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WOODBASTWICK. Adam, the prior, and the convent of the church of St. Bennet, grant to Hugh, son of Hilebert de Wroxham , in fee and heirship, the whole of that land in Bastwic which their abbot William and themselves bought of Hugh Rod. , viz., the same land which was Reginald's his father; paying 8d. per annum at the feast of St. Bennet for all service and custom. [William, abbot, 1153-1168.] .

MELTON (Little). Anselm, the abbot, with the counsel of the brethren of the church of St. Bennet of Holm, grants to Ralph, son of Godric , the land of lesser Medeltune, which his father Godric, the steward, with Ingreda his wife, gave to St. Bennet, to hold the same so long as he lives for 10s. per ann.; and after his death the right heirs of Ralph shall give 40s. for the same; and if he has no heir the same land shall remain quit and free to God and St. Bennet, and the brethren of Holm. [Anselm, abbot, 1133-1140).

POTTER-HEIGHAM. Rodbert de Valeines , with the consent of his mother, wife, heirs, and brothers, gives and quit-claims to the church of St. Bennet of Hulme, the whole of the claim they have in Hasardes Holm. (c. 1150-60.) .

NORWICH. Hugh, the abbot, and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme, grant to William de Hastingis and his heirs, their land which is near Fifbrege, to hold of the said church at a rent of 2s. annually to the cellarer in Whitsun week. [Hugh, abbot, 1140-1153.] .

CROUCHESTOKE. Daniel, the abbot, and chapter of the church Stoke Holy Cross of St. Bennet of Holm, granted to Rotbert Picot in fee and heirship the whole land which the said church has in Grenesville for 60 measures of wheat annually; the said Rotbert by consent granted the same land to Beatrice his wife in dower to her and her heirs at the same rent, in the presence of the whole chapter, who by this charter confirm the same. [Daniel, abbot, c. 1150-1153.] .

WALSHAM (South). Ralph de Crichetot , Isabella his wife, and Hubert his heir, for the remission of their sins, grant to the church of St. Bennet of Hulme in frankalmoigne, the church of South Walsham with its appurtenances, 100 acres of land of Panchesford with the turbary pertaining to the same land, and whatever they have at Sunderlond in order that monks of the said monastery may be placed in that church; and Hugh the abbot, and monks of St. Bennet grant to the monks in the said church of South Walsham, six pounds of the land of Nicholas, the clerk, and the church and land of Geoffrey, the clerk, which they have in the same village. [Hugh, abbot, 1140-1153.] .

LUDHAM. Thomas, the abbot, and the convent of the monastery of St. Bennet of Hulme grant to Adam, son of Ansgot , and his heirs, their land which they have beyond Ladam ... namely near to that land which they gave to Ralph, their cook, at an annual rent of 2s. [Thomas, abbot, 1168-1186.] .

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.] .

PANKESFORD. Roger de Valeynes grants to the church of St. Bennet of Hulme 100 acres of underwood and marsh in Pankesford. (c. 1160-70.) (Partially legible.) .

FELMINGHAM. Institution of Thomas, the clerk of Mideltun , by John, bp. of Norwich , to the church of Felmingham, on the presentation and petition of Thomas, the abbot of Hulme , patron of the said church. [Thomas, abbot, 1168-1186.] (1176-86) .

NEATISHEAD. John, bp of Norwich , confirms to Ralph de Netteshird, chaplain, the perpetual vicarage of the church of Neteshird, with the assent of the abbot and monks of Hulme, the patrons. Dated at Norwich 3 July, 4th year of his episcopate. (1204.) .

SWANTON and WALSHAM. Ralph, son of William de Skegeton , remits and quit-claims to Reginald, the abbot, and church of St. Bennet of Hulme, all his right in the villages of Swanton and Walesham. [Reginald, abbot, 1213-1229.] .

Clement le Moine of Brunham is bound to the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme for the payment of 4s. annual rent for the land which was William le Gaunter 's in Norwich at Swinemarket, lying between the land of Matthew ... and the land of Gunilda the widow. (c. 1220.) .

FORDHAM. Depositions of thirteen men of Fordham concerning the right of the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme to the tithe of certain land in Fordham, in a cause between the said abbot and convent and sir N. de Brente, the rector. (c. 1200-10.) .

WICHINGHAM. Convention made between Sampson, the abbot, and the convent of St. Bennet of Hulme on the one part, and William, the prior, and the convent of St. Mary of Walsingham of the other part, by which the said William and his successors are bound to pay 10s. annually, and to do homage to the said Sampson and his successors for the tenement of William, son of Geoffrey de Turteville , in the village of Wichingeham. Dated at Norwich on the morrow of St. Edward the martyr, 19 Hen. III.

Philip de Ferento, proctor of Landulf the cousin of Pope Alexander IV , and canon of Ferentum , renounces in the name of his Lord to the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme, all right to the church of Neteshirde to which he had been nominated by the Pop, on the death of Philip, canon of Ferentum, rector (in 1255 or 1256), and which is appropriated to the abbey in consideration of a pension of 28 marks. Dated at Norwich on the morrow of All Souls' day, 1256.

WAXHAM. Sentence by papal delegates on the vigil of St. Peter in cathed. next after consecration of H., bishop of Ely, in a cause between the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme on the one part, and Philip de Fleg, rector of the church of Waxtonesham on the other part, concerning the third part of the tithes of the corn of the lordship which was Roger Messham 's and Ernald his father's in Waxtonesham releasing Philip from excommunication upon payment of 60 marks.

Letter of John de Norwich to master J. de Walkote, rector of a moiety of the church of Fixele, official of the archdeacon of Norwich , reporting his delivery of the abbot of Hulme of episcopal and papal mandates for a provision for Thomas de Ristun, a poor clerk of Norwich diocese, in some cure of the patronage of the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme. Dated at Norwich the Saturday next before the Easter synod at Norwich. 1277.

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. .

REDHAM. Sir Bartholomew de Redham, kt., grants to Nicholas, the abbot, and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme, the homage of John de Ingham , and all the services of the manor of Redham, which he holds of the said Bartholomew, of the fee of the said abbot and convent. Dated at St. Bennet's on the morrow of St. Thomas, apostle, 11 Ed. I.

FILBY. Hugh de Cressy , with the assent of Isabella de Cressy his mother, grants to William, son of William Sparham and Ranulfia his wife, the whole of his land of his manor of Filby, with appurtenances, paying annually to the abbot of St. Bennet of Hulme 10s. 8d., and scutage to the King so much as pertains to the third part of one knight's fee. (c. 1250-60.) (Hugh Cressy died in 1262.) .

WALSHAM (North). Return to an inquisition ordered by the bishop of Norwich, concerning a vacancy in the church of North Walsham, to which Robert de Ormesby had been presented, by the testimony of John, rector of Slaleye , Geoffrey, rector of Beston , John de Horningg ' and others, who say, that the church of North Walsham was vacant from the feast of the Purification B.V.M. by the death of master Henry Sampson , the last rector, that the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme are the patrons, and that the priest presented is of good life and conversation and beneficed in the church of Castre. Dated at Worstede, before Transl. of St. Thomas martyr1299. (After Sampson's death Reginald de Sarmoneed had had it (probably by papal provision) but he now resigned it by his proctor.)

WORTHESTEAD. Nicholas, son of Philip of Worthested , quit-claims to sir Henry, the abbot of St. Bennet of Hulme , and his successors his tenement and all his services, which he has in the village of Worthested. Dated after Epiphany .... Ed. [I] (fil. Hen.). (1304-07) .

NORTON SOUPECORS. Inquisition taken at Norwich the Thursday next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, 20 Ed. II, before Edward de Hemgrave and John le Claver , assigned by the King's writ to inquire concerning the manor of Norton Soupecors, which was sir Thomas Rocelyn 's, upon certain articles mentioned in the same writ.

SCOTHOWE. Ordination of the vicarage of Scothowe, Norwich diocese, by William, bp. of Norwich , which church had been appropriated to the abbot and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme. Dated at Thornegg', 12 August, 1350.