Janus: Stray bonds, acquittances and other deeds, not all related to estates or advowsons

Corpus/CCCC09 contains:
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37	Deeds relating to the manor of Barton Lancaster, Cambridgeshire.
38	Deeds relating to property in Westminster.
39	Rentals, accounts, etc.
51	Deeds relating to Ratley, Warwickshire.
N1	Deeds relating to Alford, Lincolnshire.
N2	Deeds relating to the rectory of East Chinnock, Somerset.
N3	Deeds relating to Little Wilsie, Essex and Suffolk.
N4	Deeds relating to Willingham and Longstanton, Cambridgeshire.
N5	Deeds relating to Elmington, near Oundle, Northamptonshire.
N6	Deeds relating to Holton Hall estate, Holton St Mary, Suffolk
N7	Deeds relating to High Fen Farm, Wicken, Cambridgeshire.

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Stray bonds, acquittances and other deeds, not all related to estates or advowsons

Title	Stray bonds, acquittances and other deeds, not all related to estates or advowsons
Reference	GBR/2938/CCCC09/34C (former reference: XXXIV C)
Creator	Various
Covering Dates	1309–1806
Extent and Medium	2 boxes
Repository	Corpus Christi College Cambridge Archives

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Please cite as Corpus Christi College Cambridge Archives, Stray bonds, acquittances and other deeds, not all related to estates or advowsons, CCCC09/34C

Corpus/CCCC09/34C contains:

Receipt to John of Cambridge for 100s in full acquittance of a sum of 25 marks for houses in Cambridge. Witnesses: Benedict de Cambridge; Geoffrey de Cambridge; Thomas de Cottenham.
Creator: John de Ripton, clerk.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

27 May 1310

Appointment of Roger de Kirkton and John de Holt as justices to try an action for dispossession brought by John Sedgeville, William, vicar of All Saints, Cambridge, and John Borle against Thomas de Eltisley senior, clerk. The action concerns tenements in Cambridge.
Creator: Crown.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

26 Oct. 1374

Lease to Simon Attehawe de Salle for his life and one year after of a garden called Le Pondyerd, formerly of Thomas de Cambridge, in Newnham at an annual rent of 2s. The garden lies between a garden of William Lister (N) and of St John's Hospital (S) and abuts (E) on a garden called Mortimers Yard next to Mortimer's mill. Witnesses: Edmund Lister; William Lister; John Wyndebyche.
Creator: John Kynne, Master of CCC and others.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

9 Jan. 1382

Quitclaim to John le Siri of Woodham Ferrers to all actions against him.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

18 Apr. 1384

Quitclaim to John Neckton, William Beckton, John Norwooe and John de Brunne to all rights and tenements which they hold of him in Cambridge.
Creator: William Wyvelingham [Willingham] of Ixning.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

24 Feb. 1391

Quitclaim to Richard Wright of Cambridge to all personal actions, etc.
Creator: Richard Billingford, Master of CCCC.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

19 Sep. 1418

List of receipts of court leet held on Tuesday before St Andrew, 3 Henry VI.
Creator: Manor of Barton Lancaster.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

28 Nov. 1424

Bond to John Titltleshall, Master of CCCC, and Thomas Fisher, Fellow, in £11 payable at Michaelmas next.
Creator: John Godfrey, barber, William Blackleech, tailor, and William Fisher, brewer, all of Cambridge.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

25 Mar. 1441

Lease to Thomas Maste, burgess of Cambridge, of a tenement in Newnham for 60 years at an annual rent of 6s 8d. The tenement, 84 Paul's feet wide, lies between a tenement of Henry Simson (S) and a tenement of the said Thomas Maste (N) and abuts (E) oj the road leading from Cambridge to Grantchester and (W) on a close lately of Sir William Chamberleyn. The lessee is to build a substantial wall within a year. Witnesses: Robert Coope, mayor; Thomas Dyche and John Say, bailiffs,.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

8 Sep. 1468

Bond to John Botwright, Master, and Ralph Geyton and Simon Grene, Fellows of CCCC, in £40 payable at Michaelmas next.
Creator: Nicholas Cleve of Barton, yeoman.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

1 Aug. 1469

Bond to John Rade and Thomas Sampson, clerks, in £9 10s 4d for payment of fixed sums at fixed times.
Creator: John Burne of Cambridge, innholder.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

10 May 1503

Bond to Edward [Story] Bishop of Carlisle and Master of Michaelhouse, in £20 to stand to arbitration. The case concerns an annual rent of 45s on a tenement of CCCC paid to Michaelhouse. The arbitrators are John Girton and William Bathcom, clerks, nominated by CCCC, and William Allington, Esq., and William Malster, clerk, nominated by Michaelhouse.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

12 Aug. 1472

Receipt for £26 17s 10½d lodged by Richard Browne, William Breton and John Bradley, collectors of tenths for the hundred of Radfield. Witnesses: Sir John Cheyne; John Allington; John Ansty and Henry Chicheley, squires.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

18 Feb. 1473

Letters of attorney for Richard Ade of Chesterton to deliver seisin to John Cooke, skinner and burgess of Cambridge, and John Newman of Toft of 3 roods of land in Barton. The land lies between land of CCCC and land of Richard Rolff and abuts on the raod leading towards Cambridge.
Creator: Andrew Doket.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

31 Mar. 1474

Letters of attorney for Simon Grene, Fellow, Thomas Fuller, Walter Bedlon, Nicholas Collys and John Emlyn, notaries public, to receive a legacy of 8 marks under the will of Master Thomas Brydde, rector of Great Munden.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

14 Dec. 1476

Receipt to the Master, Simon Grene, and Fellows of CCCC for 45s due in accordance with an indenture dated 14 August, 3 Richard III [1485]. The money was paid in the church of St Anthony in the city of London.
Creator: Walter Lemster, Doctor of Medicine.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

29 Sep. 1485

15a

Bond (cancelled) in £200 payable to Walter Lemster, M.D., by Michaelmas next.
Creator: Simon Grene, Master.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

14 Aug. 1485

Receipt to the Master, Thomas Cosin, and Fellows of CCCC for 45s.
Creator: Katherine Lemster, widow.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

4 Oct. 1489

Receipt for 20s from Thomas Cosin, Master of CCCC, and the Fellows for timber and the building of a house in accordance with an agreement and plans dated 11 November 7 Henry VII [1491].
Creator: John Striker of Great Shelford, carpenter.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

24 Jan. 1492

Letters of attorney for John Seyntwary, president of CCCC, to recover by law a debt of 21s 8d from John Baxter of Cambridge, butcher.
Creator: John Matthew of Chatteris, junior, husbandman.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

5 May 1498

Quitclaim to personal actions against Thomas Cosin, Master, and the Fellows of CCCC. Witnesses (on dorse): Richard Nolle; John Helger; and John Thirlby.
Creator: Robert Coope, skinner, and Margaret his wife.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

1 May 1501

20a

Bond in 20 marks to Thomas Cosin, Master, and the Fellows of CCCC, to perform covenants in an indenture. Endorsed: Obligacio pro domo erigenda in le bochery.
Creator: William Ansell of Finchingfield, Essex, carpenter; John White of Wethersfield, Essex, carpenter and John Simpson of Wethersfield, carpenter.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

10 Oct. 1502

20b

Bond in £20 to Thomas Cosin, Master, and the Fellows of CCCC, to carry from Finchingfield to the butchery in Cambridge by Shrove Tuesday all necessary timber, laths, etc., for the construction of a house there.
Creator: John Hanchet of Shudy Camps, gent., John Keteriche, John Curtehose, Robert Curteyse, all of the same, husbandmen.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

7 Dec. 1502

Enfeoffment to Thomas Cosin, Master of CCCC, of all lands and tenements in Cambridge and Newnham held by gift of Thomas Cosin and John Seyntwary by a deed dated 16 July 23 Henry VII [1508]. Also includes appointment of Robert Wysett and Nicholas Simonds to deliver seisin.
Creator: Simon Fincham, rector of St Benedict's.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

20 Sep. 1508

Bond in £40 to Thomas Cosin, Master of CCCC, and the Fellows, to perform covenants. Witnesses: Johjn Talbot and John Thirlby, scribe.
Creator: Nicholas Symond of Cambridge, goldsmith.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

5 Oct. 1507

23a

Bond in £10 to Matthew Parker, Master, and the Fellows of CCCC to perform covenants.
Creator: John Sellers, burgess of Cambridge.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

20 Nov. 1547

23b

Bond in £30 to John Porye, Master of CCCC, and the Fellows to perform covenants.
Creator: Edward Smith, burgess of Cambridge.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

23 Dec. 1560

23c

Bond in 20 marks to the Master and Fellows of CCCC, to perform covenants in a deed dated 1 March 8 Elizabeth [1566].
Creator: John Wells of Cambridge, goldsmith.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

16 Mar. 1568

23d

Bond in 20 marks to the Master, Thomas Aldrich, and Fellows of CCCC, to perform covenants.
Creator: Roger Fiddling of Cambridge, butcher.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

12 Sep. 1571

Acknowledgement of receipt from John Seyntwary of Bell's will, sealed and proved, certain bonds and goods, detailed, in satisfaction of all debts due from Seyntwary to Simon Fincham. The goods comprise 8 silver spoons; two maple-wood mazers with silver bands, gilt; and a girdle of blue silk with silver and gold decorations.
Creator: John Fincham of Outwell, gentleman.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

10 June 1516

Bond in £10 to Peter Nobys, Master, and Fellows of CCCC to perform convenants and pay 40s. Witnesses: Peter Nobys, William Sowde; Robert Smith.
Creator: John Cockerell of Cambridge, 'corwyn''.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

1 Sep. 1518

Further bonds to and from Masters of the College.
Creator: Various.

1532–1586

27/1

Account of the charges about the repairing of the great bridge in Cambridge. Costs of commission, dinners, etc., as well as of planks.
Creator: Unknown.
1 sheeet; paper; Manuscript.

1561

27/2

List of sums owing on lands liable for contribution to repair of the great bridge. The debtors are King's College, Sir Philip Parys; Sir John Hynde and William Mallory, Esquire.
Creator: Unknown.
1 sheeet; paper; Manuscript.

? 1561

Bond in £20 to the Master and Fellows of CCCC not to open any windows at the gable end of their college abutting on the garden of St Mary's Hostel for 57 years, to clean the garden after the building of their wall. Also to make three seats between the gable end and the old wall of the college.
Creator: Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

10 Mar. 1567

Receipts for payments of John Parker's pension.
Creator: John Parker and John Baker.
1 envelope; paper.

1583–1588

Summons to the college to appear at the Court of Chancery. Relates to the college's suit with John Kyppis.
Creator: The Crown.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

1 Dec. 1590

(Counterpart?) lease to John Porter, stationer, of a house and two shops in the parish of Great St Mary for 40 years at an annual rent of £-- 16s 8d. The properties comprise the tenement in which Porter now dwells and the two shops where the widow Jones and Tobias Taylor now dwell, with a yard annexed.
Creator: Master and Fellows of CCCC.
1 membrane; vellum; Previously used as a wrapper for MS 23; severely damaged.; Manuscript.

12 Dec. 1606

Bond in £10 to Samuel Walsall, Master, and the Fellows of CCCC. The bond is void if 'there shalbe no comeing in or out of the Colledg . . . through the passage made from the hostle to the Tenniscourt, or through any parte thereof, when the other gates of the said College are locked, By the procuring or voluntarie sufferance of Nicholas Smith of Cambnridge, gent., . . . upon paine of forfeiture of twentie shillings of lawfull money of England, Toties quoties, to the saied Colleges at any time hereafter dureing the continewance of the Lease of the said Tenniscourt amongst other things made to the said Nicholas Smithe by the above named Master and fellows'.
Creator: John Munday, B.D., Fellow.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

27 July 1624

32a

Bond in £10 to Samuel Walsall, Master, and the Fellows of CCCC. The condition of the bond is that no casement or window from any house or houses built on a plot of land demised to Nicholas Smith, shall overlook any orchard or garden belonging to the Master and Fellows or either of them during the term of the lease.
Creator: John Munday, B.D., Fellow.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

27 July 1624

Bills, chiefly for feasts.
Creator: Various.
1 envelope.

1390-c. 1655

Vouchers for domestic supplies.
Creator: Various.
1 envelope.

7 Apr. 1629–14 Jan. 1653

Bonds to perform covenants.
Creator: Robert Atkinson.
1 envelope; vellum.

25 June 1660–24 June 1663

Bond under Statute Staple to Anthony Cage, citizen and salter of London, for payment of £100 by Whitsun next. Witness: Robert Catlyn.
Creator: Richard Noke, pointmaker.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

6 Dec. 1559

Indenture of apprenticeship to Richard Love, apothecary, of Cambridge. The 1748 catalogue identifies this Richard Love as the father of the Richard Love who was Master of the college from 1632 to 1660.
Creator: William Bosom, son of William Bosom of Cambridge, apothecary, deceased.
1 membrane; vellum; Manuscript.

24 June 1595

Certificate of deductions from £12 collected by him from William Booth of Laneham, Notts, for four years' annuity due to the college. The deductions are 6s 8d deducted by Booth for taxes, and 4s 10d (?) by Hunt for his travelling expenses. Witness: Nicholas Dickons.
Creator: William Hunt of Gampton, Notts.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

18 Feb. 1680

Cherry Hinton Inclosure, 1806: copies of claims of proprietors. The claims are arranged alphabetically for the use of the Comissioners.
Creator: Unknown.
1 booklet; paper; Manuscript.

1806

Ground plan of East Woodhay rectory, Hampshire.
Creator: Unknown.
1 sheet; paper; Manuscript.

c. 1860-c. 1900

Bond in £40 to perform covenants of a lease. The lease, of which the original does not survive, was of a tenement with a garden in Great St Andrew's parish between a tenement of Jesus College (N), a tenement now or late in the occupation of John Carter (S) and abutting (E) on Preachers' Street and (W) on a piece of ground belonging to the Brazen George.
Creator: Hannah Ellis.
1 bifolium; paper; Mixed scripts.

2 Nov. 1713