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THORNEY LESONS, SUFFOLK. Court rolls for the manor of Thorney Lesons from the Wednesday next after the feast of St. James, apostle, 1 Hen. VII. to Tuesday after feast of St. Peter, 7 Hen. VII.

Customs of the manor of Thorney Lesons, co. Suffolk, &c. and copies of charters; (beg. 16th century)

(a) Customs of the tenants of the manor, whether free or native, concerning their tenures.

(b) Avelina de Lucye grants to the church of St. Thomas the martyr of Lesnes and the canons there, for the health of her soul and for the souls of Richard de Luci her father and Richard Munfichet her son, 40s. of rent from her marriage-dowry of Thorney.

(c) Note of the appropriation of the church of Rammesden Belhouse to the abbot and convent of Lesnes.

(d) Notes of annual rents in Clopton, 50s. Pension of 26s. 8d. from the church of Rammesden Belhouse and 13s. 4d. from Steple Morden.

(e) Walkeline de Greinwyche grants to the abbot and convent of Lesnes one part of his land lying between the land of the church of St. Alphage, Greenwich, on the east, and one wall which descends to the cemetery in the way which extends to the Thames at the gate of St. Alphage; also one acre of land in Mulefelde between the land of the prior of Southwarke and of Adam, son of Gunnora ; and 2 [blank] and one parcel of land behind the church of Greenwich.