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Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Octavo Publications. No. XXXI. 
 
 
 THE PEIOEY 
 
 OF 
 
 SAINT EADEaUND 
 
 CAMBEIDGE 
 
 BY 
 
 AETHUR GRAY, M.A. 
 
 FELLOW OP JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 When this publication was first projected I had hopes that 
 the portion of it relating to the buildings of the Nunnery 
 would have been, wholly or in part, furnished by my friend, 
 Mr T, D. Atkinson. Though Mr Atkinson's engagements have 
 prevented him from taking so large a part in the work as 
 was originally contemplated, I gratefully acknowledge the 
 assistance he has throughout given me both in exploration 
 of sites and buildings and in placing at my disposal his notes 
 and suggestions. 
 
 The extent of my indebtedness to the Architectural History 
 is, I hope, apparent in the section dealing with the Nunnery 
 buildings. But my principal obligation to the Registrary is 
 not of the kind that can be acknowledged in a footnote. 
 Without his suggestion this work would never have been 
 written; without the advantage of his counsel and knowledge 
 it would have been much more imperfect than it is. 
 
 Among other friends who have given me valuable help 
 are Prof. Maitland, Prof. Skeat, the Rev. J. H. Crosby, Minor 
 Canon of Ely, and the Rev. O. Fisher, Honorary Fellow of 
 Jesus College and Rector of Harlton. 
 
 The Catalogue of Charters here printed includes only such 
 as relate to property situated in the town and fields of 
 Cambridge. I have not deemed it worth while to give 
 abstracts of those which are concerned with the scattered 
 holdings of the Nuns in other places. The Catalogue remark- 
 ably supplements the very detailed information about medieval 
 Cambridge which is supplied by the Hundred Rolls. Com- 
 biningf what is to be learnt from each source it would be no 
 
VI PREFACE. 
 
 difficult task to make a very complete directory of the town in 
 the last quarter of the 13th century. The witnesses to the 
 Charters in most cases were the mayor and four bailiffs with 
 two or three occupants of property adjoining the tenement 
 in question. I have generally given the name of the first 
 witness only. 
 
 Extracts of some length from the Account Rolls were given 
 in the First Report of the Historical MSS. Commissioners: 
 the accounts in full are here printed for the first time. They 
 furnish some interesting materials for illustrating life in an 
 English Nunnery at the close of the middle ages. In the 
 earlier and more prosperous years to which they introduce 
 us, it is a life wholly untinged by the influences of the 
 University. The Nuns were drawn from the families of the 
 better class burgesses and lesser gentry of the county, and 
 their habits and education were those of their class. The 
 town and its religious houses still occupied in their outlook 
 a far larger space than the University. The ' good friendship ' 
 of the Chancellor — in a matter, perhaps, of arbitration with a 
 College — was appropriately recompensed in the year 1449 — 
 1450 with a present of a crane, value twelve pence; it is 
 set in quaint juxtaposition with the Christmas box to the 
 Mayor's waits, who receive the magnificent sum of 2s. Sd. The 
 proportion of the two sums is possibly an indication of the 
 relative consequence in the Nuns' thoughts of the academic 
 and municipal corporations, both of which, it may be observed, 
 had an origin long subsequent to that of their own establish- 
 ment. 
 
 On the debated subject of the date of the first emergence 
 of a University at Cambridge the S. Radegund's charters 
 throw no light. Among the variety of tenants mentioned in 
 the deeds of the 12th and loth centuries there is no individual 
 or corporation whose name or description suggests connection 
 with an organized community of scholars. The surnames of 
 the tenants previous to 1300 indicate that they were almosi 
 exclusively from the neighbourhood of Cambridge. Of migrants 
 from Oxford or scholars from over sea there is no hint ; the 
 
PREFACE. Vll 
 
 Jews were the only strangers to Cambridge with whom the 
 Nuns had acquaintance in those early days. A solitary 
 ' Scolemayster ' (Charters 157, 158), who dwelt hard by the 
 site on which Peterhouse afterwards rose, represents the 
 learning of Cambridge in the first years of the 13th century. 
 Possibly he was connected with a monastic school. 
 
 Before taking leave of my subject I should not forget to 
 mention two members of my College who have worked in the 
 same field in generations by-gone. John Sherman's History 
 of Jesus College (written about the year 1666) is introduced 
 by a sketch of the History of the Nunnery which he entitles 
 Reliquiae Sanctae Radegundis sive Fragmenta quaedam His- 
 toriae Prioratus. Sherman had made a faithful study of the 
 Nunnery muniments. He is generally accurate and, as he may 
 have had before him documents which are not now discoverable, 
 it is possible that he is right in some matters about which 
 I have supposed him to be mistaken. But I do not think 
 that since his time there has been any noteworthy subtraction 
 from the Jesus muniments. Well protected from damp, dust 
 and insects, they have probably profited by the neglect in 
 which they have generally lain for 200 years. About the middle 
 of last century their repose was disturbed by the careful hands 
 of Dr Lynford Caryl, who was Master of Jesus, 1758 — 1780, 
 and Registrary of the University from 1751 to 1758. He 
 arranged and catalogued them in a very exact and methodical 
 manner. Among his merits not the least was that of writing 
 in a very clear and beautiful hand. I have discovered some 
 fifty charters of Nunnery date which escaped his notice, but 
 none of them are of much importance. When the present 
 Treasury was built in 1875 and the documents were transferred 
 to it, some of them were misplaced, and for a time I supposed 
 them to be lost. But gradually all, or nearly all, those 
 mentioned in Dr Caryl's catalogue have found their way back 
 to their places. 
 
 ARTHUR GRAY. 
 
 Jesus College, 
 October, 1898. 
 
Fig. I. Sf:AL OF THE Pkioky. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 § 1. Foundation and connection with the See of Ely. 
 
 The establishment, near Cambridge, of the cell of Bene- 
 dictine nnns which was later known as the Priory of S. Mary 
 and S. Radegund seems to date from the earliest years of the 
 reign of King Stephen. There is no evidence to fix the precise 
 year of its institution but it is fairly certain that it falls within 
 the episcopate of Nigellus, who succeeded the first bishop, 
 Hervey, in the see of Ely in 1133, 
 
 The Priory seems to have had no charter of foundation, nor 
 is there any extant record of its first endowment. Such pro- 
 perty as it possessed in early days was acquired gradually and 
 in comparatively small parcels. Even the endowments which 
 it derived from royal benefactors such as the Countess Con- 
 stance and Malcolm of Scotland were not so important as to 
 entitle the donors to be regarded in any sense as founders or 
 patrons. 
 
 It is true that in the letters patent of Henry VII for the 
 dissolution of the Nunnery and the erection of the College in 
 its room it is asserted — evidently on the representation of 
 Bishop Alcock — that S. Radegund's Priory was ' of the founda- 
 tion and patronage of the Bishop, as in right of his cathedral 
 church of Ely.' This was, I believe, the first and only occasion 
 on which such a claim was advanced by a bishop of Ely, and, 
 having regard to the circumstances under which it was made, 
 I do not think that much importance should be attached to it. 
 In the charter which the Lady Margaret obtained, a few years 
 C. A. S. Octavo Seriea. 1 
 
2 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 later, from Henry VII for the conversion of S. John's Hospital 
 into the College of S. John it is similarly stated that the 
 House or Priory of religious brethren of S. John the Evangelist 
 in Cambridge was ' of the foundation and patronage of James 
 (Stanley), Bishop of Ely, as in right of his cathedral church.' 
 In this latter case the statement is historically inaccurate, for 
 the founder of the Hospital was unquestionably Henry Frost, 
 burgess of Cambridge, though Bishop Nigellus had been a 
 liberal benefactor to it and the Hundred Rolls show that, as 
 early as the reign of Henry III, Bishop Hugh de Norwold 
 claimed, as patron, the right of nominating the master. As 
 regards the Nunnery the full details supplied by the Ely 
 Episcopal Registers show that in the election of their Prioress 
 the Nuns exercised a free choice, unfettered by reference to 
 the wishes of a patron and subject only to the approval of the 
 Bishop of Ely as diocesan. The motive which prompted the 
 Bishops to assert their questionable claim to the patronage of 
 either establishment was perhaps a double one — to make it 
 clear to the King and to the Pope that no private rights of 
 patronage were invaded by the dissolution of an ancient 
 religious house, and to acquire for the Bishops of Ely, as 
 visitors of the new foundations, a guiding influence in the 
 development of the University. 
 
 Though the Nunnery was not perhaps, in strictness, 
 founded by a bishop of Ely it is clear that its origin and early 
 growth was intimately connected with the see and particularly 
 with Bishop Nigellus (1133-1169). It was he who endowed it 
 with a portion of the site on which the Nuns' original 'cell' 
 was raised ; of the principal benefactions to the newly estab- 
 lished house three were protected by his charters and it seems 
 likely that they were procured by his influence. Geoffrey 
 Ridel, who succeeded Nigellus in the bishopric in 1174, appro- 
 priated to the Nuns the rectory of All Saints in the Jewry, 
 Cambridge, and the connection with the see of Ely was main- 
 tained by Bishop Eustace (1197-1220), who gave the Nuns 
 additional lands adjoining the Priory and bestowed on them 
 the rectory of S. Clement's. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 3 
 
 § 2. Early charters. Grant of Bishop Nigellus. 
 
 The earliest in date of the Nuns' charters now extant in 
 the treasury of Jesus College is probably that of Bishop 
 Nigellus, addressed ' to all barons and men of S. Etheldrytha, 
 cleric or lay, French or English,' in which for a rent of twelve 
 pence he grants 'to the Nuns of the cell lately established 
 without the vill of Cantebruge' certain land adjoining land 
 belonging to the same cell (Charters, 1), The position of 
 the land given by the Bishop is not specified in the charter, 
 but it is safe to assume that it adjoined the cell and was 
 identical with the four acres which, according to the statement 
 of the Hundred Rolls (Vol. 2, p. 358), were given to the Nuns 
 by Nigellus and were next the ten acres given them by King 
 Malcolm as a site for their church. It is likely that the rent 
 reserved by the Bishop represented the full letting- value of 
 the land, since for the adjoining ten acres Malcolm stipulated 
 in his first charter for a rent of two shillings. At some later 
 date, Nigellus, like Malcolm, acquitted the Nuns of payment 
 of rent, for the Hundred Rolls state that the Bishop gave them 
 the land in pure and perpetual alms and show that they paid 
 no rent for any of the land which they occupied in the Priory 
 precincts. 
 
 There is nothing in this charter of Nigellus which would 
 warrant any definite conclusions as to its date. As the Bishop 
 did not die until 1169 it is of course possible that it is of later 
 date than Malcolm's grant, and that the land mentioned by the 
 Bishop as adjoining that which he gave to the Nuns and as 
 already in their tenure was in fact no other than Malcolm's ten 
 acre plot. The evidence of the Hundred Rolls might be held 
 to countenance this view, for they mention Malcolm's grant 
 before that of Nigellus and in such a way as seems to imply 
 that the jurors supposed the King's grant to be the earlier in 
 date '. On the other hand the vagueness of the description of 
 
 1 H. R. Vol. ri. p. 358. ' Item predicte Priorissa et Moniales tenent qnatuor 
 acras terre iacentes iuxta terram predictam (i.e. the ten acres given by King 
 
 1—2 
 
4 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 the Nunnery as a ' cell lately instituted ' is more consistent 
 with the view that the establishment was in an inchoate stage 
 and had received no distinctive title or dedication. In the 
 charters in which he confirms the endowments given by 
 William le Moyne and Stephen de Scalers Nigellus gives the 
 Nunnery the style, which after Malcolm's gift was the usual 
 one, of ' the Church and Nuns of S. Mary and S. Radegund.' 
 
 § 3. Oi^ant of William le Moyne and Confirmation 
 by King Stephen. 
 
 The earliest of the Nuns' charters which can be dated with 
 any precision is one given them by King Stephen confirming 
 to 'the Church and Nuns of S. Mary of Cantebr. the grant 
 made to them by William Monachus, aurifaher, of two virgates 
 of land and six acres of meadow with four cottars (cotariis) 
 with their holding in Shelford, in alms, for the soul of King 
 Henry and for the faithful in God ' (Charters, 2a). This 
 charter is tested by William Martel, the King's dapifer, who 
 played so prominent a part on the King's side in the struggle 
 with the Empress, and by Reginald de Warenne. It is un- 
 dated, but the circumstance that it was given ' apud Mapertes 
 halam in obsidione ' enables us pretty definitely to assign it to 
 the month of January 1138 and brings to light a historical 
 fact, unnoticed by chroniclers, to which attention was first 
 drawn by Mr Hewlett in his edition of the Gesta Stephani for 
 the Rolls Series {Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen &c. Vol. 3). 
 Mapertes hala is Meppershall, near Shefford, in Bedfordshire. 
 King Stephen, as the anonymous writer of the Gesta Stephani 
 records, kept the Christmas feast of 1137 at Dunstable, and 
 then ' emensis festivis diebus Dominicae festivitatis ' attacked 
 
 Malcolm) quam quidem terram habent de dono Nigelli Elyensis Episcopi qui 
 quidem Nigellus dedit eisdem in pura et perpetua elemosina. B. quondam 
 Prior Elyensis et Conventus Elyensis Ecelesie dictam donacionem eisdem moni- 
 alibus factam concesserunt et confirmaverunt.' The initial B. is apparently a 
 mistake : Bentham's list in his History of Ely, i^p. 215 foil., mentions no Prior 
 of Ely before the date of the H. R. whose name began with B. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 5 
 
 Bedford Castle, held by Milo de Beauchamp, who had refused 
 the King's summons to surrender it. Milo's obstinate resist- 
 ance compelled the King to turn the siege into a blockade, but 
 the castle was surrendered apparently about the middle of 
 January 1138, for by Feb. 2 the King had reached Northum- 
 berland, whither he had been called by an invasion of the 
 Scotch. ' The chronicles mention no such event as a siege at 
 Meppershall ; but there exists at the present day, close to the 
 church of this small Bedfordshire village, a high mound with a 
 double line of outer ramparts answering in the clearest way to 
 the type of the hastily-built, stockaded "castles" of this reign. 
 Stephen, it thus appears, had to capture this outpost, perhaps 
 during the siege of Bedford in 1138 \' 
 
 The grant of William Monachus which is confirmed by 
 Stephen's charter may have been made a year or two before 
 1138. King Henry I, whose soul it was designed to benefit, 
 died Dec. 1135. The land to which the charter refers is 
 situated in Great Shelford parish ; it is still in the possession of 
 Jesus College and known as ' the Nuns' lands.' The Domesday 
 Survey of Cambridgeshire shows that it formed a portion of a 
 larger estate consisting of three hides and valued at £5 annual 
 rent. In the Confessor's time it had belonged to ' Herald 
 Comes,' afterwards King Harold. After the Conquest it passed 
 into the hands of King William, of whom, at the time of the 
 Domesday Survey, it was held ad firmam by Peter de Valongies^ 
 who was apparently a kinsman of William Monachus, or le 
 Moyne, as his family was otherwise known ^. From a charter 
 
 1 The Meppershall earthworks are marked in the Ordnance Map as ' The 
 Hills.' Mr Seebohm, who gives a small plan of them in The English Village 
 Community, p. 426, supposes them to be of Saxon origin, possibly a ' toot-hill.' 
 Mr Hewlett compares this charter of King Stephen with another, dated 1138, 
 ' apud Goldintonam in obsidione Bedeford,' Goldington being a village a few 
 miles from Bedford. 
 
 " This Peter de Valongies, or Valoines, is said to have been a nephew of the 
 Conqueror, and was founder, circa 1104, of Biuham Priory, Norfolk. A Peter 
 de Selford was Prior of Binham in 1244. 
 
 '^ H. R. Vol. II. p. 545, 'Dicunt quod dominus Johannes le Moyne, ante- 
 cessor dicte Agnetis de Walene' dedit in puram et perpetuam elemosinam 
 
6 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 of Nicolas, son of William le Moyne, we gather that the 
 Shelford land came to his father by free gift of King Henry I. 
 Apparently it was bestowed on him in recognition of his 
 services and skill as an aurifaher, for he held it by goldsmith's 
 serjeanty, and at the date of the Hundred Rolls Inquisition 
 the lady Agnes de Valence retained a large portion of the 
 same estate by the singular service of making up and repairing 
 the King's crown when required \ 
 
 From the designation of the Nuns' establishment in 
 Stephen's charter as ' Ecclesia et Sanctimoniales Sancte Marie 
 de Cantebr.' it would seem that the original church which 
 was served by the Nunnery during the first twenty years of its 
 existence and either made way for or was incorporated in the 
 building which rose on the site given by King Malcolm was 
 dedicated to S. Mary only. After the foundation of the new 
 church the charters use the fuller style of ' Nuns of S. Mary 
 and S. Radegund.' But the church in strictness seems to have 
 kept the older single dedication even after Malcolm's time, for, 
 as late as 1285, a tenement in Radegund {i.e. Jesus) Lane is 
 described in a deed as lying ' in the parish of the Blessed Mary 
 of the Priory of S. Radegund.' The Priory apparently took its 
 name from a chapel of S. Radegund which is mentioned in an 
 early undated deed and which seems to have been in the 
 portion of the church reserved to the use of the Nuns. 
 Gradually the original dedication came to be forgotten, and in 
 
 Monialibus Sancte Eadegundis Ix acras terre ad sustinendum j noneam im- 
 perpetuum.' Antecessor here perhaps means no more than ' predecessor in 
 the title.' At the time of the Hundred Rolls Inquisition another John le Moyne, 
 distinguished by the local agnomen, Atteasse (i.e. at the Ash), was a free tenant 
 of the lady Agnes de Valence at Great Shelford. 
 
 ^ Red Booh of the Exchequer (Rolls Series), Vol. ii. p. 530, 'Willelmus 
 Monachus, iij hidas in Selforde per serjanteriam aurifabriae.' H. R. Vol. ii. 
 p. 545, ' Domina Agnes de Walaunc' tenet j messuagium cum gardino conti- 
 nente iij acras et viij"'' acras terre et de prato vj acras et tenet de domino Rege 
 in capite per sergantiam et non est geldabilis non debet sectam neque auxilium 
 Vicecomiti nichil aliud reddit set erit ultra (?) Coronam domini Regis quando 
 debet confici vel reparari et habebit totidem ij'' ad vadia sua,' &c. Domesday 
 affords several instances of royal grants of land to goldsmiths : see Freeman's 
 Norman Conquest, Vol. iv. pp. 41, 85, on the subject. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 7 
 
 later times both parish and Nunnery were commonly called 
 S. Radegund's, Evidence of the earlier dedication is to be 
 seen in the fact recorded in the Hundred Rolls that King 
 Stephen granted by charter to the Nuns a fair lasting for two 
 days, viz. the vigil and the feast of the Assumption of the 
 Blessed Mary. Fairs, as is well known, originated in most 
 cases in the gatherings of worshippers or pilgrims about sacred 
 places, and especially in the neighbourhood of religious houses, 
 and were held on the feast-day of the saint to whom the church 
 or shrine was dedicated. 
 
 The grant of William Monachus was confirmed to the Nuns 
 by Nigellus, but as the Bishop's charter (Charters, 2b) desig- 
 nates the Nunnery as dedicated to S. Mary and S. Radegund 
 it would seem that it was not given until many years after the 
 original grant. The long interval is accounted for by the 
 outbreak of the civil war in 1139. Nigellus, from his active 
 partizanship in the cause of the Empress, had little time to 
 attend to the affairs of his diocese, from which he was absent 
 with only brief intervals until his reconciliation with Stephen 
 in 1144, and until the accession of Henry II he is said to have 
 lived in retirement. His charter cannot be of much later date 
 than 1160, in or about which year died William (of Laventon), 
 the first archdeacon of Ely, whose name is among the witnesses, 
 and it can scarcely be so early as 1157, the earliest date to 
 which it is possible to assign Malcolm's first charter. 
 
 All the facts which are ascertainable about William 
 Monachus show that his relations with the Bishop were of an 
 intimate kind and point to the probability that the Bishop's 
 influence contributed to procure his benefaction to the Nuns. 
 The Historia Eliensis ^ reveals him to us as one of a group of 
 men, lay and cleric, who formed a Bishop's party in opposition 
 to the Ely monks, who favoured Stephen's side in the war and 
 had special grounds for complaint against the Bishop for 
 appropriating the funds of the convent and the treasures of 
 S. Etheldreda's shrine to defray the expenses entailed by his 
 
 1 This portion of the Historia Eliensis is printed (with abridgment) in 
 Wharton's Anglia Sacra, Vol. i. p. 615 foil. 
 
8 Ai^NALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 opposition to the King. Richard of Ely, the writer of this 
 portion of the Historia Eliensis, took the monastic side of the 
 quarrel and dwells with particular satisfaction on the exemplary 
 afflictions which overtook the Bishop and his confederates in 
 the spoliation. But William Monachus, we are told, lived to 
 make some amends for the sacrilege which is laid to his charge, 
 and the picture of his end is touched with a kindlier hand. 
 ' With axes, hammers and every implement of masonry he 
 profanely assailed the shrine and with his own hand robbed it 
 of its metal. But he lived to repent it bitterly. He, who had 
 once been extraordinarily rich and had lacked for nothing, was 
 reduced to such an extreme of poverty as not even to have the 
 necessaries of life. At last, when he had lost all and knew 
 not whither to turn himself, by urgent entreaty he prevailed 
 on the Ely brethren to receive him into their order, and there 
 with unceasing lamentation, tears, vigils and prayers deploring 
 his guilt, he ended his days in a sincere penitence.' He was 
 alive in 1153-4 when, along with Nigellus, he witnessed the 
 charter of the Countess Constance. 
 
 In the lifetime of William Monachus, and at his request, 
 his son Nicolas re-granted to the Nuns the land given them 
 by his father, which in the deed is stated to consist of 
 55 acres, together with 1\ acre of meadow and one acre 
 whereon to build barns and cattle-sheds ; and he further 
 promised five acres, for which they had petitioned, as soon as 
 he could get them. The Nuns however seem not to have 
 acquired undisputed possession of their property until Henry 
 III, 31, when John le Moyne, in consequence of an assize 
 trial at Cambridge, assigned to them in perpetual alms a 
 portion of the estate consisting of 50 acres. The Hundred 
 Rolls state that the Nuns' estate at Shelford consisted of 60 
 acres and was given to them by John le Moyne to maintain 
 one nun for ever. In this statement from the facts above 
 given it would appear that there is an error either in the 
 Christian name of the donor or in the number of the acres 
 given. Nor do I know how it is to be reconciled with a 
 deed of Edward I, 29, in which Agnes de Valence, lady of 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 9 
 
 Offaley and BailluelS renounced the claim to place two nuns 
 in the Priory, which she exercised in right of lauds held of 
 her by the Nuns in Great Shelford. Beyond ten acres held 
 by annual service to the Bishops of Ely the only land at 
 Shelford in the occupation of the Nuns was that derived 
 originally from William Monachus. 
 
 § 4. Grant of the Countess Constance. 
 
 The next in order of time of the Nunnery charters is that 
 of the Countess Constance, widow of King Stephen's only son, 
 Eustace of Boulogne. It grants to the Nuns in perpetual alms 
 exemption from hagable and langable for all their lands within 
 and without the Borough, whether already acquired or here- 
 after to be acquired, and also gives them all the fishing right 
 and water belonging to the Borough as freely as they had been 
 held by her husband and herself. The grant of the Countess 
 is for the souls of her husband, Eustace, and Stephen's Queen, 
 Maud, and for the good estate of King Stephen. Queen Maud 
 died in May, 1152, Eustace in August, 1153, King Stephen in 
 October, 1154. The charter therefore belongs to the period 
 between the last two dates. Two undated charters confirm 
 that of the Countess — the first given by King Stephen ' apud 
 Cantebrig,' the other by Bishop Nigellus. In all three charters 
 the Nuns are styled ' Sanctimoniales de Cantebrig,' without 
 dedication. 
 
 Independently of their relation to the history of the Nun- 
 nery these charters have a special interest in connection with 
 the subject of the firma hurgi of Cambridge. Hagable, i.e. 
 haga-gafol, a payment for a haiu or messuage in a town, and 
 langable, i.e. land-gafol, payment for land occupied by a 
 burgess in the common fields, formed an important part of the 
 customs {consuetudines) of the town. At the time of the 
 
 1 Philip of Valognes, Chamberlain of Scotland, had a grand-daughter, Lora, 
 who married Henry de Balliol, a cousin of King John Balliol. Offaley is OiHey, 
 near Hitchin, a manor which once belonged to the Balliols of Barnard Castle. 
 Bailleul, near Lille, was a fief of the same family. 
 
10 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 Domesday Survey the town of Cambridge formed part of the 
 royal demesne and its customs were farmed of the King by the 
 sheriff. It is doubtfully asserted by Cooper^ that the farm of 
 the borough was granted to the burgesses, as the King's 
 tenants in capite, by Henry I, they paying to him the same 
 sum as the sheriff had been accustomed to render. If such a 
 grant was actually made it seems to have terminated with the 
 life of that King, and the concession of immunity from hagable 
 and langable which Constance made to the Nuns clearly implies 
 that in Stephen's reign the fee-farm belonged to her husband 
 and herself. The alienation in perpetuity to the Nuns of a 
 portion of the customs shows that the fee-farm had been 
 granted to the heirs of Eustace and Constance as well as to 
 themselves. There were however no children of the marriage, 
 and in the early years of Henry II the borough was again in 
 the King's possession and farmed by the sheriff. In 1185 it 
 was granted to the burgesses at farm by Henry II and con- 
 tinued to be farmed by them in the reign of Richard I^. When 
 the fee-farm of the borough was granted to the burgesses in 
 perpetuity by King John in 1207 the rights acquired by the 
 Nuns from Constance seem to have suffered some curtailment. 
 The immunity from hagable for lands ' hereafter to be acquired ' 
 could hardly extend to property acquired subsequently to the 
 transfer of the hagable rental to the burgesses, and it is there- 
 fore not surprising to find from the Great Inquisition of 
 Edward I in 1278 and the Nuns' accounts in 1449-50 and 
 1481-2 that they were then charged with certain hagable 
 rents. Moreover King John's charter expressly included among 
 the appurtenances of the Burgus ' mills, pools and waters ^,' 
 and it is certain that at the date of the Hundred Rolls Inquisi- 
 tion the Nuns had no exclusive rights in the river waters, for 
 the jurors affirmed that the burgesses then had a common 
 piscaria in the common waters belonging to the vill of 
 Cambridge. Nevertheless the charter of Constance was not 
 inoperative, for it is rehearsed and confirmed in a charter of 
 
 1 Cooper, Annals, Vol. i. p. 22. 
 
 2 Ibid. pp. 28, 29. 3 ma. p. 33. 
 
ANNALS OP THE NUNNERY. 11 
 
 Edward II, dated in the seventh year of his reign (Charters, 8). 
 The fishing rights claimed by the Nuns seem however to have 
 been limited to a certain portion of the river, beyond the 
 limits of the old borough, which as late as 1505 was known 
 as Nunneslake. A sixteenth century list of the Nuns' muni- 
 ments describes the charter of Edward II, above mentioned, 
 as 'a grant of y® fishinge alonge by Jesus Gieene.' In 1505 
 it was decided that the fishing in Nunneslake belonged to the 
 town. 
 
 It is probable that the fee-farm of Cambridge was held by 
 Constance in right of dower. Cambridge was among the towns 
 usually assigned in dower to the Queens of England and other 
 ladies of the royal family \ Queen Catharine, consort of 
 Charles II, was the last English Queen who held the fee-farm 
 of Cambridge. Except in the case of Constance the settlement 
 seems always to have been for life. King Stephen had en- 
 deavoured to get his son Eustace crowned in 1152, and, though 
 he failed in this purpose, Constance is said in after times to 
 have borne the title of Queen I The title Venerahilis given to 
 her in the charter of Nigellus is probably a quasi-recognition 
 of her claim to be regarded as Queen. It was applied to 
 French kings (v. Ducange, s.v.) and more especially (with the 
 variant Veneranda) to queens of the Norman period : e.g. 
 Sarum Charters (Rolls Series) p. 17, 'Adelizae venerandae et 
 illustris Angliae reginae cancellarius.' 
 
 I 5. First Charter of King Malcolm IV. The Greneci^oft 
 
 site. 
 
 The first charter of King Malcolm IV, which is the next in 
 order of date, is addressed " to all his men cleric and lay of the 
 Honour of Huntedon" and gives to the Nuns of Grantebrige ten 
 acres of land next Grenecroft in alms and to found (ad fun- 
 dendam) thereon their church ; it reserves to the King a rent 
 
 ^ See Cooper's Annals under the years 1235, 1353, 1465, 1495. 
 2 Stubbs, Const. Hist. Vol. i. p. 341. 
 
12 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 of two shillings, which his minister is directed to offer at the 
 altar of the same church. The charter is dated ' apud Hunted ' 
 and still has attached to it in white wax the royal seal bearing 
 on the obverse side the figure of a king enthroned, on the 
 reverse a mounted warrior. The Honour, or earldom, of 
 Huntingdon which included the county of Cambridge was 
 conferred on Malcolm in the latter half of 1157. Among the 
 witnesses is Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow, who died 1164. 
 Sherman in his MS. HistorHa Gollegii Jesu (written tevip. 
 Charles II) states that among the College archives he had 
 seen a charter of Theobald, Archbishop of Canterbury, con- 
 firming Malcolm's grant. No such charter is now extant nor 
 is it included in the oldest registers of the Nunnery deeds, 
 though as these early registers (written temp. Queen Elizabeth) 
 are by no means complete the fact that it is not contained in 
 them must not be taken as conclusive that it did not then 
 exist. Sherman possibly had in mind an inspeximus of Arch- 
 bishop Stephen Langton (Charters, 4<d) which confirms charters 
 of Theobald, Becket and Nigellus, though it does not connect 
 them with Malcolm's gift. But as Becket's charter, which is 
 still extant, mentions ' in particular (noniinatim) the King of 
 Scotland's grant' Sherman was in any case probably right in 
 assuming that Theobald's referred to the same matter. As 
 Theobald died in 1161 the years 1157-1161 mark the limits 
 within which it is possible to date Malcolm's charter. 
 
 There is no extant charter of Nigellus confirming Malcolm's 
 benefaction, but the charter of Thomas Becket above referred 
 to is still in the College treasury. It was apparently written 
 in the lifetime of Malcolm, for he is mentioned in it merely as 
 ' Rex Scocie,' without name. Its date therefore falls between 
 1162, when Becket became archbishop, and 1165, the year of 
 Malcolm's death. It pretty certainly refers to Malcolm's earlier 
 charter for in it the Nuns are described simply as -' Sanctimo- 
 niales de Cantebrug\' 
 
 ^ Becket's charter is witnessed by Eobert, Archdeacon of Oxford (i.e. 
 Becket's friend, Rob. FoUot, afterwards Bishop of Hereford), Philipp' de Caun 
 (i.e. of Calnc, Becket's manciple and co-exul in 1165-6), Herbert de Boseliam 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 13 
 
 This charter of Malcohn is the earliest which specifies the 
 position of the Nunnery as being ' next Grenecroft,' though 
 the probability is that it had been established there from the 
 first. Grenecroft, now generally called Midsummer Common, 
 lies wholly within the parish of S. Andrew, Barnwell, and 
 outside the limits of the original borough of Cambridge, 
 whence we find the Nunnery frequently described as being 
 ' near ' or ' without ' the borough. In part at least it consisted 
 of marsh land and from the earliest historical times it appears 
 to have been the common pasture land of the townsmen of 
 Cambridge. The district which bounded it on its western side, 
 in S. Clement's parish, went by the name of Hulmus, 'the 
 holm,' or island ; its eastern extremity towards Barnwell Priory 
 was called Estenhale. On its southern side it was skirted by 
 the higher ground traversed by the road entering Cambridge, 
 from the direction of Bury S. Edmund's, which at different 
 points of its course was known as Barnwell Causey and Rade- 
 gund's or Nuns' Lane. The ground occupied by the Nunnery 
 and its precincts, called Nunnescroft, had for its boundaries 
 the road, the common and the King's Ditch. A portion of it 
 adjoining the angle made by Jesus Lane with Park St. was 
 anciently known as Eldestedecroft, a name which occurs in 
 deeds as late as the 16th century. Though the Nunnery was 
 outside the borough limits it is never described as being in 
 Barnwell. The Nuns were sometimes called ' Nuns of Grene- 
 croft' but there is no direct evidence to show that the sites 
 given by Nigellus and Malcolm had formed a portion of the 
 common land. But there is at least a likelihood that they had 
 been obtained by encroachment on the pasture land of Grene- 
 croft. Both S. John's Hospital and Barnwell Priory were 
 built on common land ^ 
 
 (Becket's well-known friend and biographer), and Eobert and William, chaplains 
 (probably Becket's chaplains, Eobert of Merton and William Fitz-Stephen, who 
 were with him at the time of his murder ; the latter wrote a biography of 
 Becket). For references see the indices to the Materials for the Life of Becket 
 in the EoUs Series. 
 
 1 The charter of Henry I which granted to Pain Peverel the site of Barnwell 
 Priory describes it as ' locum quemdam in campis Cantebrigie iacentem circa 
 
14 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 § 6. Second Charter of King Malcolm IV. Dedicatio7i 
 to S. Radegund. 
 
 The second charter of King Malcolm, which re-affirms the 
 former and releases the Nuns from payment of the annual rent 
 of two shillings as well as all secular service, is dated, like the 
 earlier one, ' apud Hunted.' It is tested among others by 
 Engelr[am], the Chancellor, and Nicolas, the Chamberlain. 
 Engelram, who was Chancellor under King David I and con- 
 tinued in the office under Malcolm, succeeded Herbert as 
 Bishop of Glasgow in 1164\and Nicolas was Chamberlain from 
 1160 or 1161 to 1165^ As the charter does not give Engelram 
 the title of Bishop we shall probably be right in dating it 
 between the years 1160-1164. 
 
 This second charter of Malcolm seems to be the earliest in 
 which the Nunnery has the title 'of S. Mary and S. Kadegund.' 
 We may conclude that the building of the church had at this 
 time made such advance that the chapel of S. Radegund 
 already referred to (which was perhaps in the Norman North 
 transept adjoining the dormitory) was completed and had 
 received its dedication. The new ascription to S. Radegund 
 is significant. In 1159 Malcolm with a Scottish army crossed 
 the sea to aid King Henry II in his expedition against Toulouse. 
 At Poitiers he joined the English King and was honourably 
 entertained by him. Poitiers was then, as it still is, the special 
 centre of the cult of S. Radegund, who had there established her 
 celebrated Abbey of the Holy Cross. Malcolm's visit to 
 Poitiers so closely preceding his second charter seems to be 
 connected with the dedication given to the chapel which he 
 had been instrumental in raising ^ 
 
 fontes Bernewelle... habendum in sicco et marisco a platea usque in Eiveriam 
 cle Cantebrigia secundum quod Curia eorum in longum extenditur.' (Barnwell 
 Liber Memorandorum. ) The jurors at the time of the Hundred Eolls Inquisi- 
 tion were unable to say how King Malcolm acquired the site of the Nuns' church, 
 ' qualiter autem dictus Rex Maucolmus pervenit ad dictam terram nesciunt.' 
 [H. R. Vol. 11. p. 358.) 
 
 1 Keith's Scottish Bishops. ^ Exchequer Eolls of Scotland, Vol. ii. p. cxviii. 
 
 ^ The parish churches of Scruton (Yorks.) and Grayingham (Lines.) are 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 15 
 
 § 7. Grant of Stepheri de Scalariis and later benefactions. 
 
 Between the two charters of King Malcolm should probably 
 be placed the grant of 80 acres of land ' cum quodam managio ' 
 in West Wratting, made by Stephen de Scalariis and his wife, 
 Juliana, on placing their daughter, Sibil, in the Nunnery. This 
 land is stated to be given in perpetual alms, free from all 
 services and customs ' prefer Danegild regis solummodo ^' It 
 formed part of large estates in the neighbourhood of West 
 Wratting which at the date of Domesday were held by Harduin 
 de Scalers I Bishop Nigellus confirmed this grant in a charter 
 which includes S. Radegund in the dedication but cannot be 
 later than 1161, as among the witnesses is William (of Laven- 
 ton). Archdeacon of Ely, whose death, as before stated, occurred 
 in 1160 or 1161. The West Wratting land is still the property 
 of Jesus College. 
 
 It is unnecessary to record in detail the successive benefac- 
 tions which followed those of Malcolm and Stephen de Scalariis. 
 By far the larger number of the acquisitions evidenced by the 
 Nuns' muniments consisted of houses and lands in the town 
 and fields of Cambridge. Outside the town limits they held 
 property in the county of Cambridge at West Wratting, Weston 
 (Col vile). Little Abington, Littlington, Bassingbourn, Great 
 Shelford, Trumpington, Madingley, Barton, Long Stanton, 
 Hokington, Caxton, Crawden and Ely; in Essex at Little 
 Walden, Steventon, Ashdon, Bartlow, Berden, Little Chetham 
 and Thundersley ; in Lincolnshire at Rippingale. Nearly all 
 
 dedicated to S. Radegund; those of Pestling (Kent) and Whitwell (Isle of 
 Wight) to S. Mary and S. Radegund. Bradsole Abbey, near Dover, founded 
 1191, was dedicated to S. Radegund, as was also the house of Trinitarian 
 Friars at Thelesford, co. Warwick. There was a chapel of S. Radegund in old 
 S. Paul's, London. 
 
 1 ' In 1163 the ancient Danegild disappears from the Pipe Rolls.' Stubbs, 
 Const. Hist. Vol. i. p. 582. 
 
 " Before the enclosure of the parish of West Wratting in 1808 one of the 
 manors which it contained, of which the Master and Fellows of Peterhouse were 
 lords, was called Escaliers or Charles. The so-called manor belonging to Jesus 
 College was called ' le Great Nuns.' 
 
16 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 these grants are of very early date, most of them belocging to 
 the 13th century. Nearly all were of inconsiderable value 
 and many of them had been alienated before the end of the 
 13th century. A few of the more interesting benefactions 
 deserve more particular mention, 
 
 E,oger fitz Hugh of Clencwareton in an early undated 
 charter confirms the gift which his father had made to the 
 Nuns of an annual rent of three coombs {cumbas) of salt out 
 of a salina at Lynn, called Heveckescote. In the time of the 
 Prioress Letitia the Nuns had acquired one half of this salina, 
 which they granted for an annual rent of three octodali^ of salt 
 to one Bartholomew fitz Ralf. 
 
 One of the principal benefactors to the Nunnery in its early 
 days was Hervey Dunning, generally called Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 His name, either as a benefactor or as a witness to the grants 
 and indentures of others, is of more frequent occurrence than 
 any other in the Nuns' muniments; the deeds in which it occurs 
 belong to the reign of John and the early part of that of Henry 
 III. He belonged to one of the oldest burgher families of 
 Cambridge. A Gilbert son of Dunning is one of the witnesses to 
 Constance's charter, and several generations of the family may 
 be traced in the Hundred Rolls, which attest that Hervey 's 
 grandfather, Dunning, derived his title to the large estates which 
 he held in Cambridge 'per anticum successum antecessorum 
 suorum.' The bulk of these estates at the time of the Hundred 
 Rolls had become the property of the Scholars of Merton. The 
 social status of the family is sufficiently indicated by the fact 
 that it enjoyed the then exceptional dignity of occupying a 
 'stone house,' which is doubtless to be identified with the 
 ancient Norman dwelling-house known as the 'School of Pytha- 
 goras.' One of the Nuns' deeds shows that as late as 1342 a 
 tenement in S. Giles' parish was called Dunnyngistede and 
 was then in the possession of Thomas, son of Sir John de 
 Cambridge. Hervey witnesses two deeds in the capacity of 
 
 1 Octodalus = a, coomb, or half a quarter, in 13th century English called an 
 eytendele. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 17 
 
 ' alderman V and to two others his seal is appended bearing 
 the impression of a mounted knight and the legend SIGILL. 
 HERVEI FiLii EVSTACHii. He was a benefactor of Barnwell 
 Priory and of S. John's Hospital, and gave to the latter seven 
 acres in the fields of Chesterton, the Hospital granting him in 
 return ' duo grabata cum pannis ad ilia necessaria ad opus 
 infirmorum in dorao nostra lapidea^' When the new chapel 
 of the Hospital was built he gave to the Nuns of S. Radegund 
 a rent of 12d. out of land in S. John's parish, Milne St., in 
 part recompense of any loss of parish dues which might be 
 occasioned to their church of All Saints in Jewry (Charters, 180). 
 Hervey had a sister, Roda, who had taken the veil in the 
 Nunnery, and with her he gave to the Nuns many houses and 
 lands scattered in the parishes and fields of Cambridge 
 (Charters, 362). By another deed he granted them 10 acres 
 in Cambridge fields for the soul of his deceased wife, Beatrice 
 (Charters, 330). 
 
 Contemporary with Hervey fitz Eustace was Walter de 
 Lindsey, who, with his wife Bertha ^ gave to the Nuns the 
 
 1 Doubtless of the Gild Merchant of Cambridge, which was granted to the 
 burgesses by King John in the second year of his reign. The alderman was the 
 chief officer of a gild. (Gross, The Gild Merchant, Vol. i. p. 79.) Until the 
 Municipal Corporations Act of 1835, when the Corporation of Cambridge as- 
 sumed the title of ' The Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses,' their official style 
 was ' The Mayor, BailiiJs and Burgesses.' In Latin deeds the borough alder, 
 men are always ballivi, and in the oldest the mayor is ccqntalis or major 
 ballivus. In the Nuns' deeds the earliest mention of a mayor is in 1258, when 
 Eobert de S. Edmundo was major ballivus. 
 
 ^ Kilner's School of Pythagoras, p. 31. 
 
 3 Possibly this Bertha de Lindsey may be identified with the Bertha whose 
 coffin-lid on the floor of the south transept of the College Chapel bears the 
 well-known inscription, 
 
 Moribus ornata jacet hie bona Berta rosata. 
 
 It has been a little too hastily assumed that this good lady was a Nun, but 
 Nuns' graves were generally uninscribed. Sherman has a story about a Nun's 
 gravestone in the College Chapel which is worth repeating, as it is not printed 
 in Halliwell's edition of the Historia. In the year 1609 died in his 90th year 
 a fellow of the College, Robert Landesdale, who had dwelt within the College 
 walls as a fellow for no less than 58 years, and had been admitted in the reign 
 of Henry VIII, in 1546. When his grave was being made in the Chapel an 
 ' urna lapidea' was dug up, enclosing the 'ashes' of a Nun. 'So,' says 
 
 G. A. S. Octavo Series. 2 
 
18 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 homage of Ralf le Feutrer and a rent of four shillings paid 
 by the said Ralf out of a messuage in Trinity parish ; also a 
 messuage at Sarandscroft, opposite the Nunnery. To him and 
 to his wife, Bertha, the Nuns (Letitia, Prioress) leased a house 
 newly built and finished, in Cambridge, for the term of their 
 lives, with the singular stipulation that the rent should be two 
 shillings until the said Walter should return from his pilgrim- 
 age to Jerusalem, but that if he died there it should be 
 increased to six shillings so long as his wife lived. 
 
 Among the benefactors of the Nunnery occur the names of 
 several members of the family of de Trumpitune. A deed of 
 Sir Roger de Trumpitune, whose brass in Trumpington church 
 is dated 1289, releases to the Nuns free entry to certain land 
 of theirs in Trumpington fields, for which they are to pay him 
 a rent of 2 lbs. of cumin, and two shillings, as relief, at each 
 change of Prioress. Another member of the family, Hervey 
 de Trumpitune, grants to them a rent of two shilliogs along 
 with his daughter, Margaret. Another once important Trum- 
 pington family was that of Cayli. Ralf de Kailli at a very 
 early date gave the Nuns 30 acres there, and Simon de Cayli, 
 for the soul of his wife, who was buried in S. Radegund's 
 church, gave them an acre at Wyrtones diche. 
 
 Sherman, ' the fellows of the College, who living are to this day maintained 
 by the Nuns' revenues, in death come to be buried in the same tombs with 
 them.' In the audit accounts for 1608 — 9 there is an entry, ' Keceaved...for a 
 coffin stone diged out of y« chappell at y^ making of M"" Landesdales grave, 
 vj8 viijii.' Elsewhere Sherman says that an 'urn,' bearing the inscription 
 ' Moribus,' &c., was dug up and desecrated ' by foul and sacrilegious hands ' 
 (i.e. by William Dowsing), in 1644. It contained the skeleton of a Nun, which 
 ' fell to dust and ashes ' on being touched. Sherman supposes Bertha to have 
 been professed in S. Eadegund's Nunnery a short time before its dissolution, 
 but the lettering of the stone is of a 13th century type. The date, 1261, in 
 Arabic numerals, which the stone now bears, is an addition seemingly of the 
 17th century. I do not know what evidence there is for fixing Bertha's death 
 in that particular year. The inscription, it may be noted, is plagiarized from 
 a similar epitaph, given in Weaver's Funeral Monuments, p. 242 (ed. 1631), on 
 Bertha, the Kentish queen, whose marriage with Ethelbert brought Christianity 
 into England : 
 
 Moribus ornata jacet hie regina beata 
 
 Bertha, &c. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 19 
 
 John Porthors^ a wealthy townsman of Cambridge, temp. 
 Edward I, gave, with licence, to the Nuns 7^ acres dispersedly 
 lying in Cambridge fields. He also bestowed on them a 
 yearly rent of 13'*. out of a messuage in All Saints' parish 
 near the Hospital, for the health of his soul and for the souls 
 of his father, John de Berton, and his mother, Agnes, and that 
 his father's soul might not be imperilled by reason of his 
 having retained a yearly rent of two shillings customably due 
 to the Nuns out of a messuage in S. Clement's parish. 
 
 About the same period William Sueteye gave the Nuns a 
 messuage in S. Andrew's parish ; the moiety of a messuage and 
 croft in S. Kadegund's parish to maintain a lamp in the chapel 
 of S. Radegund ; a rent of eight shilliugs out of certain land 
 in the market for a lamp in the Nuns' choir, wheresoever the 
 choir should be ; and 32|^ acres in Cambridge fields. 
 
 John de Trippelowe, alias de Dicton, rector of Herdewyk, co. 
 Cambr., was the latest considerable benefactor of the Nuns. He 
 had been appointed in 1325 by the Prioress to the rectory of 
 Reymerston, co. Norfolk, which he exchanged in 1340 for that 
 of Hardwick. A Richard de Dicton was presented by the 
 Nuns to S. Clement's in the latter year. They seem to have 
 been sons of Master Henry de Trippelowe, who figures in some 
 of the Nuns' deeds in connection with them, and who was 
 alderman of the gild of S. Mary in 1321 2. John de Trippelowe, 
 with licence dated Edw. Ill, 5, gave the Nuns seven messuages 
 in the parish of S. Radegund, one in the parish of S. Andrew 
 without Barnwell gate, and eight acres in Cambridge and 
 Barnwell fields. Many other grants of property, mainly 
 situated in S. Radegund's parish, were made by him in the 
 reign of Edward HI. The last deed in which his name occurs 
 is dated 1349, when he seems to have died, as a new rector 
 
 1 The name Portliors = a breviary, portiforium, portos, as Chaucer spells it. 
 The names Lominor (the Illuminator) and Parehemeniere, which occur in the 
 Nuns' deeds, are evidence that the trade of book-producing was early established 
 in Cambridge. John Porthors occupied a stone house at the corner opposite 
 to S. Sepulchre's Church, for which he paid a rent of 2| marks to Barnwell 
 Priory (Barnwell Liber Memorandorum). 
 
 2 Master, History of Corpus Christi College, p. 9. 
 
 2—2 
 
20 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 was appointed to Hardwick in June 1349. After the visitation 
 of the Black Death in that year the Nuns received no consider- 
 able accessions of property. 
 
 § 8. Advowsons of the Nuns. The Parish of S. Radegund. 
 
 The rectories and advowsons in the possession of the 
 Nunnery were all obtained at an early period of its history. 
 It will be convenient first to sketch the history of the parish 
 church of S. Radegund, although its actual appropriation to 
 the Nuns was not earliest in date. Sherman states that the 
 rectory of the parish church of S. Radegund was appropriated 
 to the Nuns about the year 1291, a yearly pension of forty 
 shillings, to be paid by them, being reserved to the Vicar of 
 All Saints', and he adds that at the same time the parish of 
 S. Radegund was united with that of All Saints, from which it 
 was anciently parted by the King's Ditch \ But I can find no 
 authority for the date given for the appropriation, and Sherman 
 is clearly mistaken as regards the union of the two parishes. 
 After 1291 they were never in any sense united so long as the 
 Nunnery existed. The Nunnery deeds bear witness that, from 
 the middle of the 13th century to within a very few years of 
 the dissolution of the Priory, tenements in Radegund Lane on 
 and adjoining the Nuns' croft were regularly described as being 
 in the parish of S. Radegund, and after the foundation of the 
 College and the dedication of the church to the Name of Jesus 
 tenements are similarly described as being in Jesus parish ^ 
 Long after the College had taken the place of the Nunnery, 
 in fact down to the middle of the present century, the Audit 
 books, in which the receipts from house rental in Cambridge 
 are classed together according to parishes, though they do not 
 
 1 Cole makes a similar statement : ' Anno 1291, ut videtur, ecelesia paro- 
 chialis in monasterio S. Eadegundis Cantabrigiae appropriatur Priorissae et 
 Conventui et regitur per capellanum. MSS. Wren 242, 8.' Add. MSS. 5820. 
 
 - The latest mention that I have observed of Jesus parish is in an agree- 
 ment between Corpus Christi College and Jesus College, dated Edward VI. 6, 
 i.e. 1552. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 21 
 
 make a separate heading for the parish of S. Radegund yet 
 distinguish houses in venella Jesu from those in parochia 
 Omnium Sanctorum. 
 
 Nor was this distinction merely a civil and local one. 
 There is ample evidence that the Nuns' church, and afterwards 
 the chapel of the College in its earlier days, served all the 
 purposes and had all the privileges attaching to a parish 
 church. At the end of the Register of Bishop Gray of Ely 
 (1454 — 1478) under the heading 'Nomina Patronorum Eccle- 
 siarum et Vicariarum ' it is recorded that ' Ecclesia parochialis 
 in monasterio S. Radegundis, Cant., appropviata est eisdem 
 Priorisse et Conventui et regitur per capellanum parochialem.' 
 In the accounts of Agnes Banastre, treasuress in 1450 — 1451, 
 there is mention of a cover for the font, ' et in factura unius 
 coopertorii pro le font ecclesie Sancte Radegundis, vj'^\' When 
 Bishop Alcock destroyed the western portion of the nave, 
 which served the parishioners as their church, in place of the 
 old west door he made a new door for their use near the 
 south-west corner of the shortened nave\ In the Statutes 
 which Bishop Stanley gave to the College in 1514, cap. 19 (de 
 Curato) it is ordained that one of the Fellows shall be annually 
 elected Curate of the parish church of S. Radegund annexed 
 to the College, to have the cure of souls of all dwelling there, 
 to administer sacraments and sacramentals and to receive for 
 his pains as the Master and Fellows may determine. The 
 farmers of the dominical lands adjoining the College retained 
 
 1 The authors of the Architectural History of Cambridge, Vol. ii. p. 173, 
 regard this door as intended for the private use of the Master of the College, 
 on whose garden it now opens. But the statutes of Bishop Stanley, cap. 28, 
 show that in 1512 the ground on the south side of the Master's lodge was not 
 enclosed as a garden, for the Master was thereby empowered either to enclose 
 or to build upon it at his own charges. And in 1592, when Hammond's plan 
 of Cambridge was made, the Master's garden did not extend so far east as the 
 door in question. The eastern portion of the area now comprised in the 
 Master's garden is described in the early Audit accounts as ' the churchyard ' 
 or ' garlicke faire close,' and was parted from the original garden of the Lodge 
 by a mud wall, which is mentioned in a lease of 1555. In the Audit accounts 
 for 1558 is a payment for ' 24 dised nailes for y" churche yard dore xij'^' Burials 
 in ' Jesus churchyard' are mentioned as late as 1543. 
 
22 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 the right of attending the College church so late as the reign 
 of Queen Mary, for in a lease of the Radegund Manor, dated 
 1555, it is covenanted that 'bothe the colledge and the vicare 
 of Alhallows shall suffer hereafter the farmers to come and 
 frequent the colledge church to hear their divine service, 
 accordinglie as it is specified in a payre of indentures betweene 
 the sayde m^ and fellows and the sayde vicare, except it be in 
 the plaigue tyme.' This covenant is not repeated in later 
 leases of the Manor, and from the fact that the farmers' privilege 
 of attending the College church was then protected by covenant 
 and indenture we may suppose that even in 1555 it was 
 considered obsolescent. 
 
 There is no direct evidence, so far as I am aware, either to 
 establish or disprove the date, 1291, which Sherman gives for 
 the appropriation of S. Radegund's rectory to the Nuns. The 
 Hundred Rolls indeed, though they expressly state that the 
 churches of All Saints and S. Clement were so appropriated, 
 say nothing about the appropriation of S. Radegund's, whence 
 it might be inferred that it had not taken place in 1278. But 
 the fact that the church was conventual is sufficient to account 
 for the omission of S. Radegund's from the record of the 
 spiritual possessions of the Nunnery. Probably it was appro- 
 priated to it from its first existence as a parish church. 
 
 I have shown that the parish of S. Radegund was un- 
 doubtedly not united to that of All Saints after the middle 
 of the 13th century ; it may be concluded with almost equal 
 certainty that S. Radegund's parish had no separate existence 
 before that time. Tenements near the Nunnery are not described 
 in the oldest deeds as being situated in S. Radegund's parish, 
 which is first mentioned in deeds of the time of Milisentia, who 
 was Prioress in 1246 and was succeeded in the office in or before 
 1258. Evidence of the late origin of the parish is seen in the 
 fact that one of its boundaries was the King's Ditch. It is 
 generally stated that this ditch was made by Henry III in 
 1268, but there was an earlier enclosure of the town in 1215. 
 Previous to 1250 the Nuns' croft did not extend so far as to 
 the King's Ditch, for in that year the Nuns received licence 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 23 
 
 from Henry III to enclose a certain croft of theirs lying be- 
 tween the Nunnery and the Ditch. It is therefore fairly cer- 
 tain that S. Radegund's parish, which was conterminous with 
 the Nuns' demesne lands, came into existence soon after that 
 year. 
 
 Bowtell in his MSS (p. 1011) states, without giving his 
 authority, that the parish of the Holy Sepulchre was severed 
 from that of All Saints in the reign of Henry III, The pension 
 of forty shillings which the Nuns were required to pay to the 
 vicar of All Saints' is tolerably clear proof that S, Radegund's 
 was formed by a similar detachment from the same parish. 
 ' When a chapel was made parochial one of the remaining 
 signs of dependence on the Mother Church was generally some 
 stated pension to the Rector or Vicar of it^' Such, no 
 doubt, was the origin of the Nuns' pension to the vicar of 
 All Saints', The fact that it was paid to the vicar is evidence 
 that the parish of S. Radegund was not severed from that of 
 All Saints until after Sturmi's appropriation of the latter church 
 to the Nuns. 
 
 The area detached from All Saints' parish to form that of 
 S. Radegund comprised only the demesne lands of the Nunnery, 
 afterwards known as Radegund Manor. At the time of its 
 formation the latter parish can have contained only a very few 
 inhabitants. The Hundred Rolls mention only four messuages 
 in it, all of them paying rent to the Nuns and all of them 
 situated on a croft called Sarandscroft, opposite the Nunnery 
 gates. Later these were subdivided into smaller holdings, and 
 houses began to be built on the south side of the Nuns' croft, 
 next the street and between the Nunnery and the King's 
 Ditch. The occupants of the houses in the parish seem 
 to have been principally the clergy and servants of the 
 Nunnery, 
 
 As the whole, or very nearly the whole area of the parish 
 
 belonged to the Nuns it is natural that the Hundred Rolls 
 
 referring to one of their tenements describe it as lying in their 
 
 own parish, 'in sua parochia.' It was probably, like many other 
 
 1 Kennett's Parochial Antiquities^ p. 601, where ample evidence is collected. 
 
24 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 parishes whose churches were also conventual, a peculiar, i.e. 
 exempt from the jurisdiction and visitation of the archdeacon. 
 I do not know that this is anywhere stated as a fact, nor do 
 I find any record of a papal bull conferring such exemption. 
 Nor can reliance be placed on the fact mentioned in one of the 
 Nuns' documents dated 1313 and frequently noticed in the Ely 
 Episcopal Registers (e.g. under dates July 24, 1338, and May 9, 
 1340) that the Nuns were discharged from procurations to the 
 archdeacon ; for this immunity from the charges of visitation 
 extended evidently to All Saints' and S. Clement's churches 
 as well as to S. Radegund's, and was grounded on the poverty 
 of the Nuns, whose whole spiritualities were stated to be of 
 less yearly value than six marks. In the absence of any direct 
 evidence as to the origin of the parish I can only rely on certain 
 facts which tend to show that S. Radegund's was not a parish 
 of the ordinary kind. Firstly, the capellanus, so far as can be 
 gathered from the Ely Registers, was never presented by the 
 Nuns to the Bishop for admission to the parish church. 
 Secondly, he appears to have been maintained by a stipend, 
 paid by the Nuns, which in the accounts of 1449 — 1451 was 
 £5. And thirdly, among the miscellaneous documents contained 
 in the Nuns' treasury there remain a few wills, one of which, 
 that of Roger Mason of S. Radegund's parish, dated 1392, has 
 attached to it the ad causas seal of the Nunnery. The wills 
 of inhabitants of exempt parishes attached to religious houses, 
 as is well known, were customarily proved before the sacrist or 
 some other officer of the monastery. The parish of the Nunnery 
 of Carow, Norwich, was an example of such an exempt juris- 
 diction ; the Nuns' chaplain proved the wills of parishioners, 
 and the ad causas seal of the convent was appended to them\ 
 
 § 9. Parish of All Saints. 
 
 The advowson of All Saints' in Judaismo or juxta Hospitale, 
 as it was called to distinguish it from the church similarly 
 
 1 Monasticon, ed. 1846, Vol. 4, p. 68. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 25 
 
 dedicsited juxta Castellum, was given to the Nuns by Sturmi^ 
 of Cambridge either in or before 1180. His charter recites that 
 the donation is made ' by the wish and with consent of his wife 
 and his heirs, for the welfare of King Henry and his heirs and 
 for the welfare of the faithful departed.' The Nuns are to hold 
 the advowson as freely and quietly as his antecessores have held 
 the same. Of Sturmi we know no more than that a person 
 of his name is described as ' frater noster ' in a deed of the 
 Prioress Letitia. Geoffrey Ridel, Bishop of Ely, in the presence 
 and with the consent of Sturmi, instituted the Nuns to the 
 rectory, 'jus personatus,' of the same church. His charter is 
 dated on the day after the octave of S. Martin in the year 1180. 
 He appoints one Richard as the Nuns' perpetual vicar in the 
 church and requires him to make to them an annual payment 
 of twenty shillings, and further to perform all customary dues 
 to the Bishop. After the cession or decease of the said Richard 
 the Nuns may make such disposition for their church as they 
 will, saving the episcopal consuetudines. At a considerably 
 later date the Convent of Ely (Roger, Prior, i.e. Roger de 
 Brigham, Prior from 1215 to 1229) confirmed the Bishop's 
 appropriation to the Nuns. It was also ratified by a bull of 
 Pope Alexander IV (1254 — 1261) mentioned by Sherman, in 
 whose time it seems to have been extant among the Nuns' 
 evidences. 
 
 The Nuns, as already stated, probably when S. Radegund's 
 parish was severed from All Saints, bound themselves to an 
 annual pension of forty shillings to the vicar of the latter 
 parish. As the net result of the cross payments we find the 
 Nuns in 1449-1451 paying the vicar the sum of twenty 
 shillings per annum. In the Bursars' Rolls, temp. Henry VIII 
 and Edward VI, this payment had been increased to 335. 4c?. 
 Doubtless this was in compensation for the loss of income 
 which the vicar may have sustained owing to the conversion of 
 the Nunnery into a college, for when the Hospital of S. John 
 gave place to S. John's College the vicar complained of the loss 
 which he received from the change, and the College undertook 
 
 1 I know no reason for calling him William Sturmi, as Sherman does. 
 
26 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 to give him an annual pension of five marks in satisfaction of 
 his claims ^ The Visitors of the University in 1549 decreed 
 that Jesus College should pay the vicar an additional sum of 
 6s. 8d. by the year, and the pension thus increased to 40s. 
 has continued to be paid up to the present time. 
 
 § 10. Pai%sh of 8. Clernent. 
 
 The advowson of S. Clement's Church was given to the 
 Elemosinary of S. Kadeguud by Hugh fitz Absolon of Cam- 
 bridge, acting on the advice of Eustace, late Bishop of Ely. 
 Bishop Eustace died in 1215 and the grant is evidently to be 
 dated very soon after that year, for the Pedes Finium (ed. K,ye 
 for the Carab. Antiq. Soc.) mentions among Cambridge pleas 
 anno Henry III, 3 (1218) 'Estrilda fil. Scobic v. the Prioress of 
 S. Radegund, of the advowson of S. Clement's.' It would seem 
 from this that the Nuns did not acquire pacific possession of 
 the advowson at once, and this is further shown by the fact 
 that Walter fitz William de S. Edmund, in a deed of date 
 seemingly about 1230-1240, released to the Nuns his rights to 
 the advowson and confirmed the grant thereof made by his 
 antecessor, Hugh fitz Absolon and his uncle Walter. It would 
 be interesting to know something of the original patrons of 
 Cambridge churches and the circumstances which gave them 
 their right to present to the livings. Unfortunately the Nuns' 
 deeds have very little light to throw on the matter in the case 
 either of All Saints' or of S. Clement's. The only information 
 which I can gather of this Hugh fitz Absolon is obtained from 
 his charters, several of which (two with his seal attached) are 
 to be found among the Nunnery muniments. In one he grants 
 the Nuns a rent of 29^d. out of the land in the Jews' street {in 
 vico Judeorum) going down from the highway to All Saints' 
 churchyard. The grant is for the health of the souls of him- 
 self and his sister Letitia, and the Nuns are required to 
 celebrate yearly the anniversary of his sister on the eve of the 
 1 Cole's MSS. Vol. in. p. 65. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 27 
 
 Purification, and on the day of the Purification are to have the 
 whole rent for their pietancia. He also gave them a rent of 
 12d. for their Infirmary and six acres in Cambridge and 
 Barnwell fields. His cousin Aldusa, daughter of William 
 Blangernun, who was buried in the convent church, gave them 
 property in the parish of S. Mary the Great. 
 
 The Rectory of S. Clement's was appropriated to the Nuns 
 of S. Radegund of Grenecroft by John de Fontibus, Bishop of 
 Ely (1220-1225), saving a competency for a priest to have the 
 cure of souls. The Nuns' muniments include two charters con- 
 firming this grant, one of Ely convent, Roger de Brigham, 
 Prior (1215-1229), the other of Geoffrey de Burgh, Bishop of 
 Ely (1225-1229). Other confirmations by Pope Honorius III 
 (1216-1227) and by Hugh Northwold, Bishop of Ely, the latter 
 dated 1238, are mentioned in a volume of 'Old Letters and 
 Extracts' in the College Library, but are not now extant. 
 
 The last-named bishop decreed that the vicar of S. Clement's 
 should pay to the Nuns de bonis altaragii a yearly pension 
 of five marks. From the Nunnery accounts it appears that 
 this sum was set apart to provide the clothing of the Nuns\ 
 The benefice, already denuded of the rectorial tithes, seems 
 from the first to have been ill able to support this heavy 
 additional charge. So early as 1248 we find a lively dispute 
 proceeding between the Nuns and the vicar, Adam, on some 
 pecuniary question, probably connected with this pension. The 
 vicar cited the Nuns before the Dean of S. Paul's, i.e. the Court 
 of Arches : the Nuns contested the vicar's right to convene 
 them, on the ground that he was at the time under sentence of 
 excommunication, and when this plea was disallowed by the 
 Dean they appealed to the court of Rome. The Pope, Innocent 
 IV, by bull addressed to the Prior of Linton commissioned him 
 to inquire into the circumstances. Of the Prior's decision we 
 
 1 The practice of assigning some part of the income of appropriated 
 churches to the providing of clothing for the religious was not uncommon : 
 examples of it occur at Stodeley, Stamford and Marrick Nunneries. {Vide the 
 new Monasticon.) Tlie rectory of Harleston was given to Barnwell Priory ad 
 vesturain by Geoffrey Peche (Barnwell Lihe^- Slemorandorum). 
 
28 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 are not informed ; but the issue between the Nuns and their 
 vicars remained in an unsettled state for long after. In 1261 
 Sir Geoffrey, who was then vicar, acknowledges himself to be 
 indebted to the Nuns for 21 marks, being part of the pension of 
 5 marks assigned by Bishop Northwold, and he asks to be 
 allowed time to pay it. Hugh de Stamford, Commissary 
 General of the Official of Ely, decrees that he is to pay one 
 mark on S. Nicolas' Day and 205. before the Epiphany next 
 following. A century and a half later, in 1401, Adam de 
 Walsoken, vicar, takes the opportunity of the metropolitical 
 visitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Arundel, 
 to represent to him that he is chai-ged with an annual pension 
 to the Nuns of five marks, that he has no proper vicarage to 
 reside in, and that the income of the living is ' tenuis et exilis\' 
 In consequence of the vicar's complaint the Nuns (Isabella de 
 Sudbury, Prioress) on July 11, 1402, agreed to give up as a 
 "tnansum for the then vicar and his successors a house on 
 the eastern side of the churchyard, next a messuage of the 
 service of the glorious Virgin Mary, i.e. the chantry house of 
 S. Clement's Church. The deed (Charters, 242) in which they 
 make this concession bears evidence to the Nuns' extreme 
 reluctance to accept any responsibility in the matter. The 
 curiously mixed motives which actuated them are shown in the 
 reasons given for the concession, viz. that the incomes of 
 parochial churches are everywhere decreasing, that the results 
 of actions at law are doubtful, and that it is desirable that the 
 church, being baptismalis, should be served duly and to the 
 honour of God. The pension of five marks was continuously 
 exacted by the Nuns up to the time of the dissolution of the 
 Nunnery, and even survived until late in the reign of Henry 
 VIII, as shown by the account rolls of the College Bursars'"^. 
 
 1 The incomes of the parish clergy were seriously affected by the Black 
 Death and the long financial depression which succeeded it. Compare Piers 
 Plowman, Prologue, 83 (date 1377), 
 
 Persones and parisch prestes pleyned hem to J^e bischop 
 J>at here parisches were pore sith J>e pestilence time. 
 
 2 From the Bursars' accounts of Henry VIII, 26 — 27, it appears that the 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 29 
 
 § 11. Advowson of Reymerston. 
 
 The advowson of E.eymerstoii Church, co. Norfolk, was con- 
 veyed by fine to Letitia, Prioress of S. Radegund's in Henry 
 III, 2, by John de Reymerston. A list of the rectors presented 
 by the Prioress is given in Blomfield's History of Norfolk, Vol. 
 10, pp. 241 — 2 (ed. Parkyn). The last presented, in 1401, was 
 Mr Robert Braunch, LL.Lic, apparently the same who in 1384 
 became Master of Trinity Hall. 
 
 The names of several of the Nuns, Craneswick, Harling, 
 Cressingham, are taken from villages in the neighbourhood of 
 Reymerston and appear to indicate that the connection with 
 this quarter of Norfolk was maintained after the Nuns parted 
 with the advowson. From the same district probably came 
 John de Pykenham (now Pickenham), whose tombstone, in the 
 
 vicar of S. Clement's was allowed an annual sum of 6s. Sd. for rent of a 
 dwelling house ' eo quod non est aliqua domus sive mansio dicto vicario 
 pertinens.' A few years later the payment disappears from the Bursars' rolls 
 and the vicar, who was a fellow of the College, is stated to be the tenant of a 
 chamber in College. The Eev. E. G. de Sails Wood, vicar of S. Clement's, 
 informs me that the house traditionally called ' the Vicarage ' is that now 
 numbered 8, Portugal Place, which is still the property of Jesus College. 
 Leases of the reign of Elizabeth describe it as abutting on its southern side 
 on ' the backe side of a place sometime called S' Clement's hostelL' A deed 
 of Edward III, 47 (1373) shows that it was then leased to Sir Eichard Milde, 
 vicar of S. Clement's, jointly with John de Kelesseye, cooper, and Avisia his 
 wife. Another deed of 1377 (Charters, 250 h) gives minute details of the 
 rooms which it then contained. In 1616 the southern half of the house was 
 used as a stable by the Master of Jesus College. A letter of the Master, 
 Dr Duport, in that year refers to a dispute between the College and Alderman 
 Ventris with respect to the northern portion of the house, which the latter 
 claimed, asserting that it had anciently been a banqueting house and did not 
 form a part of the College tenement. Ventris also claimed a house called the 
 Chantry-house, situated outside the churchyard on its N.E. side. Dr Duport 
 alleges that this house is not the old Chantry-house, nor on the site of it, but 
 is an encroachment on Jesus College land and has been erected within the last 
 50 years ; in evidence of which he observes that it is built of sound heart of 
 oak which apparently was brought ft-om the steeple of the church, which about 
 the time of the erection of the house was much decayed and vanished quite 
 away. 
 
30 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 S.W. angle of the south transept of the Nuns' church, bears 
 the inscription, 
 
 Hie jacet frater Johannes de Pykenham magister sacre theologie prior 
 hujus loci cujus anime propicietur Deus. 
 
 He was perhaps either capellanus or confessor to the Nuns. 
 The office of prior, warden or magister monialium is one 
 frequently found in nunneries ; e.g. at Grimsby, Stanfeld 
 (Lines.), Stamford, Catesby. 
 
 § 12. List of Prioresses. 
 
 The following is as complete a list of the Prioresses of 
 S. Radegund as it is possible to make out. Unless otherwise 
 stated the dates given are those of the earliest and latest deeds 
 in which the name occurs. The deeds of the 12th and early 
 13th century give neither dates nor names of Prioresses. 
 
 Letitia was Prioress at the time of Bishop Eustace's compo- 
 sition respecting All Saints' Church and S. John's Hospital, 
 which was not later than 1213 : she occurs in Pedes Finium, 
 1228. 
 
 Milisentia is mentioned in Pedes Finium 1246 and 1249. 
 
 Dera occurs in 1258. 
 
 Agnes Burgeylun, or Burgeillo, in 1274 (in the new Monasti- 
 con wrongly set down aiino 1301). 
 
 Constantia and 
 
 Amitia de Driffeld occur in undated deeds temp. Edward I, 
 the former in the mayoralty of Roger de Wykes. 
 
 Alicia le Chaumberlain was Prioress about 1278; she was 
 daughter of Sir Walter le Chamberlayne, purchaser of the 
 manor of Landbeach. (Clay's History of Landheach.) 
 
 Elena occurs in 1284 and in 1299. 
 
 Christiana de Br ay br ok in 1311. 
 
 Cecilia de Cressingham, in 1315 and 1316, 
 
 Mabilia Martin in 1330 and 1332. 
 
 Alicia in 1347. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 31 
 
 Eva Wasteneys in 1359 ; a person of the same name was 
 Prioress of the Benedictine house of Swaffham in 1378. 
 
 Margaret Glanyle in 1363: she resigned Feb. 1, 1378 (Ely 
 Registers). 
 
 Alice Pilet was elected Feb. 20, 1378; occurs in 1398. 
 
 Isabella Sudbury in 1402. 
 
 Margaret Harlyng was sub-prioress in 1407 ; succeeded as 
 Prioress in the same year and occurs in 1408. 
 
 Agnes Seyntelowe, or Senclowe, first occurs in 1415; she died 
 Sept. 8, 1457. 
 
 Joan Lancastre was elected Sept. 27, 1457 ; last occurs in 
 1466. 
 
 Isabella in 1468. 
 
 Elizabeth Walton occurs in 1468 and 1479 : she had been 
 succentrix in 1457. 
 
 Joan Cambridge was administering the effects of the 
 Nunnery in 1482-3, apparently in a vacancy of the Priorate ; 
 she was Prioress in 1483 and died 1487 \ 
 
 Joan Fulburn was appointed Oct. 12, 1487 ; her name 
 occurs for the last time in 1487. 
 
 § 13. Finances of the Nunnery. 
 
 At the time of the election of Joan Lancastre in 1457 there 
 were eleven nuns who had the jus eligendi. There are no data 
 for determining their number at an earlier period, but as most 
 religious houses suffered a decline in numbers during the 15th 
 century it is not unlikely that they had once been more 
 numerous. There seems little reason to doubt that at no time 
 during the existence of the Nunnery were its endowments 
 adequate for the maintenance of its inmates or the repairs of 
 the fabric. As early as 1277 their penury 'baud paucis inno- 
 tescit'; in 1340 their poverty was pleaded as an excuse for 
 
 1 In a fragmentary Computus of Margaret Eatclyff, Prioress of Swaffham, 
 Edw. IV, 22, occurs an entry ' de iiij" de quatuor busellis (mixtilionis) venditis 
 pr. monial. de Cambrige...de domina Johanna Camhrige cui erat commissa 
 administratio bonorum prioratus predict!.' 
 
32 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 exemption from the charges of procuration ; and the evidence 
 of Archbishop Wittlesey's visitor in 1373 shows the Nunnery 
 in deep embarrassment, its buildings dilapidated, and its services 
 neglected for want of funds. The flow of benefactions which 
 was maintained up to the end of Edward I's reign was arrested 
 about the end of the 13th century, probably because gifts to 
 pious uses began to be diverted to the various mendicant 
 orders which had established themselves in Cambridge during 
 the preceding half century. As already stated, after the great 
 pestilence in 1349 the Nuns received few fresh endowments, 
 and those of inconsiderable value. One important source of 
 endowment entirely dried up about that time, viz. the grants 
 of lands and rents made by the relations of a nun when she 
 took the veil. The nuns of the earlier time seem largely to 
 have been drawn from families of wealth and social standing 
 in the town and shire. Among those who brought with 
 them endowments to the Nunnery were Sibil, sister of Fulk 
 Crocheman, whose family held a considerable amount of 
 property in and near the Jewry in All Saints' parish temp. 
 Henry III ; Elizabeth and Isabel, daughters of Sir Thomas de 
 Cambridge, who died 1361 ; Roda, sister of Hervey Dunning, 
 already mentioned; Margaret, daughter of Hervey de Trumpi- 
 tune ; Sabina, daughter of Half Person of Chesterton, temp. 
 Henry III; Sibil, daughter of Stephen de Scalariis of Wratting; 
 and Margaret, sister of Philip de Cestertune, about 1200. The 
 accounts of the Treasuress, Agnes Banastre, for the two years 
 1449-50 and 1450-51 probably represent the normal income 
 and expenditure of the Nunnery in the middle of the 15th 
 century. They are written on skin in a neat and minute hand, 
 which is perhaps that of one of the clergy attached to the 
 house. On the outer surface are written the accounts of the 
 Grangeress, Joan Lancastre. Also on the outer side of the 
 earlier roll are copied in a bold but careless handwriting of 
 late 15th century character three Latin prayers addressed to 
 S. Etheldreda, to which in another hand have been added two 
 benedictions of the Name of Jesus. The prayers to S. Ethel- 
 dreda were clearly intended for use at her shrine at Ely. 
 
£ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 32 
 
 12 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 14 
 
 7i 
 
 8 
 
 16 
 
 2 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 19 
 
 10 
 
 74 
 
 2 
 
 9i 
 
 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. . 33 
 
 These accounts are kept in an exact and orderly way and 
 show that at the time the Nuns were fairly paying their 
 way. In the earlier year the receipts were £77. 85. Q^d. and 
 the expenditure £72. 65. 4f d ; in the later the suras were 
 respectively £74. 2s. 9^d. and £78. 6s. Od.\ The heads of the 
 receipts were in the later year : 
 
 Rents in Cambridge 
 Rents agricultural . 
 Miscellaneous : tolls of fair, re- 
 ceipts from guests, &c. 
 
 Tithes 
 
 Pension ..... 
 Sale of corn, hay, &c. 
 
 Total 
 
 § 14. Incidents in the Annals of the Nunnery. 
 
 There is little in the history of the Nunnery between the 
 time of King Malcolm and that of the dissolution which calls 
 for particular mention. Such facts as are recoverable from the 
 Nuns' own records it is unnecessary here to detail ; an outline 
 of them may be found in the Catalogue of Charters. I will set 
 down here only a few particulars which I have gleaned from 
 such external sources of information as the Hare MSS and the 
 Registers of Ely and Canterbury. 
 
 Among the Hare MSS (Vol. i. p. 27) is a writ of 
 Henry III tested at Ely, March 30, in the 35*^ year of his 
 reign {i.e. 1250), directed to the bailiffs of the town of 
 Cambridge, requiring them not to distrain the Prioress of 
 S. Radegund and her tenants for an encroachment (pro 
 preprestiira) and for other matters of which inquisition has 
 
 1 Sherman gives the total of receipts in these two years as £24. Is. lO^d. 
 and £32. 10s. 2d., figures which correspond to no totals in the rolls. He also 
 refers to a third roll of date Henry VI, 39, in which the receipts are stated as 
 £74. 2s. 4d. ; this is no longer extant. He does not mention the roll of 
 Edward IV, 21—22. 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 3 
 
34 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 been made by William de Axmuth and William Brito at 
 Cambridge. This writ is clearly connected with the same 
 King's license to the Nuns, tested at Westminster on April 17 
 in the same year, to enclose and keep enclosed for ever a croft 
 belonging to them and lying between their church and the 
 fossatmii of Cambridge. (This license is cited in full in King 
 Edward II's confirmation, Charters, 8.) From the circum- 
 stance that the writ was addressed to the town bailiffs it would 
 appear that the purpresture of the Nuns consisted of an en- 
 croachment on the common lands of the town, i.e. on Grene- 
 croft. The writ stays the distraint until the quindena of 
 Easter, by which time, or at least before April 17, an 
 arrangement seems to have been arrived at by which the 
 town relinquished its rights in the land annexed. But as 
 the ownership of the soil of the common land belonged not 
 to the burgesses but to the King (such at least would be the 
 King's view) his sanction was necessary to enable the Nuns 
 to acquire and permanently enclose the croft\ The dispute 
 between the Nuns and the burgesses seems to have been 
 the outcome of proceedings for encroachment taken by the 
 King against the burgesses : for by a writ, mentioned by 
 Cooper^ and dated March 5 in this year, the King re- 
 quired the sheriff to restore the cattle of the burgesses and 
 not further to distrain them for a trespass, they having paid 
 at the royal wardrobe 20 marks. The encroachment for 
 which the burgesses thus made satisfaction was no doubt 
 committed on the soil of the fossatum. At the time of the 
 Hundred Bolls it was one of the complaints of the towns- 
 men that the soil of the fossatum remained void to their 
 great loss, and several individuals are reported to have made 
 encroachments on it by planting trees and otherwise. 
 
 1 Pollock and Maitland (History of English Law, Vol. i. p. 635), speaking of 
 the Firma Burcji, ' It may be much doubted whether the walls, ditches, streets 
 and open spaces of the borough were held by the burgesses. They were still 
 the king's walls, ditches and streets, and he who encroached upon them 
 committed a purpresture against the king. Nor is it by any means certain 
 that the king parted with the soil over which the burgesses exercised the right 
 of pasture.' 2 ji^nals, Vol. i. p. 46. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 35 
 
 The Register of Archbishop Wittlesey (fo. 153), at Lambeth 
 Palace, gives a full and curious account of a visitation of the 
 Nunnery in the year 1378, made by mandate of the Archbishop 
 during a vacancy of the See of Ely. The visitor was Thomas 
 de Wormenhale, who about the same time visited other religious 
 houses in the diocese, viz. Ely, Chatteris, Anglesey, Swaffham, 
 Thorney, Barnwell and the Hospital of S. John, Cambridge. 
 The Nunnery of S. Radegund was visited on the Saturday next 
 following the feast of S. James the Apostle. The Prioress and 
 sisters were separately and privately examined, and the report 
 of the visitor exhibited the following comperta. 
 
 First, it was alleged that the Prioress made the officiariae 
 of the Nunnery discharge payments beyond what was required 
 by the custom of their offices, and without assigning reason 
 for such payments. The Prioress denied this article, but was 
 nevertheless cautioned in future to explain to her officials the 
 reasons for all expenditure required of them. 
 
 Item, that the Prioress did not, as she was bound to do, 
 find priests to celebrate for various benefactors of the Nunnery. 
 The Prioress made reply that the means of the Nuns were not 
 sufficient to sustain the said burdens. She was cautioned to 
 discharge the obligations of the Nunnery in this respect as 
 soon as the fortunes of the household would enable her to do so. 
 
 Item, that the Prioress suffered the Refectory to remain 
 without cover, so that in rainy weather the sisters were not 
 able to take their meals there in common, as by rule they were 
 bound to do. The Prioress answered that the Nunnery was so 
 burdened with debts, subsidies and contributions in these 
 times that so far she had been unable to carry out repairs, but 
 that she would do so as soon as possible. 
 
 Item, that the Prioress did not correct dame Elizabeth de 
 Cambridge for withdrawing herself from divine service, and 
 allowed friars of different orders, as well as scholars, to visit 
 her at inopportune times and to converse with her, to the 
 scandal of religion. The Prioress replied that she had frequently 
 corrected her. She was charged in future strictly to correct 
 and chastise her for the faults alleged. 
 
 3—2 
 
36 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY, 
 
 Item, that the Prioress was too easily induced to give 
 permission to the Nuns to go outside the cloister. She was 
 cautioned not to do so in future. 
 
 Item, that dame Elizabeth de Cambridge provoked discord 
 among the sisters and often murmured against correction, and 
 that she did not trouble to get up {non curat surgere) to 
 attend matins, as she was bound to do. She denied the 
 fact, and added that, supposing she had so done, she had been 
 corrected by her Prioress. She was warned to cease from 
 murmuring and provoking discord, and to get up for matins, 
 whenever she coidd {cum potei'it), under pain of excommunica- 
 tion. 
 
 The Prioress mentioned in this report was Margaret Clanyle. 
 She resigned her office in 1878. Bishop Arundel's Register at 
 Ely (fo. 25) contains the following documents relating to this 
 event. 
 
 The Bishop's mandate to his Official, Richard le Scrop, to 
 receive the resignation of domina Margaret Clanyle, and to 
 certify to the Bishop what he has done. Downham, Jan. 29, 
 1378. 
 
 Scrop's certification to the Bishop that he has admitted, 
 approved and authorized the resignation. Cambridge, Feb. 1. 
 
 The Bishop's license to the sub-prioress, Johanna de Ely, 
 and the convent to elect a successor. Downham, Feb. 6. 
 
 Process of election : ' assumptis sibi quibusdam personis 
 secularibus, vidlt. magistris Thoma de Glocestr' et Johanne de 
 Newton, juris peritis, d"° Willelmo Rolf, vicario ecclesie Omnium 
 Sanctorum in Judaismo et magistro Roberto de Foxton, notario 
 publico, pro saniori consilio in hac parte habendo,' domina Alice 
 Pylet is unanimously elected. Feb. 17. 
 
 The election is confirmed by the Bishop, Feb. 20, and 
 publication of it made ' ad januam manerii de Downham et in 
 capella dicti manerii.' 
 
 On Dec. 10, 1389, Bishop Fordham of Ely granted indulgence 
 of 40 days to all who should help to repair the Nuns' church 
 and cloister and contribute to their maintenance and relief. 
 (Fordhams' Register, fo. 10.) 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 37 
 
 In the Register of Archbishop Courtenay (fo. 143), under 
 date 1389, is a letter addressed to the same Bishop of Ely, in 
 which the Archbishop reports that in his recent metropolitical 
 visitation of the diocese of Lincoln he found there ' a sheep 
 wandering from the fold among thorns,' to wit, one Margaret 
 Cailly, a professed nun of S. Radegund's monastery, who had 
 cast off the garb of religion and in secular habit was leading a 
 dissolute life. ' That her blood be not required at our hands ' 
 the Archbishop sends her with the bearer of the letter to the 
 Bishop, with an injunction that she should be restored to the 
 Nunnery and kept there in safe custody. The Bishop in a 
 letter to the Prioress (Reg. Fordham, fo. 11) directs that the 
 apostate nun be committed to the eventus^, there to be kept in 
 close confinement until she shows signs of penitence and con- 
 trition for her 'excesses,' as the rules of her house and order 
 require. And the Bishop further enjoins that when the said 
 Margaret first enters the chapter-house she shall humbly ask 
 pardon of the Prioress and all her sisters for her offences, and 
 that she shall undergo salutary penances for her excesses, the 
 Bishop having privately absolved her from the penalty of 
 excommunication on the ground of her apostasy. 
 
 On Sept. 19, 1401, the Priory was visited by the commis- 
 sioners of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Arundel. 
 The sisters were privately and separately questioned but the 
 substance of their answers is not recorded in the Register. 
 (Arundels' Register, fo. 492.) 
 
 The Register of Bishop Fordham of Ely (Jan. 26, 1407) 
 contains a license to the sub-prioress, Margery Harlyng, for a 
 private oratory or chapel within the Priory. 
 
 On March 18, 1457, Bishop Gray of Ely issued letters, dated 
 from Downham, granting 40 days' indulgence to all who should 
 lend a helping hand (' manus porrexerint adjutrices ') for the 
 repair of the bell-tower of the Nuns' conventual church and 
 
 ^ Possibly this was the conventual prison, which in some monasteries was 
 in the gate-house, in others adjoined the Necessarium. The word is not in 
 Ducange. 
 
38 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 for the maintenance of books, vestments and other church 
 ornaments (Register, fo. 21). 
 
 The Ely Registers (Bp. Gray, fo. 140) supply a full account 
 of the election of a Prioress in 1457 in place of Agnes 
 Seyntelowe, who died on Sept. 8 in that year. The process of 
 election was per for mam compromissi, and the description, in 
 outline, is as follows. Maud Sudbury, as sub-prioress and 
 president, informs the Bishop of the vacancy and obtains his 
 license for the election of a successor. In the Nuns' petition 
 to the Bishop for leave to elect it is stated that by the canons 
 a church regular must not be vacant beyond three months ' ne 
 pro defectu regiminis invadat gregem dominicam lupus rapax.' 
 On Sept. 23 they elect Joan Lancastre to be sacrist, and then 
 adjourn to Sept. 27. On that day, after mass de Sancto 
 Spiritu, those who have jus eligendi meet and decant the 
 'ympn,' Veni Creator, with versicles and collects. Elizabeth 
 Walton, succentrix, proclaims notice of the election at the door 
 of the Priory and at the door of the chapter-house. Master 
 Roger Ratcliffe, LL.D., Robert Bredon, notary public. Master 
 Thomas Willis, LL.B., Ds Richard Sampson and Ds Henry 
 Whitrate, chaplain, are called in as consilia7'ii and testes. The 
 sisters elect as compromissarii Joan Lancastre, Eliz. Walton 
 and Katherine Seyntelowe, cellarer, who retire to the east end 
 of the chapterhouse with the witnesses aforesaid. E. W. and 
 K. S. call upon J. L. to nominate; she nominates E. W.; 
 J. L. and K. S. call upon E. W, to nominate ; she nominates 
 J. L. E. W. and J. L. call upon K. S. to nominate ; she 
 nominates J. L. Without any interval the compromissarii 
 return and call upon the sisters to nominate, beginning with 
 Maud Sudbury; she nominates J. L., as do Margaret Metham, 
 Elena Craneswik, Emma Hore and Joan Kay. Emma Denton 
 is nominated by Agnes Daveys, Katherine Seyntelowe by 
 Emma Denton, Agnes Daveys by Alice Graunfeld. Eliz. 
 Walton counts up the votes and declares that Joan Lancastre 
 is elected. After this all the sisters, devoutly chanting Te 
 Deum, conducted Joan Lancastre, ' renitentem licet ' to the 
 high altar of the conventual church and there placed her, 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 39 
 
 prostrate on the ground before the altar. The bell was then 
 rung and proclamation of the election was made to the public 
 in the vulgar tongue before noon. All the sisters then con- 
 ducted the Prioress elect to the vestibulum of the church and 
 let her depart. At a meeting in the chapter-house in the 
 afternoon it was agreed that Eliz. Walton and Katherine 
 Seyntelowe should obtain the assent of Joan Lancastre to the 
 process of election. She at first asked to be allowed to consider 
 the matter ; ' tandem vero precibus devicta et post multas 
 excusationes,' she consented to take the oath required of a 
 Prioress. Next follows, Sept. 29, the Bishop's commission to 
 Master Robert Thwait, S. T. P., to confirm the election, with 
 mandate to the Bishop's apparitors to summon all persons 
 objecting or otherwise concerned. In the Bishop's court 
 Master Edmund Kunnesburgh, decretorum doctor, appears as 
 the Nuns' counsel and claims that all has been done legally 
 and canonically. Against whom Roger Ratclyffe and others 
 alleged objections to the form of election. Then Master 
 Kunnesburgh on the part of the Nuns ' exhibuit quandam 
 peticionem summariam,' begging the Bishop's official to proceed 
 summarily and confirm the election, which he does, affirming 
 that nothing has been proved affecting the validity of the 
 election. 
 
 § 15. Decay and Dissolution of the Nunnery. 
 
 Doubts have sometimes been suggested as to the truth of 
 the representations made by Bishop Alcock concerning the 
 lapsed condition, moral and material, of the Priory when he 
 petitioned King Henry VII for license to convert it into a 
 College; and the fact that the royal license to suppress the 
 Hospital of S. John describes the decay of that house in 
 terms which are almost literally repeated from Alcock's 
 account of S. Radegund's Nunnery is perhaps calculated to 
 throw suspicion on the credibility of both accounts. As 
 regards Bishop Alcock's statements there is not the slightest 
 foundation for such a suspicion. The alleged improvidence of 
 
40 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 the Nuns is established in the clearest manner on their own 
 evidence, and if for the charge of moral shortcomings there is 
 little evidence except the Bishop's it must be allowed that he 
 made the charge in the first instance to them directly and 
 many years before he made up his mind to dissolve their 
 house. All the testimony of his contemporaries and im- 
 mediate successors gives him the character of an exceptionally 
 single-minded and devout prelate, and he had given pointed 
 proof a few years previously that in dealing with the abuses 
 of a religious house he was disposed to act in a spirit of for- 
 bearance and conservatism. In 1480, when he was Bishop of 
 Worcester, he personally visited the Benedictine Priory of 
 Little Malvern, the brethren of which were reported to have 
 dissipated their revenues and to be living 'vagabond' and like 
 laymen. The Bishop ordered the Prior to be removed and sent 
 to the Abbey of Battle, where he had been first professed, and 
 the four monks, who were all that remained in the house, to be 
 transferred to Gloucester Abbey until their Priory should be 
 reconstituted. Alcock then proceeded to refound the convent; 
 he rebuilt the church, altering its dedication from S. Giles to 
 S. John the Evangelist and S. Giles, repaired the monks' lodg- 
 ing and discharged their debts. In 1482 the brethren were 
 allowed to return and the Priory continued to exist more or 
 less prosperously until the general dissolution, at which time it 
 contained seven brethren besides the Prior. After this refor- 
 mation of the Priory Bishop Alcock was regarded as its patron 
 and founder ; its common seal bore his arms, and his figure was 
 portrayed in the windows of the conventual church. 
 
 In the absence of direct testimony an entry in the Register 
 of Bishop Gray of Ely in the year 1461 suggests that symptoms 
 of moral depravation began to show themselves very soon after 
 the election of the Prioress Joan Lancastre. In that year 
 Elizabeth Butlier, aged about 16, not having completed four 
 years in the Nunnery and finding that she cannot serve God 
 there with as much devotion as she wishes, obtains leave from 
 the Bishop to transfer herself to the Nunnery of S. Helen's, 
 London. (Register, fo. 157.) 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 41 
 
 The first evidence of the financial collapse of the Nuns' 
 household appears to be the following indenture of the Prioress 
 Elizabeth Walton, dated March 13, 1478 ; but if we are to 
 believe the account given by the Prioress the responsibility for 
 some part of their indebtedness belonged to her predecessors in 
 office : 
 
 'Whereas we and our predecessors, Prioresse and Nunnes of 
 the saide house at dyvers tymes tofore passed whan we ware 
 destitute of money for our pore lyffing had flessche of Richerd 
 Wodecok of Cambrigge, boucher, into the value of the summe 
 of xxj'' of lawful money of Englond, which he for our ease 
 many day hath forborn. And now he of his special favour and 
 elmesse for hym and his executours hath granted unto us 
 license for to paie unto him yeerly xix^ to tyme the said summe 
 be fully paied and content, as right and conscience requyre. We 
 therefore considering his benevolence and good wylle anendst 
 us in this behalve wol and by this our presen t writyng endented 
 graunt and have graunted unto the said Richerd Wodecok and 
 to his executors to have and to receyve of us and our succes- 
 sours by his awne hands yearly xix® to be taken of thissues and 
 profites and ferme of a tenement sett and lyeng in the parissh of 
 Seynt Andrewe in the Prechour Strete of Cambrygge abuttyng 
 upon the Kyngs Dyche and of j other tenement lyeng in Seynt 
 Edwards parisshe of Cambrigge abuttyng upon the Chauncell 
 of the same chirche. Which tenements the said Richerd 
 Wodecok hath and holdeth of us to ferme by endenture for the 
 terme of yeeres as by severall endentures therof by us unto the 
 same Richerd his executours and assignes made hit appareth 
 more at large To have and to hold the said proufets issues and 
 ferme to the value of xix'^ yeerly unto the time that the foresaid 
 Richerd by his awne hands be satisfied and content of the said 
 xxj^V etc. 
 
 This and another indenture of the following year are the 
 latest of the Nuns' documents which bear the large seal of 
 the convent figured opposite p. 1. At some time between 
 1479 and 1485 the matrix of this seal was apparently lost or 
 sold, for to a deed of the latter year (Joan Cambrygg, Prioress) 
 
42 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 is attached the impression of a very small and poorly executed 
 seal, representing S. Radegund crowned and standing with both 
 arras uplifted between two upright palm branches, which in 
 the deed is said to be the common seal of the Nunnery. 
 
 More direct evidence of the pecuniary straits to which the 
 convent was reduced in the last quarter of the 15th century is 
 to be found in the accounts of Joan Key, who was treasurer in 
 1481 — 2. Her account roll, written on paper, alike in hand- 
 writing, arithmetic and Latinity is a performance which con- 
 trasts very unfavourably with that of her predecessor, 80 years 
 before. The details moreover which it gives are very scant. 
 But one thing is patent enough, viz. that the income of the 
 Nuns had dropped from £74 odd at the earlier date to some- 
 thing over £31 at the later. It is true that the accounts of 
 Joan Key for some reason extend over three-quarters of the 
 year only, but it is an awkward circumstance that in those 
 nine months her disbursements exceeded her receipts by more 
 than £25. Ominous too is the fact that the sale of farm 
 produce had practically ceased to be a source of income and 
 that the Nuns were driven to purchase barley, oats, malt, etc. 
 A small trifle is obtained from the sale of hay, and there are a 
 few receipts for ' commons ' of perhendinantes, boarders in the 
 guest-house, two of them being daughters of the Nuns' benevo- 
 lent creditor, Richard Wodecok. There is one new source of 
 income, the charitable gifts of individuals, cleric and lay. 
 
 Bishop Alcock was translated to the see of Ely early in 
 1486. The death of the Prioress in the following year gave 
 him an opportunity for decisive interference in the affairs of 
 the Nunnery. He has left a record of his proceedings there 
 in his Register (fo. 153) from which the following extracts are 
 translated. 
 
 "On the twelfth day of October, A.D. 1487, the Bishop 
 visited the house or monastery of the Nuns of S. Mary and S. 
 Radegund, then destitute of a Prioress and vacant by the 
 death of the late Prioress, Mistress Joan Cambrigge . . . and 
 sitting in the chapter-house of the foresaid monastery, on the 
 tribunal, delivered his decree as follows. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 43 
 
 "In the name of God Amen. We, John, by divine per- 
 mission Bishop of Ely, on the 12th day of October, visiting in 
 our right as ordinary (jure ordinario) the nunnery of S. Mary 
 and S. Radegund, Cambridge, destitute of the solace of a 
 Prioress, for certain, true, just, notorious and manifest causes 
 find all and singular the Nuns unfit and disqualified to elect 
 their future Prioress and therefore decree that in such manner 
 of election they are justly deprived of voice. Wherefore we 
 take upon ourselves the task of providing from some other like 
 religious place a fit person for the vacancy in the said 
 Nunnery, the right of electing and providing for the same 
 Nunnery having devolved canonically upon us, and having 
 the fear of God before our eyes we thus proceed. 
 
 "And you. Mistress Joan Fulborne, duly and lawfully pro- 
 fessed of the order of S. Benedict and long time laudably 
 conversant in the same, for your good religion and integrity^ 
 sincere virginity and other merits of prudence and holy con- 
 versation credibly reported to us we appoint and provide to 
 be Prioress of the same house.., 
 
 " And consequently, by mandate of the Bishop, the 
 reverend Master William Robynson, bachelor in either law, 
 conducted the same Joan Fulborne to the High Altar, while 
 the Nuns, with others, solemnly chanted Te Deuni, and 
 assigned to her the stall in the choir and the place in the 
 chapter anciently and of custom appointed to the Prioress, 
 and canonically inducted her into the same with all its 
 rights and appurtenances." 
 
 The history of the Nunnery from this year onwards to its 
 dissolution is almost a blank. The accounts of the town 
 treasurer for the year ending the Nativity of the Virgin, 1491, 
 contain an entry, " In reward given the Lady Prioress of 
 S. Radegund of Cambridge for keeping the common bull in 
 the winter time this year, 16^^" The Prioress in question was 
 the Joan Fulborne above-mentioned, whose name occurs in 
 several indentures of the Nunnery, the latest of which is dated 
 
 ^ Cooper's Annals, Vol. i. p. 240. 
 
44 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 Aug. 6, 1493. Whether she died or retired from the Priory 
 before the dissolution or was one of the two sisters who were 
 the sole occupants of the Nuns' house at the time of Bishop 
 Alcock's second visit does not appear \ It is certain that she 
 was altogether unsuccessful in rehabilitating the character of 
 the household committed to her charge. 
 
 The Proctors in their accounts for the year 1496 mention a 
 sum of 16*^ expended " for wine given the Bishop of Ely at the 
 Nuns' house." The letters patent of Henry VIT. for the 
 foundation of Jesus College, dated June 12 in the eleventh 
 year of his reign, i.e. 1496 ^ reveal the condition of affairs 
 reported by the Bishop to the King at the time, it would 
 seem, of this visit. It is therein stated that the King, as 
 well by the report of the Bishop as by public fame, is in- 
 formed that the House or Priory of S. Radegund of the 
 foundation and patronage of the Bishop, as in right of his 
 church of Ely, together with all its lands, tenements, rents, 
 possessions and buildings, and moreover the properties, goods, 
 jewels and other ecclesiastical ornaments anciently of piety 
 and charity given and granted to the same House or Priory, 
 by the neglect, improvidence, extravagance and incontinence 
 of the Prioresses and women of the said House, by reason 
 of their proximity to the University of Cambridge, have 
 been dilapidated, destroyed, wasted, alienated, diminished and 
 subtracted ; in consequence of which the Nuns are reduced 
 
 1 Archbishop Parker, in the History of the University which is appended to 
 his Antiquitates Ecclesiae Britannicae, states that Bishop Alcock ' Alexandre 
 sexto papae retulit abbatissam sanctimonialium Eadegondae, ordinis Sancti 
 Benedict!, baud pie casteque vixisse ; eaque decedente abbatiam ad ruinam 
 paratam et a virginibus ordinem deserentibus desolatam fuisse, anno Domini 
 1496.' Apart from the error in the title of abbess Parker's whole account of 
 the Nunnery is so inaccurate that no reliance can be placed on his evidence. 
 
 2 In Rymer's Foedera the date is given as 1497 ; the same date is given in 
 Documents relating to the University and Toion of Cambridge (where the 
 document is printed in full), in Caley's Monasticon, and by Cooper and most 
 modern authorities. But the original in the College Treasury, with royal seal 
 appended, reads beyond question ' anno regni nostri undecimo,^ i.e. 1495 — 6. 
 This accords with Sherman's statement that Alcock began to rebuild the fabric, 
 ' instaurare f abricam coepit, ' in the eleventh year of Henry VII. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 45 
 
 to such want and poverty that they are unable to maintain 
 and support divine services, hospitality and other such works 
 of mercy and piety as by the primary foundation and ordin- 
 ance of their founders are required ; that they are reduced in 
 number to two only, of whom one is elsewhere professed, the 
 other is of ill-fame ^ and that they can in no way provide for 
 their own sustenance and relief, insomuch that they are fain to 
 abandon their House and leave it in a manner desolate, 
 
 John Mair, or Major, as his name was Latinized, who was 
 resident at Christ's College for a few months in the early part 
 of the 15th century, when the facts connected with the disso- 
 lution were within living recollection, says that the suggestion 
 of converting the Nunnery into a College originated with 
 Dr Stubs. The person indicated was no doubt William 
 Chubbes, S. T. P., the first Master of the College, whose name 
 occurs with a variety of spellings in the earliest deeds of the 
 College. 
 
 Sherman, in his Latin History of the College, makes the 
 statement, which has since been copied in other books about 
 Cambridge, that by direction of the Founder the College was 
 dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, S. John the Evangelist 
 and the glorious S. Radegund, and took its popular name 
 of Jesus College from the conventual church which was 
 dedicated to the Name of Jesus. For the latter part of 
 this assertion there is not the slightest evidence. The 
 testimony of the Nuns' muniments shows conclusively that 
 the Nunnery, the parish and the lane were as late as the 
 beginning of Henry VII's reign known simply by their old 
 title of S. Hadegund's, nor is there any ground for supposing 
 that the church itself received a fresh dedication so long as 
 the Nunnery existed. In the preamble to the Statutes which 
 
 1 It is scarcely worth while correcting the many errors in Fuller's account 
 of the Nunnery, hut it deserves to be mentioned that his jest, " Tradition saith 
 that of the two [nuns] remaining one was tvith child, the other but a child," 
 is based on the misreading of infmnis in the letters patent as infans. Godwin 
 had made the same mistake before Fuller, and infans is the reading wrongly 
 given in Documents relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge. 
 
46 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 Bishop Stanley of Ely gave to the College in 1514 it is stated 
 that the church of the College is consecrated to the Name 
 of Jesus, and that the College is erected and founded in 
 honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, S. John the Evangelist 
 and S. Radegund, but that it shall be called Jesus College and 
 the Fellows and Scholars shall be called Scholares Jesu^. 
 
 A Compotus roll for the year Henry VII, 13 — 14, i.e. 
 1497 — 8, apparently the first of the newly founded College, 
 exists in the College Treasury. It throws an interesting light 
 on the financial situation inherited by the College from the 
 Nuns, though unfortunately it gives no information as to the 
 condition of the conventual buildings. The Nunnery indeed 
 is not once alluded to in it, nor is there any express acknow- 
 ledgement of the fact that the Nuns' property had passed into 
 new hands. The computant has no arrears to account for; 
 in the margin, opposite the heading, 'Collegium Jhu' occupies 
 the place of ' Prioratus See Radegundis ' ; otherwise there is 
 no recognition of the changes which had just occurred. The 
 collector is one William Pykerell, who was a Fellow of the 
 College soon after its foundation, but against many of the 
 
 1 There seems to have been some uncertainty at first as to the formal title 
 of the College. In the King's letters patent it is described as ' Collegium 
 Beatissime Marie Virginis, Sancti Johannis Evangeliste et Gloriose Virginis 
 Sancte Eadegundis.' But in an address of the Master, William Chubbes, and 
 Fellows to the King, of which there is a transcript in the Ely Episcopal 
 Registers (Alcock, fol. 125), belonging apparently to the year 1497, it is called 
 ' Collegium Jesu, Beate Marie Virginis et Sancti Johannis Evangeliste.' 
 Popularly the College seems from the first to have been known only as Jesus 
 College. The name Jesus Lane occurs in the town accounts of 1497 : Jesus 
 church and Jesus parish are mentioned in documents of the early years of the 
 16th century, though, inconsistently enough, there is mention of the parish 
 church of S. Eadegund in cap. 19 of Bishop Stanley's Statutes. The original 
 College seal, of which an impression exists in the College Treasury attached 
 to a deed temp. Henry VIII. , bears the legend, sigillvm collegii ihv : maeie 
 ET lOHis : EVAG. CANTEBE. In its Upper portion are represented under canopies 
 the Virgin and S. John standing on either side of the Saviour, and the base 
 displays a shield bearing the Five Wounds. Archbishop Eotherham's foundation 
 of Jesus College, Eotherham, dates from 1498. Eotherham was Lord 
 Chancellor conjointly with Alcock, and appointed him executor of his wiU. 
 He was also provost of the collegiate church of Beverley, Alcock's native town. 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 47 
 
 entries of receipts is set the name or initial of Griggeson, one 
 of the original Fellows, who evidently helped in rent-collecting. 
 Beyond payment of quit-rents, fifteenths, &c. and a few inci- 
 dental expenses of collection there are no disbursements. 
 There is however mention of certain sums of money, amounting 
 in all to £9. 6s. 8d., paid to Henry Lecheman, who was another 
 of the original Fellows. The purpose of these payments is not 
 stated. They may have been connected with the building 
 of the College, but the absence of fabric charges seems 
 to show that the costs of adapting the conventual buildings 
 to College uses were borne mainly by the Founder or his 
 friends. There are no payments to College officials; neither 
 Griggeson nor Lecheman is described as Fellow, and William 
 Chubbes, who is mentioned, is not styled Master. A sum of 
 £43. 8s. 8d. is advanced to John Ware of Fulburn for farm 
 stock. An indenture of the same year (Henry VII, 14) shows 
 that in consideration of this advance Ware released to the 
 College a farm of 21 acres at Fulburn, of which the College 
 gave him a lease for 8 years. The remaining balance, amount- 
 ing to £25. 17s. lOfd, is retained in the hands of Pykerell and 
 Griggeson. The entries under the head of rent receipts show 
 that the College receivers found the Nuns' affairs in a 
 singularly chaotic state which they had not as yet succeeded 
 in reducing to order. There is a long list of tenements whose 
 rent is held over for the time owing to an uncertainty as to the 
 sum, ' eo quod feodum ignoratum est.' Nine tenements in 
 Jesus Lane return no rent, as being vacant. The former 
 occupants seem to have been servants employed by the Nuns. 
 
 As late as the year 1511 among the inmates of the 
 Benedictine Nunnery of Davington, Kent, at the time of 
 its visitation by Archbishop Warham, was one Elizabeth 
 Awdeley, who had been professed at Cambridge. As she had 
 been resident at Davington for 20 years she must have been 
 one of the sisters who abandoned S. Radesfund's before its 
 dissolution ^ 
 
 1 Visitation of Archbishop Warham, by Miss M. Bateson in English Historical 
 Review, Vol. vi. p. 27. 
 
48 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 § 16. Radegund Manor. Oarlick Fair. Radegund Tithes. 
 
 The name and memory of the Nuns' house were still 
 perpetuated at the beginning of the present century in the 
 manor of S. Radegund and the Radegund tithes, and with 
 the former was still associated another survival of Nunnery 
 days, the fair on the festival of the Assumption. The manor 
 and the fair have long since passed away : the tithe, attenuated 
 into a formal payment of insignificant amount, still exists. 
 All three institutions in their origin were rooted in the 
 beginnings of the Nunnery, and I have thought it on that 
 account worth while to put together here the few noteworthy 
 facts concerning them which I have been able to discover. 
 
 The manor of S. Radegund consisted of the old demesne 
 lands of the Nuns, and generally its boundaries coincided with 
 those of S. Radegund parish, but it did not include the 
 dwelling-houses in Jesus Lane. As the Nuns did not let it 
 to tenants it was not styled a manor in their time, nor was 
 there on it any dwelling of the nature of a manor-house. The 
 old manor-house of S. Radegund, which stood nearly on the 
 site of the present All Saints' vicarage, was destroyed in 1831. 
 Its last tenant was the Rev. Isaac Leathes, a former Fellow of 
 the College, who parted with the remainder of his lease of the 
 manor to the College in Dec. 1830. To his descendant, the 
 Rev. Prof. Stanley Leathes, now an Honorary Fellow of Jesus 
 College, I am indebted for the loan of a water-colour sketch of the 
 house, taken from the north, of which the engraving opposite 
 is a reproduction. An aged servant of the College, recently 
 deceased, who well remembered the old manor-house, de- 
 scribed it to me as being, just before its demolition, in a 
 dilapidated state, and the garden as a wilderness. Near the 
 end of the grounds where Manor Street has since been built 
 the same authority told me that there was a handsome 
 fountain. The two projecting wings of the house are shown in 
 the sketch to be red brick ; the central portion was apparently 
 stuccoed. 
 
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ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 49 
 
 In the first College lease book there is a transcript of 
 a lease of the manor, dated 1555, in which -it is stated that 
 the manor-house had then been newly built by Mr Edmund 
 Perpoynte, Master of the College, at his own charge, amounting 
 to £400\ It took the place of an older house which recently 
 had been 'utterly burnt by casualtie of fire.' All the 
 dominical lands were included in this lease with these ex- 
 ceptions — the ground enclosed within mud walls, commonly 
 called the churchyard, all woods and underwoods, the inner 
 court, the Master's and Fellows' gardens, and the close at the 
 west side of the school house, i.e. the western part of the 
 present Fellows' garden. As the ground occupied by the 
 entrance court of the College was not excepted it is probable 
 that the farm buildings in the Nuns' curia were still standing 
 and in use, or others in their place. Except the gatehouse 
 and school adjoining it no College buildings stood there. 
 
 The fair on the festival of the Assumption of the Virgin 
 Mary was granted to the Nuns by charter of King Stephen. 
 This charter is not now extant, but the fact is recorded in the 
 Hundred Rolls I The circumstance that the fair was held on 
 the vigil and feast of the Assumption, i.e. August 14 and 15, 
 seems to indicate, as already stated, that the Nunnery church 
 was originally dedicated to S. Mary, but it is to be noted that 
 Aug. 14 was also the day on which S. Radegund was com- 
 memorated. A third day was added to the duration of the 
 fair by charter of Henry VI., dated the sixteenth year of his 
 reign (Charters, 9). 
 
 The name Garlick Fair, by which it was generally known in 
 its last days, occurs first in an entry in the Bursar's accounts for 
 1577-8. 
 
 1 Bentham, History of Ely, Appendix, p. 46, mentions that in a window of 
 the manor-house, in the year 1744, were blazoned the arms of Bishop Goodrich 
 of Ely. Goodrich was Fellow of Jesus in 1510, and Bishop of Ely 1534 — 1554. 
 
 2 H. R. II. p. 359, 'Item predicte Priorissa et Moniales habent quan- 
 dam feriam ad festum Asnmpcionis Beate Marie Virginis duraturam per duos 
 dies, sc. in vigilia Asumpcionis Beate Marie cum die sequent! quam quidem 
 feriam habent ex concessioue Stephani quondam Eegis Anglie per cartam quam 
 habent de Rege predicto.' 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 4 
 
50 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 " for ledding ij payns in the sowth wyndowe there {i.e. in the chapel) 
 next to the garUcke fayre closse, &c., iijs. vjo?." 
 
 The close here referred to and otherwise known as ' the 
 churchyard ' occupied the position of the eastern portion of 
 what is now the Master's garden, on the southern side of the 
 chapel. It was entered by gates opening on Jesus Lane. In 
 the Nuns' accounts for 1449-50 there is a charge of 12d. for a 
 lock and key for these gates ('pro portis vocatis feyregates'). 
 They stood on the site of the still existing wooden door on the 
 western side of the iron gates through which the new approach 
 from Jesus Lane to the Chapel Court is entered. As late as 
 1803 this gate was described by the then Bursar as ' Garlic 
 Fair Gate.' The churchyard was enclosed with mud walls 
 dividing it on one side from the Master's garden, on the other 
 from the 'Master's close,' or 'pond yard.' Probably the fair 
 had been held there from the first, but after the inclusion of 
 the site in the Master's garden it seems to have been trans- 
 ferred to the western margin of the College close, adjoining the 
 King's Ditch, where it gave its name to Garlic Fair Lane, now 
 Park Street. 
 
 As a trade mart the fair seems never to have had any 
 importance. Though the Nuns and, after them, the College in 
 its earlier days were considerable buyers at both Midsummer 
 and Sturbridge fairs, and on occasions even resorted to 
 S. Audrey's fair at Ely, they seem never to have marketed at 
 the fair which was held in their own grounds. The tolls 
 received by the Nuns in 1449-50 amounted only to 5s. 2<^., 
 and in the following year to 55. In the earlier year the toll 
 collectors received 6d as wage ; a cook hired to help in the 
 kitchen at the fair time also received 3d In the 16th and 
 earlier part of the l7th century the profits of the fair, including 
 ' waifFs and stray thes,' were regularly included in the lease 
 of the manor. After 1635 there appears in the accounts an 
 annual entry of £1 received as profits of the fair, which, with 
 not unfrequent omissions in the later years, continues until 
 1709, after which it ceases \ But until 1838, when the manor- 
 1 In the College Eegister, July 16, 1642, occurs an entry, ' Eogerus Har- 
 
ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 51 
 
 house was destroyed and the close thenceforth let on an annual 
 tenancy, in every lease of the manor there was a covenant that 
 the College 'shall have liberty to keep a fair within and over 
 the close, or such part thereof as hath been used for that 
 purpose, on the feast day of the Assumption of the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary yearly, or at such other time or times as it may 
 keep the same.' The fair seems to have been still in existence 
 at the beginning of the present century, about which time 
 Bowtell writes (MSS. pp. 205—11), ' On the 14th, 15th and 16th 
 August this Fair is still constantly observed by the Inhabitants 
 of Jesus Lane, who claim it as a Privilege belonging peculiarly 
 to their Situation and invite Strangers to partake of their 
 Festivity in strong ale and cheerless (sic) Frumenty. But 
 these Meetings are now attended with far less Rejoicings than 
 they were formerly, when Minstrels and Musicians were 
 engaged to heighten the celebration,' &c. The New Cambridge 
 Guide, published in 1809, speaks ambiguously of its existence 
 at that date. ' There was formerly another festival, called 
 Oarlick Fair, celebrated here; which was granted by Henry VI. 
 to the Nuns of St Radegund, and held in Jesus Lane, on the 
 14th of August and two following days ; but this is now nearly 
 abolished.' 
 
 The Radegund tithes were commonly leased by the College 
 to the tenant of the manor. Like the tithes of all the 
 Cambridge churches they were drawn from the common fields 
 of the town. These fields, tilled by the possessors on the open 
 field system, extended on all sides round the town as far as the 
 borough limits. The fields on the north and west sides of the 
 town were collectively known as Cambridge fields, and on their 
 inner side were bounded by a watercourse extending from 
 Queens' Green to the Bin Brook, and from thence by the Bin 
 Brook to its junction with the river. The fields on the south 
 and east sides of the town were anciently known as Barnwell 
 fields ; their inner boundary coincided generally with the 
 course of the King's Ditch from the point where it leaves the 
 
 rison constitutus est Ballivus noster pro Garlicke faire hoc anno 1642.' No 
 other appointment by the College of a bailiff for the fair is recorded. 
 
 4—2 
 
52 ANNALS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 river at the King's Mill to the place where it rejoins it at the 
 angle of Jesus Green. The Cambridge and the Barnwell 
 fields were to the last cultivated as distinct, and separate Acts 
 of Parliament were required for their enclosure, the former 
 in 1802, the latter in 1807. Both Acts contained provisions 
 for making allotments in lieu of tithes, but the great tithes 
 belonging to Jesus College in the Barnwell fields were specially 
 retained in the Act of 1807, and, as ' Radegund tithes,' exist 
 at the present day. The tithes of Cambridge fields were 
 known as the tithes of S. Giles and the tithes of S. Rade- 
 gund, the former apparently including the parishes of S. 
 Giles, S. Peter and All Saints next the Castle, the churches 
 of which were appropriated to S. Giles' Priory, Barnwell, 
 while the latter would represent the tithes of S. Clement's, 
 which belonged to the almoner of S. Radegund's Priory. The 
 tithes of Barnwell fields on the other hand belonged exclusively 
 to the southern parishes. The old tithe books show that they 
 belonged to the churches of S. Andrew the Great, S. Mary next 
 the Market, S. Mary the Less, S. Bene't and the Holy Trinity, 
 to the almoner of Barnwell Priory, as impropriator of S. Ed- 
 ward's, S. Sepulchre's, S. John's and S. Botolph's, and to 
 S. Radegund's Nunnery, in right, no doubt, of All Saints' Church 
 in Jewry. In a printed report of an action (Anderson v. 
 Broadbelt) which took place in 1816, with respect to the right 
 of Jesus College to the Radegund tithe in Barnwell fields, it is 
 stated that 'the Inhabitants of All Saints' parish in perambu- 
 lating their boundaries had uniformly included the fields of 
 Barnwell in consequence of their right to the Rates on those 
 Tithes.' 
 
ENTRANCE 
 COURT 
 
 A. 
 
 Lutriiia. 
 
 
 
 K. 
 
 Camera of Prioress. 
 
 B. 
 
 Well. 
 
 
 
 L. 
 
 'The Entry'. 
 
 C. 
 
 ? Novices' Dortev on up] 
 
 jer 
 
 floor. 
 
 M. 
 
 ? Cheker of Cellaress. 
 
 D. 
 
 'The Cloister end'. 
 
 
 
 N. 
 
 'The Cook's Chamber'. 
 
 E. 
 
 Dark Entry. 
 
 
 
 0. 
 
 Finceriia. 
 
 F. 
 
 ? Calefactory. 
 
 
 
 V. 
 
 Kitchen. 
 
 G. 
 
 ? Vestry. 
 
 
 
 Q- 
 
 ? Guest Hall of Prioress 
 
 H. 
 
 Sacristan's chamber. 
 
 
 
 B. 
 
 Outer Gates. 
 
 J. 
 
 Vestibule. 
 
 
 
 S. 
 
 ? Almonry. 
 
 
 mtmm 
 
 Existing 
 
 Walls 
 
 and Foundations. 
 
 
 V/M//mA 
 
 H 
 
 IJotnetical. 
 
 
 Fig. III. Plan of the Nunneky Buildings. 
 
 To face iHuje o3. 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 53 
 
 THE BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 The scope of the Arcliitectaral History in the chapters 
 dealing with Jesus College, except in the case of the Chapel, 
 does not include any detailed account of the Nunnery build- 
 ings. Though such an account was outside the plan adopted 
 by the authors in the case of other colleges it is matter for 
 much regret that Professor Willis left no notes for the treat- 
 ment of this subject, on which he could have written with the 
 authority of a master. 
 
 In the preamble to the Statutes of Nicholas West, Bishop 
 of Ely 1515-1533, the statement is made that the College was 
 ' paene ab ipsis fundamentis noviter aedificatura et construc- 
 tum ' by the Founder himself Apparently the construction to 
 be put upon the words ' noviter aedificatum ' is that from the 
 ground-floor upwards Alcock reconstructed the Nuns' buildings 
 in such a way as to give them the appearance of being new ; 
 unless the expression is inaccurate it cannot mean that a new 
 fabric was raised on the old foundations. The former, at least, 
 is the only interpretation which can be reconciled with what 
 is known of Alcock's operations in the case of the Chapel; it 
 corresponds equally with the facts brought to light b}^ recent 
 discoveries connected with the domestic buildings occupying 
 Nunnery sites. It is probable enough, though the fact is 
 not stated in the royal letters patent, that the Nuns left 
 their dwellings in such a state of disrepair as to be scarcely 
 habitable; that was an incident common to college as well 
 as monastic buildings, and as late as the reign of Edward VI. 
 the Bursars' accounts show that a considerable number of 
 chambers were unoccupied 'per defectum reparacionis.' But 
 the poverty and neglect of a quarter of a century which, 
 no doubt, had made havock of thatched roofs and stud-par- 
 titions could have had little effect on the outward walls of 
 
54 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 solid clunch, which, under a facing of later brick, still testify 
 to the durability of the work of the Nunnery builders, and 
 Alcock had too much practical skill to destroy buildings 
 which could easily be adapted to the needs of a college, and 
 harmonized to 15th century fashions in architecture. In the 
 Refectory, in the whole of the ranges occupying the eastern 
 and western sides of the cloister, and in their prolongations 
 northwards into the third or kitchen court the walls of the 
 Nunnery still rise to their original height. Alcock, or the 
 builders who succeeded him, cased them with brick, and, as a 
 third storey was added to the two in which the Nunnery for 
 the most part was contained, it was necessary to heighten the 
 whole structure with a few feet of brickwork. A fiat roof 
 having been substituted on the chapel for one of high pitch the 
 opportunity was taken of bringing the roofs of all the build- 
 ings which surround the cloister to a uniform level. In interior 
 arrangement Alcock worked with a somewhat freer hand, but 
 with some help from documentary evidence it is not difficult 
 beneath his alterations and those of later times to trace the 
 plan of the Nunnery and to locate its principal parts. 
 The documents which serve this purpose are : 
 
 (1) The accounts of the Nunnery Treasuresses, printed on 
 pp. 145-178. 
 
 (2) The statutes of Bishop Stanley (circa 1514), which 
 contain some interesting details as to the chambers assigned to 
 the various inmates of the College. 
 
 (3) The College Bursars' accounts. 
 
 The earliest volume of the Bursars' accounts dates from 
 1557, from which year they are continued in uninterrupted 
 succession to the present time. The authors of the Archi- 
 tectural History have largely availed themselves of the 
 materials contained in these volumes. They do not appear 
 to have been acquainted with the existence of a series of 
 Bursars' Computus rolls, some on vellum, others on paper, 
 beginning with the year 1534-1535, and continuing thence 
 to 1548-1549. Unlike the later accounts these rolls are 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 55 
 
 written in Latin and contain no details of expenditure on 
 repairs and building. But for our purpose they have a special 
 importance in that they contain a complete "Rental of the 
 chambers in the College, specifying their locality and mention- 
 ing, besides the camerae of the Fellows and students, the 
 offices of the College which were not subject to rent. The 
 apartments which they enumerate are those occupying the 
 four sides of the cloister-court, together with those contained in 
 the building which continues the eastern cloister range at the 
 east end of the Hall and into the third court, and the Kitchen 
 range at the west end of the Hall. The chambers allotted to 
 the Master are not stated in detail, and there is no mention 
 of any buildings in the entrance court, except on its eastern 
 side. 
 
 It is unfortunate that the Nunnery accounts give us hardly 
 any information which will help us to realise the appearance, 
 or determine the situation, of the various monastic offices. 
 Besides the church the only buildings mentioned in them are 
 the Refectory, the Aula (i.e. the Guest or Cellarer's Hall), the 
 chamber over the outer gates, the Hospicium (a general term 
 for all the buildings external to the cloister — brewing and 
 candle-making were carried on there), the Latrina, the Kitchen, 
 the Cow-house, the Malt-kiln, the Garner (Orreum) and the 
 Barn (Granatorium). The Infirmary and Chapter-house are 
 referred to in several deeds. Of the Dorter, the Parlour, the 
 Warming-house, the Sacristy and the Lodging of the Prioress 
 the Nunnery documents make no mention. 
 
 Before proceeding to the buildings grouped about the 
 cloister we may in few words say all that is known of the outer 
 yard or curia of the Nunnery. With the authors of the 
 Architectural History we may fairly certainly assume that it 
 occupied the position of the entrance court of the College. The 
 accounts for the year 1449-50 mention certain ' magnas portas 
 exteriores' with a building (domus) adjoining them, which in 
 that year was thatched with sedge. In the following year's 
 accounts is an item for reeds for the repair of the chamber 
 * desuper portas exteriores huius monasterii.' As there seems 
 
56 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 to have been only a single chamber above these gates it would 
 appear that the entrance was not marked by any tower, and 
 resembled the gateways of the older colleges, such as Pembroke 
 and Corpus'. The Gatehouse no doubt occupied the position 
 of the present Gate-tower, and was approached from the road 
 by the passage which is now known as 'the Chimney^.' This 
 passage served also as an approach to the door at the west end 
 of the Nave, which was the entrance to the Church for the 
 parishioners. On its east side was the churchyard. 
 
 On the west side of the gate in the earliest College days 
 existed a small building of two storeys (plan, S) which was the 
 grammar-school, founded by the Lady Katherine, widow of Sir 
 Reginald Bray. Sherman states that the school-house was 
 built by the latter ; but as the deeds relating to the foundation 
 do not state the fact it must be regarded as to some extent 
 doubtful. Possibly Sir Reginald Bray merely adapted one of 
 the Nunnery buildings, perhaps the Almonry, for the purpose. 
 
 On the east side of the Gate Tower is a wing of the Lodge, 
 containing the dining-room on the ground floor (plan, Q). 
 The Statutes of Bishop Stanley show that this wing was 
 occupied by the Master in the first years of the existence of 
 the College. During alterations to the Lodge which were 
 carried out in the course of the year 1886 two window arches 
 were discovered on the inner side of the northern wall of the 
 dining-room (plan, k, k'). They were narrow and lofty, the 
 crown reaching two or three feet above the ceiling. Unfor- 
 tunately they were covered before any notes or drawings were 
 made of them, but it is sufficiently clear that they must have 
 been blocked early in the 16th century, as three windows of 
 that date have been inserted in the wall. The loftiness of the 
 apartment which they lighted shows that it must have been 
 one of some dignity, and its contiguity to the Lodging of the 
 Prioress suggests that it may have been the Guest Hall of the 
 
 1 See Arch. Hist. Vol. in. p. 283. 
 
 2 If there were any evidence for the antiquity of the name it might be 
 conjectured that it was descended from the L.-L. chiminum, a road; but it 
 does not occur in the Bm'sars' books before last century. 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 57 
 
 Prioress. At the N.W. corner of this room is a blocked 
 doorway opening on the passage under the Gate-tower. In 
 the Statutes of Bishop West (chap. 10) it is provided that the 
 Master's servant shall act as exceptor or janitor. A correspond- 
 ing arrangement may have existed in the Nunnery : it is at 
 least noteworthy that Jesus is the only Cambridge College in 
 which the Lodge adjoins the Gate. 
 
 The Bursars' Rentals already mentioned always begin their 
 enumeration of the College chambers with those which are 
 described as being in 'le North Corner Claustri desuper le 
 Coolehouse.' Next follow those at the east end of the Hall 
 and on the east side of the cloister-court, and then successively 
 those on the south side of the cloister, ' next the west end of 
 the Church,' and those on its west and north sides. There is 
 no mention of staircases, but the rooms are distinguished in 
 the order ' lower,' ' middle ' and ' upper.' Each chamber may 
 be readily localized, as there has been practically little altera- 
 tion of the internal arrangement of this part of the College 
 since the first half of the 16th century. 
 
 The ' North Corner ' of the cloister mentioned in the 
 Bursars' Rolls is manifestly that portion of the range on the E. 
 side of the cloister which is continued on the N. side of the 
 Hall, and is now known as staircase K. At the extremity of 
 this range, next the modern (1822) building which continues 
 it northwards, there is a low wooden door on the ground-level, 
 which opens on a flight of steps descending about 4 ft. 6 in. 
 below the present ground-surface outside. Descending these 
 steps we find ourselves in what resembles a narrow passage 
 (plan, A), flanked on either side by clunch walls about 4 ft. 
 apart and closed at its further end by the E. wall of the range. 
 The floor of the adjoining rooms on the first floor of staircase 
 K is carried across the passage, so that those rooms are larger 
 than those below them by the space contained between the 
 walls. The wall opposite the door of entrance is pierced by a 
 very small aperture at the height of 12 ft. from the ground on 
 the inner side. From the parallel walls spring the remains of 
 ■ ancient brick arches which have formerly spanned the vault. 
 
58 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 In this hardly altered relic of the Nunnery it is easy to 
 recognise the conventual latrina mentioned in the accounts of 
 1450-1451. It continued to be used for the same purpose at 
 least as late as 1567-8. In the accounts of that year it is 
 distinguished as ' the olde privye ' from a new ' howse of 
 office ' which was then being built in the same quarter of the 
 College \ 
 
 The floor of the latrina consists of natural gravel, almost 
 undisturbed. The channel of which it was the bed was con- 
 ducted from the fons often mentioned in the Nuns' accounts. 
 This fo7is, which furnished the water supply of the Nunnery, 
 is still represented by a disused pump on the N. side of the 
 Hall (plan, B), which gave its name to the ' Pump Court,' as 
 the third court of the College was till recently called. From 
 this fons, which perhaps was an open trough or cistern, an 
 open channel, called in the accounts of 1572-3 'y® kytching 
 sinke ditche,' or 'the Bog-house ditch' (1650-1), traversed the 
 court in the direction of the latrina. In the accounts for 
 1708-9 are charges for 'covering in y® drayn from y^ kitchen 
 and pump.' Beyond the latrina the ditch passed into a 'pit' 
 or ' pond.' 
 
 As the latrina in monasteries adjoined the Dorter it is 
 fairly certain that the latter was contained in the range of 
 which the latrina and the N. transept of the Church are 
 the extremities. Like all monastic dormitories it was on the 
 upper floor, and was probably divided in the manner described 
 in the Rites of Durham by transverse partitions of wainscote 
 into a double row of chambers, each lighted by a window 
 in the wall adjoining. In the staircase in the N.E. angle of 
 the cloister may be seen a wall recess which appears to mark 
 the position of one of these windows, consisting of a single 
 narrow light (plan, a). 
 
 1 As there were two distinct sets of shafts descending to the ditch from the 
 closets above, one set in front of the other, Kke those found in medieval 
 buildings of more than two storeys, it would appear that there were two upper 
 storeys of closets, and that consequently the E. range of the cloister to which 
 these closets formed the termination was, in this part at least, arranged in 
 three storeys. The clunch wall at the N. is carried up to the present roof. 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 59 
 
 The Dorter seems to have extended over the Chapter-house, 
 but not so far as to the gable-wall of the N. transept. The 
 surmise of the authors of the Architectural History that the 
 Nuns had an access from the Dorter to the transept by the 
 circular staircase, or ' vice,' in the N.E. angle of the latter is 
 devoid of foundation. The unaltered wall on the Dorter side 
 of this ' vice ' shows no trace of a doorway, and the narrow 
 and dark stair would be a most inconvenient means of entei'- 
 ing the church. There is indeed in the N.W. angle of the 
 transept a door, now blocked (plan, b), which may very likely 
 have admitted the Nuns from the Dorter without the neces- 
 sity of passing through the cloister. But, as at first designed, 
 the Dorter clearly did not abut on the transept. The cills 
 of the triplet of Norman windows in this wall are at such a 
 height as to make it clear that there was no building next 
 it on the level of the upper floor. As moreover the ' vice ' 
 has a narrow aperture in the same wall, above the first floor 
 level, designed to light the stairs, it can only have had a 
 ground-floor building next it on the N. side. This building 
 (plan, G) probably contained a staircase descending from the 
 Dorter to the transept door\ 
 
 At its N. end the Nuns' Dorter must have been closed 
 by the wall which extends the line of the N. wall of the 
 Hall. This is now the only transverse wall of solid masonry 
 in the range, and unquestionably is of Nunnery date. But it 
 is only on the ground floor that it appears as a continuous 
 wall of clunch. On the upper floors the portion of it nearest 
 the Hall, 10 feet in breadth, is merely a stud-partition with a 
 thin clunch wall on the ground floor below ; in the eastern 
 portion the thicker clunch continues to the full height of 
 the Dorter. Here the Nunnery arrangement seems to be 
 practically unaltered. The space next to the E. wall of the 
 
 1 The clunch wall of the cloister between the Chapter House and the N. 
 transept was stripped of its plaster in 1894, and was seen to consist of rough 
 materials of all kinds, including a half-worked Norman capital. It bore no 
 trace of either door or window. But there was nothing to show that the exposed 
 face was more than a refacing of post-Nunnery date. 
 
60 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 Refectory, having no windows to light it, was perhaps not used 
 for sleeping chambers, and served as a passage to the latrina 
 and the room next the Dorter on its N. side (plan, C). This 
 room, if the usual monastic arrangement was followed, may 
 have been the Dorter of the Novices. Above it, as already 
 shown, there was a room on the second floor. 
 
 The arrangement indicated above remained very little 
 altered in the 16th century, as is shown by documentary 
 evidence of that date. I shall not apologise for quoting this 
 evidence, as in interesting details it illustrates the continuity 
 of collegiate with monastic life which was, perhaps is, a feature 
 distinguishing Jesus from other Cambridge colleges. 
 
 The existence of a chamber of more than ordinary im- 
 portance, next to the latrina, is indicated by cap. 28 of 
 Bishop Stanley's Statutes. This statute, which gives par- 
 ticular directions as to the assignment of chambers in the 
 College, contains the following clause : 
 
 "Omnes camerae (exceptis tribus de principalioribus, camera videlicet 
 ex parte boreali summi Altaris, camera ad occidentalem partem Aulae 
 quam modo M"^ Fitzherbert iuhabitat et camera proxima communem 
 latrinam quam modo M^' Ogle tenet quas volumus pro venerabilioribus 
 personis ad Collegium nostrum praedictum confluentibus custodiri) nisi 
 alias magistro placuerit, praefatis sociis, perhendinantibus et scholaribus 
 per praefatum magistrum distribuantur." 
 
 As regards the last of the chambers indicated, that, 
 namely, which adjoined the latrina, the directions of tlie 
 statute seem generally to have been observed in the 16th 
 century. During the years 1544-1550 it was occupied by 
 a certain Mr Badcocke, who is probably to be identified with 
 John Badcocke, the last prior of Barnwell, who surrendered 
 his house to the crown in 1538 and was subsequently incum- 
 bent of S. Andrew's the Less, Barnwell^ In 1572 it was 
 occupied by Lord Wharton, and in 1576-9 by Bancroft, after- 
 wards Archbishop of Canterbury, who, though distinguished as 
 a tutor, and, as a continuator of Sherman's Historia observes, 
 
 ^ Cooper, Athenae Cantab., Vol. i. p. 219. 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 61 
 
 ' potestate plane magistrali pollens/ was never a Fellow of the 
 College. The Bursars' Rentals of 1535-1550 show certain 
 circumstances connected with this guest-chanaber which dis- 
 tinguish it from other rooms in the College. As a matter of 
 fact it consisted of two chambers, on the middle and upper 
 floor respectively, and the tenant also sometimes rented the 
 coal-house below them. Each of the chambers is called a 
 ' half-chamber ' {medietas camerae), but, as the tenant paid 
 for each the same rent as other tenants on the same floors, 
 it would seem that the half-chambers were not inferior in 
 size to ordinary College chambers. The explanation of the 
 designation ' half-chamber ' seems to lie in the fact that a 
 portion of the middle and upper floor-space was required for 
 the passage connecting this quarter of the College with the 
 rooms in the upper floors of the eastern cloister-range. This 
 passage, here about 8 feet wide, is still to be distinguished 
 in the gyp-rooms of the four upper chambers at the N. end 
 of the range, which, unlike those on the lower floor, are of 
 substantial masonry. The passage on the second floor was 
 entered from the chamber, now a lumber-room, at the E. 
 end of the Hall through a wooden doorcase, of 16th century 
 design, set in the stud-wall already mentioned as continuing 
 the N. wall of the Hall. This stud-wall apparently did not 
 exist in the Nunnery or early College days, for in the angle 
 next the oriel of the Hall there was formerly, on each of the 
 upper floors a window, the upper one of smaller size, so 
 splayed as to light the dark portion of the passage extend- 
 ing along the E. wall of the HalP. At the end of this 
 passage, on the top floor and over the latrina, there is a very 
 small chamber, approached through a stone door-case and 
 lighted from the third court by a diminutive window. Its 
 
 1 These windows now exist only as cupboard recesses on the inner side of 
 the wall. But externally they may be recognized by the brick which has been 
 used for blocking them being of a diiferent colour from the rest of the wall. 
 In the highest storey of the building next the W. end of the Hall there is still 
 a passage which leads from the N. wall of the range, over the kitchen as far as 
 the N.W. angle of the cloister-court, and in the N. and S. ends of the gable 
 wall of the Hall there are small windows splayed in the manner above described. 
 
62 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 position and dimensions sufficiently prove it to have been a 
 necessarium. 
 
 Apart from the convenience of a covered approach to the 
 latrina, the passage was rendered necessary by the fact that 
 the gate leading from the Nuns' cloister to the third court 
 was always locked at night. The frequent mention in the 
 Bursars' accounts of purchases of keys and repairs to the lock 
 of the " cloisters gate " seems to show that in the earlier 
 College period no egress was permitted at night beyond the 
 cloister-court. 
 
 The description in the Bursars' Rolls of this quarter of 
 the College as the ' North Corner Claustri ' is an indication 
 of the fact, otherwise established by entries in the Audit 
 books, that a cloister-walk existed here in the 16th century, 
 as, no doubt, had been the case in Nunnery times. The 
 Audit books call this 'the cloister end,' and it adjoined 'the 
 vvoodyard*,' It was otherwise described as a 'lane' or! 
 ' gallery V both of which words were once used to denote a 
 cloister- walk I This external cloister was an extension of 
 the eastern walk of the cloister-quadrangle, with which it 
 communicated by a passage under the dais of the Hall (i.e. 
 the Refectory), an arrangement common in monasteries. This 
 passage remained in use at least as late as 1648-9, when 
 it was known as the ' Dark Entry^,' the name which was 
 
 1 Accounts 1572-3 : ' To Barraker slatinge in the woodyarde over the 
 cloister ende going up to my lord Wharton's chamber... mending the foundations- 
 of the cloisters on the outside towards the inner corte and mending the founda- 
 tion of the wall in the entrie going up to my lord Wharton's chamber,' &c. 
 
 2 Accounts 1567-8: 'Barnes bill for...underpinninge the walles of the 
 lane going to the house of office and for tiling,' &c. Same year: 'Imprimis 
 vij dales before Whitsondaie when Thomas Gallant wrought pulling down the 
 slate of the gallerie and the walle goinge to the walle of the olde howse of 
 office,' &c. In 1576-7 mention occurs of 'y" Layne going down to y® Bo- 
 cardes.' ' Bocardo,' 'the Bocardes,' a euphemistic Italianization of the 
 vernacular 'bogard,' occurs often in the accounts. Dr Murray's Dictionary 
 does not recognize the word ' Bocardo ' except in the more familiar sense of 
 'prison.' But the last passage quoted s. i\ in Halliwell and Nare's Glossary 
 makes the other meaning plain. 
 
 ^ See Architectural History, Vol. iii. p. 338. 
 
 ■* Accounts 1648 — 9 : ' For two lattises for y" window in y'= dark entry, 6^' 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 63 
 
 given at Canterbury to the covered way which led under the 
 Dorter from the Great Cloister to the Infirmary. It was 
 entered from the cloister quadrangle through a door-case 
 which now gives access to the staircase in the N.E. angle 
 of the court. This staircase is called in the Bursars' accounts 
 of last century ' the Parlour staircase ' from the circumstance 
 that it then gave access to the Combination Room through a 
 door, now blocked, on the first floor. It is generally known 
 in College as ' Cow Lane.' The latter name was given to a 
 passage next the Porter's lodge in the Old Court of King's 
 College. Perhaps it was originally applied to the Dark Entry, 
 which was entered from the cloister through the same door- 
 way as the staircase, 'lane' being, as already stated, one of 
 the names by which the passage to the 'house of ofiice' was 
 known. A more modern door under the oriel of the Hall 
 marks the exit of the Dark Entry on the outer side. The 
 clunch walls flanking the passage still remain in the Buttery 
 beneath the Hall, though the central portion of each has been 
 removed in order to give uninterrupted communication with 
 the cellar beyond, and the passage has been blocked by recent 
 walls at either end. 
 
 The room on the E. side of the Dark Entry (plan, F), now 
 a cellar, was entered from it by a door of which traces remain 
 in the clunch wall. In the early part of the 16th century this 
 room, as well as the Combination Room and garret above it, 
 was occupied as an ordinary college-chamber. The present 
 floor of the cellar is three feet lower than the pavement of the 
 cloister walk, but its original level was higher, as is shown by 
 the position in the E. wall of a window, now blocked, and in 
 the N. wall of a fireplace. The latter has a nearly flat arch 
 plainly chamfered in the clunch : on its eastern side is a small 
 locker. We may conjecture that this room was the Nuns' 
 Common House or Calefactory. 
 
 On the inner side of the E. wall of the cloister, directly 
 facing the northern walk, there may be seen a wide and 
 plainly chamfered arch of stone (plan, c). Its crown has been 
 cut away to make the window looking into the cloister. If 
 
64 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 the S. wall of the room which we conjecture to have been 
 the Common House was in line with the S. wall of the 
 Refectory, there can only have been space between it and 
 the Chapter House for a passage. It seems probable, there- 
 fore, that this archway was the entrance to the passage from 
 the cloister to the Garden and the Cemetery. The burial- 
 ground of the Nuns was pretty certainly at the N.E. end of 
 the Church, that of the parish at the S.E. end; human remains 
 were dug up on the former site in 1884, and on the latter in 
 the years 1848-50. 
 
 The circumstances which led to the remarkable discovery 
 in April 1893 of the beautiful arcade which was the cloister- 
 front of the Chapter House need not here be detailed. Sub- 
 sequent excavations carried on in July 1894 brought to light 
 the lower courses of the walls of the eastern portion of the 
 Chapter House projecting into the Chapel Court. These ex- 
 cavations showed that the Chapter House measured 37 feet 
 by 25 feet. At the N.E. and S.E. angles there was a pair of 
 buttresses of slight projection which showed that the building 
 was of early 13th century date. Running along the eastern 
 wall on its inner side was a stone bench. The whole of the 
 west end was occupied by three arches, the middle one forming 
 a doorway, and those at the sides containing each a window 
 of two lights with a quatrefoil above. The arches and tracery 
 spring from rich clusters of detached shafts, most of the capi- 
 tals of which are carved with foliage, while a few are moulded. 
 Two capitals in the northernmost pier are remarkable. They 
 themselves are finished, but their design would seem to have 
 been suggested by an unfinished carved capital. One of the 
 annulets which divide the longer shafts broke at some time, 
 and a continuous shaft was substituted for the two lengths. 
 It will be noticed that there was no door in the entrance, 
 and no shutters or glass in the windows. During the exca- 
 vations at the east end there were found a number of frag- 
 ments of lancet windows divided by small shafts. These are 
 of the same period as the other remains of the Chapter House, 
 and it is probable that they are parts of the eastern window. 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 65 
 
 They are now preserved on the floor within the entrance. A 
 low stone bench (plan, d) extends along the cloister wall 
 from the Chapter House towards the north transept. A 
 tombstone with floriated cross, possibly not in its original 
 position, lies before the entrance ; the partial excavation of the 
 site brought to light no tombstones within the Chapter House. 
 
 The existing portions of the conventual church have been 
 so fully described by Professor Willis^ that it is sufficient here to 
 record the few facts which have been discovered since he wrote. 
 
 The statute of Bishop Stanley quoted on p. 60 mentions a 
 chamber on the northern side of the High Altar which was 
 set apart for the use of distinguished guests of the College. In 
 the summer of 1894 the foundations of a small building were 
 discovered on the north side of the presbytery (plan, H). This 
 building was of the same width as the adjoining choir-aisle and 
 in length extended from the east end of the latter to the east 
 end of the presbytery. Whether it communicated with the 
 aisle or not it is impossible to say, for the old aisle was de- 
 stroyed by Alcock : but it seems to have been entered from 
 the presbytery by a door now blocked (plan, e). The building 
 was clearly of two storeys, for there is a small loop-hole or 
 squint high up in the presbytery wall, which was so directed 
 that the light before the High Altar could be seen from the 
 upper storey (plan, /). Probably this upper room was the 
 Sacristan's chamber. It must obviously have blocked up the 
 lower parts of the lancet windows in the north wall of the 
 presbytery I 
 
 The discovery of a Norman arcade on the western wall of 
 the north transept in the summer of 1882 is briefly alluded to 
 in the Appendix to the second volume of the Architectural 
 History and is more fully detailed in a communication to the 
 Antiquarian Society by Mr W. M. Fawcett, M.A.' 
 
 1 Architectural History, ii. pp. 122 — 141. 
 
 2 It may here be mentioned that previously to 1828 only four lancet 
 windows were open on the north side of the presbytery, corresponding to the 
 four in the opposite wall. The fifth lancet on the north side, and the blind half- 
 arch next it, were discovered in that year by the Eev. G. Green, M.A., Dean. 
 
 '^ Communications, xxv. p. Ixxxvi. 
 
 G. A. S. Octavo Series. 5 
 
66 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY, 
 
 There is good reason for believing that the choir of the 
 Nuns' church extended into the nave, and even that the 
 present west wall of the Chapel stands in the position, if it be 
 not the actual structure, of the wall which divided the conven- 
 tual from the parochial part of the church. An early deed 
 (Charters, 220 c) grants a rent of eight shillings 'for mainte- 
 nance of a lamp in the choir of the nuns, wheresoever their 
 choir shall be,' words which imply that the ritual choir was not 
 limited to the chancel. Alcock's screen, on the other hand, if 
 we may judge from the mention in the Audit accounts for 
 1560 — 1 of a 'barre at the chansell dore,' would seem to have 
 occupied the position of the present one. The view that the 
 Nuns' choir-screen was near the western end of the Chapel 
 perhaps derives some support from the fact that in digging for 
 the supports of the new organ gallery in 1888 a large earthen- 
 ware vessel, 13 inches in height, was discovered a few inches 
 below the pavement. It was empty and may have served as a 
 'resonator,' such as in the middle ages were sometimes placed 
 under organs and stalls, e.g. at Fountains Abbey. 
 
 The hope expressed by the authors of the Architectural 
 History (vol. II, p. 128) that a fine western door might at some 
 time be discovered in the western wall of the old nave received 
 a fulfilment, unfortunately only partial, in the year 1886, when 
 the lower portion of the northern jamb of this door was dis- 
 covered during alterations to the Master's Lodge. The remains 
 disclosed showed that the jambs had been filled with clusters 
 of detached shafts of the 13th century, like those in the 
 entrance to the Chapter House. At the same time remains of 
 some of the northern piers of the nave were found embedded 
 in a wall of Alcock's work^ 
 
 Inspection of the plan will show that the westernmost 
 pier (plan, g) of the northern arcade of the nave is not, like the 
 corresponding one on the opposite side, placed against the 
 western wall of the church, but slightly advanced to the east. 
 
 1 Mr J. W. Clark has kindly furnished me with a plan (made in 1886) 
 showing these discoveries and the arrangement of the west end of the church. 
 This I have employed in drawing the plan opposite p. 53, 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 67 
 
 Between this pier (g) and the western wall there seems to have 
 been a doorway. Previous to the alterations which took place 
 in this part of the Master's Lodge in 1886 the wall at the N.W. 
 angle of the old nave was pierced on the ground-floor by a 
 door which opened on a rectangular area (plan, J) containing a 
 staircase which ascended to the first-floor rooms. The walls 
 enclosing this area were of solid character and were carried to 
 the full height of the building. That on its north side is a 
 prolongation of the north aisle wall ; that on the west is 
 similarly an extension of the exterior wall of the western 
 cloister-range and is parallel in direction with the western 
 front of the church. Now the buildings which surround the 
 cloister are all disposed in an exactly rectangular fashion ; but 
 the angle which the west cloister range makes with the south 
 range of the entrance-court is not a right angle. It seems not 
 improbable that the Nuns' gate-house was originally detached 
 from the cloister-range. The hypothesis that the range con- 
 necting them was erected at a later date accounts for the 
 unsymmetrical plan of the dining-room of the Lodge (plan, Q) 
 the east and west walls of which are not parallel. The east 
 wall of the dining-room was, on this supposition, once the 
 external wall of a small tower-like structure projecting from 
 the church at its N.W. angle. Loggan's view of the S. front 
 shows just such a projection from the wing which contained 
 the old nave. Like that wing it contained three storeys, 
 whereas the wing between it and the gateway has only two. 
 Further proof of the original connection of this quasi-tower 
 with the church is seen in the fact that the battlements over 
 the present nave and the part of the old nave now converted 
 into domestic buildings, as shown by Loggan, are continued 
 round the south and west sides of this projection. These 
 battlements, we know, were the work of Sir John Rysley, who 
 died in 1511 \ Between 1718 and 1720 the wing of the Lodge 
 next the gate was heightened by the addition of another storey, 
 
 1 Commemoration Book : " Sir John Eysley covered the Cloisters with 
 timber and lead and completed the Eoof and Battlements at the West End 
 of the Church." 
 
 5—2 
 
68 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 whereby the turret was completely smothered in external 
 appearance, and, no doubt, at the same time the battlement 
 above it was removed. 
 
 The ground floor of the structure above described (plan, /) 
 obviously served as a vestibule to the church, to which the 
 Prioress had access from her lodging in the western cloister- 
 range by the entrance at the N.W. angle of the nave. From 
 the account of the ceremonies attending the installation of a 
 Prioress, given on pp. 38-9, we learn that after the publication 
 of the election ' coram populo congregate,' i.e. probably in the 
 parochial part of the nave, ' omnes sorores predictam Joannam 
 electam duxerunt ad vestibulum ejusdem ecclesie ibideraque 
 dimiserunt,' i.e. they conducted her to this vestibule and left 
 her at the door of the lodging which she was to occupy as 
 Prioress. The door was probably the still existing one (plan, h) 
 by which the Hall of the Lodge is entered. On the first floor 
 immediately above this door, and communicating with the room 
 above this Hall, is another ancient door which, no doubt, was 
 reached by a staircase ascending from the vestibule. 
 
 A common arrangement in monasteries of which the Head 
 did not reside in a detached building was to place the Lodge 
 of the Prior in the west side of the cloister next the Church. 
 On the ground floor was placed his camera, or private chamber, 
 above it his solar with an oratory adjoining. At Jesus the 
 rooms in this quarter of the College, as shown by the Bursars' 
 Rentals, were allotted from a very early period to the Master, 
 and they lend themselves so exactly to the uses above-mentioned 
 that it is highly probable that Alcock assigned to the Master 
 of the College the dwelling which had formerly belonged to the 
 Prioress. The large room on the ground floor next the vesti- 
 bule (plan, K) is called in the Bursars' Rentals the camera 
 Magistri. Since the publication of the Architectural History 
 it has been restored very much to the dimensions and appear- 
 ance which belonged to it in Alcock's time. The wooden 
 partitions which divided it before the alterations of 1886 have 
 been removed, the ceiling taken down and the joists of the 
 floor above it exposed. These joists are coloured with ver- 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 69 
 
 milion and adorned with repetitions of the monogram IHS. 
 On its north side this room is bounded by the passage (plan, L) 
 which until last century was the approach from the entrance 
 court to the cloister \ In the Bursars' Rentals this passage is 
 simply called 'le Entre.' The handsome wainscoted room above 
 the Master's chamber goes by various names in the Audit 
 Books — the Conference Chamber, the Audit Room, the coena- 
 culitni Magistri and the Founder's Chamber. Probably the 
 last name indicates that Alcock designed it for the use of 
 himself and his successors in the see of Ely. It was probably 
 the Solar or Guest Chamber of the Prioress. Next to it on the 
 north side is a narrow chamber contained within the walls 
 which flank the ' Entry ' below, and approached by a door at 
 the east end of the Conference Chamber. Though it is only 
 eight feet in width this room is lighted by a large eastern 
 window of three lights. This was clearly the Oratory of the 
 Prioress. Sherman tells us in his Historia that Dr Reston, 
 who was Master 1546 — 1549, converted this chamber into his 
 private Oratory, and it continued to be used as the Mastei-'s 
 Oratory as late as 1635^ In another passage Sherman informs 
 us that the ' insignia ' (? arms painted on glass) of Sir Reginald 
 Bray (d. 1503) were in his time still to be seen in this 
 Oratory. 
 
 The rest of the ground-floor of the western cloister-range 
 is stated in the Bursars' Rentals to be occupied by two chambers 
 let to students of the College, and a room beyond them to the 
 north which was occupied by the Cook. The purposes which 
 the two former chambers served in the Nunnery it is not easy 
 to determine. One of them may perhaps have been the Parlour 
 {Locutorium) where the Nuns were allowed to converse with 
 visitors, or with servants and tradesmen on the business of the 
 Nunnery ; the other was not improbably the Cheker, or office 
 of the Cellaress. The room in which the College Cook lived 
 (plan, N) from the fact that there was no chamber over it — 
 the space being occupied, as it still is, by the Library staircase — 
 
 1 See Architectural History, ii. p. 122. 
 
 2 See the extract quoted in Architectural History, ii. p. 169, note. 
 
70 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 is easily identified with tlie passage by which at the present 
 day the cloister is entered from the first court. 
 
 An interesting feature in this chamber is a low aperture 
 (plan, j) in its north wall, opening into the room marked in 
 the plan and now serving as the Kitchen Office, but in early 
 College days used as the pincerna or Buttery. This aperture 
 is 16 in. wide and its apex is not more than 4 feet above the 
 pavement of the passage, but the floor of the Buttery cellar 
 on which it opens is 2 ft. lower than this pavement, though 
 formerly, no doubt, level with it. On the side next the passage 
 it is widely splayed, and a single hinge exists on which a 
 shutter seems to have been hung. It is quite evident that 
 this opening was not a window looking into an external court, 
 for the walls of the old Buttery are of massive clunch and 
 evidently Nuns' work of an early date. Moreover on the side 
 of the cellar the aperture is flush with the wall surface, and 
 shows no kind of recess nor any window jambs. West of the 
 opening on this cellar side the wall has been plugged with lead 
 as though for fixing some object of wood or iron. 
 
 In this singular opening we may recognise a contrivance 
 like the Rota or Turn, which is thus described in Prof. 
 Willis' History of the Monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury, 
 (p. 39, note). 
 
 " The Turn or Rota is a contrivance employed in Nunneries, Foundling 
 Hospitals, and elsewhere, and consists of an upright cylindrical box 
 turning on an upright axis, and having an opening on one side only. 
 It is fixed within or in front of an opening in a partition wall, so that 
 a person on one side placing an object in the Turn can, by twisting 
 the box half round, bring the object within the grasp of a second 
 person on the other side, without either party seeing the other." 
 
 Prof. Willis gives a description of a cellar wall-hole of this 
 kind at Christ Church Monastery, which, with a few differences, 
 might be applied to that in the Cook's Chamber. The Cellarer, 
 he says, 
 
 "was lodged at the end of the Refectory buildings, and in contact 
 with the court of the Guesten-hall....Two doors in the western alley [of the 
 cloister] lead to his territory, the one at the north end, opposite to the 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 71 
 
 northern alley, the other near the south end. The first is remarkable for 
 having at the left side a singular octagonal opening of sixteen inches 
 diameter through the thickness of the wall, in the form of a horizontal 
 spout, the middle of which is about four feet from the ground. It pierces 
 the wall, narrowing to a circular form a foot in diameter at the back, where 
 it appears to have opened into one of the Cellarer's offices. 
 
 " Milner, describing the remains of the conventual buildings at Win- 
 chester, mentions a small ornamented arch in a wall, which communicated 
 with the buttery and the cellarage, and remarks, ' It is not improbable that 
 here was what is called a Turn, by which the brethren who were exhausted 
 with fatigue and thirst, might, with the leave of their superior, at certain 
 times call for a cup of beer of the cellarer.' Our spout may have been a 
 contrivance to carry out this indulgence. The opening from the cellarage 
 at the back being contrived at right angles with the present opening, it is 
 plain that the cup would be placed by the Cellarer's man within reach of 
 the applicant and returned without mutual recognition. But at present 
 there are no traces of the form of its termination inwards," &c. 
 
 The room called in the Bursars' Rentals the ' pincerna ' 
 (plan, 0) served as the Buttery until the year 1579-1580 
 when a ' new buttrye ' was constructed, apparently under the 
 Hall. The accounts of 1563-1564 mention 'a doore betwene 
 y^ butleres chamber and y® kechine.' 
 
 In the upper floors of the part of the western cloister-range 
 which extends from the Oratory to the wall between the Cook's 
 chamber and the pincerna there are no partitions of solid 
 masonry. The whole of the highest floor is now occupied by 
 the Library. In its upper portion this room is probably 
 Alcock's work, as seems to be shown by the use of brick in 
 its lateral walls. But there is reason to believe that in this 
 quarter of the Nunner}^ there was a large room occupying on 
 the first floor the space which the Library now occupies on the 
 floor above it. The usual monastic arrangement would place 
 here the Guest House, or Lodging of the Cellaress. 
 
 In the Nuns' accounts for 1449-50 reference is made in 
 the same item to repairs in the Aula (i.e. Hall of the Cellaress) 
 and in the Kitchen, and for practical reasons there can be little 
 doubt that these two departments were in close communication. 
 The Aula then most likely occupied the space above the Nuns' 
 Buttery. In its N. wall is contained the flue of the Kitchen 
 
72 BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 
 
 range and in its N.W. corner, where the clunch of this wall 
 ends and a wooden party wall closes the room, there was most 
 likely a wooden staircase descending inside the Kitchen. The 
 Kitchen, which, except for alterations by Alcock in the door 
 and windows, is substantially the Kitchen of the Nuns, has 
 always occupied the height of two storeys. 
 
 The means of access from the entrance- court to the Hall 
 and Lodging of the Cellaress have now to be considered. 
 The Nunnery accounts for the year 1450-1451 mention a 
 ' Poorche ' or ' Portecus prope Aulam.' The only side of the 
 Aula detached from other buildings was the west : on the 
 other sides there could not have been any door requiring the 
 shelter of a porch. If the Lodging of the Cellaress reached, 
 as we must suppose, to the N. wall of the present cloister 
 entry, its door must have opened directly into the Guest Hall 
 without any interposed staircase and landing. The staircase to 
 the Guest Hall was therefore external to the building. We 
 note that the same workman was engaged in 1450-1451 in 
 mendino^ with tiles and ' sclate ' the ' Porch ' and the cloister. 
 Probably the so-called Porch was of the nature of a pentise, 
 ascending by a covered stair to the first floor. The splendid 
 Norman staircase of the New Hall at Canterbury is a familiar 
 example of such an arrangement. 
 
 The chamber at the west end of the Hall, occupying the 
 position of the old Guest Hall, it may be remembered, was one 
 of the three principal chambers which by the statutes of Bishop 
 Stanley were allotted to distinguished visitors to the College. 
 
 The passage from the cloister to the Kitchen was, in the 
 Nunnery, as now, under the vestibule of the Refectory or Hall. 
 The Kitchen door (hostium coquine) must have stood where 
 Alcock's door now stands, and was nearl}' opposite a newel 
 staircase which opened above on the platform outside the 
 screen^ Above the entrance from the cloister was the small 
 room which until 1875 was the College muniment" "room and 
 in the Bursars' Rentals is called the Treasury (occupatur cum 
 
 1 A plan of the west eud of the Hall, previous to the alterations of 1875, 
 which includes this staircase, is given in the Architectural History, ii. p. 163. 
 
BUILDINGS OF THE NUNNERY. 73 
 
 Thesauro Ecclesie). It may have served the same purpose in 
 the Nunnery. 
 
 The Bursars' Rentals mention two rooms under the Hall. 
 The first had one door opening S. into the cloister and another 
 N. next to the well. It was used for the storage of fuel (focalia). 
 The other had a door opening E. in the 'entre' {i.e. the Dark 
 Entry) and was ' le Storehowse.' The word staurus was more 
 particularly applied to salted or dry fish. After the rooms 
 under the Hall were converted into the ' new buttrye ' we hear 
 of a ' new fish-house/ which was in the Kitchen. It was placed 
 over the ' leads,' i.e. the kitchen coppers, and hence was called 
 'y^ house in y^ leads.' It was between the outer wall of clunch 
 on the N. side of the Kitchen and an inner parallel one of brick, 
 the enclosed space being about six feet wide. The fish was 
 piled on layers of sedge in a high stack, and to get at it there 
 was a door in the brick wall now visible only on the side 
 interior to the two walls. This door is at about the first floor 
 level, and was reached from the Kitchen by ' a new ladder for 
 y® fish house' (1584-1585). The Nuns appear to have stacked 
 their fish in a similar fashion, if we may judge from the fact 
 that several of them travelled by water to Lynn in 1450-1451 
 in order to buy salt fish and at the same time purchased a 
 'piece of timber called " a Maste" required for making a ladder.' 
 
 The Founder's skilful treatment of the Nuns' Refectory has 
 given the Hall completely the appearance of a late loth 
 century building ; but in no part of the College is it clearer 
 that he left the fabric of the Nuns' building entire, inserting 
 only new windows, heightening the walls and constructing a 
 new roof. The extent to which he raised the walls is best seen 
 in the garret over the Combination Room, where the clunch of 
 the Refectory gable is surmounted by a brick addition four or 
 five feet high at its middle part. The entrance to the Hall 
 from the cloister was until 1875 through a door-arch of 
 Alcock's time which opened into the space between the west 
 gable of the Hall and the screen \ A flight of steps led thence 
 to the vestibule of the Hall. 
 
 1 Architectural History, ii. p. 162. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 Royal and Episcopal Charters. 
 
 1 Charter of Nigellus, second bishop of Ely (1133 — 1169). 
 
 N. Dei gratia Eliensis Ecclesie Episcopus universis baroni- 
 bus et hominibus Sancte Etheldrythe tarn clericis quam 
 ]aicis tam Francis quam Anglis salutem. Notum sit 
 vobis omnibus tam presentibus quam futuris me conces- 
 sisse et dedisse et carta mea confirmasse quandam terram 
 sanctimonialibus cellule extra villam Cantebruge noviter 
 institute prope terram eiusdem cellule iacentem quietam 
 et liberam absque omni consuetudine reddendo per 
 singulos annos xij*^. Presentibus testibus istis Rad. Olaf, 
 Petro clerico, Gileberto capellano de Hornungesheia. 
 Valete. 
 
 2 a Charter of King Stephen confirming a grant of William 
 
 Monachus or le Moyne. 
 S. Rex Anglie Episcopo de Eli et Justiciariis et Vice- 
 comitibus et Baronibus et Administris et omnibus 
 fidelibus suis de Cantebr. scira salutem. Sciatis me 
 confirmasse et concessisse Ecclesie et Sanctimonialibus 
 Sancte Marie de Cantebrugia donacionem illam quam 
 Wills Monachus aurifaber eis fecit de ij virgatis terre 
 et de vj acris de prato et de iiij cotariis cum teneura 
 sua in Schelforda in elemosina pro anima Regis Henrici 
 et pro Dei fidelibus. Quare volo et precipio quod 
 Ecclesia ilia et Sanctimoniales terram predictam et 
 pratum et cotarios cum teneura sua bene et in pace et 
 libere et quiete et in elemosina teneant solutam et 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIOEY. 75 
 
 quietam omni secular! exactione et servicio sicut idem 
 Wills illam eis dedit et concessit. T., W. Martell et 
 Rain, de Warenna. Apud Mapertes halam in obsidione. 
 
 b Charter of Bishop Nigellus confirming the same grant. 
 
 Witnessed by 'Willo Archid., Eic. de Sancto Paulo, Eic. de 
 Pontecardon, Eic. filio Ilberti, Magistro Ernulfo, Johe de Sancto 
 Albano, Gileberto clerico, Eadulfo Dapifero, Alexandre Pincerna, 
 Henrico Peregrino.' 
 
 3 a Charter of the Countess Constance. 
 
 Constantia Comitissa N. Eliensi Episcopo et omni clero 
 et omnibus Baronibus Cantebrigscir et Burgensibus de 
 Cantebrig tam futuris quam presentibus salutem. Sciatis 
 me dedisse et concessisse Sanctimonialibus de Cantebrig 
 totam terram earum infra Burgum et extra tam possi- 
 dendam quam possessam quietam de hagabulo et de 
 langabulo et totam piscaturam et aquam que Burgo 
 pertinet ita libere et quiete et honorifice sicut maritus 
 meus Eustacius et ego liberius et honorificentius ha- 
 buimus pro anima mariti mei Comitis Eustacii et pro 
 anima Matilde Regine et Autecessorum meorum necnon 
 pro salute Regis Stephani in perpetuam elemosinam. 
 His testibus : N. Eliensi Episcopo [ ] cum 
 
 Rodberto fratre suo, Radulfo Vicecomite, Alexandro 
 pincerna, Eustacio de Bans, Will. Monaco de Selford, 
 Rodberto Grim, Gisleberto filio Dunning, Hereberto, 
 Herveo filio Warin. 
 
 An ancient exemplification of the above charter of Nunnery 
 date gives the names of the missing witnesses, viz G. de Waltervill, 
 Eogero le Equaham. The copy is endorsed ' Haygabil.' 
 
 b Confirmation of the above charter by King Stephen. 
 Stephanus Rex Anglie Episcopo de Eli et Justiciariis et 
 Vicecomitibus et Baronibus et Ministris et omnibus 
 fidelibus suis de Cantebrigscir salutem. Sciatis me 
 concessisse et confirmasse donacionem illam quam 
 Comitissa Constantia uxor Comitis Eustachii filii mei 
 fecit Sanctimonialibus de Cantebrig^ in elemosinam de 
 
76 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY, 
 
 tota piscatura et aqua que Burgo Cantebr. pertinet et de 
 quietancia totius terre sue. Quare volo et precipio quod 
 Sanctimoniales ille totam terram suam et piscaturam et 
 aquam bene et in pace et libere et quiete teneant solutam 
 et quietam ab omni secular! exactione et servicio sicut 
 predicta Comitissa Constantia illis dedit et concessit et 
 carta sua confirmavit. T., Fulc. de Oilli et Rob. fil. Unfr., 
 et Ric. de Bada, et Henr. de Novo Mercato. Apud Cante- 
 brug. 
 c Confirmation of the same charter by Bishop Nigellus, 
 
 4 a First charter of King Malcolm IV. of Scotland, Earl of 
 Huntingdon. 
 M, Rex Scotie omnibus hominibus suis tam clericis quam 
 laicis de honore Hunted, salutem. Sciatis me concessisse 
 et dedisse Deo et monialibus de Grantebrige x acres {sic) 
 terre iuxta Grenecroft in elemosinam et ad fundendam 
 {sic) ecclesiam suam in ea per duos solidos reddendos et 
 precipio quod minister meus cum eos reciperit {sic) ad 
 altare eiusdem ecclesie ofiferat eos. T., Herberto Epis- 
 copo de Glasgu, Walt. Cancellario, Hugone de Morevill, 
 Fulc. de Lusures, Dd. Olifat, Walt, de Lind. Apud 
 Hunted. 
 
 Royal seal appended ; see p. 12. 
 
 h Second charter of King Malcolm. 
 M. Rex Scott, omnibus probis hominibus suis et amicis de 
 honore Huntendunie et Cantebrugie salutem. Sciant 
 clerici et laici presentes et posteri me in perpetuam 
 elemosinam dedisse et concessisse et hac mea carta con- 
 firmasse Deo et Ecclesie Sancte Marie et Sancte Rade- 
 ffundis de Cantebruff. et Sanctimonialibus ibidem Deo 
 servieutibus decem acras terre iuxta Grenecroft. Quare 
 volo et firmiter precipio ut predicte Sanctimoniales illas 
 decem acras habeant et possideant liberas et quietas ab 
 omni servicio et consuetudine et ab omni redditu et ab 
 omni seculari exactione et nominatim eas precipio fore 
 quietas de illis duobus solidis quos predicte Sanctimoni- 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 77 
 
 ales inde mihi annuatim reddere solebant. T., Engelr. 
 Cancellario, Nicol. Camerario, Willo. Burdet, Hug. Ridel. 
 Apud Huntend. 
 
 c Confirmation of King Malcolm's grant by Archbishop 
 Becket. 
 Thom. Dei gratia Cant. Ecclesie minister hu mills omnibus 
 Sancte Matris Ecclesie filiis salutem. Noverit universitas 
 vestra nos sigilli nostri atestatione corroborasse et con- 
 firmasse Sanctimonialibus de Cantebrug. ibi Deo servi- 
 entibus omnes terras et tenuras suas eis rationabiliter 
 datas et cartis donatorum confirmatas et nominatim 
 decem acras terre in Cantebr. quas Rex Scocie eisdem 
 Sanctimonialibus dedit et carta sua confirmavit. Qua- 
 propter volumus et firmiter precipimus quatenus memo- 
 rate Sanctimoniales omnes terras et tenuras suas cum 
 pertinenciis suis in liberam elemosinam teneant et possi- 
 deant sicut carte donatorum eis testantur. Teste Rob. 
 Archid. Oxineford, Magistro Philippo de Caun, Magistro 
 Herberto de Boseham, Rob. capell. et Willmo capell. et 
 Willo de Leigrecest. 
 
 d Confirmation by Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canter- 
 bury, of previous charters of Archbishops Theobald and 
 Becket and of Bishop Nigellus. 
 
 Confirmation by Bishop Nigellus of a grant of 80 acres of 
 land in Wratting made to the Nuns by Stephen and 
 Juliana de Scalariis, along with their daughter, Sibil. 
 
 Witnessed by Will., archdeacon of Ely, Augustus, Adam and 
 Walter, monks, Roger, chaplain, John and Paian, clerks, Martin, 
 Ralf and Ric, deacons, Ralf, dapifer, Alex., pincerna, Stephen and 
 Geoffrey de Scalariis, &c. 
 
 Bull of Pope Innocent IV. directed to the Prior of Linton 
 respecting a dispute between the Nuns and the Vicar of 
 St Clement's. 
 
 For the subject see p. 27. 
 
 Dated ' Lugdun., 18 Kal. Mali nostri [blmik space] anno sexto,' 
 i.e. 1248-9, Bulla appended. 
 
78 CHARTEES OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 7 a Charter of John de Fontibus, Bp of Ely (1220—1225). 
 
 Confirms a charter of Bp E[ustace] of Ely, granting to the 
 Nuns all the land which Bp E. had between the monastery and 
 Grenecroft. No date. 
 
 b Charter of Hugh Northwold, Bp of Ely (1229—1254). 
 
 Confirms the charters of Bishops Eustace and John de Fontibus. 
 No date. 
 
 8 Inspeximus charter of Edward II. 
 
 Dated 'apud Westm. quintodecimo die Octobr. Anno regni 
 nostri septimo. Per ipsum regeni. Examinatum per A[dam] de 
 Brom.' Seal attached. It recites and confirms the charters of 
 King Stephen, 2 (a) and 3 (h) ; also the following charter of 
 Henry III. 'Henricus Dei gratia, &c. Sciatis quod concessimus 
 pro nobis et heredibus nostris priorisse et monialibus Sancte 
 Radegundis quod claudere possint et clausam tenere imperpetuum 
 quamdam croftam suam quae iacet inter ecclesiam ipsarum 
 priorisse et monialium et fossatum de Cantebr. ex parte occidentali 
 salvo nobis in omnibus et per omnia fossato nostro. In cuius rei 
 testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste me 
 ipso apud Westm. decimo septimo die April, anno regni nostri 
 tricesimo quinto.' It also confirms the charter of the Countess 
 Constance, 3 (a), various grants of land principally at West 
 Wratting, and a confirmation by Ely convent of the first charter of 
 Bp Nigellus. 
 
 9 Charter of King Henry VI. 
 
 Dated ' Apud Dertford quintodecimo die Marcii Anno regni 
 nostri sextodecimo.' Seal attached. Grants to the Nuns 'quod 
 ipse et successores sue imperpetuum habeant singulis annis unam 
 feriam in villa predicta per tres dies duraturam videlt. in vigilia in 
 die et in crastino Assumptionis Beate Marie cum omnibus libertati- 
 bus et liberis consuetudinibus ad huiusmodi feriam pertinentibus.' 
 It also grants the Nuns exemption from tenths or other quotas on 
 their spiritual and ecclesiastical possessions. 
 
 10 License of Mortmain of Henry VI. 
 
 Dated Westminster, Dec. 5, in 27th regnal year. Seal attached. 
 Generally empowers the Nuns to acquire lands, &c., to the value of 
 £5 ; also exempts them from the requisitions of provisores, emptores 
 and captores victualium for the King and Queen and their successors 
 and others their Magnates. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 79 
 
 Indulgences. Briefs. 
 
 (These are printed in full in the Architectui'al History, vol. ii, 
 pp. 183—186.) 
 
 11 Walter de Suffield, Bp of Norwich, grants relaxation of 
 
 penance for 25 days to persons contributing to the aid of 
 the Nuns. Dated Can tebrig.,. Ides of August, 1254. 
 
 12 Letter from Ric. de Gravesend, Bp of Lincoln, to the Arch- 
 
 deacons of , Northampton and Huntingdon orderino- 
 collections to be made in the churches of their Archidia- 
 conates in behalf of the Nuns. Dated Huntino-don, 12 
 Kal. Junii, 10th year of pontificate (1268). 
 
 13 Letter of Roger de Skerning, Bp of Norwich, orderino- 
 
 collections to be made in his diocese for the repair of the 
 Church of S. Rad., injured by the fall of the Bell-tower. 
 Dated Hoxne, 5 Kal. Mali, 1277. 
 
 14 Letter of the Official of the Archdeacon of Ely to the 
 
 parochial clergy of the diocese recommending the Nuns 
 to them as objects of charity, having lost their house and 
 all their substance by fire. Dated Herdwyk, 4 Kal. 
 Sept. 1313. 
 
 15 John de Ketone, Bp of Ely, confirms certain grants of in- 
 
 dulgence made by his brother Bps in favour of persons 
 contributing to the relief of the Nuns and the rebuildino- 
 of their house destroyed by fire. Dated Hatfeld, 4 Kal. 
 July, 1314. 
 
 16 Thomas Arundel, Bp of Ely, grants indulgence of 40 days 
 
 to all who contribute to the relief of the Nuns on the 
 occasion of the destruction of their dwellings by fire. 
 Dated Dodyngton, 2 April, 1376. 
 
 17 William Courtenay, Archbp of Canterbury, grants indul- 
 
 gence of 40 days to persons contributing to the relief of 
 the Nuns whose buildings have been ruined by violent 
 storms. Dated Croydon, 6 April, 1390, 
 
80 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 Miscellaneous Deeds and Documents. 
 
 18 Ric. Wastinel grants to Nuns a rent of 2 pence (nummos) 
 
 of the service of Everad de Batford. 
 
 19 Will, fitz Rob. fitz Walter gives to Nuns a rent of half a 
 
 mark. Witn. Seher de Quinci, Gilbert fitz Dunning &c. 
 
 20 Acquittance of Simon Blakeboane, sergeant at arms, to the 
 
 Prioress, Agnes Seyntelowe, and Ric. Broune, vicar of All 
 Saints'. Henry V. 7. 
 
 21 Acquittance of the Nuns to Ric. Pyghttesley for a year's 
 
 rent of Tylydhostelle, viz. 2^ 3^ 1437. 
 
 Arch. Hist, ii., 426. 
 
 22 Walter fitz Walter de Scalariis confirms his father's grant 
 
 of 20® per arm. for the maintenance of three lamps in the 
 ch. of S. Rad. Witn. Will, de Abington, miles. 
 
 23 Simon de Turre gives to Nuns one acre of meadow land in 
 
 Hunimade and ^ an acre in Chabligwelle. Witn., Roger 
 de Caudecote. 
 
 24 Simon, Camerarius of E[ustace], Bp of Ely, gives to Nuns a 
 
 rent of 2'' paid by Hervey fitz Eustace of Cantebrige. 
 Witn. Hugh de Bodegesham, official. 
 
 25 Ric. de Histon, capellanus, holds of the Nuns (Pr. Letitia) 
 
 a portion of their land in Tornechroft ; rent two shillings 
 and two capons. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 26 Walt, fitz Segar, capellanus, holds of the Nuns (Pr. Letitia) 
 
 land formerly held by his father: rent l-i** and two 
 capons. 
 
 27 a Bond of Will. Spaldyng for £10. Jan. 6, Henry VI. 10. 
 
 'The condycion of this obligacion is y* mastyr William 
 Spaldyng, clerk, of Cambrigge, with inne wretyn shall not entre in 
 hese owyn persone the several crofts and closures of the Prioresse 
 and y'= convent of seint Kadegundis in y^ toune of Cambrigge 
 adiugnant to y* said Priorie ne destroye ne soyle corne gresse 
 arboris ne closures of y^ seyd Prioresse and convent growyng or 
 beyng upon the seyd closures with outyn licens of y^ seyde Prioresse 
 y" same time beyng.' 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY, 81 
 
 b The Master and Brethren of St John's Hospital grant to 
 King Henry VI. a close lying within the fossatum of the 
 Nuns to the W. of the Nunnery, now in the tenure of 
 Will. Spaldyng, clerk. Thos. Clerk, mayor. Henry VI. 
 26. 
 
 c The King gives the same to Nuns. Dated Westminster, 
 Henry VI. 26. 
 
 28 The Nuns are discharged from payment of procurations 
 
 to the Archdeacon. Date 1313. Document imperfect. 
 
 29 Will of Roger Mason of S. Rad. parish. July 5, 1392. (In 
 
 Latin.) 
 
 Body to be buried among Friars Minor ; to said Friars 10^ ; to 
 high altar of S. Ead. 5^ for was ; cottage in S. Had. lane to be sold 
 to discharge debts. Kesidue to wife Felice ; she to make disposal 
 for his soul. 
 
 Seal attached (seemingly ad causas seal of Nunnery) : S. Ead. 
 crowned and veiled, standing in a niche, in right hand a wand : 
 under trefoiled arch below a nun kneeling prays with upraised 
 hands : a small crescent L. of the praying figure. Traces of 
 legend, STE RADEGVNDIS CONV. 
 
 30 Will of John Grenelane : dated Feb. 1, 1431, proved in the 
 
 Gild Hall, Cambridge, before the Mayor, Thos. Jacob, 
 and bailiffs, Monday next before S. Barnabas day. Hen. 
 VI. 10. 
 
 Among the items : to the high altar of S. Andrew's ch. where 
 his body is to be buried before the cross, 10^ ; for his burial there 
 20^ : for new bells to the same ch. 100^ ; for new leading the bell 
 tower 20^ : to each priest assisting at his funeral 12<J, and to every 
 clerk helping such payment as executors deem fit : the executors 
 to find an honest chaplain to celebrate for him in said ch. for 10 
 years after his decease, preference being given to D^ Brian Ffisshe- 
 wyk : to each convent of mendicant friars in Cambridge 10^ : for 
 making a roodloft in Haddenham ch. 20= : for the fabric of Eampton 
 ch. 20^ 
 
 Trippelowe's Benefaction, Cambridge and Barnwell. 
 
 31 a Luke fitz Walter of St Edmund's to Job. fitz Paulinus of 
 
 Camb. : ^ acre at the Claypittes in Camb. field, betw. 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 6 
 
82 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 Nuns' land and Hadestoc Weye, ab. at one head on 
 
 Pushwelle Weye ; rent 1*^ and ^ mark pre manibus. 
 
 Witn. Joh. Martyn. Edw. I. 16. 
 b Cecilia, sister of above-named Luke, confirms same and adds 
 
 land in Swinescroft. Witn. Bartb. Goggyng. Edw. I. 18. 
 c John fitz Paulinus to Walter the Butcher: same land. 
 
 Joh. Morice, mayor. Edw. II, 9. 
 d Walter the Butcher to Joh. de Trippelowe, Rector of Rey- 
 
 merston, dioc. Norwich : same land. Henry de Toft, 
 
 mayor, Edw. III. 3. 
 
 32 a Rob. de Cumberton of Camb. to Reginald fitz Ralf Ledbeter 
 
 and wife Joan : one selion in Swinescroft, ab, on Hady- 
 
 stock Way. Symon de Refham, mayor, Edw. II. 15. 
 b Joh. Cullingg of Camb. and wife Joan to Reginald Ledbeter 
 
 de Ely of Camb. and wife Joan : 3 selions in Swinecroft, 
 
 Symon de Refham, mayor. Edw. II. 15. 
 c Reginald le Ledbeter and wife Joan to Joh. de Tr., Rector 
 
 of Reymerston, and Joh. de Bodekesham, clerk ; the 
 
 above 4 selions in Swinecroft. Eudo de Helpryngham, 
 
 mayor. Edw. III. 2. 
 d Stephen Morice of Camb., clerk, to Joh. de Tr., Rector of 
 
 Reymerston : 2 selions in Swynecroft. Eudo de Hel- 
 
 pringham, mayor. Edw. III. 2. 
 e Joh. de Tr., Rector of Herdewyk, co. Camb., with license, 
 
 to the Nuns : land in Swynecroft. Barth. Morice, mayor. 
 
 Edw. Ill 17. 
 
 33 a. Same, with license, to same : 6| acres in Camb. and 
 
 Barnw. fields. Philip Cayly, mayor. Edw. III. 16. 
 b General release of Joh. de Tr. for last- mentioned lauds 
 to Nuns. Barth. Morice, mayor. Edw. III. 17. 
 
 34 a Joh. de Tr. and Will. Lavenham assign 3 mess, in par. 
 
 of S. Andr., S. Mary and S. Edw. to Margt., widow of 
 Will, de Tr., in lieu of dower. Edw. III. 16, (In 
 French.) 
 b Will, de Lavenham to Joh. de Tr. and others : reversion 
 of said 3 mess., expectant on death of said Margt. 
 Edw. IIL 22. (In Latin.) 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 83 
 
 c Confirmation of last deed. Rob. de Brygham, mayor. 
 
 Edw. III. 22. (In French.) 
 d Job. de Tr. to Nic. de Wyght and others : all the lands, 
 
 tenements, &c., which he bought of Will de Lavenham. 
 
 Witn. Job. de Toft. Edw. III. 23. 
 35 License from Rob. Dunning to Job. de Tr. to convey to 
 
 Nuns 5 acres in Barnw. fields, with reservation to R. D. 
 
 as over-lord of rent of 4^ Job. Pitcok, mayor. Edw. 
 
 III. 10. 
 86 « Thos. Engayne and wife Katb. to Job. de Tr., Rector of 
 
 Herdwyk, and Ric. de Dytton, vicar of S. Clement's : 
 
 ^ acre in Barnw. fields ab. on Meldych and on Horspatb. 
 
 Ric. Tuylett, mayor. Edw. III. 19. 
 h Release from Dytton to Tr. of above | acre. Edw. III. 19. 
 37a Job. Cadam of Long Stanton and wife Joan to Job. de Tr. 
 
 and Job. de Bodekysbam, clerks : 8 acres in Camb. and 
 
 Barnw. fields. Eudo de Helpringbam, mayor. Edw. 
 
 IL 19. 
 h Release of above land from Joan, wid. of Job. de Cam {sic) 
 
 of Long Stanton to Tr. and Bodekysbam. Edw. III. 1. 
 
 38 a Roger, chaplain, fitz John Wodeward of Wode Weston to 
 
 Adam de Clifford, dwelling in Barnw.: 5 selions in Barnw. 
 
 Crofts ab. on Grenecroft. Witn. Symon Bernard, 
 
 Edw. IL 18. 
 h Executors of Ad. de Clifford to Job. de Tr.: 2 selions in 
 
 Barnw. fields, one next land of Prior of S. Edmund's 
 
 chapel in Camb. and ab. on Horspatb, the other next 
 
 land of Nuns and ab. on Hynton Way. Witn. Job. 
 
 Pyttok. Edw. III. 19. 
 c Job. de Tr., with license, to Nuns : same 2 selions. Witn. 
 
 Ric. Tuyllet, mayor. Edw. III. 19. 
 
 39 Ric. de Dytton to Job. de Tr. : land in Barnw. Myddylfeld. 
 
 Barth. Morice, mayor. Edw. III. 17. 
 
 40 Barth. Moriz and wife Margt to Job. de Tr. : 3 acres in 
 
 Barnw. fields. Witn. Gilbert de London. Edw. III. 5. 
 
 41 Job. de Tr. to Nuns: 18 selions ( = 8 acres) in Barnw. 
 
 Myddylfeld. Barth. Moris, mayor. Edw. III. 17. 
 
 6—2 
 
84 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 42 Job. de Hilburghworth and wife Elena, wid. of Henry de Tr., 
 
 quitclaim dower in lands of her late husband. Job. 
 
 Pyttok, mayor. Edw. III. 8. 
 43a Job. de Tr., with license, to Nuns: mess, bought by him 
 
 from Job. Friday, sit. in S. Rad. St., betw. ten* of Joh. 
 
 de Lincoln and ten* of Robert Gome, clerk, ab. on 
 
 highway and on Nuns' croft called Eldestedcroft. Ric. 
 
 Tuyllet, mayor. Edw. III. 19. 
 b Same parties and ten*: Prioress, Alicia: Joh. Friday, cutler. 
 
 Rob. de Brygham, mayor. Edw. III. 21. 
 
 44 a Hen. de Tr. to Joh. de Tr. : land and houses in S. Rad. 
 
 par. betw. ten* of Nuns and ten* late of Thos. de 
 Tendring on one side and ten* late of Alice de Berne- 
 well and a croft of Nuns called Sarantescroft and ten* 
 late of Rog. de Haford on the other, ab. on Radegund 
 St. and Wales St. Eudo de Helpringham, mayor. 
 Edw. III. 2. 
 b Joh. de Tr., by license, to Nuns (Pr. Mabilla Martini) : 
 mess, bought of Hen. de Tr. betw. mess, of Nuns called 
 Gregorieshostell and mess, late of Alice de Bernewell, 
 ab. on highway and on Drosemer. John Pittok, mayor. 
 Ed. III. 6. 
 
 45 Agnes, wid. of Milo de Trumpington to Joh. de Tr. : 
 
 mess, in Rad. St. betw. mess, of Joh. de Tr. and mess, 
 late of Stephen le Terteyner, ab. on highway and 
 Sarentescroft. Eudo de Elpringham, mayor. Edw. 
 III. 2. 
 
 46 Dionysia, wid. of Hen., scriptor, to her bro. Joh. de Tr. : 
 
 mess, in Rad. St. betw. mess, of Roger le Redere and 
 mess, of Ralf, bercarius, ab. on street and S. Rad. croft. 
 Eudo de Elpringham, mayor. 1319. 
 
 47 a Joh. de Tr. to Joh. de Berneye, burgess and cissor : ten* in 
 
 Rad. St. betw. ten* of Joh. de Tr. and one of Joh. de 
 Lincoln, ab. on highway and Nuns' croft called Eldested 
 croft. Philip Cayly, mayor. Edw. III. 21. 
 b Berneye reconveys same to Tr. Rob. de Brygham, mayor. 
 Edw. in. 21. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 85 
 
 48 Joh. de Tr. to Job. Purry of Wy velyngham : ten* in Rad. St. 
 betw. ten* of Nuns and ten* of Lyna le Gome, ab. on high- 
 way. Barth. Moriz, mayor. Edw. III. 16. 
 
 49a License of mortmain to Joh. de Tr. to grant to Nuns 8 mess, 
 and 8 acres of land to find a chaplain to celebrate daily in 
 S. Rad. ch. At Bermundeseye, 9 Apr. Edw. III. 5. 
 b Under above license Joh. de Tr. conveys to Nuns (Pr. 
 Mabilia Martyn) 7 mess, in S. Rad. par. and one in par. of 
 S. Andr. without Barnw. gates, and 8 acres in Camb. and 
 Barnw. fields : Nuns to celebrate in their monastery 30 
 masses in each year for donor and his parents, and his 
 anniversary as is done in the case of a nun deceased. 
 7 Apr. John Pilet, mayor. Edw. III. 5. 
 
 Parish of S. Radegund. 
 
 50 Reginald de Argenton to the Nuns : all the land which he 
 
 bought of Hugh Pilate in Grenecroft except a piece in 
 Walter Pilate's garden (erberio) : the Nuns to pay 2* 
 yearly to S. Giles' ch. in Barnwell. Witn. Mr Geoffrey, 
 official. 
 
 51 a Walter de Lindsey, with consent of his wife Berta, to Nuns : 
 
 mess, held by him of Nic. Sarant, betw. land of said Nic. 
 and land of Aunger le Feleper : rent to said Nic. so long 
 as he lives 2^ Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 b Nuns (Pr. Letitia) regrant same mess, to de Lindsey and 
 his wife for their lives. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 52 Nic. Sarant to Walter de Lindsey: mess, in S. Rad. par. 
 
 betw. land of Godman de Bernevvelle and land of Nic. 
 Sarant : rent 2^ and gersuma 4^ Witn. Ric. de Winepol. 
 53a Nuns(Pr. Letitia) to Martin fitz Hugh de Swaffham : land 
 formerly held of Nic. Sarant by Elias, chaplain, which is 
 opposite the Nunnery gate : rent 21 
 b Joh. fitz Baldwin de Swaffham releases to Nuns his rights 
 in a mess, late of Margt., mother of Peter, late chaplain 
 of S. Rad., lying opposite the gate of S, Rad. and betw. 
 
86 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 a mess, of Ysabel Gibet and one of Wymer, clerk ; rent 3^ 
 Witn. Job. de Escalariis. 
 c Job. fitz Job. Baudewin de Swaffbam Prioris de Ely releases 
 to Nuns land formerly held by above-named Martin, 
 wbicb lies betw. higbway and Nuns' land, ab. on a croft 
 of Prior of Barnw. and a mess, of Maud ad portam, Nuns 
 acquitting said Job. of 2^ arrears of rent. Witn. Job. 
 Portebors. 
 
 54 Agnes de Norfolcbia, nmlier, to Geoff, fitz Hubert: mess. 
 
 formerly of Nic. Sarant, in suburbs of Camb., betw. mess, 
 of Reginald, cementarius, and one of Will. Carpenter of 
 Wimondbam ; rent 8** and a balf-penny, gersuma 12 
 marks. Witn. Tbos. Toylet. 
 
 55 Maud, dau. of Micbael de Wyttlesford, to Hen. Martyn, 
 
 clerk, dwelling in Camb. and to bis wife Alice le Longe 
 Locci : land &c. in S. Rad. par, in suburbs of Camb., 
 betw. land of Ric. Marescbal, W., and land of Warin le 
 latymer, E., wbicb land was formerly beld by Clement 
 fitz Josepb Cuttyng of Edy wetborp (i.e. Edingtborp) from 
 Agnes de Norfolk : rent 2^ and gersuma 40'. Job. Watb, 
 mayor. 1285. 
 
 56 Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Wymer, clerk ; a piece of tbeir croft, 
 
 late belonging to Nic. Sarant, bebind Wimer's yard : 
 rent 6', gersuma 31 Witn. Rob. Saman. 
 57a. Will. Sueteye to Nuns: moiety of mess, in S. Rad. par. 
 betw. mess, of Geoff. Cook and mess, of Rob. de Cogges- 
 bale witb moiety of croft extending from said mess, to 
 Drusemere : to provide a lamp in cbapel of S. Rad. and | 
 mark ad pitanciam on his anniversary. Witn. Will. Tuylet. 
 6 Nuns (Pr. Milisentia) to Geoffrey Cook: mess, in S. Rad. 
 par. betw. mess, of Will. Sueteye and mess, of Hugh 
 Ragenhill on one side, mess, of Alan Dalles de Bernewell 
 on the other : rent 3". Witn. Roger de Habitun, seneschal 
 of Bp of Ely. 
 c Nuns (Pr. Milisentia) to above Alan : mess, in S. Rad. par. 
 betw. mess, of Walter Porter and mess, of Geoffrey, cook : 
 rent 4'. Same witnesses. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 87 
 
 d Nuns (Pr, Milisentia) to Maud, dau. of Alan : mess. betw. 
 mess, of Wiraer, clerk, and mess, of Job. Gibet : rent 5^ 
 58 Nuns (Pr. Mabilia) to Job. Friday, cotelerius: portion of 
 their croft called Sarandescroft enclosed with walls and 
 lying at the end of S. Rad. St. betw. ten* of Job, de 
 Trippelowe, Rector of Reymerston, and their own croft : 
 rent 6^ Job. Pilat, mayor. 1330. 
 59a Nuns (Pr. Eva Wasteneys) to Thos. de Revede, serjeant at 
 arms, his wife Alice and children : ten* in Radegundes- 
 lane, betw. a ten* of Nuns, E., and garden of Minor Friars 
 and a mess, of Nuns, W., ab. on garden of Minor Friars 
 and a mess, of Nuns, S., and on lane, N. : rent 6^ 8*^. 
 Stephen fitz Earth. Moriz, mayor. Edw. III. 33. 
 
 b Counterpart of above with seal of Thos. de Revede. 
 
 c Alicia, wid. of Thos. Revede, and Job., her son, quitclaim same 
 ten* to Job. Pilat. Job. Giboun, mayor. Edw. III. 44. 
 
 d Job. Pilot of Ely releases same ten* to Nuns. Ric. II. 5. 
 
 60 Nuns (Pr. Agnes) lease for 50 years to Ric, Sexteyn, sen'", of 
 
 Camb., butcher, a croft called Sarantescroft with buildings 
 thereon, ab. on croft of Barnw. Priory, E., on ten* of Nuns, 
 W. : also an enclosure with dovehouse, betw. house of 
 Minor Friars and said croft : also mess, with garden next 
 close of Minor Friars and ab. on Nunneslane and said 
 enclosure : rent 17^ with reservation to sacrist of S. Rad. 
 cb. of tithes on said tenements. May 2, Hen. VI. 14. 
 
 61 Decision of the arbitrators, Rob. Coope of Camb. and Job. 
 
 Musgrave of Barnw., in a dispute betw. the Nunnery (Pr. 
 Joan Laacastre) and Barnw. Priory (Pr. John) respecting 
 a wall extending from Nunneslane on N. to Walleslane 
 on S., betw, a croft of Barnw. Priory, E., and a croft of 
 Nuns, W. The wall is declared to belong wholly to the 
 Nuns who are to repair and maintain it. 10 June, 
 Edw. IV, 2. 
 
 62 Rob. fitz. Will, de Nonacurt quitclaims to Nuns land 
 
 without the Ditch at Camb. betw. land of Nuns and 
 land held by Job. Aelard of the Nuns of Ikilinton. 
 Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
88 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 63 Ric. fitz Laurence de Litleberi gives to Nuns a croft with 
 
 ten* in front towards street in exchange for 2^ acres in 
 Camb. fields. Witn. Rob. Saman, Endorsed ' Paroch. See. 
 Rad.' 
 
 In the H. R. (ii, p. 371) Kic. Laurence is said to hold a meadow 
 next the cim-ia of S. Rad. which he bought from Joh. Adelhard, 
 clerk, and for which he pays a rent of 12^ to the Nuns of Iclitone. 
 
 64 Nuns (Pr. Milisentia) to Eustace Carter : land in suburbs 
 
 of Camb. at Eldestede betw. land of Roger Garlek and 
 land of Nuns : rent S"* and King's service. Witn. Will. 
 Toilet. 
 
 65 Nuns (Pr. Helena) to Roger le Redere, of Camb. : land in 
 
 Rad. St. betw. Nuns' croft and land of Henry Scrivener 
 (scriptor) ab. on highway and Nuns' land : rent 41 Rob. 
 Tuylet, mayor. 
 
 66 Hubert le Redere of Rydelingfeld releases to his bro. Roger 
 
 a mess, in suburbs of Camb. towards the Nuns' house, 
 which was granted to him by Will, fitz Adam Carpenter. 
 John But, mayor. 1291. 
 
 67 Nuns (Pr. Milisentia) to Adam fitz Hubert Carpenter : land 
 
 in suburbs of Camb. betw. land of Maud, dau. of Helewis, 
 and Nuns' land : rent 3^ and gers. | mark. Witn. Rob. 
 de S. Edmund. 
 
 68 Nuns (Pr. Elena) to Roger and Juliana, his wife : mess. 
 
 with houses in S. Rad. par. : rent 101 John But, mayor. 
 Edw. I. 20. 
 
 69 a Ralf de Wendeye, vicar of S. Clement's, Camb., to Roysia, 
 
 his niece, dau. of Letitia de Wendeye : mess, with houses 
 in S. Rad. St. betw, mess, of Stephen le Tyrtener and 
 mess, of Will, le Gom : failing heirs of Roysia to the heirs 
 of her mother. Eudo, clerk, mayor. Edw. II. 13. 
 b Said Roysia, with consent of her husband, Joh. Styward de 
 Trippelowe, grants same mess, to Will, le Gom. Joh. 
 Pyttok, mayor. 15 Feb., Edw. III. 8. 
 
 70 Hen. Custance de LoUeworthe, capellanus, to Joh. de 
 
 Lincoln, portitor, of Camb. : mess, c^tm duabus haiis vivis 
 in S. Rad. par. betw. land late of Hen. Scrivener {scriptor) 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 89 
 
 and land of Custance, ab. on highway and Nuns' land. 
 Henry de Thofts, mayor. Edw. III. 3. 
 
 71 Hen. fitz John Kocs of Camb., scissoo% to Joh. de Toucestre, 
 
 of Camb., tournour : mess, with quickset hedge in S. Rad. 
 par. betw. Nuns' land and mess, of Joh. Locoks, ab. on 
 highway and Eldestedcroft. Stephen fitz John Morice, 
 mayor. Edw. III. 27. 
 
 72 Nuns (Pr. Margt. Clanyle) to Thos. de Badburnham, cord- 
 
 wainer : mess, with five cottages and curtilage in S. Rad. 
 par. betw. mess, of Will. Mason and the King's ditch, ab. 
 on highway and Nuns' croft. Joh. Morice, mayor. Edw. 
 III. 37. 
 73a Matt. Wesenham of Camb. and wife Juliana to Roger de 
 Barwe: mess, in Rad. lane. Joh. Gybon, mayor. Edw. 
 III. 49. 
 b Roger de Barwe grants to Will. Rolf of Ixning and others 
 the above mess. Ric. Masterman, mayor. Ric. II. 13. 
 
 74 Arbitration betw. Nuns and S. Michael's College : decision 
 
 of the arbitrator, Marmaduke Lumley, LL.B., Chancellor 
 of the University. 
 
 The dispute was connected with certain houses in Nuns' Lane 
 then occupied by Joh. Cranwell, senr, and Kic. Cranwell, junr. 
 The College maintained that the occupants of these houses were of 
 the par. of S. Michael, the Nuns that they belonged to S. Rad. j)ar. 
 The arbitrator decides that they belong to S. Rad. par. but that to 
 satisfy any claims on the part of the College the Nuns shall pay to 
 it 4*^ annually. (This acquittance is still, 1898, paid by Jesus 
 Coll. to Trinity Coll.) Decision given in quadam hassa camera in 
 Clare Hall, 9th June, 1425. Signed &c., Rob. Wright, priest, 
 notary of the dioc. of York : attorney for Nuns, Will. Spencer ; for 
 College, Will. Pentecost. Three seals attached : the first two 
 seemingly of the College and Nunnery ; the third has impression of 
 a head emerging from a font-like vessel supported on 5 legs, and 
 legend CANCELLAR. UNIVERSITATIS CANTEBRIG. 
 
 75 Nuns (Pr. Agnes) to Edm. Lavenham and wife Marion: 
 
 garden &c. enclosed with clay walls in S. Rad. par. betw. 
 ten* of Joh. Plumpton, W., ten* of Nuns occupied by Joh. 
 Eversdon, E., ab. on Nunneslane, S., and Nuns' croft, N., 
 
90 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 near the King's ditch : for 80 years, rent 6^ 8*^. Henry 
 VI. 22. 
 
 76 Nuns (Pr. Elizabeth) to Joh. Wyghton and wife Agnes : 
 
 ground in Nunnescroft ab. on King's ditch : lease for 
 lives, rent 6"^. Edw. IV. 11. 
 
 77 Nuns (Pr. Eliz. Walton) to Will. Wareyn : ten* &c. in 
 
 S. Rad. par. betw. garden of Nuns in tenure of Will. 
 Warde, W., and garden of Corp. Chr. College, E. : for 60 
 years, rent 51 Aug. 12, Edw. IV. 18. 
 
 78 Nuns (Pr. Joan Fulburn) to Joh. Marchall and Laur. 
 
 Elverede : garden and dovehouse in S. Had. par. betw. 
 house of Minor Friars, W. and ten* of Nuns, E., ab. 
 on highway, N. and on S. partly on a stone wall of 
 Minor Friars 21^ yards long, partly on Nuns' close in 
 tenure of Will. Pechard : for 30 years, rent 10^ Joh. 
 Hesewell, mayor. Henry VII. 6. 
 
 Parish of All Saints in Jewry. 
 
 79a Grant of the advowson of A. S. ch. to the Nuns by Sturmi 
 de Cantebrig. 
 Notum sit omnibus quod ego Sturmi de Cantebrig. concessi 
 et dedi et hac carta mea confirmavi in elemosinam deo et 
 ecclesie beate dei genetricis Marie et See Radegundis de 
 Grenecroft et monialibus ibidem deo servientibus advoca- 
 tionem ecclesie Omnium Sanctorum infra burgum de 
 Cantebr. Hanc autem donationem feci voluntate et 
 consensu uxoris mee et heredum meorum pro salute 
 Dm Regis Henrici et heredum suorum et pro salute 
 fidelium defunctorum. Quare volo ut predicte moniales 
 prefatam advocationem habeant et teneant ita libere et 
 quiete sicut ego vel aliquis antecessorum meorum melius 
 et liberius eam tenuit. Hiis testibus : Rogero decano, 
 Rodberto de Sco Clemente &c. 
 b The Bishop of Ely (Geotfry Ridel, 1174—1189) institutes 
 the Nuns in the rectory. 
 
CHAKTERS OF THE PRIORY. 91 
 
 Universis see matris ecclesie filiis Gaufr. dei gratia Elieii. 
 Eps. salutem. Universitati vestre notum fieri volumus 
 nos instituisse scimoniales de Grenecroft et eis ius 
 personatus concessisse in ecclesia Omnium Scorum de 
 Cantebrug perpetuo habenda in perpetuam liberam et 
 quietam eleraosinam cum omnibus pertinentiis et liber- 
 tatibus suis presente et consentiente Sturmi qui ius 
 advocationis habebat in eadem ecclesia prius quod eis 
 concesserat et carta sua confirmaverat Constituentes eis 
 communi assensu perpetuum vicarium in prenominata 
 ecclesia scil. Ric. capellanum soluturum eisdem annua- 
 tim nomine memorate ecclesie XX sol. ad duos terminos 
 scil. X sol. ad Pascha x sol. ad festum Sci Michaelis et 
 praeterea facientem omnes consuetudines episcopales. Et 
 per predistinctam pensionem prenominatus R. capellan. 
 habebit prefatam ecclesiam perpetuo libere et quiete 
 cum omnibus pertinentiis et libertatibus suis. Et post 
 recessum vel decessum predicti R. capellani possidebunt 
 prefate scimoniales sepedictam ecclesiam plenarie et 
 integre et ei pro voluntate sua disponent sal vis semper 
 consuetudinibus episcopalibus. Facta est autem bee 
 institutio et vicarie concessio anno ab incarnacione 
 verbi MCLXXX feria vero infra octav. Sci Martini. Et 
 est primus terminus solutionis proximo venturum Pascha. 
 Testibus Roberto priore et Willo canonico de Bernewell, &c. 
 c The convent of Ely (Prior, Roger de Brigham, circa 1215 — 
 1229) confirm the Bishop's institution. Witn. Thos. de 
 Heyden, Vincentius, Official of the Archdeacon of Ely, &c. 
 
 80 Ordinance of Bishop Eustace of Ely respecting the Hospital 
 of S. John and the church of A. S. 
 
 This is a modern copy of the original document said to exist in 
 the treasury of S. John's College : though I have not been able to 
 discover this original there exists there a confirmation of the 
 Bishop's ordinance by the Nuns (Leticia, prioress) in almost 
 identical terms. The Bishop's ordinance is printed in full in Le 
 Keux's Memorials, vol. ii. (Parish of A. S. p. 11). Charters 180, 
 181 deal with the same matter. 
 
92 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 81 Maud Grim to Will. Sausintune, her servant : moiety of her 
 
 land &c. in the Jewry, betw. land of Warin le Cachepol 
 and land formerly of Symon le Talur : rent 5®, and gers. 4^ 
 he to be ready to do her service when summoned. Witn. 
 Rob. Sam an. 
 
 82 Christiana, dau. of Godard Carter, to Nuns : lands &c. in 
 
 A. S. par. betw. land of Reginald de Fordham and land of 
 Symon Black : also lands &c. betw. land of Fulk Croche- 
 man and land of Ric. Bullokprest : also land held by her 
 from Rob. de Bruiera with service of Adam Weaver 
 (textor) : also land in Felterestreet betw. land of Holy 
 Trinity and land of [ ] Doy, with service of Hugh 
 
 Ruffus for land next ch. of Holy Trinity, Witn. Hervey 
 fitz Eustace. 
 
 83 Fulk Crocheman gives Nuns, along with his sist. Sibil, land 
 
 in Jewry formerly held of him by Brito, the Jew. Witn. 
 Baldewin Blangernun. 
 
 84 Absalon Ampe to Reg. de Fordham : land in A. S. par. 
 
 betw. land formerly of Ralf Swane and lane leading from 
 street to river bank : also said lane : rent 4^ gers. 2 marks. 
 Witn. Andrew de Winepol. 
 
 85 Hen. fitz Geoffrey, with consent of his wife Edusa, to Reg. 
 
 de Fordham : land in A. S. par. next highway, &c. : rent 
 31 Witn. Michael fitz Ordgar. 
 
 86 Simon le Blund releases to Nuns a mess, held by him of 
 
 them in A. S. par. betw. land of Andrew de Winepol and 
 land of Barth. le Talur : pre manihus 4 marks. Witn. 
 Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 87 Thos. fitz Rob. de la Bruere, with consent of his mother 
 
 Helen, to Nuns: land in par. of A. S. next the Jewry, 
 held of him by Ralf Prudfot, betw. land of Ralf Ballard 
 and land of Walter Pie : rent 6^ and 6*^ to Hosp. of S. 
 John the Ev., the brethren giving him 2 marks towards 
 the charges of his pilgrimage. Witn. Hervy fitz Eustace. 
 
 88 Hugh fitz Absalon of Cambr. to Nuns for health of souls of 
 
 himself and his sister Letitia : a rent of 29^'^ paid to him 
 by Fulk Crocheman out of a ten' in vico Judeoruin qui 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 93 
 
 descendit a via usque ad cimiterium Omnium Sanctorum : 
 possession of said ten* reserved to donor during life : Nuns 
 to celebrate anniversary of his sist. Letitia on eve and day 
 of the Purification, when Nuns are to have the whole rent 
 for their pitancia. Witn, Baldwin Blangernun. 
 
 Vicus Judeorum otherwise Pilate's Lane. 
 
 89 Stephen de Elvenegard in Eswell and wife Emma to Nicol 
 
 de Well, rector of S. Etheldred's ch., Histon : mess, in 
 Jewry, Camb. next land of Joh. de Coteham, extending 
 from highway to King's ditch : rent a pair of gloves, 
 price 1*^, hagable 1'^ and gers. 8 marks, Witn. Hervey 
 fitz Eustace. 
 
 Seal : flower of eight petals : legend EMME DELAMORE 
 (Delamore, i.q. de la Bruere supra). 
 
 90 Azo Coleman to Rob. Seman : land in A. S. par. on bank 
 
 called Blancwyneshithe, next land of Walter son of Scolas- 
 tica: rent S^^,gers. |- mark. Witn. Baldwin Blangernun. 
 
 91 Nuns (Pr, Letitia) to Will. Pilate : land in A. S. par. next 
 
 land of Ailitha, widow, formerly held by Maud de cimi- 
 terio : rent 8'^ and 2 capons. Witn. Rob. Seman. 
 
 92 Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Will. Athelard: mess. &c. in A. S. 
 
 par. betw. land of Hosp. of S. John and land of Will. Pye : 
 rent 4' 6^ Witn. Adam fitz Eustace. 
 
 93 Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Barth. le Noble : mess, in A. S. par. in 
 
 which Symon le Blund dwelt, betw. land of said Barth. 
 and land of Andr. de Wynepol, extending from highway 
 to land of Bernard Grim and land of Ric. Bullok : rent 2^^, 
 gers. 5|- marks. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 94 Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Eustace fitz Will. Barun de Newen- 
 
 ham : land &c. in A. S. par. in Jewry betw. land of 
 Michael Malherb on one side and the burial ground of 
 the ch. and land of Barth. le Noble on the other : rent 2'' 
 and four gallons (lagenae) of oil to maintain a lamp at the 
 altar of the blessed Mary in our ch. of S. Rad. for the 
 anniversary for souls of Will. Holdgord and others. Witn. 
 Thos. Tuylet. 
 
94 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 95 Nuns (Pr. Milsentia) to Ernisius, merchant, of Camb. : mess. 
 
 in A. S. par. betw. land of Gate Crocheman and land 
 formerly of Ric. Bulloc, ab. on highway and land formerly 
 in tenure of Duront le Lung : rent 4^^ besides gersuma. 
 Witn. Thos. Tuylet. 
 
 96 Nuns (Pr. Elena) to Ric. Crocheman : mess, in A. S. par. in 
 
 Jewry betw. land of R. C. and land formerly in tenure of 
 Joh. le Seenz, ab. as the last-mentioned mess. : rent 4^ 
 Job. But, mayor. Edw. I. 13. 
 
 97 Joh. Porthors of Camb. to Nuns: rent of IS*^ out of a mess. 
 
 in A. S. par. held of him by Joh. Waubert, near the 
 Hospital, betw. a mess, formerly of Walter Pilat and the 
 King's lane. Joh. But, mayor. 
 
 The grant is for the souls of his father, Joh. de Berton, and 
 his mother Agnes 'pro eo quod anima Johis predicti jjatris mei 
 dampnum seu pericukim habere non debet occasione retencionis 
 duorum sol. argenti annul redditus quos predicte scimoniales de 
 capitali messuagio Johis patris mei in parochia ecclesie Sci de- 
 mentis ad terminos predictos percipere consueverunt.' 
 
 98 Nuns (Pr. Amitia de Driffeld) to Ric. fitz Walter Croche- 
 
 man : ten*^ in A. S. par. in Jewry betw. Pilateslane and 
 land of said R. C, ab. on highway and land of Thos. de 
 Luchefeld : rent 6'' and a mark pre manibus. Barth. 
 Goggyng, mayor. 
 
 99 Ric. Plowwryghte, carpenter, of Trumpitone bound in sum 
 
 of £20 to erect for Joh. Pilate and complete satisfactorily 
 before festival next following of S. Peter ad Vincula eight 
 annexas in a void place in A. S. par. at end of Nunneslane, 
 ab. on highway : ' sparre ' used to be of value not less 
 than 2*^ : Plowwryghte to receive for timber and labour 
 £5. 2s. &d. in three instalments. Witn. Joh. Stokton. 
 Edw. III. 41. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 95 
 
 Trinity Parish. 
 
 100 a Geoff. Grim gives to Alan fitz Edward, in marriage with 
 his niece Maud, land betw. land formerly of Ralf the Deaf 
 (Surd'us) and land of Hen. de Bertham, in H. T. par. next 
 Garvin cross. Witn. Rob. Seman. 
 b Maud, relict of Alan Edward of Camb,, to Roger de Herdwic, 
 servant of the Nuns : an annual rent of 4^ out of a ten* 
 in H. T. par. held of her by Fulk le Haneper, outside the 
 ditch and near Garewycscruche ; rent a pound of cummin, 
 get'suma 25^ 4*^. Witn. Anger le Rus. 
 c The afore-mentioned Maud releases to Nuns (Pr. Con- 
 stance) same land, Nuns paying her one bisant. Witn. 
 Walter of Hauckestone, cajjellanus. 
 
 The besant in the Boldon Buke is rated at 2s. 
 
 101a Walter de Lindsey to Ralf fitz Reiner : all his land in H. T. 
 par. betw. land of Benedict Feutrer and land of said 
 Ralf: rent 4^ gersuma 5^ Witn. Will, fitz Edward. 
 h The same Walter, with consent of his wife Berta, in alms 
 to Nuns : homage of Ralf le Feutrer and rent of 4^ paid 
 by said Ralf : hagable |'\ Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 102 Hugh fitz William to Gudman, merchant : mess. betw. 
 
 H. T. ch. and house of Isabel Sephare : rent 16^ 
 
 103 Nuns (Pr. Mabilia) to Ric. fitz Rob. de Fulburne, baker, 
 
 and wife, Alice : ten* in H. T. par. betw. land of Minor 
 Friars and land formerly of Anger le Rus: rent 121 
 Witn. Ric. fitz Laurence. 
 104a Nuns (Pr. Custancia) to Rob. fitz Ralf le Chapeler : mess, 
 formerly held of them by his father, Ralf, in H. T. par. 
 outside the ditch betw. land formerly of Will. Filtrarius 
 and land of Prior of Barnw., extending from highway to 
 Nuns' croft : not to alienate to Jews : rent 12'^\ Witn, 
 Will, de Hauckeston. 
 h Ralf fitz Ralf Filtarius to his bro. Rob.: mess, in suburb of 
 Camb. in Felterestrete betw. land of Prior of Barnw., 
 land formerly of Will. Filtarius and Sarandescroft : rent 
 
96 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 pair of gloves, price ^^, and to Nuns 4^ Witn. Magr. 
 Martin de S. Radegund. 
 
 Felter St. = Wales Lane or King St. 
 
 105 Hen. de Berton to Will, de Henxeham : ^ acre opposite the 
 
 house of Ralf le Feuterier: rent 3% and get^suma 81 
 Witn. Ervey fitz Martin. 
 
 106 Will. Rolff, vicar of All Saints' next the Hospital, and 
 
 others to Job. Impyton of Cainb,, smith ; a ten* in H. T. 
 par. betw. land of Laur. de Talworth and ten* of Rob. 
 Martyn ab. on ten* of R. Martyn and on Conditstrete : 
 rent 12 silver pennies to Nuns. Joh. Moris, mayor. 
 Edw. III. 40. 
 
 107 Nuns (Pr. Margt. Clanile) to Simon Wyntleflete of Camb., 
 
 cutler, and wife Isabel : mess, in Walyslane, betw. mess, 
 of Joh. Norton, cordwainer, and mess, of Joh. de Refham, 
 ab. on highway and on garden of Joh. Blaunpayn : for 
 their lives: rent 5^ Edw. III. 46. 
 
 108 Nuns give license to Geoff. Castre and wife Margt. for an 
 
 eavesdropping from their house in Wales lane upon 
 Sarant's croft for the breadth unius pedis Sancti Pauli. 
 Edw. III. 48. 
 
 Pes Pauli. v. Arch. Hist, glossary. 
 
 109 Nuns (Pr. Alice Pilot) to Rob. Foxton and wife Alice : a 
 
 portion of Sarent's croft to enlarge the house and garden 
 which R. F. holds of the mayor and commons of Camb.: 
 rent 6*^. 1383. 
 
 110 Nuns (Pr. Alicia Pylet) to Alice, wid. of Geoffrey Castre: 
 
 3 shops &c. in Wales lane betw. a ten* of Minor Friars 
 and a ten* lately of Joh. Baude, ab. on a croft of the 
 Nuns late in tenure of Edw. de Ovyngton: for her life, 
 rent 61 Ric. II. 20. 
 
 111 Nuns (Pr. Margery Herlyng) to Joh. Bylneye : mess. &c. in 
 
 Walyslane in H. T. par. betw. land of Joh. Asschevvell 
 deed, and King's ditch, ab. on a stone wall of Minor 
 Friars and on a ten* of Asschewell : for 60 years, rent 
 2^ Joh. Gaynysford, mayor. Henry IV. 10. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 97 
 
 112 Nuns (Pr. Margery Herlyng) to Joh. Essex, saddler : ten' in 
 Walyslane betw. house of Minor Friars and a ten*^ of 
 Essex, ab. on highway and Sarantiscrofb : for 60 years, 
 rent 51 Henry IV. 10. 
 
 113ft Alice, wid. of Kob. Foxton, notary, releases to Nuns (Pr. 
 Agnes Seyntlowe) a corner ten* in H. T. par. ab. on high- 
 way opposite the chain bridge towards W., on lane going 
 towards Barnw. opposite wall of Minor Friars towards N., 
 on land of said Alice, E., and on a ten* of Barnw. Priory 
 occijpied by Thos. Goode, S.: the ten* having been leased 
 to her husband by the Nuns. Henry VI. 22. 
 b Thos. Goode of Camb., chandler, and his son Thos. release 
 the above ten* to the Nuns. Ric. Wryghte, mayor. 
 Henry VI. 24. 
 c Nuns lease same ten* for 12 years to John Elys of Camb.: 
 rent 13^ 4*^^. Nuns undertake to find timber, straw, clay, 
 splentys, boards &c. for doors, windows, plaunchyng and 
 all nails necessary : tenant to repair. Henry VI. 24. 
 
 114 Nuns (Pr. Agnes) to Kob, Coope of Camb. and wife Agnes: 
 
 two ten*^ in H. T. par. in lane leading from Waleslane 
 brigge towards Barnw. betw. ten* of Joh. Heyward, W. 
 and ten* of Edw. Hyderston, E., ab. on lane, S. and on 
 Nuns' croft N.: for lives, rent 8'. Joh. Belton, mayor. 
 Henry VI. 35. 
 
 115 Nuns (Pr. Agnes Senclowe) to Joh. Stowe of Camb. and 
 
 wife Elena: farm &c. with buildings lately erected in 
 H. T. par. betw. le comen diche, E. and ten* of Nuns, W., 
 ab. on Waleslane N. and on garden of Rob. Coope, late 
 of Rob. Browne, S.: for 80 years, rent 21 Joh. Belton, 
 mayor. Henry VI. 35. 
 
 116 Nuns (Pr. Joan) to Joh. Chapman of Camb., brewer: void 
 
 place in H. T. par. in Wales lane betw. wall of Minor 
 Friars, W. and a ten* of Nuns in tenure of Thos. Thorne, 
 E., said lane, S., and garden of the Nuns occupied by 
 Joh. Hay ward, N. : for 26 years, rent 21 Tenant to 
 build and maintain a house on said place and let it to the 
 Nuns. Rob. Coope, mayor. Edw. IV. 6. 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 7 
 
98 CHARTEKS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 117 Nuns (Pr. Eliz, Walton) to Ric, Thorn, cordwainer : ten* 
 
 &c. in H. T. par. in lane leading from Wallyslane brigge 
 towards Barnw. betw. a ten* of Joh. Heyward, E. and a 
 ten* of the Nuns in occupation of Joh. Chapman, W., ab. 
 on said lane and on land of the Nuns in occupation of 
 Joh. Heyward : for 40 years, rent 4^ Edw. IV. 12. 
 
 118 Nuns (Pr. Joan Cambridge) to Agnes Hungyrford, wid. of 
 
 Rob. H. : ten* &c. in Wallyslane betw. ten* belonging to 
 the Pascal of H. T. ch. and a ten* of Thos. Rede, M.D., 
 ab. on lane and on a garden of Thos. Rede : for 20 years, 
 rent 6' 8\ 1483. 
 
 119 Nuns (Pr. Joan) to Joh. Dale : mess, in H. T. par. in street 
 
 leading from Cope's cross to Barnw. betw. a mess, of 
 Nuns late in tenure of Ric. Thorne, W. and mess, of 
 Dale, E., ab. on Wales lane, S. and mess, of Dale, N. : 
 rent 2^ and 2 capons, value 4'^. Nich. Hylton, mayor. 
 1485. 
 
 120 Nuns (Pr. Joan Cambrigge) to Joh. Dale of Camb. : garden 
 
 in Wales lane in H. T. par. betw. a mess, of Nuns in 
 tenure of Ric. Thorne, S., croft of Nuns in tenure of 
 Will. Pechard, N., ab, on a barn of Dale, late of Joh. 
 Heyward, E., and wall of Minor Friars, W. : for 30 years, 
 rent 8\ Henry VII. 1. 
 
 S. Andrew's Parish. 
 
 121a Humphy fitz Bernard le Herde to Peter de Rising, clerk : 
 one acre in S* A. par. outside Barnwell gates, betw. land 
 of Nuns and land of Tho, Wolward with buildings thereon 
 and all rights except his mother's dowry so long as she 
 lives : rent |^'\ and 2 marks gersuma. Witn. John le Rus. 
 b Peter de Rising, clerk, to Geoff, fitz Tho. de Littlebery : the 
 same acre &c., excepting a third part which Sabina, wid. 
 of Bernard Pastor, holds as dowry : rent &c. as above, and 
 to Nuns 2^ 6*^ and two capons. Witn. Tho. Tuillet. 
 c Above Geoff., clerk, quitclaims same acre to Nuns in con- 
 sideration of their releasinsr him from the aforesaid rent 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 99 
 
 of 2^ 6*^ and from a rent of 4^ due to the Nuns from a 
 piece of land in the suburbs of Camb., betw. highway 
 and land of Will. Svete3'e and betw, the great street and 
 land of Tho. de Dittone, clerk. Witn. Nich. Childman. 
 
 122a Nich. fitz Mich. Malherbe of Camb. to Will, de Bestun, 
 clerk : a rent of 3® out of a mess, in S' A. par. held by 
 Will, de Mordun, betw. land of Joh. Parleben and land of 
 M'' Martin de S. Radegund : rent a root of ginger, and 20^ 
 gersiima. Witn. Rob. de S. Edmundo, capitalis hallivus. 
 h The same to the same : a rent of 5^ out of a mess, in S* A. 
 par. held by Will, the smith, betw. land of Hen. de 
 Mordun and land of Hugh Nevvecumen : rent a root of 
 ginger, and 40^ gersuma. Witn. as above. 
 c Will, de Bestone, clerk, to Nuns (Pr. Custance): a rent of 
 8^ out of two mess, in S* A. par. outside Barnwell gates : 
 gersuma 5 marks. Witn. Ric. fitz Laurence, capitalis 
 hallivus. 
 
 128 Nuns (Pr. Custancia) to Andr. fitz Ralf Knapere de S. 
 Edmundo and his wife Alice, dau. of Rob. ad fontem de 
 Hyntone : mess, formerly of Rob. de Trumpitone, in 
 S* A. par. betw. land of Jas. le Wauter, land of Elena 
 Alshope and land of Pet. de Wilburham, ab. on highway 
 and land of Alan de Teversham : rent 5^ G''. Witu. 
 Will. Elyot. 
 
 124 Ysabel, dau. of Alan de Teversham, widow, to Pet., nephew 
 
 of Pet., late vicar of H. T. church, Camb.: mess, in S' A. 
 par. betw. land of Mabilia Golofer, the highway, land of 
 Marg. de Abiton and Rokislane : 4 marks gersuma, rent 
 to Nuns 7^ 4'' and lights for the altar of the B.V. in 
 S* A. church. Barth. Goggyng, mayor. 
 
 Rokislane, otherwise Rogues', Hangman's or Hinton Lane, now 
 Christ's Lane. 
 
 125 Crestiana, dau. of Godard, to Hugh fitz Will.: land in S* A. 
 
 par. betw. land of Barnwell Priory and land of Ric. de 
 Bernewell, behind the chapel of the H. T. : rent 12'', and 
 2s gd gersuma. Witn. Gregory fitz Hugh. 
 
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100 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 126 a Rob. de Tychewell, cissor, of Camb. to Alan de Badburham 
 
 of Gamb. and his wife Marg.: mess, in S' A. par. in 
 Rokeslane. Eudo de Helpringham, mayor. 
 h Stephen fitz Adam Godesone quitclaims same mess, to same 
 Rob. Symon de Refham, mayor. Ed. II. 16. 
 
 127 Ralf de Derham and wife Maud, dau. of Adam, pictor, to 
 
 Will., parson of Morpad : land in S* A. par. Witn. 
 Baldwin Blangernun. 
 128« Nich. fitz Alexander, Almoner of Ely, to Everard fitz 
 Philip : land in S* A. par. betw. land of Rob. de Taxstede 
 and of Will. Duzedeners : rent 4^, and 2^ gersum.a. 
 Witn. Baldwin Blangernun. 
 h Same Everard to Joh. fitz Joh., smith ; same land : rent to 
 Ely Almoner 4*^, and 6^ gersuma to Everard. Witn. 
 Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 129 Alan de Hynton, piscator, of Camb. to Joh. Paulin and his 
 
 son Joh.: land in S* A. par. Joh. Buth, mayor. Edw. 
 I. 19. 
 
 130 Oldeburga, dau. of Ric. Gulafre, to Hen. de Berton : land 
 
 in S' A. par., betw. lane to Hinton and land of her bro. 
 Ric. : rent 8^, and 30^ gersuma. Witn. Hervey Grim. 
 
 131a Tho. fitz Tho., mercer, to his sister Cecilia : mess, in S' A. 
 par. betw. Hinton lane and Mabel Gulafre : rent 8^ 
 Witn. Rob. Seman. 
 b The same Tho. to the Nuns : mess, in S* A par., butted as 
 the last. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 132 Ric. Gulafre to Hen. Leverton : land in S*. A. par., betw. 
 land of same Ric, land of Absalon fitz Segar and lane 
 leading to Hintone : rent 8'^, and 3^ gersuma. Witn. 
 Hervey Grim. 
 
 133a Marg, dau. of Stephen, to Rob. de S. Edmundo : a rent of 
 6'^ out of a mess, formerly belonging to her father in 
 S*^ A. par. Witn. Rob. Saman. 
 h Joh. Aelard to the Nuns for their Infirmary : the rent of 
 6''* which he bought from Rob. de S. Edmundo proceed- 
 ing out of the above-mentioned mess., formerly of Stephen 
 fitz Adelin in Willeghes. Witn. Rob. Saman. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 101 
 
 134 Nuns (Pr. Elena) to Job. de Biccleswade of Camb.: land in 
 
 S*^ A. par. in Deus Deners lane, next highway and land 
 of Benet Godesone, ab. on land of the chapel of S. Edmund 
 and land of the Hosp. of S. John : rent 2' 6^ Witn. 
 Joh. Martin. 
 
 135 Joh. Pawe of Camb. and dau. Katerina to Nich. Pawe of 
 
 Camb.: a garden &c. in S* A. par. in Preachers' St. betw. 
 a garden of the Prior of S. Edmund's chapel and a mess, 
 of the Hosp. of S. John, ab. on common lane and a garden 
 of M'" Tho. de Suthwerke : the said Q^arden &c. beino^ held 
 by him of the Nuns : rent 2^ 6^^. Eudo de Helpringham, 
 mayor. Edw. II. 18. 
 136a Marg., dau. of Emma, to Nuns for their Infirmary : mess, 
 in lane leading from S' A. ch. towards Hintune, betw. land 
 of Hen. Elyot and land of Nuns. Witn. Tho. Toilet. 
 b Ric. fitz Walter de Pynchebek of Camb. and his wife 
 Muriel to Joh. Edward : the mess, above described. 
 Symon de Refham, mayor. 
 
 137 Cecilia Sagar to M'^' Martin de S. Radegund : land in the 
 
 great street outside Barnwell gate, betw. land of Will., 
 smith, and land of Ric. Marscal : rent" to Nuns 7"^. Witn. 
 Simon Godeloth. 
 
 138 Nuns to Hen. de Mordon : cortdlage and house formerly of 
 
 M"^ Martin in S' A. par. : rent half a mark. Witn. Will. 
 
 de Newenham. 
 139 (X Roger de Capella to Will, de Barlham, clerk: burgage &c. 
 
 outside Barnw. gate, occupied by Walter Seger : rent to 
 
 Nuns 18*^ and a hen, to heirs of Nich. Doy 4'\ hagable 
 
 l''. Witn. Ric. fitz Laurence. 
 b The above Will, de B. to Will, fitz Roger de Nor wye : the 
 
 same burgage : 30 marks gersuma, rent to Nuns 18'\ 
 
 hagable If^. Witn. Joh. Porthors. 
 140 Nuns to Tho. Engayne of Camb., his wife Katherine and 
 
 son Tho.: a garden in S' A. par. at south end of town, 
 
 betw, a tenement of Reg. de Trumpyton and land of the 
 
 Nuns, ab. on Nuns' land and highway: rent 41 Edw. 
 
 III. 17. 
 
102 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 141 Nuns (Pr. Margaret) to Joh. Berlee of Camb.: a tenement 
 
 in S* A, par. betw. a tenement of Corp. Chr. Coll., a 
 tenement of Job. de Toft and a tenement of Rob. de 
 Parys, ab. on highway, the King's ditch and Pouches 
 croft : for 40 years, rent 181 Tenant to repair buildings 
 on the tenement, viz., a hall with solar and two cellars 
 under the solar, a chamber to W. of the hall, three 
 chambers in front of the tenement and a dovehouse. 
 Joh. Morice, mayor. Edw. III. 43. 
 
 142 Nans (Pr. Margery Harlyng) to Rob. Pynniugton : a tene- 
 
 ment in S** A. par. betw. a tenement of Corp. Chr. Coll., 
 a tenement of Joh. Huntyngdon, (late of Joh. Cotton) 
 and a garden which Joh. Weston holds of the Nuns, ab. 
 on the highway. King's Ditch and Pouches croft (which 
 belongs to the Prior and Canons of S. Edmund's chapel): 
 for 80 years, rent l7l The Nuns to supply tenant after 
 wheat harvest with one acre of wheat-straw, and tenant 
 to be allowed to cut down trees to repair j)remises, plant- 
 ing others in their place. Joh. Gajmesford, major. 
 Henry IV. .9. 
 
 143 Ric. Busshe and others to Will. Mast, baker, and others : a 
 
 mess, in S' A. par. in Prechourstrete, betw. a tenement 
 of Corp. Chr. Coll. and a tenement of Adam Peyntour, 
 ab. on highway and a garden of Joh. Baldok. Joh. 
 Bilney, mayor. Henry V. 3. 
 
 144a Will of Will. Mast, dated Dec. 3, 1432. 
 
 Among the legacies are : to the high altar of All Saints' church 
 (where he is to be buried) 20^ : to his brother in law, Andr. 
 Sharp, his tenement in Preacherstrete for life : to each order of 
 mendicant friars in Camb. 20^ : to the Nuns of S. Rad. 20^, the 
 Prioress to have as much as two nuns : to the Nuns of Swafham 
 10^ : executors to find 5 priests to celebrate for his soul. 
 
 b Probate of above will. Dec. 16, 1432. 
 
 c The executors of the same will convey to Andr. Sharp the 
 
 tenement in Preacherstrete. Henry VI. 12. 
 d Sharp's release to Mast's executors. Henry VI. 13. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 103 
 
 145a Marg., wid. of Will. Mast, to Rob. Koker and others: a 
 mess, in Preacherstrete. Wita. Tho. Heyrman, mayor. 
 Hen. VI. 29. 
 
 h Letter of attorney from Marg. Mast to Tho. Porter to 
 deliver seisin of last named mess. Henry VI. 29. 
 
 c Rob. Coker to Nuns (Pr. Elizabeth) : the same mess., 
 described as betw. a tenement of Corp. Chr. Coll., S., a 
 tenement of Joh. Coloffe, N., a garden of Geoff. Newell, 
 W. : for 99 years, rent IQ'^ to Corp. Chr. Coll., as quit 
 rent of a tenement in S. Mary's ^wc. juxta forum, betw. a 
 tenement of Rob. Coker, S., and Cutlerrowe, N., which he 
 holds of the Nuns Rob. Cooper, mayor. Dec. 10, 1468. 
 
 d Rob. Coker releases to Nuns (Pr. Elizabeth) same mess., 
 reserving power to distrain in case the Nuns fail to pay 
 to Corp. Chr. Coll. the above mentioned quit rent. Rob. 
 Cooper, mayor. Feb. 25, Edw. IV. 8. 
 146a Mariota, wid. of Joh. Quenburgh of Horningsey, to Joh. 
 Foster: mess, in Preacher Strete, betw. a tenement of 
 Corp. Chr. Coll. and a tenement of Adam Peyntour, ab. 
 on the street and a garden of Joh. Baldok. Elic. II. 13. 
 
 h Joh. Foster of Bodekesham to Rob. Brigham of Camb.: the 
 same mess. Ric. II. 21. 
 
 147 Joh. Baynard of Stapleford to Simon de Sleford and others; 
 
 a shop with solar above it in S'' A. par., bounded by 
 highway, land of said Simon, and a tenement of Walter 
 Hervy. Witn. Joh. de Essex. Edw. III. 32. 
 
 148 Simon Sleford to Joh. Asschwell, tailor, of Carnb. : a tene- 
 
 ment betw. Rokeslane and a tenement late of Walter 
 Hervy, ab. on a tenement of Joh. de Badburgham and 
 highway. Witn. Ric. Fowke, mayor. Edw. III. 42. 
 
 149 Andr. Beauchamp of Stowe to Walt. Pannfeld, goldsmith, 
 
 of Camb.: a barn and garden in S*^ A. par. betw. land of 
 Ely Sacrist and Hangmanneslane, ab. on garden of same 
 Andr. and land of Joh. de Badburgham. Joh. Gybon, 
 mayor. Edw. III. 45. 
 
 150 a Same Andr. to Joh. de Wauton : mess, in S*^ A. par. betw. 
 
 a mess, of the Prior of Ely and Hangmanneslane, ab. on 
 
104 .CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 Preaclioure Streete, which mess, said Andr. bought of 
 Joh. de Asschewelle, tailor. Joh, Gj^bon, mayor. Edw. 
 III. 46. 
 b Joh. de Wauton to Will, de Wykmer, University bedel : 
 . mess, above described. Joh. Gybon, mayor. Edw. III. 
 46. 
 
 151 Margery, wid. of above Will., to the Nuns : a tenement in 
 
 S* A. par. next the lane leading to Hynkton. Hen. V. 8. 
 
 152 Nuns (Pr. Agnes Seynctlowe) to Ely Priory (Prior, Edmund 
 
 W^alsyngham) : a void place in S* A. par. lately held by 
 Will. Wygnier, University bedel, of the Nuns for a rent 
 of 8^, betw. a void plot of Ely Sacrist, S., and lane leading 
 to Hynton, N., ab. on a tenement of the Nuns leased to 
 Joh. Grenelane, E., and on highway, W.: rent 41 Ely, 
 Hen. V. 9. 
 
 Seal of Ely Convent. 
 
 158 Nuns (Pr. Agnes Senclow) to Rob. Gotobedde : mess, in 
 Waleslane in S* A. par. betw. a tenement late of Joh. 
 Refham and a tenement late of Joh. de Norton, ab. on 
 highway and a toft late of Joh. de Blancpayn : lease for 
 60 years, rent 4^ The tenant to build a new barn and a 
 new house for two tenants on said mess. Joh. Grenelane, 
 mayor. Feb. 18, 1422. 
 
 154 Indenture, in English, betw. the Nuns (Pr. Elizabeth) and 
 
 Ric. Wodecok, butcher. 
 
 For the matter, see p. 41. 
 
 155 Nuns (Pr. Eliz. Walton) release to Joh. Ely a rent of 6^ 
 
 proceeding out of a void place in S* A. par. called the 
 Swerd on the Hope, betw. land of the Nuns leased to 
 Joh. Baldewyn, glover, S., and a tenement of Hen. Paris, 
 gentleman, N., ab. on a farm of the Nuns occupied by 
 Joh. Ely, E.: tenant to pay instead a rent of V 8^ Joh. 
 Wyghton, mayor. Edw. IV. 19. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 105 
 
 S. Peter's Parish extra Trumpington Gate. 
 
 (The old church of S. Peter fell down soon after 1325 : 
 before 1349 the new church dedicated to S. Mary was com- 
 pleted. The deeds in the list below are all of the 13th 
 century.) 
 
 156a. Ralf Sigan, priest, to the Nuns : land without Trump. 
 gate next land of Hen. Meso and land of which his son 
 Coleman has the reversion after his death. Witn. 
 Maurice, capellanus. 
 
 h The same to the same : land in same place. Same wit- 
 nesses. = • . 
 
 c Hugh fitz Algar Brest releases to the Nuns (Pr. Leticia) 
 land given to them by Ralf Sigan. Witn. Hervey fitz 
 Eustace. 
 
 157 Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Ric. Burs, butcher, land in S' P. par. 
 
 without Trump, gate, betw. land of Ric. Sinereles and 
 land of Hen. Scolemaister : rent 12*^, two capons, and 
 half a mark as gersuma. Witn. Sir Drogo, capellanus. 
 
 158 Nuns to Mabel Blangernun for her life: a mess, in Trump. 
 
 street formerly held of them by Hen. Scolemayster, 
 betw. a mess, of Ric. Burs, butcher, and a mess, of 
 Ric. Cau : rent 5^ Witn. Joh. Ruffus. 
 
 159 Nuns (Pr. Custancia) to Pet. de Wilburham and wife 
 
 Sabina : a mess, in S* P. par. without Trump, gate, lately 
 held of Nuns by Mabel Blangernun, betw. land of said 
 Sabina and land of Tho. de Cotenham : rent 3^ Joh. 
 Leacon, mayor. 
 
 160 Nuns (Pr. Elena) to Joh. de Eylesham and wife Sabina: 
 
 plot of ground in S* P. par. without Trump, gate, betw^ 
 his land and land of Mr Hugh de Hulmo, ab. in front on 
 the highway : rent 6*^. Joh. Martin, mayor. 
 
 This plot was included in the site of Peterhouse : see Arch. 
 Hist. I., p. 3, and Hundr. Rolls ii., p. 371. 
 
 161 Marg., wid. of Ralf, to Rob. fitz Maud: land in S' P. par. 
 
 extra portam Cantebr. betw. land of S' P. church and land 
 
106 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 of Absalon fitz Wymund, next the chapel of S. Edmund : 
 rent 4*^, two capons, and 2^ gersuma. Witn. Walt., son 
 of Mr Geoffrey. 
 
 S. Botolph's Parish. 
 
 162 Ric. Bateman of Camb. to the Nuns (Pr. Agnes Burgeillo) 
 
 in exchange for a mess, late of Will. Nonacurt : a rent of 
 12*^ out of a mess, near the King's Ditch next Trump, 
 gate, and another of 8*^ out of three shops in Pirones 
 lane, betw. a mess, of Tho. le Moner and a mess, of Alice 
 de Bradelee. Witn. Barth. Goggyng. 
 
 Pirones lane, see Arch. Hist. i. p. 335. 
 
 163 Alice, dau. of Ric. Gibelot, to Nuns : a mess, next the 
 
 cemetery of S* B. and ab. on highway and land of S* B. 
 Witu. Will. Morice. 
 
 164 Nuns (Pr. Mabilia) to Heu. de Cotes : a mess, in S*^ B. par. 
 
 in Melnestrate, given to them by Symon Godelote, betw. 
 land late of Pet. de Well and land of Ric. fitz Laurence : 
 rent 20'^ besides a rent charge to S. John's Hospital. 
 Witn. Humfrey Brithnod. 
 
 165 Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Martin Brictnot : land &c. in S' B. 
 
 par. betw. his land and land of Will. Mildes: rent 16*^ 
 and 16^ gersuma. Witn. Hervey, clerk. 
 
 166 Nuns (Pr. Elena) to Joh. Martin and wife Avice : a mess. 
 
 in S' B. par. betw. his land and a mess, of Joh. Hardy : 
 rent 21 Rob. Tuyllet, mayor. 
 
 167 Nuns (Pr. Elena) to Ralf fitz Joh. Roger de Cumbertone : 
 
 plot of ground in S' B. par. betw. a mess, of Hen, Hardi 
 and a mess, of Will. Martin, ab, on highway : rent 3^ 
 Witn. Joh. Porthors. 1299. 
 
 168 Will., vicar of All Saints' ch., and others to Joh. Cheseman 
 
 and wife Joan for their lives : a mess, in S' B. par. : rent 
 18*^. Roger de Harleston, mayor. Ed. III. 31. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 107 
 
 S. Benet's Parish. 
 
 169a Walter son of Master Geoff, of Camb. to Peter fitz Bur- 
 chard : land in S*^ B. par. which Filurun held of his 
 father : rent 2^ two capons and two hens and 20^ gersuma. 
 Witn. Bartholomew, chaplain. 
 
 b Will, de S' Edmund to Nuns : the above mess., described as 
 in the great street towards Trump, gate ; rent as above, 
 the Nuns releasing to him an acre of land in Camb. fields 
 which they hold of the same Walter, son of Geoff. Witn, 
 Maurice Ruffus. 
 
 c Alice, wife of above Will, de S* Edmund and dau. of Master 
 Geoff., confirms the above grant. Witn. as above. 
 
 d Walter, son of above Will, and Alice, confirms the same 
 grant, Witn, as above. 
 170a Alice, dau, of Ric. fitz Peter to Nuns : land in S' B. par. 
 betw, land of John Smith and land of Hugh Ruffus, 
 reaching from highway to laud of Greg, Salter : also land 
 in same par. betw, land late in tenure of Godlomb and 
 land of Nich. Kyp : also a shop in S, Edward's par, betw, 
 a shop of Alan Macston and a shop late of Reg, fitz 
 Osbon : Nuns to pay all services, viz. 32*^ to the Hosp, 
 of St John, 30'^ to Almoner of Ely and 2^ two capons 
 and two hens to heirs of Master Walter fitz Geoff. 
 Witn, Hervey fitz Eustace, 
 
 b Ivetta, widow of Peter, quitclaims dower in the second of 
 the above premises. Witn. as in the last. 
 171a Cecilia de Wynepol to Nuns: an annual rent of 6^ 7^ 
 viz, 4^ out of a mess, held of her by Serlo le Waunter in 
 S' B. par. betw. land of Joh. Goggyng and land of Alan 
 Weaver, and 2' 7*^ out of a mess, held of her by Joh. 
 Goggyng in same par, next the former mess, and towards 
 Trump, gate. Nuns to pay yearly to S' B. ch. 4*^ and a 
 wax candle and 2*^ for hagable. Witn. Thos. Toylet. 
 
 b The same Cecilia releases same mess, to Nuns subject to 
 above mentioned charges. Same witnesses. 
 
108 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 172 a Walter Scissart to Nuns: land in S* B. par. which he 
 bought of Rob. fitz Ormar, and land in S' John's par. 
 which he bought of Hildebrand Gabyt : Nuns to pay rent 
 of 6^ to heirs of Rob. fitz Ormar for the first-named and 
 2'^ to the King for the other. Witn. Fabianus, priest. 
 b Alice, wife of Bernard fitz Edricius, releases above lands 
 to Nuns. Witn. Dominus B., official of the archdeacon 
 of Ely. 
 c Bernard fitz Edricius releases the same. Witnesses as 
 in last. 
 
 . d Symon fitz Reginald ad portam releases the same. Wit- 
 nesses as before, 
 
 173 Thos. le Mercer to Nuns : an annual rent of 16*^ out of 
 land in S* B. par. held of him by Will. Scurri. Witn. 
 Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 174a Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Margaret, widow of Thos. Merchant : 
 a mess, in S' B. par. betw. land formerly of Walter, son 
 of Master Geoff., and land of Margaret Suneman : also a 
 mess, in Milne St. in S* John's par. betw. land of the 
 Nuns in tenure of Nicolas, capellanus, and land of Alan 
 Wiclof: rent 7^ and two capons with three marks 
 gersuma. Witn, Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 h The above Margaret grants the mess, in S*^ John's par. to 
 her son Walter : rent to Nuns 4^ and two capons, 
 Witn, Rob. Seman. 
 
 175 Nans (Pr. Letitia) to Thos. Baker: a mess, in S*^ B. par. 
 
 betw. land of Peter le Hunte and land formerly of 
 Godlomb : rent 3® and two capons, with one mark ger- 
 suma. Witn. Thomas, parson of S* Benet's. 
 
 176 Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Peter le Hunte : land with buildings 
 
 thereon in S*^ B. par. betw. land of Nich. Kyep and land 
 of Nuns in tenure of Ivetta, widow of Peter Butcher (sic): 
 rent 3^ and two marks gersuma. Witn. Hervej fitz 
 Eustace. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY, 109 
 
 Parish of S. John the Baptist in Milne Street. 
 
 177 Apsolon fitz Roger confirms to John fitz Azo the grant 
 made to him by Walter Cros of a mess, in M. St. betw. 
 land of Peter fitz Yvo and land of said Apsolon : rent 4*" 
 to Walt. Cros. Witn. Rob. Seman. 
 
 I78tt Aspelon fitz Roger to his dau. Ysabel : a mess, in S*^ J. 
 par. betw. a mess, lately occupied by his bro. Hugh and a 
 mess, of his dau. Margaret : rent half a pound of cumin 
 and I'' hagable. Witn. Geoff. Potekin. 
 b The same Apsolon repeats to the same Ysabel the above 
 grant and adds a piece of land formerly belonging to the 
 mess, of his bro. Hugh : rent and witnesses as in the last. 
 
 179 The same Absolon fitz Roger, priest, to Martin Wolward : a 
 
 part of the land held by him of Hervey fitz Eustace, next 
 land of Reginald fitz Alfred, in the little lane leading to 
 S' John's ch., together with a house on the same land : 
 rent 20''. Witn. Hervey Grim. 
 
 180 Hervey fitz Eustace to the Nuns : a rent of 12'^ to be paid 
 
 by Absolon, priest's son, out of land in S'' J. par. next 
 the lane leading from S*^ Edward's ch. to S' John's ch., to 
 recompense them for any loss which may result to All 
 Saints' ch. out of the common land on which the Hosp. 
 of S' John is situated, and that the same Hosp. may 
 have right to bury where they will, salva eidem hospitali 
 libera cantaria sua in perpetuum. Witnesses Dominus 
 E[ustace], Eliens. Eps., R. Barre, Archidiac. Eliens., 
 Will., Prior of Barnwell, Fulk son of Teobald &c. 
 
 181 Maurice Ruffus in the same terms grants to the Nuns a 
 
 rent of 12'^ out of laud in S' J. par. in the tenure of 
 Symon fitz Reginald, next land of Goding de Cestertun. 
 Witnesses as in the last. 
 182a Geremias Banastre of Elteslee to Ysabel, sister of his wife 
 Margaret : land in M. St., par. of S*^ J., being part of the 
 land given to him by Aspelon fitz Roger in marriage with 
 
110 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 his dau. Margaret: rent G'', and 40^ gersuma. Witn. 
 Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 b Margaret, widow of Jeremias Banastre, to the Nuns : the 
 above mentioned land : rent 6'\ and two marks gersuma. 
 Witn. Rob. de S* Edmund. 
 
 183 The same Margaret, widow of German (sic) Banastre to her 
 
 dau. Lecia : a rent of 3^ payable by Simon ad aquam, 
 and one of 12*^ payable by the Nuns: Lecia to pay yearly 
 a silver farthing. Witn. Bob. Banastre &c. 
 
 184 Amycia, dau. of John Banastre of Eltisle, to Sir John de 
 
 Triplawe, Rector of Reymerston, dioc. Norwich : a rent of 
 12*^ payable by the Nuns out of a mess, in M. St., par. of 
 S' J., formerly of Roger de Costyshey and Rob. de 
 Wynebotisham : no rent. John Pylat, mayor. Edw. III. 5. 
 
 185 a Aspelon fitz Roger confirms to Nuns a rent of ¥ out of 
 
 land in tenure of John fitz Acius, betw. the land given 
 by said Aspelon to his dau. Margaret and land of Yvo 
 fitz [bla7ik'], which rent his son Reginald gave to the 
 Nuns for one lamp in their church. Witn. Hervey fitz 
 Eustace. 
 b The Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to John fitz Acius : a mess, in 
 M. St., betw. land of Peter fitz Yvo and land of Jeremias 
 of Eltislee, which mess, was bequeathed to them by 
 Reg. fitz Absolon for a lamp before the altar of the B.V. 
 and confirmed to them by said Absolon : rent 4^, and 
 4^ gersuma. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 186 The Nuns (Pr. Leticia) to Alan Whitlof and his wife 
 
 Alice : a mess, in M. St. given to them by Walter Gyffard : 
 rent 18*^. Witn. Rob. Saman. 
 
 187 The Nuns (Pr. Milisentia) to Symon de Wynebodesham 
 
 and wife Margaret: land and buildings thereon in M. St., 
 par. of S' J., betw. land of Thos. Wolward and land of 
 Jeremias de Elteslee, extending 220 ft. from the great 
 street to the river (fossatum) and at the river end 102 ft. 
 betw. land of Alice Belbar and land of John fitz Azo : 
 rent one mark, and half a mark gersuma. Witn. Thos. 
 Tuyllet. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. Ill 
 
 188 Agreement betw. tlie Nuns (Pr. Agnes Shenkelowe) and 
 
 Joh. Bridbrok, clerk, before Job. Bilneye, mayor, respect- 
 ing the rent of 4® arising from the mess, given by Reg. 
 fitz Absolon to Letitia, late Prioress, The position and 
 bounds of the said mess, being unknown to any living 
 person the said J. B. agrees that the said rent shall 
 in future be paid out of a mess, of his in M. St. betw. 
 a mess, once of Will. Wynde, afterwards of Nich. Hethe, 
 now of Joh. Ascheman and a tenement of Clara Hall, 
 called Hospicium Wallicorum, ab. on M. St. The Nuns 
 to pray for him as one of their benefactors. Henry VI. 5. 
 
 189 Mariota, widow of Ric. de Berton, to Maud, her dau. ; a 
 
 mess, in M. St., par. of S' J., opposite the church, betw. a 
 tenement of Alberis de Saltrega and a tenement of Will. 
 Pitcock (held de feodo Hospitalis Sci Johannis de Jeru- 
 salem) on N., and a shop and yard and Pyrones lane 
 on S., ab. E. on a tenement of Maud de Walda and a 
 tenement of Derota la Parchiminere, and W. on the 
 street and yard of said shop : rent a silver penny as 
 hagable, and one penny to said Mariota. John But, 
 mayor. Ed. I. 20. 
 
 The Hospital mentioned is not that of St John, Cambridge, but 
 that of St John of Jerusalem, in England, which possessed property 
 in the par. of St J. See Hundr. EoUs, ii., p. 360. 
 
 190 Nuns (Pr. Elena) to Joh. le Lominor, his wife Mabel and 
 
 heirs: a mess, in Melne strete in the par. of S. John 
 Baptist, betw. Pyron lane and a mess, of said Joh. le L., 
 ab. on Melne strete and a mess, of the same John : 
 rent 3^ Rob. Tuylet, mayor. 
 
 191 Nuns (Pr. Margaret Clanille) to Will. Stote and his son 
 
 Thos. : a rent proceeding out of ground in the par. of 
 S* J., betw. a mess, of Marg. le Clerk of Chesterton and a 
 mess, of the said Will, ab. on a void place of Damalis de 
 Felstede and highway: they to pay annually 12*^, and for 
 the iirst seven years 7^ in advance. Joh. London, mayor. 
 Edw. III. 38. 
 
112 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 S. Edward's Parish, 
 
 192 Stephen de Schalariis grants to Absalon fitz Roger of 
 
 Camb, three shops in stallis Cantebr. rented respectively 
 at 5^ 4'' and 3^ receiving from him 100 shillings pre 
 manihus 'ad magnum negociiim meum perficiendum.' 
 Witn. Geoff. Potekin. 
 
 193 Adam Sellarius grants to Hen. Hubert in marriage with his 
 
 sister Edusa a shop in S' E. par. betw. land of Baldewin 
 Blangernun and land lately in tenure of Barth. Taillur : 
 rent 31 Witn. Geoff. Potekin. 
 1 94a The Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Henry Huberd : a shop in S*^ E. 
 par. betw. land of the Nuns and land formerly of Peter, 
 capellanus de Neweham : rent 31 Witn, Geoff. Potekin. 
 h Henry Hubert grants to Thos. Pertehaye in marriage with 
 his dau. Eva the shop mentioned in the last : rent 3^ to 
 the Nuns. Witn. Thos, Thuilhet. 
 
 195 The Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Ric. Morin : a shop betw. a shop 
 
 of Hen. Hubert and a shop of Nigel le Seller, both held 
 of the Nuns : rent o'^, and 4^ gersuma. Witn. Rob. 
 Seman. 
 
 196 The Nuns (Pr, Letitia) to Ralf fitz Hervey : three mess, in 
 
 circuitu cimiterii Sci Edwardi, one next a mess, of the 
 Nuns occupied by Maud Dun, the others on either side 
 of a mess, of Ivo de Bramton : rent 4^ and four capons, 
 with 20^ gersuma. Witn, Hervey fitz Eustace, 
 
 197 The Nuns (Pr, Milesentia) to Will. Tuylet: land in stallagio 
 
 formerly held of them by Hen. Hubert : rent 21 Witn. 
 Thos. Tuylet. 
 
 198 Robert fitz Anger le Rus to the Nuns (Pr. Custancia) : a 
 
 quit rent of 3® out of a mess, formerly of Hen. Spileman 
 in the Corn market, betw. land of John ad portam and 
 land of Nicholas ultra forum : in return the Nuns release 
 to John de Sausitone a rent of 3^ due to them from Ralf 
 de Bancis for a virgate of land in Parapesworth. Ric. 
 fitz Laurence, mayor. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 113 
 
 199 Maud Pinniger binds herself to pay to the Nuns a rent of 
 
 7^ for a shop in the Butchery, between the stalls given 
 to them by Ric. ad portam, the said shop having been 
 formerly held of the Nuns by Eustace Selede. Witn. 
 Dominus Walter de Havekestone, capellanus. 
 
 200 John de Branketre (or ? Brankstre) and his son Thos. to 
 
 Richard de Sco Neoto of Camb. butcher: a mess, in 
 Tripereslane betw. a tenement of Andrew Wolleward 
 and a tenement of Geoff, le Feror: rent to the Almoner 
 of Ely 2^ to the Nuns 6^ and 6 capons (or 12'^), and 18^ 
 to the said John. Edw. I. 34. 
 
 201 William Fiemyng of Camb., butcher, releases to the Nuns 
 
 a shop which has escheated to them, in Bocheria in S*^ E. 
 par. Symon de Refham, mayor. Edw. II. 5. 
 
 202 Thomas de Maddyngle quitclaims to D"* William, chaplain, 
 
 son of Thos. de Wynepol, scrivener, a mess, formerly of 
 Joan Casteleyn in S* E. par. at the end of the Bucherie 
 betw. a tenement of Walter fitz Thomas, butcher, and 
 the Oatmarket and ab. at either end on the street. Rob. 
 Dunnyng, mayor. Edw. II. 10. 
 
 203 William de Txnyng, vicar of All Saints', and others lease to 
 
 Ste. Moriz a mess, containing two shops in the Bocherie, 
 betw. a shop belonging to S* John's House and a shop of 
 S' Rad. House, for 53 years: rent to the Prior of Barnwell 
 4^ 4'\ to S*^ John's House 4^ to the Prioress of Swaffham 
 4^ 6^ to the Prioress of S*^ Rad. 4^ 2"^ and to the said 
 William 12'*. John de London, mayor. Edw. III. 40. 
 
 204 Ely Convent (John, Prior) leases to John Frenge, his 
 
 wife Agnes and son John, two mess, in Camb., the one 
 in S* E. par. ab. on a mess, of the Almoner of Ely, 
 occupied by the said J. F., and on a mess, of the Nuns, 
 and extending along the lane next the churchyard of 
 S* E. ; the other with hithe appertaining called Cholles- 
 hithe in the parish of S*^ John, in the lane called Water- 
 lane, betw. a mess, of Edm. Lyster and the said lane, ab. 
 on the river bank and a mess, of Will. Wynde : for the 
 term of their lives: rent 181 Dated Ely, Edw. III. 40. 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 8 
 
114 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 205 a The Nuns (Pr. Alicia Pilet) lease to Rich. Hynton, 
 
 butcher, and his wife Alice a shop in the Bocherie, betw. 
 a shop late of Will, de Lavenham and a shop late of 
 John Baldwyn, ab. on the street and S*^ E. churchyard : 
 for the term of their lives : rent 14^ John Blannpayn, 
 mayor. Rich. II. 2. 
 b The Nuns (Pr. Alicia Pilet) lease the above mentioned 
 shop to John Baldwyn, butcher, his wife Joan and dau. 
 Isabel for the term of their lives : rent 141 Witn. Will. 
 Cumburton. Rich. II. 22. 
 
 206 John de Lincoln to John Roiston of Camb. : a mess, in 
 
 S*^ E. par. betw. a mess, of Adam Lolleworth and a mess, 
 of John Oreford, ab. on the Cornmarket and on a garden 
 of Angleseye Priory. Ric. Maisterman, mayor. Rich. II. 
 12. 
 
 207 Acquittance of the Nuns (Pr. Agnes) to John Chance for 
 
 10^ being two years rent of a mess, in S* E. par. in the 
 Bochere Rowe, betw. the Otemarket and a shop late of 
 John BrouD, butcher, and ab. on the street and a mess, 
 late of John Sexteyn. Henry VI. 10. 
 
 208 The Nuns (Pr. Eliz. Walton) lease to Richard Woodcok, 
 
 butcher, and his wife Joan, a mess in S*^ E. par. betw. a 
 mess, of John Roys, S., a mess, of Thos. Reede, N., ab. on 
 the Bocherie, E., and on S* E. churchyard, W,, for 99 
 years : rent 15^ Edw. IV. 14. 
 
 209 The Nuns (Pr. Joan Fulburn) lease to Mr Rob. Goodknape, 
 
 clerk, a mess, in S* E. par. betw. a mess, of the Coll. of 
 S*^ Clare, S., a mess, of Simon Bentybowe, late of Will. 
 Barford, N., ab. on a mess, of the Solfham Nuns, W., and 
 on S* E. churchyard, E., for 40 years : rent 4^ Aug. 6, 
 1493. 
 
 Parish of S. Mary Juxta Forum. 
 
 210 Maud Corde, widow, to Nuns : a rent of 3^ 1*^ and 2 capons 
 out of a mess, in S' M. par. betw. land of Marg* de Abiton 
 and land late of Hugh Alderman, reaching from highway 
 
CHAETERS OF THE PRIORY. 115 
 
 to land of Cecilia Pernes : also a rent of 3^ out of a 
 mess, next a mess, formerly of Laur. Fitien in par. of 
 S. Peter versus castrum, next the street leading towards 
 Hulmus and ab. on a mess, formerly of Marg*^ Fitien and 
 on the highway. John Martin, mayor, 
 
 211a John fitz William for welfare of souls of himself and 
 his lord, Hugh, gives with his body to the Almoner of 
 S. Rad. the northern half of a mess., late of Ruold, in 
 S* M. par., granted to him by said Hugh : rent to the 
 dominus feodi G'' : the Nuns to find a lamp before the 
 altar of the B.V. Witn. Rob. Soman. 
 h Hugh fitz Apsolon to his kinswoman Aldusa : the southern 
 half of the above mess., which he bought of his uncle 
 Ruald, reaching from the highway before S. Mary's ch. to 
 the street leading to S. John's ch. : rent 6'\ and one 
 mark gersuma. Witn. Thos., dean of Sanford. 
 c Aldusa, dau. of Will. Blancgernun for welfare of souls of 
 herself and Hugh fitz Apsalon gives with her body to the 
 Nuns the above land, formerly of Ruald Cari : rent 6^ to 
 said Hugh. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 212a Hugh fitz Apsolon to his kinswoman Aldusa: mess, held 
 of him by Mabilia Harre : rent 12'', and IG'^ gersuma. 
 Witn. Thos., dean of Sanford. 
 h Hugh fitz Apsolon grants to Nuns the above rent of 12*^ to 
 find a lamp for the Nuns' Infirmary : service of the King 
 1**. Witn. Fabian, capellanus. 
 
 213a The same Aldusa gives with her body to the Nuns her 
 land and buildings in S* M. par. betw. land of Stephen 
 Corduaner and land of Ric, Pernes. Witn. Hervey fitz 
 Eustace. 
 b The Nuns (Pr. Leticia) to Andrew fitz Galien : the above 
 land and buildings : rent 81 Witn. John and Richard, 
 ' our chaplains.' 
 
 214 Henry fitz Hugh to Symon fitz Henry : a shop in Camb. 
 market betw, a shop of same Symon and a shop of 
 William fitz Henry : rent to John de Bertun 2^ and 3 
 marks gersuma. Witn. D^ John Fitz Hugh, 
 
 8—2 
 
116 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 215 Henry de Bertun, with consent of his wife Alice, to Henry 
 
 fitz Alan : a shop near the shop which Henry fitz Hugh 
 holds of him : rent 2^^, and 2^ gersuma. Witn. Mr Henry 
 Pilat. 
 
 216 Maurice fitz Albric to John, the smith, fitz Philip : 17 feet 
 
 of land in S* M. par. next land of Warin Anketin reaching 
 in longum vie uhi fabri manent, and from the same way 
 to land of Ric. de Ingham: rent 5^ and 10^ gersuma. 
 Witn. Gilbert, the goldsmith. 
 217ft Cristina, relict of Warin fitz Anketil, leases to John, the 
 smith, fitz Philip a shop in the market betw. land of 
 Maurice Ruffus and land of Gilbert Blancgernun for 20 
 years : rent 21 Witn. Rob. Seman. 
 
 b Godfrey fitz Warin fitz Anketil to John, the smith, fitz 
 John, the smith: the above shop: rent 5^ and 10^ gersuma. 
 Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 218 Gilbert fitz Arnulf, le Plumer, to John fitz John, the smith : 
 shop in the market betw. land of Thos. le Ferriman and 
 land of Ric. le Feleperer : rent 12*^ and a pair of gloves 
 worth ^^, and a mark gersuma. Witn. Maurice Ruffus. 
 219ft Leonius fitz Adam to Bartholomew le Noble : a shop in 
 the market at the corner of Potteres rowe, betw. land of 
 same Barth., W., and land of William, the miller, S. : 
 rent 6*^, and one mark gersuma. Witn. Thos. Tuyllet. 
 
 h Bartholomew le Noble to his son Hugh : the above shop 
 (next his own land and that of the Hospital of S. John) 
 and another next a ten* of Henry Nadun : rent y^, and 
 6*^ to Leonius Dunning. Witn. John Alvenechild. 
 
 c The same Hugh to his uncle Thos. Potekin : the same two 
 shops, the first described as betw. land of the Hospital 
 of S. John and land of Thos. le Cutiler, the second as 
 betw. land of Thos. le Cutiler and Will, le Lorimer: rent 
 to Leonius Dunning 6*^, and gersuma 6 marks. Witn. Ric. 
 fitz Laurence. 
 
 d Thos. Potekin to John fitz Serlo de Upwenden : a rent of 
 5^ out of the same shops. Witn. Henry Nadon. 
 
 e Indenture witnessing that the above grant is to continue 
 
CHARTERS 01* THE PRIORY. 117 
 
 for 4 years, and that the said John has paid to the said 
 Thos. 16^ ad 'urgens negotiuin suum: if the said Thos. die 
 within the term of 4 years the rent to remain to John 
 for ever. Witn. Will. Elioth. Edw. I. 3. 
 f The same John grants to the Nuns (Pr. Agnes Burgeylun) 
 the above mentioned rent of 5^ for 4 years, the Nuns 
 for a like term paying to him a rent of 4*^ 8*^ out of a shop 
 late held of him by Godfrey le Heymongere and 16*^ 6'^ 
 gersiinia. Will. Elihot, mayor. 
 220a Gilbert de Childerle to Will. Sweteghe : land in the 
 market betw. land of Symon de S. Botulph and land of 
 Rob. Sharp: rent to Marg*^, widow of Reginald de Abintun 
 35*^ and a mallard : 4 marks pre manibus. Witn. Hervey 
 fitz Eustace. 
 
 b Agnes, widow of Will, de Colebrig, quitclaims the same to 
 Will. Sweteye. Witn. Hervey Parleben. 
 
 c Will. Sueteye to the Nuns : an annual rent of 8^ out of the 
 above mentioned land for the maintenance of a lamp in the 
 Nuns' choir, ubicunque chorus earundem fuerit. Witn. 
 John Ruffus. 
 
 221 Acquittance of the Nuns (Pr. Agnes) to Ric. Spycer for rent 
 
 of a ten*^ with two solars in S* M. par. betw. a ten*^ of 
 Corpus Chr. College W. and a ten*^ of Ric. Busshee, E., 
 ab. on a ten* of Corpus Chr. College and on the Chese- 
 market, the rent of which, 8*, was given to the Nuns 
 before the Statute {i.e. of Mortmain), the Nuns accepting 
 8^ in full discharge of all arrears. Nov. 12, Hen. VI. 11. 
 
 222 Walter Crocheman to Alex. Pecche, rector of Brandestone : 
 
 a mess, in S* M. par. betw. land of Marg* Pernes and land 
 of Hugh But and ab. on the highway, together with a 
 small plot adjoining : rent to Nuns 8^ and 13^ marks 
 gersuma. John le Rus, mayor. 
 
 223 Ric. ad Portam to Nuns : a shop in the market betw. a shop 
 
 of John fitz Selid and a shop of Aca fitz Coleman : Nuns 
 to pay King's service 8*^. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 224 Nuns (Pr. Agnes Burgulun) to Reginald de Combirton : 
 
 land in S' M. par. given them by Thos. Potekin, clerk, 
 
118 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 betw. land of same Reginald and land of Henry le Parche- 
 miner : rent to Marg', dau. of Thos. Wolword, 4^ 8*^, and 
 2^ gersuma to Nuns. Barth. Goggyng, mayor. 
 
 225 William, Prior, and the convent of S. Giles, Barnwell, to 
 
 Hugh, selinarius: a mess, in the street betw. S. Mary's 
 ch. and S. Michael's ch., betw. land of the Ely monks and 
 land of Barnwell Priory : rent 12^. Witn. Mr Elyas. 
 
 Seal of Barnwell Priory : obverse, figure of S. Giles, legend 
 nearly defaced : reverse, figure of an ecclesiastic with legend 
 SECRETVM • WILL • PRIORIS • DE • BERWELL. This prior 
 was either William of Devon (1208—1213) or William of Bedford 
 (in 1213). 
 
 226 Ric. Martyn, D*" Will., vicar of All Saints' in Jewry, Simon 
 
 de Sleford and D^ Ric. Milde, chaplain, to Thos. Caldeeote, 
 butcher, and wife Agnes : lease for their lives of a ten* in 
 S'' M. par., in which they were enfeoffed by Will, de 
 Horewode, betw. a ten* of John Gybon, senior, and a shop 
 of Hugh Stalle on one side, and the lane leading from 
 the highway to the Milk-market on the other : rent 401 
 John London, mayor. Edw. III. 38. 
 
 227 Will. Rolf, vicar of All Saints', to John Bechampwell and 
 
 wife Marg* : lease for their lives of a ten* containing 
 two shops and a solar in S* M. par. betw. the churchyard 
 and the lane, and reaching from the church steps to a 
 ten* belonging to a chantry of the ch. : rent 6^ Ric. 
 Maisterman, mayor. Ric. II. 7. 
 
 228 The Nuns (Pr. Isabella) to Rob. Coker and his wife Marg* : 
 
 lease for 99 years of a ten* in S* M. par., betw. a ten* of 
 the lessees, S., and the highway called Cutler rowe, N., 
 ab. E. on a ten* belonging to a chantry of S* M. ch. and 
 W. on a ten* of Corpus Chr. Coll. : rent to the Nuns a 
 red rose, if demanded, the Nuns guaranteeing a quit-rent 
 to Corpus Chr. Coll. of IG**. Rob. Coope, mayor. Dec. 
 10, 1468. 
 
 229 The Nuns (Pr. Joan Fulburn) to John Greene, peyntour, 
 
 and wife Cristiana: lease for 21 years of a ten* in S* M. 
 par. betw. the common entry leading to the churchyard, 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 119 
 
 E., and the almshouse late of Tho. Jakenet, W., and ab. 
 on the street, S., and on the churchyard, N. : rent 10^ 
 June 17, Henry VII. 5. 
 
 Endorsed ' 1666. This is lease of the house that Mr Broughton 
 now has, being situate betwixt the Ahashouse and the back gate of 
 S. Mary's churchyard.' 
 
 Saint Michael's Parish. 
 
 230a. John fitz Geoff. Godard with assent of wife Eva to Nuns : 
 
 rent of 2^ out of land betw. land of Andr. de Middleton 
 
 and the river (ripa) and betw. land of Algar de Well and 
 
 land of John le [ ], and if he die childless the land 
 
 itself to Nuns. Witn. Thos. Tuilet, 
 b John fitz Will, de Trumpitune after suing the Nuns (Pr. 
 
 Milisentia) at London for the above mentioned land 
 
 confirms it to them for a sum of 20^ reserving to himself 
 
 a rent of 4^ (The land is said to be at Keverelleshythe 
 
 in S* M. par.) Witn. John le Rus. 
 c Sayer de Trumpeton to his son Peter : the above rent of 
 
 4^ (The land is said to be in Henneye.) Rob. Tuylet, 
 
 mayor &c. Edw. I. 22. 
 d Peter fitz Serle de Trumpytone releases to Pr. Christiana 
 
 de Braybrok and Nuns all arrears of above rent, retaining 
 
 however the rent itself. Edw. II. 5. 
 e Peter fitz Sayer de Trumpitone quitclaims to Nuns (Pr. 
 
 Cecilia) above rent of 4\ Witn. Simon de Brunne. 
 
 Edw. II. 10. 
 / Nuns (Pr. Elena) to Will, de Lincoln : the above land 
 
 (described as in Henneye) : rent 4'. Witn. John But. 
 
 Edw. I. 21. 
 g Nuns (Pr. Dera) to Pet. de Middelton : the above land : 
 
 rent 10% and gersuma 10^ S"* : not to alienate to Jews. 
 
 Witn. Thom. Tuyllet. 
 231a Nuns (Pr. Dera) to Tho. de Depham, clerk : mess, in S* M. 
 
 par. lately held of them by Will, Pergamentarius, opp. a 
 
120 CHARTEkS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 mess, of Walter Crocheman, ab. E. on highway leading 
 from S. John's Hospital to Trumpitun gate : rent 3\ 
 Rob. de S. Edmund's, maior ballivus. 
 
 b Nuns (Pr. Milesenta) to Pet. de Middelton : the same land 
 (described as at Flexhethe in S* M. par.) : rent 6^ Witn. 
 Thom. Tuyllet. 
 
 c Mabilia, dau. of Sara, lotrix, wife of Edm. de Ringestede, 
 having claimed exti^a indicium the above mess, granted 
 by the Nuns to Thos. de Depham, clerk, the latter 
 willing to indemnify the Nuns releases them from the 
 warranty given in their charter but only so far as relates 
 to the claim mentioned. Witn. as in the last. 
 
 232 John de Crocstun to Nuns : land in S* M. par. extending 
 
 from the great street to the river (filum aque), being the 
 third part of the land betw. the lane and land of Walter 
 fitz Scolicia. Witn. John Frost, capellanus. 
 
 233 Peter Macstan to Will, fitz Will, de Trumpiton : land in 
 
 S' M, par. betw. land of John de Welle, land of Rob. 
 Soman and the way to the common {commune), reaching 
 from the High Street to the river (aqua) : rent 12*^. 
 Witn. Ric. de Bernewell. 
 
 234 Nuns (Pr. Leticia) to Ralf fitz Henry : land in S* M. par., 
 
 being two thirds of the land betw. the lane and land 
 of Walt, fitz Scolicia : rent 4^ and 8 marks gersuma. 
 Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 235 Nuns (Pr. Leticia) to Ric. Shipwritte : land in S*^ M. par. 
 
 extending from the lane to land of Will, fitz Richard : 
 rent 2^ and 4^ gersuma. Witn. Thos. Tuilet. 
 
 236 The Master and Scholars of S* Michael's House covenant 
 
 to pay V per ami. to Nuns out of some tenements, late 
 of John Ovinng, in S* M. par., ab. on the river, the Nuns 
 releasing to them the tenements themselves. Witn. 
 Simon de Refham. Edw. III. 5. 
 
 237 Will, de Nunancurt to John Crocheman : land in S*" M. 
 
 par. held of Ely monastery, betw. land of S. Michael and 
 land of Maurice fitz Albric: rent 26*^^, and 10^ gersuma. 
 Witn. Fulk Crocheman. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 121 
 
 238 Nuns (Pr. Cecilia) to Joli. de Ovynng, clerk : void place in 
 Henneye in S' M. par. at Fflaxhythe : for term of 20 
 years, rent 21 Edw. II. 10. 
 
 S. Clement's Parish. 
 
 239 a Hugh fitz Absalon of Camb. by advice of Eustace, late 
 Bp of Ely, gives to the Almoner of S. Radegund of Camb. 
 the advowson of the church of S*^ C. Witn. Bartholomew, 
 official of the Archdeacon of Ely, Fabianus, capellanus, 
 Robert, capellanus of S*^ C. &c. 
 
 b Walter fitz Will, de S. Edmundo releases to the Nuns his 
 rights to the advowson, confirming the grants thereof 
 made by his ancestor Hugh fitz Absalon and his uncle 
 Walter. Witn. Philip de" Stantune, Everarde de Trum- 
 pitune, &c. 
 
 c John, Bp of Ely, grants to the Nuns of S' Rad. de Grene- 
 croft the church of S*^ C, saving a competent payment 
 for some priest to have the cure of souls. Witn. 
 Laurence, Prior of Barnwell, Bartholomew, official, &c. 
 
 John de Fontibus, Bp of Ely, 1220—1225. Laurence de Stanes- 
 feld, Prior of Barnwell, 1213—1251. 
 
 d Geoffrey, Bp of Ely, confirms the above charter. Witn. 
 M'' Will, de Bancis &c. 
 
 Geoffrey de Burgh, Bp. of Ely, 1225—1229. 
 
 e The Prior (Roger) and convent of Ely confirm the grant of 
 Bp John (de Fontibus). Witn. Laurence, Prior of Barn- 
 well, Bartholomew, decanus, &c. 
 
 Koger de Brigliam, Prior of Ely about 1215—1229. 
 
 240a Decree of Hugh de Stamford, Commissary General of the 
 Official of Ely, in a dispute betw. the Nuns and Sir 
 Geoffrey, vicar of S' C, in the matter of a pension of five 
 marks due to them 'de bonis altaragii ecclesie predicte 
 
122 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 secundum formam ordinacionis per felicis recordacionis ^ 
 Hugonem quondam Episcopum Elyensem.' 
 For this matter, see p. 27. 
 
 b A fragmentary charter, seemingly a confirmation to the 
 Nuns by John (Fordham), Bp of Ely, of the above 
 mentioned pension of 5 marks. 
 
 241 Eustace Oldcorn confirms to the Nuns (Pr. Custance) a 
 
 grant of Holdeburg, viz. an annual rent of 6*^ out of 
 a tenement in S* C par., next land of Ric. Bulling. 
 Witn. E,ob. fitz Anger le Rus. 
 
 242 The Nuns (Pr. Isabella de Sudbury), in consequence of the 
 
 representation of Adam de Walsoken, vicar of S*^ C, to 
 the Archbishop of Canterbury in his metropolitical 
 visitation, assign to the vicars of S' C as a mansum a 
 house on the E. side of the church, next the churchyard. 
 July 11, 1402. 
 
 For this matter, see p. 28. 
 
 243 The Nuns (Pr. Elizabeth) present to the Bishop of Ely 
 
 M*" Job. Barfot, nominated by them to the vicarage of 
 S*^ C, vacant by the death of Job. Damlett, late vicar, 
 reserving to themselves an annual pension of 5 marks. 
 1473. 
 
 244a Walter, the cook, for the health of the souls of himself and 
 his wife Agnes confirms in alms to the Nuns a grant 
 of 2® made to them by Adam Wyriel out of land in 
 Bridge St., or in default thereof a similar rent from some 
 place in Camb. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 h Job. fitz Bartholomew also confirms Adam Wyriel's grant. 
 Same witnesses. 
 
 245 a Tho. Tuylet, clerk, to his pueri, Will, and Ele, and longest 
 liver of them : two mess, in Bridge St. in S*^ C. par. betw. 
 a mess, of his father Will., S., and a mess, late of Koc, the 
 Jew, N., ab. on the street and on the lane towards 
 S. John's Hospital : rent 1*^ to said Tho., to Barth. 
 Goggyng 2^ to the Nuns 4^ to Job. Anured 4% to 
 S. John's Hosp., 41 Witn. Job. But. Ed. I. 14. 1286. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 123 
 
 b Bartholomew fitz John quitclaims to the Nuns the above 
 rent of 4® out of a mess, lately held by Will. Prest of 
 Adam Weriel and next a mess, of Will. Toilet, the Nuns 
 paying to him a sum of 24'. Witn. Joh. de Ky. 
 24G Johanna, dau, of Rob. de Schelford, widow, to Rob. le 
 Baker and his wife Johanna : a mess, in S' C. par., betw. 
 a mess, late of Walter de Horsethe and a mess, of Pet. le 
 Baker, reaching from Anngerys lane to land of Joh. de le 
 Seghalle : rent lOl Symon de Refham, mayor. Edw. 
 II. 4. 
 
 247 Alice, wid. of Alan Seghyn of Fen Ditton, quitclaims to D^ 
 
 Walter Poswyk, vicar of S*^ C, and D^ Henry Moryce, 
 chaplain of the same, her right of dowry in a mess, with 
 meadow adjoining it in S* C. par., late of M'" Rob. 
 Aunger, betw. a tenement of Ric. Laurence and a tene- 
 ment of Cecilia de Berton, • ab. on Aungerys lane and 
 a tenement of Reg. Bercar : the meadow betw. a meadow 
 of the Nuns and the curia of Ric. Laurence and ab. 
 on Grenecroft. Guy le Spycer, mayor. Ed. II. 5. 
 
 248 Alice le Rus and her children John, Margaret and Isabella, 
 
 lease for 10 years to Nich. le Redere and his wife 
 Katherine a dovehouse and curtilage with free access to 
 fetch water in the Nuns' lane, betw. a curtilage of the 
 Friars Minor and one of said Alice : rent 2^ Edm. 
 Lytestere, mayor. Ed. III. 38. 
 
 Endorsed ' paroch. S** dementis.' 
 
 249 a Rob. Peytevin, clerk, to Joh. Albon, clerk, a dovehouse 
 
 and void place in S* C. par. wh. he holds along with said 
 
 John and others by feoffment of Nich. Hethe. Hen. IV. 13. 
 b Joh. Albon, clerk, to Rob. Leeke and D' Ric. Browne, 
 
 vicar of All Saints ; the same dovehouse &c. Joh. 
 
 Gaynesford, mayor. Hen. V. 8. 
 c Ric. Browne, rector of Downham, to Ric. Cawdrey and 
 
 others : the above dovehouse &c. ab. on the river and 
 
 betw. lands of the Town of Cambridge. Ric. Wright, 
 
 mayor. Hen. VI. 24. 
 
124 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 250a The Nuns (Pr. Margaret Clanile) to D^ Ric. Milde, capel- 
 lanus, Joh. de Kelesseye, cooper, and Avisia his wife : 
 a tenement in S' C. par., betw. a tenement of Joh. 
 Dunton and one of S. Mary's chantry in S' C. church and 
 ab. on the churchyard : lease for their lives : rent 7^ 
 during Milde's life, afterwards 101 Will. Horwod, mayor. 
 Edw. III. 47. 
 b The Nuns (Pr. Margaret Clanile) lease the same premises to 
 Kelesseye and his wife for their lives and five years 
 afterwards : rent 10^ The lessees to maintain and 
 repair the existing buildings, viz. a good hall on the N. 
 side with a solar above it extending the whole length of 
 the tenement to the churchyard, and under the solar 
 three cellars, also a kitchen above the solar on the S. side 
 of the tenement &c. Lessees also to build a new house 
 of oak on the N.W. side of the tenement. Joh. Cotton, 
 mayor. Edw. III. 51. 
 
 Parish of S. Peter juxta Castrum. 
 
 251 Roger fitz Ric. le Potter to Juliana, dau. of Walter Corde : 
 
 a mess, formerly of his father, Ric, betw. land of Rob. 
 Custance and land of Roger Russel in the par. of S' P. 
 ultra pontem : hagable 1*^, rent to Walter Corde, 2®, and 
 5 silver marks gersuma. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 252 The Nuns (Pr. Constance) to Rob. fitz Walter Wymund and 
 
 his wife Marg. : land in S' P. par. ultra pontem, betw. 
 a mess, of Jordan le Hattere and one of Roger Slipper, 
 reaching from highway to land of Rob. de S. Edmundo : 
 rent 12^ Roger de Wykes, mayor. 
 
 253 Joh. de Benyngton to Rob. le Long : void ground in S' P. 
 
 par. juxta castr'um, next Merton Hall lane, ab. on a 
 tenement of Joan le Ploghwrygt and one of said Rob. 
 Roger de Harleston, mayor. Ed. III. 31. 
 
 254 a Maud Picot, wid. of Walter Bortone, to Will. Scherwynt 
 
 and his wife Joan : four cottages in S' P. par. ultra 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 125 
 
 pontem which she holds by feoffment of Ric. Yon, two of 
 the cottages being betw. a tenement formerly of Rob. 
 Seman and the lane leading to the King's ditch, the 
 other two betw. a tenement of Tho. Wellis and the 
 King's ditch. Joh. London, mayor. Ed. III. 38. 
 h The same to the same : reversion of the same four cottages, 
 held by Symon de Kymbalton and his wife Ada for their 
 lives : the two latter cottages described as ab. on the lane 
 leading to the King's ditch and the Ree. Witn. and 
 date as in the last. 
 
 The lane mentioned, known in the 15th cent, as Kymbalton's 
 lane, ran between and parallel with the river and the S. wall of 
 Magdalene College. 
 
 255 The Nuns lease to Ric. Stombill for 60 years a void place 
 
 beyond the great bridge in S*^ P. par. in a street called 
 Fisher lane, betw. a tenement of Agnes Upwer and one 
 of Joh. Wattys, ab. on the King's water and a tenement 
 of Thos. Morys: rent 12^\ The tenants to erect thereon 
 a new house. Joh. Gaynesford, mayor. Hen. IV. 10. 
 
 256 The Nuns lease to Marg., wife of Joh. Rankyn, for 40 years 
 
 a tenement and stathe in Fyssheris lane in S* P. par., 
 betw. a tenement of Margerie Toogood and one of Simon 
 Myer, late Nich. Preest : rent ¥. The tenant to repair 
 with reed the tenement and to make the stathe sufficiently 
 according to other stathes adjoining. 1473. Ed. IV. 13. 
 
 257 The Nuns (Pr. Eliz. Walton) lease to Joh. Belton for 44 
 
 years two cottages in S* P. par. ultra magnum pontem 
 betw. a tenement of Joh. Morys, S., and one of Joh. 
 Neell, N., ab. E. on the street and W. on a ditch of Corp. 
 Chr. Coll. ; rent 41 Joh. Wyghton, mayor. Ed. IV. 19. 
 
 258 The Nuns lease for 20 years to Will. Baker a garden in 
 
 S* P. par., betw. a tenement of Joh. Morys and one of 
 Stephen Neell, ab. on the street and on the dyke 
 reaching from the common bank (ripa) : rent 3^ Thos. 
 Jacob, mayor. Hen. VI. 9. 
 
 259 Will. Salle of Fulburn quitclaims to Simon Rankyn a 
 
 garden in S*^ P. par. betw. a tenement of same Simon 
 
126 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 and the common lane, ab. on Milne lane and on the river 
 (rivera). Rob. Brigham, mayor. Hen. VI. 13. 
 
 Parish of S. Giles. 
 
 260 The Nuns (Pr. Leticia) to Will. Arnold and Will. Lomb: 
 
 a mess, ad castellum betw. land of Joh. Aldred and land 
 of Walter Papilun, ab. on the street opp. a mess, of Joh. 
 Frost and on land of Henry fitz Norman : rent 2**, and 
 2^ gersuma. Witn. John Frost &c. 
 
 In Hund. Rolls ii., j). 362 this messuage is said to be in S. 
 Giles' parish. 
 
 261 Thos. fitz Joh. de Cambridge, knight, grants to the Nuns 
 
 and to his sister Eliz., for her use for the term of her life 
 a rent of 13® ¥- out of a tenement in S' G. par., called 
 Dunnyngistede. Philip Cayly, mayor. Ed. III. 15. 
 
 262 The Nuns lease to Tho. le Wryghte, his wife and dau., for 
 
 their lives, a void place in S*^ G. par., betw. a tenement of 
 Geoff. Soman and one of Tho. Wolle, ab. on the street and 
 on a tenement of Tho. de Cambridge : rent 21 Stephen 
 Morice, mayor. Ed. III. 28. 
 
 263 The Nuns (Pr. Alice Pilot) lease the same premises for 30 
 
 years to Will. Salle of Cambridge : rent 21 Rich. II. 20. 
 
 264 Rob. Wodelarke, clerk, to John Aspelon and others : a 
 
 tenement in S' G. par. extending from Cambrigge Brigge 
 to land of Hugh Brook, citizen and clothier (pannarius) 
 of London, towards E., ab, on Brigge street, W., on the 
 Hostel called Monkis place, N., and on the river (rivolus) 
 called the Ee, S., wh. tenement he held by feoffment 
 of Tho. Dekyn, deceased. Oct. 16. Ed. IV. 12. 
 
 Seal of Rob. Wodelarke. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 127 
 
 Parish of All Saints juxta Castellum. 
 
 (The parish of All Saints next the Castle was united to 
 that of S. Giles by Simon Langham, Bishop of Ely, 
 in 1365.) 
 
 265a Baldwin fitz Baldwin Blancgernun to Walter Corde: a 
 rent of 2^ out of land held of him by the heirs of Will. 
 Blancgernun in A. S. par. versus castellum, next land of 
 Ketel, merchant : rent a pair of white gloves, value a half- 
 penny. Witn. D^ Maurice Ruffus. 
 h Walter Corde to the Nuns : the aforesaid rent of 2^ (the 
 premises being described as betw. land of Will. Braci and 
 land of Bob. Colt, ab, on the street and land of Anger 
 Ruffus) : also a rent of 5^ out of land held by Hamo de 
 Colecestre, betw. land of Reg. Quantquilia and land of 
 Ric. Hopetune, reaching from the street to the river : 
 also a rent of 3® out of land held by Will, de Furcis in S. 
 Clement's par., betw. land of Geoff. Gybon and land of 
 Hareflet, reaching from the street to the King's Ditch. 
 Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 266a Geoff, fitz Baldewin Blancgernun to Alex, fitz Hamo fitz 
 Theobald de Yselham : a mess, in A. S. par. juxta 
 castellum, ab. on the street between the Castle ditch and 
 land of Hervey fitz Eustace, on land of the same Hervey, 
 called Sale, on the Castle ditch and land of Thos. Lungis: 
 rent a pair of gloves, value a half-penny, and 18^ gersuma. 
 Witn. Ketel, merchant. 
 h Same Geoffrey to the Nuns : the above rent of a half-penny. 
 
 267 Alex, fitz Hamo de Yselham to Adam de Litlingetune, 
 
 clerk : land in A. S. par. juwta castellum, betw. land of 
 Godard Finch and land of Hen. Shepherd : rent 6''. Witn. 
 Rob. Saman. 
 
 268 Baldwin Blancgernun to the same Adam : a rent of 12'' out 
 
 of land occupied by Will. Arnold : gersuma 7^ 6''. Witn. 
 Rob, Saman. 
 
128 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 269 Adam de Litlingtnn, capellanus, to the Nuns : all his lands 
 
 and rents in Cambridge. Witn. Richard, decanus of 
 Cambridge. 
 
 270 The Nuns (Pr. Custancia) to Elyas Hoppecrane : land 
 
 formerly held of them by Reginald Harecok at a rental 
 of 2^ 6*^, in par. of A. S. ad castellum, between the street 
 and land of Eustace fitz Hervey, called Sale, the Castle 
 ditch, land of Ph. Baret and land of Thos. Long : rent Q^. 
 Witn. Walter Blancgernun, 
 
 271 Hugh le Tynour, fisherman, and wife Sarra to William, 
 
 merchant, and his wife Alice Blancgernun : land in par. 
 
 of A. S. ad castellum, betw. land of said Hugh and Sarra, 
 
 and land of said William, ab. on land of said Hugh 
 
 and on the street : rent ^'^. Guy le Spenser, mayor. 
 
 Edw. I. 6. 
 272a Margery, wid. of Rob. Tuylet, to Ralf de Wendeye, vicar 
 
 of S. Clement's : land in A. S. par. iuxta castrum, betw. 
 
 a ten*^ of David le Webster and a ten* of Walter de 
 
 Horsethe, ab. on the high street and the King's ditch. 
 
 Joh. Moryce, mayor. Edw. II. 8. 
 h The above Ralf grants to the Nuns (Pr. Cecilia de Cressing- 
 
 ham) the above-mentioned land for 60 years. Joh. Moryce, 
 
 mayor. 1315, Edw. II. 9. 
 273 Joh, de Toft to Joh. de Briceste, webster, and his wife 
 
 Alice, dau. of Joh. de Wachesham : a ten*^ in A. S. par. 
 
 betw. a ten'^ of Thos. de Cambridge and a ten*^ formerly 
 
 of Ric. de Modebrok, ab. on the highway and the Hospice 
 
 of the Gild of the Blessed Virgin : rent 3^ Ric. Tullyet, 
 
 mayor. Edw. III. 14. 
 
 Barnwell Parish. 
 
 274 The Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Walter Cementarius fitz Henry 
 [ ] de Mordin : land in B. betw. land of Andrew 
 
 Molle and land of R [ ] : rent Q^. Witn. Mag"" 
 
 Martin de S. Radegund. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 129 
 
 275 The Nuns (Pr. Leticia) to Robert fitz Will, cle Nonacnrt : 
 
 a croft formerly of Rich. Buche, betw. the lane and land 
 of Joh. de Sauxington : rent 20''. Witn. Hervey fitz 
 Eustace. 
 
 276 Walter Seraentarius fitz Hen. de Morden quitclaims to 
 
 the Nuns (Pr. Milesentia) a ten* given by him to Roger 
 Carettarius in marriage with his sister Felicia of which 
 the fee belongs to the Nuns : also a rent of 6'' paid out 
 of the said ten* by the said Roger. The said Nuns pay 
 4^ gersum-a. Witn. Thos. Toilet. 
 
 277 John, the miller, and his wife Alice to Hugh Mayner : a 
 
 mess, at B. town-end next lands of S. Radegund and of 
 Rob. le Reder and next a mess, of the said Hugh : 
 gersuma 201 Witn. Hugh le Noreys. 
 
 278 Alice, dau. of Ric. ad caput ville de Bernewelle quitclaims 
 
 to Hugh Mayner a rent of \^^ out of land at B. town- 
 end, betw. land of Isabel Page and the highway. Joh. 
 Martyn, mayor. Edw. I. 10. 1281. 
 
 279 a Will, fitz Hugh le Noreys of Bernewelle to Adam de 
 
 Multun and wife Maud: a mess., &c. in B. betw. land of 
 Walter Cissor and land of Roger de Huntingfeld, reach- 
 ing from the road to Grenecroft : rent 5^^ and 5 marks 
 gersuma. Witn. Gilbert Bernard. 
 
 h Adam de Multun to Hugh Mayner and wife Claricia : the 
 above land : rent 5*^ and 5|- marks gersuma. Witn. 
 Gilbert Bernard. 
 
 c Hugh and Claricia Mayner to their son John : the same 
 land : rent to his parents ^"^ and to Will, le Norreys 5*^. 
 Witn. Gilbert Bernard. 
 
 d John fitz John Mayner to Ric. fitz Rob. Attebroo : the same 
 land. Witn. Hugh, the smith. 
 
 280 John fitz John Mayner, clerk, to the above Ric. : land with 
 
 houses and grange thereon, betw. land of Ric. le Taylour 
 and a ten* of said John, reaching from the highway to 
 land of said John, held of him by said Ric. Witn. Hugh, 
 the smith. Edw. II. 11. 
 
 281 The same John to the same Ric. : a rent of l^** out of a 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 9 
 
130 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 mess, at Barnwell town -end towards Camb., betw. a mess, 
 of Rob. Person and lands of Master Hen. de Trippelawe 
 and of Geoff. Page, ab. on the highway. Witn. Hugh, the 
 smith. Edw. II 13. 
 
 282 a Walter Mayner, chaplain, to John fitz John Mayner, his 
 
 nephew : a mess, in B. betw. a mess, of Bic. Attebroo and 
 a mess, of Simon de Stokton, ab. on the highway: also 
 half an acre in B. croft betw. land of Hugh, the smith, 
 and land of Ric. Attebroo, reaching from the said mess, 
 to Grenecroft. Witn. Hugh, the smith. Edw. II. 14. 
 b The same John to the same Ric. and to Agnes de Mordyng- 
 ton : the same mess, and half acre. The same witnesses 
 and date. 
 
 283 Walter, son of Master Geoffrey, to Henry Milt : a mess. 
 
 and croft in B. held of him by Rob., nephew of Wybert, 
 betw. a mess, of said Henry and land of Barnwell Priory 
 held by Rob. Gibet : rent 12*^, 2 capons, and 4^ gersuma. 
 Witn. Roger Parleben. 
 
 284 Joh. de Fordham to Will. Paris and his wife Alice: a mess. 
 
 &c. in B. betw. land formerly of Joh. Selyman and a 
 mess, formerly of Joh. le Machon, ab. on highway and 
 Grenecroft, being |- an acre : rent a rose : to heirs of Rob. 
 Cook a peppercorn : to heirs of Agnes le Hattere ^^ : to 
 Leonius Dunning 5*^ : to Will, le Nunnecurt 6*^ : Paris 
 and his wife further to give 3|- marks after death of Joh. 
 de Fordham for the welfare of his soul, as he shall here- 
 after direct. Joh. But, mayor. 1278. 
 
 285 a Margaret, wid. of Henry de Grantesete, quitclaims to 
 
 Walter le Uscher a mess, in B. betw. land of Ric. Pede and 
 land of Rob. Loverede, ab. on highway and a croft of said 
 Rob. Witn. Simon de Stokton, mayor, Edw.. I. 29. 
 
 6 Walter le Uscher to Nic. le Barbour: the same mess. 
 Simon de Stokton, mayor. Edw. I. 35. 
 
 c Nic. le Barbour to Adam de Clifford de fermeria de Berne- 
 welle : the same mess. Simon de Refham, mayor. Edw. 
 II. 4. 
 
 286 Simon Edyth de Stokton and Beatrix de Haselyngfeld to 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 131 
 
 Adam de la Fermerie de Bernewelle : a mess, in B. betw, 
 a mess, of the said Adam and land of Silvester Carter : 
 for 10 years : rent 3^ to Barnwell Priory. Witn. Alan le 
 Wayte. Edw. II. 9. 
 
 287 Katherine, dau. of Simon de Stokton, to Adam de Clifford : 
 
 a mess, in B. betw. a mess, of said Adam on either side, 
 ab. on the highway and the Croft. Joh. Pylet, mayor. 
 Ed. III. 3. 
 
 288 Margaret, wid. of Silvester de Bernewelle, quitclaims to 
 
 Adam de Infirmaria de Bernewelle her right of dower in 
 a plot in B. sold to Adam by her husband. Witn. Hugh, 
 the smith. Edw. II. 10. 
 
 289a Beatrix de Haselyngfeld to Joh. de Newton: a mess, in 
 B. next the lane leading from the stone-cross to the river : 
 also land in B. croft at the end of the same mess., betw. 
 the same lane and land of Barnwell Priory, ab. on Grene- 
 croft: for the life of said Beatrix : rent 121 Witn. Adam 
 de Clifford. Edw. II. 16. 
 
 . b John de Newton to Adam de Clifford : the above mess, 
 granted him by Beatrix de Stokton. John Pilet, mayor. 
 Edw. III. 4. 
 
 ,290 Adam de Clifford to his son Richard : a messuage, described 
 as le Sperveres, in B. betw. a mess, of said Adam and a 
 mess, of Silvester de Foulmer, ab. on highway and a croft 
 of said Adam. John Pyttok, mayor. Edw. III. 8. 
 
 291 Thos de Elynhale, his wife Katherine and Beatrix de Hase- 
 
 lyngfeld to Adam de Clifford : a mess, and croft in B., 
 betw. Petes lane, land of Barnwell Priory and a ten*^ of 
 said Adam, formerly of John and Simon de Stokton, ab. 
 on street and on Grenecroft. Ric. Tuyllet, mayor. Edw. 
 III. 10. 
 
 292 Will, de Hynggeston and his wife Maud to Ric. Paule, 
 
 pelliperius: two parts of a mess, in B. betw. a ten* of 
 Isabel Page . and a ten*^ of Joh. de Bokenham, which 
 mess, was formerly held by Geoff. Page : also two por- 
 tions of four acres, butted. [ ] Tuyllet, mayor. Edw. 
 III. 20. 
 
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132 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 293 Stephen Moriz, Roger de Harleston, Eic. Martyn and Rob. 
 
 de Chasten to Alan Redheved and his wife Marg* : a 
 mess. &c. in B. between their own mess, and Silvestris 
 place, now held by Agnes de Grantesdene, ab. on high- 
 way : for term of two lives : rent 32^ Witn. John Tele. 
 Edw. III. 33. 
 
 294 The Nuns (Pr, Margaret Clanyle) to Ric. Maystreman and 
 
 Sarra, his wife : a void place in B., betw. land of Barnwell 
 Priory and land of Joh. Cotes, ab. on the highway : rent 
 6\ Witn. Joh. London. Edw. III. 37. 
 
 295 Agnes de Grantesdene to Will. Tele, chaplain, Alan Red- 
 
 heved and Joh. Ryghisby : a void plot in B., betw. a ten*^ 
 of said Alan and land of the Nuns, ab. on the highway 
 and Grenecroft : rent to chief lord 12''. Witn. Joh. Cotes. 
 Edw. III. 38. 
 
 296 The Nuns (Pr. Margaret Clanyle) to Alan Redheved and his 
 
 wife Margaret : a void plot in B., betw. a mess, of Will. 
 Tele, chaplain, and a void plot of said Alan, ab. on high- 
 way and the Nuns' croft : rent 6*^ 8*^. William Horwod, 
 mayor. Edw. III. 47. 
 
 297 Joh. Payn quitclaims to Alan Redheved the plot granted 
 
 to him by Agnes de Grantesdene. Edm. Lyster, mayor. 
 Ric. II. 4. 
 
 298a The Nuds (Pr. Alice) to Joh. Bruce, his wife Mariota and 
 son John for their lives : a mess, and croft in B. betw. 
 land of Joh. Blankpayn and a mess, of the Nuns, the 
 croft ab. on the same mess, and Grenecroft : rent 301 
 Rob. Brigham, mayor. Ric. II. 22. 
 b Joh. Blankpayn to Joh. Bruys : the plot above-mentioned 
 held by Alan Redheved of the Nuns. Witn. Rob. Good- 
 rych. Hen. IV. 3. 
 
 299a Thos. Hamond, senior, to Ralf Bateman and Will. Lang- 
 ford e, clerk : a ten*^ in B. acquired by his marriage with 
 Rose, dau. of John Thriplowe. Witn. Will. Smyth, vicar 
 of Hynton. Hen. IV. 5. 
 6 Thos. Hamond, junior, to Nich. Morys, Joh. Burgoyn, Ric. 
 Browne and Rob. Browne, clerks : a ten* formerly of Joh. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 133 
 
 Triplowe, betw. a ten*^ of Barnwell Priory on either side 
 and ab. on the highway. Hen. V. 4. 
 
 300 BarnAvell Priory (Pr. Will. Downe) acknowledges receipt 
 
 from Nuns (Pr. Agnes Seyntlow) of 40^ in full dis- 
 charge of arrears due for two tenements in B. leased 
 by the Nuns to Alex, Westmorland and Joh. Bruce. 
 Hen. V. 3. 
 
 Seal ad causas of Barnwell Priory. 
 
 301 The Nuns (Pr. Joan Chambryg) lease for 10 years to Joh. 
 
 Sokelyng and his wife, Margaret, a ten*" in B. in the par. 
 of the H. T., opposite the cross, betw. Pytys lane, E., and 
 a ten*^ of the Nuns, W., ab. S. on the highway and on 
 another ten* of the Nuns : also an acre of land diversely 
 situate in B. fields : rent 14\ Ric. III. 1. 
 
 ' Clay angles or Croft land. The first furlong is called Cadwell 
 or Caldwell, and beginneth by the Lane side that leadeth from 
 the town to Midsummer Green, or Green Crofts and by some books 
 call'd Path or Pittes lane.' Old Book of Barnwell Field in Jesus 
 Coll. Treasury. 
 
 Cambridge and Barnwell Fields. 
 
 302 The Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Baldwin Blangernun : 2 acres 
 
 in Gretthawe : rent 8'^. 
 
 303 Maud, dau. of Hen. Kyrman, to Simon fitz Henry : I rood 
 
 in C. field. Witn. Adam fitz Eustace. 
 
 304 John fitz Ric. Pete to Simon de Stocton : lands in town 
 
 and fields of C. and B.; also the reversion of lands held 
 in dowry by his mother Isoda. Joh. Goldring, mayor. 
 Edw. I. 33. 
 
 305 Barnwell Priory (Pr. Laurence) undertakes to pay to the 
 
 Nuns a rent of 9^ as an amicable composition for tithes 
 of a water mill, belonging in fee to Will, de Mortuomari 
 and situated in Cambridge. Witn. M"" Will, de Baucis, 
 Antonv, dean of Cambridge, &c. March 20, 1230. 
 
134 CHAPTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 Laurence of Stanesfield, 9th Prior of Barnwell, 1213 — 1251. The 
 mill in question was that called Zouch's mill, which ceased to exist 
 after 1353, when Newnham or Mortimer's mill was erected. 
 Cooper, Annals i., p. 103. 
 
 306 Peter fitz Ric. de Berton to his bro. Giles : an acre in C. 
 
 fields ab. on Huntingdon way. Witn. Barth. Goggyng. 
 Edw. 1. 20. 
 
 307 The same Peter to his sister Maud : 3 acres in C. fields, 
 
 Witn. Joh. Bott, mayor. 
 
 308 Maud, widow of Will. Thele to Gilbert fitz Mich. Bernard 
 
 and his wife Margaret : ^ acre in C. fields, ab. on Hadestoc 
 weye and Litlemor : rent 1*^. Witn. Joh. fitz Michael. 
 
 309 Cassandra, dau. of Warin Atkin, to Mich. Bernard : 1^ acre 
 
 in C. field towards Trurapitone ford : rent 1^'\ Witn. 
 Symon de Agam. 
 
 310 Ric. fitz Bartholomew, cissor, to his uncle Thos. Potekin, 
 
 clerk : 2 acres in C. fields next land of Thos. Dalles, 
 of Prior of Barnwell, and Hinton wey. Witn. Will. Elyot. 
 311a Giles fitz Joh. de Berton to Walter de Possewy, vicar of 
 S. Clement's : 7| acres in C. crofts. Mich. Pylat, mayor. 
 b Joh. Portehors grants the same 7|- acres to the Nuns (Pr. 
 Elena). Witn. Joh. But. 
 
 312 Joan, dau. of Roger de Melreia, to her dau. Elice : homage 
 
 of Thos. de Chesewic and \ acre in Holm, ab. towards the 
 Bridge. Witn. Will, le Puer. 
 
 313 Will. Martin, with consent of his son Robert, grants to his 
 
 son Alan all his land in Holm, viz. 15 acres, and 11 acres 
 in Holm which he holds of the Abbess of Chateriz : rent 
 32^ Witn. Alan de Sepeia. 
 
 314 Will, fitz Hen. Kankelya to Simon Godelote: an acre in 
 
 Binnebroc in C. fields. Witn. Rob. de S. Edmucdo. 
 
 315 Walter fitz Rob. Eadward to Joh. Goson and his wife 
 
 Avice ; a rent of f '^ out of land behind Hadestok Way. 
 Joh. Martin, mayor. 
 
 316 Michael Parleben to Will. Sueteye and Hugh de Ragen- 
 
 hille : an acre in C. fields : rent 2*^. Witn. Stacius fitz 
 Hervey Dunning. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 135 
 
 317 Robert, rector of All Saints' ch., to his bro. John : an acre 
 
 in Middelfurlong towards Howes, and ^ acre in the same 
 field next Wulwardesmere : rent 1^"^ to the vicar of All 
 Saints' for the soul of said Robert's mother. Witn. 
 Rob. Seman. 
 
 318 Same John to the Nuns : same l^ acres : rent to celebrate 
 
 the anniversary of his mother, Margaret, to vicar of A. S. 
 as above. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 319 Maud, widow of Simon Bagge, to Nuns : an acre in C. fields 
 
 next Trumpitun forde, which acre her bro. Robert gave to 
 her at the church door on the day of her betrothal. Witn. 
 Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 320 Warin Grim to Nuns: 2 acres in C. fields. W^itn. Rob. 
 
 Seman. 
 321a Will, de Nonencurt confirms to the Nuns the bequest to 
 them by Will. Sueteye of the half part of S2^ acres in C. 
 fields. Witn. Nich. Childman. 
 b The same Will, de Nonencurt confirms to the Nuns the 32|- 
 acres above mentioned held of him by the same Will. 
 Sueteye and Hugh de Ragenhyll and assigned by the 
 former and the executors of the latter to the Nuns. Witn. 
 Nich. Childman. 
 
 322 Margaret, widow of Heu. Vivien, to the Nuns : 2^ acres in 
 
 C. fields : rent 3'\ Witn. Rob. Seman. 
 
 323 Hen. fitz Goda of S. Radegund St. and his bro. Hugh to 
 
 Hugh and Will., brethren of S. Radegund ; one selion in 
 C. field. Witn. Adam fitz Eustace. 
 
 324 Will, fitz Hugh de Trompiton to the Nuns : two crofts at 
 
 Howes. Witn. R., Prior of Bernewelie. 
 
 325 Hervey fitz Eustace to the Nuns : an acre in C. fields. 
 
 Witn. Rob. Seman. 
 326a Stephen fitz Alvene, with consent of his wife Maud, to the 
 Nuns : 5 acres 3 roods in scattered pieces in C. fields. 
 Witn. Hervey, alderman. 
 h Hugh fitz Stephen fitz Alvene confirms to the Nuns his 
 father's grant of 5 acres 3 roods in C. fields. Witn. 
 Hervey, alderman. 
 
136 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 c The Nuns (L. Prioress) to Maud, wife of Stephen fitz Alvene 
 
 and Hugh, her son : the 5 acres 3 roods given to them 
 
 by said Stephen : rent 15^ Witn. D' Hervey, alderman. 
 
 . d Said Hugh quitclaims the same land to the Nuns. Witn. 
 
 as above. 
 
 327 Margaret, widow^ of Ralf Person, grants to the Nuns, along 
 
 with her dau. Sabina, 10 acres in C. fields. Witn. 
 Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 328 Philip de Hochton to the Nuns in pursuance of a bequest 
 
 of his mother Albreda : an acre in C. fields, called Binne- 
 broc. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 Localities mentioned : Fossa iudicii, Rodolvesacre, Barnwell mill, 
 Pishwell wey, Forde feld, Suinescroft. 
 
 329 Will, de S. Edmund with assent of his wife Alice and son 
 
 Roger : an acre in C. fields. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
 330 Hervey fitz Eustace to the Nuns : 10 acres in various parts 
 
 of C. fields. Witn. Rob. Soman. 
 
 Seal of Hervey fitz Eustace. Localities mentioned : cheminum 
 versus Bertiin, pastura de Godgivesdole, cheminum de Cotes, 
 Branderusche, cheminum de S. Neoto, and, on the other side of the 
 town, Hokerenewell, Middelfurlong, Littlemor. 
 
 331 Nich. Sarant to Geoffrey fitz Ralf: 2 plots in 0. fields : 
 
 to be held ' ad sex vesturas plenas et integras inde 
 percipiendas termino incipiente in festo Mychaelis proximo 
 post primum passagium domini H., regis Anglie, filii J., 
 regis, ciclo lune xv°.' Witn. D^ Will, capell. ecclie beate 
 Marie, 
 832 The same Nich. Sarant to Orgar fitz Roger : 2|- acres at 
 the Claipittes and 1| acres ab. on Grenecroft, 'ubi homo 
 suspensus fuit': to be held 'de Pascha cuius anni ciclus 
 est quinque primum post obitum Hugonis de Chartuse 
 episcopi Lincoln, usque ad novem annos.' Witn. Bernard 
 Grim, Henry Frost &c. 
 
 S. Hugh of Lincoln d. Nov. 16, 1200 : he took the vows of the 
 Carthusian order in the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 137 
 
 333 The same Nich. Sarant to Ric. fitz Yvo : an acre in B. 
 fields : to be held ' quousque dictus R. perceperit inde 
 quatuor vesturas termino incipiente in festo sci Michaelis 
 ciclo lune xvij°, anno regni dm H., regis, filii J., regis, xvj°.' 
 Witn. R. Saman. 
 
 334a Mich, le Rus fitz Joh. Michel to Joh. Bernard: 1 acre 
 3 roods in B. fields. Rob. Tuyllet, major. 
 b Joh. Bernard to Laurence Dixi and his wife Maud : the last 
 mentioned lands. John Buth, mayor. 
 
 335 Mich, le Rus to Laurence Dixi and his wife Maud : a rood 
 
 in B. fields. Joh. Dunning, mayor. 
 
 336 Laur. Dixi and his wife Maud to their son Richard and 
 
 daughters Roysia and Maud : 10 selions in C. and B. 
 fields. Witn. Will. Tele. Edw. L 19. 
 
 Localities : Middelfeld, Hynton wey, Hynton bridge. 
 
 337a Hugh fitz Apsolon to his cousin Aldusa: 6 acres in C. and 
 B. fields. Witn. Baldwin Blancgernun. 
 
 Localities : Binnebroc, via de heistrate, Bradmerefeld, Petites- 
 halvaker, Estenhale, Netherexsotes. 
 
 b The same Hugh to the Nuns : the same 6 acres. Witn. D^ 
 Barthol., official. 
 
 338 Joh. le Meleward and his wife Alice to Hugh Mayner : half 
 
 a croft, formerly of Ivetta, wife of Ric. ad caput ville. 
 Witn. Geoff, de Burewelle. 
 
 339 Geoff, le Fittere to Joh. de Berton : 6 acres in C. fields : for 
 
 12 silver marks 'ad adquietandum me de Judaismo et 
 pro sustentacione mea tota vita mea.' Witn. Adam fitz 
 Eustace. 
 
 Localities : land of S. Radegund called Bothulveshak, road to 
 Grenecroft. 
 
 340 Isabel, dau. of Alan de Theversham, to Hugh Mayner and 
 
 his wife Clarice : all her land in B. fields. Witn. Gilbert 
 Bernard. 1277. 
 341a Gilbert Bernard to Hugh Mayner and his wife Clarice: 
 land in Barnwell. Joh. Marty n, mayor. Edw. I. 9. 
 
138 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 b Clarice, widow of Hugh Mayner, quitclaims to her son John 
 all lands in wh. he was enfeoffed by said Hugh. Witn. 
 Ric. Peed. 
 
 342 Brother Olbertus, Prior of the Chapel of S. Edmund, 
 
 Cambridge, of the order of Simplingham, and of the 
 Convent there, to Joh. Mayner: ^ acre in Barnwell. Joh. 
 Goldring, mayor. Ed. I. 33. 
 
 343 John fitz John Mayner to Ric. fitz Bob. Attebroo : 1^ acres 
 
 in Barnwell, including the last mentioned. Eudo de 
 Helpringham, mayor. Edw. II. 12. 
 344a Henry le Gray bound in 40^^ to Bob. le Longg to allow 
 said Bob. quiet possession of ^ acre in C fields towards 
 Aldermanhyl. Witn. Will. Seeman. Edw. II. 9. 
 b The same Henry to the same Bobert : ^ acre in C. fields. 
 Bob. Dunning, mayor. Edw. II. 10. 
 
 345 Agreement between the Master and Brethren of S. John's 
 
 Hospital and the Prioress (Elena) and Nuns. The 
 Hospital gives the Nuns 7 acres 1 rood lying in scattered 
 portions in B. fields in exchange for the same amount of 
 land in various parts of the Port Field. Joh. Dunnyng, 
 mayor. 1299. Edw. I. 27. 
 
 Places named : in Barnwell Fields — the Windmill, Caldewelle 
 next Grenecroft : in Port Field — Grantesete weye, Bertone weye, 
 Dede dale, Endeles weye, Musecroft. 
 
 346 Agreement between the Prior and Canons of S. Edmund's 
 
 Chapel, Cambridge, and the Prioress (Mabilia) and Nuns. 
 The Canons give the Nuns 4 acres, 3 roods, 16 perches 
 lying in 3 portions in B. fields in exchange for 3 acres, 
 2 roods, VS^ perches in 4 portions in Swynecroft. Joh. 
 Pylet, mayor. 1330. Edw. III. 4. 
 
 One plot in Swynecroft ab. on the curia of the Chapel of S. 
 Edmund. 
 
 347 Will, de Hynggeston to Bic. Paule, 'pelliparius : 4 selions 
 
 in B. fields. Bic. Tuyllet, mayor. Edw. III. 20. 
 
 348 Will. Laveuham to Ste. Moryce, Boger de Herlaston, Bic. 
 
 Martyn and Bob. de Chesterton : lands in C. and B. fields, 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 139 
 
 lately belonging to Joh. Purr. Witn. Will. Horwode. 
 Edw. III. 83. 
 
 349 Joh. Stevenys to Geoff. Castre : 2 acres in small portions in 
 
 C. and B. fields. Witn. John Blancpayn. Edw. III. 43. 
 
 Places named : Horspath, Grenedich, Blakacre, le Roser, Hynton 
 weye. 
 
 350 The same to the same : 1 acre similarly divided. Joh. 
 
 Moriz, mayor. Edw. III. 43. 
 
 Places named : Milk furlong, Clayhangels, Hynton weye. 
 
 351 Hugh le Smyth to Geoff. Castre : 2 acres in C. and B. fields, 
 
 called Midelfield. Joh. Gybon, mayor. Edw. III. 45. 
 
 Places named : Pisshel weye, Cranedole. 
 
 352 Joh. Pilet to M'" Thos. Wormenhale, Adam Wyggomer, 
 
 clerks, Will. Rolf, vicar of All Saints', and Hen. Baryngton 
 of Ely : all his lands in the fields of Cambridge, Newen- 
 ham, Chastreton, Watirbeche and Wycham. Joh. Gybon, 
 mayor. Edw. III. 50. 
 
 353 Joh. Marchal, Will. Panfleon and Ralf de Watton to Joh. 
 
 Payn of Swaffham, Rob. Beylham and Joh. Branforde : 
 12 acres in B. fields in wh. the former have been enfeoffed 
 by Alice, widow of Simon Sleforde. John Gybon, mayor. 
 Edw. III. 50. 
 
 354 Power of attorney from Adam Wyggemer, Will. Rolf, vicar 
 
 of All Saints', and Hen. de Baryngton, chaplain, to Will. 
 Andreu and others to deliver seisin to Joh. Gounsy and 
 others of lands &c. in Camb. in which they are enfeoffed 
 by Joh. Pilet. Ric. II. 6. 
 
 355 Rob. Beilham is bound in £10 to Rob. Brigham to give him 
 
 peaceable possession of 4 roods in B. fields. Ric. II. 19. 
 
 356 Joh. Gounsy, in execution of the will of Joh. Pylet, to 
 
 Thos. de Sopesfeld, Joh. Swynle, Joh. Burgoyne and Thos. 
 Campes : all the lands of the said J. P. in Cambridge, 
 Chesterton and Newenham. Witn. Nich. Morys. Hen, 
 IV. 8. 
 357a Hugh Ploughwryght and Thos. Colleman, in execution of 
 
140 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 the will of Joh. Marchal, directing them to sell his lands 
 in C. and B. fields and apply the proceeds to pious uses, 
 convey to Nich. Morys, Joh. Burgoyn, Joh. Bilney and 
 Simon Deye 14 acres in scattered portions. Joh. Gaynes- 
 ford, mayor. Hen. IV. 9. 
 
 Seventeen portions, containing 20 selions, in Bradmere Field 
 and Middle Field : a long list of field and road names. 
 
 b The above Nic. Morys &c. with license grant to the Nuns 
 (Pr. Margery Harlyng) the said lands. Witn. and date 
 as in the last. 
 
 358 Joh. Wattys, Rob. Brigham and Isabel, widow of Rob. 
 
 Brigham, sen', in execution of the will of the said R. B., 
 sen'^', to Joh. Sexteyn and Joh. Whaplode, butchers : 
 13 acres variously situate in C. and B. fields. Joh. 
 Gaynessford, mayor. Hen. IV. 13. 
 
 359 The Nuns (Pr. Agnes Sentelow) exchange ^ acre in B. 
 
 fields for 20 years with Thos. Cotton. Joh. Biluey, 
 mayor. Hen. V. 3. 
 
 360 Will. Essex, baker, executor of the will of Joh. Prentys, to 
 
 Joh. Grenelane of Hadenhara : ^ acre in B. fields. Joh. 
 Bilney, mayor. Hen. V. 3. 
 
 361 The Nuns (Pr. Joan Cambryg) lease 2 selions for 20 years 
 
 to Joh. Hutham, cardmaker. Hen. VII. 1. 
 
 A small and poorly executed seal, described in the deed as the 
 common seal of the Nunnery : S. Eadegund crowned, with both 
 arms uplifted, standing between two palm branches. 
 
 Miscellaneous Grants in Cambridge and Barnwell. 
 
 362 Hervey fitz Eustace to the Nuns, with his sister Roda when 
 she has taken the religious habit in their house : various 
 small plots in C. and B. fields : 3 mess, in the par. of 
 S. John, held by Apsolon, son of the priest, ab. on the way 
 to the mill and the lane leading to S. John's church : a 
 mess, in the par. of S. Mary, held by Rob. Carpenter, 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 141 
 
 betw. Job. fitz Elyas and Job. fitz Selede : a mess, in the 
 same par., held by Hosbert le Cambere, betw. Andr. de 
 Winepol and Ernold, the phimber : a mess, outside Trum- 
 pington gates, held by the wife of Selede Pinberd, next 
 Rob. Nadun : a mess, in the par. of S. Benedict, held by 
 Hen. Bekke, betw. Apsolon, son of a priest, and Walter, 
 son of M"" Geoffrey. Witn. Bartholomew, official of Ely. 
 
 363 Will. Pilate to Reg. fitz Reg. de Fordham, in marriage with 
 
 his dan. Margaret : a mess, in the par. of S. Edward, betw. 
 Geoff. Man and Emilius Pageles : 5 roods in Trumpington 
 meadow : and ^ acre in C. fields. Witn. Ewerard de 
 Trumpinton. 
 
 364 Joh. fitz Rob. Hubert of Cambridge to his father and 
 
 mother, Robert and Sabina: land granted by Geva Key 
 in the par. of All Saints' at the Castle : a ten* granted to 
 him by Reginald de Alderheye beyond the bridge, next 
 land of Rob. Saman in the lane leading to the King's 
 Ditch : a ten* granted him by Margatt fitz Gilbert in the 
 par. of S. Clement ; a ten* in the same par. next land of 
 Will, fitz Ivo : a rent of 6^ from a ten* of Barth. le 
 Noble in the par. of S. Mary, &c. Witn. Joh. Porthors. 
 
 365 Joh. Frost, capellanus, to Ric. fitz Laurence : a mess, in the 
 
 par. of All Saints ad Castrum betw. land of Will. Kolvin, 
 land late of Saman Holbing and land of Rob. Hubert : 
 also 18 selions in C. fields : said Ric. to pay said John lO'' 
 every Sunday so long as he shall live and 5^ annually for 
 una roba. Witn. Roger de Wykes. Hen. III. 47. 
 
 Places named in the fields : Wulwardesmere, Gretliowell croft, 
 Clayfeld, S. Neot's way, Cotes, Weyrode selion. 
 
 366 Final concord betw. Will, fitz Walter Sterne, plaintiff, and 
 
 Rob. and Maud Sterne of Haselyngfeld, defendants : de- 
 fendants to pay rent to plaintiff for 12 shops, 2 messuages, 
 one solar and 23 acres, in all 61* 2^** and eight capons. 
 Edw. III., Angliae 25, Franciae 12. 
 
 367 Walter fitz Thos. le Mercer to Will, de Kyrkeby and his 
 
 wife Alice : all his rents and tenements in and without 
 Cambridge. Witn. Roger de Wykes. 
 
142 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 368 Will. Blancgernun to Joh. de Waverun : lands and rents 
 
 producing two marks per annum in the town and fields of 
 Cambridge. Witn. Baldwin Blancgernun, 
 
 369 Barnwell Priory (Prior, Robert) to Hen. Mele : a mansura 
 
 in Cambridge, held of them by Rob. Futigar, and another 
 in Barnwell, held by Nicholas, with 3 acres adjoining the 
 latter, wliich the Priory grants him in lieu of a mansura 
 which said Hen. held of them in Pesecroft : rent for the 
 whole 4^ so long as he remains a parishioner of Barnwell, 
 if he reside elsewhere the rent of the house in Barnwell 
 to be increased by 4^ Witn. Rob. de Bernewelle. 
 
 Robert, 5th Prior of Barnwell, 1175—1208. 
 
 370 Warin Grim fitz Apsolon to the Nuns : all his rents in 
 
 Cambridge, viz. 6^ from Peter Maxton in stallis, 12^ 4*^ 
 from land opposite the last, lately of Stephen de Scaleriis, 
 4s gel fj,o,^ ;^q|3_ jg g_ Edmund in Miln St., 7^ from Thos. 
 Wulward in the same street, 3^ from Geoff., the glover, 
 in the market place, 2^ 6'^ from Bernard, the shepherd, 
 , towards Grenecroft, 6® from the wife of Godfrey, the 
 baker, 5® from William, the carter, next the last, and l*^ 
 from Reginald Scherwynd next the churchyard of S. John. 
 Witn. Rob. Seman. 
 
 Endorsed 'de tenemento...in vico molendinorum, nunc infra 
 clausum fratrum carmelit.' 
 
 371 Philip fitz Adam de Cestertune, with consent of his mother 
 
 Albrida, gives to the Nuns with his sister Margaret a 
 mess, held by Andrew, the carter, in Cambridge with 
 3 acres 1 rood in C. fields held by Teobald, bro. of Ascelin. 
 Witn. Robert, Prior of Barnwell. 
 
 372 Thos. Potekin to the Nuns : a mess, in the par. of S. Mary, 
 
 betw. Reg. de Cumberton and Henry, percamentarius : 
 a shop in the market at the corner of Potters' Row, 
 betw. a shop of Thos., cutler, and one of the Hospital 
 of S. John : another shop betw. Thos., cutler, and Will, le 
 Lorimer : 2 acres in C. fields, &c. Witn. Will. Elihot, 
 mayor. 
 
CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 143 
 
 373 Will. le Gode to Stephen fitz Joh. Morize, Roger de Her- 
 
 laston, Ric. Mart} n and Rob. de Chesterton : a dovehouse 
 &c., a grange on the river bank in Cambridge, and a 
 mess, with 1 acre in Waterbeche. Stephen fitz Barthol. 
 Morize, mayor. Edw. III. 33. 
 
 374 Will. Paul to Nich. Gyloth of Fulborne : all his lands and 
 
 tenements in the town and fields of Cambridge and 
 Bernewelle. Joh. Gybonn, mayor, Edw. III. 44. 
 
 375 Katerine, widow of Tho. Dengayne of Ely, to the Nuns (Pr. 
 
 Margaret) and to Ric. Martyn of Cambridge : all her lands 
 &c., lately of Simon Stokton, in Cambridge town and 
 fields. Joh. Gybon, mayor. Edw, III. 4G. 
 
 376 Nich. Ffraunceys of Fulburne to Joh. Payn and others: 
 
 2 mess, and 11 1 acres in C. and B. fields. Joh. Blancpayn, 
 mayor. Edw. III. 49. 
 
 377 Roger de Herlaston to D' Will. Potton, rector of Harleton, 
 
 and others : all his lands &c. in Cambridge and Barnwell, 
 formerly of Joh. Purr. Ric. Maisterman, mayor. Ric. 
 II. 6. 
 
 378 Will. Bateman and others to the Nuns: 2 mess, in Barnwell, 
 
 next Pyttes Lane, one mess, in S. Radegund's par. and 
 3| acres near Grenecroft. Ric. Maisterman, mayor. Ric. 
 II. 12. 
 
 379 Will. Rolf, of Ixnyng, chaplain, with license, to the Nuns : 
 
 2 mess, in Wales lane in H. T. parish : various tofts in 
 Barnwell, in S. Botolph's par. and S. Radegund's par, : 
 
 3 shops in S, Mary's parish, &c. Rob. Brygham, mayor. 
 Ric. II. 12. 
 
 380 Apsolon fitz Roger the presbyter, with consent of his wife 
 
 Maud, to the Nuns: various rents, viz. 12'^ from Simon 
 Bagge out of an acre in C. fields, 5® out of a mess, in Miln 
 St. held by Brithnod Tanur, 2^ out of a mess, in the par. 
 of S. Botulph held by Ric. Kibelot, 20*^ out of land in 
 Miln St. held by Martin Wolward, 2^ out of land in the 
 par. of S. Benedict held by Andrew de Burgo, 20'' from 
 land in S. Sepulchre's churchyard held by John, the 
 smith. Witn. Hervey fitz Eustace. 
 
144 CHARTERS OF THE PRIORY. 
 
 381 Simon Godelote and his wife Alienor to the Nuns : a mess. 
 
 in the par. of S. Andrew, betw. land of Chicksand convent 
 and land of Tho. de Taxtede : a shop in the market, 
 betw. Walter Corde and Hen. fitz Hugh : land in Miln St. 
 extending from the highway to the river (filum aque), &c. 
 Witn. Roger de Wykes. 
 
 382 The Nuns (Pr. Dera) lease the above premises to Alienor, 
 
 widow of Simon Godelote, for her life. Witn. Roger de 
 Wykes. 
 
 383 The Nuns (Pr. Letitia) to Hen. Devei : land given to them 
 
 by Mabilla, sister of Jonathan, betw. land of [ ] 
 
 Blangernun and land of Athelard le Thanur : rent 20*^ 
 and a mark gersuma. Witn. Baldwin Blangernun, Sturmi, 
 ' our brother ' &c. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNEEY. 
 Henry VI, 28—29, i.e. 1449—1450. 
 
 Compotus Domine Agnetis Banaster Thesaurisse ac Recep- 
 toris Denariorum Prioratus Sancte Radegundis 
 
 Cantebrigia .i.i . .,. r^ . . 
 
 ibidem a vigilia Sancti Michaelis Archangeli Anno 
 Regis Henrici Sexti XXVlii° usque ad vigiliam Sancti Michaelis 
 Archangeli extunc proxime sequentem Anno dicti Regis xxix° 
 per unum annum integrum 
 
 Eadem domina respondet de liij^ iij<^ ob. q. de arreragiis ultimi com- 
 
 poti sui anni proxime precedentis ut in pede ibidem de 
 Arreragia , 
 
 recordo apparet. 
 
 Summa liij^ iij"! ob. q. 
 Et de xxxij^' v^ x'^ perceptis de redditu diversorum tenencium in 
 Cantebr., ut patet per Rentale hoc anno parcellatim super 
 
 Recepta dena- , , • , , , i • , t 
 
 riorum de coiiec- Hunc compotum exammatum et tum nic oneratum hoc anno, 
 done reddituum qq quod diversa tenementa ab antiquo devastata et ruinosa 
 
 111 Cantebr. . , , . . 
 
 impresentibus reparata sunt et sic modo dimissa pro maiori- 
 bus summis per recognicionem Domine Priorisse super hunc compotum. 
 
 Et de iij^ iiij"^ perceptis de Magistro Willelmo Spaldyng pro una 
 parcella prati iacente in croft vocato Nunnescroft sibi nuper dimissa per 
 Magistrum et confratres domus Sancti Johannis Evangeliste, Cantebr., ad 
 terminum annorum pro summa predicta per annum, que vero parcella 
 prati iam appropriata est domui sive Prioratui Sancte Eadegundis, 
 Cantebr., per Dominum Eegem Henricum VP""" pro imperpetuum, ut pro 
 certo tenemento sub redditu xij^ per annum prefate domui Sancte Eade- 
 gundis nuper pertinente et modo CoUegio Domini Eegis, Cantebr., appro- 
 priato per composicionem Domine Priorisse et Magistri dicti Collegii 
 Regalis pro redditu de xij^ predictis necnon pro certa summa eidem domui 
 Sancte Eadegundis per prefatum Magistrum et socios Collegii Eegis pre- 
 dicti pre manibus soluta, ut in compote precedente plenius liquet. 
 
 Summa xxxij^^ ix^ ij*^. 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 10 
 
146 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNEKY, 1449 — 1450. 
 
 Et de lxvj8 receptis de Rogero Hunte, firmario in West "Wrottyng, sic 
 sibi dimisso per indenturam ad terminum xx*^ annorum, hoc 
 
 Firme in Patria 
 
 anno iiij*". 
 
 Et de X? perceptis de Simone Thurgore, firmario terre dominicalis in 
 Abyngton, hoc anno. 
 
 Et de xl^ perceptis de Johanne Barnes, firmario terre dominicalis in 
 Shelford magna, hoc anno, ultra vj capones. 
 
 Et de xxij^ xj'^ receptis de Johanne Pyte de Litlyngton et Roberto 
 Hawken de eadem, firmariis certe terre dominicalis ibidem sibi dimisse 
 per indenturam ad terminum xx*^^ annorvim, hoc anno iiij*°. 
 
 Et de [iiij^ ij'^] de firma certe terre in Coton sic dimisse Ricardo Waren 
 per indenturam. 
 
 Et de iiij^ receptis de Ricardo Hynton pro firma certe terre dominicalis 
 ibidem. 
 
 Et de iij^ viij'^ receptis de Alicia Hynton pro firma certe terre domini- 
 calis ibidem per annum. 
 
 Et de vij^ receptis de Thoma [Cole pro firma] certe terre dominicalis 
 ibidem per annum, ultra ij capones. 
 
 Et de ij^ receptis de Johanne Cole pro redditu assise ibidem, ultra ij 
 capones. 
 
 Et de v^ receptis de Edmundo Chapman de Whaddon per annum. 
 
 Et de xvj*^ receptis de Johanne Burgoyn de Caxton per annum. 
 
 Et de xij'^ receptis de Johanne Richard de Trumpyngton per annum. 
 
 Et de vij^ vij<i ob. receptis de Sampson Aunger de Whitwell per annum. 
 
 Et de iij^ ij"! de certis tenencibus domine in Ely per annum, per 
 manus Vicarii Omnium Sanctorum, Cantebr. 
 
 Et de ij^ receptis de Thoma Perkyn, coUectore redditus in Berden in 
 comitatu Essex, per annum. 
 
 Et de iiij'^ receptis de redditu assise in Walden coUecto per eundem 
 Thomam per annum. 
 
 Et de vij^ receptis de Thoma Perkyn de Stevyngton pro firma certe 
 terre ibidem per annum sibi dimisse per indenturam. 
 
 Et de xiij^ receptis de redditu assise Johannis Taylboys, domini de 
 Crawden, per annum. 
 
 Et de iij'^ receptis de Roberto Skylman de Haselyngfeld per annum. 
 
 Et de ij^ iiij"^ receptis de Priore de Bernwell pro certa terra in 
 Maddyngley vocata Maundysilver per annum. 
 
 Et de ij'i receptis de Johanne Clerk pro redditu assise in Walden per 
 annum. 
 
 Et de xx"^ perceptis de Johanne Philipott de Trumpyngton pro firma 
 terre, hoc anno. 
 
 Et de xij'i receptis de Rectore de Fulbone pro certa terra ibidem per 
 annum. 
 
 Summa xij^' xiiij^ vij"^ ob. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 147 
 
 Et de ys ij<i perceptis de profucuis nundinarum die Assumpcionis 
 f f • Beate Marie infra tempus compoti hoc anno, 
 seca cum profu- Et de viij^ xiiij^ iiij<i perceptis de mensa sive repasto 
 
 cuis nundinarum , . 
 
 et repasti per- diversarum personarum generosarum, quarum nomina par- 
 hendmancium ticulariter patent in libro computantis super hunc compotum 
 ostenso et examinato. 
 
 Et de iij8 iiij'' perceptis de Magistro Willelmo Pyke de Aula Regia, 
 Cantebr., ut de elemosina per ipsum huic domui data. 
 
 Summa ix^' ij^ x'^. 
 Et de xxiij^ vij<i perceptis de precio v quart, ij bus. frumenti venditi, 
 ut extra. 
 etltTmf ° ^^'"*' Et de li^ viij'i de precio xviij quart, ordei venditi, ut 
 extra. 
 Et de viiji* ij^ ix"! de precio xlviij quart, v bus. brasii venditi, ut extra. 
 Et de xxj"^ receptis de precio v porcellorum venditorum in foro hoc 
 anno. 
 
 Et de xiiij<^ de precio unius corrii taurini hoc anno venditi. 
 Et de v^ perceptis de precio pellium lanutarum hoc anno venditarum. 
 Et de xvj^ de precio xij bidentium sic venditorum Eoberto Garlond 
 hoc anno, pecia ad xvj'^. 
 
 Summa xiij^' xxiij'J. 
 Et de vj^i xiij^ iiij'i perceptis de firma garbarum decimalium cuiusdam 
 porcionis in ecclesia Sancti Egidii, 'Cantebr., sic dimissa 
 
 Decime t i • tt- ^ 
 
 Johanni Hixon hoc anno. 
 
 Summa vji* xiij^ iiij"^. 
 Et de Ixvj^ viij"^ receptis de quadam pensione per manus Vicarii 
 Sancti Clementis, Cantebr., pro vestura moniaUum hoc anno. 
 
 Pensiones oi i • ...j 
 
 Summa Ixvj^ vnj^ 
 
 Summa totaHs recepte cum Arreragiis Isxx'i xxij"i q. 
 
 E quibus computat in redditu resoluto Priori de Bernewell pro certa 
 terra ibidem per annum vij^. 
 reddHus""°'^^^ -^^ solutum Maiori et Ballivis Cant, pro quadam consue- 
 
 tudine vocata le hagable per annum xiiij^ iiij<J ob. q. 
 
 Et solutum Thome Lovell de Chesterton pro tenemento ibidem per 
 annum vj^. 
 
 Et in redditu resoluto Johanni RadcliflF, militi, pro certa terra ibidem 
 et tenemento in Cant, vocato Mortymers per annum xv^ vj"^. 
 
 Et solutum Vicario Omnium Sanctorum, Cantebr., pro quadam [pen- 
 sione sibi] concessa per annum xx^. 
 
 Et solutum CoUegio Corporis Christi per annum xvj'^. 
 
 Et in redditu resoluto Thome Cotton pro diversis terris in Cantebr. 
 per annum iij^ vij*!. 
 
 Et solutum Rectori Ecclesie Sancti Benedicti per annum pro hospicio 
 vocato le Booll iiij^. 
 
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 Et solutum Magistro domus Sancti Michaelis j)er annum iiij'^. 
 
 Summa Ixviij^ v"^ ob. q. 
 
 Et allocantur eidem pro uno tenemento in Precherche Strete nuper 
 
 in tenura Rogeri Howprest pro x^ per annum et hoc anno 
 
 redd^tus™^"*'' ^^ manibus domine ob defectum conductionis, tamen 
 
 contra annum futurum conceditur Jobanni Wattesson pro 
 
 xiijs iiij'i per annum, x^. 
 
 Et eidem pro j gardino nuper in tenura Johannis Chapman pro iij= per 
 annum et hoc anno ut pro prima medietate iacenti in manibus domine, xviij'^. 
 
 Et eidem pro certo tenemento per composicionem domine Priorisse 
 et Conventus et Prepositi et sociorum CoUegii Regalis Beate Marie et 
 Sancti Nicholai, Cantebr., eidem coUegio appropriato ut pro certa summa 
 prefate domine Priorisse et Conventui pre manibus soluta, ut in compoto 
 proxime precedenti evidenter apparet, xij^ 
 
 Et eidem pro j tenemento nuper denovo edificato iacente in le Precherch 
 Strete ad xj^ per annum, quod pro prima medietate huius anni stetit 
 vacuum, v= v}^. 
 
 Et eidem pro j tenemento combvisto nuper Johannis Ward in venella 
 vocata Nunneslane ad vj'* viij'^ i^er annum, quod pro primo quarterio huius 
 anni stetit vacuum, xx"^. 
 
 Et eidem pro j tenemento in Walleslane nuper Johannis Walsheman 
 pro vj^ viij'i per annum, qui quidem Johannes fugam fecit extra banc 
 villam infra primam medietatem huius anni nichil post se rehnquens per 
 quod distringi jaotuit prater vij*^ inde levatos, et per ultimam medietatem 
 huius anni dimittitur PhiHppo Jonesson pro iij^, sic in decremento hoc 
 anno iij^ j'^. 
 
 Et eidem pro j tenemento nuper in tenura Eicardi Pyghtesley quia 
 excessive oneratur superius, ij^ iij"^. 
 
 Summa xxxvj^ 
 
 Et in ij bus. sineris emptis pro vestibus lavandis, iiij*!. 
 Expense neces- ^^ ^^ '^■'■j ^^- ^andel emptis ad hospicium infra tempus 
 
 sarie cum quin- COmpoti, iij^ V*^. 
 
 Et in iij^"8 lb. de le coton emptis pro candelis infra 
 hospicium hoc anno faciendis per vices, ij^. 
 
 Et solutum Thome Osbarne j^ro brasio integro hoc anno molendo, 
 vj^ vij'* ob. 
 
 Et in spumato empto per totum annum, xxiij^i. 
 
 Et in j barello olei empto pro lampadibus ecclesie Sancte Radegundis, 
 xiiij"^. 
 
 Et in candel empto erga festum Sancti Johannis Baptiste infra tempus 
 compoti, ij**. 
 
 Et in V ladels emptis ad coquinam, ij'* ob. 
 
 Et in slats emptis de Alex. Tebbe de Weston ad ustrinam pro brasio 
 siccando, viij^ iiij<*. 
 
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 Et solutum Thome Atkyn pro diversis laboribus indigentibus faciendis 
 per xxxix dies, vj^ vij^. 
 
 Et in pergameno et papiro cum encausto emptis tam per parcellas istius 
 computantis de die in diem scribendo quam pro compote anni revoluti, x<^. 
 
 Et solutum Johanni Cokk ad portandum stramen de orreo usque vacca- 
 riam, ustrinam et alia loca prout opus erat per vices, iiij*^. 
 
 Et in j le streynor (ij<^ ob.) cum le bultell (vj'^) emptis hoc anno, 
 viij'^ ob. 
 
 Et in quadam muliere conducta ad filandum xxj^^ lane, xxij"^. 
 
 Et in Alicia Pavyer conducta ad idem opus in grosso continens xxxvj^'^ 
 fili lanei, vj^. 
 
 Et solutum Petro Skynner adiuvanti cocum in coquina per vices, viij*^. 
 
 Et in una lagena cum iij pyntes olei emptis pro lana ungenda, xj*^. 
 
 Et in ij scutellis emptis, iij'i ob. 
 
 Et in furfure empto pro porcis assandis, vj<^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Mount conducto ad portandum stramen et alios labores 
 indigentes faciendos per viij dies et di., xvij'^. 
 
 Et solutum Rogero Rede de Hynton pro le warpyng certi fili lanei, 
 jdob. 
 
 Et in eodem conducto ad texandas Ixxvij ulnas panni lanei pro liberatm-a 
 famulorum, iij^ v"^. 
 
 Et solutum uxori Johannis Howdelowe pro le fullyng dicti panni, 
 iijs V^. 
 
 Et solutum cuidam le sherman pro tonsura eiusdem panni, xiiij'^ ob. 
 
 Et in j cribro vocato a whete rydell, v^, cum alio cribro vocato a 
 melesyve, iij"^ ob., et cum emendacione alius cribelli vocati an hersyve, 
 i^ ob., necnon cum emendacione alius cribri, iij<*, — xiij'^ ob. 
 
 Et solutum Johanni Everesdon pro bestiis usque mariscam de Wevel- 
 yngham fugandis, ij*^. 
 
 Et in iiij<"^ virgis cilicini emptis ad ustrinam, xiij*^. 
 
 Et in j le matte empto, ij**. 
 
 Et solutum pro flebotomacione equorum carettinorum die Sancti Steph- 
 ani, ij^i. 
 
 Et in j petra vocata a gryndstone empta de Johanne Chapman, blad- 
 smyth, xvj'^. 
 
 Et in oleo empto ad ecclesiam Omnium Sanctorum, ij^ vij<*. 
 
 Et solutum Gerardo Wake pro ligatura unius libri vocati Sanctorum, 
 Yjs viij 'I. 
 
 Et solutum cuidam laborario pro fimo super terras arabiles spargendo, 
 
 iiijd. 
 
 Et in j sedlep empto, iij<* ob. 
 
 Et solutum Ricardo Cook pro scriptura ij par. indenturarum inter 
 dominam et Johannem Styward pro j gardino sibi dimisso in Precherche 
 Strete, ix'^. 
 
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 Et in quadam olla terrea empta pro domo Refectorii pro cervisia im- 
 ponenda, ij'^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Tommesson conduct© ad carucandum a festo Purifica- 
 cionis Beate Marie infra tempus compoti usque festum Sanctorum Philippi 
 et Jacobi, vij^ v]^. 
 
 Et in Thoma Kempe conducto ad idem opus per xxxvj dies, capiente 
 per diem j"* ob., minus in toto ob., iiij^ v'* ob. 
 
 Et in Ricardo Sexteyn, slawterman, conducto pro bestiis ad coquinam 
 mactandis, iiij^ ij**. 
 
 Et in emendacione unius lavacri, ix*^, unius patelle enee, vj"^, cum 
 ij patellis terreis emptis, j^, ciphis et discis, vj<^, j duodena et dim. 
 trencheres, iiij'^ j lote et j payle, vj<^, j fletyngboUe, j'^ ob., j par. de les 
 bellowes, V^ ob., excambio unius skymer, v*^, et excambio xxvj lb. stanni, 
 precio lb. j"^ ob., iij^ iij'^ — vj^ xj^. 
 
 Et in castracione agnellorum et porcellorum hoc anno, x*^. 
 
 Et solutum Margarete Whyte pro pellibus lanutis lavandis, j^. 
 
 Et solutum Johanni Clyfland pro tellura quinque acrarum et j rode 
 terre pro ordeo super seminando hoc anno, iiij^ ij''. 
 
 Et in scopis emptis et similibus, j''. 
 
 Et in Galfrido Sconyng et alio laborario conductis ad faciendum unum 
 murum terrenum pro pinnfald, simul cum emendacione alius muri infra 
 Prioratum, prout opus erat, per xxvj dies inter se ad ij"^ per diem, iiij^ iiij"^. 
 
 Et in Simone Maydewell conducto ad carucandum per vj dies tempore 
 seminacionis ordei, ix''. 
 
 Et solutum Katerine Rolffe conducte ad sarculandum in gardino per 
 iiij dies, iiij<^ ob. 
 
 Et in ij pipes emptis de Johanne Heswell pro kymlyns inde fien- 
 dis, ij^. 
 
 Et in Thoma Bottesham, cupario, facienti de eisdem pipes vj kymlyns, 
 in grosso, ij^ iiij"^. 
 
 Et in eodem Thoma conducto ad ligandum cum circulis ligneis certa 
 vasa et utensilia locis defectivis, vj"^ ob. 
 
 Et in bidentibus lavandis, xiiij"!, necnon eisdem tondendis, xiij'', et 
 lana inde proveniente in vellera liganda, — iij^ j*^. 
 
 Et in Simone Maydewell per vj dies, ix^, et Thoma Wynter per xij 
 dies, xviij'', laborantibus in prato et fodientibus argillam et aliis laboribus 
 indigentibus faoiendis, ij^ iij'^. 
 
 Et in iiij ulnis vestis linee emptis de Johanne Balle de Linea pro 
 Refectorio, xij*^. 
 
 Et in viij ulnis vestis linee emptis pro le Napr., ij^ vj'^. 
 
 Et in emendacione unius le Swep fontis ibidem, viij''. 
 
 Et in emendacione quinque furcarum vocatarum Pyccheforkes, iiij''. 
 
 Et solutum pro agistamento animalium depasturatorum in marisco de 
 Wevelyngham, xix''. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 151 
 
 Et in j clat empt de Alicia Smalbon pro lana inde spargenda et verbe- 
 randa, iij^i. 
 
 Et in cirjjis hoc anno emptis per vices, ix"^. 
 
 Et in lij {sic) ulnis pauni linei emptis de Johanna Ball de Linea pro 
 mappis et manutergiis inde fiendis hoc anno, precio nine ij<i, plus in toto 
 
 ijd— xj^ 
 
 Et solutum ad pietanciam conventus, xviij<i die tricentali Johannis 
 Broun nuper ballivi ibidem cum iiij'^' pro cera et ij'^ clerico pulsanti cam- 
 pauam, ij^, in parte solucionis xxiij^ solvendorum forma sequenti, videlicet 
 pro j bove, uno equo et aliis necessariis de predicto ballivo per dominam 
 emptis ad utilitatem conventus, ultra quod dedit et procuravit conventui ; 
 de quibus quidem xxiij^ domina habet solvere summo altari ecclesie 
 Sancte Radegundis ad ornamentum eiusdem vij^, et pro aliis xiiij^ annua- 
 tim die anniversarii dicti ballivi if forma prerecitata per vij annos iam 
 proxime futuros secundum ultimam dicti ballivi voluntatem, prout datum 
 est intelligi auditori super hunc compotum. 
 
 Et solutum ad xv^™ domini Regis ultime concessam, if vj'*. 
 
 Summa vij^* vj^ vj'i ob. 
 
 Et in viij warp piscium vocatorum lyng emptis de Johanne Antyll apud 
 nundinas Elienses infra tempus compoti, precio le warp 
 stauri "^'^ ^^^'^^ ^' "^"j^ — "^^ "ij'') simul cum vj warp de codd, precio le 
 warp vj'i ob., plus in toto j"^, — viij^ viij<i. 
 
 Et in j quart, ij bus. et dim. farine avene hoc anno ad coquinam emptis, 
 precio bus. viij"!, — vij^. 
 
 Et in xxxij pulcinis emptis ad staui'um, ij^ viij*^. 
 
 Et in xiiij warp piscium vocatorum lyng emptis de predicto Johanne 
 Antyll ad nundinas de Stiresbridge infra tempus compoti, precio le warp 
 xj'i ob., minus in toto j'^, — xiij^ iiij*!. 
 
 Et in iiij°'' bus. avenarum emptis ad seminandum, x'^. 
 
 Et in iiij"^"^ quart, pisi emptis de Johanne Presote hoc anno, precio 
 quart, if viij*^, — xj^. 
 
 Et in vj bus. viridis pisi emptis in foro pro potagio inde fiendo, iij"^. 
 
 Et in iiij'^i" bus. pisi emptis alia vice, xiiij '^. 
 
 Et in ij quart, de les tares emptis ad seminandum, v^ iiij'i. 
 
 Et in uno agnello empto de clerico Sancti Antonii, vj^^. 
 
 Et in semine vocato mustardseed empto, xij*^. 
 
 Et in ij bidentibus emptis de magistro Johanne Herrysson, capellano, 
 xij"^ et non plus hie in allocacione quia quoad residuum pardonatur 
 conventui. 
 
 Et in viij unciis croci emptis ad staurum huius anni, vj^ xj'^'. 
 
 Et in j lb. piperis, x'l ob. 
 
 Et in j equo empto ad nundinas Sancti Johannis Baptiste, ix'' vj'^'. 
 
 Et in altero equo empto de Ricardo Baker de Bumsted, iiij*'. 
 
 Et in ij cades allec rubei, xv^, j barell. et dim. allec albi, xiiij** iij*', ij 
 
152 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 
 
 cades de les sparlyng, ij^ viij'^, empt. apud Lineam hoc anno de Johanne 
 Ball, xxxj^ xj'*. 
 
 Et in j quarterio fungaris vocati Wynterfyssh empto de eodem 
 Johanne, v^ 
 
 Et in ij quart, v bus. salis emptis ad nundinas Sancti Johannis Baptiste, 
 precio bus. iiij ob. — vij^ x'^ ob. 
 
 Et in j duodena caseorum empta de Willelmo Webbe de Balseham, 
 precio casei iiij'^, plus in to to ij<i, — iiij^ ij"*. 
 
 Et in j bidente empto de Ricardo Sexteyn, vj'^. 
 
 Summa vj" vj^ iij<^. 
 
 Et in les reynes emptis ad capistrum, v"^. 
 „ ^ Et in xvi par. tractuum, unde viii ad carucas, xvi"^, 
 
 Custus caruca- ... . ... 
 
 rum et caretta- et viij ad carettas, ij^ j"^, emptis prout opus erat, iij^ v"^. 
 ^^ Et in emendacione duarum carucarum, xiiij*^. 
 
 Et in ij carucis denovo emptis de Michaele Bower de Fulborne, ij^ iij<^. 
 Et in xvij calcibus equinis emptis infra tempus compoti, xiiij'i. 
 Et in ccc clavis emptis pro ferrura equorum, viij**. 
 Et in cartclowtnayll, v*^. 
 Et in iij^^^ horsetrees, v^. 
 Et in oxbowes, vj'^. 
 
 Et in cordula vocata whipcord empt., iij'^. 
 Et in j clave ordinata pro cerura equina, i^. 
 Et in j horsecombe, ij*^. 
 
 Et in iij*"^^ pitcheforkes staves empt. ad nundinas Sancti Johannis 
 Baptiste, ij*^. 
 
 Et in factura et emendacione coleres equinorum per unum hominem 
 conductum per v dies, xxij'^. 
 
 Et in veste canabea empt. ad idem opus, ix'^. 
 Et in filo ad idem, iij'^. 
 . Et in caretta axenda, vj'^. 
 
 Et in una ieruca empt. ad fugandos equos carettinos et carucarios, ij<^. 
 Et in j corda caret tina empt. de Alicia Eooper, xvj**. 
 Et in ij le Sheefs calibis empt., xviij"*. 
 
 Et solut. Waltero, ferrario, pro ferramento equorum carettinorum et 
 carucariorum ac pro cubacione et acuacione puncture vomerum et cul- 
 turarum per diversa anni tempora infra tempus compoti prout opus erat, 
 xviij^ viij"^. 
 
 Et in uno correo equino dealbando, viij*^. 
 
 Summa xxxvj^ viij^. 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Thressher conducto ad triturand. ccxxix 
 quart, iij bus. ordei ad tascum, ut extra, capientis pro quoli- 
 VOTtuTado" ^* ^^^ quarterio, ii% xxxviij^ iij''. 
 
 Et in eodem conducto ad triturand. Ixxxj quart, vj bus. 
 frumenti ad tascum, capiente pro quolibet quarterio iij'^ — xx^ v*^ q. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 153 
 
 Et in eodem conducto ad triturand. vj bus. pisi ad tascum, ij'^. 
 Et in stipendio Joliannis Mount conducto ad portanda grana de orreo 
 usque ventilabrum ad ilia purganda per vices, x^ ob. 
 
 Summa lix^ viij'^ ob. q. 
 Et in stipendio Henrici Denesson, carpentarii, conducti ad faciendum 
 erigendum et preparandum in grosso in opere carpentrino 
 
 Reparaciones , , , , , i . i • • n ^ 
 
 duo tenementa sub uno tectu lacentia in venella vocata 
 Nunneslane, in parte solucionis xxx^ cum finem fecerit operis predicti, 
 xxiij^ iiij''. 
 
 Et in Simone Maydewell conducto ad sari'andum maeremium operis 
 predicti per iiijo"" dies, xiiij'^. 
 
 Et in j carectata de les splentes empta ad tenementa predicta, iiij''. 
 
 Et in splentes emptis alia vice, xxj'^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Cokke coadiuvante carpentarium predictum in opere pre- 
 dicto per x dies, xiiij'^. 
 
 Et in canabo cum clavis emptis pro ligatura murorum tenementorum 
 predictorum, xvj^^. 
 
 Et in petra empta de Thoma Janes de Hynton ad supponendum 
 gruncill tenementorum predictorum, vj^ viij'^. 
 
 Et in j fowder calcis adhuste empto ad idem opus, iij^. 
 
 Et in vj carectatis luti emptis de Ricardo Poket de Bernewell ad opus 
 predictum, xviij<*. 
 
 Et in Galfrido Sconyng et Willelmo Brann conductis ad supponendum 
 gruncill tenementorum predictorum et ad daubandos muros eorundem in 
 grosso, xvij^ iij*^. 
 
 Et in arundine empta de Johanne Bere, reder, ad tenementa predicta, 
 ii^ iiij'^ 
 
 Et in D de les segb emptis ad idem opus, v^. 
 
 Et in bordis emptis ad nundinas Sancti Johannis Baptiste pro ostio et 
 fenestris domus predicte inde fiendis, ij^ x"^. 
 
 Et in xxij bunches virgarum emptis ad tenementa predicta, xxij'^ 
 
 Et in D clavis ad idem opus simul cum c clavis emptis postea, 
 
 lis yiijd q13_ 
 
 Et in Johanne Scot, tectore, conducto ad cooperiendum cum stramine 
 duo tenementa predicta per xij dies, capiente per diem iiij"^, ad mensam 
 domine, iiij^ 
 
 Et in Thoma Clerk per viij dies et dim. et Nicholao Burnefygge per x 
 dies tractantibus stramen et servientibus eidem coopertori, iij^ j<i. 
 
 Et in Katerina RolfF conducta ad idem opus per xij dies, ad j^^ ob. per 
 diem, xviij'^. 
 
 Et in Henrico Denesson, carpentario, conducto ad faciendum cum 
 meremio domine j le Walshe (vj'^) infra tenementum in le Precherch 
 Strete in grosso, simul cum factura unius muri vocati a pikewall (iiij^^), 
 necnon pro factura gruncell alius muri vocati a pykewall tenementi 
 
154 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 
 
 predict! (ij^ iiij<^) et emendacione et erectione de les sparres ibidem, 
 vij= x<i. 
 
 Et in Johanne Freman conducto ad daubandum murum vocatum a 
 pykewall et alios defectus tenementorum predictorum in grosso, iiij^. 
 
 Et in iij''"^ carectatis luti emptis ad opus predictum, ix'*. 
 
 Et in Johanne Richemond, Johanne Tommesson et Thoma Atkyn 
 conductis ad daubandos et supponendos muros coquine tenementorum 
 predictorum in grosso, if viij<* ob. 
 
 Et in Johanne Wattesson pro le teryng dicte coquine in grosso, iij^ vj<^. 
 
 Et in splentes emptis ad muros coquine predicte cum canabo ad idem 
 opus, xiij'i. 
 
 Et in xxiij bunches virgarum emptis ad tenementa et coquinam predic- 
 tam, ij^ ix'^. 
 
 Et in MCG de les segh emptis de Ricardo Chandelier pro coopertura 
 dictorum tenementorum et coquine predicte, precio centeue xy^, plus in 
 toto ij^, — xf x^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Scot conducto ad cooperienda tenementa et coquinam 
 predictam per xvij dies, capiente per diem iij*' ad mensam domine, iiij^ iij"^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Cokk tractante stramen ad idem opus per xvij dies, 
 ijs vjd. 
 
 Et in gumphis et vertinellis (xiiij^ ob.), j lache(ij'i), j staple cum cerura 
 (iiij'^) et cc clavis (viij*^) emptis ad tenementa et coquinam predictam, 
 if Y^ ob. 
 
 Et in cc et dim. de les segh emptis pro coopertura domus jproxime 
 magnas portas exteriores, ij^ viij'^. 
 
 Et in iiij°^ bunch virgarum emptis ad domum predictam, iiij''. 
 
 Et in Johanne Scotte conducto ad tegendam domum predictam per 
 xj dies ad iiij"^ per diem et ad mensam domine, iij^ viij'i. 
 
 Et in Johanne Cokke conducto ad serviendum eidem per vj dies, xij''. 
 
 Et in quodam alio laborario eidem tectori serviente per vij dies, xiiij'*. 
 
 Et in D de les segh emptis pro domu nuper combusta iacente in 
 Nvmneslane, v^. 
 
 Et in iij*^"^ laborariis de Welle conductis ad emendandos et ad cooperi- 
 endos cum arundine certos defectus aule, coquine, et aliarum domorum 
 indigentes per iiij"'^ dies, quolibet capiente per diem v** ad mensam domine, 
 iiij** iiij<^. 
 
 Et in arundine empta ad emendandam domum Refectorii cum cariagio 
 eiusdem, xxiij"*. 
 
 Et in eisdem laborariis conductis alia vice ad emendandos cum arundine 
 predicta certos defectus domus Refectorii predicti et domus Granatorii per 
 vij dies, inter se quolibet capiente per diem v"*, plus in toto j"* — iij^ 
 
 Et in factui'a unius coopertoris pro le font ecclesie Sancte Radegundis, 
 vjd. 
 
 Et in bordis emptis de Edmundo Seyntlowe pro garner emendando, xij"*. 
 
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 Et in Henrico Dennesson, carpentario, emendante dictum gerner cum 
 bordis predictis per v dies, capiente per diem iiij<i ad mensam domine, 
 una cum uno serviente suo ad idem opus conducto per tot dies ad iij"^ 
 per diem et ad mensam domine, if xj<i. 
 
 Et in factura unius fenestre vitree cum vitro preparato domine in 
 grosso, xij**. 
 
 Et solutum Thome Lokyer pro iij'^"^ ceruris pro portis internis, ix.^. 
 
 Et in emendacione unius cerure cum clave empto ad eandem pro hostio 
 coquine, iij'^ ob. 
 
 Et in stramine empto pro tenemento in quo Thomas Brewer de 
 Bernewell inhabitat, iiij**. 
 
 Et in duobus ceruris emptis pro tenemento in quo Johannes Egate, 
 tyler, inhabitat, vj*^. 
 
 Et in aha cerura empta pro tenemento in quo Johannes Tommesson 
 inhabitat, iij'^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Cony emendante quemdam defectum ecclesie, ij'^. 
 
 Et in quodam phimbatorio conducto ad emendandam unam gutteram 
 inter tenementum in quo Walterus Ferror inhabitat et tenementum Prioris 
 de Bernewell et cum plumbo invento per ipsum Priorem, una cum emenda- 
 cione unius defectus ecclesie Sancte Radegundis, xiiii'^. 
 
 Et in eodem plumbatorio conducto ad emendandam unam pipam plum- 
 beam extendentem a fonte usque plumbum in domo pandoxatorii in grosso 
 cum les sowder ipsius plumbatorii, viij'i. 
 
 Et in ccc clavis (xij^) et c clavis (ij'^) emptis ad nundinas de Stires- 
 bridge, xiiij<i. 
 
 Et in arundiue empta de Thoma Manne de Welle, ut in precio iiij bus. 
 brasii, xx*^. 
 
 Summa viij" iij^ vij'^. 
 
 Et in butumine empto cum pycche hoc anno pro bidentibus signandis 
 et ungendis, ii^ i'^. 
 
 [Custus Falde] ^^. '.''"' . ,^,, , 
 
 Et m clatis emptis ad faldam, iij^ iij*^. 
 Et solutum pro remocione falde per diversas vices, iij*^. 
 
 Summa v^ vij'^. 
 
 Et solutum domine Priorisse et toto (sic) conventui pro vestura sua hoc 
 
 anno, in parte solucionis Ixvj^ viij'^, — xliij^ viij*' et non 
 
 miuarum^]'^ ° pl^s hoc anno in allocacione, quia Thomas Grey nuper 
 
 vicarius ibidem obiit ultimo anno elapso et residuum dicte 
 
 summe executores testamenti dicti vicarii distribuerunt inter dominas in 
 
 elemosina preter iij** unde computans inferius allocat. 
 
 Summa xliij^ viij^^. 
 Et solutum magistro Nicholao Druell in plenam solucionem pro antiquo 
 .. r.: c. , . debito, xxxiijs iiii'i. 
 
 Debita Soluta ) j j 
 
 Et Thome Cotton in plenam solucionem veteris debiti, 
 xxjd. 
 
l5iB ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 
 
 Et domine Alicie Patryk nuper mortue in plenam solucionem om- 
 nium debitorum, iij^ iiij*^, ex legacione Petri Erie, capellani, nuper 
 defuncti. 
 
 Et domine Johanne Lancastre in parte solucionis vj^ viij*^ sibi legato- 
 rum per predictum Petrum, iij^ iiij<i. 
 
 Et domine Agneti Swaflfham, suppriorisse, in parte solucionis vj^ viij*^, — 
 xx<i. 
 
 Et solutum magistro Ricardo Broun, nuper Rectori ecclesie de Doun- 
 ham, pro vetere debito cum iij^ ij<^ in manibus suis obstupatis pro redditu 
 domine debito in Ely, et cum iiij^ in manibus suis obstupatis de redditu in 
 Cantebrigia, vij^ ij"*. 
 
 Et solutum le dyer Sancti Ivonis pro antiquo debito, vj^ 
 
 Et solutum Roberto Tyler de Reedwynter in plenam solucionem omnium 
 debitorum pro tegulis ab eo emptis anno preterito, iiij^. 
 
 Summa Ix^ vij'^. 
 
 Et solutum Willelmo Rogger pro came bovina, porcina, ovina et vitul- 
 ina empta ad hospicium per manus Johanne Granntyer, 
 
 [Providencia Ho- xxxiiil^ viii^. 
 spicu] •> '> 
 
 Et in pane, cervisia, carne bovina, porcina, ovina, 
 vitulina, porcellina, gallina, puUina, ovis, butiro, et piscibus recensibus 
 et marinis emptis per dietam ad hospicium infra tempus compoti, ut 
 particulariter in uno libro papiri super hunc compotum examinato plenius 
 patet, xj'i vijs iiij"! ob. 
 
 Et in una vacca empta de Thoma Carrawey ad hospicium, vi^ viij'^. 
 
 Summa xiij^^ viij^ viij*^ ob. 
 Et datum iiij""" preconibus maioris Cantebr. pro eorum oblacione ad 
 ,„ , , festum Nativitatis Domini infra tempus compoti, pro eorum 
 
 [Donoj data ^ . . 
 
 serviciis domine Priorisse et conventui impensis et im- 
 posterum impendendis, ij^ iij*^. 
 
 Et in aliis donis (iij^), cum iij^ iiij'^ datis Thome Key (xx*^) et Johanne 
 Granngyer (xx<^), et cum ij^ vj*^ distributis inter pauperes die cene Domini, 
 necnon cum les ernest penys (iiij*^) diversis personis datis que cum v^ ix'^ 
 certis tenentibus et servientibus domine ad diversa anni tempora per con- 
 sideracionem domine Priorisse, ut parcellatim in papiro istius computan- 
 tis annotatur, xiij^ xj'l 
 
 Et in uno grue empto et dato Cancellario Universitatis ville Cantebr. 
 pro bona amicitia sua in diversis materiis domine ad utilitatem con- 
 ventus, xij'J. 
 
 Et datum ii''"^ laborariis pro cariagio turbarum una vice, una cum iiij^i 
 datis Johanni Nyxon ad tonsuram bidentium suorum et ij"* expenditis 
 apvid domum Johannis Ansty senioris et cum vj'^ datis Ricardo Baker de 
 Bernewell et Ricardo West, pandoxatori, pro tolueto colligendo et reci- 
 piendo tempore nundinarum ibidem, xiiij<J. 
 
 Summa xix^ iiij<i. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 157 
 
 Et in viij paribus cirothecarum emptis pro diversis coiiductis in aut- 
 umpno prout opus erat, xij<^. 
 umpui^'"^ ^"'" -^^ ^^ diversis laborariis conductis ad falcandas unandas 
 
 et erga carettas preparandas Ixxxiiij""^ acras ordei ad tascum, 
 capientibus pro qualibet xij^, — iiij^* iiij^. 
 
 Et in consimilibus laborariis conductis ad metendas ligandas et erga 
 carettas preparandas xxx acras et j rodam frumenti ad tascam, capientibus 
 pro qualibet acra ut supra, xxx^ iij'^. 
 
 Et in Thoma Atkyn conducto ad falcandas les tares in clauso vocato 
 Bartonescrofte per ij dies, viij*^. 
 
 Et in Thoma Heyreman (xx^) per j diem, Johanne Trumjjyngton 
 (viij^ iiij"^) per v dies conductis ad cariandum bladum cum carettis suis, 
 capiente per diem quolibet xx'^ et mensam suam, x^. 
 
 Et in Thoma Key conducto per totum tempus autumpni, ultra ij bus. 
 brasei, vj^ viij<^. 
 
 Et in Thoma Wynter conducto ad idem opus per idem tempus, x^. 
 
 Et in Nicholao Burnefyge conducto ad idem opus per tempus pre- 
 dict um, ix^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Knyght coadiuvante laborarios una vice ut in precio 
 unius paris sotularium, vij"^. 
 
 Summa vij^ xij^ ij'^. 
 
 Et solutum Edmundo Wyghton pro j brevi vocato Qviod Dampnum 
 optinendo pro hospicio vocato le Facoun, iij^ j'^. 
 seTO^'"^"^^^ ^°^^^ ^^ solutum eidem pro transcriptura dicti brevis et pro 
 
 recordo placiti habendi, ij^ 
 
 Et solutum Galfrido Fyssher pro feriagio per aquam piscium salsorum 
 (iiij"^) de Ely, uuacum feriagio dimidii barelli olei vocati lammpe-oyle (ij'^) 
 de Linea et unius litere de Linea predicta domine misse, ac pro feriagio 
 allec de Linea usque magnum pontem, Cantebr., ij^ ij'i. 
 
 Et in expensis Thome Key pro feriagio usque Elien. (iiij*^) et ibidem 
 expectantis per ij dies pro piscibus salsis (y^) et aliis expensis, simul cum 
 expensis apud Crawden (j<^) pro redditu ibidem levando, et apud Abyngton 
 et Wrottyng (iiij'^ ob.) pro consimilibus, unacum expensis apud Litlyngton 
 (v*^) pro prato domine inter Thomam Campes et ipsam dominam sortendo 
 et in certum ponendo, xix"^ ob. 
 
 Et in expensis Thome Key apud Cantebr. diversis vicibus pro redditu 
 levando et coUigendo, v^ ob. 
 
 Et in expensis domine Priorisse pro tenencibus suis apud Cantebr. 
 supervidendis ad diversas vices, unacum coUoquio habendo cum Johanne 
 Ansty, armigero, pro utilitate domus, xvij'^ ob. 
 
 Summa x^ ix'^ ob. 
 
 Et in V millibus cc terricidis hoc anno emptis cum iiij'^ solutis pro 
 [Sumptus Foca- cariagio aliquarum earundem de aqua usque prioratum, 
 liiim] ixs iiijd. 
 
158 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 
 
 Et in Mcc de les segh emptis hoc anno, precio centene xx'^, minus in 
 toto iiij"^, — xix^ viij"!. 
 
 Et in ccxxx fagottis emptis pro focalibus ibidem per diversas vices, 
 precio centene [erasure] plus in toto j"!, xvij^ iiij'^. 
 
 Et in MCC terricidis hoc anno emptis de Almeris , turffeman, 
 ut in precio vj bus. frumenti unde computans superius oneratur, 
 iij« vjd. 
 
 Summa xlix^ x"^. 
 
 Et in salario fratris Roberti Palmer, confessoris dominarum, hoc anno 
 ut in diversis annis precedentibus, vj^ viij<i. 
 lorum"'''^^ ^^"'" -^^ ^° salario magistri Johannis Herryson, capellani 
 
 celebrantis missam pro dominabus per totum tempus com- 
 puti, c^. 
 
 Et solutum Johanni Peresson, capellano celebranti in ecclesia Sancti 
 Andree Apostoli per vices, ij^ iiij''. 
 
 Et in stipendio clerici ecclesie ibidem per annum, xiij^ iiij''. 
 
 Et in stipendio Thome Key, colligentis redditus in Cant, et patria 
 hoc anno, xiij^ iiij<*. 
 
 Et in stipendio Ricardi West, pistoris et pandoxatoris, hoc anno, 
 xxvj^ viij*^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Everesdon, conducti ad carucandum per totum 
 tempus compoti, xxvj^ viij''. 
 
 Et in stipendium Johannis Wyllyamesson, bercarii ibidem, cum viij*^ 
 in precio unius paris caligarum hoc anno, xx^ viij*^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Roberti Page, carucarii, per idem tempus, xvj^ 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Slibre, alterius carucarii, per annum, 
 xiij^ iiij^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Roberti Pykkell, bubulci, hoc anno, vj^ viij"!. 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Cokke, malster, hoc anno, xiij= iiij"!. 
 
 Et in stipendio Johanne Granngyer, unius ancille domine, hoc anno, 
 cum iij^ iiij'i in regardo sibi datis pro officio Purvis hoc anno, xiij^ iiij'^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Elianore Richemound, alterius ancille domine, cum xx*^ 
 in regardo sibi datis, viij^ iiij''. 
 
 Et in stipendio Elizabeth Chaterys, alius ancille domine, ut in vestitu 
 sua (sic) infra tempus compoti, iij^ j**. 
 
 Et in stipendio Dionisie, yerdwomman, hoc anno ut in annis preceden- 
 tibus, ix^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Ricardi Porter, conducti a festo Sancte Trinitatis 
 infra tempus compoti usqvie festum Michaelis ad omnes labores husbondrie, 
 xiij^ iiij*!. 
 
 Et solutum pro liberatura Johanne Granngyer, pincernarie domine, 
 vjs viij*^. 
 
 Et solutum pro liberatura Johannis Slybre hoc anno, ij^ vj^. 
 
 Summa xv^' xv^ iij^. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 159 
 
 Et in Thoma Atkyn et Johanne Tommesson, conductis ad falcandas ad 
 ,p ... tascvim iiij°'' acras et j rodam stipuli, capientibus pro quali- 
 bet acra viij"* — ij^ x**. 
 
 Summa ij^ x<*. 
 
 Summa omnium allocacionum et solucionum Ixxviij" vj^ Et debet 
 xxxv^ X'' q. De quibus allocautur ei, ut de certis denariis pendendis super 
 Tiiomam Key anno proxime precedenti ex mandate domine Priorisse, 
 iij^ Et eidem, de parte Ixvj^ viij'i pro vestura dominarum hie allocantur 
 causa patente superius in titulo Vestura Dominarum, xxiij^. Et eidem pro 
 stipendio Roberti Page, unius carucarii ibidem, et anno ultimo elapso non 
 allocate, xvj^ Et sic excedit mode vj^ j^i ob. q. Tamen postea oneratur 
 de Iviij^ vij'^ ob. q. receptis de domina Priorissa ut de parte xj^* xvj^ xj<i, 
 iuxta billam indenture inter dominam et ipsam computantem inde factam, 
 unde oneratur superius in titulo Vendicio bladi et stauri, et plus de 
 xiij"! ad complecionem integre summe de vendicione bladi, et hie oneratur 
 de lviij» vij<^ ob. q. predietis eo quod tum alloeabatur isti computanti pro 
 trituraeione bladi et solutum erat per dominam Priorissam et non per 
 istam computantem. Et de xij'^ de precio iiijo^ caponum venditorum, 
 ut extra. Et de xviij^ viij<i receptis de certis tenentibus pro veteribus 
 debitis unde in compoto precedenti nulla fit mencio. Et mode debet 
 Ixxii^ ij"^. 
 
 Unde super 
 
 Johannem Rychemound pro j tenemento, nuper Johannis Rychemound 
 ad iiij^ per annum, pro ultimo quarterio anni instantis xij"!. 
 
 Ricardum Whetley de Bernewell pro parte unius tenementi iacentis in 
 Bernewell, pro hoe anno v^ 
 
 Henricum Symmesson pro ij tenementis scituatis in paroehia Sancti 
 Botulphi ad iiij^ vj*! per annum, tam pro hoe anno quam pro anno proxime 
 precedenti ix^. 
 
 Willelmum Rogger pro j tenemento in stallagio, tam pro hoe anno quam 
 pro ij'^"^ annis proxime preeedentibus, per annum xij<i, ultra xij'i inde 
 levatos iijs, 
 
 Eundem Willelmum pro j gardino in le Precherchestrete, pro eonsimili- 
 bus annis, per annum ij^ vj^. 
 
 Johannem Scot pro j gardino iuxta cimiterium ecclesie Sancti Edwardi, 
 pro tot annis, per annum xij^^, ultra iiij'^ inde reeeptos annuatim ij^. 
 
 Johannem Barber pro redditu exeunte de tenemento vocato le ff'acoun 
 in Petycury, pro tot annis per annum xiiij^ vij*^ xliij^ ix'^. 
 
 Dominam Margaretam Huntyngdon pro uno tenemento vocato le Sword, 
 tam pro hoc anno quam pro anno proxime precedenti, per annum vj^, ultra 
 xx*! inde levatos pro i^^" anno precedenti per manus Johannis Smyth, 
 Webster x^ iiii<i. 
 
 Magistrum Johannem Honythorne pro j gardino iuxta Bartonescroft, 
 
160 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1449 — 1450. 
 
 tarn pro hoc anno quam pro ij^"^ annis proxime precedentibus, per annum 
 
 Magistrum domus Sancti Johannis Evangeliste pro j tenemento in 
 parochia Sancti Edwardi, pro tot annis, per annum iiij^ vj"^ xiij^ vj**. 
 
 Ricardum Busshee pro j tenemento ex opposito Beate Marie, pro tot 
 annis, per annum xij<^ iijs. 
 
 Ricardum Wryght pro j tenemento nuper Johannis Essex, sadeler, pro 
 totidem annis, per annum xij*^ iij^. 
 
 Predictum Magistrum domus Sancti Johannis Evangehste pro j tene- 
 mento iuxta cimiterium ecclesie parochiahs Sancti Sepulcri in vetere 
 Judaismo, pro tot annis, per annum xx'^ v^ 
 
 Johannem Belton pro j tenemento iacente iuxta tenementum domine 
 Priorisse, pro tot annis, per annum vj^ viij'^ xx^ 
 
 Magistrum Ricardum Pightesley pro j tenemento nuper Willelmi Bur- 
 tones, pro tot annis, per annum ij^ vj^. 
 
 Magistrum et scolares Sancti Benedicti, Cant., pro j tenemento quon- 
 dam Gybelotes, pro totidem annis, per annum ij^ ij*^ vj= vj*^. 
 
 Thomam Lolleworth pro j tenemento in quo inhabitat, pro consimiHbus 
 annis, per annum ij^ vj^ 
 
 Johannem Neell pro orto cum uno horreo nuper Hvigonis Canesby, pro 
 tot annis, per annum xij'^ iijs. 
 
 Johannem Leccham pro j tenemento in le Precherch Strete, pro ij'^° 
 anno preterito xx"^. 
 
 Robertum Mildenhale de Cant., ut de precio ij caponum venditorum 
 onerato superius, tarn pro hoc anno quam pro anno proxime precedente, 
 per annum vj** xij"!. 
 
 Johannem Crofte pro j parlari prope Pylateslane, pro hoc anno et anno 
 precedente, per annum y}^ xij<^. 
 
 Radulphum Attefeld pro j tenemento in parochia Beate Marie ad vj^ 
 per annum, pro tot annis detentos, parte ij^ inde levata viij^. 
 
 Predictum Magistrum Ricardum Pightesley pro j tenemento prope 
 Aulam Regiam, pro ultima medietate auni precedentis xiij^ ob. 
 
 Stephanum Brasier pro j tenemento iacente in Nunneslane ad v^ per 
 annum, ultra iij^ ix*^ inde levatos, pro anno proxime precedente xv'^. 
 
 Johannem AVebster pro j tenemento iacente in venella predicta ad 
 xij^ per annum, et per eundem Johannem detentos pro j termino anni 
 proxime precedentis (iij^) et pro viij septimanis (ij^) v^. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 161 
 
 Henry VI, 29—30, i.e. 1450—1451. 
 
 Compotus Domine Agnetis Banastre Thesaurisse ac Recep- 
 toris Denariorum Prioratus Sancte Kadegundis a vigilia Sancti 
 Michaelis Archangel! anno Regis Henrici Sexti xxix° usque ad 
 vigiliam Sancti Michaelis Archangeli extunc [proxime sequen- 
 tem] 
 
 Eadem computans respondet de Ixxij^ ij'' de arreragiis ultimi compoti 
 sui anni proxime precedentis, ut in pede ibidem de recordo 
 
 [Arreragia] sr r ; jr 
 
 apparet. 
 
 Summa Ixxij^ ij<i. 
 Et de xxxij'^ v^ x.^ perceptis de redditu diversorum tenencium in 
 Cantebr., ut patet per Eentale hoc anno parcellatim super 
 riOTum^*^conec- huuc compotum examinatum. 
 
 fn^cLtifbrY""™ -^^ '^^ "J' "^j*^ perceptis de Magistro Willelmo Spaldyng 
 
 pro una parcella prati iacente in croft vocato Nunnescroft, 
 sibi nuper dimissa per Magistrum et confratres domus Sancti Johannis 
 Evangeliste [ad terminum] annorum pro summa predicta per annum, que 
 vero parcella prati appropriata est domui sive Prioratui Sancte Radegundis, 
 Cantebr., per dominum Regem Henricum vi*""^ [pro imperpetuum], ut 
 pro certo tenement© sub redditu xij^ per annum, prefate domui Sancte 
 Radegundis nuper pertinente et modo CoUegio Regali Beate Marie et Sancti 
 Nicholai, Cantebr., [appropriate] per composicionem Domine Priorisse et 
 Magistrum sive Prepositum predicti Collegii Regalis pro redditu de xij^ 
 predictis per annum, necnon pro certa summa eidem [domui] Sancte 
 Radegundis per prefatum Prepositum et socios collegii Regis predicti soluta, 
 ut in compoto ij**' anni precedentis aperte et evidenter apparere poterit. 
 
 Et de [iij^ perceptis] de Johanne Shepperd pro uno tenemento nuper 
 denovo edificato, iacente in vico vocato Nunneslane, unde in compoto pre- 
 cedente nulla fit mencio, ad vj^ per annum, [per ultimam (?)] medietatem 
 anni infra tempus compoti prefato Johanni dimisso et non antea, tamen 
 respondet anno future de vj^. 
 
 Et viij^ recipientur annis futuris de Johanne [ pro] alio tenemento 
 
 nuper noviter edificato iacente in vico prefato; nil hoc anno, quanquani 
 dimissum est prefato tenenti per dominam contra tempus instantis 
 compoti pro summa predicta [annis] futuris solvenda. 
 
 Summa xxxij^' xii^ ij'^. 
 Et de Ixvj^ viij*^ receptis de Rogero Hunte, firmario in West Wrottyng, 
 
 sic sibi dimisso per indenturam ad terminum xx*^ annorum, 
 [Firme in Patria] . , 
 
 hoc anno qumto. 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 11 
 
162 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 
 
 Et de X? perceptis de Simone Thurgore, firmario terre dominicalis in 
 Abyngton, hoc anno. 
 
 Et de xl^ perceptis de Johanne Bernes, firmario terre dominicalis in 
 Shelford magna, hoc anno, ultra vj capones. 
 
 Et de xxij^ xj'^ receptis de Johanne Pj'te de Litlyngton et Eooerto 
 Hawken de eadem, firmariis certe terre dominicalis ibidem sibi dimisse 
 per indenturam ad terminum xx*' annorum, hoc anno quinto. 
 
 Et de iiij^ ij^ receptis de firma certe terre in Coton sic dimisse Ricardo 
 Waren per indenturam. 
 
 Et de iiij^ receptis de Ricardo Hynton pro firma certe terre dominicalis 
 ibidem. 
 
 Et de iij^ viij*^ receptis de Alicia Hynton pro firma certe terre domini- 
 calis ibidem per annum. 
 
 Et de vij5 recejDtis de Thoma Cole pro firma certe terre dominicalis 
 ibidem per annum, ultra ij capones. 
 
 Et de ij^ receptis de Johanne Cole pro redditu assise ibidem, ultra ij 
 capones. 
 
 Et de v^ receptis de Edmundo Chapman de Whaddon per annvim. 
 
 Et de xvj"^ receptis de Johanne Burgoyn de Caxton per annum. 
 
 Et de [xij<i] receptis de [Johanne] Pycchard de Trumpington per 
 annum. 
 
 Et de vij^ vij*! ob. receptis de Sampson Aunger de Whytwell per 
 annum. 
 
 Et de [iij^ ij*^] receptis de [certis] tenencibus domine in Ely per annum, 
 per manus Vicarii Omnium Sanctorum, Cantebr. 
 
 Et de ij^ receptis de Thoma Parkyn, coUectore redditus in Beerden in 
 comitatu Essex, per annum. 
 
 Et de iiij'^ receptis de redditu assise in Walden coUecto per eundem 
 Thomam per annum. 
 
 Et de vij^ receptis de Thoma Perkyn de Stevyngton pro firma certe 
 terre ibidem per annum sibi dimisse per indenturam. 
 
 Et de xiij^ receptis de redditu assise Johannis Taylboys, domini de 
 Crawden, per annum. 
 
 Et de iij'i receptis de Roberto Skylman de Haselyngfeld per 
 annum. 
 
 Et de if iiij"^ receptis de Priore de Bernewell pro certa terra in 
 Maddyngley vocata Maundysilver per annum. 
 
 Et de ij'^ receptis de Johanne Clerk pro redditu assise in Walden per 
 annum. 
 
 Et de xx'' perceptis de Johanne Philypott de Trumpyngton pro firma 
 terre, hoc anno. 
 
 Et de xij"^ receptis de Rectore de Fulbone pro certa terra ibidem per 
 annum. 
 
 Summa xij'' xiiij« vij'^ ob. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 163 
 
 Et de v^ perceptis de profucuis et provenientibus nundinarum die 
 Recepta foriii- Assiimpcionis Beate Marie infra tempus compoti. 
 seca cum profu- Et de vjii ii^ \^ rsceptis de mensa sive repasto diversa- 
 
 cuis nundinarum j j u ^ x ^ 
 
 et repast! perheu- rum personarum generosarum, quarum nomina particu- 
 manemm lariter ill libro papiri computantis super hunc compotum 
 
 ostensum annotantur. 
 
 Et de xlix^ j^ perceptis de domina Priorissa per billam indenture inter 
 dominam et ipsam computantem. 
 
 Summa viij^' xvj^ ij*^. 
 
 Et de vj^ perceptis de precio j qrt. ij bus. frumenti venditi, ut extra, 
 
 unde in foro iiij bus., precii bus. viii'^, Almeris Ffyddis ij bus., 
 
 et steurT" **" precio bus. viij*^, et Johanni Presot iiij bus., precii bus. vj'^. 
 
 Et de xxix^ viij"! perceptis de certis personis pro xij qrt. 
 
 V bus. ordei venditi ad diversa precia, vidlt. Johanni Presot ix qrt., precio 
 
 qrt. ijs iiij'^, (xxj^) Thome Key iij bus., precii (sj*^), Ricardo Poket iiij 
 
 bus., precii (xvj"^), et aliis certis personis in minutis parceUis ij qrt. 
 
 vj bus., precii qrt. ij^ iiij"^ (vj^ v'^). 
 
 Et de viji^ v^ x^ perceptis de certis hominibus pro xlvij qrt. vj bus. 
 brasii venditi ad diversa precia, vidlt. Willelmo Bronn iiij bus., precii 
 (xx^) Thome Key iiij bus., precii (sx''), Willelmo vocato Jacobo 
 
 Brewer xx qrt., precii qrt. iij^ (Ix^), Thome Coteler x qrt., precii qrt. iij^ 
 iiij'i (xxxiijs iiij'')) Johanni Stephen iiij qrt., precii qrt. ij^ viij'^ (x^ viij^^), 
 Ricardo Poket iij bus., precii (xv^^), Johanni Clyvelond iij bus., precii 
 
 (xv<J) et Johanni Thyrlowe de Hawkeston xij qrt., precii qrt. iij' (xxxvj^). 
 Et de xix*! perceptis de precio unius corrii bovis sic venditi in foro 
 infra tempus compoti. 
 
 Et de iiij^ xj<i perceptis de precio xxviij pellium ovinarum lanutarum 
 et xvj pellecculis hoc anno venditis Johanni Wolleman de Cantebr. 
 Et de iiij^ x"^ perceptis de certis velleribus laneis hoc anno. 
 Et de viij^ perceptis de Waltero Ferrario pro j qrt. iiij bus. frumenti 
 venditi Waltero Ferrario, bus. ad viij'^. 
 
 Summa ix^' xix^ x'^. 
 Et de vj'' xiij^ iiij<^ perceptis de firma garbarum decimalium cuiusdam 
 porcionis in ecclesia Sancti Egidii, Cantebr., sic dimissa 
 
 Decime _ . _ , 
 
 Johanni Hyxon hoc anno. 
 
 Summa vj'' xiij' iiij'^. 
 Et de Ixvj' viij'i receptis de quadam pensione per manus Vicarii 
 Sancti Clementis pro vestura Mouialium hoc anno. 
 
 Pensiones „ , . .... 
 
 Summa Ixvj^ viij''. 
 Summa totalis recepte cum arreragiis Ixxvij'' xiiij^ xj'^ ob. 
 E quibus computat in redditu resoluto Priori de Bernewell pro certa 
 teiTa ibidem per annum, vij^ 
 re?dUuum°°^' ^* solutum Maiori et ballivis Cantebr. pro quadam 
 
 consuetudine vocata le hagable per annum, xiiij" iiij'' ob. q. 
 
 11—2 
 
164 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 
 
 Et solutum Thome Lovell de Chesterton pro tenemento ibidem per 
 annum, vj^ 
 
 Et in redditu resohito Johanni Radcliff, militi, pro certa terra 
 ibidem et tenemento in Cantebr. vocato Mortymers per annum, 
 
 Et sohitum Vicario Omnium Sanctorum in Cantebr. pro quadam 
 pensione sibi concessa per annum, xx^. 
 
 Et sohitum CoUegio Corporis Christi per annum, xvj'^. 
 Et in redditu resohito Thome Cotton i)ro diversis terris in Cantebr. per 
 annum, iij^ vij'i. 
 
 Et solutum Rectori ccclesie Sancti Benedicti per annum pro hospicio 
 vocato le Booll, iiij*^. 
 
 Et sohitum Magistro domus Sancti Michaehs per annum, iiij''. 
 
 Summa Ixviij^ v*^ ob. q. 
 Et allocantur eidem pro certo tenemento per composicionem domine 
 Priorisse et Conventus et Propositi et socios (sic) Collegii 
 Decrementa Regahs Beate Marie et Sancti Nicholai, Cantebr., eidem 
 
 redditus c ' ' 
 
 collegio appropriato, ut pro certa summa denariorum prefate 
 domine Priorisse et Conventui soluta, ut in compoto ij<^i anni proxime 
 preteriti apparet, xij^. 
 
 Et eidem pro j tenemento nuper in tenura Ricardi Pyghtesley excessive 
 superius onerati, ij^ iij*^. 
 
 Et eidem pro parcella unius gardini iuxta cimiterium ecclesie Sancti 
 Edwardi onerata superius ad xij<^ per annum et dimissa Johanni Scot pro 
 hoc anno et diversis annis preteritis pro iiij'' per annum, tamen contra 
 annum dimissa eidem Johanni pro viij'\ et ideo allocantur computanti 
 cum viij'i pro anno instanti et ij^ pro iij''"^ annis preteritis, unde ista 
 eadem computans superonerata erat ij^ viij''. 
 
 Et eidem pro parcella redditus debiti per Stephanum Brasyer propter 
 paupertatem et inopiam eiusdem Stephani ex gracia domine Priorisse hac 
 vice tantum, xv^. 
 
 Et eidem pro parte unius tenementi nuper in tenura Johannis Webster 
 pro xij^ per annum, unde levatur preter vij^, eo quod predictus Johannes 
 Webster noctanter devolavit nihil post se relinquens per quod distringi 
 potuit, v^. 
 
 Et eidem pro tenemento prope Aulam Regiam ad xiij'i ob. per annum, 
 ultra ix"^ inde levatos, iiij'^ ob. 
 
 Et in decremento redditus Johannis Speed pro uno tenemento nuper 
 in tenura Johannis Andrewe pro x^ per annum et modo dimisso prefato 
 Johanni Speed pro viij^ per annum iuxta Rentale, ij^ 
 
 Et in decremento redditus unius tenementi nuper in tenura Philippi 
 Jonesson pro vj^ per annum et modo dimisso Thome Cordwaner pro v^ vj*^ 
 per annum, vj"^. 
 
 Summa xxvj^ ob. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 165 
 
 Et in xiiij lb. candel emptis de Thoma Heyreman ad hospicium cum 
 „ ii"^ solutis Katerine RoolfF ad adiuvandos factores candela- 
 
 Expense neces- J 
 
 sarie cum quiii- rum infra hospicium ac cum ij^' solutis pro emendacione 
 
 decima . . . . , . . . , 
 
 unius vasis vocati a payle, xviij". 
 
 Et in una situla vocata a boket empta de Thoma Bottesham cum 
 ligacione eiusdem cum circulis ferreis domine, xiij'^. 
 
 Et solutum Phihppo Perechyld pro emendacione fenestre vitree infra 
 aulam, xvj^. 
 
 Et in cinere empto, ij<^. 
 
 Et in spumatico empto, xj<^. 
 
 Et sokitum Thome Osbarne pro brasio per totum tempus compoti 
 molendo, vj^ viij'^. 
 
 Et solutum uxori Johannis Pavyer pro viij lb. lane ad tascam nendis et 
 filandis, xvj'^. 
 
 Et solutum Margerie Gangefeyr pro consimili opere per vj dies, vj"^. 
 
 Et solutum Alicie Basse conducte ad preparandam lanam erga nentes 
 ad filandum continentem xx lb. ad tascam, cum j lb. sic operata jjer 
 Katerinam Rolff, xxij"!. 
 
 Et in Eogero Reed de Hynton conducto ad texandas Ix uluas vestis 
 lanee, capiente pro qualibet ulna ob. q., minus in toto ij'^, cum iij*^ pro le 
 Warpyng eiusdem et cum ij^ vij'i solutis Willelmo Bank, fuller, pro opere 
 et arte sua et spissitudine panni predict!, vj^ v^ ob. 
 
 Et solutum cuidam fabro de Bernewell pro factura unius securis, iiij"^. 
 
 Et in alia securi empta de Willelmo Brook de Saweston, vj''. 
 
 Et in Johanne Trumpyngton per ij dies ad ij'' per diem cum alio 
 laborario per v dies ad j'' per diem spargentibus fimum super terras 
 arabiles domine, ix^^. 
 
 Et in una lagena dim. et j pynte olei emptis pro lana ungenda, ij^ j'^. 
 
 Et in emendacione iij cribellorum, iij<i. 
 
 Et in Thoma Atkyn, laborario, conducto ad di versos labores indigeutes 
 faciendos per diem, ut in parcellis super hunc compotum examinatis plenius 
 apparet, vj^ viij'^. 
 
 Et solutum Waltero, ferrario, pro flebotomacione equorum domine die 
 Saiicti Stephani infra tempus compoti, ij''. 
 
 Et solutum Johanni Thommesson, laborario, pro diversis laborariis (sic) 
 oportunis per ipsum factis per x dies, xx''. 
 
 Et in Johanne Presot conducto ad shidanda et succidenda ligna pro 
 focalibus et ad loppandos arbores circa monasterium istud necnon ad 
 faciendos alios labores prout opus erat per s dies ad ij"' per diem, unacum 
 caruca sua et equis suis et famulo suo super terras domine tempore 
 seminacionis ordei per alios x dies ad xij'' per diem, ac cum x'' sibi 
 concessis pro punctura vomeris et culture sue per idem tempus, xiiij^ vj''. 
 
 Et in Thoma Bottesham, covvper, emeudanti certa utensilia lignea per 
 vices, ij^ 
 
166 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 
 
 Et in furfure empto pro porcis assandis, vj*'. 
 
 Et in discis et siphis emptis, iiij<i. 
 
 Et in xiiij hames {sic) ferreis emptis pro carnibus per eosdem pendendis 
 in coquina, viij'^. 
 
 Et in Galfrido Sconyng conducto ad faciendam quemdam {sic) sepem 
 vivam inter nova tenementa iacentia in vico vocato Nunneslane per xiij 
 dies, ij^ ij<i. 
 
 Et in Nicholao Tolj conducto ad idem opus per x dies, xx'^. 
 
 Et in virgis emptis pro ligatura boum, j'^. 
 
 Et in una lagena olei empta pro lampadibus ad ecclesiam Omnium 
 Sanctorum, xvj'^. 
 
 Et in scopis emptis, iij'l 
 
 Et in papiro et encausto cum pergameno emptis pro compoto anni 
 revoluti componendo et inscribendo, ix*i ob. 
 
 Et solutum Willelmo Dale pro emendacione plumbi extendentis de 
 fonts usque domum pandoxatorii per diversas vices, iij^ iiij'^. 
 
 Et in D cirpis emptis pro diversis domibus sternendis et reficiendis 
 infra tempus compoti, ij^ vj*^. 
 
 Et in castracione agnorum et porcellorum infra tempus predictum, x"^. 
 
 Et in Willelmo Broun et socio suo per ij dies conductis ad scindendas 
 vites et illas erigendas, xij<i. 
 
 Et in clave vocata Spykyng empta ad idem opus, iy^. 
 
 Et in j le Streynor empto, vj'^. 
 
 Et in ij skepp vocatis Skotell, iij<i. 
 
 Et in Ricardo Gardyner verberante fungaria per j diem, iij*i. 
 
 Et in ij duodenis cissoriorum emptis de Johanne Ball de Linea, viij'^. 
 
 Et in quadam pecia meremii vocata a mast empta apud Lynne predic- 
 tam pro una scala inde fienda, iiij^ 
 
 Et in V ulnis vestis cannabee empte ibidem pro fungaribus inde 
 cubandis, xiij'^ ob. 
 
 Et in j lagena et dimidio olei de Raap empta apud Lynn predictam, cum 
 j<* precio unius oUe terree pro eo oleo imponendo, xvj'l 
 
 Et in una oUa terrea vocata a Spensepott empta pro domo Refectorii, 
 ■foh. 
 
 Et in Thoma Kemp conducto ad carvicandum per decem dies, x'l. 
 
 Et in Willelmo Malster laborante in Gardino et in aliis locis circa 
 muros locis defectivis emendandos et in prato per xlvij dies et dimidium, 
 capiente quolibet die ij'^ ad mensam domine, vij^ xj<*. 
 
 Et in Johamie Celehay conducto ad evacuandam et ad purgandam 
 latrinam pro conventu in grosso, ij^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Speed per iiij""^ dies laborante in Gardino et circa 
 facturam unius sepis circa partem clausi dominarum per v dies, x'l 
 
 Et in j vase vocato a Tubbe empto de domina Alicia Grannfeld, viij''. 
 
 Et in emendacione ij furcarum vocatarum Pyccheforkes, ij**. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 167 
 
 Et in quodam extraneo laborante in prato per j diem et dimidium, 
 iij'^ 
 
 Et in iiijo"" iiistrumentis vocatis Weedhokys emptis, iiij''. 
 
 Et in ligatura unins magni s;iphi vel disci vocati a Wasshyngboll, ij^'. 
 
 Et in ij paribus de les cardes emptis in foro, xix^^. 
 
 Et in j replegio prosecute versus Johannem Pygot de Abyngton 
 Myshell (sic) pro tenemento domine Priorisse, pro utilitate domine et 
 conventus, ij^ iiij'^. 
 
 Et in Thoma Key ad emendanda rastra et scalam carettinam per 
 iiij*"" dies, viij*^. 
 
 Et in Thoma Goodwyn laborante in coquina circa cibaria preparanda 
 in festo Assumpcionis Beate Marie infra tempus compoti, iij'^. 
 
 Et solutum Johanne (sic) Presot, Ricardo Philypps et Ricardo Baker 
 de Bernewell pro colleccione theolani (sic) in Nundinis Assumpcionis 
 Beate Marie predictis, vj'^. 
 
 Et in j le Scopet empto, ij''. 
 
 Et solutum pro excambio vasorum de stanno ad Nundinas de Steres- 
 bridge, xj**. 
 
 Et in quodam vase vocato a Cheerm empto apud Nundinas predictas 
 pro butiro inde faciendo, x'^. 
 
 Et in veste linea empta de Johanne Ball de Linea pro mappis inde 
 fiendis, iij^ ij''. 
 
 Et in X lb. smigmatis emptis apud Nundinas predictas, x^. 
 
 Et in pomis acerbis vocatis crabbes emptis pro salsagio vocato 
 vergewes cum vinis domine mixtulando inde fiendo, viij''. 
 
 Et in iij lb. piperis emptis apud Nundinas de Styresbridge, ij^. 
 
 Et solutum pro agistamento animalium in marisco de Wevelyngham 
 pasturatorum a festo Invencionis Sancte Crucis infra tempus compoti 
 usque festum Michaelis extunc proxime sequens, iij^ vj<J. 
 
 Et solutum Willelmo Judde de Sancto Ivone pro veste lanea ordinata 
 pro liberatura serviencium domine in colorem viridem et blodium fundenda 
 et facienda, ix^ ix'^. 
 
 Et in discis et utensilibus de stanno emptis de domina Johanna 
 Lancastre, iij^ vj<i. 
 
 Et in ij petris vocatis Saltstones emptis pro domo columbaria, vj'' ob. 
 
 Et solutum Henrico Denesson et servienti suo per iiij'*'^ dies et 
 dimidium facientibus j coopertorium pro plumbo infra Pandoxatorium 
 scituato ac pro aliis laboribus indigeutibus per mandatum domine 
 Priorisse, iij^. 
 
 Et in quadam cerrura (sic) cum clava (sic) ordinata pro portis vocatis 
 feyregates, xij''. 
 
 Et solutum ad pietanciam conventus die anniversarii Johannis Bronn 
 defuncti, nuper ballivi ibidem, causa patente in compoto secundi amii 
 precedentis, ij^ 
 
168 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 
 
 Et solutum domine Matilde Sudbury, sacriste ecclesie ibidem, ad orna- 
 menta summi altaris, causa patente in compoto anni predicti, ij^. 
 
 Et solutum Willelmo Horneby pro cariagio clx segh de le Grenecroft 
 usque Pandoxatorium, xv]""^. 
 
 Et in Ricardo Sexteyn, slawterrtian, mactante bestias ad coquinam et 
 illas ad commodum conventus preparandas, iiij^ ij^. 
 
 Et solutum Johanni Richemond pro factura cuiusdam le Stokk infra 
 tenementum in quo Johannes Blakney inhabitat, cum emendacione certi 
 herpici et les Speers tenementi predicti, recognicione domine Priorisse, 
 xijd. 
 
 Et solutum pro quarta parte quindecime per clerum et civitatem 
 regni Anglie domino Regi concesse, xv*^. 
 
 Et in farina avene empta et liberata Johanni Wyllyamsson, bercario, 
 yd. 
 
 Summa vj^* xvj^ j'^ ob. 
 
 Et in XXX fungaribus emptis apud Lynne per manus domine Johanne 
 Lancastre ad staurum hospicii huius domus, v^. 
 staur?"° '^ '^ Et in ij cades allecum rubrorum (x^ x^) et j cade de 
 
 Sparlyng (xiij'^ ob.) emptis ibidem per manus predicte 
 domine, xj^ xj'^ ob. 
 
 Et in j quart, j bus. salis emptis de Thoma Peye ad Nundinas Nativi- 
 tatis Sancti Johannis Baptiste, precio bus. \^, — iij= ix'^. 
 
 Et inj quart, j. bus. et dimidio farine avene hoc anno ad hospicium 
 emptis per diversas vices, bus. ad viij<^, — vj^ iiij'i. 
 
 Et in j bus. pisi viridis empto de Alicia Smalbon ad potagium inde 
 fiendum, vj<J. 
 
 Et in j quart, iij bus. pisi emptis ad seminandum et pro porcis 
 assandis, precio bus. iij"!, — ij^ ix"^. 
 
 Et in j quart, iiij bus. de les Tares emptis, iij^ v^^. 
 
 Et in Iviiij pulcinis emptis in foro diversis vicibus cum uno gallo 
 (xvj"!) et iiijo"^ gallinis, xj pullis emptis de Katerina RolfF, vj^ 
 
 Et in c clavis emptis ad staurum domus, xix'^. 
 
 Et in ij quart, vj bus. frumenti emptis in foro, precio quart, vj^, — 
 xvj^ vj*^. 
 
 Summa lix^ ix'^ ob. 
 
 Et in quadam caruca empta de Michaele Bowyer de Fulbourne, 
 x'' 
 
 Custus caru- 
 
 carum et caret- Et in cordula vocata Whipcord, j''. 
 
 Et in emendacione ij carettarum vocatarum Dung- 
 cartes, viij"^. 
 
 Et in les carstaves emptis de Rogero Hunte, ij'^ ob. 
 
 Et in uno correo equino dealbando, ix<^ 
 
 Et in j ulna vestis linee empta pro emendacione coler' equiuorum, iiij"!. 
 
 Et in filo empto ad idem opus, j'^. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 169 
 
 Et ill qiiodam de Haselyngfeld emeiidaute hemes ad carettas et 
 carucas pertinens per ij dies, vij'^. 
 
 Et solutum Alicie Rooper pro vij les Reynes et ij paribus tractuurn, xij'^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Thommesson fugante et tenente carucam per vij septi- 
 manas, capiente jjro qualibet septimana ix"^, — v^ iij'^. 
 
 Et in Ricardo Porter ad idem conducto per ij septimaiias, xiiij<J. 
 
 Et solutum Waltero, ferraiio, pro ferrura equorum, vomeribus et culturis 
 puiictandis et acuendis, ac pro les cartclowtes et aliis diversis ferramentis 
 toto anno, x^. 
 
 Summa xx^ xj^ ob. 
 
 Et in stipeudio Johannis Clerk et socii sui triturantium xxxiiij quart, 
 vij bus. frumenti ad tascam, cajpientium pro quolibet 
 .^^S"'' quart, iij^-viij^ viij^ Ob. 
 
 Et in stipeudio Thome Atkyn per xxxvij dies, Willelmi 
 Malster per xxv dies, et Johannis Caylly per xvj dies triturantium fru- 
 mentum, quolibet capiente per diem ij"^ ad mensam domine, xij^ ij'^. 
 
 Et in predicto Johanne Clei'k et socio suo triturantibus cccxj quart, vj 
 bus. ordei, capientibus pro quolibet quarterio ij'^, — Ij^ xj'' ob. 
 
 Et solutum Willelmo Malster et Katerine Roolff" pro granis portandis 
 ventulandis et purgandis, xviij** ob. 
 
 Et in Thoma Thressher conducto ad idem, opus per vij dies et 
 dimidium, xv''. 
 
 Et solutum Johanni Stephen pro factura Ixx quart, brasei et Johauni 
 Preset pro factura decem quart, brasei, capientibus pro quolibet quarterio 
 v^ ad tascum, xxxiij^ iiij'^. 
 
 Surnma cviij^ xj"^ ob. 
 
 Et in Thoma Jitkyn daubante muros tenementi in quo Johannes 
 Fann de Bernewell inhabitat, necnon emendante certos 
 
 Keparacioues 
 
 defectus muri infra istud monasterium, xvij'^ ob. 
 
 Et in Johanne Thommesson conducto ad idem opus super tenemento 
 predicto ac super tenemento in quo Henricus Forstalff inhabitat et super 
 stabulo in tenura Johannis Kason per xiij dies, ij^ ij'^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Watesson conducto ad simile opus pro muris tenementi 
 in le Precherche Strete per iij dies, vj<*. 
 
 Et in Henrico Denesson et Johanne Algore, carpentariis, conductis ad 
 gruncillandum et ad preparandum les Studdes et Sparres, necnon ad 
 erigendum in opere carpentrino le Gable ends tenementi in quo Johannes 
 Fanne inhabitat cum meremio domine per xij dies, uti'oque capiente per 
 diem vj'^ ad tascum, xij^. 
 
 Et in meremio empto de Galfrido Hall ad opus predictum, xvj'^. 
 
 Et solutum prefato Henrico et servienti suo pro emendacione de le 
 Poorche prope Aulani et pro erectione et cubacione de le Overvvey magni 
 orrei tempore autumpnali, necnon pro sarracione certorum les Legges 
 ordinatorum pro fenestris Aule per vj dies, inter se, ij^. 
 
170 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 
 
 Et solutum i^refato Henrico Denesson pro finali factura in opere car- 
 pentrino edificacionem (sic) duorum tenementorum sub uno tectu 
 iacentium in venella vocata Nunneslane secundum convencionem suam in 
 compoto anni proxime precedentis specificatam, vj^ viij*^. 
 
 Et in canabo empto jJro ligatura murorum tenementorum domine in 
 Bernewell locis indigentibus per vices, vij<^. 
 
 Et in Ivj bunch virgarum emptarum pro les Spyttes et Bynd- 
 wytthes pro emendacione tenementorum domine prout opus urgebat, 
 iiij^ viij^. 
 
 Et in xiij carettatis luti cariatis per Johannem Poket ad reparacionem 
 tenementorum domine, ij^ ij'^. 
 
 Et in duobus les Sclatyours conductis ad emendandos certos defectus 
 claustri per iij dies, utroque capiente per diem \^ ad tascum, ij^ vj'i. 
 
 Et in Johanne Egate conducto ad emendandum et punctandum cum 
 tegulis et Sclate portecum prope Aulam et claustrum necnon certos defectus 
 tenementorum domine in vico vocato Precherch Strete in quo (sic) Nicholas 
 Burnefyge inhabitat per xx** dies, ad iiij'^ per diem et mensam suam, 
 minus in toto j<i, simul cum Nicholao Burnefyge (ix'^) eidem Johanni 
 serviente per iij dies, vij^ iiij*!. 
 
 Et in ccclx de les Sclate emptis de Ricardo Pyghtesley ad opus pre- 
 dictum, iiij^. 
 
 Et in DCCLX clavis vocatis lathnayll (xv*^) cum iiij<^ solutis pro clavis 
 ordinatis pro tenementis in le Precherch Strete, xix"^. 
 
 Et in ij fowder calcis vive emptis de Thoma Jamys de Hynton pro 
 tenementis et domibus predictis, vj^ 
 
 Et in ij carectatis petrarum cum cariagio earundem emptis de prefato 
 Thoma pro gruncill tenementi apud Bernewell in quo Johannes Fann 
 inhabitat subponendo, xvj'^. 
 
 Et in gumphis et vertinellis emptis de Johanne Smyth de Bernewell 
 pro tenementis predictis, viij<^. 
 
 Et in CCCCLX de le Thak emptis de Johanne Bentley, precii xviij<^, et 
 ccc de Johanne Pacche, precii ij^ iij"^, — iij^ ix^. 
 
 Et in Willelmo Bronn et socio suo conductis ad emendandum murum 
 terrenum propter tenementum domine in Walleslane per j diem, lij^^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Egate emendantis unam gutter infra tene- 
 mentum in quo inhabitat per j diem, iiij^i. 
 
 Et in ij bordis querciuis emptis ad Nundinas Nativitatis Sancti 
 Johannis Baptiste infra tempus compoti pro coopertura muri cuiusdam 
 tenementi vasti nunc in tenura Johannis Reedgrav^e, vj<^. 
 
 Et in iij bordis emptis de Thoma Brewer de Bernewell pro necessariis 
 inde faciendis, vj'i. 
 
 Et in M arundinum emptarum de quodam homine de Welle pro re- 
 paracione domorum, vidlt. aule, domus ordinate in brasium fundendum, 
 orrei et camera desuper portas exteriores huius monasterii, xiiij^. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. l7l 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Cony de Welle predicta et servientis sui con- 
 ductorum ad cooperiendum cum parcella arundinum predictarum domum 
 tenement! in quo Thomas Brewer de Bernewell [inhabitat] locis defectivis 
 per V dies, capientibus inter se vj'' per diem, ij^ vj''. 
 
 Et in Johanne Lemman de Seynt Edmunds Bury conducto ad cooper- 
 iendum cum arundine predicta certos defectus aule et aliarum domorum 
 huius monasterii prout opus indigebat per Ix dies, capiente per diem iiij'^ 
 ad mensam domine, xx^. 
 
 Et in uno laborario eidem serviente per totidem dies ad ij<i per diem, x^. 
 
 Et in Roberto Kayle de Bottesham cooperiente cum stramine certos 
 defectus tenementi in quo Johannes Stanlowe inhabitat et defectus stabuli 
 in tenura Thome Careaway per iiij""" dies, xvj'^. 
 
 Et in uxore Nicholai Burnefyge per tot dies, x!j<*. 
 
 Et in meremio empto ad Nandinas de Stiresbridge pro emend acione 
 magni orrei, vidlt. vij cowple de les Sparres et iij aliis magnis peciis 
 quercinis, vij^ 
 
 Et in iiij""^ ceruris pendulis emptis, vj''. 
 
 Et in j cerura cum clave empta pro novo tenemento iacente in vico 
 vocato Nunneslane in quo Johannes Shepperd inhabitat, iij<i. 
 
 Et in bordis emptis de domina Matilda Sudbury pro ostiis et fenestris 
 novi tenementi in Nunneslane predicti, xij'i. 
 
 Et in Thoma Myleham cooperiente cum stramine et solo quemdam 
 murum terrenum inter tenementum Johannis Sex[teyn ?] et mansionem 
 ipsius Thome Myleham per con[vencionem l] in grosso, iij^ 
 
 Summa vj'' iij^ j'^ ob. 
 
 Et in bitumine empto cum le Pycche hoc anno pro bidentibus sig- 
 
 custus Faide ^'''^^^^ ^* ungendis, ij^ iiij'i. 
 
 Et in iijt"^^ duodenis clatrorum emptis hoc anno, 
 iiij^ viij'i. 
 
 Et in bidentibus hoc anno lavandis et tondendis, ij^ iij''. 
 
 Summa ix^ iij<i. 
 Et solutum domine Priorisse et toto {sic) conveutui pro vestura hoc 
 Vestura domi- anno, ut in annis precedentibus, Ixvj^ viij'^. 
 °^™°i Summa Ixvf viij<i. 
 
 Et solutum domine Johanne Lancastre in plenam solucionem debiti 
 sui, ut ex legacione Petri Erie nuper defuncti, vij^ iiijd. 
 Et solutum Thome James de Hynton pro calce ab eo 
 emj)ta annis preteritis in plenam solucionem, xx*^. 
 
 Et solutum Edmundo Wyghton in plenam solucionem debiti sui, 
 vjs viij"!. 
 
 Et solutum Willelmo Crook, capellano, pro antiquo debito in plenam 
 solucionem, ix^. 
 
 Et domine Agneti SwafFliam, Suppriorisse, in partem solucionis v^ sibi 
 debitorum, iij^ iiij''. 
 
172 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 
 
 Et solutum Johanni Pygott de Abyngton in plenam solucionem cuius- 
 dam redditus resoluti pro diversis annis a retro existentis, xxiiij^. 
 Et solutum Willelmo StanclyflF, fuller, pro veteribus debitis, ij^ ix"!. 
 Et solutum domine Johanna Laucastre in partem solucionis maioris 
 summe, vj^ viij*^. 
 
 Summa Iviij^ v*^. 
 Et solutum Willelmo Rogger et aliis in foro pro carnibus bovinis, 
 porcinis, ovinis, vitulinis, porcellinis, gallinis, pulcinis, ovis, 
 
 Providencia i, i.- j. • -i. -i ± ■ • i_- j- i 
 
 Hospicii Dutiro et pisciDus recencibus et marinis emptis per diem ad 
 
 hospicium infra tempus compoti, una cum pane et cervisia, 
 ultra quod furmeutatum et pandoxatum est infra hospicium, ut parcellatim 
 in quodam libro papiri super hunc compotum examinato aperte patet, 
 xjii xvj^ v"! ob. 
 
 Et in ij barellis cervisie vocate penyale emptis ad hospicium una vice 
 infra tempus compoti, xviij*^. 
 
 Summa xji^ xviij^ xj*^ ob. 
 Et datum iiij"'" preconibus maioris ville Cantebr. pro eorum oblacione 
 erga festum Nativitatis Domini, if iii<*. 
 
 Donodata ° . . • ,i i 
 
 Et datum aliis certis personis, vidlt. Thome Key (iiij'0> 
 Johanne Graungyer (v^) [ ] Brewer, Johanni Eversdon, (iiij'^), Agneti 
 
 Marche (ij"^), Roberto Page (j"^), Johanni Knyght (j'^), Johanni Slybre (j^), 
 Dionisie, yerdwomman, (j"^), Enime Tayllor, nuper malstar, Q^), Johanni 
 Wyllyamesson, bercario, Ricardo Sexteyn (x''), Avisie Basset (j'^), Ernme 
 Kyng, cum x'' datis certis pauperibus nuper in gwerris domini Regis 
 laborantibus, iij*' xj'^. 
 
 Et datum Thome Burgoyn ut in precio v caponum emptorum in foro, 
 xx'i ob. 
 
 Et in veste linea empta pro donis erga festum Nativitatis Domini, ij**. 
 
 Et datum custodi ecclesie Omnium Sanctorum ad fabricam unius 
 fenestre vitree, iiij'^. 
 
 Et datum Florencie Power et sorori sue (viij"^*), uni carucariorum (ij'^), 
 aliis certis personis (xvj*^) pro mandato domine et servienti Johannis 
 Presot (iiij<i), ij^ vj<i. 
 
 Et datum et distributum inter pauperes die Gene, ij^ j'^. 
 
 Summa xiiij* is^ ob. 
 
 Et in xij paribus cirothecarum emptis pro diversis conductis in 
 Autumpno, xviij'^^. 
 tunipni" "^ " ^^ "^ diversis laborariis conductis ad falcandas, unandas, 
 
 ligandas, in muUiones colligendas et erga carettas preparan- 
 das Ixv acras ordei, ad tascam, capientibus pro qualibet acra xij^, ultra 
 xxvj acras falcatas per conductos per diem, ut sequitur de nomiuibus 
 unacum diebus, Ixv^ 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis By de Ilaselyngfeld per ij dies (xij^^), Stephani 
 Shene de Welle per ix dies (iiij^ vj^') et Ricardi Whyte per j diem et dim. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 178 
 
 (ix'') conductis ad falcandum ordeum ad mensam domine, quolibet capiente 
 per diem vj'^, vj^ iij"^. 
 
 Et in Johanne Tayllor conducto ad colligendum ordeum in garbas post 
 falcacionem et super ligamina ponendum per ix dies, capiente per diem ij«^ 
 ob., et Thoma Key ad idem opus conducto, capiente per diem iij'^, ij^ x*' ob. 
 
 Et in certis laborariis conductis ad metendas, unandas, ligandas et erga 
 carettas preparandas xxxiiij acras, ij rodas frumenti, ad tascum, capientibus 
 pro qualibet acra xij'^, xxxiiij^ vij'^, ob. 
 
 Et in Ricardo Poket de Bernewell per iiijor dies, Johanne Trumpyngton 
 per iiij"'" dies, utroque capiente per diem xx"^, et Johanne Stevenson de 
 Bernewell per iiij°'" dies ad xix"^ per diem, cariantibus ordeum cum carettis 
 suis, xix^ vj*^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Eicardi Whyte conducto ad carettas onerandas per 
 
 Et in Ricardo Philypp (xiij^ iiij<J) et Thoma Key (vj^ viij'J) conductis 
 ad omnimoda opera autumpnalia facienda per totum tempus autumpni, xx^. 
 
 Et in Willelmo Malstar per decem dies et servient! Thome Lemman per 
 xvj dies conductis ad furcandas et levandas garbas ad carettas onerandas, 
 utroque capiente per diem iij'i, — vj^ vj^^. 
 
 Et in Thoma Atkyn falcante j acram et dim. de leBolymong ad tascum, 
 xijd. 
 
 Et in Roberto Walton falcante et erga carettas preparante j acram 
 j rodam et dim. pisi ad tascum, xj'^, 
 
 Summa viiji' xv]'*. 
 
 Et solutum ut in regardo dato Johanni Gyrtou pro bono consilio sue 
 domine impenso et in posterum impendendo in diversis 
 Forinsece materiis, et specialiter in quodam replegio prosecuto versus 
 
 Johannem Pygot de Abyngton, xx^. 
 
 Et in expensis apud Bernewell (ij"* ob.) super carpentarios operantes 
 infra tenementum in quo Johannes Fanne inhabitat, per dominam Johan- 
 nam Lancastre, unacum expensis Thome Key (xvij'^ ob.) apud Abyngton, 
 Litlyngton, Whaddon, Crawden, Bumpsted et Cantebrigiam in negotiis 
 domine, et pro redditu levando, ac pro empcione meremii ad Nundinas de 
 Stiresbridge, necnon pro feriagio unius barelli et dim. allec albi, ij cades 
 allec rubri, ij cades de le Sparlyng, j qrt. fungaris et unius pecii meremii 
 vocati a Maste ordinata pro quadam scala inde fienda (ij^ iiij*^), simul 
 cum feriagio domine Johanne Lancastre, domine Margarete Metham, 
 Thome Key et Elene Herward de Linea predicta usque Cantebr. cum 
 companagio earundem (ij^ viij"*), viij^ 
 
 Summa ix^ viij''. 
 
 Et in vco terricidis emptis de Johanne Fydde de Waterbech hoc anno, 
 x^ iiij'i. 
 
 lium™^^"^ ^°'^^' -^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^® ^^^ ^®§^ emptis ad domum brasei et 
 
 pistrinum, precio centene xviij<i, — viij^ iij*^. 
 
174 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 
 
 Et in c les Segh emptis ad opus predictnm, ij^ 
 
 Et in cc fagottis emptis de Willelmo Kaunowe de Dullyngham, xvj^ 
 
 Summa xxxvj^ vij'^. 
 Et in salario fratris Symonis Hemyngton, confessoris dominarum, hoc 
 anno, ut frater Kobertus Palmer defunctus percipere con- 
 
 StipendiaFa- o,ipvit vi^ viii'l 
 muloruni suevn;, vj vnj . 
 
 Et in salario magistri Johannis Herryson celebrantis 
 
 missam pro dominabus per totum annum, c^. 
 
 Et solutum Johanni Peresson, capellano celebranti in ecclesia Sancti 
 Andree, apostoli, per vices, ij^ iiij*^. 
 
 Et in stipendio clerici ecclesie ibidem per annum, xiij= iiij<*. 
 
 Et in stipendio Thome Key colligentis redditus in Cantebr. et patria, 
 hoc anno ut in annis precedentibus, xiij* iiij"*. 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Cademan, pistoris et pandoxatoris, hoc anno, 
 xxvj^ viij*!. 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Eversdon conducti ad carucandum hoc anno, 
 xxvj^ viij'^ 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Wyllyammesson, bercarii ibidem, hoc anno, 
 xxvj^ viij*^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Roberti Page, carucarii, per tempus predictum, xvj^ 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Slybre, carucarii, per idem tempus, xiij^ iiij*^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Johannis Knyght, alius carucarii, per supradictum 
 tempus, x^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Roberti Pykkell, bubulci, hoc anno, cum vj'^ sibi cou- 
 cessis in regardo, vif ij''. 
 
 Et in stipendio Emme Tayllor conducte ad vertendum, operandum et 
 siccandum brasium hoc anno, vf viij<J. 
 
 Et in stipendio Johanne Graunger, pincernarie domine, cum iij^ sibi 
 datis in regardo pro officio Purvis domine, et cum vj= viij"^ pro toga 
 sua, xx^. 
 
 Et in stipendio Agnetis Marche conducte ad omnimoda opera, lactagii 
 vaccarum, facture casei et butiri et alia opera opportuna et necessaria 
 facienda hoc anno, viij^ 
 
 Et in stipendio Elizabeth Chaterys, alius ancille domine, ut in vestitura 
 sua linea ac lanea ac calciamentis, infra tempus compoti, ij^ viij"^ ob. 
 
 Et in stipendio Dionisie, yerdewomman, per vices occupantis officia 
 coci et alia opera indigentia hoc anno, vj^ viij'l 
 
 Summa xv^' vj^ ij'^ ob. 
 
 Summa omnium allocacionum et solucionum, Ixxij" vj^ iiij^ q. Et 
 debet cviij^ vij*^ q. ad quos oneratur de xx^ receptis de executoribus 
 Ricardi Busshe, nuper defuncti, pro redditu per ipsum retracto pro diversis 
 annis, antea non oneratis. Summa debiti coniuncta, vj^^ viij^ vij*^ q. 
 Et oneratur plus de vj*^, precio ij caponum venditor um, ut extra. Et sic 
 modo debet vj" ix= j^ q. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1450 — 1451. 175 
 
 Unde super 
 
 Ricardum Wheetley de Bernewell propter redditum per ipsum debitum 
 pro anno proxime precedente, v^. 
 
 Willelmvim Rogger de Cant, pro j tenemento in stallagio, tam pro hoc 
 anno quam pro iij*""^ annis proxime precedentibus, per annum xij'\ ultra 
 xij<^ inde annuatim receptos, iiij^. 
 
 Eundem Willelmum pro j gardino in vico vocato le Precherch Strata 
 pro consimilibus annis, per annum ij^, — viij^ 
 
 Johannem' Barbor pro redditu exeunte de tenemento vocato le facoun 
 in le Petykauri pro tot annis xiiij^ vij'', — Iviij^ iiij*^. 
 
 Dominam Margaretam Huntyngdon pro j tenemento vocato le Sword, 
 tam jjro hoc anno quam pro ij''"^ annis proxime precedentibus, per annum 
 vj^, ultra xx'J inde levatos uno anno tantum, xvj^ iiij'^. 
 
 Magistrum Johannem Honythorne pro uno gardino iuxta Bartonescroft, 
 tam pro hoc anno quam pro tribus annis proxime precedentibus, per 
 annum ij^, — viij^ 
 
 Magistrum Domus Sancti Johannis Evangeliste pro j tenemento in 
 parochia Sancti Edwardi pro consimilibus annis, per annum iiij^ vi'^, — 
 xviij^. 
 
 Ricardum Bushee pro j tenemento ex opposite ecclesie Beate Marie 
 pro totidem annis, per annum xij^, — iiij^ 
 
 Ricardum Wryght pro j tenemento nuper Johannis Essex, sadeler, pro 
 tot annis, per annum xij<^, — iiij^ 
 
 Predictum Magistrum Domus Sancti Johannis Evangeliste pro j tene- 
 mento iuxta cimiterium ecclesie parochialis Sancti Sepulcri in veteri 
 Judaismo pro consimilibus annis, per annum xx'^, — %'j^ viij<i. 
 
 Johannem Belton pro j tenemento iacente iuxta tenementum domine 
 Priorisse pro tot annis, per annum vj^ viij**, — xxvj^ viij'i, 
 
 Magistrum Ricardum Pyghtesley pro j tenemento nuper Willelmi 
 Bm-tones pro tot annis, per annum ij^, — viij^ 
 
 Magistrum et Scolares Collegii Sancti Benedicti, Cantebr., pro j 
 tenemento quondam Gybelottes, pro tot annis, per annum ij^ i^^, — 
 viij^ viij'^. 
 
 Thomam LoUeworth pro j tenemento in quo inhabitat pro tot annis, 
 per annum ij^, — viij^ 
 
 Johannem Neell pro uno orto cum j orreo nuper Hugonis Canesby pro 
 tot annis, per annum xij'^, — iiij^ 
 
 Johannem Leccham pro j tenemento in le Precherch Strete pro ultima 
 medietate anni secundi preteriti, xx"^. 
 
 Robertum Mildenhale de Cantebr., ut de precio ij caponum tam pro 
 hoc anno quam pro duobus annis proxime precedentibus, per annum 
 vjd,_xviij<i. 
 
 Johannem Croft pro uno parlar prope Pilateslane tam pi'o hoc anno 
 quam pro ij''"'^ annis proxime precedentibus, per annum vj**, — xviij'*. 
 
176 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1481 — 1482. 
 
 Radulphum Attefeld pro \ino tenemento in parochia Beate Marie, ultra 
 ij^ inde levatos, per annum iiij^, et detentos pro consimilibus annis, xij^ 
 
 Et sic ista eadem computans habet in superplusagiis hoc anno 
 Ixxv^ i}^ ob. q. 
 
 Edward IV, 21—22, i.e. 1481—1482. 
 
 Compotus Domine Johanne Key, Receptoris Generalis 
 cantebr Moni- J^^mus Saiicte Radcgundis, Cant., et eiusdem loci 
 '^^^ Conventus, a festo PeDtecostes Anno Regis E. iiij*^' 
 
 xxj™" usque in festura Annuneiacionis Beate Marie Virginis 
 extunc proxime sequentem (sic) Anno predicto Regis supra- 
 dicti, ut per iij quarterios Anni 
 
 Arreragia nulla quia primus annus dicte computantis. 
 Set respondet de Ix^ iij*^ percept, de redditibus assise diversorum 
 tenencium domine infra villam Cant, per tempus com- 
 
 Kedditus Assise 
 
 poti. 
 
 vj'i xiiij^ j"^ de consimilibus redditibus assise diversonim tenencium 
 hoc anno in patria, viz. pro termino Nativitatis Sancti Johannis Baptiste 
 solut. ad terminos manerii usuales equaliter. 
 
 iiiji' recept. de Priore de Bernewell pro decimis Sancti Egidii, Cant. 
 
 xv^ recept. de aliis diversis personis per tempus compoti. 
 
 Ixvij^ ob. percept, de consimilibus redditibus et firmis diversorum CoU- 
 egiorum ac aliorum tenencium infra villam Cant., viz. pro termino Sancti 
 Michaelis Archangeli per dictum tempus compoti. 
 
 iiij*' xj^ de redditibus assise infra villam Cant, predicte pro termino 
 Sancti Michaelis predicti. 
 
 Et de c^ iij<^ de redditibus assise diversorum tenencium, tam in patria 
 quam alibi, solut. ad iiij""" anni terminos manerii usuales annuatim. 
 
 Summa xxvij^' viij^ ob. 
 
 Et respondet de xx^ recept. de Ricardo Woodcok pro communibus ij 
 filiarum dicti Ricardi ut per [blank] septimanas iuxta per 
 forSe"°"''' septimanam [blank]. 
 
 Et de vj^ vj'i recept. pro communibus Johanne Tyler 
 per tempus compoti. 
 
 xx^ in quodam regardo domine Priorisse et monialium ibidem per 
 Rectorem de Over ex sua elimosina dato. 
 
 x^ in consimili regardo per W. Roger dato. 
 
 vj^ vj<i in quodam regardo per Johannem Smyth de Bury Sancti 
 Edmundi dato. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1481 — 1482. 177 
 
 Et de s^ de consimili dono Magistri Willelmi Dak per tempus compoti. 
 
 Summa Ixxiij^ iy\ 
 Et ista idem (sk) computans respondet de xiiij^ recept. de Thoma Ball 
 ,. . p . de Cant., ut in precio carectatefeni sic per prefatam compu- 
 tantem per tempus compoti, ut extra, venditi. 
 
 Summa xiiijl 
 Summa totalis recepte xxxjii xv^ viij"^ ob. 
 E quibus iste idem (sic) computans allocatur de xv^ et ij caponibus in 
 redditu resoluto Mortymeres. 
 reSmm""*^^ ^i"j' "ij*^ "^- ^^ consimili redditu resoluto Maiori et 
 
 ballivis ville Cant, pro le heygable. 
 vij^ in redditu resoluto annuatim Priori de Bernewell. 
 vf in consimili redditu resoluto Thome Lovell. 
 iijs vijs ob. pro redditu resoluto Thome Cotton, 
 iij^ iiij'' solut. Priori Eliensi. 
 xij'^^ vice-comiti Cant, 
 xij'i solut. Johanni Skarlett. 
 
 iiij'i in consimili redditu resoluto Rectori Sancti Benedicti. 
 xvj<^ solut. Collegio Corporis Xti, Cant, 
 iij'i solut. Waltero Trumpyton. 
 et de xij<i in redditu resoluto Thome Pygott. 
 
 Summa liiij^ iij'\ 
 Et petit allocari ut pro diversis acatis recentibus, una cum staviro vivo 
 et mortuo, et ultra pisces salsos et duros ibidem per tempus 
 
 Custus Hospicii . , , . . 
 
 compoti ad diversa precia empt. et m hospicio domine 
 expend., ut per [bla7ik] septimanas, quarum (sic) parcelle et summe eorun- 
 deni in Jurnali hospicii predict! plenarie expressantur et sufficienter 
 testantur (sic). 
 
 Summa vij^' xiiij^ vj'i ob. 
 Et solut. inde vj^ viij'^ solut. (sic) Thome Brampton, armigero, ut in 
 precio ij. quart, brasii de eo empt. 
 
 stiwrP"° "'''^'*' ''^ ^y^ "y"^' ^^^ ^^ precio unius quart, brasii empt. de 
 
 Magistro Roberto Parys, armigero. 
 if Vicario de Abyngton ut de precio iiij bus. brasii de eo empt., una 
 cum aliis de diversis personis ad hospicium domine empt., quarum parcelle, 
 summe et nomina eorundem in Jurnali hospicii in parcellis expressantur 
 et plenarie testantur, iiij^^ vj'^^ 
 
 et in iij vaccis cum eorum (sic) vitulis, una cum tractibus, cordis, crat- 
 ibus, faldis et aliis necessariis ad husbondriam empt., ut in sepedicto 
 Jurnali plene legitur, Ixxiiij'^ viij^l 
 
 Summa vij^' xv^ ij*^. 
 Et computat in Thoma Payn, Willelmo Tomson, Michaele Savage et aliis 
 laboratoribus ibidem hoc anno per tempus compoti tempore 
 
 Custus Autumpni j j.- j /. i j i- n . i 
 
 autumpnali conductis ad talcandum, ligandum, metendum, 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 12 
 
178 ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1481 — 1482. 
 
 cariandum et tassandum, tarn infra moniale quam extra, prout in Jurnali 
 huius hospicii particulariter in parcellis expressantur et nominatim nomi- 
 nantur. 
 
 Summa cix^ ij*^. 
 
 Et computat allocari, viz. in ij warp, de lyngffyssh, ij warpes piscium 
 
 salsorum, ij bus. salis, ccxl clavis ferreis, papiro ac perga- 
 
 Expense Neces- jjieno, una cum aliis necessariis ibidem per tempus compoti, 
 
 ad nundinas de Sterebrege, et ad nundinas Sancte Ethel- 
 
 drede virginis ad hospicium domine empt. prout in sepedicto Jurnali 
 
 hospicii in parcellis de recordo patet. 
 
 Summa xlvj^ j"^. 
 Et computat solvisse xviij'^' ut in precio unius caruce empt. de Willelmo 
 Dey. 
 
 Custus caruca- "^ . . 
 
 rum et carecta- viij^ solut. pro ferramento equorum domme, una cum 
 
 """^ amendacione tocius apparatus ad husbondriam pertinentis 
 
 et aliis necessariis j)er dictum tempus compoti ad husbondriam empt., 
 prout in antedicto Jurnali hospicii predicti parcellatim expressantur et 
 sufi&cienter testantur. 
 
 Summa xvj^ x*^. 
 Et computat de xxxj^ iiij*! solut. pro diversis reparacionibus ibidem 
 per tempus compoti infra Ecclesiam factis et appo- 
 
 Reparaciones eitis 
 domorum 
 
 xxix^ viij'* in consimilibus reparacionibus apud Berne- 
 well factis et appositis. 
 
 et cum v^ xj'J in diversis reparacionibus per tempus compoti predicti 
 intra villam Cant, factis, prout in sepedicto Jurnali hospicii predicti in 
 parcellis plenarie expressantur. 
 
 Summa Ixvj^ xj^. 
 Et computat de v^ in parte stipendii magistri Upgayte, capellani ; xx"^ 
 de parte stipendii domini Thome Kent, capellani ; xx^ pro 
 mui^orum''' ^^" consimili stipendio magistri Malett, capellani ; viij^ iiij"^ pro 
 stipendio magistri Roberti Burton, capellani ; xx^ pro con- 
 simili stipendio magistri Pek ; ix= pro stipendio clerici et coUectoris deci- 
 marum garbarum tempore autumpnali ; iij^ ij'i pro parte stipendii Thome 
 Baker; xv^ vj^ de consimili stipendio Georgii Geyr per tempus compoti; 
 x^ pro stipendio pastoris ; iij^ j^ pro stipendio Willi Plowman, conducti 
 ad husbondriam ; v^ ij*^ pro stipendio pyncerne per tria quarteria ; ij^ iij*^ 
 in stipendium coci; xx^ pro stipendio Vicarii Omnium Sanctorum; viij'* 
 pro parte stipendii Johaunis Wright; et cum x'^ pro parte stipendii 
 Willelmi Tomson ; una cum aliis stipendiis et regardis per dominam datis, 
 prout in Jurnali hospicii domus predicte plenarie expressantur et sufficienter 
 testantur. 
 
 Summa vij^^ xv^ xj**. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF THE NUNNERY, 1481 — 1482. 179 
 
 Et computat allocari de Ix^ solut. Willelmo Pychard ut in precio 
 xi quart, ordei per tern pus compoti erupt. 
 
 Empcio ordei et •' ^ ..,.,, .. , -^^^ , 
 
 aiiorum grano- xv^ de consimiliDus deiiariis solut. Waltero Sergeaunt 
 
 '"" ut in precio quinque quart, avenarum de eodem per dictum 
 
 tempus compoti empt. 
 
 vj^ x"^ solut. Willelmo Barnard ut in precio ij quart, pisi. 
 
 xj*^ ut in precio ij bus. vesse empt. 
 
 Summa iiij'' ij^ ix"*. 
 
 Svmima omnium expensarum et liberatorum Ivij'* v'^ iiij'^ ob. Et sic 
 ista eadem computans habet in superplusagiis xxv^^ ix^ viij'i. 
 
 12—2 
 
GLOSSARY TO THE NUNNEEY ACCOUNTS. 
 
 [Cath. Angl. = Catliolicon Anglicum, ed. Heritage : P. P. = Promptorium 
 Parvulorim, ed. Way : both in Camden Society's Publications. N.E. D. =New 
 English Dictionary.] 
 
 Acatum, a thing purchased (L. L. ad- 
 
 captatum, Fr. acheter), especially 
 
 provisions 
 Agistamentum, agistment, the sum 
 
 paid for grazing cattle in other 
 
 men's fields 
 Allec (alleces), herrings : allec ruheum, 
 
 red herrings 
 Allocatio, a change in an account 
 Anniversarium, the anniversary of a 
 
 deceased benefactor 
 Argilla, clay 
 Arreragia, arrears 
 Assare, to roast 
 Assise, Kedditus, rent of land let for a 
 
 fixed sum of money 
 Autumpnus, harvest 
 Avena (avenae), oats 
 Axare, to fit the axle of a cart to the 
 
 wheel 
 
 Barellum, a barrel 
 
 Bercarius, a shepherd 
 
 Bladum, corn, L. L. ab-latuvi, Fr. ble 
 
 Blodius, blue (Cath. Angl.) 
 
 Bolymong, Harrison's Description of 
 England, Bk. i. ch. 18, ' mixed corn, 
 tares and otes, which they call 
 bulmong ' 
 
 Brasium, malt 
 
 Breve, a writ 
 
 Bultell, a sieve, sieve-cloth 
 
 Bunches, bundles (of rods) 
 
 Busellus, a bushel 
 
 Butumen, either (1) clay used in mak- 
 ing mud walls : ' Dawber or cley- 
 mann, argillarius, bituminarius ' 
 (P. P.) : cp. teryng : or (2) tar, used 
 with pycche for marking sheep 
 
 Byndwytthes, osiers serving to 'bind ' 
 the plaster in a stud- wall 
 
 Cade, a barrel of herrings holding six 
 great hundreds of six score each. 
 (N. E. D.) 
 
 Calces equine, horse- shoes 
 
 Calibs, steel 
 
 Caligae, hose (P. P.) 
 
 Calx viva or adhusta, quicklime 
 
 Canabea vestis, canvas 
 
 Candel, wax &c., used for making into 
 caudles (candelae) 
 
 Canobum, hemp used to bind clay walls 
 
 Capistrum, a halter or headstall 
 
 Gardes, teasels used in combing wool 
 
 Carecta, caretta, a cart 
 
 Carectata, a cart-load 
 
 Cariagium, carriage by land, opposed 
 to feriagimn, carriage by water 
 
 Cariare, to carrry corn 
 
 Carstaves, i.e. cart-staves (for the spell- 
 ing cp. carsaddle in Jamieson), cart- 
 shafts (N. E. D.) : Prof. Skeat in the 
 Glossary to his edition of the Tale 
 of Gamelyn says ' Perhaps a staff to 
 support the shafts of a cart, ' 
 
GLOSSARY. 
 
 181 
 
 Cartclowtes, clouts of iron for cart- 
 wheels : ' A clowte of yrne, crusta, 
 crustaferrea' {Cath. Angl.) 
 
 Caruca, a plough 
 
 Cene Domine, Dies, Maundy Thursday 
 
 Cerura, i.q. serrura, a lock 
 
 Cheerm, a churn 
 
 Cilicinus pannus, hair cloth for the 
 malt-kiln 
 
 Ciphus, i.q. scyplius, a cup or bowl 
 
 Cirothecae, reapers' gloves 
 
 Cirpi, i.q. scirpi, rushes 
 
 Cissorium, i.q. scissoritim, a trencher 
 
 (P; P-) 
 
 Clati, Clatri, i.e. clatliri, hurdles used 
 for sheep pens 
 
 Clavi, nails 
 
 Coleres equini, horse collars 
 
 Communae, commons, allowance of 
 food 
 
 Companagium, any kind of food save 
 bread : in the Accounts 1450-1 it 
 appears to mean food taken by a 
 company travelling together 
 
 Coopertorium, covering 
 
 Corrium, a hide 
 
 Crabbes, crab apples used in making 
 verjuice 
 
 Ciibare, Cubacio, to lay, laying : used 
 of (1) the laying of the Overway of 
 the Great Barn, (2) the laying of 
 stockfish in layers upon canvas, 
 (3) the 'laying' of sharp or pointed 
 instruments, i.e. the repairing of 
 them by placing fresh iron or steel 
 on them. 'Pro le layng securium' 
 &c. Finchale Glossary 
 
 Cultura, the coulter of a plough 
 
 Daubare, to daub, i.e. make walls of 
 
 clay: vide 'Dawber' in P. P. 
 Dealbare, to whiten hides by drying 
 
 and bleaching : leather so treated was 
 
 called Whyteledr 
 Denarii, silver money 
 Devolare, ' to flit,' used of a fraudulent 
 
 tenant 
 Dietam, per, from day to day 
 Dimittere, to let on lease 
 Domina, dame, the title given to a 
 
 Nun and especially to the Prioress 
 Dominicalis, Terra, demesne land 
 
 Encaustum, ink 
 
 Excambium, exchange 
 
 Extra, ut, refers to the accounts of 
 the Grange which were written on 
 the reverse side of the Compotus roll 
 
 Facoun, le, the Falcon Inn in Petty 
 
 Cury 
 Fagottum, a faggot 
 Falda, a sheepfold 
 Feriagium, carriage by water 
 Ferrarius, a blacksmith 
 Ferrura, smith's work 
 Feyregates, the gates admitting from 
 
 Nunneslane to the fair held in the 
 
 Churchyard 
 Firma, rent derived from land 
 Firmarius, a farmer 
 Flebotomacio, the blooding of horses, 
 
 an annual ceremony on S. Stephen's 
 
 day (Dec. 26) i 
 
 ^ Compare Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ed. Mavor, 
 1812), p. 62: 
 
 Ere Christmas be passed let horse be let blood: 
 For many a purpose it doth them much good. 
 The day of St Stephen old fathers did use : 
 If that do mislike thee some other day use. 
 For a fuller account of this ceremony see Barnabe Googe's translation of 
 Kirchmaier's Popular and Popish Superstitions and Customs (1553) in the New 
 Shaksp. Soc. Publications. 
 
182 
 
 GLOSSARY. 
 
 FletyngboUe, a skimming bowl 
 Focalia, fuel (sedge, peat or faggots) 
 Pons, the Nunnery well 
 Fowder, a measure of lime, &c. 
 Fugare, to drive cattle or horses 
 Fundere, to steep (1) in dyeing, (2) in 
 
 malting 
 Fungare, explained in Ducange as 
 doliohim, caclus. In the Nuns' Ac- 
 counts it means ' stockfish,' other- 
 wise ' hard fish ' or ' Wynterfyssh.' 
 It was either cod or ling. It was 
 kept in the Staurus in layers laid on 
 canvas, and on account of its tough- 
 ness required to be beaten before it 
 was used (' verberante fungaria ' in 
 Accounts of 1450-1) : it is said to 
 have derived its name from the stock 
 on which it was beaten. Comp. 
 Cath. Angl. ' Stokfyche ; fimgia,' 
 and Mr Herrtage's note thereon. 
 
 Garba decimalis, a tithe sheaf 
 
 Gardinum, a garden 
 
 Gersuma, a sum paid by a tenant on 
 the entry of a lease : A. S. gaersum, 
 treasure 
 
 Granatorium, the Garner, where corn 
 was kept after thrashing 
 
 Grangia, a barn 
 
 Gruncill, ' in carpentry, the beam laid 
 along the ground for the rest of the 
 v7ork to stand on.' Architectural 
 History, Vol. iii., glossary. 
 
 Gumphus, i.e. yo/ji(p6s : the iron hook 
 on which a hinge turns. ' A cruke 
 of a dore, gum-plius.'' Cath. Angl. 
 
 Guttera, a gutter 
 
 Gwerra, war 
 
 Hagable, heygable, an annual payment 
 (originally to the sheriff, later to the 
 mayor and bailiffs) for each messuage 
 occupied within the borough limits 
 
 Hames, qy ? for hamis, hooks 
 
 Hemes, harness 
 
 Herpicum, a harrow 
 
 Hersyve, a hair sieve 
 
 Horsetree, Prof. Skeat informs me that 
 in the Eastern Counties this is the 
 name of the swingle-tree, i.e. a bar 
 behind a horse to which a field im- 
 plement is attached by chains 
 
 Hospicium, (1) an inn : ' hospicio 
 vocato le BooU,' the Bull Inn: (2) 
 the chambers in the Nunnery used 
 by guests and other lay persons 
 
 Hostium, i.q. ostium, a door 
 
 leruea, a goad. ' Gad, or gode, genisa, 
 
 scutica ' (P. P.) 
 Indigentes labores, necessary work 
 Infra, generally = intra 
 
 Kymlyn, a shallow tub, or vat, used in 
 brewing 
 
 Laborarius, a labourer 
 
 Lache, a latch 
 
 Lagena, a gallon 
 
 Lathnayll, nails used for fastening 
 laths to studs 
 
 Lavacrum, a basin 
 
 Legges, window ledges (or perhaps 
 bars), made of wood 
 
 Levare, to ' lift ' rent, corn, &c. 
 
 Liberare, to give to a servant any- 
 thing of the nature of food or clothing 
 
 Liberatura, clothing delivered to ser- 
 vants at stated periods, livery 
 
 Ligatura, fastening clasps on a book 
 
 Loppare, to lop trees 
 
 Lote, a wooden skimmer 
 
 Marisca, a marsh, fen 
 
 Mast, fir poles brought from Norway 
 were generally called ' masts ' : the 
 place where they were kept was some- 
 times called the ' mast house ' (Dur- 
 ham Wills &c. Surtees Soc. Publ.) : 
 a mast purchased at Lynn to make 
 a ladder 
 
 Maundy sylver, the name of one of the 
 Nuns' estates at Madingiey, the rent 
 of which furnished the dole to the 
 
GLOSSARY. 
 
 183 
 
 poor on Maundy Thursday. The 
 sum so provided, 30'^, represented 
 the thirty pieces of silver. For the 
 monastic ceremony on the occasion 
 see the Eites of Durham (Surtees 
 Society), pp. 66, 67 
 
 Melesyve, a meal sieve 
 
 Mensam, ad, including ' table,' or pro- 
 visions found by the employer 
 
 Meremium, Maeremium, timber used 
 in building 
 
 MuUiones, mows of barley 
 
 Napry, includes tablecloths, napkins 
 
 {mappae), towels (manutergia), &c. 
 Nundinae, a fair 
 
 Oblacio, Christmas gift to the waits 
 Obstupare, to stop, retain; used of 
 
 money in hand and not brought 
 
 to account 
 Onerare, to charge as a receipt 
 Overwey, a loft in the barn 
 Oxbowes, yokes for oxen : ' Oxbowe 
 
 that gothe about his necke, collier 
 
 de beuf (Palsgrave) 
 
 Pincerna, Pincernaria, a female ser- 
 vant who controlled the Spense or 
 Buttery 
 
 Pinnfald, a sheep-fold or pen 
 
 Pipa, a leaden pipe 
 
 Pipe, a cask or tub 
 
 Pisces duri, stockfish, opposed to salted 
 fish 
 
 Pistrinum, the Bake House 
 
 Plumbum, a copper (anciently called 
 a ' lead ') used in the Brew House 
 
 Potagium, soup 
 
 Pre manibus, a sum in ready money, 
 opposed to a reserved rent; see 
 gerswna 
 
 Pi'econes, the town waits 
 
 Profucua, profits 
 
 Pulciuus, a chicken 
 
 Punctare, to point with tiles or slate, 
 i.e. to fill up holes in masonry 
 
 Punctura vomeris, the point of the 
 share 
 
 Purvis, a servant who acted as pur- 
 veyor, provisor 
 
 Quindecima, a subsidy of one fifteenth 
 
 Pandoxator, a brewer 
 
 Pandoxatorium, the Brew House 
 
 Parlare, i. q. Parlura, a parlour 
 
 Patria, the neighbourhood of Cam- 
 bridge 
 
 Pellis lanuta, a fell, sheepskin with 
 the wool on it 
 
 Penyale, cheap ale sold at a penny 
 a gallon. See Prof. Skeat on Piers 
 Ploioniaii, passus 5, 1. 220 
 
 Perhendinantes, visitors to the Nun- 
 nery who paid for their board 
 
 Petrae, brought from Hinton, evi- 
 dently clunch stone 
 
 Pietancia, a pittance, an augmentation 
 of commons provided by bene- 
 factions 
 
 Pikewall, a gable : ' Pikewall or gabyl, 
 murus conalis, piraviis vel pirami- 
 dalis ' (P. P.) 
 
 Eaap, rape, from which oil is ex- 
 tracted 
 
 Eedditus, a rent : redditus resolutus, 
 a quit rent 
 
 Reder, one who deals in reeds (used 
 for walls and roofs) 
 
 Eegardum, a reward, gift 
 
 Eentale, a rent book 
 
 Eeplegium, a writ of replevin 
 
 Salsagium, pickle (verjuice) 
 
 Saltstones, food for pigeons : see the 
 Arch. Hist. Vol. iii. p. 593 
 
 Sanctorum, i.e. Legenda Sanctorum 
 
 Sarculare, to weed 
 
 Sarrare, to saw wood 
 
 Sclat, slate, distinguished from tegulae, 
 tiles. In the Accounts of 1450-1 
 360 sclates are recorded to have 
 been bought from Eie. Pyghtesley, 
 
184 
 
 GLOSSARY. 
 
 tlie possessor of Tyled Hostel, which 
 was bought by Henry VI. and trans- 
 ferred to King's Hall in 1449. The 
 Hostel was roofed with tiles (see the 
 quotation from Dr Caius in Arch. 
 Hist. II. p. 426) 
 
 Scopae, a besom 
 
 Scopet, a scoojD or shovel 
 
 Scutella, Skotell, a hollow basket, 
 A. S. scutel ; scutella is a diminu- 
 tive of Lat. scutra 
 
 Sedlep, a basket carried on the arm 
 in sowing : the word is still in use 
 in Essex 
 
 Segh, sedge. Straw, sedge and reed 
 were the usual materials for thatch- 
 ing: see Harrison's Descr. of England, 
 Bk. II. ch. 12 
 
 Sheaf, a certain quantity of steel : 
 ' thirtie gads to the sheffe and twelve 
 sheffes to the burden.' Harrison's 
 Descr. of England, Bk. iii. ch. 11 
 
 Sherman, a clothier 
 
 Shidare, to cut wood into billets : cp. 
 Talshide in Arch. Hist., glossary 
 
 Sinis, i.q. cinis, ash-lye used in 
 washing 
 
 Siphus, i.q. Giphus (scyphus), a cup 
 
 Slats, slates on which barley was dried 
 in the kiln 
 
 Smigma, soap 
 
 Sortendo, i.e. sortiendo, ' sorting ' lands, 
 defining the intermixed lands of 
 different owners 
 
 Sotulares, shoes 
 
 Sowder, solder 
 
 Sparling, smelts ; Fr. esperlan : but 
 the word is Teutonic, — spare ling 
 
 Sparres, Speers, timber used for rafters : 
 ' sparre of a roofe, tignum ' (P. P.) 
 
 Spensepott, an earthen vessel used 
 in the Spense or Buttery 
 
 Spissitudo Panni, thickening of cloth 
 in the process of fulling 
 
 Spleutes, small pieces of wood laid 
 horizontally in a stud wall 
 
 Spumatum, Spumaticum, yeast 
 
 Spykyng, a kind of bolt, called ' spyk- 
 
 ynge nayll ' in P. P. 
 Spyttes, rods used in a stud wall. 
 Stallagium, the market place occupied 
 
 by stalls 
 Stannum, pewter 
 Staple, a loop of iron in a wall for 
 
 fastening chains 
 Staurus, (1) articles kept in stock, 
 
 (2) the Storehouse 
 Stokk, the hearth stock, a large log on 
 
 which the fire was piled 
 Streynor, a strainer 
 Studdes, the upright posts in a wall 
 
 of plaster and timber 
 Swep, i.q. Sioipe, a crane for drawing 
 
 water out of a well 
 
 Tascus, Tasca, a definite amount of 
 work set for a labourer to do (Lat. 
 taxare) : ad tascum, piecework 
 
 Tellura, apparently means the marling 
 of soil 
 
 Terricidium, a peat turf 
 
 Teryng, either tarring a wall, cover- 
 ing it with hutumen (q. v.), P. P., 
 ' terryng ' : or covering it with earth, 
 P. P., 'teryng, or hylle wythe erthe.' 
 
 Thak, thatch 
 
 Theolanum, Tolnetum, tolls of the fair 
 
 Tractus, traces 
 
 Tricentalis dies, the last day of a 
 trental, or month's mind, period of 
 commemorating the dead. 
 
 Trituracio, thrashing of corn 
 
 Turba, a turf, which was delivered as 
 a rent in kind to the lord of the 
 manor at Abington. Accounts 1604 
 -5, " To Bonde for carrying a torv 
 to Abington " &c. 
 
 Ustrina, the malt-kiln 
 
 Vaccaria, the Cow House 
 Ventilabrum, a winnowing fan 
 Veutilacio, winnowing 
 Vergewes, verjuice 
 
GLOSSARY. 
 
 185 
 
 Vertinelli, hinges 
 
 Vessa, vetch, vicia 
 
 Virgae, wattles used in stud walls 
 
 Voluntas Ultima, last will, testament 
 
 Weedhokys, weeding hooks 
 Wheterydell, a riddle to separate grain 
 
 from chaff 
 Wynterfyssh, stockfish 
 
 Walshe, qy ? 
 
 Warp, parcels of four dried fish. 
 
 Warpyng, weaving 
 
 Yerdwomman, a woman who attends 
 to the farm-yard : cp. yardman in 
 Halliwell's Dictionary 
 
INDEX TO THE CHARTEES. 
 
 I. Personal Names. 
 
 {This list does not contain the names of witnesses.) 
 
 Abiton, Marg. and Eeg. de, 124, 210, 
 
 220 a 
 Absalon, Hugh fitz, Letitia and Reg., 
 
 88, 185 a, b, 188, 211 a, b, c, 212 a, 
 
 b, 239 a, b, 337 a, b 
 Adam, Leonius fitz, 219 a 
 Aelard, Job., 62 
 Ailitha, 91 
 Alan, Hen. fitz, 215 
 Albon, Job., 249 a, b 
 Albrie, Maur. fitz, 216, 237 
 Alderbeye, Reg. de, 364 
 Alderman, Hugh, 210 
 Aldred, Job., 260 
 Alexander, Nic. fitz, 128 a 
 Alfred, Reg. fitz, 179 
 Alshope, Elena, 123 
 Alvene, Ste. fitz, and Hugh, 326 a, 
 
 b, c, d 
 Ampe, Absalon, 84 
 Andreu, Will., 354 
 Anglesey Priory, 206 
 Anketil (Anketin), Warin fitz, and 
 
 Christina and Godf., 217 a, b 
 Anured, Job., 245 a 
 Aquam, Simon ad, 183 
 Argenton, Reg. de, 50 
 Arnold, Will., 260, 268 
 Arnulf, Gilb. fitz, 218 
 Arundel (Bp), 16 
 Ascheman, Job., 188 
 Aspelon, Joh., 264 
 
 Asschewell, Job., Ill, 148, 150 a 
 Athelard, Will., 92 
 Atkin, Warin and Cassandra, 309 
 Attebroo, Ric, 279 d, 280, 281, 282 
 
 a, b 
 Aunger, Rob., 247 
 Azo (Acius), Joh. fitz, 177, 185 a, b, 
 
 187 
 
 Badburgbam, Joh. de, 148, 149 
 Badburham, Alan and Marg. de, 
 
 126 a 
 Badburnbam, Tho. de, 72 
 Bagge, Simon and Maud, 319, 380 
 Baker, Godf. the, 370 
 
 Rob., Pet. and Joan le, 246 
 
 Tho., 175 
 
 Will., 258 
 
 Baldewyn, Job., Joan and Isabel, 155, 
 
 205 a, b 
 Baldok, Joh., 143, 146 a 
 Ballard, Ralf, 87 
 
 Banastre, Geremias (German), Marg. 
 and Lecia, 182 a, b, 183, 
 185 b 
 
 Joh. and Amycia, 184 
 
 Bancis, Ralf de, 198 
 Barbour, Nic. le, 285 c 
 Baret, Phil., 270 
 Barford, Will., 209 
 Barfot, Job., 243 
 Barlham, Will., 139 a, b 
 
INDEX. 
 
 187 
 
 Barnwell Priory, 61, 225, 300, 305, 
 
 869, &e. 
 Bartholomew, Joh. fitz, 244 b 
 
 Eic. fitz, 310 
 
 Barun, Bust., 94 
 
 Barwe, Eog. de, 73 b 
 Baryngton, Hen., 352, 354 
 Bateman, Ralf, 299 
 
 Eic, 162 
 
 ■ Will., 378 
 
 Baude, Joh., 110 
 
 Baynard, Joh., 147 
 
 Beauchamp, And., 149,150 a 
 
 Bechampwell, Joh. and Marg., 227 
 
 Becket (Archbp), 4 c, d 
 
 Bekke, Hen., 362 
 
 Belbar, Alice, 187 
 
 Beltou, Job., 257 
 
 Bentybowe, Simon, 209 
 
 Benyngton, Joh. de, 253 
 
 Bercar, Eeg., 247 
 
 Bercarius, Ealf, 46 
 
 Berlee, Joh., 141 
 
 Bernard, Gilb. and Marg., 308, 341 a 
 
 Joh., 834 a, b 
 
 Mich., 309 
 
 Bernewelle, Alice de, 44 a, b 
 
 Alan Dalles de, 57 b, c 
 
 Godman de, 52 
 
 Alice and Eic. ad caput 
 
 viUe de, 278, 338 
 
 Eic. de, 125 
 
 Silvester and Marg. de, 
 
 288 
 Berneye, Joh. de, 47 a, b 
 Bertham, Hen, de, 100 a 
 Berton, Joh., Eic, Mariota and Maud 
 de, 97, 189, 214, 839 
 
 Hen. and Alice de, 105, 130, 
 
 215 
 
 Cecilia de, 247 
 
 Pet., Giles and Maud de, 306, 
 
 307, 311 a 
 Bestun, "Will, de, 122 a, b, c 
 Beylham, Eob., 353, 355 
 Biccleswade, Joh. de, 134 
 Bilney (Bylneye), Job., Ill, 857 a, b 
 
 Black, Symon, 82 
 Blakeboane, Sim., 20 
 Blancgernun, Alice, 271 
 
 Baldwin, 193, 265 a, 
 
 268, 302 
 
 Geoff., 266 a, b 
 
 Gilbert, 217 a 
 
 Mabel, 158, 159 
 
 Will, and Aldusa,211&,c, 
 
 212a, 213 a, 265a, 868 
 Blancpayn (Blannpayn), Joh., 107, 
 
 158, 298 6 
 Blund, Sim. le, 86, 93 
 Bodekesham, Joh. de, 32 c, 37 a 
 Bokenham, Joh. de, 292 
 Bortone, Walt, de, 254 a 
 Botulph, Sim. de S., 220 a 
 Braci, Will., 265 b 
 Bradelee, Alice de, 162 
 Bramton, Ivo de, 196 
 Branforde, Joh., 353 
 Branketre, Joh. and Tho., 200 
 Brest, Hugh, 156 c 
 Briceste, Joh. and Alice de, 273 
 Brictnot, Martin, 165 
 Bridbrok, Joh., 188 
 Brigham, Eob. and Isabel, 146 b, 355, 
 
 858 
 Brito (the Jew), 83 
 Brook, Hugh, 264 
 Broun, Joh., 207 
 Browne, Eic and Eob., 115, 249 b, c, 
 
 299 6 
 Bruce (Bruys), Joh. and Mariota, 
 
 298 a, b, 800 
 Bruere (Bruiera), Eob. de, 82 
 
 Tho. and Helen de la, 87 
 
 Buche, Eic, 275 
 
 BuUing, Eic, 241 
 
 BuUok, Eic, 82, 98, 95 
 
 Burchard (Butcher), Pet. fitz and 
 
 Ivetta, 169, 170 b, 176 
 Burgh, Bp. Geoff, de, 239 d 
 Burgo, Audr. de, 380 
 Burgoyne, Joh., 299 b, 356, 357 a, b 
 Burs, Eic, 157, 158 
 Busshe (Bushee), Eic, 148, 221 
 
188 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 But, Hugh, 222 
 
 Cachepol, Warin le, 81 
 Cadam, Job. and Joan, 37 a, b 
 Caldecote, Tho. and Agnes, 226 
 Cambere, Hosbert le, 362 
 Cambridge, Sir Tho. and Eliz. de, 
 261 
 
 Tho. de, 262, 273 
 
 Campes, Tho., 356 
 Capella, Kog. de, 139 a 
 Carettarius, Rog. and Felicia, 276 
 Carpenter, Adam, 67 
 
 Bob., 362 
 
 Will., 54, 66 
 
 Carter, Andr. the, 871 
 
 Christiana, 82 
 
 Eustace, 64 
 
 Silvester, 286 
 
 Will, the, 370 
 
 Castelyn, Joan, 202 
 
 Castre, Geoff, and Marg., 108, 110, 
 
 349, 350, 351 
 Cau, Ric, 158 
 Cawdrey, Eic, 249 c 
 Cementarius, Eeg., 54 
 
 Walt., 274, 276 
 
 Cestertun, Goding de, 181 
 
 Phil., Albrida and Marg. 
 
 de, 371 
 Chance, Joh., 207 
 Chapeler, Eob. and Ealf le, 104 a 
 Chapman, Job., 116, 117 
 Chaston, Eob. de, 293 
 Chateriz, Abbess of, 313 
 Cheseman, Joh. and Joan, 168 
 Chesewic, Tho. de, 312 
 Chesterton, Eob. de, 348, 373 
 Chicksand, Convent of, 381 
 Childerle, Gilb. de, 220 a 
 Cimiterio, Maud de, 91 
 Cissor, Walt., 279 a 
 Clara Hall, 188 
 Clare, Coll. of St, 209 
 Clerk, Marg. le, 191 
 Clifford, Adam and Eic, 38 a, b, 
 285—291 
 
 Coker, Eob. and Marg., 145 c, d, 228 
 Colebrig, Will, and Agnes de, 220 b 
 Colecestre, Hamo de, 265 b 
 Coleman, Azo (Aca), 90, 223 
 CoUeman, Tho., 357 
 Coloffe, Job., 145 c 
 Colt, Eob., 265 b 
 Combirton, Eeg. de, 224, 372 
 Constance, (Countess), 3 a, b, 8 
 Cook, Geoff., 57 b, c 
 
 — Eob., 284 
 
 — Walt, and Agnes the, 244 a 
 Coope, Eob. and Agnes, 61, 114, 115 
 Corde, Maud, 210 
 
 Walter and Juliana, 251, 265 
 
 a, b, 381 
 Corduaner, Ste., 213 a 
 Corpus Chr. College, 141, 142, 143, 
 
 145 c, d, 221, 228, 257 
 Costyshey, Eog. de, 184 
 Coteham, Joh. de, 89 
 Cotenham, Tho. de, 159 
 Cotes, Hen. de, 164 
 
 Job., 294 
 
 Cotton, Job., 142 
 
 Tho., 359 
 
 Courtenay (Archbp), 17 
 Cranwell, Joh. and Eic, 74 
 Crocheman, Cate, 95 
 
 Fulk and Sibil, 82, 83, 
 
 88 
 
 Job., 237 
 
 Eic, 96, 98 
 
 Walter, 222, 231 a 
 
 Crocstun, Joh. de, 232 
 Cros, Walter, 177 
 CuUingg, Joh., 32 b 
 Cumber ton, Eob. de, 32 a 
 Custance, Hen., 70 
 
 Eob., 251 
 
 Cutiler (Cutler), Tho. le, 219 c, 372 
 
 Dale, Joh., 119, 120 
 Dalles, Alan, 57 b 
 Damlett, Job., 243 
 Dekyn, Tho., 264 
 Delamore, Emma, 89 
 
INDEX. 
 
 189 
 
 Dengayne (Engayne), Tho. and Kath., 
 
 36 rt, 140, 375 
 Derliam, Ealf and Maud de, 127 
 Devei, Hen., 383 
 Deye, Simon, 357 a, h 
 Dittone, Tho. de, 121 c 
 Dixi, Laur. and Maud, 335, 336 
 Doy, Nic, 139 a 
 Dun, Maud, 196 
 Dunning, Leonius, 219 b, c, 284 
 
 Bobert, 35 
 
 Dunton, Joh., 250 a 
 Duzedeners, Will., 128 a 
 Dytton, Ric. de, 36 a, h, 39 
 
 Eadward, Walt., 315 
 
 Edmundo, Luke and Cecilia de S., 
 
 31 a, b 
 Eob. de S., 133 a, 252, 
 
 370 
 
 Walt, de S., 169 d, 239 b 
 
 Will., Roger and Alice de 
 
 S., 169 b, c, d, 329 
 Edmund's chapel, Prior of S., 38 b, 
 
 342, 346 
 Edricius, Bern, and Alice fitz, 172 b, c 
 Edward II (King), 8 
 Edward, Alan fitz, 100 a 
 
 Joh., 136 b 
 
 Elias (chaplain), 53 a 
 Eltislee, Jeremias de, 185 b, 187 
 Elvenegard, Ste. and Emma de, 89 
 Elverede, Laur,, 78 
 
 Ely Convent, 79 c, 150 a, 204, 225, 
 237, 239 e 
 
 — Almoner, 128 a, b, 200 
 
 — Official of, 240 a 
 
 — Sacrist, 149, 152 
 Ely, Joh., 155 
 Elyas, Joh. fitz, 362 
 Elynhale, Tho. and Kath. de, 291 
 Elyot, Hen., 136 a 
 
 Elys, Job., 113 c 
 Emma, Marg. dau. of, 136 a 
 Engayne, Tho. and Kath., 140 
 Ernisius (merchant), 95 
 Essex, Job., 112 
 
 Essex, Will., 360 
 
 Eustace (of Boulogne), 3 a, 6 
 
 (Bp), 7 a, 24, 80, 239 a 
 
 ■ Hervey fitz and Roda, 24, 
 
 179, 180, 266 a, 325, 380, 
 362 
 
 Eversdon, Job., 75 
 
 Eylesbam, Job. and Sabina de, 160 
 
 Feleper, Aunger le, 51 a 
 Feleperer, Ric. le, 218 
 Felstede, Damalis de, 191 
 Feror, Geoff, le, 200 
 Ferriman, Tho. le, 218 
 Feutrer, Bened., 101 a 
 
 Ralf le, 101 6, 105 
 
 Ffisshewyk, Brian, 30 
 Ffraunceys, Nic, 376 
 Filtrarius, Job. and Ralf, 104 b 
 
 Will., 104 a, b 
 
 Filurun, 169 a 
 
 Finch, Godard, 267 
 Fitien, Laur. and Marg., 210 
 Fittere, Geoff, le, 339 
 Flemyng, Will., 201 
 Fontibus (Bp) de, 7 a, 239 c 
 Fordham (Bp), 240 b 
 
 Joh. de, 284 
 
 ■ Reg. de, 82, 84, 85, 363 
 
 Forum, Nic. ultra, 198 
 
 Foster, Joh., 146 a, b 
 
 Foulmer, Silvester de, 290 
 
 Foxton, Rob. and Alice, 109, 113 a 
 
 Frenge, Job. and Agnes, 204 
 
 Friars Minor, 29, 60, 248 
 
 Friday, Job., 43 a, b, 58 
 
 Frost, Joh., 260, 365 
 
 Fulburne, Ric. and Alice de, 103 
 
 Furcis, Will, de, 265 b 
 
 Gabyt, Hildebrand, 172 a 
 
 Galien, Andr. fitz, 213 b 
 
 Garlek, Roger, 64 
 
 Geoffrey, Walter and Alice fitz, 169 
 
 a, b, c, d, 170 a, 174 a, 
 
 283, 362 
 -^ Hen. fitz, 85 
 
190 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Gibelot (Kibelot), Alice, 163 
 
 Eic, 380 
 
 Gibet, Eob., 283 
 
 Ysabel, 53 b 
 
 Gilbert, Margatt fitz, 364 
 Glover, Geoff, the, 370 
 
 Goda, Hen. and Hugh fitz, 323 
 Godard, Crestiana dau. of, 125 
 
 Joh. and Eva, 230 a 
 
 Gode, Will, le, 373 
 
 Godelote, Symon and Alienor, 164, 
 
 314, 381, 382 
 Godesone, Benet, 134 
 
 Ste., 126 h 
 
 Godlomb, 170 a, 175 
 Goggyng, Earth., 245 a 
 
 Joh., 171 a 
 
 Golofer (Gulafre), Mabel, 124, 131 a 
 Gom, Will, le, 69 a, h 
 Gome, Lyna le, 48 
 
 Eob., 43 a 
 
 Goode, Tho., 113 a, b 
 Goodknape, Eob., 209 
 Goson, Joh. and Avice, 315 
 Gotobedde, Eob., 153 
 Gounsy, Joh., 354, 356 
 Grantesdene, Agnes de, 293, 295, 297 
 Grantesete, Hen. de, 285 a 
 Gravesend (Bp) de, 12 
 
 Gray, Hen. le, 344 a, b 
 Greene, Joh. and Cristiana, 229 
 Grenelane, Joh., 30, 152, 360 
 Grim, Bern., 93 
 
 Geoff, and Maud, 81, 100 a 
 
 Warin, 320, 370 
 
 Gudman, 102 
 
 Gulafre (Golofer), Eic. and Oldeburga, 
 
 130, 132 
 Gybon, Geoff., 265 b 
 
 Joh., 226 
 
 Gyffard, Walt., 186 
 
 Haford, Eoger de, 44 a 
 Hamond, Tho., 299 a, b 
 Haneper, Fulk le, 100 b 
 Hardy, Joh. and Hen., 166, 167 
 Harecok, Eeg., 270 
 
 Hareflet, 265 b 
 
 Harleston (Herlaston), Eoger de, 293, 
 
 348, 373, 377 
 Harre, Mabel, 212 a 
 Haselyngfeld, Beatr. de, 286, 289, 
 
 291 
 Hattere, Agnes le, 284 
 
 Jordan le, 252 
 
 Helewis, Maud dau. of, 67 
 
 Henry I (King), 2 a 
 
 Henry II (King), 79 a 
 
 Henry HI (King), 8 
 
 Henry VI (King), 9, 10, 27 b, c 
 
 Henry, Ealf fitz, 234 
 
 Symon and Will, fitz, 214, 303 
 
 Henxeham, Will, de, 105 
 
 Herde, Humphry le, 121 a 
 Herdwic, Eog. de, 100 b 
 Hervey, Eust. fitz, 270 
 
 Ealf fitz, 196 
 
 Hervy, Walt., 147, 148 
 Hethe, Nic, 188, 249 a 
 Heymongere, Godf. le, 219/ 
 Heyward (Hayward), Joh., 114, 116, 
 
 117, 120 
 Hilburghworth, Joh. and Elena de, 42 
 Histon, Eic. de, 25 
 Hochton, Phil, and Albreda, 328 
 Holbing, Saman, 865 
 Holdeburg, 241 
 Holdgord, Will., 94 
 Hopetune, Eic, 265 b 
 Hoppecrane, Elyas, 270 
 Horewode, Will, de, 226 
 Horsethe, Walt, de, 246, 272 a 
 Hospital of S. John, Cambridge, 80, 
 
 87, 180, 181, 
 
 345 
 of Jerusalem, 
 
 189 
 Hubert, Geoff, fitz, 54 
 
 (Huberd), Hen. and Eva, 
 
 193, 194 a, b, 195 
 
 Joh.Eob.andSabina, 364, 365 
 
 Hugh (Bp of Lincoln), 332 
 
 - Hen. fitz, 214, 215, 381 
 Hulmo, Hugh de, 160 
 
INDEX. 
 
 191 
 
 Hungyrford, Eob. and Agnes, 118 
 
 Hunte, Pet. le, 175, 176 
 
 Huntingfeld, Eoger de, 279 a 
 
 Huntyngdon, Job., 142 
 
 Hutham, Job., 361 
 
 Hyderston, Edw., 114 
 
 Hynggeston, Will, and Maud de, 292, 
 
 347 
 Hynton, Eic. and Alice, 205 
 Hyntone, Alan de, 129 
 
 Alice de, 123 
 
 Ikilinton, Nuns of, 62 
 Impyton, Job., 106 
 Innocent IV (Pope), 6 
 Ivo {see Yvo) 
 
 Jakenet, Tbo., 229 
 Jobn, Bartb. fitz, 245 h 
 
 Kankelya, Will., 314 
 
 Kelesseye, Job. and Avisia, 250 a, b 
 
 Ketel, 265 a 
 
 Ketene, de (Bp), 15 
 
 Key, Geva, 364 
 
 Kibelot, see Gibelot 
 
 Knapere, Andr., 123 
 
 Koc (tbe Jew), 245 a 
 
 Kocs, Hen., 71 
 
 Koker, Eob., 145 a 
 
 KolYin, WiU., 365 
 
 Kymbalton, Symon and Ada de, 254 b 
 
 Kyp (Kyep), Nic, 170 a, 176 
 
 Kyrkeby, Will, and Alice de, 367 
 
 Kyrman, Maud, 303 
 
 Langforde, WiU., 299 a 
 
 Langton (Arcbbp), 4 d 
 
 Latymer, Warin le, 55 
 
 Laurence, Eic. fitz, 63, 164, 247, 365 
 
 Lavenbam, Edm. and Marion, 75 
 
 Will, de, 34 a, b, d, 205 a, 
 
 348 
 Ledbeter, Eeg. and Joan le, 32 a, b, c 
 Leeke, Eob., 249 b 
 Leverton, Hen., 132 
 Lincoln, Job. de, 43 a, 47 a, 70, 206 
 
 Lincoln, Will, de, 230/ 
 
 Lindsey, Walter and Berta de, 51 a, 
 
 b, 52, 101 a, b 
 Linton, Prior of, 6 
 Litlingtune, Adam de, 267, 268, 269 
 Littlebery, Geoff, de, 121 b, c 
 Locoks, Job., 71 
 LoUewortbe, Adam, 206 
 
 Hen. Custance de, 70 
 
 Lomb, Will., 260 
 
 Lominor, Job. and Mabel le, 190 
 
 Long, Eob. le, 253, 344 a, b 
 
 (Lungis), Tbos., 266 a, 270 
 
 Longe Locci, Alice le, 55 
 Lorimer, Will, le, 219 c, 372 
 Lucbefeld, Tho. de, 98 
 Lumley, Marm., 74 
 
 Lung, Duront le, 95 
 Lyster, Edm., 204 
 
 Macbon, Job. le, 284 
 Macston (Maxton), Alan, 170 a 
 
 Pet., 233, 370 
 
 Maddyngle, Tbo. de, 202 
 Malcolm IV (King), 4 a, b, c, d 
 Malberb, Micb., 94 
 
 Nic, 122 a, b 
 
 Man, Geoff., 363 
 
 Marcbal, Job., 78, 353, 357 a 
 Marescbal (Marscal), Eic, 55, 137 
 Martin de S. Eadegund, 122 a, 137, 
 138 
 
 Job. and Alice, 166 
 
 Will., Eob., Alan, 167, 313 
 
 Martyn, Hen., 55 
 
 Eic, 226, 293, 348, 373, 375 
 
 Eob., 106 
 
 Mason, Eoger and Felice, 29 
 
 Will., 72 
 
 Mast, Will, and Marg., 143, 144 a, 
 
 b, c, d, 145 a, h 
 Maud (Queen), 3 a 
 
 - Eob. fitz, 161 
 
 Mayner, Hugb, Claricia, Walter, Job., 
 277, 278, 279 &, c, d, 280, 281, 282 a, 
 b, 340, 341 a, b, 342, 343 
 
 Maystreman, Eic. and Sarra, 294 
 
192 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Mele, Hen., 369 
 
 Meleward, Job. and Alice le, 338 
 
 Melreia, Rog., Joan, Elice de, 312 
 
 Mercer (Merchant), Tho., Marg., Wal- 
 ter, Cecilia, 131 a, b, 173, 174 a, b, 
 367 
 
 Merchant, Will., 271 
 
 Meso, Hen., 156 a 
 
 Michael, House of S., 74, 236, 237 
 
 Middleton (Middelton), Andr. and 
 Pet., 230 a, g, 231 b 
 
 Milde, Ric, 226, 250 a 
 
 Mildes, Will., 165 
 
 Miller, Joh. the, and Alice, 277 
 
 Will, the, 219 a 
 
 Milt, Hen., 283 
 Modebrok, Ric. de, 273 
 Moner, Tho. le, 162 
 
 Mordon (Mordiu), Hen. de, 138 
 
 Walt, de, 274, 276 
 
 Will, de, 122 a, b 
 
 Mordyngton, Agnes de, 282 b 
 Morice (Morys, Moriz), Barth. and 
 Marg., 40 
 
 Hen., 247 
 
 Joh., 257, 258 
 
 Nic, 299 b, 357 
 
 a, b 
 
 Tho., 255 
 
 Ste., 32 d, 203, 
 
 293, 348, 373 
 Movin, Ric, 195 
 Morpad, Will, de, 127 
 Mortuomari, Will, de, 305 
 Moyne (Monachus), Will, le, 2 a, b 
 Multon, Adam and Maud de, 279 a, b 
 Musgrave, Joh., 61 
 Myer, Simon, 256 
 
 Nadun, Hen., 219 b 
 
 Rob., 362 
 
 Neell, Job., 257 
 
 Ste., 258 
 
 Neoto, Ric. de Seo, 200 
 Newecumen, Hugh, 122 b 
 NeweU, Geoff. , 145 c 
 Newenham, Will. Barun de, 94 
 
 Newton, Joh. de, 289 a, b 
 
 Nicolas (chaplain), 174 a 
 
 Nigellus (Bp), 1, 2 6, 3 a, c, 4 d, 
 
 5, 8 
 Noble, Barth. and Hugh le, 93, 94, 
 
 219 a, h, c 
 Nonacurt (Nunancurt, Nunnecurt), 
 
 Rob., 62, 237, 275 
 Nonacurt (Nunancurt, Nunnecurt), 
 
 Will., 162, 284, 321 a, b 
 Noreys (Norreys), Will, le, 279 a, c 
 Norfolchia, Agnes de, 54 
 Norman, Hen. fitz, 260 
 North wold (Bp), 7 h 
 Norton, Job., 107, 153 
 Norwyc, Will, de, 139 b 
 
 Oldcorn, Eust., 241 
 Oreford, Job., 206 
 Ormar, Rob. fitz, 172 a 
 Osbon, Reg. fitz, 170 a 
 Ovinng, Job., 236, 238 
 Ovyngton, Edw. de, 110 
 
 Page, Geoff, and Isabel, 278, 281, 
 
 292 
 Pageles, Emihus, 363 
 Panfleon, Will., 353 
 Pannfeld, Walt., 149 
 Papilun, Walt., 260 
 Parcbiminere, Derota, 189 
 
 Hen. le, 224, 372 
 
 Paris, Hen., 155 
 
 Will, and Alice, 284 
 
 Parleben, Job., 122 a 
 
 Mich., 316 
 
 Parys, Rob, de, 141 
 
 Pastor, Bern, and Sabina, 121 b, 370 
 
 Paule, Ric, 292, 347 
 
 Will., 374 
 
 Paulinus, Joh. fitz, 31 a, c, 129 
 Pawe, Job., Nic. and Katb., 135 
 Payn, Job., 297, 353, 376 
 Pecche, Alex., 222 
 'Pechard, Will., 78, 120 
 Pernes, Ric. and Cecilia, 210, 213 a 
 
 Marg., 222 
 
INDEX. 
 
 193 
 
 Person, Ealf, Marg. and Sabina, 327 
 
 Kob., 281 a 
 
 Pertehaye, Tho. , 194 b 
 Pete, Joh. and Isoda, 304 
 Peter, Alice fitz, 170 a 
 
 Peyntour (Pictor), Adam, 127, 143, 
 
 146 a 
 Peytevin, Rob., 249 a 
 Philip, Everard fitz, 128 a, b 
 Picot, Maud, 254 a 
 Pie, Walt., 87 
 Pilate (Pilet), Hugh, 50 
 
 Job., 5dd, 99, 352, 354, 
 
 356 
 
 Walt., 50, 97 
 
 WiU. and Marg., 91, 
 
 363 
 Pinberd, Selede, 362 
 Pinniger, Maud, 199 
 Pitcock, Will., 189 
 Ploghwrygt, Joan le, 253 
 Ploughwryght, Hugh, 357 a 
 Plowwryghte, Eic, 99 
 Plumber, Ernold the, 362 
 Plumpton, Joh., 75 
 Portam, Joh. ad, 198 
 
 Maud ad, 53 c 
 
 Eic. ad, 199, 223 
 
 Symon ad, 172 d 
 
 Porter, Tho., 145 b 
 
 Walt., 57 c 
 
 Porthors, Joh., 97, 311 b 
 
 Poswyk (Possewy), Walt., 247, 311a 
 
 Potekin, The, 219 c, d, e, 224, 310, 372 
 
 Potter, Eog. le, 251 
 
 Potton, Will., 377 
 
 Freest, Nic, 256 
 
 Prentys, Job., 360 
 
 Prest, Will., 245 b 
 
 Prudfot, Ealf, 87 
 
 Purr, Joh., 348, 377 
 
 Purry, Joh., 48 
 
 Pyghttesley, Eic, 21 
 
 Pynchebek, Eic. and Muriel, 136 b 
 
 Pynniugton, Eob., 142 
 
 Quantquilia, Eeg., 265 b 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 
 
 Quenburgh, Joh. and Mariota, 146 a 
 
 Eagenhill, Hugh de, 57 b, 316, 321 /; 
 Ealf, Geoff, fitz, 331 
 Eankyn, Joh. and Marg., 256 
 
 Simon, 259 
 
 Eede (Eeede), The, 118, 208 
 Eedere, Hubert le, 66 
 
 Nic. and Kath. le, 248 
 
 Eob. le, 277 
 
 Eoger le, 46, 65, 66 
 
 Eedheved, Alan and Marg., 293, 295, 
 
 296, 298 b 
 Eefham, Joh. de, 107, 153 
 Eeginald, Symon fitz, 181 
 Eeiner, Ealf fitz, 101 a 
 Eevede, Tho., Alice and Joh., 59 a, 
 
 b, c 
 Eichard, Will, fitz, 235 
 Eidel (Bp), 79 b 
 
 Eingestede, Edm. and Mabel de, 231 c 
 Eising, Pet. de, 121 a, b 
 Eoger, Orgar fitz, 332 
 
 Absalon, Hugh, Ysabel, Marg. 
 
 and Maud fitz, 177, 178 a, b, 
 179, 180, 182, 185 a, 192, 380 
 
 Eoiston, Joh., 206 
 
 Eolf, Will., 73 b, 106, 227, 352, 354, 
 379 
 
 Eoys, Joh., 208 
 
 Ruffus, Anger, 265 b 
 
 Hugh, 82, 170 a 
 
 Maur., 181, 217 a 
 
 Euold, 211 a, b, c 
 
 Eus, Alice le, 248 
 
 - Aunger le, 103 
 
 - Mich, le, 334 a 
 
 - Eob. le, 198 
 Eussell, Eog., 251 
 Eyghisby, Joh., 295 
 
 Sagar, Cecilia, 137 
 Salle, Will., 259, 263 
 Salter, Greg., 170 a 
 Saltrega, Alberis de, 189 
 Sarant, Nic, 51 a, 52, 53 a, 54, 56, 
 331, 332, 333 
 
 13 
 
194 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Sausintune, Will., 81^ 
 
 (Sauxington), Job. de, 198, 
 
 275 
 Scalariis, Ste., Juliana and Sibil de, 
 5, 192, 370 
 
 Walt, de, 22 
 
 Schelford, Joan de, 246 
 Scherwynt, Eeg., 370 
 
 Will, and Joan, 254 a 
 
 Scissart, Walt., 172 a 
 Scolastiea, Walt, fitz, 90 
 Scolemayster, Hen., 157, 158 
 Scolicia, Walt, fitz, 232, 234 
 Seriptor, Hen. and Dionysia, 46, 65, 70 
 Scurri, Will., 173 
 
 Seenz, Job. de, 96 
 Segar, Absalon fitz, 132 
 
 Walt, fitz, 26, 139 a 
 
 Seghalle, Job. de le, 246 
 Segbyn, Alan and Alice, 247 
 Selede, Bust., 199 
 
 Selid, Job. fitz, 223, 362 
 Selinarius, Hugb, 225 
 Sellarius, Adam, 193 
 Seller, Nigel le, 195 
 Selyman, Job., 284 
 Seman (Saman), Geoff., 262 
 
 Eob., 90, 233, 254a, 
 
 364 
 Sepbare, Isabel, 102 
 Serlo, Job. fitz, 219 d, e, f 
 Sexteyn, Job., 207, 358 
 
 Eic, 60 
 
 Sbarp, Andr., 144 a, c, d 
 
 Eob. 220 a 
 
 Sbepberd, Hen., 267 
 Sbipwritte, Eic, 235 
 
 Sigan, Ealf and Coleman, 156 a, b, c 
 
 Simon (camerarius), 24 
 
 Sinereles, Eic, 157 
 
 Skerning (Bp) de, 13 
 
 Sleford, Simon de, 147, 148, 226 
 
 Slipper, Eoger, 252 
 
 Smitb, Hugb tbe, 282 a, 351 
 
 Job. tbe, 128 b, 170 a, 216, 
 
 217 a, b, 218, 380 
 
 Will, tbe, 122 6, 137 
 
 Sokelyng, Job. and Marg., 301 
 Sopesfeld, Tbo. de, 356 
 Spaldyng, Will., 27 a, b 
 Spileman, Hen., 198 
 Spyeer, Eic, 221 
 Stalle, Hugh, 226 
 Stamforde, Hugb de, 240 a 
 Stepben (King), 2 a, B a, b 
 
 Marg. dau. of, 133 a 
 
 Sterne, Eob., Will, and Maud, 366 
 
 Stevenys, Job., 349, 350 
 
 Stokton, Job., Simon, Beatrix and 
 
 Katb., 282 a, 286, 287, 289 b, 291, 
 
 304, 375 
 Stombill, Eic, 255 
 Stote, Tbo. and Will., 191 
 Stowe, Job. and Elena, 115 
 Sturmi, 79 a, b 
 Styward, Job., 69 b 
 Sueteye (Swetegbe), Will., 57 a, b, 
 
 121 c, 220 a, b, c, 316, 321 a, b 
 Suffield (Bp) de, 11 
 Suneman, Marg., 174 a 
 Surdus, Ealf, 100 a 
 Sutbwerke, Tbo. de, 135 
 Swaffbam, Nuns of, 144 a, 203, 209 " 
 
 Job. de, 53 b, c 
 
 Martin de, 53 a 
 
 Swane, Ealf, 84 
 Swynle, Job., 356 
 
 Talur (Taylour), Bartb. le, 86, 193 
 
 Eic le, 280 
 
 Symon le, 81 
 
 Talwortb, Laur. de, 106 
 Tanur, Atbelard le, 383 
 
 Britbnod, 380 
 
 Taxstede, Eob. de, 128 a 
 
 Tbo. de, 381 
 
 Tele, Will, and Maud, 295, 296, 308 
 Tendring, Tbo. de, 44 a 
 Terteyner, Ste. le, 45, 69 a 
 Teversbam (Theversbam), Alan and 
 
 Ysabel, 123, 124, 340 
 Textor, Adam, 82 
 Theobald (Archbp), 4 d 
 Thomas, Walt, fitz, 202 
 
INDEX. 
 
 195 
 
 Thorn (Thome), Eic, 117, 119, 120 
 
 The, 116 
 
 Toft, Joh. de, 141, 273 
 Toogood, Marg., 256 
 Toucestre, Joh. de, 71 
 Trippelowe (Thriplowe), Hen. de, 42, 
 44 a, 6, 281 
 
 Joh. de, 31—49, 
 
 58, 184 
 
 Joh. and Eose, 
 
 299 a, b 
 
 Joh. Sty ward de, 
 
 69 & 
 
 Will, and Marg. 
 
 de, 34 a 
 Trumpiton (Trompiton), Joh. de, 
 230 6 
 
 Milo and Agnes 
 
 de, 45 
 
 Eeg. de, 140 
 
 Eob. de, 123 
 
 Sayer (Serle) and 
 
 Pet. de, 230 c, 
 d, e 
 
 Wm. de, 233, 324 
 
 Turre, Simon de, 23 
 
 Tuylet (Toilet), Eob. and Marg., 272 a 
 
 Tho., Will, and Ele, 
 
 197, 245 a, b 
 Tychewell, Eob. de, 126 a 
 Tynour, Hugh and Sarra le, 271 
 
 Upwenden, Joh. de, 219 d, e, f 
 Upwer, Agnes, 255 
 Uscher, Walt, le, 285 b 
 
 Vivien, Hen. and Marg., 322 
 
 Wachesham, Alice de, 273 
 Walda, Maud de, 189 
 Walsoken, Adam de, 242 
 Warde, Will., 77 
 Wareyn, Will., 77 
 Warin le Cachepol, 81 
 Wastinel, Eic, 18 
 Watton, Ealf de, 853 
 Wattys, Joh., 255, 358 
 
 Waubert, Job., 97 
 
 Wauter (Waunter), Jas. le, 123 
 
 Serlo le, 171 
 
 Wauton, Joh. de, 150 a, b 
 Weaver, Alan, 171 a 
 Webster, David le, 272 a, b 
 Well, Algar de, 230 a 
 
 - Nicol de, 89 
 
 - Pet. de, 164 
 Welle, Joh. de, 233 
 Wellis, Tho., 254 a 
 
 Wendeye, Ealf, Eoysia and Letitia 
 
 de, 69 a, b, 272 a, b 
 Wesenham, Matt, and Juliana, 73 a 
 Westmorland, Alex., 300 
 Weston, Joh., 142 
 Whaplode, Job., 358 
 Wiclof (Whitlof), 174 a, 186 
 Wilburham, Pet. and Sabina de, 123, 
 
 159 
 William, Hugh fitz, 102, 125 
 
 Joh. fitz, 211 a 
 
 Winepol (Wynepol), Andr. de, 86, 93, 
 362 
 
 Cecilia de, 171 a, b 
 
 The, 202 
 
 Wodecok (Woodcok), Eic. and Joan, 
 
 154, 208 
 Wodelark, Eob., 264 
 Wodeward, Eog. , 38 a 
 Wolle, Tho., 262 
 Wolward (Wulward), Andr., 200 
 
 Martin, 179, 380 
 
 Tho. and Marg., 
 
 121 a, 187, 224, 
 
 370 
 Wormenhale, Tho., 352 
 Wryghte, Tho. le, 262 
 Wybert, Eob., 283 
 Wyggomer, Adam, 352, 354 
 Wyght, Nic. de, 34 d 
 Wyghton, Joh. and Agnes, 76 
 Wykmer (Wygmer), Will, and Marg. 
 
 de, 150 b, 151, 152 
 Wymer, 53 b, 56, 57 d 
 Wymund, Absalon fitz, 161 
 
 Walt, and Marg., 252 
 
196 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Wynde, Will., 188, 204 
 Wynebotisham, Bob. de, 184 
 
 Simon and Marg., 187 
 
 Wyntleflete, Simon and Isabel, 107 
 Wyriel (Weriel), Adam, 244 a, b, 
 
 245 b 
 
 Wyttlesford, Maud de, 55 
 
 Yselham, Alex, de, 266 a, 267 
 
 Yvo (Yon, Ivo), Pet. jfitz, 177, 185 b 
 
 Eic. fitz, 254 a, 333 
 
 Will, fitz, 364 
 
 II. Localities. 
 
 201, 202, 
 
 Aldermanhyl, 344 a 
 Andrew's church, S., 30 
 Aungerys lane, 246, 247 
 
 Barnwell mill, 328 
 Binnebroc, 314, 328 
 Blakacre, 349 
 Blancwyneshithe, 90 
 Bothulveshak, 339 
 Bradmerefeld, 337 a 
 Branderusche, 330 
 Bucherie, Bochere rowe, 
 203, 207, 208 
 
 Caldewelle, 345 
 Chabligwelle, 23 
 Chain bridge, 113 
 Chese market, 221 
 ChoUeshithe, 204 
 Clayfeld, 365 
 Clayhangels, 350 
 Claypittes, 31 a, 332 
 Copes cross, 119 
 Corn market, 206 
 Cranedole, 351 
 Cundit strete, 106 
 Cutler rowe, 145 c, 228 
 
 Dede dale, 345 
 Deus deners lane, 134 
 Drosemer, 44 b, 57 a 
 Dunnyngistede, 261 
 
 Edmund's chapel, S., 134, 161, 346 
 Eldestede, Eldestedcroft, 43 a, 47 a, 
 64, 71 
 
 Endeles weye, 345 
 Estenhale, 337 a 
 
 Feltere strete, 104 b 
 Fisher lane, 255, 256 
 Flexhethe, 231 b, 238 
 Fossa iudicii, 328 
 
 Garvin cross, Garewyces cruche, 100 
 
 a, b 
 Godgivesdole, 330 
 Gregories hostell, 44 b 
 Grenecroft, 4 a, &, 7 a, &c. 
 Grenedich, 349 
 Grethowellcroft, 365 
 Gretthawe, 302 
 
 Hangmannes lane, 149, 150 a 
 
 Henneye, 230 c, /, 238 
 
 Hinton lane, 124, 131 a, 132, 136 a 
 
 Hokerenewell, 330 
 
 Holm, Hulmus, 210, 312, 313 
 
 Horspath, 36 a, 38 b, 349 
 
 Hospice of the Gild of the Blessed 
 
 Virgin, 273 
 Howes, 317 
 Hunimade, 23 
 Hynton bridge, 336 
 
 Judeorum, vicus, 88 
 
 Keverelleshythe, 230 b 
 
 Meldych, 36 a 
 Merton hall lane, 253 
 Milk furlong, 350 
 
INDEX. 
 
 197 
 
 Milk market, 226 
 Milne lane, 259 
 Monks place, 264 
 Mortimer's mill, 305 
 Musecroft, 345 
 
 Netherexsotes, 337 a 
 
 Ote market, 202, 207 
 
 Pesecroft, 369 
 
 Petiteshalvaker, 337 a 
 
 Pilates lane, 98 
 
 Pirones lane, 162, 189, 190 
 
 Pishwelle or Pushwelle Weye, 31 a, 
 
 328 
 Potteres rowe, 219 a, 372 
 Pouchescroft, 141, 142 
 Pyttes, Pytys or Petes lane, 291, 301, 
 
 878 
 
 Eodolvesacre, 328 
 Eokislane, 124, 126 a, 148 
 Eoser, le, 349 
 
 Sale, 266 a, 270 
 Silvestris place, 293 
 Sperveres, le, 290 
 Swerd on the hope, 155 
 
 Tornechroft, 25 
 Triperes lane, 200 
 Tylyd hostelle, 21 
 
 Wales lane, 107, 108, 111, &c. 
 Wales lane brigge, 114, 117 
 Wallicorum, hospicium, 188 
 Water lane, 204 
 Weyrode, 365 
 Wulwardesmere, 317, 365 
 
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