MS. Ch. Suffolk 154

Display:: Demise; Bury St Edmunds; 1543

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Indenture made 31 January, 34 Hen. VIII (1543), by which John Swanton and Robert Sharpe, supervisors of the lands and tenements of late Margaret Odeham of Bury St Edmunds (Bury St. Edmund), with the assent of the alderman and brethren of the guild of the Purification of our Lady, have demised to Thomas Creme, brewer a piece of land in Bury St Edmunds (Bury) aforesaid in the field called Westgatefeld for 20 years, at an annual rent of 3s. 4d.

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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], 442 [Google Books]

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2020-10: First online publication