FORNCETT ST. MARY, 3 miles W. of Long Stratton, and 11 miles S.S.W. of Norwich, has in its parish 71 houses, 326 souls, and 728a. 3r. 33p. of land, the chief owners of which are H. Birkbeck, Esq., Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart., Mrs. Margittson, the Rev. W. Girling, and the Girls' Hospital, Norwich ; the land is copyhold and the fines arbitrary, and forms the head manor of the liberty of the Duke of Norfolk, which comprises 127 parishes in this county, and formerly held a court every three weeks, when all who held manors of the Norfolk honour were obliged to attend in person, or by their attorneys, to do suit and service, and compound for castle guard service at the earl's castle of Norwich. The Church is a rectory valued in the King's book at £20, and has now a yearly rent in lieu of tithes of £515, of which £206 is received from Forncett St. Peter, with which rectory it was originally consolidated. There are 9a. of glebe. The Earl of Effingham is patron, and the Rev.Jno. Edw. Cooper, incumbent, who resides at the Rectory, a neat Elizabethan house, erected in 1848. The town land, 4a. 0r. 31p., received in exchange at the enclosure in 1809, is let for £6 16s., which is applied to the support of the National school, which was built by the late rector, in 1815.
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