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THWEYT. Proceedings in the great church of Norwich, commenced the Thursday next after the feast of St. [lost], 1274, before J. de Nortun, official of the bp. of Norwich , between the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme, complainants, and Hervy de Surlingham, rector of the church of Huggethale , defendant. The abbot and convent claim to have been possessed of two parts of the tithes of the lordships of sir Bartholomew de Sumerton , sir Robert de Castre , and Andrew de Brampton in the village of Tweyt, which the said Hervey had by force prevented them from taking, in the autumn. Nov. 1274-June 1275. .