MS. Ch. Suffolk 21

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Grant; Fornham [All Saints], etc.; 1184-1211

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Language(s): Latin

Samson, the abbot of St. Edmund, grants to Henry, son of Thurstan, and his heirs, the mill called 'Salemundesforde,' with land and meadows customarily paying an annual rents of 27s., less 2d. to the abbot's hall at Fornham [All Saints]; to hold by free service, for the payment annually at the hall of Fornham of 30s.; also he grants eight acres at 'Hengrave (Hemegrethe)' at 2s., annual rent. (1184-1211.)

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Form: sheet
Support: parchment

Record Sources

W. H. Turner and H. O. Coxe, Calendar of charters and rolls preserved in the Bodleian library (Oxford, 1878) [annotated copy, Bodleian Library R.Ref.741], 472 [Google Books]

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Bibliography

    The Kalendar of Abbot Samson of Bury St Edmunds and Related Documents, ed. R. H. C Davis, Camden Society 3rd ser. 84 (1954), no. 58 (pp. 108-9)
    Rodney M. Thomson, The Archives of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Records Society 21 (1980), no. 50

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