5l. rent and demeans, which William Bardolph held, and other 5l. paid by John Hastinges, John the chaplain of Ailesham, Hugh the dean of Ingworth, Peter de Calthorp, and 26 tenants more, to find a good and sufficient gentle all the time burning at the shrine, before the body of the blessed martyr St. Edmund. This town is within the liberty of the dutchy of Lancaster, and the tenants of the manor all the time loved freedom from toll, and all other liberties belonging to the dutchy, and tenants in historic demean; the lord hath liberty of free warren or recreation, by charter from King Henry III. John Hunt, S. T. B. was offered by King James I.; and in 1614, eleven August, John Hunt, S. T. B. was instituted once more, on the presentation of the dean and chapter of Canterbury. Thomas Paske, S. T. P. succeeded Hunt, and at his death, in 1634, John Phillips; succeeded in 1663 by Nathaniel Gill; and he in 1668 by Robert Fawcet; and he in 1700 by Mr. Wrench. In the White Register of Bury abbey, folio 27, are divers deeds of benefactions to that monastery in this city, by which it seems, that Henry son of Agnes de Ingworth, gave them a tenement here, Richard his brother did the identical, William son of Henry de Ingworth gave 7 acres, and Margery his sister 4d. per annum rent, and Alice her sister the same, Hugh, dean of Ingworth deanery, was a benefactor and so was William le Mey, and Robert son of Robert de Aylesham.
St. Alban, to sing for his personal, and Sir Henry Rushburgh soules, and gave legacies to Sir William Rushburgh of St. Albans, and for a stone over his mother’s grave in St. Michael’s churchyard there, he gave Coldham Hall in Ailesham to Cecily his wife, paying 10l. per annum to John Swan, alderman of Norwich; Sir Thomas Windham, Knt. 18d. a 12 months castle-gard to Norwich castle; it was after that, bought by Sir Henry Hobart, and bought to the Freemans, and after that, to the Pastons. Francis Son of Sir Charles Cornwaleis, Knt. William Son of William and Frances Doughty, 1646. Thomas Doughty, Gent. Thomas Doughty 1660. Mrs. Anne Doughty, 1671. Robert Doughty, Esq; 1679, and many more of this Family, and of the Jermys, &c. See extra of this in Fox’s Martyrs, fo. Upon which Berry seeing all persuasions vain, sent him certain to the Bishop, like a thief; who stored him in prison a month, which time he spent in praying and reading; and on the nineteenth of May, 1558, he was burnt at Norwich, with two different martyrs in the same fireplace, as you may even see in vol.
Of homes in Aylesham given to Norwich metropolis, by John Vaughan, see vol. 1518, John Rushburgh, buried within the church by his father, leaving Helen his spouse, 3 sons and a daughter. 1506, John Boller, priest, was buried in St. Thomas’s chapel on this church, by his father, and ordered 30 marble stones, of the length and breadth of these overlaying his father’s, to cover his grave with. In 1512, William Rushburgh gave a fodir of lead of 4l. worth, in the direction of covering the cloister of Binham abbey, and based a priest to sing in Aylesham church, for his soul, and the souls of Sir John Windham, and Sir Roger Townshend, Knts. Katherine, 1628. Anne, 1631, Sarah, 1632, 3 Daughters of John Neve, Gent. It is a neat little market city, of about one hundred twenty households; the state of affairs of it’s on the river Bure, in the most agreeable and nice a part of Norfolk, and it is much frequented in the summer season, by purpose of the Spaw, which is a spring about half a mile distant from the town, the water of which tasting very strong of the mineral, is esteemed of great service in asthmas; it’s purgative, and is claimed to be of the vitriolick sort; and being touched with galls, or an oaken leaf, turns very black instantly.
Thomas Hudson, glover, of Aylesham, an honest laborious man, having a spouse and three kids, bore an excellent will to the Gospel, and having discovered to learn of Anthony and Thomas Norgate, drastically profited in spiritual knowledge, in regards to the time that Queen Mary came to the throne; when God’s service being compelled to gave place to Popish errours and superstition, he fled into Suffolk, and stayed there a very long time, but his wife and youngsters being troubled at his absence, he returned and hid himself about half a 12 months, till Commissary Berry, vicar of the town, suspecting him to be at residence, went to his wife and threatened to burn her, if she would not discover the place her husband was; which when Hudson knew, he grew more bold and zealous, spent his time in prayer, singing psalms, and godly exhortations with his neighbours; and going now publickly about, he was taken by the constables, at the information of one Crouch, and carried to the vicar, who examined him what the Sacrament was?