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These villages make up the deanery of Depwade, which contained 23 parishes, and was taxed at 16s.

Deans Of Depwade
collated by the bishops of norwich.
 * 1216, Laurence the dean.
 * 1314, Ralf de Upgate of Tharston, priest.
 * 1323, Master Robert de Stratton, subdeacon.
 * 1334, Sir John de Hovedene, priest.
 * 1350, John de Heygate of Trunch, fellow of Trinity Hall in Cambridge.
 * Thomas de Ravenser, resigned.
 * 1359, William de Daventre, he changed for Anderby in Lincolnshire, with Ravenser.
 * 1359, Roger de Haldenby, clerk.
 * 1375, Robert de Topcliff, Shavelyng:
 * 1380, John de Roseworth.
 * 1392, John atte Brigge of Salle, clerk.
 * 1393, John Ram.
 * 1405, Alan Ram.
 * 1422, Thomas Ash.
 * 1431, Thomas Holdeyn.
 * 1447, Sir Ralf Somerby, chaplain, who got this consolidated to Humbleyard deanery, see p. 2.
 * 1496, Mr. Will. Portland, A. M.
 * 1498, Mr. Tho. Wolsey, A.M. the last rural dean of these deaneries.

This hundred being so near Norwich, it hath not any place where there is a market now kept. The soil is rich and well enclosed, and hath much wood and timber in it, but the roads (as a necessary consequence of good land) are dirty and bad.

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