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The English register of Oseney abbey / by Oxford, written about 1460. Ed., with an introduction and indexes, by Andrew Clark.

have i-confermed, to god and to þe church of Seynte Marye of Oseney and to þe chanons þere seruyng god, for my helth and of Sibille my wiffe and of Moolde my dowȝghter and for þe sowles of my fadur and modur and for þe sowle of my broþer Robert Doylly and for þe sowles of all my aunceturs, in-to free and perpetuell almys, all þe possessions of þe church and layfee þe which þey haue [folio 11b] of þe ȝiftes of myne aunceturs and of my ȝifte and of þe ȝiftes of my men, as þe charters of them witnysse, with all fredoms and fre customs and quytynges. I haue i|grauntid also to þe forsaide chanons that þey haue þere courte of þere men where-euer they will; and I haue relesed and quyte|claymed þem for euer, both Abbot and þe Couent of Oseneye and þere men, in all my maners fro þe sute of my courte, and fro sute of my Milles, and of all oþer sutes, but of these were ['ubi.'] lyfe and membre lyith to ['adiacet.'] , And to þe lawday; so naþeles þat all mercys and mercementes and all fines and all profites and all goynges oute of pleis þe which come of þere men, vppon Euery side and whenne-soeuer and wheresoeuer þey falle, schall be of þe forsaide chanons, withoute oony withholdyng, oþere hit be for defawte or for [any other [Added from the Latin.] ] cawse; and if oony of þere men for oony forfete hath i-flowe ['fugerit.'] and to ryȝght he wille not stande, and þe forfete be such for þe which his catell he ofte to lese, þey shall be fully of þe chanons. Also I haue i-grauntid [Marginal note: 'liberties.'] to þe forsaide chanons, for me and myne heyres, that noþer I, noþer my heyres, noþer none of our, maye hereforth or hereafter axe of þe forsaide chanons, noþer of þere men, oony custom or seruice or bondage, noþer þere men to put in-to prison or bondis or in|to stocke, but þe forfete be such for þe which he ofte to lese lyfe or membre. I will also and surely charge that þe forsaide chanons and þere men have well and in pece in all my maners here pasture to þere bestes and to þere shepe and hogges, as þe charters of my aunceturs and myne witnysse; and that þey be not Inparked or pynnyd, but þey be founde in harmyng, Where (A [i.e. a surety being given.] wodde I-ȝefe) þey may receyue þere catall, and after ['secundum legem provincie.'] þe lawe of þe contree for þe harme satisfye. I haue i-graunted to þem also (þat is to say, to þe forsaide chanons) that þey maye
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The English register of Oseney abbey / by Oxford, written about 1460. Ed., with an introduction and indexes, by Andrew Clark.
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