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Receipt from Master Thomas Smyth, clerk and chancellor of the cathedral church of...
Catalogue reference: C 146/1531
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1480-1481
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Receipt from Master Thomas Smyth, clerk and chancellor of the cathedral church of St Paul, London, to Richard Batell, gentleman, and John Holwey, citizen and cordwainer of London, for 16l., being the farm of the rectory of Borham for one year. Morrow of St John the Baptist, 20 Edward IV. Essex
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- Signed. Seal.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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C 146
Chancery: Ancient Deeds, Series C
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