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William Ive, buried in the chancel, his effigies in brass, and this, remains:
Orate pro anima Domini Willi: Jbe, Canonici, cuius anime pro picietur Deus. Amen.

  • 1490, Richard Bocher.
  • 1490, John Cooke, he was outed, and Bocher had it again.
  • 1501, Henry Smithson.
  • 1515, Richard Wright; he lies buried in the chancel, with this on a brass plate,
    In the Honoure of God that ys moost of Myght, Pray for the Sowle of Sir Richard Wryght. On whose Soule Jesu have Mercy.
  • 1520, Henry Hagger.
  • 1530, Richard Hagger, who was the last presented by the convent.

After the Dissolution, King Henry VIII. in the year 1545, granted the impropriate rectory and the advowson of the vicarage to Robert Rumbold, alias Reynbald, and his heirs, to be held in capite by knight's service; and in 1558, Anne, wife of Ben Reynbald, daughter of the said Robert, and Elizabeth her sister, had livery of it, and in 1562, presented

John Dixy.

  • 1568, Adam Each, lapse. 1576, Andrew Thetford, Gent. presented Henry Webb, on whose resignation in
  • 1584, Rob Grey had it of the gift of And. and Tho. Thetford, Esqrs.
  • 1586, Will. Parry. The Queen by lapse.
  • 1591, Robert Jackler, by Andrew and Thomas aforesaid; he resigned in
  • 1602, to Richard Parker, who returned 67 communicants, and was presented by Thomas Thetford, Esq. who in 1607, sold it to Sir Henry Hobart, Knt. Will. Paston, and other trustees, for the use of Sir John Heveningham, Knt. who in 1611, presented
  • Richard Johnson, A. M. In 1623, Sir Arthur Heveningham was returned impropriator and patron. In
  • 1652, Robert Pecket had it, of the gift of Will. Heveningham, Esq. ob.
  • 1697, Richard Clark. Henry Heron, Esq. ob.
  • 1707, Nath. Saltier. Ditto. He held it united to Olton, and resigned in
  • 1716, to Tho. Tunstall. Henry Heron, Esq. at whose death in
  • 1728, the Rev. Mr. Samuel Clark, A. M. the present vicar, was presented by Edw. Atkyns, Esq. the present patron, and now holds it united to the vicarage of East-Dearham, with the chapel of Hoe, and sinecure rectory of East-Dearham aforesaid.

The chief manor of this town, belonged to Olf the Dane in the Confessor's time, and to Ralf Fitz-Walter at the Conquest, who then held it of Roger Bigot, and it had a church and-40 acres of glebe, was worth 3l. per annum, being a league long, and half a league broad, and paid 6d. ob. geld. The other manor belonged to Ketel the