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It is a rectory appendant to the manor, and being discharged of first fruits and tenths, is capable of augmentation. The rectory hath a house and 16 acres of glebe: Norwich Domesday says, that Richard de Boyland was then patron, that the rector had a house and xv. acres of land; that the procurations were then vi.s. viii.d. and the synodals xxii.d.
The following persons appear to have been
Rectors
- 1305, 6 kal. Dec. Robert de Boswyle, accolite, William de Schympling.
- 1328, 7 kal. Mar. Will. de Schymplyng, accolite. Roger, son of Will. de Shympling.
- 1338, 12 July, John de Cherchegate, priest to St. George's church at Shympling. Ditto.
- 1349, Robert Sampson, priest. Emma, late wife of Roger de Schymplyng.
- 1361, 13 Sept. Ric. de Halle, priest. Ditto.
- 1362, 21 Sept. Peter Scott. Ditto.
- 1386, 19 April, Tho. de Welles. Thomas de Glemesford.
- 1393, 28 March, Welles changed this with John Mulle for Mildeston rectory, in Sarum diocese. Roger de Ellingham and Joan Hardegrey.
- 1396, 29 March, Mulle exchanged with Will. Stone for Ludenham in Kent. Ditto.
- 1401, 29 Aug. John Drury, priest, who resigned Watton vicarage in exchange for this. Roger de Elyngham.
- 1408, 7 Aug. John Cok of Illington, priest.
- 1421, 8 Octob. Reginald Pepper of Berton Bendysch, priest, on the resignation of Cok. Ditto.
- 1421, 6 March, Tho. Young, on Pepper's resignation. William, son of Roger de Elyngham of Elyngham, near Bungey.
- 1422, 22 March, Rich. Senyngwell, on Young's resignation. Ditto.
- 1430, 20 Sept. Walter Skyde of Disse. Lapse.
- 1432, 23 Octob. Thomas Wright. Lapse.
- 1434, 14 Dec. John Grygby. William Elyngham of Elyngham by Bungey.
