SPROWSTON, a parish in the hundred of TAVERHAM,
county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (N. E. by N.) from
Norwich, containing 832 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, endowed
with £400 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant.
The church, dedicated to St. Mary and St. Margaret,
contains a mural monument of marble to the memory
of Sir Miles Corbet, and Catharine his lady,' a descendant
of whom, Thomas Corbet, Esq., was one of the
judges that signed the death warrant of Charles I., and,
after the Restoration, was arrested and executed as a
traitor, in 1661.