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MENDHAM, METTFIELD, and HARLESTON, co. NORFOLK, and WICKHAM SKEYTH, co. SUFFOLK. An exemplification of a fine levied Hilary term, 15 Elizabeth, by which Richard Western, gent., Martin Calthorp, gent., and Joan his wife, in consideration of the receipt of £600, convey land, &c. in Mendham, Mettfeld, and Harleston, with the advowson of the church of Mendham, and the manor and advowson of Wickham Skeyth, to Ed. Huggons, gent., Thomas Cordell, gent., Robt. Heath, gent., and John Sulyard . Dated at Westminster, 24 Jan., 22 Jas. I.

Licence from Richard, bp. of Norwich , to Robert Cocke, M.A., permitting him to teach the art of grammar within the town ("villam") of Thetford. Dated 3 October, 1638.

Articles and subscriptions with the autographs of the 19 subscribers to a horse race to be run at Thettford the last Friday in September, 1698, 1699, and 1700.

Sir Robert Jermyn of Rushbrooke (Rushbrooke, co. Suffolk), kt., grants to Edmund Corksage of Stanstead (Stansteed), taylor, a cottage or shop situate in 'le Rayngate streete' in Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), near a sherehowse and three pieces of a farm ("pandi(?)") lying near the tenement of Alice Corksage, widow, being part of a garden called le Sentryyard. Dated 19 July, 3 James I (1605).

John Talemach of Coddenham (Codenham), yeoman, remits and confirms to sir Robert Crane of Chilton, kt., certain premises in Coddenham (Codenham). Dated 20 October, 7 James I (1609).

Robert Sterne of Belton, for a sum of £50, sells to sir John Wentworth, knt., one messuage, with houses, lands, and tenements adjacent, in Belton. Dated 14 January, 6 Charles I (1631) .

Power of attorney to Thomas Bussye from Robert Sterne to give seisin to sir John Wentworth of Somerleyton, kt., in a messuage, house, lands, &c. in Belton. Dated 14 January, 6 Charles I (1631). [Listed as missing, 1913].

Release from William Osborne (?) concerning the sale of the messuage, houses, and lands in Belton [as in MS. Ch. Suffolk 788] to sir John Wentworth, kt. Dated 14 January, 6 Charles I (1631). [Partly effaced and slightly mutilated.]

William Sydnor of Blundeston grants to Alice Woulcye of Lowestoft, widow of William Wrentham for her life an annuity of 26s. 8d., issuing from his lands &c. in Blundeston. Dated 7 June, . . Elizabeth.

Richard Mighell, in consideration of the receipt of £6, remits and quit-claims to William Sydnor, his heirs and executors, all right to rents and customs of the manor of Flixton. Dated 11 November, .. Elizabeth. [Slightly mutilated and partly effaced.]

Robert Houghton of Itteringham (Itteringham, Norfolk), gent., sells unto William Umfrye of Bradwell, carpenter, for £20, a cottage in Bradwell. Dated .... October, 1613. [Mutilated.]

Institution by the archbishop of Canterbury, Whitgift (signed to him) in consequence of a vacancy in the see of Norwich, of Clement Bacon, priest, to the church of Flixton St Andrew (Flixton), on the presentation of the Crown by lapse. Dated 25 Nov. 1602.

Indenture made 14 James I, [49 of Scotland] between William Sydnor of Blundeston (Blunston, in the county of Suffolk), esquire, and Thomas Kempe and Francis Brewater, being a grant of the manor of Fritton to William Tampon. [Mutilated and in great part effaced.]

Margaret Oldringe of Gorleston-on-Sea (Gorleston), daughter and heir of Richard Oldringe, grants to Reginald Drowrye one tenement lying in Gorleston-on-Sea (Gorleston). [c. 1600 (date entirely effaced)]

William Dunston of Bedingfield (Bedingfeild, co. Suffolk), yeoman, conveys to John Wentworth, sen., of Somerleyton, esq., a tenement &c. in Gorleston-on-Sea (Gorleston), co. Suffolk. Dated 24 Nov., 2 James I (1604).

John Carpenter of Hopton St Margaret (Hopton) sells to sir John Wentworth, kt., all his right in a tenement, with a croft adjacent, lying in Hopton St Margaret (Hopton). Dated [day left blank] January, 7 Charles I.

Indenture made 17 Charles II, by which the 4 July, dean and chapter of Norwich demise to William Lockier of the precincts of the cathedral, notary public, their rectory, churchyard, glebe, and tithes of Hopton St Margaret (Hopton), for 21 years, at an annual rent of 53s. 4d., and certain wheat and malt.

Extract from the manor court roll of Lowestoft (Lowystoft). Temp. Jac. I. [Illegible.]

Richard Mighell of Great Yarmouth (Great Jernemuth) one of the sons of James Mighall, deceased, sells to John Cooke of Gunton for £9 one acre of land in Lowestoft, in the field called Northfield. Dated at Lowestoft, 1 May, 1 James, 1603.

Final concord, dated on the octave of St. Michael, 21 James I, between John Utber, gent., plaintiff, and Philip Hayward, gent., and Gislaham Wolhowse, gent., and Elizabeth his wife, defendants, concerning 80 acres of land and two acres of pasture in Lowestoft (Lowstoft), for which the plaintiff gives them £100.

Ellen Peereson of Great Yarmouth (Great Yarmuth, co. Norfolk), spinner, sells to Thomas Harman of Mutford, gent., and Hubert Cruxe the whole of a piece of land containing three roods in the village of Lowestoft (Leystoft). Dated at Lowestoft (Leystoft), 14 April, 1624.

William Stanton of Somerleyton (Somerleton), in consideration of the receipt of £594, grants to sir John Wentworth, kt., a messuage and lands in Somerleyton (Somerleton). Dated at Somerleyton (Somerleton), 30 Jan., 1628.

Indenture made 1 October, 3 James I (1605), by which John Wentworth of Somerleyton, esq., leases unto Felix Crane of Blythburgh (Blithburgh) and William Marks of Darsham, gent., his parsonage or benefice of Blythburgh (Blithburgh) for 10 years, at an annual rent of £45.

DUNWICH. Certificate of the bailiffs John Benifice and Francis Gray and burgesses, of Dunwich given to Thomas Mighells, jun. of Lowestoft (Leystoft), (reciting charter of K. John relieving the burgesses of Dunwich from toll, &c.,) and that the said Thomas Mighells is a burgess of Dunwich. Dated 10 Nov., 1678.

WESTHALL. Indenture dated 19 Charles II, by which the 5 June, dean and chapter of Norwich demise to Samuel Spendlove of Norwich, woollen draper, their impropriate rectory of Westhall for 21 years at an annual rent of £4 and certain wheat and malt.