HORSTEAD, a parish in the hundred of TAVERHAM,
county of NORFOLK, 1 mile (W.) from Coltishall,
containing, with Staininghall, 492 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £7. 10. The
church is dedicated to All Saints. Here was an Alien
priory, a cell to the convent of the Holy Trinity at
Caen in Normandy, the revenue of which, at the suppression,
was appropriated as part of the endowment of
King's College, Cambridge.