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Prior William Downe of Barnwell and the convent acknowledge the receipt from Prioress Agnes Seyntclowe and the nuns of 40s in full discharge of arrears due from two tenements in Barnwell leased by the nuns to Alexander Westmorland and John Bruce.

After proceeding before John Bilneye, mayor, between prioress Agnes Shenkelowe and the nuns and Master (Magister) John Bidbrok, clerk, respecting a rent of 4 s. due out of a messuage lying between the land of Peter, son of Ivo, and that of Jeremias of Eltisley, given to the nuns by Reginald, son of Absolon, son of Roger, to prioress Letitia. The said rent was given to the nuns before the Statute (i.e. Quia Emptores Terrarum, 1290, 18 Edw. I). The position and bounds of the said messuage being unknown to any living person, the said John Bidbrook agrees that the said rent shall in future be paid out of a messuage belonging to him in Milne Street (vicus molendari), lying between a messuage formerly of William Wynde, afterwards of Nicholas Hethe, now of John Ascheman, and a tenement of Clare Hall called Welsh Hospice, and abutting on Milne Street. The nuns agree to pray for the said John as one of benefactors.

Master William Spaldyng, clerk, to Prioress Agnes and the nuns. Condition: Spaldyng (tenant of a close belonging to the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St John) undertakes not to enter the enclosures of the Prioress of St Radegund, nor to destroy soil, corn, grass, arbours or enclosures of the said Prioress.

Thomas Goode, chandler, and Thomas, his son, release the corner tenement (113a) to Prioress Agnes and the nuns. Witnesses: Richard Wryghte, Mayor of Cambridge, Richard Togoode, Stephen Skynbell, John Belton, Walter Ferrour, Thomas Craneswik et multis aliis.

Alice, widow of Robert Foxton, notary, to Prioress Agnes Seynclowe and the nuns a corner tenement in Holy Trinity parish, abutting on the highway opposite the chain bridge towards the west, the lane leading towards Barnwell opposite the wall of the Friars Minor (Sidney Sussex College), towards the north, on land of the said Alice towards the east, and on a tenement of Barnwell Priory occupied by Thomas Goode towards the south. The said tenement was leased to her late husband by the nuns.

Simon Blakeboane, by his attorneys John Chyrche of St Michael's House, Cambridge, and Thomas Hudersall from the county of Lancaster, to the Prioress, Agnes Seyntelowe, and Richard Broune, vicar of All Saints. They quitclaim them for all actions real and personal that they have against them. Written in Cambridge.