John Gaunt of Cambridge and his wife Agnes, widow and executrix of the late John Serle, confirm their gift to Lawrence Reyson, John Tedder, fishmonger, William Pratte, John Cox of London, grocer, William Abyngton, Andrew Smyth, and William Bowman, all of Cambridge, of a messuage in the parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary next the market in Cambridge. The Serles, together with others now deceased, acquired their interest in the said tenement, to the use of John Serle and his heirs, from Thomas Clerke, gent, in 1503 [see Doc 4018]. The gift is for the purpose of executing Serle's will. Deed poll, [witnessed by] John Chapman, then mayor of Cambridge, Geoffrey Ranke, Richard Wolff, John Goodyn, and William Abyngton, then bailiffs of Cambridge. Tags and seals wanting. Endorsed with certificate of livery of seisin in the presence of Robert Smyth, alderman of Cambridge, Henry Hassyll and John Fanne, burgesses, William Flory of Cambridge, and by the author John Thyrleby of Cambridge, notary. Contemporary identifying endorsement. Further endorsed in seventeenth and eighteenth-century hands: 'See for this Woolf Bury / in great St Mary's / church', 'Enterd L Cant 224', '4', and 'Cambridge No 17'.