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AYLSHAM and FAKENHAM. Exchequer Constat extracted from the great roll of the pipe, [44 Edw. III], containing a grant of the manor of Wyghton with the hundred of Northgreneho and the manors of Aylesham and Fakenhamdam in co. Norfolk, the manor of Saham in county Cambridge, the manor of Whitgift, co. York, manor of Berton Bristol, co. Gloster, manor of Sevenhampton and Stratton, co. Wiltes, to Robert de Knolles and Constance his wife for the whole term of their lives at an annual rent of £745 7s. The acquittance is given to the prior and convent of Ely for £76 13s. 4d., being the reserved rent for a portion of the year due for the manor of Saham, co. Cambridge, committed to the said prior and convent, 26 Sept., [43 Edw. III], at a rent of £100 per annum.

AYLSHAM. Copy of the letters patent of Queen Elizabeth, granting a charter to and conferring privileges upon the town of Aylsham, parcel of the duchy of Lancaster. Dated at Westminster, 12 Feb., 2nd year of her reign [1560]. Written by William Flegg, clerk, in 1571 and signed by Lancelot Thexton, "pastor", Christopher Tucke, bailiff and six others.