Add. 61735, Ely farming memoranda, c.1007-25 (parchment)

The memoranda comprise a list of valuations of livestock, seed, farm implements, ships etc., supplied by Ely Abbey to Thorney Abbey (refounded 972); an inventory of livestock on Ely Abbey farms; a list of rents, in eels, due from fenland belonging to Ely. It is not known whether the notes relate to a gift from Ely to Thorney, or to some other transaction between the two houses. No comparable documents have survived from this period. The reference to land at [Little] Thetford implies a date after 1007, when it was acquired by Ely (Hart, Early Charters (1966), pp. 32, 47).