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121 deed by Archb. Anselm, temp. Bp. Gundulph. (Text. Roff., 154, &c.)—Brasses: Petrus de Lacy, rector, 1375 (1374, Cust. Roff); Will. Lye (half-length, Cust. Roff.), 1391; Tho. Brato and wife Jone, 1511 (omitted in Cust. Roff); man in armour and lady (Sir Will. Rikhill, Cust. Roff.) (Reg. Roff.); another of an unknown lady is alluded to in (Monum. Brasses, 87). .—This manor in the hundred of Faversham, held under the Bishop of Bayeux, is readily identified in the present parish of Norton near Faversham; but (D.B.) states, that it contained three churches. From (Reg. Roff.) we learn that Norton was granted, at what date is not said, but certainly early, by Fedea or Eudo de Niwenham (Newnham), to the monks of Rochester. The deed of "Hugo de Niuueham," bestowing the church of "Northtuna," is printed in (Text. Roff, 180). If, which possibly is the fact, the above-named was the Eudo mentioned in the Note on Merlea, it may be presumed that he was living at the time of the Domesday Survey. The benefice of Norton, though within the diocese of Canterbury, is still in the patronage of the Bishop of Rochester. From the connection evidenced by the above grant, Newnham; and from contiguity, Linsted, Luddenham, and Teynham are places, at one or other of which it may be conjectured, that the two unassigned churches might stand. Hasted asserts, that Norton was given to the priory of Rochester toward the close of the reign of K. Henry I.

239. .—This manor belonged to the archbishop, and laid in "Roculf," i.e., Reculver, hundred. The description runs thus: "The estate consists of twenty-six ploughlands. In the domain are two ploughs, and ninety-two villans with forty borderers have fifty-nine ploughs. Here is a church, and ten acres of meadow. A wood of fifty hogs. In the time of King Edward the entire value of this manor was £24 5s., and afterwards the same, and now it pays the archbishop £50 14s. 2d., and the archdeacon twenty shillings. Of this manor Vitalis holds from the archbishop two sowlings, and one yoke, and twelve acres of land, and has there five ploughs, and twenty-nine borderers, and five serfs, and seven salt-pans of twenty-five shillings and four-pence. Here is a church, and a small dene of wood. Altogether it is worth £14 6s. 6d.—Terra est xxvi carucatarum. In dominio sunt ii carucæ, et xcii villani cum xl bordariis habent lix carucas. Ibi æcclesia et x acræ prati. Silva l porcorum. In totis valentiis T.R.E. valuit hoc manerium xxiv libras et v solidos, et post tantundem, et modo