chief part continued to be a manor; and in 1341, Henry de Mudyngwell was lord; in 1385, Rob. de Ailesham and Alice his wife conveyed it to Sir Miles Stapleton, and Sir Roger de Boys, Knts. and their heirs; in 1506, John Dade of Witton in Norfolk died seized of Madingwell manor, in Shropham; in 1561, John Wade, Gent, sold Modyngwell manor in Shropham, to Sir Tho. Woodhouse, and Will. Woodhouse, Knts. since which time it hath been divided into so many parcels, that it is now extinguished.
The manors of Sneterton, and divers other adjacent manors, extended into this town. Shropham manor is fine certain at 6d. an acre.
HOCHAM
Hocham, [hoc-ham], or, the town in the dirt, as the name signifies, was a rectory appendant to the manor till the year 1227, and then Warene de Monte Caniso, or Montchensy, released the advowson to Richard Prior of the monks at Thetford, to which house it was soon after appropriated, and a vicarage instituted, to which the priors presented till the Dissolution.
Vicars
- 1349, 3 Nov. John de Reding of Berningham, priest. Mary Countess of Norfolk, for this turn.
- 1372, 6 Jan. Thomas de Goldyngton, priest. The King, for this turn, on account of the priory alien at Thetford, which is now in his hands.
- 1376, 16 Jan. Rob. Bert of Brandon, priest, on Goldyng's resignation. The Prior of the monks at Thetford.
- 1377, 13 March, Robert Stugg of Thefford, priest. Ditto.
- 1408, 2 May, Mr. Robert Waleys of Sudbourne, priest. Ditto.
- 1411, 30 Octob. Will. Sparescho of Ixworth, priest. Ditto.
- 1420, 27 Nov. Robert Fenn of Rushworth, priest. Ditto.
- 1421, 8 Oct. Robert Trapet, priest. Ditto.
- 1438, 10 July, Rob. Langwade, priest. Will. Elveden. SubPrior of Thetford, the priory being void.
- 1438, 15 Dec. William Jointure. Ditto.
- John Burges.
- 1483, 4 Dec. Ralph Beele, on Burges's resignation The Prior.
- 1497, 11 July, Will. Wellys, on Beele's death. Robert Prior of Thetford.
- 1527, 18 Nov. Brother John Ixworth, Prior of the monks at Thetford, was instituted into the vicarage at his own and his convent's presentation, according to the Pope's dispensation, granted to the
