NORFOLK. 
prefide under the title of bifhop, and after having been 
confecrated by Honorius, ar chbifhop of Canterbury, A.D. 
630, he fixed his feat at Siltheftow, afterwards called Dun- 
wich, in the county of Suffolk. Such were his piety and 
zeal, and fo extentive was the fame which he acquired by his 
eminent fervices in the church, that wits 
been deacon to Felix, fucceeded him. 
infirm and unable to perform the du- 
Thomas, who “had b 
In his declining years, i 
F his diocefe, 
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: chene ee 
to this partition of the Eaft na ioe, the bifhops 
North Elmham were as follow 
Bedwinus, Baldwinus, or Beadwine, was confecrated 
a. “a affifled Acea, in 675, to place the veil upon 
— Offyt 
ne thbertus, Northbert, or Rothbert, fucceeded Bed- 
winus fome time after the year 679. 
3. Hedulacus, Haduac, or Hatholac, was bifhop of this 
fee at the time Bede coaplecd his Ecclefiattical Hiftory, 
in A.D. 731 
4. Edelfridus, Ethelfrith, or Ethelferth, fucceeded, and 
Lamferthus, or Lamefe rd, followed; but at what time 
is not fatisfa@orily afcertaine 
thelwalfus, or EEthelwolph, occupied the fee in 
81. 
Unfertus, Alberth, or a was bifhop, according 
to Blomefield, about the year 
8. Sibba, Sibban, or Siga, Es in the year 816. 
unferth, Hunferd, or Hufred, was confecrated by 
Wilfred, archbifhop of Canterbury, and was living in the 
year 824. 
oe or Humbret, was confecrated about 826. 
Wypbred, Wyred, or Wildred, was appointed bifhop 
of ‘both the fees of Norfolk and Su ffolk. 
Bifoops of Elmham after the Union of the Sees.—1. Theo- 
dred I., or Tedred, is reported to have been an eye-wit- 
refs of St. Edmund’s corpfe being found uncorrupt. 
A.D. 9 
a: “Pheodred II., furnamed the Good, was firft bifhop 
of London, and then of Elmham, both of which he held 
until his death, fome cme after A.D. 962. 
. Athulf, Adulf, er Eadulf, has been erroneoufly placed 
as fitting prior to the Theodreds in this fee. 
4. Alfric, Alfrid, or Ailfric, was one oF the number who 
figned the charter of king Edgar to the abbey of ye hee 
in the hp | of Lincoln. He died at the end of “es 
reign in 975. 
5. Athelftane, ecia, or Elftane, was confecrated at 
the — of the fam 
6. bleed or iain, who had been confeffor to 
Dunttan, archbifhop of Canterbury, was promoted to this 
fee in the year 1012. Died Chriftmas eve, A.D: 1021. 
7. Alfwin, Elfwin, or Eldwin, fucceeded the fame year. 
He ays or die -D. 1031. 
8. Alfric IT., Ailfric, or Aluric, fucceeded and died A.D. 
-s Alfric III., furnamed = a who had previoufly.’ 
been prior of Ely, died A.D. 
tigand, who was sacle to king Harold Harefoot 
having obiained this fee by fimony, was ejected by king 
Gas 104: 
_ Grimketel, or Grumketel, held it in commendam 
-—The dioc 
ee is a pe to that metropolitan. 
with the bifhopric of South Saxons, during the remainder 
of Hardicanute’s rei 
Imar, or Almar, on the advancement of his brother 
Stigand, fucceeded in the year 1067. 
14 aft, or Arfafl, chaplain to William the Con. 
queror, was made bifhop at Eatter, 1070. 
A lift of the bifhops - Norwich will be given in a fub- 
fequent account of that city. 
Extent, Jurifdidion, Revenues, Liberties of the sree 
rif 
efe of Norwich com the counties of 
in Gambridgehhire. Spelma 
arifhes, and Beatfon, in his Pol tica 
ome one but this, if meant of unc 
muft very erroneous, as, 
Scene certified to 2 king, that there were in his dio 
1321 parifhes. meant to include pluralities as 
parifhes, it will then pe ie om accurate. 
am 
folidated livin aot 
ah 
have, r, ta P 
is occafionally fluctuating from different,caufes, 
oe of eftablifhed serey refident in the diocefe, pee rae 
o a calculation made in the year 1772, was pal red 
oes curates 150, from Saar a 1s evident there mult 
number of pluralities oung remarks, ae not half 
the clergymen refide at their livings. 
An anfwer returne a mandamus of queen Elizabeth, 
by bifhop Parker in 1563, ftates, oa “the race contains 
Norfolk and Suffolk, except four peculiars and eleven 
urches in Cambrid gethire, befides alc ‘oid, chapels, 
ad donatives. ‘Thus in the archdeaconrie 
Deaneries, Reories. Vicarages. Ps a 
Norwich 12 168 4I fe) 
Norfolk 12 184 36 uncertain. 
Suffolk 13 114 42 — 
Sudbury 8 182 I —— 
The prefent enumeration from the beft information that 
can be cbtaned is I 3542, se 802 in Norfolk, 537 in Suf- 
folk, and 15 in Cambridgefhire. Formerly there was but 
one Sore rah sof Norfolk. Sudbury was added in 
in 1127, and Norwich in 1200; 
r of parifhes contained in eac 
Archdeaconries. Deaconries. Parithes 
Norwich 13 365 
Norfolk 12 468 
Sudbury 8 
Suffolk 14 523 
The diocefe is in the province of Canterbury, and the 
The jurifdiGion 
of the fee, as refpeéts its internal regulations, is vefted in 
the bifhop, who populnes the four archdeacons as his affitt. 
ants, (no fuffragans having been chofen fince the time of 
bifhop Nix) a chancellor, a regiftrar, and other officers of his 
confiftorial court 
Revinues.—Nurtured by kings, and long under the fofter- 
ing care of royalty, this — rapidly increafed in wealth, fo 
that at the time of the great Norman furvey the revenues of 
it were very confiderable, as appears from the enumeration 
of them in Domefday book. Subfequent to that era, the 
bifhops of Norwich were generally in the court favour ; 
and 
