THOMPSON, a parish in the hundred of WAYLAND,
county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (S. S. E.) from Watton,
containing 427 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich,
endowed with £800 royal bounty. Mrs. M. S. Hethersett
was patroness in 1816, The church is dedicated
to St. Martin. Sir Thomas de Shardelow, Knt., and
his brother, about 1349, founded in it, in honour of the
Blessed Virgin and All Saints, a chantry, or college, for
a master and five chaplains, whose revenue, at the
dissolution, was valued at £52. 15. 7.