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BACTON. A deposition of Waryn Kyng and 10 others made "the nexst day after the Assencion of our Lorde God, 19 Ed. IV, that they with many other, at the instauns and request of Henry Waryns of Paston , aperyd at the manere of Huntyngfeld in Bakton, and there and than Symon de Gunore , be fors of a dede with a letter of attornye to him made as he seid by Agnes Paston , and there shewed, delyvered seizin of and in the halfpele of the foresaid manor of Huntyngfeld otherwyse called Seweresby only, and of no other manors, lands, nor tenements in the foresaid shire, to William Paston, swyer, and other wyth hym named in the seyd dede be fors of letter of attornye made to us the foresaid William Barker and John Boule (2 of the 10) be ye seid William Paston and other named in the dede." .

WALCOT. Indenture dated 6 April, 1639, by which Richard, bp. of Norwich and abbot of St. Bennet of Hulme, demises the rectory of Walcott, with the tithes of Walcott, Happesburgh, Backton, Broomehall, Ridlington, and other towns adjoining, to John Awcock of Buckenham Ferrie, gent., to hold the same during the lives of certain persons named, paying a certain quantity of wheat, barley, and oats, or their value in money annually.

Draft writ to the sheriff of Norfolk to attach and bring before the council, John Paston alias Wortes , John Gees, a Carmelite friar of Norwich , Edmund Alderford, clerk, Bartholomew Waryn, parson of Trunche , William Cuttyng of Worstede , John Gees of Crowemer, merchant, and Ralph Gunton of Norwich, skryvener, for violation of the statutes of provisors, 25 Ed. III and 16 Ric. II, on the complaint of John Brundale, prior of Bromholm , that although he was canonically elected prior, the said Paston alias Wortes had crossed the sea without royal licence, obtained a provision of the said priory in the court of Rome, and got himself installed as prior and the other expelled; the said John Gees and others having received the said bulls and instruments at Bakton and caused the same to be executed. Dated 1 December [5 Hen. VI]. ii. On the back of this document is another draft writ of the same date against the same parties for endeavouring to draw the prior out of the kingdom by a suit in the court of Rome.