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 1461, 19 March, Nicholas Nabbe, chaplain. John Paston, Esq.
 * 1477, 4 May, John Nabbe, accolite on the death of Nicholas; Thomas Pylkington.
 * 1482, Thomas Bulcoke, on Nabbe's resignation. Ditto.
 * 1493, 18 Sept. Thomas Smethurst, priest, on Bulcoke's death; Roger Pylkington, Esq.
 * 1506, 20 Apr. Henry Tayleour, on Smethurst's death; Sir Richard Ashton, Knt.
 * 1539, 23 Nov. Thomas Bleverhasset, A. M. Margaret Puddessy, widow, the eldest of the daughters and heiresses of Roger Pylkington, Esq. deceased, true patroness of this turn.

. Thomas Briggs, clerk, on whose deprivation in
 * 1554, 28 July, William Storme, priest, was instituted; Robert Futter, Gent.
 * 1557, Octob. 27, Storme resigned, and Thomas Goodwyn, LL. B.  succeeded. Ditto.
 * 1564, 24 May, Sir John Bardolph, clerk; Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord-Keeper.
 * 1569, 3 Dec. William Houlden, M. A. Bishop, by lapse.
 * 1570, 22 Jan. William Pecket, clerk, on Houlden's resignation; Thomas Duke of Norfolk.
 * 1579, 3 Feb. William Pecket; Phillip Earl of Surrey.
 * 1618, 1 May, Edmund Baker, A. M. on Pecket's death; Edmund Gooden, by grant of the turn, from Anne Countess of Arundell, and Thomas Earl of Arundell. He died in
 * 1667, and the 17th Febr. Francis Tilney, A. M. was presented by William Camell of Diss in Norfolk, by grant of this turn.
 * 1715, 23 Sept. The Rev. Humphry Clayton, A. B. the present [1736] incumbent, was presented, on Francis Tilney's death, by William Clayton and Thomas Dwyer, clerk, patrons for this turn.

The following religious persons had temporalities here, which were thus taxed in 1428.

The Prior of Kersey's at 12d.

The Abbot of Sibton's (being part of Frier's manor in Shelf hanger, that extended hither) at 6s. 8d.

The Prior of Bokenham's at 26s.

Beside these, the Prior of St. John Baptist's Commandry of the Hospitalers of St John of Jerusalem at Kerbrook had an annual payment of 1d. out of 7 acres of land lying in Thweyt hamlet in Fersfield and Brisingham, which was held free of that house by the said payment, 3 acres lying in Longland in Fersfield, and 4 acres in Oldfield and elsewhere in Brisingham and Fersfield. This land is now [1736,] owned by Francis Blomefield, clerk.

The Church here was much decayed, as should seem by the rebuilding the present fabrick, which was begun by Sir Roger Pilkington, Knt. lord of the manor, whose arms are cut in stone over the west door of the tower, quartering the arms of Verdon, on the other side of which is a single coat of some benefactor to the building, which was also in the church windows, though