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COCKFIELD. Final concord, dated at Weston on the morrow of the Ascension, 33 Ed. I (1305), between Nicholas de Cokfeld, plaintiff, and Robert de Wytheringdenne and Margaret his wife, and John le Rede and Milicent his wife, deforciants, by which they acknowledge the right of the said Nicholas to ten acres of land in Cockfield (Cokfeld), for which the said Nicholas gives 40s.

(a) Sampson, the abbot, and convent of St. Edmund grant, in frankalmoigne, to the hospital of St. Saviour without the town of Bury St Edmunds (St. Edmund), the place upon which the said hospital is built, also £12 of silver from their village of Icklingham (Ykelingham) and two portions of their church of Long Melford (Meleford), also two portions of the demesne tithes of Worlingworth (Wirlingwrd), Monk Soham (Saham), Tilneie, Elmswell (Elmeswell), Elveden (Elvedene), Herringswell (Heringwell), Newton (Neuton), Cockfield (Cokefeld), and in the same village of Cokefeld annually 8 acres of corn the third portion of the demesne tithes of Pakenham (Pakynham), Rungeton, Tivetshall St Margaret or Tivetshall St Mary (Tifteshall), Culford (Culeford), Horringer [previously Horningsheath] (Horningesherth) and Chelsworth (Chelisworth); also they grant all the tithes of their new assarts in the villages of Redgrave and Rickinghall (Rekinghalle), and a third portion of the tithe of the marsh of Tilneie, also their houses of Teleforh, saving to the monastery an annual service of 2s., and to the canons 12d. (b) Confirmation of the above grant by John, bp. of Norwich; giving the names of the rector of all the aforenamed churches. Dated at Norwich by the hands of David de Ruddebi, 17 Kl. August, 6th year of his episcopate. (c) Confirmation of the same by S., the prior, and convent of Norwich. (d) Confirmation of by archbishop Boniface of the same. Dated at Bury St Edmunds (St. Edmund Bury), 12 Kl. March, 1266. Long roll of pleas and fines of the manors of the cellarer of St. Edmund , for the third year of S. de Wighal. [Temp. Hen. III.] (c. 1260-70?)