Preston, Esq. his son and heir, lord of this manor; Sir Isaac was knighted at White-hall, by King William, in 1695.

In 1755, Isaac Preston, Esq. presented as lord and patron.
The tenths were 17. 15s.—Deducted 20s.

The CHURCH is a rectory dedicated to St. Laurence, valued at 5 marks in the reign of Edward I. when William de Stalham was lord and patron; the rector had a manse, and 20 acres, the abbot of St. Bennet had a portion of 3s. per ann. Peter-pence 7d. the present valor is 67. and is discharged.

RECTORS.

Jeffrey, occurs rector in 1299.

1328, William Wyth, instituted, presented by Sir Jeff. Wyth. 1338, Robert Attefaldgate, by the Bishop, a lapse.

1342, John de Lexham, by Sir Oliver Wythe.

1975, Henry Stoket. Ditto.

1375, Henry Stoket, by Amicia, relict of Sir Jeff. Wyth. 1376, John de Lexham. Ditto.

1380, Jeff. Glegg, by the Bishop, a lapse.

1385, Robert de Kilverston, by John Wythe.

1388, Richard Byshop, by John Blondelle and Amicia his wife,

relict of Sir Jeff. Wythe.

1403, John Stone, by Sir William Calthorpe.

1404, Henry Poyt. Ditto..

1413, Mr. John Walden, by John Calthorp, Esq.

1424, Richard Bowell, by Henry Inglose.

1428, Reginald Peper, by Sir Henry Inglose and Amy his wife.

Mr. Robert Peppy, rector.

1439, Henry Droughelyn, by Sir Henry Inglose and Ann his wife, in right of the manor of Smalburgh.

1460, Mr. Robert Bennet, LL.B. by William Calthorp, Esq.

1463, Nicholas Frenge. Ditto,

1466, Reginald Steyn. Ditto.

1481, Robert Calhowe, by Sir William Calthorpe.

1493, Ad. Swayn. Ditto.

1514, Thomas Alman.

1550, Hamon Chaunte, by Sir Henry Parker, and Elizabeth his wife

1557, George Vicars, by Sir William Woodhouse and Elizabeth his wife.

1562, John Kydley. Ditto.

John Fenton, rector.

1579, Edmund Drury, by Sir Phil. Parker.

1586, Richard Jackson, by the Queen.

1608, Anth. Drury, by the Bishop, and the King.

1609, George Tayler, by Sir Henry Hobart.

Samuel Gold, rector.

1631, Edmund Claxton Ditto.

1658, Richard Jackson, by Jacob Preston, Esq.

1670, Charles Preston, by Jacob Preston, Esq.

1715, Thomas Bampfield, rector, by James Preston, Esq. 1724, John Huntington. Ditto.

Thomas Fasset, rector, in 1755, on Huntington's death, by Isaac Preston, Esq.

The CHURCH is a single pile, with a chancel, covered with reed, and has a round tower, with one bell; against the north wall of the chancel is a mural monument of white marble,

M.S. Isaacj Preston, Equitis aurati, virj dignissimi tam regie majestatis quam patria, libertatis, jurisq; humani generis vindicis eximij; suis et omnib; benevolentissimi duab; uxorib; morum probitate conspicuis, felicissimi. Prima Elizabetha filia et hæretrix Carol Georgij Cock, Armig, et Annæ uxoris ejus, hæretricis Ricardj Bond, Gen. lata fuit sobolis mater, altera Elizabetha relicta Gulielmi Woorts Generosi, filia fuit Riches Brown, Armig. novercas inter optimas prima. Hoc monumentum Jacob Preston, filius et hæres gratus, maærensq; posuit 4°. are Christiana, MDCCVIII. Gloria Deo, pax hominib;

On a monument, ermin, on a chief sable, three crescents, argent, Preston, with Cock, quarterly, gules and argent, in an escutcheon of pretence; also Preston impaling Cock, and Preston impaling Brown, two barrulets between three spears heads.

Near this lie 3 marble grave-stones; one

In memory of Sir Isaac, who died December 8, 1708, aged 68 and 8 months; another-In memory of Eliz. his first wife, who died Nov. 3, 1687, atat. 37.--The 3d-For Dame Eliz. his 2d wife, widow of William Woorts of Trunch, and daughter of Riches Brown of Fulmodeston, Esq. in Norfolk. who died Aug. 24, 1698.

Under the north wall is an altar tomb,

D.S. Hic requiescit Francisca nuper charissima uxor Jac. Preston, filia et hæres Isaacj Appleton, equitis auratj, e qua suscepit filios, Isaac, Johan. Tho. Jacob. Franc. et Calorum, obt. filia piissima, uxor fidelissima, parens indulgentissima, soror amantissima, mater familiis prudentissima, pauperib; opulentissima, et omnib; benevolentissima, 20 die Martij, anno salutis M. DC.LXXIII, ætat. LXIII; and the arms of Preston, impaling Appleton, argent a fess, sable, between three apples stalked, proper.

In dormitorie infra fact. jacet etiam Jacob Preston, Armiger, maritus Francisca, qui obt. 30, Sept. A°. 1683, ætat. 70.

Hic jacet Thomasina, nup. uxor Jacob Preston de vet. Buckenham in comit. Norf. Gen. quæ obt. 25 Nov. 1658, Æ°. ætat. 82.

In the church were the arms of Boyland, azure, a saltire engrailed or also azure, three bucks heads cabos'd, gules; and argent, a fess between three cornish crows, proper.

In the church was the guild of St. Laurence.

Sir Jeff. Wythe, Knt. was buried in the chancel in 1373.

BACTO N.

THIS town was granted by the Conqueror, to Robert Mallet, one of his principal barons, lord of the honour of Eye in Suffolk, and at the survey was held of that honour by Rodbert. Edric was deprived

of it.

It consisted of 3 carucates of land, 14 villains, 3 borderers and 4 servi in the time of the Confessor, with $ carucates in demean, 5 among the tenants, and 14 acres of meadow, paunage for 60 swine, 2 runci, one cow, &c. 180 sheep, and 16 goats. Twenty-eight socmen had 178 acres, and there were 10 carucates; 14 freemen also, and the moiety of another, possessed 2 carucates of land, and 33 acres; and 11 borderers had 10 carucates and an half, with 5 acres of meadow, valued at 110s. and what the free-men held at 40s.; it was one leuca long, and one broad, and paid 15d. gelt.

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The ancient family of De Glanvile was soon after the Conquest enfeoffed by the Lord Mallet, of this valuable lordship. William de Glanville, son of Robert, held it in the reign of Henry I. from whom descended William de Glanvile, lord in the reign of Richard I. who dying sans issue. Jeffrey his brother succeeded him, and was lord of this town, Dallinghow, and Alderton in Suffolk, and left his inheritance at his death in the beginning of King Henry the Third's reign, to his five sisters and coheirs, among whom this lordship was divided, viz. -Agnes, the wife of Baldwin, a Norman ;-Emma, to John de Grey; Basilia, the third sister, married and left a daughter and heir, Isabel, who was the wife of William de Boyvill;-Elizabeth, was the wife of Almary Peche, and Juliana, the 5th, died s. p.

EARL OF CORNWALL'S MANOR.

On, or before the death of Baldwin, the Norman, King Henry III. seized on his part, and gave it to his brother Richard Earl of Cornwall. Edmund, his son, inherited it in the 15th of Edward I. had wreck at sea, assise of bread and beer, frank pledge, free-warren, weyf, &c. and

* Terre Roberti Malet Baketuna tenet Rodt. qua' tenuit Edric. T. R. E. iii car. tre. tc. xiii vill. mo. x et iii bord. t'nc. iii ser. mo. iii semp. iii car. in d❜nio. tnc. v car. hom. p'. et mo xiiii ac. p'ti. silva LX porc. semp. ii mol. mo. ii r. et i an. tc'. viii porc. mo. xiii t'nc. CLXxx ov. mo. L, ẹt xvi cap. VOL. XI.

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et xxviii soc. CLXXviii ac. t'nc. et p'. x car. mo. viiii et dim. et xiiii lib. ho es et dim. ii car. tre. et xxxiii ac. semp. xi bord. sep. x car. et dim. et v ac. p'ti. semp. val. cx sol. et lib. ho'es val. XL sol. et ht. i leug in long, et i leug, in lato. et xvd. de gelt.

a gallows; on his death 4°. 28 of Edward I. it was extended at 127. 19s. 74d. and was enjoyed by Margaret, his widow, on whose decease it came to the Crown, and was granted in the 6th of Edward II. to the priory here, as will after appear.

HUNTINGFIELD'S MANOR.

John de Grey, by Emma his wife, had a daughter and heir, Emma, who brought this part by marriage to William de Hunting field, who was probably son of Roger de Hunting feld, (who was living in the Soth of Henry II.) by Sibill de Harleton of Cambridgeshire, his wife.

In the 15th of King John, William de Hunting field was sheriff of Norfolk, and Suffolk, and an accountant with Alberic de Vere Earl of Oxford, Robert Fitz Roger, Ralph Wolf, Eustace de Basingham, &c. for the customs of Norfolk and Suffolk.

Sir Roger de Hunting field was lord in 1271, and had a chapel in his manor house, which the prior and convent of Bromholm had granted him leave to erect, and on that grant, covenants, that every chaplain who should officiate therein, should take an oath to pay all oblations, &c. to the vicar, take no confession of any of the parish, and that on every holiday the vicar might send to the chapel and receive all oblations, &c. that there should be but one bell in the chapel for the sacrament, and for default of this the chapel might be suspended. To witness this there was the seal of the consistory of Norwich, with that of the dean of Waxtenham, &c. dated at Bromholm, 18 Kal. of May,

It being represented to King Henry III. in his 39th year, that Roger de Hunting field had sent to his assistance in Gascoign, And. de Gayzi, his knight, who had performed laudable service, the sheriff of Suffolk had an order that the demand of 60 marks due from him to the King should be excused.

In the 7th of Edward I. an agreement between William de Hunting field, and John de Engain was enrolled, that Roger, eldest son of Willium, should marry Jocosa, eldest daughter of John.

Roger de Hunting field was lord of Huntingfield, and Mendham in Suffolk, in the 19th of the said King.

In the 25th of that King, Joan de Hunting field, died seised of this manor, and of Bokesworth in Cambridgeshire, and in the 31st Roger died lord, and William was his son and heir.

William, son and heir of Roger, son of William, died in the 7th of Edward II. and in the 13th of that King, Walter de Norwich, a Baron of the Exchequer, owed 18l. for the farm of the custody of the third part of the manor of Hunting field, in Suffolk, late William de Hunting field's, which Sibilla his widow held in dower, after whose death it was in the King's hands by the minority of Roger, his son and heir. In the 3d of Edward III. Roger de Hunting field and Alianore his wife, were found to hold of Queen Isabel, as of the honour of Eye, half a fee in Buketon, and Roger was their son and heir, as appears by the escheat rolls; and in the 17th of that King, Richard de Keleshull conveyed by fine to Thomas de Sywardeby and Elizabeth his wife, the moiety of 15 messuages, 120 acres of land, 6 of meadow, 15 of pasture,

6 of moor, 6 of marsh, 15 of heath, with 47. rent in Bacton, Bromholm, Paston, &c. the manor of Harleton in Cambridgeshire, to be enjoyed after the death of Alianore, widow of Roger de Hunting field, by Richurd for life, remainder to Thomas, and Elizabeth, and their heirs; Elizabeth probably was sister and heir of Roger, and Sir Thomas de Sywardeby was her husband, but in the 20th of Edward II. she was the wife of Richard Frances of Winepol in Cambridgeshire, as appears by a like fine, and Richard de Keleshull was then husband of Alianore. In the 39th of the said reign, John de Norwich, citizen and draper of London and Alianore his wife, conveyed the moiety of Huntingfield Hall, in Bacton, to John de Somerton, which Sir Richard de Keleshull held for life; after this in the 48th year, Agnes Atteforth, Thomas de Hakeforth, and Emma his wife, John Browning and Joan his wife, John Swan and Agnes his wife, conveyed it to John de Pie shale, &c. which John de Somerton held for life, by the tenth part of a fee.

In the 3d of Henry IV. William Sywardeby was lord, and in the 36th of Henry VI. Elizabeth, late wife of William, son of William de Sywardeby of Sywardeby in Yorkshire, released to Agnes Paston, and John Paston, Esq. her son, the manor of Hunting field-hall, and all the lands late Roger de Hunting field's, and William her husband's, here in Witton, &c. and in the said year, Jeff. Pigot and Margaret his wife, daughter and coheir of William Sywurdeby, conveyed to them their right.

In the family of Paston it continued, Sir William Paston dying seised of it in 1611.

LATIMER'S HALL.

Basilia, the third daughter and coheir, left a daughter and heir Isabel, who brought her interest herein, to William de Boyvill, who with his wife Isabel, presented to the church of Alderton in Suffolk, in the reign of Edward I.

From the Bovils it came to the Latimers, and Thomas le Latimer was lord in the 9th of Edward II.

In the 34th of Edward III. Thomas de Wing feld and Margaret his wife, conveyed the manor of Latimer's Hall, to William Attefen, and Peter his son, with the homages and services of divers persons, and in the 6th of Henry VI. Thomas Attefen conveyed it to William Paston, Esq. Peter Savage and Christiana his wife, widow of Hugh Attefen, then holding it for life.

PECHE'S HALL.

Elizabeth, fourth daughter and coheir, brought her part by marriage to Almaric Peche, and left Edmund Peche her son and heir, father of Thomas, whose son Thomas was living in the 5th of Edward II.

In the 24th of Edward I. Edmund Earl of Cornwall, granted to Mr. John de Walcot, the wardship of William de Leach, heir of Richard