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ROUGHAM. Indenture witnessing that William, the abbot, and convent of St. Edmund, have demised to John Bacun of Hessett their manor of Hessett, with two parts of the manor of Chavents (Chanets) in Rougham, for 6 years, from Michaelmas, 18 Rich. II, paying annually for the same £11. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) the Thursday before the feast of St. Michael (24 Sept. 1394) the above year.

HESSETT. Indenture witnessing that William, the abbot of Bury Seynt Edmund, and the convent of the same have demised to Thomas Bakon of Hessett (Heggesset) their manor of Hessett (Heggesset) pertaining to the office of the "tresory" of their monastery, for 20 years, at an annual rent of £8. Dated 12 Sept., 19 Hen. VII (1503).

Indenture by which William, the abbot, and the convent of Bury St. Edmund have demised to Thomas Bakon of Hessett (Heggesset) their manor of Hessett (Heggesset), for 20 years, paying annually to the treasurer of the monastery £8. Dated 12 September, 19 Hen. VII (1503). [Marked 138* on the charter but there is no 138.]

John, the abbot, and the convent of Bury St. Edmund grant to Thomas Bacon of Hessett (Heggesset) with the consent of all their tenants, two acres and a half of pasture, part of the common of the manor of Hessett (Heggesset called Helgreve), with the consent of all their tenants, in exchange for 2½ acres of the said Thomas Bacon's lying in the same village. Dated 5 April, 24 Hen. VIII (1533).

CULPHO. Letters patent of K. Henry VIII, dated 12 May, 32nd of his reign, granting to Thomas Bacon, esq., the manor of Hessett (Hessett, co. Suffolk), formerly belonging to the abbey of Bury St. Edmund, and the manor of Culpho, co. Suffolk, which belonged to the priory of Leyston, for £249 7s. 11d.