LAKENHAM, (Norfolk) by Norwich, has the name from its situation by the Broad-Water, or Lake. It bel. formerly to the
priory, and then to the D. and C. of Norwich; but was granted by Edward VI. to Tho. Gresham, and in 1553, it was held by
Sir Thomas Gresham, Ld.-mayor of London. In 1640, it bel. to George Ld. Berkley, who died in 1685, and left it to his only
surviving son, afterwards Earl of Berkley, whose second son, James Berkley, A.M. and a prebendary of Westminster, owned it
from 1693 to 1695, when he died. And in 1735, Jane Chaplin, widow, held it for life, remainder to Hen. Berkley, third son
to Charles late Earl of Berkley, and brother to James the present Earl of Berkley. The Ch. stands on the cliff by the
water-side. This place is divided from the walls of Norwich by Brakendon, or the Braky-Downs or Hills, on which were
formerly brakes, and where was a chapel founded in the Conqueror's time, and much frequented by fishermen and watermen,
who came to offer to its patron St. Nicholas.