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WRATTING (Great). Confirmation by Walter, bp. of Norwich, of a composition between the abbey and monks of Bec, and Walter, rector of the church of Great Wratting, concerning the tithes of Great Wratting, as settled in 1247 by the priors of Benetlay and Hermodesworth, papal delegates. Dated at Norwich, iij Kl. May, 1248.

Peter de Taleworth, kt., grants to Robert his son the tenement which Alice le Roc of Little Sampford (Little Samford) formerly held in the village of Great Wratting (Great Wrattinge), paying annually sixpence. (c. 1260-70.)

Symon, abbot, and the convent of Bury St. Edmund grant to the five chaplains the chapel of St. John the Baptist within their manor of Palgrave, in frankalmoigne, one messuage in the village of Redgrave in perpetuity, paying annually for the same 6d. (c. 1270.)

MANTHORP. Geoffrey, son of Roger Burkard of Manthorp (Manethorpe), grants for 12d. to John, son of Robert de Manethorpe, one acre of land in Manthorp (Manetorpe). (c. 1250-60.)

William, son of Adam Gurle of Mantorpe , grants to Robert Assheman and his heirs for 30 shillings one piece of land lying in Somerleyton (Sumerletun): rendering yearly one halfpenny. (c. 1280-1290.)

SUDBURY. William de Grey of Great Cornard (Cornerte) remits and quit-claims to John Carbonel all his right of common in a meadow of the aforesaid John's called 'Chiltonmedewe,' near Sudbury (Subir)'. (c. 1270-80.)

Stanford. Humphrey, son of Herbert de Waldingefeld, with the consent of Ida his wife, grants to Matilda, daughter of Alan de Chastillun, for her homage and service and 4s. 8d., one piece of his land to inclose and build upon, paying annually to him and his heirs 1½d. (c. 1224-30.)

John, son of Nicholas de Wygeberthe, remits and quit-claims to William, son of Alan de Goldingham, as his chief lord, for forty shillings all right and claim in a tenement which Walter of the marsh ("de marisco") of Westhorpe (Westorpe) held of the said John to his ancestors in the same village, also in two tenements in Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield (Waldyngfeld) held respectively by Will. de Feypo and Rich. son of Matthew de Subire and 3s. annual rent from the latter. (c. 1260-70.)

BRIDEBROOOK, Essex. Final concord, made at Westminster, quindene of St. John Baptist 28 Hen. III, between Robert de Blaneny, plaintiff, and Gilbert Peche, defendant, who is summoned as guarantor to William le Marescall, concerning half a virgate of land in Birdbrook (Bridebrok), which Gilbert acknowledges to be the right of Robert, who then, for 12 marks, re-convoys it to him as also 5 1/2 acres in Stanbruke.

COPFORD, Essex (?). Convention made the Thursday next before the feast of St. Dunstan, 16 Ed. I, between Bartholomew de Glouc. of Hadleigh (Hadleye), and Nicholas de Labham of the same, by which the said Bartholomew confirms the grant and demise of Roger de Audham of the whole of his arable land at Copford (Corsforde), which Roger had by demise from Osebert his brother, and which Osebert had from the said Bartholomew for a term of six years, for an annual payment to Bartholomew during five years of seven loads of wheat, barley and fine white wheat ("siligo") and other conditions.

FORDLEY. Adam, son of Simon Goduine of Fordley (Fordle) , grants to Elyas the smith, for his homage and service and 4s. of silver, one piece of his land in Fordley (Fordle), between the land of the said Elyas and the land of John le Plumer, paying annually one penny. (c. 1230-40.)

HAHILLE. Thomas de ... and Isabella his wife grant to Hugh Gernegan all their right in the service of the land which Albert de .... held of the said Hugh in Haverhill (Hahille). (c. 1270-80.)

SOMERLEYTON. Ralph the cook of B[ran...tre (Brancaster?] grants to Bartholomew, son of Robert de ..., for 6d. an annual rent of one halfpenny from certain land in Somerleyton (Sumerlethun), add by William son of Geoffrey B.ges (Braxin?). (c. 1260-70.)

(a) Sampson, the abbot, and convent of St. Edmund grant, in frankalmoigne, to the hospital of St. Saviour without the town of Bury St Edmunds (St. Edmund), the place upon which the said hospital is built, also £12 of silver from their village of Icklingham (Ykelingham) and two portions of their church of Long Melford (Meleford), also two portions of the demesne tithes of Worlingworth (Wirlingwrd), Monk Soham (Saham), Tilneie, Elmswell (Elmeswell), Elveden (Elvedene), Herringswell (Heringwell), Newton (Neuton), Cockfield (Cokefeld), and in the same village of Cokefeld annually 8 acres of corn the third portion of the demesne tithes of Pakenham (Pakynham), Rungeton, Tivetshall St Margaret or Tivetshall St Mary (Tifteshall), Culford (Culeford), Horringer [previously Horningsheath] (Horningesherth) and Chelsworth (Chelisworth); also they grant all the tithes of their new assarts in the villages of Redgrave and Rickinghall (Rekinghalle), and a third portion of the tithe of the marsh of Tilneie, also their houses of Teleforh, saving to the monastery an annual service of 2s., and to the canons 12d. (b) Confirmation of the above grant by John, bp. of Norwich; giving the names of the rector of all the aforenamed churches. Dated at Norwich by the hands of David de Ruddebi, 17 Kl. August, 6th year of his episcopate. (c) Confirmation of the same by S., the prior, and convent of Norwich. (d) Confirmation of by archbishop Boniface of the same. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (St. Edmund Bury), 12 Kl. March, 1266. Long roll of pleas and fines of the manors of the cellarer of St. Edmund , for the third year of S. de Wighal. [Temp. Hen. III.] (c. 1260-70?)

IPSWICH. Pleas before Simon de Rochester, Walter de Opton, Richard de Boyland, Robert Fitz-Fulk, Master Thomas de Sydrington, and Walter de Strechyesleye, justices itinerant at Ipswich, on the morrow of [All] Souls, 14 Ed. I, beginning of the 15th of his reign. [For the greater part effaced.]

SNAPES and ALDEBURTH. A roll, dated 1263, 2nd year of prior John of Snapes, showing that on the petition of their tenants of Snape (Snapes) and Aldeburgh (Aldeburth) the services due from them have been commuted for an annual payment, with the sums each tenant has to pay yearly placed in a line with their names (in number 54) under the heads of the old rent, and "pro ovibus, pro averagiis, pro ferminghund et gest et de garbis uncorum".

[Great Waldingfield or Little Waldingfield (WALDINGFIELD)?] SUFFOLK. Roll of rents, services, and customs due to Henry de Dote, both from the free and customary tenants, for the homage of Pykot, Badele, del Storkesnest, land of Sweyn ("terram Sweyn"), &c. [Temp. Hen. III or Edw. I.]

WRATTING (Manor of). Court roll of courts held Monday in Oct. of St. Mich., on vigil of SS. Simeon and Jude and Monday before Palm Sunday, 15 Ed. I, also for the manor of Stapilford on the same membrane, Wedn. after feast of St. Mich., on the day of St. Vincent, and on the day of St. Sexburga, in the same year.