BROMEHOLME, a hamlet (formerly a market
town) in the parish of BACTON, hundred of TUNSTEAD,
county of NORFOLK, 5 miles (E. by. N.) from North
Walsham. The population is returned with the parish.
A priory for Cluniac monks, dedicated to St. Andrew,
was founded in 1113, by William de Glanvill,. and
for some time subsisted as a cell to the monastery
at Castle-Acre. Henry III., accompanied by a retinue
of the nobility, was here in the eighteenth year.of
his reign, five years previously to which he had granted
the monks license to hold a market weekly .on
Monday, and a fair annually on the festival of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The income of the
monks,was greatly augmented by numerous rich offerings
which were presented to a cross, stated to have
been made out of the wood composing the cross on
which our Saviour was crucified, brought hither by
an English priest, who officiated at the emperor's chapel
at Constantinople: the revenue, at the dissolution,
amounted to £144. 19. 1.