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

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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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Godstow nunnery.
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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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BEGBROKE.

[NOTE.—This deed is imperfect, from a leaf being cut out; and there is no Begbroke heading in the Exchequer MS. In pope Nicholas IV's 1291 Taxatio Ecclesiastica we have, slumped together, incomes from Cassington, Thrup, Begbroke, Kiddington, and Ledwell in Woodstock rural deanery. The land here seems to have been parted with before the dissolution.]

[folio 213b] A Charter of Raaf harang I-made to the myn|chons of Godestowe for homagis and services in Beckebroke, & cetera.

About 1220. Grant to Godstow, by Ralph Harang, of a rent|charge, and feudal superiority over a free|hold, and of . . .

THE sentence of this charter is that Raaf Harange, in the wey of charite, and for the helthe of his soule and of his auncetours and successours, yaf, graunted, and by his present charter confermed, to god and to oure Lady seynt marie and to seynt Iohn Baptist of Godestow and to the mynchons ther servyng god, all the homage and seruyce of Roger of the lyons of all the tenement that the same Roger held of me in the towne of Becke|broke, that is for to sey, yerly in the day of seynt Iohn Baptist ij. shillings x. d to be taken: he yaf also and

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