Excursions in the County of Norfolk; Comprising a Brief Historical and Topographical Delineation of Every Town and Village; Together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Every Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 edition. Excerpt: ...was all waste, and of the nature of a desolate fen. Subsequent to this, divers inhabitants of the neighbourhood came, and by draining and banking gained as much by their industry He the)' could; and that they might securely enjoy the s311'e, they were content to be tenants to the great men cents?r_ lords of whom they held their other lands. Upon this occasion, and by common consent, was made the Old podilre, or polder, first raised about the year 1222-In the second year of Henry Ill. it appears how far We work of draining had been successful; for Hu5o de Burgo, Earl of Kent, and Lord Chief Justice of Eng' land, and Eustachius, Bishop of Ely, had then 6 grant or writ of seisen, of all the marsh between Wiggehale and Well Hakebeche, Tylney, and T yrington. 'VIeENHALE ST. MARY MAGDALEN. The here was in the family of Caprevill, Chereville, vile. 'Sir Frederic de Capreville, in the beginnill Henry the third's reign, gave his tenement and I11i"o' lordship or Ker-g of @ 17lg1.z_md F.51__7.5;centsm ix L''.11''/1x7 l'y ''Z'muu'.'5cents 'z: .''''_lm ' ai'1'ylzl-/'1: '3.'k. inl llr ing'. _ its a it is sir. in this town to the prior of Castleacre. The church oi'St.' Mary Magdalen of Wigenhale is a good regular building, consisting of a nave, a north and south aisle, with its porch, and a chancel; and at the west end stands a square tower of stone. The upper part of the north aisle has been a chapel, but now taken in with a skreen, as is likewise the east end of the south aisle. In the east window are the broken efiigies of Pope Nicholas on his throne, and in the windows north are those