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Richard Goldsmyth of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) grants to Walter Burton, clerk, master of the hospital of St. Peter, one garden lying in Maydewater lane in Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) the Wednesday on the feast of St. Valentine, 4 Hen. IV (14 Feb., 1403). Witn. Roger Frampton, alderman, Laurence Trussbut, and Robert Somerton, bailiff.

John Bonde, chaplain, grants to William Lelye and Agnes his wife three cottages in the town of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the street called 'Oldbaxsteristrete'. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) the Sunday next after the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 12 Hen. IV (28 June 1411). Witn. William Methewold, alderman, Ralph Chaunberleyn and Robert Sonwetone, bailiffs.

Indenture witnessing that whereas William Warde of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), chaplain, grants and by a certain charter confirms to John Rothe, brasier and Richard Rothe of Carleton, clerk, two tenements within the borough of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), near the great market-place, viz. in 'le Smytherowe,' they are bound to the payment of £20 by certain instalments. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), 8 January, 4 Hen. V (1417).

William Warde of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), chaplain, grants to John Rothe, brasier and Richard Rothe, clerk two tenements in Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) in 'le Smytherowe', near the great market-place. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 8 January, 4 Hen. V (1417).

William Leyr of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), mason, Ralph Reward and Stephen Gardyner demise and assign to Thomas Bolesham of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, Roger Messager, William Rycher, John Smyth, John Gouty, and Roger Gardyner, a certain tenement with three messuages and four pieces of arable land within the borough of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the streets called 'Lombislane' and 'Th'mustowe.' Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 26 Nov., 18 Hen. VI (1439).

Robert Crench of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), cordwainer, executor of the will of Bartholomew Chapeleyn, "cotyller,", confirms to John Stonhard, John Wherham, and George Burton, one grange with a curtilage in the vill of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, in the street called Overbaxterestrete. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid the last day of June, 23 Hen. VI (1445)

Robert Crench of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) remits and quit-claims to John Stonhard and others all right in a certain grange with a curtilage in the village of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid the last day of June, 23 Hen. VI.

Isabella Gosselyn and Margaret Gosselyn of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) grant to John Stonhard, John Wherham, and George Burton, of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, one tenement situated in the village of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund). Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 20 May, 24 Hen. VI (1446). Witn. John Smyth, alderman, Thomas Heigham and John Curteys, bailiffs.

⟨Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund)⟩ John Baret, esq., acknowledges to have received, for himself and John Lydgate, monk of Bury St. Edmund, of William Tyrell, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, £3 16s. 8d. of that £7s. 13s. 4d. which the king by letters patent granted to them for the term of their lives. Dated 2 October, 25 Hen. VI (1446).

Memorandum of the receipt by John Boone, abbot of Bury St. Edmund, by the hands of Thomas Cresse, bailiff of Edward Doyle, 26s. 9½d. for the rent of la Pondehill [in Bury St Edmunds] and Gosford for one whole year. Dated on the feast of St. Edmund the King, 34 Hen. VI (20 Nov. 1455).

Indenture by which William Stowe, master of the hospital of St. Nicholas of Bury St. Edmund, with the assent of his brethren, demises to William Somere of Bury St Edmunds (Bury), taylor, a tenement in Bury St Edmunds (Bury) in the street called le Estgatestrete for 98 years, at an annual rent of 3s. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury), 5 February, 38 Hen. VI (1460).

SAXHAM. Manumission by Robert the abbot and convent of St. Edmund of John Paman, a native of their manor of Great Saxham (Saxham Magna). Dated 16 January, 11 Ed. IV (1472).

Edmund Lerlyn of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), Agnes his wife, Edmund Baker, weaver, David Humfrey, baker, and Robert Totay, "corvoser" demise to Robert Drake and Matilda his wife, John Aylewyn, weaver, Thomas Turnour, carpenter, and Thomas Barry, a messuage, way and garden within the town of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, in the street called Overbaxterestrete alias Wellestrete, on condition of payment of £6 at fixed times during five years. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), 16 September, 14 Ed. IV (1474). Witn. Thomas Gret, alderman, Thomas Heigham, esq. and William Helperby, bailiffs.

John Clopton, esq., William Thweyte, senior, gent., and Thomas Bunnyng, mercer, demise to John Coote, gent. and Margaret his wife, of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), one tenement late John Skeet's situated within the borough of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the street called 'Hennecotestrete alias Bernewellestrete' viz. between a messuage late William Coote's and a lane called 'Bryteslane;' also another messuage in the same town and street. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), 9 March, 18 Ed. IV (1478). Witn. Walter Thurston, alderman, Thomas Meigham, jun., esq. and William Helperby, bailiffs

Edward Caster, clerk, Thomas Ampe, clerk, Henry Davy of Fornham All Saints, Thomas Sporle, chaplain, Henry Hardman, clerk, William Thweytt, senior, gent., and Thomas Edon, gent. demise to John Page of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), chaplain, George Watton, chaplain, John Page, senior, of Walsham Le Willows (Walsham), William Coppynger, woolman and Roger Leynge, fuller, one messuage and all that belongs to it within Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the street called 'Cherchegonelstrete.' Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 24 Sept., 20 Ed. IV (1480). Witn. Thomas Heigham, jun., esq. and William Helperby, bailiffs

Thomas Purdon of Redgrave, John Hamelyn of Weston, and Thomas Lovesson of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) grant to Thomas Turnur of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) and Margaret his wife, John Hegge, Robert Turnur, William Lawnde and William Bulbroke, two messuages in the village of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the street called 'Estgatestrete', paying yearly 8s. 8d. for 22 years. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 6 February, 2 Rich, III. Witn. Thomas Heigham, esq., and William Helperby, bailiffs.

Robert Drake of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), carpenter, Matilda his wife, Thomas Turnur, a carpenter, and Thomas Barry, "corvoiser" demise to John Mannyng, labourer, Thomas Pykerell, yeoman, Robert Smyth, yeoman and William Talyes, butcher, a certain messuage in Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, in the street called Overbaxterestrete alias Wellystrete. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), 23 December, 10 Hen. VII (1494).

PORINGLAND (Little). Copy of the register of the chamberlain of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) of lands in West Poringland (Little Porynglond), with a charter of abbot Samson's grant to Roger de Gessynges. (Temp. Hen. VII.)

INGHAM. Lease from Thomas, abbot of Bury St. Edmund, and the convent of the same, to John and William Hegge de Ingham of their manor of Ingham and all that belongs to it, except the advowson of the church, for 70 years, paying annually to the cellarer of the monastery £16. Dated 10 Sept., 1 Richard III (1483). [Roughly altered as a draft for a lease from abbot John to John Playford and John Talbot for 20 years; dated 10 Sept. ... Henry VIII, year not filled in. Abbot John Reeve succeeded in 1514.]

Statement by an abbot respecting the original appointment and duties of the steward of the franchises and liberties of the abbot of Bury St. Edmund, with complaint of neglect and of wrongs suffered thereby, (one word illegible) bailiff and sub-bailiff almost beaten to death at Sudbury, others taken from Chevington and imprisoned at Bury St Edmunds (Bury), etc. [Temp. Hen. VI.]

Indenture made 23 March, 7 Hen. VII (1492), witnesseth that Robert Crane hath delivered to Thomas, the abbot of Bury St. Edmund, collector of the benevolence granted to the king in the shire of Suffolk towards his voyage royal into France, £212 16s. 4d. collected within the hundred of Babergh Hundred (Babergh).

Edmund Lyster, master of the hospital of St. James, apostle, of Donawyc, and the brethren and sisters of the same place, grant to farm to William Burnham of Earl Soham (Earl's Soham) a piece of land in the village of Brandeston (Brandyston), paying annually for the same 3s. 4d. Indenture made at Dunwich (Donewyc) Monday in Pentecost week, 3 Hen. IV (15 May 1402).

Memorandum concerning the tenements of the prior of the Holy Trinity, Ipswich, of the manor of Creeting All Saints (Cretinge). "De tenementis prioris ecclesie Trinitatis Gippewic' de manerio de Cretinge." Cent. XV [Almost entirely effaced.]

Clement, abbot and the convent of Leystone, &c., appoint Richard Robertson and William Styward as their atttorneys to deliver seisin to John Jenney, sen., and William Jenney his son, of certain messuages and tenements in Leiston (Leyston), Knodishall (Knodeshale), &c. Dated 20 April, 29 Hen. VI (1451).

Certificate of Peter Schelton, LL.B., commissary of Alexander, bp. of Norwich , that at a visitation held 24 November, 1408, in the parish church of Frostenden, the abbot and convent of Sybeton produced evidences of the appropriation of the church of Sibton (Sybeton) with the chapel of Peasenhall (Pesenhale) annexed, and also of the appropriation of the churches of Rendham, Cransford (Cranisford), Westleton, and Tunstall, and repeated at a visitation held in Beccles ("Bekkelys") church 18 June, 1413. [Original of the first.]