held of him here, and in Sturston, at half a knight's fee, from whom it took the name of Boyland's fee. He, jointly with Elen his wife, daughter of Phillip de Colvile, held this manor and one in Brisingham, one in North Walsham, and lands in Titshall, Wilby, and Ringsted, in the year 1295, when John was their son and heir, and 24 years old. This Richard was a great lawyer, and one of the justices of the King's-Bench, he left it to
Sir John Boyland his son, from whom (but whether by purchase or not, I cannot tell) it came to
John de Lowdham, who, in 1345, paid x.s. for his relief, for the manor late Sir John Boyland's called Boyland fee, from which time it continually went as Frenze manor, till John Lowdham sold one moiety of it to
John Wodehouse, the other moiety went with his daughter to the
Bleverhassets; and in 1561, John Bleverhasset granted it to
Thomas Cornwaleis, Knt. whose heirs purchased the other half, after many conveyances of it from Wodehouse to Gryme, and from Gryme to Rant and others; and in this family it hath continued ever since, it being now [1736] annexed to the capital manor.
The Church is dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, having a square tower, and but one bell, though not long since there were five. The church, chancel, and south isle are leaded, the south porch is tiled.
On a black marble lying in the chancel:
Fremoult. A chevron between three ferdumolins Bedingfield. Erm. an eagle displayed gul. impaled.
Hic jacet Elizabetha Joelis Fremoult, Generosi Uxor dilectissima, Edmundi Bedingfield, de Halesworth, Ar.
Filia natù maxima: Verum Pietatis, et Patientiæ, Exemplar.
Dum Illa in Cælis Gaudet, Amici omnes et Familiares, Imprimis vero Maritus et Filius Charissimi, Nec non Pauperes et Egeni, In Terris Lugent.
Obijt Quarto Julij, Anno Dni. MDCCXX. Ætat. LIII.
There is a stone by the
