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In 1411 Simon Mate ‘of Colchester’ was a feoffee of land in the district of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. With Henry Boss, son of the MP of 1406, he held a tenement in East Street, Colchester, from 1426, and in 1434 he obtained part of a meadow in nearby Lexden.1Suff. Feet of Fines, 281; ct. rolls 46 m. 14, 53 mm. 7, 12v. Mate died in 1449.2Colchester Oath Bk. ed. Benham, 118.