the Rev. Mr. Nicholas Neech, his son, is now [1737] rector, and holds it united to Shropham vicarage. Tho. Hare of Harpham, Esq.
Rectors of St. Andrew's
- 1257, Sir William Le Parker, rector. Ralph de Bukenham, patron.
- 1281, Ralph Corde, rector. Sir Hugh Bukenham, Knt.
- 1308, 12 kal. Apr. Nicholas de Frengge, accolite. Ditto.
- 1311, 4 id. Nov. Ralph de Fuldone, priest. Ditto.
- 1332, 4 non. January, Richard Galyon de Sandringham, accolite. Hugh, son of Sir Hugh de Bukenham, Knt.
- 1349, 26 Oct. Edmund de Welholm, shaveling. Alice, relict of Hugh de Bukenham.
- 1358, 8 Nov. Henry de Etyndon, priest, on Welholm's resignation. Ditto.
- 1382, 25 Sept. John Arteys, priest. Julian de Bokenham.
- 1394, 7 March, Henry Strok, priest. Joan, relict of Hugh Bokenham of Sneterton.
- 1398, 5 Aug. John Somerby, priest, on Strok's resignation. Joan Bukenham, lady of Snetterton.
- 1399, 12 April, Tho. Galle of Snetterton, accolite. Julian de Bokenham. At his death in 1435, it was consolidated to All-Saints, by Edmund Bukenham, Esq. patron of both, and Tho. Bosvile, rector of both; and being thus joined, about the time of Henry VIII. the church was pulled down. At the time of Norwich Domesday, Hugh de Kywelsle, or Kinesle, was patron, and the rector had a house and 10 acres of land. This advowson was purchased by Sir Hugh de Bokenham, father of Ralph, of Jeffery de Kinesle, son of Hugh de Kynesly.
There were two Gilds in this town, the one called, the Fraternity of the Holy Trinity, and the other of St. John; they had a gild-hall which stood on the other side of the road, against the end of the chancel; they were dissolved in the year 1548, and the hall, and 4 acres of land thereto belonging, came to the Crown, and there continued till Queen Elizabeth, by letters patent dated 26 Jan. 1569, granted it to Nicase Yetswert, Esq. and Barth. Brokesby, Gent. and their heirs, to be held of her manor of East Greenwich, in free soccage, by fealty only, and not in capite, without any annual payment whatever; and afterwards it was sold several times before the lord purchased it, and pulled it down.
In 1528, the Prior of Bukenham was taxed at 3s. 10d. ob. for his temporals in this town, which were divers small pieces of land given to their house by the Bokenhams.
It paid to the tenths 3l. 10s. is now [1737] assessed to the King's tax at 420l. and hath about 200 inhabitants.
Snetterton, in the Confessor's time, was two towns; the south part of it, with All-Saint's church, was known by the present name, but the north part, with St. Andrew's church thereto belonging, was then called Essebei, or Ashby, and continued that distinction at the
