messuage in Kilverstone, held of himself as of his church of Kilverstone, at 6d. a year, by virtue of a license in mortmain granted by King Edward III. to that monastery; and it seems the Prior assigned this house and half an acre of land to the town; it is the old house now [1737] standing in decay over against the church.
John Howse gave an acre and half in two pieces to the inhabitants.
John Kideman gave 5 roods in two pieces.
In 1524, "James Baldewyn of Kilverstone (buried in the chancel) gave to the Black Friars of Thetford iii.s. iiii.d. Also I give and bequethe to the said church halowynge of Kylverstone, as much of my goods as the church halowyng wyll drawe with the three bells in the stepul. Item, I give ten pounds to be disposed by the discretion of my executors in the said church, as I may have a dirige and messe perpetually, if it may be performed."
Rectors And Vicars
Eustace, rector, in Henry the Second's time.
- 1316, 4 non. Marc. Thomas, son of Peter de Stantone, priest, vicar. William Prior of Buttle.
- 1317, 4 kal. Dec. Edmund de Debenham, deacon.
- 1357, 18 June, John de Acre de Thefford, priest.
- 1359, 3 April, John de Wetyng, priest.
- 1359, 29 July, John de Acre, priest, by changing with Wetyng, who took Fineberg vicarage.
- 1361, 23 Sept. Richard Masoun of Drenkeston, priest.
- 1378, 3 Decem. William Wylde, junior, of Mildenhale, priest.
- 1420, 29 Jan. William Caunceler, priest.
- 1432, 10 April, Richard Wyston, priest. The vicarage was taxed at 8 marks.
- 1436, 12 Oct. William Brigham, priest, at Wyston's resignation, united to Carleton-Rode till 1442, and then Brigham resigned it.
- 1464, 27 July, John Ingman, at Brigham's death.
- 1468, 20 March, Thomas Bryan.
- 1497, William Disse, vicar. In his time there was a composition made, with the consent of Sir Robert Beckles, Prior of Butley, his patron, and of the Prior of Coxford, concerning the tithes of the gardens and orchards in the town, all which were allotted to increase the stipend of the vicar.
- 1506, 17 March, John Browne. In his time it was disappropriated, and so became a rectory again.
- 1507, 12 Oct. John Goddard, chaplain.
- 1542, 20 Sept. William Fisher, chaplain. Alice Cotton, widow, for this turn, which was granted her by Thomas Manning, Suffragan Bishop of Ipswich, and the convent of Butley, of which he was prior.
- 1559, 20 July, John Abadam, priest, The Queen.
- 1587, 31 March, John Poynton, or Poynter. The Queen. Buried here 18th June, 1641.
- 1641, Arthur Needham, he was ejected for his loyalty, in 1556, and one John Flanner, subscribes as rector; but Needham was restored in 1660, and died rector, and was buried here Aug. 12, 1661.
