Cartulary for Hoo near Minster (Isle of Thanet, Kent)

Cartulary headed Cartarum de Hoo in Insula de Taneto, on which are transcribed, in an early fifteenth-century hand, the following deeds dating between 1355 and 1404:

• 1) Grant by John Sherne of Thanet to Geoffrey Criel, 6 January 1355;
• 2) Grant by Geoffrey Cyryel of Merdenne to Robert de Corby and Joan, his wife, 25 April 1355;
• 3) Grant by William Estwell to Robert de Corby and Joan, his wife, 2 May 1361;
• 4) Grant by Geoffrey Cyryel to Robert de Corby and Joan, his wife, 25 April 1355;
• 5) Final concord between Robert de Corby and Joan, his wife, and Geoffrey Kyryel and Sarra, his wife, 1 July 1355;
• 6) Grant by Geoffrey Cyriel to Robert de Corby, 24 April 1355;
• 7) Power to John at Hawe of Wodnesbergh and John Skyneyn to hand over lands granted by Geoffrey Cyryel to Robert Corby and Joan, his wife, 24 April 1355;
• 8) Grant by Martin, son of John Sherene, to Robert Corby and Joan, his wife, 7 February 1356;
• 9) Grant by Robert de Elmham, rector of the church of alta dungre, Thomas de Lyndon, rector of the church of Lyndon, Thomas de Toucestre, rector of the church of Ripton Regis, William Goggeto, John Bardolfe, Symon Godwyne, William Cogley and Geoffrey Joye to Robert de Corby, lord of Lyndon, and Joan his wife, 2 February 1357;
• 10) Quitclaim by Martin Sherrene of Merdenne to Robert de Corby, 26 March 1363;
• 11) Grant by Martin Sherrene of Merdenne to Robert de Corby, 7 May 1364;
• 12) Quitclaim by Martin Sherrene of Merdenne to Robert de Corby, 7 May 1373;
• 13) Grant by Robert Corby to William Symme of Upcherche, William Eynesham of Croyden, and Hugo Boys of London, 24 August 1390;
• 14) Grant by Alicia, widow of Thomas atte Hoo the younger, to William Lofte of Swynton and Elena, his wife, 20 September 1359;
• 15) Grant by William Lofte to Robert de Corbi, 29 December 1362;
• 16) Grant by William Eastwell to Robert de Corby, 10 May 1361;
• 17) Grant by Thomas Heldwolding of Woode to Nicholas Wotton of London and Joan, his wife, 23 July 1404;
• 18) Agreement between Robert Corby and Thomas Boys, 31 May 1403.

Rylands accession no. R57429. Purchased by the John Rylands Library from the Leicester bookseller Bernard Halliday for £13 9s in March 1924, along with RYCH/164 and /174-189.