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 Edward Furnace'', clerk.
 * 1636, 31 May, Tho. Cordell, A. M. by the promotion of Edward Furnace. The Bishop.
 * Thomas Pell, united to Bridgham. Ditto.
 * 1663, 23 Dec. Will Monford, A.M, on Pell's death. Ditto.
 * 1666, 25 Nov. Tho. Hetherset, A. M. on Monford's death. Ditto.
 * 1675, 17 Aug. John Chinery, on Wormley Hetherset's death. Ditto.
 * 1686, 19 Aug. Edmund Newcomb, united to Knatishall in Suffolk. Ditto.
 * 1701, 10 Oct. The Rev. Mr. Thomas Lone, the present [1737] incumbent; and now holds it united to Kilverstone. Ditto.

The whole at first belonged to the Abbot of Ely, as aforesaid, by whom it was divided into several parts; the first two parts belonged to John, Waleram's nephew, at the time of the Conquest, and had been held by two freemen under the abbot in the time of the Confessor; the next was held by Eudo the Sewer in the Conqueror's time,   and by Turgis in the Confessor's; and Lesius claimed it against Eudo, who recovered it from him, and then held it. Another part belonged to Roger Bigot, of whom William de Burneville held it at the survey;  the whole was then two miles long, and a mile and quarter broad, and paid 14''d. ob. geld, the lord of the hundred being then (as he is now) lord paramount of this town, and after this there was no less than six manors here, viz''. the Bishop of Ely's, which was joined to Bridgham, and ever after passed with it; the manor of Catton, or Carleton Hall, Burnvile's manor, the two manors called Rothyng, or Rothyng Hall, and the manor called Brethenham's.

Catton, or Carleton Hall
Belonged to Edudo the Sewer, and in 1230 was settled by Richard de Meisy, on Richard Fitz-Richard, and was after in a family sirnamed ''de Carleton; Will. de Carleton held it in 1277, but how long it continued in that family I do not find; the Bretenhams had it in 1314, and Will. de Bretenham''