1579, Henry Golding had it of the gift of the Queen, and Mayor and Commonalty. He died in
- 1628, and Tim Plomer had it, at whose death in
- 1639, Greg. Mower was presented, and in
- 1651, Miles Smith. In 1681, the Mayor and Commonalty gave it to Peter Coppin, and at his death in
- 1729, The Rev. Mr. John Smith, the present rector, was collated by lapse.
The church of St. Peter the Apostle, was wholly appropriated to the priory of Shouldham, and no vicarage endowed, and had a carucate of land belonging to it; it was first valued at 5l. after at nine marks, and paid 9d. synodals, 6s. 8d. procurations, 2d. ob. carvage, and 12s. for every tenth. It was disappropriated for want of a legal appropriation, and became a rectory in the gift of Shouldham priory.
Rectors presented by Shouldham Convent
- 1439, Ric. Cross, to the rectory of Carleton Curson St. Peter.
- 1456, Will. Belle; he died in 1458, and Will. Grimston succeeded, at whose death in
- 1464, Tho. Thompson had it; in
- 1498, John Clerk, who in 1506, had it united for life to Northbergh. In
- 1521, Rob. Longland held it, and is buried before the high-altar on the south side; and in
- 1530, Rob. Thaxter was the last presented by the convent, who in 1441, had it united to St. Mary as aforesaid, and it continued with it till 1679, and then
- Tho. Lewgar was presented, but did not enjoy it long, for Golding had it, and after him Plummer; but in 1640, the King presented Edw. Rogers to it single, and in 1677, it was returned a sinecure, as it is; for the church, which is a small one, without any tower, was turned into a parsonage-house, now uninhabited and in ruins; the close in which it stands is glebe, and is south-east of St. Mary's, with which it is held by
The Rev. Mr. Smith, the present rector. The church was suffered to be dilapidated about 1550.
St. Mary's church hath a square tower half fallen down, one bell, the nave and chancel are tiled, and the north isle leaded; at the east end of which, is an old altar and chapel, dedicated also to St. Mary, before which lies a stone disrobed of its brasses, under which
