Norroy, King at Arms, was employed in about 40 years, being, for the most part, extracts out of ancient records and manuscripts relating to temporal tenures and though wrote in very minute pieces and fragments of paper, and undigested, were of singular and eminent service for the favour, and help of these, I am obliged to Thomas Martin, Gent. Give me leave also to mention that valuable collection of the an- tiquities of this county, which Peter le Neve, Esq. Here I must not omit the most ancient manuscript of England, Domesday Book, deposited in the Exchequer, the spring and fountain of all English chorography, composed in the reign of William the Conqueror: by the help of these, the reader will observe, and find a series, and succession of the lords of every manor and town in this history, brought down from the reign of Edward the Confessor, to this present time, and without the assistance of this ever-valuable manu- script, vain, weak, and imperfect, must every attempt be in a history of this nature.Īt the head, therefore, of every town and lordship, I have placed the account which I find of it, and its lord, as taken from the aforesaid book and besides those towns that are now in being, it will appear that at the grand survey there were also many other towns, which at this time are so totally ruined, that even the site of several of them is unknown, destroyed, and mouldered away with their ancient lords and inhabitants:- Nunc seges est ubi Troja fuit. Atwell: to these I may add, Records in the Tower of London, in the Rolls, Pipe-Office, those of the Eschaetors, and Fines levied in the King's-Court. Hayter, when he presided there, and from the present worthy Chancellor, the Reverend Dr. Asaph,) when Chancellor of that church, from the late Right Reverend Dr. of religious houses, in particular of the voluminous ones of the cathedral church of Norwich, its many In- stitutions, and Will-books, from the reign of King Edward I. large col- lections of antique, original, authentick manuscripts, in publick and private libraries, registers, &c. The materials and assistances, that I have made use of, will best appear from my vouchers and quotations herein cited, viz.
Blomefield, present- ing him with the entire history of the hundreds of Grimshow, and South Greenhow, several gentlemen solicited me to undertake this work, which I complied with, in hopes of its being acceptable, not only to the gentlemen of Norfolk, but to all lovers of antiquity in general. Blomefield, at his death, who had treated chiefly on the southern parts of it, and no person since that time proposing, or inclining to complete the same: as I was known to have made, for many years past, considerable col- lections on that subject, and had assisted Mr. The History of the County of Norfolk, (a county of a very great ex- tent,) being left unfinished by the Reverend Mr. 60.3 The Manor of Calthorp, alias Uphall, or Dame Kate's.60.1 The Manor anciently called Butlers alias Herewards.58.5 Manor of Buxton-Burgh with Kineshall.53.3 South-Erpingham, or Gerberge's Manor.52.1 The Manor of Dagworth in Blickling.51.1 Manors of Ripton-Hall, alias Catts, cum Criketots.49.4 Deans of the Rural Deanery of Ingworth.44.3 Fenhall, Aubries, Stubbes, and Gurnays.42.1 The Manor of Banningham, alias Crakeford's.41.4 Hasting's-Hall cum Whitefoot's-Hall Manors.34.2 Rectors of Lammas with Little-Hautbois.32.1 Aylesham, ex parte Lancastrie, or Lancaster's.28.1 The Manor of Narford, alias Oldhall.27.3 Saltrey, Sawtrey Manor, alias Priors-Thorns.20.2 Woodhall in Pagrave Magna and Parva.20.1 The Manor of East-Hall in Great-Pagrave.16.2 Hockham's, Glosebrig's and Ryley's.16.1 Cressingham, or the Dean and Chapter of Norwich's Manor.9.1 Sparham-Hall, Cocket's, alias Corbet's, and Churchman's.
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