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 Charles Cornwaleis, Knight of the Bath, and Edmund Harvey, Esq.
 * 1668, John Jermy, A. M. on Kent's death. Charles Lord Cornwaleis, Baron of Eye.
 * 1672, 10 January, Christopher Burrell, A. M. on Jermy's resignation. Ditto. He died in 1701, and is buried in St. Margaret's chancel.
 * 1701, March 2, Charles Gibbs, A. M. the present [1736] rector. Charles Lord Cornwaleis.

St. Mary's is the mother church, over which the Bishop and Archdeacon's visitatorial power extends, to whom it pays 1s. synodals, and 7s. 7d. ob. procurations; it is an old building having its nave, chancel, and south porch thatched; a square tower, and five bells; on the biggest is this:

The following arms were formerly in the windows of the church, steeple, and chancel, but are all lost, except these first three, viz.

Boutetourt, erm. a saltire ingrailed ''gul. Fitz-Otes, bendy of six, or and az''. a canton er.

Or, a saltire ingrailed ''sab. England, St. Edward the Confessor, the East-Angles, St. Edmund, Boyland, Kerdeston, Ufford single, and with all the following differences, viz''. a label; a de-lis; a baton az.; a baton erm.; a baton chequy az. and gul.; an annulet, ''Lowdham, Norwich. Gul''. a chevron between three estoils sab.; or and sab. mascule surtout, Lowdham with a label gul. impaling az. on a chief gul. three leopards or, and again siding gul. on a chief or, two annulets ''sab. Bacon. or a fess gul''. impaling Scales. On the Roodloft, an escutcheon of the Lady Jarnegan; viz. 1. Jarnegan; 2. Ingaldesthorp; 3. Fitzosbert; 4. Mortimer, or semi-de-lises sab.; 5. ar. on a chevron sab. three escalops erm.; 6. Pierpoint.; 7. or, a saltire ingrailed in a bordure sab.

On a grave-stone were Aylmer's arms, ''viz. ar''. on a cross ingrailed sab. five bezants between four magpies proper; it lies in the chancel, but the effigies, arms, and inscription are gone.

Here are two black marbles, one hath an escutcheon of a griffin and a crescent, for John Boys, rector, who died Dec. 30, 1661; the other is for Hellen his wife, who died September 1, 1661.

In the churchyard,