor their lord, he finding them fus filius Galteri semper ii. serv.

Uverage, i. e meat and drink. tunc et postii. car. in dominiomodo iii.

6'lhe:e days they were forced to semper iv. car. hominum silva xx, porci.

plough for the lord, he finding them et vi. acr. prati et dim. mol. tunc i.

provisions for themselves and horses. equus modo ii. tunc xxiv. porci, modo

7 Terra Roceri Bigoti, f'o. 109. xx. tunc xxiv. capr. modo nulla et vi.

In Scotessa tenuit i. liber homo soc. suntibi, dexxxvi. acris terre, sem-

512 SHOTESHAM.

It came early from the Fitz Walters to the Langetots or Langfofts, from whom it took its name; and in 1235 Nicholas de Langtoft held it at halt' a fee of the Earl of Clare and Gloucester, and it was now joined with the manor of Ickburgh, and passed with it in this family, as at vol. ii. p. 234, and it came afterwards to the Yelvertom; and in 1401, John Yelverton and his trustees conveyed it to Thomas Legate and Margaret his wife, and it continued in the Legates till it was joined to Shotesham-Hall manor by Edward Doyly, who married Anne, sister and sole heir of Thomas Legate. It was then held of the manor of Shotesham-Hall.

SWAN'S MANOR

Was owned by Ulketel the Dane, who held it oiEdric, whose pos- sessions the Conqueror assigned to Robert Malet, lord of the honour of Eye, who had it at the last survey;8 from which time it passed as the manor of Little Thorp, as at p. 138, vol. i. and John Swan, from whom it took its present name, was lord in 1401, and held it at a 5th part of a fee of Shotesham-Hall; he was alive in 1420, and then he presented to Little Thorp : Robert Swan, his son and heir, succeeded him, who sold it to the Whites, who joined it to Shotesham-Hall, with which it now remains.

THE MANOR OF SHOTESHAM ST. BENET'S

Was very extensive at first, for it contained the greatest part of Little or Low Shoetsham, the large hamlet of Grenesvill, (which is now included in Shotesham and Stoke,) and that part which belonged to the Bishop of Baieux,9 and was held by Alured, in the Confessor's time. King Canute, when he founded the abbey of St. Bennet at Holm, gave one part to find the monks with provisions ; ' this was St. Bn- tolph's church and parish, for the church and parish of St. Martin was given by one Brictrict a Saa:on x with Grenesvill hamlet ; 3 which

peri. car. tunc et post valuit xl. sol. In Scotessa tenuit Sanctus Benedictus

modo iv. lib. habet i. leug. et dim. in semper iii. car. terre tunc xi. villani

longo et dim. in lato et de gelto %\\d. modo v. tunc xii. bord. modox. semper

dim. ecc'esia xv. acr. val. xv.d. i. serv. et ii. car. in dominio, tunc v.

8 Terre Roberti Malet, fo. 76. car. hominum modo iii. silva xx. porci, InScoTESHA tenuit Ulketel i. liber viii. acr. prati i. mol. i. rune, i.anim. m°

homo Edrici commend. T. R. E. de viii. porci, xxii. ovesetv. soc. ineadem

Xxx. acr. terre tunc i. bord. post et lviii. acr. et dim. prati, car. i. et dim.

modo ii. tunc dim. car. et post et modo, inter omnes tunc valuit iii. lib. modo iii.

semper val. v. sol. et iv.d. idem habet i. leug. et dim. in longo, et de

(sc. Edricus antecessor Rob. Malet Gelto xviaf.alij ibi tenent.

tenuit.) * Regr. Holn.e fo. 63. Mon. Ang.

9 Terre Episcopi Baiocensis, fo. 60. vol. i. fo. 284.

In Scotessa tenuit Alured, i. liber 3 InGrenesvill, tenuit semper Sanctus

homo sub Sti^ando T. R. E. xii. acr. et Benedictus i. car. terre, tunc ii. villan.

iii. soc. de xx. acr. terre et i. ac. prati, modo i. semper v. bord. tunc ii. serv.

semper i. car. appretiati sunt in tunc i. car. et dim. in dominio, modo

Kimngaford. ii. tunc i. car. horn, modo dim. i. mol.

* Terra Sancti Benedicti de Holmo i. rune, semper xii. pore. xii. oves ii.

ad victum monacorum, fo. 195. vasa apuni tunc valuit xx. sol. rn" xxx.

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at that time, w,i3 amile long and half a mile broad, and paid 2s. to the geld; Little Shotesham, viz. St. Martin and St. Buttolph's parishes, being a mile and half long, paid to the geld16o!.; another part which was the abbot's, was granted by the convent to Walter Giffard, who gave it to CMwetobeheldof him, and at the Conquest, Walter, the succes- sor ofOdine, had it;4 but this part was soon joined by theFauxesto Shotesham- Hall manor, with the Convent's approbation. In Henry the Second's time this manor was allowed to enjoy all the liberties granted to the monastery of Holm by the several Kings of the realm, and consequently had all royalties in itself, as liberty of free-warren, view of frankpledge, freedom from all tolls by land and by water, in cities, burghs, counties, markets, and fairs, with soc and sac, infangenthef, grithbrich, wardpeni, 8cc. it being held in capite as parcel of the Ab- bot's barony. In Henry the Third's time, the Abbot had 220 acres of arable laud in demean, valued then at fourpence halfpenny an acre per annum, five acres of meadow valued at Sd. an acre, and he was afterwards in 1428 taxed for all his temporals here, at 14 li. 15s. 6d. It continued in the monastery till the exchange, and then came to the see, (as at vol. iv. p. 540,) and now belongs to the bishoprick of Norwich, of which it hath been held by lease ever since ; the several lords of Shotesham manors having been lessees. Part ofGrenesvite's manor is in Stoke. The fine of St. Benet's manor is 4s. an acre certain.

The abbot of langley's manor here,

was held of the manor of Forncet, and was formerly part of the manor of Hoe, or Howe, as it is now called, that extended hither, and was given to that house by Richard de Hoe, of which it was after held by Sir Richard de Boyland. It was after held of the abbey by divers families, as by William Gavel in 1401, and after by the Gausells, &c. The Abbot of Langleye had this and other temporals here, for which he was taxed at 38s. Ad.

Of the four parishes in this village I shall begin with

The church of All-Saints, called high or Great Shotesham church, which was given by Sir Robert de Vaux, founder of Pentney priory in Noifolkf to that house when he founded it, and so it became sepa- rated from Shotesham-Hall manor, which it constantly had attended to that time; and Ralph de Hoe released all his right in it ; the same founder also gave to that house, a mill at Shotesham and 15 acres of land late belonging to the church; and the advowson oi'St.Botolph's church here, and the prior got the church of All-Saints appropriated to his house, and was taxed for its spirituals appropriated, at 12 marks, and always presented to the endowed vicarage, till the Dissolution,

habet i. leug. in longo et dim. in lato et terre et sub eis iii. bord. et i. acr. et

ii. sol. de Gelto, sed pluresibi tenent. dim. prati, semper ii. car. tune val. x.

♦Terre Walteri Giffardi, fo. sol. post et modo xv. sol.

*4

In Scotessa i. soc. Sci. Benedicti de

In Scotessa iii. liberi homines Sancti xiii. acr. terre et i. acr. prati semper Benedicti de Holmo commendat. et dim. car. tunc val ii. oras. post et modo v. soc. cum omni consuetudine, modo v. sol.

tenet Galterius ab Odino antecessore s Mon, Ang. torn. 2, fo. 19. suo, et habent inter omnes lxxxx. acr.

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when the whole vested in the Crown, and continued there till 1,5-52, and then Edward VI. granted the impropriate rectory and the ad vow- son of the vicarage, and the advowson of the churches of St. Mary and St. Botolph, toWilliam Necton, a.adWilliam Mingay and his heirs; and it hath continued in the Mingays, for in 1715, William Mingay, Gent, was impropriator and patron.

It stands thus in the King's Books,

6li. 13s. Ad. Shotesham All-Saints vicarage; clear yearly value

25/j. So that it pays no first-fruits nor tenths, and is capable of augmen- tation, but is charged with 2s. synodals, and 7s. 6d, of), archdeacon's procurations. At Norwich Domesday's making, the Prior of Pentneu had the ra'£o/y-house and a carucate of land belonging to it, and there is now a vicarage-house and glebe.

In 1329, the Prior presented Robert Prat to the vicarage, and in 1349, John Malet ; in 137y, Harvey de Bestorp was vicar. In 1603, Mr. Christopher Greenwood, vicar, returned answer, that there were 100 communicants in this parish, that he was master of arts, that he held it personally united to St. Mary and St. Botolph's vicarages, which were long since perpetually annexed ; and that there was a parsonage impropriate, and all the vicarages were endowed, Sir Henry Gaudy, Knt. being patron. 1621, Mr. Hancock was vicar, 1630, John Bolt, A. M. vicar, held the consolidated vicarages of St. Mary and St. Botolph by personal union.

On the south side of the altar is a mural monument, thus inscribed,

Ricardus Neech A. M. hujus et Inferioris ecclesiae vicarius, sub hoc

Parietedepositus,laetam in Christo Resurrectioneniexpectat.

In cujus Memoriam Antonius, 6 Filius e multis unicus relictus,

Gratitudinis et Officij ergo Monumentum hoc erexit; obijt Sexto die Martij A° Salutis 1676. iEtatis Suae 64°.

Tile steeple is square, and Co feet in height, and hath a ring of five tuneable bells ; the church is 56 feet long and 18 feet and a half broad, and the chancel is 26 feet long and 15 broad; in it is a stone, with the arms of

Bransby, arg. on a bend cotized sab. between two fleurs de-lis

gul. a lion passant or, impaling Bransby. Crest, a lion's head

erased or.

Here lieth Elizabeth the Wife of Thomas Bransby of llarles- ton'm the County of Norfolk Esq; and Daughter of Robert Bransby of this parish Gent, she died Jug. 10, 1713, in the 33d Year of her Age; she had, and left by the said Thomas, 4 Sons, Thomas, William, James, and George, and 4 Daughters, viz. Elizabeth, Margaretta-Maria, Brausbj', and Phillippa, She was a dutifull Daughter, a good Wife, a prudent Mother, and a friendly Neighbour, and in all respects a great Example of Piety and Vertue. By her Spouse a Distich.

6 He was rector of Snitterton. See vol, i. p. 110, 421.

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Quae Pia, quae Prudens, quae Provida, pulehra fuisti Uxor, in /Eternum, chara, beata; Vale.

In the windows of this church,7 were the arms of Jernegan impa- ling Appleyard; Mowbray and Appleyard, which yet remain in a south and in a north window; Ciere and Appleyard, with the crest of an owl out of an ivy bush arg. membered or. LeGros and White; Appleyard and White; Ciipcsby and White, with the crest of a boar's head arg. out of a hawthorn bush proper, set on a plume of feathers arg. and az. Inglosse and II ichiiigham, Berney and W ichingham, Clere, and 11 ichingham, with his crest of a greyhound current erm. collared or; but most of them are now gone.

Thomas Stinnet 8 my dear and only Son, as sweet a Child as ever was, died, 1(320, and is buried right against the pulpit in Shotesham All-Saints.

O Lord ! Let me meet my Childe in Glorie. Amen. Amen.

On a handsome altar tomb in the churchyard,

Holmes, of Lancashire, barry of twelve or and az. on a canton gul. a chaplet arg. impaling, on a chevron er. three crescents.

James Holmes late of Ashby in Norfolk Gent. Dec. 14, 1713,41.

On another altar tomb, John Utting May 2, 1688, 45, and 4 Sons and 1 daughter. Alice his Wife 17 June 1692,46.

The church of St. Mary- in Little or Low Shotesham, belonged formerly in an alternate presentation, to the manors ofShotesham-Hall, and St. Beliefs; and in 1 187 there was a great contest about it, before the Bishop of Norwich and Ralph G/anvi/e Justices itinerants, between Ralf Abbot of Holm, who claimed it as a chapel belonging to his church of St. Martin, and Robert de Vaux released all right in St. Martin's to the Abbot, and he, all his right in St. Mary's to Robert, and all the lands in both parishes were to be parted equally, and a moiety settled on each church, and the lands of faux' 's fee to belong all to St. Mary and those of the Abbot's fee to St. Martin; each was to be a mother-church ; and for this agreemenlRobert gave the Abbot as much land in Slwteshtnn as was worth 2s. a year in rent. Inl287 this advowson on the partition of the estate of John de Vaux was assigned to the part of Maud de Roos, second daughter and co- heir of the said John ; and in 131 1, William de Roos of Hamlake, and Maud his wife, settled this advowson and a carucateof land here, on Richard Prior of St. Mary Magdalen of Pentney and his suc- cessours for ever; it appears, that the land belonged to the church, for that house was taxed at 3d. only for their temporals, and at 10

i MSS. -penes J.Mstis, Garter, L. 26, Norwich, see vol. iv. p. 288; he was fo. 28, b. rector of St. John's.

8 Regr. of St. John's Maddermarket,

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marks' for their spirituals, being the appropriation of this rectory, and at 8 marks for their appropriation of the church of St. Butolph, the vicarage of which was consolidated to this. In 1 305, Alan de Quitebuck was instituted to the rectory of St. Mary and died in 1310, and Bishop John Salmon appropriated it to the priory of Pentney, reserving power to him and his successours, to endow a vicarage and collate the vicars to it for ever.

And the year following, the same Prior, on pretence of the small- ness of the revenues of St. Butotph's parish, got that also appropri- ated, and agreed that the Bishop should endow and collate to the vicarage, and both vicarages being perpetually annexed, in 1311, the Bishop endowed them, and appointed one vicar for both the parishes;1 the Prior was to have all the great tithes, and part of the glebe, on condition he repaired the chancels ; \he vicar was to have a house and land, and a house over against St. Butolph's church, and was to pay all the synodals and procurations ; and in

1311,3d July, Thomas de Cleudone, priest, was instituted to the vicarage of the churchesof St. Mary and St. Butolph, at the Bishop of Norwich's collation, and in Nov. following, JVil. de\Cheve/e, priest. In 1327 Richard de Hakeford, priest, changed this vicarage for Catton, with Robert de Bangele, who resigned it. 1352, Sir William Valentine of Borewcll, priest. In 1381, John Forster ofWhiston, &c. and so the advowson continued in the bishoprick , till the exchange in Henry the Eighth's time, and then fell to the Crown, as did the impropriation at the dissolution of Pentney priory ; and both continued there, till 1552, and then King Edward VI. granted the impropriations, and the ad- vowsons of the vicarages, to H illiam Necton, and William Mingay, Gent, in whose family it continued till

1731, when William Mingay, Gent, presented the Rev. Mr. John Manister, the present vicar, to the consolidated vicarage of St. Mary and St. Butolph, and to the vicarage of All-Saints, which last he holds by a personal union with the former; but the impropriations and advowsons are since sold to William Fellows of Shotesham, Esq. who now owns them.

The church of St. Mary is 40 feet long, and 19 broad, and the church is 20 feet long; it hath a square tower 60 feet high, and but one bell.

In the east window of the chancel are the effigies in the glass, of John Prisot, chief justice of the Common Pleas,'1 and of Bartholo- mew White3 and his wives, who built the chancel, and put up that window in I486, for under them is this inscription,

9 Afterwards compounded for, at 3 a i449> John Prisot, chief justice

marks and an half. of the Common Pleas, had 53//. 6s. Hd.

' " Salvis Domino Episcopo, ordi- per annum allowed him, for his more

« natione, taxatione, et libera collatione decent port, and also 6oli. 6s. 6d. per

" vicarie ecclesie predicteet Sancti-fioto/- annum for his summer robe, and io6r„

" phi ejusdem ville, jure suo ; persone nd. ob. for his winter robe, according

" idonee per dictum patrem et ejus sue- to the statute in the parliament held at

" cessores.futuristemporibusassignand. WeUminsUr, 18 H, 6.

«'in competentibus portionibus utri- 3 See p. 505. *< usque."

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©rate pro amimabu.sf gohannisi prisot, Capitalt.si $;us'ticiarii ©omtm ftegi.S $enrict ^epti, 23artho[omci UDijnte, ^oljanrte et adcic, Hjrorum eiu£, qui i.stam Canrellam fieri feccrunt, a° ©ni. 1486.

There are the arms of White and Schuldam ; White and Dalton, and

Prisot, gul. on a chief arg. three croslets patee of the field, some- times three crosses tan.

In the north chapel, under a raised tomb, lies buried Simon White, Esq. who died about J 505.

The windows were formerly very richly adorned with arms, most of which are now lost ; but from Mr. Anstiss MS.4 marked L. 26. fo. 3, we have the following account of them :

White, Prisot,5 White and Clipesby, Appleyard, Thorle,. vert, seven escalops arg. &c.

Norwich Domesday tells us, that St. Mary, when a rectory, had a house and 20 acres of glebe, and paid 6d. synodals, and 6s. Sd. procu- rations,and when it became a vicarage it was valued with that of St. Botolph, at 6li. and so it stands now in the King's Books, and being sworn now of the clear yearly value of Q.5U. it is discharged of first fruits and tenths, and is capable of augmentation. In 1603 Christo- pher Greenwood was vicar of all the vicarages, and returned 70 com- municants in St. Mary and Butolph's parish, and that Sir Henry Gawdy, Knt. was patron. In 1630, John Bolt, vicar, paid 6d. synodals and 6s. 8d. archdeacon's procurations, and 25. synodals for St. Butolph's, and 6s. 8d. archdeacon's procurations, and Henry Mingay, Gent, was then patron. There was anciently a gild of St. Mary, in this church.

Thomas de Blumvtle Bishop of Norwich confirmed the charter of John de Grey, Bishop there, of a portion of the tithes of this parish, to the monks of Norwich cathedral, who were taxed at 30*. for them ; the celerer had a portion of 3s. 4d. out of it ; and their temporals here were taxed at 3s. 4d.

Mr. Woolmer was sometime vicar, as was Mr. Pitcairne.

Berengarius, who held Topcroft and Howe of the Abbot of Bury, had 20 acres and three bordars, belonging to his manor of Howe, in all which he was infeoffed by Abbot Baldwin, in King Wil- liam the Conqueror's time, for which temporals the chamberer of Bury was taxed at 76s.

There is a very agreeable cold-bath in the parish of St, Mary, fitted up for publick benefit, at the expense of Will. Fellows, Esq. of Shutesham.

* This MS. says, that Prisot's Joan his first wife might be Prisot'j

daughter and heir married to a White, daughter, first married to Dalian. which I do not find, but rather think, 5 It seems as if Chief Justice Prisot

that Prisot married a White, though in. was buried under the defaced raised

deed White impajes Prisot, so that tomb on the north side of the chancel.

518 SHOTESHAM.

I saw a stone much defaced, that was formerly taken out of this bath, on it was, barry of eight, a canton ermine, and this, much defaced :

HIC GR FRUGI LYiEO

SALUTEM M — AT POTIORI PINAR-- LICET- LATICE PAUPERIBUS ET VALETUDI-- NAR11S — REDIVIVVS. ANNO Do.' 1652.

There were many arms in the windows of Shotesham-hall, which stands near St. Mary's church, and was the seat of the Doylies; as, White 6 impaled with Tindal, Crofts, Appleyard, Schuldham, Hol- ditch, Yelverton, Froxmere, Cocket, Prisot, and heme, Woodhouse and White, Clopton, Froxmere and Cormcallis, Clere and White, Sec.

Thomas Lawrence of St. A/ban's Hall in Oxford, A.M.7 an apothecary's son in London, afterwards of Merton College ; after he had taken his degree, studied phi/sick, and practised that faculty in Noifo/k, and was of some eminence there, especially upon his writing and publishing,

Mercurius Centralis, or a Discourse of Snbterraneal Cokle, Muscle, and Oyster Shells, found in the Digging of a Well, at Sir William Doylies in Norfolk, many feet under ground, and at a considerable distance from the sea. Sent in a letter to T/io Browne, M. D. Printed at London 1664 in 5 sheets in octavo. He died in Norfolk some years after.

The church of St. Butolph is now totally demolished, being pulled down at the Reformation ; the ruins of the steeple show that it was square, the churchyard was ploughed up when I saw it ; it abuts southward to a hollow way leading eastward over the river to High Shotesham church, being the very corner piece at the turn of that way.

It was appropriated with St. Mary's to the priory ofPentney, and both became one vicarage, as is before observed, the whole glebe and house belonging to this church,8 except Fishers Croft, was reserved to the vicar. Norwich Domesday tells us, that there was a house and 30 acres of land.

6 Hcn.Hewardrfoungest son oOTw.Earl Cinque Ports, Knight of the Garter. He of Surrey, and brother to Th. last Duke founded and endowed an hospital for 12 of Norfolk, was born at Shotesham, bred in poor women and a governor at Rising in King's college in Cambridge, then in this county : another for 1 2 poor men Trin. hall, being afterwards chancellor and a governour at Clun in Shrop. of the University. A great scholar, another at Greenwich in Kent, for a go- witness his learned " Dispen;at:ve vernor and 20 poor men, of which S are " against the Poison of supposed Pro- to be chosen out of Shotesham. He died " phesies," dedicated to Sir Fr. Wal- 15 June, 1614, and was buried in the singham. He lived privately in the ancient chapel at Dover. Anglorum reign of Queen Elizabeth till King Speculum, Lond. 1684, p. 528. James advanced him in honour and 7 Fasti Oxon. vol. li. p. 7S8. wealth, creating him Baron of Marne- 8 It now belongs to the vicarage, and hill in Dors:, Earl of Northampton, stands opposite to the churchyard. Lord Privy Seal, Lord Warden of the

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The church of St. Martin belonged to the Abbot of St. Bennct at Holm,9 and at the exchange of the revenues of that abbey, came to the see of Norwich, and the Bishop of that see is now patron. It is a rectory, valued at 4li. in the King's Books, the true real value being IS//, per annum only; it is capable of augmentation, and is discharged of Jirst fruits and tenths, and pays Is. synodals and 3s. 4d. procurations.

Master Richard de Boyland was rector here in Edward the First's time ; in 1308 Clement de Westleton, subdeacon ; in 1334, Wil- liam de Honing, clerk; in \34Q,Jdumde. Westwyck, priest ; in 1408, Sir William Crane, priest, 8tc; in 1422, Thomas at Water, rector, was buried in the church ; in 1603, Robert Grey answered that there were 40 communicants in the parish, and that Edmund Dm/lu, Esq. was patron, by lease from the Bishop of Norwich. 1630, Oliver Har- rison held it by union with Stoke vicarage; in 1693 it was held with Holesley in Suffolk by union; in 1706, Richard Laughton, clerk, had it, and now the Rev. Mr. Francis Mossoon is rector. The ruins of the church may be seen not far distant from St. Marys.

Tne Prioress of Carrow was taxed for temporals at Cw. The Prior of Mendham for spirituals at 7*. 6d. and 6s. Sd. a year was paid to the Prioress of Buugey out of a tenement called Shreves.

There is piece of land called chapel-yard, late parcel of the possessions of the priory of Hickling, where a freechapel stood for- merly, of which I have no further account in any evidences that I have seen.

All the parishes were valued together to the tenths, as one town and paid y/Z. 6s. 8d. clear.

The ancient family of the Mingays hath been here for a long time, as also that of the Bransbys which anciently came from the neighbouring village of Poringland-Magna.

STOKE,

Commonly called Stoke Holy-Cross, anciently Cruche Stoke, from its parish church, which was dedicated to the honour of the Holy-Cross, was in many parts, belonging to the several manors of Shotcshams1 Eaton, Stc* but the principal manor and church, which had 18 acres of glebe, then valued at 2s. per annum, belonged to

9 It was given to that monastery by acr. terre et i. acr. prati, semper, dim.

Edward the Confessor. car. (the parts belonged to Shotesham

1 Terre Regis quam Godricus manor.)

servat, Heinstede H. D^ms. fo. 27. z In Stokes xii. acr. terre tenmt 1.

In Stochls i. liber homo Alnoht liber homo, hoc pertinet ad Aietonam

commend, de v. acris teire. (Eaton) see vol. iv. p. 516,

In Stoches ii. soc. Ediuci xxx.

520

STOKE.

Alwin ofTHETFORD at the Confessor's survey, and to Roger Bigot at the Conqueror's,3 and was then held of him by William Pecche, it being worth 2fis. 6d. a year. There was another manor and church, which was anciently called Blakeworthe, and now

THE MAM OR OF BLACK WORTH, 01 HALL.

BLACKFORTH

This part of the town was held by Walter, one of the Confessor's thanes, in part, and partly by Ketel the Dane, under Bishop Stigand, and was then in three parts or manors, which were all given by the Conqueror toTovi, who made them one manor, the whole of this part, at the Conqueror's survey, laid in the hundred of Homble-yard, and had a church, and 23 acres of glebe and the moiety of another advowson, belonging to it ; Stoke was then a mile long, and 4 fur- longs broad, and paid xi.rZ, to the geld, without Grenesvill.

In Henry the Second's time Ralf Curzun ofF/egg was lord, and sold a part of it, to be held at the fifth part of a fee, to Robert son of Kosceline, which constituted Rosceline's manor here, which joined to the manor of that name in Poringland, (see p. 443,)

3 In Stoches tenuit Alwius de Tetfordo lxxx. acr. terre T. R. E. modo tenet Will. Peccatum semper iii. bord. et semper i. car. in dominio et ii. acr. prati, et in Sithinges (Seething) i.vil). de xii. acr. pertinens huic Stokes. Semper val. xxvi. sol. et vi.d. i. eccle- siaxviii. acr. et val. ii. sol.

In Stokes i. lib. homo Gert com- mend. T. R. E. de xxiiii. acr. terre. quern tenuit Radulfus Comes, quando se foris fecit, cumdimidia terra et Robertus Baignardus, aliam, teste hundredo, modo tenet Rogerus Bigot, et revocat ad feudum suorum liberorum ex dono Regis, et Ailardus {de Faux) contradicit. Hundret. qui hoc testatur, sed Meinardus affir- inat cum hundreto. sub eo semper iii. bordarij et semper i. car. et adhuc sub eo iii. soc. de viiii. acr. terre et iii. partes i.mol. et iii. acr. prati tunc val. v. sol. et semper. Et hoc cognoscit Rogerus Bigot suscepisse postquam Radus se fore fecit et servandum in manu Regif> et hue servat.

In Friestuna i. lib. homo Ulfi commend, hoc tenet Ranu/f us.

Terre Godiuci, Dapiteri. fo. 164.

In Stoke tenuit idem (sc. Radus Comes) i. liber homo et i. soc. Eduuini de liiii. acr. terre et iii. acr. prati et sub eis i. viil. semp. i. car. et dim.

Terre Walteri Giffardi, fo. 241.

In Stokes, v. soc. Sci. Benedict! de Holmo. T. R. E. de 1. acr. terre et ii.

prati et i. bord. semper i. car. tunc valuit v. sol. et iiii.d. post et m° x.s. This was part of Shotesham manor ex- tending hither.

Terre Roberti filij Corbutionis (or Fitz-Corbun.) In Stokes tenetGiFART iii. liberi homines Stigandi commend, i. car. terre. semper x. bord. et ii. serv. semper i. car. et dim. in dominio et dim. hom. et iii. acr. prati, tunc i. equus. semper val. xxx. sol.

4 Terra Tovi, fo. 278-9. Hundr. de Humiliart.

In Stokes tenuit Galterus Teinnus T. R. E. lx. acr. terre, tunc vii. villani modo i. semper viii. bord, et ii. car. ho- minum, et vi. acr. prati, de hoc prato calumpniatur Sanctus Benedictus (sc. de Holmo) iiii.acr. quod tenuit T.R.E. silva v. pore, et semper i. mol.

In eadem tenuit Ketel iiber homo Stigandi xxx. acr. semper i. villaiuis, et v. bord. tunc i. car. tunc dim. car. hominum iiii. acr. prati.

In eadem i, liber homo Stigandi xxx. acr. tunc i. car.

Hec tria meneria tenet Tovius pro urio, semper i. rune, tunc i. animal modo iii. tunc iii. pore. m° xxv. et i. vas apum. et v. liberi homines commend, et sjca falde T. R. E. xxv. acr. semper i. car. semper valuit iiii. libr. et xvii.d. et i. ecclesia et dimid. xxiii. acr. et Stokes habet i. leug. in longo. et iiii. quar. in lato, et xi. den. de gelto.

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both which have been, and still continue, joined to this manor of Blackuorth.

In 1229, Robert de Curzun granted it to Simon de Whalefield, and in 1267, Reginald de la Wade and Alice his wife conveyed it to Adam Abbot of St. Bennet at the Holm ; when it contained a capital messuage, a carucate of land, and 13s. Ad. annual rent, in Stoke and Greynesvill, on condition the Abbot should find Reginald, during his life, 2 robes or 30 shillings sterling, one at Christmas, the other at Easter, and every week 14 loaves, and 8 flaggons of ale, such as the monks drank ; and to Alice, if she outlived Reginald, 7 like loaves and 9 flaggons of ale ; and thus this manor became joined to

THE MANOR OF GREENESVILL, or GRANGVILLES ROCKELLS,

Which belonged to the Abbot of Holm, and contained that part of Greenesvill hamlet which laid in Stoke; this manor was confirmed to St. Benet's, by several kings and popes, but Abbot Conrade, who lived in Henry the First's time, granted to William Curzun the land of Greingville in fee, who thereupon sware fealty to the church, and to pay 60 selli of wheat ;5 and he also gave two parts of the tithes of his land at Blackworth, and at Fridestone or Freton to that monastery, and William his successour confirmed it; and Daniel Abbot of Holm granted it in fee to Robert Picot and Beatrice his wife, for the same rent ; but Ralf Curzun, about the time of Hen. II. had it, and acknowledged that he held it in fee of the Abbot, and that if William Cursun of Wichingham should recover it against him, he would not sue the Abbot f he gave also to the abbey 2 sheaves of the tithes of his demeans here, which was held by Sir Robert Cursun in 1239. This Robert, in 1218, sold half the manor to Richard de Rupella, or Rokele, viz. half a carucate of land, &c. contain- ing an hudred acres, to be held by him and his heirs of the said Robert and his heirs, by the yearly rent of 30 combs of wheat, and the sale was inrolled before the itinerant justices in Eire at Norwich, the Sunday next after the feast of St. Agatha, among whom were Ralph Germyn, Walter de Verdon, Richard de Seinges, and John de Worth- stede, and others; and Sir Richard, at the same time, released to the Abbot of Holm all his right in two sheaves of the tithe corn of the de- means of this manor, the Abbot, as chief lord of the fee, consenting to the alienation. Soon after this, Sir Richard granted it to Reginald de Karevilla, or Carvill, in marriage with his daughter Alice, and they afterwards conveyed it again to the Abbot oi'Sl. Bennet, who settled it on Sir Wit. de la Rokele, Knt. whose son, Sir Rich, de la Rokele, Knt. in 1296, had license of King Edw. I. to exchange this manor for that of Woodhall in Sandringham, which was accordingly done, and the Abbot released his right to Rokele in his possessions in Appleton, San- dringham, Newton, andWolfrelou, and so theybecameunited ioRokele't manor in Appleton. In 1272 the other moiety was sold by Rob. Cursun

5 Quae, if not 60 seams of wheat. A 6 Register of Holm Abbey, fo. 26, seam is 8 bushels. 7, 30, 9,48, 66, Sec.

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of Town Berningham, and Ralf his son, to Sir Simon son of Richard Braunche, and it is said to lie in Cruchstoke and Castre, and the Abbot of St. Bennet confirmed the sale, on condition he was pail yearly 30 combs of wheat; and if it should happen that Sir Wil. de la Rokele, Knt. should recover the manor of Grengevill in the King's court, namely, that part of it which he had of the gift of Reginald de la Wade, against the said Abbot, then the said Simon need not pay the corn, to the said Sir William de la Rokele, as was used to be paid to Sir Robert de la Rokele his father.

In 1279, Sir Simon de Grinvile, or Sir Simon Braunch of Grinvile, died seized, and was succeeded by Peter Braunche? who in 1215 had lete and view of frankpledge allowed him here.

The other part of the town called,

STOKE MANOR,

Belonged to Gilbert Pecche, and after that, to the Bydun family, and then to the Bui gates, and Sir Baldwyn de Burgate, Knt. lord of it, and Rose his wife, gave many lands hereto St. Bennet's abbey ; and in 1272, John de Tyveteshall held it of Giles de Wachesham, of the manor of Thvriton in Suffolk, which was then owned by Giles son of the said Giles, at a quarter of a fee; in 1285, William de Montchensy was lord, and he and his tenants were summoned to do their suit to the King's hundred of Hensttd, though he had a lete to his own manor.

This year all these manors of Stoke and Grenesvill united, and Andrew de Hengham conveyed them to Henry de ISorzdch and Catherine his wife, and in 1297, the Abbot of Holm let all his revenues here for life, to Sir Walter de Norwich, with the free- chapel, by the site of this manor of Greenesvil, with chapel-land and chapel-acre, with the wood, and 56 acres of demeans joining to the site.

In 1301 there was an extent made of this manor, for Sir Walter de Norwich, then lord;3 by which it appears, that the Prior of Hickling had 20 acres of land, and paid to the lord 2s. (id. and 4 mine9 of wheat ; and the Abbot of St. Bennet held 53 acres of land, and the rents were 35s. lOd. besides the corn-rents, which were g quarters and an half and 2 fifth parts of a bushel.

In 1302, King Edward I. granted to Sir John de Norwich, Knt. and his heirs, free-icarren in all his demeans, in Cruchestoke, Howe, Shotesham, Poringland, Sculthorp, Lyng and Great Massing- ham in Norfolk, Bromjield, Walpol, Me/les, Wenhaston, Thorington, Shipmeduwe, Metyngham, Ilketeshale, Redesham, and Dalung/io in Suffolk; and soon after this, Sir Walter purchased all he could in this neighbourhood ; for in 1306, Sir Richard de Boyland granted to

' 1295, Catherine, relict of Peter Sir Walter de Norwich and Catherine

Braunche, sister of Simon, son of John de his wife, the relict of Peter Braunche.

Hedersete, had a manor here and lete, 8 Reg. Col. de Mcttingham, fo. 98.

and a watermill and windmill at Black- penes Thomas Martin, Gent,

worth ; and all her estate was sold in 9 Sciendum, quod quinque mine bus-

1304 by Sir Nicholas Braunche, Knt. to selli, faciunt minam integram, et 12 mint busselli faciunt imum quartcrium.

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him and his heirs all the lands and tenements belonging to his manor of Hoe, lying in Shotesham, there being 25 tenants and their services, all which he added to this manor : the same year Reginald son of 'Nicholas de Shotesham sold him all his meadows and marshes between the watermill and Merkeshall Bridge, and William son of Peter But of Norwich, an estate in Black worth village, in Cruchestoke parish, and lands by Grenesvill Hill, in Grenesvill Village in Cru- chestoke aforesaid, and land abutting on the way called Yken- eldesgate; in 1308, Thomas son and heir of Sir Peter Rosce/ine Knt. granted to Sir Walter de Norwich the yearly rent of 62. 1 Is. 8c/. to be received of his tenants in Poring! 'and- Magna and Parva, Cru- chestoke, Shotesham's, and other adjoining towns, by deed dated at Blackworth in Stoke, and thus Roscclines manor became wholly joined to this, though Thomas Rosceline, upon suing for it, was returned lord of Rosceline's manor in 1315. In 1322, St. Walter Norwich, Knt. and Catherine his wife, owned Blackworth in Stoke, and the several manors and fees joined to it, and this year the settlement of the Norwich's estate was made, and by fine levied between Sir John de Noridch, querent, and Remigius, parson of Hengham, and Walter de Thruston, parson of Sculthorp, deforciants; the manors of Scttlt/iorp, -Ling, Howe, and Blackworth, with the advowsons of Ling,' Scul- thorp* and Howe, after the decease of Katherine widow of Sir Walter de Norwich, Knt. and of Joan widow of Alexander de Clavering, were all settled on Sir John de Norwich and his heirs male, remainder on Thomas de Norwich, with remainder to Roger brother of Thomas.3

In 1343, Nicholas son and heir of John de Suffield, granted divers lands to Sir John Norzoich, Knt.; and in 1353 Henry de Kenton, parson of Swanton-Jbbots, did the like; in 135(i, King Edward III. confirmed to Sir John Norwich, Knt. his charter of free-warren in all his manors and demeans. In 1372, Sir John settled this and other manors in trust, on Sir John Plais, Sir Robert Hozvard, Sir Roger Boi/s, Knts. and others. In 1374 this manor and Metingham castle, and other manors, at the death of Sir John Norwich, junior, Knt. descended to Katherine Brewse his cousin and heir, she being daughter and heir of Thomas, brother to Sir John Norwich the elder, father of Sir Walter, father of the last Sir John, and she settled it on her feoffees, with her other estate, as at p. 138. This Catherine, in 1378, took upon her a religious habit, and became a nun at Dert- ford, and Margaret her aunt became her heir, who first married to Sir Thomas Cuily, Knt. and then to Robert Ufford Earl of Suffolk, whose son,4 William Ufford Earl of Suffolk, inherited, and was lord of this manor, and died in 1381, and it passed from the Suffolk family to the Billingfords, and James Billingford, clerk of the crown, who had an annuity of 20//. per annum belonging to that office, was lord here, and of Stapleford in Hertfordshire in 1388; and in 1476, one of the same name had it, with tlie manors of Over and Netherhall in Toft Monacorum ; in 1558, Edmund Billingford of Stuke-holy- Cross, Esq. was buried in the chancel, by the tomb of Elizabeth his wife, and Catherine his wife survived him, Thomas his son inherited;

1 Ling advowson Joan widow of Alex- widow of Sir Walter de Norwich held under Le Clavering held tor life. during lite.

1 SCULTHORP advowson, Katherine 3 K-egr. of Metingham College, fo.82, 6. * See Vincent against Brook, to. 497.

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he had a daughter married to George Sheffield, a brother named Richard, John Appleyard ef Dunston, and Thomas Gresham, being his cousins; in 1571 his son Thomas was lord, and married June daughter of Sir Edmund Jenny of Knodeshall in Suffolk, and was succeeded by Edmund Billingford, who married Elizabeth Felton, a coheiress, and had Thomas, who first married Mrs. Harman, and then Mrs. Brozcn;^ in 1610, Thomas Billingford settled Btackuorth manor, and Roscelines, 8cc. on Samuel Style and Edmund Purdue, who held it with Stoke manor, then called old Hallsted manor, of the manor of Forncet, at 4d. per annum for castlezsard or foreuateh, and the said manor was further held of Barningham manor, by a pound of pepper yearly ; and soon after Edwakd IJoyly, Esq. purchased the manor of Blackworth-hall, with the members belonging to it, viz. the manors of Stoke-ho/y-Cross, or Old-halhtede, Roscelines, Rocke/es, and Grenesvi/les, or Grangevilles, See. and it hath passed ever since, as the manor of Shotesiiam, which see at p. 507, 8.

This manor hath lete, zceyf, and stray, the lines are at the lord's will, and the woman's dowry is one moiety.

The Prior of Norwich had large revenues here,6 in lands and rents of divers ancient donations to that monastery, and the advow- son of the church was given and impropriated very early, for John son of Oliver de. Faux, lord here, acknowledged by deed under his seal, to the Prior and convent, that he had no right in any part of the advouson, on account of any feofament made him by John de Wuxtumshum, his ancestors having long before given the advowson to the monastery, to which house it had been then long appropiated. Richard de Snaringes,1 John son of Sir John de Gatesden, Knt. John son of Sir John de Xerford, Knt. and Lady Petronel his mother, Wal- ter Penning and Bertrice his wife, William Kantian, Ra/f son of Tho. de Rickingale, Thomas de Nerford brother of John, and Agues his w ife, who was formerly the wife of John de Maut ravers, and many others, were benefactors ; in 1320 Brother Ralfde Hemesly, Prior of St. Mary at Hickling, exchanged lands with the Prior of Norwich, who was taxed for all his lauds and temporal rents, at 31s. 9d. without those of the Abbot of Holm, which were taxed separately at \3d. The whole town and hamlets being charged to each tenth at l'2li. but had a deduction of 2//. 13s. 4d. allowed on account of the lands of the religious here, they being taxed by themselves.

The rectory was appropriated to the chamberer's, or chamber- lains office in the priory of Norzcich,3 and had a vicarage presen- tative, and afterwards endowed, but was never taxed, so that it is not mentioned in the King's Books; and indeed the town itself is left out in Saxton's map of the county ; the Priors of Noncich always presented to the vicarage, till the Dissolution, and then it was granted to the dean and chapter,? who are impropriators and patrons of the vicarage at this time; in Norwich Domesday, the chamberer, who

5 1568, The manor settled to her use » See vol. iii. p. 471, 5; vol. iv. p. in trust on Xper Harman. 533.

6 Called often a manor or free tene- * 8 Ad Officium Camerarij, Domesd. ment. 9 See vol. iv. p. $$S-

STOKE. 525

was then impropriator, had a house and 24 acres of land ; in the Revi- sion it is thus entered : to the parsonage belong 26 acres of glebe, and the tithe corn only; to the vicarage, 22 acres of glebe, and all other tithes, and the spirituals of the Prior of Norwich were valued at 16 marks, and the temporals of the Abbot of Langley, at 4s. id. It formerly paid 2s. synodals, but no procurations to the archdeacon, it being one of the peculiars belonging to the di.an and chapter; though now it seems otherwise, fur in the Revision of the Archdea- conry of Norfolk, in 1630, it is thus entered,

Stoke-Holy-Cross vicarage; Elizabeth Burman, widow, is patroness and proprietary (by lease, I suppose, from the dean and chapter,) Oliver Harrison, clerk, who also holds Shotesham by a per- sonal union, is vicar. The vicarage is valued at bli. pays 10s. tenths, and 15d. procurations at the Bishop's visitation, 2s. synodals, and 6s. Bd. archdeacon's procurations. But notwithstanding this, I do not ever find the vicarage to have been in the King's Books, and instead of five pounds it was never estimated before the Reformation at but 5 marks, and not at all, that I can find since ; but being not mentioned in the Valor, it is capable of augmention, if sworn to be under 50l.per annum clear; but it appearing, by Mr. Eeton's last Valor, published in 1742, not to be certified as yet ; till that be done, it is incapable of that advantage.

In 1550 the dean and chapter paid to the Bishop of Norwich 6s. 8d. per annum for a parcel of tithes in this town lately belonging to the sacrist of Holm abbey. There was a gild held in this church, in honour of the holy-cross.

In 1342, Sir John Atte Cherche of Sxet/nestorp was vicar; in 1349, Thomas Curttys ; 1372, John Hacoun, &c.

William Miller, vicar in 1597, Christopher Allen, who returned 60 communicants in 1603, wras buried in 1606. John Alden buried in 160<), Oliver Harrison buried 1658, William Smith, vicar, 1693.

On the outside of die south wall of the church is a mural monu- ment with this,

Memorise Sacrum Thomje Havers Clerici,' qui Theologia, Medicina Chirurgia, et Lythotomia, doctus fuit, et expertus: Erga Deum, Pius, Erga Homines, Justus ; Pauperibus et iEgrotis semper Amicus, obiit 27° Die Junij A0 Domini 17 19. iEtatis Suae u'O.

The Rev. Mr. John Curby, the present vicar, holds it united to

Trowse.

The church stands on a very great eminence; the west part of the nave (which is 53 feet long) is tiled and the east part leaded ; the chancel is tiled, and is 23 feet long, and 20 feet broad, as is the nave ;

* This person was a man of great cha- racter, and practice in pliysick, as well as of good repute as a divine.

526 STOKE.

it hath a south porch tiled, but no isles; the steeple is square, about 50 feet high, and hath three hells. The arms of Calthorp impaliDg Astley were in the windows, but are now gone.

"Within the altar rails, lie Dorothy 2d daughter of John Burman, Gen. and Catherine his wife, born in 1649, buried in 1653, and also John son of John Johnson, Gent, and Mary his wife ob. l6si. Matthias their son 1677.

In the Womb, of this Tomb, Twins, in Expectation lay, To be born, in the Morn', of the Resurrection Day.

Here lieth Catherine Burman born Oct. 12, 1G52, and died Nov. I, 1656. Here lieth William Burman born March 1655, died Oct. 3, 1662, both descended of John Burman Esq; and Catherine his Wife.

In the chancel.

John Pearse Gent. 1638.

Legard arg. on a bend between six mullets gul. a cross pateeo/-.

Robert Legard died March 19, 1715, Aged 57.

Mors, vitac Finis est, et Initium, ergo Memento Mori; Fa- niilie Legardorum in Norfolcia.1 Ultimus.

Legard, impales Crabb, sab, a chevron arg. between three crabs or wild apples proper.

Mary "Wife of Robert Legard Gent. ob. Dec. 6, 17 14, Aged 49. She was Daughter to William Crabb M. D. of Norwich. Hodie mihi, Cras tibi.

Mary Wife of John Buckenham of Thorp Daughter of Robert and Mary Legard Oct. 18, 171 J. 21. Anne their Daughter ob. 1711- 15. Jenny their Daughter 1696. iEt. 1. Year and 4 Months. Frances their Daughter 1708, Aged 3 Years and 9 Months.

vt nos, sic TU. On a brass by the font,

<©rate pro 3nima fiobcrti JHcfcc , qui obiit rjcn0 «?ie J^orjcmbriiS 3nno <Dommi iJV. W. yymi0. cuiu£ anime proptcictur %tws.

It appears by Stoke Register that man}' good families, have inha- bited here. 1533, John Curson and Anne Aylson married. 1547, George Sheffield and Margaret Billingford. 1549, Edmund son of Tho. Billingford buried. A great number of this ancient family are to be found here, many children born, of Thomas Billingford, Esq. and Dorothy his wife. 1576, Roger Gray, Gent, and Margaret Bil- lingford married. 1584, Thomas Holl, Gent, and Mary Billingford. 1589, Thomas Billingford the elder, Esq. buried. Many of the Crowes and Flowerdewes are mentioned. 1606, John Alden, vicar, and AncilJa Love, Gent, married. Many of the Gooches, Stanows, and Wards,

* The Leg ards are anciently of Leicestershire,

STOKE. 527

occur here. 1(512, Catherine, widow of Thomas Billingford, senior, buried. 1612, Thomas Billingford, Esq. buried. 1627, Thomas Talbot, LL. D. and Dame Susan Doyly, married. Many of the Harrisons, Scriveners, Stiles, Armigers, Burmans, &c. 1639, John Robinson, A. B. buried. Abraham Caught, 1727. iEt. 42, &c.

Part of this hundred is enclosed, and part unenclosed ; the soil is inclining to be light, and the greatest part of it is but middling, and ■was it not for the convenience of being improved, by muck so easily brought from the city of Norwich, it would be but mean land.

INDEX

OF

HUNDREDS AND PARISHES

IN VOL. V.

HUNDREDS.

Humble-yard, Depewade, Earsham, Henstede, -

page 1 to 122.

- 123 to 312.

- 313 to 416.

- 417 ad fin.

parish; Aldeburgh, Algar's Thorp, Amering-lmll, - Ashwell Thorp, Aslacton,

Billingford, Bixley, - Braconash, Bramerton, Brockdish, Bunwell, -

Cantelose, Carleton, Carleton Rode, Castor, Colney, - Cringleford,

Denton, - Dunston

Earsham,

Flordon, Forncet, Framlingham, East,

HUNDRED.	>AGE.
Earsham	351
Humble-yard	22
Henstede	418
Depewade	141
Depewade	177
Earsham	318
Henstede	447
Humble-yard	83
Henstede	470
Earsham	327
Depewade	131
Humble-yard	32
Humble-yard	98
Depewade	125
Henstede	422
Humble-yard	2
Humble-yard	33
Earsham	405
Humble-yard	54
Earsham	315
Humble-yard	70
Depewade	223
Henstede	431

3 Y

NDEX.

PARISH.

Framlingham-Picot, Fritton, : - Fundenhall,

Hapton, Hard wick,

Harleston,

Hemenhale,

Hetherset,

Hethill,

Holveston,

Intvvoocl/ , 1 -

Keningham, Keswick, Ketteringham, Kirby-Bedon,

Melton-Magna,

Parva,

Mendham, Merkeshall, Metfield, Moulton-Magna,

Parva,

Mourningthorp, Mulberton,

Nedham, Nelonde, Newton, Newton Flotman,

Poringland-Magna,

■ Parva,

Pulliam,

Redenhall, Rockland, Rushall,

Saxlingham, Nether,

Thorp,

Shelton,

Shotesham,

Shotford,

Starston,

Stoke-Holy-Cross,

Stvatton,

Surlingham,

Swainsthorp,

Swerdeston.

HUNDRED.	PAGE
Henstede	435
Depewade	309
Depewade	171
Depewade	175
Depewade	218
Earsham	355
Depewade	181
Humble-yard	23
Humble-yard	104
Henstede	487
Humble-yard	39
Humble-yard	74
Humble-yard	43
Humble-yard	89
Henstede	474
Humble-yard	12
Humble-yard	7
Earsham	372
Humble-yard	46
Earsham	385
Depewade	204
Depewade	208
Depewade	285
Humble-yard	75
Earsham	372
Humble-yard	116
Henstede	458
Humble-yard	63
Henstede	438
Henstede	444
Earsham	387
Earsham	358
Henstede	483
Earsham	339
Henstede	495
Henstede	497
Depewade	263
Henstede	503
Earsham	376
Earsham	344
Henstede	519
Depewade -	187
Henstede	462
Humble-yard	58
Humble-yard	49

INDEX.

Tacolneston,

Tasebargh,

Tibenham,

Tharston,

Thickthorn,

Thorp-Abbots,

Tiowse,

Wacton-Parva,

Magna,

Wicklingham, Wreningham-Magni ■ Paiva,

Yelverton,

HUNDREI

Depewade

Depewade

Depewade -

Depewade

Humble-yard

Earsham

Henstede

Depewade

Depewade

Henstede

Humble-yard

Humble-yard

Henstede

PAGE.

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a 10

275 303 32 324 458

295 298 455 117 115

END OF VOL. V.