CARBROOKE, a parish in the hundred of WAYLAND,
county of NORFOLK, 2 miles (E. N. E.) from
Watton, containing 771 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, hi the archdeaconry and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £7-12. 6., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal
bounty, and £ 1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of Sir William. Clayton, Bart. The church,
built in the early, part of the reign of Henry VI., and
dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, has a lofty square
tower, two aisles, and a chancel, and contains sixteen
stalls, "with several ancient monuments. A preceptory
of Knights Templars was founded by Roger, Earl of
Clare, who died in 1173, and subsequently given by
Maud, his widowed countess, who amply endowed it, to
the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, as
a commandery: at the dissolution it was valued at
£65,2.9. Adjoining it was a chapel, dedicated to St.
John the Baptist; they both stood on the southern side
of the present churchyard, but there are not any remains
of either of them.