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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"The english register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford : written about 1450 / edited with an introduction by Andrew Clark." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AHA2738.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 22, 2025.

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HUMESWORTH OR HINNESWORTH.

[Exchequer-MS. folio 185b] Charter of Peter of Brumelingham for the mill of Humesworth.

About 1160? Grant to Godstow, by Peter of Brumelingham of a mill and a rent-charge.

PETER and his wife Felicia, gave, with their daughter to be a nun, their mill of Humesworth [Writing indistinct: possibly 'Hinnes|worth.' See Highworth mill, in no. 886 § 59.] and 2s. of rent at Hespes.

Witnesses:—Wacheline, abbot of Abingdon; Nicholas, monk of Evesham; Magister Roger and his nephew Simon; and the donor's sons William and Hugh.