MS. Ch. Suffolk 23

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Grant; Fornham, etc.; 1184-1211

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Language(s): Latin

[Fornham] Samson, the abbot of St. Edmund, grants to Ailmar, son of Ailward de Fornham, the mill which is called 'Ailmeres Heine' at a rent of 30s.; also a little meadow at the head of the mill-pond, [which mill used to pay an annual rent of 26s.] for which he is to render to the hall of Fornham the customary rent of seven ploughshares, with leave to have no ewer free from feldage, to hold the same by heirship. (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. 59 (p. 109)
    Rodney M. Thomson, The Archives of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Records Society 21 (1980), no. 44

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