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 GATESTHORP===

Is a small village, known by travellers by the name of Gasthorp Gate, which is a publick-house that hath a gate for its sign, contrived at first, I suppose, from the name of the town; it stands on a great road which crosses the river here: it seems to take its name from some owner of it, [Gades Dorp] or Gatesthorp, signifying the village or mansion of some one of that name.

The Church is dedicated to St. Nicholas, and is a rectory, discharged of first fruits and tenths. It hath no parsonage-house, but there are 30 acres of glebe.

The advowson belonged to the Prior of the monks at Thetford, who always presented till the Dissolution, unless in cases of lapse, or when that priory was in the King's hands as an alien.

Rectors

 * 1289, Sir William, rector of Gatesthorp. Sir Adam de Levermere, then parish chaplain.
 * 1314, kal. Jan. Walter de Fakenham, priest. Lapse.
 * 1327, 3 non. Oct. John de Boys, accolite. The Prior of Thetford.
 * 1349, 16 March, John de Melles of Brampton, priest. Mary Countess of Norfolk, by grant from the King; who holds the advowson, the temporals of Thetford priory, which is an alien, being in his hands during the wars.
 * 1358, 16 March, John de Berkyng, a shaveling, instituted in the person of Sir Nic. de Wrotham, rector of Langford, his proxy. Mary Countess of Norfolk.
 * 1369, 19 Aug. Stephen de Rydon, priest. The Prior of St. Mary at Thetford.
 * 1375. 12 April, David Bonegent, priest. King Edward, during the wars: he had license to plant on the lord's waste, called the Holms, against his rectory-house.
 * 1404, 13 July, Rich. de Wyrham, priest. The Prior.
 * 1409, 5 Aug. John Skarlet, priest. on Wyrham's resignation. Ditto.
 * 1410, 20 March, Walter de Westwalton, priest, Ditto.
 * 1412, 29 Aug. John Covyn, priest, on Walter's resignation. Ditto.
 * 1413, 3 April, Roger Sekot, on Covyn's resignation. Ditto.
 * 1414, 21 May, John Blome of Ixworth, shaveling, on Sekot's resignation. Ditto.