Lease by Sir Thomas Pettus of Rackheath, baronet, to Henry Pretice of Little Ellingham, yeoman, of all the manor house or messuage with barns, stables, malthouses, outhouses, with arable and pasture grounds, carr grounds and feedings belong lately in the tenure of Thomas Smythe and being in Little Ellingham: for seven years at an annual rent of £166, a barrel of buttersweet and three firkins of butter: additional rent of £5 per acre for ploughing land not normally used for tillage 20 Oct 1649