In a north window, Shelton impales arg. a fess sab. between three mullets gul.
Thomas Crabbe, hujus Ecclesiæ Rector, ob. 3 Febr. A. D. 1680.
Veni Domine Jesu.
Rand, per chevron, or and ar. a lion rampant gul. impaling
Brock, on a bend, a rope, tassal and ring,
Hic jacet Samuel Rand Clericus A.M. natus apud Harleston in Com. Norff. 15° Die Decembris A. D. 1649, qui per 33 Annos Rectoris hujus Parochiæ, & per 31 Annos Parochiæ de Shelton, proximè adjacentis, munus fideliter adimplevit, obijt apud Hardwick 7° die Junij A. D. 1714, annoq; ætatis suæ sexagesimo quinto. Hic etiam sita est, in eodem tumulo, Maria Uxor prædicti Samuelis, Filia et hæres unica Thomæ Brock de Darsham, nata 1° die Augusti A. D. 1661, denata 5° Aug. 1724, annum etiam agens ætatis sexagesimum quintum; ex Liberis juxtà siti sunt infra Cancellos hujus Ecclesiæ.
Ex septenâ prole tres tantum, Samuel, Brock, et Maria, supersunt, fœlices, si memores humanæ sortis, ita Vitam egerant, uti brevi murituros deceat.
The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. William le Waleys was patron when Norwich Domesday was wrote; the rector had a house and three acres of glebe, though since the terriers have six; it was valued at eight marks and a half, paid 4s. procurations, 7d. synodals, 12d. Peter-pence, 4d. ob. carvage, and 1l. 8s. clear to each tenth. The monks of Thetford had temporals here valued at 10s. and in the register of the sacrist of Bury abbey it is said, that Robert le Gros released his right in the advowson to the Abbot of Bury, but I do not find the abbot ever presented, or had any thing to do here. It stands discharged of first-fruits and tenths in the King's Books, and is capable of augmentation.
5l. Hardwick rect. 40l. clear yearly value.
Rectors
- 1308, John le Waleys Margery, relict of Walter le Waleys of Shelton.
- 1324, Rich. de Berg, res. Simon de Hethersete, Knt. Cecily his wife, and Edmund their son.
- 1344, Rich. de Norwich, res. Roger de Herdegray, citizen of Norwich.
- 1345, Ralf de Southwell. Ditto.
- 1348, William de Barneby. Ditto.
- 1349, Simon de Walpole. Ditto. (See in Pulham St. Mary.)
