Norton-Subcourse (St. Margaret)
NORTON-SUBCOURSE (St. Margaret), a parish, in the union of Loddon and Clavering, hundred of Clavering, E. division of Norfolk, 6 miles (N. by W.) from Beccles; containing 356 inhabitants. It is bounded on the north by the navigable river Yare, and comprises about 1800 acres. The living is a vicarage; patron and impropriator, Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart. The great tithes have been commuted for £179, and the vicarial for £160; the glebe comprises 16 acres. The church is an ancient structure in the decorated English style, with a circular tower. A chantry, or college of eight secular priests, was removed to this place from Raveningham in the reign of Richard II., when the number was increased to thirteen; in 1395 the society was transferred to Mettingham, in the county of Suffolk.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.