PENTNEY, a parish in the Lynn division of the
hundred of FREEBRIDGE, county of NORFOLK, 7
miles (N. W. by W.) from Swaffham, containing 418
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, endowed with
£800 royal bounty, and held by sequestration. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. About a
mile to the westward is the remaining gate-house of a
priory of Black canons, founded in honour of the Holy
Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and St. Mary Magdalene,
by Robert de Vallibus, a follower of the Conqueror;
at the dissolution here were twelve canons,
whose revenue was estimated at £215. 18. 8.