Herringby / Haringebei / Haringebi / Haringbi / Harengby / Haringby / Haryngeby / Haryngeby / Heringbi / Heringebi / Heringeby / Heringby / Heryngby

There is an entry for Herringby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TG4410/herringby/] [accessed 28 May 2014], but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "In the 8th of Richard I [i.e., 1197] John Hautyn was lord, and gave the patronage of the church to the priory of Castleacre [...] The Church is dedicated to St Ethelbert, and was a rectory [...] and the prior of Castleacre had a portion [...] John Holt was rector, and succeeded by Thomas Lewgar in 1617, Thomas Clere, Esq. being patron, who held it with Stokesby, to which it is annexed, and it dilapidated, soon after the dissolution of the college". Chambers (1829), too, writes: "It was at one time distinguished for its college, or hospital, founded according to the will of Hugh Attefenn. [...] The church has been dilapidated ever since the dissolution of the college". Lewis (1848) reports it as "a rectory, united to that of Stokesby".