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

mynchons ther servyng god and to serve for ever, for the helthe of my soule and for the soule of Hawyse my modir and for all myne auncetours and successours, in fre pure and perpetuell almesse, x. mark of yerely rent at Hauyndon at two termes in the yere to be taken for evermore: that is to sey, at Estir v. mark, And at the fest of seynt Mighell v. mark, and this [folio 221b] of ser Iohn Cheverell and his heires for dyuerse tenementis which the seid Iohn held of me in the towne of Mayden Newnton: To have and to hold, all the forseid rente, of hym and his heires, to the forseid mynchons and to ther successours, in fre pure and perpetuell almesse for evere. And I the forsaid Pagane and myne heires all the forseid rent of x. mark to the forseid myn|chons and to ther successours ayenst all maner of peple shall warantiȝe acquyte and defende for euermore. I wille also and ordeyne that of the forseid rent the Couent haue yerely viij. mark vnto their clothyng, and a marke vnto a pytaunce in the day of the obite of hawise his modir, And a marke to a pytaunce in the day of the obite of Eve his graunt dame: So that the Abbesse or her Steward shall do none other thyng with the forseid rent nor chaunge nor make ordenaunce. And that this my yifte, graunte, and charter confermyng, ferme and stable and vnhurt shall abide for ever, this present charter I have I|strengthed with the prynte of my seale. These beyng witnesse: ser Robert de Tybetot and ser Robert Musegrose, ser Patrik and hereuyke de Cadurcijs his brethren, And many other.' This forseid yifte and graunte to stond ferme and stable for vs and for our heires, this present writyng we conferme. In witnesse wherof, to this present writyng we have put to our seale. These beyng witnesse: the worshipfulle Fadre Peter, bisshop of Excetir, ser Richard of Colleshyll, ser Robert of Luffeteshull, and ser Iohn walrand, knyghtis, Roger of wrytell, and many other. The date is at Chynemareford, in the fest of whitsontyde, The yere of the reigne of king Edward þe xjth.

A writyng how Paterik de Cadurcius wrote to Alexandre of Cheverell for the x. mark aforseid, & cetera.

1283, June 6. Letter by Patrick de Chaworth, directing his tenant Alexander of Cheve|rell, to pay the rent|charges (as in no. 141), to Godstow.

THE sentence of this writyng [is], that Patrik de Cadurcijs wrote to Alexandre of Cheverell, the sone of ser Iohn of

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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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1911 [i.e.1905-11.]

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