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Treasurer, Henry Birkbeck, at Messrs. Barclay & Co.'s Registrars of Births & Deaths-Diss: ,V. S. Ln~her. Dis.~: Bank, Diss deputy, Herbert H. Maling, Diss; Harleston: George Relieving Officers, Diss district, William Seagon Lusher, Mann, ; deputy, C. W. Whitewood, Pulham St. Diss; Harleston district, George Mann, Starston; Mary the Virgin; : W. R. Palmer, Wac. Stratton district, William Robert Palmer, Wacton, Long ton; deputy, Thomas R. Potter, Long Stratton Stratton Registrars of Marriages, A. J. Lusher, Diss; deputy, Alfd;_ Vaccination Officers, The Registrars of Births & Deaths Cooper, Diss; George Mann, Starston; deputy, C. W _ Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. 1 district, Whitewood, Pulham St. Mary the Virgin; W. R. C. A. Owens M.D. Long Stratton; No. 2 district, Gilbert Palmer, Wact{)n; deputy, Thomas R. Potter, Long Holland Ransome, Bungay; No. 3 district, Wilfred Stratton Howard L.R.C.P.Edin. -New Buckenham; No. 4 dis- The Workhouse, on the road, is a structure of trict, Legge Paulley M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Edin. Sbert, assistant Leggett Elizabeth (Mrs.), householder Southgate Francis, supt. of police overseer & clerk to the ParishCouncl Leggett George, farmer & landowner, Spicer Thomas, farmer, Bush green Borrett Robert F.S.A. clerk to the Pulham hall Stannard John, farmer & dealer commissioners of taxes, accountant, Mann Eliza (Mrs.), householder Thompson Alfd. Chas. frmr.North gn auctioneer & valuer, public auditor Martin David, shopkeeper Wailer George, baker & confectioner ~Ioore under Friendlv• Societies Act Elizab'lth :Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Wailer John, householdet BlackburnMansellGeo.farmer,Elm side Seamere farm 'Valler Thos. beer retlr. Bush green & Hill & Mill farms Moy Thos. Lim. coal & coke mers Walpole George, farmer, Coles commn Boughton James, thatcher Nurse William, farmer & landowner, Whidby George, boot & shoe maker Brown Richard, farmer & threshing Gothic & Bridge farms Wier Lydia (Mrs.), Falcon P.H machine proprietor, Colegate end Outlaw .John Maidwell, butcher, Wood~ Alfred Ernest, acting stn. mstr Chambers Frederick C. manager gam3 & poultry dealer & farmer; PULHAM ST. MARY THE VIRGIN is a parish F. S.A. architect, of London, at a total cost ot and pleasant village, with a station on the Waveney £3,6oo : in the chancel are double piscinre and sedili& Valley branch of the Great Eastern railway, 3 miles north­ and there is a piscina in the south aisle : there are tablets­ west from Harleston, in the Southern division of the to Thomas Inyon M.A. who died March 20, 1777, and county, Deepwade union, hundred and petty Margaretta M aria his wife ; and to John Swann, surgeon,. sessional division, county court district of Harleston, rural d. Aug. II, 1792: the organ was presented by Miss Bond .. in memory of her father the Rev. Richard Bond M.A. deanery• of Redenhall, archdeaconry• of Norfolk and dio- cese of Norwich; a stream, locally known as" 'l'he Beck," rector from 1858: there are 350 sittings. The register flows through the parish into the river Waveney. The dates from the year 1538. The living is a rectory, net­ church of St. Mary is a builaing of stone and flint in yearly value £430, with 32 acres of glebe, and residence,.. the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south in the gift of the Crown, and held since 1895 by the Rev; aisle, vestry, south-west porch and a lofty embattled Charles Carthew Wakefield B.A. of Magdalen College •. western tower, containing a clock and 8 bells, including Oxford. In 1253 Henry de Wengham, dean of St. Mar­ two erected in Sept. 1895 at a cost of £8o; the exterior tin's-le-Grand, was presented to the rectory by Henry is ornamented with various carV'ed figures, and on the top Ill. and afterwards became Bishop of London and Chan­ are five figures curiously carved : some of the windows re­ cellor of : Sir Simon de Walpole, chaplain to­ tain ancient stained glass, one dating from 1380, and his brother Ralph de Walpole, Bishop of Norwich and Ely.. another, called the "Apostles' " window, from 1420, be­ was rector in 1301, and lies interred in the chancel here:: sides eight other stained windows: in 1886-7 the church in 1341 Richard de Northbrook, archdeacon of ,. was thoroughly restored, when a new roof was erected at was presented; he was confirmed Bishop of London 1355,. a cost of £900, a vestry added, the western gallery re­ but died of the plague in 1361 : Sir Thomas Howes, chap­ moved and the tower arch opened : the chancel screen, lain to Sir John Falstaff, was rector in 1465, and left which is adorned with paintings of saints, was carefully a sum of money towards the repairing of the church ; restored, decorated and re-gilt, and a new oak pulpit William May, Chancellor of Ely, and afterwards dean of and lectern erected, the whole beinl! carried out St. Paul's, was presented to Pulham in 1557 by the Bishop under the direction of Mr. G. F. Bodley A.R.A., of London, being the last rector so presented. Here is ·