MS. Ch. Norfolk 638

WALSHAM (North). Return to an inquisition ordered by the bishop of Norwich, concerning a vacancy in the church of North Walsham, to which Robert de Ormesby had been presented, by the testimony of John, rector of Slaleye , Geoffrey, rector of Beston , John de Horningg ' and others, who say, that the church of North Walsham was vacant from the feast of the Purification B.V.M. by the death of master Henry Sampson , the last rector, that the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme are the patrons, and that the priest presented is of good life and conversation and beneficed in the church of Castre. Dated at Worstede, before Transl. of St. Thomas martyr1299. (After Sampson's death Reginald de Sarmoneed had had it (probably by papal provision) but he now resigned it by his proctor.)