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Letter of the prior and convent of St. Mary Magdalen of Penteney, reciting the deeds for the appropriation of the church of St. Mary's and St. Bothulph, Shotesham. Sealed with the seal of the priory, dated 1309. [Mutilated.]

The prior and convent of Pentney, appropriators of the church of St. Mary's, Shotesham, acknowledge the right of the prior and convent of the Holy Trinity, Norwich, to two parts of the tithes of the lordship of sir John de Vaux , and of certain other lands in the same parish of Shotesham. Dated in their chapter house at Penteneye, 17 Kl. June, 1309.

Letters patent of John Salmon, bp. of Norwich , confirming the consolidation of the churches of St. Mary and St. Botolph of Shotesham, and appropriation of the same, to the prior and convent of Penteney, saving the right to him and his successors of collating a vicar when a vacancy should occur. Dated at Thornegg', 2 Ides of July, 1312.

Master Richard de Beylound, parson of Saxlinghamthorp , grants to John de Lalleford one acre of wood in Shotesham. Dated at Shotesham the Tuesday next before the Purification of the Virgin, 3 Ed. II.

Robert, son of John Hare of Little Porynglond , grants to John Curlbaston one piece of arable land in Schotesham. Dated at Schotesham the Sunday next after St. Mark the evangelist, 43 Ed. III.

SHOTESHAM, CRUCHESTOK, PORINGLOND, &c. John de Pysale, clerk, Robert de Aysshefeld and Reginald de Eccles , remit and quitclaim to Roger de Wolferston , Thomas, parson of the church of Tyvenshale , and Richard Vautres , all their right in all messuages, lands, and tenements, in the villages of Schotesham, Cruchestok, Porynglond, Castre, and little Framyngham, which they had by the feoffment of Edm. de Neketon . Dated at Schotesham, Friday after f. of St. Lucy, 1 Ric. II.

Robert de Lalleford grants to Emma his wife and Robert Clerk of Schotisham , their heirs and assigns, 11 acres of land lying in the fields of Schotissham in two pieces, of which one piece lies in a culture which is called 9 acres, and the other in a culture called 'Wlsale.' Dated at Schotisham on the feast of the Assumption B.V.M., 12 Rich. II.

Margaret, countess of Norfolk , acknowledges to have received the homage of John Whyte for the land he held of her in the village of Shotesham. Sealed at Framlingham, 20 April, 14 Rich. II.