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SAXTHORPE, 5 miles N.W. of Aylsham, on the north side of the Bure, has 342 souls, and 2073 acres of land, of which 870A., with the manorial rights, were purchased about 25 years ago, by the Earl of Orford, of the Elvin family. The rest of the soil belongs to other proprietors.
Pembroke College, Cambridge, has the appropriation of the rectory, and the patronage of the vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £4.13s.4d., and in 1831, at £144. It is enjoyed by the Rev. Samuel Ashby, M.A., and was augmented with £400 by W. Trolope, and Queen Anne's Bounty, in 1739. The glebe is 46A.3R., and in 1841 the rectorial tithes were commuted for £302.10s., and the vicarial for £91 per annum.
The Church (St. Andrew,) was built about 1490; previous to which, here was St. Dunstan's Chapel, founded by Amer de Valence, in 1313, on the site still called Chapel close.
In 1666, the Rev. John Vaughan, a late vicar, left £260 to the Boy's Hospital, in Norwich, and directed that half the boys admitted in consideration thereof, should be sent from Saxthorpe.
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Ashby Rev. Saml. M.A. vicar Bacon John Massingham vict., Castle Hase Thomas smith and ironfounder Pegg Philip grocer, stationer, and druggist Pinchin James shoemaker Farmers. Amis Wm. Barstead Wm. Breese Rt. Curtis John Earle E. Hylton Henry Lake Charles Scottow Richard Shelton Richard Wiggett John
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May 1999