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Stixwold, Wymondham. 1223.

NORFOLK. Part of a roll containing a list of owners of manors and lands in the county of Leicester, chiefly in the hundred of Guthlaxton, with valuation. (c. 1300.) .

STENE. Pardon under the sign manual of K. Henry VII. to Thomas Barker of Stenemor for the alleged taking of arms at Bosworth felde. Dated at the manor of Richemount, 27 November, 21 of his reign.

Harborough, Market [Leics.]. Thomas son of Ivo de H⟨arborough⟩ grants to D⟨aventry⟩ in free alms for the daily celebration of a mass in the chapel of S. Mary 12d. rent from a tenement which he held in Haverberg. For this grant the monks gave him 8/-. Witnesses: Richard de Lotrington , William Malesours of Lobeho , Hugh de Farandone , Sir Adam Bernard , Roger de Meyners of Boudone , Thomas Brabasun , Richard Cristein , William the clerk of H⟨arborough⟩ . ⟨1288–1300.⟩ [MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. D. 6, no. lxiv is a transcript.]

Sandford In the church of S. Martin’s, Leicester, before the prior of S. Mary’s, Leicester, the archdeacon of Leicester, and the bishop of Lincoln, Master Hugh Hamelin seeks a postponement to allow him time to consider the process, of which he has obtained a copy. The case is adjourned till the morrow of All Souls, when the parties are to appear again in the same place. 1268. ⟨4 Oct.⟩

Lubenham [Leics.]. Fourteenth-century transcripts, on paper, of two charters, by which William Malesovers grants to D⟨aventry⟩ in free alms (i) a messuage and land which Richard of Thedingworth once held in L⟨ubenham⟩ . Witnesses: Robert fitz-Walter, lord of D⟨aventry⟩ , Eustace of Watford , Richard of Lot[rington] , Hugh Yrneyn of Thedingworth , Robert son of Adam of Langton , Robert son of the rector of [Halveton], Thomas, son of Ivo of Haverberg . ⟨1255–65.⟩ (ii) a messuage and half a virgate in L⟨ubenham⟩ . Witnesses: Sir Ascer, vicar of D⟨aventry⟩ , William of Scaldeby clerk of Sir Edmund, King Henry’s son , Roger son of William of Foxtune , clerk, Henry of Osbesston […], […] of Thedingwurth , Robert […] of Langeton , Robert son of the rector of Halveton . ⟨1265–77.⟩

Lubenham [Leics.]. Proceedings on an appeal to the court of Canterbury in the same case. ⟨(See MS. D. D. Ch. Ch. D. 86.)⟩ [Mutilated.] July–Aug. 1323.

Scalford, co. Leics. William, prior &c., of D⟨aventry⟩ grant that since Richard de Assheby lately granted to a certain Hugh de Bronage and Mary his wife a messuage in Scaldeford called ‘Codyngton place’, which a certain Roger de Codyngton once took from Peter, prior of D⟨aventry⟩ , from Monday after Easter 17 Ed. III [14 April 1343] for 60 years, the said Hugh and Mary shall hold it for the remainder of that term and for a further 10 years. Rent: 1/6. Given at D⟨aventry⟩ . ⟨24 July 1393.⟩

Sandford An act of court at Leicester in an appeal between Master Hugh Hamelin and the prior &c. of D⟨aventry⟩ , concerning the tithes of the church of Scandeford. ⟨1268.⟩

Lubenham [Leics.]. Promulgation of a sentence of the dean of arches concerning the tithes due to D⟨aventry⟩ from Hugh Poer ’s fee in Lubenham. Given at London. [Mutilated and much rubbed.] ⟨26 July 1317.⟩

Scalford, co. Leics. Indenture by which D⟨aventry⟩ leases to Robert Waltham of Scaldeford a croft in S⟨calford⟩ for 200 years. Rent: 3/- Given at D⟨aventry⟩ . Witnesses: … Richard of D⟨aventry⟩ , John Bachous of the same, John Braunfeld of Thrope ... ⟨29 Sept. 1343.⟩

Scalford, co. Leics. Sentence of the official of Lincoln diocese in a suit of spoliation of the tithes at Scaldeford, at the instance of the prior &c. of D⟨aventry⟩ , against Robert Garton, rector of Waltham , his brother and others, condemning them to pay 6/- damages and 5 marks less a penny for expenses. Given at Lincoln. 1385. ⟨18 May.⟩

King Henry VIII, by letters sealed, confirms the union and incorporation of the churches or chapels of Hedyngton, Merston, Byndesey, Churchill, Frytewell, Ellsfylde, Wornall, Oclee, Bryll, Borstall, Overwinchindon, Fallewysley, Great [Preston] and Little Preston, Welton, West Haddon, Stratton, Norton, Coldeassheby, Daventre, Throppe, Throppe-Mondewell, Foxston, Stalforde, Byssebroke, Chycheley, Newporte Paynell, Ascewodde, Wyllyn, Sandeforde, Wodde pery, Douton basset, Ragdale, Aston, Bromyngham, Rudeby and Wettwange, in Lincoln, Lichfield, and York dioceses; also annual portions from the churches or parishes of St. Giles without the walls of Oxford, Fulthorn, Beckeley, Lovyngham, Uppelamborn, and Sonyngwell, in the dioceses of Lincoln and Salisbury, formerly belonging to the suppressed monasteries of St. Frideswide, Tyckford, Littlemore, and Canwall; made by Thomas Crumwell, K.G., to King Henry VIII's college in Oxford. Dated 31 July, 1537, and 29 year of his reign. [Wigram no. 96]

OSENEY. Leicestershire. Fragment of a charter of a grant of lands in Twicurs [Twycross]. (c. 1190-1200).