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A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.

londes, tenementes, with all and iche of ther pertynans, in the Townys of E. W. and A., and sumtyme werne William M., and also all þat holl mysse edyfyed, and all londes, tenementes, medowys, pasturys, fedynges, [The difference between pastura and pascua is shown in this translation. Lindwood, speaking of tithes, says that a pasture is any kind of feeding|ground, whether in meadow, stubble, or field; but that pascua is a place chiefly devoted to feeding sheep, as on hills, moors, and uncultivated ground.—See Ducange, s.v. pastura.] with all thyr pertynences lyyng and edyfyed in þe Townys and fylddes of E forseyd and W, and late worne William A. of N., and þe wych late I have had of that gyfte, grantyd, and con|fymacone of W. B. þe elder, fader of seyd W. B. þe ȝownger, as be dede of þe same W. B. to me late þer-of made manyfestly apperyt. To haue and to hoold all and iche a-bothe [I.e. above.] -seyd myssys, londes, tenementes, medowys, fedynges, pasturys, and the oder premeces with þer perty|nences, to be-for-namyd William B. þe ȝownger, and A. hys wyffe, J. B. and T. P., to þe eyrys and seyneys of them on to þe evse of þe seyd William B. þe elder, þat ys to sey on to þe holl lyffe of þe same William, of þe chyffe lordes of thow feys be þe serueys þer-of dew [and] costum of ryte. And þat after þe deth of þe oftyn[ty]mys seyd William B. þe elder, all and iche a-both seyd myssis, londes, tenementes, medowys, fedynges, pasturys, with þe oder premyces and þer pertynans, xall remayne to be-for-namyd William B. þe ȝownger and A. hys wyffe; To haue & to hoold to hem and to þe eyrys of þer bodyes lawfully comyng and for to cum, of þe chyffe lordes of thow feys, be seruyes þer-of dew & custum of ryth. So for þe defa[u]te of þe eyrys of þe seyd William B. ȝynger and A. hys wyffe, that all and iche a-bothe seyd mysces, londes, tenementes, medowys, fedynges, & pasturys, with þe oder premyces and þer pertynences, xall remayne to þe ryth eyrys of þe oftyntymys seyd William B.
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A Common-place book of the fifteenth century, containing a religious play and poetry, legal forms and local accounts. Printed from the original ms. at Brome Hall, Suffolk, by Lady Caroline Kerrison. Edited with notes by Lucy Toulmin Smith.
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1886.
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