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

my courte and of my heyres, and of vywe [of] freplegges all ['all' in error for 'or.' In no. 39, p. 43/15 the corresponding clause is 'and of lawday.' The court-leet represented the delegated jurisdiction of the king exercised by the lord of the manor.] courte riall, and of þoo thynges that longe to vywe, and of all sutes of my Milles, and of all helpes tallages exaccions quarels and demandis; And [if] for flyȝght or felonye oony of þere men ofte to lese his catall, þey shall be of þe same chanons, withoute oony withholdyng to me or of my heyres; and if [Lines dropped out: cp. no. 39, p. 43/21, 22, 23, 24.] þere tenauntes of þe same chanons haue be i-founde or i-arested I graunte for me and my heyres to þe saide chanons and to þere successours what-so-Euer thyng þere [Lines dropped out: cp. no. 39, p. 43/21, 22, 23, 24.] mowe to fall for Euer; Also, if they or þere men be amercid agaynst me or my heyres or my baylyffes or my men, for oony maner cawse trespase or forfet, all þe mercynges and mercementes and all fynys and all profettes and all owte-goynges of pleys þe which come forthe of them or of þere men shall be of þe same chanons, withoute oony with|holdyng to me or to my heyres, wheþer hit be for a defawte or for oony oþer cawse. I haue i-grauntid also to þe same chanons and to þere successours that noþer I, noþer my eyres, noþer none In owre name, noþer of owr, maye hereafter axe of þe forsaide chanons or of her successours or of þere men ony custom or seruice or bondage, noþer to put þere men in preson or in-to bondys or in-to stocke for oony trespase or forfet, but with open thefte or manslawȝtter vppon [folio 22b] my demayne londis þey haue be take and attached. I will also and surely charge, for me and my heyres, þat þe forsayde chanons and þere successours and þere men haue well and in pece, In all my maners wodes and waters pondys and ffischynges, fre fisshyng and fre Entre and owte-goyng and pannage of þere hogges quyte (oute-take styvys and my parkes i-closid in): and [that] þey haue ffre commune to þere shepe and hogges, and to all oþer bestis In all my maners and in woodis, and [that] þey be not Imparkid or poynyd but þey be i-founde In open harme: that, if hit happe, by a wedde [i.e. surety.] þey maye receyue þere bestes; and after, by þe vywe of lawfull men, þe harme þat þere bestes haue i-doo, owte [of] my courte, þey may make to [be] emendid. To þese thynges I haue i-grauntid, for me and my heyres, þat þey haue housboote
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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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