236 . Letton, 1708; to Brampton Gurdon, Esq., M.P., West , died 1881, and Henrietta Susanna, his wife, daughter of Lord Colborne, died 1880. R. T. Gurdon, Esq., ~LP., is patron of the rectory, which was valued in K.B. at £5 l8s. B~d., and is now worth £477 a year, with that of Letton and South annexed. 'fhe Rev. T. P. Garnier, M.A., is the incumbent, and has a good residence, which was considerably enlarged in 1840, with 38 acres of glebe attached. The tithes of Cranworth have been commuted for £212 l4s. The register dates from the year 1653. There is a PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL, built in 1865. The SCHOOL was built in 1844 by the late T. T. D. Gurdon, Esq., and is supported by the lord of the manor. Attached to it is a residence for the mistress; it is attended by about lOO children, and is used by the parishes of Letton and South Burgh. The Fuel Allotment awarded in 1798 is 6a. 3r. 20p., and the poor have also 5s. a year from Mowting's Charity.. The Right Hon. Robert Mousey Rolfe, Lord Cranworth, was born here in 1790, being the only son of a former rector, the Rev. Edmund Rolfe, who was first cousin to Admiral Lord Nelson. lie was educated at Winchester and at Trinity College, Cambridge ; was 17th wrangler in 1812 ; was called to the bar in 1816 ; became King's Counsel in 1832 ; Solicitor-General in 1834 ; a Baron of the Exchequer in 1839 ; a Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal, Vice-Chancellor, and member of the Privy Council in 1850, and Lord Chancellor in 1852. He was M.P. for Penrhyn from 1832 till 1839, received his knighthood in 1835, and was raised to the peerage in 1850. Dr. Christopher Sutton, the celebrated author of "Disce Vive " and "Disce Mori," was rector here in l62R; he was also sometime incumbent of \Vood Rising. PosT via Thctford; letters arrive at 9 a.m. PILLAR LETTER Box near rectory, cleared at 6.30 p.m.; on Sund~ys at 11.15 a.m. Nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office is at .

Bacon Benjamin, blacksmith Green William, shoemaker Littleproud Alfred, miller Clarke Mrs. Elizabeth, bccrhouse Hubbard Mrs. farmer, High house Milk George, farmer Crafer Charles, farmer Jenny William, parish clerk Milk Miss Martha, shopkeeper Cushing J ames, shopkeeper Lambert Mrs E. farmer Page John, farmer . Garnier Rev Thomas Parry, M.A. Lincoln Ro bert, farmer Webster Edward, farmer rector, The Rectory Winrow Mrs. schoolmistress

CREAKE (NORTH) a parish and large village on the road, 3 miles S. by E. of Burnham Market, is in Docking union, Little Walsingham and Fakenham county court district, Brothercross hundred, Smithdon and Brothcrcross petty sessional division, Burnham rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 613 inhabitants in 1881, living on 3,601 acres. Earl Spencer, who has a shooting-box here, Mr. Seymour, of Barwick House, and the Master and Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, are the principal owners and lords of the manors. Creake Abbey, in an open vale at the north end of the parish, was first founded for a master, 4 chaplains, and 13 lay brethren, by Sir Robert do N arford and Alice his wife, about the year 1206; but they were afterwards made an abbot and canons of the Augustine order, and had a church dedicated to St. Bartholomew. After the Dissolution, this abbey, with all the lands belonging to it, was granted by Margaret, Countess of Richmond, to Christ's College; and the estate, which comprises 620 acres, is now held on lease by Mr. R. Emerson. A great part of the abbey walls still remains, and forms a highly interesting and venerable ruin; the choir of the church is perfectly distinguishable, and several of its pomted arches and lofty pillars are still entire, but the nave, if ever there was one, is gone, except those parts of its materials which may be observed in the adjacent farmhouse. About 2,000 Roman coins were dug up near the village in 1799. 'l'he parish CHURCH (Virgin Mary) stands near the south end of the village, and is a fine building with lofty nave, north aisle and clerestory, chancel, south porch, and massive square tower with six bells. The nave is of four bays, and has a fine open timber roof with figures of angels on the hammer-beams and along the cornice, and at the intersections of the rafters. lt is lighted by windows of the Perpendicular period; but the chancel (dating from 1301, and thoroughly restored by the present rector in 1877) is in the Decorated style, and has a beautiful east window of five lights. The roof, of the same date as that of the nave, is still more ornate, carrying besides the angels as above, figures of the Apostles, with scrolls booring the twelve articles of the creed in Latin. The piscina and three sedilia still remain ; and on the north side of the chancel is a sacristy, now used as a vestry, which also contains a piscina. On the floor is a fine brass, believed to represent Sir W. Calthorpe, lord of the manor in the 15th century, bearing the model of the church which he restored; and over the chancel arch were remainR of a fresco painting, now plastered over. The nave of the church has recently been partially reseated and some of the principal windo\\S filled with cathedral glass, at the cost of the present rector. 'l'he registers date from 1538. The rectory, valued jn K.B. at £33 6s. Sd., is in the alternate patronage of Earl SpenCBr

and the Bishop of , and in the incumbency of the Rev. John Nassau Simpkinson, M.A. 1 who has 187a. of glebe; a handsome Elizabethan residence, built in 1845 at a cost of £3,500 ; and a yearly rent­ charge of £1,081, awarded in 1839 in lieu of tithes. THE WESLEYANS and PRIMITIVE METHODISTS have each a small chapel in the parish. The NATIONAL ScHOOL is a handsome building, erected in 1849 at a cost of £450, by Earl Spencer, who also gave the site, and has since built a large Infant School. It is chiefly supported by subscription. There are four Almshouses for four poor widows, founded by Richard M:ansaur in 1592, and endowed with £4 3s. a year out of land belonging to Earl Spencer. The poor have 10s. a year out of 3a. of land bequeathed by the Rev. Samuel Pancke in 1680. IJosT, MoNEY ORDER OFFICE, and SAVINGS BANK at Miss Susan Walker's. Letters arrive at 7.45 a.m., and are despatched at 4,15 p.m., via Fakenham. Burnham Market is the nearest Telegraph Office.