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

aforseid, and in like wise of the assente of the forseid Alexandre, assigned the forseid Alexandre and his heires and his assignes a certeyne place, that is to sey, at their Maner of Eton next Criklade, to the payment of the forseid rent there euery yere at the termes to be made: So that the messanger that bryngith that rente thedir shall have there all his expenses, by the same day and nyght, And more-over as longe as he abidith for the acquytance. And also they promysed, and bounden hem-self and their house, to the forseid Alexandre and to his heires and to his assigneis, that thei ayenst all peple shall acquyte and save harmelesse the seid Alexandre and all other of the rent aforseid, yf hit happith therfor to be vexed or troubled. And also they shold not aske of the forseid Alexandre neither of his heires nother of his assignes, neither Relef nor other service, saaf only the forseid rent fro yere in-to yere of x. marke. And yf hit happe that ony of the heires of the forsaid Alexandre or of his assignes or the heires of theire heires to be in the kepyng and warde of the Chief lordis of that fee, of the which they hold or shalle hold the forseid tenementis by a knyght service, the forsaide Abbesse and Couent, duryng the same kepyng, of the hondes of theyme that shall hold the seid tenementis, the seid rent shall [folio 221] resceive, So that the same heires whan that thei come to theire lawfull age in no wise stonde bounden or be distreyned for the arreragis therof, what-so-ever it be; Saaf whan they ben come to theire lawfull age, afterward for them|self ben bound to pay hit. And the forseid Alexandre wolleth and grauntith, for hym, his heires, and his assigneis, that all the other londes and tenementis that he holdith in Maiden Newnton [be bound] to the forsaid Abbesse and Couent and to ther monas|tery aforseid, [for] the forseid yerely rent of x. mark to be taken yerely of all his londis and tenementis aforseid for evermore atte termes aforseid, that is to sey, the one half therof atte fest of seynt Mighell and that other half atte fest of the Annunciacion of our Lady at the forseid Maner of Eton next Criklade, as it is aforseid. And yf hit happe that the forsaid Alexandre, or his heires, or his successours who-so-ever thei be, to faile of the payment of the forseid rent, in parte or in all, at ony of the seid termes, than it shall be lefull to the forseid Abbesse and Couent them that so faileth for the arreragis
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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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