BILNEY (EAST), a parish in the hundred of LAUNDITCH, county of NORFOLK, 5 miles (N.N.W.) from East Dereham, containing 172 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £5. 14.2,, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev. C. Munnings. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Thomas Bilney, a learned divine, who was burnt at Norwich in 1531, for preaching against popery, is said to have been born here.