The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark.

holde hem vn-to þe ende of her liuys, frely in rest, well & pesybly, of the chefe lordys of the fee by the seruice dewe & vsyd ther-of: and the forseyd Dame Margery & the couent warentyd the fore-seyd ij. acris of londe with the pertinences to the for-seyd Richard & Mald vn-to her liuys ende a-geynst all pepull. In-to wytnes ther-of they put to here seelys to the wrytynge therof endentyd, euerych a-geynyst othyr. I-geyf at Godstowe in the fest of all haloun the yere of kynge Edwarde the sone of kynge Edward xvj.

OAKLEY in Boarstall Parish.
[folio 153] A Charter of Emme Bray, I-made to the myn|chons of Godestowe, for half a mese in Oclee, j acre, j Crofte, j yerde lond, that is to sey, xij. acris vpon Innesdon and the other parte of bonde lond, with all ther pertynentis, and xl. hogges in his [i. e. her.] wode quyte fro pannage.

About 1198. Grant to Godstow, by Emma Bray, of a messu|age, lands, and pas|ture-right for 40 pigs.

THE sentence of this charter is, that Emme Bray graunted & cetera, to god & cetera and to the mynchons of Godestow ther seruyng god, for the helth of the soules of her fadir and modir and of her children and of all her benefetours and for the helth of her sowle, half a mese that was of John Maunsell, and j acre, a crofte, a yerde lond, that is to sey, xij. acris vpon Innesdon and the other perte of bonde lond, with all ther pertynentis and fre customes, in wode and playne, in mede and pasture, in weyes and pathis, and xl. hoggis in his [i. e. her.] wode quyte of pannage, into pure fre and perpetuel almesse, and quyte fro all seculer seruyce and all exaccion that longith to hym [i. e. her.] , Savyng the kyngis seruyce: To be hold of her and her heires for ever. These beyng wit|nesse, & cetera.

A Charter of Emme Bray, I-made to the myn|chons of Godestow, for j yerde lond in Borestall, with j mese, and j acre lond to the Crofte of that hyde that longith to Oclee, & cetera.

About 1198. Duplicate, but in slightly different words, of no. 81.

THE sentence of this charter is, that Emme Bray graunted, & cetera, to god & cetera and to the mynchons of Godestowe ther

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The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark.
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London :: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner,
1911 [i.e.1905-11.]

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