67(J ILKETSHALL ST. LAWRENcg, :Bedingfield J ames, parish clerk FARMERS. Howard Wm. wheelwright Beckett Robert 11 Knights Richard Morris James, joiner Bloomfield Robert 11 Manning Thos. Oldring John, shopr. & corn miller Ellis Edward 11 Newham Wm. Woolnongh Robert, blacksmith & vict. Gooch Sarah 11 Newham Wm. jnn Royal Oak, Post-Office Godbold George 11 Youngman John Warner Wm. The Grove

ILKETSHALL ST. MARGARET, 4 miles S. by E. of , is a straggling village and parish, containing 306 aoulS', and 2090A. 2B. 16P. of land. Sir Robert S. Adair is lord of the manor, but a great part of th~ soil belongs to Lady Beresford, Mr. J. G. Chaston, and several smaller owners. The Church is a small structure, with a. tower and three bell~ and the living is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £5. 13s. 9d., and in 1835 at .£131. The Rev. Geo. Lewis Allsopp is the incumbent, and th& Duke of Norfolk patron. The Church has recently been re-fitted with open benches, and the east window filled with stained glass. The glebe is 15. sores. The tithes have been commuted for yearly rent-charges of £628 to Mrs. Patteson, the impropriator; £121 to the vicar; and £15 to the rector of Ilketshall St. John. The Tou;n Estate, consisting of two tenements and 24A. of land, let for £28 a. year, has been vested from an early period for the reparation of the Church, and other public uses,. The poor havet' about £5 yearly, left by Henry Smith, in 1626, out of an estate at Tolles­ hunt-Darcy, in Essex. A limited number of the tenants of the four parishes of Ilketshall have the privilege of pasturing a certain number of eattle on Stow Fen. (See page 656.) PosT jrom Bungay. Allsopp Re'f George Lewis, vicar FARMERS. :Baldry John, blacksmith Archer Peter J ex Robert Clutton Oliver, shopkeeper Banks Wm. King Henry Gooch , parish clerk and sexton Banyard J ames Ling Henry Ling Charlotte, schoolmistress Carley J ames Meddle John :Martin Stephen, shoemaker and shop· Codling Henry Oldring Samuel keeper Gibson James Owles John .Martin Thomas, shopkeeper Harvey Jas. Taylor Read John :Masterson Wm. tailor Holden Samuel Smith Wm. Smith Samuel, Tict. Greyhound Hunton John Wright John

' ' , a pleasant village on the southern acclivity of the val& of the Waveney, 2 miles E. of Bungay, and 4 miles W. of , has in its parish 382 souls, and 1386A. 2n. l2P. of fertile land. About half a. mile south of the church are the picturesque ruins of METTINGHAM CASTLE, which was of considerable extent and strength, and was built by John de Norwich, who, in the 17th of Edwarli Ill., obtained :ver-. mission to convert his house here into a castle; in which he also founded s COLLEGE, to which he had the king's license to translate the priests from his College at Raveningham. This College was dedicated to God and 1he Blessed Virgin, and consisted of a. master and thirteen chaplains or fellows, who were endowed with the Castle for their residence, and with the manors of Mettingham, Bungay Soke, and several others in and Norfolk. They educated and maintained a number of boys at the annual eharge of £28. Richard Shelton, the master, and nine fellows subscribed

1o the King's supremacy in lo315, but were allowed to :remain till 10421 when their revenues were valued at £202. 7s. 5!d. per annum, and theil: possessions were granted to Sir Anthony Denny. The founder died in 1363, and left his estates to. his grandson, whose cousin, Catberine de