BRUMHILL, a hamlet in the parish of WEETING,
hundred of GRIMSHOE, county of NORFOLK, 1 mile
(N.N.E.) from Brandon. The population is returned
with the parish, A priory for Augustine canons,, dedicated
to the Virgin Mary and St. Thomas the Martyr,
was founded in or about the reign of John, by Sir Hugh
de Plaiz: in the 7th of Henry III. the prior received
a grant for a fair to be held here on the 7th of July, and,
in the following year, permission to hold a market also.
It was suppressed by a bull of Pope Clement, issued in
May 1528, and the possessions were granted by the
king to Cardinal Wolsey, toward endowing his intended
college at Ipswich; but this design having been frusBRU
trated by the cardinal's fall, they were given, in exchange
for other, lands, to the Master and Fellows of
Christ's College, Cambridge: the site is now occupied by
a farm-house, and several stone coffins have been dug
up on the spot.