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 to St. Mary the Virgin, and in 1209 was a rectory, a moiety of its patronage being then settled on Butley priory, by John, son of Geffery; about 1217, Thomas de Hastyngs, with the consent and joint act of John Bishop of Norwich, granted to the monastery of St. Mary at Butley, in Suffolk, the perpetual advowson of the other part, and Roger de Skerning not only confirmed it, but agreed to appropriate the whole to that house; and in 1271, the 56th of Henry III. endowed the vicarge with all the offerings, the tithes of the mills, a vicarage-house and meadow, and an acre of land adjoining, and twenty acres more of the church's free land, and all other small tithes, except hay, which, with all the corn tithes, and the rest of the glebe, together with the rectory manor, and all its appurtenances, were to belong to the prior, who was always to present to the vicarage.

Rectors.
William of South Elmham, the first vicar, was succeeded in
 * 1307, prid. kal. Sept. by Will. Ingereth, of Debenham, priest, who resigned it for Fersfield.
 * 1313, 15 kal. July, Thomas of Palgrave, priest.
 * 1317, 3 kal. Sept. Henry of Melles, priest.
 * 1328, 12 kal. May, William of Pakenham, priest.
 * 1344, 26 October, Walter le Palmer of Ipswich, priest.
 * 1349, 23 Sept. Robert-dil Moor of Eye, priest.
 * 1383, 7 October, John Ive of Pulham, priest; Robert atte Moor resigned.
 * 1392, 25 August, Roger Wright, by change with John Ive for Little Henneye, in London diocese, which John was also rector of Shellow Bowells.
 * 1397, 2 March, Walter of West-Walton, priest.
 * 1401, 6 June, Sir Robert Felys, priest, on Walter's resignation.
 * 1405, 16 Dec. John Carman of Yakesle, priest.
 * 1419, 24 Dec. Robert Therne, priest, on Carman's resignation.
 * 1429, 6 March, Robert Smythe, priest, on Therne's resignation.
 * 1432, 7 October, Robert Balle. Bishop by lapse.
 * 1449, 2 Sept. Sir Thomas Blankpayn.
 * 1451, 7 March, Thomas Goldynton, an Augustine canon of Butley, on Blankpayn's resignation.
 * Robert Aleyn, priest.
 * 1468, 6 Febr. Robert Bate, on Aleyn's resignation.
 * 1483, 1 July, Thomas Welbourne, on Bate's resignation.
 * 1484,