MULBARTON, a parish in the hundred of HUMBLEYARD,
county of NORFOLK, 5 miles (S. S.W.) from
Norwich, containing 417 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, with Keningham, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk,
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books
at £14. John Steward, Esq. was patron in 1812. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, was erected
by Thomas de St. Omer, justice itinerant for Cambridgeshire,
who obtained from Henry III. the privileges
of a fair and free warren for this place, and subsequently
view of frankpledge, with other liberties attached to a
court leet. Sir Thomas Richardson, an eminent lawyer,
who was raised to the office of Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, was born here, in 1626; he died about 1634.