[46.]
About 1240. Extract from charter by Philippa, countess of Warwick, granting two mea|dows near Oseney, and pas|ture-rights in West|Oseney.
KNOWE all men, et cetera. withinne ffurþermor that þe seyde Countesse [Philippa Basset, co-heiress of Thomas Basset, lord of Headington, widow of Henry de Newburgh (died 1229), 6th earl of Warwick.] hath i-grauntid for her and for her heyres to þe Abbot and Couent and [folio 13b] to þere successours that þey haue þere closes in goode pece and holde þem foreuer, þat is to say, þe close of þe hamme [of the fee [Added from the Latin.] ] of Doylly and of Seynte Walerye be-hynde þe fullyng [mill [Added from the Latin.] ] of Oseney, and þe close that þey haue of þe ffee of Henry Symeon, et cetera. as within þe title of 'Hedynton,' in þe which charter is i-conteyned that 'þabbot may haue xxti bestys in Westoseney [An island, between streams of Thames, immediately to the west of the abbey, as figured in map ii. to Wood's City of Ox|ford.] after þe hey is i-mowe and i-leuyd vn-to Myȝhelmasse and after myȝhelmasse as many as he will.'
[47.]
About 1180? Confirma|tion to Oseney, by Henry Doyly (? I), of meadow.
TO all cristen pepull to þe which þis present writyng shall come Henry Doylly, our lorde Kynge's constable, helth. Know ȝe all þat mede [Marginal note: 'Mede.'] that lyeth be-yonde [þe] water the which is i-called Eldee towarde þe west and is nyȝhe to þe Burgeys medis of oxonforde þe which [are] of the ffee of Hedyndon, that ['quod videlicet pratum . . . est col|latum.'] is to say, þe mede to þe chanons of Oseney of me for my helth and of my aunceturs is i-yeve, is of my ffee and of my aunceturs. In-to wittnysse of this þynge, to this present writyng my seele I haue putt to. Witnysses, et cetera.
[48.]
1239, Aug. I. Sale to Oseney, by Humphrey de Monte, of 16 acres in Bulstake mead, subject to quit-rents of 1d. to the mesne lord, and 5s. to the chief lord, with 8d. 'to the mower.' Purchase|money, £4.
Know þey that been present and to be that I, vmfrey of þe mounte þe Soone of Gylberte of þe mounte, for my sowle helth and of þe sowles of my aunceturs, ȝafe and grauntid, and with my charter confermed, for me and myne heyres for euer, to god and to þe church of Seynte Mary of Oseney and to þe chanons þere seruyng god, all my mede with þe pertinences that I had in the mede þat is callid þe mede of Bolestake [Marginal note: 'bolestake Mede.'] , withoute oony agayne-holdyng to me or to my heyres for euer, þat is to say, xvj. acris, were-of x. acris lyen bytwene the mede [of [Added from the Latin.] Henry son of Henry and the mead of William de gardino of Botelee, and vi. acres lie between the mead] þat Roger of
