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.


It. Watur Cowper for the tenment sumtyme Thomas Cowpers	jd. ob.
It. John Cowper for the tenment Rolffys sumtyme Stylys, antea Wardes	jd.
It. Joh. Byrd for the tenment Frennys	jd.
It. Thomas Cade for the tenment sumtyme Nycolas Caddes	jd.
It. Recherd Edone for y^e tenment Berkers	jd.
It. y^e same Edone for y^e tenment Roger Hoppers	ijd.
It. y^e same Edone (Mr. Twaygth) [Interlined.] for y^e tenment Roger Gyllysire	ob.
It. for the tenment Barthulmew Lelyes [Summa]	ob. ijs. iiijd. qr.

This is the bille of the Felson in Stuston. [folio 49a]

Fyrst Robert Melton for the tenment Tomas Cadys	jd.
It. the Toune of Dysse for the tenment Clerkys and after Edon [Blomefield mentions "the lands that were given by Richard Edon, in 1494, to pay the leet fee, or common fine of Diss, for ever, and to keep his obit, &c.," (Hist. Norfolk, ed. 1805, i. p. 36) as part of the town lands of Diss. This tenement in Stuston is identified by his name as one of these lands for which the town owed to felson, task, and church dues.]	q^r.
It. Joh. Byrd for the tenment late Roger Cade	jd.
It. Joh. Moton for the tenment Rolffys, sumtyme styled [MS. stylys.] Warddys	jd.
It. Robert Cowper for the tenment late Watur Cowpers	jd. ob.
It. Recherd Hobard for the tenment calyd Grennys Yerd	ob.
It. the same Recherd for the tenment Jurdons	jd.

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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 126
Publication: London,: Trübner,; 1886.
Subject terms: Commonplace-books

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Collection: Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
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Full citation: "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." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/ajd3529.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2025.