MS. Rolls Norfolk 83

Inrolment of charters and documents concerning the tithes, (&c.) of the abbey of Hulme, being duplicate copies of some of the documents on roll 82.

(a) Bull of Pope Innocent IV addressed to the abbot and convent concerning their privileges and possessions. Dated at Lyons, 12 Kl. June, 1248, and 6th year of his pontificate.

(b) Thomas, bp. of Norwich , confirms to the abbot and monks all the tithes of their manors which they by themselves or their farmers have peaceably enjoyed from the time to which the memory of man is not to the contrary. Dated at Norwich, the day of the Epiphany, 8th year of his episcopate.

(c) Confirmation and recital by Roger, the prior, and convent of the church of the Holy Trinity, Norwich, of the foregoing grant (b) of Thomas, bp. of Norwich .

(d) A second confirmation of the above tithes by Roger, the prior, and convent of Norwich. Dated at Norwich the Wednesday next after the feast of the Nativity of B.V.M., 1258.

(e) Judgment given by J. de Fereby in a suit promoted by Nicholas, the abbot, and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme, against Thomas, rector of the church of St. Margaret, Antingham , for subtraction of a pension of 20s. payable to the said abbot and convent. Dated in the old chapel of the bp. at Norwich the Monday next after the feast of the Ascension, 1291.

(f) Confirmation by William, bp. of Norwich , of the composition between Robert, the abbot, and convent of St. Bennet of Hulme, and Isabella, daughter of Robert de Castre , concerning two parts of the tithes of corn from the lordship of the said Isabella in Castre. Dated at Hoxne, Nones of September, 4th year of his episcopate.

(g) Convention between Robert, the abbot, and convent, and Isabella, daughter of Robert de Castre, concerning two parts of the tithes of corn of her lordship of Castre, viz. that the said abbot and convent remit all their right in consideration of an annual pension of 20s. sterling. Dated at St. Bennet of Hulme, 10 Kl. June, 1243.