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 his wife, for life, and after her decease to

William Lancaster, Esq. (her son) of Catywade and Brisingham, who married Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of William Notbeam, by whom he had

Benedicta, his sole heiress, who married to Edward Bolton, about the year 1505; and by will dated 15th July, 1528, bequeathed it to

Thomas Bolton, of Saham Tony, his second son, who died seized in 1544; it was sold to

Thomas Jermyn, Knt. and William Curson, clerk, his trustee; but it continued very little while in this family, for in 1616

William Mason, Esq. and John Beseley, Gent. sold it to

William Webb, and Charles Wiseman, Gents. from whom it came to the Fishers.

Richard Fisher, Gent. being seized in 1636;

Edward Fisher, Gent. in 1662; and in 1667, I find it in

John Buxton, Gent. till 1684; and after in

Robert Buxton, Esq. of St. Margaret's, in South Elmham, who was lord in 1715; at his death it was held by

Elizabeth his widow, now [1736] dead; and

Elizabeth Buxton, a minor, their sole daughter and heiress, is the present [1736] owner.

I must observe, that in a court roll of this manor, among Mr. Le Neve's papers, in 1423, when Elen, widow of John Lancaster senior, held her first court, there were two distinct juries, one for the part of the manor in Diss, and the other for that part in Burston; it was always held of the great manor of Diss, by fealty, and 5s. per annum rent, in full for all suit and service, being estimated at 8l. per annum.

Hewode, or Heywode Manor
Was always part of Winfarthing manor, till it was separated by Henry I. who gave it to

Sir Richard de Lucy, and so joined it to Diss; he gave a third part of the hundred, manor, and market, in frank marriage with Dionisia his daughter, to

Sir Robert de Muntenei, or Mounteney; and accordingly we find, in the Black Book of the Exchequer, that in the year 1161 the said Robert held of the said Richard three knights fees, sc. in Newton, a member of Stow (market in Suffolk) one fee, and in Walcote, a member of Diss, one fee, and in Sprecton (now Sprouston, in Norfolk) one fee, and in Tacolveston two fees; and in the same town, Hugh, son of Hamel, held one fee; (this afterwards was Uvedale's manor there;) of all which knights the ancestors of Richard de Luci performed ward to Dover Castle; and among Richard de Luci's knights of the old feoffment, Robert de Muntenei is said to hold five fees, of which Walcote, a member of Diss, is one.

Sir Arnold de Munteney, his son, succeeded him; and in 1230 it was found that he held it of Sir Robert Fitz-Walter at one fee, as of his barony; in 1239 a fine was levied between himself and Hamon Chevere, by which he settled