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 ===NEW-BUKENHAM===

This town had its rise out of Old-Bukenham, as is before observed, when ''Will. de Albany founded the castle, and procured the land of the Bishop of Norwich to build it on, and to make his burgh, which then took the name of New-Bukenham, to distinguish it from OldBukenham'', which then had that addition for the same reason. He or his successours very early got it to be a burgh, with the following privileges, which were allowed in 1285, viz. view of frankpledge, assize of bread and ale, a gallows, and a market every Saturday, with the market-court, or burgage, then worth 5s. per annum, and kept before the capital steward every Saturday, who was judge of all weights and measures, and every thing belonging to the market, and of all debts contracted or acknowledged in the market or precinct of the burgh, and of all such debts under that sum, in which any resident in the burgh was concerned, and had power to fine and levy, as amply as the sheriff in the hundred court; and also a fair in the said burgh every St. Martin's day, with a court thereto belonging, called the Warpound court,  the rents being due and payable that morning;  and also liberty of free-warren in the demeans and manors of Bukenham castle, in the Bukenhams, Besthorp, and Attleburgh,  and also a prison for all offenders