s presentation, in which he is styled Earl of Sussex, Viscount Fitz-Walter, Lord Egremond and Burnell, and captain or governor of the isle and town of Portsmouth. The dispute seems to have been this, that though the said Frances held the manor for life in jointure, yet the advowson, as the earl would have it, was not in the settlement. But it ended not here; Frances continuing her claim, Cox was ejected, and Reeve declared incumbent, but he remained so but little time, for Nov. 17, 1591, Cox was re-instituted, and very soon after ejected again, and no incumbent declared, nor none presented, so long, that it had laid from the latter end of 1591, to Dec. 1593, when one Wm. Goddard, A. M. was presented, but denied institution; whereupon
- Cox, to make himself sure, and end all disputes, took the broad seal, it being lapsed to the Crown, and obtained Queen Elizabeth's letters patent to void all other presentations, on which he was instituted Dec. 2, 1593, and held it to 1596, when he died; and on Nov. 12, in that year,
- John Taverner, preacher of God's word, was instituted, at the presentation of Robert Earl of Sussex, in full right; all other claimants whatever being now dead, he continued rector to
- 1613, in which year, Dec. 23, Wm. Withers, A. M. was instituted; he died in 1647, when
- Edward Palgrave, B. D. succeeded, the patron being Richard Prettyman of Griston, Gent. It was not long before he was ejected by the unjust proceeding of those rebellious times, and his living given to one
- Richard Moore, A. M. who signed the attestation of the ministers of this county in 1648, as Calamy informs us in his Addenda, Vol. 1. p. 481; but he was soon displaced, and it was taken by one
- John Hobart, who held it by usurpation some time, but was after thrown out by Mr. Moore, who held it to
- 1662, when he was ejected, and Edward Bernard, clerk, instituted upon his deprivation, at the presentation of John Hobart, Esq.; he held it to 1678, and then died, being succeeded by
- John Burlington, A. M. at whose death, in 1695,
- June 1, Edward Bosworth, A. M. was instituted at the presentation of William Bosworth, clerk, patron for this turn. in
- 1713, John Briars, A. M. was presented by William Burlington, of Diss, Gent. the present [1736] patron; upon the death of Mr. Briars, the said William, in
- 1729, presented the Rev. Mr. Edward Bosworth, who is now [1736] rector.
Diss Rectory
Is in the deanery of Redenhall, archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, being still charged with first fruits, and the following annual
