Quitclaim, Little Chart, Kent

In return for 200 marks of silver to settle debts owed to the Jews, Peter de Bendinges quitclaims to the prior and convent of Holy Trinity, Canterbury, all his right in the manor of Litlecherth. Deed poll, witnessed by John son of ?Terricus of Canterbury, John son of Robert, John Chich, Master William ?Curteis, Nicholas de Ores, Richard Senescall', Reginald Janitor, Nicholas de Hadlo, John and Richard de Bosco, William ?Junene, Walter de Rotinges, Alured de Fordmelne, Robert de Fordmelne, and many others. Tagged pendant red round armorial seal with Bendinge's name in Lombardic capitals. Contemporary endorsement: 'Carta Petri de bendinge de / Parva Cherth', with near identical identifying endorsement in a fourteenth-century hand. Later endorsements: 'II', and 'S.D.' and in pencil: 'VIII - 18' and '7'. Also endorsed with cross within a circle, apparently the mark of Sir Edward Derin (see DNB).

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Purchased from Mr. J.E.T. Pollard Esq, 17 Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, 16 January 1948 (through Heitland Fund)

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The Deeds and Starrs, Doc 3780-92, together with other relevant documents, are fully transcribed by L[ambert] B L[arking] in Archaeologia Cantiana, VI (1866), pp 305-21. They once formed part of Sir Edward Dering's muniment collection, and were bought by a Mr Waller at the Puttick and Simpson sale of 4-7 Feb 1863 (Lot 1125). Some are further transcribed, with notes, in Starrs and Jewish Charters Preserved in the British Museum (London, 1930-33), ii, 306-17 (Herbert Loewe's notes to BL 1205, another in the series)