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Prioress Joan and the nuns to John Chapman, brewer, and Margaret his wife, a vacant plot in Walls Lane, in the parish of Holy Trinity, lying between the wall of the Friars Minor to the west and a tenement of the nuns in the tenure of Thomas Thorne to the east, the Lane to the south, and a garden of the nuns occupied by John Heyward to the north. Term: 26 years; rent: 2s; covenant: lessee to build and maintain a house on the said site. Witnesses: Robert Coope, Mayor of Cambridge, Walter Burfrey, alias Ferrour, William Barford, John Coke, Thomas Mast, bailiffs, ac multis aliis.

Prioress Joan Cambrigge and the nuns to John Dale a garden in Wales Lane, lying between a messuage of the nuns in the tenure of Richard Thorne to the south and a croft of the nuns in the tenure of William Pechard to the north, abutting on a barn belonging to Dale, late to John Heward, to the east and on the wall of the Friars Minor to the west. Term: 30 years; rent: 8d.

Prioress Joan Cambridge and the nuns to Agnes Hungyrford, widow of Robert Hungyrford, a tenement in Wallyslane, lying between a tenement belonging to the Pascal of Holy Trinity church and a tenement of Thomas Rede, M.D., abutting on the lane and on a garden of Thomas Rede. Term: 20 years; rent: 6s 8d.

Prioress (Joan) Chambryg and the nuns to Giles Motte of Whaddon 3 roods of land in Whaddon between land of Master (magister) John More, esq., on the north side, and land formerly of Edward Chapman, now of Giles Motte, on the south side, abutting on the King's highway and on Rygway (Ridgeway). Term: 31 years; rent: 2s.

Prioress Joan Chambryg and the nuns to John Sokelyng and Margaret, his wife, a tenement in Barnewell in Holy Trinity parish, opposite the Cross, lying between Pytys Lane to the east and another tenement of the nuns to the west, now in the tenure of John Wavyne, abutting south on the highway (King Street) and on another tenement of the nuns to the north; also an acre of land diversely situated in Barnwell fields, Term: 10 years; rent: 14s.

Prioress Joan Cambryg (Cambridge) and the nuns to John Huthum of Cambridge, cardmaker, 2 selions lying between land of the Prior of Ely on the north and land of the nuns on the south, abutting on the King's highway towards the west and to the east on a spire wall of the Friars Preachers. Term: 20 years; rent: 20d.