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Topic analysis

“cease”

“cease”.

685Documents
0Discrete acts
2,192People named
65Mapped places
119Years covered

Frequency over time

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Scanned coverage: Patent Rolls 1216–1486, Close Rolls 1231–1395 (dashed markers). A fall-off after 1486 reflects Patent rolls not yet ingested, not a decline in activity.

Where

Top counties: Middlesex (372) · Papal court (36) · Yorkshire (33) · Berkshire (23) · Lincolnshire (17) · Surrey (15) · Kent (14) · Wiltshire (8)

What kind of act

When in the year

Sample entries

  1. 1386-03-24, Westminster

    To the sheriff of Kent. Strict order to cease every excuse and without delay to arrest Gregory Loder of Mallynge, Clement Loder

  2. 1386-06-28, Westminster

    Memorandum that in accordance with the foregoing grant the payof 601. from the farm of Gloucester to queen Anne ceases as from last.

  3. 1352-07-25, Westminster

    … Let this payment cease because the lands have come to the said Joan by the death of the earl. 24.

  4. 1293-05-21, Westminster

    Notification that these are empowered to make a truce between the said disputants until August 15, so that the quarrels between them may cease and peace be re-established.

  5. 1292-05-06, Culford

    Compact between the king and Guy, count of Flanders, that all conand actions between their respective peoples shall cease, except that count's people may recover damages for injuries during the time …

  6. 1284-02-08, Nettleham

    … Roger Luveday, de Metingham and Master Thomas de Sodinton, to meet at Lincoln a after Easter and continue the eyre which the king lately superseded certain causes which have now ceased. 11.

  7. 1381-08-19, Sheen

    … Order to cease every excuse, and not to set free the king's tenants (above mentioned) by mainprise or otherwise, taking again and imprisoning until further order any who have been set …

  8. 1276-12-17

    Grant, for life, to Thomas de Monnsorel of the wages which Master William de Moiintsorel, sometime viewer of the works of the castle of JJristol, k'Cease(l, had out of the …

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