In a few years time they sold it to
Robert and Francis Buxton of Tybbenham, in Norfolk; and they, in 1560, to
Edmund Hoare of Palgrave, in Suffolk; he, in 1561, to
Thomas Howard of Burston, who, in 1604, left it to
Robert Howard of Burston, his son, who, with his feoffee, Thomas Harvey of London, Gent. conveyed it to
Robert Howard of Tybbenham, his son and heir; this Robert, August 24, 1613, sold it to
Thomas Howard of Burston, his brother, whose daughter and heiress married Mr. Dowe; she in her widowhood passed it to the Bringloes,
Mr. John Bringloe being the last male of that family that enjoyed it, whose daughter married
Mr. Robert Onge of Kenninghall, the present lord, who now [1736] hath the whole manor, and part of the demeans: the other part, called Prior's Lands, lying at Crosgate in Fersfield, and Brisingham, were sold from the manor by the Buxtons, and are now divided into parcels, some being held by Mr. John Edwards of Winfarthing, and others, by divers persons. [1736.]
For the series of the priors who were lords, see under Bokenham Priory.
The Customs Of These Manors
are as follow, viz.
The fines are at the lord's will, and the copyhold descends to the eldest son: the tenants have liberty to pull down and waste their copyhold houses, to fell and cut down wood and timber on the copyhold, without license, and to plant and cut down all manner of wood and timber, on all the commons and wastes against their own lands, by the name of a freebord or outrun, and to dig clay and turf, and cut furze and bushes, on all the commons. The Church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist, and had 15 acres of land belonging to it at the Conquest; it is a rectory, to which belongs a manor called
The Rectory Manor
The customs of which are the same as the other manors, except this, that the tenants cannot waste
