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An agreement by the prior and convent of Wyrmegeye for the payment of an annual pension of 3s. 4d. to the bp. of Norwich for the half of the church of Fordham, appropriated to that priory. date of month of Oct. Dated 1347.

WYMONDHAM. Bond given by Thomas Glovere of Wymondham and Margaret who was wife of James Smith of Est Carleton for the payment of 15 marks of silver to William de Appelyerd, merchant of Norwich . Dated at Norwich, 15 Sept., 41 Ed. III.

Robert Arthurgh remits and quit-claims to Thomas de Flicham and others, all his right in the manor and advowson of the church of St. Peter's in Wramplingham, and all other rights in the villages of Wramplingham, Wymondham, Melton (Great Melton or Little Melton), Berforde, and Carleton. Dated at Wramplingham the Tuesday next after the feast of the Purification, 12 Ric. II.

The will of Matilda, late wife of William Bozon , made 10 October, 1390.

WORTHESTEAD. Nicholas, son of Philip of Worthested , quit-claims to sir Henry, the abbot of St. Bennet of Hulme , and his successors his tenement and all his services, which he has in the village of Worthested. Dated after Epiphany .... Ed. [I] (fil. Hen.). (1304-07) .

NORTON SOUPECORS. Inquisition taken at Norwich the Thursday next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, 20 Ed. II, before Edward de Hemgrave and John le Claver , assigned by the King's writ to inquire concerning the manor of Norton Soupecors, which was sir Thomas Rocelyn 's, upon certain articles mentioned in the same writ.

SCOTHOWE. Ordination of the vicarage of Scothowe, Norwich diocese, by William, bp. of Norwich , which church had been appropriated to the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme. Dated at Thornegg', 12 August, 1350.

SHOTESHAM. Indenture between the abbot and convent of Hulme of one part and sir John Whyte, kt., of the other part, concerning certain rights of fishing. Dated at Norwich the Wednesday before the feast of St. John the Baptist, 15 Rich. II.

Quit-claim from William, the abbot, and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme to sir John White, kt., of all actions, &c., to the date of these presents. Dated at the monastery of St. Bennet of Hulme the Sunday next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, 16 Rich. II.

Draft writ to the sheriff of Norfolk to attach and bring before the council, John Paston alias Wortes , John Gees, a Carmelite friar of Norwich , Edmund Alderford, clerk, Bartholomew Waryn, parson of Trunche , William Cuttyng of Worstede , John Gees of Crowemer, merchant, and Ralph Gunton of Norwich, skryvener, for violation of the statutes of provisors, 25 Ed. III and 16 Ric. II, on the complaint of John Brundale, prior of Bromholm , that although he was canonically elected prior, the said Paston alias Wortes had crossed the sea without royal licence, obtained a provision of the said priory in the court of Rome, and got himself installed as prior and the other expelled; the said John Gees and others having received the said bulls and instruments at Bakton and caused the same to be executed. Dated 1 December [5 Hen. VI]. ii. On the back of this document is another draft writ of the same date against the same parties for endeavouring to draw the prior out of the kingdom by a suit in the court of Rome.

FLEGG (Hundred of). William, bp. of Winchester , John Beauchamp, lord de Beauchamp, Sir John Howard, kt., William Yelverton, kt., Thomas Lytelton , William Jenney , William Paston, esq., Thomas Howys, clerck, and William Grene , remit and quit-claim to John Paston, knt. all their right of and in the manor of Castre in Flegge called Vaux and Bosoms, and in those lands and in tenements in Castre called Redham, with the advowson of the chapel of St. John the Baptist in the same village, and the manors of Heryngly (sic) called Spensers and Fennes, the third part of the manor in Runham, the manor in Wynterton called Begvyles with one windmill, the manor of Reppes in Bastewyk, and all messuages, &c. in Great Jernernuth, and in lands and tenements called Billes in Stokesby, and those lands and tenements called Cattes in Heryngby, and all other lands &c. in the villages of Castre, Great Jernemuth, Ormesby, Scroutby, Mautby, Wynterton, Somerton, Martham, Bastewyk, Reppes, Hikelyng, Stokesby, Heryngby, Runham, Thyrkby, Filby, or elsewhere within the hundred of Est Flegge and Westflegge, together with many other lands, advowsons, and rents in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Dated 11 January, 7 Ed. III.

KELESHALE [Suffolk]. Indenture between John de Framlyngham, rector of Keleshale, Norwich diocese , of the one part, and lady Mary de Wyngefeld, the prioress, and nuns of Caumpesse, of the other concerning the grant by him to the priory of the manor and advowson of Karleton near Keleshale, in pursuance of letters of licence from Edw. III, for the foundation of a chantry in the church of Keleshale in which three chaplains are to celebrate daily for the soul of Alice de Henand late countess Mareschall, and the soul of the grantor after his death; the advowson to remain in possession of the priory. The grantor is received as a confrater of the priory, Thomas de Dicleburgh is appointed the first principal chaplain. Copies of the identure to be kept by the prior of Norwich cathedral, in the priory of Buttele, in the abbeys of Leiston and Sibeton, in the priory of Snape, and in the churches of Karleton and Framlyngham. Not dated. [The King's licence was granted 26 March 6 Edw. III (1332).]

NORWICH. Decree by William, bishop of Norwich , for the union of the churches of St. Swithin and of St. Simon and Jude, Norwich to the church of Crosthwayt in perpetuity and the deanery of Taverham to that of Norwich on account of the poverty of the several places, which are now vacant upon the death of Thomas Silvestre who has held all five together. Dated in the chapter-house of Norwich, 3 Kl. Sept., 1329.

PLUMSTEAD (Little). Adam, son of William del A... , quitclaims to Eadmund de Plumsted , Basilia his wife, and Avice their daughter, all his right in four acres of land in Plumsted. Dated at Little Plumsted the Sunday on the feast of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr ... [The greater part obliterated]. [Probably temp. Edw. II]

ASHBY ST. LEDGERS. Will of William Bacheler of Assheby-leger, chaplain, made the Wednesday next after the feast of St. Hilary, bp., 1348.

HARDINGSTONE and COTES. Roger, son of master Roger de Boudon , the 26 of March, 17 Ed. II, grants and assigns in dower, for himself and heirs, to Isabella , his mother, formerly wife of the said master Roger, a certain house and the third part of a grange, dovecot, 6s. annual rent, together with certain parcels of land in Hardingstorn and Cotes. Dated at Cotes in the parish of Hardingstorn the day and year above written.

STOKE. Sir John Daundelyn, kt., grants a release to Robert de Wodeneuton in Stoke [?Doyle], upon consideration of the payment of 22s., of his claim to three roods of arable land in the fields of Stoke in which he had been infeoffed by the said Robert. Dated at Stoke the Wednesday next after the feast of St. James the apostle, 16 Ed. II.

West-Haddon. Robert Dolyn of Westhaddon grants to William son of Geoffrey the cook the same 2 roods of land in W⟨est⟩ H⟨addon⟩ , viz. one over Puttelesculde by the land of John Herberd , and one rood in Colecroft by the land late of Gilbert Mervyn . Witnesses: Robert son of Walter of Westhaddon , John Herberd of the same, Robert Richard of the same, Richard Wauter of the same, Thomas ——of the same, Robert le Warde of the same, John of Stowe . ⟨c. 1290–1310.⟩

Drayton. John Scop in the new land of D⟨aventry⟩ , grants to Matilda and Emma his sisters all right he might have hereditarily in land which fell to Richard Scop in D⟨aventry⟩ , and a messuage by John of Knoston ’s ‘placea’. Witnesses: John fitz-Philip , Simon de aula , Thomas de pistrina , Thomas le ..., John Godchep . ⟨c. 1300–20.⟩