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John Stanley, esq., grants to David ap Monyn freysure one burgage lying between the burgage of Hugh Huls on the north, and a burgage of the said John on the south, for 24 years, at an annual rent of 6s. 8d. Dated at "Bleham", 14 October, 4 Ed. IV.

Grant from Peter de Monte, apostolical prothoriotary and LL.D., nuncio in England, to William Byeerhaw and Joan his wife for their contribution towards the conversion of the Greeks to the Roman church and of them far off from Christianity, of licence to choose a confessor empowered to give plenary absolution. [The deed is mutilated at one side, and missing words have been supplied, and this note is written at the foot: "This was eaten after it was transcribed, and is now arn ended(?) by the coppy."] [Endorsed with a form of absolution, partly effaced.] Dated 1440.

Letters patent of K. Hen. VI, dated at Westminster, 21 June, 30 of his reign (1452), being a pardon granted to the prior and convent of St Frideswide, Oxford. [Mutilated and partly illegible.]

Probate of the will of Robert Lethom granted in October, 1480 at Knoll (in Kent), by archbishop Thomas Bourchier ) to John Wetherley, executor.

Acknowledgment of the receipt of £251 gold florins 10s. and 6d. of Roman money due to the papal Chamber from Otton de Danel, abbot of the Benedictine monastery of ... in the diocese of Liége by George .... deputy chamberlain of pope Cal[ixti III]. Dated at Rome, 30 Jan., 1405.

Bond of £20 entered into by Roger Sharle alias Roger ... with Richard atte Helle of ... that he will have no communication by word or deed with Richard's wife or injure her good fame, or withdraw her from her husband. Dated on the feast of St. Gregory the pope, 10 Hen. VI. [Mutilated.]

Suffolk (?). Receipt by John Heydon for l00s., by the hands of John Bernard , in payment of rent due from Agnes, widow of ... Crane(?). Dated 20(?) February, 27 Hen. VI. [Slightly mutilated.]

Brief of pope Gregory [XII] to the archdeacon of Bedford, on complaint from the Master Custos, and chaplains of the church of Northyevell, Lincoln diocese ordering excommunication of persons robbing the church of its possessions. Dated 12 Kl. June, 2nd year of his pontificate (21 May 1408).

Certificate by Michiel le Poulletrer, keeper of the seal of bonds of the viscounty of Rouen , of a declaration made before John Gonel, notary, that John Wyth, an English esquire, was prisoner in the castle of Tremamsamme in Britany of a knight ... Mons. Morisse de Plusquollbare(?), where the deponent saw and spoke with him about three years before, and that he died a year and a half since, and that many knights and squires were present at his burial. Signed by ...(?) Dated Sunday, 9 Dec., 1436.