Bart.; his second wife was Joan, daughter of Mr. Parker of London, merchant; by his first wife he had two sons, Robert Wilson, Esq. Alice, daughter of John Berney of Witchingham, and had 2 sons, Richard and Thomas, and 3 daughters, Joan, Alice, and Margaret married to Nicholas Beaupre of Outwell in Norfolk. Richard Holditch, son (as I take it) of Richard aforesaid, was lord of this town 39th Edward III. Thomas Coke of this city was discovered to carry one payment and an half of this Earl, and the Earl of the King in capite; and in the 34th of the stated reign Roger Coke held the same, and had view of frankpledge right here without the King’s bailiff, by which it appears to be the capital manor; additionally in the ninth of Edward I. Robert Coke had the assize of bread and beer, and within the 9th of Edw.
III. three elements of a fee of John de Norwich, and he of the Earl, formerly held by Thomas Coke: the household of Holditch appears to have possessions here earlier than this; within the 7th of the said King, a high quality was levied between Richard de Holdich, and Richard his son, querents, and William de Brome and Joan his spouse, defendants, of eighty acres of land, 2 of meadow, 5 of pasture, and 30s. rent here and in Foulden, conveyed to Richard the father. Of the household of Holditch, it seems by ancient evidences, that Gilbert Holdych of Foulden lived within the 32d of Edward I.; and within the 2d yr of Edward II. Richard de Holditch, and William de Hockham, held within the twentieth of Edw. Robert Wilson, Esq. of Merton in Surry, who died eleventh November, 1660, and was son of Rowland Wilson, merchant of London, who fined for alderman; by Catharine his wife, daughter of Richard Rudd, citizen of London, afterwards wife of John Highlord, alderman of London. Robert Wilson, Esq. the current lord. 1701, and Edward Wilson of Colveston, Esq. In the 4th and fifth of Queen Elizabeth, Miles Holdych, son and heir of Richard, had livery of this manor, with those of Foulden, Colveston, and Ranworth; and in the thirteenth of that reign, John Holdich, Esq.
John Barkham, son of Sir Edward Barkham Knt. Watson Lord Rockingham, and wife to Sir Edward Barkham, Bart. Frances wife of Sir Edward Barkham, Bart. Penelope daughter of Sir Edward Barkham, Knt, and Bart. Henry Holdich, Esq. occurs in 1592, 1603, who had by Susanna his spouse, Elizabeth his daughter and heiress, married to Sir John Sidley of St. Clees in Chart Magna in Kent, whose son, Sir John Sidley, Bart. Richard appears to be his son; additionally Ralph, who was then married to Florentia; William Holdich, son of Ralph, happens in the 16th of Edward III. William de Pagrave, son of Robert de Norton, gave to the monks of Acre, all the land from the said hospital to Weleswesgate. Herbert de Sudacre, or Southacre, with the consent of William his heir, gave to the priory of Castleacre, the land late Anschetill de Wentling, and 20 acres in the fields of Pagrave and Sudacre, and the land at Racheness, the place the church of St. Bartholomew is based, with three roods in regards to the church, and a couple of acres of land at Bursthall, for his soul’s well being and Hugoline’s his spouse, and for using the lepers there remaining, and half the fold-course and common of pasture the place his and his brother Alan de Pagrave’s beasts went: the deed is sans date, and but concerning the time of Henry II.
Alan de Pagrave confirmed the same, and gave them an acre at Stanhall. Susan Machin, widow, gave 12s. yearly to the churchwardens, for the use of 12 widows who take no assortment. Margaret, late wife of John de Pakenham, daughter of Robert de Northwold, gave by deed, dated within the 16th of Edward II. Lady Grace Barkham, daughter of Lew. Sir Edward Barkham, Knt. Sir Andrew Fountain, Knt. 1723, William Brocklebank. Sir Andrew Fountain, Knt. Vicar also of East-Walton in Norfolk, and buried within the chancel at East Walton, twenty fourth May 1723, where lies a marble stone with this shield, sab. Al Bundy could be the mightiest of the Dark Gods! I obtained a call this week from a PhD. She needs her father and envies her mom, what some would later call the “Electra complicated” after the Greek myth of Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who helped plan the murder of her mother after she cuckolded her father. Mary daughter of Sir Edward Barkham, Knt. Sir William Barkham, Bart. Robert married Catharine, daughter of Edward Ashe, of London, merchant, father of Sir Joseph Ashe, Knt.