And i mean what I, now middle-aged, really wore in the 90s, not the modern … 1460 John Barker of Cawston buried there, gave ten marks towards seating the church, and 10 marks towards building the rood-loft, commonly called the candlebeam, and 20 marks in direction of the new steeple now constructing at Heydon, and a legacy towards building one of many porches, and 100l. to his spouse Katerine. 1504 Richard Broune of Caston, buried before the picture of our Lady of Pity, within the chapel of our Lady, in the church of St. Agnes at Caston, gave 4 marks to paint a pane of the rood loft, to our Lady’s gild kept in this chapel 3s. 4d. to St. Agnes gild within the church 3s. 4d. to Sir John Browne his brother, to sing for him and his friends at our Lady’s altar in this her chapel 1 yere 10 marks, and 10l. for a cope. 1283 John de Wyckham was rector, and the residing was then price 60 marks a 12 months. Robert Whitefoot, rector, died August 14, 1720. He was son to the Rev. Mr. John Whitefoot of Norwich, for whom see vol.
The Rev. Mr. Leonard Addison, A. M. late president of Pembrookhall, succeeded Browne, and is the current rector, and holds it with the rectory of Salle, and vicarage of Saxthorp. 1721, Thomas Browne, rector, fellow of Pembrook-Hall. 1675, John Hildeyerd, rector, commissary to the archdeacon of Norfolk, 1683 L. L. D; be married Elizabeth Duncomb of Ipswich, and had by her, John, Francis, Edmund, Philippa, and Elizabeth. Holy Trinity at Ingham in Norfolk, a messuage and 87 acres, in Worsted, Scottowe, Buxton, and Causton. William Gelyons, was a benefactor to the gild of St. John the Baptist, held in that saint’s chapel, and to the gilds of St. Peter, and of St. Thomas, and that of the Holy Trinity; to the plough-lights of Cawston town, Sygate, Eastgate, and the dams, to the lights before St. Agnes, St. Mary, St. James, &c. The arms of the founder’s eldest daughter, Isabel, who married William Lord Morley; each of them have been benefactors to the tower.
1371, Sir John de Pyeshale, priest, (involved in founding Brundish chantry.) Sir William de Ufford Earl of Suffolk, lord of Eye, Framlingham, and Cawston. He appointed brother Hugh de Boundale, prior of Yarmouth, to pray for his lord Sir Robert Ufford Earl of Suffolk, and Margaret daughter of Sir John Norwich, Knt. He was son of Christopher Hildeyerd, son of Richard, second son of Martin Hildeyerd of Winestead in Yorkshire, by Emma, daughter of Sir Robert Rudston of Yorkshire, from whose eldest son, Sir Robert Hildeyerd of Winestead, and Henry of Lincolnshire, descended. In 1378 Sir Roger Boys, Knt. The Church is a noble free-stone pile, having a positive sq. tower 40 yards high, and 6 bells and a clock in it, a nave, 2 isles, 2 transept chapels, a north chancel chapel, and north vestry and south porch, all leaded. The match, though his Norman barons sneered at it, gave him the hearts of all his English topics, who supported him with enthusiasm, and never merely (as had been the case with Rufus) because they saw that a powerful king would oppress them lower than a factious and turbulent baronage.
