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.

9 (b). All men beynge presont and for to cum [folio 74b] schall know, that I Robert Thed of Terrynton, hath ȝowyne and grantyd and be my presont charter hath confermyd, to John Collys of the same Towne, to hys eyres and to hys assyneys, iij rodys of [herbage, heather,] [The translator was evidently puzzled how to English erbarium or gerbarium, and brueria or bruera, as the five places where the words occur he left blank. The first appears to be the herbage or coarse hay, the right for mowing which was purchasable from the lord of a manor; bruarium was a heath or waste, and implied a right to cut heather; turbaria was a place where turves could be cut; turve-dollys = turf-deals, i.e., pieces of turf or peat. The grant was thus one for the right of cutting certain fodder and fuel.] and Turve dollys lyth in the wych place callyd Brakyneholme betwyne [herbage, heather], and turvedollys of Wylliam Tunsted of the parte of þe sowth, and the [herbage, heather,] and turvedollys late Thomas Greyne of the parte of the north, and a-but v-pon þe comon of Terrynton a-ȝensse þe est, and v-pon þe paster late Robert Clarke aȝens þe west; To haue and to hold þe forseyd iij rodes [of herbage, heather,] and turvedollys, with hys pertynessys, to þe forseyd John Collys to hys eyrys and to hys a-syneys, of the cheffe lordes of thow ffeys be the servyis ther-of dette and of rygth custom. And I the [folio 75a] forseyd Robert and my eyrys, the forseyd iij rodes of [herbage, heather,] and turvedolys with hys pertynences, to þe forseyd John Collys to hys eyrys and to hys assynis

a-ȝens all men schall warent for euer more. In the wyche thynge wytnes be thys presont scharter my sell I haue put-to; be thys wetenessys, John Man, John Rakessond, John Kent, and other. ȝovyn at Ormysby the forseyd, the sexte day of the monyth of jenyuer, þe ȝer of þe reyn of kynge herry the sexte after the conquest xxxj ȝere.