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Fine made at Westminster, Trinity Term, 1 Ed. VI, by which Antony Littleton, esq., acknowledges the right of sir William Paston, kt., to the third part of the manor of Hornynghall and of 6 messuages, 6 tofts, 6 gardens, 24 acres of land, 16 acres meadow, 30 acres of pasture, 10 acres of wood, 60 acres of marsh, 30 acres furze and brushwood, and 10s. rent in Caster, Holy Trinity, Caster, St. Edmund, Fylby, Mawteby, Thirkby, and Scroby; for this fine the said William gave £46 sterling.

GRESSHAM-HALL. Indenture made 9 November, 2 Ed. VI, by which sir William Paston, kt., sells to Richard Partryk of Holte, carver, all his wood, timber, and underwood, growing within the wood called Gressham-hall wood; to hold the same for ever, paying for the said purchase £40 by two instalments.

HELLESDEN. List of goods taken away at Haylesdon, belonging to John Paston , his sons, and his servants, by the duke of Suffolk's servants and tenants the 14 Oct., 5 King Ed. IV, which day the place of Haylesdon was broken and pulled down.

MAUTEBY, &c. Indenture tripartite whereby sir Simon Felbrigge, kt., Oliver Groos, esq., and William Paston , feoffees of Robert Mauteby, esq., deceased, in execution of his will and at the request of Margaret, wife of John Paston , daughter and heir of John Mauteby , son and heir of the said Robert, and in consideration that the said John Paston and Margaret now have issue a son, John, whereby John Paston the father holds for the term of his life by the law of England of the inheritance of his said wife, grant and confirm to the said John Paston the manors of Mauteby, Sparham, Basyngham, Westbekham, Matelask, and Briston, the manor of Salle called Kirkehalle, the manor called Fleghalle in Wynterton, Somerton, Ormesby, Martham, Horseye, Waxtonesham, and Pallyng, and 100s., rent in Castre, by Norwich, and Merkeshale, and the manor of Freton in Suffolk; with certain reversions on the death of Eleanor, wife of Thomas Chambre, esq. , formerly wife of the said Robert Mauteby , Margery, wife of Ralph Garneys, esq. , mother of the said Margaret, formerly wife of John Mauteby, esq., sons of the said Robert. To hold to the said John Paston , with remainder to Margaret and the heirs of her body, with contingent remainders in tail to Edward Mauteby , &c. Dated at Mauteby, 15 April, 20 Hen. VI.

ESTHERLING. Randal, son of Walter de Estherling, grants to William de Aldeberge, parson of the church of Estherling, for 10s. 2 acres and half a rood of land in Estherling and 6d. annual rent from two pieces of land there, at an annual rent of 3d. (c. 1260-70.)

FLEGG (Hundred of). William, bp. of Winchester , John Beauchamp, lord de Beauchamp, Sir John Howard, kt., William Yelverton, kt., Thomas Lytelton , William Jenney , William Paston, esq., Thomas Howys, clerck, and William Grene , remit and quit-claim to John Paston, knt. all their right of and in the manor of Castre in Flegge called Vaux and Bosoms, and in those lands and in tenements in Castre called Redham, with the advowson of the chapel of St. John the Baptist in the same village, and the manors of Heryngly (sic) called Spensers and Fennes, the third part of the manor in Runham, the manor in Wynterton called Begvyles with one windmill, the manor of Reppes in Bastewyk, and all messuages, &c. in Great Jernernuth, and in lands and tenements called Billes in Stokesby, and those lands and tenements called Cattes in Heryngby, and all other lands &c. in the villages of Castre, Great Jernemuth, Ormesby, Scroutby, Mautby, Wynterton, Somerton, Martham, Bastewyk, Reppes, Hikelyng, Stokesby, Heryngby, Runham, Thyrkby, Filby, or elsewhere within the hundred of Est Flegge and Westflegge, together with many other lands, advowsons, and rents in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Dated 11 January, 7 Ed. III.

HICKLING, &c. Letters patent of King Charles I, dated at Westminster, 1 March, 12 of his reign, being a licence of alienation to (for £10) Martin and John Calthorp , esqrs., to enable them to assign the manors of Hicklinge Netherhall, Stanhow alias Stannowe, and Pawlinge, and divers other lands &c. in the county of Norfolk, to Francis Bacon and Henry Mordaunt , esqrs.

METHELWODE. Ordination respecting the vicarage of Methelwode by Ralph [Walpole], bp. of Norwich ; the Prior and Convent of Castleacre to have the rectory house, all the land belonging to the rector, and all the tithes of corn; the vicar to have the rest, excepting a portion paid paid to the prior and conv. of Lewes. Dated at Eccles, 2 Non. August, 1291.

NORWICH. Decree by William, bishop of Norwich , for the union of the churches of St. Swithin and of St. Simon and Jude, Norwich to the church of Crosthwayt in perpetuity and the deanery of Taverham to that of Norwich on account of the poverty of the several places, which are now vacant upon the death of Thomas Silvestre who has held all five together. Dated in the chapter-house of Norwich, 3 Kl. Sept., 1329.

PLUMSTEAD (Little). Adam, son of William del A... , quitclaims to Eadmund de Plumsted , Basilia his wife, and Avice their daughter, all his right in four acres of land in Plumsted. Dated at Little Plumsted the Sunday on the feast of the translation of St. Thomas the Martyr ... [The greater part obliterated]. [Probably temp. Edw. II]

LIMPENHOW. Robert, son of Edward Browne of Limpenhow , grants to William Norton and Mary his wife one piece of land in the field of Limpenhow. Dated 3 Feb., 1640. .

TUNSTODE. Charter (indented) by which ..., the prioress, and the convent of Litlemore grant in perpetuity to Walter Polan de Gersindon one acre of land in Tunstode, and half a rood and pasture for two colts, paying to them and their successors 12d. annually. Witness. Ralph de Sanford . [Mutilated.] (c. 1230-40) .

YARMOUTH (Great), co. Norfolk. An acknowledgment by sir William de Shareshull, knight, tof the receipt from John Conuten... (?) and Philippa his wife, and Adam ... by the hands of Thomas de Cobald , of five marks sterling, arrears for divers tenements in Great Yarmouth from the abbey of Oseney. Dated Sat. next before feast of ... 27 Ed. III. [Partly illegible and mutilated.] .

⟨Worlingworth.⟩ John, son of Robert de Wilryngworth, quit-claims to William, the abbot of St. Edmund, all his right in two acres and a half of land in 'Stannardiscrofts;' also certain meadow and pasture land. Dated at Worlingworth (Wilryngworth) the Saturday before the feast of St. Mark the evangelist, 13 Ed. III (24 April 1339).

Memorandum of the receipt of 18s. 8d. from the rector of Worlingworth (Wyrlyngworth), by Robert, abbot of Bury St. Edmund, the receiver of the 10ths for the archdeaconries of Suffolk and Sudbury, in payment of the first moiety. Dated 14 November, 12 Ed. IV (1472).

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.)

Alvesbourn or Alnesbourn Priory. Robert, the prior, and canons of Alvesbrunne remit and quit-claim to William de Kirkeby, the prior, and convent of the Holy Trinity, Norwich, all action, right, and claim in 20s. annual rent, assigned to the former by Albert de Nevyle and his heirs out of the half of a certain water-mill in Keswick (Kesewyk), formerly called 'le Oldemylne,' but now destroyed and the arrears of which for 28 years they had claimed; for this remission and quit- claim the said prior and convent of Norwich gave 16 marks of silver. Dated at Norwich the Tuesday next after the feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, 14 Ed. I (25 Jue 1286).

Copy kept by the prior and convent of Norwich of the composition between the prior and convent of Buttele and master John de Thweyt, rector of the church of Winterton (Wynterton), concerning the tithes of West Somerton, with the consent of the patron of Winterton (Wynterton) Robert Clere. Dated 12 March 1342/3, at Norwich.

CORTON. John, the abbot, and convent of Leystone indemnify Thomas, bp. of Norwich, and his successors, and the cathedral church of Norwich, by reason of the appropriation of the parochial church of Corton (Cortone) of the patronage at the abbey for first fruits, an annual pension etc. Dated at Leiston (Leystone), 10 July, 1367.

Katherine Boydon of Great Yarmouth (Great Jernemuth) grants to Richard Smyth of Reedham (Redham) a tenement and certain pieces of land in the village and field of Gapton (Gapton alias Bradwell). Dated at Gapton, 21 Sept., 22 Ed. IV (1482).

Thomas and Henry Smyth grant to John Lavyle of Great Yarmouth (Great Jernemuth), Rose his wife, who was formerly wife of John Lampett, esq., now deceased, John Harvy, Thomas Cotoyle, John Hakon of Wheatacre (Whetacreburgh), William Adams of Gorleston-on-Sea (Gorlyston), William Shawe and John Barton of Great Yarmouth (Jernemuth), all those lands, pastures, and woods lying in Great Yarmouth (Little Yarmouth), Southtown (Southtowne), and Bradwell, which they lately had by the gift of the said John Lampett and Rose his then wife. Dated at Bradwell, 1 July, 16 Hen. VIII (1524)

BURGH-CASTLE, &c. Final concord made at Westminster, 12 Hen. VIII, between Thomas and Henry Smyth, querents, and John Lampett and Rose his wife, deforciants, concerning two tofts, 50 acres of land, 3 acres of meadow, 6 acres of marsh, 3 acres of wood in Burgh Castle (Burgh Castell), Lovingland (Lovengland), Great Yarmouth (Little Yermouth), Bradwell (Bradewell), &c. (Partly effaced.)

George Harcocke of Thorpe Next Haddiscoe (Haddysco Thorpe, Norfolk), yeoman, grants to James Hubberde, gent., in consideration of a certain sum of money, one messuage and two gardens situated in Great Yarmouth (Little Jernemuth), Gorleston-on-Sea (Gorleston), and Southtown (Southerton). Dated 17 April, 21 Elizabeth (1579)

John Aleys of Oulton (Olton) and John Oldryng of Carlton Colville (Carleton Colvile) grant to John Seynt, John of Olton, Robert his brother of Ringland (Ryngelond), and others, one acre of land in Oulton (Olton). Dated at Oulton (Olton), 12 February, 23 Hen. VI (1445). [Partially illegible.]

Sir John Hevenyngham, kt., and others (as in Ch. Suffolk 1105) demise and confirm to Henry Gray of Ketteringham (Keteryngham) and others the whole of the manor of Somerleyton (Somerleton), together with the foundation of the priory of St. Olive of Heryngflet, the advowson of the church of Somerleyton (Somerleton), and all the lands in Somerleyton (Somerleton), Blundeston, Lound, Ashby (Askeby), Herringfleet (Heryngflete), and Bradwell (Bradewell). Dated at Somerleyton (Somerleton) the Thursday next after the Invention of the Cross, 23 Hen. VI.