Waxham Hall is reputedly haunted by the ghosts of six members of the Brograve family, all of whom died in battle, and is said that an 18th-century owner of the house once invited them all to dinner.

It was held by St Benet's Abbey and Alan the Earl of Richmond a Breton noble who fought for Stephen of England.

Sir Oliver acted as seneschal of Gascony and lord warden of the marches of guien in 1345, and raised an army to recover the county of Agnois from the French.

The Lordship stayed with the Calthorpes until 1733, where it passed to Thomas Blofield, advowson of St John's Church, who presided in Waxham Hall.

When the Devil easily won the bet he went to Brograve to collect his soul, but the landowner fled towards his mill and just managed to lock himself inside.

The next morning, when Brograve gingerly opened the door he is said to have found hoof prints in the mud and could see that the Devil had tried to blow the mill down.

The Lordship of Waxham was later purchased by a local solicitor, Louis Tillett who died in 1943, it passed to Joseph Laird who in turn sold it to Isolde Guenther in 1978.

The jury's role was similar to that of the doomsmen of the Anglo-Saxon period and included electing the officers (other than the steward who was appointed by the Lord), to bring matters to the attention of the court and deciding on them.