Title Deed

In the Chapter House

(i) Thomas, Abbot of St. Edmund, with the assent of the Prior and convent,

To (ii) Peter Femott of Risby and John Badywold of Cockfield.

Lease, for ten years, of the manor in Risby pertaining to the office of Cellarer, with all appurtenances excepting the advowson of the church of Risby, wards, reliefs, marriages, eschaets, etc.

(ii) are not to fell or lop trees, except for repairs to carts and ploughs, and then by the view of the Cellarer, nor to waste the said manor, to exile the men, or lease themanor to others without the consent of the said Prior and convent.

The manor court is to be held by the steward of the said Prior and convent, at the expense of (ii), the profits to go to (ii) during the said term, excepting for damage to woods.

Rendering annually to the said Cellarer £14 at the feast of St. Edmund, the Annunciation, the nativity of St. John the Baptist and the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, in equal portions, and rendering also every year twelve quarters [?] of corn at the feast of the Purification of the B.V.M., to be carried to the Abbey; also they shall keep 240 sheep for the use of the Cellarer, shearing the sheep, and all other things pertaining to keeping them in winter and summer; rendering to the chief lords the services due on behalf of the said Prior and Convent.

The Cellarer covenants to keep in repair all houses and walls on the manor, at the middle term of the lease [medio tempore], (ii) finding the straw and clay, and carriage of materials.

(ii) covenant to deliver up the live and dead stock on the manor, as below, to the Cellarer at the end of the term or their value, at his choice:-

8 horses, price per head 8s. 0d.

4 oxen [boves], price per head 13. 4.

2 sows, price per head 2. 6.

8 geese ----

Dead stock: One cart with iron-bound wheels? [carect' ferr' ligat'], price 13s. 4d.; one plough, two coulters, three plough-shares, weighing 30 lbs., six collars, three pairs of cart-traces, of which one is for the shaft; one cart saddle? [cella pro carect'] and six pairs of plough-traces; one trestle table and a pair of trestles, one brass pot holding six gallons, one cooking pot, a fork [tribul'], one iron? muck fork; a bushel of iron chains; two winnowing fans, four 'sacc' [?] and one pitchfork. Also as much good corn as they received at the beginning of the lease:- 22 quarters of wheat (standard measure), 12 quarters of rye (great measure for livery of the household), 12 quarters of barley 'de firma' and 15 quarters by standard measure for seed; 4 quarters of pease, 11 quarters of oats, and for every day from All Saints to the feast of the Invention of the Cross, eight garbs "de haras' for fodder for the horses.

12 quarters of barley (the same measure for their livery); (ii) to leave, at the end of the term 60 acres of the better land, twice ploughed for wheat (forty acres of this being manured with the cart and fold), and twelve acres sown with rye.

One or both of (ii) shall remain on the manor during the said term [?].

(ii) to have a robe of yeoman's livery or ten shillings annually during the said term.

(ii) to have free entry to and from the barn of the manor during the said term and to the following 24th June for threshing, winnowing and carrying away their corn.

Clause for re-entry and distraint.

(ii) bind themselves in £40 for performance of covenants.