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ANTIQUITIES

O F T H E

COUNTY of NORFOLK.

CONTAINING

THE HUNDREDS OP

North Erpingham, South Erpingham,
and Eynsford,

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Pro me : fi merear. in me*

NORWICH:

PRINTED BY J. CHOUSE, FOR M. BOOTH, BOOKSELLER*

N.DCC.IXXXI.

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THE

HISTORY

O F

NORFOLK.

Hundred of North Erpingham.

Conqueror, at the time of the fur-
-% vey, 1086, had the foe and fac of this
*& hundred, except the land which Siward

Bar held in the time of the Confeffor,

in Beckham.

In the 34th of Hsnry III. arino 1250. the hun-
dred was valued at 81. per ami. and in the 3d of
Edward I. 1215, Hugh de Parker farmed it of queen
Alianore. The gallows for this hundred, (and every
hundred had one belonging to the lord of it) was at
a place called Start's Heg. In the i ^th of that king,
A he

2 HUNDREDOF

he granted to the queen ail fines and amerciaments
Ul •ii^inj;- 10 it, and oulcred them to be paid 10 John
yk, his beloved clerk h q.cr of the queen's
(aurij trcafury, who was prebend of Holme in 1294,
and after of Fenton in die county of York.

William de Cuifon, of Carleton in Norfolk, ac-
counted for 34!. aud half a mark arrears, of the
farms of Aylfham, .Cawfton, and Hobois manors,
and the hundreds of North and Souih Erpiiigham ;
and in the 4th of Edward II. Walter de Batning-
ham tad a grant for life of thefe two hundreds. In
ihc 32d of EdWard JU. Ifabel. queen dowager of
England, died poflcfltd of them. After this the king
fettled them en his fon John, duke of ' Lancafter,
Juki lo they became part of that dutchy, which being
in the crown on the accefiion of Henry IV, 1399,
fo lunain at this time.

Edward IV. in his 1 5ih year, 1475, fettled them
on his qiuen, Elizabeth Wideville.

In the reign of queen Elizabeth, it appears that
CVCIN hundicd had a particular place to preierve and
kcc; ' t the military (lores belonging to it, as at
id in Smkhdon hundred, and at \Vighton in
Isoitii Greenhoe; and that this hundred had then
in {lore ^oolb. of powder, 600 of rr.aich, 270 of
1-uJ, 30 pickaxes, 30 fliod fliovels, 30 bare fho-
vels, y axes, 300 baikets, and 5 betels.

The hundred court feems to have been held at
Gt:iii>y gate, probably near the village of Gunton:
Will am de Vain tia, lord ol MaiiaiK, was iued in
the ^ad ot Henr) ill. for withdrawing a IUIL ol court
at Gungate, to the king's hunured oi oNuth Erping-
ham.

Tiie

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 5

The county of Norfolk is by no means fo flat a
country as it is generally defcribed to be, .and this
is chiefly owing to the hafly manner in which itine-
rant writers view it. Every part (the fens and marfh
lands excepted) is •ftrongly marked with riGng
grounds, which, though they afcend with an almoU
imperceptible egravity, terminate with, a profpe£l of
twenty, fome thirty miles diftant.

i&?; jir-rii ' v /'4 i •-'— >

Such kind of land prefents itfelf chiefly in this

hundred, cfpecially within four miles of the coafl;
for though this hundred, with the parts of South
Erpingham and Holt hundreds contiguous to it, is
from the fuperior fertility of the foil with propriety
called the Garden of Norfolk, yet the pi&urefque
part of Norfolk muft be confined to the before-men-
tioned diflance from the fea, including the tract of
land which extends from Cley eaftward to Happif-
burgh, we fhali in this refpeclive place point out
thole views which appear to us molt ftriking.

The foil of this hundred is moftly arable, very
fertile, -and generally inclofed ; as the farms are not
fo large as in many other parts of Norfolk, the en-
clofures are of courfe more confined, and the hedges
frequently well planted with oak or afh timber, to
which the foil feems well adapted. Though this in
many parts impedes the view, yet from thofe emi-
nences which overlook the trees, they add a prodigi-
ous foftnefs to the landikip, that in many parts ap-
pears to be one continued grove of many miles ex-
tent.

The general courfe of hufbandry in this hundred
differs in. many refpe&s from that we have quoted
from Mr. Arthur Young, (fee page 103, 8c feq. in
Smithdon' hundred) and as the mode of farming in

this

4 HUNDREDOF

this hundred feems to be generally adopted by the
greateft part of the county, we Qiall defcribe this as
the moft univerial practice.

Mr Young, in his Tour, has taken moil of his
obfervations with accuracy, but as many of his af-
fertions are local, we will endeavour, in our general
defcription of the county at large, to correct thofe
errors, by comparing them with what may be called
" The General Norfolk Syftern" of Hulbandry."

The hundred of North Erpingham is bounded
on the north-eafl by the BritiQi ocean for twelve
miles, by Holt hundred on the north-weft, on the
fouth and weft by South Erpingham, and by Tun-
ilead on the fouth-eaft ; being almoft ten miles in
extent from its fouthern extremity to the fea at She-
ringham, and twelve from the coaft near Mundefley
to Plumftead on the weft: it contains 32 parifhes,
all of which, Eaft-Beckham excepted, are in the
deanry of Repps, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk.

The deanry of Repps included all the churches
Jn the hundred of North Erpingham, and was taxed
at two marks.

The number of votes polled by freeholders rcfi-
dent in this hundred at the laft contefted election for
kniglu of the (hire, March 23, 1768, were:

Aldborouck

NUKTH Eg

PIT

4 GHA

9f.

deG.

Aldborough

" 2

Antingharn

Aylmerton

Barnin<rham Town )

." ', '•"

Ditto Northwood j

Baffingham • — •

Beckham. Eaft

, **,r

BeeRon-Rcgis —

]

Felbrigg —

Giminghara

Grelhaui

Gunton •

Knapton

Matlafke

Mundefley -i—

-o

6 *

North Repps

Plumftead •»*—

Roughtoa

}

•*1.? Jc

Runton • —

Sheringham, Upper

South Repps •• — •

Suffield

•fl* •*.

,4;

Suftead

- * : • • I

Sydcflrand

Thorpe Market

'- i

Thufgarton

Triminghara

- ^

Trunch —

29 47 97 102

r~~r

HUNDRED OF

Srals and principal Houjes in the Hundred of North
Erpingham.

Earning: am, Thomns Lane, efq.

Cromer-Hall, George- Windham, efq.

Felbrigg, Win. Windham, efcj. F.R.S.

Gun'on, Sir Harbord Harboid, bart.

Hanworth, Robert Lee Doughty, efq.

Sujjldd, Mis. Mordcn.

ALDBOROUGH, or ALBURGH, wrote in

Doomfday-book Aldeburc. Roger Bigot, anceftor
to the Bigots, earl of Norfolk, held in Aldborough
lands, Sec. v.'hich Ulflan had in the Confdlbr's time;
and alfo lands, &:c. which were held under Ketel and
Harold, valued in king Edward's time at 155. after
at 305. and had been lett at 405. per ann. but the
tenants could not pay it.

Hugh Bigot, earl of Norfolk, was lord in 1140,
and Roger Bigot, earl marfhal of England, had in
the 3d of Edward I. free warren, view of frank-
pledge, aflife of bread and beer, a fair and took toll,
which his uncle Roger held, on the vigil, the feaft
of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the day after.

This lordfhip was held by the earls in capiie, and
under them by the family of da Hereward.

In the 4th of Henry IV. 1503, the heirs of Ro-
bert Hereward held it of lord Mowbray, duke of
Norfolk.

Clement Hereward, efq. of Alburgh, died in
1426, and was buried in St. Mary's church in this
town, by Majgaiet his mother: his lands in this

town,

NORTH ER PING HAM. "'7

town, Suffield, Wickmere, Woolterton, Mitlafte,
Barninghams, &c. were lefc to his eldert fbn Ro'.ert
Hereward, efq who deceafed in 1481. and was buried
by his parents in this church. He left 6s. Sd. to the
repair of St. Peter's chapel, in this church. .Ann,
his wife, was alfo buried in this church, 1485. He
was fucceeded by Clement Hereward, eiq. his eldeft
ion and heir, who died in i 509, and was buried in
the chapel of St. John, of this church, where his
great grandfather lieth.

Robert Hereward, efq. his fon, was lord in the gsd
ef Henry V11I. 1542, and had a rent of 75. 3d.
payable to this manor, out of lands in Wickmere.
In 1-53, and in.the beginning of queen Elizabeth's
reign, Clement Hereward poffcffed it. The arms of
this family are — azure, a fels, gobonee, gules and
vert, between three owlets, argent.

After this, it was in Thomas Parker, efq. his fon.
Gilbert articled to convey it with all its profits, rents,
Sec. and the manfion-houfe or hall, its barns, ftables,
lands, orchards, gardens, See. to John Palgrave,
efq. of Barningham, and Clement Palgrave, efq. of
the Inner-Temple, London.

Thompfon was lord, who convcved it to

John Grayle, reclor of Blicking, who died in 1732.

On April 17, in the 25th of Elizabeth, William
Dyx, efq. had a grant of the fair of Aldborough ; by
his lafl will it came to Thomas, earl of Arundel,
and his truftees, who by deed, May 28, in the 5th of
James I. conveyed it to Robert Dyx, of Alby, in
South Erpitigham hundred.

The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, and

is a redory, is a quarter of a mile from the green, or

B 2 indeed

8 HUNDREDOF

indeed from anv houfe in the parifh. The green is
plcafant and looks chcarful, from a number of fmall
biick'd and fafh'd houfes which furround it. On this
green is annually held a fair on the ssd of June, ior
horfes. entile, toys, Sec. About forty years ago it was
alwavs honoured with the company of the neigh-
boring nobility and gentry, who frequently attended
this fcfiic of rural fdlivitv in fuch numbers, that ten.
coaches together was no uncommon appearance.
At that time country aflemblies were lefs frequent,
and men of fortune were glad even to make a fair a
place of rendezvous (or meeting each other ; but
fince every market town now has its balls and afiem-
blies, people of fafhion can fee each other in public,
even during their retreat in the country, without the
difagreeable neccffity of mixing perhaps fometimes
with their own fervants. At prefent this fair, though
attended by many reputable farmers, is chiefly
crouded with the more numerous orders of mankind,
labourers and fervants, who annually aflemble heie
to forget their cares and their dependancc.

In the reign of Edward I. the carl of Norfolk was
patron, and the recior had a inanfe with fixteen acres
of land.

The advowfon remained in the Norfolk family till
the attainder of Thomas, earl of Surry, who was
beheaded on Tower-Hill, 1547. It was then with
the crown till Juno 9, 1003, when James 1. in his
ill year, granted it to Thomas Howard, carl of
Arundcl, who piciemcd in 1628.

In 1699, John Harbord, efq. prefented, in which
family it has fince remained; fir Harbord Harbord,
bart. of Gumon, M, P. is the prefcnc lord and patron,

and

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 9

and prefented the Rev. William Morris to this re£ory
in 1774.

ANTINGHAM, wrote Amigeham in Doomfday.
Roger Bigot, anceftor to the earls of Norfolk, had
.at the furvey two borderers, who held of him half a
carucate of land, which was valued under the faid
Roger's manor of Suffield ; and Totftin held under
Roger what three free-men held in king Edward s
reign, valued at 255. but at the furvey at 365. per
annum.

The ancient familv of de An'in^ham, probably
defcended from Torflin, was enftoffed of it under
the Bigots.

In the i6th of Edward I. 1288, Bartholomew de
Antingham died lord, and of Herburgh, fome place
near this town, then held of the abbot of St. Bennet
of Holme, by the fervice of 125. 4d. perann. and
in the i ^th of Edward II. Roger de Antingham was
lord, and had free-warren here and in Bradfield, and
•was the king's valet. Sclden obfcrves in his " Titles
of Honour" that valet was anciently with us (as in
France) a name fpecially denoting young gentlemen
of great defcent and quality. Bartholomew da An-
tingham in the 3<->th of Edward III. 1363, was
lord.

After this it was in the Witchinghams, of Wit-
chingham Magna, and Margaret, relicl of fir William
Witchingham, knt, prefented to this church in 1388.
Nicholas Witchingham, efq. held his firft court here
in the 4th of Henry V. 1416, and in the sd of
Edward IV. it was fettled on his fon Edmund; and
Alice, his wile, daughter and heir of fir John taftolf,
for life ; on a divifion of this eftate, it was the part
63 or

10 H U N D R E D O F

or (hare of Joan (one of his four daughters and co-
heirs) ihen (1474) widow of Robert liois, efq. by
whom flic had a daughter, Ca'herine. married to fir
.•mnd Jens-v. <<f Knattifhali in Suffolk, kut. who
held his firft Lour in the i ft of Richaul III. 141-4,
and was father of William Jcmiey, efq. whofe Ion,
Francis, in die Cth of Eduard VI. 15^2, made a
Icafe of this manor foi yea s 'after the dcccafe of his
mother. Elizabeth, then wife of fir Thomas Neville)
to Thomas Hunt, who affigned it to Thomas Gryme,
l-T^it. Francis Jcnney, efq. married Margaret, daugh-
ter of fir Robert Peyton, of Iflcham in Cambridge-
fliire; and in the I 2th of Elizabeth, 1570, fold all
his right to Mr. Gryine, who prefentcd diat \car.

Mr. Crvrne married AmphilHs, daughter of Ro-
bert ThemiJthorpe, of Foullham, efq. nnd dying
iirft, his widow married John Kemp, fecond f.m of hr
Robert Kemp, of Giffing in Norfolk; they letded it
on Robert Kemp, of Giffing, efq. who was lord in
the 8th of James I. 1610 ; and in 1700, fir Robert
Kemp, km. was lord ; and William Kemp, efq. his
fecond ion, in i 705.

Antirigham bore fable, a bend, argent. Bois ar-
g -nt, two baisand a canton, gules, a bend overall,
iablc. Jenney, ermin, a bend, gules, between two
bendlets, or. Briton, azure, two chevrons and as
many mullets in chief, or. Kemp, gules, three garbs
in a bordare engrailed, or.

To this lordfhip belonged the church of St. Mary,
in this town, which was a reclory, anciently valued
at five marks. In Henry Ill's time there were two
medieties, but in the reign of Edward I. it was
divided into four parts or portions.

NORTH ERPINGHAM. n

In the gd year of Henry III. 1219, Reginald, ab-
bot of St. Rennet's de Hulmo, conveyed to Roger de
Antingham the moiety of the advowfon of this
church, and Roger paid to him 405. fterling on this
account.

About the 4th of Edward I. Roger Bigot, earl of
Norfolk, ear] marfhal and capital lord of this manor,'
was patron of one portion ; John de Creke, patron
of another; Bartholomew de Antingham, patron of
a third portion ; and Hugh de Falkenour of a fourth.

The manor houfe is yet Handing, but converted

to a farm houfe.

In the fame enclofure are two churches, one of
which is in ruins.

The prefentation to the church of St. Mary has
been alternately in the poffeffors of the four portions,
into which the two medieties were divided in the
reign of Edward I.

In 1701, Thomas, duke of Norfolk; 1705, Ro-
bert Kemp, efq ; 1710, Afh Windham, efq. 1718,
John Anftis, elq. and in 1754, the Rev. Ifaac
Horfeley was prefented to this re&ory by the late fir
William Harbord, bait, of Gunton.

', ; ;':.':;! ~?i'.i •;.!>« , >s

In the church, a grave-done In memory of Ralph
Berney, who married a fijltr of fir William Fennour:,
and one for John Cuddon, fon of George Cuddon, efq;
who married Ann Btrnty.

Under a marble grave-ftone, at the eafl end of the
nave as you enter the chancel, was the portraiture of
Richard Calthorpe, efq. of Ann his wife,- and nine- '
,-»* B 4 teen

la II I.1 N D R E P OF

teen children: /if died January 50, 1554; /«<? R'nnk
19, i -02. A grave-done /;/ memory oj Birfrtim Cul-
'j. i s.;h child of Richard and Aim ; — on it his
anus, and those of Tichboum impaled, and fix
daughters ou their knees.

On a grave-fcone in the clinricel, Orate p. aia Hen-
t,fi Ktjon -f:np. reciort!> ijiius tid'ie, olijt. 26

Againfl the wail of the chancel on an alabafter mo-
nument, Here rtjltih the body of John Kemp, ejq. fecund
Jon of Robert Kemp, cf Gifting, ejq. who had ijjue by
'Ann, daughter of Rubtrt Cnddon, tjq. Rol)£it, his jurt,
•tfod heir, who ereti&d this monument, and died JYci'e?.:-
18, 1610.

In the windows are the arms of Calthorpe and
Hafliups impaled ; allo Jerray and Cahhorpe, and
and Cahhorpe.

ST. RENNET'S MANOR. The abbey of St. Bene-
dicti de I lolmo, held here in king Edward's reign,
and ai the mrvcy, a Jordfhip \\hich was tight iur-
longs long, and five and a half broad.

In the 6th of Henry I. 1106, this lordfhip be-
longed to the chamberlain of St. Beimel's abbey;
and in the reign of Henry II. the abbot had a pre-
cept to hold it freely, as Adam, the Reward of the
abbey, had acknowledged it to be freely his, and
lid. I oi the abbey.

Peter de Alto Bofco, or de Hautbois, gave to king
John, in his 1 2th year, 2.) marks, to have (cii:n of
it, and that of Thurgauon, with the hundred cf
Tunflcad, and the flewardfhip of the abbey, which.

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 13

he claimed of the abbot; but in the iqtli of Henry
III. i?$5, the faid Peter releafed all his right.

At the diiTbluiion, on the exchange of lands, 8cc,
between the king and the bishop of Norwich, it was
granted to th<U fee; and in the 4th. and 5'Ji of Philip
and Mary, Robert Rugg farmed it of the bifhop at
61. i ys. sd. per an n. with all the rarefiuages, lands,
fiPaeries, liberties, foldai?. Sec. in Amingham, Brad-
fieid, Felmingharn, and Thorpe, and had a leafe of it
for 99 years, and the biihop is the prefent lord.

To this lordfhip belonged the patronage of the
church of St. Margaret of Amingham, a reclory
formerly valued at fix marks ; the abbot of St. Ben-:
net had a portion of tithe in it of 2os. per ann. and
the chamberlain one of 133. ^d. the prefent value is
5!. 6s. 8d and is discharged from firft fruits and
tenths. The penfion, on a fuit with the reclor, was
acknowledged by him to be paid on account of two*
pans of the tithes of the abbot's demean lands, and
all the fmall tithe of the laid manor that belonged to
the abbot.

The abbot of St. Bennet's had the prefentation to
the reclory of St. Margaret till the diffolution : the
bifhops of Norwich have prefented fince, and in 1 736,
the Rev. John Fowke had this dilapidated church.

In the 3d year of Edward III. 1329, John, earl
Warren, had an homage, or lordQiip here, valued at
lol. pei ann. which Henry II. gave to Hamelin Plan-
tagenet, earl Warren and Surry, belonging to his
lardftup oi Gimingham, at a place here, called
Hulvcr.

Sir Thomas Bcding^eld, and Alice, his wife, and
Finnin Rokewood, efq. her fon and heir apparent,

conveyed

14 HUNDREDOF

conveyed a manor here (which we take to be thi?)
to Edmund Windham, efq. in the 2gth of Henry
VI! I. and Richard Calthorpe, efq. probably died
feiiccl of it in 1554.

AYLMERTOX, or AILMERTON, wrote in
Doomfday Almertuna William, earl Warren, held
a moiety of tl;i-> to\vn, by the gift of the Conqueror,
of wl ich Viulf", a free-man of Ed:ic, was deprived,
valued then at 2os. but aiu-r, and at the furvey at
405. it was nine furlongs long, fix broad, and had a
moiety of the church.

Peter Braunch, in the i S;h of Henry TIT. 1234,
had a grant of two fees in this town, and Grefham,
with (he advowfon of the church belonging to it,
from his father Richard, \\ho held them of the earl
Warren; and fcvcral tenants and villains belonged
to it. Richard was fon of William Braunch, and
taken p':i<>uL'i by king John in the war with his ba-
rons ; and on the peace made between them and the
kin«j about 1213, he obtained the king's licence and
vrit to the (heiili of Norfolk, to make an aid on his
tenants to ran Com him ; and Richard, ion of Peter,
in the 441!) ol Henry III. 1260, granted this lord-
fliip to the earl Warren.

Roger de Stutevile had alfo an intereft herein, in
the 24th of Henry III. and is faid to hold two fees of
the earl Warren and Surry, then in the king's hand,
which Edward II. in his ift year, 1308, granted to
Edmund Bacon.

In the 12th of Edward II. 1319, the moiety of this
church was fettled with the hundreds of Callow, 8cc.
by John, earl Warren^ on Thomas, earl of Lancafler,

and

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 15

and his heirs, and fo became part of the dutchy of
Lancaster.

In the 4oth of Edward III. 1566, there was a
partition of the lands of the late fir Edmund Eacon,
between William Molyns and Margaret his wife,
John BurgheiQi and Maud his wife, daughters of fir
Edmund.

Roger Bigot, anceflor of the earls of Norfolk, had
of the gift of the Conqueror two feparate tenures of
this town, of which a free-man of Elvvin was de-
prived, valued at the furvey at 405. Roger held
alfo, on the deprivation of Ahvard, lands, Sec.
which was valued in Felbrigg.

In the gth of Edward I. 1281, Roger Bigot, (a
younger branch of the earls of Norfolk) had a lord-
fiiip here, and a grant of free-warren.

Richer de Reepham granted by fine to Simon Bi-
got, of Felbrigg, mefiuages, land, pafture, 1045.
rent, 8cc. in Eaft Harling, Palling, 8cc. with this
manor and advowfon.

In the 28th of Edward III. 1354, the king granted
to Roger Fitz-Simon de Felbrigg, view of frank-
pledge here, and in Felbrigg ; and in the 31 ft of that •
king, Thomas Leverich, of Suflead, confirmed to
fir Roger de Felbrigg, a fold-courfe in this town.

Sir Simon Felbrigg died pofleiTed of it, in the 2 ill
of Henry VI. 1443.

, John Windham, efq. died poffeffed of this lord-
(hip in 1475, in which family it ftill continues, A(h
Windham, cfq. being lord in 1742, and patron; his

fon

i6 HUNDRED OF

fon and heir William Windham, efq. died in 1761,
leaving bis fon then a minor, William Windham,
efq. of Felbrigg, now major in the Wefl Norfolk
militia, and Fellow of die Royal Society.

The church is dedicated to St. John Baptift, and
confided of two medieties, both belonging to the
earl Warren's manor : it is a fmgle pile with a fmall
round i.ccplc.

In the beginning of Edward I's. reign, each reclor
had a nianfe and iifteen acres of land ; the mediety
of Thomas, the reclor, was valued at five marks,
and that of John, the reclor, at rive marks ; Peter-
pence i2d. The prefent value is 61. i is. ob.

About half a mile north of the church are the
ruins of a fmall building, called the Iron Beacon, fo
called from the materials of which it ib made, beincr
a kind of iron cinder. Many conjeclures have been
formed about this kind of metalline fubflance, found
in fuch quantity about this fpot. The extenfive
view from this beacon will amply fatisfy the inquifi-
tive traveller, who may find no pleafure in confider-
ing the building itfelf.

At this momentous crifis, when an invafion of
our country is threatened by the Houfe of Bourbon,
this building, if properly (applied, would be an ex-
cellent alarm-beacon, if occalion required.

In 1376, John de Kendale was prefented by John,
king ol Caftile and Leon.

In 1 603, the rcclor returned ninety-Bine commu-
nicants.

Thomas

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 17

Thomas Blofield died re&or, and was buried in
the church, where he has this epitaph : — Memorise
nunquam moriturts Jacrum, Tho. Blofidd, huju • cedes.
refloris, apud Cantabrig, t collegia Sci. Beneditfi, A.M.
cbL circa annum atatis Jutf fexagt/imum Jcxtum i&° Nov.

The Rev. George William Lukin was prefented
to the two medieties of this rectory by the prefent
lord arid patron, William Windham, e;'q. then a
minor.

Here was the fepulchre light, that of All-hallows,
St. Marv, and St.. Nicholas, and the rnena plough
light. St. John's drinking at M idfummer, Rogation
drinking, and on Ail-hallows Thuriday.

There was a light in many churches, called th«
plough light, maintained by old and young perfons.
who were hufbandmen, before f'ome image, and 011
Plough Monday had a feaft, went about with a
plough, and fome dancers to fupport it.

BARNINGHAM NORTHWOOD, or North
Barningham, wrote in Doomfday Berningeham.

At the furvey there was but one town in this hun-
dred, of the name of Banringham, which at that
time included what is now called Barningham North-
wood, and alfo the town of Barningham Winter:
the principal lordfhip was then held by Roger Bigot,
anceftor of the earls of Norfolk, and confirmed of
feveral tenures in the days of the Confcflbr, of which
the lords and owners were deprived at the- conquefl.
At the furvey it was valued at 505. was ten furlong*
long and fix broad, and paid i6d. gelt.

iS HUNDREDOF

Of all the free-men in this hundred, the king had
the fac and foe.

William earl Warren had lands here at the fur-
vev, which were joined loon after to the capital
manor.

The family of de Barningham were early cnfeofFcd
of a lordlhip in this town, which they held of the
Bigots, earls of Norfolk, in the reigns of Richard I.
and king John.

Sir Nicholas de Barningham gave, in the asd of
Henry III. part of his heath here to the monks of
pf Binham ; and Richard de Barningham, in the
24th of the faid king, held the fourth part of a fee
of Roser Fitz-Ofbert. and he of the earl of Norfolk,

in Northwood Barningham ; the firft* time that we
find it fo called.

In the nth of Edward II. Richard de Earning;-

ham conveyed, in null, to Remigius de Hetherfet,
&c. the manor of Great Barningham ; and in the
aoth of Edward III. John de Hetherfet held half a
fee of Edmund de Bacon fthorpe, and he of the earl
of Norfolk, in North Barningham.

This John was fon of fir Simon de Hetherfet/
lord of Cringleford in the hundred of Humbleyard,
and one oi the king's juflices itinerant.

William de Hetherfet. efq. fon and heir of John
de Hetherfet, was made guardian of the wool-cuftoms
in Norfolk, in 1357, and prefentcd to this church
•« loid in 16.

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 19

In the 47th of Edward III. Henry Bacon, of
Northvvood 'Barningham, and Robert Megges, con-
veyed by fine to Roger Taylour aud Thomas Fox,
lands here and in Town Barningham, with the ho-
mages and ferviccs of William de Hethc let, Willi-
am Winter, Roger Catt, &c. This probably was
of the earl Warren's fee above-mentioned.

In 1420 and 1437, John Wen* o th, or Winter,
efq. prcfented ; and in 1441, Sibilla Pain, of Nor-
wich, prefented : what right they had, or John Ban-
yard, efq. who prefented in 1471, does not appear.

In 1508, Henry Palgrave, efq. preferred to [this
church.

The Palgraves are a very ancient family, and take
their name from Palgrave, a town in the hundred
of South Greenhoe, of which they were lords in the
reign of Henry II.

Henry Palgrave, efq, by I is xvi'l, dated Sept. n,
1513, orders this Jordfhip, with that of Thuxton in
Mitford hundred, to remain in the hands of his fe-
offees, fir Robert Brandon and William Pafton, efq.

In 1524, fir Wrilliam Pafton prefented to this
thurch, being guardian, of Clement Palgrave, efq.
who prefented iu 1537.

Sir Auguftine Palgrave, of this family, was knight-
ed by James 1. at Hinchingbrooke in Humingdon-
fhire, Nov. 24, 1604, and died in 1639, aged 72.

John Palgrave, efq. created a baronet on June 24,
1641, had by Ann, daughter of fir William de Grey,
of Merton in. the, hundred of Weyland, tir AugufUne

Palgrave,

so HUNDRED OF

Palgrave, bart. who prefented in 1677, and was fuc-
cecded by fir Richard Palgrave, bart. about the year

On fir Richard's death, this lordfhip, bv a decree
in chancery, was ordered to be fold by his heirs, who
were (he four daughters of Samuel Smith, eiq. late
of Colkirk in Launditch hundred, who was fon of
Urfula, daughter of fir John Palgrave, bart. grand-
father of fir Richard. After this it came to the
Windhams.

William Windham, efq. was lord and patron in
1760, who dying in 1701, left his fon and heir then
a minor, who is now lord and patron.

Great part of the manor-houfe is flill flandingj
but converted into a farm houfe.

In the hall of the manor-houfe were the arms of
Wanton and Benilon, impaled by Drury and Read,

The church is a reclory, dedicated to St. Peter,
and was valued at eleven

In the reign of Edward I. the rcclor had a manfe,
and eight acres of land, and the prelcnt value is
fcl. 13$. 4d.

In the chancel is a neat alabafler monument, For
Margaret P^pc, daughter of John Palgrave, efq. and
wife of Johi Pop' , d^clor of law, obiit the a^th of De-
cember, 1624.

In the north aile, a curious monument of marble,

See. with the butts of a rnari and woman.— Memonts

Jacrum, — To Sir Aujtin Palgrave, Knight, and Dame

Elizabeth

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 12!

Elizabeth his wife, who was the daughter of Sir John
Wilfotighty, of Rr/ley in Derbjjhire, and by whom he
had iffue nine fojis and Jive daughters, and he at the age
ofl?, and j]\t at 53, died; he in 1639, and Jhe in

1633-

Alfo a monument railed in, In memory of John
Patgrave, who died in 1611.

In the church, Pal grave's arms, alfo the arms of
Hetherfet; Lovell of Eaft Harling; Yelverton of
Rougham; Caly and Clifton, quarterly; Palgrave
impaling, quarterly, Glemham, Brandon, and Ban-
yard.

Richard Winter, efq. of Northwood Barningham,
was buried in the church in 1476.

According to Parkin, Berningham, or Barningham,
fignifies a ham on the meadows, by a hill.

The Rev. William Tower Johnfon was prefented
to this re&ory in 1769, by William Windham, efq.
of Felbrigg, the prefent lord and patron.

BARNINGHAM WINTER, or Town Earning;.
ha"m. It has been already obferved, that this tovvrr,
with that of Barningham Northwood, made up and
eonfifted of only one townfhip, called Bainingham,
at the furvey ; and it was a confiderablc time after
before it was divided, and that thefe diftincl names were
affumed : and as thofe tenures before-mentioned,
which were granted on the conqueft ta Roger Bigot,
made up the manor of Norwood Barningham, fo
they did likewife the greatcft part, if not the whole
»of Barningham Winter.

C The

-2 H U N D R E D O F

Tlie family of Curfon was, foon after the con-
rjucfl, enfeoflcd of this lordihip.

In 1239, we find it wrote Tone, or Town, but
Toni, or Ton, is undoubtedly the moft proper and
right name. Thus we meet with Tunbridge, Tun-
ford, in Kent ; Tunweil, Tunford, in Heitfordfhirc,
and the river Tone, or Tune, in Somerfetihire.

Roger le Curfon. in the 12th of Edward II. 1319,
had a grant of a fair and weekly market » and free
warren here.

In the 33d of Edward III. 1359, John dc Reppes,

jun. held it in right of his wile, , late wife of

de Curfon.

After this it came to the Winters* William Win-
ter held this lordfhip in the 4gth of Edward III.
*375* '-I his William purchafed of John Lcche the
manors of Eggmore and Wighton in North Green-
hoe : he was fheiiff of Norfolk, died in 13-90, and
was buried in the chancel of this church.

John Winter, efq; his fon and heir, was rcprefcn-
tative for the county of Norfolk in the i oth of Hen-
ry IV. 1409, and preientcd to this church in 1412.

Edmund Winter, efq. : fuccecded John : his fe-
cond wife was Alice, relic! of John Wodehoufe, cfq.
famous for his gallantry at the battle of Agincourt
in France: he dkd in 1447, and was buried in this
church, before the high altar.

John Winter, efq. fon and heir of Edmund, by
Oliva his firft wife, was lord, and prefentcd to thqr

ehurch,

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 23

church in 14^7, 1459. ^cc- This John married
Margaret, daughter of fir Thomas Echingham, of
Echingham in Suffex, by whom he had John, his foil
and heir, Walter and Richard.

John Winter, efq. fon of John, married Alice,
daughter of Turtevile, lord of Turtevile's ma-
nor in Stiffkey, Norfolk, and prelented to that church
in 1491, and to this church in 1490, Sec. by whom
he had Henry, his fon and heir: he died in 1494,
and was fucceeded by Henry, whofe fon, John, oc-
curs lord in ir;4i, and left by Catherine his wife,
daughter of Philip Bcdingfield, efq. of Ditching-
ham, Philip his fon and heir.

^ Philip prefented to this church in 1561 and 15/2.
William, his fon, married Frances, daughter of Wil-
liam Rokewood, efq. of Wefton: on this marriage
Philip fettled, in the igth of Elizabeth, 1577, on
the faid Frances 30!. per ann. out of this manor.

Soon after this the lordfhip was in the Pattens,
and poffeffed by fir Edward Pafton, who married,
fivll, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Lambert, efq.
fherirF of London, and next Margaret, daughter of
Henry Berney, efq. of Reedham, by whom he had
Thomas Pafton, efq. his eldrll fon, who died before
his father fir Edward, who lived to the age of eighty
years, and died in 1630.

Thomas married Mary, daughter of fir George
Brown, of Bepton in Suffex, and had a fon and
heir, Clement Paflon, efq. lord of this town, Bii>
ham, Berney, and Thorpe by Norwich.

In this family thcfe lordfhips remained, -till

Pafton. efq. fold Bammgham and Einhara, about
C \* the

44 HUNDRED OF

the year 1756, to William Ruffell, a whalebone
merchant, in King-ftrcet, London.

The manor-houfe, which was lately repaired and
beautified by J. Harvcv, efq. now of Norwich, is a
venerable building, and is now in the occupation of
Thomas Lane, e(q. by purchafe. We have given a
view of this houfe, as the architecture has fomething
very fmgular.

In the hall of the manor-houfe were the arms of
"Winter and of Erpingham, Reppcs, Tony, and De-
lamare. In the parlour, Winter impaling Earning-
ham, the fame coat being quartered by Winter,
Winter impaling Hampton and Lucy. Winter im-
paling Hetherfet. Winter and Barningham, quar-
terly, impaling Hetherfet. Ermingham. Winter and
Hampton, quarterly, impaling Hereward, of Aldbo-
rough. Winter and Wodehoufe of Kimberley. Win-
ter and Bedingfield. Winter and Hemenhall. Winter
arid Reymes of Oxftrand. Winter, and argent, fret-
ty, fable, a canton, gules. Winter and Bramptoii
of Brampton. Winter and Heydon. Mauteby and
Winter. Winter and Rokcwood. Berncy. Lucy.
Winter and Symonds. D'Engain.

William de Beaufoe, bifhop of Thetford, held at
the furvey, as a lay-fee, by the gift of the Conque-
ror, fifteen acres of land, which \\ illiam de Noiers
held under the bifhop. This feems to be granted
afterwards by that bifhop to the fee.

In the 3d of Henry IV. 1402, the prior of \Va-
borne, and the heirs of William Winter, held the
eighth part of a fee of the bifliop of Norwich, and
the bifliop of the king.

NORTH £RPINGHAM. 25

In the syth of Henry VIII. 1536, Henry Win-
ter, efq. held it of the bifliop, as of his manor of
Gaywood, and paying to the ward of Norwich caf-
tlc 35. 6d. every thirty weeks, by the fourth part of
a fee.

Drogo de Beuraria had aifo a lordfhip, valued at
2 os. at the furvey.

This was granted by Henry I. to Walter Tufard,
who held lands in Barningham, See. by grand fer-
jeanty, by the fervice of finding certain crofs bow-
men ; and Amicia Tufard fold it to Roger le Bigot,
earl of Norfolk, who lived in the reign of Hen. UL
and io it was united to his lordQiip in this town.

The church is dedicated to St. Mary, and is a
rectory, valued in the reign of Edward I. at ten
marks, when the redor had a manfe, with thirty
acres ; and the abbey of St. Bennet at Holme had a
portion of tithe valued at two marks : the prefenc
value is 61. 135. 4d.

The church is dilapidated, and nothing of it re-
mains but the chancel ; and in the eaft window arc
the arms of Reppes and of Erpingham ; and in a
fouth window, argent, a fefs ermine, cottifed, fable,
jmpaling or, a cinquefoil, iable.

On a grave-ftone in the chancel, Sepultus in gra~
tia ct mijericordia Dei Jches. Wynter D'ris Berning/ta?n,

qui obiit ultimo die Decemb. Ao. D'ni. M. . and his

portraiture in armour, and Winter impaling Bar-
ningham.

On another, Orate p. a* fab; Joh. Winter el Alide

uxvr.Jue qui quid. Joh. obt. A*, regni Regis Hcnrici

C 3 ffpiimi.

s6 H U N D R E D O F

Jeptimi. With the arms of Winter impaling Bramp-
ton. and Winter impaling, fefs between fix billets.

This town is wrote B'ningeha1 in Doomfday.

The Rev. Matthew Lane was prefentcd to this rec-
oory by William Ruffell, efq. in 1764.

BASSINGHAM, wrote Baffingcham in Doomf-
day. This town was granted and belonged at the
furvey to Drogo de Bauraria: in king Edward's time
a free-man was lord of it, and held it under the pro-
tection > of Edric. but was deprived: it contained
then a carucate of land, valued at 205. but at the
furvey at uos.

Drogo was a noble Fleming, (who attended Wil-
liam, duke of Normandy) earl of Holdcmefs, in
Yoikiliirc, and married a niece of the Conqueror's,

The family of de Bafingham were enfeofTed of it.
Sir Piers de Bafingham, lord, left three daughters
and co heirs; Chrillian, the eldeft, married (ir Wal-
ter de Mauteby: Margaret married fir John de Flcgg,
and Alice, the third, fir Piers of Brampton.

Sir Piers Bafingham was fon of Euftace de Bafing-
ham, fub-colleclor and accountant (in the i , th of
king John, 1211) of Norfolk and Suffolk, under
Robert Fitz-Roger.

In the 24th of Henry III. Robert de Mauteby
held half a fee of Roger Fitz-Qfbert, and he of the
carl Warren.

William le Fleght, or Flegg, releafed to Walter
de Mauteby all his right and tide in this manor, that

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 27

of Weft Beckham and Matlafke, in ihe 6th of Ed-
ward 1. 1278, and John de Mauteby was lord in
ihe gth of Edward II. 1316. Sir John de Mauteby
prefented to this church in 1326, iir Robert dc
Mauteby in 1347, and fir John Mauteby in 1369 and

'397-

In the reign of Henry VI. Margaret, daughter
and heir of fir John Mauteby, knt. brought it by
marriage to John Pafton, efq. of Pafton, in which
family it was in 1742, William earl of Yarmouth
being lord, and was Toon after pofleffed by the lord
Anfon, who purchafed that earl's eftate in Norfolk;
and on that lord's death, June 6, 1762, came to his
brother, Thomas Anfon, efq. his nephew, George
Adams, efq. who has taken the name of Anfon, is
the prefent lord and patron.

At Baffingham Wongs was a fair kept, for which
the lord of this town was paid gs. 8d. per ami. from
Alburgh, as in the 25th of Elizabeth, 1583.

The church is dedicated to St. Mary, and is a
re&ory. •••-<

In the reign of Edward I. 1273, fir Robert de
Mauteby was patron. The re&or had an edifice,
with 30 acres of land.

Though Blomefield fays this village takes its name
from its fcite on a low ing, or meadow, yet its little
church is pleafantly fituated on high ground, and
looks over an extenfive woody country. The foil
in this parifh, and the neighbourhood, feems very
different from the reft of Norfolk, in being more na-
turally inclined to produce grafs. At prefent, in the
ihree parifhes of BajGTmgham, Grefham and Suftead,
C 4 there

there is more than one thoufand acres of rich paflure
land, which, though many miles diftant from any
large town, readily lets for twenty (hillings per acre.
Surely much more land, which is now become ara-
ble, might be made more profitable by reftoring it
to its original (late : but in farming, as in all other
matters, the fafhion blinds us to our intereft.

The fleeple of this church, which is round, is
built of large irregular pieces of a coarfe fand ftone.

In the grazing ground near the church, is a place
called the Mote Yard, which is a tumulus, about
half an acre, furrounded by a deep and wide ditch,
but no foundations are vilible.

Lord Anfon prefented Theophilus Buckeridge in
17^9, on whofe deceafe the Rev. Ifaac Avarne was
prefented to this reclory by George Anfon, efq. of
Shugborough in Staffordihire, in 1772.

BECKHAM, EAST. The Conqueror had a lord-
fiiip, of which Siward Bar had a free-man, who was
added by Ralph, earl of Norfolk, to the manor of
Aylfham, and the king had the foe and fac of it, ex-
cepting of that part which belonged to Siward Bar.
Ralph had it of the king, wiih the manor of Aylf-
ham, but on his rebellion it came again to the crown,
and was in the king's hands at the iurvey, and God-
lie was his Reward of it.

ISAAC'S MANOR. Henry II. granted it to Abraham
Felmingharn: it ufed to pay half a mark of filver
yearly to Aylfham manor, but after this grant it paid
pothing to that or any other.

NORTH ER.PINGHAM. 29

Gregory de Felrmngbam clied lord in the' 14th of
Edward II. 1321, of lands, &c. here and in Fel-
ininghain parilh, and having no ifiue it came to his
fillers and co-heirs.

James de Whitvvell, who married Alice, one of
liis fifters and co-heirs, paid to the king i6s. 8d.
relief for this part, and alfo 335. 4d. for the parts of
Ghriftian and Joan, two others of the fitters, which
they had. Oliver de la Mow, who married Eliza-
beth, another of the fillers, paid i6s. 8d. relief, as
did alfo James Rightwife, ion of Catherine, filler
and co-heir.

In the 24th of Henry VIII. 1533, Robert Gigges
had licence to alien it to Edmund Windham, efq-
and in the 37th of that king, fir Edmund Windham
conveyed meffuages, See. to Thomas Pidgeon, gent.
who died lord of Ifaac's manor, O&. 18, 1558;
and Mr. John Pidgeon had livery of it in the i ft of
Elizabeth, 1579, anc^ dying m J579» was fucceeded
by Thomas his fon and heir, who aliened it Augufl
10, in the 14th of James I. 1616, to Robert Field-
ing, clerk, and William Paine, gent, and on July
4, in the 1 6th of that king, Thomas Derham, efcj,
conveyed it to fir Samuel Town, km.

After this it came to the Windhams of

and William Windham, efq. died lord in 1761,
leaving his fon and heir a minor, lordt>f Eaft Beck-
ham, Ifaac's, and Eaft Beckham Marriot's.

William Beaufoe, bifhop of Thetford, at the fur-
vey had a lordfhip of the grant of. the. Conqueror,
which he held as a lay-fee in his own right, of whicti
a free-man (who held it under the protection or com-
tnendation. of Almar, bifhop of. Norwich, in king

r.> Edward's

5o HUNDRED OF

Edward's reign) was deprived, and there was a church
endowed with two acres and an half of land. It
was made a beruite to the bifhop's manor of Blick-
ling, and was then valued at 75. at the furvey at
12S. was half a leuca long, and four furlongs broad.

Bartholomew de Swafield held lands here in the
reign of Richard I. of the bifhop of Norwich ; as
did alfo Richard de Beckham, and the prior of Wa-
borne, in the 24th of Henry III. i 240 ; and Pcrer
de Felmingham, in the ^d of Edward I. claimed
view of frank-pledge, and the affife of bread, £:c.
The prior of Waborne, in the sodi of Edward III.
held it of Thomas de Weilon, and he of the biiliop.

Jeffrey Aleyn, of Cromer, held it of the feoffmcnt
of Robert Verley, by the fourth part of a fee, and
he of the bifhop.

The prior of Waborne was patron of a third part
or turn in the advowfon of this church, in 1350.

Roger Bigot held alfo at the furvey 60 acres of
land, &c. valued then at los.

Sir Roger de Beckham held it in the soth and
37th of Edward III. and John Clement, of Cromer,
conveyed to Robert Clere this lordfhip, which Clere
had alfo confirmed to him in the faid year by John
Grefham, efq. of Holt.

Sir William Pafton, the judge, purchafcd it in
1442, and left it to his fon and heir; and fir Willi-
am Paflon was lord in 1600.

The church was a reclory, dedicated to St. Helen,
two parts of which were appropriated by John de

Grey,

NORTH E R P I N G H A M. 34

Grey, bifhop of Norwich, to Wo borne priory ; and
on the i gth of June, 1354, William, bifhop of Nor-
wich, appropriated die third pan to the faid priory,
referring to the bifhop an annual penfion of half a
mark ; n» vicarage was fettled, fo dial it was ferved
by a flipendiary curate.

June 20, in the gjth of Henry VIII. 1546, this

reclory was granted to Heydon, with lands in

this town. William Hevdon had livery of it about
the aoth of Elizabeth; William Leigh was curate of
it in 1600,, and certified that there were thirty com-

<J i

municants, and that he fcrvcd it for 4!. per annum
flipend.

In the 22d of James I. June i, 1624, fir John
Haftings, knt. conveyed it to fir Henry Habart, and
Afh Windham, efq. was patron of the curacy and
impropriator, i 742.

In the windows of the church were the arms of
Beckham: — Cheque, or, and fable, a fels, ermine;
the arms of Aftley, Faftolf,-^-and vert, three griffins,
fegreant, or ;— ^gules, a crofs, or, bore by Bigot,
carl of Norfolk.

BEESTON REGIS, orBEESTON near the SEA,
wrote Befetuna in Doorafday book. Hugh de Mont-
fort, a Norman (affiftant jufticiary of England, with
Odo, bifliop of Baieux, the Conqueror's brother, and
William Fitz-Ofborn, earl of Hereford) was lorJ of
a manor, out of which Bund, a free-man, was ejected,
valued at the furvey at 305,

In the .gth oi king John, Robert dc Utlaghe
granted to Hubert de Burgh, the third part of a
knight's fee in this town and Runton, and land in

Hmdringham;

S2, HUNDRED OF

Hindringham ; and in the i ith of that king, Hubert
purchafed of Robert Fitz-Hugh, his right of a third
part of a fee in Ikefton, and Runton. and the land
in Hindringham ; this Hubert was after created earl
of Norfolk, and held them in capite of Dover
cattle.

Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, held it in tfie
3>d of Edward I. 1275, with Runton, by one fee,
and paid sos. per ann. to Dover caftle; had wreck
again ft his lands, affize of bread, and frank-pledge.
This Robert gave it in the 13th of that king, wit,h
the advowfon of the church, to William, fon and
heir apparent of John, earl Warren, in marriage
with Joan, his daughter.

On the death of John, earl Warren, July 18,
1547, in the sift of Edward III, Richard, earl of
Arundel, fucceeded as his heir.

In the 2 2d of Richard II. 1399, fir Simon Fel-
brigg had a grant of it on the attainder of Richard,
carl of Arundel, but on the accefTion of Henry IV.
to the crown, his fon, Thomas, earl of Arundel,
was reftorcd in blood, 8cc. and died feifed of this
eftate.

William, earl of Arundel, was the laft of this
family that prefented in their right, as lords, in the
year 1464: Elizabeth Wideville, queen confort of
Edward IV. prefented in 1476, it being in the crown,
aud fettled on her for life; and in 1521 the king
prefented. Henry VIII. on February 12, 1512, in
his 3d year, granted it to Thomas Windham, efq.
with the wards, marriages, reliefs, &c. .for feven
yeais. In the reign of Charles I. it is faid to be
valued at 20!. per ann, it remains in the crown at

this

NORTH ERPINGHAM, 33

this time, and is efleemed as a part or -member of
the dutchy of Lancafter.

Another lordfhip in this town was poffefTed at the
furvey by William de Scohies, or Efcois, and held
of him by Ingulf.

Jc . /:--£ • cr.yj^Kr-y::3i!:fasH3or>"i yflt'txis ,<»•• '
The ancient family of de. Norfolk were. ' enfeoffed
of this lordfliip ; Gilbert de Norfolk, the laft of that
family, - died paffeffed of it, leaving five daughters
and co-heirs ; and by marriage of the third to Roger
tie Felbrigg, it came into the family of de Felbrigg,

William de Felbrigg dying without iflue, in the
reign of Henry III. was fuccceded by Maud, his
Cftcr, widow of Simon le Bigot, of Happing, third
Ion of Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, by Maud, his
\vife, daughter of William Marefchall, earl of Pern-
broke,

In the i^th of Edward I. 1287, Roger Bigot de
Felbrigg claimed wreck at fea in his lands, free-
warren, the affife, 8cc. and frank-pledge, as held by
his anceftors.

'• .-i-j •..!*;-! m -••.•<; itv< rii-crrb'

After this it came to the Windhams, of whom,

and of the Felbriggs, fee more at large in the town
of Feibrigg.

In the 3d of Henry III. 1219, Richard, fon of
Jcffe, conveyed to the matter of the Knights Templars
fix acres of land in this town.

The temporalities of St. Faith's were i8d, of
Broomholm as.

The

34 H U N D R E D O F

The church is dedicated to All Saints, and is a
rcclorv, and the present value is 1 61. It has a nave,
north and fouth ailc, covered with lead, and a chan-
cel tiled.

In the reign of Edward I. the earl of Oxford was
patron, and the rcclor had then twenty-two acres of
land, with edifices that were ruinous.

In the north aile is a monument with the portrai-
tures of a man and a woman in brafs. Orate p. aab;
jfohs, Deynes ct Catherine U\or. Jut qui Johs. obt. 29
jfanu. 1527 ; on it are an helmet, a pike, and refpice.
— On a grave-ftone, Orate p. aia. Thomas Hook, qui
obt. ultimo die Xov. 1522.

In the middle aile a grave-ftone In memory of Ed-
ward Hook, woollen draper, twice mayor and jujlice of
the peace of Kings Lynn ; he gave loot, to be laid out
in land for the poor of this place, and upper Runions
jewel, and after Jpending 89 years in piety and charity,
died Feb. 20. 1723.

The chancellor of the dutchy of Lancafter pre-
fents, as being in the crown, and in I 7 7 * he prefented
the Rev. William Tower Johnfon to this reclory.

BEESTON-PRIORY and MANOR. This priory was
dedicated to St. Mary, foundecl by the lady Ifabel de
Crefly, in the reign of king John, for canons of the
order of St. Auftin. John de Merlai conveyed to
that lady and her heirs; a mcfluage with forty acres
of land, in this town and Ruuton, with certain de-
mean lands, rents, fervices, meadows, wreck of fca,
fifheries, &c. here, which the faid lady fettled on it;
alfo that part of the lordfhip which came on the di-
vifion to Eudo de Moulton, was granted to it. This

Ifabei

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 35

Ifabel was daughter and co-heir of Hubert, baron de
Rhia, married firft to Jeffrey de Chefter, and after
to fir Roger de Crefly.

Lucia, abbefs of Caen in Normandy, granted by
fine, in the 5 2d of Henry III. the advowfon of Stan*
ninghall church, in Norfolk, to this convent.

The prior, a? lord of a manor, claimed in the
14 tli of Edward I. 1286, frank-pledge, aflife, &c.
In the 3 6th of Edward III. 1362, a patent was granted
for lands and tenements in Runton, Panxford, Ran-
worth, South Walfham, Wood-Baftwick, Barning-
ham, Sec. Richard Bond in the 3<i of Richard II.
aliened two raeffuages, thirty-nine acres of land,
eight of heath, with 573. rent, in Runton, Ranworth,
Sec. In the reign of Henry IV. a patent for the
manor of Perers in Runton, and for tenements in
Shipdham, Aylmenon, and Felbrigg, was granted to
it, and they had the grant of die moiety of the ad-
vowfon of Beefton, and the advowfon of Runton.

1 "?•.? ./vii'.*'jJH:3 ?•;!;.; -,'->
In the 6th of Edward IV, 1466, Ifabel, ladjr
Morley, died feifed of the patronage (the lords
Morley had it, as heirs to the CrelTys) and Alianore,
her coufin, wife of William Lovell, lord Morley,
was her heir.
v- ' <•'. • .v;v •.••r/':;:"! ;•

At its diffolution, Henry VIII. December 5,
1546, granted the fcite of it, with the lordfhips of
Beefton, Runton, and Ranworih-Holtwood, and all
other the lands and tements, late belonging to it, to
fir Edmund Windham, and Giles Seafowl, cfq. to be
held by the aoth part of a fee: it was valued, as
Speed, at 50!. 6s. 4d. per aim. as Dugdale, at
43!. 2s. 4d. ob. Here were a prior and. four canons.

Thomas

S6 H U N D R E D O F

Thomas Blofield, efq. died feifcd of it, Feb. 7,
1637, in die igth of Charles I. William his grand-
fon fucc ceded.

The fcite of the priory and lands here was lately
pofiefled by Mr. Thomas Woodrow, valued at 150!.
per ann. and fold by a flatute of bankruptcy to Mn
James Barnham, of Norwich, and Mr. Edmund
Jewell, of Aylfham, attornies at law.

Great ruins remain of this priory, and its church,
which is near to the Britifh ocean ; the whole weft
gavel wall of the church, with the arch of the win-
dow is {landing : the whole length of the church,
with the nave, tower (in the middle) and chancel,
was about forty-feven yards ; the nave was ten yards
wide, the choir or chancel fifteen yards long within.
South of the nave was the cloifter, the north and
fouth tranfcept were twelve yards long each, and ten
wide, and there were feveral chapels.

CROMER, alias SHIPDEN. The town of
Cromer is not mentioned in Doomfday book, being
included and accounted (for under the town of
hliipedana, or Shipden, the lordfhips of which ex-
tended into Cromer.

At the furvey Godric was fleward of a manor
here belonging to the Conqueror, it being a beruite
to the Conqueror's loidfhip of Aylfham, in South
Erpingham hundred.

Halmod de Bidon held one knight's fee here of
the gift of Henry I. it being a member of the manor
of Aylfham, which was royal demeans, and, in the
beginning of Henry Ill's reign, William de Wov-
cefter held it by the fourth purt of a fee,

NORTH ERPING.HAM. 37

In the 24th of Henry III. 1240, William de Wey~
land held the third part of a fee in Shipden, of fir
Hugh de Odingfcles, of Oxburgh.

In the c>d of Edward I 1275, fir Nicholas de
Weyland was lord, and held it by the fervice of one
pair of white gloves, and performing fervices to the
capital lord : in the 1 2th of that king he had a grant
of a market, a fair, and a free-warren : in 1519, it
was valued at 15!. 6s. 8d. per ann.

jd of Henry IV. 1402, it was fettled, xvith
Oxburgh and Rifton, on John Stretche, efq. to whom
it came in right of marriage. After this it came to
the Paftons. In 1611, fir William Pafton, fon of
judge Pafton, was lord of this manor, called Wey-
land's in Cromer, and was held of the dutchy of
Lancafler ; and it was faid then that great part of the
lands belonging to it were fwallowed up by the fea.

Robert Giggs, of Sparham, gent, died fdifed of a
manor in Cromer, 1535. Sir Thomas Rant had
alfo a manor here.

Roger Bigot, anceftor to the earls of Norfolk, had
a manor here, valued at the furvey at i os.

<:. •') .)i-'J-FSr 'G^S-r |l: -I;--? •:,:.-', '..» iLk '.-('• iJ

UFFORD'S MANOR. In the 24th of Henry III.
1 240, William de Bradenham and Roger de Reymes,
held in Shipden, the third part of a fee of Richard
de Barningham, and he of Roger Fitz Ofbert.

This manor was afterwards in many families, till,
the 2ift ef Elizabeth, 1579, when it was purchafed
of Richard Arnold by Robert Underwood ; Samuel
Underwood his fon, dying without iffue, Catherine
his Gfter, inherited it, and brought it by marriage to
D William

38 HUNDREDOF

William Hobart, gent, of Metton, who was lord in
1615: he left two daughters and co-heirs; Frances,
the fecond daughter, married James, fon of fir Henry
Davy, by whom he had three daughters, on a parti-
tion of whofe eftate this came to fir George YVind-
liam, by tli e marriage of Frances, one of the daugh-
ters ; and Francis his fon was lord in 1691, and mar-
ried Frances, daughter of fir Thomas Dayrcll, of
JLillington-Dayrell, in Bucks, by whom he had
Francis, a fon, Sec. lord in 1752.

Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, had a lordfhip
in the ^d of Henry I. 1275, which on the marriage
of his daughter Joan with William, eldeft fon of
John, earl Warren, he gave to them. He died be-
fore his father, in the 14th of that king, leaving
John, his fon and heir, aged one year, afterwards
earl Warren and Surry ; in which family it conti-
nued till fettled by the laft earl Warren and Sum-
on the earl of Lancafler, and by the marriage of the
lady Blanch, the heirefs of that family, came to John
of Gaunt, duke of Lancafler, and by his fon,
Henry IV. king of England, was united to the
crown, as it is at this time, being part of the dutchy
of Lancafler.

In the 4th of Henry VI. 1426, a patent was
granted for a market, now held on Saturday, and a
lair. It is chiefly inhabited by fifhermen.

Robert Bacon, a mariner, of this town of Cromer,
found out Iceland, and is faid to have taken the
prince of Scotland, James Stuart, failing to France
for education, in the time of king Henry IV.

William de Beaufoe, bifhop of Thetford, had a
lordfhip in his own right, as a lay fee, in this town,
\vliich lordfhip was a beruite to his manor of Gunton.

'NORTH ERPINGHAM. 39

Bifhop Beau foe gave this, amongft his other great
benefaflions, to his fee, and in the 24th of Henry
Ml. Robert de Egmere held here the fourdi part of u
fee of the .bifhop of Norwich.

Sir George Windham was the 6th fon of fir Joha
Windham. of Orchard-Windharn in Someifetlliire,
and the. lady Joan his wife; he was knighted at An-
derwick, in Scotland, July 16, 1632, and was gen-
tleman penfioner to Charles I. his firfl wife was Ann,
daughter of Mr. Godfrey, and relicl of James Un-
derwood, of Cromer; (he died without ifTue, and
the manor of Arnolds was in the family of Wind-
ham in 1752. William Windham, efq. died in
1765 lord.

The abbot of St. Bennet at Holme had a lordQiip
alfo, which he enjoyed at the conqueft.

In the igth of Henry III. 1235, fir Peter de Alto-
Bofco (or Hobois) releafed to the abbot all his right
herein, and the abbot held it of the king in capite.

On the difTolution of this houfe it carne to the
crown, and on the exchange of lands between the
bifhop of Norwich and Henry VIII. it was granted
to the bifhop, and the bifhop of Norwich is the
prefent lord.

There was formerly a church at Shipdcn, dedi-
cated to St. Peter. In the reign of Edward I. Hugh
de Odingfeles, lord of Shipden, was patron of it ;
it was a re&ory, then valued at twelve marks, and
the reclor had a manfe with twelve acres of land,
and paid Peter-pence 6d.

DC? Su

4a HUNDRED OF

Sir Henry Pinknev, knt. by deed without date,
granted the moiety of this church to his kinfman,
fir William de Odingfeles.

In the nth of Edward II. 1309, on a writ, the
jury prefent that it would not be to the king's da-
mage, if John de Odingfeles granted to John Brown,
of Tuttington, &c. the advowfon of St. Peter's
church of Shipdcn.

In the loth of Edward 111. 1336, John de Lod-
brok was reclor of this church ; John Brotm, patron ;
and the parifhioncrs having fupphcated the king,
that, whereas part of the church-yard was by the
flux and reflux of the fea, fb wafted, that it threat-
ened ruin to the church, and could not be defended ;
the king grants licence that an acre of land in the
laid village be granted to the faid John, reclor, to
build thereon a new church, and ior a church-yard ;
dated April 15.

In the sgth of Edward III. 1355, licence
granted to appropriate this church to the priory oi
Hickling, who afterwards prefented: but in 1381,
the patronage was in the priory of the Carthuliaiio
(or Charter-Houfe) by London.

On Auguft 18, 1381, in the 5th of Richard II.
that priory had a patent to appropriate it, when *
vicarage was fettled.

In 1603 there were 250 communicants.

The old church of Shipden feems to have betfn
cleflroyed by the fea, in or about the reign of Henry
IV. In the 14th of Richard II. a patent was granted
for five years, for certain duties to be paid for the
cre&ion of a certain pier for a defence againft the

lea

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 41

fea; and in the i6th of chat king, fir William Beau-
champ, &c. aliened to the prior of the Carthufians,
a piece of land in Shipden, adjoining to the rectory,
with lands and tenements to the value of ten marks
per ann. fo that about this time the prefent church,
called Cromer church, dedicated to St. Peter and
St. Paul, was probably creeled, and is a vicarage,
valued at gk 45. gd.

It flands a very few yards from the fea cliff, and
is an handfome regular pile, confiding of a large
body and two ailes, covered with lead, and a beau-
tiful, lofty, fquare tower, embattlad, at the weft end
of the nave, built of flints and free-itone : to this
body was joined a large chapel, now in ruins, in
1608, licence was granted to Mr. Gill, leflee of the
bifhop of Ely, to take down the chancel and veftry.

In the middle aile were many grave-flones, with
their braffes — Orate p. ai'al; Willi. 4rnol<^, et Johc.
uxor. ej.

One, In memooy of Catherine, Arnold. — 0 rale p. a fa.

Johs. Momjey. *

One, In memory of Sir George Witidham, who dUd
JVoi;, 27, 1663.

Agnes Moidton, widow t wa* buried in the church by
her KufbaJuL in 1528.

In 1484, Richard Brandon, of Cromer, was bu-
ried in the chapel of St. Nicholas in . this church;
and in 1486, Catherine Reed, of Shipden, widow
of Roger Reed. The chapel of our Lady was nllb
in the church*

D In

4e H U N D R E D O F

In the windows were 'the arms of Erpingham, of
fir Robert Knowlcs, and of Ufford earl of Suffolk;
alfo Clere, Heydon, and Bcrney, Beckwell, Bacon,
and Stanhors.

Sir Panholomew Reed, citizen and goldfmith, lord
mnvor of London in i r,u(2. was born here, ion of
Roger Reed and Catherine his wife above-mentioned:
he. by his will, founded a frce-fchool heic, with a
flipend of lol. per ana. for the matter, paid by the
goldfmiihs company.

The Rev. Richard Sibbs was prefented to the
rectory or curacy of Ciomer, alias Shipden by die
bifliop of Ely, in 1768.

We have been favoured with the following account
of Cromer, by a gentleman of tafle and erudition in
this hundred, who has alfo given us a view of the
town for this work.

" There was formerly a town called Shipden, be-
twixt this town and the ocean, but the fea has en-
tirely (-wallowed up that town, and makes hafly
llrides towards devouring Cromer alfo, which now
Jlands (b near the edge of the cliff, that in the me-
mory of many people now living there, upwards of
twenty houles have at different times been precipi-
tated into the fea.

At very low tides there is an appearance of fome-
thing, which the fifhermen call Shipden fteeple. It
is hardly probable, but that a large tower, whofc
foundations were an hundred feet perpendicular from
the furface of the lea, after being tumbled into it,
with the immenfe body of earth that fupported it,
and after being walked for many centuries by the

waves,

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 43

waves, muft have been fo fh altered and daflied to
pieces, that no remains can be vifible.

There is now no harbour at Cromer, yet a trade
is carried on from this place, from whence corn is
exported, and coals, deals, &c. are imported. As
the method of trading from this place is curious,
we fhall mention it.

The veffels ufed are from 60 to 100 tons burthen,
few larger: at high water they are laid upon the
beach, and, as foon as the water is fufficiently eb-
bed, carts are drawn to the fide of the fliip, and the
coals are (hot into them, as tliey are into lighters in
other places. The carts carry only half a chaldron
at a time, as the road up the cliff is very lleep. In
this manner the carts continue working, till the wa-
ter flows fo high as to waQi the horfes bellies, and
float the carts : they can unload fometimes 60 chal-
drons in a tide. When the verTel is empty, it floats
on a high tide, and continues at a little diftance from
the fhore, and is loaded with corn by boats, as they
fcldom run the hazard of loading them when laid on
the beach, leaft contrary winds fliould prevetu their
getting off with the cargo.

Their is a great fifhery of lobflers and crabs car-
ried on from this town.

The church has been a magnificent ftruclure, of
flint and free-ftone: its fteeple, which is 159 feet
high, is fquare, and richly ornamented "with free-
{tone fculpture: the chancel is now in ruins.

About a mile to the eaft of the town is the light"
houfe, in which at prefent coals are burnt,

P There

44 HUNDRED OF

There is a fair on \Y'hiifim- Monday, which draws
together ail the neighbourhood within ten miles-
To a mind that can receive pleafure from feeing
others pleafed, without defpifing the reafons of their
being fo, this is a molt iiriking fcene ; feveral hun-
dreds of both fexes. and all ages, in their holiday
cloaths, are feen from the cliff in boats, which beau-
tifully enliven the fea, whilft fwarms of people who
cannot get boats enough to gratify their defire of
floating, impatiently wait on the beach, which is co-
vered with them.

About half a mile to the fouth of the town is the
feat of George Windham, efq. The houfe is re-
markable for its fituation, being placed in an am-
phitheatre of woods, which not only fhut out all
i:ght of the neighbouring ocean, but {eem even to
exclude the very idea of its vicinity to that boifle-
rous element, whofe continual murmurings are fo
mixed with the ruflling of the trees, as (carcely to be
diflinguifhed, except when lome powerful north -weft
wind affcrts its right of being heard. After a plcaiant
walk through the grove to the fummit of the hill, a
moft delightful view of the lea and town of C,rori\er
prelents itfelf."

FELBRIGG, FELBRIDGE, or FELBURGH;
wrote Felebrige in Doomfday book. Roger Bigot,
anceflor to the earls of Norfolk, had a grant of this
lordfhip on the expulfion of two free-men of Guert,
brother of Harold, the king, and flain with him at
the battle of Mailings, Oct. 4, 1066: it was half a
leuca long, four furlongs and three perches broad ;
and Metton was five furlongs long and four furlongs
and fix perches broad; they were valued at the fur-
vey at 4 1.

Ailward

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 45

Ailward dc Felbrigg feems to have held it under
Bigot at the furvey, and was lord of a fmall fee in
Winterton, which is then faid to be valued in this
manor.

The ancient family of de Felbrigg afTumed their
name from this town, of which they were thus en-
feoffed by the Bigots on the conqueft.

Roger de Felbrigg married a daughter and co-heir
of Gilbert de Norfolk, lord of Becflon-Regis, by
whom he had Richard de Felbrigg, his fon and heir,
lord of F'eibrigg.

We will not take upon us to follow this ancient
family through every branch, but confine ourfelves
to a biographical account of the mod eminent.

Richard de Felbrigg had an only daughter and
heir, Maud, who married fir Simon le Bigot, third
fon of Hugh Bigot, carl of Norfolk, by Maud his
wife, daughter of William Marefchal, earl of Pem-
broke. Sir Simon died before the 30th of Hen. 111.
1252.

His fon, fir Roger le Bigot, had a grant of free-
warren in the gth of Edward I. 1281, and by Ce-
cilia had fir Simon Felbrigg, who was lord in the
gth of Edward 11. and 22d of Edward III. 1348.*

He married Alice, daughter of fir Geo. de Thorpe,
and his fon and heir was fit Roger de Felbrigg,
alias Bigpt, lord in the 231!! of Edward III. 1351,

and

* He had a brother, John de Felbrigg, efq. of Tuttington,
in Suffolk, from whom dcfcended a younger branch of thi$
name.

45 HUNDREDOF

and had a market and fair here: in the 28th of dirt
king, he is faid to have been a prifoner in the wais
of France; was living in the 4 id of the aforefaid
king, and fealed with a lion falient, died at Paris in
France, and was there buried,

By Elizabeth, daughter of lord Scales, he had fir
Simon Felbrigg, who was flandard- bearer to Richard
II. and held a patent in the iSth of that king for
jool. per ann. the ufual fee or allowance.

In the ssd of that king, he was one of the
kni°hts of the kind's chamber, and had a grant of

O *-J

ihe manor of Beeflon-Regis in this hundred, late
Richard Arundel's, who was attainted.

In the Sth of Henry V. 1420, he and fir Willi-
am Beauchamp, fir John Beaufoe, knights, Robert
Lovell, 8cc. were appointed commimoners to mufler
500 men at arms, 1000 archers, commanded by
Hugh Courtney earl of Devonshire, and the lord
Botreaux, for the guard of the narrow feas ; being
made knight of the garter in the i oth of that king,
in 1422, at St. George's feaft at Wind for, with
Humphrey duke of Glouccfter, Richard Beauchamp
earl of Warwick, Robert lord Willoughby, Henry
lord Fiu-Hugh, Lewis dc Robefart lord Bouchier,
lir John Cornwall, fir Thomas Erpingham, fir Wal-
ter Hungerford, and fir John de Robefart, his lenior
knights, and William de Hertaulolux, his junior,
reciting that Henry V. in his life had inftituted Gar-
ter to be principal of the office of arms, but that
no maintenance was fettled on him ; they, during the
nonage of Henry VI. fettle feveral annual penlions
on him, payable by every knight of die garter.

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 4?

He married firfl;, Margaret, daughter and heir fas
our hiftorians fay) to the duke of'Silefia, and Theifc
in Germany (nephew to the king of Bohemia) ooufm
to Anne, queen con fort of Richard II king of Eng-
land (daughter of Charles I. and filter to Wen-
ceflaus, emperors of Germany) who came into Eng-
land ».vith that queen on her marriage, in 13^1, and
wis one of her maids of honour : he had one daudi-

V- ( ~i i <J

tcr by this lady, and married a fecond wife on her
deceafe. By his will, dated September, 1432, he
left to truflees his manors of Felbrigg, Runton, Ban-
ningham, Colby, Tottington-hall, and Ingworth, in
Norfolk ; the manors of Felbrigg and Aylmerton to
be fold after his fecond wife Catherine's deceafe, to
pay his debts and legacies ; to AJana, his daughter,
wife of fir Thomas de Wanton, the manors of Brif-
vvorth in Suffolk, and of Sharpenhovv, and Stratle-y
in Bedfordfhire they giving fufficient fecurity not to
difturb his truflees in the executing the refid'ue of his
will; and the heirs of her body failing, he gives them
to fir John helbngg. Sec.

Alana, daughter and heir of fir fimon Felbrigg, by
his firfl lady, was in the year 1431 the wife of fir
Thomas VVanton, whom we take to be her fecond
hufband, and fir William Tyndal, of Dean in Nor-
thamptonfhire, to be her firfl, by whom fhe had iffue;
and her grandlon, fir William Tyndal, of Hock-
wold in Norfolk, was made knight of the Bath, at
the creation of Arthur, prince of Wales, fon of-
Henry VI i. and declared heir (in right of his grand-
mother Margaret) to the kingdom of Bohemia.

The manor of Felbrigg being left by fir Simon
Felbrigg to be fold after the death of his wife, Ca-
therine, Thomas, lord Scales, one of his truftees,
bought the reverfion of it of his executors, and af-
ter

45 HUNDREDOF

tcr fold it to John Wymondhain, or Windhara, efq.
%vhich John had alfo a leafe of it from the lady Ca-
therine ; he and his wife, the lady Margery, reli& of
fir Edward Haflings, of Elfing in Norfolk, daugh-
ter of fir Robert Clifton, of Buckenham Cattle in
the (aid county, lived here when fir John Felbrigg,
of Tuttington in Suffolk, made a forccablc entry, in
the abfence of her hufband, threatened to fire the
houfe, (lie having locked herfelf up in a room to
keep poIFcffion, and at lafl dragged her out by the
hair of her head, and took poffefFion ; but John Wy-
jnondham, having the king's order to Thomas Mont-
gomery, efq. fheriff of the county, to be put in pof-
feffion, he came to an agreement, and Wymondham
paying to fir John 200 murks, he releafed all his
right and claim to this lordfhip ; and in the 3gth of
Henry VI. 1461, fir John and his wife conveyed it to
John Wymondham by fine.

John Windham, efq. was his fon and heir, re-
tained by and in the fervice of fir John Howard
(afterwards duke of Norfolk) in the beginning of
the reign of Edward IV. and in the yth of that king,
1467, married Margaret, fourth daughter of fir John
<!e Felbrigg; in the treaty of , his marriage, it was
agreed, " that fir John ihould provide and find all
manner of array for John Windham, jun. efq. and
Margaret his daughter, at and for the faid marriage,
and all manner of meat and drink, for all manner of
perfons, and all other things neceffary, behofful and
convenient, at the proper coft and charge of the faid
fir John, for the fpace of two years following the faid
marriage continually, with meat and drink for the
faid John and Margaret, convenient for them, their
fen-ants and their horfes." Her jointure was to be
in the manors of Crownthorpe, Banningham, Colby,
and Ingwoith. In 1489, he was with Henry VII. at

the

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 49

ihe battle of Stoke, and there knighted ; but on the
6ih of May in 1503, he, with fir James Tyrrei,
were beheaded as traitors to the king (on Tower Hill)
on a confphacy in favour of Edmund de-la-Pole,
earl of Suffolk, and was buried in the church of the
.Auflin Friars, of London, where fevcral who had
fullered on the part of the Houfe of York were in-
terred.

Sir Thomas Windham, his fon and heir, and the
lady Margaret, was reftored in blood, and knighted
by fir Edward Howard, admiral of the Englifh fleet
at Crowton-Bay, near Brett. In the 4th year of
Henry VIII. 1513, he was vice-admiral, knight of
the king's body-guard, and one of his privy-council.
He married to his firft wile, Alianore, daughter anil
heir of Richard Scroop, lord of Upfall in Yorkfhire,
or as fome lay, of fir Henry Scroop ; his fecond wife
xvas Elizabeth, daughter of fir Heniy Wentworth, of
Nettleftead in Suffolk. It appears by his will, dated
at Felbrigg, Oclober 22, 1521, that ne had the lord-
ihip of Botley, Hameflhwayt, and Wighton in
Yorkfhire, Crownthorpe, Wicklewood, Hackford.
Aylmerton, , Runton, Baningham, Ingworth, Tut-
.tington, Colby, Briflon, Woolterton, Metton, Mei-
.lon-Cockfield's, and Felbrigg. He was buried at, the
cathedral at Norwich, with this infcjiption — Orate p.
a tab; Thome Windham, militis, Elianorc, ei Domini
Eliiabdhe u.\orum ejus, qui quidcm T/wmasftiit unm cun-
ciliariontm, IJfii Regis, Hem id Oclavi, et units militum
pro corpore cjujdsm D'ni regis nee non vice-admirallus
— — — — His own effigies and thole of his
two wives were on it, with the aims of Windham, 8cc.

John Windham, efq. fecond fon of fir John, and
brother of fir Thomas, married Elizabeth, daughter
and co-heir of fir John Sydenham, of Orchard in

Devonfhirc,

3 IK HUNDRED OF

•Devonfhire, where he and his defcendants lived, and
from whom the prefcnt earl of Egremont defcends.

Sir Edmund Windham. el deft fon of fir Thomas,
by Alianore his wife, fucceeded in his eflate, married
Sufaii, daughter of fir Roger Townfhentt, of Rain-
ham, by whom he had three fons, Roger. Francis,
and Thomas, and a daughter, Amy, married to
Henry Hcvcningham, efq. he died at Felbrigg, July
23, i.1} 79, in the nth of Elizabeth, and was there
buried,-

Sir Roger, fon of fir Edmund, married Mary,
daughter of fir Chriflopher Heydon, of Baconfthorpe,
in Norfolk, and died without iffue.

Francis Windham, efq. his brother, w«s judge of
the common pleas, and married Elizabeth, daughter
of fir Nicholas Bacon, keeper of the great feal, and
died without iffue, leaving his eflate entailed on his
brother, fir Roger, Thomas Windham, and Jane his
filler (wife of Humphry Conifby, efq.) who all died
wnhout iffue. The judge was buried in the church
of St. Peter's of Mancroft, in Norwich, where,
againft the north wall of Jefus chapel, is a monu-
ment much defaced, in memory of him, and the ef-
figies of a judge- down to his xvafte, in his robes, with
the arms of Windham, and his creft, a lion's head,
erafed, within the bow of a fetter-lock ; alfb Wind-
ham quartering Scroop and Tiptoft, and impaling
Townfhend with his quarterings, Haywell, Brewfe,
Ufford, Carbonell, and Shardelowe. It docs not ap-
pear to have had any infcription, but he was here in-
terred July 18, 1592.

Sir Roger and the reft of his family dying wifhout
riffue, as is oblerved, this manor, &c. came by entail

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 5l

to Thomas Windham, efq. third fon of fir Johii
\V7indham, of Orchard, by Joan his wife, daughter
of fir Henry Portman, of Orchard Ponman in So-
merfetfhire. great grandfon of fir John, who was
brother to fir Thomas Windham before-mentioned.

This Thomas married firft, Elizabeth, daughter of
fir Rowland Lytton, km. of Knebworth in Here-
fordfhire, by whom he had John, his fon and heir;
and by Elizabeth, his fecond wife, daughter of fir
John Mead, of Lofts in Effex, he had William
Windham : Thomas, the father, lived to the age
of 82, and died on May i, 1653,

John Windharn, efq. his Ton and heir, had four

wives ; firft, Jane, daughter of Godfrey, efq. of

Hindringham ; fecond, adaughter of fir Roger Townf-
hend, baronet ; third, Dorothy, daughter or filter of
fir Thomas Ogle, of Bardwell, in Suffolk ; fourth.,
Frances, daughter of Arthur, earl of Angle fea, and
afterwards married to John Thompfon, lord Haveri-
ham, but died without any furviving iiTue.

William Windham, efq. his brother in law, inhe-
rited this lordfhip on his. death, and took to, wife.
Catherine, daughter of fir Jofeph Afh, ^knight and
baronet, of Twickenham in Middlefex, by whom
he had feveral fons ; Afh Windham, efq. the eldeft,
William, Thomas, Sec. William Windham, efq.
died in 1689; Afh Windham, efq.; was .lord and
patron in i 740 ; William Windham, efq. was his
ion and heir, and died lord, October 30, 1761 ;
whofe fon and heir, William Windham, efq. was
colonel of the Norfolk militia, and author of a trea-
life for the ufe of that corps. His indefatigable ap-
plication to ftudy accelerated his death, leaving his
fou a minor, lord of Aylmcrion, Suftead, Metton,

Parnovr

32 HUNDRED OF

Parnow-hall, Barningliam, Tiittington, with Crack-
lord, Ingworth, Runton Hays, Eaft Beckham,
Ifaac's, and Eaft Beckham Marriot's; Toft Oveihall
and Nether-hall, Thurlton, Barnard's, Ciownihorpe,
\Vicklewood, and Felbrigg, in Norfolk.

The Windhams are a family of great antiquity,
and took their name from VVindham, or Wymond-
ham, a confiderable market town in Norfolk. Al-
ward de Wymondham was a witnefs to the founda-
tion charter of William de Albini, (Pincerna Regis)
founder of Wymondham priory in the reign of
Henry I. as were Richard, foil of Alward, and
Edric de Wymondham. Thomas de Wymondham
was treafurer, and one of the king's council, pra>
centor of Litchfield, and baron of the Exchequer,
and died in 1277. William de Wymondham, clerk,
was overfeer of the filver mines in Devonfhire, in

John de Wymondham, and Beatrix his wife, held
lands in Kirby-Bedon, &c. in Norfolk, in the 2 8th
of Edward III. 13 54. William, fon of Ralph de
Windham, purchafed, by fine, rents in Norwich,
in the i ath of Edward I. 1284, and in the 311!,
lands at Redenhall in Norfolk, by fine.

In the 24th of Henry III. 1240, John Rede held
here the 8th part of a fee of Hugh lord Bardolph,
and he of the bifhop of Norwich.

In the 2oth of Edward III. 1346, it was held by
the Felbriggs, and Edmund Windham, cfq. in the
24th of Henry VIII. 1533, paid every thirty weeks
lod. ob. caflle-guard to Norwich.

Oil

NORTH E R P I N G H A M. 53

On the pavement .of the church, near to the pul-
pit, lies a large maible grave-ftone, whereon, as
under an arch of canopy work in brafs, is the por-
traiture of fir Simon Felbrigg, knight of the garter,
in complcat armour, treading on a lion couchant,
with his hands creel:, and joined in a praying man-
ner ; between his right arm ftands erc&, on a flaff,
the ftandard of Ric. II. thereon the arms of Edward
the ConfetTor — a crofs floury, between 5 manlets, im-
paling Fiance and England, quarterly. King Ri»
chard is faid to have accounted and efteemed the
ConfefTor as his tutelary faint. On the upper part
of each arm, near the fhoulder, is the fhield of St.
George — argent, a crofs, gules. On his right iide
hangs a dagger, on his left a large broad f\vord, from,
a belt emboffed and gilt, as his fpurs are ; and on
his left leg the garter, all in brafs. In a like arch,
with canopy work curioufly wrought, by his left fide,
is his lady, in a clofe vefi. and a cloak over it, hands
erect, &c. About her head a fort of coronet, and
on each fide of it a large luflre of jewels, in the
form of a rofe, about her temples. On the fummit,
between the middle of the pillar of the canopy work,
are two fliiclds, one with the arms of St. Edward,
impaling, quarterly, France and England; the other
St. Edward, with the faid quartering, being the arms
of Richard II. impaling, quarterly, in the ift and
4th, argent a (pread eagle, with two heads, fable,
crowned, or; in the ad and ^d, a lion rampant,
being the arms of his queen, Anne. On the middle
pillar of the canopy wrork are the arms of this
knight, a lion faliant, impaling a Ipread eagle, the
arms of his lady, and below that, on each fide of
the pillar, is a feiteriock, his badge ; which was alfo
ufed by the Houfe of York, and by Edward IV.
His fupporters are not here, but are faid to have been
two lions, and his creil a plume of peacock's fea-
E thers,

^ HUNDRED OF

'hers, ar.d fomedme a garb, argent, banded ermine,
in a coronet, or ; the family alfo ufcd the crcft of a
lion's head erafed, in the bow of a fetterlock, as ap-
pears from a deed of fir Simon in the time of Henry
VI. and one of fi-r George Feibrigg.

The infcription at the bottom, — Hie jacent Simon
Felbrigg miles quonda vexillan illuflriffimi Lfni. Dm\

Regis Ricardi Scdi qui obiit die matfis Anno

D*ni. M.CCCC. et Dna Margareta quonda con-
furs fua nations et gencrofo f anguine Boama, ac olim do-
micella nobili/Jimc D'ne. D'ne Anne quda Anglic regi?itr
qut obiit xxvii die menfis Junij Ao. Uni M.CCCC. xvi.
cu&r aiab; p'pitietur Deus. Amen.

. It is to be here obferved, that no date either of
the day or year of fir Simon's death is here fixed ;
no doubt, when he laid this ftone in memory of this
lady, his defign was to be buried by her; but it is
certain his mind was afterwards changed, and he
was buried in the choir of the Preaching Friars at
Norwich.

In this church are feveral grave-flones for this fa-
mily, as alfo for the Windhams.

On the fouth fide of the chancel a monument —
In memory of Richard Chamberline, Efq. defended from
the Chamberlines of AJllcy-CaJlle in Warwick/hire.

On a grave-flone in the church-yard — Here lytth
the body of honeft Robert Til/lone, park-keeper to William
Wmdham, Efq, who fet up this in memory of a good
and faithful fervant. He fell from his horfe, and died
on, the place, the ±th day of December, 1675.

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 55

' In the church windows were thefe arms: Fel-
brigg impaling Afpale. De Ja Pole and Wingfidd
quarterly. Felbrigg impaling Thorpe. Felbrigg
impaling Scales. Felbrigg impaling the arms of the
lady Margaret, daughter of the duke of Silefia, wife
of fir Simon Felbrigg, knt. of the garter.

The church is a re£loiy. In the reign of Edward
I. the reclor had 50 acres of land and a tnanfe.
The prefent value is 61. i8s. 3d. and is difcharged.

In 1763, the Rev. George William Lukin (who
has built a neat and convenient houfe in this parifh,
which commands an cxtenfive profpecTt to the fouth)
was prefented to the reclory of Felbrigg, with Met-
ton, by William Windham, efq. of Felbrigg, then
a minor.

Jn the 2d of Edward I. 1274, Nicholas Panton,
of Felbrigg, granted to Friar Hamond de Montania,
mafler of the hofpital of St. Anthony, of Vienna in.
Prance, 40 acres of land, and los. rent in Felbrigg,
'by fine: of this hofpital was a cell in J3road-itreet,
London'".

Several towns take their name from Fel, a river, as
this, and the bridge over it; thus, Felrningharn,
Felton, Felftead, &c. In the north of England, Fel
is a term given to a large tracl of heath or mcorifh
ground.

FELSKIGG, the feat of William Windham, cfq.
is by nature one of the naoft beautiful fituauons in
Norfolk, as in this park, which is very extcnfiv^,
there is more uneven ground than in any other in
this county ; nor has art been lefs bountiful : the
T E 2 woods

* Stow's Survey of London,

56 HUNDREDOF

woods are large and ancient. In the center of the
great wood is an irregular oval of about four acres,
lurrbiiridcd with a broad belt of lofty filver firs : on
entering this oval, the eye is \vcnderfully pleafed,
without at firft perceiving why it is fo ; we fuppofe
it mufl be from the contraft which this famenefs of
green makes to the varied tints of the other foreft
trees, every where mixed in the reft of the grove,
and which thefe lofty ever-greens entirely exclude.

From another part of this wood an extenfive prof-
peel: demands attention through a break in the grove,
from whence the uneven ground of the park is feen
to the greateil advantage ; Norwich fpire, at full 20
miles diftance, terminates the view.

From the upper part of the wood the fea prefents
itfelf, but not in fo {Inking a manner as it will from
the new plantation, which will in a few years con-
ceal that pleafing obje6l from the eye, and then at
once difplay it in all its awful majefty.

The houfe, which has been confiderably enlarged
by the Windham family, is elegant and convenient,
and the old ftileof architecture oblervable in the fouth
front, has been happily kept up in the hall, and in
the library, which is well fumifhed with the moll va-
luable authors, and contains a capital collection of
prints from the beft mailers.

A large tracl of uncultivated bruery land, the pro-
perty of William Windham, efq. in this parifli, has
been lately enclofed and cultivated, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Kent, the author of " Hints to Gentle-
men of landed property."

— .

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 57

We are happy to have it in our power to accom-
pany this defcription with an elegant copper-plate
view of P'elbrigg hall.

GIMMINGHAM or GYMINGHAM, called Gun-
ningeham in Doomfday book ; the earl Warren was
then lord of it, Ratho, a free man, "being deprived of
it : there was alfo a church endowed with iwenty-
eight acres. Knapton and Syderftrand were added
to it, under which towns fee the value.

In the 14th of Edward I. 1286, John, earl War-
ren and Surry, was IcrJ, and claimed free-warren,
affife of bread and beer, view of frank-pledge, a
gallows, with wreck of fea here, and in the towns
belonging to the foe of this capital lordftrip, which
extended into the following towns ; Mundeiiey, Knap-
t,on, South-Repps, North-Repps, Syderftrand, Trunch,
and Trimmirigham, all which ufed to pay fuit and
feivice to the IherifTs turn, for the kind's hundred

of North Erpingham, whLh the earl had withdrawn,
to the king's injury, valued at i6s. per'ann.

John, earl Warren and Surry, in the I 2th of Ed-
ward II. 1319, granted it to Thomas, earl of Lan-
cafter, and his heirs, with many other lordfhips, re-
ferving his own right therein for life ; and on his
death, in the 2 i ft of Edward III. 1547, it came to
Henry, duke of Lancafter. At this time there was
a capital meffuage, a park, land, &c. held in free
foccage, by the fervice of a bell. Henry, duke of
Lancafter dying without iffue male, his eftate and
great inheritance came to his two daughters and co-
heirs ; Maud, the eldeft, married William, duke of
Zealand, Sec. and had this lordfhip afligned to her
in part of that inheritance ; fhe dying foon after her
maniage, the whole came to John of Gaunt, duke
of Lancafter, in right of the lady Blanch, the other
E 3 filter

5S H U N D R E D O F

fifler, by marriage; and from the faid John to his
fon, Henry IV. king of England, and continues at
this time in the crown, having its proper officers, a
chancellor, &c. belonging to it, as part of the dutchy
of Lan caller.

In the sd of Henry V. 1414, fir Thomas Erping-
ham had a grant, January 24, of 20!. per aim. out
of this lordftiip.

This lordfhip was in the crown in the time of
Charles I. and was afterwards fold to the city of
London, and pays a fee-farm rent of 132!. i6d. q.
per annum.

To the manor-houfe belonged formerly a very
large hall, fupported by feveral pillars, and the
cuitom and rule was that no tenant, foe-man, &c.
fhould go beyond that pillar which was appointed for
their ftation and degree.

The church is dedicated to All Saints, and is a
reclory ; the patronage of it was granted by William,
the fir ft carl Warren, to the priory of Lewes in Suf-
iex, on his foundation of it, and confirmed by his
ion, 8cc. he gave alfo 405, of foccage rent to the
laid priory, in the foke of Gimmingham ; and the
monks of Lewes had a penfion of five marks per aim.
out of the reclory, confirmed to them by John cle
Oxford, bifhop of Norwich.

The old value was fifteen marks; and the reclor
Lad, in the reign of Edward I. a manle, with twenty-
four acres of land. In the year 1281, there was a
controverfy between the reclor of this town and that
of Trimmingham, about the tithe of fifh. in the hithe
of Trimmingham parifli j the tithe of the venifon

NORTH ERPINGHAM. .59

in Gimmingham park; the tithes of milk, che.efe,
butter, lambs, wool, pigs, calves, chickens, 8:c the
tithe of a place called Aleyns, the e>d fheaf of Rock-
land, and lands by Crenel fen, which was fubmuted
to the bifhop. The preterit value is ill. iis. gd.
and pays firfl fruits, See.

The p.iory of Lewes prefented to this church from
119010 1531.

In the 2gth of Henry VIII. 1538, the prior and
convent conveyed this advowfon to the king ; and in
the faid year, December 22, he granted it to Thomas
Howard, duke of Norfolk. In 1603, the redor cer-
tified thirty-five communicants to be in this town.

In 1605, the patronage was in the mafter and
fellows of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, who in 1748
prefented the Rev. Henry Stebbing, jun. to this rec-
tory', with Trunch, confolidated Auguft 1751.

On a grave-flone in the chancel — Hie jacd Elizab.
Bcrney, quondajilia Radulfi Berucy, armig. de Gunton.'

In the crofs aile a grave-flone — In memory of An-
thony Drath, ejq, who died May 8, 1612, and Eliza-
beth his wife, who died December 20, 1589.

A marble grave-ftone In memory of Richard

Browning and Margaret his wife, 1635.

Here was a chauntry granted with all the lands
and tenements belonging to it in this town, Trunch
and Pafton, to Thomas Woodhoufe, efq. of Wax-
ham, in the 2d year of Edward VI. 1548.

E 4 GRESHAM,

6o HUNDRED OF

GRESHAM, wrote GERSAM in Doomfday book.
\Villiam, carl \Varrcn, was lord at the furvey, Ul-
Jlon, who held it in king Edward's reign being dc-
piived ; it extended into Salhoufe and Aldborough,
and was valued at 4!. per ann. contained nine fur-
Jongs in length, and fix in breadth, and belonged to
Frederick's fee before the earl had the grant.

The ancient family of Braunch were poflefled of
this lordihip in the reign cf Henry II. Richard
Braunch, by deed without date, granted to the
priory of Caflle-acre the adminiflration and difpofal
of the tithes which they held (by the gift of his an-
ceflors) of the demeans of this lordfhip, after the de-
ceafe of Simon his fon, reclor of this church, to
\vhom Robert, the prior, and the convent had lee
them to farm for life.

In the 1 8th of Henry III. 1234, Peter Braunch
held it, with the manor of Aylmerton, by two fees,
of the earl Warren, with the advowfon of thofc
churches, and in the sjth of that king had a char-
ter for a market, fair, and free-warren in this town.

In the 3d of Edward I. 1275, Robert de Stutevile
had as lord the affize of bread and beer, &:c.

In the i ft year of Edward II. 1308, Edmund Ba-
con had grant from the king of this lordfhip, and all
the lands here, late Robert de Stutevile's, efcheated
to his father, and in the 12th of that king had a pa-
tent to embattle this manor-houfe. This Edmund
was a knight, fon of (ir Adam Bacon, of Oldton ;
had two daughters and co-heirs ; Maud, married to
John de Burgherfh, and Margery, to fir William de
Molins, who had each a moiety of this manor ; *on
a divifion of it about the g-di of Edward III. 1361.

Sir

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 61

Sir John de la Vafchc held the moiety of fir William
de Molins in the 3d of Henry IV. 1402.

Sir John de Burgh erfh was lord of the other
moiety in right of his wife Maud, and dying in the
19th of Richard II. 1396, his daughter and co-heir,
Maud, brought it by marriage to Thomas Chaucer,
efq. fon of the famous poet Sir Geoffrey, who in the
7th of Henry VI. 1427, granted it by fine to Wil-
liam Pafton, efq. of Pafton (afterwards fir William,
the judge) into which family the other moiety alib
came; and in the year 1740, William Pafton, earl
of Yarmouth, was lord.

About 1608, fir William Pafton's manor here was,
valued at 120!. 2$. one pound of pepper, and twelve
comb of oats per ann. and was fold with the Paftons
c'tate to lord Anfon ; and George Anfon, efq. of
Shugborough, in Staffordfliire, is the prcfent lord
and patron.

All that now remains vifible of the caftle at Gref-
ham, is the mote and a very perfed foundation about
nine feet from the ground, by which it appears to
have been a large fquare building, each front one
hundred and fifty feet long, with around tower at each,
corner of thirty-fix feet diameter. Though this is
commonly called the manfion of fir Thomas Grcf-
ham, it does not appear from any records that he or
his family ever refided in this caftle, which was cer-
tainly the manor-houfe and the fame which fir Ed-
mund Bacon obtained a patent to embattle in the
reign of Edward II.

The church ftands pleafantly by the fide of an ex-
tenfive tracl of field land, and commands a very
diftant profpecl; over a woody country.

The

62 HUNDREDOF

The town feems to take its name from fome ri-
vulet or dream here, anciently known by the name
of Ger or Gar; thus, Garford in Bucks; Gar Ron
and Garret in I.ancafhire' ; Garboldifham, Garveflon,
and Gernenmtha in Norfolk. *

Roger Bigot, ancefior of the earls of Norfolk,
had alfo a lordfiiip here, which Alward pofleifed in
Edward the Conidior's reign.

In the 3d of Edward I. 1275, Roger Bigot held it
in capite, and had view of frank-pledge, affife, &:c.
but in the I4thof the faid king declined his claim,
and it feems to have been held after by the lords of
other manors.

The priories of Walfingham, Waborne, and Beef-
ton, had temporalities here.

The church is a reclory dedicated to All Saints.
The old value was feven marks : the prefent is 61.
iSs. Sd. and is difcharged.

The prefcntatien to this church was granted to the
prior and convent of the canons of the Holy Sepul-
chre in Thetford, by John, earl Warren, in 1281;
and in 1331, they had the king's licenfe to appro-
priate it, but they could not obtain the confent of
the bifhop of Norwich.

In 1339, they had the bull of pope Boniface to
Appropriate and take potfeflion of it on the firft va-
cancy, and retain all the profits of it, on condition,
they ferved it by one of their own canons, or any
iccular curate, removeablc at pleafure, and their
paying all epifcopal dues whatever, but the bifhop

would
* Parkin.

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 63

would not agree to this, but obliged them to endow, a

vicarage.

Alexander, bifliop of Norwich, afilgned to the
vicar a manfe, all the altarage, pithe of hemp, wool,
hay, reed and fifheries, with a certain tithe called
portes ; the altarage valued at five marks ; eighteen
acres of ,land valued at 6s. per ann. with an annual
penfion of feven marks to be paid by the prior and
convent. How long it continued a vicarage does
not appear ; before the reign of Henry VIII. it
feems to have returned to its old ftate, and was a
reclory in the patronage of the Paflons, lords of the
manor.

In 1603, the refior returned feventy communi-

cants.

In 17.58, lord Anfon prefented; and in 1772, the
Rev. John Ravenhill was prefented to this re&ory by
George Anfon, efq. M. P. for the city of Litchfield.

In the chancel on a black marble in the wall — •
S. Rcbli. Smyth, ecclejia reflor, honor ab. Pa/loner um fa-
milies a Jacris, cui nuius per Eliz. Citddon, arm. Sujf,
Willielmus, S. T. P. preb. Norw. qui hoc pofuit. Obiit.
9 Nov. 1638, tetat. 74. — Orate p. dia Jacobi Calt

In the north window were the arms of Paflon and
Faftolf; Paflon and Berry; Paflon and Mautby ;
alfo of the lord Mattrevers and Daubcny, with his
creft, a plume of feathers.

GUNTON, wrote in Doomfday Gunetune. This
town was bought by Agelrnar, or Almar, bifliop of
Flmharo, in the reign of the Confeffor, and granted

64 HUNDREDOF

to William Beaufoe, bifhop of Thetford, bv the
Conqueror, and held in his own right as a lay-fee.

In the 2sd of Henry I. 1 122, Matthew de Gun-
ton was lord of it: fir Roger de Gunton and Tho-
mas de Gunton, his fons, fucceeded hira, and each
held a moiety or manor, called Ovcrhall and Ne-
therhall, held of the bifhop.

In 1323, fir Roger de Gunton, fon of fir Roger,
as lord of a moiety, prefented to this church.

Sir Walter de Gunton left a daughter and heir,
Milecemia, who brought it by marriage to fir Wal-
ter de W^alcote, whofe fon, fir Walter, left four
daughters and co-heirs ; Margaret, the eldeft, mar-
ried fir Robert Berney, of \Vitchingham, who pur-
chafed by fine the parts or fliares of the other filters.

Robert Berney, efq. was lord in the 2yth of Hen-
ry VIII. 1,536, and had by Sufan his wife, daugh-
ter of fir Henry Fermor, knt. of Eafl Bafham, fe-
veial fons and daughters: he was lord of Gunton
Overhall and Netherhall, Cley-hall, and Strcte-hall
in Witchingham. In his will, dated Ocl. 7. 1538,
he requires to be buiicd in the chancel of Gunton
church by his wife, and died the sgth of September
following.

His grandfon, Francis, fold Gunton to John Jermy,
efq. counfellor, of Norwich, and John Jermy, elq.
his fccond fon, was lord of Gunton, and father of
Francis, who fold this lordfhip to John Harbord,
efq. (fourth fon of fir Charles Harbord, knt. fur-
veyor-general) colonel of the militia, who died by
a- fall from his horfe, Sept. 28, 1710, leaving the
greatefl part of his eftate to Harbord Cropley, elq.

fon

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fon of colonel William Cropley, who married Ca-
therine, his filler, daughter of fir Charles Harbord,

Sir Charles Harbord was furveyor-general to king
Charles I. and II. he died in 1679, aged 84, and
was buried at Beilhorpe in Norfolk, where againft
the north wall is a monument in remembrance of
him.

Sir Charles, by Mary Van-Elfl, his wife, had fe-
veral children ; Philip, his eldeft fon, married Ann,
daughter of fir William Drury, of Befthorpe.

William Harbord, efq. the fecond fon, and fur-
veyor-general, was of Cadbury in Somerfetfhire, and
married firft, Mary, daughter of Dr. Duck, of Cad-
burv, L. L. D. bv whom he had three daughters

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and co-heirs ; and by his fecond wife, Catherine,

daughter of Ruffell, lifter of the admiral, who

was earl of Orford, left one daughter: he built an
hofpital at Thetford, and fettled 30!. per ami for fix
poor people, and died at Belgrade in July, 1692.

Sir Charles Harbord, the third fon, was captain
of a man of war, and killed in a fca fight againft
the Dutch in 1672, and was buried in Weftuimfter
abbey.

John Harbord, efq. fourth fon, lord of Gunton,
married to Catherine, daughter of fir John Roufe,
bart. of Henham in Suffolk, died without liTue, and
left his eftate to his nephew, Harbord Cropley, fon
of William Cropley, efq. by Catherine, his fitter,
third daughter of fir Charles Harbord, and relict of
Thomas Wright, efq. of Kil ^rftone near Thetfcrd.
William Cropley, e(q. was of Steiiand hall in Suf-
folk, and of Thetford in Norfolk.

Harbord

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Harbord Cropley Harbord, cfq. married a daugh-
ter of fir Willarn Rant, of Thorpe-Market in this
hundred, whofe fon, fir William Morden Harbord,
was created a baronet in 1746, March 29, and alfo
was knight of the Bath; he bore quarterly, argent
and gules, four lions rampant, counterchanged, and
in the fefs point, a cap of maintenance.

Harbord Harbord, efq. his fon and heir, married
in 1760 a daughter of fir Ralph Afluon, bait, of
Lancafhire, and was elecled a member in parliament
for Norwich in i 768,

On the deceafe of fir William, fir Harbord, the
prcfent lord and patron, fucceeded to his father's
eftates and titles.

GUNTON HALL, the feat of fir Harbord Harbord,
is at prefent a fmall houfe, but is going to be en-
larged, and has lately been ornamented with new
offices under the direction of Mr. Wyatt. They are
by far the moft complete buildings for the purpofc
of any thing in this kingdom: the new ftile of ar-
chitecture is by its lightnefs and extreme elegance,
well adapted to offices, and thefe are particularly
worthy the attention of flrangers, from the ftudied
contrivance for conveniency in the apartments, as alfp
for the flate covering, which confifts of fmall fquarc
.pieces of flate, each fattened by wood fcrews.

Not far from the houfe is the parifli church,
which, by the late fir William Harbord, \vas taken
down and rebuilt, with a magnificent portico of the
Doric order : this receives an additional degree of
fanclity from two venerable druidical oaks, which
grace the front of it.

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 67

We have given a view of this edifice, as neither
the houfe nor offices are fufficiently forward to make
a drawing of them. The fituation of the houfc,
though on an eminence, is not well chofen. It com-
mands a large piece of water, yet as the ground
about it is flat and fwampy, this rather chilis the
iight than improves the profpecl;.

The quantity of game in the neighbouring planta-
tions, particularly hares and pheafants, is aflonifl:-
ing, and they are preferved with the moft rigid atten-
tion — to the game laws. The park, when finifhed,
will be very extenflve.

Bartholomew de Gunton had an intereft, or lord-
fhip, in this town in the reign of Richard I. and
John de Methwold was patron, in right of his wife,
in the reign of Edward I. and in the 2oth of that
king, 1292, Simon de Lincoln conveyed a moiety
of the manor of Gunton, and advowfon, to Robert
Burnell, bifhop of Bath and Wells: fir Philip Bur-
nell, the bifhop's heir and nephew, enjoyed it, and
left it to his fbn, fir Edward, who in the 6th of Ed-
ward II. 1313, releafed to fir Walter de Norwich,
for eighty marks, this manor, with lands and tene-
ments in Thorpe-Market, &c. Sir John de Norwich
lord of it in the sgth of Edward III. 1355.

After this it came to the Berneys, and fo was united
to the other moiety.

At the furvey Alan earl of Richmond had an in-
tereft, which afterwards was held by .the lords oi"
the aforefaid manor.

Parkin fays feveral towns take their names from
the word Gun j as Gunton in Suffolk, Gunby in

Yorkfhire,

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Yorkshire, Gunthorpe in Norfolk, &:c. the name
probably of fome adjoining rivulet.

The church is a recloiy, dedicated to St. Andrew.
In the reign of Edward I. the reclor had a manfe
and thirty acres of land: it was valued at twelve
marks, and paid Peter-pence lod. The prefent va-
lue is 81. and is difcharged.

In 1603, fixty communicants were returned by
the reclor.

The Rev. Richard Parkinfon was prefented to

'the churches of Gunton with Hanworth, consolidated

Oct. £1, 1757, by fir Harbord Harbord, bart. in

1774-

On a grave-ftone in the chancel, a plate of brafe,
In memory of Robert Berney, Efq. and Sujanna his wife,
who had 21 children. Robert died Nov. 25, 1358,
Sujanna Dec. 23, 1557.

Orate p. dia. Johs. Codonjilii Georgii Codon armig.
with the arms of Cuddon impaling Berney.

In 1509, Thomas Martyn, gent, buried in the
church of St. Andrew of Gunton : in another regif-
ter, anno 1374, it is called St. Peter of Gunton.

In the church windows \vere, Berney impaling
Fcrmour, Berney impaling Allington. Berney im-
paling Southwell. Erpingham. Elmham or Leeds,
and Bernard.

HANWORTH. Roger Bigot, anceftor of the
carls of Norfolk, was lord of a manor, then wrote
Hagan-Worda, of which \Vithri, a freeman, was

deprived

NORTH ERPING HAM. 69

deprived on the conqueO : Roughton was a beruite
toit; thTee villains in Aldby, Ing worth and Cal-
thorpe belonged to it, with three bordereis in Al-
burgh, Suflcad and Thurgarton ; fo that in the
\vhole it was worth at the furvey ^1. Sec. was eight
furlongs long, and five broad : YVithri had the foe.
and Lie, the king and the earl all forfeitures,

King John in his ^th year, 1204, granted to Roger
Bigot, earl of Norfolk, lord of this town, the privi-
lege of a fair on the vigil, the day, and the day 'after
St. Bartholomew ; and in the gd of Edward I. Roger,
earl of Norfolk, and earl-maiihal of England, had
the Jete, the aflife, and a fair: In the I4th of the
faid king he claimed the trial of any robber or thief
taken in this lordfhip with the ftolen goods, and on
conviclicn, the carrying him nrifouer to his manor of
Colby, by Aylfham, in South Erpingham hundred,
and of hanging him, there.

In the 33d of that king, 150^, fir Simon de He-
derfet was keeper or (teward of this lordfhip, and
the king's writ to cut down fourteen oaks by Han-
worth wood, to repair the king's houje at Burgh, by
Aylfham. Earl Roger died this year, and had a,
park in this "town.

Edward II. in his fiift year, fent his writ, dated
January 16, 1308, to fir Simon, to deliver up the
cuflody of this manor, and that of Forncet to John
de Thorpe, late Roger Bigot's, earl of Norfolk, de-
ceafed.

This earl leaving no iffue, had conftituted Edw. I.

his heir, to the greatelt part of his eftate, who granted

it, with the earldom of Norfolk, and the maifljal-

Ihip of England, to Thomas de Br-otherton, his fifth

F fon :

7o HUNDRED OF

fhn ; thoudi Tome hiflorians fay he was created earl
of Norfolk by his broiher in law Edward II.

Thomas de Brotherton left Margaret, a daughter
and co-heir, who married John, lord Seagtave, by
whom he had a daughter and heir, Margaret (Eliza-
beth as fome fav) who brought this lordfhip and the
inheritance of Brotherton by marriage to John, lord
Mowbray * This Margaret was created by Richard II.
dutchefs of Norfolk, her eldefl fon dying without
iffue ; Thomas, her fecond, earl of Nottingham, and
earl-marfhal of England, was in the aoth of the
faid king, 1397, created duke of Norfolk. In this
family this lordfhip remained till Ann, daughter and
heir of John Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, married
to Richard, duke of York, fecond fon of Edw. IV.
dying without iffue, fir John Howard, knt. was cre-
ated duke of Norfolk, and marshal of England, in
right of Margaret his mother (daughter and co-heir
of Thomas de Mowbray, duke of Norfolk) married
to fir Robert Howard, father of the laid fir John,
and was lord of this manor.

On the attainder of Thomas, duke of Norfolk, it
came to the crown in 1372, and queen Elizabeth in.
her 35th year, December 6, I5y3, demifed to John
Lane, of London, gent, the fcite and demeans of
this lordfliip, the park, Alburgh fair, all courts be-
longing hereto, with meffuages, houfes, mills, and
barley-rents, viz. ninety-two quarters, five bufhels,
and a peck, at the rent of 27!. 125. i id. per annum
for twenty-one years, which Lane foon after affigned
it to William Dix, gent.

On Thomas Howard, earl of Arundel's, being re*
{tored in blood in the ift of James I. 1603, he had
in the faid year, June 1 7, a grant of this manor, &c.

Roger

NORTH ERPINGHAM. fi

Roger Bigot had alfo another lordfhip in this
town, of the gift of the Conqueror, which was af-
terwards called the manor erf Belhoufe. In the gih
of Edward II. William Clarkfon was returned lord
of it.

In the iSth of Henry VI. 1440, Thomas Holand
paffed by fine to Robert Norwich, and William Nor-
wich, jun. the manor of Belhoufe in Han worth ;
foon after fir William Phelip, lord Bardolph, died
feifed of it ; and Wiliiam, vifcount Beaumont, held
it in die beginning of Edward IV's. reign. Stephen
Betrynge by his will in 1490, gives it for life to Eli-
zabeth, his wife, and after to William, his fon.

The church was formerly a rectory dedicated to
St. Bartholomew, valued at fifteen marks. The
prior and convent of Thetford had a portion of tithe
in the time of Edward I. valued at three marks per
ann. and at that time the prior of Hickling held it
appropriated to him with thirty acres of land, when
there was a vicar whd had a houfe, but no land ;• the
prefent value of which is 3!. is; 6d. and is dif-
charged.

The priory of Hickling were patrons till the daTo-
lution of religious houfes.

Sir Edward Clere prefented in 1589 • and in 1725,
fir John Hobart.

October 21, 1757, this church was confolidated
with Gunton ; and in 1774 the Rev. Richard Parkin
fon was prefented by fir Harbord Haibord, bart. of
Gunton.

Fa Oa

72 HUNDRED OF

On a grave-flone in the church — William Dsiightr,
wily fan of William Doughty, ejq. by Frances his fecond
wife, after eleven years travel into the Bar undoes, &c.
ftifely arrived at tins his native town, and when he had
n'ilh great joy Jeen all his friends and neighbours, took
his leave, and returned to the univerfal place the earth,
where all mujl rejl till tht found of the trump, at the age

of 42 years t March 8, 1673. William, fon of

Robert Doughty, of Hnnworlh, cfq. and Htjlcr his wife,

A! To on a grave-flone — Oratcp.aiab; Johs. Bit-
ter ryng, el Maigte uxor. ej.

In this village is the feat of Robert Lee Doughty,
cfq. an elegant and convenient houfe pleafantly fitu-
ated in a fmall park, from whence the church which
flands on rifing ground at a fmall diftance oppofite
to it, is a handfome objeft. The pleafure grounds
about it are laid out with much tafte.

Hagahworda is a compound; Ha or A, Ken or
Gan, a name of many rivulets; as Kenton, Ken-
ford ; and thus, Aken, a city in Germany, called
now Aix La Chapelle; — Worth, always fignifies that
Icite or place where two flreams meet and unite.*—
Vide Mr. Parkin's etymology of Hanworth.

• " KNAPTON, is wrote in Doomfday book Ranapa-
tone, and was the lordfhip of William, earl Warren ;
a free-man who held it in king Edward's time being
expelled, it was added to Gimmingham, the earl's
principal lordQiip. Gimmingham was then valued
at 405. and at the furvey at 81. per ann. Ranapatone
\vas in the ConfefTor's time valued at aos. at. the fur-
vey at 6os.
' ' The

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 73

The ancient family of de Plaiz was foon after the
conqueft enfeoffed of this lordfhip, and held it ot
the earls Warren and Surry. Sir Hugh de Plaiz was
lord in the reign of king Stephen ; and in the 3d
of Edward I. 1275, the a (life of bread, 8cc. and
frank-pledge belonged to it. About 1300, William,
de Huntingfield was patron of this church in right
of his wife-; and in 1303, the lady Joan, relid of Cr
Richard de Plaiz, prefentcd, as appears irom the in-
flitution books of Norwich.

In this family this lordfhip remained till 1389,
when fir John Howard, who married Margaret,
daughter and heir of fir John de Plaiz, inherited in
her right this lordfhip, with that of Weeting and
Toftrees in Norfolk ; Chelfwonh in Suffolk; Okely
^fagna, Hanftead, and Benefield-Bury in Eflex; and
Foulmere in Cambridgefhire; and dying in 1437,
Elizabeth, his grand-daughter, who died before him,
by John his fon, was heir to the Plaiz' s eftate. This
Elizabeth married John de Vere, earl of Oxford, lord
of this town, &c. in her right; he was beheaded in
1461, andfhe prefented to this church in 1465 ; in
the 1 2th of Edward IV. 1472, (he fettled this lord-
fhip, Sec. on Richard, duke of Gloucefter, the kings
brother, in truft, for the ufe of her heirs, to preferve
them in thofe difficult and dangerous times ; but on
November 26, 1478, the fcoffeees of the faid duke
confirmed to the dean and chapter of the collegiate
church of St. George, at Windfor, this manor, with
thofe of Chelfworth and Bencfield-hall, to endow a
chauntry in the faid church.

John, her fon, earl of Oxford, was reflored in

blood, honour, and inheritance, on the acceffion of

Henry VII. and was fucceeded by John, earl of Ox*

fbrd, his nephew ; and dying without iflue in 1526,

FS his

74 HUNDREDOF

his three lifters were his co-heirs ; Elizabeth, married
to fir Anthony Wingfteld, of Letheringham in Suf->
folk; Dorothy, to John Nevill, loid Laiimer ; and
Urfui.?, to fir Edward Knight ley. In 1529. Ann,
ccuntefs of Oxford, widow, prefented to this church.

Urfula, xvife of fir Edward Knightlev, dying with-
out iflue, the heirs of fir Anthony Wingfield, and
the lord Nevill held this lordfliip; fir Robert Wing-
field, fon of fir Anthony, had livery of a moiety
about the i ft of queen Elizabeth, and prefented to
this church in 1564, by his affignees.

The moiety which the lord Latimer held came to
the earl of Exeter, eldeft fon of William Cecil, lord
Ikirleigh, by the marriage of Dorothy, daughter and
co-heir of John, lord Latimer, who died in 1577,
and prefented to this church in 1613.

Thomas Bloficld, gent, died feifed of the manor
of Knapton on February 7, 1637, in the igth of
Charles I. held of the dutchy of Lancafter ; Thomas,
his fon, died before him, leaving by Ann, his wife,
a fon, William, who was heir to his grandfather.
This William fold it, or a moiety of it to Bernard
Hale, S. T. P. matter of St. Peter's college, Cam-
bridge, and gave it to that college, who have a manor
and patronage of the church: He died in 1663.
John Fowle, e£q. held it by leafc from the college,
or a moiety of the manor, and had an alternate
prefentation in 1740.

The church is a re&ory dedicated to St. Peter and
St. Paul, valued formerly at eighteen marks; the
prefent value is 13]. 75. id. and pays firft fruits,
Sec. It is a fmgle pile. The roof of both church
and chancel is neat, of JriOa oak ; on the wood work,

under

NORTH ERPINGHAM 75

tinder the roof of the chancel, — Orate p. dia. Johs.
Smtthf, in decretis baccalaurei, redoris jjiius ecclie, qtti
hoc opus fabiicari jecit, 1504, cujus die, &c.

Orate p. a? a. Nkh Larke nup. vicarii dc Hale, - *
- - - qui ' obt. Ao. Dm. 1486.

An old tomb in an arch of the fouth wall.

In the church, — Orate p. a fa. Willi: Smith, qui obt.

qmnto die. January, 1506. Orate p. a'? a. Tho.

Tkanner, qui dedit ad fabricalwnem ijtius ecdie quadra-
ginla marcas. This benefaction of forty marks to
the building of the church was a great fum at that
time ; the roof, as we have oblerved, is curious, and
on the principals of it are many angels carved, and
faints.

The Rev. John Price Jones was prefented to thi's
rectory in 1773, by Mrs. Mary Fowle, of Brooke,
by turn.

The town is wrote Ranapeton in Boomfday book,
Run, or Raven, according to Parkin, is the name of
a river; thus, Randworth, Ravcningham in Norfolk;
Ravenfworth in Durham ; Ravenfborn, a river in
Kent, &c.

MATLASK, or MATLASKE, is called m Doomf
day book Matingeles and Matelefc. Alan, earl of
Richmond, had a lordfhip, of which Efton, a free-
man, was deprived ; fixteen acres were claimed at
the furvey by a man or tenant of the king, who
challenged any of the carl's tenants Or men (as he
had the right by verdict of the hundred that proved
it) " to try the right of it by trial ordeal, or by
combat."

F 4 Matlafc

76 H U N I>R E D O F

Ma'lafk was a member of the Conqueror's manor
of Saxthorpe, in South Erpingham hundred, which
Godric took care of for him, and was included and
valued with it; this lordfbip of the Conqueror's was
that of which earl Godwin, king Hai old's father, was
deprived.

In tbegthof Richard I. 1198, William Fleming
covcyed the manor of Matlafk, by fine, to Walter
de Eafingham.

William de Valcntia, earl of Pembroke, half-
brother to Henry III. held it in capite of that king,
with Saxthorpe, in his 34th year, 1250, and it was
held of him by Walter de Mauteby, who married
Ghriflian, daughter and co-heir of fir Piers de Baf-
fmgham ; and in the 6th of Edward I. 1278, Wil-
liam deFlegg, fon of fir John de Flegg, who married
another of fir Picrs's daughters, rdeafed to Walter de
Mauteby all his right in this manor, in that of BaC-
fingham, and Weft Beckham ; and in the 15th of
that king, the jury find that the king, as lord of the
hundred, ufed to receive 6s. 4d. lete, and for fuit
of court at Gungate, out of Matlafk, Plumftead,
Sec. which had been withdrawn for thirty-two years
laft paft by William de Valentia, to the lofs of the
king, lol. but William proving that Henry III. in
his 361!! year, had granted the lete, Sec. to him and
his heirs, it was allowed.

In the gth of Edward II. 1316, John de Mauteby
was lord ; fir Robert in 1347 ; and fir John in 136(5
and 1397; Margaret, daughter and heir of John
Mauteby, efq. man ied John Paflon, efq. of Paflon,
and it was fettled on them and their heirs in the 2oth
of Henry VI. 1442; in this family it continued in
1740, William Pallon, earl of Yarmouth, being

lord

NORTH ER PING HAM. 77

lord. The late lord Anfon bought the eftate, and
George Anion, efq. M. P. for Litchfield, is the
prefent lord.

In the gd of Edward I. 1275, t'ie abbot of Bury
bad a lordfhip here and in Plumftead; and in the
Qth of Edward II. the abbot was returned to be
lord; the temporalities of the Sacrift of Bury hi
1428, were 35. 6d.

Peter de Savoy, uncle to queen Eleanor, wife of
Henry III. as eail of Richmond, had an intereli
herein in the 50th of that king, 1266.

The priories of Lewes, Merton, Walfingham and
Thetford had temporalities here.

The church is a reclory dedicated to St. Peter, va-
lued in the rei°7i of Edward I. at ten marks ; trre

prior of Merton in Surry had then the patronage of
t, and a portion of tithe of two marks per ann.
The prefent value is 5!. and is difcharged. The king,
as lord of the dutchy of Lancafter, is patron of this
church.

The Rev. Stanley Leather was prefented to this
reclory by the dutchy of Lancafler, 1741.

Mat is an initial fyllable to feveral towns ; thus,
Mattifhal, Matford in Devonfhire, Materdale in
Cumberland, Matlock in Derbyfliire, and Matching
in Eifex. — Vide Parkin.

ME 1 TON, was a member or bcruite to Roger
Bigot's manor of Felbrigg, and as fuch is included
in the account of that manor in Doomfday book.

Metunc

78 H U N D R E D O F

Mi-tune is there faid to be five furlongs long, four
furlongs and fix perches broad.

In the 8th of Richard T. 1197, Alexander Poyn-
tell pailed by fine to Robert de Colevile the third
part of this manor, which formerly belonged to
William de Neville.

Joan de Bovile held half a fee of Roger Bigot,
earl of Norfolk, in the reign of Edward I. and in
the 1 4th of that king, Joan, widow of James de
Crckc, held in jointure a meffuage, twenty-four acres
of land. &c. in-Mctton. Hanworth, and Suftead, with
the :hird part of the advowfon of this church. This
fee came from the family of Pirrow, and was called
PIRROW-HALL. After this it came to the Latimers.

In the year 1338, fir Thomas Latimer prefented to
this church; and in 1349, fir Thomas Wingficld,
in right of Margery his wife, was lord in the 4 ill of
Edward HI. 1367.

Sir Robert Carbonel died lord in the 23d of Ri-
chard II. 1399 ; he was lord of this town, Bra-defton,
Cavvfton, Shipdham, Weft-Tofts, Hapton, Tibben-
ham, Rufhall, and Briilingham in Norfolk; of Ba-
dingham, Saxham's in Badingham, Cretyng, and
Dallinghow in Suffolk ; and gave this manor for life
to Margaret his wife.

Sir Richard Carbonel was lord of Metton-Pirrow-
hall in the 8th of Henry VI. 1430, and dying in that
year, John his fon and heir was aged two years, who
dying without iflue, fir Robert Wingfield was heir,
as it is faid; but in 1457, Robert Lifton, efq. pre-
fented as lord of the Carbonels. He died in 1478;
and left one fon and many daughters. In the 5th

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of Henry VIII. 1514, William Bond, efq. conveyed
the. fifth part of this manor to Roger Townfhend,
efq. and fo came to Edward Windham, efq. In the
a gih of t^at reign fir Thomus Bedingfield, knt. of
Oxburgh, and Alice his wife, with Finnine Rook-
wood, efa! fon and heir apparent of the faid Alice,
conveyed it to Edmund Windham, efq. of Felbrigg;
this Alice was daughter of William London, efq.
mayor of Norwich, and married firft Edmund Rook-
wood, efq. of Eufton in Suffolk, and to her third
huiMnd the lord Burgh.

In the family of the Windhams it flill continues ;
Afh Windham, efq. was lord in i 740, and his foa
and heir, William Windham, efq. was lord in 1760,
and died in 1761, Leaving his fon and heir a minor,
who is now lord and patron.

BROOMHALL MANOR. Sir Roger de Hales, of
Hales-hall in Loddon, Norfolk, was lord in the ift
of Edward I. 1273, and had free warren, held of
Roger Bigot, the earl marfhal.

In the 35th of Edward III. 1361, fir John de
Hales and Catherine his wife held it; file after mar-
ried Roger de WalQiam: and in the 45th of that
king, John de Hales, fon of fir John, conveyed the
manor of Broomhall, in Metton, to Roger de Wal-
Iham and his heirs.

John Sampfon, in the nth of Henry VI. held it,
in right of his wife, of Thomas Mowbray, duke of
Norfolk.

It came afterwards to
thorpe, and in the 35th of Henry VIII. 1544, Chrif-
topher Hey don, efq, fon and heir of fir John Hey-

don,

So HUNDRED OF

don, fold the manor of Broomhall, in Metton, with
feveral lands, Sec. to Robert Ruggc, alderman of
Norwich.

The Jcnneys had alfo an interefl herein, in the
reign ot tfenry VII.

Thomas Rugge, efq. was lord in the 15th of
James I. and it was conveyed afterwards to fir Tho-
mas Herne, of Heverland. It defcended to Everavd
Buckwonh Herne, efq. in 1762.

The church is a reclory, dedicated to St. Andrew,
and is a fmgle pile, with a fquare fteeple. In the
reign of Edward I. it was valued at ten marks,
and the reclor had edifices, with nine acres of land.
The prcfent value is 7!. and is-4difcharged.

On a large marble grave-ftonc in the chnrch —
Orate p. aia. Robti. Doughty, qui obiit 9 die Maij,
J493» ac P- aia- Malildis uxoris ejus.

The Rev. George William Lukin was prcfcnted
in 1763, by William Windham, efq. to this church,
confolidated with Felbriesr.

t_ o

Several towns, according to Parkin, take their
name from Met ; -thus, Mettingham and Metfield in
Suffolk, Meth in Devonfhire, Metham in Yorkfhire,
Metheringham in Uncolnfhire, 8cc.

MUNDESLEY, or Mundefly, in Doomfday book
is wrote Muleflai, and was the carl Warren's manor.
Griketel, a free man, poffeffed it at the conqueil, and
there belonged to it a church, endowed with twelve
acres.

This

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 81

This lordfhip belonged to the foe or great lord-
fhip of the earls Warren, of Gimmingham, and
came from them to the dukes of Lancafter, and fo
to Henry IV. as duke of Lancafter, and continues
in the crown at this day, as part of that dutchy ;
wreck of fea, and all royal fifties, between Mun-
defley, Beck, and Loodyard, belonged to it, 8cc.

Here was alfo another lordfhip, which R. Maid
laid claim to, but William earl Warren held it.

In the 34th of Edward I. is 86, Wm. Priggy was
lord.

In the i yth of Edward IV. 1477, Robert Eling-
ham, of North-\Valfham, died feifed of the manor
of Rich's, or Rofe's, in this town, held of the dutchy
of Lancafter.

John Bradfield, of Burnham-Thorpe, gent, held
it in the reign of James I. and was father of Ed-
ward Bradfield, of Mundefley, and of Trofton in

Suffolk; he married a daughter of Coke, of

Livermore in that county, by whom he had John
.Bradfield, who was father of Edward Bradfield, of
Lynn, living in 1721.

In this town is a little Brook, with a mill on it,
which runs into the fea, and arifes at North Repps;
in ancient days, probably called Mul ;' thus,- Mul-
barton, Multon or Moulton, Norfolk; Moulford in
Berkfhire, Mulwith in Yorkfhire, andMulby; Muilc
is a river in Montgomery in Wales'".

The temporalities of St. Bennet's of Holme were
4!. iis. ob. of Broomholm priory, 145. id. Bar-
tholomew

* Parkin,"

8a HUNDRED OF

tholomew de Glanvill confirmed to the monks of
Caftleacre, the gift of his father, of a mill in this
town.

The church is a re&ory. In the reign of Edward
I. the reclor had a competent houfe, with an acre
and thirty perches of ground, alfo twelve acres of
land: it was valued at fifteen marks. The prefcnt
Value is 81. gs. gd. ob. and is discharged.

The church is a fmgle pile, dedicated to All Saints,
covered with lead, the chancel with reed; there is
no fleeple, but in the church-yard are three bells in
a frame.

This place fupplies North- Walfbam, and all the
neighbouring country with coals, timber, &c. which
is imported, and corn exported, without the conve-
nience of a haven, in the fame manner as a like
trade is caried on at Cromcr.

In 1603, the re&or returned eighty-one commu-
nicants.

The Rev. John Tenifon was reclor, and com-
pounded for his firft fruits in April, 1640. He was
cjecled for difloyalty, and was father of archbifhop
Tenifon.

In 1775 the Rev. Jeremiah Bigfby was prefenteA
to this reclory by the crown, by virtue of the dutchy
of Lancafler.

REPPS, NORTH and SOUTH. The piincipal
lordfhips of thefe towns were granted at the conquefl
to William, earl Warren. In North Repps a free-
man of Ketell was deprived of land, &x. to which

there

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 83

therebelonged a church with eighteen acres ofland,
always valued at IDS. per arm. In South Repps
alfo there^was a church with twelve acres ; the whole
was half a leuca long, and two peiches, four fur-
Jongs, and four feet broad ; and all this land Wil-
liam, earl Warren, had livery of for one manor.

Thefe lordfhips in North .and South Rcp^s were
held of the earl Warren, by the ancient family of
de Repps, in foccage, and were part of the earls
great lordfhip of Gimmingham.

Ralph de Repps lived in the reign of William I.
From him fprung this refpeclable family, now ai-
med extinct. As we confider the pedigree of fa-
milies in which the public are neither imerefied nor
excited by great deeds to attend to is tedious, we
will not follow the Repps's through the feveral cola-
teral branches, but mention fuck only as were prin-
cipal lords of this eftate.

In the 34th of Henry III. 1250, fir Thomas de
Repps was living. Raiph de Repps was bailiff of
the manor of Gimminghara in the gd ol Edward I.
1268.

John de Warren, earl of Surry, granted to fir
Robert de Repps, his valet, a parcel of wafle ground
in this manor of South Repps, near the meiTuage of
Robert, to enlarge it, in the 22d ot Edwaici 1L 1 204.

Sir John de Repps made his will in the 4710 year
of Edward III. at Norwich, wherein he gave to the
lady Alice, his daughter, the third part of his manor
of Thorpe-Market; and to John de Plumftcad, his
grandfon, his tenements in Shipden and Crorncr, with
the mill, villaiiib, &x. on coiiduion that he made n»

claim

54 H U N D R E D O F

claim to any other of his pofTeiTions. He died with-
out iffue male, and was buried in the priory of Grey
Friars, of Norwich, in 1373. His brother Lawrence
was his heir, and his daughter married fir John de
Redyfham.

In the yth of Richard II. 1^84, John Marfjiall
and Catherine his wife, and John Bures and Alice
his wife, the daughters and co-heirs of Richard Repps,
had each a moiety of North Repps manor, which
was then held of the dutchy of Lancaflcr, into-
which it came on the death of John, carl Warren, in
the reign of Edward III.

Of the family of de Repps, fome have lived at
Herringfleet in Suffolk ; others at Sail, at Walton,
and at Mattifhall in Norfolk.

The manor of North Repps came in the reign of
Henry VI. to the Heydons, of Baconflhorpe ; and
John Heydon died pofleffed of it as a member of the
manor of Girnmingham, in the soth of Edward IV.
and Chriftopher Heydon, efq. conveyed this lordfhip,
with that of Metton, &c. in the 35th of Henry VIII.
1544, to Robert Rugge, efq. alderman of Norwich ;
whofe brother William Rugge, alias Repps, was
abbot of St. Bennefs of Holme, and bilhop of
Norwich.

Mr. Thomas Rugge in or about 1660, mortgaged
it, with the manor of Hardingham, &c. to Robert
Clayton, efq. afterwards a knight, and lord-mayor of
London.

The nunnery of Brufyard in Suffolk had alfo a
lordftiip in South Repps, which on its diffolution
was granted to Nicholas Hare, efq. March 9, 1539,

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 85

in the 3oth of Henry VIII. and in the ggd of tha
king he had licenfe to alien it to fir John Grefham,
with meffuages, &c. in North and South Repps,
Cromcr, Sec. Sir Richard Grefham conveyed it Sep-
tember 7, 1614, in the lath of James I. to Robert
Blofeld, who fold it in the next year to Ralph Hart-
ftong, gent. Sir Standifh Hartftong, bart. of Ire-
land, and chief baron of the Exchequer in the reign
of Charles II. poffeffed it, who by a daughter of
Francis Jenney, of Gunton, had Francis his eldefl
ion.

Ralph Hartftong died April 17, 1634, and left
Francis, and John, a bifhop in Ireland.

The jury in the 15th of Edward I. 1287, prefent
that Richard I. ufed to receive a mark yearly out of
certain tenements in North Repps, Plumftead, Mat-
lafk, and Antingham ; and the faid king gave the
rent to the abbey of Bury, to find one wax candle
burning before the ftirine of St. Edmund.

William de Scohies had at the furvey a free-man
of earl Guert, whom Arduin held when earl Ralph
forfeited, valued at the furvey at los. This was
after in the earl Warren.

North Repps church is a re&ory dedicated to St.
Mary, and was always in the patronage of the earls
Warren and Surry. In the reign of Edward I. the
reclor was faid to have had edifices and four acres of
land. The value was thirty marks. The prefent
value is 1 81. and pays firft fruits, See. In the 4th
of Edward II. 1311, John de Warren, earl of Surry,
granted a meffuage with four acres and an half of
land to the re&or and his fucceffors. The church is

G a large

S6 HUNDRED OF

a large handfome building, with a very lofty fquare
tower.

In 1390, T3th of Richard II. John, king of Caf-
tile, prefcnred to this church. The patronage is
now in the crown, as of the dutchy of LancaPier.

In 17 74 the Rev. Whitley Heald was prefented
to this reclory of North Repps by the crown, by
virtue of the dutchy of Lancafker.

On a grave-ftone in the diurch^—Orale p. ai'ab ;
Robt.Wird el Marthe, wxor, 1463.

Orate p. &c. Robt. Sley, 1482. — On the fcreen —
Or ale p. £r. Johs. Play ford, et Katker. uxor. ct pt omnib;
beriffattorib ; fuis.

Mr. Parkin fays, " This town takes it name from
a brook that runs here ; thus, Reepham in Norfolk ;
Repton, and Repington in Derbyfhire, &c."

The church of South Repps is dedicated to St.
James, and is reclory, and had the fame patrons as
North Repps. John, earl Warren, was lord in the
reign of Edward I. the re6tor had then a manfe with
twelve acres of land ; was valued at twenty-four marks.
The prefent value is i61. and pays firft fruits, &c.

In 1756 the Rev. John Ellis was prefented to the
reclory of South Repps, by George II. as lord of the
dutchy of Lancafier.

OVERSTRAND, or OXSTRAND, wrote in
Doomfday book Otheitranda, was the lordfhip of
Berner, captain of the crofs bowmen, of which Efr
chet was deprived, and the king had the foe ; it was
ieven furlongs long : then valued at 405.

The

NORTH ERPINGHAM. ty

The town takes it name from its fcite on the ft rand
by the water, that is by the lea (bore, being conti-
guous to it. Soon after the furvey, on the deceafe
01 Berner, it came to the earl Warren, and was held
of him by the family of de Reymcs.

In the 34th of Henry III. 1250, a duel, or corn-
bat of trial was fought on account of this lo'rdfhip",
between Roger de Herleberge and a free-man of
Simon, in the behalf and right of Agnes de Reymcs.

This family feems to be defcended from Roger de
Reymes, or Reynes, who came into England with
the Conqueror, and had the horiour and barony of
Reynes, confifling of ten knight's fees in Effcx, giveii
him.

In the 3d of Edward I. 1275, Hugh de Reymes)
as lord,. claimed wreck at fea, and in the j<)th of that
king ibid lands here.

In die loth of Richard II. 1387, John Reymes,
efq. attended John of Gaunt, duke, of Lancafter, in
his expedition into Spain, and had the king's letters
of protection, and died in the 7th of Henry IV.
1406. In 1443, Roger Reymes, efq. prefented to
this church. Robert Reymes, etiq. was lord, and
prefented in 1492 ; he died in 1508, arid was buried
in this church. Francis" Rhymes, efq. prefented to
this church;, died in 1558, and was buried in the
iaid church ; he had feveral tons.

William Reyraes, efq. fon and hefr of Francis,
was lord in 1599, in 1606 prefented. In 1659,
John Reymes, efq. was lord and patron ; and Wil-
liam Reymes,. efq. 1670.

G 9 In

8$ HUNDRED- OF

In a letter of John Reymes, efq. dated at Edge-
field in Norfolk, September 27, iG(»o, to Edward
Pcpes, efq. he complains that his elcleft fon being
dead, and having fold part of the eftate, and mort-
gaged it together, leaving a wife and five children to
his care, had almofl undone him. 'His fan's name
that died was William Reymes, efq. who married
Muriel, daughter of Martin Sidley, efq. of Stalham
in Norfolk, in 1648; and in the year 1656 he
brought his aclion againfl John Sidley, efq. Ion and
heir of Martin, and brother of Muriel, for moneys
due by marriage contracl to him on the death of
Martin; fo that William Reymes, efq. who prefented
in 1670, was grandfon of John, and fon and heir of
William, by Muriel his wiife.

After this it was fold by Reymes, efq. to

Thomas Baxter (as it is faid) who gave it to his fifler s
ion Bodham, and Bodham to his fifler.

In 1714, Nathaniel Life was lord, and high-fherifF
of Norfolk in 1724 ; he died in 1727, and left by
Mary his wife, daughter and heir of Philip Vincent,
efq. of Marlingford, a fon and two daughters. —
The patronage is in the lord of the manor.

The church is a reclory dedicated to St. Martin.
In the reign of Edward I. Roger de Eccleburgh was
patron, when the reclor had a grange with twenty
acres, valued at ten marks and an half. The pre-
fent value is al. is. 4d. and is difcharged,

.• The church is a fingle pile with a fquare tower,
and though now without windows, and above half
ftripped of its leaden covering, this church was in
good repair within twenty years, but now is un-
ierviceabk.

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 89

In the laft year of Richard II. 1399, John Reymes
aliened half an acre of land for a church-yard to
bury the dead ; and in the firft year of Henry IV.
1400, a patent was granted to build thereon the pa-
rifh church. This feems as if the old church had
been fwailo\ved up by the fea, otherwife the fcite of
that and the old church-yard would have been fuffi-
cient for this little parifh.

In 1748 the Rev. Samuel Johnfon was prefented
to this re&ory, by Casfar Life, efq. then a minor.

In the chancel, on a marble graveftone — Orate p.
a'lab; Willi. Warde et IJabelk uxoris ejus, qui obt. 3
Julii, 1455.

In the body of the church, round a large ftone on
a rim of brafs — JoKis Reymes armigeri - - - - Dni.
Regis Henrici quarti ct Margate Jilie Willi. Wynter - -
----- Jepulti fuer. in ao. fept. Henry 4/2. — On the
•fcreen painted — Orate p. a fab; Johs.-Amy et Agnetis
uxorjue, ctp. quib; leneamour.

In the north aile — Orate p. a fa. Robti. Reymes qui
obijt 8 Julij, 1408.

Roger Rugge, of this town, was here buried in
1442.

In the windows were the arms of Calthorpe, im-
paling quarterly Haflings and Foliot. — Reymes im-
paling Winter ; — alfo of Felbrigg, LeGrofs, Mautby,
Berney, Winter and Hetherfet impaled; — and in a
window — Johs. Pelham miles fecit - - .fenejlram - - -
with thefe arms, azure, 3 pelicans, argent, vulned
gules, the crefl a peacock, proper.

G 3 PLUMSTEAD.

gd HUNDRED OF

PI.UMSTEAD, wrote Plumcftcde in Doomfday,
was the lordfhip of William, earl Warren, granted
to him by the Conqueror, Tu'rold being deprived of
it; valued then at los. and at the furvcy at aos.

The family of de Plumflead were early enfeoffed of
this lordfhip, under the earls Warren.

John Plumftead, efq. died in 1560, and was bu.
Tied in this church ; lord alfo of Nethercburt in King's
Walden, in Hertfordfhire. He left two fons, John
and Thomas, and feveral daughters.

John Plumftead, elq. of Plumftead-hall, died in
June, 1639.

After this it came to the BritifFes, and Charles Bri-
tiffe, efq. fon of Mr. BritifFe, of Cley, fold it to John
Harbord, efq. of Guntori.

LOSE-HALL. Richer de Caufton confirmed to
Thomas de Lofe lands here. On the death of this
Thomas, who died without iffue, it came to Clariffa
his fifter, who brought it by marriage to Thomas de
Ubbefton.

William de Valentia's (earl of Pembroke) manor
of Matlafk extended into this town, and the Mautbys,
&c. held it under him, &:c. The tenths were al. as.

The church is a reclory dedicated to St. Michael,
and the patronage was in the reign of Edw. I. in the
priory of Merton in Surry ; the rc6lor had fix acres with
a manfe ; the value was fix marks, and the aforefaid
prior had a portion of tithe valued at 405. The
prefent value $1. 35. ad. and is difcharged.

The

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 91

The prior)' of Merton prefented from 1320 to the
difibiution of religious houfes. The patronage is new
in the king as lord of the .dutchy of Lancafter, who
in 1750 prefented the Rev. Stanley Leathes to this
reclory.

In the chancel were the arms of Plumftead, fable,
three chevronels, ermin, on the upper one three an-
nulets of the firft.

On the north fide of the church a grave -done — In
memory of John Plumjlede, efq. receiver for the queen cf
her dutchy of Lancnjlcr . — Plumftead impaling Gawfell.

The temporalities of the priory of Norwich were
8s. 3d. Of Ely, 22d. Of Bury 45. lid. ob. q.
Of Waborne, gd. Of Caftle-Acre, i os. And of
Binham, 3d. Robert de Brueria, of the heath
of Plumilead, gave to this priory two pieces of
heath ground.

Plum feems to be the name of fomc fiver; thus,
Plomley in Chefhire, Plumton in Lancafhire, and
SufTex, Sec. Vide Parkin.

ROUGHTON. Roger Bigot, anceftor of the
earls of Norfolk, had by a grant of the Conqueror,
a lordfhip in this town, held by two free-men under
Withri, who was expelled on the conqueft; . valued
at the furvey at los. and 8d.

Part of this town was a beruite to Roger &ig<H s
lordfhip of Hanworth.

Roger de Glanville, .who married Gundreda de

Warren, reli£l of Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, had

an intereft in this lordfhip in the reign of Henry II.

G 4 when

ga II U N D R E D O F

\vhcn he and his lady, Gundreda, on their founding
the nunneiy of Bungay in Suffolk, gave the patron-
age of this rectory to them, which was alfo appro-
priated to them.

In the 1 6th of Edward I. Agnes, widow of Tho-
mas de Grimflon, held Roughton manor of Robert
de Valoines, in free marriage by the eighth part of a
fee, and this Robert was her Ton and heir. In the
5th of Edward II. fir Robert de Ufford was lord, in
right of Cecilia his wife, daughter and heir of Ro-
bert de Valoines.

In the i6th of Edward II. 1323, the faid lady
fettled it on fir Edmund de Ufford, her younger fon,
\vho had free-warren in his demean lands here, in
the 6th of Edward III. 1332. On the death of fir
Edmund, without iffue, it came, to the earl of Suf-
folk ; William Ufford being lord in the 43d of that
king, and leaving his three fillers co-heirs, Catherine,
the eldefl, brought it by marriage to fir John \Vil-
loughby, lord Willoughby of Erefby: In this fa-
mily it continued till on the death of William, lord
Willoughby, in the i8th of Henry VIII. 1.527, it
came to his daughter and heir Catherine, who had
livery of it in the 26th of that king, and brought it
by marriage to Robert Bertie, efq. whofe fon, Pere-
grine, on the death of his mother, had fummons to
parliament as lord Willoughby, of Erefby. The
prcfcnt duke of Ancaiter is of this family of the Ber-
ties. After this Richard Stubbs is faid to have held it.

In the 1 6th of James I. 1618, Robert Clapham-
fon had a praccipe to deliver the manor of Roughton
to Henry Faucet, gent, and John I-aucet was found
to die feifed of it Oftober 10, 1625 ; he had by Jane
his wife a fon and heir, William, who died a minor

the

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 93

the following year, To that bis two fillers, Ann and
Elizabeth, were his heirs, who both died without
i/Iuc about 1633.

Giles Tenant, couricellor at law, was lord in 1694 ;
and James Tenant fold it to Mr. Richard Kett, wool-
comber, of Norwich, in which family it continues.

HALES-HALL. Sir Roger de Hales held here and
in Metton one fee of the earl of Norfolk, in the ift
of Edward I. 1273.

John Sampfon held it in right of his wife in the
iith of Henry VI. 1433; Elianore Jenney, widow
of fir William Jenney, daughter of Sampfon, died
pofleiTed of it in 1494. After that it was fold to the
Heydons, and Chriftopher Heydon, efq. in the 35th
of Henry VIII. conveyed it to Robert Rugge, efq,

from them it came to Herne, of Heveringland,

and Clement Herne was lord in 1690.

Befides the lordfliips abovementioned, Robert, earl
of Morton, brother to the Conqueror by the mother's
fide, and made earl of Cornwall by him, had the grant
of a lordfhip here, of which Ulnoth, a younger fon
of earl Goodwin, and brother to king Harold, was
deprived ; it was nine furlongs long, and five broad,
valued at aos.

The faid earl had only another manor in this
county, Clare in Tunftead. hundred. His fon Wil-
liam, rebelling againil Henry I. was deprived of
thefe and his earldom ; and this lordfhip was then
granted to Roger Bigot, anceftor of the earls of Nor-
folk, and fo united to the other lordQiips.

Pauline

•"'. * L<!vj...,_'U it

94 HUNDREDOF

Pauline Peyvere, one of the king's juftices, was
lord of a manor in this town. anno. 33, Henry III.
1 249, and that family had an intereil here in the
reign of Edward II.

The church of Roughton was a rectory valued at
eighteen marks, which being granted to the nunnery
of Bungay by Roger de Glanville, and the lady Gun-
dreda his wife, it was appropriated to that convent ;
the faid convent was found to hold it, and to be pa-
trons of the vicarage which was founded on the ap-
propriation of it in the reign of Edward I. when the
vicar had a manfe with twenty-four acres of land ;
the irapropriate recloiy had alfo a manfe, but no
lands, the vicarage then being valued at two marks.
The prefent value of the vicarage is 61. The church
is dedicated to St. Mary.

Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, December
$8, 1538, in the agth of Henry VIII. had a grant
of this impropriate re£tory, and the patronage of the
vicarage from the king, with all the manors, tene-
ments, and lands in the county of Norfolk, belong-
ing to the priory of Bungay, and the advowfon of
the church of Redenhall.

In the church — Hie jacet corpus Jar. Tenant gen.
filij Jo/is. Tenant de Nealjing in com. Eborac. gen qui
obt. Feb. 9, 1668, ao. cctat. 71 — Hie jacet corpus Jana
ttxor. Jaci Tenant, flirt Rob. Faldo de Northmins in
com. HertJ. qua obt. 4 Nov. 1678, ao. a tat. 76.

William Hogan buried here in 1551,

The Rev. Allen Aldhoufe was prefented to this
vicarage in 1747, by the right Rev. Robert Butts,
biftibp of Ely.

RUNTON,

NORTH ER PING HAM. 93

RUNTON, wrote in Doomfday book Runetuna,
or Roungton Juxta Mare. Roger Bigot had at the
conquefl livery of a freeman,, with thirty acres of
land,, who held it under bond in king Edward's
reign ; valued at 8s. and had been after lett at 2<aS»
but it could not be paid, fo that at the fuivey it was
lett at 135. per annum.

FELBRIGG'S-MANOR w.as in the family of de Fel-

On the death of Richard de Felbrigg, in the reign
of Henry 1IT. his inheritance came to his daughter
and heir Maud, who married fir Simon le Bigot, third
fon of Hugh Bigot, earl of Norfolk; and in the
56th of that king, 1272, it was agreed between the
laid Maud, and her fon Roger, and Roger the prior
of Beeflon, that the prior and they (liould prefent
alternately to this church.

In this family it continued till the death of fir Si-
mon Felbrigg in 1443 ; after this it was fold, by
Thomas, lord Scales, one of his truflees, to John
Windham, efq. and it remains in the defendants of
the faid John; Afli Windham, efq. being late lord in
l 740, and patron, as was his fon, William Wind-
ham, efq. who died in 1761, leaving his ion and
heir a minor, now lord.

BEFSTON-PRIORY MANOR. -In the 15th of Ed-
ward I. 1287, the prior claimed wreck at lea on his
lands in this town, aflife of bread and beer, view of
frank pledge, which he held of the earls of Norfolk.

At the dilfolution it was granted by Henry VIII. in
his 37th year, 1546, to fir Edmund Winclham, and
fo vvas united to the manor of Felfrngg., Their tem-

poralities

poralitles here in 1428 were valued at 5!. 45. id.
ob. q.

Pauline Feyvere had alfo a fmaU fee or lordfhip in
the reign of Henry III. and William his foil claimed
in the $d of Edward I. aflife of bread and beer, and
other liberties, as in his manor of Thorpe-Market.
This afterwards was given to the priory of Beeflon,
and fo came to the Windhams on its diffolution, and
was held of the earls of Norfolk.

William de Scohies, or Efcois, had a lordfhip
rvhich Ingulf held under him at the furvey, of which
Turkel, lord in the Confeffor's time, was deprived;
valued at the furvey at 405. with a church and fix
acres, all meafured in Beedon.

f The ancient family of de Norfolk was enfeoffed
of this ; Gilbert de Norfolk, the laft of the family,
died poffeffed of it, and left five daughters and co-
heirs, who inherited it.

It came after in part by one of thefe daughters to
Roger de Felbrigg, and fo came as above to the
Windhams ; and in 1740, his immediate defcendant
Afh Windham, efq. was lord, and his fon William
died feifed of it 1761, 8cc.

Hugh de Montfort had alfo a lordfhip, of which
Bond, a free-man, was deprived ; valued at the fur-
vey at 305.

In the gth of king John, 1208, Hubert de Burgh
purchafed of Roger de Burnham, 8cc. their feveral
nine parts of two knight's fees in Runton, Beeflon,
and Hindiingharo, for which they paid caftle guard
to Dover.

Robert

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 97

Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, poffeffcd it in the
$d of Edward I. 1275, and had \vreck at fea, 8cc.
who gave it in the igth of that king, with the ad-
vowfon of the church, to William, fon and heir ap-
parent of John, earl Warren, on his marriage with
Joan their daughter ; and in the gth of Edward II.
the earl Warren was lord.

The town is called Runton by the fea, and Eafl
Runton. — Run is the name of a river; thus, Run-
well in EfTex ; Runwick in Gloucestershire ; Run-
ham and Runhall in Norfolk. Vide Parkin's deriva-
tion of names.

The church is a reclory dedicated to the Trinity :
the ancient value twenty-fix marks. In the reign of
king Edward the redor had a manfe with twenty-two
acres of land ; the prefent value is lol. and is dif-
charged.

The reftor in i6oci returned one hundred and fiftv-

*J ^

three communicants; and in 1746 Afh Windham,
efq. prefented the Rev. John Ellis to this redory.

In the church are the arms of Felbrigg ; — Albiny,
earl of Arundel, and Walcot.

SHERINGHAM, wrote in Doomfday book Si-
lingebam. Seiar Bar was lord of this village at the
conqueft, who being deprived, it was granted by
William I. to William de Scohies, or Efcois, a Nor-
man lord, who held it at the furvey ; always valued
at 4!. per ann. with a church endowed with fifteen
acres, valued at 35. It was oue kuca or league
long, and one broad.*

William

QS HUNDREDOF

William Je Scohies conveyed it to Walter GifFard,
carl of Bucks, \vho on his founding the abbey ot"
Tviotiey in that county, gave the church here to it,
on the death of his fon, earl Walter the fecond, who
died without iffue ; Henry II. granted this town in his
2^ year, 1 156, as an efcheat, to Richard de Humet,
or Humee, with the lordfhip of Stamford in Lincoln^
(hire. Richard was that king's conftable of Nor-
mandy, co founder of Aulnay-abbey there; in the
ylh of that king one of the pledges in a hundred
marks, on a league between the king and Theodorick,
earl of Flanders. In 1164 he entered into Bretagne
in France, took feveral places, and is called by Lo-
bincaux in his hiflorv, earl of Humiers. Bv Agnes
his wife, daughter and heir of Jordan de Say, he
left William his fon and heir ; and in 1181 died a
luouk of Aulnay.

The faid king by patent, granted to William his
fon, the aforefaid conftablefhip, with that of Stain-
ford, See. dated at Caen in Normandy; which Ri-
chard I. confirmed by patent, dated June 21, 1190,
in his fijft year.

In the jth of king John, I2o5, this lordfhip de-
fccnded to John de Humet, who then gave the king
lool. and a paifry to have fcifm of his lands in Eng-
land, which the king had taken into his hands by
rcafon of the war in Normandy.

In the 7th year of Henry III. March 18, 122(5, a
wiit was fcnt by the king to the fheriff'of. Norfolk,
to give polieffion to Richard de Grey, of Codnor in
Derbyshire, and Lucia his wife, of all ihe lands
which John de Humet her father (whofe heir (he was),
held in capite. This Richard had a charter for free-
vr-arrcn, of a weekly market on Ihuriday, and a

fair

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 99

fair for two days, on the eve and the feaft of the Af-
cenfion, and claimed wreck at fea, a gallows, Sec.

Richard de Grey was lord in the 4th of Edw. III.
1330, and had a charter for a fair on the eve and the
feaft of St. Peter and St. Paul, and a market oa
Thurfday ; and in the i^th of that king fir John de
Grey, fon of Richard, conveyed it to fir Richard
Willoughby, of Wollaton in Nottinghamfhire, who
married Joan, his fifler; and fir Richard died feifed
of it in the 36th of the faid reign.

How this after paffed we have not found, probably
it came to the iamily of BafTet, who had anciently an
intereft in the town ; Philip Baffet had a charter of
free-warren in the 37th of Henry III. 1253 ; and in
the 44th of that king it was found that he and Ri~
chard de Grey had feveral liberties in Sheringham.
In the Baffets it continued till iffue male failing in
Ralph, lord Baffet, of Dray ton. In the reign of Ri-
chard II. it came to the Staffords, earl of Stafford, in
right of Margaret, daughter of Ralph, lord Baffet,
who married Edmund de Stafford, in the reign of
Edward I.

Edmund, earl of Stafford, who was flain at the
battle of Shrewfbury, June 21, 1403, poffeffed
it, and in this family this lordfhip continued till by
the attainder of Edward Stafford, duke of. Bucks, it
efcheated to Henry VIII. and was granted by him to
Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk. In the 14th of
that king, 1523. it was valued at 32!. 45. o/d. per
ann. and there was a cuflom that the lord was to
have the beft turbot that was takes out of every Hill-
ing boat here, and every ftrangcis boat that came to
Sherinehara hiihe paid ^d.

loo

HUNDRED OF

On the attainder of Thomas, duke of Norfolk,
May 8, 1 5 7 2, it came again to the crown, and was re-
51 anted to the faid family by James I. and Henry,
duke of Norfolk, is faid to have conveyed it in 1694,

lo Seaman, of Norwich. Mr. Cook Flower,

of Sheiingham, is the prefent lord.

Here were three lordfhips in this town ; that of
Sheiingham, the principal one, has the lete, and is
p offeilcd by Mr. Cook Flower. Nutley-hall belongs
to Mr. Thomas Windham, of Cromer ; and Beefton
priory manor to Wm. Windham, efq. of Felbrigg.

The town is divided into Upper Sheringham and
Lower Sheringham, alias Sheringham Hithe, as ly-
ing by the fca fhore ; the houfes in the former being
nearly a mile from it, whilft thofe of the latter are fo
near the beach as frequently to fuffer by the impetuo-
fity of the tides. Lower Sheringham is fituated on a
part of the cliff which is but a few yards from the
beach, and the cliff gradually rifes on each fide to
upwards of a hundred ; the fea gains confiderably
here, and it is not uncommon to obferve large pieces
of arable land carried away with corn growing, be-
twixt feed time and harveft fo near do the people
plough to the edge of a cliff, which flrikes a ftranger
with horror to look down it. There is a very confi-
derable fifhery from this place of cod, fkate, and
whiteings, but efpecially crabs and lobflcrs, with
which this place and Cromer chiefly fupply the Lon-
don market, by veflels which take the fifli from the
boats while at fea. There is a very good inn at Lower
Sheringham, much reforted to in fummer for the fake
of eating lobfters in their highefl perfection ; the
dining room Hands fo near the edge of the cliff, that
at high water no land can be feen, and from whence
a (hanger cannot but be delighted with the awful but

pleafing

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 16 f

pleafing profpecl which the unbounded ocean affords
— fometimes thirty or forty Billing boats within a*
mile of the fhore, and often fleets of three hundred
colliers and other large trading veffels are feen paflTmg,
fo near, that with the naked eye you may difcover
the men on board — whiift at low water the beach is'
enlivened by the multitude of fifhermen dither drying
tlieir nets, hawling up their boats, repairing their
tackle, landing their flfh, or* fecuring their lobfters
and crabs in coys, a fort of boxes fixed to the rocks,
which the fea overflows and fills at every tide. This
profpecl: may be enjoyed- within doors, bait when
abroad you will be charmed by the beauty of the'
country, furrounded by richly cultivated, and
what in Norfolk may be called bold and lofty hills ;
from the hill to the call of Lower Sherringham, you-
command a wonderfully extenfive view of the feat
coaft, abruptly bounded by Cromer light-houfe,
about four miles to the eaft, whiift the eye is loft to-
wards the weft, afttr wandering over the towns of
Sherringham, -Waborne, Salthoufe, and Cley*
harbour.

Upper Sherringham is beautifuUy~a*d6rned by the
extenhve woods of Mr. Cook Flower, the fummits
only of-the-hills ire:planted, whilft their bottoms and
the rich valleys that divide them are variegated with
unenclofed arable land, which though the foil is- light,
produces excellent barley, wheat and turnips.

Mr Flower has great merit in thefe plantations, as
k would at firft fight appear impracticable to raife
trees in a fituation expofed to the keeneft lea-breezes,
but by planting the young trees amongft the furze
and ling, they are fo fheltered during their infancy,
that after a few years they become able to brave the
jnoft tempeftuous blaft$ from the iionh-eaft — which
•&:;i H iu

io» HUNDRED OF

in -1 11 other modes of planting have been found fo
fatal to young trees in like fituations.

The church was a re&ory dedicated to All Saints, it
had a inanfe and fixteen acres of land, valued at
r.vemy-feven marks, and was appropriated to the ab-
bey of NotJey in Buckinghamfhire, by Walter Gif-
fard, earl of Bucks, lord of the town, and founder
of that abbey; it was fcrved by a canon of Notley.
or fome ftipendiary curate, and fo continues to be a
curacy at this time. The church is a regular pile,
having a nave, two ailes, and a chancel covered with
lead.

On a grave-Hone in the chancel — Hie indudit cor-
pus D^ni. \Valteri Mar low canonici de Noltdey, quonda
reduris de Skerringkam, M.CCCC.LVII.

In the nave — Here lyeth Thomas Heath, f on of Mr. Wil-
liam Heath, of Norwich, wool-chapman, who was rob~
bed, and murdered the ^ih day of Feb. 1 635 .

A grave-flone — For Elizabeth, wife of John Fcnn,
vho died April 15, 1741, aged 48 ; with the arms of
F enn ; — Argent, on a fcfs azure, three efcallops of
the firft, in a bordure ingraikd on the fecond.

In the church were the arms of Stafford, impaling
Thomas of Woodftock, duke of Gloucefler, and
thofe of Reymes ; alfo Rook wood.

On the diffolution of Notley abbey, the appropri-.
ated rcrlory was granted in the 34th/of Henry VIII.
1543, to the dean and chapter of Chrift College,
Oxford, but was revoked, and again in the crown ;
Jrancis Guybon, junior, gent. Alice Stubs, daughter
cf Richard Stubs, and Henry Yelverton, efq. had a

leafe

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 103

leafe of it from queen Elizabeth, in her 3910 year,
1597. In 1603 there were two hundred and twenty
communicants in this parifh,

In the lower town or hithe was a chapel dedicated •
to St. Nicholas, part of it is flill {landing.

Thomas Thompfon, bailiff of Great Yarmouth,
gave 2os. per ann. for two fermons to be preached
here ; and John Cook, fifh-monger, of London, was
a benefactor to the poor.

The reclory is now in the fee of Ely (the bifhop
has the nomination o'f the curate) and is held by
George Windham, efq. of Cromer, of the bifhop.

The prior of Waborne had a lordfliip here in
1428, then valued at al. 6s. id. per annum, which
at the diffolution was granted to John Heydon,:
efq. Sec.

Here .was a cell for fome time of black canons,
belonging to Notley abbey ; mention is made of them
in 1256.

In 1 769, October 1 1, the Rev. Richard Sibbs was
licenfcd to this curacy, on the prefentation of Mrs.
Windham".

SUFFIELD, wrote in Doomfday book Sutfclle.
Roger Bigot, ajiceflor of the earls of. Norfolk, had a
grant from the Conqueror of two carucates of land,
held by four free-men ; it was eight furlongs long,
and five broad ; valued then at 4!. and at the furvey
at 61. 155.

104 HUNDRED OF

In the Bigots, earls of Norfolk, it continued, and

Roger Bigot, earl, dying without iffue, it came by
his grant to the crown, and fo to Thomas de Bro-
therton, a fon of Edward I. created earl of Norfolk ;
from him to the Mowbrays, and the Howards, dukes
of Norfolk, In the 26th of Henry VIII. 153"),
Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, was lord ; oi\
whofe attainder, in 1572, it efchcated to the crown,
but James I. re-granted it to the faid family, and it
was fold about 1690, by Henry, duke of Norfolk*
Sir Harbord Harbord, bait, of Gunton, is the pre-
fent lord and patron.

Alan, earl of Richmond, had a grant from the"
Conqueror of half a carucate of land, held by Gun,
a free-man, in king Edward's reign.
•

Sir Hugh de Cayly held in the reign of Henry III.
a quarter of a fee of the honor of Richmond ; and
in the loth of Edward II. 1317, William de Cailly,
of Heacham, in Smithdon hundred, conveyed the
.manor to Simon Kening, of Banningham.

John, duke of Bedford, lord of the honor ofRicln
ihond, held it in capite, and died pofieffed of it in
the 14th of Henry VI. 1436.

Clement Herward, efq. of Aldburgh, held it in
14.26, and Alianore, relicl: of Robert Herward, efq.
conveyed it with four meffuages and lands in Gunton,
Antingham, &c. to Robert Symonds, in the ifl of
Edward VI. 1530.

John Symonds, efq. of Suffield, fold it to John
Wiggeit, of Norwich, merchant, about 1700; Wig-
getttoJohnMorden, efq. of Bradley-hall, in Suffolk,

.ofo ion, William Cropleyr efq. by Catherine his

wife,

NORTH ERPINGJiAM. 105

wife, daughter oi fir Charles Harbord, was father of
Harbord Cropley, efq. who took the name of Har-
bord, and was lord in 1714; and fir Harbord Har-
bord is the prefent lord.

The church is a rectory dedicated to St. Margaret j
in the reign of Edward I. Roger Bigot, earl of Nor-»
folk, was patron ; the reclor had a manfe and fix
acres of land, valued at twenty-fix marks. The pre-
fent value is J4-1.

In 1 603 the reclor returned one hundred and thirty
eight communicants.

In the fouth aile of the church is a tomb — JoJis.
Symond conditur hoc. qid obt. 14 Dec. A.D. 1584.

Near the font a grave-ftone with a brafs plate — >
Orate p. dial; Jchans. Symonds et Cccilie uxor.ej. obt.
1453, — Orate p. ctfa. Johs.Theobald quiobt. 26 Martii,
1468.

Arms in the church : Brotherton, earl of Norfolk,
impaling, azure, crufily, a lion rampant, or. — Morley
impaling ditto. — Herward impaling Reymes. — Her-
*vard impaling Gourney.

John Reymes, of Suffield, gent, buried here in

1553-

The Symonds were an ancient family, and bore
-azure, three trefoils^ flipped, argent.

The Southfields were alfo an ancient family, and
lords of this town.

H a

HUNDRED OF

Suffield is thought to be a corruption of Southfitl 1 •
as Summerfield in Smithdon hundred is of Suuth-
meer, or Moor-field.

In i 7 74 the Rev. Richard Parkinfon was preferred
to this rectory by fir Harbor Harbord, bart. of Gun-
ton, M.P.

SUSTEAD, or SISTEAD, wrote Suftede at the
furvev. Roger Bigot, anceftor to the earls of Nor-
folk, had the grant of a manor.

By the Bigots, earls of Norfolk, the ancient fa-
mily of the Felbriggs were enfeoffed of it, and from
the Felbriggs it came to the Windhams. and William
VVindharn, . efq. of Felbrigg, is the prefent lord.

William, earl Warren, had alfo a manor in this

parilli.

t .....

This wrs held by the family of Damme. In the
reign of Henry VI. John Damme died lord in 1462,
and was buried in the church of Suflead.

-In the 35th of Elizabeth, 1593, a Pra;cipc
granted to render to Henry .Stow, and Simon Bur-
gall, the manor of Dammes in Suftead ; and in the
41 ft of. that queen, another was granted to render it
to Martin Fountain and John Dodrnan. After this
it was poffeflcd by the Windhams, and William
Windtyam, efq. of F'elbrigg, is the prefent lord.

The church is dedicated to St, Peter and St. Paul,
and was a re&ory, valued at ten marks, granted by
William Bigot to the priory of Thetford, and appro-
priated thereto ; in the reign of Edward I. there be-
longed to it a houfe and fixteen. acres of land. On

the

N O R T H E R P I N G H AAt 107

the diflblution this reclo.y was granted by Henry VIII.
to Thomas Howard, duke of Norfolk, and is fv-rvcd
by a ftipendiary curate. In 1603 the re&or returned
'fifty-two communicants. In the 6th of lames I. fir

/ w

Edward Carrel, knt. &c. aliened it on the firfl of
April, 1608, to Thomas Blofeld. efq. Sec. and in
1 740 the heirs of Mr. Leonard Blofeid nominated
the curate.

In the chancel, on a grave-flone — Hie jacct Joks.
Damme, qui olt. 1*2 col. ----- Ao. Dni. 1462. —
Several in memory of the family of Blofeld.

Alfo the arms of Bigot, earl of Norfolk ; of
Damme ; and of fir Simon telbrigg's lady, who was
piece to the king of Bohemia. — Damme, impaling,
quarterly, Jermy and Mounteney.

A kttle brook after turning the overfhot wheel of
Grefham mill, takes its courfe through this parifh,
then meanders through the park of Robert Lee
Doughty, cfq. in Hanworth, and from thence with
greater confequence becomes fubfervient to a rnilLat
Aldburgh, and at length empties itfelf into the Bure
near Lammafs ; upon the banks of this little dream
(which though barely covering its gravelly bottom,
•yet abounds with trout) is the fcite of a large exten-
five building, faid to be the feat of the Dammes ;
what remains mofl perfecl of the foundation feems to
have belonged to a fquare building with large but-
trefles, furrounded by a moat, and the rivulet is erp,-
bankcd with a ftone wall on one fide for full feventy
five yards from this building — perhaps in a few
years more thefe veftiges of its former confequence
will be alfo hidden from the inquifitive antiquary.
The name of the manor, Sujlead Late Dammes, fome
'few infcriptions on brafe in the church, and the pre-
H 3 ceding

io8 * H U N D R E D O F

.ceding account of the family of Damme, preferred
i. v Mr. Biomfield, is all that remains of people
\vlio perhaps once commanded refpecl, and railed
this family feat to perpetuate their name; — if they
'fixed their happinefs in grandeur more than hofpita-
liiv (in pride of anceftry more than mental accom-
.plifliments) in the fmiles of the great rather than in
the bleffmgs of the poor, how would they blufh to
know that under the fame roof their undiftinguifhed
.duft lies mixed with the recent afhes of— Elizabeth
Lowe — who died- July 12, 1774, aged 64 years.
Amidfl the unmeaning tribute neceffarily paid to
many families in a work of this kind, merely becaufe
their anceftors had (though perhaps undefcrvedly)
obtained favours from our fir ft William — let the an-
tiquary or the genealogift permit us to mention the
name of St. Clair, without tracing it back to Alfred's
reign, for though we could perhaps gratify them with
a long' pedigree, as (lie did not make this her boaft,
we will only fay that Mrs. Elizabeth Lowe was the
only daughter of the -Rev. Patrick St. Clair, a re-
fpcaable clergy man : She fpent the greateft part of her
life in the fondefl filial attendance on her aged ancl
infirm father — Irom him flie early learned to prefer
the poflhumous character (lie acquired, to the flat-
tering and pernicious approbation which captivates
too many of her fex. Lead (lie fhould be inter-
rupted in thefc tender dutks to her widow' d parent,
fhe continued fmgle till after his death, when at an
advanced age (he married the Rev. Mr. Lowe, re&qr
of Stiftkey, and canon of Windfor; a man of her
own age, who died without iffue a year before her.
To give a juft idea of her character it is needlefs to
bring in all the firing of common-place epithets
with which monuments are loaded, it is enough to
fay that thofe with whom (lie converfed or corref-
ponded were always pleafed or inftruded, and thofe

near

NORTH ERPJNGHAM. iQg

whom flie lived were always happy; the grateful
glow which her name awakens on the cheek of her
furviving dependents and parishioners, evinces the
relpecl: they pay to her memory. From her arms
we fhall only record the motto — Entends toy — which
we think will i>,eaj .t.hjs ,t,ran,flatipn -"-Go/ an^ do
thou likewife."

The houfe in which {he lived is fmall -but conve-
nient, and pleafantly fituated in the middle of a little
farm, which fhe ornamented with feveral fmall plan-
tations. It is now in. the occupation of Mr. .Hum-
phry Repton, to wham we are obliged for many
drawings with which this, work is embellifhed.

The church, which is a frnall building (unrounded
by fycamore trees, overwhofe tops its white round
tower appears, is pleafantly fituatecl on a rifmg
ground, and commands an engaging view to the
north over an extenfive lawn of rich pafture land,
interfered by venerable oaks, and bounded by a full
view of the fouth front of JFelb.rigg, boldly relieved
by the magnificent wood behind it ; nor is the prof-
peel; to the church lefs pleafing and pidurefque. —

This is the view we have given.

In 1738 the R.ev. Richard Sibbs was preferred to
this curacy by the crown ; and again in 1769,

SYDESTRAND. SyDISTROND, SYDER-
STRAND, or SYSTRAND, wrote in Doomfday
book Siflrand. .William, earl Warren, had this
lordfhip, of which a free-man of Stigand, archbifhop
of Canterbury, was deprived ; Waleran gave the
earl livery of it to make up the lordfhip of Girri-
mingham ; Siflran -{as ;t \$ ,now vulgul.arly called)
was then valued at ?os. after .at 6os, ^nd this and

Knapton

no HUNDRED OF

Knapton the earl had livery of as one manor, and
together 'were two leucas long, with eight perches and
five feet, and one Icuca, with twelve perches and four
feet broad.

Out of thefe tenures arofe two manors, both be-
longing to the earl Warren, who held them in ca-
pite, and each of the lordfhips had a moiety of the
advowfon of the church. John, earl Warren, pre-
fented as lord in 1333; from the earls Warren this
came to the dukes of Lancafter, and Henry, earl of
Lancafter, prefented in 1350; and John of Gaunt,
duke of Lancafter, and king of Caftilc, in 1385,
and 1391. After this it was in the crown, and in
. 1406 the king prefented, it being part of the dutchy
of Lancafter, and fo it continues at this time.

The family of de Plaiz was enfeofled of the other
moiety of this town, or a lordfhip ; and on the death
of Richard de Plaiz, in the 53d of Henry 111. 1269,
Luke de Poinings held the third part of a fee of the
manor of Knapton ; in the 14th of Edward I. i 276,
jefFiey de Gotherfton claimed view of frank-pledge,
affife,' &c. -

-In tlie 13th of Henry VIII. 1521, fir Edward
Poinings died lord, and Henry, earl of Northum-
berland, was his coufin and heir ; and by the faid
Henry was conveyed to Robert Ratcliff, vifcount
Fitz-Walter, in the 21 ft of the faid king ; and in
Ja33t being then earl of Suffex, he prefented to a
moiety of this church. In 1603 the king, James I.
\vas patron of one moiety, and lord, and Thomas
Kemp, efcj. of this moiety.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and had two
moieties or rnedicties ; one in the patronage of the

NORTH ERPINGHAM. itt

carl Warren, valued at ten marks ; and fir Luke dc
Poiniugs of the other, valued at five marks, in the
reign of Edward I. The prefem value is 5!. los.

-':. , 1

In 1600 the reclor returned fifiv-niae coramu-.

. j

nicants.

The patronage has fince been with many perfons.

In 1748 the Rev. Charles Vaughan Baker, was
prefented to this re&ory, by Thomas Thornbury, efq,

In the church were the arms of Poinings, barrv of
fix, or and vert, on a bend, gules, three mullets,
argent.

The town takes its name as feated on the flrand or
fhorc of the fea.

THORPE-MARKET, wrote in Doomfday Torp.
William, earl Warren, was lord, and Ralph held of
him at the furvey two.carucates of land, which a
free-man of Stigand, the archbifhop, held in the
reign of the Confeffor, and was deprived of at the
conqueft ; to it belonged many appendages, alfo a
church endowed with ten acres, valued in the whole
then at 4ss. but at the furvey at 81. The laid earl
had alfo here, in Mundelley, and Trunch, nineteen
free-men, three of which were only under protection
or commendation, but the reft all paid cuflornary
dues in king Ed ward's, time, and R. Mallet laid claim,
to thefe men. Pauline Pey ver was lord, and a judge
in the reign of Edward III. he built at fuddington in
Bediordfhhe, a magnificent manor-houfe, &c. of
{lone, with a park, garden, See.

The

ii2 HUNDREDOF

The family of de Peyv.ere was enfeoffed of this
lordfhip under the earl Warren.

Tliis family of de Peyvcre defcended from Roger,
the great bifliop of Saiifbuiy, in the reign of king
Stephen, who had a fon by Maud de Ramfbury, his
harlot, called Roger de Paupere Cenfu, chancellor
of England.*

Lord Pauline Peyvcre died in the year 1257 • he
\vas lord of Wendlcfbury in Oxfordfliire, and one o£
the king's juflices in the §§d of Henry III.

William de Peyvere, a younger fon of Pauline,
xvas lord; and in the 52d of Henry Hi. 1268, reco-
vered damages of the bailiff of Gimmingham, for
dill-raining in this town, and in Roughton, which
1'ordfhip he held in demean ; in the gd of Edward I.
1275, he claimed royal privileges, a gallows, affife,
a market, and a fair, and died before the soth of
that king.

Sir Walter de Norwich had a diflincl lordfhip from
tli at of Peyvere's, but held of the earl Warren ; and
in the 5th of Edward 11. 1312, he had a grant of
free-warren.

In the 3d of Henry IV. 1402, Edmund Reedefham,
John dc ^.epps, &c. held the manor of Thorpe-
JVJ^rJcet by the fervice of one fee of die heirs of John.
Peyyere, and he of the lord Say, who held it of the
dutchy of Lancafter.

Sir John He.veningham, in right of Elizabeth his
wife, fettled by fine, 1441, on Robert Rands, the
third part of the manor of Reed-.-fham in this town.
this it came to the Grefhams, and fir John

Greftiam,
* Kenuet's Parochial Antiq^

N O R f HC E R/P I N G H £ M. n 5:

Orefham; knt. and lord-mayor of London in 1547,
died feifcd of it, Qclober 23, 1556. Sir Richard:
Grefham in 1586 inherited it, who married Anrr,.'
daughter of Thomas' Crofts, efq. of Saxham Parva^
in Suffolk, whofe fons dying without iffue, Eliza-
beth their fitter and co-heir, brought ir by marriage;
to Henry Page, efq. of Saxthorpe in'" Norfolk, coun-'
c/ellor at law, whofe fon, John Page, efq. was* lord
in 1 60/5-, and at hi> death left it lo His ibn, Grefhanr
Page, efq. of Saxthorpe.

MATVTOT?. This" was' given to
the priory on the foundation there'of by fir John dc:
Cheney, the founder. In the gth of Edward II.
15 1 r7, the prior fu'ed peffons for fi{h'imi;< here Ltuc
temporalities in 1428 were valued at io6s. 4d. Ab
the dilfol'ution it was granted by Henry VIII. ow
May 9, 1-538, in his sgtli year, to Thomas Howard,
duk-e of Norfolk; Edmund Grefham died feifed of
it in the 2gth of Elizabeth, 1587, and of the manof
of Thorpe-Market and Bradfield, with two manors in
Surry.

Sir Thomas Richardfon afterwards poffeiTed it, and
fekl it Co fir Thomas Rant, who dying without iffue,
it came to William Rant, M. D. whofe fon, fir Wil-
liam Rant, held it in 1692; ha- married Elizabeth,
daughter of William de Grey,, of Men-on, efq, and
left two daughters and co-heirs, Elizabeth and Jane ;
Jane married to Harbord Cfopley, efq.' and Elizabeth.
to Robert BritiiTe, councillor at law, at Norwich.

• In 7'horpe, Robert Gfenoh had at the fiirvey forty
acres of land, and one of meadow, of which feven
/t'ec'-men were deprived.

The

ii4 HUNDREDOF

The church is dedicated to St. Margaret, was a
re£lory, and being granted to the priory of Coxford
by. Jeffrey, lord Say, who married Alice, one ol the
daughters and co-heirs of fir John de Cheney, the
founder, was appropriated to it, and a. vicarage fet-
tled ; the re£lory was valued at eighteen mai ks, the
vicarage at 155. the vicar had a manfe with three,
acres of land, and the rectory thirteen acres. The
prefent value of the vicarage is 3!. us. id. ob.
and is difcharged.

The vicar in 1603 returned frxty-four commu-
nicants.

A large black marble tomb-ftone— To WiUiamRant,
doctor of phyfick, and fellow of the college of phjicians
in London, who died the \ ^ih Day of December, 1653,
tn the 4g/A year of his age.— Under this Jlone alfo his
wife Jane, third daughter of fir John Dingley . knt. of
\Volverhamplon in Hampjhire; i ith of June, 1656.

A grave-ftone with a brafs plate — For Edmund
Grejham, efq. who died Augujl, 1586.

In the church the arms of Buttry impaling Damme.
— John Buttry, of London, gent, and Elizabeth his wife,

daughter of Damme, of Sit/lead, were here buried ;

he died July 30, 1488.

Hetherfet impaling Berningham — Heiherfet im-
paling Rands — and Peyvexe.

It was dccred in the dutchy court of Lancafter, in
the 36th of Henry VIII. 1545, that the king's te-
nants of his manors of Gimmingham, Antingham,
Thorpe, Bradfield, Trunch and South Repps, ad-
joining to the common, fhould have their ac-

cuflomcd

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 115

cuftomed right in the commons between the faid
towns, and that fir John Giefham, and his tenants
of Thorpe, ihould have but three hundred fheep on
the common called Oldfield-Heath, Sec.

Near the church flood the manor-houfe, which was
a large building, arid of which all that now remains
are the garden walls, well covered with fruit-trees.
The fcite of this houfe and garden is now anurfery-
ground and public garden.

In i 748 the Rev. Thomas Woodyer was preferred
to the vicarage of Thorpe-Market, with a mediety
of hradfield, by the late fir William Harbord, bare,
of Gunton.

THURGARTON, wrote Thurgartuna in Doomf-
day book. The abbot of St. Bennct at Holme was
lord of this manor in. Edward the Confeffor s leign,
and at the furvey. This abbey was founded by Ca-
nute the Great, 1037 ; and this lordfhip was given to
it by a Saxon lady, Edgiva Swanehals, .as jthe re-
gifter of Holme fays.

At the furvey the abbot's manor was valued at 6L
it was thirteen furlongs longs, and fix broad, and
the foe belonged to it.

In the 5th of king John, 1204, Thomas deThur-
garton held lands of the abbot ; and in the 1 2th of
the laid reign Peter de Hobois paid twenty marks for
feilin of lands here, and in Antinghatn, claimed of
the abbot, when the abbot pleaded that he bad not
diffeifed Peter, but that the king had fet over the re-
ligious houfes certain guardians or keeepers ; and in
the'igth of that king Peter reicafed all his right to
the abbot*

The

HUNDRED OF

The abbot in the 3d of Edward I. 1275, claimed
the Ictc, adife, &c. and would not permit his malt-
ftcrs and brewers to come before the king's bailiffs of
the hundred to the view of frank -pledge, &c. and
figned and marked his flagons with his own mark, &c.

In 1428 the temporalities of the abbot were va-
lued at 17!. ys. 6d. per ann. and in 1535, Henry
VIII. by a& of parliament, on the difiolution of the
rnonafteries, fettled the revenues of this abbey on the
fee of Norwich, and took to himfelf the ancient re-
venues of that fed; by which ac~l this lordfhip of
Thurgarton, called the Chamberlin's, came to be an-
nexed to that fee. In the 3d and 4th of Philip and
Mary, by the account of Thomas Rugge, then bai-
liff, the rent of affife was 21!. iis. id. q. — il. pen-
fion out of there&ory; — Lete-fee to North Erping-
ham hundred, 1 6d. To Thurgarton reclor, 25. The
convent's manor and rents, 305. A penfion of tithes
belonging to the chamberlain, 335. /jd. To the pe-
nitentiary out of Honylands in Barningham and Tut-
tington, 4!. 135. 4d. The farm of the demean lands
was i\. of the herbage, 155. 8d, Farm of the fcite
of the manor, four quarters, fix bufhels of barley, at
35. 4d. a quarter ; perquifites of court with fines in-
cluded, 555. 8d. and 4!. 135. 4d. rents, &c. belong-
ing to the cellerer, out of lands here and in Thwayte,
demifed to Miles Hobart, efq. and the bifhop of
Norwich is lord at this rime.

Roger Bigot, anceftor of the earls of Norfolk, had
at the furvey two borderers in this town belonging
to his manor of Hanworth, valued at the furvey
at 55.

About the sd of Edward I. 1275, William de Fel-
rmngham purchafed of John de Thurgarton lands

here,

NORTH ERPINGHAM. 117

here, in Suftead, &c. which was afterwards fettled
on Richard de Walkeftead.

In the sgth of Henry VIII. 1538, fir Thomas Be-
clingfield, Alice his wife, and Hrmin Rookwood,
efq. her fon and heir, conveyed to Edmund Wind-
ham, efq. a manor in Thurgarton.

i William Windharn, efq. died lord in 1761, leav-
ing his fon and heir a minor, now of age.

The church, dedicated to AH Saints, is a reclory,
formerly in the patronage of the abbot of St. Bcnnet
at Holme, who had a portion of tithes valued at
two marks per annum. The prefent value is
gl. 6s. 8d. and is discharged of tenths, 8cc. The
bifhop of Norwich is patron.

It is a fingle pile covered with thatch, and without
any fleeple, which gives it more the appearance of
a barn than of a church.

In 1342 the pope prefented to this church, as did
fir Thomas Woodhoufe in 1 556.

In 1603 the re&or certified that there were one
hundred and four communicants.

The Rev. John Cuftance was prefented to this
reftory in 1740, by Samuel Lifle, bifhop of Norwich.

In the chancel on a grave-ftone — Hie jacet Jcpvl-
tus in gra. tt mia Dei D'nus Jokes. Bacon, quoda*
rtflor dcThurgarton, quiobt. 1509. \

In the church were the arms of St. Bennet's abbey
of Holme, fable, a crofier ftaff, in pale, between two
crowns, or; — alfo of Bacon*

I TRIMING-

1 1 8 H LT N D R E D O F

TRIMMINGHAM. We find no mention made,
of this town in Doomiday book, being included (aS
we imagine) and accounted for under die earl of
Warren's great lordfhip of Gimmingham, to which
it joins, and paid fuit and fervicc to it. William,
earl Warren, was lord of it at the furvey ; and John,
earl Warren, granted it to Thomas, earl of Lancafter ;
from this family it came to John of Gaunt, duke of
Lancafter, and to Henry IV. and continues in the
ciown as part of the dutchy of Lancafter. There,
was a family of Giime living in this town.

The church is a reclory, dedicated to St. John
Rapt ill. In the reign of Edward I. the reclor had a
competent edifice, with half an acre of land, and
was valued ar nine marks, paid Peter-pence isd. and
the ear! Wan en was patron. The prefent value is
61. and is diicharged.

From the beacon, or rather the place where the
beacon once flood, you have the moft extenfive proi- '
pe& of both fea and land in this county, both Yar-
mouth and Norwich fpircs may be diftinclly fecn.

In 1384, John, king of Caftile, &c. prefented to
this church; and in 1424 the archbifhop of Canter-
bury, feoffee of Henry V. In 14/1, Elizabeth,
queen to Edward IV. prefented ; and in 1603 the
reclor returned fixty-feven communicants.

The patronage is now in the chancellor of the
dutchy of Lancafter.

It is pretended, that in this chuich was a famous
relick in times of popery, the head of St. John the
Baptift, to which pilgrimages, great vvorfliip, and of-
ferings were made. In one of the will books of

Nwwich

NORTH ER PING HAM. 1*9

Norwich is that of Alice Cook, of Horftead, wife
of Robert Cook, of Croftwick, in 1478 ; — " Item,
I vvyll have a man to go a pilgrimage to St. John hy%
hede of Trymmyngham.1'

The temporalities of Broomholm priory were 2d.

yearly.

> j

The late Rev. William Clagget was preferred to
this reclory by the dutchy of Lancafter in 1756; and
in 1775 the chancellor prefented the Rev. Stephen
Gage.

TRUNCH, wrote in Doomfday book Trunchet.
William » earl Warren, had the lordfhip of this town,
of which three freemen were deprived, one of them
belonged to Harold, late king of England, another
to Ralph Stalre, and the third to Ketek

This town belonged to the earl Warren's capital
manor of Gimmingham, and paid fuit and fervice to.
it. In the 34th ol Henry III. 1250, Maudde Nor-
wich granted by fine to Richer, ion of Nicholas, a
meffuage, forty-eight acres of land, a mill, and the
fixth part of another in this town, Swafield and Brad-
field. In the i^th of Edward I. 1287, the earl
claimed a weekly market on Saturday in this manor ;
and on the death of John, earl Warren, in the sfft
of Edward III. the market was valued at los. per
annum. The manor came after to the earl of Lan-
cafter (as is before obferved) and fo to John of
Gaunt, duke of Laneafter, and Henry IV. and is
ftill in the crown as part of the dutchy of Lancaiter.

The church is dedicated to St% Bptolph, and is a
regular pile, with a nave, two ailes, and a chancel
covered yvith lead, and has a tower with four bells.

120 H U N D R E D O F, Sec.

In the chancel, on a little monument — Lancelots
fhexton eapdlanus Regis Edw. VI. facre theologie bacca-
laurtus, et rector de Trunch, obt. 25 Febr. 1588.

On a grave ftone — Hie jacet Magr. Robt. Cantdl,
'd, rehvr ijli. ecdie, t^ui obt. i Sept. Ao. Dni. 1480.

Grave-ftones — In memory of Thomas Worts, gent.
died November 13, 1693, aged 45, with his arms.
—}\'i<iin:n }Yorts, gent, who married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter flf Riches Brown, ejq, died Aitgujl 25, 1694, aged
(jo, with the arms of Worts impaling Brown.

The patronage of the church was granted to the
priory of Caille-acre by William, thefirft earl War-
ren, on his founding that priory. In the reign of
Edward I. the reclor had a manfe and thirteen acres
of land, valued at fixteen marks, and the prior of
Cafllc-acre had a penfion or portion of tithe valued
at*4os. The prefem value is lol. 135. 4d. and pays
firft fruits, &c.

The prior of Caflle-acre prefented till the difiblu-
tion of religious houfes in 1535. after which Henry
VIII. granted it to Thomas, duke of Norfolk, De-
cember 22, 1538.

In 1603 the re£lor returned one hundred and fifty-
tu-o communicants ; and the mailer and fellows of
Catherine-hall in Cambridge had the patronage.

The temporalities of Broomholm priory in this
parifli, were 45. yd. ob.

In 1 748 the Rev. Henry Stebbing was prefented to
this re&ory by the mailer and fellows of Catherine-
hail, Cambridge; and in 1751 this church was coh-
foiidated with Gimmingham.

' Nj^

.
*§ kjrf <§> ^^ ft

THE

HISTORY

O F

NORFOLK.

Hundred of South Erpingham.

THIS hundred is bounded on die eaft by that of
Tunftcad ; on the weft by the hundreds of
Holland Eynsford ; on the fouth by Taveiham hun-
dred; and on the north by that of North Erpingham.
It is about eleven miles ,in length from Strauon-
Strawlefs to Weft Beckharn, and ten in breadth from
Suanton-Abbot to Booton. The fee of it remained
in the crown till 1226, and then Henry III. granted it
to Hubert de Burgh, earl of Kent, at which time it
appears that the hundred-court was held at Cawfloa
A

3 HUNDREDOF

^ark-gate; for William de Caltborpe, and Nicholas
<le Reppes, who had a difpute of right, both ap-
peared, aftd left it to fix of their neighbours who knew
the truth of the facls there, to determine it, which was
accordingly done in favor of William ; — an excellent
inflance of the fpeedy courfe of juftice in thofe days,
and much to be wifhcd that it might be reflored in
our own. Hubert aforefaicl granted it for life to
Hugh lePaikcr, (or his park-keeper at Cawflon) to
which manor this hundred then belonged; and at his
death John de Burgh, fenior, fon of Hubert, had it,
and in 1273 released the manor and hundred to Ed-
ward I. when it was worth ssl. per ann. the old
rental being only lol. per ann. In 1285 the king had
fettled it on queen Eleanor, his confort, and John de
Berwick, clerk, her treafurer, received the profits for
her. In 1301 William Curfon, of Carlton, fanned
it, with the hundred of North Erpingham, &c. which
attended this hundred. In 1357 Ifabel, queen of
England, mother of Edward III. died feifcd of both
thcfc hundreds, and that king was found her heir,
who by indenture, dated June 25, 1371, fettled it
upon his fon, John of Gaunt, duke of Lancafter.
when he married Conftance, the only daughter and
heirefs of Don Pedro, king of Caftile, &c. in ex-
change for the horjor, earldom, caflle, Sec. of Rich-
mond ; and from this time it became parcel of the
Duchy of Lane after, together with the manor of Ayl-
fliam, and hundreds of North Erpingham, Gallow,
and Brothercrofs. In 1396 fir Thomas Erpingham,
knt. held it for life by grant from the Duke of Lan-
cafter; and in 1414 the reverfion, after the death of
lir Thomas, way fettled on the archbiftiop of Canter-
bury, bifliop of Norwich, John Wodchoufe, efq. and
others, as feoffees in truft. In 1474 Elizabeth, wife
of Edward IV. held it in jointure, and from that time
it hath paffcd as the manor of Aylfharo.

This

'SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 3

This hundred constitutes the deanry of Ingworth,
in the archdeaconry of Norwich, and paid clear to
every tenth logl. 75. 4d. and the religious paid to
every tenth, for their revenues here, 24!. gs. 8d. it
alfo pays 29!. 6s. to the general county rate, at a fix
hundred 'pound levy.

To the following lift of the towns in this hundred,
we add the number of votes polled by freeholders re-
fident in each, at the great contefled election in
1768.

W. deG. A. C.

Alby - 2211

Aylfham - 3 10 11 12

Baconfthorpc - r 4 6 3

Banningham 2 2 2 2

Barningham, Little -olio
Beckhara, Weft -0022
Belaugh - - i 1.2 2
Blickling - 1065

Booton - i i o o

Brampton - o o i i

Burgh, Aylfham o o o o

Buxton 4152

Calthorpe - i i o o

Cawflon - *• i 2 18 16

Colby 1043

Coltifhali - - 6 i 13 8
Corpufty - 1111

Erpingham --4521
Hautcbois, Great a o 3 i

Little o o o o

Heveningham - 4 ill 8

Heydon - ° I 4 5

Ingworth - 23 i »

Irmingland - 0220

Itteringham • 1201

A 2 Lammas

HUNDRED OF

W. deG. A. C.

Lammas ° ° 3 3

Mannington - o o o o

Marfhara - 2143

Oulton 1243

Oxnead o o I i

Saxthorpe 3412

Scottow - - I o 13 12

Skeyton 0055

Siratton-Strawlefs 2020

Svvanton-Abbots - I o 4 3

Thwayte - 0022

Tuttington - o o I - o

Wickmere « 3300

Wokerton - i I o o

32 52 136 no

Seals and principal houjes in South Erpingham.

Aylfiam, Jarrct Dafhwood, cfq.

Ditto, John Bedingfield, efq.

Ditto, Mr. George Hunt Holly

Ditto, Mr. George Hogg

Baconjlhorpc, Zurai-Shadci Girdlefton, efq.

Stickling, Rt. Hon. E. Buckinghamfhire

Booton, Peter Elwin, cfq.

Coltifhallt Mr. Chapman Ivcs

Hcydon, Wm. Wigget Bulwer, efq.

Irmingland Edm. Cradock Hartopp, efq,'

Oulton, Coulfon Bell, efq.

Saxthorpe, Peter Elwin, efq. jun.

Scottowe, Thomas Durrant, efq.
Stratton-SlrawhJs, Robert Marfliam, efq.

Wolterton, Right hon. lord Walpole,

Thii

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 5

This hundred comprehends a vafl tradl of rich,
populous, and well-improved country, abounding
with every objecl pleahng to the man of view, or of
fcntiment. Seats, churches, villages, woods, rivers,
and mild eminences, are the finer features on its
face; — the body of earth produces grain, &c. in
abundance, and the inhabitants, as members of the
aggregate, are virtuous, wealthy, and induflrious.

N. B. Mr. Corbridge, in his map of Norfolk,
publifhed in 1730, delineates Sco-Rufton, and Fel-
mingham, (which belong both to Tunftead hun-
dred) as lying in South Erpingham: — We hope Mr.
ArmuTong, in his furvey, wiii not be led into any err
ror fimilar to this.

ALBY, ALDBY, ALDBIE, or the OLD DWELLING;
pans of it in the Conqueror's time extended into the
North hundied, and belonged to Suftead and Han-
worth manors, all which, with the whole of this
manor, which was in the hundred of South Erping-
ham, belonged to Roger Bigot. Earl Harold was
lord in the Gonfeffor's time, who gave it to Osfort,
who held it of the carl as chief lord, and after him
his four ions had it. Alebi, or Alabei, was worth
aos. at the firft, and 4.03. at the fecond furvcy, was
fix furlongs long, and five broad, and paid gd. ob.
gelt.

It continued many ages in the Norfolk family, as
Forncct manor ; the manor had liberty of free-warren
and leet; upon the attainder of the duke of Norfolk
it was feized by the crown, and in 1561 fir Henry
Parker, knt. lord Morley, had it, who foon after
conveyed it to Henry Stanley, lord Strange, and
about 1373 Clement Harward had it.

The

6 HUNDRED OF

The advowfon was granted bv Edward Vf . to Ed-
ward lord Clinton, who aliened it to William Dix,
of London, merchant, who had it confirmed to him
by his mafler, the duke of Norfolk, with Wickmere
manor, and with his daughter and coheirefs it pafTed
to Tafeburgh, of whom Henry Spelman, efq. had
it in 1694, and it now belongs to the right lion, lord
Walpole, of Wolterton.

The village contains about thirty families, is taxed
at 264!. and is in the liberty of the Duchy of Lan-
cafter. The temporals of Waborne prior were taxed
at 5d. and thofe of the facrifl of Bury at id. only.

The church is dedicated to St. Ethelbert, in which
we find memorials for Katherine, wife of Samuel
I angwade, who died in 1694, atat. 34; and for
Mary, wife of Samuel Langwade, 1722, aged 63,
and no other. The re&ory is valued in the king's
books at 7!. iSs. 8d. but being fworn of the clear
yearly value of 37!. it is difcharged of firfl-fruits
and tenths, and is capable of augmentation ; it nas
anciently valued at thirteen marks.

: In 1312 Alice de Hanonia, countefs of Norfolk,
prrfentcd. In 1642 William Plummer, reclor, was
ejected out of this and Suflead curacy by the carl of
Manchefter, for being a loofe, intemperate man, fel-
dom preaching. 8cc. which was pretence only ; for the
true rcafon is alfo added,' " for inveighing againft
the rebels, refufaig to pay money for fupporting the
rebellion, and for amfling his majeftyj" he had a
wife and four children. In 1715 Mrs. Elizabeth
Spelman, widow, was patronefs. and the Rev. Mr.
'I ho. Fox held it, united to Wickmere, who was
buried here Odober 17, i 71 j, aged 36 years, as his
itone informs us,

SOUTH E&PINGHAM. 7

In 1755 the Rev. Daniel Fromantcel was pre*
fented to this reclory by the honorable Horace Wai-
pole, now lord Walpole.

In 1558, William Aclon, gent, was buried in the
chancel.

A letter from Nicholas ftrewfter, reclor here, to
Henry Scobell, fecretary to Cromwell, for an aug-
mentation to his living, is printnd in Peck's Defi-
derata Curiofa, vol. 2. lib. 13, fol. 2:. It was
then returned to have weekly fervice, as it now hath.

AYLSHAM, AYLFSHAM, or AILF.SHAM.

This town in Doomfday-book is written Eldham,
that is, the village at the Leas, or paftnre by the
water, which exactly anfwers to its fituation ; the
whole town, with its berewicks of Scipedan, Brundal,
and Crachefort, or Crakeford, belonged to Guert, or
Cuerd, the Dane, who was a great owner in this
county, and at that time the manor extended into
T'atituna, or Tutungton ; it had in the whole no
Icfs than 18 carucates ; the woods here were then
large enough to maintain 400 fwine, there were
20 villains, 88 borderers, or tenants, that paid poultry
and other provifions for the lord's board or table ;
two fervants in the houfe, and fixty focmen, or te-
nants, that plowed the lord's land, and held a caru-
cate and half among them ; 'the manor was then
\vorth with its berewicks 12!. per ann. and was two
miles long and as much broad, and paid aod. to
the gelt, or tax, towards every 2os. raifcd by the
hundred ; and Crakeford hamlet was then four fur-
longs and a half long, and four furlongs broad,
and paid $d, gelt towards every 2os. rajfed in the
hundred. The whole came to Ralfh carl of Nor-
folk, but on hii forfeiture the Conqueror fcized it.

and

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and Godric managed it for him ; and when the fur-
vcy was taken by that prince, about the year 1086,
it appears that the manor was railed from 12 to 25,
and was now worth 2c<l. a year, bcfides 205. as an
annual fine: The parts in Tutting tot) and Crakeford
were now feparated from the manor, and were firft
held by William earl Warren, and after he forfeited
them, Drogo, or Drue, had them, but the king
claiming them from him, Warren recovered them, as
his anticnt inheritance.

Irom this time the manor continued in the crown
tvhole and undivided, till the time of Richard I.
and he it was that divided it, by giving a part to
Bury abbey, which was the original of Sexton's
manor here, and by granting another part off, which
was the original of Bolwick's manor; fo that now
there are four manors in this town, the capital, or
Lancafler manor, the reclory and vicarage manor,
Sexton's, and Bolwick's, of all which we fliall fpeak
feparately.

AYLESHAM, ex parte LANCASTRIE, or LANCAS-
TER'S. Aylfham whole town was in the hands of
Henry II. and he held it in right of his crown
from the Conqueror, his progenitor, and in 11.56
he had affigned it to his brother William for lifq
for his better fupport and honor, with Cawfton.
In 1199 Euftace de Nevile farmed them both of
king John, till 1215, an^ tuen taat king directed his
writ to the fheriff of Norfolk, to deliver poffef-
fion of Aylfham to Boldwin de Ayre ; but in 1220
the king gave it to Hubert dc Burgo, or Burgh,
carl oi Kent, and fo it became joined to Cawfton
and the hundreds. In 1227 the tenants pleaded,
that when Richard I. went to the Holy-land, he
conveyed the manor for a time to Euflacc de Ne-

vilc,

SOUTH ERPINGH AM. 9

, who fold many parcels of the demefnes tofeveral
of the tenants, who were now ordered to produce
their grants, which feveral did, and they were all al-
lowed, and thofe that did not loft their lands ; and
the fame year John leGrey pleaded, that he held his
manor of Shenngham of this manor, by lid. per
aim. paid at Lammas-day, and the fervice of one fee.
In 1 296 it was in the king's hands ; for Richard
Cailly, his bailiff, diftrained John Holmegay for 45.
i id. rent, for a. place, called Holmecroft, which was
held by the faid rent, and the fervice of being pro-
voft, or reeve, of the king's mill, and market, of Ayl-
fliam; and it pafled with Cawflon till about 1330,
and then queen Ifabel, the king's mother, had it for
life, and died fcifed, and then it continued in the
crown till 137 i, when it was firft made parcel of the
Duchy of Lancafter, by the king's giving it to his
fon, John of Gaunt, duke of Lancafter, and the
heirs of his body ; and from that time it became the
head, or principal town* of that duchy, in this
county.

He died feifed of the duchy and manor in the 22d
of Richard II. i 398, being the greateft fubjecl: of the
Engliih crown; iogreat, that " as great as John of
Gaunt" then was, and itill remains one of our
Englifh proverbs.

At his death Katherine, his widow, held it for
life; and at her death Henry Plantagenet, fon and
heir of John of Gauntv inherited it, who being
crowned king by the name of Henry IV. united the
whole inheritance of Lancafter unto the crown,
fjnce which the ducal title of Lancafter hath been
B drowned

* " Ailefliam, quod Ducatus Lancaftriae, apud nos prsetorium
" eft/' fays Spclman in his Iccnia, fol, 151.

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drowned in the tide, of the regal dignity; but in
honor of the Houfc of Lancafter, this king inftituted
the Duchy Court, to the end, the lands belonging to
the Duchy might in all following times be diflin-
guifhcd and known from the lands of the crown.

It was afterwards granted by the king to fir Tho-
mas E.pingham, knt. for life; and in 1414 Henry

V. fettled it on his feoffees, the archbifhop of Can-
terbury, Richard bifhop of Norwich, Walter Hun-
gerford, John Phelip, knts. Hugh, Mortimer, John
Woodehoufe, and others, together with the manors
of Wighton, Fakenham, Snettifham, Gimmingham,
Tunftead, 8cc. and the hundreds of North and South
Erpingham, Gallowe, and Brothcrcrofs, with many
others in divers counties. In 1460 it was fettled,
among others, on tmftecs, to fulfil the will of Henry

VI. and in 1474 Edward IV. fettled it on Elizabeth,
his queen, for life, and from that to the prefent
time it hath belonged to the crown, as parcel of the
Duchy of Lancafter, of which it is now held by
the right honorable John Hobart, earl of Bucking-
hamfhirc, the prefent lord.

This being the capital manor of the Duchy, the
Duchy-court hath been always held here.

The manors in this town arc fine certain, both for
houfes and lands, and give a moiety dower, and the
lands defccnd in gavel-kind.

SEXTON'S MANOR had its rife out of the capital
manor, it being given by Richard I. in free alms to
the monaaery of St. Edmund at Bury, in Suffolk,
to find four wax tapers continually burning at St.

Edmund's

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Edmund's fhrine, in that church, the manor being
then worth lol. a year; this was confirmed by king
John ; and was held formerly under king Richaid,
before he granted it, half by William Bardolph, and
half by John de Haftings. It appears that in this
king's reign the manoi-houfe here was called Abbot's-
hall; but the whole being foon after appropriated to
the facriftan, or fexton, of that monaftery, it took
the prefent name of Sexton's.

In i 296 it was found that all the tenants of this
manor were obliged to grind at the abbot's water-
mill. In 1285 the abbot of St. Edmund had view
of frank-pledge, affize of bread and ale, free-warren,
or liberty of game, and a ducking-f'tool, in this ma-
nor, which in 1428 was returned to be of 27!. value
to the facrift of the monaftery annually, but at the
diflblution it was fallen under apl. per ami. By the
diflblution of Bury abbey it fell into the hands of
Henry VIII. who granted it in 1545 to Edward
Woode, elq. and his heirs, to be held in capite of the
king's manor of Aylfham, by the4oth part of a knight's
fee, and 555. Sd. ob. rent ; he left it to Richarl
Woode, his fo'n and heir, at his death, in 1547, who
was mayor of Norwich in 1578 ; and from that time
it hath paffed as Bracon-Afh, and the late Thomas
Woode, elq. of Bracon-A(h, fold it to Mr. Peteifon.

BOLWICK, or BOLEWIKE MANOR, which takes its
name from mailer Henry de Bolevvic, who gave name
to if, alfo to the manor-houfe, called Bohvick-hall,
andther.cwas a mill near it, heretofore called Bolewick-
miU ; it was fit ft granted from the great manor by
king John, to Hugh de Bave.s, at a quarter of a fee ;
it pa.CCwl then to the Bolewic's, and from them to
the Whiiwells ; in 1261 Richard de Wlmwell held
it. In 13819 fir Robert Salle, km. IcU his manor of
# 2 Bolcvvikc

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Bolcxvikc to Frances, his wife, for life, and then to
be fold ; he lived at Oxncad, and was killed by the
rebels in the lime of Richard II. and at his wife's
death William dc Danby, called lord Latimer, and
Thomas TrufTcl, his executors, fold it. It pafled
through various families, and was fold in 1518 by
Agnes Milton, widow, to Thomas Aleyn*, and his
heirs; and in 1537 Henry Aleyn fold it to Margaret
\Vymer, widow, and foon after it came to the
Woodes.

Thomas Woode, efq. of Bracon-Afh, was alfo lord
of Bolwick manor; he married for his firft wife,
Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Eyre, efq. of Haflbp,
in Derbyfhire, and Bury's-hall, in Norfolk, and Mar-
garet, daughter of fir Henry Bcdingfield, bart. in
Norfolk, and bequeathed by will the laid manor of
Bolwick to Mrs. Mary Suffield, his eldeft daughter
by the faid marriage, who is the prefent poffeflbr
thereof.

There is a fmgularity in thefe two manors, which
is noticed by fir Henry Spelman, who fays, " it is a
wonder in our law for one manor to be held of ano-
ther by the rod, and granted by copy of court roll: —
Mir urn hie injure nojtro, manerium a manerio tt per vir-
gam lenen, ad voluntatcm domini, etpercopiam rotulorum
curia concedi, manerium Jcilicct de Sexton 's de manerio
AyleJIiam"

The VICARAGE MANOR doth now, and always
did from the appropriation of the church, belong to
the vicar, it being then fettled on the vicars for ever ;
before that time it belonged to the rectory . the ad-

vowfon

• Henry Aleyn, clerk, died in 1554, and held in foccage of
Robert Woode, efq. as of his manor of Sexton's, one meffuage,
calleJ Pergeoa's, alias Coldham-hall, liberty of foldage, and
givers lands and wood thereto belonging.

SOUTH ER PING HAM. ,3

vowfon of which was appcndant to the manor, till
William Rufus, lord here, gave it to the abbey of St.
Martin at Battle, in Suflfex, which was founded by the
Conqueror; the church of Aylfham, or Eilefliam,
with the chapels of Stivecaie, (Stifccay, Stukccay, or
Stifkey) with two parts of its tithes., and Shipden,
with two parts of its tithes, and Brundal in like man-
ner, and Banningham in like manner, and the me-
dicty of the church of Ingworth, and all the fee,
or manor, that Brithric, the parfon of AylQiam.
held, namely, this manor, and the land of one
focman in Aylfliam, added to this manor ; and Ayl-
fham reclory afterwards became (the bifhop's confent
being obtained) appropriated to Battle abbey, which
had about two-third parts of the great tithes, and the
vicar had all the finall tithes of the whole town, and
the great tithes of about a third part of the town,
the fcite of the re&ory-houfe, and the whole manor
thereto belonging, fettled on him and his fucceffors,
all which the vicars have enjoyed to this day ; and
further, the bifhop on fettling the appropriation, re-
ferved to himfelf the nomination of all the vicars,
and accordingly the bifhops always nominated to the
abbots, who prefented on their nomination, to the
diflblution ; but for fome time pad the dean and
chapter of Canterbury have prefented to the vicar-
age, without fuch nomination from, the bifhop of
Norwich.

In 1285 Robert, then vicar of Aylfhara, had the
aflize of bread and beer of all the tenants of his ma-
nor, and all other liberties belonging to a manor, the
vicarage being then valued at twenty-eight marks; it
now ftands in the king's books by the name of
Ailefham vicarage, valued at 17!. igs. ?d. pays firft-
B 3 fruiti

,4 HUNDRED OF

fruits, and il. !<-s. lid. ob. yearly tenths, and
con feq uen tly is incapable of augmentation.

In 1367 Edward IIT. granted licence for the vicar
to enlarge the fcite of the rectory, which was then, as
now, the vicarage-houfe, that joins to the Couth
fide of the church-yard, and the prefent edifice is
a handfome new-bricked building, creeled wholly by
the Rev. Mr. Jonathan Wrench, late vicar.

The' appropriate rc&ory was valued at fevcnty
marks, and being granted by Henry VIII. after the
cliiToluiion, to the dean and chapter of Canterbury,
and confirmed by queen Elizabeth, it is now held
by leafe of that church, and the chancel, here is re-
paired, part by the appropriator, and part by the
vicar.

In 133,5 mafler Robert de KcTelarton, priefi, doc-
tor of phyfic, a noted practitioner in tliofe days, was
vicar of AylQiara.

In 1490 mafler Henry Tylfon, bachelor in the
decrees, was vicar: he is buried under a flone in the
middle of the chancel, with his effigy on it, and two
labels of brafs.

In 1542 Richard Redman, clerk, had a grant of
the next turn of the nomination from Richard Nix,
bifhop of Norwich ; he gave it to maflcr John Bury,
" that vile perfecutor, whofe name ought to be branded
to poflerity for an evil doer; he was commiffary to
the bifliop, and by that power did much of mifchief,
being a proper inftrument forfucha man as bifliop Nix
was : ' he religncd it in 1547 to mailer Thomas Whit-
by, S. T. B. bat in 1554 the queen prefcmed John

Bury

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 15

Bury as;ain, he being then L. L. B. and he held it
by union with Marfliam.

About 1588 John Furmarie, S. T. B was prefented
by Alice Norgate, widow, by a leafe from the late
abbot and convent of Battle ; he is buried in the
chancel, under a /lone, having two brafs plates, thus
infcribed : — John Fur maty, bachelor of divinitie in the
univcrfitic of Cambridge, archdeacon of Stowe, prebend
of Walton, in the churcke of Lincolne, and vicar of the
parijli- churche of Aylijham, a learned divine, a painful
preacher, <bc. dyed the ^th of Augujl - — --- — -
and to his wife, Margery Futmary, who died Ottobcr 28,
1622, aged 74.

In 1699 died Mr. Nathaniel Gill, vicar of Ayl-
fham, and reclor of Aylfham-Burgh; he was ejected
from both in the ^rebellion, and loft a temporal eftate
of 6ol. per ann. had a wife and four children, and
being a great loyalift, was of courfe a great fufferer
in thofe times.

Mr. Jonathan Wrench*, who built the vicarage-
houfe, was brother to fir Benjamin Wrench, M. D.
of Norwich ; he is buried here, but fome time before
his death refigncd it to the Rev. Mr. Jonathan
Wrench, his fon, late vicar, who held it with Moul-
ton Magna, and was prefented by the dean and chap-
ter of Canterbury.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael the arch-
angel, and had guilds in it, held to the honor of St.
B 4 Michael,

* He published a fliort view of the principal duties of the
Chriftian religion, Lond. 1700. duodecimo, price 3d. or 2OS.
per hundred, dedicated to the parishioners of AyUham.

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Michael, St. Peter, St. Margaret, St. John Baptift,
and All Saints ; this noble pile was built by John of
Gaunt, duke of Lancafter, and is a regular build-
ing, having a nave, two ailes, two tranfcepts, and a
chancel thereto adjoining ; a fquare tower, an organ,
clock, and ten bells, with a fmall broach, or (pure, on
the top ; there is an old charnel-houfe at the end of
the chancel ; the porch is covered with lead, as is the
whole building; the fouth tranfcept chapel is dedi-
cated to the Virgin Mary, and was fitted up new in
1489, at the expence of Thomas Aleyn, fcnior, of
Lyng, and other benefaftors. On the fouth window
there remains a neat painting of the falutation ; this
window was made all new of flone and glafs in
1516, at the cod of Joan, wife of Robert Bell, citi-
zen of Norwich. The north tranfcept was called
St. Peter's chapel, and that faint s guild was kept in
it in 1490; the fouth chancel aile was St. Thomas s
chapel.

The following infcriptions may be read on feverai
brafs plates in this church:

Orate pro ammabus Richardi Howard, nuper civis et
vicccomitH civiiatis jYorwici, tt Ceceiie uxoris ejus, qui
ebijt xiii die January, anno Domini MCCCCLXXXXIX.

Orale pro anima Alicie Howard, qua obijl vii die
nfut Julij, anno Domini MCCCCLXXXII, cujus animc
propicietur Dcus. Amen.

Orale pro anima Margarele Howard, nuper uxoris
Rukardi Howard, ac quondam uxoris Edwardi Cutler,
majons cwitatis Norwici, que obijt xx die Decembris,
anno Domini MCCCCXXXIII, cujus animc propicielur
Dcus.

This

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 17

This Richard Howard was flieriff of Norwich in
1488; he built the church porch here, and R. H.
remains carved on the roof, and this over the door :
— Orate pro anir.ialus Richardi Howard, Alicie, Marga-
rete, et Cecilie, uxorum ejus, qui obijl, <bc.t

On the front of the porch are the arms of England
and France quartered, St. George's crofs, and a crofe
flore, amd there are alfo two fhields, with a faltire on
each.

Orate pro anima Thome Wymtr, quondam de Aylfliam,
worjled weaver, qui cum rnultis boms fuis propriis i/larn
ecdffiam in vitajua, el pojl mortem charitative ornavit,
qui obijt iv die Junij, anno Chrijli MDVII, cujus animc
propicietur Deus.

He is reprefented in his winding-fheet ; the adorn-
ing of the church here mentioned ftill appears, the
Icrecns being beautifully painted with faints, martyrs,
and confeffors, as was the roof; the remaining in-
fcription fhews us, that this work was done in 1507,
at the charge of this Thomas Wymer, Joan and
Agnes, his wives, Johnjannys, and others, whole
names are now loft.

This John and Agnes were father and mother to
Robert Jannis, grocer, (heriff in 1509, and mayor
of Norwich in 1517, and i 324 ; who, out of affec-
tion to the place of his birth, founded a free-fchooi
here, and endowed it with lol. per ann. clear, paid
from the city of Norwich: he lies buried in the
church of St. George's Colgate, Norwich. His pic-
ture is in the Guildhall, to which he was a great
benefactor.

iS HUNDREDOF

Of bifliop JeggiVs life, and monument, in tliis
chancel, we refer you to a full account in the hif-
tory of Norwich.

Near the Bifhop's is a fmall mural monument
with the arms of Jeggon, impaling fab. a chcv.
between four dehYs arg. — Here lies interred Jvhnje-
gon, ejq. Jecond fonne to that reverend Father in Godt
John Jegon, doctor in divinity, and fame time bijhop cf
this diocefe, he was not of many years, yet his mode/I
carriage and behaviour equalled him with the antientejl, he
was much addicted to the enquiry of learning, and the arts,
for which caufc he betook himfelf to the univ erf ity, from
whence^ after Jome continuance, he pajfed to the Jnnes of
Court ; but defirousflill of more, than here could be at-
tained to; like Elias, that he might the better mount into
Heaven, thtre to contemplate on the perfection of his crea-
tor, he laics afide his mantle, which is here locked up in
the common wardrobe, the earth, till at the lajl day he
Jhall come to put it on againe; he died the \^th of Sept.
1 63 1 , being of age 1 9 y cares end a halfe, in whofe me-
\uuiy his fad mother caufed this inscription to be made :

See here's not. Pyramis, here is nee cojlly peece,
That boafls of Memphis, or allfkilfull Greece,
He wrongs thy better part, mi/lakes thy worth,
That thinks carvdjlatues can fet theefortht
Falfe mettals need the artijls help, to add
Ought to the purer gold, would fliewe him mndd,
AndJlatdyflruBures, in vain on thee wercjpcnt,
Tliou to thy fe/J, art the be/I monument"

The font is neatly carved, on it are the emblems
of the four Evangelifts, the inftruments of the paf-
iion, a crucifix, the arms of John of Gaunt, duke
of Lancaftcr, lord Morlcy, Bourchier, St. George,
and a crofs flore.

The

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. ig

The following infcriptions are to vbe feen here;

Warkhoufe impaling Doughty. — Sub hoc marmore jacet
Jepulta Anna Warkhoufe, Roberti Doughty, armigeri,
Jttia nat'.i maxima, et Johannis Warkhoufe generofi uxor

amanlijfima, qua oliji 29° die January, anno Domini

1671.

Henry JVorgate, gent, died January 7, 1611, Nicho-
las Norgate, clerk, Jon of Thomas Nor gale, late of Ayl-
Jham, gent, died 051. 16, 1675.

The arms of Lawes were afterwards aflumed by
Rippingall, but were in reality the arms of Lawes,
of Aylfham, grandfather to Mr. Rippingall's wife. —
D. S. Sub hoc, Jepulta jacet Hanna, uxor amantij/ima
Henrici Rippingall t gen qua obijt i zmo Scptcmb1 A. D.
1701.

The creft and arms of Jermy, with a crefcent. —
M. S. Sub hoc marmpre Jepultus jacet Gulielmus,
Johannis Jermy de Bayjield, armig. filius nalitjccundus,
cxlebs, obijt 17° die Martij, A. D. 1709, annoquc
atat. 28.

Here are alfo monuments with the arms of Jermy
impaling Fuller ; Jermy, impaling Starkey ; and
Jermy impaling Chare, with infcriptions.

On the north fide of the church-vard is an altar-
tomb inclofed in an iron pallifade, having the creft
and arms of Sco:t,—Franc[fd Scott, armigeri, die Dec.
21, annoyie Jalutis 1740, atatis 6g.

This Francis Scott, efq. married Katherine, daugh-
ter and heirels of John Thompfon, of Burgh, by
Aylftiam, but had no iffuc ; he was fon of Francis
Scott, cfq. of Cambcnvell, who was fccond fon tq

fir

te HUNDREDOF

fir Peter Scott, of Camberwell, in Surrey, knt. This
Francis left only one brother, James Scott, of Lon-
don, gent, who is now living.

The county bridewell ftands near the market-
place, and hath on it this curious infcription, cut in
wood :
God. preferve. our. fuprem. hed. kyng. Henry. Tha'ght.

Pray. for. the. good, projperyte. and. ajftate. of. Ro~
lerd. Mar/ham, and. lone. his. wyfc. the. wiche. this,
howfe. they, cawjid. to. be. made. to. the. honor, of. the.
lowne. be. thir. qwich. lives. Jines. 1543.

The free-fchool ftands not far from the church-
yard, it was firfl founded by Robert Jannys, mayor
of Norwich in 1517, and endowed with lol. a year,
paid by the treafurer of the Great Hofpital at Nor-
wich, of which the mayor, 8cc. of the city arc go-
vernors, it being due quarterly, and the manor of
Pakenham, in Shropham, is tied for it, and archbi-
iliop Parker founded two fcholarfhips in Corpus
Chrifti, commonly called Bennet college, in Cam-
bridge, and appropriated them to this and Wymond-
harh fchool ; one of the fcholars mud be born in
Aylfham, but it is fufficient for the other to be edu-
cated at the free-fchool there, and he muft be fent
•up to the college by the nomination of the mayor
and court of Norwich, the other to be admitted by
ihc college without any fuch nomination. We are
informed alfo that the fchoolmafter receives an an-
nuity of jol. out of the water-mill at Aylfham, which
originally belonged to the manor, and in 13 70 was
granted by Edward 111. to fir Robert Knolles, but
fell to queen Elizabeth in 1562, by the attainder of
John Withe."""

* John Withe, of AylQiam, was excepted in the king's par-
don. See Barker's Statutes, Temp' Edw. VI. fol, 1 29.

SOUTH ERP1NGHAM. 21

In 1585 there was a great difpute about the nomi-
naiion of the fchoolmafter before Edmund bifhop of,
Norwich, the officers and towfmen of Aylfham
having chofen Robert Sutton, A. M. fchoolmafler.
and the vicar, with the confent of the bifhop, and
John Suckling, efq. mayor of Norwich, fir William
Heydon, knt. &x. William Danfon, who was admit-
ted accordingly.

Among the fchools in Norfolk, certified to queen
Elizabeth in 1562, is this : — " A grammar-fchool in
" Ailefham, being an incorporation of the city of Nor-
•• wich, creeled byjannys, late citizen and alderman,
41 now departed, ftipend of the matter ten pounds,"

In 1506 John Boiler, prieft, was buried in St.
Thomas's chapel, in this church, by his father, and
ordered thirty marble-ftones, of the length and
breadth of thofe covering his father's, to cover his
grave with. He gave to the church a pair of organ's,
and willed that they fhould ferve both the choir and
Lady Mafs, and that they fhould be fet in the fame
key with the great organs in the church, and the
principal pipe to be five quarters of a yard long, of
good metal and fweet harmony, and (hall ftand on
that fide choir next our Lady's chapel, to fcrve both.
There is an organ lately fixed up in the church.

In the white regifter of Bury abbey, fol. 27, are
divers deeds of benefactions to that monaftery, in
this town.

Richard I. confirmed to God and St. Edmund,
and Abbot Sampfon, and the monks at Bury*, and

their

* This was Sexton's Manor. John biftjop of Norwich, Roger
le Bigot, earl of Norfolk, William de Warren, Walter Fitz-

Robert,

22 HUNDREDOF

their fucceiTors, lol. rent in the foke of Aylfham,
viz. 5!. rent and demefnes, \vhjch William Bardolph
held, and another 5!. paid by John Hastings, Sec. to
find a good and fufficient light always burning at the
fhrine before the body of the bleffed martyr, St. Ed-
mund.

In 1512 William Rufhburgh gave a fodir of lead,
of 4!. value, towards covering the cloifter of Binharn
abbey, and founded a prieft to fing in Aylfharn
church, for his foul, &c. He gave Coldham-hall, in
Aylfliam, to Cecily, his wife, paying lol. per ami. to
John Swan, alderman of Norwich.

This town in the time of Edward IT. and III. was
the chief town in the county for the linen manufacture ;
in old records nothing more common than the Aylfham
webs, thejinc cloth of Ajlfuam, the Aylfham linens, 8cc. but
about the time of Henry VIII. we find it much de-
creafed, and the woollen manufacture had got the
upper hand ; and about the time of James I. it was
chiefly inhabited by knitters, even men, women, and
children, are faid to be employed at that work, which
is now decayed every where, the modern invention of
weaving of (lockings, breeches, waiflcoats, and gloves,
having almofl demolished it.

Mr. Blomefield fays, " it is a neat little market
town, of about 120 families, the fitUution of it is on

the

Robert, &c. were witneffes, dated anno prfmo regni 1 189 ; and in
the regifter at bottom of this charter are thcfc words : L erat te-
nor carte noftre in primojigilh wjftro, fed quit aliquando perdituut
fuit, et dum capti fuimu; in Alcmanuia in aliena pcteftate, conftitu-
tum, mutatumeft, inovaticnis autem, hij Junt lejtes. Johannet comet
Morritonie frater nofter (afterwards king John) Robert Fitz-
waltLT, &c. Dot' cpud tuft* Jfxitl, xviij Jut anno Reg. ix,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 23

the river Bure, in the mod agreeable and pleafant
part of Norfolk, and it is much frequented in the
iummer feafon by reafon of the fpaw, which is a
i'pring about half a mile diftant fouth-weft from the
town, the water of which lading very ftrong of the
mineral, is efteemed of great fervice in afthmas ; it
is purgative, and is faid to be of the vitriolic kind,
and being touched with galls, or an oaken leaf, turns
very blax;k immediately." The refort to this chaly-
beate fpring is now but trifling.

In the time of James I. this place is faid to be go-
verned by a bailiff. The market was on Saturday, but
bv authority altered to Tuefday, and there were then
two fairs allowed, the firft of which was held on the
lath of March, and the fecondon the fecond Tuefday
in September; the fairs are now held March 25, and
Sept. 26. The fine certain of the manor is ad.
halfpenny an acre. It paid formerly to every tenth
i il. befides 2!. IDS. paid by the religious for their re-
venues. The bridge over the Bure is repaired by the
county. It is valued in the, king's tax at 1427!. 25. fid.
and pays 305. to every 300!. levy of the county
rate.

" Thomas Hudfon, glover, of Aylfham, an honcft
laborious man, having a wife and three children, bore
a good will to the gofpel, and having learned to read
of Anthony and Thomas Norgate, greatly profiled
in fpiritual knowledge, about the time that queen
Mary came to the throne \ when God's fervice being
forced to give place to popifh errors and luperftition,
he fled into Suffolk, and flayed there a long time,
but his wife and children being troubled at his ab-
fence, he returned and concealed hirnfelf about half
a year, till commiffary Berry, vicar of the town, fuf-
peding him to be at home, went to his wife, and

threatened

»4 HUNDRED O F

threatened to burn her, if (he would not difcover
where her hufband was ; which when Hudfon knew,
he grew more bold and zealous, fpcm his lime in
prayer, finging pfalms, and godly exhortations with
his neighbours, and going now publicly about, he
was taken by the conflables, at the information of
one Crouch, and carried to the vicar, who examined
him what the facrament was ; he faid Worms meat •
my belief is in Chrijl crucified. Again he afked him,
whether he believed the mafs to put away fm ? He
replied, JVo ! God forbid, it is a patched up monjier. At
this Berry fumed, and faid he would write to the bi-
ftiop, his good lord, who he trufted would handle
him according to his deferts : Oh ! fir, faid Hudfon,
there is no Lord but God, which angered him again :
however, he afked him wheihcr he could recant or
no? to which Hudfon replied, God forbid, I had ra-
ther die many deaths than do fo. Upon which Berry,
feeing all perfuafions vain, fent him bound to the
bifliop like a thief, who kept him in prifon a month,
which time he fpent in praying and reading, and on
the igth of May, 1558, he was burnt at Norwich,
•with two other martyrs, in the fame fire." — Fox's
Martyrs, fol. 2036.

There are many families of note that have inha-
bited this town, as the Holls, or Holleys, Baker, of
Aylfham, the Jeggons, Cornwallis, Doughty, Neve,
Claxton, Jermy, Sec.

The vicar's manor , hath about thirty tenants, and
he receives the great tithes of that part, called Ston-
gate.

Aylfham is eleven miles from Norwich, feven from
North Walfham, eleven from Cromer, and about
eleven from Holt. This is u very neat market town,

and

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M 23

and from the beauty and richnefs of the country about
it, fevcral gentlemen have been induced to build good
houfes, and rcfide here. There is a market on Tuef-
days for buying corn, which till very lately was al-
ways delivered either at Cromer, or Cohifhall ; but in
the year 1773 an a<^ of pailiament was obtained, in-
tilled, An aft for making and extending the river Bare,
(commonly called the North River) by and from Coltijlidl
to Ayljham-bridge, and although this acl was procured
in 1773, '*• was not L'^ Oclobcr, 1 779, that the river
was made compleatly navigable. It may not perhaps
bq uninterclting to poflerity to be informed of the
rife and pi ogi els of a navigation, concerning the uti-
lity of which that only can be a competent judge;
for at this time the opinions on the fubjecl: are fo va-
rious, that whilft fome are pronouncing it ufelefs,
others fupport the undertaking vigorously, not only
by their attendance, but with their property, and the
ium of 1340!. 155. was immediately raifcd as a free
donation, by the nobility, gentlemen, and tradelmcn,
of this neighbourhood.

A furvey and cftimate had been made previous to
application to parliament, and the amount computed
at ,40061. 55. 4d. halfpenny — the acl permitted the
borrowing of "joool. but by unfkilful management
in the original furveyor, in Oclober, 17771 the com-
miflioners found 3600!. had been expended, and the
work not likely to be compleated — and their diih'cul-
ties feemed iucreafed by the new eflimate of Mr. John
Smith, aperfon well fkilled in mailers of this kind ;
for he made it appear, that to compleat the deiign a
further fum of 2951!. would be required ; which, to-
gether with .130!. of the donations unpaid, would ex-
ceed the fum allowed to be raifed by the acl i loiL —
To apply again to parliament lor leave to borrow this
additional Ium, would be attended with a heavy ex-
C pence,

26 HUNDRED OF

pence, and without fuch leave no one would deem
the fecurity proper to lend upon ; — in this emer-
gency it was unanimoufly agreed to by a great ma-
jority of the lenders, that they would give up
twenty-five per cent, of the fums lent by them, as a
free gift, with this provifo, that if ever the profits
fhould enable the navigation to pay off the principal
borrowed, they fhall receive that 25 per cent. with.
interefl, before it becomes a free navigation.

February 25, 1778, the before-mentioned John
Smith agreed to compleat the work for the fum men-
tioned in his eftimate; and in March, 1779, Mr.
John Green, of Wroxham, joined him in the under-
taking; but another difficulty occured in Auguft,
1779, from a deficiency of 160!. which though fub-
fcribed to be lent, was not paid in, and To bad
was the credit of the undertaking at this time, that
the whole would again have been flopped, had not
eight of the commiffioners then prcfent generoufly
advanced 20!. each ; — and thus the river was made
navigable for boats of thirteen tons burthen, carrying
nine chaldions of coals, and drawing two feet four,
or five inches water, and finally compleated in Oc-
tober, 1779. ^

In 1777 the Rev. William Tafwell was prefcntcd
to the vicarage of Aylfham, by the dean and chapter
of Canterbnry.

BACONSTHORPE.

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 27

BACONSTHORPE. We are obliged to the
Rev. Mr. William Hewitt for the following hiftory
of this parifh.

In Doomfday-book* occurs this village by the
name of Thorpe, which afterwards took the addi-
tional name of Bacon, to dillinguifh it from other
paddies, called Thorpe, in this county, the Bacons
being anciently lords of it.

At the grand furvey here were two lordfnips (pro-
bably the two prefent manors of Baconfthorpe-hall
and Wood-hall) which foon after the furvev were
both in the poffeffion of Grimbold, the founder of
this family of the Bacons. He is faid to have been
a Norman, related to William of Warren, earl of
Surry — and came with him into England at the
conqueft. He had three fons, the fecond of which.
Reynold, or Ranulf, was lord of this parifli, and
took the furname of Bacon.

Roger, his grandfor, fucceeding his eldeft brother

Thomas, who died witnout ifluc, was in arms with

the barons againtl king John, and had his eftatcs

G 2 fcized ;

* William the Conqueror being firmly feated upon the throne
of England, thought it high time to fleece his Norman fuhjerls,
(among whom he had parcelled out all the lands in the king-
dom) as he had pillage! the Saxons before. In the year 080,
therefore, he appointed commiffioners to repair to th? different
counties, and make a general furvey of the nation ; refolving
to procure the minuteft information refpecling the value of the
lands, goods, and chattels poflelFed by every individual, that
he might know exactly what impositions every one could bear.
This regifter was called Doomfday-heck, and though calculated
for unbounded oppreilion, and once the dread of ill the inhabi-
tants of this land, yet is now reforted to with inexprefli!>le
pleafure, and confulted by the lovers of antiquity, as the grand
oracle of English chorography. — — See Smollett's Hiftory of
England.

*S H U N D R E D O F

fcized ; but was rcftorcd to favour by king Henry
the Third, and had his lands again in ihe year ni6,
\\hich he left 10 his fon, Robert Bacon, or de Bacunf-
thorp ; who in 1227 fcparated thefe manors, and
fettled the manor of Woodhall upon his brother,
Roger de Bacunflkorp, alias de Hinghara, and his
heirs*.

Sir Thomas Bacon, knt. in 1249, was returned to-
be one of the principal knights of this county;
about which "period the parliament feems to have
had fome weight. For in the year i 253 Henry the
Third affembled a parliament at Weftminfter, for
granting fupplies to enable him to recover Gafcony.
After long debates, the laity agreed to a fcutaget;

and

* In the year 1354 fir Edmund de Bacunfthorp, alias de
Hingham, knt. and James, his fon, with Alice, his wife, fold
a moiety of this manor to Thomas, fon of fir Roger Bacon,
who annexed it to "his manor of Baconfthorpe-hall. The other
moiety dcfcended to John Gownay, of Weft-Bafham, cfq. who
died lord of it in the year 1407. In 1432 John Coplediclc
held it; and in 1447 fir William Oldhall, kr;t. and Margaret,
his wife, joined and conveyed it from herfelf, and her heirs,
to William Norwich, jun. and his tmftees, of whom it was-
purchased about this time by Win. Heydon, efq. who was the firft
of the Heydon family that lived in this parifli. Afterwards, in
the year 1583, William, or fir William Heydon, purchafed this
advowfon with the manor of Baccnflhorpe-hall, and the an-
nexed moiety of Wood-hall manor, when thefe two manors
•were totally rejoined, after a feparation of 356 years. They
have fince continued in conjunction to die year 1780.

t All tenants, who held of the king by military fervice,
were either bound to attend perfonally in wars and expeditions,
€>r, for default of fuch fervice, to pay Jcutagt, that is, a com-
pofition in money, which was levied on every fcutum militare,
or knight's fee, and the proportional parts thereof, for the
king's ufe.

The bai-ons and knights, who paid fcutage to the king, had
a power to levy the fame tax on thofe tenants who held of them,
by military fe: vice.

_ The fcutage was at one, t\vo, or three marks for each knight's

fee.— — Chambers]

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 29

and the prelates confented to an impofuion, accord-
ing to the pope's bull, which they had formerly re-
jeclcd. But they complained that the king had
over-ruled the elections of bifliops and abbots, con-
trary to the firft article of the Magna Ghana. The
king acknowledged that upon fome occafions he had
extended the royal prerogative too far, but that he
then firmly refolved to obferve the charters with the
utmoft punctuality.

The importance of our knight in this great coun-
cil of the nation, is not communicated to pofterity;
and in his private Ration, little more is recorded of
him, than that by Elizabeth, his wife, he had thtee
fons, George, Roger, and John, of whom the young-
eft was an eminent divine, and of fuch great learn-
ing, and ftrengih of argument, that he was called
the Refolute Do£lor; hiflorians make worthy men-
tion of him.

In the year 1269 George Bacon was lord here,
but dying without iffue, was fucceeded by his bro-
ther Roger, who held this manor in 1284. By
Marsraret, his wife, he had a fon, Thomas, who was

lord in 1315. Roger Bacon was fon of the laid
Thomas, and in the year 1320 fettled this manor
and advowfon on William Calthorpe, parfon of Bay-
field, and others, in truft to his own ufe for life,
with remainder to Thomas Bacon, his fon, and Joan,
his wife, in part of her marriage-fettlement. This
Roger was afterwards a knight, and was fucceeded
by his fon Thomas, who in 1354 held this lordfhip.

In 1379 fir Roger Bacon, probably fon of the faid
Thomas, and Joan, his wife, was lord and patron
herej and in 1395 Catherine Bacon, widow, proba-

C3 bly

3°

biv of fir Roger, and her truftees, held this manor,
and prefented Roger dc Wickingham to this reflory.

In 1409 John Bacon, cfq. his fon and fncccftbr,
prefcntcd John Playford to the living. By Maud,
daughter of fir Thomas Bcdingfield. he h:id John
Bacon, efq. his heir, who in 1426 married Marga-
ret, daughter of Robert Baniard, on whom Baniard's
manor, in Speclifhall, in Suffolk* was then fettled.
He died at his houfe in Norwich in the year 1462,
and was buried in the coraventual church of Auftin
friars there, and gave to Margaret, his wife, this
lotdfliip and advowfon for life. She was aftcrwaids
wife of Nicholas Ratclyff, efq. who in her right pre-
icnted William Wiight to this church, in the year
1473. About the year 1485 Thomas Bacon fuc-
ceedcd his mother, and dying, left two daughters
and co-heirefTes by Margery, daughter of John Jen-
ny, efq. — Elizabeth, married to fir John Glemham,
km. of Glemham parva, in Suffolk — and Anne,
married to Robert Garneys, or Garnifh, efq. of
Kenton, in Suffolk. Upon the divifion of the Ra-
cons eflate, ihis manor and advowfon were fettled
on the laid Robert Garneys, or Garnifh, efq. who
prefented to the church in 1527. And in the year
1554 Thomas Garnifh, probably his fon, fucceeded,
and dying in 1573 left them to his only daughter,
Elizabeth, who in 1583, with her fecond hufband,
Mr Philip Strelly, of Strelly, in Nottinghamfhire,
fold them to William Heydon, efq. Neverthelefs
we find that Nicholas Strelly, efq. a fon in all like-
lihood of the faid Philip, prefented William Greaves,
A.M. to this church in 1607.

Though the identical year is not fpecified wherein
tiie r.acons became, lords of Baconfthorpe, yet we
may reasonably fuppofc it was about the beginning

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 31

of the twelfth century, as the general furvey was com-
pleted in the year 1087, foon after which this lordfhip
was in thepofleffion of Grimbald, founder of the Bacon
family, continuing the inheritance of his defcendants
till 1583, i. e. for the fpacc of about 480 years. And
though we find little more recoided of this anticnt
family, than that they married, and were given in
marriage ; that they begat fons and daughters ; that
they bought and fold ; that they continued here
abundance of years — and died — yet as fir Thomas
Bacon, in the year 1249, was elecled one of the princi-
pal knights of this county; and as fir Roger Bacon was
deprived of his eftates for joining with the barons
againft kingjohn, we may reafonably conjecture that
they were perfons of no fmall importance, and were
flrongly attached to the intereft of their country.

The private and domeftic virtues of this family
might be great and many, though not recorded upon
marble monuments, nor engraved on tables of brafs ;
neverthelefs, it feems very flrange, that in the parifh,
of which this family were lords and patrons many-
centuries, we cannot find one monument creeled to
their memory, we cannot find where one of that
houfe was buried — we cannot fo much as fay
Here lies a Bacon!

The family of the Heydons took their name from
the parifh of Heydon, in this hundred of South Er-
pingham. In the year 1221 it is faid that Thomas
Heydon was a juftice itinerant* in Norfolk.

C 4 In

* Jufticiarii itinerantes— -Juftices in Eyre are fo termed, of
the French errt, iter. The ufe of thefe in ancient time was to
fend them with commiflion into divers counties, to hear fuch
caufcs efpecially as were termed the pleas of the crown. Ani
therefore 1 muft imagine they were fent abroad for the cafe o£
the fubjefts, who muft elfe have been hurried to the King's

Bench,

32 HUNDREDOF

In the year 1447 a dcfcendant of him, William
Heydon, efq. putchafcd a moiety of the manor of
Wcodhall, in this parifh, and was the fir ft of his
farniiv who fettled here. He married jane, daughter
and heirefs of John Warren, of Lineolnfbuc, and
flourished in the reign of Henry the Filth. His
ion and heir, John Heydon, of Baconfthorpe, fuc-
cccded him, a lawyer of eminent practice and dig-
nity in the reign of Henry the Sixth, and Edward
the Fourth, whereby he much advanced the eftate of
his family, beingr a feoffee and truftec to moft of the

/ *3

great eflates in this county. In 1431 he had been
made recorder of Norwich ; and in 1442 obtained a
patent from king Henry the Sixth, that he fhouid
not at any time be called to the degree of a ferjeant
at law ; he was in fmgular favour with that prince
for his attachment to the houfe of Fancafter. In
1447 he was executor to the will of Joan lady Bar-
dolph, and allo to the will of fir John Clifton, knt.
of Buckenham-caflie. In 1464 lady Ifabel Morley
appointed him counfellor to her executors.

In 1466 he purchafed the manor and advowfon of
Fatcflec*, and the moieties of the manors of Heden-
ham, and Kelling.

Bench, if the caufe was too high for the country court. They
differed from the Juflices of Oyer and Terminer,who were fcnt
to one place, and upon fomc one or fe\v cfpecial cafes ; whereas
the Juiticcs in Eyre were fent through the counties with a inorc%
indefinite and general cominiflion.— — Johnfon's Dictionary—
Juftices in Eyre.

* This manor and advowfon of Pateflee were afterwards
granted by fir Chriftopher Heydon, and dame Temperance, his
wife, in the reign of queen Klizabeth, to Caius College, in
Cambridge. The profits of the advowfon were originally ap-
propriated there to the augmentation of the conduct's ftipend ;
but in the mafterfhip of Dr. Gooch, bilhop of Norwich, the
profits were annexed to the vicarage of Matti&all. The col-
lege

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 33

In 1472 Walter Lyhert, bifhop of Norwich, left
him by will his filver cup, gilc, with the cover, which,
he had daily ufed. He married Eleanor, daughter
of Edmund Winter, cfq. of Winter-B«rn;r?ham,
and departed this life in 1480, and was buried in a
chapel which he. had built for the burial place of
bimfelf and his family, on the fouth iide of the ca-
thedral, joining to the prefent confiilory on the weft,
to which cathedral he and his family were benefac-
tors. By his laft will he gave to the prior arid con-
vent all that they owed him, on condition that they
buried, and creeled a tomb over him. His will was
proved on the twentieth day of June in the fame
year. At his death he was feized of the lordfliips of
Lofe-hall, in Hemftede — Bodham — Braches, in Sait-
houfe — Loverds, in Heydon — Saxlingham — Oldton-
hall, and Leches, in Oldton — Thursford — Walfing-
liam Magna — Bokenham's, in Carlton-Rode-^-Hock-
ham Parva — Laundes, in Tibenham — Pcnfthdrp, and
Hackford cum Repham, called Heydon's manor
there — Pateflee — the moieties of the manors of Hc-
denham and Kelling — and alfo a moiety of the
manor of Woodhall.

Sir Henry Heydon, knt. his fon and heir, was
fleward of the houfe to Cecilia, duchcfs of York, wi-
dow of Richard duke of York, die father and mother (of
Edward the Fourth, king of England. She appointed
him fupervifor of her will, with orders to fee her
buried in Fodringhey collegiate church, by her huf-
band. He was alfo chief bailifl of the honor of
Eye.

lege had formerly exchanged the manor with fir Roger Town-
flicnd. k«t. for the manor of d'Engains, ia Feverflwin, and
and Stow Qui, in Cambridgefliire.

HUNDRED OF

In 14Q7 he exchanged his manor of Drayton-hall,
and Dillington, for Witchingham manor, in Salt-
houfc, and Kelling, with William Berdvvell, jun.
efq. He built the hall, or manor-houfe, at Baconf-
thorpe, a fpacious, fumptuous pile, entirely from the
ground, (except the tower built by his father) in the
ipace of fix years. He built alfo a noble houfe, and
the church, at Weft Wickhara, in Kent, which place
hepurchafed before the death of his father, and dwelt
there ; it continued in his family till the reign of
queen Elizabeth. He likewife built the church at
Salthoufe, a very beautiful flru6hire, and made the
caufeway between Thursford and Walfingham at his
own expence. He married Elizabeth, or Ann, daugh-
ter of fir Jeffry Boleyn, km. lord mayor of London,
and departed this life in the year 1503. By this
lady he had three fons, John, Henry, and William,
and five daughters ; Amy, married to fir Roger
L'Eftrange, of Hunftanton, knt. Dorothy, to fir Tho-
mas Brook, fon and heir of John lord Cobham ; Eli-
zabeth, to Walter Hobart, of Hales-hall, efq. Ann,
to William Gurney, efq. and Bridget, to fir William,
Pafton, knt.

A moiety of Hide manor, in Pangborn, in Berk-
fliire ; a rnoiety of the manor and advowfon of Nutr-
field, in Surry; and a moiety of Shipton Solers ma-
nor and advowfon, in Glouceftei ftiire, were fettled by
John Armftrong on Henry Heydon, the fecond fon,
and Ann, his wife, as her inheritance, in the year

1343-

The youngeft fon, William, was flain by the re-
bels in Kelt's infurrection in 1549, and was buried
in the church of St. Peter's Mancroft, in Norwich.

John

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 35

John, the eldeft fon and heir, was created a knight
of the badi at the coronation of king Henry the Eighth.
He was a great courtier, and, it is faid, lived pro-
fufely in his father's life-time; but afterwards became
much reformed. He married Catherine, daughter of

Chriftopher \\iiloughby, lord Willoughby, of Par-
ham*, (according to Mr. Parkin) and died in the Sad
year of his age, 1550. His lady departed this life
in 1542, in the fzd year of her age. They were
both buried in the north ailc of this church t. They

had

* More probably the daughter of Chriftopher lord Willough-
by, of Ere/by, (to whom belonged the village of Ccniba, near
Stoumarket, in Suffolk. ;) for on the north fide of the altar in
Bodham chancel, (when the faid chancel was repaired in the
year 1774) was taken up an impaired grave-Hone, with the fol-
lowing inscription upon a plate of brafs :

Pray far the Sotvle of Jir Robert IVilliughby, lale parfox of the
church of Combts, and fon cf lord Chriftcpher Wilkughby, and
lady Margerie, hii "wife, -which Robert deceafed the xv day of
jifiril, in tin year of cur Lard 1 524.

On ivhoftfaivle yefus have mercy. Amen.

It feems very probable, that this fir Robert Willoughby, parfon
of Combes, was a brother of lady Catherine Heydon, and died
here, on a vifit to his lifter, being buried in Bodham chanqel, of
which parifli church fir John Heydon was then patron. Lady
Catherine died in 1542. But the right honorable Hugh Wil-
loughby. lo^d Willoughby, of Parham, was not fo created till
the year 1546, the ift of Edward the Sixth, whereas the lords
Willoughby, of Ere/by, flouriflied with that title from the reign
of Henry the Third, to the latter end of the reign of Henry

the Eighth. See the Britifh Compendium, or Rudiments of

Honor.

f This word aile is commonly called ifle : Mr, Blomefield
has called it fo ---Mr. Pope has written it fo—

" O'er the twilight groves, and dufky caves,
" Long founding iiles, and intermingled graves,
" Black melancholy fits. POPE.

But Mr. Johnfon fays, it is written, I think, corruptly for
aile, from ails, French j from ala, Latin ; and fignifies a long

walk

S6 HUN D. RED OF

had five daughters ; Elizabeth, married to Thomas
Darcy, efq. of Tolfton Darcy, in Eficx; Eleanor, to
Johr/Townfhcnd, efq. fon and heir of fir Roger
Townfhend, of Rainham; Margaret, to fir Everard
Digby, of Rutlandfhire; Alice, and Urfula, who died
unmarried, and feverai fons.

Sir Chriftopher, the eldeft, married Ann, daughter
of John Heveringham, of Keteringham, and dying
in 1540, ten years before his father, left four chil-
dren ; Chriftopher; John, who died young; Cathe-
rine, wife of fir Miles Corbet, of Sprowflon ; and
Mary, married to Roger Windham, efq. fon and heir
£>f fir Edmund Windham.

Sir Chriftopher Heydon, who inherited on his
grandfather's death, in 1551, cut off the entail that
laid on his eftate. He was in great eftecm and ve-
neration for his jufticc, charity, and remarkable hof-
^itality, equal to his ample eftate. It is faid, that
he had entertained thirty mafter fhcpherds of his own
flocks at a Chriftmas dinner at Baconfthorpe. He
was buried in the Ibuth aile of this church, and on
bis tomb* was this inlcription :

Here under this tombc lyeth ingraved the bodies of the
ladie Ann Heydon, daughter of fir William Drewrye,
lnrghle,fcmctimf wyj oj Syr Chrijlopher Heydon, of Ba-
wnflhorpc, in the county of Norfolk, knt. which Indie

Ann

walk in a church, or public building, the aile being probably at
firftonly a wing, or fide walk. See Ifle- -Johnfon's Dic-
tionary.

J This infcription upon a plate of brafs is ftill in the church,
but the tomb itfclf is no more : like fir Chriftopher, and his
ladies, it is mouldered away. Whoever creels a tomb to per-
pctuite the memory of his family, ought to fettle a permanent
portion of land for keeping it in repair. None bvt the ignorant
andfoolijh think that their houfet JhalL continue for evtr ; family
tuccccd* family,^ one -wave fuccecd$ another.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 37

Ann deceafed the $th day of Sept. anno 1561 ; and the
Jaid Sir Chrijiophcr the loth day of Dec. 1579. And

0//0 the ladie Temperance Hey don, fecund wife of the
.Sir Chrijiophcr, daughter of Sir Wymunde Carew,

which ladie Temperance deceafed the nynthe day o

in anno Dm. 1577.

Hey don miles tram, jam. faftus vile cadaver.

Et cito pulvia erit ; qu<zfo, momenta, mori\
0 cala / 0 lacrimas ! 0 morti dira pote/las !

Infignis miles mortuus cccejacet.

He died poffeffcd of a moiety of the manor of
Woodhall, and the park in Baconfthorpef; alfo of
the manors of Lound-hall, and Michael-hall, in Sax-
thorpe ; Nowers, alias Efles, in Saxlingham ; Salt-
houfe ; Thorp's and Efts, in Reepham ; Thursford ;
Letheringfett ; Booles and Walcots, alias Snoring
Parva\ Netherhall and Loofehall, in Hempftead;
Loverds, in Heydon ; Cockfords, Averbecks, Crep-
ing, and Lewes, in Saxthorpe ; Leches and Oldton-
hall, in Oldton ; Rodham, Kelling, Cley, Holt,
Hackford-hall, in Reepham; Gunners, in Croruer;
Wivcton, Blakeney, Waborn, Corpufty, Threxton,
the reverfion of Laviles, in Letheringfett; likewise of
Waborn and Eaft Beckham rcclories ; the fcitc of
Waborn priory,,, vwth the advowfons of Eaft Beck-
ham ; Waborn, Holt, Cley, Kclling, Salthoufe, Bod-
ham, Snoring Parva and Magna, St. Dunftan's free
chapel, in Saxthorpe, in the county of Norfolk ; and
moreover, of the manors of Weft Wickham, Ba.fton,
Kefton, and Southcourt, in Kent.

t Mr. Parkin fays, that he died poffefled of the manor of
Baconfthorpe-hall, though this manor, with the advowfon, (as
he has informed us elfewhere) was purchafcd by William Hey-
don, efq. his fon and heir, in 1 383, foar years after the deccafe
•f this fir Chjriftopher.

3S .HUNDRED OF

He married three wives ; by the firfl. he had thrcft
fons, William, Henry, and Chriflopher, and four
daughters ; Mary, married to Thomas Bleverhaffct,
efq. ofBarfham; Elizabeth, to John Wentworth,
cfq. of Mounteneys, in Effex; Urfula, to Roger
Tovvnfend, efq. and Jane By his fecond lady he
had no uTue. By the third, a daughter, named
Ann, married to fir Thcophilus Finch.

William (or fir William) Heydon, his heir, pur-
chafed this manor and advowfon, as before obferved,
in the year 1583; but, not with content with a
princely patrimony, which exceeded a common for-
tune, as much as a whale exceeds a dolphin'", he en-
gaged in feveral projects with certain citizens of Lon-
don, contracted a large debt, fhattered and fold
much of his paternal eftate. And thus, whoever
thinks he fees another ejlaie in chimerical fchemes, and ven-
tures his own in purfuit of il, has no jhjl caufe of com-
plaint, if, like the greedy dog in the fable, he finds himfelf
a lofcr in the end. He was one of the deputy lieute-
nants of Norfolk, a juftice of the peace, admiral of
the admiralty jurifdi&ion, and high fheriff of the
county. He died March 19, 1593, ni tnc 54tn
year of his age, and was buried in the fouth ailc of
this church, where on a mural monument are the
effigies of him and his lady, kneeling, with the
quartered coat of Heydon, and the arms of Wood-
houfe, of Hickling, &c. By his lady he had three
fons, Chriflopher, William, and John.

Chriftopher, the.eldeft, had his education in the
univeitity of Cambridge, and afterwards travelled
into many foreign countries. He was high lie ward

* Quanto delphinis balxna Brittannica Mr-jor.

JUVINAL, Sat. loth.

SOUTH ERPINGHA M. 39

of the cathedral church of Norwich, and in 1596
was knighted at the facking of Cadiz, by Robert earl
of Effex. It appears that fir Chriftopher, and his
brother, fir John, were confederates with the faid earl,
and that both had a pardon pafled in the year 1601.
He was faid to be an excellent fcholar, and publiflied
a defence of judicial aflrology, printed at Cam-
bridge, in 1603, in quarto, a work, as Wood obferves,
of no common reading, and carried on with no
mean arguments. He refided as much at Saxling-
ham as at Baconflhorpe, and in the chancel of Sax-
lingham buried his firft lady, Mirabel, daughter and
coheirefs of fir Thomas Rivet, knt. a merchant ia
London, over whom he erefted a mod curious and
fumptuous monument.

His fccond lady was Ann, daughter and coheirefs
of John Dodge, efq. relict of fir John Potts, of Man-
ington. She was buried in this church. On her
grave -ft one are the arms of Heydon and Dodge.

Sir Chriftopher, by his firft lady, had four fons,
fir William, fir John, Henry, and Nathaniel ; and by
his fecond, a fon, named Thomas, and four daugh-
ters. He died at Baconfthorpe in the year 1623.

Sir William, his eldeft fon, fucceeded him, and
died without iffue. He fell in the difgraceful expedi-
tion againfl the Ifle of Rhe, in 1627.

Sir John was his heir, who, according to Wood,
was as great a fcholar as a f)ldier, efpecially in ma-
thematical learning, and was created L. 4,. D. at Ox-
ford, Dec. 20, 1642, being then lieutenant-general
of the ordnance to king Charles the Firft. He fui-
fered much in the king's caufc, and died October 26,
1637, leaving two fons, Chriftopher, afterwards a

knight,

40 HUNDREDOF

knight, as it is faid, and William ; and three daugh-
ters, Ann, married to colonel Richard Nevile, of
Bellingfbere, in Berkfhire ; Mirabella, to Laurence
Lomax, efq. of Eye, in Suffolk; and Frances, to
Henry, ion of Nicholas Draper, of Bromley, in Kent,
and afterwards to Philip Vincent, re&or of Stoke-
dabernoon, in Surry, the fecond fon of Richard Vin-
cent, of Frifby, in Yorkfhiie.

What became of fir Chriftopher we know not ;
but before the death of William the remnant of the
cftate was fold, and confirmed by him to Mr.
Bridges, a woollen-draper, in St. Paul's church-yard,
London, the grand inheritance, in all likelihood,
having been totally wrecked in the time of the civil
•wars. This William Heydon died, very probably,
at the houfe of Laurence Lomax, efq. who had mar-
ried Mirabella, his fecond fitter, on whofe grave-
flone, at Eye, is the following infcription :

Here lielh interred the body of Mirabella Lomax, wife
to Laurence Lomax, efq. and fecond daughter to the an-
cient and noble Sir John Heydon, of Baconjlhorpe, in
Norfolk, knt. and general of the ordnance to king Charles
the Firjl, and one \of his privy council, who departed
this life the id day of May, in the 6$d year of her age,
anno Dom. 1702. — Here alfo litlh the body of William
Heydon, efq. fecond fon of Sir John Heydon, and lajl
heir male of that family, -who died September 7 , A. D.
1689.

This great and ancient family had poflefTions here
about 833 years ; but at laft, like a full-aged oak,
it bowed — it fell — it fell down dead. — How grievous
muft the reflection be to the laft male heir of this il-
luflrious houfe, that he-had out-lived the inheritance
of his great progenitors many years ; — that he, whofe

anccllor

SOUTH ERP1NGHAM. 41

anceflor had entertained thirty matter fhepherds of
his own flocks at a Chriftraas dinner — that he had
jvjl enough to buy him bread.

Mr. Bridges had pofTeflGon about the year iGSo,
but being afterwards a bankrupt, the eft ate was (old
by the commirTioners to Zurifhaddai Lang, do&or of
phyfic, in the year 1690, who departed this life in
1692, and was buried in this chancel.

John Lang, efq. his only fon, fucceeded him, and
rcfided at the hall, fo called, though the prefent houfe
is nothing more than a tower, or gate-houfe, of the
original hall, the chief pan of which, it is faid, was
pulled down in the year 1630. He firft married Do-
rothy, a daughter of Jofeph Clarke, late reclor of
this parifh, at St. Mary's, in Nottingham, March
aSth, 1703, by whom he had a fon, born in May,
1704, and buried in the following autumn. Mrs.
Dorothy Lang died in the month of May, 1732.
On the 26th day of September, in the fame vear, the
faid John Lang married Phcebe Ford, fpinfter, to
whom he gave by his lafl will the advowfom- of Ba-
conflliorpc, Bodham, Kelling, and Salthoufe, with
feveral manors and eftates, during her life. He died
in September, 1754, aged 89 years, having bequeath-
ed the aforefaid eilates, manors, and advowfons, after
the deceafc of his widow, to the Rev. Zurifhaddai
Girdleltone, to whom he had before prefented the rec-
tories of Bodham, and Baconfthorpe.

Phcebe Lang, his widow, held the eftates, lord-
fliips, and advowfons, till the latter end of the year
1765, when dying, fhe was fucceeded by Zurifhad-
dai Girdleftone, who was lord and patron here one
year and thiec months. He departed this life on
the iSihdayof March, 1767, .aged 4$ years. In
D November,

42 H U N D R E D O F

November, i 748, he had married Sarah, daughter of
John and Elizabeth Hewitt, of Mattifliall, by whom
he had fix fons, five of which furvived him, and two
daughters; Elizabeth, the youngeft, is married to
\\ iiliam Brooke, patron and reclor of Kirby Beden.
Zurifhacidai Girdlellone, efq. the cldefl ion, fac-
tccded his father, and refides at the hall.

In the lyth century the Bi hides, and Newmans,
alfo fettled here; but thefe families, like exotic-
plants, did not fiourifli long in this foil. Robert Bri-
tiiie, efq. the lall heir male of his family, praclifcd
the law at Norwich with great fuccefs, and acquired
a very great fortune. He had two daughters. Sir
John Hobart, of Blickling, bart. (who in 1746 was
created earl of Buckinghamfhire} married the eldeft,
by whom he had a fon and fuccefTor, and a daugh-
ter, married to fir Charles Hotharn. William Mor-
den, efq. of Suffield, (who was afterwards created a
baronet, and took the name of Harbord) married the
youngeft, by whom he had two fons ; the eldeft,
now fir Harbord Harbord, fucccedcd him, who in
five fuccefiive parliaments has been one of the re-
prefentativcs of the city of Norwich. The fa id Ro-
bert Bntifre, aged more them foutfcore years, died
Sept. 21, 1749, and gave his eftates in Baconiihorpe
to' his grancHon, the prefcnt earl of Buckinghamfhitc,
and lord lieutenant of Ireland.

Thomas Newman, gent, by his laft will, bearing
date the 24th of May, 1698, gave five pounds a year
to the poor of this parifh for ever, to be diftributcd
yearly on Eafler Monday by the overfcers, for the
payment of which he has charged a parcel of land,
commonly known by the name of the twenty acres,
being in Baconfthorpe, Bodham, or Burningham;
which faru of five pounds is yearly diftributed

amonz

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 43

among the^ poor, in the veftry, at the time appoint-
ed by the donor's will, at a general meeting of the
chief inhabitants. He departed this life in June,
1698, in the 22d year of his age, and was fucceeded
by William Newman, his brother, who by cxpenfivc
law-fuits, and an incurable itch lor building, was
obliged to part with his eftate. In the time of his
profpei ity he was high fheriff of the county. The
manfion-houfe, and farm, at Baconfthorpe, vvkh forne
other farms in neighbouring parifhes, were purchafed
by Mr. Rnffel, a merchant, in London, and are now
in the poileflion of his grandfon, Mcicalfe Ruifel,
cfq. of Sprowfton, near Iplwich, in Suffolk.

Hidierto mention has been made only of the prin-
cipal perfons of Baconfthorpe. The curious would
be glad to know the number, manners, employ-
ments, and circumflances, of the inhabitants in gene-
ral, in days of old • but fuch knowledge, however
defirable, is not attainable now. Therefore, that
pofterity may not complain of us, as we lament the
filencc of our predeccffors upon this fubje&, a de-
fcription of the prcieut flate of the parifti is here f ub-
joined.

The number of inhabited houfes in the year 1780
are thirty-one; the number of inhabitants about
two hundred. The land is occupied by twenty-two
different perfons, of which fifteen live in the pariih.
The rents of the largeft farms do not exceed 130
pounds a year, and there are fomc that do not ex-
ceed twenty. The greateft part of the land is arable,
nevertheless, an hundred milch cows are kept in this
village. The farmers are all very intkiflrious, frugal
men, and remarkable for their {kill in hufbandry.
They are very attentive to their bufmefs — there
is not one drone in this hive ; the generality of dicta
D 2 iovv

44 HUNDRED OF

fjw their own and feeds, — make hay while the fun
ihinci — and occafionally work in their fields in the
time of harveft. Their wives alfo are very notable
for induftry, frugality, and good houfewifry. Were
all the farms in the kingdom occupied in like man-
iicr, and divided upon a fimilar fcale, there would
be very liale need oi nojjjcs of vidujli'y\ — no netti
of locieties — no want of premiums for the encourage-
ment of agriculture; for the vallies wcu'd then (land
thick' not only with corn, but alfo with occupiers,
who would laugh and fing for joy.

Here

*The union of fmall farms is manifeflly one principal caufe
of the increafe of the poor and poor's rates, and confequently of
houf-.s of induftry. Country fervants in gene al are now deprived
of the hope of ever being farmers, which has introduced much ex-
travagance and profligacy among them. To what purpofe is it,
they fay, for us to be fober and frugal, and to fave a few
pounds, we can never be able to fave enough to ftock a farm ;
whereas when fmall farms were numerous, thefe were a con-
ftant four to induftry, frugality, and fobriety. Men and maid-
fervants then frequently faved money enough to flock a little
farm ; they married, lived reputably, brought up a fober, mo-
deft, induftfious, race of children, who commonly were excel-
lent fervants ; and, inftesd of worth Icf? and burdenforre, were
very ufeful and piothabie members of fociety. Then they
dreaded nothing fo much as an application to their pariih offi-
cers for relief. How widely different is the c?fc at prefent !
Isow, indeed, the butler and cook in a gentleman's family
fometimes ftrike up a match, when they hear of an inn to be
lett ; the groom and chambermaid follow their fteps at an hum-
ble diftance, and hire an alehoufe, and funiifh a fuug retreat
for vagrants, fmugglers, and poachers.

Farmers fervants frequently delay marriage till the big-bellied-
jnaid alarms the parifh officers, when ihe and her paramour are
efcorted by a conftable to Hymen's altar, like two criminals to
the h-.ufe of correction. In the firft fit of illnefs many of thefe
poor creatures fly, without any remorfe, to the overfeer, for
lupport and maintenance, who commonly conducts them either
tofome wretched hovel, dark and difmal as a dungeon, or to a
houfe of induftry, which, during the prefent diftribution of
farms, will conftantly he fupplicd with fuch kind of tenants for
ever.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 45

Here are Come few reputable trad-jfrnen, and me-
chanics!, who live in a very comfortable and re-
fpc&able manner.

The laboring hufbandmen in general are fober
and induftrious.

There is no public-houfe — no relic of a fign-poft
in the parifh. THE POOR'S RATES ARE VERY MODE-
RATE HERE.

Eight freeholders now live in Baconflhorpe, four
of whom occupy their own freeholds.

All the inhabitants are members of the Church of
England;}:, except one reputable, though not rich fa-
mily, who are Prefbyterians ; but a difference of re-
ligious opinions caufes no other difference here — no
kind of disagreement between them and their neigh-
bours.

The rcclors have redded in the parfonage-houfc
for time immemorial, excepting two fliort intervals,
when they were driven out by fire. It is very re-
markable, that their habitation, though an humble
cottage of thatch, was twice burnt in the fpace of
fixty-tu'o years ; firft, by lightning in 1692 ; and af-
terwards upon the firft day of April, 1754, by a fire
in the wafh-houie chimney, together with the barn,
flable, and other buildings.

D3 At

f Two blackfmiths, one carpenter, one xvheehvright, one
cooper, one fliocmaker, one taylor, hattcrr, and holier.

t I The number of communicants, upon an average, for thir-
een years paft, at Eafter, have be?n more than thirty -four.

46 H U N D R E D O F

At the Conqueror's furvey here was a church ap-
pertaining to one of the lordfhips. which then be-
longed to Robert Grenon, endowed wkh thirty acres
of glebe, eighty fheep, arid forty goats. The rec-
tory is now endowed with thirty-nine acres, twenty
of which are adjoining to the houfe; and the for-
mers, though no Pharifees, pay (a 'yearly cornpofi-
tion in lieu of) tithes of all that they pojfefs.

The church confifls of one nave, two ailes, a
porch, covered with lead, and a vc'ftry, on the north
fide, tiled. The chancel is leaded. In the year
1739 half of the ftceple fell down, and demolished
a part of the church. There were at that time five
bells, two of which were fold to repair the breach
in the church., and rebuild a part of the fteeple. In
the year 1767 the church was in a very ruinous and
deplorable ftate. No wonder; for one of the inha-
bitants boafled, that he had been churclncarden — off
and on — -forty years, and had never put the parijh to any
expence. However, the chief inhabitants, at a vcftry
meeting, agreed to raile a certain fum annually, by a,
rate, till the church fliould be decently repaired.
The woik was foon begun, and in 1779 happily
completed. More than fix hundred pounds have
been expended upon the repairs and ornaments of
the church and chancel, in the (pace of twelve years,
which expence has been defrayed partly by parifh,
rates, and partly by private contributions. Among
the principal benefactors was Mrs. Martha Rufli,
late of Catton, a native of this place, who bounti-
fully gave one hundred pounds towards the comple-
tion of this good work.

The zeal of our forefathers for the public worfhip
of God may be gathered from the remains of many
chuiches, once elegant buildings, now the difmal

habitations

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 47

habitations of gloomy bats; and where Chriftian
congregations formerly ufed to ling praifes to God,
there, now,

with bodeing note.

The Jolitary fcrccch-owljlrains her throat.

How reproachful is it to the men of this genera-
tion, who will not fo much as repair the churches
which their anceftors built, whilft no one dares to
to deny, that in every parifh, the church, or the
Houfe of the Lord of Heaven, ought to be, at lea/},
as decent as the houfe of the lord of the manor.

To fee magnificent towers in ruins, where for-
merly cruel tyrants had ruled with a rod of iron,
and galled the necks of their people with heavy
yokes — where they had fcourged their loins with
fcorpions, and made their lives bitter with hard
bondage — to fee fuch towers as thefe in ruins, af-
fords a very rational pleafure to liberal minds; — but
to fee the temples of the God of all mercies in fuch
a flate, is a fcene of lamentation to every pious
man.

Reclors and Patrons. — -1331, Ralph

1351, Roger Bacoun. 1379, John Goodwin, who
refignqd Kelling, was prcfenteci here by Thomas Ba-
coun. 1395, Roger de Wickingham, by Katherine
Bacon, John Winter, &c. 1409, John Playford, by
John Bacon, efq. 143*, John Candeler, on Play-
ford's death. 1434, William Trcndcl, on Candc-
ler's refignation, by the feoffees of John Bacon, efq.
1450, William Baggot, on Trendel's death, by John
Bacon, fen. efq. 1473, William Wright, by Ni-
cholas Ratclyff, efq. in right of his wife, late wife of
John Bacon, jun. efq. 1480, Henry Wingfield,
A. M. by John and Robert Wingfieid, William,

D £ Hopton,

48 H U N D R E D O F

Hopton. Sec. in 1482 he had the pope's difpcnfntlorif
that, though his fingers were crooked, he mi<rru take
all orders. 1500, Semon Tuvvald, by William
Wingfreld, efq. on Henry Wmgfield's death. i ',14,
Thomas Clayton, by the fame. 1527, James Car-
throppe, on Clayton's rcfignation, by Robert Gar-
iiifh, efq. 1554, Ralph Doker, fuccecded by John
Burwood. 1607, William Greaves, A. M. by Ni-
cholas Strelly, efq. 1608, Edward Wright, by fir
Chriftopher Heydon. 1610, Robert Watfon, by
the fame. 1661, John I.ougher, by William Crow,
of Bilney. 1664, Jofeph Claike, by Hannah Noel,
widow, i/oi, Valentine Haywood, on Clarke's
death, by John Lang, efq. 1721, John Rufh, on
Haywood's reGgnation, by the lame. 174?. Zu-
rifhaddai Girdleftone, by the fame i 767, William
Hewitt, A. M. by Sarah Girdleftone, widow, and
Zurifhaddai Girdleftone, a minor, eldcft fon of the
late reclor.

This place does not abound with natural curiofi-
ties; neverthelefs, here is a fpring, or head of a ri-
vulet— a naiuelefs thing indeed — unknown to geo-
graphers— unnoticed by hiftorians — unfung by poets
— which, by the wife difpcnfation of Him that Jendetk
thefprings info the rivers, doth not flow in vain. Run-
ning among the hills, it is the boundary of divers pa-
nlhcs ; it produces fifh, turns lour corn mills, help-
ing to prepare for man his daily bread, and, after a
very fliort courfe, falls into the fea at Clay.

Hence, reader, learn to run with patience the race
that is Jet before the;. Be as ufelul as thou can'ft,
though unpraifed by the world. Be diligent in thy
own fphere of life, however humble. Givebiead to
the hungry, and drink to the tlurjt). — Haft thou but lit-
tle'? be nvt afraid, to give of that little — Jook at this

little

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 49

little flream — the heaffs of the Jidd drink hereof, and the
wild ajfes quench their thirjt. In fine, be rather than
fecm good"'.

• and -what thou liv"ft,

Live well, how long orjlwrt permit to Heaijn.\.

A gentleman who has frequently affifted this work,
has alfo favoured us with the following fhort remaiks
on this parifh : — " Little now remains of the once
magnificent abode of the Heydon family, yet thofc
parts which have efcaped the deflnjfiive hand of
time, and furvived the extinction of the family, are
now carefully preferved by Zurifliaddai Girdle-
flone, efq. who has repaired the fouth gate houfe,
or tower, and converted it into a convenient .d»vel-
Jing-houfe (for a view of which, in its prcfent flate,
we are obliged to Mr Repton.) The outer walls of
the former manfion, furrounded by a mote now, in-
clofe the garden.

" The church, till very lately, has been in a tnoft
ruinous condition ; indeed the tower flill remains fo :
but the church itfclf within a few months pad has
undergone fo remarkable a change, that it well deferves
in this place to be particularly noted : — New win-
dows— doors — pavement — pews — font — pulpit — al-
tar— each not only neat and fubflantial, but in every
refpecl elegant, adorn the inhde of this beautiful
cotfntry chuich, vvhilfl the outfide has been entirely
new covered with lead, and the old walls fupported
with brick and free-ftone buttrefles ; the whole co-
vered with flucco mortar, and furrounded by a pave-
ment of flag-ilone.

* Cato— according to Salluft— tjje, quam vidtri bonus, mal;bat.
t Milton.

5o HUNDRED OF

" If hvpocrify was the true character of the lafl age,
it may juftly be aliened, that impiety and licentiouf-
nefs arc the diftinguifhing maiks of this ; nor can it
be wondered at, fince it has been for fome years paft
a maxim in politics, that corruption is neceffary in
the conflitution of this country, and that the feeds of
it can never be fown but in thofe hearts which
have been prepared by abject dependance, the necef-
fary efiecl of profufion and extravagance : thus have
luxury, diffipation, and immorality, been encouraged
and enforced by the example of thofe to whom the
wealth of the nation has been entrufted, and indivi-
duals of all ranks have been taught to look on the
delicacies as the neceffaries of life. At fuch a pe-
riod, it is matter of univerfal admiration and fur-
prife, to hear that a country church has been rebuilt
by individuals, from motives of real piety, not to
decorate the park of opulence and vanity, but to af-
ford a comfortable reception to thofe who, not yet
tainted with the prevalence of fofhion, think it meri-
torious publicly to perform the duties which religion
enjoins.

" The author of this noble work, from modefly,
(the attendant of true merit) and from a felf-appro-
bation, (which wants not the praife of men) widies
to lay concealed under the veil of lool. contribution
from the late S. Rujli, ejq. of Cation, and a collection
from the inhabitants of Baconflhorpe ; yet he mud
not be offended if we point him out to poflerity,
by faying, This church wat thoroughly repaired and

ntijied linder the direction, and chiejly at the cxpcnce,
(f the Rev. Mr. William Hewitt, reftor of Baconjthorpc
and Bodham, who compleated it on the Sth day of Aug.
'779-1'

BANNINGHAM%

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 51

BANNIXGHAM. The greater part by much
of this town was called Cracheford, or Crakcford,
and Banincham t was only a hamlet to Cracheford ;
at the Concjueft the town was four furlongs and
an half long, and four furlongs broad, and paid 4d,
to the gelt, and was all included and valued with
the king's manor of Aylfham. * ^-<

Guert, the Dane, was lord here in Edward the
Confeflbr's time, and the Conqueror gave it to Wil-
liam de Warren, all but that part which belonged to
Cawfton, and that Rainald Htz-lvo had; it after-
wards came to the crown, and one half of it was
given by Richard I. to John Corn-de-Beauf, or Cor-
dcbof, of Bannirigham, who held it by ferjeanty,
to find one foldier with a lance for the king's fervice1
and his fon, Hubert, had it of the gift of Henry I.
when it was a member of Cawfton ; he was to find,
one archer on horfeback for the king's fervice, alfo a
crofs-bow for him to fhoot with, and to maintain him.
forty days in the king's army, at his own coft, when-
ever the king went into Wales.

In 1253 Galiena, widow of John Cordebof, of
Mcndlefham, in Suffolk, fued Thomas Cordebof
for her dower, and Katherine Efturmin, and pleaded,
that fir John Cordebof, km. married her, endowed
her, and lived with her, but afterwards obtained a
divorce from the bifhop of Norwich, by reafon of
confanguinity, upon which fhe appealed to the arch-
bifhop of Canterbury, who rcverfcd the bifhop of
Norwich's fentcnce, and then fir John appealed to

the

f Ban, Is a precinft, as Ban-Lsuga ; Lig, is low ground ;
Ham, a village ; fo that it figniHes the dwelling at the lows in
the precinft,/*:. of AyHham, to which manor it originally be-
longed.

.5? HUNDRED OF

the pope, and during that fuit cfpoufed the faid Ka-
theiine, and endowed her at the church door of thefe
lands, and file lived with him till his death ; but the
pope confirmed the archbifhop's proceedings, it being
proved that Katherine, before her marriage, knew
that fir John had married Galiena, and lb Galiena re-
covered her dower.

This came from the Cordebofs to the Bigots, xvho
had the other part alfo from the Tufards ; for Roger
Bigot, earl of Norfolk, joined them to his manor and
advowfon, of Banningham, of which he was now
fblc lord and patron.

Of Tufard's ferjeanty we find, that Henry I. gave
it to Gerard Tufard, who held his ferjeanty here,
and in Erpingham, by finding an archer on horfe-
back. with a crofs-bow, to attend the king, when-
ever,he made an expedition againft the YVelfh, and
he was to keep the archer and his horfc in the king's
army forty days, at his own cofl.

The MANOR of BANNINGHAM, alias CRAKEFORD'S,
went from the earl Warren to the Bigots; and in
1299 Simon Bigot, of Felbrigg, was lord here, but
not patron; for in 1316 Alice de Hanonia, countefs
of Norfolk, had the patronage, and it continues in
the Norfolk family to this time.

The manor being in that branch of the Bigots
which fettled at Felbrigg, it defccnded to the Fel-
brigg's, and in 1442 was fettled on John Windham,
ienior, who purchased a confiderable eftate here of
John de Banningham, a family firnamed of the town,
and had continued in it ever iince the time of Ri-
chard I. from which time it hath patted with Felbrigg,

and

SOUTH ERPINGHA M. 53

and now belongs to William Windhara, of Fe'lbrigg,
efq. F. R. S.

This town is in the Duchy of Lancafter, and paid
3!. clear to every tenth, betides los. paid by the re-
ligious, viz. the abbot of St. Bennet, whofe tempo-
rals here were valued at 285. 2d. and the facrift of
St. Edmund's at 335. gd. ob. It is valued at 292!.
to the land tax, and flands in the king's books at iol.
155. lod. fo that it is alfo chargeable with firft-
fruits, and incapable of augmentation. The old va-
luation was feventeen marks.

In 1317 Edward II. licenfedthe rector to purchafe
two houfcs, and land, to enlarge the fcite of the rec-
tory.

In 1767 the Rev. Thomas Paul was prefented to
this rectory by the earl of Effingham, ex afficio for the
duke of Norfolk.

Mary, wife of the Rev. Samuel Wanley, who
died Nov. 16, 1709, aged 60 years, lies buried in
this church, j

Samuel Wanley, re$or of Banningham, tied his
lands, called Ellis's, for five pounds, he bequeathed
to ten poor widows, at every feaft of St. Thomas,
for ever, and charged his truftees to make his com-
modious and pleafant dwelling, with its appurte-
nances, the parfonage-houfc; he died July 31, 1722.
Of his age 66. Of his miniftry here 38.

A ftone at the altar — To Henrietta-Maria Cremer,
daughter of the Rev. Robert Cremer, obijt B° die Julij,
At D. 1729, Mat. 24.

54 HUNDRED OF

In the church arc braffes, and there arc ftoncs
for the Eldcns in the north aile.

At the altar, — Humphry Carter, attorney in his Ma-
jejlys court of common picas, 1673.

The tower is fquare, and hath three bells; the
fouth porch, nave, and two ailes, are leaded, and the
chancel is thatched.

LITTLE BARNINGHAM, BFRMXCHAM, or

BERNESWORTH-GOOHALE, OrBEKNlXGHAM-STAl-FORD,

for by all thefe names this village hath palled, in or-
der to diftin°;uiih it from the other villages of the

O O

fame name.

At the Conquefl it was in four parts, one was va-
lued as part of the king's manor of Aylfham, and
was under the care of Godric;'the advowfon of the
church, which had then nine acres of glebe, and the
fccond part, belonged to William de Warren, and
was formerly owned by Herold ; a third part was
valued with Blickling manor, and was owned by
William Beaufoe, bifhop of Thetford ; and the fourth
part belonged to Brant, a noble Dane in the time of
Edward the Confeffor, and to Robert Fitz-Corbun
in the time of the Conqueror, when the whole town
was feven furlongs long, and four broad, and paid
three pence three farthings to the gelt towards every
2os. raifed by the hundred.

The church is dedicated to St. Andrew ; the tower
is fquare, and hath two bells, and a third Hands
broken in the church ; the nave is leaded, the
chancel thatched, the iouth porch tiled, aud a north
veftry is ruined.

Under

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 55

Under the communion-table lies a ftone altarwife,
viz. the ends to the Jbuth and north, on which a
brafs plate is thus infcribed:

Here ys Edmundys grave, Jeju his foiullc hauvc.

In the nave is a pew creeled by a Shepherd ; a ike*
leton carved in wood is fixed at the Couth-wen1 corner
of it, and a few doggerel rhymes tacked to it, carved
on the pew.

This rectory is valued in the king's books at 5!.
155. sd. ob. and {lands there by the name of Barn-
ingham Parva, and being iworn of the clear yearly-
value of 45!. it is difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths,
and is capable of augmentation ; the old valuaionwas
feven marks; it is now valued to the land tax at
314!. los. and is in the Duchy of Lancafter ; it took
its name from Ban, bread-corn ; Ing, low-meadow;
and 'Ham, a village ; fo that it fignifies the village,
or dwelling, by the low meadows, abounding with
wheat . — Blorne/icld.

In 1539 the rcclor was prefented by Hugh de Aud-
ley, carl of Gloucefter, In 1349 Robert baron of
Stafford, and lord of Tunbridge, was patron. In
1460 John duke of Norfolk died feifed of the ad-
vowfon, and the earl of Surrey was alfo patron of
Barningham-Goodale, alias Stafford. In 1692 Rir
chard Knight, gent, patron in full right, prefented;
and in i 767 the Rev. Charles Browne was prefemed
by John Browne, gent. p. h. v.

The manor was anciently in a family that took
their firname from this lordfhip ; Humphrey de Ber-
niilgham was fole lord, (as the Red-book of the Kx<-
chccjuer informs us) and held it of the honor of ihc

abboc

56 HUNDRED OF

abbot of Sr. Edmund's Bury in the time ofllenry I.
as land of the new feoffment.

In-isyg, in the regifter of Bury abbey, called
Pinchebec, fol. ii8.it is faid, that John dc Sanclo
Claro held the fourth part of a fee of the abbot of
Bury, which Euflace de Berningham formerly held.

Walter de Berningham, lord here, had a charter
from Edward I. for a fair and market here, and for
liberty of free-warren in this and Wickmcre manors.

In 19,12 fir Henry de Seagrave, Hugh Tirrel, and
twenty-five others, came hither armed to the manor-
houfe of William de Berningham, and fired in it five
feveral places, and fcized the lady Penonel de Gra,
mother of the faid William, and piicked her with
fwords, and cut her with knives, to force her to tell
them of her jewels, money, and plate, and break
open her chefts, 8cc. for which they were ail indicted,
but produced the king's pardon.

In 1313 Walter de Berningham fettled this manor
and advowfon, and the manor of Wickmcre, on
himfelf for life, the remainder to Gilbert de Clare,
carl of Gloucefter and Hertford, and their heirs. In
1315 the countcfs of Glouceder was in poffeffion of
them, but upon the marriage of Ifabel, fifier and co-
heirefs of Gilbert de Clare, Hugh de Audley, her
hufband, had them, and was lord and patron tare.
In 1371 Ralph carl of' Stafford, in right of Margaret,
his wife, one of the daughters and heircfTcs of Hugh
de Audley, carl of Glouceftsr, held this manor. In
1495 it was in the hands of Katherine duchefs of
Bedford, and was then found to extend into Wick-
mcre, Wolterton, Erpingham, Itteringham, and Mat-
lafk ; and it defcended to Edward duke of Bucking-

hamfhire.

SOOTH ER PING HAM. 57

liamfhire, with Wickmere, Wells, Warhara, Wivc-
ton. Sec. who was attainted in the time of Henry VIII.
This Lady Catherine held thefe in dower, as daugh-
ter of Richard Woodevile, earl Rivers, and widow
of Henry Stafford, duke of Bucks, and conftable of
England ; (he died Dec. 21, in this year.

After the attainder aforefaid, in the year 1522,
Henry VIII. granted this manor and advowfon, par-
cel of the pofleffions of Edward late duke of Buck's,
attainted, to Thomas duke of Norfolk*, and it was
owned by Philip earl of Arundel, at his attainder in

In 1615 John Dix, alias Ramfey, of Wickmere,
efqt. as truftec to Thomas earl of Arundel, granted a
rent-charge of 20 per ann. to James Wilford, of Lin-
coln's-Inn, efq. out of this manor, and then mort-
gaged it to Thomas Marfham, of London, efq. and it
was afterwards fold by John Tafburgh, who mar-
ried a daughter and coheirefs of John Dix, alias
Ramfey. to whom the Norfolk family had conveyed
the manor and advowfon, to Richard Knight, of At-
tlebridgc, efq. who was high fheriff of Norfolk in,
1 704 ; but the manor belonged to Mr. John Gurnay,
of Norwich, in 1733, and at his death came to his
ion, Mr. John Gurnay.

WEST BECKHAM+ (lands in a nook of land

furroundcd on all parts, except the fouth, with the

E hundreds

* At the attainder of the Norfolk family queen Elizabeth
had the manor and advowfon, and leafed them to William Dix,
efq. John Bleverhaffet, efq. and others.

t" In 1632 there was a long fu it between John Dix, alias
Ramfey, then lord, and the tenants, about fhack and (beep-walk
on kiarningham-heath.

J Becham, or Beckham,fo called from a little brook, or ri-
vulet, here, which runs from hence to C Icy.

5S HUNDREDOF

hundreds of Holt and North Erpingham, of which
lad it was formerly a part, and belonged to the fee of
Norwich in the time of the Confeffor.

At the Conqueror's furvey we find that Walter Gif-
fard had lands, 8cc. here, valued at 6s. then at 125.
Walter held it only during (he life of William Beau-
foe, bifhop of Norwich, to whom the king had given
it in fee; but at his death he left it to the fee, and
bifhop Herbert having founded the priory of Nor-
wich, Eborard, his fucceffor, gave this manor and
advowfon to the convent. It remained thus till
about 1248, when the prior granted the manor and
all his lands here (except the advowfon of the
church, and the glebe land,) to Walter de Maltby, or
Mautby, lord of Mautby, and his heirs; and in
1284 Robert de Mautby had view of frank-pledge,
and affize ol bread and beer. Before this, in the
time of Henry III. Walter de Mautby was fued for
i in poling a new toll in Beckham fair.

In 1316 fir John de Mautby was lord ; it conti-
nued in this family till Margaret, daughter and
heircfs of John Mautby, efq. brought it by marriage
to John Paflon, efq. and was lately fold by the heirs
of Paflon, carl of Yarmouth, to the late lord Anfon,
and George Anfon, efq. is now lord.

The town is in the Duchy of Lancaflcr's liberty .
and is laid at 280!. los. to the land tax.

In 1379 the prier of Beefton-Regis purchafcd land
here of Nicholas Bond ; and in the fame year fir
Roger de Beckham, knt. was returned as one of the
principal gentry of the country.

The

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 59

The church was a re&ory, in the gift of the prior
ind convent of Norwich, and appropriated to John
de Grey, bifhop, to the ufe of the almoner, he pay-
ing a pen (ion of 35. per ann. to the celarcr, and a
vicarage was inflituted, which was not taxed, fo that
it never came into the king's books, the impropriate
rectory taxed at fix marks anfwering the whole. The
convent had all the glebe, fourteen acres, with the
great tithes, paid all charges whatsoever, the vicar
having only the fmall tithes.

In 1303 the firft vicar was prefcntcd by the prior,
Sec. which they continued to do till about 1390;
but for fome centuries paft there have been no vicars
inftitute'd, the lords of the manor holding the impro-
priation by leafc from the church of Norwich, re-
ceive the whole tithes, and pay a ftipend to the fcrv-
ing curate. The church is in the peculiar jurif-
diction of the dean and chapter of Norwich ; it it
dedicated to All Saints, {lands in a field, and no
houfe near to it. The chancel, which is repaired by
the impropriator, is tiled, the nave leaded, the tower
is round at the bottom, and udangular above, and
has one bell.

In the chancel is a grave-ftone, — In memory of Cooke
flower, gent, (father of Mr. Cooke Flower, l»rd of Sher-
ringham) who died Nov. i if 174*, atpd 38,

In the church-yard is a flone, with an anchor on a
fhicld, — For James Crowe, who died in 1747, aged 65.

In 1778 the Rev. Richard Sibbs was prefented to
this impropriaic curacy by the dean and chapter of
Norwich,

E 2 BELAUGH,

60 HUNDRED OF

BEIAUGH, BELAGH, or BILHAGH, wrote m
Doomfday-book Belaga, fignifies the dwelling-place
at the water*, and it ftands accordingly clofe by the
river Bure, the church itfclf being not above eighty
yards from it ; but, notwithftanding that, placed on
fuch a hill, that it commands the adjacent flats,
\vhich by the flielves and eminences on both fides
plainly fhcw, that the whole was formerly covered
with water. The parfonage-houfe ftands between the
river and church-yard, directly under it, the bottom
of the fteeple being higher than the top of the houfe ;
the hill on which the church ftands is fo ftecp towards
the river, or weft part, that the human bones lie un-
covered by the earth's falling from them, occa Honed
by decay of the ftone wall round the church-yard,
which was made to keep the hill from flipping away.

This village is in the jurifdiclion of the Duchy of
Lancafter, and belonged in the time of the Confef-
for to Ralph Stalra, who gave all that he had here to
the abbot of St. Bennet at Holme, who by that gift
had the whole advowfon, which patted with the mo-
naftery till its diflblution, and then went to the ftc
of Norwich, which now hath it, and all the revenues
of the faid abbey ; one part of it then, as now, be-
longed to Hoveton manor, another to Aylfham, and
another part, or manor, belonged to Herold in the
time of the Confcffor, and to Ralph de Beau foe at
the conqucft, over which Hoveton manor had the
foe, or chief jurifdi&ion ; Robert Aguillon in 1 235
had a part, or manor, and confirmed all gifts made to
the abbot of St. Bennet's ; after him William Ber-
tram, a Norman, owned it; and in 12^5 Thomas
Bardolph held it. In 1315 the abbot of St. Bennet

was

* Byt in Saxon, a dwelling* and Eau, water.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 61

•was chief lord, and a manor was held of him by
Robert Baniaid, and by Roger du Bois in 1401.

In 1538 Robert Paynel, of Belaugh, gent, had a
Icafe from the bifhop of Norwich of the fcite and
demefnes of the manor of Hoveton St. John, to
which the manor and jurfdiclion of this town be-
longed; it continued in that family till 1689, and
then John Paynel, gent, fold it to Giles Cutting, at-
torney at law, and fince held by Thomas Bell, efq.
who was high fheiiff of Norfolk in 1738.

The church is dedicated to St. Peter, and there
was a chapel in the north part of the church, dedi-
cated to St. Helen ; it ftauds thus in the king's books :
— 61. Belehaw, alias Bilough reftory, 34!. clear yearly
value, and being difcharged of full-fruits and tenths,
it is capable of augmentation.

The abbot of St. Bennet's, and the prior of But-
ley, in Suffolk, paid 8s. for their revenues here; the
prior was laid at los. and fo confcquently paid is.
to each tenth. The abbot of Caen, in Normandy,
was taxed for rents here belonging to Coltifhall at
35. ob. q. and the abbot paid the reft. The town
is laid at s661. los. to the land tax.

There was a family very ancient, which took their
name from the town. John de Belhaugh had an
eftate here in the time of Henry II. whofc family
continued a long time here. Belaugh was nine fur-
longs long, three and an half broad, and paid 6d.
gelt. The old value of the redory was fifteen
marks.

In 1459 John Ippefwell, official to the archdeacon
of Norwich, was rc&or.

£3 In

6* HUNDREDOF

In the altar, on the fouth fide, is a ftone with the
cup and wafer on it, and this on a brafs plate: —
O^ate pro anima Johannis Feelde, nuper r efforts ijlim
ccdcfic de Bylaugh, qui obijt xx die Julij, anno Dem.
MDVIII cujus anime propicictur Deus. Amen. — He
was a native of this town.

The tower is fquare, and hath three bells in it;
the nave and chancel are thatched, the north ailc
leaded, and the fouth porch tiled.

In the aile there are flones for Henry Paynell,
gent. July 17, 1579. Thomafme, his wife, daughter
of John Barney, of Langlcy, efq. by whom he had
five fons and five daughters. John, eldcft fon of
Henry Paynell, efq. and Winifred, his wife. Tho-
mas, third fon of Robert Paynell, efq. 1678.

A mural monument, — To Catherine, wife of John
Pay net, efq. of Bylaugh, obijt July 22, 1687. — With
the arms of Paynel, impaling Gaflelyn, or Gaftclyn.

Alfo a monument, with arms, — To Thomas Lcman,
gent, obijt Nov. 6, 1661. atat. 75.

There arc memorials in the nave for Henry Utting,
1715, aged 40. Margaret, daughter of Robert Blake,
gent. 1781, alat. 16 months.

In the chancel, — Dcpofitum Maria Dean, ob. now?
die Novemb" i 704, atatis 33.

On the waiafcot at the altar, Green's arms, and
this date, 1679. — Thomas Hufbands, efq. 1660.
•\Villoughby, his relifi, 1681. And three of their
children.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 63

In a north chancel window, St. Michael holds a
fceptre and fword, and a pair of fcales, a man in one
(bale, and the bible in the other, and under him a
great number of men, women, and children, and
over them,

Michael Archangdc cell, vcni in auxilium populL

In 1768 the Rev. Lancafter Adkin was prcfcmtvi
to this re£lory by the bifhop of Norwich.

BUCKLING is wrote in Doomfday-book Blic-
linga, and in Richard II. and Henry IV. Blykelyga:
it was owned by Harold (afterwards king of England)
in the time of the Confcflbr ; one part of it was in
the king's own hands, and fo had the other been,
after Harold's death, and therefore the whole always
enjoyed the privileges of ancient demefne, and was
exempt from the hundred, and had the leet, and all
royalties belonging to it.

The Conqueror gave it to bifhop Herfaft, and af-
terwards to William Beaufoe, bifhop of Thetford, in
fee and inheritance, and he fettled the 'whole town
and advowfon on the fee ; it was rifen from 61. to
81. value, and was a mile long, and as much broad,
and paid four-pence halfpenny gelt, or tax, toward*
every sos. railed on the hundred.

At the ConfefTor's furvey this and Marfliam were
appendant to Cawflon manor; but at the Conqueft,
lueringham, Marfham, Stratton, Barningham, and
Eaft Beckham, had bcrewics appendant to this, which
was confirmed to the fee of Norwich by Henry I.
when bifhop Herbert fixed the fee there, to be held in
chief of the king, at one knight's fee. It being an
agreeable diftancc from Norwich the bifhops held the
in their own hands, and had a palace, or
E 4 country

64 HUNDREDOF

country feat, with a fine park adjoining to it ; and it
appears from the inftitution books, by much bufinefs
tranfa&ed, that many of the bifhops often refided
here. The liberties of leet, or view of frank-pledge,
affize of bread and ale, a gallows, tumbrell, or duck-
ing-flool, and free-warren, were allowed to this ma-
nor, in feveral iters, by the king's itinerant-juflices,
or judges; and this manor and advowfon appendant
continued in the fee till 1533, and on thr exchange
then made came into the hands of Henry VIII. who
feparated the advowfon from the manor, which he
granted to fir John Clere, knt. who in 1546 held
it of the crown in capile, and joined it to, and haih
paffed ever fmcc with

The MANOR of DAGWORTH, in Blickling, which
ivas originally part of the great manor till bifhop
Eborard, in the time of Henry I. granted it to John
Fitz-Robert, a powerful foldier in thofe days, and to
his heirs, to be held of the fee at one fee ; this he
afterwards declared he did without the confcnt of the
prior and chapter, and by force, leafl by the misfor-
tunes of war in England the whole fee fhould be
fpoilcd; and therefore afterwards he requcfled a bull
of the pope to abfolvc him from the fact, and rcftore
the poffeffion to the church, but was denied, and
William Fitz-Robert, brother of John, held it of the
old feoffment when the black book of the Exchequer
was made, about 1165; this William married Sibil,
filler and coheirefs of John de Caineto, Chefneto, or
Cheyncy, and aflumed that name ; they left the
three following daughters their coheirefles :

Margaret, married firfl to Hugh de Crefli, fe-
condly to Robert Fitz-Roger; dementia, the fecond
daughter, married Jordan de Sackvile; and Sarah,
the third daughter, married Richard Engaine, grand-

fon

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fon to Richard Engaine. who lived in the Conqueror's
days ; this Richard in 1 191 gave the king 200 marks
to have porTeffion of his wife's inheritance, and to be
fheriff of Northamptonfhire, and to have the profits
of the county for three years; but this manor in
1217 was releafed by Jordan de Sackvile, and Vitalis,
fon of Richard Engaine, to Margery de CreiTi, and
fo it came wholly to that family ; and in i 225 a fine
was levied between her and the bifhop of Norwich,
by which the advowfon was fettled wholly on
the fee, and the manor on her and her heirs. In
i 258 Roger de Crefly was lord, and added much to
it, by purchafe from William de Blickling ; he mar-
ried Ifabel, daughter and coheirefs of Hubert dc
Rhia, or Rye, and John Marfhall married the other
coheirefs ; Ifabel died feifed of this manor, and co-
heirefs of the barony of Rye, about 1266.

In 1267 there was a fuit for this manor between
William de Valentia, or Valence, and Robert Fitz-
Roger, by which it appears that the king had granted
this, Filby, and Weft Lcxham manors, with other in-
heritances of Hugh and Roger dc CrefTy, as efcheats
to William de Valence, who recovered them, and ha J
liberty of return of writs in all his manors in North-
amptonfliire, by his own fleward, who would not
permit the fhcrifF to enter ; but foon after Valence
furrendered this and Blythburgh manors to Robeic
Fitz-Roger, as the inheritance of Margery dc Creffi;
but Valence was to hold Filby and Weft Lexham as
the inheritance of Hugh, or Stephen de Crefly, or
Roger de Cheney, his anceftors; but after this John
Engaine was lord here, who was fon of Vitalis Eu-
gaine, who releafed it as aforefaid in 1278; he held
it of the bifhop of Norwich, and in 1281 was fum-
moned with the reft of the barons to attend Edward J.
in his expedition into Wales. In 1285 John En-

x gaiuc,

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gaine, jun. his fon, was lord, and had view of
frank-pledge, affize of bread and ale, and free-war-
ren here, allowed him in Eire; in 1293 he was fum-
moncd to attend Edward I. with horfc and arms, intd
Gafcoigne, to recover it from the French ; and in
1*96 it appears that he had this manor with Ellen,
his wife, daughter of Robert Fitz-Roger'", and that
his father had ii only fetilcd on him for life, in truft
for them.

In 1309 John Engainc fold this manor to Robert de
Holveilon, and his heirs, paying a rent-charge to
them during their lives ; this Robert was fucceeded
by James de Holvefton, his fon, who was lord in
1345 ; and in 136^. he and Joan, his wife, fettled it
on truitees for themfelves for life, with remainder to
fir Nicholas Dagworth, knt. and his heirs ; he died in.
1378, and was buried in St. Andrew's church at
Biitkling, and Joan, his wife, and two daughters, iur-
viyed him.

This family took their rife and name from Dag-
worth, in Stow hundred, in Suffolk, where Walter
dc Aggewoith, or Dagworth, held lands in king
John's time ; in this family was the office of ufher
of the Exchequer.

Sir Thomas de Dagworth, knt. was lieutenant to
Edward III. in Brittanny, in the year 1345, where
he fought Charles of Blois, who called himfelf
duke of Britain, and took him prifoner at Rochedi-
rian, obtaining a great viclory, killing above fix
hundred knights, efquires, and men of arms ; but in

July

* In I ;oo this Robert Fitz-Roger, lord of Clavering, was one
«f thofc noble barons who, in the parliament held at Lincoln,
fealed the letter to the pope, to tell him " that the kingdom of
Scotland was not of his fee, and that he had no jurifdidion
there, nor iu England, in fccular a flairs"

S O U T H E R P I N G H A M. 67

July following, going with a fmall number to view
the garrifons, he was furprizcd by an ambufh of
French, and after a brave defence killed, as were
moft of them with him, and the reft taken prifoncrs.
In 1315 his widow, Alianora. countefs of Ormond,
relicl of James Botiler, firft earl of Ormond, and
daughter of Humphrey dc Bohun, earl of Hereford,
had the king's protection for herfclf, fcrvants, work-
men, and tenants, and all her cftates, in the duke-
dom of Britain.

In 1364 fir Nicholas Dagworth, knt. afterward*
lord of Blickling, was commander in Aquitain; in
1373 he was employed by Edward III. in a fccret
negociation with fir John Faflolf, and others, in
France. In 1376 he was fent by the king and coun-
cil into Ireland to examine into fir William dc Wind-
for's carriage there; but at the motion of dame Alice
Perers he was flopped, flic declaring him fir Wil-
liam's enemy, and that it was unjufi to appoint one
enemy to judge another; but the next year he wa»
fcnt with full commiffion to reform the (late of that
kingdom ; he was in as great eftccm wilh Richard
II. as he had always been with Edward III. for in
1380 he, fir John Haukcwood, knt. and Walter
Skirlawc, doclor W the decrees, and dean of St. Mar-
tin's le Grand, in London, was fent into France to
treat with the dukes and lords of Italy ; and the
fame year, being one of the privy chamber to the
king, he with four others had like power to treat
with the German princes. The year following he
and Skirlawe went ambatfadors to pope Urban
the Sixth, and had power to treat with the king of
Naples. In 1384 he and John Baam, dean of St.
Martin's, the king's fecretary, and fir John Hauke-
wood, went ambalfadors to the pope, and to treat
with Charles king of Jerufalcm and Sicily; and not-
withllatiding bis being fo much in favor, iw the I Ufa

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of Richard II. he was one of thofe impeached in
parliament, and was imprifoned in Kochefter-caftle,
in Kent, but being honorably difcharged, was the
next year appointed a commifTioner to treat with the
French king, and with the earl of Flanders. In the
isthofRich. II. he was made one of the com mifTi oners

to take the oath of the king of Scotland, to the treaty
then concluded, and afterwards demanded fatisfac-
tion of the Scots for infringing that treaty, and alfo.»
the money behind-hand for the redemption of David
Bruce, king of Scotland ; afterwards he retired to this
place, where he built the manfion, or manor-houfe,
and confbntly refided here, to the day of his. death,
in 1391, the 14th of Richard II. he exemplified the
liberties of this manor, when all the tenants were ex-
empt from toll, as being ancient demefne; this great
man died in January 1401, and lies buried at the
cad end of the fouth aile of Blickling church, under
a marble, on which is his figure in brafs, armed cap-
a-pee, lying on his creft, and a lion couchant at his
feet, and the arms of Dagworth, impaled with Ro-
fale.

Alianora, his widow, was daughter of Walter,
and filler and coheirefs of fir John Rofale, of Shrop-
fhire, who in 1407 releafed all her right in the third
part of this manor, for term of life, to fir Thomas de
Erpingham, and fir Robert Beniey, knts. fhe died in
1432, and in that year John Inglcfield, efq. fon of
her filler, Alice, by Philip de Inglefield, of Inglefield,
in Betkfhire, was heir to Alianoia.

Thomafme, fifter and heirefs of fir Nicholas Dag-
worth, married William lord Furnival, of Worfop,
in Nottinghamshire, and had Joan, their daughter
and heirels, manied to Thomas Ncvilc, lord Furni-
val ; but this manor was in the hands of fir Thomas
Krpingham, knt. and his feoffees, and they all re-
leafed

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leafed their rights to fir Thomas in 1431 ; and fir
Thomas fold it to fir John Faftolff, knt. who about
1452 fold it to fir Geffrey Boleyn, knt. lord mayor
of the city of London, who made it his country
(eat.* .,->•*-

The family of the Boleynes, or Bullens, are de-
fcended from John Boieyne, of Salle, in Eynsford,
who lived there in 1283.

Sir Geffrey, or Jeffery Boieyne, being a great fa-
vorite with fir John Faftolff, was by his intereft much
promoted; he fettled in London, and was lord
may or of that city in 1457, being then knighted; he

married

* " To my ryght wurfchypfull fer, John Pafton, efquyer, (he

" was executor to fir John Faftolft". )
" Ryght Wurichypfull Ser,

" After rygth hertely recommendacon, lyke it to wete, that
my maifter Faftolf, hoofe fowle God afoyle, when I bowth
ofhym the manor of Blyclyng, confideryng the gret pay-
ment that I payed therfor, and the yerly anuyte duryng his
lyfe, after his entent, vvas to me grct charge; and the
fame tyme in his place at Southwerk, by his othe made on
his primer ther, graunted and prom itted tome, to have the
manor of Gunton, with all the appurtenances, for a reafon-
able pris, afor ony other man : A ad fer, as I underftande ye
be that perfon, that my feid maifter, coniideryng your gret
wyfdom, moft trofted, to have rewle and dyrecton of his
lyfelode and goods, and fer, trewly yf I had ben nere unto
you, I wold have fpoken to you herof befor this tyme: Nc-
verthelefle I woulde defyre and pray you to fchewe me your
goode wyll and favour in this by halve, wherinne ye fchall
dyfcharge my feid maifters fowle of his othe and promyfe;
and I fhall do you fervyce, in that I can, or maye to my
power. And of yo\vr goode wyll and favour herynne, I
pray yow to lete me have wetyng, and I fchall be redy to
waytc on yow at ony tyme and place wher ye wall affyne.
And our blyfyd Lord have yow in his kepyng, wret the v.
day of December." (This was written iu 1469) foon after

fir John's death.

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married Ann, firft daughter and cohcircfs of Thomas
lord Hoo and Haftings.

He built the chapel of St. Thomas, at the eaft
end of the north ailc of Blickling church, and adorn-
ed the windows with beautiful painted glafs, and
there ftill remain his own arms, impaling his wife's,
in a window there, and an infcription.

He died feifed of Blickling, Mulbarton. StifFkey,
and divers other manors in Norfolk and Kent, leav-
ing good portions to all his children, having had
three fons and four daughters, and dying in London,
was buried in St. Laurence's church, in the chapel
there, according to his own direction.

Sir Thomas Boleyn, the eldeft, was a minor at
Jiis father's death ; he lived at Sail, but was of age
before 1466, for then he was party to a fine con-
cerning Hedenham Manor; he died in April 1471,
and ordered to be buried by his father.

Sir William Boleyn, knt. of Blickling, and of
Hevercaflle, in Kent, his brother, became general
heir. He was made knight of the Bath at the co-
jonation of Richard III. was fheriff of Kent in the
5th of Henry VII. and married Mavgaret, daughter
and co-heirefs of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond ;
be wai buried in Norwich Cathedral in 1505, by
the grave of dame Anne Bullen, his mother. He
had fix fons, and live daughters, mod of whom lie
buried in Blickling church.

Sir Thomas Boleyn, the eldeft fon, was created
knight of the Bath at the coronation of Henry VIII.
He held this manor of the bifhop of Norwich, and
paid 35, Gd. every thirty weeks for caftle- guard, and

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SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 71

was governor of Norwich caftlc in 1512, ambafla-
dor to the emperor Maximilian, vifcount Rochford
in the i 7th of Henry VIII. knight of the garter,
earl of Wilts to the heirs male of his body, and eail
of Ormond to his heirs general, lord privy fcal. &c.
he died in the 3oth of Henry VIII. 1338, and had,
by Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas duke of Nor-
folk, his only wife.

I. George Boleyn, vifcount Rochford, who was
fummoned to parliament by that title during hit
father's life-time; he was conftablc of Dover-
caftlc, lord warden of the cinque-ports, ambaflador
into France, and one of the king's privy chamber,
which it had been happy for him if he had never
enjoyed, for when that luftful prince, Henry VIII.
determined the queen's deftru&ion, he fell a facrifice,
with four others of the privy chamber, to make a
clearer way for his fitter's death, and was confe-
quently beheaded in the Tower of London, May i 7,
in the a8th of Henry VIII. 1536, his father then
living; he left Jane, daughter of Henry Parker,
lord Morlcy, his widow.

, 2. Anne Boleyn, his filler, queen of England,
fecond wife to Henry VIII. and cldcft daughter to fir
Thomas Boleyn aforcfaid, and mother to Elizabeth
queen of England. She was privily married to
Henry VIII. Jan. 25, 1533, by Dr. Rowland Lee,
then bifhop of Coventry and Litchfield, (the king
having repudiated queen Catherine, his wife) and
in April following, fhe being with-child, was openly-
acknowledged queen of England, and afterwards was
crowned with great pomp and folcmnity. But her
grandeur was of fhort continuance, for the king
having taken a liking to Lady Jane, daughter of fit
John Seymour, km, rcfolvcd to have her, and to

make

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make the way clear, on May 2, 1536, he committed
queen Anne to the Tower, who on the l ^th follow-
ing was there arraigned, before the duke of Nor-
folk, as high-fteward of England, accompanied by
the duke of Suffolk, the earl of Surrey, her own
relations, and though as Stowe, the hiftorian, fays,
" (lie feemed fully to cleere herfelf of all matters
" laid to her charge," being tried by her peers,
twenty-fix in number, whereof the duke of Suffolk
was chief, ilie was by them found guilty, and had
judgment pronounced by the duke of Norfolk, and
accordingly, on May 19, was beheaded on a fcaf-
fold on the green in the Tower, and her body was
buried in the choir of the chapel there by lord
Rochford, her brother, and the very day following
the king married lady Jane Seymour.

Our immorial bard, Shakefpeare, affords us a
very lively picture of the feelings and diftrcfs of this
amiable martyr, in his dramatic hiftory of that moft

libidinous tyrant's reign, — The Englifh Mogul !

A quotation of fome of thofe paCTages in the play of
Henry VJII. as relate to the unfortunate Anne Bo-
Icyn, will not, we hope, be improperly introduced

in this place a place honored by having given

birth to an illuftrious queen.

A C T I.

Wolfe/ s Banquet. King and Anne Boleyn. Dance.

King. The faireft hand I ever touch'd ! O, beauty.
Till naw 1 never knew thee.

King. My lord chamberlain,
Pr'ythce come hither ; what fair lady's that ?

Chamb. An't pleafe your grace, fir Thwat Bcleyn't daughter,
(Th= vifcount Rtchferd) one of your bighnefj' women.

. King, By

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 73

King. By Heav'n, (he's a dainty one. Sweetheart,
I were unmannerly to take you out, [fo Anne Boleyn,

And not to kifs you.

King. . '•••• Swcel partner,

. I muft not yet forfake you ;— —

ACT II.

Chamb. It feems the marriage with his brethcr's wife,
Ha> crept too near his confcience.

Suffolk. No, his confcience
Has crept too near another lady.

Enter Anne Boleyn, and an old lady.

Annt. Not for that neither here's the pang that pinches}

His highnefs liv'd fo long with her, and lie

So good a lady, that no tongue could ever

Pronounce difhanour of her ; by my life,

She never knew harm-doing.

1 fwear 'tis better to be lowly born,

Than wear a golden forrow.

Who would, on fuch conditions, be a queen?

Old L. Befhrew me, I would, and fo would you,
For all this fpice of your hypocrify ;

Anne. Nsy, good troth

Old L. You would not be a queen ?

Anne. No, not for all the riches under Heav'nt

Old L. A three-pence bow'd would hire me,
Old as I am, to queen it.

Ann:. How do you talk ! \

I fwear again, I would not be a queen,
For all the world.

Old L. In faith, for little England,
You'll venture an emballing : I myfelf
Would for Carnarvonfhire, though there belong'd
No more to th' crown, but that. Lo, who comes here !

Enter Lord Chamberlain,

Cham. Good-morrow ladies ; what were't worth to know
The fecret of your conf 'rence ?
Annt. Our miftrefs' forrows we were pitying.

F Cham. It

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Cham. It was a gentle bufinefs, anr) becoming
The aftion of good women :' there is hope
AH will be well.

Anne. Now, I pray Heav'n, amen.

Cham. Your bear a gentle mind, and heav'nly blefTngs
Follow fuch creatures. That you may, fair lady,
Perceive I fpe .--.'< fincerely, the king's majefty
Commends his good opinion to you, and
Docs purpofe honour to you, no 1-fs flowing.
Than marchionefs of Pembroke : to which title
A thoufand pounds a year annual fupport,
Out of his gr^~e he adds.

Anne. 1 do befeech your lordfhip,
Vouchfafe to fpeak my thanks and my obedience,
As from a blufhing handmaid to his highnefs ;
Whofe health and royalty I pray for.

Cham, Lady,

I fhall not fail t'approve the fair conceit,
The king hath of you— I've perufed her well
Epauty and honour in her are fo mingled, [AJi:k.

That they have caught the king ; and who knows yet,
But from this lady may proceed a gem,
To lighten all this ifle. I'll to the king,
And fay I fpoke with you. [Exit Chamberlain*

Anne. My lord, 1 am your humble fervant.

Old. L. The marchionefs of Pembroke !
A thoufand rounds a year, for pure refpecl !
No other obligation ? By my life
That promifes more thoufands : honour's train
Is longer than his fore-fkirt.

Anne. Good lady,

Make yourfelf mirth with your particular fancy,
And leave me out on't. Would I had no being,
If this falute my blood a jot ; it faints me,
To think what follows.
The queen is comfortlefs, and we forgetful
In our long abfence ; pray do not deliver
What here y'ave heard, to her.

Old L. What do you think me ?• [Exeunt.

ACT HI.

Suffelk. My king is tangled in affc<ftion, to
A creature of the queen's, lady Anne Bole^n*.

Suf. Soon,
* Viit WoJfej's ktter to the Pope.

SOUTH ER PING HAM.

Suffolk. Soon, I believe,
His fecond marriage fh.ill be publift/d, and
Anne's coronation. Katharine, no more
Shall be call'd queen, but, princefs dowager,
And widow to prince Arthur.

IVol. Leave me a white. [Exit Cromwell.

It fhall be to the duchefs of Alenfon. [Ajide*

The French king's fifter ; he (hall marry her.

June Eoleyn ! No, I'll no Aunt Boleyns for him' *

There's more in't than fair vifage Bolcyn !

No, we'll no Boleyns f Speedily > I wifh

To hear from Rome •< • 'The marchionefs of Pembroke /

Wd. [Afide.'] The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's

d- ughler !

To be her miftrefs's nvftrefs ! The queen's queen !
This candle burns not clear, 'tis 1 mtift fnuff it,
Then out it goes • What, though I know her virtuous*

And well-deferving ? yet I know her for
A fpleeny Lutheran, and not wholefotre to

Our csufe ! That me fhould lie i'th' bofqin of

Our hard-rul'd king !

Cromwell. La ft, that the lady Anne*,
Whom the king hath, in fecrecy, long married,
This day was view'd in open as his queen,
Going to chapel, and the voice i& now,
Only about her coronation.

#*y. There was the weight that pulled me down. O

well f

The king has gone beyond me : all my glories »

In that one woman I have loft, for ever.

3. Mary, filler to queen Anne Boleyn, married
to William Gary, efquire of the body to Henry VIIL
and afterwards to fir William Stafford, knt. and died
in 1342. She confirmed to her great uncle, fir
James Bolcyn, of Blickling, knt. that manor, and
thofe of Carbrook, Weft Lexham, Calthorpc, Stiff-
key, Filby, Poftwick, See. of all which he died
feifed ; and this manor came co the (hare of fir
John Clere, of Orraefby, knt. fon and heir of fir

F 2 Robert

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Robert Clere, by Alice Boleyn, his wife, one of
the daughters of fir William Boleyn, and at length
co-heirefs to fir Thomas, and fir James; he fettled
here, and left Blickling to his fon and heir, Edward
Clere, efq. who was buried here under a moll ca-
rious altar-tomb, placed between the chancel and
Boleyn's chapel ; his effigy, which lay upon it, is
now gfene, but there remain the arms, and matches,
of his family, from the conquefl to the time that
his fon and heir, fir Edward Cleie, and his mother,
Frances, (who died in 1616) creeled this tomb,
which makes us fpeak of this family here, though
their ancient feat was at Ormefby, in Flegg hundred.

Clarus-Mons, or Clere-mont, in Normandy, gave
name to this ancient family, of which Clere-Mont
entered England with the Conqueror, who bear the
fame creft, and arms, as all the Cleres ever fince
did.

On this tomb, and over it, is the pedigree, arms,
quarterings, and impalements of the family, from
Clere-Mont, amflant to William duke of Norman-
dy, that conquered JLngland in the year 1 066.

Mr. Blomeficld. in his " Efliy towards a Hi (lory
of this County," gives us a long detail of this an-
cient and noble family, whiljl lords of Ormcjly, which
\ve think too tedious and unimere fling to prefcnr
to our readers in this place] we fhall therefore com-
mence with the firft Clere who had, by marriage, au
intercft here.

Sir Robert Clere, of Ormefby, married Alice, daugh-
ter of fir William Boleyn, of Blickling, knt. This fir
Robert was famed for his great wealth, and acquired
much reputation for his manly courage j he was knight-

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ed on All Saints eve, 1494, by Henry duke of York,
was fheriff of Norfolk in 1501, and was prefent at
that great interview between Henry VIII. and the
French king, on the 7th of Jane, 1320, when he
attended the queen with a grand equipage. His
teftament is dated Auguft i, 1529, by which he
ordered his executors, as foon as they well could,
that they fhould caufe one hundred raaffes of The
Five Viounds to be faid for him ; and alfo that they
fhould provide a pried to pray for his foul* and of
all his ancestors and friends, and ordered that this
fcrvice fhould be kept five years in the church he
wa^ buried in; but above all, he defired " that if
any perions could prove, that he had hindered them,
or again ft confcience wronged them in their goods,
or fubftance, that his executors, on fuch proof,
fliould make th m refluution." — He lies buried at
the altar of Ormefby church, by his wives, under
a ftone circumfcribed with an infcription, and a
(hield of arms between each word.

By Alice Boleyn he had fir John Clere, knt. his
eldcft fon and heir. In 1549 he was treafurer of
the king's army in France; in 1556 was employed
to hire (hips for the king's fervice againft Scotland;
in 1557 »vas made vice-admiral, and fen t to fea with
a fleet under his command to alarm the northern
coafts of Scotland ; upon his landing upon one of
the Orkney iflands, called Kirkwall, the Scots fell
upon his men, and killed and drowned eighty of
them, befides* himfelf, who was drowned there in-
Auguft, 1557, and died feifed of the manors ol*
Onncfby, Blickling, Sec.

They had ifluc two daughters. His fons were,
ill. Robert Clere, who loft his life in fighting va-
liantly againft the Scots, at the bauk of Muffcl-

£ 3 burgh.—

75 HUNDRED OF

burgh, — 2(i. Thomas, who died at Florence. — And
^d. Edward, who fucccedcd him.

Edward Clere, efq. heir of fir John, married
Frances, daughter and heir of fir Richard Fulmer-
ilon, knt. He refided at BHckling, and at Onm-fby,
was member for Thctford in i 5 r,6, and for Giam-
pound, in Cornwall, in 155^, and in 15^ was high
Iheriff of Norfolk ; in 1567 had ilue, ifl. F.dward,
his fon and heir. — 2d. Francis, who was knighted by
James I. July 23, 1603. — 3d. Gilbert.

Edward Clere, efq. was knighted at Norwich bv
queen Elizabeth, in her progrefs in thefe parts, 2nd
in 1580 was high fheriff of Norfolk. He lirfl inar-
lied Margaret, daughter of William Yaxley, ol Yax-
ley, in Suffolk, efq. by whom he had Henry, l»is
fon and heir; and afterwards Agnes, relicl of fir
Chriftopher Heydon, of Baconfthorpe, daughter of
Robert Crane, of Chi lion, in Suffolk, by whom he
had only Robert, who died young. Fie travelled
inio foreign parts, was in fuch efleem at the French
court, that he was clecled one of the knights of the
Gallic order of St. Michael; but arresting much
grandeur, and keeping a vaft retinue, he contraclcd
a large debt, and was forced to fell a grea,t pau of
his eftate, and among others, this manor and ad-
vowfon, to fir Henry Hobart, knt. auorney-genera!,
and dying June 8, 1606, at London, he was in-
terred here Auguft 14, with great folemnity, as the
parifh regifter informs us.

Sir Henry Clere, of Ormefby, his fon and heir,
xvas knighted by James 1. at the Charter-houfc,
May 11, 1605, and was created a baronet on t'.ic
ayth of February, 1620, in the iSth of James I.
but leaving no male ifTue, the title ceafcd in tl.is

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 7<j ,

family. His eftate was then about 1200!. per ann.
Abigail Clcte, his daughter and fole heirefs, mar-
ried John Cromwell, efq. of London.

The family of the Hobarts were anciently owners
of the Tye, in EfTcx, now called Tye-hall. John
Hobart is mentioned as living there in 1389, in the
isth of Richard II. They afterwards pufchafed
and fettled at Brent Iliegh, in Suffolk, and 'owned
a good eftate there in 1473. Branches of this ho-
norable family alfo fettled in London, and at Mild-^
ing, in Suffolk.

4ji-«,»te .vWi-J ?.'ic.,» jwidmi fa.-ivr.;

James Hobart, efq. born at Monks-Illegh, in Suf-
fcslk, was the firft of the family that fetttled at Hales-
hall.in Norfolk, and, by his prudent management, left

fine eftate to his poftcrky, and with it this excel-
lent character; " that he was a right good man, of
great learning- and wifdorji*." He was brought up
to the law, which he ftudkd in Lincoln's -inn, with
great fuccefs. and became of luch reputation, that
he tranfacled the- affairs of many of the principal
families in this county when he was very young,
being reader in Lincoln's-inn in Lent-terrn, 1447.
In the time of Edward IV. 1472, Walter Le-hert,
or Lyhert, bifliop of Norwich, made him one of his
executors ; and, it feerns, that he had married his
niece (who was then dead) for his firft wife, by
whom he had no ifTue; for the bifhop gave him
sol. as an executor, and lool. and a cup of (ilver,
gilt, with his arms at the bottom, on condition that
he claimed Nothing more of his goods. In 1484, in
the 2d of Richard III. he was elected one of the
governors of Lincoln's-inn, and the ad of No-
vember, in the ad of Henry VII. 1486, was confti-
F 4 !(? .

: -'i^r ; ..liti-a

* Fuller's Worthies.'

8* HUNDRED OF

luted attorney-general to the king, and afterwards
fworn of his privy-council. This year he was in
high reputation with the citizens of Norwich, and
in 1493 he was arbitrator to fettle the difputes be-
tween the prior and convent, and the city. In 1496
he was eleclcd their recorder, and burgefs in parlia-
ment for the city. In 1498 he was executor to
bifhop Goldwell; on February 18, in the igth of
Henry VII. 1503, was dubbed one of the knights
of the fword, at the creation of Henry prince of
Wales, and was then in the higheft eftcem. He
was certainly a man of great bounty and generofuy,
as his public works tefiify. His elegant parifh
church of the Holy Trinity, at Loddon, which he
built in 1495, is one teftimony; in the call chancel
xvindow* of which he fixed his own and wife's ef-
figies, on their knees, in praying pollutes, with their
arms on their furcoats, viz. Hobait, with a crefcent,
for diftin&ion of his being a fecond brother, and
Naunton. fhe being daughter of Peter Naunton,
cfq. He holds up the church, and jlit St. Olavc\
or St. Tooley's bridge, which they alfo built over
the river Wavency, which divides Norfolk and Suf-
folk, and made the commodious cauleway by it,

and under them was this infciiption; Orate pro

anima Jacobi Hobart, miiitis, ac aitornati domini regis,
qui hanc ccdcfiam a pritno fundamcnto condidit in tribns
annis cum Jvis propriis bonis, anno rcgis Henridjcptimi
undccimo.

We (hould not do juftice to his memory, fiiould
tve omk his being a principal benefaclor towards the
council-chamber in the Guild-hall of the city of

Norwich.

* There are many paintings.of this taken from the window,
tone in Blickling-hall, another in Loddon church, another at
|bc late Dr. Briggs'j, at Holt, &c,

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Norwich, in 1511, \xnen it was rebuilt, in which
there is a picture of him now remaining, in his hat
and band, holding a parcel of papers. His mag-
nificence to the noble arched roof of the cathedral
church was fuch, that his arms were there carved
among the principal benefactors. The ancient houfs
at Locldon, called Hales-hall, in which he lived,
was great part of it built by him, and continued the
place of his country refidcnce to his death, though
he had two city iioufes, one in London, and another
in Norwich.

Mr. Rice fays, that he died in 1507, but he was
alive, and recorder in 151 1, and lived to a very ad-
vanced age, and truly merited the learned Gamb-
dcn's account of him, that " he. defcrvcd well of the
the church, the country, and the common-wealed He
had two fons, and one daughter.

Walter Hobart, efq. his elded fon, fucceeded at
Hales-hall, was firft knighted, and was fherifF of
Norfolk, and Suffolk, in the 2yth of Henry VIII.
1555; he removed and fettled at Morley, and mar-
ried, ill. Anne, daughter to fir Henry Hcydon, km.
from whom the Hobarts, of Hale's-hall, and Bly~
ford, in Suffolk, arc defcended ; and ad. Anne,
daughter to John Ratcliff, lord Fitz-walter, and fifler
to Robert Ratcliff, earl of Suffex, and lord Fitz-
walter, from whom the Hobarts, of Morley, are de-
fcended.

Miles Hobart, efq. of Pluraflead, fecond fon to
fir James, fettled at Plumftead, and by his wife, Au-
drey, daughter and co-heircfs of \Villiam Hare, of-
Beefton, clq. had two fons ; ift. Miles, who was
knighted, and fettled at Plumftead. 2d. Henry, who
Itudied the law in Lincoln's-inn, and became a. man

82 HUNDRED OF

of note in his profcflion very early. In I 590, on
the 22<i of April, he was married at Blickling to
Doiothv, daughter of fir Robert Bell, of Eeaupre-
hall, in Upwcll, knt. lord chief baron of the ex-
chequer, by whom he had fixteen children. In
1 1^5 he was chofen fleward of the city of Norwich,
and the next year was elected one of the governors
of his own inn, and the fame year was returned
burgefs in parliament for Yarmouth, as alfo in the
year. 1600; and in 1603 was called to the degree of
fcrjeant at law. On the acceffion of James I. to
the Englifh crown, he was himfelf knighted, with
John, his eldefl fon, on the 23d of July, 1603.
lie ierved for the city of Norwich in the firft parlia-
ment called Ly that king, and being in high repu-
tation for his abilities and learning, in 1605 was
made attorney to the court of wards. The fame
year, July the 4th, was conflituted the king's atLor-
ney-genetal, and in 1610, June 22, was appointed
by letters patent, one of the firft governors of the
Ciianer-houfe, and advanced to the degree of a
baronet at the firll inftitution in 1611, May 22, be-
ing the ninth in precedency ; and the fame year,
Oclober 26, was conflituted lord chief juftice of the
common pleas, in which pofl he acquitted himfelf
with honor, and died therein December 26, 16*5,
being a great lols to the public, as fir Henry Spcl-
man obferves. The Reports of feveral Law Cafes
have been publiflied tincc his death, with this title,
The Reports cf that Reverend and Learned Judge, tka
Right honorable Sir Henry Hobart, Knt. and Bart,
l.bid Chief Jujlicc, of his Majfflys Court cf Common
Pleas, and Chancellor to both their Highnejjes, henry,
tmd Charles, Princes of Wales, <bc. before which
there is a copper-plate of him ; his motto was, J\run

manor

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 83

tnorior, Jed vivam*. He purchafed Blickling of fir
Edward Clere, and was fucceeded in honor and
eflate bv John, his eldeft furviving fon, who was
born at Nonvich. April 19, 1593, and was knighted
with his father; he it was that built the prefent no-
ble houfe.. called Blickling-hall, immediately after
his father's death, for it was finifhed, and the chapel
in it confccrated in 1628. Over the entrance are
the arms and quarterings of Hobart, between two
fhields ; on the firft, Hobart impales Bell, being the'
arms of his father and mother; on the fecond. Hobart
impales Sidnev, being the arms of himfelf and wife.
The building is a curious brick fabrick, four-female,
\\iih a turret at each corner; there are two courts,
and with the fine libt^ry, elegant wiiderncfs, good
lake, gardens, and park, is a plcafant, beautiful
feat, worthy the obfervation of fuch as make the
Norfolk tour. — A view of if is given with this Hijlory.

In 1623 he was member in parliament for Thet-
ford, and in 1640 was returned for the county of
Norfolk, having been high fherifF of that county in
1633. He had two wives, Philippa, daughter to
Robert Sidney, earl of Leicefler, and Frances, daugh-
ter to John Egcrton, earl of Bridgewatcr, but at hi*
death, in 1647, left no iffue male.

Ceilings favs, " This noble lady was born \\\
London in 1603, being the eldeft of eight daugh-
ters of the light honorable John Egerton, earl of
Bridge water, vifcount Brackley, and lord Llfmove,
by Frances, daughter to the right honorable Feuli-
nando earl of Derby; and though they had nine

children,

* In 1622, in confiVieration of faithful fervices done to the
prince, as chancellor to himx be had a grant of the m^iior ot
Ayllham, with its appurtenances, the leets of Brampton -lull,
and Skeyton, fcc. for twenty-three years.

84 HUNDRED OF

children, one daughter only lived to marriageable
years, all the reft dying young ; the young lady was
afterwards married to that honorable and worthy per-
fon, fir John Hobart, bart. the heir of her father's
honor and family, by whom it pleafed God, after
Joine years, to give her a fon, after which this young
and noble lady did not long furvive, being im ma-
turely taken away by the fmall-pox, many years be-
fore the death of her mother, nor did her only child
Jong furvive its mother ; fo that fhe lived to fee her
wile God {tripping her of every branch that had
f prang out of her root, to let her know he had a bet-
ter name for her, than that of fons and daughters ;
(to ufe the very words of Dr. Collings, miniftcr of
St. Stephen's, in Norwich, in which paiilh Chapel-
iidd-houfe (lands, where this noble lady lived, and
the doctor alfo, who was taken by fir John Hobarr,
as his chaplain, in 1646, into the ho ufe, where fhe
died on Sunday, November 27, 1664, in thebi.lt
>ear of her age, and was interred with her hufband
in the vault at Blickling, December i, 1664.) Her
chaplain, Dr. Collings, publifhcd her life, and that
of her fifler, the lady Catherine Courteen, which
was printed at London, in 1669, in oclavo, under the
liile of Par J\ 'obilc, and dedicated to the right honor-
able the lady Elizabeth, countefs dowager of Exeter,
filter to the lady Frances, to whole memory, among
others, were thcfe lines printed:

You in devotions, who were wont to go
To VValfingham, henceforward, learn to know
The way to Chapel-field, there you may fee
The place where once this faint abode, where fhe
So long wrought miracles of love : far more,
Than your dull college, that was there before:
Thence weeping pafs to Blickling vault, and there,
Pay your devotions to her fepulchi e.

When

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When this is done, go you and do likewife,
Acknowledge Chrift the only facrifice
For (in. Take Heav'n, upon the gift of grace,
Then work as fhe. Thus you may fee the place
Where fhe abides, and a Saint Prances find,
(Can you believe't?) that was not of your mind.

Upon failure of the line of his coufin, fir Thomas
Hobart, he became poffefled of the eftate at Plum-
flead, which, with his own eftate, by entail defcended
to his nephew, John Hobart, cfq. fon and heir of
his next brother, fir Miles Hobart, who was born at
Plumftead, April 12, 1595, was knighted at Salifbury
by James I. Auguft 8, 1623, and being a member in
that parliament, which met March 17, 1627, he was
remarkably diligent in oppofing the defigns of the
court, and was one of thofe members, who, forefeeing
the diffolution of it, on March 2, 1628, forcibly held
the fpeaker in the chair, whilft they publifhed a pro-
teftation in the houfe, declaring, I. Whoever fhall
bring in innovation of religion, or by favorer coun-
tenance (eek to extender introduce Popery, or Armini-
anifin, or other opinion difagreeing from the truth and
orthodox church, fball be reputed a capital enemy to-
this kingdom and common-wealth. 2. Whoever
fhall counfel or advife the taking and levying of the
fubfidics of tonnage and poundage, not granted by
parliament, or (hall be an aclor or inftrument there-
in, fliall be likewife reputed an innovator in the go-
vernment, and capital enemy to the kingdom and
common-wealth. 3. If any merchant, or perlon
whatfoever, fliall voluntarily yield or pay the faid
fubfidies of tonnage and poundage, not being granted
by parliament, he fhall likewife be reputed a be-
trayer of the LIBERTIES of England, and an enemy
to the fame. On this the parliament was immedi-
ately diffolved, and fir Miles imprifoned, for locking

the

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the door of the houfe during the publishing of fhe
aforefaid proteftation, but was difcharged in 1631, on
giving fecurity for his good behaviour; whether he
was imprifoned again we know not, but it fhould
fcem he fuffered other hardfhips, for though he died
before the civil wars broke out, his fullcrings were
efteemed fo meritorious by the long parliament, that
in 1646 they voted 5000!. fhould be given to his
children in rccornpence thereof, and for oppofing
the illegalities of that time ; he had iflue by Sufan,
his wife, daughter of fir John Peyton, of Ilelham,
in Carabridgefhire, a daughter, Alice, married to
Johnjermy, of Bayfield, in Norfolk, efq. and fir
John Hobart, bart. his fon and heir, who fucceeded
his uncle aforefaid, being knight of the fhirc for the
county of Norfolk in the three lafl parliaments
called by Charles II. and had the honor"" of a vifit
from that king at Blickling. where he knighted his
cldeft Ion, Henry. He married Mary, daughter of
John Hampden, efq. of Hampden, in Buckingham-
(hire, and widow of colonel Hamond ; the other
three fons were, John, late brigadier-general in the
army of George II. and captain and governor of Pen-
dennis-caitie, in Cornwall, who died at his houfc in

Queen's-

* Stephenfon in his poems, page 29, hath one on the pro*
grcfs into Norfolk, Sept. 28, 1671, in which is this:

Pafton and Hobart did bring up the meat,
Who, the next day, at their own houfes treat,
Pallon to Oxned, did his fovereign bring,
And Hke Araunah, ottered as a king.
Blickling*, two monarchs, and two queens has feen,
One kingf fetched th-ncj, another]; brought a queen
Great To.vnfhend of the treats brought up the rear,
And doubly was, my |j lord lieutenant there.

* Henry VIII. and Charles II.

•f- Hen:/ Vlil. married Anne Boleyn from hence.

J Charles 5 1. bought his queen with him.

jj Lord lieutenant of the county, and of his own houfe.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 87

Oueen's-flrcet, Nov. 7, 1734, and Thomas, of Lin-
coln's-inn, who died unmarried, and both buried here,
with an infcription, 1742. As alfo James, who is
buried under a black marble in the chancel, the 23d
of Oclober, 1670, aged g years.

Sir John and his lady are both interred in the
vault of his own fitting up. He was fucceeded by
his Ton, fir Henry Hobart, in 1682, who was defied
a burgefs for King's-Lynn, in the parliament that
met at Oxford in 1681, and fat with his father, wild
ferved there as knight of the fhire for Norfolk ; he was
a very great friend to, and promoter of the revolution,
and in the convention parliament (being then knight
of the (hire for Norfolk) he declared for the vacancy
of the throne. Afterwards he was gentleman of the
horfe to William III. and attended on him at the
battle of the Boyne, in Ireland. In 1 695 he was
again elected to ferve in parliament for the county,
and always behaved like a man of honor in that
trufl ; but being difappoimed of his cledion in 1698,
and relenting fome words faid to be fpoken by Oli-
ver le Neve, efq. (which le Neve denied under his
hand) a challenge was given, and a duel enfucd, in
\vhich fir Henry pafTed his fvvoid through Neve's
arm, and Neve ran his into fir Henry's belly, of
which wound he died the next day, being Sunday,
Aug'utt n, 1698, and was interred in the vault here;
he married the eldeft daughter and coheirefs of Jo-
feph Maynard, efq. fon and heir of fir John Maynard.,
km. one of the cornmiffioners of the great feal in the
reign of king William. She died his widow, Auguft
22, 1701, and is in the vault with him; they had
three daughters ; i . Henrietta, married to Chaj ies
Howard, late earl of Suffolk, afterwards re-married
to the honorable George Berkley, efq. 2. Catherine,
who muiried major-general George Churchill, co!o-

-->•• • nci

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net of a regiment of dragoons, groom of the bed-
chamber to his majefty, governor of Plymouth, and
member in parliament for Caftlc-Riiing ; 3. Dorothy,
who died Tingle ; and one fon, John, the firft earl of
Buckinghamfhire, who was educated at Clare-hall,
in Cambridge, and at his return from his travels
was ele&cd member for St. Ives, in Cornwall, in the
firfl parliament of George I. and in 1722 for the
fame borough, as alfo for that of Beer-Alfton, in
Dcvonfhire; in that reign he was conftituted one of
the commiflioners for trade and the plantations ; and
on the 27th of May, 1725, was elecled one of the
knights companions of the mod honorable order of
the bath; on the acceffion of his late majefly, he
was made treafurer of the chamber, and chofcn a
knight of the (hire for Norfolk, and burgefs for
Beer-Alfton; and May 28, 1728, was advanced to
the dignity of a baron of this realm, by the title of
lord Hobart, baron Hobart, of Blickling, in the
county of Norfolk; and in 1730 was conflituted af-
fay-mafler, or tryer of the tin, belonging to the
prince of Wales, by his royal highnefs ; and on Jan.
31,1 739, was fworn lord lieutenant of the county of
Norfolk. On his lordfhip's refigning his poft of
treafurer of the chamber, his inajeily was plcafed to
conllhute him captain of the band of gentlemen pen-
fioners, on December 25, 1 744 ; and the gd of
January following he was fworn of the privy coun-
cil; and on Auguft 20, 1746, was advanced to the
dignity of an earl of the kingdom of Great Britain,
by the name, fliie, and title, of earl of Buckingham-
fliire*, his titles being " earl of Buckinghamfhire,
baron Hobart, of Blickling, and baronet, captain of
the baud of gentlemen penlioncis to his majefty, lord

lieutenant

* There is a good picture of brs lordfliip at full length, drawn
by Idciucs, in the New-hall at Norwich.

SOUTH: E;R P..I N G H AM. S9

lieutenant and cuflos ratulorum of the county of Nor-
folk, and vice-admiral of the fame, one of the lords
of his majefly's mofl honorable privy council, and
one of the knight's companion of the mod honorable
order of the bath.'':

His Jordfhip's firft wife was Judith, daughter and
cohehcfs to Robert Britiff, efq. recorder of Norwich-
they w,ere married Nov. 8, i 7 1 7, at Thorpe-Market ;
flie died February 7, 1727, and was depofued in
the family vault ; they had i flue three fons, viz. I.
Henry, born July 30, ..1.7-lS,. but died an infant ; 2.
John lord Hobart, late of ChrinVs college, in Cam-
bridge, and member in parliament for the city of
Norwich, now earl of Buckinghamshire ; 3. Robert*
who died May 22, 1733, in the 8th year of his age,
and is in the vault here,; and alfo five daughters,
vvhp all died young, except lady Dorothy, who is
tiovy living. She married, Qclober. 21, 1752, fir
Charies Hotham, who has fince taken the name of
Thompfon.

vt^'/i ii.''.'j! pvn c io ^.:'L' ., ;.;£ a;fj n:il :: li;
His lordfhip afterwards married, Feb. io, 1728, a

fecond lady, Elizabeth, filler to Robert Briftow, efq.
fome time member in Parliament for the town of
Winchelfea, by whom he hath two fonj ; ift. the
honorable George Hobart, married in May, 1757, to
Albina, daughter of lord Vcre Bertie, fon of Robert
the firft duke of Ancafler, by whom he has feveral
fons and daughters ; and the honorable Henry Ho-
bart, who married Mifs Briftow, by whom he has
one fon and — •• daughters ; her ladyfhip dcceafcd after
the earl, in September, 1762, and his lordfhip dying
September 22* 1756, was fuccceded by his cldefl
Ion, John, the prelent earl of Buckinghamshire, who
in 17— went ambaffador to Ruffia, and in Nov.
1776. was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland ; he
G married

90 HUNDRED OF

married Mary-Ann, daughter and coheirefs of fir
Thomas .Drury, bart. by whom he has iffue, i. lady
Henrietta ; 2. lady Carolina ; 3. lady Sophia ; 4.
lady Julia. This lady dying, his lordfhip married,
fecondly, September 24, 1770, Mifs Conolly, daugh-
ter of lady Ann Conolly ; by her he has had iffue, i .
lady Amelia; 2. lord Hobart, born March, 1767,
died December 20, 1775 ; 3 lord Hobart, born Fe-
bruary 11, 1775, and died February 15, 1776.

The prefent earl of Buckinghamfliire returned from
his vice-royalty in December, 1780, having fulfilled
the duties of that very important flation with honor
to himfelf, and fatisfaclion to the people of Ireland :
He is fucceedcd in that office by the earl of Carlifle.

The park of Blickling is one of the largeft in Nor-
folk, and we may almoft fay — the moft beautiful — •
a large lake of water, nearly a mile in length, and four
or five hundred yards in breadth, winds through the
lawn in fuch a manner as to deceive the eye, to
which it has the appearance of a river from every
point of view. On the north fide of this water a
hill rifes very boldly, covered with targe beaches from
its fummit, (on which a temple is bailt) to the water's
edge, whofe waves wafli the branches of thefe vene-
rable trees; On the oppofite fide the lawn extends
near a mile, gradually rifing, and frequently broken
by large groves of oak, or beach, till at the highcft
point a rnoft extenfive profpecl prefents itielf from a
large banquetting-room, to which is added a lofty
tower in the Gothic ftile. From this you defccnd
the valley immediately oppofite, and after paffing a
great deal of uneven, romantic ground, thicklv co-
vered with wood, you again return to the lake, which
is beautifully contrafted by the dark beach grove
feeming to rife from it.

Bcfides-

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. Befides the park already defcribcd, there is a very
tfxtenfive pleafure-ground to the eaft of the houfe :
this is decorated with temples, feats, vafes, bufts,
ftatues, Sec. and viRo's cut through the grove, which
is every where in this part preferved in the old flilc
of gardening, with cut hedges, Sec.

The houfe is ornamented with a fquare turret at
each corner, and one more lofty in the centre of the
louih front: the mil entrance (which is acrofs a
moat, through a gate-houfc and fmall inner court)
is very flriking from its apparent antiquity, and docs
not at all correfpond with the date of the houfe, which
appears to have been built in 1628. The principal
rooms are,

Feet. Feet.

The New Room . -- |v 127 by 26
Study ifiY;j.i. - 33 — 21
Dreffing Room 21 — 21
Bed Chamber aj — 21
Breakfaft Room 28 — 22
Ami Room - 25 — 24
Dining Room 45 — 24
Bed Chamber - 25 — 26
Ditto - - sj — 22
Dreffing Room 25 — 22
But the moft flriking apartment is the library, 120
feet by 22, and 22 feet high.

The prefent earl of Buckinghamfhire built the
weft front of the houfe. — Over the door is the fol-
lowing infcription: — Mary Anne countefi of Bucking-
ham, daughter of Sir Thomas Drury, bart. bequeathed,
her jewels towards the expenceof eretf ing this front, anno
Domini MDCCLXIX.

Ga The

92 HUNDREDOF

The arms of this noble family are, fable, a ftar
of eight points, or rays, or. between two Ranches, er-
mine. Creft, on a wreath, a bull paffant, party per
pale fable and gules, all bezante, and a ring in his
nofe. Or. Supporters, on the dexter-fide a flag, on
the finifter a talbot, both proper and regardant, each
having a radiant cgllar and line, or. — Motto. Auclor
Pretiofa Facit.

In the chancel of Blickling church is a black mar-
ble.— To the right honorable lady Katherinc, (late wife to
William Courtene, efq.) the feventh daughier to the right
honorable John (late) earl of Bridgcwatcr ; JJie died at
Norwich, March 25, A. D. 1632.

The life of this lady, and her funeral fcrmon, from,
Pfalm 17, 15, preached at Blickling, at her funeral,
March 27, 1652, was publifhed by Dr. Ceilings.
with that of her fifter, the lady Frances Hobart, and
dedicated to William Courtene, efq. her nephew.

A black marble at the altar, — For Miles Hcbart, efq.
Jecondfon of Miles Hobart, of Intwood, in t/tis county,
ffq. by Elizabeth, the daughter of Edmund Mondeford;
he was buried the loth day of April, 167 r, in the ^tk
year of hh age.

On divers braffes, beginning at the weft end of the
fouth aile, are inscriptions to feveral ancient fami-
lies, as Barker, Appleyard, Walfh, Aftiey, and
Grife.

In 1540 died John Appleyard, of Blickling. This
branch of this ancient family had been fixed here a
long time.

SOUTH ERFINGHAM. 93

In the chancel are memorials of others, and on
the foutli chancel wall is an arched monument, with
the effiev of a woman kneeling ; the arms are, Gur-

O; C5 *

don, impaling Brampton, of Palliam, and Leiton.

On marbles by the 'altar, and on a mural monu«
mcnt at the eafl end of the chancel, are the arms of
Graile, with infcriptious.

In a fouth window, are, Faflolfl', in the garter.
Faftolff and Kerdeflon ; Boleyn and Ormond ; Bo-
leyn and Hoo ; Dagworth, Erpingham, Bavent, fir
John Martell, 8cc. in the other windows.

On another mural monument in the chancel, — »
Con/nlvus Hargrave, died the, zdof April, anno cetat. 2,
1626.

John Hargravt, a freeman of the company of joiners
in London, by his trade a carver, and a mojl curious and.
excellent workman in that J acuity, but few of that trad*
Hi. London that did exceed him. died a finale man, at the

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age of 36 years, June 9, 164.0,

A brafs in the nave, having a man and eleven
boys, and a woman and four girls, — ?To J\okert. felt
tltorpe, and Cecily, his wife.

The ancient family of the Blicklings took their
name from this village. Alan de Bekeling had 4
good cilate here before 1257. This name, fays
Blomefield, feems to fignifv the Low-meadows at the
Beck.

The reclors of Blicklin^ were collated by the bi-
(hops of Norwich from 1303 to 1533, after which
the patronage went with the lord oi the manor.

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94 HUNDRED OF

In 1674 fir John Hobart, bart. gave the rectory to
John Giaile, A.M. This learned and pious paflor
publifhed many things during his life, as three fer-
mens at Norwich cathedral, a fourth at Blickling,
Lond. 168',, ocl. &:c. — An inscription is for him in
the chancel ; obijtNov. 15, 1732, aged 82. — A fer-
mon, " Vigorous Longevity," he ordered to be given
to his bearers, the clergy, his brethren, " Wifhing
" them not only to attain that bleffing, but much
" better improve it than he had done," which, though
modeftly dictated, few will be able to do, for he was
a very charitable, good man ; in each of them were
thefe two lines of his own hand writing :

Mttrnam Baralhri, mortem peccata merenlur,
; Vita lamen mcrelis,Jis mihi Chrijle tuis.

The church is dedicated to St. Andrew ; it was
firft valued at five marks, afterwards at ib; it aancls
now in the king's books Bickling, or Blickling, as a
reclory, valued at lol. 135. 4d. and pays il. is. 4d.
yearly tenths, and is therefore incapable of augmen-
tation.

In 1612 the dean and chapter of Norwich had a
penfion of 135. 4d. being a compofition for the third
part of the lithes of the bifhop's demefnes, which
was given by John of Oxford to the Norwich monks,
and by them fettled on their hofpital of Norman-
Spital, and was confirmed by divers biftiops and
Jungs.

John de Gray, bifliop of Norwich, paffed a licence
to appropriate this church to the monks of Norwich ;
and in 1265 Simon, then bifhop, actually confirmed
it to the ufe of the celarer, and it was to be fcr\ ed
by a ftipendiary chaplain only; but the whole being

not

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 95

rro.t .-efle&ually pafled before he voided the fee, and
no confirmation from the king, or pope, his fucceflbr
let all adde, and fo it remains a reclcry to this day^

In 1767 the Rev. Robert ThomHnfon was pre-
fer ted to this rectory by the earl of Buckingham-'
ihire, p. j.

Th£ town is in the liberty of the Duchy of Lan-
cafler, and is valued at 525!. to the land-tax, and
pays ios. 2d. to every 300!. levy of the county rate,
and ufcd to pay 4!. ios. to every tenth, when the
the taxes were levied that way.

BOOTON, or BOTON, called alfo BOTUNE, TOR-
TUNE, and BOWTON, was in two parts, or manors,
at the Conqueror's furvey, the one called afterwards
Boton-hall, and the other Middlemen's, in Booton
and Witchinghatn, but the leet always attended the
hundred, and cpeen Elizabeth's fleward held it.

Gueric, a Dane, and Ofbert, a Saxon, held Boo-
ton in the Confeffbr's time, and Teheli had it of the
Conqueror's gift as a whole manor, including that
focman, and his fervices, which belonged to Harold
at the nrft furvey.

The manor called Tortune, afterwards Middle-
ton's, Herlewin had in the Confelfor's time, and
was of the fame value with Booton manor; to this
the Conqueror, when he gave it to Rainald Fitz-Ivo,
added two focmen, which belonged formerly to Ha-
rold, and were valued with Caw Aon manor.

William de Scohies, or Scot, had a focman here,
and the church had nine acres of glebe, then va-
lued fit. 6d. per .ann. only, and a third part of its

G 4 advowfo»

96 HUNDREDOF

advowfon belonged to thefe three fevcral parts of the
village, the whole of which was then half a mile
long, and as much broad, and paid yd. gelt.

The manor of Booton, and advowfon, came to
the Pecches, and William Pecche granted it to
Roger de Gyneto, or Gyney*.

Soon after 1203! Richard de Skeyton held Mid-
dleton's and Scott's, and Agnes dc Baldcfwell, and
William dc Thorp, the other manor here, at half a
fee, of the manor of Pamvorth-hall, in Afhill, and
that of the earl of Gloucefler.

In 1255 Simon Pecche, of Brandefton, had frec-
xvarrcn in his manor here ; the whole advowfon be-
longing to it, in 12- 9 William Pecche, his fon,
agreed with John de '1 honuon, lord of the manor
of Middlcton, that they (hould prefent by turns.

.In 1263 John, fon of Alexander de Vallibus, or
Vaux, of Ailadon and Kelvvick, had a charter for
free-warren to his manor here.

In 1285 Roger, fon of William de Gyney, re-
leafed all his right here to Richard de Skeyton, in
whom both manors were veiled; and in 1314 Pe-
ironclla, or Parnel de Narford, held Booton of the
honor of Clare.

Maud de Narford, who had this manor, was con-
cubine to William earl Warren, and had by him

thefe

• * Simon de Pecche granted much land and ferviccs in Eoo-
tfxn, to the family firnamed of the town.

•j* The quit-rents were then 5'!. 145. nd. per ann. fdur quar-
ters.of wheat, and twenty quarters of barley.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 97

thefe two Tons, who took the name of Warren, the
carl having no legitimate iffue, and fir Edward War-
ren, knt. had the manor here; his 2d fon. Or John
de Warren, knt. fucceeded him here, and was buried
iu Booton church in ^S*.

.''.> 'iiinii > ,•...«./«' c ".;,';

In 1450 fir Henry Jnglofc, knt. gave the manor
and advou-fon to be fold by his executors: and in
1495 Henry Calihorpe had it: he ties buried in the
chancel, with his effigy, and this infcriptiou on,
brafs plates, — Orate pro anima Hcnrici Cailkorpc. «r-
migeri, qui obijt primo die Julii, an0. Ckri/li, MCCCCCXH,
c ujus anime, &c.

George Horfeman, efq. lord of Booton, was buried
by his father in Booton chuich, in 1558. His fon,
John Horfeman, conveyed it to fir Chriftopher Hey-
don, knt. of Baconfthorpe, \vho in 157^ fold it IQ
Chriftopher Layer, alderman of Norwich.

The family of the Leirs, or Layers, are defccnd-
en from George Layer, of Bury, in Suffolk, \vho
lived in 1429; he increafed his own ellate by mar-
rying Margaret, fole heirefs of Peter Butefaunt. cfcj.

Chriftopher Layer*, efq. who purchafcd Booton,
was a merchant of Norwich in 1561, (hcriff of thar.
city in 1596, mayor in 1581, and in 1589, and
burgefs in parliament for the city in 1584, and I5<j6.

* This Chriftopher had a brother, Thomas Layer, merchant
of Norwich in 1561, Iheriff in 15^7, thrice mayor in 1^76,
I 585, and '59>> member in parliament for the city in IS&5,
and 1606 ; he died in 1614, aged 78, having been 47 ye;«r» *a
alderman; his phfture remains in the Guild-hall, at Norwich.
He gave a ftock of >1. to St. Saviour'^ pnrilh ; and his \vidovr,
Mrs. Anne Layer, gave 50!. to Ix lent to young tradefmeu in
the city.

9S HUNDRED OF

He was buried in the church of St. John Madder-
market in 1600, and died feifed of Booton, Sec.
which ddcencled with his heirs; and Chriftopher
Layer, efq. of Booton, his great grandfon, fold Mid-
dlcioifs manor here, and in Witchingham, in 1649,
and fo it became joined to Wichingham manor.

Mr. Chriflopher Layer, of Aylfham, attorney at
law, his grand-fon, .married a daughter ol Mr. Peter
Elwin, of Aylfham, to whom he fold Booton in
1713. Peter was buried at Tuttington in 1721, as
was Peter, his fon, in 1731. Booton came to his
nephew, Peter Elwin, efq. of Booton, the prefent
lord and patron, who refides in the manor-houfe,
called Booton-hall, which is about a quarter of a
mile north-weft of the church, on the oppofue fide
of the road : He married Philippa, ihird daughter
of Thomas Marfham, efq. of Stratton-Strawlefs, by
whom he hath fons and daughters. His eldefh fori,
Peter Elwin, efq. fellow commoner of Caius college,
lives at Saxthorpe.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael the arch-
angel, and is in the king's books 7 1. iss. 6d. - -
Bowton rectory, 36!. clear yearly value. It being
discharged of firft. fruits and tenths, it is capable
of augmentation. It is valued to the land-tax at

The prior of Walfmgham was taxed for tempo-
ralities here at ss. ^d. the prior of Longaville at
<\s. Sd. the prior of St. Faith at gd. The facrifl of
Buryat I2d. and in 1447 Mary Magdalen college,
in Oxford, had licence to purchafe lands here, and
in Brandifton, Sail, and Cawflon ; and in 1584
queen Elizabeth, at the requeft of Henry lord Went-
wortlt, granted to Thcopolitus Adams, and Thomas

Butler,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 99

Butler, of London, five roods by Booton church,
Sec', lately belonging to the guild here.

In 1774. the Rev. Leonard Addifon was prefented
to this rcclory by Peter Elwin, efq. fen. who refides
at his feat at Booton.

There is no parfonage-houfe, but feveral glebes,
intermixed with other lands.

The tower of the church is fquare, and hath four
bells in it; the chancel is tiled, and the nave, and
north porch, are leaded. The town is in the libctty
of the Duchy of Lancaftcr.

The family of Hewke were owners here many
hundred years. Their eftate belonged to Robert
Monfey Clerk in 1707, father of Dr. Mef. Monicy,
phyftcian to Chelfea college.

Several of the family of Layer lie buried in this
church.

Here lieth the body of Edward Fellowes, gent, who
was born at Inglefield, in Berk/hire, -and died March
13, 1717, aged 60 years, being uncle to Eluabelh, llit
wife of John Matthews, of this panj'h.

In the nave, — Here lieth the body nf Maflcr Edward,
fentone, preacher of the word in Booton xxxxvj yeaics,
buried in the ycarc of our Lord'i6io.

In a north window next the pulpit, a woman and
rnan on their knees at prayers ; and on a fouiii
window, a man kneeling, from his. mouth a label.

ieo "HUNDRED OF

In the fccond foutli window is fir William de Ker-
defton, and his lady, with the arms of Kcidefton; a
label from her mouth, and another from his ; there are
feveral other broken effigies and infcriptions in the
windows, and in the lower fouth window is the hif-
tory of our Saviour entering Jerufalem, riding on aa
afs, and this, — Os annajili David.

The windows were very fine formerly, and had
the following aims in them, but mofl of them are
now loft : Gyney, impaling Kerdeflon ; War-
ren, quartering ; Gyney, fingle ; Calthorpe,

with a crcfcent; Wiichingham ; Shelton; Herne, or
Heron.

In the ho ufe late Mr. Horfeman's, or the manor-

houfe, in the windows, Horfeman ; Calthorpe;

Whitby. impaling Bacon; Gerbridge ; Boieyn, im-
paling Butler.

This family of Hcrward had a good eflatc here ;
Elizabeth, a fole daughter and heirefs, married
Thomas, fecond (on of Hamond Claxion, of Great
Livermere, in Suffolk, and fo brought their Booton
eftate to the Claxtons, in which family it continued
lill lately.

Her ward's arms are againfl the north wall of the
church, where many of them were interred.

In 1330 William de Claxton, prior of Norwich,
firfl. railed this family, of which, in 1476, Hamond
Claxton was fhciiff of Norwich, and mayor in 1485 ;
and in i6iy Thomas Claxton was alderman of Nor-i
wich. In 1559 -Hammond Claxton, the elder, of
Chefton, ge;it. was much in favour with Thomas
tfuke pi .Norfolk.

BRAMPTON,

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 101

liRAMPTON, or BRANTUKA, is. without doubt, a
town of Roman original, and takes its name from the
bodies that were fo frequently burned* at the burial-,
place here, according to the cuftom of that people, and
though there are fome that would make itt a Roman
garrifon, and place of great ftrength in thofe days, as
there are no remains of buildings, camp, or any thing
of that kind, we are quite of another opinion ; for it
was not the cuftom of that people to have their burial-
places in ftations and camps ; though near them it
was ufual to have a fixed habitation, or town, for
convenience of the reception of thofe that attended
the funeral rites of their friends thither; and ac-
cordingly the town of Burgh aforefaid is parted
from this only by the river Bure, by which, in all
appearance, many of the dead depofited here were
brought up. That there was fome fort of defence
provided there to guard its inhabitants, the name
itfelf teftifies ; but there being no remains appear-
ing, it is plain it was not confiderable.

Of *•

Sir Thomas Browne, in 1667, publifhed an account
of fome urns found in the large arable field lying
between Buxton and Brampton ; but in Bramptou
parifh, and very near to Oxnesd park, where feve-
ral were lately found, and indeed the numbers that
have been dug up, plainly (hew that it was a noted
burial-place: Dr. Browne fays, that none were found
above three quarters of a yard in the ground, but
\ve could not find one a foot deep, all being fo fleetly
covered with earth, that they are all injured and
cracked by the plough going over them. The doc-
tor's obfervation from the urns, that this country
hath not been all wood-land> as hath been generally

thought,

* Bran-tun, the town of burning.

f Burg, Sax. ATX Msngmcntum, a fortification-

102 HUNDRED OF

thought, is very right ; but that the earth hath litflc
varied its furface, by being conflamly ploughed,
doih not appear fo to us ; for we cannot imagine
but it hath funk in its furface at lead a foot fiuce
»hc(e urns were dcpofited there, for in all places
where we have found them, as at Redgrave, Fers-
h'eld, Elmharn, S:c. there are none exceed three
feet, and few above two in depth. Thefe urns are
of different fizes, and various earths, inclining to
blue, fome white, and others grey; fome will hold
near three gallons, others of a middle, and others
of a fmaller fize ; the large ones we fuppofe to be
family urns, fit to receive the afhes fuccefTively of
their relations, and thofe but rarely found; fome
with their mouths upwards, covered with aflat (lone,
or fort of tile, which might have more to put into
them ; others with their mouths downwards, in token
they were to receive no more. Neither is this po-
fuion at all inconvenient, for the earth being clofcly
preifed, and efpecially in pots of this fliape, with
large bellies and fmall mouths, as the urns generally
are, they are in a pofture more likely to continue
than the other, as being lefs fubjecl: to have the
earth fall in, or the ram to (oak into them. We
could find none with any infcription, though the
Doclor faw fome with the word NVON upon them,
and CRACVNA. F. on another earthen veflel, im-
porting the potter's name, in all likelihood. He
had a filver denarius, with the head of Diva Fau-
ftina on the obverfe fide, and the figures of the em-
peror and empreis joining their hands on the rcverfc,
with this infcription, Concordia\ as alfo coins of
Pofthumus and Tetricus, two of the thirty tyrants
in the reign of Galiienus, from which we may infer,
that urn-burial lafted longer in this country than is
commonly thought. Good authors think that this
tuftom ended with the reigns of the Amonini, the laft

SOUTH ERP1NGHAM. 103

of whom was Antoninus Heliogabalus ; yet thefe
coins arc above fourfcore years lower, and as Tetri-
cus's head hath a radiated crown, we cannot think
it made before his confecration, which was in the
reign of the emperor Tacitus, and was not com-
monly circulated abroad before Probus's time, who
reigned five years, and fucceeded Florianus, brother
to Tacitus, who reigned but fix months and an half,
and Florianus but two months. It is to be ob-
ferved, that there are fo very few coins found here,
that what there are, may be fuppofed to have come
out of the urns that have been broken by accident,
or by digging up; and it is to be remarked, that
coins are always rare in burial-places, othcrwife thaa
in the urns, though they are fo very common in all
their camps. We faw a fair piece of pure gold
found here, in the hands of Mr. Munnings, grocer,
in Norwich, with this on the obverfe,

D. N. CONSTANTIUS. MAX. AVGVSTVS.

and on its reverfe,

GLORIA. REI. PVBLICAE. TES. VOT. XXX.
MVLT. XXXX.

Some perfons digging at a little diflance from
where they found the urns, at about three quarters
of a yard deep, happened upon the following work,
worthy our remark : — - — It was {quare, about tw«
yards and a quarter on each fide, the wall, or out-
ward part, a foot thick, red, and looked like brick,
but was folid, and without mortar, or cement, be-
ing of one whole piece, fo that it feemed to be made,
and burnt, in the place it flood in ; in this were
thirty-two holes of about two inches and a half di-
ameter, and two above a quarter of a circle in the
eaft and weft fides ; upon two of the holes on the

caft

104 H U N D R E D O F

caft fide were placed two pots, with their mouths
downward; by thefe holes the work appeared hol-
low below, and in that was contained about a barrel
of water, foaked in from the earth. The upper part
being broke, and opened, they found a floor about
two feet below, and then digging onward, three
floors fucceflively under one another, at a foot and
a half difiance, the ftones being of a flaty, and not
bricky fubflance. In the partitions, fome pots were
found, but broken by the workmcns hard blows in
breaking the flones ; and in the laft partition but
one, a large pot, with a very narrow mouth and
fhort ears, of the capacity of fourteen pints ; it laid
in an inclining pofture clofe by, and (omewhat un-
der a kind of arch in the folid wall, and by the
care of Mr. William Marfham. who employed the
workmen, was taken up whole, almofl full of water,
clean, and without fmell, which being poured out,
there flill remained in the pot a great lump of an
heavy, crufty fubflance: The Dodlor leaves us to
conjcclure what this work was. which we fhould
think to be a family fepulchrc, and that the urn be-
low contained the afnes of fome eminent perfon,
brought into that lump by the water in it, feems
pretty plain, and the urns fixed into the holes were
thildiens afhes, their pofuion (hewing no more was
to be put into them ; the fpaces between were left
high enough to be filled with the family urns, (which
were all broken by the workmen) and might be put
in by opening the fides, and the holes might be,,
alter the whole was filled but the upper part, to let
in the afhes of the reft of the relations.

This burial-place partly extends into Oxncad
park, and part of it into Buxton parifh, in which.
jnauy urns have been found. Sir Robert Paflon
digging in hu park, met with many pieces of urns,

&c.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 105

Sec. and a coin of die emperor Volufianus, with this,
" Imperatori Cffjari Caio Vibio Volufiano Augiifto," the
emperor's head having a radiated crown, fo that it
was coined after his death, and confecration; on the
reverfe is a human figure, with his arms extended,
at his right foot an altar, with the infcription
PIETAS. This emperor was fon to Caius Vibius
Trebonianus Gallus, with whom he jointly reigned,
after the Decij, about the year 254; he and his
lather were ilain by the emperor ./Emilianus.

This toxvn belonged to earl Harold, and was fcized
with the crown by the Conqueror, and given to
William de Warren. Drogo, or Drue, claimed it,
as. being part of the lands forfeited by Ainfrid ; but
ag Warren proved he had it before either of them,
it was confirmed to him ; it was then fix furlongs
long, and five broad, and paid 3d. ob. to the gelt ; and
there was a part belonging to Mavfham manor. The
foe, leet, or fuperior jurifdiclion, belonged to Caw-
flon, and paffed with it, and came to the Duchy,
and was granted to the Hobarts, with Skeyton.

Ic came to the Fitz-Walter's anceflors, and was
held always at one fee of them by the family who
took their firname from the town, and held it for
many ages, there being few examples of the conti-
nuance of an eftate fo long in one family, even
from William Rufus's time to 1663; for in 1069
Botyld had it, whofe fon, Aylward, firnaraed hira-
icif de Brampton.

Peter Brampton was lord and patron, and fold
the advowfon about 1312 co Robert Marriot, of this
town, which was re-purchafed to the manor again be-
fore 1386, by Andrew de Brampton, cfq. His grand-
ion, Robert Brampton, cfq. repaired the chwch, and

H glazed

jo6 H U N D R E D O F

glazed the chancel, and put up the impalements of
that family, many of which remain. He and his
\vife are both interred in the chancel ; their arms are
loft. Their effigies, looking out of iheir winding-
fheets. remain fixed to the north chancel wall ; out
Saviour and die Virgin are over them, and two labels
between them,

Emma, their daughter, married William Reymes,
cfq. and is buiied in the chancel, with ihe arms of
Reymes, impaling Biampton. There are four fons,
and twelve daughters, on their done.

Thomas Brampton, cfq eldeft fon to Robert, was
lord hcie; and in 1489 bought of the prior of
Montjoy, in Heverland, the heath and land called
Hafock's, and added them to the manor. He died
after 1499, but the memorial of his interment being
gone, we cannot fix the time certainly, though he
was dead before 1505.

Elizabeth Brampton, his fitter, married Robert
Breton, e(q. who is buried in the chancel, with an
infcription, Nov. g, 1479, and arms.

John Brampton, efq. his eldeQ fon, fucceedcd
him, who built Brampton-hall, and fixed the matches
of the family in the windows, and other flnelds of
fuch families as they had been related to, or held
fees of. He married two wives, and had nine chil-
dren ; for on his monument there are the effigies of
four girls left, thofe of the five boys being loll, as
are the arms of Brampton, impaling Brome ; though,
Brampton, impaling Jcrmy, flill remains, and an in-?
fcription, Nov. 4, 1535.

Robert

SOUTH E.RPINGHAM. 107

'Robert Brampton, efq. his cldefl fon, fuccccdcd,
and was buried, in the chancel in 1547." His and
his wife's arras remain in the hall, where Brampton
impales Cobb. Edmund Brampton, efq. their eldefl
fon, died lord in May, 1558, and was lucceeded by
his nephew, Edward, who was lord here, and of ma-
nors in other towns. The arms and effigies of his
wife and children, on brafs plates, are fixed on their
Hone; and Brampton impaling Daubeney, 162$.

Two fons and two daughters lived to inherit the
cftate, of which Charles Brampton, the- eldeft, was
married in 1625, but died without rffue, and was
buried under a ftpne, thus infcribed: — Hie jacct cor-
pus Carol i Brampton, armigeri, quiobijt quarto die Junij,
A.D. 1631.

Edward Brampton, his brother, was his fole heir,
who died alfo without iffue, and all his brothers dy-
ing iffuelefs, the whole eflate defcended to his two
furvivihg fitters; Philippa, married to Thomas
"VVhall, ofCatton, in Norfolk, gent, and Alice, to
Mr. Bray, who fold the whole to Guybon Goddard,
efq. ferjeant at law, and recorder of Lynn, who came
and fettled here.

In 1663 Alice Bray, widow, and AuguftineWhall,
fon and heir of Philippa, figned a deed, dated July
17, reciting, that " Whereas the worftiipful and
" ancient name and family of Brampton, of Bramp-
" ton-hall, -is ; lately expired, and extinct, by the
" death of Edward Brampton, the younger, without
" iffue; whereby tht remaining eflate, and all the
" rights and intcrefts of that family, did defcend and
" come by right of inheritance to the faid Alice
" Bray, and Auguftine Whall ; and whereas during
" the time of thQ l^te perfecuupft and troubles,
H 2 thcj

io8 HUNDREDOF

" they wrre inforccd at firfl to intruft, and after ab-
" folutely to fell and convey (about 1650) unto their
" very worthy fiiend, Guybon Gocldard, efq. the
*' manor of Brampton, and the fcile of the faid
41 manor, and feveral lands to the fame belonging.
" being the ancient inheritance of the faid Bramp-
** tons, ever flnce king William Rufus's time; irt
*' which tranfa&ions they found all ingenuity, fide-
41 lity, and integrity, in the faid Mr, Goddard, hav-
" ing been fmce that time feveral ly obliged by his
44 kind and worthy refpecls, for which confidera-
*' tions, being willing, as well as to leave fome laft-
44 ing refpecls of mutual good will to the faid Mr.
44 Goddard, as alfo defirous that the arms and creft
41 of the Bramptons, which are like otheruife to be
" totally loft, may be united to the ancient eftate
" and feat of that family, and both to be transferred
*' and fettled together in the perfon and family of
" their worthy friend, Mr. Goddard, whereby fomc
" memory of that ancient family of the Bramptons
*' may be continued and prefcrved in that place,
" they did give and grant unto the faid Guybon God -
," dard, and his heirs, (fo long as he or they fliall
" continue lords and owners of the faid manor of
" Brampton) all their full and whole eftate. right
*' and intereft in the having, bearing, or ufing, of
'* the faid coat and creft, belonging to the faid ia-
" raily of Brampton, giving and granting as muck
*' as in us lieth unto the faid Guybon Goddard, and
*' his heirs, as aforefaid, full power and authority
" to bear and ufe the faid coat aid cert, in what
41 fort, or manner, either by quartering the fame
" with his own, or otherwife, as he fliall think moft
" decent and meet ; and we do further rcqueft and
" defne, all heralds, kings, and other officers of
*! arms, that they do ratify, confirm, and approve,
*' of this our grant, whereby it jnay fland and b*

mo$

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 109

4< moft effectual, according to the tenor, true intent,
" and purpofc thereof."

And foon after the ferjeant repaired the fouth cha-
pel, or burial-place, of the Bramptons, called the
Hall-chapel, it being repaired by the lord of the
manor, and placed his own arms of Goddard, quar-
tered with Biampton. Malmains and Brome; with
the creft of Brampton and Goddard, and Goddard
with his quanerings of Malmains, Sec. impaling
Green.

He alfo repaired all the arms and matches of the
Bramptons in the hall windows, and church win-
dows, many of which dill remain, as, Brampton,
impaling Bafingham, Colby, Walcote, Woherton,
Cock, Aylmcr, Jermy, Broomc. Cobb, Berney, Dau-
beney, &c. Reymes, Breton, Garnifh, Witching-
ham, Wotton, Holditch, Waldegrave, Sherbornc,
Allen, &c. impaling BramptOH, which (hews that ail
thefe families married to the Bramptons.

I '.:"'•

Broome impales Charles, Shekon, Mautby, Cal-
thorpe, Winter, and Appletori. Jermy impales
Hopton and Mounteney, and Reppes impales Jermy;
Willoughbv impales Walcote, and fo does Felbrigg,
as Carvel doth Cobb. The arms of Styward anti
Godfalvc are fingle. — Here are the arms of Howard,
Brotherton, Warren, Mowbray, Segravc, Morley,
Scales, Kerdefton, Gerbridge, Harling, Sec. of which
we fuppofe the Bramptons held lands and fees.

The Goddards are fprung from Godardus, who in
1241 had licence with Robert de Norfoicia to receive
lands held of the crown.

H3 In

no HUNDRED OF;

In 1390 Monfieur John Goddard, then fortv years
of age, had been in the battle of Spaine, when he
accompanied the duke of Lancafler thither, and in
company with' the duke de Duras, and at Venice,
and twice in Scotland, once when the duke of Lau-
cafler was there, and once with the king.

From him defcended William Godard, or Godered,
of Middleton, who fold Terrington-hall manor to
lord Scales ;. he was made ferjeant in 1425, king's
ferjeant in 1431, and juftice of the King's Bench,
July 3, 1434: from him defcended Thomas God-
dard, of Stanhowe, efq. and he had Thomas God-
dard, of Stanhowc, gent, who left Guybon Goddard,
efq. who being brought up to the law, became emi-
nent in his piofeflion ; he was a great antiquary,
and laborious collector of the antiquities o[ this
county, to whole colled ion we are much indebted
for many things related in this work, and in parti-
cular for his obfervations and extrafls out of Dooml-
day-book, an exact copy of the whole of which, rq-
lating to Norfolk, was tranfcribed by Mr. John Brad-
fhav/, one of the deputy chamberlains of the Ex-
chequer, who lived in the time qf James I. for Tho-
mas Boward, call of Arundel, who lent it to fir Si-
monds D'Evoes, and it afterwards fell into Mr. God-
dard's hands, and after that belonged to Peter le
Neve Norroy, from which we have hitherto printed

the account of every town.

He was called to be ferjeant at law in 1669, was
chofen recorder of Lynn Regis, and when he pur-
chafed this manor, left Fliicham, where he had lived,
and fettled here; he married Mary, daughter of John
Green, ferjeant at law, of Bois-hall, in EfTex, near
Stoke pariih, who died in 1672, and was buried a;
Northfleet, in Kent. He was buried in the Bramp-

tons

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. m

tons burial place here, and though there is no me-
morial for him, a plate was lately dug up. which
came oft his coffin. — Guybonus Goddard, fetvicns ad
legem, ct per vetu/lafamilia Goddardorum, in com. JVorff.
obijt xxix die Maij, A. D. 167 i, <ztal. 58, cujus animc
propicidur Dcus.

He left Thomas Goddard his fon and heir, who
mortgaged the cflate to William Crompton, e.fq of
Kent, who dying without iffue, his nephew, Bruik-
hurft, became poffeifed about i 701, and the lo^dfhip
and patronage belonged afterwards to Charles rowrt-
ley, efq. of Clapham, in Surrey ; fold by him to

Wiight in 1755, and by him to —

Marfbam, in i 756, Robert Marfham, efq. of Stratcon
Strawlefs, being now lord and patron.

The whole village is taxed at 271!. per ann. to the
land tax ; it is in the liberty pf j.he Duchy of J-an-
cafter.

The church is dedicated to St. Peter, and was va-
lued at ten marks. The reclory now ftands at 5!.
iq the king's books, and being returned of the clear
yearly value of 32!. it is capable of augmentation.
There is a recloiy-houfe, and above fixteen acres ot
glebe The fteeple is odlangular at top, and rouud
at bottom, in which theie are two bells ; the naye
and fouth porch are thatched ; the fouth chapel and
chancel tiled. Befides thole already obferved, we
find the following memorials here :

On a mural monument on the fouth fide, are the
arms of Beevor, impaling Betts; — Margaret, the wife
of Thomas Beevor, ofJVbrwich, gcnt.Jhe wasjole daugh-
ter and heirefs of Robert Belts, gent, of this parijh, being
the la/I of that family, and the Jirjl of the family oj the
H 4 BCCVQT&

112

Beevors in this town ; JJie died May 23, 1716, aged
24 years, and Left no ijjue. living.

A flone in the alley, — To Rofc, the fecund wife of
Thomas Btevor, gent, who died December 3, 1723,

<*Sed 32-

There are four grave-floncs in the porch, for the
family of London, and Suffield, of this parifh.

In 1620 John Greenwood, D. D. reclor here, was
cjecled, and nearly ruined, for his loyalty; his family
were forced to fue for the public charity of the corpo-
poration of miniftcrs widows; in his abfence Na-
thaniel Gill, rctlor of Burgh, fervcd this living, as we
find by enterics in the rcgiitcr ; he was buried heie
O&ober 9, 1663.

In 1774 the Rev. Philip Candler was prcfentcd to
this redory by Robert Maifham, efq. of Strattan
Strawlefs.

BURGH, otherwife called AVLSHAM-BURGH^', is
in the liberty of the Duchy of LancaUer ; the capi-
tal manor was held by Marwen, a free-woroan, in the
Confcffor's time, wheii it was a mile long, and five
furlongs broad, paid 5d. gelt, and was worth 40$.
a year ; in the Conqueror's time it was worth 3!. a
year, and belonged to Drue de Beuraria, and the eari
and the king had the foe ; foon after the king had
this whole manor and advowfon appcnclant to it,
which continued in the crown till Edward I. granted
them to fir John dc Burgo, or Burgh, fenior, and it

was

* This was an ancient burgh, or fixed habitation, in the
time of the Romans, as the many Roman urns, &c. found'at
JBraOipton, the next adjoining vijlagc, intimate.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM, 113

was alwavs held in fee-farm, as ancient demefnc, and
had a charter of free-warren from Edward I. and the
tenants of ilie manor were free from toil, Oallage,
chemiuage, pontage, paunage, murage, and paffage,
throughout all England ; and the charter, or exem-
plification, of their liberties, was renewed May 17,
1605, and again in 1625.

Roger Bigot was lord of another part, or manor,
here, which was three furlongs long, and two broad,
and paid sd. gelt. We take this to be the manor,
called afterwards Gorge's, of which John bifhop of
Norwich died feifed in 1498, and in 1616 was fet-
tled by fir Thomas Coventry, km. and John Walter,
on George earl of Bucks, and is faid by Mr. ic
Neve to be iu the efiate of the Elvins.

Of the capital manor fir John de Felton, knt. was
lord in 1315; and in 1330 Edward III. granted ic
to fir Robert Uffbrd, knt. and his heirs, in recorri-
pence for his loyal fei vice againft. Roger Mortimer,
carl of March. In 1384. Anne queen of England
had it, and Richard II. granted it to Michael De-la*
Pole, earl of Suffolk, and it continued in that fa-
mily, but was held of them about 1470, for a terra,
by fir John Curfon, knt. In 1498 John duke of Suf-
folk held it for life, the reversion being in the crown,
by the forfeiture of John earl of Lincoln, eidelt (ou
to the duke ; and accordingly, in 1523, Henry VIII.
granted it to his mercer, William Botery, citizen of
London, after the death of Margaret, wife of Ed-
mund De-la-Pole, it having been fettled formerly on
fir Robert Drury, knt. for her ufe for life. In 1324
the quit-rents were lol. los. per ami. In 1548 Tho-
mas Sbakerley had it, and then Alan Hord, at whole
death, in 15,54, Thomas Hord, e(q. his (on, had it,
who conveyed it to Thomas Woodhoufc, efq. whofe

couiin,

ii4 HUNDRED OF

co u fin and heir, fir Henry Woodhoufe, of Waxham,
had it in 1 573, and mortgaged it to Thomas Crofts,
efq, of Felmingham, and afterwards fold it to fir Ed-
ward Coke, who in 1616 fettled it on fir Robert
Coke, his fon and heir, and their truftees fettled it,
(in confideration of a marriage) with many other
manors, on fir John Villiers, knt. afterwards vifcouat
Purbeck, and fiances, his wife, daughter of the (aid
fir Edward Coke. Sir John Was fucceeded by his
foja, Robert Villiers, alias Danvers, who married Eli-
zabeth, daughter of fir John Danvers ; and his lady
furviving him, had it in 1686, and was fucceeded by
their eldcft fon, Robert Villiers, alias Danvers, com-
monly called vifcount Purbeck, though Robeit, his
father, furrendered his patent, by fine, and now
George Villiers, efq. of Chrifl college, is lord and
patron.

The church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin,
and was new roofed in 1524, for then Thomas
.Strutte was buried in it, and gave ten marks towards
the roof. There were two guilds, of our Lady and
St. James. The ancient value was fifteen marks.
There is a houfe and fourteen acres of glebe ; it
ftandsthus in the king's books: 7!. i 75. id. Burrough,
alias Ailefham Burrough ; Reclory 33!. clear yearly
value ; fo that it pays no fii fl-fruits, nor tenths, and
is. capable of augmentation.

The facrift of Bury's manor, in Aylfham, extended
hither, and he v;as taxed at 55. it is now valued to
the land-tax at 250!. per aim.

The nave, chancel, and fouth porch, arc thatched,
ihe tower is fquarc, and hath one bell, and half
another.

There

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 115

There arc the arms of Ulfbrd, Opiali, Sec. in a
north window.

There is a ftone in the chancel, — For Ann, wife of
Ckrijlopher Hardy, gent, daughter of Ijaac Paine, of
Norwich, Aug. 6, 1079.

A mural monument, — To Edmund Burr, gent, and
Ann, his wife, and three of their children; he died JVov.
26, 1720, aged 56; Jtic, June 24, 1708, aged 44.

In i 762 the Rev. John Wright was prefented to
the re&ory of Burrou<z;h, alias Ailefham Bunough,
by George Villiers; ftudent of Chrift college, p.j.

BUXTON. The church of St. Andrew at Bux-
ton was a reclory appendant to the manor till Hu-
bert de Rhye, lord of the town, gave the advovv-
fon of it to the mafler of the order of Sempring-
ham, and two parts of the tithes of his own de-
mefnes to the monks of Norwich, by the approba-
tion of John de Grey, bifhop there, who confirmed
the advowfon to the houfe of Gilbenines, at Scm-
pringham, in Lincolnshire, and the portion of tii lies
to his own monks ; and thus it continued till his
fucceflbr, Thomas de Biumvile, in 1232, with the
confent of the Norwich monks, appropriated it to the
canons and nuns of Sempringham, to hold to their
proper ufe for ever, affigning to Richard de Kirkeiey,
the Jafl. re&or, and firft vicar, a vicarage, which was
thus fettled; that the vicar for ever fhould have all
the altarage, all the houfe and glebe land, and all
the fmall tithes of the hall, and al(o the third
garb of all the corn belonging to the hall land, (or
dernefnes of Hubert de Ria, the Norwich monks
having the other two garbs) and the whole great and
fmall tithes of the croft of Hervcy de Leun, contain-
ing

,,6 H U N D R E D O F

ins; twenty acres, and the tithe hay of the whole town ;
the bifliops were always to nominate the vicar, and
the convent agreed to prefent all fuch as fhould be
' nominated by the bifhops, or elfe they might col-
late them on their relufal ; the convent was to repair
the chancel, and the vicar to bear all other charges;
the inurnment of appropriation bears date at the pa-r
iace of Elmharn ; and now the re&ory is valued at
twenty- two marks, and the vicarage at 265. Sd. The
vicarage ftands in the king's books at 5!. 135. gd.
and being fworn of the clear yearly value of 30!. it
is capable of augmentation.

The vicars of Buxton were nominated by the
bifliops of Norwich to the convent of Sempringham,
.the priors of which houfe prefented from 1232 to
ihz difTolution. In 1455 they .prcfented John Gref-
liain, otherwile called fir John Pyketoo, or Piclo,
prieft, a man of good family and fortune, of emi-
nent charily, and a gieat bcnefaclor to this church
and puiiih, >vho in lib life-time fettled great part of
their prefent town lands on this parifh lor ever; the
north aile was much beautified, if not totally rebuilt,
by him, and in one of its windows his effigy flill
.remains perfect in his prieft' s habit, a fiiaven crown,
the wafer on his bread, his hands elevated, kneeling
on a cufhiou, and the church behind him, and this
on a fcrowl over his head : — Qr#tt pro amma Jvkamns
.Pyclo, Vicarii Jht fu, xpep.tr : : : : : He died in 149^,
und was buried in the chancel, right in the midfl
bpforc the {tcps of the high altar, but now there re-
jnains no memorial for him there. About this time
the Abbys' were an ancient lamily here.

In 1564 Ela Stubbe, widow, prcfcntcd ; and in
161 •} the vicar was prelentcd and collated by John
K '£gon, bifhop of Noiwich, to whom the prcfcmatkm

belonged

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 117

belonged in full right. This bifhop owned the im-
propriation, and confequently the perpetual prefen-
tation, but the nomination was in him as bifhop of
Norwich.

Robert Jcggon, efq. in 1662, was the firft prefentce
without the bifliop's nomination apparent.

Benjamin Griffin, vicar of Buxton, died May th«
Sth, 1691, aged 37, and left a wife and three chil-
dren in mean circumftances ; one of whom, named
Benjamin, was afterwards bound apprentice to a
plumber and glazier in Norwich, but being of a brifk
genius, and active fpirit, commenced player, and
made no mean figure on the Englifti ftage; he pub-
lifhed, befides other things, " Injured Virtue, or the
Virgin Martyr, a tragedy, as it was aclcd at che play-
houfe at Richmond, by his grace the duke of South-
ampton and CleaveiancTs fervants, in 1715, by Ben-
jamin Griffin."

There is alfo a mezzotinto print of him and John-
fon, (another excellent comedian) in the characters of
Tribulation and Ananias, in the play of the Alche-
mift, which parts they were famed for performing,
from a painting of Pet. Van. Blcech's in 1738, but
not publifhed till 1 748.

William Pafton, earl of Yarmouth, prefented in
1692, as did the late lord Anfon, in i 759, the Rev.
Walter Cotton.

The manor of BUXTON, or BUKES TUNA, in the
'time of the Confelfor was held by five brothers, who
were all free-men, it containing then feven carucates
of land; one of the brothers was never fcifed of hi*
jj>art, but was in the wardship of Malei's anceftors ;

then;

iig HUNDRED OF

there were woods fufficient to keep one thoufand
{Wine, but much cleared by the Conqueror's time;
.Ralph de Beaufoe owned it at the Conqueror's fur-
vcy, and the church had then thirty acres of glebe'";
it was then worth 5!. a year, and was above a mile
long, and fix furlongs and an half broad, and paid
jod. gelt, and a free-woman held twenty acres be-
longing to this manor, lying in La-mcrs, or Lammafs.
From the Conqueror's time it paflTcd with the ma-
nor of Hingham, in Forehoe hundred, in this county,
and became part of Rhye barony, of which it was
always held, and fo came to the Mai (halls. In
1286 it was worth lool. a year, had leet, or view of
frank-pledge, affize of bread and ale, liberty of free-
warren, and a common gallows, a hamlet, called
Kinellhorpe, andanoiher, called Dudcwic, and a wa-
ter-mill ; it paid ward to Norwich caftle from fix
weeks to lix weeks, in all 205. a year, by name of
vvayte-fce. It paffcd from the Marfhalls to the Mor-
leys, and from them to the Lovclls, and fo to the
Parkers, and was fold by Edward Parker, lord Mor-
ley, about i /jyo, to Henry Bedingfield, cfq. who was
returned lord in 1571, and fo it became parted from
Hingham; he died feifcd of it in 1581, and it con-
tinued in the Bedingfields till it was fold to the Paf-
tons, in which family it remained till lately, it being
purchafcd by lord Anfon, whofe heir, George An-
fon, elq. of Shugborough, in Staffordfhire, is now
lord oi the feveral manors, impropriator, and patront.

The manor of LEVISHAUGH was granted from
the capital manor to Haired de Lavefhagh, called

alfo

f There arc now thirty-two acres and three roods of glebe.

f The fcite of this manor is totally dilapidated, and is a
fquare of four acres moated in, now called the Manor-yard, it
lies north-caft of the church, cxaflly between that and the river.

SOUTH ERP ING HAM. 119

alfo Levifhall ; we find it in this family in 1 296, but
how it patted till 1401 we know not, for then the
heirs of Roger de Reffham had it, from which fa-
mily it came to the Abbys', many of whom are in-
terred in the fouth chantry chapel.

About 1480 John Abbys, fenior, was lord. Tho-
mas Abbys fold the manor to John Hawes, who by
will, proved in 1503, ordered, " a pylgryme to
" vyfyte the holy place of Sent Jamys, at Compof-
" tyllum, in Spayne," and his manor in Buxton
yclep'd Levytfhaugh, to be fold by his executor*
for alms. Thomas Abbys, junior, his fon and heir,
fold it ; and in 1594 Henry Payne, efq. and Thoma$
Parmenter, efq. fold it by the name of LcverfhaHe,
alias Levyfhawe, alias Leame's manor, to George
Lambert, and John Daynes ; and in 1602 it was
fettled by Thomas Claxton, junior, gent, and Wil-
liam Claxton, gent, it was after purchafed by ihc
Siubbes's, who joined it to their

- MANOR of BUXTON-BURGH, with
ivhich was. another manor granted from die capital
one, very early, to the family that took their firnamc
from the town*. Bertram de Buxton was lord of it,
and it continued fome generations in the family ; but
in 1355 Thomas de Buxton, redor of Bintrc, fettled.
liis eftate on his fillers and heirefles; it afterwards be-
longed to the Stubbes's, and in 1528 Walter Stubbes
left it to his brother, John ; he lies buried under a
Hone by the pulpit,, with a brafs plate.

John Stubbes, fon of John, fucceedcd him, to.
whom in 1558 George Horfemau, of Booton, eliq,

gave

* The fereral families of this name la tfu* CQUBty we deri?cd
from thdfe Euxtons,

120 HUNDRED OF

gave his efb.te, and entailed it en Edmund and Francis,.
Ions of the lail John, and bv the former of them it
vas fold with the improprianon to John Jeggon, bi-
fhoj) of Norwich. Robert Jeggon, his ion and heir,
built a large -houfe, and fettled lieie ; his motto —
Dextera Tua Protegfft Me — remains in the windows of
it; it is now in decay, and a farm-houlc only. By
the heirs of the Jeggons it was fold to the Paflons,
by which purchale the Paflons eftate here was made
very compleat.

The church hath a fquare tower and five bells ; the
nave and chnnccl are thatched; the two ailes and
chantry chapels at their eaft ends, and the foiuh
porch, with a veflry at the weft end of the fouth
ailc, are leaded.

In the eaft window of the fouth chantry chapel
were the edigics of the )ord Morley, and that of his
lady, kneeling on two cufhicns, and their children
by them; the arms are, Morley impaling Wingfield.
Aloiley impales allo arg. two chev. gul. D°. impal*
ing De-la-Pole. Spencer impaling Motley.

In the windows of the chapel of the AfTumption
of the Yhgin Marv, called the north chantry chapel,-
arc the arms of Morley. D°. impaling De-la-Polc
and \Vingfield.

Here is a tomb again ft the north wall thus in-
fcribed: — Here licth Edmund Bcdingjield, tfq> of Lames,
ivlio dectajcd on St. jYicholas Day, in the year of cur
Lord God, i (34.

Here are alfo tomb-ftones to the families of Man-
ning, Bulwcr. Humond, Jeggon, Huiton, Robin-
fon, £x.

A black

SOUTH ERP1NGHAM. 121

A black marble at the hnr, — To Ann, the relief of
Thomas Bidwer, late of this purifn, gent, who was
daughter of Robert MarJJiam, lale of' Si rat ton-Straw lcf$,
gent, fne died March 27, 1 704, aged 73 }:ears.

An adjoining black marble hath the arms of Rul-
wer, impaling Marfham; — Here lieih the body oj'.Tlio-
mas Bulwer, gent, who departed this life the <i<id day of
Augujt, A.D. 1694, atat. 82. — This gentleman gave
500!. with which an cflate of 25!. per annum was
purchafed in Aylfharn, and was vefted in feoffees,
who are to pay the annual clear profits thereof
to the vicar for the time being, who is to preach a
fermon every Sunday morning, in Buxton church,
from a text taken out of the gofpel for the day, fo
that he be not excufed preaching a fermon every af-
ternoon, as vicar of the church, by which means, ac-
cording to the intention of ihe donor, this church
hath two fermons, and double fcrvice, every Sunday.
He gave alfo sool. to Buxton poor, a neat found-
board to the pulpit, a fct of pulpit cloths, of purple
cloth, with gold fringe and taflells, on which is em-
broidered in gold letters, — Ex dono Thoma Bulwcr,
generofi, 1694. — The aool. was paid by a mortgage
in North Walfham, which did not turn up to "real
value, fo that there is now 5!. 155. paid anually for
intereft, which is yearly diflributed among the poor,
the principal being 1 1 3!. He gave legacies to Strat-
um-Straw lefs, Hainsford, Marfham, 8cc. His wife,
Ann, gave isd. a month to twenty poor widows,
which- is now given to the poor, beiideb ieveral gilts
to other parifh.es.

In 1490 fir John Piclo purchafed ten pieces of
arable land in Little Hautbois, and one piece in
Great Hautbois, containing two acres, and immedir
ately fettled the two acres on feoffees, in truft, that

I die

122 H U N D R ED OF

the annual rent fhould be yearly employed to the
leet-fee of the tn'.vn of Buxton, and oiher roval bur-
dens, fuch as the tenths, or fifteenths, paid to the
king, when thole taxes were granted, if there was
any overplus of the annual profits ; the other lands
healfo fettled on tiuflecs, that the churchwardens
and conHables of the parifh, for the time being, fhall
beftow the overplus yearly on the poorer fort of the
inhabitants there. The whole contains eighteen acres,
in eleven pieces ; fixteen acres lie in Great and Little
Hautbois, and the piece of two acres in Great
Hautbois.

Robert Childcrhoufe, clerk, about 1480, gave three
roods of land in Buxton, on which, in 1487, the
Guildhall was built, for the fupport of the guilds,
and the poor of the town; the land was freehold,
held of Levii'hc'.UjJi manor by a rent of lod. a year,
•which was rcleafed in 1536 by Thomas Abbys, fe-
nior, then lord of that manor.

In 1556 Ralph Anderfon gave two acres of land,
in three pieces, in Buxton, to repair the church
there"".

In the 26th of queen Elizabeth Roger Docking
gave one rood in the Gravel-pits to the poor of Bux-
ton, and ten pounds t to be put out to young begin-
ners, yearly, at 6s. bd. intereft, 35. 4d. of which to

the

* It appears by the original deed, that he defigned it for to
found hi- obijt, or anniversary, but as times flood, did not care
to exprcfs it, for fear that if times altered again, it fhould be
feized by the crown, and it happened well for the parifh, who
by this thing only faved the land.

f A piece of land in Kuxton was bought with jl. of it, and
the reft is now in the churchwardens hands ; it pays los, a year
clear, except 6d, quit-rent.

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the poor, and 34. ^d. to the churchwardens, for their
care and pains in putting it out.

In the time of James I. the inhabitants of Button
put chafed of William Bafpool twelve acres ol laud,
in four pieces, in Weftfield, in Cokifhail, which le-
veral fums of money were given by Roger Docking,
George Roberts, and John Kempc, heretofore inhabi-
tants there.

In 1 64 1 , it appearing that the produce of the above
lands and gifts were mifemployed. a commiflion of
charitable ufes, grounded upon the ftatutc of .,the
43d of Elizabeth, was taken out, and fat at Aylfham
on April 12, when fir John Hohart, brm. Thomas
Windham, efq. and the other coiumiflioners, de-
creed, that the furviving feoffees fliouid forthwith con-
vey all the lands in trull to Robert Joggon, e!q. Ed-
mund Bedingfield, jun. gent. Thomas Marfhani,
gent. Roger SufRcld, and five more, and that as of-
ten as lour of thi nine feoffees die, the five jurvi-
vors Qiall forthwith convey the lands to thcmfelves,
and four other perfons, which four are to be chofen
by the five remaining feoffees, and by the vicar,
churchwardens, ovci leers, and conftable, of Buxton.
for the time being, or the greater number of them,
and as to the employing the profits, it was decreed,
that "the eighteen acres (of lirjolm Pido's gift) be
" for ever employed to difcha^ge the leet-feet, and
" for the difcharge of the poorer fort only of the in-
*' habitants of Buxson, which fliall be laid, or
i K>vl 2 *vt V* taxed,

t Fifteen (hillings a year leet-fee is now paid, and ics. is
paid-yearly to the inhabitants by the lord f9r goinp the fur/;
one company goes the bounds of the pariih, and another I, wrfc
party goes the purlieu to a great ditch on Cawiloii-hj.ui:, ^.^'as
far as the liberty of the manor extends.

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41 taxed, for their fubfidy, or for their lands, or for
" their fifteenths, (when any inch fhall happen to
" be granted] by or out of the other part of the rent
" of the faid eighteen acres ; and the refidue (the
" loid's rents being deduced) (hall be diftributed
" ycaily for ever, towards the extraordinary relief of
" the poorer fort of the inhabitants of Buxton ; but
44 no ways to free or eafe any of the parifhioners of
" Buxton aforefaid of or in their ordinary weekly
*' or monthly rates, for the relief of the poor of the
41 pariih of Buxton aforefaid."

And the rent of the two acres [i (given by Ralph
Anderfon) *• fhallj be yeaily employed for ncceffarv
41 ornaments, or repairs, within the church of Bux-
14 ton aforefaid."

And the profits of the twelve acres (purchafed by
the inhabitants with divers gifts as aforefaid) " {hall
44 be employed for the di (charging of the poorer fort
'•' only of the inhabitants of Buxton ; but in no
" ways to eafe any of the parifhioners of or in their
41 ordinary weekly or monthly rates, for the relief of
" the poor of the pariih."

" And the profits of the three roods, (the Guild-
' hall) and the one road, and the 35. 4d. for the one
4 half of the yearly profits of the ten pounds, fhall
4 be yearly employed towards the extraordinary re^
* lief of the poor ; but no ways to eafe any of the
' parifhioners of or in their weekly or monthly
J rates, for the relief of the poor of the parifh."

And

\\ One acre, in one piece, in South-field is loft ; the other
icrc, in two pieces, in North-fields! is now in pofieflion.

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 125.

And it was alfo decreed, " that a true and parti-

w cular account fhall be publicly and openly made

" every Eafter Monday in the afternoon, in the pa-

" rifh church of Buxton, every year by the feoffees,

*' and by fuch perfons as from time to time fliall

" have the flock of the faid ten pounds, flieyving

•' how and in what manner the rents and profits of

*' the faid lands are employed, which accounts fhall

" be yearly entered in the overfccrs books, with the

" hands of the accountants, and other parifliioners,

" which fliall then be prefent, and the fame account

4' fliall be yearly offered to the view, examination,

" and confideration of the juftices of the peace for

*• the time being, of that limit, at the next meeting

" after the making of the faid account, and the ten

" pounds fhall be yearly put out to fuch young be-

14 ginners of the faid parifh, upon fuch fecurity a*

" fhail be agreed upon, by the vicar, churchwardens,

" overfeers, conflables, and other inhabitants that

" (hall then be prefent."

All the faid benefactions are now managed by the
feoffees, who are in poffeffion of the fcveral lands
and tenements at this time.

The girls hofpital in Norwich hath an eftate here,
lett at 24!. per annum.

The brothers Auftin hermit.% in Thetford, had
lands here, given them by fir Thomas de Morley,
knt. in the time of Richard II. about which time fir
Roger Bois, knt. and others, fettled lands here on
the prior of the church of the Holy Trinity at Hing-
ham, in Norfolk.

The priory of Beeflon had revenues here taxed at
. ad. the prior of Scmpringhajn's fpirituals were
1 3 taxed

.12.6 HUNDRED OF

taxed at twenty-two marks, being the impropriate
re&or. The whole town is laid to the land tax at

In the time of Richard I. there were two hamlets
belonging to this town. viz. Kinefthorp and Dudvvic ;
the lafl gave name to a very ancient family which
had a good efhuc in it, owned in 1 19$ by Hervcy dc
Dudewic, whofe firter, Rignare, inherited, and fold it
to Hermer de Brampton.

The feveral families of the Wrights, (of which
John Wright was rector of Stratton-Strawlefs) Rumps,
Callows, Pkchers, and Matthews, have been in the
parifh for many ages pail.

The Romans were much concerned here, many
urns having been found in this parifh, and other Ro-
man antiquities, as we learn from fir Thomas Browne's
works, &c. but it was then part of Brampton, to-
which we refer our readers.

There is a clofe, called Gallow-hill-clofe, in which
was a large hill, now levelled, on the top of which
the gallows Hood, this manor having the liberty of
infangthef, and outfangthef, that is, of executing all
criminals belonging to the manor within itfelf, and
all other criminals that were taken in the manor,
tii ugh they did not belong to it; it lies at the fouth
,end of the town.

At Buxton is a large water-mill, planned and exe-
cuted by the late ingenious Mr. William Pepper;
from many curious parts of its conftru&ion it well
deicrves the attention of (Grangers: part of it is
\vo>ked by the river Sure paffing under the wheels,
and part. by a canal brought from Oxnead, which

turns

S O U T H E R P I N G H A M. 127

turns an ovcr-fhot wheel. The building makes a
very hanrifome appearance upon the river, and is an
ornament to the country, which a little unevennefs
renders pleafing.

CALTHORPE. This1 town lies on the north
fide of the river Bure, and takes its name from its
fcite, viz. a Thorp on a cold flream. or water, being
wrote Calerorp in the book of Doomfday; the chief
lor.dfh'ip belonged to Edric, a Dane, who gave it to
the abbey of St. Bennet of Holme, and confirmed
by king Edward the Confellbr. Here was. a church
without any land or glebe ; the whole was nine fur-
longs in length, and fix in breadth, and paid 5d.
gelt.

About the time of the Conqueror Godric was in-
feoffed herein by the abbot and convent; he was
their dapifcr, fleward, or chief manager o£ all their
cflates, a place of great eminence and honor in that
age, as appears by William Fitz-Ofborn, who (with
Odo earl of Kent, and bifhop of Bieux, Half-brother
to the Conqueror, were appointed regents of Eng-
land on the Conqueror's going into Normandy) is
{tiled Dapijcr NormanniiZ t and fcnefchal to the Con-
queror, as duke of Normandy. From this Godric
the ancient family of the Calthorpes are defcended,
as appears by their pedigree. By Ingreda, his wife,
he had Radulph, who enjoyed the fame office; and
by Lefcilina, his fecond wife, had Hermannus, who
in the reign of Henry I. was, with his fons, witnefs
to a grant of the abbot and convent of the manor
of Greenfwill, in Stoke Holy Crofs, to William
Curzon, and therein is ilikd Hermannus Dapiffr.

Herman hadfeveral fons, Adam, Sec. To Adam, the

cldefl; the abbot and convent of Holme granted in a

I 4 full

]28 HUNDRED O F

full chapter the hundred of Tui:flead, wiih other*
larger poffeffions in fee. to him and his heirs, with
the flewardfhip of the abbey; in the grant it is ex-
prefied, — Ut pofi albatcm, to this abbalix fit procurator
ct Dapiferficut paler ; — and he \vas to hold by that
/ervice all the abbey lands in Calthorpe, and the
land of the abbot in the laid village ; and this abbot,
William, was brother to Adam; and this Adam,
feems to be the fir ft of the family that alfumed ihc
name of Calthorpe, and dying without ifiue, Wil-
liam, his brother, was his heir, lord of Hobbies,
Magna and Parva, and was on that account called
William de Alto Bofco, or Hobbies, and »vas luc-
ceeded by his fon, William, who had feveral fons.
Peter, William, Thomas, from whom came feveral
families, who occur under the names of Hobbies and
Calthorpe. In the I2th of Henry II. William de
Calthorpe held here. &c. on fee of the abbot of
Holme- de veteri feojfamenlo. Sir Peter de Hobbies
ivas his fon and heir, called often fir Peter de Cal-
thorpe, fteward, or dapifer, of the aforefaid abbey,
who died about 1239, and was fucceeded by Peter,
his fon, who fold his right in this manor, with the
reverfion of his mother's dower, for forty marks of
filver. to Walter de Calthorpe, alias Sufheld, bilhop
of Norwich, ai:d William de Calthorpe, the bifliop's
nephew and heir ; and alfo by fine conveyed to the
bilhop the advowfon of this church in 1246.

Henry III. in his 4oth rear, granted to fir William
de Calthorpe, knt. Jrce-uarren in all his demefne
lands here, that no one (hould without his leave ancl
licence enter therein, to take or putfue any game,
under the penaky of lol. Daied at Wtftminfler,
Apni 16.

SOUTH ER PING HAM.

Adam abbot of Holme, and the convent, warranted
to defend and acquit him and his heirs from all fer-
vices, cuftoms. Sec. which the heirs of John de Hob-
bies (the brother of Peter before mentioned) fhould
demand of him for a tenement held by him in Cai-
thorpe, of the fee of the.faid abbot. Sir William
married Cecilia, daughter of fir Philip, and fitter and
heirefs to William de Burnham, alias Warren, de-
fcended (as it is faid) from a coufin-german of Ha-
meline Plar.tagenet, earl Warren and Surry, whofc
arms fome take to be the arms of the de Burnhams,
alias Warren, a younger branch of the earls War-
ren, which fir William Calthorpe took up on his.
marriage with Cecilia aforefaid ; but it is more pro-
bable the Calthorpes bqre them, as dependants on
the earls Warren, their capital lords, under whom
they held feveral lordfliips ; and it appears that Wal-
ter the bifhop, and uncle to this VVilliam, bore the
lame; this fir William Calthorpe, and fir Ralph dc
Hcmenhale, were founders of Burnham priory in.
1241.

Sir Walter de Calthorpe was his fon and heir, and
married Ela, daughter of fir Hervey Stanhowe, lord
of Stanhowe, and died about the i ;th of Edward If.
His fon and fucceflbr, fir William Calthorpe, remit-
ted June 29, in the 14th of Edward II. to the abbot
and convent of Crowland, all his right in the manor
and advou fon of Gedney, Sec. Quaplode, and Hol-
bech, in Lincolnshire ; and with Ifabclla, his lady,
daughter of John lord Love}, of Tichmarfh, entailed
on Walter, their fon and heir, the lordfliips of Cal-
thorpe, Seething, Burnham-1 horpe, &c. who mar-
ried Alice, daughter of fir Ralph de Crophull, and
niece to John Hotham, bifhop of Ely ; he was alfo
a knight, and dying without iffue, Alice re-married,
about the i6th of Edward III. fir John Bigot. Sir

William-

150

HUNDRED OF

William died about the 33d of F.dward I IT. and had
a daughter, Ela, married to John, fonof fir Simon dc
Picrpoint, (anccfior to the dukes of Kingflon) of
Henflead. in Suffolk, who fettled on them the ma-
nor of Huril-Pierpoint, in Suflex, on his marriage,
in the 5th of Edward III.

Sir John Calthorpc, his fecond fon, was his heir,
and dying without iltue, fir Oliver, his brother, was
his heir. We have feen a deed of his, felting forth,
" that whereas the abbot and monks of Sybton, in
SufTolk, were obliged, on account of certain lands
and tenements, topiay for the fouls of his ancefters,
in a chantry within the chapel of Svthing, given to
them by his 'aid anceftors ; which lands and tene-
ments by length of time, and by the death of the
free tenants and villains, are become fo wallc, and
ihe profits fo diminifhed, as to be not a fufficiem
fupport for one monk to live and remain there. In
order to fupply the fame, he grants for himfclf and
heirs, that the faid abbot and monks fliould be freed
from the lame, on condition that they provide a
chantry' in their own monaftry to perform the faid
office, and faving to himfelf And heirs the payment
of i 8d. per ann. at the feaft of St. Martin, for one
pair of boots, which the faid convent ufed to pay to
him, and his anceftors, on the (aid feaft, and all other
rents and fer vices annually paid." — Dated at Burn-
liam, December 16, 1361. In the 4gth of Edward
111. he was high fherifl of Norfolk, and married Ifa-
bel, lifter and heirefs of fir Bartholomew Bacon, of
Erwarton, in Suffolk ; fhe furvived him, and dying
in the j sth of Henry IV. left by her will to Richard
Calthorpe her fon. the lordfhip of Snitterley, alias
Blakeney, in Holt hundred, from whom delcended
the Calthorpes of Cockthorpe, &c. Sir Oliver died
about the end of the reign of Richard II. and was
buried, as is faid, in the church of Calthorpe.

Sir

SOUTH ERPINGH A'M. 131

Sir William Calthorpe. fon and heir of fir Oliver,
was a vvitnefs in the nth of Henry IV. for fir Ed-
ward Mailings, of Elfing, in the great caule of arras-
bearing. He married, firft, Alianore, daughter and
heircfs of fir John Mautby; fecondly, Sibilla, daugh-
ter and heirefs of fir Edmund de St. Omer, and re-
licl of fir John Wythc. Sir William's will is dated
December 19, 1420 ; he was buried in Burnham-
Thorpe chancel. The will of Sibil was proved Oc-
tober 6, 1421 ; therein (he gives " a black veftment
of baldekui, with erfreys of red velvet, wuh the arras
of Wy the, for a pried, with a miflale, a cup and a
patten, to the; church of Beftan, by Smalburgh,"
where (lie was buried in the chancel, on the fouth
fide,. by her firft hufband. Sir William by his firft
lady had fir John Calthorpe, who married Ann,
daughier and heirefs of fir John Wythe, by Sibilla
afo'refajd ; and dying before his father, fir \\ illiam
left a,, ion, William, a minor at his grandfather*
death, heir to his eftate.

, ,« j , ..-A I 'Wlf

On the sSth of June, in the 21 ft of Henry VI. at
his court here, he manumifed Thomas Gybbs, his vil-
lain. In the 3t)sh of the faid king he was knighted,
became locum tenens. and commiflary general to the
raofl noble and potent William duke of Suffolk, and
earl of Pembroke, high chamberlain of England, Ire-
land, and Acquitain, during the minority of Henry
duke of Exeter. Jn the 8th of Edward IV. he
writes him(elf fir William Calthorpe, of Ludham ;
and in the 1 8th of that king was fteward of the
.houfhold to the duke of Norfolk, alfo high (heriff of
Norfolk and Suffolk, as he had been in the Sth of than
king, and in the 2oth and 36th of Henry VI. and
purchafed in the 1 8th of Edward IV. of the execu-
tors of Joan lady Bardolph, daughter and heirefs of
fir Thomas Erpingham, an inn, or manfion-houfe,

called

ist HUNDREDOF

called Berney's inn, in St. Martin's parifii, by the
tiihop's palace-gate, in Norwich. By his firft lady,
Elizabeth, daughter of Reginald lord Grey, of Ru-
ihyn, he had fir John Cahhorpe, his fon and heir,
a younger fon, and two daughters ; his fccond lady
\vc.s Elizabeth, daughter and coheirefs of fir Miles
Stapleton, by whom he had Ann, married to fir Ro-
bert Drury, of Hauftead, in Suffolk, privy counsellor
to Henry VII. fhe furviving fir William*, afterwards
re-married fir Edward Howard, knight, lord admiral,
brother to the duke of Norfolk, then to the lord
Scroop, and lafl.lv to fir John Fortcfcue, lord chief
juftice. Sir William died in 14.^4, and was buried
by his firft lady (who died in 1457) in the White
Friars church at Norwich, where alfo feveral of her
children lay.

Sir John Calthorpe, fon and heir of fir William,
married Elizabeth, daughter of Roger Wentworth,
efq. of Nettleftead, in Suffolk, by whom he had fir
Philip Calthorpe, who married Amy, daughter of
fir William Boleyn, of Blickling, in Norfolk, (and
aunt to queen Anne, confort of Henry VIII.) fhe was
buried in St. Andrew's church, at Norwich, in 1301.

Sir Philip Calthorpe married, firft, Mary. Gfter and
heirefs of fir William Say; his fecond wife was Jane,
daughter of John Bleverhaifet, of Frenze, in Difs
hundred, efq. he died fcifed of this lordfhip in 1535,
and thofe of Srnallburgh, Burnham-Thorpe, Seething,
Sprowfton, Stanhowe, Eafl and Wrefl Rudham, Bar«
nick, Barmer, and Clenchwarton, in Norfolk ; Er-
warton, Broome, Oakley, and Wattefham, in Suffolk.

Jane,

* Richard Caltborpf, efq. of Cockthorpe, was eldeft fon of
fir William, by the lady Elizabeth ; fir Francis Calthorpe, fc-
cond fon, and* William, a third fon.

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 153

Jane, his widow, died April 27, 1550, and was bu-
ried in the chancel of St. Martin's church, by the bi-
fhop's palace, in Norwich, under a large marble
grave-itone, ornamented with brafs plates, and an
epitaph in verfc, and gave a diver cup, and a velvet
carpet, adorned with rofcs and lilh'es. He had a
fon, Philip Calthorpe, efq. whofe affignees prefented
to the church of Harpley in 1541, and 1544, and
dying without iffuc, his fifler, Elizabeth, fucceeded,
the only daughter and heirefs of fir Philip Calthorpe,
by Mary, his firft wife ; fhe was fecond wife to fir
Henry Parker, who had livery of this manor, Sec.
in the 3d of Edward VI. In 1554 fhe was wife of
fir William Woodhoufe.of Waxham, and Hickling,
and, on his death, married, in the 8th of Elizabeth,
Drue Drury, efq. and was buried at the eaft end of
the nonh aile of St. Martin's church aforefaid, where
is a monument, with a Latin epitaph, creeled by her
laft hufband, to her memory, but without any date.

Sir Philip Parker was her fon and heir, and had li-
very of this and other manors, about the 2Oth of
Elizabeth ; he married Catherine, daughter of fir
John Goodwin, knt. of Winchendon, in Bucking-
liamfhire, and dying in November, 1605, left fir
Calthorpe Parker his fon and heir, who died Sep-
tember 5, in the igth of James I. when this manor
defcendcd to Philip, his fon and heir, by Mercy,
daughter of fir Stephen Soame, lord mayor of Lon-
don ; he was alfo knighted, and married Dorothy,
daughter and heirefs of fir Robert Gaudy, of Clax-
ton, in Norfolk.

This lordfhip afterwards came to the Fromanteels,
and was lately fold by them to the right honorable the
late lord Walpok, of Wolterton.

HOOJC-HALJL,

i3i H U N D R E D O F

HOOK-HALL, or DAME KATE'S MANOR, was part
of the capital manor of Uphall, and given by Hcr-
mannus to William, his fccond fon, from which Wil-
liam dcfcendcd a numerous family ; a younger
branch of ihis was enfeoffed herein. In the gth of
king John, William de Cakhorpe was in cuflody of
Roger de Suffield, who then gave for him eleven
marks, to have a pracipc of r,l. lands belonging to
Richard, his father; and in the year fallowing an af-
fize was brought, to find if Peter de Cakhorpe was
fcifed of lands here the day he went to Jeruialem.

In the ifkh of Henry III. fir Peter de Alto-Bofco,
alias de Calethorpe, fued Roger de Cakhorpe for the
right of prefentation to this church, and the faid
Peter granted it with lands here, by fine, in the ?;2d
of that king, to Walter de Cakhorpe, bifhop of Nor-
wich, and William, his nephew.

In the iith of Edward III. fir Bartholomew dc
Calthorpe had the reverfion of this lordfhip, with
three me Ullages, 100 acres of land, fixtccn of mea-
dow, four of moor, 45. rent, and 100 acres of heath,
in Wickmerc, then held by Catherine, his mother,
\vhogavenameto it. He died in 1372, and was
buried at Cakhorpe, and left Catherine his only
daughter and heirefs, married to fir John llaiiykc,
of Souihacie, whofe fon, fir John, by Agnes, his
wife, daughter and coheirefs of fir William Caley,
of Oby, had fir Roger Harfykev who by Alice, his
wife, daughter of Nicholas Witchingham, of FiQilcy,
efq. left at his death, in 1453, two daughters and co-
heirefies ; Margaiet, married to William Dorward,
efq. of Bocking, in Effex, and Joan, married to Ri-
chard Dorward, his brother, who conveyed this ma-
nor of Hook-hall, by fine, in the gd of Edward IV.
to Thomas Boleyn, clerk j and fir William Boleyn,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 135

of Blicklin^, died fcifed of it in 1505. and fir James
Bolcyn pafifed it, by fine, to John Walpolc, efq. in
the i (lot queen Mary. After ihis it came to the
Reymes, and Blofields, Sec.

There was alfo another fmall manor taken out of
the capital lordfhip of Uphall, belonging to fir Peter
de Hautbois, or de Alto-Ebfco, which came to the
hofpital of St. Giles, in Norwich, and every new
mafter of the hofpital paid to the lord of Uphall
155. Sd. relief. This hofpital, on its diiTolution, was
granted March 8, in the i ft of Edward VL to the
mayor and corporation of the city of Norwich, with.
ell the lands and revenues belonging to it, and (b
continues; and it appears that in 174^ there be-
longed to it a meffuage, with lands, and alder-cars,
in Calthorpe, with four acres and an half in Erping-
ham, valued 3145!. 135. id. per ann.

KYBALD-HALL. That part of this town which
appertained to this lordfhip was held in the time of
king Edward by Leflan, a Saxon free-man, but at
the furvey by Teheli, a Norman, and under him by
Guerite, and Ofbert, valued at 305. per ann.

In the reign of Henry II. Robert Fitz-Roger held
three parts of a knight's fee here of Richard dc
Reymes, or Rain;*, who was defcendcd from Roger
de Ramis, a great Norman lord ; and in the aoth of
Henry HI. Roger de Galthorpe held here one knight'i
fee belonging to the barony of Hclion, in Effex. Bt-
forc this, (in the reign of Henry I.) William, fon of
Herman, lord ofUphall, held lands here, late Robert
Kybald's. The manor of Kybald was always held
of the Calihorpes, and fir William Calthorpe, who
purchafcd Uphall manor in the time of Henry III,
pulled down the houfes, 8cc. thereunto belonging,
and cairied them to Kybald-hall, and being thus

joined,

136 HUNDRED OF

joined, the tenants did their fuit at the court held
here for both manors.

' Roger Bigot, anceflor of the earls of Norfolk, had
an intereft here, which was added to his manor of
Hanworth, in North Erpingham hundred. The
tenths of the town were 2!. los. deductions los. and
it is in the Duchy of Lancafler.

The church of Calthorpe is dedicated to the Vir-
gin Mary, or St. Margaret, and confifls of a nave,
or body, with a fouth porch covered with lead, and
a chancel with tiles ; alfo a fquare tower with three
bells.

In the nave lie many grave-ftones, — In memory of
Elizabeth Lombe, widow, who died April 19, 1690. —
John Tubbing, 1686. — Mary Scottow, 1694. — James
Springall, gent. — Curtis, his wife, 1710. — Orate p.
eia. Tho> Drake, qui obijt 15 Apr. 1501.

In the upper window, on the north fide, were the
arms of Calthorpe. Wythe, St. Orner, and Mautby.
The effigy of fir Oliver Calthorpe, in his coat of ar-
mour, kneeling, with a prayer book before him, on
a crimfon velvet cufhion, alfo that of his. lady, with
thefe words,— MARY HELP, JH&MERC1,— with
the arms of Calthorpe impaling Bacon.

In the oppofite fouth window, Harfyke impaling
Wuchingham; Harfyke and Calthorpe, with the ef-
figies of fir John Harfyke, and Catherine, his wife,,
daughter of fir Bartholomew Calthoipe; Calthorpe,
with his fupporters; Harfyke impales Caley ; Er-
pingham impaling Calthorpe ,* Felbrigg impales Er-
piugham, Sec.

The

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 137.

The prefentation of this church (which was a rec-
tory) belonged to Edric, lord of the manor, and was
givcti by him to the abbey of St. Bennet at Holme,
and confirmed by Edward the ConfefTor. Walter de
Cahhorpc being afterwards lord and patron, appro-
priated it to St. Giles's hofpital, in Norwich, and a
vicarage was then fettled in the patronage of that
houfe. The value of the living was eighteen marks ;
there belongs to it forty-eight acres, and two roods of
glebe, in this town, befides what lies in Wickmctft
and Erpingham.

The vicarage is charged in the king's books at il.
133. 4d. is in clear value 27!. and is capable of aug-
mentation.

In 1773 the Rev. William Rayner was prefcnted
to the re6tory of Caltborpe by the corporation of
the city of Norwich, in right of St. Giles's hofpital.

CAWSTON*, commonly called CAST ON, at the
Confeflbr's furvey belonged to Harold, then earl of
the Eaft Angles, and afterwards king of England, and
at his death this and his poffeffions belonged to Wil-
liam duke of Normandy, commonly called William
the Conqueror, who ile\v him at the battle of Haft-
ings, in Suffex, and feized his crown ; the manor was
then a very confiderable one, having no Icfs than
eleven carucates of land, eighty acres of paflure,
thirty -fix villains, twenty-fix borderers, fix houfhould
fervants, and lour carucates in demcfnc, and the
free-men held twenty-fix carucates ; there was a wood
Ib large as to feed 1500 hogs, two mills, fixty fheep,
fiftv goats, five hives of bees, and ten iocinen, all

K which

* Wrote inDoomfday-book Cauftituna.

iSS PI U N D R E D O 1?

which king William held at the furvey, taken by hint,
fo that the whole town is ancient demefne, and en-
joys the privileges of that tenure, as alfo thofe of the
Duchy of Lancaflcr, of which this manor is a mem-
ber, and confequently within its liberty, but was
exempted from thcjurifdiclion of the Duchy by John
of Gaunt, duke of Lancafler; in token whereof, at
this day, abiazen gauntlet (or hand) is flill carried
before the lord of the manor, or his fteward, when-
ever they hold court here, fome fay, as the device, or
rebus, of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancafler, who af-
figncd all the royalties to be held of him by the lords
of the manor; and the plow coulter in the hand,
denotes the manor to be held in free-foccage, and not
in capitc, or by knight's fervice. This we take to be
the real facl ; though there arc other accounts that
fay, that this manor was held of the Duchy from its
firfl erection by the fervice of being champion to the
dukes of Lancaller, of which office the gauntlet is a
token, it being the very thing which every one that
challenges another to fight, according to the law of
arms, throws down, and if the challenged takes it up,
the combat is agreed on, and now the fending and
accepting a glove (the gauntlet being the iron-glove
of afuit of armor) is the way of giving and accept-
ing an honorable challenge, (if true honor can have
any fuch thing). But as to record, we find nothing
concerning this entered, and our great antiquary, fir
Henry Spclman, who mentions it under Cawflon in
his Iccnia, knew nothing of its original, which is not
very much to be wondered at, becaufe the manor
was always returned before the ereclion of the Duchy
as held of the crown by homage and knight's fervice,
but fince that time, there being no fervice nor ho-
xnage done at the death of the lord, the tenure being
ateicd from knight's fervice to foccaee, we always

find

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 139

find the returns made by the juries on the feveral in-
quifuions taken were, " that they knew not by
what fervice it was held, whkh they could not do,
the tenure being non-apparent in the fcodaries books."

At the firft furvey it was worth 30!. at the fecond
40!. by tale, and was then above two miles long, and
as much broad, and paid jd. to the gelt, or tax, to-
wards every sos. railed on the hundred ; there were
feveral bercwics, or manors, belonging to, and held
of this, in the feveral villages of Marfham, Blick-
-ling, Oultcn, Matelafk, Stratton-Sirawlefs, Colby,
Wickmere, Booton, Whitwell, and Brandifton, and
of the free-men belonging to the manor ; Rainald
Fitz-Ivo held two, William bifhop of Thetford two,
Godric the Sewer two, which earl Ralf (Gauder) held
when he forfeited; William de Warren two, and Ro-
ger Bigot two, befides thofe held of Alan earl of
Richmond.

It remained in the crown fome time,, for in 1193
Euflace de Neville farmed it, with Aylfham manor, of
Richard I. and it is faid that in i 156 William, bio-
ther to Henry II. held it, and that William de Chey-
ney, then fheriff. had an allowance for looking after
it. In 1197, when Richard I. levied a tallage upon
all the burghs and manois of ancient demefne, Ro-
bert Fitz-Roger, Sec. his commiffioners for that pur-
pofc. laid 7!. i2s. 6d. upon the tenants and men of
Cawflon, and iijs.^d upon the men of Saham-
Tony; and it continued in the crown till king
John, in the 3d year of his reign, in 1201, granted
it to Hubert de Burgo, or Bu'rgh, earl of Kent, to be
held in capitt of the crown, by what fervice was not
known, but the record, called Tefta de Neville, fays,
it was belived 10 be held by the ancient annual farm ;
K 2 Hubert

140 H U N D R E D O F

Hubert dice! in 1243, and Marg-ret. his widow, had
her dower in this manor, Sec. uhich flic relcafed in
1246 to John de Burgo, her fon-in -law, Ton of Hu-
bert, by Margaret, daughter of firR.obert Harfick, knt.
his tiiil wile. '1 his John was knighted on Whitfun-
day. 1229, by Henry III. and married Hawife,
daughter and heirefs to William Lanvaille, (who
brought wiih her the barony of St. Clare). In 124*
he had a protection from all debts due from him to
the king, as well in the Great Exchequer, as in the
Exchequer of ihcjews, they being to be rcfpited as
long as. he was in the king's lervice in Gafcoignc.
In 1251, when the king rai fed a tallage on the" te-
nants in ancient demelne, this John, lord here, and
of Southerton, was forced to raife the tallage on the
men and tenants of thofe places as ancient demefne.
In 1253 he had a fpccial licence to hunt any where
in the king's lands, in this and divers other counties.
In 1372, by the name of John de Burgo, fenior, he
granted to Edward I. in fee, the manor of Cawflon,
and manors in Northamptonfhire, Suffolk, EfFex,
Cambridgefbire, Somerfetfhire, Dorfetfhire, and Sur-
rey, for uhich the king was to pay to him a clear
annuity ol 500!. per aim. lor life, and convey to him
the waidcnihip of the tower of London, for life, the
curtody of Colchefler-cadle, and the hundred of
Tendring*, and fir John de Burgh, junior, knt. his,
ion and heir, confirmed it. It feems this took place
immediately; for in i 274 this manor was found ta
be in the king's hands, and was ieitled on his queen,
with Fakcnham, Ay Hiram, Sec. and the two hundreds
of North and South Erpingham.

* The king granted him alfo the fee-farm of London, M idle-
ton ounor, &c. in Kent -t this was done to acquit a debt of
22000!. due to the king.-

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 141

In 1229 William de Curfon, of Carleton, in Nor-
folk, was the king's Reward here, and paid 34!. and
half a mark clear, for the arrears of the farms of the
king's manors of Aylfbam, CavvTion, Hautbois, and
the hundreds of North and South Ernindiam, and

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tvas allowed a deduction for Caw Ron mill, which was
blown down.

In 1285 the king adigtled it to queen Eleanor, his
confort, who held it with Aylfham, and the hundreds
of North and South Erpingham, the whole being
then worth lool. per ann. at her death it came tt>
king Edward I. again, who died feifed, leaving it to
his fucceflbr, Edward II. who in the 2d year of his
reign, in 1309, granted it to Gilbert de Clare, earl of
Gloucefter and Hertford, and the heiis of his body,
with the manojs of Fakenham-dam, Aylfham, and the
two hundreds, to be held in capite by the fervice of
t'.vo knight's fees ; but on Gloucefter's death, without
ilfue, they revetted to the crown, and in 1314 the
king granted them all to David de StraboSgi. carl of
Athol, in Scotland, to hold them till his lauds in
Scotland fhould be reduced to the king's fubje&ion,
and he reftored and peaceably fettled in them ; he
was lord in 1316, but they were reftored to the crown
fome time before 1330, for in that year Cawfton,
Cofteffey, and Fakenham, were granted to Robert de
Ufford, earl of Suffolk, for life ; and in 1336 to the
heirs male of his body, for his late loyal fervice that
he performed for Edward III. againft Roger Morti-
mer, late earl of March; befides thole he had grants
for life, in all amounting to 300 marks per annum.
In 1355 Thomas de Cokefield farmed them under
him. In 1368 the earl died feifed of this manor,
held in capite at one fee, and of the honor of Eye,

town and caftie of Orford, Benhale, &c.

)_'^i

K 3 William

i42 H U N D R E D O F

William De-la-Pole, his fon and heir, fucceedcd
him, who in 13^1 was lord here, and patron, and
died this year, and fo, for want of iflTue of his body,
it devolved again to the crown, where ic remained till
i 385, and then Richard II. granted to fir Michael
Dc-la-Pole. ktit. chancellor of England, now created
earl of Suffolk, and to the heirs male of his body,
sol. per arm. out of the profits of Suffolk county,
and 500!. yearly out of the hereditaments of Wil-
liam Ufford, late earl of Suffolk, for which tthc fol-
lowing manors were conveyed to the faid earl, and
confirmed to him by the king's girding him with a
fword: Burgh, Cawfton, Baketon, and Coftefley, with
knights fees in Blickling, Bawdefwcll, Hcthcl, Stan-
field, &c. in Norfolk; caflle, town, manor, and ho-
nor of Eye ; the hundreds of Hertefmerc and Stowe ;
the manors of Combs, Haughley, Trendon, Lowe-
floft, and Lothinglond hundred, in Suffolk ; and
Gcftingthorpe, in EfTex, of which he died feifed in
the year 1414, and Katherine, his widow, held Caw-
flon, and the chief of the eflate, for life, and was lady
herein 141 «i, and Michael De-la-Pole, earl of Suf-
folk, was heir in rcvcrfion, who had three daughters,
but he never inherited it ; for on his death, without
iDiile iffuc, after Katherine's death, it went to his
brother, William De-la-Pole, earl of Suffolk, who
held it in capite in 1425, with the advowfon of the
honor of Wormegay, at one fee, with Burgh manor;
. he died about 1449, feifed of the whole eflate, and
John De-la-Pole, duke of Suffolk, was his fon and
heir; he died feifed in 1491, and the eflate went to
Edmtfnd De-la-Pole, earl of Suffolk, who was at-
tainted and beheaded in 1513, and fo this manor and
advoufon came to the crown in 1494, in the loth of
Henry VII. and remained there till 1504, and then
Henry VII. granted it to Gerald, fon of the earl of

Kildare,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 143

Kildare, and Elizabeth Zouch, his wife, and their
heirs male; this Gerald was a great man in his time
in Ireland, as the annals of that kingdom teflify ; he
had two wives, but this manor being limited to the
heirs male of Elizabeth Zouch, who had none, at-
his death in i <; 14 it fell to the crown, and then fir
Robert Drury, knt. fir John Heydon, km. and Ed-
mund Gelget, preferred a petition to the king on the
behalf of Margaret De-la-Pole, countefs of Suffolk,
late wife to Edmund De-la-Pole, whofe jointure it
was, fetting forth that (lie had a light for life in ten
manors in Suffolk ; Cawflon, Kerdeflon. Saxlingham,
Burgh by Aylfham, and Segersford, in Norfolk, and
they were arTigned her, but devolved to the crown at
her death, which was about 1516, and there remained
till 1539, in the 31 ft of Henry VIII. and then that
king granted Cawflon, and the advowfon, to fir
James Boleyn, knt. in exchange for the manors of
Haverfeale, and Kempfing, in Kent ; in 1550, in the
5th of Edward VI. for 500!. paid into the Exchequer,
it was granted to remain after the dearh of fir James
Boleyn, knt. and Elizabeth, his wife, and the longeft
liver of them, to the lady Elizabeth, daughter of
queen Ann Boleyn, by Henry VIII. and after-
wards queen of England, and fo it came again to
the crown.

In 1562, when queen Elizabeth had the manor and
advowfon, there was an exacl; furvey of it made by
William Minae, William Dix, and Thomas Sidney,
gents, her coinmiflioners for that purpofe, on the
oaths of thirteen tenants on the jury, who faid,
" that the queen ivas lady and patronefs, and had
court-baron and leet, waif and flray, with all game
and royalty of fefaunt and partridge to the fame be-
longing; that it was ancient demefne, and a liberty
K. 4 withia

144 H U N D R E D O F

within itfelf, and that no fheriff, or cfchcator, could
fcrve proccfs in the manor, the tenants of which
\vcrc not to appear at any afiizes, or feflions, or any
other courts out of the franchifc ; alfo no fpiritnal
officer could fervc anv citation there, but the clerk of
the town, and they wvre not to appear before any ipi-
ritual judge out of the lord (hip." The queen had a
warren of conies, and a fold-courfe in her levcral
ground, called the Park, and a lodge lately built on
her feveral ground, called Leeches, adjoining there-
to ; the fold-courfe is lett at 5!. per ann. it hath a
fair, maiket, and all cfcheats, worth 265. 8d. per an-
imm. a water-mill lett by copy of court-roll at 45.
per annum, they fue all tines on the freehold by their
own fie ward, or his deputy, and pay a let fee of
as. 4d. each fine fucd for the recording it, and the
fines fued on the bale tenure only 4d. the cuflomary
fines for the dcmifed lands of the fate of the manor,
or ancient demefnes, is ad. an acre, the tenants have
been judges in traverle for the freehold, the free rents
are 12!. i 35. lod. per ann. with the ftikepence, and
the .jafo tenure rents, or quit rents, are 12!. i6s.
/:<:••., our cuiuun is, ior the whole fines of the bafc
trnure lands. as. an acre, and for the petty fine (or
fine1 of alienation when lands are fold) i;:d. the acre,
;.nd more for iffue for every acre for the year id."

Cawflon hath a vafl tracl of land on the eaft and
fouth fides of the parifli remaining uncultivated, un-
der the name ot Cauifiuu ticaih.

The commons are in general for all the inhabitants
of Cawfton, and in the prccind of the manor, viz.
at hailing one acre, Baywood-green five acres, the
common from lilakebridge towards Heydon North
KO acres, fct out by marks and crolfes. The fourth
common is going irom Ca-wtton-Woodrcnv, on the

fouth

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 145

(ouih fide of the queen's feveral ground, called the
park, leading to the common water-run of Cawfton
and AyHham, towards Marfham, Buxton-Doles, and
Heveringland, 8cc. Malbornes-Haven, between Caw-
don andMarfham, 8cc. one acre of common asjainft

\Viliiam Alexander's houfe, Sec, by Brandifton, ten
acres lying between Booton common fouth, and
Reed's clofe north.

The fcite of the manor is a mefluage, called
Leeches, or Baywood, much dilapidated, a brew-
houfe, ft able, and long barn of four bayes, Sec. the
old fcite is built with divers cottages,' holden by
copy of court-roll by divers tenants, the which fcite.
with certain other demefnc lands, as the fold-courlc,
warren, and wood, by the old extent, with the profits
of the fair and market, were formerly ill. iSs. 8d.
but arc now raifed.

In 1572 it was 55!. per annum, and was after-
xvards granted by the queen., for a term, to fir Thomas
Grcfiiam, km. but that being out in 1610, James I.
granted it to fir Henry Hobart, knt. his attorney ge-
neral, who purchafed it of him, to be held bv knight's
ferviee to him and his heirs, in fee; his grandfon,
fir John Hobart, in 1662, fold it to Erafmus Earle,
ierjeant at law, for 3450!. with whofe family it went
by marriage to William VViggctt Bulwcr, efq. of
Heydon and Wood-Dalling.

In 1605 James I. granted them his charter of certi-
ficate, that they, and the tenants of Burgh manors by
Aylfham, were tenants in ancient deraefnc, and as fuch
\vere fret from toll-, flailage, cheminage, pontage, pan-
age, picage, murage, and paffage, in all England, and
this charter was renewed in the time of Charles I.
in 1625. ».

146 HUNDRED OF

In 1207 Jeffrey Fitz kept two gofshawks, to have
all the timber falling in Cawflon Pack, and all ihe
windifalls of the Top-wood.

In 1457 Ela, wik °f ^ir Robert Brewfc, knt. died
fcifcd of two hundred acres, called ferberge's Park,
in Cawfton, and Robert de Brevvfc, her fon, proved
that it was not fubjeft to the liberty of warren be-
longing to Cawflon, and had no dependence on that
court, becaufe John, fon of fir Hubert de Burgh,
granted it abfolutely free to William Gerberge, or Jer-
berge, of Yarmouth, when he fevered it from Caw-
flon manor.

In 1636 Roger Townefend, bart. died feifed of
Gerberge's wood and park, containing two hundred
acres in Cawflon, held in free foccage of Cawflon
manor.

In 1200 Henry III. firft granted a charter to Hu-
bert de Burgh, for liberty of free-warren in his ma-
nor of Cawfton.

In 1263 John de Burgh obtained a charter from
Henry III. for a weekly market every Tuefday, and
a fair on St. Remigius's Day (October i) and mor-
row. And Edward I. granted a fair, which is kept
here on St. Agnes's Day (Jan. 21) and morrow, it
being the dedication day of the church ; and there
is a fheep fhew, or fair for fhcep, at the Woodrow-
houfe on Aoguft 14, and formerly the church-
wardens were obliged to pay an annual fum to make
a crown for the principal image of St. Agnes, flanding
on the north Cde of the altar, at the caft end of the
chancel, and to adorn it.

Banningham,

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 147

Banningham, a member of Cavvflon, was granted
off by Henry I. to Walter TufTard, who held it (per
tirbalijlcriam} by the ferjeamy of finding one archer,
or foot foldier, with a crof$-bow, for ihe king's fer-
vice; and Avis Tufiatd held it when the record
called Tefla de Neville was wrote.

In 1339 Jeffrey le Scroop held Ncyland manor in
EiTex, and Suffolk, of this manor of Cawfton, by the
icrvice of one rofe a year.

The original of Leeche's manor was by a grant
made by John de Burgh, of part of the lands and
rents of the Great Manor to Baldwin dc Cankewclle
in 127,4, with fifty-two acres of land, within the
hedge of Cawflon park, the faid Baldwin being to
have all royalties in his part, or manor, paying
yearly to the faid John and his heirs a bearded arrow ;
and from that time the lord of this manor always had
an iron bearded arrow carried before him, or his
fteward, whenever a court was held; at this time
there is a mace carried at every court, having a
bearded arrow at top, in token of the tenure, and to
fho\v thac it holds of the chief manor by it, and fo is
confequentlv held of that, as of the Duchy of Lan-
caller, in free foccages. It came afterwards to Robert
Lceche, and in about 1470 it was fold to John
Heydon.

In 1521 fir Roger Townefend was lord of Leeche's
manor in Cawflon, and lett the manor-houfe in Caw-
fton, warren of conies, foldage and manor, for twenty
marks ; and the 2d of October, in the 2d of Edward
VI. he and his fon, Thomas, fold the whole manor
of Leeche's t0 fir James Boleyn, knt. and fo it be-
came joined to, and hath continued with the greac
manor ever fincc.

148 H U N D R E D O F

CASTON'S MANOR, in CAWSTON. Walter dr. Caw-
fton lived, and had an eflaie here, about the time of
Richard I. and his heirs had divers lands granted them
from the manor by John de Burgh. Robert de Caw-
fton was one of thofc wife men whom Edward III.
in 1304, thought fit to appoint to meet atWeftminfler,
to be of council to his fon, Thomas of Woodflock,
duke of Gloucefter, whom he had appointed cuflos
of England, during his abfence in the French wars,
with the prince of Wales, and many noble lords in
his company. In 1302 he and John dc Weafenham
were commiffioned to lay an embargo on all fhips
from the mouth of the Thames northward, and to
fupply them with men and arms to refill the French,
then making an invafion.

In 1 506 John Curfon, alderman of Norwich, gare
all his eflate in Cawfton, &c. with the court leets,
and warren, to Thomas, his fon. In 1637 fir Ed-
mund Sawyer fold it to fir John Hobart, knt. and
bart. and he fold it immediately to ferjeant Earle,
and fo united it to the great manor.

MEY'S, or STERLING'S MANOR, was parcel of the
great manor, granted off by Henry I. and king John.
In 1201 William le Mey had 205. lands, formerly the
king'* demefnes; and in 1249 had other rents, lands,
Sec. here, of the ancient demefnes of the grant of
Henry I. held by the ferjeanty, or fervice, of keeping
and feeding; one bloodhound.

In 1276 William le Mcy, as tenant in capite, was
fummoned to attend Edward 1. in his expedition into
Wales.

In 1308 Robert Bedingfield held Mey's manor of
the inheritance of Joan, his wife, in Cawfton and

Stanhowe,

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 149

Stanhowe, by keeping a hound for the king whenever
the king fends one for that purpofe, and Catherine
and Elizabeth were their daughters and heirefles ; and
now it was found, that if the king fen t the hound, he
was to pay lid. &wcek for their keeping it, and that
no tenants of the lands held by this ferjeanty ever
ferved on juries, or appeared on any recognifances.
by reafon of the tenure. In 1353 Robert le Mey, of
Cawfton, had licence to fell the Cawfton part, or
manor there, to Henry de Brampton, and his heirs.
In 1458 John Aggys, gent, lord here, ordered his
wife, Margaret, to fell it. and to be divided among
his children. In 1543 William Knighdey, of Nor-
wich, gent, gave Mey's manor here to his fon George ;
in 1565 Thomas Gawdy, efq. fold the manors of
Mey's and Sterling's, in Cawfton, Brandifton, and
Heveringland, to John Gibbs, with the (heep-vvalks
belonging to it; it was after this John Peters's, who
iold it to John Jenny, gent, and Thomas Deye,
gent, and in 1655 Clement Hernc, efq. was lord,
the rents of affize being then il. 55. 5d. and it fince
belonged to Pafton Herne, efq. of Hcveringland,
but now to William Fellowes, efq.

The old fcite is in a clofe, at the divifion of Caw-
fton parifh, almoft by Heveringland ; it is inclofed
With an old moat, and contained about an acre.

The church is dedicated to St. Agnes, and Hands
thus in the king's books, 13!. 135. nd. ob. Caw-
flon Re£loria, alias Caflon, il. i is. 4d. ob. qr.
yearly tenths. Hubert de Burgh gave ten acres
of glebe to the church. The advowfon belonged to
the manor till Erafmus Earle, efq. of Sail, fettled
it on Pembroke-hall, in Cambridge, who are always
to nominate two of their fellows to the lord of the

manor,

i5o PI U N D R E D O F

manor who muft prefent one of them fo nomi-
nated.

In 1283 the living was worth 60 marks a year.
It pays firft fruits and tenths, and is incapable of aug-
mentation*.

Adam de Skakelthorp, rector here, died in 1370,
and was prebendary of PayncVhall in Lincoln dioccfe,
and lies buried in Cavvfton chancel, before the pricipal
image of St. Agnes ; he was a great and wealthy per-
fon, and gave legacies to many of his friends ; he alfo
gave his organs, then {landing in Cawilon chancel, to
Hickling priory, and to each cannon i sd. he had let-
ters of fraternity, and was a benefaclor to every
houfc of friars in Norwich, and his obijt kept accord-
ingly ; he was a great benefaclor to the building of
the fouth aile of Dennington church, in Suffolk, and
to the repair of the chapel and altar of St. Mary, at
the caftcnd of that aile; and to St. Margaret's chapel
and -altar, at the eaft end of the north aile there. He
ordered, " that the day after his death he fhould be
carried in his coffin into Cawfton chancel, and there -
fct on two ftools, and be covered with a green wor-
Jlcad cloth, and then two wax-tapers, each weighing
two pound and a half, to be placed in two iron cau-
dlefticks, one at his head, and one at his feet.

Edward Hammond, rcclor, is buiied in the chan-
cel, obijt 6 June, 1621.

Thomas Browne, A. M. rcclor, fellow of Pem-
broke-hall, lies buried in the chancel, under a flone,
June 23, 1726, aged 31.

The

* Eton's laft value, in 1742, fays, the living is lool. a
year, and that it formerly paid a :d. rent to the duke of
Suffolk.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 131

The Rev. -Mr. Leonard Addifon, A. M. late prefi-
dent of Pembroke-hall, fuccceded Browne, and the
prefent reclor is the Rev. Rich. Baker, A. M. preferred
to this reclory by the maflcr and fellows of Pem-
brokc-hall, Cambridge, as conditional patrons.

Here were feveral benefaclors to religious purpofc*
in this church.

The church is a noble free-ftonc Gothic pile,
having a remarkable flrong and beautiful fquare
tower, 1 20 feet high, and fix bells and a clock in it,
a nave*, two ailes, two tranfcept chapels, a north
chancel chapel, and north veftry and fouth porch, all
leaded; this noble fabiic, except the north aile, was
built by Michael De-la-Pole, carl of Suffolk, lord
here, and Catherine, his wife, daughter of Hugh earl
of Stafford; his patron, St. Michael, with the dragon,
is carved in flone over the weft door, with the arms
following on feven fhields : — De-la-Pole ; Morley
impaling De-la-Polc and Wingfield quartered ; Dc-
lu-Poie and Wingfield quartered, impaling Stafford;
De-la-Pole and Wingfield quartered ; Dc-la-Pole and
Wingfield quartered, impaling England ; Gliiton im-
pales De-la-Pole; and De-la-Pole.

• Between the arms of UfFord and De-la-Pole arc
Wingfield quartered, and at top, on each fide, are the

arms

* The length of the nave and two ailes is ninety feet, and
the breadth fifty -four ; the chancel is forty-fix feet long, and
twenty-five broad. The fouth tranfcept chapel is dedicated to
our Lady, and is fifteen feet wide, and twenty-five feet long.
The north tranfccpt chapel hath the image of St. Edrptind in its
•raft window, by which it feerns to have been dedicated to that
king. The chapel on the north fide of the chancel is dedicated
to St. John Baptift, aud is five yards wide, and above eight
long.

i52 HUNDRED OF

arms of England and France, all carved in finie.
On the arch of the porch are Dc-la-Pule and Wing-
field's arms quartered.

There are two old grave-Rones on the fouth fide of
the church-yard, near the crofs aiic, one with the ef-
figy of a man, the other of a woman, of very ancient
fculpture in relievo, the fuppofed founders of the
fouth chapel, but it is not likely, the tombs appearing
much older than the building.

In the church arc tomb-flones in memory of Bar-
ker, Lynftead, Harward, Sparham, Atherec, Denne,
Dewing, Rumpe, Goodman, Gurnay, 8cc. The in fide
of this church is very neat and commodious, the
roof is elegant, and the apoftles painted on the pan-
nels of a handfome fkreen, which divides the chancel
from the middle ailc, are not lefs finking than an-
tique.

In the eafl; \vindow arc the arms of the Eaft An-
gles. Edward the Confeflbr, bifhop Nix, of Norwich,
UfFord earl of Suffolk, De-la-Pole earl of Suffolk,
quartering Wingfield, Fiance, and England, and the
arms of fir James Boleyn. knt. lord here in 1540,

quartered with Butler earl of Ormond, impaling .

Sir James's eftigy, kneeling in his furcoat of arms,
and that of Elizabeth, his wife, were here formerly,
but are now defaced ; there was alfo another cihgy,
with a furcoat of arg. on a chief fab. two mullets of
the field.

The fouth tranfccpt windows are adorned with the
feveral hiilories of the creation, deluge, paihon, See.
and in it are memorials to the family of Lombe.

SOUTH ERPlNGHAJtf. 153

Edward Lombe, of We/Ion, in Norfolk, efq. died Feb.

4, 170$, aged 42. Elizabeth, his wife, died November

5, 1702, aged 37 ; and fix of her children. — Lorabe
impaling three eftoils, two and one.

Orate pro aninia Henrid Goodman, q'ti obijt annt
Dni. MDXXVI, cujus anime propidctur Dtw, Amen.

A ftone, having the effigies of a man and a wo-
man,—for William Gurnay, gent, who* died March 10,
1578; and Ann, his wife, January 19, 1596; they
had one fon and three daughters, — Gurnay impaling
Wates, of Norfolk.

In the windows, which are very fine painting, are>
infcriptions to perfons who have been liberal to the
church.

The parfonage-houfe {lands on the fouth fide of
the church-yard. Thefc arms were formerly in the
windows, of which few now remain: — Mildmay";
Sir Chriflopher Heydon's whole coat, impaling lady
Gray, his relid; St. George; De-la-Polc, quartering
Wingficld and Stafford ; De-la-Pole quarters Arundel
and Paine, quartered with Jermy; Paine, impaling
Boleyn, with a mullet ; Poley and Tern pert ; Den-
gaine; Boleyn, with a mullet ; Ormond, lord Hoo,
quarterly fab. and arg. Gurnay impaling Wayte ;
Waterton. Quarterings of Paine, or Boleyn: 1.
lord Hoo, quartering Morley. 2. St. Omer. 3. Tre-
xnaine, 4. Witchingham. 5. St. Legar. 6. Spencer.

We find a hamlet, called ALVINGTON, in Caw-
flon. — The crofs and fharables are in decay, the
market being much declined.

L The

-154 /HUNDRED OF

The Romans have been in thcfe parts, as is evi-
dent from their coins found hereabouts. In 1728
a brafs coin of Fauuina was dug up in finking a
cellar.

Cawflon pays to the land tax nine hundred and
Tive pounds.

COLBY, or COLEBY, is in the Duchy liberty, va-
lued to the land tax at 324!. the prior of Hickling's
temporals paid 8d. ob. and the prior of Wayborne's
6s. to the tenth.

The reclory flands in the king's books at 81. 155.
lod. but being fworn of the clear yearly value of
^81. only, it is difcharged of firfl fruits and tenths,
and is capable of augmentation ; it was anciently
valued at thirteen- marks.

The church is dedicated to St. Giles, who had a
guild here, and there were two others of our Lady,
and St. John Baptift ; the flceple is round, and had
three bells, the two biggeft of which were fold by a
faculty granted for that purpofe in 1749, and then
the north aile was pulled down, and the lead fold to
repair the church.

In 1314 Thomas tarl of Norfolk prefented ; and
in 1372 fir William Ufford, earl of Suffolk.

Mr. Thomas Reeve was ejected from this rectory,
and Aldborough, by the earl of Manchefter, Auguft
*.3' 1*M3» for obferving the orders of the church,
difluading his parifhioners from rebellion, and refuf-
ing to aflift in it himfelf, and for refufing the cove-
vant. This following is the account of his ufagc,
from, his own ion :

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SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 155

" One major Raimcs, his neighbour, having raifed
a troop of liorfe for the parliament, got a warrant
from the committee of feqneftration, at Norwich, to
take away Dr. Reeve's caule, and to bring him pri-
foner to Norwich jail ; which he executed with ail the
rigour he could, fearching in the bed, where his wife
had lain-in but three days, for the doclor; and when
the woman rebuked him for his barbarity, telling him
he a&cd more like a bead than a man, he drew his
fword, and 'ftabbed it through the bed in feveral
places, pretending to ftab the doctor, if hid in the
bed; after that, he caufed all his troopers to pull the
bridles off their horfes, and whip them round the
garden, to tread all under foot ; after that, he broke
open the barn door, and turned all the horfes to the
flacks of corn, to fill their bellies ; fome few days
after, he came with another warrant, and broke
open the doors with a plow-fhare, bein^ denied pof-
feffion, and turned Mrs. Reeve and fix children into
the ftreet, (probably not above a week after lying-in)
and brought carts and carried away the library, and
all the houfhold .goods, and fold them for what he
pleafed, and gave no account to the committee. After
this, having lain obfcure for near three years, he at-
tempted to go to the king, at Oxford, but was taken
•prifoner within feven miles of that place, by a troop
of the parliament horfe, and {hipped naked in very
cold weather, and his clothes ripped to pieces, to'
fearch for letters ; inftead of which, they met with
near three fcore pieces of broad* gold, which were
quilted into feveral places, for his fupport, but he
could get none of them again: then he was im-
prifoned in London, when his countryman, Miles
Corbet, of Sprowfton, who was afterwards one of
Charles the Firft's judges, fat chairman of the com-
mittee, who pretended at firft to fend him in ex-
change to Oxford; but after that, told him he knew
L 2 kirn

i$5 HUNDRED OF

him to be an old malignant, and promifed to fee him
hanged, and fo fenthim prifoner to the gatehoufc,
Wcliminfter, where he was very hardly ufed for
three years; but Corbet bcinp; lent into Ireland, by
the interceffion of many friends he at lafl got his
liberty out of that noifome place; and his eftate,
fpiritual and temporal, being fequeftered about eight
years, and {wallowed by the committee at Norwich,
and no delinquency in all that time proved againft
him, his wife petitioned the grand committee at Lon-
don, that the committee at Norwich might produce
articles agaitift him, for what reafon his eitate was fc-
queflercd, and a return made thereof to the com-
mittee at London; and there being no fuch articles
returned, with much folicidng, many long journies,
and great friends, he produced an order, from the
then ib called, barons of the exchequer, to revcrfc
the fequeftrai'jn of his temporal eitate only in 1652.'*

One Meredith, when he was ejected, got poffeffion
of Colby, and died in 1639; and then fir William
Platers, of Saterly, knt. and bart. and fir Richard
Onflow, of Weftclandcn, in Surrey, knt. truftees to
the Norfolk family, prefented Roger Flynt.

In 1702 John Harbord, efq. was patron; andnovf
fir Harbord Harbord, bart. oi Gun ton.

In the church, on the north fide of the chancel,
is a large altar monument, without arms, or in-
fcriptions. Three infoipiions are on old brafles in
the church. — Over thele inicriptions is the effigy of
a man, out of whofe mouth, on three labels, are the
following:

Credo quod Redemtor mtus vivit,
Et in noviffimo die. de terra Jurrttturusjum,
mca vidcbe Dcumjalvatorcm meum.

Tvv*

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 157

Two old braffes in the north aile, with Latin in-
fcriptions, to the family of VValQi ; alfo on the
fcrcens of the north-cad ailc chapel.

Lower down, on a free-flonc, — Mary, the wife of
Richard Smiling, and daughter of the late John Sy-
monds, of Siiffield-Hail, efq. wai> buried here, Sept, 14,
1723. — Alfo, — Richard Snelling, of Colby, yeoman,
who bequeathed one pound, to be dijlributed every Chrijl-
mas-day among the aged poor therein; and one pound and
ten fallings on every Eajlcr-day, to cloath four poor
children of the f aid parijh; and lied two clofes of his
land in the JVorlhfield of Colby, to fecure the payment of
tkefe legacies, obijL Oclober 21, 1723, aged 73.

He that hath pity on tht poor, lendeih unto the Lord;
And that which he hath Qivcn, will he, pay him again. — -
PROV. c. xix. v. 17.

The windows were all adorned with the arms of
the Norfolk family, as Howard, Bigot, Brotherton,
Segrave,- Mowbray, Felbrigg, Warren, Nevile, Sec.

At the furvey Colby was a berevvic, belonged to

» / /

Cawilon, -and the whole continued with that till
William de Burgh fevered it by granting half the
town, and half the advowfon, from Cawflon, which
101199 Robert dc Colby held, with his brothers;
and in 1221 Reiner de Burgh granted the other part
and moiety of the advowfon to Hugh Bigot, earl of
Norfolk.

In 1274 the earl of Norfolk had a common gal-
lows in Colby, free-warren, view of frank-pledge,
aflize of bread and ale, and infangthef, here, and in
Hanworth. In 1285 all thefe liberties were allowed
to Roger Bigot, carl of Norfolk, as a member of his

manor

35S HUNDRED OF

manor of Hanworth, to which his part and manor
of Colby was then joined ; and it continued in the
Howards till fir John Howard, knt. afterwards duke
of Norfolk, on marrying his daughter, Margaret, to
John Windham, conveyed this manor to that family,
and it hath patted in it ever fince as the manor of
FeJbrigg, William Windham, of Felbrigg, efq. being
now lord.

The Colbys manor here, called Oldflead-hall, de-
fcended in that family from Robert de Colcby to
Henry de Coleby, who had a charter for free-warren,
and from that time it pafled with Ingworth manor,
till 13^7, and then it was fettled by fir William Phe-
Hp, knt. and Julian, his wife, on fir Simon Felbrigg,
knt. for the life of Julian. In 1594 it belonged to
fir George Carew, knt. and Thomas Hitchcock. In
1598 John Smith, and Stephen Drury, gent, fettled it
on Martin Fountain, gent, and John Dodman.

This place produced Thomas de Colby, who was
entered in the monaftery of the white friars, or car-
melites, at Norwich, where by diligent application
to his fludies he became an excellent fcholar, was ad-
mitted D. D. and for his eloquence and ready know-
ledge in divers languages, he was taken particular
notice of by Richard II. who in 1399 promoted him
to the fee of Li (more, and Waterford, in Ireland ; he
was fuch a lover of learning, that to gain knowledge
in different parts of it, he vifited feveral foreign uni-
•vcrfnics, and publifhed many treatifcs, and dying in
1406, was buried in his own cathedral. A large
account of him may be feen in Pit's, p. 582, and in.
JBale, p. 179.

In 1777 the Rev. Henry Bryant was prcfented to
ihis re&ory by fir Harbord Harbord, bart.

COLTISHALL,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 1,59

COLTISHALL, or COLTESHALL, commonly
called Coulfhill, and in Doomfday-book Coketcfhala,
and Cokerefhala, no doubt, from fome Saxon owner.
Stigand the archbifhop had it, and occupied it by
fixteen focmen, and after granted ii to Turold, and
at the Conqueror's furvey the anceftor of the earl
Warren had it of that prince's gift, all but Ralph
Stalra's part, which he gave with the biirial of his
wife to the abbot of St. Bennet at Holme, who
joined it to his adjacent manor of Hautbois, with
which it has always palfed. Coltiflhall had then a
church, and ten acres of glebe, and was above a
mile long, and half a mile broad, and paid isd.
to the gelt, or tax, towards every 203. raifed in the
hundred.

Roger of Poi&ou, third fon of Roger de Montgo-
mery, earl of Arundel, Sec. held four focmen, and
thirty acres here, formerly bifhop Stigand's, which he
joined to his manor in Frettenham. Ralph de Ca-
mois died feifed of this manor in izi8; William dc
Hackford, and Walter de Rochford, held three parts
of a fee here, and paid aid accordingly to the earl
Warren, and now the manor centred in the Hack-
fords, and pafled with Weft Hailing from them to
the Seckfords.

The leet and fuperior jurifdi&ions of all kinds al-
ways belonged to the crown, and" accordingly Henry
III. as fuperior lord of the whole town, and of all
the tenants of fir William de Hackford there, by let-
ters patent, dated at Woodftock, June 13, 1231,
granted " to all men, women, boys, and girls, born,
or to be born, in his village of Coltifhall, that they
fhould be free from all villainage of body and blood,
they and their families, in all parts of England, and

1-4 that

160 HUNDREDOF

that they fhould not be fcrcod to ferve any offices for
any one, unlefs they liked it, and that all frays or
tran fgreffions of bloodfhed, bargains, and all quar-
Tels and funs, concerning the town of Coltifhall,
fhould be determined twice every year, before the
king^s officers, at the leets there; and the natives*of
Coltifliall fhall be free from toll, by water and by-
land, in all fairs and markets throughout England,
and from all ftallage, paunage, and picage, being the
king's tenants, and as fuch, they were to pay to
him and his fncceflbrs aos. to the aid. to make his
eldeft fon knight, whenever it happened, fo that the
king's officers demanded it in the village, and if not
there demanded, it was not to be paid, and they were
in like manner to pay 2os. for fcutage, as often as it
was raifed on the new acquired royal demefnes, of
which this town was part, and that they were to pay
fix (hillings every Michaelmas ior the fee of thofe de-
mefnes." This patent is very remarkable, for the
Alltu, page 27 i, fays, " Cowihill, a village on the
banks of the Bure, to which Henry III. granted this
privilege, among others, that a fjrvant that remained
here a year fliould go out free, of which (fays Blome-
field) there is not a word of truth, for iervants are
not mentioned in the charter, which was confirmed
by Henry IV. in the gth year of his reign, with this
claufe added, that if there were any privileges in their
former charter, lhat neither they nor their anceftors
had made ufe of, yet they and their fucceffors might
at any time ufe them, without any moleflation from
any of the king's Juftfecs, fheriffs, bailiffs, or other
officers whatever; this is dated at Wcftminfter, De-
cember 21, 1407, and Henry VI. with the advice
and confent of the loids (piritual and temporal, in
his fnfl Parliament, held at Wcftminfler, in the 3d
year of his reign, by letters patent, dated O£lobcr 5,

confirmed

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M.

confirmed the faid charters*, and afterwards con-
veyed all his rights in this town to his college,
(called KingVcollege, in Cambridge) to which this
village now belongs.

This manumifiion, or charter of freedom, to the
natives of this village, was a very great favor and
privilege in thofe days ; there were few then born
freemen, "half of moft villages were either cuftomary
tenants, and ib bound to perform all their cuftomary
ferviccs to their lords, or clfe villains, — we may fay
in plain EngliJIi — SLAVES, to their feveral lords, who
had fo abfolute a power, that they could grant them,
their wives, and children, born, or ever hereafter to
be born of them, together with all their houfhotd
goods, cattle, and chattels whatever, to whomfoever
they plcafed ; and indeed nothing is more common
.in antiquity, than to meet with grants of this nature
from one lord to another, or to vyhoever he would';
nay, fo abfolute was the lord's jurifdi&ioh over
them, that they could not live out of the precincls of
the manor without their lord's leave, nor marry their
children to another lord's tenant without their own
lord's licence ; but in all ages men were naturally dc-
firous of LIBERTY; for thefe villains continually en-
deavoured \Q procure their freedom, either by pleaf-
inir their lord fo much as to obtain a mafmrniffion,

or by getting fome friend or relation to purehafe it
for them ; now this grant at once manumifed all the
natives of Coltiftiall, and all their pofterity, male and
female, and that in fo ample a manner, that contrary
to other free-men (who were obliged to do fuit at
court, and ferve the offices of the manor, as collec-

torfhips,

* The inhabitants of Coltifhall, in 1462, had a confirmation
of their charters and privileges from Edward IV. in the 3d ycafV
•f his reign.

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torfhips, reevcfhips, Sec.) they were not to be put into
any office without their own confent, and though
they removed into any other lord's fee, er manor, yet
they and their poflerity fhould remain free. Now
becaufe we have mentioned thefe manumiflions, and
fhewn their extent, it may not be amifs to fubjoin an
example of fuch affertions, many people being igno-
rant in what ftate their forefathers lived, and fo arc
not capable of fufficiently valuing the freedom which
we now enjoy*.

The manor continued in the Hackfords, and Seck-
fords ; and in 1401 was found to be in the Duchy of
Lancafler, and the advowfon was fold to the maftcr
and brethren of St. Giles's hofpital, in Norwich,
about 1450, and the manor and advowfon was after-
wards fold to truftees for the ufc of King's College,
in Cambridge ; but by reafon of the prior convey-
ance of the advowfon, that college, though they
tried for it, could not for a long time recover it, but

did

* In the time of Edward I. lived fir Giles de Wachefham,
lent, lord of a manor in Wortham, in Suffolk; he died in
1278, fo that this deed, though it hath no date, muft be before
that time ; this Giles granted to William de Hereford, reftor
of the medicty of the church of Wortham, Richard, fon of
Hervy Ingald, with all his family, and all his chattels, for
two marks ; and the faid William, who had purchafed him,
made him and all his defendants free, on condition that he and
his fucceflbrs, for ever, ftiould pay a penny a year to the church
of St. Mary, at Wortham, upon the day of the nativity of the
Virgin Mary, at the high altar, to find a light at that altar, and
to the faid William, and his fucceflbrs, three roots, or races, of
ginger every Michaelmas-day.

That villains were held in fee, and granted as eftates are,
and that the fee in thep was fo far a freehold that the wife was
forced to join with her huiband in the manumiflion deed, by
reafon of her thirds, or right »f dower, is plain, from authen-
ticated deeds.

SOUTH ERPING;HAM.

did afterwards gain it, and have prcfented to it ever
fince, the college being now fole lords and patrons.

There was a church here long before the conqueft,
but the prefent building, after it was finished, was
dedicated to St. John the Baptift, on the day of the
converfion of St. Paul, by William de Middleton,
bifhop of Norwich, in the year 1284.; the tower is
fquare, and hath fix bells in it, the nave and chan-
cel are thatched, the north porch and fouth aile
leaded, and the porch tiled.

A monument againft the north wall, for — Gulielmi
Perkins, generoji, obijt 4^° Febr. anno falutis 1711,
atatis 63.

On braffes in the nave arc memorials to Poflyl*,
Pope, Brafey, Bregge, Varden, and Home.

Richard Lubbock, of this pari/h, merchant, died
March 17, 1686. Barbara, his wife. December ig,
1727. Robert Lubbock, their ddejl /on, late of Nor-
wich, merchant, May 30, 1729, cetat. 56.

Eliiabelha,Jilia Samuelis Pake, M. D.(de Buria Sancli
Edmundi, in comitatu Sujffblcia, et Elizabeth* uxoris)
obijt die. undccimo Aprilis, A. D. MDCCXXII, atat. xiv.
— With the arms of Pake.

Plumftead's arms and crcR.~Owcn Plum/lead,
June 11, 1704. Martha, his wife, March 8, 1692.

* The Poftyls, or Forties, are very ancient in this town.
In 1474 John^ fon and heir of Simon Poftyl, fold a good eftate
here, and in feveral adjacent towns, to John Selot, mafter of
St. Giles's hofpital, in Norwich.

,64 HUNDRED OF

In the middle of the altar, — Henry Palmer, gent.-~
for whom a monument againft the north chancel wall
hath an infcription, Augufl 24, 1714, aged 82.

Another monument againfl the north chancel wall,
— For Mr. John Chapman, late of this parijh, merchant,
who gave and bequeathed to the benefit of this parifli, for
ever, the yearly Jum of ten pounds, to be paid out of
certain lands lying in the faid parifli, and in Great Haul-
bois, in the county of Norfolk, to a fchoolmafler , to be
approved of by the chancellor of the diocefe of Norwich,
and the minijter of Cellifii,all for the lime being, to the
intent that ten poor lads of the fame parijh may be taught
freely reading Engli/Ii, Writing, and Arithmetic: He
alfo gave in his will twenty pounds, to be diflributed
among fuch poor people as followed him to his grave : He
was dejirous to have founded in his life-time a fchcol in
this parijh, for the free education of poor children; and
it is very probable he would have efjecled it. and thereby
bttn a living example of charity to others, had he lived
longer tfian his 57 thy car ; he died in 171 9*.

There were formerly in the windows here the
arms of St. George, Scckford, Felbrigg, Clare and
le Gros, Warren, Clare and France and England. —
The lleeple is fixty-feven feet high ; the nave is fifty
feet long, and thirty-one broad ; the aile is of the
fame length with the nave, and nine feet broad ; the
chancel is thirty feet long, and twenty broad; it
flands thus in the king's books : 7!. as. 6d. Cole-
fale, alias Coltefhall rcdory, 145. gd. yearly tenths,
and being undifcharged, it is incapable of augmen-
tation, being faid in the Jaft value to be 200!. per ann.

* After this there was a fchool-houfe, built by fubfcripUont
in which the mafter now dwells and keeps fchool.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. if>5

At the Confeffb/s furvey there were ten acres of
glebe; and in 1231 the re&or had licence in mort-
main to receive an acre of pafture, 'and half an acre
of marfh. About 1270, Roger, then reclor, gave a
houfe and three roods of land here, which in 1285
fir Ralf de Hackford, then reclor, recovered againft
John de Summerton, chaplain, who fued for it, and
had it fettled* on his church for ever.

The re$ory was anciently valued at ten marks.
The abbot of Holme was taxed for his mill and
lands at 505. the abbot of Caen, in Normandy, for
his fifheryt and revenues here, 255. lod. and the
priorefs of Carrowe had church's tenement here,
'and twenty acres of land, given by Robert Everard,
chaplain to that abbey in 1449. It is valued at 473!.
los. to the land tax.

- • ••";?•;.':•> «;* ' ,'*"." C< , .«

In 1458 the family of Seckford prefented for the
]aft time; they foon after fold the advowfon to John
Selot, mafler of St. Giles's hofpital in Norwich, and
he was prefented reclor here by the brethren of the
hofpital in 1465; and pope Paul the fecond, by bull,
dated at St. Mark's, at Rome, February 23, 1465,
annexed it for ever to the mafterfbip of "the hofpital,
and appointed that if any mailer refigned that office,
this rectory of courfe fliould be void ; and iu 1489
the provoil and fcholars of the blefled Virgin Mary,
and St. Nicholas, in Cambridge, (now called King's
College) prefented, the manor being purchafed by
the college with the advowfon; but on a. jus patrona~
tu$t tried April 9, 1490, it was found to be annexed

t Theiord hath a fifhery In the river belonging to his manor,
the whole extent of Coltifhall bounds, on the Coltiihall fide of
the ftreaui, but not cxclufive of the tenants, many of which,
kave free tifliery in the whole ftream with him.

H U N D R E D O F

to the mafterfhip, and fevered from the manor. The
laft rector prefentcd by the hofpital rcfigned it io
15212, and from that time the college hath prcfented
here, having recovered it by the king's writ on a trial
againft; the hofpital t.

In 1658 the college gave this and Horflead to
Grindal Sheaf, S.T. P. canon of Wind for, (who pub-
lifhed Vindicia Sencftutis, or a Plea of Old Age, Lon-
don, 1639, oclavo) and fellow of king's college, in
Cambridge, of whofe numerous preferments and
wealth, fee Wood'1 3 Fa/li, be. -vol. i.fol. 798.

In 1761 the Rev. William Hanmer was prefented
to the reclory of Coltifhall, by King's College, Cam-
bridge.

CORPUSTY, or CORPESTY. The church of St.
Peter of C0rpu(ly hath a fquare tower, with one
bell hanging in it, and two more (land in the church ;
the chancel and fouth porch are tiled ; the nave is
leaded ; the north chapel, which was dedicated to
the Virgin Mary, is now ruined.

On a fm-all free-flone by the altar, — Here lyelh the
body of Edmund Pooley, fone of fir Edmund Poo ley, of
Bradley, in the countie of Suffolk, knt. and Dame Hejler,
his wife; he lived eleven monthcs eight dayes, died Sep-
tember 4, 1650.

There

•f- In 1522 Robert Hacumblen, provoft, obtained the king's
writ on a trial he had gotten againft John Hekker Clerk, reftor
here, on which herefigncd it to the college. It appeared to be
united to the mafterfhip by the pope's bull only, and not by act
of the king, nor bifhop, and the roaring of the bulls beginning
now to be ftopped, and thcir's and matter's authority weakened,
th.e college recovered it, as appendant to their manor,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 167

There was a guild of St. Peter held here. This
village is laid to the king's tax, with Irmingland, at
411!. los. and Corpufty alone paid il. 195. to every
tenth.

The following religious had temporals here: — The
prior of Lewes was taxed at 35. 4cl. ob. Coxford
6s. Broomholme 35. gd. Walfingham 43. Loii"
gaville at 45. and the prior of Waborne at 16. sd.

The manor at the conquefl belonged to Witching-
ham, now a part of Sail, and was valued with Stin-
ton-hall, in Sail, and afterwards became a member
of Heydon*, and hath paffed as rhofe manors did,
Auguftine Earle, efq. being the late lord, and Wil-
liam Wigget Buiwcr, efq. of Heydon, the prefent.

At the conqueft William earl Warren had a fmali
part in the foe of Aylfham, which was given to Cox-
ford priory, and William bifhop of Thetford another
part in the foe of Cawfton. The whole town is in
the liberty of the duchy of Lancaftert.

The re&ory was given to the priory of Horfham
St. Faith, to which it was appropriated, the prior be*
ing taxed for his fpirituals here, viz. the appropriate
church of Corpufty, at the rate of eight marks, with-
out the taxation of the vicarage, which was endowed
with the fmall tithes, the prior being to repair the
chancel, who always prefenteci to the vicarage till the
-diffblution.

* Heydon leet -includes all Corpufty town.

-f In 128$ Beatrice, wife of John de Corpefiy, had her dower
in Heydon manor, and Michael-hall manor, in Corpufty, which
is a member of He/don, and held with it. In 1314 John dc
Corpefty, fenior,' had it : he was a merchant of Norwich, and
io 1312 burgefs in parliament for that city.

168 HUNDRED OF

At the diiToludon it continued in the crown till
1552, and then Edward VI. granted the irnpropriata
rectory, church, and advowfon of the yjcaragp of
Corpufty, lately belonging to the diffolved priory of
Horfham St. Faith, to William Mingay, and William
Necton, and their heirs. The advovvibn of tfie vi-
carage and impropriation came, to fir Chriftopher
Heydon, knt. who in 1572 got it perpetually united
to Irmingland rectory, and ic continued fo till- 1615,
when he got it difunited again. It was fold by Hcy-
don to Thomas Jecks, ;and John Shakle, and by them
to the Bacons, and in 1661 William Bacon feparated
the advowfon of the vicarage, and fold it to \Viilianj.
Edmonds ; but in 1665 Edmund Bacon, Chriftopher
Edmonds, and Nicholas Pefcod, of Mattiiliall, fold
the impropriation and advowfon to John EarJq,
(which fome time belonged to the Golfers) Nicholas
Bell, of Little Plumftead, efq. and others.

There have been no vicars inftituted lately, but it
"hath been held by fequcftration only, the profits not
being above 12 or 14!. per annum ; it fUnds. thus in
the king's books: 4!. las. ob. Corpufty vicarage
61. clear yearly value; fo that it is difcharged of
firft fruits and tenths, and is capable of augment
Ution

In 1 760 the Rev. Edward Athili had this vicarage,
pr perpetual curacy, by fequeftratioa.

ERPINGHAM. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary, and is a rectory, valued in the king's books
at gl. i8s. gd. but being fworn of the clear yearly
value of 45!. it is difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths,
and is capable of augmentation ; the ancient value
was twenty-five marks. The abbot of Bury's ma-
cor pf Sexton's, ia Aylflura, extended hither, the

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 169

facrift being taxed at 4<i. for his temporals here ; the
prior of \Yalfin°:ham had lands of the gift of Bartho-
lomew de Caiihorpe. and the prior of Fakenham-
dam, or Hempton, was taxed at 6s. &d. for his lands
here; and the ferjeamy of Walter Tufard, ot Ban-
mngham, paid 6d. per ann. to the church.

The town is in the Duchy liberty, and gives name
to the hundred, and one of the manors is called
South Erpingham, as the hundred is ; and the next
hundred is called North Erpingham, becaufe it lies
north of Erpingham ; it paid 4!. los. to each tenth,
including the revenues of the religious, and is now
laid 31403!. 16$. 8d. to the land tax.

The moiety of the advowfon was given to the ab-
bey of Holme, by Ed.vard the ConfefiTor, and pafied
with that abbey to the bifhop of Norwich, in which
fee it now remains ; and the other moiety always at-
tended the manor, and Hill belongs to it.

In 1244 it was fettled by fine, that the abbot of
St. Bennet, and his fucceffors, and Robert de Erping-
ham, and the fucceeding lords, fhould for ever pre-
fent by turns; the next vacancy fhould be the lord's,
and the next the abbot's, and fo it fhould pafs in al-
icrnate turns for ever.

In 1 7 69 the Rev. John Strachey was prefcnred to
this reclory by the bifhopof Norwich, in right of his
turn, as fucceffor to the abbot of Holme.

There is a tali fquare tower, and four bells ; on
its top were four confeflbrs in their habits, carved in
free-flonc ; three now remain, but the fourth, which
flood at the fouth-weft corner, about eighty years
, was ftruck down in a violent tcmpefl, which
M . happened

170 H U N D H E D O F

happened during divine fervice; it furprized the con-
gregation, killed one, and flupified two others, though
they recovered afterwards ; the violence of it went
out at the chancel door. It is adorned with many
fhields, carved on ftone ; on one is a flower-pot with
lillies, the emblem of the Virgin, to whom the fabric
is dedicated; the arms of Holme abbey, as patron of
one turn, St. George, and Erpingham's arms, as pa-
tron of the other turn; the emblem of the Trinity,
a crofs flore, a wreath, or chaplet, Boleyn quartered
•with Ormond ; divers initial letters for the names of1
faints; M. for Maria; W. T. See. and the fevcral
letters of ERPYNGHAM.

The church and tower were begun in fir Thomas
Erpingham's time, the latter was roofed by fir Win.
Phelip, lord Bardolph, and his lady, as their arms
On the roof teftify. We find feveral benefactors arms
alfo, as Jermy, Damme, Beaumont, and Mounteney,
Sec. The nave, ibuth aile, chancel, and fouth porch,
are leaded ; and in the firft of thefe is a ftone, — For
Benjamin Wolfey, JVov. 22, 1729, aged 59.

Edward the ConfefTor confirmed to the abbey of
St. Bennet at Holme the churches of Erpingham,
and Aiuingham, with the manor and land of Ediic
Scirefman, in thofe villages, and this was the manor
of Erpingham, which at the Conqueror's furvey be-i
longed to that abbey, and was appropriated to the
maintenance of the monks there, and the church
had then fix acres of glebe.

The other manor here was called South Erping-
ham, or Gcrberge-s manor, and was in various hands
at the conqueft ; that part, formerly earl Harold's,
was then owned by Roger Bigot ; Drue de Beuraria
had another part, and Humfrid, or Humfrey, held

two

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 171

two other parts of Ralph, brother of Ilger, of which
one part was formerly Bundo's, a freeman of Ha-
rold's, and anceflor to the Man thy family ; the king
and the earl had the foe, or fole jurifdidion, over
the whole, except the abbot's manor, and there ap-
pears no meniuration nor gelt in Doomfday.

ERPINGHAM MANOR patted from the time of the
Conqucft as the manor of Hautbois Magna, till
I2oo. and then Robert de Erpingham had it, and
in 1207 Peter de alto Bofco, or Hautbois, releafed
it. to him, as did fir Peter, his fon, in 1234, and
the Cakhorpes alfo, and fo it came to the fa-
mily of the Erpinghams, who affumed their firname
from this village, their anceftors having been here
long before they fixed this name;- for 'tis plain that
the anceftor of the family had lands here, granted
him by William, fon of Rofcelinc.

As the family was very numerous, it will be quite
foreign to our purpofe to trace any of the branches
befides that principal one, which, by purchaling in
Gerberge's manor, became lords of the whole town,
and patron of a mediety of the church.

Robert de Erpingham was the firft of the family
that was lord here in 1 244, and was fucceeded by
his fon, John; for in 1277 John de Erpingham* had
a large eftate in Wickmere, Cahhorpc, Itteringham,
Alburgh, Beckham, Baconfthorpc, and Barningham,
of which laft manor Robert de Erpinghamt, fon of
John, held a quaiter of a fee here of Walter de Bcr-

M 2 ning-

* This John is faid to be buried in Great Snoring church, and
that in 1600 his effigy in armour, kneeling, remained there,
and his creft of a plume of feathers, argent, out of a crown,
gules; his motto Pinch or Pink.

In 1333 he was member in parliament for Norfolk, and
again in 1334, and again in 1340.

17* HUNDRED OF

ningham, and he held it of the earl Marfhal ; and
in 131 r> the faid Robert, being then a knight, was
lord. In 1345 fir Robert paid aid towards making the
king's eldeit fon a knight for ihis manor. He had
two wives, Agnes, and Bratiix, the firft of whom
lies buried by him, at the fomh door, with this: —
Orate pro animabus Roberti Erpingham, militis, d

is Juc, quorum animabus propidetur Dcus, Amen.

Sir John de Erpingham, knt. his fon, fucceedcd,
but furvived him not lung; he lies under a large
flone at the eaft of the fouth aile. the arms are loft,
but his efligy remains in armor, ftanding on a lion,
the circumfciiption is part loofe in the cheft, and
part on the flone ; at each corner is an emblem of an
Evangelift. - Hie jacet dominns Johannes de E/ping~
ham, miles, quondam Dominus ijiiu\ ville, qui obijt
primo die Menjis Augufii, Anno Dm MCCCLXX", cvjus
animc propidetur Deus, Amen.

Sir Thomas Erpingham, knight banneret, his fon
and heir, became one of the moft famous waniors
of that age ; in 1385 he had the king's protection,
upon his accompanying wjoljn duke of Lancafier
into Spain; in 1399 he was chamberlain of the
houfehold, one of the barons of the cinque-ports,
warden of Dover-cad le, and one of thofe lords of
pailiarnent that voted Richard II. (hould be put into/
iafe cuflody, being one of the principals that pro-
moted Henry IV. to the crown, who continually
trufled him iq his principal affairs. He was a great
favorer of the Lollards, and as fuch hated by biftlop
Spencer, to whom he was afterwards reconciled by
the king's' mediation; he was a great friend to the
city of Norwich, and refidcd much in his city-houfc
in St. Martin's at the Palace; he made the fine wui-
dow in the Auftin-Friars church, and was a bene-
fa&or to the cathedral.

His

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 173

His only fon, (as it is faid) fir Robert, was a friar
in.rhe houfe of Friars-Preachers at Norwich, re£lor
of Kracon-afh, and official to the archdeacon of
Norwich ; though we rather think this was his bro-
ther. He was conftamly in all the wars in the times
of Henry IV. and V. and particularly at Agincourt*,
where he was acquainted with John Wodchoufe, efq.
the great warrior, whofe grandmother's name was
Erpingham, and-whofe arms aie quartered by Vybde-
houfe.

In the year 1400 Henry IV. in recommence for
his Cervices, ga^ve him a meffuage, called the New-
Inn, in St. BencdicVs, Paul's-Wharf, London, for
his city-houfe, which was lately fir John Beau-
champ's, km. and before that, John de Montague's,
Jate carl of Sarurn, by whofe forfeiture it came to
the king, and alfo loo marks out of Saham manor,
in Cambridgefiiire ; 24!. out of the profits of the
county of Norfolk ; 24!. of the fee-Tarm of Nor-
wich city ; the office of conftable of Dover-cafUc,
and Framlingham-caftle, in Suffolk, during; the mi-
nority of the duke of Norfolk ; and 40 marks out
of the manor of Gimmingham ; and the year fol-
lowing he confirmed them all, and added 50 marks
out of the farm of the manor of Ncwcmon Louge-
ville, by the hands of fir Ralph Rochford, knt. and
John Glafton, chaplain, farmers thereof, and if lit
Ralph died during fir Thomas's life, then he was to
have that manor, and lool. per annum out of the
fec-f^rm of Cambridge, by the hands of the baili& ;
and in the 4th year of his reign he granted him the
the priory of Toftes, in Norfolk, Wormingion, in
Worceftedhire, Spabujgh, in Dorfetfhjre, and Afton,

M3 »

* He commanded in this battle two archert, appointed as an
,— Sarutfcrtft Hift. p. 273.

!7.i HUNDRED OF

in Pjerkfhire, for life, with all the ihhes, in as ample
a manner as fir Lewes de Clifford, knt. decealcd,
held them for life of the grant of Richard II. of the
gift cf the abbot and convent of Pree, in Nor-
mandy. In 1404 he had letters patent to perform
all things belonging to the office of marfhal of Eng-
land. In 1406 he was pledge for fir Edward Haft-
irgs', knt. of Elfing, appearance in the court of
chivalry, in the great canfe between Reginald Grey,
plaintiff, and him, about the arms and title of Hafl-
ings, with whom he was at the voyage of Rich. II.
into Scotland, and at the relief of Brefl, and in the
Spanifh. voyage. In 1414 he was with Henry V. at
the ficge of Harfleur. In 1415, being then fleward
of the king's houfhold, he was fcnt with John
Wakering, bifhop of Nonviih, an ambaffador into
France, to treat of a peace, but without effect. He
hud the honor to be elecled knight of the mod no-
ble order of the garter, and was prefent with the
duke of Bedford, and Humphrey duke of Gloucef-
ter, Lieutenants to Henry V. at Windfor, at Sr.
(•corge's feaft; in 14.19, he was ope of thofe who
were lent to by the king to require the gentlemen of
the county to come to his afhftance with arms and
equipage, agreeable to their quality, encouraging
them with the aflurance, that his particular favor
fhould reward their lervices, and ordering that the
names of thofe who were willing, and of thofe who
refufed, fbould be returned him; upon which, he,
the bifhop of Norwich, and John Wodehoufe, his
fellow coinmiffioners, made their return to the bifhop
of Durham, then chancellor, dated from Norwich. He
died April 27, 1428, feifcd oi the advowfon pf the
priory of lofts, the manor of Horfkad, for life, &c.
1 .vmg fir William Phclip, knt. fon of fir John Phelip,
knt. of Dennington, in Suffolk, by Julian, his daugh-
ter, by hii ad wile, Joan, the beautiful daughter of

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 175

i- * - *- ^ • -:'--*^%T*-

fir William Clopton, of Clopton, in Suffolk, in
whofe right Clopton manor defcended alfo to him.

And now, having gone through the chief paffages
of his life, we cannot yet omit the following ftory,
which we (hall relate word for word, as we find it
in Thomas Heywood's Gynaikeion, or Nine Books
of various Hiftoricg of Women, infcribcd by the
name of the jYine Mufcs, printed in 1624, beginning
in page 253. To our own wifh of affording our
readers fome amufemcnt, as well as indruction, we
have the requeft and advice of an ingenious gen-
tleman, in thefe words: By all means infert this

Jlory at full length: — 'tis the only thing in ail Blome-
field that, can force — a Jmilc."

*. '•• >Q» •. . R M,-i -.!<•=> 3:1: fir- - -'-57

" Sir Thomas Erpingham, (fays Heywood) lord

warden of the cinque ports, a knight both of fame
and memory, and whofe name is dill upon record,
being eminent and of note with Henry V. as per-
fonally with him in all the wars of France. After
the king had both conquered and quieted the land,
this noble Englifhman retired himfelf into his courj-
try ; he had a lady that, was of fuch beauty, that
fhe attracted the eyes of all beholders wkh no com-
mon admiration; in brief, I cannot fpeak of her
feature fufficiently, as being far beyond d)e compaU
of my pen, and therefore I put her into the number
of my fair ones. This lady, with her hufband, re-
fiding in the city of Norwich, he, after io many
troubles and torments, propofed a more fequefteied
life, and (next to the folace he had in the beamy
and virtues of his wife) to take a courfe merely
Contemplative, and thought, out of the abundance
of his wealth, to do fome pious deeds for the good
of hij foul; he therefore ere£led in the .city, and
near to the place where his houfe flood, a goodly

M 4 church,

j?S H U N D R E D O F

church*, at his own charge, and betwixt them a.
religious houfe, that entertained twelve friars, and an
abbot, allowing them demrfne-s competent for, fo
firiaJl a brotherhood: In this convent there were
two, friar John, and friar Richard; thefe were fliJi
at continual enmity, and efpecial notice taken of
it among ft the -reft, which by no mediation could be
truly reconciled, but omitting that it was the cuftom
of the knight and his lady dailv to rife to morning
mattins, and fhe being affable and courteous to all,
'it bred a ftrangc, uncivil boldncfs in friar John, for
fhe never came through the cloifter but he was ftill
with duckes and cringes attending her, which {he
(fufpecling nothing) fimply, with modeft fmiles, re-
turned thanks to him again, \vhich grew fo palpable
in the friar, that, as far as they durft, it was whif-
pered in the convent. Briefly, after thefe encou-
ragements, (as he conflrued them) it bied in him
that impudence, that he prcfumed to write a letter
to her, in which he laid open a great deal of more
than ncceflary love. This letter with great difficulty
came to her hand, at which the lady, aflonifhed, as
not dreaming that fuch lewdnefs fhould come from
one that prolefied chaftity, and not knowing whe-
ther it might be a trick, comploued by her hufband,
to make tiial of her chaflity. Houfoever, left her
honour fhould be any way called in <]ueftion, fhe
thought it her beft and fa f eft courfe to fhow the
letter to her hufband, of which he had no fooner
took a view, but he began to repent him of his for-
mer charity, in regard of their fo great ingratitude ;
but there yet wants revenge for fo great a wrong ;
the knight, concealing his rage, caufes an anfwer to
this leucr to be drawn, to which he commanded her

* Now called the New-hall, and was the church of the
P rsattcis,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 177

to fet her hand, the contents to this effect, That fhe
was greatly compaffionate of his love, and that fnch
a night, her huiband being to ride towards London,
he fhould be admitted, lodged, and entertained,
according to his own defires. This letter was fealed.
clofely, Tent, received by the friar with joy unfpeak-
able. Againft the night, he provides himfelf
clean linen, a perfumed night-cap, and otlrcr ne-
ceflaries ; he keeps his time, obferves the place, is
clofely admitted, and by herfelf, without witnefs,
and fo conveyed into a clofe chamber, which he was
no fooncr entered, but in comes the knight, with
bis man, in great fury, without giving him the leaft
time either to call for help to the houfe, or to
heaven, Ilrangled the poor friar, and left him dead
upon the ground. The deed was no fooner done,
arid his rage fomewhat appeafed, but he began to
enter into confiddration of the foulnefs of the fa&,
and heinoufnefs of the murcler, withal the ftricl pe-
nalty of the law due for fuch an offender, "which,
would be no lefs than for/eiture of life and eftate,
and now begins better to ponder with, himfelf how
to prevent the laft, which may give him further lei-
fure to repent the firft ; after divers and fundry pro-
jecls caft betwixt him and his man, it came into his
mind, by fome means or other, to have his body con-
veyed back into the monaftery, which being divided
from his houfe onlv with a brick wall, miffht be done

4 O

without any great difficulty; this was no fooner men-
tioned, but inftantly his man remembers him of . a
ladder in the back yard, fit for the purpofe ; briefly,
they both lay hands to the body, and the man, with
the friar on his back, mounts the ladder, and fits with,
him aftride upon the wall, then drawing up the lad-
der on the contrary fide, dcfcends with him down
'into the monafteiy, where fpying the houfe-of-officr.

j7S HUNDRED OF

he fet him upon the fame, as upright as he couM,
there leaves him, and conveys hirnfelf again over the
wall, but for haile forgetting the ladder, and fo de-
livers to his matter how and where he had beftowed
the friar, at which being better comforted, they De-
took themfclves both to their reft, all this being con-
cealed as well from the l&dy as the reft of the houfe-
ho!d, who were in their depth of fleep : it happened
at the fame inftant, that friar Richard being much
troubled with a loofenefs in his body, had occafion
to rife in the night, and being ibmewhat haftily and
unhandfomcly taken, makes what fpeed he can to the
houfe-of-office, but, by the light of the moon, dif-
cerning fomebody before him, whilft he could and
was able, he contained himfelf, but finding there was
no remedy, he firft called and then entreated to come
away, but hearing no body anfwer, he imagined it to
be done on purpofe, the rather becaufe approaching
the place fomewhat nearer, he might plainly perceive
it was friar John, his old advcrfary, who the louder
he called, feemed the lefs to liften ; loth he was to play
the floven in the yard, the rather becaufe the whole
convent had taken notice of a cold he had late got,
and how it then wrought with him ; therefore, think-
ing this counterfeit deamefs to be done on purpofe,
and fpight, to make him afhamed of himfelf, he
fnatchedup a brick-batt to be revenged, and hitting
his adverfary full upon the breaft, down tumbles
friar John, without life or motion, which he feeing,
thought at firft to raife him up, but after many
proofs finding him to be ftone dead, verily believes
that he had ilain him ; what fhall he now do, the
gates are faft locked, and fly he cannot ; but as fud-
den extremities imprefs in men as fudden fliifts, fo
he dpying the ladder, prefently apprehends what had
been whiipered of friar John's love to the knight's

lady,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM, 179

Jady, and lifting hinrupon his flioulders, by the help
of the fame ladder carries him into the porch of the
knight's hall, and there fets him, and fo clofely con-
veys himfelf back into the monaftery the fame way
became, not fo much as fufpecled of any; in the
interim, whilft this was done, the knight being per-
plexed and troubled in confcience, could by no
means fleep, but calls up his man, and bids him go
liften about the walls of the monaflery, if he cum
hear any noife or uproar about the murther ; fonk
goes he from his mailer's chambers, and having paft
the length of the hall, purpofing to go through the
yard, finds friar John fitting upright in the porch ; he
flarting at the fight, runs back affrighted, and aimoft
difiracled, and fcarce able to fpcak, brings this news
to his matter, who no lefs aflonifhed, could not be-
lieve it to be fo, but rather his man's fantafy, till
himfelf went down, and became eye-witnefs to the
Grange object; then, wondroufly defpairing, he inti-
mates within hirnfelf that murther is one of the cry-
ing fins, and fuch a one as cannot be concealed; yet,
recollecting his fpirits, he purpofcs to make trial of k
xlefperatc adventure, and put the difcovery thereof
*«to accident; he remembers an old ftallion, that had
been a horfe of fervice, then in his ftabie, one of
'thofe he had ufed in the French wars, and withal, a
nifty armor hanging in his armory, he commands
both inftantly to be brought, with ftrong new cords,
<a cafe "of rufty piftols, and a lance; the horfe fs
Saddled and caparifon'd, the armor put upon the
Friar, and he faft bound in the feat, the lance tied
•^ his wrift, and the lower end put into the reft, his
Jlhead-picce clafped on, and his beaver up, the (kirts
%f his grey gown ferve for bafes, and thus accoutred
"like a knight, compleatly armed cap-a-pee, thev pur-
'pofe to turn him out of the gaj.cs, he and his horfe,

without

iSo HUNDREDOF

vithout any pay, orefquire, to try a new adventure;
whilft things were thus a fitting, friar Richard, in the
monaftery, no lefs perplexed in confcience than thr
knight about the murthcr, casing all doubts, and
dreading the ftri&nefs of the Jaw, fummonfcs all hi?
wits about him to prevent the word; at length fees
up his reft, that it is his befl and fafeft way to fly ;
lie remembers withal, that there was belonging to the
friary a mare employed to carry coin to and fro' from
the mill, (which was fome half a mile from the mo-
naftery) ; being fomewhat fat. and therefore iniidoubt-
itig his own footmanfhip, he thinks it the fafer courfo
to trufl to four legs than to two, he therefore calls up
the baker, that had the charge of the bead, and tells
him that he underftands there was meal that morn-
ing to be fetched from the mill, which was grinde^
by that time, therefore if he would let him have the
mare, he would (it being now night) fave him the
labor, and bring it back before morning; the fellow,
willing to fparc fo much pains, caufed the back gate
to be opened, the friar gets up, auJ rides out of the
monaftcry gate, juft at the inflant when* the knight
and 'his man had turned out the friar on horfeback to
feek his fortune: the horfe prefently fcents the marc,
and after her he gallops ; friar Richard looking back,
amazed to have an armed knight purfue him, and by
the moon-light perceiving the friar armed, (lor he
might difcern his face partly by the moon, and partly
by the breaking of the day, his beaver being up)
away flies he, and takes through the ftreetSj after
him (or rather the mare) fpeeds the horfe ; great noifc
was in the city, iiifomuch, that many waking out oiF
their fleeps and morning refts, from their windowf
looked out ; at length it was friar Richard's ill fate t*
take into a turn again lane, that had no paffage
through ; there friar John overtakes him, the horfe

mounts

SOUTH ER PING HAM. iSt

mounts the mare, and with his violent motion the
rotten and rufty armor makes a terrible noife; friar
Richard's burthened confcience clamors out aloud
for help, and withal cries, Guiity of the murthtr; at
the noife of muither, the people being amazed, ran
out of their beds into the ftreets ; they apprehended
miracles, and he confefleth wonders, but withal, that
barbarous and inhuman facl; to murther one of his
convent; the grudge that was betwixt them is
known, and the apparent juflice of Heaven the ra-
ther believed. Friar John is difmoumed, and fent to
his grave; friar Richard to prifon; he is arraigned,
and in procefs, by his own confeiHon, condemned ;
but before the execution, the knight knowing his
own guilty confcience, pofts inftantly to the king,
makes his voluntary confeKion, and hath life and
goods (for his former good fervice) pardoned him ;
friar Richard is releafed, and the accident remains

ilill RECORDED -along with the h'.Itory of Jack the

Giani Killer, Tom Hickalhrift, Patient Griis.let Tern
Thumb, Rvbin Hood, the Babes of the Wood, trc.

Sir John Phclip, knt. and Julian, his wife, daughter
and heirefs of fir William Ciopton, being dead be-
fore fir Thomas Erpingham. their fon and heir in-
herited at fir Thomas's death, viz. fir William Phe-
lip, knt. who married Joan, daughter and coljeirefs of
Thomas lord Bardolph, in whole right he was com-
monly called lord Bardolph ; he was one of the great
warriors in France with Henry V.* and while he
attended that king in Normandy, was elecled by the

, companions

,
* In 1415 he was hired to ferve the king with twelve men at

arms, and twenty-four archers, and to attend him on the fea in
his own perfon for three months, beginning June 22, and to be
ready at Southampton ; he was to be paid out of the next fit-
tefcmhs granted by the laity.

companions knight of the mnft noble order of the
garter at St. George's feaft, held by Humfrey duke
of Gloucefter, the king's lieutenant, and was in-
ftalled by proxy; he died in 1440, (being chamber-
Iain to Henry VI.) feifed of this town, and of
Clopt.on, llketfhall, Dennington, Brokele, Brundifh,
Cretingham, and Wilby, in Suffolk. He and his
wife are buried in Dennington ; the tomb, with their
effigies, Hill remains. Their daughter and hcirefs,
Elizabeth, married John lord vifcount Beaumont,
and had Henry Beaumont, who died Nov. 6, 1442,
and was buried at Dennington.

In 1446 Joan lady Bardolph, widow of fir Wil-
liam Phelip, held the advowfon and manors here,
and died feifed this year, being buried in Denning-
ton church. Her executors fold, in 1447, the old
feat of the Erpinghams, it St. Martin's at the Plain,
ia Norwich, to William Cahhorpe, efq. but thefe
manors went to William vifcount Beaumont, and
lord Bardolph, who in the ift of Edward IV. 1460,
was attainted; and though thefe manors, and others,
were at firft granted to Joan, his wife, yet in 1466
the kin* granted them to Roger Rees, efq. for life,
as forfeited by Beaumont; he was afterwards knight-
ed, and was fheriff of Norfolk in the gth of Ed-
ward IV. and again in the i^th year of that king,
and he had a confirmation of them in 1474.

In 1487 fir Philip Calthorpe, knt. had a grant of
the receiveifhip of thefe manors, they being then in-
the crown, after the death of Roger Rees efq. as
parcel of the Beaumonts forfeited lands; but in
1517 fir Philip Calthorpe had an abfolute grant of
them from Henry VIII. and at his death his lady
held them. ,

SOUTHERPINGHAM. 183

In i 543 it wns conveyed to fir Edward Warner,
knt. of Mildenhall, in Suffolk, and his heirs ; he
died without ilTue'in 1565, and Robert Warner, his
brother and heir, kept his firft court here. In 15718
Henry, fon of Robert, had livery of thefe, and fc-
veral other manors, and in 1578 fold them to John.
Hobart, of Thwayte, who in 1596 left them to
William Hobart, of Melton, his fon and heir, who
held them to his death ii\i62O; he was buried in

the nave of Erpingham church, with this: Hie

jac&t corpus Willidmi Hobart, gentrofi, qiti obijt quinto
die Novcmbris, Anno Domini 1620.

By his wife, Katherine, daughter of Robert Un-
derwood, efq. of Cromer, and filler and fole hcirefs
of her brother James, he had two daughters, co-
heireflcs: Anne, married, firft, to Nicholas Bacon,
third fon of fir Robert Bacon, of Ryburgh, by whom
fhe had no iflTue; fecondly, to Thomas Herne, of
Heverland, efq. by whom fhe had Clement Herne,
of Heverland. efq. who died in 1720, aged 80, and
Thomas Herne, efq. was his elded fon and heir,
whofe uncle, John Herne, of Witchingham, had
Thwayte, and Metton, and died without iffue.

Thefe manors, on the partition, fell to Frances
Hobart, who married William Hurft, of Bcrkfhire,
by whom fhe had no iffue ; but by her other huf-
band, James, fon of fir Henry Davy, penfioner to
Charles I. fhe had three daughters, the firft; married
a Bouchier; Thomafme, the third, married Flow-
den, of Latham, in Hampfhire; and Frances, the
fecond, to whofe fhare thefe manors fell, married fir
George Windham, of Cromer, knt. who left it to
his fon, Francis Windham, efq. who was lord in
i6<ji ; and his fon, Francis Windham, efq. of
Cromer, was now lord and patron of one turn.

SOUTH-

!$4 HUNDRED OF

SOUTH-ERPINGHAM, or GERBERGE'S MANOR, br-
Jonged to Richard Vetula? Filius, or le-tVeile, in the
time of Henry I. and John de-la- Vciie died ieifcd of
it in 1278.

In i 284 Walter Gerberge held it at a quarter of a
fee of Robert Fitz-Roger, and he of the honor of
Eve, and claimed view of frank-pledge, and affizc
of bread and ale ; but he could not prove his right,
and fo it was difallowed. In i 297 he was lord, and
then lived at Wickhampton. In 1345 Edward Ger-
ocrge, his fon, had it, and he it was that conveyed
it to the Erpinghams, and to ever fmcc it hath paffed
•with the other manor, together with Tufard's Icr-
jeanty, the part here Hubert de Cordebeof or
Corn-de-beof, held as a member of Cawflon, of the
gift of Henry I. by the ferjeanty of finding an ar-
cher for the king's fcrvice. it being a part of the
ferjeanty in Banningham, Barningham VVinter, and
Erpingham, that Henry I. gave to Gerard Tufnrd
to find him five archers ; the earl marfhal held Tu-
fard's part, and John Cordebeof the other. 1111406
'Walter de Barningham held the whole of Roger
Bigot, earl of Norfolk; it was afterwards held of
the manor of Bainingham- Winter by Robt. Broome,
and was purchaftd to the oiher manors by fir Tho-
mas Erpingham, and was always held as a member
of Barningham, with that manor, at half a fee of
the honor of Forncet.

GREAT-HAUTBOIS, HAUTEBOYS, or HOBBIES
church, hath a round flecple, a nave and chancel
leaded, and flands alone, not far from the river; it
hath no memorial iu it but this, on a brafs plate, —
Or ace pro animabu* Richardi Hall, tt Sibcllc uxoris Juc,
qui obijt ix die Qclob. Anno Domini MVCXXII.

The

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. i ^

The advowfon of the church of the Afifumptiort
of St. Mary the Virgin here was given in the year
1199, by Peter dc Alto-Bofco, or Hautbois, to the
prior and canons of St. Mary, at Coxford, in the
parifh of Rudham, in Gallow hundred, in confi-
acradon of which, the prior releafed to Peter ali-
bis right he had in the church of Tuttington, and
other immunities, all which the faid prior and con-
vent had right to, by the deed of his father ; and
immediately after this, Hautbois re6lory was appro-
priated to the prior of Coxford, who fcrved it by a
flipendiary chaplain; and in 1277 the bifiiop of
Norwich, upon a fuit between Robert Baynard, then
lord, and the prior, returned it to be legally appro-
priated, and that the lord had not any juft claim to
it, but that it was valued at fix marks, and. that ac-
cordingly the prior paid 8s. to each tenth for it, fo
that the king was anfwered all juft dues, the faid
prior having only 45. rent of temporals in the faid
town. The abbot of Caen, in Normandy, had tem-
porals here, taxed at 55. gd. ob. and the prior o£
Broomholme had his taxed at 33.

In 1480 the church was difappropriated, and a
reftor inftituted, and from that time the priors of
Coxford always had the patronage to the diffolution,
when it was granted to the duke of Norfolk, and it
hath ever fince remained in that famiTy, and their
truftees, or feoffees, have conflantlyprefented to it.

In 1737 William Taylor, efq. and William Log-
gan, gent, prefented the Rev. Samuel Taylor to this
ie£lory.

There is no reclory-heufe, but eleven acres and
three roods of gleLe. It ftands thus in the king's
looks, 4!, 6s. Sd^ Hautbois, i/w/go Hobbies Magna

JS5 HUNDRED OF

rePory, 35!. clear yearly value, fo that being dif-
chargeci, it is capable of augmentation. The old
valuation was fix marks.

The village is in the liberty of the duchy of Lan-
cafler, and is laid to the land-tax at 254!. 158.

In this church was a famous image of St. Theo-
bald, commonly called Si, Tebbald of Hobbies, which
was much frequented for its many pretended mira-
cles, fo that pilgrimages ufed to be made to it. In
1507, in the will of Agnes Parker, of Kefwick, is
this: — " Item, I owe a pilgrimage to Canterbury,
" another to St. Tebbald of Hobbies, and another
" to St. Albert at .Cringleford." This faint being
fo famous, made fome miflake the dedication of the
church, and fuppofe it to have been dedicated to
St. Theobald, which is not fo.

There was alfo a chantry here, founded and en-
dowed by John Parham, with divers lands here, and
in Hautbois Farva,- Sco-Rufton, 8cc.

At the diffolution, Edward VI. in 1557, granted,
amopg other things, to Thomas Woodhoufe, of
Waxham, cfq. the chantry called de-alto-Bofco, in
the town of Hautbois Magna, with all the manors,
leets, lands,' rents, and fervices thereto belonging,
in Norfolk, to be held in foccage, by fealty only, of
the king's manor of Brooke ; and the next year he
fold it to Mr. William Mingay, of Norwich, notary-
public, and his heirs. Under this grant likewife

pafled thehofpitalof St. Mary, commonly calledGod's
Houfe, at the head of Hautbois caufeway, which
\vas founded about 1235 by fir Peter de-alto-Bofco,
or Hautbois, for his own and anceftors fouls, for
the reception of travellers and poor people. He fet-
tled

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 187

tied lands here, and in Little Hautbois, Worftead,
Swannington, and Banningham, on the cutlos, or
mafter, of the hofpital.

The founder appointed the almoner of St. Ben*
net to be principal guardian of this houfe, enjoining
him to commit the cuftody of it to the matter, or
cuftos, of the hofpital of St. James, at the head of
the caufeway of St. Bennet at the Holme, who
fhould yearly account with the almoner, and govern
this houfe by a deputy appointed by the faid mafter,
who fhould be cullos of this hofpital, and as fuch
account yearly with the mafler of St. James's hof-
pital. The mafter was to be free from all dues to
fir Peter, as lord of Hautbois manor. This houfe
was licenfed by pope Alexander the 4th, in ihe thiid
year of his pontificate, to have a chapel, bell, and
proper chaplain, for the ufe of the poor of the ho£
pital, the revenues being able to bear the expence ;
and Roger, then cuftos, certified this licence to the
bifhop of Norwich. The revenues of this chapel of
St. Mary were taxed at 1 8s. i od.

The manor of HAUTBOIS MAGNA belonged to
the abbot of St. Bennet at the Holme, one part of
the gift of Edward the Confeffor, and of Elgelwin',
a Saxon ealderman, or thane, lord of it under that
prince, and the other of the gift of Ralph earl of
Norfolk, when he granted the burial of his wife'to
that monaflery, with the king's conlent. This part
(wrote in Doomfday-book Hobuift, and Obbouuefla)
was held of the abbey, at the Conqueror's furvey. by
William de Warren, of whom Ralph Stalia held it;
and the other pare was hild by Ralph de Beaufoe,.
of whom Eudo held it, the whole village being then'
fix furlongs long, and four broad, and paid id. to

N 2 the-

•

188 H U N D. R'E D OF

the gelt, or tax, towards every sos. railed by the
hundred.

Soon after the furvey Herman held one half under
the abbot, at the will of the convent, but his fon Wil-
liam, who took the firn".me of De-alto-Bofco, or
Hautbois, was enfcoffed in the half of Great Hautbois;,
which he was to hold of the monaftery at half a
fee ; he had alfo all Little Hauibois, with the ab-
bot's land at Calihorpe, Sec. at half a fee more, and

had the flcwardfliip of the abbot granted him.

His fon, William, was a great man in his days, be-
ing very much concerned for the affairs of the mo-
r.aftery all his life-time; he had feveral fons, from
xvhom iflucd feveral branches of the family, but the
principal eflate went to his eldefl fon, fir Peter de-
alto-ik>fco, or Hautbois, who was a knight, and
paid at the rate of a quarter of a fee for his manor
here to the eail Warren, his chief lord, of whom he
hfeld it ; he died about i sc>ij, having releafed, by
leveral deeds, to the abbot of St. Rennet's, all his
right in the manors of 1 hurgarton, Thwaite, Ant-
ingham, and Shipdham, and in the hundred of
Tunftead, and in the offices of the ftcwardfhip and
procuratorfhip to the monaflery, for 17!. a year, to
be paid him for life, for his better fupport in his
extremity of age. He was founder of the Maijon
Ditu here, and gave the advowfon to Coxford pri-
ory.

Peter, his fon, fold the manors of Calthorpe and
Erpingham to Walter de Suffield, bifhop of Nor-
wich, and William de Calthorpe, and his heirs, and
Peter fettled Calthorpe advowfon on the bifhop in
1546. He died without iffue about 1247, for in
1 24 8 Samfon, fon of Ifaac, a Jew, at Norwich, ira-
|>kaded the abbot of St. Bennet, before the jufticea

aflignejl

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 189

afTigned for the cuflody of the Jews, for a part of the
lands of Peter; Samfon recovered, and then he, and
Ifaac de Warvvic, by their Jiar\, releafed all light in
this land to the abbot, and in the land of Robert de
Worftcad, with warranty againft all Jews. Maud,
Margery, and Eufrcfia De-alto-Bofco, three fillers
and co-heirefTes, inherited, and jointly, with Haraon
de Sibton, hufband to Eufrelia, releafed all their
right to the abbot of St. Bcnnefs in all the eftates
of the family, fo this manor was veftcd in the con-
vent; and in 1315 the abbot of St, Bennet was re-
turned lord,

The other part, which Eudo held of Ralph de
Beauloe, he of the eail Warren, and he of the ab-
bot of St. Bennei's, came to the Baniards, and patted
in that family, with Merton ; but in 1299, after a
long fuit, Bartholomew de Reedham recovered the'
manor againft Robert Baniard, who renewed the
action the year following, and the fheriff accounted
for 2ol. for the profits of this year; and now it ap-
peared that Bartholomew de Reedham was diffeifed
by the bailiffs of the queen confort, of lands, Sec.
which Bartholomew had ju ft recovered againft Ro-
bert Baniard ; and after the queen's death it came
into the king's hands, who ordered the fherifF to deli-
ver them to Bartholomew's heirs, who had now pof-
feflion ; and the fame year the heircfs, Reedham, con-
veyed it abfolutely to the faid Robert Baniard, and his.
heirs. It contained then nine meffuages, feven cot-
tages, 151 acres of land, 20 of meadow, four of alder-

N 3 car,

* Per Starram, Reg. Hdme,. fol. 87. a Jews Star, fo called
from the ftars, or Aftericks, ufually made on them, and cut in
two when they were executed. Thcfe conveyances are written
in Hebrew characters, and are indentures, each party having 4
part.

HUNDRED OF

car, a free fifhery in the river, one acre and half called
Dovehoufe-yard, 55. rent, two meffuages, 14 acres,
in Scottovv, 13 villains and their families, Sec.

In 1312 fir Robert Baniard refided here, and
built the manor-houfe, called Hui-'hois CafUe, fo
called, no doubt, becaufe he had a royal licence to
embattle it after the manor of a cattle. In 1313 he
added much to the manor, by puichafing here, and
in Scottow.

Thomas Baniard, his fon and heir, fold the rever-
fion, after the death of his mother, to fir Thomas
Rofceline, knt.

In 1345 Margery de Champain, widow, releafed
to fir John Willoughby, lord of Erefby, and Joan,
his wife, all her right in the fixth part of this ma-
nor, held for life, by Maud, widow of fir Robert
Baniard, and in all the "manors and eftates defcended
to her as one of the fix fillers and co-hcireffes of fir
Thomas Rofceline, knt. and William de Rucken-
h;im, coufin, and one of the heirs of fir Thomas,
ibid his 6th part to the laid fir John ; and fir Robert
TiiTour, knt. fold his 6th part ; and in 1348 fir John
held the moiety oi Whetacre, and Hautbois, of John
lord litz-walter.

It came from the Bowels to the Dacres ; and in
1487 Joan, widow of Richard Fynes, lord Dacre's
knt. had it.

• It paffcd with Horsford, by knight's fervice of the
carl of Arundel, in 1606, toSampfon Lennard, efq.
but \vas afterwards feparated from Horsford, and
paffing through divers owners, it lately belonged to
the Aides, of Horflead hall, and at the death of

Mr.

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 191

Mr. Thomas Aide, of HorfleaS, was fold by his
onlv daughter, Sufanna. and the Rev. Mr. Charles

O '

Tillet, her hufband, to Leonard Batcheller, efq. of
Horftead.

LITTLE HAUTBOIS, or HOBBIES Parui, is in
the liberty of ihe Duchy of Lancafter; it is wrote
in Doom'day-book HobuiflTe, and' called Haut-Bois,
in French, the High Wood; the ancient family which
took their na-.nf from hence is firnamed in Latiri
records De-alto-Bofco, and indeed it fhould feem to
be denominated from the High Woods by the Water,
which anfwers the fituation and name — Haut-Ho-
High Bois, Buis-Wood, E, or Ea Water.

The manors of Buxton, Lammas, and Scottow,
extended hither, to which laft the manor of Holme
Abbey, in this town, was joined by the abbot.

In the time of Henry III. Peter, fon of fir Peter
De aho-Bofco, or Hautbois, lord of Little Haut-
bois, gave to the abbot of St. Bennet all his fifhery
in the town of Little Hautbois, from the houfe of
Henry Bell to Little Hautbois mill, and the com-
mon fifhery thence to Buxton bounds. This manor
continued joined to the abbot of Holme's manor of
Scottow; in 1401 that abbot held his manor here as
parcel of his barony ; it had been in that monastery
ever fince the Confeflbr's time, went with it to the
fee of Norwich, and is now leafed by the bifhop,
with Scottow.

There was another manor here in the family of
Hautbois, to which the advowfon belonged, which
in 1315 Belonged to Ralph de Colney, and Law-
rence de Reppcs; in 1380 John de Bures, and now
the advowfon went in moieties, in Bures and Ti uyt.

N 4 John

i ga HUNDRED OF

John Rookwood, and Walter Truyt, fold the ad-
vovvfon, and about 1475 it became confoiidated to
Lammas.

This manor, by divers alienations, became very
fmall, and at laft was joined to Great Hautbois,
with which it now remains.

The church was dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin,
and there was a guild of St Katherine kept in it; the
church was in ule in i r>3i, but is now totally di-
lapidated ; it flood by the road fide, about a furlong
on the left hand, after you have pafled Mayton-
bridge, from Frettenham. It was not very fmall'";
the ruins are covered with earth, but are very eafy
to be traced. It was valued at four marks, had
two acres of glebe in Frettenham, and feven acres
and twenty perches in Little Hautbois belonged tor
it. In 1428 the abbot of Holme's manor and de-
uiefnes were valued at 81. 155. lid. qr. a year, and
the village paid il. clear to every tenth ; it is valued
to the land tax and county rate with Lammas.

In i 704 the Rev. Philip Candier was inducted as
patron and irtcumbent.

KEYING HAM, or the village by the Low
Meadows at the water, wrote in Doomfday-book
Hevincham: the capital manor and advowfon be-
longed to Lcuilan, the anceftor of Teheji, in the
Confeffor's time ; and after Tehcli it came to earl
Ralph, who forfeited it to the Conqueror, whofe
manor it was, and Godric, the fewer, took care of it
for that prince; who foon after granted it to a free-
man, a priefl, who held it at the furvey, by the te-

oure

f The fcite of it is now glebe to Lammas.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 193

nure of Tinging three mattes every week for the foul
of the Conqueror, and his relations ; and this priefl
left it te the bifhop of Norwich, and his fucceffors,
who were lords and patrons.

The town, including Ripton, was nine furlongs
and a perch long, and five furlongs and a perch
broad, and paid by hfelf, without Ripton, ^d. ob»
gelt.

In 1250 Walter de Suffield, bifhop of Norwich,
obtained a charter of free-warren in all his demefnes
here, and in Marfham, into which village this manor
extended; and he it was that made it one of the
country feats of the bifhops, by building a palace,/
making a park, and every thing fo convenient, that
many of the bifliops refided here, as being a conve-
nient diftance from Norwich, and a pleafant country;
but none fo much as bifhop Beck, who lived great
pan of his time, and died here ; it being his favorite
palace, he made every thing convenient and grand.
In 1284 the bifhop had view of frank-pledge, afllze
of bread and ale, a common gallows, free-warren,
and park,* allowed in Eire. In 1401 the bifhop held
it in chief of the king, as part of his barony, and it
remained fo till bifhop Nix's exchange of the reve-
nues of the fee, and then came to the crown, and
continued there till Henry VIII. in 1531, granted it,
among others, to fir James Boleyn, of Blickling,
knt. who in 1 540 parted off the park, by granting it
to William Boleyn, clerk, and his heirs. In 1553
fir James Boleyn had licence to fell the manor to
Edmund Lomner, and Thomas Payne, and their

heirs,

* In 1285 Henry de Helgheton, and others, were profecu-
ted for breaking into the park by night, and killing three Lucks
with John dc Vaux's dogs, for which they were fined feverely.

ig4 HUNDRED OF

heirs, during Boleyn's life, the rcverfion by fir
James's fettlement being in the queen ; foon after
it came to the crown, and in 1572 queen Elizabeth
had it, of whom it was held by fir Henry Bed ing-
field in 1588; and in 1594, by Bedingfield's will,
was fold to lord Morley ; afterwards priding through
divers conveyances, it came to the Paftons, and is
now part of the eftate of the late earl of Yarmouth,
/ who was fole patron and lord of the town, the Paf-
tons having purchafed of the Hobarts ; the park was
purchafed of the Hobaits by Marfliam, of Stratton-
Strawlefs, and continues in that family.

The MANORS of RIPTON-HALL, alias CAT'S, cum
CRIKETOT'S. — Rippctuna was a feparate berewic,
and paid as much to the gelt, or tax. as Heving-
ham did, viz. 5d. ob. fo that it contained half the
town; it belonged to William bifhop ofThetford,
and attended that fee, till the bifhop infeoffed Walter
Giffard in it, who held it of the fee at the Con-
queror's furvey, and it was always held of the fee of
Norwich, as part of its barony ; it feems at the Con-
feflbr's furvey that Harold held it of the bifhopric,
that it was then worth 305. and at the Conquefh 503.
per annum.

In the time of king John, Roger le Chat, or Cat,
had it, from whom it flill bears the name of Cat's
Manor; Henry le Cat in 1285 was lord, and had
joined one half of Criketot's manor to this, which he
held at the eighth part of a fee of the earl of Glou-
celter, held of Clare honor, and Norwich fee.

In 1316 Henry le Cat had a charter for free-war-
ren in the manor, and died this year.

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 195

In 1340 fir Conftawine de Mortimer held it dur-
ing the life of his wife, in her right, fhe being widow
of William Cat, and their fhield, viz. Mortimer im-
paling Cat, was lately to be feen in Attleburgh
church windows.

In 1418 Henry Cat, of Hevingham, was returned
by the juflices of the peace for the county, as a pro-
per perfon to ferve Henry V. in his wars againft
France ; he was fucceeded by William, Cat, of He-
vingham, his fon; and he by his fon Henry, who
died young and without iflue, leaving his two fillers
his heirefies ; one married to William Thetford, in
her right lord of a moiety of Rippcton, alias Cat's^
and Criketat's, in Hevingham ; and the other feems
to have married a Yaxley; for in 1558 Richard
Yaxley held a moiety of the manors, and William
was his fon and heir, of whom it was purchafed by
the Thetfords. Thomas Thetford in 1628 had it,
and fold the eftate to fir Henry Hobart, attorney ge-
neral, and his truftecs, in 1608; it continued in the
Hobarts till i684t, and was afterwards fold to Free-
man, and by him to the Paftons, and was the eftatc
of the late earl of Yarmouth ; and George Anfon,
efq. is che prefent lord of Hevingham, cum Marfham,
and Hevingham Cats, and patron of the reclory.

KERITOFT, alias CRYTOFT MANOR, was held by
Peter Jordan, of Lctheringfett, of the earl of Clare,
at the eighth part of a fee, in the time of king John,

and

•f- In 1683 Lady Mary Hobart held Hevingham and Mar--
(ham manors, the quit and free-rents being 17!. 8s. gd. ob. per
annum. The manors of Catt's-hall, and Keritoft, or Crytoft,
there, and in the adjacent towns, the free and quit-rents being
5!. i8s. 4d. ob. per ann. the fines of thefe manors being cer-
tain at 45. an acre, and both the advowfonsare appendantto the
manors*

HUNDRED OF

and one moiety was afterwards granted by Thomas
Jordan^:, his fon, to Richard de Lounde, from whom
Simon de Criketot, whofe name the manor flili re-
tains, (though corrupted in its fpelling and pronun-
ciation) had it. Ralf de Criketot had a daughter
named Emma, on whom Simon aforefaid fettled this
manor in 1239; it divided afterwards into feveral
parts. In 1379 fir William de Morley, knt. held it.
In 1401 Robert Calthorpe was lord; and afterwards
joined, and hath ever fince paffed with Ripton-hali,
and ftill remains with it.

The church is dedicated to St. Botolph, and the
chancel to St. Mary, and there was a guild, in
honor of the BleiTed Virgin, held in her chapel, on
the fouth fide of the church ; and another to St.
John the Baptift, in his chapel, on the north fide of
the church ; which chapel was taken down by Mr.
Andrew Thetford, then churchwarden, whe with the
materials built part of his houfe, called Ripton-hall,
\vhich his fon fold to the Hobarts, with all his eftate
here. St. Mary's chapel, which belongs to, and is
the burial place of the lords of Cat's, or Ripton-hall
manor, beinsr in decav, the lead was taken off and

O j *

fold, and the chapel repaired and tiled; in which is
this infcription : — H<zc capella renovata fuit ac injlau-
rata per Hcnricum Hobart, mililem tt baroneltum, domi-
numjummum jujlidarium dc Communi-pcas, ac dominum
manerij de Catts, anno rtgni rtgu Jacobi 1 2, annoqut
Domini 1614.

Thefe two tranfcept chapels made the church the
form of a crofs ; the tower is fquare, in which there
are five bells ; the chancel, nave, and fouth porch
arc leaded.

There

% The other moiety was by him fold to Henry le Chat, and
joined to Ripton-hall,

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 197-

There are many ftones here, but the braffes are
reaved : there remains one plate by the font, which,
fhcws that Richard Rayner died Aug. 27, 1593.

In the Couth chapel windows are the arms of Ho-
bart, quartering Lyhert and Hare, impaling Bell jj.

A great number of the Cats and Thetfords § are in-
terred in this chapel, but their memorials are all loft,
except one brafs plate, now loofe, which came o£f a"
ftonc at the entrance thereof, and hath this on it : — •
Here lyelh the body of Andrew Thetford, ef quire, wht
difeafed the Iqfle of Def ember, anno 1594. — Thomafine,
his wife, daughter of Thomas Thome, of Wejlwood, was
buried 1610. M-

y*i fiA

Thomas Dcynest gent, and Sarah, his wife ; he died
•May 28, 1700: Jhe September 29, 1703. Pojuit Ri-
cardus Deyns, nepos. ...•:*': :

In the nave, by the entrance of the chance], is the
arms of Leigh, of Surrey, impaling Hunt, of Nor-
folk.

11 There were alfo in the windows of this chapel, though
noxv loft, the arms of Smallburgh, le Cat, or Catt's ; Yelver-
ton ; Cat impaling Bois, of Dilham ; Cat impaling Mawtby ;
Bacon impaling Thwaits; and bifliop Bateman's arms; and
above it an effigy of Edward III.

§ William Cat, ef Thetford, removed to Hevingham about
1411 ; and in 1462 William Ryder, of this town, releafcd all
right in Ripton-hall, alias Catt's manor, here, to William
Thetford, who defcended from Alwin, of Thetford. In 1411
fir Walter de Thetford was reftor of Hingham. In 1 5 36 Tho-
mas Thetford was fheriff of Norwich, and lies buried in St*
Peter's of Mancroft ; many of this family arc buried here.
Alice, wife of Thomas Thetford, of Ripton-hall, anno 1603,
aad four of their 13 children. In 15^5 Mary Thetford, of
Hevingham, was buried in the chanceJ, &c.

HUNDRED OF

folk. — Here lieth the body of Wcollty Leigh, efq. he died
the 26 th Day of December, 1715, aged 52.

There is a black marble, thus infcribed: — Hie
jactt corpus revtrendiffimi viri Adami Scambkr, armigeri,
unius jufticiariorum domini regis ad pacem pro com Aor-
folciae, qui obijt 18 die Sept. A. D. 1645.

This Adam was fecond fon to blfhop Scambkr;
he was of the Inner-temple in 1617 ; his elded: bro-
ther was James Scambler, efq. of Wolterton ; he was
efcheator of Suffolk, and juftice of the peace in
both counties ; he left Thomas Scambler his fon and
heir, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert
Marfham, gent, of Stratton-Strawlefs, and had iffue
Ann, their daughter and heirefs ; he was buried un-
der a marble here, with the arms of Scambler im-
paling Marfham, March 27, 1676; and fhe under
another, with the fame arms, obijt 25 die Aprilis,
A. D. 1686.

At the wefl end of the nave are tomb-ftones to
Watker, Die, Folkc, Sec. In the chancel are others
to Meadow, Heylctt, Pycroft, &c.

The reclors of Hcvingham were collated by the
bifhops of Norwich till the exchange.

In 1471,. May 9, Henry Candeler, reclor, was
buried in the chancel, for whom an infcription re»
znains on a broken brafs plate, loofe in the chert.

John Plumftead, A. M. reclor, was interred in the
chancel, cb. 20 die Martij, 1622.

William Hall, reclor, died fudddcnly in 1659;
(Sufan, his wife, died in 1657, and was buried un-
der

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 199.

der the marble, with brafs fcrolls on it, on the
right hand coming out of the veftry of St. Stephen's
church, in Norwich) he being fucceeded by- William
Heylett, who lies buried on the north fide of the
altar, with this r — Here remain the body's of the, reverend,
William Hcylett*, and Hannah, his wife, who died the
§th day of January, 1694; and he died the i&lh da,y of
September, 1720; he was reclor of this parifo 41 years,
aged 92 ; all his life he was very much beloved, and at his.
death as much lamented by his parijliioners.

Mr. Richard Hayes, merchant, patron of a turn,
prefented in 1720; and in 1758 the Rev. Woolley
Leigh Bennett was prefented to the re&ory of Ho-
ningham, alias Hevingham, by John Bennett, gent.
p. h, v.

This town is in the Duchy of Lancafter, valued at
4©ol. IDS. per ann. to the land tax, and pays 4!. 8s. to
the old tenth. The prior of Binham was taxed for
his fpirituals, being a portion of tithes here, at half a
mark, and there was , a portion of tithes granted by
Edward VJ. to the dean -and chapter of Norwich.
The prior of Broomholmc was taxed for his tempo-
rals a,t 135. ^d. and the prior of Wayborne for his
at 75. ad. it flands thus in the kings books: io|.

i6s. ob.

. * " Vigorous Longevity, or a Good old Age, &c. A fermon
preached at Hevingham, September 25, 1720, being the Sunday
after the funeral of the Rev. Mr. William Haylett, late rector
there, who lived to the age of ninety and two, and was a con?
ftant, pious, judicious, and practical preacher, until the week
before his death.

By John Grade, reclor of Blickling, in Norfolk.

PSALM ninety -two, verfe 14.
Printed at London, in oftavo, anno 1720."
^ In the account of him it appears, that fir John Hobart,
'grandfather, to the' prefent fir John^ was his^patron, aud that he
was of Corpus Chrifti College, in Cambridge, &c.

soo H U N D R E D 0 F

l6s. ob. Hevingham re£lory42l. clear yearly value fj
fo that it is difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths, and
is capable of augmentation. The archdeacon hath
no power to vific the church, the parifh beirig exempt
from archidiaconal jurifdi&ion, as .being one of the
Hianors belonging to the fee. There is a reclory-
houfe, and about twelve acres of glebe, among the
old revenues taken away from the fee, Hevingham,
manor, palace, park, advowfon of the reclory, Sec.

The advowfon was granted by itfelf to Richard
Cromwell, alias Williams, who in 1544 had licence
to fell it to Thomas Hall, or Holl, whofe fon, Tho-
mas, in 1572 fold it to Richard Catlynn, and his
heirs.; but afterwards being again veiled in the crown,
James I. granted it to fir Henry Hobart, attorney-ge-
neral, and ever fince it hath paffed with the manors,
and continues to do fo flill.

Thomas Bulwer, gent, of Buxton, gave lool. to
the poor here.

HEYDON, or HAYDON. The town of Heydon
is not known by that name in Doomfday-book, but
tvas then in Eynsford hundred, and was called Sti-
netuna, or Stinton, which is faid now to be in
Sail, becaufe the manor-houfe was after wards , tho*
anciently, removed into the part of Stinton manor
that extended into Sail bounds, whither a Saxon was
lord of it at the Confeffor's furvey, from whom the
Conqueror took it, and gave it to William de War-
renna, or Warren, of whom Ralph held it at the
Conqueror's furvey. When carl Ralph forfeited his

eflate

•f- In the new value It fiands by the name of Hevingham,
*lias Homngham,— Perdu Ntrmanni, 2OS. Pcrcigfanfte
is Ntrvici, 6s. 8d.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 201

cRate, the whole manor was then worth 5!. and rofe
to 7!. the town was above a mile long, and half as
much broad, and paid iid. to the king's tax to-
wards every 205. raifed in the hundred.

The prefent name of Heydon, or Haydon, as it
is commonly called, fignifies the High-down, or
Plain on the Hill, which is agreeable to its frtuation j
it is in the liberty of the Duchy of Lancaller, and.
had a weekly market, now difufed, which was kept
on the Market-green, on the fouth fide of the church.

This manor continued in the Warrens till they
infeoffed William Caincto, or Cheyney, in it, who
tvhen he founded his priory of regular canons at Eafl
Ru'dham, about 1143, (afterwards removed by John
Cheyney to Coxford) gave it to that houfe; for by
the record, called Te/la de jYevile, it appears that all
Heydon was of the carl Warren's fee, of whom the
prior of Coxford held it at two fees, but afterwards
alienated it from that monaflcry ; for in i 239 John
de Corpufly was lord, and fettled it on himfelf for
life, and then to Roger de Clere, and his heirs ; /this
Roger divided it, parting from one half and the ad-
vowfon to John de Brus, or Brewfc, and this was the
manor called Heydon, alias Stinton-hall ; and the
other half he fold to Peter le Butilicr, or Butler,
which was afterwards called Heydon manor only.

In 1256 Roger Brewfe was lord of Stinton, alias
Heydon, and had a pillory allowed him there; and
in 1267 Richard de Brewfe had it, who in 1285 had
thefe liberties allowed in Eire, viz. view of frank-
pledge, aflize of bread and ale, a common gallows,
pillory, and ducking-ftool.

O la

so* HUNDRED OF

In 1310 fir Giles, de BrcuTc, of Stinton-hall,
ov.'ntd the manor and leec, and market there; and it
appears that the feet till this time belonged to Caw-
fton manor, to which the lord of this manor paid 53.
per annum for it, it being granted from Cawfton,
with the part of Heydon advovvfon belonging to ic,
by John, (on of fir Hubert de Burgh, fo that Heydon:
advowfon afterwaids belonged to Stinton manor
wholly. Sir John Brewfe occurs lord about 1330,
and wr.s a knight in 1335, when he held this manor
arid advowfon in Siinton, Heydon, Corpufly, and
Oulton, of the barony of the lord Say, and that
lord held it in capite.

\
Sir Thomas Brewfe, of Stinton-hall, in Sail, knt.

was lord and patron in 1476, and died about 1489,
and after the death of Elizabeth, his fecond wife, who
prefentcd here as his widow in 1497, it went to fir
Roger Townfhend, one of the judges of the Com-
mon-pleas, in right of Ann, his wife, daughter and
cohcirefs of fir William, (on and heir of the laid fir'
Thomas Brewfe. who had for his eldefl fon and heir
fir Roger Townfhend, who was knighted in 1525,
but he did not pofiefs this manor ; for at the death of
the lady Ann Townfhend, his mother,- in ly1}!, it
came to Roger, next heir to fir Roger Townfhend,
who died without iffue, and he being then a minor,
was in the wardfliip of Philip and Mary, and was
lord and patron here in 1576. In his time, viz. anno
1581, there was a mofl fair and per feel drag, or ex-
tent, of the manor of Stinton-hall, in Sail, Hcydon,
and other adjacent villages, made by John Goodwin,
then fupervifor of the manors of the faid Roger
Townfhend, efq. which is a fine folio M. S. now in
the poffeffion of the lord of the manor, with this
acroftic and verfcs at its beginning :

LECTORI

SOUTH ERPINGHAJ»i, sej

LECTORI BENEVOLO.

i nfpice per totura, le&or, non invide, libru Mt
N ec poteris magna quicquam reprchendere culp A
R es facile minimum faciles abfolvit acume N

0 mnis at in tamo, mens eft fundenda labor E
G randis enim labor eft, et qua? folertia majo R
E fie potefi? quod majus opus? quam mente fcicnt I
R ura fatigato peragranda patienda curf U

1 pfius ante tuilm breviter proponere vifu M
T alia per cenas funt hie quafi tfadita claffe S

0 mnia pfoponit, quas rare videre licebi T
V t tibi quxque domi pateant manifefte fedent I
V illas hie videas, hie arva viremia, necno N
N igrantes Lucos, qui vertice Sydera tangjun T
S tagna Paludofo cernaS circilndata June Of
E t varium currens fmuofo tramite flumen N
N on defunt Iseti praebentes pafcua camp I
D ulcia prata legas, divcrfo confita flor E

1 nfuper hie qu^cunque tenent a'greftia nomen N
A nte tuos, quieunquc Icgis, iunt obia vultu S
R es etiam recle fofmis Jiber omnibus ill E
M enfurat, vercque refert, ut planius iftic G
J nfpicias propria defcriprum quidque figar A-
G randior ifte labor fi .fit, miiiiiame lecio R
E x opera fcriptum, fcribcntii. confide libru M
R ugas, oro, cave, placida lege fmgula front E
1 fla tuum n»iu rite docet Ciemcmia nome N.*

Quifquis cs, hue torvoqui flectis lumine
Et tacito noflrum -murmure carpis opus,
Antea quam carpas, fi pom's, corrige cuipaS,
Aut raeliore meo dodior addc libro.
Hoc benc fi poffis, tamen hie male crimina carptS,
Debuerant veuiam, nam meruiffe tuara,
Sed me«i fi carpis, cum tu nihil addcre poiTrs,
Efl tibi ridkuli fiena propino viri.

*t74 H U N D R E D O F

At Roger's death, in i^go, he was fucceeded bv
his cldcfl fon, Cr John Townfhcnd, knt. at whole
death, in 1603, lady Ann, his widow, had it, and
prefemed in 1612; and after her death fir Roger
Townfhend, bart. enjoyed it till the year 1643, when
lie fold it to Eiafmus Eark, efq. ferjeant at law, who
purchafed and joined the feveral manors of this
town, all which continue in the representative of his
family at this day.

To the manor of Stinton hall belong, i. the
queen's leet, held by the lord of Stinton yearly, on
Lammas day; 2. Heydon leet, which includes Cor-
pufly wholly, and great part of Oulton ; 3. Stinton,
or St. Andrew's leet, becaufe held on that day ; this
leet extends into Sail and Wcod-Dalling, and the leet-
fce paid by the tenants is 2S. ^d. ob. q. 4. Heydon
St. Andrew's leet, which includes part of Sail, and all
are in the diift of Stinton leet, and to this manor be-
loured the patronage of Sail and Heydon.

The fines are at the will of the lord, it gives
dower, arid the cuftom is gavel-kind, and the herioc
on defeent is 2s. Sd.

HEYDON, cum Mcmbris* Heydon manor being
parted, as is before obfcrved, from Stinton, and veiled
in Peter Butler, it was by him divided into many
uuder-manors, or fees, which took their names from
the feveral owners ; but the principal part, called
Heydon manor, came to Maud de Lqnga-Spata, or
Long Spec; and in 1285, Beatrix, widow of John
de Corpufty, had an intcreft in it. In 1315 it be-
longed to Edmund Bacon, who with Simon de Cre-
ping, the prior of Coxford, Ay mer^de Valence, earl
of Pembroke, Sec. had lordfhips here.

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In 1327 fir Richard Mortoft lived at Mortoft, in
Heydon-fiela*, and had one of the fraall manors
here.

In 1401 Thomas de Morley held Heydon manor
of the honor of Rhye ; and in 1404 it was found
that Elizabeth, wife of fir William Heydon, daugh-
ter and heirefs of fir John Say, held one of the under-
manors here, called Loverd's, (frorn a family of chat
name, to whom Batlcr firfl granted it) of the king,
as parcel of the Duchy of Lan'cafter.

The ancient family of the Heydons took their
name from this town, where they originally fprung •
but as their chief refidcnce, when in full pro (perky,
was at Baconflhorpe, we have fpoken of them ac
large under that place.

In 1476 John Heydon died lord of Loverd's ; af-
terwards (about 1493) Heydon manors came to the
Dynnes, an ancient family here, of which grea,c
numbers are buried in the church.

In 1517 died Henry Dynne, of Heydon, efq,
feifed of Pinkny-hall manor, in Tatterfet, and tbofe
of Begviles, Lucy's, and Tatterfet, Heydon, Tatter-
ford, and BroomAhorpe, befides others in Heydon,
Sail, and Oulton ; he was buried in this church.

In 1572 fir Chriflopher Heydon had a manor here ;

but in 15&1 the whole came to be vefted in Henry

Dynne, of Heydon, efq. one of the auditors of the

Exchequer u> queen Elizabeth, and he it was that

O 3 built

* Toftum Mortu6rum,{o that we imagine this Hey-down in tbe
, .Field to have been an ancient burial place of the Romans. Mor-
toft, or Toft, is now included in Heydon.

io6 HUNDRED OF

built Heydon-hall, the prefcnt feat of William Wig-
get Bulvver, efq. which is a good flrong building,
pleafantly fituated, not far diftant from 'the church,
northwards ; he was buried here in 1386.

In 1588 William Golfer, fenior, fettled his manors
of Heydon, Leeches, Coxfoid's, Lewes, Overbcck's,
Benfield's, Loverd's, Creping's, &c. (all which were
now joined, and fold on the death of auditor Dynne)
and extended into Heydon, Sail, 8cc. on William
Golfer, jun. and Richard Golfer ; after this it came
to Robert Kemp, efq. who was buried here in 1616;
and in {650 fir Robert Kemp, of Finchingfield, in
Effex, his ("on, fold all his eftate in Heydon, and Sail,
to John Earle, efq.

The manor of Heydon, cum Membris, in general
makes the eldeft fon the heir ; but the fines of the fe-
veral united manors are various ; thofe ex parle Lewes
are arbitrary; thofe ex parle. Grcpings as. an acre ;
the fines, ex parle Howard's, Overbeck's, Loverd's,
&c. are 45. an acre.

The family of Erie, or Earle, who were for feveral
generations lords of this place, is of great antiquity,
and had its origin in the adjacent town of Sail, which
is very remarkable for its giving rife to three of the
ancient families of this county, viz. Fountaine,
Briggs, andEavle. About 1350 it feems as if the
family divided ; for Alexander le Earle owned an
eflate at Willingham, and Sotterly, in Suffolk, and
was fettled there ; but William le Earle, his brother,
we fuppofe, as the eldeft, continued at Sail ; for we
find in 1360 he owned an eftate there, which hath
continued in the family to this day. The eftate de-
fcended lineally from father to fon; and Erafmus
iiarlc, efq. baptized at Sail, September 20, 1590, was

fen*

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 207

fent early to Norwich fchool, and after he had paffed
through his ftudies there, was admitted ftudent of
FurnivaTs inn ; but removing thence, was admitted
of Lincoln's -inn, April 7, 1612. In 1639 he was
autumnal lecturer of that P>ciety, and bencher of it
in the years 163-,, 6, 7, 8, 9, 40, and 41, and /oc
fome time treafurcr there : and havinar made great

proficiency in the law, he became concerned for
many principal people, but efpecially tranfactcd the
affairs of the chief families of his own county, and
behaved with fo much reputation, that in 1644 he
and Mr. Thurloe were fecretaiies for the Englifh a(
the treaty of Uxbridge ; and on the i 2th of Oclo-
ber, 1(143, he was called to the degree of ferjeant at
law; and the fame year fucceeded William Denny,
cfq. as fteward of Norwich city ; and the latter part
of it was chofen recorder there, in ihc room of Sa-
muel Smith, efiq. in which pofl he continued till
1633. December 6. 1641, he was fent with a com-
miflion of Over and Terminer to Norwich, though
the trials did not come on till Chriftmas-day, and
afterwards fent with the like commiffion the York cir-
cuit, in the long parliament, begun 1640, he was
chofen member for Norwich city ; when Oliver
Cromwell took upon him the protc&orfhip, he made
him his own icrjeanr, and after his death lie enjoyed
the fame pott under his fon, Richard, being likewife
ferjeant to the common-wealth. Such was his repu-
tation in bufmefs, being efleemed one of the mod
*ible lawyers of his time, that in the Norfolk circuit
he had almoft monopolized it: at the federation he
took the benefit of the king's pardon, and was on
the sift of June, 1660, again called to the degree of
ferjeant at law, with fir Thomas Bedingfield, Hugh
W'indham, John Fountaine, and others, and Conti-
nued in great reputation and bufineis to the end of
his days. /

04 He

HUNDRED OF

He raifed a good eflate, and among many other
purchafes, bought the manors of Sail, Cavvitcn, and
Heydon ; to the laft of which he removed from Sail,
and ihe manor-houfe, called Hcydon-hali, hath been
the feat of the family everfmce: he married Frances,
daughter of James Fountaine, of Sail, efq. February
5.5, 1616, and (lie was buried at Heydon, ,September
13, 1671, and had four ions and two daughters:
having lived to a good old age, ke died at Heydon,
September 7, 1667, and is buried in the eaft chapel
of the north ' aile, under an exceeding large altar
tomb, over which is a mural monument, with his
arms and infcription.

John Earle, efq. his eldeft fon, was baptized at
Sail, in April, 1622; was admitted of Pembroke-
hall, in July, 1640; was afterwards of Lincoln Vinn,
barrifler at law, and fheriff* of Norfolk in the year
1(154 ; he married Sarah, one of the daughters of fir
John Hare, of Stow Bardolph, knt. file died in 1667,
and was buried at Heydon, by whom he himfelf
v.ras alfo interred, in 1697. His eldefl fon, Ralph
Earle, of Sail, efq. was admitted fellow-commoner,
of Pembroke-hall, under the tuition of Mr. Neech,
in 1672, but died fingle in 1679, and was buried by
his grandfather^ at Heydon.

Erafmus Earle, of Heydon, efq. fccond fon of
John, became heir at his father's death ; he married
Eleanor, daughter and foje heirefs of Auguftine
Cattle, of Raveningham, efq. having been fellow-
commoner of Pembroke-hall, under the tuition of
Dr. Browne, and high flieritf of Norfolk in the year

1690 ;

* His expences at Norwich affizes only was 426!. 45. id,
C. Compot'.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 209

1690 ; he was buried at Heydon, in March, 1721%
and flic in 1 736 ; they had four fons.

1. John Earle, gentleman-commoner of Univer-
fity College, in Oxford, died finglc in i 721, before
his father.

2. Erafmus Earle, efq. was admitted penfioner of
Pembroke-hall, under the tuition of Dr. Long, the
mailer ; lie married Hannah-Maria, filler to Thomas
de Grey, efq. of Merton, in 1717, widow of James
Cakhorpe, efq. and left by her, one fon only, who
died without iifue.

The faid Erafmus died at Bath, October 28, 1 728,
and was interred at\ Heydon the icjiu of November
following, but left no ilfue,

4. Edward Earle, the fourth fon, was born in
1697, and died unmarried in 1 70,1, fo that the whole
eftate came to the third fon, at the death of his bro-
ther Erafmus, viz.

Auguftinc Earle, efq. of Heydon, one of the ho-
norable commiffioners of the excife, and fellow of
the fociety of antiquaries in London, who died lord
of the feveral manors of Heydon, Sail, Cawflon,
Thirnin^, Briflon, Corpufly, Oulton, 8cc. in the
year 1762; he married Frances, daughter and fole
heirefs of Robert Blaicklork, of Seafcale-hall, in
Cumberland, efq. (he died alfo in 1762, by whom.

f February 18, 1714, he flood candidate to reprefent the
county of Norfolk along with fir Ralph Hare, bart. his uncle,
oppofing fir Jacob Aftley, bart. and Thomas de Grey, efq. but
without fuccefs ; the numbers being for Hare 2840, Earle 2635,
305 9, de Grey 3183.

sio HUNDRED OF

be had feveral fons and daughters, three only of
which furvived him, viz.

l. Erafmus Earle, efq. his elded fon, who was ad-
mitted fellow-commoner of Pernbroke-hall, under die
tuition of Dr. Long, the late mafter ; he was clecled
fellow of St. Peter's College, in Cambridge, and chofen
member of the fociety of antiquaries in London : he
died in 1768, and was buried in the family vault at
I leydon, where his father and mother arc alfo in-
terred.

«. Mary, the cldeft daughter, and afterwards co*
heirefs of her brother, married William YVigget
Bulwer, of Wood-Dalling, efq. by whom fhe has
now living four fons and three daughters ; [for a far-
ther acccount of which family, fee more at largo,
under Wood-Dalling, in Eynsford hundred.] Mr.
Bulwer has now his refidence at Heydon-hall, to
which feat, and eflate thereto belonging, he Succeeded
in right of his wife, and by purchafe of a moiety of
the other daughter,

9,. Elizabeth, and coheirefs, who married fir Henry
Calder, bait, of Park-houfe, 'near Maidftone, in
Kent, now a major-general fcrving in America, by
whom at prefent fhe has no iffuc.

"Heydon, the feat of William Wigget Bulwer, efq,
is a good old family houfe, pleafantly fituated amidft
Ibme rich plantations : a view of which, taken by
Mr. H. Repton, and prefented to this work by Mr.
Bulwer, we are happy to accommodate our readers
with.

The church is dedicated to St. Peter and Paul, and
is a redory not capable of augmentation, it beingj

charged

SOUTH ERPINGHA1M si t

charged \viih firfl-fruks and yearly tenths ; for it Hands
thus in the king's books: 9!. iSs. 6d. ob. Heydon
reclory 195. 8d. ob. yearly tenths. The prior of St.
Faith 'had as many revenues as were eftimated a|
twenty marks ; the prior of Coxford had gs. $d. it*
annual rents; and the prior qf Lewes 273. It is laid
at 460!. to the land ta:i.

The prefentation to this rectory was long in th»
Bravfe family, till 1497.

In 1472 Richard Hokele, or Hokell, one of the

fcrving chaplains in this church ever fince 1445, gave

five marks for a new bell, and was buried in the

•north aile, and his brafs infcribcd* obijt April 18,

1472.

In 1706, July 19, the church of Heydon was
confolidated with Irminglaud ; and in 1777 the Rev.
James Athill was prefented to the united rectory by
William Wigget Bulvver, efq.

There is a reclory-houfe on the eafl part of the
church-yard, and a croft of three acres adjoining,
befides other glebes in Heydon and Corpuily; an4
in 1480 there were eighteen acres one rood of glebe,
find is. 6d. rent.

The church is a good regular building, having 5.
nave, two ailes, and chancel, covered with lead; the
north veftry is in decay ; there is a handfome fquare
tower and three bells, and north and fouth porches,
tiled.

There arc many memorials for the Dynnes, an aq-
family refiding here.

John

sis H U N D R E D O F

John Dynnc built the rood-loft, and his name is
flill on the door. The prefcnt church was re-built at
this time, to which he was a conliderable benefactor.

Here are alfo fevcral flones for this family with
their infcriptions rent off, and on feme their arms
remain.

An altar-tomb at the eaft end of the fouth aile,-— -
For Robert Kempe, efq. who dejcended of that ancient fa-
wjly of Spanefliall, in EJfex, obijt July, 1615; an<^
next him his wife, Mrs. Frances Kempe, -who died De-
(ember, 1633.

Here are alfo tomb-floncs, and brafs plates of
others, as Kemp, Caftell, Tavcrner, and Drury.

A black marble at the eaft end of the fouth aile
Golfer impaling a chev. between three mullets.- — Ed'
•ward Golfer, efq, counsellor at law, late of Lincoln's-
inn, who died at Ayljhamin 1657, aged 65.

At |the weft end of the church, againft the north
pillar of the fteeple, — Here lieth the body of Nicholas
Steward Balchelor, obijt 2 OEl. 1708, a 'tat. 75; he
was bailiff to Erafmus Earle, of Heydon, ejq. for the
fpace of twenty-nine years, during which time he ap-
proved himjelf a faithful and honejt fcrvant, in the dif-
charge of fo great a trujl, and as a grateful tejlimony of
his love for the family, wherein he had fo long ferved, he
bequeathed all he had (except a few legacies) to thejaid
Erafmus Earle, efq. who in confideration of his faithful
fervices, caujed this monument to be erecled to his memory,
A. D. 1711.

A black marble in the altar, Earle's creft and arms

quartering de Grey To the memory of Erafmns

Eat It,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 113

, late of Heydon, ejq. who died at Bath, October
ig, 1728, aged 36 years.

Earle alfo impales Caflle, in a lozenge, — Eleanor
Earle, the rdift of Erafmus Earle, ejq. Jlic died Feb. \ 2,
J733> aged 66 years.

A black marble, — For the Rev. Arthur Gallant, latt
rt&or of Brinton, and Htydon cum Irmingland, whQ
dud July $, 1713, aged 56 years.

The windows are much defaced, but were for-
merly adorned with many faints, confcffors, martyrs,
Sec. as the legend of St. Margaret in a fouth window;
Sts. Peter, Bartholomew, Matthew, Simon, Jude, and
Ozias, in the north windows: but there is one north
window very remarkable ; on it arc painted many
young fwearers, drunkards, dice-players, and other
profligate livers, with a reprefentation of hell, and
fuch finners as thofe in its flames, placed there no
doubt as a view and warning-piece, to deter youth
from fuch living. Twelve moral fentences are in
fcrolls from the youth's mouths ; after which is a
lamentation in the fame zealous flile of admonition.

INGWORTH, wrote in Doomfday-book Inghe-
\yurda, and Ingewrda, takes its name from its (itua-
tion by the low meadows, on the river ; the whole be-
longed to Harold, of whom a free-man held*<it in
the Confeflbr's time, and it was given to Rainald
Fitz-Ivo by the Conqueror, it being then ten furlongs
long, and eight broad, and paid igd. to the gelt to-
wards every aos. railed on the hundred.

Tocho de Wintreton held a villain here of Roger
Bigot, which he added to his manor of Hanworth,
and was the part which was afterwards a manor by

: itfcit

II tj N D R E D 0 f

Itfelf here, and was given to the priory of Hemptoif,-
near Fakenham-dam.

INGWORTH MANOR, remained in the crown from
the Conqueror's time, after Fitz-fvo's death, till Ed-
tvard I. granted to a family, fit named of the town,
one moiety of the manor and advowfon, and Henry
de Ingworth had it; and the other moiety to William
Baldwyn, of Ingworth, and their heirs.

Henry de Ingworth had five fons ; fir William, his
CikleQ, was vicar of Bungay Trinity ; he conveyed it
to Stephen de Jngworih, his next brother, when it
extended into Aylfham, Banningham,' Erpingham,
Tuttington, Blickling, and Colbv ; and from him it
came to Ralph, the next brother, who was lord hi
1256; he married Sanclia, daughter of William
Baldwin aforelaid, who in the fame year fettled i sd.
per ann. in alms on Carbrook hofpital, out of a te-
nement here ; they had Hmry de Ingworth, who
died before them ; for in i 267 they were in pofleffion,
but at their death their moiety joined to Baldwin's,
for Aveline, only daughter'of Wi'.liam Baldwin, mar-
ried Nicholas Reppes, and in them the whole cen-
tred, and divided again into moieties with their tw*
daughters and heireiles ; Beatrice, married to Henry
de Colby, of Colby; and Alice, to Peter de Bramp-*
ton.

In 1285 Edward I. granted to Henry de Colby a
charter for free- waircn in all his lands here, and in
Colby; and in 1314 he held it at half a fee of the
honor of Clare ; in 1320 had a charter for a fair
here. In 1342 John de Colby, his fon, had the
other moiety of the advowfon and manor, at the death
of Alice, widow of Peter de Bra nip ton, his aunt j
and in 1345 held the whole at one fee of Clare ho-
nor,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 215

nor. In 1351 he was a knight. In 1365 fir John
fold the whole of his eftate here, and in Aylfham,
Erpingham, Blickling, and Oulton, to George Fel-
brigg, and his feoffees, after his own deceafe ; he was
alive in 1572, and died before 1400 ; for fir George
was dead, and Robert de Felbrigg, his fon, then a
minor, was in the king's wardfhip; and from that
time it pafled from the Felbriggs to the Windhams,
and now William Windham, of Felbrigg, efq. is
lord and patron.

The PRIOR'S, alias HOE'S MANOR, was anciently
held by Henry de Hemefby, and Robert dc Blund;
and after by the prior of Hcmpton, at the fourth
part of a fee, of the honor of Clare ; George Fel-
brigg farmed it of that monaftery, which was taxed
for temporals here at 5!. is. 6d. At the diffolutipn
in 1545 Henry VIII. gave it to fir William Farmor,
knt, who fold it to Richard Hoe, of Seaming, gent,
it then contained ten meffuages, 348 acres of land,
and 5!. rents, one pound of cumin feed, and ten
hens, in Ingworth, Erpingham, Colby, Itteringharn,
Carleton, and Stanfield : it was afterwards (about
1630) aligned to Roberta, daughter and coheirefs
of Richard Hoe, married to Francis Steward ; and
in 1663 George Steward fold it to George Nodes,
and others, and it is faid to be fince purchafed by
the Windhams.

William Rufus gave a mediety of this church to
Battle Abbey, in Suifex, with the fee that Brithric the
re&or of it then held, namely, the land of one foe-
man, in Aylfham manor, but it was not confirmed.

In 1217 John de Ingworth* fettled fix acres on the
ie£ior, for glebe, to him and his fucceiFors.

Kin*

King John gave the mediety that remained in the
crown to John of St. Edmund's Bury, prieft, who
held it in 1223.

In !2oX an acre and half of land was fettled for
glebe on this mediety ; and in 1240 the king pre-
fentcd. In 1256 Henry III. gave it to Roger de
Everfham; but in 1299 it was in Edward I. It af-
terwards paffed with the manor to the Felbriggs and
Windhams.

In 1339 the king recovered one mediety, and per-
fentcd; and in 1416 fir Simon dc Felbrigg, km. ob-
tained this mediety of the crown, and got them per-
petually united ; and in 1426 he prcfented as to one
rectory.

In 1747 the Rev. Allen Aldhoufe was prefcntcd to
the re&ory of Ingvvorth, by the late Afli \Vindhant,
cfq. of Felbrigg.

It is valued to the land tax at 217!. the reflory is
difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths, and is capable of
augmentation ; it ftands in the king's book as a liv-
ing capable of augmentation, — " 5!. Ingvvorth rec-
tory— clear yearly value 33!."

The church is dedicated to St. Laurence, and not
to St. Andrew, as fome have obferved ; and there was
a guild of St. Laurence kept in it. The fleeple is
round and hath two bells; the fouth porch, nave,
and chancel, are thatched. We find no memorials
here, befides the arms of Mortimer, Wigmore,
Walcote, Felbrigg, and Colby.

In 1507 Thomas Dobbys gave a legacy towards
building the parfonage-barn, and another to make a

new

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new crofs. In 1510 Richard Mey, of Aylfham,
gave to the church of Ingworth a meadow, lying in
Blickling, ,011 the fouth-weft part of the church of
IrriwoTTri. abutting on Inorworth common north, on

w C/ ^

this condition, " that the chirch-reevys fliall find the
fhafiale, that is to fay, to them that cume in procef-
fion to the aforefaid chirch of Yngworth, on the
Monday on the Rogacion-dayes fufficiently ; alfo I
will that he that fhail make the fermon that daye,
Thall have of the faid meadow iiijd. to pray for my '
iole and my wyvys."

Brpomhill priory had lands here, and the abbot
of Bury's manor in Aylfham, called Sexton's, ex-
tended hither, and the facrift of that monaftery was
taxed at 2js. $d. for the part here, which was added
to by the family of Ingworth, 8cc.

John (Nepos, le Neve, or the Nephew, Sacerdotis
de Ingworth) was the anceflor of the le Neves, of
Ingworth, and Banningham. John le Neve, of
Ingworth, in 1267, was a man of foitune and note.
In 1297, Emma, his widow, lived here ; and John,
their fon, in 1282 ; and their poflerity increalcd and
difperfed much in thefc parts.

This town is in the Duchy of Lancafter, and is
the head town of the deanry, which takes its name
from it, the deans of which were all collated by the
bifhops of Norwich.

Ingworth lies on the road from Aylfham to
Cromer.

IRMINGLAND, called in moft maps ARMING-
LAND, and in Doomfday-book is wrote Erminclanda.
Edric, a Dane, owned Irmingland at the Confellbr's
P futvey,

H U N D R E D O F

furvcy, and it contained two caiucates, one belonged
to the lords in demcfne, arid the other was in his te-
nants hauds ; the whole was then of aos. per arm.

Value.

At the conqucfl it fell to Walter Giffard by that
prince's gift, and was then worth 305. per annum ;
the town was fix furlongs long, and as much broad,
and paid gel. gelt towards every aos. raifed in the
hundred. This was afterwards called Whitefoot-
hall Marior.

Tn.rold, a Saxon, and Herold, a Dane, had two

other parts here, which came to William de Warren.
of the Conqueror's gift, as part of the lands allotted
him on the exchange of Lewes-caille, and this was
afterwards called the manor of Hafting's-hall.

Ernald, reclor of Jrmingland, was living before
it entered into the pope's head to forbid lawful
matrimony to the clergy ; for Margaret, daughter of
Ernald, recior of Irmingland, by deed without date,
granted lands in Oulton, of the fee of Roger de Sax*
lingham, to Ralph de Irmingland.

In 1308 John de Cokefield recovered the advowfon
by fuit againfl Hugh Xirrel, of Mannington, and
presented.

Sir William de Birflone conveyed the advowfon in
1327 to Peter de Birftone, who in 1343 fettled the
advowfon on divers truftees ; and they and the truf-
tees in 1345 conveyed it abfolutely to the prior and
convent of Munge, or Montjoy, in Heveringland,
that convent having obtained a licence in mortmain
from Kchvard III. for that purpofe: and on the 24th
133 2, it was appropriated to that houie by

ihs

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 219

the bifhop of Norwich, who referved a penfion to
him and his fucceflbrs of 303. the convent was to
receive the whole, and fervc it by one of their own
canons, or pay a flipendiary prieft for that purpofe»

In 1428 the prior paid las. to one tenth for this
church, and 45. ob. qr. for his temporals here, the
church bein* valued at nine marks.

In 1490 the prior leafed the irripropriation to Tho-
mas Beits, of Irmingland, for ninety years ; and in
1530 it was difappropriated by confent/ of all per-
fons concerned ; and William Halls, efq. now^fole
patron, prefer] ted fir Robert Schillet chaplain to the
re-inftated reciory; at whofe death, in 1557, Wil-
liam Wodehoufe, efq. gaVe it to fir Thomas Bury,
who held it united to Saxthorpe.

In 15,57, May 2o, fir Reginald Thompfon was in-
ftituted by Robert Knowles* notary-public, his proxy^
and had it pcrfonaliy united to Corpufly vicarage.
It is plain that Irmingland church was now in ufc;
for on application for a perpetual union* whieh wa»
obtained, he gave fecurity to fcrve both churches as-
ufual.

'In 1572 Sir Chriflopher Heydon, kht. patron of
both, prefented to the vicarage of Corpuity, and
rectory of Irmingiand, perpetually united; but iu
1615 fir Chriftopher Heydon, knt. got it difunitcd
by the bifhop.

There were many fuits about this advpwlbn, Gr
Edward Clere claimed it as impropriate, aud con-
cealed, and to.ok a grant of the advawfcm from queea
Elizabeth ; one William Bois lia'd another grant from
lung James I. but to up p.urpo{£, it -being diiappf««
ij 2 • ; ;.uvd

220 H U N D R E D O F

priated before the difTolution,' and granted by the
convent to Halls, fo that it never came to the crown
at the diffolution.

In 1627 Thomas Kncvet, of Afliwelthorpe, pre-
fented ; and in 1660 Edmund Bacon, efq. of Hock-
\vold, fold the advowfon to John Earle, of Heydon.

In 1706, July 19, this reclory was confolidatcd
•with Heydon; and in 1777 William Wigget Bulwer,
efq. prefented the Rev. James Athill to thofe united
churches, p. j.

The church was dedicated to St. Andrew, but is
•now ploughed up, fo that there are no apparent
ruins of it ; it ftnnds thus in the king's books: — 5!.
Irmingland recloty, 29!. clear yearly value, — fo that
it is discharged of firft-fruits and tenths, and is ca-
pable of augmentation.

The town is in the liberty of the Duchy of Lan-
cafter, and hath not above two or three houfes in it :
it paid al. I ss. to each tenth, of which fum the reli-
gious paid for their revenues here sos. it is valued to
the. land tax and county rate with Corpufly.

The prior of Wayborne was tared at yd. for his
temporals here; the abbot of Langley at $s. and the
portion of the prior of Norwich was a mark a year,
-being a compofition for two fLeaves out of three of
the" tithes of the demefnes of John de Irmingland.
which was paid to the cellarer ; this portion the bi-
fhop appropriated to the convent.

HASTING'S-HALL MANOR. The firfl we find of
this manor is, that Ofbert de Summerlcton held it at
hair a fee, aud that Robert de Baconflhorpc held it

221

of him, and that John de Raveninghara had it of
him. In 1303 Hugh Tirrel, of Mannington, had
an intcreft in it. In 1323 it was found to be held of
Caftle Acre caftle. John de Dalling, and John de
Bintre, who lived at Binlre, were Lords in the latter
end of Edward I. and in 1332 Thornasde Bintre had .
it. In 1340 Ik George de Felbrigg purchafed the re-
verfion of John de Carleton ; and in 1378 fold it to
William Mailings, of Aylfham, vvhofe name the
manor flill retains. The heirs after conveyed the
manor to John Bates, of Oulton, fen. and fo it be-
came joined to

The MANOR of WHITEFOOT'S-HALL, which an-
ciently belonged to a numerous family firnamed from
the town ; in 1196 Warine de Irmingland, and God-
fry de Irmingland, held it at the 3d part of a fee, as
parcel of the honor of Clare; but the* manor was
ibid by Ralph Irmingland, in 1327, to Thomas
Whkefoot; it being mortgaged, was fold to John,
Bettes, fen. who afterwards joined the two manors,
as they now remain.

HASTINGS-HALL, cum WHITEFOOT'S-HALL MA-
NORS, were thus vefted in John Bettes, fen. who
died about 1450, and fettled them on Thomas Bettes,
his fon, who was chief ftcward to fir Miles Staple-
ton, of Ingham, knt. and one of his feoffees ; he
.married Alice, daughter of John Bertram, elq. about
•1458. In 1471 he was fecretary to Catherine du-
^chefs of Norfolk*. In 1598 the whole was (old to

P 3 Thomas

* In 1^39 Robert Bettes, of Irmingland, was admitted a
imember-of the fraternity of St. George in the Tower of Lon-
don, to encreafe the fcience of (hooting in long-bows, and
, hand-guns, throughout England, Ireland, Wales, Calais, -and
:the Marches, by fir Chriftopher Norris, knt. matter of the ord-
"nance, Anthony Knevet, and Peter Mcutas, gentlemen
of the privy chamber, 'and others.

222 HUNDRED OF

Thomas Catlyn, of Lakenham, and his heirs, vvho
in 1604 fold the whole to fir Nath. Bacon, knt. and
Dame Dorothy, his wife, in truft for his faid lady,
and Win. Roberts Smith, her fon ; he built Irming-
land-hall,and fixed this infcription over the doort: — >
Nathaniel Bacon, miles, anno ataiis fua 63, pro Doro^
then uxore, el Gulielmo-Roberds Smith, Jilio ejujdem Do-
rothea, has cedes erexit anno 1 609.

In the windows of the farm-houfe, which was the
old hall, are the arms of Bcttes ; Beues impaling
Baniard, ditto impaling Bardewell, and Bettes im-
paling YVigmore, anno 1585.

This family of the Smiths are defcendcd from fir
Thurftan Smith, of Cratfield, in Suffolk, knt. Simon
Smith, of Cratfield, had William, whole fon, Simon,
of Winfton, in Norfolk, and Bcccles, in Suffolk,
married the filler and heirefs of William Roberts,
town-clerk of Yarmouth, and attorney at law in Bee-
tles, vvho purchafed feveral manors.

William Roberts Smith xvas of Cambridge and
Grey's-Inn, but died fingle in 1609, and left Irming-
land, Burgh-caftle, 8cc. to fir Owen Smith, knt. his
brother, who fettled here ; he was buried in the
north chapel of Oulton church, March 21, 1637,
aged 43 ; and married Alice, eighth daughter of fir
John Crofts, of Saxham, in Suffolk, knt. who out-
lived him 41 years, being buried by him in 1678;
flie left Ann, baronefs of Lovelace, daughter of
Thomas earl of Cleveland, her executrix.

Thomas

•f- It appears that the Houfe coft 33911,65. 3d. when the
ivhole eftate coft but 2886!. 195. lod. and that he built it at the
requeft of his lady, and her fon.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 213

Thomas Smith. ofWinfton, efq. fon and heir of
fir Owen, died June 6, 1^39, and by his own appoint-
ment was buried in the church-yard of Gillingham
All Saints, but left a daughter, Frances, who married
Charles Fleetwood. of Nevvington, in Middlefex;
and 'n 1648 Simoi Smith, of Winfton, fettled the
Smiths eftatc on 'hem. This Charles was fon to
major-genial Charles Fleetwood, fo well known in
the ufurpation ; they were fucceeded by (heir fon, "
Smith Heel wood, efq. who married Mary, daughter
of fir John Hartopp : the faid Smith Fleetwood was
born at Feltwell St. Mary in 1644, and was buried
by his father, at Stoke Nevvington, in Middlefex.

Charles Fleetwood, efq. their fon and heir, had
Irmingland arid Winfton, and lived at Nevvington,
but died fingle, and the efiate defcended to Smith
Fleetwood, efq. his brother, of Wood-Dalling, who
was buried there O&ober 28, 1726, aged 52. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Athill, fince
re- married to John Gibfon, efq. who is dead; they
had one daughter, Elizabeth, married to Fountain El-
win, gent, of Thurning, where he was buried by Fleet-
wood, his only child by the faid Elizabeth, in 1735 ;
but Elizabeth, his wife, was buried at Balling, Dec.
9, 1732, in the 2 2d year of her age. On the at-
chicvement for her in this church are the arms of
Elwin impaling Heetwood.

On her death the efiate went to her aunts ; for be-
fides the aforefaid two fons, Smith Fleetwood had by
Mary Hartopp fix daughters, viz.

1. Mary, who married Mr. Abraham Covcney,
and died in 1720, without iflue, and is buried at
Wood-Dalling.

P 4 2. Frances,

5*4

HUNDRED OF

2. Frances, who died Tingle.

5. Elizabeth, who died fingle, in 1728.

4. Carolina, who died alfo fingle, at Newington.

5. Ann, married to William Gogncy, and died at
Booton, without iffue.

So that Irmingland came to the Cxth daughter,
Mrs. Jane Fleetwood, who enjoyed the eftate fome
time, and at her deceafe (lie bequeathed it to —
Hurlock, the only child of governor Hurlock, by a
daughter of the late fir John Hartopp, bait. Mifs
Hurlock lately married Edmund Cradock, efq. who
has taken the name of Hartopp.

Irmingland-hall is yet a very (lately pile of build-
ing, though it is now converted into ieveral fpacious
tenements; the rooms are lofty, and not finall ; it
acquires a degree of veneiablenefs irom having been
often the refidence of Oliver Cromwell, who per-
haps in this very houfe laid (ome of thole plans for
reforming the abufes of monarchical prerogative,
whilfl he little thought how difficult it would one
day be to limit the defircs of arbitrary fway in his
own perfon.

A view of the houfe, drawn by Mr. H. Repton,
of Suflead, is given in this work.

ITTERINGHAM. At the Confeffor's furvev
this town was divided into three parts, or manors ;
GucQ, a Dane, held the principal one. then belong-
ing to Mannington, and was valued with it; at the
Conqueror's furvcy it was wrote Utrincham, and was

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 225 -

in his hands, and Godiic took care of k for him:
the whole was one leuca long, and half a one broad,
and paid 5d. ob. gelt. After it was conveyed from
the crown it had the fame lords as Mannington, and
fo paRed with it to the Potts, and from the heirs of
that family to the prefent lord, the right honorable
lord \Valpole, of Wokerton.

Harold was lord of the fecond manor at the firft
furvey, but William earl Warren at the Conqueror's ;
a free-man held of Harold lands, Sec. valued at 33.
In the reign of Henry II. the earl Warren enfeofted
the anceftor of the family of Wolterton in this, who
had a third part, or portion, in the advowfon of the
church; and this part paffcd, together with their ma-
nor in Wolterton, through many hands, to James
Grey, efq. and from his filters to the late lord WaL-
pole.

NOWERS-HALL, or NETHER-HALL MANOR. This
third part, or manor, belonged to the fee of Nor-
wich ; William de Beaufoe, bifhop, held it at the
Conqueror's furvey ; it was valued together with.
Blickling, and was probably that part of Harold
the king's pofleflions, as Blickling was,' given by
William 1 after Harold's death, to bifhop Herfaft,
and after to bifhop Beaufoe, in fee and inheritance;
but he gave it to the church and fee of Norwich, and
it was confirmed as a bercwic to the fee by Henry I.
Soon after it was granted from Blickling to be held of
it, by a quarter of a fee; and in 1284 had the af-

fcze of bread and beer in it.

i ' •

In 1401 John Pawlcyheld it, and afterwards John
Moretoft, whofe feoffees prefented to the portion of
Nowers manor, with St. Nicholas's chapel, in 1430,

which

526 HUNDRED OF

which John defcended from fir Richard Moretoft, of
Hey don.

In 1360 John Moretoft firfl purchafed lands here;
his fon, John, was the firfl of the family that was
lord, and his grandfon, John Moretoft, the elder, of
Itteringham, gent, was buried in die chancel in 1508.
John, his fon, died lord, and left it to Eleanor, his
wife, who married William Jermy, of Metfield, in
Suffolk, and died in 1537; and Agnes, daughter
and heirefs of Edward Jermy, efq. brought it by
marriage to Thomas Paine, of Itteringham, gent.
who defcended from Adam Fitz-Paine, of Ireland, a
lawyer, vvhofe fon, Jefferv Fitz-Paine, came into
England, fludied ihc law. and raifed fortunes by his
profefTion: he had John Paine, of Itteringham, gent,
father of Thomas Paine above-mentioned ; which
Thomas had by Agnes, daughter. See. of Jenny; his.
fon and h ir, Thomas Paine, lord here, who mar-
ried Elizabeth, third daughter arid coheirefs of fir
Edward Boleyn, .km. of Blickling.

In 1538 Chriflopher Langdon, gent, was poffeffed
of it ; and in 1548 Thomas Carew; and in the
year following Edward Clere, efq. Before the year
1 5 73 it belonged to the earl of Arundel ; Philip
earl of Arundel fettled it in 1580 on Ann, his coun-
tcfs, and after it came by attainder to queen Eliza-
beth; but in 1398 Ann countcfs of Arundel held
it by virtue of the fettlement. It now belongs to
Mr. Richard Robins, of Itteringham, who had it
from his father William, and he had it from his
uncle Richard ; this manor is held of the crown by
the rent of 35. 6d. per ann.

There was alfo a fourth manor after the Conqueft
in this town, made up of fome parts of the other.

The

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. $27

The town is in the Duchy of Lancafter, and is laid
at 473!. #s. 4eL to the land tax.

The church was dedicated to St. Agnes, and after
re -dedicated to the Virgin Mary; the chancel and
church is covered wiih lead; there has been a cha*
pel on the north fide, now in ruins; the tower is
fquare, and has three bells.

In the chancel, by the altar, are two hands fup*
porting an heart j on & label over it, — 0 Bone Jefu<
(Jlo &lihi

An old grave-flone, with a brafs plate, — To Mar*
ret Lonmor, daughter of Thomas Monceues, of Wood'
Vailing, obijt Nov. 1504.

Another, — To Willidmi Lomnor, de ^

oliji April 25, 1481. — In a window Lomner impal
ing Monwa'ux.

In the church-yard is an altar-monument,— ->In
memory t>J Thomas Robins, fen. gent, who died July 26,
1726, aged 73; and Mary, his wife, May i, 1725-,
aged 65.

Another, — For Thomas Robins, gent, wfa died De-
cember 10, 1732, aged 34.

And one, — In memory of Jane Jejferies, rdiB of Dr.
John Jejferies, of JVetifhead, in this county, who died
January 28, i 736, aged 57 ; and of Mary, her daugh-
ter, widow of Thomas Robins, of iLleringham, gent. l«lc
wife of the Rev. Mr. John Fletcher t of Trunoh, who
died March 16, 1747, aged 45.

-2S^ HUNDRED OF

i In 1504 Margaret, late wife of EJvvaici Pafton,
efq. was buried in this church, and ordered her fon,
William, to give a legacy to our Lady's guild here.

. The reclory had three portions, and on each a
re&or inftituted for many years, viz. i. Woke: ton's
portion. 2. Novvcr's portion*. 3. Bintre's poi tiont.

In 1431 the re&or was prefented by John Briflon,
efq. who had obtained the patronage of the three
portions, and got them united into one redoiyljl;
but it feems a part was recovered from him; for in
the year 1447 John Whittlebury was prefented to
two portions only, by John Brifton, efq. The Rev.
James Mafon was deprived in 1554, a married pneft. ;
and in the fame year Edmund Lomner, efq. John
Moore, and William Larwood, had each a turn, and
all joined to prefent.

The right honorable lordWalpole is patron of two
turns, and Mr. Robins of the third §.

In 1764 Edmund Jewell prefented the Rev. Wil-
liam Baker Rufh, p. k. v. and in 1777 tne RCV- Mor-
daunt Leathes was prefented to the reclory of I ttcring-
ham by lord Walpole.

The

* This portion is then faid to be every two garbs of the par-
table tithes of the demefnes of Robert de Nokrs, in Ittering-
bam.

f In 1 348 there was a trial between Maude, Dalling, and fir
Edward Warren, and it was determined that they fhould pre-
'fent by turns.

J Trt'o medieties, confolidated July 8, 1431,— vide
Xtgifter.

$ Blomefield.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 'sjg

The church ftands valued in the king's books at
5!. 175. id. and being in clear value 37!. is drf-
charged and capable of augmentation. The facrifl
of Bury was charged for temporals here belonging
to his manor in Aylfham at 275. yd. — The prior
of Hempton, by Fakenham-dam, 8s. gd. — Weftacrc
at 53. — Walfingham at lod.

The mafter of the hofpital of St. Thomas the
Martyr, at Beck-hall, in Billingford, owned the war
ter-mill here in 1284; and Hugh Tirell, of this
town, granted fmall rents out of lands here to St.
Giles's hofpital, in Norwich.

BINT RE MANOR in 1275 belonged to John de Bin-
tre, who purchafed one moiety of it of Robert de
Skcyton ; and in i 285 he had view of frank-pledge,
and affize of bread and beer. In 1313 Maud de
Bintre had it ; fhe married John de Dalling, and was
his widow in 1346; after this it paffed as Bintre's
portion.

' *, .if VV . ?*f) .i.. • "'Jv.5 I?') 0! ";£'" i3T tii ^?r*5J

In 1537 Edmund Lomner, efq. fold the fcite of
the manor of Bintre-hall, feventy acres of demefne,
and i6s. rent, with the third part of the advowfon,
to Robert Clark**; but in 1558 William Langwood
was lord; after 'this Robert Houghton, of Ittering-
ham, cfq. held ic ; and Richard Houghton about
1674; and now it belongs to Mr. Robins.

LAMMAS, LA-MERS, or THE MARSH, fo called
from its fifu'afion, the church-yard being waQied by
the river Bare : At the Conqueror's furvey it was
part of Buxton,v and valued with it, all but 20 acres
which a free-\i*nnan then held; it is now in the li-
berty of • tnW Hfcfchy of Lancafter.

. : .

HUNDRED OF

It was parted from Buxton very early, and becam?
ft feparate manor, and a church was confcquemiy
creeled on it, it being now divided from Buxton by
the river that runs between them ; the lord of Lam-
mas hath free fHhery as far as the bounds of the pa-
rifh extends on the Lammas fide, as the lord of Bux-
ton hath as far as that parifh extends on the Buxiuiz
fide.

It was firfl granted by Ralph de Bellofago, or
Beaufoe, to Ofborn, who is faid to have founded the
church, and to have given the advowfon ro Holme
abbey, to which it was confirmed by Henry 1. in.
117?, and by pope Lucius II. but notwithflanding
this, Reginald le Gros, lord here in 1227, prefemed
to it, and held it of the honor of Rhye ; but m
1248 Stephen de Reedham and the abtat of Holme
Ijiid a long fuit, which was fettled before the itine-
rant juftices. when Stephen agreed to hold his land
in Scottow, Lammas, and Sco-Ruflon, of the abbey,
by the yearly rent of 50$. and 50 bufhels of bade}-,
and he releaied to the abbot all his right in a carucatc
of land in Scottow, the abbot releafmg to Stephen
all his right in this manor and advowfon.

Bartholomew, fon of Stephen, in 1281, fold the
manor and advowfon to Oliver de Ingham. In
1327 Mariana dc Ingham was lady, as was Joan,
relici of Sir Roger le Strange, km. in 1349. la
1350 Sir Miles Stapleton, knt. of Bedale, in Yoik-
[hire, had it, and it continued a Jong time in this
family, with Ingham, in Happing twntfred, which
manor it conftantly attended, through the Stapletons
and Calthorpes, till William Calthorpe, efq. fold it,
about 1561, to John Culpepper, eiq. and not long
after it was conveyed to the Aliens of this town.
Robert Allen fold it to Matthew Sparrow, gent, and

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 231

it after belonged to Mr. Thomas Safller, .who .died
in 1667, whole daughter,' Sufanna, carried it to her
hufband, ' Edward Eyre, gent, who was buried here
in 1709, and Mary, his only daughter, married
Thomas Damant, of Lammas, gent, who was lord
here (but not patron, the patronage being fold from,
the manor) ; fhe died in i 709. and the faid Thomas
in 1731 left it to Mr. Thomas Damant, his only fon
by Alice Bancroft, his fccond wife.

The church is dedicated to St. Andrew, xvhofe
ima2;e flood in a tabernacle in the chancel, in the

' * Jb* Lfe "^* ^~ i • 'Vtf • * f

taft wall on the north fide of the altar, which was
the ftation, or place, of the principal image in every
church, under which the officiating pried always
flood, and fo doih at this day, the rubric of the com-
munion fervice enjoining, the prieft to (land at the
•north fide of the table. Here was a guild alfo kept
in honor of that faint, and altars, lights, roods, &c.
as was cuftomary in thofc dark ages of priellcraft
•and fuperftition.

There is a re&ory-houfe and fix acres and two
roods of glebe. It Hands thus in the king's books:
jfl, Hautbois, vulgo ' Hobbies Parua, cum- Lammas
rectory, 43!. clear yearly value, and being difcharged
it is capable of 'augmentation.

The religious concerned here were, the prior of
Broomholme, whofe temporalities were taxed at 75.
ad. thofe of Norwich at i8d; and of Hickling at
^d. The whole village paid 305. clear to every
tenth, be'fides iGs. paid by the religious for the'r re-
venues here. It is laid with Hautbois Parva at 276!.
1 55. 'to the land tax.

There

H U N D R E D O F

There is a low fquare tower and four bells ; the
church hath no ailes, and is thatched, as is the
chancel ; the fouth porch is tiled.

In a north window is painted the laft judgment,
the blefled, Handing under the judgment feat, on
the right hand, with this over their heads, — Venile
benedicti Patris md. — Over the wicked, on the left
hand, — Qui faciunt i/la, non percipiunt regna cdejlia.
lie. malcditti in igncm cetcrnum.

In other panes of the window is the Bleffed Virgin,
feeding the hungry, cloathing the naked, giving
drink to the thirfly, and enteiiaining the flrangcr;
and thefe fentcnces :

jft pane, — The hungry man fays, — For hunger gredy,

The Virgin anfvvers, — The to fede, lo me* noglt

ready.
2d pane, — The naked calls out, — For cold I -^ qual.

The Virgin anfwers, — Doo en a cloth the ivarms

•withall,
3d pane, — The thirfty fays, — Fcr thir/t I cleve.

The Virgin fays, — Have drink for the Lord

jjth pane, — The ftranger cries, — Hoftel^ 1 crave.

She replies, — Come wery in and you

Jhall have.

In a north window is a prieft in his habit, kneeling
in a praying poflure, and this : — Pray for the* Jowl of
Jir Adam Wylkynjont prejt.

In the chancel window, Marfhal's arms, and there
were formerly the arms of White, Stapleton, Morley,
and Ingham, which laft ftill remains.

* Now ready, J Live.

t Call out. § Lodging and entertainment.

Here

SOUTH E R P I N £ H A M. 233

Here are brafles for Dowys and Bayfpoole, and
tomb-ftones for Thomas Sadler, 23 September,

1667, and others of his family.

The arms of Eyre impaling Damant — Hie jacet
fepullum corpus Edvardi Eyre, generofi, obijt 2 die Ftbr.
A. D, i jog, <et. JUCK -6. Hie jacet JtpuUum corpus
Maria Damant, uxoris Thoma Damant, de Lammas,
genercji, et Jilice nnica preditti Edvardi Eyre, obijt de~
dmo die Maij, Anno Domini I 709, at. face 39.

William Harflone, gent April 6, 1694. 55 ; —
and, Gulidmi Sparrows, quondam reckons hujns paro-
chicc, qui obijt Febr. 25, A. D. 1645, lie buried here.
Alfo a mural monument in ihe church-yard, againft
the fouth church wall, in memory of — Robert and
John Scales, father and Jon, late of Hauibois Parva :
Robert died November 12, 1727, aged 7 9 years, and
John January 28, 1727, aged 4.0.

The churches of Lammas and Little Hautbois
were confolidated about 1475, and in 1645 Mr.
Thomas Edwards, who purchafed the advowfon
from the manor, prefcnted Edward Warnes, who
died reclor in 1700. He was a great benefactor to
Norwich city, on which he fettled Little Uauibois-
hall, &c. and to Yarmouth.

In 1738 James Taylor prefented as patron in fee
firaple, and in 1764 the rev. Philip Candlcr was in-
fiituted to this redory, as re£lor and patron, p. j.

MANNINGTON, or Manictuna, as it is wrote
in Doomfday-book. In the ConfcfTor's time earl
Godwin held this town, which was then of the an-
nual value of 3!. but rofe to 4!. and at the Con-
queror's furvey was worth 5!. is. 4d. and ^os. fine,

234 HUNDREDOF

or income : it was a mile long and four furlong

broad, and paid gd. three farthings gelt, or tax : it
belonged to the Conqueror, who entrufted it to
Godric's care, and there were two freemen and -their
fervices, worth 55. a year, held by Ralph Stalra of
William de Warren.

It continued in the crown till it was granted to the
earls of Pembroke, and Aymer de Valence was boih
lord and patron. The patronage continued in the
Pembroke family, and was fold by Geoige earl of
Shropshire, about 1574, to the lord ctf the manor,
and it hath continued with it ever fince ; but the
manor was granted by Aymer de Valence, earl of
Pembroke, to Walter Tirrell, of Mannington and
Itteringham, who was lord in 1249, and left it to
Hugh*, his ion, who died without iffue in 1291,
Maud, his daughter and hcirefs, married firft Willi-
am Hcwell, alias Fevvell, who was lord in her right,
as was Henry Lumner, her fecond hufband. In
1401 Henry Lumner, grandlon of Henry, held it
in right of his late wife, the heirefs of Maud Few-
ell : the faid Henry dying about 1402, left it to
William Lumner, his fon and heir, whofe fun, Wil-
liam, built the prefent hall, embattled caftlewav,
according to a licence obtained of the king : on the

O O

battlements ftand ievcral final! guns, and the pile
being of flone and black flints, gives it an agreeable
look. The arms of Lumntr, impaling Momvaux,
\vere carved on the wainlcot ; he died about 1494.
William Lumner, his fon, was lord in 1509, and
was'fucceeded by his fon Edmund, who in 1540 was
one of the commiffioners of iewers, and married

Jane,

* In 130^ he was malicioufly indifted of a confpir.icy, at
the pnxurfiTH at of fir Thomas Bavcat, &c. and fcfir Thomas
was fined for it.

SOUTH ERPINGHA M. 235

Jane, daughter of William Yelverton, of Rougham,
in Norfolk ; he dying in 1558, (he remarried John
Dodge, efq. of Wrotham, in Kent, who was lord
in her right in 1572; and Edmund Lumner, fon of
Edmund Lumner aforefaid, releaung his reverfion in
this lordfhip, it came to Edmund the ("on, and to
the, two daughters of John Dodge, efq. by Jane
aforefaid, Ann and Mary : Edmund Dodge, and his
fifter Mary, who married Peter Houghton, alderman
of London, ancj afterwards fir Thomas Vavafour,
knt. marfhal to James I. re leafing their rights to Ann,
their fifter, who married, firft, John Potts, of this
town, and after fir Chriflopher Heydon, knt. of
Baconfthorpe, who died Januaiy 28, 1642, aged
75, and was buried at Baconfthoi pe, and her fon.
Sir John Potts, became lord, and patron of the
church.

The family of Potts were very anciently feated in
this town, (William Potis in 1274 was Cued by Wil-
liam Tirrell, then lord, for encroaching, and appro-
priating to himfelf the feed of a certain high -way,
extending from Manmngton to the Car) and were
conliderable yeomen, or land- owners. The fiifl thiit
railed it was John Potts, ftudcnt of LincolnYinn,
a lawyer of eminence and reputation, who married
Catherine, daughter of Sir Philip Boteler,- of Wood-
hall, in 'Hertfordfhire, knt. and had a grant of arms
to him and his heirs, from Robert Cooke, clarerjci-
eux, dated 1585. John Potts, efq. his fpn, was
alfo a fludent in Lincoln's-inn, and married Ann,
one of the daughters of John Dodge, elq. aforefaid,
and is buried in this parifli church, under an arched
altar-monument, on the north, fide of the altar ; no
inlcription now remains : on it are the arms of Potts,
quartering Dodge, over all a pile with a plate and
dc larme j he died, about the year iGoo.

Q 2 John

HUNDRED OF

John Potts, their fun and heir, was knighted,
and afterwards created a baronet by letters patent,
dated Augufl 14, 1641 : he married Urfula. daugh-
ter of Sir John Willoughby, bait, of Rifley, in Der-
byfhire, and lies buried here under a marble grave-
ftone, with the arms of Potts, and Willoughby.
They had iffue three fons, John, Francis*, and
Charles, and one daughter, named alfo Urfulat.

Frances, eldefl fifler of Sir John Potts, bart.
married Edward Sadler, efq. and had Frances," wife
of George Hunt, gent, who lies buried here under
a grave-ftone : flic died in October, i 646.

Sir John Potts, bart. fucceeded his father, and
married, nrft, Sufan, daughter of Sir John Heve-
ningham, of Ketteringham, km. and fecondly, Eli-
zabeth, daughter of Sir Samuel Brown, judge of
the Common-pleas, by whom he had no iurviving
iffue ; by Sufan he had Sir Roger Potts, who by
Mary, fole daughter and heircfs of William Davy,
cfq. of Great Ellingham, had four fons and a daugh-
ter. Sir Roger died Oclober 14, 1711, and his la-
dy in March, 1701 : (he was buried at Great El-
lingham.

Sir Algernon Potts, bart. was third fon to Sir
Roger, and inherited the honor, James, the eldeft
fon, having died young, and Philip, the fecond
fon, alfo before his father ; he married Frances,

daughter and cohcirefs of Calibut, of Saham-

Tony, relic! of Thomas Crane, of Norwich ; they
are both buried in this church, dying both in No-
vember, 1717, leaving no iffue.

Sir

* Francis left a daughter and heirefs, married to Sir Willi-
am Viliicrs, bart.

•fr Urfula married Philip Bedingficld of Ditchingham, efy,

SOUTH E-R PING HAM. 237

Sir Charles Potts, his only furviving brother,
fucceeded him, who was a citizen and merchant-
taylor, of London, and married Elizabeth, daughter
of Thomas Newman, gent, of Baconfthorpe, who
died September 2,-i^cG, and -was buried at Great
ElHngham ; his fecond lady was Mary Smith, of
London, but having no iffue, the honor was extinct
in him : he is buried in this church near the altar,
under a black marble grave-flone, with this infcrip-
tion :

In hope of a. joyful rejurre&ion hereunder lies the bo-
dy ef Sir Charles Po'tts, hart, he died January 14,
1731, aged 56 years. He quartered the arms of
Dodge, Lumner, Davy, Gourncy, and bifliop of
Yarmouth, who bore argent on a bend cottifed gules
2 bezants, as appears by his atchicvment.

His laft lady furvived him, and dying February
7» 173&>' aged 6 i, was alfo here interred. Sufan,
only fifter of fir Charles, was married to Matthew
Long, of Dunfton, efq. and after the death of lady-
Potts this manor, and townfhip with the advowfon,
was conveyed to the honorable Horatio Wai pole,
and his fon, lord Walpole, of Wolterton, is the
prcfent lord.

The parifh church is a fmall pile, built by the
carl of Pembroke, the arms of the family of de Va-
lentia being carved in flone over the door ; it has no
fteeple, or bell, the nave and chancel are tiled,
but now falling much into decay, the church being
dilapidated. It had till lately ferv ice once a month.
Befides the infcriptions abovememioned, on a ftonc
with a brafs plate, by the fouth tide of the altar, is
this :

Q 3

23S HUNDREDOF

Here lies Katkcrine, the wife of Thomas Laugher,
rettor of Letheringfdt, daughter cf John Potts, ej(^,
who died in Ottober, \ 63 1 .

A N A G R A M M A.

Katharine Lougber, .

A lower, taken higher.
Here lies a lover of the Dcitye,
Embalm'd wilh odours of her pietye ;
Here lies (he, nay ; this lower did afpirc,
Here lye her afhes, (he is taken higher.

MAERENS POSUIT T. L.

The rcclory. is charged in the king's books at il.
i6s. 3d. cb. and being in clear value 61. igs. 4d.
is difcharged, Sec. ana is capable of augmentation.
The antient value was four "marks, and Norman's
portion in }, was ?os. The prior of Ely was taxed
for hi* temporalities 6s. Sd. the prior of Wabornc
far liio 305. It is in the Duchy of Lancafter, and
is taxed at lool. per ann. to the land tax.

The ^patronage was always with the manor, and
in .1 730 the Rev. Mr. Richard Sibbs was prefented
jeclor by the late Sir Charles Potts, bart, on whofe
deceafe the title became extinct.

In the Philofophical Tranfa<ftions for January,
1718, page 706, there is an account of the finking
of three oaks into the ground at this town, commu-
nicated by Peter Le Neve, efq. norroy.

'* On Tuefday, July the, 23d, 1717, in the day-
time, to the aflonifhment of thole that were pre-
fent, firft, one Hngle oak, with the roots and ground
it, was feen to fubfide, and fink into the

earth,

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M.

earth and not long after, at about forty yards
tance, two other oaks that were contiguous funk after
the fame manner, into a much larger pit, being about
thirty-three feet diameter^, whereas the former is not
fullv eighteen. When the fir ft tree funk, it was <>b-
ferved that the water boiled up in the hole, but on
the finking of thr greater pit, that water drained ohV
into it from the formec, which now continues dry;
the depth thereof to the firm bottom is nine feet three
inches, and i.he tree that (lands upright in it is three
feet eight inches girt, and its trunk about eighteeu
feet long; the other two trees are fomething fmaller;
the foil on which they grow is gravelly, and under
that a quickfand over a clay, upon which there are
fpring.s which fill large ponds adjoining to Manning--
ton-hall, at about a quarter of a mile diftance.

" The nature of the foil feems to aHord us a rea-
fonable conje$ure at the caufe of this odd accident,
the fprings running over the clay, at the bottom of a -
bed of very minute fand, fuch as quickfands ufually
are, may reafonably be iuppofed in many ages to
have wafhed away the fand, and thereby excavated a
kind of fubterraneous lake, over which thofe trees
grew, and the force of the winds on the leaves and
branches agitating their roots, may well have loofened
the fand under' them, and occasioned it to fall in
more frequently than elfewhere; by which means, in
length of time, the thin bed of gravel being only left,
it oecame unable to fupport its own weight, and that
of the trees, and fo broke in."

In 1760, April 13, the Rev. John Dowfing had
this fmecure reclory by fequeflrauon.

MARSHAM, or the Village at the Marfh, com-
monly called MASSAM, lies fouth of Aylfharn, the
Q 4 lordfhip

,40 HUNDRED OF

lordfhip and advowfon of which belonged to the late
eari of Yarmouth, vvhofe eflate was fold according to
the direction of his lordfliip's will.

At the Confefibr's furvey Harold had it, and gave
it to the bifhopric, and Erfaft the bifhop held it; but
when the Conqueror fcized the lands of the fee, Wil-
liam Beaufoe, bifhop of Thetford, obtained it of the
Conqueror's gift, in fe'e and inheritance, as he did
moft of the old revenues of his bifliopric, and left it
again to the fee, with which it continued till 1 335 ;
and beinsf then veiled in the crown, it continued there

till queen Elizabeth granted it to fir James Boleyn,
ior a term of years ; but about 1575 it was aliened
li om the crown , for Robert Thetford, efq. then owned
it, and paid i8d. a year caftle-guard to Norwich
caftle; it was after that purchafed by fir Henry Ho-
bart, and fold to the Freemans, and after that to the
Paftons, from whom it was fold to the late lord An-
fon, and George Anfon, efq. is now- lord and pa-
tron.

This town is in the liberty of the Duchy of Lan-
cafter, and the tenants of the manor always enjoyed
freedom from toll, and all other liberties belonging
to the Duchy, and tenants in ancient demefne; the
lord hath liberty of free-warren, or game, by charter
from Henry I'll, dated in 1250, who then granted it
to Walter, bifhop of Norwich. At the Conqueror's
furvey it was a mile and three furlongs long, and
feven furlongs broad, and paid iid. to the gelt, or
tax ; the manor then extended into Stratton and
Brampton, and there was a part of it in Marfham
and Hevingham, which was granted to Walter Gif-
fard, and conftituted the manor of Caits, here and in
Hevingham.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 241

• In this town the religious paid for their lands here
135. 4<d. It is valued to the land tax at 408!. 153. 4d,

The ancient family of the Marfhams took their
name from this place, and removed hence to Nor-
wich, and Stratton-Strawlefs, their prefent feat, of
which family we (hall (peak under that place. We
find that the manors of Snoring, and Noers, in Itter-
ingham, extended hither.

The church is dedicated to AH Saints, and there
were two guilds held in it ;• it was very full of ima-
ges, with lights burning before them; for we find
in the ancient wills rcgiftered in the bifhop's office,
that there were nineteen lights. The tower is fquare,
and hath four bells; the two ailes, nave, 'chancel,
and fouth porch, are leaded ; the windows are very
finely painted.

In a north chancel wmdow is the Virgin, with
AVE: GRA: DNS: TEGUM:

In the north aile window are three fine effigies,
with labels.

1. San&us Kendmus Rex.

2. Sanftus Edmundus Rex.

3. Santfus Edwardus Rex.

Here are tomb-ftones and braffes for Norton, Attc-
hill, Belknay, Byffchap, Gates, Grix, Norris, Jeck-
el, See.

In the windows arc portraitures of many Saints
and Confeffors. The upper, or clercftory windows,
are very perfect, and the feveral orates fair, but fo
Jiigh that we could not read them ; there are the

arms

54* HUNDRED OF

arras of England, France, Verdon, Clopton, Bavent,
Motley, Weft Saxons, Eaft Angles, -emblem of the
Trinity, Sec. Nonvich fee^impaling bifhop Wakering's
cognizance, az. a pelican vulning herfelf proper. — -
Bifliop Lyhert's arms, Jenny. — Moore.

A black marble by the defk, — For Mrs. Margaret
L}-ng, Otlobtr 18, 1698, aged 74.

The reclory is valued in the king's books at i ol.
I os.' and (lands by the name of Marfham redory ; it
is fworn of the clear yearly value of 43!. and fo is
difcharged of firft-fiuits and tenths, and is capable of
augmentation; it was anciently valued at twenty-four
marks, and the prior of Caflle Acre had a portion of
tithes here, valued at half a mark, it being formerly
in the bifuop's own collation.

The re&or hath a reclory-manor here. John Swan
gave by will 205. a" year to the poor. Eliz. Swan,
his wife, gave 158. a year to the poor, anno 1693, to
be paid every Eafter Monday, out of certain lands
in the parifh.

The re&ors were collated by the bifiiops, in right
of the manor, and after that was aliened from the fee,
the lords of the manor (to which the advowion be-
longs) always prefcnted.

In 1461 Thomas lord bifliop of Dromore, in Ire-
land, refigued Avlfham vicarage for this, in exchange
with mafter Nicholas Stanton, L. L. B.

In 1757 ihe Rev. John Greene was prefented to
this iccloiy by the late lord Anlon, p. j.

OULTON,

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 243

OULTON*, OLTON, or the OLD TOWN, hath its
church, dedicated to Sts. Peter and Paul ; its tower
is fquare, and hath ihree bells; the nave and twq
tranfcqn chapels are leaded, and the chancel til e\l.

On three brafles on a ftane in the nave arc in-
fcriptions — To Edmund Bell, and Kathenne, his wife*
1636; jhe, September 17, 1617'. Alfo, Thomas, Jon
of Edmund Bell, December — aged 80 years and 8
months.

A black marble, — For Ann, wife of Thomas Bellt
July 22, 1730,. aged 47.

In the north chapel, which is dedicated to St.
James, aie Crofts' arms in 'a window, and on a black
inaible there is the creft of Smith, and that of
Crofrs, and Smith, of Lincolnfhire, impaling Crofts, of
Suffolk, — Here lyetk the body ofjir Owen Smith, of Er-
mingland, knt. wJio lived in great reputation 43 years and
1-6 days ; he, married Alice, the eighth daughter of fir
John Crofts, of Saxham, in Suffolk, knt. he died March
28, 1657.

On another, by the former, — To Alice, relict of fir
Owen Smith, of Ermingland, knt. who died October 7,
1678, aged 69.

In this chapel are two brafs plates, infcribed to
John and Cecily Pykton.

The church belonged to the manor till Hubert de
Burgh, earl of Kent, for his own foul, and that .of
Alice, his wife, gave it with the church of Beding-
ham to the canon of Walfingham priory, and Ed-
ward

* Wrote in Doomfday-book Oulftuna.

HUNDRED OF

ward I. confirmed it in 1280. The regiPierof this
priory in the Cotton library informs us, that it was
foon after appropriated to that houfe, and a vicarage
endowed, which the bifhop of Norwich was always
to nominate to, and the prior prefent at his nomina-
tion, which continued fo till the diffolution; the
vicar was to have all the offerings and fmall tithes of
the whole town, and the great tithes of all the lands,
except thofe belonging to, or held of the manors of
Saxlingham and Leeche, in this town, and all the
great tithes belonging to them were to be the canons,
who were to repair the chancel at all times ; and ic
appears that the brook between Oulton and Irming-
land parted thofe villages.

The town is in the Duchy of Lancafler, and there
were formerly three guilds here. The vicarage is
difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths, and is capable
of augmentation; it Aands thus in the king's books:
81. 55. — Owlton vicarage, — 29!. clear yearly value.
The old value was eight marks, and it is valued to
the land tax at 308!. los.

In 1763 the Rev. Nathaniel D'Eye was prefented
to this vicarage by Coulfon Bell, efq. p. j.

The prior of YValfingham was taxed at ten marks
for his impropriate tithes, and the vicar, for the vicar-
age, at two marks. At the diffolution the impropria-
tion remained in the crown, till Edward VI. an. 1 55 1,
granted it, with the advowfon of the vicarage, to
John Doddington, and his heirs ; and they belonged
in 1573 to ^ir Chriftopher Heydon ; afterwards to
Edward Holl, Thomas, Richard, and Nicholas Bell,
and now Couifon Bell,] efq. is impropriator and pa-
iron.

The

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 545

The prior of Fakenham-Dam, alias Hempton,
had a mill and lands here, taxed at 465. 8d. Way-
borne at 35. and Coxford at 6s.

There was an ancient chapel here, demoliflied in
the time of Edward I. and in 1326 brother John de
Ixning, preceptor, or matter of Carbrook hofpital,
lett the platt of ground belonging to his hofpital,
called the Chapel-yard, in Ouhon ; and they had a
manor here, which was purchafed of the crown by fir
Richard Southwell, and hath paffed ever fmce with
Carbrook- Woodhall, the late fir William Clayton,
of Blechingley, in Surrey, being lord of it.

Here is a fine fpring, called the Spa, being a
ftrong mineral, much frequented formerly, before the
Spaat Aylfham had gained its reputation.

This whole town (except one free-man and his ts-
, nure, which was the abbot of Holme's) belonged to
the manor of Cawflon, as a berewic to it, and pafifed
as that did, till it was divided by the lords of Caw-
flon granting off parts to divers perfons.

SAXLINGHAM MANOR was granted from Cawflon
by Richard I. to Robert de Saxlingham ; it continued
in this family many ages, and in 1383 Thomas dc
Saxlingham had it. In 1478 John Heydon, of Ba-
confthorpe, died feifed of three of the four manors
in this town, viz. Saxlinghanis, OuUonVhall, and
Leeche's.

OULTON-HALL MANOR was granted to Sigar de
Olton, or Oulton*, and afterwards, in 1327, it came

* This was a very ancient and numerous family.

$46 HUNDRED OF

to the Heydoris, and was joined co Saxlingham ma-
nor, as was alfo

LEECHE'S MANOR here; for in 1440 John Canon,
and Alice, his wife, daughter and beliefs of William
Leeche, releafed to fir John Tuddenham, km. and
John Heydon, efq. the reverfion of Lecchc's manor,
after his mother's death, as did alfo fome others who
bad an intercfl. here.

Oulton's, Saxlingham's, and Lceche's, being joined,
they have paffed through the Hey dons, &c. with
Cawfton manors, and were fold by fir John Hobait.
knt. to Erafmus Earle, cfq. and William \Vjggct
Bulvver, efq. of Heydon, is now lord. The leet ex-
tending over thefe three manois, vvas purchafed of
the crown in queen Elizabeth's time, and is to be
kept yearly on Lammas-day, with Heydon lect. — •
Oulton-hall manor is fine certain, at 48. an acre, and
4d. per acre quit-rent. — Lceche's manor is fine cer-
tain at 2S. an acre, and ad. per acre quit-rent. — Sax*
lingham is fine certain, at i ad. an acre, and 6d. per
acre quit-rent.

There were alfo divers rents, and a manor belong-
ing to the honor of Clare, which was alfo united to
thefc manors; for in 1625 Anthony Page, gent, who
had all of them of fir Chrirtopher Hevdon, paid
2os. for a year's rent for the manor here, which late
belonged to the honor of Clare, and Thomas and
John Page fold them to the Hobarcs.

In 1316 William Howard late held Clare honor
manor here, and it attended the Howard family, &c.
and afterwards came to Henry VIII. and continued
in the crown till granted off' by queen Elizabeth.

OXNEAD;

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 247

OXNEAD, wrote in Doomfday-book Oxenedcs,
takes its name, according to Blomeficld, from us fcite
on certain meads, or meadows, by a river, called by
the Britons and Saxons Oufe, a general name for ri-
vers in this county ; thus, Oxburgh, and Oxvvick.

In the Confeffb/s reign it was the lordfhip of
Guert, a thane, of Saxon or Danifh extraction, and
Aildeig, a free-roan, held it under him; but at the
grand furvey Haldcn was the lord, when there was a
church belonging to it, endowed with a large glebe at
that age, twenty-four acres, valued at the annual
rent of one penny per acre. The whole had been
valued at sos. but at the furvey at 305. it was feven
furlongs long, and fix broad, and paid ^d. gelt, or
tax, arid the king and the earl had then the foe.

Albert Greflei was lord in the time of king Ste-
phen, and Theobald de Hauteyn in the reign of
Henry II. by the marriage of Agnes, daughter of
Albert, who on the death "of Theobald mairied

• de Amaundeville in 1 1 83 ; file held this lord-
fhip in clower, having three fons by Hauteyn ; 'John,
the eldeft, died without iffue, leaving Robert, and
Thomas, his brothers; Margery, his widow, in 121,3.,
furrendered all her right in this town for an equiva-
lent at Sheldingthorpe, in Lincolnfhire, to Robert,
her brother-in-law, .who on his mother's death be-
came lord and patron of Oxnead, and Hcllefdon,
and gave loos, rent per ann. out of that town, iu
marriage with his daughter, Eve, to Ralph de Tyvil^
remainder to his own heirs, if they had no iffue,

He was fucceedcd by Hamon Hauteyn, who in
1287 had the leet. view of frank-pledge, free-warren,
a gallows, and affize of bread and beer, here and in
Hellefdon ; William was his fon and fucceffbr, who

HUNDRED OF

in 1301 held two knights fees here and in Hellefdon*
of Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, who hav-
ing incurred the difpleafure of Edward I. in not at-
tending him into France, gave to that king all his
eftate, fo that this lordOiip was upon this grant held
of the crown. In the gsd of the faid king the ma-
nor of Oxnead was fettled by fine on William Hau-
teyn, and Agnes, his wife, (daughter of William de
Brampton) and the heirs of William and Agnes :
this William Hauteyn dying in 1326, fir John Hau-
teyn, his fon and heir by Agnes, inherited it, and
married Alice, filter of fir John de Colby, km.

William Hauteyn, fon and heir of fir John, paid
a rent of 155. per ann. out of this lordfihip, to the
king's manor ot Eftre Aha, in EfTex ; and in 1339
conveyed the manor and advowfon to John Hauteyn,
his brother, reclor of Oxnead, fo that it never came
to Roger, fon of William, who mairied Julian, filler
of fir Thomas Erpingham, knt. who afterwards was
the wife of fir John Phelip, of Dennington, in Suf-
folk, Roger being killed at Ingworth by fir John dc
Colby aforcfaid ; and he, with Margaret, his fifter,
having no iffue, John Hauteyn, the reclor, and his
feoffees, fold the manor and advowfon to fir Robert
de Sail, knt. Henry Hauteyn, his brother, fir John
Colby, and Jeffrey de Smalburgh, who married Mar-
garet, his fifter, releafing their rights ; and in 1368
fir Robert had poffeffion, but was much difturbcd in
fuits about it, Robert Hauteyn, a younger brother of
John the reclor, and Henry above-mentioned, never
releafing his right, and this Robert having two fons,
John, a profelfed friar at Blakeney, and Hamon, who
had alfo two children, John, reclor of Thelton, and
Typhania, who married and had a daughter, Joan ;
all thefe in their turns fued for this eftate ; and in
1443 John Hauteyn, alias Shairington, prieft, then a

carmelitc

SOUtH ERPINGHAM, 249

carmelite friar, at Blakeney, had licence from pope
Eugenius (on proving that before he was fourteen
years of age his, parents forced him to enter among
the friars, and become a religious) to leave his houfe.
Kabit, and order, and become (ecular, and proceeding
in his claim, recovered his inheritance.

Sir Robert Sail was of a family of good repute,
and knighted by Edward III. for his (ingular valor;
he was governor of the caftle of Mark, near Calais,
and was killed by the Norfolk rebels in a treacherous
and barbarous manner in 1381, and is faid to have
been in perfon one of the ftouteft knights in Emgland ;
he purchafed all the reverfion of lordfhips in Bucks,
Eflfex, and in Middlefex, after the death of lady Marga-
ret Trufiell; by his will, dated September 8, 1380,
he gave to Frances, his wife, this manor ; one in Ayl-
fhain, with that of Broomhall, in South Walfham,
&x. for life ; and after her deceafc to be fold for
pious ufcs ; fhe was the daughter of fir William
TrulTdl, km. of Coblefden, in Staffordfhirc, and
remarried to fir William Clopton, of Long Melford,
in Suffolk, knt. Margaret, the wife of Philip Warner,
of Aylfham, only furviving fifter of fir Robert, the
oilier dying without iffue, releafed to this lady in.
1481, as did Margaret, daughter of William Hau-
teyn, in 1383; and in 1401 fir William Ciopton,
granted his right, and it was fold by William Ciop-
ton, efq. of Long Mel-ford, in Suffolk, (to whom fir
William Truffell, nephew and heir of the aforefaid
lady Frances, had conveyed it in 1423 for 749 marks)
to William Paflon, efq. of Pafton, who with his
feoffees fettled it on Agnes, his wife, who after the
death of her hufband had fuit with the Hauteyn fa-
mily to maintain her title, till Alan Tri'gge, of Ox-
ncad, and Clarice Hauteyn, his wife, with Margaret,

£ her

HUNDRED OF

her daughter. John Spencer, and Tvphania, his wife,
daughter of Hamon Hauteyn, \Villiam and Waited
Hauteyn, all releafed, together with John Hauteyn,
chaplain, aforefaid, about 1449.

William Pafton, efq. was fon snd heir of Clement
Pafton, efq. and was born at Paflon. in Tun Read
hundred; he was bred to the law, and in 1413 made
fleward of all the courts and leets belonging to Ri-
chard Courtney, bifhop of Norwich, who fettled on
him 5!. per ann. out of his lordfhip of Blofield, and
a livery yearly at Chriftmas, out of his wardrobe, of
woollen-cloth and fur, fuch as the other peers, or
nobles, of his retinue received yearly. In 1426 he
was made ferjeant at: law, and in 1429 Henry VI.
granted him one hundred and ten marks per annum,
with two robes more than the ordinary fees of the
judges, as a fpecial mark of his favor, being a judge
of the Common-pleas, was of the king's council for
his Duchy of Lancafter, and a. knight. The pricr
of Broomholme, in 1438, gave him for his good fer-
vices in the law fixteen acres of land at Baclon ;
,and the abbot of Bury granted him a letter of con-
fraternity, or brotherhood, whereby he partook of
nil the prayers of that abbey, both alive and dead.

He was commonly called the " Good Judge,"
and dying at London, Auguft 14, 1443, or !444«
aged h6, was buried in our Lady's chapel, at
the eaft end of the cathedral church of Norwich ;
and John was his fon and heir.

He built the north aile of the church of Thar-
field, in Hertfordihirc, where he was lord of Hai-
lingbury-hall, in right of his wife, who was a grcac
. heirefs, and thereby quartered the aims of the an-
cient

SOUTH ER PING HAM.

cient families of Hetherfet, Wachefham, Craven,
Gerbridge, Hcngrave. and Kerdefton, and their ef-
figies, with an orate for their fouls, was to be feen in
a window; alfo in the eaft window of the north
aile of the church of Great Creffingham, in Norfolk,
with his arms, which aile he probably built, being
lord of a manor in the faid town.

This family of the Paftons, of Pafton, is faid by
moft hillorians to have come into England three years
after the conqueft ; Wolftan, who is named to be the
perfon and founder of the family, having a grant of
lands at Pafton, affumed, according to the cuftom
of the age, his firname from the faid town ; was "bu-
ried at Ba&on, and afterwards his body was removed
with William earl Glanville, his coufm, to Broom-
holme abbey, . founded by the faid William. This
tradition is in fome meafure confirmed by an old
manufctipt in the family, fuppofed to be wrote by
William Botiner, alias Worcefter, herald at arms to
fir John Faftolf, knight of the garter, who lived in the
reign of Henry VI. wherein it is obferved that all
the anceftors of fir William Pafton, the judge, ^except
Wolftan aforefaid) were buried in the choir and
porch of the church of Pafton.

The firft authentic proof and evidence of this fa-
mily is, that the founder of it was Griffinus dc
Thwayte, to whofe fon, Ofborn the prieft, re&or of
Pafton, Anfelm abbot of St. Bennet's at Holme gave
all the land of St. Bennet, in Palton, in fee to him
and his: heirs ; and William the abbot* granted to
Richer de Pafton, fon of Ofborn, fon of Griffin de
Thwayte, all the land that the convent held in Paf-
ton, with their men, and other pertinences ; and the
R 2 faid

f William the abbot lived ia king Stephen's reign.

HUNDRED OF

faid Richer covenanted with Reginald the abbot, and!
convent, that when peace was fettled in England,
and pleadings were held in the king's court, he at the
requeft and fummons of the abbot \\ould appear in
court, and give fecurity therein, at the coils of the
abbot, to releafc the lands in Pafton.

There was alfo another branch of this family, of
which was Wyflan, or Wolftan de Pafton, whom we
take to be the lineal anceftor of fir William Pafton,
the judge, and the earls of Yarmouth: this Wolftan
lived in the reign of Henry II. and Richard I. and
married a daughter of the Glanvilles, as appeared
from an impalement of Pafton and Glanville, in the
windows of Pafton-hall, in Pafton ; his fon and
heir ftiled himfelf Robert de Wyfton, and Robert de
Pafton, who dying in or about 1242, was buried at
Broomholme.

William, fon and heir of Clement Pafton, efq. of
Pafton, was the famous fir William Pafton, the judge
abovementioned, who married Agnes, daughter and
coheirefs of fir Edmund Berry, by Alice, the daugh-
ter and heircfs of fir Thomas Gerbcrge.

John Pafton, efq. was fon and heir of fir William,
and lady Agnes, aged 23 at his father's death ; he
married Margaret, daughter and heirefs of fir John
dc Meuteby, by Margaret, his wife, daughter of
John Berney, efq. of Reedham. Sir John t'aftolf,
fcnight of the garter, appointed him one of his ex-
ecutors, gave him all his manors, lands, Sec. in truft,
to found a college of feven priefts, at Gaftor, near
Yarmouth, and to pay 4000 marks in charitable
tiles in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Norwich, " for the
4* fmgular love and truft (fays fir John) that I have
^ to my coufin, John Pafton, before all others, being

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 253

•*T In very believe that he will execute my will hcre-
" in.11 — Edward IV. feized on feveral eflates of the
faid J'lhn, and he was committed prifoncr to the
Fleet, juft before his death, which was at London,
May 26, 1466; he affigned over his jewels, chattels,
&c. to fir John Paflon. fen. his eldeft fon and heir,
John Paflon, jun. William, and Clement, his other
fons, being lords of manors in thefe towns: Sporle,
Palgrave, Creffingham-Mtfg/za, Oxnead, Grefi?ara,
Swainfthorpe, Mautby, Marlingford,' Sparham, Mat-
lafk, Bafingham, Hellefdon, and VVinterton, in Nor-
folk, being the family eflates ; and of the manors of
Titchwell, Beighton, Caftor-Vaux, Caflor-Bozuu's,
Caftor-Reedham's, Drayton, Hainford, Saxthorpe,
Poflwick, Repps, Herringby, Spencer's, Guton's, in
Brandifdon, the third part of Runham, 100 acres in
Eaiiham, Rees, in Long Suatton, See. which he pur-
chafed of the feoffees of fir John Faftolf; alfo of fc-
veral other lordfhips in Suffolk, Cambridgefliire, and
Surrey ; and was buried in Broomholme abbey, in a
very folemn and fumptuous mariner, in 1466.

We have in our pofleflion a very long, but nar-
row roll, wrote foon after his burial, containing great
part of the .cofts and charges of many things provi-
ded for, and relating to it; and as it fets forth the
cuftom and manner of the interment of perfbns ot
great family and fortune, and the value of goods, and
necefliiries of life, 8cc. in that age, we could not omii
laying before our readers feveral particulars therein.

Expences paid ly Gloys, at Norwich, the day the Cors
was tktr and befor.

Fyrjle. The iiii orders of fryers viiil. Item, al-

jzielTe iis. viid. Item, to xxiii fufters of Normandys*.

R3 witfa

* At Norwich*

254 HUNDRED OF

'with ihe gardian, eche of them iiiid. and the gardian
viiid. viiis. Item in offering on pcntecofl Tuefday
for my mailer id. for the herfe xls. for xxiiii yerdes
of brod wythtys for gowns xxviis. viiid. for dyeng
of the fame iiiis. for fettyng on the tents vid. for
xxii yerdes and iii quarters of brod wythtys xxxiiiis.
iiid. for grownedyng iiis. iiiid. for dyeng iiis. to
xxxviii prefls at the dyryge at Norwyche when the
c >rs lay ther xiis. viiid. to xxxix fchyldern with fur-
plyces, within the fchurche and without iiis. iiiid. to
xxvi clerks with iiii kepers of the torches, eche of
them iid. — iiis. iiiid.— to the clerks of St. Peter's and
St. Steven's for theryngers ageyn the cors, iis.-to the
iiii orders of fryers that rede agcyn the cors — to the
prioref? of Carow vis. viiid. to a maide that came
with her xxd. to the ancors xld. in almefle xvs. to
a woman that came from London with the cors to
Norwyche vi. viiid.

Payments be Gloys and Calle at Bromholme, —

Fyrjle. To the prior, be my matter's bcqueft, xls.
to ix monks, eche of them vis. viiid.— iiii.— to another
inonke, who was of the fame place, xxd. for brin-
nyng of the abbes, with the torches, xxd. to the
prior's boteler for bred iis. xd. for walfhyng of napry
xiid. to the boteler for hys reward xxd. to the baker
for cccx eggs xixd. to him for hys reward iiis. iiiid.

to xxviii bedds with of clothvs, and waffhyng

of the fame, vs. to ii men that fyllyd the grave viiid.
to brueng of v kombc of make xxd. for ix powncl
candyl xid. to the clerks of Bromholtn viiid. for viii
peces of peuter loft of the'priois xxd. gcven among
the men of .the bakhoufe xxd. to the pariffhe fchyrche
pf Broinhohn xs. to xii fchyrchys Is. viiid. to tl;e
preft that cam wiih the cors i;om London iiis. iiiid.

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 255

to fervytors that awaytyd upon hym by the komawn-
rriem of W. Pafton, xxid. to Playters for hys offer-
ing iiiid. to the vvkcr of Upton iis. to the fexton of
Rromholm for xxii crofifys geven to Marget and Mo-
ddey per John Pafton, iriis. vid. to xiiii rynggars
viis. to xxiiii fervetors, eche of them, iiiid. -viiis. - to
Ixx fervetors, eche of them iiid -xviis. vid. -paid to
pawbeny for ievertors viis. for fyQih the day after
tjicvis. xd. for vi barrels bere xiis. for a roundiet
of red wine of xv galionys, Sec. xiis. xtd. to a hbrs
Jiyer for iii days for fir James xiid. for a quarter
make vs. for iiii bufliels v^ete xxxiid. for a quarter
cf otys iis. viiid. for x kombe malte brueng xld.
for the boord of R.ychard Hermer Wrythe, iii days,
and for hvs hyer the favde tyrae xiiid. ob.> for Wil-
liam Yonge barbor. y days mete and drynke, and hys
hver the layde tyme xvid, for vi pownd cand\'l viid.
ob. to xii [>ore men beryng torches from London to
Norfolk be vi day, is. lakynge eche of them on the
day iiiid. and for iii dayes in goyng homerward,
takynge every day vid. geven to Martyn Savage and
Denfchers, awaytyng upon my mafter at London be
vii dayes before that he was caryed, iis. xd. for bred
bowthe xxiiiis. for vii barels bere xviis. vid. for a
barel of the grctteft affyfe, iiis. iiiid. for iiii barels of
of alee xiiis. iiiid. for bred and alee for xii men thac
bare torches xiiid ob. to a dole atBromholm vl. xiiis.
iiiid. to William Colens, one of the botelers at
Bromholin, xiid. to Wate Webfter, another boteler.
xiid. to Greg. Worlleler, one of the porters at
Bromholm, iiiid. the parfon of Mauteby and fir Tho-
mas Lynes, to the prefts at the deryge at Bromholrn*
^liiis. in almeife xlviis. vid. more xxs. to the glafer
for taky.n ovvte of ii panys of the \vyndows of the
fch) rche for to late ovvte the reke of the torches at
f>£ deryee and fowderyng new of the lame xxd. — This

R 4

256 HUNDRED OF

part cf thefaid re/11 feems to be vrcte by Glojs a\»vt-
mentioned in an indifferent hand, the remaining pail is
in a very neat and curious old hand, considering that
age, andjeems to be wrote by Margaret Pajton, widow of
ike deceajed John Pa/ion, (J<j.

Uittelles bought by Richard Charles,

Firjl. For xxvii gees xviis. for xxvii frankyd gees
vis. viiid. Ixx caponnes xviis. viid. for xxix xvii ^
cbeckons xviis. iiiid. forxlipygges xiiis. xd. forxl'x
calvys iiiil. xiiis. iiiid. for xxxiiii Jambys xxviis.
iid. for xxii (hep xxxviis. vd. x nete iiiil. xvis. id.
for ii napronnes to Richard Lynftede xd. for claretts
and fawcetts viid. MCCC eggs vis. vid. for xx galorvs
jnilk xxd. for viii galons creme iis. viiid. for iiii
pints of butter iiiid. for i quarter and ii bufhels of
whete mele viis. xd. to the parfon of CrofUveyt for
i quarter of whete vis. for xiiii gallons of ale iis. to,
a labourer for iii days xiid. to xxiii gallons of ale
iiiis. for riii falt-fyfflie iiiis. iiiid. for the purvey-
ing of bred, ale, and fyffhe. iiis. iiiid. to William
Reynolds for lodgyng of Matter Provvet, the piior of
the white freres, the parfon of Mautby, fir Thomas
Cynds, and other, by ii nyghtis, vid. for bred, ale,
and poffers, to the fame perfons, vid. to Herman,
fleying befts by iii days, iis. and to John Foke by iii
days xxd. for purveying of all the velys, lambes, x,
feeefins, certain piggs and polaly, xld.

Bill of the prior of Bromholm.

Memorandum. The prior toke to bord diverfe per-
fons laboryng abought the enterment, begynnyng
the Thurfday in Pentecofl Week, the vi yere of
kyng Edward the iijith.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 257

On Thuifclav I find 3 peifons, who had xSid. for
their bord and nycr ; on Fryday 5, who had xvd.
on Saturday 8, who had xxiiid. on Monday all were
employed, and on the day after I find 4 to be allow-
ed for their bord iiiid. ob. and for ther hyers vd. -
jxd. ob. delivered by the prior to Rich. Charles,— fyi ft.
v quarters of otes, xiiis. iiiid. v fwyne xiis. vid. ii
bulhel of meftlyn xvd. v powud of candcll vd. xx
quarters of make xiiis. iiiid. and with gryndyng and
brewyng xviiis. for a cartfull of hey iiis. iiiid. for
ii iwyne vs. for ii bufhel otes viiid. for a quarter of
frerryng vid. lor half a quarter makerell viid. ob. to
the paiion of St. Peter's for his fee of the wax;
abought the coors, hefides ii candcls of ilb. and i hert
candel of a pound xx4. — at my matters xxx day of
pfteryng id.

Geven to chirches, and in almes, by Grefham, to-
ward Bromholm. v marks,-- to the clerk of St. Peter's
pf Hungate his fclafhip for ryngyng when the coors
was in the chirch xiid.--to Dawbeny for befts and
other fluffe for the cnterment xxl. to him in gold for
to chaunge into fmall mony for the dole xll.— to \V.
Pecock, in iii bags, to bere to Bromholm, in copper,
jhe 2oth day, xvi marks --to Medeley, for his reward
iiii marks, and the lame to Maryot,— to Maryot, for
colls he bare by the way to Bromholm, iiii. xiid.—
more to Medeley, for mony paid by him, xlis. xd.—
to the keper of the inne, where myne hufband dyed,
for his reward xxs.— to Patton chirch xs.— to Bakton
chirch vis. viiid.- to Grefhaui the London carrier ia
full payment for the chaundeler of London, vl. xixs.
jiid.— more in almes mony, vis. viiid.— more for wyue
and bere vii marks,— to the parfon of St. Peter's vis.
yiiid.— for wyne for the feingers when the coors was at
Norwich xxs.— to Skolehoule in part of his bille for

torches

258 HUNDRED OF

torches, and wax made at Bromholm, for to brenne
upon the grave, iiii marks,— for ten yerds of narrow
blak for the viker of Dallynge, and Robert Gallawey,
and for iii yerds and quarter of brod cloth for lllee,
xxs. xd.-- to Freton chirch vis. viiid.--for a cope,
called a frcgge ofworfled, for the prior of Bromholrn,
xxvis. viiid.--for bred at the enterment ixs.— in almes
viiis. iiiid.— in vvyne and fpices Is.— to Dom. John
Loveday for cloth for a ridying cope for himfelf,
xiiiis. iid.--to the makyng of Redham ftepill viiis.
iiiid. --to John Orford, wax-chandeler, for xii torches,
and one candcll of ilb. Ivs. iid. ob. — given to John,
Devve for grey lynen cloth and fylk frenge for
the hers, xvis. iid. — given to the Aufteners at

die chapter at the of Yarmouth,

Ixxvs.-to Daubeney, for to kepe the yere day at
Bromholm, the firft yere after his dethe, viiil. iis.
iiiid.— given to Caftor to xxv. howfholders, every
hovvnhold iiid. the (aid tyme, vis. iiid.— to viii pore
men the faid tyme xviiid.--to the matler of the col-
lege, the faid tyme, vis. viiid.— to matter Clement
Felmynghm, the faicLtyme, vis. viiid.— to viii prefis
at Caflor, the faid tyme, iis. viiid. —to childern in
lurplices, and other pore folk the faid tyme, xiiiid.—
to the parlon of Hungate vis. viiid.— to the faid par-
ion for a ceiteyn unto mighelmeife next after the faid
yere day viiis. viiid. -to Skolous, wax-chandler, for
•makyng of the hers at Bronholm, xxiil. ixs. viiid.—
to Philip Curfon, draper, for cloths, ixl. iiis. ob.— to
Aubrey, draper, xxiiiis.--for a quarter of makercll
Stiid.— to the prior of Bromh.olm, for make fpent at
the enterment, xls.— for light kept on the grave xs;—
geven at Chriltemafie next after the fcrid yere-day, to
eche of the iiii orders of friers xs.-xls- to the vvker
of Dallyng for bryngyng home of a pardon from
Rome, to pray for alle our frends fbvvles, viiis. iiiid.
|br a black gowne to ihe laid vyker viiis.

Tha

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 259

The lady Agnes, his mother, furvived him, and
dying in 1479 was buried by her hufband, in the
chapel of our Lady, in the cathedral of Norwich.
She had by the judge, befides the above-mentioned
John Pafton, cfq. her eldeft fon, Edmund, the fecond;
Walter, the third; and William, the fourth fon;
Margery, Elizabeth, and Ann Pafton. Edmund in
1474 was retained by Richard duke of Gloucefter,
conftable and admiral of England, to ferve him with
the king in his voyage over fea, for a whole year, at
-his fpear, well horfed, armed, and arrayed, with
three a;chers well horfed and arrayed; he was to have
iSd. a day, and each archer 6d. a quarter's wages In
hand paid; to rffeet him at Portefdown, in Hamp-
fhire, on May 24 enfuing, to- enter fhip with the king
'and duke; Edmund to have all prifoners of war,
paying the duke the third part of their value, except
the king of France, or the king's fons, fhould be taken
by him, or his men, who with all lieutenants and
captains taken are the king's very fpecial.

In 1467 Edward IV. granted a pardon, and re-
leafe to William Pafton, cfq. fon of William de Paf-
ton, late one of the judges of the King's-bench of
Henry, late king of England, (dcfattt, tt non de jure)
for all treafons and crimes whatever; the chief crime
was adhering to Henry VI. and (it is particular) that
it (hall not extend to ihofe that adhere to him, ano}
are attainted of high treafon, nor to our enemy
Henry VI. Margaret, his wife, or Edward, their fon.
This William was a knight, and married Ann, daugh-
ter and coheirefs of Edmund Beaufort, duke of So-
merfet, by whom he left two daughters; Ann, mar-
ried to fir Gilbert Talbot, and Elizabeth, to fir John
Savile, knt. The daughters of the judge were, Eliza-
, married to Robert, fon of Robert lord Poynings ;

t5o HUNDRED OF

•Ann, married to William Yolverton, eft], and Mar-
geiy, to Richaid Colle, efq.

The judge left each of them confiderable fortunes,
with very large iums of money, and things of great
ie, which were to be diftributed, by his will,
among his children ; thefe were in a coffer, and laid
in the priory of Norwich, and John Pafton, efq. the
eldeft ion, promifed not to refort to it, without the
executors, and Agnes, his mother; but, contrary to
oath, by fome art got out the goods therein, without
the knowledge (as it is faid) of any of the monks,
cleGiing to have a coffer (land in the faid place where
his father's flood, and retorting to his own, he broke
up his father's, and kept ihe goods two years, when
the prior and executors duril have (Worn that they
were -fafe therein. Margaret, 1m wife, died in 1481.
and was bin icd iu the ibuth aile of the church of
Alautby.

Sir John Pafton, knt. called fenior, having a

you'i'iger brother, John, luccccded as heir to his fa-

iluT, ,}ohn Patten, efq. Edward IV. on July 6, 1466,

granted him a warrant under his hand and privy leal,

;ke poirefTion of nil the lands of inheritance of his

Li/hcr, or oi Agnes, his grandmother, or of

'Margaret, his mother, or of William Pulton, and

. Clement Pafton, his uncles ; and of the manor and

place of Cafior, or in any eflates. late hi* father's,

winch he had by way of gift, rr purchafe, of the

fir John Faflo'R or of any oiher in the counties

of Norfolk, or SuHotT;, and Norwich, &c. the lands

being feized by the king on evil lurmifes made to

him again it his deceafed father, himfeli, and uncles,

of all which they were fuificiently, openly, and wor-

fhipfully cleared, before the king — " So that all yec

. ' now being in the faid manour, or place of Cafior,

" or

S O U T H E R P I N G H A M. 261

"' or in any liflihode late the faid John Pafton's, efq.
" by wey of gift, or purchafe, of the late fir. John
" Faflolf, in our coumees aforcfaid, that was feized
" into our hands, that yee avoid the pofleffion of the
44 fame, arid fuffer our trufty and well beloved
" knieht, fir John Pafton, fon- and heir of the faid
*' John Paftons, efq. deceafed, to enjoy the profits
" thereof, with all the goods and chatels there, and
41 that ye all pay the uTues and profits thereof, as you
" did unto his fader at any time in his life.'" All
this was exemplified in the «ift of Elizabeth.

He gained great honor and reputation for feveral
gallant aclions in France, 'and was chofen to be on
king Edward's fide at the great tournament at Eltham,
in Kent, againft the then lord Chamberlain, and others,
and alfo was fent to conduct the king's fifter into
France, on her marriage to Charles duke of Burgundy.

and dying Nov. 15, in the igth of Edward IV.
without iflue, -and not married, was fucceeded by-
John Pafton., jun. efq. his brother, who in 1475 'lac^
a letter of confraternity from William, prior provin-
cial of the francifcans, or grey fiiars, making him
partaker of all the prayers of that order, in life and
death, dated at Norwich. He was made knight ban-
neret by Henry VJI. at the battle of Stoke, in Not-
tinghamfhire, high fheriff of Norfolk, and was one
of thofe who were appointed to receive the princefs
Catherine of Spain, wife of prince Arthur, at her
landing at Plymouth.

He died in 1503, and was buried in 1495, in the
White friars church at Norwich, and left by Margery,
his wife, daughter of fir Thomas Brews, of Stinton-
hall, in Sail, fir William Pafton, anc^ Philip Pafton,
efq. and a daughter, Elizabeth, married firlt to \-Vil-
liara. Clere, eldeft fon af fir Robert Clere, of Or-

mcfbv,

26a HUNDREDOF

mefby, with four hundred marks portion ; and after-
wards to in John Fineaux, lord chief juflice of the
King's-beVieh.

Sir \Viiliam, the eldefl fon and heir, was an emi-
nent counsellor at law. In 1516 the corporation of
Yarmouth, in Norfolk, (" for his good and learned,
counfcl given, and to be given") retained him, and
granted him an annuity at 40!. per ann. He lived
to a great age, about 90, dying in 15^4, and left by-
Bridget, his lady, daughter of fir Henry Heydon,
knt. of Eaconflhorpe, five fons and feven daughters;
fit ft, Erafmus, of whom we fhall afterwards treat ;
fecond, Henry; third, John, who had two daughters
and coheircffes ; one, Bridget, married the great fir
Edward Coke, lord chief-juftice of the King's-bench ;
and Elizabedi, to Ambrofe Jermyn, cfq. who was
gentleman penfioner to Henry VIII. Edward VI.
queen Mary, and queen Elizabeth, and died Sept. 2 1 ,
1575, and was buried in the church of Huntingfield,,
in Suffolk.

Clement, the fourth fon, was born at Pafton-hallr
and having a genius and love for (hipping and navi-
gation, was in his youth admitted to the fervice of
Henry VIII. in the navy, and made captain of one
of the king's iliips, and in an engagement with the
French took their admiral, called the baron de St.,
Blankheare, or Blankard, whom he kept a prifoner at
Caltor, by Yarmouth, till he paid feven thoufand
crowns for his ranfom, befides confiderable things of
value*, which were found in 'his fhip, or galley, and
was at i he battle of MufleJburgh, in Scotland, in
1547. He is faid to have been the perfon to whom

* Atnongft thefe was a cup of gold, formed in the fhape of
a fnake.

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M.

Tir Thomas Wyatt, the rebel, in queen Mary's reign,
furrendered hirafelf, had the command of feveral
Ihips of queen Elizabeth, fent to Newhaven, in
France, and was highfheiiff of Norfolk in 1588.
Henry VIII. called him his champion; the duke of
Somerfet. protector in king Edward's reign, called
him. his foldier; queen Mary, her feaman ; and queen
Elizabeth, her father. He enjoyed the lordfhips of
Oxnead, and Marlingford, by the will of his father,
fir William Pafton, km. and built Oxnead-hall. which
afterwards became the conftant feat and refidence of

the family. He married Alice, daughter of •• —

Packington, efq. and relict of Edward Lambert, efq.
and died without ifTue, Feb. '18, 1599.

His will is dated September 5, 1594, wherein he
defires " his body to belaid in the eanh in the chan-
cel of the parifli church of Oxnead, his funeral not
to be coftly, nor over fumptuous, but decent and
chriftian-like, according to his degree and calling ; a
fair and convenient tomb to be made over his bodv,
and his and his wife's arms to be graven theieon. —
Xo repair Oxnead chuich, 205. and his executors to
build the fleeple higher, and in decent order, and to
buy and fix up one new bell, larger, of a greater
found than thole already there, to make a ring. To
the prHbner.s in Norwich and the cadle, and the
guild-hall, 28!. to each lazar-houfe dicrc 405.
to Alice, his wife, her living at Oxnead, for life ;
mentions the queen's chamber there, and to enable
her to keep hofpitality there for life, Buxton-park,
mill, the tithes, &x. with aool. worth of plate, his
gold chain of 20 ounces, his jewels, rings, chains,
bracelets, and loool. in money, with the leafe of
his houfe in Aldermanbury, London. Appoints his
executors to keep good hofpitality at Oxnead for one
half year next after his deceafe, that all inch who

fhall

t6* HUNDRED OF

fhall be his houfhold fen/ants at the time of his Je-
ccafe fhall, or may, at their wills have there conve-
nient meat, drink, and lodging. Gave to 14 men
fervants annuities for life ; to fome of them 10!. per
ann. and annuities to feveral gentlemen and friends ;
to Edward Appleton, his nephew, the manors oL'
Appleton, and Buckenham, with their appurte-
nances in Norfolk, feveral marfhcs, &c. to fir Wil-
liam Paflon, his nephew ; his collar of gold rvith
the fnakes, and the f landing bowl, calkd Baron St.
Blankheare, to the right honorable the earl of Rut-
land ; his young horfe, called Barrabie, Sec. to his
well beloved nephew, Roger Manners, efq. lool. to
his well beloved nephew, John Manners, efq. one
(landing cup of fil ver and gilt, containing 40 ounces,
\vith his arms graven thereon ; alfo confiderable le-
gacies to Elizabeth Jermyn, one of the daughters of
his late brother. John Paflon, efq. to ladv Cathe-
rine Newton, daughter of his brother, fir Thomas
Paflon ; to his niece, Bridget Court, daughter of fir
John Chaworth, knt to his niece. Bridget Cooke,
-daughter of John Paflon, his brother, to Frances,
liis niece, wife of Thomas le Grofie, efq. and to
many others.

" Appoints his executors to creel within a year af-
ter his deceafe, in lome convenient place in Oxnead,
fix houfes, or lodgings for fix poor aged men, and
wills that fuch of the name of Pafton, as fhall have
any eflate, or freehold, in the manor of Oxnead, to-
have the nomination, placing, or difplacing of them,
and as they die, or are removed, another poor ajed
. man, fuch as have feived lome of the name of the
Paftons, to be preferred to the fame place, or room-,
and for their relief he gave and bequeathed unto
every of them, weekly on. Sunday, I2d. each, and
dinner and 1'upper every Sunday in the year, at his

houfe

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 265

houfe at Oxnead, and to every of them a. frizc gown,
half a hundred of faggot-wood, and half a thou-
iand of flaggs, to be yearly provided and brought
home to every one of their houfes. And thac this
might be the better performed, he gave and devifed to
Alice, his wife, his manor of Burglcons, orBurgoleons,
in Norfolk, all his lands, tenements, rents, &c. fi.f
tuate, lying, and being in Reepham, Sail, Kerdif-
ton, Whitwell, Wood-dalling, Hackford, Booton,
and Themilthorpe, in Not folk, alfo feveral pafture
lands, &c. with meffuages, woods, Sec. in Oxnead,
Skcyton, Buxton, Brampton, and Stratton, in Nor-
folk, and in Southerton, in Suffolk, to have and to
hold to his laid wife, for her life, and after that to
his nephew, Sir William Pafton, and his heirs for
ever, on condition that they truly perform the fame,
and appointed Alice, his wife, fir William Pafton,
and Edward Pafton, his executors."

The fifth fori of Sir William Pafton was Sir Tho-
mas Pafton : in the 35th of Henry VI Jf. he was a
gentleman of the king's privy-chamber, and in the
year following was knighted at Boulogne, in France ;
he married Ann, daughter and cohchefs of fir John,
Leigh, of Addington, in Surrey, and fiom him de-
fceud the family of the Paftous of Battiingham, ia
Norfolk.

The daughters of the faid William were, firft,
"Eleanor, married to Thomas Manners, eailof'Rut-
lanii ; fid, Anne, married to fir Thomas Tindale, of
Hockwold ; gd, Elizabeth, to fir Francis Leak, of
Dcrbyfhirc; 4th, Margery, a nun at Berking ; 5th,
Mary, to dr John Chawoith, of Notunghamfhire ;
6ih, Margaret; yth, Bridget, to Carre, efq.

S Erafmus,

566 HUNDRED OF

Erafmus, the eldeft fon and heir of the afcrefaid
fir William Pafton married Mary, daughter of fir
Thomas VVindham, of Felbiieg, and died before
his father, November 13, 153$; he was buried in
the church of Pafton, leaving Mary, his wife, (who
lived his widow 52 years, buried alfo at Pafton,)
by whom he had William Pafton, his fon and heir,
who fucceeded his grandfather in his inheritance,
and had livery of it in the fii ft and fecond of Phi-
lip and Mary ; he married Frances, daughter of fir
Thomas Clere, of Stokefby, received the honor of
knighthood, and was famous for his great hofpita-
lity. In 1607 he articled with John Key, a free-
ma fon y of London, for 200!. to ered and fet up a
tomb, or monument, of alabatler and black mar-
ble, with his effigy in armor five feet and a half
long, in the chancel of the church of North WaU
fham, which was accordingly performed in the next
year, and the epitaph thereon was compofed by his
friend, fir Thomas Kolevet, A. D. 1608, fet. fua
80. The monument is ornamented with the cieft
and arms of Pafton, and his quarterings.

On the fchool of North Walfham he fettled 40!.
per ann. and lol. per ann. for a weekly leclure
there ; to the cathedrals of Bath and Norwich he gave
sool. to Caius college lool. to the poor of Yar-
mouth 81. per ann. al. per ann. to the poor of Caf-
tor, and died O&ober 20, 1610.

His clear rental (all out-rents being paid) at his
death was 3376!. 135. per ann. 69 hens, 22 capons,
two gecfe, 13 (core, two combs, and two bufhels of
barley, 1 2 combs of oats, and four hundred and
five icorc eggs, the manor of Oxnead being then
found to be parcel of the Duchy of Lancarter, pay-
ing 153. pei aim. He had a daughter, Anne, mar-
ried

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 267

ried to Sir George Chaworth, and after to fir Nicho-
las L'Eftrange.

Chriftophcr Pafton, efq. was fon and heir to fir
William, and married Anne, daughter of Philip
Audley, efq. of Palgrave, in Norfolk. At an in-
quifition taken at Norwich caftle, September 3. in
the gth of James I. before fir Henry Gaudy, fir
Thomas Berney, knts. Thomas Corbet, efq. Henry
Branthwayte, efq. feodary, and John Foreft, efq.
efcheator of Norfolk, hy virtue of the king's comf
million, the jurors find that the faid Ckriftopber ap-
peared before them perfonally, and that he was fa-
tuus et ideoia, and had been fo for 24 years part.
Sec. Sir Edmund Pafton, knt. was his fon and heir
apparent, and married Catherine, daughter of fir
Thomas Knevet, of Afhwellthorpe : fhe died March
10, 1628, and was buried in the church of Pafton,
as was fir Edmund, who died in 1632, aged 48,

Sir William Pafton, his eldcft fon, fucceeded him,
and was admitted in Corpus-Chrifti college, in Cam-
bridge, and took the degree of bachelor of arts in
1626. Fuller, in his hiftory, ftiles him Decus, cell.
Corp. Chri/ti. In 1636 he was high fheriif of Nor-
folk, and on June 8, 1642, created baronet ; his
firft wife was the lady Catherine, daughter of Robert
Bertie, earl of Lindfey, which lady dying in child-
bed, in 1636, was buried in the chancel of Oxncad :

his fecond wife was - — , daughter of Hewet,

of London, and fifter to fir William Hewet, who
died without iCTue. Sir William died February 22,
1662, and was buried at Pafton.

Sir Robert I^afton, knt. and bart. his el deft fon
by lady Catherine, was born at Oxncad May 29,
1631, educated in Weftminfter fchool, and in Tri-

S 2

s'fiS HUNDRED OF

iilty college, Cambridge : he was a perfon of good
learning, travelled into many foreign parts, .collet-
ing many confider^ble rarities and curiofnics, and
being an accomplished fine gentleman, entertained
Charles II. his queen, and tire duke of Yoik, at
Oxnead, with the nobility that attended them. On
Auguft 9, 1676, he was bcfet in the night by fome
villains, who fhot five bullets through his coach,
and one entered into his body, but it proved not
mortal. He was a burgefs in parliament for Caftle-
Riling,, created baron of Pafton, and vifcount Yar-
mouth, in Norfolk, Auguft 19, i! 73, and earl of
Yarmouth, July 30, .1679, was lord high flevvard
of Yarmouth, and lord lieutenant of Norfolk He
built the free-fchool at North Walfham, founded by
liis anccilor, and gave a rich fervice of communion
plate to the church of Oxnead ; dying March §,
1682, he was buried at Oxnead, his funeral feimon
being preached by John Hildeyard, L.L. D. reclor
of Cawfton, and printed. By his lady, Rebecca,
daughter of Sir Jafper Clayton, of London, he left
feveral fons and daughters ; i ft, William ; sd, Ro-
bert, who married Anne, a daughter and coheirefs
of Philip Harbord, of Befthorpe, efq. gd, Jafper,
tvho married the widow of fir Palmes Fail born, and
Thomas, a colonel, drowned in the coronation in
1693, &c-

William Pafton, earl of Yarmouth, the eldeft fbnr
fucceeded his father in honor and inheritance, and
married lady Charlotte-Jemima-Maria Boyle, (alias
titz-Roy) natural daughter to Charles 11. by Eliza-
beth vifcountefs Shannon, daughter of fir William
Kiliigrew-, and wife of Francis Boyle, vifcount Shan-
non in Ireland, widow of James Howard, efq. only
ion ot Thou."' i Howard, Ion of Theophilus earl of
Sutiolk ; his f.cond lady was Elizabeth, . daughter of

lord

SOUTH ERPINGHAM, ,69

lord North, and reliS of fir Robert Wifeman,
L.L. D. dean of the arches, bv whom he had no
iflue By lady Charlotte he had Charles lord Paf-
ton, colonel of a regiment about 1710, William,
lord Pafton, who uas living in 1719, and Ro-
bert, who was captain of a man of war, who all
died before their father ; alfa two daughters, lady
Charlotte, married to Thomas Herne, cfq. of He-
veringland, and afterwards to major Weldron, and
lady Rebecca, married to.fir John Holland, baronet,
of Quidenham.

The arms of this earl were, argent, 6 lys, azure,
and a chief indented or, crefl a griffin fejant, wings
difplay'd or, gorged "with a ducal coronet argent,
and a cham or, on a torce or and azure, fupporters
a bear fable, chained or, and an oftrich argent, with
an horfcfhoe in his mouth, or.

After the death of this earl, who left his eflates to
pay his debts, this agreeable feat, with the park,
gardens, &c. fbon ran into decay, the greatefl part
of the houfe was pulled down, the materials fold,
only a part of it left fur a farmer to inhabit, and
was fold to the right honorable the late lord Anfoh,
together with all the eftates of that family, in Nor-
folk. Lord Anfon, whilft commodore Anfon, on his
return from a circumnavigation round the world, cap-
tured a Spanifli galleon, from Acapulco, worth
313.000!. which he brought home June 14, 1744. by
which he acquired a princely fortune, and died in
1-762, without iffue. G. Anfon,. efq. of Shugborough,
and representative for Litchfield, is the prcfent lord
of tfre following royalties. in Norfolk, viz. Oxnead-
hall. Skeyton-hall,' Whitewell-hall, Buxton cum
Membris, Meyton-hall, Hevingham cum Marfham,
Hevingham Catts, Mautby-hall, Bafiingham, Cro-
Haer-\Veyland's-, Pafton-Leechc'g, Latimer's and
S 3 Hun-

«7o HUNDRED OF

Hnntingfield's, Edingthorpe-Willobic's and Eding-
thorpe-Howchins, Ling, Swanton-Abbot's, Mat-
lafk, Grefham and Aylraerton, Weft Beckham,
Beighton cum Mcmbris, Reefham-Burglons, North
Birlingham. He has alfo the advowfon and patron-
age of the following churches in Norfolk, viz. Ox-
nead, R. Ling, R. Marfham, R. Hevingham, R.
Buxton, V. Skeyton, R. Baflingham, R. Grefham,
R. S wanton, R. Pafton, V. Bcighron, R. Maut-
by, R,

KEVING'S MANOR. This was part of the capital
manor of Oxnead, held at the furvey by Godwin
Halden, and foon after granted from it : in the reign
of Richard I. it was held by William cle Barnham,
lord of Barnham-Broome, in Foiehoe ; and in 1623
Henry III. granted a charter of free-warren to Wal-
ter de Barnharn, then' lord of it, and was held of the
Barnhams by the family of Hauteyn. William,
foh of fir Hamon Hauteyn, conveyed it to Simon
Keving (from whom it took its name) in 134.6; and
"Margery, widow of Thomas Keving, with her huf-
band's feoffees, conveyed it abfolutely to fir Robert
Sail, and was again joined to the capital manor.

In the hall windows of Pafton were formerly ma-
ny arms, which, as they teftify feveral matches of
this family, and others that bear a relation to it, we
fhall here mention : — Pafton, impaling Glanvile ;
Pafton, impaling Buckenham ; Pafton, impaling So-
merton ; Somerton, impaling Clere ; Pafton and
•Somerton, quarterly, impaling Berry, quartering
Wachefham and Bainard ; Pafton, impaling Brews,
of Sail ; Pafton, impaling Heydon ; Pafton impal-
ing Heron ; Pafton, impaling Begvile ; Pafton and
Mautby ; Berry and Wachefham, quarterly, impal-
ing Gei bridge, (Sir Edmund Berry mairied Alice

Gerbridge) j

SOUTH ER PING HAM. »7i

Gerbridge) ; Berry, impaling Wachcfham ; Berry,
impaling Hengrave ; Bcrrv and Craven; Mautby
and Berney, quarterly, (John Mautby married Mar-
gery Berney) ; Mautby impaling Lovein ; Mautby.
impaling Marfhall ; Mautby impaling Beauchatnp ;
Mautby impaling Clifton ; Brews -and Dcbenham ;
Heydon and Boleyn ; Bouchier impaling Lovein ;
Wachefhara and Hctherfet ; Gerbridge and Co-
ronne, or Crown ; Reedham impaling Cafton ;
Spriggy ; Clipfby impaling Jerningham ; Svvanton ;"
Le Grofs ; Gunton impaling Walcot ; Kerdefton
impaling De-la-Pole ; Kerdeilon and Morley,

On the hall chimney at Oxnead, carved in ftone,,
were the arms of Sir John Faftolf, with thofe o^
Milife'nt, his wife, daughter and coheirefs of fir Ro-
bert Tiptoft, and thofe of Phelip 'lord Bardolph,
Scroop, Fitz-Ralph, and Inglos, which fliows that
it was brought here from Caftor-hall.

In a grove of this town were found in the reign
of Charles II. feveral filver coins of the Roman
emperors, viz. of Auguftus, Viteliius, Vefpatian,
Trajan, Adrian, and Peninax.

On the yth of February, 1442, John Kemp, arch-
bifhop of York, at his palace by Weftminfler, (now
Whitehall) granted an indulgence of 100 days par-
don, to all thofe pcrions who would contribute any
portion of their goods towards the repair, or new
building, of the bridges in the town of Oxnead.

The chmch of Oxnead is dedicated to St. Mi-
chael, confiding of a nave and a chancel, both co-
vered with tiles, and a fquaie tower, in which is one
bell, — In the nave lies a gravc-ftone with a brafs
plate ; — Hie jacct Ga'Ji id us Brampton, gen. quondam

S 4 Jenefcallus

37* HUNDRED OF

fenefcallus hofpitii Gulielmi Pa/Ion, militis, in Pa/Ion,
poflca Clemcnth Pajlon, armiger, in Oxnede, qui, pojl
mulios annos in e.odem officio fiddlier impcnfos, obi, 14
die. Decembris, Anno Domini 1586, -atatis fute 63. —
On it the arms of Brampton, of Brampton.

On another, — Mors ultima linea rerum. Hie jacct
Rob. Dunning n.edicina doctor, vir probus, et doftus,
pauperibus ri.nnificus, ac egre^io ci \entrabili viro, Duo.
GnUelmo Pajlon, equiti auralo, Jidelis mcdicus, quocum
dome/lice vixit, tt per multas annos falutern ejus, dotte,
Jaiutd) Her tt perite curavil ; et pofiquam complevit
LXXIUI annos, jaliciler vilam cum morte mutavit 28
die Junij, i6\o;.et in ejus manor iam hoc pojuit Jo-
hannes, conjangnimus ejus.

In the chancel, which is paved with black and
white marble, at the eaft end againfl the north wail,
on a marble tomb, lies the effigy of a man in ar-
mor on a matt, at his feet a pelican, by him his
wife kneeling in alabafler, and on a wall-piece, or~
liamented and fupported with pilaftcrs :

You that behold this jlatdy marble tomb,
And long to know who here entombed lies,

Jrhre rtjls the corps, and Jhall till day of doo?nt
Of Clement Pa/ten, fortunate and wife •

Fourth fon to old fir William Pajlon, knight,

Who dwells with God in Jphere of chriflal bright.

Of Brutus race princes he ferved four,

In peace and war, as fortune did command,

Sometimes by fea, and fcmetimes on the flwrc,
The French and Scot he often did withjtand.

A peer oj France, in fpight of all his betters,

He took in Jight, and brought him home in fetters.

Oxnead

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 573

Q\ncad he built, in which he lived Ions:,

«5

With great renown for feeding of the poor,
To friends a friend, of foes he took no wrong,

Twice forty years he lived, and fomewhat more,
And at the lajl by doom of high behefl,
His foul in Heaven, hi* body here doth rejl.

Obt. 18 Febr. 1597.

On the monument is the quartered coat of Pafton,
viz. i. Paflon ; 2. Peche ; 3. Leach; 4. Somer-
ton ; 5. Barry ; 6. Mautby ; 7. Charles ; 8. Wa-
chefham ; 9. Hetherfet ; 10. Gerbrige ; 11. - ;
12. Walcote ; 13. Hengrave ; 14. Kerdefton ; 15.
Craven ; alfo Pafton impaling Packington, and —
Here rejleth Alice Paflon, widow, daughter of ••
Packinglon, jirji the wife of Richard Lambert, of Lon-
don, efq. fccondly to Clement Pajton, of Oxncad ; Jlit
died January 18, 1608.

On -the faid north wall is a neat monument of
black and white marble, with the buft'of a lady in
white marble, &c. and the arms of Pafton, impal-
ing liertie : — This was in memory of Lady Catherine
Bertie, daughter of the earl of Lindfey, and wife of
fir William Pajlon, hart, who died January 3, 1636.

On a grave-ftone in the chancel, — Hie jacet Anna,
filia Johannis Pa/Ion, nulitis, cvjus anima propiliclur

Alfo — Here lieth Edmund Lambert, late of Boy ton, in

the. county of Wilts, cfq. fon of Richard Lambert, of

London, efq. who had ijjue by Anne Jackman, his wife,

Jive fins and nine daughters , he died 2§d December,

1608.

This

2;4 HUNDRED OF

This rectory is valued in the king's books at gl.
175. oh. and by a terrier, in 1663, there appears to
be 30 acres and i rood of glebe land belonging to it.

The Hojpital in Oxnead, its Foundation, and Maintenance,
Land lied for it.

Per ann.
1. s. d.

A farm at Southtown, by Yarmouth, lett at 30 o o
Free land in Buxton - - 10 o o

Copyhold land in Buxton, - -600

Land in Oxnead, demifed by fir William

Pafton, of Oxnead, - 10 o e

Rent of affize of free and copyhold tenants
of the manor of Burglons, in Reepham,
with the profits of the court, - 300

Apiece of land in Sutton, called Langmore, 200

Total - 61 o o

Out of which mujl be laid out,
Imprimis. To be paid to 6 alms-men, for
their wages and diet weekly, IDS. per
week, - 26 o o

Item. For 300 faggot wood - -400

For 3000 flaggs for their fire, to be brought
. home to them. - l .o o

'Item. For 6 frize gowns, being about 42

yards in the whole - - "33°

Total - 34 3 o

Whereof the houfe, and especially the houfe, to
be kept in order.

The

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 275

The once magnificent feat at Oxnead is now al-
moft entirely taken down, except one wing, which
probably formed a part of the ©ffices. The founda-
tions of the houfe are yet fufficientlv perfect to fee it
Was once in the form of an H, and was beautifully
fituared on the top of three terraffes, which are flill
in being, and command a pleafmg view of the river
Bure, (now made navigable).

In 1777 the reverend John Orden was prefented
to the reclory of Oxnead, or Oxnede, by George
Anfon, e(q. /;. j.

SAXTHORPE was the lordfhip of Godwin in the
reign of the Confefibr. In the Conqueror's time
Matclafe (now Matlafk, in the hundred of North
Erpingham) was then a beruite, or hamlet, depend-
ant on this lordfhip, and was valued at 4!. afte wards
at 61. and at the fuivey at lol. per ann. and 2os. per
aim. by way of prefent. Saxthorpe was one leuca
long, and one broad, and paid isd. gelt. Matlafk.
was three furlongs long, and two broad, and paid
gd. gelt; Godric kept it for William I. at his
furvey.

MEKILHALL remained in the crown till it was
given to William tie Wendevall, a Norman, who oc-
curs lord in the reign of Henry I. and Robert de
Wendevall, his brother, fucceeded him, who dying

without heirs, it efcheated to the crown.

Henry III. gave it to William de Valentia, earl of
Pembroke, his half brother, together with the ad-
vowfon, and liberty of a gallows, hanging all per-
fons convicled of felony within the manor. His
fon, Aymerde Valentia, fucceeded, and built a large
houfe, or hall, called Mekil, or Mickle-hall, or the

Great-hall,

*76 HUNDRED OF

Great-hall, from which the manor affumed iis name,
and as this earl often reflded here, he founded the
free chapel of St. Dunflan near to it, for a cuftos to
be perpetually refident, and perform fervice for his
family. On the death of this earl it came to his
countefs, Mary, daughter of Guy de Chattelon,-earl
of Pern-Paul, in Fiance, foundrcfs of Denny abbey,.
in CambridgeChire, and of Pembroke-hall, in Cam-
bridge; on the death of this lady, in 1376, it
came to John de Mailings, carl of Pembroke, a mi-
nor, as heir to the Valentia family ; from the Mail-
ings family it came by defcent to Reginald lord
Grey, of Ruthyn, whofe grand fon, Robert Grey, of
Whitington, in Staflbrdfhire, efq. had this manor.
In 1362 John Verney had livery of this manor, held
of the honor Richmond, and that of Forncct. Afier
this it was purchafed by fir Chriflophsr Hcydon, who
died feifed of this manor, and that of Lounde-hall,
St. Dun dan's chapel, and die tithes thereto belonging
in Saxthorpc, and gave them to William Heydoii,
efq. and Ann, his wife, daughter of fir VViliiam
Wodehoufe, who in 1582 fold them to fir John Cut-
ton, and Roger Townlhend, efq. and they to An-
drew Thetford, eiq. Jn 1592 Francis Thetford, and
Thomas Jenny, gent, had it.

In 1605 Thetford conveyed this lordfhip, £c. to

Scambler, and they both joined, in 1608,

and conveyed it to fir Henry Hobart, attorney-gene-
ral, who in 1609 conveyed it to John earl of Bridge-
water, 8cc. Alter this it was in the family of the Earles
of Heydon ; but Peter Elvin, elq. of Booton, is the
prefent lord, whofe fon, Peter Elvin, efq. jun. rcfides
here.

CHEF ING'S, or LAUND-HALL. Aymer de Valentia,
•arl of Pembroke, giving a confixleiable part of his

manor

SOUTH £R PING HAM. 277

manor of Mickle-hall to Simon dc Creping, (v*ho
occurs lord of ic in 1315) was the founder of it ;
this Simon held it by the fervice of a quarter of a
fee of the Tatefha',1 honor, or barony, and fold it
to John de Gurney ; but in 1337 John de Mereuorth
was in pofleffioa of it.

In 1400 Henrv, Alexander and Roger Groos held,
it, and about 1411 John Gurnay, of Weft Bavfham ;
after this fir John Faflolf, knight of the garter, was
lord, and died feifed of it ; his feoffees fold it to the
Greys, lord of Mickle-hall, and thus it was united
to it, and fo continues.

The town belongs to the Duchy of Lancafter, and
is valued at 535!. iys. 6d. to the land tax.

The church of Saxthorpe is dedicated to St. An-
drew, has a fquare tower, with four'bells., a save, two
ailes, a fauth porch, a chancel, and veflry, all "co-
vered with lead ; it was formerly a re&ory, valued at
twenty marks, appendant to the manor. Walter
Alexander, who was prefented to it in 1313, by Ay-
mer de Valentia, earl of Pembroke, was the laft rec-
tor, that earl leaving the manor and advo;vfon to his
lady, Mary de St. Paul, for life; file, on the pay-
ment of two hundred marks to Richard Taibot
and others, had the advowfon, with that of the nuns
ininorefles of \\aterbeach, in Cambrids'cfhire. con-

veyed to her, and her heiis, by the fpecial licence of
Edward III. in 1335; and. in 1346 the faid king
granted her another licence to fettle it in mortmain on
her college in Cambridge, called then Mary Valence
College, or Hail, (now Pembroke-hall) which was ap-
propriated in 1350 by William Batcman, bifliop of
Norwich, to the faid houfe, referving to the bifhop
two marks per annum penfion, in recoinpence for the

firft

*78 HUNDRED OF

firfl-fruits loft from the fee by the appropriation : on
this a vicarage-houfe, and an endowment of ten
marks per annum, was fettled on the vicar, and con-
firmed by tfoe pope's bull, and the advowfon of it re-
ferved to the college, in which it continues to this
day.

In about 1490 the prefent church was built by the
lord of the manor, his tenants, and this vicar, who
feated the church, and the initial letter of his name,
a capital P, with a crown over it, may be obferved,
carved on the feats, the crown over it denoting St.
Peter to be his patron, and tutelary faint, and the
bottom of the P having a crofs, befpeaks his own
Chriftian and firname; he lies buried 'by the font,
with this remembrance: — Corpus Pciri Pagc^hujus ec-
clefitz vicarii, Jub hoc marmorc Jepultum, anno Domini

MCCCCCXXXVI.

Anthony Temple, A. M. vicar, was deprived in
1554 for being a married pried:.

John Vaughan, vicar here, by his will, dated Sep-
tember 16, 1666, gave 300!. to the city of Norwich,
10 be put out, free from interefl, to poor young
tradeimen. and 260!. to the boys hofpital, in Nor-
wich, on certain terms and conditions.

In 1708 William Sutton, A. M. was .prefcnted,
and in i 723 was prebendary of Briftol ; in i 7 14 he
published a fermon, preached in Norwich cathedral,
on queen Anne's acceffion ; alfo a charity lermon,
preached there in 1721.

In the nave of the church, on a grave-done, —
Thomas Deye, mtrcatort obijt 30, Sept. A. D. 1596.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 279

On one at the weft end of the nave, — Hie jacet"
Willielmus Page, quiobijt v die Maij, A. D. MDI, cujus
unimtz propicictur Dcus.

The family of Page are of confiderable {landing'
in this town, and Peter Page, vicar here, was of the
fame, and left all his fortunes to it. John Page, of
Saxthorpe, efq. married Elizabeth, daughter of Tho-
mas Howfe, of Norwich, and had Anthony Page,
who by Elizabeth, daughter of fir Richard Grefham,
of Thorpe-Market, and his wife, daughter of Tho-
mas Crofts, of Saxham, in Suffolk, efq. and co-
heirefs to her brother, Edmund Grefham, had four
fons. Grefham, Richard, Miles, and John. Greflham
is buried in the church ; on his grave-flone are the
arms of Page, and Grefham, July 21, 1693, aged 72.

John Page, of Saxthorpe, efq. his younger bro-
ther, was a juftice of the peace, and married Mary,
daughter and coheirefs of Robert Page, of Sax-
thorpe, brother to Anthony, and are both buried
here, at the entrance into the chancel, in a vault ;
John died February 6, 1707, aged 8 2 years; Mary-
died February 17, 1672. John Page, efq. of Sax-
thorpe, their third fon and heir, married Judith,
daughter of John Davy, re&or of Heydon, and had
Grefham Page, efq. who was high ftierifF of Norfolk
in 1723.

. On a fmall marble in the chancel, — M. S. Wilhelmi
Byron Sutton Wilhelmi et Barbara jilij primogeniti, not.
<Qd. xi denat. Jan. 27.

The vicarage is valued in the king's books at 4!.
135, 4d. and being in clear yearly value 37!. it is dif-
charged of firit-fruits and tenths, and capable of aug-
mentation

iSo H U N D R E D O F

Mentation ; it pays' 203. per annum pcnlion to the
bifhop.

The prior of We fiacre had a portion of tithes,
Valued at half a mark, and temporals valued at ios«
The prior of Waborne's temporals at ijd. The prior
of Hempton's at 4d.

In 1772 the Rev. Lancelot Bell was prefented to
this vicarage by the matter and fellows of Pembroke-
hall, Cambridge.

St. Bunftan's chapel, in Saxthorpe, was founded
"by Aymer de Valentia, earl of Pembroke, and en-
dowed by him for a cuflos, or mafler, daily to cele-
brate fervice therein, for the family of Mickle-hall,
and for the fouls of the faid Aymer, his anceilors,
and fucceffors ; before this foundation he had li-
cence to have fervice daily performed in an oratory
within his own houfe. In 1313 Thomas de Caftro-
Godreci Was prefented cuflos by the faid earl, In
1526 Richard Wherwood, alias Horwood, was pre-
iVnted by fir Edward Grey; he was the laft cuftos,
and on the diffolution of this free chapel in the ift
of Edward VI. had a penfion of 305. per annum af-
iigned him for life out of its revenues, which were
valued in one valuation at 5!. 35. 4d. in another at
405. It remained not long in the jzrown. In the
year after its diffolution, in 154 7, 'king Edward
granted it, and the fcite thereof, with all the lands,
tenements, tithes, &c. in Saxthorpe thereto belong-
ing, and all other lands, to Thomas Woodhoufe, of
Waxhara, efq. and his heirs, of whom'it was after*
wards purchafed by the lord of the manor, and has
been united to iteverfince. It is now entirely in
ruins, the fcite belongs to the lord, and is in a dole,
called Chapd-cloiV. <

Here

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 281

Here was formerly an ancient family, who took
their name from the town, and had an eftate therein.
In 1215 Robert de Saxthorpe paid a fine of twenty-
four marks for pardon, by which it feems that he had
took part with the barons againft king John ; and
Richer de Saxthorpe, when he became a eroded de-
votee to the Holy Land, agreed that Robert the Tan-
ner, fon of Richard Bacon, of Thorpe, fhould marry
his daughter, Maud, and have his rents and eflate
here, paying Richer fix marks to perform his -jour-
ney, if he went in perfon, or to any one that he
fhould procure to go, and perform his vow for him,
and to keep him and his wife honorably, and accord-
ing to their degree, for life.

SCOTTOW, or SCOTHOWE, is wrote in Doomf-
day-book Scotohou, and fignifies the lot, or portion,
on the hill, (and fuch is the fituation of this village)
did, as the regifter of Holme abbey informs us, be-
fore the Confeffor's time, belong to Ulfwin, or Alf-
\vin, a Saxon nobleman, who gave it to^hat abbey,"
where it remained at the ConfeiTot's furvcy, and was
one of the manors appropriated for the monks main-
tenance. The church had fourteen acres of glebe,
and the manor was annually worth 405. but was
raifed at the Conqueror's iurvey to 3!. and then ihis
village was a mile long, and half a mile and twenty
perches broad, and paid i6d. to the gelt towards
every sos. raifed on the hundred.

The principal manor then belonged to the abbot,
but there was another held of him by Ralph de Beau-
foe, and a third by Ketcl, a Dane, in the Confclfof.s
time, and by Rainald Hiz-Ivo in the Conqucroi'j. ;
bcfides thefe Alau earl of Richmond had a free-man
here, and there was another part which belonged to
the king's manor of Aylfham, till after 1274.
T

282 H U N D R E D O F

SCOTTOW, or SCOTHOWE M/vNon, had the moiety
of the advowfon belonging to it, and the lords always
prefemed a recTtor to the mediety of the church, till
1231, when Michael de Ringesfield had it, and at
fiis death, before 1266, it was united to the other
mediety, with the manor, which was infeoffed in the
family firnamed of the town, and was held of the
abbot in 1 1 20 by Jeffry de Scothowe, who was lord
and patron ; and John de Scothowe in 1279 fold the
whole to Bartholomew de Reedham, who had

The other manor, called BEAUFOK'S, from Ralph
de Beaufoe, its lord; this defcended with the other
moiety of the advowfon to Ofborn, anceftor of Bar-
tholomew de Reedham, whofc heirs joined the other
manor to it. In 1 249 there was a conteft between
Stephen de Reedham, and the abbot, who required
more cuftoms for his fee held of him, than were ever
demanded before; but this matter was fettled, it
being agreed that Stephen fliould pay to the convent
505. per ann. and fifty quarters of good barley by
the flricke* bufhel, for all his fee of this manor in
Scottow, Lammas, and Sco-Rufton ; this barley he
was annually to fend to the abbey, with eight men,
and two carriages, the abbot finding them their din-
ner that day, as Holme rcgider informs us ; and no
fooncr was this finifhed, but a new fuit arofe about
the advowfon of the mediety of the church, which
belonged to this manor in the time of Henry I. and
was given by Ofborn de Reedham, and confirmed
by that king to the abbey, which had got it appro-
priated by the bifhop of Norwich in 1231, at the
death of the redlor then upon it : but that never took
cffed ; for Stephen recovered it wholly, and fet afide
the impropriaiion, all but the tithes of thofe his own
dcmefnes, called Weflfield, which extended from

the

SOUTH ERPINQHAM. 283

the ball, or manor-houfe, of fir Hugh.de Meliers:
he was fucceeded by fir Bartholomew de Reedham,
knt. his fon and heir, who joined the former manor
and advowfon to it in 1279, and fo thetwo medieties
united, and the manor was formerly held in capile,
but now cf the abbot in mefuahy* the abbot holding
it in the mefue, as part of his barony.

In 1291 an agreement was made between fir Bar-
tholomew, and fir Hugh Peverel, of Melton, knt.
and John, fon and heir of fir Hugh, who was to
marry Joan, daughter of fir Bartholomew, and fo
had fettled on them, and their heirs, all this manor-
houfe at Scottovv, with all the adjoining demefnes,
and the whole advowfon of the church of All Saints,
in Scottow, and the moiety of the whole manor ; after
the death of fir Bartholomew the advowfon and
moiety went to the faid John and Joan, and they pre-
fented in 1312; and in 1327 fir Hugh Peverel, knt.
their fon, had it, and fold it to Richard de Bittering,
citizen of Norwich. \ .

The moiety of the other moiety came to Catherine,
wife of John de Newton, of Scottow, and contained
acarucate of land; it defcended to Stephen de New-
ton, who was convi£led of felony, and fo the abbot
feized, and it ever after remained in that houfe to its
diifolution.

The other moiety went to Thomas de Framling-
ham, in right of Agnes, his wife, whofe truilees
fold it to the abbot, who in 1363 had pui chafed the
manor, and obtained a feleafe of all right in the ad-
vowfon from Thomas de Bittering, and lo the whole
came into the abbot's hands, and with that abbey-
went to the fee of Norwich, of which it is now helcj

fa by

2S4 HUNDRED OF

TDV leafe by Thomas Durrant, efq. the prefent lord,
he having the feveral manors

:Of FENHAIL, AtiBRiE'r, STUEEF.'S, and GITRNAY'S
or BERNEY'S, in Scottow, united in him, of which
manors we find as follows: — The manor which be-
longed to Raina-ld Fitz-Ivo defcended to Hugh de
Melicrs, who lived in the time of king John, and
vvhen one of his fons became a monk in St. Bennet's
abbey. Simon deParva Rifton, or le Paunier of Parva '
Riflon afterwards had it. It was foon after divided
into three parts, which conftituted the three feveral
fmall manors, called afterwards by the names of their
feveral lords, and the whole oi this raanor was held
of Dover-caftle.

\Vi!liam de Colney had one part, or manor, con-
veyed to him by John de Whiriburgh, which extended
into Brampton, Lammas, and Buxton, iri 1288; and
in 1312 his fon, Ralph, who pafled by the name of
fir Ralph Malherbe, had it. In 1345 another Wil-
liam de Colney had it, and afterwards Richard
Poynings, then fir Robert de Berney, knt. and in
1401 William Thurton owned it, in right of his
wife. In 1571 Charles Cormvaliis, efq. was lord;
and in 1598 Anthony Flowerdew.

)

STUBBE'S MANOR. Another part belonged to Ro-
ger de Norfolk ; and in 1314 Ralph de Felmingharn,
and John Norke, of Worftcad, in right or their
>fcives, who were coheirefles, had it. In 1379 Bar-
tholomew Appleyard, and Henry Lumner, citizens
of Norwich, were concerned in it. It afterwards
came to the Stubbes, of which family John Stubbcs,
of Scottow, and Laxfieid, in Suffolk, in 1460, was
buried in the friars preachers church at Norwich, and
left the manor to John, his fon, who was buried in

the

SOUTH E R P I N G II A M. a 85

the chancel here ; for in 1 5 05 Hawife, his widow,
was buried here by her hufband's tomb, and or-
dered a marble tomb for herfel f. John Stubbe, their
fon, inherited, and was buried by them in 1523;
he left Andrew his fon and heir, who in 1 534 fold it
to Thomas Marfliam, gent, and iu 1572 fir Thomas
Knevet, knt. had it.

AUBRIE'S MANOR. Egidia, widow of Nicholas de
Dorccte, fold it to Jeffrey Papelyn in the time of Ed-
ward I. when it contained feven meffuages, 8cc. in
•Scottow and Lammas, and it afterwards belonged
to the Aubreys, and was in the Stubbes. In 1537
it was fold by Etbeldred, widow of Andrew Stubbe,
to Thomas and William Wodehoufe ; and in 1612
John Shardelowe, gent, fold it to Richard Rofs, and
Thomas Fidell, gents.

FENHALL MANOR was originally part of Buxton
manor, and always paffed with it, till parted by Wil-
liam Marfhall, who granted it as a feparate manor to
the le Gros's, and Roger le Gros had it, held at
one fee, as of Buxton manor, and that of the manor
of Hockering, as parcel of his barony of Rhye.

In 1472 Robert Elmham, of North Waliham,
cfq. had this manor of Fenhall, in Scottow.

In 1476 Robert Ellingham, of North Walfliara,
died feifed of Fenhall manor, and a tenement and
lands in Scottow, called Learns, or Lemens, held of
Buxton manor.

In 1 543 Margaret Willoughbie, widow, daughter
of Elmham, held Learns and Fenhall,

T 3 John

..i

sS6 HUNDRED OF

John Stanley, efq. in 1577, fold to Robert Balle,
genr. and his heirs, Fenhall, alias Heydon's, alias
Docking's, alias Bocking's manor, in Scottow, and
many adjoining towns, all which John warranted
againfl the heirs of fir John Bell, knt. deceafed, and
the heirs of fir John Rocking, alias Docking, de-
ceafed, and the heirs of Robert Elmham, deceafed.
The father of this Robert was John Balle, gent, of
Scottow, who had a leafe of Scottow manor, from
bifhop Hopton, for ninety-nine years, at 19!. 45.
1 id. ob. rent, the leflce to have the lordfhip, renLS,
lines, and perquifites of Courts, 8cc.

In 1572 Robert Balle fold the whole to Robert
Gibfon, who bought Gurnay's, or Berney's, of Mr.
Howerdev/, and Stubbed of fir Thomas Knevet.

. The church is dedicated to All Saints, and was va-
lued at forty marks ; here were three guilds, and fc-
ven lights. It is in the liberty of the Duchy of Lan-
cafter. It paid 81. 135. ^d. to every tenth, but had
a deduclion of 205. on account of the revenues of
the religious here; it is aflefled at 628!. ss. 6d. to
the land tax. In the revifion of the archdeaconry of
Norwich the procurations arc faid to be paid by the
bifhop, as impropriator, and that the bifhop ought to
pay yearly to the vicar an annual penfion of 4!. 133.
4d. which was then paid by the farmer of the rec-
tory, according to his leafe; there was then no vi-
carage-houfe : it being fworn of the clear yearly
value of 35!. it is difcharged of firft- fruits and tenths,
and is capable of augmentation ; the bifhop of Nor-
wich is patron, and the value in the king's books is
81. 13$. 6d. ob. Here were anciently two rectors of
tb- two medieties, which were perpetually united
about 1266, and fo it became one rectory.

SOUTH ER PING HAM, 287

In 1335 the abbot of Holme brought the king's
writ againfl. Thomas de Morley, and others, concern-
ing this advowfon.

In 1 338 the monks of Holme petitioned the bi-
fhop of Norwich for licence to appropriate the
church of North Walfham, letting forth that the
lay-power had taken from them the church of Scot-
tow, which had been appropriated to them, it being
worth 100 marks a year.

In 1348 the convent had fo managed, that they
had got releafes of this advowfon from all parties,
and the appropriation renewed ; a vicarage of forty
marks value was to be endowed, the bifhop being to
nominate the vicars to the abbot, who was to pr,efent
them in three day,s, otherwife the bifliop was to in-
flitute in his own right; a penfion of 405. per ann.
was referved to the bifhop, and another of 55. a year
to the Norwich facrift, in right of the cathedral, and
the abbot was to be taxed for the reclory at 25
marks, and the vicar for the vicarage at fifteen marks ;
but the unreafonable monks were not fatisfied wviih
this appropriation; but in 1350 procured anothee
afftgnation of the vicarage, by which the vicar was tq
have twenty pounds fterling the firft five years, and
then forty marks every year paid clear by the monks,
who now retained the whole rectory and vicarage,
except the reclory-houfe, and fix acres of arable land
belonging to it, which being a commonable mcfiuage,
the right of commonage was to belong to the vicar*
and thus the abbey was to difcharge the vicar of all
manner of duty, by finding a parochial chaplain to
do it, and to allow that chaplain all the offerings,
4nd what carne from the altar; all outgoing charges
whatever were to be paid, two parts by the abbot,

T4 and

cS8 HUNDRED OF

and one-third by the vicar; but notwithstanding this
the vicar had power referred, if he liked it bed, to
take all the fmall tithes, and a penfion of twenty-
eight marks a year; but then the vicar was obliged to
ferve half the cure, with the abbot's chaplain, and
the abbot alfo was allowed power to choofe which
of thefe two ways he pleaied.

In 1638 Robert le Neve, the re&or here, was fe^
queftered, but lived to be reftored, and died pof-
fefled of it in 1676.

In 1767 the Rev. Lancafler Adkin was prefented
to this vicarage of Scottow by the bifliop of Nor-
wich, D. Epijcopi jVonu.

In 1392 John Clarke, and others, conveyed to the
abbey of Holme a meffuage and land here, fo that
for this and other temporals the convent was taxed
at 14!. 155. 8d. ob. per arm. The prior of Hick-
ling's temporal rents here were AS. and thofe of St.
Faith's igs. ad.

In 1378 fir Roger Bois, knt. and others, conveyed
to the prior of the Holy Trinity, at Ingham, a mef-
fuage and eighty-eight acres here and in Worftead.

In 1505 Harvey Stubbc, and his wife, were buried
under a marble in the chancel.

In 1469 William Hynde, buried by the font, gave
a mafs book, of lol. value, and 3 pair of gilt can-
cllefticks, of five marks value; he founded a pried
here to fing for him, &c.

There are the arms of St. Lowe, Faftolf, and
White, in the windows, and iufcriptioiis.

A ftone,

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 289

A Ilone, with Blake's arms, is thus inscribed : —
Hicjacet Margareta, uxor Roberti Blake, generoji, qua
mortem obijt Maij die octavo, anno Jalu ft* 1724;, atal.
jux 70.

On a black marble by the altar, a chev. between
three fifhes, — Hie dcpofittz requiejcunt exuviae Hentici
Brougham, A. M. nuper collegij Reginalis Oxori,jilij
natu minoris, defuntti Jui Patris Danielis Brougham, gc-
nerofi, aliquando de Firbank in comitalu Wcjlmorienji,
obijt 25 menjis Augujli, A. D. 1729, atat. 25.

A buck paffant pierced through with an arrow, —

Depofilum Rookwood Robinfoni, obijt Martij Jeptimo,

1657-

There are black marbles in the chancel for the
Durrani, with thefe infcriptions : — Hicjacet corpus
Gulielmi Durrant, generofi, qui obijt 20 Jan. 1700, at.
Juce 84. Et dextra illius jacet corpus Margareta Dur-
rani, uxor predi5li Gulidmi Durrani, qua obijt 5 Martij,
A. D. 1697, ala.t.Ju<z 69.

Hie jacet corpus Marias Durrani, uxor Thoma Dur-
rant, generoji, qua obijt 29 Sepl\ A. D. 1708, atatii
ft* 43.

Exuvia; Anna, ttrtia conjugis Thomas Durrani, ar-
rniveri, in eodcm reponunter dormitorio, obijt Sept. 15,
A. D. 1721, atat. Jua 4%.

Tandem Thomce Durrani, armigeri, reliquia, prcditta-
rum conjugum dneribus Junt commixta Ocl, 10, A. Jalutit
1727, atat.Jux 70.

Subtus pefitafunt rcliquia Thomas Durrani, gencrofi,
Thames Durrani, nuper de Scottowc, armigeri, natu mi~

ago H U N D R E D O F

rwris, oalebs obijt n die J\rovcmb\ A. D. 1/23, atat.
fix 35-

Thomas Durrant, cfq. wasdefcended from theDur-
rants of Derbyshire, who bear, by grant of William
Cambden, fab. a crofs potent er. But when Tho-
mas Durrant efq. in 1715, was fheriff of Norfolk, he
had a grant paffed, authorizing him and his defcend-
ants to bear the following arms and creft, as they are
now borne by Thomas Durrant, efq. the prefent
lord, who hath a good feat near the church, built by
the firft Thomas, and much improved by the late
Davy Durrant, efq, viz. — Or, a crofs croflet ermines,
between 4 fpots of ermine, fab. — Creft, on a wreath
of his colours, a boar paffant party per fefs wavy ar-
gent and gules, brizzled and tufked az. and pierced
through the body with a broken lance, bendways fa-
ble, the head downwards gold.

Thomas Durrant, efq. the prefent lord of Scot tow*
was defied one of the reprefcntativcs for the borough
of St. Ives, in Cornwall, in the parliament of 1768.
— He is a gentleman of great fortune and abilities,
and being in the commiffion of the peace, and a de-
puty lieutenant for the county, is an able and aclive
magistrate. We now find his name in the London
Gazette, as one of the three gentlemen in nomination
for the office of high fheriff of Norfolk this year,
1781.

SKEYTON, wrote in Doomfday-book Scedgetuna.
This whole town, except four acres, was given by
the founder of St. Rennet's abbey, in the Holme, to
that houie, and at the Confeffor's furvey Algar, a
freeman, held it of the convent, and 'twas then
xvcrth 2 os, per annum, and was a mile long and

half

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half a mile broad, and paid Sd. towards every 2os.
railed on the hundred, when the king taxed it. TheA
Conqueror gave it to Ralf Bainard, of whom God-
fiide Bainard held it at 305. rent, when that prince
took his'furvey. It continued in the Bainards- with
Merton, till fir Fulk Bainard, the firft of that name,
who held it of fir Robert Fitzwalter's barony of Bay-
nard's cattle, infeoffed the whole in Eudo, firnamed
de Skegeton, or Skeyton, who was fole lord and pa-
tron ; but the foe, and chief leet, belonged to the
hundred', as to the manor of A) Ifham, and there
was one tenement which he held of die abbot of St.
Bennet, which Eudo held of that convent, in the
Confeffor's time, and his fucceflpr, Ralf de Beaufoe,
in the Conqueror's, and his fteward, Radbold, held
it under him, as of that houfe.

SKEYTON'S MANOR, or SKEYTON-HALL, took its
name from its lords, as they did from the town. Eu-
do de Skeytone had two knights fees, and five bo-
vate$ in Skeyton, Sec. The 3d part of Skeyton ma-
nor and advowfon all afterwards ccnter'd in William
de VVhitwell, who married Clarice de Skeyton, and
'this was the original of Whit well-hail, alias Gam-
bon's manor here.

The other two-third parts, or Skeyton-hall manor,
this William died feifed ol : In 1289 this advowfon
was fettled to be prefemed to alternately, by Robert
de Skeyton, in right of Skeyton-hall, and by Wil-
liam dc Whitwell, in right of Whitwell-hall. In i 290
"fir John de Skeyton, knight, was lord here and of
Tibbenham ; and in 13 15 fir Ralf de Skeyton was
lord and patron, in right of Maud de Narford. This
eftate, with Booton, came to the Warrens, and it paf-
fed with Booton, till it was purchaied by William

Hare,

2g2 HUNDREDOF

Hare, of Beefton, gent, about 1532, and Audrey
Hare, his only daughter and heirefs, carried it to her
hufband, Thomas Hobart, of Plumftead, gent, and
in 1612, fir Thomas Hobart, knight, prefented, and
it continued in that family till purchafed by fir Ro-
bert Pafton, bart. who prefented in 1666, and White-
\vell-hall being joined to this, the whole hath remained
in his family ever fince, it being part of the eflate of
the late earl of Yarmouth, who was fole lord and pa-
tron, though the lect belongs to the hundred, as a
member of Aylfham manor. The late lord Anfon
purchafed the whole, and George Anfon, Efq. is
now lord and patron.

WHITWELL-HALL, or GAMBON'S MANOR, contain-
ed a third part of the town, and came with CJa-
jrice, or Clarence de Skeyton to William de Whitwell,
hufband ; about 1298 this manor was valued at
5l. Jos. per annum. Simon de Whitwell had it,
and died in 137^ and was buried before St. Mary's
aftar in Skeyton church, whofe daughter and coher-
ers, Cecily, married William Gambon, who prefented
>n 1378, and had half this manor in 1393. John
Gambon, efq. died without ifiue, feifedofitin 1432,
leaving Ellen, his wife, in poffeffion during her life,
and then it went to Robert Sterne, fon of his filter
Joan, by\her hufband Sterne. Simon Sterne, of
Skeyton, gent, prefented in i 748, and had the whole
manor, WhitwelTs part being now joined again to
this ; with the advowfon, Jc. the moiety thereof, and
Whitwell, alias Gambon's in Whitwell ; and being
after purchafed by the Hobarts, it was joined to, and
flill remains with Skeyton-hall manor aforelaid.

The church is dedicated to all the faints, and is
leaded, as isalfo the chancel ; the fouth porch is tiled ;

there

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there is a fquare tower and three bells, the lea ft of
which was given in 1506 by Peter Howys, of Yar-
mouth.

T?
In the chancel window, — Qr-ati pro animabus Nuho--

lai Bulloc tt : : : : : uxoris cjus : : : : :

On a freeflone, by the altar, — Alicia Spfndlovc, xxv,
Aug. 1616. — Hugh Spcndlove, xii. Feb. 1619. — The
father and mother of prebend Spendlove.

The arms of Warren, lord here, with the canton of
Narford; and Warren, quartering on a chev' 3 fwans,
and Pafton fmgle. — The arms of Sterne are now loft.
— Robert King, formerly fervant to William earl of
Yarmouth, was buried here in May, 1727, in the
1 ogd year of his age. He had an entire fet of new
teeth about ten years before his death. This town
is valued to the land-tax at 365!. The old value of
the re&ory is 1 5 marks.

Here is a parfonage-houfe, and about 28 acres of
glebe, and in the new value is mentioned at outgoing
of ifld per annum to the fleward. It is capable ot
augmentation, being difcharged of firft fruits and
tenths, and ftands thus in the king's books. — " 09
10 oo Skcyton re&ory, of the clear yearly value of
30!.

In 1666 the rev. Da~niel Burton was prefented by
fir Robert Pafton, bart. and the whole parifh fern him
a letter of thanks for presenting a man fo much,
cfteemed and liked by them. In i 744, the rev.
PhilirVtrancis, A. B. late reclor, had it by lapfe. He ju-
dicioufly .translated Horace into Englifh vcrfe, and
published k in two volumes, oclavo, London. In
1759, the rev. George Sandby, D. D. chancellor or"

tfc

294 HUNDRED OF

this diocefe, was prefente,d to the re£lory of Skeyton,
by the late lord An Con.

STRATTON-STRAWLESS, STRATTON, or
STRATUM, the Street, or Way, that leads to the
Roman fettlement at Brampton; from which name
we take it to have been of Roman original: it pafTes
by fcveral names for diflindion from the other towns
of the fame name in this county, as Stratton Parva,
juxta Hevingham, Jwx/a Buxton.yax/fl Brarnpton, but
more commonly in the lad centuries by that of
Strawlefs, it landing in the midfl; of a heath where
formerly no corn grew.

The whole belonged to Harold in the Confcffor^s
time, and at the Conqueror's iurvey the chief part
of it was held by Walter Giffard, and was append-
ant to Marfham manor. It was worth 405 per ann.
was a mile long, and half a mile broad, and
paid lid. to the gelt towards every sos raited in the
hundred. This afterwards belonged to Richard
Fitz-Gilbert, earl qf Clare, who enfeoffed Rofceline
in it, who was lord and patron here : William, his
grandfon, affumed the name of Stratton from this
his .lordfhip, which was always held by them and
their fucceflbrs, lords here, of the honor of Clare,
as it is at this day of the king, who in right of that
honor is lord paramount of the wade, as appeared
in a trial «in fir Edward Clere's time, who was lord
here, when the lord and tenancs recovered their right
to all the trees belonging to them, growing on the
wade, by proving that they immemorial ly had li-
berty to plant on the wafte, and take down and
convert all fuch trees at their pleafure.

There was then alfo another part here, which be-
longed to William bifhop of Thctford, in his own

right;

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 295

right ; this he gave to the fee, and it was held of it
after it was granted off.

A third part was then a berewic, or appendant, to
Caw (Ion manor, from which it was foon fepata|ed
and joined to this manor.

William de Stratton lived in 1195, and after-
wards we find Ralph da Stratton ; this family cen-
tered in female heireiFes: and before 1285 the whole
advowfon was fold to William dc Merkefhale, who
was fole patron.

In 1314 the heirs of Bartholomew Hauteyn,
William dc Merkefhall, and Reginald de Ref ham,
held the manor at one fee of the honor of Clare,
by the name of Stratton Parva,

In 1361 William Clere, of Ormefby, had the
•whole manor and advowfon. Sir Edward Clere,
knt. fold the advowfon, manor, and whole eftate,
before 1560, to Henry Marfham, gent, in whofe
family it flill continues, Robert Marfham, efq, be-
ing now lord and patron.

The family of Marftiam took their firname from
the neighbouring village of Marfharn, where they
inhabited from the time of Henry I. but the family
being very numerous!" we cannot pretend to trace
them regularly before the time of Edward I. in
whofe time John de Marfham lived at Marftiam,
and died about 1325, and his fon, Thomas de Mar-
fham, removed thence, and was a merchant in
Norwich in 1350; he did not ufe the prefent arms
of the family. His fon, Robert de Marfharn, lived
and died at Stratton, and was the firft of the family
that came hither ; he was buried in the nave of the

church,

296 HUNDRED OF

church, with a brafs, now loft. Robert Marfham,
his fon, lies by him, with a brafs plate, ftill remain-
ing: he was alive in 1465.

John Marfham, of Stratton Parva, was his fon
and heir, who gave by will, dated July 24, 1473,
twelve marks to new make and glaze a window* on
the north part of Little Stratton church, and ordered
liimfelf to be buried in the middle of the nave of St.
Margaret's church there, by Agnes, his wife ; over
them lies a ftone, with a brafs plate, now remaining.

His fon, John Marfham, of Stratton, died. in 151-5,
as did his wife, Ellen, and are both interred in the
nave of this church, with infcriptions on brafs
plates.

John Marfbam, their elded fon, was the -common
anceftor of the Marfhams, of Stratton, Melton Paw a*,
and London, from whence thofe of Kent defcended ;
he was a grocer, and a great merchant in Norwich,
by which he much advanced his fortunes; in 1510
he was fheriff of the city; in 1511, beTng in great
favour with the commons, was fent up at the city
charge to Henry VIII. to juflify the city in relation to
the contefts with their prior and convent of Norwich.
In 1 5 1 6 he was fent again to the king, with the may-
or, to fettle thofe contefts, and had three horfes, and
two fcrvants allowed him, at the public charge : In
i 318 he was mayor, and died in 1523, and is buried
in the church of St. John at Maddermarket in Nor-
wich, in which parifh he dwelt, in a large houfe oi

his

* This window contained all the effigies of the family from
their fettlement here, to the time it was put up. April 10,
1732, all the effigies but one, &c. were here; but the three
lights of the lower parts of the panes being new glazed fince,
they are all gone, with the infcriptions, but the reft of the
ftill remains perfect.

SOUTH ER PING II AM. 297

his own building, in the window of which the arras
of MaHham, impaled with thafe of Elizabeth Clax-^
ton. his wife, ftill remain ; fhe furvived him and pur-
chaied Little-Melton manor, and was buried by her
hufband, in 1559. ^n J 534 his executors paid mo-
ney towards building the common-council chamber
in the Guildhall, in which his picture is ftill to be
ieen ; he had five fons.and eight daughters.

He was fucceeded by his cldeft fon, Henry Mar-
fham, of Stratton, who firft, jointly with his bro-
ther, Thomas, purchafed the ad vow fan , manor,, and
•whole cllate there, of fir Edward Clere ; he presented
in 1544, and 1560, and dying without iffue, it went
to his brother, Thomas Marfham, of whom after-
wards. The third brother, Robert j^arfliam, of Nor-
wich, was one of the fcaft-hainers, or holders,
there, in 1547 ; a great merchant in 1.5.54, and lord
of Little Melton, by his mother's gift, he having
married one of her own family, viz. a daughter of
Hamond Claxton, of Great Livermere, in Suffolk;
of this branch was Thomas Marfham, alderman of
London, from whofe iecond Ton, John, defcended
Robeit Marfham, bart. created lord Romney June
22, 1716, whofe defcent may be fecn at- large in
the Peerage, vol. 4, ^.298, edit. land. 1741. He
uies the ancient arms of the family, without die
croflets.

Robert, reclor of this parifh, was prefented in.
1560, by his brother, Henry Marfham, efq. it is to
be remarked, that this Robert was inftituted to tfre
reflory when he was not in orders, and only in the
i6th year -of his age; for in the 19th mftitution
book a difpenfation is entered at length, confirmed
by the queen under the 2,reat leal,. by .which Matthew

U Parker,

HUNDRED OF

Parker, archbifhop of Canterbury, difpenfcd with
Robert Marfham, of Stratton Strawlefs, fcholar,
fob laudabilia ejus Jludia, quibus:conjidtur tt tjjc erudi-
trim) being then but in the i6th year of his age, to
hold the parifh church of Stratton Strawlefs, on con-
dition he always goes in the clergyman's habit, flays
at Cambridge in purfuing his fludies, and takes
priefTs orders as foon as he can.

Thomas Marfham, efq. the fecond fon before-
mentioned, was a great favorite of the Norwich
citizens, and much concerned in the government of
that pjace during his life. In 1548 he was elecled
member in parliament for the city ; was mayor in
1 554 ; and was buried by his father, in St. John's, in
1557. Elizabeth, his wife, mrvivcd him. A't his death
Robert Marfham, of Stratton, his fon and heir, fuc-
ceeded, and became lord and patron ; he is buried
under a ftone here, which hath his arms on a brafs
plate, and an infcription, which is under the iron
pallifades of a monument in the fouth chapel, and
fo could not read it; but that on Margaret, his wi-
dow, ftill remains loofe in the church cheft ; fhe
dicdjuly 22, 1604.

Thomas Marfham, of Stratton-Stra\vlefs, their fon
and heir, fucceeded ; he married Lucy, daughter of
dean Suckling, who lies buried here, with a. brafs
plate, obijt April 16, 1619.

A curious monument at the eaft end of the cha-
pel, at the end of the fouth aile, hath the arms of
Marfham ; the cumbent effigy is this Thomas in his
fhroud, leaning on a pillow, lying on an altar-tomb
of black marble; on the top are two angels blowing
trumpets; one holds a chaplet, with the creft and

arms

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 293

arms of Marfham. Under the effigy is ihis: — -
Hie reqmcjcit in fpe rffurreclionis ad vitam aternam, cor-
pus Tkomtz Marjiiam, gcneroji, quifalicitcr piigravit ad
Jup&ros, ottav o die Dccembris, 1638.

Under this is a charnel-houfe window, with hu-
man bones, as placed in the charnel, — TR 0 PHJE.
MORTIS.

Robert Marfiham, his brother, fucceeded him ; he
married Ann Noblet, of Semere, in Suffolk, who
was buried here O&ober 2, 1665, as a black marble
over her informs us ; and another over him, obijt
Oclober 21, 1661, aged 70. — Thomas, their eldeft
Ion, died the 6th of the fame month, before his fa-
ther, and lies under a marble.

William Marfham, the fecond fon, inherited at
his father's death, and married Eleanor, fecond
daughter of Samuel Harfnet, of Great Franfham, efq.
who, after his deceafe, married fir Robert Drury,
ban. of Riddlefworth, and was killed in her bed by
the fall of a ftack of chimnies at Riddlefworth-hall,
in the November ftorm, in 1703, and was there bu-
ried. Againft the fouth wall of Stratton chapel, in
the fouth aile, is a mural monument for this William,
with the arms of Marfham impaling Hurfnec ; he
was lord and patron, and prefentcd here in 1067, —
obijt 18 die Decembris, A. D. 1674.

Henry Marfham, efq. of Stratton, his brother, in-
herited, for whom there is a large monument of
black and white marble in the Marfham's chapel,
and it is an ai tar-tomb, on which are four effigies,
facing the church; firft, Henry himfelf in a gown,
kneeling on a cufhion, with a book before him, and
his hands creel: as are t hofe of (i'econd) Ann The-
U 2 milihorpc.

300 H U N D R E D O F

borpe, his wife; the third is Henry, their fon *
and the fourth is Margaret, their infant daughter, in
fwadling cfothes. On the top are the family arms
and creft, and on the front of the "tomb their inlcrip-
tiuns. He died Aug. 29, 1692, aged 64.

• Over the effigies of Mr. Marfham, his wife, and
fon, are a firing of vcrfes in the true church ftile of
panegyric.

He married for his fecond wife, Grace, daughter
of Thomas Bifhop, .of Hafly-hall, in Thorndon, in
Suffolk, \vho, after Marf ham's death, remarried
John Cornwallis, efq. of Wingfield college, in Suf-
folk, and is buried here.

Her fitter lies under a black marble in the nave,
with the cieft and arms of Alpe "impaling Bifhop, —
Mary, the widow of Francis Alpe, of Bur/ton, in the
'County of j\crfolk, gent, who died March 27, 1687.

Thomas .Marfham, efq. their fon and heir, the late
lord and patron, dwelt in the family feat here, which
was built by the aforefaid William Marfham ; he
married Dorothy, fifth daughter of Leonard Gooch,
of Earfharn, by Dorothy, his wife, who was fifler to
fir Nevile Catline, of Kirby Cane, in Norfolk; he
had by her four fons and fix daughters.

Robert Marfham, efq. his furviving fon, fucceeded,
and now rcfides at his feat here, and is only lord and
patron of the pariih.

This town is in the liberty of the Duchy of Lan-
cafter, is valued to the land tax at 361!. per ann.
and anciently paid to every tenth levied upon the
hundred 2!. los. but had los, deduced for the re-
venues

SOUTH ER PING HAM.

venues-of the religious here, they paying by them-
felves. The town contains about 150 inhabitants. — •

The reclory ftands in the king's book by the name
of Stratton-Strawley, was valued at 81. 8s. id. ob.
but being fworn of the clear value of 30!. it is dif-
charged of firft -fruits and tenths, and is capable of
augmentation. It was valued in the old value at
twelve marks.

The temporals of the priory of Walfingham, in
this town, were taxed at 2s. and the prior of Loh-
gavile had a portion of tithes here, valued at one
mark.

There is a parfonage-houfe adjoining to the weft
part of the church-yard.

The church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and had
before its diffolution two guilds kept in it. In the
fouth aile was a chapel in honor of the Virgin Mary,
dedicated at its firft foundation by the Cleres, lords
here. In the times of fuperftition there were feven
images of the feveral faints, with lights burning be-
fore them in fervice time.

The prefent tower is fquare, and hath fix bells in
it, being a very large one, but not carried to that
height as at firft defigncd by a third part ; it was built
in 14*2, the old fteeple being decayed; for in that
year Reginald Crowe, chaplain of Horftead, gave a le-
gacy to it, he being of the fame family with Reginald,
reclor here, if not the fame perfon that had refigned.
The Crowes were a family very ancient in this town,
and in 1190,, and 1202, had good eftaies here.

U The

HUNDRED OF

The nave is an 'ancient building ; in an arch, under
the north wall, lies its founder, carved in Derbyfhire
marble, crofs-legged, all in mail armor, his belt by
his fide, and other accoutrements : Mr. Weaver, fol.
812, by reaion the Bardolphs arms are in the eaft
chancel window, imagines him to have been of that
family; but we think not, but rather take it to be
Ralph de Straiten, the laft of that name who was
\vas lord and patron here, and the antique appear-
ance of the effigy anfwers to the time; and his
arms alfo, arg. a crofs moline fab. remain in the
north church window, by him, and in the eafl chan-
cel window, though the Strattons have fince borne,
on a plain crofs, five bezants.

The fouth porch is tiled, the church and chancel,
of an equal height, are thatched, and the fouth
aile and its chapel, with a vault adjoining thereto,
are leaded.

In the nave is a brafs, infcribed — To Margaret,
wife of Henry Codcnham.

In the eaft chancel window, gul. a fefs between
three croflets, or. impales Warren, chequy O. B. —
Stratton — Bardolph — and on the fcreens is a faltyr
ingrailed.

There is an altar-tomb in the church-yard, on the
fouth fide, — For Henry Lemon, 1741, — and many of
his children.

Mr. Thomas Bulwer, of Buxton, who married
Ann, daughter of Robert Marfham, gave an hundred
pounds, the interefl for the benefit of the poor ;
with 75!. of it land in Marfham was purchafed, and
the reft remains in money at this time.

SOUTH E R P I N G H A M. 303

In 1491 John Wright was rc&or, who lies buried
by the aitar, with a brafs plate.

In 1774 the Rev. Matthias Jackfon was prefented
to the redory of Stratton-Sirawlcfs by Robert Mar-
fi.i3L.rn, efq. p.j.

SVVANTON-ABBOT, fo called from the abbot
of Holme, who was lord of it, to diftinguifh it from
other Towns of the fame name in this county, as
Swanton-Morley, and Swamon-Novers.

The regifter of Holme abbey tells us, that it was
given to that convent foon after its foundation, by
Saxi, a Saxon nobleman ; at the conqueft it ap-
pears to be one of the manors fettled for the monks
maintenance, and it was then valued at 5!. the church,
had feven acres glebe, and the town was above a
mile long, and as much broad, and paid 4d. to the
gelt towards 205. raifed by the hundred ; it is wrote
in Doomfday-book Suaiiflu?iam.

By deeds without dates, entered in Holme regifter,
it appears that William de VVhitweli releafed to Re-
ginald, abbot of St. Bennet's, all right of common-
age in this town, and North Walfham, which before
this belonged to his manor of Skeyton, and Robert
de Skeyton releafed all his right of common of paf-
ture in Swanton, and WalQiam Woods, which be-
fore belonged to his manor of Skeyton ; and fir Regi-
nald le Grofs alfo releafed all right to common in the
wood here ; many others conveyed divers lands and
rights to the rnonaftery, fo that the abbot was fole
lord of the town, and had free-warren allowed in circ.
What is mentioned in the Atlas, at p. 271, is falfe,
and doth not at all relate to this Swamon, which was

U 4 always

304 HUNDREDOF

always held in chief of the king, as parcel of the
abbot of Holme's barony, with which it came to the
fee of Norwich ; and in 1546 was lett to fir William
Pafton, knt. together with the advowfon. The ma-
nor novv goes with the late carl of Yarmouth's eflate,
it having been in the hands of the Paflbns ever fmce
the aforefaid time, George Aufon, eiq. being the
prefent lord and patron.

The whole town is in the Duchy of Lancafler;
it paid to every tenth 355. clear; is valued to the land
tax at 252!. i6s. 3d. the abbot of St. Bennet's was
laid for his manor, lands, mill, rent, &c. at lol.
gs. 6d. and the almoner of that convent, for his re-
venues here, at 6s.

The church is dedicated to St. Michael, and was
anciently valued at fix marks; it is difcharged of
firfl-fruits, and tenths, and is capable of augmenta-
tion ; it (lands thus in the king's books : — 61. los.
.Swanton Abbatis reclory ; 34!. clear yearly value.

By deed without date, Nicholas re&or of Swanton
agreed with the abbot of St. Bcnnct, that, if he en-
joyed all mreat and fmall tithes, he would pay the
abbot 35. a year for fixty (heaves, called nuns (heaves,
and the old penfion for the tithe (heaves of the ab-
bot's demefnes, fo that the penfion of i6s. 8d. paid
by the redlor to the abbot, was now fixed.

Stephen Multon, reclor here in 1477, was buried
in the chancel, by the veading-defk ; his effigy, in
brafs, ftili remains on his ftone, obijt June 28, 1477.

The abbots always prefentcd, and after them the
bifhops, Sec. till leafed Out, and then the Paftons.

Richard

Richard Lubbit, reclor here, -was fequeftered in the
ufurpation.

Bartholomew de Wichingham was buried in this
church in 1^97, and had a considerable cftate here.

The arms of k Grofs were in the windows, but
ate now gone.

There are memorials in the charicel -for the family
of Fox ; and in the church,— Fcff Margaret, wife of
John Wegge, 1621—80:.

In 1755 the Rev. Richard Berney was prefented
to this rectory by the late lord Anfon ; and again, in
1776, by George Anfon, efq.

THWAYTE, or THWEYT, commonly called
Twait, was given to the abbey of St. Bennet at
Holme by the founder, kingCartute. At the grand
furvey we find it valued at 405. per ann. half a leuca
in length, and the fame in breadth, paid $d. half-
penny gelt, and had a church endowed with fix
acres.

The town continued in the abbey till Robert Cur-
Eon obtained a grant of part of it, in 1167, of the
abbot, and a fine was levied, (hewing lhat for twenty
marks paid to the abbot, tlie faid Robert fliould hold
one manor vbeing about half of the • town) to him
and his heirs, paying yearly to the abbey 1025. and
one mark of filver for ever per ann. ten loaves of
coarfe barley bread, and one mutton, price twelve-
pence, the other manor, with the advowfon, being
referved to the abbot. 'In 1234 this part, or manor,
was fettled by fine on the abbot for ever, by fir Peter
de Alto Bofco, or Hautbois, then (leward to the ab-
bey,

v,o HUNDRED OF

bey, who releafed all his right therci.n, and it was af-
terwards held by the Skeyton family of the abbey,
and from them it took the prcfent name of

SK.EYTON-HALL MANOR. In 1287 Maud, widow
of Andrew de Brampton, who was tenant to the ab-
bot, afiigned all her right to John de Skeyton ; it al-
ways enjoyed all the liberties of the abbey, and in
1428 the abbot was taxed for his manor and de-
mefnes at 5!. iys. 2d. per ann. At the general dil-
folution it was granted with the abbey to the fee of
Norwich, the bifliop of Norwich being the prefent
lord and patron.

SOMERTON-HALL MANOR was formerly divided in-
to two prms, one was granted to Robert Curzon, and
and the other to Robert de Thwayte, and after that to
in' Simon de Nowers, or Noiers, knt. and next to
Bartholomew de Sornerton, who fettled here, and
gave it its name. In 1259 Robert de C afire had a
charter for free-xvarren in Curzon's manor here, and
in Caftor, by Yarmouth, allowed him in tire, in i 269.
Robert de Noiers enjoyed it in 1312; and the faid
Robert and Bartholomew de Sornerton were lords in
1315. In 1383 John Faftolf had a confirmation
.of Robert de Caflre's charter ; after this it was
_held by Thomas Rycherys ; on whofe death, in
J474, it defcendcd to his three daughters ; Margaret,
married to Richard Burgh ; Cecily, to William Bar-
ker; and Katherine, to John Bartilmew; who, with
their hufbands, conveyed it in the faid year to Ni-
cholas Crome, and Edmund Clere, of Clipfby, and
.others, for the ute of John Bypes, clerk. In 1519
Henry Heydont efq. conveyed it to Thomas Aflley ;
'and in 1544 Henry Ouch lei tied it on Miles Ho-
Lart, of Little PlumUead, efq. fecond fop of fir

James

SOUTH E^ PING HAM.

James Hobart, and he, by will, dated 1557, gave
it to John Hobart, his fecond fen, who left it to his
eldeft fon, Thomas Hobart, of Thwayte, who mar-
ried Ann, daughter of William Reymes, efq. of
Ovcrftrand, in North Erpingham hundred, and left
three daughters; Jane, married to John Kemp;

Marv, to Dr. Colby ; and Elizabeth, to

Pettus, who all releafed to Kemp ; and Thomas
Kemp, fon of John and Jane aforefaid, left it to

Clement Kemp, his fon and heir, who by

Witton, of Wilby, his wife, left a daughter and
heirefs, who, with her hufband, conveyed it before
the year 1 693 to John Home, of Wichingham,
gent, and after paffing through otther hands, it is
now the property of the righc honorable Horatio
lord VValpole, of Wolterton.

The church is dedicated to All Saints, and was
confirmed with the town to Holme abbey by Ed-
ward the Confeffor; in it was the guild of St. John
Baptift, held in the chapel of the Saint in this
church, built by John Puttock, who was buried in
it in 1442 ; his grave-ftone ftill remains, with a brafs
plate.

A brafs plate on another grave-ftone, — For Richard

Brown, gent. 1608.
r -..: ., 4 . •

In the windows were the arms of Erpingham, Uf-
ford,' Holme abbey, Puttock, Brown; Heydon and
Lumner; Bavent and Antingham. And in Thwayte-
hall windows, Hobart impaling Naunton; Hobart
impaling Hare, quartering Baffingbourne ; Hobart
and Reymes ; Kemp impaling Hobart, Corbet, Ho-
bart, and Tilney, with his quarterings.

The

3oS • . HUNDRED OF

The abbot of Holme presented till the diffblution,
when it came to the fee ; and in i 773 the Rev. John
Stracey, D. D. was prefented to this re&ory by the
bifhop of Norwich.

The reclory is valued in the king's books at 7!.
and being in yearly value but 39!. it is difcharged,
and capable of augmentation ; the abbot of St. Ben-
net's had two fheaves of the tithes of the demefne
lands of Robert de Thwayte, in the time of Henry
III. which he compounded for at a mark per annum ;
and alfo two of the demefnes of fir Simon de Noiers,
and Bartholomew de Somerton, for all which he was
taxed at four marks, in 1448;" and inftead of this
the re&or now pavs a p.eniion of aos. to the bifhop
of Norwich. Maud, daughter of fir Ralph de
Thwayte, knt. and Peter de Brampton, releafed
all "right in thofe tithes to the abbot in the i6th of
Edward I.

The town is in the liberty of the Duchy of Lan-
cafter, and valued at 269!. per annum to the land

TUTTINGTON. This village in the time of
the Saxons belonged to Agelwin, an alderman, or
nobleman, of that race, who gave it with the church
lo the abbey of St. Bennet in the Holme, and it was
confirmed to that convent by the charter of Edward
the. Confeflbr, and fettled to find provifion for die
monks there. In Doomfday-book we find that earl
Ralph was feifed of half the convent's land when
lie forfeited his eftate to the Conqueror, by his rebel-
lion, and that a free-woman then held it of him; but
the Conqueror gave it again to the monaftery, which
held the whole at the furvey, except two free-men

that

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 509

that formerly belonged to Guerd, the Dane, anxl "fix*
teen acres, &c. which belonged , to the manor of
Aylfham. We meet with no menfuration of this vil-
lage in that record, and the reafon is, becaufe it was
included in the meafures of Crachfort, Aylfbayn, and
Banningham, to which all Crachfort belonged, and
indeed the ftile of the manor is, " Tuttington turn
" Crackforth'V which extended into Oxnead;' the
manor was held of the convent by fir Peter de-iiarut*-
bois, as of the earl Warren, who had it , originally
rom that houfe. In 1234 it was a rectory, and the
abbot of Holme prefented John, fon of fir Peter de
•Aho-Bofco, or Hautbois, to it; and foon after Adam
abbot of S-t. Bennet granted the church and .manor
to Thomas de Thirkelby, and his heirs, to be held
-of the convent : this Thomas de Thirkelby give the
advowfon to. the prior and convent erf Broomholme,
in Tunflead hundred, but the manor Went to Ceci-
ly, his widow, and at her death to fir Walter de
Thirkelby, who granted it to fir Henry de Haftings,
of Aylfham, and his heiis.

.:.) '.••»"-.• i '*• '(>> '•» *»' •"•' ' •' by, •'C'TT1)

In i 274 the earl Marfhal had free-warren here, in
Colby, and in Aldby. In 1284 Henry de Haftings
died feifed of it, it extending then into Banning-
ham, Erpinghara, Ingworth, and Oxnead ; and Tho-
mas de \Vighton, or Wilton, to whom Henry con-
veyed all but the Erpingham pan, in his life-time had
it, and that part JefFry had ; Wighton and Haftings
conveyed all to Roger Bigot, earl of Norfolk, -who in
1285 was allowed free-warren, and had a fair held
here upon the vigil and day of St. Butolph. In
1315 the earl icarihal Bigot, and the abbot of St.

Bennet

* There; was a fairiiJy of good worth here of this name ; in
1 227 Robert and William dc Crakeford owned a free tenement,
and 45. yearly rent to it ; and Kobert de Crakeforth lived~here
in 1252.

Sio H U N D R E.D O F*

Bennet. of whom he held it, were lords here. The
abbot of St. Edmund's manor of Sexton, in AvHharn,
extended hither. In 1328 John Bigot, bf Jfelbrigff,
(\vho afiumed the name of Felbrigg) had it ; and in
1338 purchafed the free tenements here.

In 1393 George Felbrigg, of this town, (fo called
to diftinguifh him from fir George of Feibrigg, km.)
owned this; and in 1418 fir Simon Felbrigg, km. of
the garter, fettled this manor with the reft of his
eftate, by which fettlemcnt it came to the family of
the Wymondhams, or Windhams, with Felbrigg, in
which family it hath continued ever fince, William
Windham, of Felbrigg, cfq. being the prcfent lord.

This town is in the Duchy of Lan caller; its
church is dedicated to St. Peter and Paul, and was a
-reclory in the patronage of Holme abbey, till that
convent granted the advowfon to Thomas Thirkelby,
and he to the prior and convent of Broomholme, to
which it was appropriated in 1275, an(^ tne vicarage
endowed, which was to confifl in every thing belong-
ing to the living, except the tithe corn, and the houfe
where fir John, late minifter here, lived. The vicar
is to pay fynodals. and the impropriator the archdea-
con's procurations, and repair the chancel, and upon
this the prior and convent presented fir Benedict de
Broomholme, their firfl vicar.

In 1214 there was a chapel, dedicated to St. Bu-
tolph at Meton-be, in this parifli, to which the earl's
fair, held on that day, belonged.

The prior of Broomholme was taxed for his fpiri-
tuafs at eighteen marks, including the vicar's por-
tion, and 535. 4d. for their other lands and revenues
here.

SOUTH .ERPINGHAM. 311,

In 1314, on the the death of the firft vicar, there
was a jus patronatus, to know if the nomination was,
not referved to the lee, and it was found not to be.
fo, upon which John de Weafenham, then 30 years
old, an unbeneficed pried, was indituted vicar at the
prior's prefcntation.

At the cljflblution the reclory Jmpropriate. and -vi-
carage fell to the crown, and continued there till
queen Elizabeth fettled them on the fee of Ely, the
bifhops of which fee have leafed. out the, tithes, and
prefented.

The facrift of Bury abbey was taxecl at 225. lod.
for part of his manor of Aylfhani that exten.ded into
this town. J

The church fell into great decay; upon which* in
i 749, a faculty was obtained,, by which the leao^was
fold off the nave, and it being new roofed,, was co-
vered with tiles ; the round tower had a fpire oh'it,
.covered widi.iead, which was taken down aqd fold.
The fecond bell is now in the fleeplc. the firft, tliinc!,
and fourth, being fold. The fouth porch is leaded,
and the chancel thatched. There were the- ar-ms of
.Felbrigg ; fir Simon Felbrigg in his coat armor, kncel-
ling; but mod of the arms in this church are lately-
broken,.

In 1487 Mrs. Elizabeth Clere fettled an eflatc
here, and in Burgh, by Aylfham, on Gonvile-hafi,
for the itipend. of one fellow, See. -which is now held
of Caius College by Peter Elwin, efq. of Booton,
vvho alfo holds by leafe the great tithes of Ely fee.

In the chancel a black marble, with the cieft. and
arms of Elwin, impaling Scambler : — Here fyetk.t/tc

"body

ji 2. HUNDRED OF

body of Anne Elwin, A:"> the r>>?'f? of Ptler Elwin, c
only daughter and hehefs of Thomas Scrambler, of Ht-
vingham,' efq. and gre?'t ^rand-daughter of Edmund
Scambler, formerly lord bijlwh of Xcrwlch, who departed
this life the 26^/2 day of Sept, in tiie year of our Lord
1697, and of her age 3 7 .

Elwin and Creft, impales three fwords in fefs, —
Sacred to the memory of Peter Elwin, efq. [on of Pcttr
'Elwin. late of this parifh, efq. deceased, who departed

this life the i$tk of Sept. \ 731, aged' 47 years.

Elwin and Creft, impaling quarterly three birds,
and Scambler, feven feathers in a crown, — Pctrus El-
win, armiger, ob.- 5 Fcbr. 1721, estat.' 60 : • •

This town is valued.to the land ta?c rat 513!- 155.
and .in the king's books at 5!. ?d. ob. — Tuttington
vicarage 13!. clear yearly value, — and fo is capable
of augmentation.

In 1763 the Rev. Themas Paul was prefentcd to
'this vicarage by the lord bifhop of Ely.

WICKMERE, WICMARA, WIGEMERE, now com-
monly called WICKMEUE, fignifies the winding, or turn
at the meer, or water,' and accordingly we find it fo
called in Doomfday-book ; and at the making that
furvey it was in five diffeient parts, having two prin-
cipal manors ; the firfl of which earl Harold held,
and Hanfrid after him ; and Drtje de ;Beurcria
claimed it as his heir; this was the greater part of the
1 town ; for it was feven furlongs long, antl five aud
ah half broad, and paid two-pence farthing gelt.

The next was Roger Bigot's, of whom it was held
by Roger de Curfon, and was fix furlongs long, and

four

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. cr*

v/ <j

four broad, and paid 8d. gelt. Another part be-
longed to Almar bHhop of Thetford, and was ever
after held of the barony of the bifhopric of Nor-
wich. Tiheli de Helion held another part here of
the bifhop of Bajeux, and the abbot of St Rennet
at Holme had twelve acres ; and the other part,
which was alfo Harold's, came to the earl of War-

.ren, who had the principal manor after the death of
Drue .aforefaid; and the advowfon of the church
which was given by William earl Warren and Sur-
rey to the monks of Caflle Acre, when he founded
that houie ; and Spriginus, or Spregi, to whom it
feems that earl conveyed the manor afterwards,
(whofe fon, Robert, was lord and parron, and took the
firname of Wickmere) agreed with the prior and
monks of Gallic Acre, and had the advowfon re-

- leafed to him and his heirs, with divers men and
tenants in Wickmere, that belonged- to the prior, on

< condition, that as often as the prior and convene
wanted any affiftance from their own tenants in

; Wickmere they fhould always have the like afliftance

.from Spregi's men, which he held of them in Wick-
mere, Wolterton, Pafton, Itteringham, and Bar-
ningham, and the faid prior was always taxed for his
temporal rents here at IDS. lid.

Roger, fon of Robert de Wickemere, or Wig-
mere, fucceeded, and in 1201 Nicholas Pincerna,
alia* Botiler, irnpleaded him, and Bai tholemevv de
Calthorpe, for the advowfon, and recovered itagainft
them, and the prior of Acre, whom they had called to
warrant his grant ; the prior pleaded the earl War-
ren's grant, Botiler pleaded that earl Roger Bigot had
the advowfon, and not the earl Warren, and that tl at
earl had infeotfed him in his manor here and the ad-
vowicn.

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314 HUNDREDOF

This Roger de Wickmere added much to his
manor, b\ purchafe of Alan Benjamin, in 1227. In'
1232 an agreement was made and fettled, by fine,
between this Roger and Emma le Botiler, widow,
that fne fhould have the fii 0 tuni to her manor, and
that Roger fhould have the fecond turn to his manor,
and that the future turns fliould be alternate for ever;
but foon after 1261 Walter de Barningham conveyed
a part of it to John de Erpingham ; this Walter in
1285 had aflfize of bread and ale, view of frankpledgc,
and leet, allowed to his manor here, and fo had Ro-
bert de Erpingham in 1274, in all the lands which
belonged to his manor in Erpingham and Wickmere,
xvhich he held of the barony of the bifhopric of Nor-
wich, at half a quarter of a fee; and in 1306 the
faid Walter dc Barningham, though he conveyed to
Erpingham the cftate he held of the fee here, rc-
fervcd this manor, which was held by him of the
Norfolk family at half a fee, being part of the fees
late Roger Bigot's. This Walter in 1302 had a char-
ter for free-warren in all his lands here. In 1313
Walter de Barningham feitled this manor, and Little
Barningharn, after his own deceafe, on Gilbert de
Clare, earl of Gloucefter and Hertford, and Maud
his wife, and the heirs of Gilbert ; and in 1315 the
faid Maud countefs of Gloucefler, then Gilbert's wi-
dow, held it, and from that time it pafled in that
family with Little-Barningham, till the attainder of
Edward Duke of Buckinghamfhire, in the time of
Henry VIII. of which king it was purchafed by Sir
JefFry Boleyn, knt. lord mayor of London, from
which family it came into the hands of Henry VIII.
again, and was by him granted to the duke of Nor-
folk, and being vetted by the Norfolk family in di-
vers truftees, it was at laft purchafed by one of them,
about 1570, viz. William Dix, of Wickmere, cfq.
who became lord of this manor, and patron of the
church, was a merchant of London, gained great

wealth

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 315

wealth there, and retired hither in his latter days ; he
and his wife, Dionife, are interred on the north fide
of the altar, under an handforne inarched monu-
ment, with their effigies kneeling, but- the infcription
which was over their heads is totally loft ; on the
top arc the creft and arms of Dix, Sec.

He was fucceeded by John Dix, his fon and heir,
who was truftee, and one of the principal managers
for the Norfolk family. He had William Dix, efq.
his fon and heir, who having no ifTiie, he covenanted
with John Ramfey, of Hitcham, in Bucks, his coufin
and heir, that at his death he fhould aflame the name
of Dix, and quarter his arms in the firft place with
the arms of Ramfey, and accordingly, in 1604, May
19, he had a patent from William Cambden, then
clarencieux king of arms, to bear the name and arms
of Dix.

John Dix, alias Ramfey, fettled before Dix's
deaih at Waifingham, and had Wimund Dix, alias
Ramfey, of Wick mere, lord in 1664, who had two
daughters, his coheiieffes.

Dorothy, the eldeft, married John Bedingfield, efq.
fecond fon to fir Henry Bedingfieid, bart. who lies
buried under a black marble in the chancel, with the
arms of Bedingfieid, impaling Ramfey, 8cc. He died
Auguft 9, 1693, aSed 42- They conveyed their moi-
ety of the whole to Penelope their fifter, who mar-
ried John Tafburgh, of Flixton, in Suffolk, efq.
owner of the whole in 1693.

It after came to the Spelmans, and at the eaft en4
of the fouth aile there is a handfome mural monu-
ment, with a wild man for a creft, and Spehuaji's
ar*ms quartering eul. a chief er. ihus infcribed ;—

X 2 M. S.

K -U N D R E D OF

S\ J-Itir, ic.i Spdman de'Wickmf'rc in J\"vrfolda cr-

ri, pa>re Clements, baronc dc Scachario, Avo Hcn-

-quitc auralo, fcriptis cdcbcnmo, turn jms maxwic

mcritis clari, qni innenla et fundata Londim Jocielate ad

rrpaianda damna. ex incendijs onunda, ct urbii alei nitaii

f^reg ic conj'nliiit, ct Juce. P. patruo. Wiliiclmus Spcl-

man haeres, J.j;;uc:o, 19° Novemfyris A. D. 1698,.

A, <zl. 68.

And under tlic monument is a large akar-torjib
\v'uhtbe fame arms, and only. — Hcnricus Spclman, arm.
ob. 19 A'ov. 1698, (Et, 68. — And at the end of the
tomb a black marble to — Margaret, relict of Thomas
Tu'idde, efq. fijtcr to Htnry Spclman, ejq, who died the
zd of September, 1729, aged 8 1 .

This Henry Spelman having only one daughter,
Elizabeth, who died young, William Spelman, efq.
his nephew, was made his heir, and was lord and pa-
tron, and fo continued till his death, in 1713 : he
manied Elizabeth, daughter of Martha countefs of
Midleton, fecond wife of John earl of Midleton, in
Scotland, and daughter and heirefs of Henry Gary,/
earl of Mon mouth. — Spelman's coat and creft im-
pales Midleton.

The manor antiently called Butlers, alias Herc-
\vard's, alter Roger de Curibn's death came to the'
Bigot's again, and was granted by Roger Bigot to
Nicholas de Pincerna, alias le Botiler, whofe fon Ni-
cholas was lord in 1201. Nicholas, his fecond fon
and heir, afiumcd the name of Stalharn, from his
cflate there, which his father at his death fettled on
him. In 1236 there was a long fuit between him
and William de Bofco, or Bois, for not taking his
homage, and for demanding an unrcajonable. relief of
him, ior lands held here, to which Nicholas pleaded
lhat he was his villain belonging to this manor, and

that

SOUTH 'ERPl'NGTTAM. 517

that lie, arid the reft of the villains of this manor,
\vere taxable at their lord's will, and that, they paid
a fine for leave to marry their daughters and lifters,
and that he took a mark for leave to marry, as his
fine, and that therefore it was not; umeafonable ;
which being proved, the lord recovered. YVe men-
tion this to fliew in what a milerable flute the uncLr
tenants were in at that time.

In 1270 Adam de Brancafter had'one moiety, and
William de San&o Ciaro the other, in right of th'eir
wives, who were heireiTes to Nicholas le Butler. In
1272 St. Clare fold all his moiety to William dc
Parco, of Hevingham, who was to hold it of him at
half a fee. In 1289 William De-la-Pavk, of He-
vingham, purchafed Adam de Branca fter's part, and
ib had the whole manor and advo \vfon, which thai
belonged to it. In 1309, after ma-ny changes, Cle-
ment Hereward, of Aldcburgh, died fcifed, and ic
afterwards became united to the oilier manors.

ERPINGHAM'S MA-XOR was in two parts ; the firft
was anciently part of the manor of Erpingham, that
extended hither, and always attended Erpingham
manor ; the other part was joined to it by John dc
Erpingham, who purchafed it of Walter de Bar-
rnngham, viz. the eighth part of a fee, held of the i
fee. of Norwich. In 1401 fir Thomas de Erpingharn,
knt. had it. In 1461 the king conveyed it to Joan,
wife of fir William Beaumont, knt. and daughter of
Humphry Stafford, duke of Bucks; and the heirs
of her body. In 1466 it was granted as parcel of
the pofleffions of William vifcount Beaumont, at-
tainted, to Richard Quartermains for life, who 12-
. figned the patent, and it was granted to Richard
Southwell for life : in the acl of parliament made in

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HUNDRED OF

1472, (i3thof Edward IV.) for refumption of the
king's manors, the title of Southwell was cxcepted,
and the manor confirmed to him. and in 1541 a
Richard Southwell held it of the king. In 1551
Edward VI. granted it to Edward Lord Clinton, who
had licence to fell it, and all his right in the advow-
fons of Wickmere and Aiby, to William Dix, of
London, merchant, who joined it to the other
manors.

The MANOR of CALTHORPE, alias UPHALL, or
DAME KATE'S, was part Hclion's.and part in the ab-
bey of St. Rennet at the Holme, and was granted to
the family firnamed Hai'tbois, with Hautbois-Mtf^ntf,
and fir Peter de Alto Bofco, who firnamed himfelf
Calthorpe, was lord in 1242. and it patted in the
Calthorpes. In 1317 it was fettled on Roger Cal-
ihorpe, and lady Caiherine, his wife, who was af-
terwards his widow, and lady here, and from her
came its name of Darne Kate's, at whole deceafe her
daughter and heirefs carried it to the Arficks, or Har-
ficks, of South-Acre. In 1453 iir Roger Harfick
died feifed, and palling with the bcirefTes of that fa-
mily, it came to the Reymes and Bloiieids, and in
I'jo; Nicholas Reymes, and Thomas Blofield. gents,
conveyed to Robert Godfrey, efq. and Robert Un-
derwood, gent, the manor of Up, alias Hooke-hall,
alias Calthorpe's, or Dame Kate's, in Wickmere, Cal-
thorpe, &:c.

Befides the monuments before obferved, we find
thefe here :

A black marble in the nave, — To Henry, Jon of
Dennis and Mary Gunton, who died October 28, 1712,
a^ed 37.

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 319

A brafs plate in the north aile, — To Richard Green'
way, 1494.

On the ftone-work by the fouth fide rof the altar
are two fliields ; and formerly here were the arms of
Hereward, Erpi-ngham, Reppes, Stafford, Gary's
whole coat and creft, Clere impaling C/ane, Dix,
Heydon, and creft, a talbot paiTant erin. Dodge,
barry of fix or. and fab. on a pale gul. a woman's
breaft dropping milk, proper.

In 1471 Thomas Bonet, piieft, was buried in the
chancel, with a brafs plate.

In 1557 Mr. Hill, prebend of Ely, was re&or here,
and of Kctton, in Suffolk.

In 1737, Auguft g, this church was confolidated
with Wolterton ; and in i 755 the Rev. Daniel Fro-
manteel was prefented to the united redory by the
late lord Walpole.

The prior of Norwich was taxed at 6d. for his
temporals here, and the prior of Waliingham (or his
at i8d. the prior of Ely for his at id.

This advowfon was fettled, and an acre of land,
on John Darlington's chantry in St. Giles's hofpital,
at Norwich, but it was recovered very foon from it,
and fo was never appropriated. The rectory was an-
ciently valued at fifteen marks, and now (lands in
the king's books at gl. but being fworn of the yearly
value of 40!. it is difcharged of firft-fruits and tenths,
and is capable of augmentation. Formerly this rec-
tory paid a yearly penfion to the redor of Little Bar-
ninghain of as. 4d.

X4 Tae

52o HUNDRED OF

M he- town is in the liberty of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, and paid 2!. 6s. to every tenth, when the
taxes \veie railed that way, and is valued at 448!. to
the land tax.

The right honorable Horace lord Walpole is now
lord and patron.

WOLTERTON, WULTERTON, or WOOLTERTON.
The church is dedicated to St. Margaret, and is a
re dory, valued at 81. in the king's books, and being
fworn of the clear yearly value of «»ol. it is dif-
charged of firft -fruits and tenths, and is capable of
augmentation ; it is parcel of the Duchy of Lancaf-
icr, and is laid to the land tax at 325!. i --§. The
prior of Caftle Acre had temporals here, valued at
.35. Norwich at I2d. Walfmgham at as. 4d. Way-
borne at yd. and Ely at 9;s. 41!. for lands given in
1246. by Emma, wife of Thomas Fitz-Warrcn. The
Hofpital of St. Giles, in Norwich, had lands here,
fome of which were given in i2S<:> by fir Roger de
Wolterton, knt. and others in i

v/ *-/

The nave and chancel are both of a height, and
are thatched ; the fouth aile and north chancel veftry
are down ; the fteeple is round at bottom, and -octan-
gular at top ; it hath two bells.

In the- fteeple window are the arms of Wolterton,'
and there were fihields of Walcote, Ufford, Cal-
thorpe, earl Warren, Burgullion, Arundel, Sharn-
bournc, Jenney, St. George, £:c. fome of which flill
remain.

The windows of the church, which had the twelve
apollles, with the creed, in labels liom their mouths,
and many arms and other ornaments, were glazed,

and

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 321

and the church repaired, if not rebuilt, by John
Wolterton, whofe effigy, with that of his wife's, re-
mains in a north window.

The family of Langdon owned an eftate in this
parifh in 1378, and 1306.

A black marble by the altar, Scambler impaling
Potts, and Godfalve quartered — Ann, the wife of
James Scambler, rfq. who died the sd of May, 1681,
aged 76 years, being the. eldejl daughter of • fir John Potts,
of Mannington, knt. and 'bart. by his Jirji wife, Bar-
bara, who was the eldejl daughter of Roger Godfalve,

Another marble, Scambler impales Potts, — James
Scambler, efq. who died Oilober 31, 1689, aged 80 years.
By his !a/t will he bequeathed a monthly leflure, and bmlt
an alms-houfe in the tmvn, and left confiderable fums of
money to pious and charitable tifes elfewhcrc.

Over thefe tvyo marbles, againft the eaft wall, is a
mural monument, with a man and woman kneeling,
and the arms of Scambler and Potts.

Another black marble hath Houghton impaling
Catiine, orCatlyn; — Robert Houghton, efq. who died
Augujl, 1657; and alfo Judith, his wife, (youngejt
daughter of Thomas Catlyn, efq. of Kirby-Canc] who died
Augujl 10, 1664.

On another black marble in the chancel is the
arms of Grey ; — Jacobus Grey, armiger, ob. April 8,
1721, atat. 38.

Auguft

HUNDRED OF

Augufl g, 1737, this church was confolidated wiih
Wickmere ; and in 1755 the Rev. Daniel Fromantecl
was prefented by the honorable Horatio W7alpole,
fince created lord Walpole.

The abbey of St. Bennet at the Holme, from the
time of its foundation, had half this town, and the
iiioiety of the advowfon of the founder's gift, at the
Conqueror's furvey ; the reclory of that moiety had
four acres of glebe ; the manor was worth 2os. the
town was fix furlongs long, and five broad, and paid
Sd. ob. gelt.

The other part belonged (except thirty acres) to
William earl Warren, who had it of the Conqueror
at the exchange ; to it belonged the other moiety of
the advowfon and the thirty acres, 8cc. he held of
Ralph de Beaufoe, and the king and the earl had the
leet and fuptrior jurifui&ion, but the earls Warren
and fkaufoe's part were held of them by Turold at
the Conqueror's furvey.

The manor in He I me abbey was infeoffed by the
abbot there in one Humfrey ; his fon, Walter, took
the firname of Wolterton; he held a knight's fee of
the abbot, and Roger de Wolterton paid for a quar-
ter of a fee here, which he had of the gilt of the
earl Warren, fo that he became fole lord and patron,
and held half a quarter of a fee of Robert Fitz-
Roger, as of Horsford barony.

By deed, -without date, fir Roger de Wolterton,
knt. fold to Simon de Hetherfete all the eflate late
of Sifangia de Wolterton, his fifter, here and in
lueringham ; and in 1321 Roger de Wolterton pre-
jUo this reciory; but in 1360 fir John de Caf-

ton,

SOUTH ERPINGHAM. 323

ton, knt. In 1362 Roger de Wolterton, fon of the
former, held this manor as parcel of the Duchy of
Lancafler, and Wolterton's manor, in Eaft Barfham ;
and in 1361 prefcnted to this rectory, the advpwfon
of which wholly attended this manor till its divi-
fion. It afterwards came by two female heireffes,
about 1437, to John de Briftdn, fen. cfq. and Ed-
mund Moore, who divided it, and each had a turn,
in the advowfon, and a feparate manor in 1460.

Briflon manor defcended in 1467 to Ralph de
Briflon, who died feifed of this, and the manor of
Briflon, and Downe's manor, in Snettifham, in
1485, without iflTue, and John Copping was his heir.
In 1563 John Stanley, efq. fettled the manor, called
Wolterton-Coldham's, Ely-fee, and Walfingham-fee,
and a fold-courfe, on Henry Yelverton, and Miles
Corbet, efqrs. and it foon after went to the Hough-
tons. In 1595 Gregory Houghton, alderman of
Norwich, died feifed. It aficrwards became the feat
of the Scamlers, and James Seamier, cfq. fon of
Edward, eldeft fon of Edmund Seamier, bifhop of
Norwich, was lord; he died here, and is buried with
Ann, his wife, in this chancel, leaving James, his
fon and heir, who married Mary, daughter of Jo-
ieph Brand, of Edwardeflon, in Suffolk, efq. but died
without iflue about 1713: he had three lifters j
Ann, married, but died without iffue; Urfula, mar-
ried John Smith, of Bury St. Edmund's, and died at
Wolterton. without iffue, about 1716; Elizabeth,
married Thomas Gray, reclor of Cavendifh, in Suf-
folk, who left the eflate here 10 his fon, James Gray,
efq. counfellor at law, w ho died in 1721, and is bu-
ried here, leaving two fi.fl.ers, Ann, and Penelope ;

the former married Browne ; and Penelope,

Wiferaan

HUNDRED OF

\Yifeman, efq. who are both Widows, r .1

now living; but the cftate was fold to the honorable
Horatio Walpole, afterwards lord Walpole, ofWoi-
terton.

The other moiety, or manor, which was Edmund
Moore's, came to William Sutton, who in 1486 fold
it to John Windham, efq. in whole family it conti-
nued till 1542, and then fir Edmund Windham, knt.
fold it to Edward Lominer, of Mannington, efq.
with the advowfon of the alternate turn, Sec. and
from that time it hath pafled with Mannington, and
was fold with that to the right honorable lord Wal-
pole, fole lord and patron, who built an elegant fa-
mily feat here, at which he relided.

Horatio, created lord Walpole, of Wolterton, in
Norfolk, June 4, 1756, was fecond fon of Robert,
the father of fir Robert Walpole, who was created
ea*l of Orford; he married on the sift of July,
17-20, Mary, daughter of Peter Lambard, efcj by
whom he had, 1. Horatio, the prefent lord. 2. The
honorable Thomas Walpole'", who married, Nov. 14,
175$, Elizabeth, daughter of fir Joflma Van-Neck,
•bart. (which lady died June g, 1760) by whom he
had two fons, Thomas Lambard, and Theodore, and
two daughters, Catherine Mary, and Elizabeth. 3.
The honorable Richard Walpolet, banker, in London,
who married Margaret, daughter of the faid fir Jofhua
Van-Neck, bart. and by her has Richard, Mary,
Rachel, and '-Caroline. 4. The honorable Robert
.Walpole^:, now envoy extraordinary and plenipoten-
tiary

f He is now member in parliament for Lynn-Regis.
'- One of the reprefenta lives for Great Yarmouth.
t Robert was charge d'affaires to the courts of Versailles and
Madrid, but when we arc not certain.

SOUTH ER PING HAM. 33$

tiary at the court of Lifbon. 5. Mary, married to
Maurice Suckling, efq. who -dcctafcd June 21, '1766.
6. Henrietta Louifa. 7. Ann: His lordfhip dying
Feb. 5, 1757, was fuceeeded by his fon, Horatio,
the prefent lord Walpole, who married, May 12,
1748, lady Rachel, daughter of William duke of
Devonfhire, by whom he had iffue; i. Horatio, born
June 24s, 1752. 2. William, who died Dec. 15,
1764. 3. George, born June 29, 1758. 4. Ro-
bert, who died young. 5. Catherine, born June
4» 1750> 6. Mary, born October 22, 1754, and
married, Augufl 4, 1777, captain Hufley.

Wolterton, the feat of the right honorable lord
Walpole, is an elegant, "modern-built feat, where he
generally refides. The park is beautifully enriched
by wood and water, and appears more extenfive than
it is, by commanding a view into Blickling park.
The houfe is convenient and elegant, but does not
make an appearance equal to its real fize, as the of-
fices are concealed^ under-ground, .from (we fuppofc)
the miftaken idea- of a London architect, who ima-
gined himfelf confined to a particular fpace. The
principal floor is, 'however, magnificent, and many
of the rooms are hung with- pic$l tapeflry, both the
colours and defign of which are remarkably fine.
The faloon, which mcafures 30 feet by 30, is furnifhed
with fophas and chairs, on which are richly wrought
in needle-work .-Efop's Fables. The drawing and co-
louring are both admirably executed. The other
ftate rooms are,

ATIall

HUN

D R E D

O F

Feet.

A Hall

— 30

by 27

Dining-room

~ 3°

by 27

Bed-chamber

— 25

by 22

Drefling-room

by 1 1

Drawing room

~ 23

by 21

Bed-chamber

bv 21

Drcffing-roora

by ig

§*§ P "^ <£§
fcurf §*§

THE

HISTORY

O F

NORFOLK.

HUNDRED of EYNSFORD.

called from fome ford over the river
Eyn, which was (as is laid) atReepham.
It was in the crown, till Richard I. on
his return from the Holy Land, granted
it to fir Baldwin de Betun, earl of Al~
bemarle and Holdernefs, with the lordfliip of Foul-
fham, from whom it came to William Marefchal, earl
of Pembroke : from the Marfhals to fir Robert de
Morley, and from the Morleys to the Lovells, and
Parkers, lords Morley ; Edward Parker, lord Mor-
ley, fold it in 1582, the 24th of queen Elizabeth, to
fir Thomas Hunt.

A In

•9 HUNDREDOF

In the 2gth of Henry VI. we find the hundred
court to be kept at Reepham, and there alfo on Wed-
nefday in Eafter week, in the 4th year of Edw. VI.
1550, when the village of Witchingham was pre-
fented for not keeping the bridge, called Stockbridge,
in good repair, as they ought to do.

The hundred of Eynsford is bounded on the north
by the hundred of Holt; on the fouth by the hun-
dred of Mitford ; on the fouth-eaft and north-eaft by
the hundreds of Taverham and South Erpingham;
and on the weft by the hundred of Launditch. —
The river Wenfum that arifes at Weft Rudham, and
paffes by Fakenham, enters this hundred near Guift,
runs fouth to Bintry, Elmham, and Billingford, where
there is a bridge of one arch (repaiied by the county)
over it, and where the river runs confiderably broad;
thence in a fouth-eaft direction it divides Belaugh
from Elfmg, pafles by Lyng to Lenwade bridge, and
enters the hundred of Taverham at Attlebridge, and
fo joins in confluence with the river Yare about a
mile below Norwich. The winding of this river
from Lyng, where it is broadeft, through the villages
of Morton, Ringland and Coflefey, on the one fide,
and the towns of Attlebridge, Taverham and Hellef-
•den, on the other, is uncommonly beautiful, and af-
fords a fcene, or to make ufe of a more modern
fafihionable word, a capability for the higheft improve-
ments ; and great improvements have already been
made by fir William Jerningham, and Mr. Branth-
wayte, at Coftefey-hall and Taverham, their refpec-
tive feats. The hills on each fide the river have
been ornamented with plantations, and the ftream
glides gently on through the meadows below, giving
a raoft romantic profpeft of the country round.

This

EYNSFORD. •$

This hundred extends north to Thurning, and
from Thuming to Ringland fouth, a diftance of about
twelve miles : Bimry bounds it on the weft, and Sail
on the eaft, a diftance of feven miles. Near Len-
\vade bridge a ftream falls in that arifes between Cor-
pufty and Wood-Dalling, and paffes by Heydon, Sail,
Reepham, and Witchingham.

This hundred of Eynsford contains the following
towns, to which are added the votes polled by reG-
dent freeholders at the contefted election in 1768.

deG.

Alderford

Bawdefwell

Belaugh

Billingford

Bintry

Brandifton

Elfing

Foulfham

Foxley

Gueftwick

Guift

Hackford

Heverin gland

Hindolvefton

Kerdifton

Lyng

Norton

Reepham

Ringland

Sail

Sparham

Swannington

Themilthorpc

Thuming «

A 2

Twiford

HUNDRED OF

W. deG. A. C.
Twiford 2 i i • o

Weflon - 7 2 6 5

Whitwel ° ° 5 5

Witchingham, Great 6521
Wood-Dalling 1287

Wood-Norton 1076

Total 49 43 113 107

Seats and principal Houfes in Eymford Hundred.

Belaugk, Richard Lloyd, efq

Elfin£i Mrs. Greene.

Hcveringland, William Fellovves, efq.

Morton, Charles Le Grys, efq.

Sail, Edward Hafe, efq.

Thurmng, Peter Elvvin, efq.

We/ton, John Cuftance, efq.

Wood Dalling, William Wigget Bulwer, efq.

ALDERFORD. This village is not mentioned in
the book of Doomfday, it being wholly included
and accounted for under the lordfhips of Walter
Giffard, earl of Bucks, in Witchingham, which ex-
tended herein, and alfo under Giffard's manor of
Swannington.

In the loth of Richard I. William dc Huntingfeld,
and Ifabel his wife, conveyed by fine to William
Batail, fixty acres here and in Swannington, with
his right in thofe churches, and that of Felthorpe,
tolbte&helcl'of Huntingfeld, and the heirs of Ifabel,
}>\ tne fixth part of a fee, and the fervice of 40$. per
ann. payable to them, and 2os. to W. Briton, for life.
This was before R. archdeacon of Ely, William de

War,

EYNSFORD. 5

War, Robert Fitz-Roger, William Dawbeney, Sec.
the king's juflices.

Ralph de Batail, of Swannington, granted in the
5th of Edward I. the advowfon of the church of
Alderford, to the prior and convent of Norwich ;
William lord Roos, of Hamelak, confirmed in the
3oth of that king, to Simon Eft, and Joan his wife,
the fuit of a water-mill, with the mill-dam and wa-
ter-courfe, here and in Witchingham.

Henry Richers was lord in 1570, and Robert
Richers in 1572. John Richers, efq. lord in 1609,
the 7th of James I.

The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptift,
and is a re&ory ; has two fmall ailcs, and three
bells.

In the windows of the church, the arms of the
Eaft Angles, azure, three ducal coronets, or. — Of
Edward the Confeffor, azure, a crofs 'patance, be-
tween five martlets, or. — Berney, impaling Ailing-
ton, alfo impaling Southwell, and Jenney.

The Rev. James Williams Newton was prefented
to the reclory of Alderford with Attlebridge, (confo-
lidated 1686) by the dean and chapter of Norwich,
1776.

BAWDESWELL, or BALDESWELL, takes its
name from bald. Bald is often found in compofi-
tion, thus Garbaldifham in Norfolk ; and may be
the name of a quick running water, or river, thus
Balderfdale in Yorkshire, Boldre in Hampfhire.*

A 3 Godric'l

* Parkin,

& HUNDREDOF

Godric's lordfhip of Foxley extended into this
town, held by him under Alan earl of Richmond.

After the death of Godric it was granted with
Foxley, 8cc. to the Montchenfys, by Henry II. and
fo came to Valence and Haflings, earls of Pem-
broke, and the Greys, earls of Kent. Sir John de
Grey, knight of the garter, (fon of Reginald lord
Grey, of Ruthyn.) In the i6th of Henry VI. 1437,
John Enderby, Thomas Boughton, &c. releafed to
John Grey, of Ruthyn, efq. and fir Thomas Wan-
ton, knt. this manor, 8cc. To this deed hangs a
feal of red wax, of the bignefs of a crown piece,
with thefe arms, — quarterly — Grey, of Ruthyn — 2d.
Haftings and Valence, quarterly, — gd as 2d — 4th as
the ill, with a label of three points, over all an
helmet fide ways ; fupporters, two goats ; the crefl,
a wyvern, the creft of Haflings.

It is obfervable, that this fir John Grey was eldefl
fon and heir of Reginald lord Grey, of Ruthyn,
then alive, and calls himfelf by his father's title,
and died before his father : that John de Grey, efq.
here mentioned, was fecond fon of the (aid lord
Reginald, and calls himfelf like-vife de Ruthyn, and
precedes fir Thomas Wanton, k;it. batchelor, as a
baron's younger ion ; and laftly, that the arms of
fir John de Grey, though a knight of the garter, arc
not incircled with the garter, it not being, as it
feems, the fafhion at that time.

Fiom the Greys it came to the Somerfets, Cordels,
Wiuwoods, Pitfields, and Lombes, &c. as in Fox-
ley.

The honor of Clare extended into this town, and
was held in capiu by Richard de Glare, earl of

Gloucefler

EYNSFORD. 7

Gloucefter and Hertford, with lands in Whitwel,
Reephain, Witchingham, 8cc. pofleffed by Roger
Jenney, under the Mortimers, earls of March, 8cc.
in the reign of Henry VI.

The church is a reclory, dedicated to All Saints ;
it has a nave and chancel, covered with lead ; and
a fquare tower, with five bells.

In the chancel lies a grave-ftone, In Meinory of
Anth. Eglittgton, A. M. who died March 31, 1644,
A° 27.

And one for Henry Egh'ngton, wJio died April 5,

1681. Francifca, uxor Henr. Eglington, Gen : Jep-

tem liberor. mater obt. Mart. 3, 16 — JLtat. 30.

In the church was the chapel of our Lady. John
Beck, in 1525, wills to be buried in this chapel,
on the north fide of the chancel.

In 1721, Edward Lombe, efq. of Wefton, pre-
fented to this living, having purchafed this eftate in
1700, of Alexander Pitfield, merchant, in Crofby-
fquare, London. He was fucceeded by the Rev.
John Lombe, whofe fifter married Mr. John Hafe :
his eldeft ion, John Hafe, efq. who has taken the
name of Lombe, is the prefent proprietor.

Bawdefwell lies eaft of Billingford three miles,
near Sparham. There is an extenfive common in
the road to Reepham, from which it is alfo diftant
three miles.

The church has been till of late years in ruins,
but is now repaired, and a new fteeple built of
brick.

A 4 The

* HUNDREDOF

The Rev. Thomas Beckwith was prefented to this
reclory by Mrs. Mary Hafe, widow, in 1774.

BELAUGH, BYLAUGH, or BELOW, or BELEGA,
befpeaks, fays Parkin, a Jme. water, or a river. Gin-
gon held this lordfhip under Alan earl of Rich-
mond, of which Ralph of Norfolk was lord in king
Edward's reign, and afterwards deprived on his re-
bellion againft the Conqueror.

By an inquifition taken at Norwich, November
35, in the 2 lit of Henry VIII. on the death of fir .
Richard Fitz-Lewis, who died July 12, the aoth of
the faid king, he was found to die feifed of it, held
of the honor of Richmond. He married Alice

daughter of Harleflon, by whom he had John,

his fon and heir, who died before him ; and Ela,
his daughter and heir, married to John Mordaunt,
fon and heir of fir John Mordaunt, lord Mordaunt.
The tradition is, that John fon and heir of fir Rich-
ard, with his wife, were burnt in their bed on the
wedding night, at Weft Horndon in Effex.

John lord Mordaunt, who married Ela above-
mentioned, by his will, dated September 20, 1549,
gave to fir Edmund this manor, with that of Bil-
lingford ; but Edmund dying young, it carne to his
elder brother, Lewis lord Mordaunt.

After this Clement Corbet, L. L. D. was chancel-
lor oi Norwich, and by his wife, Elizabeth daughter
of Kemp, he left a fon and five daughters.

John Bendifh, efq. purchafed it of the Corbets.
This John was fon of Thomas Bendifh, of Witch-

ingham Magna, by Mary his wife, daughter of

Derfley, of Catlidge in Suffolk, who was fan of

John

E Y N S F O R 1). g

John Bendifh, of Witchingham (by Audry His wife,

daughter of Thomas Hervey, of iu Effex, re-

lift of Polfted) fon of John BendiQi, of Steeple
Bumpfted in Eflex, by Margery daughter of Thomas
Grawley, of Loughts in Effex.

John Bendifh aforefaid, who purchafed this ma-
nor, lived here, and married Elizabeth daughter of
William Edwards, of Wifbech in the lile of Ely,
gent, and left a fon and heir, John, bom in 1664,
in which year Elizabeth died.

The church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary,
and was appropriated to the priory of Butley in Suf-
folk, by John of Oxford, bifhop of Norwich.- It
was a reclory ; has a nave, and a chancel, and
there is one bell.

In the nave a grave-ftone, In memory of John Ben-
difli, late of Bylaugh-Hall, Efq; and of Sarah his wife,
only daughter of Samuel Walton, of Sp aiding in Lin-
colnjhire, Gent, who died 1707, aged 43, and by her
lajt will and tejlament appointed Anne, daughter of Tho-
mas Edwards, late of Wijbeach, Efq; her Jole executrix,
who as a tejlimony of her love and gratitude to her de-
ceafed friends, eretted this monument.

Againft the chancel fouth wall, on a marble mo-
nument, the arms of Corbet, or. a raven proper,
impaling Kemp, gules, three garbs in a bordure in-
grailed, or.

Ad pedem hujus monumenti jacet, cum FJitabetha ux-
ore verier abilis nuper vir Dns. Clemens Corbet, quam
paruis cancellis, animi dum vixit magni cancellarius, fed
tt qualis inter vivas fuerat, viator, paucis accipe, unius
uxoris maritus, quam merito dilexit mice, ex qua unius

10 HUNDREDOF

Jilij , quinq; jiliarum pater evadit, et fie p' cepit qui in
memonam eorum, hoc monumentum extrui curavit, Sa-
muel Corbet.

Under this Jlone lye the. bodies of Dr. Clemt. Corbet,
who died 28 May, 1632, and Elhab. his wife, who dyed
July 17, 1644.

In memory of John Bendyjh, Efq; who depd. Janu.
25, 1676, Eliz. his luife, who depd. July 17, 1664,
with the arms of Bendifh, impaling, a fefs, ermine
between three mullets, , Edwards.

The family of the Curfons were in pofleffion for-
merly of this manor and eftate, and lir John Curfon
lies buried here, who died A. D. 1471.

Richard Lloyd, efq. is the prefent lord, a gentle-
man of a very amiable chara&er, and univerfally
efteemed : captain, and is eldefl, in the wcflern bat-
talion of the Norfolk militia, at prefent (1779) em-
bodied under the command of the earl of Oribrd,
lord lieutenant of this county.

BECK, or BECK-HALL, was at the furvey a village,
an hamlet, or beruite, belonging to Alan earl of
Richmond's manor of Belaugh, and was in the fa-
mily of the Curfons in the i8th of Henry VIII.
Anno Domini 1502.

John Curfon, efq. of Beck-hall in Belaugh, died
in the firft year of Edward VI. and left William,
his fon and heir, who had livery of this manor, &c.
and died feifed in the 14th of queen Elizabeth; and
Thomas was found to be his heir, by Thomafine
daughter of fir Robert Townfhend, chief juftice of
Cheiler, who being re-married to William Rugge,

E Y N S F O R D. n

efq. of FeLningham, was lord in her right : flie died
here, and was buried in the church of Billingford.

Thomas Curfon, efq. had a pracipe in the Jjsd of
queen Elizabeth, to deliver i: to Chriftopher Crowe,
gent, and Robert lilney, gent.

After this it was conveyed to fir Edward Coke,
by the faid 1 horaas ; and his immediate heir, the
earl of Leicefter, aied feHed of it in 1759, and it is
now in the poffeffion of the Holkham family.

At this old village of Beck was an hofpital,
founded by William de Beck, for poor travellers,
who were to be entertained one night ; there were
thirteen beds for that purpofe. It was valued at 5!.
and the patron of the church of Belaugh paid a
penfion of 135. ^d. per ann. to it : it flood on the
road from Norwich to Walfingham and Lynn.

The impropriation of the great tythes of Belaugh.
are alfo in the poflciTion of the Holkham family.

The late Rev. Thomas Ewin, reclor of Swanton-
Morley, was licenced to this curacy June 20, 1770,
by Ralph Cauldwell, efq. truftee of the will of the
earl of Leicefter.

On the fcite of this hofpital the Cokes built a
good feat, as appears from their arms over the porch,
&c. and it was efteemed to be in the parifh of Bil-
lingford.

It appears from the deed of William de Beck, the
founder, that Richard his chaplain, was admitted to
this raafterftiip by Alan, the bif hop's official, OF vi-
car general, preliding in the confiliory court of Nor-
wich,

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wich, and that it was well endowed, for him, and
certain chaplains ; that the faid William granted to
Pandulph, then bifhop of Norwich, and his fuccef-
fors, the right of patronage of his hofpital of St.
Thomas the Martyr ,and St. Paul of Beck, by deed,
dated at London, November 12, 1224.

On its diflblution, the hofpital with its lands, and
a manor belonging to it, came to the crown, and
was granted by letters patent, dated May 26, anno
gd and 4th of Philip and Mary, to fir John Perrot,
knt. with court letes, weif, firays, 8cc. who in the
faid year, May 28, granted them to Thomas Ro-
chefler, and John Waldgrave, gent, to be held of
the manor of Eaft Greenwich, by the twentieth part
of a fee. After this, it was purchafed by fir Ed-
ward Coke, the judge, and fo defcended to the late
earl of Leicefter.

Beck-hall is fituated fifteen miles from Norwich.
The houfe has been many years much out of repair,
and is now a farm-houfe.

BILLINGFORD. Tord was lord before the
conqueft. This village is fituated fifteen miles from
Norwich, in the great road to Lynn. The greateft
part of the eftate and property in this village is in
the Holkham family. The river from Fakenham
pafles it at or near the fixteen mile (tone, over which
h a bridge, built and repaired at the county ex-
pence.

Billingford adjoins to Elmham, formerly the ca»
thedral of the billiop of Norwich.

The church is a rectory. It confifts of a nave
and north and fouth ifle, covered with lead, and a

chancel

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chancel with tile, all much out of repair j at the
weft end is a fquare tower, on which is raifed an
octangular one, with two bells.

The patronage of this living is in Thomas Wil-
liam Coke, efq. of Holkham, reprefentative in par-
liament for this county. The prefent redlor is the
Rev. Mr. Henry Carrington, prefented by the late
earl of Leicefter, in 1763, being his domeflic chap-
lain.

BRANDISTON, or BRANDESTON, and GUTON.'
Brandefton was a fmall lordfliip, or beruite, belong-
ing to king Herold's great lordihip of Cawfton, in
South Erpingham hundred, and at the conquefl was
poffeffed by William I.

Guton was a confiderable town and lordfhip at
the time of the furvey, though now depopulated,
and included in Brandillon, and was wrote Guthe-
ketuna. Leftan, a free man, was on the conquefl
deprived of it, and it was granted to Toheli Brito,
of Britagne in France, who attended the Duke of
Normandy into England, and had alfo the manors
of Cahhorpe. and of Bootori in South Erpingham,
beflowed upon him ; and Ofbert held this under
Teheli, at the furvey.

Sir John Faftolf was lord, and prefented to the
church in 1448, and fo to John Paiton, efq.

In the iSth of Edward IV. the jury find that it
would not be to the king's prejudice if licence was
granted to William Waynfleet, bifhop of Winchef-
ter, &c. to alien to William Tyberd, clerk, president
of St. Mary Magdalen's college in Oxford, in part
of fatisfaction, for 500!.. land, the manors of Guton

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ia Brandifton, (and the advovvfon) in Titchwell,
Brancafter, Thornham, and lands in Holm, Reed-
ham hall in Boycon, die manors of Sphiing in Fref-
ton, Caldecotes in Freflon, Akethorpe in Leicefter-
fhire, Haverland, Sec. lately belonging to fir John
Faflolf, and after to John Pafton, efq. and in the
faid college Guton hall remains.

In the chamber of this hall were the arms of bi-
fhop Wainfleet.

The church is a rectory. It is dedicated to St.
Nicholas, confifling of a nave or body, and a cha-
pel, and a round tower at the north-weft end of the
nave.

In a window of the church, the figure of St. Ni-
cholas, under it a woman kneeling, in a fcarlct
gown, and a girdle of gold, and this label :

Serve Dei Nicholas, met Chrijlo manor e/lo.

In another window the hiftory of the good Sama-
ritan.

The Rev. John Audley, D. D. was prefented to
this re&ory by the matters and fellows of Magdalen
college, Oxford, in the year 1744.

BINTRY-HASTINGS MANOR. On the deprivation
of Edric, a Saxon free man, this lordfliip was grant-
ed to Walter Giffard.

Walter was a great favourite of William duke of
Normandy, and created by him earl of Buckingham,
which his fon Walter enjoyed, who died without if-
fue male, and came on the marriage of his daughter
«» , to the earls of Clare.

This

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This lordfhip was held by the Marfhals, earls of
Pembroke, of the honour of Clare, and of the Mar-
fhals, by a family who took their name from this
town : all GifFard's manors came to the earls of Clare,
who were the capital lords.

Sir John Curfon, of Beck-hall and Belaugh, was
lord of Haflings in the 4th of Edward IV. and died
feifed of it in the i ith of that king. John Curfon,
of Belaugh, died poffeffcd of it in the ifl of Edward
VI. and William his fon and heir inherited it. Tho-
mas, fon of William Curfon, had livery of it in the
soth of Elizabeth. Thefe all held of the Marfhals,
the Morleys, who had the patronage, and the Par-
kers, and was fold by them.

After this, it was conveyed to fir Thomas Hunt,
knt. foap-boiier of London ; William Hunt his fon,
and Thomas his grandfon, inherited it, and from
this family it came to fir Jacob Aftley, bart. whofc
grandfon fir Jacob died lord, and his fon fir Edward
is the prefent lord.

LANGETOT MANOR. In the ifl year of king John,
Gilbert de Langetot bought of William de Bello-
inont, of Saxlingham, two knights fees, and a part
of one in Bintry. Alexander de Norfolk gives by
deed, fans date, with the aiTent of his lady Emma de
Langetot, a»d the lady Muriel her daughter and heirs,
to God, and the canons of Mifferidcn in Bucks, all
his land in the village of Bintry, in Norfolk, which
Jeffrey, fon of William, and die faid Emma his wife,
gave to him for his fcrvices, paying i ad. per ann.
Emma de Langetot, with the content of Muriel her
daughter, confirmed the fame, and gave I2d. of the
tithe of Alan de Burfeld of Bintry, to the faid con-
vent.

Robert

ID HUNDRED OF

Robert Langetot was lord in the 22d of Rich. II.
1398, and held it of the earl of March: it was in
the fame family in the 3 8th of Henry VJ. 1459; a^~
ter this it came to the Curfons, and was united to
Haftings manor.

On April 11, in the 4th of Edward VI. 1550,
this was granted to Thomas, bifhop of Norwich, and
his fucceffors.

The church is a reftory, dedicated to St. Swithin,
has two ailes, with a chapel on the fouth fide, alfo
a chancel, and fquare tower, with four bells.

In 1 759 the Rev. John Aftley was prefented to this
re&ory by fir Jacob Aftley, bart.

ELSING, was the lordftiip of William, carl War-

ren.

El is the initial fyllable of many towns, and fig-
nifies water, and Ing is a meadow ; El is alfo a river,
as Elwick in Durham, Elford in Northamptonfhire,
Sec. &c.

Wimer, who held under earl Warren, was his
grand dapifer, or fteward, and was enfeoffed of many
lordfhips ; from his family (who aflumed the name
of de Greflenhale, of which they were alfo lords) it
came by Ifabel, fole heirefs to the Stutevilles, barons
of the realm, and from them it came by an heirefs
to fir Richard Foliot, in the beginning of the reign
of Edward I.

In 1328, the sd of Edward III. the lady Margery
de Foliot prefented to this church, relief of fir Jor-
dan de Foliot ; her fon fir Richard dying without

iffue,

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iflue, his two fillers, Margery the wife of fir Hugh,
de Haflings, and Margaret the wife of fir John Ca-
niois, were his heirs. Sir John and his lady releafed
their interefl in this town to fir Hugh and his lady.

Sir Hugh was fon of fir John de Haflings, lord
Abergavenny, by Ifabel his fecond lady, daughter of
Hugh le Defpencer, earl of Winchefter: this fir
Hudi built the church of Elfins;, and was there bu-

o *.*

ried-in 1347, as was his lady in 1349, the sgd of
Edward III.

Sir Hugh Haflings, lord in the 3d of Richard II.
had the grant of a market, and two fairs in a year,
at this town: on the death of fir John Haflings
without iffue, in the 2oth of Henry VII. 1504, it
was found that he held this lordfhip of the dutchy
of Lancafler, and George Haflings, efq. his brother,
was his heir.

John Haflings, efq. fon and heir of fir Hugh, dy-
ing without iffue, in the 35th of Henry VIII. left
two fitters and co-heirs, Ann, the eldeft, married
William Brown, efq. fecond fon to fir Anthony
Brown, mafter of the horfe to king Henry VII f. and
Knight of the Garter, and in her right was lord of
this town and of Weafenham.

Ann, daughter of Anthony Brown, efq. was bap-
tifed at Weafenham in 1378.

Anthony, fon of Thomas Brown, efq. baptifed
there in 1611, as was William, fan of Thomas, in
1615.

Thomas Browri, efq. kept his firft court at Wea«
fenham in 1631.
•/ B Thomas

iS H U N D R E D O F

Thomas Brown, efq. of Elfing;, bad a daughter
Camilla, married to Thomas Edwards, gent, (of
Wifbech) at Elfing in 1639.

William Brown, efq. of Elfing, was lord in 1696.
and by Ann his wife left Thomas his fon, the lalt
heir male of this family, who by Mary his wife,
daughter of Roger Pratt, efq. of Ruflon in Norfolk,
had a daughter and heir, Mary, married to Thomas
Greene, efq. lord in her right, who died without if-
fue: his relift, Mrs. Greene, 'is now lady of this
manor, and refides at her feat in Elfing.

The church is a reclory. The prefent re£lor is
the Rev. John Wilfon, prefented in 1746 by Mrs.
Mary Brown.

The church is covered with lead and the chancel
with tiles, and in the tower, which is four-fquare,
are five bells.

In the eaft window of the chancel are the portrai-
tures of fir Hugh de Haftings, and the lady Marga-
ret his wife, who built the church : fir Hugh in ar-
mour, with his tabord of arms over it, and on his
knees ; that of his lady has on her gown, alfo her
arms, 8cc. and on her knees ; each fupporting with
both their hands a church, fetting forth themfelves
as the founders : under him, or. a maunch, gules,
•with a file of three points, argent, as of a younger
family, and under her, Haftings impaling, gules, a
bend argent, Foliot.

In the midft of the chancel lies a large marble
grave-ftonc, whereon has been a rim of brafs with an
infcription, now ipoiled, and the conclufion of it
only remaining, viz. Cum Pater, Ave. On this is

the

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the portraiture of a knight in com pleat armour, a
lion at his feet, with the arms of Haftings over his
head; t\vo angels fupport his helmet: in memory
iuofl likely (as by its kite) of the founder. Under
them remains,

In gwowe loorchipe, vis churrhe hath been wrowt by
Howe dc Hq/tyrig and Margaret hys wyf.

On an altar tomb, on the north fide, with the arms
of Brown, fable, three lionels paflant, in bend, be-
tween tvvo double cottifes, argent, impaling.

Here lyeth Dame Anne, Sir Anthony Browne his iiifc.
In hope of RefurreElion unto life.
W''(jfe lively working faith by charity,
Defen'cs an everlajiing memory.
Seventy- two years Jhe lived, a bleffed sdget
Andjitrijhed in peace her pilgrimadge.
She dyed 5 Oft. 1623.

Two Ufjfed babes, herfonnes, with her doe lye,
Francis the one, the other Anthony.
Where rcjle they three, 'till latter daye,
Shall rayfe them up to endlefs joy c.

Here is alfo another altar tomb, deprived of its
braifes and infcription : by the incifion of the ftone
to receive the brafs letters, it appears to be very an-

tient, Entcrre: Put: comjrare: Manour: Saint:

FRAVNCES BOVRLE; GIST: JCI: DE:

KT: ALME: DEV: ETT : MERCT: probably in
memory of fome reclor, who was a friar Francifcan.

We alfo find that fir John Haftings, and the lady
Ann his wife, daughter of lord John Morley, were
here buried about 1471.

B 2 On

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On a grave-flone, with the arms of Berney —
Here lyeth Wm. Berney, ^th fon of Sir Richard Benit)\
Bart, aged 31, and died in 1658. — Alfo Rd. Berney,
his only Jon, aged 23, and died in 1675.

One — In memory of Mary, daughter of Tho. Brown,
Gent, and Mary his wife, buried Dec. 14, 1720.

On another:

Molefub hac lapidum Thomnjia conditur Hardy,

Efinga vivens, Gloria, Fama Decus;
Ante -alias Celebris pietate, laboribus, ore;

Vana, Deum, requiem, fprevit, amavit, habet.
Mortem, cbt. 12°. Ocl. 1714.

In the church were the arms of lord Bardolph,
Vere earl of Oxford, Haflings, and Valence earl of
Pembroke.

FOULSHAM. At the furvey the Conqueror was
lord : it was one of the lordfhips that king Edward
the Confeffor died poffeffed of.

It remained in the crown, as ancient demean, till
king Richard I. on his return from the Holy Land,
granted it to fir Baldwin de Betun, earl of Albe-
marle andHoldernefs, with the hundred of Eynsford.
In 1194, he was fent by Leopold, duke of Auftria,
to acquaint king Richard, that if he did not perform
the treaty made with him, he would kill all his hof-
tages, which obliged the king to fend Alianore,
daughter of Conflance, dutchefs of Britain, by Jef-
frey Plantagenet, duke of Anjou, with Baldwin, to
be married to the fon of duke Leopold, but it did
act take effeft by the death of that duke.

Baldwin

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Baldwin was brother to the earl of Fhnders, and
had of the gift of king Richard many lordfhips in
Bucks, that of Brabourn, &cc. in Kent, and by his
deed, fans date, with the confent of Hawys his wife,
granted to Robert Conflable loos, per aim. out of

his lands in Holdernefs : his feal to this was,

on a chief, -, three bendlcts, , armed cap-

a-pee on h,orfeback, in full career, fvvord in hand.
By Hawys his wife, daughter and heir of William
le Grofle, earl of Albemarle, he had a daughter and
heir, Alice, married to William Marefchal, earl of
Pembroke, to whom Baldwin, with the licence of
king John, in his fecond year, gave it in free mar-
riage.

John le Marfhall was found to die feifed of it,
with the advowfon and hundred of Eynsford, in the
6th of Edward I. 1278; and in the 15th of that
king, the jury find that William, fon of John le
Mai (hall held it of the earl of Gloucefter, and ho-
nour of Clare, who held it in capitc. William was
under age, and claimed a weekly market on Tuef-
day, view of frank-pledge, affife of bread and beer,
a gallows, and that the lordfhip was worth 40!. per
ann.

~ *

John le Marefchal, his fon and heir, died lord in
the loth of Edward II. 1316, without iffue, leaving
Hawys, his fifter and heir, married to fir Robert de
Morley: in the family of the lords Morley it re-
mained,, till Alianore, daughter and heir of William
lord Morley, brought it by marriage to William, a
younger fon of William lord Lovell, of Titchmarfh,
who died feifed of it in 1475, the 1 5th of Ed\v. IV.

Henry Lovell, lord Morley, being flain at DIx-

mude in Flanders, in 1489, left no iffue by Elizabeth

B 3 his

22 HUNDRED OF

his wife, daughter of John de la Pole, duke of Suf-
folk, fo that it came by Alice, his filler and heir,
to fir William Parker, and was held of the honour
of Clare.

Edward Parker, lord Morley. his defcendent, fold
Sept. 4, 1582, this manor and hundred of Eynsford
to fir Thomas Hunt, of the fifhmongers company
in London, a great benefacior to their alms-houfe at
Nevvington in Surry : by his firft wife Margaret, wi-
dow of John Warner, of London, was father of
William Hunt, of Hindolvefton, efq. who had two
fons, Thomas, of Shai ington in Norfolk, and George
his fecond fon, of Hindolveflon, who fold this ma-
nor to fir Jacob Afiley, bart.

Sir Jacob Afiley, bart. was the late lord, and had
the leet, and ii is now enjoyed by his fon fir Ed-
ward.

SWANTON'S MANOR. Sir Baldwin de Betun gave
to Jeffrey de Heffeltone 6os. in land and rent per
ann. to be held by the fervice of a fixth part of a
fee, held by Warine de Thymilthorpe in the cjd of
Edward I. and in the gth of Edward II. the heir of
John de Swanton was lord of it.

In the 47th of Edward III. Robert Curfon of
Honingham, granted to William Curfon of Barford,
the manor of Swanton in Foulfham, with a meffuage
toft, one hundred and twenty acres of land, eighc
of meadow, eighteen of paflure, fouf of alder-ground,
one of marfh, four fjiillings rent, with fix hens and
fix capons in this town, Bintry, Guift, Sparham, See.
and a meffuage and garden called Spinke's, in St.
Peter's of Mancroft in Norwich, with the advowfon
of Twiford church, which he had of Thomas Cur-
of Bintty.

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Thomas Curfon, of Foulfham, conveyed by fine:
to James de Billingford, &c. this manor, in the igth
year of Richard If. in trufl ; and in the 1 8th of
that king, releafed to John Cuiibn all his right
herein.

Robert Bowfe and Dorothy his wife, Rofe Brown
and Mary Brown, conveyed by fine, in the 26th of
Henry VIII. this lordfhip, in Foulfham, Tvviford,
Guift, 8cc. to fir Robert Townfhend, who died feiied
of it in the 3d and 4th of Philip and Mary, and
Thomas was his fon and heir.

WALSINGHAM PRIORY MANOR. Sir Baldwin de •
Betun granted to Giles de Cotys loos, rent, which
the prior of Walfmgham held of him in pure alms.

John Marshall, lord of this town, granted to the
prior, for his foul's health, and that of Oliva his
wife, William earl marfhal and Ifabel his wife, and.
of John Marfhall his father, and Alice his mother, ,
Cxty acres of land, in his wood of Foulfham, by
the perch of twenty feet, with a way on the weft
towards Norton two perches broad, with common of %
pafture, and the foke of Foulfham : he confirmed
aifo the lands which Richard de Burgh of Swanton .
held of him, and had given them in Loch. ' Oliva
Marfhall, by her deed, and fine levied, in the 35th
of Henry III. gave them twelve acres, an hundred
(hillings rent here and in Bintry, with a fold-courle,
fifhery, 8cc.

The temporalities of the priory were valued in
1428, at si. 12S. per ann.

King Edward VI. on April 11, in his 4th year, .
granted it to Thomas bifliop of Norwich, and his fuc-
B 4 ceffors,

*4 HUNDRED OF

ceflbrs, with a clofe called Little Divillings, or Dai-
lings, and Dove-houfe clofe.

CREAK ABBEY MANOR. Wrilliam Marfhall, eail
of Pembroke, lord of the town, gave to Alan de la
Hythe loos, rent of land per ann. by the fervice of
one pound of pepper, which the abbot of Creak then
held by the fame fervice, from whom it carne to
John Marfhall, who gave it to the priory of Walfing-
ham with three marks and a half rent per ann. in
pure alms. William de Camera had twenty acres of
land alfo, which the abbot of Creak then held.

John de Havering and Joan his wife, granted to
Jeffrey, abbot of Creak, fourteen marks and forty
pence, in Foulfham and Bintry, by fine, in the 55th
of Henry III. he was fon of Richard de Havering,
who fettled on him and his wife, in tail, gl. i os.
rent per ann. here and in Havering, and Bocking in
Effex. This lordfhip, on the diflblution, was granted
to Chrift college in Cambridge, and is now held of
that college.

Major General Skippon was pofTeffed of a confi-
derable freehold eftate in this town, which defcended
to his fon fir Philip, who married Amy daughter
and heir of Francis Brewfler, efq. of Wrentham in
Suffolk, by whom he had a fon, Philip, who died
unmarried, and was buried at Edwardefton in Suf-
folk, in 1716. His fecond wife, was Mary daugh-
ter of fir Thomas Barnardifton, of Kediton, by
whom he had a daughter, Mary, who married Jo-
feph Biand, efq. fecond fon of fir John Brand, of
Edwardeiton.

Skippon bore gules, five annulets, or. — Brewfler,
fable, a chevron, ermin, between three cftoils, ar-
gent. This came after to the Athills,

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The temporalities of Cokesford priory were 75.
6d.

Roger Scot, and Margaret his wife, conveyed
lands to John, prior, and the convent, in the sftth
of Henry III.

There is a hamlet belonging to this town called
Themilihorpe, and there was an ancient family of
that name, feveral of which were buried here. The
town, as royal demean, pleaded an exemption from
toll, Sec.

The church is a re&ory, dedicated to the Holy
Innocents : it was built by the lord Morley, and
confills of a nave, two ailes, and a chancel ; and
has a fquare tower, with five tuneable bells. It
was lately much damaged, with many houfes in the
parifh, by a terrible fire, but has been repaired fince
and ornamented, and is now a beautiful building.

On the north fide of the chancel is a monument
for fir Thomas Hunt, who is in armour, and his
three wives kneeling behind him :

Here lyelh interred the body of Sir Thomas Hunt,
knight, lord and patron of this church, who died Jan. 5,
1616, and gave lot. for ever, towards t/te maintenance
of the organs of this church ; 53$. 4^. for ever, to the
poor of Hildtrjlon in this county ; and sol. per ann. for
'ever, to the poor of the worjhipful company of jijh-
mongers, of London • and 535. ±d. for ever, to the
pear of the pari/h of St. Dunjian in the Eajl, London ;
<fnd 53.5. ^d. for ever, to the poor of Camberwell in
Surry : he had three wives ; Jirjl, Margaret, widow
of John Warner, of London, merchant ; the std, Jane,
widow of Thomas Grimes, Efq; the third, Dame Eliza-
beth,

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belli, widow of Sir Francis Cherry, yet living : He had
by Margaret 2 Jons, William Hunt, of Hilda fton, EJq;
Jon and heir ; and Nicholas, of London, merchant, bj
the providence of God, deceafed before him ; and thefe
arms:- per pale, vert and or, a faltire counter-
changed, on a canton, gules, a lion pafTant of the
sd. — impaling, gules, on a fefs. beLween four lys,
or ; — - or, three barrulets, gules ; — argent on a
fefs, between four barrulets, wavy, azure, three lys
of the firft.

In the chancel window are the arms of Parker,
lord Moiley, with his quarterings— Argent, a lion
paffant, gules, between two bars, fable, charged with,
three bezants, two and one, and as many bucks
heads, cabofhed in chief, of the gd ; — Parker, quar-
tering lord Morle'y, and barry, nebuly, of 6, or and
gules, Lovell ; — Azure, lion rampant, and feme of
lys, or, Holland ; — Gules, a bend, lozengy, or, Mar-
fhall ,- — Creft, a bear, fable, muzzled, or, fupporters,
two antelopes, argent, armed, chained and collared,
or.

Over the arch of the weft door of the church,
France and England quarterly, and the lord Morley,
argent, lion rampant, fable, crowned, or.

Here is a neat font of flone, with a wooden co-
ver, which opens below, and therein are the four
evangelifts painted.

In the church — Orate p. afab ;'Tho. Thymblcthorp
&! Johanne uxor. ej. qut obt. Feb. 25, 1526. — Orate p.
<zV'tf, Nichi. Jilii et hercdis Robti. Popi, gen.

In the windows vert, an efcutcheon, and orle of
martlets, argent, Erpingham, creft, on an helmet, a

chapeau,

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chapeair, or, and a bunch of oflrich feathers ilTuing
out of a ducal coronet, gules ; — cheque, or and ia-
ble, a fefs, argent, Thorpe and lord Scales.

In the church-yard is an altar monument of ftone,
about fix feet long, and about three feet high, and
round this is an infcripiion, which for the antiquity of
the letters, order, and difpofition of them, has been

engraven by the fociety of antiquaries, and is .

Rob. art. COL.LES. CEC.I.LY. HIS. VIF. Each let-
ter has a coronet over it.

Ful or Fol, gives name to many towns, as Ful-
liam, Fouldon, Foulmere.

The Rev. Mr. John Aflley. L. L. B. is the pre-

fent reflor, prefented by fir Edward Aflley, on the
death of Mr. Rice, in 1771, who loft, his parfonage
houfe, and was burnt out by the terrible fire men-
tioned before, in a late time of life.

FOXLEY. At the grand furvey, Alan, the great
earl of Richmond, was the capital lord of this ma-
nor, of which lord, a free man was deprived, and
Godiic, the king's fewer or bailiff, held ic under

Alan.

How it pafled from Godric, or when, does not
clearly appear, bur this, with many other lordfliips
held by him, fecm at his death to have efcheated to
the crown, and were granted by Henry II. to fir
William de Monte Canifio, or Montchenfy, grand-
ion of Hubert Montchenfy, who lived at the time
of the conqueft.

Sir Warine de Montchenfy held one fee here in
demean, in the reign of Henry III. and fir William

his

$8 HUNDRED OF

his fon, was found in the gd of Edward I. Anno
Domini 1275, to have free warren, and unjuftly
appropriated to him the faid liberties in Bawdefwell ;
he was alfo found to hold two fees here, and in
Cley, of the honor of Richmond, paying 2S. per ann.
taftle-guard to the honor of Richmond, which were
extended at 45!. per ann. and had view of frank-
pledge, affize of bread and beer, See. and in a roll of
gaol delivery at Norwich, before Richard Boyland,
and Hervey de Stanhow, and Robert Baynard,
knights, juftices in the nth of Edward I. feveral
malefactors were indicled for trefpafles in Foxley park.

This lord William left an only daughter and hei-
refs, Dionyfia, who married Hugh de Vere, a youn-
ger fon of Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, and dy-
ing without iffue, it defcended to Ado mare de Va-
kntia, earl of Pembroke, fon and heir of William
de Val-emia, earl of Pembroke, by Joan his wife,
lifter and heirefs of William lord Montchenfv ;
which faid Adomarc was found, in the 17th .of Ed-
ward' II. 13^3, to die poflelfed of it ; and the lady
Maud de St. Paul, his widow, held it in dower, at
whofe death, without iffue, it came by marriage of
Ifabel, (firft filler and eo-heir of Adomare de Va-
lentia) to John Haftings, lord Abergavenny.

John de Haftings, earl of Pembroke, lord of
Weysford, and de Bergavenny, by deed, dated March
a, in the 43d of Edward 111. conftituted Walter
Amyard, parfon of Framingham in Suffolk, &c. his
feoffees in truft for the manor of St. Florence,
and 40!. rent per ann. in the feignory of Caftle Mar-
tyn in Pembrokefhire in Wales, with the lordfhips of
Saxthorpe, Gooderftone, Holkham, and Burgh in
Norfolk, held in dower by Mary de St. Paul, coun-
tcfs of Pembroke. John Haftings, the laft of that

name,

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name, earl of Pembroke, dying without iflue, in the
i^th of Richard II. Reginald lord Grey, of Ru-
thyn, was found to be his coufin and heir, of the
whole blood, as lineally defcended from Elizabeth,
filler of John de Haftings, and daughter of John
de Haflings, lord of Abergavenny, by Ifabel, lifter
and co-heir to Adomare de Valencia, earl of Pem-
broke.

In this family, lords of Ruthyn, and earls of
Kent, it was in the 2oth of Henry. VII. 1504, when
George Grey, earl of Kent, left it to Richard his
Ion and heir, who wafted great part of his eltate in
gaming, Sec. and died in or about the 151!! of Henry
VII. at the George-inn, in Lombard- ft reet, London,
and was buried at the church of White Friers, in
Fleet-ftreet.

He fold this manor, with thofe of Sparham and
Bawdefwell, to fir Charles Somerfet, natural fon of
Henry Beaufort, duke of Somerfet, created lord Her-
bert of Gower, and of Chepftone, by Henry VII.'
and earl of Worcefter by Henry VIII. to whom lie
was lord chamberlain. By his will, dated March
21, 1524, he orders his body to be buried in the
collegiate church of Wind for, by his firft wife, in
the chapel of our Lady ; and if he died fo far off
that his body cannot be carried to Windfor in four
days, then to be buried in the next abbey or priory :
gives to his wife, Eleanor, fix hundred marks in
plate, and all his jewels, chains, &c. — to his fon
Henry, his harnefs and artillery ; — his goods to be
divided into three parts, one part to his fon Henry,
another to his fon George, and the third part to his
wife Eleanor ; — the manor of Brickhill, in Buck-
inghamlhire, to his feid wife for life, and after t<*
his (on George ; — his manor of Badmundesfcld, and

Roydon

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Boydon in Suffolk, with thofe of Foxley, Bawdef-
well and Sparham, which he bought of Richard
Grey, earl of Kent, to the faid wife, remainder to
the children and heirs of him and her.

About this time, this lordfhip was valued at 2^1.
per ann. and gs. whereof in rent relolute to the
king, sos. per ann. and the bailiff's fee 35. 8d.

Sir George Somerfet, third fon of fir Charles, earl
of Worcefter, lord of this manor, mairicd Mary
daughter and heir of fir Thomas Boreley, of Pen-
how in Monmouthfhire, knt. he lived at Wickham-
Brook jn Suffolk. On an inquifition taken pq/l mor-
tem, June 6, in the 2d of queen Elizabeth, 1560,
he was found to die on May 10, laft paft, leaving
Charles his fon and heir, aged 24, who married
Elizabeth daughter of fir George Griefley, of Colton
in Staffordfhire.

After this, it. was poffeffcd by fir William Cordel,
of Long Melford in Suffolk, eldeft fon of John Cor-
del, efq. of Long Melford, (fecond fon of Edmund
Cordel, efq. of Edmundton in Middlefex) by Emma
or Eve, daughter of Henry Wcbbe, of Kimbohon
in Huntingdonfhirc.

Sir William was bred a lawyer, was fpeaker of the
parliament, privy councillor, and mailer of the rolls
to queen Mary. He married Mary daughter and
heir of Richard Clopton, of Caflelyns in Groten,
Suffolk, by Mary his wife, daughter and heir ef fir
Richard Bozun, of Lincolnfhire, knt. but died with-
out ifiue, on May 17, in the agd of Elizabeth, and
was buiied in the church of Long Melford, under a
fair tomb, having founded an ahns-houfe in the faid

town,

EYNSFORD. 31

tcnvn, and endowed it well in diet and cloaths for
the poor.

On his death it came to Francis, his fecond bro-
ther, who died before he had livery of it ; then to
Edmund, his third brother, who died without ifTue,
and fo it defcended to Joan, their fifler and heir,
married to Richard Allingfon, efq. fecond fon of fir
Giles Allington, of Horfeheath in Cambridgefhire.
The faid Joan dying January 4, in the firift year
of James I. left two daughters and co-heirs ; Mary,
who married fir John Savage, of Clifton in Chefhire.
Sir Thomas Savage was their fon, created vifcount
Savage, and father of John, who was created earl
Rivers, and fold his right in this lordfhip, Bawdef-
weli and Sparham, to fir Ralph Winwood, of Dit-
ton-Park, in Bucks, fecretary of flate, and privy
counfelior to James I.

The other daughter and co-heir, Cordelia, mar-
ried fir John Stanhope. Philip, their fon and heir,
was earl of Chefterfield, who fold his right or mot-?
ety in the aforefaid lordfhip, to fir Ralph Winwood
abovementioned ; and Richard Winwood, fon and
heir of fir Ralph, conveyed them to Alexander Pit-
field, efq. in Crofby-fquase, London, who fold it
to Edward Lomb, efq. of Wefton, in 1700, who
prefented in 1712. From the Lombs it came to
John Hafe, efq. who prefented in 1747, by Mary
his mother, lifter and heir to John Louib, clerk, and
wife of the late Mr. John Hale, of Eafl Dereham.

The church of Foxley is a reclory, dedicated to
St. Thomas ; and is covered with lead, the chancel
thatched. In the tower, which is four fquare, hang
three bells.

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In the church window the arms of Grey, earl of
Kent, quartering Valence and Haftings, earls oi
Pembroke. — Ermine, a bend, compony, argent and
fable Curfon ; quartering gules, two lions pafiant,
ermine, crowned, or, Felton. — gules, three piles, or.

The Rev. Edward Athill was prefented to this rec-
tory in 1763 by Mrs. Mary Hafc, widow.

GUIST, orGEIST. Walter Giffard, earl of
Bucks, was the principal lord of this town, which was
held by five free men, who were deprived of it.

Sir Ralph de Geifl was lord in the reign of king
Henry II. and his fon Eborard gave this lordfhip,
with the advowfon of the church, to the abbey of
Waltham. Eborard married Alianore, or Julian,
daughter of Reginald de St. Martin, hy whom he
had Roger de Geift, who confirmed the faid grant ;
alfo a fon Jeffrey, who gave lands in Norton to the
monaftery of Broomholm, called alfo Jeffrey Turpin
de Geift. Pope Innocent confirmed to the canons
of Waltham, their right in the churches of St. An-
drew of Guift, of All Saints Geiflhorpe, and St. Pe-
ter's of Gueftwick, given to them by Eborard afore-
faid, with the confcnt of Roger and Richard, Sec.
his fons, for the foul of king Henry II. Hubert,
archbifhop of Canterbury, and John of Oxford, bi-
fhop of Norwich, granted them licence to appropri-
ate the fame.

Henry III. in his 3yth year, granted them free-
vrarren in all their lands in Norfolk, return of writs,
view of frank-pledge, to be free from the fherift's
turn, &c.

EYNS'FORD. 33

At the diflblution it came to the crown, and was
granted, with the advcnvfon of the vicarage and ap-
propriated reclory, to Robert and Giles Townfliend,
cfqrs. Dec. 13, in the 36th of Henry VIII. younger
fons of fir Roger Townfhend, of Rainham inx Nor-
folk; and in 1564, Thomas Townfhend, efq. pre-
fented to the vicarage, as did Roger Townfhend,
gent, in 1577 and 1582.

CALEY'S-HALL, or SOUTH-HALL. Simon de Hemp-
flcde by deed, in the reign of Henry III. granted
to William de Cayley, fon of William de Caylcy,
of Heacham in Norfolk, and Cecil his wife, and
their heirs, this mefluage called South-hall, in the
town of Gilderi-Geift, with common of pafture.
fifhery, foldage, and the moiety of his homage and
tenements in Guift, Stibbard, Norton, Sec. with the
wards and reliefs of his tenants, to be held of him
and his heirs, paying to the prior of Walfmgham
35!. perann. and as. to him, and doing fuit to Foul-
(ham court.

In the 5£d of Henry III. Hugh de Caley, and
Agnes his wife, conveyed to Alan, prior 01 Wai-
iin^ham, two acres and an half of meadow : and

O *

Agnes, in the 14th of Edward I. was found to have
view of frank-pledge, aflife of bread and beer here
and in Gueftwick.

John Sproo, fon of Richard Sproo, was lord of
South-hall in Gilden-Geift, in the 131!! of Rich. II.
and Nicholas Wychingham appears by his will in,
1 434, to die pofleifed of it, with a water-mill.

John Banyard, efq. of Norwich, by his will dated
in 1474, March 26, and proved June 7, gives his
manor of South-hall in Guift to Ann his wife, for

C her

34 HUNTDREDOF

her life, after to be fold by her executors, and the
money to be diflributed to pious ufes.

After this, Roger Drury, of Hawftcd in Suffolk,
and Ann his wife, had an interefl herein.

In the 6th of Edward VI. by an inquifition taken
May 31, Edward Briggs, of Woodnorton, gent, was
found to die feifed of it on January 25 laft part, and
by Catherine his wife, daughter of Edward docket,
efq. left George his fon and.heir, aged 2 1 , and George
was lord in the 41 ft of Elizabeth.

From Briggs it came to William Hunt, efq. and
Margaret his widow, daughter of George Briggs, who
held it in the soth of Charles I.

Thomas Hunt, efq. her fon and heir, was lord,
who fold it to the lady Aftley, widow of fir Ifaac
Aftley, and (lie gave it to Mr. Caftell of Ormeiby,
who fold it to Mr. James Norris, of Norwich.

LUTON FEE, or GEIST-REGIS MANOR. Jeffrey de
Save held in the beginning of the reign of Henry
III. lol. rent of affife per ann. in Guift, Gueftwick,
Bintry, Foulfham, Norton, Sec. and in the 15th of
Edward I. the jury find that John de Save, a Nor-
man, held it, and that it efcheated to the crown, and
king Henry granted it to Alice de Luton, nurfe to
his fon prince Edward, in his 2 8th year, for her life,
and that Thomas Gerbridge then pofleffed it, but
by what warrant they know not: and in the ift of
Edward III. John Gerbridge was found to hold half
a fee here, &c. and fir Thomas Gerbridge in the
33th of Henry IV.

EYNSFORD. 3^

On December 13, in the 36th of Henry VIII. fir
Robert Townfhend had a grant of Luton Fee manor,
and on an inquifition taken at Norwich, April 26,
in the 3<1 and 4th of Philip and Mary, he was found
to die Feb. 8, laft pad, feifed of it, held of the
king in capite, by the fixtieth part of a fee, and of
Svvanton's manor in Fouifham, held of that manor
in foccage, with Foxley's manor in Twiford, held of
the lord Morley, and of the manor of Fouifham,
and left by Alice his wife, daughter of Robert Pop-
py, efq. to Thomas his fon and heir, who in the
1 1 th or Elizabeth pafTed it to Rowland Hey ward,
Sec. John Grime, efq. held it in the 38th of Eliza-
beth, and John Grime, gent, had licence to alien
it, in the yth of James I. to Thomas Oxburgh.

Hagon, who was one of the Conqueror's reeves,
or bailiffs , who managed and took care of his lands
and lordfhips, had one hundred acres of land in
Giiift.

This came foon after to Walter Giffard, earl of
Bucks, and fo was united to his fee or lordfhip, and
fo to the earls of Clare.

The Wiggetts were for many years pofTefTed of a
confiderable efbte in this parifh, and which remain-
ed in the family till 1763, when William Wiggett
Bulwcr, of Heydon, efq. under an act of parliament,
fold all his lands and meffuages here.

In 1580, John Wiggett and Agnes his wife were
feifed of lands in Guift, as was alfo Roger Wiggett
in 1,590, who was fucceeded by Peter his fon and
heir, who married Alice, youngeft daughter of Si-
mon Bulwer, of Wood-Dailing, by Joan, daughter
of Peter Alleyn: he was fucceeded by Henry, and
C a he

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he by William, who married the 2oth of Oflober,

1616, Ann, daughter of Sherringham, by

xvhorn he had feven fons, William, John, Thomas,
James, Henry, Peter, and Robert.

John, the fecond fon, was citizen and alderman of
Norwich, and dying in 1692, was buried in Whit-
well church, under a marble flone, with this infcrip-
tion :

Dcpofitum

Johannes Wiggett. Civis 6" Aldermanni Norwici,
(Filii natu Jecundi Gulidmi Wiggett de Geijl, in agro

JVorfolcienfi)

Quijine prole obiit tertio die Oclobris,
An. Dom. 1692. JLt. face 73.

James, the fourth fon, was baptized at Guift the
3oth of March, 1624. — By his firft wife he had one
fon, John, who died in the 72d year of his age un-
married. By his fecond wife, daughter of = —

Brooke, he had one daughter, Mary, now living,
and two fons: William, the eldefl, was chofen al-
derman of the city of Norwich in 1733, fheriff in
1735, and mayor in 1742: he died Jan. i, 1768,
in the 74th year of his age, leaving Ann his fole
daughter and heir, who married Thomas Lobbe
Chute, of Pickenham, efq. by whom flie has fcvtral
children.

James Wiggett, of Norwich, gent, the fecond fon,
married Frances, the youngeft daughter of Charles
Mackcrell, gent, by whom he had iifuc.

Peter was alderman of Norwich, and fheriff in
1671 : he died July 22, 1677, and lies buried in St.
£imon and Jude's church in Norwich, leaving a

daughter

E Y N S F O R D. 37

diughter, Sufan, who married Thomas Avde, of
Horftead.

Robert Wiggctt, of Guift, gent, the youngeft and
fcventh fon, born in 1632, married Dorothy, daugh-
ter of Rice Wicks, gent, by whom he had one fon,
Rice, and a daughter, Frances, who died in the igth
year of her age, and lies buried by her father and
mother in the chancel of the parifli church of Guift,
where a marble monument is ereded to their memo-
ries.

Rice Wiggett, of Gueftwick, efq. only fon and
heir, ferved the office of high fherirf for the county
ot Norfolk, and dying Sept. i, 1749, in the Gad
year of his age, was interred near his father at Guift.
to whofe memory a mural monument is ere&ed on
the fouth fide of the chancel.

He married Sarah, the eldefl daughter of William
Buhvcr, of Wood-Dalling, efq. by Frances his wifer
by whom he had five fons and two daughters, all
which died young, except the prefent William Wig-
gett Bulwer, of Heydon, efq, who took the name
and arms of Bulwer, agreeable to the will of his un-
cle, William Bulwer, of Wood-Dalling, efq.

The church of Guift is dedicated to St. Andrew,
and there was a chapel belonging to it, called Geii-
thorpe chapel, dedicated to All Saints, a hamlet be-
longing to Guift. It was anciently a rectory, after
that appropriated to the abbey of Waltham in Ef-
fex, and a vicarage was fettled.

James de Ferentino, dean of Holt deanry, and
pro£lor of the archdeacon of Norwich, and the ab-
bot and convent of Waltham, in the vacancy of the
C3 fee

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fee of Norwich, came to this agreement, that the ab-
bot and convent fhould yearly grant to the vicar o-f
Guift and Gueflhorpe two marks, viz. one at Eafter,
and the other at St. Michael, and to have all the al-
tarage of the faid church and chapel, but was to
bear and pay all ecclefiaftical dues to the bifhop and
archdeacon ; and to keep a refident chaplain for the
chapel of Gueflhorpe; dated on the gth of the ca-
lends of November, 1238: after this the tithes of
the third part of the church of Norton, to the value
of five marks per ann. were granted to this vicar,
inftcad of the aforefaid two marks.

In the church a gravc-flone for — Robert \Yich,
Gent, who died Aug. 31, 1369, and gave out of his
lands here, to the repair of the church and the poor, 20.5.
per ann. for ever,

William Warner, buried here, 1529, and gives to the
nether church in Geifte 135. 4^. and to the over church
in Geijle ioJ.

The Rev. John Knipe was prefented to this vica-
rage and chapel of Guift with Gueflhorpe, in 1755,
by the crown, by lapfe.

GUESTWICK, GEYSTWEVT, or GF.ISTWICK.
Walter Giffard's manor, as mentioned in Guift, ex-
tended into this town, and befides the lordfhip held
of that fee, as mentioned there, which was after held
of the honour of Clare, as defcending from the Gif-
fards, form de Norton had a lordfhip in the 34th
of Henry III. and conveyed then to Agnes de Ratlef-
den, fixty acres of land here; and John, fon of
John Wodenorton, was living in the 14th of Edw. I.
r hi lip de Norton was lord in the gth of Edward
II. and found to hold here, and in Norton, half a
fee of Richard Fitz- Simon, who held of the earl of

Clare :

EYNSFORD. 39

Clare: and in the 13th of Richard II. William dc
Norton appears from th^ e fell eat rolls to die pofieffed
of one meffuage, one hundred and fixty acres of
land, twelve of wood, eighteen of meadow, twenty
of pafture, and the rent of 505. in Guift, Guefthorpe,
Hindolvefton, 8cc. of the honour of Clare.

In the nth of Henry VIII. John Murdock, and
^oan his wife, conveyed by fine to Robert Poppy,
three mefTuages, two hundred and fourteen acres of
land in Gueflwick, Guift, Hindolvefton, See.

The Stewards had foon after an intereft here; and
Roie Steward, widow, prefented to this vicarage in
1555: fhe was a daughter of Robert Brown, of
Shelton in Norfolk, late wife of Jeffrey Steward, of
Gueftwick, fon of Richard Steward of Upwell, by
Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Cofyn of Up-
well ; and Richard was fon of Nicholas Steward of
the faid town. Jeffrey had by Rofe his wife a fon.
Arthur Steward, efq. of Gueftwick, who married
Alice, daughter of William Worfley, of Norwich ;
of this family was William Steward, efq. who lived
here in 1655, and was a juftice of the peace: but
their interelt in this lordfhip and advowfon was in
1609 in Roger Bulwer, who prefented then to the
vicarage, as did Edward Bulwer, jun. gent, in 1705,
and Edward Bulwer in i 7 24 ; in which family the
patronage and lordfhip now continues, William
Wiggett Bulwer, efq. in i 764, lord, who changed his
name on his uncle Bulwer's grant to him of this ma-
nor, 8cc. with the patronage of the church.

The church has a nave, with a north and fouth
aile, covered with lead ; the chancel and fouth ailc
are tiled ; the north door has no porch, but an en-
tire holy water-pot is in the wall on the weft fide.
C4 The

40 HUNDRED OF

The fite of the fteeple may feem particular, as
it now (lands at the eaft end of the north aile, join~
ing to the chancel, built of Hunftanton rock Hone;
but it is to be obfervecl, that this belonged to the old
church, built in a cathedral or conventual manner,
and fo was in the midfl between the nave and choir,
with arches to pafs through ; in this Iquare tower
hangs one bell ; there were two more, which were
fold in i 733.

In a window of the fouth aile is the portraiture
of a phyfician adminiftering phyfic to a perfbn fick
in bed, and this, In Jiknes 1 pyne — Trojl in God, and

here is medicine. Alfo a perfon naked, and — For

colde I quake. Alfo a woman bringing things, —

Have here clothes and warm to make.

The portraiture of St. John, S'cs Johannes, and
thefe arms ; ermin, a chief indented, gules, Brome ;
and argent on a bend, gules, three mullets, or, im-
paling Brome, probably the builders of this aile.

A grave-flone with Orate p. a? a. Johis. At hylk
cujus die, <bc.

In the window of the north aile is reprefented the
martyrdom of St. Edmund the king, by the Danes
fhooting him, &x. and their own king or leader fall-
ing down dead before him ; alfo a repretentation of
the circumcifiOn : a boat by the fea-fhore ; a man
lying dead on the fhore, a king and feveral perfons
viewing the body, with a woman in a red habit,
and underneath, Hicjacet corpus Jacobi Sup. Collem;
a benefador to, or builder of this aile;

In the chancel is a black marble Hone, with this
epitaph :

'Edward

E Y N S F O R D. 44

Edward Bulwer, of this parijli, Efq; defcendedftom
a family of good antiquity and repute in this county: he
left, behind him Jive children, vii. Edward, John, Willi-
am, Elizabeth, and Mary, by Ann his only wife, who alfo
lietk here interred: he died April 23, .16^7, aged 74,
Jhe December 8, 1700, atat. 74. — His Jon William hath
thus endeavoured to perpetuate his name to posterity .

A flone, In memory of Ann, wife of Edward Bulwer,
Gent, died zythjan. 1604.

One, In memory of Edward Bulwer, Gent, heir ap-
parent of Roger Bulwtr, Gent. He was patron of this
church, died April 6, 1626, aged 64.

Another, In memory of William Bulwer, Gent. late.
of Wood-Dai ling, third Jon of Edward Bulwer, Efq;
late of this panjh, died Feb. 10, 1735, aged 76.

In the chancel, on a grave-ftone, Hie jacet Roge-
rus Bulwer, generofus, hujus ccdcfic patronus, otfoginta
annos natus, ob. 16 Julij, 1616.

Adjoining, another;

Chrifiiana fuo jacet hie viciaa marito,

Nunc confors tumuli, qua Juit ante Tori.
Sexaginta et ododecem annos nata, obijt vicefimo
Oclavo die Junij An. DnL 1615.

The chief manor, and impropriated re£lory, be*
longs to Mr. Bulwer.

In i 7 14 the Rev. Edward Bulwer was prefented to
this vicarage by Edward Bulwer, efq. of Wood-
Dalling; in 1724 th<»Rev. William Allen by ditto;
and the Rev. Edward Athill had it April 6, 1 764.

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HACKFORD, or HAKEFORD, was one of the
lordfhips of the earl Warren, of which Wither, a
free man, was deprived ; and Turold held it under
the faid earl. It came to the earl by an exchange
of lands at Lewes in Suifex.

Robert de Vallibus or Vaux, the youngeft fon of
three brothers, who came over with the Conqueror,
to feek their fortunes, was enfeoffed of this lordfliip,
and feveral others by the earl Warren, and was fa-
ther of William, whofe fon Robert is faid to have
had feven fons : William, the eldeft, dying without
ifTue, was fucceeded by his brother, fir Oliver de
Vaux, who by Petronilla his wife, daughter of Henry
de la Mere, had three fons : Robert, who died
young ; William, the fecond, 'lying without iffue,
the inheritance came to the third brother, fir John
de Vaux, who paid to Henry III. the fine due to
him of twenty-four marks, for his brother William's
marrying Alianora de Ferrers, daughter of William dc
Ferrers, earl of Derby, without the king's licence.

Sir John, in the 5th year of Edward I. had u
grant of a weekly market on Saturday, and a
fair on the eve, day, and morrow of the feaft of St.
Peter and St. Paul, in his manor of Reepham, this
lordfhip extending into that town ; and claimed the
affize of bread and beer, 8cc. in the 14th of that
king, and died feifed of it in the i6th, leaving two
daughters and co-heirs ; Petronilla, married to fir
William de Narford, and Maud, to fir William de
Roos, lord of Hemlake, who had nineteen knights
fees with her ; and this manor was found to be
held of the earl Warren by half a fee.

In this family it continued till the attainder of
Thomas lord Roos, in the ifl of Edward IV. who

being

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being after taken -at the battle of Hexham, was
beheaded at Newcaftle upon Tyne. Edmund his
fon, was reftored in blood, in the fiift of Hen. VII.
and dying Oft ober 23, 1508, was buried at Enfield,
leaving four fillers and co-heirs ; Alianore, married
to fir Robert Manners, of Ethale-caftle in Northum-
berland ; Ifabel, married to fir Thomas Level, knight
of the garter, lord prefident of the council to Henry
VII. who died at Enfield, May 25, 1524, and bu-
ried in the nunnery of Holywell by London, June
Sth following ; and Margaret and Joan.

Sir Robert Manners, in right of his wife, was
lord of it, as was his fon, George lord Roos, whofe
grandfon, Henry earl of Rutland, and the lady Mar-
garet his wife, conveyed ic to Thomas Lodge, efq.
in the ift and 2d of Philip and Mary. Soon after
it came to the Heydons, and fir Chriftopher Hey-
don prefented to the church as lord in 1563 ; and
Thomas Hunt, efq. in 1589, and 1602, and Wil-
liam Hunt, fon of Thomas, in 1633, as lord.

The church of Hackford was a re&ory, dedicated
to All Saints.

The Rev. Stephen Buckle was prefented to the
rcclory of " Hakeford, alias Reepham, with the vi-
carage of Whitwell," in 1758, by Mr. George Hunt
Holley.

The town is called Hackford by Reepham, and
fometimes in old Writings, Reepham-Hackford, to
diflinguifti it from Hacktord by Hingham, and both
take their names from a ford over a rivulet, Hackford,
Hakeford, or Akeford.* The original name was
Hackford only, the principal town, called Hackford,

the
* Parkin,

44 * HUNDRED OF

the market, Hackford-market, and the inhabitants
in the time of the grand rebellion, refufed to billet
a party of Oliver Cromwell's troops, becaufe in the
route brought by the commanding officer the town
was called Reifham, and not Hackford.

HEVERINGLAND, vulgo HEVERLAND, called in
Doomfday-book, Hevcrin<ralanda, from its fcite by
\vatry meadows, was the lordfhip of Goodwin earl
of Kent, (though ftiled a free man only) and father
of king Harold. It was granted by William I. to
Rainald, fon of Ivo, lord at the furvey.

Heveringland is the mo ft eaftern town of Eynf-
ford hundred, and Billingfbrd the mod weflern. It
is nine miles from the city of Norwich to the north-
weft.

HEVERINGLAND MANOR. This was the principal
lordfhip, and the family of de Gifneto, or Gifne, or
Gyney, was foon after the conqueft enfeofFed of it,
who probably took their name from the town of
Guifn, near Calais in France. Sir William de Gy-
nan to was witnefs to the deed of confirmation of
Jeffrey, fon of Bartholomew, fon of William de
Glanvile, founder of Bromholm priory. Roger de
Gyney lived alfo about the faid time, (in the reign
of Her.ry II.) and was father of Reginald, reclor of
the church of Heveringland in the time of king
John.

Baldwin de Gifney was living in the 8th year of
that king, and granted his right in the church of
Witchingham, to the prior of Longuevile ; by
Maud his wife, he was father of Roger de Gifneia,
lord of this manor in the iSth of Henry III. held
of jhe honor of Glouceftor and Clare, and extended

into

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into Witchingham, Whitwell, Kerdcfton, Sec. This

Roger levied a fine in the 33d of that king, to Be-

•ringarius, prior of St. Faith's of Horfham, the ad-

vowfon of this church, and married Joan, daughter

of , After and co-heir of fir Peter de Pelevile,

(who re-married fir John de Vaux) and by her had
iar William de Gyney, his fon and heir, and fir Ro-
ger, who married Margaret, daughter of William
Peche. and in her right was lord of Brandifton. Sir
William had a park, not enclofed, in the common
paflure of Cawfton, and had drove fome cattle of
John de Burgk, lord of Cawilon, that had entered
therein, to his manor of Heveringland ; on which
there was a trial, and it was adjudged that he ought
to inclofe it. In the 55th of the faid king, he had
a charter of free warren, and in the 12th of Ed-
ward I. impleaded Adam de Heveringland for en-
tering therein, and taking his hares, rabbits, par-
tridges, and fifh, out of his ponds. By Margaret
his wife, he left fir Roger, his fon and heir, who in
the 15th of Edward I. claimed frank-pledge, afnfe
of bread and beer, &:c. and in the sgth of that king
had fummons to attend the king at Berwick againfl
the Scots ; and in the gth of Edward II. was lord of
Pickworth in Rutlandshire.

He was fucceeded by fir William his fon, lord in
the i6th of Edward II. who was father of fir Ro^er

Gvnev, by Elizabeth his wile.
/ / ' /

Sir Roger occurs lord in the sift of Edward III.
in which year he had a grant of a weekly market,
(long fince difcontinued) and of a fair on the loth
of Auguft, (St. Laurence's day) which is ftill kept
up. He married to his firft wife, Elizabeth, and to
his fecond, Margaret : his will is dated at Dilham,
April 6, 137^, and requires to be buried in that

46 HUNDRED OF

church ; appoints Margaret his wife executrix, gives
to John, his fon, this manor, with that of Dilham,
after his wife's deceafe, and the manor of Spixworth
when he came of age.

Margaret his widow was living in the reign of
Richard II. and lady of this manor ; and John Gy-
ncy kept a court here in the 22d of Richard II. and
by the name of fir John, made his will in 1422 ;
gives his body to be buried in the church of the Au-
gufline Friers of Norwich, by the grave of his fon
Roger ; orders his manor of Pickworth to be fold to
fir Henry Inglofe. The lady Alice his wife, ac-
cording to her will, dated September 30, in the ijth
of Henry VI. was buried in the church of the {aid
Friers, and gave a tenement in the parifh of St.
Paul, in Norwich, to the Friers to pray for his foul.

Robert Gyney, brother and heir (as we fuppofe)
to fir John, fucceeded him : he married Margaret,
daughter and heir of fir John Faflolf, relict of John
Honing, by whom fhe had a daughter, Margaret,
married to Robert Bois, efq. of Ingham ; and by
Gyney had a daughter and heir, Ann, who married
fir Henry Inglofe, lord in her right in the i/th of
Henry VI. by his will, dated June 20, 1451, he
deviles his manors of Dilham, Loddon, &c. to
Henry his fon and heir, who was lord in the yth of
Henry VII.

Edward his fon, fold this lordfhip to William
Halfe, of Kenedon in Devonfhire, elq. in the 2oth
of Henry V. Thomas Halfe, his fon and heir, was
living in the 3;th of that king. William Halfe was
found to be his brother and heir, and had livery of
this manor in the 3d and 4th of Philip and Mary :
by his wife Mary, daughter of John, and filler of

fir

EYNSFORD. 47

fir Thomas Cornwaleys (after re-married to Richard
Warren, gent, of Ipfwich) he had three daughters
and co-heirs, Margaret, Caiherine, and Elizabeth,
who foon after their father's death, conveyed their
intereft herein to Miles Corbet, efq. and Ofbert
Mundeford, efq. in the i ft of Elizabeth ; Mary,
then1 mother, having her third part for life : and
thev in the faid year conveyed it to fir Chriftophes
Haydon, and Henry Hobart, efq. whofe Ion and
heir, James Hobart, of Hales-hall, efq. pafTed his
right to fir Chriftopher, who was lord of this manor,
that of Bilney, or Holvefton's and Montjoy priory,
in this town, in the 8th of Elizabeth.

Sir Chriftopher, in the 151)1 of the faid queen,
fold to Thomas Gawdy, of Claxton, ferjeant at law.
this lordfhip, and that of HolveftoiVs, in the i;th
of that reign, who conveyed them to Henry Richers,
of Swannington, and Edmund his fon, who in th^
nth of that queen, fold them to Thomas Hyrnc,
knighted at Greenwich, July 3, 1609 ; citizen, al-
derman, and mayor of Norwich in 1604, 1609, and
1616 ; foil of Clement Hyrne, elq. mayor in 1593,
by Margaret his wife, daughter of John Wyffe, ai d
relicl of Mautby, gent, of Norwich, and Cle-
ment was fon of Nicholas Hyrne, of Drayton, gent.

Sir Thomas was fheriff of Norfolk in the i Sth of
James I. and by Sibilla his wife, daughter of Rich-
ard Baker, of Cambridgeshire, was father of Cle-
ment Hyrnc, efq. who married two wives, Ann,
daughter and heir of John Thurfton, of Hoxne in
Suffolk, efq. and Mary, daughter of fir John Knt-
vet. By Ann he had Thomas Hyrne, efq. who kit
by Ann, his wife, daughter and co-heir of William
Hobart, of Thwayte, efq. relicl of Nicholas Bacon,
fun qf fir Robert Bacon, Clement, his fon and heir,

who

48 HUNDRED OF

\vho took to wife, Frances, daughter of Henry Fair-
fax, lord vifcount Fairfax, of Giiling in Yorkfhire,
and died September 17, 1694, aged 84.

Thomas Hyrne, efq. his fon and heir fucceeded
him, and married the lady Charlotte Pafton, daugh-
ter of William Pafton, earl of .Yarmouth, by whom
he left a fon, the late Pafton Hyrne, efq. of Hever-
ingland : he fucceeded to the eflate on the deceafe of
his father, OcT:. 30, 1736.

The late Pafton Hyrne was a gentleman greatly
efteemed: he had a fine perfon, and a commanding
addrefs, which made him diftinguifhed in all compa-
nies. As he was admired by moft, fo was he as
perfonally beloved : the firft families in the county
courted his friendfhip, and indeed he was of the firft
family himfelf, being grandfon to the earl of Yar-
mouth, to a part of whofe eftate he fucceeded in
right of his mother, though not to the title, which
became extinct. He was an excellent and under-
ftanding magiftrate, and had a pleafing manner in
adminiftering juftice. At 60 years of age, or near
it, he accepted a commiflion of captain in the Nor-
folk militia, commanded by the earl of Orford, by
whom he was much refpecled, and in the memorable
year of 1759, that glorious period of the Britifh an-
nals! he marched at the head of his company to
Portfmouth, on the profpeft of a French invafion,
and was lodged in the governor's houfe. He was at
that time ill, and did not long furvivc, dying in
1762, univerfally lamented.

He left this eftate of Heveringland, a beautiful
fituation, to his daughter, whofe hufband was to take
the name of Hyrne. She married a younger fon of
fir Everard Buckworth, bait, the prefent Everard

Buckworth

EYNSFORD. 97

of fir Thomas Guybon, of Thursford, and this fa-
mily prefented in 1740.

The Hails defcend from Thomas Holt, of Heigham
by Norwich, gent, who died in ihe 4th and 5th of
Philip and Mary, and left Thomas his fon and heir.

The church is a reclory, dedicated to St. Nicho-
las, and is a fmgle pile without a fteeple, but there

is a fhed in the church-vard for three bells.

In the church — Orate p. a fa. IJabdle Poppy nup.
uxor. Rokerti Curfon, que obt. 1497.

Sacred to the memory of Henry Framingham, ejq. who
by his lajl will gave looo/. to endow an Iwfpital for ten
poor men in Lynn Regis, of which town he was twicz
mayor, as he was alfo highjhcriff of the county of Nor-
folk: he departed this life November 29, 1710, in the
f^d year of his age. Here alfo lyelh the body of Bridget

his wife, who died March 2, 1712, aged 78. This

monument was creeled by Dame Johanna Seaman, wife of
Sir Peter Seaman, only child and heir to her father.

The late Rev. Thomas Gregory was prefented to
this re&ory by Catherine Moll, Chriftopher Andrew
and Augufline Holl, in I 749, on whofe deceafe the
Rev. Mr. Flacke was prefented by Mr. Quailes of
Foulfham, who purchafed the patronage of Mr.
Auguftine Holl.

The town takes its name from fome ftrcam or ri-
vulet, called anciently the Twy ; thus Twyford in
Hampfhire, Leicefterfhire, 8cc. Tvvywell in North-
amptonfhire, Twyvenon in SomerfetQiire, 8cc. or
from two flreams or rivulets.*

G WESTON.

* P.rkin.

r 8 HUNDREDOF

WESTON, or WESTO::-LONGUEVILLE. The prin-
cipal part of this town was' a beruite to William de
Seohles's lordfhip of Witchinpjiam, granted to him
on the deprivation of Hardewin, a free man, \vlio
was lord of it in king Edward's time.

LONGUEVILLE'S MANOR. William de Scohies,
vho was a Norman, and not a Scot, /old all his
lordfiiips in England, in the reign of Henry I. to
Walter GifiFard, the fecond earl of Buckingham,
nho granted this, with the tithe of his demean, and
the church, to the priory of Longuevillc in Nor-
mandy, of their foundation, and where Waiter his
father was buried. From the Gilfards it came to the
earls of Clare.

King Edward III. in his wars with France, feized
on this manor, as a priory aliened, and it remained
in the crown till Henry VI. on September 1 2, in
his J5th year, gave it to Winchcfter (or New) college
in Oxford ; and Walter Hill, cuflos of that college,
in the 6th of Edward IV. when the manor of Tye-
hall and Aldenham's, paid quit-rents to this manor,
that had the leet of the town.

TYE-HALL ; fo called from the family of dc Tye,
or Atie Eye, that is, at the water or ifland.

Sir Peter de Tye was lord of it in the i ith of
Edward III. when a fine was levied of lands in
Weflon, conveyed to him by Nicholas Malyfel, and
Sibilla his wife, probably fon of Peter Atte Eye,
who was fummoned in the ijlh of Edward II. to a
great council of the prelates, earls, barons, &c.

Sir Robert, fon of fir Peter de Tye, on his paf-
fage beypnd fea, made his will at Bafham, in the

6th

£ Y N S F O R ft. 99

6th of Richard II and defires his feoffees to enfeof
his wife Elizabeth of the manor of Bnfham and. ad-
vovvfon of Keffingland, with his lar.ds in Mitford
and Wangford hundreds for life, except the mea-
dows called the Park, in Bafham, which he gives to
Robert Charles, as it was oidaincd bv feoffees ; his
manors of Cretingharn, Lenwade and Tittlefliall, his
feoffees to take poffeffion of till Dionyfia his daugh-
ter arrive to fourteen years old, then to marry her,
and give her two hundred marks portion ; the ma-
n >rs then to go to his fon or fons to be born, his
wife being then with child; but if fhe fhall have

daughters, and no fon, then the eldeft daughter to

O O

have the manors of Bafham and Keffingland, with
Lenwade and TittleQiall, and lands in Norfolk.

William Rookwood, fen. efq. xvas lord in the
2oth of Elizabeth; and in the 22d of that queen,
he and Alice (ihcn his wife) entered into covenants
on the marriage of his fon William with Manraret,

O O

daughter of Henry D'Oyly, who wrs to pay fix hun-
dred marks as a portion for his daughter. .

This William was living in the 4th of James I.
and was father of Henry Rookwood, efq. of Wefton,
who married in the laid year Sufan, daughter of
Anthony Drury, efq. of Beflhorpe in Norfolk : he
was living in 1647, anc^ na(^ DX Margaret his wife,
daughter of Charles Suckling, of Wootton in Nor-
folk, Henry his fon and heir, who died unmarried,
Oclober 1 1 , 1718, and was buried in Wefton church,
fo that Thomas his brother was his heir, and by
Mary, daughter of George Thurlow of Hetheifct,
was father of Wm. Rookwood, efq. lord in 1720.

After this it was conveyed to John Cuftance, efq.

alderman of Norwich, in 1726, and his grandfon,

G 2 John

JOO

HUNDRED OF

John Cuftance, efq. is the prefent proprietor, and
refkles at his feat here.

The river Yar, or Yare, parts it from Lenwade.

ALDENHAM'S MANOR, and LENWADE'S. In the
4oth of Edward III. Ifabel, daughter of William
Ode of Wefton, late citizen of Norwich, confirmed
to John de Derby, reclor of Wefton, &c. a meflu-
age there, formerly John AldenhanVs, with lands, £:c.

This afterwards came- to John de Stratton, and
continued in the lords of Tye-hall till William Rook-
wood, fen. and William his fon, fold it in the reign
of -queen Elizabeth to Robert Rofe, or Rofs, but in
the 3d of James I. Robert Rofe, in confideration of
466!. 135. 4d. fold to Thomas Southwell, fen. his
heath and (beep-walk, called Aldenham's.
• '• '-.* • -

Lenwade feems to have been an hamlet to Wef-
ton, and to have given name to the bridge there over
the river.

LIONS MANOR. Ralph de Lions, and William dc
Lions, were lords, and mentioned in the grant of
Walter Giffard, the fecond earl of Buckenham.

Adam de Lions, of Wefton, was living in the
24th of Henry III. and acknowledged to do fervice
for half a fee to William de Englefield, for his lands
in Wefton and Helmingham. Jeffrey de Lions, and
Thomas, fon of Henry de Lions, in the <$2d of Ed-
ward I.

In the reign of Henry III. Adam de Lions, and
his tenants, held lands by knight's fervice here, and
John dc Veutry, the moiety of a quarter of a fee of

the

E Y N S F O R D. 101.

tlie manor of Lyne, and did ward for the fame to
the caille of Richmond..

In the efcheat rolls of the i 2th year of Edward
IV. it appears that Margaret, filler and heir of fir
Thomas T uddenham, relicl of Edmund BedingS<ild,
eiiq. of Oxburgh, died feifed of a manor called Af-
gac's in Weiton, and had alfo an intereft in the lord-
fhip of Tye-hall and Aldenham's, all which feera
to have come to the Rookwoods.

The church is a reclory, dedicated to All Saints,
and has a nave and two ailes, with a chancel, and
a tower with five bells.

In the middle aile a grave-'flone — In memory oft
Wm. Lamb, Gent, who died Sept. 27, 1666.

On one, with an effigy in brafs — Of your charity
pray for the fowle of Elizabeth, late wife of Firtnin Rook-
wood, EJq; daughter and heir of Sir John Timperlcy,
Knt. who died May 13, 1533.

Another — In memory of Margaret, wife of Henry
Rookwood, who died Jan. 19, 1691, aged 79 years.

Here lyeth the body of Hen. Rookwood, the elder, Efq;
who died April 16,

Infra deponitur corpus jerningamia, uxoris
Gulidmi Rookwood, Generofi, incorporea anima tollitur in
excelfis, ob. 22°. Decemb. 1668, cetat. 44. — Hairy, fon
of Wm. Rookwood, died Nov, 12, 1656.

The Rev. James Woodford was prefcnted to this
reclory by the matter and fellows of New college,
Oxford, in 1775.

G 3 WHITWELL;

102 HUNDRED OF

\\TIITWELL. Ralph, fon of Ivo, was princi-
pal lord of this town, of which Ketel, a free man,
\v«is deprived at the conquefr..

WHITWELL, alias GAMEON'S MANOR. In the i 2ih
of king John, a fine was levied between Philip de
Gyney, of a mill in Wliitwcll, which Maud de Gy-
ney, moihcr of William, held in dower, whereby
it was gi anted to William and Maud, and the heirs
of William, who granted. licenfe to Philip, and his
brother Frary, to build a mill in Hackford, with a
\vater-courfe to it, through the land of the faid Wil-
liam, in Hackford and Whitwell, of the breadth of
fix, and five feet deep. And by a deed, Jans date,
William de Gyney confirmed to his brother Roger,
the grant which the lady his mother had given him
oi an acre of land, with a meffuage, late Ralph's,
hv the chapel of St. Nicholas in Whitwell, to be
held of the faid lady during her life, and after of
him.

In the 34th of Henry III. William de Whitwell
impleaded Walter Ingham for two caracutes of land
in this town, Reepham, 8cc. and in 1260 prefentcd
to the church of Skeyton, which came to him by
the marriage of Clarice, or Catherine, daughter and
co-heir of Hugh de Skeyton.

From the Whitwells, after a long defcent, it came
to the Meffengers.

Roger MeMenger, gent, held his firfl court in the
30 of Charles 1. and in the gth of that king Auguf-
tine MefTenger, gent, and John Bendifli. gent, were
guaidians to Augufline Meffenger, a minor, and held
a court in 1659. This Augufline married Sufan,
daughter of Ch. Prettyman, gent, of Badlon, Suffolk.

E Y N S F O R D. 193

Ry an inquifition taken Oclober 4, in the sd of
Chailes I. before William Lcck, efc;. on the death
of Augufline Mefferjger, who died June 10, in die
faid year, Roger was found his fon and heir, aged
24.. who dying without ilTue, was fuccceded by Avi-
gu ft ine his brother, who on his death in 1650, l.eft
Augufline his ion and heir, who living a batchelor,
left it on his deceafe. in 1680, to Robert Monfey,
clerk, fon of Thomas Monfey of Hackford, by Eli-
zabeth his wife, daughter and co-heir of Thomas
Meflenger, gait.

Robert, by Mary his fecond wife, daughter of Ro-
ger Glopton, clerk, reclor of Downham, in the Ifle,
had MdTengtr Monfey, M. D. phyfician of Chelfea
college, now living.

The prcfent proprietor, Dr. Monfey, has long been
a celebrated phyfician in London : a man of great
abilities and great humour: there is a fmgularity
of humour, indeed, peculiar to him: he has a con-
flant flow of fpirits, and though advanced beyond
his eightieth year, is commonly the moft entertain-
ing man in company: the vivacity that diftinguifhed
him in his youth, has not forfaken him at this hour,
and his knowledge and judgment in his profeffion
are as great as ever. He is of courfe exceedingly
efleemed, and his acquaintance has been fought after
at all times of his life with avidity by the nrfl peo-
ple of fafhion, as well as the literati in London.
He has refided for many years at his apartments at
Chelfea hofpital, to which he was phyfician in the
late king's reign as well as the prefent.

Ross's MANOR. The part of Whitwcll, which

conflituted this lordfhip, was a beruite to Cawfton,

apd held by Harold in king Edward's days, aud after

G 4 when

HUNDRED OF

when king of England. On his death, the Conque-
ror poffeflcd it.

In the 1 ith of Edward I. on the death of fir John
de Vaux, it came to Robert lord Roos, and Maud
his wife, daughter and co-heir of fir John, and from
the family of lord Roos, by marriage, to the family
of Manners, afterwards earls of Rutland, &cc.

Henry, earl of Rutland, conveyed by fine, in the
3$d of Henry VIII. this lordfhip to Ralph Symonds,
efq. and Elizabeth, his widow, held her firft court
in the 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary. Ralph was
defcended from John Symonds, gent, of Suffield in
Norfolk, father of John Symonds, of Cley by the
fca, who died July 24, 1492, and had by Ann his
wife John his fon and heir, who died Jan. 14, and
left by Ann his wife, who died May 31, 1512,
Ralph above-mentioned, who died February 2,
1557, and by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Wil-
liam Biftiop, of Great Yarmouth, was father of Giles
Symonds, who by Catherine his wife, daughter of
fir Anthony Lee, of Burflon in Bucks, had Ralph,
who married Ann, daughter of Jeffrey Cobbe, of
Sandrrngham, efq. and kept his firft court in the ^gth
of Elizabeth, and was father of John Symonds, efq.
\vho kept his firfl court in the ift year of Charles I.
and left by Ann his wife, daughter of Tooth-
by, of Lincolnfhire, Giles his Ion and heir, who fold
it to Auguftine Meffenger, gent, in September 1678,
who gave it to Robert Monfey, clerk, lord of this
manor, and that of Gambon's in 1707.

Dr. Monfey is the prefent lord, as heir to his
faiher.

The

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The church of Whitwell is dedicated to St. Mi-
chael, and was a reclory; but being granted by fit-
John de Vaux, fon of fir Oliver, to the priory of
Pentney, ^vith one acre of land, was appropriated to
it by Roger, bifhop of Norwich, on the ifl of Au-
guft, 1256, and a vicarage was ordained ; the pre-
ient value of which is 7!. 123. 4d. The valtte of the
reclory was fifteen marks.

The church is leaded, has a fquare tower, with
five bells and a clock, and a chancel covered with
lead.

In his 35th year, king Henry VIII. on December
3, granted to Robert and Giles Townfliend, efq. this
impropriated reclory, lately belonging to Pentney
priory, with the advowfon of the vicarage; and li-
ccnfe was granted to Robert Townfhend, efq. in the
faid year, to alienate it to Robert Coke and Wini-
fred his wife, who foon after alienated it to Thomas
Bayfield, in trufl ; and on April 18, in the faid year,
t>y indenture tripartite betwixt Robert Coke, owner
of the fee fimple of the parifli church of Whitwell,
and Chriftopher Lockwood, clerk, parfon of Hack-
ford and vicar of Whitweil, of the fecond part, and
Thomas Bayfield, William Brefe, &c. of Hackford, .
very and undoubted patrons of the vicarage of Whit-
well, on the third part, witneffeth, that as the church
of Hackford, and the chancel, with all the church
goods, ornaments and jewels, and moft part of the
houfes in Hackford, were burnt by misfortune, the
faid church was confolidated to that of Whitwell,
by William, bilhop of Norwich, all parties con-
fcnting.

In the chancel, on a grave-ftone — M. S. Augujlmi
Mejfengcr gen. tt Sujanrus uxoris ejus Jiliae <ty cohered.

Caroli

io6 HUNDRED OF

Caroli Prelfyman, nup. de Baclon Stiff] gen. qui reh'qv-
runt unicum Jilium Auguflmnm, hac obt. 5 cat. Apr.

^*3 J)'*O«3* * **/J "*j*

M. S, Aitgi/ftini ab Augu/lino Mejfenger gcn.-Jilii
unici qui Calebs obt. 4 051. 1690.

Augujlinc Meffenger, gent, died June g, 1626, mar-
ried to hisfecond wife Mary, daughter of Reynold Mead,
of £/«.

l, late wife of Augujlinc Meffenger, gent. daugh~
ter of John Bowles, EJq\ died May 23, 1609.

George Coke, gent, died .February 7, 1609,

Aug. Barber, and Elizabeth, wife of "Thomas Monje)\
cf Hackford, children* of Nicholas Barler, of Fre/ing-
J*e'd, Suffolk, gent, by Ann Mcjfenger, daughter of Aug.
Mfffenger, he died Augujl j, 1657, Jhe-May 3, 1666..

The church flands in the fame cemitary, or church-
yard, as that of Reepham : on the fouth fide of the
church is a chapel, with the arms of Vaux on the
flone work, and in the church windows are the faid
arms, with thole of lord Rofs.

In this town was alfo a chapel, dediatcd to St.
Nicholas, valued at 7!. 155. gd. It belong* d to the
priory of Pentney, given by the family of oe Vaux.
At -the diffolution it was granted to Robert Town-
fbend, efq. and came afterwards to Robert Coke,
and to the dean and chapter of Norwich.

On a grave-ftone alfo in the church — Dcpofitum
Johs. Wigget, civcs et aldermanni Norwici,jHii Gulielmi
Wigget de Geift, in Norf. qui obt. fine prole ao.
at. 73.

E Y N S F O R D. 107

Hie jacmt 'exuvice Thomas Jilii P.obi. Monfcy, <£rc. obt.
pnd. cal. Feb. 1720, at. 25.

The Rev. Stephen Buckle was prefented to Hack-
ford, 'alias Reepham, with the coniblidated church of
Whitwell, by George Hunt Ho'ley, efq. in 1 758.

WITCH ING HAM MAGNA and PARVA.

William de Scohies, or de Efcois, had a lordfhip, of
which Hardewin, a .free man, was deprived.

This William de Scohies is, by fome m'florians,
faid to be a Scotchman ; but it appears that there
was a town in Normandy called Efcoues and Efcoyes,
of which church, 8cc. the abbey of Bee in Norman-
dy were patrons ; from this town the family of Sco-
hies took their name, fo that it is plain he was a
Norman adventurer, and rewarded by the Conqueror
with forty lordfhips in this county.

LONGUEVILLE MANOR. Walter Giffard, the fecond
carl of Bucks, confirmed to the monks of St. Faiths
of Longucville in Normandy, the grant of his father,
and all that he poffefled in Witchingham, (excepting
the fees of William and Ralph de Lions and Bote-
ry) together with the church of St. Mary and all its
appurtenances, with the tithe of his demean7, alfo
the church of St. Faith's in the faid village', with all
its appurtenances, and the fifheries, 8cc, wityeffes,
Roger earl of Clare, Richard his brother, Hugh de*
Bolebec, Ralph de JLangetot, Elias Giffard, Hugh
de Newers, &c. . A

In the i gth of Edward II. Philip, the prior of
Longueville, and the convent of the order of Cluny,
and diocefe of Roan, confirm to John de Balling,
citizen arid mercer of London, and Joan his wife, a

meffuage

H U N D R E D O F

and feven acres of arable land: the con-
vent's leal to this is broke off, but that oi ilie prior
remains, which is oblong, of blue wax, with his ini-
prefs or figure, in his robes, (landing upright, the
legend, Sigill. Secret. See. Fidis dc Lcngavile.

After this, in the French wars, king Edward III.
feized on the temporalities of this priory, as an alien,
and in the reign of Richard II. fir Gilbert Talbot,
of Waddelcy in Berkfhire, farmed all the lands of
this priory in Jngland of the king, and fir Ralph
Rochford in the gth of Henry VI. At this time the
temporalities of the priory in this town were taxed
at lul. 45. 8d.

In 1440, Henry VI. granted this lordfhip to New
college in Oxford, at the inftance and requefl of
Thomas Bckington, bifhop of Bath and Wells, who
in the college evidences is fliled, Tho. VVellenfis Epifc*
Collcgii, Sujicntatur prtfdpuus.

This manor is ftill in New college. Oliver Le
iNeve, efq. held it by leafe in 1680, 8cc.

WYCHINGHAM'S MANOR. In the ift of king John,
William de Bellamont, and Muriel his wife, con-
veyed by fine to Gilbert de Langtoft, the fervice of
two knights fees, and the third part of one in this
town, Saxlingham, Bintry, Ickburgh, &c. and Sa-
rah de Wychingham was found, in the s>ift of Hen-
ry 111. to hold the fourth part of a fee here of Ro-
bert Langtoft, he of the earl of Gloucefter, and the
earl of the king: fhe was then the widow of Walter
de Wychingharn, defcended of an ancient family,
v,ho had very foon alter the conqueft an intereft
here.

William

E Y N S F O R D. 109

William, ion of Wycher de WTychingham,
Jiving in the reign of king Stephen, and Roger de
Wychingham was father of Walter aforefaid, whofe
fon Walter was living in the 53d of Henry III. whea
Robert de Newton, fheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk,
received IDS. 8d. of him to excufe him from being
a knight ; and the (aid Walter was lord, and kept a
court in the yth of Edward I.

Roger, fon of Walter, was living in the faid reign,
and granted mefluages, lands, Sec. to Sarah, widow
of Waller.

Sir William de Wychingham, fon of Richer de
Wychingham. was lord in the 3^d of Edward III.
he was bred to, the law, of which he was a ferjeant,
and a judge of. the Common Pleas in 13^3. By
his will, proved March 2% 1381, he was buried in
the fouth aile of Witchingham St. Mary's church,
which he had built ; gave legacies to Margaret his
wife, to Richer, Nicholas, and William, his Ions,
and to William Caley and Dionyfia his wife, who
was his daughter.

Of this family was fir Jeffrey Wychingham, lord
mayor of London in 1346, who, with the jnftices
Robert de Sadyngton, William de Thorp, and \Vil-
liam Trufleil, was to enquire into the efcapes of John
de Graham, earl of Momeith, and Duncan, earl of
Fife, Scotch noblemen, prifoners in England, and
bore for his arras, as fir William did, ermine, on a
chief, fable, three croffes pauee, or. Alfo Hugh de
Wychingham, brother of fir Jeffrey, a merchant of
London, who was appointed by patent, in the 3oth
of Edward III. exchanger and aflayer of the mint,
which office was held before by Henry de Brille, a
Norfolk man.

Richer,

no HUNDRED OF

Richer, cideft fun of fir William, married Alice,
and died without iffue : he was buried, according to
his will, dated in 1384, in the church aforefaid, and
proved Nov. 10 following.

Nicholas de Wychingham fucceeded his brother
Richer, and married, fail, Alice, daughter of Roger
Flete, citizen and draper of London, and was feifed
in her ri<rht of the manor of Totham Parva in EfTex,

by whom he had William, his fon and heir; Alice,
married to fir Roger Harlike of Southacre, and Mar-
gery to fir Robert Tuddenham, of Oxburgh: his
fecond wife was Joan, by whom he had Edmund, of
Woodrifing in Norfolk, who married Alice, daugh-
ter and heir of fir John Faftolf of Fifhley, by whom
he had four daughters and co-heirs ; Amy, who
married Richard Southwell, of Woodrifing, efq.
Fiances, to fir William Mull, of Harfcomb in Glou-
ceftcrfliire ; Joan, to Robert Longftrather, and after
to Robert Boys, of Honing in Norfolk; and Eliza-
beth, to William Bard well, efq. of Weft Hailing.

The will of Nicholas is dated at WoooVifing in
1430, and he was buried before the high crofs. (by
his firft wife) in the church of St. Mary of Witch-
ingham ; gives legacies to that church, and thofe of
St. Faith's in Witchingham, Alderford, Whit well,
Hanford, Salthoufe, Guift, Woodrifing, Sotherton,
and Antingham, where he had lordfhips or lands ;
to Edmund, his fon, the manors of Woodrifing,
Salthoufe and Kelling, with that of Guift, paying
an annuity of eight marks to William Wychingham,
(brother of Robert) his grandfon ; to Joan his wife,
the manor of Antingham, who was his executrix,
and proved his will in 1433, and dying in 1459 v\as
buried in the church of the Friars Preachers at Noi-
wich.

William

E Y N S F O R D. in

William, eldeft fon of Nicholas aforefaid, marri-
ed, and left Robert his fon, and heir to his grand-
father Nicholas, his fadier William dying before
him r his laid grandfather left by \vill to the faid Ro-
bert, the manor of Thorpe-hall in Hackford, with
lands, rents and ferviccs in Witchingham St. Faith's,
Svvannington, Alderford, Wefton, Brandiftone, At-
tlebridge, Kerdiflonc, Reepham, Whitweil, &c.

Robert de Wychingham, efq. married Agnes,
daughter and heir of Robert Walton, cfq. by whom
he had John, his fon and heir, and died in the agth
of Henry VI. Agnes his widow re-married James
Aiblafter, efq.

This John died in the gd of Henry VII. lord alfo
of Fifliley Burgh-hall and Reedham Park-hall, and.
left John his fon and heir, who by Ann his wife,
daughter of Thomas Brampton, efq. of Brampton
in Norfolk, left three daughters and co-heirs ; Tho-
rnafine, aged ten years, Elizabeth five, and Oliva
four ; as appears from the efcheat rolls in the 2 1 ft
of Henry VII. Ann furvived him, and in the 24th
of Henry VIII. was the relict of Thomas Garnifh.

Thomafme married Leake, and in the 38th

of Henry VIII. May 16, by the name of Thoma-
fme Leake, fold all her right in this lordfhip to
George Horfeman, efq. Elizabeth married Chriflo-

pher Coote, of Bio-Norton, efq. and Oliva to

Rookwood, who conveved alfo their interefl herein
to their filler Thomafine, or to Horfeman, who was
lord of this manor; and in the 3<Sth of that king,
granted off a parcel of the demeans, and made it

copyhold, as appears from a court-roil Dominus

dejua prudeniia proprti, in mcrtiritnturfl et augmenlalt-
onem, rcddilus Jut p. curiamjuam concej/itt extra manus

fads

112 HUNDRED OF

Juas Hcnrico Frances heredibus et aJJlgnaLh Juis, ad vo~ '
luutaieni Dumini, <kc.

On O&ober 14, in the 14th of Elizabeth, fir
Chriflopher Heydon paid his fine for entering on
this manor, held of the honour of Gloucefter and
Clare, \vhich lie had lately bought of Henry Horfe-
man, fon of George ; and fir Chriflopher conveyed
it, in the iSth of that queen, to Chriftopher Layer,
alderman of Norwich, and on his death, June 19,
1600, Thomas Layer, fon of Augufline, fon and
heir of Chiiitopher, was found to be his coufm and
heir.

In 1649, October 2, Chriflopher Layer, of Boo-
ton in Norfolk, and Sufan his wife, and Thomas
Layer of Beccles, efq. fold it to Oliver Le Neve, efq.
who bought the leets (of Mr. Hunt, lord of the
hundred) of Witchingham Magna and Paiva.

John Norris, efq. of Witton, bought privily the
reverfion of this eftate of John Neve, a blackfmith
of London. Oliver having no fons, and it being en-
tailed, came to his brother Peter Le Neve, efq. Nor-
roy, who died without iffue, fo that the heirs of
Norris now pofiefs it in right of the faid reverfion
thus purchafed.

Peter Le Neve, efq. brother of Oliver, was Nor-
roy King at Arms, fent with the enfigns of the noble
order of the Garter, by George I. to his brother,
prince Erneflus, bifhop of Ofnaburgh in Germany ;
a gentleman eminent for his judgment and fkill in
all parts of hiftory and antiquity, and particularly in
heraldry ; a collector and purchafer of many anci-
ent and valuable MSS. and records ; of indefatiga-
ble pains and induftry in the ftudy of thofe that

EYNSFO'R.D. 113

related to this county, as his collections that he left
fufficiently teflify.

He was educated at Merchant-Taylors fchool in
London.

He fought a duel with fir Henry Hobart, of Blick-
ling, bart. in which the latter was unfortunately
killed.

This eflate was long contcfled by Mrs. Ifabella
Le Neve, againfl the claim of Norris, but a decree*
was made by lord chancellor Hardwicke againil her,
in favour of Norris. She appealed from his decree
to the Houfe of Lords, but the Lords confirmed
the decree.

The eflate is flill in the family of Norris. The
late John Norris, efq. married Mifs Playters, daugh-
ter of John Playters, efq. of Yelverton near Nor-
wich, and eldeft fon of fir John Playters, bart. of
Sattcrley-hall in Suffolk, an amiable lady. Mr.
Norris ferved die office of high ftieiiff of this
county, and died in 1777. He married for his fe-
cond wife a daughter of the late dean Townfhend,
dean of Norwich, by whom he has left an only
daughter, the heirefs to his fortunes.

MIDDLETON'S MANOR. Sir Jeffrey de Muthorp,
knt. granted to Walter, fon of \Villiam de Middle-
ton, for two hundred marks of filver, all his manor
in Witchingham by Reepham, with the appurte-
nances, parks, fifheries, foldages, Sec. by deed fans
date; witnefles, fir William de Kerdefton, fir Wil-
liam Gyney, fir Robert Baynard, Sea and Walter dc
Middleton, and William his fon, were witnefles to
the deed in the reign of Edward I.

H William

HUNDREDOF

William de Middleton, in the 4th of Edward I.
was one of the keepers of the tallages affigned on
the Jews, and cuftos brevium of the common pleas,
and held this lordfhip of the honour of Gloucefler
and Clare.

Walter de Middleton was an eminent lawyer,
attornatus in banco rcgis, retained by Thomas, abbot
of Bury, as their {landing council, by penfion of
135. 4d. per ann. about 1310.

In the 2 8th of Edward I. Walter de Middleton,
and Maud his wife, purchafed by fine of Simon de
Kelling, Sec. feven meffuages, a mill, fixty-three
acres of land, three of wood, and s6s. rent, in the
towns of Witchingham, Alderford, Sparham, 8cc. —
Maud his wife furvived him, and married William
Gyney, who granted or leafed the manor, in the gth
of Edward II. to Thomas Athelwald of Wefton, at
twelve marks per annum, flerling, during the life of
Maud.

In the 27th of Edward III. William dc Middle-
ton, and Ifabella his wife, had a grant from Tho-
mas, abbot of Wendling, and the convent, of a met-
fuage in Norwich, in Conisford-ftreet, on the north
fide of St. Clement's church, with the advowfon of
that church, for their lives. This William fealed
with a fek, between three croffes.

William, fon of Walter de Middleton, of Witch-
ingham St. Mary, grants in the gd of Henry VI. to
Thomas his fon, and Joan, daughter of William
Dyches ot Sail, and their heirs, on a marriage, this
lordfhip. Joan, widow of William, (who died in
the 4th of the aforefaid king) was living in the 5th
of the faid king, and Thomas, ion of William, was

found

E Y N S F O R D. 115

found to hold it by the fourth part of a fee of the
honour of Gloucefler and Clare.

Thomas Middleton, chapman, of St. Clements,
without Temple-bar, London, fon and heir of Tho-
mas aforefaid, releafed it to Thomas Bryce, citizen
and mercer of London, October 29, in the gift of
Henry VI. and Thomas Biyce, and Margaret his
wife, pafled it by fine to fir John Pafton and James
Arblaiter, from the heirs of Margaret, in the gth of
Edward IV.

James Arblafter, efq. fon of James, was lord in
the 2 1 ft of Henry VII. and Ralph his fon in the
i ith of Henry VIII. but in the I yth of that king,
Miles Grofs. gent, and in the ift of Edward VI.
George Horfeman, efq. of Booton, who died poffeffed
of it in 1358, when it came to his eldeft fon Henry,
who in the lath of Elizabeth conveyed this lordfhip,
and that of VVitchingham's, with four mclTuages,
four cottages, eight tofts, fix gardens, eight orchards,
three hundred acres of land, thirty of meadow, one
hundred of pafture, ten of wood, ten of alder, with
405. rent, and a fold-courfe in the Witchingharns,
Alderford, Hackford, Sec. to fir Chriftopher Hey-
don-; from fir Chriftopher it paffed to Chriftopher
Layer, and from the Layers to Oliver Le Neve, as
may be feen in Witchingham manor, and fo to John
Norris, efq.

HALL'S MANOR. John de Aula, or Hall, was
living in the reign of Edward I. and kept a court in
the 33d of that king, and held this lordfhip of the
honour of Clare, by the fourth part of a fee. Mar-
garet, widow of John, fon of John de Aula, was liv-
ing in the Gth of Edward III. and Giles, fon of John
de Aula, in the loth of that king; in the 26th of
H 2

ii6 -'HUNDRED OF

\vhofe reign, Giles conveyed it to fir William de
\Y\vhingliam. The rent of affife was at that time
345. gd.

In this family it continued till Edmund Wy chin g-
ham, efq. fettled it, in the gSth of Henry VI. on fir
John Pafton and James Arblafler, efq. and James
his fon fold it, in the sift of Henry VII. to Robert
Ferrar, draper, of Norwich, and William Potter,
alderman of that city, who in the lyth of Henry
VIII. conveyed it to Miles Grofs, from whom it
came to Horfeman, and Frances Horfeman, widow
of George Horfeman, kept her court, in the ift of
Elizabeth: flie re-married Robert Glafscock, who
was lord in her right in the ;th of that queen ; and
Henry Horfeman paffed it to fir Chriftopher Hey-
don, and fo it came to Layer, and Lc Neve, as
above, Sec,

BRETON'S MANOR, took its name from an ancient
family. Robert le Breton was living in the reign of
Richard I. and William Breton in the i8th of Hen-
ry III. who was made a juftice of the Jews, and af-
fociated to Henry de Bath and Elias de Sunninge.

Thorald le Breton was living at Witchingham in
the 31 ft of that king, and married Aveline, daugh-
ter or fitter of Ralph le Vilechen of Holkham.

' V.

Robert de Norton, fherifF of Norfolk and Suf-
folk, received in the 5$d of the faid reign los. 8d.
of William le Breton, to excufe him from being a
knight.

Edmund le Breton of Witchingham, by Ermitrude
his wife, was father of William Breton, who lived
in the reign of Edward I. and married Elizabeth,

daughter

EYNSFORD. 117

daughter and co-heir of Yarmouth, by whom

lie had William his fon.

Of this family was alfo John Breton, biHiop of
Her.: fo: J, L. L.'D. in the rsi^u of Henry III. and
died in 1275, who wrote his treatife De Junbus Ang-
licanis, at the command of the king ; and John
Breton, who married Mary, daughter and co-heir of
fir Hamon Felton of Litcham.

In the 6th of Edward III. William Breton pur-
chafed of Robert Faftolf, lands, Sec. in Wintcrton ;
and in the i6th of that king, he and Elizabeth his
wife conveyed this lordfhip to William his fon, and
Ifabel his wife, daughter of John de Berney, or (as

fome fay) of de Kerdefton ; and this William

is faid to be the father of John Breton of Witching-
ham, who married Mary, daughter and co-heir of
fir Hamon Felton, by whom he had John his fon
and heir, who married Margaret, daughter of Ralph,
filler of Edward Gerbridge, of Wickhampton, efq.
by whom he had Edward his eldeft fon, who mar-
ried Margeiy, daughter of Simon Blyant, and dying
without iffue, was fucceeded by his brother Robert,
who died in the 5th of Henry VI. and left by Eliza-
beth his wife, daughter qf Thomas Brampton, of
Brampton, efq. Thomas, living in the 2 8th of Hen-
ry VIII. who by Margery his wife, daughter of Tho-
mas Jermy, of Metfield in Suffolk, efq. had Thomas
his fon and heir, lord of this manor, and of Pel-
mingham in Norfolk, who kept his firfl court here
in the 30th of Henry VIII. and by Eleanor his
wife, daughter of James Whynborough, of Whin-
bergh, had Henry his fon and heir. Eleanor, wi-
dow of Thomas, kept her firfl court here in the ift
of Edward VI.

H 3 Henry

ng H U N D R E D O F

Henry Breton, pent, lived at Felmingham, and
married Martha, daughter of Ralph Symonds, of
Clev by Holt, in Norfolk : he held his firft court in
the gd of Elizabeth, on the death of his mother
Eleanor.

In the 8th of Elizabeth Robert Rogers, gent, was
lord, and kept his firft court, and occurs in the sifl
of Elizabeth ; but on an inquifition taken at Nor-
wich, Auguft 10, in the 4oth of that queen, John
Bendyfh, gent, was found to die July 16, in the
^Sth of the faid queen, feifed of this manor, and
lands held of the manor of Longueville, and fo of
the honor of Clare, and Francis was his fon and .
heir, aged'14, and lord in 1621.

Afterwards it was^pofTerTed by Edwards, of

Belaugh, who fold it in 1721 to Mr. James Peterfon,
yeoman...

ST. BENNET'S ABBEY of HOLM, had alfo a little
lordfhip, given to that monaftery in the Saxon age,
to -find provifion for the monks.

TURTEVILE'S MANOR. The fcite of it was in
Witchingham Parva, or St. Faith's, and was given
to St. Bennet's abbey by Ernaldus a Saxon. Hugh,
the abbot, in the reign of king Stephen, granted it
to Roger de Turtevile and his heirs, paying jos. per
ann. to the convent.

In the igth of Henry III. the prior of Walfing-
ham had an interefl herein, and there was an agree-
ment between him and the abbot of Holm, about
the payment of the ten (hillings per ann. faid to be
jffuing out of a tenement of William's, fon of Jef-
frey de Turtevile, that the prior fhould pay it to

the

EYNSFORD. 119

the abbot, and do homage and pay relief for the
fame.

Robert de Timevile, fon of William and Agatha
his wife, were living in the 34th of Henry III. and
gave lands in Southwaliham to the abbey of Holm,
and Walter Turteviie, and Agnes his wife, in the
ibih of Edward I.

It was afterwards in the Berneys, and John Ber-
ney of Reedham, by his will in 1440, gave it to
)iis fon John, in tail.

In the 38th of Henry VI. John Berney and Mar-
garet his wife convey it, with two meiluages, one
hundred acres of land, five of meadow, eighty of
pafture, eight of wood, and 203. rent, in Witching-
ham St. Faith's and St. Mary's, Alderford, Attle-
bridge, 8cc. to Henry Richers, efq. in truft, and
John Berney, efq. was found to die feifed of it in
the igth of Henry VIII. held by fealty, and 155.
rent, of the manor of Cafileacre.

Henry Richers afterwards held it, and fold it to
his brother Robert Richers, gent, of Swanningtoa,
in the 6th of Edward VI. Sept. 22, for 250!.

In the 14th of Charles I. Ralph Outlaw was lord,
and in 1664 Thomas Outlaw.

Another lordfhip was poffefled by Euftace, earl
of Boulogne in Normandy, which Godwin, a free
man, (father of king Harold, and earl of Kent) held
in the Confeffor's reign, and defcended to his fon
Harold.

H 4 CLEY-

120 H U N D R E D O F

CLEY-HALL. Bartholomew de Antingham was
lord in the 5ad of Henry III. in which year.Wiliiam
Kerdefton of Bintry, and Cecil his wife, patted by
fine to him two mefTuages, one hundred and ieventy
acres of land, gs. rent, a mill, two acres of wood,
thiiteen of meadow, in Witchingham Parva, Alder-
ford, &c. Sir Bartholomew died feifed of it in the
i6th of Edward I. held of Bertram de Criol, as part
of the barony of Averenches in Kent, who married
one of the three daughters and co-heirs of Hamon
Crevequer, by the lervice of one knight's fee and
three quarters, and paying to the wardfliip of Dover
caftle, at the end of every twenty-eight weeks, lys.
6d. The rent of affife was then found to be 66s.
per arm.

In the 15th of Edward II. Roger de Antingham,
fon of Bartholomew, had a charter of free warren ;
and in the faid year this lordfhip was fettled on Ro-
ger and Amicia his wife, for life, remainder to Bar-
tholomew their fon ; and by a compotus of Robert
Avori, bailiff of the court in the lyth of Edward
III. it appears that the profits of it in that year,
were 445. sd. that an halfpenny was paid to the
fherifTs turn, to Dover caftle ward, November 8,
I4d. and I4d on May 22 ; for the carriage of it 55.
sd. on thofe two days ; and to fir Richard Parfon,
of Antingliam, coming to Cawflon fair.

The jury in the 3gth of Edward III. find that
Bartholomew de Amingham, fir John de Reppes,
John Boydon, John de Somerton, Sec. held lands
and tenements in Witchingham and Holt, of fir
\Villiam de Moriey, valued at IDS. per ann.

In the i 7th of Edward IV. John Berney, efq. of
Witchingham, died feifed of this manor in Witch-
ingham

EYNSFORD. 121

ingham St. Faith's. John Berney was lord in the
reign of Hen. VIII. and left it to his fon John. On
Saturday before the feaft of St. Michael, in the 4th
oi queen Elizabeth, Martin Berney, efq. fon of Ro-
bert Berney, efq. of Gunton, held his firft court as
lord of Cley hall, .Robert his father dying poffefled
of it December 26, in the 5th and 6th of Philip
and Mary, paying i ~s. and 6d. every twenty -fix
weeks, to the guard of Dover caftle.

In the 4oth of Elizabeth, May 28, Martin Ber-
ney, and Margaret his wife, Chriftopher Grimfton,
of Gray's Inn, efq. and Elizabeth his wife, daughter
of Martin Berney, conveyed it by fine, to William
Collins, who in the faid year paffed it to Edward
Turner.

It came afterwards to the Outlaws, and Elizabeth,
Outlaw, widow, kept her firft court on ihe laft day
of March, 1670. Thomas Outlaw, of Witching-
ham Parva, was living in 1620, and by Mary his

wife, daughter of Gorie, was father of Ralph,

who married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert, and fif-
ter of fir Robert Kemp, of Spain's Hall in Finch-
ingficld, Eflex, by whom he had Thomas, his fon
and heir, living in 1 664, and had by Sarah his wife,
daughter of William Hunt, efq. of Hindolvefton,
(fon of fir Thomas Hunt) Ralph his fon and heir,
who married firft Urfula, daughter of Richers Brown,
of Fulmondefton ; his iecond wife was Elizabeth
daughter of Robert Adams, of Norwich, and dying
without iflue, about 1670, left part of his eftate to

Brown of Saxthorpe, and part to Elizabeth his

wife, who afterwards married Giles Cutting, an at-
torney.

STREET

1*2 HUNDREDOF

STREET HALL. John c!e Bcrney was lord in the
isth of Edward III. and granted to Alice daughter
of Simon Eft, an annuity of 4!. for life, out of it,
and agreed to be therewith content, fo long as fhe
Jived in the company of the faid John, and was
found at his coft. with meat, drink, cloaths, Sec. but
that the hour the faid John fhould marry, he fhould
give towards, her marriage thirty marks, and provide
her a convenient chamber de lynge & launge, then
the faid annuity to be void. This agreement was
iealed by her at Burgh, near Brooke, the morrow
after St. Luke's day.

Robert de Mouton, and P'ilicia his wife, conveyed
by fine to John de Berney, in the 24th of that king,
four meffuages, forty-eight acres of land, five of
meadow, and 6s. rent, with the homages and fervi-
ces of divers perfons in the Witchinghams, Alder-
ford, fee. for forty marks of filver ; and in die 37th
of that reign, Henry de Morefley, and Margaret his
wife, granted lands here to John de Berney and
Thomas his fon, with homages and fervices : in the
jgth year, William de Burgh, parfon of Cantley,
and John de Heveningham, conveyed a melfuage,
two tofts, feventy-fix acres of land, three of mea-
dow, fix of wood, four of alder, and 255. rent here,
Sec. to John de Berney and Catherine his wife, for,
life, remainder to Thomas and Robert.

John de Berney, by his will, dated in 1373, was
to be buried in the church of the Holy Trinity, of
Norwich, by Joan his late wife, if the prior and
convent confent, if not, in the chapel of St. Ann,
built by him, and adjoining to the church of Burgh,
by Sarah his wife : {he was daughter of fir Bartho-
lomew Bateman. Catherine his fecond wife, was
daughter of Peter de Bedingfeld : (by the firft he

bad

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had t\vo fons, Robert and Thomas ;) orders 20!. for
his funeral expences ; gives to Witchingham St.
Mary's church, 203. and to St. Faith's los.

Sir Robert his fon, was a. knight batchelor of
John of Gaunt, duke of Lancafter, ihcrifF of Nor-
folk in the reign of Henry IV. and married Marga-
ret daughter of John Appleyard, efq. or (as fomc
fay) of Walter de Walcote, and widow of Roger
de Welifham : he died in 1415, Margaret furvived
him, and was buried in the church of Runhale, be-
fore the altar of St. Catherine, as by her will, dated
at Gunton, on Friday after the Epiphany, in the gd
of Henry V.

John Berney, only living fon of fir Robert, was
lord in the 4th of Henry V. and John Berney, efq.
in the igth of Henry VI. and in the 2 8th of that
king John Bernard held it, in right of Joan his wife,
relicl: of John Berney. John Berncy, efq. was lord
in the 38th of that king; and on December 22,
1471, adminiftration of the goods, &c. of John
Berney, efq. late of Witchingham, was granted Joan,
his relift.

Robert Berney was lord in 1524, John Berney,
efq. in 1530, and Martin Berney in the reign of
queen Elizabeth.

After this, it was in Thomas Allen, a citizen of
London, about the end of queen Elizabeth's reign,
the laft of which family was Elizabeth, daughter
and heir of Thomas Allen, of Street Hall, who
married William Bladwell, eldeft fon of William
Bladwell, of Swannington, efq. and afterwards John

Hyrne, fecond fon of Hyrne, of Heveringland

in Norfolk, efq. who died September 15, 1713, and

wa§

J24 HUNDRED OP

was buried (where flic lived) at Thwayte in Nor-
folk.

Lenwade bridge in this tcnvn, was found at a ge-
neral feffion held at Norwich, January 10, 1653, to
be a county bridge, and to be repaired by the county
of Norfolk.

The church of Great Witchingham is dedicated
to St. Mary, was antiently a reclory, granted to the
priory of Longueville, by Walter Giiiard, earl of
Bucks, and appropriated to it, valued at forty marks,
and a vicarage was fettled, valued at fix marks and
an half, in the patronage of the faid priory, after of
New College in Oxford.

The church and chancel are covered with lead,
and has a fquare tower with four bells.

In the chancel a grave-ftone — In memory of Francis
Le Neve and Margaret his wife, who lived in a wedded
i/latc 53 years, and died on St. Peter s day 1616, and,
Jlie in 1618.

One for — Hen. LeNeve, Gent, who died, —th Sept.
1652.

In memory of Francis Le Neve, EJq; and Alice his wife,
he died Sept. 25, 1652, aged 79.

Here lyeth Oliver Le Neve, Efq; a faithful fubjeft of
the king, an obedient fan of the church, ajlout patron of
jit/lice, and a true lover of his countrey, no friend to
Popery or Prejbytery, but a zealous ajjertor of the church
of England, as the nearejl to primitive Chriftianity, and
the very fanftuary of the Englijh inter eft, liberty and pro-
perty; he was for his intellectuals of a mojl found, f olid,

EYNSFORD. 135

deep, and piercing judgment; for his morals, of a mcjl
prudent, fober, grave, jujl, generous, and every way
"obliging, vertuous conversation, wherein he eminently ex-
celled, and was therein conjtant to his death, which was
Jan. 21, 1678, and in the 78 year of his age.

May his pojlerity immortalize his name by imitation of
his virtues.

Vir bonus efl hie, qui lit leges patritf, &c facram re-
ligionzmjirmiter excoluit.

Near to this Jlonc lyeth the dujt of Oliver Le Neve,
Ffq; late one of the jujlices of the peace, and captain of
fajoot company of the militia of this county ; fecondfon vf'
Francis Le Neve, gentleman, citizen and of Lon-
don, and of Avice his wife, daughter of Peter Wright,
and Jifter of Peter Wright, of London, merchants, htdkd

on the 23 of , 17 — , and was buried on the 26^4

cf the fame month, leaving by his f.r/1 wife., Ann, only
daughter of Sir John Gaudy, of Weft Harling in this
county, Bart. (ioho lyeth by his fide) three daughters and
co-heirs, Ifabella, Ann, and Henrietta Le Neve, who

caujed to be laid. As alfo wliat remains of Eiizab.

his §d wife, daughter and co-heir expectant of R§bt. Shef-
field, of Kcrifington, Ffq; grand/on of Edm. Earl of

Mulgrave; long • Jhe diedjuddenly on the 8t/i

day of Nov. 1707, without a child, and buried here on
the 12th day of the fame month.

A grave-ftone for — Anne, Wife of Oliver Le Neve,
EJq\ only daughter of Sir John Gaudy, of Weft Har-
ling, Bart, who died Feb. 10, 1695, aged 31 years;
with the arms of Le Neve and Gaudy.

Mortalibus cxuviis hie depofitus, dormit bcatum, pr<z-
Jlolans anojlafin (cum furgilt noviffimurn refonabitur)
Jmnina t puribus kftijjima, Jana, Joh. Knyvet, Equi-

tis

HUNDRED OF

tis de Balneo. Jilia , prater unam minima, virtu-

tibus tatnen magna, Oliverj Lc Neve, Armigeri, uxor al-
iera,fed nullijecunda. Utpote qua viro, Juijq; omnibus,
nan unquam erat, nifi moricndo, gray is; obt. 19 Junij,
cnnofaiulisnojlrtz, 1704.

Here lyeth the body of Elizab. wife of Oliver Lc J\ "eve,
EJq; who died Jan. 23, 1658.

One — In memory of Ann Gardiner, wife of Michael
Gardiner, of the Inner Temple, Efq, daughter of Sir
John Kelling, Knt. late lord chief jujlice of England,
by Martha his wife, daughter to Sir Thomas Bolder of
Bedfordshire, Knt. Jhe died Sept. 29, 1673.

In memory of Thomas Playter, fon of John Playter of
Satlerley in Suffolk, Efa (after Sir John Playter, Bt.)
and IJabel his wife, who died 1678.

On a grave-flone in the church — Hie jacet Will us
de Wychingham, Armigi. qui obijt 12° die mcnfis Maij
A° Dni. 1414 — with the arms of Wychingham, on
a brafs plate.

Sub hoc marmore depofuit exuvias carnis Joh. Bird,
Generos. vir fatur dierum ac honor urn, qui ptjl peraclam
quatuor coronis Britannicis in aula regia jidelitatem,
jam tandem ad prajlandum, quinta coronas olfequium
imperatur, fed quinta corona ipjijjima perenni et — —
Jcra morte in/ignitus eft. Denuo pojl tot exantlatos la-
bores et conjummatos honores in oElogefimo fexto eetatis
fuce curriculo denatus ejl Jul. 28, A. D. 1660, a ter-
re/lri hoc pulvere in calijlc fafligium evettus eft.

A monument on the wall by the fcreen Gee.

Mercs, EJq; born at Saleby in Lincoln/liirc, and Alice
his wife, daughter cf Robert Jcnyjon, of Burnham Mar-
ket,

EYNSFORD.

faL Efq; the parents of Sufan, wife of John Bird, of
Wtchingham, Gent. George died 1636, and Alice

1638,

A grave-flone — In memory of Tho. Alltyn, of Wich"
ingham Magna, Gent, who died Feb. 3, 1650, and ids
two wives : — with the arms of Alleyn, p. bend fmi-
fler, frappec, argent and fable, fix martlets counter-
changed, and this diftich.

Death here advantage hath of life

One hujband with two wifcs at once may lye.

Francis Neve, efq. by his will, dated September
24, 1651, gave 20!. to the poor.

In 1556, an inventory was made of fuch goods
and implements as belonged to this church; " a pix
14 and 6 'pix cloths, 2 pair of chalyfe, one parcel
" gylte — a pix of filver, to bere in the hoft, gylt —
" an altar cloth of lynnyng, upon the altar, and an
*' herfe cloth of dornyfe for the altar — a cope of
•' red fatten, and a veftment of the fame — three ab-
*4 bes — two old veftments — two corporas cafys, with.
" one cloth — a facryn bell, 2 furpleffes and 2 rocli-
*' ets — a pair of cenfors, and a holy water flopp — a
*4 chryfmatory, a mefle book, a manucl, an anti-
•' phoner, a baud cloth, with a pendon, an old blew
«' herfe cloth — a blew veftment of right iatten."

We alfo find there were " 6 copes, the befl of
" red velvet, and the image of our Lady and the
" Holy Ghoft in the cope, the next of - — - - -
" filver wrought with gold, another of white, branch-
" ed damafk, one of black velvet, &c.-~- a crymfy
" deacon and fub deacon velvet — a St. Nicholas
" cope — a veftment of crymfy velvet, with images

" of

iaS • HUNDRED OF

" of gold — a red velvet one, a black velvet one, £:<:•
•' a cloth of white lynen for the font, 2 hand bells,
*' a filver cenfor, &;c. for every altar 2 latyn canclle-
" flicks, and for the high altar four, a flayned cloth
«' before the altar painted of the Affumption of our
41 Lady, alfo painted cloths to hang before other
V faints, a lynen cloth before the rood loft, and one
44 to cover the rood — the veil cloth — the fepulchre
*' timber — 24 candlefticks of latyn for the rode loft,
" &c."

The church of Witchingham Parva is dedicated
to St. Faith.

The patronage of this church is in New College,
Oxford, founded by William of Wykeham, bifhop
Winchefter, who alfo founded the college of Win-
chefter as a nurfery for New College, and from which
the ftudents are chofcn.

The Rev. Henry Bathurft was prefented to the
vicarage of Witchingham St. Mary, with the rectory
of St. Faith, (confolidated by the archbifliop iu
1748) by the matter and fellows of New College,
Oxford, in 1775.

WOOD-DALLING, or DAWLING. In Doomf-
day-book called Dallinga, as lying in a dale or val-
ley; thus Dalham in Suffolk ; and the additional
word Wood, was afterwards to diftinguifh it from
Field-Dalling in this county.

The chief manor at the furvey was in Peter, lord
Valoins. Fift, a free man, held it before the con-
queft, and was then deprived of it.

Tirus,

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Tints, Turald, or Torald, was cnfeoffed of this
7ordfliip, by Peter, lord Valoins, and when that
lord founded the priory of Binham, Turald gave two
parts of his tithes to that priory, in the reign of
Henry I. Sir Ralph, fon of Turald, of Wood-
Dalling, gave to the monks of Binham, the chuiches
of this town and of Ryburgh Parva, with lands here,
for the f©ul of Peter, lord Valoins.

Roger, fon of Ralph de Dalling, confirmed the
aforefaid grants, and the lady Agnes, widow of fir
Adam de Rattlefdcn, confirmed lands to them in this
town.

William, fon of Roger de Dalling, releafed to the
prior all his right in a wind-mill and water-mill ; and
Richard, the prior of Binham, confirmed to fir
Ralph, fon of Roger de Wood-Dalling, the water-
mill, with the fcite of a wind-mill at Wenefcote,
and the land that Roger his brother held of the
monks, with homages and fervices of divers men.

In the 34th of Edward I. anno 1306, this lord-
fhip was fettled by fine on Simon de Rattlefden, and
Maud his wife, in tail, remainder to the heirs of
Simon, by Gilbert Luveil, 8cc. truftees ; and in the
gth of Edward II. 1315, Simon held the third part
of a fee of the honour of Valoins, and was found
to die feifed of it in the 14th of that king. In the
1 8th of Edward III. it was fettled by fine on fir John
de Rattlefden, and Alianore his wife, by their truf-
tees, for life, remainder to Philip and John, their
fons, in tail.

The Da'llings had yet fome intereft here, for in
the aoth of that king, 1546, Johri de Dalling, and
Maud his wife, conveyed by fine to John Fox ley,

I Sec,

i3o HUNDRED OF

&c. five mefluages, one hundred and fixty acres of
land, twelve of meadow, iixteen of pafture, three
of wood, and 75. 6d. rent in this town, Themil-
thorpe, Foulfham, 8cc. who re-conveyed it to John
and Maud, for life ; remainder to William fon of
Roger de Shimpling, and his heirs.

In 1362, the 36th of the faid king, John fon of
fir John Rattlefden, was lord of this manor, and of
Fakenham Afpes in Suffolk : Joan was found to be
his daughter and heir, married to Robert Hovell.

In die lyth of Richard II. 1393, it appears that
Robert Monceaux, and Joan his wife,- held (for her
life) this lordfhip, thofe of Bradfield, St. Clere, and
Weflon Market in Suffolk : this Joan was the daugh-
ter and heir of Rattlefden, beforementioned ; and in
the 3d of Henry IV. Robert Monceaux held three
quarters of a fee here.

This Robert, by his will, dated April 20, 1415,
was then lord, and married two wives ; Joan, relift
of Robert Hovell, and Margaret, who furvived him :
Robert his fon fucceeded him, who dying without
iflue, Thomas, his brother, was his heir, and died
fcifed of it, and of one hundred acres of land in
Gucftwick, Reepham, Sec. held of the hundred of
Eynsford, in the sgth of Henry VI. leaving two
daughters and co-heirs : Margaret married to Wil-
liam Lumnor, of Mannington, gent. Lumner bore
fable, on a bend, azure, cottifed, ermine, three ef-
callops, gules ; and Monceaux, or, a faltire, gules,
and on a chief of the fame, three efcallops, argent.
Margaret, hi* widow, was the wife of Thomas
Brigge, cfq. of Sail, in 1494, in which year he
made hi« will. William Lumnor, fon of William
and this Margaret, fold this Zordihip, as it feems, to

Thomas

E Y N S F O R D. 131

Thomas Erigge aforefaid, who, in his will above*
mentioned, orders a grave -flone to be laid over Ma-
tilda Monccaux, in the church of Wood-Balling,
fhe being fitter of Margaret his wife, and the other
daughter arid co-heir of Thomas Monceaux afore-
laid.

After this it was poffefTed by fir Henfy Heyclon,
in the reign of Henry VII. and in the year 1552 fir
Chriflopher Heydon was lord. From the Hey dons
it came to the Bulwers, a family of great antiquity
in this town : John Bulwer was living here in the
sd of Henry VI. 1423. Roger Bulwer, the elder,
by his will, dated in September, 1512, defires to be
buried by his father, in St. Thomas's chapel, in
Wood-Balling church ; and gives the manors of
Halwood and Hardegrey's, to John his fon. Willi-
am Bulwer was living in 1534.

CRA^GATE LANCASTER MANOR. This lordfhip
in 1603, belonged to fir Edward Coke, knt: attor-
ney general ; and in 1662 fir Thomas Rant, knt.
had it.

In the gth of William III. 1697, Arthur Branth-
wayte, efq. held his firfl court here, in which family
it continued till 1766, when Miles Branthwayte,
efq. conveyed it to William Wigget Bulwer, of Hey-
don, efq. who is the prefent lord. The fines are at
the lord's will. — Luton fee extended alio into this
town.

BALLING'S alias BULWER' s PEDIGREE. Tyrus, or
Turold de Baling, who was enfeofted of the lord-
fhip of Wood-Dalling, as alfo of that of Binhani
priory in Little Ryburgh, by Peter lord Valoins,
who had it from the Conqueror, was anceftor of
I 2 this

j:)2 HUNDRED OF

this family ; and when the faid lord Valoins found-
ed the priory of Binham, Turold gave two parts of
his tithes to that priory.

Sir Ralph de Dalling, fon of Turold, gave the
monks of Binham, the churches of Wood-Dalling,
and of Little Rybuigh, with lands in each parifh.

Roger, fon of Ralph, confirmed the aforefaid
grant, to which lady Juga, wife of fir Ralph, Ro-
ger, and Roger his Tons, Sec. were witnefles.

William, fon of Roger de Dalling, releafed to
the prior of Binham, all his right in a wind-mill
and water-mill, 8cc. and Richard the prior confirm-
ed to fir Ralph, fon of Roger de Wood-Dalling,
the water-mill, with the fcite of a wind-mill in
Wenefcote, and the land of that Roger, his brother,
held of the monks, with homages and fervices of
divers men.

Ralph de Dalling in the 4th of king John, re-
leafed ten acres of land belonging to the church of
Ryburgh Parva, to the prior of Binham.

Peter Fitz-Ralph de Wood-Dalling gave to the
prior, with the aflent of Thomas his fon and heir,
and Lefguena his wife, lands in Little Ryburgh.
The fon of the laid Peter gave them lands there
alfo.

In 1283, tne lltn year °f tne reign °f Edward I.
Simon de Dalling, and Ifabel his wite, purchafed in
Gifting, a manor which was afterwards called Ball-
ing's, alias Dawling manor, of John fon of Richard
de Boyland. They left iffue, John de Dalling, or
Wode Dalling, who in 1335, fettled it on Maud

E Y N S F O R D. 133

his wife ; and in the 2oth of Edward III. the)7 con-
veyed by fine to John Foxley and others, five mef-
fuages, one hundred and f^xty acres of land, twelve
of meadow, fixteen of pafture, three of wood, and
75. 6d. rent in Wood-Balling. Themihhorpe, Foul-
fham, &c. who re-conveyed it to John and Maud
for life ; remainder to William fon of Roger de
Shimpling, who married their daughter.

In 1313, John de Balling lied Bintry manor, in
Itteringham, in right of his wife, Maud de Bintry.

By the pedigree taken out of the Herald's office,
it appears that the family divided, and that one
branch, which defcended from John Balling, alias
Bulwier, of Wood-Balling, became many years fince
extincl., and that Simon Ballinge, alias Bulwere, of
Wood-Balling, is the anceftor of the other branch,
and from whom the prefent family is defcended.

John Ballinge, alias Bulwier, of Wood-Dalling,
who bore for his coat armour, gules, on a chevron
ingrailed, between three eagles reguardant, or, as
many ogreifes, married Margaret, the daughter of
John Smith, by whom he had Roger, his fon and
heir, who was the father of William, who by Tho-

mafine (daughter and co-heir of Gage) had

Richard, who about the year 1582, the 24th of
queen Elizabeth, built Balling-hall, and gave it.
with part of the demefne lands, to Robert his fecond
ion ; but the manor and lordfhip of Wood-Balling,
alias Bailing hall, alias Monceaux, Halwood, Noi-
jons and Hargraffe, with the houfe and eftate at
Churchgate, in Wood-Balling, went to William, his
€ldeil fon, who in 1632, the Sth of Charles I. with
his fon Richard, conveyed it, with his eftates alfo
13 in

134 H U N D R E D O F

in Thurning and Kerdiflone, to fir John Hob art,
kuijht and baronet.

This branch of the family ending here, we fhall
fpeak now of Simon Dalling, alias Bulwere, ot
Wood-Dalling, anceftor of the prefent bianch...

He married Margaret, daughter and heir of Ro-
bert Mouny, or Mouncy, of Wood-Dalling, and
bore for his coat annour, gules, on a chevron, be-
tween three eaglets, reguardant, or, as many cinque-
foils, fable, which arms have ever fince been borne
by his defcendants.

Roger, his elded fon, had Simon, who by Joan,
daughter of Peter Alleyn, of Wood-Dailing, was
the father of

Roger Bulwer, of Gueflwick, efq. eldeft fon and
heir, who having in the gth year of queen Elizabeth
purchafcd the manor of Brofeyard's and Norton-hail
in Gueflwick, with the demean lands of (irChrifto-
pher Heydon, knight, was the firft of the family that
fettled at Gueflwick. He was impropriator, patron
of the vicarage, and lord alfo of the manors of
Gueflwick and of Mendham-Dcnfons in Gueflwick ;
all which manors have ever fince continued in the
family. His firft wife was Ann, the youngeft daugh-
ter of William Bulwer, of Wood-Dalling, efq. °by
the co-heir of Gage, and great-grand-daughter of
John Dalling, alias Bulwer. The iiiue by this mar-
riage is extinft. His fecond wife was Chrifliana,
daughter of John Browne, gent, by whom he had

Edward Bulwer, of Gueflwick, efq. his fon and
heir, who married Ann, fole daughter and heir of

William

E Y N S F O R D. 135

William Becke, of Southrepps, efq. by her he had
three fons, Roger, Edward and William.

William, the youngeft, died without iffue, as did
alfo Edward the fecond fon in 1661, in the joth
year of his age, and lies buried in Balling church,
under a marble ftone : he built the weft front of the
manfion-houie, near the church, in Wood-Dailing,
the feat of the late William Bulwer, efq. and which
now belongs to William Wigget Bulwer, of Hey-
don, efq.

Roger Bulwer, of Gueftwick, efq. elded fon, mar-
ried Elizabeth, daughter of Cocks. He was

fucceeded by his eldell fon and heir,

Edward Bulwer, of Gueftwick, efq. who in 1645
married Ann, fole daughter and heir of William
Young, of Kettleftone in Norfolk, clerk, defcended
from the Youngs, of Rirmvell in Eflex, by whom he
had three fons : he died April 23, 1697, aged 74,
and was buried with his anceftors at Gueftwick.

Edward Bulwer, of Wood-Dalling, efq. the elded
fon, was the ayth of March, 1689, the ift of Wil-
liam III. fworn one of the gentlemen in ordinary
of his majefty's moft honourable privy-chamber: he
married Hannah, daughter and heir of George Pe-
ryer, of Godalmin in Surry, defcended from the an-
cient flock of the Peryers, of Peryers Green in Suf-
fex : he died without iffue, and lies buried in Dai-
ling church.

John, the fecod fon, died fingle, and was buried

there alfo.

1 4 William,

HUNDRED OF

William, the third and youngeft fon, on the de-
ccafe of his brothers, fucceeded to the eftate: he
had three wives ; Ann, his firft wife, was the daugh-
ter of Peter Elwin, of Thurning, gent, by whom he
had one fon, Edward, who died unmarried, and two
daughters. By Margaret his fecond wife, daughter
of Edward Bririffe, of Baconfthorpe, efq. and fifter
of Robert Britiffe, of Norwich, barnfter at law, he
had one daughter. By his third wife Frances, daugh^
ter of Edmund Lee, of Fulmondeilon, gent, defcend-
ed from the Lees of Northamptonfliire, of which fa-
mily was the late Matthew Lee, of Low-Layton in
EiTex, M. D. he had three fons ; Chriftopher, John
and William, and three daughters ; Sarah, Elizabeth
and Lydia, all which died without iffue, except Sa-
rah the eldeft daughter, of whom hereafter. Willi-
am Bulwer, of Wood-Dalling, cfq. the youngeft fon,
took to wife Dorothy, the third daughter of the
Rev. Mr. WiHbn, of Stiflkey in Norfolk; fhe died
the 25th of March, 1748, and was buried in the
chancel of the parilh church of Gueftwick, by whom
hehimfelf was interred in 1755, to whofe memories
a mural monument is creeled on the north fide of the
chancel.

By his will, dated the 5th of May, 1750, he gives
all his manors and eftates to his nephew, William
Wigget, the only furviving fon of Sarah his eldeft
fifter before-mentioned, by Rice Wigget, of Gueft-
wick, efq. ftric"lly enjoining and requiring him to
take and ufe the name and arms of Bulwer; and
who in 1756, agreeable to the will of his faid uncle
William Bulwer, applied to parliament, and obtain-
ed an aft to confirm the fame to himfelf and family.

William Wigget Bulwer, efq. a gentleman than
whom there is no one more efleemed in the county of

Norfolk,

EYNSFORD. 137

Norfolk, and whofe natural abilities were improved
by a finifhed education both at home and abroad,
married on the sd of June, 1756, Mary, eldeft
daughter and afterwards co-heirefs of colonel Au-
guftus Earie, of Heydon, for many years one of the
commifTioners of the excife in his late majefty's reign.
Mr. Bulwer has feveral fons and daughters, the el-
deft fon, William Earle, was a member of the uni-
verfity of Cambridge, and is at prefent a captain in.
the weftern battalion of the Norfolk militia, com-
manded by the earl of Or ford. It is a family of
great refpe£l, not only from its antiquity, though in.
this it yields to none, but from the amiable characters
of the prefent heads of it. If hofpitality, good-breed-
ing, a chearful and polite eafe, a pleafing deportment
on all occafions, friendship undifguifed and fincere,
are virtues that recommend to admiration and per-
fonal love, Mr. and Mrs. Bulwer are juftly entitled
to fuch honorable diftindions, which as they have
long enjoyed, fo it is the wifh of all who are happy
in knowing them, that they may long enjoy.

Mr. Bulwer has ferved the office of high fherifT
of this county, has acted as a magiflrate for many-
years with fingular attention, and merited in this
inflance. as well as a thoufand others, the thanks
and applaufe of the community he lives in.

The church is dedicated to St Andrew, and was
anciently a rectory, valued at fifty marks, and the
prior of Binham had a portion of aos. Peter-pence
was i8d. The patronage of the church was in the
priory, but was not appropriated to them, but a vi-
carage was after, fettled, valued at four marks. It
confifts of a nave, with two chapels, a north and
iouth one, adjoining to it.

The

HUNDRED OF

The Rev. George Carr was preferred to this vi-
carage, with the rectory of Svvannington, (confolidated
July 20, 1752) in 1759, by the mad er and fellows
•of Trinity-hall 'in Cambridge. The matter and fel-
lows preferit two clergymen to the bifhop, and he
choofes one of them to be vicar on every vacancy.

Mr. Bulwer, on his marriage with the eldefl daugh-
ter and co-heircfs of Colonel Earle of Heydon, has
removed the family to Heydon, the feat of the Earl os,
where ihere is a good old manfion-houfe, which he
has greatly improved and ornamented, and enriched
with fpacious gardens, hot-houfes, Sec.

In the, fouth aile, or chapel, are the following,
on brafs plates.

Orate p. a fa. Johis. Dravt dt Wood-Dalling, q'tt
e&il 2 die Junii Ao. Dni. 1517.

(Step, ci fa. Matilda Mouncews qua obiit Ao. Dni,
1486, cufs aie p'picet. Deus.

Cfte p. a' i a Catherine Bulwer, qua obiit \ 7 die men-
Jis Marcii, Ao. Dni. 1487.

Q'tt p. d'i'a. Rogeri Bulwer, qui obiit 26 die Aprilis,
Ao. Dni. 1483.

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On a black marble flone, the arms of Bulwer,
with this, Hie jacet corpus Edwardi Bulwer \ armigeri,
qui obiit 4 Qftobris 1726, atatis Jute 76.

In the middle aile, — Ott p. a' fa. D'ni Edvardt
War cop, captini, qui obiit 28 die Jan. 1510. .

E Y N S F O R D. 139

Hie jacet Edvardus Bulwer, generojus, ccdebs, ter~
tiasjilius Edvardi Bulwer de Geftwick, gen. Jeptuaginta
annos natus, qui obiit 7 Maii 1661. On the fame ftone
is engraved die following, Here lieth the body of Fran-
ces Bulwer, rditi of William Bulwer, gent, late of
Wood-Dalling, who departed this life Feb. 21, 1750,
aged 82 years.

On a plate of brafs, with two figures of men, is
this, Ote p. a i a. JoKis Bulwer, qui obiit 9 die Aug.
Ao. Dni. i r, 1 7 , & p. a i a. Thoma Bulwer.— -filior. Ro~
geri Buhoer, qui obiit, 16 dieJuniiAo. Dni. 1518, quor.
a fab; p'piciet. Deus Amen. On the fame ftone the
following, Here lieth the body of Lydia Bulwer, daugh-
ter of William Bulwer, gent, and Frances his wife, of
}Vood-D ailing, who died March 21, 1726, aged 22
years.

On a large marble ftone, with the arms and creft
of Bulwer, Here lieth the body of John Bulwer, Efq;
of Wood-Dalling in the county of Norfolk, who died
Feb. 3, 1725, aged 72. On the fame ftone, Here
lieth the body of John Bulwer, junior,. who died June 19,
1722, aged 25.

On a ftone adjoining to the above, Here lieth the
body of Elh. Bulwer, sd daughter of William Bulwtr,
gent, la e of Wood-Dalling, and Frances his wife, who
departed this ij'e Sept, 5, 1742, aged 42 years.

In the north aile, or chapel, on plates of brafs,
are the following:

Ote p. dia. Matilda Bulwer, quond. uxis Rogeri
Buhver, qua obiit 30 die men/is Dccanb. Ao. Dni, 1463,
cui. a i a. ptitur l)eust amen.

Qtt

HUNDRED OF

Gte p. a i a. Margdrcta Bulwer , nup. ux

, (jiice obilt 28 die mcfis Dccebm Ao. Dni. 1487,
cuj. a i a. pptur Deus, amen.

Q"tc p. aia. Simonis Bulwer, qui otiti 17 die Jan.
cuj- flW?« pp'tur,. Dens, amm.

There arc alfo flones for John Bulwer, who died
Dec. 29, 1487, and Roger Bulwer, who died Dec.
18, 1517.

WOOD-NORTON. Part of this town
ed to the bifliQps of the Eaft Angles, and to the fee,
\vhen it was at North Elmham, in this county, and
when die fee was at Thetford.

Herbert bifliop of Norwich, on his foundation of
the priory of Norwich, gave this lordfliip to it, as
part of their endowment, and alfo granted lands,
Sec. to Edric Le Cat, in this town, Guift and Hin-
dolvejfton.

John Savile prefented to the church of All Saints
in 1503, in right of his wife, and fir Robert South-
well, as lord of the whole town, to All Saints and
St. Peter's churches, in 1509. From the South-
wells it came to the dean and chapter of Chrift
church in Oxford, who prefented in 1552. The
church is now confolidated ; the prefentation is in
the dean and chapter at this time, lords of the town,
and held of them by leafe.

NORTON-HALL. Rainald, fon of Ivo, had a lord-
ip, hdd by St. Edmund, in the Confeffor's time.
Walter Giffard had alfo feventy-two acres of land*

EYNSFORD. 141

It appears from Doomfday-book, that even reli-
gions houfes of the greateft diftinclion, were not
free from the depredations and plunder of the Nor-
man invaders, and the abbey of St. Edmund of Bu-
ry was deprived of this their lordfhip here, by RaU
nald, fon of Ivo.

Both thefe lordfhips abovementioned came to the
earls of Clare, from the Giffards, by marriage.

Hugo or Hugh de Norton, was lord, and father
of Henry. Robert de Norton, his fon, by Maud
his ,\vife, was father of Roger de Norton, who by
Alice his wife, had Robert his fon, Jans date.

John de Norton was lord in the 34th of Henry
III. and of Guellwiek ; and John his fon was liv-
ing in the 14th of Edward I. In 1308, Philip de
Norton, lord, prefented to the church of St. Peter
in this town, and held this manor of Gueftwick, of
the earl of Clare, by half a fee : he prefented alfo
in 1320, and Vincent de Norton in 1344 and 1349.

William de Norton was lord in- 1361, and pre-
fented to the aforefaid church ; but in the 131!! of
Richard II. it was found that this manor, with a
meffuage, two hundred and ten acres of land, 505*
rent per annum, with the advowfon of St. Peters
church, was held by John Rifing, as of the manor
of Penflhorpe, and of the honor of Clare, and
after by fir Robert Carbonell, as lord of Penf-
thorpe ; and that William Norton did not die feifed
of it, but as a convift ; and that Nicholaa his wife,
was now married to John Spoo. William fled be-
yond fea for fome crime, and the manor cfcheated
to the crown, and John Spoo and Nicholaa weie in

pofleflion

HUNDRED OF

poflcfllon of it, and prefcnted to St. Peter's chufch
in 1386.

After this it was in fir Thomas Genry, who pre-
fented in 1401 ; Thomas Geney, efq. in 1^15, and
fir Thomas Geney in 1416. John Rryfton, efq.
prefented as lord in 1424, and John Crane, efq. to
St. Peter's, in 1428.

In the 8th of Henry VI. there was an agreement,
dated April 20, between William prior of Norwich,
Sec. and their tenants, and William Pafton, one of
the king's juftices, fir Edmund Berry, and John
Crane, efq. feiied in fee of the manor of Wood-
Norton, and Lyng hall, and their tenants ; and
William Pafton, efq. of London, prefented to St.
Peter's, as lord, in 1485.

John Bernard, efq. of Norwich, by his will, dated
March 16, 1474, bequeaths his body to be buried
in the church of St. Michael of Coflany, Norwich ;
gives fums of money to the Friers Auftin, Cannes,
Dominicans there ; to the nuns of Carrowe, Met-
tingham college ; the churches of Guift, Gueftwick,
Burgh by Whetacres, St. Laurence, St. Margaret,
and St. John of Ilketefliall, in Suffolk ; to Ann his
wife, lol. per ann. his manor of Norton hall, and
rents called Clere rents, with a water-mill and fold-
courfe, for life, after to be fold by his executors,
and the money given to pious ufes ; his manor in
Eaii Dereham called Colbourns, alias Mowles, to be
fold, and his fwan mark in Norwich river to his wife
for life, after to be fold; proved June 7, 1474.
About this time Norton hall manor was valued at
61. igs. 4d. per ann.

E Y N S F O R D. 143

In 1509, fir Robert South-well, as lord, prefented
to St« Peter's and All Saints churches ; and in 1533,
fir Richard Southwell to St. Peter's ; and fir Rich-
ard, by his affigns, prefented to All Saints in 1540.

Soon after, May 16, in the 38th of Henry VIII.
it was granted to the king, by fir Richard, in ex-
change for certain abbey lands ; and Henry VIII.
gave it to the dean and chapter of Chrifl church in
Oxford, December 11, in his 38th year. In 1552,
the dean and chapter prefented, and the patronage
is now in that church.

There were two churches ftanding in this town
in the 5th of Henry V. as appears by the will of fir
Thomas Geney, of Brandifhm ; — All Saints, the va-
lue of which was five marks, Peter-pence sd. — Su
Peter's, the value five marks, Peter-pence yd. ob.
both reclories ; but St. Peter's has been dilapidated
long fmce, and confolidated with All Saints, the
prefent value of which is 7!. las. ad. ob.

All Saints church has no fteeple, but a frame for
bells in the church-yard.

George Watfon, D. D. died rector in 1750, and
the Rev. Edward Whitmcll was prefented to the rec-
tory of Wood-Norton All Saints, with Swanton No-
vers (confolidated June g, 1738) by the dean and
chapter of Chrift church, Oxon.

E Y N S F O R D. 145

BINTRY, alias BINTREE. This town is totally
omitted in Meffrs. Bloraefield and Parkin's account of
the hundred of Eynsford, nor is it mentioned in the
Magna Britannia: We were, by that means, led into
the fame omiflion, though not too late to add it
here.

The hiftory of this town is fo much connected
with that of Twiford, Foulfham, and Foxley, that
little more may be faid than a reference to thofe
towns.

HASTIXG'S MANOR was probably held by God-
tic, as king's fewer, or bailiff to the Conqueror, at
whofe death his manors efcheated to the crown.

The family of de Monte-Canifo, or Montchenfy,
had a grant of Godric's lands from Henry II. which
came by marriage to the Veres, earls of Oxford, and
for want of heirs male to Adomare de Valentia, carl
of Pembroke, in right of his lady. He died with-
out iffue in 1323, and his fifter, Ifabel, brought it to
John de Haft ings, lord Abcrgavenny, from whom
this manor had its name . i

How it afterwards paffed we are at a lofs to fay;
but fuppofe it muft have been feparated from Hail-
ing's manor, in Foxley, which is now in the family
of Hafe.

BINTRY MANOR, and Twiford, was under the
lordQiip of Walter Giffard, earl of Bucks, at the
furvey. The Marfhalls, earls of Pembroke, after-
wards held it, and the family of de Bintry, or Bintre,
was enfeofTed; held of the earl of Clare, in the reign
of king John.

From

i46 HUNDRED OF

From this family it came to the Curfons, and, after
a namber of changes, to the Holls.

Bv an indenture, dated May 5, 1608, James I. 6,
Thomas Holl conveyed to Sir Edward Coke, knt.
lord chief-juftice of the common-pleas, in confidera-
tion of 625!. the manor of Hafting's, and Bintres,
with, fundry lands, (beep-walks, and premifTes ; and
this eftate now continues in the Holkham family,
Thomas William Coke, Efq. being lord.

There is alfo another manor in this parifh now in
the poffefTion of Chrift's College, Cambridge, {tiled
Bintry on the part of ChrifCs College.

The land-tax of Mr. Coke's eftate is now i 61 1 25.
per ann. and the lands lie partly in Twiford, Foul-
fham, and ioxley, which parifhes, with Billingford
and North Elmham, are all contiguous to Biinry ;
and Elmham is divided from Bintry by the river
Wenfum, which alfo divides the hundred of Eyns-
ford from Launditch, The fheep-walk extends over
Twiford-field as well as Bintry.

In the i5th of Edward I. 1287, William de
Mar(hall, or Marefchal, held Bintry of the earl of
Gloucefter, and honor of Clare, who held it in capic.
He had view of frank- pledge, aiTize of bread and
beer, a gallows, 8cc. It came by marriage to the
lords Morley.

Oliva de MareFchall in the 351!! of Henry III.
gave the priory of Walfingham twelve acres of land,
an loos, rent, with a fould-courfe, fifhery, Sec. here
and in FouKbam ; and in 1428 the temporalities
were valued at al. 1 *s. per annum,.

E Y N S F O R D. 147

John de Havering granted to the abbey of Creak,
or de Praia, fourteen in arks and forty pence in Bin try
and Foti'.fham, by fin?, in the 5 •jth of Henry III.
This lordfhip, on the general diffolution of religious
houfes.. was grantt-d by Henry VIII. to ChrifVs Col-
lege, Cambridge, and is now he'd of that college by
the title of Biniry on the part cf Qhrifis College.

Rintry church is a reclory, rated in the king's
books at lol. and remains charged. '1 ne advowfon
is in the Melton family, and fir Edward Aftiey, bart.
prefcnted the Rev, James Athill, ia 1771, who is the
prefent incumbent.

The village of Rintry lies on the road from Fa-
kenhatn to Norwich, about fixteeu miles from the
latter.

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