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St. Faith, was 13s. 4d. and his temporals 2s. as were the temporals of the Prioress of Carhoe. Here was a gild of St. Peter, which in 1492 had an alderman and many brethren. The terrier hath 22 acres and an half of glebe, and the whole village paid 3l. clear, to each tenth.
Rectors of Newton, After the Consolidation.
- 1467, John Tolbye. Rich. Blomevyle, Esq.
- 1490, John Manfield, a friar-minor, commonly called Brother John Carr. Kat. relict of Richard Blomevyle, Esq.; he was deprived in 1504, and
- Edward Pennant, a great acquaintance of Sir Edw. Howard, Knt. otherwise called Edward ap Res, clerk, was instituted by lapse.
- 1509, Thomas Warde. Nic. Appleyard, Esq.
- 1517, Henry Woodhouse, on Warde's deprivation. John Brooke and Constance his wife. At his death in
- 1540, Richard Hudson. John Robsart, Esq. in right of the jointure of Elizabeth his wife; at his death in
- 1557, Will. Knightbridge had it of the gift of Edw. Blomevyle, Esq. who at his death in 1559, gave it to
- John Beare, and at his death in
- 1566, to John Skeet. In 1567, Thomas Blundevile, Esq. settled Blumvyle's manor, &c. on John Blumvyle in trust for the said Thomas, who presented the three following rectors:
- 1570, John Fenton.
- 1576, George Reynolds; and at his death in
- 1596, William Reynolds, who returned answer, that he had 113 communicants in this parish. In 1616, James Goodinge and Richard Deane, Gents conveyed the manor to Lionel Seman, Gent. In 1626, at Reynolds's death,
- Thomas Stokes, A. M. was presented by Rowland Meyrick of Taseburgh, Esq. in right of Elizabeth his wife, and held it united to Carleton Rode.
- Samuel Stalham, on whose death in
- 1672, Samuel Snowden, A. M. succeeded, and held it united to Swainsthorp. John Burman of Brakendale for this turn.
- 1721, The Rev. William Berney, clerk, the present rector, holds it united to the rectory of Frettenham, and curacy of Dunston. He was presented by Mathew Long, Esq. who was succeeded in the advowson and lordship by
Israel Long, Esq. of Dunston, who is the present lord of Newton-hall manor, with the three parts of Malherbe's, and sole patron of
The church, which is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and was rebuilt in 1385, by the lords of the manors, and the parishioners. Thomas de Bumpstede, citizen of Norwich, gave 50l. towards it. This church is 28 yards long, and 7 broad, but hath no isles; it is leaded,
