AN

ESSAY

TOWARDS A

TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

OF THE

COUNTY OF NORFOLK,

CONTAINING A

DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWNS, VILLAGES,
AND HAMLETS,

WITH THE FOUNDATIONS OF

MONASTERIES, CHURCHES, CHAPELS, CHANTRIES, AND

OTHER RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS:

ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF

The Ancient, and Present State of all the Rectories, Vicarages, Donatives, and Impropriations, their Former and Present Patrons and Incumbents, with their several Valuations in the King's Books, whether discharged or not :

LIKEWISE,

AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CASTLES, SEATS, AND MANORS, THEIR PRESENT AND ANCIENT OWNERS;

TOGETHER WITH THE

Epitaphs, Inscriptions, and Arms in all the Parish Churches, and Chapels; with several Draughts of Churches, Monuments, Arms, Ancient Ruins, and other RELICKS OF ANTIQUITY.

COLLECTED OUT OF

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

BY THE LATE REV. CHARLES PARKIN, A. M.

RECTOR OF OXBURGH, IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK.

Nos patriæ fines, et dulcia scripsimus arva. VIRG.

VOLUME XI..

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BY W. BULMER and co. clevELAND-ROW, ST. JAMES'S,

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AN

ESSAY

TOWARDS A

TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

OF THE

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COUNTY OF NORFOLK.

VOLUME XI.

CONTAINING THE HUNDREDS OF

TUNSTEDE, WALSHAM, WEST FLEGG,

AND

EAST FLEGG.

2

TUNSTEDE HUNDRED.

KING CANUTE, on his foundation of the abbey of St. Bennet at Holm, gave the lordship of this hundred to it, or rather granted by Edward the Confessor, on his confirmation of their possessions.'

In the 12th of King John, Peter de Hobois recovered seisin of it, with the manors of Thurgarton, and Antingham, and the stewardship of the abbey, for the fine of 20 marks, and one palfrey, paid to the King, which he claimed against the abbot.

In the 23d of Henry III. Sir Peter de Hobois, released to the abbot all his right herein, and in the 34th of that King, it was valued at 6 marks per ann.

Sir William de Redham, by deed sans date, released to the abbot, all his right in the fishery of the water between Weybridge, and the abbey, and Alexander, son of Alexander de Wroxham, all his right in the fishery of the water, between Wroxham and Grabbard's ferry.

In the 15th of Edward I. the jury present the abbot to be lord, and that he paid to the King 28s. in a quitrent (de alba firma) for it, and was said to be worth 9 marks per ann.

The jury in the 38th of Edward III. present, that whereas the commonalty of Norfolk ought to have the fishery of the river running from Weybridge, to Fretenham mouth, and so on to Bastwick bridge; the abbot had appropriated it to himself, und likewise the water from Weybridge, to Horning ferry; the abbot pleads that King Edward III. being willing to know to whom the water of the river to Wroxham-Brigg belonged, directed his writ to Sir John Howard, eschaetor of Norfolk, and to Robert Ciere, and by their inquisition it was found that Edward the Confessor confirmed to the abbot, the manor of Horning, of which the water from Weybrigg to Wroxham Brigg, is parcel, (except only that the Earl of Norfolk as lord of South Walsham, ought to have between Weybrigg and Grubbard's Ferry, two nets, called seyns, to fish in the said river) and that the abbot had enjoyed it. After which the King confirmed it, May 18, in his 19th year; and

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