BRITISH LIBRARY Additional Manuscript 39220, which is printed below in its entirety, is to be found in the Woodhouse family collection. Why what is so evidently a document relating to Sir John Fastolf 's pursuit of property should have ended up in another East Anglian family's archive is unclear to me. I have not pursued the matter; perhaps others will do so. A single property and a group of properties are the subject of the enquiry. The single property comprised two manors, Walcotes and Boules in Little Snoring, Norfolk, once in possession of the Cockerel family; the material onWalcotes and Boules occupies only the first of eleven written folios and is no more than a series of notes on the recent history of the two manors. The group of properties consisted of the Norfolk estates of the Paveley family; they had been the subject of a thorough investigation by the agents of Sir John Fastolf, the results being set out on folios 3–8 of the document. The hand of the Paveley investigation is not that of the notes on Walcotes and Boules. It seems to me recognisable as that of one of Fastolf 's employees. I am unable to identify it with certainty, but have the idea (possibly fanciful) that it is the same hand as that of a Fastolf pedigree in the Bodleian Library and of Lovel Paper 8 at Magdalen College, Oxford. The latter is one of a number of documents relating to a not dissimilar enquiry concerning Titchwell, Norfolk, a manor which Fastolf bought from John Roys in 1431. Moreover, William Norwich, who appears both as an important informant and as in possession of relevant evidence in the Paveley investigation, was a lawyer retained by Sir John Fastolf. Immediately prior to the time that our document is to be dated, William was involved in the sale to Fastolf of two estates, Mundham in Norfolk and Cockfield Hall in Yoxford, Suffolk, which had belonged to a relative, John Norwich. British Library, Additional MS 39220 is to be dated between November 1431, when an escheator's inquisition concerning Walcotes and Boules was held and which is recorded in the document, and 1434, when Fastolf bought Hainford, one of the ex-Paveley properties, from Ela Shardlow, widow of Sir Robert Shardlow (d.1399), their son, Sir John Shardlow, who had acquired it from John Paveley in 1420–21, having died in 1433.