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William Warde of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), chaplain, grants to John Rothe, brasier and Richard Rothe, clerk two tenements in Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) in 'le Smytherowe', near the great market-place. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 8 January, 4 Hen. V (1417).

William Leyr of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), mason, Ralph Reward and Stephen Gardyner demise and assign to Thomas Bolesham of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, Roger Messager, William Rycher, John Smyth, John Gouty, and Roger Gardyner, a certain tenement with three messuages and four pieces of arable land within the borough of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the streets called 'Lombislane' and 'Th'mustowe.' Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 26 Nov., 18 Hen. VI (1439).

Robert Crench of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), cordwainer, executor of the will of Bartholomew Chapeleyn, "cotyller,", confirms to John Stonhard, John Wherham, and George Burton, one grange with a curtilage in the vill of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, in the street called Overbaxterestrete. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid the last day of June, 23 Hen. VI (1445)

Robert Crench of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) remits and quit-claims to John Stonhard and others all right in a certain grange with a curtilage in the village of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid the last day of June, 23 Hen. VI.

Isabella Gosselyn and Margaret Gosselyn of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) grant to John Stonhard, John Wherham, and George Burton, of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, one tenement situated in the village of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund). Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 20 May, 24 Hen. VI (1446). Witn. John Smyth, alderman, Thomas Heigham and John Curteys, bailiffs.

⟨Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund)⟩ John Baret, esq., acknowledges to have received, for himself and John Lydgate, monk of Bury St. Edmund, of William Tyrell, sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, £3 16s. 8d. of that £7s. 13s. 4d. which the king by letters patent granted to them for the term of their lives. Dated 2 October, 25 Hen. VI (1446).

Memorandum of the receipt by John Boone, abbot of Bury St. Edmund, by the hands of Thomas Cresse, bailiff of Edward Doyle, 26s. 9½d. for the rent of la Pondehill [in Bury St Edmunds] and Gosford for one whole year. Dated on the feast of St. Edmund the King, 34 Hen. VI (20 Nov. 1455).

Indenture by which William Stowe, master of the hospital of St. Nicholas of Bury St. Edmund, with the assent of his brethren, demises to William Somere of Bury St Edmunds (Bury), taylor, a tenement in Bury St Edmunds (Bury) in the street called le Estgatestrete for 98 years, at an annual rent of 3s. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury), 5 February, 38 Hen. VI (1460).

SAXHAM. Manumission by Robert the abbot and convent of St. Edmund of John Paman, a native of their manor of Great Saxham (Saxham Magna). Dated 16 January, 11 Ed. IV (1472).

Edmund Lerlyn of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), Agnes his wife, Edmund Baker, weaver, David Humfrey, baker, and Robert Totay, "corvoser" demise to Robert Drake and Matilda his wife, John Aylewyn, weaver, Thomas Turnour, carpenter, and Thomas Barry, a messuage, way and garden within the town of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, in the street called Overbaxterestrete alias Wellestrete, on condition of payment of £6 at fixed times during five years. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), 16 September, 14 Ed. IV (1474). Witn. Thomas Gret, alderman, Thomas Heigham, esq. and William Helperby, bailiffs.

John Clopton, esq., William Thweyte, senior, gent., and Thomas Bunnyng, mercer, demise to John Coote, gent. and Margaret his wife, of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), one tenement late John Skeet's situated within the borough of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the street called 'Hennecotestrete alias Bernewellestrete' viz. between a messuage late William Coote's and a lane called 'Bryteslane;' also another messuage in the same town and street. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), 9 March, 18 Ed. IV (1478). Witn. Walter Thurston, alderman, Thomas Meigham, jun., esq. and William Helperby, bailiffs

Edward Caster, clerk, Thomas Ampe, clerk, Henry Davy of Fornham All Saints, Thomas Sporle, chaplain, Henry Hardman, clerk, William Thweytt, senior, gent., and Thomas Edon, gent. demise to John Page of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), chaplain, George Watton, chaplain, John Page, senior, of Walsham Le Willows (Walsham), William Coppynger, woolman and Roger Leynge, fuller, one messuage and all that belongs to it within Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the street called 'Cherchegonelstrete.' Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 24 Sept., 20 Ed. IV (1480). Witn. Thomas Heigham, jun., esq. and William Helperby, bailiffs

Thomas Purdon of Redgrave, John Hamelyn of Weston, and Thomas Lovesson of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) grant to Thomas Turnur of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) and Margaret his wife, John Hegge, Robert Turnur, William Lawnde and William Bulbroke, two messuages in the village of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the street called 'Estgatestrete', paying yearly 8s. 8d. for 22 years. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 6 February, 2 Rich, III. Witn. Thomas Heigham, esq., and William Helperby, bailiffs.

Robert Drake of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), carpenter, Matilda his wife, Thomas Turnur, a carpenter, and Thomas Barry, "corvoiser" demise to John Mannyng, labourer, Thomas Pykerell, yeoman, Robert Smyth, yeoman and William Talyes, butcher, a certain messuage in Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, in the street called Overbaxterestrete alias Wellystrete. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), 23 December, 10 Hen. VII (1494).

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.)

INGHAM. Lease from Thomas, abbot of Bury St. Edmund, and the convent of the same, to John and William Hegge de Ingham of their manor of Ingham and all that belongs to it, except the advowson of the church, for 70 years, paying annually to the cellarer of the monastery £16. Dated 10 Sept., 1 Richard III (1483). [Roughly altered as a draft for a lease from abbot John to John Playford and John Talbot for 20 years; dated 10 Sept. ... Henry VIII, year not filled in. Abbot John Reeve succeeded in 1514.]

Thomas, son and heir of Thomas Purdy late of Redgrave , remits and quit-claims all his right in two messuages in the borough of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) in the street called Estgatestrete to Thomas Godard of Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid. Dated 4 January, 20 Hen. VII (1505).

Thomas Parker of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), fishmonger, grants to Richard Frost, chaplain, one tenement, one parcel of a certain house, with a garden and parcel of land in Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid in the street called Whitingstrete. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), 8 March, 22 Hen. VII (1507).

MELFORD. At a court held at Long Melford (Melford) the Monday next after the feast of H. Trinity, 2 Hen. VIII (27 May 1510), the abbot of Bury St. Edmund admitted Roger Marten and Richard his son to one meadow at a rent of 7s. 1d.

Robert Worlyche of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), mason, Reginald Lerlynge, tiler, John Robynson, carpenter, and John Selond, smith, executors of John Busshe, mason, demise to Katherine Busshe, widow, Thomas Browne, chandler, and John Cracheroode, scrivener one messuage, a garden, and certain land in Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, in the street called 'Gyldehalstrete.' Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), 16 January, 10 Hen. VIII (1519).

Robert Stelyard, clerk, demises to Margery Draper of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), widow of John Batys and others a tenement in Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) in the street called Chirchegatestrete, conveyed to him by the said Margery by deed dated 10 Sept. in the same year. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 15 Sept., 13 Hen. VIII (1521).

Thomas Heryes, yeoman, Henry Tame, draper, Henry Gunse, and George Langham confirm to John Mower of Bury St Edmunds (Bury), thatcher, John Reche, thatcher, Richard Dowsyng, Thomas Mower, and William Halle one tenement situated in the vill of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the street called 'Overbaxterstrete.' Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 16 October, 12 Hen. VIII (1520).

Thomas Heryes, Henry Tame, Henry Gunse, and George Langham grant to John Skitlard of Bury St Edmunds (Bury), labourer, John Arnolde, carpenter, Robert Sketlard, John Mower, and Thomas Mannyng one tenement in the village of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), in the street called 'Overbaxsterstrete' Dated at Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid, 16 October, 12 Hen. VIII (1520).

Final concord made at Westminster on the morrow of [All] Souls, 18 Hen. VIII (1526), by which Nicholas Sywhat and Katherine his wife acknowledge the right of Robert Jamys, citizen and alderman of Norwich, Robert Germy, and William Wyburgh to six messuages, 2 barns, 2 gardens, 8 acres of pasture, and one acre of wood in Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) and Nowton near Bury aforesaid.

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).