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

BANBURY.

[NOTE.—At the dissolution, 1540, Godstow was still in receipt of this rent-charge of £5, issuing from the 'toll, market, and fair' of Banbury, which was still owned by the bishop of Lincoln, Monast. iv. 372.]

[folio IIIIb(16b)] A chartur of A. bysshop of lincolne for c. shillings in þ^e tolle bowth of banbury.

A. D. 1138/9. Grant to Godstow, by Alexan|der, bishop of Lincoln, of a yearly rent-charge of £5, out of the revenue of Banbury Market. Anathema against violators of the grant.

THE sentence of thys dede is, that Alsaunder bysshop of lincolne, aftur he hadde halowyd the churche of seynt Iohn

baptiste of Godstowe, he grauntyd to the sustynaunce of the Mynchyns there seruynge god a hundred shelyngys, þ^e which he assynyd to be payd & hadde euyrlastyngely in the tolle bowthe of hys marcat of Banbury: 'wherefore we warne,' he saythe, '& pray for the loue of god, & for the helth of yowre sowlys, that ye maynteyn to the seyd churche of seynt Iohn, & to the seruantys of crist, thys almys: ye to receyue, for yowre good desyre, rewarde of god. We forbede also that no man be bold to take a-wey thys almys in tyme to come, ne vexe, ne greue hem. And yf that any man presume malapertly, let hym know that he is a-cursyd,' these beynge wytnes, as is euident in the dede selfe; & is with-out date.