An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk

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by  Blomefield, Francis, 1705-1752

AN
ESSAY
TOWARDS A
TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK.
VOLUME
VII.
CONTAINING THE HUNDREDS OF
GALLOW AND BROTHERCROSS, BLOFIELD,
AND
CLACKCLOSE HUNDRED AND HALF.

AN
ESSAY
TOWARDS A
TOPOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
OF THE
COUNTY
OF NORFOLK,
CONTAINING A
DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWNS, VILLAGES,
AND HAMLETS,
WITH THE FOUNDATIONS OF
MONASTERIES, CHURCHES, CHAPELS, CHANTRIES, AND
OTHER RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS:
ALSO AN ACCOUNT OF
The Ancient and PresentState ofall the Rectories, Vicarages, Donatives, and
Impropriations, their FormerandPresentPatrons andIncumbents,withtheir
severalValuationsinthe King'sBooks, whetherdischarged or not:
LIKEWISE,
AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CASTLES, SEATS, AND
MANORS, THEIR PRESENTAND ANCIENT OWNERS;
TOGETHER WITH THE
Epitaphs, Inscriptions, andArms in all theParishChurches,andChapels; with
severalDraughts ofChurches, Monuments,Arms, AncientRuins,andother
RELICKS OF ANTIQUITY.
COLLECTED OUT OF
LEDGER-BOOKS,REGISTERS,RECORDS, EVIDENCES,DEEDS,COURT-ROLLS,
AND OTHER ALTHENTICK MEMORIALS.
BY THE LATE REV. CHARLES PARKIN, A. M.
RECTOR OF 0XBUR6H, IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK.
Nospatriaefines, etdulcia scripsimusarva. Virg.
VOLUME
VII.
LONDON:
ruINTED FOR MMLLIAM MILLER, ALBEMARLE-STREET,
BY W. nULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROM', ST. J.\MES's,
1807.

GALLOW AND BROTHERCROSS
HUNDREDS.
These Iwohundreds were (as I take it) possessed by the Crown, till
King Henry I. gave them to JVilliam Earl H'arren and Surrey, to be
held ofthe"castle of iSior^c'ich, paying 2 marks per annum.
itappears by the book of Domtsday, that the towns of these hun-
dredsare nowstrangelyintermixed ; many thatwerethen inBrothercross
hundred, are now in Ga/low, viz. Rainliam, the most southern town,
at this time in Ga/lurc, was then in Brothercross hundred; and Burn-
ham Thorp, with both the Crekes, which are at this lime in Brother-
cross, were in Galloic hundred.
In the 35th of Henry [II. the King directed his writ to the sheriff
ofthis countv, recitiny, that whereas by inquisition it was found that
the land oi'.John Earl IVarren, et nova terra, (by which I understand
lands granted, or purchased since the time ofthe Coriqueror,) were
ahvays free in the time of IVilliam Earl IVarren, his father, and his
ancestors, of the common amerciaments of the county ; and of mur-
der, when it happened out ofany of those lands which were his;' but
that the itirs ol thejustices, the King hath amerciaments ofall pleas
there nioveil of all the Earl's lands, as well new, as all other his lands,
ordemesnes; and if any murder happen on any ofthose lands, then
they were not quit thereof, &c. Therefore the King ordered that
the Earl should have all the liberties and quittances, which his father
had enjo\Kl. Dated July 22d.
It appears that the Earl IVarren paid 2 marks per annum to.the
King for them in hisj2d year, and that they were worth 20/. perann.
John Earl Warren, in the 4th oi'Edward II. claimed a right
to ail whales cast on the shores here ; and in the 12tli of that K.ng,
conveyed by fineto Thomas Earl ofLancaster the said hundreds ; and
Henri/ Duke oi Lancaster died possessed of them in the 35th ofEJ-
naial[l but John Earl IVarren lield them at hisdeath in the 21st of
;
Ediaird lU.^
Henry Duke ofLancaUer, hyIsabel \\\% \\i\e, daugh,ter of^Hrenry
Lord Ik'iumonl, left two daughters and coheirs ; Maud, tlie eldest,
married, first, Ralph son ofRu/ph Lord Stafford, and afterwards
Witlium Duke of Zeland, &c styled also Earl of Leicester, and died
-R.iviclhhmouotndis,suaend; aBf/taeur,ncDhu,kteheofyLoaunncgaesstte,rm,a4rtrhiesdonJothonKiKnfgCaEudnatarEadrllUo.f
• Claus. 35 Hen, 3. m. 8. * Baronage, v. p. 82,
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who inherited them in right of his wife to whom the King granted
;
many royal privileges herein, and ihej- descended to his son, Ilenry
Duke ot'Laiicasier, (as part ofthe dutchy oi'Lancaster,) who became
KingofEiiglaud, by the name oi'IIeiny IV. and in the.ith year of his
reign (as Dnkc ofLancaster and lord ot these hundreds,) had a sheriff's
turn, held by the high steward of his dutchy ofLancaster, at Faken-
ham-Dam. It remained thus in the possession ofKiiig//fMri/V. and
VI. as DakeiofLancaster, till King Edzcard iV. in his first year, bv
act of parliament on the attainder of King //f«rj/ V'l incorporated
the aforesaid dutchy with the Crown, November 4th, and after settled
them on Eliznbeth liis Queen for life ; who,in the 7th,year ofthesaid
King, \ovemt)cr 24, demised to John Uode, Esq the^e hundreds,with
that of Sort/i Grenhow, for three years, with all the courts lete, hun-
dred courts, slieritl''s aid, wrecks, weifs, strays, &,c.; licenses of con-
cord, royal liberties, free customs, wiits, felons goods, deodands, &c.
King //«//(/ \'II. separated again these hundreds from the Crown,
and they are now parts of the dutchy oiLancaster,a.nd belonging to
the Crown.
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In 1623, these hundreds were let by the t.ar\ of rundel for 14/.
per annum, ns appears from the receiptof Mr. Jere/niahji/eiander,
receiver ofthe rents to the said Earl.
The hundred court fovGallou: hundred might be anciently held at a
place thatgave nameto it: 1 find Philip, son of Richard UeDoketon,
to grant, hy deed saii's, date, to Richard de Dun/uri three pieces of
land, in the fields ofDiniton, at Ga/ehow; and in the fjth of Edvrard
II. Hugh de DuntoH had lands at Ga/ehoges, in Dunton field.
In the 5th ofIlenry IV. it was held, as 1 have observed, at Faken-
ham-Dam, which place might probably have been caWt^A Galestow
;
that is, a hill at the water: in the ;}d and 10th of Elizulielh, the tiun-
dred court was held d\.Lonsjield Stone, but in what town is not men-
tioned.
Brothercross seems to take its name from a cross placed at the ford
or pass over the river at Bnrnham ; which river, in the Saxon age,
tnight be called the Brother,as Brolheiton, a town inYorkshire and
;
thus Broughton, atown oa a brook.
B A R M E R E,
L^ALi.ED Benemare,'\n Domesday book, when it was the lordship of
William Earl Warren, and litId of him by Rutf. It was a beruite to
Riidhum: four socmen held iiiensi,\ty acres of land, and three bor-
darers had one carucale and au lialf, and a church belonged to it.'
' Tre. Will,de Warrcnna. Hiind.de ten. Rad. de Lx. ac. tre. et iii. boid,
Brodtrcross.—Et in Bencmare iiii. soc. semp. i. car. ctdim. ecclie.