TOFT (MONKS'), a parish in the hundred of CLAVERING,
county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (N.) from Beccles,
containing 282 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, with that' of Haddiscoe annexed, in the archdeaconry
of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in
the king's books at £ 8, and in the patronage of the
Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge.
The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. An Alien
priory, a cell to the abbey of St. Peter and St. Paul, at
Preaux.'in Normandy, was founded here in the time
of Henry I., the revenue of which, at the suppression,
was annexed by Henry V. to the Carthusian monastery
at Witham, by Henry VI. to Eton College, and by
Edward IV. to King's College, Cambridge.