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RefNoKG/A/1/7
AltRefNoG1/7
TitleFormer Box 1 Bundle 7
DescriptionReceipts for the fee farm due from the manor of Godmanchester to the Crown or its assignees (with other records as noted below). The fee farm amounted to £120 annually and the receipts record half-yearly payments of £60 at Easter and Michaelmas. The receipts from 1290 to 1305 are in the name of Eleanor de Ferrers (Bohun), widow of Robert de Ferrers, former earl of Derby, who obtained a grant of the fee farm from Edmund, earl of Lancaster and brother of King Edward I, as compensation for abandoning her claims for dower in her late husband's ancestral lands, which had been forfeited and given to Edmund following Robert's partaking in the baronial rebellion of 1265-6.

Item nos.
1) 24 October 1290; 3 May 1294; 26 October 1294; [20] May 1299; 12 May 1302
2) Writ from Edward III to the bailiffs of Huntingdon ordering them not to impose tolls on the men of Godmanchester, 11 February 1365
3) 29 October 1305
4) 14 June 1335; 6 December 1336; 12 December 1341; 2 May 1344; 27 October 1357; 18 April 1364
5) 6 November 1386; 16 October 1388; 10 November 1391; 26 April 1393
6) 27 May 1402; 19 May 1411
7) 12 November 1407
8) 6 June 1431
9) 30 October 1417; 23 April 1418; 20 May 1419; 6 November 1419; 5 May 1421
10) 22 April 1331; 5 November 1344; 18 October 1402; 8 November 1415;
11) Three bonds dated 28 March 1560 to the bailiffs of Godmanchester in the amount of 100 marks from Michael Chambers of Brampton, Richard Brande of Brampton and Robert Herne of Godmanchester, respectively; five bonds to the bailiffs of Godmanchester dated 12 August 1577 from John Bonner of Hemmingford Abbots (10 pounds), John Abdell of Offord Cluny (10 pounds), Robert Grene of Godmanchester (40 pounds), William Hall of Brampton (10 pounds), and Thomas Wallis of Huntingdon (10 pounds).
Date1290-1577
CreatorNameGodmanchester Borough
RepositoryHuntingdonshire Archives
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