. 651 ROLLESBY is a large scattered village and parish, 8 miles N.W. by N. of Yarmouth, comprising 1407 acres of enclosed land, and about 200 acres of the waters called . It is in West FlE!~g hundred, East and west Fie~g petty sessional division, y a.rmm'lth cdtinty court district, y a.rmouth ba'nkrnptcy district, Ormesby polling district of North , Flegg rural deanery, and archdeaconiy. It had 557 inhabitants in 1881, and has a I'ateahle vr.lue of £3457. Major Charles Ensor owns. most of the soil, and is lord of the manor. The Hall, a handsome building, which was in the Elizabethan style, but was new fronted witq white brick and otherwise improved in 1824, is now rented by General Sarel, C.B., and is delightfully situated east of the village, in the vale of the Broads, eight of which unite, and, covering a long strip of 400 acres, forms the largest fresh-water lake in the county. There are some buildings of great antiquity near the church. The CHURCH (St. George) stands on an eminence at the west end of the village, and consists of nave wj~h aisles, chancel, south po:rch, and tower. The latter is round at the base and octagonal above, and contains three bells. In the chancel is a raised altar-tomb, dated 1601, and bearing a recumbent effigy of .1.\lias. Rose Claxtop, in Elizabethan dress. Here is also an ancient monument in marble, with figures of Leonard Mapes, Esq., his wife and family, in the attitude of prayer. The chancel was ·restored in 1873, at the expense of the rector, Rev. R. Tacon, and a new east window put in. The Register dates from 1550, in one book. The living is a discharged rectory, Yalued in K.B. at £17, and now having a clear yearly rent­ charge of £64-8, awarded in lieu of tithes in 1839. The executors of Charles Tacon, Esq., are the patrons, and the Rev. Richard Tacon, ~LA., J.P., is the incumbent. The rector is of an ancient and noble Spanish family, one of whom was Governor of Madrid in the 15th century, nnd another Captain-General of Cuba in the 18th. The rectory house was enlarged by Rev. Edmund Ensor, and is now a large residence. Here is a National School, enlarged in 1873, and also a small Primitiye Methodist Chapel, near the Broad. The Poor's Allotment, awarded at the enclosure of Rollesby in 1816, comprises 23A. 1R. 32P., let for about £23 a year, which is distributed in coal. In IG20 and 1669, Christopher Amys and Leonard Mapes left to the poor parishioners 1~ acres of land, let for £4 10s., which is applied towards the support of a Sunday School. The pMishes of East and West Flegg were incorporated for parochial purposes by an Act of the 15th of George Ill. (1774); and a House of Industry, for the reception of the poor of both hundreds, was erected at Rollesby in 1776, and enlarged in 1818 and 1837, so that it will now accommodate 280 paupers, though the number of inmates seldom exceeds 100. It is under the control of forty-eight guardians, chosen yearly, and a number of directors, consisting of n.ll the magistrates and freeholders of .£200 per annum resident in the in,corporated parishes. The dietary system now in use has been introduced by the Poor Law Commissioners, who have bere no further authority than the Poor Law Act giYes them in similar incorporations. R. J{idman, Esq., is chairman of the Board of Directors and Acting Guardians, u.nd J. Cory, Esq., is their clerk. John Turpin Wailer, Esq., of Burgh, is superintendent registrar; Mr. Thomas Bradfield, registrar of marriages; and .Mr. A. Crisp, of 1\Iartham, and Mr. Thomas Brad:field, of Caister, registrars of births and deaths. Mr. J ames Linford is the relieving officer, and Messrs. Robert "\Voodman and A. Crisp, surgeons. The Rev. J. W. Clapcott is chaplain, and 1\Ir. James Lewell nnd Miss Harris master and matron of the work.. house. In 1862, the Board of Directors and Acting GuardianA formed itself into a Board of Health, under the powers of the Public Health Acts, and has already made several useful sanitary improYements. G. M. Beck, Esq., of Great Ormesby, is chairman; John Cory, Esq., clerk; and Mr. T. Edmonds, inspector of nuisances. The following is an enumeration of the parishes in the union :------Popula- Popula- Parishes Acreage tion Parishes Acreage tion

~ --- . r A!!hby-with-Oby • • • • 1,408 107 Repps, near Bastwick • • • 1,229 261 Billockby • • • • • • 389 66 Rollesby (W.) • • • • • 1,653 557 Burgh, St. Margaret and St. 1\Iary • 1,655 553 Run ham • • • • • • 1,715 911 Caistor, next Yarmouth • • • 3,047 w 1,.572 Stokesby-with-ilerringhy . • • 2.119. 333 Clippesby. • • • • • 861 123 • • • • • • 1,425 92

East Somerton . • • • • • 798 47 • • • • • • 660 213 Hems by • • • • • • 1,785 w 648 West Somerton . • • • • 1,189 232 . • • • • • 2,644 1,097 Winterton. • • • • • 1,515 w 790 • • • • • • 1,659 121 . OrmPsby, St.-Margaret-with-ScratLy 1_ 1,126 2,76lw{ 29,087 w 9,026 Ormesby, St. 1\Iichael • • J 287 - - - • :Petty Sessions for the division of East and West Flegg (see page 34) are held every alternate Tuesday, at the Workh