VICARS. In 1309, Richard Weston was instituted vicar, collated by the Bishop of Norwich. 1820, Oliver de Wycton. Ditto. 1325, Robert Folsham. Ditto. 1352, William de Weston. Ditto. 1361, John de Gunton, presented by the abbot, &c. of Sibton, on the Bishop's nomination. 1366, William de Cavingham, by the Bishop. 1377, Adam de Blofield, by the King, the temporalities of the abbey, then in the King. 1384, William Hacon, by the King. 1393, Sim. Bond, by the Bishop. 1402, John Bek. Ditto. 1404, Edmund Ray. Ditto. 1419, John Swetenham. Ditto. 1422, John Cuppere. Ditto. 1434, John Kentyng. Ditto. 1436, John Biskele. Ditto. 1439, Thomas Elys. Ditto. 1441, Roger Coton. Ditto. The patronage of the vicarage, with the appropriated rectory, was granted on July 31, in the 28th of Henry VIII. to Thomas Howard Duke of Norfolk, on whose attainder coming into the Crown, was granted on July 1, 4°. 7th of Edward VI. to Edward Spanye, and John Baspole, with the messuages, called Tytley house, or manor, &c. to be held in soccage, and finding a curate, or chaplain, on their paying 4367. 13s. 7d. to the Crown. It is at present a curacy, and held with Moulton. On September 10, 4°. 39th of Henry VI. John Bunyard, and Robert Banyard, let to farm to Thomas, abbot of Sibton, and the convent, a messuage, late Thomas Allen's, citizen and spicer of Norwich, formerly John Atte Lees, with all the lands, rents, and services, &c. which they lately had of William Yelverton, the judge, Robert Toppys, which they jointly purchased with Allen deceased, of Thomas Titelowe, late burgess of Yarmouth Magna, for 30 years, paying 6 marks per ann. this was what was granted to Edward Spanye, &c. at the Dissolution. From the Spaneys, it came by the marriage of Jane, daughter of John Spaney, to Thomas Jenkinson, son of John Jenkinson of Norwich. Richard Jenkinson was lord in the 21st of Elizabeth; he married Margery, daughter of Thomas Ward of Broke, and had Thomas his son and heir, born in 1577, and was living in 22d of James I. in the said year on September 1, he conveyed the appropriated rectory to Sir John Hobart, but the lordship was in his son, Miles Jenkinson, who died in prison at Norwich, bis widow held it in 1702, her son Thomas died single, but her daughter was married. On the 23d of July, in the 37th of Henry VIII. Sir Thomas Clere had a grant of Child's marsh in Tunstall, late belonging to Henringbye college, with messuages and lands. In the chancel window, sable, a fess, between three eaglets displayed, or, Spaney's arms. REEDHA M.. WILLIAM DE SCOHIES had a grant of this lordship of Reedham, which Brietric, a Saxon, possessed in King Edward's reign, and was deprived on the conquest; it consisted of a carucate of land, (and Richard held it under Scolies at the survey) 11 borderers, and 3 servi, &c. one carucate and a half in demean, &c. one carucate and a half among the tenants, with 20 acres of meadow, valued at 40s. at the survey at 60s. one leuca and 3 furlongs long, and half a leuca broad, paid 16d. gelt whoever held it. There was one church endowed with 40 acres, valued at 6s. and 8d.? The abbot of Holm claimed one socman with 40 acres of land, and claims at present a borderer, and one acre of land, as the hundred witnesses. There is an old tradition relating to this town, mentioned by historians, which is not to be passed by;" Lodbroc, said to be a Danish king, but supposed by Sir John Spilman to have been King of Zeland, hawking among certain little islands, in a boat, was by a sudden tempest carried out to sea, and drove ashore here, and brought to Edmund, King of the East Angles, then residing at Castor in Flegg, who being pleased with his behaviour, fortune, and great skill in hunting, Bern, the king's falconer, envying him, murdered him privately in a wood. Lothbrok's dog was observed in a day or two, to come to the King's house, half famished, and as soon as fed to be gone again, and being on the King's command watched, brought them to the body of his dead master. Bern being found guilty of this murder, was condemned to be put into the boat that Lothbrock arrived in, and committed to the mercy of the sea, without provision or tackle. This boat being providentially driven on the same place it came from, and known, Bern was seised, 9 Terra Willi. de Scohies- -In Redeham ten. Bretric. T. R. E. ii car. t're. mo. tenet Ricard. p. man sep. xi bor. tc. iii fer. p. et mo. i tc. i car. et dim. in dn’io. mol. i sep i car. et dim. ho'um. xx ac. p'ti. tc. val. xf mo. Ix sol. ht. i leug. in long. et iii qr. et dim. i leug. in lat. et de gelto xvid. q'cu'q;, VOL. XI. R and to save himself, declared that Lothbrock, on his arrival into England had been killed by order of King Edmund. Hingur, and Hubba, the 2 sons of Lothbroc, swearing revenge, invaded with 20,000 men, Edmund's kingdom of the East-Angles, attended by Bern the traitor, and by them Edmund was barbarously murdered, in the year 870. The truth of this tradition may be justly called in question, on many accounts. It is not to be credited, that Lothbroc, in his great distress, would have passed by Yarmouth, at the mouth of the river Yar, and gone up in search of another port or place, especially as Yarmouth was at that time, and long before, a port, and a place of fame in the time of the Britons and Romans. Richard, who held this lordship under Scohies at the survey, was probably father of Asketel, and assumed the name of Redham, according to the custom of that age. Asketel de Redham was living, as the register of Holm abbey testifies, in the time of Richard, abbot of Holm, which was in 1125. Osbern de Redham seems to be his son, was lord of Redham Hall, and also held the 5th part of a fee in this town, in the time of Anselm abbot of Holm, (about 1150) of the said abbey. Stephen, son of Osbern, was lord in the 12th of Henry II. Osbern had also a son and heir, Bartholomew de Redham, whose son Stephen, in an assise, brought the S0th of Henry III. for the church of Scothow, was then living.+ In the 44th of Henry III. Stephen de Redham, son of Bartholomew, manumised certain villains here. In the said year, William de Redham and Matthew his son, granted Stephen the liberty of hunting in their warren here, and of fishing in Wollun mead, and catching of birds, with the services of some persons; and Ralph, parson of the church, granted to Stephen a way without the ditch of Stephen's court, between the churchyard, and the said court, 3 feet broad, from the gate of the said court to the east, and from the said court to the west, by the said churchyard, such a breadth, that one cart may pass another. William son of Mathew de Redham, conveyed by fine in the 52d of Henry III. 160 acres of marsh in Redham, to Langley abbey, &c. Bartholomew was son of Stephen, and a knight, in the 13th of Edward I. had 2 sons, Sir Stephen, and William, rector of Irstede, and heir to his brother. Sir Stephen dying s. p. the inheritance 'came to the other branch of the Redhams. Sir William de Redham, granted in the 10th of Edward I. to The abbot of Holm all his right of fishery, from Weybridge to the abbey; witnesses, Sir Thomas Rosceline, and Sir Burtholomew Redham; he was sheriff of Norfolk in the 8th, 20th, and 21st of Edward I. In the 15th of that King, he claimed free warren, the assise, gallows, &c. and died in the 22d of the said King, in the time of his being sheriff, when William his son answered for him, and he died in the 19th of Edward II. William his son and heir, by Joan his wife, being aged 26, had Regist. Holm. fol. 25. 4 Reg. Holm. fol. 87. 3 Reg fol. 27.-Lib. Rub. Si'cij. * Reg. fol. 136. livery of this lordship, held of Jeffrey de Say, of the barony of Lewis; in 1327 he presented to the church of Redham, and to Stokeby, in 1357. In the 15th of Edward III this lordship was settled on him and Maud his wife for life, remainder on William and John their sons in tail, and died before the year 1339. William Pavy of Gissing, and Maud his wife, late wife of William de Redham, presented, having recovered her right against William de Redham, (her son, as I take it,) and the said Maud presented also in 1855. Sir William de Redham, son of William and Maud his wife, married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert de Caston, by Joan his wife, daughter and heir of Richard Barry, Esq. lord of Rockland-Tofts, by whom he had a daughter and heir Margaret, who married Thomas Berney, Esq. 2d son of John Berney, Esq. of Witchingham. This Thomas had large possessions in his right, as heir to the Reedhams, Castons, &c. with the lordship of this town, and was knight; his will is dated on Thursday next after the feast of AllSaints, in 1383, and was buried at Reedham, being proved on November 21; Margery his wife survived, and married John Copledike, Esq. and they presented to Reedham church in 1391.° This family of the Berneys take their name from the town of Berney in the hundred of North Greenhow in Norfolk, wrote in Domesday book Berlej. The history of the baronetage,' says " that the first we find mentioned is Roger de Berney, whose son Richard de Berney, by Catherine, daughter of Roger Gyney, Esq. had issue Henry de Berney, living in 1268." Gyney bore paly of six, or and gules, a chief, ermine. That the family had an interest in the town of Berney, soon after the conquest, may in a good measure be proved from the assuming the name of it, which was the custom and practice at that time, of all who held any lordships, and it is very probable that William, who was enfeoffed of the town of Berney, and held it at the time of the grand survey under Peter Lord Valoines, the capital lord of it, was ancestor of the family. To confirm this, we find by the register of Binham priory, that Ralph the prior gave to Adam de Berney, their man, that is, one that held lands of them, and his heirs, 50, and 67 acres in the said town. This Ralph was living in the reign of Henry II. 4o. 1174, when Tengrin was archdeacon of Norwich, and Adam being in this grant styled the prior's man, that title sets forth that he held other lands or a manor of that priory, to which religious house, the Lord Nalvines, on his foundation of it, had granted the manor of Berney, to be held in capitę. Adam de Mota, prior about 1267, confirmed to Henry de Berney for life, one foldcourse, and another to him and his heirs. Henry de Berney, son of Richard, as the pedigree says, was father of John, by- his wife, daughter of Sir John de Harsike, which John resided much at his house in Norwich, called Berney's-Inn. Joan his wife was daughter of Bartholomew de Witchingham, by whom came the estate in that town,) he had a son John, and a daughter Margaret, married to Peter de Naunton, son of Bartholomew de Naunton. This John lived at Witchingham, was one of the burgesses for the city of Norwich in the 9th of Edwurd III. in the 19th of that King was a commissioner in an inquisition on a writ of Quod Damnum, concerning the fee of the castle of Norwich. In the following year was knight of the shire of Norfolk; also in the 22d of the said King, with Robert Clere, Esq. and were allowed 147. 10s. for 34 days attendance; he served also in parliament in the 31st of that reign, and had allowed for 34 days attendance, 67. 8s. The above John was an eminent lawyer; his will is dated at Norwich on Thursday, February 23, in the 48th of Edward III. wherein he desires to be buried in the chapel of St. Anne in the church of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, by his late wife Joan, if the prior and convent will grant leave, if not, in the chapel of St. Aun, built by him and annexed to the parish church of Burgh by Apton, by Sarah his late wife, and names Catherine his wife, then living, Robert and Thomas his sons by Sarah, Alice his daughter, (married to Richard Holditch, Esq. of Didlington,) Isabel his daughter, and Agnes de Berney, his aunt; gives 57. to repair the cathedral of Norwich; 30s. to the prior, to Joseph a monk there, 20s. to every monk 2s. 261. to keep his seventh, and S0th day after his burial, and founded an anniversary on the day of his death, when the monks were to have 20s. for a pittance, besides wine; orders five wax tapers of 5 pound weight each, and 7 torches, to be set by his coffin in the church at his burial. In the 5th of Edward III. a fine was levied between this John de Berney and Sarah his wife, querents, Bartholomew Bateman and Petronilla his wife, John de Aire, and Arabella his wife, deforcients, of lands in Bergh, Thurton, Sything, and Mendham, part of which, Agnes, widow of Henry de Heylesdon, held for life. This Sarah his wife was a daughter of Sir Bartholomew Bateman; Catherine, his 3d wife, was daughter of Peter de Bedingfield. By the escheat rolls, in the 48th of Edward III. he was found to hold the manor of Fishley with lands in Wychingham, Newton, Bergh, Flotman, and Swenestohrp, and he is said not to have been (as the pedigree sets forth) the son of Henry, but of Richard de Berney and Alice his wife. Robert his son was a knight batchelor of John Duke of Lancaster, and of Wichingham; so that we return to Thomas his brother, who married Margaret, daughter and heir of Sir William de Redham, from whom is the following descent and pedigree. • Reg. Heydon. 9 Fin. Norf. L. 1. 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