Over these men St. Edmund (the Abbey of Edmund the Martyr) had sake and soke with regard to every customary due.
Additionally the body of St. Edmund the Martyr was said to have been carried through it in 1010 on its way from Bury St Edmunds to St. Gregory's church to save it from the Danes and Lydgate, a monk of Bury, claimed that the body cured many lame peasants as it passed through the gate.
The parish church, dedicated to St Edmund since the 15th century, was probably founded prior to the Norman Conquest.
Listed as Hoxana in the Domesday Book, the hundred owes its name to the village of Hoxne, site of St Edmund's martyrdom, which in turn means "settlement of the Hoxan", believed to be a small Saxon tribe.
It was founded as a religious house around the year 950, with a chapel at the supposed site of the martyrdom of Saint Edmund, king of East Anglia.
:For the 9th-century King of East Anglia, Martyr and Saint, see Edmund the Martyr.
As part of his building works at the castle, in 1226 Henry III of England instructed that the church be repaired and twenty-one years later ordered the making of three altars and images, for and of St. Edmund, St. Adrian and St. Edward, along with an image of St. John the Evangelist.
Its parish church contains rare mediaeval wall paintings including dragon-slaying and the Martyrdom of St Edmund.
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