BRIAN'S MANOR. In 1821, Sir Ralph de Skeyton released to Alice Breton, and her heirs, and to Robert Brian of Felmingham and Hawise bis wife, and their heirs, all his heirs, claim in the homages, services, &c. which they held of him, and in the 26th of Edward III. William Bryan of Felmingham, and Joan his wife, were querents, and William de Wychingham, deforciant, who settled on Bryan, a lordship 5 messuages, 80, acres of land, with 28s. rent. Sir Henry Inglose, by his will will, proved 1451, ordered his manor of Bryans here to be sold. In the 2d of Edward II. Thomas de Antingham passed by fine to Geff. Sybille, of this town, lands here, and Bartholomew de Antingham died seized of a manor in the 39th of Edward III. John, son of Roger Leese, and Christiana, his wife, convey to William de Smalburgh, and his heirs, the moiety of the manor of Felmingham, with messuages, rents, &c. here, in Antingham, &c. to be held of the heirs of Christiana, and in the next year Thomas Atte Grene and Alice his wife, granted by fine their right or share to Thomas Flitcham. The abbot of St. Bennet at Holm held at the survey, and before, 77 acres, with 5 borderers, one carucate in demean, and half a one among the tenants, and an acre of meadow, 4 socmen also had 50 acres, a carucate and an acre of meadow: there was a church with 2 acres, valued at 20s." This remained always in the said abbey, and the temporalities were valued in 1428, at 27s. 4d. ob. Robert Rugg, citizen and alderman of Norwich, farmed it in the 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary, of the Bishop of Norwich, at 61. 13s. 4d. per ann. and was called the Chamberer's manor, with the fishery, &c. and extended into North Walsham, &c. William Rugg, Esq. son of Robert, was heir to his uncle, the Bishop, and lived here, as did this son Thomas. 8 The family of Rugg, took their name from a lordship, or hamlet in the town of Pattingham in Staffordshire, and were of good degree and eminency; the younger branch came into Norfolk in the 49th of Edward III. Nicholas Rugg, second son of John Rugg, of Rugg, seated himself there, and was father of Clement Rugge, who was living in the 12th of Henry IV. his son William was father of Thomas Rugge, who occurs in the 23d of Henry VI.; and left Robert Rugge of North Repps, his son and heir, in the 2d of Edward IV. father of William, whose son Robert lived in the 1st of Edward V. and was father of William, of North Repps, Gent. 7 Tre Sci Bened. de Holmo- -In Felmincham, ten sep. S. B. Lxxvii ac. sep. v bor. i car. in d'nio. et dim, car. hom i ac. pti et iiii soc. L ac. i car. et i ac. p'ti ecclie ii ac. val. xx sol. William de Rugg, was father of William, under age in the 56th of William Rugge, Esq. of Felmingham, is said to have changed his arms, per fess, sable and argent, and unicorn saliant, counterchanged, armed, mained and unguled or, to that of gules, a chevron engrailed, between three mullets pierced, argent; but Richard de Rugge, who lived in the 2d of Richard III. and the Bishop of Norwich, bore, as it appears, this last coat. The tenths were 8.-Deducted 11. 6s. 8d. The CHURCH is dedicated to St. Andrew, and there were 4 portions, or parts belonging to it, 3 of which were appropriated to the abbey of St. Bennet of Holm, who had a manse, with one acre and a half of land, and these were valued at 27 marks; this was in the time of Walter Suffeld Bishop of Norwich, and a vicarage was founded, valued at 51.-Peter-pence 15d. ob.; the present valor of the rectory is 67. and is discharged. Before this appropriation, Richard was rector of one portion, and died sans date. William, son of Isaac, was about this time (temp. Henry II.) the true patron; after him, Robert, the chaplain of Felmingham, held the whole church, and so did Master Roger, son of the said Robert, and Thomas, the archdeacon, held the same on the presentation of Thomas, abbot of Holm, in the time of John of Oxford, Bishop of Norwich, in whose time a division was first made, on the claim of Abraham, father of Isaac, in the King's court; on which the 3 parts of the church belonged to one rector, presented by the abbot, and the 4th part, or portion, to another rector, to be presented by the said Abraham and his successours. Of this 4th part William de Wroxham was rector, then Hubert Walter, which Hubert, (as I take it,) was afterwards, Archbishop of Canterbury, who resigned it to master Thomas de Weston, then Richard, who held it 28 years, on the presentation of Isaac his brother. 9 Reg. Holm fol. 96. Penes Decan. et Cap. Norw. fol. 42. RECTORS. John Sampson, occurs rector 1267. 1308, John de Helmingham, by Gregory de Felmingham. 1522, Gregory Ryghtwys, by John Ryghtwys. 1349, Nigel Broun, by John de Whytwell. 1378, Abraham Whitwell, by Sir William Wychingham. 1417, John London, by John Whytewell of Felmingham, who had 5 parts of the manor of Felmingham, and so a right to present successively 5 times. 1431, William Brewer, by Thomas Whytewell. 1482, Robert Cosyn. Ditto. 1440, Edward Randold. Ditto. 1460, William Richards, by Richard Whytewell. 1470, Peter Norman. Dilto. 1485, Jeff. Knight. 1496, Robert Aschue, by John Whytewell. 1536, Thomas Baker, by ditto. 1553, William Greneway, by James Hartstrong, Gent. assignee of Ann Crofts, widow, and united to the vicarage. 1559, Thomas Rogerson, by Thomas Crofts. 1566, William Colles. Ditto. 1578, Robert Grene. Ditto. 1584, Richard Sadlington; in 1603, he returned 211 communicants. 1604, Thomas Canham. 1604, William Starkey, by the Bishop. 1661, Edmund Chetham, by Steph. Burrell, Gent. 1664, Benjamin Need, by Giles Bladwell, Esq. 1703, John Furse, by Giles Bladwell." 1722, William Webb, to a fourth part, on the death of Barry Love, by James Johnson, hac vice. 1754, Arthur Branthwait, on Webb's death, by Thomas Sotherton, Esq. and Mary his wife. 1756, Robert le Grys, by Thomas Sotherton, &c. Mr. Talman, patron of the rectory in 1742. The present valor of the vicarage is 67. and is discharged. VICARS. Robert, occurs vicar in 1299. 1316, Richard Attlebrigg, instituted, presented by the abbot of Holm. 1328, William Merle. Ditto. 1349, Roger Norman, by the King, in the vacancy of an abbot. 1361, John Smith, by the abbot. 1371, Robert Sefrey. 1373, Simon Reed. 1381, John de Taverner. 1386, Ralph Aleyn. 1390, John Beene. 1596, Thomas Smyth. John Baxtere, vicar. 1418, John Caldwell. 1418, Thomas Kydelond. 1433, Thomas Turnham. 1436, Hugh Cley. 1442, Thomas Turnham, by the Bishop, a lapse. 1451, Peter Newman, by the abbot. 3469, Ad. Mydylgate. 1475, William Upgate. Rober Laudinel, occurs in 1483. Roger Blethu, vicar 1491, Thomas Colby. 1532, John Berry. 1555, William Greneway. 1584, Richard Sadlington, by the Bishop. Thomas Canham. 1604, William Starkey. Ditto. 1661, Edmund Chetham, by Steph. Burrell, Gent. 1664, Benjamin Neede, by Giles Bladwell, Esq. 1703, John Furse, by Giles Bladwell. Step. Norris died vicar in 1749, and George Molden presented by the King. On a grave-stone for John Whitwell, his arms; also on one for John Wichingham, and Brampion, and their arms. In the church also a tomb, For Thomas Jermy, Esq; who died 1503, and his two wives, Ann Yelverton, and Elizabeth Brampton, and their arms; and Jermy, and Mountney, and Wroth. Here were the guilds of St. Andrew, St. Peter, St. Mary, and the image of our Lady of Pity in the south isle, called St Mary's chapel, also the guild of St. John Baptist, and his chapel. The lights of St. Andrew, his tabernacle and image, of St. Erusmus, St. Christopher;-the Plow light of Marshgate, and that of Stowgate, of St. Nicholas, and that of the great crucifix. HOFTON, OR Hoveton, as it is wrote in the survey, takes its name from its site, from Ho, or Hou, a hill by the water. It was then a lordship belonging to St. Bennet's abbey of Holm, and was possessed by Ralph Stalra, in the Confessor's time, when there were 6 carucates of land, 4 villains, 6 borderers, and 2 carucates in demean, with 3 among the tenants, paunage for 16 swine, and 10 acres of meadow,. and 4 socmen, a carucate and half, and 30 acres, 5 villains, 11 borderers had 5 carucates and a half, and one socman had 28 acres, and 7 socmen 110 acres, and 5 carucates and an half, valued then at 77. at the survey at 100s. was one leuca and 2 furlongs long, and half a leuca broad, paid 18d. gelt, and there were 2 churches endowed with 16 acres.' Several tenures, or manors arose from this, held of the abbot. In the reign of Henry III. the rent of assise of the abbot's manor' was 41. 2s. 4d. arable land, 64s. meadow, 2s. 6d. In the 9th of Edward II. all these persons were returned to have an interest herein. The abbot of Holm, Jeff. Wyche, the lady Cockfield, John de Lenn, Ralph de Bagethorpe, Ralph de Grelley, William Flegg, William Claver, John Greengate, &c. and in Ashmanhagh. In 1428, the temporalities of the abbot in Hoveton St. John, were valued at 12/. 7s. 8d. and Hoveton St. Peter's, at 112s. 9d. this last being the cellarer's lordship. In the 24th of Henry VIII. William Rugg, abbot of St. Bennet's, conveyed the manor of Greengate to Robert Rugg, his brother, alderman of Norwich, which the said Robert held in 1558, with that of Spicer's, alias Berds, in Hoveton St. John, and St. Peter, Tunsted, Below, and Ashmanagh, the last sold to him also by the late abbot, his brother. In the 26th of Henry VIII. Robert Kebyll and Agnes his wife, and Thomas Kebyll, convey to Sir John Heydon, the manor of Morehouse, or Morehall, in Hoveton St. John's 10 messuages, land, and 40s. rent, and in the 5th of Edward VI. William Russell passed it to Henry Palmer, and Mr. Warner bought it of Palmer in 1571. In the compotus of John Waldegrave, chief steward of the Bishop of Norwich, in the 3d and 4th of Philip and Mary, the rents of assise were 147. 17s. 5d. the herbage farm, 101s. 1d. ob. the site of the manor of the late abbot, and of the demean lands 81. the lands are specified in the account leased to Robert Pannell of Belaugh, Gent. and Terra Scj Benedictj de Holmo ad victu' monachor. -Hovetuna' ten. Rad. Stalra T.R.E. vi car. tre. sep. iiii vill. vi bor. et ii car. in d'nio et iii car. hom. silv. xvi por. x ac. p'ti et iiii soc. i car, tre. 7d, et xxx ac, scp. v vill, xi bor. v car. et dim. x ac. p'ti. et i soc. |