of Oxenford, playnyng, shewes that the abbot of Oseneye, and the abbesse of Godestowe and her couente, the maister of seynt Iohn hospitall without the Est yate, and some other of lyncolne wirceter and london Citeis and diocises, did wronge to the same, vpon tithes, possessions, questis, and other thyngis. Therfor the pope commaunded to theire discrecion, by his writyng, that, the parties I-called, and I-herd the cause, and appelyng I-put away, and hit dewly I-ended, they shold make hit so that that they decreed shold be surely I-obserued by the censure of the chirch. And the witnesses that were I-named, yf they with-drow themself for favoure, haterede, or drede, they shold constreyne them to bere witnesse to [folio 145b] the trouthe, appelyng cesyng. The date at Viter[b]e, the nonys of may, of his Bisshophode the xj. yere.
Than sithe the said Robert, Vicary, by auctorite of this maundemente, had I-draw the forsaid abbesse and Couente of Godestowe into ple afore the said Iuges, and had I-made vndir this forme: The said Vicary axed of the said abbesse and Couente tythis of their mylles of Wolgarecote, by the commune law longyng to the said chirche, sithe they were within the lymytes and markes of the said parissh chirch of seynt Petir at the Est of Oxenford; Also he axed the tithes of ther medys beyng at Walgarecote, perteynyng to the said chirch, forasmoche as they were with-in the lymytes or markes of the said parissh chirch; Also he axed the tythis of the norisshyng of ther bestes, the which ben I-fedde and lye within the lymytes of his parissh; Also he axed that the seruantis of the abbesse and Couente of Godestowe, the which were liyng and arisyng at Wolgarecote, shold be compelled to here ther dyvyne seruyces and ther to do ther rightis that longe to a parissh. These thynges he said, savyng to hym-self the benefice of lawe, The stryf of this lawfully I-contestate.
And whan the said Robert, Vicary, personally, and the said mynchons by hereberte ther chapeleyn, procuratour specially to that I-yeve, comperyng in the presence of the bisshop of lyncolne, and there had I-swore, leiyng or towchyng the holy Godespellys with ther hondes, that they shold stond to theire prouision, Iugement, and ordeynyng, vpon the said tithes I-axed and vpon all thynge towchyng that ple, renuncyng to the said letters, and
