He gave also 5l. to be positioned in a chest within the church, out of which, 5s. may be borrowed by any poor particular person of this city on pledges, but nobody to have greater than 5s. at a time: he offers an alms-home for four poor individuals, and to Trinity gild here 10 ewes and 5 sheep; a cup of silver gilt, to the church of Swaffham, formerly Mr. John Botewright’s, rector of that church; to Margaret Heigham of Marham (the abbess) 4s. per annum out of an in depth in Holm-Hale, and after the loss of life of the stated Margaret to be settled on the mentioned nuns for their clothing; to every priest at Swaffham 12d.; to every clerk 6d.; to the boys of the choir 3d.; to each priest in the a whole bunch of South-Greenhoe and Clackclose 4d.; for the obit of Edmund Blake late of Hale 40d. per annum.
This Hugh lived in the reign of King Edward I. for in the 3d of that King, one in all that title occurs in the hundred roll of South Greenhoe, as an inhabitant of Swaffham. This Alan lived within the reign of King Henry II. Abbot of Sawtrey in Huntingdonshire held 2 carucates, and a manor on this city and Narford, of the gift of Warine de Bassingbourn and Alan of Swaffham: and within the 32d of that King, a wonderful was levied between Adam Abbot of Sawtrey, and a Warin de Bassingbourn, whereby he acquitted the Abbot of the go well with of the court, as a result of manor of Swaffham, and demanded by Peter of Savoy Earl of Richmond; and on this abbey the manor continued till the overall Dissolution of King Henry VIII. Alan son of Godfrey of Swaffham, by deed suns date, gave to the monks of Castleacre, 2 acres of land, at Stow-Slod, lying between that land that Alan de Bassingbourn gave to the monks of Sawtree. The stated Alan, by deed sans date, gave to the mentioned monks of Ailrick de Stow and Margaret his wife, their household and services, with liberty of a fold-course, and all the tenement which they held of him in Swaffham, and Guthlakes-Stow, and 18 acres thereof lying close to St. Guthlack’s chapel, and 6 acres of land at Marham Stokes, &c.
Thomas Athow, sergeant at legislation, commissioners for charitable uses, when the jury found, that the late dissolved chantry of Swaffham, based by Simon Blake, and the lordship and manor of Haspal and Whitsand, with the fold course and 60 acres of land in Swaffham, with the Church-croft, alias the Shooting-croft, was by King Edward VI. Blake’s chantry priest, and his chantry was the south transept chapel of the church of Swaffham, where he lies buried below a marble stone near the altar of Our Lady of Pity; and the stated altar to be known as the altar of the chantry of Simon Blake, the priest to have eight marks per annum, to be paid on the four quarter days, by equal funds; a brand new chantry priest is to be chosen on the loss of life of the previous one, by the vicar of Swaffham for the time being, the churchwardens, and 5 a minimum of of his sixteen feoffees; and on their neglect to decide on in the house of 8 weeks from the voidance, then the nomination and election to be within the grasp of St. Martin’s-College at Thompson in Norfolk; and when his sixteen feoffees are decreased by loss of life to six, they’re to renew the feoffment to themselves and 10 extra; the vicar and churchwardens are always to obtain the profits and handle the estates, pay the priest, &c.
In 1320, Isabel de Quitsand, held it, and in 1239, Gilbert de Quitsand of Swaffham confirmed it to Gilbert his son, and Catharine daughter of Peter Maupas of Swaffham, and their heirs, with a fold-course, and the homages and companies of all his free-tenants in the mentioned city; and afterwards this manor was annexed to that of Aspals, and had the same lords as is there noticed. Hugh de Whytsand, by deed sans date, granted to Walter his son, and Agnes his wife and their heirs, the moiety of it, and of a fald in the fields of Swaffham, with the homages and services of the a number of tenants, and all providers fits of court, &c. Wright died, and Walter survived, and after died, whose son, William Walter, assigned the trust by deed, dated twenty seventh May, 5th of Edward VI. John Reader held this chantry on the dissolution of it, and had a pension from King Edward VI. 5l. per annum which he held in 1553. He being the final chantry priest.