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JCMR/Gray 1- . . . 383/Gray 1-10/1
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Charter of Nigel granting nuns land
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- 1144-1145 (This is probably the earliest of the nuns' charters, written before Gray 2a: see Gray, Priory (Cambridge, 1898), p. 3, for discussion; also Nuns and goldsmiths, p.61, n.11.) (Creation)
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Nigel, Bishop of Ely, gives to the nuns of the newly founded cell outside the town of Cambridge a piece of land (4 acres) lying near to the said cell, free of all customs, for a rent of 12d per annum. Witnesses: Radulf Olaf; Petrus clericus (Peter the clerk); Gilebertus capellanus de horn[u]ningesheia (Gilbert the chaplain of Horningsea).
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Printed in Gray (1898), p.74; Discussed in Nuns and goldsmiths, (1992), p.61;
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Caryl A.3