TILNEY, (Norfolk) in the Marsh-Land, bel. of old to the Tilneys, afterwards to the Howards. In a plain here, called Tilney-Smeeth, are fed no less than 30,000 sheep, after it has been grazed by the larger cattle of 7 villages. Sir H. Spelman tells a remarkable story of one Hikifrike, who, when the Ld. of this T. would have taken this common from it by force, took the axle-tree of his cart for a sword, and a wheel for his buckler, and having routed the Ld's men, settled the inh. in full possession of it. His tomb is in the Ch.-yard, with an axle-tree and a wheel engraven on it.