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 or manor-house abuts on Cock-street Green west, and was granted, in 1494, by King Henry VII. to be held by copy of court roll, paying 4s. 6d. per annum quitrent.

Diss Rectory Manor
Hath all along gone, and now is in the rector of the parish: the custom of which is, that all lands and tenements descend to the eldest son, and the tenant cannot waste his copyhold houses without license. The fines are at the lord's will, but in all things else the tenants may do as they please.

Rectors
The first that I find possessed, before there was any institution, was

Wulketel the priest, who left it to

William his son, as his lawful heir.

Bale, in his Actions of English Votaries, (fol. 98. b.) says that Pope Alexander wrote to John of Oxford, then Bishop of Norwich, that William the now parson of Diss, for claiming the parsonage of Diss by inheritance, after the death of his father parson Wulketel, which begat him in his priesthood, should be dispossessed, and no appellation admitted. From his time to 1299, when the institution books begin, I find no more rectors; nor then, till
 * 1304, 7 kal. Dec. when Adam de Waudringfield, (or Waldingfield,) priest, was instituted, being presented by Sir Robert FitzWalter, Knt.
 * 1316, 2 non. Nov. Thomas de Couling, priest. Walter FitzWalter, Knt. Lord of Wodeham.

King Edward III. by letters patent, dated the 2d of July, presented Martin de Ixning, one of his chaplains, to this church; he had several ecclesiastical preferments given him, both before and after, as the deanery of Bocking in Essex, the custody or mastership of Maidstone college in Kent, and of Dorchester hospital in Salisbury diocese, and a canonry of St. Stephen at Westminster. I take i, that it was a presentation only, for the turn when void, if he lived so long, and was obtained by the King from the Fitz-Walter family. However certain I am, that he never possessed this living, for Thomas de Couling did not resign it till
 * 1350, in which year, sc. the ides of February, William Baltrippe, priest, was instituted, John Fitz-Walter, Knt. Lord of Wodeham, being patron.