MOULTON (ST-MICHAEL), a parish in the hundred
of DEPWADE, county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (W. S.W.)
from St. Mary Stratton, containing 417 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's
books at £6. 13. 4., and in the patronage of W. Chute,
Esq. The church formerly contained a chapel, in which
a light was constantly kept burning before the altar
and image of the Virgin Mary; the tower is circular at
the base, and octangular above. The pious, learned,
and eloquent preacher, John Moulton, a Carmelite friar,
who flourished about 1400, was born here.