NORFOLK. 
and as favourites were preferred to the higheft ftations of 
emoluments and truft, ed f cqui 
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putation, of fixty manors; and the pipe rolls of king John’ 8 
reign evince, that bifhop John de Grey, in 1212, anfeered 
for thirty- on nights’ fees; and in the following year ob- 
us) OF vie f acqui ittance, from the Scotch 
an exchange. Some few additions were made ia the reigns 
of king Edward VI., and queen Elizabeth. The bifhopric 
ftands charged at prefent in the king’s books at 834/. 114. 7d. 
It pays firft-fruits but no tenths, thofe having been dif- 
charged b commutation with queen oe for the 
epifcopal manors of Sudborne and Swan The prefent 
1 at on i average it com- 
clear yearly seh is begeter, bu 
puted to amou about three thoufand five hundred 
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as titular abbot of St. Bennet’s in "Holme, and is the only 
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monaftic inftitutions, this will appear ftill more evident, an 
the a which followed fuch paigh aicegl acquicone 
will be difplayed i ore prominent de . 
folk teemed with religious ue of one thou. 
fand one hundred forty-eig onal feized by 
Henry VIII. after his denial of the supremacy 
Ancient “ArchiteBiure. —From the various circumftances al- 
ready mentioned, it may with great L seaceey ad be inferred, that 
Norfolk contains various and nu us fpecimens of eccle- 
fiaftical architeCture ; and from ae maby military tranfac- 
tions which occurred within this diftri&t, the antiquary may 
expe to meet with feveral caftellated remains. No 
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Caftle Rifing. This ells difplays features very diflimilar 
to either of the former, and totally different to the generality 
of aera 
Middleton, near Lynn, is a fine eaenene or ealanee 
to a caftellated ftruGure. Caiftor-hall, near Yarmout 
xborough-hall, near Stoke ; Winwall-houfe, near Stoke; 
AA clos fit near Walfingham, and Baconfthorpe-hall ; are 
ient manfions, all of which exhibit fome features a a 
cattellated character, though they do not appear to have 
been regularly and completely fortified. 
In the clafs of Eccleiaftical Arcbitedure, Norfolk prefents 
more curious and ancient than what may be termed fine 
buildings. Of thofe old churches, towers, &c. which are 
commonly called Saxon and Danifh, ‘many f{pecimens are to 
be found in this county; and it would be highly gratifying 
to laudable curiofity to afcertain whether they were really 
ereCted by either the Saxons or the Danes, during their al- 
ternate dominion in Eaft An 
The round towers, of which feveral ftill remain in Nor- 
folk and Suffolk, have been called Danifh by fir James Bur- 
rough and by fome other artiquaries ; and their being found 
principally in this part of the ifland ftrengthens that opinion. 
Though of a circular form, they are diffimilar in fize and 
height to the pillar towers of Treland, and are {till more un- 
i i hurches. e archi 
étion be entitled to this aes is very fimple or rude; they 
confit of a plain wall of flint, rubbifh, ftone and mortar, with 
very {mall openings or win The latter are to- 
wards the top, and have femicircvlar heads divided into two 
fh chur . of Bex- 
tiquity of that form, there is in each a 
tainly not common: both have been furmaanted by o 
gon tops about the age of Pai VII. In that of = 
