SUMMARY: The document below is the fine of 20 January 1584 by which clear title to the manor of Great Yeldham passed from Oxford to Thomas Plome and Edmund Plome for £600. At the time of the Queen’s grant of Oxford’s lands to Leicester on 22 October...Title Transfer Agreement • April 15th, 2007
Contract Type FiledApril 15th, 2007This is the final agreement made in the court of the Lady Queen at Westminster on the octave of Saint Hilary in the year of the reigns of Elizabeth, by the grace of God Queen of England, France, & Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc. from the Conquest the twenty- sixth [=20 January 1584], before Edmund Anderson, Thomas Meade, Francis Wyndham & William Periam, justices, & others faithful to the Lady Queen then there present, between Thomas Plome & Edmund Plome, querents, and Edward, Earl of Oxford, Great Chamberlain of England, deforciant, of the manor of Great Geldham alias Gellam alias Nether Yeldham alias Yeldham Hall with the appurtenances and of forty messuages, twenty tofts, two mills, two dovecots, forty gardens, forty orchards, six hundred acres of arable land, fifty acres of meadow, five hundred acres of pasture, a hundred acres of wood, a hundred acres of moor, a hundred shillings’ rent & the rent of six capons with the appurtenances in Great Geldham alias Nether Yeldham, Cast