this writyng and our seele puttyng to we avised to be strengthid. Þese witnesseses, et cetera.
[66.]
About 1222. Confirma|tion to Oseney, by the pope, of a chapel, possibly dedicated to St. Nicholas.
HONORYE [Honorius III, pope 1216-27.] , Bisshoppe, seruaunt of þe Seruauntes of god, to þe beloued soones Abbot and Couent of Oseney helth and the apostls blessyng. Þe apostell see is woned to graunte to þe goode desires and honest praieres of axers beniuolente fauor to parte ['to graunte . . . to parte' translates the one word 'impartiri.'] . Þerfore, our beloued Soones in our lorde, to yowr ryȝghtfull praiers Inclined, þe chapell of Seynte Thomas with his pertinences, all ye [For 'all ye' read 'as': 'sicut.'] ryȝghtfully lawfully and pesible ye haue hit, [to you], and by ['vobis, et per vos monasterio vestro.'] ȝow to your monastery, by thapostels auctorite we conferme and with þe help of this writyng we make hit stronge. Þerfore to [no] man vtturly ['nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat.'] be hit lawfull this writyng of our confirmacion to breke or to hit come agayne ['vel ei contraire.'] with frowarde boldenysse: and if oony man that to assay wille presume, indignacion of almyȝghty god and of þe Blessed apostls petur and powle knowe þey þem-selfe to haue i-cumme inne. Þe Date at lateranne, et cetera.
[67.]
About 1200. Grant to Oseney, by Thomas of St. Valerie, of two strips at North Oseney to make a road along|side of the land in no. 64, and of a right of ford there, provided that his meadow is not damaged. and that if the grant exceed 6d. in yearly value Oseney pay the excess as a quit|rent.
KNOW þey that be present and to be þat I, Thomas of Seynte Walerye, haue i-yeve, grauntid, and confermed with my present charter, to god and to þe church of Blessid marye of Osney and to þe chanons þere seruyng god, for me and my wife and for þe sowles of my fadur and my modur and of my aun|ceturs, in-to pure and perpetuell almes, ij. sellions or buttes of lond to a wey [Marginal note: 'a waye.'] to be made at northoseney [North Oseney (afterwards the site of Rewley abbey) was an island, amid streams of Thames, next Oseney to the North: map ii. in Wood's City of Oxford, ii.] by þe Diche of þe londe of þe forsaide chanons þe which [i.e. londe.] Bernarde my fadur ȝafe to þem with þe roses pathe ['cum Roseo': possibly, the 'rushy' path.] that is bitwen þe forde that is i-callid Uuerforde [Marginal note: 'Vuerford.' Cotton MS. reads 'Were-ford.'] and þe londe of þe chanons, þe wey In lenght strecchyng hit-selfe fro þe forsaide forde vnto þe howse þe which [was sometime] of Water lingedraper: þe forde also (that is of my ryȝght), and ['et, in utraque parte, ascensionem et descensionem.'] In eyþer [part] goyng vppe and goyng downe with-oute [MS. has 'downe with with oute.'] harmyng of my mede. And hit
