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Henry, the prior, and convent of Westacre, recite the documents concerning the appropriation and ordination of the vicarage of the church of Rucham. Dated in their chapter, 7 Ides of May, 1303.
BURLINGHAM (South). An obligation on the part of John, the prior, and convent of Weybridge, to perform mass and obit, for Alice called of Stoke of Norwich , and others, for her benefaction of lands, rents, and tenements in Southbyrlyngham, after her death, under a penalty of 10 marks, payable to the prior and convent of the Holy Trinity, Norwich. Dated at Weybridge, 23 May, 1379.
WHEATACRE and HAUTBOYS. Thomas Dages (?) grants to sir Thomas Roscelyn, kt.; all his right and reversion which he has in the manors of Whetacre and Hauboys, which the lady Matilda who was the wife of sir Robert Banyard held for her life. Dated at Norwich the Monday on the morrow of Pentecost, 7 Ed. III.
An agreement by the prior and convent of Wyrmegeye for the payment of an annual pension of 3s. 4d. to the bp. of Norwich for the half of the church of Fordham, appropriated to that priory. date of month of Oct. Dated 1347.
Quit-claim from William, the abbot, and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme to sir John White, kt., of all actions, &c., to the date of these presents. Dated at the monastery of St. Bennet of Hulme the Sunday next after the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, 16 Rich. II.
KELESHALE [Suffolk]. Indenture between John de Framlyngham, rector of Keleshale, Norwich diocese , of the one part, and lady Mary de Wyngefeld, the prioress, and nuns of Caumpesse, of the other concerning the grant by him to the priory of the manor and advowson of Karleton near Keleshale, in pursuance of letters of licence from Edw. III, for the foundation of a chantry in the church of Keleshale in which three chaplains are to celebrate daily for the soul of Alice de Henand late countess Mareschall, and the soul of the grantor after his death; the advowson to remain in possession of the priory. The grantor is received as a confrater of the priory, Thomas de Dicleburgh is appointed the first principal chaplain. Copies of the identure to be kept by the prior of Norwich cathedral, in the priory of Buttele, in the abbeys of Leiston and Sibeton, in the priory of Snape, and in the churches of Karleton and Framlyngham. Not dated. [The King's licence was granted 26 March 6 Edw. III (1332).]
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.
Daventry and Drayton, The Symond Holding. John Neel of D⟨aventry⟩ quit-claims to Robert Symon of the same and Henry his son. Witnesses: Simon Baudewyne of D⟨aventry⟩ , Geoffrey de aula of the same, William de pistrino of the same, Simon de aula of the same, John Scop of the same, Nicholas Celle of the same, John the cook of the same. Given at D⟨aventry⟩ . ⟨21 Sept. 1320.⟩
Fragment of a charter dated 7 [Ed. II]?, being a release of some land at Daventry to the priory.
Thomas fitz-Walter lord of D⟨aventry⟩ quit-claims to D⟨aventry⟩ all his right in certain tenements and rents in D⟨aventry⟩ and Drayton. [Mutilated and partly effaced.] ⟨29 Sept. 1366.⟩
William Yonge, vicar of D⟨aventry⟩ , grants to Roger Newenham of D⟨aventry⟩ , ½ acre of arable land in the north field of Drayton, in Ayreslade, the land of Robert Godechep , which W. Y. had by the gift of John Gymelin . Witnesses: John Waundel , John, ... Edmund Porter ... ⟨… after 7 July 1360.⟩
Scalford, co. Leics. Sentence of the official of Lincoln diocese in a suit of spoliation of the tithes at Scaldeford, at the instance of the prior &c. of D⟨aventry⟩ , against Robert Garton, rector of Waltham , his brother and others, condemning them to pay 6/- damages and 5 marks less a penny for expenses. Given at Lincoln. 1385. ⟨18 May.⟩
Thomas de Legh of Oxford , called "toun clerk", confirms to the prior and convent of St. Frideswide the donations of his ancestors, notwithstanding the statute of mortmain, namely 16d. from a tenement in Grope lane which was John le Hore 's, situate between the gate 'del Oriole' and a tenement of the said prior and convent; and 5s. from a messuage in the High street, formerly Simon Whyth 's, situate between a tenement of the said prior and convent and a tenement formerly Henry de Edrop 's; and 2s. from a messuage in the suburbs of Oxford called Plomerhalle, situate without the south gate, between a tenement of the said prior and convent and a tenement of the donors, and 4d. from a tenement in the way called 'Shidierd' formerly the said Simon's, between a manse of Oriole and a tenement of Adam le Bocbyndere . Dated at Oxford, 1 February, 14 Ed. III. [Wigram no. 463]
The will of Richard de Hunsyngore, clerk, rector of South Newenton, Oxfordshire ; he leaves (inter alia) to master Nicholas, son of William de Burcestre , his godson, his seld situated in the high street near the door of the house in which the said Walter lives, which he bought of John de Maydeston ; also to Robert de Hunsyngore his servant, his tenement in the parish of St. Aldate in the high street, between a tenement formerly William Spaldyng 's on the north, and a tenement of John Saucers on the south, which tenement he bought of the executors of Robert de Wormenhale . Dated at South Newenton the Thursday next after the feast of St Dunstan. 1337. Also he gives and bequeaths his tenement situated in the way called Shydzerd, Oxon, between a tenement of the prior and convent of St. Frid. on the south, and a tenement of the abbess and convent of Godstowe on the north, and also his tenement in the street of St. John which he bought of John de Croxford , to be sold, and the money employed for the celebration of masses in the church of South Newenton. Attached to this will is a mandate from Gilbert de Bruera, dean of St. Paul's , to ... de Mora, proctor of the archdeacon of Oxford, and to the dean of Oxford (in consequence of the archdeacon being in foreign parts) to grant administration. Dated at London, 5 Kl. June, 1337.
CLIFTON, BURCOT, HOLCOMB, and DRAYTON. Indenture made between Robert, the abbot, and convent of Dorchester of the one part, and John Loveday and John Moyne of the other, witnesseth that in settlement of divers disputes between the said parties, the abbot and convent release and quit-claim all their right in all the lands and tenements which they hold in the villages of Clyfton, Brudycote, Holcoumbe, and Drayton, and in the same manner the said John and John quit-claim all their right in the lands and tenements, rents and services, held by the said abbot and convent in the same villages. Dated at Dorkchestre the Tuesday next before the feast of St. Hilary, 31 Ed. III.
Southleigh. 1327 .
Stanton Harcourt etc. 1346 .
Northleigh. 1349 .
Southleigh. Last quarter of 14th Cent. .
Swalcliffe. 1397 .