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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.

Indenture by which William, the prior, and the convent of the Holy Trinity, Norwich, grant to farm to Richard Stodeharte, chaplain, the church of St. Giles, Norwich, for the term of his life, paying annually 33s. 4d. Dated at Norwich, 20 July, 1500, and 15 Hen. VII.

Record of a Precept to the sheriff of Norfolk that he come before Robert de Montalt and Thomas (blank) at Norwich the Wednesday in the feast of the beheading of St. John the Baptist, 19 Ed. ⟨I⟩ , with all knights, all head constables of hundreds and villages, &c., to arrange watches along the shores of Norfolk for the security of the kingdom with the orders thenm made. [c. 1300] [Copy.] .

Power of attorney from ... and Agnes his wife to John, son of ... to give seisin to John, son of William ... Dated, Friday in Easter week .... Edw. ⟨I⟩ .

SHIPD. Margaret de Creyk , and Robert de Creyk her eldest son, grant to Robert, son of Hugh le Flemming, of Shipedene , a tenement in Shipedene, paying on the feast of St. John Bapt., 36 Hen. III, 2 marks; at Michaelmas following, 2 marks; at the Purification B.V.M., 37 Hen. III, 2 marks; and at Easter, 20s. [Copy.] [c. 1330-40?] .

An exemplification of a fine levied at Westminster on the morrow of the Ascension of our Lord, 38 Hen. VI, by which John Godelesforth and Anne his wife acknowledge the right of John Lyhers to a messuage, 200 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 60 acres of pasture, and 40 acres of marsh in Tilney, Islyngton, Wygenhale, and Walpole, with the advowson of the chapel of Walpole. Dated at Westminster, 23 January, 33 Henry VIII.

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.

Ralph, the abbot, and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme, grant to Lambert, the clerk, their church of St. Michael of Cunesford, with the chapel of St. Olave in Norwich, paying an annual pension of 1 lb of incense at the feast of St. Bennet in estate. [Ralph, abbot, 1186-1210.] .

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.

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.⟩

Illegible charter, temp. Ed. I.

Drayton. John of Knoston in D⟨aventry⟩ and Lecia his wife grant to Thomas de Falusle for a sum of money a certain part of their ’placeta’, i.e. their chief house in D⟨aventry⟩ , which extends from their doors unto Thomas’s house and is in breadth from the highway towards their court 24 feet. Given at D⟨aventry⟩ . Witnesses: Thomas le Barkere , John Scop , Robert ..., ...le, Godefrey de spineto . Monday before … 22 Ed⟨ ….⟩

Mutilated deed relating to Staverton church. [Temp. Hen. IV.] .

Indented statement of the account of the cellarer Thomas de Watford , for the benefit of the new cellarer William Haddone . (It is not a complete account, but merely a statement of certain receipts and outstanding debts at the end of the cellarer’s term of office.) ⟨Temp. Hen. IV.⟩

An acknowledgment by John, bishop of Lincoln , of the receipt of 8s. of the prior of Daventry, by the name of an annual pension, ending Michaelmas last, for the appropriation of the churches of Daventry, Staverton, West Haddon, and Norton [as MS. Ch. Northants. Daventry 101] for 21s. 8d., dated 27 Jan., .. Hen. VII(?). [Almost entirely illegible.] .

Fragment of a similar receipt [see Ch. 128b], Nov. ... Hen. VII.

Fragment of a receipt given by Thomas Murd ... to the prior of Daventry. Dated ... May, .. Hen. VII. (probably for West Haddon) .

An acknowledgment that John Wygmore and Nicholas Traford have received [of the prior of Daventry (?)] 10 marks,of annual pension. (Hen. VII.). [A fragment.] .

An acknowledgment that John, abbot of St. James near Northampton , has received of the prior of Daventry 50s. for the. tithes of Sylles[orthe] and Sandford mede. Dated 4 October, .. Hen. VII. [Mutilated.] .

Mutilated charter ... Thurston of Rokeby, widow, appoints Thomas Wilee of West Haddon her attorney to give seisin to John Harecourte of lands, rents, &c., in .... Dated at West Haddon the Monday next after the feast Nativ. ... [Hen. VII.] [Fragment.] .

Richard, son of William de Clifd[on] , grants to the church of St. Nicholas, Sanford, in frankalmoigne, one acre in the meadow 'Infordmath.' Witnesses. Robert, canon of Salisbury , Richard de Sandford his brother, Hugh brother of the said Robert, Ralph, clerk of Sanford etc. (c. 1190-1210.) [Mutilated.] .

Fragment of a charter. [Temp. John.] .

Copy of a clause in an Inspeximus charter dated 1 Hen. III, i. e. 1216, of the confirmations of privileges to the prior and canons of St. Frid. by King Henry III and his father King John. [Temp. Ed. III.] .

CLATTERCOTE (Hospital of St. Leonard at). Copy in 14th century of a bull of Pope Innocent III to the proctors of the house of St. Leonard of Clattercote, of the order of Sempryngham, confirming lands in Banbury &c. to them. Dated 19 year of his pontificate, 3 Nones March, i. e. 1216.

HEADINGTON. William, son and heir of Hugh Forester of Hedyngton , grants to John Forester his son a messuage, two virgates of land and a fourth part of one other virgate .... which came to him by heirship after the death of Hugh his father, in the village and fields of Hedyngton, which the said Hugh had by the gift and feoffment of sir Richard Damory, kt. (Mutilated.] Dated .... August .... Hen. IV.