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The Prior of Ixworth was taxed 2s. 6d. for his temporals here, and
The Prior of Bokenbam 14s. for his temporals in this town.
Rectors
The church of St. Margaret.
- 1300, kal. May, Henry de Brom. Sir Roger de Brom, Knt.
- 1313, 12 kal. Oct. Nicholas de Blonorton, priest. Petronell, widow of Sir Roger de Brom, Knt. he resigned to John de Hykelynge, and he resigned in
- 1328, to Clement de Cnapetone, priest, who was instituted 8 kal. May. Ditto.
- 1343, 7 April, Galfr. de Dychyngham, priest. Robert de Brom. After his death it laid without any institution till 1394, when Robert de Brom, the patron, obtained a perpetual union of it to the church of St. Andrew, upon proving to the Bishop that the revenues were so small, that nobody would accept it; and it appearing that the church was much decayed, both in its roof and walls, and the parishioners very poor, and unable to repair it, and that St. Andrew's church, standing close by it, in the same churchyard, was big enough to hold all the parishioners of both, he licensed them to pull down St. Margaret's church, May 13, 1394, upon which it was levelled to the ground, in such a manner, that at this day there appear no remains of such a place. When Sir Roger de Brom was patron, Norwich Domesday saith, that it had a house and 10 acres of glebe, it then paid 12d. synodals, and 2s. 2d. procurations; from this time each manor had an alternate presentation to
- St. Andrew's, in Blow-Norton,
Which before belonged solely to Semere manor, when Sir John Dykele was patron, the rector had 11 acres of glebe, but no house, and paid 12d. synodals, and 4s. procurations; The first rector I meet with is,
Edmund de Brundyssch, who resigned in
- 1329, 6 kal. May, and Peter, called, Le-Munk, priest, succeeded. Edmund de Sco. Mauro, or Seymor, Knt.
- 1331, 15 kal. Nov. John de Mellis de Brampton. Ditto.
- 1337, Edmund son of Edm. de Burnedyssch, sub-deacon.
- 1350, 12 April, Hen. Lewyn, priest. Will. de Midelton.
- 1355, 27 July, Rob. Agaz (or Agar) de Brisingham, priest. Ditto.
- 1358, 2 July, Rich. Munch, priest, changed with Agaz for Fersfield. Ditto.
- 1365, 8 Oct. Will. Bonyng, priest, changed with Munche, for Brundale. John Ermundgere de Stratford, patron.
- 1368, 24 March, John de Binham, a shaveling. John de Pyssale, rector of Alderton, true patron; in 1385, when the union of