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.

Part 2.—Manorial Law.
INCLUDING FORMS OF GRANTS OF LAND, ETC.

THE FELSON BOOK. [See Introduction, pp. 4 and 10. This list appears to have been written by R. Melton.] [folio 47b]

This is the felson booke for the Est Comonne of Stuston as apeurth her aftur, that is to weet:—

First the maner of How Margareth [How Margaret's appears to be another name for the manor of Stuston, the parish containing several manors. (See p. 128.)] for comenyng upon the Est comune of Stuston	ijd.
Item the prioras of Flyxston for comenyng upon the same comonne [The manor of Falcons, otherwise Facons, in Stuston, belonging to the Augustine nunnery of Flixton (suppressed in 1528): see Dugdale, Mon. Angl. vol. vi. p. 594. It appears on the "Felson" and "Task" Books.]	vjd.
Item Necolas Adham for comonyng	ijd.
Item Robert Clerk de Stoston for the tenment y^t Burgat dwels in caled Elams	ijd.
Item Joh. Byrde for the tenment Lommys	jd.
Item Willm. Hoberd for y^e tenment Martyns	ijd.
Item Willm. Warnne for y^e tenment Colydurs	jd. q^r.
Item Joh. Wheymond for the tenment Adgor de Ocle [Oakley, or Okeley, in Suffolk, one of the group of Cornwallis manors.]	jd. q^r.
It. Willm. Becket for the ponde yerd	ijd.
It. Joh. Chapman for y^e tenment Roger Chapman	jd.
It. Thomas Row for diuers tennementes	vjd.
It. Alysaundur Bullur for the schepcot	jd. ob.

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Title: 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.
Canvas: Page 124
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
Subject terms: Commonplace-books

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