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John Carpenter of Hopton St Margaret (Hopton) sells to sir John Wentworth, kt., all his right in a tenement, with a croft adjacent, lying in Hopton St Margaret (Hopton). Dated [day left blank] January, 7 Charles I.

Indenture made 17 Charles II, by which the 4 July, dean and chapter of Norwich demise to William Lockier of the precincts of the cathedral, notary public, their rectory, churchyard, glebe, and tithes of Hopton St Margaret (Hopton), for 21 years, at an annual rent of 53s. 4d., and certain wheat and malt.

Extract from the manor court roll of Lowestoft (Lowystoft). Temp. Jac. I. [Illegible.]

Richard Mighell of Great Yarmouth (Great Jernemuth) one of the sons of James Mighall, deceased, sells to John Cooke of Gunton for £9 one acre of land in Lowestoft, in the field called Northfield. Dated at Lowestoft, 1 May, 1 James, 1603.

Final concord, dated on the octave of St. Michael, 21 James I, between John Utber, gent., plaintiff, and Philip Hayward, gent., and Gislaham Wolhowse, gent., and Elizabeth his wife, defendants, concerning 80 acres of land and two acres of pasture in Lowestoft (Lowstoft), for which the plaintiff gives them £100.

Ellen Peereson of Great Yarmouth (Great Yarmuth, co. Norfolk), spinner, sells to Thomas Harman of Mutford, gent., and Hubert Cruxe the whole of a piece of land containing three roods in the village of Lowestoft (Leystoft). Dated at Lowestoft (Leystoft), 14 April, 1624.

William Stanton of Somerleyton (Somerleton), in consideration of the receipt of £594, grants to sir John Wentworth, kt., a messuage and lands in Somerleyton (Somerleton). Dated at Somerleyton (Somerleton), 30 Jan., 1628.

Indenture made 1 October, 3 James I (1605), by which John Wentworth of Somerleyton, esq., leases unto Felix Crane of Blythburgh (Blithburgh) and William Marks of Darsham, gent., his parsonage or benefice of Blythburgh (Blithburgh) for 10 years, at an annual rent of £45.

DUNWICH. Certificate of the bailiffs John Benifice and Francis Gray and burgesses, of Dunwich given to Thomas Mighells, jun. of Lowestoft (Leystoft), (reciting charter of K. John relieving the burgesses of Dunwich from toll, &c.,) and that the said Thomas Mighells is a burgess of Dunwich. Dated 10 Nov., 1678.

WESTHALL. Indenture dated 19 Charles II, by which the 5 June, dean and chapter of Norwich demise to Samuel Spendlove of Norwich, woollen draper, their impropriate rectory of Westhall for 21 years at an annual rent of £4 and certain wheat and malt.

Exchequer acquittance, dated 43 Elizabeth, to John Wentworth, esq., collector of the fifteenths and tenths for the hundreds of Loes Hundred (Loes), Carlford Hundred (Carleford), Colneis Hundred (Colnes), Thredling Hundred (Thredlinge), &c., &c., in the county of Suffolk.

Mandate from king James I to sir William Wentworth, kt., late sheriff of Suffolk, to deliver up his office, with the rolls, &c. belonging to the office of sheriff, to sir Henry Northe, kt. Dated at Westminster, 8 Nov., 17 James I (1619).

A dispensation from George, archbishop of Canterbury, to sir John Wentworth, kt., sheriff of Suffolk, and his wife, for the eating of flesh on feast days on condition of giving 13s. 4d. to the poor of his parish. Dated 17 February, 1618.

The order and award of Richard Jenkenson, Robert Glover, Charles Sucklinge, esquires, and Daniell Walters, gent., made 12 April, 19 James I (1621), between William Langton, the president, and fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, of the one part, and William Sydnor the younger of the other, respecting the manor of Caldecott Hall (Caldecote Hall). [Partly illegible.]

John Younges, senior, of Earsham (Earsham, Norfolk) in consideration of the receipt of £50, sells to Richard Burry of Bungay (Bungay in Suffolk), butcher, a tenement called Gildings in Bungay, with a barn and curtilage adjacent. Dated 9 April, 6 Charles I, 1630.

Illegible deed of Robert Battely's, temp. James I. Almost entirely effaced.

Francis Claxton of Wissett (Wisset), gent., in performance of certain covenants sells to Nicholas Batteley of Rumburgh (Romburgh), yeoman, a messuage &c. in Carlton Colville (Carleton Colvile). Dated 16 October, 4 James I (1606).

Memorandum from the court roll of the manor of Carlton Colville (Carleton Colvyle), dated 27 April, 7 James I (1609), concerning the grant of Francis Claxton to Robert Battelye.

Final concord, made at Westminster on the morrow of All Souls, 2 Charles I, by which John Codd and Mary his wife, Henry Coppinger and Sarah his wife, and Richard Burnell acknowledge that two messuages, one curtilage, two gardens, orchard, &c. and certain lands in Carlton Colville (Carleton Colvyle), Barsham, Ilketshall St Andrew (Ilkettishall St. Andrews), and Lowestoft belong to Robert London, sen., and Edmund Smith; for this fine the said Robert and Edmund gave to John and Marya, Henry and Sarah, and Richard, £100 sterling.

DENHAM. The inquisition post-mortem on sir Edward Lewknor, kt., taken at Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund) 22 January, 3 James I (1606).

KENTON. Francis Colby of Kenton, esq., remits and quit-claims to Nicholas Garneys of Little Redisham (Little Reddesham), and Charles Garneys his son, all his right to the whole of a mansion called Kenton (Kenton Hall in the parish of Kenton). Dated 27 March, 44 Elizabeth (1602).

Francis Colby of Kenton (Kenton, co. Suffolk), remits and quitclaims to Thomas Cleere of Stokesby and others, all his right in a capital messuage called Kenton (Kenton Hall in Kenton). Dated 23 Dec., 45 Eliz. (1602)

Indenture made 7 December, 3 Charles II (1662), that Thomas Freston of Mendham, in consideration of the receipt of £7. 3s. 3d., and an after-payment of £500, releases and confirms to Richard Freston of Mendham, esq., the tithes of the parishes of Mendham, Metfield, and Needham (Nedham) appertayning to the late dissolved monastery of Mendham.

Extract from the roll of the fifth court of Sicily Baxter, widow, of the admission of Thomas Freston to four pieces of land and one pictall in Mendham which John Hering had had. Thursday after feast of St. Faith, 12 Charles [I], 1636.

MUTFORD. Extract from the manor court roll, dated 1628; relating to land in Carlton (Carleton) formerly of the priory of Bronholme. [For the most part illegible.]