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Lease to Thomas Maste, burgess of Cambridge, of a tenement in Newnham for 60 years at an annual rent of 6s 8d., 1468-09-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0268/CCCC09/34C/8

Scope and Contents

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,
The Lease Book copy has a Parkerian annotation suggesting that this may be the house into which John Norman and Mr Mere have moved.

Dates

  • Creation: 1468-09-08

Extent

1 membrane(s) : vellum

Language of Materials

Latin

Former / Other Reference

XXXIV C 8

Existence and Location of Copies

Copy in Lease Book 1, f. 4r-v.

General

Seal: oval, device of a standing figure and a tree (??)

Date information

DateText: Cambridge, Nativity of the BVM, 8 Edward IV.

Originator(s)

Master and Fellows of CCCC

Finding aid date

2008-05-06 16:43:30+00:00

Genre / Form

Repository Details

Part of the Corpus Christi College Archives Repository

Contact:
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