NORTON-SUBCOURSE, a parish in the hundred
of CLAVERING, county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (N. by W.)
from Beccles, containing 367 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of NortolK,
and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £400 private
benefaction, and £600 parliamentary grant, and m tne
patronage of Sir Edmund Bacon, Bart. The church is
dedicated to St. Margaret. A chantry, or college ot eigOT
Secular priests, was removed hither from Ravenmgham,
in the reign of Edward III.; in 1387 the number was
increased to thirteen, and in 13Q3 the society was translated
to Castle-Mettingham in Suffolk.