Agreement between Bromehill priory and the town of Thetford

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Title: Agreement between Bromehill priory and the town of Thetford
Published / Created: 1331 July 7.
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript indenture, on parchment, detailing an agreement between the Prior and canons of the Augustinian priory of Bromehill on the one part and the Mayor, burgesses, merchants and residents of the town of Thetford on the other part. The indenture concerns the rights to income from the annual Prior's fair at Bromehill, including rights to the toll, stallage and pickage fees
Description: In Latin.
Docketed in a sixteenth-century? hand: the indentur of Bromehyll ffeyes.
Annotated in a later hand, possibly that of the Norfolk antiquary Thomas Martin.
Layout: single column of 26 lines. Head of document indented.
Script: secretary script.
With: Seal of the Prior and Canons of Bromehill Priory, in green wax, containing a pyramid between a star, below, and a crescent moon, above.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Martin. Purchased from Toshiyuki Takamiya on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2017.
Extent: 1 leaf : 190 mm x 240 mm and seal
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Indentures England 14th century
Manuscripts, Medieval England 14th century
Seals (artifacts) England 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): England.
England
Connecticut
New Haven.
Norfolk (England)
Thetford (England)
Subject (Name): Augustinians
Bromehill Priory (Norfolk, England)
Subject (Topic): Fairs
Manuscripts, Medieval
Markets
Monasteries and state
Subjects: Augustinians > England
Bromehill Priory (Norfolk, England)
Fairs > England > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Markets > England > Early works to 1800
Monasteries and state > England
Norfolk (England) > Early works to 1800
Thetford (England) > Early works to 1800
England > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Martin, Thomas, 1697-1771 > Ownership
Takamiya, Toshiyuki > Ownership

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Citation: Agreement Between Bromehill Priory and the Town of Thetford (Takamiya MS 77). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.